Sunday, October 10, 2021

Icelandic mussel named Ming (507 years) - ocean quahog (Arctica islandica): a bit of doggerel from walking . . . . . and the Quail flush ... with #RealisticVirtualEarthForPoetry, and Am wishing I was wearing a pair of #GoogleGlasses with video camera going for STREAMING >#wuAsVR BOOKS & for #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing > PAPER * * * SCOTTISH Games at Pleasanton, CA, Clan MacLeod tent, 8 yrs ago * * * University of Highlands and Islands, and even Scotland World Univ & Sch collaboration ?


a bit of doggerel from walking . . . . . and the Quail flush ... with #RealisticVirtualEarthForPoetry, and Am wishing I was wearing a pair of #GoogleGlasses with video camera going for STREAMING >#wuAsVR BOOKS & for #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing > PAPER

A big covey of quails
Took flight ~
What might,
Little kites,
What Light! ~
But not height!
#Haikuish ##Haiku (#RealisticVirtualEarthForPoetry) Am wishing I was wearing a pair of #GoogleGlasses #GoogleGlass with video camera going for streaming into 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

Picture ~




QUAIL TRAIL TRACKS
A big covey of quails
Took flight ~
What might,
Little kites,
What Light! ~
But not height!
#Haikuish #Haiku Am wishing I was wearing a pair of #GoogleGlasses with video camera going for STREAMING >#wuAsVR BOOKS & for #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing > PAPER
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SCOTTISH Games at Pleasanton, CA, Clan MacLeod tent, 8 yrs ago


Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

Sep 29, 2021, 5:04 PM (11 days ago)

to John, Joan, Andrew, Mok, Abigail, Fettes.Community, Larry, Peter, Henry, Jim, Nancy, david.worthington, teganvawter, Tammie, Tammie, Janie, Edward, Heather, Bruce, David, Alex, Linda, Barbara, Sandy, Sid, Susan, Sioux, lillianbthomas, Greg, Hugh, David, David, Andrew, stuart, George, Taylor, taylorspun, Frederick, Ann


Dear Tammie, Tegan, Professor Worthington, All,

Am hoping to attend this lecture tomorrow at 8am - and invite you to email events@uhi.ac.uk to see if you can register, if interested, for 

Professor Worthington’s inaugural lecture

Here's the Twitter post - 

The Scotsman @TheScotsman

The little-known writings of a 17th-century scholar have helped to illuminate the Highlands as “dynamic and connected to the world” in the 100 years before Culloden, via

@alicampsie75

https://twitter.com/TheScotsman/status/1443112374517501956?s=20


https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/persons/david-worthington

https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/centre-for-history/community/staff/professor-david-worthington/

All the best, Scott


PS

Minutes for MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch's 9/18/21 open Monthly Business Meeting emerging here - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/09/minutes-for-91821-world-univ-sch-wuas.html AND https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/calendula-officinalis-minutes-for-91821.html - planned also as Wiki subjects in Scots Gaelic and the Scots language for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - and in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory at #VirtualScotland - https://twitter.com/hashtag/VirtualScotland?src=hashtag_click 



PS

More about a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory in the 'Scotland' blog label in daily blog - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scotland

and see for example this recent email with the Univ of Edinburgh faculty in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/hirta.html - where I studied for a second full year in 2003-04, and wrote a MSc paper about virtual St. Kilda as a nascent place ... And am now seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual Harbin for Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital Ethnographic and STEM research in a single realistic virtual earth, - much emerging from this virtual St. Kilda paper, envisioning-wise.  


PPS

Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place’

by Scott GK Macleod (2004) ... M.Sc. dissertation at the University of Edinburgh from 2004 ... http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf


PPPS

And there's also a St. Kilda, Scotland (Hirta) wiki subject page for open teaching and learning at WUaS ...


St. Kilda, Scotland (Hirta) -  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/St._Kilda,_Scotland_(Hirta)

also FROM

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/greyhound-how-best-to-co-create.html



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Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org @scottmacleod · Sep 6

SCOTTISH Games at Pleasanton, CA, Clan MacLeod tent, 8 yrs ago (More about MacLeod history - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history…) Wiki-begin the '#MacLeodSocietyWorldwide' #Wiki subject  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects 

@WorldUnivAndSch

 or #WikiTeach #ScotsArts #ScotsHistory #ScottishHighlandGames~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1434864849264119808?s=20



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

Oct 8, 2021, 12:17 PM (2 days ago)

to teganvawter, Tammie, Tammie, Janie, Edward, Heather, Bruce, David, Alex, Linda, Barbara, Sandy, Sid, Susan, Sioux, lillianbthomas, Greg, Hugh, David, David, Andrew, stuart, George, Taylor, taylorspun, Frederick, Ann, John, Joan, Andrew, Mok, Abigail, Fettes.Community, Larry, Peter, Henry, Jim, Nancy, david.worthington


Dear Mrs. California MacLeod, Ms. California MacLoed, Tammie, Tegan, Professor Worthington, All,

Thanks very much, to Jill McNicol just now, for Professor Worthington's Inaugural lecture at the University of the Highlands and Islands - 

Re-Presenting Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709): The Scottish Highlands and Europe in the Century Before Culloden

https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0. 

With very best wishes, 

Scott


PS

I'm not sure how all of this would emerge further in a realistic virtual St. Kilda, or HIghlands (think Google Street View with time slider, in a realistic virtual history, which my virtual St. Kilda project in 2004 was about as seed, but am continuing to develop this ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy project (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) in a number of ways. Here's one idea in conversation with Monty Python's John Cleese that emerged in these regards not long ago - 



Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org

@scottmacleod Sep 3

Comic & tragicomic history from Michael Frayn https://britannica.com/biography/Michael-Frayn & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Frayn? #WikiCreate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory Think #googlestreetview with #TimeSlider Maps Earth #TensorFlowAI in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth for everything https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/History?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1433779755858284549?s=20


Am hoping we can stay in touch about all of this, conversation-wise, and wiki editing-wise of wiki World University and School for open teaching and learning, in any number of open wiki academic and creative subjects (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects), and eventually in Scottish Gaelic, and in the Scots' language too ... 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland

(from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic (planned in Scottish Gaelic)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scots_language (planned in the Scots' language) 

(from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages) 


But could these make good university knowledge generation projects for students at all the campuses of the University of Highlands and Islands? 

(WUaS has a languages, and a nation states' focus, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is also seeking to grow in a single realistic virtual earth for STEAM field sites, and as classrooms even ... )


(See, too - 

'Fraser, James (1634–1709)’

David Worthington

https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/fraser-james-16341709)


 

To Jill: 

PS

I studied at Fettes College, in Edinburgh, in the 1st year 6th form in 1977-'78, and at the Univ of Edinburgh, in the School of Scottish and Celtic Studies, in 2003-04, and my MSc paper was about St. Kilda or Hirta as virtual 'place' - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/hirta.html (and you'll see here UHI professor Abigail Burnyeat's name herein, for example, whom I knew a bit then; Gary West was my tutor for my year there, as well). Interesting to learn that Prof David Worthington studied social anthropology at Edinburgh University, and regarding my developing Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic project, building from, in part, my St. Kilda virtual project at the Univ of Edinburgh in 2004.


PPS

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, of which I'm the founder and head, is planning an online Scotland World University and School (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland) in Scottish Gaelic and the Scots' language, with machine learning and translation, as well as in English, - and could be seeking to hire your UHI graduates, for example, as faculty and staff in the future. WUaS is also exploring opportunities to collaborate and is currently in communication with Fettes College, as well as PM Stuart Liddell, and see Minute 2 here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/09/minutes-for-91821-world-univ-sch-wuas.html.  I hope we might keep in touch about some of this. Thank you.  


PPPS

I'm currently both teaching Scottish Small Piping online, including Piobaireachd, as well as taking lessons in the SF Bay Area, from the extraordinary piper PM Stuart Liddell in Argyllshire.  


Thank you again so much, Jill. 



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Am a bit of an academic, with a focus on Scotland World Univ & Sch, and information technologies, and networks in the information age too, in all of this - 

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jill-mcnicol-a8688b10


https://www.uhi.ac.uk › Final...PDF

Programme - University of the Highlands and Islands

https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/t4-media/one-web/university/learning-and-teaching-academy/event-docs/international-womenx27s-day/Final-Programme.pdf




From just before Professor Worthington's lecture - 


Greetings, 

I just noticed on Twitter the following lecture tomorrow at 4pm British Time, and wonder if I might join it please. I no longer see the registration link, so I wonder if it might be possible please to receive it in email. Thank you. - Scott GK MacLeod (in the SF Bay Area)

Professor David Worthington
Professor Worthington’s inaugural lecture, Re-Presenting Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709): The Scottish Highlands and Europe in the Century Before Culloden, will be held on Thursday, September 30 at 4pm. To book a place at the online event, visit www.uhi.ac.uk.

Re-Presenting Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709): The Scottish Highlands and Europe in the Century Before Culloden
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/events/re-presenting-rev-james-fraser-1634-1709-the-scottish-highlands-and-europe-in-the-century-before-culloden-.html

The 'dynamic' Highlands that emerged in the 100 years before Culloden
The little-known writings of a 17th-century scholar have helped to illuminate the Highlands as “dynamic and connected to the world” in the 100 years before Culloden, a historian has claimed.
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/the-dynamic-highlands-that-emerged-in-the-100-years-before-culloden-3399818




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Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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events

Fri, Oct 8, 8:20 AM (2 days ago)
to me

Hello Scott

 

I’m so sorry you weren’t able to access the event. However please find a link here to watch the recording of this interesting event.

https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0

 

Best wishes

 

Jill McNicol

University events team

 

 

From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Sent: 30 September 2021 00:09
To: events <events@uhi.ac.uk>
Subject: Professor Worthington’s inaugural lecture

 



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Thanks very much, Jill, for this - https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0. 


With very best wishes, 
Scott

PS
I studied at Fettes College, in Edinburgh, in the 1st year 6th form in 1977-'78, and at the Univ of Edinburgh, in the School of Scottish and Celtic Studies, in 2003-04, and my MSc paper was about St. Kilda or Hirta as virtual place - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/hirta.html (and you'll see here UHI professor Abigail Burnyeat's name herein, for example, whom I knew a bit then; Gary West was my tutor for my year there, as well). Interesting to learn that Prof David Worthington studied social anthropology at Edinburgh University, and regarding my developing Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic project, building from, in part, my St. Kilda virtual project at the Univ of Edinburgh in 2004.

PPS
MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, of which I'm the founder and head, is planning an online Scotland World University and School (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland) in Scottish Gaelic and the Scots' language, with machine learning and translation, as well as in English, - and could be seeking to hire your UHI graduates, for example, as faculty and staff in the future. WUaS is also exploring opportunities to collaborate and is currently in communication with Fettes College, as well as PM Stuart Liddell, and see Minute 2 here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/09/minutes-for-91821-world-univ-sch-wuas.html.  I hope we might keep in touch about some of this. Thank you.  

PPPS
I'm currently both teaching Scottish Small Piping online, including Piobaireachd, as well as taking lessons in the SF Bay Area, from the extraordinary piper PM Stuart Liddell in Argyllshire.  

Thank you again so much, Jill. 



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

4:40 PM (34 minutes ago)

to events, Wilson, Gary, teganvawter, Tammie, Tammie, Janie, Edward, Heather, Bruce, David, Alex, Linda, Barbara, Sandy, Sid, Susan, Sioux, lillianbthomas, Greg, Hugh, David, David, Andrew, stuart, George, Taylor, taylorspun, Frederick, Ann, John, Joan, Andrew, Mok, Abigail, Fettes.Community, Larry, Peter, Henry, Jim, Nancy, david.worthington


Dear UHI Professors Worthington (and Abigail Burnyeat!), All, Mrs. California MacLeod (Tammie, and CA MacLeod historian par excellence), Ms. California MacLeod (Tegan), Scotophiles, 


Thanks very much, Professor Worthington, for your inspiring Inaugural lecture at the University of the Highlands and Islands - https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0. - and congratulations on receiving tenure, and after 10-years ... and thanks too for sharing your talk to Twitter - 


David Worthington

@WorthingtonD · Oct 8

Video now available of my #ThinkUHI inaugural professorial lecture from last week:  https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0 #CuriousCleric #EarlyModern #17thCentury #Highlands #ScottishHistory

https://twitter.com/WorthingtonD/status/1446502068508835841?s=20


I've blogged a bit about this, and this thread here today - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/ocean-quahog-arctica-islandica.html?m=0 - And slipped in my potential asylum-seeking thinking for spring 2022, among Scottish thinking, poetry, and more. 


Here's a wee poem regarding the information technology age we're living in, and I am wondering where UHI and its students are with learning machine-learning   ...


Deep in the data set weeds,

We wade on,

Machine learning in Web


(Wild World Wide Web Wold Weedy Womb)


#Haiku-ish #Haikuish... Languages-World Univ

@scottmacleod

@sgkmacleod

 (@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress)

To @HarbinBook

 ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html …


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/zostera-wild-world-wide-web-wold-deep.html ~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1109144794884767744?s=20


And while I don't teach about machine learning, I do teach a course on 

~ Society, Information Technology & the Global University ~

 http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ~ where this course asks: What is information technology, broadly conceived? How did it develop? ~ https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/896470596040654849 ~ And will teach this again soon online. David and Abigail, where is the UHI with learning about the information technology age (post modernity, post-modernity, and advertising discourse, - what I'm calling 'internetity,' from a Tourism Studies' theoretical perspective), as well, and which you touch on briefly in your talk, and regarding the technologies in Fraser's time, pre-Culloden, and UHI students' information technologies today?


And am a wee bit curious to find photos of James Fraser - for which photos if researchers found them - it looks like one can potentially wiki-add them, in a sense, to a section here in Good Reads - https://www.goodreads.com/characters/1013666-rev-james-fraser - along with finding a book that might represent James Fraser as a double-agent (in that, a favorite genre of the British Isles :) Is this the same James Fraser, since you mention the spy word in your talk too, David?


Another poem here, from earlier this year, in my 'safe house' ... 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/arctic-avens-dryas-integrifolia-wuas.html


Thanks again so much for your inspiring lecture, David, and Best regards, 

Scott


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scotland

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/identity

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university









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Zipline fun in #Mauritius ~ SemesteratSea2005


Tym,

Zipline fun in #Mauritius in the middle of the Indian ocean on #SemesteratSea2005 on this day - in #Rastafarian country there we learned - on this #UniversityOnAShip a #HipShip a #HippyShip idea as university institution in 2005 -10 countries in 100 days https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1447204795966627846


Slightly different pics ~ 

Zipline fun in #Mauritius in the middle of the Indian ocean on #SemesteratSea2005 on this day - in #Rastafarian country there we learned - on this #UniversityOnAShip a #HipShip a #HippyShip idea as university institution in 2005 -10 countries in 100 days https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1447205692494860290


Just after doing 4.5 months of field work at Harbin Hot Springs for the big Ethnographic book I then published in 2016, which was just after studying for another year in Scotland writing my virtual St. Kilda island archipelago / Hirta MSc paper ...  

Warm regards, Scott




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Tym!


Sitting out here on the garden patio under the deck, a bit like being in a cave, looking out at Mt Tam, the Golden Gate Bridge barely visible through a dark cloud lying over it, Marin, SF. Winter jacket on ... Navin and Sarla, whom I never see and are very quiet above, are hiring some workers to put in a new fence below, to keep out the deer, and maybe folks who wander through the field and along the far Side of the 'safe house' as a kind of passageway from extended open area below to the Arlington Blvd road Access. Coffee and Bengal Spice tea on the rusted cast iron table ... Warm is nice ... Am curious about the energy behind this deer or stag picture - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/california-mule-deer-stag-allman-bros-r.html 

- which came up and touched its antlers twice to my window the other day, then lay down (outside, near me, re herding animal too?) ... I speculate to listen to the Allman Bros '73 at Cow palace in SF MUSIC. 


After sending this email to Harvard MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church and Peter Norvig, and a possible team of realistic virtual earth builders - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/greenland-shark.html - I took a walk way out in the east bay hills, and these wee Tweets with a little poem emerged ...


QUAIL TRAIL TRACKS

A big covey of quails

Took flight ~

What might,

Little kites,

What Light! ~

But not height!

#Haikuish #Haiku Am wishing I was wearing a pair of #GoogleGlasses with video camera going for STREAMING >#wuAsVR BOOKS & for #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing > PAPER


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https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1447043336754270211 - with pic too ... Where both have some Web thinking too 


And these have complementary IT ideas -


https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1447041393101135873


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1447040793621917697


Are we going to be able to talk in 250 years?


How are you doing? Are you hiking the Appalachian trail in PA soon? Are you in Yemen seeking to build a lasting peace between warring people? Are you finding any opportunities to jam away piano wise?


Am curious to think outside the box and create a new genre of music, "Piobaireachding the Blues" - of piping music on the 9 note chanter - by dabbling on the piano too, but I think in the meantime I'll be able to create my second piping album this year, first of Piobaireachd, classical Scottish Bagpiping music, on Scottish Small Pipes!  


Warm regards,

Scott


Here's my email to you which starts off amusingly, & re Harbin and safety even - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/mount-rainier-abolition.html :0




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Tym, 


Here's another wee poem from January, when I was living here in 'safe house' (after moving in in October 2020) - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/arctic-avens-dryas-integrifolia-wuas.html (https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1353864052921929729?s=20) - and with Anthony Willoughby. He's a very inspiring (hippy-informed) Brit who is developing his nomadic school of education ... 



AND a 3rd POEM ... which I find a bit amusing too in the I.T. age we're in ...


Deep in the data set weeds,

We wade on,

Machine learning in Web


(Wild World Wide Web Wold Weedy Womb)


#Haiku-ish #Haikuish... Languages-World Univ

@scottmacleod @sgkmacleod (@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress)

To

@HarbinBook

 ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html …


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/zostera-wild-world-wide-web-wold-deep.html ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1109144794884767744?s=20


And this is (thanks to Jill McNicol at the University of the Highlands and Islands), - https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0. - Professor Worthington's Inaugural lecture at the same University of the Highlands and Islands, which I'm just beginning to watch (having received it a few days ago) ... and on a Sunday morning ... There was a time when there was far less difference or distance between a minister and professor in many countries' histories than there is now ... and this talk as I hear it, is inspiring in this way too. :)


Fond regards, Scott

'traveling' blog label

'Scotland' blog label

'identity' blog label

Maybe the UU blog label? 

'global university' blog label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university?m=0 - 


 

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Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


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Changing this thread heading re SemesteratSea2005

Dear Tym,

Am changing this thread heading re  SemesteratSea2005 ... 

John Tymitz, head of SAS2005 at the time, and in one of the pics (in the WUaS Tweet too - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1447205692494860290?s=20) ... was a colleague of my father at the Univ of Pittsburgh (since Semester at Sea at the time was affiliated or housed at the Univ of Pitt) ... and my father got a head injury (leading to a subdural hematoma, then a spontaneous second subdural hematoma formed, after he couldn't get medical assistance, or be flown off, for example, on Semester at Sea) on Semester at Sea in Belize in 2004 (and was academic dean on Semester at Sea in 1999, when I went on SAS for the first time ... and I think John Tymitz was the executive director of SAS then too ) ... and Tymitz also came to the 1st UU church of Pgh to say something in 2007 after my father had died ... Am not sure what role John Tymitz could have played in my father's incapacitating head injury, if it was foul play ... but am wary too about what roles Semester at Sea with hurting or harming people, in visiting typically 10 countries in the spring and 10 countries in the autumn and more in the summer, and what roles SAS might play even in 'whacking' people - tragically, or grotesquely ... Semester at Sea, as institution, moved to the Univ of Virginia, after leaving Univ of Pitt (and who knows why - legal issues?), then to a university in Colorado, where it is housed or administered, and sails from, now I think ... 

While I might be interested in going on Semester at Sea again (with family even), I also don't want to risk it at this point ... and even re Mauritius ... for which WUaS seeks to create a Mauritius World Univ & Sch, emerging from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... with https://ocw.mit.edu/ ... and as wiki schools too for open teaching and learning. 

Just a change of email thread name, and friendly greetings further ... 

Just finished watching Prof David Worthington's inaugural lecture at the Univ of Highlands and Islands - https://youtu.be/oqAXXiSVpQ0.  - ... and with you as diplomat or minister (at one time possibly similar to professor and reverends as well) - was inspired with this history (and academic history can be conflictual too ... re 'identity' questions too as academic focus re history), and I may seek asylum in Inverness, or St. Andrews or Edinburgh, in spring of 2022 regarding my being a whistle-blower, and calling for abolition, and living presently in a 'safe house' (see email below in these regards too). Not seeking to become a victim, Tym, in my whistle-blowing, and not having a complete overview of the decision-making processes that go into perhaps the 'whacking' of my father, GKM MD, for example ... and as a single individual (moi), somewhat alone out here, and in developing WUaS ... and am continuing to whistle blow, about ethical wrongdoing by a number of institutions and places (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Law, the SF Quaker Meeting, Harbin, Canyon 94516, Reed College ...). 

Fond regards, abolition-ally yours, 
Scott 





Friday, Oct 8, 2021

west coast 'safe house' questions

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Fri, Oct 8, 6:14 PM (2 days ago)
to Joan, John, Sarah, David, Taylor, Alex, Alden, Em4ofa@aol.com, Jim, Ken, Stuart, Peter, Lydia, Bob, Nancy, Katie, Greg, Elliott, Annelise, David, George, Cate, Chris, Hal, Marc, Richard, Cliona, David, Grant, Chris, Janie, Larry, lillianbthomas, Sandy, Susan, Annie, Henry, Barbara, David, Ed, Heather, Bruce, Pin, Hugh
Dear Ma, Sandy, Pin Jim and All,

Thinking further through 'safe HOUSE' questions for April 2022 since I doubt seriously that California with the federal government can get their acts together re law enforcement for example and in the Bay Area, Lake county where Harbin is (and also re Cuttyhunk in MA). The illegal sex industry internationally is one risk (but so is other organized crime - illegal recreational drugs, for example, and the list is long). As a whistle blower - and which may be working - I'd like to plan for a number of possible options, and not be a victim either. ... so all plan Bs for spring 2022 ...

So, Inverness, Scotland, might be high on my list - in the Highlands as its capital. Or Edinburgh. Possibly Newcastle in the NE of England or a city in the Lake District, like possibly Carlisle 

Zurich, Freiburg, and Salzburg might top my list in German speaking countries since I speak German. 

Re the USA on the east coast, Cambridge MA, Cuttyhunk Ma, Hanover NH, or Pittsburgh PA ... All could be viable.


But if I could move into a safe house near Stanford - with a friend who I married and had a house there, would It be safe?

All this written, in looking up the size of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda (which the MacLeods lived next to in ~1971-~74 (when not living in Geneva for 6 months) and per today's blog post ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/bowhead-whale-aging-reversal.html ~ I noticed 

"The National Institutes of Health is made up of 27 different components" ... And 
"NIH has more than 75 buildings in a campus-like environment over 300 acres"
And employs more than 22,000 people. 


I also saw an international newspaper article (thanks Google Translate) or similar recently which made me wonder about the WUaS Corporation possibly being able to buy the property in Canyon 94516 from even the state of California, if that 670 property were legally seized by the state of California (where seizure is a word friend Ed Smyth MD, has used in our conversation a few times recently). If there was a long term clean up plan which might include even multiple seizures of property (very speculatively to end the illegal sex industry and even tragically with minors), could ONLINE MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch even somehow come into multiple houses as properties, for faculty and multimedia laboratories, and could a kind of WUaS physical presence and space launching pad and place, emerge in Canyon 94516, in Moraga, CA and then spread out throughout all the large cities to the east of here (from Lafayette to Concord) ... and which has much new housing?

Presently (president-ly too?), am thinking of seeking asylum in Scotland in April 2022, at the top of my list, but am wondering if other modalities for traveling to living in these countries in the future might emerge in other circumstances that weren't asylum-motivated, but rather research, or WUaS outreach oriented. 

And were I to leave California in the spring of 2022, I think I'd seek to organize World Univ & Sch's three entities at Stanford ... since WUaS is seeking to build out of Stanford Law for ~200 online law schools, and of Stanford Medicine for ~200 online Medical Schools, since MIT has neither a law school nor a medical school and thus CC-4 MIT OCW has these not too. 

My actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs Ethnographic project, with physical actual field site, is in northern California, and I still haven't heard back from CEO Sajjad Wynne, and Head of Human Resources (HR), Eric Richardson - search on Sajjad here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/zinnia-peruviana-non.html - to an inquiry about returning there, if it's become safe itself. (Could there even be a police presence there, and federal authority if the state of CA police are too compromised?

Would be interested in moving into a HOUSE (and out of a cold 'beachy basement bungalow' safe house, but still a cold basement space, about 3/4 of miles from the SF Bay in urban areas just north of Berkeley country).

Friendly regards, (and abolition-ally yours), 
Scott

Planning, brainstorming-wise, for coding for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Pin #  - 
You at WUaS - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/You%20at%20WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to end poverty via UBI Experiments of something like Stanford Mine Pi to people in all 200 countries, perhaps backed by most of their central banks.

WUaS Minutes from 9/18 2021 - 

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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor, Presiding Clerk, 
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 





On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 7:30 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Tym,

Zipline fun in #Mauritius in the middle of the Indian ocean on #SemesteratSea2005 on this day - in #Rastafarian country there we learned - on this #UniversityOnAShip a #HipShip a #HippyShip idea as university institution in 2005 -10 countries in 100 days https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~




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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

12:51 PM (1 hour ago)
to Tym, Scott
Tym, 

Deep in the data set weeds,
We wade on,
Machine learning in Web

(Wild World Wide Web Wold Weedy Womb)
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/zostera-wild-world-wide-web-wold-deep.html

Love, Scott
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-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 





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Re: News in England

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
Sat, Oct 9, 11:49 AM (1 day ago)
to Jane

Ma,

You asked about news on England or re Brexit the other day. Here's Oxford Prof Laura Ashe (same field as Hugh Thomas), Tweeting a blog about Brexit -
An evisceratingly accurate analysis of our current chaos. https://t.co/UqtHY3CBdw 


And here's Laura Ashe as actress reading poetry I think - 

Haven't heard from her yet (and see my email).


💕 love, Scott




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Jane MacLeod

7:27 AM (6 hours ago)
to me
Hi Scott,

Thanks for the reference about England and Brexit.  I’d like to read it.  Can I get it in some other form than Twitter — which I don’t do?  All’s well here.  I’m off to bed.  And, yes, I did finish the book for the Book Group.  We had a great discussion although I think we all agreed it wasn’t very well written.  Love,  Ma


On Oct 9, 2021, at 2:49 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:

Ma,

You asked about news on England or re Brexit the other day. Here's Oxford Prof Laura Ashe (same field as Hugh Thomas), Tweeting a blog about Brexit -



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Hi Ma,

Thanks for your email, my English mother ☺️!

Here's the blog that was in that Twitter post from Oxford Prof Laura Ashe, and it looks like Brexit is an identity issue from my perspective, as anthropologist and sociologist, since as the writer begins - Brexit has "little or nothing to do with economics, but all to do with a desire for sovereignty and ‘liberation’..." which to my way of thinking, both economics, and sovereignty as a nation state, have to do with 'the power of identity' (Castells' middle book in his trilogy on the rise of the network society in the information technology age) ...

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-brexit-three-card-monte.html

In that email I just BCC-ed you with to Tym there's a picture of John Tymitz, head of Semester at Sea around 2005, looking somewhat paternal, happy in Mauritius even, and wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Please give John & Dixie my greetings if you're in touch.


Appreciating Angela Merkel's remarkable ability as a woman Chancellor of Germany to create unity (among men who argue, and in a country of coalition politics!) ... And re ECONOMY questions for 16 years! 

Check out this picture of her 'singing' on the concert stage with beautiful harmonious cellos behind her ... 


"Day of German unity

Merkel's speech on German unity in full: GDR biography is considered ballast

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) gave a speech on the Day of German Unity at a ceremony in Halle an der Saale. The speech in full.

Bank code, October 3rd, 2021"

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wochenende/die-rede-von-bundeskanzlerin-angela-merkel-zum-tag-der-deutschen-einheit-2021-li.186633

England may be finding a kind of unity with Brexit for themselves, but are not succeeding in uniting with Europe at this stage.

(That woman next to me in the group pic on Mauritius is attractive in her own way, but I don't recall any of their names).

Love, Scott



Zipline fun in #Mauritius ~ SemesteratSea2005

Zipline fun in #Mauritius in the middle of the Indian ocean on #SemesteratSea2005 on this day - in #Rastafarian country there we learned - on this #UniversityOnAShip a #HipShip a #HippyShip idea as university institution in 2005 -10 countries in 100 days https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1447204795966627846



Slightly different pics ~ 

Zipline fun in #Mauritius in the middle of the Indian ocean on #SemesteratSea2005 on this day - in #Rastafarian country there we learned - on this #UniversityOnAShip a #HipShip a #HippyShip idea as university institution in 2005 -10 countries in 100 days https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1447205692494860290


Just after doing 4.5 months of field work at Harbin Hot Springs for the big Ethnographic book I then published in 2016, which was just after studying for another year in Scotland writing my virtual St. Kilda island archipelago / Hirta MSc paper ...  

Warm regards, Scott





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! #SierraHotSprings in Sierraville, CA & part of #HarbinHotSprings 5 years ago today


! #SierraHotSprings in Sierraville, CA & part of #HarbinHotSprings 5 years ago today & in #NakedHarbinEthnography @scottmacleod too - http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity (with daily blog posts, including about #virtualHarbin http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin?m=0 re #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~

Scott's #ScottishSmallPiping ~http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm New "Honey in the Bag" #ScottishSmallPipes ALBUM https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ (& for online lessons, email scott@scottmacleod.com) See too free, open /Bagpipe_Tutorials wiki, subject page & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes @WorldUnivAndSch~






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Oct. 22 Fall Social


 - Silicon Valley - SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute)

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Sat, Oct 9, 7:32 PM (18 hours ago)
to Frode, Jim, Post-Industrial
Dear Frode and Post-Industrial, (Jim),

Greetings. Thanks for the invitation to this in-person event. I won't be coming to this because it appears to be a Stanford event, at SRI, and I still haven't heard back from the Stanford Faculty Senate (I think Stanford Professor Tim Stearns is still its president) about whistle-blowing about Stanford in a variety of ways regarding Stanford's ethical wrong-doing, so I think it's unwise to attend this event of your Post-Industrial Institute at this time (and since it's not online). Thanks again for the invitation. 

Thanks, and abolition-ally yours. Scott

Minutes for 9/18/21 World Univ & Sch & WUaS Corporation open Monthly Business Meeting - 

This course I teach is about the Information Technology Age -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - 


World University & School (which is like CC-4 MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - in 4 languages, with Wikipedia in 300 languages), is planed in ~200 countries as major online universities  for free-to-students' online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, and IB high school degrees or similar, and as wiki schools in all 7,139 living languages) with a realistic virtual earth for STEM and as classrooms.




World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand



-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 











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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arctica_islandica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_(clam)


(longevity, and even re aging reversal ... 

Icelandic mussel named Ming (507 years)

Greenland shark (392 years)

Greenland whale (211 years)

Jeanne Calment (122 years) )

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