Friday, December 9, 2022

Paw paw tree (Asimina triloba): Good afternoon, St. Andrew's Society, Pittsburgh, and Cathy ~ Scott MacLeod's #HoneyPiobaireachd Scottish Small Piping ALBUM (2022) (classical bagpipe music) . . . AND #HoneyInTheBag ALBUM (2020) . . . Lessons (Highland Piping fingering) 412 478 0116 sgkmacleod@WorldUniversityAndSchool.org http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ~ * * * Hiking further today on the C and O Canal near the Paw Paw Tunnel in Maryland, and near West Virginia!

 

Good afternoon, St. Andrew's Society, Pittsburgh, and Cathy ~ Scott MacLeod's #HoneyPiobaireachd Scottish Small Piping ALBUM (2022) (classical bagpipe music) . . .  AND #HoneyInTheBag ALBUM (2020) . . . Lessons (Highland Piping fingering) 412 478 0116 sgkmacleod@WorldUniversityAndSchool.org http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm


Good afternoon, St. Andrew's Society, Pittsburgh, and Cathy, 
 
Here's a SASP Thistle item: 

Scott MacLeod's #HoneyPiobaireachd Scottish Small Piping ALBUM (2022) (classical bagpipe music)
Lessons (Highland piping fingering) 412 478 0116 sgkmacleod@WorldUniversityAndSchool.org http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ~



For the upcoming Thistle issue 

https://www.standrewspittsburgh.org/thistle-journal/ 



Would be grateful if you could include the Twitter feeds.

Thank you,
Scott

 

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Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune




Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography 



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Hiking further today on the C and O Canal near the Paw Paw Tunnel in Maryland, and near West Virginia!  



Paw Paw Tunnel Trail C and O canal hike with Tym Lenderking & Scott MacLeod - F Dec 9 2022 - texting before and after 


Great hike on #CandOcanal near #PawPawTunnel with #ReedCollegeFriend (from 1979!)

Great hike on #CandOcanal near #PawPawTunnel with #ReedCollegeFriend (from 1979!) in growing @WorldUnivAndSch in #Yemen https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yemen for #FreeToStudents' CC4 licensed OCW.MIT.EDU -centric WUaS Bachelor PhD Law MD IB high school & newly AA & Master degrees  








No pic of Tym Lenderking rather Logo 




Scott - 

Safe travels - https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html Meeting on F 12/9/22 could work, and I've noted it in my calendar (The Middle States Commission on Higher Education annual conference in Philadelphia is on this W Th F ... but have written MSCHE I'm not going, and due to WUaS's lack of funds ... and I don't think this will change ... and I'm not interested in going either:) ... so looking forward potentially to seeing you then ! A Saudi Arabia World University and School and an Oman World University and School and for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, and IB high school or similar degrees ...possibly with Humanoid Robot professors of surgery, and as surgeons as autonomous systems emerging from Toyota Ambulance Vans' autonomous vehicles ... and out of the US Saudi embassy and the US Oman embassy ... could benefit these countries and their peoples greatly, Tym! Looking forward to seeing you upon your return and potentially on Friday 12th of December ... for an early Xmas potentially (like the pre-Thanksgiving we shared 🙂) Haven't yet added any C & O canal pics from my iPad via my iPad here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/11/honeysuckle-hiking-along-candocanal.html - yet but planned 🙂


How was your flight, Tym? And what is the culture change like this time in Saudi and Oman for you? (I didn't head back into the cafe in Shadyside a 3rd Sunday after meeting the attractive woman of whom I asked some iPad questions again yesterday, but appreciate much your asking if I got her phone number the first time! Seeking an opening in life partnering here in this asylum place of Pgh. Looking forward to seeing you potentially on F 12/9/22 in the green forest ... In the woods, #MuirWoodsCA, #PittsburghPA #FallingWaterPA, #CuttyhunkMA, #RandolphNH, #WisdomCreekRanchOR near #MedicalSpringsOR, #SierraMountainsCA, #PacificCrestTrailCA, 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/216dg6V3nrzmMtSu5 INTO a #RealisticVirtualEarthForTraveling #RealisticVirtualEarthForWalking #wuAsVR~


Meet you around lock 64 and the Paw Paw tunnel on the C and O? 🙂 (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/11/honeysuckle-hiking-along-candocanal.html :)



Tym - 

I think there is a parking lot right on SR 51.  Then we drive the other car to the trailhead on Green Ridge Road.  It's about a 10- mile hike altogether with the last part on the beautiful canal and through the tunnel 



Scott -

Sounds great ... I think I found the very trail we hiked afterward in AllTrails (and shared this with you too above) ... which was great to see on a Topographic where we had hiked (May bring my walking poles ... and for upper body strength, in addition to possible unanticipated steep trails like on that first path down to the C&O) ... Glad you know these places much ... will learn further where we might hike around SR 51 in the days ahead!


Some web sites suggest that parts of the Paw Paw tunnel are closed ... let's check beforehand! 🙂 (https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/paw-paw-tunnel.htm and see too re 'flashlight" and the middle is extremely dark, & interesting bits of history too  - https://www.canaltrust.org/2018/04/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-paw-paw-tunnel/ and https://www.canaltrust.org/pyv/paw-paw-tunnel/ )



Tym - 

We need to establish that as that's kind of essential to the hike.  Though I have seen a trail that goes over the tunnel 



Scott - 

I think we're good ... first web site - https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/conditions.htm - says "Milepost 150–184.5
Including Paw Paw, WV; Oldtown, MD; Cumberland, MD
Paw Paw Area (MP 156.1)
The Paw Paw Tunnel is currently open. However, the towpath just downstream is closed. A shuttle service is in place along the Tunnel Hill Trail. Learn more
Open, Campground
Partially closed, Parking lot. A portion of the parking lot is closed off for Paw Paw Tunnel construction staging.
Spring Gap (MP 173.3)" 🙂 (and Paw Paw tunnel is at around Mile markers 150 - 184, not sure about locks)



Hi Tym, welcome back from Saudi and Oman! I added 4 pics via my new iPad and blogger blogspot here http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/11/honeysuckle-hiking-along-candocanal.html?m=0 ...and it went smoothly ;) ...  Looking forward to seeing you this Friday in the Greenridge forest! Robot theme continuing, and re ocw.mit.edu centric World University And School , could the state department help code MIT OCW into the Miko3 most engaging educational experiences' wee robot following on Ishiguro's "Klara and The Sun" and your possibly drawing your 3 favorite robots on your new etch a sketch? ... and per ... Who here plays with and likes MIKO 3, the Most Advanced AI Powered #LearningRobot, in GEG India? And see the GREAT study mate picture in the news' article - 

"#Miko Launches Most Advanced AI Powered #LearningRobot ‘Miko3’ in #India"
https://digitalterminal.in/news/miko-launches-most-advance-ai-powered-learning-robot-miko-3-in-india/27427.html for #MostEngaging #EducationalExperiences #mikorobot #Robots #Miko3 How @WorldUnivAndSch to add #CC4 OCW.MIT.EDU w #CSFirst #WithGoogle to a professor #Miko10 #HumanoidRobot?

AAAB
AND ... A #MostEngaging #EducationalExperiences' beyond #Miko3 >#Miko10 https://digitalterminal.in/news/miko-launches-most-advance-ai-powered-learning-robot-miko-3-in-india/27427.html >#Miko100 #HumanoidRobot with #CSFirst #WithGoogle in a #CC4 licensed OCW.MIT.EDU -centric @WorldUnivAndSch #TeachingLearning #LearningRobot will #RevolutionizeLearning :) - Scott
BBBC
CCCD


https://digitalterminal.in/uploads/news/1645261101s_Miko%203.jpg



Tym - 

Morning!  Looking forward to Friday.  Do you think we could meet closer to 0930?  I have to get back for a dinner.



Scott - 

Sounds like a plan? Where would you suggest? 




Tym - 

I think Paw Paw parking on SR 51 is the way to go.  Then jump into one of our cars and drive up Green Ridge Road to the start 

I can send more precise details later 



Scott - 

Great! Am bringing 2 robots with (but probably not on the hike:) , one which I made and newly coded with the Scratch drag and drop programming language out of Harvard and MIT:) see you soon! How was the Middle East?:)  

(I added the Mt Savage foundry historical placard esp ... one of the first pictures I took on iPad ... 1844 first iron rails made in US, where before this they had been imported from England :) )



Tym -

We made some progress on the trip, important contacts continuing to de-escalate.  Details in person!

Right now weather showing partly sunny next Friday while possible snow in DC!

High of 41.  So it will be colder 



Scott - 

Have to think through foot wear and shorts ... You were hiking in shorts in 36 F weather to start! (My waterproof - amazing re bicycling in Portland Oregon back in the day, slip in  Merrell Jungle Mocs with some tread still and no lift actually bloodied my right 2nd toe the other day ... a bit too small for this Birkenstock wearer ... May well wear sandals but wonder about moisture deep in the Paw Paw tunnel ... Glad for your progress in the Arabian peninsula, Tym!



Tym - 

There will be some rain out there Tuesday or Wednesday but so far none on the day 



Scott - 

Tym, still haven't learned how Jackson Shannon former resident here at 210 East End Avenue died, after new person in front porch room said he was deceased having moved in with co-resident Karen, to replace Jackson Shannon. I saw Lisa Ximei Peng, owner of KK Rentals' management company showing these new people the front porch room (as she had shown me my abode) ... and there was a cop in uniform hanging out on the front porch room for a whole afternoon leaning his back against Jackson Shannon's front porch room ... Am hoping the owner of the actual house and Lisa Ximei Peng didn't somehow arrange to have Jackson Shannon murdered, and in collaboration with a corrupt policeman ... please stay tuned with eyes wide open regarding our getting together. I wouldn't want anything that might emerge from such a possible murder here to affect my departure to meet you, or our getting together ... I mentioned Jackson Shannon's passing to you when we met the last hike, and all regarding my calling for the abolition of the illegal sex and drug industries and their latent networks of violence (and are the new people in the front room possibly part of the illegal sex industry internationally, and was Jackson Shannon's death caused by the sex industry's latent networks of violence)? Having fled the SF Bay Area for my life, and in calling for abolition, am reminded of my father's 2 subdural hematoma brain injuries - and a pic just popped up of my impaired father in Google Photos - and take his injuries as a kind of call to seek to protect people at WUaS ... potentially coding for all 7.9 billion people on the planet - with 200 Law Schools, Law, law enforcement and AI and machine learning (like my father wasn't protected ... and with aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerging ... could still be living decades or centuries into the future). Fond regards, and seeking to see you soon, and staying safe, abolition-ally, Scott

Just a heads' up as I seek too - regarding the Desiderata and see the "achievements,' "career," "trickery" and "heroism' words ... https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - to continue to grow CC4 LICENSED wiki World Univ & Sch and regarding both federal and state of CA and state of PA law ... In asylum from CA, and fondly, Scott


Can"t be sure that what you send and i see in text is the same or versa - email is better  Tym in these regards :) 



Tym - 

Morning!  Looks like some rain is creeping into the forecast for next Friday.  Let's continue to watch it!  



Scott - 

Great! 🙂 I've got one robot I made in hand and another on the way for you and the state department too re Yemen World Univ & Sch as well (teaching and learning-wise especially, and in Arabic too) ... would be great to adventure forth if the weather holds 🙂 

Hike in a tunnel in the rain, Tym ... if ... And for the Maryland green forest underground adventure, and seeing you:)? 

Found some new old shoes with much tread, low cut, waterproof, but not sure I have any GoreTex / sim rain pants these days or similar ... and not sure about shorts and hypothermia even and in the rain in a tunnel ... either  Alternatively, and although there's a Stanford Law CodeX meeting at 4:30 ET on Thursday afternoon, hour-long, I could drive ~5 hours to DC after this, and visit you for an evening, and then drive back to Pittsburgh late afternoon on Friday (with my car having gone through a maintenance after the maintenance sign came on ... and as a 2016 good Toyota Prius C is working well still post-maintenance) ... would be great to hike on the C & O canal with you on Friday possibly in the rain ... or visit it somehow otherwise half way between together out of the rain 🙂 ... But maybe the weather will be rain free or very minimal on Friday too, Tym - Scott (some about Yemen World Univ & Sch in today's blog post too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/12/sarus-crane.html - but the video recording from the WUaS News and Q&A is taking abnormally long to process - https://www.youtube.com/ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity). Will I have completed or mostly completed recording my next Scottish Piobaireachd album, this one of classical Scottish bagpiping music "Honey Piobaireachd" by Friday? C'est possible (scottmacleod.com/piping.htm :) Looking forward to seeing you if it works out, weather-wise! (and interesting to meet Allen from Vietnam in the Toyota place today, again - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/12/sarus-crane.html - and could WUaS get 1000 Toyota Proace Electric Autonomous Vehicle camping vans, largest of 3 sizes, from this place when they may come out in the USA in 2024, and even with 1000 humanoid robot THR3 drivers ... seems like it will longer for THR3s ... for WUaS Educational Services' Stores' deliveries ... and with these eventually becoming Professors of Surgery in Toyota Ambulance Vans as 2 autonomous systems :) ... probably a better value than getting them in the SF Bay Area ... and could this also help make Pittsburgh a further center for Robotics ... with Professor robots on the street learning from, and teaching to, Pittsburgh people too in conversation in the future 🙂


Tym - 

Good thoughts! 60% chance rain at the moment 




Scott - 





Seeking for a possible 20 something yo MD life partner, Tym, or similar, and maybe when we connect initially 'navigating, her family will be enjoyable too ... A new MD resident at Shadyside hospital who might be seeking somehow? Went into the cafe  in Shadyside  yesterday where 3-4 weeks ago I asked some questions of an attractive CMU student about iPads. A fairly tall man was there again yesterday whom I have seen before with his black lab, a bit older than me ... As we chatted, sort of, Daisy was her name - and could he be this woman's father even possibly - and on his pullover was an image of the state of Michigan. This man has a connection with sweet Daisy, and seems nice and somehow 'released' (speculatively, could he even be a Quaker 'meditator' from the nearby Friends' Meeting and retired professor sim who might have known my father, and knows my mother? ) Who knows ... but the Michigan pullover reminded me a bit of a broken criminal UC Berkeley law instructor MI alum in a possibly corrupt Cal law school) ... I don't think I'll meet this CMU student again, and maybe not anyone in Starbuck's cafe ... but how, I wonder? Yesterday's 12/5/22 WUaS News and QA is still processing unusually and what does this mean ...  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/12/sarus-crane.html?m=0 ? A bit of rain here in Pgh today ... rain possibly on Friday searching on green ridge state forest maryland weather ... a museum in DC might be drier and warmer than the Chesapeake Arboretum near you ... Am watching the weather for Friday ... And it could be fun to adventure out in inclement weather too! 


Tym! Another alternative with rain, searched on ... 'spelunking c and o canal' ... and here's a meandering Seldom Scene bluegrass tune C and O canal - 

https://youtu.be/nZrLaz3ttXo :) with illuminating lyrics mentioning too the Paw Paw tunnel :)


... AND ... 

THE "C And O Canal" LYRICS - 




Tym, just found "BARRON'S C&O CANAL MUSEUM & STORE" in Sharpsburg MD (possibility but not too high on my list:) ... Hiking in the rain could be fun (but in a downpour possibly less so:)


Hi Tym Just came across this pretty MD with Celtic background  Ashley McMakin, M.D. on a CMU web page ... https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/health/2012/summer/cmu-for-pre-med.shtml ... 

Dr. Ashley M McMakin, MD is a(n) Family Physician specialist. 

Dr. Ashley M McMakin, MD’s office address is 

3937 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA 15201 

5769 Saltsburg Rd Verona, PA 15147


https://azdoc.info/65351-dr-ashley-m-mcmakin-md ... with offices in Verona near my mother's place ... I don't know if my mother knows her or her family (and Ashley probably has kids and is in her late 30s)💕, Scott (Aging reversal genetic drug therapies in the future?:)



Tym - 

Morning!  Looks like clouds now for Friday, no rain.  But rain today so could be muddy.  We will miss having the sun bring out the colors as we did before.  At this point still game to proceed if you are.  



Scott -

We can go underground in the tunnel, and possibly spelunking (will look around for nearby open caves) weatherwise ... Otherwise in a downpour move to shelter somehow for a visit (but not yet in #wuAsVR in a realistic virtual earth for traveling thinking Street View w time slider ... From a local cafe ... Space Walking (even in #VirtualOregon 
... So gimme shelter ... from the storm, it'll be great to see you at 9:30 am in the green forest C&O canal wise ... What address?  



Tym - 

The trailhead is on the bend in SR 51 just across the Potomac River on the north side from the town of Paw Paw


(MAP and PEN pointing) 

Right where my pen is pointing 




Looks like one option is that you can pick up SR 51 in Cumberland and follow it directly to the trailhead.  




Scott - 

am not sure I can get there reliably by 9:30 am Tym ... but maybe Google Maps and AllTrails can code for a specific destination by the time Friday morning at 5:30 am rolls around ... (and if they're reading this too, perchance, as an interesting mapping coding challenge :) ... Wishing I could just add your pic and pen to Google Street View with time slider just like that ... but it ain't that easy yet 🙂 (just did a brief search, but maybe in the future ... like the picture from 2009 I added of the Harbin Gate House here ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ but which has now disappeared ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy wise too ... : ) 




. . . . 

It's 25.3 miles (in a downpour?) from Cumberland to the Paw Paw tunnel campground - https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Cumberland,+MD/Paw+Paw+Tunnel+Campground,+Chesapeake+and+Ohio+Canal+Towpath,+Oldtown,+MD+21555/@39.5894069,-78.6832579,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89ca8ec4b1940129:0x9bdc8c96587014e2!2m2!1d-78.7625185!2d39.6528654!1m5!1m1!1s0x89ca706c2c3929ef:0x2f3c6c563a00daad!2m2!1d-78.4615213!2d39.5441484 - (Meet at this sign - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Town+of+Paw+Paw/@39.5329575,-78.4579188,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPEVFSUBLZzx5Y8t0AA2Gj7I71WjNYhMzKpORiG!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPEVFSUBLZzx5Y8t0AA2Gj7I71WjNYhMzKpORiG%3Dw114-h86-k-no!7i3264!8i2448!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x50f144e2229ad32e!8m2!3d39.5329499!4d-78.4578728 - OR ... at the Paw Paw Public Library, probably closed ... in a down pour - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Paw+Paw+Public+Library/@39.5276584,-78.4601444,17z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x89ca708a1dcd5c0b:0x347f2b407eaa3984!2sPaw+Paw+Public+Library!8m2!3d39.5276165!4d-78.4579368!3m4!1s0x89ca708a1dcd5c0b:0x347f2b407eaa3984!8m2!3d39.5276165!4d-78.4579368 ...  or ... at the town hall with a specific address - Town Hall - 122 Winchester Street, Paw Paw 25434 TEL (304) 947-7476 - since there doesn't appear to be an internet cafe in Paw Paw WV? )

 . . . . 

25 miles east of Cumberland I think on SR 51 ... Shall we explore biking some of these 2 c&o canal sections we're hiking in the spring for an overnight or two even possibly (but maybe not as I'm still further inquiring about the possible tragic unjust murder of Jackson Shannon here at 210 East End Avenue Pgh PA 15221)? Am not sure what kind of touring bike then I'd find my way to however ... - Scott (Will aim for the Paw Paw campground in MD and hope to see you at (9:30 am ET) ... but the Town Hall or similar could still be a back up in a down pour ... or even the Chesapeake Arboretum in Virginia (??? https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/virginia/chesapeake-arboretum) if we were to change plans at the last minute! 



Tym - 

Looking forward to biking then Allegheny Passage at some point.  We could tackle that!  


Scott - 

Not if I can't breathe, Tym ... There's a lot of second hand smoke in the air here which is causing me to be a bit short of breath even (and possibly metaphorically too) ... and regarding my ongoing inquiry into the cause of Jackson Shannon's death (re the murder industry and its latent networks of violence) after he was moved out of the front porch room and Lisa Ximei Peng moved a  new couple moved in there, the man of which told me that Jackson Shannon is deceased ... And I've mentioned the cigarette smoke a number of times to Ximei Peng who can't seem to stop it as owner of KK Rentals). I've also put a sign in the back of the front door suggesting nicotine gum re the addiction ... And asked for the name and email address of the house's owner ... And asked, too, Kim Viehland MIT alumba to begin a no smoking campaign ... Nothing seems to work and am short of breath presently ... While biking over the Great Allegheny passage with you could be great, I don't have the money to speak of to even get a normal bike let alone a great touring electric bike (and while there's a great excellent 18 speed light weight Schwinn Voyageur bicycle on Craig's List in St Louis MO for $350 - \

Schwinn Voyageur 18 speed road bike - $350 (S City Shaw) St Louis 12/5/22 



Zap Motors doesn't seem to make an updated version of the Zap motor I had on my Schwinn bicycle in the 1990s with a 500 mile range lithium ion battery, and getting a heavy OptiBike, for ex., with possibly a 30p mile range and trailer etc is impossible ... Still reading the winds whether the campground or Chesapeake Arboretum in VA is safer ... and even re 3 US state police forces and security questions re latent networks of violence and abolishing the illegal sex industry ... and even scarily re unwell frederic khayat housemate (could he have become a federal criminal by calling fir the death if Jackson Shannon?)  Stay tuned ... Biking together would be fun but I don't have a bike (in mind) yet ! :) See you in the rain on Friday at 9:30 am somewhere 💕Scott



Tym - 

No worries, as always health first!   Right no rain forecast, fingers crossed.  

* right now 



Scott - 

Am wishing the well founded worries of the past 15 years in developing WUaS diminish in the next 220 years as a 25 year old, Tym (with FDA approved aging reversal genetic drug therapies) and maybe too a wonderful pretty 25 year old MD life partner :)



Tym - 

Morning!  There is some sun creeping into the forecast for tomorrow.  




Scott - 

good for our adventure! 44F high 26F low ... cool! (would like for my life partner to give birth to a son or two too:) ... see you soon, Tym! 


The robots in Klara and the Sun were solar powered, possibly in rainy GB ... HOW to develop solar powered Toyota THR3s as MD Professors of Surgery autonomous systems in related vans in Yemen World Univ & Sch ...https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yemen ... will be a question we can or might explore tomorrow too :) (https://education.lego.com/en-us/lessons/renewable-energy/solar-vehicle/ and 




2.5 hours 136 miles to the campground in Oldtown MD on SR51 from here and now ... looking forward to our hike with some sun :) 

ONSEN - this is the relatively new Youtube interactive immersive info tech that I think will be amazing for further physical- digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic and STEM brain research too https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI :) 


Let's talk a bit later to touch base over the phone about our C&O hike again, Tym! :)



Thursday - 

See you here, Tym, from GMaps I think: Paw Paw Tunnel Campground ...
Campground in Allegany County, Maryland ... Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath, Oldtown, MD 21555 ... (but let's yak first ... Re possibly Chesapeake Arboretum in VA TOO:)



Tym - 

Looking forward!  



Scott - 

🙂 The future is a head! 🙂 (ahead:)


The Cumberland MD Times-News ... https://www.times-news.com ... and I'm driving through Cumberland! 🙂 




Tym - 

Good morning!  Sunshine predicted today!  



Scott - 

😊

Good morning ! See you soon! Glad the sun will be out! (Both alarms didn't go off it seems ... but woke up just in time I think ) ... Growing Yemen World Univ & Sch and Arabic language WUaSs further ahead? See you soon Tym, Scott 




Tym - 

Happily on my way to Paw Paw!  ETA 0920



Scott -

😊

Hi Tym, am here I think ... how are you? The turnoff isn't clearly marked but there is much blue tarping visible from the road ... I appear to have wifi too ... Will call soon. Scott



Tym - 

5 mins out 



Scott - 

GMaps took me here accurately ...  

Great (I missed the Breezewood main exit off of 76 Hwy in PA but came a PRETTY way through Bedford exit ... Yay Google Maps ... See you soon! 





Friday, Dec 9, 2022 

8:40 pm

Scott - 

Hoping you got home well, and made it to the dinner in a timely way, Tym? Wonderful to see you and hike a new part of the C&O canal - https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-google&sxsrf=ALiCzsZBZfUBT1FsjkY3O8O18Gpk-RaOIA:1670635853823&q=paw+paw+tunnel&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGx_bE8-37AhVYjnIEHdogA9QQ0pQJegQIBxAB&biw=393&bih=676&dpr=2.75#imgur c=bg3xRXcdLa3E-M - Stopped briefly in Cumberland MD,  a terminus town for the C&O canal, but not in Paw Paw (am curious how it got its name) ... Would like to (be able to) talk with every single person who lived along the canal from 1850 to 1950 or so as iterating avatar bots and ghosts in a sense even in the back of my REI glacier glasses ... and for everyone yo be able to while hiking the C& O canal in any year in all historical events and wherever the evidence exists, and points to, geo spatially ...  :) ... For living history ... Bon Appettit and looking forward to beginning to plan Yemen World University and School with you, with the beginning of this at the Great Eastern Trail as you observed :) 


https://www.greateasterntrail.net/ ... From Alabama to New York! :)


The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland. Wikipedia :) 




Tym - 

Hello Scott!  Have made it home and showered and now heading to dinner.  Hope same for you! 



Scott - 

Thanks!

Yes, got back safely, had some dinner ... seeking of life partner to begin a family continues! Thanks 💗 



Tym -

So glad!  Wonderful day.

So one of the people at my (small) dinner grew up in Canyon.  What are the chances??




Scott - 

Wild chances, Tym?  ... Any related changes (chances/) that someone from Harbin Hot Springs' California alternative 'culture'  could be in a small dinner party circle 🙂 with you in DC? Wonderful to hike with you, Tym ... Talk soon 🙂  (am recalling now that Paw Paw tunnel may get its name from this tree ...https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/11/paw-paw-tree-asimina-triloba.html ... pics + more to come:)



Tym - 

She loves Canyon and Harbin!



Scott - 

🙂 Canyon CA resident, a RN, who's interesting, named Elizabeth got my Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book ... haven't ever talked with Elizabeth about a World Univ & Sch Academic Medical Center, with warm water cure - and for Physical-Digital Field Site Generation with a Harbin Hot Springs' physical simulacra, and with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute up on the ridge in Canyon 94516! 🙂 I was tired after our hike ... am impressed with your energy! (Just recorded the 1st version of the 3rd tune from my upcoming Scottish Small Pipes' Piobaireachd album ... http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ... of 'prettiest Piobaireachd' ... will probably record the 2nd and final version tomorrow!) Warmly, Scott



Tym - 

She is the wife of the Secretary of Homeland Security.  Lot of interest at this dinner about Reed College 



Scott - 

I don't recognize Tanya or Alejandro (from Cuba) Mayorkas. ... but small world  ... Hoping that the innocent, women kids, victims others are being protected by numerous agencies state and federal and international ... And re law and law enforcement (as I would say I wasn't Tym ... and called the police in Canyon 94516 and have whistle blown about Reed and Harbin too!) Hoping you had a good dinner 💕Scott 



Tym - 

She had moved before you got there.




Scott - 

Late Nov 2008, I think, after my father died Nov 25 2007 from his subdural hematoma brain injuries ... And after a year of ethnographic field work,  1 month in, and 1 month away for 6 months at Harbin in 2008 ... ( ...  http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ...)💕Scott


Ice skating today (free) with the Shady Side Academy community close by in the Shadyside/East Liberty part of Pgh at the Hunt Armory ice rink (and good for testing robots on ice with my kids to be possibly in their high school years if they went to Boarding Sch at SSA for example) ... But The event is AT CAPACITY - 
https://twitter.com/shady_side/status/1601283084955025409 - so I also will miss an opportunity to circulate in seeking a life partner, Tym (and also am a little wary of ice rink ethos from the former hockey player I think uc berkeley criminal sick law instructor w kell ... and in calling for  the abolition of the illegal sex and drug industries and their latent networks out of uc berkeley itself). Wonderful to hike with you in the incredible expanse of the green ridge wood yesterday, Tym, and thanks too for suggesting teaching Scottish small piping again!  (https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1601328155494854656?t=kUIx7u9uE7SjNTiEDElJmQ AND re ROBOTS IN YEMEN https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1600843875941494785?t=DiIUX_YhakC0tTNp6AyKqw&s=19 :)



Lots of sun in Yemen I'd imagine for Yemeni kids to grow up learning by playing Lego robotics (& on #WUaSHomeRobotics' Engineering university tracks) and testing their solar robot creations, and as Yemen 'goes' solar, internet (& web-agriculturally for efficiencies), and robot, re economic development (without the West leaving a pile of trash or war history there in what seems to be a very poor country), Tym! More to explore in the green ridge wood and in further adventuring :)💕Scott (



Tym -


That was a wonderful day!  Thanks so much for excellent company and camaraderie and adventuring.  Can't wait for the next!



Scott -

Yay ... maybe a (electric) bicycle tour on the Great Allegheny Passage ... or? :)💕




Tym - 

One option is to pick up the trail in the woods that continued as we emerged to take that left onto the dirt road and head uphill.  You remarked on going straight.  That also takes us down to the canal, at which we could turn left and reach the Paw Paw parking lot.  For consideration!  

Also the Tuscarora Trail awaits us in the vicinity of Hancock, MD.  A little longer drive for you but that trail continues many miles in both directions and also crosses the mighty Potomac.  


Food for thought!  



Scott - 


am marveling at how the planners got great expanses of forests right in the Green Ridge state forest possibly 2 centuries before the planners got it right regarding the EAST BAY MUD large open lands in the SF Bay Area making our communing in the woods yesterday possible! Thank you Tym for our great hike once again in those C and O forests! More food for thought!




How would a World Univ & Sch academic medical center with warm water cure and for Physical-Digital field site generation (ethnographic, archaeological, geological etc) work out 2 centuries into the future planning-wise I wonder?:) ... and will we be soaking there then? (the US govt is old, Harbin Hot Springs since 1972 is young :)




Put another clothing-optional Hot Springs with great ethos (heart consciousness church-wise, out of the box, but different) inside that blue tarping at the Paw Paw trailhead where we met yesterday and all legal at federal and state levels to protect people brainstorming wise :)?  





Both Travertine Hot Springs and Buckeye Hot Springs east of the Sierra Mountains are managed by the US forest service !!! (and a little 'raw' somehow culturally seem to be clothing optional too :)



Funny headline & picture in the lead article in this German paper (mentioning France and their crumbling on nuclear to) "





Conceptually, Tym, how to get a hypothetical AB98 molecule to attach to the bones, ligaments of my mother's thoracic spine area ('heart chakra' thinking, Yogi-cally - and TO OPEN FROM THE INSIDE) re this MOLECULE CD47 - "Further investigation revealed that a molecule called thrombospondin, which binds to CD47 on the surface of the muscle stem cells, suppresses the muscle stem cells’ activity.  

Porpiglia showed that an antibody that recognizes thrombospondin and blocks its ability to bind to CD47 dramatically affected the function of muscle stem cells. Cells from older animals divided more robustly when growing in a laboratory dish in the presence of the antibody, and when the antibody was injected into the leg muscles of old mice the animals developed bigger and stronger leg muscles than control animals.  


with Stanford researchers 
and re Porpiglia as lead paper author - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ermelindaporpiglia/

from this the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).  

Stem Cellar: The Official Blog of CIRM, California's Stem Cell Agency

... and especially regarding the potential Physical-Digital WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute on the ridge in Canyon 94516 (not the Greenridge forest in MD, but they might be connected somehow:)






Tym, Just added this version of the Seldom Scene Bluegrass band's "C And O Canal" ... with lyrics about a C & O canal that sounds a bit even like a kind 'hell' ... and ethnographically, and ethnomusicologically ... in a way that no history book could get at, but possibly a realistic virtual earth for history could ... and to interact, and talk, with everyone along the C & O canal in 1898 for example as iterating avatar bots (ghosts in a sense) ... but history brought alive and interactively thanks to the computing!

Seldom Scene - C And O Canal

https://youtu.be/is-6sC5wArE


http://www.barbslyricindex.com/tomgray/C_and_O_Canal.html


(How are aging reversal and longevity genetics' drug therapies looking for you these days, Tym ... as you explore these questions even from within the US federal government? ... and here's a recent fascinating George Church and Rhonda Patrick video I found - 
https://youtu.be/o4MZ-JaIvFI in these regards )

Think I'm seeking a heads' UP re finding a life partner, and re some of this new grand ditch (adventure on a western frontier in Maryland in the 1850s ... C&O Canal ... ) Fond regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/11/paw-paw-tree-asimina-triloba.html - added some images, more to come! :))




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Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune




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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
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 







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Sunday and Monday, December 11 & 12, 2022 




Tym, ... how are you and how was your day? Are you rested from our big C and O canal hike ? :)

Happened on 'The Big Idea Cooperative Bookstore & Cafe' on Liberty Ave #PghPA http://www.thebigideapgh.org/  #AnarchistBookstore Skimmed a #LibraryBook (1980) on #ShaysRebellion (1786) econ hist by #Szatmary which refers to ancestor #GenBenjaminLincoln who accepted sword of surrender in #AmericanRevolution :0

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1601944946247884802?t=lVKt5ifcPD0c0jIA4SIkZg&s=19


Left a World Univ & Sch sticker, and a Physical-Digital Harbin Ethnographic book bookmark  in the Big Idea bookstore  

In talking further - thanks, Tym - with the (not attractive) Pgh woman (sounding a bit like high school SCD friends' Rob Byrne and Sue Davis Claus even, in this staid city), behind the counter wearing a mask, in a quiet near empty possibly radical appearing bookstore, that had seen some turmoil since 2002, and with no founders around any longer, she later came over to a bookshelf near where I was sitting, and while I was skimming the not purchasable library book above on Shay's Rebellion, ... and she could have been showing me her ring finger indicating she was not married in this out of the way bookstore ... women are around who are seeking partners (and she seemed fairly traditional and in mid 30s-40s, somehow) ... And I mentioned I had a relative written about in the book, and as I left she asked who it was, and I said Lincoln, Benjamin ... And did she turn slightly red behind ger mask?   ... So am not sure about the wisdom of leaving the WUaS sticker and Harbin anthropology bookmark ... but thanks for texting yesterday evening while at your Dad's suggesting saying hi to some people at the Phipps' cafe ... glad I said hi here at the empty Big Idea cooperative bookstore and cafe ... as I continue to circulate

(And as I came into the bookstore, and left it too, a large black woman across the street was dancing outside on the sidewalk happily, Anomalously in this gritty urban neighborhood,  and in listening to music on headphones). ...

Will I meet a pretty MD or similar life partner to begin a family (before heading to CA in Sept 2023 to a newly safe Canyon)  in a similar out of the way situation? ... Thanks, Tym!


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Bookstores near UPMC Shadyside Presbyterian hospital ... searching :) ... re possible places a MD resident might visit  


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Am amazed, Tym, at how the "grand ditch" aka C and O canal seems so transformed - in the parts we've hiked - from 1831-1924 when it was operational with boats ... but, possibly a bit discouragingly, was this Big Idea bookstore bad news, empty, & possibly involved even in the illegal sex industry, and the woman on the street a kind of lookout or waiting for somehow business ? ... And/ or could this part of Pgh town be moving toward or away from a somehow comparable C and O canal culture and open vast expanse of forest of western MD, with not seemingly many people or activity or ghosts even from the C and O Canal time 1831-1924 ... Staying alive, worried about my father's subdural hematomas, and somehow possible law breaking in 3 ways - internationally, PA state law, and US federal law, in his head injuries, ... as well as concerned about how 210 E End Avenue Pgh PA 15221 former front porch room tenant Jackson Shannon died ...  Or could that black woman dancing also have keeping an eye on an unscrupulous Big Idea Bookstore owner, and hired via a somewhat new strategy by govts., to dance to keep warm, be happy, and keep an eye out, regarding illegalities etc.? 🙂




. . . 

Or could that dancing black woman (Hare Krishna-like, sometimes craven, too) be a government paid 'tute ready and available for any john who might want to get laid, in the the Big Idea Bookstore upstairs ... but perhaps possible historical johns here in the Big Idea, might be racist even, and into the future too  ... and so the place is possibly kept a bit free of prostitution somehow ? 

A possible strategy by the city of Pgh even ??? 

Abolition-ally, Scott



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HI Tym, felt somehow a little freer after doing this morning's 12/12/22 WUaS News and Q&A  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/12/tiarella.html - and, and in listening anew to the Allman Bros from 1972 - https://youtu.be/fkxBSkX3LPI (AROUND THE 15 MINUTE MARK)- and pulled out my lightweight Yamaha Piaggero keyboard for the first time in a long time to see if I could explore, identify and play with the base line I was hearing ... Turns out that again for the Allman Bros (like with some tunes from 1973 eg https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I I want to improvise with on the Scottish Small Pipes' A chanter  for my 3rd SSP album) ... that this tune is in the key of A ... and after diddling around a little bit further, turns out that the notes in a descending exploration of A G E D C A all work with this tune, I think ... and further that the key notes of this Blues' progression are 1 4 5 ... A D E ... I don't quite have the RHYThYM, 'groove' or the direction of tune in diddling around further, but discovered a bunch of new 'building blocks; - and it turns out further that with the above notes discovered' on the keyboard<, I could begin play around with these on the SSP A chanter 🙂  kinda cool ... Hoping you're having a great beginning of the week, Tym ... and fun to hike on Friday on the C and O setting forth from the Paw Paw Tunnel trailhead 🙂 (one pic of us added, more to come here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/11/paw-paw-tree-asimina-triloba.html :)









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-- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune




Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography 



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
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 







 






















































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