Sunday, August 30, 2020

buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matter



What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 8/30/20


and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/





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Coronavirus Su 8/30/20 Black Lives Matter


Harvard University
@Harvard
COVID has robbed us of many of the everyday interactions we used to have, and those interactions helped to keep us happy, experts say

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1300197860978364416?s=20


For some college students, this school year begins in an unusual way: in quarantine in their dorm rooms
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.



Virus thrusts college presidents into hot seat
Traditionally, university presidents are behind-the-scene managers and fund-raising gurus, most often seen welcoming students in the fall and sending them off with their degrees during graduation ceremonies in the spring. But the pandemic has thrust them to the forefront and made them the public face of their institution’s decision on how to reopen for the fall.



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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Coronavirus Sa 8/29/20 Black Lives Matter 


GERMANY CORONA DEMO IN BERLIN 


Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. Alone
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.



How an intimate wedding in rural Maine led to the state’s largest COVID outbreak, a disaster that spread hundreds of miles
The town of Millinocket had not recorded a single case of coronavirus. One celebration would change all of that.



Pre-Historic |Research: The original Stonehenge served as a huge sound amplifier
Science
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000006618011.html




-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Coronavirus F 8/28/20 Black Lives Matter


‘Another world is possible.’ Ayanna Pressley calls for political change at March on Washington
Representative Ayanna Pressley expressed confidence in the ability of the recent racial justice movements to translate into lasting political change as she addressed the 2020 March on Washington on Friday.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/28/nation/another-world-is-possible-ayanna-pressley-calls-political-change-march-washington/



Gamification keeps the consumer engaged



Some weird games Finns like to play

LIFESTYLE
 
28 AUGUST 2020
Finland is known for its long, cold winters, its beautiful landscape and its extensive welfare system. Furthermore, low corruption, high-levels of trust and an exemplary education system has led to what many now refer to as the roots of Finnish contentment. 
It will come as no surprise that Finland has once again topped the UN's 2020 World Happiness Report. At this point, the shock will arrive once it does not feature at the top of the list. The UN World Happiness Report is based on a variety of factors, including autonomy, equality, life expectancy and mental health.



(Yoga picture ... another one in Nevada???)
Canyon Ranch spa in Lenox extends furloughs for more than 200 workers



( Great photo wading in the reflecting pool )
JENEÉ OSTERHELDT
From the King’s Dream to a call for America to get its knee off our necks: We March on Washington
We’ve been fighting this fight for generations. America has eaten our young while feeding off our labor. We can no longer be your buffet. We were there not just to fight for our lives, but to benefit from the balm that is radical togetherness. We need healing.







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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Coronavirus Th 8/27/20 Black Lives Matter 


Anders Tegnell at Thursday's press conference.Photo: Amir Nabizadeh / TT
Tegnell: Critical situation for the infection gaining new momentum
 The state epidemiologist is most concerned about not detecting new local outbreaks quickly enough.



 "Teachers can become super spreaders" 


Geisel defends ban on demonstrations. And its controversial reason



Warns against Hong Kong activists receiving the Peace Prize. Promoted new theory about the origin of the coronavirus.



Federal-state summit on corona measures
Common ground used
The heads of government of the countries wrestle with the Chancellor for hours about common paths in the corona crisis. It's gotten complicated.  PASCAL BEUCKER



New reforms are taking place in Kazakhstan under the leadership of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev



Merkel agrees with countries on new corona regulations: No relaxation of the measures
Merkel einigt sich mit Ländern auf neue Corona-Regelungen: Keine Lockerungen der Maßnahmen



social change:
The unbearable indolence of being
The baby boomers determine the fate of the country, but sleep through the crises of the present, wrote ZEIT. Contradiction: Realism is better than revolution. 
A guest contribution by Armin Nassehi




Sea-Watch:
Banksy gives away refugee rescue ship
The street artist donated a ship for sea rescue to the German organization Sea-Watch - and painted it right away: pink, with a heart-shaped lifebuoy.




Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore: ‘We must take a stand’



Oregon’s marijuana sales continue to soar during coronavirus pandemic



 Smart LEGO storage is coming to IKEA: Here’s where to find other toy bins, boxes now



Lawyers, clergy urge Atlanta officials to drop 600 protesters’ charges


-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Coronavirus W 8/26/20 Black Lives Matter 


Houston’s hospitals juggling hurricane prep with COVID care


Virtual schools spur real change in what Houston parents buy



This summer is a scientific revelation



"The thing is happening" - Corona skeptics want to travel to Berlin despite the ban



Hardly any infection in buses and trains - where Germans are infected with Corona



A total of 14 different places were raided in Sweden, prosecutors for DN state.



Photo: Maria Westholm
This is how it feels to "change body" with a friend 
 Psychology professor about the experiment: When the brain is deceived, the self-image is affected.



Prohibited corona demo:
New hardness
The ban on the corona demo in Berlin is correct. For epidemiological, but also for political reasons. Politicians should no longer be afraid of the right.
A comment by Christian Bangel



Black Lives Matter Protesters Shot At While Marching in Pennsylvania



CORONA SKEPTICS
Counter protests to the forbidden anti-corona demonstration in Berlin are allowed to take place
The police's decision to ban demonstrations against the corona policy in Berlin has led to controversy. The Berlin Senate Administration defends itself against the charge of having made a political decision. The counter-protests are still allowed. Right-wing extremists meanwhile incite the "storm on Berlin".
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DEUTSCHLAND CORONA-SKEPTIKER
Gegenproteste zu verbotener Anti-Corona-Demo in Berlin dürfen stattfinden
Die Entscheidung der Polizei, Demonstrationen gegen die Corona-Politik in Berlin zu verbieten, hat zu Kontroversen geführt. Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf, eine politische Entscheidung getroffen zu haben. Die Gegenproteste bleiben weiterhin erlaubt. Rechtsextreme stacheln derweil zum „Sturm auf Berlin“ an.



Survey shows most office workers still won’t be coming back in January
It sure feels like this work-from-home thing is lasting a lot longer than we expected, right? Well, now we have some stats to back it up.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/26/business/survey-shows-most-office-workers-still-wont-be-coming-back-january/



The 2020 Massachusetts primary voter guide
This fall Massachusetts voters will select candidates for nine different congressional races and one Senate race. Here's what to know about the candidates.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/24/metro/voter-guide-2020-massachusetts-primaries/


The world
Major damage after Hurricane Laura - three dead




- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Coronavirus Tu 8/25/20 Black Lives Matter


COVID-19 cluster in Mass. traced back to bachelorette party in R.I.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/25/nation/covid-19-cluster-mass-traced-back-bachelorette-party-ri/



Air travel
coronavirus |Is Helsinki-Vantaa leaking from the coronavirus again? Obsolete quarantine instructions distributed to passengers, compliance with the instructions is not monitored
Homeland
26.8. 6:04



Last year, yellow vests created chaos in the streets. Now a bandage rebellion is spreading to all of Europe.




HS: Foreign-language speakers over-represented in coronavirus cases in Uusimaa




Navalny exposes the hypocrisy of the Russian elite - making him an enemy of the state



-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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Coronavirus M 8/24/20 Black Lives Matter 




Johanne (35) feared the darkness alone.  This is how she got rid of the fear, and got to enjoy the hiking life.
https://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/i/lAp7AG/moerkredd-i-naturen-egentlig-er-det-urhjernen-som-proever-aa-hjelpe-de




CORONAVIRUS LIVE TICKER CORONAVIRUS: ALL CARDS AND NUMBERS
PANORAMA
DATES AND NUMBERS
R values ​​continue to drop below 1 for the second day in a row - RKI worried


MONEY
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
The EU discovers Bitcoin - and wants to tame it with bureaucracy


corona:
Returnees have to be quarantined again
Because the capacities of the laboratories are insufficient, there is no test obligation for vacationers from risk areas. Health ministers are instead relying on mandatory quarantine for travelers from risk areas. 



(What can't I translate this with Google Translate, I wonder?)
Baltic Sea????



-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- 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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buttercup (R. cymbalaria): What I've been reading - 8/30//20 week - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/buttercup-r-cymbalaria-what-ive-been.html


buttercup (R. circinatus): What I've been reading - 8/23/20 week - Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-circinatus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. cassubicifolius): What I've been reading - 8/16/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-cassubicifolius-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. carinthiacus): What I've been reading - 8/9/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-carinthiacus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. californicus): What I've been reading - 8/2/20 week -Coronavirus - Black Lives Matter


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/buttercup-r-californicus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. bullatus): What I've been reading - 7/26/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bullatus-what-ive-been.html


buttercup (R. bulbosus): What I've been reading - 7/19/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bulbosus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. austro-oreganus): What I've been reading - 7/12/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-austro-oreganus-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. auricomus): What I've been reading - 7/5/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-auricomus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. asiaticus): What I've been reading - 6/28/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-asiaticus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aquatilis): What I've been reading - 6/14/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter



buttercup (R. alismifolius): What I've been reading - 5/31/20 week - Coronavirus



buttercup (R. acris): What I've been reading - 5/17/20 week - Coronavirus


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aconitifolius): What I've been reading - 5/3/20 week - Coronavirus










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SUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020


What I've been watching

Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html







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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Chilean firebush (Embothrium coccineum): Minutes for Sat Aug 15, 2020 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting * * * * Minutes for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting



Monthly Business Meeting


Minutes for Sat Aug 15, 2020 World University & School 
Monthly Business Meeting

Present:
-       Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)
-       Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)


- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-aug-15-2020-world.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/chilean-firebush-embothrium-coccineum.html



Minute 1

World University and School matriculates its 2nd undergraduate class this Tu 9/1/20 online, planned in ~200 countries & official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School.


World University and School has begun to send out World University and School Letters of Acceptance for this, and since students will be taking edX courses at first, and online, WUaS is offering a rolling admission approach as well. Please email info@worlduniversityandschool.org if interested, or if you know of someone who might be interested in studying for a free-to-students’4-year best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelors’ degree.

See, too: 
Harvard Commencement 2016, President Drew Gilpin Faust -
https://youtu.be/rr1gJ8WByXU Much to learn from for 
@WorldUnivAndSch
as World University matriculates its 2nd undergraduate class this Tu 9/1/20 online, planned in ~200 countries & official languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Mind  ~

- WUaS is seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics for English majors in particular, and eventually with the Scratch programming language.

- Also, see: World Univ & Sch News and Q & A 8/10/20 1) Seeking matriculating undergrads for 9/1/2020 MBM Minutes
https://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA (and other recent videos here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch)



Minute 2
Matriculating WUaS students will be studying on edX (which requires broadband Wi-Fi video streaming access from all countries) this September 2020.  
WUaS will begin to look into developing WUaS Open edX for students with limited video streaming opportunities (from MIT OpenCourseWare courses, for example), potentially via Open edX service provider MOOCit France, for January. WUaS seeks to build an online learning community as well, and offer advising / mentoring / other course possibilities in group video too in these regards. 
(Thanks to MOOCit France for their startup kit - https://app.moocit.fr/courses/course-v1:WUAS+002+1/course/ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/lotus-corniculatus-glad-to-announce-new.html. WUaS is going to cancel our proceeding with WUaS Open edX via MOOCit France for the time being. WUaS will explore developing again with MOOCit France for January 1, 2021, contingent on developing/ adapting /migrating CC-4 MIT OCW into WUaS Open edX in our 6 majors, potentially with the expertise of graduate student instructors (MIT?), splitting the 15-week long MIT OCW courses into 7-8 week courses, and potentially even adding a seminar approach for 1st year undergraduates (via Riff Analytics), planning for BPPE licensing in CA, and accreditation (with WASC senior probably) and getting enough students. WUaS is also seeking to code for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, as wiki-Universitians for a variety of reasons, and potentially regarding the Open edX money transfer mechanism (regarding reimbursement to WUaS for CC-4 OpenCourseWare courses too). 

(Thanks much also to Beth Porter, CEO of #Riff Analytics, discussing course-wide and small group interactions at scale. Find all details here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1680049837/August+13+2020+community+meetup@ebport of @RiffLearning for her overview of Riff Analytics’ innovative AI for improving small-group educational dynamics - 
https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1293983506343890948?s=20 - and regarding the potential for WUaS to develop the Conference Method online - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning- or SEMINAR, and via building on best STEAM CC-4 OCW in its 4 current languages). 

                                     

Minute 3

Sri Lanka WUaS - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
 - will seek to matriculate Sri Lankan high school graduates and other Sri Lankans interested in free-to-students’ Bachelor degrees beginning in January 2021. 

Sri Lankan high school students haven’t also taken the national exam yet. 






Minute 4

World University and School will submit a claim in the Google Plus Class Action suit. 



Minute 5

“The Universitian” which is World University and School’s school newspaper, planned in ~200 countries’ official / main languages, and potentially in all 7,117 known living languages, with machine translation, is on hold until WUaS has enough students to begin to develop this.




Sincerely, Scott GK MacLeod

World Univ & Sch is developing toward free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric universities and degrees in all ~200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,117 known living languages, accessible from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages. 









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Minutes for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting



Present:
-       Larry Viehland (acting CFO WUaS Corp and Board member)
-       Scott MacLeod (acting President/Recording Clerk, Board member and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation)


Here and attached are the Minutes for August 15, 2020 Minutes for the WUaS Corporation:

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Minute A

WUaS plans to develop a number of Lego Robotics’ oriented courses. We can try to get our matriculating students into this if you’re interested.

Seeking to explore offering courses in Lego Robotics and for science majors for this September 1, 2020 even - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and eventually for English and History majors . 

Lego Robotics’ kits are available for this here – in the WUaS Educational Services’ Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html



Minute B
In WUaS planning to code for students in all ~200 countries, their official/ main languages, and wiki-Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN #

WUaS is continuing to further explore facilitate a #Single Crypto Currency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries. See the following Twitter posts from the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative in these regards:
Neha Narula @neha
Our post on the collaboration between
@MITDCI
 and
@BostonFed
 to design and build a hypothetical digital currency


Neha Narula Retweeted
BostonFed @BostonFed
The #BostonFed today announced a multiyear collaboration with
@MIT researchers to research central bank digital currency. The project will explore the use of existing and new technologies to build and test a hypothetical digital currency platform. Rightwards arrow https://bit.ly/3iF4J6Z




Minute C

In WUaS seeking to facilitate, too, Universal Basic Income experiments #UBIexperiments, and TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY worldwide, and with regards to distributing a single cryptocurenncy backed by most of @00 countries’ central banks, at You at WUaS? - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - WUaS will continue to monitor this. 

See, too, a recent state of California panel with the Aspen Institute: 

Thanks so much for your excellent "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel today - https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/californias-approach-to-recovery-and-resilience-centering-equity-and-job-quality  ! 

Regarding UBI experiment questions, and your great responses, am thinking at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch of exploring facilitating UBI experiments in all ~200 countries, and for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages as wiki (for open teaching and learning online) Universitians, in planning for all 7.5 billion people on planet - re Universal word - and to alleviate poverty worldwide, and to distribute a single digital cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin or Mine Pi etc., and post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states) backed by most of ~200 countries’ central banks. See other comments in chat and Q&A in these regards in Zoom today as well. The WUaS Press / Corporation would like to explore facilitating this and potentially via the emergent long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, and in communication with the state of CA's Stockton UBI experiment (and others worldwide), as well as the  MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1294420586089910272?s=20  - with the Boston Federal Reserve. 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is also seeking to create 2.2 million great jobs & careers worldwide and in all ~200 countries and 7,117 living languages, both online and on-the-ground.

How best to communicate further about all of this, and to bring your great "California’s Approach to Recovery and Resilience: Centering Equity and Job Quality" panel conversation forward? 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/cleome-serrulata-rocky-mountain.html



Minute D

WUaS Corp is seeking to develop many musical products, including a musical earpiece and software for harmonizing, so to design and produce an earpiece and software for harmonizing which could 'hear' the song being played / sung (eg in a car), and like a strong lead singer in a church choir, create the harmony in your ear, which you could then sing with for learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony…@WorldUnivAndSch - @WUaSPress
 
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1293702570548948992?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1293702757010964487?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1293702634868629504?s=20

In a related vein, theWUaS Corp real-real time broadband Wi-Fi for the developing world for group music making.

See, too: 
15 planned WUaS Revenue Streams - 



Minute E

The WUaS seeks to 
REINVENT publishing: Print from #RealisticVirtualEarth (from Google Street View, #TextInTheSidebar @WUaSPress) to paper BOOK #RealisticVirtualEarthForPublishing re this 'Paper Phone,' https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1193125242312568833 … https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School  … 
@sgkmacleod #MachineTranslation 7117 languages



Agenda and News for August 15, 2020 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting



WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press 


WUaS Corporation 



Agenda and News for Sat August 15, 2020 
World University and School 
Monthly Business Meeting


Thursday, August 15, 2020


Dear Universitians and friends,

Please join our open WUaS monthly business meeting on Sa 8/15/20 at 9am PT if you might be interested.

And thank you for your support of World Univ & Sch. Please find attached the financial reports for the NP World Univ and Sch, AND the FFP WUaS Corp.

Please join us at our OPEN (& hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch (@WUaSPress) Monthly Business Meeting this Sat 8/15/20, at 9 am PT, 12 pm ET, electronically: Email info@ worlduniversityandschool.org if interested in joining! & from time zones in Asia, Africa & Europe too!

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293939998304043014?s=20


World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda for August 15, 2020:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/sa-81520-agenda-and-news-for-open-world.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/swainsons-hawk-sa-81520-agenda-and-news.html

The next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting will meet on the 3rd / THIRD Saturday of the month, on September 19, 2020.


Sincerely, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
- Languages - World Univ - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States



World University and School 

1
World Univ & Sch is seeking to begin matriculating undergraduate students by Sept 1, 2020, which some of you have expressed interest in (or for prospective students you may know of). Please register by August 18, and by sending me an email. 

World Univ & Sch is seeking to offer online on the WUaS Open edX platform free-to-students' 4-year best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degrees (licensing and accrediting) beginning around Sept 1, 2020 in ENGLISH. 

Please let me know too if you have further questions or thoughts in these regards. 

Regards, Scott 
worlduniversityandschool.org



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Conference method, or seminar, anew - and like musical jamming even? 

In about 20 minutes live (and which will be recorded) - 
Beth Porter, CEO of Riff Analytics, will describe how #Riff provides course-wide and small group interactions to anyone using #edX or Open edX, during the next Open edX Online Meetup event. Join this presentation, next Thursday, 8/13 at 1 PM (EDT): https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/1680049837/August+13+2020+community+meetup
https://twitter.com/OpenEdX/status/1291373559806414848?s=20 ?


The Open edX community meeting where I first met MOOCit France's CEO Yvain Demollière, and it's because of this Open edX talk by Yvain, MOOCit France's winning the Instructional Design Prize (at Open edX), and MOOCit France being on the service partner list (1 of 52 service providers last time I checked) - https://open.edx.org/marketplace-category/service-partners/ - that WUaS is exploring their 1-course MOOCit France startup kit. Since WUaS doesn't have the expertise to develop further "WUAS 002 Circuits and Electronics Introduction" - but a EECS graduate student edX CEO & MIT Prof of EECS Anant Agarwal probably would (and likewise an English graduate student of MIT Prof. Wyn Kelley probably does too); WUaS is seeking to migrate a few more best STEM CC-4 OCW courses to the emerging WUaS Open edX platform - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - regarding our WUaS initial majors of EECS, General Science, General Engineering, English, History and Business, but 9/1/20. 

And, again, WUaS is seeking to get these ~ 6 initial courses from CC-4 MIT OCW into the emerging WUaS Open edX platform, cut in half to 7-8 weeks long, and working by around September 1, 2020, for up to 50 students (potentially per MOOCit France's pricing structure). Am hoping (MIT?) graduate students can further help with this and all in the next 3 weeks - and to make them 'rocking'! "Riffing" as in university seminars and musical jamming metaphorically will be part of this - and regarding, too, the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning - .https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning. 


3
Sri Lanka World University and School will postpone enrollments to the next intake as the WUaS Open edX platform is just becoming ready, and the National High School Exams have been postponed due to Covid-19.


4
World University and School is going to submit some claims to be eligible for the Google Plus class action suit regarding

"Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus – Your Rights May Be Affected,
Option 1 - Submit a Claim Form to Be Eligible for a Cash Payment"
- https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/62897745?hl=en - 


5
Wiki newspapers at WUaS? - and - "The Universitian" school newspapers

Wiki Newspapers - #DigitalNewspapers designed as wikis where we can write our own headlines & articles? is Twitter this somehow? Beyond "The Universitian" school newspapers https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_%22Universitian%22_Newspaper_at_WUaS
@WorldUnivAndSch
 In all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages w #MachineLearning?
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1293576929287659520?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293575962831937536?s=20





WUaS Press / WUaS Corp

A
The World Univ & Sch Press is preparing further our WUaS Educational Services' Store, bookstore and with Lego Robotics for September 1, 2020 - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html 



B
#SingleCryptoCurrency backed by most of 200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries?  

What implications for a #SingleCryptoCurrency backed by most of 200 countries' central banks, post Euro in 19/28 countries? "Warren Buffett said this metric signaled the 2001 crash — now it’s sounding the alarm on global markets" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-said-this-metric-signaled-the-2001-crash-now-its-sounding-the-alarm-on-stocks-around-the-world-2020-08-12 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293905188764307456?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1293905681754382337?s=20

C
Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments at You at WUaS? - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University

Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments "New unemployment claims fell below one million for the first time since March"  https://twitter.com/i/events/1293892335596576772 TO DISTRIBUTE #SingleCryptoCurrency for those who can't access unemployment office physically or digitally?  @WUaSPress #ActualVirtual -


Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments "New unemployment claims fell below one million for the first time since March"  https://twitter.com/i/events/1293892335596576772 TO DISTRIBUTE #PhysicalDigital #SingleCryptoCurrency for those in 200 countries to alleviate poverty? @WorldUnivAndSch #ActualVirtual -

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1293915409066860550?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1293915485336006656?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1293915284357525507?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1293915354171727875?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293915214983831555?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1293914155506790400?s=20


D
Musical earpiece and software for harmonizing 

WUaS would love to design and produce an earpiece and software for harmonizing which could 'hear' the song being played / sung, and like a strong lead singer in a church choir, create the harmony in your ear, which you could then sing with for learning https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony…
@WorldUnivAndSch -
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1293702570548948992?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1293702757010964487?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1293702634868629504?s=20

Singing Walking Bass Lines - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Walking_Bass_Lines

Singing Descant - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Descant

Singing Harmony - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Singing_Harmony




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