Sunday, November 22, 2020

Cairngorms National Park (Scotland): Bagpiping and beauty (continued)? ~ Scottish Small Piping - 'Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry' Piobaireachd * * * Thanks, Ted, the Great Greek Professor! And hello all! How are you doing? It's been a long time since Semester at Sea in 1999, Ted! :) * Appreciating Lessig, and the role that law is playing, in informing the great creation of Democracy, now in 2020 in the USA * * * Twin Peaks' Sutro tower


Scottish Small Piping - Nov 12, 2020 - 'Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry' Piobaireachd

Sat., November 14, 2020

Hi Taylor, 


Good playing of "Mackintosh's Banner" on Thursday!

Am appreciating Neil Clark's "Alasdair Dearg" on the practice chanter here 
- https://youtu.be/S53Kd1WEZB0 - for assuredness of non-mensural 'beat' (per Ian Whitelaw).

And here is a Neil Clark Scottish small pipes' duets with another reed instrument - https://www.falkirkpiping.com/gallery/ - but am particularly appreciating his fingering in his practice chanter videos for learning. 

Regarding musical expression (item 7 - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm) of Piobaireachd (which we were talking about on Thursday with regards to the Piobiareachd "Mackintosh's Banner") which is somehow 'CAPTIVATING,' ...

I was reminded again of this interview with “David Kim, Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra” by William Fitzpatrick on Vimeo: 
https://vimeo.com/445062006?ref=em-share which I shared with you before, - and vin which ery early on in video, both of them mention their very great teacher Dorothy Delay, also of Yo Yo Ma, 

who apparently taught 3 things - 

8 ~ beautiful sound 

8 ~ beautiful intonation ('accuracy of pitch in playing or singing, or on a stringed instrument such as a guitar' - and the GHB is a radical here in its own separate piping culture world over centuries, and where Scots are kind of barbarians, by one translation of the Scots' Gaelic word meaning 'barbarian, bumpkin, heathen' - and I can think of pipers as kinds of 'bad boys' in a sense, in going their own way, with 'garage bands' rock pipe bands, and in their own unique tuning, and o what a sound - lads at least - and even as Scottish society and pipers at the same time also head toward quite beautiful and most formal and elegant dress ... - Prince Charles' doublet and kilt + ... it's an interesting dichotomy :)

8 ~ beautiful phrasing 


(Dorothy Delay Centennial Part 1


So what is musical expression in classical music (and I have Piobaireachd in mind here too as) - "dynamics, phrasing, timbre and articulation to bring the music to life" (from Wikipedia), and how best to learn this? I think Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines are good starting places currently ... but to learn them is the key ... 
 
So how to play Piobaireachd expressively and captivatingly, and then potentially even creatively in a new way that's out of the box ? Let's explore ...

And here are some new further related Alasdair Dearg videos - 
Different covers or different versions ? 

Lament or Alasdair Dearg MacDonald
Pipe Major Robert Brown - Topic

https://youtu.be/dj6NPNElJs8


Major Gavin Stoddart performs the piobaireachd
"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"

Musical cheers, Scott


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- Scott MacLeod

 


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Scottish Small Piping - 11/26/20 - Thanksgiving (in many ways ...) - Alasdair Dearg

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Hi Taylor, 

Good playing this evening of "Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"!

Here again below are "Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Interpreting Piobairreachd" in the body of an email, below. 

I think it would be interesting to focus on a number of his points explicitly next week with "Alastair Jearg" further. 


And here are the interpretations, I mentioned, besides Angus MacLellan's in the Piobraireachd CoP Yellow Tutor Vol. 4's CD: 

Neil Clark's "Alasdair Dearg" on the practice chanter here - https://youtu.be/S53Kd1WEZB0 -

Major Gavin Stoddart performs the piobaireachd
"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"
https://youtu.be/5mrSdRPVY0A


(are these 3 the same?)
Bob Brown 
Lament or Alasdair Dearg MacDonald
Pipe Major Robert Brown -
https://youtu.be/dj6NPNElJs8

Bob Brown 
Lament For Alasdair Dearg Mcdonald Of Glengarry
Pipe Major Robert Brown -
https://youtu.be/1ION1PEK758

Bob Brown 
Lament For Alasdair Dearg MacDonald (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/60foYtXrx_I
About Bob Brown and the Bobs of Balmoral 


Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnel of Glengarry
https://youtu.be/Ih3Dr7MUyMM
AndrewCelticPiper - Andrew Dickinson

(and this is more a lesson than an interpretation, by Jimmy McIntosh ... )
Jimmy McIntosh, M.B.E.
Alasdair Dearg
A lesson on the short tune "Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry", with Jimmy McIntosh, M.B.E.
https://vimeo.com/11388661
Jimmy McIntosh


Which "Alasdair Dearg" is most compelling? Which has the most beautiful expression in a relative way for you (and regarding both Ian Whitelaw's guidelines, as well as Ma's and Marsalis's guidelines)?

And here's the reel "Loch Carron" in sheet music- 

And let's begin to explore the Piobaireached "Glengarry's Lament next week as well. 

Musical cheers, 
Scott



Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Interpreting Piobairreachd


1. Establish a beat (nonmensurally)! The 1st is strong, the 4th is the strongest. (For Piobairreachds in ¾, the third note is the strongest beat).

2. Show contrast between the long and short notes, emphasizing the long notes and really shortening (de-emphasizing) the short notes.

3. Watch for mirrors? - where the same theme is played on different notes. (Call and answer).  

4. If you're already on a note before a cadence, give the following note, after the grace note, the time, to link phrases together.

5. When playing a 'he heran' (cantairreachd for ...) always hold the E.

6. If the note has embellishments, accent it! Hold it.

7. Give space longer to a note before and after the cadence, and before and after a double echo.

8. Always hold the A after a birl.

9. Two notes are never the same, and usually the 2nd note is longer than the first.

10. If the note has a doubling on it, you always hold it.

11. When a cut note is the first beat in the bar, make the first note of bar absolutely on the beat.

12. In a Braebach (Piobairreachd) tune, in a crunluath singling, count to 3 before playing the crunluath, and make the following two notes even.

13. In a Braebach doubling, count to two before playing the crunluath movement.

14. In the taorluath movement, play the melody notes in this order: long, longer, longest. Make each note a different length, and make the third the longest!





Piobairreachd

Structures:

Primary
a a b
a b b
a b

Secondary
a b c d
b c

Tertiary

Regular

Irregular



Types of Piobairreachd

Braebach tune

Strong, sing song rhythmic beat


Fosgailte tune

Instead of Taorluoth, play GDF for crunluath

Play the theme note followed by short note followed by eedree

Also, in fosgailte, never play the crunluath a mach (open)


Standard


Cheers, Scott





-- 
- Scott MacLeod


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Thanks, Scott. I’ll review those.

I just remembered that next Thursday is Thanksgiving and I’ll be at a socially distanced dinner that evening, possibly too full of after-dinner scotch to play well. :)

Mind if we reconvene on the following Thursday, Dec 3? Thanks. 


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Sounds good to me! See you then, Taylor! - Cheer, Scott



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Is whiskey an acquired taste for you, Taylor? (It has been for me). Piobaireachd can be a little like whiskey. Is great rock & roll, or JS Bach, an acquired taste for appreciators? Taste is something we've explored only a little before in terms of beauty, - and culture / identity informs taste, I'd posit, but how to learn a new taste, and then how to learn to play Piobaireachd beautifully - almost like computer coding, in or for playing this? What is greatest Piobaireachd, and also between these interpretations of Alasdair Dearg?


Some Further Piobaireachd ideas ... :)

Cheers, 

Scott



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Taylor Warren

Nov 21, 2020, 9:31 PM (1 day ago)
to me
It was somewhat of an acquired taste; I’m more of a gin guy but there’s nothing like a nice smoky Islay paired with pumpkin pie. 

Some thoughts: I still feel Bob Brown is the king of expression here: Clark’s even pacing works as a tutorial (which is his goal), and Stoddard transitions well between tunes and doesn’t turn the piece into a lullaby. I noted how he moved throughout the room as to not fall into too even of a beat. That Andrew fellow performs the piece competently but rushes the tarlouaths and crumluaths a bit too much and his transitions between movements are a bit jarring. Still not bad for what looks like a thirteen year old kid. 

I’ll give them subsequent listens throughout the week and let you know if I pick up anything else. 

Music appreciation is definitely part of the process of learning to perform well. With appreciation comes cultivation of taste. When I was singing I listened to a number of operatic tenors in order to assist in developing my high range. I was actually advised to steer clear of Caruso during this because he often sung far above his natural range (he was a baritone who often “pushed up” and lacked the powerful squillo that natural tenors like Pavarotti tend to exhibit best). All provided a range of interpretations that helped me develop my own style and appreciate the craft that goes into singing. Did I ever mention I was lukewarm on opera until I began singing classically and appreciated what went into it? I feel the same about piobaireachd in many ways. 


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Great, Taylor - 


thanks for your critical thinking here regarding these Piobaireachd interpretations of Alasdair Dearg. (I like gin too, more than Scotch or single malts, but you're much more eloquent about this than I am here). 




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Scott MacLeod

Thu, Nov 19, 10:47 AM (4 days ago)
to Theodore, Autumn, karen.burns.wg86, me, Janie, Dennis
Thanks, Ted! And hello all!

How are you doing? It's been a long time since SAS in 1999, Ted! :)

Regards, 
Scott


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Nov 19, 2020, 4:45 PM (4 days ago)
to Theodore, greatathenian, me, Autumn, karen.burns.wg86@wharton.upenn.edu, Scott, Janie, Dennis
Dear Ted, 

Thanks, so much, and fascinating to learn you're still in communication with Athanasios Lalousis from a Semester at Sea ship. 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is growing, and I've been in communication with a friend Petros Kalligas in Greece (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/salmon-eggs-wuas-livestream-today-w.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/mount-oeta-greece-world-univ-sch-with.html) about this - and for free-to-students' online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric (licensing and accrediting) Bachelor degrees, beginning in January, first in English, then later in Greek (at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Greece), too, for 5 online free-to-students' degrees (Bach. Ph.D. Law, MD and IB high school). 

Hopefully, we'll be able to travel on Semester at Sea eventually in a single realistic virtual earth, eg in a realistic virtual earth for oceans - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForOceans?src=hashtag_click - and even on past voyages, in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - and am thinking in Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth with avatar bots like Samsung Neons aka artificial humans of you and I, and from 1999 (patched together and emerging from photos and videos, if these exist). 

Cheers, 
Scott

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Theodore Kariotis

Nov 19, 2020, 12:38 PM (4 days ago)
to Dennis, Autumn, karen.burns.wg86@wharton.upenn.edu, me, Janie, Scott
Hello, my friend. 

Over 20 years now. I am still in touch with a few students, including my daughter. I have become an expert on the Greek-Turkish dispute on the Aegean Sea and I am often on Greek Radio and Television. I am still in touch with the Chief Mechanic of the ship Athanasios Lalousis!!
My email has changed to greatathenian@gmail.com

Ted

PS. I have retired from the university and I am an expert on doing nothing!



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Thu, Nov 19, 8:52 PM (4 days ago)
to Theodore, Autumn, karen.burns.wg86@wharton.upenn.edu, me, Janie, Scott
It's great to hear from you, Ted! I still remember you pointing to each side between Italy and Sicily and saying what crime group was at each direction. LOL!

I love your new expertise. I'm hoping to get into that hobby eventually!

DG
 
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Theodore Kariotis

Thu, Nov 19, 8:55 PM (4 days ago)
to Autumn, karen.burns.wg86@wharton.upenn.edu, me, Janie, Scott, Dennis
I REMEMBER YOU AND YOUR FAMILY/

DIANA LAO TODAY -ONE OF THE STUDENTS TODAY ... 




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Hi Ted, Dennis, Janie, Autumn, Karen, All,

Great to hear from all of you.

A little 'off the wall' morning humor (Tweeted to my @Harbi Book feed) - 

HarbinBook @HarbinBook

:) Top Brass Moving & Storage: "Move him out of the WH' All 4 wings, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines - US Law & Mitch for Repubs say it's time - End the #CockamamieCoup. He's mentally ill, & not upholding the constitution, or the vote of USA's people; Navy, you come up Chesapeake (Potomac that is:)

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1330906818348949511?s=20


Lessig @lessig Nov 22

“If” <> “is”; when you’re accusing thousands of ordinary people of treason, you need more evidence than wacko Rudy.

https://twitter.com/lessig/status/1330550046639710208?s=20

Am appreciating Lessig using the wacko word, and the role that law is playing, in informing the great creation of Democracy, now in 2020 in the USA - re legal scrutiny, institutions, and process, in this country. But just in case, ... :) Top Brass Moving & Storage: ... :)

Nice to hear from you, Ted and Dennis. How are you all doing in the ongoing Covid-19 quarantine?

Karen, am trying to recall what the Scots' Gaelic word for 'barbarian, bumpkin, heathen' is, per Univ of Edinburgh Prof (and American) Wilson MacLeod (from my studying online St. Kilda there in 2003-2004), as you'll see in my blog post from yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/11/cairngorms-national-park-virtual-harbin.html - with much about Piobaireachd classical bagpipe music, with this email thread too. Any thoughts? And are you busy these days with SAS, Karen, since both autumn and spring Semester at Sea voyages have been cancelled? :)

Cheers, 
Scott



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Twin Peaks' Sutro tower


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

AttachmentsFri, Nov 13, 7:29 AM (10 days ago)
to Jane, Ed, Dorota, Marc
Hi Ma, Ed, Dorota, Marc, 

Greetings from my new (temp.? safe house?) domicile just north of Berkeley with magnificent views of Golden Gate Bridge - and the Sutro Tower in SF THIS morning under which I lived from 1994-2001 or so, in a little garden cottage on Market St (3632). 




Marc, Dorota and I also enacted MacBeth Act 5 Scene 5 (with bagpipes around 1999) which is at the very bottom here -
but for which some digital archaeology may be in order (from outdated Dazzle and related file formats:).

Hair is getting longer (and my new Google Pixel 3a smartphone seems to have broadened face here), but the morning was pretty first thing.

How are you doing? How are the coronavirus pandemic genes 
 playing out in your part of the world (in this media frenzy of covid-19 memes (replicating cultural units) right out of the '60s that seem to be changing the world, since, who knows, but perhaps an aging reversal drug will emerge from all this thanks to the newly focused genetic researchers - see longevity label in blog too, and re George Church) - or in your world especially ?

Warm regards, Scott


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Marc Dupuis

Fri, Nov 13, 11:24 PM (10 days ago)
to me
Hello Scott,
So nice to hear from you. 
I still have vivid memories of that day you enacted MacBeth...all the world is a stage and men and women merely the players...

What happened to your house in the woods? Did the fire finally chase you out?
Here Tanja and I have also moved from the hills to a nice place in the vineyards of Lutry.

Here we are living through this stage time of covid, where human relationships seem to stiffen and loose physical warmth. A vaccine may be in sight, as the for the anti-aging pill I wouldn’t bet my life on it.

This morning we are going to the market to get some fresh groceries... food and oxygen are the only true medication that seem to have some hold against the siege of time.
Warm regards 
Marc

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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Sat, Nov 14, 7:55 AM (9 days ago)
to Marc
Hi Marc,

So nice to get your email as well.

Lutry and its Lavaux UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE sound lovely - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutry. Sounds nice too to be living with family (and re heirs as nephews/nieces too) in a vineyard area! 

Lutry is old and re Christianity esp -

"Lutry is first mentioned in 908 as in Lustraco villam. In 1124 it was mentioned as monasterium Sancti Martini cum villa quae dicitur Lustriacus and in 1147 it was Lustriey.[3]"



from the - Love & links' - page - 


Appreciating you wisdom, and profound skepticism about genetically engineered aging reversal, and as an immunologist, geneticist, and cell biologist (would you say? Or molecular biologist?) who has made your career in the pharmaceutical industry (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Marc-Dupuis-65160798). Am appreciating too (Lacanian) realism, yet who would have thought people would land on the moon in '69 (and I think we both may have seen this on TV).

THESE 3 George Church videos as a start at least get me thinking about the potential for reversing aging - 


https://youtu.be/ODQIoJMjd5c (mentions 2-10% increase on lifespan in nonhuman organisms)


- and if such a drug were FDA approved in 25 years, I might consider taking it. Covid-19 may be the catalyst which focuses geneticists in every University - a mass mobilization - in most of 200 countries in the world to advance our knowledge rapidly in these regards. 

See #WUaSAgingReversal #Hashtag (brainstorming-wise) -

Is Covid-19 also an (1960's) agent of social change and potentially making the world a better place (Pangloss-wise possibly too)? (My interpretation from yesterday:) Is it doing so in ways that no individuals or activists (eg MLK jr) in the 60s or 70s, envisioning a better world via social change, could? 

Am missing too the warmth of human relations, and finding myself a bit too isolated these coronavirus pandemic says (but also wonder whether this could be due to my response to the fires and bad behaviors  and mental illness in CA) ... but I'm also seeking a partner to begin a family and if not Nicole ☺️ in LA (https://twitter.com/NVanGroningenMD/status/1326586727390040065?s=19), connecting with someone else would change my experiences of CA in covid-19 and before, I think.

Could Covid-19 'cleaning up' illegal 'Mafia' type behavior in many countries around the world - and in Canyon 94516? Was my calling the Moraga police to report 3 illegal break-ins, entries as well as thefts over the years an entree for federal authorities to get involved? (I'm a whistle blower with a conscience in recent years, Marc). Canyon and CA may have old 'fire cultures,' but the Mafia no longer seem to be a concern on the international stage :)

Got the Green light yesterday with a physical mailing address in Sacramento for sending in the first 3 WUaS Corp tax returns :)

How to create warm human relations and community in this world filled with plague fears, these days? My hypothesis (pour moi in CA) - pairbond, socialize (troop Bond?), and begin to create a great family, abide in a great place (like Lutry), use language, and navigate 'foredoomance' :)) ... Ideas related to John Money's Concepts of Determinism http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html (and see too for succinctness - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/sweet-birch-questions-of-determinism-on.html?m=0). :)

Warm regards, 
Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Nov 14, 2020, 6:12 PM (9 days ago)
to Jane, Ed, Dorota, Marc
Hi Marc, Dorota, thespians par excellence, Ed & Jane,

Greetings!

Light came on outside about 5:15 this morning on the house next door north of Berkeley across from garden patio as I got up to go to bathroom - and since it's motion-triggered, I wondered what it was. Then I saw in the light a big old racoon with its kind of hunched shoulders loping across the patio - big enough to trigger the motion sensor.

As I looked at my smartphone, I noticed an email from my friend, Marc Dupuis, in French-speaking Switzerland, - so nice to hear from him, and in reply to this email I sent you and he and Dorota and Ed the day before! 


Here are our emails which you might enjoy:


Hello Scott,
So nice to hear from you. 
I still have vivid memories of that day you enacted MacBeth...all the world is a stage and men and women merely the players...

What happened to your house in the woods? Did the fire finally chase you out?
Here Tanja and I have also moved from the hills to a nice place in the vineyards of Lutry.

Here we are living through this stage time of covid, where human relationships seem to stiffen and loose physical warmth. A vaccine may be in sight, as the for the anti-aging pill I wouldn’t bet my life on it.

This morning we are going to the market to get some fresh groceries... food and oxygen are the only true medication that seem to have some hold against the siege of time.
Warm regards 
Marc


Hi Marc,

So nice to get your email as well.

Lutry and its Lavaux UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE sound lovely - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutry. Sounds nice too to be living with family (and re heirs as nephews/nieces too) in a vineyard area! 

Lutry is old and re Christianity esp -

"Lutry is first mentioned in 908 as in Lustraco villam. In 1124 it was mentioned as monasterium Sancti Martini cum villa quae dicitur Lustriacus and in 1147 it was Lustriey.[3]"

Here's our MacBeth Act 5 Sc 5 video in not playable in Chrome browser .rm real media file -

from the - Love & links' - page - 

And the poetry (Wow!) 

Dorota, since you're in the computer field, any thoughts about playing our Shakespeare video from 1999?

Appreciating your wisdom, Marc, and profound skepticism about genetically engineered aging reversal, and as an immunologist, geneticist, and cell biologist (would you say? Or molecular biologist?) who has made your career in the pharmaceutical industry (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Marc-Dupuis-65160798). Am appreciating too (Lacanian) realism, yet who would have thought people would land on the moon in '69 (and I think we both may have seen this on TV).

THESE 3 Harvard / MIT Prof George Church videos as a start at least get me thinking about the potential for reversing aging - 


https://youtu.be/ODQIoJMjd5c (mentions 2-10% increase on lifespan in nonhuman organisms)


- and if such a drug were FDA approved in 25 years, I might consider taking it. Covid-19 may be the catalyst which focuses geneticists in every University - a mass mobilization - in most of 200 countries in the world to advance our knowledge rapidly in these regards. 

See #WUaSAgingReversal #Hashtag (brainstorming-wise) -

Is Covid-19 also an (1960's) agent of social change and potentially making the world a better place (Voltaire's Pangloss-wise possibly too)? (... my interpretation from yesterday:) Is it doing so in ways that no individuals or activists (eg Dr. MLK jr) in the 60s or 70s, envisioning a better world via social change, could? 

Am missing too the warmth of human relations, and finding myself a bit too isolated these coronavirus pandemic days (but also wonder whether this could be due to my response to the metaphorical CA 'fires' and bad behaviors  and mental illness in CA) 
... but I'm also seeking a partner to begin a family and if not Nicole ☺️ in LA (https://twitter.com/NVanGroningenMD/status/1326586727390040065?s=19) ... connecting with someone else would change my experiences of CA in covid-19 TIMES, and before, I think.

Could Covid-19 be 'cleaning up' illegal 'Mafia' type behavior in many countries around the world - and in Canyon 94516 too? Was my calling the Moraga police to report 3 illegal break-ins, entries, as well as thefts over the years, an entree for federal authorities to get involved? (I'm a whistle blower with a conscience in recent years, Marc). Canyon and CA may have old 'fire cultures,' but the Mafia no longer seem to be a concern in the US, IN Italy, or on the international stage :)

Got the Green light yesterday by getting a physical mailing address in Sacramento on the phone for sending in the first 3 WUaS Corp tax returns :)

How to create warm human relations and community in this world filled with plague fears, these days? My hypothesis (pour moi in CA) - pairbond, socialize (troop Bond?), and begin to create a great family, abide in a great place (like Lutry), use language, and navigate 'foredoomance' :)) ... Ideas related to John Money's Concepts of Determinism http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html (and see too for succinctness - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/sweet-birch-questions-of-determinism-on.html?m=0). :)

Warm regards, 
Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Sun, Nov 15, 11:57 AM (8 days ago)
to Jane, Ed, Dorota, Marc
Harumph & wriggle-snort, Jane, Ed, Dorota, Marc, (always wanted to start an email with these words - now have :)

re further thinking out of the box (which he talks about, and is conscious of doing as a scientist) - 
... more George Church,

George Church - The Future of Humanity | Xapiens Symposium
https://youtu.be/oQV_1b_sC_g

Now how would all of George Church's examples work in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for STEM (think Google Street View with time slider and TensorFlow AI) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ?

And these 2 recent blog posts contain some of this email thread - 


And re 'centering' in this age of rapid of change - the information technology age & re the network society - I just this morning shared the below with Sunheart, a Harbin friend (& main informant in my actual-virtual Harbin ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~ visit a realistic virtual earth here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook  ~) the following ... and it's the sociality, Marc, of the Blombos Cave example in South Africa (below) which I'm curious about how to create online in ways that are flourishing :)

Fond regards, Scott


Sunheart, jaima!

What would you add -

How to Do Transcendental Meditation
  • Sit in a comfortable chair with your feet on the ground and hands in your lap. ...
  • Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths to relax the body.
  • Open your eyes, and then close them again. ...
  • Repeat a mantra in your mind. ...
  • When you recognize you're having a thought, simply return to the mantra.



... Or subtract?

Mathematically yours, ;)

How are you doing?

Jaima, Scott

Head to #HarbinHotSprings NOW w #Covid19 still a risk & to do #AnthropologicalFieldWork? Onsen https://t.co/PxnvNGjDrk in #SmartPhone & co-create #virtualHarbin in #GoogleCardboard in bath re #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin~




The sociality of picture in blog title https://t.co/4a1AuXRv5R (behind it) appeals in #Covid19 time (prob like STEAM #FieldSites #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook) Am seeing parallels between S.A. Blombos Cave & where I live https://t.co/3xTyb3VPX4 in #SFBayArea~



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- Scott MacLeod


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Dorota Ploch

Sun, Nov 22, 6:37 PM (18 hours ago)
to me, Marc, Ed

Greetings:

 

I hope you’re all fine and this weird COVID situation doesn’t affect you too much, especially you, Ed.

I’m not sure you remember me as it seems we met in a different lifetime.

 

Scott, the view is great, seems very peaceful. That’s all we all need, some peace and quite.

 

My mom and I are getting ready for Thanksgiving, a trimmed down one. She was supposed to go back to Poland in April but with cataract surgery postponed and travel restrictions intact, I get to enjoy her company and great cooking. My neighbor who moved out about two weeks ago said she wished we moved close by.

As we overdid shopping for food, I may ask her to stop by and pick some meal for herself. It’s nice to have my mom here but, I know, my sister misses her.

All travel arrangements got nixed. Mom didn’t go back, my niece, Julia, didn’t come to visit, etc.    

 

I cannot complain, things are fine. I do hope you’re all fine.

 

I know it’s a voice from the past, by I hope you’re all safe and healthy,

 

Dorota

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Nov 22, 2020, 7:05 PM (18 hours ago)
to Dorota, Marc, Ed
Dear Dorota, 

How nice to hear from you. Warm greetings to your mother, and happy Thanksgiving! Very glad to hear you are doing alright in this curious time of Covd-19 (with some hypotheses for it besides the genetic transmission of SARSCoV2 here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html - and sprinkled through my blog since then in the 'gense' label). The world is changed because of it, as I see this, and perhaps we'll all be safer in all ~200 countries as a consequence, re the threat of bioterrorism preparedness into the future, for example). Glad that your mother is staying in the US for the foreseeable future as well. 

Ed and I just returned from another walk this afternoon in Tilden Park (and I haven't noticed too much undue stress at all in Ed due to this Covid-19 time, in recent walks and visits, and as a KP MD). Ed? Dorota and Ed, please remind us where you and Ed met each other, since you, and Marc met partly as thespians playing MacBeth :). Did you and Ed meet in my garden cottage on Market Street in the late 1990s? Was it on a hike?

Marc returned after living for six years in SF and working as a research scientist in immunology at UCSF to French speaking Switzerland, and Ed is raising a family in Berkeley. Thank you for your email communication! 

Fond regards, Scott
Am working here, besides on developing MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, on my 5th book, also Harbin inspired, and my first Scottish Small Piping album - https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity - and have been a little in communication with 2 Poles who are interested in free-to-students' online CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Poland World University and School in Polish eventually, and for Poles there and around the world. Glad WUaS is now partnering officially with edX (founded by MIT and Harvard too). 




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- Scott MacLeod





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