Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Pied kingfisher: just sharing a poem ~ I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding ~ with you and with the Soulflash Yahoo email group (many of which poets and readers are in India), Says a little about why I like Harbin (and wrote an actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book about it) ... and will be in an upcoming book of poetry I hope to publish sometime this year :) Wondering about putting this to music ... but how?


Just sharing a poem below with you {Scottish Country Dancing musicians} which I shared yesterday with the Soulflash Yahoo email group (many of which poets and readers are in India - and Sivakami there lived in and studied at UC Santa Cruz sometime in the '70s). It's here too ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/01/blueness-of-sky-at-night-i-do-choose-to.html ...

Says a little about why I like Harbin (and wrote an actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book about it) ... and will be in an upcoming book of poetry I hope to publish sometime this year :)

Wondering about putting this to music ... but how? 

Scott





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- Scott MacLeod

The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding

I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding


I do choose to write the muse
of bliss unfolding,
Grateful Dead jamming,
{of raga, too},
a departure from
Pan troglodytes' fighting,
that common chimp-like,
human wont, -
and eat the flax seed
oil oft for omegas,
and revel in their
harmonies & brightnesses,
of this vegetarian lack,
which, with flax,
an egg or two,
regular, good nights' sleep,
and a multi-vitamin
for B12 and iron,
is balanced out,
and accounted for,
with wellness and
via movement.
O, nonharming,
and goodness!

And so I head for
Harbin,
in its freedom ...
and for contact improv,
and dance,
and back country wilderness,
and world travel,
and the extraordinary,
and music-making,
and loving bliss,
and look to generate
friends, in time,
with fulsome,
social interaction
of & with children,
mine and hers, -
to be.
Affection!


Leaving loneliness
behind, - and freedom, too? -
we talk sympathetically, &
I, too, open to the music of
here & now,
and 'flow,' ...
and all this also, ahead,
still singly,
yet more with friends.
The warmth
of loving,
of trusting,
of familiar bodyminds
in proximity,
who use language
with care,
draws me out of
my solitary freedoms,
from people's upsets
and irrationalities,
and tirednesses,
and my own, -
while seeking
to generate
a freshet of love.
Ah, music, raga,
and the Grateful Dead.

In community,
with friends,
how generate we
both engaged and calm,
raga-like, warm, human,
social interaction?

Writing the muse
of bliss unfolding ...

30 years-playing-together -
having fun -
Grateful Dead improvisations
of their own,
psychedelic music,
with Deadheads who
find ongoing,
communal bliss, -
all together, now.

How grow we
- and practice -
this wonder,
this loving bliss code,
of which the Dead's music
is one example, -
in so many,
new ways?
This seems
noble & worthy, yes, -
and sensible & wondrous, too.
But how, and with whom,
and with which different musics,
both communally & creatively?
Really.

Guidelines for Practicing
Loving Bliss Like
Practicing a Musical Instrument
,
to begin?

Traveling on farther now,
through the north end
of the Napa valley,
I play again that
1969 Grateful Dead,
Fillmore music, which
peaks & rises
in, oh, such
hippy-
{almost India-like}
illuminated,
color-filled,
sparkling ways,
emanating forth
from sound speakers.
Coming inwardly &
homeward with music,
I travel on
toward Harbin ...

Intimacy yes,
Bonobos
{Pan paniscus}
not, for me, -
love, yes,
and with words,
awareness & chemistry ...
- a 50 year, Grateful Dead,
fun duet,
I'll cultivate.
Let's innovate,
with pairbonding ...
two hours a day
of massage &
love-making,
much wondrous coitus,
with each other,
for decades ahead -
far less than Bonobos -
... as bodymind,
musical instruments,
practicing and playing ~
with lots of lingering
in contact, together.
MMmmm ...


The eve is warm,
the night is light, -
it's wintertime
in Napa's valley ...
& up over the hill
I go
to Harbin.
These words
do point
to bliss,
yet, as words,
they don't go
unfoldingly -
explicatus -
into this ongoing,
exploratory jam,
which the Dead play,
so enjoyably, -
musicians
communicating
together,
responsively & reciprocally -
listening all the while
to one another -
as their generative voices,
and electric instruments,
in tone, weave a beauty,
for we who listen.
What sounds!
I want to write with -
rock and roll poetry -
synthesizing
into togetherness.
I, writing, writing, writing,
by the side of the road,
on the way
to Harbin,
with the Dead
in my head,
travel on.

Shall we make
music of this poem?

In, on, in, on,
finding that inner
togetherness with
this music,
that inner synchronicity, -
with sounds -
he starts to sing:
'ice petal flowers revolving ...
shall we go, you and I,
while we can ...
through the transitive
night fall of
diamonds' -
what a trip -
and, that word,
sung with harmony ...
harmonizes me further.

Tones in a sequence,
created by
these musicians -
bliss-communicating
with each other,
and us -
lead me to bliss.
Tones in a sequence
are an opening way
for you and I
to realize bliss,
when and as you want it.
Ah, serial tones!
Choose the music you love,
{and help the poor,
and disadvantaged,
as well},
and turn it on.
What music would you
substitute for the
Grateful Dead,
in which bliss rises
- for you -
and with which
to jam together?
The Beatles?
The Doors?
J.S. Bach, four-hands?
... Bliss now, and,
grow this glowingly.


Shall I start singing,
to come more in synch,
by myself, -
as by harmonizing with, -
and, at the same time,
move away
from only their words,
to co-create bliss?

'St. Stephen' ...
and I drive on,
on this trip
... MMmmm :)

This poem is
just one example
of learning how
to explore
bliss elicitation,
in words,
with music, here, next ...

Here, now -
I arrive at Harbin,
walk along the village path -
and, voila, everbody is out
in the sun
on the sleeping deck,
in January,
mid-week -
maybe 20 people -
in northern California,
naked ...
A little haven,
and nest,
of human primates,
and freedom,
in modernity,
high on a redwood deck,
- regenerating -
through ongoing travel to,
and journeying in,
this hot springs,
in the California winter.
With symbols, touch and tones,
how to cultivate
a flourishing,
loving bliss ecology
of human primates,
over 10,000 seasons?


My bliss neurophysiology
is so imprecise! ...
Alas!
Yet, with warm pool, and release,
practice offers ways
to attune it ...
Let's learn to bliss
with language's and
musical scores' sophistication,
from a space of learned
ease, skill & excellence.
Ah, the relaxation response ...

So I turn on again
the Grateful Dead,
or find my way
to these kinds of
natural highs,
naturally,
exploring awareness,
and the musical score
of the Harbin pool area ...

- or via Scottish bagpipe playing,
which I do, ...
to produce tones
that generate bliss,
at times, myself -
We can do this ourselves ...
O, for focused, easing,
bliss practices.
Is the 'loving,'
in loving bliss,
neurophysiology elicitation,
the limitation?
The ease of
soaking in the warm pool,
of listening to the Dead,
of practicing bliss,
is unfoldingly
written here now.

When 'flow' comes,
and then more ...
Lift off
... as if in this sunlit world
of warm~water release,
with couples cuddling all around -
naked, free, with a friend,
and, in ease, together -
we might play bliss,
and - especially - love.

My evolutionary biological,
nontheistically friendly,
bodymind neurophysiology
is so imprecise.
A las!

And still I find
this connectedness
at Harbin
all so easy.

A friend to jam with,
who generates bliss for me,
to which I respond, in kind,
I welcome.

So, yes ...
how, further, to get to the
neurophysiology of loving bliss ...
like Ma's cello bow strokes,
playing sweet Bach?
... or 30 years of
Grateful Dead jamming -
a bunch of guys
improvising, playing,
and having fun
with one another,
which Deadheads love -
and making money.
Life is good.

It wasn't always bliss
for them, the Dead,
- they were sometimes 'off' -
or for me,
in this conceiving,
not always ...
- relaxation response,
regularly, ... yes, for
in-tuning our biologies -
but what a lot of
we-create-music-together
bliss ...
and when the Dead
are dialed in,
Jerry and Brent, yes ~
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ~
they'd rock,
naturally,
happily,
communally, and
creatively,
all of which we, oui,
can grow.

How, now, does the
MDMA-like, cello bow stroke
of loving bliss,
neurophysiology elicitation
work? ...

for I do choose to write the muse
of bliss unfolding.












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/01/blueness-of-sky-at-night-i-do-choose-to.html - January 19, 2011
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/pied-kingfisher-just-haring-poem-i-do.html - February 28, 2017)








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Monday, February 27, 2017

Eurasian teal: Talk with, and even learn from, avatar bot teachers in a realistic virtual earth conceptually like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth/Expeditions? Talk with former Stanford University comparative literature (and philosophy) professor Richard Rorty, interactively - and perhaps in new ways he never thought of even?, If I upload open Steeleye Span video (or Grateful Dead), will I be able to play my Scottish Smallpipes (or keyboard) with them between 1970 and 1979?, Converting this into a 3D virtual world (and in an augmented reality light show around one at home), (How best could one develop this too to facilitate distributing an universal basic income?), ~~~ And in what ways could the individual avatar bot actors come alive and begin to teach us the parts empathically the way we'd like to be taught, as well as benefit instructionally from?


In what ways will we, in a realistic virtual earth, be able to talk with, and even learn from, the avatar bot teachers from realistic video and film we've added and converted into realistic 3D interactive virtual avatars in something like a build-able realistic OpenSimulator/SL, but in a realistic virtual earth, conceptually like Google Streetview/Maps/Earth/Expeditions with time slider - and eventually in all 8k languages?

Will I, for example, be able to talk with former Stanford University comparative literature (and philosophy) professor Richard Rorty, interactively - and perhaps in new ways he never thought of even?


Or if I upload open Steeleye Span video (or Grateful Dead) videos, will I be able to play my Scottish Smallpipes (or keyboard) with them between 1970 and 1979 and also ask these avatar bot musicians to play with me for learning reasons (more slowly, or just one avatar bot playing, or work on singing in a particular way)?


Adding a video of "Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical," - and converting this into a 3D virtual world (and then into an augmented reality light show around oneself at home ... with hypothetical MIT Media Lab light projection bulbs with cameras) for life size avatars in our rooms - could I or you or anyone act and sing with them, also breaking it down for learning purposes and avatar bot by avatar bot - all coding for teaching and learning?

And in what ways could the individual avatar bot actors come alive and begin to teach us the parts empathically the way we'd like to be taught, as well as benefit instructionally from?

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(How best could one develop this too to facilitate distributing an universal basic income - since such far-reaching information technologies may eventually lessen the total amount of work worldwide?)

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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Biological organisation: Do you recall if Steeleye Span sang Boar's Head Carol as the opening band to Jethro Tull, If WUaS/friends had the realistic virtual earth up and running (in Google Streetview plus, with even just the ability to add video, beyond the photos you can add now - visit the Harbin Gate here https://twitter.com/HarbinBook to see the photo of the Harbin Gate I added fairly recently but from 2001), and this concert was filmed and public - like many many Grateful Dead concerts, we'd be able to check up on whether or not Steeleye Span sang this - and hear the Boar's Head Carol, Now how best to add both of these versions of this 1970 Stanford University "Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level" to a realistic virtual earth?, "More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments," "1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research" - Nature.com, Let's code the realistic virtual earth for reproducibility of scientific experiments (in addition to at the atomic and cellular levels, and with mathematical formulas, and for evolutionary biological research), And could this Stanford Bio-X executive committee help with the realization of a STEM and medical realistic virtual earth for research https://biox.stanford.edu/person-group/executive-committee ?



Donald, 

Would your father or anyone else in your family (or do you) recall if Steeleye Span sang Boar's Head Carol as the opening band to Jethro Tull at the Finchley Odeon in London in 1970? :) Realizing this is a long shot q, and that if WUaS/friends had the realistic virtual earth up and running (in Google Streetview plus, with even just the ability to add video, beyond the photos you can add now - visit the Harbin Gate here https://twitter.com/HarbinBook to see the photo of the Harbin Gate I added fairly recently but from 2001), and this concert was filmed and public - like many many Grateful Dead concerts, we'd be able to check up on whether or not Steeleye Span sang this - and hear the Boar's Head Carol - but waiting patiently here in the light (re Quakers/f/Friends) for this day (and possibly will contribute to sharing developing such openings as a F/friendly leading ...) 

Just Google-searched on "Steeleye Span Jethro Tull at the Finchley Odeon in London in 1970" ... but the first hits that came up were a Wikipedia article for Jethro Tull and a Wikipedia article for Steeleye Span ... and this interestingly - http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/oct1970.htm - as well as this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/04/planets-wow-you-heard-steeleye-span-and.html - with nada in the video search :)

Singing was fun this morning. And Quaker Meeting?

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Boar's Head Carol sung by Steeleye Span is lovely, I do declare ...
https://youtu.be/jVwr5B6VQZk ...

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Planets: Wow ... you heard Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull!, Great folk rock music from the 60s/70s, lucky these days to be able to be picky (e.g. with Pandora and Spotify) about what great music we can listen to by both those groups, Ode as poetry form, read Wordsmith and Keats since they are most likely to 'rock' for me?, How to bring a folk rock 'program' (computer programming metaphor) in contemporary Internetity (Information Age) parlance to Scottish Country Dance sheet music?, What's the "Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical" musical program?, Sheet music section here at the wiki Music School at WUaS, Friends, SFFM, WUaS as a kind of ministry even?, Heading for releasing meditation, Friend Edward Planetflight, Folk rock music and Programming wiki subjects at WUaS

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/04/planets-wow-you-heard-steeleye-span-and.html
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Now how best to add both of these versions of this 1970 Stanford University "Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level" to a realistic virtual earth?

Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww
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Version 2:
(Paul Berg) Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTRmvnlNVw4
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NIH reference to ...

The Paul Berg Papers

Title:
Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/ResourceMetadata/CDBBNY

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"More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments"


https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/835507162487091200

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1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research.

 Corrected:
http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970

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Let's code the realistic virtual earth for reproducibility of scientific experiments (in addition to at the atomic and cellular levels, and with mathematical formulas, and for evolutionary biological research).

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Spider monkey: Way beyond Youtube, IN SITU VIRTUALLY - "in place" in a realistic virtual earth where and when the video was taken, Grateful Dead concerts and Stanford, virtual Harbin, Digital History beginning with news and historical footage and films turned into 3D interactive virtual world scenes then patched together, Glad too Tanya Bergamot will be WUaS's first student this autumn, Met her in SF Quaker Meeting (SFFM), Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy will allow all of us to add our historical video, "little trip down memory lane," How best to wiki-add brain and gene research videos, photos and computer modeling in place with time slider in a realistic 3D virtual earth - for the benefits of group knowledge generation?


Thanks for your email, Donald,

I recall you telling me about you and all your family hearing Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull in the Finchley Odeon in London in 1970, but not of their deafening din. 

Curious how we'll all be able to add our videos to a wiki Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with time slider and which is build-able and open like the 3D interactive virtual world of
OpenSimulator (but less so like Second Life, since it's proprietarily locked down as I see it) but realistic (so film realism turned into a realistic 3D interactive virtual world). ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/gyps-himalayensis-realistic-virtual.html
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I've found that the Grateful Dead played at Stanford's Roscoe Pavilion in 1972 and played some shows there too annually from around 1981-1986, but haven't found anything in between ... IN SITU VIRTUALLY - in a realistic virtual earth where and when the video was taken, and that's fulsome with great historical interactive video 

... way beyond Youtube.


Mari, what years were you at Stanford? I enjoyed hearing a book talk in the Stanford Bookstore yesterday about Stanford students' letters - "Letters Home from Stanford" - by Alison Carpenter Davis (who reminded me a little of you), and who also went to Stanford in the 1970s I think - https://events.stanford.edu/events/659/65941. Her talk is a prospective model for me for giving a book talk there about my new "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book ... bit.ly/HarbinBook ... https://twitter.com/HarbinBook :) Giving another talk about it in the UC Berkeley anthropology department about it on May 5th.

Nice to share online Meeting with you yesterday, Mari.

Friendly cheer,
Scott


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[Hi Scott, just found this in my Outgoing Mail box (wrote it on Sunday — Moore’s law).]

Scott, I was there 1971-1976 with a year out in the middle. I never saw Steeleye Span there but saw them open for a Jethro Tull concert in the Finchley Odeon, N. London in 1970. They were ear-splittingly loud and I didn’t gain any affection for them until much later, and that’s surely nostalgia more than familiarity… I’ll take your little trip down memory lane though.

Cheers,
Donald



On Feb 18, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mari and Donald,

Thanks, Mari. Were you at Stanford from 70-ish to 1975, Donald, and were you at Stanford from 76-79ish, Mari? (I'm trying to remember the exact dates). Would either of you have seen these Steeleye Span concerts (in the blog and here below), or known the writers of the reviews? The reviews are interesting ...


Steeleye Span played Stanford in the 1970s at least twice!


Here are some concert reviews from the Stanford Daily:

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>> Steeleye Span: Folk and Rock Unite
>> 01.2.15&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
>> <http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19730724-01.2.15&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------->
>> The Stanford Daily, Volume 163A, Issue 9, 24 July 1973
>>  Issue PDF (10.63 MB)
>> <http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=stanford19730724-01&getpdf=true>
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>> A quote from the following Stanford Daily review: ... (see blog post)
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>> Space-age Rock: Steeleye Span Mystifies
>> http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19761012-01.2.27&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
>> <http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19761012-01.2.27&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------->
>> The Stanford Daily, Volume 170, Issue 12, 12 October 1976
>>  Issue PDF (20.86 MB)
>> <http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=stanford19761012-01&getpdf=true>
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>> There looks to be a few more articles about Steeleye Span at Stanford
>> mostly from the 1970s -
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>> http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=q&hs=1&r=1&results=1&txf=txIN&txq=Steeleye+Span&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
>> <http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=q&hs=1&r=1&results=1&txf=txIN&txq=Steeleye+Span&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------->
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>> http://stanforddailyarchive.com <http://stanforddailyarchive.com/>
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>> Friendly cheers, Scott
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Hi Donald and Mari, 

Attended the Stanford book event last night on my way to the Unitarian Universalist church of Palo Alto. Am choir-singing these days at UUCPA on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings. While quite enjoyable to sing together, and am learning a lot too (and 're UU culture and musical energy +), am appreciating much about unprogramned Quaker Meeting too in comparison (UU services are very structured, not quite my Friendly Harbin warm pool cup of tea), which, thanks to Western Friend magazine and Mari, I attend online sometimes.

Glad too Tanya Bergamot will be WUaS's first student this autumn. I met her - the Sunday you weren't recently there Donald -  in SF Quaker Meeting (SFFM), and we then subsequently met at a hive meeting space at AFSC/SFFM to talk about her studying at WUaS. She already has an AA degree so in possibly transferring W UaS may be able to become fully accredited before 2021.

Boar's Head Carol sung by Steeleye Span is lovely, I do declare ...
https://youtu.be/jVwr5B6VQZk ...

Scott



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Thanks for sharing your riddly-ma-diddly Harbin histericalities with
the Greateful Dead sunshine-brewing in Fern in 1970s per some of these
- what emoticonalities be these - ? You know the Anth-d'Harbin, merci
purr ton-sharings:)


Harbin Founder Robert Hartley (AKA Ishvara)
http://onlinedigitaleditions.com/commonground/archive/web-11-2015/

Sunday, December 28, 2014


Harbin Hot Springs and the Heart Consciousness Church

http://califias.blogspot.com/2014/12/harbin-hot-springs-and-heart.html


Other related Harbin & Grateful Dead rememberings as I toot away looking for

Viola: 3 great recent articles about Harbin after the fire, "Harbin's Robert Hartley aka Ishvara," "The Fire at Harbin Hot Springs," "Everything Gone but the Water," Interesting observations about the Grateful Dead at Harbin in these articles, Interview too with the publisher, Rob Sidon, of Common Ground Magazine from 2011, Re a new Academic Press at WUaS and publishing my actual / virtual Harbin ethnography, here's a poetry book published through CreateSpace affiliated with Amazon. And the 2nd Twitter post has CreateSpace's choices for ISBN book numbers. To add the new Academic Press at WUaS, I'll probably use the Universal ISBN option. Furthermore, to anticipate publishing my and others' poetry, WUaS may create other parts of the WUaS Press, Distinguishing between becoming a Publisher and Imprints, Kindle conversion

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/01/viola-3-great-recent-articles-about.html


'Keep the quirk': rebuilding a famed New Age resort, clothing still optional:
Seven months after Harbin Hot Springs in California burned down, the community is wrestling with the blank slate on which to imagine a new home
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/30/harbin-hot-springs-resort-california-mountains

Harbin Hot Springs and the Ten Thousand Fragments of Brahma

http://hilltromper.com/article/harbin-hot-springs-and-ten-thousand-fragments-brahma


  article is real thing - and they were there

Monsieur Heartsong JagannathY -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagannath ?

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http://www.dead.net/tags/stanford

http://www.stanforddaily.com/tag/the-grateful-dead/

http://www.stanforddaily.com/tag/grateful-dead/

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/03/12/palo-alto-dead-houses-provide-an-off-campus-community-for-students/

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Searched on Harbin Hot Springs in the Stanford Daily Archive, and didn't find anything, but Stanford hot springs' trips have occurred for decades, some leaving from Tressider:

1959
IIR Announces Big Sur Weekend
The IJR is sponsoring a trip to Big Sur over Thanksgiving vacation open to all students. The group will leave Friday, Nov. 27, and return Sunday, Nov. 29. The weekend will include swimming in natural hotsprings and dancing. The group will go by private cars and stay at llipplewood Hesort in housekeeping cabins. Cost of gas. food and room is $10.00, payable to Mrs. Helen lless, at the "1" Center, bv Monday, Nov. 23.

http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19591117-01.2.14&srpos=22&e=-------en-20--21--txt-txIN-Hot+Springs------

1963
Napa Offers Wine Tasting
A tour of the Napa Valley, including a wine tasting stop, will take place this Saturday, with the bus leaving Tresidder at 8 a.m. Students are asked to meet at Tresidder at 7:45 a.m. The trip, which will include a historical commentary on the area, will make stops at the Luther Burbank Gardens in Santa Rosa, the Petrified Forest, the Calistoga Hot Springs, the Beringer Winery, and the Sonoma Mission and city square. The bus will return to Stanford about 7:30 p.m. The cost of the trip will be $3.00, with a 75 cents admission charge at the hot springs. Students are asked to bring a sack lunch, and an ID if they want to taste wine.

http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19630705-01.2.12&srpos=21&e=-------en-20--21--txt-txIN-Hot+Springs------

plus many references to Boyes Hot Springs in Sonoma, as well ...


Searched on the Grateful Dead in the Stanford Daily Archive and found much, for example ...

http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=q&hs=1&r=1&results=1&txf=txIN&txq=Grateful+Dead&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------



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Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy will allow all of us to add our historical video ... IN SITU VIRTUALLY - in a realistic virtual earth where and when the video was taken

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How best to wiki-add brain and gene research videos, photos and computer modeling in place with time slider in a realistic 3D virtual earth - for the benefits of group knowledge generation? 







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Friday, February 24, 2017

Andean condor: Inspiringly, educationally, generatively (and MIT) brilliant dialogue ... "Conversation with Megan Smith" with Joichi Ito, To http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching at CC MIT OCW-centric World University and School ... planned in all countries' main languages + ... To Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT - & to Women's_and_Gender_Studies at WUaS, "I'm Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, and This Is How I Work," And re a realistic virtual Harbin/STEM earth too for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy


Inspiringly, educationally, generatively (and MIT) brilliant dialogue ... To - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Inspiration_in_learning_and_teaching - at CC MIT OCW-centric World University and School ... planned in all countries' main languages + ...


Conversation with @smithmegan and @joi +Joichi Ito
... just posted this here too - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

Conversation with Megan Smith


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWDUlKLwO1U
Published on Feb 22, 2017
Megan Smith - the former CTO of the United States serving under President Obama. In conversation about tech, digital government, inclusion and the opportunities ahead.

(https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodWUaS/posts/5DT8Ue6E6vm)

Further Megan Smith inspirations, lego teaching, generatively (and MIT) brilliant
https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/megan-in-motion-1988-03-20/

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To
Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_-_MIT

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Women's_and_Gender_Studies at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Women%27s_and_Gender_Studies

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https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/833795921250881536
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https://twitter.com/MIT/status/834842510849630209
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"I'm Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, and This Is How I Work"

http://lifehacker.com/im-anant-agarwal-ceo-of-edx-and-this-is-how-i-work-1792627484

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And re a realistic virtual Harbin/STEM earth too for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/835229732836790272

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http://worlduniversityandschool.org


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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Alouatta (howler monkey): The Role of Dialog in Augmented Intelligence - Murray Campbell, Translation informing your IBM work?, “A Universal Translator as a Cognitive System, beginning as a Guidebook with Test” - Scott MacLeod, How will say IBM and Google and Apple and Microsoft and Amazon, and car manufacturing companies - and the United Nations - and universities in all countries' main and official languages all come together to codevelop an Universal Translator? World University and School seeks to develop an Universal Translator for dialog, Here, too, are "14 Planned WUaS revenue streams" with ~10 emergent ones on WUaS upcoming publicly traded for-profit side, in each of the ~200 countries/nation states/sovereign states' main and official languages, as well as in all 7,097 living languages, each a market


The Role of Dialog in Augmented Intelligence - Murray Campbell

Thanks, Murray, for your fascinating IBM CSIG talk just now. In what ways have questions of translation informed your IBM work on "The Role of Dialog in Augmented Intelligence" re interactive systems that learn? I ask in the context of developing CC MIT OCW-centric (in 7 languages) wiki (like Wikipedia in 358 languages) World University and School - worlduniversityandschool.org - which plans to develop an universal translator - see my IBM CSIG talk slides here - https://www.slideshare.net/diannepatricia/a-universal-translator-as-a-cognitive-system-beginning-as-a-guidebook-with-test - in all 7,097 living languages). Thank you. Scott MacLeod (scottmacleod.com)
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6729452/6729452-6240563626407718912

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"The Role of Dialog in Augmented Intelligence" - Murray Campbell

https://www.slideshare.net/diannepatricia/the-role-of-dialog-in-augmented-intelligence

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Murray Campbell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Campbell

https://www.linkedin.com/in/murray-campbell-5b42a75/

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“A Universal Translator as a Cognitive System, beginning as a Guidebook with Test” - Scott MacLeod

https://www.slideshare.net/diannepatricia/a-universal-translator-as-a-cognitive-system-beginning-as-a-guidebook-with-test

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How will say IBM and Google and Apple and Microsoft and Amazon, and car manufacturing companies - and the United Nations' real time translations of dialogs (as a possible excellent translated vocal dialogue data source) - and universities in all countries' main and official languages all come together to co-develop an Universal Translator? World University and School seeks to develop this.


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Glad to have heard last night in San Francisco at the Wikimedia Salon from Wikidata's Product Manager Lydia Pinscher that Wikidata is focusing on developing Wiktionary (a CC wiki dictionary in its 358 languages) as a priority - which will potentially inform probably many translation systems.

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Hi Dianne and All, 

Here's a blog post about Murray's talk - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/alouatta-howler-monkey-role-of-dialog.html - and re all-languages' World University and School, accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, with plans for augmented intelligence and re an Universal Translator for dialog - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - probably drawing on Wiktionary for lexemic data. (I gave an IBM CSIG talk as you'll see on an Universal Translator beginning as a Guidebook with Test). Here, too, are "14 Planned WUaS revenue streams" - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html - with ~10 emergent ones on WUaS upcoming publicly traded for-profit side, in each of the ~200 countries/nation states/sovereign states' main and official languages, as well as in all 7,097 living languages, each a market. Looking forward to future CSIG talks. 

Best regards, 
Scott




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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Gyps himalayensis: Realistic Virtual Humans -from Youtube/Vimeo videos to a realistic OpenSim/SL and at the cellular & atomic levels in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with time slider - for medical research and clinical practice, Need to create the application / software to translate between Youtube and 3D interactive virtual worlds (such as OpenSim/SL but realistically, yet group build-able, with voice), Avatar Agency, Be free, little Avatars!, Bots that are independent and free with intentional causation?, Examples of Angela & Victor as avatars, Google's Thomas Dean and Stanford's Ivan Soltesz, Being informed by Google and Stanford for medical research as well as clinical practice - in all ~200 countries' main languages - would indeed give form to this in great ways, (And I'm looking too to studying loving bliss neurophysiology in the virtual Harbin warm pool possibly with brainwave headsets - and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy)


Virtual Humans-from Youtube/Vimeo videos to a realistic OpenSim/SL and at the cellular & atomic levels in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with time slider - for Medical Research and clinical practice ...


Need to create the application / software to translate between Youtube and 3D interactive virtual worlds (such as OpenSim/SL but realistically, yet group build-able, with voice and especially with avatars/bots with voice) .... and then code further so programmers and builders can set these avatars "free" in different ways ... (and especially in all languages).

Let's set all these little avatars free ... Be free, avatars!

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How best to create this for brain research in a realistic virtual earth?

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Conceptually and thinking in terms of the Google Brain Project, Google Translate, Google TensorFlow and Youtube with Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with time slider and Stanford Medicine, how to bring Google's Thomas Dean - https://research.google.com/pubs/author189.html and  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5Qux0nMAAAAJ - and Stanford's Ivan Soltesz - https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ivan-soltesz and https://med.stanford.edu/ivansolteszlab.html - and especially for coding for brain science at the cellular and atomic with mathematical equations in the AI and machine learning for scientific experimentalism (and in all 8k languages)?


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Here's a way of envisioning how 3D interactive Angela and Victor avatars might become virtual Yoga instructors in one's own home ~

Ovary (botany): Realistic Angela and Victor avatars in a realistic virtual earth, How such live-feeling interactive guidance could emerge interactively, and in ongoing new ways, The language describing Angela's workshop has changed to Angela's language since the other day, "Reaching Down to Open Up with Angela Farmer" in Berkeley in October!


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/02/ovary-botany-realistic-angela-and.html

So how best to go from videos of Angela and Victor teaching in their yoga courses to Youtube/Vimeo to ... application / software which transposes to a realistic Google Streetview+ (newly developed with realistic OpenSim/SL) ... to avatar agency?

And then how best to go from the Google Streetview level of a realistic virtual earth with avatars (way beyond "Pegman" to say the least) to research at the cellular and atomic levels inside realistic virtual avatars?


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Being informed by Google and Stanford for medical research as well as clinical practice - in all ~200 countries' main languages - would indeed give form to this in great ways.

(And I'm looking too to studying loving bliss neurophysiology in the virtual Harbin warm pool possibly with brainwave headsets - and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).





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