Scott Curland Chase
Background in (architectural) design & computation and elearning development
Looking for new opportunities
https://about.me/scott.chase
https://inspiredverse.wordpress.com
Location Glasgow, Scotland
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I've just joined the course, and the link 'How nature is good for health and happiness' doesn't appear to link to the article described, but rather to the BBC 'Planet Earth II' website.
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I think I did all of the constructions correctly. The confusion I've had is with the terminology: as far as I understand, a two-sided, two-edge band is not a Möbius strip, even if it has twists or knots (these the result of cutting a Möbius strip). If this is correct, I think there may be some errors in Yossi's descriptions.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Duncan Greenhill
It's there, right after the Prensky reference; the line break between them is missing!
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As a Second Life (SL) 'resident', having used the platform to teach architecture and design students (and research such T&L), I am slightly more positive than some about the use of SL for some of the course videos. That said:
Video 1.5 'Whatever happened to Second Life': Having a conversation about SL in SL makes some sense in terms of setting the context,...
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This is different to cartoon animation. In that sense it's similar to real world filming (just point the camera and push the Record button). This video would have been filmed in real time (possibly with a third avatar as 'cameraman'), with some editing to connect the two scenes (plus any other breaks within the scenes, as in real world filming).
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As one who has used Second Life for teaching, research, and research into T&L (the latter with the OU as one of the research partners), I found the SL setting pointless in the Week 2.8 video, but totally relevant in 1.5, and of some use in this video 3.11 (as the visuals served as a trigger to for me to consider relevant SL situations). I would not be...
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I note that the OU Design and Innovation group was one of the ARCHI21 partners.
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@MarkChilds Can you see it now? I can see it (I was writing it after I posted the first bit).
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In 2007-08 I taught two cohorts of architecture and design students in SL and was pleased with the results (primarily about introducing design students to the potential of this technology). At the time there was a vibrant community of architects and architectural educators in SL. I also saw universities and companies jumping into SL without any real...
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As an educator who got into Second Life (SL) almost 12 years ago (but is currently not actively using it for education) , I think Rebecca Ferguson covered very well the pluses and minuses.
I was teaching and researching design computing (computer aided design theory & practice) in departments of architecture and product design engineering, and was an early...
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I did read my poem (plus five by other poets) at the Refuweegee Open Mic yesterday evening at the Caledonia Road Church. Here it is on my blog: https://inspiredverse.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/empathy
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@RoNicholson Thanks for your nice comment. I actually took this blanket (plus the first one my grandmother ever made, which I also own) to the Scottish Parliament in Nov 2016, when the award winners were honoured. There's a good story behind this, stretching about 25 years, well beyond the 50 words I was limited to.
It took me a little bit of sleuthing...
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I might consider contributing to this, as I am going to add some of my course output to my own poetry blog (which uses the CC license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0--slightly different to the one you mention).
The Google presentation/PowerPoint format is a bit restrictive in terms of poem length, however; would you move these poems to another...
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I started making poems in 2012--a big flurry, then slowly tapering off until this course. I've published them all on my poetry blog https://inspiredverse.wordpress.com, which doesn't see a lot of visitors, but at least keeps my work handy for review/introspection. Back in the early days, I read some of them at a couple of open mic sessions when I was living in...
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My poem is one I'm planning to read on Thursday evening at an open mic event for Scottish Refugee Week. I'm been rather uncertain whether it captures the right mood and appropriate for reading at this event, and the two reviews I received confirm this--that's the main feedback I needed! The reviews were very positive, which was helpful as it confirms what I...
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Cherie Page
I received two reviews for my poem. I'm guessing that reviews are cut off once you go to step 3.9, so the longer you wait, the more likely you are to get more reviews?
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Bill Wright
I received two reviews for my poem. I'm guessing that reviews are cut off once you go to step 3.9, so the longer you wait, the more likely you are to get more reviews?
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As I said, I really struggled with the title, so here is the complete poem, after a couple of feedbacks from step 3.8. Not sure how much more tweaking I'll do. The hope is to read this at an open mic this Thursday during Scottish Refugee Week. Any further suggestions (title or otherwise) are welcome.
I am not a refugee
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I've been struggling with my poem on and off over the past week; the title seems to be most difficult bit (other than the obvious one).
I am not a refugee (the first line of the poem)
Empathy
New arrivalsThe only one I care for is the first one.
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I posted this in the last step, but will post again (with an addition).
I'm a bit of a maths nerd (and have used related mathematics in my work), so always enjoy stuff like this. And Yossi is great at imparting his love of the subject, always with a bit of humor.
That said, I think I enjoyed this course a bit less than Yossi's Maths Puzzles course I did...
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I'm a bit of a maths nerd (and have used related mathematics in my work), so always enjoy stuff like this. And Yossi is great at imparting his love of the subject, always with a bit of humor.
That said, I think I enjoyed this course a bit less than Yossi's Maths Puzzles course I did about two years ago, for a couple of reasons:
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The Game of Life is just one example of a cellular automaton, a discrete model studied in computer science, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling. I've used it to teach generative design to architecture students; it's also used for urban modelling simulations.
Ways to make The Game of Life more interesting...
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It hits 10 in generation 4, and eventually becomes an oscillator between 1 and its horizontal equivalent (a 3 cell dash)
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In the past I used the Game of Life in teaching generative design methods in schools of architecture (including 3D versions). It's also used for urban planning simulations.
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Exactly with what I'm struggling with now--several different ideas and lots of snippets. Four years ago the words just seemed to flow out of me, yet I'm having problems recreating that now.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Janet P
@JanB Your link is an example of a 'reverse poem'; I first encountered one about five years ago, but am seeing them more and more. There is a definite craft to making them, but there are guidelines, e.g. https://penandthepad.com/write-reverse-poem-8556361.html
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Victoria J
@DavidCroft Funny, I found the Latin square easier than the Soduku. I did use the 'crossing out rows and columns' method, which made solving the puzzles straightforward.
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I didn't have any problems solving the first three, and once I figured out the key for the code in Q4 I was able to decode it without writing the key down!
For the Latin square and Soduku, I tried using the 'crossing out rows and columns' method, using a spreadsheet. A nice algorithm for solving these puzzles, which I will use from now on (working through...
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I have completed Soduku puzzles in the past, but not recently. Enjoyable, but I usually get bored with them after a while. I didn't know about the straight line method (at least I've never consciously used it), but will look to try that in my next Soduku attempt.
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Maybe this is the time to dig into my file of poem ideas and early drafts and ressurect one. Maybe attempt a rhyming poem--haven't made one for a while.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Carolina Rosero
@HannaAppleyard those are more or less my primary aids when making poetry.
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Arguably the most audacious use of rhyme in the English language (although not everything may rhyme, depending on which part of the world you learned your English). And a significant challenge to read aloud for all but the most learned in the English language: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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Nice to finally put names to rhyme schemes I've used rather naturally: masuline/feminine rhyme, internal rhyme. And at least one end rhyme caught in an end-stop/enjambment duo: https://inspiredverse.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/turing-centenary
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The fourth poem I ever wrote as an adult (in 2012), initially composed whilst brushing my teeth:
There was a young knight dubbed Gawain
Who refused to come out of the rain.
Wailed Mom, “You’ll catch cold!”,
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I got into poetry six years ago because of rhyming: I discovered that I was composing rhymes whilst showering or brushing my teeth, so started writing them down and growing them into something bigger.
From the list here, sound, structure and most importantly, inspiration, are the reasons I rhyme (although I confess I have not done much rhyming recently, and...
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The architect’s scales
Dad’s tools of the trade
acquired over seven decades ago
handed down to another generation
through university and beyond they saw meeleven scales held in a triangular prism--how clever
solid wood--they don’t make them like that anymore
colour of ivory with accents tricoloured
bearing scars from years of battering
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Rosalind M
I finally made it to Bletchley last July after a trip to the Open University, Bedford and Cambridge. Something I've wanted to do for years. I had only three hours, most of it was spent in the building with the Enigma machines. You do need a full day to do it justice, not including the the Computer museum. But your ticket is good for a year! Not sure I'll make...
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The online poetry generators (of which there are many, some quite sophisticated) remind me of the Mad Libs we used to play as kids (but also great for adults!): a story with some words left out, their replacements to be suggested by the players, who don't know the story, only the part of speech for any needed word. The results are hilarious!
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Not random poetry, but different forms, some without lines, by Brian Bilston ('the Poet Laureate of Twitter'):
Venn diagram
'At the Intersection' https://brianbilston.com/2015/07/23/at-the-intersection/spreadsheet:
'December 8: Gloria in Excelsis' https://brianbilston.com/2015/12/14/december-8-gloria-in-excelsis/poems that look like that which...
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Undulating Brush
I take up my tool
applied to his head
stroking, gently stroking
in waves
brush and I are as one......two, three
how many times
‘to one hundred’ cries he
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I have problems with the answer to Q3, even after seeing the apparent solution and reading the comments:
My initial answer was Jacob, based on a) Abraham's three assertions really being two, i.e.
a) Isaac did it (F), and Abraham worked on a different part of the project (T);
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Paul Richardson
I used the same logic as @PaulRichardson . The only way I can see this working with Isaac as the culprit is to treat Abraham's three statements as one sentence (all true). The other so-called false sentence is not shown here; THAT'S THE TRICK!
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Pantoum
A good example of cultural appropriationhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/pantoum
A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets, occasionally imitated in English. A series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final... -
Scott Curland Chase replied to Linda Matthews
I also struggled with the difference between craft and technique. I think they're positioning craft as something holistic, whilst technique is reductionist, the tools to form the work.
I can relate to the comment by @SharonCampbell about poems that are considered good but leave her feeling flat. My poetry to date has been extremely personal, reflecting...
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four eyes
looking out to sea
a longing to be out there
in which direction? so much choice
leaving home, family, friends
to a far off place I do not know
what will I find there?
(when) can I return?
so many questions to pondertick, tick, tick
money ran out
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I like these types of puzzles as objects (particularly if they're made of wood), the tactile way one engages with them, as well as something to keep the hands busy, but I don't have the patience to see them through to solution.
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I'm not a chess player, but once had to write a 3 dimensional knight's tour program for a computational logic class. Likely more fun writing the program than trying to solve it manually!
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I understood the maths in the egg drop puzzle better, so preferred that one. The instruments one I will have to ponder and research a bit more, as I struggle with probability and statistics.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Chhanda Bewtra
@AlastairMcIver iambic is unstressed-stressed (you have it reversed). But your example is correct (iambic pentameter).
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I voted 'No', but rhyming is actually how I got started six years ago: I discovered I had a habit of making rhymes whilst showering or brushing my teeth! Those poems might be considered ditties, as they tend to be light in tone, and are very sing-songy. I like the challenge of coming up with rhymes (and yes, I do use online rhyming dictionaries). I haven't...
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I was never all that great at writing when young, and given the tools (pencil+paper, and the typewriter in high school) I often took the lazy way and only did one draft of a paper.
In the digital age, I do *all* of my writing on the computer: my handwriting is so terrible I probably couldn't read what I wrote, and I like the ability to edit on the fly...
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[0,0],[5,0],[2,3],[2,0],[0,2],[5,2],[4,3], 4 litres to friend 1,
[0,3],[3,0],[3,3],[5,1],[0,1],[1,0],[1,3], 4 litres remaining to friend 2This uses two different methods for measuring the two 4 litre amounts. Wasted water: 8 litres
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This is easier than the wolf, goat and cabbage:
1) take either the fox+caterpiller or chicken+cabbage across
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I'm also glad to hear that Helen uses RhymeZone. I have used it and other rhyming dictionaries.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Thida Lwin
Thank you, Thida, for your review of my found poem 'Join the Movement'. It was a mashup of texts from 10 different sources (including two different social enterprises and an electronics retailer!), with some tweaking and removal of names. More tweaking is now called for...
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Scott Curland Chase
comment removed; is there no way to delete a comment?
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The last two assignments (cento and 'found poem') were a bit of work, but quite enjoyable. I found the cento quite easy--lots of possibilities from the two poems I selected, and the 'found poem' ended up as a mashup of texts from 10 sources (tweaked, but could use further refinement).
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Sue P
I think a lot of folk didn't use bits of 'found language' but produced nice poems. My poem was a mashup of texts from 10 different sources, with some tweaking. If I had more time, I would have cleaned it up a bit (the feedback was helpful).
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Monica S
Did you get more than one review? I let mine sit for a while before clicking Complete for that module, so I ended up with three reviews: all providing useful feedback, but not all universally positive. With more than one review you're likely to get some positive feedback.
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By my calculation there is only one possible answer in which the number of children is a multiple of 7. There are other possibilties for the number of children, though.
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Am I missing the point here? We're still working on 'found poems'. I'm sitting at my desk, finding bits from papers, flyers and other detritus that surrounds me, e.g. 'Continue the Honor. Renew Today! Address service requested'.
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Here are two, from the same two poems:
(1) Three Addresses (Terence Winch) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53300/three-addresses
(2) Refugees (Brian Bilston) https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugeesI would stare at the naked bodies carved above (1)
These haggard faces could belong to you or me (2)the entire neighborhood gushed into the...
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"Three Addresses" by Terence Winch https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53300/three-addresses
I found this in the LGBTQ Pride Poems collection. Intrigued by the title, which led me to this poem in three parts, each titled with a street address. It didn't take much for me to identify them as Washington DC addresses. Assuming this is autobiographical, very...
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I think one takeaway from doing recreational math puzzles is that the answers usually don't involve a lot of computation. Reading the question carefully (e.g. It could be a trick question) or by inspection / trial and error if there aren't a lot of possibilities are often the ways to a solution. Your brain power is best used up front, not for computations!
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@GedLangosz Exactly the way I solved Q6!
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It's all interesting to me, having been good in math since a child, and using geometry (and then formal logic) in my research and teaching. This course has given me an excuse to go through many old boxes of books and pull out some of the recreational math ones. I even managed dig up my 45 year old high term paper "The Mathematics in Lewis Carroll's Writings"...
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I started the course a week late and am running a bit behind, so haven't yet seen Yossi's email solutions.
The carousel problem: pretty straightforward once I realised the trick.
The buns problem: I agree that the wording is ambiguous, and there are too few constraints. About the only things I know for certain is that there is an even number of children,...
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Plenty favourites from which to choose, but I'll go with the one I actually use from time to time:
"Curiouser and curiouser"
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Scott Curland Chase
It also depends on how precious your work is to you. My poetry to date is not so accomplished that I have concerns about this--and am happy to see it propagated. I believe that a CC license has just as much legal standing as an 'All Rights Reserved' copyright, and if violated, I could sue if desired.
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This is why it's 'recreational maths': you have to use a little logic/common sense and check all of the choices given. This question only works as multiple choice in which only one of the choices is a possible answer.
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Recreational mathematics often requires a bit of logic reasoning/common sense to solve problems. Some of these were good examples: multiple choice where a little inspection leads to only one possible answer (triangle); looking at the context of a stated problem to see the solution already provided (cryptogram).
I had no real problems with the puzzles. I...
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That was my answer; conversely, "are there any truth-tellers?" works as well.
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I was at the top of my class in mathematics in school, and always believed that I would major in it at university. A summer mathematics programme (filled with lots of recreational math in conjunction with more serious undertakings) actually put me off the idea of mathematics as an avocation, and I went in a very different direction at the beginning of my...
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I do occasional maths exercises in https://brilliant.org. I have some old Martin Gardner books I haven't looked at in decades. I even wrote a term paper for a high school English class "The Mathematics in Lewis Carroll's Writings" some 45 years ago. Logic and geometry are my main interests in recreational maths.
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Maths is something I have a knack for: did well in school, and have used mathematics in various ways in my research (geometry and logic). So always enjoyable, and I like math puzzles. I did a previous maths puzzles FL course with Dr. Elran. I even wrote a term paper for an English class in high school "The Mathematics in Lewis Carroll's Writing" about 45 years...
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As I'm partial to rhymes, I just thought of a favourite poem: The Chaos (Gerard Nolst Trenité, 1922). There are a number of versions out in the ether; the following link gives a good overview of its history: http://www.idallen.com/ncf/english.html#introduction
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I don't recall much exposure to poetry in my youth, but do remember having to write a poem in the 5th grade about the US Civil War, and failing miserably (particularly painful, as I was a good student!). Beyond that, encountering it in Shakespeare's plays, and a bit when studying German at university (e.g. Rilke).
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I chose 'perchance', a word I once used in a very autobiographical poem: https://inspiredverse.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/a-critic-is-born. I like the way it trips off the tongue, and that it's rather archaic--and literary!
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I currently publish my poetry in a blog under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), meaning people can share and distribute it (non-commercially), but must attribute me, and cannot revise it in any way for distribution.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Michael Robinson
I would say that is not a problem. Note that this (links) is how we accessed the favourite poems of our tutors in 1.3.
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Brigid Murphy
Brian Bilston is my new favorite poet--but not because of this particular poem. I've seen a number of these reverse poems; they of course usually have a negative/positive theme (starting with the negative, for more effect). There's a particular skill in crafting them (perhaps we'll learn about them later in the course). Here's just one short guide:...
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I haven't really done much reading of poetry, so would be hard placed to pick a favourite poet/poem. That said, my new favourite poet is Brian Bilston (the 'Poet Laureate of Twitter'). He's cheeky, writes what I feel, often very current events, in a similar style to some of my poems, and with some creative forms (spreadsheet, Venn diagram, poems that look like...
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I've never been particularly interested in poetry, nor have studied the craft. However, in 2012 I started writing ditties, having discovered that I have a habit of composing rhymes whilst brushing my teeth or in the shower. That year I had a big flurry of activity, which then slowed down and gradually came to a halt. My poems are all based on my experiences,...
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@HeatherMarkson It's been many years since I read Nicholas and Alexandra, but I don't recall any mention of Jews or antisemitism. A quick check just now of its index confirms this (at the very least, these topics are not indexed).
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I just commented on the same issue in the US--early Sephardic arrivals looking down on mid-19th C. German Jewish arrivals, who (once established) looked down on the influx of Eastern Europeans from the late 19th C.
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But also, because the newcomers *were* Jewish, they (being poor and not assimilated) could reflect badly upon the *entire* Jewish community--in particular, those already assimilated into American society. The same applied to the already established Sephardic society and the German Jewish arrivals in mid-19th C. America.
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@RosalindShare 'semitic' can also refer to the people speaking semitic languages, which includes Arabic speakers. But you're right, the term 'antisemitism', which refers specifically to Jew hatred, is being misused to also include hatred of Arabic peoples. Just this past Saturday, our Friends of Israel group, marching against antisemitism at the Glasgow March...
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Here's one news report of our march experience:
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I'm 61, Jewish, born in the US, but have lived and been active in progressive Jewish communities in 5 countries. Home is now Glasgow, Scotland. As the family genealogist, I have a keen interest in history, yet am not aware of any on my family tree having experienced the Holocaust, so haven't experienced the emotions of many of my British/European friends. I...
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Scott Curland Chase replied to Daniel Muir
It was clearly stated that in this course the quizzes will serve to introduce new content. I'm fine with that, as the last FutureLearn couse I took also introduced new content in some of the quizzes, but neglected to warn learners of that fact.
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Originally from the USA, I now make my home in Glasgow, Scotland, where I am active in the Jewish community. I've also been active in progressive Jewish communities everywhere I've lived (USA, Australia, and Denmark.
I also participate in activities sponsored by Interfaith Glasgow; amongst them, Scriptural Reasoning (http://www.scripturalreasoning.org), which... -
Béatrice, if you watched the 2017 (full) performance you might be able to figure out what's going on. I'm away for the weekend, but *if* I remember and have some time next week I'll try to listen to it again and post a translation.
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Yes, a great course, well presented; one of the best FutureLearn courses I have taken!
I came into this course like many here: not a novice, but certainly not an expert. It has given me some new ways to approach and examine opera, as well as relive great opera experiences from the past. And an impetus to get out more, as I can't recall the last time I...
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This article and discussion addresses points I raised in Week 1, when we were discussing what an opera is. At that time I felt that the voice amplification issue was perhaps the main distinction, but now I'm not so sure, given that some 'operatic' musicals (e.g. Sweeney Todd) are now occasionally performed without amplification of the singers.
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I don't see "The Threepenny Opera" as an opera, as there's quite a bit of spoken text; I believe the 'opera' moniker is because it's an adaptation of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" (1728); a 'ballad opera' [Wikipedia].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar%27s_Opera
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There are a number of factors at play:
First (to get it out of the way) is the cost factor (the reason why I haven't been to a live performance of grand opera in many years).
That said, my preference would be for a live performance, provided one has a good view of the stage action. Benefits: being 'in the moment', sharing the experience with the audience and... -
Although no longer living there, I'm feeling nostalgic for the annual Aalborg Opera Festival (http://www.aalborgopera.dk), which not only offers performances in 'traditional' performance spaces such as the local concert hall, but also free performances out in public spaces such as plazas, shopping mall, public library, balconies. Many of these 'pop up' (but...
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What Linda is referring to are the only recordings known of a castrato voice, that of Alessandro Moreschi, made in 1902 and 1904 when he was in his 40s, probably past his prime. His Wikipedia page has a couple of excerpts, and you can probably find some on YouTube.
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Conal: perhaps I didn't describe it very clearly, as it's a common seating arrangement in many theatre and performance halls. In the stalls no centre aisle, with single loaded side aisles. Some further research turned up the commonly used term 'continental seating'. Halls with this seating arrangement that I've frequented include the NY State Theatre (1964,...
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A great week; I can see why this is Flora's favourite week! Really nice to hear how it all fits together, recounted by those working behind the scenes folk (including the conductor, who is literally behind the scenes in Bayreuth!).
High point: The Opera Machine (which may consume many future hours of my time)
Low point: the 19th C. technical innovations...
