I agree that this is a false promise, at least an exaggeration.

This idea of magic recipes to success or greatness is not new though. A couple of examples [The Toyota Way] The GE way

hmm I wonder if he knows where the expression "For the Win" comes from. I didn't until I took the Gamification course and then started noticing it in Warcraft.

Vagabong: a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. (as defined by Google)

In what way would The New World provide an escape for the vagabonds? Was it an easy way to get rid of them? Were they going to use them for work?

another great "how to" source in terms of a step by step guide to your first year can be found in a book called "The First Six Weeks." You can check out the Chapter for K-2 classrooms here: http://plaza.ufl.edu/mrichner/Readings/The%20First%20Six%20Weeks%20of%20School%20(K-2).pdf

Just got to think about our roles, in view of annotation. Using “curation” as a term for collecting URLs sounds like usurping the title of “curator”. But there’s something to be said about the role involved. From the whole “guide on the side” angle to the issue with finding appropriate resources based on a wealth of expertise.

It seems that King Affonso may have allowed the Portuguese to enslave his subjects at first without knowing the possible repercussions. As the saying goes, "if you give an inch, they'll take a mile". In addition, the Portuguese began kidnapping the people, including noblemen. After seeing all that was happening, King Affonso must have came to a realization that there was something wrong, leading to his request for regulations.

1. Why do you think that King Affonso let the Portuguese enslave his subjects at first?
2. I believe that King Alfonso thought it was a good idea to enslave his subjects at first because it could help boost his wealth and the country's wealth without paying the people who actually did the work. He did not want lower-class people in his country because he wanted all the things he wanted in order to live a luxurious life.
3. In the letter below, why does the king now request regulations?
4. The King was finally hearing from all of his people that many of the people in Portugal were being taken away for slavery. He set guidelines because he realized many of the people were being enslaved for no reason at all.

The Portuguese relied heavily on Africans in the slave market.

I wonder how God imagined all of these things to happen. Did he think that all of this would turn out good for us?

God created all men and women equally based off what he saw in his mind. He did not create people to be better than others.

I think it is creative how people though that god had planned all of this. There's definitely a reason why its light and dark during a 24 hour period.

What roles do sugar and slavery play in the expansion of European empires?

Sugar was becoming very popular in Asia and was quickly discovered by the Europeans. The Portuguese had to find new land to grow the sugar cane because it was required to have the right conditions to grow. This is when the Portuguese found the Guanches, an African tribe in order to take care of the sugar cane. This helped the Portuguese become very wealthy.

What were the three major crops developed in the Americas? What impact did they have?

The three major crops were corn, beans and squash which all had nutritional needs that sustained the cities and civilizations.

The Spanish was trying to take control over North and Central America. They were taking away valued goods from the Native Americans and made money off of it.

The Portuguese found that sugar was a high profitable crop that they can get wealthy off of and decided to take action in the market with it. They enslaved Africans during the time they grew crops so they could make a higher profit in the business.

Native Americans were the first group of people to be in North America, long before Columbus and the Europeans came. How could they take credit for finding this land first?

The ice age across North America left many people to panic on how they were going to survive these harsh temperatures. They had to find many ways to stay warm and finding food was tough because they would be trapped from going out in the cold.

With a population of only 15,000 people, the creation of such a massive building for that time is impressive. Especially considering the tools used at the time, as well as the building material (adobe clay). Not to mention that this was not the only building.

This can relate even to modern day social status, as the higher up on a hill a property lies, the more expensive it tends to be.

While I can see why their bodies may have suffered from agricultural work due to stress on the body and repetitive motion, what caused the damage specifically to bones and teeth? In addition, are these symptoms found in modern day farmers?

I find it amazing that the nomadic hunter-gatherers traveled in small groups, but followed these massive creatures. Looking at this photo of the size comparisons, I can only imagine what it must have been like to hunt them.

What if we had pockets of non-Internet connectivity, though? A mesh network doesn’t necessarily need to have nodes on the Internet. For instance, a classroom could have a “course in a box”, with all sorts of resources provided on local network, but without a connection to the whole Internet… So many teachers keep complaining about their students’ use of the Internet that they end up banning devices. But what if we allowed devices and even encouraged them, as long as they’re not on the Internet? WiFi connections tend to be spotty, to this day, and some classes are cellular deadzones. A bit like Dogme 95, getting used to sans-Internet connectivity could help us “get creative”. What would we do if we were to do a tech-savvy course on the proverbial “desert island”, without Internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU

Few people know this but Sherlock was actually born in Russia in 1792 and didn't change his name until much later.

It sounds like we're creating our own aliens and then essentially putting them inside of a subject/form that we recognize and are quite familiar with so our initial response to the subject will be favourable.. but we're being tricked.. overpowered.. Has anyone read The Host by Stephanie Meyer? Similar concept...

Okay, I get the idea behind the institution of the suburb and how government is "normalizing" spaces to push for a specific idea or vision of well-behaved and orderly citizens.. But how does this lead to everyday violence? Makes me think of "The Purge" movies... Creepy..?

Sounds logical, in the abstract. But the explanation is often known to “kill the joke”, to decrease the humour potential. In some cases, it transforms the explainee into the butt of a new joke. Something similar has been said about hermeneutics and æsthetics. The explanation itself may be a new form of art, but it runs the risk of first destroying the original creation.

control over society."

It's the people that push the boundaries who find out just how strong/weak they really are. It is more about the atmosphere of a disciplinary society aided by the people's fear that's being enacted throughout societies instead of actual and legitimate control.

What do scholars sit around talking about? Cute girls.

Faustus, despite all he's been given, is still missing one thing:

Faustus has incredible powers, and his friends want him to use them to show him a cute girl.

1. What were the variety of exchanges that occurred in Native American Societies? What role did giving play in establishing status and obligation? The exchanges between Native American Societies was about trading goods, resources, marriages between two different community lines, different ideas, religious ideas. It expanded resources and alliances - both in political and religious perspectives. The role of exchanges established status and obligation, in a way that if your tribe was able to provide the most useful resources - you would be higher than others. Also, it gives the opportunity to establish obligation unto other communities if it was necessary. 2. What developments occur in Europe that helps set the foundation for European exploration and empire building?

1. Massive growth in population after the epidemic that killed half the population within the area. 2. With the population growth, there was a growth of economy and high demand of the necessities of living. 3. From the growing demand of goods, led to ship building and navigation so merchants could expand their variety with what they were able to trade. 4. Trade led to the establishment of higher regions, and also people who want to establish their own hierarchy in their own regions. 5. As monarchies were made, communities had gained the amounts of necessities allowing exploration, trade between farther regions as well as producing routes for transportation as well as trade. 3. What was Portugal's intent in slave? What role do the Portuguese come to play in the trade of African slaves? African slaves were around before Portugal had began using slaves, going back to Muslim using them during the crusade. Due to sugar plantations being grown from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, there was a growing need of labor. After seeing an exchange of slaves between their source and another slave trader, the Portuguese soon became another main source of slaves as well.

I'm intrigued here (and above) by this notion of "mastery" or "figuring it out" that seems to important to Simon. I wonder if that really should be the goal. I wonder, even, if that was the effect or point of "The Wire": the city and its machinations remained elusive throughout that series.

What would that mean for team #blackandblue?

A whole dissertation could be (likely has been) written on this idea of "urban" black style as a kind of "armor against the world."

It seems incredibly valuable for young people to acknowledge (and be acknowledged for) the cultural power of style.

This, of course, is flipping Martin Luther King's famous quote about "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." It's upsetting to think that Coates is saying that the reality is that the arc bends toward death, not justice.

See:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/15/arc-of-universe/

and

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129609461

Gone with the Wind in the public domain? Will Peter Pan never grow up?

I would like the page-based approach first. When I downloaded the add-on, this was the feature I was expecting to use, which made me very excited. It was like Disqus, only more perfect, because the comments could be directly and seamlessly linked to specific parts of pages. Additionally, this was possible on any webpage or PDF document. Anyone could share ideas and reactions with others, anywhere. An added plus was to be going on random web pages, looking for citations that people had made there. It felt like a whole new hidden layer of the internet was put into place, and with it came the delight of discovering where said layer had manifested itself. That was something I thought was special.

The plans on this document look perfect. When can we expect for them to be implemented?

The River Lethe was one of the rivers of Hades in Greek mythology. Exposure to its waters was held to lead to loss of memory, or, more intriguingly, a state of "unmindfulness" and oblivion. From this origin, it has re-appeared throughout western culture, from Dante to Tony Banks's first solo album (River Lethe in popular culture, Wikipedia).

By providing the alternative spelling of Leith, Alasdair Roberts 'doubles' this meaning with the Water of Leith, a river that runs through Edinburgh, and co-locates ancient Greek and contemporary Scots mythology.

The idea of eternal return is bound up with memory, with cultures being compelled to repeat and confront the missteps of the past. So the oblivion of forgetfulness provided by the endless Lethe provides a form of antidote or escape.

In interview with Tyler Wilcox in 2009, Alasdair Roberts referred to the

specifically Jungian references to the "sermons seven" and mandalas... it's like a quest song against conflict and towards individuation. I know a lot of people with strong political or religious convictions whose musical and artistic practice is guided by that – in some ways I envy that kind of certitude, but I suppose my thing is always about flexibility, multiplicity, confusion wanting to reflect the turmoil of reality... always trying to remember that the oar in the ocean is a winnowing fan on dry land.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetThere was a search engine? Or did @dwhly not tell us about something else?

Such kitchenettes were single-room apartments, subdivided from a larger apartment, so they might all share a single bathroom.

"Number Five" refers to a neighbor in one of the other kitchenette apartments. That they are not given a name only further emphasizes the dehumanization of these living conditions, in which they can't even expect hot water.

Why is the city, London in this case, "unreal"? The weather has given it a mystical quality no doubt. But more deeply, the city seems unreal in that it is not realizable, that is comprehensible, to Eliot in the modern sense. In short, he can't make sense of it.

hypothesis.js is injected into the page by embed.js using either the browser's plugin API or (in the case of the bookmarklet) the DOM API. (embed.js was in turn injected by the browser plugin or bookmarklet).

hypothesis.js is the "bootstrap" code that connects up and starts the various components of the Hypothesis app.

Here we find the <link rel="sidebar" ... that embed.js injected into the page. We pass it into the constructor method of Annotator.Host below.

Calling the Annotator.Host construct, passing an options object including our sidebar link.

Having created our Annotator instance and added our custom plugins etc to it, we inject Annotator into the page.

app_inject_urls is the list of scripts and stylesheets that we're going to inject into the page. This comes from layouts.py, which in turn gets it from assets.yaml.

Most importantly these URLs to be injected include a minified version of hypothesis.js.

Finally, we inject a <link rel="sidebar" type="application/annotator+html" href=".../app.html"> into the <head> of the document. This is the HTML page for the contents of the sidebar/iframe. This link will be picked up by hypothesis.js later.

This loop is where we actually call injectScript() or injectStylesheet() on each of the resource URLs defined above.

And we do the same thing for injecting scripts as we did for injecting stylesheets - we either use the function passed in by the browser plugin, or when called by the bookmarklet we fall back on the DOM API.

hypothesisInstall() will use the inject.stylesheet() function passed in to it to inject stylesheets into the page or, if no function was passed in, it'll fallback on the default function defined inline here.

The default method just uses the DOM's appendChild() method, but this method may fail if the site we're trying to annotate uses the Content Security Policy.

That's why when we're using one of the browser plugins rather than the bookmarklet, we pass in the browser API's method for injecting a stylesheet instead.

This is why the bookmarklet doesn't currently work on GitHub, for example, but the Chrome plugin does.

embed.js is responsible for "embedding" the different components of the Hypothesis frontend application into the page.

First, either bookmarklet.js or one of the browser plugins injects a <script> tag to embed.js into the page, then embed.js runs.

This way the code in embed.js is shared across all bookmarklets and browser plugins, and the bookmarklets and plugins themselves have very little code.

And we inject our <iframe> into ... the frame? (@frame is a <div> that wraps our <iframe>, it's defined and injected into the page in guest.coffee).

Finally, this is where we create the <iframe> element that is the Hypothesis sidebar!

Here we construct the actual <script> element, set its src URL, and inject it into the page using the DOM's appendChild() method.

The whole job of the bookmarket is to inject a <script src=".../embed.js"> element into the current page. The src URL of this script element points to embed.js, another Pyramid template rendered by the server-side Hypothesis app.

bookmarklet.js is the Pyramid template (rendered by our server-side Pyramid app) for the Hypothesis bookmarklet. This little bit of JavaScript (after being rendered by Pyramid) is what the user actually drags to their bookmarks bar as a bookmarklet.

Oh really?

an objective set for the Sprint that can be met through the implementation of Product Backlog. It provides guidance to the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. It is created during the Sprint Planning meeting. The Sprint Goal gives the Development Team some flexibility regarding the functionality implemented within the Sprint. The selected Product Backlog items deliver one coherent function, which can be the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Goal can be any other coherence that causes the Development Team to work together rather than on separate initiatives.

Holy, leaping jehosaphats of hyperbole, Batman. He's so hyperbolic he's asymptotic. Yeah. I said it.

similar to a telephone interview--transcripts are valuable to the visually impaired but they represent a throttling of the gestalt, the whole of voice and vision that make up the full monty that is F2F conversation.

The Art of Community

• Plaintiff makes a verbal contract with defendant. In return for $500, plaintiff will find defendant's stolen jewels.
• Plaintiff had knowledge of whereabouts of jewels at contract formation.
• Plaintiff is a special police officer and has dealings with prosecutor's office.
• Defendant published advertisement for reward.
• Plaintiff finds stolen goods and arranges return.

The first analytic move.

Towards the end of our last conversation the text following "common appropriation" seemed an interesting place to dive into further for our future discussions.

I have tagged this annotation with "meta" because it is a comment about our discussion and where to continue it rather than an annotation focused on the content itself.

In the future I would be interested in exploring the idea of "annotation types" that can be selectively turned on and off, but for now will handle that with ad hoc tags like "meta".

The second analytic move.

Annotations might be a better way of doing footnotes because you are not taken to a completely different place thus losing your place in the text.

This is one of the intended effects of The Gardener role. By centralizing the duty of interrupt handling into one person's job it will free up time for each of the rest of us to focus on projects most of the time, and only occasionally every couple of months will we each have to worry about interrupts when the role of The Gardener passes to one of us for the week.