Commuting to work. Making dinner. Deciding on which house to buy, in which city to live, or which partner to marry. All processes. Some processes are invisible: breathing, digesting, weather events, radio or cell signals that transmit audio, video, or data to your device. Some are extremely complex (like open heart surgery, rocket science, curing diseases); some are simple (taking a shower, watching TV, scheduling a meeting).
Step 1: Identify the customer (s) of a process. Step 2: Identify customer (s) requirements of the process. Step 3: Identify desired outcomes of the process – the products/services ...
Education is a process: starting with the learner’s current knowledge (through assessment), designing/delivering content or curriculum to move knowledge forward, and then assessing again to see if knowledge was obtained. Healthcare is a process (in-take, triage, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and, yes, billing).
With that simple definition, I’m going to assert that everything – certainly everything in an organization – is a process. Manufacturing a product takes inputs, transforms them in some way into outputs (finished products) that customers value. Service is also a process: greeting a customer, identifying their needs, delivering on those needs, following up to ensure those needs were met, and so forth. Education is a process: starting with the learner’s current knowledge (through assessment), designing/delivering content or curriculum to move knowledge forward, and then assessing again to see if knowledge was obtained. Healthcare is a process (in-take, triage, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and, yes, billing).
James Loewen understood that. He worked at and around the problem of the forceful presentation of false historical narratives and their role in present-day life. His book Lies My Teacher Told Me, like his later work on sundown towns, illuminated the hidden histories and the prominent tall tales that do damage, not just to our individual understanding, but to political and policy choices that shape our future.
JJ: You know, your people, your ances tors—you say at one point in Lies, the message of textbooks to nonwhite kids is often, “Well, your ancestors didn’t do very much.”
The most important single statement is by South Carolina, because it seceded first, but every single state makes a similar statement when it leaves the United States. Here’s what South Carolina called its statement: “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” That kind of sounds right on point, doesn’t it?
And, of course, unfortunately, it’s not true. Things don’t take care of themselves. We have to take care of them. And I honestly believe we are beginning to take care of this idiotic, pro-Confederate mythology right now as we speak.
James Loewen: “If you’ve got a Confederate statue at your county seat, and it says the Confederacy was wonderful, I think it’s easier for you to grow up with a Confederate mindset, and maybe even a Confederate heart.”
Now, McPherson knows; so what we know from this is, it turns out that these people who allegedly write the history textbooks don’t write them. The publishers write them, and then they rent their names and stick them on them. But they don’t even read them!
Borrowing from a strange mixture of Christianity, science fiction, and conspiracy theories, Heaven's Gate taught followers that the Earth was about to be "recycled" and that a heavenly spaceship was en route to rescue them and take them to a better planet. All they had to do was die.
When an otherwise healthy Boston man rushed to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was suffering from minutes-long seizures and speaking gibberish. He couldn’t control his eye movements and appeared agitated and highly disoriented. And when doctors performed an MRI and CT scan, they realized the startling cause of his symptoms — larval cysts of tapeworms had been embedded in his brain for 20 years. Tapeworm larval cysts can lie in wait for years in the brain before the human body detects them. But eventually, they begin to degenerate by leaking fluid and calcifying. And when they do, they can cause a range of symptoms, including headaches, confusion, balance problems, seizures, and even death. Read more about this unnerving story by clicking the link in our profile. #ohgod #tapeworms #brainworms #medicalnews #boston #gross #parasites
Built by Herod the Great between 22 and 15 B.C. in Bethlehem, Herodium's rounded design inspired Salvà to create something similar for Bellver Castle. Due to its shape, Bellver Castle was considered highly unusual — and striking — among other fortresses in the area. More than 700 years later, it remains one of the precious few circular castles in all of Europe. And its towers still offer breathtaking views today — see more by clicking the link in our profile. #castles #stunning #peresalva #spanishhistory #bellvercastle #europeanhistory
And when Orlando's mother died last year, her last wish to her son was that he never sell the "family treasure.".
Half the reason we buy so much new stuff is that our old stuff keeps breaking. Author Giles Slade says there's a reason for that — planned obsolescence.
When Angelo visited the House on the Rock for the first time, at first he saw a testament to one man's obsession and demented imagination. But then he started to think — does he have his own bizarre collection of stuff in his home?
That was Steve Paulson talking with Eula Biss. Her new book is called Having and Being Had. Coming up, a trip to the purgatory of things, the thrift store, where old stuff goes to be reborn. It's To The Best Of Our Knowledge from Wisconsin Public Radio and PRX.
Eula Biss: It's a stew of emotions, guilt over having things that I know other people don't and can't have, guilt over what the production of those things or the acquisition of those things cost other people's lives.
In her new book, author Eula Biss reckons with a new phase in her life, moving from an apartment in Chicago to the first house her family owns. While that dream is about as American as the proverbial apple pie, Biss ruminates on the reality that it’s an impossible dream for many people.
Now some musicians prefer to leave the tone balls in place because they feel that they are part of what gives a particular instrument its special sound, and-. Anne Strainchamps: So people just sent you dust.
Angelo is always coming in on Monday mornings with some cool new thing to wear, which he always, always seems to have found in a thrift store.