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送徐歷昌先生
今天重溫過去的一則通信

on Page 42: "Sigmund Freud himself remarked in "The Relation of the Poet to Daydream- ing" that each of us is a cast of characters, but Freud had them locked within a single ...

"Dear HC,,

不了解 A customer is a cast of characters. 作何解？ 這句話重複出現在 Juran on quality by design 的第二章 Identify the customers.

Best rgds
DHsu


CAST
The actors in a play, movie, or other theatrical presentation.

A CUSTOMER 其實是由各類"角色" (相關人)所組成

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cast (ACTORS) Hide phonetics
verb [T] cast, cast
to choose actors to play particular parts in a play, film or show:
He was often cast as the villain.
In her latest film she was cast against type (= played a different character than the one she usually played or might be expected to play).
FIGURATIVE They like to cast the opposing political party as (= to say that they are) the party of high taxes.
See also typecast.

cast Hide phonetics
group noun [C]
the actors in a film, play or show:
After the final performance, the director threw a party for the cast.
Part of the film's success lies in the strength of the supporting cast (= the actors who were not playing the main parts).


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Pygmalion效應 vs “stereotype threat”

相信某事 最後美夢成真乎

「現在，我們加上受影響人員的可能的反應所產生之效應。所以，設計系統的人 要將一些可能的預期反應納入其政策之對策中……
我與外國朋友在討論 Deming {新經濟學}中提到的：教室中老師對學生的期望之良性反應 Pygmalion in Classroom...你知道這嗎 它寫在注上....」


Consider, for example, what the social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson have described as “stereotype threat,” which hampers the performance of African-American students. Simply reminding blacks of their race before they take an exam leads them to perform worse, their research shows.



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人人都知救援的時機最重要
Economists Agree Time Is of the Essence for Stimulus
(By Steven Mufson and Lori Montgomery, The Washington Post)
不過 政府的亂灑錢等做法如消費券等 多顯示出做企劃的人根本搞不清楚資源的善用
舉個第二梯次領消費券時 第一天周六 人擠人 郵局比菜市場還慘烈
每人的等待成本不得了
第二天 門可羅雀 工作人員比領券的人們多十倍 (根據台北大安區之親身經驗)


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台灣的教育券等應急重視的是高學歷者之"失業率"
美國的 都重視學童
AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s achievement — and keep in mind that sometimes very small influences in children’s lives can have very big effects.
Education Is All in Your Mind
什麼是本 什麼是末

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科技日益準確
"光學時鐘，可準確計算時間20億年，分秒不差。 光學時鐘（Optical Clock）以雷射偵測電子震動頻率，可切割時間為更小的單位，計時更精準。預計10年內可問世。"

許多不幸消息越來越慘 譬如說全球不景氣 或澳大利亞森林大火

Australian bushfire deathtoll rises to 84

Australian fires toll passes 100

Bush fires in southern Australia wipe out whole towns and kill at least 108 people, the worst fire death toll in the country's history.

Death Toll in Australian Fires Climbs to 108

By MERAIAH FOLEY 3:21 PM ET

Police say that at least 700 homes have been destroyed in the country’s deadliest wildfires.

Australian bushfires claim at least 166 lives

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Quote

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." — Yogi Berra

戴明博士的知識理論中最重要的是預測 最基本的想法之一是
必須先知道該系統是否穩定
穩定才談得上系統與預測
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美國上月發生的花生產品污染問題 暴露出該國聯邦制度之複雜 弊病難免 改革不易

The salmonella outbreak has also reignited debate about reforms of the nation’s food safety network. On Friday, the new agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, said that a single food safety agency was needed, an idea that some members of Congress have pushed for years.

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bbc"加拿大联邦移民部长肯尼说，加拿大移民部给予赖昌星工作许可不是一个"政治决定"，而是一个根据法院裁定而作出的"可操作性决定"。"
"I believe that the officials did so in this instance believe it was consistent with the court rulings. ... This was not a political decision it was an operational decision," Kenney said.
---Accused Chinese smuggler gets Canada work permit

hc 評 此處的OPERATIONAL DECISION 是相對於政治層次的營運 (運作)層面
不是 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION之層面


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我看到社會學方面的書喜歡引用Michel Foucault 的話
"What is interesting is always interconnection, not the primacy of this over that".
其實這就是Deming 博士的系統觀和變異觀的另外一種說法
primacy Hide phonetics
noun [U] FORMAL
the state of being the most important thing:
The government insists on the primacy of citizens' rights.

pri・ma・cy

━━ n. 第一位; primateの職［地位］.

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我偶爾會夢想寫1950-2000的台灣圖書出版史與社會發展

Sandars Lectures 2009

PROF. M. P. BROWN

The book and the transformation of Britain, c. 550-1050 M. Tu. Thu. 5 (three lectures)

23 Feb. Conversion: the scribes of scripture and social change

24 Feb. Integration and consolidation: creating communities of reading

26 Feb. After Alfred: language, literature and libraries

At 17.00 in the Morison Room, Cambridge University Library