OK, I want you to do me a favour. I want you to tell me about an object that means something to you. Maybe it’s something you’ve got in a drawer somewhere. Or do you have it out on display?
It could be from a holiday, or a lover, or a walk in the country. It might be valuable or it could look like rubbish to someone else.
Mine is aT shirt from an expensive shop near Oxford Street. It is white and baggy. And on the shoulder there is a small stain of my mum’s blood. I want to throw it away but I can’t.
So have you got something that you can tell me about? An object that is special to you for some reason. Take your time to imagine it lying in your hand. Go on, open your hand for me right now and picture it in your palm. Take as long as you need and when you’ve got something that you want to describe to me, press 1. I’ll keep your recording secret for now but maybe one day it will become an exhibit on the museum’s website. OK, just press 1 when you’re ready to record.....
One of the preeminent Lord Lucan hunters was Mirror reporter Garth Gibbs, who in his time was sent all around the world to hunt for the missing earl. Gibbs, who died last year, pithily summed up the journalistic view of the nation’s favorite mystery story.
“I regard not finding Lord Lucan as my most spectacular success in journalism,” said Gibbs. “Of course, many of my colleagues have also been fairly successful in not finding Lord Lucan. But I have successfully not found him in more exotic spots than anybody else.
“I spent three glorious weeks not finding him in Cape Town, magical days and nights not finding him in the Black Mountains of Wales, and wonderful and successful short breaks not finding him in Macau either, or in Hong Kong or even in Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas, where you can find anyone.”
I think Princess Diana could be a more interesting story than Lord Lucan. More people remember her and the question of how phone conversations come to be recorded is still relevant. So far the UK press seems not to share the Daily Beast interest in this one.
http://www.thecqi.org/mosoThis copied from above. A couple of recent developments-Search for "mtw3" in LinkedIn groups to find this source.
I have added links to the two papers to a discussion on Systemic Thinking, part of a Sustainability Hotseat on the Networked LEarning Conference website http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/forum/topics/working-with-an-action-research-and-systemic-thinking-approach-to The MoSO group will hold a meeting this Thursday to present the model to quality professionals. The emphasis will be on innovation, as an aspect of sustainability.http://www.thecqi.org/Community/Special-Interest-Groups-SIGs/Deming-SIG/Events/Demings-Secrets/
This model was more akin to the dim ogres found in Terry Gilliam film, however, grunting with slow, dim-witted befuddlement, chronic and everpresent indigestion suggested by moog sounds at their most flatulent.