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Value-stream mapping or process mapping is drawing a picture of all the parts and information that are needed to make and deliver a product. It is an important tool used to make things better by finding and getting rid of waste. Toyota created a tool called a material and information flow diagram, which is very important for their production system.A value stream is everything that needs to happen to make and deliver a product to the customer, both the important things and the ones that are not so important.Value stream mapping usually starts with a team making a map of how things are right now. This means taking a picture of how materials and information move through a value stream. Next, the team creates a map of how things will be in the future. This means a picture of how things and information should move through the process to create value.Repeating this many times is the easiest and most effective way to help yourself and your coworkers learn to recognize what is important.Value-stream mapping is often used in lean manufacturing. However, people in charge of businesses in any field can find it useful.

En este libro encontrarás todas las predicciones para tu signo del Horóscopo Chino y rituales para cada mes del año 2024. ¿Está planeando iniciar un nuevo negocio? ¿Estás motivado para encontrar el amor? ¡Estas predicciones para 2024 lo tienen todo! El amor, la carrera, la educación, el matrimonio, las finanzas y la salud. Practica los rituales que ofrecemos en este libro para que puedas tener éxito en el amor, en tu carrera, en tu educación, en tu matrimonio, en tus finanzas y en tu salud. En este libro, encontrará rituales antiguos, amuletos y baños mentales descritos en detalle, fáciles de realizar y los materiales disponibles están a mano. Basados en la Magia Blanca, la Magia Negra, la Magia Roja, la Magia Verde y la Magia Azul, estos hechizos te ayudarán a lograr tus objetivos este año.

Anton Phillips is a curse.He is a curse to anyone he touches, bringing harm to them just for making contact. Objects around him are constantly broken thanks to his large size and generally clumsy nature. It's unintentional, but after his mother ends up hospitalized... He's had enough.Now in college, he hasn't had so much as a hug from another person in a decade.He runs into Cyrus Matthews, literally, and bolts when Cyrus reaches out to touch and reassure him. For a little guy, Cyrus is persistent and now that first contact has been made... He's determined to make quirky Anton into a new friend.And, of course, he's the one that falls head-first in love with him. But Anton? He falls harder.Note: Cover contains AI imagery

A young South African metallurgist, Paul Parker is studying in Turkey in 1992. He meets a Turkish peasant girl, Irene Yilmaz, they become lovers and Irene falls pregnant. They decide on an illegal abortion and the abortionist's assistant, Maria Ayaz, arranges the abortion.Doctor Ahmet Atilla performs illegal abortions but also rapes the pregnant girls while they are under general anesthetic. Paul pays for the abortion and accompanies Irene to the building where the abortion is take place. He hides nearby and sees Doctor Ahmet Atilla arrive to perform the abortion. He recognizes Atilla who attended to him previously when he injured his hand.Doctor Atilla anesthetizes Irene and begins raping her but she regains consciousness during the act. To silence Irene, the doctor strangles her. Outside, Paul falls asleep. Doctor Atilla tells Maria Ayaz, who is unaware that Atilla is raping his patients, to go home. Atilla erases all evidence of their presence in the apartment and dumps Irene's body in the sea. He then murders Maria to silence her.When Paul wakes up and can't find Irene he returns to his apartment. The police discover Irene's and Maria's bodies and Inspector Ali Karacan of the Istanbul Metropolitan Police suspects that Paul is the killer. When Paul accuses Atilla of being the abortionist Atilla flees the country. Paul faces life in jail but the police find Atilla's fingerprints in the abortion apartment. Karacan gives Paul his card and Paul returns to South Africa.Seven years later, Doctor Atilla, practicing neurosurgery in South Africa under the name Ismet Allita, hears of a psychological researcher, Selwyn Brink, who has invented a microchip which, when implanted in the human brain, blocks individual distant memories. Allita finds out that Brink is financing his research through drug dealing.When Paul Parker sustains serious head injuries in a car accident Allita is appointed to operate on him. Allita recognizes Paul and blackmails Selwyn Brink into providing him with a memory-blocking microchip. He implants the processed chip in Paul's brain, blocking Paul's memory of him.Then things go wrong.

Twenty-eight-year-old Caitlin Ulmer has just graduated from Stanford with a PhD in Virology and after twenty-one years in academic harness is burned out. When she and her oddball posse of girlfriends visits a Buffalo Wild Wings at a San Jose shopping mall on the 4th of July to watch the annual Nathan's Coney Island hot dog eating contest, she is both amazed and confused by what she witnesses there. Why is it that World Eating League phenom Tommy Filbert manages to ingest an astonishing seventy-six frankfurters in a mere ten minutes while the women's champion can only consume fifty-seven? Cait stands six-foot-two inches tall, won a California state volleyball championship while in high school and a Pac-12 women's rowing crown while an undergrad at Stanford, has always been able to drink most men under the table, and has for years been accused by her friends of having a hollow leg. Suddenly, Cait knows exactly what she wants to do with her immediate future. In spite of the resistance that she knows she will encounter from her controlling parents and plastic-surgeon fiancé, she'll take a year off before returning to the Virology lab at Stanford and dedicate herself to a training regimen that will put her in the position to challenge Tommy Filbert for that Coney Island crown. As has always been the case with Cait, second best won't do. If she does this, she'll need to win it all.

Meet twenty-one-year-old Jeff Land, winner of a national furniture design award in his third year at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He plays drums and sings for the locally popular band, Whack Job, bears a striking resemblance to Kurt Cobain, and it would seem like the world should be his oyster. But alas, the timing of his birth would tend to suggest differently. Regardless of the wealth of talent he embodies, contemporary society has deemed him and his ilk overrepresented in the current job market. Maybe not in the world of Rock & Roll (which short of winning some cosmic lottery will never pay the bills), but most certainly in the world of furniture manufacture where he seems doomed to labor in the trenches as an underappreciated design minion for the remainder of his productive life. Enter Parsons graduate student Amy Brock, who brings Jeff a business proposition he believes he'd be a fool to reject. The daughter of an immigrant Vietnamese mother and billionaire industrialist Caucasian father, she doesn't have Jeff's talent but does have the advantage of gender, a bold self-confidence, and the kind of bi-racial bonafides currently in high demand in the commercial business world. All those things plus the potential financial backing of her father seem to make her the ideal business partner save for the fact that she also has a Bulgarian stepmother and a stepsister, both hatefully jealous of her. They would do anything to see her venture fail. Whack Job is a rollicking, irreverent romp through Jeff's New York City world of ambition and challenge as he struggles to overcome obstacles constantly thrown in his path while seeking to find a balance between his music and his exciting new enterprise. For a kid from the upstate New York sticks, it's a bigger chunk of life than he'd ever imagined biting off, let alone chewing.

When Theodore "Teddy" Epps-freakishly wounded Gulf War veteran and mayor of Ignorance, Pop. 6587-declares his intention to run for the seat in the United States Congress currently occupied by twenty-term incumbent Jebediah Maxwell, the congressman's wife sends retired FBI agent turned private investigator Pamela Nichols to their home district to engineer some means of discrediting him. Pam's task is simple: Find a weakness she can exploit that will drive a wedge between a blindly ambitious and avaricious Teddy Epps and Ignorance's ultra-conservative electorate.Add to that mix:a) The mayor's miserly and irascible 97-year-old father, Elmer.b) A group of Elmer's one-percenter buddies with a developed penchant for illegal substances, all of whom are determined to live to be a hundred-twenty years old.c) a frustrated local librarian lately divorced from the town's high school football coach and the recent workplace victim of a book banning purge instigated by Ignorance's fundamentalist Christian element.d) Private investigator Pam Nichols' phony offer to pay Elmer ten-million-dollars for two thousand acres of farmland he owns, ostensibly to build a huge organic pig farm just two miles downwind of town, the stench from which would render Ignorance all but uninhabitable. To these specific ingredients add a predictable measure human nature, shake, and pour yourself an adult dose. The resultant cocktail is guaranteed make you either giddy drunk from all the good fun, or apoplectic, depending upon where you sit on either side of the Great American Ideological Divide. As the sign outside the tiny town says...IGNORANCE IS BLISS