If you can control certain instances of it, for practice, you'll find that you're better able to feel confident in yourself and your own abilities when life throws you a curveball.
It is not necessary to find every instance of good practice or bad practice (special cause variation).
It is also important to recognise that in the context of quality improvement finding a single instance of good practice or bad practice (special cause variation) is sufficient for an organisation to learn and hence to improve.
To the extent that my activity is to be an instance of such a practice, I must do it in the normal way.
Reverend Billy, though, is a rare instance of applying the practice powerfully in the information age.
Indeed, Microsoft's addition of such functionality to Windows was but a single instance of a pervasive practice in high-technology industries -- the improvement of a product through the integration of new functionality previously provided by separate products.
The coffee shop experience is just one instance of the growing practice of shifting the burden of labor to the consumer — gas stations, grocery and drug stores, bagel shops (why should I put on my own cream cheese?), airline check-ins, parking lots.
If the individual experiences the selected internal collaboration script components as not leading to a satisfactory understanding or appropriate activities in an instance of a CSCL practice, an "expectation failure" (Schank, 1999, p. 41) occurs and a reconfiguration of the employed internal script components becomes more likely (see Principle 4).
This is the general practice whereby courts are sometimes called upon to review a law or some other official act of government (e.g., the decision of an administrative agency like the US Food and Drug Administration or the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) to determine its compatibility with the constitution.[26] Particular instances of this practice vary considerably.
COMMENT FROM WANDA BERSHEN: This is a truly appalling story — yet another instance of utterly corrupt practices overlooked by the US Military.
