Narrative

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• Nice review

  
  Cat Rambo — Authority: 455
   Rich Hortons year-end wrap-up for Realms of Fantasy includes this: Three novelettes stood out for me. Adam Corbin Fuscos "Sails Above Greensea" (April)  is another of quite a few recent pieces about flying sailing ships (or balloons, as the case may be): here the conflict is between the two remaining city-sized ...
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• David Brooks Trips Over His Own Feet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Writing isnt normally considered a high-risk activity, but when your job requires you to come up with 800 words of wisdom and originality to be read by millions week after week, things can go horribly wrong. Although I generally disagree with his conclusions, I almost always enjoy reading David Brooks columns in The ...
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• The Bright Side Of A Weak Dollar

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 164
  The US dollar index is back down to the lowest levels for the year. But as I mentioned in the Politics of the US Dollar, it has yet to fall below the 2008 lows. Right now it is about 5% above that floor.A bright side of the weak US dollar is the earnings boost it [...]
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• DIYEL #10 Learners recall stories, not facts.

  
  Simplify eLearning — Authority: 117
  Introduction Table of Posts People learn best when they can relate information to real-life situations. They do not remember facts easily. The good classroom trainer (i.e., not boring) knows that stories – anecdotes, illustrations, demos, applications, metaphors, examples, etc. – help learners learn. ...
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• Yisroel Pensack: David Brooks Punctures the Media’s Politically Correct Balloon Regarding Major Nidal Malik Hasan

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 442
  David Brooks writes in The New York Times :   The most important power we have is the power to help select the lens through which we see reality.  Most people select stories that lead toward cooperation and goodness. But over the past few decades a malevolent narrative has emerged. That narrative has emerged ...
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• He who pays the piper has a musician brother-in-law

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 127
  What exactly is outline?   You first became aware of the word in grade school, when a teacher announced that you were going to be spending considerable time, learning how to do it, because it would be required of you from here in, a serious mistake made by numerous teachers in your life and perpetuated to some ...
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• Turbulence Spotlight: One Text, Many Stories

  
  Networked_Performance — Authority: 135
  Turbulence Spotlight: One Text, Many Stories — URBAN MEMORY LOSS: a Nightmare of Change in which Time is Inscribed in Space—or How a Text Became a Story by Annette Weintraub : One Text, Many Stories is an exploration of reading, and of how the visual context and process of reading influences ...
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• On The Disrupted Sequence of Health-Care Reform

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 565
  Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency , which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate ...
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• Preaching Longer Narratives – Part 2

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 466
  Yesterday I began to respond to Anthony’s question about preaching longer narratives: How do you handle the tension of wanting to tell the story as it was intended to be told and not wanting to overload the hearers? We saw that how a story is told is critical (more critical than the amount of information ...
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• Ctrl-V: The Defense

  
  Serial Consign — Authority: 482
  With vague admiration and vague horror he observed how awesomely, how elegantly and how flexibly, move by move, the images of his childhood had been repeated (country house … town … school … aunt), but he still did not quite understand why this combinational repetition inspired his soul with such dread. He felt ...
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• Eating on a Budget: New Orleans-Style BBQ Shrimp

  
  sweetnicks.com — Authority: 465
  When it comes to eating on a budget, it doesn’t mean you have to banish expensive items like shrimp from your dinner table.  Sale or not, you can generally find the medium-sized raw shrimp at a relatively good price.  Use it correctly to make a filling enough meal and a little bit goes a long way.  At our house, ...
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• What If Wall St. Threw A Party, And Nobody Came?

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 164
  While we all like to think of ourselves as rational beings, making decisions based on sound judgment, the truth of the matter is much more unsettling. We are, for the most part, rather peculiar creatures, prone to irrational and emotional biases. What makes this even more disturbing is that the edifice of our economic ...
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• Gnaw On This 1.4 – Apocalyptic Fascination

  
  Baptimergent — Authority: 103
  Is anyone else as curious as I am about the increased level of fascination with apocalypse & global catastrophe taking place in our culture. I’m not talking about doomsday prophets and cable access kooks either. Today’s obsession extends well beyond the religious extreme. Cable television has shows like, ...
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• Violins are magic onstage and in-world

  
  IdeaFestival — Authority: 126
  Describing the value that the best violins have for their owners, and how they have appreciated at a 3.5 percent annual clip since 1850 (!), virtual worlds economist Edward Castronova writes that the status accorded the instruments in virtual worlds is equally impressive. Wayne
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• Participatory Storytelling Online: A Complementary Model of Patient Satisfaction

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 146
  Measuring patient satisfaction is an important quality improvement technique. The World Wide Web offers new approaches to understanding patient satisfaction and stories about healthcare encounters. In this paper, we suggest that there is a wealth of patients’ stories being told online, in real-time, on social ...
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• Preaching Longer Narratives

  
  Biblical Preaching — Authority: 466
  Anthony asked the following after one of the posts last week: I preach only occasionally, and have tackled a couple of narrative passages recently. I like to respect the narrative chunks in the text, which often have a clear beginning, middle and end. But last time I ended up preaching two whole chapters (75 ...
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• Bleeding Heart Narrative, Tongue Tangled Hair (Tartaruga)

  
  mapsadaisical — Authority: 489
  It seems I always start Tartaruga reviews with a reference to the lovely package. Well, I’d hate to disappoint. I can only assume that said heavy duty cladding and thick thread used to house Tartaruga records is needed in order to help constrain the epic, bulging contents within. This latest one from Bleeding Heart ...
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• The Disrupted Sequence of Health-Care Reform

  
  Out on a Lim — Authority: 106
  Democrats must be thinking: what happened to the halycon days of 2008? It is almost difficult to believe that after the string of Democratic electoral victories in 2006 and 2008, the vast momentum for progressive "change" has fizzled out to a mere five vote margin over one of the most major campaign issues of 2008, a ...
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• Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism by Dr. Kenneth Cloke

  
  Settle It Now Negotiation Blog — Authority: 559
  I spent my day Saturday at the annual convention of the Southern California Mediation Association (kudos to attorney-mediator Phyllis Pollack for a fabulous conference!)  Ken Cloke spoke eloquently on conflict systems and what mediators can do to "save the planet."  I took his presentation (characteristically ...
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• Towards automated processing of clinical Finnish: sublanguage analysis and a rule-based parser

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 146
  IntroductionIn this paper, we present steps taken towards more efficient automated processing of clinical Finnish, focusing on daily nursing notes in a Finnish Intensive Care Unit (ICU). First, we analyze ICU Finnish as a sublanguage, identifying its specific features facilitating, for example, the development of a ...
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