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		<title>Forget Me Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Hi-yy," my 20-month old niece cooed into my dad's iPhone.

"Hi Isla-boo*," I yelled into the speaker of my Android phone before placing it on the armrest beside me as I drove home from school.

"Gigi!*"  She shouted the name of my youngest sister.

"No, Isla, this is Tata."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=369&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Concisely: Don&#8217;t Hide Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(image by MarkyBon) In Part I of this series, I discussed nominalizations.  This post will expose how hidden prepositions, conjunctions, and adverbs contribute to wordiness. Hidden Prepositions How many times have you written something like the following? &#62;&#62; In view of the fact that iridium is resistant to corrosion, we should use this element for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=353&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Concisely: Nominalizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be the first to admit that I sometimes write wordy sentences.  This is something I am working on, so I recently attended a writing seminar on conciseness.  I'll be sharing some of the tips I learned as a service to my readers and as a method of reinforcement for myself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=343&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Don Draper a Leader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Donald Draper, the star of AMC's Mad Men, a leader? Or is he simply a manager? Or is he both? It depends on how you define leaders and managers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=334&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Art of Lamenting: Job &amp; Sex and the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, while looking for some non-academic bedtime reading that wouldn't keep me up all night, I dug out my Bible.   I decided to begin reading from wherever I opened.  This happened to be in the middle of the book of Job (which happens to be about a man named Job).  I skimmed a bit, then went to the beginning of the book and read until I came to Job's Lament.  Other thoughts in my head aside (God allowed Satan to 'incite' him?), the lament made me pay attention.

The title of this post includes "Sex and the City" so you may be wondering when I'll get to that part -- stick with me!  To set the scene, let me summarize the story:  Job is an upright man who is very wealthy.  He has seven sons and three daughters.  His sons like to throw parties and invite their sisters and friends.  Job has raised his kids well, but he still sacrifices some animals every time a son throws a party just in case anything shady went on.  One day, the angels and Satan assemble before God.  After a somewhat bizarre conversation, God gives Satan permission to destroy Job to prove that Job will still not curse him.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=314&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow-brewed Math, the Singapore Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has an article on schools switching to a new method of teaching math.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=307&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing&#8230;.The Arts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the inaugural post for a new section of this blog: The Arts.

I visited the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX last month and had a great time. Among the pieces I particularly enjoyed were works from Lorenzo Lippi, Paul Gavarni,  James-Jacques Tissot, and Josefina Guilisati, just to name a few. Ms. Guilisati's work was an exhibition consisting of massive white back-less bookshelves on which there were paintings of aluminum kitchen pots - the images repeated over and over.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=297&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TMTOWTDI! (There&#8217;s more than one way to do it!)</title>
		<link>http://naticaesmith.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/tmtowtdi-theres-more-than-one-way-to-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone possessing more than a casual knowledge of Perl has heard of TMTOWTDI (There's more than one way to do it). This slogan is the essence of Perl and the reason so many of us love the language. The purpose of this post is not to extol the virtues of Perl -- however great it is -- it's to remind us that often in math TMTOWTDI.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=287&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you write exclusively when you're inspired or do you write systematically?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=266&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematical Musings</title>
		<link>http://naticaesmith.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/mathematical-musings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It's mathematically impossible!"  Those words were emphatically uttered by Gérard Dépardieu in Jean de Florette, the film based on the eponymous novel by Marcel Pagnol.  What is not to love about the line?  This simple phrase is character development at its best.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naticaesmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14030313&amp;post=170&amp;subd=naticaesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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