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		<title>Friday the 13th &#8212; Be Forewarned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This winter season has been unseasonably pleasant&#8230;until today. Last night we went to sleep with the sound of the wind howling through the wooded ravine behind our house. This morning we awoke to perhaps a couple of inches of wind driven snow and much cooler temperatures. The first real winter weather of the season had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Pond Scum and Wall Street Bankers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power law distributions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up at 3:00 in the morning a couple of weeks ago and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep. I was thinking about biodiversity and beyond. This has happened to me a number of times since I read an article earlier in the millennium entitled “The Forest and the Trees: Romancing the J-Curve” by A.K.Dewdney. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change??</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flower blooming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The photograph shows an iris blooming on November 10 in northeastern Ohio. Climate change? Maybe, maybe not.  Individual and isolated observations are not valid indicators of anything.  Will this become the new normal sometime in the future?  Certainly we have had an unusually warm and wet autumn. And an iris blooming in November is pretty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1076&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/time-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[human perspective]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I may think about time more than the average person. It is not uncommon to be going about my ordinary daily activities when something as common as a wooded ravine or a cicada’s song will remind me of how narrow and limited our human perspective of time is. This year that seems to be happening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Day, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After lunch on Monday, my dog and I took our daily walk down the lane to get the mail. She went off to check the groundhog holes in the woods by the pond. I continued down the lane to the mailbox. I crossed the road and opened the mailbox. Empty. Not even my weekly invitation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1064&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematics, Beauty, Mystery, Spirit</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/mathematics-beauty-mystery-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a co-worker, a young engineer, many years ago who designed turbines using a modeling method called finite elements. Computational fluid dynamics is not a field for the mathematically challenged. These mathematical methods would produce models describing pressures, velocities, mass flow, etc. of fluids, in this case air, within the turbine. Those values allow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Downpour</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/another-downpour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a little cool today so I was working inside. I heard some noise in the backyard and looked to my right to see it raining there. When I looked to my left out the north window it wasn&#8217;t raining. Within a few seconds the heavy downpour moved over our house and into our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1048&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is for the birds&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/this-is-for-the-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holmes County Trail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been enjoying the birds this spring. Several weeks ago I walked 600 yards or so out into a soybean field to a drainage way to service an instrument platform that I use in my research. Just as I got to the instrument I was buzzed by some creature several times. It seemed too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1042&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Energy</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/clean-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leah and I have made a Mother&#8217;s Day trip to western Lake Erie for the past several years. This year we went the weekend before the actual holiday. Our usual path is to drive up to Marblehead, visit the Lakeside Daisy preserve, drive through Lakeside, finally stopping at Port Clinton for a Lake perch lunch. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke Pit Maple Syrup</title>
		<link>http://thequietway.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/smoke-pit-maple-syrup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday after church Gary said they were going to start boiling sap on Monday and invited me out to see their sugar bush. He started making maple syrup in small batches a couple of years ago. A few other guys in the church got interested and they decided to build a sugar bush. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thequietway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1303907&amp;post=1011&amp;subd=thequietway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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