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		<title>Henry Coe State Park – Kelly Lake and Coit Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took my third backpacking trip in Henry Coe State Park in early June. My previous trips were both out-and-back affairs, starting and ending at the park&#8217;s northern headquarters on East Dunne Ave. For this outing I planned a through hike instead, entering the 87,000 acres of parkland at the headquarters entrance and leaving via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reluctantly closed the door on all my outstanding submissions this week. The last agent on my list had lost my submission. After sending it to him again, he said he&#8217;d look at it right away. It&#8217;s been over two weeks now, so he can&#8217;t be too excited about the manuscript. It&#8217;s time to call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable Tech &#8211; ocean power part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the sixth article in a continuing series on renewable energy technology. Today we&#8217;ll continue our discussion of ocean power. As previously mentioned, the term covers virtually any device that extracts power from the sea. That&#8217;s a broad range of technologies, including wave and tidal energy conversion systems or the more exotic concepts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening with Soilblocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought myself a new garden tool for this summer&#8217;s vegetable garden. It&#8217;s a Ladbrooke soil blocker and it&#8217;s designed to simplify the process of raising plants from seeds. They&#8217;re manufactured in England, but you can buy them at a number of online resellers or make one yourself, if you&#8217;re up to the task. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received two more rejections since my last update, one of them in response to a requested partial. The agent liked the writing but found the plot and action too much like a video game instead of a novel. I found that very interesting, and more than a little unexpected. I&#8217;m coming to the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from the holidays, and ready to face a new year. I sent out a couple more queries this week to some new agents. I also started separating out &#8220;No Reply&#8221; from the other rejection types in my statistics. In this age of electronic submissions no reply usually means no interest, but I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be a short post today. There hasn&#8217;t been a lot of news with the holidays approaching, and my progress has been dismal. I&#8217;ve sent out a few more queries and received two more rejections since my last update. Then there was the agent who simply didn&#8217;t respond to my query one way or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My epic agent quest continues, but without much success. I&#8217;ve received two more rejections and one request for a partial since my last update. These latest responses are a mixed bag. The two rejections were form letters with no feedback. The third reply included a request for an exclusive (which means I have to wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where did the week go? You write a manuscript critique or two, send out a few agent queries and a handful of resumes, and before you can say rejection, it&#8217;s Friday again. That means it&#8217;s time for another agent search stats update. As you can see from the table, my response time is still pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my first request for a partial manuscript from an agent today. That was promising after getting two rejections earlier this week. I&#8217;m still sending out queries, chipping away at my list of prospective fantasy agents a little bit at a time. The running totals are posted in the table to the right. The [...]]]></description>
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