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    <description>News from Rich Townsend's website</description>
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      <title>Poly-Web: A web-based polytrope calculator</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:36:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description>I've create a web-based code that constructs polytopes by solving the Lane-Emden equation</description>
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      <title>Mad Star now has caching</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:43:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>I've implemented caching functionality on the website, which should speed things up a bit.</description>
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      <title>I'm hiring a new Post-Doc</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=postdoc-09</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=postdoc-09</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>I'm hiring a new Post-Doc, to form the core of the team for my angular momentum transport project.</description>
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      <title>New paper: 'Discovery of a magnetic field in the O9 sub-giant star HD 57682 by the MiMeS Collaboration'</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=hd57682-paper</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=hd57682-paper</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>I'm a co-author on a new paper reporting the discovery of a strong dipole magnetic field in the O9 star HD 56682</description>
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      <title>EZ-Web is working again</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=ez-web</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=ez-web</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>I've got EZ-Web, a web-based interface to a stellar evolution code, working again.</description>
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      <title>The GRASSY is greener...</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=grassy</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=grassy</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:37:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Another of my NSF proposals, to construct a computer platform for fast spectral synthesis, has been approved for funding.</description>
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      <title>New paper: 'Toward self-consistent angular momentum transport in pulsating massive stars' </title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=santa-fe-paper</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=santa-fe-paper</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>I've just finissshed a new conference paper exploring wave transport of angular momentum in massive stars.</description>
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      <title>MOST detects pulsation modes in Rasalhague</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=most-rasalhague</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=most-rasalhague</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>The MOST microsatellite has detected delta Scuti-like pulsation in Rasalhague</description>
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      <title> 'Wave-Transport' project gets NSF support</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=wave-transport</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=wave-transport</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:14:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>One of my NSF proposals, to investigate wave transport of angular momentum in pulsating massive stars, has been approved for funding.</description>
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      <title>MiMeS 2 Meeting</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=mines-2</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=mines-2</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>I'm currently attending the MiMeS 2 meeting in Paris.</description>
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      <title>Suzaku proposal accepted</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=suzaku-morris</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=suzaku-morris</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:22:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Our Suzaku proposal to study wind structure in high-mass X-ray binaries has been accepted.</description>
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      <title>RRM movies uploaded</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=rrm-movies</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=rrm-movies</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:11:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description>I've uploaded a grid of movies based on my Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere model</description>
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      <title>Supernova sweep-up of a magnetized wind</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=sn-magwind</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=sn-magwind</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:17:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description>Using the Athena3D MHD code, I've been exploring what happens when a supernova explodes into a pre-existing, magnetized wind.</description>
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      <title>New paper: 'Gamma-ray Variability from Wind Clumping in HMXBs with Jets'</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=gamma-jets-paper</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=gamma-jets-paper</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:58:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description>I'm a co-author on a new paper that discusses clump-induced variability in a microquasar.</description>
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      <title>Back from the mountain</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=kpno-2009-01-debrief</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=kpno-2009-01-debrief</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:23:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description>Fernando and I are now back from Kitt Peak, after a largely successful observing run.</description>
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      <title>RSS 2.0 feed added</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=rss</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=rss</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:49:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description>I've put together an RSS 2.0 feed for the news component of the website.</description>
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      <title>A theorist goes observing</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=kpno-2009-01</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=kpno-2009-01</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:39:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>First light on Medusa</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=medusa-first</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=medusa-first</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:42:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description></description>
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      <title>New paper: 'An Exact Integration Scheme for Radiative Cooling in Hydrodynamical Simulations'</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=cooling-paper</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=cooling-paper</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:19:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>MOST proposal accepted</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=most-monnier</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=most-monnier</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:16:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Getting dirty with CUDA</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=cuda-dirtyft</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=cuda-dirtyft</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:48:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description></description>
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      <title>David Cohen is visiting</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=david-visit</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=david-visit</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:41:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <description></description>
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      <title>Geochron ported over</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=geochron</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=geochron</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:03:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Tesla C1060 installed</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=tesla</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=tesla</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Website goes live</title>
      <link>/~townsend/news.php?ref=live</link>
      <guid>/~townsend/news.php?ref=live</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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