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						<title>AAVSO News and Announcements</title>
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				<title>JAAVSO Prepreint</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/ej97.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>"BS Tauri&#8212;Evidence for Cyclic Activity in an Orion Irregular" by Lawrence Krumenaker</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:41:45 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>JAAVSO Preprint</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/ej96.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>"Identifying Previously Uncatalogued Red Variable Stars in the Northern Sky Variability Survey" by Martin Nicholson</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:40:33 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Variable Star of the Season: U Scorpii</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br></br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:27:15 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Chat with Dr. Bob at 1:30PM EDT (-4UT)</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>On Thursday, July 2 Dr. Bob will be a featured guest in an online 1-hour chat beginning at 1pm EDT (-4 UT). To join us, just <a href="http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi">click here with any web browser</a>.</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:11:45 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>AAVSO Newsletter June 2009</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/newsletter/</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>is now <a href="/bluegold/newsletter.html">available to members</a> who are logged in to Blue&Gold. Non-members now have access to Newsletter 40.</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 9:43:09 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Alert Notice 397</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/alerts/alert397.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Request for optical photometry of the bright X-ray binary V884 Sco (4U 1700-377)</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 8:56:46 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>PhasPlot Version 2.0 Released</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/data/software/phasplot.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Windows-based tool for plotting phase diagrams of variable star data created by Len Abbey</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:27:45 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>2009 AAVSO Observer Awards</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/obs_2009.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>are now posted online</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:00:11 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>JAAVSO Preprint</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/ej95.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>"The Superoutburst Period of KV Draconis" by Jeremy Shears</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:01:10 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>2009 Director's Award is presented to Sebastion Otero and Patrick Wils</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/directors.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br></br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:22:10 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>JAAVSO Volume 37 Number 1</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/v37n1/</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>is now available. If you are an AAVSO member, you may download it free from <a href="/bluegold/jaavso/">Blue&Gold</a>. Or you may <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3386849">order a paper copy</a></br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:54:05 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Brightest Stars in the Sky</title>
				<link>http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/06/07/june-7th-the-brightest-stars-in-the-sky/</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>New Podcast released</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:20:20 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>April Solar Bulletin</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/solar/apr09.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Includes SID and sunspot numbers</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:26:50 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>JAAVSO Preprint</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/ej94.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>"An Interview With Dorrit Hoffleit" by Kristine Larson</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 9:42:22 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Spectra News and Other Eps Aur Updates</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/aavso/iya.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Don't forget to apply for travel funds for the upcoming workshop</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:17:08 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Temporary Database Downtime</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>The AAVSO International Database will be offline from about 10:25-10:35am (EST, +5UT).</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:21:39 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>JAAVSO Preprint</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/ej93.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>"Recent Minima of 154 Eclipsing Binary Stars" by Gerard Samolyk</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:56:01 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Special Notice #160</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/160.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Request for observations of Z Cam</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:26:48 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Presentations from the Data Mining Workshop</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/aavso/meetings/archivespring09.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>at the AAVSO/SAS meeting in Big Bear, CA</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:12:26 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Citizen Sky Project, epsilon Aurigae - Workshop I</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/aavso/workshop_app.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Now Accepting Applications!!</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:03:22 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The 2008 outburst of the cataclysmic variable V358 Lyrae</title>
				<link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1866</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Jeremy Shears, David Boyd, Tut Campbell, et al.</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:16:13 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1866</guid>
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				<title>VSX J074727.6+065050: a new WZ Sagittae star in Canis minor</title>
				<link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0061</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Greg Bolt, et al.</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:14:29 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0061</guid>
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				<title>Special Notice #159</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/159.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Request for observations of high-mass X-ray binaries</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 9:06:38 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Alert Notice 396</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/alerts/alert396.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Nova in Centaurus</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 13:19:45 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Special Notice #158</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/158.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Update to Special Notice 157 -- possible nova in Centaurus</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:59:12 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Special Notice #157</title>
				<link>http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/157.shtml</link>
				<description><![CDATA[<br>Possible Nova in Centaurus</br>]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 9:17:27 EDT</pubDate>
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