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Wqed (pronounced "Wicked") is a set of tools developed by the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center (DARC) to simplify the process of reducing time-series CCD data on variable stars. It does not provide tools to measure the brightness of stars in individual frames, focusing instead on what comes next:
Wōtan provides free and open source algorithms to remove trends from time-series data automatically as an aid to to search efficiently for transits in stellar light curves from surveys. The toolkit helps determine empirically the best tool for a given job, serving as a one-stop solution for various smoothing tasks.
WOMBAT (sWift Objects for Mhd BAsed on Tvd) is an astrophysical fluid code that is an implementation of a non-relativistic MHD TVD scheme; an extension for relativistic MHD has been added. The code operates on 1, 2, and 3D Eulerian meshes (cartesian and cylindrical coordinates) with magnetic field divergence restriction controlled by a constrained transport (CT) scheme. The user can tune code performance to a given processor based on chip cache sizes. Proper settings yield significant speed-ups due to efficient cache reuse.
WOLF processes FITS files and generates photometry files, annotated JPGs, opacity maps, background, transient detection and luminance changes detection. This software was used to process data for the Night Sky Live project.
WND-CHARM quantitatively analyzes morphologies of galaxy mergers and associate galaxies by their morphology. It computes a large set (up to ~2700) of image features for each image based on the WND-CHARM algorithm. It can then split the images into training and test sets and classify them. The software extracts the image content descriptor from raw images, image transforms, and compound image transforms. The most informative features are then selected, and the feature vector of each image is used for classification and similarity measurement using Fisher discriminant scores and a variation of Weighted Nearest Neighbor analysis. WND-CHARM's results comparable favorably to the performance of task-specific algorithms developed for tested datasets. The simple user interface allows researchers who are not knowledgeable in computer vision methods and have no background in computer programming to apply image analysis to their data.
WM-basic is an easy-to-use interface to a program package which models the atmospheres of Hot Stars (and also SN and GN). The release comprises all programs required to calculate model atmospheres which especially yield ionizing fluxes and synthetic spectra. WM-basic is a native 32-bit application, conforming to the Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) standards for Windows XP/2000/NT/9x. All components of the program package have been compiled with Digital Visual Fortran V6.6(Pro) and Microsoft Visual C++.
WISP (Wenger Interferometry Software Package) is a radio interferometry calibration, reduction, imaging, and analysis package. WISP is a collection of Python code implemented through CASA (ascl:1107.013). Its generic and modular framework is designed to handle any continuum or spectral line radio interferometry data.
WiseView renders image blinks of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) coadds spanning a multi-year time baseline in a browser. The software allows for easy visual identification of motion and variability for sources far beyond the single-frame detection limit, a key threshold not surmounted by many studies. WiseView transparently gathers small image cutouts drawn from many terabytes of unWISE coadds, facilitating access to this large and unique dataset. Users need only input the coordinates of interest and can interactively tune parameters including the image stretch, colormap and blink rate. WiseView was developed in the context of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project, and has enabled hundreds of brown dwarf candidate discoveries by citizen scientists and professional astronomers.
WINGSPAN is a program written to analyze spectral data from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. Data files in the FITS (BFITS) format are suitable for input into the program. WINGSPAN can be used to view and manipulate event time histories or count spectra, and also has the capability to perform spectral deconvolution via a standard forward folding model fitting technique (Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm). Although WINGSPAN provides many functions for data manipulation, the program was designed to allow users to easily plug in their own external IDL routines. These external routines have access to all data read from the FITS files, as well as selection intervals created in the main part of WINGSPAN (background intervals and model, etc).
Whisky is a code to evolve the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) and magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in 3D Cartesian coordinates on a curved dynamical background. It was originally developed by and for members of the EU Network on Sources of Gravitational Radiation and is based on the Cactus Computational Toolkit. Whisky can also implement adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) if compiled together with Carpet.
Whisky has grown from earlier codes such as GR3D and GRAstro_Hydro, but has been rewritten to take advantage of some of the latest research performed here in the EU. The motivation behind Whisky is to compute gravitational radiation waveforms for systems that involve matter. Examples would include the merger of a binary system containing a neutron star, which are expected to be reasonably common in the universe and expected to produce substantial amounts of radiation. Other possible sources are given in the projects list.
WhereWolf tracks (sub)haloes even if they have been lost by a halo finder in cosmological simulations and supplements halo catalogs such as VELOCIraptor (ascl:1911.020) with these recovered (sub)haloes. The code can improve measurements of the subhalo/halo mass function and present estimates of the distribution of radii at which subhaloes merge.
WFC3UV_GC is an improved geometric-distortion solution for the Hubble Space Telescope UVIS channel of Wide Field Camera 3 for ten broad-band filters. The solution is made up of three parts:
1.) a 3rd-order polynomial to deal with the general optical distortion;
2.) a table of residuals that accounts for both chip-related anomalies and fine-structure introduced by the filter; and,
3.) a linear transformation to put the two chips into a convenient master frame.
WeirdestGalaxies finds the weirdest galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by using a basic outlier detection algorithm. It uses an unsupervised Random Forest (RF) algorithm to assign a similarity measure (or distance) between every pair of galaxy spectra in the SDSS. It then uses the distance matrix to find the galaxies that have the largest distance, on average, from the rest of the galaxies in the sample, and defined them as outliers.
WeightWatcher is a program that combines weight-maps, flag-maps and polygon data in order to produce control maps which can directly be used in astronomical image-processing packages like Drizzle, SWarp or SExtractor.
This code, which requires HEALPix 2.x, allows you to generate power spectrum estimators from WMAP 5-year maps and generate hybrid cross- and auto- power spectrum and covariance from general foreground-cleaned maps. In addition, it allows you to simulate combined maps or combinations of maps for individual detectors and do MPI spherical transforms of arrays of maps, calculate coupling matrices etc. The code includes all of LensPix - the MPI framework used for doing spherical transforms (based on HealPix).
Weighted EMPCA performs principal component analysis (PCA) on noisy datasets with missing values. Estimates of the measurement error are used to weight the input data such that the resulting eigenvectors, when compared to classic PCA, are more sensitive to the true underlying signal variations rather than being pulled by heteroskedastic measurement noise. Missing data are simply limiting cases of weight = 0. The underlying algorithm is a noise weighted expectation maximization (EM) PCA, which has additional benefits of implementation speed and flexibility for smoothing eigenvectors to reduce the noise contribution.
WebbPSF provides a PSF simulation tool in a flexible and easy-to-use software package implemented in Python. Functionality includes support for spectroscopic modes of JWST NIRISS, MIRI, and NIRSpec, including modeling of slit losses and diffractive line spread functions.
wdmerger simulates binary white dwarf mergers (and related events) in CASTRO (ascl:1105.010) and provides useful information on the viability of mergers of white dwarfs as a progenitor for Type Ia supernovae.
WDEC (White Dwarf Evolution Code), written in Fortran, offers a fast and fairly easy way to produce models of white dwarfs. The code evolves hot (~100,000 K) input models down to a chosen effective temperature by relaxing the models to be solutions of the equations of stellar structure. The code can also be used to obtain g-mode oscillation modes for the models.
WCSTools is a package of programs and a library of utility subroutines for setting and using the world coordinate systems (WCS) in the headers of the most common astronomical image formats, FITS and IRAF .imh, to relate image pixels to sky coordinates. In addition to dealing with image WCS information, WCSTools has extensive catalog search, image header manipulation, and coordinate and time conversion tasks. This software is all written in very portable C, so it should compile and run on any computer with a C compiler.
WCSLIB is a C library, supplied with a full set of Fortran wrappers, that implements the "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System). It also includes a PGPLOT-based routine, PGSBOX, for drawing general curvilinear coordinate graticules and a number of utility programs.
Warpfield (Winds And Radiation Pressure: Feedback Induced Expansion, colLapse and Dissolution) calculates shell dynamics and shell structure simultaneously for isolated massive clouds (≥105 M☉). This semi-analytic 1D feedback model scans a large range of physical parameters (gas density, star formation efficiency, and metallicity) to estimate escape fractions of ionizing radiation fesc, I, the minimum star formation efficiency ∊min required to drive an outflow, and recollapse time-scales for clouds that are not destroyed by feedback.
The vysmaw client library facilitates the development of code for processes to tap into the fast visibility stream on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array correlator back-end InfiniBand network. This uses the vys protocol to allow loose coupling to clients that need to remotely access memory over an Infiniband network.
VULCAN describes gaseous chemistry from 500 to 2500 K using a reduced C-H-O chemical network with about 300 reactions. It uses eddy diffusion to mimic atmospheric dynamics and excludes photochemistry, and can be used to examine the theoretical trends produced when the temperature-pressure profile and carbon-to-oxygen ratio are varied.
VStar is a multi-platform, easy-to-use variable star data visualization and analysis tool. Data for a star can be read from the AAVSO (American Association of Variable Star Observers) database or from CSV and TSV files. VStar displays light curves and phase plots, can produce a mean curve, and analyzes time-frequency with Weighted Wavelet Z-Transform. It offers tools for period analysis, filtering, and other functions.
Vplanet simulates planetary system evolution with a focus on habitability. Physical models, typically consisting of ordinary differential equations for stellar, orbital, tidal, rotational, atmospheric, internal, magnetic, climate, and galactic evolution, are coupled together to simulate evolution for the age of a system.
vpguess facilitates the fitting of multiple Voigt profiles to spectroscopic data. It is a graphical interface to VPFIT (ascl:1408.015). Originally meant to simplify the process of setting up first guesses for a subsequent fit with VPFIT, it has developed into a full interface to VPFIT. It may also be used independently of VPFIT for displaying data, playing around with data and models, "chi-by-eye" fits, displaying the result of a proper fit, pretty plots, etc. vpguess is written in C, and the graphics are based on PGPLOT (ascl:1103.002).
The VPFIT program fits multiple Voigt profiles (convolved with the instrument profiles) to spectroscopic data that is in FITS or an ASCII file. It requires CFITSIO (ascl:1010.001) and PGPLOT (ascl:1103.002); the tarball includes RDGEN (ascl:1408.017), which can be used with VPFIT to set up the fits, fit the profiles, and examine the result in interactive mode for setting up initial guesses; vpguess (ascl:1408.016) can also be used to set up an initial file.
VOStat allows astronomers to use both simple and sophisticated statistical routines on large datasets. This tool uses the large public-domain statistical computing package R. Datasets can be uploaded in either ASCII or VOTABLE (preferred) format. The statistical computations are performed by the VOStat and results are returned to the user.
VOSpec is a multi-wavelength spectral analysis tool with access to spectra, theoretical models and atomic and molecular line databases registered in the VO. The standard tools of VOSpec include line and continuum fitting, redshift and reddening correction, spectral arithmetic and convolution between spectra, equivalent width and flux calculations, and a best fitting algorithm for fitting selected SEDs to a TSAP service. VOSpec offers several display modes (tree vs table) and organising functionalities according to the available metadata for each service, including distance from the observation position.
The Voronoi binning method is an IDL program to bin two-dimensional data to a constant signal-to-noise ratio per bin. It optimally solves the problem of preserving the maximum spatial resolution of general two-dimensional data, given a constraint on the minimum signal-to-noise ratio.
VOPlot is a tool for visualizing astronomical data. It was developed in Java and acts on data available in VOTABLE, ASCII and FITS formats. VOPlot is available as a stand alone version, which is to be installed on the user's machine, or as a web-based version fully integrated with the VizieR database.
VOMegaPlot, a Java based tool, has been developed for visualizing astronomical data that is available in VOTable format. It has been specifically optimized for handling large number of points (in the range of millions). It has the same look and feel as VOPlot (ascl:1309.006) and both these tools have certain common functionality.
VoigtFit fits Voigt profiles to absorption lines. It fits multiple components for various atomic lines simultaneously, allowing parameters to be tied and fixed, and can automatically fit a polynomial continuum model together with the line profiles. A physical model can be used to constrain thermal and turbulent broadening of absorption lines as well as implementing molecular excitation models. The code uses a χ2 minimization approach to find the best solution and offers interactive features such as manual continuum placement locally around each line, manual masking of undesired fitting regions, and interactive definition of velocity components for various elements, improving the ease of estimating initial guesses.
voevent-parse, written in Python, parses, manipulates, and generates VOEvent XML packets; it is built atop lxml.objectify. Details of transients detected by many projects, including Fermi, Swift, and the Catalina Sky Survey, are currently made available as VOEvents, which is also the standard alert format by future facilities such as LSST and SKA. However, working with XML and adhering to the sometimes lengthy VOEvent schema can be a tricky process. voevent-parse provides convenience routines for common tasks, while allowing the user to utilise the full power of the lxml library when required. An earlier version of voevent-parse was part of the pysovo (ascl:1411.002) library.
VOBOZ (VOronoi BOund Zones) is an algorithm to find haloes in an N-body dark matter simulation which has little dependence on free parameters.
ZOBOV (ZOnes Bordering On Voidness) is an algorithm that finds density depressions in a set of points without any free parameters or assumptions about shape. It uses the Voronoi tessellation to estimate densities to find both voids and subvoids. It also measures probabilities that each void or subvoid arises from Poisson fluctuations.
The high-contrast imager SPHERE at the Very Large Telescope is a new generation instrument combining extreme adaptive optics and coronagraphy to directly image exoplanets in the near-infrared. This python package enables easy reduction of the data coming from IRDIS and IFS, the two near-infrared subsystems of SPHERE. The package relies on the official ESO pipeline, which must be installed separately.
Vlasiator is a 6-dimensional Vlasov theory-based simulation. It simulates the entire near-Earth space at a global scale using the kinetic hybrid-Vlasov approach, to study fundamental plasma processes (reconnection, particle acceleration, shocks), and to gain a deeper understanding of space weather.
Vizic is a Python visualization library that builds the connection between images and catalogs through an interactive map of the sky region. The software visualizes catalog data over a custom background canvas using the shape, size and orientation of each object in the catalog and displays interactive and customizable objects in the map. Property values such as redshift and magnitude can be used to filter or apply colormaps, and objects can be selected for further analysis through standard Python functions from inside a Jupyter notebook.
Vizic allows custom overlays to be appended dynamically on top of the sky map; included are Voronoi, Delaunay, Minimum Spanning Tree and HEALPix layers, which are helpful for visualizing large-scale structure. Overlays can be generated, added or removed dynamically with one line of code. Catalog data is kept in a non-relational database. The Jupyter Notebook allows the user to create scripts to analyze and plot the data selected/displayed in the interactive map, making Vizic a powerful and flexible interactive analysis tool. Vizic be used for data inspection, clustering analysis, galaxy alignment studies, outlier identification or simply large-scale visualizations.
Vissage (VISualisation Software for Astronomical Gigantic data cubEs) is a FITS browser primarily targeting FITS data cubes obtained from ALMA. Vissage offers basic functionality for viewing three-dimensional data cubes, integrated intensity map, flipbook, channel map, and P-V diagram. It has several color sets and color scales available, offers panning and zooming, and can connect with the ALMA WebQL system and the JVO Subaru Image Cutout Service.
VisIVO is an integrated suite of tools and services specifically designed for the Virtual Observatory. This suite constitutes a software framework for effective visual discovery in currently available (and next-generation) very large-scale astrophysical datasets. VisIVO consists of VisiVO Desktop - a stand alone application for interactive visualization on standard PCs, VisIVO Server - a grid-enabled platform for high performance visualization and VisIVO Web - a custom designed web portal supporting services based on the VisIVO Server functionality. The main characteristic of VisIVO is support for high-performance, multidimensional visualization of very large-scale astrophysical datasets. Users can obtain meaningful visualizations rapidly while preserving full and intuitive control of the relevant visualization parameters. This paper focuses on newly developed integrated tools in VisIVO Server allowing intuitive visual discovery with 3D views being created from data tables. VisIVO Server can be installed easily on any web server with a database repository. We discuss briefly aspects of our implementation of VisiVO Server on a computational grid and also outline the functionality of the services offered by VisIVO Web. Finally we conclude with a summary of our work and pointers to future developments.
VisIt is a free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data on Unix and PC platforms. Users can quickly generate visualizations from their data, animate them through time, manipulate them, and save the resulting images for presentations. VisIt contains a rich set of visualization features so that you can view your data in a variety of ways. It can be used to visualize scalar and vector fields defined on two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) structured and unstructured meshes. VisIt was designed to handle very large data set sizes in the terascale range and yet can also handle small data sets in the kilobyte range. See the table below for more details about the tool's features.
VisIt was developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative (ASCI) to visualize and analyze the results of terascale simulations. It was developed as a framework for adding custom capabilities and rapidly deploying new visualization technologies. Although the primary driving force behind the development of VisIt was for visualizing terascale data, it is also well suited for visualizing data from typical simulations on desktop systems.
VISIBLE applies approximated matched filters to interferometric data, allowing line detection directly in visibility space. The filter can be created from a FITS image or RADMC3D output image, and the weak line data can be a CASA MS or uvfits file. The filter response spectrum can be output either to a .npy file or returned back to the user for scripting.
ViSBARD interactively visualizes and analyzes space physics data. It provides an interactive integrated 3-D and 2-D environment to determine correlations between measurements across many spacecraft. It supports a variety of spacecraft data products and MHD models and is easily extensible to others. ViSBARD provides a way of visualizing multiple vector and scalar quantities as measured by many spacecraft at once. The data are displayed three-dimesionally along the orbits which may be displayed either as connected lines or as points. The data display allows the rapid determination of vector configurations, correlations between many measurements at multiple points, and global relationships. With the addition of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model data, this environment can also be used to validate simulation results with observed data, use simulated data to provide a global context for sparse observed data, and apply feature detection techniques to the simulated data.
VirGO is the next generation Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility developed by the Virtual Observatory (VO) Systems Department. It is a plug-in for the popular open source software Stellarium adding capabilities for browsing professional astronomical data. VirGO gives astronomers the possibility to easily discover and select data from millions of observations in a new visual and intuitive way. Its main feature is to perform real-time access and graphical display of a large number of observations by showing instrumental footprints and image previews, and to allow their selection and filtering for subsequent download from the ESO SAF web interface. It also allows the loading of external FITS files or VOTables, the superimposition of Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) background images, and the visualization of the sky in a `real life' mode as seen from the main ESO sites. All data interfaces are based on Virtual Observatory standards which allow access to images and spectra from external data centers, and interaction with the ESO SAF web interface or any other VO applications supporting the PLASTIC messaging system.
VIP (Vortex Image Processing pipeline) provides pre- and post-processing algorithms for high-contrast direct imaging of exoplanets. Written in Python, VIP provides a very flexible framework for data exploration and image processing and supports high-contrast imaging observational techniques, including angular, reference-star and multi-spectral differential imaging. Several post-processing algorithms for PSF subtraction based on principal component analysis are available as well as the LLSG (Local Low-rank plus Sparse plus Gaussian-noise decomposition) algorithm for angular differential imaging. VIP also implements the negative fake companion technique coupled with MCMC sampling for rigorous estimation of the flux and position of potential companions.
VINE is a particle based astrophysical simulation code. It uses a tree structure to efficiently solve the gravitational N-body problem and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate gas dynamical effects. The code has been successfully used for a number of studies on galaxy interactions, galactic dynamics, star formation and planet formation and given the implemented physics, other applications are possible as well.
VIM (Virtual Observatory Integration and Mining) is a data retrieval and exploration application that assumes an astronomer has a list of 'sources' (positions in the sky), and wants to explore archival catalogs, images, and spectra of the sources, in order to identify, select, and mine the list. VIM does this either through web forms, building a custom 'data matrix,' or locally through downloadable Python code. Any VO-registered catalog service can be used by VIM, as well as co-registered image cutouts from VO-image services, and spectra from VO-spectrum services. The user could, for example, show together: proper motions from GSC2, name and spectral type from NED, magnitudes and colors from 2MASS, and cutouts and spectra from SDSS. VIM can compute columns across surveys and sort on these (eg. 2MASS J magnitude minus SDSS g). For larger sets of sources, VIM utilizes the asynchronous Nesssi services from NVO, that can run thousands of cone and image services overnight.
Viewpoints is an interactive tool for exploratory visual analysis of large high-dimensional (multivariate) data. It uses linked scatterplots to find relations in a few seconds that can take much longer with other plotting tools. Its features include linked scatter plots with brushing, dynamic histograms, normalization, and outlier detection/removal.
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The new CFCRA board also consists of: acting vice president Carey Vermeulen of Indoor Air Management Canada and an IICRC instructor; treasurer Matt Johnson of Commercial Loss Experts; Lorne McIntyre of Dryfast, an IICRC instructor and RIA council member; Bill Norris of Diresco Inc.; and, Clayton Leckie of Ardex Americas.

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Growing up in a Catholic household, Friday nights were meatless. My grandmother often made homemade pierogi- which she deep-fried to perfection. Not that they weren't superb, but these days I buy high-quality pierogi (usually potato and/or cheese) and simmer them gently in water on top of the stove. You can, of course, also pan-fry them in butter. I think I have reached a happy medium by serving them with vegetables sautéed in butter and heart-healthy oils.
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Wash Swiss chard and mushrooms quickly in cold water.
Place the chopped stem and rib pieces in the bottom of a large frying pan. I used a 10-inch fry pan. Top with chopped leaves and steam carefully with cover on. The water clinging to the leaves is enough. Toss often, watching carefully. When leaves are fairly limp, drain Swiss chard in a colander.
Cover the bottom of the pan with a swirl of each oil and about 2 tablespoons of butter. Heat until butter melts. You can adjust the amount of oil and butter according to taste here and as you go along.
Add onions and mushrooms and cook on a hot enough flame so they don't simmer. Add drained Swiss chard at the end and salt and pepper to taste.
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Okay, so controlled food reintroductions…hard. First I reintroduced white potatoes, which didn't seem to have any negative effect on me, then I reintroduced dairy, which upset my stomach, and then (sticking with tradition) I reintroduced way too much pizza and felt awful. I don't know why, but eating bread seems to dry me out horribly. I woke up the morning after the pizza with my mouth feeling like I'd just spent three weeks in the desert eating sand, and it was almost just as bad the following night. I am trying to rehydrate, but I just can't seem to get enough liquid into my body.
Meanwhile (delightful surprise), the minimalism game is easy—and fun! It's only October 6, but we haven't even had to break a sweat in getting rid of things. Yesterday I just asked Dex to open a random drawer and pull out five things we didn't need (he chose a lone chopstick, some iPod packaging, an old DVD, an ancient digital camera, and a bottle of "invisible ink"). Just glancing at our bookshelves, the toy room, the kids' rooms, and the kitchen tells me this isn't even going to get challenging for a while.
I guess it will get challenging at the point when it actually becomes about minimalism, rather than just decluttering.


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2017 China National Xiangqi Team Tournament - Round 1
Venue: Hangzhou, China
Date: 8th April 2017
Games selection!
Wang Tianyi wins Bu Fengbo
Wang Tianyi started the game with P7+1, Bu Fengbo replied with P7+1 as well. Wang Tianyi developed his opening as Screen Horses Defend with Double Ranked Chariot. Whereas, Bu Fengbo tried to consolidate his defend, responded with central elephant and ranked chariot.
In the middle game, players exchanged both of their chariots. Then, Wang Tianyi had gained little advantage with a 9th edge pawn. Wang Tianyi deployed his 9th edge pawn and attack Black' weak horse. Bu Fengbo forced to defense most of time!
Wang Tianyi continued to deploy all his main pieces to front line. Under pressure, Bu Fengbo captured Wang's elephant and would like to counter attack. Since Bu Fengbo had deployed his cannon to attack, his defense was relatively weak. Wang Tianyi took this opportunity and launched massive attack after consolidated his home base.
Wang Tianyi's strategy is to capture Bu Fengbo's center pawn. Whereas, Bu Fengbo tried to protect his center pawn. During the transistion, Bu Fengbo make a mistake! Wang Tian's was managed to fork Bu Fengbo pieces. Wang Tianyi sure capture one of them. Bu Fengbo resigned.
By Wong Ping Loong


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A Scholarly Study of the Role the Star Sirius Plays in the Western Initiatory Tradition
A scholarly study, Sirius by M. Temple Richmond has become an esoteric classic among students of Alice Bailey, Theosophy, esoteric astrology, fixed stars, and Freemasonry since it was first published in 1997.
An Esoteric and Mythological Examination of Sirius, the Dog-Star, and its Influence in the Secret Mmystery School Teachings
A nonfiction scholarly study, Sirius by M. Temple Richmond has become an esoteric classic among students of Alice Bailey, Theosophy, esoteric astrology, fixed stars, and Freemasonry since its first publication in the late 1990s.
Richmond's Sirius explores the influence of this celebrated star through the lens of the Alice Bailey's esoteric teachings – a writer who left behind a repository of spiritual teachings that associate Sirius with the process of consciousness expansion through initiation.
In her book Richmond traces the deep imprint of Sirian influence as it has played through the many secret initiatory societies of ancient Egypt through to the mystery schools of classical antiquity, the Knights Templar, Freemasonry and beyond.
Supporting evidence for this work is drawn from numerous esoteric and occult scholars, including H.P. Blavatsky, Albert Pike, Albert G. Mackey, W. Kirk McNulty, Manly Palmer Hall, Robert K.G. Temple, Jean Doresse, Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Adrian Gilbert, Peter Tompkins, John J. Robinson, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and E.A. Wallis Budge.
The Initiationary Process
Initiation as defined and elaborated in the Bailey writings takes center stage here with a detailed explanation of the Third Initiation as a portal to conscious recognition of Sirian influence. The text enumerates and explains the entire range of energies and effects said in the Bailey writings to emanate from the star Sirius, demonstrating that this star is: located in the heart center of a great Cosmic Logos; an agent of universal love; the soul of our Solar Logos; the parent of our solar system; the originating source of karmic law; the cause of periodicity; a source of cosmic and other avatars; that which established the mysteries of initiation on our planet; a factor in the rise of the human kingdom; the prototype of the Planetary Hierarchy and its inspiring source; behind the founding of the Masonic Tradition; potent in processes of initiation; and transmitted through various ceremonial rods of power.
Full reference information appears in the text as footnote numbers which are keyed to source information provided at the end of the book. With a glossary, full explanation of terms, characterization of the seven rays, clear description of the esoteric model of the solar system, and numerous diagrams, Sirius by M. Temple Richmond serves well as an entry point in general for the study of the Alice Bailey material.
The text concludes with a meditation on Sirian qualities and a comprehensive glossary of esoteric terms. Astrologers, Masons, Theosophists, and enthusiasts of the Alice Bailey literature will all delight in the revelations to be found in Sirius.
The author has been a student of the Ageless Wisdom since the early 1970s and has presented lectures and workshops throughout the United States on mainstream astrology, the esoteric astrology of Alice Bailey, the star Sirius, astrological cycles, meditation, spiritual path, service, and initiation. Richmond is an hereditary female Mason, a Rosicrucian, and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
This digital version offers the full text of the original paperback edition. Care has been taken bt the publishers to format pages, diagrams, and references as they appeared in the original publication for ease of reading on all popular e-reading devices.
To make this transition to the digital format easier and more accurate for the reader the original index has not been included.
Book Details
- Available Formats: Kindle eBook
- Number of Pages: 452 pages
- Edition: 3 edition
- Publication Date: April 3, 2016
- Language: English
- Available on Kindle Unlimited: Yes
About the Author
Praise for Sirius by Maureen Temple Richmond
- Amazon.com Customer says:
You can't go wrong with Maureen Richmond for a book on esoteric wisdom and astrology, and this book is possibly the only work of this magnitude, characterized by masterful writing, intellectual refinement, and in-depth expertise, on the topic of Sirius. This book is a masterfully written classic; a relevant treatise on Sirius vis à vis esoteric astrology.
- Mysteries of Sirius says:
Throughout her many written works Alice Bailey frequently made reference to the spiritual significance of Sirius. Often these accompanied information on the Seven Rays, Great White Lodge and Rods of Initiation. The problem with them all was they were rather scattered and disjointed leaving the reader uncertain and confused as to what was really underpinning the Sirian influence.
Enter M. Temple Richmond who, in his superbly written book called simply 'Sirius' has cohesively unified the Bailey material to produce an outstanding and fascinating account of this mighty mystery – and mystery it is too! It is not for no reason that Sirius underpins magickal disciplines as diverse as Crowleys' Thelema as well as revealing the heart of modern Freemasonry.
If you are even half considering buying this book then I would thoroughly recommend that you do so. If you are an esoteric astrologer then you must have it in your research library and if you want to understand the central function of the same star that the Ancient Egyptians venerated so highly that they set their calendar around it then this is the one for you!
- Kairal Music says:
M. Temple Richmond knows .. something.
- Maxine Durham (Amazon.co.uk Customer) says:
Five stars. A really good informative and helpful read.


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AOL Offers ABC News
With the launch of its AOL.com portal looming in the next few weeks, AOL plans to add expanded ABC News content to its news site.
Jim Bankoff, AOL programming and products executive VP, says a renewal of an existing deal with ABC News will add new features like multiple live video streams and raw video. The enhancements "will ensure the newly designed AOL.com portal will offer a robust online news experience," Bankoff says.
The new agreement will add the following elements to AOL's video offerings:
- Multiple live video streams, featuring feeds of raw unedited footage of breaking news and special events
- A feature called "Extreme News," including a then-and-now look at this day in history, travel spots and consumer news
- "The Search Watch," a weekly video selected from top Internet searches.
In addition, news updates, breaking news video and audio feeds will be available for narrowband users.
AOL will continue to offer 24/7 streaming news service ABC News Now to its members, as well as ABC News Now subscribers.


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Dinner at Gotts Roadside – Beef burger topped with blue cheese + garlic fries with Merryvale Starmont Cab Sauv 2007.
As if the hunk of meat in between the soft egg bun wasn't rich enough…apparently….it wasn't! I felt richer than Liz Taylor with all her jewellery (before they were auctioned off) after polishing it off. I didn't give a damn whether I had to pay for it for the next week or 2 just to get rid of it.
Probably didn't need the wine, the fries, the garlic herb butter fries soak or the blue cheese for that fact but hey…the burger would've been really lonely and I wouldn't want that…even if it was 9:30am body clock time. My stomach must hate me with a vengeance…I know my conscious already does.
I'm so going to introduce my hubby to these crispy chewy morsels soaked in garlic herb butter…there is seriously nothing more evil and satisfying than this


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Get spellbound at Auckland Arts Festival's The Magic Flute
Mozart's The Magic Flute has been given its own magical makeover with this production by internationally-acclaimed opera company Komische Oper Berlin- co-directed by Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade. An innovative feast for the senses, this 1920's style silent film come live performance is a must-see experience for opera fans and novices alike.
This comedic opera tells the story of Prince Tamino who is lured by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina who's being held captive by high priest Sarastro. Instead, he seeks to join Sarastro's commnity. Alongside sidekick Papageno, both Pamino and Tamino undergo numerous trials of initiation which end triumphantly for them but not so much for the Queen.
A large white wall is both a cinema screen and stage. Small revolving doors positioned high, low and centrally, reveal the live performers who stand on tiny plinths while Paul Barritt's animations project over them. This provides many wow moments as performers can be given elaborate costumes, interact with mind-bending and fun interpretations of characters and transports us to an out of this world realm.
This interpretation, that opened in Berlin in 2012, no doubt helps bring The Magic Flute to the masses with it's accessible, delightful and captivating creativity moving the story along with pace and entertaining craziness. The show's brilliant projected animations are reminiscent of both Monty Python's Terry Gilliam and The Mighty Boosh in their innovative creativity and out-there comedic interpretations of a classic tale. Some of the darker more dramatic moments definately take influence from Tim Burton too. The only issue with this captivating visual display was remembering to read the English subtitles above.
The Magic Flute evoked much glee in the audience with many laughs and gasps throughout. The production's continuous ingenuity surprises and delights as each new scene is presented on stage – all accompanied by beautiful pitch-perfect performances.
The leads Pamina, played by Kim-Lilian Strebel, and Tamino, played by Aaron Blake, win over the audience immediately but it was Joan Martin-Royo's Papageno who got the crowd's biggest reactions of the night. The villains too pleased the audience, with so much character delivered in Ivan Turšič's Nosferatu inspired vampish Monostatos. Finally, the wonderful and captivating interpretation and vocals from the Queen of the Night, by Christina Poulitsi, was a real crowd pleaser and theatrical magic at it's best.
The reworking or modernising of opera has varying degrees of success but this production creates a more accessible and entertaining watch than a traditional performance. The Magic Flute conjures up spellbinding entertainment for an enjoyable and eye opening night at the opera.
The Magic Flute is on at ASB Theatre as part of Auckland Arts Festival until 10th March.
Reviewed by Ingrid Grenar.
Photo credit – Michael Smith.


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Posted by Damozel | Meanwhile, in Iraq, the surge is still working as well as ever. On Thursday, a suicide bomber killed 49 mourners at a funeral in Iraq and wounded 50. (The Independent) The funeral was for "two members of a US-backed neighbourhood security unit who were killed recently." (The Independent) The bombing was most likely the work of the Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda (The Independent).
The attack was one of the deadliest in Iraq for months and underscored the ability of militants to wreak havoc despite overall falls in violence that has prompted the United States to start withdrawing troops from Iraq.... Northern Iraq has seen an upsurge in bombings this week, including one that killed 40 people in the town of Baquba, capital of Diyala, on Tuesday. (The Independent)
Meanwhile, in Sadr, the US-backed Iraqi troops captured a Shia militia stronghold.
The commander of Iraqi forces in Basra, Lieutenant-General Mohan al-Furaiji, said his troops had seized the centre of the Hayaniya neighbourhood, one of the main strongholds of Mr Sadr's Mehdi Army. "We are chasing fugitives and arresting them," he said. "We expect within the next few hours that the operation will be concluded successfully."
After several hours, the fighting appeared to die down, but sporadic gunfire could still be heard.
Major Tom Holloway, the British Army's military spokesman, said the offensive had been launched with heavy bombardment "to give a demonstration of the firepower available if required". No information on casualties was available.
A Reuters reporter in Nassiriya, another southern provincial capital, said there were also clashes between government troops and Mehdi Army fighters in a nearby town and a curfew had been imposed.
Mr Maliki's crackdown against the Mehdi Army in Basra in late March initially failed to drive the militia from the streets and resulted in fighting in strongholds of Sadrist fighters throughout the south of the country and in Baghdad.
The Prime Minister, himself a Shia, has since threatened to ban Mr Sadr's mass movement from political life if the cleric does not disband the Mehdi Army. (The Independent)
Muqtada al-Sadr isn't taking any of this calmly. He has threatened the Iraqi Army with 'open war.'
"I'm giving the last warning and the last word to the Iraqi government," said Mr Sadr. "Either it comes to its senses and takes the path of peace ... or it will be [seen as] the same as the previous government [of Saddam Hussein]."
The Sadrists see the attack on them as orchestrated by the Badr Organisation, the powerful Shia militia which is allied to the government and many of whose men have joined the Iraqi army and security services. "If they don't come to their senses and curb the infiltrated militias, we will declare an open war until liberation," Mr Sadr said.
Mr Sadr has tried for the past four years to avoid an open military confrontation with Iraqi government forces when backed by United States firepower.
In Basra, the Mehdi Army has been able to hold off the Iraqi army in gun battles but has then retreated. But there is no sign so far of the militia being eliminated and it could probably launch devastating counter attacks in the slum districts where its supporters live (The Independent).
While the US has pressed for the Iraqi government to take out the Sadrists, the Independent reckons that it was caught "by surprise by current events in which the US finds itself fighting a war on two fronts: one against the Sunni Arabs, which it has waged since 2003, and now a second, which is just beginning, against the Shia."(The Independent)
In the meantime, the rise of suicide bombings is troubling evidence that al-Qaeda in Iraq is trying to make a comeback. (The Independent)


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