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Rail & Coach News
Pilbara iron ore line approved
Plans to build another 300 km rail link to serve the Pilbara iron ore mining region in Western Australia were approved by the state government on June 24. Premier Colin Barnett said the signing of an agreement with Roy Hill Infrastructure Pty Ltd was 'a major step forward for the development of the mine, and allows construction of the railway line connecting the mine to port facilities to proceed.'
Under an A$7·2bn package being promoted by Hancock Prospecting and South Korean steel group POSCO, the line will connect the Roy Hill mine at the eastern end of the Chichester Ranges, 110 km north of Newman, with port facilities at Boondarie near Port Hedland, where two new ship berths, an ore stockyard and a train unloader are to be built. Construction of the railway is expected to begin in 2011, with ore exports to Asia starting in 2014.
Barnett said the project would generate 1 500 jobs during the construction phase and a permanent workforce of 750 people. The project would also 'enable greater access for smaller miners to rail infrastructure in the region, with provision for access or haulage services for these companies.'
The Roy Hill reserves are estimated at more than 1 billion tonnes, with annual production put at 55 million tonnes, giving a working life of around 20 years. The new mine will be close to Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek mine, to which Fortescue's own railway is currently being extended by 50 km from the initial terminus at Cloudbreak.
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Representatives from the Saugus, Lawrence, Ipswich, Medford, Norwood, Burlington and Woburn police departments gathered at noontime Wednesday, Jan. 23, at Delphi Technology Solutions' Lawrence office to learn more about SafeWatch, a feature of Delphi's Digital Headquarters (DHQ). SafeWatch compiles information about residents 'at risk' for potentially wandering or going missing due to conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, autism, or other illness.
Lawrence Police Sgt. Sandy Picard spoke at the forum about her experience using SafeWatch and how it was key in the development of her department's own SafeWatch program. She also shared her experiences with community outreach, an essential step to gather and store information that could help locate an at-risk community member should it be needed.
Several other officers shared how the software has benefited their departments, and also discussed possible future uses for SafeWatch, like sharing data in DHQ SafeWatch between departments when at-risk community members move from one town or city to another.
Karin Rhoton, Delphi's vice president of operations, also stressed that SafeWatch is easy to use, and accessible to anyone who can operate a desktop computer application. She said it can also be customized to meet the needs of different size departments and communities.
Additional forums will take place at the Delphi Technology Solutions office in Lawrence on Feb. 19 and March 28, both at noon. Departments interested in signing up to attend a forum can do so by emailing Delphi's Vice President of Operations Karin Rhoton at krhoton@delphi-ts.com or by calling 978-683-4501.
More forums may be offered on other features of DHQ, depending on the interest of local public safety departments. Possible future topics would include roll call, smart police, cruiser checklist, scheduling, training, and accreditation features of DHQ software.


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Q: Test existence of a macro in Twig 2 I need to be able to test the existence of a macro in Twig and to call it dynamically.
Here is what I tried:
{% macro test(value) %}
    Value: {{ value }}
{% endmacro %}

{% import "_macros.html.twig" as macro %}

{{ attribute(macro, 'test', ['foo']) }}

But I get this error: Accessing Twig_Template attributes is forbidden.
Regards,

A: Since Twig 1.20.0, template attributes are not available anymore for security reasons, so there are no native way to do it properly.
You can eventually use the source function to get macro's source file and parse it to check if a macro exists, but that's a kind of ugly hack easy to bypass.
Example:
main.twig
{% import 'macros.twig' as macros %}

{% set sourceMacros = source(macros) %}

foo {% if 'foo()' in sourceMacros %} exists {% else %} does not exist {% endif %}

bar {% if 'bar()' in sourceMacros %} exists {% else %} does not exist {% endif %}

macros.twig
{% macro foo() %}
Hello, world!
{% endmacro %}

See this example live
Another approach would be to create a custom test to do the job.

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The Spring 07 Color Study Collection. | Dr. Woohoo!
The Spring 07 Color Study Collection.
Dr. Woohoo creates art that coalesces the intelligence of algorithms with the creative expressiveness of natural media (water color, felt pens and spray paint). Woohoo's Color Analytic algorithms analyze the color palettes from (in)famous paintings, organizing the colors based on their frequency distribution (frequency, relative frequency, etc.) and central tendencies (mode, median, weighted mean, etc.). This information helps determine the size and color of each brush stroke. A data visualization algorithm determines the location of the brush stroke based on a 2-dimensional HSV color space, where the hue determines the x-location and the saturation and brightness collectively determine the y-location. All of this information is then used by a painting algorithm which creates a painting session script by adding additional brush stroke characteristics such as the pressure, tilt, direction, speed and timing of the brush, as well as the brush characteristics that are unique to the type of natural media Woohoo is emulating, e.g., the wetness and diffusion amounts for water color. The format of the painting script was defined by reverse-engineering how Painter creates scripts when the user records a paint session. The final step involves Woohoo's painting machines, which are responsible for taking the painting script and painting it.
Included in Woohoo's presentation at Flash On The Beach in Brighton, UK in 2007.


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Simone Menezes
Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes is a visionary musician known for her creativity and innovative spirit. Whether as the founder and artistic director of Ensemble K, as a coveted guest conductor with many of the world's most respected orchestras or in her stunningly creative projects in partnership between music and other arts, Simone Menezes has established herself as a rapidly rising artist of a new generation.
Simone has conducted orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphonic Orchestra of Brazil, Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Orchestre National de l'Opera de Lorraine, Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, and at the Philharmonie de Paris. She has recorded two albums and premiered over 20 works. Her latest critically acclaimed album, 'Metanoia', was released in February 2022.
This 22/23 season will see Simone conduct performances with the LA Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre de Douai, and the Sinfonieorchester St Gallen. With Ensemble K, Simone will perform in Pairs, Venice, London, Lille and Brest. She will also conduct a recording of Ravel's Piano Concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
She has curated various themed projects, including the celebrated 'Amazonia': a collaboration between Simone and the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, shining a spotlight on the ever-changing landscape of the Amazon rainforest.
From 2008 to 2012, Simone Menezes was music director of the Unicamp Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, recording two albums of Brazilian contemporary music, which were awarded "Best Brazilian Musical Project" by the Association of Musical Critics of Sao Paulo. In 2012, Marin Alsop took notice of Simone's talents and invited Menezes to conduct at the Festival Campos do Jordão. Other work in Brazil includes several collaborations with EMESP / GURI, the State Youth Orchestra of São Paulo, with whom she has had the opportunity to conduct large-scale symphonic repertoire in concerts at the Sala São Paulo.
Simone Menezes regularly collaborates with her long-term mentor Paavo Järvi, assisting him over the years with orchestras such as the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Staatskapelle Berlin. At the age of 20 she formed her first orchestra in Brazil, the Camerata Latino Americana, a group specializing in the interpretation of Latin American repertoire. The work and model of this ground-breaking ensemble received recognition from the International Society for the Performing Arts of New York.
Simone Menezes studied conducting in Brazil, then at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris where she graduated after only one year of study. She regularly received tutelage from Colin Metters in London and developed her repertoire during residencies with the Remix Ensemble (Portugal) and Ensemble Multilaterale (Paris). Her mentors include Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Leonid Grin, Marin Alsop, Claudio Cruz Thomas Ades, and Lera Auerbach. In 2019, Simone Menezes won second prize at Mawoma (Maestra Music and Women's Competition) in Vienna. In 2020, she launched her new orchestra, Ensemble K, a flexible ensemble specializing in the larger chamber repertoire of the 20th century.
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Q: Django ForeignKey relationship is not working There should be a table called like 'book_book_author(s)' due to the Foreign Key relationships. Otherwise I cannot access the Author.book_set.
class Author(models.Model):
    name=models.CharField(max_length=255)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

class Book(models.Model):

    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    pub_date = models.DateField()

    publisher = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    language = models.CharField(max_length=255)

    print_length = models.DecimalField(max_digits=6, decimal_places=0)

    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2)

    authors=models.ForeignKey(Author, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

The database:
mysql> show tables;
+-------------------------------+
| Tables_in_eshop               |
+-------------------------------+
| account_user                  |
| account_user_groups           |
| account_user_user_permissions |
| auth_group                    |
| auth_group_permissions        |
| auth_permission               |
| book_author                   |
| book_book                     |
| django_admin_log              |
| django_content_type           |
| django_migrations             |
| django_session                |
+-------------------------------+
12 rows in set (0.00 sec)

How can I fix this issue?

A:
There should be a table called like 'book_book_author(s)

No: if you write a ForeignKey relation, then Django will add a column to your book table named author_id.
Now if you want to obtain the list of Books for a given Author, Django will construct a query like:
SELECT book.*
FROM book
WHERE author_id = 123

with 123 the id of the Author you are querying. It does not construct such extra table. This would not be beneficial at all, since it would basically result in the same query (although on another table, and with a JOIN, which can make it less efficient).
To make it more efficient, Django will by default instruct the database will also construct an index on the author_id column, such that it can easily obtain the relevant Books for an Author id. Usually this means that in O(log n), or even O(1) one can get access to the list of books that are written by a given author. Depending on the database technology used, the index (or a large amount) will be stored in the database, and thus lookups will be quite fast.
You can thus see the some_author.book_set as a query you are going to execute, not a table.

Note: for ManyToManyFields the situation is different, in that case it will construct an extra table. This is because usually, a column does not contain an arbitrary amount of values (well some databases can, but still it is inelegant design).

You can obtain the books of some_author with some_author.book_set.all(). Furthermore there is no Author.book_set (books that belong to at least one author). In this case this would mean simply all books, since every book belongs to an Author. If the ForeignKey was NULL-able, then we could filter like Books.objects.filter(author__isnull=False).

A: Basically when you define a foreign key, then a new table is not created, rather the a reference of the corresponding row is made.
In your case you are creating a reference of Author on the Book table. Hence you can access all the books of an author by
Book.objects.filter(author__id = 'authorid')


I made good use of my last week of being out of work by watching the entire second season of Lost up to present. I'm finally all caught up with the mysteries of the island.
A month out of work was plenty for me, thank you very much. I start at Mozilla tomorrow, doing some much-needed technical writing. Be nice to be doing that again. Hopefully I can climb the learning curve fast and start being productive.


This family of three attends their Church Services every Sunday morning. They'll love this memento of this important part of their lives.
Made of resin, hand painted. Our artists will carefully inscribe their names and the year on the ornament to make a beautiful gift.


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rooftop the roof of a building, esp. its upper surface.
rooftree a horizontal beam running the length of a roof at its peak; ridgepole.
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rookery a breeding and nesting place for rooks.
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This article is about the band. For other uses, see Panic.
The band was formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1986, and is influenced by the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. They have been compared to other jam bands such as the Grateful Dead and Phish. Widely renowned for their live performances, as of 2018, they hold the record for number of sold-out performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Morrison, Colorado) at 57 and Philips Arena (Atlanta) at 20.
John Bell and Michael Houser met in 1981 in their dorm at the University of Georgia. Bell had been playing guitar as a solo act, and invited his new friend Houser, also a guitarist, to join him. They began living together and collaborating on music in that year, writing still-popular songs such as "Driving Song" and "Chilly Water" together. Bassist Dave Schools met Bell and Houser in 1984 and first played with them on February 24, 1985, at the A-Frame house on Weymanda Court in Athens. On February 6, 1986, Houser called childhood friend and drummer Todd Nance to sit in with Houser, Bell, and Schools for a charity event in Athens; it was their first show as "Widespread Panic." The band was named for Houser's once-frequent panic attacks. Texan percussionist Domingo S. Ortiz ("Sunny") began sitting in with the band regularly later that year.
The band played in fraternities and bars regularly before Panic signed a contract with Landslide Records in 1987. In February 1987 the band played the now-legendary series of one dollar Monday night shows at the Uptown Lounge in Athens and the crucial local press began to take notice—FLAGPOLE & Athens Observer art columnist Shan Clark emphasized Widespread Panic's musical virtuosity, songwriting and professionalism. In September of the same year, they recorded their first album, Space Wrangler, at John Keane's studio in Athens. Col. Bruce Hampton is rumored to have delivered the first pressing to the band. Songs on the album included "Chilly Water", "Travelin' Light", "Space Wrangler", "Coconut", "The Take Out", "Porch Song", "Stop-Go" and "Driving Song." After Space Wrangler, touring expanded to include additional northeastern dates, along with Texas, Colorado, the west coast, and internationally to Vancouver, Canada. It was also around this time (late 1988 or early 1989) that Domingo Ortiz joined the band full-time. They played their first show in Colorado in March 1990, opening for Jerry Joseph's band Little Women.
Widespread Panic signed with Capricorn Records in January 1991. Later that year, they released their major label debut, Widespread Panic (a.k.a. Mom's Kitchen). That same year Billy Bob Thornton directed the movie Widespread Panic: Live from the Georgia Theatre which was recorded over two nights in Athens, Georgia.
As the band began to tour more, John Hermann ("JoJo") joined the band as a keyboardist in March 1992 replacing Dixie Dregs keyboardist T. Lavitz who joined the band a year earlier. The band continued to tour throughout the entire US in 1992 joining the famous H.O.R.D.E. tour with Blues Traveler, Phish, and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, among others. They released "Everyday" in March 1993 and "Ain't Life Grand" in September 1994. Panic marked their rise by playing on network television for the first time in November 1994.
On April 18, 1998, to celebrate the release of their first live album, Light Fuse, Get Away, Widespread Panic offered a free "CD release party" concert in Athens Georgia. An estimated 80,000–100,000 fans descended on the town, transforming it into one of the largest CD release parties in history.
In 2003, the band released Ball, the first studio album with McConnell as the guitarist. The album was unique among the band's offerings in that none of the songs included had been performed live by the band prior to the recording. All of the material included was written specifically for the album with the exception of "Time Waits", a song which John Bell had performed in solo appearances, and "Don't Wanna Lose You", a song John Hermann had performed with his side-project Smiling Assassins. Late in 2003, the band announced that they would be taking a hiatus from both recording and performing in 2004. However, 2004 did see the release of three live albums, engineered by Billy Field: Night of Joy and Über Cobra—both of which were recorded during a November 2003 three-night run of shows at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina—as well as Jackassolantern, a compilation of cover songs performed during the band's Halloween shows over the years. A third release from the Myrtle Beach shows, Live at Myrtle Beach was released in early 2005.
In January 2006, the band recorded their 9th studio album, Earth to America, in Nassau, Bahamas at Compass Point Studios, with Terry Manning producing. It was released June 13, 2006. Their May 9 show at Atlanta's Fox Theatre was simulcast in LIVE HD, via satellite, in select movie theatres nationwide. Over 60,000 fans across the country watched it live in the theatres. This show was also released in DVD format on November 14, 2006, entitled Earth to Atlanta.
On August 2, 2006, nearing the end of the summer tour, the band announced that George McConnell had left the band, making July 30, 2006 at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, his last show. Producer John Keane and former guitar technician Sam Holt filled in on guitar for the remaining two weeks of the tour.
In late 2006, Fayetteville, North Carolina native Jimmy Herring took over the reins of the lead guitarist in the band, kicking off their fall tour with three nights at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Panic's 7th annual New Year's shows on December 30 and 31, 2007, marked their 15th and 16th sellout performance at Philips Arena.
Following the release of the new studio album, Widespread Panic began to release vintage concert performances from the Widespread Panic Archives. Carbondale 2000 was released on June 10, 2008, followed by Valdosta 1989 released on February 24, 2009, and Huntsville 1996 released on June 23, 2009. The band will continue to dig into their show archives, which encompasses the past 25 years, and release these shows as multi-track recordings.
June 27, 2008, marked the band's 32nd sold-out show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. This was more than any other band in the venue's history. Mayor John Hickenlooper proclaimed Friday, June 27 "Widespread Panic Day" in the City and County of Denver. The same year, Widespread Panic was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 20.
In March 2010, it was announced that Widespread Panic would be releasing a new album entitled Dirty Side Down on May 25, 2010. 2010 would also see the release of Live in the Classic City II, containing music from its 2000 shows.
On September 29, 2010, Widespread keyboardist Jojo Herman announced that the band would be going on hiatus in 2012. In an interview with the Vanderbilt Hustler, Herman explained, "Next year will be our 25th anniversary. After that, we're probably going to call it (quits) for awhile. So we're looking forward to next year and going out on a high note."
The band went on to tour steadily throughout 2011, ending the year with their first show at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. In early 2012, the band played a limited number of shows. From January to February the band embarked on their first ever tour billed as completely acoustic. Dubbed the Wood Tour, it started in January at the Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland and ended at The Belly Up in Aspen, Colorado. Two recordings from the Wood Tour were released in 2012, a special Record Store Day-only vinyl record entitled Live Wood in April and later Wood, on October 16.
The rest of 2012 saw the band on hiatus but band members were active with other projects. Dave Schools toured with the Mickey Hart Band, Jimmy Herring recorded a new album and toured with his own band, and Jojo Hermann played shows with the Missing Cats, occasionally opening and sitting in with the North Mississippi Allstars. On August 17, the band announced their first scheduled shows after hiatus, including two nights in Charlotte, North Carolina and a 4-night run in the Dominican Republic.
Between the two short legs that made up the 2012 Wood Tour, the band played a four night run in Mexico, marking their first shows in the country, and beginning what would become an annual tradition called Panic en la Playa. The first Panic En La Playa was held on the beach at the Now Sapphire Resort in Puerto Morelos, Mexico in 2012. For 2013 and 2014, The concert was held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with the 2014 shows pushed back until March 17–20.
The band returned to regular touring in the spring of 2013 with a run of Mid-West and Southern shows beginning in April. During these shows, the band introduced new innovations in the audio broadcast of their live performance. Previously, Panic had allowed tapers to use audience recording devices to simulcast live shows to fans via the internet. The first live taper stream was at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona on 11/04/2009 by Coloartist and was continued by all the WP tapers through the Spring 2013 tour when the band took over streaming duties and started broadcasting live soundboard recordings of the show via Mixlr.com and the Mixlr smartphone app. On December 31, 2013 the band returned to Philips Arena in Atlanta.
2014 saw a return of Wood Tour, with the band playing six all acoustic theater shows, as well as a special Wood performance held 333 feet underground in the Volcano Room at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tennessee for a taping of an episode of PBS' Bluegrass Underground. The band played an extensive 2014 tour, with three-night stands at Red Rocks, The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, and 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado.
The band closed out 2014 with two shows in Charlotte, North Carolina: the annual Tunes for Tots benefit performance at The Fillmore in Charlotte, North Carolina on 12/30, followed by their annual New Year's Eve show, held this particular year at the TWC Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On October 2, 2014, the band announced that Duane Trucks would join the band for 2014 fall tour. Trucks temporarily filled in for Todd Nance, who was taking time to attend to personal matters. Nance reunited with the band for four shows in Mexico in early February 2016. However, on February 9, 2016, the band announced that Todd Nance was leaving the band and that, "Duane [Trucks] will be the drummer for Widespread Panic moving forward."  Trucks is the current drummer for Hard Working Americans.
On September 25, 2015, Street Dogs, their 13th studio album, was released through Vanguard Records. Street Dogs was recorded by John Keane at Echo Mountain Recording Studio in Asheville, North Carolina. The album is composed of seven originals and three covers: Alan Price's "Sell Sell", Murray McLauchlan's "Honky Red" and "Tail Dragger", a Willie Dixon tune popularized by Howlin' Wolf.
In April 2016, keyboardist John Hermann announced that the band will stop touring extensively at the end of the year. However, he said that the band is not breaking up and will continue to make festival appearances and perform shows at select venues such as Red Rocks.
Known for never playing the same show twice, the band has a show-to-show ritual of choosing the night's setlist. At the beginning of each tour, a member of the band's road crew makes a master list of all the songs the band performs and laminates it. Each night before the show he marks the last 3 nights' set lists in different colors. The band can see what has been played recently and then decide what songs to play during the first set. They return to the list during setbreak to pick songs for the second set, and likewise, return after the second set for any additional sets if playing more than two, or the encore. This process is explained by the late Garrie Vereen in the DVD The Earth Will Swallow You.
Widespread Panic has the policy of allowing any of their fans to tape, trade, and to a limited extent freely distribute their shows. However, anonymous distribution such as P2P and commercial distribution is not permitted. Fans have been taping and trading shows since before they gained national prominence, allowing them to gain their strong national following.
A fan was detained by police while suffering the effects of LSD during a concert in Southaven, Mississippi. He was then restrained and taken to a local hospital emergency room where he later died. He was still in police custody at the time. Toxicology report proved that an LSD overdose was in fact not the cause of death, but the side effects of the drug caused a serious behavioral reaction that required restraint to protect him and others. On November 18, 2015 autopsy findings stated that 'hogtying' contributed to the death of the fan.
In 1996 the band, under the name of brute., recorded Nine High a Pallet with guitarist Vic Chesnutt; in 2002, brute. released a second album, titled Co-Balt.
Todd Nance has recorded and toured as part of the band Barbara Cue, releasing three albums.
Dave Schools has recorded and toured as part of the band Stockholm Syndrome, as well as Mickey Hart Band in 2012. Schools and Layng Martine III have released two albums as Slang, The Bellwether Project in 2001 and More Talk About Tonight in 2004. Schools was also a touring member of Gov't Mule following the death of Allen Woody.
John Hermann has toured with JoJo's Mardi Gras Band when Widespread Panic took a year break. He has toured with The Smiling Assassins, and is currently playing in a duo called The Missing Cats.
In 2013 Schools formed Hard Working Americans with Todd Snider, Neal Casal, Chad Staehly and Duane Trucks. The supergroup's self-titled debut album was recorded at Bob Weir's TRI Studios and mixed by John Keane. It was released on January 21, 2014.
Contributed a cover version of Van Morrison's "And It Stoned Me" to the Capricorn compilation album Hempilation, a benefit CD for NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
Contributed a live performance version of "Blue Indian" to Live in the X Lounge II, an album benefiting United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham, a Birmingham, Alabama charity.
Contributed a live June 2000 performance version of "Give" to Carved in Stone, Vol.1, an album benefiting the Preserve the Rocks Fund, a donation-driven reserve dedicated to the rehabilitation and preservation of the historic Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
Recorded a cover of the NRBQ song "Ain't No Horse" for the CD The Q People – A Tribute to NRBQ.
Contributed covers of The Doors' medley "Peace Frog"/"Blue Sunday" to the album Too Many Years to benefit Clear Path International's work with landmine survivors.
Recorded a cover of The Band's song "Chest Fever" for the CD Endless Highway – Tribute to The Band.
Recorded a cover of John Lennon's "Crippled Inside" as a bonus track for the compilation album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.
The band participated in the Make It Right Foundation New Orleans and purchased a house for the rebuilding of the 9th Ward in New Orleans. Widespread Panic fans joined in and created the "House That Widespread Panic Fans Built" – they continue to raise money to match the band's contribution and have a house funded by Panic fans.
Performed a concert on November 19 to benefit the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York City.
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When the world of fragrance is the same as the world you live in
A fragrance that has inspired an entire generation of young people across the world has gone the way of the dodo.
For many of them, Christian Dior has become a part of their daily lives.
"I was always drawn to the clothes I saw and what they looked like and I think this is what inspired me to start my own line," said Christian Dori, a student at New York University, who started wearing the perfume in 2015.
"So, that's what started the idea that I would be doing this perfume business, and that's why I'm in this business."
"I have been working in the perfume business for a long time," Dori said, adding that the experience of starting his own business helped him find his passion.
"It was actually really inspiring to see the work of others that have been inspired by the fragrance."
Dior is a well-known designer for men and women and has been a fixture in fashion circles for decades.
The French-born, London-based brand was founded in Paris in 1959 by Dior founder Pierre and Giselle Dior.
The brand has also won numerous awards and has become one of the most recognisable in the world, with many people going to Paris to purchase its signature handbags.
Dior was first launched in 1961, and was designed to give women a chance to feel their feminine beauty.
"Dior has a lot of elegance in it, but the idea of a feminine body is also very strong, it's very feminine," said Elizabeth Burch, a marketing and communications professor at the University of Virginia.
"And so, I think Dior was trying to make that a little more accessible to the young people, who are often drawn to fashion in general."
For many, it has also helped them feel like they are part of the Paris scene.
"There are definitely more women dressing up in Dior now than there were before," Burch said.
"And I think because it's a very popular brand now, that they're also finding themselves more comfortable being a part, even if it's just on the street, walking around in heels or something."
Dori has worked on the fragrance for over two decades, and said the experience has been invaluable.
"When I started it, it was really hard," Dior said.
"I think it helped me develop an idea of what I wanted to do, what my style is, and I also thought it helped a lot in my personal development."
"It's been a huge experience, it gives you a whole new understanding of what you want to do with your life," he added.
But not everyone is happy with the brand.
"The brand is not about making money, it is about doing something to make people feel good, and there is a big part of that about dressing up," Burs said.
According to Burch and Burch there are "very few" women in Paris that are drawn to Dior, and even fewer women who are drawn by the way the brand is made.
"You're not going to find a lot that says that there is that much passion for it," Buns said.
Burs added that Dior's appeal to women in the city was also based on the fact that it has "very feminine, sophisticated and modern designs, which are very feminine in their way, but also have a lot more sensuality".
"It is very feminine, very elegant and very sophisticated in its way," Banners added.
"They're very masculine in their style, and so you're seeing the way they dress."
"You are wearing dresses that you're not even wearing, you're looking very much like the person who's dressing," she said.
Some people have called Dior "disgusting" and "unmanly", while others say the fragrance is more about the money than the product.
"If you're going to be a designer in Paris, you have to have a good sense of style, you don't want to wear clothes that don't suit you," Bains said.
The company has since opened a factory in France, and has launched several new fragrances in the US, Europe and Asia.
"This is just one of many examples of a young designer going into this business, trying to be creative, but trying to also have something that they could be proud of, so people can't judge them for their money," Bairs said.
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P.S. I'm getting over a rather nasty migraine at the moment, so my other Monday posts will be up a little later than usual today. Thanks for your patience!
An apartment in Madrid is an inventive mix of old and new — offbeat objects (there's a few skulls casually displayed here and there), flea market finds (such as the entrance way seating, originally from an old outdoor cinema), modern furniture, a well stocked personal library, antique maps and contemporary art all add up to a creative living and working space that's fun to just hang out in, too. More here on Nuevo Estilo.
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For these three picks I worked on a bit of a theme: a few French favourites from the late '60s to mid '70s that were inspired by (but not covers of) the Beatles.
Yé-yé at its finest. She longs for Paul McCartney to, um... help her. With her English homework? Debatable. Either way, this is one of those songs that gets perma-caught in your brain. The My Generation riff from The Who works beyond perfectly, too.
A dreamlike, meandering tribute to John Lennon from a breathy chanteuse.
Jingly, jangly, fuzzy melancholy beauty. This is the last track on the album Songs, an obscure French soft psych record by the group Warlus (named — you've probably guessed it — after their love of the Beatles' I am the Walrus. Most of the album was recorded in 1975, in an old theater over the course of two nights while the manager was away on a ski vacation. It was privately released in 1977, in a scant edition of only 200 copies. These days, it's been re-pressed and is luckily a little more available to us all.


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Home / INTERVIEWS / BART VAN WELL
Bart van Well was born on May 22, 1973 in Sittard. Van Well plays the leading role in the complex lawsuit against the State of the Netherlands because of the fatalities of sexual abuse of minors in the Netherlands in the 80's and 90's. Bart van Well says for many years being pregnant and sexually abused by several adults Men in various high-performing functions. Also, child porn movies would be made of him at that time.
Bart van Well can be heard in the following video (see link) as a witness and flew with Adele van der Plas to America. Click here ► https://youtu.be/nmeYiR-yyS4 and for the conversations that have been conducted there by different persons (including Andele van der Plas), here ► https://youtu.be/oDiZ3aCJp18
Bart still struggles with post-traumatic stress and mood swings. He is responsible for the state, which, according to him, had to be harder to face childhood prostitution. That is why he has tried a lawsuit. "We want to prove that the government was aware of the youth prostitution at the time, but it was committed," explains Martin de Witte, Van Wells lawyer.
Earlier witnesses
Monday, two witnesses came to the floor. At a young age, Koos van Woudenberg was abused in an apartment in Amsterdam. It should be the home of Professor Ger van Roon. In his house he met, among other things, old mayor Ed van Thijn, Prince Claus and former Minister Onno Ruding.
Former employee of then GG & GD Raphael Beth (70), the second witness, at the time held a list of young boys working in prostitution in Amsterdam. He said Monday that "all pedoprostitution" was tolerated at that time, there was no repressive policy.
In the 1980s, Amsterdam appeared to be a place for pedophiles. There were boy plates and cafes where minor boys were picked up. There were even organized pedore trips to Amsterdam. Strikingly enough, Beth said Monday, not known by Van Woudenberg as a 'spider in the web', Ger van Roon.
Provisional witness hearings
The preliminary witness hearings may give more clarity about a leaked police investigation in the 1990s. The so-called Rolodex investigation was started secretly after informants told court officials and prosecutors to have been a customer. De Jong said nothing about it: "This was done under an embargo (secretly). I do not know anything about that. "
A preliminary witness hearing is intended to prepare for a lawsuit. Van Well can determine his legal position in a possible procedure against the state. There will be no sentence. Wednesday morning at 9.30 there were two new witnesses on the program: Jetty Bruggenwirth and police Chris de Graauw.


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Ferrari 599 GTO - Official Teamspeed Photo Thread!
Grigio is the best I've seen yet.
EDIT: Bianco Fuji ain't too shabby either!
BEST COLLECTION EVER. To have these ferrari supercars [288, f40, f50] is amazing, add the gto and it is astounding, but add an F1 car..... no words to describe.
Considering what's in the stable, the guys wife is probably driving it to the store.
That's one hell of a collection though.
Just noticed the prancing horses on the rear badge are black - looks awesome. All the videos of the gto sounds awesome, I hope I get to hear one in real life.
i love this thread.... I love this car!!!! aaaah!
GTO will be driven on next weeks fifth gear. fyi for everyone.
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Home Gaming K. Hagino Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
K. Hagino Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Former Japanese competition swimmer K. Hagino focuses on the 200-meter freestyle and the individual medley. He has won four medals at the Olympics, including gold in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2016 Summer Games.
As of right now, K. Hagino is the Asian record holder in the 400-meter individual medley (long course), 100-meter individual medley, and 200-meter individual medley (short course). In the 4100 m freestyle relay, he and his Japanese team currently hold the Asian Record (short course).
Currently, K. Hagino is a student at Toyo University, where he is coached by Norimasa Hirai. Just two other Asians have ever won the title of "World Swimmer of the Year," but he happens to be one of them.
1 Swimming Olympic Gold Medalist K. Hagino Set to Retire
2 K. Hagino: Japanese Swimming GOAT
Swimming Olympic Gold Medalist K. Hagino Set to Retire
The Japanese hero who won the 400 metre individual medley at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is apparently considering a career change into academia. According to rumours in his native Japan, Olympic gold medalist K. Hagino is planning to call it quits.
The 27-year-old swimmer has decided to retire from swimming and is contemplating a new challenge by attending graduate school, according to Kyodo News. Seto Daiya, the reigning world champion in the 200 and 400 individual medleys and a close friend of K. Hagino, then tweeted:
Without him, I wouldn't have the drive to improve myself. I felt his presence as though it were enormous. I'm going to miss him, but I have plenty of difficulties ahead of me.
My goal is to achieve Olympic glory just like he did. What an amazing time we had; thank you for making it possible.
K. Hagino: Japanese Swimming GOAT
When K. Hagino won the 400-meter individual medley at the 2016 Olympics, he set a new Asian record and instantly became a national hero in Japan. When he won the Olympic gold, he brought his country its first medal in the sport's history.
Aside with gold, he also won silver in his preferred 200-meter individual medley. He won silver at the 2017 world championships in the 200 individual medley and suddenly the world was at his feet.
The native of Tochigi Prefecture has trouble getting back to peak performance. Because of his 'severe sadness,' he has decided to take the year off from sports.
K. Hagino, after a five-month layoff, competed in the Japanese national swimming championships with renewed vigour and determination to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
Despite a promising preseason, he placed sixth in the 200 individual medley at the 2021 Olympics that replaced Tokyo 2020. He was beaten by countryman and two-time world champion Daiya Seto.
Sources close to the situation confirmed on Friday that reigning Olympic 400 metre individual medley champion K. Hagino would not be defending his title in this summer's Tokyo Games.
Winner of the 400 IM at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 26-year-old has withdrawn from the race at the Japanese national championships (held April 3-10), which also serve as trials for the Japanese Olympic squad.


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\section{Introduction}

\IEEEPARstart{C}{elestial} images may contain structure on a wide
variety of size scales whereas a given radio astronomical instrument
may be sensitive to only a limited range of size scales.
A common solution to this problem is to image the desired object with
a number of different instruments, or configurations of a given
instrument, to recover the structure on the total range of size scales
needed.
These range from single dishes for the largest scales to short
baseline interferometers to longer baseline interferometers.
Furthermore, each instrument and/or array configuration may have
artifacts which are best dealt with using that data-set alone.
This paper considers the combination of images derived from several
instruments or configurations by the ``feathering'' technique.
{The term ``feathering'' is likely derived from the similarity with
bird's feathers which are dense at the center and very light at the edge.}
In this technique, images are combined in the Fourier transform
(``uv'') domain by a weighted average of the transform of the various
input images in order to extract the most appropriate spatial
frequencies from each.

\section{Resolution and Spatial Dynamic Range}
Diffraction limited astronomical instruments have a resolution that is
proportional to the diameter of the aperture measured in wavelengths
of the light being observed.
The range of larger spatial scales to which the instrument is
sensitive depends on the details of the instrument and in particular,
the distribution and fraction of its aperture which is filled.
Filled aperture instruments (AKA ``single dishes'') sample all spatial
frequencies up to those defined by the total aperture.
Cost and other practical constraints limit the maximum size, hence
resolution of single dishes.
On the other hand, interferometers generally sample only a fraction of
the spatial frequencies less than that defined by the maximum
baseline.
The largest scale size that can be imaged is defined by the shortest
spacing that is adequately sampled.
Interferometers can be constructed to an arbitrary size, hence,
resolution but practical constraints limit the fraction of the
aperture that can be filled thus the largest scale size.
Some interferometers such as the VLA and ALMA have a ``zoom''
capability in which the antennas can be reconfigured to produce a
range of resolutions and surface brightness sensitivities.
In addition, ALMA has an array (ACA) of smaller antennas
arranged in a more compact configuration to measure even lower spatial
frequencies.
For objects with a wide range of spatial scales, multiple instruments
or configurations may be needed.

Every instrument can produce artifacts or spurious features in its
images.
Techniques to reduce these may be deployed but these are generally
specific to a given instrument or configuration.
An example of this is a bright source far from the pointing center of
an interferometer.
Even when not in the field of interest, such a source may produce
side-lobes in the field of view that are subject to bandwidth smearing
and details of the far antenna pattern.
Bandwidth smearing is locally convolutional and the effects of the
offending source can largely be removed from the data from a single
interferometer or configuration by deconvolution including that source.
Artifacts from asymmetries in the antenna pattern are not
convolutional but may be greatly reduced by corrections based on
known antenna patterns, by ``peeling'' or ``differential gains''
\cite{Smirnov2011}.

Strong, extended sources whose structure {is} not adequately sampled by
an interferometer will have an extended negative ``bowl'' surrounding
them in derived images.
This is because the visibility at the center of the uv plane is the
total intensity in the field of view.
Thus, dirty images made lacking samples near the center of the uv plane
(which are implicitly replaced by zeros) will have an average value of
zero causing strong positive regions to be surrounded by negative
regions.
The purpose of deconvolution is to interpolate between measured
visibilities including those near the origin.
If the uv coverage is inadequate to allow the deconvolution to recover
all of the emission in the source, portions of the bowl will remain.

\section{Feathering}
An image may be characterized by the spatial frequencies which are
well represented in the image; these correspond to the regions in the
Fourier transform (``uv'' space) of the image which were well measured
by the instrument.
Interferometers generally cover a range of spatial frequencies which
is limited by the longest and shortest baselines.
Single dishes, in principle, measure all spatial frequencies up to
those corresponding {to} the instrument diameter\footnote{However,
  spatial filtering to remove atmospheric or instrumental variations
  may filter out some spatial frequencies}.
Ideally images with overlapping, well--sampled spatial frequencies can
be combined to derive an image reproducing all the spatial frequencies
in the initial images.

Feathering is the technique of combining images in the uv plane to
recover the spatial frequencies in the input images.
The images to be combined must be adjusted to a common astrometric and
photometric scale and, if FFTs are to be used, interpolated onto a
common image grid.
The combination of $m$ images $I_i$ in the Fourier transform (u-v)
domain is a weighted average described by the following:
$$ C(u,v) = \sum_{i=1}^m W_i(u,v)FT(I_i)(u,v) $$
where $FT$ denotes the Fourier transform, $W_i$ is the weighting
function for image $I_i$.
If there is emission near the edge of the images,
{tapering the images to zero}
or similar techniques may be needed to reduce the artifacts
(ringing) resulting from the Fourier transform.
The feathered image is then:
$$ I(x,y) = N\ FT^{-1}(C)$$
where $N$ is a normalization factor.
The resolution of the resultant image should be that of the highest
resolution input image.
While this is a generic technique and is widely implemented, the
details, i.e. derivation of $W_i$ and $N$ and constraints on the
images vary from implementation to implementation.

\section{Constraints on images}
Images to be combined need to be astrometrically and photometrically
aligned.
All implementation described below require the images to be
astrometrically aligned but differ in whether the photometric
alignment is including in the feathering.
In a range of cases it is possibly to align the flux density scales by
comparing the Fourier transform values in the annulus of overlapping
spatial frequencies.

Image combination will work best when the images combined have
{well sampled} overlapping regions of the uv--plane.
In the case of non-overlap, structure represented by the portions of uv
space not sampled will not be well represented in the feathered image.
Clearly, combining single dish and VLBI images will not generally be
productive.

{Using the amplitude ratios in annuli may not always be the best
method for adusting the flux density scales but it is well defined for
single interferometric pointings and is widely used.
An alternative is to use isolated, spatially small features as an
adjustment of the astrometric grids is generally also needed and such
features can be used for both.

If the interferometer sampling in the uv overlap is really dense then
adjustment using the annuli should be relatively robust; unfortunately
this is often not the case and the interferometric measurements are
less well sampled.
Since the comparison is made using the interferometric image rather
than the visibility data, the resolution of extended emission will
generally bias the amplitudes in the interferometric annulus low.
A correction for this will incorrectly increase the relative power in the
higher spatial frequencies making smaller scale structures erroneously
brighter.
The annular method of adjusting flux density scale is more
problematic in the case of large scale images needing interferometric
mosaics.
}

The technique described above assumes that each input image has been
appropriately filtered to remove power at spatial frequencies beyond
the range sampled by the instrument used to derive the image.
For interferometric images this constraint is generally that the
emission CLEANed is restored with a CLEAN beam that accurately
represents the psf of the instrument.
Images derived from single dish measurements may not have had similar
filtering and may need to have spatial frequencies outside of the
telescope aperture filtered before combination.

Interferometric images of sources with extended emission generally
need extra care as emission poorly sampled in the uv--plane can lead to
image artifacts.
Multi--resolution CLEAN can help with reconstructing large-scale
emission.
In extreme cases, setting a short baseline limit
{during the imaging}
can help suppress large waves from very poorly sampled structure.
Negative bowls around extended emission are common but should be
removed by feathering if the relevant spatial frequencies are obtained
from other images.
\subsection{Primary beam correction}
Interferometric images should be ``Primary beam corrected'' before
feathering such that features in the image are at the strength they
would have without off--center attenuation of the power pattern of
the interferometer elements
\subsection{Mosaics}
Mosaics are suitable candidates for feathering as long as the
combination into the mosaic removes the primary beam pattern.
\subsection{Weighting}
Not all images are created equal and it may be desirable to allow
different images to have different weights where their uv regions
overlap.
A simple relative weight is the inverse variance of the noise.
{This additional weight is multiplied times the feathering weight.
}
\subsection{Spectral cubes}
Feathering spectral line cubes is a straightforward combination of each
set of channel images.
Cubes must either have a common channelization or be interpolated onto
one.

\section{Alternatives to Feathering}
There are several alternatives to combining data from different
instruments.
Their properties differ and the best technique depends on the data
involved.
For a broad range of cases, feathering produces acceptable results.
See \cite{Stanimirovic2002} for a discussion on a variety of techniques
\subsection{Combine visibilities}
If several interferometers are to be combined, the visibilities can be
combined into a single data-set which is then imaged.
Single disk images can be Fourier transformed to produce ``pseudo''
visibilities.
However, the single dish psf (antenna pattern) must first be
deconvolved and the result reconvolved with the interferometer antenna
pattern.
Since the aperture is filled, this can be done using a linear
deconvolution.
AIPS task IM2UV can convert an image into pseudo visibilities.

Special care must be taken when combining data from interferometer
arrays with different antenna sizes as the field of view differs.
The imaging software must properly correct for the different antenna
sizes if a wide field of view or mosaic is to the imaged.

Visibility data is generally ``weighted'', that is each visibility is
given a weight with which it is to be used in the image construction.
These weights may need to be adjusted in the visibility combination
process to assure that the data makes the appropriate contribution to
the derived image.
\subsection{Combine dirty images and deconvolve}
The formation of dirty images is linear so an interferometer image can
be linearly combined with other interferometer dirty images or a
single dish image.
The combined image can then be deconvolved; Maximum Entropy (MEM) is
frequently used for this.
Miriad task MOSMEM applies this technique.
\subsection{Use single dish image  as model in deconvolution}
A discussion of using the single dish image as an initial model using
Maximum Entropy deconvolution is described in \cite{Cornwell1988}

\section{Implementations}
\subsection{AIPS Implementation}
The AIPS \cite{AIPS} implementation is in task IMERG and will combine
two images.
These must be on a common grid and size but IMERG will adjust the flux
density scale using the values in a specified annulus of the uv plane.
Interior to the specified uv annulus, the lower resolution image is given
weight 1 and the higher resolution image a weight 0.
These are reversed outside the annulus and within the annulus an
exponential is used to give increasing weight to the higher resolution
image.
Since the sum of the weights are always 1, the normalization factor
is 1.

\subsection{CASA Implementation}
The CASA \cite{CASA} implementation is in task feather and allows
combining two images and consists of the following steps:
\begin{itemize}
\item Interpolate the low resolution image onto the grid of the high
resolution image.
\item Fourier transform both images to the uv--plane.
\item The weight of the low resolution image is the ratio of the beam
  area of the high resolution image to that of the low resolution
  image
\item The weight of the high resolution image is 1-w, where w is the Fourier
transform of low resolution CLEAN beam.
\item Back transform combined grid to image plane.
\item No normalization is documented.
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Miriad Implementation}
The Miriad \cite{Miriad} implementation is in task immerge with option 'feather'
which allows combining two images with Gaussian psfs.
The input images must be on a common grid and size and flux density
scale although the program will optionally adjust the lower
resolution flux density scale using overlapping spatial frequencies.
The weight of the low resolution image is 1 everywhere and that of the
high resolution image is the Fourier transform of the low resolution
CLEAN beam.
The resultant resolution is that of the higher resolution image.

\subsection{Obit Implementation}
The feathering implementation in Obit\cite{OBIT}
\footnote{http://www.cv.nrao.edu/$\sim$bcotton/Obit.html} follows that
described in \cite{Farhad2004} and is implemented in task Feather
which will combine up to 10 images.
Feather requires only that the astrometric parameters
in each image give the same positions for given features
and need not be on the same grid, projection or even equinox.

The photometric (flux density) scale must be the same for all input
images.
If this cannot be achieved from the calibration of the data, an
adjustment can be derived prior to feathering from the average ratio
of amplitudes in the overlapping region of uv space.

Images are presumed to have an annular region in the uv--plane which is
well sampled and a weighting mask is constructed for each which tapers
to zero at lower spatial frequencies.
{In the case where there is not an overlap in the well sampled
regions of uv space, structures corresponding to spatial frequencies
not well sampled in any of the input images may be poorly represented
in the feathered image, or missing entirely.
}
The weighting mask of the lowest resolution image is not tapered to
its center.
Feather depends on the ``CLEAN'' beam size given in
each image descriptor accurately reflecting the resolution of the
image.
The various steps in feathering are described in the following.

\begin{enumerate}
\item  {\bf Re-sample images }\\
The first step is to re-sample images with resolutions less than the
maximum to the grid of the maximum resolution image with sufficient
zero padding on the outside to allow an efficient FFT.
The interpolation uses the Lagrangian technique in 2D to interpolate
the pixels in the lower resolution images at the locations of the
highest resolution image using a 5x5 pixel  kernel.
\item  {\bf Generate weighting masks }\\
For each resolution except the lowest, a real weighting mask is
generated with a Gaussian hole in the center representing the spatial
frequency range of the next lowest resolution.
A sampling mask representing the spatial frequencies of each image is
generated by:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Create image with the CLEAN beam at the center
\item FFT
\item Take real part
\item normalize to 1 at (0,0) spatial frequency
\end{enumerate}
The weighting mask for each image $i$ is
$$ weight\_mask_i\ =\ 1.0 - sampling\_mask_{i+1}$$
where $i+1$ indicates the next lowest resolution.
The weighting mask for the lowest resolution is 1.0 everywhere.
The weighting masks are multiplied by the weights assigned to the
input images.
\item  {\bf FFT }\\
Each image is FFTed to the uv plane
\item  {\bf Weight }\\
Multiply Fourier transform of image by its weighting mask.
\item  {\bf Accumulate }\\
Sum the Fourier transform of the images times weight.
\item  {\bf Inverse FFT }\\
Fourier transform back to the image plane.
\item  {\bf Normalize } \\
The normalization factor is determined by repeating the process but
replacing the image with its corresponding CLEAN beam.
The normalization factor is
{1.0/flux-density(center pixel) of the feathered beam.}
\end{enumerate}

\section{ Examples}
\subsection{Simulation}
{
To illustrate the power of this technique, noiseless synthetic data sets
were derived for the model source distribution shown in Figure
\ref{ModelFig}.
A simulated single dish image was derived by convolving the model
image with the resolution of the single dish.
To simulate an interferometric image, a sample full track, VLA--like
array uv coverage  was generated (Obit/UVSim) and the Fourier
transform of the model was evaluated at the locations in the data-set.
These data were then imaged with multi--resolution CLEAN (Obit/Imager).
The simulated single dish and interferometric images are shown in
Figure \ref{ObsFig}.
The very extended emission is only visible in the single dish
representation and the most compact emission only visible in the
interferometric version.
These two images were then feathered together with equal weights using
Obit/Feather giving the image shown in Figure \ref{ModFeatherFig}.
The interferometer image contains 7\% of the initial model flux
density as derived by an integral over the image whereas the single dish
image has 96\%.
The combined, feathered image also contains 96\% of the initial model
flux density.
The missing 4\% is due to truncating the single dish image.

\begin{figure}
\centerline{
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{Model.pdf}
}
\caption{Model source shown in reversed grayscale with linearly spaced
  contours overlaid.}
\label{ModelFig}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure*}
\centerline{
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{SD.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{Inter.pdf}
}
\caption{On left is the model source as observed with a single dish
and on the right with an interferometer.
Contours are at the same levels as Figure \ref{ModelFig}.
}
\label{ObsFig}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure}
\centerline{
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{Full.pdf}
}
\caption{The feathered combination of the images in Figure \ref{ObsFig}.
Contours are at the same levels as Figure \ref{ModelFig}.
}
\label{ModFeatherFig}
\end{figure}
}

\subsection{Celestial Example}
For a celestial example, single dish observations of the Galactic
center at 20 cm wavelength made with the GBT \cite{Farhad2004} are
combined  with a VLA mosaic at the same wavelength \cite{LawGCA},
\cite{LawGCB}.
Figure \ref{FeatherFig} shows a subset of the image around the
Galactic center with the single dish and interferometric images on
top and the combined image on the bottom.
The images were aligned astrometrically and photometrically using
several strong, isolated HII regions.
The missing short spacing in the VLA image leave a deep bowl around
the image which is filled in by adding the GBT image.
{
Due to the strong, wide spread emission in this part of the sky,
integrated flux densities cannot be accurately determined from this
data.
Note: the VLA image is a mosaic derived in AIPS using a suboptimal
image plane ``feathering'' to combine the images resulting in the
lines visible between adjacent pointings.
These artifacts are greatly reduced if the spatially overlapping
images are feathered in the sense of weighting that decreases to zero
at the edge.
}

\begin{figure*}
\centerline{
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{GCGBT.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{GC13VLA.pdf}
}
\centerline{
  \includegraphics[width=3.5in]{GCFeather.pdf}
}
\caption{Top: left is the GBT single dish image
and on the right the VLA interferometric image.
Grayscale stretch is square root with scale bar at
top.\hfil\break
Bottom: The feathered combination of the images.
Grayscale stretch the same as top right.
Images are given as negative grayscale.
}
\label{FeatherFig}
\end{figure*}

\section{Discussion}
The feathering technique for image combination in the Fourier plane
is described and {examples} of its use shown.
{In an example using simulated data, the feathered image recovered
all of the flux density in the low resolution image.}
In the {celestial} example a deep negative bowl around a bright
region of emission in the interferometric image is removed by adding
the single dish data.

The feathering technique {as implemented} in the Obit package
described here allows an arbitrary number of images at different
scales to be combined.
This allows the best approach to reducing artifacts to be used for
each of the multiple interferometric and single dish images before
their combination.

\section*{Acknowledgment}
The author would like the thank the anonymous referee for comments
leading to an improved paper.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is operated by
Associated Universities Inc., under cooperative agreement with the
National Science  Foundation.

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Yes Donald, I see. I don't understand, but I see.
As I sat down to write Part 3 of Paris Yearning I had a fairly clear idea of where I would be heading. I made the mistake of checking the evening news stories and, now like Alice, I am a bit disoriented.
Today in Trumpland three events of interest to the clean energy and environmental sectors took place.
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It would be difficult to get through life without the capacity to consider various options and to decide what to do. The lack of any decision criteria has caused many a donkey caught between two bales of hay to starve to death.
The alternative to weighing facts—at least for a politician--is to weight the importance of an issue to a voter/constituent or to the party's leadership.
Prioritization is a key alternative decision criteria often employed by elected officials trying to determine whether to support or to oppose a particular initiative. For elected partisan representatives, consideration goes beyond the voters.
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Pots like these are still gonna be readily available in 5 years with minimal price increases.
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I've been pondering the idea of starting a FB group for western zisha collectors. I'm not sure there is a huge demand for one but I thought it might be fun to see what other US/EU people are collecting.
Anybody know of any FB groups started by western yixing collectors?
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F1 stickers are orange or yellow orange when faded. The R on yours is also too big so it's definitely not a legit sticker. Likely modern pot.
If you have the F1 catalogues it is in there.
Sort of off topic (sorry to hijack) but where can one find said catalogues ?
Look in album section for these to folders.
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Why in the world should the Cardinals get rid of Carpenter? He's been their best player the past couple of seasons and is penciled in to be the starting 1B this year. He's also signed to a relatively team-friendly contract for the next couple (few?) seasons.
As a Jays fan, not really a fan of going after Feliz. 38% GB rate(career 36%) with an elevated HR rate 2 of the past 3 years? Can't see that fitting well in Toronto and the AL East.
Feliz would be a really nice piece to add to the bullpen in San Diego, I think he could possibly supplant Maurer in the closers role. Maurer looked way better in the 7th inning two years ago behind Benoit & Kimbrel than he did in the 9th this year after Rodney was traded.
A 7th/8th/9th of Maurer, Capps & Feliz would be pretty nice not to mention add Buchter & Hand to the equation and that has the makings of being a pretty elite unit. The team also has the 3rd pick in the rule 5 draft on Friday & could add another interesting arm to throw in the pen ala what they did with Perdomo last year. Interestingly enough another Perdomo, Angel the number 15 prospect of the Blue jays who pitched in the futures game in SD last year and is 6'8 is who I'm keeping my eye on Preller & company possibly selecting.
Perdomo is certainly intriguing. He gets a very wide range of prospect rankings as I've seen him as high as top 10(pre-draft) and as low as out of the top 30(also pre-draft).
I've seen him a few times and guy is huge but he has big guy issues, namely having difficulty repeating his delivery. Most also don't see him stuff ever really playing up as a starter, most notably his breaking stuff grades out as being at best, potentially average.
I know some Jays fans were pissed he wasn't protected but he was just so far away from the Jays roster that theirs very little chance he'd have provided value in the near future. I fully expect him to be taken at the Rule 5.
**most don't see his stuff playing up as a starter.
Angel Perdomo is 6'6″ and he really took a leap forward in terms of command and control of his FB this year and ended the season with 156 SO vs 54 BB in 25 starts/127 IP. His biggest problem was a lack of plus secondary pitches. He got stung pretty good on his slider. His changeup is a little better and may eventually develop into a MLB quality pitch.
He wouldn't be a bad pick for the Padres in the Rule V draft, although I would prefer to see us take Yonny Chirinos, Drew Muren and Ismael Guillon.
Yeah I liked what I read up on Chirinos & Guillon, so I would be just as happy with either of those guys as I would be if we selected Angel Perdomo.
As far as trade chips are considered, I think once Logan & Dunn & Blevins come off the board in free agency then the attention will draw the the two Padre lefties.
A Solarte trade would get us a young arm to put in the rotation immediately plus some other intriguing prospects as well, that's why the Dodgers make a lot of sense to me. Then you still have an extra outfielder whether it's Dickerson or Jankowski to explore another trade for to even further bolster the rotation & possibly SS as well.
I do think Preller brings in a couple old friends from Texas this offseason as well though in the aforementioned Neftali Feliz & Derek Holland, they both make sense and Holland could pitch at the top of the rotation with a chance to rebuild value on a 1 year deal and a chance to get paid next offseason if he revitalizes his career at Petco.
Maurer had a better BAA, OBP against, OPS, and ERA in save situations in which he entered in the 9th inning in 2016 than he did in the 7th inning in 2014. He really only had one bad outing after he took over as the closer in July, that one on September 16th in Colorado.
Yeah Maurer would probably remain the closer, though it'll be interesting to see how Capps pitches once he comes back from TJ surgery.
Other than Solarte, the only real valuable trade chips we have are Hand and Buchter. Don't be surprised if one or both are traded.
Why do the Padres even bother fielding a team?
The Padres are the new Cubs. To be a Padre fan, you have to love the game for it's own sake, without regard to wins and losses…because it feels like it could be 107 years before we win a World Series too.
By new Cubs, you mean future dominance of division. Padres have the #1 farm imo and I don't think it's close. Always trading for prospects but this time Preller has set up wave after wave after wave soon to hit San Diego. 2017 wave led by Renfroe, Hedges and Margot. That's three in-house upgrades from last year, nice start.
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Gossiper – Someone who has a great sense of rumour.
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hahaha. Hi Pat. It's me, Dai. Tried to get all the work done early today because it's going to be 34c here and up to 41c tomorrow. Horrible.