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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
2. Observations and data
3. Image reconstruction ...
4. Modeling
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6. Discussion and conclusions
VLTI/PIONIER images the Achernar disk swell⋆
G. Dalla Vedova1, F. Millour1, A. Domiciano de Souza1, R. G. Petrov1, D. Moser Faes1,5, A. C. Carciofi5, P. Kervella2,3 and T. Rivinius4
1 Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Lagrange, Blvd de l'Observatoire, CS 34229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
e-mail: gaetan.dallavedova@gmail.com; florentin.millour@oca.eu
2 Unidad Mixta Internacional Franco-Chilena de Astronomía (UMI 3386), CNRS/INSU, France & Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
3 LESIA (UMR 8109), Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, UPMC, Univ. Paris-Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
4 ESO – European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, Santiago, Casilla 19001, Chile
5 Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), rua do Matão 1226, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP – 05508-900, Brazil
Received: 1 February 2016
Accepted: 8 February 2017
Context. The mechanism of disk formation around fast-rotating Be stars is not well understood. In particular, it is not clear which mechanisms operate, in addition to fast rotation, to produce the observed variable ejection of matter. The star Achernar is a privileged laboratory to probe these additional mechanisms because it is close, presents B ⇌ Be phase variations on timescales ranging from ~6 yr to ~15 yr, a companion star was discovered around it, and probably presents a polar wind or jet.
Aims. Despite all these previous studies, the disk around Achernar was never directly imaged. Therefore we seek to produce an image of the photosphere and close environment of the star.
Methods. We used infrared long-baseline interferometry with the PIONIER instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) to produce reconstructed images of the photosphere and close environment of the star over four years of observations. To study the disk formation, we compared the observations and reconstructed images to previously computed models of both the stellar photosphere alone (normal B phase) and the star presenting a circumstellar disk (Be phase).
Results. The observations taken in 2011 and 2012, during the quiescent phase of Achernar, do not exhibit a disk at the detection limit of the instrument. In 2014, on the other hand, a disk was already formed and our reconstructed image reveals an extended H-band continuum excess flux. Our results from interferometric imaging are also supported by several Hα line profiles showing that Achernar started an emission-line phase sometime in the beginning of 2013. The analysis of our reconstructed images shows that the 2014 near-IR flux extends to ~1.7–2.3 equatorial radii. Our model-independent size estimation of the H-band continuum contribution is compatible with the presence of a circumstellar disk, which is in good agreement with predictions from Be-disk models.
Key words: stars: individual: Achernar / stars: rotation / stars: imaging / circumstellar matter / instrumentation: interferometers / techniques: high angular resolution
Based on observations performed at ESO, Chile under VLTI/PIONIER program IDs 087.D-0150, 189.C-0644, and 093.D-0571.
With a spectral type B3Vpe, a visual magnitude of mv = 0.46, and a distance of 42.75 pc (van Leeuwen 2007), Achernar (α Eridani, HD 10144) is the brightest and the nearest Be star in the sky. A Be star is a non-supergiant B-type star with sporadic episodes of Balmer lines emission, attributed to the circumstellar environment.
Achernar is a fast-rotating star, which is spinning at 88% of its critical velocity and has a projected rotation velocity at the stellar surface vsini = 220−270 km s-1 (Vinicius et al. 2006; Domiciano de Souza et al. 2014). Fast rotation flattens the stellar globe and makes the equator cooler than the poles with the so-called gravity darkening or von Zeipel effect (von Zeipel 1924). This star was extensively observed in the past, and there is a transient circumstellar disk that appears and disappears in a possible cyclic way. Vinicius et al. (2006) argued that this cycle has a period of ~14–15 yr. However, a more recent work (Faes 2015) suggests a shorter timescale of variability that is not necessarily periodic. Achernar started an outburst in the beginning of 2013, after seven years of quiescence, as reported by (Faes et al. 2015).
Achernar also hosts a companion star at a projected separation going from 50 to 300 milli-arcsec. (noted hereafter as mas, i.e., from 2 to 13 au; Kervella & Domiciano de Souza 2007; Kervella et al. 2008). The orbit remains to be determined, but preliminary results indicate a period of a few years and a mass of the secondary of between 1 and 2 solar masses (Kervella et al., in prep.).
Domiciano de Souza et al. (2014) proposed a model of the photosphere, the Roche-von Zeipel model (hereafter referred to as the RvZ model) in which the star is deformed by fast rotation and its photospheric temperature changes with latitude. In that paper, the authors used the previously determined values of the equatorial angular diameter to 1.99 mas, orientation angle of the polar axis to 36.9 degrees, and flattening ratio to 1.29. These authors performed an image reconstruction of Achernar in 2011, in which no signatures of an additional circumstellar component within a ~±1% level of intensity could be detected.
In this work, we compare the appearance of Achernar at four epochs from 2011 to 2014, using state-of-the-art models and reconstructed images from the PIONIER instrument. We show, for the first time, images of the disk forming around a Be star.
The paper is organized as follows: in Sect. 2, we introduce the campaign of observation and data collected. In Sect. 3, we present the image reconstruction process that we used to reconstruct the images of the object. In Sect. 4, we compare the data with the models. In Sect. 5, we compare the images of both object and model showing evidence of the forming circumstellar disk around Achernar. Finally, in Sect. 6, we discuss these results in the context of the current overview of the system.
Several campaigns of observations of Achernar have been carried out between 2011 and 2014 with the PIONIER interferometer at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI; Glindemann et al. 2003; Le Bouquin et al. 2011). This instrument combines the light beams from four telescopes and measures the light spatial coherence (related to the shape of an object) through six simultaneous visibilities and four closure phases in the H band (1.65 μm). The data have been reduced using the standard procedure pndrs, especially developed for the PIONIER instrument (Le Bouquin et al. 2011). The log of observations is presented in Table 1. We define four different epochs of observations in our analysis: August/September 2011, September 2012, September 2013, and September 2014.
Log of the PIONIER observations (four simultaneous telescopes, except in 2013 when there were 3 telescopes).
Left: spatial frequencies (u,v) coverage for each dataset. Right: visibility amplitudes (with their respective error bars) as a function of spatial frequency (B/λ in units of rad-1) for each dataset. Epochs 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 are represented from top to bottom. Colors indicate position angle (PA) ranges. Black circles correspond to regions around polar axis of the star PApol = 36.9° (14.4° ≤ PA ≤ 59.4°), hollow circles match the equatorial axis PAeq = 126.9° (104.4° ≤ PA ≤ 159.4°), and red circles correspond to the other directions.
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Figure 1 presents (u,v) coverage and visibility as a function of spatial frequency for each dataset. The slope of the visibility function is different in the polar and equatorial directions owing to the flattening of the photosphere of the star (see Fig. 1). We do not show the closure phases as they are almost all compatible with zero.
The (u,v) coverage for each dataset, except that of 2013, is very uniform, which is a relevant condition for image reconstruction. The angular resolution of the observations is sufficient to reconstruct the global shape of the object and especially resolve any extended structure around the star.
3. Image reconstruction procedure
We used the MiRA software developed by Thiébaut (2008)1, combined with a Monte Carlo (MC) approach to reconstruct the images for the observations in 2011, 2012, and 2014 because the (u,v) coverage in 2013 is insufficient. The MiRA software is based on an iterative process, starting from an initial image, modifying it to find the pixel values xi which minimize a distance between the interferometric data di and the same interferometric observables calculated from the image mi. This software uses a Bayesian framework and an advanced gradient descent algorithm to find the best solution to this ill-posed problem. The distance between the interferometric data and the image is posed as , where σi is the data noise. The process of minimizing this distance is conducted under additional constraints of positivity, normalization, and generic constraints on the image, called regularization. The regularization has a global weight relative to the distance between data and image. This weight is usually called hyperparameter and noted as μ. The minimization criterion for the image reconstruction process is then C = χ2 + μ × R. Finding the right value for μ is usually difficult, but new ideas using MC methods provide a proxy to this value.
We used a Gaussian prior with varying sizes to concentrate the flux in the central part of the image (see next paragraph). We set the pixel size of the image reconstruction to 0.07 mas. In our case, we used 1000 reconstructed MiRA images of Achernar for both tuning the hyperparameter, with the L-curve method (Kluska et al. 2014) following Dalla Vedova (2016), Domiciano de Souza et al. (2014), and for producing the final image using the Brute-Force Monte Carlo technique (BFMC; see Millour et al. 2012).
The L-curve method is a graph of μ as a function of the distance to the data χ2. The obtained curve shows a plateau of low χ2 values for lower values of μ, and a steep increase afterward. Selecting the reconstructions among these low χ2 values plateau ensures a good match of the reconstruction to the data, while preserving the benefits of regularization.
The BFMC method works as follows. We reconstructed 1000 images with random values of μ (in the [1:1 × 109] range), a random start image, and random size of the Gaussian prior, scanning through the parameter space of image reconstruction. We kept the subset of reconstructed images with the smaller distance to the data, in our case , and the optimum regularization strength evaluated with the L-curve method, in our case 200 ≤ μ ≤ 300. We then calculated the average image by calculating the mean of each pixels based on the selected reconstructed images, after centering them. Centering the images is essential to saving the angular resolution of the observations because closure phases do not contain the absolute astrometric position of the star (van Altena 2012, Sect. 11.7.2) and the individual reconstructed images end up in a random position. The companion star is likely outside the ≈200 mas field of view of the observations and does not affect the image reconstruction.
Reconstructed image of Achernar for, from left to right, the 2011, 2012, and 2014 datasets. East is left and north is up. The long arrow shows the previously estimated position angle of the rotation axis of the star on the plane of sky. The dynamic of the images is equal to 1.
Figure 2 presents the resulting reconstructed images of Achernar for the 2011, 2012, and 2014 sets of observations. The 2011 and 2012 images show a flattened star similar to previous reconstructions (see Domiciano de Souza et al. 2014), but the 2014 image shows extended equatorial emission in addition to the flattened photosphere, which we need to compare with the noise and image reconstruction artefacts level to determine if this is a real structure or not.
Subtraction of the Achernar reconstructed between different epochs. From left to right, subtraction between the 2012 and 2011 images, subtraction between the 2014 and 2011 images, and subtraction between the 2014 and 2011 images. East is left and north is up. The long arrow shows the previously estimated position angle of the rotation axis of the star on the plane of sky. The green ellipse indicates the delimiting profile of the RvZ model of the photosphere model of Achernar, and the images are highlighted with contours −0.02, −0.01, 0.01, and 0.02.
A way to investigate if this extended equatorial structure is real is to compare the images at different epochs. Figure 3 shows the subtraction between the reconstructed images of Achernar over the three epochs: 2012–2011, 2014–2011, and 2014–2012. The two subtracted images, including the 2014 observations (2014–2011 and 2014–2012), present an excess of flux of ~4% that is not present in the 2011–2012 subtracted image. This excess can be attributed to a gas disk forming around the main star.
These subtracted images allow us to estimate the size and orientation of the close circumstellar disk independently from any model. From the subtracted images 2014–2011 and 2014–2012, we estimate the equatorial disk diameter in the H band to be between 3.4(4.2) and 3.7(4.5) mas, considering the external limits of the 0.02(0.01) level contours. This corresponds to the angular diameter of the circumstellar region emitting most of the H-band flux. The extreme values of these angular size estimates translates into a disk radius between 1.7 and 2.3 stellar equatorial radii (adopting the equatorial angular diameter of 1.99 mas).
This model-independent size estimate of the H-band emission region is in good agreement with predictions from theoretical models. Indeed, the formation loci of continuum emission at various wavelengths for different Be disk models were computed by Rivinius et al. (2013), Vieira et al. (2015), Carciofi (2011). According to the results of these authors, most (>80%) of the H-band disk flux is emitted within a radius between ~1.5 to ~4 times the photospheric equatorial radius, which matches well our estimated disk size.
We considered two models of Achernar to check if there are indeed variations in the shape of the star between all the considered epochs.
4.1. Roche-von Zeipel model with CHARRON
As a starting point, we adopted the same photospheric model as in Domiciano de Souza et al. (2014). We adopted the Roche approximation (rigid rotation and mass concentrated in the stellar center), which is well adapted for rapidly rotating stars, to model the photosphere of Achernar. We use the code CHARRON (Code for High Angular Resolution of Rotating Objects in Nature) described in detail by Domiciano de Souza et al. (2012a,b, 2002). The star is flattened (equatorial radius larger than the polar radius) because of the important centrifugal force generated by the high rotation velocity of the star. The effective temperature Teff at the surface depends on the colatitude θ due to the decreasing effective gravity geff (gravitation plus centrifugal acceleration) from the poles to the equator (gravity darkening effect). The resulting map can be seen in the left panel of Fig. 4. This map corresponds to the model parameter values determined by Domiciano de Souza et al. (2014).
Logarithmic of the normalized intensity maps in the H band for the two models used in this paper. Left: RvZ model computed with the CHARRON code with the model parameter values given by Domiciano de Souza et al. (2014). Right: HDUST model with an ellipsoidal photosphere similar to the RvZ model and a circumstellar viscous decretion disk model (further details in Faes 2015, Chap. 6). The flux ratio of photosphere and disk model relative to the purely photospheric emission is 1.023.
From this model and the (u,v) coordinates of the observations, we calculated the corresponding synthetic visibilities and computed the residuals between the model and observations at all epochs.
Roche-von Zeipel model compared to the Achernar data. Left: observed (black dots) and modeled (white stars) visibilities of Achernar. Right: residual of the visibility between the observations and the RvZ model as a function of the spatial frequency for each dataset. Colors indicate polar and equatorial axes, respectively, as in Fig. 1.
Figure 5 shows a comparison of these modeled and observed visibilities along with the computed residuals as a function of the spatial frequencies for each dataset. The model visibilities match the data in 2011 and 2012, but we can see clear departures in 2013 (especially around the frequency 3 × 107 rad-1) and 2014 (especially between 4 × 107 rad-1 and 7 × 107 rad-1).
This is confirmed by the residuals (right panel of Fig. 5), which are contained between the ±3σ typical limit, with a few outliers in 2011 and 2012, but that clearly diverge above 3σ in 2013 and 2014, especially in the equatorial direction (hollow dots). This excess residual provides evidence of the presence of an elongated structure around the stellar equator, confirming the excess equatorial emission seen in the reconstructed images.
4.2. Circumstellar disk model with HDUST
To model this discrepancy between the RvZ model and observed data in 2013 and 2014, we add a circumstellar environment to Achernar by using the 3D, NLTE Monte Carlo radiative transfer code HDUST, which was developed by Carciofi & Bjorkman (2006). We briefly describe HDUST here, while a more detailed description is provided in the above paper. The central star is modeled by an oblate ellipsoid of revolution with identical flattening as the Roche model. Gravity darkening is also included in the model to obtain the surface distribution of effective temperature.
The circumstellar environment is modeled by iterating on the radiative and statistical equilibrium equations to calculate the H-level populations, electron temperatures, and hydrostatic equilibrium density for all grid cells. These calculations include collisional and radiative processes (bound-bound, bound-free, and free-free). In agreement with several recent results on Be star disks, the adopted physical structure and velocity field of the circumstellar disk of Achernar follow the viscous decretion disk (VDD) model (e.g., Rivinius et al. 2013; Carciofi 2011). Using the oblate photosphere and VDD prescription, Faes (2015, Chap. 6) computed a HDUST disk model that roughly agrees with the polarization and Hα spectra of Achernar in 2014. The values for the equatorial radius, flattening, and gravity darkening coefficient adopted for the oblate ellipsoid photospheric model are those from Domiciano de Souza et al. (2014). The resulting intensity map can be seen in Fig. 4, right, and the corresponding Hα line profile is given in Fig. 8.
Following our method in Sect. 4.1, we computed visibilities out of this model map and compared them with the observed visibilities in Fig. 6. There is no point in comparing the HDUST model with 2011 and 2012, where the RvZ model neatly matches the data (a comparison that was already carried out in Domiciano de Souza et al. 2014), therefore, Fig. 6 only shows 2013 and 2014. We see a clear improvement of the visual match of visibilities between the RvZ model and HDUST model. This is confirmed by the residual plot, where the residuals shrink within ±3σ, and the computed χ2 values from Table 2 go from 9.7 to 4.8, and 7.9 to 4.4 in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Visibilities of HDUST model compared to the Achernar visibilities. Left: observed (black dots) and modeled (white stars) visibilities of Achernar. Right: residual of the visibility between the observations and the HDUST model as a function of the spatial frequency for each dataset. Black and white dots indicate polar and equatorial axes, respectively, such as in Fig. 1.
Subtraction between the reconstructed image of Achernar and both the RvZ and HDUST models. On the top row, subtraction between the images reconstructed from the observed data and artificial data calculated from the RvZ model of the photosphere of the star. On the bottom row, subtraction between the reconstructed image from the observed data and from the artificial data calculated form the HDUST model of the photosphere and circumstellar disk. The dynamic of the images is equal to 1. The green ellipse indicates the profile of the RvZ model of the photosphere model of Achernar. The subtraction images are highlighted with contours −0.02, −0.01, 0.01, 0.02. East is left and north is up. The long arrow shows the previously estimated position angle of the rotation axis of the star on the plane of sky. All datasets have been submitted to the same image reconstruction procedure.
The match is not perfect though, mainly because the HDUST model is not actually fitted to the data but just compared with it. Such a fit is beyond the scope of this paper and will be the subject of a forthcoming work (Faes et al., in prep.).
With these two models, one with a naked star and one with a gas disk, we provide the confirmation that our images indeed exhibit a disk very close to the star in 2014, and no disk in 2011 and 2012.
5. Comparison between images and model
For each set of observations, we also reconstructed an image of both the RvZ and HDUST models, as if they had been observed with PIONIER. For that, we produced synthetic data with the same UV coverage and the same error bars as the observations, but with values of visibilities and closure phases replaced by those directly extracted from the RvZ and HDUST models. The same procedure as in Sect. 3 was applied to these synthetic data to get reconstructed images of the model, giving us a common basis for the comparison with the images.
We used a photosphere model that does not include any polar wind nor any companion star, even if both could be present in our data. The polar wind signature may be seen in 2011 and 2012 at the smallest frequencies from the systematic offset seen in the residuals in Fig. 5. However, in the polar direction, we only have long baselines that are less sensitive to an extended polar wind. The companion star signature would produce an increased scatter along all the frequencies, as it is relatively far away from the main star and it contributes to only a few percent of the total H-band flux. Studying these aspects in detail is beyond the scope of this work.
Computed reduced χ2 values for the different models considered in this paper.
We convolved the final images with a beam of size equal to the effective resolution of the observations, i.e., 1.3 mas. We normalized the dynamic range to 1 and we centered both images before subtracting the image of the model to the image based on the real data. Such a procedure is biased if one wants to compute accurate excess fluxes, but we lack precise H-band photometry inside and outside the line-emission period of Achernar, which would enable us to set the total flux of each component. Therefore, this method provides us only a lower value of the excess flux.
The result is shown in Fig. 7 in which we present the subtraction between the images reconstructed from the observed data and the images reconstructed from the artificial data generated from the RvZ and HDUST models. For the same reason as in Sect. 4.2, we do not show the subtraction of the HDUST images to the 2011 and 2012 images.
The subtracted images show clearly a variation of the shape of the object during the period from 2011 to 2014. These images show no clear structure around the star in 2011 and 2012, but in 2014 there is an excess of flux on the order of 5% locally that is non-negligible for the instrument sensibility of ~1%. Using the HDUST model image improved the situation, confirming that this equatorial excess flux could indeed be explained by the gas disk.
This disk structure is tilted by 18.5° ± 6° from the equatorial direction of the star. We do not know at this point if this misalignment is significant or not, given the amount of processing we used to retrieve this disk image. This misalignment could be related to disk variability in Achernar, as found by Carciofi et al. (2007). Indeed, blobs of matter are expelled from the photosphere of Achernar and form rings of matter around the star that can be detected by means of rapid polarization angle variations from 30° to 36°.
Normalized Hα line profiles of Achernar taken at different epochs between the end of 2011 and the end of 2015. The arrows indicate the PIONIER observations corresponding to Table 1. The dashed lines correspond to the model Hα line profile computed (1) with CHARRON (see Sect. 4.1) for the photospheric RvZ model (epochs 2011 and 2012) and (2) with HDUST (see Sect. 4.2) for the photosphere and disk model (epochs 2013 and 2014). Origin of the spectra and observers: (a) BESS 2010-09-03 (observer: Romeo), (b) BESS 2011-10-18 (observer: Heathcote), (c) OPD-ECASS-Brazil 2012-11-20 (observer: Moser Faes), (d) Brazil 2013-07-02 (observers: Marcon & Napoleão), (e) OPD-MUSICOS-Brazil 2013-11-13 (observer: Moser Faes), (f) BESS 2014-11-28 (observer: Powles), (g) BESS 2015-10-24 (observer: Luckas).
In this paper we have presented H-band images of the Be star Achernar at different epochs corresponding to normal B and Be phases. These images were obtained from image reconstructed techniques applied to VLTI/PIONIER observations taken at three different epochs (2011, 2012, and 2014). While the images do not show any disk (within a ~±1% level) in 2011–2012 (see Domiciano de Souza et al. 2014), the image from 2014 data shows that a disk was present mainly around the equatorial region of Achernar. This is in line with the Achernar outburst detected in the beginning of 2013. Follow-up spectroscopic and polarimetric observations showed a growing disk throughout 2013 and 2014 (Faes et al. 2015). Figure 8 shows several of these Hα spectra of Achernar taken at different epochs covering the PIONIER observations. Details of each spectrum are given in the caption of the figure. Hα is in absorption before end of 2012, so that the 2011 and 2012 PIONIER data were recorded when Achernar was essentially in a normal B phase (a thorough discussion on this phase pre-2013 is given by Domiciano de Souza et al. 2014). On the other hand, as shown in Fig. 8, Hα is in clear emission from mid-2013 to at least the end of 2015, meaning that the 2013 and 2014 PIONIER data were recorded with Achernar in an emission-line phase (Be phase).
From the 2014 reconstructed image compared to the 2011 and 2012 images, we estimated that the near-IR contribution of the disk extends to ~1.7–2.3 equatorial radii, independently from any modeling. This result is in good agreement with predictions from theoretical Be-disk models, providing direct support to them.
Although the question of the physical mechanism triggering the ejection of material from the star followed by disk formation is still unanswered, the results from this work provide direct information about the near-IR size and flux of a newly formed Be disk, which will contribute to future works on the disk formation and dissipation processes in Be stars and massive stars in general.
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We thank A. Chelli for fruitful discussions and for his helpful comments and suggestions. We thank the JMMC for all the preparation and data interpretation tools made available to the community. We thank E. Thiebaut for providing the MiRA software to the community. This work has made use of the BeSS database, operated at LESIA, Observatoire de Meudon, France2; we thank all observers who kindly provided the Hα spectra used in this work. A.C.C. acknowledges support from CNPq (grant 307594/2015-7) and FAPESP (grant 2015/17967-7). Last but not least, we would like to thank the anonymous referee for his helpful and pertinent comments, always greatly appreciated.
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Thanks to its aggressive, targeted marketing program, unique internet-based proprietary software, and advanced customer services training, Delta Disaster Services is looking forward to keep growing and reinforce its domestic leadership in the disaster recovery market.
"Being recognized as one of the top businesses nationwide is a tremendous accomplishment for a young company such as ours," said Jason Kaber, Vice President of Franchise Development.
"Beyond the well-deserved recognition for our early successes, we take it as a strong encouragement to keep up with the highest standards of quality and customer service we strive to uphold," Mr. Kaber concluded.
With expert staff and rapid response crews on call 24/7, Delta Disaster Services is always on the ready to be dispatched at a moment's notice to anywhere within our two-hour guaranteed response service area.
Delta Disaster Services is a nationally recognized franchising brand in the 60-billion-dollar restoration industry, providing insurance restoration services to commercial and residential property for water, fire, and environmental damages including reconstruction.
Delta Disaster Services of Southern Colorado is certified in the areas of water and fire mitigation, environmental remediation, restoration and reconstruction, in the greater Denver and South Colorado areas.
For more information on Delta Disaster Services, please visit deltafranchise.com, call 1-(844)-726-0638 or contact Delta Disaster Services by email.
The Inc. 5000 list is made up of the fastest growing companies. Recognizing only privately-held companies in America that have created value and jobs. In 1979, Inc. Magazine first published Inc. 100, In 1982, the list expanded to the top 500, and in 2007, it expanded to the Inc. 5000.
The 2017 Inc. 5000 list was compiled according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2013 to 2016. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2013. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent. The minimum revenue required for the first initial year is $100,000; the minimum for 2016 is $2 million.


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Селище міського типу:
 Петрове — Кіровоградська область, Петрівський район
Села:
 Петрове — Автономна Республіка Крим, Білогірський район
 Петрове — Автономна Республіка Крим, Ленінський район
 Петрове — Волинська область, Іваничівський район
 Петрове — Дніпропетровська область, Софіївський район
 Петрове — Кіровоградська область, Кропивницький район, Великосеверинівська сільська громада
 Петрове — Кіровоградська область, Кропивницький район, Знам'янська міська громада (в минулому — Знам'янський район)
 Петрове — Одеська область, Біляївський район
 Петрове — Чернігівська область, Чернігівський район

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Fidel Castro Backs Brother Raul
April 19, 2016 April 23, 2016 Circles Robinson	10 Comments
Fidel Castro addressed the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party on Tuesday April 19, 2016. Photo: Ismael Francisco/cubadebate
HAVANA TIMES — Former Cuban President Fidel Castro returned today to the main political stage of the island, almost a decade after an intestinal disease took him away from power, reported dpa news.
Castro, 89, appeared on Tuesday morning before the plenary session of the 7th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). He pronounced a statement that also sounded like a farewell to the Congress.
"Soon I should turn 90," said the former president, who was greeted with standing ovations and cheers of "Fidel, Fidel" by the more than 1,000 delegates and guests who attended the closed meeting.
Fidel said, "Our turn will come to all of us," and added, "Perhaps this will be of the last times I will speak in this hall," he predicted. Television images showed some delegates near tears at the Havana Convention Center.
Fidel Castro read his brief speech in a tired but firm voice, next to his brother, the current President Raul Castro. The former leader, who turns 90 on Aug. 13, has lived for years retired from public spotlight but has continued to exercise his influence.
Fidel expressed his support for his brother's government's policy, without going into further details. "I congratulate you all and firstly Raul Castro for his magnificent effort," he said.
The younger Castro pushes for a market opening to foreign capital on the island, after decades of state monopoly. He also initiated in December 2014 a historic rapprochement with the United States, once a fierce ideological enemy of the government of his brother.
Fidel Castro spent part of his speech to recall his youth and his discovery of the former Soviet Union, whose political model he claimed to have had "total confidence". He also openly praised the system built under his leadership after the 1959 revolution in Cuba.
"The ideas of the Cuban communists will remain," he predicted. Although not involved for years actively in Cuban political life, the former president said he voted for "all candidates" of the more than 100 members of the new Central Committee and 17 members of the Politburo presented today.
Raul Castro, 84, was confirmed today as first secretary at the head of the Party for another five years as was Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, 85, another historic fighter of the Cuban Revolution, as deputy chief of the only political party allowed in Cuba. The PCC has a membership of around 10% of the total Cuban population.
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10 thoughts on "Fidel Castro Backs Brother Raul"
Dennis Melvin
Cuba is a living example of the negative effects of socialism/communism. Take away the incentives to produce though government confiscation and what happens? In Cuba and now Venezuela, people stop producing and wait for the government handout. If it(your country's economy) doesn't work, go back and start all over. That is all you can do, other than live in material misery.
The propaganda is beamed from Jamaica
Vinylon(Ja:????), also known as Vinalon, is a synthetic fiber produced from polyvinyl alcohol … The fiber was largely ignored in Korea until Ri defected to North Korea in 1950. Trial production began in 1954 and in … in small amounts in North Korea. Other than clothing, it is also used for shoes, ropes, and quilt wadding.
Moses Patterson
Hahaha! What an ignorant comment.
I believe that. It's a weird sort of Stockholm syndrome played out over an entire country.
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Groundwork UK is looking for a Programme Partner to deliver BBO Progress to young people aged 15-16 years identified as being at risk of becoming NEET across all Warwickshire districts.
Programme Partners are responsible for core programme delivery by deploying Progress Coaches – community-based youth work practitioners with IAG experience who will engage, support and progress a caseload of eligible young people from induction through to sustained onward progression focussed on employment outcomes whilst developing and maintaining appropriate stakeholder relationships.
Programme Partners will work closely with Local Authorities (and agencies working on their behalf), schools, Area Behaviour Partnerships and other educational providers/ stakeholders, to identify young people (aged 15) who are at risk of becoming NEET.
Following a period of initial engagement, the Programme Partner(s) will then formally enroll participants on leaving school. They will then work with young people for up to 6 months through an intensive, flexible and responsive combination of coaching and support to access (where appropriate) activities, training and support through our network of Specialist Partners, aiming towards engaging the young person in post-16 education, training or employment.
In line with the specification, we are particularly keen to receive submissions from organisations able to provide transition support for vulnerable school leavers. The successful tenderer will ideally be able to deliver across the north and south Warwickshire, but proposals from organisations delivering only in specific areas will be considered. In these circumstances, the full budget may be distributed across a number of successful tenderers.


The Reference Online Center (ROC Lab) is located adjacent to the Reference Desk. This lab provides approximately 24 computers for research: searching of reference online databases, the Library Catalog, and U.S. Government Information resources. Word processing and ChemDraw software are also available. Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) fees provide printing availability to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette affiliated users.
Preference for use of computers in the ROC Lab is given to researchers accessing the Library's catalog, databases and government information resources. Those engaged in other activities may be asked to leave if a computer is needed for research.
Users must limit sessions to 30 minutes if others are waiting.
Beverages and food are prohibited at all computer workstations.
Users may not change any windows, DOS, or Explorer configurations or options.
Users may not move, disconnect, or reconfigure equipment.
Users are encouraged to download large files to personal memory devices rather than printing them.
Users may not download to hard drives or server drives. Download to personal memory devices only.
Users must abide by the University's Computer & Network Policy.
Those who access the Web through an ISP (Internet Service Provider) will need to supply your ULID and password, when prompted, in order to reach a database. Faculty, staff, and students can activate a ULID and password using the University IT Help Desk website, by visiting Stephens Hall, Room 201 or contacting (337) 482-5516 or helpdesk@louisiana.edu.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette instructors who wish to use the Reference Online Center (ROC Lab) computers for class instruction in the use of the Library's resources may contact the Reference Desk at (337) 482-6030, at least two hours prior to the requested reservation time. A specific time and the number of students attending are also required when submitting a reservation request. The ROC Lab computers may be reserved a maximum of three times per section during each semester.


Each fire brick measures 260mm x 180mm x 30mm – The price quoted is for one fire brick.
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Each fire brick measures 265mm x 260mm x 30mm – The price quoted is for one fire brick.


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Could Sirius XM be a Telematics Insurance Partner?
The satellite radio provider has made a big buy into vehicle telematics. Here's why its customer base could boost usage-based insurance.
Sirius XM (New York) announced a big-time telematics acquisition today: The company bought the connected vehicle services business of Agero (Medford, Mass.) for $530 million in cash.
Agero says it made the sale to focus on its roadside assistance, consumer affairs and claims management services. (The latter is provided to insurance companies.)
"While telematics has been an important and growing part of our business, this divestiture allows us to focus our resources in our roadside vehicle assistance, claims management and information services which will allow us to best serve our clients and their customers in a fast-changing marketplace," Dave Ferrick, CEO of Agero, says in a statement.
SiriusXM says it made the buy because it wants to leverage its customer acquisition and servicing infrastructure, as well as its satellite network, to provide more services than simply satellite radio.
"As the world's leading provider of in-vehicle subscription services, SiriusXM is uniquely positioned to offer world-class end-to-end telematics services," Jim Meyer, CEO of SiriusXM, says in a statement. "The transaction accelerates SiriusXM's development in architecture supporting connected vehicle services, as well as the ability to provide services over both satellite and cellular networks. Agero's connected vehicle team is known for their experience, innovation and technology, and we look forward to welcoming them to SiriusXM as we work to capture the significant growth opportunities in connected vehicle services."
And yes, those services could, potentially, include usage-based insurance. Praveen Chandrasekar, a Detroit-based research manager for Frost & Sullivan that studies the automotive OEM market, said the strategy is similar to Verizon's buy of Hughes Telematics last year. SiriusXM's customer acquisition and servicing capabilities combined with its satellite infrastructure and, now, telematics services make it a force to be reckoned with in all connected car-based products.
[Read Chandrasekar's prediction that the usage-based insurance space would get crowded]
"Eventually insurance will become a part of this. Insurance is fast integrating into services like Ford SYNC and OnStar, and SiriusXM can provide a similar type of enabling infrastructure," Chandrasekar told Insurance & Technology.
In fact, at a time when the biggest usage-based insurance providers see adoption of the product reach a plateau, the marketing potential for a SiriusXM/insurer partnership is vast. If SiriusXM and an insurer of reasonable size joined to offer a SiriusXM-powered telematics insurance product, the existing customer base to draw on could be huge. SiriusXM has more than 25 million subscribers -- it crossed that threshold in July -- which represents about 13% of the size of the U.S. auto insurance market. Only one insurer -- State Farm -- has an auto insurance market share above 10%, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
"SiriusXM's core expertise is they have the satellite bandwidth and they create content. They can say, 'I have the infrastructure, you have the insurance, we each have a customer base'... The permutations are endless," Chandrasekar says. "They now are a whole service provider. The missing piece was using this bandwidth and doing something much bigger."
[Time for an open relationship between insurers and telematics OEMs?]


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New Volkswagen technology is the key to the 'electric car for all'
Volkswagen has unveiled the vehicle platform – called MEB – which will be used across its range of electric vehicles.
The rolling chassis has been designed specifically for pure electric vehicles and by the end of 2027, the four VW Group brands will sell 27 different models based on it.
Volkswagen says MEB is the key to the 'electric car for all' and its price-service ratio will be instrumental in transforming the electric vehicle from a niche product into a bestseller.
Thomas Ulbrich, Volkswagen Group brand board member for e-mobility, said: "We will make electric vehicles popular and get as many people as possible excited about electric cars.
"The MEB is one of the most important projects in the history of Volkswagen – a technological milestone, similar to the transition from the Beetle to the Golf. The MEB is the economic and technological backbone of the electric car for all."
The first car to be based on the platform will be the Volkswagen ID, with production due to start on this range at the end of next year.
The Volkswagen Group plans to sell some 150,000 electric cars, including 100,000 ID models, by 2020.
MEB was unveiled at the launch of the group's Electric For All campaign, which also saw the unveiling of a design prototype of the "Volks-Wallbox".
Volkswagen said this Wallbox is an affordable home system that will make charging the ID family easy and convenient.
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Volkswagen will offer an electric car sharing service as part of its WE/We customer platform, next year.
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Fleet Evolution's MD Andrew Leech has said drivers could cut their fuel costs, tax bills and CO2 emissions by opting for a PHEV or EV for their daily commute.


The following is somewhat autobiographical, but describes my coming to realize the importance of "wholeness" in the concept of health. Growing up in a religious home, I always heard a lot about the soul, the state of which was a prime concern of my mother's. Granted, we talked about the resurrection of the dead, etc., but the soul dying, leaving the body behind, and going to heaven was the real belief, if one considers things as they were really imagined. The body was just a shell; what really mattered lay hidden inside, and caring for the body was secondary to that.
Though I am (and I realize the irony) intellectually aware of this mistake, I continue to grapple with old habits which have a real effect on my life. I am both a teacher and a student, and as a result spend most of my time either at the computer or in ach air. My work and studies preoccupy my mind, but my body is often neglected. Of course, one might ask why it matters; my work requires that my mind function well, not my body, right? (Even my role as a parent doesn't seem to hinge on anything but the most basic physical abilities; I drove my kids to the swimming pool, and am at this very moment writing this text on a bench by the poolside ... sitting again). I trim my nails, wash my hair, and eat when I'm hungry; why isn't this good enough?
The man who makes the finest mixture of gymnastic with music and brings them to his soul in the most proper measure is the one of whom we would most correctly say that he is the most perfectly musical and well harmonized.
Plato recognizes the individual who exercises both her or his body and her or his mind as someone who is harmonized, well-cultured, and educated; a prime example of humanity, in other words. Plato was especially concerned with exercise and gymnastics, as they had great potential to add to the formation of good citizens. Through working and playing together, citizens could strengthen their friendships, learn to trust and rely on one another, and cultivate a spirit of teamwork that would aid them in all aspects of life. It is Plato's understanding that the individual's purpose is to serve society and play a particular, unique role (each according to her or his talents and capabilities), ensuring the fitness of the body to do that role. In that case, getting along with those others with whom I share citizenship, makes sense; as long as I live in society, this aspect of life needs to be cultivated.
On the other hand, if my job is to teach, should going to the gym (or at least having a regular workout routine) really be that essential? My job is not physically demanding after all. My studies would not let the mater go; my look at Plato's Republicand the tripartite soul sent me to look at more present-day understandings of the human mind and body: Paul MacLean's triune brain (his parallels with Plato's parts of the tripartite soul are striking) and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, who not only emphasizes the brain's links with the body (for it is an organ of the body, after all), but reminds us that neural activity does not exist isolated on its own. To function, the mind depends on stimuli taken in from the nerves, from one's physical and socio-cultural environments and the body's actions on those environments. Damasio says: "I am saying that the body contributes more than life support and modulatory effects to the brain. It contributes a content that is part and parcel of the workings of a normal mind." Indeed, soul and body were not the separate things I'd been led to believe growing up!
As a consequence of the Cartesian division, most individuals are aware of themselves as isolated egos existing 'inside' their bodies. The mind has been separated from the body and given the futile task of controlling it, thus causing an apparent conflict between the conscious will and the involuntary instincts.
This Cartesian separation has put us at odds not only with our own bodies, but with the world in which we live as well. "This inner fragmentation of man," he goes on, mirrors his view of the world 'outside' which is seen as a multitude of separate objects and events." It has turned the world into a collection of objects, rendered the environment ripe for exploitation, and has separated us from our bodies as well. Capra sees this as a major flaw in the Western understanding, and so long as these distinctions remain it will always be incomplete (something I think the author of the Republic would certainly agree with).
Capra's understanding that wholeness is an essential part of accurately understanding reality is reflected in the writings of other physicists, who are now working to unify our understanding of the world as a single whole. David Bohm also saw a divided, selfish world arising from the old Cartesian understanding, but also saw the potential for something new and better to follow from the acceptance of the quantum understanding of reality. While Western scientific successes allowed the Cartesian worldview to endure for several centuries,, human beings have "always been seeking wholeness – mental, physical, social, individual." From the twentieth century on, quantum physics has specifically sought a wholeness which unites the whole universe into a single event. Bohm, like the Greeks long before him, sees a clear connection between the concepts of wholeness and health: "To be healthy is to be whole." Of late humankind (at least in the West) has been living in fragmentation, but this has sadly not allowed for a truly well-lived life.
Early on I mentioned that I continue to grapple with old habits, and now find myself in the interesting position of knowing intellectual what I am not yet regularly putting into practice physically (thus making me a living example of this aforementioned fragmentation). I know a physically active life is best, not only for my body, but for every aspect of my being. I realize that mind and body are really one; they are all connected, and are all aspects of a single, united being (that's me). And having realized this, and understanding that every facet of my life would benefit from a more physically active lifestyle, I know the time has come to get started.
Luckily for me, I went to school with the Fitness Philosopher.
It's time to give him a call.
Bohm, D. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. New York, NY: Routledge Classics. 2002. Originally published in 1980.
Capra, F. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (Revised 2000 edition). Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc. 2000. Originally published in 1975.
Damasio, A. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2005. Originally published 1994.
Plato. The Republic. A. Bloom, trans. New York, NY: HarperCollins Basic Books. 1991, translation originally published 1961.


In 1917, the Industrial School for Roman Catholic Boys, formerly based at Cannington, relocated to new premises at Prior Park, near Bath. The property, a huge eighteenth century mansion built by Ralph Allen, the renowned architect of Georgian Bath, had previously been used as a Roman Catholic training college. At the start of the First World War, the site had been taken over for several years for military purposes. In January 1917, Prior Park School, as it now became, was certified for the accommodation of up t0 150 boys, aged from 9 to 10 years at their date of admission. The School's superintendent at Cannington, Mr George L. Harding, continued in the post at Prior Park.
In August, 1919, a 13-year-old London inmate of the School, Frederick Green, was found by a policeman at 3 a.m. limping along a Bath street with a dog chain attached to his right foot. The boy said that he had been chained up at the school and then beaten on the head by a master with a rolling pin. He had got through the window, measuring only 14 inches by 11 inches, of the top room which he was confined, and then slid down a water pipe. In response to police enquiries, the superintendent of the school stated that Green was incorrigible, and had made many attempts to escape. At a subsequent court hearing, four masters of the School were charged assaulting and ill-treating Green. All pleaded not guilty. Green testified that he had arrived at Prior Park from the llford Industrial School on July 24, and, alleging that he had tried to escape, the superintendent, Mr Harding, punched him on the jaw and had his head shaved. The following day he ran away, but was captured at Hungerford, and Henry White, the School's manual instructor, had put chains on his bare ankles, in which condition he passed the night. The next morning, one of the boys chained him to a table in the kitchen, and Mr Harding struck him several times with a rolling-pin. Green had said "Sorry, sir," and Harding had belaboured him again. Green said that he had remained in chains for the next two days, and in the evening they were taken off and his cut ankles dressed with iodine. When Green told Harding that he wished to go to sea, Harding had hit him on head, ribs, and leg, and, being chained to the table, Green could not dodge him. Other boys testified as to seeing Green in chains, and a boy called Philpott stated that Harding had struck Green several times with his fist. Two others admitted they had struck Green while he was chained up. Dr J.M. Harper, a police surgeon, said there were three very recent scars on Green's head. He had a cut lip, contusions over the shoulders, ribs, back, left thigh, chest and arms, and there were deep lacerated sores over the wrists and left instep. There were also marks on the head caused by a blunt instrument. Harding said that he and his three subordinates had sole charge of 120 boys. He was quite unaware that Green had been chained up, and he had been at Weston-super-Mare when it took place. He admitted hitting the boy twice, but never with a rolling-pin. Harding said that the school had an inadequate staff, Chaining was, of course, unauthorised, but there was no cell provided for absconders. Gaston Renard, gardener, Charles Rosenthal, master tailor, and Henry White, manual instructor, were also stated by Green have ill-treated him. Rosenthal had manacled him. passing chains from his ankles up his back to his wrists, which were held behind him. At night, his legs were bent double and secured up behind him, so had to spend the night his back. He was later chained to the hot-water pipes. On falling out of bed he could not get back. One night the boys beat him with belts while he was helpless, and his face was covered with blood. Rosenthal denied striking the boy, although on finding he had broken one chain, he had bound him with another, despite having no authority for doing so. Henry White also denied ill-treatment, as did Renard, an ex-private in the Belgian army, who had been wounded in action. Harding was found guilty and fined £10 plus costs. Renard was found not guilty, White was fined £2, and Rosenthal, whose conduct was described by the bench as extremely cruel, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The magistrates strongly criticised the School's Management Committee for neglect.
Following the 'chained boy' case, a change of management was inevitable. In 1920, the running of the School was taken over by the Irish Christian Brothers who had been based at the site from 1895 up until the start of the First World War. The Rev. Brother G.S. Roche was appointed superintendent.
A report on the School in 1920 noted that the boys each had three outfits: a tweed suit, a blue serge suit, and corduroy knickerbockers with a tweed jacket. The also wore monogrammed cricket caps and had clean starched collars, thanks to the large steam laundry on the premises. Most of the boys went home at holiday times, with three weeks being allowed in the summer. The boys played football matches with other sides in the area including the Nautical School at Portishead and the Bath Ladies' Football Club.
In January, 1923, the School again received widespread publicity when a 12-year-old inmate named Percy Chilwell was arrested after placing some wooden fencing posts on a railway line in the path of the Cardiff to Brighton express, thus endangering the safety of passengers. Fortunately, the train had stopped in time to prevent a serious accident. Chilwell, who had absconded from the School several times, was later sentenced by magistrates to be committed to a reformatory until the age of 18. In a report of the court proceedings, it was noted that the boy heard this portion of his sentence with a pleased smile, apparently regarding it as the fulfilment of his wishes. When, however, learned that was to receive six strokes the birch rod, his radiant mood speedily changed. He gave an audible gasp of apprehension, and before he was removed from the Court had given way to unrestrained tears.
The establishment resigned its Industrial School certificate in April, 1924, but continued in operation as a school for Roman Catholic boys, receiving scholars transferred from St Brendan's College at Bristol. The site, known for a time as St Paul's College, is now home to Prior Park College, a co-educational Catholic boarding and day school.


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Q: Sonarqube coverage configuration for React and Jest I have problem with configuration sonarqube to work properly with React + Jest.
My configuration:
my_moudle.sonar.projectBaseDir=front_app
my_module.sonar.javascript.file.suffixes=.js,.jsx
my_module.sonar.tests=src
my_module.sonar.test.inclusions=**/__tests__/** my_module.sonar.javascript.lcov.reportPaths=coverage/lcov.info
Currently I point to the src folder as tests folder because I have set of tests for each component in tests folder at the same project folder.
Thanks to SonarJS I have proper coverege for my project, but I don't know why I can't see amount of unit tests in coverage measures metrics.
Any checked configuration will be appreciate.
Thanks,
Barb

A: SonarJS is not responsible for Unit test reports, (Relevant FAQ entry)
It is the responsibility of SonarQube to import the Unit test report.
I have managed to do it with the following setup.
First we need to convert the jest results into sonar consumable format. For this, I used the following npm module: jest-sonar-reporter.
Snippet of my package.json:
"devDependencies": {
   ...
    "jest": "^21.1.0",
    "jest-sonar-reporter": "^1.3.0",
    ...
  },
  "jestSonar": {
    "sonar56x": true,
    "reportPath": "testResults",
    "reportFile": "sonar-report.xml",
    "indent": 4
  }

You can will now need to tell jest to use this module as a processor and tell sonar scanner to use the file produced by this module. The instructions are in the official documentation.
If you are using create-react-app/react-scripts though, you may need a few additional steps, as all configuration is not exposed by them.
You will need to modify your entry for test in scripts block in package.json to:
"test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom --testResultsProcessor ./node_modules/jest-sonar-reporter/index.js

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Q: Cannot segue from MapKitView to Controller I want to create a segue between a map view and a controller. However, holding Ctrl ket and trying to make a connection between the map view and controller doesn't work. I have seen people say that you can call it programmatically by using performSegueWithIdentifier but I can't even create a segue to assign an identifier to it so I can call it later on. If nothing works out I am just going to create a hidden button, make a segue and call that segue on map view click. But if there is a non-hack way of doing it, I would like to know.

A: First understand what kind of segue you need. Probably you want to come back to the map with a back button. Easy way to accomplish this is by embedding the all the VC in navigation controller. We will do that at last.
Lets ctrl+drag from the first VC to the second one. Make sure you are zoomed out and you are selecting not the button but the whole VC. This way we create manual segue. Give a suitable name for the identifier because we need to refer to it in the code later on.

Now got to the inspector set the identifier as stated above. Make sure you select the round segue thing in-between the two VCs.

Then into the first VC, ctrl+drag from the map after zooming in to set a action. For my case, i have a button named pop and i will set a action by Ctrl+dragging it to implementation file.
After that i want the user to click the POP, in you case the map or marker, then fire the segue we created.
The code is:
- (IBAction)pop:(id)sender {
    [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"push" sender:self];
}

-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender{
    if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:@"push"]) {
        //get the presenting vc here
        id destionationVC=segue.destinationViewController;

        //put some values to it
        //destionationVC.value=2; //something;

        //done
    }
}

If you try to run now, you will crash. Because Push segues need to have UINavigationController as its root view controller. In doing so, we get a back button implemented for us automatically. So choose the First VC, in your case, MaPVC and choose embed in navigation controller. Like so,

Then run the app and you get to segue by clicking Pop in my case. Use the concept however you like if its applicable. Any questions welcomed?
P.S performSegueWithIdentifier in turns calls your implementation of -prepareSegue. If you don't implement this method, it calls the UIViewControllers -prepareSegue. Thats some inheritance going there. Anyway, hope it helps.


Sub7aan Allah. March 28, 2014 was a very important day – it was the first time I read my work aloud, under my own name. It was also the first time I would meet Ghadeer. Meaning, and unintentionally, it was exactly five years less a day, that I met for the first time the woman with whom I spent today, the woman whom I had only seen twice a little later in 2014. She is one of the two Min Fami editors, the first publication to which I ever sent my work in my own name. The second editor has since become my neighbour, Ghaida, and a dear beloved, whom I absolutely. Adore.
Our day was spent roaming Azza's and my neighbourhood, Pedregalejo, catching up and learning one another anew. Tomorrow we spend our evening in her hood, at her favourite Italian restaurant, owned by an Italian gent from Rome, now resident in Spain. Ghadeer has been here for a couple of months and so has found her own tempo, into which we will fall then, inshAllah.
1. All of this. I have been given the opportunity to just do all of this and nothing else. This is absolutely incredible, and I am so grateful.
2. Having all ten toes, and all ten fingers. They help a lot.
3. Aalya. She is one of the very few beloveds who, five years ago, was aware that I wrote (outside of my political contributions). Under direct threat, she forced me to send Min Fami my stories. It was a difficult decision because I didn't want to send these in anonymously. Min Fami was the first time 98% of my family and friends became aware of the fact that I wrote, and that I even had this home. It was a very strange thing to come out of the writing closet, and I owe it all to Aalya's threat that she would no longer be my friend if I did not submit.


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When a table's column(s) are defined to be NOT NULL and have a nonzero default value (INT columns; may affect strings or other types but untested), LOAD DATA INFILE fails to populate the column with the defined default value when a null is encountered in import data for the column; instead, the column will receive the "implicit" default value of 0.  Warnings are generated for each such row stating the default value will be used, but it is not.
Test scripts/data will be attached following bug submission.
3.  Observe the column received a value of 0, not k as expected.
Functionally, all possible paths to populate a non-nullable column with a null which will use a default value should always respect the default value defined in the schema.
Attachment: defvaluetest.tar.gz (application/x-gzip, text), 351 bytes.
This behavior was encountered both with the mysql command line client (same version/platform as server) and with Perl DBD::mysql 2.9008.
Just verified this behavior is present in server 4.1.10a as well.
deserves a note in "LOAD DATA INFILE" section of mysql manual.
feature available for LOAD DATA INFILE.
I beg to differ whether this behavior *should* be expected.
LOAD DATA INFILE inserts rows into the database, and all actions populating a new row should respect any default column values specified when the table was defined, whether said action occurs during an INSERT statement (multi-row or not), including INSERT INTO ... SELECT, or by an implicit row insertion carried out by LOAD DATA INFILE.
In other words, a defined default value for a column SHOULD ALWAYS BE RESPECTED.  Other enterprise class databases, such as Sybase, behave this way (e.g. bcp will respect default column values when bulk loading and no value is found for a column).  It's only reasonable to expect that MySQL would behave the same way.
I've placed this bug in Analysing status and asked one of our software architects to review this, as this behaviour is highly inconsistent, and I agree with the submitter that we should consider changing it to match the behaviour of INSERT in this regard.
I've discussed this with PeterG, and our conclusion is that fixing the warning message as described was the right thing to do here, as LOAD DATA is (otherwise) behaving as described in the Manual.
If the submitter would like to see this behaviour changed, he should please submit a Feature Request bug.
I've documented the fix in the 5.0.25 changelog.
BUT - since this is apparently tagged for 5.1 as well as 5.0, I need to know which 5.1.x to which the fix applies before this fix can be fully documented and the bug closed.
It was pushed in 5.1.12.
Also noted bugfix in 5.1.12 changelog. Bug closed.


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Biopharmaceuticals, Discovery, Design and Delivery
Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases
Critical care, Anesthesiology, Peri-operative and Emergency medicine
Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology
Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation
Groningen Kidney Center
Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD
Microbes in Health and Disease
Real world studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics, &-Therapy (PEGET)
Medicinal Chemistry & Bioanalysis (MCB)
The Medicinal Chemistry and Bioanalysis (MCB) program consists of 8 Principle Investigators in three GRIP basic units (Analytical Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Drug Design) and 3 Principle Investigators from adjacent GRIP units whose primary GUIDE affiliation is Biopharmaceuticals, Discovery, Design, and Delivery (BDDD).(See Appendix 1 for the table listing the PIs who make up MCB. See also main Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) report, Section 1.2, Description of the Institute, for an explanation of the relationship between GRIP units and GUIDE MCB and BDDD programs.) Altogether, the MCB program combines expertise in (bio)analytical chemistry, medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. In 2013, the name of the program was changed from Synthesis & Analysis to Medicinal Chemistry and Bioanalysis to better reflect the mission and ongoing research activities of this GUIDE program.
Scientific and Societal output
See MCB on rug.nl
Dr. C. Åberg
Prof. dr. RPH Bischoff
T.I.F.H. Cremers
Prof. dr. F.J. Dekker
Prof. dr. ASS Dömling
Prof. dr. MR Groves
Prof. dr. PL Horvatovich
Dr. K.H. Mathwig
Prof. dr. N.C. van de Merbel
Dr. HP Permentier
Prof. dr. G.J. Poelarends
Prof. dr. EMJ Verpoorte
Prof. A.S.S. Dömling, PhD
Prof. dr. P.L. Horvatovich
Description of the Programme
The MCB program plays a unique role within GUIDE as it links medicinal chemistry and bioanalysis to biomedicine and clinical practice. The MCB research lines fall generally into the category of early drug development, and as such rely on researchers who have strong backgrounds in synthetic and bioanalytical chemistry, as well as a unique pharmaceutical perspective. Three GRIP research units (Drug Design, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Analytical Biochemistry) form the core of the program. Three PIs (Casini, Dekker and Poelarends) from the BDDD also contribute to the MCB program to expand the medicinal chemistry side and ensure increased diversity in drug discovery activities. While each GRIP unit has a core business and expertise set of its own, the PIs operate projects which are often very interdisciplinary in nature. Internal collaborations within the MCB program and with PIs in other GUIDE programs are thus commonplace, in keeping with the nature of modern drug research.
MCB Mission: Drug development through medicinal and bioanalytical chemistry
MCB Vision: Our vision is to enable efficient translation of results from fundamental research to the patient bedside.
Relevance to Healthy Ageing
The group "Drug Design" has multiple local and international collaborations in the area of "Healthy Ageing" contributing to the network but also contribute financially via several shared grants (QNRF, Qatar; NIH).
The group Analytical Biochemistry participates in the NWO project "Systems Biology Centre for Energy Metabolism and Ageing" and supports other ageing-related projects with bioanalytical expertise.
The Pharmaceutical Analysis group has two healthy aging-related projects funded by the European Union (Framework 7), one on the development of a new nanotechnology-based paradigm for engineering vascularised liver tissue for transplantation (NanoBio4Trans), the other on the development of biophotonic diagnostic tools for cardiovascular disease (LiPhos).
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The marriage of Dr. Donnica L. Moore, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, to Dr. Stanley Bernard Jr., a medical marketing consultant, took place yesterday in Philadelphia. Rabbi Max Hausen performed the ceremony at the Fairmount Park Horticultural Center.
The bride, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis B. Moore of Brooklyn, graduated from Princeton University, attended the University College of Dublin School of Medicine as a Rotary International Scholar and received an M.D. degree from the State University at Buffalo. She will retain her name. Her father is an instructor in writing and English at York College of the City University of New York. Her mother, Toby Moore, is an English and drama teacher at the Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn.
Dr. Bernard, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Bernard of Nashville, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the Baylor College of Medicine. He expects to receive an M.B.A. degree in May from the Wharton School. His father is a general surgeon in Nashville.


Francesco Cavaliere's recent musical works put him into a category of his own. His two most recent works, Gancio Cielo 1+2, blast out of nowhere to envelop the listener in a foreign storied world of chimera creatures, exotic percussion, and interstellar shifting keyboard melodies. He performed in September with the legendary David Behrman at BOZAR and KRAAK's Sonic Arts Revisited. We sat down together at the Brussels premier of Cirque du Soleils' Totem, to uncover where his music comes from and to articulate what sets it apart from modern and past experimental musics.
As magical realism is used as a manual to distinguish between pure science fiction and mythology, we can begin to integrate the fantastic world of computer games' and their interactive fantasy world to see slightly clear, the New World of Francesco Cavaliere's Gancio Cielo. A very important element to this work is the decision to use his home language of Italian and how this allowed him to further become him- self within his invented world. "I felt that not enough people were using the Italian language in experimental music. Being far away from there (Berlin) I began to feel I could do it. I could feel more free to speak Italian in my music not being there." It seems The Cavaliere would be using the tool of being away from one's country, to further elaborate the uniqueness of his own relationship to Italian, and from there to learn to miss his home country in a positive way, through the act of creation.
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Fans To Return To Stadium After UK's Lockdown
By William Omondi
The return of crowds to outdoor sporting events is "something to celebrate for fans", says English Football League chairman Rick Parry.
A maximum of 4,000 fans will be allowed at events in the lowest-risk areas when England's lockdown ends on 2 December, with up to 2,000 in tier two but none in tier three.
Football across England's top four divisions has mainly been played behind closed doors since returning in June.
"This is a welcome start," said Parry.
"Fans have been frustrated, they're missing their football, so it's something to celebrate for fans, not just for the clubs.
"We have to build upon it because what we're really looking forward to is getting fans back in rather more substantial numbers."
Parry added that the financial impact of fans returning could be "very significant" for clubs in Leagues One and Two and even a "lifeline" for sides in the fourth tier.
"But it's not just the money, it's a very welcome return to atmosphere," he told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.
Parry said there was "a lot of hard work ahead" and the government's announcement of the new measures on Monday will have taken the clubs "a little bit by surprise" as they "weren't really expecting anything before Christmas".
"Some clubs will still have safety officers on furlough," he said. "There is a lot of work to do quite quickly and it's really important that we get this right.
"We've got to make sure that the clubs and the fans all behave responsibly."
There are six Championship, eight League One and seven League Two fixtures currently scheduled for Tuesday, 1 December and Parry said the EFL will be "as flexible as we can be" if matches could be moved to 2 December to accommodate fans.
However, he said they still need to wait to find out which clubs will be in which tier on Thursday and to get the "necessary permissions from the safety advisory groups".
Parry added that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have been "incredibly supportive" and said it was "great to see that government does listen" after sports governing bodies had been pushing for the return of fans.
He said the results of "extraordinarily successful" pilot events in various sports earlier this year showed fans could return in a safe manner.
The pilot programme was paused in September amid a rise in coronavirus cases.
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The project, which saw the Sports Grounds Safety Authority and UK Sport working with Edinburgh University, found attendees had "high trust" in organisers to maintain their safety through measures like spaced-out seats and increased availability of hand sanitiser.
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Do we want an augmented reality or a transformed reality?
It seems we are headed towards a world where augmented reality (AR) systems will be as common as smartphones are today – it's already about to revolutionise medicine, entertainment, the lives of disabled people and of course advertising and shopping.
The big three tech companies have all invested heavily in research and development in the AR domain. Google will be releasing Google Glass later in the year, Microsoft has been working on its own AR device and not long ago Facebook bought the virtual reality (VR) company Oculus Rift.
The notion of AR that these companies are proposing is a kind of "smartphone for the eyes", as traditional AR and VR converge in the optic realm.
The reality boost
We are moving into an era where we will, on a commercial scale, be taking our visual information in real time and integrating this with a wealth of external information to transform our daily lives. This will give us some degree of control over how we see the world, in the fundamental sense.
For example, we might be offered information about people or objects as they pop into our field of view. Or it could introduce into our visual field view things that don't exist at all in the real world to potentially filter out of our vision things that are in fact there, such as giant advertising billboards (see below).
But this is not just another article about the radical changes that AR is likely to bring about. Rather it's a call to begin thinking critically about the possibilities AR presents and the idea that perhaps instead of merely augmenting reality, we could transform it.
The unspoken future
Extrapolating from the recent history of technology gives us a glimpse of what the future of AR is likely to look like in the hands of the big tech companies.
First, the idea of the "app" will extend into the visual domain, giving us apps that aid us in all the things we already do: building a house, studying at a distance, travelling in a new city and even making love.
Second, the price for access to these new services and of having information at our fingertips is likely to involve surrendering ever more of our personal information. Critically, it will open up new markets for advertisers to promote their products and services in both tacit and explicit ways – an extension of the world of "advertising everywhere".
The increased human consumption of advertising – driven perhaps largely by the increase of screens in the world – has begun to be referred to by some as the pollution of the mental environment.
By surrendering control over our immediate field of vision, advertising no longer needs to be limited to a screen or a surface but could become truly ubiquitous.
Transformed reality?
The name "augmented reality" gives it away. The vision of AR that we are seeing in the media and in press releases for products such as Google Glass is a vision of our world as we know it, but perhaps made a little easier through this technology.
In contrast, this technology, that can change what we sense in real time, has the potential to fundamentally change how we live. Do we have the imagination to dream about how instead of merely augmenting reality we could be aiming to transform it?
The transformative potential of this technology has begun to be envisioned by a number of different artists.
In the Artvertiser project, artists have developed an application that replaces billboards within the visual field with images of art. So instead of subconsciously consuming giant advertisements on a billboard from the bank, users could perhaps be consuming artworks by Banksy.
The example above is just the tip of the iceberg. What kind of a built environment do you want to inhabit? Your AR has the potential to change both the cityscape and the horizon, to overlay worlds upon worlds.
Other artists have begun experimenting with ways that the technology could be used to add extra dynamics to public artworks, bringing them to life.
The advent of AR presents a significant choice. Through detection, replacement and synthesis AR has the potential to both add to and subtract from our sensations. Aspects of the environment, even buildings and people could potentially be filtered in or out based on personal preference – our generation is the first in human history that holds this possibility.
The proposal is that rather than simply waiting to see what purposes are dreamed up by the purveyors of this technology, we need to begin thinking about how we want to use it.
Now is the time to start dreaming about how the advent of ubiquitous AR could not merely augment society, but transform it for the better.
Nick Kelly does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.


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Q: Is it possible to return a feedback error, but still allow wicket to update the component models? I have a wicket form which contains many TextField input components. There's a Validator attached to most of these inputs.
Suppose I've entered 50 values, and one of those fails a range validator. Wicket then generates an error feedback message, but also does not update the models associated with each component. Result is that I lose all 50 values I just entered, and have to type them in again.
My question is, can I tell Wicket to update the models of those components which had valid values, but just report an error for the bad value?
Digging around in the framwork, I noticed this code fragment in FormComponent, which seems to be indicating that if there is an error, then don't update the model.
public final void processInput()
{
    inputChanged();
    validate();
    if (hasErrorMessage())
    {
        invalid();
    }
    else
    {
        valid();
        updateModel();
    }
}

Is there any way to customise this behaviour, and achieve my aim of retaining all valid values?

A: I'd bet that FormComponent.processInput() is not being called at all here. When you submit the Form, Form.process() gets called. There, it will call Form.validate(), which in turn will call Form.validateComponents(), ultimately using FormComponent.validate().
The problem you're having here is the global handling in Form.process(). The form submits fully, or not at all. When a FormComponent.validate() fails, Form.hasError() will return true, and therefore Form.process() will never update any of the models.
You could:

*

*Move all FormComponent independent validations to a FormValidator. There you can choose to update the Models of those FormComponents that pass their validations.

*Implement Form.onError() and use a visitor there to update the models of valid FormComponents.

*Override Form.process() and modify the // If a validation error occurred branch to use your own methods to mark components as valid/invalid, and update (or not) model objects, depending on the FormComponent having errors. FormComponent.hasErrorMessage() will tell you if validation failed on a certain FormComponent.

UPDATE
After discussing the reasons why user input was lost with the OP, it turned out that the FormComponents were being added in a ListView that did not have setReuseItems set to true. This was causing FormComponents to be created anew on each ListView.populateItem(), therefore losing all user input.
More information on the nature of this problem can be found here:

There are however a few provisions you have to take care of when using
  a repeater in the form. Usually repeaters clear out their items at the
  beginning of every request, when inside a form this is usually
  undesirable because you want to preserve the old items because you
  want them to keep their state as opposed to being recreated fresh.
For example, if you use ListView, you should call
  ListView.setReuseItems(true) inside the form so that it preserves old
  items instead of always creating new ones everytime.