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Hellering-lès-Fénétrange est une commune française située dans le département de la Moselle en région Grand Est.

Cette commune se trouve dans la région historique de Lorraine et fait partie du pays de Sarrebourg.

Géographie

Hellering-lès-Fénétrange est située sur la D 790 à 8 km au nord de Sarrebourg.

Hydrographie
La commune est située dans le bassin versant du Rhin au sein du bassin Rhin-Meuse. Elle est drainée par le ruisseau le Bruchbach.

Le Bruchbach, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune de Bourscheid et se jette  dans l'Isch à Baerendorf en limite avec Kirrberg, après avoir traversé .

La qualité du ruisseau le Bruchbach peut être consultée sur un site dédié géré par les agences de l'eau et l'Agence française pour la biodiversité.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Hellering-lès-Fénétrange est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Sarrebourg, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (93,4 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (93,4 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
prairies (65 %), terres arables (28,4 %), zones urbanisées (6,6 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
Veltharingen (vers 1050), Heleringa (1178), Welteringon (1178), Helgeringa (1297), Helgeringen (), Heilleringen et Helgering (1705), Hellering (1793), Heillering (1801 et carte de Cassini), Helleringen (1871-1918), Hellering-lès-Fénétrange (1961).

Histoire
 Dépendait de la seigneurie de Fénétrange, puis de la principauté de Lixheim au .

Politique et administration

Démographie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Édifices civils
 Vestiges de villas romaines.
 Ruines d'un château .

Édifices religieux

 Église Saint-Martin néo-gothique 1877 : autels et fonts .
 Temple protestant réformé, rue Principale construit en 1786 (servit aux deux cultes de 1816 à 1878) par un décret napoléonien qui érigea l'église en simultaneum.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 La Principauté de Phalsbourg-Lixheim, 194 pages, Henri JUNG

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Moselle

Liens externes

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
 Notes

 Cartes

Références

Commune en Moselle
Aire urbaine de Sarrebourg
Pays de Sarrebourg

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"This creates more opportunities for a wider-range of recognition in these important categories"
Some big changes are in store for the Grammys.
Per Billboard, the Recording Academy has voted to expand the number of eligible nominees in its four main categories — Record, Song, and Album of the Year and Best New Artist — from five to eight.
While not specifically mentioned, the move is likely also a response to criticism over the lack of female winners in 2018. In the four major categories, only Alessia Cara claimed victory as Best New Artist, while many of the genre-specific categories were awarded to male nominees such as Ed Sheeran. What's more, Lorde was the only Best Album nominee to not be offered a solo performance slot.


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Leonardo Da Vinci: Artist, Thinker and Man of Science, 第 2 卷
作者:Eugène Müntz
EANWHILE, on September 13
and 14, 1515, Francis I. had
won the victory of Marignano, and on the 16th of the following October 1 he made his triumphal entry into Milan. This time again Leonardo stood in the forefront of those who had assembled to greet the rising sun. A true precursor of Vaucanson, he constructed, at Pavia, a lion, which made several steps forward, and then the creature's breast opened, to
display a wealth of lilies—an ingenious allusion, which shows how skilfully our artist could put on the courtier when necessary.
From Milan Francis I. proceeded to Bologna, where Pope
HEAD OF AN OLD MAN.
(Windsor Library.)
1 Beltrami, 1 Castello di Milano, p. 227.
2 Vasari tells the story in connection with Louis XII. ; Lomazzo in connection with Francis I. (Trattato, vol. ii., chap. i.)
Leo X. awaited him. Leonardo probably followed close the King's heels. (He can hardly have been at Bologna on the nith or 12th of December, the date of the French King's arrival in the city, for we know him to have been at Milan on the 9th.)
One thing is certain, that at some moment the "maestro" painted the portrait of "Messire Artus, master of the king's chamber" -a bald and beardless old man, with a hooked nose and projecting chin.1 The inscription on this picture, later by several lustres than the work itself, is worthy of quotation.2
To the same period, if I mistake not, belong those heads of strange-looking old men, of which Leonardo has left us such
a large variety. Their resemblance to the portrait of Messire Artus warrants this assertion.3
On December 22 Leo X. was back at Florence, and Francis I. was journeying to his own dominions. From that time onward Leonardo does not seem to have ever left the victor of Marignano. Giuliano de' Medici was still alive indeed (he died at Florence on March 17, 1516), but the artist had quitted his service some considerable time before.
The idea of youth is so closely connected with the radiant genius of Leonardo, that it seems to affect every part of his long career. While no master ever suffered less from the uncertainties and disappointments of his carlier days, none assuredly ever knew less of the weakness and failure of old age. The freshness of his impressions, the vivacity of his style, the eternal smile which he wore till the very last, would make us fancy he was never more than twenty,
1 Amoretti, p. 109. Georli, pl. xxxii. (formerly pl. xii.).
2 "Ritratto di M. Artus, maestro di camera del Re Francesco I. nella giunta con Pp. L. X., il quale, negandogli l'unione con le sue arme che aveva impegnate col Re di Napoli per molti anni, lo compiacque di fargli subito il fratello Cardinale."
3 This head of Artus (turned slightly to the right in the drawing in the Ambrosian Library) re-appears almost line for line in a drawing in the Royal Library at Turin (pl. xv.), but this time full face. Another drawing at Turin (pl. xvi.) of a beardless old man, in profile, seated, seems to me to be connected with the second profile drawing in the Ambrosiana (Gerli, pl. xxxiii.), except that the chin is less determined. The same old man re-appears in the Windsor Library Collection.
just as his rival and enemy, Michelangelo, seems always to have been sixty. It is as hard to imagine Leonardo aged, gloomy, and infirm, as to conceive Michelangelo young and gay.
When more than sixty years have passed over his head, he resolves with a cheerful heart to cross the Alps, convinced he will be able to satisfy all the fancies of the
young and
eager king
But a few days before his death we see him still collecting notes, with all the eagerness of youth. What for, ye gods ? unless it were to act upon them in the next world!
May we not take Leonardo as the incarnation of the Renaissance, with all its generous aspirations, the personification of that springtide of human intelligence, crushed in the blossom by religious struggles, even as Michelangelo personifies the spirit of revolt, the melancholy and the pain of belief, threatened by science, and of morality, sacrificed by artists and scholars, who paid an all too complaisant court to tyranny ?
Francis I. showed his desire to honour the greatness of the master by bestowing a princely revenue upon him—700 crowns, about £1,400. This fact is attested by Benvenuto Cellini, who boasted, at a later date, that he had been granted a like sum. But let us leave the great goldsmith and writer to speak for himself. After relating that he has acquired a copy of Leonardo's treatise on the three great arts, he adds that, "as that great man's genius was as vast as it was varied, and as he had a certain acquaintance with Greek and Latin literature, King Francis, who was violently enamoured of his great talents, took so great a delight in hearing him argue, that he only parted from him for a few days in the year, thus preventing him from putting the splendid studies, which he had carried on with so much discipline, to actual use. I must not fail to repeat the words concerning him which I heard from the king's own lips, when he spoke to me, in the presence of the Cardinal of Ferrara, the Cardinal of Lorraine, and the King of Navarre. He affirmed that never any man had come into the world who knew so much as Leonardo ; and that not only in matters of sculpture, painting, and architecture, for in addition, he was a great philosopher."
A few words concerning Francesco Melzi, Leonardo's faithful companion, the only one of his pupils who followed him abroad, will not be inappropriate here.
Melzi belonged to a noble family of Milan, where he was born (we believe) in 1498. (He was therefore only twenty years
when his master died.) He cultivated painting as an amateur, rather than as a professional. Lomazzo speaks with special praise of his talent for miniature painting. After Leonardo's death he returned to his own country, where he lived many years (he died after 1568), but
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—as if the loss of his beloved master had broken all his powers. Possibly his leisure was employed in the arrangement of the manuscripts bequeathed to him by Leonardo. His name appears, at all events, on the copy of the Trattato della Pittura, in the Vatican Library. (See vol. 1
p. 231.)
SKETCH OF A KNIGHT.
(Library of the Institut de France, M$. I.)
Till quite lately critics have migrare e coil comid olemis
ascribed the Vertumnus and Pomona,? 14 1n 5o arantie ornitoare
in the Berlin Museum, to Melzi's "max sad fenator indsamla
brush. But Herr Bode has traversed this attribution, and attributes the picture to some
obscure artist. 3 Authentic works by Melzi having almost disappeared, I will confine myself to pointing out the fact that the heroine in this picture (a young woman seated under a tree, with a basket of flowers and fruit) is of the most pronounced Leonardesque type. Standing close beside her, touching her shoulder, is an old woman (Vertumnus), leaning on a stick. In the background is a range
| Rime, fol. 112, Milan, 1587. See also L'Arte del Minio nel Ducato di Milano, by the Marchese d'Adda ; Milan, 1886, p. 65-67.
2 There is a study for Pomona's foot in the Windsor collection, from which Waagen inferred that this picture might be ascribed to the master himself. (Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. i. p. 442.)
3 Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1889, vol. i. p. 498-500.
of curious jagged mountains. The Pomona is very elegant, and has Leonardo's characteristic smile. The bare shoulders, arms, and feet are modelled with infinite care. The work is soft and effeminate, but it has a certain charm.
The only really authentic work by Melzi now in existence is a small portrait, in red chalk, in the Ambrosian Library. It represents an old man, beardless and bald, in profile to the right. The ear is too small, and set much too high, and there is a certain timidity in the handling. The inscription : "1520 Adi 14 Augusto på cavata de relevo. Io Francescho da Melzo di anni 17," and in the same hand,
137 lower down, (" anni 19, Fr. Melzo,") puts us in a serious difficulty. For if Melzi was really born in 1498, he would have been twenty-two, and not eighteen, in 1520.1
Rosini has published, as Leonardo's work, a portrait of Melzi-a bust, in profile to the right, with bare neck and long hair curled and waved, bound with a wreath of oak leaves; the edge of a tunic and the guard (Library of the Institut de France, MS. I.) of a sword just appear.2
Needless to say, the picture in question has nothing to do with the master.
The residence assigned to Leonardo was the good town of Amboise, the cradle of the first colony of artists summoned to France by Charles VIII., and the favourite dwelling-place of the young reigning monarch. There a great part of his youth had been spent ; there, in the first year of his reign, he had celebrated the betrothal of Renée de Montpensier with the Duke of Lorraine; there, between 1515 and 1517, three of his own children had been born.3
1 Ch. Ravaisson-Mollien. Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de France, 1887, p. 125, reproduced (reversed) by Gerli (pl. xiv.), photographed by Braun (no. 54).
2 Storia della Pittura, vol. iv., p. 257.
3 La Touraine historique et monumentale, Amboise, p. 410-429. Tours, 1897. The little chapel attached to the manor house of Cloux contains several pictures which have VOL. II,
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Fifty-five years after they made their first recordings, the legendary rock band The Who is back in the studio working on their first new album in 13 years due for release later this year.
The full details for new album will be revealed in the coming months.
Along with the forthcoming record, The Who will be undertaking the aptly named 'Moving On!' tour of the US where the band will share the stage with orchestras at prestigious venues from Madison Square Garden in New York to The Hollywood Bowl.
The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history has sold over 100 million records world including 9 US & 10 UK top ten albums and 14 UK top ten singles.
They have played over well over 2000 gigs in a career spanning over 50 years including venues such as Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Glastonbury (twice), Hyde Park (four times), The Isle Of Wight (three times), Desert Trip, Shea Stadium, The Superbowl half time show and Live Aid to name but a very few.
The band is in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the UK Music Hall Of Fame and has lifetime achievement awards from The Brits and from The Grammys and in 2008 were the first rock band ever to be awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.


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Make a note of the Etag and Last Modified headers in the response above.
Using the etag noted above, you can now make the same request but provide a conditional GET header called If-None-Match.
You should get a 304 in response, with no content.
Depending on the scenario, it may make sense to use the last modified date instead of the etag (most clients will just support both). To do this, you'll send an If-Modified-Since header with the UTC date you noted from above.
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Part Four – Party Election Manifesto Analysis on Intellectual Property and Research and Innovation: Liberal Democrats
In the fourth part of the Election Series, Mahir Raoof looks at what the Liberal Democrats offer in their manifesto in regards to intellectual property, research and development and innovation.
Led by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats are the current minority partner in the coalition government. The party traditionally hold centrist views focusing on economic and social freedoms. During the election campaign in 2010, the party experienced a widespread surge in popularity on the back of Nick Clegg's performances in the television debates between party leaders. Many feel that the Liberal Democrats will find it increasingly difficult to achieve a similar feat this time round due to their record in government.
The Liberal Democrats have, by some distance, the longest manifesto, as they address areas in great detail with statistics, and highlight their track record and their 'promise of more.'
The manifesto opens with some very bold and inspiring claims about what the party will seek to achieve. The Liberal Democrats state, 'We will be leading the world in the technologies of the future.' This is quickly followed by, 'Britain will be the place to be if you want to thrive in advanced manufacturing, science, creative, digital and green industries and our country will be open to ambitious entrepreneurs and thinkers from overseas.' These are promising statements, easily made, so what do the party pledge to make this a reality?
The Liberal Democrats state that they will double the spend on innovation in the economy to make the UK a world leader in advanced manufacturing, clean technology and digital industries. The party has also identified digital and advanced manufacturing as technology areas of importance, describing these areas as having the capacity to transform people's lives.
An area of focus for the Liberal Democrats seems to be to continue driving investment within these technologies as well as supporting R&D through catapult innovation and technology centres.
Catapult centres were first established in 2010 following a report which highlighted a gap between research findings and their subsequent developments into commercial propositions. While still in the early stages, a 2014 review by Dr Hermann Hauser recommended that the seven initial catapult centres grow to thirty by 2030 with annual funding in the region of £400m.
The same 2014 review highlighted how for every £1 of public investment within collaborative R&D, there is a gross value added return (an economic measurement of the value of goods and services produced within a sector of the economy) of £6.71 – a huge return that it seems would make good sense to maintain.
The manifesto goes on to state that the party will work with sectors 'critical to Britain's ability to trade internationally including motor vehicles, aerospace, low-carbon energy, chemicals, creative industries and offshore and subsea technology.' These areas are perhaps likely to be the focus of future catapult centres in an effort to drive more R&D and innovation within these spaces.
The manifesto has a section entitled 'Securing global leadership in technology' under which many of the party's technology commitments are made. Within this section, a few of the party's pledges include:
'Complete the rollout of high-speed broadband to reach almost every household (99.9%) in the UK as well as small businesses in both rural and urban areas.' The Office for National Statistics claims that in 2014, 91% of households had access to broadband whilst only 1% of those who don't have broadband put the reason as 'not available in the area'. This appears achievable although 100% coverage should arguably be the aim.
'Build on the success of Tech City, Tech North and the Cambridge tech cluster with a network across the UK acting as incubators for technology companies.' Tech North was launched by Nick Clegg in 2014 to bring together the existing digital technology expertise of Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Newcastle. It is a very welcome initiative especially when considering developments such as the HS2 rail link as the government increasingly starts looking beyond the M25. Tech City (originally referred to as the Silicon Roundabout area of East London) is funded close to £2m a year so it will be interesting to see how much investment Tech North will receive.
'Support fast growing businesses that could create a million jobs over 20 years following the Sherry Coutu report into these scale-ups.' The report, compiled last year, consists of 12 recommendations for scale-up businesses which the report defines as, 'An enterprise with average annualised growth in employees or turnover greater than 20 per cent per annum over a three year period, and with more than 10 employees at the beginning of the observation period.'
Whilst certainly promising for businesses that fall within this definition, the manifesto doesn't state what form the support will entail and which, if any, of the 12 recommendations will be put in place.
Mental health is an area that is becoming increasingly prevalent in government policy and the Liberal Democrats have been praised for pushing the agenda. In March of this year, the party set out an extra £1.25bn to spend over five years on mental health services. Their manifesto also addresses mental health issues in quite some detail and includes a pledge of establishing a world-leading mental health research fund by investing £50m to further our understanding of mental illnesses.
With regard to Intellectual property rights, the manifesto states that the party will support, 'Modern and flexible patent, copyright and licensing rules.' It will certainly be interesting to see what the definition for 'modern' is here and therefore what effect that definition will have on the current rules.
Green technology is also a very big focus for the party as the Liberal Democrats write that they would, 'Increase research and development and commercialisation support in four key low-carbon technologies where Britain could lead the world: tidal power, carbon capture and storage, energy storage and ultra-low emission vehicles.'
The Liberal Democrats have a track record within the green technology space as in 2014 the party announced a £500m funding package for boosting the ultra-low emissions and electric vehicles' market. The party have set a target of only permitting vehicles with ultra-low emissions onto UK roads by 2040 and it seems this is a challenge that they are willing to support.
The Liberal Democrats also state that they will continue to ring-fence the science budget and ensure that by 2020 both capital and revenue spending has increased at least in line with inflation. The current science budget is set at £4.6bn which is mainly allocated through research councils and universities. Such assurances and promises of investment will be much welcomed though whether they go far enough is certainly a question to be asked particularly as the party have an ambition of overtaking France and Germany in terms of economic growth.
In conclusion, the Liberal Democrats have a particular focus on both green and advanced technologies and have the track record within these areas through their commitments to developing the network of catapult centres and investments within clean technologies.
Innovation is a key phrase appearing 21 times within their manifesto as the party seek to encourage an innovative culture throughout the country in pursuit of growth. If they do return to government, it will be very interesting to see just which of their policies they are able to implement and which they have to abandon.
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Myxozoa
Calcarea
Demospongiae
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Containing group: Animals
Sponges (phylum Porifera) are an exclusively aquatic and, with a few exceptions (Vacelet and Boury-Esnault 1995), a filter-feeding group of animals. The group consists of approximately 15,000 extant species in three distinct groups (Hooper and van Soest 2002):
the glass sponges (Class Hexactinellida)
the calcareous sponges (Class Calcarea)
the demosponges (Class Demospongiae)
Adult sponges can be asymmetrical or radially symmetrical and come in a variety of sizes, colors, and shapes, including arboresecent (tree-like), flabellate (fan-shaped), caliculate (cup shaped), tubular (tube shaped), globular (ball shaped), and amorphous (shapeless) among others. Sponges occupy both freshwater and marine environments, from shallow to abysmal depths, and are common in coral reef, mangroves, and seagrass ecosystems. In some places (e.g., Lake Baikal, Russia) sponges dominate benthic communities and along the pacific cost of North America they form modern sponge reefs.
The body plan of a sponge is simple (e.g., De Vos et al. 1991): a single outer layer of cells (the pinacoderm) separates the inner cellular region (mesohyl) from the external environment. The pinacoderm lines the internal canals and is eventually replaced by the choanoderm, a layer of characteristic flagellated collar cells (choanocytes) grouped in chambers. Choanocytes make up the principle 'pump' and' filter' of the system, driving water through the sponge, trapping and phagocytizing suspended bacteria and other particulate food, which is then digested and nutrients distributed among the cells of the mesohyl that facilitate the functions of feeding, respiration and reproduction. The flow of water inside a sponge is unidirectional: the water is drawn in through tiny pores (ostia) in the pinacoderm and exits through one or more larger openings (osculae). The aquiferous system of a sponge is usually supported by a combination of two types of skeletal elements: mineral spicules (either calcareous or siliceous) and special protein fibers (spongin), although either one or both of these elements can be absent.
The 19th-century discovery of a remarkable similarity between porifera-specific choanocytes and free-living choanoflagellates led to a proposition that sponges are the most primitive metazoans, evolved from choanoflagellate-like protist ancestors (Clark 1866; Clark 1868). The ancient origin of sponges is corroborated by the existence of a poriferan fossil record going back to the Early Vendian (~580 Mya) (Li, Chen, and Hua 1998), and by sponge biomarker record going back to the Cryogenian period (~750 Mya) (Love et al. 2009).
Traditionally, sponges have been regarded as a monophyletic group defined by several synapomorphies (Hooper, Van Soest, and Debrenne 2002), including the presence of:
choanocytes
an aquiferous system with external pores
mineral spicules
high cellular mobility and totipotency
The latter feature is often considered to be the most important (Lévi 1999). Indeed, the sponge body is unique among animals because it continuously remolds itself to fine-tune its filter-feeding system. The constant rearrangement of the body is accomplished by the amoeboid movements of cells inside the sponge and their change from one differentiated form to another.
Although often considered immobile, sponges also display several behavioral patterns (resulting from coordinated movements of cells), including crawling, production of filamentous body extensions and body contractions (Nickel 2004). It is also often mentioned that sponges lack many characteristics associated with other animals, including a mouth, sensory organs, organized tissues and neurons and muscle cells, which are otherwise ubiquitous in Metazoa. It is difficult to say, however, whether the lack of aforementioned features represents a primitive condition of sponges or a secondary loss due to their sedentary and water-filtering lifestyle. Indeed, a recent study has shown that the homoscleromorph sponges possess several characteristics thought to be absent in sponges, including the presence of true epithelia (Boury-Esnault et al. 2003). Another study has found that although sponges do not have neurons, their genome contains most of the components needed to build a post-synaptic protein scaffold that is essential for neural impulse transduction in other animals (Sakarya et al. 2007).
Although the presence of three distinct groups among the extant sponges (classes Hexactinellida, Calcarea, and Demospongiae) is largely unchallenged, the evolutionary relationships among them are controversial. Gray (1867) was first to subdivide all sponges into 'Porifera Silicea' and 'Porifera Calcarea' based on the chemical composition of sponge spicules (silica vs. calcium carbonate), a view still advocated by some scholars (e.g., Böger 1988). More recently, Reid and Reiswig and Mackie (Reiswig and Mackie 1983) subdivided Porifera into 'Cellularia' (Demospongiae plus Calcarea) and 'Symplasma' (Hexactinellida), based on the syncytial nature of the choanoderm and pinacoderm in glass sponges (Hexactinellida). Unfortunately, neither chemical composition of spicules nor syncitial nature of glass sponges are likely phylogenetically informative. First, a diverse range of siliceous structures is known in different groups of unicellular eukaryotes, including choanoflagellates, the sister group of animals (Preisig 1994). Second, the syncytial tissue in glass sponges appears to be a derived trait within this group because the development of glass sponges starts with a cellular embryo (Leys, Cheung, and Boury-Esnault 2006).
Similarly, molecular studies have so far been also inconclusive in regard to poriferan relationships, although they suggested two interesting alternatives: 1) the paraphyly of sponges (Cavalier-Smith et al. 1996; Collins 1998; Adams, McInerney, and Kelly 1999; Borchiellini et al. 2001; Rokas, Kruger, Carroll 2005; Peterson et al. 2008) and b) the presence of a distinct fourth class of sponges: Homoscleromorpha (Borchiellini et al. 2004; Nichols 2005; Peterson et al. 2008). However, the latest and the largest molecular phylogenetic study supports the traditional view that sponges are monophyletic (Philippe et al., in print).
Other Names for Porifera
Adams, C. L., J. O. McInerney, and M. Kelly. 1999. Indications of relationships between poriferan classes using full-length 18S rRNA gene sequences. Mem. Queensl. Mus. 44:33-43.
Böger, H. 1988. Versuch über das phylogenetische System der Porifera. Meyniana 40: 143-154.
Borchiellini, C., C. Chombard, M. Manuel, E. Alivon, J. Vacelet, and N. Boury-Esnault. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Demospongiae: implications for classification and scenarios of character evolution. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 32:823-837.
Borchiellini, C., M. Manuel, E. Alivon, N. Boury-Esnault, J. Vacelet, and Y. Le Parco. 2001. Sponge paraphyly and the origin of Metazoa. J. Evol. Biol. 14:171-179.
Boury-Esnault, N., A. Ereskovsky, C. Bezac, and D. Tokina. 2003. Larval development in the Homoscleromorpha (Porifera, Demospongiae). Invertebr. Biol. 122:187-202.
Cavalier-Smith, T., M. T. E. P. Allsopp, E. E. Chao, N. Boury-Esnault, and J. Vacelet. 1996. Sponge phylogeny, animal monophyly, and the origin of the nervous system: 18S rRNA evidence. Can. J. Zool. 74:2031-2045.
Clark, H. 1866. Note on the infusoria flagellata and the spongiae ciliatae. Am. J. Sci. 1:113-114.
Clark, H. 1868. On the Spongiae ciliatae as infusoria flagellata, or observations on the structure, animality and relationship of Leucosolenia botryoides, Bowerbank. Annu. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4:133-142.
Collins, A. G. 1998. Evaluating multiple alternative hypotheses for the origin of Bilateria: an analysis of 18S rRNA molecular evidence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95:15458-15463.
De Vos, L., K. Rutzler, J. V. Boury-Esnault, C. Donadey, and J. Vacelet. 1991. Atlas of sponge morphology = Atlas de morphologie des éponges. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
Hooper, J. N. A., R. W. M. Van Soest, and F. Debrenne. 2002. Phylum Porifera Grant, 1836. Pp. 9-13 in J. N. A. Hooper, and R. W. M. Van Soest, eds. Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
Hooper, J. N. A., and R. W. M. van Soest. 2002. Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. 1810.
Lévi, C. 1999. Sponge science, from origin to outlook. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Volume: 44 Part: Year: 1999 44:1-7.
Leys, S. P., E. Cheung, and N. Boury-Esnault. 2006. Embryogenesis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta: Formation of syncytia by fusion of blastomeres. Integr. Comp. Biol. 46:185-195.
Li, C. W., J. Y. Chen, and T. E. Hua. 1998. Precambrian sponges with cellular structures. Science 279:879-882.
Love, G. D., E. Grosjean, C. Stalvies et al. 2009. Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period. Nature 457:718-721.
Nichols, S. A. 2005. An evaluation of support for order-level monophyly and interrelationships within the class Demospongiae using partial data from the large subunit rDNA and cytochrome oxidase subunit I. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34:81-96.
Nickel, M. 2004. Kinetics and rhythm of body contractions in the sponge Tethya wilhelma (Porifera : Demospongiae). JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 207:4515-4524.
Peterson, K. J., J. A. Cotton, J. G. Gehling, and D. Pisani. 2008. The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Preisig, H. R. 1994. Siliceous structures and silicification in flagellated protists. Protoplasma 181:29-42.
Reiswig, H. M., and G. O. Mackie. 1983. Studies on Hexactinellid Sponges. III. The Taxonomic Status of Hexactinellida Within the Porifera. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 301:419-428.
Rokas, A., D. Kruger, and S. B. Carroll. 2005. Animal evolution and the molecular signature of radiations compressed in time. Science 310:1933-1938.
Sakarya, O., K. A. Armstrong, M. Adamska, M. Adamski, I. F. Wang, B. Tidor, B. M. Degnan, T. H. Oakley, and K. S. Kosik. 2007. A post-synaptic scaffold at the origin of the animal kingdom. PLoS ONE 2:e506.
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Creation of this page was supported by the NSF grant DEB-0829783 to DL, a part of the ATol: PorToL - The Porifera Tree of Life collaborative research project with Dr. Purushotham Bangalore (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Dr. Allen Collins (Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History), Dr. Cristina Diaz (Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and Museo Marino Margarita, Venezuela), Dr. April Hill (University of Richmond), Dr. Malcolm Hill (University of Richmond), Dr. John Hooper (Queensland Museum, Australia), Dr. Jose Lopez (Nova Southeastern University), Dr. Kevin Peterson (Dartmouth College), Dr. Shirley Pomponi (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University), Mr. John Reed (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University), Dr. Robert Thacker (University of Alabama at Birmingham), and Dr. Gert Wörheide (University of Göttingen).
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Q: R: Putting Variables in order by a different variable Once again I have been set another programming task and to most of which I have done, so a quick run through: I've had to take n amount of samples of multivariate normal distribution with dimension p (called it X) then to put it into a matrix (Matx) where the first two values in each row were taken and summed a long with a value randomly drawn from the standard normal distribution. (Call this vector Y) Then we had to order Y numerically and split it up into H groups, and then I had to find out the mean of each row in the matrix and now having to order then in terms of which Y group they were associated. I've struggled a fair bit and have now hit a brick wall. Quite confusing I understand, if anyone could help it'd be greatly appreciated!
Task:Return the pxH matrix which has in the first column the mean of the observations in the first group and in the Hth column the mean in the observations in the Hth group.
Code:
library('MASS')
x<-mvrnorm(36,0,1)
Matx<-matrix(c(x), ncol=6, byrow=TRUE)
v<-rnorm(6)
y1<-sum(x[1:2],v[1])
y2<-sum(x[7:8],v[2])
y3<-sum(x[12:13],v[3])
y4<-sum(x[19:20],v[4])
y5<-sum(x[25:26],v[5])
y6<-sum(x[31:32],v[6])
y<-c(y1,y2,y3,y4,y5,y6)
out<-order(y)
h1<-c(out[1:2])
h2<-c(out[3:4])
h3<-c(out[5:6])
x1<-c(x[1:6])
x2<-c(x[7:12])
x3<-c(x[13:18])
x4<-c(x[19:24])
x5<-c(x[25:30])
x6<-c(x[31:36])
mx1<-mean(x1)
mx2<-mean(x2)
mx3<-mean(x3)
mx4<-mean(x4)
mx5<-mean(x5)
mx6<-mean(x6)
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@end

@implementation WCAlertView
@synthesize buttonShadowColor = _buttonShadowColor;
@synthesize buttonShadowOffset = _buttonShadowOffset;
@synthesize buttonTextColor = _buttonTextColor;
@synthesize verticalLineColor = _verticalLineColor;
@synthesize innerFrameShadowColor = _innerFrameShadowColor;
@synthesize hatchedLinesColor = _hatchedLinesColor;
@synthesize outerFrameColor = _outerFrameColor;
@synthesize hatchedBackgroundColor = _hatchedBackgroundColor;
@synthesize style = _style;
@synthesize buttonShadowBlur = _buttonShadowBlur;
@synthesize buttonFont = _buttonFont;

static WCAlertViewStyle kDefaultAlertStyle = WCAlertViewStyleDefault;

+ (void)setDefaultStyle:(WCAlertViewStyle)style {

    kDefaultAlertStyle = style;

}

+ (id)showAlertWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message customizationBlock:(void (^)(WCAlertView *alertView))customization completionBlock:(void (^)(NSUInteger buttonIndex, WCAlertView *alertView))block cancelButtonTitle:(NSString *)cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:(NSString *)otherButtonTitles, ... {

    WCAlertView *alertView = [[self alloc] initWithTitle:title message:message completionBlock:block cancelButtonTitle:cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:nil];

    if (otherButtonTitles != nil) {
        id eachObject;
        va_list argumentList;
        if (otherButtonTitles) {
            [alertView addButtonWithTitle:otherButtonTitles];
            va_start(argumentList, otherButtonTitles);
            while ((eachObject = va_arg(argumentList, id))) {
                [alertView addButtonWithTitle:eachObject];
            }
            va_end(argumentList);
        }
    }

    if (customization) {
        customization(alertView);
    }

    [alertView show];

    return alertView;

}

- (id)initWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message delegate:(id)delegate cancelButtonTitle:(NSString *)cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:(NSString *)otherButtonTitles, ... {
    if (self = [super initWithTitle:title message:message delegate:delegate cancelButtonTitle:cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:nil]) {

        [self setDefaultStyle];

        va_list args;
        va_start(args, otherButtonTitles);
        for (NSString *anOtherButtonTitle = otherButtonTitles; anOtherButtonTitle != nil; anOtherButtonTitle = va_arg(args, NSString*)) {
            [self addButtonWithTitle:anOtherButtonTitle];
        }
    }
    return self;
}

- (id)initWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message completionBlock:(void (^)(NSUInteger buttonIndex, WCAlertView *alertView))block cancelButtonTitle:(NSString *)cancelButtonTitle otherButtonTitles:(NSString *)otherButtonTitles, ... {
	objc_setAssociatedObject(self, "blockCallback", [block copy], OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC);

	if (self = [self initWithTitle:title message:message delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:nil]) {

		if (cancelButtonTitle) {
			[self addButtonWithTitle:cancelButtonTitle];
			self.cancelButtonIndex = [self numberOfButtons] - 1;
		}

		id eachObject;
		va_list argumentList;
		if (otherButtonTitles) {
			[self addButtonWithTitle:otherButtonTitles];
			va_start(argumentList, otherButtonTitles);
			while ((eachObject = va_arg(argumentList, id))) {
				[self addButtonWithTitle:eachObject];
			}
			va_end(argumentList);
		}
	}
	return self;
}

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
	void (^block)(NSUInteger buttonIndex, UIAlertView *alertView) = objc_getAssociatedObject(self, "blockCallback");
    if (block) {
        block(buttonIndex, self);
    }

}

- (void)setStyle:(WCAlertViewStyle)style {
    if (style != _style) {
        _style = style;
        [self customizeAlertViewStyle:style];
    }
}

- (void)setDefaultStyle {
    self.buttonShadowBlur = 2.0f;
    self.buttonShadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.5f, 0.5f);
    self.labelShadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f);
    self.gradientLocations = @[ @0.0f, @0.57f, @1.0f];
    self.cornerRadius = 10.0f;
    self.labelTextColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    self.outerFrameLineWidth = 2.0f;
    self.outerFrameShadowBlur = 6.0f;
    self.outerFrameShadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0f/255.0f green:0.0f/255.0f blue:0.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    self.outerFrameShadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f);
    self.style = kDefaultAlertStyle;

}

- (void)customizeAlertViewStyle:(WCAlertViewStyle)style {
    switch (style) {
        case WCAlertViewStyleDefault:
            break;
        case WCAlertViewStyleWhite:
            [self whiteAlertHatched:NO];
            break;
        case WCAlertViewStyleWhiteHatched:
            [self whiteAlertHatched:YES];
            break;
        case WCAlertViewStyleBlack:
            [self blackAlertHatched:NO];
            break;
        case WCAlertViewStyleBlackHatched:
            [self blackAlertHatched:YES];
            break;
        case WCAlertViewStyleViolet:
            [self violetAlertHetched:NO];
            break;
        case WCAlertViewStyleVioletHatched:
            [self violetAlertHetched:YES];
            break;
        default:
            self.style = kDefaultAlertStyle;
            break;
    }
}

- (void)violetAlertHetched:(BOOL)hatched {
    self.labelTextColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    self.labelShadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.004 green:0.003 blue:0.006 alpha:0.700];

    UIColor *topGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.66f green:0.63f blue:1.00f alpha:1.00f];
    UIColor *middleGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.508 green:0.498 blue:0.812 alpha:1.000];
    UIColor *bottomGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.419 green:0.405 blue:0.654 alpha:1.000];
    self.gradientColors = @[topGradient,middleGradient,bottomGradient];

    self.outerFrameColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    self.innerFrameStrokeColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.25f green:0.25f blue:0.41f alpha:1.00f];
    self.innerFrameShadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.2];

    self.buttonTextColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    self.buttonShadowBlur = 2.0;
    self.buttonShadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.004 green:0.003 blue:0.006 alpha:1.000];

    if (hatched) {
        self.outerFrameColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.25f green:0.25f blue:0.41f alpha:1.00f];
        self.outerFrameShadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0, 0.0);
        self.outerFrameShadowBlur = 0.0;
        self.outerFrameShadowColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        self.outerFrameLineWidth = 0.5f;
        self.verticalLineColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.5];
        self.hatchedLinesColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.1];
    }
}

- (void)whiteAlertHatched:(BOOL)hatched {
    self.labelTextColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.11f green:0.08f blue:0.39f alpha:1.00f];
    self.labelShadowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

    UIColor *topGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:1.0f green:1.0f blue:1.0f alpha:1.0f];
    UIColor *middleGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.93f green:0.94f blue:0.96f alpha:1.0f];
    UIColor *bottomGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.89f green:0.89f blue:0.92f alpha:1.00f];
    self.gradientColors = @[topGradient,middleGradient,bottomGradient];

    self.outerFrameColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:250.0f/255.0f green:250.0f/255.0f blue:250.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];

    self.buttonTextColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.11f green:0.08f blue:0.39f alpha:1.00f];
    self.buttonShadowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

    if (hatched) {
        self.verticalLineColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.1];
        self.hatchedLinesColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.1];
    }
}

- (void)blackAlertHatched:(BOOL)hatched {
    self.labelTextColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:210.0f/255.0f green:210.0f/255.0f blue:210.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    self.labelShadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    self.labelShadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f);

    UIColor *topGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.27f green:0.27f blue:0.27f alpha:1.0f];
    UIColor *middleGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.21f green:0.21f blue:0.21f alpha:1.0f];
    UIColor *bottomGradient = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.15f green:0.15f blue:0.15f alpha:1.00f];
    self.gradientColors = @[topGradient,middleGradient,bottomGradient];

    self.outerFrameColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:210.0f/255.0f green:210.0f/255.0f blue:210.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];

    self.buttonTextColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:210.0f/255.0f green:210.0f/255.0f blue:210.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    self.buttonShadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];

    if (hatched) {
        self.verticalLineColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        self.innerFrameShadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        self.hatchedLinesColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    }

}

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark UIView Overrides
- (void)layoutSubviews {
    [super layoutSubviews];

    if (self.style) {
        for (UIView *subview in self.subviews){

            //Find and hide UIImageView Containing Blue Background
            if ([subview isMemberOfClass:[UIImageView class]]) {
                subview.hidden = YES;
            }

            //Find and get styles of UILabels
            if ([subview isMemberOfClass:[UILabel class]]) {
                UILabel *label = (UILabel*)subview;
                label.textColor = self.labelTextColor;
                label.shadowColor = self.labelShadowColor;
                label.shadowOffset = self.labelShadowOffset;
            }

            // Hide button title labels
            if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
                UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;
                button.titleLabel.alpha = 0;
            }
        }
    }

}

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect  {
    [super drawRect:rect];

    if (self.style) {

        /*
         *  Current graphics context
         */

        CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

        /*
         *  Create base shape with rounded corners from bounds
         */

        CGRect activeBounds = self.bounds;
        CGFloat cornerRadius = self.cornerRadius;
        CGFloat inset = 5.5f;
        CGFloat originX = activeBounds.origin.x + inset;
        CGFloat originY = activeBounds.origin.y + inset;
        CGFloat width = activeBounds.size.width - (inset*2.0f);
        CGFloat height = activeBounds.size.height - ((inset+2.0)*2.0f);

        CGFloat buttonOffset = self.bounds.size.height - 50.5f;

        CGRect bPathFrame = CGRectMake(originX, originY, width, height);
        CGPathRef path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:bPathFrame cornerRadius:cornerRadius].CGPath;

        /*
         *  Create base shape with fill and shadow
         */

        CGContextAddPath(context, path);
        CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [UIColor colorWithRed:210.0f/255.0f green:210.0f/255.0f blue:210.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f].CGColor);
        CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, self.outerFrameShadowOffset, self.outerFrameShadowBlur, self.outerFrameShadowColor.CGColor);
        CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathFill);

        /*
         *  Clip state
         */

        CGContextSaveGState(context); //Save Context State Before Clipping To "path"
        CGContextAddPath(context, path);
        CGContextClip(context);

        //////////////DRAW GRADIENT
        /*
         *  Draw grafient from gradientLocations
         */

        CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
        size_t count = [self.gradientLocations count];

        CGFloat *locations = malloc(count * sizeof(CGFloat));
        [self.gradientLocations enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
            locations[idx] = [((NSNumber *)obj) floatValue];
        }];

        CGFloat *components = malloc([self.gradientColors count] * 4 * sizeof(CGFloat));

        [self.gradientColors enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
            UIColor *color = (UIColor *)obj;

            NSInteger startIndex = (idx * 4);

            [color getRed:&components[startIndex]
                    green:&components[startIndex+1]
                     blue:&components[startIndex+2]
                    alpha:&components[startIndex+3]];
        }];

        CGGradientRef gradient = CGGradientCreateWithColorComponents(colorSpace, components, locations, count);

        CGPoint startPoint = CGPointMake(activeBounds.size.width * 0.5f, 0.0f);
        CGPoint endPoint = CGPointMake(activeBounds.size.width * 0.5f, activeBounds.size.height);

        CGContextDrawLinearGradient(context, gradient, startPoint, endPoint, 0);
        CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
        CGGradientRelease(gradient);
        free(locations);
        free(components);

        /*
         *  Hatched background
         */

        if (self.hatchedLinesColor || self.hatchedBackgroundColor) {
            CGContextSaveGState(context); //Save Context State Before Clipping "hatchPath"
            CGRect hatchFrame = CGRectMake(0.0f, buttonOffset-15, activeBounds.size.width, (activeBounds.size.height - buttonOffset+1.0f)+15);
            CGContextClipToRect(context, hatchFrame);

            if (self.hatchedBackgroundColor) {
                CGFloat r,g,b,a;
                [self.hatchedBackgroundColor getRed:&r green:&g blue:&b alpha:&a];

                CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, r*255,g*255, b*255, 255);
                CGContextFillRect(context, hatchFrame);
            }

            if (self.hatchedLinesColor) {
                CGFloat spacer = 4.0f;
                int rows = (activeBounds.size.width + activeBounds.size.height/spacer);
                CGFloat padding = 0.0f;
                CGMutablePathRef hatchPath = CGPathCreateMutable();
                for(int i=1; i<=rows; i++) {
                    CGPathMoveToPoint(hatchPath, NULL, spacer * i, padding);
                    CGPathAddLineToPoint(hatchPath, NULL, padding, spacer * i);
                }
                CGContextAddPath(context, hatchPath);
                CGPathRelease(hatchPath);
                CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 1.0f);
                CGContextSetLineCap(context, kCGLineCapButt);
                CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, self.hatchedLinesColor.CGColor);
                CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathStroke);
            }

            CGContextRestoreGState(context); //Restore Last Context State Before Clipping "hatchPath"
        }

        /*
         * Draw vertical line
         */

        if (self.verticalLineColor) {
            CGMutablePathRef linePath = CGPathCreateMutable();
            CGFloat linePathY = (buttonOffset - 1.0f) - 15;
            CGPathMoveToPoint(linePath, NULL, 0.0f, linePathY);
            CGPathAddLineToPoint(linePath, NULL, activeBounds.size.width, linePathY);
            CGContextAddPath(context, linePath);
            CGPathRelease(linePath);
            CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 1.0f);
            CGContextSaveGState(context); //Save Context State Before Drawing "linePath" Shadow
            CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, self.verticalLineColor.CGColor);
            CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f), 0.0f, [UIColor colorWithRed:255.0f/255.0f green:255.0f/255.0f blue:255.0f/255.0f alpha:0.2f].CGColor);
            CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathStroke);
            CGContextRestoreGState(context); //Restore Context State After Drawing "linePath" Shadow
        }

        /*
         *  Stroke color for inner path
         */

        if (self.innerFrameShadowColor || self.innerFrameStrokeColor) {
            CGContextAddPath(context, path);
            CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 3.0f);

            if (self.innerFrameStrokeColor) {
               CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, self.innerFrameStrokeColor.CGColor);
            }
            if (self.innerFrameShadowColor) {
                CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0.0f, 0.0f), 6.0f, self.innerFrameShadowColor.CGColor);
            }

            CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathStroke);
        }

        /*
         * Stroke path to cover up pixialation on corners from clipping
         */

        CGContextRestoreGState(context); //Restore First Context State Before Clipping "path"
        CGContextAddPath(context, path);
        CGContextSetLineWidth(context, self.outerFrameLineWidth);
        CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, self.outerFrameColor.CGColor);
        CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0.0f, 0.0f), 0.0f, [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0f/255.0f green:0.0f/255.0f blue:0.0f/255.0f alpha:0.1f].CGColor);
        CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathStroke);

        /*
         *  Drawing button labels
         */

        for (UIView *subview in self.subviews){

            if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]])
            {
                UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;

                CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFill);
                CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, self.buttonTextColor.CGColor);
                CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, self.buttonShadowOffset, self.buttonShadowBlur, self.buttonShadowColor.CGColor);

                UIFont *buttonFont = button.titleLabel.font;

                if (self.buttonFont)
                    buttonFont = self.buttonFont;

#if __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= __IPHONE_6_0

                /// Make a copy of the default paragraph style
                NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
                /// Set line break mode
                paragraphStyle.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByClipping;
                /// Set text alignment
                paragraphStyle.alignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

                NSDictionary *attributes = @{ NSFontAttributeName: buttonFont,
                                              NSParagraphStyleAttributeName: paragraphStyle };

                [button.titleLabel.text drawInRect:CGRectMake(
                                                              button.frame.origin.x,
                                                              button.frame.origin.y+10,
                                                              button.frame.size.width,
                                                              button.frame.size.height)
                                    withAttributes:attributes];

#else
                [button.titleLabel.text drawInRect:CGRectMake(button.frame.origin.x, button.frame.origin.y+10, button.frame.size.width, button.frame.size.height) withFont:buttonFont lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeClip alignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];

#endif

            }

        }
    }

}

@end

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Today Zach and I are playing with powersaving modes on The Public Radio. This was all done with this commit; cases were tested by commenting out lines 42, 45 and 46 and varying volume via our potentiometer. Current is being measured on Vout of the VREG on hardware v1.1.
There are some weird things going on here. Our powersaving mode isn't having quite the effect we're looking for, either.


The Undead Warband DLC available on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
On PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 18th 2016!
Undead DLC is now available on consoles and PC.
Mordheim: City of the Damned, the video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game, today welcomes a new playable Warband on Consoles: the Undead!
After seducing a large number of players on PC with its brutal and tactical gameplay, Mordheim: City of the Damned is coming for download on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on the 18th of October.
Stay informed about all Mordheim updates!
Mordheim: City of the Damned © Copyright Games Workshop Limited 2014. Mordheim: City of the Damned, the Mordheim: City of the Damned logo, Mordheim, the Mordheim logo, GW, Games Workshop, Warhammer, The Game of Fantasy Battles, the twin-tailed comet logo, and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles, locations, weapons, characters, and the distinctive likeness thereof, are either © or TM, and/or © Games Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world, and used under licence. Focus, Focus Home Interactive and its logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Focus Home Interactive. Rogue Factor and its logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Rogue Factor. All rights reserved to their respective owners. , «PlayStation», «PS4», are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is a trademark of the same company. Kinect, Xbox One and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies and are used under license from Microsoft.


In a time where some buy garments, wear them once and send them on their way to landfill, sustainable fashion advocate Livia Firth has thrown out a challenge to get 30 wears out of each piece of clothing. While I don't have it completely nailed I think I'm getting there.
One of my favourite variations on the humble dress is wearing a collared shirt underneath to turn it into a pinafore and get all biz-ness!
Or you can take a turn to casual town, pop a tee underneath your frock and get all 90s on that bad boy.
Orrrrr pop a tee over the top, pull the fabric to one side and tie it in an 80s knot to cinch the waistline in and you've got yourself a cute skirt!
Depending on the dress you may also be able to squeeze one more skirt style out of it if it has an elasticated chest! I just shimmied this polka dot number down to make it a midi skirt and tied the straps up on the side.
But wait there's more! Tuck the dress into a skirt that's longer than your dress and you've just scored yourself a new top!
Andddddd if you've got a shirt dress up your sleeve, play with proportions and wear it unbuttoned over a tee and jeans.
What styling tips and tricks do you have for wearing your clothes different ways? Share them with me in the comments below and I'll be your best friend!
I love the dress tucked into a skirt idea, I also think it looks awesome when you can see said dress popping out underneath, it gives the skirt a matching hem!
Oh thank you so much! Have you got any styling secrets to share?!
The Stylebook app has changed my life. For minimal cost and a fair bit of time to initially set up (photographing existing wardrobe) you get to log all your outfits on a calendar. Good to see what you wear most, least, cost per wear etc. lots of fun too.
What great ideas, Hannah! I love your style and resourcefulness. I am a big fan of the collared shirt under a dress for a pinafore look. Last winter that was my number one approach to getting continual wear out of my summer dresses, since I have drastically minimised my closet in the last few years. I opshopped two lovely cotton collared shirts and just wore them under my A-line dresses all season. I added stockings underneath for those slightly chilly mornings and I was done! I love the versatility of a simple A-line dress and the flattering cut, too.


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Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Three Seven (HSM-37) "Easyriders" is a United States Navy helicopter squadron based at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. HSM-37 provides helicopter resources for all s and s based at Pearl Harbor. The squadron was established as Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (Light) Three Seven (HSL-37) on 3 July 1975 and was redesignated HSM-37 on 1 October 2013.

History
HSL-37 was established on 3 July 1975 at Naval Air Station Barbers Point. It became the first U.S. Navy squadron to transition from the SH-2F Seasprite to the SH-60B Seahawk on 6 February 1992. The squadron moved from NAS Barbers Point to Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Kāneʻohe Bay in February 1999. It was redesignated HSM-37 on 1 October 2013 as it began to transition from the SH-60B Seahawk to the MH-60R Seahawk. The first four MH-60Rs were delivered in September 2013. Its last SH-60B was retired on 3 February 2015.

HSM-37 is currently the largest expeditionary helicopter squadron in the U.S. Navy, operating fifteen MH-60R Seahawks for deployment on destroyers or cruisers.

Squadron aircraft
SH-2F Seasprite, 1975–1992
SH-60 Seahawk
SH-60B, 1992–2015 (redesignated HSM-37 on 1 October 2013)
MH-60R, 2013–Present

See also
 History of the United States Navy
 List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons

References

External links

 Official HSM-37 webpage
 Official US Navy webpage

Military units and formations in Hawaii
Helicopter maritime strike squadrons of the United States Navy


MSSQLTREK – Page 2 – My Journey with SQL Server….!
Fair enough, but why should we care about Cluster shared volumes?
Well, the idea behind introducing CSVs is to provide truly shared disks to a failover cluster which are available to all the nodes for reading and write operations. Let's talk about a traditional Failover clustered Instance setup for a moment. During Failover, to bring SQL Server resource online, the drives should be unmounted on the previous owner and remounted on the node which will act as the primary after failover. Should your IO subsystem become bottleneck for whatever reason, Unmounting and mounting process takes longer time thus impacting the availability of the system. Whereas with CSVs, there is no unmounting and mounting of disks since they are already made available for reading and write operations across all the nodes. In other words, it reduces downtime since SQL Server resource is no longer dependent on disks to come online. Let's talk about one more scenario where CSVs outperform traditional shared storage. Let's assume disk(s) loses connectivity from the node which is currently running SQL Server in middle of the day, under these circumstances the cluster can leverage another path (s) available to the shared disk without having to failover the resource group to another node. This will save us from potential unplanned downtime during business hours.
Next step is to investigate whats up with the user account which the job is complaining about and I noticed '##MS_SSISServerCleanupJobUser##' is orphaned in SSIS database as shown below.
Compare with how it looks on an Instance where this Job is running successfully.
Well, with this the fix is pretty evident, Map the poor fella to the corresponding login (Syntax shown below).
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) was originally introduced in SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise Edition) with a goal to protect SQL Server data at rest. In other words, the physical data and log files along with the database backup sitting on file system are protected (encrypted).
With TDE, The data transmitted over the network is not encrypted and the data at the object level remains unencrypted. In other words, if a user has select access to a table(s) within the TDE enabled database, he/she will be able to read data with simple select statements, as the name suggests, it's transparent. TDE does not protect FILESTREAM data and any files related to Buffer Pool Extension (BPE) are not encrypted as well, you should use file system encryption tools like windows Bit-locker or any other third party tools for this purpose. Another caveat is TDE doesn't support Instant File Initialization for database files. Also, when TDE is enabled on a user database your tempdb database gets encrypted behind the scenes.
Okay, let's move on to our topic. In this article, we will see how to monitor and manage TDE progress, not essentially how to setup TDE on a user database. Before moving on to our main topic, here is a quick refresher on how Transparent Data Encryption works.
Enabling TDE on a given database is a very straightforward process. 20,000-foot view of the process is basically creating a DMK (Master DB) which is protected by Service Master Key, Cert (Master DB), DEK (User DB) and enable TDE(User DB) and you are done. But things get little tricky when you are dealing with VLDBs. What if you have a ginormous database (Let's say a 30 TeraBytes monster) on which you have to enable TDE? Enabling TDE is not instantaneous, the SQL Server Encryption Scanner has to read all the underlying database pages and encrypt them, For a 30 TB database it might take multiple days for SQL Server to encrypt the entire database and we as DBAs should monitor the encryption progress making sure there are no side effects. In this context I am not talking about server resources, I am talking about the impact on the transaction log file when encryption scanner is in progress. So, why should we worry about LDF file when TDE scanner is in progress? Well, SQL Server doesn't truncate the transaction log file of your database when TDE Encryption Scanner is doing its job. Things get more complicated if you are not allowed to run TDE during business hours and let's say you have nightly ETL loads or some other scheduled job(s) which generates a considerable amount of log records. In this article, let's see how to monitor TDE progress and how to manage transaction log when TDE scanner is in progress.
The already awesome Ola's Maintenance solution for SQL Server became more awesome with his latest release. If you are not aware of Ola's maintenance solution, you should definitely check it out. In the July 2018 release, quite a few enhancements were introduced. My personal favorites are ability to add percentage of modified rows to update stats, resumable index rebuilds support and support for EMC DDboost(Data Domain Boost). In fact I was badly waiting for DDboost support last year(we were using DDboost to backup our VLDBs). Unfortunately, DDboost was not something Ola's solution suported at that time and what I ended up was writing up my own stored procs calling "dbo.emc_run_backup" and "ddbmexptool.exe" based on our Lockbox settings and scheduled the jobs as needed. Well, I got it worked without any issues but had to spend quite a bit of time to understand all the bells and whistles of DDboost and come up with my own procs and error logging.
If you happen to have any plans evaluating DDBoost for SQL backups now or in near future, well you have an awesome solution already available. All you need to do is pass 'DATA_DOMAIN_BOOST' as a parameter for third-part backup software in Ola's backup job and specify below parameters.
A big shout-out to Ola! Cheers, Happy weekend.


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