If you're planning to use Microsoft Orleans in production, you need to look beyond the lonely silos that we've built in the articles thus far. Orleans is designed to work in a cluster, such that a large number of grains can be distributed among multiple silos. In case of silo failure, its grains are reactivated at other silos that are still alive.
In this article, we'll create a simple silo and run multiple interconnected instances of it in order to set up a cluster.
For the scope of this article, we'll use the default cluster membership provider: MembershipTableGrain. This is not intended to be used in production, but will allow us to focus on getting a simple cluster up and running. Setting up different cluster membership providers is non-trivial and requires separate articles for each.
Note: this article is based on Orleans 1.4.2 using .NET Framework 4.6.2.
Note: the source code for this article is in the OrleansFirstCluster folder within the Gigi Labs BitBucket repository.
To set up a cluster, the Dev/Test Host project template we've been using so far is no longer suitable. Instead, we have to set up the full project structure. This is covered by the latter part of "Getting Started with Microsoft Orleans" and there is no point in repeating it here.
Don't write any code yet though. I recently learned that all that AppDomain stuff is not necessary unless you're planning to run Silo and Client in the same application, so we'll go for a cleaner approach.
We'll also install the Orleans Dashboard (see: "A Dashboard for Microsoft Orleans") in the Silo project. This will give us an idea how grains are spread across the cluster later.
We can now start adding some code. First, we need a grain in our Grains project. What the grain actually does doesn't matter. We just want to create a large number of grains to see them spread out over the cluster.
Note: if you're using a .NET Framework version prior to 4.6, then you'll need to use TaskDone.Done instead of Task.CompletedTask.
Apart from the AppDomain logic, another thing we're doing differently from usual here is that we're calling StartOrleansSilo() with catchExceptions set to false. In case the silo fails to initialise, this gives us the ability to inspect the details of the failure within the exception, rather than have Orleans silently swallow it and simply return false.
In the inner infinite-while-loop we're taking random grain IDs and bombarding them with messages. The idea is to create a lot of grain instances that we can visualise. Since this is very heavy, you'll see Orleans giving warnings, and high latencies from the Dashboard at times.
A silo needs 2 ports: one to communicate with other silos (the Networking endpoint) and one for clients to connect to it (the ProxyingGateway endpoint). The client can connect to any node on the cluster.
In production scenarios, Orleans silos are all equal, and there is no concept of a primary and secondary silo. However, when you use the default MembershipTableGrain cluster membership, then all information regarding the silos on the cluster is stored within a grain in one of the silos. As a result, the silo containing the MembershipTableGrain is denoted as the Primary Silo. It must be started before the others, and the entire cluster is messed up if it goes down. Naturally, this is not good, and you should look into other cluster membership providers.
Aside from changing the Networking and ProxyingGateway ports, we are also using a different port for the Dashboard (default is 8080). Each silo has its own Dashboard (although they all show the same information), and they cannot all run from the same port.
I am not sure why they are not evenly distributed from the start. My guess is that either it is more efficient to have them all in one place if the number of activations is small, or the silos need time to coordinate between themselves before this happens (which would explain why, without a delay, all activations are allocated on the primary node).
Since the Primary silo contains the MembershipTableGrain, all information about the cluster dies with it. The remaining silos and clients will not recover automatically even if the Primary silo is brought up again. They in turn will have to be restarted. This is because, as we saw earlier, Secondary silos must start after the primary one. When the Primary silo is brought back, it effectively starts a fresh cluster and does not know about any other silos until they join.
We have seen how to get a very basic Orleans cluster working with multiple silos sharing the burden of holding the grains. However, this is hardly an ideal setup because (a) cluster membership information is held in memory and represents a single point of failure, and (b) the fact that I ran all silos on the same machine made them subject to the same physical resource constraints as if I were running a standalone silo.
Update 20th June 2017: I am told that Azure Service Fabric should also be supported. As for database implementations of cluster membership, these are not limited to just SQL Server. You may use any supported ADO .NET provider, which at the moment includes SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, or PostgreSQL. To clarify: while the PostgreSQL storage provider for grain persistence is not yet available, its use as a cluster membership provider is supported.
Saving screenshots is a simple and common feature in many games. It allows us to capture the image of the game being rendered on the screen at any given time.
While this might sound easy, let us remember that the image rendered to the screen might have a lot of different overlaid surfaces, meaning that it would be a pain to recompose that image on the side of the CPU in the same way that we're composing the image to the texture that eventually ends up in video memory.
Fortunately, this Stack Overflow answer provides a simple solution. SDL2 provides the SDL_RenderReadPixels() function, which can be used to read pixel data back from video memory. This is generally discouraged, because it is very costly to do such a thing, but taking screenshots is a one-off operation where it makes perfect sense.
While I am not showing where the sdl2Core object is coming from, just assume that it stores an instance of SDL_Renderer. With that available, all that is needed is to create a surface using one of the functions that SDL2 provides, call SDL_RenderReadPixels() to transfer the pixels from video memory to the surface, and then actually do something with the surface (in this case, we are saving it to a bitmap file). If you wanted to read back only a portion of the screen, you would pass in an SDL_Rect instead of NULL as the second parameter to SDL_RenderReadPixels().
This simple code is used to save screenshots in Ultima 1 Revenge, such as the one shown earlier.
Yesterday, we introduced grain persistence in Microsoft Orleans, using the volatile MemoryStorage provider to quickly and easily learn how to set up and work with storage providers.
Today, we will use the ADO .NET Storage Provider in order to save our grain state to a database. Currently, we can use this with either SQL Server or MySQL.
Note: MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Thus, the ADO .NET Storage Provider works with it too.
Note: While there is a partial script for PostgreSQL, it is not yet supported.
Update 9th June 2017: Some material from this article was contributed towards the official Grain Persistence documentation.
If we give our PersonGrain the name of "Joe" and call SayHelloAsync(), then it will write "Joe said hello!" to the console. After that, it sets the SaidHello property in its grain state to true, and saves the updated state to the database via the configured storage provider. The next time SayHelloAsync() is called, it will find that the value of SaidHello is true, so the output will be "Joe already said hello!" instead.
In the main program, let's add the following code (same as in yesterday's article) to invoke SayHelloAsync() on a grain. This needs to go in the place of the TODO comment that was generated as part of the project template.
Now, let's move on to configure our storage provider.
Navigate to the folder where the package was installed alongside the project, and you'll find folders in there for different databases.
In there you'll find scripts you'll need to run in order to set up the Orleans database, for different database vendors. Each script contains a table for storage and several others for cluster membership and other internal Orleans operations. For the scope of this article, we're only concerned with storage.
Note: while there is a script for PostgreSQL, at the time of writing this article, it does not support storage.
Create the database specific for the database vendor you want.
Install a NuGet package specific for the database vendor you want.
Set up the storage provider in code or XML configuration. Set the AdoInvariant setting (optional only if you're using SQL Server).
When using SQL Server, you'll want to use the SQLServer\CreateOrleansTables_SqlServer.sql script.
Open SQL Server Management Studio. Right click on Databases, and create a new one.
Call it whatever you like, e.g. OrleansStorage.
Open a query window based on your new database. Copy in the aforementioned script, and run it.
However, I recommend against using this method. As per an issue I just opened, there is no way to set the AdoInvariant (which is optional for SQL Server but necessary when working with other database vendors), and the default serialization format is XML (whereas the default is usually binary). Thus, if you switch between this method and the earlier ones while relying on defaults, you will get deserialization errors.
On the other hand, to configure the storage provider using an XML configuration file (which is generally a better approach), first we have to add a file named OrleansConfiguration.xml and set it to copy to the output directory.
This time, it says "Joe already said hello!" That means that the state was correctly read from the database.
Note: this also works for MariaDB, which is a drop-in replacement for MySQL.
Deep beneath the folder where the Microsoft.Orleans.SqlUtils package gets installed, you'll find a MySql\CreateOrleansTables_MySql.sql script. We'll use this for MySQL or MariaDB.
Use your favourite administrative tool to create a new database, and give it a name (e.g. "orleansstorage"). Paste the script in a query window, and run it against the new database.
As you can see, this is almost identical to the configuration for SQL Server. We're using the exact same ADO .NET storage provider, and changing just the connection string and the AdoInvariant which identifies the underlying database vendor.
This allows us to bypass the default localhost silo configuration and read the configuration from our file instead.
ADO .NET Storage providers can save data in one of three formats: JSON, XML, or a compact binary format.
The default format is binary, and while it is compact, it means the data is opaque and you can't really work with it directly. This could be a problem if you need to patch, migrate, or troubleshoot the data. XML is bloated, so I generally recommend using JSON. It's lightweight (although not as much as the binary format) and is easy to work with.
UseBinaryFormat="true" uses binary, which is the default setting.
Ideally you should set this only the first time. If you change this setting when you already have data, you'll have a mess of formats and will not be able to read old data.
When configuring via code, prefer the generic registration call, as it avoids magic strings and potential runtime errors by using a type provided at compile time. Avoid the shortcut extension method since it does not let you configure the AdoInvariant and has a different default format from the other API methods.
In this article, we're going to take a look how the state of virtual grains can be saved to and loaded from a data store. Since there are various storage providers available for Microsoft Orleans, we will use the in-memory storage provider to introduce the concepts in a simple manner. This is not a real storage provider, and its state is lost if the silo goes down, but it gives us an easy way to learn to set up and interact with storage providers.
The source code for this article is available in the Gigi Labs BitBucket repository. Look for the OrleansMemoryStorage folder.
Before we can see how grain persistence works, we need a minimal example. Let's create a new Orleans Dev/Test Host project using the project templates from the Microsoft Orleans Tools for Visual Studio extension.
Note: if you're using a .NET Framework version prior to 4.6, use TaskDone.Done instead of Task.CompletedTask.
//       or initializing an HTTP front end for accepting incoming requests.
While it is perfectly valid to have grain state in member variables within the grain itself, if we want to persist that state, we need something a little different.
All we're doing here is that if the SaidHello property was set, then we write "Joe already said hello!" instead of "Joe said hello!". However, note the last two lines. We're setting the value of SaidHello to true, and then calling WriteStateAsync().
Orleans provides a very simple API for dealing with persistent state, as you can see above. You can access your grain's state object using the State property. The WriteStateAsync(), ReadStateAsync() and ClearStateAsync() methods allow you to save, load, and clear the grain's state from the data store respectively.
Note: we haven't yet set up our data store, but we'll do that shortly.
The logic for saving state is entirely up to you. You can save state with every message you receive (i.e. with every method call), or periodically, or in whatever manner makes most sense for your application. For instance, in our example above, we are saving state every time the SayHello() method is called. However, it would save unnecessary writes to the data store to do a simple check on the value of SaidHello, and write to the data store only if the value was previously false.
State is loaded automatically from the data store when the grain is activated, so you don't actually need to call ReadStateAsync() unless it makes logical sense to do so, e.g. if your grain has ended up in an inconsistent state due to errors and you need to reload its original state from the data store.
We now have to configure that OrleansStorage data store so that Orleans will know where to find it and how to interact with it. There are various different storage providers, as you can see from the Grain Persistence documentation. All of these can be configured either in code or using XML configuration.
In this example, we'll use the MemoryStorage provider. This is not a real persistent data store, in the sense that it holds data in memory which is lost when the silo stops. While this does not allow for very interesting storage-and-retrieval scenarios, it allows us to experiment with storage providers without the hassle of setting up a real database. We'll see how to set up proper storage providers with an underlying database in an upcoming article.
The real way to set up any configuration provider is to use RegisterStorageProvider(), and pass in the type of the provider (either as a typename string or as a generic parameter), along with the storage provider name (in our case, "OrleansStorage") and any additional parameters (in the case of MemoryStorage, we can set that NumStorageGrains here).
Instead of hardcoding your configuration, you can set it up in an OrleansConfiguration.xml file that your silo will then pick up.
You can see how we're configuring pretty much the same things that we did earlier in code. Any optional parameters, such as NumStorageGrains in this case, can also be added.
The StorageProviders section is all we need to set up a storage provider, but you'll notice we have a lot more configuration in the file. The Dev/Test Host project template uses LocalhostPrimarySilo() configuration, which is good to set something up quickly, but it's a bit of a pain to get to work with configuration files. Thus, we'll remove it and replace its default configuration with that in the file. With a proper Orleans project setup, you won't need to do the following steps.
You can now run the program. It should work without problems, using the configuration from the file to set up the storage provider.
Create a class that holds the grain's state.
Have the grain inherit from Grain<T>, where T is the grain state class.
Access the grain's state object using the State property.
Use WriteStateAsync(), ReadStateAsync() and ClearStateAsync() to write, read or clear the grain's state in the data store respectively.
A grain's state is automatically loaded from the data store when it is activated.
A grain's storage provider name is set using the StorageProvider attribute, in absence of which it uses one named "Default".
There are various storage providers available that work with different data stores. We have so far used only MemoryStorage, which is a volatile implementation to be used only for testing.
Storage providers may be configured either in code or using an XML configuration file.


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Q: Check if string is serialized in PHP I am in the middle of building a cache layer for the Redis DB to my application and I have come to the point where's it's about to take care of arrays.
I wonder if there's any good (high performance!) way of controlling an string to be serialized or not with PHP?
Thanks a lot!

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A: For those looking for alternative, this code worked for me as helper function for Laravel framework and then you can call it anywhere.
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Do not be jealous of your neighbour's work; his success is you success too.
When your icon is finished, thank God that His mercy granted you the grace to paint the holy image.
Have your icon blessed by putting it on the altar.
Be the first person to pray with it, before giving it to others.


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University researchers examine white supremacy activity in Canada
by Craig Takeuchi on February 16th, 2016 at 8:00 PM
Although Canada is known as the Great White North, that's not a reference to race. Unfortunately, it is for some Canadian hate groups, who remain more active than most people may think.
Two Canadian researchers—University of Ontario professor Barbara Perry and Simon Fraser University criminology PhD candidate Ryan Scrivens—worked on the project "Right Wing Extremism in Canada: An Environmental Scan" to examine the state of white power groups in the country. They published the results of their study "Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right-Wing Extremist Movement in Canada" in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism on February 5.
For the project, they interviewed law enforcement officials, community activists, and both former and current hate-group members.
Contrary to popular belief, right-wing extremists are more active than most people might think.
They found about 100 right-wing extremist groups (each having about three to 12 members) operating primarily in Quebec, western Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. Such groups—comprised of a mix of pro-gun radicals, white supremacists, and sovereignists—find support online and have carried out acts of violence and targeted attacks on various minority groups, including Muslims, Jews, people of colour, aboriginal people, and LGBT people.
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Q: Why this cleartool command fails from a batch file? I have run the following command from the command line and it has been succesfull
cleartool find . -type f -exec "cleartool describe -fmt \"Filename:%[name]p:type:%[type]p\n" \"%CLEARCASE_PN%"\"" > D:\temp\type.txt

I have tried putting the same command in a batch file but it fails with the follwing output
cleartool: Error: Bad Command line unterminated quoted string
cleartool: Error: Can't exec "(null)": the handle is invalid

Can anyone please show me what the magic line SHOULD look like?
I can stick it into a perl file is that is easier?
I have tried the various suggestions on the site but I have not managed to resolve.

A: You need to double your '%', otherwise it is considered as a 'null' character by DOS:
(And you had some double quotes missing an '\')
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday convened a special national Security Council meeting to hold discussions on a number of national issues, a release from the Executive Mansion has said.
According to the release, the Security Council discussed strategies and actions to deter threats from groups and individuals attempting to disrupt and undermine the peace and security of the country, and sought ways of protecting the public from their actions.
The Security Council also discussed the state of vehicles and trucks transporting containers as well as the large number of abandoned vehicles in public places and the threats they pose to citizens and residents on a daily basis.
]The Council expressed regret for the loss of lives during the weekend due to an accident caused by a container truck that was said to be defective and called on the relevant government institutions to take actions to address the situation. The Council further expressed condolences to the bereaved families and consolation for the wounded.


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More Unexpected Places to Sell Your Art: Hotels
Photo credit: David Loftus courtesy of El Fenn
Did you know that a hotel could be your next art opportunity?
Hotels are turning into exhibition spaces as they create a sense of place for their travelers to rest and play. Whether it be a print over a headboard, sculptures perched in a lobby or paintings hung in a restaurant, a hotel's art collection provides a unique experience.
Why consider a hotel as your next exhibition space? You have a captivated audience in a hotel. Your work can make a first impression to travelers in the lobby, soothe weary visitors in their guest rooms, or captivate hungry diners in the restaurant.
Here are some other reasons to reach out to hotels:
Hotels focus on local art.
Hotels want to reflect the culture of their area. So they feature local artists as cultural ambassadors.
The Nines "celebrates the talent that has made Portland the creative capital of the Northwest". Their 400-piece collection features commissioned works created by local artists. The establishment furthers its commitment to local arts by partnering with the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Guest rooms feature original works from PNCA and the hotel funds an annual scholarship.
If you think about it, hotels are marketing platforms—places to showcase what the area has to offer. Arts and culture are a huge part of local economies and communities, so it makes sense that hotels would promote their unique artistic and cultural heritage.
Stay tuned to local calls in your area!
Be a part of an art tour.
The Conrad in Indianapolis and its art partner, Long-Sharp Gallery, train Art Ambassadors as part of their art program.
Depending on the exhibit, Long-Sharp Gallery's team educates the Art Ambassadors on the works or brings in the artist to speak about his or her pieces. In this way, "Art Ambassador Training" provides insight into the exhibit and shares with the Art Ambassadors firsthand information about the works. Hotel team members then give tours to guests after receiving extensive training on the hotel's rotating exhibits.
Photo credit: Kasia Gatkowska courtesy of El Fenn
Hotels have their own personality. Could one fit your artwork?
Hotels, like you as an artist, use their brand to define and differentiate themselves. Some hotels are slick and modern. Others are quaint and historic.
Consider the glamorous Surrey in New York versus the eclectic Petit Ermitage in Los Angeles compared to the historic Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston.
Find a hotel that fits your brand.
Meet potential buyers.
To entertain their guests, hotels offer artistic programming that you could become involved in, like hands-on painting classes or artist discussions. The Grand Wailea in Maui hosts beginning watercolor painting classes and encourages art conversations between guests and their local artists-in-residence.
If your local hotel does not have events in place, it's a great opportunity for you to offer your skills!
Your art as a memorable gift.
Your art can be part of a cherished, lifetime memory. When couples get married at La Posada de Santa Fe, also known as the "The Art Hotel of Santa Fe," they have an opportunity to purchase an artwork to celebrate and commemorate their new beginnings, hopefully as avid art collectors.
Get involved before the hotel opens its doors.
The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto commissioned artists to design its hotel rooms before they launched in 2005. Each of the 37 rooms was designed by a different artist/designer/team.
Photo courtesy of Hamilton Princess
Connect with hotel owners that are collectors.
If a hotel has an impressive art collection, chances are the owner(s) are collectors themselves. The owners' passion for art trickles down into the very walls of their establishments.
Vanessa Branson shares the works from her own collection with guests of El Fenn in Morocco. When creating El Fenn, art was integral to the experience. Vanessa shares, "as a sign of commitment to the future of the hotel I selected six of the best works from my private collection." She continues, "I hate the idea of putting works in storage—owning a hotel is a great excuse to buy more work!"
And the hotel owners can play a large role in the acquiring of the artworks. For instance, the 20th and 21st-century contemporary art collection found in the Hamilton Princess was selected by its owner.
Tap into a new network and build strong relationships.
Jenny Kimball, Chairman of the Board at the historic La Fonda on the Plaza, continues the hotel's commitment to Pueblo artists. She acquires artwork for the Santa Fe luxury hotel through various methods—the famed Indian Market, auctions, galas, and her own personal relationships with artists.
Her close connections to Native American artists like Virgil Ortiz, Mateo Romero, and Tony Abeyta keeps the collection contemporary. These strong ties also connect her to young emerging artists like Jordan Ann Craig. "Since I have a lot of good relationships with artists, if they see someone who is up and coming, they'll introduce me to that artist."
Your art could be one of the best parts of a hotel employee's job. Managing a hotel is a stressful business. Jenny shares that "one of the things that keeps me in this job is the interaction with the artists. It makes the other parts of my job worthwhile."
Don't discount smaller hotels, inns and bed and breakfasts.
Would you walk into the Met and expect to be shown next month? Probably not. In the beginning, it's more feasible and manageable to show your artwork in a local gallery than in an international establishment. The same can go for working with hotels. Instead of walking into a Hilton, perhaps scout out local, smaller hotels, inns and bed and breakfasts that commit themselves to art and curating experiences for their guests.
Take the Embassy Circle Guest House in Washington, DC as an example. The inn is near Georgetown University and frequently hosts parents of college students. Within this intimate setting, Innkeeper Laura Saba builds strong relationships with the parents and with a few, quickly learned that they were artists. Laura started buying artwork from her guests. Opportunity can be in the least of expected places—like your kid's college orientation!
Artwork by Serena Martin
Be a part of a special project.
Hotels celebrate birthdays too. To commemorate its 200th anniversary, The Willard Intercontinental in Washington D.C. commissioned artist Serena Martin to illustrate its room key cards.
The hotel's marketing manager, Janet Scanlon, was on Instagram one day and came across Serena' work. She was instantly drawn to Serena's aesthetic and hired her for the project.
Serena shared that she is a history buff so when Janet presented the concept, she was "thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the history of an iconic hotel through illustrations."
And when asked if this was Serena's first commission through Instagram she relayed that "Instagram has been the biggest driver for commissions since starting my business in 2015, and still is to this day." You can learn more about how Instagram can boost your art business here.
Sell your work in temporary rotating art exhibits.
To keep their spaces fresh and return visitors delighted, hotels install temporary exhibits.
La Posada de Santa Fe's property used to be an artist's colony so they commit themselves to Southwestern art. All of the art in the collection is for sale at the artist's studio price.
Hotels commission public art projects.
Hotels looking to make an impact commission large-scale installations for places. Murals on exteriors and installations in lobbies are wonderful opportunities to surprise and delight visitors.
Some hotels are included in percent-for-art programs and depending on the size of the renovation or build, can produce significant budgets for art.
A great example of a large budget is the Westin Denver International Airport. The city of Denver requires all public buildings to contribute one-percent of their construction dollars on large art projects. As a result, the hotel features $5-million worth of art and installations.
There may be an opportunity for you! You can search for public art RFQs on Artwork Archive's Call-for-Entry page.
Want to get your foot in the (hotel) door? Present yourself professionally with Artwork Archive's Portfolio Pages.
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Practical Advice for Artists with Alix Sloan
As a curator, consultant, dealer, and gallerist, Alix Sloan was frustrated with the lack of practical advice for artists. Now, she's changing the game and telling all.
How to Have a Successful Art Opening (and Make Sales)
The key to a successful art opening? Being prepared—before, during, and after the show.
Art Business Advice: How to Register a Trademark
Confused buyers. No recognition. Dwindling art sales. Keep this from happening to your art business by registering a trademark.


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Don't throw out that smashed palette just yet!
After splurging on a pretty palette, the last thing you want is for it to hit the ground with a thud. But there's no use crying over broken eyeshadow. The smashed pigment is the key ingredient for one saturated manicure.
Celebrity nail artist Jenna Hipp posted her DIY polish recipe on Instagram, and the formula is just as colorful as the shades at the salon. Just mix your (sob) crushed eyeshadow with clear polish for a custom color. "For this super quick, easy (and eco!) look, I added a final dusting of contrasting eye shadow for a little extra wow factor," she wrote.
Wow indeed! Even if your palette's still fully intact, it's an easy way to repurpose the shades you never use, like trendy-but-tricky blue or glitter. Plus, eyeshadow expires after two years anyway, so it might be time to rethink the compacts you've had since high school.
Fair warning, though. Don't expect perfection. "In theory it could work, depending on how well they were mixed together," advises Birnur K. Aral, PhD, Beauty Director at the Good Housekeeping Institute. "The finish could be bumpy and not come out smooth or shiny." But if the makeup is otherwise destined for the trash, it might be worth a shot.
Just follow this easy tutorial from Cosmopolitan: Pour some pigment in a bottle of clear top coat, shake it up and then paint away. Switch up the ratio to create an opaque or sheer hue.
Still upset over your would-be smoky eye? There is a way to save the leftover bits and pieces. Pour a little rubbing alcohol on the pan until the crumbles become a paste. Then, press them back together with the back of a spoon. Once the alcohol evaporates, the product will be ready for blending again.
Whatever you pick, you'll be saving your favorite pigments from the garbage. All that's left is deciding what to do with rest of your overflowing stash.


Was für eine Pracht, diese 70er Lincolns und Continentals. Die Continental Mark Series (siehe spezielles Kapitel) brachte Lincoln und der Ford Motor Company viele verkaufte Fahrzeuge, trotz Ölkrisen und einem Downsizing der Fahrzeuge gegen ende des Jahrzehnts. Fullsize-Lincolns wurden bis 1979 gebaut. Mit dem Continental Mark V und dem Lincoln Continental ging eine Ära zu Ende. Noch heute erzählen die Besitzer: "Nichts fährt sich besser und eleganter als ein 70er-Jahre Lincoln". Dem ist nichts beizufügen!
What beautiful cars these 70s Lincolns and Continentals are. The Continental Mark Series (see special Chapter) brought Lincoln and the Ford Motor Company a lot of cash. The big cars sold very well even if there were oil and fuel crises and a general downsizing by the end of the decade. The fullsize Lincolns were built until 1979 - longer than any other American make. The Continental Mark V and the Lincoln Continental mark the end of the big personal luxury car of the 70s. Even today, owners talk about their Lincolns: "Nothing, even today today has a better, smoother ride than these big old 70s Lincoln". We certainly agree.


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Anna C. Gilbert
Biography/CV
Herman H. Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics
Yaniv Erlich, Anna Gilbert, Hung Ngo, Atri Rudra, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg, Mary Wootters, Dina Zielinski, and Or Zuk, "Biological screens from linear codes: theory and tools," 2017. (This paper provides the discussion and theoretical analysis for the pooling designs that the Erlich lab has released in web-based software at http://pooling.teamerlich.org. The software implements these pooling designs, given user input, and produces pooling instructions that can used by either a liquid-handling robot or manually in conjunction with iPipet, a semi-automated open-source software tool that converts a tablet or iPad into a sample-tracking device for manually pooling specimens and also released by the Erlich lab.) As of 2017, we are revising this paper for resubmission.
A. Gilbert, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, M. Strauss, QuickSAND: Quick Summary and Analysis of Network Data, DIMACS Technical Report 2001-43, November 2001. This paper never appeared in print but has been cited over 100 times. Go figure.
Refereed Journal Publications
F. J. Chung, A. C. Gilbert, J. G. Hoskins, and J. C. Schotland, "Optical tomography on graphs", Inverse Problems, vol. 33, no. 5, 2017.
Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Li, Ely Porat, Martin J. Strauss, "For-All Sparse Recovery in Near-Optimal Time," ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), Volume 13 Issue 3, pp. 1--32, March 2017.
Anna C. Gilbert, Jeremy G. Hoskins, John C. Schotland, "Diffuse Scattering on Graphs," Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 496, pgs. 1--35, May 2016
Anna C. Gilbert, Piotr Indyk, Mark Iwen, Ludwig Schmidt, "Recent Developments in the Sparse Fourier Transform: A compressed Fourier transform for big data", IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 31(5): 91-100, 2014.
J. Y. Park, M. B. Wakin, and A. C. Gilbert, "Modal Analysis with Compressive Measurements", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 62(7): 1655-1670, 2014.
Petros Boufounos, Volkan Cevher, Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Li, Martin J. Strauss, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth: Sublinear Fourier Sampling Off the Grid", Algorithmica, 2014.
Paul Shearer, Anna C. Gilbert, "A generalization of variable elimination for separable inverse problems beyond least squares", Inverse Problems: 29(4), 2013.
Byung-soo Kim, Jae Young Park, Anna C. Gilbert, Silvio Savarese, Hierarchical Classification of Images by Sparse Approximation, Image and Vision Computing, 31(12): 982-991, 2013.
P. Yenduri, A. Rocca, A. Rao, S. Naraghi, M. Flynn, and A. Gilbert, A low power compressive sampling time-based analog to digital converter, submitted, March 2012.
D. Yoon, J. A. Fessler, A. C. Gilbert, and D. C. Noll, Fast joint design method for parallel excitation RF pulse and gradient waveforms considering off-resonance, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 68, issue 1, 2012, pp. 278---285.
Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Li, Ely Porat, Martin Strauss, Approximate Sparse Recovery: Optimizing Time and Measurements, to appear in SIAM Journal on Computation, 2012.
Paul Shearer, Richard A. Frazin, Alfred O. Hero, Anna C. Gilbert, The first stray light corrected EUV images of solar coronal holes, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, volume 749 (1), 2012.
Vishal M. Patel, Ray Maleh, Anna C. Gilbert, and Rama Chellappa, Gradient-based image recovery methods from incomplete Fourier measurements, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 21 (1), 2012, pp.94--105.
Melina Demertzi, Pedro C Diniz, Mary W Hall, Anna C Gilbert, and Yi Wang, Domain-Specific Optimization of Signal Recognition Targeting FPGAs, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, vol. 4 (2), 2011, p. 1--26.
Raghunandan M. Kainkaryam, Angela Bruex, Anna C. Gilbert, John Schiefelbein, Peter J. Woolf, poolMC: Smart pooling of mRNA samples in microarray experiments, BMC Bioinformatics vol. 11, no. 299, 2010.
A. C. Gilbert, P. Indyk, Sparse recovery using sparse matrices, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 98, issue 6, 2010, pp. 937--947.
A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, J. A. Tropp, A Tutorial on Fast Fourier Sampling, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 25, no. 2, 2008, pp. 57--66.
A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, Analysis of Data Streams: Computational and Algorithmic Challenges, Technometrics, vol. 49, no. 3, August 2007, pp. 346--356.
M. A. Iwen, A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, Empirical evaluation of a sub-linear time sparse DFT algorithm, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, vol. 5, no. 4, 2007, pp. 981--998.
Joel A. Tropp, Anna C. Gilbert, Signal recovery from random measurements via Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, vol. 53, no. 12, 2007, pp. 4655--4666.
J. Zou, A. Gilbert, M. Strauss, and I. Daubechies, Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of a Randomized Algorithm for Sparse Fourier Transform Analysis, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 211, No. 2, 2006, pp. 572--595.
A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, and J. A. Tropp, Algorithms for Simultaneous Sparse Approximation. Part I: Greedy Pursuit, Special issue on sparse approximations in signal and image processing of EURASIP J. Signal Processing, Vol. 86, April 2006, pp. 572-588.
J. Fong, A. C. Gilbert, S. Kannan, and M. Strauss, Better alternatives to OSPF routing, special issue of Algorithmica on network design, vol. 43, Nos. 1-2, 2005, pp. 113-131.
A. C. Gilbert, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, and M. Strauss, Domain-driven data synopses for dynamic quantiles, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 17, no. 7, 2005, pp. 927--938.
Don Caldwell, Anna Gilbert, Joel Gottlieb, Albert Greenberg, Gisli Hjalmtysson, Jennifer Rexford, The cutting EDGE of IP router configuration, Computer Communication Review 34(1): 21--26 (2004).
A. C. Gilbert, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, and M. J. Strauss, One-pass wavelet decompositions of data streams, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 15, no. 3, 2003, pp. 541--554.
S. Resnick, G. Samorodnitsky, A. Gilbert, and W. Willinger, Wavelet analysis of conservative cascades, Bernoulli, No. 1, 2003.
A. C. Gilbert, Multiscale analysis and data networks, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 185--202, May 2001.
Y. Joo, V. Ribeiro, A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, and W. Willinger, TCP/IP traffic dynamics and network performance: A lesson in workload modeling, flow control, and trace-driven simulations, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2001.
A. C. Gilbert, W. Willinger, A. Feldmann, Scaling analysis of random cascades, with applications to network traffic, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. 45, 3, 1999, pp. 971--991.
A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, W. Willinger and T. G. Kurtz, The changing nature of network traffic: Scaling phenomena, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 28, 2, April 1998, pp. 5--29.
A. C. Gilbert, A comparison of multiresolution and classical one-dimensional homogenization schemes, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 5, no. 1, January 1998, pp. 1--35.
G. Beylkin, M. E. Brewster and A. C. Gilbert, A multiresolution strategy for numerical reduction and homogenization of nonlinear ODEs, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 5, no. 4, October 1998, pp. 312--331.
Refereed Conference Publications
Anna C. Gilbert, Lalit Jain, If it ain't broke, don't fix it: Sparse metric repair," Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2017.
Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Zhang, Kibok Lee, Yuting Zhang, Honglak Lee, "Towards Understanding the Invertibility of Convolutional Neural Networks," IJCAI 2017, https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08664.
Anna Gilbert and Audra McMillan, "Recovery of sparse heat source signals from locally differentially private sensor data via constrained l_1 minimisation," SPARS 2017.
Wenling Shang, Kihyuk Sohn, Honglak Lee, Anna Gilbert, "Discriminative Training of Structured Dictionaries via Block Orthogonal Matching Pursuit," 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2016.
Yang Liu, Abdulkadir C. Yucel, Anna C. Gilbert, Hakan Bac, Eric Michielssen, "A Wavelet- Based PWTD Algorithm-Accelerated Time Domain Surface Integral Equation Solver", IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, July, 2015.
J. Y. Park, A. C. Gilbert, and M. B. Wakin, "Compressive Measurement Bounds for Wireless Sensor Networks in Structural Health Monitoring," World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (WCSCM), Barcelona, Spain, July 2014.
J. Y. Park, M. B. Wakin, and A. C. Gilbert, "Sampling Considerations for Modal Analysis with Damping," Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems at SPIE Smart Structures/NDE, San Diego, California, March 2015.
Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Li, Ely Porat, Martin J. Strauss, "For-All Sparse Recovery in Near-Optimal Time", ICALP, 538-550, 2014.
Anna C. Gilbert, Hung Q. Ngo, Ely Porat, Atri Rudra, Martin J. Strauss, "l2/l2-foreach sparse recovery with low risk,"ICALP, 2013.
Paul Shearer, Anna C. Gilbert, Alfred O. Hero III, "Correcting Camera Shake by Incre- mental Sparse Approximation," Proc. of ICIP 2013, 572–576, 2013. (Best paper award)
Anna C. Gilbert, Jae Young Park, Michael B. Wakin, "Sketched SVD: Recovering Spectral Features from Compressive Measurements", Proc. of SPARS 2013, 2013. (Best student paper award)
Chun Lo, Mingyan Liu, Jerome P. Lynch, Anna C. Gilbert, "Efficient Sensor Fault Detection Using Combinatorial Group Testing", DCOSS 2013: 199-206.
Sean M O'Connor, Jerome P Lynch, Anna C Gilbert, "Implementation of a compressive sampling scheme for wireless sensors to achieve energy efficiency in a structural health monitoring system", Proc. SPIE 8694 Nondestructive Characterization for Composite Materials, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Infrastructure, and Homeland Security 2013, 2013.
Denisa Duma, Mary Wootters, Anna C. Gilbert, Hung Q. Ngo, Atri Rudra, Matthew Alpert, Timothy J. Close, Gianfranco Ciardo, Stefano Lonardi, "Accurate Decoding of Pooled Sequenced Data Using Compressed Sensing", WABI 2013, 70-84, 2013.
Praveen Yenduri and Anna C. Gilbert, Compressive, Collaborative Spectrum Sensing for Wideband Cognitive Radios, The Ninth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 2012.
Petros Boufounos, Volkan Cevher, Anna C. Gilbert,Yi Li, and Martin J. Strauss, What's the frequency, Kenneth?: Sublinear Fourier Sampling Off the Grid, Proceedings of RANDOM/APPROX 2012, 2012.
Praveen K. Yenduri, Anna C. Gilbert, and Jun Zhang, Integrate-and-Fire Neuron Modeled as a Low-Rate Sparse Time-Encoding Device, Proceedings of Third International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing, 2012.
Anna C. Gilbert, Brett Hemenway, Atri Rudra, Martin J. Strauss, and Mary Wootters, Recovering simple signals, Proceedings of Information Theory and Applications, 2012, pp. 382---391.
B. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, A. Mohan, A. Gilbert, and S. Savarese, Hierarchical classification of images by sparse approximation, in J. Hoey, S. McKenna, and E. Trucco, editors, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC Press, September 2011.
S. M. O'Connor, J. P. Lynch, and A. C. Gilbert, Compressive sensing approach for structural health monitoring of ship hulls, in F.-K. Chang, editor, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, pages 1675--1683. DESTech Publications, Inc., 2011.
P. Yenduri, A. Gilbert, M. Flynn, and S. Naraghi, Rand PPM: A low-power compressive sampling analog to digital converter, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 5980--5983, 2011.
Daehyun Yoon, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Jon-Frederik Nielsen, Anna C. Gilbert, and Douglas C. Noll, Non-convex greedy compressed sensing for phase contrast MRI, in Proceedings of ISMRM, Stockholm SWEDEN, 2010.
Daehyun Yoon, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Anna C. Gilbert, and Douglas C. Noll A fast parallel excitation pulse design for efficient selection and ordering of PE locations with B0 field inhomogeneity, in Proceedings of ISMRM, Montreal, CANADA, 2011.
Praveen K. Yenduri, Anna C. Gilbert, Michael P. Flynn, and Shahrzad Naraghi, Rand PPM: A low power compressive sampling analog to digital converter, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011.
Xiangming Kong, Peter Petre, Roy Matic, Anna Gilbert, Martin Strauss, An analog-to-information converter for wideband signals using a time encoding machine, in Proceedings of Digital Signal Processing Workshop and IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop (DSP/SPE), 2011, pages 414--419.
Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Li, Ely Porat, Martin J. Strauss, Approximate sparse recovery: optimizing time and measurements, in Proc. of ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2010, STOC 2010, pp. 475--484.
Daehyun Yoon, Ray Maleh, Anna C. Gilbert, J. A. Fessler, Douglas C. Noll, Fast selection of phase encoding locations in parallel excitation, in Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Res. Med., 2009, p. 2595.
R. Maleh, D. Yoon, A. C. Gilbert, Fast Algorithm for Sparse Signal Approximation using Multiple Additive Dictionaries, in Proc. of Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), 2009.
Melina Demertzi, Pedro C. Diniz, Mary W. Hall, Anna C. Gilbert, Yi Wang, Computation reuse in domain-specific optimization of signal recognition, in Proc. of FPGA, 2009, p. 281.
V. Cevher, P. Boufounos, R. G. Baraniuk, A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, Near-optimal Bayesian localization via incoherence and sparsity, in Proc. of International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2009, pp. 205--216.
Daehyun Yoon, Ray Maleh, Anna C. Gilbert, J. A. Fessler, Douglas C. Noll, Sparsity in MRI parallel excitation, in Proc. of Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conf., p. 55, 2009. Invited presentation for "Sparsity-driven medical imaging" symposium.
M. Demertzi, P. C. Diniz, M. W. Hall, A. C. Gilbert, Yi Wang, The potential of computation reuse in high-level optimization of a signal recognition system, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS), 2008, pp. 1--5.
R. Berinde, A. C. Gilbert, P. Indyk, H. Karloff, M. J. Strauss, Combining geometry and combinatorics: A unified approach to sparse signal recovery, in Proc. of 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2008, pp. 798--805.
A. C. Gilbert, M. A. Iwen, M. J. Strauss, Group testing and sparse signal recovery, in Proc. of the 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2008, pp. 1059--1063.
R. Maleh, A. C. Gilbert, Sublinear recovery of sparse wavelet signals, proceedings of Data Compression Conference (DCC) 2008, 2008.
Y. Massound, S. Pfetsch, T. Ragheb, J. Laska, H. Nejati, A. Gilbert, M. Strauss, R. Baraniuk, On the feasibility of hardware implementation of sub-Nyquist random-sampling based analog-to-information conversion, proceedings of IEEE Interational Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2008, 2008.
A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, Fundamental performance bounds for a compressive sampling system, proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2008, 2008.
X. Shi, M. Bonner, L. Adamic, A. C. Gilbert, The very small world of the well-connected, proceedings of ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008, 2008. (Awarded ACM Douglas Engelbart Award)
Anna C. Gilbert, Martin J. Strauss, Joel A. Tropp, Roman Vershynin, One sketch for all: fast algorithms for compressed sensing, in Proc. of ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2007, STOC 2007, pp. 237--246.
M. Demertzi, P. C. Diniz, M. W. Hall, A. C. Gilbert, Y. Wang, A Combined Hardware/Software Optimization Framework for Signal Representation and Recognition, proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science, vol. 1, 2007, pp. 1230--1237.
R. Maleh, A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, Sparse Gradient Image Reconstruction Done Faster, proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2007, vol. 2, 2007, pp. 77--80.
K. Herrity, A. C. Gilbert, and J. Tropp, Sparse Approximation via Iterative Thresholding, in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, Toulouse, France, 2006.
W. Aiello, A. C. Gilbert, B. Rexroad, and V. Sekar, Sparse Approximations for High Fidelity Compression of Network Traffic Data, in Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference IMC 2005, New Orleans, LA, October 2005.
A. C. Gilbert and J. A. Tropp, Applications of Sparse Approximations in Communications, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ISIT 2005, September 2005.
A. C. Gilbert, S. Muthukrishnan, and M. J. Strauss, Improved time bounds for near-optimal sparse Fourier representation via sampling, in Proceedings of SPIE Wavelets XI, San Diego, CA, 2005.
J. Tropp, A. C. Gilbert, and M. J. Strauss, Simultaneous sparse approximation via greedy pursuit, invited paper, special session on ``Sparse representations in signal processing'', in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
A. R. Calderbank, A. C. Gilbert, K. Levchenko, S. Muthukrishnan, and M. Strauss, Improved range-summable random variable construction algorithms, in Proceedings of the 2005 SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms SODA, Vancouver, BC, January 2005.
J. A. Tropp, A. .C. Gilbert, S. Muthukrishnan, and M. J. Strauss, Improved sparse approximation over quasi-incoherent dictionaries, IEEE International conference on image processing ICIP, pp. 37--40, 2003.
A. C. Gilbert, S. Muthukrishnan, and M. J. Strauss, Approximation of Functions over Redundant Dictionaries Using Coherence, in Proceedings of 2003 SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms SODA, pp. 243--252, 2003.
A. C. Gilbert and H. Karloff, On the Fractal Behavior of TCP, Proc. of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing STOC, pp. 297--306, 2003.
A. C. Gilbert, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, M. J. Strauss, How to summarize the universe: Dynamic maintenance of quantiles, in Proc. of the 2002 Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB, pp. 454--465, 2002.
A. C. Gilbert, S. Guha, P. Indyk, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, M. J. Strauss, Fast, Small-Space Algorithms for Approximate Histogram Maintenance, in Proc. of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing STOC, pp. 389--398, 2002.
A. C. Gilbert, S. Guha, P. Indyk, S. Muthukrishnan, M. J. Strauss, Near-Optimal Sparse Fourier Representations via Sampling, Proc. of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing STOC, pp. 152--161, 2002.
A. C. Gilbert, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, M. Strauss, Surfing wavelets on streams: one-pass summaries for approximate aggregate queries, in Proc. of the 2001 Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB, pp. 79--88, 2001.
A. C. Gilbert, Y. Kotidis, S. Muthukrishnan, M. Strauss, Optimal and Approximate Computation of Summary Statistics for Range Aggregates, in Proc. of the 2001 ACM Principles of Database Systems PODS, pp. 227--236, Santa Barbara, 2001.
M. Gupta and A. Gilbert, Nonlinear vector multiresolution analysis, Proc. of the 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2000.
A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, P. Huang, and W. Willinger, Dynamics of IP Traffic: A Study of the Role of Variability and the Impact of Control, in Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM'99, pp. 301--313, Boston, MA, 1999.
Y. Joo, V. Ribeiro, A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, and W. Willinger, On the impact of variability on the buffer dynamics in IP networks, in Proc. of the 37th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, IL, 1999.
A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, and W. Willinger, Data networks as cascades: Investigating the multifractal nature of Internet WAN traffic, in Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM'98, pp. 42--55, Vancouver, B.C., 1998.
A. C. Gilbert, A. Feldmann, W. Willinger, Visualizing multifractal scaling behavior: A simple scaling heuristic, in Proc. of the 32nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 1998.
A. Feldmann, A. C. Gilbert, W. Willinger and T. G. Kurtz, Looking behind and beyond self-similarity: Scaling phenomena in measured WAN traffic, in Proc. of the 35th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp. 269--280, 1997.
Refereed Workshop Publications
A. C. Gilbert, B. Hemenway, M. J. Strauss, D. P. Woodruff, and M. Wootters, Reusable low-error compressive sampling schemes through privacy, Proceedings of IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2012.
X. Kong, P. Petre, R. Matic, A. Gilbert, and M. Strauss, An analog-to-information converter for wideband signals using a time encoding machine, in 2011 IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop (DSP/SPE), pages 414--419, Jan. 2011.
Daehyun Yoon, J. A. Fessler, Anna C. Gilbert, Douglas C. Noll, Simultaneous signal loss correction from B1 and B0 field inhomogeneity in BOLD fMRI with parallel excitation, in ISMRM Workshop on Parallel MRI, 2009.
Praveen K. Yenduri and Anna C. Gilbert, Continuous Fast Fourier Sampling, in Proc. of Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA), 2009.
R. Maleh, A. C Gilbert, Multichannel image estimation via simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit, in Proc. of Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 2007, 2007.
J. Laska, S. Kirolos, Y. Massoud, R. Baraniuk, A. Gilbert, M. Iwen, and M. Strauss, Random sampling for analog-to-information conversion of wideband signals, in Fifth IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop, October 2006.
A. C. Gilbert, M. J. Strauss, J. A. Tropp, and R. Vershynin, Sublinear approximation of compressible signals, Invited paper, special session on "Compressive Sensing," in Proceedings of SPIE Intelligent Integrated Microsystems, Orlando, April 2006.
A. C. Gilbert and K. Levchenko, Compressing network graphs, in Proceedings of the LinkKDD workshop at the 10th ACM Conference on KDD, August 2004.
J. Fong, A. Gilbert, S. Kannan, and M. Strauss, Better alternatives to OSPF routing, in Proc. of Workshop on Approximation and Randomized Algorithms in Communication Networks (ARACNE), 2001.
M. Gupta and A. Gilbert, Robust speech recognition using wavelet coefficient features, Proc. of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Italy, 2001.
S. Seuret and A. Gilbert, Pointwise Holder exponent estimation in data network traffic, International Teletraffic Congress Workshop, Monterey, CA, 2000.
A. C. Gilbert, Y. Joo, and N. McKeown, Congestion control and periodic behavior, Proc. of IEEE LANMAN Workshop,Boulder, CO, 2001.
A. C. Gilbert, Dynamics of congestion control, in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks, G. Vattay and L. Kocarev, eds., Springer-Verlag, 2005.
A. C. Gilbert, Multiresolution homogenization schemes for differential equations and applications, in Topics in analysis and its applications: Selected theses, Ronald Coifman, ed., World Scientific, 2000.
I. C. Daubechies and A. C. Gilbert, Harmonic analysis, wavelets, and applications, in Hyperbolic Equations and Frequency Interactions, Luis Cafarelli and Weinan E, eds., IAS/Park City Mathematics Series, vol. 5, 1998.
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Joint source and relay design for MIMO multi-relay systems using projected gradient approach
Apriana Toding, Muhammad R. A. Khandaker, Yue Rong
Institute of Sensors, Signals & Systems
In this paper, we develop the optimal source precoding matrix and relay amplifying matrices for non-regenerative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay communication systems with parallel relay nodes using the projected gradient (PG) approach. We show that the optimal relay amplifying matrices have a beamforming structure. Exploiting the structure of relay matrices, an iterative joint source and relay matrices optimization algorithm is developed to minimize the mean-squared error (MSE) of the signal waveform estimation at the destination using the PG approach. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through numerical simulations.
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1499-2014-151
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Non-regenerative relay
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The figure of Amenhotep II can be seen within the tomb, although the King's face has been destroyed (Amenhotep II is shown seated on his throne while Userhat makes offerings of fruits and garlands of flowers).
The usual funerary feast scenes show friends and relantions of Userhat seated while waiters attend them - Userhat himself is shown sitting by a table filled with bread and other provisions.
Other scenes here show the bakers seated next to their bread made in preparation for the feast.
A close-up of the workers relaxing in Userhat's garden, some workers take the opportunity to have a hair-cut.
Further scenes, this time on the left side of the entrance to the tomb, show Userhat, his wife and their daughter standing before offerings (the figures of the wife and daughter have been erased - this was due to a early christian monk who lived in the tomb).
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"For the sake of your soul, make a happy day in your beautiful house of eternity which is your dwelling for ever. You are seated in it, your heart being happy, while you follow this good god Osiris, Lord of Eternity, who grants that you shall receive food in his presence at all times of the day".
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Other hunting scenes in this room show him hunting in the marshes with snares and boomerangs.
Finally there are scenes of Userhat's funeral - the coffin being carried to the tomb in the funeral procession, the journey across the Nile in boats, and the carrying of the funerary equipment to the tomb.
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As the rest of Europe lives under lockdown, Sweden keeps calm and carries on
All its neighbours have shut up shop to beat coronavirus but the Swedes insist 'we are not in quarantine'. Is that the right approach?
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If there's been a fall in custom at the Nyhavn restaurant, it's hardly noticeable. Groups of drinkers huddle under heat lamps out on Möllevång Square, the centre of nightlife in the Swedish city of Malmö, seemingly oblivious to the virus spreading through Europe.
"It's the Swedish trust in government," says Linus Bohman, 28. "No one told me you have to stay home right now," agrees his friend, Fredrik Glückman, a history student at Lund University. "We're not in quarantine. And as soon as we hear from our government that we have to stay in, like you do in Britain, then we will do it."
"But not," Bohman adds, "if Boris Johnson says it."
While every other country in Europe has been ordered into ever more stringent coronavirus lockdown, Sweden has remained the exception. Schools for pupils up to 16 years, kindergartens, bars, restaurants, ski resorts, sports clubs, hairdressers: all remain open, weeks after everything closed down in next door Denmark and Norway.
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Universities and upper secondary schools have been closed, and on Friday, the government tightened the ban on events to limit them to no more than 50 people. But if you develop symptoms, you can still go back to work or school just two days after you are 'symptom-free' . If a parent starts showing symptoms, they're allowed to continue to send their children to school.
It has only been in the past couple of days that the death toll has started to increase significantly, rising by a third in a single day on Thursday and Friday, with 92 people now dead and 209 in intensive care. As he announced the tighter restrictions on Friday, the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, warned that the coming weeks and months would be tough.
How many lives are they willing to sacrifice so as not to lockdown and risk greater effects on the economy?
Joacim Rocklöv, professor of epidemiology, Umeå University
But he defended the decision not to implement the tighter restrictions seen in Denmark, France and the UK. "We all, as individuals, have to take responsibility. We can't legislate and ban everything," he said. "It is also a question of commonsense behaviour."
Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, believes it is counterproductive to bring in the tightest restrictions at too early a stage. "As long as the Swedish epidemic development stays at this level," he tells the Observer, "I don't see any big reason to take measures that you can only keep up for a very limited amount of time."
His team at the Public Health Agency of Sweden is critical of the Imperial College paper that warned this month that 250,000 people in the UK would die if the government failed to introduce more draconian measures. A week later Johnson ordered the police to implement a partial lockdown to combat the virus, telling people they "must stay at home".
"We have had a fair amount of people looking at it and they are sceptical," says Tegnell. "They think Imperial chose a number of variables that gave a prognosis that was quite pessimistic, and that you could just as easily have chosen other variables that gave you another outcome. It's not a peer-reviewed paper. It might be right, but it might also be terribly wrong. In Sweden, we are a bit surprised that it's had such an impact."
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The best explanation for why Sweden is such an outlier centres on the unusual level of independence given to government agencies such as Tegnell's, and the reluctance of politicians to override them.
"I feel that the Swedish government is handling this very reasonably," argues Erika Lindquist, who is drinking with her brother and Danish husband at another table at the Nyhavn. "They're listening to the health department; they're listening to the experts they have on hand."
There is criticism, however. More than 2,000 Swedish university researchers published a joint letter on Wednesday questioning the Public Health Agency's position, while the previous week saw leading epidemiologists attack the agency in emails leaked to Swedish television.
Signs outside a Stockholm bar last week. Photograph: Colm Fulton/Reuters
"How many lives are they willing to sacrifice so as not to lockdown and risk greater effects on the economy?" asked one, Joacim Rocklöv, a professor of epidemiology at Umeå University.
Tegnell argues that because in Sweden there are almost no stay-at-home parents, closing schools would have knocked out at least a quarter of doctors and nurses, crippling the health service. By pushing children out into society, it might even have increased the threat to the elderly, particularly if they were called upon to babysit.
He points out that Sweden has almost no households where the over-70s live with younger adults and children.
Tegnell even questions whether stopping the progress of the virus is desirable. "We are just trying to slow it, because this disease will never go away. If you manage, like South Korea, to get rid of it, even they say that they count on it coming back. Stopping it might even be negative, because you would have a pent-up possible spread of the disease, and then once you open the gates, there is a possibility that there would be an even worse outcome."
While Tegnell understands that he will be blamed if Sweden ends up in a similar situation to that of Italy, he refuses to be panicked. "I wouldn't be too surprised if it ended up about the same way for all of us, irrespective of what we're doing," he says. "I'm not so sure that what we're doing is affecting the spread very much. But we will see."
This article was amended on 30 March and 2 April 2020. An earlier version misnamed Linus Bohman, who is quoted in the piece, as Elias Billman. On 2 April it was amended to clarify: that the government advice is to return to work two days after you are 'symptom-free' rather than "feel better" and that schools for pupils up to 16 remain open but upper secondary schools have closed.


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Pouilly-sur-Serre ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Aisne der Region Hauts-de-France (bis 2015: Picardie). Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Laon, zum Kanton Marle und zum Gemeindeverband Pays de la Serre.

Geographie
Die Gemeinde Pouilly-sur-Serre liegt rund 13 Kilometer nordwestlich von Laon am Fluss Serre, dessen Zufluss Rucher das Ortsgebiet durchquert. Umgeben wird Pouilly-sur-Serre von den Nachbargemeinden Montigny-sur-Crécy im Norden, Crécy-sur-Serre im Nordosten und Osten, Chéry-lès-Pouilly im Süden und Assis-sur-Serre im Westen.

Geschichte
Seit 1883 führt die Gemeinde Pouilly den Namenszusatz "sur-Serre".

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-Médard

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I forgot to mention that yesterday I had the chance to be a part of the Q&A panel at the end of the day. They were a person short. It was fun. I shared that I used to be a professional yoyo player. That meant that I had to do a brief demo today right before the lunch break. I was a bit nervous as I hadn't done any tricks in front of a crowd in some time (as in years). They seemed to enjoy it.
Of the three distinctives I was most interested in study, needless to say (but I said it anyway). So, here are the notes from the day.
Review. Anointing given for purpose, to achieve, it's a gift.
Anointing is not an island.
How do we block anointing?
Sometimes pain produces a pledge. What kind of pain do the people I serve feel? Do they feel God's pain? A person's agenda is tested in time of pleasure and not pain.
We need Elkanahs in our lives, people who will support us in the promises we make to The Lord.
We need people who care more about us than their own personal agenda.
Moses allowed the spies to decide.
They weren't seeking the same purpose.
Moses was seeking to be fair.
Jonah 1:8-9. Jonah runs away.
Anointing is limited to appointing. Limited when you go outside of your purpose.
Before you can share God's story you have to share your story. Before you can share your story you have to hear theirs.
Five questions to ask outside of HD to lead people into HD.
What didn't you like about the passage?
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The friendship side of things is the foundation not the goal.


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import sondas.inspector.delta.IGlobalStats;

public class ServletCpuProbeFactory implements IDeltaNodeFactory
{
	public MethodNode createNode(DataInputStream dis, StringsCache stringsCache, int metricType) throws IOException
	{
		return null;
	}

	public MethodNode createNode(ITrace trace, StringsCache stringsCache, int metricType, int id) {
		return null;
	}

	public IGlobalStats createGlobalStats(DataInputStream dis, StringsCache stringsCache, int metricType) throws IOException {
		return new CpuGlobalStats(dis, stringsCache, metricType);
	}
}