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Apple, Google lead consortium to purchase Kodak's patent portfolio
By Shawn Knight on August 20, 2012, 8:30
Apple and Google, described by some as bitter rivals in the mobile handset race, have reportedly joined forces in an effort to purchase a patent portfolio being auctioned off by bankrupt Eastman Kodak. Previous reports had pinned Apple and Google working together on a deal but now the Wall Street Journal claims that Samsung and LG are also part of the consortium interested in Kodak's patent auction.
The duo allegedly planned to offer between $150 million to $250 million for the patents but just last week, Kodak said they were delaying the announcement of who won the auction. The company even told CNET that they might not sell the patents at all. The photography legend had initially hoped to haul in around $2 billion for the digital imaging patent portfolio.
The Journal is now reporting that the consortium is prepared to offer more than $500 million to Kodak for the portfolio. A sale would mean that each company would have joint ownership of the patents and eliminate the threat of lawsuits over their use from other members.
This would be good news for all parties involved as Samsung and Apple have been going head to head in courtrooms across the world for some time now and Google is no stranger to lawsuits against their Android operating system. Even Kodak would be relieved of legal duties seeing as they sued Apple over a patent ownership agreement earlier this year.
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Many of the cutting-edge researchers at McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the Macdonald Campus hope that their work will change the course of global warming. Professor Chandra Madramootoo and Associate Professor Grant Clark in the Department of Bioresource Engineering are no exception. The professors received a combined sum of approximately $3 million from the Canadian Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food for their respective research projects, which investigate how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the agricultural sector, while offering affordable new growing techniques and tools to farmers. On June 12, Madramootoo and Clark were recognized for receiving the award in a ceremony at the MacDonald campus.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture industry currently contribute approximately 13 per cent of global emissions. The Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food's Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program funds agricultural research related to water use efficiency, crop systems, livestock systems, and agroforestry to try to reduce that percentage.
Madramootoo's research strives to uncover water management strategies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to Madramootoo, using effective drainage and irrigation systems on farms is essential not only for maintaining adequate soil moisture around crop roots for optimal growth, but also for reducing a farm's total output of greenhouse gases.
Madramootoo and his research team also hope to learn more about the microbial processes in soil that determine levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Madramootoo plans to use his findings to develop a mathematical model of these emissions over a broad regional landscape. He hopes to uncover solutions that will not only mitigate global warming, but will also be affordable for farmers.
Clark aims to improve agricultural sustainability employing different means. In collaboration with researchers at Dalhousie University and the University of Alberta, Clark and his research team hope to identify a system for converting biosolids—solid residue from wastewater treatment plants—into crop fertilizers. This tactic would not only replace traditional synthetic fertilizers, which are typically made using non-renewable resources, but it would also cut down on the greenhouse gas emission levels associated with their production.
Clark's goal is to design a self-sustaining agricultural system which keeps the flow of nutrients in one repeating cycle—from farms, to tables, to toilets, and back again—rather than using non-renewable resources that cannot be reused or recycled.
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Malta and Convoys
Convoys were vital to the survival of Malta during World War Two. Malta needed supplies brought in by convoys on a regular basis if it was to survive and provide the Royal Navy with the base it needed in the mid-Mediterranean. There were two convoy routes to Malta. One was from the British base at the port of Alexandria in Egypt. The second was from Gibraltar. Both were very dangerous routes as U-boats patrolled the Mediterranean Sea as did Axis aircraft. The fall of Crete in 1941 had provided the Germans were another place to set up airfields. The sea route between Crete and Alexandria was nicknamed 'Bomb Alley' by those who sailed there. When Axis forces retook Libya, the airfields there could also be brought back into play.
On February 12th 1942, a convoy of three freighters left Alexandria bound for Malta. Two cruisers, eight destroyers and one anti-aircraft ship, the 'Carlisle', guarded the three freighters 'Clan Campbell', 'Rowallan Castle' and 'Clan Chattan'. These eleven ships provided a great amount of anti-aircraft fire between them. However, none of the three freighters made it to Malta. The damage to 'Clan Chattan' and 'Rowallan Castle' was such that both were scuttled while 'Clan Campbell' limped into Tobruk harbour. The Axis aerial attacks occurred when the convoys were too far from Malta for the island's small Hurricane force to give help - and aerial support was just what the convoys needed. On March 20th another convoy of three freighters left Alexandria bound for Malta. This time Beaufighters escorted the freighters. They got through 'Bomb Alley' by the following day. However, the Beaufighters only had a limited range. Once the convoy had got through 'Bomb Alley', it had to face an Italian fleet based around the battleship 'Littorio', three cruisers and four destroyers. The convoy's naval escort blanketed the freighters with a smokescreen and were assisted in this by an unexpected gale that made the smokescreen more effective. The Italians were also wary of the torpedoes carried by the British destroyers. However, in the confusion, the Italians did succeed in splitting the convoy. The four freighters were separated but each had a destroyer escort. They were ordered to make to Malta at full speed so that they would arrive at night and under the cover of darkness. However, they arrived at first light on March 23rd just as an air attack on the island was starting. Two of the freighters were sunk - the newly repaired 'Clan Campbell' and 'Breconshire' - but two did make it into harbour (the 'Talabot' and 'Pampas') and the crews were given a delirious welcome by the people of Valetta who were in desperate need of the supplies being carried.
Convoys to Malta from Gibraltar were equally as dangerous as they had to face the might of Field Marshal's Kesselring's Fliegerkorps II based in Italy as well as U-boats.
However, by June 1942, Malta was desperately short of food and fuel. A decision was taken to send two convoys to Malta - one from Gibraltar and one from Alexandria - at the same time so that Axis forces would be split when they attacked. Five freighters and a tanker sailed from Gibraltar on June 11th in 'Operation Harpoon'. At the same time eleven freighters sailed from Port Said in 'Operation Vigorous'. The Royal Navy heavily escorted both freighter convoys. However, facing both were Axis aircraft, U-boats, Italian submarines, MTB's and in the eastern Mediterranean, the Italian fleet based around the battleship 'Littorio'. An unexpected complication for 'Harpoon' was a report - that proved to be correct - that two Italian cruisers and five Italian destroyers were in the western Mediterranean.
'Operation Harpoon' never had the air cover that it needed and had to face almost incessant attacks by German and Italian aircraft. The Stuka's were especially effective. By the time the convoy got to Malta, only two freighters had survived but they brought with them 15,000 tons of desperately needed supplies.
'Operation Vigorous' fared much worse. None of the freighters got to Malta and the Royal Navy lost or had damaged a number of ships such as the cruisers 'Birmingham' and 'Newcastle'. The real damage was done in 'Bomb Alley' where once again the Stuka proved very effective.
Out of a total of seventeen freighters that set out for Malta, only two arrived. The loss rate was huge both in terms of freighters and manpower. However, the tide of events was turning in the Mediterranean. The arrival of Mark V Spitfires gave the RAF and Fleet Air Arm a much-needed boost. While these fighters had a limited time in the air and could not help in 'Bomb Alley', they could give vital air cover to convoys as they approached Malta. The arrival of Beaufighters, which had a greater range, was also a great boost.
One convoy named 'Operation Pedestal' (August 1942) ended with the fuel tanker 'Ohio' reaching the Grand Harbour. However, losses on this convoy were also high as the aircraft carrier 'Eagle' was lost along with two cruisers and one destroyer. Nine merchant ships were also destroyed or sufficiently damaged that they could not continue the journey. 400 men lost their lives. However, the fuel that 'Ohio' carried allowed the island to continue for another three months and in that time Rommel's power in North Africa declined due to lack of supplies and fuel.
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New Core Features
It's been a long time since I posted anything here. Moving to a new city has slowed my development down significantly, but things are getting back to normal again.
Recently there has been a fair bit of activity, and I'll summarise what's been going on in this post. There's a couple new features, some changes to Pedigree itself, and some bug fixes. In-depth discussion of each, where necessary, follows the list.
ZombieQueue (commit d5314bf7)
Using > 4 GB of RAM now works, with the x86_64 port (commit bb6b954b)
MemoryPool (commit 64454975)
UdpLogger (versatile log callbacks) (commit ff5fddba)
ZombieQueue
ZombieQueue solves a problem that has been lying around for quite some time. Things such as signals require that a Process object is deleted as part of it being killed, so it is no longer schedulable. However, this was dealt with originally by a "delete this;" line. Any form of "delete this" can be dangerous when the next line is not a return statement. Even when the next line is a return statement, a reschedule out of the current context and into another, which allocates memory, may overwrite the existing object… making "this" invalid. That said, it did suffice for quite some time.
The idea of ZombieQueue is that you queue these deletions, allowing the thread to be rescheduled (or the call that needs deletion to return) and the object to be deleted at a later time, when it's safe to do so. Eventually ZombieQueue might also have a "delay" parameter, which ensures that it never deletes an object until after a specific time period has passed. This could easily be used for things such as TIME_WAIT handling in the TCP stack.
ZombieQueue has already been implemented into Process, Pipe, and Socket, all of which needed to delete themselves somehow. Now they call into ZombieQueue, which is able to safely delete the object.
x86_64 port using > 4 GB of RAM
A TODO all through the physical memory manager for quite some time has been to handle regions above 4 GB in the x86_64 port. Until this change was made, no ranges of memory above 4 GB were actually accessible. In fact, using the x86_64 port on a system with over 4 GB of memory actually caused anything from a panic to a triple fault and reboot.
This has been rectified now. I'm still not sure it'll handle a full 64-bit physical address space yet, but it will handle a massive amount of memory nonetheless.
MemoryPool
This one is something I'm surprised hasn't been implemented yet. The idea of MemoryPool is to take buffer allocation out of the kernel heap, where it consumes far too much memory - and sometimes even consumed the full size of the heap.
MemoryPool takes a block of memory, outside of the heap, and splits it up into buffers of a specified size. These buffers are distributed to modules and applications where necessary, and returned to the pool when they are no longer needed. Buffers in, for example, the network stack, are around 2048 bytes (rounded up to the next power of 2 from 1500). Rather than have every incoming packet cause an allocation on the kernel heap of, on average, 800 bytes, this moves the processing into a pool of memory dedicated to the job.
A key feature to MemoryPool is its blocking nature. If an allocation cannot be satisfied by the current pool of memory (ie, all buffers are allocated out), it will block until a buffer becomes available. Compared to the heap, this means a constant memory usage is enforced. Effectively, the pool provides a strict contract on its memory consumption: a pool will never resize to fit a new allocation.
This does bring up a minor problem: some code can't block - an interrupt handler for example. For this situation, a non-blocking allocation method is available, which merely returns NULL if no buffers are available.
UdpLogger
It has long been possible to install custom Log callbacks which take log entries and write them to a destination. Callbacks that already exist include the Serial logger, and a callback is used for the loading screen log dump. For testing on real machines, however, neither of these suffice. None of my test machines have a serial port, for example. They are all networked via Ethernet, however.
UdpLogger is able to be installed after the route table is installed, so it's only really useful for debugging if you can actually boot to a shell on the test machine. It dumps all log entries to a given IP address and port. A test machine can then dump all its debugging output to a development machine running netcat.
Here it is, in action:
Log::installCallback has now also been updated to dump all the old log entries to the new callback, so every logging destination should have the same data once they are all installed.
These are just a couple of exciting new features and fixes that have happened in the past couple of weeks. At this stage we have not planned a second release - we're still working through the bugs from Foster and finally getting around to fixing all those TODOs scattered in the code.
At the moment git master is being kept "stable" - that is, it builds and runs to the bash shell (apart from x86_64) - so feel free to grab the latest code and have a play!
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Since Wei Luo's hand was small, her hold on the writing brush was unsteady and it was very strenuous for her to write. So, Wei Kun held her hand to teach her how to write each stroke.
Wei Kun's hand that held the writing brush stiffened. He turned his head to look at the doorway.
Hong Ya was a servant girl that had been recently attending to Du-shi. She had run here and was now puffing and blowing to try to catch her breath. She was too worried to follow the rules at this time.
Du-shi's was one month pregnant in March. It was calculated that she would give birth at the end of November. It was only early November now. How could she be giving birth?
During this time, she and Lu Yi were washing clothes. There was no one else in Gingko Courtyard and they had to do everything themselves. It was a bitterly cold day. They weren't carefully watching over Du-shi. Who could have expected that in a blink of an eye, she would have an accident?!
Hong Ya and Lu Yi had been forced to follow Du-shi to Gingko Courtyard. Previously, they had already felt discontent towards her and normally didn't do their utmost. However, in the end, Du-shi was the fifth madam of Duke Ying's family. If something did happen to her, they wouldn't be able to avoid being punished. This was why they were so frightened at the moment.
Besides, Du-shi was still under punishment and fifth master was angry with her. Who would dare mention anything about Du-shi in front of him? So, even now, there wasn't a single midwife attending Du-shi.
At this moment, unprepared for the pain, Du-shi could only cry and scream on her bed.
After Hong Ya received his orders, she didn't delay and quickly left.
Wei Luo wiggled her way out Wei Kun's lap and looked in the direction that Hong Ya had departed. For a long time, she didn't say anything.
This child was a protective talisman to Du-shi. If she gave birth to a boy, Wei Kun might bring her back from Gingko Courtyard. How could Wei Luo let that happen? She quickly thought. Without saying a word, she ran outside.
Wei Luo didn't stop. She only diligently ran. She was so absorbed that she collided with many servant girls on the way. Finally, she firmly stopped in front of Wei Chang Hong's room.
Wei Kun finally caught up to her. He was worried that something had happen to her because of her unusual behavior. He didn't expect that she wanted to see Chang Hong. He let out a relieved sigh. He stooped over and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Why were you so anxious about seeing Chang Hong…" Before he finished his question, he suddenly stopped.
The little girl's face was covered in tears that had been scattered across her face by the wind. She cried without saying anything. The teardrops continued to roll down her face. She was looked indescribably pitiful.
Wei Kun's heart felt sorry for this child that he loved dearly. He used his sleeve to wipe away her tears.
Wei Kun was speechless. He didn't expect that she would understand everything. A child's intuition was the most accurate. Even though he had hid everything from her, she was still aware. She was only an innocent, young child. But, her heart was unexpectedly filled with worries.
Wei Kun felt remorse. He squatted down to hold her and gently patted her head to appease her worries.
Alarmed by the sound outside, Chang Hong opened the door.
Wei Luo wiped away her tears on Wei Kun's shoulder. She looked at Chang Hong with red eyes.
Wei Luo didn't want him to know why she was crying. After all, her fake tears were only meant to deceive Wei Kun.
Wei Luo insisted that this was true with an obstinate look on her face.
Chang Hong pursed his lips while looking at her. He wasn't good at quarreling, so he could only accept her nonsensical logic.
Without entering Du-shi's bedroom in Gingko Courtyard, one could hear a woman screaming herself hoarse.
Wei Kun stood outside. Fourth madam had also hurried over after she was informed.
Wei Luo was wrapped in a large cloak decorated with red peony flowers. She and Chang Hong played with the snow under the pine trees. The two of them would throw snowballs at each other. In a short time, they were both covered in snow. A snowball happened to hit Wei Zhang's foot. She was standing next to Wei Kun.
Wei Zheng turned around to glare at them with red eyes.
Wei Kun asked fourth madam to watch over Ah Luo and Chang Hong. He was worried they would catch a cold if they kept playing with the snow.
As expected, his words set Wei Zheng's mind at ease. She continued to patiently and quietly wait.
The screams from inside the room continued from morning until evening. At the beginning, the sound was intense and reverberating. By the end, it was only faint gasping for breath.
This birth was more painful than her first child's. Since it was a premature baby, it would be fortunate enough if she could give birth to the baby safely.
At nightfall, when the stars twinkled, a baby's cry was finally heard in Gingko Courtyard.
Wei Kun and fourth madam looked at each other for a moment before entering the room. Inside Du-shi's bedroom, they went around the room divider screen that was decorated with four joyful magpies only to see Du-shi weakly lying on her bed. She was soaked in sweat. It wasn't clear if she was aware or not.
After the midwife saw Wei Kun entering the room, she happily brought an infant swaddled in a cloth that had been embroidered with words "more sons, more happiness" in front of him.
She joyfully said, "Congratulations master, it's a baby boy. Master has such good fortune. Look at this child…" When she talked to this point, she didn't see Wei Kun showing any reaction. When she raised her head to look at his face, she saw that this master wasn't the same as other fathers.
When he looked at his child, his gaze didn't have any joy. There were only calmness and quietness as if he hadn't looked forward to the birth of this child.
The midwife immediately stopped talking and stiffly continued to hold the child. She wasn't sure what she should do next.
Wei Kun went past the midwife to walk to the bed. He opened the curtain veil to look inside.
Du-shi had gone through a day of torment, so she was currently deeply unconscious. After she had given birth to the child, she probably didn't have the energy to look at the child to see what he looked like.
Early on, Wei Kun had planned this. Once this child was born, regardless of gender, he would give this child to the fourth madam to foster. After the child was five, he would let the child meet Du-shi. Du-shi's moral character was corrupt, so she wasn't suitable to look after a child. This could also be counted as her punishment. She had previously wanted to sell Ah Luo and he had almost lost his most precious daughter. Now, he would let her experience the feeling of losing a child. She didn't need to think about using this child to threaten him or improving her position through this child.
From the moment this child was born, it had no connection to her. He had only stayed in her womb for ten months. Once he grew up, he wouldn't remember. He would have spent more time with Qin-shi and considered her as his true mother. He would only call Du-shi fifth aunt instead of mom.
A servant girl gave the midwife money for helping with birth and also gave her hush money. Although the midwife was curious, she also knew not to ask any questions. After she received the money, knowing her place, she quietly left through a corner gate.
In Chang Hong's generation, the male descendants' names in Duke Ying's family all started with "Chang" or "Gong".
Mi had the meaning of unable to have. This child would be considered to have come here to make up for Du-shi's offences.
Qin-shi nodded. She saw that it was already dark outside, so she held the child to prepare to leave and said, "Chang Mi was prematurely born. At present, he is still in poor health. I'll bring him back to Plum Courtyard to raise him well, so be at ease.
Wei Kun nodded. He was reassured with leaving the child with Qin-shi. Qin-shi had done a good job in bringing up and educating her three children in manners and culture. Even the most mischievous Wei Chang Xian is more or less sensible at the critical moments. If she raises Wei Chang Mi, he will live better than if he was raised by Du-shi.
After he watched Qin-shi leave, he didn't stay here much longer. He instructed the two servant girls to take care of Du-shi, and then left with Wei Luo and Chang Hong.
Since Wei Zhang refused to leave and insisted on staying watching over Du-shi, Wei Kun let her have her way.
When Du-shi woke up the next day, it felt as if her entire body had been run over by a horse carriage. Her body ached and felt powerless.
She opened her eyes to see that it was the next morning and there wasn't anyone in the room, not even a servant girl to wait upon her. Her hoarse voice called out to summon servants.
Du-shi thought there was something wrong. Her train of thought went round and round. She finally thought of something. With great difficulty, she managed to sit up.
Hong Ya twisted her hands. She knew what happened. Wei Kun had already explained to them and wanted them to pass on the information to Du-shi.
Du-shi let out a relieved sigh. Hearing that it was a boy, Du-shi was unable to conceal her joy and she thought she had hope now.
Hong Ya didn't move for a while. She was in a difficult position.
Hong Ya couldn't continue to keep concealing.
After she mulled over the issue, she truthfully said, "After madam gave birth to the young master, master named him Chang Mi. Master had already given the child to fourth madam to raise. After the child turns five, fourth madam will legally adopt him…" As she talked, Du-shi's face became pale.
He was her son. Why was he given to fourth madam to bring up? Why wasn't she allowed to see her son?!
Du-shi eyes became frenetic and her hands trembled. She didn't even put on her shoes before rushing outside.
At this point, Du-shi couldn't hear anything. She just wanted to see her child or ask Wei Kun what was happening. This was her son that she had carried in her womb for ten months and hadn't even seen once. Don't tell her that he would be given to someone else to raise. Wei Kun was so cold-blooded!
Du-shi staggered to Gingko Courtyard's entrance. Before she could step through the entrance, the swords of the two guards barred her way.
Without any expression, a guard said, "Madam, please return. Master has ordered that you're not allowed to leave Gingko Courtyard.
Du-shi tried to push them away. Unfortunately, there was a big contrast between the two parties. She wasn't able to move them the slightest amount. Her hair became messy in her struggle. She was only wearing a thin layer of inner clothes. Her eyes were red.
She stumbled back two steps and absent-mindedly dropped to the ground. For a long time, she held her face and cried bitterly. This was the first time she had lost all hope.
She thought that after she gave birth, she would have a chance to turn her situation around. She didn't expect that Wei Kun would be so heartless. He had stolen away her child and didn't even leave a stray thought about her.
T/N: Thank you for taking the time to answer my question about the author notes =).
Does anyone else think Wei Kun is a really crappy person? It felt like the only reason he allowed the child to be born was to use him as way to punish Du-shi. Du-shi should definitely be punished for her actions, but there's no reason to involve an innocent child. All of his thoughts upon seeing his son was how much losing her son would hurt Du-shi.
Chang Mi is really fortunate that fourth madam is a kind person who will treat him well. Fourth madam already has her own kids to take care of her and Wei Kun irresponsibly drops another kid on her.


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Mr. Brown has been a member of the Board since June 2013 and has served as a director of the Company's operating subsidiary, ANIP Acquisition Company d/b/a ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since July 2010. Mr. Brown has been active in the venture capital and private equity business for over 30 years and co-founded Meridian Venture Partners, II. L.P., a venture capital and private equity firm, in 2000 and its predecessor fund, Meridian Venture Partners, in 1987. Prior to 1987, Mr. Brown was a principal in a merchant banking firm active in both private equity and investment banking. Mr. Brown began his professional career as a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. Subsequently, he worked for a subsidiary of The Penn Central Corporation as a financial analyst, and after graduation from law school, practiced corporate tax law at the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia. Mr. Brown has served on the board of directors of numerous privately-held and public companies, including several healthcare related companies such as Implex Corporation, Dorland Data Networks, Omega Health Systems, Air Medical Group Holdings, Comprehensive Addiction Programs, Inc., and York Risk Services Group, Inc. Mr. Brown holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas J. Haughey, Director
Mr. Haughey has been a member of the Board since May 2018. Mr. Haughey held the role of General Counsel and Secretary at Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. ("Par") from 2003 through 2016. In addition to his role as General Counsel, he has held various additional executive roles at Par including President from 2011 to 2012 and, most recently, Chief Administrative Officer from 2012 to 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Haughey held positions at Schering-Plough Corporation, where he was Chief Counsel from 1998 to 2001 and Legal Director from 2001 to 2003. Previously, Mr. Haughey was an attorney at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and a certified public accountant at Arthur Anderson & Co. Mr. Haughey earned a B.S. in accounting at St. John's University and a J.D. at the New York University School of Law.
Nikhil Lalwani, Director and President and CEO
Mr. Lalwani is ANI's President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of ANI's Board. Prior to joining ANI in September 2020, Mr. Lalwani worked at Cipla Ltd (NSE: CIPLA), a global pharmaceutical company, from May 2012 to August 2020 where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including CEO of Cipla USA, CEO of InvaGen, Head of US Strategy, M&A & Integration, and Head of Cipla's Global Respiratory business. In these roles, Mr. Lalwani developed and executed multi-year strategic growth plans for key products and facilitated successful acquisitions as Cipla entered the specialty pharmaceutical space. Prior to Cipla, Mr. Lalwani was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company serving pharmaceutical and healthcare companies across the world, and an engineer with Medtronic. Mr. Lalwani holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
David B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A. , Director
Dr. Nash has been a member of the Board since May 2018. Dr. Nash is the founding dean emeritus of and the Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health, located on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, having taken that position in 2008. Previously, Dr. Nash was the Chairman of the Department of Health Policy of the Jefferson Medical College from 2003 until 2008. From January 2010 to April 2019, Dr. Nash served on the board of directors of Humana Inc., a health insurance company. Dr. Nash currently serves on the following privately held boards: InfoMC, Best Value Care and Fox Rehabilitation. Dr. Nash is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement; his publications have appeared in many articles in major journals. Dr. Nash received his B.A. in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his M.B.A. in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Antonio Pera, Director
Mr. Pera has been a member of the Board since August 2020. He served as President of Par Pharmaceutical, the fifth-largest generic manufacturer in the United States, which is now part of Endo International, plc, from December 2013 until his retirement in August 2019. Prior to Par, Mr. Pera held leadership positions at AmerisourceBergen, American Pharmaceuticals Partners, Bedford Laboratories, a division of Ben Venue Laboratories, and Baxter Healthcare. His breadth of experience spans sales, marketing, supply chain operations, and licensing, and he has played a pivotal role in the successful growth and commercialization efforts at several successful pharma entities. Mr. Pera holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from DePaul University.
Jeanne Thoma, Director
Ms. Thoma has been a member of the Board since August 2020. She is the former President and CEO of SPI Pharma Inc., a global pharmaceuticals ingredients company and an innovative solutions provider of ingredients and drug delivery systems. Prior to joining SPI in January 2017, Ms. Thoma worked at Lonza AG, a Switzerland-based biotech company, where she held positions of increasing responsibility, including President and COO of the Microbial Control Business Sector, and then as an independent consultant to various companies. Prior to joining Lonza in 2007, Ms. Thoma spent 14 years at BASF Corp. in the Pharma Solutions business where she held various leadership positions in Sales, Marketing and Operations. Ms. Thoma is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Drug Chemical and Associated Technologies Association. Ms. Thoma holds a B.S. from Montclair State University and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Patrick D. Walsh, Chairman of the Board and Member of Compensation Committee
Mr. Walsh brings over 40 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and was appointed Chairman of ANI Pharma in 2019. From May 2019 to April 2020, Patrick was co-founder and CEO of TriPharm Services, an injectable manufacturing business which was acquired by Alcami. From 2015 to February 2019, Patrick was the Chief Executive Officer of Avista Pharma, a private equity-backed global provider of contract manufacturing, development and analytical testing services that was acquired by Cambrex. Prior to Avista, from 2010 to 2014, Patrick was the Chief Executive Officer of AAIPharma Services Corporation in Wilmington, North Carolina, a global provider of contract manufacturing services. Patrick's earlier career includes serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of publicly-traded Gensia-Sicor.
Patrick currently serves on the Board of Directors of Avid Bioservices (NASDAQ: CDMO), Landec Corp (NASDAQ: LNDC), specialty chemical company Industria Chemica Emiliano (I.C.E) based in Milan, Italy and is an Operating Partner (part-time) at healthcare private equity firm Ampersand Capital. He is also Chairman and founder of Diligence Group LLC.
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Rivne Oblast
Wildlife, Legends and History make Sarny a Memorable Destination
Sarny is a relatively small city in the Rivne Oblast of Ukraine. It is also one of three major railway junctions in the Rivne oblast, with the other two being Rivne and Zdolbuniv. At present there are approximately 30,000 people living in the city and it has a history of turbulence and violence connected to it. It has seen wars and disaster come and go, but has survived to share its story with the world.
The city of Sarny was established in the year 1885 and its name derives
from the wild goats named Serna that roamed this area freely and in great
numbers. It is located in a forest area that is known for its swamps, and
due to having an abundant water supply the landscape is green and
breathtaking. Sarny witnessed the devastation of the nearby Chernobyl disaster,
and in a hundred years of existence it has been occupied many times. The
Russian Empire laid claim to Sarny in the year 1795, but Poland took control
of the city by 1921. In 1939 the Soviet Union reclaimed the city but as the
war drew closer, the German Forces had occupied Sarny by 1941. By the year
1944, the Soviet Union had once again taken over the city, but it was
permanently assigned to Ukraine in 1991.
Sarny has a concrete and metal factory, but both are no longer in use so
the residents are reliant on agricultural products, such as vegetables, to
provide an income. Those that cannot afford a small piece of land, rely on
the forest for fruits, berries and mushrooms, which they pick and sell. Some
residents are fortunate enough to own their own food and clothing stores,
while the state also owns some retail outlets in the city.
Between the dates 27 to 28 August 1942, a staggering amount of fourteen
thousand Jews, lost their lives in Sarny. Many stories have been told about
these disturbing times, and some of them are in the pages of the book 'When God
Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile and Redemption'. It is
written by Wesley Adamczyk, in which he recalls his personal account of what
he and his family had to endure. At the time of the war, Adamczyk and his
family were living in Sarny. Another reminder of the war is the SU-76i Tank
which is at the Lenin Prospect Memorial in the city. It was on its way to
Sarny as a part of the 143rd Rifle division. It fell through broken ice and
together with its crew it lay in its icy grave until 1972. After its
discovery, it was renovated and put on display as a memorial to those who
fought and to those who died during the war.
To discover the complete beauty of the Sarny and Rivne Region, visitors
are recommended to spend the day at the Rivnensky Nature Reserve. It was
founded in 1999 and is a testament to the natural splendor of this area, the
exquisite Ukrainian wildlife, birds and plant life that dominates this region. It is a
magical experience that almost eliminates all the visions and pain from the
past.
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Vidubitsky Monastery
The Botanical Garden of the Ukraine Academy of Science is home to thousands of different plant and tree species, a landscape filled with beauty and magic. But, amongst the daydreams of fairies and elves which you half expect to see between the rows of rose bushes or hiding underneath the fern leaves, looms the walls of the Vidubitsky Monastery. The Vidubitsky Monastery in Kiev brings a touch ...
Mykolayiv Oblast
Located in the southern half of Ukraine, the Mykolayiv Oblast is relatively small compared to other regions. Despite the fact that the region is incredibly beautiful, there are relatively few noteworthy towns and cities to be found here. Perhaps the most noteworthy city is the administrative center of the region, Mykolayiv. The region is sometimes also referred to as the Mykolaiv Oblast.
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Larry was born into a Christian home in Ontario, Canada. He moved to Philadelphia in 1997 to begin studies at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he earned the MDiv (2001) and ThM (2006) degrees. Pastor Westerveld was introduced to Trinity Church in 1999 when he served as Summer Intern. He would stay on to become Youth Director and was ordained and installed as Associate Pastor in 2002. Pastor Westerveld has been serving Trinity Church as its solo pastor since July 2008. He has been married to Diana for twenty-five years.


Is it a bird…is it a bus…Well, it's definitely not Superman, although Hardik Shah would love Mumbaikars to fly with his new and unique concept – a restaurant-on-wheels.
Called The Moving Cart, this mobile eatery is grabbing eyeballs. It's also Mumbai's first and India's second mobile restaurant. Climb aboard the red-and-yellow double-deck bus, settle down to finger-licking grilled chicken shaslick or hara bhara kebab and take in the sights of the Queens' Necklace at Marine Drive. Life is good!
It's easy to be seduced by the sumptuous menu and promise of the sea. But not so fast! Since the meals are pre-cooked, bookings are only accepted online.
Launched in March this year, Mumbai's latest attraction has room for 20 on each deck. The lower deck is air-conditioned and has mood lighting and soft music. A large projector screen relays cricket matches and movies. The upper deck is open to the sky and hosts live music.
While you cruise along for 90 minutes, you will be served a five-course meal (Rs 1,200 veg; Rs 1,400 non-veg) and, why, you even have a hostess to make sure you're comfortable.
"Chennaiites were smitten by the concept when I launched my first bus there in 2011. The bus received fantastic footfalls and word-of-mouth brought in lots of curious customers," reveals Chennai-based Shah, who floated The Moving Cart with seed capital of Rs 1.4 crore from his personal funds. Encouraged by the experience in the South, Shah roped in John Dias as co-founder and, together, they launched the second bus in Mumbai.
Shah is not a first-time entrepreneur. After cutting his teeth in the garment export business, he launched a private bus service on the busy Mumbai-Pune route. But it was food that moved him, tempting Shah to open a lounge in Chennai. "I know the difficulties of the food service business, and even if the restaurant is a hit, it takes 2-3 years to break even. I wanted something quicker, more unique and interesting," he explains.
But The Moving Cart is more than a mobile restaurant. Apart from the three regular services a day, the bus also hosts corporate functions, birthday and anniversary celebrations, kitty parties and engagement ceremonies.
> The Moving Cart owns and runs both its buses. Each bus (a combination of Mercedes, Tata and Volvo) required an investment of Rs 1.1 crore. Plus there's the salaries of 12-15 employees per bus to be paid.
Shah says that although it takes 6 months to a year to break even, revenue is coming in from hiring out the buses for events and this helps run the business. Declining to reveal how the events are prices, he says, "It depends on the menu selection and number of people. It's like a regular banquet event where we customise the menu and multiply it by number of people." The rest of the revenue comes from catering and branding on the busses.
Price is a differentiating factor in the success of a business and Shah has had his share of juggling to do. "The best South Indian meal at Sarvana Bhavan in Chennai costs Rs 100. We had to tread very carefully when it came to pricing as the Chennai crowd is quite conservative. If you price it premium, you will lose customers." While meals cost Rs 775 (vegetarian) and Rs 875 (non-vegetarian) in Chennai, they cost Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,400 in Mumbai, respectively.
The Moving Cart faced some unique challenges before it launched. "The RTO couldn't slot us as a regular bus since we were a double-deck bus with an open top. The bus also served food that required some heating. All these factors put the RTO in a quandary and they had to create a separate category for us," explains Shah, who did the rounds of the RTO for 4 months to acquire the necessary licences.
That was not all. Food on a moving bus calls for a different set of dynamics and Shah had to do some clever thinking so that meals could be served hot and fresh. "By the time the food is served to guests, it's already heated four times since it was cooked and then ferried to the bus. We had to customise a menu with dishes that withstood this kind of re-heating and make sure that taste wouldn't be compromised on repeated heating," reveals Shah.
Also, the tables had to be fitted with anti-skid mats to prevent spill-over and the staff had to be trained to manage and serve food on the go.
The Moving Cart is gathering momentum and plans to wow adventurous foodies with two more buses in Mumbai, one each at Worli Seaface and Versova, as early as next month. Don't say you weren't warned!
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How Does My Doctor Know I Have Lung Cancer?
Perform a physical exam, which will include listening to your breathing.
Give you a sputum cytology test. For this test, each morning for 3 to 5 days, you collect the substance that you spit up from your lungs, called sputum. A pathologist then looks at the sputum under a microscope for cancer cells. Not all types of lung cancer show up in this test.
Schedule an X-ray of your chest to look for masses in your lungs.
Arrange for other imaging tests to get a better picture of your lungs. This may include a computed tomography (CT) scan and also perhaps a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test.
The results of these exams may be enough to rule out lung cancer. Or you may require further tests. However, if imaging tests show abnormal findings, such as a mass or fluid, you may need to have a sample taken. This sample, called a biopsy, is almost always required to diagnose lung cancer. A biopsy can be obtained by placing a special small camera called a bronchoscope in the airway, or by placing a needle through the skin and using images (CT scan or ultrasound) to guide where to take the sample. Or, occasionally a surgical procedure may be necessary. The method used to obtain a biopsy sample is determined partly by the location and size of the tumor.


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Ayo Edebiri Will Replace Jenny Slate as Missy on Big Mouth
Missy from Big Mouth.
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Putting its money where its big mouth is, Netflix has followed through on recasting Jenny Slate in Big Mouth.
A couple of months ago, as much of the animation industry reckoned with its regular tendency to cast non-Black actors to voice Black characters, Jenny Slate, who previously voiced the Black character Missy on Netflix's Big Mouth, publicly stepped away from the role. Now, as revealed by Variety, actress, writer, and comedian Ayo Edebiri will be taking it on.
"I was definitely a very uncomfortable child, so I think the show speaks to that and a lot of those feelings, which still resonate with me as an adult," Edibiri said in an interview with Variety. "I'm back home in my childhood bedroom right now and on my bookshelf in between A Series of Unfortunate Events is Bill Clinton's autobiography and Nelson Mandela's autobiography and a translation of The Iliad in Latin. I was a true dork. So I don't think I have to go too far to connect with Missy."
The show, helmed by Andrew Goldberg and Nick Kroll, will be handling the transition to the new voice in a novel way. While Slate will voice Missy throughout most of the as-of-yet-unreleased fourth season, Edebiri will take on the role in the season's final episode, in what is "a really cool and organic place," said Goldberg.
Big Mouth and Central Park Will Recast Black Characters Currently Being Played by White Actors
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Edibiri, who has written for NBC's Sunnyside, originally joined Big Mouth as a writer, before auditioning for Missy alongside a wide number of other actors who were interested in the role after Slate publicly resigned from it.
"It's about Missy's continued evolution as a person — that she has all of these different parts of who she is. There's the sidelines Missy and the more sexually adventurous Missy, mirror Missy, and then also this Missy that she's been discovering [in Season 4] through hanging out with her cousins and really taking a look at her Black identity," Nick Kroll told Variety, about the moment when Edibiri takes over.
According to Edibiri and the show's creators, the transition will allow the show to tell more nuanced and interesting stories about Missy and her identity, which is one obvious advantage of having people actually involved in that identity working on the show. These stories, Edibiri said, would include "stories you may traditionally not see as fun" set within the show's humorous context.
"There are lessons to be learned [from the show] and its growing pains — like on the show," Edibiri said. "To me, it's nothing but exciting. As a show and as a room and as a moment, it feels like it's happening, and hopefully it's here to stay."
Big Mouth is currently latein production on its fourth season, which does not yet have a premiere date.
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With PortaFab's modular building systems, lunchrooms and cafeterias can be constructed in a fraction of the time involved with conventional construction. Modular lunchrooms are also more functional in that they allow the end user the added flexibility of moving or reconfiguring the original enclosure with a 100% recapture of their initial investment. Free on-site design consultations are available to help you customize a floor plan that works for your individual needs.
PortaFab's modular enclosures provide clean, quiet break rooms while keeping employees close on the premises.


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Many of the sounds that German guitarist Steffen Basho Junghans makes aren't exactly new. Plenty of young musicians (this writer included) have tossed aside their Mel Bay books in frustration and tried to harness the surprising number of acoustic possibilities of the steel-string guitar. Don't tell my mom, but when I was nine years old, I was such a rebel! I never practiced "The Old Grey Mare," like my teacher wanted me to. Instead, I would put my index finger on one of my strings and shake it, causing that string and the open strings near it to ring. Or I would lay a slide across a fret and absent-mindedly pluck every string individually before pulling the slide backwards, causing all the notes to descend in pitch.
Junghans' new solo steel-string guitar record, Waters in Azure, is made up almost entirely of these sorts of sounds, which most young guitarists probably stumble upon accidentally. Junghans repeatedly taps the instrument's open strings with a slide, or with his fingers, causing the strings to reverberate. He pulls the strings behind the fretboard to create a harsh slapping sound. He plays using only one finger for minutes at a time. There's nothing accidental about the end result, though: Waters in Azure is carefully constructed, compositionally inventive and gorgeously recorded.
Junghans never uses his playing techniques (which have been superficially "discovered" by many but recorded by few, as far as I can tell) as ends in themselves; instead, he employs them in the service of pulsating, evocative compositions with clear and effective dramatic arcs. Waters in Azure is a well-executed exercise in tension and release: the songs move without warning from meditative, John Fahey-like resignation to explosive, thobbing rumbles that can make the listener forget she's even listening to a guitar. Junghans' wild but logical mood swings make the record almost impossible to ignore. Despite the fact that Junghans has obviously been influenced by American minimalists like Terry Riley (who springs immediately to mind because of his and Junghans' mutual interest in North Indian raga), and despite the glorious layer of reverb that blankets Junghans' every note, Waters in Azure, even more than last year's excellent Inside, is about as non-ambient as you can get.
Chalk this one up as another winner for the promising new Strange Attractors label. Junghans has been active in Germany since the 1970s, but only now are his recordings beginning to be released in the U.S. If the rest of his recorded output is anything like Waters in Azure, then I would like nothing more than to hear a steady stream of domestic reissues.


If you are one of those people who are always updated in terms of devices and technology, you will know that Instagram is one of the favorites of the users of smartphones and iPhone. Instagram is a social networking site or networks that currently run on a mobile platform; therefore, it is only available for use on mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. Instagram allows users to view, upload and share photos or images.
It is also equipped with the common functions of social networks, such as the ability to connect with friends, as in the images, and create your own set of followers. Since Instagram is used as a mobile application, users also love the very simple and almost instantaneous function of sharing photos right after clicking on the camera. For your dog business, Instagram presents a very simple but powerful tool to promote or promote your products or services related to dogs.
How will Instagram benefit your dog business?
You can create your own portfolio of products or services. With Instagram, you can upload and have a set of images that represents the products or services related to your dog. You can upload simple images or, perhaps, edited images that would serve as your online brochures. To be effective, each product or type of service must have a dedicated photo. Since your portfolio would serve as your advertising image, you should look your best.
You can share images of your real work with Instagram. One of the best ways to promote through Instagram is to upload or share the final results of services related to your dog. For example; if you are involved in the care and style of the dogs, you can take a picture of that cute puppy after the style is over and share it with the audience through bot like instagram. These images could serve as regular updates to your Instagram account. Posting images of your real work could prove that your business is worthwhile for people and that you are really skilled at that particular trade.
You can build your own list of customer followers. The goal of advertising your business with Instagram is, eventually, to win and accumulate potential customers. And these perspectives are your followers. If other people, apart from your friends, follow your account, it only means that they are satisfied with your service offers and are interested in them. Some of your Instagram followers could already be your existing customers. If that is the case, this social networking site could serve another important purpose; as a means of direct communication between your canine company and its clients.


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Q: Setting Triggers for Custom Properties WPF I have created a custom button that has a boolean flag on it to say whether it is selected or not.  If it is selected i want to change the background color of the button to allow the user to know what control they are looking at quickly.  The problem is that i can not get the trigger to work correctly.  Everything that i have seen on here, i have tried but i still get errors during the InitializeComponent section of my code.
Here are the properties that i am dealing with
Private mIsSelected As Boolean = False
Public Property IsSelected() As Boolean
    Get
        Return mIsSelected
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As Boolean)
        mIsSelected = value
    End Set
End Property

Public Shared ReadOnly MyBackgroundProperty As DependencyProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("MyBackground",
                                                                                GetType(LinearGradientBrush), GetType(RentAdjButtons),
                                                                                New PropertyMetadata(New LinearGradientBrush(ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#3366CC"), ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#0000FF"), New System.Windows.Point(0.5, 0), New System.Windows.Point(0.5, 1))))

Private mMyBackground As New LinearGradientBrush
Public Property MyBackground() As LinearGradientBrush
    Get
        Return mMyBackground
    End Get
    Set(ByVal value As LinearGradientBrush)
        mMyBackground = value
    End Set
End Property

and here is my XMAL
 <Style TargetType="Com:RentAdjButtons">
            <Setter Property="MyBackground" Value="{StaticResource DefaultBackground}" />
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="MyBackground" Value="{StaticResource SelectedButton}" />
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
       </Style>

Currently the error i am getting is "Property can not be null on Trigger"
Thank you in advance for any assistance

A: You can use ToggleButton which has this property by default.

A: The Trigger.Property must be a DependencyProperty for the trigger to work. See MSDN for the documentation. You'll need to change your class property IsSelected into a DependencyProperty.
Also, your getter/setter for MyBackground should be defined as documented in MSDN using SetValue and GetValue:
    Public Property State() As Boolean
      Get
          Return CType(Me.GetValue(StateProperty), Boolean)
      End Get
      Set(ByVal value As Boolean)
          Me.SetValue(StateProperty, value)
      End Set
    End Property
    Public Shared ReadOnly StateProperty As DependencyProperty =
      DependencyProperty.Register("State", GetType(Boolean), GetType(MyStateControl),
      New PropertyMetadata(False))

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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace Autofac.Tests.AppCert.Testing
{
    public static class Assert
    {
        public static void AreEqual(object expected, object actual, string message = null)
        {
            if (!ObjectsEqual(expected, actual))
            {
                var exMessage = message == null ? null : message + Environment.NewLine;
                throw new AssertionException(String.Format("Expected: {0}{2}Actual: {1}{2}{3}", expected, actual, Environment.NewLine, exMessage));
            }
        }

        public static void IsFalse(bool actual, string message = null)
        {
            if (actual)
            {
                var exMessage = message == null ? null : Environment.NewLine + message + Environment.NewLine;
                throw new AssertionException(String.Format("Value was not FALSE.{0}", exMessage));
            }
        }

        public static void IsTrue(bool actual, string message = null)
        {
            if (!actual)
            {
                var exMessage = message == null ? null : Environment.NewLine + message + Environment.NewLine;
                throw new AssertionException(String.Format("Value was not TRUE.{0}", exMessage));
            }
        }

        public static void Throws<T>(Action testExpression, string message = null) where T : Exception
        {
            var exMessage = message == null ? null : message + Environment.NewLine;
            try
            {
                testExpression();
            }
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The Automotive industry is on the verge of one of the most disruptive changes since its first introduction about 100 years ago. The synergetic effect of four technology enablers, so-called: Electrification, Smartness, Autonomy and Connectivity, are going to change transportation systems forever. By most estimates, fully autonomous vehicles are to be commercially available within the next 10 years. Today's 'intelligent mobility' market is worth approximately US$30 billion which is projected to rise to US$1.5 trillion by 20301. These techno-economical changes will transform the mobility sector into a connected, intelligent, customised and shared environment and will have huge implications on the market and also social aspects of public transportation. Dr Amir Soltani, Head of the Automotive Mechatronic Lab within the Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre at the UK's Cranfield University, explores further.
According to SMMT, Electrified Connected & Autonomous Vehicle (ECAV) technologies will provide enormous socio-economic benefits in the UK, which is predicted to be worth around £51 billion per year by 2030, creating more than 320,000 jobs, the majority outside automotive manufacturing, and about 25,000 serious accidents could be prevented. The remarkable socio-economic and environmental implications of ECAVs have been acknowledged by industrial policy makers, public organisations, automotive companies, research centres, and universities across the UK. As a result, a significant amount of public and private funds have been allocated for research, design and development projects of ECAVs and Intelligent Transportation systems in recent years and it is expected that this figure will continue to grow in the future.
The UK policy has been set to achieve a global leadership position in the demonstration and deployment of ECAV technologies by capitalising on its competitive advantages. The UK government objective is to set its industrial strategies and build its competitive advantages on the strength of its world-leading centres of excellence and wider business environment2. According to this policy, a wide range of supportive means are now available in research, development, demonstration, and deployment of ECAVs, and the government encourages collaboration between automotive companies, research centres, universities, and innovative start-up and SMEs, through organisations such as the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), Innovate UK, APC and EPSRC. Some of these initiatives include2:
A £230 million programme on feasibility studies and collaborative research, development, demonstration, and deployment activity, through Innovate UK, and BEIS
A £100 million for new connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) testing infrastructure, the mission is to integrate and strengthen existing centres of excellence across a range of sectors and testing environments to form a national ecosystem for CAV development, test and validations
Announcing the four driverless car projects to take place in Bristol, Greenwich, Milton Keynes and Coventry
Enabling the autonomous vehicles to drive and test anywhere in the UK (as set out in the Code of Practice).
The idea of using autonomous vehicles for public transportation (in the UK) was first formed in Cardiff, 16 years ago. The plan was to adopt an Urban Light Transport (ULTra) autonomous taxi network as a transport link between Cardiff Bay and the city centre, however this did not materialise due to a lack of funding at that time. The idea then turned into a small transport fleet of self-driving pods, which have been running since 2011 at Heathrow Terminal 5, as a shuttle between the terminal and the business car park.
Thanks to recent government initiatives, there have been a growing number of collaborative research and development projects in recent years on various aspects of ECAV technologies. An interesting example is the GATEway project, led by TRL, whose driverless pods have started carrying members of the public around in North Greenwich, London. The other success story is AVDIF which is one of the world's first open access research platforms (pod) for Automated Vehicle technology, developed by Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) in Milton Keynes.
Besides these technology demonstration projects, the real race has already started among automotive manufacturers all around the world, and the UK automotive sector is also working hard to be keep their position as a pioneer in this competitive market.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) plans to create a fleet of more than 100 research vehicles over the next four years to develop and test a wide range of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technologies. The first of these research cars will be driven on a new 41 mile test route of motorways and urban ro ads around Coventry and Solihull.
Nissan aim to have commercially viable autonomous drive vehicles on the road by 2020. A converted electric Nissan Leaf autonomous car was the first to be tested on a public road. Nissan is set to be the first to have self-driving cars on public roads in Europe, as it receives clearance from the UK government to commence trials. The vehicle had its first public demonstration drive recently in London and the UK 'luxury' automakers such as McLaren and Bentley have revealed their visions on autonomous vehicle for this sector.
ECAVs are such complex and multi disciplinary systems that none of the traditional OEM and Tier1 companies have the complete skill set to address all aspects of its systems. In this challenging technical domain, the high-tech start-up companies play a major role in developing the newly required expertise, occasionally from other sectors, such as robotics, Telecommunication, IT, Big Data Management, Cloud Computing, IOT, and so on, into ECAV domain. In recent years we have witnessed emerging and growing pioneer companies such as Oxbotica and Roborcae in the UK, that are aiming to become one of the global players in the this very fast growing market.
A sustainable development of new and emerging technologies could not be achieved without the strong involvement of universities. These institutions play an important role by training the required skill sets; providing unbiased research environments and out comes; and supporting the formation of high-tech start-ups (sometimes in the form of spin-off) companies. There are several leading UK universities such as Oxford, Bristol, Leeds, Loughborough and Cranfield which are now engaged with various activities and projects in the research, development and testing of ECAVs.
Cranfield was among the first universities that invested in ECAV testing and development infrastructure. The two capital investment projects known as MUEAVI and IMEC are an engineering centre and a test road inside the university campus to support the development of autonomous transport vehicles and related systems in a controlled research environment. Cranfield University is also committed to provide the next generation of experts by launching the first Masters course on Intelligent Mobility by 2018.
Public acceptance of the employment of EVACs in public transport and/or shared ownership is being studied by leading organisations such as SMMT, TRL, TCS, and the University of Leeds. Another interesting event, the exhibition 'Driverless Futures: Utopia and Dystopia' organised by the Royal College of Art, was held in London recently. The aim of this exhibition was to examine the major social changes London will experience when self-drive vehicles first become publicly available, in 2020, and then on mass market, around 2050.
It seems that the UK is preparing itself to take leadership in adopting various kinds of ECAVs in its public and private transport systems and we will be witness to various kinds of ECAVs driving on streets and highways within the next few years. To achieve this goal, the whole beneficiaries from UK government and public organisations to automotive companies, innovative start-up SMEs, research centres, universities and the society are actively involved and participating.
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Dr Amir Soltani is a Lecturer in Active Chassis Control Development Environments for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. He is Head of the Automotive Mechatronic Lab within the Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre at the UK's Cranfield University. His current works are on Model Based Development (MBD) of advanced control systems for Hybrid/Electric Vehicles, ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles.
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The second Meeting House Presents season starts with an eclect ic mix of music to get your mind working and your feet tapping. Building on a Pete Seeger style sing-along the show will segue to rap and hip hop from Tang and Self-suffice aka Khaiim the RapOet, to Jill's jazz, blues and soul, to inspirational flute and sax from Mixashawn and Spanish guitar from David Giardina. Something for everyone and maybe something you love that you have never heard before. Join us on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 7:30. Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets and season tickets will be available at church starting the last week of August.
Jill Friedman Jill Free (aka Jill Friedman) began her singing career after learning of the injustices of our society during the early 70's and saw the power of using music as a form of protest. Jill has dedicated her life to community activism and singing music for social change. As a member of the People's Music Network, Jill has performed with the likes of Pete Seeger, Alvin Carter, Sr., Mixashawn Rozie and Bread and Roses, and has traveled from Ashville, N.C. to Chicago, IL, Jamaica, West Africa and beyond, bringing songs of freedom and struggle, love and life. Jill can be seen singing with children from the Hartford community or sitting in with local jazz and blues bands around town, and is one of Hartford's biggest believers that music transcends our differences and has the power and energy to bring people together in peace and community!
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Dave expresses an irresistible toe-tapping energy as effortlessly as he traces a delicate melodic line. He brings to each performance an extensive repertoire and years of training in different traditions—the clarity and precision of classical technique, the explosive and exotic sound of flamenco, the smoothly shifting harmonies of jazz, the exuberant energy of traditional Latin music and the classic power chords and riffs of rock 'n roll.
Lee Mixashawn Rozie has been a practicing multi-disciplinary and internationally acclaimed Jazz artist for the past three decades. Mr. Rozie holds a degree in History and Ethnomusicology from Trinity College and is equally at home in academic and cultural settings. Beginning from the point of Indigenous artist, using ancient cultural principles, maritime arts and historical data, both written and oral, he has developed a system of "Hemispheric Principles" to inform and guide his artform, more directly referred to as "Wave Art" : sonic, aquatic percussive and harmonic. Mixashawn offers musical performance and educational workshops on Indigenous music traditional and contemporary, as well as original, workshops that utilize his extensive experience as performer, Indigenous artist and educator to inspire creativity and natural expression for all ages.
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Q: How to protect PE file resources(string,image....)? I need any method to protect pe file resources form editing and thank you very much..
editing like:
1) open pe file as binary file and search about a string then edit it.
or
2) edit assembly code like "jne"(jumb if not equal) to "je"(jumb if equal)
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A: Use exe packer. There are plenty of them, so I'm sure you'll have no problem to pick one that suits your needs.
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A: If that's a commercial application and you are willing to spend some money on good protection, consider Themida: http://www.themida.com/