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Lewis E. Lehrman › Biography
Lewis E. Lehrman was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his work in American history. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum. In 2013, Lehrman was named a Distinguished Director of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Lehrman has written and lectured widely on American history and economics. He also writes for the Lincoln Institute (www.abrahamlincoln.org) which has created award-winning websites on the 16th President, all linked to: www.AbrahamLincolnsClassroom.org. Lehrman is the author of Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (Stackpole Books, 2008), The True Gold Standard (TLI, 2011, 2013), Money, Gold, and History (TLI, 2013), and Lincoln "by littles" (TLI, 2013). He is editor of the second edition of Money and the Coming World Order (TLI, 2012). He has written for publications such as Harper's, the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Greenwich Time, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, the New York Sun, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator and Policy Review. Mr. Lehrman co-founded the Lincoln & Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College which annually awards the Lincoln Prize for the best work on the Lincoln era. (It is now the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College). There he has taught the Lincoln Senior Seminar. Lewis Lehrman and Richard Gilder established the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University which awards the Frederick Douglass Prize. With Washington College and George Washington's Mount Vernon, they created the George Washington Book Prize. They built the Gilder Lehrman Collection of original historical manuscripts and documents to teach American History from primary sources (www.gilderlehrman.org). The collection is on deposit for public access at the New York Historical Society. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has developed its teaching program for high schools and colleges throughout America and England (www.historynow.org). In November 2010, Messrs Gilder and Lehrman received the William E. Simon Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship for their work promoting the study of American history through the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Mr. Lehrman received his B.A. from Yale and his M.A. in History from Harvard. He was a Carnegie Teaching Fellow in History at Yale and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in History at Harvard. Mr. Lehrman is widely known for his run for Governor of New York in 1982. In 1983, Mr. Lehrman was the Cardinal Cooke honoree of the Archdiocese of New York for his early work developing scholarships for New York inner-city schools. He has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Morgan Library, the Manhattan Institute and the Heritage Foundation. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on Humanities of the Yale University Council. In April of 1987, Mr. Lehrman joined Morgan Stanley & Company, investment bankers, as a Senior Advisor and a Director of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. In 1988, he became a Managing Director of the firm. He is presently Senior Partner of L. E. Lehrman & Co., an investment firm he established. Lewis E. Lehrman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Louise, have five adult children. He has been awarded Honorary Degrees from Babson College (Babson Park, MA), Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA), Lincoln College (Lincoln, IL), Marymount University (Arlington, VA) and Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA). |


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Presentation Patterns is the first book on presentations that categorizes and organizes the building blocks (or patterns) that you'll need to communicate effectively using presentation tools like Keynote and PowerPoint.
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Introduction 1
Origins 2
Toward Patterns 3
How This Book Is Organized 10
How to Use This Book 11
Summary 11
Part I: Prepare 13
Chapter 1: Presentation Prelude Patterns 15
Pattern: Know Your Audience 16
Pattern: Social Media Advertising 18
Pattern: Required 20
Pattern: The Big Why 22
Pattern: Proposed 24
Antipattern: Abstract Attorney 26
Chapter 2: Creativity Patterns 29
Pattern: Narrative Arc 30
Pattern: Fourthought 34
Pattern: Crucible 38
Pattern: Concurrent Creation 41
Pattern: Triad 43
Pattern: Expansion Joints 45
Pattern: Talklet 46
Pattern: Unifying Visual Theme 48
Pattern: Brain Breaks 51
Antipattern: Alienating Artifact 53
Antipattern: Celery 56
Pattern: Leet Grammars 58
Pattern: Lightning Talk 59
Pattern: Takahashi 60
Pattern: Cave Painting 62
Part II: Build 65
Chapter 3: Slide Construction Patterns 67
Antipattern: Cookie Cutter 68
Pattern: Coda 70
Antipattern: Injured Outlines 71
Pattern: Peer Review 72
Pattern: Foreshadowing 75
Antipattern: Bullet-Riddled Corpse 77
Pattern: Greek Chorus 80
Antipattern: Ant Fonts 81
Antipattern: Fontaholic 83
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Pattern: Analog Noise 99
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Pattern: Crawling Code 162
Pattern: Emergence 164
Pattern: Live on Tape 165
Part III: Deliver 169
Chapter 6: Stage Prep 171
Pattern: Preparation 172
Pattern: Posse 174
Pattern: Seeding Satisfaction 175
Pattern: Display of High Value 177
Antipattern: Shortchanged 181
Chapter 7: Performance Antipatterns 183
Antipattern: Hiccup Words 184
Antipattern: Disowning Your Topic 186
Antipattern: Lipstick on a Pig 187
Antipattern: Tower of Babble 188
Antipattern: Bunker 190
Antipattern: Hecklers 191
Antipattern: Going Meta 193
Antipattern: Backchannel 195
Antipattern: Laser Weapons 197
Antipattern: Negative Ignorance 199
Antipattern: Dual-Headed Monster 200
Chapter 8: Performance Patterns 203
Pattern: Carnegie Hall 204
Pattern: Emotional State 207
Pattern: Breathing Room 208
Pattern: Shoeless 209
Pattern: Mentor 210
Pattern: Weatherman 211
Pattern: Seeding the First Question 214
Pattern: Make It Rain 215
Pattern: Entertainment 216
Pattern: The Stakeout 218
Pattern: Lightsaber 219
Pattern: Echo Chamber 221
Pattern: Red, Yellow, Green 222
Conclusion 225
Patterns Redux 225
Build Your Own . . . 226
Summary 228
Glossary of Patterns 229
Resources 241
Credits 243
Notes 251
Index 255

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The Committed
The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism
The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.
Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.
Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.


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- Crafty Green Poet said...
sounds like you'll need those rains when they arrive!
Kitty Boy seems keen to help, yesterday on my birdwatching class walk, we were joined by a cat! - October 8, 2012 at 11:50 PM
- Little Miss Titch said...
everything is looking spick and span!Speedy say's thanks for you guys comming to his birthday
- October 9, 2012 at 6:45 AM
- Unknown said...
KB wants to paint the bunnies to match the house. Bunny Camouflage.
I love the smell of a fresh painted house. - October 9, 2012 at 9:04 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Such a helpful kitty and what good does it accomplish. Well, I'll tell you. Hearts are warmed when we see kitties reaching out to help their "neighbors" and it inspires us. It lifts us up. We are going to make the world a better place. We are going to help one another and come to the aid of the livingness of this world. We are going to ask The Ladies in Vans to carry away RG, the only obvious stumbling block in our path. Brandi, get well, and get to it. We all expecting another spectacular ballad out of this.
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So when I started writing H2O - a high-performance HTTP server / library implementation with support for HTTP1, HTTP2 and websocket, using libuv seemed like a good idea. But recently, I have stopped using it for sereval reasons. This blog post explains them.
■No Support for TLS
Although libuv provides an unified interface for various types of streams, it does not provide access to a TLS stream though the interface, nor does provide a way for application developers to implement their own types of streams.
The fact has been a disappointment to me. Initially I had created a tiny library called uvwslay that binds libuv streams to wslay - a websocket protocol implementation. But since libuv does not provide support for TLS, it was impossible to support SSL within the tiny library.
To support
protocol (i.e. websocket over TLS) I needed to reimplement the websocket binding, to stop using libuv as its stream abstraction layer and switch to an abstraction layer defined atop of libuv that abstracts the differences between libuv streams and the I/O API provided by the SSL library being used (in my case it is OpenSSL).It would be great if libuv could provide direct support for TLS in future (or provide a way to implement their own type of libuv streams), so that code directly calling the libuv API can support various types of streams.
■Memory Usage is not Optimal
Libuv provides a callback-based API for writes and I love the idea. It simplifies the complicatedness of implementing non-blocking I/O operations. However the problem of libuv is that it does not call the completion callback right after write succeeds. Instead, it is only until all I/Os are performed that the callbacks are called. This means that if you have 1,000 connections sending 64KB of data, your code first allocates 64KB of memory 1000 times (64MB in total) and then call
for all of those memory chunks, even when the network operation does not block. IMO, libuv should better call the completion callback immediately after the application returns the control back to the library after calling uv_write
, so that the memory allocation pattern could be a repetition of malloc
-and-then-free for 1000 times.■No Support for Delayed Tasks
Libuv does not provide an interface to schedule actions to be run just before the I/O polling method is being called.
Such interface is necessary if you need to aggregate I/O operations and send the results to a single client. In case of HTTP2, a certain number of HTTP requests need to be multiplexed over a single TCP (or TLS) connection.
With lack of support for delayed tasks, you would need to use
with 0 second timeout to implement delayed tasks.This works fine if the intention of the application developer is to aggregate read operations, but does not if the intension was to aggregate the result of write operations, since in libuv the write completion callbacks are called after the timers are called.
■Synchronous File I/O is Slow
Synchronous file I/O seems to be slow when compared to directly calling the POSIX API directly.
■Network I/O has Some Overhead
After I found out the issues mentioned above, I started to wonder how much overhead libuv imposes for network I/O.
So I stripped the parts that depended on libuv off from the stream abstraction layer of H2O (that hides the difference between TCP and TLS as described above) and replaced it with direct calls to POSIX APIs and various polling methods (i.e.
, epoll
, queue
).The chart below shows the benchmark results taken on my development environment running Ubuntu 14.04 on VMware. H2O become 14% to 29% faster by not depending on libuv.
■The Decision
Considering these facts altogether, I have decided to stop using libuv in H2O, and use the direct binding that I have written and used for the benchmark, at least until the performance penalty vanishes and the TLS support gets integrated.
OTOH I will continue to use libuv for other projects I have as well as recommending it to others, since I still think that it does an excellent job in hiding the messy details of platform-specific asynchronous APIs with adequate performance.
PS. Please do not blame me for not trying to feedback the issues as pull requests to libuv. I might do so in the future, but such task is too heavy for me right now. I am writing this post in the hope that it would help people (including myself) understand more about libuv, and as an answer to @saghul.


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New York City is once again glittering for the holidays. The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center is lit, the skating rinks are open, and department store windows have put up lavish displays.
The Union Square holiday market, which was closed last year, reopened this year with its usual outdoor maze of pop-up stores and stands that sell truffle oil, gems, spices, handmade jewelry, and specialty hot sauces.
But amid the hubbub and general air of merriment, an air of dread fills the air. Business owners who run holiday stands, stores and restaurants all worry whether there will be enough people coming out to shop and dine during this holiday season, especially with the emergence of the latest omicron variant.
The unpredictability of the virus is adding unique urgency for many of these businesses. They're feeling pressure to make money from every last sale this holiday season.
Julie Gaines, who has owned the home goods store Fish's Eddy for 35 years, says she normally makes 30% to 40% of her yearly revenue in November and December.
She's happy that the shoppers are returning this year because the holiday season was nearly non-existent for her store last year.
"It's the closest to normal that we've felt in a long time," Gaines says as she surveys her eccentric holiday collection of mugs, plates and mismatched cups.
Her store relies on in-person shoppers, especially tourists, and she has seen more of them over the past month.
"You know, no pun intended, the more the merrier," Gaines says.
Overall, it's expected to be a busy holiday season for retailers. The real estate firm CBRE projects in-person and online sales in the U.S. to increase by 8% thisyear.
"There's a lot of pent up demand to see family, to go holiday shopping, to give gifts," says Larisa Ortiz, managing director at the urban design and strategy firm Streetsense.
She says the key for New York City businesses is going to be getting as many people to come in person, as possible. "Because foot traffic drives sales."
Near Rockefeller Center, home of the iconic, towering Christmas tree, restaurant owner Eli Sussman is finally seeing that foot traffic. He's delighted to see not a trickle of potential customers, but crowds.
"They're coming to shop, see the tree, see the skating rink. I'm seeing happy people come through the doors," says Sussman, who opened his Mediterranean restaurant, Samesa, in the spring.
It was a risky bet then, because customers hadn't really come back.
But as excited as he is, Sussman is constantly worried about how long the crowds are going to stick around.
"Everyone is really worried about there being like a winter surge and what that's going to mean for us," he says.
For New York City businesses, the stakes are high — so they're holding tight to this glittering, joyful moment. And fearful of what winter might look like.
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is billed as the wonder material of our time. It has received tremendous media attention and is the recipient of large sums of research and commercialization funds. Today, an army of researchers around the global is advancing the technology, whilst numerous companies are now seeking to commercialize it.
In this class, we will look at the past, the present and the future of graphene commercialization, looking at the market complexity/fragmentation, pricing as well as investment/revenue/profitability trends, go-to-market strategies, grand technical and commercial challenges, and so on.
We will then examine the graphene technology itself, looking at the material characteristics of different graphenes, reviewing the different production processes, and assessing a big range of potential applications from electronic inks to battery materials, from various composite fillers to functional coatings, and so on. At all times, we will seek to highlight the latest prototypes and commercial launches, whilst making our application assessment as data-based and quantitative as possible.
Non-graphene 2D Materials
are also now at the forefront of the next wave of research with many hoping that it will lead to the establishment of a diverse family of complementary 2D materials covering the full range of material characteristics. In this class, we will highlight some of the ways for making non-graphene 2D materials whilst reviewing the latest technical progress on a few select 2D materials.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
were also once billed as the wonder material of our time. They have therefore been there and done that, and interestingly, CNTs are now quietly making a commercial comeback after doing their time in the wilderness of the disillusionment period.
In this class, we will provide a historical perspective on how CNT commercialization has progressed in the past decade, and will consider its future demonstrating that it has finally entered into a major volume growth phase. Here too, we will provide a brief review of types of CNTs, of the different production processes, and of the key existing and emerging applications and market trends.
It is hoped that this class with give you strong understanding of the technology as well as the market potential and current commercial progress of these most famous of nanomaterials.
Tuesday, November 13 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
James Hayward
Research Director, Topic Lead
Introduction to Wearables
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A critical view of the sector
The range of applications and market trends
Emerging technologies for the next wearable devices
Wearable technologies has become the new hot topic. Indeed, it is estimated that the total addressable market will grow to $100 billion in the next decade. But while many are targeting healthcare applications, few have actually succeeded. In this context, it is necessary to have a critical look at the market trends, and to assess what it means in terms of growth and profitability.
On the technology side, most of the existing products leverage the components that have been developed over the years for the mobile phone industry. However, there are exciting new technologies coming up, from flexible displays to biometric sensors. This session will introduce the new materials and technologies that will enable future wearable devices.
This session will cover:
The current range of wearable electronic products
Applications in healthcare and infotainment
Risks and challenges
The key enabling technologies for next-gen devices
Potential market size and opportunities
Tuesday, November 13 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Luke Gear
Principal Technology Analyst
Li-ion Batteries: Raw Materials, Battery Materials, Gigafactories, & Emerging Markets
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An introduction to battery basics and why LIBs are the best energy storage technology on the market today.
Attendees will also learn about the difference between all the major anode and cathode materials (graphite, silicon, LTO, lithium metal, LCO, NMC, NCA, LFP, liquid electrolytes, solid electrolytes).
A thorough overview of the LIB industry will give information on opportunities in the supply chain, as well as critical points in terms of the value chain.
Finally, attendees will also gain an insight into IDTechEx's opinion on battery diversification, which will answer questions like: what LIB technologies will be used in forklifts and drones?
The Li-ion battery (LIB) market is now mature and ready for significant growth, especially thanks to electric vehicles. How will this impact very different industries like consumer electronics and electric mobility?
Li-ion batteries (LIB) have become an important part of our lives, with an increasingly important part of our daily routine revolving around smartphone/tablet charging needs. The 8% year-on-year decrease in battery costs has gradually opened up portable electronics markets that simply did not exist a decade ago. The next logical step is large-scale vehicle electrification. IDTechEx has been following electric vehicles from their very inception and it is clear that we will witness a revolution in the transport sector sooner than we think. Some European countries have already established diesel and petrol phase-outs, and an avalanche effect is to be expected from other countries by the end of 2018.
On the materials development side, the trend is towards faster, safer and more energy-dense batteries. These three factors are at odds with each other, meaning that battery makers will only adopt certain electrode or electrolyte chemistries once all of the underlying problems have been solved. This is the case of sulphur cathode and solid-state electrolytes, but also silicon-dominant anode materials.
In terms of manufacturing, there is a strong uncertainty over the reliable supply of some raw materials, like lithium and cobalt; others like graphite are experiencing a shift from natural to synthetic sources. After years of dominance in battery manufacturing by Japan and Korea, China is now leading in terms of added production capacity, with some companies claiming to be able to manufacture up to 100 GWh/year within the next few years. Finally, there are many more interesting markets beyond the automotive sector, such as medical devices, Internet of Things, wearables, and niche sector like industrial vehicles, mining vehicles, drones, and marine vessels. Each market has different performance specifications, and LIBs will adapt to each case scenario.
Tuesday, November 13 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Raghu Das
Colleen L. Twomey
Assistant Professor
Cal Poly State University
Ruoxi Ma
Associate Professor
Cal Poly State University
Dr Martin Hedges
Managing Director
Neotech AMT GmbH
Printing Technologies for Electronic Applications
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Assessment of each printing technology type
Application requirements and case studies
Post-print processing, integration and hybrid device manufacturing
This masterclass assesses the range of printing and non-printing manufacturing and handling options for printed, organic and flexible electronics. Attendees will learn about the technology capabilities, market applicability, key players, trends and opportunities. The class will cover:
Printing Technology and Application Assessment
The following printing types will be covered:
Screen printing
Inkjet printing
Flexo printing (and offset)
Gravure printing (and offset)
Nano imprinting and transfer printing
Coating systems (slot die)
For each type, the session will cover:
Printing capability (speed, resolution, uniformity, cost etc.) and material suitability
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats assessment
Suitability to different applications - existing and future
Detailed case studies and learnings from printing commercial printed electronics products
Key players
Integrated Manufacturing and Scaling
Assessment of curing/sintering options
Integrated systems - suppliers, what is available, what it is being used for
The value chain and opportunities in equipment supply
Market detail: how much is and will be printed
This session is partly based on IDTechEx research of over 90 relevant suppliers. Attendees will be shown working demonstrations in addition to handling samples of printed electronics components and products.
Tuesday, November 13 - 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Luke Gear
Principal Technology Analyst
Batteries & Supercapacitors Beyond Li-ion
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An introduction to battery basics and what differentiates LIBs from supercapacitors, hybrid capacitors, and other battery technologies like lithium-sulphur and sodium-ion.
An in-depth overview of the supercapacitor market, with interesting market applications as well as opportunities in the value chain.
A detailed analysis of lithium-sulphur batteries, with information on the market leaders and the main innovations being carried out by research institutions; a study of end user needs will complete the picture to illustrate what is still needed before commercialisation.
A comparative study of redox flow batteries, including V/V, polysulphide, Zn/Br, Fe/Fe. A summary of the ESS market will show where redox flow batteries are a good fit, and where other technologies like LIB, supercapacitors, and aqueous batteries are more indicated.
A benchmark analysis of all the major and most promising battery technologies, with theoretical and practical properties.
Li-ion batteries (LIB) are the best energy storage technology for mainstream markets, but niche applications require special characteristics, like high power and/or high energy. Supercapacitors and new battery technologies can meet those challenges
Li-ion batteries (LIB) are about to overtake lead acid batteries as the most widespread battery technology in the world. However, in some cases they are still too expensive and/or their performance cannot meet stringent requirements set by some unconventional markets, like electrochemical storage systems (ESS) and aviation.
Supercapacitors, also called ultracapacitors and EDLC, are easier to manufacture and recycle than LIBs, and can deliver a higher amount of power for some special applications like start-stop systems in cars, or frequency regulation for the electrical grid. After a couple of years of stagnation the supercapacitor industry is showing renewed signs of market penetration. Supercapacitors are already competing with some specialty LIBs like the ones using LTO (lithium titanate) as anode material.
Other potentially disrupting energy storage technologies include lithium-sulphur batteries, which have the potential to enable electric airplanes and flying taxis, as well as long-range drones. Only a small number of companies is working on this technology, but the impact can be huge. In the field of ESS, a promising alternative to LIBs is represented by redox flow batteries; even though they are more expensive than LIBs in terms of $/kWh, they have a lower total cost of ownership in those markets where storage for more than 3 hours is needed. Other technologies like sodium-ion and lithium-air are also being investigated, but they are still at an early stage.
Tuesday, November 13 - 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh
Research Director
John Crumpton
Technical Specialist-PV and Advanced Materials
DuPont Microcircuit Materials
Conductive Inks/Pastes & Transparent Conductive Films
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All key technologies and markets assessed
10 year forecasts and global trends
Conductive Inks and Pastes
The conductive ink and paste business is one of the largest in printed electronics space. Indeed, conductive inks have commercially roared ahead whilst many more complex and higher profile forms of printed electronics devices/systems have struggled.
This is also a market where everything has changed since 2014. The market leadership in traditional volume markets has changed hands with previously low-cost low-quality suppliers rising to the top. The paste manufacturers are now all in search of new emerging markets in the hope that future growth in some will compensate for the decline or the loss of market share in the traditional sectors. Consequently, most paste makers have hugely diversified their product offerings addressing a diverse array of nascent markets each with a different set of technology and market challenges/opportunities.
In our masterclass we will cover the main existing and emerging conductive ink and paste technologies such as firing-type pastes and PTF, nanoparticle inks and silver substitutes such as copper and silver-coated copper.
In addition, we will explore the progress, requirements and challenges for applications such as solar cells, touch screen edge electrodes, printed sensors, electronic textile, 3D-shaped antennas, magnetic shielding, in-mould electronics, automotive, RFID tags, ITO replacement, OLED lighting, desktop printers, printed TFTs, and so on.
Transparent Conductive Films
The transparent conductive film (TCF) market went through a brutal consolidation phase in the past two years. This phase was motivated by the sluggish growth in existing markets, disappointing growth in large-area devices, and the rising threat of substitutes to the incumbent players. These market conditions motivated the incumbent players to slash sales prices, transforming the competitive environment for alternative technologies. This strategy now approaches the end of its usefulness and therefore the industry is now entering into a new, distinct growth phase.
In our masterclass, we quantitatively review and benchmark all existing and emerging TCF technologies including ITO-on-glass, ITO films, silver nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene, printed metal mesh, embossed metal mesh, photo-patterned metal mesh, nanoparticle networks, PEDOT, and so on.
In addition, we will examine the various select existing and emerging applications such as touch screens, flexible devices, OLED lighting, third generation photovoltaics, in-mould 3D-shaped touch surfaces, and so on. Furthermore, we will consider the competitive landscape, reviewing major recent changes as well as offering an analysis for future market/competitive dynamics.
Tuesday, November 13 - 3:30pm - 6:00pm
James Hayward
Research Director, Topic Lead
E-Textiles & Stretchable Electronics
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Assessment and progress of electronic and electrical materials on textiles
Application needs, case studies
Key players and market forecasts
This masterclass will assess the latest progress with this topic, covering functional materials and components suited for use with textiles, fabrics and stretchable electronics. Typical material choices by substrate type will be shared, including discussion of the challenges around washability, wear resistance, contact resistances etc.
In addition to these technology details this masterclass will cover application needs for wearable electronics - what end-users see as the minimum viable products, and will look at case studies of e-textiles today - covering cost, product functionality and market trends.
Key suppliers focussing on this area will be revealed in addition to market forecasts based on the latest IDTechEx research.
Tuesday, November 13 - 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Dr Iain Meager
Technology Analyst
Dr Richard Collins
Research Director, North America Lead
Introduction to Energy Harvesting & Off Grid Renewable Energy
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Energy harvesting for off grid energy independence concerns the zero-emission creation of electricity using ambient energy. This introductory masterclass will focus on the different energy harvesting options, their construction and combinations, adoption trends and market proliferation.
Market Appraisal:
This masterclass will extend from the high power (10W-10MW) to the low power (<10W) market. Learn how new formats and imminent massive cost reduction will a huge impact in certain cases, with new physics and materials also important.
The high-power market is booming and includes both static and mobile end-uses. Recent advances will be analysed. This masterclass will answer questions such as: Where will societal benefits and industrial success accrue? Why are three wave power companies landing first big orders this year? How open sea tidal power can succeed by repositioning. The takeoff in microgrids and billions of dollars of investment and where first commercial successes will happen. What harvesting types give the zero emission replacement for $13 billion a year of diesel gensets? Learn how second generation harvesting from microwatt to MW is much less intermittent and often needs no batteries at all: many examples.
Discover low power applications including an ever-increasing addressable market with the rise of wireless connectivity but understand why it is tougher to actually gain much business. Energy harvesting implementation strategies range from powering wireless sensors and actuators to medical instruments and condition monitoring in industrial automation. The successes or failures of these business models and will be discussed and critically assessed.
Technology Assessment
In the masterclass, analysts will cover how different technology options work: materials used and manufacturing processes; advantages and disadvantages; applications; case studies; suppliers; costs; technical and market challenges and opportunities. What is the significance of most of the leading technologies being available as flexible film now?. The main technologies covered will be:
Electrodynamic including reinvention as the tethered drones of 100kW Aerial Wind Energy first on sale this year and research on road movement harvesting
Triboelectric from self-powered, transmitting haptic touch switches to wave power from a blanket and electricity-generating car tires
Photovoltaic including reinvention as 110 solar road projects, successful solar windows, huge solar drones up for months and solar cars that never plug on - first on sale 2019. Audi just licensed solar bodywork. Significance of scSi PV plummeting in price as two Chinese giants massively scale up production.
Other (Thermoelectric, piezoelectric, magnetostriction, RF harvesting, DEG, electret, ocean thermal and salinity gradient). Why are they unsuccessful above 10W and will that change as many new approaches kick in?
Tuesday, November 13 - 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Dr Nadia Tsao
Research Director, Personnel Lead
Dr Bryony Core
Senior Technology Analyst
Dr Mayasari Lim
Medical 3D Printing & Bioprinting
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Latest developments in 3D printing for healthcare
Existing and emerging applications for 3D printing across the healthcare sector
Appraisal of 3D printing technologies, their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each application
Market drivers and needs by application
Regulatory concerns and other barriers to adoption
The application of 3D printing for medical purposes can take many forms, for instance the direct printing of live organs and tissues ("3D Bioprinting"), the manufacture of medical devices such as surgical guides, implants and prosthetics and the printing of pharmaceuticals. Although the advantages of 3D printing in the healthcare sector are myriad, it is a complex technology which still faces barriers to adoption, both from a technological perspective, as well as a regulatory one.
3DP in surgery and medical devices
Implants and prostheses of previously unprecedented manufacturing freedom can be easily made with 3D printing. The use of patient scan data from MRI, x-ray or CT scans allows for patient-specific medical devices to be rapidly manufactured and design cycles increased to create the optimum product in a shorter time period. The ability to quickly produce implants and prosthetics that are custom made for the patient is one of the key advantages that 3D printing offers over other manufacturing processes. In addition, 3D printed models can be of immense value to surgeons who have been previously limited to utilising 2D scans to inform a medical procedure, or to replace cadavers which may not exactly match the patient's pathology.
3DP dental
One of the most rapidly growing fields of the entire 3D printing market is for dental applications. Whether directly manufacturing restorations such as crowns or abutments, printing a full dental model, or aligners, the manufacturing capabilities of 3D printers have improved in recent years to rival the devices made through traditional manufacturing processes in a dental lab. In addition, the addition of bringing manufacturing equipment in house rather than outsourced to a third party laboratory can offer an improved patient experience.
Tissue engineering
An emerging application of 3D printing in medicine is tissue engineering. Tissue engineering refers to the technologies that control and direct the aggregate behaviour of cells to recreate tissues of the body, and the use of 3D printing in this field brings the ability to create personalized 3D tissue structures from the bottom-up. Within tissue engineering, the masterclass will focus on 3D bioprinting, where cells are directly 3D printed into the final structure.
3D printed pharmaceuticals
3D printing is already applied to the creation of novel drug formulations, and an exciting future application is in personalized drugs. 3D printing can be utilized to create highly personalized medicine that is specific to each patient, whether that is in the dosage that they require, the specific combination of therapeutics, or even in the release profiles of these therapeutics.
Friday, November 16 - 9:00am - 11:30am
Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh
Research Director
Scott E Gordon
New Business Development Manager
DuPont Teijin Films
Barriers & Substrates for Printed & Flexible Electronics
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All key technologies and markets covered
Technical requirements mapped
10 year forecasts and global trends
Organic devices, in particular OLED and OPV ones, are highly sensitive to moisture, requiring ultra-high performance barrier or encapsulation layers. Glass is an excellent barrier, but is rigid, therefore potentially stripping away organic electronics of a key differentiating attribute, which is flexibility. Developing flexible, transparent and ultra-high performance remains an unmet technology challenge, and in many cases an impediment against the growth of organic and printed electronics. Numerous solutions are however being developed across the world, ranging from ultra-thin flexible glass to multi-layer films. Success here can change the economics of organic and/or printed electronics.
Substrates are also an essential and often neglected layer for printed and/or organic electronics. They bring robustness and enable flexibility, but at the same time place substantial constraints on the manufacturing process (e.g., thermal budget, dimensional stability) in a way that they can largely determine device performance. Many plastic solutions are now being offered such as PET and PEN but also paper based substrates are increasingly gaining attention.
Market Appraisal
Ten year market forecasts for barrier films:
Market at the application level in OLED lighting, OPVs and flexible displays
Market at the barrier level
Key suppliers, technology/approach and performance achievements by player
Market trends, drivers and challenges
10 year forecasts for substrates
Addressable market at the application level OLED lighting, OPVs and flexible displays
Market at the substrate level
Market trends, drivers and challenges
Relevancy and challenges per target application
Technology Appraisal
Analysts will cover how each of the following technology options work; the advantages and disadvantages of each; 10 year forecasts; case studies; suppliers; technical and market challenges and opportunities:
Application requirements
Layer characteristics
Technical challenges and progress
Manufacturing processes (where relevant)
Performance measurement techniques and challenges
Friday, November 16 - 9:00am - 11:30am
James Hayward
Research Director, Topic Lead
Dr Nadia Tsao
Research Director, Personnel Lead
Bioelectronics & Neuroprosthetics
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Designed for those interested in emerging technologies within the convergence of biology and electronics, this masterclass focuses specifically on bioelectronic medicine, neuroprosthetics, and brain-computer interfaces. The class will discuss the technology behind these trends, as well as current and future applications ranging from research, clinical trials, disease diagnosis and treatment, through to potential consumer applications in user interfaces and media.
Bioelectronic medicine is a term that has recently gained a lot of attention due to the creation of Galvani Bioelectronics, a joint venture between Google's parent company, Alphabet, and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. However, regardless of recent focus, bioelectronic medicine is a broad topic spanning cardiac, peripheral, and central nervous systems, as well as next generation electrostimulators such as those discussed by Galvani and others. The masterclass will discuss the latest progress in each of these areas.
The related field of neuroprosthetics will also be covered in this class. Neuroprosthetic devices are intended to restore lost physiological functions for patients who are deaf, blind, paralyzed, or amputees. This masterclass will outline the developers of neural probes, cochlear implants, retinal implants, and neuroprosthetic limbs.
For those interested in the emerging technologies within the field of brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs), this class will review both invasive and non-invasive approaches towards melding man with machine. Regarding the devices specifically, the masterclass will focus on implantable neural probes and related neurophysiology equipment, in addition to EEG electrodes commonly placed on the scalp surface for non-invasive measurement of brain activity.
Friday, November 16 - 9:00am - 11:30am
Dr Peter Harrop
Aman Atak
Technology Analyst
Electric Vehicles: Markets, Trends, Opportunities - Land, Sea & Air
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Introduction to electric vehicles on-road, off-road, on water and in the air
What is successful, what new types will see success over the coming decade - when and why
Market opportunity by electric vehicle type with 10 year forecasts
This masterclass addresses the latest progress with hybrid,fuel cell and electric vehicles for land, sea and air. It gives the big picture from the league table of largest EV manufacturers to common factors and components for land, water and air vehicles; and across hybrid and pure electric vehicles.
This masterclass covers:
10 year forecasts in 45 electric vehicle categories including electric cars, pure and hybrid electric; micro cars; two wheelers such as electric scooters, pedelecs and motorcycles; commercial and industrial EVs such as construction, agricultural and mining electric vehicles; marine electric vehicles such as electric boats and vessels and light electric aircrafts. These are explained in terms of unit numbers, average sales price (ASP) and total market value.
The differences in the structure of the value chain of these different electric vehicle segments
The different drivers behind electrification of these types of electric vehicles.
Commercial, research and pioneering activities in different types of electric vehicles.
Different types of charging infrastructure required for different types of electric vehicles.
Activities of developers of electric and hybrid vehicles - covering land, water and airborne vehicles
Progress of companies are compared in relation to market shares per type of electric vehicle category
Electroactive polymers and printed PVDF devices
Friday, November 16 - 9:00am - 11:30am
Dr Luyun Jiang
Technology Analyst
Internet of Things: Industry 4.0, 5G in IoT, Smart Home & Smart Cities
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Complex landscape explained and analysed
Technology capabilities and what is coming next
Applications and future markets
This masterclass will cover the Internet of Things by examining the applications, case studies and enabling technologies. It will start by addressing the enabling technologies, with appraisal of the different technologies, pricing and capability and limitations. Key providers of each technology and their progress will be covered. This will include:
Communications: WPAN, LPWAN and cellular communication options, including 5G
Active RFID and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS)
Power for wireless sensors and energy harvesting options and implementations
Sensors, standards and other choices explained
The session will then assess the three main application areas of IoT by assessing the applications, key players, successes, failures and market size for each of the following:
Industry 4.0
Smart Homes
Smart Cities
Big data IoT
Connected Car
Ten year forecasts across a range of market segments will be provided with key trends and unmet needs covered throughout the session.
Friday, November 16 - 9:00am - 11:30am
Raghu Das
Dr Thibaut Soulestin
R&D Engineer, Technical Support
Dr Margit Harting
PST Sensors
Sensors: Flexible & Printed
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Flexible and printed sensor technologies
Capacitive, force, biosensing, pressure, temperature, photodetectors, humidity and other sensors types covered
Key players, market sizes and latest trends
This masterclass will give an overview of sensors made with printed electronics processes. Participants will learn about the technology, target markets and value proposition of these devices. Areas where printing adds value will be outlined for each type of sensor (pressure, temperature, optical, touch, electrochemical, etc.). Advantages of flexible and printed sensors, as well as large-area sensors will also be covered and the leading companies in each segment will be presented.
During the session, IDTechEx will show the latest trends and identify the commercial opportunities. It will include:
1. The market size today and forecast
2. Detailed assessment of emerging printed sensor technologies including capacitive, force, pressure, temperature, optical, gas and other sensor types. For each sensor type the following will be provided:
Assessment of technology capabilities
Key materials used
Manufacturing process
Key players
Market size and outlook
Friday, November 16 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Dr Luyun Jiang
Technology Analyst
Biosensors in Healthcare
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Applications and markets mapped
Technology assessment, key players and global trends
Emerging technologies for the next generation of medical biosensors
Biosensors are used prolifically across the global healthcare market for the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases and health conditions such as diabetes, cancer and infectious diseases. Due to the increasing global population, as well as a growing trend of decentralisation and technological advancement, the total addressable market for medical biosensors is expected to grow markedly over the next ten years. This masterclass will detail these factors and draw conclusions on the impact they will likely have on the global medical biosensor market. Opportunities for capitalizing on current and upcoming trends will be outlined, including discussion of the likely areas of expansion in the addressable market for biosensors in healthcare.
The topics covered are:
Overview of biosensor technologies
Molecular diagnostics (genetic testing and DNA sequencing)
Lab-on-a-chip (microfluidic)
Glucose monitoring and lateral flow assays
Connected healthcare and breath sensing
Key trends and disruptions to the market
This masterclass will provide a critical analysis of incumbent and emerging biosensor technologies in the context of the whole market, and how the competitive landscape is expected to change over the next decade.
Friday, November 16 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Dr Peter Harrop
Dr Andrew F. Burke
Research Engineer, Inst. of Transportation Studies
UC Davis
Dr Na Jiao
Technology Analyst
Electric Vehicles: New Material & Component Opportunities
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What new materials and components are needed and why
Latest progress with these enabling technologies including suppliers and technical progress
Ten year forecast for each technology
Unmet needs
In the process of electrification of vehicles there is plenty of room for innovation. Petrol car components and systems have evolved during the last 100 years and whilst electric vehicles have been developed for the last 30 years or so, they are still far of being optimized. New materials have been developed recently that are opening new possibilities for new concepts for better performance components. This masterclass explores the evolution of these developments and what could be their impact on future automotive concepts.
Electric vehicles will need new components and new materials given that the energy source, drive trains, motors and control systems are completely different to conventional vehicles. This masterclass will explore the opportunities for new materials and components, covering each of the main categories as follows:
Electric motors
Range extenders
Regenerative braking
Energy harvesting, such as thermoelectrics, shock absorbers and conformal PV
Thermal materials
Energy storage: batteries and supercapacitors
Charging systems and charging infrastructure, including wireless charging
Light weight and structural functional materials
Technologies and systems for autonomous vehicles
3D printing
Attendees will learn about the requirement from vehicle makers based on their vehicle development roadmaps, current state of the technology, suppliers, development trends and areas of focus and undersupplied development areas. In addition, ten year forecasts will be provided for some of the key sectors above, allowing you to quantify your opportunity.
This masterclass covers:
The use and impact of emerging technologies such as energy harvesting, supercapacitors, power train systems, wireless sensors and wireless systems and technologies for autonomous vehicles.
Latest progress with these enabling technologies including suppliers and technical progress
Unmet needs
Friday, November 16 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
James Hayward
Research Director, Topic Lead
Haptics & Actuators
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Haptic technologies involve the sense of touch; different actuators can be used to simulate different sensations which can then be felt by the user. This brand-new masterclass will cover the different types of haptics technologies in the market today, from the mature technologies that can be found in every smartphone and games console controller through to newer emerging techniques that are beginning to disrupt the incumbent options.
Advanced haptics are a critical part of new user interfaces (UI), allowing devices to provide an enhanced user experience (UX). This is particularly critical within several prominent emerging markets, including augmented and virtual reality (AR, VR, MR), wearable technology devices and increasingly within autonomous vehicles.
The masterclass will cover the following areas:
Comparison and benchmarking of different haptics technologies
Market trends in haptics today
Market forecasts for haptics technologies
The role of haptics in several key emerging markets: AR/VR/MR, wearables, autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc
Future outlook for haptics within the wider context of UI and UX
Friday, November 16 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Raghu Das
RFID & Smart Packaging
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Detailed global RFID market assessment with current and forecast sales, value chain analysis and application analysis
Assessment of RFID and smart packaging manufacturing technologies and technical requirements
Smart packaging case studies, drivers, technologies and costs
10 year forecasts and global trends
This session provides the complete picture of the RFID industry, including NFC to UHF RFID. Additionally, smart packaging is also explored, including why, who, what, how and when with case studies presented and technology roadmaps given. The RFID market and use and potential use of printed electronics for smart packaging is explored in great depth in this session. The masterclass will cover:
Detailed global RFID market assessment
10 year forecasts of sales of tags by application and by tag frequency
Global RFID market by application
Successes and failures
Drivers and market adoption trends
RFID tag manufacturing
Price tear down
Antenna manufacturing options - including printing assessment
Chip attach options
Key suppliers
Printed RFID and other printed technologies for smart packaging
Types of printed RFID technologies and full appraisal
Leading developers
Market traction
Challenges and opportunities
Integration of multiple printed electronics functionalities
Smart Packaging
Case study assessments - what was done, why, cost and level of successes
What is driving smart packaging
What is coming - pre-commercial technology and solution work from vendors and brands
Outlook and forecasts
This session is based on research conducted by IDTechEx on the RFID and smart packaging markets since 1999. It will provide an exceptionally comprehensive assessment of the RFID sector and the opportunities for printed electronics within it.
Friday, November 16 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Dr Xiaoxi He
Research Director, Topic Lead
Trends in Sensors
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Technology and industry trends for next-generation sensor types
Contextual examples outlining application challenges and opportunities
Supplier and industry trends
This class will look at the emerging technological trends enabled by next generation sensors. The class will focus on the key application areas that will undergo large-scale change over the next decade with sensors as the key enabling technology. Whilst end results and applications are varied, the sensing technologies used in each of these sectors have inherent similarities. This class brings these topics together around their component-level building blocks, describing the broad application opportunities available to players in these fields.
The topics covered are:
Environmental gas sensors
Imaging and optical sensors
Biometric sensors
This masterclass will provide an overview of key technologies used today in the above-mentioned areas, with particular focus on detection principles, commercial development status, market analysis and future trends. The speaker will detail the technologies, challenges, and opportunities in relevant applications.
- Nov 13
- Nov 16
9:00am - 11:30am
Introduction to Printed Electronics
Materials for Printed, Flexible & Organic Electronics
Smart Materials for Structural Electronics and Electrics
Supercapacitors: Technologies, Players, Markets
Trends in Photonics
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Introduction to 3D Printing
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I hail from New Brunswick originally. I left for university, and by the end of my degree, I had decided to remain. At the time, the government was growing more conservative, and one of their great bugaboos was the number of people moving out — their population was essentially in free-fall.
Granted, the population wasn't exactly huge to begin with. It had declined from 738,133 in 1996, to 729,498 in 2001 — a loss of 1.2%. It stagnated through 2006 — 729,997. The government started making noises about enticing emigrants, about stabilizing the job market and doing something about its flagging tech sector; there was a big to-do about this decline, to be sure. And the population began to swell again, to 751,171 in 2011.
In late 2013, another population decline — a mere 1000 person shortfall — caused another huge stir, such that the "Progressive" Conservative legislature under leader David Alward lamented the possibility of only seeing his grandchildren through Skype.
In the wake of that first scare, followed by the more recent revelation that outmigration is skyrocketing, it's no surprise that the conservative New Brunswick political scene voted for the "Medical Services Payment Act", Regulation 84-20, which had a bomb in it for abortion services. Now, throughout the province, abortions are no longer funded by the government as mandated by Health Canada, unless certified by TWO doctors as being "medically necessary". How else are you going to swell your numbers except to force women to give birth?
As a result of this abrogation of women's right to bodily autonomy, the Morgentaler clinic in Fredericton — founded by the legendary Dr. Henry Morgentaler himself — is forced to close.
The rules of the clinic were set up such that nobody who needed abortion services would be turned away under any circumstances, and because the government stiffed them on the bills and they took a huge loss last year, they have to close up shop.
Back in 2009, Carl Urquhart, a Conservative MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly, the Canadian equivalent of a congressman) suggested with regard to the population decline that women should be making more babies, a statement he posted on Facebook that he'd later walked back. He was especially chastised for this in light of the province's growing teenage pregnancy problem.
That's about as transparent a reasoning as you can get for Conservatives' anti-choice efforts. It was a refreshing moment of honesty from that party.
And this huge success in the fight to control what people can and cannot do with their reproductive organs comes just shy of a year after Dr. Henry Morgentaler — founder of the clinic — died of a heart attack. Morgentaler's efforts practically single-handedly won the fight for safe, legal abortion nation-wide in 1988 with his appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, where they overturned the whole of the Canadian abortion law as unconstitutional. The man was a lion for women's rights, human rights, and reproductive freedom. And his legacy is being rent before our eyes.
Women can still theoretically get abortions in hospitals — providing they get two doctors to sign off on the "medically necessary" waiver — but as this map shows, access to abortion didn't come with its newfound legality. When your government tightly controls the demand for babies, you can force the supply by restricting access to any choice but becoming a baby-factory.
You might understandably make the mistake that the "demand" is actually for abortions, but then you'd be misunderstanding the directionality of these laws. In the fight for women's bodily autonomy, the uterus is actually the supply, and the government apparently gets to make the demands.
For what it's worth, here's the state of the struggle for abortion rights through Canada. You'll note that almost no place in Canada actually has access to an abortion clinic or hospital within a reasonable travel time, and that the gestation limits are terribly restrictive in a number of cases — some as low as 12 weeks, like New Brunswick. Many provinces have absolutely no access to abortions, medical or otherwise.
This fight is hardly won, despite it being unconstitutional to restrict abortions, and despite it being both legal and defined explicitly by Health Canada.


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Recognized Skill Standards
May 15, 2012
These national skill standards for the metalforming occupation were developed by the Precision Metalforming Association. The standards are maintained by the National Institute for Metalworking Skills, Inc. (NIMS). They are actively in use as the major centerpiece of new national competency-based apprenticeship guideline standards for press setup operators, and have been incorporated into the programs of the Job Corps of the U.S. Department of Labor and are in use by numerous companies and training programs.
Importance to Texas
Metal formers perform finish-forming, checking and re-forming of machine-formed extruded and sheet metal parts. They form parts to final dimensions using metal forming equipment such as presses, brakes, and rolls.
The metalforming occupation falls into the broad occupational category of machinists. Texas Workforce Commission data reports on a number of occupations related to the metalworking industry, including machinists, machine setters and operators, and tool and die makers. Employment projections for these specialty areas (and several others) are projected to be close to 100,000 by 2018. However, experts reported to the state Senate Committee on Business and Commerce on April 10, 2012, that too few applicants are qualified for existing and projected skilled trade jobs, and that there is a growing shortage of skilled workers in the state. This puts a unique challenge on industry to recruit and train candidates to fill these openings. Skill standards are a way of preserving the knowledge that experienced workers take with them when they leave a job, and a method for transferring that knowledge to new workers, or to help incumbent workers expand their skills and advance in their careers.
The metal forming skill standards were originally recognized in Texas in November 2001. In October 2006 and again in May 2012, the skill standards' recognition was extended at the request of the National Institute of Metalworking skills, the nation's only American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited developer of precision manufacturing skill standards and competency assessments, whose stakeholders represent over 6,000 American companies.


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Fire has always been an object of fascination for humans. We use is as a spiritual tool, a weapon, and warmth. Fire operates in many areas of our lives, not just the physical. The candle represents our taming of the wild flame and turning it to our own needs. Candle magick is one of the simplest of the magickal arts because it requires little ceremony and few artifacts. It can be done almost anywhere, even in public. In fact, most of us have already practiced one form of candle magick: blowing out our birthday candles!
Here are some things to keep in mind while doing candle magick:
1. The color of the candle and its vibration is activated, released and amplified when it is lit. As the candle burns, the color releases into the surrounding areas and affects those in this area.
2. The kind of work needed determines the color of the candle. (A list of common correspondences is below).
3. Cleanse your candle, just as you clean and bless other magickal tools before you use them. Simply say a little prayer over the candle before you light it. This cleanses the candle of negativity and strengthens the potency so that it works more effectively.
4. Once you have used a candle for a specific purpose, keep it for this purpose, and keep it separate. Allow it to build up the vibration that you are using it for, avoiding conflicting vibrations.
5. Any candle will be effective. For longer, more sustained effects, church candles can be quite effective. They can burn for a long time.
6. Do not leave a candle unattended. Burn them in the proper containers.
6. Do not use candles to interfere with the free will of another.
7. Putting out the candle should be the last thing after the magickal event has been done. When extinguishing the candle, visualize that the breath is 'pushing' the desire out into the Universe. Some people say that you should not blow the candle out, if you agree, then get a piece of tin foil or cone to put out the flame.
8. Candle size means little -- use what is practical (or appropriate!)
9. If you have the time and privacy, your candles should be 'dressed' magically -- either with an oil of appropriate magickal qualities, or dry. In either case, imagine it is a psychic magnet with both the North and South poles, rub the candle from top to middle and then bottom to middle, 'drawing' the energies in to the candle. In doing so, you are charging it with your own personal energies and imprinting the desire into the wax itself.
A general list of common candle colors, and what they mean:
A balance of all colors; Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, truth seeking; Rituals involving lunar energy. May be substituted for any color candle.
Activity, Creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain another persons confidence or persuade someone, or in rituals that require solar energy.
Fosters understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; beneficial in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or money, or in rituals needing solar energy.
Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw affections; a color of femininity, honor, service, brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table.
Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, will power; increases magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy.
Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess.
Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideals for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy.
Combination of red and violet that oscillates on a high frequency; energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required.
Earthly, balanced color; for rituals of material increase; eliminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases financial success; locates objects that have been lost.
Color of inertia; stops situations or people; use in rituals that require a deep meditational state; or in rituals that demand Saturn energy.
Royal Blue:
Promotes laughter and joviality; color or loyalty; use to attract Jupiter energy, or whenever an influence needs to be increased.
Light Blue:
Spiritual color; helpful in devotional or inspirational meditations; brings peace and tranquility to the home; radiates Aquarius energy; employ where a situation must be synthesized.
Primary spiritual color; for rituals to obtain wisdom, harmony, inner light, or peace; confers truth and guidance.
Emerald Green:
Important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love, social delights, and fertility.
Dark Green:
Color of ambition, greed, and jealousy; counteracts these influences in a ritual.
Promotes prosperity, fertility, success; stimulates rituals for good luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation.
Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes a negative influence.
Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious; use in rituals to induce a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in uncrossing rituals; attracts Saturn energy.
As always, use what feels right to you rather than what someone says is appropriate. If you have different associations, then go with YOUR feelings.


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One of the greatest questions I have is the ever-annoying 'What is my purpose?' or 'What makes me special?' or 'How do I want to be valued?'. At my core, I want to find the ultimate metric by which to evaluate myself and see if I am doing a good job.
In those moments of solitude when I become introspective, I want to know which mirror to look myself in. The one of past mistakes ? past accomplishments ? present assets ? future dreams ? through the gentle eyes of friends ? through the condemning eyes of foes ?
Which one ?
Through a harrowing personal experience, I got to taste God's Grace. But I need an example to emulate. I need someone who had it all, but decided to give it up for the cause of Christ because of Grace. What did he give up ? How did he do it ? How did he verbalise it ? How did he evaluate himself ?
Enter the apostle Paul.
THE SETUP (the résumé)
In 2 Corinthians chapter 11, Paul is defending his calling and uses foolish absurdity (vv 16-21) as an argument to validate his credence. He is showing the church that if they evaluated people by the ridiculous 'past accomplishments' mirror, he would shine brighter than all.
'22 Are they Hebrews? So am I.
Are they Israelites? So am I.
Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labours more abundant,
in stripes above measure,
in prisons more frequently,
in deaths often.
24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods;
once I was stoned;
three times I was shipwrecked;
a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 in journeys often,
in perils of waters,
in perils of robbers,
in perils of my own countrymen,
in perils of the Gentiles,
in perils in the city,
in perils in the wilderness,
in perils in the sea,
in perils among false brethren;
27 in weariness and toil,
in sleeplessness often,
in hunger and thirst,
in fastings often,
in cold and nakedness—
28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.'
He repeats some of his credentials to the church of Phillipi :
'If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so:
circumcised the eighth day,
of the stock of Israel,
of the tribe of Benjamin,
a Hebrew of the Hebrews;
concerning the law, a Pharisee;
concerning zeal, persecuting the church;
concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.' (Phil 3:4-6)
Now that is quite a résumé. He could have left that as is. No more explanation needed. He shut them up. No contest. He had seen Christ on the road to Damascus, and then again later on. He had suffered more than all of them combined. He had done more for the cause than all those who criticised him.
But he didn't.
To the world the apostle Paul might have some self-esteem issues. Paul referred to himself as:
the least of all the apostles (I Corinthians 15:9-10),
the least of all the saints (Ephesians 3:8),
and the foremost of sinners (I Timothy 1:15).
The apostle Paul has repeatedly though his writings discounted everything that could glorify him personally. None of his credentials or past experiences had any sort of value to him. This is how he talked about his past:
- But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ (Phil 3:7-8)
- I have been crucified with Christ (Gal 2:20)
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. (Gal 6:15)
There was nothing of value left when he looked back. His past was awash in Christ.
But beyond that, he did not rely on his own source of strength to keep going. Every day, he reminded himself of what sustains him. This is how he saw his state, this is the mirror he looked into:
- it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Gal 2:20) Faith is what carries me every day
- For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Phil 1:21) Christ is my all, and death is nothing but gain
- But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (Gal 6:14) My sole reason to be proud is in the Gospel of Christ
- For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. (2 Cor 12:9) I have a clear conscience because I do it all through grace only
- For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age (Titus 2:11-12) Grace is the only means I have to fight sin and stay strong in Him.
- Although I am less than the least of all the Lord's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ (Eph 3:8) Grace is what has empowered me to accomplish my mission
- That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings (Phil 3:10) My life purpose
- That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess 1:12) My purpose in my relationship with others
His present was based only on Christ and His Grace.
Paul, formerly known as Saul, murdered believers. When his life was changed by the grace of God, what was not deserved, was given to him. Paul led his days living and preaching under that grace. What a testimony; lives can be changed and grace can overtake even the chief of sinners.
So, what makes me special ? Nothing I did, but everything He did.
What is the only mirror by which I am allowed to look at myself through ? Christ's blood.
What is the basis of my value ? Grace.
That's it.
For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. (1 Corinthians 15:9-10)


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Ken Writes About Stuff Volume 3
Mythos monsters, occult conspiracies, alchemical mysteries and more! KWAS Vol. 3 collects 13 supplements by master Lovecraftian writer and GUMSHOE guru Kenneth Hite.
In the ENnie-award winning Ken Writes About Stuff series, Kenneth Hite turns his considerable writing talents and encyclopedic knowledge of game design, history, the occult and all things Mythos to bear on new topics. From hideous creatures to GUMSHOE innovations, from Moon Dust Men to martial arts, Ken illuminates the dark corners of the genre with 4000-word supplements.
Each PDF includes a deep delve into some deeply weird topic, plus crunchy bits for your GUMSHOE game. If you're a fan of Suppressed Transmissions, Trail of Cthulhu, Night's Black Agents, The Nazi Occult or Day After Ragnarok, KWAS is a must-have.
KWAS Vol. 3 features:
- Hideous Creatures: Tcho-Tcho. "The nastiest people who ever lived … and whatever it is they were doing, they weren't going to let a stranger in on it." Do you really want to know what the Tcho-Tcho know? Too late.
- The Spear of Destiny. Is it the Spear that pierced Christ's side, or the Spear of Odin? Does it grant true kingship or invincibility? Who has borne it through the millennia, and who seeks its true whereabouts now? This issue pierces the legend to reach the truth — and then makes the legend invincible. Plus, a look at the Spear for NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS, THE ESOTERRORISTS, TRAIL OF CTHULHU, and TIMEWATCH.
- Hideous Creatures: Great Race of Yith. "As mental barriers wore down, I beheld great masses of thin vapour in various parts of the building and in the streets below. These steadily grew more solid and distinct, till at last I could trace their monstrous outlines with uncomfortable ease." From unguessable aliens to cone-shaped librarians to beetle-conquerors, the Great Race of Yith takes many forms. Learn to recognize them, before they take yours!
- Mutant City Spies. Ten years after the ghost flu hit, the world is changed — but the secret world stays the same. Enemies of your country still plot, terrorists still scheme — but now they might have superpowers. An espionage-specops frame for Mutant City Blues takes the super fights into the shadows.
- Bonus: We add the Free RPG Day book, which includes both 13th Age and Night's Black Agent's starting adventures At Land's Edge / The Harker Intrusion.
- Hideous Creatures: Wendigo. " In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it …" Cannibal spirit or arctic ogre? Wind-walking demigod or folie a faim? Hunt the Wendigo down — or up into the skies, where mad auroras roll.
- Hideous Creatures: Hunting Horror. "I see it—coming here—hell-wind—titan blur—black wings—Yog-Sothoth save me—the three-lobed burning eye. . . ." Avatar or servitor, this winged and coiling horror haunts the dark and hunts those who seek it out. Shine a little light on this most shadowy of creatures!
- Moon Dust Men: MAJESTIC Overwatch. The Moon Dust Men are the tip of the spear. MAJESTIC-12 aims it. Manage the global war against the aliens with this new GUMSHOE subsystem. Do you build retro-engineered Aurora craft, or bioroids to fight on the Moon? Do you launch satellite screens or dig in anti-saucer lasers? You decide where the black budget goes — and who it goes after.
- Moon Dust Men: Galileo Uplift. To fight aliens, one must use the alien. Take it apart, reverse-engineer it, rebuild it, turn it into armor and sensors and weapons and aircraft good enough to win a war against an enemy from the stars. Tech and gear for your high-powered MOON DUST MEN game, powered by a new GUMSHOE "tech tree" subystem for bootstrapping invention and development.
- Las Vegas 1968 takes you to Sin City in the heyday of Howard Hughes and the Rat Pack, the mob and the Mormons, the fear and the loathing. Everything's for sale and nothing's for certain, except the house wins. Featuring happening hooks for vampire conspiracies, esoterrorism, and FALL OF DELTA GREEN Mythos machinations!
- Bast. "What fully civilised soul but would eagerly serve as high priest of Bast?" She Who Scratches, the Lady of the Ointment Jar, the great cat-goddess of nighted Khem comes alive in all her varied forms: as a Trail of Cthulhu titan (complete with her monstrous Brood of Bubastis), mysterious Ashen Stars entity, TimeWatch cult leader, and 13th Age Icon. Good kitty!
- BONUS ISSUE – Foul Congeries 3 once more opens the books on Lovecraftian monsters that have never taken stat-block form before in any game, including the Gaseous Wraith, the Raktajihva, and Y'm-bhi!
Volume 1 of Ken Writes About Stuff is available here, and volume 2 here.


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Dogs need physical, mental and emotional stimulation in order to be happy and healthy. Camp Bow Wow offers enrichment opportunities to help your dog live their best life. While your pup plays all day, they'll experience enrichment activities to stimulate their natural instincts, engage their brain and help them thrive – all at no added cost. This is not your average doggy day care!
What is Enrichment?
Just like humans, dogs need both mental and physical activity to stay balanced and happy. Dog enrichment aims to engage a variety of senses and challenges dogs' minds in a safe, healthy manner. Enrichment activities can have numerous benefits for dogs:
- Satisfy curiosity and investigatory instincts
- Keeps dog's mind sharp
- Increase physical activity
- Develops problem-solving skills
- Boost ability to adapt to new people, sounds and objects
Daily sensory stimulation at Camp alleviates stress, promotes physical and mental well-being and assists in adapting to new environments to support your pup's ability to adapt, recover, cope and thrive.
Play Group Enrichment
Our enrichment-based philosophy means while your pup is having a blast playing all day with friends, they'll experience play yard features and sensory experiences that:
- Stimulate natural instincts
- Provide a mental workout
- Create a well-rounded experience.