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If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
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If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
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Global Food Contact Paper Market Report from AMA Research highlights deep analysis on market characteristics, sizing, estimates and growth by segmentation, regional breakdowns & country along with competitive landscape, players market shares, and strategies that are key in the market. The exploration provides a 360° view and insights, highlighting major outcomes of the industry. These insights help the business decision-makers to formulate better business plans and make informed decisions to improved profitability. In addition, the study helps venture or private players in understanding the companies in more detail to make better informed decisions.
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
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If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
Forward Comments and Acronyms explanation added-by BBroomhall,
China Just Pulled Its Own Manhattan Project. Will they still need chips from Taiwan? probably for dominance purposes...
An EUV machine (Extreme Ultraviolet lithography machine) is a highly advanced, multi-million dollar system used in semiconductor manufacturing to "print" incredibly tiny, intricate patterns of transistors onto silicon wafers, enabling the creation of today's powerful microchips (like those for AI, smartphones, and high-performance computing)chamber.
Process: The EUV light reflects off the mask, transferring the circuit pattern onto the wafer, repeating the process to build up layers.
Significance,
Advanced Chips: Essential for producing the most advanced logic and memory chips (e.g., 5nm, 3nm, and below) that power modern technology.
Economic & Geopolitical Importance: Command of EUV technology is central to achieving semiconductor self-sufficiency and influences global tech power, with China recently developing a prototype.
Engineering Marvel: These machines are massive, complex, and expensive, requiring a vast ecosystem of suppliers and systems engineering to operate reliably.
This $200M Machine Prints Microchips:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding#:~:text=It%20is%20the%....
ARM: look to WIKI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family
Below Written by Markus Sandelin 2026
Or: The West banned the machines. China hired the machinists. Sometimes plans just do not go how you planned them. Ironically, I had been writing this article for a month now, and all research pointed at China being way too far behind. Well…lets check
December 2025. Reuters reveals that China completed an operational EUV lithography prototype in a high-security Shenzhen facility. Not through reverse engineering captured ASML machines. Not through some breakthrough in domestic optics manufacturing. Through something far simpler.
They recruited the humans who knew how to build them.
Former ASML scientist Lin Nan, who headed EUV light source technology in the Netherlands from 2015–2021, filed eight EUV patents in eighteen months — under a new identity, at the Shanghai Institute of Optics. Signing bonuses ran $420,000-$700,000. Housing subsidies. False identity cards. National security classification.
The machine fills an entire factory floor. It works. It generates EUV light at 3.42% conversion efficiency. It hasn’t produced functional chips yet — that’s targeted for 2028–2030. But it exists.
Every expert consensus said 2035–2040. They were looking at hardware when they should have been watching airports.
The Structural Error
Western semiconductor security strategy rested on two pillars. The “silicon shield” thesis: Taiwan’s dominance in advanced chip manufacturing makes invasion counterproductive. And export controls: block ASML from selling EUV systems to China, problem contained.
Both pillars shared a hidden assumption. That knowledge lives in machines, not people.
ASML’s EUV systems contain over 100,000 components. The mirrors must be accurate to 50 picometers — roughly the width of an atom. The plasma source fires 50,000 tin droplets per second, each vaporized by a 30-kilowatt laser. This complexity was supposed to be the moat.
But every specification exists because humans figured it out. The machine is crystallized knowledge. The humans are the source.
The same pattern appears in every domain. Organizations obsess over document security while expertise walks out the door every evening. They encrypt files while the knowledge that created them takes a job elsewhere. The artifact isn’t the asset. The artifact is a receipt.
China ran a talent acquisition operation in plain sight. Not subtle. Just effective. Because export controls are delay mechanisms. They buy time. They don’t buy safety.
The West bought time without using it.
What Changed
Before December 2025, consensus estimates placed Chinese EUV capability at 2035–2040. Now a working prototype exists. The timeline compressed by roughly a decade.
The prototype remains 2–3 generations behind ASML’s current production systems. The conversion efficiency gap means lower throughput. The machine fills a factory floor where ASML’s fits a room. China still can’t replicate Zeiss’s multilayer mirrors.
None of that changes the strategic calculus.
The question shifted from “Can China ever catch up?” to “How fast?” Defense planning moved from “permanent advantage” to “degrading advantage with a known expiration date.” Taiwan’s value as a denial target remains, but its value as a capture target increased. If domestic Chinese fabs can eventually produce advanced chips, the calculation for what Taiwan is worth — and what risks are acceptable to take it — changes accordingly.
The pattern isn’t unique to semiconductors. Processor architecture tells the same story. x86 dominated server computing for thirty years on the strength of Intel’s manufacturing lead, PC volume economics, and Windows software lock-in. ARM was for phones. Serious computing meant x86.
Now ARM powers over half of new cloud deployments. The conditions that protected x86 systematically reversed. Manufacturing advantage moved to TSMC, accessible to all ARM licensees. Volume advantage shifted to smartphones. Software lock-in dissolved as cloud-native development reduced Windows dependency.
What looked like permanent architectural dominance was a phase. The moat didn’t hold because moats don’t hold. They erode, get bridged, or someone builds a tunnel underneath.
The Dependency Structure
The AI compute stack that powers Western technological advantage contains a specific shape of fragility.
Every major AI system depends on one GPU architecture (NVIDIA), manufactured at one foundry (TSMC), located in one place (Taiwan), using machines from one supplier (ASML), with precision optics from one manufacturer (Zeiss). Four single points of failure in sequence. Remove any node and the capability degrades or disappears.
This isn’t hidden information. It’s the structure everyone knows and nobody fixed.
NVIDIA’s position creates particular tension. Dominant market share in AI accelerators. A software ecosystem — CUDA — that four and a half million developers are locked into. Aggressive capacity reservation that secures most of TSMC’s advanced packaging through 2025. The dependency runs deep enough that when Meta reportedly considered Google’s TPUs for future data centers, NVIDIA’s stock dropped four percent on the news alone.
The responses emerging suggest the dependency is recognized if not resolved. Google’s TPUs now train Anthropic’s Claude. AWS Trainium claims significant cost advantages. AMD’s ROCm has narrowed performance gaps enough that seven of the top ten AI companies deploy AMD accelerators alongside NVIDIA. None of this eliminates the concentration. It creates hedges against it.
OpenAI’s infrastructure commitments reveal the scale of what’s being built on this fragile foundation. Over a trillion dollars in spending through 2035, spread across multiple suppliers but unified by a common dependency on hardware that originates in Taiwan. The Stargate Project alone commits $500 billion to build ten gigawatts of AI data centers. Power is the bottleneck — gas turbines filling gaps the grid can’t supply.
This is infrastructure for an AI capability that assumes the current supply chain continues functioning. That assumption now has a visible expiration date.
The Coming Fragmentation
Technology competitions resolve in different ways. Sometimes one standard wins completely. Sometimes markets segment until competitors stop fighting over the same territory.
The AI compute ecosystem appears headed for segmentation along geopolitical lines.
China must develop domestic alternatives regardless of technical merit. The motivation isn’t commercial — it’s strategic necessity. Huawei open-sourced its neural network framework in August 2025. Chinese AI models launched with domestic accelerator support on day one. The ecosystem will exist because it has to, competitive or not.
Western hyperscalers face different pressures toward the same fragmentation. Monopoly suppliers eventually extract monopoly rents. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are all developing custom silicon not because they enjoy manufacturing complexity, but because dependency on a single supplier creates unacceptable leverage.
The workload mix is shifting in ways that accelerate this. Training AI models requires the deep optimization that CUDA provides. Inference — running trained models — is more amenable to alternatives. As inference grows from minority to majority of compute workloads, the lock-in weakens.
The likely outcome isn’t one winner. It’s regional technology blocs with limited interoperability. Western infrastructure running mixed NVIDIA and alternatives. Chinese infrastructure running domestic stacks. Emerging markets splitting based on cost sensitivity and political alignment.
Format wars end not with surrender but with the market drawing borders until both sides stop contesting the same ground. Those borders are being drawn now.
What Sovereignty Actually Requires
The export controls bought approximately six years of development time. That’s not nothing. It’s also not victory.
Technology restrictions do specific things. They slow adversary development. They create incentives for domestic alternatives. They signal strategic importance — which focuses opposing effort. What they cannot do is create permanent barriers. That has never happened. In any domain. Historically.
The pattern is consistent. Restrictions buy time. Time gets wasted. The capability gap closes. Surprise ensues.
Durable technological sovereignty requires different investments.
Velocity of innovation matters more than blocking followers. Staying ahead is sustainable. Preventing catch-up is temporary. ASML didn’t achieve dominance through export controls — it achieved dominance through decades of capability investment that competitors couldn’t match. Controls came after the gap existed, not before.
Ecosystem integration creates resilience that individual technologies cannot. ASML depends on over 1,200 specialized suppliers. That network is harder to replicate than any single machine. Complexity becomes a feature when it emerges from genuine interdependence rather than artificial restriction.
Human capital retention costs less than blocking departure. The engineers who built China’s prototype weren’t captured or coerced. They were recruited with money, housing, and opportunity. Talent retention is a compensation and culture problem. It has solutions that export controls don’t provide.
Geographic distribution reduces single-point risk. TSMC began Arizona production in 2025. Intel is building in Ohio. Samsung is expanding in Texas. None of this is sufficient relative to Taiwan concentration, but all of it represents movement in a direction that should have started a decade earlier.
Alternative development prevents lock-in from becoming vulnerability. Open-source frameworks, competing architectures, multiple viable paths to the same capability — these aren’t just market competition. They’re strategic hedges against ecosystem capture.
The West had six years of bought time. It could have invested in talent retention, funded open alternatives, built distributed manufacturing capacity, treated the window as finite.
Instead: self-congratulation about the controls, consolidation of existing dependencies, continued concentration in Taiwan, and the assumption that the gap would never close.
Sovereignty built on preventing others from having knowledge runs on a countdown timer. The timer was always visible. Looking at it was optional.
The Pattern Repeating
Ukraine is now the world’s most advanced live-fire laboratory for defense technology.
Drone warfare at scale. Electronic warfare that evolves weekly. AI-assisted targeting systems built under fire. Distributed command and control that survives decapitation strikes. Civilian-military tech integration that NATO has theorized about for decades but never implemented. All of it battle-tested under conditions no simulation can replicate.
The engineers and operators who built these systems didn’t learn from textbooks. They learned by iterating faster than the enemy could adapt, with lives depending on each software push. That expertise — the hard-won knowledge of what actually works when systems face real jamming, real counter-drone measures, real attempts to kill the operators — exists nowhere else on earth.
The West’s support pattern should concern anyone who understood the ASML lesson.
Delayed weapons deliveries. Conditional aid packages. Restrictions on how provided systems can be used. Allies calibrating support to “enough not to lose, not enough to win.” A persistent message that Ukrainian victory is desired but not prioritized. Economic exhaustion setting in after three years of war.
These are the conditions that make talent extraction attractive.
China’s semiconductor recruitment playbook is proven and replicable. Signing bonuses that represent a lifetime of Ukrainian military salary. Housing in cities not under missile attack. The chance to work on systems that will actually get built and deployed, not stuck in procurement limbo. For engineers who’ve spent three years surviving on Western uncertainty, the pitch writes itself.
The assumption that Ukrainian defense talent will remain loyal to the West rests on the same error as the assumption that ASML knowledge would stay in the Netherlands. Loyalty follows from earned trust and mutual investment. It does not follow from geography or shared values alone — especially when the values appear negotiable and the investment appears grudging.
The knowledge of how to build defense systems that work in modern warfare lives in Ukrainian engineers and operators. Not in the drones themselves. Not in the targeting algorithms. Not in the command systems. In the humans who built them, tested them, died alongside them, and rebuilt them better.
If the West continues treating Ukraine as a buffer state to be supported at minimum viable cost rather than an ally whose expertise represents irreplaceable strategic value, the same extraction pattern will repeat. Different industry. Same blindspot. Identical outcome.
China has demonstrated it will pay whatever it takes for knowledge that matters. The question is whether the West understands what Ukrainian defense expertise is worth before someone else makes a better offer.
The Pattern Beneath
China’s Manhattan Project didn’t emerge from nowhere. It came from patience, resources, and the humans who knew the answers.
The same pattern appears everywhere once you look for it. Institutions that secure documents while knowledge leaves every evening. Organizations that patent processes while the engineers who invented them take jobs elsewhere. Nations that restrict hardware exports while talent flows freely across borders.
The artifact is never the asset. The artifact is what the asset left behind.
What looks like an insurmountable wall is always, eventually, an expensive door. The only question is how motivated the people on the other side are. China’s latest semiconductor fund: $37 billion. Black-budget projects beyond that. Whatever it takes to recruit the right humans.
That’s how motivated.
The West fortified the castle. China recruited the castle builders.
The wall was always a door. The hinges just weren’t visible from the inside.
The author has spent way too many years watching institutions mistake structural barriers for permanent advantages. He’s consulted on transformation for NATO, EU institutions, and organizations that genuinely believed complexity would protect them forever. He’s tired of watching intelligent people confuse artifacts with knowledge, and restriction with security. His rubber chicken remains unimpressed.
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If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
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This picture shows the evolution of the threshold diagram from the previous picture.
In this specific case, we wanted to identify the main characteristics of our different users ... and non-users, while simplifying the threshold diagram.
We identified patterns for users who are likely to:
- Reject Webmaker, because they will not wish to use it,
- Be unsure about using Webmaker, because they are already satisfied by other tools, or because they feel that they lack the skills to use it,
- Bmbrace Webmaker, our lead users, who will be happy to use the tool,
- Be unable to use Webmaker, maybe because they have no internet connection, no phone or no skills.
Global MS Polymer Market Report from AMA Research highlights deep analysis on market characteristics, sizing, estimates and growth by segmentation, regional breakdowns & country along with competitive landscape, players market shares, and strategies that are key in the market. The exploration provides a 360° view and insights, highlighting major outcomes of the industry. These insights help the business decision-makers to formulate better business plans and make informed decisions to improved profitability. In addition, the study helps venture or private players in understanding the companies in more detail to make better informed decisions.
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
Based in Lehfed, a town rich in apple production, Roula established a small enterprise ‘Apple Natura’ to produce apple puree, after initially producing apple jam. As a result of the crisis, challenges in the import of goods had impacted the import of baby food, making the latter a high-demand product. Roula started to produce food for babies and developed a unique recipe for apple and pear puree.
As a result of her participation in WEP, Roula received technical training to help her develop her business skills. The sessions include training on value
proposition, legal aspects, customer segmentation and development, social media, marketing, and sales. The coaching sessions that followed resulted in her rebranding her business to Natura Spoon with the objective of introducing new products and not being limited to apple-based products, and she registered her business at the Lebanese Chamber of Trade & Commerce.
As a result of the WEP in-kind financial support, Roula received a variety of equipment that helped increase production and produce new recipes and products in the baby food industry.
Since she joined the project, her business has been growing exponentially. She has recruited
12 women employees including two nutritionists, and her products are now available in more than 70 pharmacies across Lebanon.
Neat Line Georeferences (WGS84)
NE corner: -0.900342, 50.882452
SE corner: in the sea - estimate: -0.895000, 50.711500
NW corner: -1.829230, 50.870628
SW corner: in the sea - estimate: -1.818842, 50.700000
(don't believe the BL website values!!)
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Ordnance Surveyors' Drawing 75 (held by the British Library) currently exists in three separate parts, designated 75-1, 75-2 and 75-3. Rob Wheeler has examined the scans and concludes that the parts became separated at some point, most likely because folds had weakened the paper and ultimately lead to failure along the fold lines. The conclusion is that the OSD was, for period of time, a single ‘composite’ measuring over 10.5 feet in width.
The composite was made from six separate sheets of paper, joined using overlaps and (probably) animal glue. This diagram illustrates the six segments of paper.
Contrary to intuition and somewhat remarkably, it seems that the segments were drawn separately and then joined. Whilst the joins generally indicate good alignment of features, such as roads and field boundaries, a close study reveals numerous discontinuities. Examples include:
Join A-B near Highcliffe Castle on the south coast
Join B-C near East End on the south coast
Join C-E at the shoreline near Chilling (different mud colours).
The join D-E shows greater consistency and may have been made prior to drawing, however there appears to be some discontinuity just to the north of Portsdown Hill. Another copy of OSD 75 exists at The National Archives (TNA MR 1/1406) and includes the same join D-E showing excellent continuity across the join. The jury is out.
Rob Wheeler has suggested that segment E could have been drawn first, as it includes the militarily important town of Portsmouth and that the adjoining segments probably came later.
Segment F is interesting because it seems wholly optional, only consisting of sea. Nevertheless, it has been used to host the scale bar which applies to the whole map drawn at 3 inches to the mile.
An interesting feature is the join C-D & C-E on 75-2. This has been made to form a ‘grid’ line (believed to be parallel to the Greenwich meridian) radiating from a compass rose (red cross). It is approximately on the meridian of 1°16’38”W (1.2785775W). The implication is that the guillotined paper edge was used as a reference line or datum for the drawing. Was the compass rose only applied when segments A, B and C were added to D-E-F?
The centre point of the compass rose (drawn in William Gardner’s usual style) that straddles OSD 75-2 and 75-3 (both surveyed 1797) isn’t coincident with the East Cowes Sea Mark at 50°45'37.5"N 1°16'15.2"W, which is disappointing. This triangulation station was established in the 1790s. It could have formed a principal control point for the integration of the island with the Hampshire coast. The island OSD 73 (surveyed earlier in 1793-4) featuring East Cowes has no indication of any trigonometrical station or Sea Mark at this point. Slightly bizarrely, OSDs do not depict trigonometrical stations.
A further noteworthy feature of OSD 75 is that it’s western-most and eastern-most edges are not perpendicular to the top and bottom edges; they are deliberately set at a slight angle and include a slanting border line. It seems that these edges are aligned to the meridian of 1° east. This particular alignment was 'carried over' onto the printed map (Old Series sheet 10) that came several years later. OSD 75 is therefore a trapezoid.
The north-eastern corner of the OSD (75-3) is positioned close to Stansted Tower (identified on the printed sheet 11) that lies just over the boundary in West Sussex.
Given the effort applied to complete the drawing and its value to the Board of Ordnance, it’s surprising that it contains no ‘meta-data’ to state who created it, who owns it, when it was created or any other salient facts. Perhaps such information was attached to a carton, case or tube in which the map was stored, now lost. Research suggests that OSD 75 was drawn sometime between c.1798 and c.1808.
Harley & O’Donoghue observe that ‘these plans were regarded as among the best examples of the art of the English military draughtsman’.
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Approximate segment dimensions (H x W):
A 37.0 x 16.3 ins / 940 x 415 mm (75-1)
B 37.0 x 29.8 ins / 940 x 757 mm (75-1 & 75-2)
C 33.0 x 29.8 ins / 840 x 757 mm (75-2)
D 4.9 x 53.7 ins / 124 x 1363 mm (75-2 & 75-3)
E 27.7 x 53.7 ins / 704 x 1363 mm (75-2 & 75-3)
F 4.4 x 43.3 ins / 112 x 1100 mm (75-3)
Overall dimensions (H x W):
37 x 130 ins/ 940 x 3300 mm
12.3 x 43.3 miles
Note: assumes that BL dimensions are accurate.
Double Elephant 27 x 40 ins / 686 x 1016 mm
Double Imperial 30 x 44 ins / 762 x 1118 mm
Emperor 48 x 72 ins / 1219 x 1829 mm
It’s tempting to assume that segment E used an Emperor sheet, however Rob Wheeler writes “If an Emperor sheet had been used for E (and it was an exotic size, requiring a team of 6 men to handle the mould) it would have served for D+E+F, so cutting it down and pasting additions before drawing seems astonishing”.
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Frome writing c.1839 “SHEET LINES AND PLOTTING. On extensive surveys or large scale plans when the work cannot be plotted on one piece of paper it will be found, as a rule, far more expeditious, economical, and accurate to draw the work on several sheets of paper than to attempt to mount them all together to form one plan; if the sheets are required eventually to be put together it can be so arranged after the penning in.”
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Yolande Hodson & Tony Campbell, Ordnance Surveyorsʼ Drawings, 1789-c.1840: The Original Manuscript Maps of the First Ordnance Survey of England and Wales from the British Library Map Library, Research Publications, 1989
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Map images (c) British Library
Analyzing Farm Ownership Patterns: A Biophysical and Agri-demographic Segmentation of Catchments in the Lake Simcoe Watershed (2025)
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Wellen
Theme: Social/Environmental
Location: Lake Simcoe Watershed
This poster serves as a brief overview of this MRP, serving as an initial analysis for a two year study being conducted by the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) alongside Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Waterloo in identifying priority zones for tailored Best Management Practices (BMPs) based on biophysical and social attributes among the watershed.
Covering 3,400 km², the LSW is one of southern Ontario’s most important freshwater systems, providing vital ecosystem services and generating approximately $900 million annually—largely driven by agriculture, which occupies about 50% of the watershed’s land area. While watersheds in Ontario, including the LSW, have traditionally been classified based on hydrological and biophysical criteria, they are also complex socio-economic systems. BMPs are designed to mitigate agriculture’s environmental impacts, but research suggests their effectiveness depends heavily on farmers’ willingness and capacity to implement them. Research increasingly highlights the need to integrate both socio-economic and biophysical factors for effective watershed management.
In particular, literature suggests that analyzing farm ownership patterns provides valuable insight into agricultural behaviours, management practices, and the willingness to adopt sustainable approaches.This study investigates the relationship between farm ownership patterns and agri-demographic characteristics (e.g., farm size, age, gender, income, capital, management) and their influence on BMP adoption. By applying data reduction and multivariate clustering techniques, the research integrates these socio-economic variables with key biophysical data (e.g., land cover, soil permeability, drainage, nutrient units) to delineate zones that reflect both environmental conditions and agri-demographic dynamics. The findings will inform the broader research goal which is to guide the implementation of tailored BMPs that are environmentally effective but also economically and socially feasible.
This picture shows animal segmentation on the road going into Rocky Mountain National Park through Estes Park. The big horn sheep have to pass through this road if they want to reach the rest of their group on the other side.
Photo credit: Bailey Ash
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Fingerprint Recognition System is often a Matlab component that implements something for fingerprint complementing and verification. The package enable you to allow fingerprint authentication, which is much more secure than details login systems.
Since identity stealing is just about the main security-related issues, such as process is highly appreciated. Identity fraud has taken proportions, so a effective and reliable authentication process is needed to make sure your facts is permanently risk-free. Therefore, personal id applications and biometrics-based checking are emerging, due to the fact these systems offer higher security.
The package involves the Matlab value and sample data that means that you can test its functionality. In order to gain access to its GUI, you can simply decompress the archive contents within the Matlab current service and enter the name of the main function within the command window.
Fingerprint Recognition System relies on a powerful recognition engine that permits fingerprint matching depending on an advanced criteria. It can become integrated within virtually any Matlab application, enabling fast fingerprint image acquisition. It functions 1D and 2d recursive Gabor filtering, as well being a robust algorithm regarding detecting the core point of an fingerprint and segmentation functions that use morphological functions.
Fingerprint Recognition System uses a collection of Gabor filters in order to detect important along with specific details in a fingerprint, which permits it to very easily perform matching actions. The comparison algorithm is founded on the Euclidean distance between your two FingerCodes, but the complementing process requires accurate positioning as a way to prevent errors via occurring.
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If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
Wire weaving pattern originated by Justin Bruce. Super clever and cool technique that creates a lot of dimension and segmentation.
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
If societies are to thrive, not just survive, there must be a set of common values that undergird social and governmental interactions. Values are often derived from religion, yet there is deep misunderstanding among and between people of different faith (and no faith) backgrounds, which can threaten the social cohesion of communities. Our times suggest that values may not be common—within or across groups—and that religions are being manipulated (sometimes by governments) for the benefit of majority groups. This has led towards increased segmentation and polarization in societies, which has been exploited by those seeking to foment division.
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Laurence Genon
Here's a video of a rancher serenading his herd home with his trombone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs_-emj1qR4
Posted more than 8 years ago, the video has had more than 24 million views. Think about that!
This fact has relevance to the fact that when the rules no longer apply, it's time to make some new ones.
I'll use this thought process as I tell the story of an AI-based technology company that reached out to me, after my keynote for Cattlecon 2024, for some advice on how to gain traction in the industry. Their product will weigh cattle simply through AI analysis of a picture - that's the product It might not seem like much, but it's truly a groundbreaking technology - one that has big implications for the typical rancher. Even so, as with many start-up companies with a big new idea, it's difficult to gain notice and awareness in the industry.
Why? Because the rules for gaining traction have changed! The old rules of branding and marketing were that you came up with a killer product, a marketing campaign, some advertising, and promotion money, and sales would flow to your door. Those rules no longer make sense in a world that is information-overwhelmed, short-attention-span-based, and inundated with new stuff.
With that in mind, I bring you to ClickR Technologies. The founder and CEO, Joey Spicola, saw me speak at CattleCon 2024, and reached out to me, asking if I might be able to help him build awareness of his business and product. I guess my message about the future and opportunity caught his attention. I did reply that I tend to focus on doing what I do well (speaking about trends and innovation) and that I'd love to take on a project but know it's not something I can do. I did put him in touch with someone in the industry who might be able to help him.
Even though I was not able to help him, I immediately did have in the back of my mind a lot of specific thoughts on what he might be able to do, and so here are those thoughts - particularly the points below. It goes to the issue that you need to chase the opportunities of tomorrow differently. A bit more of the backstory - the benefits of the solution is clear.
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Cattle are currently weighed with conventional gravity scales typically at a central location requiring time consuming, labor intensive rounding up and transporting to a weighing station. The cost and trauma impact on the animals can be significant. Our revolutionary livestock weighing technique is a game changer for any commercial or private cattle ranch.
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Joey's summary to me was a bit more concise:
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Scaleless weighing.
The camera takes a picture of the animal, at the water trough or feed bunk picture is processed through a proprietary algo and produces a weight in a couple of seconds, no stress on animal.
Our accuracy is 98% accurate, start to finish.
We can weigh
Bovine
Dairy
Swine
Horses
Alligators
Developing a human solution
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I'm intrigued by the alligator application, but onwards!
The technology itself? Yes, it is quite feasible to weigh cattle through AI machine vision technology - it's a relatively simple application of computer vision technology. Here's how it generally works:
Image Capture: Cameras or other imaging devices are used to capture images of the cattle from various angles. These images need to be clear enough for the software to process them accurately.
Feature Extraction: The machine vision system analyzes the images to identify specific features of the cattle, such as their size, shape, and body condition. This process might involve techniques like edge detection, segmentation, and pattern recognition.
Weight Estimation Models: The extracted features are then inputted into a model that estimates the weight of the cattle. This model can be based on previously collected data that correlates certain physical characteristics with weight.
Machine Learning: Many modern systems use machine learning algorithms to improve the accuracy of weight estimations. These algorithms can learn from a large dataset of cattle images and their known weights, enabling the system to make more accurate predictions over time.
So if you have a great product that is fast, efficient, reliable, and saves time and money, how do you get noticed? It's certainly difficult to do it the old ways - and in my mind, I started running through the new rules of awareness. This is the advice I would have given to Joey:
- Find the communities. To sell your product, you need to find those who might have an interest in the product. Chances are they are wired, connected, and online. You need to immerse yourself in their world and understand how they think - they're already immersed in the future with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies. They're eager to find and explore new stuff - and you have new stuff. Find them, and you'll find your market.
- Concentrate on the optimists. Realize that the folks in these communities will want to hear your story; others will not. Go and read about the 'Two types of farmers,' which I have often documented in these posts. Focus on the future-positive farmers - forget about the rest. There's no point in trying to sell a groundbreaking, innovative solution that saves money and time and time to those who tune out such opportunities simply because they, well, don't like the future. Focus on the future-positive audience.
- Construct the story. To sell in today's world, you've got to have a short, concise, attention-grabbing, compelling, and information-rich story. If it's video, do it in less than a minute. (30 seconds will do). If it's text and images, use short phrases, bullets, and attention-grabbing text. Find a copywriter who knows how to write copy for the attention-deficit 21st-century economy.
- Share the story. Your goal is not to sell a product, but to tell a story that features your product. There's a big difference. People don't want to buy a product, but they want to own and be a part of a compelling story. That's what Apple, Tesla, and others don't do. They don't necessarily sell products - they sell a story, a lifestyle, an aspirational future that people want to be a part of.
- Get social. To do that, share your story where it matters. Social media is where it's at, and when it comes to young ranchers, farmers, and agriculture executives, social media is where they find their future. Too old for TikTok? Get young! Not actively using Instagram? Get there! Not blogging? Blog more!
- Get young. There are a lot of progressive, smart, future-oriented older farmers and ranchers - but there are also a lot of younger ones! Talk and connect with to a bunch of 15, 20, 25, and 30-year-old ranchers. They're your future, and they're your market. Talk to them about your product, and see what they think. Get them involved - learn from them.
- Become the expert. Every application needs an expert, so BE the expert. Machine vision-based cattle weighing? Machine vision-based alligator weighing? I can't imagine there are a lot of industry experts on that, so be the guru, the expert, the person who is quoted in the news and in the industry and around the world. That involves adopting 'guru-mode', adding a little bit of the late Steve Jobs lifestyle to your persona. You don't have that type of persona? Find a frontman or frontwoman!
- Find a stage. Get onto the industry event circuit - be a speaker, be a panelist, be an organizer. Find the conferences, contact the organizers, and get onto the agenda. This is one of the key ways to get out there - it's also an important way to get your networking going. There are 90,000 associations in the US and countless trade shows - become the recognized expert on a niche topic out there!
- Make the news. Get into industry publications and other information sources. To do that, realize a key thing - most publications and journalists are lazy. They won't want to take any time to do the research to write a story - did I mention they're lazy? Prepare a media kit - statistics, values, bullet points, key information. Write a story for them. Share the story. Get it in print or online. Do the work for them, nicely packaged, neatly put together.
- Elevate the fans. Over time, you'll build up a list of those who are fans of your product. They'll have seen the returns, understand the benefits, and are reaping the rewards. Let them tell the story. Make them into evangelists, and they'll do the work for you.
- Build a network. Tech companies have user groups, community forums, and market leaders. They double down on efforts to build a community of like-minded people, people who use and believe in the product. Help them network to build your network.
Above all, play a bit of trombone.
All of this brings me back to the point of the video above. The fact that a rancher playing a trombone to his herd has drawn tens of millions of views tells it all. He's not selling a product in this case, but a careful little bit of product placement in such a video would certainly help to define a future for that product! To get attention, you must work harder to get attention - and serenading the cows home with a trombone certainly gets attention! Imagine the same video and the cows come home - and are immediately weighed and sorted via an AI. Wild opportunity!
Branding marketing awareness and outreach these days is tough to do.
To do the tough things, sometimes a little bit of trombone will help.
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