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4 Tablescape Trends to Try for Your Next Dinner Party

Presentation is everything. Whatever you’re serving at your next dinner party, you should make sure the tablescape does it justice. Therefore, use fun colors and unique decorations to wow your guests before the main course is even revealed.

1. Colorful Dishware

All-white dinner sets are a classic, but colorful plates also deserve a chance in the spotlight. Look for bright and playful shades that match your other decorations.
It’s a good idea to use solid colors for the main dinner plates; this way, the food will be the star of the show.

Salad plates and side dishes can feature bold patterns in matching shades.
For a fun twist, try mixing sets of two different complementary colors. Try red and blue, pink and orange, or multiple shades of green on the same table.

2. Clever Lighting

Tall dinner candles are a tablescape classic but don’t be afraid to mix things up at your next party. Try using uniquely shaped candles to create your center display. You can also place small votives between place settings for a friendly glow. However, never use scented candles—they’ll change the way your food is perceived.

Don’t be afraid to consider electronic options. Many beautiful lamps and brilliant centerpieces run on batteries. These options provide ambient light and don’t pose a fire hazard. If you’re crafting a floral centerpiece, consider weaving a tiny string of lights between the stems for a subtle glow.

3. Stand-Out Napkins

A linen napkin can offer plenty of room for tablescape creativity. Look for soft textures, delicate patterns, and bright colors that fit into your theme.
Think about how to place a napkin at each setting.

Try the classic fold, or go for something a little more ornate. You can set napkins on top of a setting or tuck them between two plates. Napkin rings can be matched with your other decorations.

4. Matching Metal Motifs

Most decorative matching tends to focus on color, but don’t forget about the metal elements in your tablescape. Vases, candleholders, salt shakers, and napkin rings can all be selected to match your chosen silverware.

Sterling silver is a classic metal for a reason; it goes well with nearly every palette. Additionally, Bronze is another good choice for your table setting; warm copper tones look lovely in many romantic or seasonal settings.

In conclusion, good tablescape requires attention to detail. After you’ve chosen your materials, spend time perfecting the arrangement. Play with the way you stack plates, fold napkins, and display drinks. It might seem like a lot of work, but your guests will be impressed with the final results.

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Since face coverings look like they will be a part of our life for a while, I took one of my pen and ink drawings and used it for this design.

This neck gaiter is a versatile accessory that can be used as a face covering, headband, bandana, wristband, and neck warmer. Upgrade your accessory game and find a matching face shield for each of your outfits.

• 95% polyester, 5% elastane (fabric composition may vary by 1%)
• Fabric weight: 6.19 oz/yd² (210 g/m²)
• Breathable fabric
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• Four-way stretch fabric that stretches and recovers on the cross and lengthwise grains
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6 things I learned about my orgasms

Today is National Orgasm Day, so of course I took this opportunity to TMI at you people, because TMI is my middle name. I’ve been having orgasms for more than half my life, and here are a few things I learned along the way.

1. I am my own best lover

Look, it’s nice having other people around. It enhances sex a lot. But I’ve been fucking myself for about 15 years, and so I think I’m best positioned for knowing exactly what works best. Only I know the full details, despite the fact that people over the years (usually, but not exclusively men) have taken it upon themselves to give me some sort of Entirely New Experience because they Know Best and pretty much every time that’s happened it’s ended in mutual disappointment. Even now, when I have two partners and a host of less regular lovers, I still make time for a date with myself. Nobody’s quite as good as me at making me come.

2. Having the same genitals as me doesn’t automatically make you better at sex

There’s a common myth flying round that cis lesbians are automatically better at sex with cis women, because they have the same equipment. That is categorically untrue. Having a cunt does not grant you a PhD in Cuntology. Everyone likes different things, and sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of egocentrism. I’ve been on both the giving and receiving end of the assumption that having a fanny means knowing how every fanny works. Communication is key, rather than anatomy.

3. Squirting doesn’t mean you’ve wanked yourself incontinent

I was about fifteen, and having the sort of epic wanking session one tends to lose the stamina for once one is out of one’s teens. I brought myself to shuddering orgasm after shuddering orgasm, and then one felt… different. There was wet stuff everywhere. I panicked slightly. I sprayed Febreeze all over the wet patch. I was convinced I had managed to come so hard I’d peed myself, and I laid off the masturbatory marathons for a while after to make sure I didn’t develop some sort of bladder problem. I was quiet about this horrifying thing that had happened to me, the gross piss-pariah. Oddly enough, I only learned this was a perfectly ordinary thing to happen a few years later, while watching porn. Yep. Porn saved me.

4. Porn gives people hella weird assumptions about squirting

So, I squirt. This is apparently a little uncommon, although pretty popular in porn. The thing is, in porn, this seems to happen on demand (I imagine, in fact, it requires multiple takes and a whole bunch of fluffing and it’s probably a little easier to happen knowing nobody’s going to have to sleep in the expansive wet patch). This is pretty much not how it happens for me. There is no magical formula for ensuring ejaculation occurs. It just sometimes does. Or, more frequently, doesn’t. The thing is, once it’s happened once, there’s usually this assumption that it’ll happen reliably, which leads to crushing disappointment, because it’s not like in the movies. Going off like a geyser is something which is fetishised, and I can’t live up to it. Luckily, most people will get this once it’s been explained to them.

5. My orgasms make men sad

Once upon a time, I used to fuck cis, straight men. I gave up on this, because politically they’re rubbish, and I have successfully arranged my life so I just don’t even meet them any more. As an additional fact about me, I have super-powerful Kegels. This is always brilliantly fun for me, but not so much for the cis, straight men who think penis-in-vagina is the be-all and end-all to sex. You see, my Kegels can easily eject a penis at the moment of my orgasm. And after that, I’m usually kind of done, and might roll over, fart and fall asleep. This makes cis, straight men sad, because sex is traditionally centred around their orgasms: they’re the ones who get to roll over, fart and fall asleep. For some reason, when the roles are reversed, it makes them feel sad.

6. Orgasms really aren’t the be-all and end-all

I’ve had phenomenal sex without an orgasm. There’s something incredibly nice about focusing yourself on someone else having a good time. I can have spectacular sex without the need for the other person to even touch me. For the most part, sex is a pleasant way of passing the time between two or more people, and an orgasm isn’t a requirement for that to be fun. They’re like the marzipan on top of an otherwise-delicious cake: it’s awesome if it’s there, but it’s not necessary at all. And if you want it, later you can get a whole block of marzipan and eat it to yourself.

5 thoughts on “6 things I learned about my orgasms”

  1. My vagina can eject penises too! When I use my vibrator inside it actually hurts when I orgasm because of the serious clamping that happens. lol. High fives for powerful vaginas. 😉

  2. I am a woman who has struggled with orgasming with partners. It has only ever happened once and I was so hopped up on cold meds I was hardly present (consensual but not present) and it’s caused a lot of friction with my relationships. I always try to explain how I am honestly and whole heartedly okay without cumming (because I can do it myself and 100% don’t ever feel the need to during sex) and this analogy is absolutely perfect. I can’t wait to share this with people.

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In the figure below , AB || CD , AE bisects /_BAC , and CE bisects ACD . If the measure of /_BAC is 82 degrees , what is the measure of AEC?

A)86 B)88 C)90 D)92 E) Not enough information . I,d like to know step by step on how to answer this and also what type of question this is , I d like to study it more . Thank you !

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    Since you did not provide the figure, I made a sketch from which the following:

    Because AB || CD, ACD = 180 - 82 = 98

    CAE = 41; ACE = 49, so AEC = 90, answer C.

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    Can you post the figure? It is not showing on the question you posed.

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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 1 month ago

Which one is grammatically correct, “you had been to a lot of places” or “you have been to a lot of places”?

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  • RP
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    Either could be, depending upon context.

  • 1 month ago

    As far as I know they are both correct. Which one should you pick is going to depend on the time reference. As in

     - hey do you remember the day when you fell asleep in the middle of the shopping mall? Lol I guess you were just too tired because you had been to a lot of places that day!Or in:- are you telling me that you've travelled all across Canada? Damn you probably have been to a lot of places!In the first sentence the event (sleeping in the mall) happened before some other event (been to many places) whereas in the second it is different.

  • Anonymous
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    Both are. The former properly employs the pluperfect tense and the latter the present perfect tense. Which one you would use would depend on context and what you're meaning to convey.

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Opening on December 9, Anton Kern Gallery will present an exhibition by Dutch artist Lara Schnitger. This will be the artist’s second solo show in New York.

Widely known in Europe and an established member of the Dutch art scene, Lara Schnitger has been included in exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Bonnefanten Museum in Holland. Both museums have recently acquired major sculptures. She has also had a solo show at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery in New York and is currently living and working in Japan. Schnitger’s work explores the formal and dynamic qualities of the sculptural environment. Using fabric, foam, wood and plastic, her sculptures stand by the sheer tension of an irrational network of elements. The atmosphere of the installations is like that of an abstract and artificial garden, whose flimsy structures delineate monumental shapes that are strangely natural. In different degrees of abstraction, the artist plays with themes of fashion, privacy and sexuality, experimenting with form and texture in sculpture, video and collage. Schnitger’s all-embracing installation sculptures are suspended in a delicate balancing act that operate from a small center and explode profusely into space.

Concurrent with this exhibition, Schnitger will also construct an installation at Uscha Pohl’s Up & Co. and contribute to a special issue of the magazine Very.

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Issue 82: Most common GraphQL vulnerabilities, pentesting with Insomnia

This week, we check out GraphQL security, penetration testing with Insomnia and Burp, cheat sheets for OAuth2 and JWT, and what consequences the growth of API economy is posing for cyber security.

Opinion: The 5 most common vulnerabilities in GraphQL

Although the adoption of GraphQL is still fairly limited, it is undeniably on the rise. GraphQL is different from the traditional REST APIs: it is effectively a data query and manipulation language for APIs. When not done right, GraphQL APIs can vastly expand the surface area for data attacks and lead to excessive data exposure.

Carve Systems have published a blog post that summarizes the security issues that they see in GraphQL implementations. According to them, the most common GraphQL security vulnerabilities:

  1. Inconsistent authorization checks
  2. REST proxies allow attacks on underlying APIs
  3. Missing validation of custom scalars
  4. No appropriate rate limiting
  5. Introspection reveals non-public information

They have also provided a link to the sample API they used for the blog post for a more hands-on experience. If you work with or are interested in GraphiQL, definitely worth  checking out.

Cheat sheets: OAuth 2.0 and JWT security

Every now and then, Philippe De Ryck releases great cheat sheets on cybersecurity. His two latest are highly relevant to API security:

  • OAuth 2.0 best practices for developers
  • JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

Grab them at his site here, and keep him on your radar for further handy resources.

Tools: REST API pentesting with Insomnia and Burp

Mic Whitehorn-Gillam posted an article on how to use Insomnia and Burp together for REST API penetration testing. He covers, for example:

  • Getting and installing Insomnia
  • Using Insomnia to post REST requests
  • Proxying Insomnia through Burp
  • Chaining requests

This  is a sequel to his series on Postman and Burp that we covered in our issue 34.

Analysts: Alexei Balanagski (KuppingerCole)

The latest KuppingerCole podcast episode features Alexei Balaganski explaining the cyber security consequences of API proliferation, and what needs to be done about it.

His topics include things like:

  • Proliferation of APIs
  • Examples of breaches
  • Why API security is different from web security and API management, and thus needs specialized solutions
  • How API security needs to span everything from design, development, testing, runtime protection, and monitoring

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Funnier than the 1st one – Pyar Ka Punchnama 2

After the first version of ‘Pyaar ka Punchnama’ did wonders at the box office, director Love Ranjan is ready with another laugh riot ‘Pyaar ka Punchnama 2’.The film will be another hilarious tale of three lovestruck boys .After the buzz of the teaser , the trailer is finally out and it definitely sense the pain that the three leading boys go through after falling in love with three impeccably beautiful girls. Kartik Tiwari and Nushrat Bharucha take the tale of their love forward in the sequel. The famous two-minute long dialogue of Kartik describing what a girl wants, which went viral on all social networking sites, will be revived by the actor in this one again.But it’s for sure you will miss in the trailer is “Liquid” (Divyendu Sharma), nonetheless, the new boys are no less hilarious and promising.

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Injury and illness reports for firefighters.

(1) Notice of injury or illness.
(a) Employees must report work-related injuries or illnesses to their employer before the end of their duty period, but not later than twenty-four hours after the incident.
(b) Exception: In the event that symptoms of an occupational injury or illness are not apparent at the time of the incident, the employee must report the symptoms to their employer within forty-eight hours after becoming aware of the injury or illness.
(c) Within eight hours after the fatality or probable fatality of any firefighter or employee from a work-related incident or the inpatient hospitalization of any employee as a result of a work-related incident, the employer of any employees so affected, must orally report the fatality/hospitalization by telephone ( 1-800-423-7233) or in person, to the nearest office of the department.
(i) This requirement applies to each such fatality or hospitalization which occurs within thirty days of the incident.
(ii) Exception: If any employer does not learn of a reportable incident at the time it occurs and the incident would otherwise be reportable under this subsection, the employer must make a report within eight hours of the time the incident is reported to any agent or employee of the employer.
(iii) Each report required by this subsection must relate the following information: Establishment name, location of the incident, time of the incident, number of fatalities or hospitalized employees, contact person, phone number, and a brief description of the incident.
(2) Recordkeeping - Written reports; all fire service employers must maintain records of occupational injuries and illnesses. Reportable cases include every occupational death, every occupational illness, or each injury that involves one of the following: Unconsciousness, inability to perform all phases of regular duty-related assignment, inability to work full time on duty, temporary assignment, or medical treatment beyond first aid.
(3) All fire departments must record occupational injuries and illnesses on OSHA Form 300, Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses.
(4) Each employer must post an annual summary of occupational injuries and illnesses for each establishment. This summary must consist of a copy of the year's totals from OSHA Form 300A, Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses and the following information from that form: Calendar year covered, company name, establishment name, establishment address, certification signature, title, and date. An OSHA Form 300A must be used in presenting the summary. If no injuries or illnesses occurred in the year, zeros must be entered on the totals line, and the form must be posted. The summary must be completed by February 1 each calendar year. The summary covering the previous calendar year must be posted no later than February 1st, and must remain in place until April 30th.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. WSR 18-22-116, § 296-305-01501, filed 11/6/18, effective 12/7/18. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060 and 29 C.F.R. 1910.156, Fire brigades. WSR 13-05-070, § 296-305-01501, filed 2/19/13, effective 1/1/14. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060. WSR 08-05-012, § 296-305-01501, filed 2/8/08, effective 4/1/08. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, [49.17].050 and [49.17].060. WSR 96-11-067, § 296-305-01501, filed 5/10/96, effective 1/1/97.]
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Manipur Signs MoU For Promotion Of Medicinal Plants

The Manipur State Medicinal Plant Board which has been actively working for the promotion of the Medicinal Plants sector in the State took a firm step forward last week when it signed a comprehensive MoU with a private company for collaboration in the AYUSH systems of healthcare. Source: Twitter


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Dan Barrett and his Extra-Celestials with Special Guest Rebecca Kilgore:

Dan Barrett and his Extra-Celestials with Special Guest Rebecca Kilgore:

Arbors Records

ARCD: 19158

Regular price $10.00 Sale

Dan Barrett: Leader, arrangements, trombone, cornet, vocal
Rebecca Kilgore: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Bryan Shaw: Trumpet, cornet
Dave Frishberg: Piano, celeste
Scott Robinson: Clarinet, tenor sax, bass sax, alto sax
Brian Ogilvie: Clarinet, Tenor Sax
Chuck Wilson: Alto Sax, flute
Bucky Pizzarelli: Guitar
Joel Forbes: Bass
Jeff Hamilton: Drums

"Dan Barrett has once more put together a swing session which is neither buried in the past nor draped over today«s trendy jazz clichs. Rather, it just glows in the light of a timeless and inspired musicianship....Rebecca Kilgore has gradually refined her vocal gifts and stands now, I believe, as a leading interpreter of America«s classic popular songs. Her easy, musicianly way of bringing forth each tune«s best qualities is very special, carefully nurtured artistry.? Ò Dick Hadlock, author of Jazz Masters of the Twenties and host of The Annals of Jazz, on KCSM-FM San Mateo, California.
Here is what the critics have to say:
Selected as a 1998 Critics Picks in the March, 1999 issue of JazzTimes by Nancy Ann Lee. Selected as one of Meilleurs Disques Chroniques en 1999 by Le Hot Club de France Federation and selected as a 1999 Critics« Choice in the February, 2000 issue of Jazz Journal International by Floyd Levin, Martin Richards and Hugh Rainey

Moon Song
Scratch My Back
With a Smile and a Song
Miss Brown to You
Time on My Hands
With ÷Em
Mound Bayou
I«ll Never Say "Never Again? Again
I Surrender, Dear
My Gal Sal
Got a Date With an Angel
Mama, That Moon is Here Again


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01. Tenderness
02. It's Not Too Late
03. Wasted Heart
04. Falling Down
05. Last September
06. Chip Away
07. Cold Outside
08. Feel
09. Breaking Rocks
10. Parkland
11. Don't Look Behind You

RATING: 8/10

The immediate mental image most of us draw of Duff McKagan traces back 30 years. The 20-something was draped with a hairspray-stiff mane. A cigarette regularly dangled from his lips. He was — and once again is — a key member of dirty hard rock/heavy metal icons GUNS N' ROSES. He looked the part. He acted the part.

Fast forward to 2019, McKagan's once outlandish look has been replaced with one that's mature, much like his third solo album and latest creative effort: "Tenderness". The release was inspired by McKagan's experiences while touring across the world on GUNS N' ROSES' "Not in This Lifetime" tour. "Tenderness" is also regarded as the musical continuation of McKagan's 2015 autobiography, "How to Be a Man", which highlights the drastic changes in his life and pursuit of being a better man. The days of unhinged debauchery are long gone. McKagan has become a husband and father, a financial planner, and he has embraced sobriety and healthy living.

With "Tenderness", McKagan addresses serious social matters including the opioid crisis, sexual assault and the #MeToo movement, school shootings and homelessness. He also candidly addresses his own struggles and self-perceived missteps. The contribution of collaborator Shooter Jennings, whose father Waylon Jennings is one of the greatest names in country music history, simply can't be overstated. Shooter and an assembly of his own backing musicians provide the backdrop for McKagan's earnest socio-political commentary. The mood of the songs and lyrics go hand in hand. The music is mellow and adorned with likable, brooding lap-steel guitar lines, soothing fiddle work and gospel choir backups.

"Tenderness" is a convincing display of free-form country rock. On the title track, a swelling of liturgical organ elevates McKagan's soothing vocals that sometimes sound similar to that of the late great David Bowie. His pain is heartfelt and evident on "Parkland", a song that also references Charleston and the Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook shootings. The track's slide guitars and sedative organ lines prove to be equally integral toward the composition. The proceedings are generally dreamlike, but "Chip Away" breaks from that norm as the most up-beat and quickly rolling song, surging with seventies era glam nestled within the act's country rock framework.

"Tenderness" is an emotional retrospective for McKagan, an expression that draws the line between where he was and how he's since grown as a person. Viewed through the prism of his current self, he examines the world around him with sadness. Yet there's a certain sense of hope that isn't extinguished. He may not have the answer to the world's woes, but the manner in which he creatively expresses this sounds so good and soothing.

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VOIVOD To Begin Pre-Production For New CD In September

VOIVOD are continuing to demo material for their much-anticipated reunion album with vocalist Snake (a.k.a. Denis Belanger), which is tentatively due in early 2003, presumably through Century Media Records.

"Our goal is to have 25 [songs] done by the end of August," drummer Away (a.k.a. Michel Langevin) stated via the band's official web site. "We will pick 10 among them. Pre-production will start in San Francisco in September.

"It probably feels like we disappeared for quite a while," Away continued. "Well... we did! We worked much harder than usual to make sure that our new project would match all expectations.

"We received many touring offers, including a reunion show with [former bassist] Blacky! However, except for a couple of weekends with DIO and MOTÖRHEAD, we kept absorbed in our creative process and everything else didn't really matter."

Meanwhile, former bassist Blacky (a.k.a. Jean-Yves Thériault) himself commented on the possibility of a reunion show with VOIVOD via a posting on the fan site www.voivodfan.com.

"I have always kept in contact with Maurice Richard over the years (VOIVOD's first and only real manager)," Blacky stated. "He had the idea for a reunion for years, he was just waiting for the right time which finally came up a few weeks ago. He wanted to produce a VOIVOD reunion to mark the 20th anniversary of metal made in Quebec, which basically started with VOIVOD in 1982.

"He asked me (and also the current line-up of VOIVOD) and I replied to him within the hour saying YES of course, because this would be the right time for this project, as far as I'm concerned. To tell the truth here, how could I not want the opportunity to play with Piggy again? Maurice waited but never received any reply after two successive offer to the band. Finally one day I had a meeting with him and Johnny Hart (he is the one that managed AGGRESSION, built and managed the Iron Gang fan club for a long period, 1984-1988 and is making a comeback in the scene. He will release an unreleased album of AGGRESSION, very soon, check their web page). We talk about many things and also about this reunion project, at the end of the meeting I pointed out to Maurice that perhaps he should call Piggy directly instead of wasting his time with the current leadership. That's what he did. At that time Piggy told him that he knew about the offer but couldn't accept yet cause the scheduled date for the show could conflict with them being in California for the recording of the new album, and that they wouldn't know for sure before the 3rd of August. He also mentioned that it might be hard to sell it to one of the original members. (surprise!)

"Then this news today, you guys got the answer that Maurice was looking for, a direct answer, yes or no, and the no side won. So be it, I may have strong words here, but my guess is there is probably no fat chance of a future VOIVOD reunion of the first line-up. "

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Monday, May 19

10:00 AM-12:00 PM Ballroom III - Level B

Pattern Formation and Singular Perturbations

Many physical systems exhibit dynamics on multiple time scales and/or multiple length scales. Examples arise in nonlinear fiber optics, multi-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems, chemical reactions, fluid dynamics, and neurophysiology. In this minisymposium, the speakers will address important current nonlinear dynamics questions in problems from several of these areas. For systems modeled by reaction diffusion equations, spatial patterns evolving in complex time-dependent ways will be discussed. In addition, a number of speakers will focus on the mathematical theory and applications of the existence and stability of time asymptotic stationary patterns. These states include traveling waves, their concatenations, and spatially periodic states. In those systems modeled by Hamilton's equations, speakers will focus on the existence and stability of a diverse array of multiple pulse orbits and where they arise in applications. Mathematically, the methods used in these studies range from variational techniques and matched asymptotic expansions to analytical and geometrical methods in stability theory and singular perturbation theory. Theoretical tools from complex dynamics and electromagnetism theory also play significant roles.

Organizers: Arjen Doelman, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Tasso Kaper, Boston University; and Todd Kapitula, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

10:00 Singular Limits of Phase Equations for Patterns Far from Threshold
Nicholas M. Ercolani and Robert Indik, University of Arizona; Alan Newell, University of Warwick, England; and Thierry Passot, Observatoire de Nice, France
10:30 Self-Replicating Spots
John Pearson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:00 Stability Analysis of Pulse Solutions of the Gray-Scott Model
Robert Gardner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
11:30 Oscillatory Instabilities of Labyrinthine Fronts
David Muraki, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

DS97 Homepage | Program Updates|
Registration | Hotel Information | Transportation | Program-at-a-Glance | Program Overview

TMP, 4/3/97


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Origin: Netherlands
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: GUI
Architecture: x86
Based on: Independent
Media: Live
The last version | Released: 0.7 | April 3, 2002

V2_OS – an open source operating system, created by V2_Lab, International Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Since V2_Lab released the source code to the kernel and modules, a lot of developers from all over the world are working with it, and help to make V2_OS grow.

V2_OS is the fastest operating system available for the 386+ PC. Everything in this system is focused on speed: the architecture, the file system, its avoidance of virtualization and of course, the choice of development language: V2_OS is written in 100% pure 32 bit assembler.

When you boot V2_OS from a floppy, it does not touch your harddisks. Only if you run the Format or the Syscopy command, you ask V2_OS to copy itself to the harddisks. Only do this when you know what your doing. Even then we suggest you test this on an empty harddisk or with a disk without any important data.

The native filesystem of V2_OS is V2_FS. It is a very fast filesystem since it does not suffer from things like defragmentation or slack.

To make a V2_OS boot floppy from DOS, you need: boot.v2s; system16.v2s; system32.v2s and writeos.exe. Just put these files in a directory; place a emtpy 1.44meg floppy in a: and run writeos.exe.

The project been under development beetwen 1999 and 2002.
V2_OS has been created by Joost Faassen and was maintained by himself and other contributors.

V2_OS i386 856KB.iso
md5sum: 146da6411f30155942bc39e853dd87be
V2_OS i386 6.5KB.img
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V2_OS i386 288KB.zip
md5sum: 1b6071658e297c7ca92a1a9c862467a5

Web site: www.morphix.org
Origin: Netherlands
Category: Desktop, Web kiosk
Desktop environment: KDE, IceWM
Architecture: x86
Based on: Knoppix
Wikipedia (de): Morphix
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 0.5-pre6 | September 2007

Morphix – a live Linux distribution based on Knoppix.
Morphix is a modular distribution so it means that it consists of a number of parts which together form a working distribution.

Morphix flavours:

Morphix LightGUI – Aimed at lower-end PCs, LightGUI features the XFCE4 desktop and contains a reasonable amount of lighter tools. It was the initial version of Morphix, and the aim has been to keep LightGUI small enough to have it fit on 210MB CDR(W). LightGUI includes Abiword, Gnumeric, Dillo, Firefox, Gaim, Xchat, GIMP.

Morphix Gnome – (formerly: Morphix HeavyGUI) was for some time the only conterpart of LightGUI. Including Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, and the kitchen sink, Morphix Gnome was aimed at office users with more recent machines.

Morphix KDE – it contains the whole KDE suite of programs, as well as Mozilla and other applications. Morphix KDE sits inbetween LightGUI and Gnome when it comes to size, and fills up approximately 400MB of space on your CD-ROM.

Morphix Game – An odd-ball in Morphix, this flavour contains the very light IceWM and a very large number of Open Source games: BZflag, Frozen Bubble, Freecraft, and many, many others, as well as it includes one or more demo versions or free full versions of commercial Linux games.

Morphing-Morphix – it provides the quick way to start Morphing and making your own LiveCD. Just boot the CD and start Morphing, no need to install tools, compile applications or switch operating systems. All is required is some space on a connected hard drive.

All the official Morphix live CDs contain the Morphix installer, as stated above. This tool allows users to easily install their Morphix (or derivative) live CD onto a hard disk.

Morphix was under development by Alex de Landgraaf between 2003 and 2007.

There are many derivates created on the top of Morphix, such as: Dreamlinux, Elive, GNUstep Live-CD, Clusterix, Freeduc-Sup, GNIX, Sork, NepaLinux, TOBIX, ZoneCD, etc.

Morphix 0.5pre5_rc2 IceWM i386 244MB.iso
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Morphix Live Kiosk 2007-11-19–23-00 i386 220MB.iso
md5sum: 950b574c788dbe8407748d9bcf0ece03
Morphing Morphix 0.3.1 i386 212MB.iso
md5sum: 43f817f83475b2a440bd2d0e4655cb1d
Morphix Base 0.5pre6 i386 36MB.iso
md5sum: 668d412ce56efb10ca5a04d2e4331ce6


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Item is-glen-1097 - Poster on mailbox supporting First Nations demonstration, Calgary, Alberta.

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Poster on mailbox supporting First Nations demonstration, Calgary, Alberta.

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CA GLEN glen-443-is-glen-1097

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  • September 1974 (Creation)
    Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta

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Published in the Calgary Herald, September 27, 1974. Demonstration to be held on September 30 on Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Annotated: "Support our struggle to regain our land and hereditary rights.

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video games are hazardous to your health; ebola is not

We’re back!  After an unexplained 17 week absence.  We got a little turned around lately.  But we’re here again and ready to go.  Did you miss us?  No?  Oh.  We, ah, we thought folks missed us.  [cricket; cricket; cricket]

But you have to understand that even for the most jaded degenerate blog author, life has to take priority and can get out of hand.  We finally got divorced (there is a God) and I lost one of my dog buddies.  He will be missed, and is currently barking in Valhalla where he belongs.  Eh, it’s been a long few weeks.

So we’re here to write about what important topic to all humanity today?

– The World Cup (aka Uncle Vlad’s Guide to Effective Bribery of International Organizations 101)?

– The fact that immigration policies, procedures, and methods employed during the Obama administration are suddenly beyond the pale?

– The creation of Space Force (aka that thing that will never actually happen)?

– Chronic forthcoming global instability created by manic squirrels?

We’re here instead to briefly rant about the World Health Organization’s decision to state that playing video games is a classifiable addiction disorder.  Long term readers of this blog will be aware of two key facts:

1) I play a lot of video games.

2) I have a very low opinion of the WHO.

Granted, the WHO’s response to the recent ebola outbreak in Congo has been pretty good.  It seems they learned their lessons from the outbreak in West Africa a few years ago.  What could easily have turned into an even bigger nightmare if ebola had made its way down the river to Kinshasa (aka one of the biggest cities on Earth) seems to have been stopped in its tracks.  Good on them.

But then every once and a while the WHO reminds people how much money they burn on stupidity that could be spent vaccinating people against [insert anything here].  Hell, if video games are now an addictive disorder (as in the same category as nicotine) then we might as well classify drinking water as addictive.

Ever hear the term ‘everything in moderation’?  This is a pretty good term to live by.  Just about anything can be bad if you go at it too often.  You can even drink so much water that it kills you.  And your body is made up mostly of water.  But does that mean something is so powerful it can literally alter your body?

For example, I’m pretty sure if you play video games for a year your physical brain chemistry isn’t going to change.  If however, you decide to smoke crack for a year, I’m pretty sure you come out the back end of that year an entirely different person.

If you still don’t get where I’m going with this, just go ahead and put a crack addict and stand them next to even the most extreme South Korean player of StarCraft II.  I’m pretty sure you’ll see what I’m getting it.

Focus on ebola WHO, stop wasting my time.

“Hey there kiddies.  Wanna get high?”

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Why Does Diabetes Lead to Amputation

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, then there is a greater chance that you will someday require an amputation, especially in your lower limb. Yes, this is a frightening thought. Nevertheless, medical experts believe being well-informed on the risks involved with diabetes enables patients to take preventive steps as early as possible.

Risk of Amputation for Those With Diabetes

It has been said that about 60 percent of lower limb amputations, that were not due to trauma, in ages 20 years old and beyond, occur in people who are suffering from diabetes. Furthermore, in the year 2010, about 73,000 of those with non traumatic lower limb amputations are adults who have diabetes. Thus, there is always a risk of amputation for those with diabetes, regardless of which type of diabetes you have.

In recent years, there are lesser cases of amputations on the lower and upper limbs, however, there is an increase in amputations of toes or part of toes, according to a research published by the Foot and Ankle International.


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Date(s) - 04/09/2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Reinsch Library Auditorium, Marymount University

Local author and historian, George Axiotis will discuss the true story behind his new book. This is the true story of an eager Deputy Sherriff who went to do the right thing but got himself into the largest shootout in Alexandria County history. Armed with tenuous laws and the tacit backing of newly elected Sheriff Palmer, on a cold night in February 1896, Deputy Sheriff Edward Deuterman formed a posse with a friend and eight local black men to raid a gambling saloon run by the all too well-known John C. Nelson. What was supposed to be a quick raid, instead ended in a hail of gunfire. Deuterman and his friend would come to near death from their wounds, one in his posse would be killed and four others wounded. The raid became the catalyst for a long and drawn out war against vice in Alexandria County which took nearly a dozen years to win.

This program is free and open to the public. It will take place in the Reinsch Library auditorium on the Main Campus of Marymount University. This event is part of a monthly series of public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and Marymount University’s Department of History and Politics. For more information, please email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org or visit the AHS website: https://arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org/events

DRIVING DIRECTIONS and FREE PARKING: Attendees should enter the Marymount University campus at the library gate on N. 26th Street. From Glebe Road going north, take a right onto 26th Street. Pass the intersection with Yorktown Road and then enter the campus through the next gate on your left. The library is to your left as you enter the campus. Free garage parking is just past the library at the bottom of the small incline. (Handicapped parking is immediately to your right as you enter the campus.)


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On April 6th, Corey Helford Gallery will be presenting new works from Josie Morway including ten substantial pieces (ranging from 16″ x 20″ to 36″ x 48″). Entitled The Remediators, the Boston-based artist’s new surreal wildlife paintings were inspired the idea of bioremediation – in which plants, animals or microorganisms break down contamination in soil or water.

Morway further states – “I have a deep love for wildlife and an acute terror about the increasing imbalances in our ecosystems and the cavalier destruction caused by human industry. I’m always seeking to address these concerns in my work, and I’ve started including more explicit references to threats in my compositions, but I find I’m constitutionally unable to portray my animals in a state of despair or diminishment. Instead, I feel compelled to give my subjects the gift of a sort of supernatural resiliency. I think of these paintings as somewhat talismanic, and the stranger elements are also my attempt to arrest the viewer, my plea for attention, reflection, respect. The creatures here have almost magical powers of transformation and protection, though what exactly they’re transforming into is unclear. Nature is changing, for sure, and we should never be complacent about what that change may mean.”

Discuss Josie Morway here.


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Tech —

RIAA to Jobs: Thanks for the offer to license FairPlay

After Steve Jobs issued a letter explaining why Apple was not about to license …

Steve Jobs' recent letter about DRM has caused quite a stir, although people are still reading the tea leaves to determine exactly what Jobs thinks and why he's thinking it now. The RIAA's own tea leaf reader came away from the document with a bizarre interpretation: Apple wants to license FairPlay.

If you've read the letter, you'll remember that what Jobs actually did was explain why Apple was not going to license its DRM for use on other players due to alleged concerns about security. But in a response sent to the L.A. Times, the RIAA applauded Apple for saying exactly the opposite.

"Apple’s offer to license Fairplay to other technology companies is a welcome breakthrough and would be a real victory for fans, artists and labels," said the trade group in a statement. "There have been many services seeking a license to the Apple DRM. This would enable the interoperability that we have been urging for a very long time."

Whatever you think about the RIAA, its employees can certainly read; we're almost positive about that. So what we have here is probably just a bit of Jobs-baiting, but the sentiment seems sincere enough. As we argued when first discussing the Jobs letter, the music labels have started to consider removing DRM, but they would much prefer to keep DRM so long as it works flawlessly on multiple players and provides a better consumer experience.

If the labels were serious about interoperability, they could have it right now—just remove the DRM altogether. As Jobs pointed out, the labels are selling the vast majority of their music on uncompressed, unencrypted CDs, anyway. This wouldn't help subscription services, which depend on DRM and probably will forever, but it would instantly allow other stores from Sony, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and more to compete with iTunes, which could weaken Apple's chokehold on the labels. Plus, the labels would sell more tracks; most people around the Orbiting HQ won't buy from iTunes because of the DRM restrictions, and companies like eMusic have shown that money can be made selling open files.

The Economist, in a new editorial on the subject, calls the letter "transparently self-serving," but says that "it also happens to be right." If Jobs plays any part in making most DRM go away, then he certainly earns the right to say, "Boom!"

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Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, helped create a revolutionary computer software company, and earlier this month collected an honorary degree from Harvard University. But he may not understand the vital role wealth creation plays in society.

In collecting his degree, Mr. Gates delivered a commencement address that focused not on the information age, the rise of personal computers or the relentless efficiency his software has brought to nearly every industry. Instead, he focused on his own personal philanthropy. His implicit theme was that so far what he has accomplished may have been good for him and Microsoft shareholders, but it has been no great contribution to society. He suggested that with a personal fortune of about $90 billion (including what he has transferred to his foundation) it is time for him to give something back.

I find this perspective hard to understand. By any reasonable calculation Microsoft has been a boon for society and the value of its software greatly exceeds the likely value of Mr. Gates’s philanthropic efforts.

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Ironically, Mr. Gates’s inspiration to "give back" apparently comes from the world’s second richest person, Warren Buffett, who recently promised to donate much of his fortune to the Gates Foundation.

I say ironic because one can make a much better philosophical case for a give-back of Mr. Buffett’s $52 billion than for Mr. Gates’s $90 billion. Mr. Buffett’s money came mostly from being a good stock picker. Whether his fortune is the product of luck or skill, the social benefits are hard to pin down. These benefits have to derive from improving company management practices or investment decisions.

Of course, Mr. Gates is free to do what he wishes with his $90 billion. But I think he is kidding himself if he believes that the efforts of the Gates Foundation are likely to provide society anything like the past and future accomplishments of Microsoft.

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ROBERT BARRO.  "COMMENTARY; Bill Gates’s Charitable Vistas." The Wall Street Journal  (Tues., June 19, 2007):  A17.

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  1. I never have understood this “give back” notion that successful folks sometimes affect. Perhaps they have difficulty reconciling the quasi-Marxist notions inculcated by modern society with the natural results of their genius and hard work.

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Thanks to yourlibrarian for the idea/suggestion. She mentioned in a meta that "someone should vid all the boys' aliases to the song "Who Are You". Well, as I like to put things into neat little boxes (call it anal if you will!) I decided to give this a go.

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Not much here really. I tried to get them all - though I know there are a couple I missed, purely because they were so difficult to fit in to the themes I was working with. Oh and sound editing is not one of my favourite things to do. Especially when the original sound levels vary so wildly. But I did my best. :)

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I would really love to have the time to make more vids for other fandoms. Perhaps when my obsession with SPN fades (and why hasn't that happened yet?!?) I might be drawn to all the other wonderful shows that would be SO viddable (Hannibal, Orphan Black, The Musketeers, Game of Thrones to name a few).

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The cruel truth about being an entrepreneur is that you have to get real comfortable with change. Everything changes, and while you may be inclined to fight it, the truth is that you will always lose.

I’m not a huge fan of change. I’m a Taurus afterall, well known for our stubbornness, for our dislike of new things, especially once we already have a favourite and our love of routine is pretty much legendary, yet life is all about change.

It’s all about stepping into the unknown daily and entrepreneurship is no different. As much I am intrinsically loathe to the idea of changing some habits, routines etc, I’m also influenced by Aries’ capriciousness, and so will change things once I’ve made up in my mind that I will.

In this way, I’m an enigma and pretty much a wild card, making me very, very human.

In order to grow, we must allow change, if for no other reason than to preserve our sanity. When I started out as an entrepreneur, I believed with everything in me that I had to get it right the first time.

My website had to be right, the content right and I could not change things too much, lest my readers and clients get confused.

Sounds perfectly reasonable, yet the reality was anything but.

I’ve changed my mind about every single thing about my business after I launched it. The focus has changed, but I like the word ‘evolved’ more because with each lesson and experience I underwent on this journey, the clearer I saw my dream and was better able to follow it.

That meant I had to change things and believe me, even though I knew change is inevitable, even as I knew it would be for the best and life would be easier, I still resisted, I still agonized and I still had to convince myself of all the things I already knew.

Turns out, the more you put skin into the game, the more you learn about yourself and your true wants. These I learnt are good things; being able to be honest with yourself, means being honest with those who come to you. It means being honest about your intentions, motives, actions and desires and make the path towards them shine with clarity.

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China's leader in voice recognition chases Google and Microsoft

State-backed iFlytek faces scrutiny globally on its close government connections

SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writer | China

HEFEI, China -- At this month's CES extravaganza in Las Vegas, Chinese artificial intelligence company iFlytek for the first time had its own booth at the annual consumer electronics show, where curious crowds checked out its AI translation systems and other technology.

The purpose was clear.

"The time has come for artificial intelligence technology to be used in real life," Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFlytek, said on Jan. 9 as he unveiled its partnership with U.S. technology company Nvidia. "Given that we have received tie-up proposals from more than 100 companies in the world, the time is ripe for us to look beyond our borders."

IFlytek is China's leading voice recognition tech company, dominating that segment with a more than 70% market share. Still, less than 1% of its sales come from overseas. Now, the company is seeking to change that.

The iFlytek booth at this month's CES in Las Vegas (Photo by Kim Jaewon)

In recent years, iFlytek has begun making inroads into overseas markets, opening an office in Silicon Valley, seeking partnerships with foreign automakers and collaborating with major global tech conglomerates.

IFlytek began attracting attention outside China last summer after it ranked sixth in the "50 Smartest Companies 2017" list from MIT Technology Review, a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The company's ranking was higher than that of China's top three internet companies, Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, whose market capitalizations -- at  $88 billion, $506 billion and $556 billion, respectively -- dwarf that of iFlytek's market cap of $13 billion.

However, iFlytek's growth is not inferior to its bigger peers. The value of iFlytek more than doubled last year, when the benchmark Shenzhen Composite Index dropped 3.5%.

The market still seems to be bullish on its outlook. Eric Qiu and Ronnie Ho, analysts at CCB International, said the company "has headroom for growth as it has carved out a niche in a burgeoning new area of technology that has applicability in a vast array of industries," in a research note that maintained an "outperform" rating with a target price of 66 yuan, 9% higher than the closing price on Thursday.

The appetite for iFlytek among global investors is reflected in the buying spree through the stock-connect program between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, where the company's shares are listed. Hong Kong Securities Clearing is the fifth-largest shareholder, with a 1.32% ownership as of last September, but the latest update by the Hong Kong exchange indicates that the figure is up to 1.5% as of Thursday.

The ambitions of iFlytek, which was founded in 1999, are evident at the company's headquarters in Hefei, Anhui Province.

The lobby displays a sign calling for the development of China's high-tech industry, introduced at the government's "863 Program" in March 1986 and championed by then-leader Deng Xiaoping, who led the country's economic reforms.

"Develop high-technology and realize industrialization," the sign proudly proclaims, a slogan that was originally written with a calligraphy brush by Deng himself.

On the building's second floor, photographs show iFlytek's top executives with current government leaders, including President Xi Jinping and Vice Premier Wang Yang.

Employees at iFlytek's regional headquarters in Guangzhou. The company has a market share of more than 70% in China in the voice recognition sector.   © Getty Images

The University of Science and Technology of China, founded by the Chinese government in 1958, later became the cradle of iFlytek. The company was founded in 1999 by 18 graduate students and alumni of the university, led by Liu, who was driven by a desire to catch up with, and eventually challenge, U.S. tech powerhouses like IBM and Microsoft.

It was Liu, then a graduate student developing an expertise in voice recognition, who consulted his mentor Professor Wang Renhua to work on his Ph.D. while starting the company.

Wang fully backed Liu, and the professor today is considered to be the "father of iFlytek." Wang also remains the company's fourth-largest shareholder as of September.

Shortly after that, the company was eligible to receive government support under the "863 Program," including 1.5 million yuan ($237,000 at the current exchange rate) of research and development funding, and a boost to its credibility that opened up new business relations with government agencies and corporations.

A prominent example is a deal, struck in 2000, with telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies. IFlytek developed a system for call-center operators, jointly proposed to clients with Huawei.

By 2001, the number of corporate clients using iFlytek's voice recognition technology exceeded 100 and it started receiving funds from Lenovo Group's investment unit. IFlytek also has launched a series of joint development projects with universities and research institutes and continued expanding its business.

Guo Moruo, a prominent scholar-cum-politician and the first president of the Chinese Academy of Science, proposed to Deng -- who was heading the Communist Party central committee secretariat -- that the country needed to develop experts in science and technology, including nurturing talent for developing weapons like nuclear bombs and satellites.

The university was established in Beijing in 1958 but was moved out of the capital during the Cultural Revolution, when education, science and intellectual value as a whole were under attack. It eventually found a home in Hefei, an inland city in eastern China.

The university boasts having a number of graduates that have gone on to become scientists or founders of technology companies. Zhang Yaqin, its most prominent graduate, entered the university at age 12, earning bachelor's and master's degrees. (He completed his Ph.D. at George Washington University at 23.) Zhang served as the chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group and now is president of Baidu. Lenovo Group CEO Yang Yuanqing also studied at USTC's graduate school.

Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFlytek, attends CCTV's China Economic Person of the Year Award, in December 2013 in Beijing.   © Getty Images

The roughly 3,000 employees at iFlytek's headquarters are a generally youthful group, with an average age of 27, and 60% are engineers who majored in cutting-edge technologies at USTC or other science-focused universities.

The company also has won numerous recognitions. At the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation in the U.S. in 2014, iFlytek took first place in English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation technology, beating top-level universities and research institutions, including MIT and Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. It also ranked No. 1 in a machine translation contest hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. in 2015.

Most voice recognition services by iFlytek are provided through the internet, and these systems understand text by using AI and big data analysis.

In addition to so-called Standard Chinese, or Mandarin, voice recognition services are now available in regional dialects, including Cantonese and Shanghainese, and the company says it has achieved an accuracy level of more than 95%. The number of smartphone and other devices featuring iFlytek's voice recognition technology has exceeded 1.2 billion.

IFlytek's client list is a virtual line-up of prominent Chinese companies. In addition to internet conglomerates Tencent, Alibaba and, its telecom customers include China Mobile -- the largest shareholder in iFlytek with a 12.9% stake as of September -- China Unicom and China Telecom, which use iFlytek's technology in their call-center operations.

Other clients include smartphone makers Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo and ZTE; consumer-electronics makers Haier, TCL, Hisense and Skyworth; insurance companies People's Insurance Company of China and Ping An Insurance (Group); and banks, including Bank of China (BOC), Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Construction Bank (CCB) and Bank of Communications.

Especially important for artificial intelligence companies, of course, is data, which is crucial in helping them become competitive -- and iFlytek's long client list allows it to access enormous amounts of data. Its healthy collaborative relationships with the Chinese government and the Communist Party help it to further improve its technological strength.

In November, the Chinese government set up a special task force unit to promote its next generation AI development plan and delegated iFlytek to take the lead in the advancement of voice recognition technological applications. The company also set up an industry alliance with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to support AI-related startups.

According to Chinese media, iFlytek has been using AI in criminal investigations, indictments and trials by working with more than 400 courts and 200 prosecutor's offices around China. Artificial intelligence has been used in language analysis in Sichuan Province, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

That use of artificial intelligence -- and its potential abuse -- has led to warnings from rights and privacy activists.

Human Rights Watch raised concerns of iFlytek's possible involvement in human rights violations by the Chinese government. The U.S.-based organization points out that the authorities in China have teamed up with the company in developing a "pilot surveillance system that can automatically identify targeted voices in phone conversations."

In an open letter dated Aug. 2 and addressed to Chairman Liu of iFlytek, Arvind Ganesan, director of Human Rights Watch's business and human rights division, requested details of the company's "mass automated voice recognition and monitoring system," a pilot system to monitor phone conversations, its "business relationship" with the Ministry of Public Security and its human rights policies, among other things. In an October report, Human Rights Watch said iFlytek had not responded. Liu is a member of the National People's Congress, a rubber stamp legislature but one that carries certain prestige and influence in the country.

Speaking with the Nikkei Asian Review at the CES event, Hu Yu, iFlytek's executive president, acknowledged its work with the government.

"As a Chinese company, one of our customers is [the] Chinese government," Hu said, adding that the company "cannot decide" on how its technology is used. "Apple also sells its products to [the] U.S. military," he said.

"What we can do is to provide our technology," Hu said. "Our customers will decide how to do that. We have some relationship with them in national projects, but we are not in charge of that."

IFlytek's overseas businesses have long focused mainly on research and development, investing about 25% of sales in R&D. In 2016, it opened an office in Silicon Valley. It also started a joint study with the Georgia Institute of Technology, though the details are not fully disclosed.

Before joining hands with Nvidia, iFlytek had already been accelerating the development of its voice recognition technology in collaboration with IBM and Intel. Its voice recognition technology is now available in English, Japanese, Spanish, French and Korean.

In the auto industry, iFlytek has formed partnerships with German automakers Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen, as well as Toyota Motor of Japan, but these deals are primarily for car navigation systems for vehicles sold in China. It now is considering seeking tie-ups for systems in cars sold globally.

The company's presence in China is evident, but it is a different story outside the country. Google, Microsoft and Apple are the global leaders in voice recognition technology, while iFlytek's market share has yet to reach double digits.

Unlike at home, iFlytek is not able to receive any preferential support and treatment from foreign governments. In addition, many overseas clients remain cautious about Chinese companies.

At iFlytek's headquarters in Hefei, another sign is displayed prominently: "Let the world hear our voices."

That is another slogan placed at the building's entrance, in addition to Deng's. Whether those voices are heard abroad will be the real test of iFlytek's strength.

Nikkei staff writer Kim Jaewon in Las Vegas contributed to this story.

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