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60 Seconds over Sinoland- China tech giants promote AI in their rise to global dominance
by Patrice de Bergeracpas October 11, 2018
Pictured above: Huawei promoting its new P20 mobile phone that will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI). The huge flags of China are to celebrate National Day Week. Photo taken on my, er…hum… Huawei Nova 2, bought six months ago and already a relic of the past. All photos taken on 2018.9.28, at the Shenzhen Airport, on my way to a week of discovery in Hunan Province.
"60 Seconds over Sinoland" are direct reports, live from the streets of China. They put into perspective, with the West, China's social, cultural and political context. China truly is the "Greatest Show on Earth" and when you understand its past, present and future, the headlines you read finally start to make sense. For 5,000 years, Asia's enigmatic colossus has been and continues to drive world affairs, much more than Euranglolanders want to admit.
Time to get smart.
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Huawei's huge display at Shenzhen Airport, seen across a lower level mezzanine. Below is a conical laser focused on the huge fiber optic sculpture, which is very Alice in Wonderland, indeed. Oppo and Xiaomi also had big displays side-by-side, next to Huawei. Except for Alibaba and Baidu, the other big China tech firms had ads all over the place.
Huawei promoting AI on huge electronic billboards. The future is now in China.
Tencent, one of the big three China tech giants (along with Baidu and Alibaba), promoting cloud AI and retail sales. They are competitors, but they work together for added synergies (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/05/08/declaring-war-on-the-united-states-hitting-trump-ma-yuns-biggest-revenge-yet-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180508/).
ZTE does not have AI in this huge ad, but notice they are still using Qualcomm chips. What happened? The US supposedly stopped exports to ZTE (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/04/25/baba-beijing-is-going-to-shove-zte-way-up-uncle-sams-backside-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180425/).
Evidently, Qualcomm didn't get the message either!
Vivo makes great phones. Notice the "AI" on the left. Vivo is also an official sponsor of the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia and they are still using it in their ads, above the "NEX" (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2018/06/22/100000-chinese-going-to-the-world-cup-in-russia-with-no-team-to-cheer-for-china-rising-radio-sinoland-180622/).
China held an international "Internet of Things" (IOT) expo in Wuxi, in September (http://en.wiotexpo.cn/). Shanghai had another one in May (https://10times.com/iot-china). All the big and little shots from around the world came to participate in both. IOT cannot work without AI and China is at the forefront of both.
When checking in to fly to Changsha, Hunan, passengers were asked to sign a pledge that they were not carrying explosive, toxic, corrosive and radioactive goods, NOR a Samsung Galaxy 7, due to its propensity to have exploding batteries. Ouch! No tech company in the world wants to see this happen to them.
For more information about China's incredible drive to integrate AI into its economy, society and daily life, go to the section entitled "Artificial Intelligence" in the China Tech database below, where there are a number of interesting articles,
China Tech: Invention, Innovation, Technology, Research and Development – Past, Present, Future – 5,000 Years of Progress. A China Rising Radio Sinoland Living Document.
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Geier Hall and Robinson Hall Officially Dedicated
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Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, residence halls were officially dedicated last Friday in honor of Rita Sanders Geier and Theotis Robinson Jr.—two African American trailblazers whose fights for racial equality transformed the state's higher education system and university.
The Board of Trustees approved the renaming of Orange Hall for Geier and White Hall for Robinson at its winter board meeting on February 25. The buildings first opened in 2016 and provide a home away from home for almost 700 students.
Robinson, a Knoxville native, is well known as the first Black undergraduate student admitted to the university and one of three Black students to fully desegregate the university in 1961. Geier, from Memphis, is best known for the landmark lawsuit that sought to dismantle inequities in the state's higher education system. Both Robinson and Geier later worked for the university.
In the initial renaming announcement in February, Chancellor Donde Plowman said she hopes future students are inspired by the legacy that Geier, Robinson, and others have left.
"Each of them broke barriers and showed so much courage to do it," she said. "Both of them are people who looked around at their world and said it can be better—we can be better. They moved the world forward. I'm grateful for people who are willing to remind us that there's a better version of ourselves. I hope that's what people see when they see their names on those buildings."
The initial push for the renaming was recommended by former student and 2021 Torchbearer, Maria Urias, who proposed finding a creative way to recognize civil rights trailblazers that left lasting legacies at UT. University administrators were highly supportive of the idea and worked collaboratively to make it happen.
Members of the Geier and Robinson families participated in the dedication as well. After the ceremony, students, faculty, staff, and guests enjoyed refreshments in the courtyard.
Tyra Haag (865-974-5460, tyra.haag@tennessee.edu)
Division of Diversity and Engagement
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy

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I wait until Logan shifts back and storms off towards the house before shifting and quickly getting dressed.
I've never been so happy to be back in human form. For the entire run, my wolf kept trying to come to the surface, and it got harder and harder to push her back down. She hasn't given me this much trouble since Dad first started training me, and even then I don't remember her fighting me this much.
She just kept trying to take control—to take over. I could hear her howling for him and it wasn't until Logan tried to fight me that I finally managed to shove her down to the depths of my subconscious.
I turn towards the house and realize Logan's already inside. I'm glad that glad that he stormed off and took the temptation with him. Except that I'm also not. I already miss Logan and he only left a few minute ago.
Should I make a run for it now, while I have the chance? Logan's mad that I didn't want to fight, so he's probably not going to come looking for me. Meanwhile, POW and the others think I'm with Logan. It's the perfect opportunity.
The only problem is that I'm not familiar with the area. I wouldn't know which paths to take and where the guards are patrolling the border. Plus, when we first started running, I was sure there was someone following us. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but POW could have placed guards on me.
I would also have to carry my clothes, but if there are humans in the forest, especially ones that carry hunting rifles, it could cause problems. Last thing I need are human vigilantes with weapons chasing a wolf they think is carrying the remains of its human victim.
I could still take the risk, running slowly and keeping an eye out for trouble, but there is always the possibility that this is a setup. POW could have told Logan to leave me to see if I'd run. There might be wolves lying in wait, ready to pounce if I make my move—wolves that can run much faster than Logan. The boy might be super-hot but he's even slower than Dad, who's a rogue and really out of shape!
There's no way the Alpha's son is that slow! It's probably just a trick Logan played on me to convince me that I could get away. I bet he would have sped up and captured me if I tried. Which is why it's much safer for me to wait until school tomorrow and run away then.
I walk towards the house and then trudge up the stairs to the room I share with Zara. I stand in front of the door, not really wanting to go in. Although Zara is sweet and I'm really starting to like her, I kind of don't want to be around her right now—or anyone else for that matter. Well, unless you count Logan.
The two of us were having a lot of fun until I refused to fight him. A part of me wants to run after him and beg for his forgiveness. That part is actually willing to suffer having my flesh being torn and my bones being broken just so that Logan is no longer mad at me. Which is absolutely insane and the last thing any sane person would ever do.
I knock on the door, even though it's now my room too, and when Zara doesn't answer I hesitatingly peek inside. The room is empty and my roommate's already managed to make a mess of it. Her bed is unmade and covered with stuff: her laptop, a textbook, a binder, a few sweaters and a pair of jeans. There's a pile of shoes on the floor and some makeup spread out on her desk. Hopefully, I'm not the one who has to clean it up.
I enter the room, close the door behind me, and toss my clothes onto my chair without bothering to fold them. It's not like anyone will notice my sweats and hoodie when Zara's mess is like a beacon on the other side of the room.
I don't have the energy to get my 'new' pyjamas from my closet, so I climb into bed in my underwear. All I can think about is how Logan stormed off and how he probably hates me.
I should have known not to break out of my weak submissive role during our run. I just knew that Logan would never have caught that rabbit on his own. I just wanted to catch it for him, to please him. One second, I was running behind him just like I figured an Omega wolf should and the next second my wolf was shouting run and I was zooming past Logan in pursuit of prey. I should have realized that my show of power would put him in a fighting mood.
I've had enough experience from training with Dad to know that facing a stronger wolf isn't pleasant. Even before I was old enough to shift, Dad would take me into the forest and teach me how to fight in human form. When Mom was alive, she'd come watch, and he'd be real careful with me. Back then it was self-defense training, in case I ran into a rogue or someone else who'd want to hurt me. After she died, I'd end up with bruises, and by the time I was ten, with broken bones.
Over time, the fighting has gotten more and more intense and the number of bones I've broken has multiplied by the hundred. Each time, Dad starts out by shifting and dancing around me. Then he bows his lower body, with his rear high in the air, teasing. That's my signal to choose—attack or run—and Dad either fights back or gives chase. No matter which option I choose, it still ends with a fight—running's pretty much just stalling—and the fight lasts until I can no longer move and am begging for mercy. In a real fight, Dad reminds me over and over again, you would be dead.


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2.1 Contributo in Volume (Capitolo,Saggio)
Per uno studio dei falsi nel manoscritto inglese di Jacopo Valvasone di Maniago (1499-1570)
This paper aims to reconsider the manuscript by Jacopo Valvasone (1499-1570), formerly owned by the Earl of Leicester (now British Library, Additional MS 49369), which Theodor Mommsen borrowed and inspected in 1876, just before the publication of the second part of CIL V. In the letter that he wrote to thank the Vicar and Librarian of Halkham Hall, Mommsen declared that Valvasone joined "the the long list of forgers". The analysis of forgeries in Valvasone's manuscript could show whether Mommsen was right in his opinion.
Titolo: Per uno studio dei falsi nel manoscritto inglese di Jacopo Valvasone di Maniago (1499-1570)
MAINARDIS, Fulvia (Corresponding)
ANTICHISTICA. STORIA ED EPIGRAFIA
Abstract: This paper aims to reconsider the manuscript by Jacopo Valvasone (1499-1570), formerly owned by the Earl of Leicester (now British Library, Additional MS 49369), which Theodor Mommsen borrowed and inspected in 1876, just before the publication of the second part of CIL V. In the letter that he wrote to thank the Vicar and Librarian of Halkham Hall, Mommsen declared that Valvasone joined "the the long list of forgers". The analysis of forgeries in Valvasone's manuscript could show whether Mommsen was right in his opinion.
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Shaikh Abdul A'laa (may Allaah preserve him) discusses this affair that Ahlul Bidah of the earlier times used to utilise the Arabic language as a weapon to find fault with Ahlul Hadeeth; so let this be reminder for the misguided Hizbiyyoon and their blind followers!
The Shaikh stated that the people of desires, such as the Mutazilah, the Mutakallimeen and their ilk used to praise themselves that they are people of Lugha (i.e. people who are well versed in the Arabic language) and they used to belittle the people of hadeeth because they were not like them in field of language. They used to utilise their vast knowledge in the language and philosophy as a weapon to displace statements from their rightful places- whether that was in the Qur'aan, the narrations of the Salaf or the statements of the people of Hadeeth. Therefore, the sciences of the Arabic language are used as a means of serving the sciences of the sharee'ah- they are a means of fulfilling a goal and not a goal itself, just as Imaam Dhahabi stated that there is no problem with grammarians and that their knowledge is something needed; but if a grammarian goes into excess in the Arabic language and is deprived of knowledge of the Book and Sunnah, he remains idle, inactive and very playful.
Therefore, the one who speaks ill of a person from Ahlul Hadeeth Wal Athar, that his knowledge of the Arabic language is weak, has indeed followed the way of Ahlul Ahwaa in this affair. On the other hand, a person is not raised to the level of the senior scholars merely based on the fact that he has mastered the Arabic Language- because this will not benefit him if something of opposition to the sound Aqeedah and Manhaj occurs from him.
Then the Shaikh said that he is amazed by the one who desired to praise one of the students of knowledge, saying that indeed he (i.e. that student) rarely commits a grammatical error in his speech; but this on its own is not enough a reason to praise a student of knowledge; rather a student is praised because he adheres to the Aqeedah and Manhaj of the Salaf. Then after this, there is no harm in praising him for the fact that he rarely makes grammatical errors. Similar to this is also praising someone because he has Memorized a lot- there are those who praise such and such person because he has memorized the kutub as-sitta (i.e. Saheeh Al-Bukhaari, Saheeh Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawud, Sunan Tirmidhee, Sunan Nasaa'ee and Sunan Ibn Maajah) or such and such from the books of the Sunnah; but when one becomes closely acquainted with the affair of this person, he finds that this person has mistakes in his Aqeedah and Manhaj. Likewise, there is that one who boasts that he has memorized the entire Qur'aan together with the ten Qiraa'aat and he considers this to be the highest level of knowledge; rather Shaikhul Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah spoke the truth when he stated that the Qur'aan praises the one who is upon proof from his Lord- the one upon guidance, light and clear-sightedness-whether he has memorized the Qur'aan or not.


I ran into Randy in the airport. He was draggin' his right hind leg like an escaped convict tryin' to cover his tracks. I could see it had taken him a while to pull his pant leg on over the swollen knee. He side-slid to a stop to visit for a minute.
Randy is a rodeo announcer. A good one, I might add. I've seen him work. But this injury could certainly not be work related, I thought to myself. Rodeo announcers are a little higher up the food chain than those of us who actually get within striking distance of large herbivores. They sit in their ivory towers above the dust and flailing hooves, inciting the fans and titillating the timers. Occasionally stooping to act as straight man to the barrel man's jokes but above it all, maintaining their dignity. Ringmaster of all they survey.
He gave me a raised eyebrow, realized that I was not smart enough to have asked the question facetiously, and explained. In an effort to "keep up with the competition" he had taken to announcing rodeos ahorseback.
"Say no more," I thought. Riding a strange horse furnished by the stock contractor into the center of the arena surrounded by thousands of foot stompin', whistlin', avid rodeo fans, reins in one hand, microphone in the other, with flags flyin', banners flappin' and music blarrin' … the outcome is almost predictable.
His story included all of that and concluded with a wild bucking exit where he bailed out with the grace of a sand bag fallin' off the back of a runaway stage coach.
What did I tell them? No. It's just decorative. A cosmetic article of clothing designed to offset my bad posture and enhance my fine facial features. Or maybe … my wife gave it to me on our anniversary … or, I wrenched it saving a school bus load of children from a burning building.
If I had been forced to explain, I would have to have said I was riding down the trail with an amigo whose horse was jiggin' and tossin' his head. So I told this amigo that he didn't have to put up with that kind of unsavory equine behavior. When he throws his head, I said, conk him between the ears. "Whattya mean?" asked my amigo. So I demonstrated by leaning out of the saddle and whacking his horse on the poll with a 32 ounce mug I'd got at the GIT AND GO. The mug broke, his horse stampeded and when I straightened up, I couldn't move my neck.


Bir Billing is a Paragliding destination in the heart of Himalaya's near famous tourist destination Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh. Bir Billing Hosted Paragliding World cup in 2015. This was "First Paragliding World Cup of India."This event happened in the month of October from 24th to 31st, 2015." During world cup 150 top ranked paragliding pilots of all over the world participating along with 500 free flying pilots. This is a great opportunity for many local paragliding pilots to show their skills to world.
Bir Billing provides the option of Paragliding, Trekking to Himachali tribal villages, Mountain Biking, Angling and Camping.Bir Billing is located 70 km. from Dharamshala. Billing is situated north of Bir at the distance of 14 km. on the way to the Thamsar Pass trek, which is leading to Bada Bhangal, tribal region of Himachal Pradesh. Bir is mainly a Buddhist town and houses a monastery and a Tibetan handicraft center.
The Chamunda Devi Temple in Himachal Pradesh is located 10 km from our hotel. It stands on the banks of the famous Ban Ganga River, the temple is housed with extremely sacred idol of Chamunda Devi, and as such the idol is wrapped by a red cloth. The location of this sacred temple is also significant since it is believed to be the same spot where the Mata or the Maa Kali assassinated the demon kings Shumbh and Nisumbh. The two generals were namely Chanda and Munda. It is their name that gave Goddess Kali, a new name called Chamunda.
Earlier the temple was located at a remote place which was difficult to access. However, with the permission and will of Goddess Kali, a new temple could be built at the current location. Inside the temple of Chamunda Devi, it is accompanied by the images of Hanuman and Bhairo. There are inscription to be seen from the Devi Mahatmya, Ramayan and Mahabharata. The surroundings of the Chamunda Devi temple are considered just perfect for those who are interested to meditate and pray.
Baijnath Temple is a Nagara style hindu temple situated in a small town of Baijnath located in Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh, India, and was construction in 1204 A.D. by two local merchants named Ahuka and Manyuka. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva as Vaidyanath, 'the Lord of physicians'.
According to the inscriptions on the present day Baijnath temple structure, a temple of Lord Shiva had existed before construction of present day structure. The inner sanctum houses a Shiva lingam. Further images are carved in the walls and in niches on the exterior.
Tashi Jong Buddhist Monastery is situated about 15kms from Palampur. The monastery is located in Tashi Jong village, which is a small rural area situated between Paprola and Taragarh. Home to the Drugpa Kagyu tradition of Buddhism, this monastery is one of the schools of Kagyu tradition established by 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche, Dongyu Nyima. The monastery complex houses the main temple, the stupa of Khamtrul Rinpoche, and the Yamantak Retreat Center which is restricted to the general public.
Designed by Khamtrul Rinpoche, the entire building is adorned with woodcarving, gilding and painting. Several manifestation of Buddha has also been placed in the monastery including the Buddha Shakyamuni. Apart from being a monastery, Tashi Jong is an excellent craft emporium, where Tibetan artifacts are available.
Tea gardens in Palampur cover a large area on the hillsides. Palampur was established by Dr. Jameson, who introduced tea plantation on the hill station. Amongst these gardens, a few are privately owned; some are called as "demonstration plots" that are managed by organizations such as the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Vast tea plantation estates can be seen on the road to Dharamshala that belongs to Palampur Co-operative Tea Factory.
The abundance of tea plantation has made Palampur the Tea Capital of North India. The lush plantation with the backdrop of gorgeous Dhauladhar Mountain Range adds to the beauty of Palampur.
Dedicated to Devi Latti Jakhni, the Jakhni Mata Temple is situated at the topmost point of Chandpur Village in Kangra district. This holy shrine is situated about 7 kms from Bundla Mata Temple and 5 kms from Palampur. It's a steep climb up to the temple, so it is ideal to take a car instead of choosing to walk. However, physically fit people can try hiking up to the temple.
The temple is located at a vantage point, from where the view of the Dhauladhar range, the valley and the rural human settlements is simply spectacular.


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The Canadian Banking System
The core banking system of Canada has a worldwide reputation for its efficiency and effectiveness. The country is now home to some of the world's leading international banks. The excellent financial system of Canada is made possible through both sensible government policies, and the efforts of dedicated organizations.
Canada's leading banking system
The Canadian banking structure
Classification of banks
Routing numbers in the banking industry
Canadian Bankers Association
Banking sector owners
The banking system of Canada frequently receives international recognition and praise.
A leading independent financial organization named Canada the soundest banking system of all the world's countries for six consecutive years, from 2007 to 2013.
In the rating of world banking systems, Canadian banks are prominently featured. Caisse des Depots et Consignations, a Canadian bank, ranked number 11 by Global Finance magazine's list of the world's safest banks 2019. Another Canadian bank, RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), ranked 12.
With around 18,000 ATMs in the whole country, Canada is third only to Macau and South Korea in the global proportion of ATMs. In Canada, there are 220.6 ATMs per 100,000 people. This points to greater convenience and safety afforded to bank customers.
On a visit to Canada, President Barack Obama admitted that Canada's management of its financial system was perhaps better than that of the United States. The Canadian banking system was named "envy of the world" by both The Financial Times and The Guardian newspapers.
During the financial crisis of 2007/2008, Canada did not suffer in the same way that many other countries did. As a result, the current ten largest banks in North America include four Canadian banks. Moody's Investors Service has given AAA ratings to just seven banks in the world. Two of these are Canadian.
Canada has 88 banks in total, and 5,907 bank branches across the country. These are divided into two main categories. There are five national banks, which are commonly referred to as Canada's "Big Five". These are:
Bank of Montreal (RBC)
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Toronto Dominion Bank (TD)
These Canadian banks are multinational financial conglomerates with a large division in Canada. Operations are from a parent company, rather than having the holding company structure of US banks.
The second-level banks of the banking sector are smaller in scale. Examples of these are Alterna Bank, Duo Bank, Laurentian Bank, Tangerine Bank, and VersaBank. NBC is also in this category, though it is sometimes considered to be part of the "Big Six" banks of Canada.
Second-tier organizations in the Canadian banking system include either domestic banks or foreign bank subsidiaries. There are also branches of foreign banks, which are not authorized to accept deposits unless they exceed $150,000.
There are 32 domestic banks in the banking industry of Canada. Under the Canada Bank Act, these are classified as Schedule I banks. Such banks include Canadian Tire Bank, Haventree Bank, Motus Bank, and Toronto Dominion Bank.
Schedule II banks are subsidiaries of foreign banks, of which there are 24 in Canada. These include Bank of China, Citibank Canada, and J.P. Morgan Canada.
Schedule III banks are branches of foreign banks. There are 28 of these banks in Canada. They include Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Bank AG, and Mizuho Bank.
The bank codes used in Canada's banking industry are known as routing numbers. These comprise eight or nine numerical digits. Routing numbers enable the easy identification of the bank and branch location that is associated with a bank account.
When routing numbers are used for paper financial documents, they consist of eight digits with a dash used after the fifth digit. They are also encoded with magnetic ink character recognition. When routing numbers are used for electronic funds transfers, nine digits written without a dash.
Payments Canada is the organization that regulates and controls directories of routing numbers for the financial system. It was named the Canadian Payments Association (2016) until June 2016.
In addition to providing authority on routing numbers, Payments Canada (French version) also holds other responsibilities in finance. On a national level, Payments Canada facilitates the clearing, settlement, and exchange of payments in the banking sector. The corporation also enables new payment systems and technologies in development. Read more about popular Canadian payment systems in this article, written with the help of experts from Online Casino Valley – Canada's largest casino review website.
The Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) is one of the country's oldest interest groups, dating back to 1891. It comprises a trade association and lobby group for representing Canadian banks. These include over 60 foreign and domestic banks that operate in Canada, with 275,000 employees.
The CBA acts as a central contact for banks and banking issues, for governments and other organizations. It also works to encourage government policies that lead to a productive financial system in Canada.
Initially, Schedule I banks were mainly publicly owned. 25 percent of shares could be owned by foreign investors and only 10 percent by a single foreign investor. The activities of a Schedule II bank were more restricted.
This was changed in 2001 to create three categories of the bank. Large banks holding over $5 billion in assets are required to maintain wide ownership. Up to 20 percent of voting shares and 30 percent of non-voting shares were allowed to be kept by individual owners.
Medium banks are those with between $1 billion and $5 billion in assets. These are permitted to have fewer investors, but a public float of 35 percent of voting shares is required.
It is common for Canadian banks to have ownership in other banks in Canada. For example, the largest shareholders of the Bank of Montreal are CIBC World Markets, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Bank, and TD Asset Management. This trend can also be seen in the ownership of the other large banks.
Of the largest 20 companies in Canada, eight are financial firms. Banks are big business in Canada, so popular equities to invest in are likely to be in banks and financial firms. Naturally, mutual funds will reflect this.
With a successful central banking system, Canada has enjoyed a prosperous economy in recent decades. A stable financial system attracts foreign investment and helps to build a strong global reputation. To take a Canadian banking industry overview, in the future, Canada may grow into a nation renowned for banking and financial services, similar to Switzerland.
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The confidence of Chinese consumers has been shown to be standing strong, despite a wider economic slowdown in the country. Millward Brown's annual BrandZ report reveals the 100 most valuable brands, revealing that the total value of the list has risen 13 per cent over the past year.
According to the research, for the first time ever, market-driven brands contributed more than half (51 per cent) of the value of the China Top 100.
It tallies with comments made by senior marketing figures in the region in February who advised on how the industry should tackle the China economic slowdown, with most optimistic that the majority of brands can still flourish.
Top of the list is technology business Tencent, owner of mobile messaging site WeChat, which increased its brand value 24 per cent to $82.1bn. Second on the list is China Mobile, with a two per cent growth to $57.1bn. Thirdy is Alibaba, which dropped from second last year and saw a 20 percent decrease in brand value to $47.6bn this year.
Alibaba this week released a blog post from executive vice chairman Joe Tsai, which announced that the business transacted $476 billion (or 3 trillion RMB) in gross merchandise volume (GMV) within a year for the first time.
Despite hitting such scale, Millward Brown's research reveals that its brand may be impacted by the growth of rival JD.com which has expanded its mobile offering, taken its ecommerce platform worldwide and partnered with premium international brands.
Millward Brown also looked at how innovation and uniqueness impacted brand value, showing that the top third most innovative brands grew 29 per cent between 2014-2016, compared with 3 per cent for the least innovative. Similarly, the top third most unique brands grew 29 per cent, compared with 3 per cent for the least unique.
To see the full 100 brands, see the Millward Brown BrandZ report.


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Oracle Corp. has dismissed Arthur Andersen LLP as its independent auditor, a job the embattled Big Five accounting company held for 15 years.
Oracle decided to switch to Ernst & Young LLP "given the breakup that started to occur within Arthur Andersen's global practice in the past few weeks," Oracle said in a statement Tuesday.
Arthur Andersen provided both audit and non-audit services for Oracle. The practice of having an accounting firm such as Arthur Andersen sell non-audit consulting services -- such as IT consulting -- to clients that it also audits has come under fire in recent months as a result of the Enron Corp. collapse.
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Although legal, the selling of non-audit services to audit clients compromises an auditor's independence and leads to conflicts of interest, critics have charged. As in Oracle's case, Arthur Andersen provided both audit and non-audit consulting services to Enron, whose accounting practices are at the center of its bankruptcy scandal.
Oracle paid Arthur Andersen US$700,000 for audit services in fiscal year 2001, ended May 31, 2001, according to a filing Oracle made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2001. Oracle also paid Arthur Andersen $1.1 million for the design and implementation of financial IT systems and $5.3 million for other consulting work, including tax preparation, tax advice and business consulting, according to the filing.
Oracle said that the decision to fire Arthur Andersen wasn't due to any problems and that the accounting company "has done excellent, professional work for Oracle for the past 15 years."
An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Oracle will continue giving non-audit c2nsulting work to Arthur Andersen, saying Oracle wasn't commenting on this matter beyond what is said in the statement.
In February, Arthur Andersen said it would stop designing and implementing financial IT systems for clients it audits. More recently, the company has pledged to separate its consulting practices entirely from its core audit business, thus abiding by a mandate from an independent oversight board it created this year to reform its business.
IT and related business consulting services generated about $1.7 billion in revenue for Andersen Worldwide SC in its fiscal year 2001, ended August 31, 2001. That's out of a total $9.34 billion. Chicago-based Arthur Andersen LLP is the U.S. member company of Switzerland-based Andersen Worldwide SC, which coordinates Arthur Andersen member companies worldwide.
Oracle joins a long list of audit clients that have fired Arthur Andersen firms in the U.S. and abroad this year as a result of the Enron scandal. Recent published reports put that figure at around 150 audit clients to date.
Arthur Andersen is trying to survive the Enron mess, but it seems to be getting harder with each passing day. It announced Monday it plans to lay off over the coming months 7,000 employees, a little over a quarter of its work force. It also faces a long list of civil lawsuits, an exodus of clients, a SEC investigation and an indictment on an obstruction-of-justice charge by a U.S. federal grand jury.
The other Big Five accounting companies have taken steps to avoid conflicts of interest arising from the sale of non-audit IT consulting work to audit clients. This year, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP announced it plans to separate via an initial public offering its management consulting business, PwC Consulting, which provides a broad range of IT consulting and services. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu made a similar announcement this year regarding its IT consulting unit, although it hasn't said how it will separate it.
Ernst & Young sold its IT consulting services unit to Cap Gemini in 2000 and currently provides a limited number of IT advisory services. KPMG LLP spun off its consulting business into an independent company called KPMG Consulting Inc. early in 2001, but like Ernst & Young still provides limited IT advisory services. Both Ernst & Young and KMPG have said that the IT services they provide are of an advisory nature -- as opposed to a more hands-on consulting approach -- and don't pose conflict-of-interest concerns.
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Q: proto token candidates ordering How does perl6 decide which proto token to match against first?
The below code works as expected, it matches the string 1234, and Grammar::Tracer shows that the first token matched against is s:sym<d>, which makes sense since it's the longest token.
However, if I changed a literal to token, for example, changing token three form '3' to <digit>, it fails to match, and Grammar::Tracer shows that s:sym<b> is being matched against first.
Moving s:sym<d> to the top, matches the string in both cases, but what is the explanation for that behavior?
#!/usr/bin/env perl6
no precompilation;
use Grammar::Tracer;

grammar G {

  token TOP { <s> }

  proto token s { * }

  token s:sym<a> { <one> }
  token s:sym<b> { <one> <two> }
  token s:sym<c> { <one> <two> <three> }
  token s:sym<d> { <one> <two> <three> <four> }

  token one   { '1' }
  token two   { '2' }
  token three { '3' }
  token four  { '4' }
}

my $g = G.new;

say $g.parse: '1234';

# Output: Match
# token three { '3' }

TOP
|  s
|  |  s:sym<d>
|  |  |  one

# Output No Match
# token three { <digit> }

TOP
|  s
|  |  s:sym<b>
|  |  |  one

A:
How does perl6 decide which proto token to match against first?

It uses "Longest alternation" logic. In your (well presented!) case the relevant deciding factors are as follows.

First, select the branch which has the longest declarative prefix.

So the first thing to focus on is that it's not "longest token" but longest declarative prefix, the start of a pattern that contains nothing but contiguous "declarative" "atoms".
A 3 is a declarative atom.
A <foo> may or may not be; it depends on what it includes.
I haven't found clear official documentation identifying which built in patterns are declarative and which are not but it looks like all the ones declared with a slash, eg \d, are declarative whereas all the ones declared in the form form <foo>, eg <digit>, are not.
(Note in particular that the built in <ws> pattern is not declarative. Given that spaces after atoms in rules are converted to <ws>, this means the first such space terminates the declarative prefix of that rule.)
So a <digit> atom isn't part of a declarative prefix and instead terminates a prefix.

Moving s:sym<d> to the top, matches the string in both cases, but what is the explanation for that behavior?

Because with the change of <three> to call <digit> you've changed your rules to have three that tie for longest declarative prefix (<one> <two>). So other tie-breaking rules are used.
If all else fails in those tie-breaking rules to pick a winner, then the last "left-most" rule is selected, which, ignoring inheritance, means the rule that comes first lexically.

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Broadly speaking, research in the Everyday Cognition Lab (ECL) explores how commonplace actions and experiences – like picking up an object, reading a story or newspaper article, or lying on the couch to watch TV – shape how we perceive and think about the world. Leading models of the mind hold that one of the key functions of the cognitive system is to extract and represent statistical regularities (patterns) in the environment (Flusberg & McClelland, 2014), while theories of embodied cognition point out that these regularities are necessarily structured by our own bodies and actions (Flusberg & Boroditsky, 2011). Our work examines how these principles play out in the space of everyday lived experience, affecting everything from how we perceive objects and faces, to how we imagine our surroundings, to how we reason about abstract topics like time, climate change, and even the mind itself.
ACTION in COGNITION
In one line of research, we are exploring whether and how our motor experiences with objects shape how we perceive and imagine those objects. For example, we have found that people are slower to mentally rotate objects that are harder to physically rotate, but only if they imagine rotating the objects manually (Flusberg & Boroditsky, 2011). We have also shown that people are more likely to interpret an ambiguous object as an apple when they are first primed with an image of a grasping hand, and more likely to interpret the same object as a cherry when primed with an image of a pinching hand (Toskos Dils, Flusberg, & Boroditsky, 2012; in prep). This effect disappears when the prime hands are already holding another object, supporting the idea that the way we see the world depends, at least in part, on our current action readiness and our anticipation for what comes next. In another line of work, we have found that people are better at classifying and remembering faces that are upright with respect to their eyes, and also when they are upright with respect to the environment (Davidenko & Flusberg, 2012). This suggests we encode orientational regularities in multiple spatial reference frames, which are revealed as we move around the world in our daily lives. Recently, several students in the lab have begun to investigate the cognitive consequences of physical expertise in a variety of complex domains, including dance, music and acting.
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We have been investigating the powerful ways in which the language we speak, read, and hear comes organize how we think about the world in pervasive and often surprising ways. For example, we have found that framing an issue using subtly different labels, narratives, or metaphors can affect attitudes toward and beliefs about everything from obesity (Thibodeau, Perko, & Flusberg, 2015; Thibodeau, Uri, Thompson, & Flusberg, 2017), to depression and addiction (Flusberg, DellaValle, & Thibodeau, 2015; Thibodeau et al., 2015), to climate change (Flusberg, Matlock, & Thibodeau, 2017), to the role of law enforcement in society (Thibodeau, Crow, & Flusberg, 2016), to presidential candidates (Thibodeau & Flusberg, 2017). These studies also reveal that certain individual differences, like political affiliation, can reliably predict the language people prefer to use in these domains. In another line of work, we have found that spatial metaphors which occur in natural language impact cognitive processing. For example, common spatial metaphors for emotional valence (e.g., "I'm flying high, but she's down in the dumps") affect how quickly people are able to classify happy and sad faces (Flusberg et al., 2016; in prep). We are also using a variety of methods to explore how and why language comes to influence mental processing more generally. We find that language facilitates abstract thinking by highlighting shared relational structure across domains and systems (Gentner, Simms, & Flusberg, 2009; Thibodeau, et al., 2016), while social experience using language (but not formal instruction) may be necessary to elicit the implicit effects of metaphor framing (Thibodeau, Lee, & Flusberg, 2016).
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The statistician George Box famously wrote, "All models are wrong, but some are useful." Indeed, models in the cognitive sciences are useful because they function as metaphors, helping us understand the messy complexities of human mental life by analogy to a basic set of principles embodied by the relatively simple model in question (Flusberg & McClelland, 2014). My collaborators and I have been taking this approach to try to understand how the same basic learning mechanisms that explain lower-level perceptual and cognitive phenomena might also help account for some of our most sophisticated mental abilities.  For example, we have used artificial neural networks to explore how analogical inference and metaphorical conceptual representations can emerge spontaneously from a basic error-driven learning process (Flusberg et al., 2010; Thibodeau et al., 2013; Thibodeau, Tesny, & Flusberg, 2014). Our simulations naturally capture a key set of findings from the developmental literature on relational reasoning and highlight the critical role language plays in the development of metaphor and analogy (see also Gentner, Simms, & Flusberg, 2009). Recently, we have begun testing behavioral predictions that naturally fall out of this way of thinking about analogy, finding evidence that similarity judgments are systematically and dynamically affected by recent learning experiences (Thibodeau, Myers, & Flusberg, 2016).