Chinese street artist catapults to fame via microblog

Chinese street artist catapults to fame via microblog

A Chinese calligraphy artist whose work was previously relegated to the streets will have a typeface named after him after a font developer discovered his talent through a popular microblogging website.

For nearly a decade, Cui Xianren eked out a living by showcasing his calligraphy on the streets, writing traditional characters on a board with crippled hands.

However, on Tuesday he hopped on a train bound for the southern city of Shenzhen to meet representatives from Founder Type, a font developer that has promised to create a new font based on Cui's calligraphy, as well as give him profits from the sale of the font for the next 50 years.orlando magic jerseys

Founder Type discovered Cui via Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging site, according to Wang Haichao,washington wizards jerseys manager of the company's product department. An Internet user posted photos of Cui's work on Weibo, resulting in an outpouring of praise and thousands of reposts.

"Cui's upright and fashionable calligraphy has great commercial potential.Moncler women's jackets We really admire his handwriting, as well as his perseverance,oklahoma thunder jerseys" Wang said.Projector Lamps

Cui said he had no idea what Weibo was, but that he feels grateful for the help he has received from the site's users. He said he initially refused to sign a deal with Founder Type, as he feared that his work would not be commercially viable.

"I was worried that Founder Type would spent its money in vain at that time. Now I think the offer will change my life and bring new hope to me," Cui said.

Asia vital for U.S. trade, economy

Asia vital for U.S. trade, economy: U.S. official

The role of Asia is "absolutely central" for the American economy and trade in particular, U.S. under secretary of commerce for international trade Francisco Sanchez said here on Tuesday.

Leading a delegation of 14 U.S. biotechnology companies to promote trade in Hong Kong,bucks jerseys Sanchez told media the Asia-Pacific region is "absolutely critical" to achieving U.S. President Barack Obama's goal of doubling its exports by the end of 2014.

According to Sanchez, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is one of the top trade policy agendas of the U.S. government. TPP is an Asia-Pacific regional trade agreement being negotiated among the United States and eight other partners, namely Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

"TPP should become a platform that stands beyond the nine nations that are currently negotiating it.utah jazz jerseyswashington wizards jerseys It should be a platform for other countries in the region to join on," he argued.

In order to foster United States-Hong Kong partnerships,,Moncler jackets,oklahoma thunder jerseys Hong Kong Trade Development Council launched in November 2010 the Pacific Bridge Initiative (PBI) which tapped potential markets in Asia, particularly the Chinese mainland.

Presenting the Peace through Commerce Award to Fred Lam, executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council for his works to promote PBI, Sanchez commented that "Hong Kong is a great place to do business and a great partner to the United States in commerce and trade."

As for the unique role of Hong Kong, Sanchez said the city has become a global beacon for the benefits of free and fair trade, for rule of law, for intellectual property protection and for dynamic, private-sector driven development.

Play The Wealth Gap For Retirement Income

Play The Wealth Gap For Retirement Income

In my last post, I suggested putting a modern day twist on the old laddered CD strategy by using laddered dividends as a means of generating retirement income. Similarly, investors seeking retirement income might want to consider a variation on a traditional concept called the fixed income barbell.

A basic barbell strategy is formed when you buy a series of short-term and long-term bonds, avoiding anything in the middle. By concentrating on maturities at opposite ends of the spectrum, investors historically have been able to create a comfortable amount of interest income from the long end of the yield curve while using the maturities at the short end for quick cash to reinvest when interest rates are rising.

Obviously this time-tested fixed-income generating strategy isn’t going to work anytime soon because we know our friends at the Federal Reserve aren’t planning on raising interest rates until maybe mid-2013. Therefore, with time on their side,Moncler Jacket investors who are hungry for extra retirement income can play the rising wealth gap instead of waiting for interest rates to rise.

The old cliché, “The rich get richer and poor get poorer” seems truer than ever.toronto raptors jerseys The Census Bureau recently reported that the number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year.bucks jerseys That’s the third straight annual increase and represents the largest number of Americans designated as poor in 52 years of reporting.utah jazz jerseys

At the other end of the spectrum, the average CEO’s salary at the 200 largest American companies rose 20 percent in 2010 to $11.7 million, with CEO bonuses at 50 major corporations rising 30.5 percent,san antonio spurs jerseys representing an average bonus of $2.5 million.

Staggering profits lure traders into waste cooking oil business in SW China

Staggering profits lure traders into waste cooking oil business in SW China

The recent bust of a waste cooking oil production and supply chain in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has aroused a new round of public anxiety over the country's food safety.

Waste cooking oil refers to a kind of illegal cooking oil extracted from the kitchen waste that is used to feed livestock.

After a series of procedures,san antonio spurs jerseys including collecting, preliminarily extracting, speculative reselling,utah jazz jerseys refining and selling, the oil made its way from dirty trash cans to the tables of up-scale restaurants.

Cao Xianhe is an illegal trader who has operated a waste cooking oil business since 2009. After collecting kitchen waste from university cafeterias and restaurants in Chongqing, he boils the waste to extract crude oil to sell as a raw material for cooking oil.

Xu Ke is a peddler who has been purchasing extracted crude oMoncler Jacketil in Chongqing since 2005, making profits by selling the crude oil to other cities and provinces.

The refining process was conducted in an oil refinery,toronto raptors jerseys where professional equipment could process the crude oil into the final product of waste cooking oil which would then be sold to local grain and oil companies that re-sell the waste cooking oil to markets.

This kind of illegal cooking oil can reach the sanitation standards set for cooking oil after several reprocessing procedures, according to local police.

But a local resident who lives near a workshop for crude oil extraction said the oil is too disgusting to be used as cooking oil.bucks jerseys

Miyun making itself ecologically friendlier

Miyun making itself ecologically friendlier

The county of Miyun, which lies just to the northeast of downtown Beijing, will publicize a development plan for its Ecologically Friendly Business District at a two-day economic conference in Beijing this month to attract the attention of businesses worldwide.orlando magic jerseys

The occasion is the Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Symposium, which runs Oct 20 to 21 in Beijing.

One major reason for the event is the county's unique position as the home of North China's largest reservoir, and the fact that this has, to some degree, hindered its economic development over the past years.washington wizards jerseys

The Miyun Reservoir happens to be tMoncler women's jacketshe major water supply for Beijing and the county is an important ecological shield. So, to protect the ecology of the area, no major industrial projects have been allowed in and around the Miyun area.

In addition, farmers who live upstream from the reservoir are not allowed to use chemicals and fertilizers in crop production.

Because of the big sacrifice the locals have made for the sake of the environment and Beijing, they are now looking for more economic benefits from this new approach.

The Miyun Ecological-Friendly Business District covers a 6.94-square-kilometer area, to the south of the county seat, and holds real estate, environmental protection, healthcare, eco-tourism, recreation,Projector Lamps creativity and finance businesses.oklahoma thunder jerseys

It eventually hopes to house the regional headquarters of prominent domestic and global companies in these areas.