Where the MH370 Search is Focused After Latest Satellite Images

A new operation has been launched in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 after Australian satellite images showed possible objects floating in the Indian Ocean along one of the jet’s suspected flight paths.

Search crews found nothing after investigating Chinese satellite images that appeared to show debris floating in the Gulf of Thailand along the original flight path of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777, which was carrying 153 Chinese citizens when it disappeared on March 8. But Australia’s prime minister and Malaysia’s defense minister both described the new information as “credible.” WSJ’s Ross Kelly and James Glyn report:

The operation has dispatched four aircraft to an area about 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) southwest of Perth, in Western Australia, to assess the finding, Australia’s maritime safety authority said Thursday.

An Australian PC-3 Orion aircraft is already at the scene but hasn’t sighted any debris. Three other aircraft from the U.S. and New Zealand are expected to arrive later Thursday, along with a nearby merchant ship. Australia has also sent a warship to the zone to accommodate recovery of large items, if necessary.

The largest of the two objects spotted is thought to be up to 24 meters long, said John Young, a maritime authority official, to reporters.

“The indication to me is that they are objects of a reasonable size and probably awash with water, bobbing up and down on the surface,” he said.

Australian authorities cautioned that the satellite images were indistinct and the search could be complicated by poor visibility.

As the graphic below shows, the potential site of the objects is located off Australia’s western coast, roughly 1,500 miles southwest of Perth, and slightly east of one of the plane’s possible routes. Read the rest of the story on WSJ.com and see CRT’s other coverage of the missing plane here.

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Alibaba’s Spurning of Hong Kong Listing Has Downsides

Alibaba’s choice to ditch a Hong Kong listing for a U.S. listing of up to US$15 billion will allow the ecommerce behemoth to keep control over the company’s board, a privilege denied Alibaba by Hong Kong regulators. While getting into the U.S. may be easy, and a successful New York IPO is all but assured for China’s biggest ecommerce player, Alibaba is unlikely is to find being listed in the U.S. easy sailing.

First, the risks of investor lawsuits loom. By listing in the U.S., Alibaba exposes itself to class-action lawsuits from investors since Hong Kong lacks a class-action mechanism. A suit filed in 2004 by U.S. shareholders against giant China Life Insurance Co. over its alleged failure to disclose sensitive information–including a government audit–alerted many Chinese companies to U.S. litigation risk, although those claims ultimately were dismissed by courts in 2008. China Life, the country’s largest insurer, listed in both the U.S. and Hong Kong in 2003.

Second, Alibaba’s listing implies the need to turn over books containing valuable data on the Chinese economy to U.S. regulators. That might make Chinese officials uneasy.

“There’s a lot of what China might consider to be state secrets inside of Alibaba,” said Paul Gillis, a professor of accounting at Peking University. “Giving U.S. regulators access to that information is something that I think China doesn’t really relish.”

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Third, Alibaba faces uncertainty from an ongoing battle between the Securities and Exchange Commission and PRC affiliates of the Big Four accounting firms. The SEC has demanded access to working papers from the Big Four affiliates, which they say they cannot provide without violating Chinese law. In January, an SEC administrative judge suspended the PRC affiliates from auditing U.S-traded clients for six months, a decision the firms have appealed. Alibaba is insulated from the immediate suit; it says its principal auditor is PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong, which is unaffected by the ruling. But sources previously have told Moneybeat that issues surrounding Chinese secrecy laws might also apply in some cases to Hong Kong auditors, leaving them vulnerable to SEC sanction in the future.

And lastly, while a favorite venue of Chinese tech firms, the U.S. remains an unfamiliar market. Hong Kong has a larger investor base that understands–and is willing to invest in–Chinese companies. Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai has written on Alibaba’s corporate blog that since most of Alibaba’s business is in China, “it was natural for Hong Kong to be our first choice.” In an emailed statement, the Hong Kong Exchange echoed that sentiment, noting that HKEx has been “the leading offshore capital formation centre for companies from Mainland China” for the past 20 years.

In fact, Alibaba rival, Tencent Holdings Ltd., is up roughly 10% since the beginning of 2014 in Hong Kong and has surged nearly 700% since it raised around US$200 million in its 2004 IPO. It now has a market capitalization of roughly US$140 billion. Meanwhile, Baidu, Inc., China’s leading search engine and another internet rival of Alibaba’s, is down 9% year to date. It hasn’t done badly however, a reflection of the huge investor base in the U.S. covering fast-growing Chinese tech companies: Since its roughly US$4 billion IPO, Baidu is now worth US$56.63 billion.

Ironically, Alibaba may be exempt from the burden most companies associate with a U.S. listing–onerous requirements on disclosures and transparency. Foreign issuers are exempt from some of the stricter reporting requirements under the U.S.’s landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Hong Kong, meanwhile, has more burdensome barriers for entry for companies using variable interest entity structures, or VIEs, which allow Chinese companies in industries where foreign ownership is restricted-web companies, for example-to list on overseas exchanges, according to Antony Dapiran, a partner at Davis Polk. Under VIE structures, the offshore listed company owns a Chinese shell company which contracts with the underlying Chinese firm to receive all its profits. Because the arrangement relies on contracts, if a company fails, foreign investors don’t have much access to the underlying company’s assets in China. Compared to Hong Kong, U.S. VIE regulation is light.

“In a way the U.S. is less burdensome than Hong Kong for a company like Alibaba,” said Mr. Dapiran. The VIE structure already worked to Alibaba’s advantage in 2012, when Alibaba founder Jack Ma transferred the contractual assets of Alipay, Alibaba’s online payment system, to a private company he controlled-over the protests of Alibaba investor Yahoo.

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Search for Flight 370 Troubled by Terrain

A week after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines3786.KU +4.35% Flight 370, rescue teams are no closer to finding the missing jet. During a press conference Saturday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said satellites had last been in contact with the plane at 8:11 a.m. a week earlier – much later than previously thought. He then shared information about two possible “corridors” where experts said this last signal could have come from.

The northern corridor includes mountainous terrain that reaches up to around 20,000 feet (6,096 meters), and crosses the borders of countries such as China and Kazakhstan. The southern corridor, apart from a small corner of Indonesia, traverses nothing but ocean. It includes an ocean trench that is deeper than the Tibetan Plateau on the northerly corridor is tall.

Both areas will present considerably difficulties to search parties looking for Flight 370.

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China’s Capital Account – An Open and Shut Case

As part of its push to give markets a “decisive” role in the economy, China has pledged to drop controls on the movement of capital and make its currency, the yuan, fully convertible.

China for years has maintained a “closed” capital account, meaning companies, banks and individuals can’t move money in or out of the country except in accordance with strict rules. The limit for individuals is currently $50,000 a year, while corporate investments need government approval.

Loosening those controls could bring in investment, not to mention offering Chinese savers new options beyond a sky-high property market and shady “wealth management products.” The risk is that it leads to unwanted swings in asset prices as speculative capital herds in and out. Capital controls are the main thing that has saved China from the turmoil that hit other emerging markets at the start of this year.

Officials have suggested that China could respond to dangerous movements of money by simply closing the capital account again. But backtracking would be a bad idea, according to a recent report from the London-based Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum.

“If you do this, don’t go back,” Gabriel Stein, an economist at the organization, told reporters in Beijing last week. “Don’t go back on your reforms in the face of opposition… The problem is that if you do people will say ‘we told you so’.” That could make it harder to push ahead again in the future, he said.

Mr. Stein knows whereof he speaks. He worked in Israel’s Finance Ministry in the 1980s, when the country was recovering from a botched capital account liberalization that ended in high inflation and a banking crash. Capital controls  were reintroduced in 1979, two years after being removed.

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The second time around, Israel took things more slowly, liberalizing over a period of 18 years from 1987 to 2005 – with more success.

In any case, China has to do a lot of work first to get interest rates in line with international norms. The central bank scrapped most controls on lending rates last year, but deposit rates are trickier. Officials fear that banks may jack up rates to grab more deposits, and then find their finances stretched to the breaking point. That in turn means a deposit insurance scheme has to be in place to protect depositors if a bank fails.

How long will it take to get all this ready?

“I would expect China will have a fully liberalized capital account by 2020,” said Mr. Stein. That’s because the leaders will be nearing the end of their tenure, and feeling their power wane as flunkies turn their attention to making nice with the next generation. If they want to make this their legacy, they had better get on with it, Mr. Stein reasons.

Yi Gang, the vice governor of the People’s Bank of China, said  last month that the central bank would study the so-called Tobin tax – a levy on financial flows that would keep investors from selling the currency – as well as other methods to curb short-term, speculative “hot money.”  Malaysia used a form of the Tobin tax during the Asian crisis, to stop cash from fleeing the country.

Mr. Yi made the comments in an article he wrote for the Communist Party journal Qiushi, or Seeking Truth, widely read by senior and up-and-coming officials. He was echoed by Guan Tao, head of the payments department of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, who also said the Tobin tax was a possibility.

Mr. Stein contends that a Tobin Tax sends the wrong signal to investors, who want to know “If I go in, can I go out?” He notes that, after years of crises where markets periodically lost faith in the pound, the British currency actually rose after exchange controls were lifted in 1979. Mr. Stein attributes that to investors feeling more comfortable in the knowledge that the currency was convertible.

Even if a temporary reintroduction of capital controls works for a smaller country, reimposing them just at the time when investors want their money most could scupper China’s hopes of making the yuan a global reserve currency.

While countries like Malaysia, Nigeria and Chile have already started to hold a small part of their reserves in yuan, the currency still  has a long way to go before it can rival the dollar – or even the Swiss franc.


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Sochi Winter Olympics: How Did China Do?

The Sochi Winter Olympics, with its often balmy weather and strange “Hot. Cool. Yours” motto, has drawn to a close.

Who knows why the organizers chose that motto. It sounds like something a selfish person shouts when using up all the nice water in the shower. What is clear is the medal table, and China’s position on it.

Actually, that’s not altogether clear either. It depends on whether you count the overall medals won or give greater weight to the golds. In terms of overall medals, China finished 11th with nine medals, while on the gold medal count it was 12th after winning three golds. Russia won on both counts, with 33 medals in total and 13 golds.

China’s haul is one above The Wall Street Journal’s pre-Games forecast, which may come as a shock to some of our esteemed readers, including a commenter called weiwei who wrote this on Feb. 14: “It seems that WSJ’s prediction on China winning 6 medals overall is once again way off the mark. I have never paid attention to such prediction. It’s ludicrously US-centric.” The Wall Street Journal had forecast China would win eight medals.


Team China enter the stadium during the Opening Ceremony in Sochi, Feb. 7. European Pressphoto Agency
China’s best day in Sochi was the day before Valentine’s Day, when Li Jianrou won the 500-meter short-track skating event and Zhang Hong won in the 1,000 meters speed-skating. China’s other gold, again won by one of its female skaters, arrived on Feb. 15, when Zhou Yang retained her 2010 Olympic title in the 1,500 meters short-track race.

China had another good night at the Iceberg Skating Palace toward the end of the Games on Friday, when it bagged two silvers and a bronze. That left it with six short-track skating medals in total, more than any other nation. Russia, inspired by Victor An, who used to skate for South Korea, finished the Olympics with one more short-track gold than China but only five medals overall.

Han Tianyu followed up his silver in the men’s 1,500 meters with a bronze in the 5,000 meters relay on Friday. He narrowly missed out on a third medal, as he came fifth in the men’s 500 meters. Wu Dajing got silver in that race, which was won by Russia’s An, who finished the Olympics with three golds and a bronze.


Li Jianrou cries after winning the women’s 500 meters short-track final on Feb. 13. Associated Press
After missing out in earlier races Fan Kexin, the senior skater in the injured Wang Meng’s absence, finally got an Olympic medal on Friday, when she won silver in the women’s 1,000 meters short-track race.

There was disappointment in the freestyle aerials skiing events. China won medals in both the men’s and women’s finals, but it didn’t top the podium. In the women’s aerials, world champion Xu Mengtao had to settle for silver after missing her landing in the final.

“I do still feel a little regret. This is the fourth silver medal China has won at the Winter Olympics in aerials, and we have always wanted to get a gold medal, but sadly I didn’t get the chance,” Xu said.

Despite having four skiers in the men’s freestyle aerials, China emerged with only a bronze in that event, won by Jia Zongyang. In both the men’s and women’s final, China had the agonizing misfortune of a fourth-place finisher – Li Nina in the women’s and Qi Guangpu in the men’s.


Xu Mengtao. Associated Press
The men’s curling team was a surprise package, making it all the way to the bronze medal match, but it lost that to Sweden and was left without a medal. The Chinese team, led by Liu Rui, was shunted into the bronze medal showdown after losing to a Canadian team that brushed aside (to use curling parlance) Great Britain in the final.

The men’s team will resurface again soon as Beijing is hosting the World Curling Championship from March 29 to April 6.

The women’s curling team, which includes three former speed-skaters and a former figure skater, was tipped for a medal in Sochi but missed out after finishing seventh in the round robin.

China’s overall performance fell short of that four years ago in Vancouver, at least in terms of medals won. China left the 2010 Games with 11 medals, including five golds. It did well in Turin in 2006 too, with 11 medals, including two golds. Sochi yielded one more gold but fewer medals overall. Still, it was an improvement from Salt Lake City in 2002 and Nagano in 1998, when China won eight medals.

But the Olympics aren’t all about winning. Even the founder of the IOC, Pierre de Coubertin, said as much. “At the Olympic Games, the important thing is not winning but taking part. What counts in life is not the victory but the struggle,” he said. “The essential thing is not to conquer but to fight well.”

Russia, which topped the table both in terms of overall medals and golds won, probably won’t be quoting him for a while.

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China Fuels Olive-Oil Rush

Wealthy Chinese consumers are switching to olive oil for cooking, fuelling spending on imports and spurring companies to snap up olive groves in Australia. As Simon Hall and Robb M. Stewart report:

Buying has been driven by shoppers looking for prestigious and healthy products that aren’t tainted by domestic food safety scandals at home. A raft of advertising campaigns showcasing the benefits of the oil not traditionally used in Chinese cuisine is also boosting demand at the expense of other cooking oils.

China spent $184 million on imported olive oil last year, 9.3% more than in 2012 and up from just $1 million a decade earlier.

Extensive television advertising by Chinese importers and foreign trade-promotion bodies on its uses—extra-virgin for drizzling or lower-temperature cooking, regular olive oil for higher-heat frying–and the opening of hypermarkets in second- and third-tier cities across the country stocking overseas foods has helped drive sales, even though olive-oil import volumes are less than 1% of those of palm oil.
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For More Hollywood Movies, China Needs More Theaters

If Hollywood wants more of its movies shown in China, it might take more than diplomatic finesse. It might take a hammer and nails.

A need for more movie theaters is holding back government support for an expanded quota of foreign films allowed in Chinese theaters, according to Victor Koo, the chief executive of China’s largest online video company, Youku Tudou Inc.YOKU +0.74%

Chinese officials don’t want to let in more foreign movies until they have the screens to accommodate them, said Mr. Koo. The quota system will be “relaxed over time” as exhibitor infrastructure grows, he predicted in an interview last week with The Wall Street Journal. Youku has stepped up its efforts recently with Hollywood studios by using its site to promote American films and streaming whole movies not shown in Chinese theaters.

Mr. Koo didn’t say what, if any, threshold of theaters is required to raise or eliminate the quota. He is part of a close-knit consortium of entertainment officials in China—a market second only to North America for box office sales—and Chinese consumers have shown a particular appetite for big-budget Hollywood spectacle.

But the market comes with strings attached—34, to be exact.

That’s the maximum number of foreign titles the Chinese government allows into its nation’s theaters every year, a quota in place to try to protect China’s own nascent movie business. Hollywood studios have wondered when that number might be boosted—the last time was in February 2012, when Vice President Joe Biden announced a deal increasing the quota to the current 34 titles, from 20.
The construction crews are already apparently working around the clock: China currently has a total 17,740 movie screens, according to film-research company EntGroup. A Chinese state agency said in January that the country added more than 5,000 screens in 2013 alone. The United States has a population about one-fourth the size of China’s, but had nearly 40,000 screens at the end of 2012, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners.

Mr. Koo’s remarks come after a story in The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month anonymously quoted a source saying the Film Bureau in Beijing was mulling a decision to increase by 10 the number of foreign films allowed into the country.

An official at China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television told The Journal and China’s official Xinhua Agency that the country has no plans to raise its film limits.


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2014 Olympics: Warm Weather Turns Sochi Into 'Slushy'

Mountain temperatures at the Winter Olympics hovered in the 50s on Wednesday, drawing complaints from snow-sport competitors about slushy conditions in weather expected to reach the 60s this week.

Billy Demong, an American who won a gold medal in Vancouver but didn't medal in Sochi, said the snow Wednesday at the Nordic Combined competition felt like "skiing on a layer of fur."

The event, which combines cross-country skiing and ski jumping, was held at the RusSki Gorki Ski Jumping Center. The venue is about 2,000 feet above sea level, the lowest and warmest of the Sochi snow-sport venues.
Taylor Fletcher, also on the U.S. team, said parts of the track were more brown than white. "I don't know if it's snow or mud," Fletcher said. Some of the white sections included snow that was "packed firm," he said, but a good portion was slush: "It hooks your skis and makes everything slower."

Germany's Eric Frenzel, who took the gold medal by six seconds in the Nordic Combined, said he loved the conditions. "I think the organizers did an excellent job," he said after his win.

Quiz
 Sochi 2014 or London 2012?
Mikko Martikainen, a Finnish snow expert who is helping at the RusSki Gorki venue, said operators have been blowing snow there with three machines that work at above-freezing temperatures. "We will manage," he said Wednesday.

Sochi organizers had promised the weather in the mountains rising from this Black Sea summer resort town wouldn't be a problem. When competitors began arriving ahead of the Feb. 7 opening ceremony, the mountains were below-freezing at night. Cold weather in December and January kept a thick layer of snow at higher elevations.
Then the weather turned and, to preserve snow quality, workers began sprinkling a chemically manipulated salt, which creates a thin layer of water that freezes after contact with the existing snow, forming a slick surface.

It works temporarily, even if the snow gets a bit slushy. But after a few days,  it can transform snow into what skiers described as mashed potatoes.
"This really resembles spring skiing," said U.S. Biathlon president Max Cobb. He is overseeing technical aspects of the biathlon course, which is located at an elevation of about 4,800 feet, the highest of Sochi's venues. "It's not as if the athletes haven't seen this before. It's just rare for the Olympics."

Cobb said workers salted parts of the biathlon course Tuesday and planned to salt the full course Thursday. "Anytime you're working with a salt, it's really frustrating," he said.

U.S. cross-country skiers described the snow as "sugary" during Tuesday's women's sprint race. Russian cross-country racer Anton Gafarov fell and broke his ski that day, later blaming the poor conditions. "The course isn't fit for an Olympics," he told a Russian sports news outlet.

International Olympics Committee Communications Director Mark Adams on Wednesday called concerns about the snow premature. "I was at some of the events yesterday and it doesn't seem to be an issue," he said. "I gather snow is coming at the weekend and that temperatures will go down."
American snowboarder Hannah Teter, who finished fourth in the women's halfpipe Wednesday, said conditions had improved over the past few days after workers scrambled to address complaints.

"It is, like, a hundred million times better today," Teter said after Wednesday's qualifying round. "I couldn't do any of my tricks in practice. It was just the worst pipe I'd ever been in in my life. But to show up today and have it be good was a blessing in disguise because it was like, 'Oh, this is so easy! This is what it's supposed to be like!'"

The warm weather may have helped snowboarder Sarka Pancochova of the Czech Republic. She crashed Sunday in the women's slopestyle competition and her helmet split nearly in half. Tests cleared her to compete Wednesday in the half-pipe. "I was lucky the snow was so soft," she said.

Sasha Rearick, a U.S. coach, said "within five minutes there can be a huge difference" in course conditions.

Dominique Gisin, of Switzerland, who shared a gold medal in the downhill event Wednesday with Tina Mazem said she was glad she raced early.

"For me, the course was perfect," Gisin said. "… I was sure lucky that I could start in front."

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2014 Olympics: Warm Weather Turns Sochi Into 'Slushy'

Mountain temperatures at the Winter Olympics hovered in the 50s on Wednesday, drawing complaints from snow-sport competitors about slushy conditions in weather expected to reach the 60s this week.

Billy Demong, an American who won a gold medal in Vancouver but didn't medal in Sochi, said the snow Wednesday at the Nordic Combined competition felt like "skiing on a layer of fur."

The event, which combines cross-country skiing and ski jumping, was held at the RusSki Gorki Ski Jumping Center. The venue is about 2,000 feet above sea level, the lowest and warmest of the Sochi snow-sport venues.
Taylor Fletcher, also on the U.S. team, said parts of the track were more brown than white. "I don't know if it's snow or mud," Fletcher said. Some of the white sections included snow that was "packed firm," he said, but a good portion was slush: "It hooks your skis and makes everything slower."

Germany's Eric Frenzel, who took the gold medal by six seconds in the Nordic Combined, said he loved the conditions. "I think the organizers did an excellent job," he said after his win.

Quiz
 Sochi 2014 or London 2012?
Mikko Martikainen, a Finnish snow expert who is helping at the RusSki Gorki venue, said operators have been blowing snow there with three machines that work at above-freezing temperatures. "We will manage," he said Wednesday.

Sochi organizers had promised the weather in the mountains rising from this Black Sea summer resort town wouldn't be a problem. When competitors began arriving ahead of the Feb. 7 opening ceremony, the mountains were below-freezing at night. Cold weather in December and January kept a thick layer of snow at higher elevations.
Then the weather turned and, to preserve snow quality, workers began sprinkling a chemically manipulated salt, which creates a thin layer of water that freezes after contact with the existing snow, forming a slick surface.

It works temporarily, even if the snow gets a bit slushy. But after a few days,  it can transform snow into what skiers described as mashed potatoes.
"This really resembles spring skiing," said U.S. Biathlon president Max Cobb. He is overseeing technical aspects of the biathlon course, which is located at an elevation of about 4,800 feet, the highest of Sochi's venues. "It's not as if the athletes haven't seen this before. It's just rare for the Olympics."

Cobb said workers salted parts of the biathlon course Tuesday and planned to salt the full course Thursday. "Anytime you're working with a salt, it's really frustrating," he said.

U.S. cross-country skiers described the snow as "sugary" during Tuesday's women's sprint race. Russian cross-country racer Anton Gafarov fell and broke his ski that day, later blaming the poor conditions. "The course isn't fit for an Olympics," he told a Russian sports news outlet.

International Olympics Committee Communications Director Mark Adams on Wednesday called concerns about the snow premature. "I was at some of the events yesterday and it doesn't seem to be an issue," he said. "I gather snow is coming at the weekend and that temperatures will go down."
American snowboarder Hannah Teter, who finished fourth in the women's halfpipe Wednesday, said conditions had improved over the past few days after workers scrambled to address complaints.

"It is, like, a hundred million times better today," Teter said after Wednesday's qualifying round. "I couldn't do any of my tricks in practice. It was just the worst pipe I'd ever been in in my life. But to show up today and have it be good was a blessing in disguise because it was like, 'Oh, this is so easy! This is what it's supposed to be like!'"

The warm weather may have helped snowboarder Sarka Pancochova of the Czech Republic. She crashed Sunday in the women's slopestyle competition and her helmet split nearly in half. Tests cleared her to compete Wednesday in the half-pipe. "I was lucky the snow was so soft," she said.

Sasha Rearick, a U.S. coach, said "within five minutes there can be a huge difference" in course conditions.

Dominique Gisin, of Switzerland, who shared a gold medal in the downhill event Wednesday with Tina Mazem said she was glad she raced early.

"For me, the course was perfect," Gisin said. "… I was sure lucky that I could start in front."

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The common problems in the carton printing

The majority of carton manufacturers have set printing, cutting, indentation production function in one of the printing and die cutting and slotting machine, simple operation, high automation degree, easy quality control, play a certain role in carton production process, but if the aging equipment, machine use improper adjustment, it is easy to appear some fault in printing, the production process of common printing problems encountered in the regular class analysis.

Layout quality problems appear dirty, paste version or local graphic imprinting is not clear

1, machine embossing related parts caused by bad quality failure

When a printing plate roller shaft, embossing roller shaft, drive shaft, gear and embossing associated important parts wear, loose, beating or sliding phenomenon resulting in nano imprint lithography process roll and embossing roll, the pressure instability, resulting in print layout and board contact is not normal, lead to paste version or local a scripture imprinted unclear problems cardboard printing surface. Through careful observation and analysis, find out the exact position of fault, take corresponding measures for treatment, repair of wear and tear, loose components, eliminating the fault phenomenon.

2, inking rollers caused by bad quality failure

When the roller shaft looseness, inking roller body bending, deformation or surface damage, can also cause the page dirty, paste version or local graphics and text is not clear. We should find out the reason, take the appropriate measures to deal with, so that the rollers and plates is maintained between the contact condition of uniform and appropriate, to replace damaged rollers, to eliminate the fault phenomenon.

3, pressure roller to adjust the quality failure caused by improper

If the pressure roller positioned too high or too low, so that with the corrugated board contact too tight or too loose, will also appear in the dirty version, paste version or local graphic imprinting is not clear, should adjust the pressure roller to the appropriate location, so that the gap between the board and the pressure roller and roller thickness to adapt, to ensure that the printed page the site, avoid the fault phenomenon.

Quality failure caused by improper 4, color sequence

If the printing layout is full text are arranged in the same group, when the process of corrugated board in the same group mechanism printing, because the board first in the same group of printing graphic inking, slow drying, extremely easy to make blot transfer caused Suites up dirty. To prevent this disease, should be small area layout in the same set of printing, the large area of the layout in the follow-up of color printing, can avoid the blot transfer caused by dirty version phenomenon.

Quality failure caused by uneven 5, plate thickness

When the rubber plate thickness is not uniform, a printing plate suites will appear high low. The layout of high place is easy to paste version, layout low place it is easy to appear over the insufficiency, caused the imprinting is not clear, in order to avoid the adverse situations, with sporadic seihan way, the plate is made into a plurality of small (that in order to save the rubber plate and no plate core plate technology), shall use the same block plates were produced, so that its thickness differences are relatively small. If you have already prepared rubber plate, presence of thickness difference, can make up for the localized in thin plate back more glue layer, so that the plates remain basically the same thickness, ensure the printing pressure and ink uniform layout.

Quality failure caused by uneven 6, corrugated cardboard thickness

If the depression traces forming the corrugated surface with man-made destruction, the sunken part of the paper will be imprinted quality defects is not clear, so if the total increase printing pressure compensation, easy to make the text, lines layout appear quality problem. In order to avoid layout paste, corrugated cardboard in stacked, handling process, should pay attention to light moving, light, light pressure (to control the stacking height), avoid the use of throw, hit, pressure and other adverse production customs handling.

Page graphic printing location not or unstable quality problem

The printing position, no 1 corrugated warp caused by

If the corrugated cardboard with warp adverse situation, then in the cardboard positioning and feeding process, prone to slipping phenomenon, even machine rules do not touch the paper edge, cause printing location not paperboard or unstable in print on the warpage of corrugated cardboard, as far as possible will be relatively flat edges, as the feed location. The edge of the paper. The most important is to control the quality of source, reasonable control of the single machine operation process, so that the speed and preheating temperature machine, paper moisture content and preheating area is relatively harmonious state; in the paper pay attention to moisture content is close to the liner board and corrugated sleeve mounted with synthetic, thus produced corrugated cardboard, flatness is relatively good, but the printing position accurately to ensure effective.

Printing location not caused by improper 2, operation process

If the plate location, also easy to cause the page printing location not. Because the warp defect of corrugated board has just entered the printing plate roller, such as slip trace, board support and shoot parts will appear obvious deviation, so the corrugated cardboard with color layout, should as far as possible toward the initial position of roller for paper orientation, and according to the determined corresponding measures to repair, remove loose components, in order to ensure corrugated cardboard printing position accurately.

3, the machine caused by inaccurate positioning

When the machine chain, rules and other components have loose phenomenon, also easy to cause the printed incorrect position, we should take corresponding measures to repair, remove loose parts, in order to ensure corrugated cardboard printing position accurately.

The quality problems often appear in print, some because of equipment caused by the poor, some are due to improper operation, so they should conscientiously do a good job of equipment maintenance, but also strict rules of correct, can effectively prevent or reduce the occurrence of poor quality problem, so that the production efficiency and product quality. Enhanced synchronously.

Miss Piggy's wedding dress revealed

Could Miss Piggy finally be tying the knot with her beloved frog Kermit?

She certainly has the big-gun designer, Vivienne Westwood, who designed the lavish outfit for Muppets Most Wanted (out March 21).

"Vivienne Westwood is fabulous—just like moi," Miss Piggy is quoted saying in a statement from Disney Studios on Tuesday. "When I asked her to design this wedding dress for moi's new movie Muppets Most Wanted, she was thrilled and I was thrilled. The only one a bit 'iffy' about it was the Frog."

In the film, Miss Piggy wears a Vivienne Westwood couture Long Ivory Court wedding gown, with corset detailing and paillettes made from recycled plastic bottles, accessorized with an ivory tulle veil.

Westwood also designed other outfits for the film. Miss Piggy wears a Vivienne Westwood couture Harris Tweedhoundstooth check coat and matching beret worn in a scene set at the famed Tower of London. There is also a long, silver hand-embroidered floral lace gown for another scene in the film.

So she has the clothes, but does Miss Piggy have the frog forever? In most Muppet films Kermit has always expressed cold feet on his frog legs. Could the new film, also starring Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and Ricky Gervais be different?

"You'll have to see the movie to find out," said Miss Piggy in the statement.

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There were celebs on the guest list but it was the amorous French president himself everybody was talking about

Guess who came to dinner at the White House state affair for French President François Hollande?

Well, besides Bradley Cooper.
Not Hollande's wife, because he doesn't have one. Not his gorgeous girlfriends, because he's already dumped two of them. And not his current gorgeous girlfriend, because, well, she's just too new to display to the Yanks, already agog at the details of his complicated romantic life.

But the show must go on when it's a grand state dinner at stake, and so President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed a solo Hollande for tonight's gala at the White House, where the celebrity guests included French-speaking heartthrob movie star Bradley Cooper and his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse.

Mrs. Obama, alone in the fashion spotlight tonight, wore a two-toned satiny gown, with a black-lace bodice and a full skirt in "liberty" blue with a wing-like train, by Carolina Herrera, according to her press people.

Other boldfaced names among the 350 guests included filmmaker J.J. Abrams accompanied by Irish actress Katie McGrath; Jill Abramson, editor of The New York Times, comedian Stephen Colbert, actress/comedian Mindy Kaling, Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, MSNBC pundit the Rev. Al Sharpton; Oscar-nominated actress Cicely Tyson; and CNN chief Jeff Zucker.

Singer Mary J. Blige also was there and will be performing.
The big question going into the dinner was who would sit next to President Obama in the seat usually reserved for the female companion of the male guest of honor. A listing of the guests at the head table seemed to suggest it would be Thelma Golden, head of the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York, while funnyman Colbert was seated next to FLOTUS.

They all dined inside a huge, heated tent on the South Lawn (because no room inside the White House is large enough to seat that many) at the Obamas' seventh state dinner in five years, making it a relatively rare occasion compared to some of his predecessors (President Reagan presided over 50).

The menu was American (no point in trying to outdo the French at their own game), including American Osetra caviar and quail eggs, winter garden salad with red wine vinaigrette, and dry-aged rib-eye beef and oysters and braised chard, finishing with Hawaiian chocolate-malted ganache over vanilla ice cream and tangerines.
Even the wine, especially the wine, was American: Morlet La Proportion Doree, 2011, Napa Valley; Chester-Kidder Red Blend 2009, Columbia Valley, Wash.; and Thibaut-Jannison Blanc de Chardonnay, Monticello.

When planning for the French state dinner began last year, Hollande was still living with his girlfriend, French journalist Valerie Trierweiler, for whom he had left his previous longtime romantic partner, French politician Ségolène Royal, the mother of his four children.

But after the official White House invitations including Trierweiler went out, a French tabloid snapped a helmeted Hollande arriving via motorcycle to a liaison with his new girlfriend, French actress Julie Gayet. Sacre bleu!

Suddenly, Trierweiler was out, and had to be hospitalized. But Gayet was not yet in, and new White House invitations were hastily prepared.

Of course, neither Obama referred to any of this during the official welcoming ceremonies and public events today, during which Mrs. Obama wore a scarlet flared coat with black gloves and knee-high black suede boots.

Hollande's three-day visit included a trip with POTUS to President Jefferson's Monticello estate in Charlottesville, Virginia on Monday.

The Obamas also presented Hollande with a gift, described by the White House as a custom-designed table that includes some wood from a fallen oak tree at Mount Vernon, the home of President George Washington. The center of the table is a handcrafted replica of the key to the Bastille that the Marquis de Lafayette gave to President Washington in 1790, forged from reclaimed iron from the Statue of Liberty.

Despite the Hollande contretemps, it's not unprecedented for a world leader to be feted solo at the White House: China's Hu Jintao didn't bring his wife to a state dinner in 2011, and Hollande's predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, soloed at a dinner in November 2007, a month after divorcing his wife, Cecilia (but before he married actress/model/singer Carla Bruni).

What is unprecedented is the White House use of social media in advance of the dinner. It's traditional for a first lady to preview the dinner place settings, the flowers and the menu, as Mrs. Obama did on Monday.

It's more unusual for the White House to offer "behind-the-scenes" video of preparations, and for FLOTUS to tweet photos of pickled vegetables from her kitchen garden to be used in the dinner.

Also, she tweeted an adorable shot of her dogs, Sunny and Bo, perched on upholstered chairs around a table set for the dinner.


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Reeling 76ers trail by 49 and lose by 43

Marreese Speights scored a career-high 32 points to hand his former a team a near-record setback, leading the Golden State Warriors past the Philadelphia 76ers, 123-80, Monday night in Oakland.

After losing, 123-78, to the Clippers on Sunday night at Staples Center, in a game they trailed by 56 points in the third quarter, the 76ers figured it couldn't get much worse.

It almost did — the Warriors led by 49 points in the fourth quarter.

Philadelphia nearly matched the NBA mark for the largest total margin of defeat in consecutive games. The Detroit Pistons lost by 95 points combined in back-to-back games in November 1966, according to STATS.

Stephen Curry had 23 points and eight assists for the Warriors.

at Detroit 109, San Antonio 100: Brandon Jennings scored 21 points, and the Pistons won in John Loyer's first game as interim coach. Detroit abruptly fired Maurice Cheeks on Sunday after only 50 games as coach, but the Pistons (22-29) have played better lately, winning five of their last seven games and pulling into a tie with Charlotte for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The Spurs have lost five of nine.

Houston 107, at Minnesota 89: Dwight Howard had 18 points and 15 rebounds, and the surging Rockets used a fourth-quarter push to claim their sixth consecutive victory. Chandler Parsons had 20 points and James Harden scored 19 for the Rockets (35-17), who have won six straight for the first time since taking seven in a row from Jan. 13-23, 2012. Kevin Love had 31 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who have lost four straight and six of seven.

at Indiana 119, Denver 80: David West scored 25 points and Roy Hibbert had 14 as the Pacers routed the short-handed Nuggets, who were without numerous injured players, including Andre Miller, Danilo Gallinari, JaVale McGee, Nate Robinson and Ty Lawson. Indiana, which beat Denver for the first time since Nov. 10, 2010, to snap a five-game skid in the series, improved the NBA's best record to 40-11 and the league's best home mark to 25-2.

at Toronto 108, New Orleans 101: Kyle Lowry had 19 points and 12 assists, Patrick Patterson scored a season-high 22, and the first-place Raptors won for the ninth time in 11 home games and moved three games ahead of Brooklyn in the Atlantic Division.

Boston 102, at Milwaukee 86: Jeff Green scored 29 points, Kelly Olynyk had 14 points and 11 rebounds, and the Celtics pulled away in the fourth quarter.

e Celtics pulled away in the fourth quarter.

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magazines, books (hard cover and soft cover), children’s books, 

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If people vote “yes” in September, then Scotland will become an independent country. There will be no going back.

历史的百年挂的平衡，一个问号悬在我们英国的未来。如果人们在九月投票“是”，那么苏格兰将成为一个独立的国家。就没有回头路。
正如我已经清楚，这是一个决定，那就是正视并只为那些在苏格兰进行。我相信热情，这是符合他们的利益留在英国。但我今天的论点是，虽然只有4万人能在这次公投投票，我们的全部63万人深刻影响。有6300万我们谁可以在不同的国家有不同的未来在他们之前的9月19日醒来。我们将深表没有减弱苏格兰，此事项给我们所有的期货。每个人都在英国可以有一个声音在这次辩论。
结果仍是在空中，而我们仅7个月的时间，7个月至竭尽所能来保持我们的英国为一个7个月，保存最非凡的国家在历史上。我们必须尽一切力量，让每个人，在英格兰，威尔士和北爱尔兰，人人都喜欢我谁在乎英国。
我想这样说，你没有票，但你有一个声音。那些投票的，他们是我们的朋友，他们是我们的邻居，他们是我们的家人，你有一定影响力。因此，获得在手机上，扎堆，电子邮件，鸣叫，说话，让我的消息环列。从曼彻斯特到马瑟韦尔，从彭布罗克郡珀斯，从贝尔法斯特到弼，从我们到苏格兰人民，让消息是这样的：我们希望你留下来！想想我们所做的一起，我们可以一起做，我们的主张在一起。英国队，获胜的球队在世界历史上，让我们团结在一起，为一个成功的未来了。

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MetLife Makes Big Bet on 'Small World'

 A few years ago, hotels and resorts were among the least attractive sectors in commercial real estate. Properties were filing for bankruptcy at a rapid rate, lenders were writing down the value of mortgages and buyers were scarce. These days, hotels and resorts are hot properties.That is good news for investors that were big buyers during the downturn, including Blackstone Group and Rockpoint Group. The rebound also has worked out well for insurance giant MetLife Inc., MET -0.34% which added to its hotel portfolio during the downturn.
Enlarge ImageThe Swan and Dolphin hotels at the Walt Disney World Resort recently were appraised at $638 million. MetLifeNow MetLife is doubling down. In late December, MetLife bought a stake in four brand-name hotels, including a majority stake in two resorts—the Swan and Dolphin hotels—at the Walt Disney DIS +1.50%World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The company declined to disclose what it paid, but the two adjacent properties recently were appraised at $638 million, according to Morningstar.MetLife, which has a $12 billion real-estate portfolio, said it expects to do more hotel deals. "Investing in hotels and resort properties fits with our strategy to be in robust, tier-one markets in order to drive income and build appreciation," said Robert Merck, a senior managing director at MetLife who heads the global real-estate investment group.The deal comes as investors are showing more interest in resort hotels nationwide. Last year, investors spent $4.5 billion to acquire resort hotels, up 140% from 2012. The average price per unit increased 112% to nearly $367,000, according to preliminary year-end research from Real Capital Analytics. Both were the highest levels since 2007.Resorts suffered a double whammy during the downturn: Vacation spending dried up while businesses scaled back on the conferences that can be lucrative for hotel operators. "It was the perfect storm," said Dan Fasulo, a Real Capital Analytics managing director. As the lending environment deteriorated, many hotels fell into foreclosure and were sold at significant discounts.When the economy began to recover, acquisitions of apartment buildings and office space were first to rebound. Now resorts are "finally starting to get some traction in this recovery," said Mr. Fasulo.Resort hotels are benefiting as businesses and consumers spend more. In November, revenue per available room was $78.14, up 8% from the prior year, according STR, a hotel research firm. Occupancy climbed to 57.8%, from 56.4% a year earlier.What's more, research from MLV & Co., which tracks publicly held hotels, shows that convention-center bookings are up 5% for 2014 after being down 1% at this time in 2013. "You're seeing leisure accelerate across resorts [and] investors can see the group bookings on the books," said MLV analyst Ryan Meliker. "You've got more confidence and willingness to pay up for those assets."Industry watchers expect resort deals to continue to be hot in 2014. "Resorts in general, and Florida resorts, are viewed as highly attractive," said Dan Peek, who leads brokerage HFF's hotel practice. "The market has come around to the point that most resort markets are worthy investments."The MetLife deal involved MetLife buying Silverpeak Real Estate Partners' 25% interest in several properties owned by Tishman Realty Corp., including the Westin New York at Times Square and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. MetLife already owned a portion of the Swan and Dolphin hotels, so this deal brings its ownership to 59%.The resort complex, which opened in 1989 and 1990 and has about 2,300 rooms, is located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios. Disney doesn't own the buildings, but it owns the underlying land and receives compensation. Westin runs the Swan while Sheraton operates the Dolphin.The Swan's and Dolphin's occupancy rates were above 80% in 2013, up from the high 60s in 2002, according to Morningstar. "The properties perform much better relative to their peer groups," Morningstar wrote. The firm calculated the revenue per available room at more than $139 and the annual net cash flow at $39 million. It values each room at $211,217.Corrections & Amplifications
MetLife Inc. purchased a share of the Westin New York at Times Square. An earlier version of this article said MetLife purchased a share of the Westin New York Grand Central.

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Our production inludes paper box (cardboard box,gift box,cigarette box,wine box, daily goods box, retail packaging, cosmetic box), paper bags (gift bags, shopping bags, wine bags, marketing bags, handbags) and printings of brochures, catalogs, magazines, books (hard cover and soft cover), children’s books, art books, cookbooks, journals, diaries, ring binders, presentation folders, notebooks, calendars, placemat/3D placemat、 postcards/3D Postcards, greeting cards , leaflets, booklets, decals ,and etc.  

U.K. unemployment drops closer to BOE threshod

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Unemployment in the U.K. dropped to 7.1% in the three months to November, inching closer to the Bank of England's threshold of 7% for considering raising interest rates. In the three months to October, the joblessness rate was 7.4% and analysts expected the November reading to come in at 7.3%. The labor market in the U.K. has been closely watched since last summer, when the BOE provided its first forward guidance and said it would keep rates at a record low until the unemployment rate drops at least to 7%. The central bank said in minutes from its January meeting -- also out on Wednesday -- that even if the 7% unemployment threshold were to be reached in the near future, there is no immediate need to raise the interest rate. The minutes also showed that the policy-setting committee voted unanimously to keep the benchmark interest rate at 0.5% and make no changes to its monetary-easing program. The pound GBPUSD +0.1775% jumped after the data, trading at $1.6536.



Hangzhou Royal Printing Co., Ltd is a leading printer in east China, mainly dealing with books, magazines , catalogues printing and packaging.Our production inludes paper box (cardboard box,gift box,cigarette box,wine box, daily goods box, retail packaging, cosmetic box), paper bags (gift bags, shopping bags, wine bags, marketing bags, handbags) and printings of brochures, catalogs, magazines, books (hard cover and soft cover), children’s books, art books, cookbooks, journals, diaries, ring binders, presentation folders, notebooks, calendars, placemat/3D placemat、 postcards/3D Postcards, greeting cards , leaflets, booklets, decals ,and etc. We are certified with SGS , Our products are widely exported to more than 30 countries including Australia, Europe, USA and Africa.

 

What is the role of mat

Mat with anti scalding, non slip effect. Not completely protect the dining tables mat and chairs, with a small and unique patterns, absolutely is a combination of excellent natural and beautiful

Mat is enough to melt the indoor monotonous space..... A comfortable tea corner plus cooked snacks make small space in a comfortable and cozy cloth mat decoration desktop has a decorative role, this rose petal like Valentine's Placemat rosy cheeks, eyes colorful is to create a warm atmosphere.... mat used it in the layout table will influence the mood, rich and colorful to desktop color coordinated overall make only superficial changes adjust atmosphere with like roses design pillow off space, although only a small accessories, even ordinary space may also be because the pillow join and change the monotonous.

Color box packaging services

Color box packaging services

Color box packaging services in modern society become increasingly important, and certainly you can make more profit in the product packaging.

A professional color box packing service chamber of Commerce to help you save huge costs and energy. Have experience in packing and rich professional knowledge, more printing is toward a better direction.

Hangzhou Royal Printing Co., Ltd is a leading printer in east China, mainly dealing with books, magazines , catalogues printing and packaging .

postcard

Postcard of a variety of forms, in addition to a postcard commonly used, there are two postcards. It is folded oppositely connected by two single chip. Folding form with upper and lower folded, but also about. When in use, one by the sender to write content, on the other a back plate (side piece) write address to accept yourself, folded the mail. The recipient to reply, in writing to side plate. Double postcards and some printed stamp, no postage postcards to double by the sender in the positive, side plate stamped. Double postcards were first issued by the Bavarian and the German Empire in 1872. China first double postcards is Qing Dynasty Post issued in 1898. Double postcards can be used in the domestic, international communication. Held in Tokyo in 1969 sixteenth session of the UPU Congress, decided to stop for two postcards business in international communication. Postcards and horizontal, vertical division, this is in accordance with the countries (or area) and the design of the written forms. Postcards from positive seal stamp or stamped location box, name and address lines on the basis of distinguishing anyway. Vertical postcards in China, Japan, South korea. A postcard is monolithic form sold, there will be a piece of bound for sale. Postcard together along the gutter, a line of perforations, easy separating tear. The postage for a postcard book binding cost the carrying is very convenient to use. Postcard shape, almost rectangular, Japan issued a fish shaped wooden postcard.

The printing industry is a font used most widely

Arial: Song typeface is the printing industry most one font widely, according to the appearance of the word is different, Shanghai calendar printing is divided into books and newspaper song song. The song is a kind of printing originated in the Song Dynasty woodblock printing pass. Times New Roman font founder, stroke smooth vertical and horizontal, cross thin vertical rough, angular, rigorous structure, neat and uniform, pen with great regularity, so that the people when reading a striking feel comfortable. In modern printing is mainly used for the text books or newspapers part.

Create a new fashion gifts

1, understand the peer

Each industry market competition, the competition has progress. Avoid and peer with a gift, because who desktop will not swing two the same function. Such as particular calendar, not the office staff will put more desk." So do the market investigation and study is the peer, our marketing department responsible person will be on the market and other market data analysis and investigation of "Anlin is very proud to say.

2, the quality of gifts

New Year gifts, calendars, desk calendar, weekly calendar to advertising effect was the best. At the end of the year will become the primary consideration of business gifts, quantitative will be greater than usual. Wall calendar, desk calendar, calendar quality is very important. The paper is good or bad influence positioning of own enterprise, two or three months after the paper yellowing, discoloration, roll angle. Don't mass order cheap defective, then such as street advertisement sieboldii powder as sent. Carefully choose the right of their gifts, customers are carefully return.

3, ordering products and special design differences

The ordered products in the original product is hot on the company's advertising, layout design is the calendar, desk calendar, calendar content pages printed on your company's image and information. Or the product renderings printed calendar contents. Page design is the specificity, it not only can play a role of advertising, but also the promotion of enterprise culture, to promote their own brand awareness.

4, a goal

Anlin believes that, although he is a designer, but a target audience is the first to consider. The gift is the goal and the advertising on TV, let the customer to see their ads every day. When the customer demand, the first time that we see our. Such as the manager's desk stood on the pad, office himself sent hanging there, contact your desk calendar calendar.

5, gifts

Secondly, according to the different character, status and taste different from the people, send gifts also each are not identical. A man of great enterprise, in the birthday or festive day, if can send some contain "prosperity", "win success immediately upon arrival" means the gift, he would have to one's heart's content. Previously most users will make large quantities of the calendar, but forgot to order some noble can distinguish the identity of the gift. Such as the manager and executor between office should not send the same items.

6, choice and corporate culture of similar content

For each style calendar, desk calendar will have a variety of content. Such as car sales industry choice car floor of the calendar, the choice of company property and house.