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A familiar and welcomed figure throughout the State of
Ohio and Northeastern America, Publisher Anne Ying Pu celebrated the
15 year anniversary of The Erie Chinese Journal and the 5th
Anniversary of Erie Cup, LLC, surrounded by family, friends and
community leaders on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at the Punch Bowl Social
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Among the guests honoring Anne Ying Pu at the 15th anniversary
celebration were ITM Chairman & CEO, Jack Craciun III, and other
associates from ITM Ltd., where Anne Pu Ying sits on the Board of
Advisors of The First Dragon Ltd., and The First Dragon Foundation
Ltd., including: Dr. Rubin Cockrell, CEO of Positive Image &
Associates and a Founder /Vested Member of the Board of Advisors of
ITM’s The First Dragon Global Chinese Cross Cultural Exchange & a
Founder / Director of The First Dragon Foundation Ltd.; Brandi
Hunter, ITM (US) Chief IT Advisor & Audio Visual Content Director;
David Van Horn, ITM Social Media Content Production & Management
Director and Global Business Advisor, and founder of The Cleveland
Writer’s Press and Group; and Ed Sparks, ITM (US) Music Production
Advisor & Performing Artist.
Entertainment at the 15th anniversary celebration was provided by
Cleveland’s own violinist and “hip-hope” artist, “Humble G The
Fiddla”, who originally was introduced to Anne Ying Pu in 2015 by
Jack Craciun. Attendees were also surprised with an impromptu
performance by P-Funk alumnus Ed “Dr. Phrock” Sparks and Jack
Craciun of “Made in Cleveland (TBT)”, the title song from the second
album of The First Dragon Music Suite(s) , a trilogy of albums that
tell the story of the birth and evolution of Chinese culture. “Made
in Cleveland (TBT)”, by Elektrikk Sparks with lyrics by Jack Craciun,
merges thebeats and vibes of Cleveland's Rock and Roll, Funk, and
Hip Hop with the spirit of Chinese music themes, while telling the
true musical story of Cleveland’s Rock & Roll heritage and how it
changed the world.
“CLE Rock Spirit changed the world,
In “19”- Seven-O,
At that time we gave birth,
To Rockin FM Radio”
“Truth be Told”
The ECJ celebration was covered by celebrity videographer J.T.Thomas
of FashionTV News, whose background includes filming the world’s
biggest entertainers for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum/ Hall
of Fame Series with Director Angelo LaMarco. J.T., who has a long
association with ITM and ECJ, has covered over 450 of the world's
biggest artists from Al Green and Nile Rogers to Grand Master Flash,
Chuck D and Mandy Moore.
Dr. Rubin Cockrell attended the festivities on the heels of his
recent speaking engagement at his alma mater, Cleveland’s
Benedictine High School, where he is a member of the Board of
Trustees, and their 15th Annual Blue & White Crystal Gala, where
over $100,000 was raised in scholarships for Benedictine students.
Chairman of Benedictine’s Executive Board of Trustees, Mr. Andy
Smith, joined Dr. Cockrell to congratulate Anne Ying Pu and
celebrate their upcoming association with ITM and ECJ to work
together to create cross-cultural exchange programs for Benedictine
and mainland Chinese students.
In 2002, through hard work fueled by her profound American / Chinese
entrepreneurial spirit, Anne Ying Pu founded The Erie Chinese
Journal (ECJ), ), a bi-monthly Chinese and English language
newspaper with readerships throughout the Northeastern United States
and globally through the ECJ website, was established in 2002. The
versatile and highly motivated Anne Pu served as reporter,
photographer, editor, publisher, ad salesman and ECJ regional
publication distributor.
Fifteen years later, Anne Ying Pu’s ECJ is one of the most highly
respected non-mainland news media publications in China. ECJ
continues to grow and serve the Chinese and English speaking
community regionally and globally by providing a platform for
traditional and contemporary cross-cultural exchangeswhile
delivering local and national news stories relating to politics,
business, education, entertainment, sports, healthy living and human
interest in both English and Chinese.
Today, Annie Pu Ying is a well-known and respected presence
throughout the City of Cleveland and is active in numerous
organizations and cultural and social service philanthropic
endeavors. She can be found covering nearly every major event for
ECJ, both in and outside of the Chinese community. She is also
President of Global Chinese Service, LLC.
In 2008 Anne Ying Pu and Jack joined forces by establishing a
globally focused strategic alliance dedicated to market the Culture
of China to the world. As Jack Craciun’s father had predicted in
1985, “by 2010, China will become the new number two economy on
earth.”
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Jack Craciun III is globally recognized
China Specialist (CNN News Hong Kong, “CNN Newsmakers Special -
China Specialist Jack Craciun III”) whose literally earth-shaking
work in the fields of FM Radio broadcasting, live event and
film/video productions, Media communications, cross cultural
exchange, cross-over artist development, and third-world market
economic development, has consistently and repeatedly redefined
international consumer product manufacturing and branding based on
defining new media networks and related demographic groups to
deliver new consumer expendable income ratios. His hallmark
humanitarian endeavors and initiatives perpetuate the pioneering
spirit of his family name, “Craciun,” Romanian for “Christmas.”
During his 30 years of global pioneering in the fields of
broadcasting and communications, Jack arrived inChina in 1985. He
spent 20 years on the ground pioneering in China before returning
home to Cleveland, “The Rock and Roll Capital of The World” to
establish The First Dragon Foundation Ltd. and complete production
of The First Dragon Ltd. Global Chinese Cross Cultural Exchange, a
news and social media driven non-fiction and mythological
intellectual property branding and consumer product merchandising
and licensing enterprise.
Anne Ying Pu first met Jack Craciun in 2007 during an Asian
Leadership Luncheon with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, where Mr.
Craciun addressed the forum. They learned very quickly of their
mutualinterest to market Chinese culture to the world. Her dream to
grow her newspaper into a global internet news, education and
entertainment media fell directly in line with ITM’s global
broadcasting and entertainment accomplishments and its present
Cleveland based enterprise, “The First Dragon Ltd.
The First Dragon enterprise, through ITM’s creation and production
of a phantasmagoria of unique proprietary cross-culturally defined
intellectual property content in the fields of fine art,
Calligraphy, literature and music, will deliver the culture of China
to the world and, as in the past with the “British Invasion” of
fifty years ago, the delivery and success of the cultural exchange
will be fueled from Cleveland, Ohio, the Rock & Roll Capital of the
World, by merging Chinese musical culture and tradition with that of
the West.
The people of color,
The Roots uh Rock-&-Roll,
Like the birth of mankind - we all lie,
In their DNA & soul;
“Heights High will hit Deep Blues”
Yo-British Invasion - sailed in,
On Muddy Waters DNA,
Put 3 trillion green backs into the EU,
And PRC today;
“Truth be Told”
The world’s population is now 7 billion, with half under the age of
30. In the United States alone, expendable non-discretionary income
for 8 to 22 year olds is approximately $120 billion annually. ITM
research has now defined and confirmed a new global demographic with
new and profound expendable income ratios that never existed before
in human history – the Asian population on earth is now in excess of
4 billion people.
Since 2007, The Erie Chinese Journal has published over 28 feature
stories covering the evolution of ITM’s pioneering work in and
around the world, including its 30 year focus on China that began in
1985.
ECJ’s 15th anniversary celebration kicks off the third and final
stage of intellectual property and eCommerce development productions
leading to the release of The First Dragon Global Enterprise.
The global strategic alliance established by Anne Ying Pu and Jack
Craciun has merged two significant business cultures in Cleveland:
The Erie Chinese Journal LLC. and Global Chinese Service, LLC with
ITM Ltd (Group), The First Dragon Global Cross Cultural Exchange
Enterprise, The First Dragon Foundation , The Future of Medicine,
Inc , and The First Dragon Publishing Ltd. are working together to
educate and entertain a globe of humanity while producing
spectacular recognition and economic rewards,not only for their
venturers and service providers, but also for the City of Cleveland,
now recognized as the Rock and Roll Capital of the World and The
Medical Capital of the World。
By Lorinda Laughlin |
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