World’s longest sea bridge opens in China…Cost less than a billion pounds(PHOTOS)

China has opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge – which stretches five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais.

The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles long and links China’s eastern port city of Qingdao to the offshore island Huangdao.

The road bridge, which is 110ft wide and is the longest of its kind, cost nearly £1billion to build.

Chinese TV reports said the bridge passed construction appraisals on Monday and it, along with an undersea tunnel, would be opened for traffic today.

It took four years to build the bridge, which is supported by more than 5,000 pillars across the bay, and it is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder – the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

That structure features two bridges running side by side and is 23.87 miles long.

The three-way Qingdao Haiwan Bridge is 174 times longer than London’s Tower Bridge, spanning the River Thames, but cuts only 19 miles off the drive from Qingdao to Huangdao.

Two separate groups of workers have been building it from different ends of the structure since 2006.

After linking the two ends of the bridge on December 22, one engineer said: ‘The computer models and calculations are all very well but you can’t relax until the two sides are bolted together.

Even a few centimeters out would have been a disaster.’

The engineering feat will only hold the record as the longest sea bridge for a few years – it will be beaten by another Chinese bridge in the next decade.

Last December officials announced workers had begun constructing a bridge to link southern Guangdong province with Hong Kong and Macau.

Set to be completed in 2016, officials said the £6.5billion Bridge will span nearly 30 miles.

It will be designed to cope with earthquakes up to magnitude 8.0, strong typhoons and the impact of a 300,000 tonne vessel.

But both structures will still be dwarfed by the longest bridge in the world, also in China.

The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is an astonishing 102 miles in length.

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Malaysian Missing Jet: claim relatives Passengers’ phones are still ringing

Relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 claimed that they were able to call cell phones of their loves ones, according to media reports.

The Washington Post said that the families of some of the 239 people onboard the missing Boeing 777 claimed to have heard the mobile ringtones.

“In some cases, the relatives could see them active online through a local Chinese networking site called QQ,” the Post reported.

The eerie development comes even as Malaysian authorities described MH370′s disappearance an unprecedented mystery.

One man told the Washington Post that his brother-in-law’s QQ account indicated that he was online.

Frustratingly for those desperate for some news or sign, messages have gone unanswered and calls were not picked up.

Search and rescue (SAR) operation involving 10 countries has so far failed to find any trace of the missing airliner.

Britain’s Daily Mail reported that the phantom phone calls and online presence had set off a new level of hysteria among relatives and next-of-kin, most of whom have spent three days cooped up at a Beijing Hotel waiting for news on the missing plane.

MAS officials in Beijing have been told repeatedly about the QQ accounts and ringing telephone calls, and relatives are hoping that SAR forces will be able to triangulate the GPS signals of the phones to locate their loved ones.

Bian Liangwei, sister of one of the passengers aboard MH370, claimed that she was able to reach her elder brother’s phone.

“This morning, around 11:40am, I called my older brother’s number twice, and I got the ringing tone,” she told the International Business Times.

At 2pm, Bian called again and again heard its ring tone.

“If I could get through, the police could locate the position, and there is a chance he could still be alive,” she said.

However, at a press conference in Beijing, MAS spokesman Ignatius Ong said one of the numbers provided to the airline’s head office in Kuala Lumpur had failed to get through.

“I myself have called the number five times while the airline’s command centre also called the number. We got no answering tone,” Ong said.

Search for the missing plane has now moved to the Straits of Malacca, some 100 miles away from where it was last recorded by electronic monitoring devices.

The dramatic shift raises the possibility that it flew undetected, crossing mainland Malaysia, before ditching into the sea.

MAS said Malaysia’s western coast near the Straits of Malacca was now the focus of the hunt.

Civil aviation chief Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, however, said the statement didn't imply authorities believed the plane was off the western coast.

“The search is on both sides,” he said.

The plane was carrying 239 people when it vanished off radar screens early Saturday morning en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, triggering a massive international search effort.

Authorities have expanded their search to include areas where the plane could have in theory ended up given the amount of fuel it had on board.

On Sunday, Malaysia’s air force chief said military radar indicated that the jet might have turned back before disappearing. – March 11, 2014.

 We pray that God will do something from ASB-World.

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SEEK GOD'S WILL

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. Lamentations 3:25

A middle-aged polygamous man was saddled with the impossible chore of pleasing his two wives.

One of the wives was old and the other was young. Each of the wives claimed to love him very much and desired to make him look as they liked.

Now the man's hair was turning grey, which the young wife did not like, as it made him look too old for her husband.

So every night, when she combed his hair, she would pick out the grey hairs from his head.

The elder wife on the other hand loved to see the husband's grey hair because it made him look his age and she did not like to appear older than her husband.

So every morning, when she combed the hair of her husband, she would take out as many black hairs as possible from his head.

With each wife 'lovingly' trying to turn the husband into the kind of man they liked, the husband soon found himself completely bald.

The lesson is simple. If you accept everybody's view of who you are supposed to be, you will end up losing what you have. You will become 'bald'.

There are many people with good intentions for you but in the end, you must seek the intentions of God.

Don't just live your life on the advice of friends and loved ones. Go to the scriptures and find out the ways of God.

Spend time in prayer to find out what the Lord wants you to do. Nurture your own walk with God so that you can hear His voice when He speaks to you.

Seek the Lord with all your heart and you will find His will for your life.

Prayer: Lord, I desire that my life be lived for your glory and purpose.

Scriptural Reading: Lamentations 3:22-25

What you don't know about Psalm 23.....

This is an eye opener; some probably never thought nor looked at this Psalm in this way, even though they say it over and over again:
1. The Lord is my Shepherd: That's Relationship!
2. I shall not want: That's Supply!
3. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: That's Rest!
4. He leadeth me beside the still waters: That's Refreshment!
5. He restoreth my soul: That's Healing!
6. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness: That's Guidance!
7. For His name sake: That's Purpose!
8. Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death: That's Testing!
9. I will fear no evil: That's Protection!
10. For Thou art with me: That's Faithfulness!
11. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me: That's Discipline!
12. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies: That's Hope!
13. Thou annointest my head with oil: That's Consecration!
14. My cup runneth over: That's Abundance!
15. Surly goodness and mercy shall follow me, all the days of my life: That's Blessing!
16. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord: That's Security!
17. Forever: That's Eternity!
Because the Lord loves us and He is thinking about us, He has provided us with so many good things. It is only left with us to believe, trust and follow Him. Amen: So shall it be, in Jesus name.

Try these tasty spiral cheese buns

Ingredients

Flour - 450-500 g

Warm milk - 160 ml

Fresh yeast - 15 g

Egg - 2 pcs (1 - the dough, 1 - for greasing)

Olive oil - 80 ml

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Salt - 1.5 tsp

Soft butter

Grated cheese - 100 g

Sesame

Dissolve the yeast in warm milk with sugar. Leave in a warm place to raise the "cap" In flour, add salt, egg, olive oil, brew.  

Preparations 

To make these tempting and tasty spiral cheese buns first you have to knead dough with yeast, sugar, milk, flour, salt, olive oil and egg. Then for each bun, roll an oval shape of the dough. Cut its strips with knife but remember to leave one side uncut as shown. After that brush this striped oval dough with melted butter and sprinkle grated cheese over it. Then start rolling it from the uncut side in a slanting manner. Once a long roll is ready twist it and form a bun. Finish making all the rolls and put them on a silicon mat or greased baking tray. Brush a beaten egg on all the rolls and sprinkle some sesame seeds.  

Bake them in the oven until ready. Enjoy with tea, coffee or milk. Be the buns for 10 minutes for proofing. Grease the muffin egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and send it in the oven for 20-25 minutes at 180 *. Bake until golden brown. For further details about the recipe visit the translated method at lianda cooking.

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What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

This pain is dragging you down, robbing your joy, aching your heart. No one seems to understand. Maybe they don’t even know.

You’ve pleaded with God for deliverance. You put your faith in Him. You’ve been waiting a long time. Nothing. You are out of options. You have no plays left to run. It looks like game over.

But is that what’s really going on? Just because you don’t know what to do doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.

God is sovereignly orchestrating every event in our lives for His glory and our ultimate good. We will be delivered.

Long before His people were even in bondage, Isaiah wrote, “In that day the Lord will end the bondage of his people. He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders” (Is. 10:27).

Our part?

“So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor” (1 Pet. 5:6). When will this happen? Only God knows, but He has made a promise that it will happen at “the right time.”

By PatrickMorley

Prayer for You, and happy new week!

I will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you; I will add to your numbers, and you will not be decreased; I will bring you honor, and you will not be disdained. Your children will be as in days of old, and you will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress you. I will bring you near to me, declares the LORD. 

I will loved you with an everlasting love; I will show you unfailing kindness. I will build you up again. I will bring you from the land of the north and gather you from the ends of the earth. I will lead you beside streams of water on a level path where you will not stumble,

You will be like a well-watered garden, and you will sorrow no more. I will turn your mourning into gladness; I will give you comfort and joy instead of sorrow. I will satisfy you with abundance, and you will be filled with my bounty, declares the LORD.

Reference: Jeremiah 30: 8; 10; 16-18, Jeremiah 31:3-4; 12; 14

The same brothers who sold Joseph to slavery had to come bow down to him to get food! God will cause all the enemies in your life to bow down to you in the name of Jesus! Just as the enemies of Israel worked to preserve the promise land for them, your enemies are working for you and all the wealth of the wicked shall be transferred to you because you are the righteousness of God!

 Happy New Week from us ASB-World.