The world’s longest bridge over sea water has opened in opened to general traffic on in China’s eastern coastal city of Qingdao. Jiaozhou Bay is located on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula in East China. It separates Huangdao District from Qingdao City and borders on two other cities, Jiaozhou and Jiaonan. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, with a total length of 42.4 kilometres would easily cross the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana. Built in just four years at a cost of 55.5 billion pounds, the sheer scale of the bridge reveals the advances made by Chinese engineers in recent years.
Directed by Poull Brien. Debut album “No Time For Dreaming” out NOW. Daptone / Dunham Records. www.thecharlesbradley.com Jon Chen DP Stu McCardle: Editor / Camera Man Alex Brough: Producer Video Rating: 4 / 5
playingforchange.com – As we made our way around the world we encountered love, hate, rich and poor, black and white, and many different religious groups and ideologies. It became very clear that as a human race we need to transcend from the darkness to the light and music is our weapon of the future. This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We dont need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on. This is the fourth Song Around The World video released from the CDPlaying For Change: Songs Around The World and the follow up to the classics “Stand By Me,” “One Love” and “Don’t Worry.” This unforgetable track was performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe. Order the CD/DVD Playing For Change Songs Around The World” now at amazon.com! tinyurl.com The Playing For Change “Songs Around The World” CD/DVD is also available at your neighborhood Starbucks and everywhere music is sold. Order the “War/No More Trouble,” “Stand By Me,” “Don’t Worry,” and “One Love” videos and the new Songs Around The World album now at itunes! tinyurl.com Sign up at playingforchange.com for updates and exclusive content. You can also buy cool stuff in our new online store! Join the Playing for Change Online Street Team at ufanz.com Join the movement to help inspire people from around the world to come together through music. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Conveniently located in Centreville, Virginia and 15 minutes away from the nation’s capitol, Washington, DC, SPA WORLD is a family-oriented luxury spa resort promoting health, beauty, leisure, and life. With over 50,000 sq. ft., Spa World is the largest Asian-style spa resort in the U.S. offering a unique, technologically-enhanced, full-service experience.
At Spa World, we offer 6 different poultice rooms (Amethyst Gem, Red Clay, Blue Onyx, Ice, Charcoal, Red Clay Ball, Blue Onyx and Salt Rock), a 7,800 sq. ft. heated/cooled yellow onyx great room, state-of-the-art water massage therapy, “Bade Pool”, and various herb-themed public baths to help you to relax and revitalize.
For your convenience, we provide the following:
Bade Pool • Seven Poultice Rooms • State-of-the-art Fitness Center • Separated Men/Women’s Designated Smoking Room • Separated Men/Women’s Designated Resting Room • Children’s Play Room • Banquet Room • Restaurant • Juice Bar • Hair Salon • Foot Massage • Body Massage
The Sauna Bath uses high temperatures and low humidity to produce a dry heat. Benefits include improving blood circulation, increasing metabolism, clarifying the skin, and relaxing muscles and joints.
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The Steam Bath maintains a higher temperature than the sauna, producing steam inside of an enclosed stone dome. Benefits include purifying and detoxifying the skin and body, increasing circulation, and stimulating the immune system.
The Poultice Room generates radiant heat from natural earth elements such as hot red clay, elvan, gem and germanium. Benefits include not only the beneficial effects of thermotherapy but also that of infrared rays, which is associated with removal of harmful toxins from the body.
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2) DREAM BATH: bath that analyzed the lying position, it massages the tension in muscle by using high pressured water stream from JET nozzle on sole, calf, femoral region, waist, shoulder. (5 minute at a time)
3) BENCH JET: in a seating position, it relaxes the muscles by pressuring sole, calf, waist and side of the body. Great for strengthening blood circulation and recovering fatigue. (5 minute at a time)
4) HYDRO JET: when standing, it accelerates metabolism through sectional massage on shoulder, back, waist, femoral region, thigh and calf with high pressured water coming from all angles of the wall. (5 minute at a time)
5) WAVE JET: high pressured water from pool wall massages the upper body and enhances the diet effect (5 minute at a time)
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7) NECK SHOWER: water massage using falling water stream: releases the tension of neck, shoulder muscles
FLOATING: Using the JET stream positioned on the pool floor, it massages foot, and great for whole body stretch (5 minute at a time) (5 minute at a time)
9) BUBBLE JET: while massaging by water pressure, the form from the water creates supersonic waves, which inflicts fine vibration to body cells. Such vibration is great for muscle pain or recovering from fatigue as well as skin care as it eliminates skin impurities through the vibration of supersonic waves. The form from the jet also contains plenty of anion, which relaxes the mind and releases stress. (5 minute at a time)
Welcome to Closet World! If you’re here, it’s probably because you started looking for a way to maximize the organization in your life. Not everyone is a born organizer, while some breeze through the decorating and organizing of their home, others struggle and leave things in boxes that are packed away in the closet. Closet World is here to help you not only organize your closet, but the rest of your home as well!
There are a lot of options when it comes to organizing your home, and before you can make an informed decision, you really should look at all of them. The most easy option is to organize everything yourself. Some use milk crates, like those used in college dorm rooms, to help keep their clothes and belongings in order. The problem with this is that it doesn’t look very attractive, and it’s not easy to access any of your things, so while it’s probably the easiest and least expensive option; it’s usually not the best one. After all, we can only live like college students for so long.
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Others choose to go to department stores and purchase do-it-yourself kits in order to organize their closet or garage. They believe that it will be less expensive in the long run and will work just as well. Once they get the kit home, however, they discover that it is made very cheaply and is not built to last. They also generally find that putting it together is extremely difficult and not worth their time.
Those who go with Closet World get a truly unique experience. They get a designer who comes to their home and discusses their specific needs. They then get a custom design that is meant for their home and their home only. The pieces are installed by a professional and everything goes off without any hassle or annoyances to the home owner. Best of all, all of their materials are built to last, so no matter whether you have the home for five years, or for 25 years, you’ll feel secure in knowing that your storage system is still stable. When you weight the options, Closet World always comes out on top. Their prices are low and their materials are high quality, making it a win-win situation for everyone involved!
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playingforchange.com – From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change Peace Through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This is the third video from the documentary and a follow up to the classic “Stand By Me” and the incredible “Don’t Worry.” Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe. Order the CD/DVD Playing For Change Songs Around The World” now at amazon.com! tinyurl.com Playing For Change “Songs Around The World” is now available at your neighborhood Starbucks and everywhere music is sold. Order the “One Love,” “War/No More Trouble, “Stand By Me,” and “Don’t Worry,” videos and the new Songs Around The World album now at itunes! tinyurl.com Sign up at playingforchange.com for updates and exclusive content. You can also buy cool stuff in our new online store! Join the Playing for Change Online Street Team at ufanz.com Join the movement to help inspire people from around the world to come together through music. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Area 51 is the most mysterious “top-secret military test facility” in the world. New technologies vital to United States national security are developed here. Insiders claim that even recovered spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin are studied and test flown at Area 51. In a three-year investigation, a German film crew dove deeply into the secrets of “Dreamland” and Area 51, interviewing top scientists and security personnel who worked inside Area 51 and claim to have seen what can only now be described as alien spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin. This program presents the facts about these amazing discoveries and includes stunning film footage of the remarkable flight maneuvers of these mysterious alien spacecraft secretly recorded during test flights at Area 51. UFOs – Secrets Of The Black World – Now on DVD, 135 Min. Cat# U432 – Go to www.UFOTV.com Video Rating: 4 / 5
DOWNLOAD THE SONG: itunes.apple.com This song and video I made was an entry for the Xfire Summer Movie Contest and placed third in the Dance/Music Category. This parody of Weird Al Yankovic’s “Your Horoscope for Today” takes his entertaining lyrics and changes them into a parody of World of Warcraft. Visit my website for more awesome, hilarious, and badass videos: www.ianbeckman.com
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Janel World Trade offers full-service cargo transportation logistics management, including freight forwarding – via air, ocean and land-based carriers – customs brokerage services, and warehousing and distribution services. The company operates a second, much smaller segment selling computer software, support, and maintenance. Janel offers value-added logistics services in addition to its traditional freight forwarding business that’s been conducting business through a network of company-operated facilities and independent agent relationships in most trading countries.
I’ve written two articles previously on Janel as two interesting pieces of news hit wires almost back-to-back, starting with the company announcing they had completed a comprehensive and successful test on the effectiveness and safety of Clear Blue 104™ as an effective algaecide and bactericide in live lake conditions during 2009. The Clear Blue project is one that’s been in research and development for the last two years specifically for the application of Lake Tai, a body of water in Shanghai that supplies drinking water around the country that has recently been plagued by an explosion of dangerous algae born from man-made waste that has turned the lake ghoulish fluorescent green.
While the solutions to the rampant and observable pollutions in China are going to ultimately be political, Janel has been working had to provide a practical step towards changing the ultimate fate of this ancient countryside’s primary source of water, a basic human necessity and resource. Solutions are available, but the government won’t get behind them because that would shake the “social order” of the culture – that environmental activities speaking out and damming the current conditions to bring about social change would be heard by stepping on the toes of the local officials.
I talked with Paul McCreary, he’s the president of the Environmental Products Division at Janel who was able to clarify the history of the project and some updates. First and foremost, I asked how a U.S. transportation and logistics company becomes involved with cleaning up polluted lakes in China.
Janel had been approached about two years ago by an environmental group who wanted to move 600 containers of clean-up solution to Lake Tai and had asked Paul for help in acquiring some of the needed equipment and manpower to complete the project, a value-added service the company was happy to provide. Having a familiarity with Chinese customs and the nature of how they do business, the management team at Janel began to notice the environmental group wasn’t progressing the way they should because they did not recognize what they were doing wrong – specifically, dealing with the central governments and bypassing the local officials who are actually in control of the municipalities of the area during communications. When the company lost the contract to license the Clear Blue solution, Janel took advantage of an opportunity to leverage their accumulated knowledge on the project and political roadmaps to plunge in and take over from there.
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That’s exactly what they did. Janel has become the distributor of the Clear Blue 104 anti-algaecide and bactericide, the same solution that was in the 600 containers they were paid to ship to China only two years earlier, and has successfully completed two series of tests on live lake conditions in the area the company had footed the bill for. They’ve partnered with numerous international environmental consultants in China and San Diego, Hard Hat Services, an environmental construction firm, and a consorting partner that brings web-based water monitoring technology to the table. The next step was to approach the United States Trade Department (USTD) to apply for a grant that could test the effectiveness of the Clear Blue solution and other American resources in a major environmental remediation project and with tremendous assistance from the World Bank who has themselves committed 0M to clean up Lake Tai, landed one. The Chinese have committed to cleaning up the lake but lacked the technology to do so, and that’s where the USTD comes in. The current U.S. Administration has made no secret of its position on foreign trade – export as much as possible to compete with other nations – so developing and launching environmentally responsible aid in foreign nations is a nice foothold to start from.
“The political climate for us is good; we’ve got tremendous support in the Wuxi municipal government, which is the largest city that surrounds Lake Tai with a population of about five million. So our support with the Municipal Water Resources Bureau and the environmental testing service with the mayor’s office are extremely good” Mr. McCreary said.
How will we know this pilot project is a success? The two most important attributes that need to be accomplished and consistent from here is scalability and the ability to replicate what Janel has done at Lake Tai in other provinces in China and around the world. The pilot project is set to commence late this summer during which local, state, and federal and central officials from the U.S. and China will be invited to view the technology and processes Janel has been working so hard on. Big support has come from right here at home: Mr. McCreary has spoken with and secured support from two house members from New York and two senators from New Jersey about the company’s efforts in China during a time in which the political Administration in office that has been more committed to opening economic flexibility and promoting trade with foreign nationals than any other time in history.
You can read my original article on Janel here that follows the story of the company announcing they had been awarded a USTD grant to further test Clear Blue at Lake Tai, released in May. Following that article a week later, I wrote about second quarterly earnings that had been released– revenue was up 12%, a record for Janel while net income was $ .006 per share compared to a net loss for the year earlier. Janel has also reported they had hired on Mr. Ray Tobia from Air Sea Forwarding, Inc., who was expected to bring about .5-M in top-line revenue growth for the rest of this year.
Lastly, I wanted to point out the price to sales ratio. Sales in 2009 totaled ,746,806 and weighted-outstanding shares as of today totals 18,381,082; meaning revenue per share is .50. The share price today for Janel is $ .50 per share, putting the price-to-sales ratio at .10x – a strikingly diminutive ratio when compared to their peers.
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FLOATING: Using the JET stream positioned on the pool floor, it massages foot, and great for whole body stretch (5 minute at a time) (5 minute at a time)