Atlantis on Pad 39A

Explanation: An intricate network of lighting plays across the 130 foot high Rotating Service Structure (RSS) in this dramatic night view of the Space Shuttlelaunch pad 39A. Seen here after rolling back before Thursday's shuttle launch, the RSS provides pre-launch access to the orbiter and its payload. For this mission, STS-122, to the International Space Station, Atlantis' payload is the European Space Agency's Columbus science laboratory. During the mission, three space walks are planned to attach the Columbus lab. Atlantis is expected to dock with the space station today.

Freddy

Rhythmical dance

Make all my ambitions turn into precision.


Beam

I move along a fragile border between fear and dream.


100 meters

Let my muscles be up to my dreams.


Volleyball

This hit will be with me for ever.

Advertising Agency: 1861 United, Milan, Italy
Creative Directors: Federico Pepe, Stefania Siani
Art Directors: Federico Pepe, Micol Talso
Copywriters: Stefania Siani, Luca Beato
Photographer: Lorenzo Vitturi

Do You Really Want One of These Flying Around Your Home?

A visitor watches a flying bug-shaped micro-chopper at the Toys Fair in Nuremberg, Germany, on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The fair, which is not open to the general public, has booked 2,676 exhibitors from 61 nations and is expected to attract 80,000 professionals including buyers, importers and media people. This year's focus will be on educational toys.

Always On My Mind

Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
Im so happy that youre mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, Im sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind

Venus and Jupiter in Morning Skies

Explanation: These two celestial beacons shining brightly in the east before sunrise are actually children of the Sun, the planets Venus and Jupiter. The second and third brightest objects in the sky at Night after the Moon, Venus and Jupiter appeared separated by about 2 degrees when this picture was taken on January 30th, but closed to within nearly half a degree early yesterday morning. In the serene foreground is the shoreline along the Miankaleh Peninsula and Gorgan Bay, an important bird and wildlife refuge in the southeastern Caspian Sea. Over the next two days, early morning risers around the globe will be able to enjoy a close pairing of Venus and Jupiter with an old crescent Moon.

ومن الحب ما قتل: عذاب العشق قد يقود الى الموت

العاشقون ليسو دائما في نعيم، لاسيما بعد ان اخضع باحثون ظاهرة الحب وإعراضه للبحث والدراسة وكانت النتيجة ان آلام الحب تتشابه كثيرا مع أي مرض عضوي، بل انها قد تقود الى الموت أحيانا.

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سيارات عام 2008 أقل صداقة للبيئة وأكثر استهلاكا للوقود

الطرز الجديدة التي قامت شركات السيارات العالمية بإنتاجها لعام 2008 تركز في معظمها على الشكل المبهرج والقوة في الأداء على الرغم من الضغوط السياسية والشعبية المتزايدة لإنتاج سيارات اقتصادية وصديقة للبيئة.

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Snow morning

Photograph by: Jawad Haddadin

Oral-B: Vegetable, Seafood, Meat

Gone with Oral-B

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Korea
Chief Creative Officer: Wain Choi
Creative Director: Yongsun Kim
Art Director: Jongok Shin
Copywriter: Sunbok Lee
Illustrator: Jinwoo Kwon
Published: November 2007

بكين تستعد للألعاب الأولمبية

أزاحت بكين الستار أمس الاثنين عن مضمار السباحة الرئيسي الذي ستقام عليه مسابقات الألعاب الأولمبية هذا العام. يتميز مبنى المضمار بتصميمه الفريد الذي يشبه خلايا غشاء حيوي، وسيكون المبنى أحد المعالم الفريدة للألعاب الاولمبية التي تقام في الصين هذا العام.

Playing Cure For Life Foundation: Birthday Cards

Brain Cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in adults aged 20-39, so particularly affecting young parents – and in turn, the children and families who live through the loss of their loved one. The film created by DDB Sydney and Filmgraphics shows the heartache of a mother knowing she won’t live long enough to be with her baby daughter as she grows older. The insight ‘We don’t know what causes brain cancer, but we do know what it affects.’ portrays the emotionally distressing reality for those diagnosed with Brain Cancer. The more funds that are raised, the more the Cure For Life Foundation can do to help find a cure for this terrible condition.

Advertising Agency: DDB Sydney, Australia
National Creative Director: Matt Eastwood
Deputy Creative Director: Steve Back
Art Director: Adam Rose
Copywriters: Ben O’Brien, Alex Wadelton
Director: Jono Nyquist
Production Company: Filmgraphics
Music: Hope For The Hopeless / A Fine Frenzy
Music Company: The Ant Farm, Los Angeles
Aired: December 2007

Playing Centea: Doing more

Centea is in Belgium known for Banking business and insurances. The bank managers work harder for their clients because the managers are all independent.

Advertising Agency: Darwin BBDO, Belgium
Creative Director: Gaston Kooijmans
Art Director: Maarten Hofman
Copywriter: Katrin Van Eycken
Photographer: Kurt Stallaert
Aired: January 2008

الحمية الغذائية دون ممارسة الرياضة لا تساعد في تخفيف الوزن

يرى خبير التغذية الألماني توماس كورشايد أن اتّباع حمية غذائية صارمة من دون ممارسة الرياضة وتغيير النظام الغذائي المعتاد لا يساعد على تخفيف الوزن. كما نصح الخبير بالإكثار من تناول الخضراوات والفواكه واستخدام زيت الزيتون.

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Solidarités: Titanic

Non-drinking water kills 8 millions persons a year.

Advertising Agency: BDDP & Fils, Paris, France
Creative Director: Guillaume Chifflot
Art Director: Fabien Nunez
Copywriter: Fabien Duval
Illustrators: Denis Assor, Cédric Houplain

Wildlife SOS: Ten Rupees

Advertising Agency: Sudler & Hennessey, Mumbai, India
Creative Director: Sudhakar More
Art Director: Parvej Pathan
Copywriter: Priyanka Sabnis
Photographer: Vishal Photography
Structural Designer: Vijay Salve
Published: December 2007

Playing Kit Kat: www.breakultime-kitkat.fr

Advertising Agency: JWT Paris, France
Creative Directors: Ghislain de Villoutreys, Olivier Courtemanche, Xavier Beauregard
Art Director: Xavier Beauregard
Copywriter: Hadi Hassan
Assistant Art Director: Yan-Gaël Cobigo
TV Producer: Elisabeth Boitte
Producer: Akama
Pruduction company: Wanda
Music: Xavier Berthelot

Amman, Jordan Lightning

Threads of lightning illuminate Amman, Jordan's nighttime cityscape. Lightning is a discharge of electricity that occurs when excess electrical charges build up in clouds.

Photograph by Priit J. Vesilind

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

If I should stay,
I would only be in your way.
So I'll go, but I know
I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You, my darling you. Hmm.

Bittersweet memories
that is all I'm taking with me.
So, goodbye. Please, don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.

I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish to you, joy and happiness.
But above all this, I wish you love.

And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I, I will always love you.

You, darling, I love you.
Ooh, I'll always, I'll always love you.

Jordanian TV

www.saidhaddadin.com

Said Haddadin's Paints

www.saidhaddadin.com

Cultural Foundation of Curitiba

All types of Music.

Advertising Agency: Master, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Directors: Luciano Toaldo, Claudio Freire
Art Director: André Macena
Copywriter: Marcelo Romko
Photographer: Fernando Ziviani
Published: January 2008

MacBook Air

The world's thinnest notebook.

Black Rock Desert, Nevada

NEW LOOK :)

Mercury Chases the Sunset

Explanation: This colorful view of the western sky at sunset features last Wednesday's slender crescent Moon. Of course, when the Moon is in its crescent phase it can never be far from Sun in the sky. Also always close to the Sun in Earth's sky is innermost planet Mercury, seen here below and right of center against the bright orange glow along the horizon. Mercury is usually difficult to glimpse because of the overwhelming sunlight, but increasingly better views of the small planet near sunset will be possible as it wanders farther east of the Sun in the coming days. On January 14th, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will have a good view too, as it makes its first Mercury flyby.

Jakarta Reptilians Lover Association: Sunrise, Flowers,Trees

Sometimes beauty comes from the beast.

Advertising Agency: Mcann Erickson Jakarta, Indonesia
Creative Directors: John Bailey, Andri Putra
Art Director: Adam Pamungkas
Copywriter: Thomas Patrik
Photographer: Roy Genggam
Published: November 2007

Confused? You Will be!

The calendar says January 10th but the plants say middle of March. Climate craziness is sending usually clockwork plant systems into confusion as Germany experiences a blast of early spring. Temperatures which have been in the low single digits for the past month or so suddenly leapt into double figures this week, dragging some sleepy blooms from their winter rest. They, as will the people of Germany, will get a shock next week, however. Temperatures are expected to plummet again, forcing the population to grab their jackets again and the plants to battle on against the unpredictability of the seasons.

Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me

It still feels like our first night together
Feels like the first kiss and
It's gettin' better baby
No one can better this
I'm still hold on and you're still the one
The first time our eyes met it's the same feelin' I get
Only feels much stronger and I wanna love ya longer
You still turn the fire on

So If you're feelin' lonely.. don't
You're the only one I'd ever want
I only wanna make it good
So if I love ya a little more than I should

Please forgive me I know not what I do
Please forgive me I can't stop lovin' you
Don't deny me

This pain I'm going through
Please forgive me
If I need ya like I do
Please believe me
Every word I say is true
Please forgive me I can't stop loving you
Still feels like our best times are together
Feels like the first touch

We're still gettin' closer baby
Can't get close enough I'm still holdin' on
You're still number one I remember the smell of your skin
I remember everything
I remember all your moves
I remember you
I remember the nights ya know I still do

One thing I'm sure of
Is the way we make love
And the one thing I depend on
Is for us to stay strong
With every word and every breath I'm prayin'
That's why I'm sayin'...

Active Galaxy Centaurus A

Explanation: A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy - the closest active galaxy to Earth. This remarkable composite view of the galaxy combines image data from the x-ray ( Chandra), optical(ESO), and radio(VLA) regimes. Centaurus A's central region is a jumble of gas, dust, and stars in optical light, but both radio and x-ray telescopes trace a remarkable jet of high-energy particles streaming from the galaxy's core. The cosmic particle accelerator's power source is a black hole with about 10 million times the mass of the Sun coincident with the x-ray bright spot at the galaxy's center. Blasting out from the active galactic nucleus toward the upper left, the energetic jet extends about 13,000 light-years. A shorter jet extends from the nucleus in the opposite direction. Other x-ray bright spots in the field are binary star systems with neutron stars or stellar mass black holes. Active galaxy Centaurus A is likely the result of a merger with a spiral galaxy some 100 million years ago.

"أسطورة صناعة البرمجيات" بيل جيتس يعتزم مغادرة شركته ميكروسوفت

أعلن مؤسس ورئيس شركة ميكروسوفت العالمية الملياردير بيل جيتس عزمه الاستقالة من شركة البرمجيات التي أسسها و قادها لتصبح اكبر شركة من نوعها على مستوى العالم، بعد أن ترك بصماته على عالم صناعة البرمجيات.

أعلن بيل غيتس أنه سيتفرغ للعمل في مؤسسته الخيرية التي تحمل اسم "مؤسسة بيل وميليندا جيتس". وكانت شركة ميكروسوفت قد قالت إن الخطاب الافتتاحي الذي ألقاه جيتس أمس الأحد في معرض مستهلكي الالكترونات قد يكون الخطاب الأخير له في قيادة الشركة.

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مهرجان النحت على الجليد في الصين

صينيان يتجولان بالقرب من مجسم ثلجي للإمبراطور الفرنسي نابليون خلال معرض الثلج في هاربين، أقصى شمال الصين، الذي يعقد كل سنة.

3 New Salamanders Are "Ballistic,"

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Jupiter's Rings Revealed

Explanation: Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's rings were discovered in 1979 by the passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but their origin was a mystery. Data from the Galileo spacecraftJupiter from 1995 to 2003 later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. As a small meteoroid strikes tiny Adrastea, for example, it will bore into the moon, vaporize, and explode dirt and dust off into a Jovian orbit. Pictured above is an eclipse of the Sun by Jupiter, as viewed from Galileo. Small dust particles high in Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the dust particles that compose the rings, can be seen by reflected sunlight.

Picture of the Day

تم الأسبوع الماضي في مدينة ماربوح الألمانية نصب مسلة ضوء ضخمة على شكل قلب مشع، وزنها 1.3 طن وطولها وحجمها 8 في 8 متر. والملفت للنظر في هذا العمل الفني الضخم والبديع انه يمكن الاتصال به تلفونيا، حيث يمكن اختيار الرقم 771207 مع إضافة المفتاح 09005 وعند استقبال هذا الرقم يقوم يصدر القلب أضواء متلألئة يمكن لساكني ماربوج مشاهدتها. والرقم 7.7.1207 هو تاريخ ميلاد اليزبيت المقدسة التي صمم هذا العمل للتذكير بها بمناسبة ما يطلق عليه "سنة اليزابيت". 09005 اليزابيت كانت امرأة صالحة تنتمي إلى عائلة ملكية هنجارية، تزوجت من ابن أمير توبينجن لودفيج هيرمان الأول، وبعد موته انتقلت للعيش في ماربوج، حيث تخلت عن الحياة الارستقراطية لتعيش حياة البسطاء وتنذر نفسها لمساعدة الفقراء والمحتاجين. وقد بنت في ماربوج أول مستشفى لمعالجة الفقراء في ماربوج وبنت فيها أول مستشفى لمعالجة الفقراء. وتوجد في ماربوج كنيسة تحمل اسمها تعد من إحدى روائع البناء وتحفة فنية على مستوى أوروبا. وينسج حول اليزابيت الكثير من الحكايات والقصص، ويشعر أبناء ماربوج بالفخر وهم يتحدثون عن اليزابيت ويشيرون إلى تلك الكبيسة الرائعة التي تدل على المرأة التي حملت اسمها.

Dutch Association of Traffic Victims: Rear mirror

Every month a child dies through not wearing a seatbelt in the back.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art Director: Jan-Willem Smits
Copywriter: Edsard Schutte
Photographer: Arno Bosma
Other: Prof. J.L. de Kroes

LPDA (Liga Portuguesa dos Direitos do Animal)

Animals are not clowns.
Portuguese Animal Rights League.

Advertising Agency: Partners Lisboa, Portugal
Creative Directors: Lourenço Thomaz, Susana Sequeira
Art Director: Ivo Purvis
Copywriter: Pedro Lima
Retoucher: ImageNation
Photography: GettyImages / Corbis

Polar Bear Cub Finds Comfort

A three-month-old polar bear cub finds comfort in its mother's warmth.

Picture of the Day

Explanation: Dust from curious near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon seems to fall from the constellation Gemini in this fisheye skyview. The composite image was recorded over four December nights (12-15) just last year from Ludanyhalaszi, Hungary. Of course, the streaks are meteor trails from the annual Geminids meteor shower. The work of astronomer Erno Berko, the finished picture combines 113 different frames and captures 123 separate meteors. The Geminids is one of the northern skies most reliably performing meteor showers and did not disappoint last year. Under good conditions some skywatchers reported well over 100 meteors per hour near the December 14/15 peak for the Geminids in 2007. Look up tonight and you might see the 2008 Quadrantids.

Playing Guinness: At last

Advertising Agency: Ringleader Productions, Venice, California USA
Art Director: Camellia Cox
Copywriter / Director: Max Gutierrez
Director of Photography: Bobby Eras
Producers: Eli Craig, David Harb, John Burgess
Aired: July 2007

"NO" Combat violence against women: Peephole

For many women the threat isn't on the outside.

Advertising Agency: Adler Chomski/Grey Tel Aviv, Israel
Creative Director: Yonatan Stirin
Art Director: Assaf levy
Copywriter: Amir Ariely
Photographer: Ariel Van Straten
Published: December 2007

January 1 TCP/IP

The new Google logo celebrates a milestone invention leading to the modern Internet.

January 1, 83 TCP/IP

This article gives a more in-depth look at what TCP/IP is. It was established as an ARPANET standard on January 1, 1983.

TCP/IP:
IP - is responsible for moving packet of data from node to node. IP forwards each packet based on a four byte destination address (the IP number). The Internet authorities assign ranges of numbers to different organizations. The organizations assign groups of their numbers to departments. IP operates on gateway machines that move data from department to organization to region and then around the world.

TCP - is responsible for verifying the correct delivery of data from client to server. Data can be lost in the intermediate network. TCP adds support to detect errors or lost data and to trigger retransmission until the data is correctly and completely received.

Sockets - is a name given to the package of subroutines that provide access to TCP/IP on most systems. (Yale.edu)

There are many layers built ontop of TCP/IP. And another protocol called UDP, which is predominatly used in games and other networking situations where low-latency is required is completely different.

The major layers on top of TCP/IP are:

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (for requesting webpages)
FTP: File Transfer Protocol (for uploading files to websites)
SMTP and POP3: For sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3) e-mail
IRC: For chatting online

There are also many-non standard protocols built on top of TCP/IP. For instance, AOL Instant Messenger uses a third-party protocol to transfer chat messages between clients!