:Comparison: Prison VS Work

IN PRISON... you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
AT WORK... you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 desk cubicle.

IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.

IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK...you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and open all the doors
For yourself.

IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.
AT WORK...you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.


IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family on the phone.

IN PRISON...the taxpayers pay all expenses with no work required.
AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK...they are called managers.

Have a Great Day at WORK - I'm going to PRISON!!!
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:Copycat: Microsoft GetInternetExplorer

Microsoft copycat website for Internet explorer
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:Thoughts: interesting thought

yesterday one of the coolest Jolug.org members Zu3bi started new thread asking weird question, actually it was 2.00 AM Jordan time, and I was so damn sleeply, so I didn't pay attention, and I said, ah what he's thinking of ....

Zu3bi Question
We usually refer to a computer as a 'it' because it is a thing... but at times a person can really get emotional with a computer ( not sexually ofcourse), therefore would you refer to a computer as a he or a she ? and why ?

but then at morning , well your morning but mine (12:00 pm) Khames Siksik replied with his thoughts

Khames Thoughts on naming computers

Well, this is an interesting thought, My machine(s) is a HE and a SHE depending on the situation, when my code doesn't run as expected, i prefer to fight with a big strong man so it is a HE and i can call him all the known/unknown bad words in the world and i may slap him on the face (side of the monitor), bunch him on the stomach(floppy drive), or even kick his ass (the ethernet card), When it works fine and gives me (this is a restricted condition as in if-and-only-if) what i wanted and expected it becomes a SHE and the relationship between us becomes so *HOT*. :-) (I will leave this for your imagination) Regards,

Its worthy to give it a while and think about it so here is my thoughts

Jad thoughts
for me I deal with the situation depending on the Operating system i'm running,
if its windows so i'm dealing with my old lazy wife who want everything to be done in her style which is UGLY, so restricted, and buggy
while when I'm dealing with linux, my imagination goes to a young women that understand the life correctly, she know how things should work, and she can offer all of her time to get the job done

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:Remember the time: belle and sebastian

belle and sebastian


The story was about a young boy named Sebastian,
and a large white dog named Belle. Sebastian had
been raised by an old man named Cecil and had never
seen his mother. His mother had given birth to him
after Cecil rescued him, and had left, promising to
return someday. She was a gypsy lady and also worked
for a traveling carnival.
Belle was a large white dog who lived in the
mountains, and was believed to be evil. In reality
Belle was gentle, but only Sebastian knew it. He had
apparently been blamed for some bad things that had
happened in the town that Sebastian lived in, which
was located near the Pyrenes Mountains of France. It
is through these mountains that Belle and Sebastian
have all their great adventures.

Do you remember?
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Dead Sea ? Saraya Jordan, Arab Bank, the Social Security Corporation (SSC) and the Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) signed a partnership agreement on Friday to build a $362 million tourism project in Aqaba.

The agreement, signed during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the presence of His Majesty King Abdullah and Sheikh Saad Rafiq Hariri, stipulates the establishment of six five-star hotels, beaches, restaurants, an aquarium, entertainment facilities, a souk, a conference centre, a health club and residential areas.

The project should be ready by 2009, Saraya Vice Chairman Ali Kolaghassi said during a press conference announcing the project. He added the project will employ more than 3,000 persons by the time it is finished.

?In order to create a captivating and impressive environment that incorporates architecture and yet captures the magic of the old Arabian Aqaba, Phil Hettema and Associates, a renowned US design firm, were hired as the design architects and master planners for Saraya Aqaba's development,???according to a statement by Saraya.

?It will be developed right in the heart of Aqaba on a total area of 610,000-square-metre, with a built-up area of 648,000 square metres, thus inadvertently reshaping the landscape and presenting an innovative waterfront city upon completion,??? the statement said.

According to Kolaghassi, 30 per cent of the project is owned by the SSC, 10 per cent by the Arab Bank and 10 per cent by the ADC.

SSC President Khaled Wazani said the expected return on investment for this project is about 30 per cent.

?The SSC will make more revenues as 3,000 people will be employed in the project, and would subscribe to the SSC. Besides the SSC owns 15 per cent of the Arab Bank and will benefit from its revenues,??? he indicated.

The project, named ?Saraya Aqaba,??? is considered the third investment made by the son of the assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The family also owns a large stake in the Arab Bank, the largest bank in the Arab world, and has invested in the Abdali Development Project in Amman.

Advertisements of the project were spread along the way from Amman to the Dead Sea to attract the attention of participants at the WEF.

Saturday, May 21, 2005
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:shepsara pastra: I did it again!

Well after this success I start thinking to have it as a business, "Chief jad" sounds COOL!
Hahais

o sa7teen o 3afyeh
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:Blogger.com: atom2rss live converter

This script takes any Atom feed and converts it to the RSS 2.0 format.
blogger.com users should find this useful since Blogger does not provide free support for RSS.

and now its live, no need for [w:Cron job] once blogger.com updates your atom your RSS 2.0 will be updated automaticly

File size: 10.6 kBatom2rss.tar.gz
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:GeekNews: Analysts speculate that MS may try to acquire Red Hat

To the Linux faithful, Microsoft is widely considered to be something akin to a minion of the king of the Underworld. When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft is undoubtedly the 800-pound gorilla that all other companies play second fiddle to; but the Linux phenomenon has given Microsoft pause. Linux represents a unique challenge to Microsoft, as it is somewhat decentralized, difficult to sue, and--given its free nature--difficult to undercut in price.

What's a multibillion-dollar software company to do? Why, buy out your nearest competition of course! Which is why some industry analysts are speculating that Microsoft might actually be considering the purchase of Red Hat.

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:Family-sized: Caucasian Ovcharka Dog

Country of origin: Caucasian Republics
Date of origin: Middle Ages, probably much earlier
Other names: Caucasian Ovcharka, Shepherd or Sheepdog; Nagazi (Georgian Republic), Gampr (Armenia);Kawkasky Owtscharka; Kaukasische Schaferhund
Weight Range: 70-160lbs
Height Range: 26-32inches
Longevity: 10+ years

more about Ovcharka dog with pictures
Flock Guard
Kofoto.org +7000 picture!!! amazing collection
Coucasian mountains dog
Ovcharka Breeds
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:Search Result: The bad and the ugly - Google and rabid dog

Have you tried guys to search google for "rabid dog" ?
you don't need to, here is the result


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:NetNews: New Explorer Gets Tabs

Almost five years after the first tabbed browsers appeared on the market, Microsoft is finally getting in on the feature.

Early this morning, Dean Hachamovitch, IE product unit manager, announced on the IE blog that Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) will include tabbed browsing.

"Some people have asked why we didn't put tabs in IE sooner," Hachamovitch wrote on the blog. "Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency. "I think we made the wrong decision here initially, and we're making the right one now," he added.

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AMMAN ? His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday presented certificates to graduates of Yarmouk University and Prince Faisal Centre for Computer Engineering.

The graduates, who work for the Jordanian, UAE and Bahraini armed forces, were enrolled in the engineering programme for the last 14 months to learn how to develop military, medical and industrial systems and equipment locally.

The students, who received masters degrees in embedded systems, worked on more than 30 projects that can be further developed to become sophisticated military and medical products, according to graduate Major Khaled Sarayreh.

Retired Major General Fadel Mohamamad, director of the Prince Faisal Centre, said the students spent long hours in laboratories throughout the programme, developing solutions to technical difficulties faced by the military by creating cheap and efficient local programmes that could replace the imported programmes used by the armed forces.

An embedded system, the subject of study, is a specialised computer system that is part of a larger system or machine. Typically, it is housed on a single microprocessor board with the programmes stored in a memory chip.

All appliances that have a digital interface ? watches, microwaves, VCRs, cars ? utilise embedded systems. Some embedded systems include an operating system, but many are specialised to an extent that the entire logic can be implemented as a single programme.

Yarmouk University President Mohammad Sabbarini said the first batch of the programme's graduates is ready to play a role in improving military systems. He said the success of the programme is an indication of the success of King Abdullah's vision of making the Kingdom an ICT hub in the Middle East. The government has been exerting efforts to achieve this goal by linking education with technology to develop human resources, and by providing the adequate infrastructure to attract the world's major ICT companies to invest in Jordan.

Meanwhile, on Monday the Monarch received Kuwaiti Minister of Justice Ahmad Yaqoub Baqer who is currently on a visit to the Kingdom to enhance cooperation between the justice ministries of both countries.

Also yesterday, King Abdullah met with United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Director General Carlos Magari?os. Discussions focussed on ways to activate cooperation between the Kingdom and UNIDO in the development and industrial sectors as well as in supporting and upgrading small- and medium-size enterprises in rural and remote areas of the country.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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It is without doubt that everyone attending the opening of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts Park and its two magnificent buildings in Jabal Weibdeh yesterday were awe-struck.

The tireless efforts of President of Royal Society of Fine Arts HRH Princess Wijdan, the masterstroke of Director Khalid Khreis, the genius of interior designer Maha Kawar combined with the support of the Greater Amman Municipality, USAID, the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, the Water and Efficiency and Public Information for Action, and the craftsmanship of countless engineers and technicians to bring about an institution that can only be described as world class.

The attendance of Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania lends support to an important aspect of life that in our part of the world can sometimes be neglected.

The endeavour was a courageous one, and one that took two years of intensive work. While all the construction, renovation, and landscaping was in the works, Khreis wore two hats: A hard hat and a beret. His dedication to the project and to his responsibility of promoting Jordanian art here and abroad were rewarded yesterday by the accolades of every single guest ? artists, diplomats, government officials and friends of the arts ? who strolled through the garden and toured the sunlit floors of the National Gallery's new sister edifice.

Princess Wijdan has long worked to establish a national museum in Jordan. Yesterday, she and her entire cast of players must have felt the thrill of a hit opening night ? they had accomplished their dream and can take many a bow for years to come.

Now it will be up to the public and private sectors to band together to support the National Gallery of Fine Arts. An endowment that would help support all art forms in the country ? visual and performing ? is precisely what is called for.

Aside from public funding and private donations to such an endowment, there are many ways that citizens themselves can be part of such an endeavour. For example, a small portion of taxes or fees paid to the government for licence plates, national ID cards and property deeds, could be directed to the endowment.

The personal and public benefit derived from art should be advocated. Advocacy should be the primary mandate of the Ministry of Culture which, under its aegis, should provide the impetus for increased private support for the arts.

Monday, May 16, 2005

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:Local: Defence claims prisoners have been subject to intimidation in Maan case

By Rana Husseini

AMMAN ? A defence lawyer representing 14 men on trial at the State Security Court (SSC), accused of inciting the Maan riots, on Sunday claimed his clients had been mistreated and subjected to intimidation by prison officials.

The defence allegations came on the final day of the prosecution's case.

Defence lawyer Hikmat Rawashdeh told the tribunal that his clients' rights, as stipulated in the Prisons Law, had been violated by staff at the Qafqafa and Swaqa rehabilitation and correctional centres where they have been held since November 2002.

?My clients have informed me that they suffer from constant intimidation by prison guards and have had their books and properties seized by prison authorities,??? Rawashdeh said.

He also told the tribunal that the main defendant in the case, Mohammad Shalabi, had been denied medical treatment after he complained of feeling ill.

The Public Security Department (PSD), however, denied the allegations. Major Bashir Daajah, head of the PSD's press office, stressed in a statement that the defendant was receiving fair treatment along with the other inmates and detainees in the Qafqafa correction centre.

He said that none of Abu Sayyaf's belongings had been confiscated, adding that prison guards only remove illegal items found in the inmates' possession during inspection tours, as per the rules.

The officer provided the press with a medical report dated May 11, proving that Shalabi was referred at least on one occasion to hospital for kidney pains. The report indicates that the defendant was suffering from pains caused by a kidney stone.

Shalabi, also known as Abu Sayyaf, is accused of inciting the 2002 Maan riots, which left two policemen and four citizens dead.

Rawashdeh said his clients had also informed him that the prison administration had installed cameras and microphones in the prisoners' rooms, in flagrant violation of the Prisons Law.

State Prosecutor Fawaz Etoum rested his case paving the way for Rawashdeh to start preparing the arguments for the defence.

The defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, claiming their confessions were extracted under torture and duress by the security forces.

They are charged with possessing automatic weapons and unlicensed guns, plotting subversive acts by using flammable substances, illegal public assembly with the intent of causing riots and importing weapons with the intention of using them illegally.

The tribunal adjourned the session until May 29 to allow Rawashdeh time to prepare the defence case.

Monday, May 16, 2005

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HRH Princess Wijdan, president of the Royal Society of Fine Arts, escorts Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania through the new addition to the National Gallery of Fine Arts complex in Jabal Weibdeh on Sunday. Their Majesties inaugurated the refurbished and expanded complex yesterday. Some 2,000 works of art will be on permanent display at the museum, which houses an extensive number of paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphic works and ceramics from Jordan, the Arab and Islamic worlds, and developing countries like Turkey, Iran, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Several Royal family members, the King's advisers, senior officials, diplomats, artists and international museum directors attended the inauguration (Photo by Yousef Allan)

Monday, May 16, 2005

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By Rana Husseini
AMMAN ? The government is in the process of improving services provided at the Kingdom's airports and border crossings to meet the expected increase in numbers of visitors, Minister of Interior Awni Yarvas said on Saturday.

?We expect an increase in the number of visitors, investors, tourists and people wishing to settle in the Kingdom and we need to facilitate procedures for these travellers,??? Yarvas told The Jordan Times.

Around 2,200,000 travellers use the Jordanian-Syrian borders, while hundreds of thousands pass through the Kingdom's main airports, according to Yarvas.

The improvements will focus on training employees working at the borders and upgrading computer services and other facilities to speed up the procedures, the minister said.

Yarvas' comments came two days after His Majesty King Abdullah instructed officials to adopt immediate measures to facilitate travel and customs procedures at airports and border crossings.

King Abdullah told senior government and security officials as well as private sector representatives at a meeting on Thursday that he would personally follow up on the issue.

?I want to see tangible results on the ground soon,??? the King said at the meeting.

The Monarch stressed that tourists and investors visiting the Kingdom should be treated ?in a civilised manner that reflects Jordanian values and hospitality.???

Calling for plans to attract more tourists, King Abdullah said employees at the borders should be chosen in line with their capabilities, and trained to ?receive Jordan's guests with smiles and shining faces.???

Yarvas said one of the ministry's priorities is to speed up the entry and exit of travellers at Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA).

?We are planning to supply the immigration department at QAIA with passport scanning devices so travellers will not have to spend a long time queuing up,??? the minister said.

At the same time, Yarvas added, qualified employees will be chosen and trained on the new machines and how to deal professionally with visitors.

Sunday, May 15, 2005
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:Local: Undergraduates sit for first Kafaa exam

AMMAN ? University students from five specialities graduating this semester on Saturday sat for the Kingdom's first university achievement examination, Kafaa.

Business administration, English language and literature, computer science, chemistry and mathematics students took the two-hour exam that tests their accumulated knowledge in their chosen discipline.

As the test is administered in English, students who studied business administration in Arabic are exempt.

Firas Alawin, who studies English at Isra University and took the exam on Saturday, was certain that he would fail.

He told The Jordan Times the exam ?focused on literature, particularly American literature, and excluded any language questions from courses like linguistics and phonetics, which is part of the department's syllabus.???

He added that the exam's two-hour duration was ?absolutely insufficient to answer the 150 questions, which did not tackle our general knowledge in the discipline as our instructors said it would, but instead focused on details.???

Students have three chances to pass or score better results in the Kafaa, which will later expand to cover all specialities taught at local universities.

Students of Yarmouk, Muta, Jerash and Isra universities, as well as the Jordan University of Science and Technology sat for the test yesterday, while undergraduates from the remaining universities will take the exam on 21st and 28th of the current month.

Sunday, May 15, 2005
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DUBAI (AFP) ? The brother of a Jordanian businessman taken hostage in Iraq last month urged his captors on Saturday to free him and called on the government to make greater efforts to secure his release.

"We appeal for his release. We are very worried about him" after contact with the kidnappers was cut around 10 days ago, Khaled Souqi, who lives in the United Arab Emirates, told AFP.

His brother, Samir Rajab Souqi, was abducted by six gunmen in the centre of Baghdad on April 24, according to Iraqi police.

Khaled told AFP the next day that his brother was manager of the Amman branch of the Kuwaiti Midas furniture company, and has been going on and off to Baghdad, where the firm also has a branch, for a year.

"We wish the Jordanian government would play a bigger role" in working for his release, Khaled said.

A Jordanian Foreign Ministry official said on April 26 that the kidnappers were demanding ransom and ruled out political motives for the abduction.

Khaled said the kidnappers had taken two mobile phones belonging to colleagues when they abducted his brother, but the phones had been switched off or not answering for around 10 days.

The 40-year-old hostage is married with three children.

Several Jordanians, most of them truck drivers, have been abducted in Iraq since the downfall of Saddam in April 2003 but most of them returned home unharmed, although in some cases relatives said a ransom was paid.

On May 6, Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said that an armed group had kidnapped six Jordanian contractors for the US military in Iraq, and showed video footage of the hostages.

Sunday, May 15, 2005
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Miedo
Originally uploaded by elblogazo.

Jean-Claude Elias


Unless you happen to be an accomplished yogi, an inhabitant of the Kalahari Desert or have retired for the rest of your days on some paradisiacal Mediterranean island, you must have your dose of daily stress.

These days, normal people are not asked whether they are or not stressed, but rather how much stress they are subjected to. We all have our daily dose of stress, but most of us have learnt to live with it.

Still, there are times when I wonder if part of the burden is not self-imposed and whether we cannot alleviate the pain simply by getting rid of some of the stress-generating modern tools, without affecting in any negative manner the quality of our life.

Telephony and computing have become extremely mobile, but, of course, they constitute a double-edged sword. There is no need to go again over all the advantages that mobile IT brings us. Suffice it to say that the efficiency at work of someone who knows how to make the best out of a laptop computer, a smartphone and wi-fi Internet is many times that of a person who doesn't possess or use these tools. Not to mention the added value that they bring in terms of entertainment, pleasure, personal communications, security and, last but not least, culture.

In the early days of e-mail not so long ago we used to check for incoming messages once or twice a day. We used to set a time for this, like one would go to the post office or check out the letterbox, for example. Now it's all the time, wherever we are. A correspondent who would send you an urgent e-mail will probably call you (or SMS you) just minutes after, asking or even shouting: What, you haven't yet opened the message I sent you more than five minutes ago? Obviously, one isn't allowed any respite these days.

What do techno-savvy people who frequently travel do when waiting at airports? Do they visit the duty-free shops, take the time to talk to and befriend other passengers or just close their eyes and relax (ah, the silly old-fashioned word!)? No, they quickly open their laptop or smart mobile phone and then log on the web thanks to the wireless Internet hot spots now installed at most international airports. This way, they'll be the first to know where the last terrorist bomb exploded, if the Nasdaq index has moved up or down, and how the weather is like at the other end of the earth where they'll never go anyway.

Many do not yet realise how mobile IT has got out of proportion. Most people have learnt to put their mobile phone in silent mode during meetings. But they will nevertheless check for incoming SMSs and will even take the time to reply to them. Physically, they are with you, but mentally they are elsewhere.

The results of a survey I recently found posted on the web (yes, I, like everybody else, read the news on the web) show that, in England: One [person] in five will break off from a business or social engagement to respond to a message. Almost two out of three people check their electronic messages out of office hours and when on holiday. Nine out of 10 people thought colleagues who answered messages during face-to-face meetings were rude, while three out of 10 believed it was not only acceptable, but a sign of diligence and efficiency.

The worst part of the phenomenon may not be rudeness or stress but the unavoidable consequence of being all the time interrupted in whatever one is doing.

Constant interruptions prevent one from performing in-depth tasks, from serious thinking and from taking the right decisions. Dr Glenn Wilson, a British psychiatrist thinks the phenomenon may go as far as reducing one's IQ.

We are constantly on the lookout for incoming e-mail, SMS or phone calls and we are prompted to respond to them and process them in a similar emergency manner; it's like being 24/7 on red-code alert. If this is not the ultimate from of stress then I do not know what is.
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Wadi Rum Photo
Originally uploaded by Pete Flint.

AMMAN (Petra) His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday ordered immediate measures to facilitate travel and custom procedures at airports and border crossings.

King Abdullah told top government and security officials as well as private sector representatives at a meeting that he will personally follow-up on the issue.

I want to see tangible results on the ground soon, the King said at the meeting.

He stressed that tourists and investors visiting the Kingdom should be treated in a civilised manner that reflects Jordanian values and hospitality.

The Monarch called for upgrading border crossings and training their staff to receive Jordan's guests with smiles and shining faces.

Urging plans to attract more tourists, King Abdullah said border crossing employees should be picked in line with their capabilities. He added that the staff should be provided with a convenient working environment and incentives.

The King noted that such issues were highlighted by the 2004-2010 National Tourism Strategy, which, he said, requires more coordination and cooperation between the government and private sector to be implemented. The six-year plan was launched during last year's World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea and was approved by the Cabinet.

Interior Minister Awni Yarvas briefed the meeting on measures taken to facilitate the flow of passengers and goods, particularly on the border with Iraq which needs JD600,000 to be rehabilitated until establishing a JD60 million new crossing.

For his part, Director of the Public Security Department Lieutenant General Mohammad Aitan said that the PSD increased the number of border police, who are to be trained on how to deal with passengers. He added that 1,500 university graduates were recruited to work at border crossings.

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Alia Hattough-Bouran, meanwhile, outlined promotion campaigns conducted by the Jordan Investment Board in seven Arab Gulf states, highlighting Jordan's tourism attractions.
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:Aqaba: movenpick hotel

movenpick hotel
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:Aqaba: movenpick hotel

movenpick hotel
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:Aqaba: fountain

fountain
Originally uploaded by jadmadi.

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:Personal: My latest Art work

Yes its Art work!
Originally uploaded by jadmadi.

Yes, I been busy, working on my art work!
hahais finally I success!
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:Conflicts: Chechnya

This episode looks at the root of the tensions which stem from 1859 when Chechnya was conquered by Russia after a failed attempt to create an Islamic state. Since then the Chechen struggle for independence from Russia (and before that the Soviet Union) has seen Stalin?s deportation of the entire Chechen population to Siberia in 1944, and the 20 month war in 1994 that killed more than 100,000 people.

In the aftermath of September 11 the Chechens became portrayed by President Putin as 'part of the global terror network'. Then in October 2002, the conflict in Chechnya was brought to the fore as a result of the siege in a Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels that ended in the deaths of more than 120 people.

The programme combines archive footage with the views of both Chechens and Russians, whose lives have been directly affected by the conflict. The programme also hears from Camilla Carr and Jon James, the two British aid workers in Chechnya who were taken hostage in July 1997, and held for 14 months before finally being released.

Now that the local issue has become part of a much bigger political game, Conflicts: Chechnya asks what the chances are of a resolution in Chechnya.
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:aerobatics: Royal Falcons aerobatics

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:Cultural village: Iron road

Cultural village - Iron road
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Work in progress

Work in progress
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:Jordan: Jordan rally 2005

VRRRRRRRRRMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

A total number of 38 participants, including a record number of 12 Jordanian teams, will be competing in the event considered as one of the toughest rounds and most unique in the Middle East Championship.





More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jad/tags/rally/
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:United Bears: Jordanian bear

UNITED BUDDY BEARS?
An idea on its tour around the word!
120 Buddy Bears, created in Berlin/Germany, are standing peacefully hand in hand to represent 120 United Nations member states. An exhibition under the motto

The idea for this exhibition was created 2002 by the inventors of the Buddy Bears Eva and Klaus Herlitz, having three aspects in mind:

ART:
120 different artists, each one coming from the country his bear represents, show the art style of their
home countries. Standing in a circle the bears form a unique work of art altogether.

A MESSAGE:
As a basis for a better understanding the individual design of each bear includes a lot of information about the different countries. Together with the symbolism of the circle love, peace, friendship, tolerance and international understanding are promoted.

CHARITY:
Over 1.041.000 Euro for charity organisations so far. In each city where the circle is shown activities (e.g. auctions) raise money for children in need.
At the end of the world tour all bears will be sold by charitable auction for UNICEF and other organisations helping needy children all over the world.


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:Meetup: JordanPlanet Meetup

Hair cut for meetings
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Thank you Isam for arranging such event, but do we have some topics to discuss? else I'm suggesting this haircut for the meetup
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:Jordan: Jordan bears

JORDAN bears
Originally uploaded by pinkick.

Drop your weapons! hands up!

you know what, I'm in jordan and this is the first time I see thos bears, where are they exactly ?
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