Sunday, February 27, 2011

Three women among the crew of the shuttle Discovery for the first time

For the first time, preparing the shuttle American Discovery for launch at dawn on Monday to the International Space Station on board a crew of seven astronauts, including three women, and to download the pioneers to the station on Wednesday as expected will be four women in the orbit in a world first, where Today the U.S. will reach Tracy Caldwell Dyson to the International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Russian Soyuz vehicle, which was launched last Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.


And the boot process said «Mike Moses» responsible for the preparation of the launch during a press conference on Saturday: "gather us that everything is ready for launch Monday," The countdown officially Friday at seven o'clock GMT, and continues to forecast weather conditions are excellent with 80 % of favorable opportunities when you take off on what the weather expert said «Kathy Winters» at the same time pointing to the possibility of obtaining some of the fog.

Discovery is scheduled for launch on Monday at 10:21 GMT from the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral in Florida (Southeast United States).

Shuttle «Discovery» dock with the station in the last trips to space

Space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station in late Msaouasbt in the last trip by vehicle to the station.

And met with the shuttle crew, consisting of six astronauts were welcomed by the six astronauts already on board the station are from the United States, Russia and Italy.

The vehicle transport mechanism the second European «AT 2» has docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, where it was transferred a shipment of astronauts hours before the date of the launch of Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Must be organized and accessible to all spacecraft to the International Space Station carefully, where it was necessary docking vehicle «AT 2» before the launch of shuttle Discovery to avoid any collision in space.

Tourism Minister calls Oprah Winfrey to make an episode of the program in Tahrir Square

Minister of Tourism in the caretaker government Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour he filed a claim for a number of major providers of programs and artists to implement programs and concerts in the field of editing.

This came during a press conference held by the minister on Saturday evening was attended by Engineer Hussain Masood, chairman of the holding company for Egypt Air and Amr Ezabi President of the Tourism Promotion Authority.

And Abdel Nur, said Egypt would not be a tourist destination and will not offer cheap tourist programs at knockdown prices, but will offer incentives and quality services to tourists and tourism companies.

Abdel Nour said he would call youth social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, who were the cause of the success of the revolution of January 25 to promote tourist destinations in Egypt and to invite tourists around the world to visit Egypt.

He added that the Ministry of Tourism will participate in all exhibitions and conferences in the world tourism to promote tourism in Egypt and to invite tourists to visit Egypt, especially after the revolution and the elegance that earned her a new dress

For his part, said Engineer Hussain Masud, head of EgyptAir said the company would step up its flights during the coming period to Italy because it is one of the first countries that called on citizens to visit Egypt and it is one of the first countries to cert Egypt Air flights directly to it since 1946 and that the company organizes are currently 23 flights a week to three cities in Italy are Rome, Milan and Catania, and that from the beginning of the summer season, which will begin on March 17, next will be the company's additional direct flights to all destinations in Egypt.

Boston won their second and forty-

Boston Celtics won runners-up last season, winning the second session and came at the expense of the Los Angeles Clippers 99-92 on Saturday in the NBA in basketball.

Boston leads the Order of the Atlantic group (42-15), by far than his nearest rival New York Knicks (29-27).

The Boston Celtics fell to arch-rivals the Los Angeles Lakers 3-4 in the final round of last season.

He came to prominence in the ranks of the winner, Paul Pierce (24 points) and Ray Allen (22) and Kevin Garnett (16 points with 11 rebounds), while playing Rajon Rondo a prominent role in defense and industry play seven rebounds and 11 assists, but scored just two points.

And the loser, was the most prominent Randy Foe registered with 32 points, and Blake Griffin added 21 points with 11 rebounds.

Chicago extended their lead

Chicago Bulls also strengthened their lead in the Central Group IV tally to 40 wins in 57 matches after beating the Milwaukee Bucks, 83-79, and had given the most prominent Deng registered to the winner with 19 points.

Rodney Stuckey led the Detroit Pistons to win over the Utah Jazz 120-116, scoring 28 points with five rebounds and 8 assists.

And scored for Detroit, also Austin Daya 18 points, Ben Gurun 17 others, while Paul was the best Melcob Utah, recording 23 points and 11 rebounds and 6 assists, followed by clubs Krlenko with 21 points.

In other games, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings 120-92, Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards, 105-99, Houston Rockets New Jersey Nets 123-108.

Mourinho does not blame the players

Announced that Jose Mourinho, coach of Real Madrid football on Sunday evening that he did not blame his players for their inability to win over Deportivo La Coruna without the goals of Phase 25 of the Spanish league.

Mourinho and his regret for not going out three points of the game, and said in this regard: "The team, which has sought to get out of the game by one point, than won," referring to the Akornuya who played for a draw.

The Portuguese: "Do not blame the players. We have done everything except put the ball into the goal."

It was Mourinho Yemen self to achieve win at La Coruna to move closer to his rival leaders and champions Barcelona (68 points), which exceeded yesterday at Real Mallorca Butlaip clean, but his team failed in his mission to keep the gap between the Catalan club seven points.

Portuguese and played offensive plan purely based on the Brazilian Kaka, Ronaldo and German Ozel Massoud, Karim Benzema and pay in the second half Baltogoli Emmanuel Adebayor and Argentine Angel Di Maria to promote opportunities for scoring goals, which were many, but all attempts were fruitless.

Cole hit a young man shot by air gun.

According to press reports on Sunday that Ashley Cole, Chelsea central defender, the reigning English Premier League football hit a student injured by shots from an air gun.

The newspaper "News of the World," the British that the incident took place at Chelsea's training ground in Cobham on Sunday.

It was reported that Cole brought with him an air gun of 22 caliber, including binoculars night to the stadium club, which saw dozens of members of staff at the club.

It seems that Cole did not realize that the gun was loaded with bullets, and the frequency that caused injury to Tom Cowan (21 years), a student at the Faculty of Sports Science at Loughborough University, who was serving a training period for a year at Chelsea.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Zvonareva wins Qatar title

Culminated in the Russian Vera Zvonareva title in the Qatar Open Tennis Championship, beating in the final on Saturday evening on the world number one Danish Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets, the rate of (6-4, 6-4).

In the final of the tournament with a total prize money of 721 thousand dollars, which was held on the compound of the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash in the Qatari capital, succeeded Zvonareva, seeded second in the first win for Wozniacki in Doha after the latter defeated rival in the Champions 2009 and 2010, were also able to Russian that are equally times before winning Wozniacki, where Tusbandta in 8 games and won all four of them after the game today.

It is noteworthy that this is the first titles Zvonareva this season, and atheist ten in her professionalism, while the number of titles Wozniacki (20 years) and by the smaller Russian six-year, three dozen titles, most recently in the Dubai last week.

Winning the title of Qatar got Zvonareva a monetary award of $ 111 thousand dollars in addition to 470 points in the rankings of professional players, while Wozniacki won 60,700 dollars and 320 points.

Zvonareva, bucked all expectations, which was nominated Wozniacki to win the title, especially after the Russian qualified for the difficulty to the final, while Denmark has stepped up without losing a set in the tournament.