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Lebanon soldier kills Syrian at checkpoint
▻http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/82480/World/Region/Lebanon-soldier-kills-Syrian-at-checkpoint-Army.aspx

A Syrian man was killed and two others wounded when Lebanese troops opened fire on their minibus on Wednesday after it failed to stop at a checkpoint, the army said.

“At 4:45am (0145 GMT), the driver of a minibus carrying Syrian passengers... failed to comply with orders from the Lebanese army to stop at a checkpoint in the Arsal region, forcing the soldiers to open fire,” the army said in a statement.

“One passenger was killed and two others were lightly injured,” the statement said, adding that the bus had continued on despite the shooting but the driver later turned himself in.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said the Syrian killed was a member of the Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist rebel group fighting in Syria.

Bomb hits ambulance transporting pregnant woman in northern #Iraq
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bomb-hits-ambulance-transporting-pregnant-woman-northern-iraq

A bomb exploded near an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman to a hospital in Iraq on Monday, wounding her and the driver and killing two people, police and a doctor said. The blast near the northern city of Mosul also wounded the driver of the ambulance, the sources said, adding that the dead were a relative of the woman and a medic. The woman was in labor at the time of the incident but the fate of the baby was not immediately clear. Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, is one (...)

#News

#Beirut’s Fake #Taxis Are Here to Stay
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/beirut%E2%80%99s-fake-taxis-are-here-stay

http://english.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/4cols/leading_images/5641214276639042.jpg

If you take a taxi between Beirut and #Dahiyeh, it’s common to hear the driver ask, “When will they put an end to the counterfeit license plates? Where is the state?” (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) If you take a taxi between Beirut and Dahiyeh, it’s common to hear the driver ask, “When will they put an end to the counterfeit license plates? Where is the state?” (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

Lately in #Lebanon, any car has become a prospective (...)

#Culture_&_Society #Articles

Twitter / wagihadli : if you are in a taxi in Cairo ...
▻https://twitter.com/wagihadli/status/371028125271871488

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSYnnzKCEAITmc9.jpg

If you are in a taxi in Cairo and the driver doesn’t talk about the situation there, for sure you are kidnaped.

TL;DR: NIC offload optimizations may reduce CPU load but they increases latency through #bufferbloat... Try disabling them:
▻http://www.coverfire.com/articles/queueing-in-the-linux-network-stack

“Since TSO, GSO, UFO and GRO greatly increase the number of bytes which can be queued in the driver queue you should disable these optimizations if you want to optimize for latency over throughput. It’s doubtful you will notice any CPU impact or throughput decrease when disabling these features unless the system is handling very high data rates”

▻http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/App_Data/MediaFiles/5/E/8/%7B5E8E8C53-B396-419D-A9C6-E1B96DA97408%7D08222012_cars_toyotafun_vi

Toyota Fun Vii Concept
A vehicle that departs the most radically from today’s cars, this three-seater has a “blank slate” exterior that can be changed, based on the owner’s preferences, with a simple download of a phone app or by uploading an image to Facebook. A 3D female “navigation concierge” pops out of the dashboard to assist the driver. It’s so versatile it can operate as its own video game console.

La vidéo a beaucoup circulé, mais j’ignorais que le vidéaste amateur avait été arrêté: Foreigner jailed for filming UAE local beating van driver
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/foreigner-jailed-filming-uae-local-beating-van-driver

An Asian man has been arrested for filming a video that has gone viral on the Internet showing a UAE citizen beating up an Indian van driver in Dubai, local media reported Thursday.

The witness, whose nationality was not known, was arrested for defaming the UAE man who beat up the Indian driver, the reports said.

“No one has the right to take pictures of someone and publish them without his permission,” Dubai police chief, Khamis al-Mazeina, was quoted as saying by the daily Emiratalyoum.

He said the Asian video maker was arrested following a complaint lodged by the family of the Emirati man.

The footage of the beating shows a man of small height, dressed in a traditional white thawb, attacking the Indian driver of a delivery van following a minor car accident in Dubai.

The man beat the Indian driver using his igal, a traditional Emirati head ornament, according to the news website Gulf News.

The ACLU has published a study saying the widespread use of police and traffic cameras has made it possible to track individual’s movements, even across multiple jurisdictions. From the article, ’While the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that a judge’s approval is needed to use GPS to track a car, networks of plate scanners allow police effectively to track a driver’s location, sometimes several times every day, with few legal restrictions. The ACLU says the scanners are assembling a “single, high-resolution image of our lives.”

▻http://www.startribune.com/nation/215826221.html

Best Place in Town ?
▻http://www.my-cabby.com/sympa?lang=en

Don’t ask me, ask the driver. In case you’re ok he will get you to some great places. Otherwise you will end up in a boring or dangerous spot. You’ll know better afterwards.

Exclusive: I Saw Nasrallah in Qusair - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/nasrallah-qusair-hezbollah.html

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I stared at the man sitting beside the driver: The face was familiar, but something was missing. It was clear I was face to face with Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, without a turban, wearing a military uniform. He smiled and nodded to me, and while I was still in shock, the car was out of sight. There was no convoy, only one car, but as I said before, there were security measures taken in the city and around.

It took me some time to confirm that whom I saw was Nasrallah. When I returned to Beirut, I started my investigations to confirm it, and I did.

While investigating, I came across another piece of information: this visit wasn’t the first for Nasrallah to Qusair during this very crisis. “Sayyed Nasrallah went to Qusair a day before the start of the battle: he met the commanders, visited some injured fighters and gave a speech,” a source close to Hezbollah told me, “He spoke for around half an hour with his main commanders exchanging ideas on the battle and the expectations and how many days it’ll take them to finish it.”

As for the latest visit, the one day after the offensive, our source said that Nasrallah visited the city of Qusair and the towns around it in the country side. He added, “Sayyed Nasrallah wanted to thank the fighters personally, he met them, met the injured, and went around the area.”

I asked the source how Nasrallah is able to move from Beirut to Qusair in Syria and sometimes travel to Iran while Israel is saying that he is hiding.

“It’s a hide-and-seek game,” he replied, “Nasrallah’s security apparatus is professional enough to know when to move and how. No one knows what they do and what their measure are, we only know when things are done.”

Nasrallah’s visit to Qusair shows once again that the group’s fight in Syria isn’t a matter of interests, it’s a matter of existence.

The New Cartographers | Science Careers

▻http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_03_18/caredit.a1300045?goback=%2Egde_1033567_member_236148631

The New Cartographers
By Emily Underwood
March 18, 2013

Twenty years ago, a driver lost at night would pull his car over, take out a paper map bought at a gas station, and pore over its folds under a dim light. With luck and some critical thinking, he would eventually get where he was going. Today, he’d be more likely to swipe his finger across a smart phone screen and follow directions using Google Maps.

As maps have changed, so have mapmakers. No longer static images, maps have become active interfaces for information exchange, continuously determining where we are in relation to distant satellites and suggesting where we ought to go, says Seth Spielman, a 38-year-old geography professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Today, the global geoservices industry collects, shares, and analyzes data on an unprecedented scale. It’s valued at as much as $270 billion per year and employs 500,000 people in the United States, according to a recent report from Google. The rapid transformation, which Spielman equates with a “renaissance” in the field, has overturned traditional ideas of what a geographer does.

#cartographie

DON’T TEXT-AND-DRIVE: Driver’s unfinished text message serves as sad reminder - Neowin
▻http://www.neowin.net/news/dont-text-and-drive-drivers-unfinished-text-message-serves-as-sad-reminder

Israeli forces surround new ’village’ | Maan News Agency
▻http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=577109

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Wednesday surrounded a new tent village erected by Palestinian activists in Eizariya east of Jerusalem.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said hundreds of Palestinians established “an illegal settlement” and that security forces were in the area “to maintain order.”

She said soldiers arrested the driver of a truck loaded with equipment including tents.

Mohammad Khatib, a spokesman for the activists, said soldiers handed protesters a document declaring the area a closed military zone.

“We are staying. We are Palestinians, and we will stay here. They will have to evacuate us. They will have to use their power to do it, but we will not do it by ourselves,” Khatib told Ma’an.

“We are staying here because this is Palestinian land. This is our land, and no one has a right to evacuate us.”

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Ministry launches ’Palestinians only’ buses - Israel News, Ynetnews
►http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4351368,00.html

Legally, however, there is no way to stop Palestinians from boarding “regular” lines: “We are not allowed to refuse service and we will not order anyone to get off the bus, but from what we were told, starting next week, there will be checks at the checkpoint, and Palestinians will be asked to board their own buses,” a driver with Afikim – the company that holds the routes franchise for the area – told Ynet.

#apartheid #impunité

Un fait divers qui en dit long sur l’industrie touristique au Bahrein,

A HOTEL claims it has been the victim of a smear campaign after rumours surfaced that two Saudis were killed there and a third was critically injured.

The Summerland Hotel, Hoora, has strongly denied the reports circulated online.

A spokeswoman told the GDN that disgruntled ex-staff had started the rumours because they had been sacked.

The rumours surfaced yesterday, nine days after a Saudi smashed his car into the hotel’s lobby - apparently in an attempt to run down another man.

The GDN reported on February 20 that a Saudi driver smashed his car into the lobby of the hotel - apparently in an attempt to run down another man.

The incident took place on February 18 after the men reportedly got into an argument.

Sources at the time said there had been an argument and a driver smashed his vehicle through the main glass entrance of the hotel in an attempt to hit another man.

The incident happened at around 8.30am and both men had reportedly been drinking.

Gulf Daily News

Rosa Park vient d’avoir 100 ans

On Rosa Parks’ 100th Birthday, Recalling Her Rebellious Life Before and After the Montgomery Bus
▻http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/4/on_rosa_parks_100th_birthday_recalling

ROSA PARKS: I left work on my way home, December 1st, 1955, about 6:00 in the afternoon. I boarded the bus downtown Montgomery on Court Square. As the bus proceeded out of town on the third stop, the white passengers had filled the front of the bus. When I got on the bus, the rear was filled with colored passengers, and they were beginning to stand. The seat I occupied was the first of the seats where the Negro passengers take as they—on this route. The driver noted that the front of the bus was filled with white passengers, and there would be two or three men standing. He looked back and asked that the seat where I had taken, along with three other persons: one in a seat with me and two across the aisle were seated. He demanded the seats that we were occupying. The other passengers there reluctantly gave up their seats. But I refused to do so.

I want to make very certain that it is understood that I had not taken a seat in the white section, as has been reported in many cases. An article came out in the newspaper on Friday morning about the Negro woman overlooked segregation. She was seated in the front seat, the white section of the bus and refused to take a seat in the rear of the bus. That was the first newspaper account. The seat where I occupied, we were in the custom of taking this seat on the way home, even though at times on this same bus route, we occupied the same seat with whites standing, if their space had been taken up, the seats had been taken up. I was very much surprised that the driver at this point demanded that I remove myself from the seat.

The driver said that if I refused to leave the seat, he would have to call the police. And I told him, “Just call the police.” He then called the officers of the law. They came and placed me under arrest, violation of the segregation law of the city and state of Alabama in transportation. I didn’t think I was violating any. I felt that I was not being treated right, and that I had a right to retain the seat that I had taken as a passenger on the bus. The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed, I suppose. They placed me under arrest.

The Accidental Terrorist » Counterpunch : Tells the Facts, Names the Names
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/01/14/the-accidental-terrorist

“?people’s movements of resistance against deprivation, against unemployment, against the loss of natural resources, all of that is termed ‘terrorism.’”
Edward Said

The only known photograph of Rebecca Rubin is a headshot that looks like it was taken for her driver’s license. She’s wearing a plain gray sweatshirt, her long brown hair is unkempt, and her expression is careworn. But splashed across thousands of ‘Wanted’ posters across the country, her face aligned next to those of serial murderers and bank robbers, the headshot sends a message that she is someone to be frightened of. This, though Rubin ? aliases “Kara” and “Little Missy” ? has never harmed a soul.
...
Jacob Ferguson, the ALF member turned FBI informant, laments that everything they burned down was rebuilt, bigger and better. If anything, Operation Backfire has benefited industry groups that have for decades sought to classify radical environmental and animal rights activists as eco-terrorists.
...
When I knocked on the front door, Rubin’s stepfather, Douglas Taylor, answered but did not invite me in. “The charges are unmitigated baloney,” Taylor told me. “I could tell you why, but I’m not allowed to talk about it because I’m fairly convinced they’re listening.” He pointed to the ceiling to signal the place was bugged.

London Group of Historical Geographers (LGHG)

►http://www.rhul.ac.uk/geography/events/lghg.aspx

London Group of Historical Geographers (LGHG)
The LGHG provides a forum for the discussion of current research in historical geography.
Seminar Programme, Spring 2013

Geography, Museums and Collections

22 January Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway)
Reconfiguring objects, refashioning spaces: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany

5 February James Wallis (University of Exeter)
‘Oh! What a lovely exhibition!’ Exploring the Imperial War Museum’s First World War fiftieth anniversary displays, 1964–1968

19 February Claire Wintle (University of Brighton)
Decolonising the Smithsonian: American foreign policy and colonial collections, 1945-1970

5 March Nicholas Thomas (University of Cambridge)
Pacific presences: encounter and experiment in the European museum

19 March George Lovell (Queen’s University, Ontario)
The archive that never was: state terror and historical memory in Guatemala

These seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5.15pm in the Torrington Room 104, South Block, Senate House, University of London. For further details, or to have your name added to our e-mail list, please contact Felix Driver, Royal Holloway (f.driver@rhul.ac.uk) or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk). We are grateful to Royal Holloway, Queen Mary, Kings, Birkbeck, UCL, LSE, University of Sussex, Open University and the IHR for supporting this seminar series.
LGHG was originally established in 1981. Since 1989 it has organised fortnightly themed seminars across three terms of the academic year at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.For details of the history of these seminars,click here.

To have your name added to our e-mail list, please contact Felix Driver, Royal Holloway (f.driver@rhul.ac.uk) or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk).

La timeline des brèves de Naharnet est à l’image de la qualité de l’information libanaise aujourd’hui :

4 hours ago - LBCI: Samaha’s driver confessed to taking part in preparing terrorist operations that were going to be carried out in the North.

4 hours ago - LBCI: The arrest of Samaha’s driver, Fares Barakat led to the former minister’s confession.

3 hours ago - Top security source to MTV: The intimidation campaign launched after Samaha’s arrest won’t prevent us from preserving security and we will cut off any hand that might try to harm Lebanon.

1 hour ago - LBCI: Former minister Samaha’s bodyguard Fares Barakat has been released and the Mercedes car has been handed over to him.

1 hour ago - Fares Barakat to LBCI: I did not smuggle any arms in Samaha’s car from Syria to Lebanon.

1 hour ago - Samaha’s bodyguard Fares Barakat: I did not meet minister Samaha during the interrogation and they are writing the investigation report the way they want and the minister is the last person who would think about such bombings. He visited Syria at the beginning of this week and I accompanied him.

Ce qui n’empêche pas les médias 14 Mars de continuer la diffusion de rumeurs invérifiables et non sourcées :

MTV: Assad telephoned the highest authorities to press for the release of Michel Samaha.

(Oui, allô, c’est Bachar Assad. A. S. S. A. D., oui : Assad comme ça se prononce. Je voudrais parler aux plus hautes autorités s’il vous plaît. Non je ne quitte pas.)

Taint of Baathist ideology has poisoned Syria for too long

In 2003, on my way from Damascus to my hometown in eastern Syria, near the Iraq border, my driver offered to drop me off at a border point where Syrian fighters were taken to join the Iraqi insurgency. I couldn’t believe that Syria’s secular, Baathist regime was allowing fighters to cross the border to engage in the Iraqi “jihad” against the US-led invasion.

My driver insisted this was the case, and thus the offer to show me the border crossing. He said there was a fleet of drivers who made a living by picking up young men in the Syrian city of Al Bukamal and taking them to the city of Al Qaim, which lies directly across the border with Iraq. It was unclear, my driver said, who handled these young aspiring fighters after that point.

I remained sceptical until I reached home. There, I learnt that two of my distant relatives had already left for Iraq to join the insurgency.

more: ►http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/taint-of-baathist-ideology-has-poisoned-syria-for-too-long#full

1. L’information

43 Ethiopians, Somalis suffocate in truck on smuggling trip in Tanzania; driver dumps bodies

ARUSHA, Tanzania

Deputy Home Affairs Minister Pereira Silima on Wednesday said it was sad and unfortunate that so many people died from the illegal smuggling scheme.

Tanzania’s state television said the bodies were thrown off the truck and dumped in the bush after the driver of the truck realized some of the people he was smuggling had perished. Some 70 people in the truck survived and are receiving medical treatment and being questioned by police.

Tanzania lies on a smuggling route Africans use to travel to South Africa, where there are more economic opportunities.

►http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/43-ethiopians-somalis-suffocate-in-truck-on-smuggling-trip-in-tanzania-driver-dumps-bodies/2012/06/27/gJQAmTET6V_story.html

2. La réaction de Barbara E. Harrell-Bond

“...But these people are doubtless refugees, Why don’t you call them refugees - they go to SA not only because of economic opportunities but because there is a refugee system...”

Dr. Barbara E. Harrell-Bond, Director Fahamu Refugee Programme

Syrian Network for Human Rights
&
Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies
Violation Report
Monday 11.06.2012
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Casualties and Wounded:

Deir Ezzor/ AL-Jura:
A horrible massacre took place in AL-Jura district in which six victims were killed, including two children, as a result of a blast. Security forces had bombed a car in the area; its driver left it and rode in another one. The car exploded and killed many people around tearing them into remains.
►http://youtu.be/mk95wza6u6o

Idlib
Many villages were under heavy and random shelling (Edowan-Ein-Sheeb-Maarbleet-Mehembl-Mareean-Shaghoreet-Sarareef-Arneba-AL-Laaj), consequently thirty-one people were killed and dozens were wounded. It is an act of atrocity because many people are still under the rubble and the residents are recovering the corpses as in the following video:
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61N3y1qmaQ

A whole family was killed by heavy shelling while working in their field
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GduXhVWwRFQ

Rural Damascus/Hammorya
Snipers of the security forces stationed on roofs of buildings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VVDcIn8Ew

Syrian Network for Human Rights - London
Website: www.syrianhr.org
Email: press@syrianhr.org
Skype: Syrianhr
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Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria
www.dchrs.org

Syrian Network for Human Rights
&
Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies
Violation Report
Monday 11.06.2012
=====
Casualties and Wounded:

Deir Ezzor/ AL-Jura:
A horrible massacre took place in AL-Jura district in which six victims were killed, including two children, as a result of a blast. Security forces had bombed a car in the area; its driver left it and rode in another one. The car exploded and killed many people around tearing them into remains.
►http://youtu.be/mk95wza6u6o

Idlib
Many villages were under heavy and random shelling (Edowan-Ein-Sheeb-Maarbleet-Mehembl-Mareean-Shaghoreet-Sarareef-Arneba-AL-Laaj), consequently thirty-one people were killed and dozens were wounded. It is an act of atrocity because many people are still under the rubble and the residents are recovering the corpses as in the following video:
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61N3y1qmaQ

A whole family was killed by heavy shelling while working in their field
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GduXhVWwRFQ

Rural Damascus/Hammorya
Snipers of the security forces stationed on roofs of buildings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4VVDcIn8Ew

Syrian Network for Human Rights - London
Website: www.syrianhr.org
Email: press@syrianhr.org
Skype: Syrianhr
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Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria
www.dchrs.org

« It doesn’t matter how, killing your friends is killing your friends. If you drink don’t drive »

Est-ce vraiment la même chose ? Et vous, qu’en pensez-vous ? Je reste dubitatif sur l’efficacité de cette pub mais je reconnais que le message est fort (j’ai souvent pensé que la « conduite à très haut risque » sur la voie publique étaient un acte criminel)

►http://creativity-online.com/work/coexistence-without-violence-if-you-drink-dont-drive/27411

Coexistence Without Violence: If You Drink, Don’t Drive

A Murder is murder.

Scary, gruesome work from Anonimo and Boxer Films’ Rodrigo Garcia Saiz sees kids piling into a car after a night out, only to have the driver shoot them, point-blank. After all — it doesn’t matter how you killed your friends, says this commercial from Coexistence Without Violence, a youth-centered movement that promotes safe driving and responsible drinking. While the violent nature of the commercial seems strangely at odds with the organization’s name, it’s a pretty good way to get the message across.

The Internet Is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/internet-major-driver-growth-cognitive-inequality

Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality. Caveat emptor.

#wtf #internet #inégalités