Author: Eliedh

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Internet Lebanon News

LebArmy.gov.lb services

Lebanese Army Logo

The official Lebanese Army website offers a lot of nice useful feature, you can check the headlines of all the Lebanese newspapers, read a summary of the editorials of all the newspapers, check the Lebanese Army news, read a summary of news from the Middle East, the enemy (Israel) and the world, you can also read the introduction of the news on some radio stations.

Another page contains the precise hour of the start of the day and of the end of the day for september. (Useful for Ramadan I guess)

You can also get a couple of nice Lebanese Army wallpapers for your desktop.

All of those services are offered for free in addition to news and information about the Lebanese Army and a list of the martyrs who died during the battle of Nahr El Bared.

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Lebanon Politics

Sanioura’s Priorities

Sanioura just gave his “victory speech”, those are the priorities in his speech:

  1. Message to the Palestinians (They will rebuild the homes)
  2. Message to the Lebanese politicians (Stop fighting)
  3. Message to the Families of the Martyrs (RIP Martyrs)
  4. Message to the Lebanese Army comanders (Good job)
  5. Message to the Lebanese (We won, please don’t shot in the air)

I don’t know about you but I think that points 3, 4 and 5 are most important than point 1 and 2!

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Weird

Islamic University of LebanonE

Do they teach English?

Islamic University of Lebanon

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Lebanon Politics Television

Is the Battle of Nahr El Bared over?

Lebanese Army APCToday while checking the AFP news on my cell after waking up I was surprised by news that the army killed 20 terrorists while they were trying to flee the camp and captured 7 but apparently 5 including Chaker L Absi (The leader of the group) managed to flee so the army was searching Nahr L Bared and the surrounding areas. I went to the living room to watch TV and see what happening and only Al Jazeera was reporting live from the camp! The Lebanese TV channels were just showing the normal morning shows!!!

The Lebanese TV channels were not properly covering the Battle from Day one (Hariri or Aoun or any politician repeating the same thing he has been saying for a year is more important than Lebanese Soldiers dying for Lebanon according to those Channels!) but this might be the last day of battle and the least they could do is show us what is happening! “Jarass” a Lebanese Music Television was broadcasting Army songs but Lebanese News Television were doing nothing!!!

I just checked Google news, what’s happening in Lebanon is on the front page same for BBC news! So when will the Lebanese TVs respect the army as much as foreign news sources are?

UPDATE: I just turned on the TV in my room, LBCI is now reporting from Nahr L Bared! 10 apparently escaped and 2 were killed in villages surrounding the camp.

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Operating System Personal

My Vista Sidebar Gadgets

One of the nice features in Vista is the ability to put gadgets on the desktop, the system comes loaded with a couple of gadgets and you can download others later from Microsoft’s web site.

Here’s the list of gadgets I am using:

  • Presto’s Clock, A simple clock with the date.
  • 2 Slide Show *, One with pictures of Bachir Gemayel and the other with Lebanese Army pictures.
  • Feed Headlines *, From Slashdot and Naharnet.
  • WeatherBug, Current weather and weather forecast for any city you want.
  • Multi Meter, Shows the usage of your processors and the RAM.
  • Notes *, Digital Post-its.

*:Preloaded with Vista.

My vista sidebar gadgets

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Lebanon Personal

The Electricity!

Today whoever is in charge of distributing the electricity is being very generous!! I got home at 1:30 PM, we had no electricity, at 2PM it was back but they didn’t give it for too much time at 3:15PM they stopped it, at 6PM they finally gave it back only to re-cut it 30 minutes later!!

When will they fix the electricity problem in this country!!

Note that usually it’s 6 or 4 hours on/6 or 4 hours off!

Light Bulb

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Games Internet

Fly an F16 over your house!

The new Google earth has a hidden feature! if you press Ctrl+Alt+A you get a flight simulator, it is still a basic one, you only get two planes and a few airports to take of from but this has the potential to become the most realistic flight simulator out there!

Here’s the list of controls available, and some screenshots I took:

Google Earth Flight Simulator

Google Earth Flight Simulator Preview

From Marco’s Blog Via Digg

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Food Videos

Old Nido Commercial (1990)

We all know the Nido commercial, but I don’t think a lot of people know the old commercial, it’s the same concept but the song is in English.
Here’s the video from YouTube.

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Lebanon Music

Close the Bridge, Film a Video Clip!

Two days ago while returning from university my friends and I noticed a stage was being built on the “Nahr L Mot” new bridge! We tried to guess why would someone build a stage on a bridge but we didn’t really find any possible explanation.

A stage on a bridge

Today my friend told me that he passed there at night and saw that a singer was filming a video clip and that they had also erected a huge poster behind her. All the equipment was removed the next day and everything was back to normal. But what I don’t get is why would someone film a video clip on the bridge, there is no scene behind her since she erected here poster so why did she choose the bridge and not some flat ground!

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Weird

Weird experiments!

1 Dog 2 HeadsAttaching a dog’s head to another dog, keeping a dog’s head alive and disconnected from it’s body, trying to make a human/ape hybrid creature, exchanging the heads of apes! and many other weird experiments you probably never thought a human could even think of doing can be found here!

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