Act Now For Lebanon

On October 18, 2012, ISOC Lebanon members and Internauts gathered at L'atelier - Berytech to enjoy a jovial atmosphere and network with Internet decision makers, stakeholders, activists and talents.

Participants discussed the ISOC’s programs, plans and activities:
The Internet advancement in Lebanon (Implementing IPv6, PayPal issue,  ...),
the launch of IPv6 in June 6, 2012 [on this day, thousands of Internet services such as Google, Facebook, and YouTube moved to IPv6], DNSSEC and Internet QOS work groups ..
At the end, ISOC University Clubs program was released.

"ISOC Lebanon provides leadership in Internet related issues and facilitate and support the technical evolution of the internet as a research, education and business enabling infrastructure."

MP Nicolas Sehnaoui supporting ISOC programs

What is IPv6? It is a system promoting Internet Address based on 128-bit and provides more than 340 trillion domain names compared to the 32-bit system with 4 billion IPv4 domains. IPv6 is the future of Internet!

The "IPv6 Taskforce Lebanon" is a comprehensive project which begins to raise the level of awareness about IPv6, through access to Internet service providers, banks, government agencies, senior institutions and industries.

"شايف حالك"

شايفين حالكم كيف بتصفّوا .. عماتش برشلونة - ريال مدريد

Bliss Street - Beirut, during a match for Barca vs. Real 7/10/2012

General assembly 2012-13

The Secular Club at AUB organised its first general assembly meeting last week. Students spoke about incoming events and activities for the year 2012-13. As a previous member and supporter, I believe that this year we have the most active cabinet and influential members in the club's history!

My ultimate goal is to keep a strong relationship between the club and off campus affiliations.



Fall 12-13: The club is proud to present the hilarious stand-up comedy act of Mazen Abdallah who will be performing live at AUB's West Hall Bathish Auditorium on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 8:00 pm. Tickets are sold at 10,000 LL and can be bought at stands just on West Hall this week. Non-students and alumni are welcome!

Some tests you're better off not doing yourself

This is a recon­struc­tion of a crash involv­ing a sta­tion­ary Ford Fal­con XT sedan being struck in the driver’s door by another vehi­cle trav­el­ling at 50 km/h [30 mph].

Car Crash Test

0 mil­lisec­onds — An exter­nal object touches the driver’s door.

1 ms — The car’s door pres­sure sen­sor detects a pres­sure wave.

2 ms — An accel­er­a­tion sen­sor in the C-pillar behind the rear door also detects a crash event.

2.5 ms - A sen­sor in the car’s cen­tre detects crash vibrations.

5 ms — Car’s crash com­puter checks for insignif­i­cant crash events, such as a shop­ping trol­ley impact or inci­den­tal con­tact. It is still work­ing out the sever­ity of the crash. Door intru­sion struc­ture begins to absorb energy.

6.5 ms — Door pres­sure sen­sor reg­is­ters peak pressures.

7 ms — Crash com­puter con­firms a seri­ous crash and cal­cu­lates its actions.

8 ms — Com­puter sends a “fire” sig­nal to side airbag. Mean­while, B-pillar begins to crum­ple inwards and energy begins to trans­fer into cross-car load path beneath the occupant.

8.5 ms — Side airbag sys­tem fires.

15 ms — Roof begins to absorb part of the impact. Airbag bursts through seat foam and begins to fill.

17 ms — Cross-car load path and struc­ture under rear seat reach max­i­mum load.
Airbag cov­ers occupant’s chest and begins to push the shoul­der away from impact zone.

20 ms — Door and B-pillar begin to push on front seat. Airbag begins to push occupant’s chest away from the impact.

27 ms — Impact veloc­ity has halved from 50 km/h to 23.5 km/h. A “pusher block” in the seat moves occupant’s pelvis away from impact zone. Airbag starts con­trolled deflation.

30 ms — The Fal­con has absorbed all crash energy. Airbag remains in place. For a brief moment, occu­pant expe­ri­ences max­i­mum force equal to 12 times the force of gravity.

45 ms — Occu­pant and airbag move together with deform­ing side structure.

50 ms — Crash com­puter unlocks car’s doors. Pas­sen­ger safety cell begins to rebound, push­ing doors away from occupant.

70 ms — Airbag con­tin­ues to deflate. Occu­pant moves back towards mid­dle of car. Engi­neers clas­sify crash as “complete”.

150–300 ms — Occu­pant becomes aware of collision.