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Best and Worst Jobs of 2012

WALL STREET JOURNAL

"CareerCast.com ranked 200 jobs from best to worst based on five criteria: physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook."

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Présidentielle : seriez-vous prêt à voter avec votre smartphone ?

MON FIGARO

"plus de 12% des Français ayant choisi de s'abstenir lors de l’élection présidentielle seraient prêts à revenir sur leur décision s'ils avaient la possibilité de voter via leur mobile."

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Out of Contact

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

John Terborgh on: The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace

Nicolas Reynard/National Geographic Stock

Sydney Possuelo (right), founder and director of Brazil’s Department of Isolated Indians, with members of the Korubo tribe in the Amazon River basin, 2002

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If one of the inexperienced Americans—or anyone—had been incapacitated by injury, this would have had dire consequences for the entire group, for there was no way to get a person out. The boats that had brought them to the headwaters of the Itaquaí had returned to port. There was only the way forward and that required a fifty-day feat of stamina and mental fortitude that stripped thirty-three pounds from the author’s frame. Possuelo carried a satellite telephone, but that offered only an illusion of security because the irregular terrain and unbroken forest canopy precluded the landing of a helicopter.

On a lengthy expedition of this kind, food supplies are a critical issue, not simply for energy but for morale. No one can carry fifty days’ rations on top of a hammock, clothing, and other essential equipment. Daily hunting made up the shortfall. Naturally, returns were better on some days than others. When a herd of peccaries could be assaulted, the bounty allowed everyone to eat his fill and retire contented. But there were many days when the hunters could bag only a few monkeys. A bowl of thin monkey broth simply couldn’t compensate for a long day’s march and left everyone in a sullen mood.

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Wallace portrays Possuelo as a man possessed, a prime subject for a Werner Herzog movie, autocratic and uncompromising. He led through intimidation, not persuasion, demanding that his orders be carried out to the letter. Even insignificant failings were met with harshly, earning him the enmity of those who bore the brunt of his wrath. He could be tender and sympathetic, usually to the least sophisticated Indians in the party, but he was more typically aloof, lecturing his men rather than befriending them.

Nevertheless, by its own criteria, the expedition succeeded. It kept to the intended route and schedule, documented evidence of Flecheiro occupation over a large area—without actually meeting with the people themselves—and everyone survived. But what did it really accomplish? That is less clear.

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RAPPEL : uncontacted tribes

Uncontacted tribes

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Abandoned Communist Monument in Bulgaria Looks Like a Scene from “The Thing” Movie

via COOLOS

"Buzludzha monument is located in a historical peak in Central Stara Planina, a mountain in Bulgaria. It opened in 1981 on the 1300th anniversary of the founding of Bulgaria. It was designed by architect Georgy Stoilov and built by order of Bulgarian communist regime to commemorate the anniversary and the founding of the Bulgarian communist party. More than 6000 workers, units of the Bulgarian Army and artists, were involved in building and decorating the monument. Construction took seven years." Kalin Nacheff

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Les Pierrots de la nuit

Les Pierrots de la nuit

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RAPPEL : Paris by night

"Ca te dit de voir Paname ? Ca te dit de voir mon Paname ? De traîner avec moi dans mes délires ? Je te montre ma vie la nuit, je te montre mes errances, ma souffrance, mes délires. Regarde moi dans les yeux et dis moi que Paname est mort."

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Lost in New York (1989)

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Estetica del trasporto pubblico

VICE ITALIA

Questa almeno è l'impressione che mi hanno fatto le foto di Ludwig, graphic designer e fotografo londinese che ha ritratto per anni svariati sedili dei trasporti pubblici della sua città, del Regno Unito e d'Europa.

Cork Institute of Technology - St Patrick Street. Route 5 Bus Éireann

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Aeroporto Marco Polo - Venezia Piazzale Roma. ATVO Bus

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Old Street - Hackney Road. London Bus 55. Stagecoach

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A4 bus London to Stansted Airport. National Express

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Marienburger Str. - Heumarkt. Köln Bus Linie 106

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London Bus

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Plaza de Castilla - Sanchinarro. Línea de Autobús 174. EMT. Madrid

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Liverpool Street Station - Marble Arch. Central Line Train. London Underground

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Portsmouth - Ryde (Isle of Wight). WightLink Fastcat

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Jubilee Line train. London Undergound

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London Bus

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Straßenbahnlinie M10 via S Nordbahnhof. Berlin

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RAPPEL : CFCF Night Bus II Mix

01 wait for me intro (vangelis) 02 this city never sleeps (eurythmics) 03 stranger (jhene aiko) 04 demons/behind the bank (asap rocky/oneohtrix point never) 05 keep the streets empty (fever ray) 06 aventurescence/addiction (beaumont/cassie) 07 here in heaven/one more chance (elite gymnastics/notorious BIG) 08 tongues (d’eon) 09 sappys curry/body count (underworld/meek mill) 10 lowride/unthinkable (autechre/alicia keys)

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Disarming Viktor Bout

NEW YORKER

The rise and fall of the world's most notorious weapons trafficker Nicholas Schmidle ; 5 mars 2012

Officials in Washington began to see Bout as the quintessential figure of transnational crime. He was distinguished not by cruelty or ruthlessness but by cunning amorality. “If he wasn’t doing arms and all the vile stuff, he would be a damn good businessman,” Andreas Morgner, a sanctions expert at the Treasury Department, said.

Bout’s trade gave him an outsized role in matters of war and peace. He neither shied from the pressure nor took sides. He flew Belgian peacekeepers into Somalia, and after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, he says, he brought French troops into eastern Congo. Not long after, with the help of Mirchev and others, he was transporting arms from Russia, Bulgaria, and Iran into conflict zones.

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Dave Bixby - Morning Sun Album :  "Ode To Quetzalcoatl" [1972] Images : The Bikini Island atomic bomb tests (1946)

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États-Unis : des sans-abri transformés en bornes WiFi

LE FIGARO BBC

"Les passants et les participants au festival SXSW , souvent des technophiles ��quipés de smartphones et de tablettes qui prennent d'assaut les points d'accès à Internet de la ville, peuvent se connecter en envoyant un SMS à un numéro indiqué sur le tee-shirt, et en payant environ 2 dollars pour un quart d'heure d'accès à internet. Les bénéfices revenant aux SDF."

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Le courrier de Dormez Plus Tristes III

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Alain Souchon et la "bôf" génération

INA

Interrogé sur son côté "à quoi bon", le chanteur Alain SOUCHON explique ne s'être jamais réellement intéressé à quoi que ce soit.

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Courrier International n°1111 ; du 16 au 22 février 2012.

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Splash, le réseau social des tout-petits

LE PARISIEN

"92% d’entre eux utilisent leur vraie identité : ils n’hésitent pas à donner des informations personnelles et publient des photos. Surtout les filles."

"Splash a également l’ambition de remplacer la sortie de l’école où les adultes pouvaient discuter « en vrai » tout en attendant leur progéniture."

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S'enrichir en spéculant sur la mort, c'est possible

LE MONDE

"Certains petits porteurs ont fini par se plaindre... non pas pour des raisons morales, mais parce que le fonds ne leur rapportait pas assez, avec un rendement de 3 % par an entre 2009 et 2011."