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At SMX Advanced Seattle, Bruce Clay, Inc. and the team of guest livebloggers reported the information and research shared at 14 sessions. Topics and tactics ranged from SEO and social media to paid search and business considerations, explained by Internet marketing professionals and search engine representatives. Here you'll find selected highlights from each of the 14 sessions. You can find in-depth conference coverage in the SMX Advanced liveblog posts on the Bruce Clay, Inc. blog.
This article is intended to serve as a follow up to a live webcast presentation for Search Marketing Now. You can view the recorded webcast and read about the strategy of managing expectations and defining success for SEO in large organizations for background on the tactics offered here.
In part one of this two-part series on SEO for large businesses, we outlined 12 key areas where large organizations must focus their search engine marketing initiatives and four tactics which help accomplish these high-level strategies. In part two, you'll find specific tasks that can help accomplish the goal of the key areas.
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By Brent Rangen
SEO is not a new fad. Keyword stuffing, cloaking, link exchanges, link wheels, and spamming have been around for years. SEO has evolved into something much more since then. Why? Because Google has evolved into something much more.
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By Dvir Weininger
A small business owner might not understand technical jargon, or "geek speak" well enough to not be a bit apprehensive about the concept of SEO; that's why "thinking outside the bot" is so important.
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Two words, small businesses: Buy In. Seriously. That's my advice. I realize that may sound too trite to be legitimate, but it's real. The best way to improve your online presence is to make a commitment to pursuing one.
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SEO is a foundation of a good site. It's not something that should be offered as an add-on expense. A properly developed site will perform the best-practices basics of SEO from the start.
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By Chris Harmon
If your customer is following you, they are going to need to feel they are interacting with someone near the top of the company food chain. Ask what you want to get out of social sites. Write down a plan and be prepared to adjust it in a month.
Social Media Marketing Essentials for the Small Business Web Presence
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In the broadest sense of the term, social media marketing can and usually does embrace a number of outlets including: tweeting, blogging, viewer-supplied content sites, email campaigns and cell phone texting.
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Recently, we noticed many more Universal Search results appearing in the Google.com.au SERPs. We performed some testing on the number of occurrences and the type of
Universal Search results to provide some actionable insights and data to back up our observations.
We selected a sample of different search results in Google.com.au (searched from an Australian IP and eliminating the impacts of personalised search) and recorded the occurrences and types of Universal Search results. We gathered this data across a number of different keyword groups including brand, high-volume, mid-tier, long-tail and celebrity- and news-related keywords. We then tracked those search results over a period of days to determine the level of change.
The Google Caffeine algorithm update put everyone on edge for the better part of 2010. Speculation mounted in anticipation as the SEO community forecast potential changes on the horizon. Google officially announced Caffeine was live on June 8, the same week SMX Advanced occurred in Seattle.
Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team, spoke about Caffeine's purpose in a question-and-answer session same day at SMX. Turns out, its goal is simple: allow spiders to crawl and index pages all at once, delivering fresher, more relevant results than was ever possible.
But there's more to Caffeine than just efficiency by Google; webmasters everywhere must polish their sites to keep them in tip-top shape to compete.
As Caffeine Takes Effect, Best Practices Rule
Caffeine allows Google to index more pages in more languages than ever before to produce the most relevant results for the online user. So what does that mean for rankings and long-term health of websites? In this case, SEO best practices continue to shine:
New York-based Internet marketing company
10e20 acquired Brent Csutoras, Inc., a viral marketing agency, announced June 2. Brent Csutoras joins 10e20 as its senior vice president of viral marketing.
Yahoo!'s Raymie Stata was promoted from chief architect to chief technology officer and senior vice president of its technology department earlier this month. Stata replaces former CTO Ari Balogh.
Google acquired Invite Media this month, an East Coast startup that enables advertisers to use real-time bidding for ad space online. The acquisition of the service has raised conflict of interest concerns because Google also owns the DoubleClick ad platform.
Hearst Corporation announced plans to acquire iCrossing, a global digital marketing agency. The close of the agreement is subject to regulatory and other review.
Bid farewell to Bing's cashback feature on July 30. Bing announced on June 4 it would be scrapping the service designed to allow advertisers to reach consumers with compelling offers, hoping to create a new type of shopping experience.
As former director of technical marketing at Yahoo!, Laura Lippay joins Nine By Blue and Vanessa Fox as its newest teammate.
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Bruce Clay and the other hosts discuss industry news, SEO tactics and marketing trends, while expert guests share their insights on methods, best practices and upcoming events. Check out the show schedule below for a look at recent shows and upcoming topics.
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Digital Publishing & Advertising Conference happens June 24 in New York City and focuses on transformational digital content and the advertising economy.
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BlueGlass LA in Marina Del Rey, CA, July 19 and 20.
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A new feature that supports engagement and community on video site YouTube will use Google Moderator to allows users to solicit ideas or questions on a topic, which can then be voted on by the community in real time.
Google now allows users on the Web to opt-out of tracking on the Google Analytics platform. The browser add-on for versions of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox is now in beta.
Google has also refused regulators' requests to surrender Internet data collected from unsecured home wireless networks. Applause for not handing over private data to Big Brother on a whim. Boos for collecting it in the first place.
A study shows that Google users in the U.S. turn to Yahoo!, followed by Ask and then Bing, when they can't find satisfactory results in the most popular search engine.
Yahoo! has redesigned its image and video search results pages to include trending results. Following an announcement of increased social integration, Yahoo! has expanded its use of social status updates, while consciously steering clear of unwanted user privacy missteps.
Bing has taken its social network integration to the next level with a social search vertical that includes updates and shared links from Facebook and Twitter.
Google is testing a News home page that features social sharing functionality and additional customization options.
Apple announced a number of service and device updates at the Worldwide Developer Conference in June, including the iPhone 4, the iOs 4, Safari 5 and iAd mobile advertising platform. In announcing the upcoming mobile ad platform, Steve Jobs seemed to fly in the face of the FTC by predicting the platform will account for 50 percent of the mobile ad market by the end of the year.
Twitter has issued a cease and desist for all third-party advertisers on the Twitter network as the microblogging network tries to get its own Promoted Tweets platform off the ground.
Google is testing a new display ad format that features an advertiser's Twitter account, a recent Twitter update and the Twitter logo.
A search engine algorithm update in early May was confirmed by Google's Matt Cutts at the SMX Advanced Q&A keynote and in a video on the GoogleWebmasterHelp channel on YouTube. The algorithm update, referred to as Mayday, is intended to improve the quality of search results, and seemed to effect long-tail queries the most.
A Nielsen survey reports that 22 percent of time spent online is taking place on social networks or blog sites, a figure that increased 24 percent since last year. Pew Research Center reports that more than half of U.S. adults watch or download video online, suggesting online video has reached critical mass. However, another The Nielsen Company report suggests that in May, U.S. Internet usage saw a month-over-month decline for the second straight month, resulting in less time spent with brands online.
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*There is no overnight parking in any garage or any commuter lot between 3:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. Vehicles parking overnight may be towed at owner's/operator's expense.
Summer Semester
Parking for the summer semester begins the Monday after spring semester finals are over and lasts through the Friday before fall classes begin.
During the summer, if you have a valid general faculty/staff permit, you may park in the surface commuter, blue housing, or stadium lots, along with the general faculty/staff lots. If you have a valid commuter, housing, or stadium permit, you may park in the surface commuter, blue housing, and stadium lots. All other permits must park in their assigned lots.

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Nicole Cooke is one of Britain's finest-ever woman cyclists and British Cycling has hatched a grand plan leading up to this August's Beijing Olympics in hopes that she will bring home a gold medal.
A major component of the plan has been the creation of a team built specifically around her so that she can concentrate solely on the event - and not worry about any pressure for results in the intervening period. To help finance this new "Pro-Nat" team, Halfords Bikehut was recruited as the title sponsor.
As part of the deal, though, the major UK retailer wanted Cooke to ride a bike that was actually available in their stores to consumers. Halfords Bikehut recently started stocking a new range of bikes designed by ex-World and Olympic pursuit and World time trial champion Chris Boardman. Cooke and the rest of the team are therefore equipped with his current top of the range offering: the Boardman Pro.
The Boardman Pro bike currently retails in Halfords Bikehut stores for just £1399.99 (US$2738.78/€1776.18). Given that surprisingly modest sum, the obvious question is, "What is Great Britain's top hope for Olympic glory on the road doing on a bike that costs around half that of the frames ridden by her rivals?" Can a bike of that price compete with the more expensive machines out there?
Cooke, her team-mates, British Cycling and Halfords Bikehut certainly hope so.
Chris Boardman was certainly enamoured with the benefits of technology during his career yet he was never a fan of pointless fripperies on a frame; for him, any deviation from the norm has to be there for a very good reason. As a result, Cooke's frame may not be very expensive but it's decidedly purposeful.
The frame is triple butted 7005 aluminium
The frame uses a triple-butted 7005 aluminium front triangle with carbon fibre seat- and chain stays to provide a good balance of stiffness and comfort. The down tube is bi-ovalised while the top tube is mostly diamond-profiled through most of its length before turning round at the seat tube. Both sets of stays adopt a familiar inwards arc and the matching full-carbon fork is fitted with a beefy-looking legs for solid handling.
As intended, the general layout, materials and semi-compact geometry of Cooke's frame closely match the off-the-peg offerings in the shops but with one major departure: team edition bikes use 35mm-shorter head tubes to provide a more aggressive position for racing.
Cooke's team bike spec is otherwise fairly similar to production versions including an almost complete Shimano Dura-Ace groupset and Truvativ Rouleur carbon chainset with standard 53/39T chainrings. Minor changes include an Ultegra chain instead of the stock bike's 105 unit and an Ultegra brake calliper in place of the carbon fibre Tektro R750 stoppers, although curiously just at the rear.
The finishing kit is mostly Ritchey
The finishing kit is almost entirely from Ritchey, consisting of a WCS 4Axis stem, oversized Logic WCS anatomic bars and an aluminium WCS seat post topped by a titanium railed Selle Italia SLR saddle - different from the retail-spec, but obviously Nicole's choice. Interestingly, of all the women's bikes seen by this correspondent, none have been fitted with what one would call a "women's" saddle.
The Ritchey WCS badge would normally also be found on the wheels but Cooke's bike was spotted with a pair of older Bontrager Race X Lite Aero deep-section carbon wheels fitted with the ever-popular 22mm-wide Continental Competition tubulars.
Completing the bike is a pair of Boardman's own branded carbon bottle cages and Cooke's pedal of choice for many years: the Speedplay Zero in red CSC livery with titanium spindles. These are popular with a lot of women as they require little force to unclip - often an issue for those with small feet.
Reasonable retail cost notwithstanding, the bike's build is comparable to most other Shimano-equipped bikes in the elite peloton - and the Ultegra is not unusual amongst the women where budgets are much lower than men's teams. The question as to whether it's worthy of a rider such as Nicole Cooke in her bid for glory is a difficult one to answer, though. Certainly as far as value for money is concerned, the Boardman Pro and its lesser stable mates are picking up accolades wherever they go, but at this level that's rarely a consideration.
The question would usually be answered by its performance in the hands of its rider and thus far, the bike seems to be holding its own against its more glamorous and expensive rivals. Cooke finished 20th in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda in Cittiglio, Italy, just over a minute behind compatriot Emma Pooley, 16th at the Ronde Van Vlaanderen less than two weeks later and once again in the group of big favourites, and eighth at La Flèche Wallonne just over two weeks after that. Her first win of the season came recently in stage one of the Tour de l'Aude in France.
All of these results are far less than Cooke would normally expect, but considering her tapering condition - and that in all of these races she put in late attacks - it's difficult to fault the bike in any of this.
According to Halfords Bikehut team manager Julian Winn, a former British champion himself, there is a full carbon frame on its way into the Boardman range, which Cooke should be riding at the beginning of the summer. Until then, she will be building towards that August 10th rendezvous on this capable machine.


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How To Paint A Wall Using A Stencil
While we had tons of fun picking out our stencil and dreaming of what it would look like, we really didn't think it would turn out to be a part-time job for the week. And while it took tons of hours (and a whole lotta patience to complete) we learned a lot from researching--and making our own mistakes.
What You Need
Tools and Materials
- Stencil(s)
- Stencil brush
- Paint
- Small bowl for paint
- Paper Towels
- Spray Adhesive
- Painters Tape
- Pencil
- Level
- Q-tips
1. Make sure the walls are prepped and clean (for us, that meant starting with a few fresh coats of white paint).
2. While researching how to stencil, we encountered two different ways of mapping out your stencil on the wall. One site suggested starting in the top left corner and the other--right in the middle of the wall. We opted to start in the middle of the wall (ensuring symmetry).
3. Before mapping out the stencil, use your spray adhesive for easy repositioning of the stencil (reapply as needed). Once you decide on your starting point, place the stencil on the wall and make sure it's properly aligned using your level.
4. Once it's straight, you'll want to mark the stencil on the wall using the registration marks (the small triangles in each corner). Rather than marking the stencil straight on the wall, we placed a small piece of painters tape underneath to pencil on. Doing this ensures that you won't have to erase your penciled marks once you're done.
5. After you've mapped out the stencil on your wall(s), it's time to start stenciling. Unload most of the paint onto a folded paper towel. Take your stencil brush and in a jabbing motion, start to fill in the stencil with your paint. Because you unloaded much of the paint from your brush, you'll have to reload your paint brush 2-4 times for each area.
6. Each time you remove the stencil, place it sticky side up to remove any paint that may have gotten underneath. Also use this opportunity to clean up the wall using a wet Q-tip or paper towel.
7. In order to paint our stencil in the corners, we had to bend the stencil which meant that only one side would be secure. In order for it to stay put, we held the other side down with our hands and the help of some painters tape.
Additional Notes:
- Spend the money and invest in a good stenciling brush. We picked up one at Michael's for around $8 and it shed the entire time (which was very frustrating).
- Practice on a large piece of board beforehand. We didn't have our technique down until after doing five or so (which resulted in some areas being darker than others). We actually think it ended up looking more interesting because of the contrasting areas (but if you're a stickler for a uniform look, practice first).
- Stenciling takes forever. Ours (including the painting of the entire bathroom beforehand) took 30 plus hours. Make sure it's a project you are willing to see through to the finish because it takes a ton of patience and work.
- If your wall(s) are at all uneven, your level will probably be off (which was the case with ours). Try and find one side of the stencil where the level works and pencil your registration marks.
- We found this video very helpful for this project
- Also, check out Gregory's recent post; How To Repaint & Stencil Ugly Rental Vinyl Tile Flooring
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Hard Drive
Unlike the Kurobox's cousin, the LinkStation, the Kurobox does not come packed with a hard drive. The Kurobox uses an IDE Host Controller and currently only supports IDE devices, not Serial ATA (SATA) devices. Any 3.5" IDE/PATA hard drive is ideal for use in the Kurobox. It may be better, however, to use a slower 5400rpm hard drive instead of a faster 7200rpm or 10000rpm hard drive, especially if your Kurobox will be in a warm-hot climate. The cooling fan may not provide adequate cooling for the hard drive, and the higher temperature of a faster hard drive may cause catastrophic hard drive failure. When installing your hard drive, it should be set to Master or Cable Select by the jumpers. Make sure that the power supply unit gives enough power for the hard drive, or else the LEDs might show the drive as failed.
Hard Drive Management
There are LEDs on the front of the case which can be used for hard drive diagnostics. These include showing when the disk is full, or when the disk has failed.
IDE Ribbon Cable
The Kurobox's ribbon cable is soldered onto the main board and is just long enough to attach to the hard drive when mounted. You can remove this ribbon cable, and replace it with a longer cable with a slave connector, or a socket which will allow you to easily replace different cables.
Second Hard Drive
A second hard drive or other IDE storage device can be connected to the Kurobox, but you will need to replace the standard IDE ribbon cable with one that has a slave connector on it. The Kurobox power supply may not be able to handle the increased power drain of a second storage device, so you may need to route power from somewhere else. A second 3.5" IDE hard drive will not fit inside the Kurobox case, so you will also need to find a location to store the extra device. Some people have put their second hard drive in an external case while other's have modified the housing and turned their Kurobox into a "Kurocube".
Software RAID is possible on the Kurobox
Hard Drive Alternatives
Instead of a standard 3.5" IDE hard drive, you can use a different storage medium. These require you to purchase special adapters to connect to the Kurobox's IDE ribbon cable. The ribbon cable is very short and the hard drive mounting options are limited, so please take note of the size, shape, and connector positions when making your adapter selection. Note that flash memory based storage solutions have a limited number of erase-write cycles and write access may be slow due to the way that they operate.
2.5" IDE Hard Drive
These hard drives are usually found in laptops because of their small form factor and light weight. This should lower the overall temperature and noise vibrations of your Kurobox. You will need a 40-pin to 44-pin adapter to make this work. It may be possible to have two 2.5" IDE Hard Drives side by side inside the Kurobox without any case modifications, however this has not been confirmed.
Compact Flash/Microdrive
Using an IDE to Compact Flash adapter, you can use this solid state device to store your data. There are no special drivers required, and the CompactFlash will be seen by the Kurobox as a regular hard drive. This device, however, will not be hot swappable like a memory card in a USB memory card reader, due to the limitations of IDE. A Microdrive, or 1" hard drive will work the same way, but unlike Compact Flash is more fragile and sensitive to temperature changes like a normal hard drive.
IDE Flash Module
These offer the most compact solution for your Kurobox, but are limited in storage size and are rather expensive. With this alternative, however, you do not have to deal with any special connection adapters.


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Bhubaneswar, India, Mar 14, 2014 / 12:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a decison praised by the local Church, a judge in India sentenced three persons Friday for the 2008 rape of a nun during mob violence against Christians in the state of Odisha.
Riots in Odisha's Kandhamal district began Aug. 24, 2008, after a Hindu religious leader, Laxmananada Saraswati, was killed. While Maoist rebels claimed responsibility for the assassination, Hindu extremists blamed the local Christian community.
During rioting the next day, a nun was beaten, raped, and paraded semi-naked in Baliguda, a town in Kandhamal. She has said she was dragged from the home of a Hindu where she had taken shelter, along with a priest, the BBC reports.
Nine persons were arrested in connection with her rape, and three of these were found guilty March 14.
"Justice is partially delivered to the nun, and the diocese welcomes the judgement delivered by the District Session Court of Cuttack," Fr. Santosh Kumar Digal, press officer of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, where Kandhamal is located, told CNA March 14.
He added, however, that in "several cases" related to the 2008 violence, "significant delays have led people to lose hope" in the justice system.
Many accused in the Kandhamal riots have been acquitted due to laxity in prosecution, lack of evidence, or witnesses' fear of prosecution, fear, or coercion.
Fr. Digal said the judgement in this case "would send positive signals and revive people's faith in the judiciary and law of the land."
The Catholic community is urging greater collaboration with the local government in providing security and in empowering human development in the area; nearly half of Odisha's residents live below the poverty line, and the figure is three-quarters in Kandhamal.
"The fundamental rights, freedom enshrined under the constitution shall be protected and guaranteed equal justice to all its citizens, retold Fr. Santosh.
"We are thankful to all who sustained their support — especially to the women support-group lawyers, NGOs, police, and the people who stood with us in our difficult time."
Fr. Digal added that he has spoken to the nun several times, and she has stood strong in faith "and has forgiven the perpetrators" of the crime against her.
The six other persons arrested in connection with the rape were acquitted for lack of evidence, and one more suspect is still being sought by police.
Patnaik was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Digal and Bahdei to 26 months.
According to the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar archdiocese, the two months of violence in 2008 left 93 dead; 6,500 homes burned and looted; and 350 churches and 45 health and educational centers destroyed.
The BBC reports that more than 25,000 Christians were rendered homeless by the riots; the archdiocese still continues to rebuild homes and institutions in Kandhamal.
Hindu extremists in Kandhamal accused Christians of bribing poor and low-caste Hindus to convert, while Christians have said low-caste Hindus convert willingly to escape the caste system.
According to Fr. Digal, "allegations of forced conversions are baseless."
A local catechist told CNA there has been "ignorance and insensitive hatred," without understanding or knowledge of Christians.
There is an "identity crisis" in Odisha – also known as Orissa — and many people there believe that all who read the Bible or attend church are indistinguishable, the catechist reported. This generalization, without going into a person's causes for converting, leads to accusations of false conversions to Christianity.
More than 94 percent of Odisha's population is Hindu; Christians and Muslims both account for some 2 percent, and the remaining 2 percent are Sikhs, Buddhists, or Jains. In the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, Catholics account for 0.5 percent of the population.


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- Heyy, I'm Naeîl Zoueidi aka Na3iL a Linux lov3r since January 2008, I've 23 years old , mandrake to Mandriva and Ubuntu user since April 2008.
I joined Ubuntu-TN after 4 years as a regular member.
I joined also Ubuntu-ps in 23 February 2014.
I'm a member of the Ubuntu GNOME team.
Member of StartUbuntu Ambassadors in 09 March 2014.
I'm founder and president of ISETchux which is a free software club based in ISET charguia on 20 September 2014
On December 3, 2015 I was approved as an Official Ubuntu Member during an IRC meeting with the Ubuntu Board Membership.
After almost a year I have been selected to be a part of the Ubuntu Board Membership.
I'm also a pentester and FOSS suporter for that I love everything related to technology and information security and of course programming and for sure helping others as long as I know what they are talking about .
I like to go out, advocate open-source, help others to jump to our community easily and safely. Big part of my brain keeps thinking of locos and newcomers, have no idea why?, but I like this and will put some work to grow that idea.
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Improve Ubuntu-TN performance and integrate new active members.
Help and Enthusiast the TN loco Team.
Do my best to help and welcome other people to Ubuntu and Open-Source community.
Prepare events with Ubuntu-tn.
Triaging bugs for Ubuntu.
Understanding community better and work to help growing it.
Events : Conferences, workshops, install parties and others
Most Ubuntu-TN events are listed on our Events page. You can find events details, reports, photos and blog links on
that page. Our monthly report may sometimes contain further details or information.
During these events I have worked with members of Ubuntu-TN community and sometimes with members of other FLOSS communities, organizations, universities and clubs. I am very thankful to everyone who contributed to these events in any way possible.
Software Freedom Day at Science Palace of Monastir 27/10/2013
- Discussion with the public about Ubuntu and FOSS, answering questions and encouraging the public to convert to Ubuntu and FOSS and staying at Ubuntu-TN Stand
- Helping the main organisers of the event
Trophée du libre 14/02/2015
- Staying at Ubuntu-TN Stand & Simple participation, taking photos. Photo album
- Helping Ubuntu-tn LoCo team on listing our Events
Install Party For the GDDD 21/01/2015
- Discussion with students about Ubuntu and FOSS, help club Esprit Libre with installing Ubuntu and most important tools to the students
JLL : Journée des logiciels libres 07/10/2015
- Discussion with the public about Ubuntu and FOSS, answering questions and encouraging the public to convert to Ubuntu and FOSS at FST
- staying at Ubuntu-TN Stand
Software Freedom Day at ISET sousse 18/10/2015
- Organization of the event
- Staying at Ubuntu-TN Stand
- Discussion with the public about Ubuntu & FOSS
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Member of Lubuntu Global Team
- Create & translate 3 WiKi pages for Lubuntu in Arabic & French & this
- Helping people in #lubuntu, #lubuntu-devel
I advocate Open-Source and Ubuntu whenever possible.
I've a deep passion to work with Ubuntu Tunisian loco team to spread the word through the country, whenever and wherever I can, I also try to enhance means of communication.
Participate in drafting and validating WiKi pages for the ubuntu-tn Team
Ubuntu Flash Coffee - Meeting IRL with Ubuntu-TN members
I was also present during other events organized by Tunisian communities and associations and other communities.
Instead of some projects and contributions I'd made in the F/OSS communities..
ISETchux Club
Opening Day Hello ISETchux
- Co-coordination and organisation of the event
- Talking about ISETchux club & Ubuntu Philosophy
- Install Party
- Talking about Daily Use of Ubuntu..
- Installing Ubuntu to students
- Co-coordination and organisation of the event
- Workshop about Security in Ubuntu
CLLFSM "The Faculty of Science" Monastir
- Education Freedom Day Tunisia 25/01/2015
- Simple participation, taking photos. Photo album
Global Gam Jam Tunisia 31/01/2015
- Participating as a team developing an example of game using free software tool → Stencyl
- Installing Ubuntu to some other teams
TNwebdays 07 & 08/03/2015
- Participating as a team and develop an application mobile cross platform using free software tools like (LAMPP,Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome LTS as operating system,vi...)
- A presentation for free software in 07/03/2015 and define the Ubuntu-TN community to the public
- Stand for present ISETchux Club to the public
Project Convert my Neighbours & my Friends to Linux - StartUbuntu
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|2008-01-05, 18:41
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Well Ep 2 shows us that anyone could bring six people to a certain location and kill them off.
Ep. 2 showed us a glimpse where Krauss, Natsuhi, Rudolf, Kyrie, Eva, Hideyoshi, and Rosa were all agreeing that Beatrice was real at the sanctuary late that night.
The next day, Rosa was the only one that lived while the others were mutilated at the sanctuary. Yet she says that "she's never been there."
How convenient???
Beatrice is a witch that is used to signify the supernatural. If it is difficult to explain, the easy answer is that a witch named Beatrice did it. It is Battler(your) job to prove otherwise.
Ever notice how everything supernatural (i.e. Kanon's sword, Shannon's shield, the battles with goat-headed butlers, overly moe~ humanized rods, etc.) all happen when it isn't witnessed by Battler?
Lamdadelta also gave us a hint: "Beatrice overdo these things too much that it's too easy to tell it isn't right."
Much like Higurashi: don't believe what you are seeing...instead analyze what is occurring and rationalize and you begin to see things more clearly.
I'm also beginning to think that when Rosa and Maria were the final two running away from Rokkenjima, the butterflies could be fire. Rosa battling against those goat-headed butlers also seem strange...they don't die when she shoots them in the body, but they die when their heads are. Could they be some sort of military guys wearing bullet-proof vests???
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|2008-01-05, 18:56
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Another interesting note:
In Ep. 1, Rudolf says something like "I'm going to die tonight"
In Ep. 2 Rosa receives a letter from Beatrice...and seems like she used what was written there to bring the six people to the sanctuary.
So perhaps in Ep. 1, Rudolf was the one who received the letter???
Quoting Beatrice when she handed the letter to Rosa, "It could've been any of you four siblings, but since I met you here, it must mean that Kinzo's roulette has befallen upon you"
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|2008-01-05, 19:17
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I must say that Umineko is the only story that I have ever read that manages to annoy and entertain me at the same time.
To copy the guys above, an overall impression of EP2 for me would be:
The tea party was interesting, as usual. If it weren't for the fact that they kept interrupting the story, I actually really enjoy watching Battler and Beatrice bicker.
For some reason, I was wondering what Keiichi and the gang would do if they found out that a little loli was responsible for all their pain. I have a feeling Keiichi would go KOOL, and then Rena will hau~ omochikaeri~ her.
Bernkastel's nipa~ was the single most moe moment in this episode.
Anyway, to think about this using Higurashi's logic that "not everything shown is true", then we can always include "hallucination" as an option when attempting to explain certain phenomenons. Maybe there's a "Rokkenjima Syndrome" here that's caused by a certain agent? Maybe the golden butterflies are actually some kind of airborne hallucinogen that, if inhaled, would cause people to see and do weird things?
|2008-01-05, 20:29
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In EP2 of Umineko, however, we have 2 characters who have essentially taken up a "commentator" point of view over the story development (similar to Bernkastel going over the chapter pieces in Minagoroshi and Matsuribayashi-hen), offering their opinions and analysis on the current development, and therefore "spoiling" the chance for the reader to become truly absorbed in the "actual story". With EP1 Battler and Beatrice assuming an "overseer" position, the actual story feels like it has been reduced to "something used in their argument". The player (you), of course, is the ultimate observer, so the presence of these commentators meant that we have to take a step back in order for us to take in not only the actual story, but the exchanges going on between these commentators as well. For me personally, having to examine Battler and Beatrice's "commentaries" has made the actual story in EP2 far less absorbing (many movie DVDs have "commentary tracks" that features the director or actors commenting on the movie as it played out. This is similar to that. Would you want to watch a movie for the first time with the commentaries turned on? No, because we wouldn't be able to focus on the movie itself)
Of course, Battler and Beatrice's exchanges aren't simply commentaries, the two of them are engaged in their own little world that can be considered part of the overall Umineko story as well. But for me, all their debates and definitions so far (red words, for example) simply made the actual story less appealing as a proper tale, but instead made it feel more liked a tool used in presenting their arguments. In the end, this ambiguity kind of ruined the story for me since I found myself unable to attach to anything out of fear that it's just going to be another tool for Beatrice or Battler's arguments.
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|2008-01-06, 03:51
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Finally finished it...story started abit slow like episode 1, but once about 40% of the story was passed, it sure was one hell of a scenario. It definitely suprised me from time to time, and my interest went up and up as it went on.
As a story, it's done in a strange way. Like Sushi-Y said, having the commentaries was weird. However, thinking what this episode was about, I think it was actually alright that they did that. After all, this epsiode is suppose to make all the non-believers to surrender and acknowledge the witch. At least that was better than the whole scene with Kanon and the goat-servants, which I still don't know what was going on.
Currently I am leaned towards the witch after she has shown her superiority over the rest of the cast, and that the only other logical explanation I can come up with is "Conicidence + Acting + Hallucination inducing drugs/disease/animals" (I am hoping Ryukkishi07 can do better than reuse the whole 'Hinamizawa Syndrome' thing) Of course, I have my doubts at various points that prevents me from buying completely into the witch theory (gotta go read ep1 again and recheck), that being:
1. First closed room seems fishy
2. Various changes from ep1 -> ep2, noticably the deaths.
3. Bernkenstel's advice in the hidden tea party
4. Beatrice's envelope.
5. Beatrice's red text. Especially the first line.
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|2008-01-08, 01:32
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This ep was extremely bloody wasn't it?
Also the issue of Rosa's absence of an alibi never came up (like it did for Eva+Hideyoshi), suspicious?
I find it interesting that Lambda sometimes takes up Satoko's speech patterns ("munya-munya-aryashinai"). I also loved how Lambda throws in a reference to the "All-pawns-queened" scenario of Matsurib ayashi-hen. LOL
For some reason, the 'jan-ken-pon-trinity' of Bern-Lambda-Beat makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside... LOL too at Beat being a 'danmaku-type witch'
I actually found Kanon's 'fight' scene very well done. It made me sit up and stare closely at the monitor while watching it play out. That, and Rosa's final stand. I was a bit disappointed when the scrolling text announcing the results came out as it seemed a flat point to end the episode but Rosa's epilogue was amazing. Earlier someone said Shotgun Rosa > Shotgun Natsuhi but I think its a bit more nuanced than that. True final Shotgun Rosa >>>> final Shotgun Natsuhi but normal Shotgun Rosa was a bit more annoying than normal Shotgun Natsuhi.
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|2008-01-09, 07:27
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Finally got around to finishing all of episode 2. All in all it left me with pretty much mixed feelings. On the one hand I thought all the supernatural elements were pretty awesome, on the other it seems to totally defeat the whole point of the conversations between Battler and Beatrice. I'm still hoping that all the magic is faked somehow and it's all some sort of human conspiracy.
One thing that kind of got to me was the eagerness of Shotgun Rosa to blame everything on the others instead of on the witch which she herself had seen multiple times at that point. Even if it's possible to explain away the supernatural as daydreams or hallucinations it's still a fact multiple people have seen a 19th person (real or otherwise), and to point the blame at each other instead of the uninvited guest that conveniently disappears on the first night seems rather odd. Especially since the certainty provided by Beatrice's red text about for example the amount of keys or the way rooms were locked is not available to the people in the story.
|2008-01-10, 11:31
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ep. 1 => Rosa = faceless
ep. 2 => your post
Could she have some involvement?
|2008-01-14, 22:36
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I have a question regarding the compatibility of the game Umineko in Vista..
I recently got my copy of Umineko No Naku Koro ni Ep 2 and I was very eager to play but in the end I had so many problems to install it and finally when I wanted to play, a window appear saying about some error.
Can Umineko work well in windows vista?
I need help please
I want to see Bernkastel-chan
|2008-01-16, 01:37
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But you do bring up a good point on how much Beatrice changes in her personality. When calm, she is rather nice. But when things go crazy, she uses very expletive words that are bound to cringe upon any person's psychosis.
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I'm late to the party.
I finally got my copy and finished it.
Before I go on, Ill apologize for my poor English.
I have a long post and Ill try to make it as comprehensible as possible. ^^;
First impression.
一流の執事はすごいね。 源治さん渋スギ
Overall impression.
Even though I don't know what the answer is, but Umineko doesn't seem as confusing or as difficult as Higurashi (not claiming the mystery itself is easy). It's enjoyable in its own right, but since it lacks the OMG WTF shock factor, it isn't as engulfing as a story as Higurashi, at least imo.
Battler vs Beatrice sideline commentary.
Its interesting. I like their interaction and their belittling snipes they make towards each other. I feel the red text is a bit cheating in a way. Ryukishi can describe it better, but it just seem like an opt out. It saves a lot of writing I guess but, it just doesnt feel right.
But I love how Battler says 俺は人間を信じてるからだッ!! and continues to fight for this logic, although I think Battler is wrong in that regard but it was awesome.
Just a random thought about that date: I wonder if Ryuukishi chose the 4th and 5th as 死 and 後 and to continue off the number theme as with Miyo and Hifumi? I cant think of any significance with the date itself, but its interesting that Ryukishi chose to emphasize Halloween at such an early part of the month. Halloween that year was a Friday so I think he could have pulled off the same story using that date instead. Im probably thinking too much into the date.
|2008-01-20, 12:11
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Guitar Man
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brazil
Finally finished it
I didn't think it to be that bad that red text
Some of them were really cheating but some others were just a saving of time that Battler would be thinking endlessly without Beatrice's help
I'm envious of you
I'm so stupid I can't even create such large scales theories hehehe
1. About "Leon" (瑠音)
I think he/she is not mentioned a second time in this story
The ones mentioned on episode 1 were 眞音 (Manon) and 恋音 (Renon)
But I'll list some fact I think are interesting (I'm not on the side of the magic believers)
- Shannon's first meeting with Beatrice
1. Shannon had been humiliated by Eva
2. She had neglected her breakfeast
( 朝食を疎かにした紗音は、もう思考も希薄になり始めていた。)
3. Natsuhi scolded her and said she would not allow her to eat or take a rest until she finishes her job and report it to her.
Could it be that:
A Broken heart + hunger + humiliation = Beatrice's portrait talking ?
Well, it crumbles because Kanon also saw the same "Beatrice"
- That whole Rosa being possessed by an Evil Witch is very supicious. It only enforces that anyone could deceive Maria to play a part in the plot. And it would be for example that envelope that appeared out of nowhere in Kinzou's study on episode 1.
- That scene where the adults meet with beatrice at the sanctuary to me strogly points at a 19th person. Without a 19th person (not necessarily a witch), everything gets so difficult to understand.
Kyrie seems to be as skeptical and rational as Battler. She told about her meeting with Beatrice to Rudolf, Eva and Hideyoshi beforehand and seemed really puzzled about her. Another point to the existence of the 19th person.
- Those fighting scenes involving the superpowerful furniture are really mindboggling. I don't have the slightest idea what they mean. The scene with the fake Kanon at the servants room you could explain as a lie of the servants to plot something. I don't agree with that but it's not unreasonable. But what about Kanon fighting for Jessica and Shannon fighting for George? Only the readers know about that. The characters only see the result.
- Maybe the three golden bars at the sanctuary plus Rosa trying to take one at the epilogue are suggesting that this time Rosa was spared for not having a golden bar?
- Last chapter Battler was drunk. We can accept all that mess, including that congratulation ball, as a result of the alcohol.
- Lastly, a part of the tips that I thought to be interesting:
Rosa executed:
Maria Executed
The interesting part is this:
Both have:
"At the golden village/land"
Maybe it's just bullshit but it may be a clue for what the heck is that golden village
In the end,
I think I'll go with the theory of the guy of Ep.1 thread.
There's a secret investigation team hired by someone (I'd strongly suspect Rosa or Krauss) to search for the gold and an "actress" to play the role of Beatrice and spread chaos (for what?) taking advantage of the riddle and the portraits of Beatrice of the Dotard Kinzou. Something like a Yamainu 2.0. And as pointed by kj1980, in the end the goat-heads dying only when shot in the head might be a hint for an armored vest
However, something goes very wrong (or not) in the middle of the operation and we have the massacre.
Ryuukishi was serious when he challenged people to deny the witch until the end before releasing episode 1.
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Though I'm sad it seems as if I'm the only one who belives that it's the work of the golden witch
Also I have a few comments about the music
First off, Worldend is Umineko's You.
Also I find it interresting that both Battler's and Beatrice's theme music have Dread in the title
Battler: Dread of the Grave
Beatrice: Red Dread
@ace: Since I started to translate Ep 2, I found out just how hard of job you had with Ep 1. You now have my upmost respect
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There's a big problem with Battler's last scene. You can try to write it off as a hallucination or him being drunk (assuming we're viewing it from his point of view), but neither is actually possible. Ryukishi has written a lot of weird things, but they all have some explanation in the end.
There is no way Battler could have dreamed up Frederica. He could not have known what she looked like.
Although he might have some knowledge of her from the Higurashi novel, he still wouldn't know what Rika looked like, nor would he have any reason to think of her at that time. This also brings up a more interesting question. Frederica must have appeared in that last scene, and must have either been a real person or something with the appearance of a real person. We can guess from the ???? that she is the same Frederica from Higurashi. That means that even if the Umineko universe is not the same as the Higurashi one, the both exist in the same set of worlds that Frederica can travel to. If that is the case, then there must be some significance to the novel in the first chapter and the highlighted section the lyrics of tsuru pettan (though I hate to admit it.) This only makes sense if there are some major secrets from the previous games that are going to be unravelled.
The thing that confuses me most is that Beatrice said that Frederica had the power to make any event that was possible definitely happen. But if we look at the normal interpretation of the Higurashi games, each universe existed separately and Rika and Hanyuu only travelled between them. In other words, they didn't change any of them, but only found one of the rare ones in which it was possible to survive 六月. In other words, they should have been extremely powerful from their own point of view, but as useless as any other omniscient girl would be in the eyes of anyone that did not follow them every single time they jumped. Does Beatrice's comment mean that only the last world existed and that the multitude of カケラ were only "possibilities"?
This might also clear up the thing that confused me about the first series. It seemed that only in the last few iterations of Hinamizawa did anyone remember the past worlds clearly. In Tsumihoroboshi hen Rika admitted that she had never seen it before. In the very next chapter, almost everyone recalled clear memories from previous worlds. If Hanyuu and Rika were just transferring to different worlds without changing the histories of the previous ones, there is no reason that any world would be any more likely than any other to show these impossible memories.
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I forgot the kanji was different. Saw 瑠音 (Runon) thought 恋音 (Leon). opps.
I bet it's just a name recycled.
Plus instead of mountain dogs we have mountain goats now (山羊).
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the Polestar S60 Concept, the second road-going, ruded-up Volvo to emerge from this one-time race team and now officially endorsed tuning outfit.
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Thing is, since when did the Swedes have the desire to go chasing the Germans in the hot saloon stakes? And since when did they know so much about setting up such cars?
Looks like they are serious...
The driving experience is part Mitsubishi Evo, part Audi S4 and all the more fun for how unexpected it is from behind a Volvo badge. A tantalising few laps around the narrow, slippy and undulating Volvo test track is all we're allowed, the crests and long, constant-radius corners at least able to demonstrate fine balance and a refreshing lack of interest in nose-heavy understeer.
So, a very impressive demonstration of Polestar's talents and a great shop window. But what relevance to those of us not quite prepared to spend supercar money on a near-standard looking Volvo saloon?
While Volvo proper pursues more predictably Swedish paths of safety, eco friendliness and doing better than Saab, it seems happy to indulge Polestar's ambitions to help Volvo owners get a little more out of their cars with a range of chip tuning offered through official dealers in over 30 countries. Who knew? Too few, seemingly.
We've had, over the years, fits and bursts and the occasional officially hot Volvos, as those with memories of torque-steering T5 850s will attest. Realising 'pirate' tuners (Polestar's words) do no favours to the corporate image, Volvo has given Polestar access to its latest engines and diagnostics equipment to offer officially warrantied upgrades to the most powerful engines in each Volvo model. In the S60 that means 329hp fromthe T6, ambitions to expand into chassis and brake tuning, wheels and other aftermarket parts high on the agenda.
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in the final episode, after saber defeats gilgamesh, he states that avalon was "untouchable even to the 5 magics," and on wikipedia it states that avalon is "comparable only to "true" magic."
so my question is: what are the 5 magics and what is "true" magic?
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I got a question that I still don't understand.
In episode 2 when Shirou gets stabbed by Lancers spear, I don't get the reaosn why Rin saves him with her jewel saying "No...Don't let this be happening...why did it have to be you?.." Was she going to save him anyway even if it was not Shirou? and why Shirou? Did she notice that he was another master (but still saved him? o.0) or did she have a secret crush on him or something?
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Ahh I thought so, thanks.
One more question.
In episode 4 I recall when Saber is getting beat up by Berserker her eyes are colored red and when Shirou comes to save her, her eyes turn back to that green-ish color.
for example here is the scene when her eye colors change.
As shirou charges to rescue saber...
Watched all 26 episodes and played the eroge along with ataraxia so go ahead and throw it at me
|2006-08-13, 23:11
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I thought the red pupils just meant that she was being overtaken by battle-lust at that moment; she was going to go down fighting like a ferocious beast, without another thought for herself or what she's fighting for.
I feel the red pupils thing was overused in the anime. Gil having it was ok, but why Lancer?
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when Saber fought with assasin the second time
the assasin itself says that Sasaki Kojirou it's only a fictional character that grows on people hearts that Sasaki is strong...
it's that really true that sasaki kojirou didn't exist on the real world??
thanks for the response...
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There is a documented historical master swordsman named Sasaki Kojiro. Documented in official government records.
However, Musashi never mentioned his duel with Kojiro in The Book Of Five Rings (but neither does he mention any other duels, so I don't see any point in that argument).
Also, there is some chronological inconsistency with Kojiro's age at various points, so the question is raised: Was there ever really a swordman named Kojiro as we know him today?
HOWEVER, his possibility for being real is 100,000,000x higher than ANY of the other Servants being real past heroes.
Edit: Other than Alexander the Great, that is.
Edit #2: Oh, The Old Man of the Mountain... also a real historical figure. Although he's more a Bin Laden than a super Arabian ninja.
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