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Friday, September 30, 2011
Short Film: Yes I Know
Labels: computer graphics, music, short film, video
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Short Film: The Walker
The Walker from Keller Davis
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Short Film: Urs 2009
In the Media: Dam Graffiti!
These photos are of a bit of graffiti that's been making news around the globe. The simple artwork appeared recently on a dam near Ojai, California.
Labels: graffiti, in the media, news
Artist: Andry Shango
Project: Deleted City
Deleted City digital archeology project visualizes Geocities as a giant virtual city
The Deleted City is a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century. At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a homepage. The early citizens of the net (or netizens) took their netizenship serious, and built homepages about themselves and subjects they were experts in. These pioneers found their brave new world at Geocities, a free webhosting provider that was modelled after a city and where you could get a free "piece of land" to build your digital home in a certain neighbourhood based on the subject of your homepage. Heartland was – as a neigbourhood for all things rural – by far the largest, but there were neighbourhoods for fashion, arts and far east related topics to name just a few.
Labels: computers, interactive, internet, project
Fresh Take: 3DS Monstrosity
Nintendo 3DS Add-On Contest
Ugly conjoined twin/tumor-looking add-on for the 3DS getting you down? Kotaku readers were eager to join in and make the portable system even more Frankenstein-esque. See all the entries at Kotaku.
Labels: contest, fresh take, video games
Gallery: Super Mario Bros Graffiti
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Short Film: Dream
A tortured young man's fantasy fights to become a reality after he takes an experimental drug.
Dream from Pat Altema
Sweets: 8-Bit Mario Bros Cupcakes
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Event: Video Game Art Show
The Gallery 1988 in Venice, California is currently holding Old School Video Game Art Show, September 16 - October 8, 2011. The show is a tribute to old school video game pop culture icons, with an apparent emphasis on the Nintendo classics: Donkey Kong, Metroid, and Super Mario Bros.
Labels: event, video games
Short Film: Sumo Lake
Quick Pic: Cobblestone Keyboard
Source: Ti.mo
Taken in Belgium
Friday, September 23, 2011
Short Film: Sheeped Away
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Illustration: Babes Vs Zombies
"Babes vs. Zombies" by Massgrfx
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Labels: horror, Illustration, zombies
Short Film: Tub
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Link Round-Up: September 20, 2011
If you've never visited Super7, you should. It's the best toy store on the internet.
Infographic: America's 50 Most Influential Designers
Infographic: The Colors of Good vs. Evil, Comic Book Color Palettes
InForm: Turning Data into Meaning. An exhibit at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media.
"Light painting (also known as light drawing or light graffiti) is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. The first known photographer to use this technique was Man Ray in his series "Space Writing" created in 1935.
Mongolia! A pair of teenage photographers visited Mongolia and took Polaroids of Mongolian nomads for the nomads to keep. This video follows their experience. More pictures at the photographers' website here.
Top Free And Most Beautiful Live Wallpapers For Android
Infographic: America's 50 Most Influential Designers
Infographic: The Colors of Good vs. Evil, Comic Book Color Palettes
InForm: Turning Data into Meaning. An exhibit at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media.
"Light painting (also known as light drawing or light graffiti) is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. The first known photographer to use this technique was Man Ray in his series "Space Writing" created in 1935.
Mongolia! A pair of teenage photographers visited Mongolia and took Polaroids of Mongolian nomads for the nomads to keep. This video follows their experience. More pictures at the photographers' website here.
Top Free And Most Beautiful Live Wallpapers For Android
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Short Film: Botanica Liberta
A night on the town turns deadly for three sentient plants, escaped from the botanical garden they called homed. Botanica Liberta is a darkly funny short film that centers on three plants on the lam: a cacti, a venus fly trap and a tree. The three get split up soon upon escape and proceed to have rather different adventures during their night of freedom— falling in love, going on a murderous rampage, and committing grand theft auto respectively.
Sweets: Steampunk Airship Cake
"Steam Punk Victorian Dirigible Wedding Cake" by Charm City Cakes
Sweets: Star Trek Cookies
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the premiere of the original Star Trek, Bakingdom whipped up this batch of sugar cookie characters. Created in the likeness of the crew of the USS Enterprise, Bakingdom even demonstrates how the cookies were made, so that Trekkies everywhere get in on the baking action. Set your ovens to stun!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Papercraft: Sweet Robo
Sweet Robo is just one piece of paper, and uses new "single piece" flat axle construction! Fold and glue the flat axle piece into a circle. Bend the edges on one side, then screw it into it's socket on the body pieces. This one-piece flat axle design is easier to assemble and allows for a really tight, smooth fit. Sweet Robo will hold his pose with incredible tenacity!
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Labels: downloads, papercraft, robots
Short Film: Hambuster
Hambuster from Hambuster Team
Five students from the French animation school Supinfocom - Paul Alexandre, Maxime Cazaux, Dara Cazamea, Romain Delaunay, and Bruno Ortolland - created this ridiculously fun short film. Also check it out in Stereoscopic 3-D!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Posters: Brave New World
Brave New World by Kevin Tong Illustration
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Labels: minimalist, posters, science fiction
Fresh Take: Steampunk R2-D2
Steampunk R2-D2
Source: Space Boy Robot
Short Film: Maximall
Maximall from Axel Tillement
At its core, Maximall is yet another chase film, but its outrageous storyline and beautiful composition sets it head and shoulders above other shorts of the genre. The film centers on a young worker at a big box-store anchored strip mall. Evidently he is the last to leave that night and as he is starting up his scooter to go home he finds himself scarily, absurdly, targeted for destruction by sentient shopping carts. As ridiculous as the concept is, the Maximall team - Axel Tillement, Nawal Rahal, Hadrien Ledieu, and Axelle Cheriet - don't play it that way, and the final result is genuinely tense, as the relentlessness and overwhelming force of shopping carts induce zombie-esque levels of terror. This otherworldly force builds and builds towards the film's beautifully surreal climax, producing a closing metaphor that is not labored in the least—our materialism produces an overwhelming amount of stuff that literally traps us.
Labels: animation, horror, short film, video
Fresh Take: Faction
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Labels: fresh take, mega man, video games
Papercraft: Lifesize Link
Labels: legend of zelda, papercraft
Friday, September 16, 2011
Short Film: The Eyeborg Documentary
Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary by Rob Spence
To celebrate the launch of critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, Square Enix has commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye replaced it with a wireless video camera) to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation.
Labels: science, short film, video, video games
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Link Round-Up: September 15, 2011
Source: Businessinsider.com
26 Amazing Tech-Enthusiast Desktop Wallpapers
Baby Godfather: 5 Old and 5 New Examples of the Advice Meme
The Cartoon Color Wheel Somebody with too much time on their hands created a color wheel of cartoon characters ... now I'm curious to know the pantone number for Grape Ape.
The Great Webcomic Frequency Chart
How well do you see color?
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Video: Gamer Commute
Gamer Commute by Freddie Wong
Labels: humor, video, video games
Video: Dot Matrix Water Printer
A water clock at the Osaka station in Osaka city.
Labels: video
Mash-Up: Days of Future Pixar
Days of Future Pixar by Mike Henderson
The X-Men story line Days of Future Past starring one of Pixar's favorite characters.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Quick Pic: infinity
Exhibition Dutchville, Netherlands Architecture Institute.
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Labels: quick pic
Link Round-Up: September 14, 2011
Mexican sugar skull folk art in Eric "The Gute" Gonzalez's piece
Created for the 8-Bit Champions show in Paris
In his latest work One Piece at a Time, Brooklyn artist Jonathan Brand has constructed every single part of a 1969 Mustang coupe at 1:1 scale out of nothing but paper. Using digital drawings as a source, he printed the blueprints with a large-format inkjet printer. The components were then meticulously cut out and folded the paper into everything from the motor right down to the individual treads of the tires.
James Cameron's Avatar reimagined as an Atari-era game.
Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity (Video on TED.com)
Mechanical Animals: 36 Steampunk Sculptures & Robots
Noelle Stevenson is selling her hipster Lord of the Rings drawings as prints
Velvet Geek is a gallery of geeky pop culture icons painted on black velvet. Egon from Ghostbusters is my personal favorite. I think they really captured his character.
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Event: Tight Spot Reception
Starting September 15, underneath the New York City High Line the outdoor installation Tight Spot will be exhibited by The Pace Gallery. The installation features "a 48-by-20-foot inflatable terrestrial globe" pinned and crushed by the High Line. The installation will be open from September 16 through October 1, 2011 at 508 West 25th Street in New York City, after which I imagine it will be too damn cold outside for anyone to care one way or the other. The inaugural public reception will be held September 15, 2011 between 6 and 8 PM.
A low-frequency vibration will emanate from speakers placed deep within the globe. The sound is meant to be heard from the surrounding streets and elevated park, enticing passersby to discover the installation. "I knew what I thought that sound should be, and rather than using instruments, synthesizers or samplers to make the sounds that I imagined, I simply made them with my voice," said Byrne. "It was the easiest and fastest way of creating what I was hearing in my head. I filtered and processed my voice so that it wasn't recognizable."
Source: New York Magazine
Labels: event
Music Video: The Maschine Mikro
Jeremy Ellis performs a live routine on the Maschine Mikro electronic percussion instrument from Native Instruments.
Maschine Mikro is a professional music production tool, combining the flexibility of software with the immediacy of hardware. Create rhythms, bass lines, chords and melodies, and build tracks on-the-fly with the intuitive, clip-based sequencer. MASCHINE MIKRO also gives you a high-performance sampler, professional effects and full support for VST® and Audio Units™ plug-ins. What's more, you can also run MASCHINE MIKRO as a plug-in in your DAW.
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Labels: music, performance art, video
Short Film: Space Travel
Labels: animation, science fiction, short film, video
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Link Round-Up: September 13, 2011
The Call for Entries is now open for The 16th Annual Webby Awards. The early entry deadline is October 28, 2011. Nominees will be announced in April 2012 with the Webby Awards ceremony taking place in Spring 2012.
Here are a few photos from the inaugural Liquid Lounge event at Grind, a beautiful new members-only workspace in Manhattan, which includes a wonderful self-serve Intelligentsia coffee bar. Grind was recently profiled in Fast Company. One of the most interesting features of Grind is The Grind Gallery, an interactive gallery designed by Brooklyn physical-digital agency Breakfast, where portfolio work is displayed as framed art with push-button options to "like" and "print".
The Lucrative Styrofoam Cup Cartoons Of Cheeming Boey
Tania Blanco is a modern artist who shares her time in France and Spain. She says of her collection Sleepdrunk Vademecum, "The body is made up of a large set of rounded painting formats. Medical instruments, high precision technology, scientific devices, anatomical models, clandestine laboratories and human representation become the object of study and thought. The bizarre represented objects reflect a mixture of past and future, and an ambiguous clinical atmosphere flows in them. On many of these painted surfaces, a soft cool-cold gradient isolates the represented elements and gives a non-gravitational character to the compositions."
Labels: in the media, round-up
Lego Creations: Venator Star Destroyer
Iomedes created with astonishingly large Lego recreation of the Star Destroyer from the Star Wars animated series. The model is composed of 43,000 parts. It weighs 82 kg, and it's 2,44m long. It was build based on a design created by using Dassault-Systèmes' 3D CAD software CATIA V5. The computer rendering is shown in the video below. It took two weeks to compute using multiple machines.
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Video: Playable Game in a Box
Using a Teagueduino and a few inputs and outputs, we put together a physical side-scrolling video game. To control it, there's a knob on the side. As time advances the game gets faster and faster -- can you avoid all the obstacles and make it to the end?
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Labels: gadgets, mario, video games
Quick Pic: Bioshock Sushi
Labels: food art, quick pic, video games
Short Film: Soulbot
SoulBot from Andreas Wannerstedt on Vimeo
"They say that we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of death. They say that it's the weight of the human soul.
Well, it was Dr. Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts who first attempted to weigh the human soul. In 1907, he placed 6 dying patients on a homemade scale, which also acted as a bed for the patients. More recently in Dan Brown's novel, "the Lost Symbol", there is a segment that explains how "The Institute of Noetic Science" uses noetics to weigh the human soul. After tests on terminally ill patients, it came across that immediately after death, a person's weight dropped.
So, what would happen if they found a way to contain this invincible mass.. this soul.. Obviously the only reason to do this would be to put it in some kind of awesome robot.. yeah!"
Labels: animation, science fiction, short film, video
Sculpture: Playhouse
Playhouse by Dietrich Wegner
Sculpter Dietrich Wegner created Playhouse, "a twenty-foot-tall tree house posing as an atomic mushroom cloud" to demonstrate the contradictions between "two conflicting ideas." It is composed of Poly-fil, rope, wood and steel, and it was recently on exhibit at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati. I'm guessing that it's meant to be installed in the backyard of some nice nuclear family in the suburbs
Labels: sculpture
Monday, September 12, 2011
Short Film: The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus
The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus from ScriblabStudios on Vimeo.
Marius Herzog–a Nuremburg-based filmmaker–directed, wrote and animated this great short, "The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus," for his senior project at the Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule – University Of Applied Sciences.
Sculpture: Reflect
For the past five months Los Angeles sculptor Heath Satow has been welding together stainless steel figures to form a set of hands meant to hold a segment of I-beam from one of the World Trade Center Towers. Each of the metal doves in the sculpture represents one of the victim killed in the September 11th attacks. The sculpture, which he calls "Reflect" was unveiled in Rosemead last week. You can read more at the Los Angeles Times.
Labels: in the media, metalwork, sculpture
Video: Stop Motion Time-Lapse
Director Joe Clarke shot this time-lapse video of Barry JC Purves creating the Russian stop motion film Tchaikovsky. The effect of demonstrating the flurry of activity required that goes into a stop motion production in such a short period is quite impressive, and the video really drive home just how much work is required to make a short stop motion sequence.
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Labels: stop motion, time lapse, video
Tribute: Tribute of Light
Tribute of Light for 9/11
Source: Daily Mail
A team of 30 electricians worked through the night yesterday to prepare for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks which takes place on Sunday. The 'Tribute in Light' is made up of 88 bulbs which project two blue beacons of light up into the heavens that is visible from a 60 mile radius. The tribute will be powered on for the entire day and night on Sunday to remember the 2,753 people who died on September 11, 2001. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is also scheduled to open on Sunday at the WTC site.
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Labels: in the media, lights, project, tribute
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Painting: From Ashes, We Build.
"From Ashes, We Build."
A 9/11 Tribute Painting by Sam Spratt
A 9/11 Tribute Painting by Sam Spratt
Spratt writes: "In 8th grade I was on a class trip about 3 blocks from The Pentagon. We were just getting back into the bus heading to our next DC landmark when a large shadow passed over us—seconds later a low booming crash in the distance, and a massive, unforgettable wave of heat passed through us. What followed was something of a silent blur of our teachers rushing us into the bus, radio speculation as to what was happening, and a class of 8th graders sitting unblinking having no idea what was going on. I was young and the significance of 9/11 was largely lost on me then—but you never forget the feeling of an explosion and the quiet that follows.Free Wallpaper Download Here
Fast forward to today: I wanted to pay tribute to September 11th in painted form showing the new construction of One World Trade Center, not just replacing the twin towers—but literally being built from the wreckage. 10 years later, I felt it necessary to acknowledge the importance of past tragedy in the pursuit of a better future: to remember lives lost while looking to save more, to remember fallen icons as we build new ones, and to remember our mistakes as we pursue perfection.
Rest In Peace to all of the victims directly or indirectly killed by the attacks and my heartfelt sympathies to those who lost loved ones through them."
Labels: paintings
In the Media: 9/11 Tribute
Cartoonists remember 9/11
In respect of the 10th anniversary of 9-11, the major comic syndicates rallied their cartoonists to pay homage to one of the darkest days in American history through their September 11, 2011 Sunday comic strips. All of the nearly 100 participating strips, which may be viewed in the online gallery below, have an overarching September 11 remembrance theme. Some convey sadness, while others embody hope, fortitude and faith. All are sensitively crafted and beautifully poignant in their own unique, thoughtful and appropriate way.
Labels: comics, event, in the media, news
Friday, September 9, 2011
Humor: Star Wars Fan Grief
Five Stages of Star Wars Revisionism Fan Grief
Source: Washington City Paper
Link Round-Up: September 9, 2011
"Darth Proof" by David Cordell
Arduino turns ordinary desk lamp into Pixar's Luxo, Jr.
Maximum PC has posted a gallery of 21 Awesome Fan-Made Portal 2 Wallpapers
"New app lets cops use graffiti recognition in their war on gangs."
WhyTheNose is a photo blog devoted to spreading joy thru the simple act of wearing clown noses.
Papercraft: Beetle Origami
This paper beetle was designed and folded by Shuki Kato from a single 22″ square of tracing paper and boasts a ten-inch wingspan. Check out the rest of his work on Flickr.
Labels: origami, papercraft
Music Video: Quintetto
Quintetto promo from Quiet ensemble on Vimeo.
Quintetto is a music installation by the Italian artist collective Quiet Ensemble that tracks the movement of fish in five vertical tanks and translates their movements into audio.
"Quintetto" is an installation based on the study of casual movement of objects or living creatures used as input for the production of sounds. The basic concept is to reveal what we call "invisible concerts" of everyday life. The vertical movements of the 5 fishes in the aquariums is captured by a videocamera, that translates (through a computer software) their movements in digital sound signals. We'll have 5 different musical instruments creating a totally unexpected live concert.
Fresh Take: Hipster Potter
devianARTist Rotae created these hilarious hipster Harry Potter illustrations to celebrate the release of the last Harry Potter movie. Harry Potter meshes together with the whole hipster culture surprisingly well. Ron and Snape are particularly good.
Part of my new, "We go to a school in Scotland. You've probably never heard of it." series XDDD Yay hipster!Harry! XD
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Labels: harry potter, humor
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Mural: Pac-Man
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Link Round-Up: September 6, 2011
Interview: Michael Stipe discusses his artwork
10 Unique Laptop Bags for the Fashionable Techie
45 Awesome Apocalyptic Zombie Artworks
Advice for artists on how to price work.
Steam Postcards is a Tumblr devoted to video game wallpapers, including Deus Ex Human and Assassin's Creed.
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Labels: charts, round-up, video games
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Video: 2D Window Drawing Machine
Alexander Weber has created this drawing machine for his office in Hamburg, Germany. The machine paints his entire window from a pattern read from an SVG file. Weber programmed the device himself, and you can read more at his build blog.
I used Processing for implementing the host software. Processing was the first choice because it is primarily targeted for graphics programming and plays well with Arduino. Any other software that could talk to the serial port would work here as well.
The host software falls into two parts. The first part is for reading an SVG file and sending it to the machine. It starts with loading the first SVG file from a directory if there is one. Then you could still scale, mirror and move the shape on your canvas. If everything fits, the drawing is sent to the Kritzler, one instruction after another.
Labels: paintings, technology, video
Artist Andreas Englund
Swedish artist Andreas Englund has created a series of paintings that examine what might happen if supers weren't granted the gift of eternal youth, as we're accustomed to seeing. They're funny, and sometimes sweet. In them, a beloved superhero on the wrong side of 40 just trying to get by in his twilight years. Via: Empty Kingdom
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Music Video: Video Game Heroes
The Greatest Video Games Music
performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Experience total orchestral immersion in the worlds of Advent Rising Halo Bioshock Dead Space Mass Effect Battlefield Call of Duty Splinter Cell Elder Scrolls Final Fantasy Legend of Zelda Myst World of Warcraft Uncharted: Drakes Fortune Angry Birds Tetris Super Mario Bros Enemy Zero 007: Blood Stone Little Big Planet Grand Theft Auto Metal Gear Solid.
Immerse yourself in the music that brings your favourite video games alive, played by a full live symphony orchestra. The evening offers a rare opportunity to enjoy a captivating experience that conjures up both a taste of nostalgia and a sense of adventure.
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Labels: music, video, video games
Short Film: Mortys
MORTYS from Bad Kidow Company on Vimeo
The French animation Mortys is the story of Death, a working mother, and her son, who tries to ease his mother's workload by optimizing her "work process" in order to spend more time with her. This outstanding short is a graduation film co-directed by Gaelle Lebegue, Mathieu Vidal, Aurelien Ronceray-Peslin et Nicolas Villeneuve, and produced by the ESMA.
Music Video: Legend of Zelda Theme
Youtube user Mart0zz performs the Legend of Zelda Theme on Marimba, Snare drum, Cymbal, Bells, Timpani and Triangle.
We still don't use sheet music! Everything is done by ear.
Labels: music, video, video games
Monday, September 5, 2011
Posters: Another Day. Another Dropshadow.
Order yours at Ink Initiative.
Price: US$20.00
The dream of a graphic designer is to create meaningful designs that communicate on a visual, intellectual and emotional level. It is the joy of being creative and having someone pay you to do it. But the reality of that dream is that it often comes with the heavy price on the creative soul. There are endless meetings, client revisions, committee-mandated direction, project managers who are frustrated art directors, long hours and often little recognition. These are the daily and universal struggles of a graphic designer and this is my loving tribute to those in the design trenches. May the creative concept never be forgotten and the good fight always be fought.
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Labels: graphic design, humor, merchandise, posters
Video: Metal Slug in Real Life
In a follow up to Real Life Super Mario Bros, Andrew McMurray battles evil in the world of Metal Slug.
Labels: video, video games
Video: The Art of Steampunk
PBS has just posted a steampunk episode as part of its Off Book web series. It contains info about how the trend weaves into fashion, art, music and theater. Watch the full episode or see more Off Book.
Labels: steampunk, television, video
Video: Robotic Painting Machine
The Interactive Robotic Painting Machine was created by artist and composer Benjamin Grosser. The machine uses artificial intelligence to paint its own body of work and to make its own decisions.
While doing so, it listens to its environment and considers what it hears as input into the painting process. In the absence of someone or something else making sound in its presence, the machine, like many artists, listens to itself.
Labels: paintings, robots, technology, video
Link Round-Up: September 5, 2011
Interview: Tor.com interviews Chesley Award-Winner Donato Giancola.
The Art Of Architectural Photography
Download your own X-Men Sentinel paper toy
Free U.S. Arts and Culture Events -- National Geographic
Incredible, stunning, beautiful and humbling: time lapse videos taken by Hubble.
New York based Google engineer decides to go 'a little bit over the top' and propose to his girlfriend via Google maps and a treasure hunt. Awww....geek love. [Via]
West LA artist David Jien makes art equally informed by Chinese scrolls, Nintendo games, Lego instructions and graffiti.
Illustration: Zombie in Love
Zombies in Love by Scott C
Showing at the Gallery Nucleus September 3, 2011 - September 26, 2011
"Join us as we follow the lovable zombie, Mortimer, on his search for a date to the Cupid's Ball. He tries wooing girls with worm-infested chocolates, bloody human hearts, and stunning diamond rings (with fingers still intact). He even reads up on love advice, serenades women on sidewalks, and takes ballroom dancing lessons, but nothing seems to impress the ladies. When Mortimer places an ad in the newspaper in the hopes of finding a sweetheart, will he finally meet the love of his afterlife?Find out as Nucleus presents an exhibition of charming illustrations straight from Scott C's forthcoming children's book, Zombie in Love, written by bestselling author Kelly DiPucchio. The featured artwork from the book's pages, old favorites from Scott C's previous Nucleus shows, and copies of the book will all be available for purchase."
Labels: humor, Illustration, romance, zombies
Friday, September 2, 2011
Artist: Ursus Wehrli
Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli has shared these images from his upcoming book of photography, The Art of Clean Up, which features OCD-esque rearrangements of common, everyday things such as food, foliage, and friends.
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Labels: artist, photography
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Sweets: Halo Cake
This crazy-detailed Halo cake was created by Mike's Amazing Cakes
for Halo Fest at PAX Prime 2011.
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Labels: halo, sweets, video games
Merchandise: The Inkling
A new digital sketch pen from Wacom that instantly sends a digital, vectorized version of your drawings to different editing programs.
"In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats."The Inkling will be available mid-September with a $199 price tag.
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Labels: gadgets, merchandise, video
Lego Creations: Super-8 Movie Projector
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Labels: diy, legos, technology, video
Posters: The Houses of Westeros Redux
Gateley is back with yet another take on the houses of the new hit series, Game of Thrones!
Gateley writes: "After creating the Game of Thrones Poster series I decided to try a new approach to some poster designs. This is a true minimalist approach where I have only taken two features from each of the animals representing the houses. Although I would like to do more I dont think this will work for many houses."
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Labels: game of thrones, minimalist, posters
Link Round-Up: September 1, 2011
Grab this as an art print or iPhone/Laptop skin from Society6
Interview: Tor.com interviews Chesley Award-Winner Lucas Graciano.
15 Household Technologies Recreated in Steampunk
Anatomy of a Dalek (Doctor Who poster)
Check out Stephen Gammell's creepy illustrations from the three Scary Stories books. Here's an animated gif of one.
Folded photographs: Abigail Reynolds takes the art of cutting paper to whole new levels, forming geometry, shape and inter-dimensionality from a singular plane.
How to create a 404 error page for Wordpress (designing the page, modifying the code).
Over at Etsy, you can buy a Full Size Stained Glass Batman Print that turns any window into a work of art. (The characters seem to be drawn in the Animated Series style, rather than in imitation of any of the comic series.)
Post'it War is a Tumblr devoted to photos of Post-It murals
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Fast Food Rules to Follow by DrWeil.com.
Even if you are diligent about packing healthful foods when traveling, or finding restaurants with nutritious choices when eating out, there may be times when your healthy dining options are limited. While I suggest you avoid eating fast food entirely, if you must, please keep the following in mind when ordering:
- No matter how hungry you are, you are better off ordering a small amount of food and making up for it with healthier foods later. Don't super-size or add on items.
- Pile on the lettuce, tomato and other vegetables that come with your order, to add some fiber and antioxidants.
- If you order a salad, choose the low-fat dressing, and add sparingly. One serving of full-fat dressing can be equal to the amount of fat in a cheeseburger!
- Finally, ask to see a list of the nutritional content of menu items. Some restaurants have them posted- if they don't, ask for them, and ask yourself if you really want to eat there.

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text: Are computers in the classroom more helpful to students – or the companies that sell the machines? AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki November 30, 2018 Taking a second look at the learn-to-code craze Kate M. Miltner, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Past efforts to teach American students computer skills haven't always helped workers get better-paying jobs. But spending on hardware and software for schools has certainly enriched tech companies.


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Grand Fir
Abies grandis (Dougl. ex D. Don) Lindl.
The grand fir is one of the tallest firs, reaching heights of 300 feet. It is easily distinguished from other Pacific Northwest firs by its sprays of lustrous needles in two distinct rows. They are usually horizontally spread so that both the upper and lower sides of the branches are clearly visible. The needles are 1 to 1 1/2 inches long with glossy dark green tops and two highly visible white lines of stomata on the undersides.
The pollen strobili are yellowish and the cones are yellowish-green to green, cylindrical, erect, 2 to 4 inches long, occur high in the crowns and dissipate in the fall to release their seeds.
The bark is grayish-brown, usually with white mottles, smooth with resin blisters when young, becoming rigid and then scaly with age. Like most other true firs, it is thinned barked and therefore very sensitive to fire. Control of fires in the drier southern parts of the northwest has allowed a widespread increase of grand fir over the last 50 years.
It grows from British Columbia inland to Montana and south into northern California. It grows in dry to moist coniferous forests in rain shadow areas, often in association with Douglas-fir. It commonly ranges from river flats to fairly dry slopes from low to middle elevations.
Past research has identified the "Panhandle" area of Idaho as a desirable seed source. Most seedlings produced for Christmas tree growers originate from this region. It is germinated from seed in both greenhouses and bare root nurseries and usually transplanted in a nursery for one to two years.
It is a minor Christmas tree species throughout Washington and Oregon, but a major species in the inland states of Idaho and Montana. It produces a beautiful, thick foliaged tree when sheared and is known for its strong fragrance. In most areas, it will produce a marketable tree in eight to ten years.
Grand fir and white fir are softwoods with characteristics so similar that they are used interchangeably. They are moderately strong and light weight. Earlywood is creamy white to light brown while the latewood gradually changes to reddish brown or a lavender tinge. The heartwood is indistinct.
The wood is relatively straight grained and easy to work. It is most often sold as White Wood, Hem-Fir (Hemlock-Fir) or ES-AF-LP (includes Engelmann spruce, alpine fir and lodgepole pine) for construction. It is also used for boxes, decoration and utility. It has excellent resistance to splitting in nailing and screwing and has outstanding gluing qualities.
Northwest native Americans have a history of making uses of grand fir foliage and branches. Kwakwaka'wakw shamans wove its branches into headdresses and costumes and used the branches for scrubbing individuals in purification rites. The Hesquiat tribes used its branches as incense and decorative clothing for wolf dancers.
It was occasionally used as a fuel. Some interior tribes such as the Okanogan, also made canoes from its bark. Pitch was applied to bows for a secure grip and rubbed on paddles and scorched for a good finish. A brown dye from its bark was used in making baskets by the Straits Salish tribe, along with a pink dye made by mixing the brown dye with red ochre. Knots were shaped, steamed and carved into halibut hooks by several coastal tribes.
Grand fir bark, sometimes mixed with stinging nettles, was boiled and the concoction used for bathing and as a general tonic. The Lushoot tribe boiled needles to make a medicinal tea for colds. The Ditidaht sometimes brought boughs inside as a air freshener and burned them as an incense and to make a purifying smoke to ward off illnesses. These people also crushed and mixed the bark of grand fir, red alder and western hemlock and made an infusion that was rank for internal injuries. The Hesquiat mixed the pitch of young trees with oil and rubbed it on the scalp as a deodorant and to prevent balding.
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The online community must come together to speak up against 'witch hunts' and 'lynch mobs', declared PAP MP Baey Yam Keng.
A netizen Shawn Danker asked Mr Baey on his views on the online code of code proposed by the Ministry of Information, Communication and Arts (MICA) to be implemented in cyberspace to which he replied that it is unlikely to work:
"My experience in social media tells me that hard and fast rules will not work. It is just too difficult to track and enforce everything online. What is more important is to educate the public on what is the respectful and appropriate thing to do online."
Mr Baey also urged netizens to stand up for 'injustice' and speak out against witch hunts and lynch mobs:
"The online community must be prepared to stand up for injustice, and speak up against witch hunts and lynch mobs, and not join in the bandwagon."
Mr Baey has been roundly criticized by netizens for appearing to defend NUS PRC scholar Sun Xu after he was lampooned for making an insensitive remark on there 'being more dogs than humans in Singapore.'
Ironically, Mr Baey's words were twisted and used by an extremist online lynch group to justify its current smear campaign against an innocent Singaporean Kenneth Seah whom it accused of 'plagiarizing' a few unworthy sentences from its pathetic Facebook page two weeks ago.
The group is well known for trolling, harassing and stalking those who disagree with them and appears to be associated with a lesser blog whose editor was criticized lately for making disparaging remarks about Christians.
According to information we have collated, one of its purported members is a former lecturer at the National University of Singapore.
Below are three classic examples of dysfunctional behavior displayed by online witch hunters and lynch mobsters who appear to be suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
1. Soliciting justification and support for its actions from prominent figures like Mr Baey himself:
2. Spamming the Facebook pages of its imagined 'enemies' repeatedly like a jilted lover despite being ignored:
3. Sprouting delusional stuff which are completely divorced from reality:
Does Mr Baey condone the actions of these cyber-stalkers?
Mr Baey should walk his talk by speaking out against this form of witch hunt and lynch mob instead of allowing his Facebook page to be used as a platform for these psychotics to launch their malicious attacks against others.


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Anyone telling you that Amazon AWS is just like any other environment, except that disk-I/O is slower, doesn't get it, there is much more to AWS than that. By using the services that comes as part of AWS there are loads on things you as a DBA or Devops can do to simplify and automate everyday tasks. Backups, slave provisioning, availability are things that can make really good use of AWS. So armed with an AWS account and some MySQL instances running there, I'll be showing you some real world examples.
Also, you may ask why I haven't been blogging much recently? If this worries you, I think you should get a day job. Jokes aside, I was testing MySQL replication in real life, but it sort of failed on me, and I ended up with twins alright, but one boy and one girl. These two has taken a lot of my time recently, and the joys of blogging and writing code in spare time was changed to exercising the joy of changing dipers on these little babies:
I will do some more blogging now again though, I have promised myself to do that, but I have loads of other things to do also.


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Yoga has proven to be very effective for healthy living. It can rejuvenate you, refresh your mood and make you more active. Apart so many health benefits yoga can also improve your sex life.
Yoga has proven to be very effective for healthy living. It can rejuvenate you, refresh your mood and make you more active. Apart so many health benefits yoga can also improve your sex life.
Bitilasana improves your flexibility and strengthens your back. The asana will help you with your sex life as it can help you be more effective and active while being on all fours. The asana also known as the cow poses includes you getting on all fours and stretching your back.
Get on your knees and lower yourself to the left side of your legs. While you sit in that position, slowly stretch out right leg behind you. Lower your hands to the floor and bend forward so that your forehead touches the floor. This asana opens your hip region and strengthens the pelvis.
The ustra asana also known as camel pose strengthens your legs, especially your knees. Get on your knees and slowly bend backwards till you can place your palms on your feet. The pose helps you with your sex life as it allows you to take the pressure off your knee cap while busy in the act. It also improves blood circulation to your crucial organs.
Lay down on your right side with your right hand supporting your head. Now slowly exhale and bend left leg at knee. Grasp left toe with left hand. Straighten leg, so it is at right angles to the body. Continue breathing normally. The asana will rejuvenate your entire uro-genital system.
This yoga pose can be very helpful for your physical as well as sexual health. Bend backwards and keep your knees and elbows at shoulder width and you can expect some improvement in your libido and your performance. You will also feel more active throughout the day.
The setu asana is also known as the bridge pose. Move your feet hips-width apart with your hands clasped under your butt, so that your weight falls on your upper back and shoulder blades. This asana will not only improve your libido but it will also make you feel active.
This asana acts as a mood enhancer and improves the uro-genital system. Place your hands on the feet, and pull your feet closer to the groin region. Hold this final pose for as long as possible and concentrate on your breathing.
This pose is amazing for better sex life as it increases the circulation in your pelvic area. Seated wide legged straddle help the blood to flow exactly how it should thereby improving the energy and the sex drive. Image Courtesy : Getty Images
Downward dog pose is another yoga pose that helps to improve your sex life. This pose will not only make you feel the sex vibes in the air but will also help in the blood circulation and rejuvenates the body. Image Courtesy : Getty Images
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You're no stranger to block parties and birthdays, but now you're looking to throw a party with a little more of an adult theme? For wild couples, swing parties can be fun for an anniversary or special birthday, or they can be great events for you to organize regularly. So what do you have to consider? As in all sex stories, what's important are the fundamentals:
Where to Have your Party
- Your own home is your best bet for your party as a new host. You might be tempted to hold a party outside in warm weather- lots of space, beautiful scenery and easy cleanup. But this isn't wise unless you live VERY far away from your neighbors.
- You may think a high fence or tall trees provide privacy, but even if your neighbors can't see you, they can still hear you! This can result in a complaint and an unfortunate police visit.
- Attempts to hide your party attendees' sounds with loud music won't work. Those bright colorful lights you'll see aren't festive decorations, but police cars out front.
- All this considered, it's best to keep the action inside when you start out. If you're a real beginner, you'll also want to attend a few swing parties before trying to host your own.
- Sometimes people consider hosting as an easy way to make some money, but like most plans for fast money, it's not as simple as it looks. It's important to plan your parties well, and you're not hosting a spectator sport. In order to get along with your guests and have a good party, you should be into swinging yourself.
The Guest List
- In the beginning you should invite people you know from other swingers' parties and groups. You'll want to get more comfortable with hosting and more familiar with swinging before you let strangers show up.
- Saturday night's alright for swinging- people tend to be too tired to get into it at the end of the week on Friday. It's a good idea to start promoting your party about a month in advance, and encourage people to bring people they actually know, but not friends of friends.
- Make this rule very clear: couples only!! Single men often try to crash to take advantage of what they imagine is just one big orgy- that's not what this is about. Single men or women can cause jealousies and complications. Limiting your guest list to couples allows everyone to relax and enjoy themselves.
What to Serve your Guests
- It's illegal to sell alcohol without a liquor license so you can't charge for alcohol or you could be arrested. Instead, charge a fee per couple to attend and give away the food and liquor. $30 per couple is a standard charge, or you can charge a smaller fee and make it BYOB.
- One of the first things you should establish is how many couples you can accommodate, depending on space, your comfort, and the energy you want your party to have. You can overbook by 50% because a lot of people may not show up.
- Require that people RSVP by e-mail. This way, you'll have the e-mails of all the people who are attending so you can send them the time, date and location of the party, along with rules and any fun details of a theme if you're having one (these are common at swing parties.)
Speaking of Rules…
- You should say up front whether you'll allow smoking and any kind of cameras/documentation. These can make some guests uncomfortable, so they should know what they're getting into.
- Make it clear that the party is supposed to be fun and safe for everyone, and you won't tolerate drunkenness or fighting.
- Also, all activities will be completely consensual and no one will have to participate in anything they aren't comfortable with.
Use these simple guidelines and you'll have your guests coming again and again!


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Study reveals problems with Somerset Lake and nearby watershed
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Environmental consultant Frank Browne shared the results of his environmental study of Somerset Lake in Landenberg, and its surrounding watershed areas, on Oct. 14 at the New Garden Township building.
By Richard L. Gaw
Staff Writer
For the 25 residents of Somerset Lake who attended Monday night's New Garden Board of Supervisors meeting to hear a presentation by environmental consultant Frank Browne, the news they received was shocking. Somerset Lake, the man-made body of water in the middle of their high-end residential alcove of Landenberg, is knee deep in the big algae.
Sharing the results of his three-year study of the lake and its nearby watershed, Browne, a professor at Villanova University, said that Somerset Lake is exceedingly high in phosphorous and chlorophyll A, and its high level of blue-green algae is giving off dangerous toxins that can be harmful to both humans and pets at its current levels, with the potential to be fatal.
Browne's 45-minute presentation, sponsored by the Somerset Lake Service Corporation and entitled, "Lake and Watershed Management Plan for Somerset Lake," shared the findings of when the lake was sampled during the summer of 2011. In samples collected in June, July and September of that year, it was discovered that the lake is "hyper-eutrophic," meaning that it is exceedingly high in sediments and nutrients caused by erosion and runoff from nearby mushroom farms, developed areas, roadways and poorly vegetated areas. Browne said the lake was "worse than 90 percent" of the lakes in the United States, and "potentially greener than all the lakes in the country. It's supersaturated with algae, and its content of algae gets worse as the lake gets deeper, thus cutting off oxygen for fish, who end up needing to live on the top of the lake," he added.
"Nature has a natural tendency to fill in its lakes, in order to become greener," Browne said. "Eventually, what a lake wants to go to is a swamp, and given time and erosion, a lake will become a forest. It is a natural process that could take hundreds of years. Then man comes along and he accelerates that process."
Browne said that 54 percent of the watershed surrounding Somerset Lake is "in bad shape, and that number is unusually high" for a body of water that size. With the help of overhead visuals, Browne spelled out not only the difficulties with Somerset Lake and its surrounding watershed, but also recommendations for both in-lake and watershed restoration.
Among his ideas for improving the lake, Browne said that the excessively high amount of blue-green algae could be controlled by the use of algaecide treatments during warm-weather periods, or by the use of a diffused air bubbler aeration system that could supply oxygen to the lake. The Somerset Lake Corporation, he recommended, could install floating wetland islands to reduce phosphorus concentrations in the lake. Dredging the lake of its sediments and nutrients could also be an option, Browne said, but one that would cost up to $1 million.
Browne also recommended that the township create a stormwater utility in the township that can provide long-term control of stormwater throughout the watershed near the lake. Severely eroded stream banks in the watershed, the largest source of sediments and nutrients in the lake, should be stabilized and restored using bioengineering stream bank restoration methods, Browne suggested, or retrofitted with stormwater controls that would protect water quality.
Browne also recommended that the township work with mushroom farmers in the watershed to explore possible operational improvements to reduce stormwater runoff into the lake. The township, he said, could also supervise the demolition of abandoned mushroom houses on Reynolds Road and Sunny Dell Road and turn these areas into green space.
In terms of the role that nearby homeowners can play, Browne recommended that they install rain gardens, plant shoreline vegetation and low bushes, and that those living on the lake's edge should leave a five-foot no-mow buffer between the grass and the lake.


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Two questions. Is anyone already at the forum site in Quartzsite and if not when is the earliest person planning on being there.I was way too early last year and spent two days waiting for anyone to get there early. I eventually moved closer to civilization.If I am going to set up the Circus Big Top and the cages for the Elephants, Lions, and Tigers, then I want to be in the right spot and not move twice.
Some of fire ring will probably still be there on the east side of the road.
Jeff,If my internal navigation system is even close to being correct, I think the "road" through our parking area runs east-west. The fire ring remains will most likely be on the north side of that east-west road. I think.R
Put me down as a definite "maybe", Jeff. I scheduled vacation time to attend the Blythe Bluegrass Festival followed by the QZ rally, but we had a major transmitter meltdown at our recently purchased Santa Barbara station just before the holidays and it's limping along on a low powered standby unit. The replacement transmitter will arrive right around rally time so I may be tied up installing the new equipment instead of going to QZ that week.
Sorry but Sheryl and I will miss all of you great folks this year and the great adventures too - hikes, golf, happy hour and campfires. We sold our fifth wheel this past year and are off to Ecuador and Costa Rica this winter. But I don't think we are done RVing just yet so maybe next year.Doug and Sheryl Murray, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Our arrival will be delayed. We should be there on Monday. We are traveling with another couple so save some space for both of us!
Could early arrivals explain to non-Forumites who may be in the area, what will be happening and that we welcome everyone?
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1) How can advertisers see specific search queries that have caused their ads to show, even if those queries are not keywords within their accounts
A) Add a customized column for "queries" on the Keywords tab
B) Use the Ad Preview and Diagnosis Tool on the Tools tab
C) Review " Automatic placements" on the Display Network tab
D) Select the "Details" drop-down menu on the Keywords tab
2) On which tab can advertisers see credits for invalid clicks within their AdWords accounts?
A) Opportunities
B) Billing
C) My account
D) Campaigns
3) In order to achieve the best performance possible from text ads, which is a best practice that should be followed?
A) Use at least five keywords from the ad group directly in the ad text
B) Use account statistics and reports to monitor ad performance
C) Include words like "find" and "searchA" in the ad text
D) Include no more than one ad text per ad group
4) Which information does the Conversion Optimizer need in order to find the optimal cost-per-click (CPC) bid for an ad each time the ad is eligible to appear?
A) Manual bid changes
B) Historical conversion data
C) Test conversions
D) Forecast data
5) If an advertiser has the same keyword in two different ad groups, the one to win a given auction will be the keyword with the:
A) highest maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid
B) most historical data in the account
C) best Quality Score
D) highest Ad Rank
6) A high Quality Score can:
A) be assigned to negative keywords
B) improve an ad's position
C) be achieved with an increase in bid
D) prevent an ad from being served
7) Each of the following are benefits you would expect from Product Listing Ads except?
A) Ease of targeting without needing keywords
B) More traffic and leads
C) Automatically produced video commercials
D) Better qualified leads
8) The AdWords Application Programming Interface (API) allows develoepers to use application that:
A) are accessible only through AdWords editor
B) can appear throughout the Google Search Network
C) can be uploaded into the Ad gallery
D) interact directly with the AdWords server
9) What are Sitelinks?
A) Links from other sites to your site
B) Links to other websites that appear beneath the text of your Search ads
C) Links to more pages of your site that appear beneath the text of your Search ads
D) Links from your site to other sites
10) An advertiser can apply mobile bid adjustments at which of the following levels?
A) Campaign level
B) Keyword level
C) Account level
D) Ad level
11) AdWords Editor allows users to:
A) invite new users to share accounts
B) find relevant ads on Google partner sites
C) make live edits to multiple accounts simultaneously
D) access multiple accounts offline
12) One factor the AdWords system uses to calculate an ads actual cost-per-click (CPC) is the:
A) actual cost-per-click (CPC) of the ad showing one position lower on the page
B) location targeting of the ad showing one position lower on the page
C) cost-per-thousand impressions (CPM) of the ad showing one position lower on the page
D) Ad Rank of the ad showing one position lower on the page
13) Advertisers can provide physical address information about their businesses through Google Places accounts. Ads that include this type of information are eligible to show on:
A) mobile devices with GPS enabled only
B) Google Maps only
C) any networks selected in the campaign settings
D) Google search only
14) What is the definition of actual cost-per-click (CPC)?
A) The average CPC the advertiser needs to pay in order to achieve top position
B) The least possible CPC the advertiser needs to pay to maintain an achieved position
C) The CPC according to a price list, which is then updated daily
D) The CPC an advertiser was charged minus credits for overshot daily budget
15) An advertiser made edits to an AdWords ad and noticed that the position of the ad decreased. What is the most likely cause for the decrease in position?
A) The Quality Score for the account was reset after the ad was edited
B) The advertisers landing page is down for maintenance
C) The edited ad is less relevant to the keywords within the ad group
D) The edited ad has a lower conversion rate after the changes were made
16) You are running a Search campaign for an accounting software provider that wants to estimate lifetime customer value as a primary benchmark for performance. They charge $10/mo for Basic service and $20/mo for Pro. Which formula best describes their average lifetime customer value across all service offerings?
A) ($10)*(% Basic customers)*(Basic average lifetime in months) + ($20)*(% Pro customers)*(Pro average lifetime in months)
B) ($10)*(% Basic customers) + ($20)*(% Pro customers)
C) ($10+$20)*(% Basic customers)*(Basic average lifetime in months)/($20)*(% Pro customers)*(Pro average lifetime in months)
D) ($10*$20)(Total monthly conversions)/(Total customer count)
17) An advertiser has several keywords set to broad match and would like to see the actual search queries that triggered his ads. This information can be found in the:
A) Ads tab of a specified group
B) Ad extensions tab
C) Opportunities tab
D) "Details" drop-down menu on the Keywords tab.
18) An advertiser wants to increase the position of an ad on Google, but is not willing to raise bids to accomplish this goal. What else should the advertiser do in an attempt to increase Ad Rank?
A) Change keyword match types from exact match to phrase match.
B) Make changes to improve the Quality Score of the ads keywords
C) Lower bids on keywords with high clickthrough rates (CTRs).
D) Review Impression Share report data to identify missed opportunities
19) Which allows advertisers to automate AdWords reporting and campagin management?
A) Use of Structured Query Language (SQL) server reporting services
B) Execution of multiple reporting tasks from multiple computers
C) Execution of repetitive Data Mining Extensions (DMX) queries
D) Use of an AdWords Application Programming Interface (API) web service
20) How might an advertiser compare, over time, two campaign metrics such as "cost per conversion" and "cost"?
A) Run an impression share report and select to display the two metrics
B) Filter all keywords with an average position greater than three
C) Select the two metrics in "Graph options" on the Campaigns tab.
D) Search the account for keywords with high average cost-per-click (CPC) bids.
21) In an AdWords account, which statistic is viewable for each ad group?
A) Purchase funnel abandonment by step
B) Average cost-per-click (CPC)
C) Percent of impressions blocked by negative keywords
D) Performance by Internet Protocol (IP) address
22) Linking your Google+ Page to your AdWords account…
A) Cannot be done if you have a Google Merchant account
B) Requires a 2-month approval process
C) Enables users to login to your website through your Search advertisements
D) Enables you to show more endorsements for your business from your customers and supporters
23) Which is the quickest way to add a long list of locations to target in an AdWords campaign?
A) Select "Bulk locations" in the advanced section of a campaigns location settings
B) Add locations as keywords to the campaign
C) Search for each location in the search tab of locations settings
D) Enter a value in the "Show my ads within" box
24) Advertisers who check web server logs may find their ads received multiple clicks from a single Internet Protocol (IP) address. This could be a result of:
A) duplicate keywords added to multiple ad groups in one campaign
B) incorrect IP address information filtered from Google Analytics
C) Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who assign the same IP address to multiple users
D) query parsing being used to show geo-targeted ads to users in a different city
25) A user clicks on an ad promoting a sale on sneakers. Upon clicking, the user is taken to a page that does not contain sneakers, but rather discount sunglasses. The user also encounters pop-ups while trying to navigate the site. What should the advertiser do to improve the users experience?
A) Link to the webpage that is relevant to the ad and remove the pop-ups
B) Ensure that the pop-ups relate to the users search
C) Edit the ad text to promote the sunglasses in addition to the sneakers
D) Provide original content that cannot be found on another site
26) You are an independent consultant selling an ebook you wrote about Search Engine Marketing for $50. You have campaigns across multiple online advertising platforms: search networks, display networks, & other advertising networks. Which approach to CPA targets and budget is best suited to maximize your total profit?
A) Predetermined budget to be divided across all platforms. Allocate the most budget to the platforms with the lowest CPA
B) Unlimited budget on all platforms where ROI is positive. Use a single CPA taret for all channels which matches the channel with the lowest CPA
C) Predetermined budget, to be divided equally across all platforms. Minimize CPA on all platforms
D) Unlimited budget on all platforms where ROI is positive. Find a different CPA for each platform which maximizes profit based on costs, sales volume, & contribution to overall marketing campaign.
27) You can add a '+' modifier in front of broad match keywords to…
A) specify that certain words must be included in someones search term to trigger your ads
B) indicate that this keyword should be dynamically inserted into your ad text
C) only trigger ads when the Google+ social extension is available
D) overrides negative keywords with an explicit positive keyword
28) Exact Match Impression Share metrics:
A) are available for both Search and Display Network campaigns
B) summarize impression share statistics for all keywords currently set to exact match
C) calculate impression share as if all keywords were set to exact match
D) are only available at the account level
29) An advertiser who sells designer dresses is selecting a landing page to pair with new ads for spring dresses. A good landing page for the spring dress collection ads would display
A) a page of the top-selling dresses for all seasons
B) a catalog of all dresses available on the website
C) several colors of spring dresses
D) spring dresses, skirts, belts, and shoes
30) An advertiser enabled Conversion Optimizer and noticed a decrease in the number of conversions. What could have caused this decrase to occur?
A) The cost-per-click (CPC) bid was lower than the recommended amount
B) The specific Conversion Optimizer code snippet was not added to the site
C) The maximum cost-per-acquisition (CPA) bid was lower than the recommended amount
D) The ads in the campaign are waiting to be approved
31) In a Reach and Frequency report, "Frequency" is defined as the:
A) average number of times a user is exposed to an ad
the average number of times a unique user sees an ad over a given time period
B) total number of ad impressions
C) average number of times a video ad is played by a user
D) average number of times an ad appears on a single webpage
32) Reviewing "Search Terms" data on the Keywords tab will help advertisers to identify
A) new keywords ideas for a campaign
B) keywords with low Quality Scores
C) potential new placements to target on the Google Display Network
D) ad groups or campaigns that should be paused
33) Dynamic search ads would be most helpful for…
A) Websites with hundreds or thousands of products, services, or listings that frequently change
B) Moving an ads position dynamically in whatever direction a users eyes are looking
C) Campaigns that need to reduce exposure on competitive keywords
D) A local restaurant with a dynamically changing menu that offers fresh new entrees every few months
34) Janes e-commerce site sells a wide variety of bicycle equipment. She wants to estimate her profit-per-conversion for each ad group to get a sense of which ad groups are immediately profitable in the short term. Which formula best estimates Janes profit-per-conversion before advertising expenses?
A) (Avg Revenue per Order) * (Profit Margin)
B) (Total Profit)/(Total Revenue)
C) (Avg Profit per Order) * (Conversion Rate)
D) (Avg CPC) * (Conversion Rate)
35) Which is the next stage of detection in an AdWords accont, if Googles automatic filtering system does not successfully remove all potentially invalid clicks?
A) Advertiser reports suspicious activity in the account
B) Alert from the AdSense team about publisher suspension
C) Third-party analysis of advertisers web server logs data
D) Proactive offline analysis by the Google Ad Traffic Quality Team
36) If the query "Seattle plumbers" is entered into Google, Google will use the location term that is part of the query to show ads:
A) that have included "Seattle" as an exact match in keyword lists
B) targeted to areas surrounding the city of Seattle
C) targeted to Seattle, regardless of the users location as long as they are in the US
D) to that user based on IP (Internet Protocol) address
37) Where on an e-commerce website should an advertiser install the AdWords Conversion Tracking code?
A) Shopping cart header
B) Confirmation page after a purchase
C) Website homepage
D) Landing page of an ad
38) The keyword insertion code in an ads headline reads: "Buy {KeyWord:Books}." The related ad appeared when a user searched "flower books" and the query expanded to a broad-matched keyword in the account, "gardening books." In this example, how would the ads headline be displayed?
A) Buy keyword books
B) Buy Gardening Books
C) Buy Books
D) Buy flower books
39) If multiple individuals make changes to one AdWords account, upon opening the account in AdWords Editor, they should
A) click "get recent changes" in the tool bar (download recent changes)
B) contact all other account managers
C) disapprove any new proposals that appear
D) refresh the account in AdWords
40) AdWords Campaign Experiments allow you to…
A) Test changes to your account for a portion of the auctions that your ads participates in
B) Automated different images and text on your site to understand what converts most effectively
C) Receive written feedback from users based on their experience on your site
D) Request a formal analysis from Googles Campaign Experiments team that isolates the effect of online advertisements of offline purchases
41) Business listings in Google Places can be:
A) entered into their own ad auction
B) location extensions in AdWords
C) conversions in Adwords
D) physical locations or mobile applications
42) An ad group contains the phrase-matched keyword "underwater camera." Which search query may trigger an ad in this ad group to display?
A) affordable underwater digital camera
B) water-proof camera
C) camera for use underwater
D) underwater camera case
43) An advertiser targeting only France determines that clicks have been received from users in Switerzland. Why might clicks outside of the target location occur?
A) Users globally are searching Google from mobile phones
B) Users in Switzerland are searching on Googles French domain
C) French users are visiting Switzerland and searching Google
D) French users were looking at Swiss news sites that show Google display ads
44) You are gaining a reputation as a true wizard of AdWords and just won a multi-million dollar client to consult on bidding strategy. Your new client asks you to set bids that maximize profit, focus on the top 3 positions, and minimize CPA. How can you most effectively meet their goals?
A) Set bids that minimize CPA within the top 3 positions, but explain that profit cannot effectively be optimized simultaneously
B) Explain that all three objectives contradict each other and the tradeoffs at risk. Understand the clients priorities and adopt a bidding strategy with minimal contradictions.
C) Set bids that simultaneously optimize profit, position, and CPA all to the perfect point
D) Set bids that minimize CPA while maximizing profit, but explain that position cannot effectively be optimized simultaneously
45) In a Reach and Frequency report, "Reach" is defined as the:
A) distance between a user exposed to an ad and the business location of the advertiser
B) demographic populations to which an ad is served
C) geographic locations in which an ad is served
D) number of unique users exposed to an ad
an estimate of the number of users exposed within a selected location target, based on unique cookies
46) At which level of an AdWords account can an advertiser make changes to network and location targeting settings
A) Account
B) Ad group
C) Campaign
D) Keyword
47) information an advertiser would find in the Change History tool would be
A) changes made by the Ad Automator feature
B) adjustments made to the daily budget
C) credit card information associated with the account
D) timestamps for when ads were approved or disapproved
48) An advertiser implements Conversion Optimizer and notices campaigns are receiving fewer conversions than before the tool was implemented. Which action should the advertiser take to increase the number of conversions received?
A) Set campaign budget to a 30-day cycle
B) Increase the maximum cost-per-acquisition (CPA) bid
C) Opt out of the Google Display Network
D) Narrow location targeting settings
49) The purpose of a developer or authentication token is to track:
A) Application Programming Interface (API) usage
B) AdWords usage
C) Application Programming Interface (API) access by application
D) AdWords applications
50) Intergalactic Teleportation Inc uses AdWords to generate leads for their sales team. Leads are tracked by Conversion Tracking via a Contact Sales form. The sales team converts 10% of leads into deals. For each deal an additional 15% of business is gained from word-of-mouth. Which formula best describes value-per-conversion?
A) (Average deal value) * (10%) / (115%)
B) (Average deal value) * (0.15)
C) (Averaage deal value) * (10%) * (115%)
D) (Averaage deal value) * (10%) * (15%)
51) You are CEO of a small e-commerce shop and your team is debating AdWords performance metrics to maximize profit. Budget is unlimited as long as ROI is positive. Whose recommendations most effectively position you for maximum profit?
A) Lou: "We get a CPA of $15 on our e-mail campaign. Lets meet or beat that benchmark across all marketing platforms."
B) Joe: "An MBA class once suggested ad-spend should always be 9% of revenue. Lets use that as our target ROI."
C) Jane: "A $15 CPA is okay, but if we could get it down to $10, that would give us more profit-per-customer."
D) Pete: "Lets start by verifying our campaign is profitable, then test different CPA tarets to find which maximizes total profit."
52) An advertiser selling anti-bacterial toothbrushes wants to invest in their brand with a set marketing budget. They want another campaign that maximizes profit as long as ROI is positive. Which account structure acheives both goals?
A) Run everything in a single campaign, allocating the set marketing budget to it
B) Automated everything in a single campaign with Branding and ROI optimizer
C) Allocate the set marketing budget across dedicated branding campaigns. Create a separate campaign that can extend its daily budget after profitability is achieved.
D) Divide the marketing budget between Search and Display and run two separte campaigns
53) An advertiser runs a report at the Campaign level and includes invalid clicks statistics. The report indicates that 20% of clicks received during the selected time period were invalid. This means that the invalid clicks were:
A) filtered out of the account before they accrued cost
B) charged to the account
C) removed as a result of a proactive investigation
D) credited to the account
54) Which AdWords feature is compatible with Conversion Optimizer
A) Separate Display Network bids
B) Advanced Ad Scheduling
C) Enhanced CPC
D) Ad Extensions
55) An advertiser who works for a large company wants to make frequent, specific changes to bids based on criteria for more than 100,000 keywords. Which would be the most efficient tool for that advertiser to use?
A) My Client Center (MCC)
B) AdWords Application Programming Interface (API)
C) AdWords editor
D) Automatic cost-per-click (CPC) bidding
56) How does the Conversion Optimizer use an advertisers cost-per-acquisition (CPA) bid to determine the optimal equivalent cost-per-click (CPC) bid for each auction?
A) The CPA bid is multiplied by the predicted conversion rate
B) The CPA bid is the highest the system will allow the CPC bid to reach
C) The actual CPC bid is based on current max CPC settings
D) The CPC bid is one-tenth of the CPA bid by default
57) What determines a keywords clickthrough rate (CTR)?
A) Number of impressions divided by the average position
B) Number of clicks accrued per day
C) Number of impressions divided by the number of clicks
D) Number of clicks divided by the number of impressions
58) You own a pizzeria in downtown Chicago. With call extensions, a customer who searches for pizza on her mobile phone can see your ad along with your phone number and make the call with one click. How is that priced?
A) Click-to-call ads are priced by the minute based on the call's duration
B) Prices are negotiated in advance with discounts for bulk purchases
C) The cost is the same as a standard click on the ad
D) Click-to-call ads are flat-fee based on the caller's phone model
59) A user conducts a search on the term "laptop computers" and clicks on an ad. Which landing page would be the most relevant to that user?
A) A category page containing both laptop and desktop computers
B) An electronic store's homepage
C) A category page containing a variety of laptop computers
D) A product page for a desktop computer
60) An advertiser who sells laptop computers only wants to reach consumers who are ready to make an immediate purchase online. When building the keyword list for an ad group, the advertiser should include:
A) negative keywords such as -review or -comparison
B) phrase match keywords such as "laptop" or "computer"
C) negative match keywords such as -buy or -purchase
D) exact match keywords such as [rate], [review], or [compare]
61) Often, the "last click" before a conversion gets all the credit. But there are often assist clicks and assist impressions that help guide your customers to conversion. Which built-in AdWords report can show you this performance data?
A) Campaign Settings
B) Search Funnels
C) Billing Preferences
D) AdWords Editor
62) A new coffeehouse downtown would like to run an "afternoon espresso" promotion to increase sales during the afternoon hours on weekdays. Which AdWords feature is most effective for preventing their search ads from appearing at night or on weekends?
A) Position Preference
B) Automatic Bidding
C) Ad Scheduling
D) Keyword Planner
63) Which feature distinguishes location extensions from regional and customized campaign targeting?
A) Location extensions will appear when a user located near the advertised business searches on relevant terms.
B) Customized campaign targeting determines which address appears below the ad.
C) Location extensions will appear when an advertiser has targeted a specific region or location
D) Customized campaign targeting is required in order to enable location extensions
64) An advertiser notices that clicks have suddenly increased and is concerned that they might be due to invalid activity. What is the first thing the advertiser should do to investigate this situation?
A) Look at click patterns over time and rule out legitimate reasons for increased activity
B) Submit an invalid clicks report to the Google AdWords team
C) Pause the affected campaign until an invalid clicks investigation is complete
D) Submi new ad text variations for review
65) One reason for using Conversion Optimizer is to:
A) maximize ad exposure
B) dynamically manage ad position
C) generate more clicks than manual bidding would generate
D) avoid unprofitable clicks
66) How should advertisers use their websites to help them structure their accounts?
A) Organize ad groups and campaigns to reflect the layout of the website
B) Organize keywords to cover each word represented on the website
C) Add the website's URL as a keyword to each ad group
D) Add the headings from the website as keywords across campaigns
67) Which is the most appropriate action to take when a keyword is below the "first page bid estimate" listed in the Status column of the Keywords tab?
A) Consider increasing the bid or editing the keyword to improve Quality Score
B) Delete the keyword from all instances in the account
C) Change the match-type to the keyword to Exact
D) Always increase the keyword bid to the "first page bid estimate"
68) Megan enabled Conversion Optimizer in all six of her campaigns. How can she tell if Conversion Optimizer is improving campaign performance
A) Monitor overall changes in clicks received
B) Enable and disable Conversion Optimizer every other day to observer differences
C) Compare average CPA and conversion rate before and after using Conversion Optimizer
D) Install new Conversion Tracking code
69) What can be learned from a Search Funnel?
A) Search impressions share for the last 30 days compared to CPC trends over time
B) Budget usage for all Search Campaigns, including budget limitations and opportunities for more traffic
C) The number of searches completed during a given period of time
D) The series of steps a customer takes before completing a conversion, including information on ads, clicks, and other elements of your campaign
70) To improve the performance of an ad group on the Search Network, advertisers should create ad groups containing:
A) managed placements and keywords
B) destination URLs set at the ad group level
C) at least 50 keywords
D) keywords that are also included in the ad text
71) Which are key elements to keep in mind when optimizing a landing page for AdWords
A) Prominent headlines in several font styles and text sizes
B) Clear landing page layout and several links to related websites
C) Relevant and original content that clearly represents the business
D) Correct programming language used to construct site
72) The IP Exclusion tool allows advertisers to:
A) discover IP addresses of competitors
B) obtain IP addresses for valuable website visitors
C) determine which IP addresses have seen ads
D) prevent specific IP addresses from seeing their ads
73) Which scenario would record to two conversions (1-per-click)?
A) A users clicks on an ad, converts, and returns to the site using a bookmark within 30 days and converts again
B) A user clicks on an ad, does not convert, then returns to the site using a bookmark within 30 days and converts
C) A user clicks on an ad and does not convert. The user performs the search again the following day, clicks on the same ad and converts
D) A user clicks on an ad and converts. The user performs the search again the following day, clicks on the same ad and converts again
74) How could an advertiser determine the most profitable keywords within a campaign?
A) Compare the costs accrued by each keyword with the conversion data for that keyword
B) Identify the keywords with the lowest "first page bid estimates"
C) Compare the total clicks to total conversions for each keyword in the account
D) Identify the keywords with the highest clickthrough rate
75) Bud would like to test new logic in his application that uses the AdWords Application Programming Interface (API) without modifying his live AdWords campaigns. Which tool would allow him to do this?
A) AdWords API Sandbox
B) Ad Preview Tool
C) AdWords API Tokens
D) Keyword Planner
76) An advertiser in Canada wants to view ads as they would appear to users in Mexico. Which tool should this advertiser use to accomplish this goal?
A) Ad Preview and Diagnosis Tool
B) Keyword Planner
C) Display Planner
D) Change history
77) Which approach to bidding is best suited to maximize profit?
A) Maximize ROI as a percentage
B) Minimize CPA
C) Maximize conversions
D) Balance CPA and # of conversions
78) In order to differentiate ads from the ads of competitors, advertisers creating text ads should:
A) mention competitor offers and prices
B) use special characters, such as asterisks or hashes
C) use exclamation points and capital letters
D) include prices, promotions, and a call-to-action
79) Automatic cost-per-click (CPC) bidding attempts to get advertisers the most:
A) impressions for their daily budget
B) conversions based on their conversion goals
C) clicks for their daily budget
D) impressions in their preferred position range
80) An advertiser that uses ad scheduling has a custom bid adjustment for 9pm – 12am on weeknights. The normal bid is USD$0.40 and the bid multiplier is 75%. How much is the advertiser bidding between 9pm-12am on weeknights?
81) You are tracking conversions in a budget-constrained campaign. If you raise CPC bids within the budget constraint, which results is most likely?
A) Receive more conversions while paying more on average per conversion
B) Receive fewer conversions while paying more on average per conversion
C) Receive more conversions while paying less on average per conversion
D) Receive fewer conversions while paying less on average per conversion
82) An advertiser who is selling computer monitors is writing new ad text for an existing ad group. Which line of ad text is written according to Google AdWords advertising policies?
A) Cheap, cheap, cheap monitors
B) 20-70% off LCD monitors
C) BUY affordable LCDs
D) **Free** shipping on LCDs
83) An advertiser notices that the clickthrough rate (CTR) in one ad group has significantly decreased throughout the past few weeks. What could this advertiser do in an attempt to increase CTR and maintain relevant website traffic?
A) Edit the ad text to include a more relevant destination URL
B) Upgrade to a faster web server to reduce page load time
C) Redesign the landing page to create a better experience for users
D) Use keyword matching options to help remove irrelevant searches
84) Which is a benefit of using AdWords editor?
A) Users with My Client Center (MCC) Reports Access can make edits to an account
B) Multiple users can share archives and proposals for an account
C) Multiple users can make offline changes to Account Preferences
D) Conflicts between changes made by importing a file do not need to be resolved prior to posting
85) Assuming default cookie expiration timing, a conversion (1-per-click) is recorded when:
A) a user clicks on an AdWords ad
B) multiple conversions result from a single AdWords ad click
C) a single conversion is made within 30 days following an AdWords ad click
D) a user visits a website within 30 days of clicking on an AdWords ad
86) An advertiser attempts to enable Conversion Optimizer but the feature is not available in the account. Which is the most likely reason?
A) The advertiser's daily budget is not set to the recommended amount
B) The advertiser's campaign targets the Google Display Network only
C) The advertiser advertises a service rather than a product
D) The advertiser has fewer than 15 conversions in the last 30 days
87) Which is a recommended action for new mobile preferred ad creative?
A) Target Search Network only
B) Integrate mobile Flash video ads
C) Use a mobile-optimized landing page
D) Use exact match only
88) Which can be specified at the campaign level?
A) Ad text
B) Billing preferences
C) Destination URLs
D) Network distribution
89) What is a benefit of using the AdWords Application Programming Interface (API)?
A) Programmers benefit from third-party coding support
B) Advertisers can log into the AdWords account to upload changes
C) Programming skills are not necessary
D) Advertisers can make dynamic changes to their AdWords accounts at scale
90) It is important to identify specific goals for an AdWords campaign, so that the advertiser can then:
A) make strategic changes to the account to improve performance
B) upload goals to the "Advertising Goals" section in their account
C) bid separately for each ad variation based on its performance
D) manually increase clickthrough rate (CTR) to improve performance
91) In an AdWords account managed by multiple users, one user noticed a surprising jump in impressions. Where should this user look for details on what might have created the impression increase?
A) Change History
B) Billing Summary
C) Campaign Settings
D) Keyword Planner
92) Jane uses AdWords to promote her online shoe sore and her conversion rate has remained constant over the last year. While checking her web server logs for December, she notices she sometimes gets two clicks from the same IP address within a few minutes. The most likely cause of this is:
A) inaccurate web server log information
B) automated software designed to click on her ads
C) users who are comparison shopping for shoes
D) users who click on an ad on the Google Display Network
93) Given four Search campaigns that run out of daily budget, three can likely benefit from bidding or budget changes. Which is most likely configured effectively as is?
A) Branding campaign with set marketing budget, prioritizing current ad position over more clicks
B) Unprofitable campaign, planning to scale up exposure if profitability can be achieved
C) Branding campaign with set marketing budget, prioritizing more clicks over current ad position
D) Profitable campaign, missing additional profitable conversions when budget limits exposure
94) Which is a benefit of linking Google Places account to an AdWords campaign?
A) Free organic search results for the advertiser's business will be more likely to show on Google Maps
B) Adding or updating addresses in Google Places automatically updates validated addresses used for ads
C) Geographical targeting automatically expands to include all regions
D) Additional icon options are available for ads when using Google Places
95) An advertiser's ad is not appearing in the Ad Preview and Diagnosis Tool when exact keywords are queried. Which action would help the advertiser to determine why the ad is not showing?
A) Perform Google searches on the same keywords to build data points
B) Run a keyword diagnosis for the keyword in question
C) Use the Keyword Planner to include more variations of a given keyword
D) View the Search terms report to determine the root cause
96) What kind of click volume increase is likely to be immediately filtered from an AdWords campaign
A) "peak season" of a product or service
B) improvement in an ad's position
C) a related press release
D) automated clicks
97) Which best describes the relationship between maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bids and Ad Rank
A) An increased CPC bid leads directly to a small increase in Ad Rank
B) CPC bid only affects Ad Rank on the Search Network
C) An increased CPC bid leads directly to a large increase in Ad Rank
D) CPC bid is one factor that affects Ad Rank
98) A florist is advertising five types of flowers, including red roses. When a user types the phrase "red roses" into Google, the advertiser's ad is displayed and clicked on. Which landing page is more likely to convert to a sale?
A) The page on the site that displays only roses
B) The homepage that displays all five types of flowers
C) The "Contact Us" page of the site
D) The page on the site where users can register as "frequent shoppers"
99) Which is a benefit linking a Google My Business account to an AdWords campaign?
A) Geographical targeting automatically expands to include all regions
B) Additional icon options are available for ads when using Google My Business
C) Free organic search results for the advertiser's business will be more likely to show on Google Maps
D) Adding or updating addresses in Google My Business automatically updates validated addresses used for ads.
100) Local Google+ pages created on Google My Business can be:
A) physical locations or mobile applications
B) entered into their own ad auction
C) location extensions in AdWords
D) conversions in AdWords
101) How does Conversion Optimizer determine the optimal cost-per-click (CPC) bid?
A) It uses your conversion history to bid higher when a conversion is more likely
B) It sets CPC bids as one-tenth the current CPA bid setting
C) It only allows CPC bids lower than the current CPA bid setting
D) It bids a static CPC value based on current max. CPC settings
102) An advertiser gets more conversions from ads that appear to people in Paris. What should this advertiser do to try and increase the number of conversions?
A) Change the zip code in the AdWords account
B) Set a location bid adjustment
C) Show ads only on the Search Network
D) Set a language bid adjustment
103) Which is a recommended best practice when creating a new mobile-preferred ad creative?
A) Target Search Network only
B) Use exact match keywords only
C) Use a mobile-optimized landing page
D) Integrate mobile Flash video ads


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Cycling in the Netherlands and Multi-Modality
June 18, 2013 1:30 pm - June 18, 2013 2:30 pm
Eva Heinen, Ph.D.
Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Tuesday June 18, 1:30-2:30
ITS Lab (Room 315)
PSU Engineering Building
After the talk, we'll take a bike ride with Eva to highlight some of Portland's infrastructure.
Eva Heinen is assistant professor of infrastructure planning and mobility at the Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. She was awarded a PhD on the topic 'Bicycle commuting' in 2011 by Delft University of Technology – during which period she spent three months at the University of California in Davis as a visiting scholar. She continued working as a researcher at Delft until her move to Groningen. She has published many papers on cycling in international and national journals and has a large international network in cycling, demonstrated by her involvement in many scientific committees and joint publications with international researchers. In 2004 she received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Delft University of Technology, and in 2005 a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Amsterdam. After graduation she worked as a government trainee and gained experience at the former Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), the former Netherlands Institute of Spatial Research (RPB) and the Transport Department at the Dutch Embassy in Berlin. She is a member of the editorial board of 'Rooilijn', a Dutch journal for science and policy in spatial planning; a member of the Bicycle Committee; co-chair of the paper and program committee of this committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), one of six major divisions of the National Research Council of the US which holds an annual meeting with over 4,000 presenters; Co-Session Track Organizer for Topic Area F: Transport, Land Use and Sustainability of the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR).


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Think you've seen every single twist on the zombie movie? Decay has something that no other zombie flick does: the Large Hadron Collider. A group of Physics PhD students filmed their horror movie against the photogenic particle accelerator, cooking up a Higgs Boson-driven plot about a physics experiment awry. Watch the LHC-filled trailer.
Sure, the premise that the discovery of the Higgs Boson might lead to the zombie apocalypse is a ludicrous one, but if it means we get to watch the undead eat their meat in the CERN facility, we'll take it. Plus, it's always fun to watch scientists do science fiction.
The full film will be released for free online under a Creative Commons license. Also, the filmmakers inform us, "This film has not been authorized or endorsed by CERN." So no need to fear Higgs zombies.
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I don't follow the who's who of the Catholic hierarchy; when I hear the phrase "Primate of All Ireland", I think of Ussher, the fellow who notoriously calculated the age of the earth using a combination of crude genealogy and numerology. He's gone down in history for getting it all wrong; so will this one.
While I felt that Ireland as a whole had begun to progress, Cardinal Sean Brady recently issued a statement declaring that any attempt made by the government of Ireland to legislate for abortion due to a judgement made by the European Court of Human Rights would be; "vigorously and comprehensively opposed by many".
This is nothing new. The Catholic church has always taken a strong stand against human rights.