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When I began blogging in 2008, what I did was to examine how the big blogs on my blog niche grow their blog audience base. I did quite a lot of experiment on this and I didn't take me longer time to discover how they do it.
I am going to share with you an aspect of this experiment here which I called it, proven ways to attract visitors to new blog without search engine optimization (SEO) software tool or technique.
The major goal every blogger pursue is to increase the total number of visits per day to his blog . The total number of visitors to any blog is an indication of blog's popularity and search engine ranking. Again, the total money you can make from your blog largely depends on your blog total average visitors per month. This is why statscrop.com for example estimates site worth by measuring the total visit to the site per day.
Many webmasters spent years and their last penny on search engine optimization (seo) software tools and techniques in other to drive traffics to their sites and yet many of them never succeed. Are they no way to get visitors to your blog without applying any manner of SEO?
Today, I'm going to share proven strategies I've regularly used to attract visitors to my blog without SEO and on regularly basis; I apply them to grow my client websites visitors' base.
To attract new visitors and encourage revisits to your blog, here 7 powerful, proven ways to attract visitors to new blog without SEO.
Ways to Attract Visitors to new Blog without SEO
Posting content to your blog on a regular basis. Updating your blog regularly can be very difficult and tedious but publishing a regular blog post could be a simple solution to growing your blog audience. The importance of regularly blogging cannot be overestimate.
People go to where they can find new thing every day. How would you expect anyone to come back to your blog on regular basis when you don't have anything new to offer? So, if you want to attract visitors to your blog, you must regularly post or update your blog.
There five major things you MUST know when updating or posting new content to your blog that help attract visitors and encourage revisit.
1. The title of your blog post-It should be attractive to your blog visitors NOT to search engine and you shouldn't border how search engine sees it. In addition, try to make it a six to nine words summary of blog post content.
2. Length of your blog post– understanding your blog readers will determine how lengthy your blog post will be. Though, it is always good to often post a combination both long and short article.
3. Make blog article paragraphs short-during the course of my experiment to attract visitors to my blog, I have discovered that visitors like short paragraph articles which are direct to the point rather than bogus paragraph without point.
4. Post latest news or trends-try to include a category or page like "latest News" to your blog. Update your blog regularly on the latest trends or news on your blog niche area is one major thing that could cause your blog visitors constant revisits. Apart that, this often help to boost your total blog daily visitors.
5. Write evergreen article-the idea here is show you that what you called latest news today can become outdated tomorrow and once it is outdated, nobody reads it again but evergreen articles are always fresh. Even if the article is going to become outdated it will take years. Evergreen article often goes viral and attracts a lot of backlinks. Your blog visitors will often bookmark it and revisit it often and often.
Contest and giveaway is a good strategy attract huge visitors blog thousands of visitors per day.
This strategy is not a popular one. I often applied it when I am noticing a decline on my blog daily visits. Some other time I do apply it is during seasonal cerebrations. Many other popular bloggers in Nigeria like Linda Ikeji, Oscar etc. do apply it.
The concept is born by the idea that everyone loves getting free something. In fact, one of the major reasons that people "Like" Facebook page brands is either to get discount or win something. Contest and giveaway strategy is a free marketing strategy and had often help blog to go viral.
There are seven major things you MUST know before embarking on content and giveaway strategy;
1. Determine your major aim of giveaway– here your main goal will be to increase your blog daily visitors.
2. What will you be giving away, and what will be the duration of the contest? – ipad, laptops, mobile phones and devices, self hosted blog and websites, new products etc are often the giveaway choices. However the giveaway prize will largely depend on your blog niche and nature of your blog visitors-sex and age. Your blog Alexa site statistics will help in this regard. The during of the contest will depend on when you think you've reach your benchmark.
3. Establish your contest benchmark– average daily visitors, number of inbound links, number of the post retweets.
4. Create an email announcing the giveaway to your email subscriber-get your old blog readers informed about your giveaway. They are the best people that will help spread this contest.
5. Send email the giveaway entrants to encourage them to come back-at half-time period to contest, send email to all your giveaway entrants to encourage revisiting.
6. Select your contest winner– select and inform all your winners immediately after the contest. Ask them for permission to use their picture in an email when announcing the winner of the contest.
7. Mail out the prize and post detail procedure on how the winner was selected on your blog-this will earn your blog good reputation and increase your blog post readers.
If you haven't join any popular forum then you can quickly do that now; if you actually want to attract more visitors to your blog.
This is how it works; visit a popular forum you participate in regularly and simply start a new thread. This new thread should contain a link to your new evergreen blog article. Don't just put the link there! If you do that you may be seen as a spammer and you link will be remove.
First, you give the introduction to the new article thread. Then, Insert your new blog article and finally summarize the post by asking questions that are related to the article. There are two major points this new forum thread will earn you. One is that your blog will receive massive traffics from this forum and secondly you blog will receive backlink from this forum.
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If you have not join any social media you can do that now if you actually want to increase your blog daily visitors.
Here is how it works—register and join as many social media as you can like facebook, Google plus, twitter, linkdin etc. search for friends and send request to friends on this social network. Accept and confirm all your friends' request.
On facebook and Google plus, you can create a special facebook and Google plus page. Use your page to share a snippet of your new blog post, inserting one or two link to the article on the page and sending visitors to your blog indirectly through these links. You can also use hashtag and short url as your post link on those pages if you don't want your visitors to see your long blog post URL.
Make sure you participate fully on the social network by commenting liking and sharing your friends status updates.
By sharing and retweeting your blog post on social media you can easily attract visitors to your blog.
reach out to other popular blogs on your niche and, contribute to the article on those blogs while you drop a reference link of your blog post on comment box. By this way, you will attract visitors to your blog, help other popular bloggers discover your blog and they can make reference to your blog and finally, you gain backlinks for your blog.
How does this work? Drop your relevant blog post link on a blog you comment on. Don't just drop your blog post link on the comment box. You will be seen as spammer and your link would be remove, don't say I didn't warn you.
First, contribute to the article before leaving behind your relevant new blog post link. If the link is not relevant to the article or answers the question people are asking, please avoid leaving the link behind because definitely your comment will never be publish.
How does it work? Provide email sign up box at an eye catching point on your blog so as let anyone who visits your blog sign up for your new blog updates and newsletter. You use feedburner email widget, aweber, or any email collector for this purpose.
During the time of your contest and giveaway strategy, you can gather huge email list. You can also get a huge email list by exchanging an email list for ad banner placement with other bloggers. Once, you gather a large email list begin an email marketing campaign.
You can constantly send your latest post update to your email subscribers and those on your email list through Gmail, aweber or email messaging platform. This will make them visit your blog.
Include your email signature to any email you send to subscribers. Some people are good at sharing and forwarding emails to their friends. Your blog site can go viral via this process. They can always visit if what your published is worth reading.
Write for other website and it won't take time for people to know you; build relationship with you and discover your blog.
Few month ago Mark Cutts, Google Engineer criticize the way webmaster apply Guest posting in getting backlink. So, what I talk about here is not getting backlink or high pagerank but getting visitors to your blog.
When people get know you as professional through your article writing, they will begin to look for or follow you and the best place to lead them to will be your blog.
Finally, I may not have written all the NON SEO strategies that one might think will be helpful in attracting visitors to blog but what you have above are my seven proven method of attracting visitors to Blogs.
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This is my seven point non SEO model for attracting visitors to blog. Use them, apply them and see the magic they perform.


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Tuesday's news that the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo won't seek a move from Denver may have struck many as a foregone conclusion after the collapse of a deal to relocate the complex next to a proposed Aurora hotel.
City leaders and stock show officials nevertheless gathered the news media to quell the bothersome notion that the venerable Denver tradition would leave the city where it originated 106 years ago.
"It's important that we get over the question 'Is the stock show leaving Denver?' " said Mayor Michael Hancock. "We no longer have to ask that question today. The stock show will remain in Denver, Colo."
Huge questions still remain about the National Western and its ability to remain economically viable.
Will it have to expand from its 95-acre north Denver site? Should it move? Does it make sense to fix up aging buildings? Can it create a year-round facility? And will Denver voters be asked to dig into their wallets to help?
Paul Andrews, the stock show's chief executive, said the plan is to keep the stock show in its same location.
On Wednesday, the City Council will parse a report prepared by the Denver Urban Renewal Authority that found the National Western's business plan is unsustainable.
The report suggested the city look for a dedicated revenue stream — similar to those used in cities with successful stock shows that use money from lodging taxes or auto rental taxes.
Denver has no such tax for the stock show.
"This type of dedicated revenue stream could not only potentially play a role in the financing of a new facility, it could also provide a stable maintenance fund for other city facilities, including the Convention Center," according to the report, released Tuesday.
The next step is a feasibility study by Visit Denver and the city's Arts & Venues Department that will look at market demands and what kinds of facilities are needed to accommodate those trends.
Hancock said there is no immediate plan for such a tax for the stock show, saying the city first will wait for the results of the feasibility study.
The goal is for the stock show to work with Visit Denver and the Arts & Venues Department to create a complex that would be filled with events year-round, said Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver.
"We want to look at the marketplace and match up the kinds of facilities that we need to go into the future," he said.
The city does have a lodging tax that this year is expected to raise $15.2 million — money dedicated to repaying bonds for the Convention Center as well as the general fund.
That said, Hancock's spokeswoman Amber Miller said the mayor was considering "all options," including using that money or other tourism revenues.
In 2011, the stock show handed Hancock a detailed business plan for its future with five options — from doing nothing to spending $500 million to expand and rebuild at the current spot.
To do nothing, the report said, would plunge the stock show into bankruptcy within seven years.
The stock show has about $100 million in needed repairs, including fixing decaying stairways, patching leaky roofs and shoring up crumbling walls, said Andrews.
Andrews has said the site is too small and needs better parking to be competitive with other urban stock shows.
In 2011, the stock show sought to relocate next to the proposed Gaylord hotel and conference center in Aurora, requesting the city ask voters to approve a $150 million bond to pay for the move.
The plan was harshly criticized, with many citing a negative economic impact on downtown hotels and businesses, as well as losing the Denver institution.
That idea was nixed in November 2011 by City Council and stock show officials have been working for a year on developing a new plan.
Jeremy P. Meyer: 303-954-1367, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/jpmeyerdpost

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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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David Robinson II '64
Integrating Duke was just a start
As he neared his graduation from Howard University with the highest honors in 1961, David Robinson hoped to go to the best law school he could afford, but never dreamed of going to Duke. Then he met Dean Elvin "Jack" Latty, who aimed to end segregation at Duke.
"Was I seeking integration? No," says Robinson. "In fact, my entire family was opposed to it. They were concerned for my safety." But Robinson found Latty, who came to Howard looking for potential students, to be "a most persuasive, fatherly figure. He said, 'We're gonna do this.'" In convincing Robinson to accept a scholarship, Latty, who served as dean from 1957 to 1966, also talked up Duke's intellectual caliber. "He said, 'Here's an opportunity to attend a small law school that is a true center for legal education.' For me, it was a no-brainer." Now retired from a first career at Xerox Corp., and a second one with the Miami-Dade County court system in Florida, Robinson feels he made the right choice.
Robinson, who broke the color barrier at Duke along with Walter Johnson Jr. '64, recalls feeling comfortable at Duke. "Classmates were congenial. They didn't go out of their way, but I didn't feel isolated," he says. Latty was always available as a sounding board. Although he perceived no grading bias on the part of the professors who were "thoroughly professional," Robinson admits that he and Johnson shared a "special pressure" to be prepared for being called on in class. But for the most part, politics did not intrude on the business of learning law.
"This was the early 1960s," he says. "Civil rights legislation was pending before Congress. Freedom Riders were traveling through the South. But at Duke, the law students were so busy studying, that there was not much in the way of controversial discussion. In that way, I suppose I was protected by the very walls I integrated." He recalls receiving encouragement and support from Floyd McKissick, a prominent Durham civil rights lawyer (and father of Floyd McKissick Jr. '83) who Robinson met in his second year.
Robinson joined the Federal Reserve following his 1964 graduation, opting for public sector employment at a time when many major law firms remained segregated. In 1967, he took an in-house position at Xerox in Rochester, N.Y. Two years later, he found that a company survey indicating that black employees were happy with their positions and salaries had been fudged. He helped organize the Concerned Association of Rochester, Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to the elimination of discrimination at Xerox, and served as its executive director.
"Trained, as I was, as a lawyer, I was able to talk toe-to-toe with executives, draw conclusions from fact, and show them patterns and islands of isolation where there were no blacks and where they appeared to be pursuing a philosophy of tokenism," says Robinson. "After a couple of meetings, they acknowledged that we helped them to face a significant problem — and face it early on." Xerox became known for its progressive management, he adds. "I'm very proud of the fact that their CEO today is an African American woman."
In 1978, Robinson became senior counsel for Xerox operations on the West Coast. He loved corporate work, he says.
"Dean Latty once had in mind he wanted me to teach the law. That was not in the cards because once I got into corporate work, I was hooked. Xerox offered the opportunity to be involved not only with domestic law but transnational matters. And it's a wonderful thing to have a single client."
Robinson got another client and a second career when he was contacted by fellow Duke Law alumnus Gerald Wetherington '63, following his 1988 retirement from Xerox and return to his native Florida.
"Jerry Wetherington was the chief judge [of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida] at the time. He said, 'Dave, why don't you come help us out in the courts — we can use the skills you acquired at Xerox.'" Robinson volunteered his services for six months when Wetherington suggested he "write up a job description." Robinson became the first general counsel to the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, and served that circuit for almost a decade.
A former member of the Duke Law Board of Visitors and active as a volunteer in various community organizations, Robinson calls service his "first order of business." He remains grateful for the "unprecedented opportunities" he had at Howard, at Duke, and in his career.
"I always wanted to do my best, but never felt I had anything to prove to anyone other than myself," he says. "I just wanted to be myself and the best human being that I could be."
— Paula Edelson
Read more about integrating Duke Law School at www.law.duke.edu/magazine.


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- Writer Jessica Gottlieb was surprised and encouraged by her MIL's parenting advice
- The woman who started off critical turned out to be Gottlieb's partner in crime
When we first met, I was relieved when my future mother-in-law told me that I was pretty and smart. "His last girlfriend had the face of a rat," she said. Oh boy.
My husband adores his mother—he calls her Big Red for her auburn hair—so after our wedding I took up post as dutiful daughter-in-law. I called her weekly and eventually sent endless waves of photos of our two kids.
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I suppose it was easy having an MIL on the opposite coast. She showed up for short spurts: quick shopping trips, weddings, and babies' birthdays. But my husband's demanding work schedule meant that the burden to play tour guide always fell on me.
What first ensued was one bad TV moment after another: Minutes after my MIL met our first child, Jane, she exclaimed, "That is the most beautiful baby I've ever seen. You know, sometimes the most beautiful babies turn into the ugliest adults." Really. Then after my son was born and I'd lost most of the 70 pounds I'd gained, she sent me an outfit from Banana Republic—in a size 12. I cried. I used to be a 4.
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Still, small hints of her generous personality began to peek through. When my son had eye surgery, I did what any mother would: I passed out cold. There I was in the days afterward, holding an infant with stitches in his eyeballs and had a toddler to entertain, too. My MIL called religiously to check in, alternating among "You can do it," "It's OK to cry to me," and "Treat yourself to something nice when this is over." They were simple words, but she was like a magical fairy godmother at the time.
I found myself calling her more, hungry for parenting advice. I learned that she was a curious woman with infinite interests. My mother-in-law, it turned out, was thoughtful, forgiving, and quick to praise. (Yep, you read that right.)
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Nowadays, I call her my extra mother, but she's proven to be a surprisingly satisfying partner-in-crime, too. It wasn't long before we found ourselves palling around like we were teens on the loose. During one visit, she enthusiastically accompanied me into Heidi Fleiss's bra boutique, the Little Shop of Sex. At first, we went in to gawk, but then we wisely realized that Ms. Fleiss knew a lot about boobs, and we scooped up her wares. Hey, it's not every day you get naked with a madam and your MIL.
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I like to joke that the secret to having the perfect mother-in-law is to marry her youngest child. By the time you enter the picture, she'll be used to crushed expectations. But the secret to having the perfect MIL could really be in loving her intensely. It's part of loving my husband, loving the woman who shares him with me—for better or worse.


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Denver Safety Manager Alex Martinez going to DPS to be general counsel
Denver Safety Manager Alex Martinez has taken a job with Denver Public Schools to be the district's general counsel, according to joint advisory released by Denver Public Schools and the Mayor's Office.
An announcement will be made later this morning.
Former DPS attorney John Kechriotis left about a month ago and is managing a Denver-based business office for the Walton family, the founders of Wal-Mart.
Martinez was a surprise appointment by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in the early days of his administration, moving over from the Colorado Supreme Court to take on the manager of safety position. It is unclear who will replace Martinez.


text: "Save the sharks" is the message in the nation's capital this week, as efforts to protect sharks mounted on Capitol Hill and at the National Aquarium's Washington venue. Yesterday, as National Aquarium staff and syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey prepared to personally deliver more than 6,000 shark conservation letters collected from visitors to NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Eric Schwaab, the Senate passed a very important shark conservation bill that would put new restrictions on shark finning in U.S. waters. And today, just after the sacks of personally signed letters urging shark protection were delivered by the group and Aquarium mascot Sherman the Shark, the House passed the very same bill. The legislation, deemed the Shark Conservation Act and sponsored by Senator John Kerry (D-MA), will close loopholes in the current ban on shark finning in the U.S. Jim Toomey is the creator of Sherman the Shark, a popular cartoon character that appears daily in more than 150 newspapers in the U.S. and around the world to help promote greater awareness and protection of these ancient, mysterious and often misunderstood ocean dwellers. Toomey's fun-loving character is also the inspiration and theme of Sherman's Lagoon, the National Aquarium's newest exhibit in Washington, which features interactive workstations, educational shark videos and shark myths and conservation messages from Sherman the Shark throughout. Thousands of Sherman's Lagoon visitors have signed and submitted the letters that were delivered today. The letters are personal requests asking the agency to help promote shark conservation, specifically on the topic of overfishing, which remains the number-one threat facing sharks today. Signers of the letters also added their own personal artwork renderings of their favorite sharks, as seen in this letter from Cara. Along with Jim Toomey, our Executive Director Bob Ramin and several students delivered more than 6,000 letters from kids from around the country to NOAA Fisheries headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. NOAA Fisheries Administrator Eric Schwaab personally accepted the delivery and sat down with Toomey to discuss some of the leading efforts by NOAA to conserve sharks. It's a good day for sharks. Bob Ramin said it best: "They may not know it, but sharks have received a wonderful holiday gift this season--the gift of conservation and awareness." Tags: jim-toomey, noaa-fisheries, shark-conservation, shark-conservation-act, sherman-the-shark Categories: Animals, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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A mattress company in Tel Aviv decided to fill up a concert hall with 144 beds complete with pillows and blankets, giving music lovers the most comfortable way possible to listen to a classical music concert.
But this could backfire. We were just at classical music concert not long ago where the audience was sitting in traditional straight-back seats, and this one guy was snoring so loudly they just about had to stop the show. And that was a really exciting concert with spectacular performances by world-class virtuosos.
What would happen if they played Mahler? This bed/classical concert idea could easily erupt into a snorefest, unless all those zzz's could be written into the music as some sort of audience-participation performance-art piece.
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Smulgubbe – a cross between strawberries and wild strawberriesSunday, March 11th, 2012
Photo from last year.
Spring is slowly approaching and I can't wait for all garden plants to wake up after the winter. My favourite berry, smulgubbe (Fragaria × vescana), is a cross between strawberries (Fragaria ×ananassa) and wild/woodland strawberries (Fragaria vesca). The Swedish name for strawberry is jordgubbe and the name for wild strawberry is smultron, hence the name smulgubbe. The flavour, imagine eating a strawberry and a wild strawberry at the same time, is absolutely fantastic and I can't imagine a summer without them. The variety that I have, Rebecka, produce berries through out the whole summer season. I grow them in containers hanging on the trellis so that I can easily access them everytime I go out on my deck. During winter I half bury the whole containers so they'll survive the cold. The plants produce a few runners, but not as many as strawberry plants usually do, so you'll eventually get more plants. If you live in Stockholm, you can find Rebecka plants during late spring at the garden center Zetas and probably also the one called Slottsträdgården Ulriksdal, two of my favourite places in Stockholm.


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PS4: Kinect-style gesture navigation will feature via PlayStation Eye, confirms Ito
PlayStations 4's camera bar will allow for gesture-based menu navigation, similar to Microsoft's Kinect format, Sony's Masayasu Ito has confirmed.
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PS4 may not come bundled with a PlayStation Eye camera, but a bundle image showing the device and Knack together with Sony's console has appeared online, suggesting that a higher price-point release is on the cards, or has been scrapped. Either way, we've got the image here.
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The new edition of the home PlayStation console will come with a new edition of the PlayStation Eye camera that has so far not been widely used by consumers, due at least in part to lack of effort spent integrating its functions into games beyond the Move controller.
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Facebook messages are shedding light on the final hours before a South Miami man allegedly shot his wife and posted a photo of her body on the social networking site.
In the messages, which were released Tuesday by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, Jennifer Alfonso recounted to a friend how her husband, Derek Medina, was supposed to wake her up to watch a movie the night before the Aug. 8 shooting but had fallen asleep.
"I feel like I'm begging for him to hang out with us.. I already no what his excuse is going to be," Alfonso wrote to friend Kelly Barry.
"Its stupid sh-- like this that makes me think crazy sh-- you no.. like it doesn't do anything now but later on it will eat away at my brain," she wrote later.
Alfonso later told Barry that Medina came in the room and left without saying anything.
"We fought," she wrote. "He doesn't give a sh--. He called me a b--ch LOL."
"He said I was inconsiderate," she wrote, before ending the exchange, saying "I feel like I want to leave."
A short time later, police said Medina, 31, shot Alfonso, 26, inside their home after a fight. According to a police search warrant, Alfonso grabbed a knife, but her husband took it away from her and put it back into a kitchen drawer. Medina also told police that Alfonso punched him.
According to the warrant, Medina admitted to posting the photo and an admission on his Facebook page before he surrendered to police.
"Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys take care Facebook people you will see me in the news," he wrote. "My wife was punching me and I am not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did I hope u understand me."
Alfonso's 10-year-old daughter was home during the alleged murder but wasn't harmed, officials said.
Medina has been charged with second-degree murder, shooting a deadly missile and child neglect without great bodily harm. He has pleaded not guilty to the murder and child neglect charges but didn't enter a plea for the shooting a deadly missile charge. His trial date is scheduled for Nov. 4.
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An amnesty program in Massachusetts is set to begin on Labor Day, lasting two months and giving delinquent taxpayers and businesses the chance to avoid penalties if they fully pay outstanding tax liabilities by 5 p.m. on Halloween.
About 300,000 people will be receiving notices in September indicating they are eligible for the program, which proponents hope will bring in millions in state revenue without the need for raising taxes.
With the exception of the corporate tax, which is not included, the amnesty program covers the major tax categories for individuals and businesses, including personal income, sales tax, withholding tax, and tobacco and gasoline excise taxes. Other niche taxes are also not included.
Lawmakers added the tax amnesty program to the annual budget this year but expressed concerns that such a program should not become routine, and barred participants in the 2014 tax amnesty from eligibility in a future amnesty program for 10 years.
Anyone subject to a tax-related criminal investigation will be ineligible as are people who signed a settlement agreement for the owed taxes or those who committed fraud in connection with the amnesty program, according to the Department of Revenue, which is implementing the program.
Lawmakers estimated the program would bring in $35 million over its two-month span. House Minority Leader Brad Jones, who proposed the budget provision, said prior amnesty programs for fiscal years 2003, 2009 and 2010, brought in a total of $167.4 million, including $102.8 million in fiscal year 2003.
"The repeated success of this tax amnesty program is not by accident, and should serve as proof of the validity of allowing default taxpayers to remit their obligations to the Commonwealth without penalty," Jones said in a statement after the budget was signed into law. "Having offered this amendment in years past and witnessing its resounding success, I thank my colleagues in the House and Senate for being receptive to this necessary and timely measure."
Other owed taxes included in the program are meals tax, room excise, sales tax on telecommunications and a surcharge on sightseeing tours, among others.
DOR FAQ: http://www.mass.gov/dor/breaking-news/amnesty-program-faqs.html


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text: January 5, 2011 Study: 350 million Web-enabled TV devices to be sold by 2015 Nearly 350 million Web-enabled TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles and other devices will be sold worldwide by 2015, four times the number from last year, according to new research from Parks Associates. That blossoming market is going to be a boon for apps developers because of the growing consumer demand for access to online video, streaming music, photos, social networking, personalized news, games and other content on their TVs. And of course, that will have implications for tech companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Netflix and other that are all clamoring to get a piece of the action. "Content options are finally catching up to the hardware innovations, and growing libraries of on-demand movies and TV available are starting to unlock the potential of connected TV devices as multifunction online entertainment and communications platforms," Kurt Scherf, vice president of the Dallas research firm, said in a press release. Parks released the report in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which will be flooded with the latest, greatest Web-enabled TVs and other devices. Also for CES, The Nielsen Co. compiled a list of its consumer electronics research that shows, for example, there are 115.9 million U.S. homes with at least one TV, inluding 65 million with HD-compatible monitors and 43.1 million with digital video recorders. And the average American watches 35.6 hours of TV per week, although nearly three hours per week are time shifted using a DVR. For more on "The U.S. Media Universe," click HERE.


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We could have taken a 'round the world trip to the centers of design, dining and entertainment, such as New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo to spot the trends for Christmas 2011, but luckily, it turns out that all the inspiration we needed was right here at the 3 Day Blinds Corporate Headquarters here in Irvine, CA (not to mention the fact that the "globe-trotting" line item was vetoed from this year's budget)! So here is WHAT'S HOT for the HOLIDAYS!
The Best Entertainment for Christmas:
At the risk of losing some of our top talent to a Hollywood studio or record label, we are showcasing what normally lies dormant behind the scene:
The audiance goes wild for Harold Bidlack as Santa with backup dancers Amber Neeley, Eyvet Hartooni and Will Padiernos.
As part of the talent contest, CEO Kevin Rabbitt demonstrated his "signature move"! No one recommended that he give up his day job anytime soon to pursue perfecting this heretofore unknown, and dare we say, quite unique "ability".
Natalie Niverson (bottom of photo) had the crowd rolling in the aisles with her four hilarious videos featuring the two departments she supervises:
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What to Wear for Christmas:
Calvin, Ralph and Tommy – step aside! What's happenin' in fashion is now being defined in Suite B-100!
How to Decorate for Christmas:
Just to put the word out: we are ready for the camera crew from HGTV to show up any time! We will out-style the best that they have!
Cheryl Abbott, a top Design Consultant covering San Clemente and Laguna Beach, CA submitted 3 stunningly stylish and artistic photos of Christmas decor in front of 3 Day Blinds window treatments:
What to Eat at Christmas:
Martha, Paula, Wolfgang? Try Cristin and Lucy for a change!
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We hope you enjoyed exploring our diverse talents not related to custom window treatments (the one passion we all share)! Everyone at 3 Day Blinds wishes you and your families a happy holiday season!


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AMD releases overclockable tri-core CPU
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AMD has rolled out its first tri-core 'Toliman' Phenom processor that's overclocker friendly.
The clock-unlocked Black Edition Phenom X3 8750 comes with an out-of-the-box clock speed setting of 2.4GHz. Each core has 512KB of L2 cache to itself and access to a shared 2MB pool of L3 cache.
The 65nm part will consume up to 95W of power when run at the standard frequency.
AMD also took the wraps off the "energy efficient" Phenom X3 8250e and 8450e. The two run at 1.9GHz and 2.1GHz, respectively, and consume no more than 65W. They have the same cache specs as the 8750. They too are fabbed at 65nm.
The Black Edition Phenom X3 8750 comes just a few months ahead of its successor, the 2.5GHz 8850, which recent roadmap leaks have revealed will ship in December. Next month, AMD will release a locked version of the 8850. Both chips have 95W TDPs.
AMD has yet to state the prices for the new chips.
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Vivendi Games, which contributed some $340 million to its parent company's "very good" first quarter, continues to place much of its success on Blizzard Entertainment. The World of Warcraft developer provided an impressive $295 million to Vivendi's games division, with a good portion of that cash coming from the MMO's 10.7 million subscriber base. Vivendi says games revenue was down, year over year, with some of that poor performance due to unfavorable exchange rates. Yawn! Who cares about another billion dollar year? We're not Rob Pardo's kids! Where's the next WoW expansion, already?
Wrath of the Lich King is coming in the second half of 2008, says Vivendi's quarterly report. That's as close as we're going to get to a release date for now. Blizzard hasn't officially put a date on the expansion and it's totally realistic it could delayed, as is their wont, but we'll hold tight for a pre-December 31 release, fingers crossed.
Vivendi: Very Good First Quarter - 2008 Outlook Confirmed (PDF) [Vivendi]


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What is this?
This is the GLI tool. A tool in the form of a website that provides a stepwise plan to guide tuberculosis (TB) laboratories towards ISO 15189 accreditation. It was developed by the Royal Tropical Institute in cooperation with partners from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The International Union Against TB and Lung Diseases and the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation for the Global Laboratory Initiative. The structure and contents of the tool are the result of two consensus meeting held at WHO headquarters in 2011 (click here for more information on the development and optimization of the GLI tool). The development of the GLI tool was partly funded by the TB CARE I project of USAID.
Why was this tool developed?
Until recently, laboratory services were amongst the weakest components of TB treatment and control efforts in high-burden, resource-limited countries. Strengthening laboratory services and systems is essential for universal access to TB laboratory diagnostic services. A first step is to strengthen national TB laboratories by implementing a quality management system. One of the best methods of laboratory strengthening is to implement a quality management system complying with the requirements of the international quality standard for medical laboratories, ISO 15189:2011. This will enable them to better support the rest of the national TB laboratory network. Read more.
Who can use this tool?
This tool can be used by tuberculosis laboratories worldwide.
NOTE: Since the start of 2014 the World Health Organization has launched a similar tool for any type of medical laboratory that wants to achieve ISO 15189 compliance: the WHO Laboratory Quality Stepwise Implementation tool (LQSI tool). The structure of this tool is based on the GLI tool. Hence, laboratories that do not specifically focus on tuberculosis diagnostic testing are recommended to refer to the LQSI tool.
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This tool is a stepwise plan for implementing a quality management system. Each step of this plan is called an activity that consists of:
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To assess correct completion of the activities this tool also provides an option to create checklists based on the extent of implementing the quality management system.
In the User Instructions section a you'll find an extensive explanation on how to use the tool.


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David Cone, a Met from 1987 through 1992 and again for a spell in 2003 (we don't know what he did most of the years in between), is lending his celebrity to help to help those still hurting in the aftermath of stupid storm Sandy…which I'm tired of dignifying as "super". Coney will be guest-bartending at the baseball hub of New York, Foley's on 33rd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Manhattan, Thursday night, November 15, between 6 PM and midnight. All proceeds the drinks our onetime 20-game winner pours during that period, plus all his tips, will be going to storm relief.
Aside from the nobility of the cause, I might add FAFIF readers will need a drink by November 15, not only to (hopefully) toast the prospective Cy Young fortunes of our most recent 20-game winner, but to recover from the contest we're about to introduce into the Metsosphere this weekend. We're giving away a great prize, but we're gonna make ya earn it.
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|Oct 29th, 2011 12:30 PM
|Lol Meadow Mystery. XD
|Dec 29th, 2008 05:55 PM
|on the box it says it can hold 150 lbs. im 130 lbs so can i fit in that motherfucker?
|Dec 20th, 2008 05:38 PM
|Giga Ball? Jumbo? Um, 51 inches in diameter does not even approach giga, and there is no way a kid of 4 years could ever fit inside of it. Either these kids on the box are tiny in the picture (dwarfs), or it is one of those advertising lies, showing a huge ball when it is really disappointingly small. Only one plus, it would take very little air to blow it up, so at least you won't get dizzy and pass out dealing with this little ball.
|Dec 14th, 2008 06:06 PM
|All I can think about when I look at the giant inflatable ball is that lame guy who videotaped himself trying to get inside that giant balloon and failing miserably.
|Dec 12th, 2008 07:38 PM
|Dec 12th, 2008 05:25 PM
|After seeing the Giga ball, am I the only one who thought of Richard Pryor in THE TOY?? (No, Wonder Wheel...Dont die....)
|Dec 10th, 2008 09:22 AM
|Was it the same kid in NYC that climbed into the sewers to find the turtles?
|Dec 10th, 2008 02:52 AM
|Relaxing Dragon
Yeah, kids can (unfortunately) get accidentally shot by a police officer if they've got a realistic-looking gun. When I was working at a Halloween store I learned we weren't allowed to sell any kind of toy gun at all, since there had been some shootings the previous year of the above scenario (sure, said incidents happened in Oakland, but still...). It's a rough world, and if an officer sees someone pointing a gun at them, it tends to be instinct first (we all remember Die Hard).
Moving along, I'm pretty sure I would have killed to have that Inflatable Giga Ball when I was a kid. That thing is friggin' awesome.
|Dec 10th, 2008 12:46 AM
Unless I'm mistaken, some kid did get shot by a cop back in the 80s, which is why almost all toy guns are covered in blaze orange or at the very least have bright orange tips today.
|Dec 9th, 2008 11:43 PM
I read the real safety regulations, and they say the Michelangelo nunchuks are bad beause the boz doesn't give warning that "impact injuries may occur." They're fucking nunchuks! They're used to hurt people!
Also, they talk about cautions on boxes and toys, but aI've never read a single box or toy in my life. Fine print is for lame-os.
|Dec 9th, 2008 10:19 PM
When I was a kid, 90% of our toy guns were pretty damn realistic looking and not all covered in "don't shoot me officer" blaze orange - and I never got shot by a itchy trigger fingered cop.
I'm amazed that shotgun is available today.
|Dec 9th, 2008 09:40 PM
|"weapon comes with rubber ammo" police use rubber bullets for crowd control... i can only hope these toy guns use the same force...
|Dec 9th, 2008 08:37 PM
|The first thing I'd do with that giant inflato-ball is stuff my sister in it. THEN I'd roll it down a hill ^_^
|Dec 9th, 2008 06:20 PM
|Well, first of all, no cop in his right mind would gun down a child, even if he did have a realistic looking gun. Teenager and up, pointing the weapon at police after multiple times being told to put it down, thats another story (Its called Use of Force Continuum, people). And second of all, did anyone actually go to the W.A.T.C.H. website and look at their reasoning behind these dastardly toys?? They practically want an announcer to come with every toy, to brazenly state in a strident voice: "WATCH OUT KID, YOU CAN CHOKE ON THAT!" Like the warning on the box isn't enough any more...
|Dec 9th, 2008 05:12 PM
|With the possible exception of the giant inflatable ball (which at least gets some points for originality) I'd say that the true danger of these toys is their unflinching lameness. Merely owning anything on this list is going to get your crotchspawn beaten up daily.
|Dec 9th, 2008 12:18 PM
|Not a lot of dangerous toys this year. Must be a dry season.
|Dec 9th, 2008 11:16 AM
|Can that ninja turtle mask look anymore retarted?
|Dec 9th, 2008 09:12 AM
|The laser eyes are a pretty serious manufacturing defect. Geez, they should regulate these things.
|Dec 9th, 2008 09:11 AM
|Anyone that gives their infant a purse (especially a furry, pink purse), may not be all right in the head. It may look cute, but honestly What is an infant going to do with a purse except try to eat the hair?
|Dec 9th, 2008 06:01 AM
|Well, I agree with Proto about that shotgun... It's pretty detailed and I wouldn't be surprised if a clueless cop shoots down a kid who's screaming like a goddamned chimp while chasing his friends.
|Dec 9th, 2008 05:14 AM
|Why do all the dangerous toys suck so hard?
|Dec 9th, 2008 04:25 AM
|those spiral copters actually look fun, I even saw a ripoff called "maple leaf copter" or something like that, and i can imagine replacing the "copter" part with a lawndart...
|Dec 9th, 2008 02:59 AM
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Ten years ago, when I moved into my current studio, I found the former occupant had left stacks of Life magazines from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. The dates of the magazines encompassed almost exactly my birth year to age ten. The historical moment they represented provided an invitation to look back and recognize how that time was characterized by great sentimentalism. That realization started me on a path of image-making that looked to the utopian ideal that I now recognize as being intrinsic to the culture surrounding my childhood and for anyone raised in the 60s and 70s. If I notice in myself the desire to look to a simpler time (although in many ways the simpler time of the 60s and 70s was anything but that in terms of social justice movements), I see that impulse as a response to the present, which by contrast, seems too fragmented, too complex and too de-centred. The series of paintings that came from this image bank, entitled, Witness, employ the figure as a ensemble player in much larger dramas that look at nature bumping up against the human world of history, technology and innovation, representing all the potential damage that can result from human striving.
The current series of works on paper are intergenerational in scope; they are representations of what I think of as both my own childhood summers spent in the remote woods of Northern Ontario, and the experience of my two sons' more urban and contemporary childhood. The figures depicted in these works are expressionless and neutral—beings who find themselves in circumstances where they have to survive and meet the challenges of being isolated and alone. On the other hand, these paintings are a way to reflect back on a time I imagine as simpler and less complicated. Yet even as I move to make work that is uncomplicated or of an uncomplicated time, I know that is an illusion. The act of removing and covering over the previous layers of painted acrylic and ink, may obscure them only, in turn, to reveal another set of circumstances and questions. It's not that I reject complexity nor that I long for a kind of atavistic simplicity that borders on nostalgia, I just want to shift the complexity from the impersonal, day-to-day, computer-driven world to the more philosophical, personal and spiritual world of introspection. I often think I want silence and peace, in both the global and personal sense, but more accurately, what I desire is a less fixed, rigid and hard-edged approach to painting (and life, for that matter).
I flirt with the romantic idea of the Canadian landscape as a sublime and endless open space. Although the current paintings are most obviously figurative, they loosely reference the sense of unending wilderness that I am so accustomed to. Through washed out, painted marks, I'll suggest a grove of birches or animal, but ultimately, those details degrade in favour of the lost and isolated quality of the figures who inhabit a world that is unknowable and frightening. Apart from having a Romantic (capital "R") notion of landscape, I have to admit to having a fear of those grand, open spaces as well. I think the bogeyman of my childhood wasn't a person, but rather, was the vast wilderness that was on the edge of every city space and functioned as a utopian backdrop and metaphor for Canadian independent identity and heartiness.
The landscapes of this new series are becoming abstract spaces that act as voids for the figures to drop into. I am practicing editing these images down to their essence (or, lately, even absence). It has been difficult for me to let go of what I see as grounding details for the figures. In place of what I once saw as concrete, knowable spaces, I imagine instead these spaces as almost generic and post-apocalyptic– the aftermath of human destruction. Perhaps the children shown in the work court our desire for the wild child, the unrestrained, unmodified self. As I work, survival narratives play out in my head. I paint situations where the children will have to fend for themselves and under difficult circumstances and still be okay, as a way to both call forth and allay personal and cultural anxieties at the same time–a kind of visual homeopathy. "
Chris Willcox
1998 MFA, Summa Cum Laude, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,New Brunswick, Multidisciplinary Master of Fine Arts degree with a focus on painting, art theory and criticism.
1992 BA, Honors Fine Art, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Bachelor of Art degree with emphases on painting, printmaking, art history and theory.
Dean's Honor List 1990-1992.
1989 AOCAD, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON
Professional Art degree with emphases on painting, printmaking, and drawing.
2010 Banff Arts Center, Banff, Alberta
2010 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
2005 Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Initiative Grant
2002,2004,2010 Wallace Travel Grant, Wallace Foundation,
2001 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, Vermont
1998 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, finalist
1996 Fulbright Scholar, USA
1992 Robert Watt Memorial Scholarship 1996
1995 Ontario Arts Council Grant
1994 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
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In our area of the country, [Arizona] the Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) sings a loose mimicry of the sounds around him which fall within his vocal range. In the Southwest, these sounds include Orioles' chatter, Ravens and Jays, Woodpeckers and even Rattlesnakes, some of which you'll hear in this "sampler" of a Chat at Tavasci Marsh [Arizona], 5/98. The Chat's songs are a series of short phrases often separated by a single punctuation note. The phrases are sometimes repeated, often not, as he goes from one sound to another in rapid succession. It can be mistaken for a Mockingbird, but the series of short, repeated phrases gives him away.
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Inside Oracle's bombshell plan to support Red Hat
Oracle's decision to get into the open source Linux business shouldn't come as a major surprise to Red Hat, according to one IT industry expert.
Could you briefly describe what Oracle is doing with regard to Red Hat Linux?
Tony Iams: Oracle is exploiting the open source business model to try and offer a competitive alternative to Red Hat for supporting Linux. This is something that is clearly enabled by the open source model where a vendor such as Red Hat offers a product that virtually anyone else can recreate under their own brand. They can take the exact same technology that Red Hat has and offer their own version of it, under their own brand, and with their own support program, without having to become too deeply involved with the development.
Will Oracle actually distribute copies of Red Hat Linux?
Iams: They can't call it Red Hat because Red Hat owns the rights to the name. What they can do is use the code the Red Hat provides and offer it as a package because all of Red Hat's software is open source.
Is this an unprecedented move on Oracle's part?
Iams: No. There have been other instances where companies tried to clone Red Hat. But they were generally much smaller companies. What is new about this is that a major vendor from a different sector of the industry -- a company that was not in the operating systems business before -- has now gotten into the operating systems business to compete with one of the existing players.
How is Red Hat going to respond? By focusing on the fact that they offer the JBoss application server?
Iams: That is one way. Red Hat now has application server technology that they acquired with JBoss -- and Oracle has its own application server that it positions instead. Moreover, the development process behind JBoss is a little bit different than the development of the regular Linux kernel in that it's a little bit more of a closed process, so they have a little bit more control over the rate at which they distribute the code to the open source domain. It gives Red Hat a little bit of leverage that they wouldn't have had with the mainstream code inside of Linux.
How does JBoss stack up against Oracle's application server?
Iams: I haven't done a head-to-head comparison but you know there are many factors that come into play when customers try and decide which application server to invest in. There's technical capabilities, licensing costs and then sort of the ecosystem that's built around the application server so that the applications can really take advantage of it. In that regard, Oracle's application server is woven tightly into the rest of its application stack and into its database. Their applications have a little bit of a home field advantage when it comes to integrating into an Oracle environment, whereas JBoss has a broader presence across the industry and is more of a player in the open source ecosystem. JBoss benefits from mindshare across many operating systems and databases.
Do you think Oracle's decision to support Red Hat will severely hurt or even kill Red Hat in the long run?
Iams: It's rare that anyone gets killed outright because there are such huge investments in Red Hat's technology and their support ecosystem and their Red Hat Network and in the relationships that Red Hat has with the systems providers. Red Hat's ties to the industry run quite deep at this point and [Oracle] can't just uproot those with one announcement. I don't see it killing Red Hat. I think that it's going to give Red Hat competition and competition is generally a good thing in the industry. Oracle looked at Red Hat's business and decided that they could come up with a competitive alternative. It's a business opportunity that they looked that that they decided was too good to resist. When you put those together with Microsoft's relationship with Novell, it has certainly been a tough week for Red Hat. But it's really just a question of Red Hat having more competition now and having to be a little bit more nimble and agile in their offerings. It won't be quite as free a ride as it has before.
Oracle says it will support Red Hat users for half the price they're paying now. Do you expect Red Hat to respond by slashing prices?
Iams: It's too early to tell because a lot of questions go into determining what pricing should be for open source. You need to look at the value that you get from Red Hat versus Oracle's offering. We'll need to really see exactly what Oracle's offering consists of in terms of the functions that are built into it, and in terms of the terms that go into its licensing and the discounts that it provides, and to what extent its preloaded with the systems from OEMs. There are many factors that go into the revenue associated with a distribution like this and until we see exactly what Oracle's offering is, again, it's too early to say how Red Hat will have to respond.
Oracle says it will provide full indemnification or legal protections for its users. Do you expect Oracle to provide better legal protections than Red Hat and other Linux distribution providers?
Iams: It's not clear. The [intellectual property] questions here run quite deep and are potentially quite far reaching when you examine the impact of patents and so on. And Oracle clearly has a lot of intellectual property and thus they're in a position to provide some degree of protection. But they compete with Microsoft as well and so to what extent they're going to take sides in this potential conflict remains to be seen. Anytime there is a risk of a patent war starting you have to look at where the arsenals of patents are and who might potentially participate and take which side and I think it's too early to tell.


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"Danielle Hansen kicked off the afternoon by talking to the team about determination," women's assistant coach Jamie Aid said. "The girls rose to the occasion and certainly were "determined.
"We are so proud of how our girls played and the ambassadors they are for the University. This is a great group of girls, and we continue to look forward to what will transpire throughout the season as they continue to improve, continue to show determination and continue to be the team they are."
The Lady Bisons swept the doubles point to start the match with a 1-0 lead.
Senior Kara Jackson and freshman Alyssa Bellini defeated Monte Reingelde and McKinley Mason 8-5 at the No. 1 spot, while juniors Elizabeth Keevil and Danielle Hansen recorded an 8-2 win over Carrie True and Alex Crofford.
Senior Julianne McMeen and Carlina Jow pulled out an exciting win at No. 3 doubles, defeating Katrina Vucina and Morgan Freeman 9-7.
The Lady Bisons entered into singles play with a 1-0 lead over Western Kentucky and won four of their six singles matches.
The Lady Bisons two losses came at No. 1 and No 5. Keevil was defeated by Reinfelde after battling back to take the match to three sets, but fell in a third set tiebreaker 6-0, 5-7, 10-4 at No. 1. McMeen fell to True at No. 5 6-2, 6-3.
At No. 2, Jackson posted a win for the Bisons, easily defeating Mason 6-2, 6-0, while Hansen secured a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Alex Crofford.
Bellini recorded a solid 6-3, 6-2 win over Vucina at No. 4, and junior Samantha Bowman defeated Morgan Freeman 6-0, 6-1.
The Lady Bisons hit the courts again Saturday, February 26th when they take on North Alabama at Whitworth Country Club at 7 p.m.
No. 1 Jackson/Bellini (LU) vs Reingelde/Mason (WKU) 8-5
No.2 Keevil/Hansen (LU) vs. True/Crofford (WKU) 8-2
No. 3 Jow/McMeen (LU) vs. Vucina/Freeman (WKU) 9-7
No. 1 Monte Reinfelde (WKU) def. Elizabeth Keevil (LU) 6-0;5-7 (10-4)
No. 2 Kara Jackson (LU) def. McKinley Mason (WKU) 6-2;6-0
No. 3 Danielle Hansen (LU) def. Alex Crawford (WKU) 6-2;6-3
No. 4 Alyssa Bellini (LU) def. Katrina Vucina (WKU) 6-3;6-2
No. 5 Carrie True (WKU) def. Juilanne McMeen (LU) 6-2;6-3
No. 6 Samantha Bowman (LU) def. Morgan Freeman (WKU) 6-0;6-1
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Continuing its commitment to professional certification in cutting edge fields, The Department for Continuing Education at The Cooper Union now offers a Certificate in Digital Representation and Fabrication. This uniquely comprehensive program covers both the software and hardware tools used in this field. Already expanding from the previous semester, six courses are offered during the Spring 2013 term covering topics like 3-D parametric design programs Rhinoceros and Grasshopper as well as 3-D printing and laser cutting. Geared toward the novice and professional alike, anyone interested in digital design for art, architecture, science and other fields will be empowered in the current marketplace by having a certificate that others don't.
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This is the third certificate offered by the Department of Continuing Education. The first, in Green Building Design, had no peer in the New York metropolitan area when it began in 2007. Following its success the department looked for another opportunity to offer a unique certification and, in 2011, began a program in Typeface design. Cooper remains the only school in North America with such a program and one of only four places in the world where you can study typeface design at such a level. Now it has a third certificate in line with its predecessors. "I was looking for other revolutionary processes," David Greenstein says, "and digital design and fabrication is a technology that is clearly taking off."
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