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Last Thursday, we met with Cody's case manager, program manager and supervisor at his day program for his quarterly review. I figured everything would go as normal—there wouldn't be much new to discuss and the meeting would last maybe 15 minutes. Little did I know what was in store.
The possibility of Cody having a one-on-one aide to accompany him during his time at his day program had once been discussed in hopes that it might help keep him focused on the assigned tasks. However we opted to wait to see if that would be needed after Cody had more time to become acclimated to the program. But we learned Cody was already pretty much receiving one-on-one assistance—not from a staff person but from another client.
Cody has formed a unique friendship with a lady whose name is Laura*, who also participates in the program. We were aware of the friendship, and that as time goes by it continues to flourish, but we were not truly cognizant of how beneficial it would be for both of them.
From the start, Laura took Cody under her wing and soon they were inseparable as best friends often are. But their alliance is one which goes far beyond just a couple of people who like to hang out together. I was thrilled Cody was finally making friends. But I was ecstatic when I learned how supportive they are with each other. And because of it Cody's advancement in the program is developing at a much more rapid pace than Bill and I thought possible.
It turns out Laura has managed to convince Cody to try things that no one else has been able to persuade him to attempt. Cody has never been really keen on crafts. Drawing on his computer is about the only exception to the rule. I've tried to interest him in trying different media such as making model cars, ships, submarines and airplanes, making his own T-Shirts with iron-on transfers and much more. However in spite of my endeavors to cultivate his curiosity I couldn't get him to take the bait. But somehow Laura can.
A few years ago, Bill and I took Cody on a day trip to a local theme park. The park had carnival rides, junk food stands and employees dressed as colorful characters from the 19th century, performing comical skits. Of all the attractions at the park there were only a select few that Cody showed any interest in at all.
Recently the group from the day program went to the same park. Imagine our surprise when we learned that Cody and Laura had a ball riding all the rides, watching the craftsmen make their goods and exchanging lively banter and laughter with the nearly 7-foot-tall man who plays the part of the old-time undertaker who follows unsuspecting customers around taking their measurements behind their back while everyone else privy to his antics is having a good, hearty laugh.
In general, Laura engages in keeping Cody on task, and the staff says Laura is benefiting as much as Cody in this partnership. She is assuming responsibilities beyond caring for herself—and handling them quite well. But what is it that Laura does that can persuade him to focus on things no one else can?
As we were wrapping up the meeting, Cody's case worker and program managers mentioned how they saw this as an opportunity to challenge Cody to step up a bit closer to the plate. He's been attending the program on Mondays and Thursdays each week but they felt this was a good time to add another day to his schedule. And to add a higher level of structure and consistency to the plan, they thought three days in a row would be a good thing.
On Wednesdays the group attends a ceramics class. The staff feels that with Laura there, Cody has a good probability of being able to focus at a higher level and thereby increase his fine motor skills and perhaps develop a genuine interest in the craft.
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One Jalopnik reader wanted to know why this Euro-style Mazda6 hatchback was in the parking lot of his local New Jersey ShopRite. Simple, Mazda's testing the 43 MPG diesel coming stateside in 2012. And they probably wanted snacks.
The Sky-D diesels are coming, and we couldn't be more excited. If they can deliver the hybrid-besting diesel fuel economy and give us something with a manual transmission that doesn't look like a giant Jellybean we'll be most-pleased.
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Hayley Hodson looked forward to the Corona del Mar High girls' volleyball team meeting on Monday. As one of five players expected to return next season, she said she thought Coach Marissa Booker was going to go over the team's off-season.
The team is losing a lot of talent, 13 players to graduation. What Hodson learned is that the team will be without its coach, too.
Hodson said Booker informed the team that she decided to step down as a walk-on coach to spend more time with her family. The only coach Hodson has played for at CdM is gone after two seasons.
"I was completely surprised," said Hodson, who earned first-team All-Pacific Coast League honors this season as a sophomore outside hitter. "She was a great coach. She really enjoyed working with girls at this age. You can tell she's had a lot of experience with women's volleyball. She focused on character building and important things off the court."
Under Booker, the Sea Kings also excelled on the court. They claimed two undefeated Pacific Coast League titles and made two deep runs in the CIF Southern Section playoffs.
The Sea Kings finished short of playing for a second straight section championship, losing in the Division 1-AA semifinals at top-seeded Redondo Union last month. The team ended the year 28-7.
In her first season as a high school varsity coach, Booker led CdM to the Division 1-A title match and she earned the All-CIF Southern Section Division 1-A Coach of the Year award. Before her debut season, Booker said taking over the CdM program was a tough decision for her. She left her job as the women's volleyball coach at Vanguard University, her alma mater, to coach in high school and pursue a teaching job in special education.
After two seasons in which the Sea Kings went 60-12 with Booker in charge, Booker resigned.
"At this time, I have decided that I step away from the head coaching position at [CdM] so I can spend more time with my family," Booker said in a statement. "As I made the decision to resign, my focus was on the needs of my family and my desire to be more present with them. I have been involved with volleyball in some capacity (player, coach) for the past 17 years. It has been a tremendous challenge to maintain the delicate balance of career and family and I am looking forward to having more free time during the summer and fall months to spend with them.
"I am proud to have been part of such an outstanding school and I wish this program only the finest in future endeavors."
The search for a coach to replace Booker will start soon.
Hodson said Don Grable, the school's athletic director, told the team that in the next two weeks the school would start the application process. By February, Hodson added that Grable said the school should have a new coach in place.
Booker is the second straight girls' volleyball coach at CdM to stay at the school for a short time and leave because of family reasons. Booker replaced Darryl Gan, who left after three seasons in which he guided the Sea Kings to two section title appearances and three league crowns.
Both Booker and Gan, who have ties to Back Bay rival Newport Harbor, having each played for the Sailors, failed to bring a section title to CdM's storied program. The program last won a section championship eight years ago.
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By Matthew Heimer
Whether you're working on a retirement strategy with a financial adviser or mapping one out on your own, you're almost certainly including one key factor in your calculations: A rate-of-return assumption for your portfolio. That assumption usually involves an average – an educated guess that your holdings will return, say, an average of 9% a year over 30 years.
The problem, of course, is that markets are much more volatile than any long-term average would reflect. (See for reference the annual returns of the S&P 500 over the past 15 years.) And as J.J. Zhang, winner of MarketWatch's World's Next Great Investing Columnist contest, explains in a piece today, the timing of a stock market dip or bull run can have an enormous impact on the size of your savings.
For people approaching retirement right now, Zhang's analysis offers good news and bad news. A baby boomer who started saving in 1981 with a rate-of-return assumption of 9.3%, for example, would have been about 15% behind his "constant growth" nest-egg target by the end of 2010, due to the impact of the 2008-09 crash. (See the chart below.) On the bright side, people toward the end of their savings cycle tend to benefit more from upswings, since they're playing with and benefiting from a bigger pool of assets.


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Westchester >> An armed robber was killed in an exchange of gunfire with a security guard Wednesday during a botched holdup at a marijuana dispensary near the Westin Hotel outside Los Angeles International Airport, police said.
A second suspect escaped during the midday robbery attempt, prompting a temporary shutdown of Century Boulevard, the main artery into LAX. He remains at large.
The shooting erupted at 12:18 a.m. at Nature's Cure Inc., 5300 W. Century Blvd., after the two suspects entered the business just east of the Westin Hotel, Los Angeles police Officer Liliana Preciado said.
In the exchange of gunfire with the dispensary security guard, one of the suspects was shot in the abdomen and died at the scene near Concourse Way and Century Boulevard, Preciado said. His name has not been disclosed.
The security guard was unhurt, but a second person, a female who has not been identified, fell and sustained a head injury during the commotion, she said.
The suspect who escaped is described as a male black wearing a brown baseball cap, beige shirt and dark green or blue pants, Preciado said. He was driving a black BMW 7 series automobile, year unknown, she said.
Century Boulevard between La Cienega Boulevard and Concourse was temporarily closed after the shooting, but was reopened at around 2:30 p.m.


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Title-hungry Red Sox want to repeat history
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For the Red Sox, the quest to become baseball's first repeat World Series champion since 2000 began with a text-message chain that offered frequent reminders of not skipping any step in the process to be the last team standing.
"I'm aware of some of the ongoing text messaging that went on after Game 6 of the World Series and [it] didn't stop," said manager John Farrell. "I think they looked at their situation and our situation as a chance to do something special."
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For the Red Sox, the quest to become baseball's first repeat World Series champion since 2000 began with a text-message chain that offered frequent reminders of not skipping any step in the process to be the last team standing.
"I'm aware of some of the ongoing text messaging that went on after Game 6 of the World Series and [it] didn't stop," said manager John Farrell. "I think they looked at their situation and our situation as a chance to do something special."
So maybe, just maybe, the Red Sox can be that team special enough to repeat.
"It's always nice to have that experience to win the last game that was played in baseball for that season," said righty Jake Peavy. "It's something I'll never forget. At the same time, I think everybody here is ready to turn the page and talk about 2014. It's a new year. That's been a slogan of ours in the text messages we've been exchanging with the guys. 'Hey, let's turn the page. It's a new year. It's 2014, and we haven't done anything.'
"Obviously, some teams in our division have gotten better. We feel like we have a good team, and we're looking forward to hopefully doing the exact same we did in 2013."
You'd be hard-pressed to find even one conversation between the players in Boston's clubhouse this spring that included anything about the memorable October of 2013.
It became clear from the contents of the text messages that such talk would be frowned upon.
"If somebody brings up last year, five guys were texting back, 'Turn the page,'" said catcher David Ross.
The core of last year's team remains mostly intact, though four important players departed in Jacoby Ellsbury, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Ryan Dempster, who is semi-retired, and Stephen Drew, the latter of whom remains a free agent.
With a nice mix of veterans and young players and depth on both the pitching staff and with the position players, the Red Sox have the pieces in place to make another run.
"That was then, this is now," club president/CEO Larry Lucchino said of 2013. "And we are still hungry. Make no mistake, the players, the front office, John [Henry], Tom [Werner] and ownership, we got into this to win and win with some frequency. We are hungry to do it, but we recognize how hard it will be when 29 teams are aiming to knock your head off."
The quest officially starts against the Orioles on Monday afternoon at Camden Yards, when Boston's 2014 edition takes the field for the first time.
The notion that complacency might creep in after the accomplishments of last year is something that is almost laughable to Boston's core veterans.
"That's why you play," said Dustin Pedroia. "I love competing and winning as a team. That's the most enjoyable part for me is seeing the look on the guys' faces when we win and stuff like that. That's what makes it special."
In 2005, the Red Sox didn't really come close to repeating as their lack of pitching depth was exposed in an American League Division Series sweep by the White Sox. Three years later, they were right in the mix for a repeat, but they lost a heartbreaking Game 7 of the AL Championship Series at Tropicana Field.
"I remember that was a huge letdown," Pedroia said. "Really disappointed, shoot, I think we were four or five innings away, winning in the fourth or fifth. You don't want that feeling. Once you win, you want to stay there and be on top all the time. That just gives us something extra to push for to always stay there."
Though the Red Sox should have an advantage with their attitude, pitching is probably going to be the biggest deciding factor in how successful their season is.
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Again, Boston looks strong off the bench with Jonny Gomes, Mike Carp and Ross.
"Any time you come in with the target on your back, it's going to be tough," said Lester. "But we're all ready, we're all prepared. Guys are excited about it. Guys are excited about being world champs and excited about taking the field with a target on our backs this year. We've got a lot of work to do still."
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – StoneRidge Health and Rehab Center, LLC, a long-term care facility located approximately four miles from Little Rock, Ark., violated federal law by terminating an employee in retaliation for making a complaint of racial discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
The EEOC's suit, Civil Action No. 4:10-cv-1414 JMM, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, asserts that StoneRidge fired a housekeeping supervisor because she had complained, among other things, that she found certain comments by her supervisor racist and that she believed a watermelon-eating contest in the workplace had racist overtones. Shortly after she complained, she was discharged for supposedly making "false, defamatory, and malicious statements" about a supervisor.
Retaliation for complaining about discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The agency's lawsuit seeks monetary relief in the form of back pay, compensatory and punitive damages, and an injunction against future discrimination, among other items.
"Fighting retaliation is a priority for the EEOC," said Katharine W. Kores, district director of the EEOC's Memphis District Office, which has jurisdiction over Arkansas, Tennessee, and portions of Mississippi. "Employers cannot terminate an employee for complaining about conduct that the employee believes is racially motivated. To allow an employer to do so would have a chilling effect on all employees."
StoneRidge is a long-term care nursing facility located in College Station, Ark., just outside of Little Rock and is a limited liability company registered in the State of Arkansas.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Coming off of an uplifting overtime victory against nearby Penn Charter on September 12 and a 6-0 drubbing of Little Flower last Monday, the Germantown Friends Tigers charged out and controlled the early minutes of Wednesday's field hockey match. Later in the first half, though, visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy started to balance out the time of possession, and by the closing stages of the contest, the Blue Devils were dominating play much of the time.
SCH also capitalized on several scoring opportunities, taking away a 2-0 victory that raised its record to 4-3 overall. Junior captain Allie Billick and sophomore Iman Floyd-Carroll were the scorers, and in goal sophomore Frankie Reitmeyer made eight saves for the shutout.
After falling in their season opener to Agnes Irwin, the Tigers of Germantown Friends (4-2) had logged four straight wins prior to last Wednesday's setback.
"I think my girls played hard, but not hard enough," said first-year GFS coach Dana White. "We've had games where we've executed beautifully and played with intensity the whole time, but this wasn't one of them. It was interesting to see the momentum shift during the game. It wasn't like someone threw a switch at halftime; it was gradual. Our problem was that a lot of our girls didn't see that until it was too late and [SCH] started to score."
The previous Thursday, rising freshman star Samantha Bruttomesso-Clarke scored once in regulation and once in overtime to help Germantown overcome the Penn Charter Quakers, 2-1. The record books at GFS showed that no Tigers team had beaten PC since the turn of the century.
"It was fantastic to have the girls earn that victory, because they fought very hard for it," White remarked.
The day before Springside Chestnut Hill visited GFS last week, the Blue Devils had beaten another Friends Schools League squad, Friends Central, by a score of 1-0. However, they weren't entirely overjoyed with this outcome, feeling that the amount of time they spent in the scoring circle should've translated into more points on the scoreboard.
However, it was noteworthy that the lone goal came from Floyd-Carroll, who wasn't seeing as much playing time early in the season.
"Iman has really stepped up, and we needed her to because of the injuries we have," explained Meg Cipolloni, who coaches the Blue Devils along with Katie Mersky.
Sophomore superstar Michaela Watson has been unable to play at all this fall, and another SCH tenth-grader, starter Madi Saltzman, sat out with a knee injury last week.
On Wednesday, GFS controlled the ball at the outset, earning the game's first penalty corner just a minute into the action. Bruttomesso-Clarke, the rookie, inserted the ball to senior captain Katharine Cusick on most Germantown corners.
For the first 15 minutes, the Tigers were the aggressors much of the time, with their stretches in the circle interrupted by an occasional rush by the Blue Devils. There were sequences when it seemed impossible that that ball wasn't going in the goal, but Reitmeyer and her defense somehow kept the SCH cage sealed until the rest of the squad steadied themselves.
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GFS had a scoring chance with a minute to go, but on the final corner play of the first period the Tigers fouled, and half ended with a pair of zeroes still on the board.
Springside Chestnut Hill had been picking up steam late in the first stanza, but ultimately that wouldn't mean much if the visitors couldn't penetrate the Tigers' cage.
"At halftime we talked about really getting goal-hungry in the circle," Coach Cipolloni related. "We had a lot of opportunities in our last game at Friends Central, where we had the ball down in their end the majority of the time and we couldn't finish it. We talked about the mids pushing up, and the defense, as well. We put Allie [Billick] up high to be ready when Morgan [Schneer, a senior captain] hit one of her big blasts up the field."
GFS had the first corner opportunity of the second half, about five minutes in, but SCH's Schneer took the ball away from the receiver at the top of the circle. On a Blue Devils corner just two minutes later, they actually got the ball behind Andrews, who had stepped out from the cage, but Tigers' senior Dana Schulman slipped in to lay her stick in front of the goal line for a defensive save.
A ball actually hit the GFS backboard a little later, but SCH had committed a high stick foul during the offensive sequence. The Blue Devils kept up the pressure but Germantown's Andrews foiled one attempt by Kuo with 15 minutes remaining, and another by Billick five minutes later.
Just after this last stop by Andrews, a long ball hit through the midfield by Cusick sent the Tigers up on the attack, but they didn't get very deep in the circle before the rush was repulsed.
The game-winning goal for the visitors went up on the board with eight-and-a-half minutes left to play. Kuo took the ball down the right wing to the edge of the circle and drove it inside. Sophomore Lily Glendinning got a touch on the ball in front of the goal and it deflected over to the left post, where Billick closed in to score.
For several minutes the Tigers attacked, earning two corners as they sought the equalizer, but their two best shots both tracked wide to the left of the cage.
Surviving that assault, SCH went back up on offense as the clock dropped under the three-minute mark. Coming into the top of the circle a little over to the right, Glendinning fired the ball toward Andrews, who was a few steps in front of the goal line. On a kick-save attempt, she didn't get all of the ball as Floyd-Carroll harried her, and when the ball glanced off the keeper's foot, the SCH sophomore knocked it into the cage for the insurance goal with 2:27 left to play.
"I think we opened things up a bit by switching fields and trying to take the ball out wide as much as we could," Cipolloni said afterwards. "Keeping the ball out of the middle also helped keep it away from their number 11 (Cusick), who's one of their strongest players."


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WELL POSEDNESS AND ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS FOR THE STOCHASTIC EQUATIONS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS by Nathan Edward Glatt-Holtz A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (APPLIED MATHEMATICS) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Nathan Edward Glatt-Holtz
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|This work collects three interrelated projects that develop rigorous mathematical tools for the study of the stochastically forced equations of geophysical fluid dynamics and turbulence. Since the presence of persistent random fluctuations are ubiquitous in fluid flow problems, the development of new analytical techniques in this setting are ultimately of paramount practical interest in the pursuit of more accurate models.; The first two projects address the question of well posedness. One work considers the Primitive equations of the ocean. These systems are widely used in numerical studies of geophysical scale fluid flow. We consider a two dimensional model forced by multiplicative noise terms. For the case when the initial data and its vertical gradient take values in L2, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of solutions in a fixed probability space. The proof is based on finite dimensional approximations, anisotropic Sobolev estimates, and weak convergence techniques. The work concludes with a sketch of the physical derivation of the governing equations.; The second project introduces new results for the stochastic Navier-Stokes system on bounded domains in space dimensions two and three. We establish the local existence and uniqueness of pathwise solutions evolving in H1. For the two dimensional case global existence is established without employing moment estimates at fixed times. The proof relies on a pairwise comparison technique facilitated by decompositions into high and low modes to surmount the critical issue of compactness.; In the final chapter we introduce a class of singular perturbation systems in the presence of a small white noise. Modifying the renormalization group procedure developed by Chen, Goldenfeld and Oono, we derive an associated reduced system which we use to construct an approximate solution that separates scales. Rigorous results demonstrating that these approximate solutions remain valid with high probability on large time intervals are established. As a special case we infer new small noise asymptotic results for a class of processes exhibiting a physically motivated cancellation property in the nonlinear term. We next consider some concrete perturbation systems arising in geophysical fluid dynamics and in the study of turbulence. For each system we exhibit the associated renormalization group which is seen to decouple the interactions between the different scales inherent in the original system. The article concludes with a general result concerning slowly varying processes that forms the backbone of the proof of the main theorem. Appendixes collect mostly classical results on the stochastic convolution and further novel small noise asymptotic results.
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"As students move forward, they're going to need to be able to work collaboratively, think critically and communicate with each other," says Cavallo. "So we wanted to provide a classroom that would give them those opportunities throughout the day."
The Yorktown Central School District said research shows that flexible seating options are beneficial in developing 21st-century learning skills. Fornaro says many parents walk into the room and remark that their workplaces look just like the classroom.
"Adults are not sitting in a cubicle with a desk and a chair anymore," says Fornaro. "You find a place to set up your laptop and you get to work. So I think we're providing students with an environment that is going to make them successful in the future."
Fourth-grade teacher Adele Kivel started her own version of flexible seating several years ago when she realized her students did their best work in a comfortable, homey atmosphere. Her classroom is organized into groups of furniture she found at garage sales. There are no desks.
"The children share their ideas with one another much more easily because they are in little groups and they are actually talking to each other," says Kivel. "They're fully engaged."
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The Gospel, Not Guilt, Motivates Radical Christian Giving
This is a well-balanced and helpful word from Tim Keller in his book Ministries of Mercy:
Often books and speakers tell Christians that they should help the needy because they have so much. That is, of course, quite true. Common sense tells us that, if human beings are to live together on the planet, there should be a constant sharing of resources. So when the statistics are brought out to show Americans how much of the world's resources we use, it creates (rightly) a sense of concern for those with less than ourselves.
But this approach is very limited in its motivating power. Ultimately it produces guilt. It says, "How selfish you are to eat steak and drive two cars when the rest of the world is starving!" This creates great emotional conflicts in the hearts of Christians who hear such arguing. We feel guilty, but all sorts of defense mechanisms are engaged. "Can I help it if I was born in this country? How will it really help anyone if I stop driving two cars? Don't I have a right to enjoy the fruits of my labor?" Soon, with an anxious weariness, we turn away from books or speakers who simply make us feel guilty about the needy.
The Bible does not use the guilt-producing motivation, yet it powerfully argues for the ministry of mercy. In 2 Corinthians 8:2-3, Paul tells us that the Macedonian Christians gave generously to the Jerusalem famine victims. He notes that "out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity" (v. 2). The Macedonians were not of a higher social class than the needy in Jerusalem. They apparently were going through terrible trials of their own. What, then, was the dynamic that moved them to give? "Their overflowing joy . . . " (v. 2) and "they gave themselves first to the Lord" (v. 5). It was the Macedonian's response to the self-emptying Lord. Their gifts were a response, not to a ratio of income levels, but to the gift of Christ!


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LAS VEGAS -- Beginning this Wednesday, the best bracket racers from all over the country will be invading The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the second annual K&N Spring Fling Vegas race slated for April 2-6. Last year's event attracted over 400 drag racers competing for big cash prizes each day of the event. The success of the event led promoters Kyle Seipel and Peter Biondo to increase the purse and extend the event one extra day.
The action for the Super Pro and Pro classes will kick off on Wednesday with a free test-n-tune sponsored by Yukon Gear & Axle. Don Davis Race Cars/Racetech Chassis Ultimate Shootout offers the first 96 drivers entered a chance to race for a new car from the sponsors, which will be the highlight of Wednesday. Baldwin Racing Alzheimer Awareness Thursday starts with one time trial followed immediately by eliminations. Silverstate Refrigeration and Maytag teamed up to sponsor Friday and Saturday's races followed by Baldwin Racing's Cancer Awareness Sunday race.
Shane Thompson's Silverstate Refrrigeration also recently announced they would be upping the ante for Friday's race. Instead of the originally announced $10,000 and $5,000 to win for the Super Pro and Pro classes respectively, with Thompson's help, the Friday winner's share of the purse will be $15K and $6K.
All races will be contested at the 'Fling's patented 1,000 Foot Compromise which benefits both eighth- and quarter-mile racers. On Friday night the Sparco Racer Appreciation Party along with the Spring Fling $20K Challenge will take place, with any or all randomly picked 20 drivers picking up $1000 cash with a perfect reaction time. It's all just icing on the cake where the emphasis in on FUN.
Please visit www.bracketraces.com for a complete schedule and for a live video and audio feed of the event sponsored by JEGS and Steve Schmidt Competition Engines. Visit and "like" www.facebook.com/springflingbracketrace to keep up to date with any announcements regarding both the K&N Spring Fling Vegas and Bristol Spring Fling 5 Day events.


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Good afternoon, friends! The sketch arrives late this week, I've had a hectic couple of days... However, not only I love the layout that I'm sharing but I'm also pretty satisfied with my card. Yay!
I pulled out some stamps from WPlus9, and created the custom background with the dogwood blossoms. Anyone remembers how I shared the other day, that I've got a soft spot for dogwoods? Oh yes, BIG time :) Same applies for the butterflies, but I'm sure I'm on the same bandwagon as most of you on that!
I also stamped the fabby background text, on the circle that I die cut with S4-114 Standard Circles LG and S4-293 Lacey Circles Nestabilities®.
I'm entering this card into Our Creative Corner's "Butterflies" challenge.
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Where is the next generation going to find exciting, good-paying jobs? Like as not, they'll be in science, technology, engineering or mathematics — the so-called STEM fields.
That's why corporate partners like AT&T Michigan are getting excited about Michigan Technological University's Mind Trekkers, a science road show designed to captivate youngsters by letting them manipulate the mysteries of science.
AT&T Michigan has awarded Michigan Tech a $20,000 Innovation Grant to sponsor four Mind Trekkers hands-on science shows across northern Michigan in early May.
The free programs are scheduled for:
* Tuesday, May 3, Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District (TBAISD) Career-Tech Center, 880 Parsons Road, Traverse City.
* Wednesday, May 4, Norris Center, Lake Superior State University (LSSU), Sault Ste. Marie.
* Thursday, May 5, Joseph Heirman University Center building, Bay College, Escanaba.
* Friday, May 6, Bay College West, Iron Mountain.
"The name of this contribution says it all," remarked James Murray, president of AT&T Michigan. "At AT&T, innovation means investing in the network, technology and capacity to help people and businesses communicate and thrive. The Michigan Tech Mind Trekkers science road show is all about innovation, education and offering Michigan student an opportunity to gain skills and experiences that will help them succeed. This is an effort we are proud to support."
Mind Trekkers' specialty is demystifying science, exploring its fun side and making science make sense. A charter bus will bring dozens of student volunteers from Michigan Tech in Houghton to the exhibitions in Traverse City, Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba and Iron Mountain. They'll haul with them the makings of liquid nitrogen ice cream, a Van de Graaff generator that makes your hair stand on end and — of course — oobleck, the gooey white liquid that acts like a solid if you jump on it hard enough. And those are just three of nearly 50 different "you try it" activities that Mind Trekkers will set up wherever they go.
The local educational partners who are hosting the events have invited hundreds of area students from fourth through 12th grades. At LSSU and Bay College, undergraduate students and faculty will also be conducting hands-on activities and introducing the participating youngsters to the college opportunities available to them. LSSU will open some of its labs, including its Robotics Lab, its Aquatic Research Laboratory and the adjoining Cloverland Electric Hydro-Electric Plant.
A Great Lakes Mobile Energy Classroom will join the fun, driving from downstate to introduce students to concepts of alternative energy. Engineering students from LSSU will teach the younger students to make wind turbines and solar-powered Lego cars.
National, state and local political leaders will be special guests at the LSSU event. The Michigan Campus Compact and the Michigan College Access Network have joined the financial sponsorship of the program at LSSU, awarding a $12,000 grant that will help area schools transport students to the event. MCC and MCAN will bring the "Know How 2 Go" campaign, designed to inform students about post-high school educational opportunities. Thirteen colleges will be on hand to answer students' questions about curriculum, applications and financial aid.
"The Mind Trekkers event is intended to offer a 360-degree view of STEM — interest elicited, education facilitated and future employment represented," said Shelley Wooley, head of the federally funded Gear Up program at LSSU. Wooley added that more than 100 LSSU students, faculty and staff will be providing demonstrations or support services for the event.
Officials at the TBAISD Career-Tech Center in Traverse City expect more than 1,000 students to participate in its May 3 event.
"The TBAISD Career-Tech Center is extremely excited about teaming up with Michigan Tech and AT&T to give our students in the region an exciting opportunity to learn about science, technology engineering and math," said Patrick Lamb, principal of the Career-Tech Center. "The opportunity to learn in a fun, hands-on setting is vital for challenging today's students and preparing them to compete in a global economy."
At Bay College, Jill Wiese Martin, project director for the college's federally funded Title III Strengthening Institutions program, called relationships with K-12 schools in the STEM areas vital "to grow the next generation of workforce professionals so that, as a nation, we can once again be a leader in science and math. The first step for our children is to be engaged and imagine the possibilities. Mind Trekkers creates the space for everyone to put their hands and heads together, sparking curiosity and imagining the possibilities through exploration, creating the need to know. Then Bay and Michigan Tech and others can work to build the foundations of knowledge and create lifetime learners."
Michigan Tech hopes its AT&T Mind Trekkers project will become a model for a much broader state and national program. Tech's Office of Pre-college Outreach is planning to apply for an informal science education grant from the National Science Foundation to take the project to the next level.
"We are also talking with other corporate sponsors who are interested in bringing Mind Trekkers into rural areas where they have plants and anticipate future needs for skilled workers," said Mind Trekkers Director Steve Patchin.


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Published April 27, 2012
When Subhashni Raj, a Fiji native, joined the Master of Urban Planning program in fall 2011, she was already a seasoned environmental advocate, with experience organizing climate action demonstrations and mobilizing environmental leaders throughout the Pacific Rim.
It's no surprise then, that this Fulbright Scholar has quickly found opportunities to channel that passion here at the School of Architecture and Planning. This past fall, thick in her first-semester studies, she didn't hesitate to hop on a bus down to the nation's capital to join 12,000 others in protesting the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Tar Sands Action rally, which formed a circle three layers deep around the White House, was part of a successful grassroots campaign to convince the Obama administration to reject the permit application for a pipeline that would cut a controversial path through an aquifer in the Nebraska Sandhills.
For the 26-year-old Raj, there was no question she needed to be there. "In what seemed like America showing leadership for the first time on issues related to climate action? Of course I needed to be there. If we win this, then it's history in the making, and for the first time we'll be on the winning side," Raj said, noting that the campaign is far from over. The Canadian company seeking the permit is expected to reapply for a pipeline along an alternate route.
Raj's activism around environmental issues began after a life-changing experience during the summer of 2009 while participating in an environmental leadership development program based in Hawaii. Recalling the vivid evidence of invasive vegetation, rising seawaters and coastline erosion there, Raj says, "Hawaii scared me. It opened me up to the levels of environmental degradation that are actually happening."
She says the program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department to foster environmental stewardship around the globe, "took me out of my comfort zone, from 'getting by on a day-to-day basis' to 'we can actually do something about it.'"
After graduating from Bangalore University that year with degrees in microbiology, chemistry and zoology, she went back to her hometown of Suva City, Fiji, and became closely involved with 350.org, a global grassroots movement focused on climate change, and the organizing force behind the Tar Sands Action. As a volunteer with 350.org, she organized demonstrations in Copenhagen in front of the United Nations Climate Talks as part of the Global Day of Action. She also took on a leadership role with 350 Pacific, training young environmental leaders and supporting citizen action on climate change across the vulnerable Pacific Islands.
Aside from the cooler temperatures of Buffalo, she says she feels right at home here at the School of Architecture and Planning. "They do things here that I believe in. I am working with faculty members that inspire me. I'm learning, and when I'm learning, I'm happy." Raj says a planning degree is "the perfect balance of theory and practice" and will equip her with the skills she needs to push for climate action in Fiji. She's interested in studying the intersection of food systems, water and climate change and would like to help Fiji plan for the inevitable relocation of its coastal settlements.
Looking forward, Raj has no doubt she can make a difference at a global scale – though she knows she can't do it alone. "We have 12,000 people that changed the game through Tar Sands Action. That's what we are striving for – critical mass."


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Locke eyes a win in rubber match against Astros
Pittsburgh's Jeff Locke eyes his fourth consecutive winning decision on Sunday when the Pirates close out a three-game series with the Houston Astros at PNC Park.
Locke has been a pleasant surprise for the Pirates, posting a 3-1 mark with a 3.15 ERA in eight starts. However, he has not received a decision in his last three starts, despite not allowing more than three earned runs in any of the outings.
The 25-year-old left-hander did not factor in the decision of Pittsburgh's 4-3 win on Tuesday, as he allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings. He also struck out six and walked a batter.
Locke has lost both of his starts to the Astros and has pitched to a 7.20 ERA in doing so.
Houston, meanwhile, will counter with righty Lucas Harrell, who is 3-4 with a 5.11 ERA. Harrell lost to Detroit on Tuesday, as the Tigers reached him for five runs and seven hits in five innings.
"I felt great today," Harrell said. "I felt like I threw the ball really well. Things just didn't go my way."
Harrell is 1-0 in two starts versus the Pirates with a 5.91 ERA.
Houston evened this series at a game apiece on Saturday, as Matt Dominguez and J.D. Martinez drove in the deciding runs in the top of the 11th inning to lift the Astros past the Pirates, 4-2.
Jose Altuve and Chris Carter each drove in one run for the Astros, who won for only the second time in their last nine tries. Jose Cisnero (1-0) earned the win after tossing 3 2/3 shutout innings of relief, while Jose Veras picked up his sixth save of the season with a perfect bottom of the 11th.
Mark Melancon blew a 2-1 Pittsburgh lead in the eighth, allowing Carter to tie the game with an RBI single. Bryan Morris (1-2) absorbed the loss after allowing both runs in the 11th as the Pirates had a four-game win streak stopped.
"We don't take anybody lightly," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "This goes to show you. There's guys in this clubhouse who are disappointed we didn't win tonight."
Pittsburgh beat the Astros 12 of the 17 times the teams met a year ago.


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Illini hold on, top Lions
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – D.J. Richardson started slow Thursday but finished with 18 points and hit a pair of key free throws late in Illinois' ugly 64-59 win over Penn State.
The win was the fifth straight for Illinois (20-8, 7-7 Big Ten). But facing a team that hadn't won since late December, it didn't come easy.
Jermaine Marshall's 3-pointer brought Penn State within 62-59 with 5 seconds left. Richardson then sank a pair of free throws that sealed the win.
Penn State (8-18, 0-14) has lost 14 straight. Marshall led the Nittany Lions with 20 points. Travis Ross and Kevin Montminy fouled out late.
On Thursday, every Penn State rally – often accompanied by a cold stretch from Illinois – threatened to undo much of the good of those wins.
Free throws finally sealed the win. The Nittany Lions committed 31 fouls and sent the Illini to the line 36 times. Illinois made 23, including eight by Richardson in nine trips to the line.
On Thursday, though, Penn State showed a little of why they are plagued by losses.
Down 29-20 at the end of a brutal first half, the Nittany Lions went on a 10-2 run to open the second. Eight of those points came from Marshall, the last of them on a 3-pointer with 15:40 to play that pulled Penn State to within 31-30.
Then, with Illinois unable to find the bucket, Penn State coughed up the ball on back-to-back possessions, wasting two chances to pull ahead. Paul made them pay, draining a 3-pointer for a 34-40 lead with 14:04 to play.
Penn State turned the ball over 16 times in all.
Illinois now heads to No. 7 Michigan on Sunday before coming home to face Nebraska next week. Penn State gets a break before trying again for its first conference win Wednesday at home against the Wolverines.


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(FLORIDA CITY, Fla.) — Residents in Florida City, Florida trapped a 12-foot long Burmese python in a barbecue grill on Thursday night.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's venom unit responded to the call from residents and captured the python at around 10 p.m. last night, according to Arnold Piedrahita Jr., public information officer at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
The snake is about 12 feet long, and will be turned over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, according to Piedrahita.
.@MiamiDadeFire #Venom1 team captured 12ft python @FloridaCity last night. Residents trapped it in a bbq grill. pic.twitter.com/8c69U3RIgL
— Arnold Piedrahita Jr (@mdfrpio) July 4, 2014
Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia. The Burmese pythons of South Florida are classified as an invasive species in the area. Due to their large body size, adult Burmese pythons have few predators within Florida except for alligators and humans.
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chasesunrise brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 156 Designs von 45 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
DJ Chasesunrise
DJ Chasesunrise is a new uplifting trance DJ who plays in clubs and festivals around Australia, the pacific and SE Asia. Chase's favourite location to play is on the beach at Sunset infront of large crowds. The name Chasesunrise stems from the imagery of a Cessna Citation (private jet) flying towards the sunrise. This represents going on a journey,flying all night in your own private jet chasing the sun because you have heard the perfect song and dont want the day to end. The music Chase plays is soft beats that raise to a high point and slow down again. The music he plays all links together to make a story. Average BPM for a Chasesunrise track is 128. This is more relaxed that the traditionally hardcore trance DJ's play.
To give you an example of the genre and style of tracks please listen to this track by Chicane.
Target audience is 18 to 35 clubbers and festival goers with high disposable incomes. These Gen Y's and X'ers want everything now and are hedonistic, travelling the world to see their favourite music acts. Friends are more important than family and they are close to both male and females regardless of gender. These 18 to 24's dress with the latest styles and social trends.
A logo that is versatile in use; from stand alone promotional items such as stickers, to being used along side other messages and designs eg. on websites or albums.
Simplistic colours schemes or the ability to alter the logo to monotone is required.
The design must incorporate the text Chase Sunrise. The text can either be in one word "Chasesunrise" or 2 words (capitals are optional).
Do not include the text 'DJ'.
Use of imagery or vectors to represent the DJ would be preferred. However, please do not include a mirror ball in the logo as this is not what Chasesunrise represents.
The logo should include the sun, sunset or sunrise in some form to be consistant with Chasesunrise's look and feel. This can be abstract or as realistic as your concept requires. Incorporating a private jet within the design is optional.
The logo must have an international feel to it and easily recognisable.
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Changes in Workspace Email Pricing
As of October 1, 2014, the list price for GoDaddy's email plans will be increasing. We thought you'd like to know why we are making this change.
Since last year, we've been making significant investments to improve things customers told us were most important to them, including:
- Improved reliability — We've increased email reliability to 99.95 percent. That means downtime incidents are few and far between, so your email is running whenever you need it.
- Faster — We've doubled email server capacity to increase the speed at which messages are delivered.
- Better spam protection — We've improved filtering to reduce the unwanted clutter in your inbox. As a result, spam-related customer service calls have decreased by more than 50 percent.
Even with this price increase, GoDaddy's Workspace email costs 25-percent less than the per-mailbox price most competitors charge. And our 24/7 customer support and commitment to security are unrivaled.
GoDaddy remains committed to providing you with the best value possible — great business email with unrivaled support at very competitive pricing. We hope the investments we're making in your email service are improving that value.


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A blonde party girl who is the latest self-described mistress to speak out about an alleged tryst with Tiger Woods apologized to the married golfer's wife today and called the fling a mistake.
"I am deeply sorry, I wish I could take it back," Cori Rist told the "Today" show.
In an interview on the "Today" show Monday, the 31-year-old club-going mother of one said the world's No. 1 golfer led her on about a possible future together and confessed to her that his five-year marriage to model Elin Nordegren was crumbling.
"[He said] his marriage was on the rocks and there was a baby on the way, and he'd have to stick it out for now," Tiger reportedly told Rist.
The fresh allegations came a day after the pro athlete was dropped by his first major sponsor, Accenture, who ended their six-year relationship with the pitchman in the wake of the burgeoning sex scandal.
Rist, claiming she was overcome by guilt, said she decided to end the six-month relationship that began when she was introduced to the famed athlete at a nightclub in 2006. She said she believed at the time she was on the only other woman and that she was "special."
"I can't imagine the pain that she's feeling right now," Rist said about Tiger's wife, Elin. "I was being selfish. ... I was caught up in it ... I didn't think about her at that time."
She said she chose to speak out to deny rumors she was a paid escort and to set an example for her young son.
"I'm very ashamed of this, and I have to set an example for my son," she said through tears. "I made a mistake and these are the consequences."
The 33-year-old golfer admitted infidelity after a bevy of blondes and brunettes came forward alleging affairs with the father of two in the wake of his Nov. 27 car accident. He also said he is taking a leave of absence from golf.
"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hut that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness," Woods wrote on his website last week.
On Sunday, management consulting firm Accenture became the first big-name sponsor to severe ties with Woods, ending a six-year relationship with the athlete on Sunday.
"After careful consideration and analysis, the company has determined that he is no longer the right representative for its advertising," Accenture said on its website Sunday.


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by Paula M. Riley
On April 14, Chestnut Hill businesses will begin a new promotion called Second Sundays.
On the second Sunday of the month, Chestnut Hill retailers and restaurants will offer delicious menus and great promotions. Each month, the Avenue will be alive with musicians, performers and other attractions for residents and visitors alike.
A collaboration between the Chestnut Hill Business Association and Business Improvement District, Second Sundays will offer visitors many reasons to enjoy the ambiance of Chestnut Hill.
"Sunday's are made for delicious brunches, relaxing walks with family and friends, shopping and enjoying the beautiful spring weather," said Seth Shapiro, president of the BID "Come for our wide variety of shops, dine at one of our exceptional restaurants, and visit the Morris Arboretum or play in the park. Enjoy life as it's meant to be, in Chestnut Hill."
Because it is spring, the first push for Second Sundays will be brunch. Chestnut Hill offers a lot of choices. There's the outdoor patio at Chestnut 7, where kids eat for free on Sundays or Chestnut Hill Grill & Sidewalk Café. The Grill hosts the best people watching spot on the Avenue and offers a very reasonably priced brunch menu that includes brunch items along with the complete lunch menu.
Cake's Sunday Brunch in its bright airy atrium on East Highland Avenue features items not available on the menu during the week. Diners can select from an a la carte menu and enjoy entrees such as Belgian buttermilk waffles, brioche French toast, crab cake BLT, Norwegian-style Scottish smoked salmon and Eggs Madame ®C two poached eggs with honey ham and melted Swiss cheese atop a half croissant with saffron hollandaise sauce and home fries.
Just up the Avenue, Tavern on the Hill offers Tavern French Toast with fresh berries and Tavern omelet with asparagus and crab and goat cheese. Drinks specials include $5 Mimosas and Bloody Marys.
After breakfast, there's shopping. Voted the Best Main Street Shopping in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Magazine, the Chestnut Hill businesses offer multiple promotions and discounts.
On the top of the list of business promotions is The Hill Company and Antique Gallery. The Hill Company offers 15 percent on its entire stock of accessories. Choose from a huge selection of birdbaths, fountains, prints, lamps, vases, spring and summer silk flowers, wreathes, wall décor, candles, weather vanes, and a wide selection of acrylic tableware, placements and napkins for outdoor dining.
The Antique Gallery is giving free appraisals and a 20 percent discount on any purchases. Many other merchants are joining the Second Sunday celebration. Robertson's Flowers has a special sale on spring blooming plants, A Taste of Olive offers product samplings and will feature balsamic glazes on pound cake, balsamic vinegar over brownies, truffle products and other goodies.
Each Second Sunday, Weavers Way will provide demos of local and new products, cheeses and more and Oxford Circus gives 10 percent off one item with a $75 purchase.
Second Sunday wouldn't be complete without experiencing the art and beauty of the area. Gravers Lane Gallery, always pleasing to the eye, hosts "Notes & Observations" an exhibition of the jewelry of Ken Bova and works by local artist Leslie Pontz. Bova's hand-fabricated jewelry is an interesting mix of torched fired enamel, high carat gold and everyday items such as candy wrappers. The Stagecrafters theater presents Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" ®C winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ®C on April 14 at 2 p.m.
Woodmere Art Museum stimulates all the senses with its wonderful galleries. On Second Sunday, pianist Andrew Hsu performs Debussy at Woodmere from 3 to 4:30 p.m. For a naturalistic experience, walk off that brunch at the Morris Arboretum on Northwestern Avenue. Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, the 92-acre garden features the Big Bugs exhibit, huge sculptures made of natural elements in the shape of ants, ladybugs, praying mantises and more are scattered about the gardens.
Your spring cleaning can be taken care of at Northwestern Stables, which is hosting a Horse and Car Wash from 9 to noon.
Whether for shopping, strolling, dining, people watching or enjoying the beauty of the area, don't miss Second Sunday in Chestnut Hill.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT's postseason run came to an end following a 5-0 loss to host Middlebury College in the second round of the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Tournament on Saturday. The Engineers closed their campaign with a final record of 16-6.
The Panthers established a 3-0 lead following doubles play. Eric Beren and Ken Van Tilburg fell by a margin of 8-2 in the top spot as Peden Nichols and Jonathan Farm were edged out, 9-7. The final doubles match saw Andrew Lee and Chris Mason of Middlebury earn a 9-8 (8) win in a tie-breaker over Kevin Pang and David Iba.
Andrew Thomson defeated Pang, 6-1, 6-1, in the No. 3 singles slot. Andrew Peters defeated Nichols by the same score in the No. 4 position to clinch the match.
MIT vs. Middlebury College
Final Score: Middlebury 5, MIT 0
1. Filip Marinkovic/Andrew Thomson (Midd) def. Eric Beren/Ken Van Tilburg (MIT), 8-2
2. Andrew Lee/Chris Mason (Midd) def. Kevin Pang/David Iba (MIT), 9-8 (9)
3. Rich Bonfiglio/Andrew Peters (Midd) def. Peden Nichols/Jonathan Farm (MIT), 9-7
1. Eric Beren (MIT) vs. Andrew Lee, 7-6 (3), 1-0 (Halted)
2. Filip Marinkovic (Midd) vs. Ken Van Tilburg (MIT), 6-2, 5-1 (Halted)
3. Andrew Thomson (Midd) def. Kevin Pang (MIT), 6-1, 6-1
4. Andrew Peters (Midd) def. Peden Nichols (MIT), 6-1, 6-1
5. Ryan Castonia (MIT) vs. Rich Bonfiglio (Midd), DNP
6. David Iba (MIT) vs. Peter O'Dell (Midd), DNP