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Dude, I'm staying up half the night with my two awake kids, one of whom is VOMITING BILE! Because a nasty, nasty stomach virus has been making the rounds in our house. (I lost six pounds in three days LIKE MAGIC! My husband is STILL shaky and dehydrated! Ahh, life's rich pageant… love you, just LOVE you.)
Meanwhile, you all — to say nothing of FJ and SM specifically, who've heroically handled the vast majority of the moderating on these monster threads — have been dealing with nasty bile-spewing of a different sort. And I'm guessing we all (and by that I mean you, if you're a sincere regular reader or lurker who's been fighting the good fight) need three weeks paid time off at a magnificent resort, retreat center or spa.
Since that's not in our budget this year, I'm asking you, please please please, to turn this thread into something that I hope will be nearly as restorative. I'd like us collectively to cover all of the following before the thread dies.
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-Comfort food recipes
-Phony and funny but plausible-sounding dissertation titles
-Deliberately bad poetry
(And yes, you may add your own requests to this list, so long as they are all SUPER FLUFFY, like, Snuggle-fabric-softener-bear funny; and not things like "I'd like to hear someone go on at length about how sad they feel to think that men aren't automatically, as a class, given 100 percent of the trust and goodwill of women, as a class.")
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Eye tracking and brain tracking simulation technologies feature in a new behavioural laboratory launched by Monash University to promote cross platform research.
The laboratory features video monitoring equipment with eye-tracking capabilities, a suite of online survey software packages, a secure network operating system, eight self-contained, sound proofed cubicles and 30 workstations.
In the best Minority Report tradition, at least one focus of the lab will be marketing. "Now that our researchers have access to the technology, it will open up the possible areas of research that can be undertaken here at Monash," said Professor Harmen Oppewal, Department of Marketing.
There will also be opportunities for the laboratory to be used by the private sector and government for customised research projects.
Areas of study will include information processing, decision-making, consumer emotions, online shopping behaviour, brand and pricing effects, emotional intelligence, group decision making, leadership and negotiation behaviour. Initial studies already underway concern attitudes towards gambling advertisements, consumer friendly medical reports, consumer grocery shopping, and a leadership and team simulation of climbing Mt Everest, to name a few.
"The new behavioural Laboratory will enable our researchers and students to study such areas as consumer emotions, online shopping behaviour, brand and pricing effects, group decision making and leadership and negotiation behaviour," Professor Oppewal added. ®
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Training will begin in Queensland in April 2013. Troops will train using Australia's second Shadow 200 system which was delivered 12 months ahead of schedule in April 2012.
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The US Army and Marines first used the system in Iraq and have been using it operationally in Afghanistan. Other nations such as Sweden and Italy are also procuring the Shadow 200 system.
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An appeals court has denied Attorney General Pam Bondi's request to allow the state Supreme Court to review a ruling she says limits her ability to fight foreclosure fraud. Because of this decision, seven pending cases are now threatened, Bondi said Thursday.
In December, the state's 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that Bondi does not have the authority to investigate a law firm for alleged fraud under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act because attorneys' work on behalf of lenders did not constitute trade or commerce. She asked the court to certify that its decision in the Law Offices of David Stern, P.A. v. State of Florida case passes upon a question of great public importance so that she could appeal to the Supreme Court.


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Due to illness, South African-born British tenor Colin Lee has withdrawn from the role of Rodrigo for the performance of La donna del lago on 17 May. The role will be sung by Michael Spyres.
Michael Spyres has previously sung the role of Rodrigo at La Scala, Milan, in 2011. His other recent roles include Hoffmann in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Barcelona, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola in Bologna and Masaniello in La Muette de Portici for the Opéra-Comique, Paris. He will also sing the role at Covent Garden on the 7, 11 June as originally scheduled.
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Repealing the state's ban on happy hours would be economically and socially detrimental and would not substantially protect restaurants from losing business to casinos, says a report by alcohol regulators.
Some lawmakers had floated the idea of rolling back the restriction as a concession to liquor license holders, who have opposed a provision in the 2011 Gaming Act that allows casinos to serve free alcoholic drinks in their gaming areas.
But the report, issued Thursday by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, found that many restaurant owners feared the changes would create a "race to the bottom," in which establishments would try to undercut each other's prices to the extent that their business models would no longer be viable.
"It was kind of this false premise that if you allowed restaurants to have happy hours it would level the playing field [with casinos]," Massachusetts Restaurant Association president Stephen Clark said in an interview Friday. "But restaurants can't subsidize free drinks like casinos."
The ABCC has banned businesses with liquor licenses from offering lower-priced drinks during happy hours since 1984, after a woman in Braintree was killed by a drunk driver who had consumed seven beers at a happy hour event.
Treasurer Steven Grossman, whose office oversees the ABCC, said the happy hour ban is an important factor in upholding the state's reputation and protecting its citizens.
"I think it has served us well, and I think it is a very important public safety issue," he said in a telephone interview Friday. "I am fully supportive of [the report's] conclusions."
Offering free drinks is a common practice among gambling establishments, which make most of their profits from the games they run and can therefore afford to offer drinks and other services as perks for customers, the report stated.
The Gaming Act provision specifies that free alcoholic beverages can only be served on a casino's gaming floor and not in restaurants or hotels that may be attached to the casinos.
"ABCC still has oversight at casinos," Grossman said. "Casinos still have to serve in a responsible way."
Restaurant owners know that any time a new source of entertainment enters the area they must find ways to make up for the business they will inevitably lose, Clark said.
"From the very beginning, we wanted casinos to play by the same rules as restaurants," he said. "But happy hours would create a race to the bottom and would actually hurt the industry."
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Cyclops. Jean Grey. Storm... They are the children of the atom, homo superior, the next link in the chain of evolution. Each was born with a unique genetic mutation, which at puberty manifested itself in extraordinary powers: Cyclops' eyes release an energy beam that can rip holes through mountains; Jean Grey's strength is both telekinetic and telepathic; and Storm can manipulate all forms of weather. In a world increasingly filled with hatred and prejudiced, they're scientific oddities... freaks of nature... outcasts who are feared and loathed by those who cannot accept their differences.
Their detractors include U.S. Senator Robert Kelly, a McCarthyesque politico whose legislation is designed to "expose the dangers" of mutants. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, the world's most powerful telepath, these "gifted" students have learned to control and direct their powers for the greater good of mankind. Xavier welcomes two newcomers: Logan/Wolverine, a solitary fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, retractable adamantium claws and an animal-like fury; and Rogue, an alienated teenage girl who can absorb the powers and memories of anyone she touches. As Wolverine and Rogue adjust to life among their "kind," the X-Men find themselves locked in a physical and philosophical battle with the Professor's former colleague and friend, Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a. Magneto.
One of the world's most powerful mutants, Magneto has turned his back on society, believing that humans and mutants can never coexist, and that mutants are the rightful heirs to the future. He and his evil Brotherhood--the mammoth Sabretooth, the metamorph Mystique and the near-sighted, far jumping Toad--will stop at nothing to ensure that future, even if it threatens the very existence of mankind... or mutantkind.
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WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University baseball team scored its season-high in runs and had their largest margin of victory today as the Judges scored 12 runs in their final four at-bats to defeat visiting Johnson and Wales (R.I.) University, 15-3, on Stein Diamond. With the win, the Judges move to 18-12, while the Wildcats fall to 16-11-1.
In addition to their season-high in hits, Brandeis matched their second-highest hit total of the season with 14. The Judges also drew nine walks and took advantage of six JWU errors to score eight unearned runs, more than half of their total. The 13-run margin of victory was Brandeis's largest since 2008.
Senior CF Tony Deshler (Pepperell, Mass./Lawrence Acad.) had a tremendous day at the plate for the Judges out of the leadoff spot. He went 3-for-5 with a walk, three RBI, a career-high four runs scored and a home run. His two-run blast to left-center field in the sixth inning was his second of the season and the 11th of his career.
Classmate Eric Rosenberg (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) also had three hits in the contest, going 3-for-5 with a double and three RBI. Rosenberg had a two-run double in the first and now leads the team with 11 two-baggers and 29 RBI on the campaign. Rookie SS Dom Schwartz (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) had three hits, including two doubles, and scored twice, while senior DH/3B Pat Nicholson (E. Walpole, Mass./Walpole) was 2-for-4 with two RBI, two runs scored and a towering home run in the eighth inning, the first of his campaign and second of his career.
All this offense powered a fine performance on the mound by sophomore lefty Mike Swerdloff (Scarsdale, N.Y./Ardsley). Swerdloff tossed a career-high 8.1 innings, scattering nine hits and striking out six, while walking none. He allowed Johnson and Wales three runs on five hits in the second inning, but gave up just four hits the rest of the way, throwing 79 of his 104 pitches for strikes. Swerdloff improved to 3-3 on the season with the win.
Johnson and Wales junior catcher Joe Coppola (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) led the Wildcats with three hits in four at-bats, including an RBI single in the second. Sophomore DH/P Pete Rosa (Ambler, Pa./Germantown Acad.) also had two hits, along with a run scored and a stolen base. JWU did not have any extra-base hits. Sophomore Aaron Fenstermacher (Dixfield, Maine/Dirigo) suffered the loss with 2.2 innings of relief in which he gave up four runs (two earned) on seven hits. He was the lone JWU pitcher who did not surrender a walk and had one strikeout. Rookie starter Remy Cohen (Atlantic Highlands, N.J./Christian Brothers) went three innings and gave up four hits and three earned run, walking five and fanning one.
Brandeis hits the road on Saturday at 1 p.m. against Western New England College, the No. 2 team in New England, while Johnson and Wales takes on in-state rival Rhode Island College tomorrow at 3 p.m.


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HISP 680 Preservation Economics
This course focuses on the preservation professional and the increasing demand that he/she understands economic issues related to historic preservation, and is able to provide input, guidance and possible solutions for these issues. The course explores how economics impacts historic preservation and economic development, while introducing the student to a range of basic economic and preservation issues, available tools and various methods of responding to these economic issues. Emphasis is on refining the student's "economic thinking" through the introduction of decision-making considerations. To that end, HISP680 will present and discuss material related to community economic development, adaptive reuse, tax credit programs, project finance, and land use. Lectures and class discussions will include current markets, real estate development, state and federal tax incentives (tax credits, etc.), financing methods, funding sources for preservation and the impact of changing economic policies on preservation efforts.
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This course introduces students to a range of economic theories, methods, and issues that must be considered in the practice of historic preservation. Case studies related to community economic develop-ment, adaptive reuse, tax credit programs, project finance, and land use will be presented in this course.
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DURHAM — Pam and Joe Stieglitz peruse the over 100 varieties of poinsettias at the University of New Hampshire every year.
This year, they were blowing the red, white, pink, and "glittered" poinsettias looking for four to take home.
The Seventh Annual Poinsettia Trials Open House kicked off Thursday opening the doors of the UNH Macfarlane Greenhouses and Thompson School Horticultural Facility for visitors looking to purchase or just appreciate the thousands of signature winter plants.
"We come every year to this and the Evergreen Fair," Pam said. "It's a good Thursday to start the holidays."
Having visited from their home in Lee over the years, the Stieglitz's like to find something a little different when they attend.
"We change it up every year," Joe said, though Pam admitted they had some favorite varieties.
The selection is cared for all semester long by students in the ornamental course, a two-year associate degree program at the Thompson School of Applied Science.
The students take the cuts of plants delivered during the summer months and care for them throughout their course, transplanting them into pots and caring for them as they grow.
"We do little things to them here and there," Kevin Hardman, said.
Hardman and classmate Melissa Dnaou, were meticulously folding the edges of the shiny green, red and gold layers of foil that would be wrapped around each potted plant.
In another room, a handful of breeders bring their hundreds of trial plants and place them in the show for judging by the public, which is how the show originated, instructor Chris Robarge, said.
Bob Lord, a UNH alumnus, and his wife, Karen, of Manchester, were carefully looking over the many varieties filling out on of those very surveys to judge the hundreds of plants before them while enjoying their first visit to the open house.
"We're trying to get a sense of what's good," Bob.
He said he heard from a staff member of the open house that despite all the work and care put into each of the plants, 90 percent of what's sold boast the traditional red color.
Tables of Jubilee Pink, Happy Christmas Red, Pandora Red, Premium Polar White, and Brave Bright Red made choosing a favorite breed difficult.
Karen, who liked the more unusual patterns and colors said she liked that some of the plants looked like they could be decorations beyond Christmas.
As the event is also intended to encourage research and education on the plants, signs dispelling some common myths were also placed in the greenhouses. The most notable fact? The plants are not poisonous to humans or even pets contrary to popular thought.
The event, which is free to the public, will continue Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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DURHAM — Pam and Joe Stieglitz peruse the over 100 varieties of poinsettias at the University of New Hampshire every year.


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Also, if you own a foreign bank account, securities account, etc. and the value of these accounts exceed more than $10,000, than this needs to be reported, both to the IRS and to the Department of Treasury. The reporting to the IRS is included with your tax return and the reporting to the Department of Treasury is on a separate form that is due by June 30 of each year with no extensions and it must be received by that date, not postmarked.
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Lovely shots. I've noticed an unusual abundance of fiddlenecks up here in Gilroy, too, many of them where I'd usually expect poppies. I would have thought poppies would have been the winner after an arid winter, but I enjoy the blooms regardless. :)
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you sit at home this Memorial Day and do your very best to not overcook the hamburgers. Oh, but you will. You'll move it around all over the grill, and press the juices out of it and start a grease fire and soon you'll be left with nothing more than a hockey puck you'll have to douse in ketchup to mask your wrenching failure. Mmmmm… burned meat. LET'S GO!
BAND OF BROTHERS MARATHON – ALL DAY (SpikeTV) Pay your respects this Memorial Day to those who gave their lives for the country by plopping down on the couch and letting the epic HBO miniseries devastate you. By the time you're finished with it, you'll have to come to grips with the fact that your grandpa was killing Nazis and saving the world at 19, while you are 34 and still living at home, and you had a bad day the other day because you realized your iPad isn't compatible with Flash. Tends to make a man feel inadequate. ANTICIPATION: GUILT!
THE BACHELORETTE – 8PM (ABC) On this two-hour(!) episode, Ali has car trouble during a date. Car trouble? Well, why doesn't she just do that thing where you stick your leg out in the road and kinda pull your skirt up a bit to attract seedy truck drivers? I've never once seen a woman do this on the road, and oh how I wish I stumbled upon it one day. I'd change all your tires for that, and I don't even know how to change a tire. ANTICIPATION: SEXY!
TRUE BEAUTY – 10PM (CBS) This apparent "Project Runway" knockoff premieres tonight over at Eye. The contestants are asked to craft a signature Vegas look. I got it! On the side of the road, trying to pick up seedy truckers by flashing some leg! You see how everything connects? ANTICIPATION: CHEESY!
DEADLIEST CATCH – 10PM (Discovery Channel) Tonight, one of the boats runs aground. I guess this is a bad thing. But really, there's nothing THAT bad about a boat running aground. Oh no! We're on land! And not in the middle of the ocean during a deadly Alaskan typhoon storm! We might be able to walk to the 7-11 and get some pork cracklins! GAHHHHHH! ANTICIPATION: CRABBY!
FOOTLOOSE – 8PM (CMT) It's the movie that's done more damage to organized religion than any other. Forget Bill Maher. One look at John Lithgow not letting those poor kids dance, and you too will become a lapsed Baptist. ANTICIPATION: EVERYBODY CUT LOOSE!


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NEW CONCORD, OHIO, October 9, 2012 - The Muskingum University football team will host John Carroll University as part of Muskingum's 91st annual Homecoming celebration on Saturday in McConagha Stadium. Game time is slated for 1:30 p.m. [Inside the Huddle with Coach Al Logan]
The game will be broadcast live on WMCO 90.7 FM and simulcast on the Muskie Sports Network located on the Muskingum athletic web site beginning with the pregame show at 1:15 p.m.
At halftime, Muskingum will honor its newest members of the Athletic Hall of Fame - Doug Morgan (football/1990), Laurie Deal (women's basketball/1993), Ashley Layman Bennett (volleyball/2002) and Rex Hoon (special category/1948).
The Muskies (1-4, 1-3) enter the game after dropping a 23-13 contest at 25th-ranked Otterbein University. Muskingum has opened the year with three games against opponents ranked in the top 25 and one opponent which received votes in the national poll.
John Carroll (3-2, 2-2) enters the outing after beating Marietta College, 61-14. The Blue Streaks ended the game with 641 yards of total offense and were a perfect 9-for-9 in the red zone.
The Muskie offense, which is averaging 17.4 points and 235.2 yards per game, is led by sophomore quarterback Alex Meredith and freshman signal caller C.J. Snider.
Meredith has thrown for 433 yards and three touchdowns and has added 112 yards on the ground, with two scores. Snider is coming off a career-best 96-yard rushing performance with one touchdown. He also has thrown for 79 yards on the year.
In the Muskie backfield will be junior running back Anthony Frye, who has rumbled for 120 yards, and junior back Shane Dotson, who has added 113 yards and one touchdown.
The receivers are paced by junior James Washington and tight end Wes Rataiczak. Washington, who ranks 10th all-time at Muskingum with 1,123 receiving yards, has hauled in 15 receptions this season for 266 yards and three touchdowns. He is just one receiving yard shy of ninth place all-time at Muskingum. Rataiczak has caught four passes for 60 yards and one score.
Muskingum's defense ranks fifth in the league in total defense (309.4 ypg) and sixth in scoring defense (25.4 ppg). The hard-hitting unit is led by junior linebacker Erik Hall and freshman linebacker Chaney Fulton.
Hall ranks 16th in the OAC averaging 6.4 tackles per game, while Fulton ranks 18th averaging 6.2 stops per game.
Also aiding the squad is senior lineman Steve Stooksbury who has logged 20 tackles and junior defensive back Tristan Heath who leads the unit with two interceptions.
Muskingum special teams are paced by senior punter Danny Snively and junior kicker Caleb Carpenter. Snively ranks second in the OAC averaging 39.1 yards per punt with eight punts inside the 20. Carpenter is 3-for-3 on field goal attempts, with a season long of 36 yards.
Sophomore quarterback Mark Myers leads the John Carroll offense which is averaging 465.6 yards and 34.6 points per game. The Blue Streaks rank fourth in the nation in passing offense (351.2 pypg) and 25th in total offense. Myers has thrown for 1,367 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Joining Myers in the backfield is the senior running back tandem of DaQuan Grobsmith and Sean Kuenzig. Grobsmith has rushed for 294 yards and four touchdowns and Kuenzig has added 150 rushing yards and four scores.
The receivers are led by senior Lane Robilotto and junior Alex Kline. Robilotto leads the league averaging 103 receiving yards per outing. He has snared four touchdowns. Kline has notched 20 receptions for 340 yards and three scores.
The Blue Streak defense, which is allowing 16 points and 254.2 yards per contest, is led by the sophomore trio of Kevin Cope, Jimmy King and Frank Pines.
Cope has recorded 46 stops with seven tackles for loss, while King has garnered 39 tackles. Pines has a team-best four sacks.
John Carroll's special teams are paced by Robilotto and sophomore kicker Kresimir Ivkovic and senior kicker Brad Marchese.
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Forget What You've Heard! 'MacGruber' Is HILARIOUS & You Need To See It!
Girls, if you can sit through the movie's 100 minutes of explosions and crazy filthy jokes, you'll earn MAJOR points with your boyfriends!
Make no mistake about it — MacGruber earns its R-rating. The blood splatter is plentiful, the dialogue is unimaginably crude, and if you have any moral objection to a grown man parading around pantsless with a stalk of celery wedged up his butt, then God help you. As movies based on SNL sketches tend to be either hit (Wayne's World) or miss (The Ladies' Man), I decided to go into MacGruber with low expectations — and boy was I pleased. This movie is awesome.
For those unfamiliar with MacGruber, the movie is based on the popular Saturday Night Live sketch about a special operations agent named MacGruber (Will Forte) who finds new ways to diffuse bombs (or fail to do so) using every day household items. If it sounds a lot like MacGyver… well, that's because it's supposed to.
Along with his trusty sidekick Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig), MacGruber is joined on the big screen by Lt. Dixon Piper (a surprisingly well-timed Ryan Phillippe) in a deadly mission to stop the evil Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer.) Kristen's awkward quirkiness is in full force and is responsible for most of the movie's non-MacGruber laughs.
But the beauty of MacGruber's humor is that it doesn't rely on the same one-liners and played out scenarios that keep us laughing week after week on SNL. There's really only one scene that finds Vicki spouting her frantic catchphrases ("You got it, MacGruber!" etc.) while the rest of the movie introduces us to a different side of MacGruber, one that's equal parts perverted and hysterical. Will seriously out-does himself in this one.
Other MacGruber highlights include a hilarious performance from SNL vet Maya Rudolph as MacGruber's dead (yet still sexually ravenous) wife, plus ridiculous cameos from WWE superstars. Oh, that's another way you can earn brownie points with your boyfriends — when the WWE guys appear on screen during the team-assembling montage, pretend you know who they are. Just keep shouting out "Chris Jericho" and "Big Show" until you eventually land on the right one. Your man will immediately get over his commitment issues, guaranteed.
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Expect a quarterback battle of panache vs. poise to figure prominently in the inaugural Class 6A battle Friday for Minnesota high school football supremacy.
Zach Creighton of Lakeville North is the one with flash. The Panthers' best athlete led his team into the finals in his first year as starting quarterback. Look for his passes or runs to be high-risk, game-breaker-type plays, as they have been much of the season.
Grant Shaeffer of Eden Prairie is the steady one. His role is to mostly hand off the ball to stellar running backs, but linemen say his leadership gives the team confidence. His competitiveness is also known to ramp up in big moments, even if he's not compiling gaudy statistics.
The two seniors lead two teams vying for the showcase championship of the Prep Bowl, seven games held Friday and Saturday at the Metrodome.
Trying to catch Zach Creighton is like trying to catch a fly with tweezers.
The Lakeville North senior quarterback is the embodiment of energy when he has the ball in his hands. Impossible escapes, electrifying runs, remarkable throws -- they're all part of Creighton's game.
"I know I'm a high-risk, high-reward kind of player," Creighton admitted. "That's always been the way I've played. I'm just trying to use my abilities to make a play."
In his only year as a starter at quarterback, Creighton has put his stamp on the position -- not a small feat, considering he replaced Trey Heid, who was the Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year in 2011.
Too talented to sit on the bench -- "Easily the best athlete on our team," coach Brian Vossen said earlier this season -- Creighton started at safety in his sophomore and junior seasons and still sees regular playing time on defense.
"I've played quarterback all my life until last year," he said. "I knew Trey was the senior and deserved the reins, but playing quarterback is my love. I was looking forward to my senior year so much."
He's made the most of his opportunity, passing for nearly 1,500 yards and rushing for more than 800. He was named the South Suburban Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
Creighton knows his Tasmanian Devil-style of play comes with a downside. He threw four interceptions in the Panthers' only loss of the season, 10-6 to Prior Lake.
No matter. His style is not about to change now.
"I think I've earned the coaches' trust and they don't question me, even if I make a mistake," he said. "I consider myself a playmaker, and they've said they never want to take away a playmaker's ability to make plays."
In his football fantasies, Eden Prairie quarterback Grant Shaeffer leads his Eagles to state titles by throwing for substantial yardage and a few touchdowns. After all, what kid grows up hoping to hand off his way to glory?
The idea draws a laugh from Shaeffer. But he takes the less-glamorous role of game manager seriously. Some of the Eagles' past championships were won with the arms of quarterbacks. Defeating Lakeville North on Friday for the Eagles' second consecutive state title and eighth overall will depend on Shaeffer's poise rather than production.
"You've got to have the mindset that you're going to lead the offense and that's the main job out there," Shaeffer said. "You're not going to throw [for] 250 yards and four touchdowns. You know that going in, and you've just got to be a leader out there."
In 10 starts this season, Shaeffer completed 23 of 39 passes for 295 yards, seven touchdowns and three interceptions. His longest pass went for 38 yards. He added 193 yards rushing and five touchdowns.
A defensive back as a sophomore, Shaeffer impressed Eagles coach Mike Grant with his calm yet competitive nature on the basketball court.
"Whatever confidence thing an offense has starts with the quarterback," Grant said. "Some of our linemen told me, 'We're the most confident when he's on the field.'"
Grant learned that lesson the hard way. He moved Shaeffer to defensive back this season to try other players under center and the Eagles lost twice.
"We kind of said, 'How stupid are we if we've got the state championship quarterback sitting there and we don't put him back?'" Grant said. "He doesn't have the rocket arm, but all he does is win."
As coach Andy Rostberg made his way through town this week, a stream of well-wishers and back-slappers meandered over, offering encouragement and congratulations.
"You can't go anywhere without someone wanting to stop on the street and visit," Rostberg said.
Which is just the way he likes it.
Rostberg was the quarterback and his father, Grady, the coach of the Tigers' state championship teams in 1983 and 1984. He's seen first-hand how important football is to this community of 14,000, an hour west of the Twin Cities.
"There's nothing like it," he said. "It's one night a week. On Friday, you go to the game with your family. It's a big deal. The whole community gets involved."
While football has always been woven into the fabric of the community, it's been particularly notable this season. The undefeated Tigers are within a game of the school's fourth state championship and first since 1998.
"It's such an exciting tradition," senior linebacker Shaun Schindler said. "The team, the coaches, the parents, the whole town. There are so many people to play for."
The most gratifying part, Rostberg said, is what he sees around town.
"You drive around and in every backyard, you see kids playing football or playing catch with their dads," he said. "The boys, they look up to the older boys and want to be like them. I know I did."
Rochester Lourdes' 2012 postseason experience is a prime example of the value of seniors.
There was no worry, no sense of desperation last Saturday when the No. 1-ranked Eagles trailed Annandale 14-0 in the first half of the Class 3A semifinals. It was the first time they had been behind all season. There was plenty of time to correct the situation.
They did, rallying for a 20-16 victory and a chance to win their second Class 3A title in three years. Lourdes beat Holy Family 41-13 for the 2010 3A championship.
"We told our seniors, 'Hey, if you want another week of football, you have to pick it up,'" Lourdes coach Mike Kesler said. "It all comes down to senior leadership."
Kesler said Lourdes' previous state tournament experience was invaluable.
"For a lot of the team, it's all new here, but the seniors have been through it before," he said. "They explain it to the young guys, what to expect and how to not get caught up in it and stay focused. You wouldn't think that with the start we had [against Annandale], but it's definitely a plus."
On a defense featuring several stellar athletes, Owatonna junior end Andrew Stelter stands apart.
During a season that has seen the Huskies rewrite large chunks of their record book, Stelter has created a new standard for future pass-rushers.
Owatonna plays Totino-Grace, winners of six state titles since 2003, in the Prep Bowl Class 5A title game Saturday. The teams' strengths will collide: the Eagles' pounding running game vs. the Huskies' staunch defense.
"They are a good program that likes to be physical and we like to be physical, too," said Stelter, a 6-4, 245-pound defensive end who squats more than 500 pounds.
Owatonna coach Jeff Williams estimated his team broke as many as 15 program records this season, many tied to the success of its passing game. Stelter set a new single-season record with 11 quarterback sacks.
"Andrew is the third- or fourth-fastest kid on our team," Williams said. "He's quick off the ball and doesn't stay blocked for long."
Those attributes caught the eye of college programs. Stelter said Minnesota is the only school to offer him a scholarship so far but he remains interested in other schools, including Nebraska.


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Today's software developers don't have to worry about many things that their predecessors used to, like coding to minimize RAM consumption even if it means significantly longer execution time, or WAN connections maxing out at 14.4 kilobits per second. (Although, there may be some out-of-fashion skills they could benefit from or that may yet regain relevance.)
However, the reverse is also true: there are many new skills and areas of expertise that today's software developers, hardware developers, system and network administrators, and other IT professionals need that simply didn't exist in the past. (Where "the past" could be anything from "more than three months ago" to five, ten, twenty or more years.) Or were only relevant for organizations and applications with immense budgets.
[ Lost programming skills: What today's coders don't know and why it matters ]
"The list of what you need today that you didn't need before depends on how long ago you went to school, how hard you've worked to keep up on technology, the software industry, and software engineering," says David Intersimone, Vice President of Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist for Embarcadero Technologies.
Knowing what you need to know matters, whether you're just starting out as a software developer (or planning to become one), or are a "seasoned" professional who wants to keep your chops fresh so you can stay in, re-enter, or advance.
So here, as a counterpoint to my "lost skills" article, are "found skills" -- what a number of IT professionals see as these new areas for software developers that you want add to your existing knowledge portfolio. (Disclaimer: For the most part, I've left out suggestions about specific programming languages, as too obvious.)
Using libraries
"One thing that strikes me as a new skill is the need to work with massive pre-packaged class libraries and template libraries in all the new languages, like Java or C++ or Python," says consultant and software developer Jeff Kenton. "It used to be that once you knew the language and a small set of system calls and string or math library calls, you were set to program. Now you can write complex applications by stringing library calls together and a little bit of glue to hold them all together. If you only know the language, you're not ready to produce anything."
iPhone app developer Hwee-Boon Yar, who has been writing and selling software for 10 years, says "More programming resources are now available online freely. Knowing where to look, such as stackoverflow.com, as well as what habits are good to adopt in the long run is important. For example, if you become someone who Googles for a solution to a programming problem and copy and paste every time, you will never advance your skills."
Factoring in your users
Meredith Anderson, a business and information architect, adds, "In 2008, discipline keywords like 'information architecture' and 'usability engineering' were scarce in online job postings. In 2010 there were numerous job postings with these keywords. I'm not sure whether the market acknowledged the need and existing skills, or whether the need coalesced around these words to find the skills. In any case, the skill set of user experience engineering -- usability engineering, user interface design, and information architecture -- all distinct from graphic design -- has become a formal area of expertise, described by a specific vocabulary. And in the last couple of years demand for these skills has exploded."
Merryl Gross, a UI Architect in the healthcare information technology area, says, "While knowing your technology is critical, knowledge of the people who use their software, how they use it, and what's important to them about the software is critical these days, when people expect more from their devices. This will keep you from making a lot of expensive mistakes. And where you don't already have this knowledge, assuming you will be spending some of your planning time understanding why your target users like or want the things they want -- and knowing how to do this information gathering and assessment."
Asynchronous programming and other techniques
"Because of the move to cloud computing mostly through web-based interfaces, we are seeing an emphasis on asynchronous programming," says Itai Danan, founder of Cybernium a software development and web design consulting company. "Ten years ago, this was mostly used by transactional systems such as banks, hotels and airline reservations. Today, all but the simplest applications require asynchronous programming, mostly because of AJAX. This is a very different style of programming -- most things taught about software optimizations do not apply across the network boundary."
Brian Fino, managing director, Fino Consulting, an IT consulting firm that specializes in developing enterprise, cloud and mobile applications for the modern business environment, stresses the need to understand the impact of distributed, networked infrastructures, multi-core hardware, etc.
"Cheap and readily available infrastructure has made most all applications multi-dimensional and distributed," says Fino. "Software engineers have to have a good understanding of how distributed systems work from the functional right down to the packets on the wire and how they're routed."
Also, says Fino, understand multi-threaded design: "Hardware today is multi-core; software engineers have to understand how to design software that can take advantage of the hardware capabilities readily available today."
A breadth of skills
"It's become more important to have a breadth of skills" says Ben Curren, CoFounder, Outright.com, which offers easy-to-use online accounting and bookkeeping software for small businesses. "For example, web developers these days need to understand customers, usability, HTML, CSS, Javascript, APIs, server-side frame works, and testing/QA."
"Programmers don't learn that someone else is going to take care of the code they write," criticizes Sarah Baker, Director of Operations at an Internet media company. "They don't learn about release management, risk assessment of deploy of their code in a infrastructure, or failure analysis of their code in the production environment -- everything that happens after they write the code. They don't learn that a log is a communication to a operations person, and it should help an operations person determine what to do when they read that log."
Craig Schwartz, Senior Engagement Manager at Freeborders, a global IT services provider, sees three core skills being in demand: mobile development, global delivery and agile development experience. "With the growth in mobile computing, the ability to create Web applications designed to work on mobile devices, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the mobile market and applications that run directly on mobile devices (Android and iOS) will be a necessary skill for developers as this market grows."
Jane Gilligan Hamner, VP Business Development, Harvey Nash USA, an executive search, professional recruitment and IT outsourcing firm, reports, "In the Chicago market we are finding that clients are requesting more client-rich application experience, such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with ASP.NET, and Ajax programming like jQuery and the DOJO Javascript tools.
It isn't just about what you already know, either. It's also about continuing to add to your knowledge and skill sets, comments Amy Wilson, Client Services Manager at web and mobile app design firm Accella. "With the ever changing face of technology, and the skills necessary to keep up with new software/hardware, programmers and developers have to be much more flexible in today's marketplace. Learning ONE language or skill won't cut it in today's workplace. Being flexible and staying up to date on new software releases is key to being a truly successful resource."
Domain expertise for new jobs
Many new jobs call for "domain" (subject matter) expertise in addition to software chops.
Mary-Anne Wolf, who is a senior software engineer, project technical lead and architect, sent me a list of four-score-plus skills and job foci; here's some selections:
Speech recognition-based non-visual user interface designer
Software designer for large-screen mobile devices with no hard disk
Designer of location-responsive and orientation-responsive applications
Specialist in software for oil and natural gas exploration and geology
Specialist in the design of medical devices which are embedded in the human
Bruce Douglass, Chief Evangelist, IBM Rational Software, suggests several areas of domain expertise, including:
Electric vehicle mechanics: "As automakers upgrade the features in electric, so will the amount of software code in each vehicle. Software engineers with knowledge and fundamentals on electric vehicles will be in better position to create complex battery systems, electric drive units and cabin electronics."
Environmental engineering: "The green movement will remain a hot button issue for future engineers. Finding new ways to improve the environment, provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation, and to remediate polluted sites are all important areas of expertise for software engineers."
Agile and collaborative development methods
"Today's developers need to have awareness of more agile software development processes," says Jeff Langr, owner, Langr Software Solutions, a software consultancy and training firm. "Many modern teams have learned to incrementally build and deliver high-quality software in a highly collaborative fashion, to continually changing business needs. This ability to adapt and deliver frequently can result in significant competitive advantage in the marketplace.
"In order to deal with continual demands for change coming from the business, and sustain reasonable maintenance costs on their systems, today's developers need to understand how to incrementally grow their systems using appropriate quality technical practices," says Langr. "Some of these practices are: test-driven development (TDD), automated acceptance testing, refactoring, continuous integration, and continuous delivery."
Developing for deployability, scalability, manageability
"Sysadmins are likely to own the software for much longer than the developers -- what are you doing to make their stewardship pleasant enough that they look forward to your next deployment?" asks Luke Kanies, Founder and CEO of Puppet Labs: "This includes deployability and manageability. New technologies are often much more difficult to deploy on existing infrastructure because developers haven't had time to solve problems like packaging, running on your slightly older production OS, or connecting to the various services you have to use in production."
Also, says Kanies, manageability matters, "The most important part of an application's lifetime is when it's running in production, yet developers don't spend nearly enough time thinking about how to maintain the application while it runs. For example, is there debugging or performance instrumentation? If it's running slowly, can you tell why? If there are failures, can you trace the failure without the service being down? Can you hide failures from the user but still pass the debugging information on to the sysadmin and developers? Can you tune the application, or deploy more copies, without bringing it down?"
And, finally, some short sundries
Walter Gillett, a developer at software consultancy Twenty Geese Software, suggests:
Distributed computing technologies like Hadoop for seriously scalable cloud computing
"Big data" -- analytical capabilities to deal with the flood of web and scientific data, e.g., clickstreams from a gazillion users of a large-scale web site.
Web application frameworks, e.g., Ruby on Rails, Grails, for high productivity.
Dynamic "scripting languages" that emphasize developer productivity over run-time performance, such as Python, Ruby, PERL, JavaScript, and Groovy (an alternative to Java).
Senior software engineer Amy Unruh adds, "it is useful for today's developers to understand issues in realtime search, and techniques for pipelining data analysis and for managing 'activity streams.' And you should able to exploit the 'small pieces loosely joined' model, including use of microformats, and understand how to consume APIs from other services and support relevant APIs for your service, by building on RESTful computing principles."
What new skills have you found you've had to learn -- or are planning on learning?
This article, "What today's software developers need to know," was originally published at ITworld. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.
Daniel P. Dern is a freelance technology writer based in Newton Center, MA. His web site is www.dern.com and his technology blog is TryingTechnology.com.
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Uber is worth $17 billion thanks to a massive $1.2 billion funding round. And there's more funding on the way, bringing the total raised to about $1.4 billion, CEO Travis Kalanick wrote in a blog post.
Kalanick wrote the company is "thrilled to have top tier institutional investors, mutual funds, private equity and venture capital partners joining us," but did not name investors.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Fidelity Investments led the round with a $425 million investment. Wellington Management invested $209 million, while BlackRock Inc. invested $175 million. The Journal cited a person familiar with the situation saying Summit Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures, and Google Ventures also participated.
In addition to the funding announcement, Kalanick used the post to reflect on Uber's four years in San Francisco. He wrote that the ride service is responsible for creating 20,000 jobs per month. It is now operating in 128 cities in 37 countries.
"With our growth and expansion, the company has evolved from being a scrappy Silicon Valley tech startup to being a way of life for millions of people in cities around the world," Kalanick wrote.


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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has reached out to nearly 140,000 veterans in the past two months to get them off waiting lists and into clinics for medical appointments.
Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson revealed the number Thursday as the VA released new audit figures showing improved patient access at 731 VA hospitals and clinics nationwide.
The audit of patient access information is the third released by the VA in the past month as the agency responds to a national outcry over reports of patient deaths and treatment delays at VA facilities across the country. Audits of 731 VA hospitals and clinics also were released June 9 and June 19.
As of June 15, about 46,000 veterans waited at least 90 days for their first VA medical appointments, the agency said. That's down from 57,000 who waited more than 90 days as of May 15.
An additional 7,000 veterans had never gotten an appointment for VA care, despite seeking one over the past decade, the VA said. That's down from about 64,000 veterans who did not get appointments as of May 15.
Despite the improvements, Gibson said veterans in many communities still are waiting too long to receive needed care. The VA provides health care to nearly 9 million enrolled veterans.
"There is more work to be done," Gibson said Thursday. "We must restore the public's trust in VA, but more importantly, we must restore the trust of our veterans who depend on us for care."
A veteran died this week after collapsing in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, veterans hospital cafeteria. The man waited 30 minutes for an ambulance, officials said Thursday.


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Feb. 14, 2010
Santa Clara, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team dropped its final match of a three-game, Northern California road trip, going 1-2 over the stretch. Sunday's loss came by a score of 4-3 to Santa Clara University. Each team won three singles matches, but Santa Clara earned the point in doubles, winning two of three matches.
In singles action, the top three positions for the Gauchos all went down, while the bottom three all won. Sofia Novak was defeated by Alex Zaniewski (6-3, 5-7, 6-4) at the No. 1 position. Santa Clara's Kelly Lamble knocked out Natalia Lozano (6-4, 4-6, 6-1) from the No. 2 slot. In the No. 3 spot, Asagi Onaga came up short against Maggie McGeorge (6-3, 6-4).
Annabel Gledden improved her dual match record to 5-2 with her victory over Santa Clara's Jessica Agra (6-4, 6-2) at the No. 4 position. Jordan Dockendorf continued to impress at the No. 5 spot, as she beat Carmen Pham (6-4, 6-4). Bryanna Ojeda also continued her hot play, taking down Kimmi Cox (6-0, 6-3) in straight sets at the No. 6 position.
In doubles play, Ojeda and Onaga picked up the win for the Gauchos, as they beat the team of Pham and Cox (8-5). Santa Clara's team of Zaniewski and Agra defeated Dockendorf and Lozano, while Lamble and McGeorge got the best of Hausman and Novak.
The Gauchos will play again on February 19th when they travel to Denver, and February 20th at Wyoming.
1. Alex Zaniewski (SCU) def. Sofia Novak (UCSB) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
2. Kelly Lamble (SCU) def. Natalia Lozano (UCSB) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
3. Maggie McGeorge (SCU) def. Asagi Onaga (UCSB) 6-3, 6-4
4. Annabel Gledden (UCSB) def. Jessica Agra (SCU) 6-4, 6-2
5. Jordan Dockendorf (UCSB) def. Carmen Pham (SCU) 6-4, 6-4
6. Bryanna Ojeda (UCSB) def. Kimmi Cox (SCU) 6-0, 6-3
1. Zaniewski/Agra (SCU) def. Dockendorf/Lozano (UCSB) 8-5
2. Ojeda/Onaga (UCSB) def. Pham/Cox (SCU) 8-5
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LOS ANGELES – The public can once again get a close look at scientists working to uncover the bones of saber-toothed cats, mastodons and mammoths in the heart of Los Angeles.
Officials at La Brea Tar Pits are reopening a shuttered exhibition hall and reactivating an excavation site, allowing visitors to watch as workers dig for prehistoric fossils from a pool of naturally occurring asphalt called Pit 91.
The expanded offerings at the George C. Page Museum, which oversees fossil collections at the tar pits, are meant to make more accessible the science of paleontology and what it can tell us about current issues such as global warming.
"These fossils are a wonderful resource for telling us about the climate change in the past," the museum's chief curator John Harris said.
In late June, the museum will resume free tours of the observation pit, a round mid-century building behind the nearby Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The sunlit hall brings visitors down spiral steps to see the bones of horses and camels trapped in natural asphalt.
Of the 5 million fossils uncovered at the tar pits, almost 1 million came from Pit 91. Scientists halted digging there in 2007 to focus on a trove of fossils unearthed during a nearby construction project.
All summer at Pit 91, two paleontologists will sink their trowels into the sticky asphalt, searching for bones and shells, while visitors can watch from a viewing deck. After plucking out bones that are easily visible, the workers will send buckets of goo to a lab where researchers will clean and sift out specimens of insects and plants.
These so-called microfossils "paint the picture best of the ancient climate that prevailed here in our city," said Luis Chiappe, a curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
From rare fossils found in Pit 91, researcher Anna Holden said she was able to gauge the type of climate that the leafcutter bee prefers. With farmers today grappling with the collapse of the honey bee population, Holden said her climate analysis could inform the agriculture industry as it switches over to different types of bees like the leafcutter.
Most of the museum's excavators are working on Project 23, an effort to recover fossils found during the construction of a nearby underground garage.
"We dig for buried treasure," said one of Project 23's full-time excavators, Laura Tewksbury, as she used a dental pick to uncover a mouse's bone.
Visitors must watch the Project 23 team from behind a fence. Tewksbury said she enjoys the crowd.
"That's part of actively working in Los Angeles – we want them to gawk," she said.


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Spain has plenty of rich cultures, grand architecture, and activities to enjoy all year round. Beachgoers flock to the pristine beaches of Ibiza, Galicia and the Costa del Sol, while the national parks of Alicante and San Sebastian are popular among nature lovers in the summertime. The cities of Barcelona and Madrid are known for Gothic and Renaissance buildings, as well as some of the world's largest art museums.
It's safe to say Spaniards love festivals, whether in the form of sombre religious rituals or outrageous food fights. Each city has its own unique celebration, and you often get to enjoy spectacular processions, beautiful costumes, music and dance performances, and fireworks displays. Of course, no trip to Spain is complete without celebrating the country's love for food and wine. Thanks to its diverse landscape, Spain has a lot to offer almost any traveller.


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| The new Waze Wiki, aka Wazeopedia, is now live at Wazeopedia.waze.com! While this legacy wiki will remain accessible for the time being, it is no longer updated by the community. For the most up-to-date guidance, please visit your local Wazeopedia.
Please do not make any more updates to these legacy wiki pages, all future updates should be made in your country's local Wazeopedia.
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flood and weather features
Hi can we include weather and flood report features?
Hi Guys, I have an idea for an important addition to Waze. It actually has to do with ecology more than driving. Does anyone know who I might contact to explore the potential for this idea?
speed limits ....
can we start catching the speed limits and then on the speed indicator - show green if within the limit and red if over the limit or under the minimum limit?
turn off some notifications
I LOVE almost everything about waze. it keeps getting better too. BUT - one thing that is driving me nuts as the community grows are excessive reports. On my 30 minute drive to work today, I got no less than 8 useless reports popping up at me. Fog, vehicle stopped on shoulder, etc...all things that do not require extra caution, do not require changing lanes, do not require slowing down or reacting in any way whatsoever.
Right now, I respond to them by pressing "not there" (even if they are there). I can't think of any clever way to keep people from reporting useless info (like fog even though it doesn't affect visibility at all!).
I would LOVE it if I could turn off notifications for some things. I NEVER want to know about a vehicle on the shoulder on a highway that has 2 huge shoulders on it. I NEVER want to know about things that don't require me to change my driving at all. Tell me about cops, tell me about objects in the road, tell me about accidents, tell me about traffic - all the rest is ANNOYING and potentially harmful as it is distracting from my attention to the road.
If you could find a way for me to select which reports I don't care about to my preferences, it would make Waze so much better for me (and maybe many others?)
School Zones
We have a significant number of school zones in Denver that do not utilize the flashing yellow lights to warn of the slower speed. It would be nice if users could submit these locations so drivers would be aware that they are approaching a zone. Ideally the warning could be time sensative so that it doesn't alert during non-school hours.


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Actress Lindsay Lohan's estranged parents are still feuding.
Dina and Michael Lohan were in Nassau County Family Court on Long Island in a dispute over child-support payments Tuesday. Dina Lohan claims her ex-husband is late on child support for their two minor children, Ali and Cody.
Following the closed-door session, Michael Lohan told reporters the discussion was amicable and said he will do what is necessary to support his children. Neither said how much money is involved.
The two are due back in court on March 24.
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