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Soul Train Awards 2016: Erykah Badu hosts this celebration of black music and entertainment, taped earlier this month in Las Vegas. Bobby Brown, Dru Hill, Doug E. Fresh, Sisqo, BJ the Chicago Kid with Anderson .Paak, India.Arie and Candice Boyd are among the performers. Brandy receives the Lady of Soul Award and the Legend Award goes to Teddy Riley. (BET at 8)
The Wine Show: If you like wine and actors named Matthew, you might be into this series in which actors Matthew Goode (The Good Wife, Downton Abbey) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) explore wines from around the world from a picturesque base in Italy with the help of expert Joe Fattorini. (Gusto at 9)
Chopped Canada: In the first of four specials, Chopped Canada judges Susur Lee, Michael Smith, Anne Yarymowich and Mark McEwan are the ones battling in the kitchen. Next up are grandmothers, firefighters and Canadian celebrities. (Food Network at 9)
Poldark: As the second season ends, Ross (Aidan Turner) is on the cusp of professional success now that tin has been found in the mine but on the brink of domestic ruin, with Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) unable to forgive him for his infidelity with Elizabeth (Heida Reed). Oh and there's a "showdown" with George (Jack Farthing). (PBS at 9)
Secrets and Lies: We'll find out who killed Kate (Jordana Brewster) in the two-hour Season 2 finale, which also promises "a devastating surprise" for Detective Cornell (Juliette Lewis). The real surprise for Lewis and the rest of the cast could be a cancellation with the series' ratings in the dumps. (CTV, ABC at 9)
Real Vikings: Ragnar and His Sons: Fans of History's Vikings can whet their appetites for Wednesday's mid-season premiere with this special in which actor Clive Standen, series creator Michael Hirst and Viking experts travel to Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Scotland and England to uncover the real stories of Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons Bjorn Ironside and Ivar the Boneless. (History at 11)


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Dan Van Tassell is a ceramics and mixed media sculptor who was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2008, and his Masters of Fine Art in ceramics in 2012 at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He was an artist in residence at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 2012.
Upon completing the residency, he accepted a position in that department both as an Instructor, and as Preparator and Registrar of the University of North Dakota's Art Collections. Dan joined the faculty at Emory & Henry College in the summer of 2015 as Curator, and also teaches in the Visual Art Department.
As Curator at Emory & Henry College he has curated numerous exhibitions including the popular shows, A Wing and A Prayer, by prominent artist Jennifer Angus, and also Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes: A Distinguished Collaboration of Artworks Provided by James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin.
He has exhibited throughout the United States, and his work has been published in the popular "500 Series" book 500 Ceramic Sculptures: Contemporary Practice, Singular Works. Currently, he and his wife reside in Glade Spring, Virginia. He remains an active studio artist, as well as a fanatically avid fisherman, fly tyer, and outdoor enthusiast.
Artist Statement
"Life comes to us in fragments a world in pieces the eye must reconstruct. A different kind of logic—every brain assembles its own." - Emily Ruth Hazel
I am fascinated with how human beings interpret information, particularly when presented with a situation or idea that requires them to break their preconditioned notions of what the reality of an object or situation is. The ways which we interact with one another and the environment which we exist in is a curiosity to me. This curiosity is furthered in how each of these elements affects the other. These relationships exist in their most primal state through the notion that what we do affects where we exist, but where we exist can also affect what we do. The focus of my interest in this relationship lies in the "what if" which is unique to human perception. Through this psychology of connection, a narrative is formed in the work. By displaying works which have this implied narrative quality, I hope to create visual tension, as well as to speak to a particular metaphor unique to each individual work.
I have recently become interested in semiology, or the study of signs or symbols as a form of communication. This has caused me to further consider what my personal symbols are and how I can more directly speak to the increasingly personal narratives present in my work. I feel that at this time it is important to me that I am able to more openly communicate by developing a visual language of symbols representative of my life, and my personal views, while at the same time allowing for a commentary on the things and people I experience around me. These ideas about semiology are not strictly limited to only physically literal or tangible symbols such as an object itself. Rather, each color and surface has a carefully considered meaning which I desire to contribute to the overall idea or message present in each composition. It is most important to me that I am able to cue the viewer in on some personal moments, however small, which they are able to respond to and develop new questions of their own.
On the surface, the works I create are playful and beg for interaction. While at the same time they are also provocative, and at times even repulsive in their content. It is my intention to utilize these elements of our humanity to emphasize the beauty in how humans interpret information, including information that can make us feel uncomfortable.
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Schlossberg Appointed to ISBA Local Government Role
In early April, Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle attorney Ruth Alderman Schlossberg was appointed to a prominent post in the Illinois State Bar Association, an organization of about 30,000 Illinois attorneys.
Highly regarded in the field of municipal and local government law, Ruth Alderman Schlossberg received an ISBA appointment for the 2015-2016 year to serve as secretary to the ISBA Local Government Law Section Council. She has been a member of the section since 2012.
The mission of the Local Government Law Section is:
- to enhance the knowledge and professional capabilities of lawyers who devote time to the practice of the law relating to units of local government;
- to disseminate information and comment on legislative and judicial developments and their impact on units of local government; to make recommendations on legislation; and
- to develop and communicate ideas to improve the functioning of units of local government.
Schlossberg is widely known for co-authoring with Richard G. Flood the book You've Been Elected: Now What Do You Do? A Practical Guide to Local Government, now in its 3rd edition. The guide, published by the Illinois Municipal League, offers local public officials advice to help them "hit the ground running" and succeed in new leadership positions.
For Schlossberg's professional credentials, please view Ruth Alderman Schlossberg's biography. You may also wish to view her Illinois Municipal League conference video presentation, delivered with ZRFM local government law attorneys Richard G. Flood and Kelly A. Cahill.
As the largest law firm in McHenry County, Illinois, many Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle attorneys have been involved with the endeavors of various ISBA sections. Earlier in his career, ZRFM's David W. McArdle was a chair of the Local Government Law Section Council.
Cooney Featured in Leading Lawyers — Women's Edition for 2015
Melissa J. Cooney, whose practice primarily involves estate planning and family law, appears in an editorial profile in the 2015 Leading Lawyers Magazine — Women's Edition.
The article, titled "Delivering the Law from the Bottom of Her Heart," details not only Cooney's professional career but also the history of her parents' ties to the practice of law. Her father was a lawyer and judge and her mother worked for 40 years in the McHenry County Circuit Clerk's office.
In addition to Cooney, who was first named a Leading Lawyer in 2012 in the field of family law, three other Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle lawyers have earned the honor.
Richard G. Flood was first recognized in 2003 as a Leading Lawyer in family law; governmental, municipal, lobbying and administrative law; land use, zoning and condemnation law; and both commercial and residential real estate law. He is a member of Leading Lawyers' 400-member advisory board.
David W. McArdle, the firm's managing partner, was first recognized as a Leading Lawyer in 2008 in the fields of ADR law: commercial real estate, environmental and construction; commercial litigation; construction law; governmental, municipal, lobbying and administrative law; and land use, zoning and condemnation law.
David J. Loughnane has also been recognized by his Illinois peers for several years as a Leading Lawyer in the fields of medical malpractice, products liability, health law and general personal injury law.
The distinction of being a Leading Lawyer is earned by fewer than five percent of all lawyers registered to practice in Illinois. Law Bulletin Publishing Company, through its Leading Lawyers division, conducts extensive statewide survey of Illinois lawyers asking them: "If you couldn't take a case in your area of law, to whom would you refer a family member or friend?"
Only those lawyers most often recommended by their peers in one of 100 areas of law and approved by Leading Lawyers' 400-member advisory board have achieved the distinction. Lawyers cannot nominate themselves or any lawyers from their own firm. The rigorous research methodology also eliminates any possibility of lawyers being selected through a popularity contest.
To learn more about the law practice of Melissa Cooney, please view her professional credentials.
ZRFM Receives Large Business of the Year Award
Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle – the largest law firm in McHenry County, Illinois — recently received an award from the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce recognizing it as the "Large Business of the Year." The "Business of the Year 2014" event took place at the Boulder Ridge Country Club on January 31, 2015. Several other individuals and businesses also were honored.
Unlike in prior years when members of the chamber alone selected the award winners to be honored at the ceremony, this year's award winners were voted for by the community and clients. ZRFM was one of 100 local businesses nominated; it had recently been selected as a finalist.
Other businesses recognized that evening were:
- Small Office Home Office Member: Jackie Gappa, Nationwide Insurance
- Volunteers of the Year: Karen Lavorata, Mary Kay Cosmetics; Dave Rudin, Advance Leadership/Lifeline Christian Church
- Small Business: Fox River Spa & Salon
- New Member Business: Dan Hickey, Allstate Insurance
- Restaurant: Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
- Club/Organization: Home of the Sparrow/Sparrow's Nest
The co-hosts for the evening were Katrina McGuire of the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber and Nicole Prihoda of Dreams Do Come True Tours.
To read more coverage about the awards, please see the recent article that appeared in the Northwest Herald. For more information about the chamber, please visit its site.
Updated 5th Edition of Construction Law Road Map Available Now
David W. McArdle, a Crystal Lake attorney and managing partner of Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle, has authored another updated edition of his handbook titled Construction Law Road Map, which focuses on construction law. Partners Regan Shepley and Kelly Cahill also contributed to the new edition.
The Construction Law Road Map provides an overview of the issues contractors regularly face in the areas of contract law, employment and litigation.
The 5th edition highlights recent changes in the law regarding Mechanics Liens, the Employee Classification Act, Prevailing Wage Act, Health Insurance Offerings/Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Public Bond Claims. This edition also provides full citations of authority to assist contractors in need.
To order the handbook, call (815) 459-2050 or order here.
Andrew Holstine to Lead Joliet Seminar on Farm Law
Andrew W. Holstine will lead a seminar on Farm Law on Feb. 7, 2015, at the Farmland Forum. The event takes place at the Wietendorf Agricultural Education Center, 17840 Laraway Road, Joliet, Illinois.
The Farmland Forum brings together farm owners, operators and industry investors to network and participate in discussions on a variety of industry topics. To learn more about the Farmland Forum, please visit The Chicago Farmers website or follow this event on Facebook.
Holstine recently appeared at another event hosted by the agricultural and agribusiness organization. On Jan. 12, 2015, he served as moderator of a luncheon panel discussion. Panelists at that meeting included Dr. Jay Akridge, Dean of Agriculture at Purdue University, and Dr. Wendy Wintersteen, Dean of Agriculture at Iowa State University.
Holstine is the immediate past president of The Chicago Farmers. He remains active on its board of directors. To learn more about his practice, please view Andrew Holstine's professional credentials.
Farrell Appointed to Centegra Health Systems Finance Committee
Ryan P. Farrell was recently appointed to the Finance Committee of Centegra Health Systems ("Centegra"). The Finance Committee oversees budget and financial affairs for the entire Centegra network.
Centegra is a system of health care providers in McHenry County, Illinois. It currently comprises three hospitals (with a fourth under construction), two fitness centers, two immediate care centers (a third one is planned), nearly a dozen physician care locations and numerous specialty care services.
Farrell is a Certified Public Accountant and has been a resident of Crystal Lake for most of his life. His wide-ranging transactional experience encompasses banking, corporate business law, commercial real estate, taxation, estate planning and employee benefits. To learn more about Ryan Farrell, please view his biographical credentials.
ZRFM Named Finalist for Large Business of the Year
Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle — the largest law firm in McHenry County, Illinois — was selected from over 100 nominations as a finalist for the Business of the Year by the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce.
The winner will be announced at the chamber's annual awards dinner on Jan. 31, 2015, at the Boulder Ridge Country Club.
For more information about the chamber, please visit its site.
Schlossberg Appointed to Local Government Law Section Council
Ruth Alderman Schlossberg has been appointed to her third term on the Illinois State Bar Association Local Government Law Section Council. Schlossberg now has served the ISBA — a 33,000 member organization — in this role since 2012.
Currently, there are 28 members on the council including practicing lawyers, judges, government consultants and individuals employed by state and local government.
The mission of ISBA Local Government Law Section is to:
- enhance the knowledge and professional capabilities of lawyers who devote time to the practice of the law relating to units of local government
- disseminate information and comment on legislative and judicial developments and their impact on units of local government
- make recommendations on legislation
- develop and communicate ideas to improve the functioning of units of local government.
With Richard G. Flood, Schlossberg co-authored the book Congratulations! You've Been Elected: Now What Do You Do? A Practical Guide to Local Government. The guide, published by the Illinois Municipal League, offers local public officials advice to help them "hit the ground running" and succeed in new leadership positions.
For Schlossberg's professional credentials, please view Ruth Alderman Schlossberg's biography. You may also wish to view her Illinois Municipal League conference video presentation, delivered with ZRFM local government law attorneys Richard G. Flood and Kelly A. Cahill
As the largest law firm in McHenry County, Illinois, Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle has had many attorneys involved with the section's endeavors. Earlier in his career, ZRFM's David W. McArdle was a chair of the Local Government Law Section Council. Also, ZRFM attorney Brad Stewart authored an article titled "How the new Workplace Violence Prevention Act impacts local governments" in the section's April 2014 newsletter.
More information about the council can be found on the ISBA Local Government Law Section Council website.
Successful Illinois Municipal League Conference
Thanks to those individuals and municipalities who participated in the recent IML Conference. ZRFM conducted five sessions:
- FOIA & OMA in the Internet Age: Ruth Schlossberg
- Municipal Law & Order: Sgt. Andrew Doles (Algonquin P.D.), Jennifer Gibson, Brad Stewart
- Effective Operations and Governance: David McArdle, Ruth Schlossberg
- Redeveloping Distressed Properties: Ryan Farrell, David McArdle
- Administrative Adjudication: Kevin Chrzanowski, Jean Headley (City of McHenry)
If you were unable to attend any of the sessions but would like the presentation handouts or other information, please contact our office.
ZRFM Lawyers to Address Illinois Municipal League Conference
Several lawyers from Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle will be featured presenters this week at the 100th Illinois Municipal League Annual Conference, to be held Thursday, Oct. 17, through Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, 720 S. Michigan Ave.
Topics that ZRFM lawyers will address include the following:
- Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act in the Internet Age — Ruth Schlossberg will speak on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 2:15 p.m.
- Municipal Law and Order – Sergeant Andrew Doles of the Algonquin Police Department speaks alongside ZRFM attorneys Jennifer Gibson and Brad Stewart in this session moderated by Lake in the Hills Village President Paul Mulcahy on Friday, Oct. 18 at 2:15 p.m.
- Effective Operations and Governance — David McArdle and Ruth Alderman Schlossberg speak on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 9:15 a.m.
- Redeveloping Distressed Properties — Ryan Farrell and David McArdle address this topic on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 10:30 a.m.
- Administrative Adjudication – ZRFM attorney Kevin Chrzanowski and Jean Headley of the City of McHenry speak on Saturday, Oct. 19, also at 10:30 a.m.
If you plan to attend the IML conference, please contact Brad Stewart so someone from ZRFM can meet with you. Although pre-registration for the Illinois Municipal League Annual Conference has ended, detailed information and instructions on how to register on-site appear online.


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My First Book
It has taken much longer than it should have but, "The Dayton Letter" is almost ready.
In the next month or so. My full-time job with the truck, pushes these schedules back at times. Anyway the first read should be out there. The characters are so firm in my mind that I feel it's a good idea to have a few people pre-read the book. Then I will know if I've left any details out.
No spoilers, but it's a work of Si-Fi spawned by a tragic episode in the past. One I only became aware of decades later. We have time travel, violence, retribution, and the "Adult" content got a little carried away. Let's just say that this will not be on any young persons reading list.
Characters include a pilot, turned inventor, a veterinarian, and oh yeah, a victim of human trafficking, she was to be in the story for a couple pages but grew to a major character.
The only problem I have at this point, is that I've had to drive a stake in the ground and bring the first part to an end. The good news is that there are several back stories, and of course all my character want to go on to other adventures.
As someone once said, "I know the voices in my head are not real, but they have such good ideas."
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1 Aug Solving The MegaminxHello Guys! This is TheGreatCK! This instructable is about how to solve a megaminx. A megaminx is basically a. Once you've learned the Rubik's cube, the Megaminx should be just as easy to solve. The steps, patterns, and sequences are different, but the approach works. Related puzzles are Alexander's Star, which is equivalent to a megaminx without the same techniques on the megaminx to solve everything but the final layer.
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You may run into a problem where the piece you need is in the correct place but oriented wrong. It would not be possible to swap all 15 pairs, since how to solve a megaminx would be an odd permutation of the edges, so a reducing factor of 2 14 is applied to the preceding figure.
The world record time for a Megaminx solve is Besides solving a Megaminx the regular way, patterns can be made on it just like a Rubik's Cube. Both megaimnx of the Megaminx have how to solve a megaminx corners and 30 edges. Combination puzzles Mechanical puzzles Puzzles Rubik's Cube permutations. Guidehelp guideMegaminxpuzzle solutionpuzzle-solvingRubik's Cube.
Its solution requires much of the same algorithms of the 3x3x3 cube with a how to solve a megaminx extra ones thrown in at later stages. The face centers each have a single color, which identifies the color of that face in the solved state.
How to Solve a Megaminx
In other projects Wikimedia Commons. Annoyingly, this final step is the hardest one of this method. In any legal position reachable from the solved state without disassembling the puzzlethere is always an even number of swapped pairs of edges.
The difference here is that you are aiming for a white star instead. Now, we move onto the second layer. The Megaminx is made in the shape of a dodecahedronand has 12 faces and center pieces, 20 corner pieces, and 30 edge how to solve a megaminx.
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However, since swaps may be between visually identical edges, one may find that having solved almost the entire puzzle, one is left with a pair of swapped distinct edges that seems to defy all attempts to exchange them. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Follow howw algorithm below repeating it three times for a dot, twice for an L, and once for a line.
How to Solve a Megaminx
Here, you look for three shapes: Tony Fisher has produced a shape modification of the Megaminx into a cube form which he called the Hexaminx. By using this how to solve a megaminx, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Now onto the third layer of the Megaminx. God's algorithm Superflip Thistlethwaite's algorithm Rubik's Cube group. Again, once your edges are complete, use the same method used for the white corners to complete your third layer.
Once these edges are completed you can move the corners into place as before. The Impossiball is equivalent to solving only the corners of a Megaminx and is available with either six or twelve colors. The full number is 6 roughly 6.
There are two main versions of the Megaminx: The color Megaminx is the only type legal in official WCA competitions, and is therefore much more popular than the 6-color version. Note the inclusion of left, down and back sides contained within the FRU notation as we will be using these moving sklve. Search the page for How to solve a megaminx.
Just two more steps to complete slve you master the Megaminx. For the larger size solev gigaminx, teraminx, petaminx etcthe general number of combinations is 30! Each face megaminc a center piece, 5 corner pieces and 5 edge pieces. The Megaminx, or Magic Dodecahedron, megamunx invented by several people independently and produced by several different manufacturers with slightly different designs. A Holey Megaminx, with black body. At this point, how to solve a megaminx need to revisit the methods used previously to place the first layer corners and second layer.
Examples of these include a star, checkerboard, and pentagon in a pentagon patterns. However, although visually indistinguishable, they are nevertheless mathematically how to solve a megaminx in a parity relationship. The purpose of the puzzle is to scramble the colors, and then restore it to its original state of having one color per face.
In both cases, only even permutations are possible, regardless of the position of the other set of pieces. Alexander's Star is equivalent to solving only the edges of a six-color Megaminx.
Place the solved star face-down and follow the left and right algorithms listed below in order to place how to solve a megaminx edges of the second face. The solution is to swap a single pair of 'identical' edges to resolve the parity issue, and then restore the rest of the puzzle.
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This marks the first part of the solution in which you may need a little help. The corner and edge pieces are shared with adjacent faces.
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D'Agati M., Gopalan A., Lalwani G., Patel S., Sitharaman B., Talukdar Y.,
Stony Brook University, US
Keywords: biomaterials, carbon nanotubes, scaffolds, stem cells, tissue engineering
Expansion of stem cells and maintenance of their self-renewal capacity in vitro requires specialized robust cell culture systems. Conventional approaches consisting of animal derived matrices and cocktail of growth factors have limitations such as consistency, scalability, and pathogenicity. To overcome the above limitations, multifunctional 3D porous scaffold, fabricated using synthetic materials that permit stem cell expansion and maintenance in vitro would be a significant advancement. We have reported a novel, cheap and easy method to fabricate macroscopic, 3D, free standing, all-carbon scaffolds (macroporous architectures) by radical initiated thermal crosslinking and annealing of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) (Lalwani et. al. Carbon, 55, 90-100, 2013). 3D multi-walled and single-walled CNTs (MWCNT and SWCNT) scaffolds show excellent cell viability, adhesion, proliferation and infiltration of ADSCs (human adipose stem cells) after 1, 3 & 5 days. After 15 days, ADSCs satisfy criteria for stem cell phenotype and show robust tri-lineage (osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic) differentiation according to International Society for Cellular Therapy guidelines. These results show that 3D MWCNT and SWCNT scaffolds are suitable substrates for stem cell expansion and maintenance. Furthermore, due to multifunctional properties of CNTs, one can envision the development these scaffolds for the next-generation of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 3, Biotech, Biomaterials and Biomedical: TechConnect Briefs 2015
Published: June 14, 2015
Pages: 263 - 266
Industry sectors: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing | Medical & Biotech
Topics: Biomaterials


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In this lab, you'll learn about Git support in Azure DevOps Server 2019 and Visual Studio 2019. Git is a distributed version control system with repositories that live both locally (such as on a developer's machine) and hosted on Azure DevOps Server. And if you have any doubt about the scalability of Git, rest assured that Azure DevOps Server support for Git Virtual File System (GVFS) empowers you to virtually unlimited scale. Just ask the Windows team-they use it to manage over 300GB across 3.5 million files.
In order to complete this lab you will need the Azure DevOps Server 2019 virtual machine provided by Microsoft. Click the button below to launch the virtual machine on the Microsoft Hands-on-Labs portal.
Alternatively, you can download the virtual machine from here.
Exercise 1: Getting started with Git
In this exercise, you will learn how to create, clone, and push commits to a Git repository in Azure DevOps Server.
Task 1: Removing the existing source clone
Log in as Sachin Raj (VSALM\Sachin). All user passwords are P2ssw0rd.
In Explorer, navigate to C:\Users\Julia\Source\Repos and delete the PartsUnlimited folder. This will remove the existing clone of the repo so you can start fresh.
Task 2: Cloning an existing repository
Open a browser window and navigate to the PU DevOps Portal.
Navigate to the Repos hub.
Click Clone and click the Copy to Clipboard button to copy the Git clone path.
Open Visual Studio from the taskbar.
Click Clone or check out code.
Paste the Repository location and click Clone.
After the project has cloned, use Solution Explorer to double-click PartsUnlimited.sln to open the solution. You can ignore warnings about unsupported project types.
Select Build | Build Solution to build the solution.
Exercise 2: Saving work with commits
When you make changes to your files, Git will record the changes in the local repository. You can select the changes that you want to commit by staging the changes. Commits are always made against your local Git repository, so you don't have to worry about the commit being perfect or ready to share with others. You can make more commits as you continue to work, and push the changes to others when they are ready to be shared.
What's in a commit?
Git commits consists of the following:
The file(s) changed in the commit. Git keeps the contents of all file changes in your repo in the commits. This keeps it fast and allows intelligent merging.
A reference to the parent commit(s). Git manages your code history using these references.
A message describing a commit. You give this message to Git when you create the commit. It's a good idea to keep this message descriptive, but to the point.
Task 1: Committing changes
Open Controllers/AccountController.cs from the PartsUnlimitedWebsite project.
Add a comment to the file and save it. It doesn't really matter what the comment is since the goal is just to make a change.
From Team Explorer, navigate to the Changes view.
Enter a Comment of "My commit" and click Commit All. This will create a new commit to the local repo with all of the included changes.
When the local commit has succeeded, click Sync to share changes with the server.
As you make changes to your code, you will want to be sure to incorporate the changes others have committed to the codebase to be sure there are no issues. All of the pushing, pulling, and syncing features are available from the Synchronization view.
Task 2: Syncing changes
Before syncing, fetch the commits to view changes that your team has made. Fetching changes does not merge the commits into your local repository, it just enumerates them. If there were any changes, you would need to pull them in to merge them with your local repository.
Since there are no changes, click Sync to pull the latest commits locally (none in this case) and then push your commits out.
The synchronization should succeed quickly since there's only one commit to push.
You can review the latest commits on Azure DevOps under the Commits tab of the Repos hub.
The recent commit should be right at the top.
Task 3: Staging changes
Staging changes allows you to selectively add certain files to a commit while passing over the changes made in other files. Ignore temp files, logs, and other files that might change but you do not want to stage in a commit.
Return to Visual Studio.
Update the open AccountController.cs class by editing the comment you made earlier.
Open CheckoutController.cs as well.
Add a new comment to CheckoutController.cs so there will be two files with changes. Press Ctrl+Shift+S to save all files.
From the Team Explorer dropdown, select Changes.
Right-click AccountController.cs and select Stage.
This will prepare AccountController.cs for committing without CheckoutController.cs.
Enter a comment of "Added comments" and select Commit Staged | Commit Staged and Sync. This will commit the staged file and sync it with the server in one process.
Exercise 3: Reviewing history
Git uses the parent reference information stored in each commit to manage a full history of your development. You can easily review this commit history to find out when file changes were made and determine differences between versions of your code.
Git's use of the Branches and Merges feature works through pull requests, so the commit history of your development doesn't necessarily form a straight, chronological line. When you use history to compare versions, think in terms of file changes between two commits instead of file changes between two points in time. A recent change to a file in the master branch may have come from a commit created two weeks ago in a feature branch but was only merged yesterday.
Task 1: Comparing files
In Solution Explorer, right-click AccountController.cs and select View History.
In the History view for AccountController.cs, right-click the most recent commit (at the top) and select Compare with Previous.
This will open a Diff view in a temporary file that highlights what exactly changed during that commit.
Task 2: Retrieving files
You can also use the History view to open specific versions of a file. Right-click the second commit and select View Commit Details.
This was the first commit performed in this lab and contained only one change. In Team Explorer, right-click AccountController.cs and select Open.
The version of the file associated with that specific commit is opened in a temporary file. You can review its contents now, such as the comment from the first commit.
Exercise 4: Managing branches from Visual Studio
You can manage the work in your Azure DevOps Git repo from the Branches view on the web. You can also customize the view to track the branches you care most about so you can stay on top of changes made by your team.
Committing changes to a branch will not affect other branches, and you can share branches with others without having to merge the changes into the main project. You can also create new branches to isolate changes for a feature or a bug fix from your master branch and other work. Since the branches are lightweight, switching between branches is quick and easy. Git does not create multiple copies of your source when working with branches, but rather uses the history information stored in commits to recreate the files on a branch when you start working on it. Your Git workflow should create and use branches for managing features and bugfixes. The rest of the Git workflow, such as sharing code and reviewing code with pull requests, all work through branches. Isolating work in branches makes it very simple to change what you are working on by simply changing your current branch.
Task 1: Creating a new branch in your local repository
From the Team Explorer dropdown, select Branches.
There is only one local branch at this time, which is master. Right-click it and select New Local Branch From to create a new one.
Name the new branch "dev" and click Create Branch.
Note that you can always see what branch you're working on in the bottom right corner of Visual Studio. You can also easily switch between branches, create new ones, and manage them all.
Task 2: Checking out and publishing branches
Git keeps track of which branch you are working on and makes sure that when you checkout a branch your files match the most recent commit on the branch. Branches let you work with multiple versions of the source code in the same local Git repository at the same time.
In Team Explorer, right-click the master branch and select Checkout to switch to it.
Right-click the dev branch and select Push Branch. This will share it with the server.
It may take a moment for the branch push to succeed.
On Azure DevOps, switch to the Branches tab.
You should see the newly pushed dev branch.
Back in Visual Studio, expand remotes/origin. Here you can see all of the remote branches, including those that haven't been pulled down locally.
Task 3: Deleting branches locally and remotely
When you created the dev branch earlier, Visual Studio switched you to it. You then manually switched back to master. Since you are not working on dev and no longer need it, right-click it and select Delete.
Note that while you have deleted the local dev branch, the remote branch still exists.
To delete the remote branch, right-click it under remotes/origin and select Delete Branch From Remote.
The remote branch should delete pretty quickly.
You can confirm that it's gone by refreshing the Branches page on Azure DevOps.
Exercise 5: Managing branches from Azure DevOps
Task 1: Creating a new branch
On Azure DevOps, click New branch.
Enter a name of "release" for the new branch. Use the Work items to link dropdown to select one or more work items to link to this new branch. You may want to look up some by ID using the Boards page. Click Create branch to create it.
After the branch has been created, it will be available in the list.
Return to Visual Studio and use the Team Explorer dropdown to switch to the Sync view.
Click Fetch to pull down the new branch data.
Switch to the Branches view.
Now it's time to create a local version of that branch. Right-click it under remotes/origin and select New Local Branch From.
Accept the defaults and click Create Branch.
You now have a local version of that branch to work with and it has been checked out.
Task 2: Deleting a branch
Return to Azure DevOps and click the Delete button that appears when you hover over the release branch to delete it.
However, maybe we should keep it around for a little longer. From its context menu, select Restore branch.
Task 3: Locking a branch
Locking is ideal for preventing new changes that might conflict with an important merge or to place a branch into a read-only state. Alternatively, you can use branch policies and pull requests instead of locking if you just want to ensure that changes in a branch are reviewed before they are merged.
Locking does not prevent cloning of a repo or fetching updates made in the branch into your local repo. If you lock a branch, share with your team the reason why and make sure they know what to do to work with the branch after it is unlocked.
From the master context menu, select Lock.
The branch is now locked.
Now Unlock the branch using the same process.
Exercise 6: Working with pull requests
Pull requests let your team give feedback on changes in feature branches before merging the code into the master branch. Reviewers can step through the proposed changes, leave comments, and vote to approve or reject the code.
Task 1: Creating a new pull request from Visual Studio
Return to Visual Studio and navigate to the Changes view of Team Explorer.
There is still a pending change from earlier in the lab, so enter a comment of "Checkout controller changes" and select Commit All | Commit All and Sync.
Once that sync succeeds, navigate to the Pull Requests view.
Click New Pull Request to continue the process on Azure DevOps.
The New Pull Request form should already contain the key information reviewers will need, as well as who those reviewers should be. You can customize any of this, and some of it may be required based on policy. Click Create.
The newly created pull request will load, but don't approve it just yet. We'll come back later on.
Task 2: Managing pull requests
Select the Pull Requests breadcrumb to view the pull requests you have either created or been assigned.
The new pull request will be in the Mine section. There may also be some others based on preconfigured data.
Select the Active tab to see those that are active and expecting attention. Click the new pull request to view it.
The Overview tab contains all of the key information specified in the creation form, as well as options to approve and complete the request.
Select the Files tab to review the files involved in the commit.
Note that you can select a specific update from the dropdown if you like.
Click the Add comment button next to the source file. Enter a comment using markdown and click Comment to save it. Note that there is a live preview of your comment before you commit to it.
The new comment is placed in line with the code. This makes it very easy to have discussions about lines and sections of code within their proper context.
The new comment is also tracked as part of the pull request. It's expected that every comment will be resolved before a pull request will be completed, so this convenient marker lets you know if there's anything else that needs to be reviewed.
Update the comment to mark it as Resolved.
Note that this now updates the tracking as well.
Select the Updates tab. This contains details on the updates in the branch.
Select the Commits tab, where you can review the commits made to the branch.
Since everything seems to be in order, Approve the pull request.
Since the approvers have signed off, Complete the pull request.
You can accept the default messages in the pull request dialog. Note that you also have the option to delete the target branch after merging, as well as the ability to squash changes during the marge. Squash merging is a merge option that allows you to condense the Git history of topic branches when you complete a pull request. Instead of each commit on the topic branch being added to the history of the default branch, a squash merge takes all the file changes and adds them to a single new commit on the default branch. Squash merging keeps your default branch histories clean and easy to follow without demanding any workflow changes on your team. Click Complete merge.
When the merge completes, the pull request should be marked as Completed.
Return to the Pull Requests home.
Select the Completed tab and click the pull request as though you were visiting it fresh.
You can review the pull request, as well as Cherry-pick or Revert it if needed.
Task 3: Tagging a release
While it may not seem like much, the product team has decided that this version of the site is exactly what's needed for v1.1. In order to mark it as such, navigate to the Tags tab.
Click Create Tag.
Enter a name of "v1.1" and a Description of "Great release!". Click Create.
You have now tagged the project at this release. You could tag commits for a variety of reasons, and Azure DevOps offers the flexibility to edit and delete them, as well as manage their permissions.
Exercise 7: Managing repositories
You can create Git repos in team projects to manage your project's source code. Each Git repo has its own set of permissions and branches to isolate itself from other work in your project.
Task 1: Creating a new repo from Azure DevOps
From the project Add dropdown, select New repository.
Set the Repository name to "New Repo" and click Create.
That's it. Your repo is ready. You can now clone it with Visual Studio or your tools of choice.
Task 2: Deleting and renaming Git repos
Sometimes you'll have a need to rename or delete a repo, which is just as easy. Open Project settings.
Select Repositories under Code.
From the New Repo context menu, select Delete repository. Alternatively, you could rename it here.
Enter the name "New Repo" to confirm the repo and click Delete.
Task 3: Managing repo and branch policies
Select the PartsUnlimited repo. Like everything else in Azure DevOps, you can manage security to a great level of detail. Select the Options tab. This allows you to set some useful policies, such as whether or not you want to allow users to fork the repo, whether discussed work items are automatically linked, and so on.
Select the master branch. Like the repo, you have a great deal of control over its security settings. You can also define a wide variety of policies for the branch to enforce. Click Branch Policies.
Azure DevOps branch policies are very effective in enforcing a level of quality control in the repo. For example, you can control pull requests by requiring a minimum number of reviewers, checking for linked work items, requiring that all comments have been resolved, and more. You can even require validation through a successful build and configure external approval services. If there are certain sections of code that require their own approvers to be included, you can include them here as well.
Check Require a minimum number of reviewers. By default, this requires at least two reviewers to approve a pull request, and also requires (by default) that the original author is not one of them.
Click Add automatic reviewers.
Add Sachin as a Reviewer and set the Path filter to "/PartsUnlimited-aspnet45/src/PartsUnlimitedWebsite/Controllers/*". Having the requirement of Required ensures that you will be required to sign off on any changes proposed to the controllers code in the web app. Click Save.
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So what's the problem? Thiry has arguably built a very expensive personality cult around himself in the process. Thiry made $14 million in compensation at Davita last year, and $36.8 million in the last three years. He's the 24th highest paid CEO in the nation, according to Forbes. Most of it comes from taxpayer dollars.
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By Golden Matonga
I understand why President Peter Mutharika won; I am a journalist. But I understand why more people wanted him out than those who wanted his second term; I'm both a journalist and a voter; I was among those yearning for change of guard.
On voting day, 63 percent of the electorate (2.8 million voters) ticked another name other than Mutharika's. Mutharika got 1.9 million votes.
In 2014, Malawians kicked out Joyce Banda's short-lived PP-led administration. Majority cited Cashgate. I was one of them. When People's Party lost, I celebrated that feat as a watershed moment where the will of the people finally triumph over the might of incumbency—especially one deemed clueless, incompetent and destructive to nation building.
When I voted this time, I wished similar fate for Mutharika and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The bad governance and stagnation that characterized APM's first term, formed part of the litany of grievances when I entered that ballot booth to cast a protest vote.
I don't hate the DPP as much as I didn't hate PP, or hate Mutharika as much I didn't hate Joyce Banda. I just didn't want DPP continue plundering national wealth, molesting the future of the children of this country and turning our nation into a laughing stock for our neighbours.
Then there is a Issa Njauju, a permanent scar that reminds us of the dangerous impulses of the DPP when left unrestrained. DPP had to be punished. But those who wanted Mutharika back in power won. And I am no more Malawian than them.
It's not difficult to imagine, or speculate, the other reasons majority Malawians wanted this presidency and ruling party out. It has run this country like a parasitic cabal, leaving no stone unturned in its quest to abuse power and as a consequence, the country's development has stagnated.
Unemployment, too, remains high. Poverty remains excruciating in most villages and towns. The standards of living are abject. There is little, unless you are within the DPP food chain, to be happy about.
Voting for DPP in such a state of things could only have meant giving DPP a vote of confidence, and as a consequence, imbuing the bad elements within its ranks to continue with the corruption, cronyism, nepotism that bedeviled this country in the past five years.
Operation landslide didn't succeed, but DPP won its hard fought victory, period. Mutharika will president for another five years but, God forbid, if he fails, Everton — man whose miraculous rise to the top echelons resembles and even betters that of the biblical Joseph in the Egyptian Pharaohs —will be our president
Many who are enlightened and patriotic, tremble with trepidation just at the very thought of a Chimulirenji presidency. He is untested and untried, and can turn out to be anything if granted the ultimate executive office.
Yet I am an optimist. Mutharika is 78, but he is in good health as he has often reminded us. If for some other reason he is unable to carry out his duties, the perennial optimist in me sees no catastrophe; but that Chimulirenji will rise to the occasion.
So, yes, I am a perennial optimist. And that's the whole point of writing this. I believe in human and institutional capacity to evolve and change for better. I believe in democracy's ability to bring positive change. And needless to add, in God working that odd miracle.
And, yes I voted for change. But while the change that I ticked in the ballot box had a name, the tangible change I longed for was not about the name of the president or the ruling party. Yes, symbols matter, but the change this country needs is not about symbols, but how this country is governed.
So while the ballot offered me a choice on who was my best bet to bring that change, I know that change can come from anyone who elects to rise to the occasion and do the right thing.
My optimism might look far-fetched and grounded in idealism. But despite watching the DPP's excesses of the last five years, I am hoping that the party will reform in the second term. I hope Mutharika will appoint new ministers and aides that will ground his policy and actions in reason and vision, not just parasitic party loyalists lacking in patriotism and vision.
I hope Mutharika will heed the piercing cry of the 63 percent of the voters who rejected the malaise of the past half decade and he'll seek to forge a nation building agenda.
I know Mutharika can do it. His presidency has not been impressive, in my estimation, but his human qualities are impressive. Any man (or woman) who rise from a country of little international pedigree like ours and become a law professor at a top American University is a brilliant intellectual. And as I have repeatedly stated in the five years I reported on the Mutharika presidency, despite criticizing his policies, Mutharika long earned my respect as gentleman.
Out of fashion in these parts of the world, he has resisted the temptation to jail or maim his opponents as most of his peers would. The police food rations scandal withstanding, he has not squandered much of our national wealth through personal enrichment or vanity projects as the worst of his peers have done. He runs a relatively lean cabinet and seldom travels both locally or abroad. And his victory is enough testament that a big chunk of the population believes in his ability as a leader.
There is another reason for optimism. A nation's trajectory can change when least expected. In 2004, I didn't want another Mutharika to win the presidency. Bingu wa Mutharika was contesting on UDF ticket, then a symbol of executive arrogance and abuse of power.
Voting for Bingu looked tantamount to electing a Bakili Muluzi puppet—the puppet master drunk with power, bent on prolonging his grip on power through remote control. If it looks like a duck, quake like a duck, then its a duck, so we've been inducted to believe. When Bingu campaigned, the former Comesa chief looked and acted like the puppet-in-making. But from his inauguration onward, the other first Mutharika rose to the occasion and sought to be on the right side of history.
Because symbols matter, Bingu dumped the yellow of UDF and formed the DPP dressed in blue. He then went on to govern the country differently from the UDF script; fought corruption—launching his famous zero tolerance to corruption —even arresting the supposed puppet-master. He delivered food security, infrastructure face-lift and robust economic growth. By 2009, I was among the millions of Malawians who elected to grant Bingu a deserved landslide re-election.
So despite every instinct telling me that you can't teach old dogs new tricks, despite the polarization of today, despite the edge to turn to cynicism and wonder through the incoming DPP years with little hope, I am full of hope that the DPP will turn the fortunes of the country. I am a football man, and football is a game of two halves. Peter Mutharika, too, can make a genuine comeback.
And I hope Malawians will rally behind the president's agenda, too. I am hopeful for the sake of our children, for our country, they will unite towards a new common vision. I hope, there will be a vision. But if DPP elects to govern as it did in the last five years, it will be digging a political grave.
History is replete of parties and politicians mightier who misread their ability to win or rig elections, or silence the opposition, as sign that they will govern forever. A good example could be DPP's vanquished election rival, MCP. At the prime of its 31-year tyranny, MCP stopped caring about the will and aspirations of the people. It murdered scores mercilessly, snatched wealth of innocent, razed down villages, jailed many in mosquito-infested prisons for decades, all for very flimsy reasons.
Many Malawians have never forgiven MCP to date– because symbolism matters and they cant countenance the idea of voting for a party that tortured their fathers, mothers, uncles, sisters, aunties, cousins.
Another example could be UDF, a party that fought hard to destroy the MCP autocracy but after heralding the fight for democracy; became too complacent in power. Its young militias terrorized the party's opponents; roughed up journalists, politicians, church leaders, civil society and ordinary citizens.
Its leaders (including the president according to the Anti-Corruption Bureau) defrauded the state and stagnated the economy, squandered the goodwill of donors (literally chased Denmark for criticizing rampant corruption) and precipitated the downward spiral of standards in public service, the wanton corruption and most ills of today.
UDF became a personal estate of the Muluzi family, which tried every trick to prolong its grip to power, while alienating most of the party's talented leaders and decimating its own support base. Today, UDF has been reduced to a shell of its old self. UDF, as its patriarch would have it, is today "worn out like old curtains." In the incoming Parliament, UDF will have a paltry 10 MPs. And among them, is not even its leader Atupele Muluzi who lost his Machinga North East constituency to a little known independent candidate. UDF has no hope of winning a presidential election ever again and for all intents and purposes, UDF is dead and buried, politically.
The the lesson of history, in short, is that no party can survive the poison of greed, abuse of power and arrogance for long. And no party is too big to fail. No class of political operatives, too smart.
Yes, corruption through rigging and buying off other crucial players can win you elections, for some time, but corruption rails the poor and the voters eventually—and breeds resentment. Throughout human civilization, greed by the ruling class has caused bloody violent revolutions. And at some point, parties full of selfish narrow interests implode, somehow.
So we don't know what will happen to the DPP in the short and long term future. We are no prophets. Mutharika is entering his last term of office, there will be a tricky question of succession to deal with while navigating through the usual business of governing.
The opposition is like a wounded buffalo, too, and would typically seek to capitalize on any mishap. We, in the media, and colleagues in civil society, will also try to ensure we provide the usual checks and balances.
But as a citizen, I am not looking forward to any mishaps.
Mutharika has his work cut out for him. Of immediate concern is the wound of divisions that has engulfed the national psyche. The ongoing post-election violence have taken dangerous tribal undertones that bodes ill for national unity. The voting patterns, as well, confirmed our worst fears about tribe being the main motivation of most Malawian voters. With exception of the urban population and northern region, the rest of the country, as many have lamented, participated "in a census of tribes" and not civilized politics. This is a ticking time bomb. And Mutharika, somehow, must diffuse it.
Then, there is corruption, a past time for most of Mutharika's henchmen. Our people's misery is being compounded, regime after regime, by the criminality of those in power. Senior and junior officers are taking turns, competing on plundering Capital Hill, hospitals, schools, pension schemes, government revenue, donor aid, etc!
This, too, Mutharika must address, with urgency, despite his failings in the first term.
As I journalist, I 'know' why Mutharika won. For one, history will record the role of the correction fluid—Tippex. But to reduce Mutharika's whole victory to election irregularities or rigging, no matter how rampant the complaints and evidence, is to miss the point and possibly deny the presidency legitimacy it deserves.
Secondly, the impressive work of DPP's founding patriarch in his first term ensured that DPP is a national party with vibrant structures that earned the admiration of many Malawians. So while DPP lost the vote in the central and northern regions, thanks to Bingu's first term, many people still supported DPP to extent that Peter trailed, but not ridiculously far off as Chakwera and MCP did in the south.
Then, there is tribalism. DPP, like its main opponent MCP, has a power-base of tribal loyalists who cares little about the ability of its leader but his identity, namely his home district and tribe, to the extent that their vote was a guarantee.
And finally, there was a fragmented opposition that divided the majority vote of those who wanted Mutharika out.
But while I am not a fan of the president's first term, to reduce his whole victory simply to his brother and tribalism, is simply being disingenuous. Across the country, in towns and villages, when you speak of Mutharika's record, people also tell you that he has built roads—regardless of the laughable quality of those roads.
In the cyclone hit areas, they tell you the president has delivered timely relief. In every village, women and elderly, the ultra-poor, have benefited from social cash transfer programmes supported by western countries, but which the villagers attribute to the president. For such voters, who are mostly in majority, the age of the president, a preoccupation of many in cities and his rivals, the stinking corruption, the lack of concise and clear development agenda, his procrastination in attending to emerging national issues, the rapid collapse of social services, the sight of young learners under trees, souring unemployment, the rags dressed by their children, their leaking huts, doesn't matter as much. Those are the preoccupation of the elite.
So Mutharika won. Not with a landslide, not without question marks over credibility of the polls, but he won. And he will be my president, too. I am hence looking forward to a presidency in good elements; and a president in robust health. On top of his game.
I want Mutharika to transform this country, or at least its fortunes. I wish the same for the First Lady, the incoming cabinet and parliament. I wish the president well, not because I have suddenly had a change of heart on what his first term did to this country—the poorest in the world, but because I wish this country well and like a passenger in a car, you want the one on the driving seat to do his job well. If not for his sake, but your own. I would wish the same for every president.
The task of remolding the economy is enormous. The trappings of power are ever present. And behind his back, the DPP rank and file will be plotting succession which can, if mismanaged, prove retrogressive to the national building effort by distracting the president and those around him.………………


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