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You could describe the Wild, which might have played its best checking game of the season in beating Chicago 3-2 in overtime on Sunday, as a team on a roller coaster.
The Wild outshot the NHL's highest-scoring team 29-17 over the first 40 minutes of Game 3 of the first-round playoff series. But after the Wild took a 2-1 lead on Zach Parise's third-period goal, the Blackhawks dominated the rest of the third period, eventually tying the score and forcing overtime. The Wild finished with a 37-27 advantage in shots on goal.
Jason Zucker scored 2 minutes, 15 seconds into OT, giving the Wild a playoff victory before a capacity crowd that cheered the home team on from the moment the puck dropped.
General Manager Chuck Fletcher believed that this victory would give the Wild some confidence going into Tuesday's Game 4 at home. The Wild will have a chance to tie the series at two games apiece.
How would you figure this team out after watching it play so well Sunday?
The Wild ended the season on a rough stretch, almost falling all of the way out of the playoffs after leading the division. On April 18, the Wild lost at San Jose 6-1, and it followed that two days later with a 4-1 loss at home to Calgary, a team that missed the playoffs.
That was followed by a big 2-1 home victory over defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles on April 23. But with a chance to clinch a playoff berth in the second-to-last game of the season, the Wild instead lost another home game to Edmonton, a team that missed the playoffs. The Wild gave up three first-period goals to the Oilers and fell 6-1.
Those losses, combined with victories by Columbus, meant the Wild had to win its season finale at Colorado to simply make the playoffs. The Wild did win 3-1, earning the matchup with Chicago.
Game 1 at United Center was very competitive, even with Josh Harding having to start in goal for the injured Niklas Backstrom, as the Wild lost 2-1 in overtime. But Game 2 was reminiscent of the Wild's struggles toward the end of the season, as the Blackhawks dominated on their way to an easy 5-2 victory.
The top line of Parise, Mikko Koivu and Charlie Coyle hadn't scored a goal in the playoffs until Parise's go-ahead goal Sunday. Coyle does have two assists, but Koivu does not have a point.
The big star of the playoffs for the Wild has to be Harding, who has been outstanding after essentially not playing all season. Harding, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis, stopped 25 shots for the Wild on Sunday, while Chicago goalie Corey Crawford made 34 saves as the Wild failed to capitalize on a number of good chances to score.
Big turnover
Tommy Thompson, the former assistant general manager with the Wild and now a scout with the New York Rangers, attended the game and saw a few of his former players on the ice. Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Stephane Veilleux are the only two Wild players who were with the team in 2002-03, when it went to the Western Conference finals. Veilleux did not play in any playoff games in 2003, and Sunday's game was his first game in a Wild uniform this season after he spent most of the year with Houston of the American Hockey League.
Besides those two, Koivu, Harding and Backstrom are the only players left from the Wild's last playoff team.
Thompson has a lot of respect for the Blackhawks and believed it was an accomplishment for the Wild to play them as tough as the team did. "They were the best team in the regular season," Thompson said.
What makes them so good?
"The fact that they have a lot of people in their lineup that can score, they have four lines that can put pressure on you and all their defensemen can handle the puck and join the offense," Thompson said.
Saunders working
Flip Saunders, the new Timberwolves president of basketball operations, doesn't plan to make many changes, if he makes any changes at all, in the operation until after the draft.
"I'm going to evaluate the whole staff and everything we're doing," he said.
"… It's going to be an evaluation period, pretty much myself along with coach [Rick] Adelman, and try to find players through the draft and then players that we might target in free agency that are going to fit into Coach Adelman's system, and give him the opportunity to have the success that we want to generate."
Adelman plans to travel to the Twin Cities next week from his home in Portland, Ore., to talk about the roster and other basketball matters.
As for Adelman deciding whether he wants to continue to coach, Saunders said there is no timetable for that decision.
"I'm really assuming that Rick is going to be back," said Saunders. "Mary Kay [Adelman's wife] has made good progress here recently. But I told Rick, 'I don't want you to think you have to make a decision [right now].' But I believe he's going to be back, and that's how we're progressing."
• Nick Leddy, the former Gophers defenseman from Eden Prairie who was traded from the Wild to the Blackhawks, is one of the top defensemen for Chicago. He played 16 minutes, 42 seconds Sunday, and according to some of the scouts there, he has done a great job for his team as its third-leading defensive scorer.
• Wide receiver Andre McDonald, one of the top-rated Gophers football recruits last year, dropped out of school for a period but will enroll in summer school and join the team's summer program. He will be on the team this fall if he does well in class.
• Louie Nanne, the former Edina High School player and grandson of Lou Nanne, played with Penticton in the British Columbia Hockey League this past season, scoring 41 points in 45 games. He will also play there next season if he doesn't need shoulder surgery. He has signed to play for the Gophers and was drafted by the Wild in 2012.
• Orono High School product and former Wisconsin standout Jon Leuer is on the Memphis Grizzlies playoff roster after averaging 2.0 points and 1.3 rebounds in 6.7 minutes per game this season. The Grizzlies lost 93-91 to Oklahoma City in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Sunday. Leuer has played only three minutes in the postseason.
• St. Paul native and former Gophers hockey star Kyle Okposo scored his second postseason goal Sunday, a shorthanded goal in the third period that helped the New York Islanders force overtime against the Penguins. Pittsburgh ultimately won Game 3 5-4. Okposo also scored the winning goal in Game 2.


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Angola's ruling MPLA party secured a landslide parliamentary election victory on Wednesday, setting the stage for changes that critics fear could make the presidency even more powerful and weaken other institutions.
President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and other senior MPLA officials had campaigned hard to win the two-thirds majority needed to alter the country's constitution. They have not specified what changes are in the works.
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The elections in Angola were under intense scrutiny in light of the shambles in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Spotlight now shifts to Malawi, which is due for an election soon. Campaign battle is raging between incumbent President Bingu wa Mutharika and former President Bakili Muluzi who is in the race.
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Megadeth to Release New Album, 'TH1RT3EN,' on November 1
The release date seems to be set in stone — or maybe in this case, it should be set in metal: Megadeth's new studio album, 'TH1RT3EN,' will arrive Nov. 1 on Roadrunner Records.
"This record is the culmination of my work over the 13 records I recorded," singer, guitarist and leader Dave Mustaine said. "There are moments on 'TH1RT3EN' that capture my every emotion, and other moments where I am releasing feelings I never knew existed! My proudest moments of my musical career are captured on 'TH1RT3EN.'"
The number 13 has always had a special place in Mustaine's heart. He was born on Sept. 13, and at age 13, he started playing guitar.
Megadeth's 13th album marks the recorded return of bassist Dave Ellefson. He's been playing shows with Megadeth since early 2010, but he hasn't recorded with the band since 'Rude Awakening,' which was released in 2002.
In other Megadeth news, the paperback edition of 'Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir' — featuring a new chapter — arrived in stores this week.


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INDIO >> Calvin Harris punished the main Coachella stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in a good way Sunday night with constant electro house mixes as well as piercing lights and flames.
The audience supported Harris by constantly putting their hands in the air, yelling, jumping up and down and enjoying themselves.
Harris started with his 2011 radio hit "Feel So Close," and told the audience to sing along "if you know the words to this," and a good portion of the audience members who filled the main lawn of the Coachella stage area started singing in unison.
The DJ also mixed other songs into his set like the synthpop group Icona Pop's "I Love It," as well as his other hits, including "We Found Love," which he originally recorded with Rihanna. He did that song without the singer because she was performing with Eminem on the MTV Movie Awards.
Harris ended on "Sweet Nothing," which originally featured vocals from Florence Welch. But like Rihanna, she also did not appear.
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Wigan 1 - Zulte Waregem 2: Latics face uphill battle to qualify after Belgian defeat
WIGAN face an uphill battle to progress to the knockout stages of the Europa League after succumbing to a 2-1 defeat at home to Zulte Waregem.
Junior Malanda's 88th-minute winner means qualification from Group D is now out of the Latics' hands.
After Rubin Kazan and Maribor had drawn earlier in the evening, Wigan knew victory at the DW Stadium would be enough to guarantee their passage through to the last 32.
But they will now need to beat Maribor in Slovenia in their final group game next month and hope Zulte lose to Rubin.
The main sense of frustration for Owen Coyle and his players will be that the damage was largely self-inflicted.
Leon Barnett opened the scoring in the seventh minute and the hosts had no shortage of opportunities to extend their lead.
But they could not take any of them and in the 37th minute they shot themselves in the foot by allowing Zulte to equalise.
Loose play from Wigan set the visitors away on a break, and Lee Nicholls compounded the error by dropping Thorgan Hazard's shot into his own net.
Wigan's Europa League fate is now out of their hands
Hazard is the brother of Chelsea star Eden and is on loan from Jose Mourinho's side, but his shot should certainly have been kept out by Nicholls, who had not had a save to make up to that point.
The Latics will now turn their attention back to the Sky Bet Championship and Sunday's visit of Derby, where Will Keane will provide Coyle with another option up front after signing on loan from Manchester United on Thursday.
Wigan came flying out of the blocks and it took them only seven minutes to make it count.
Callum McManaman tricked his way into the box on the right hand side and pulled the ball back for Jordi Gomez.
The Spaniard sliced his shot badly but the ball fell perfectly for Barnett, who produced a striker's finish by guiding his volley into the bottom corner.
It was the centre-back's fourth of the season but his first in European competition.
The directness of McManaman and James McClean on the wings was causing Zulte all sorts of problems and a second goal looked well within their grasp.
In the 13th minute, McManaman skipped past two defenders in the centre of the box and his shot was well saved by Sammy Bossut.
The goalkeeper was a busy man and soon after he was called upon to push behind a shot from McClean, who might have been better picking out Gomez as the Latics failed to make the most of a three-on-one break.
Nick Powell has been Wigan's main man in Europe, scoring three times, and he was the next to be denied by a block from Bossut.
Zulte had been on the back foot for the majority of the half but they shocked their hosts by pulling level eight minutes before half-time.
There did not look to be any threat as Barnett forced a corner at the other end, but Zulte cleared and a mix-up resulted in James McArthur sending the Belgians off on the counter-attack before the ball was played out to Hazard on the right of the area.
Nicholls opted to try to catch the Chelsea man's firmly-struck shot but it was a decision he regretted as the ball slipped through his hands and into the net.
Wigan only had themselves to blame, but they were nearly ahead again before half-time, Thomas Rogne glancing Gomez's corner across goal and wide when he really should have found the net.
Wigan were committing a lot of men forward and they were almost caught out in the early stages of the second half but Stephen Crainey did well to block Ibrahima Conte's shot.
The Belgians had settled into the game, and their small but noisy band of fans had high hopes when Hazard let fly again, although this time his shot did not trouble Nicholls.
Powell's first real chance arrived in the 61st minute as Steve Colpaert made a hash of clearing a cross from Crainey.
The on-loan Manchester United man struck his shot well from the edge of the box but it was too close to Bossut, who again produced a good save.
Gomez is often given a rough ride by the Wigan fans and there were loud cheers as he was replaced by Marc-Antoine Fortune with 26 minutes left.
Hazard was certainly the main dangerman as far as the Latics were concerned and his cheeky free-kick might have crept in the near post - understandably Nicholls was not taking any chances.
Both sides continued to push for a winner and McArthur was only a whisker away in the 79th minute with a shot just wide.
It was Wigan looking the more likely but they were hit with a sucker punch in the 88th minute as Malanda took aim from the edge of the box and found the top corner.


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Learned to Surf: Fisker shooting brake to debut at Paris motor show
February 27, 2012
In an effort to ameliorate the Fisker Karma's distinct lack of trunk space, the boutique eco-luxe company showed off the wagonoid Karma Surf production-oriented concept at the 2011 Frankfurt show.
Now word has come down from Orange County, Calif., that the Surf is indeed a go, despite the company's recent woes. The production version will make its debut at the Paris auto show later this year.
While purists might argue that a true shooting brake has only two passenger doors, given the spate of four-door "coupes" in the last decade, we posit that the new Karma fits the bill. However one chooses to classify the configuration, we really dig it, reminiscent as it is of the Ferrari 250 Drogo, the 1980 Mercury Colony Park that we knocked around in during the early 1990s and, of course, the mighty Lynx Eventer, the ne plus ultra of Jaguar XJS style.
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Kings keep rolling with 3-1 win over Flamesby Curtis Zupke
LOS ANGELES – Jarret Stoll and the Los Angeles Kings. Two-game. Set. Match.
In the second straight game against the Calgary Flames, Stoll's first-period goal and a diving clear of the puck during a Flames' 5-on-3 advantage in the third helped the Kings complete a two-game series sweep with a 3-1 win at Staples Center on Monday.
The game further sent the teams in opposite directions. L.A. hit the halfway mark victorious in 11 of 14 and improved to 9-0-1 at home since its season-opening, banner-raising loss against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Calgary leaves Southern California reeling, having gone 0-3 and outscored 13-3. Stoll's play was the face of the game as L.A.'s defense tried to curb the Flames.
"It wasn't clean," Stoll said. "It's wasn't pretty. It was hack-and-whack out there a lot of times. Pucks were all over the place, and sometimes it seems like there were more than one or two pucks out there … we found a way to win."
A window opened for the Flames to get back into the game and perhaps salvage it when they forced L.A. into two penalties at the start of the third period. But they couldn't convert on the 27-second two-man advantage. Moments later, Matt Stajan's glorious chance from the right circle hit Jonathan Quick square in the mask.
Mikael Backlund ruined Quick's shutout bid with a move around Alec Martinez and a shot under Quick's leg with 5:22 left. Dustin Brown added an empty-net goal to assure the Kings of their ninth win in the past 11 games.
Calgary is 0-5-1 in its last six road games. The trip comes after wins against the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks.
"We got out-battled, outplayed," captain Jarome Iginla said. "This is definitely a big step in the wrong direction. We have to go home and we've got to win games, but this one, this trip definitely put us a ways back."
Asked what it's going to be like returning to Calgary, Iginla said, "I can understand that fans would be upset. We're upset. We're in last place. It's unacceptable. Nobody will give up in this room. It's our responsibility to get ready to play the next one and get ready to win. But we understand that Calgary Flames fans would be upset. They've have a lot of passion and they should be. We're not winning games and we're not winning them consistently."
L.A. took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission on slick passes by defensemen Slava Voynov and Jake Muzzin.
Muzzin made a great pinch to keep the puck in at the wall and wrapped a no-look pass around a defender to Stoll for a water-bottle snap shot and 2-0 lead at 9:40. Muzzin initially struggled with increased responsibility when injuries hit the Kings' defense, but the 24-year-old is a plus-9 in his past eight games.
"It was a great look," Stoll said of Muzzin. "He almost had me 10 seconds earlier in that same area. He's been making good plays since he got called up. He's a great player. He's making strides every game. Just found a hole."
Calgary started Joey MacDonald in place of Miikka Kiprusoff, and there wasn't much MacDonald could do on the first goal.
Voynov fed an open Brown for a one-timer into an open net on the power play at 5:39. It capped a terrific stretch for Voynov, who is quietly putting together a breakout season. He has 11 points in the past nine games.
"Right now he's playing at a high level, which is a big part of our success," Brown said. "You look at our scoring totals lately – it's pretty high for us. A lot of it is because of our defense, not only Slava but Drew [Doughty] and Muzz and [Martinez] are jumping up, keeping pucks in. You can see it in our O-zone play."
The winless trip somewhat masks periods of strong play for Calgary, which outplayed the Anaheim Ducks for about 35 minutes and largely carried the play over the last 40 minutes in this rematch.
Calgary coach Bob Hartley went on a big-picture tangent when asked about the challenge of restoring confidence going into the team's next game at the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday.
"What's our challenge? We're NHL players," Hartley said. "We are part of the best hockey League in the world. It is a very easy challenge. Obviously, we need to bring it on the ice. Tomorrow morning is another day. Just look around in your neighborhood. Look around in the society. There's much worse than losing a couple of games of hockey.
"So I think you get right back, and you go to work. It's as simple as this. No one feels sorry for us. That's the way it is and we just have to find a way to be better."
Cory Sarich was inserted for the first time since Feb.18. Los Angeles swept a season series against Calgary for the first time since 1999-00.


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Some of the games he's worked on include Far Cry 3, Dark Souls II, Star Wars: Old Republic and Force Unleashed (though there are also images from a personal graphic novel project, Fading Oasis). You can see more of Joshua's work at his personal site and CGHub page.
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What Do We Know about the Impact of Tax Reforms on Private Sector Development?
I recently conducted a literature review on the impact of tax reforms on private sector development as part of the Investment Climate Impact Project.1 My goal was to take stock of what is currently known about the impact of reforms that the World Bank is supporting in this area and to identify the gaps in knowledge that we ought to fill by conducting more impact evaluations. While tax reforms can have a broad range of effects in the economy, the focus here was on private sector outcomes only, as measured by investment, tax evasion by formal firms, formal firm creation, and firms' economic performance.
It turns out that most papers in this area study the impact of changing tax rates. Both cross-country and micro-level studies suggest that lowering tax rates can increase investment, reduce tax evasion, promote formal firm creation and ultimately lead to an increase in firms' sales and GDP growth overall. However, lowering tax rates also has important implications for government revenue and it is thus often difficult to balance the trade-offs between various goals of public policy.


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Does anyone know any good references aside from the examples programs in papi source code and the user guide, on how Papi and pthreads work?
I am trying to use PAPI to determine IPC of parallel programs/applications.
1)When PAPI tries to determine the IPC, does it just keep track of the program it self or is the kernel included? If the kernel is not included, Is it possible to keep track of the kernel as well (system calls)?
2)What happens if threads cannot be pinned down to processors, and there is tons of thread migration, is this an issue?
3)I am using heavily pipe lined parallel programs is this an issue when trying to determine events such as IPC, cant I just create a situation where papi counters are cleared prior to program execution on all processors, then read once the program stops executing? (this way I can have kernel interactions included, as well as other threads..etc, if this is possible I assume accuracy is sacrificed).
I am not that interested in having highly accurate result, I just want to a ball park number on my benchmarks (I am only focusing on the IPC at the moment).


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Digital natives in an always-on world, today's retail customers not only own the shopping experience—they can also reconfigure it, manipulating myriad devices across multiple channels, pretty much at will. Most retailers struggle to keep up with them. But Accenture research and experience suggest that they could do better—by deconstructing the "24/7" paradigm that defines non-stop customers' lives.
Let's start with the "2" goals of any investment designed to meet non-stop needs. Firstly, it should increase the desire for a product or service; and secondly, it should lessen the pain involved in getting it to the customer. Ideally, it should satisfy both aims at once.
Your goals should also align with the "4" pillars of the seamless customer experience that Accenture research has identified: Know Me; Inform Me; Make It Easy And Engaging For Me; and Get It To Me.
Then, with goals and pillars aligned, you can start to leverage the "7" building blocks that we believe will be fundamental to success:
Unlock Big Data
To really know your customer, you need a 720-degree view of that customer, where the "second lap" is all about what you do on a daily basis with the insights generated. Only then can you make more effective decisions around how products, prices and promotions influence an individual's buying behavior.
Double Down on Analytics
The non-stop customer is always evaluating—before, during and after purchase—and sharing those evaluations with others. That means you too have to continually re-evaluate (and re-prioritize) where and how to invest, per customer, per day. Only then can you discover what resonates best with each individual.
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Customers expect to be fully informed about what's available. Which means you need to give them access to truly reliable inventory, right across the enterprise, and in real time.
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In a search-driven world, high-quality content, extendable to encompass enriched and creative contexts, is critical.
Thoughtfully Designed Experiences
Follow Apple's benchmark-setting example by creating a dedicated design platform for new seamless services that will allow you to imagine, pilot and scale thoughtfully designed customer experiences rapidly and effectively.
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Customers expect to get their product their way. By leveraging Big Data and analytics, and revamping your supply chain on the basis of the insights generated, you can fulfill a multiplicity of customer delivery needs.
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The BIG Kahuna needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 87 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Stain to Go
We are Canadian based International marketing co that manufactures and distributes consumer based products for cleaning, infection control and hand hygiene. We focus on categories of products that are not new, but existing and refine a leading products approach, formula , and packaging to relaunch under our own name. Our approach is to bring value and practicality of use in our products to consumers in an eco friendly way, i.e. attention to use of materials in production and packaging.
Located in Toronto, with a lab in Montreal, all products are developed produced and and manufactured in Canada for export.
The target market here is decidedly female as the purchaser 16-60, but the end users can be also male. The product, Stain to Go is a mimic of the existing leading brand product, Tide to Go, the portable stain remover pen first launch by international brand co TIDE 3 years ago. see the link below to review:
1. Design a logo for the words: Stain to Go
look at "Tide to Go" previous designs, they are on their third redesign in 3 years now. if you Google Tide to Go images, you will see previous designs.
present design for the Logo format, use in merchandising packaging, which is a blister card, hang tag display.
2. Next "project" will be the blister card design (again see Tide to Go retail packaging for details here) format and retail display tray for 8-12 'blister cards, and a brief website.
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Adjustment disorder is an excessive, lengthy reaction to a stressful event or situation. It could be one stressor or a combination of stressors affecting one person or a group of people. This reaction seriously damages social and occupational functioning.
There are several subtypes of the disorder, including adjustment disorder with:
Adjustment disorders develop in reaction to stressful life events or major life changes. Some common stressors are:
In some cases, ongoing problems, such as living in an unsafe, crime-ridden neighborhood, may cause the development of an adjustment disorder over a longer period of time.
Women may be at a higher risk for adjustment disorder than men. However, risk for boys and girls is similar. Other factors that may increase your risk for adjustment disorder may include:
People who face certain stressors like medical problems or living in challenging environments may be at greater risk.
The stressor itself may also interfere with an individual's support network.
Certain early-childhood family history factors seem to increase the chance that a person may suffer from an adjustment disorder in the future. These include:
Individuals who are at higher risk for adjustment disorders often have other conditions, such as a history of
bipolar disorder, or
eating disorders.
Adjustment disorder symptoms are expected to begin within 3 months and disappear within 6 months after the causing stressor and/or its results have been removed. In the case of chronic adjustment disorder, the symptoms may last longer than 6 months. In general, they are related to ongoing persistent stressors like a chronic medical disability.
Symptoms may vary, but are similar in that the reaction to the stressor is worse or more excessive than expected. In order for a diagnosis of adjustment disorder to be made, symptoms must interfere with an individual's social or work functioning.
Symptoms include:
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Your doctor will perform an exam. It will be used to assess whether your symptoms follow a recent stressful event, and if the symptoms are more severe than what is normal for you. You will also be evaluated to make sure there are no underlying disorders or disease, such as depression, an anxiety disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Your doctor may refer you to a psychiatrist for diagnosis and treatment.
The main goal of treatment is to resolve symptoms and return the person to a normal level of functioning. Treatment is important so that the disorder doesn't become a larger illness, like major depression. Treatment options include:
Psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, or counseling are the primary treatments for adjustment disorders. Therapy is used to help people understand why the stressful event caused the symptoms. It also helps develop coping mechanisms for future stressors. Therapy is generally short-term and can take any of the following forms:
Medications may be used in combination with therapy to ease common symptoms. They are generally prescribed on a short-term basis until the symptoms resolve.
Medications may treat:
While there is no known way to prevent adjustment disorders, the prognosis is good. Adjustment disorders generally resolve with treatment and time.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Casey P. Adult adjustment disorder: A review of its current diagnostic status.
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Second up on 11th March was our U13s. With a squad of 11 available there was lots of versatility amongst the girls. The squad has been playing weekly on the Leyland Junior League and we were looking for them to really show us how they improved and developed. Starting 7: GK Emily, GD Sophie, WD Emma, C Kaiseen, WA Amber, GA Jess, GS Annie, Subs (Katie, Ruby, Lauren, Liv) The girls got straight to task getting two quick goals on the board with Jess and Annie linking up well - undoubetdly as a
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Bill Branson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de tema de wordpress y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Bill Branson describes himself as a "recovering IT Executive turned business consultant and coach."
He has over 30 years experience working with systems including automotive, computer, network, and business processes, and for the last 10 years in particular, the most complex system of all: the systems of people we call teams.
Bill is a popular industry speaker and former instructor at the UW extension program teaching computer and networking technology.
As founder of Strategic Business Architects in 2006, Bill helps business owners, executives, and the teams they manage, make the most of themselves, their organizations, and their relationships.
I target several audiences that all have things in common:
- The need to build and maintain cohesive teams - business owners, collaborative divorce lawyers, chamber of commerce boards, project management teams, etc
- The need to have a strategic plan for moving forward
See my existing web page
I am looking a Wordpress theme that will be installed on my web presense with a new Wordpress site. The winning design will be coded and installed by a 99designs coding partner.
I'll be using Wordpress as a website that will have general information up front, then navigation for specific verticals. I'll also be using the blogging features as well as an aMember add in for membership managerment.
I use two metaphors pretty heavily: architecture for those trying to create a new business or breath new life into an an existing one - just like you hire an architect to help you take your concept and turn it into reality through design, planning, and oversight I do the same thing with companies and teams.
For existing businesses that may not be running on all cylinders I use an auto metaphor - just like you take your car in if it is not running like you would like the technician uses tools and knowledge to isolate the problem and resolve it. You go from dysfunction to functional. If you'd still like better performance you take it to a performance engineer who can then design and add the things that take it from functional to a high-performance vehicle. I do the same with existing businesses.
Therefore I would like to see things like teams of business people interacting, artifacts of architecture and also of high-performance vehicles if at all possible.


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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will hold off on new sanctions against Russia as part of a deal struck Thursday that calls for Moscow to stand down outlaw militias and take other steps to restore calm to volatile eastern Ukraine.
The agreement, reached after six hours of crisis talks in the Swiss city of Geneva, is the first major diplomatic breakthrough of the crisis. It arrived right on time for President Barack Obama, who was poised to levy new sanctions despite a reluctance to involve the United States more deeply in the crisis. While surely relieved, the Obama administration remained too wary of Russian ambitions to give the moment much fanfare.
Obama played it down as a "glimmer of hope," adding, "We're not going to count on it until we see it." In Geneva, Secretary of State John Kerry also hedged, praising the talks with his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union as "a good day's work" but warning that Washington would have no choice but to return to the sanctions track if Moscow didn't live up to its pledges.
"It is absolutely clear now that what is important is that these words are translated immediately into actions. And none of us leave here with the sense that the job is done because the words are on the paper," Kerry told a news conference. "The job will not be done until these principles are implemented, until they are followed up on."
The agreement calls for the dissolution of outlaw military groups, the return of occupied buildings and public squares, and amnesty for anti-government protesters. The parties condemned extremism and religious intolerance, specifically anti-Semitism, in strong terms, an apparent response to recent reports that Jews in parts of eastern Ukraine had been ordered to identify themselves by faith. Kerry called that development "grotesque."
A monitoring mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is tasked with helping the parties implement the steps outlined in the deal.
Some foreign policy analysts said the administration was correct in exhibiting only muted optimism about the agreement, given the deep mistrust among the parties and uncertainty over Russian President Vladimir Putin's end game. Russia and Ukraine also have many thorny talks ahead over the degree of autonomy that pro-Russian enclaves in Ukraine would enjoy, and on the sensitive issue of energy debts.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Geneva that the talks left him "hopeful," but he reiterated Moscow's demand for long-term constitutional revisions that would protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine. The country plunged into crisis following the ouster in February of the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych.
Pro-Russian militias and protesters have seized buildings and other government property in eastern Ukraine, pushing the country's weak interim government toward direct military confrontation with ethnic Russian separatists and their apparent backers across the border. The Geneva deal is designed to stave off that scenario, but it remains to be seen whether Russia will follow through on its pledge to stand down forces or whether those militias even would heed such orders from Moscow.
"On paper, it's a big breakthrough, for sure, and there's no reason to believe that an agreement like that couldn't satisfy the interests of fundamentally all sides with significant compromises on all sides," said Jeremy Shapiro, a foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
However, he added, "the problem that we have is that the Russian efforts in Ukraine have never been transparent and have always been at least semi-denied, so it becomes difficult to assess whether the Russians are actually adhering to it."
The deal also represents a darker breakthrough moment for the West, which finally appears to acknowledge the new ground truth in Ukraine: Crimea is Russia's, and there's little use in asking for its return. U.S. officials have refused to acknowledge Putin's land grab, calling it only an "attempted" annexation and deeming the action "illegitimate."
Kerry grew defensive at the Geneva news conference when confronted with the question of whether the West had given up on Crimea. He said U.S. sanctions had been imposed only days ago because of Russia's seizure of Crimea and said that the U.S. side had made it "crystal clear" to the Russians that deep differences remained over Crimea.
Kerry suggested that the Geneva talks were less about quibbling over Crimea and more about finding a resolution to a crisis that was nearing boiling point.
"We came here to get something done to reduce the violence, reduce the potential for a complete and total implosion and to try to move away from what is a spiraling downwards confrontation that takes nobody to a great place," he said. "Our hope is that we've opened up the opportunity to be able to do that, but no, nobody has left behind the issue of Crimea."
Russia specialists said the White House was adopting a more realistic approach, realizing that Crimea was gone and that demands for its return would be a dialogue-stopper.
Yet even from a post-Crimea starting point, analysts said, dealing with Russia is a gamble and the administration might still be forced back to the sanctions track. Some are also concerned that suspending sanctions action now means Putin will go unpunished for his most recent provocations in eastern Ukraine.
"Let's be optimistic, maybe this works and we never have to do that, in which case diplomacy works and that's great," said Will Pomeranz, deputy director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a research center. "But a lot of people have judged what's been going on already as warranting increased sanctions, and now we're not going to do that."
For now, Pomeranz warned, "don't crack open the champagne."
(Lesley Clark in Washington and McClatchy special correspondent John Zarocostas in Geneva contributed to this article.)
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WTP Development Status Meeting 2007-01-25
Announcements and Reminders
- Announcements:
- Conferences:
- EclipseCon2007 deadline extended (Jan 31) for short talk and demo submissions. BEA is offering two 100 dollar awards to two lucky WTP submissions.
- EclipseWorld2007, 11/6/2007-11/8/2007 in Reston, VA. The deadline for abstracts is 4/17/2007.
- Reminder:
- Please come to the meeting with your smoke test results posted to the wiki and ready to vote on declaration of the weekly builds.
- Due: 2007-02-16
- 1/26 - WTP PMC review and approval will begin for any changes.
- 2/2 - Release candidates available for testing.
- 2/5-2/9 - Test and Defect Verifications - No more changes after 2/9.
- 2/12 - Zips and update site files ready to start the mirror process.
- 2/16 - Join Callisto Winter Maintenance Release availability.
- Build Status - David?
- Plan for declaring the weekly 1.5.3M build?
- JUnit errors?
- PMC defect review will start tommorrow.
- Pieter - Bugs fixed in 1.5.3 report. Do you need anything else from teams?
- Smoke Test Scenarios
- Data Tools and JSF - Please publish your smoke test scenarios by adding a link here.
- Bug lists
- Resolved, Unverified (~365)
- Verified, Not closed (~9)
- 1.5.3 Hot Bug Requests (~0)
- 1.5.3 Hot Bugs (~2)
- Blockers, Criticals (~1)
- Remaining 1.5.3 Targeted Defects (~24)
- Total Defects Fixed for WTP 1.5.3 (~94)
Bug Graphs
- More detailed graphs to come, I have added some detailed queries for bugzilla to start tracking for us...
- Build Declaration Process Refined - See WTP Build Process and Procedures
- Build Status - David?
- JUnit errors?
- Plan for declaring the weekly M5 I Build?
- New and Noteworthy for M4 - See Nitin's note on updating your components' new and noteworthy. Status?
- M5 Plan - Recall M5 will be the build used at EclipseCon!
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- Smoke Test Scenarios
- Data Tools, JSF, ATF - Please publish your smoke test scenarios by adding a link here.
- Compatibility Tests for WTP 1.5 <--> WTP 2.0
- Information on what to test and how to publish your compatibility test plans can be found here.
- Only web services has entered this information, so we will start collecting status from each component next week.
- A JUnit test is fine, but please explain what the JUnit does. These tests only need to be run during milestion test passes.
- Usage Reports and Declared Build Tests
- Thanks to Rob F for contributing these reports for BEA. These numbers are added to the published numbers on the web.
- We have a lot of extension points which are not used at all, and many which are just used once. We should investigate these.
- Do we need to better define or discuss our process for deprecating and removing extension points?
- Actively working on enabling the API, breakage, and test coverage tests. We will publish these results with every weekly declared build. You can these test results for 2.0 M4 on the declared builds page. (There is an issue with the adopter breakage report results, however the breakage utility for use in your eclipse development workbench is working.)
- Performance tests will be the next line item. Goal is end of M5.
- Bug lists
- Untriaged (~53)
- Resolved, Unverified (~187)
- Resolved, Remind or Later (~37)
- Verified, Not closed (~14)
- 2.0 Hot Bug Requests (~0)
- 2.0 Hot Bugs (~0)
- Blockers, Criticals (~1)
- Open WTP Bugs with Patches Attached (~175)
- Total Defects Fixed for WTP 2.0 (~112)
Working Groups
- Java EE 5 Update
- There is a wiki page established for people to follow along.
- Chuck - ?
- Axis2 - Kathy - ?
- There is a wiki page for the Axis2 integration effort.
- Website Update - Bob F - ?
Other business?
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- Common Component Team
- Server Component Team
- Datatools (RDB, 1.5.x only)
- XML/JSP Component Team
- WTP 1.5.3 - Working on final bugs for the release.
- WTP 2.0 - Ongoing triaging for inclusion in plan.
- More focus will be given time permitting
- EclipseCon 2007
- Preparation of materials for the Extending the XML and source editors from the WTP Project Short Tutorial
- EclipseWorld 2007
- Nothing decided
- Web Services Component Team
- Java EE Component Team
- Dali JPA
- Continuing work on Defaults Processing
- Porting persistence.xml model
- Porting DB connectivity support
- Porting Entity Generation functionality
- Visual Page Designer
- Released Decorator for non-visual components. Detailed note to follow
- Fixed Resource leaks related to DND operations.
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The Ducks took care of business on Black Friday by defeating the Calgary Flames for the 18th consecutive time at the Honda Center and getting a needed tuneup to their game before opening a demanding stretch of games tonight against the Sharks in San Jose.
Dustin Penner scored two goals, Corey Perry added a goal and an assist and Ryan Getzlaf and Saku Koivu each had two assists as the Ducks overwhelmed the injury-depleted Flames 5-2 in front of a sellout crowd of 17,174.
Friday's victory was to be expected. After all, the Ducks are 18-7-3 overall and 10-0-1 at home this season. They haven't lost to the Flames (8-13-4) in Anaheim since a 5-1 defeat on Jan. 19, 2004, the longest winning streak over one opponent in the franchise's 20-year history.
Calgary played without five of its top players because of injuries.
What happens next might say a great deal about where the Ducks are headed. No question, they have been very good so far this season by hovering at or near the top of the NHL standings from the opening week. What they do tonight against the Sharks and in the following days could be telling.
After visiting San Jose for their 18th away game in 29 contests to start the season, the Ducks return home to face the Kings on Tuesday before hitting the road again to play the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks on Friday and the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
The Blackhawks, Blues, Sharks, Ducks and Kings held the top five spots in the NHL's overall standings at the start of business Friday. The Ducks aren't exactly looking forward to playing as difficult a stretch of games as they will face this season, but they call them curious.
"It's going to let us know where we are in the next four games," coach Bruce Boudreau said after the Ducks toyed with the undermanned Flames. "It'll give us a real good barometer of where we're at. In that sense, we're looking forward to seeing where we're at."
Koivu's return from a 15-game absence because of a concussion suffered in an Oct. 27 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets sparked the Ducks. He assisted on defenseman Sami Vatanen's goal 12:20 into the game and the Ducks were off and skating with a sense of purpose.
Koivu also assisted on Andrew Cogliano's second-period goal, a laser of a backhander that beat Calgary goaltender Reto Berra and gave the Ducks a 4-1 lead. Unlike a 6-3 loss Tuesday to the Stars in Dallas, the Ducks finished off the third period without the slightest hint of trouble.
"A lot of our offensive chances come off our forecheck and off the rush," the 39-year-old Koivu said. "Some nights you're not going to get results, but if you put the work in and you try to outwork the opponent good things happen.
"It's fun to play with those two guys (Cogliano and Daniel Winnik). For an older guy like me, when you see two young guys buzzing around and putting the work in, there's no choice but to join them and try to keep up."


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I know of no one better to highlight the evolution of college athletics more than Dan Starr, PhD. Doc, as most of us called him, was sort of an accidental athletics director. He is a history professor and ended up AD at Canisius College for nearly 26 years, during the time when conferences were forming and the split between Bowl Game schools and the rest of Division I.
As the story goes, the college paid $600 in repairs to future NBA thug Larry Fogle's car…so the AD gets fired and they ask squeaky clean Dan to come in and take care of things. His first order of business was cleaning up the mess with the NCAA. Timing, as they say, is everything and during this major infraction era conferences were born. That train passed our probation station but Doc made the best of it.
He got us into a conference that fits not only the philosophical mission of our institution but is also financially aligned with it. He elevated women's sports to varsity and can even boast the first NCAA Woman of the Year, Mary Beth Riley. But that is his press pack…I know SO much more…
I know that if you wanted a good laugh, watch him clean his office. When I say clean, I really mean look through the many piles of papers and books stacked up on every surface. When he announced his retirement he started to organize and pack…I think it took him two years and I think at the end he just put the rest of the stuff in boxes and brought it to his new office on the other side of campus where the history professors are located.
…and to this day I still get a random newspaper clip or book in my work mail, sometimes with a note of a funny memory and other times with no note at all. Other of my colleagues get the same thing…Doc must be cleaning again! I have kept most of them because he is so observant and his timing impeccable.
I have so many travel memories of Doc…the time he and I were at Disney having port wine with Father Cooke (president of the college at the time) and Father Dugan (longtime chaplain of the athletic department) in their hotel room with the door propped open for propriety…traveling to the NCAA Men's Basketball 1st round in 1996…driving back from Albany the night we won the MAAC in a mother of a snow storm when we stopped at every rest stop for coffee and to clean the windshield.
The best one was at the end of his AD career when our softball team made another trip to the NCAA tournament, this time in Los Angeles at UCLA. I was senior women's administrator at the time and it was clear the new AD, whose name will never be mentioned in any of my writings, was not going to keep me in that role. Dan got to the airport before I did and arranged for us to travel first class (particularly helpful for a trip across the country in less than 48 hours). After our game on Thursday we went to the JP Getty Museum then on to Marina Del Rey for some great Mexican food and cocktails. Anyone who knows Doc knows that a good cocktail is always a good idea! I'll never forget the toast. "You know Jude, it's been a great run. I've had a lot of fun. Thanks for whatever you did and for putting up with me all these years."
Cheers to you, Doc, forever enshrined in the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame!
Life is good!
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text: It should work if you have ipforwarding setup. There shouldn't be a difficulty since the channel bonded interfaces have to route through a single interface to the larger network. Why do you want to reach the outside from the beowulf? Do you want a one way, or two way connection? For security purposes, I never forward ip from the beowulf to the outside and tightly limit outside traffic to the gateway node. Mike Angelos Molfetas wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with >getting Channel bonding working with iptables? > >I am currently trying to configure a linux box which >acts as a gateway between our Beowulf cluster (channel >bonded) and the university network (single fast >ethernet). I trying to join (using SNAT/DNAT) the >gateway's public IP address with the master private IP >address. This way users can just ssh to the gateway >and it will automatically connect them to master node. > > >I don't think the problem is with my iptables scripts >as they run properly when the beowulf cluster is >running in single NIC mode. As soon, as we switch >channel bonding on, it refuses to work. > >I suspect that the linux kernel has problems routing >packets between a channel bonded interfaces (bond0 >[eth1 + eth2] for example) and a single NIC interfaces >(eth0 for example). > >I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar >problem in their beowulf building experience. > >Thanks, > >Angelos > >http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies >- What's on at your local cinema? >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > -- Mike Davis Web and Research Computing Services Unix Systems Manager Virginia Commonwealth University jmdavis at mail2.vcu.edu 804-828-3885 (fax: 804-828-9807)


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Report: Traveling to China? Leave the Mobile Devices at Home
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an interesting feature about how some companies and government agencies force employees to travel to China and Russia "electronically naked," in order to protect their organizations from cyber espionage.The assumption is that the second they cross the border, their devices will get hacked.
Reporter Nicole Perlroth profiled Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute, whose travel routine may strike some as, well, paranoid.
"He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings 'loaner' devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He connects to the Internet only through an encrypted, password-protected channel, and copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive. He never types in a password directly, because, he said, 'the Chinese are very good at installing key-logging software on your laptop.'"
But many other companies are following suit, preferring to assume guilt than innocence.
At McAfee, Perloth notes, if an employee's device was ever inspected at the Chinese border it could not be plugged into the company's network. Members of the House Intelligence Committee are only allowed to bring clean, factory reset devices, and are not allowed to connect to the government's network. Google employees going to China can only take loaner devices, which need to be scanned upon their return.
However my colleague Neil Rubenking notes that a simple scan and wipedown are insufficient protection from getting hacked or recorded. The most sophisticated and determined of cybercriminals can slip something into firmware, which is infinitely more difficult to detect or even prevent.
The takeaway? "DO NOT take anything sensitive to China or Russia and DO NOT attempt any sensitive communication from China or Russia," Rubenking says.
Although China and Russia officially condemn cyber espionage, U.S. counterintelligence experts aren't bashful about pointing fingers at both countries. In a November report from the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX), most network intrusion attempts originate from China, followed closely by Russia.
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Travelocity Tops Expedia in Annual Satisfaction Survey
MSNBC.com Travel | Squeezed between travel providers on one side and meta-search sites on the other, it seems online travel agencies (OTAs) have one ace in the hole: Consumers still like using them.
That's the upshot of a new American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report released on Tuesday. Focusing on Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline and Travelocity, the report rated overall satisfaction with the sites at 78 on a 100-point scale last year, matching the record high set the year before.
"A score of 78 is good," said Larry Freed, CEO and president at ForeSee, which helps produce the Index. "We consider 80 the threshold for a great performing site and they're bumping up right against it."
While the aggregate score was unchanged, individual results showed more fluctuation. After nine years in the top spot, Expedia slipped 3 percent, from 79 points to 77, losing its crown to Travelocity, which climbed from 77 to 79.


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Make Room For The Man Of The Hour
The Man With them Grams Of that flour
If your talkin snow n*gga, it could be a mountain & i'll plow it
These lil n*ggas ridin... I Doubt It!
n*gga Im About it, Glocks get to poppin out talons
n*ggas get to coppin out, bowin.... b*tchin
Do em anyway, no retreat, no surrender
Lex Street sh*t: Ten Dead, Six Injured
Its Bout time they Let A Trapper out
Somebody Doin All the sh*t these n*ggas rap about
....i could tell you 'bout stretchin crack
Ill take a point until my kitchen whip seven back
Yeah, could tell you 'bout stretchin dope too
I'll mix it up with opium & stamp it old school
Yeah, two handguns both ruges
No recordin booth, ill show you n*ggas pro tools
Call me the engineer with a coke cube
The pyrex vision-ware's what the pro's use
..n*gga im a monsta, I dont play games
I just spit a choppa until it make flames
I just know my dopeblock doin one thang
Thats why I stuff my pockets with rubberband banks
f*ck these n*ggas talkin bout, I spit it how I live it
Wanna pop-fly, know it's thirty-three in my extended
For you talk tough, know that I be sittin where you livin
& I'm Killin Everythang, f*ck the Women & the Children
Oh Allah forgive me for these sins im commiting
Them clips I be poppin', them grams I be flippin'
My whole fam need me & I ain't got a million
I can't tell em no, so I ain't got a problem killin'
Boy dont you ever turn backwards on a killa
Ill put a bullet in the silverback of that gorilla
...Im the one you wanna try if your tryna die
They call me "100 Shot", I work in homicide
Ill make your momma cry, ill let that llama rise
Or ride past your front door & bang it with a molotov
& this ain't just rap, naw this is everyday
So f*ck a mixtape, im heavy with the yay
& I ain't gone stop, im on you n*ggas heads
Im on you n*ggas tops, I want you n*ggas Dead!
Uhh, Im On the Block Doin great Numbers
Muthaf*ckas get Shot tryna take from us
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Continuous Delivery of a Windows Azure Web Site using a GitHub repository
In a series of very short videos I will demonstrate many options how you can publish and manage web applications in the Cloud using Windows Azure Web Sites.
Those who know me know that I like some tunes with my blog posts:
I will use WebDeploy, a local Git repository, GitHub, Team Foundation Service and Team City as different publication methods. Some of the demos simply show that you can quickly publish a Web Site when you are, for instance, working on it and want to share it with someone else for test – the dev/test scenario. Other demos take a few minutes to run through before the Web Site lands in Window Azure. They are not as fast but in return also run builds and Unit Tests before deploying the site. They will also offer you a really great version history support in Windows Azure so that you can if you want roll back to a previous version of your Web Site should you need to. I also have a few demos on features of Windows Azure Web Sites such as version history support and configuration management.
All my demos are available on in my YouTube Windows Azure playlist:
- Deployment to Windows Azure Web Sites using Web Deploy
- Using a local Git repository to publish to Windows Azure Web Sites
- Continuous Delivery of a Windows Azure Web Site using Team Foundation Service
- Continuous Delivery of a Windows Azure Web Site using a GitHub repository
- Override Windows Azure Web Sites web.config settings in the Windows Azure Portal
- Continuous Delivery of a Windows Azure Web Site using "not only Microsoft" technology
- Quickly swap Windows Azure Web Site version in the Portal with zero downtime
- Continuously Deploying a Windows Azure Cloud Service using Team Foundation Service (Yes they are supported too!)
In this demo I will show how to achieve Continuous Delivery to a Windows Azure Web Site integrated with GitHub.
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The web has moved forward in the last eight years, but no thanks to HTML standards, according to Elliotte Rusty Harold, who spoke this morning at SD West on the upcoming HTML 5 spec. Harold's point was that, until recently, the W3C had essentially made no move since 1999 to improve the HTML spec—instead, technologies like Javascript, CSS and the DOM have dominated advances on the web for most of the last decade.
But in 2004, fed up with the lack of W3C progress on this issue, Apple, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software formed the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, or WHATWG, to move HTML forward. The work done by WHATWG has since been brought under W3C auspices, but most of what constitutes the current state of the HTML 5 was formed outside of the W3C.
So if we've lived this long without an updated HTML standard, do we really need one? If we want to bring HTML more in line with what we actually use the web for today, then the answer is yes. According to WHATWG, some of the things for which we've been using kludgy workarounds for years really need to be brought into the HTML standard as first-class citizens.
This is the thinking behind some of the proposed new elements. For instance, the
audio and
video elements. Certainly, if someone were designing HTML today, they would include such tags alongside the familiar
img tag. There are, however, problems. While everyone involved can agree that the
audio element should support MP3, no one can quite agree on a video codec. According to Harold, the spec may be finalized without specifying a supported codec.
Much of the proposed HTML 5 standard includes things that people are already using
div and
span tags for. One such item is the
section element, which is a generic mechanism that can be used for dividing documents into chapters or parts. Each section would have a mandatory heading (in
h1 through
h6 tags), and sections could of course be nested inside one another.
datagrid element, which provides for interactive data representations such as editable tables and lists.
According to Harold, finalization of HTML 5 is at least a year or two away. For more information, visit http://www.whatwg.org/.


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New Service Helps Stop 'Robo' Solicitation Calls
If you're like most Americans, you hate being bothered by solicitors. Especially when they call your cell phone at all hours of the day or night. It seem like they always call when your either expecting an important call or when your hands are full and you have to drop everything to find your phone and see who's calling.
The worst offenders in my opinion are the 'Robo' calls. These are from companies who use a robot to repeatedly dial number with the intent to connect their sales people with potential customers. Answer one of these calls and you might hear a recorded message or pitch and asking you to push '1' if interested. Or the other option happens where once you answer, the robot transfers your call to a waiting sales person.
As we head into the holiday season, these 'Robo' calls will hit a fever pitch as companies fight for consumer dollars in any means possible.
If you're like me and you would rather not be bothered with these calls there are several things you can do and several things you should NEVER do.
Should you encounter such calls, you can file a complaint at the FTC's donotcall.gov site. If you haven't already registered your phone numbers at the website, I'd encourage you to do that as soon as possible.
But in addition to that, there is a new service which just started in September that claims to put a stop to those annoying 'Robo' calls and it's free. Nomorobo.com offers a service developed by software programmer Aaron Foss, who won $25,000 in the FTC's challenge for 'Robo' call solutions. Once you sign on, calls that come into your phone also are directed to the Nomorobo's smart service, which analyzes frequency and blocks calls on a black list of known offender numbers. It's might not be 100% fool proof, but it's an extra layer of protection.
Here are a few other tips you can use to protect yourself from unwanted solicitation calls:
Don't answer unfamiliar numbers
Hang-up immediately
Never give out personal information
Never Interact with Solicitation Calls - by pressing 1 or 9 could get you added to a hot list and open the door to even more calls.
Finally, you can also call your phone provider to block the calls, but be wary of fees tied to blocking calls.
Source: nomorobo.com/


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PAPER ROUND-UP: Balotelli to Chelsea, Walcott faces FA wrath & Suarez's £70m escape clause
TODAY'S paper round-up sees former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli linked with a sensational move to Chelsea. Elsewhere, Theo Walcott could face an FA ban for inciting Tottenham fans during Arsenal's FA Cup victory and Luis Suarez has a £70m escape clause in his Liverpool contract.
SUNDAY EXPRESS: Arsene Wenger defended Theo Walcott last night over controversial scenes when the Arsenal striker was showered with coins thrown by Spurs supporters. Also: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer got off to a winning start as Cardiff manager at Newcastle - and put it down to being a super-sub at Manchester United.
SUNDAY TIMES: Arsene Wenger has defended Theo Walcott after the England striker made a gesture to Tottenham fans as they threw coins at him while he lay on a stretcher. Also: Juan Mata's frustration at working under Jose Mourinho has reached the point where the Chelsea forward has turned to Rafa Benitez to help provide a way out of Stamford Bridge.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Tottenham Hotspur face potential action from the Football Association after a bad-tempered north London derby in which their supporters aimed coins and bottles at Theo Walcott and ambulance staff as the injured Arsenal striker left the pitch on a stretcher. Also: Danny Cipriani will not be named in England's Elite Player Squad for the Six Nations and the summer tour to New Zealand this week.
THE OBSERVER: Arsene Wenger has accepted that the Football Association may charge Theo Walcott after the forward gestured the winning 2-0 scoreline to Spurs fans as he was taken off on a stretcher past them during Arsenal's FA Cup third round win against their north London rivals. Also: Paul Lambert was "gutted" to see Aston Villa dumped out of the FA Cup by League One's Sheffield United and refused to accept that his pre-match comments about the competition had contributed to a dismal performance.
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: Jose Mourinho has criticised the current trend for appointing foreign managers in the Premier League and called for British coaches to be given more opportunities. Also: Arsenal secured north London bragging rights and a place in the FA Cup fourth round with an ultimately comfortable victory over Tottenham yesterday evening, but it was not without cost.
DAILY STAR SUNDAY: Mario Balotelli is after a return to the Premier League - and the madcap striker wants to join Chelsea. Also: Spurs fans bombarded Theo Walcott with missiles after he taunted them with a 2-0 gesture when being carried off on a stretcher.
SUNDAY MIRROR: Luis Suarez has a £70million escape clause in his Liverpool contract. Also: A group of leading agents have complained about the conduct of a Premier League manager.
THE SUN ON SUNDAY: Arsene Wenger last night defended Theo Walcott for taunting the Tottenham supporters after he was pelted with coins. Also: Manchester United boss David Moyes admits that his FA Cup record is "not good enough".
SUNDAY PEOPLE: Two late subs, two late goals and the team in red are in dreamland - all thanks to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Also: David Moyes has admitted that Manchester United will sit out this month's transfer window - angering fans who have seen the champions slip tamely from the title picture.
MAIL ON SUNDAY: Chelsea are ready to pounce with a £30million bid for Wayne Rooney if the Manchester United forward's proposed new contract talks hit the buffers. Also: Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis issued a plea to the nation last night to save the FA Cup before it is too late.