close #738

Forcing the callback to be called after 1.75 seconds - the time the anima...

move to a manual tarball of statsd, as github dynamic tgz gen seems broken, prevents npm install from working

some rpmbuild fixes

upgrade to a branch of statsd that lazily closes ephemeral UDP ports, so that we're not allocating one UDP socket per request when under load.  closes #680

issue #704

close #710

issue #704

(loadgen) fix subtle issue whereby a XXX@loadgen.domain users's password could be changed during load generation, and affect subsequent runs.  closes #681

(loadgen) fix bug in reauth activity.  in addition to clearing cookies, we must clear client state to cause re-authentication to occur.  maybe the cause for issue #682

close #685

close #690

IE8 does not support delete localStorage.[itemname], so this has to be changed to localStorage.removeItem(itemname)

close #688

* Reducing the number of setTimeouts used.
* Using completion callbacks instead.
* Adding a cancelEvent to the helpers which is a decorator around DOM handlers to cancel the event.

close #686