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Spring 2001
Volume 5 Number 3
by Elizabeth Terrill
On Thanksgiving Day 1999, the Reverend David Perkins became a parent.
While many of us were polishing off Grandma's oyster dressing and settling in to watch some college football, Perkins was in family court, convincing a Russian judge he was prepared to become both mother and father to four maternal siblings he'd only just met. Today, gathered in the living room of a historic home in Terre Haute, Indiana, the Perkins household looks like a prototype of the well-adjusted American family.
Perkins, a 1982 PTS graduate, didn't start out thinking he'd adopt four children. Working with Hand In Hand, an international adoption agency with offices in Indiana, Colorado, and Arizona, Perkins was hoping to find two brothers in need of a loving home. Though Hand In Hand connects with orphanages in approximately ten overseas countries, the search was limited to China and Russia, the only two that allow adoptions to single men. As China will only adopt one toddler-age male child to a single man, Russia became the country of choice.
The process started smoothly. In March of 1999, Perkins entered a three-month training process to learn something of the culture his prospective sons were growing up in. Before long, he was matched with two brothers from an orphanage in Ryazan, Russia, a city that's part of an ancient principality about three hours southeast of Moscow. A video and written information introduced the boys, and Perkins was immediately hooked. The adoption paperwork was filed; all seemed to be in order.
Then without warning or explanation, the process stalled. For five months, little information came from overseas. Perkins, his family and friends, and Hand In Hand racked their communal brain, trying to discover the problem. In late September, Perkins called a family meeting. The Russian brothers had two sisters. If the adoption was failing because the family resisted being split, could he handle being the sole parent of four children?
The response was uniformly positive. "My brother said, 'There's no way you're going to look at those little girls and tell them they have to stay behind,'" Perkins says. "Besides, the real challenge wasn't going from two children to four children, but from no children to any children."
Hand In Hand assured their Russian contacts Perkins was willing to adopt all four siblings. Suddenly, the obstacles were cleared. Perkins prepared to travel to Russia to meet the children.
He arrived in November and met the boys and one of the girls at the orphanage where they'd lived for nearly five years. The second girl had been moved to another facility four months before, but it wasn't long before all the children were reunited. Within a few days, the necessary decisions had been made: Perkins and company were on their way to court. Soon after, a brand new family, using makeshift sign language, boarded a jet bound for the United States. On December 4, they were home.
The children are adapting remarkably well. Russian children don't begin formal studies until they are seven years old, so all four are playing catch-up in school. But eleven-year-old Sergei is a math whiz who is quickly reaching his peers' educational level while scaling back in other areas.
"Sergei's biggest challenge has been learning to be a kid again," says Perkins, who the children call Pa. "He had to be the head of the family for five years." Athletic, mechanically inclined, and a skilled artist, it was Sergei who worked so hard to keep his siblings together, even declining to be adopted by a family who had wanted only one child. Perkins has given each child an American middle name. Sergei's is David, after his new father.
Nine-year-old Oksana's middle name is Gwyn. Oksana is also sports-minded, has a good singing voice, and thrives on responsibility. Perkins says she is artistic and helpful, as well. "They're all helpful, " he adds with a grin. "All aggressively helpful, sometimes." Oksana's sister is her fraternal twin, Victoria, who now carries Pa's mother's name, Aline.
Victoria Aline goes more often by the nickname Vika, and Perkins describes her as "a sweetie. She's easygoing, and the one the others rely on to help them get things done. And it's really hard to talk about her with her sitting right here." Vika, engaged in doing her homework under a lamp on the end table, peeks up over the page, giggles, smiles, and goes back to her work. "Oksana and Vika are twins," says their father, "but you wouldn't know that by watching them. They're completely different."
The youngest of the siblings is Dmitri Evan, Dima for short. Dima is eight years old, affectionate, playful, and doing quite well keeping up with his classmates at school. "He's the one who's needed the most nurturing," Perkins says, "the one who's most needed me to be mother and father." Dima has fewer lasting effects from his time in the orphanage, a fact Perkins puts down to his being the youngest. He's looking forward to playing soccer this summer, an activity all four children will participate in.
There have been many changes in the Perkins home over the past year and a half. Perkins's priorities have undergone a transformation, shifting from "me and my job, to the children, my job, and me."
While the children are in school Monday through Friday, Perkins performs his duties as solo pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in Terre Haute, then brings his work home so he can be there when the children arrive in the afternoon. If there is a meeting or event scheduled at the church in the evening, the younger Perkinses often accompany their father, or are looked after by part of an army of loving family and friends. "I work different hours than before," Perkins explains. "Sometimes I work shorter hours each day, but I work every day. My basic life is the life of any parent."
Perkins thinks back on his days at PTS with fondness. "My three years as an M.Div. student were probably the happiest of my life," he remembers. "They prepared me well for parish ministry, and indirectly for family life, too. Like parish work, being a parent is a reciprocal kind of ministry. The children need me, just like I need them in order to grow and be nurtured. They've brought a whole different world to me.
"A good life lesson," he continues, "is don't be afraid to move out of your comfort zone. God moves in mysterious ways. To grow, you have to be willing to grow."
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Scaled-back search continues
DAYTON – As the search for Kathlynn Shepard entered its second week, investigators spent Memorial Day following up on any tips that had been called in, hoping to find the abducted teenager.
Shepard, 15, was abducted May 20 while walking home from school a school bus stop. Michael Klunder, 42, who the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has identified as her abductor, committed suicide by hanging later that night.
Dayton Police Chief Nick Dunbar said Monday that four investigators were taking calls and prepared to respond.
"We're operating on a phone-call-by-phone-call basis," he said. "I've pretty much got a squad of guys that I can call at any time."
Although it's been a week since Shepard disappeared, Dunbar said investigators are still following up leads.
"We're still not giving up," he said. "We've still got DNR (Department of Natural Resources) boats out there and we have aircraft flying when possible."
Dunbar said there are even some citizens still out looking for Shepard, even though the Iowa Department of Public Safety said Friday citizen volunteers are no longer needed.
He also commended those who are searching over the holiday weekend.
"It's outstanding," he said. "We rely on the fire department and EMS, and the amount of dedication they've shown is above and beyond what's expected of them. You never can find the words to say enough."
Volunteer professional rescuers were still responding as recently as Sunday.
"We had about 20 people here Sunday," Dunbar said. "The Rockwell City Fire Department met us here on their own. We never asked for their help, but they showed up and checked in with us to see what we needed."
Regarding future searches, Dunbar said it's unclear what will happen. He said investigators will meet today to figure out where to go next.
"We're going to try to figure out what resources to pull and where," he said.
The weather will also play a role in how much is searched.
Reports of large hail in Jefferson had Dunbar concerned about how much ground could be covered.
Still, he remained thankful for all the help available.
"We have horseback teams and ATV teams," he said. "You name it, and I can have them rounded up."
And despite the fact the search for Shepard has been challenging, Dunbar said investigators aren't giving up.
"It's frustrating, but we'll keep at it," he said. "We're determined to find her , and we will find her."


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Grandma Paul's Caramel Corn
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 8 cups popped popcorn
Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
Over medium heat, combine first 4 ingredients and boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in baking soda. Stir well. Pour over the pop corn. Stir to coat well. Bake in large roaster or pan for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Spread on waxed paper to dry.
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This document meets the deliverable requirement for Task 4, Develop Simulation Framework for a Demand Response Analysis and Control System (DRACS) for the California Institute for Energy and Environment's (CIEE) grant for Research Opportunity DR ETD-02-01.
The grant was provided to the EnerNex-led team to address two research topics and questions identified in the opportunity notice:
"Using a military (or another, such as air traffic control) C3I system as a model, adapt it to conceptually deal with C2I electricity applications such as dispatching DER to keep the lights on. Compare and contrast the chosen C3I model with the requirements for implementing a C²I strategy for integrating utility information and communications systems. Are there analogies that indicate utilities can operate in a similar fashion? If not, what are the gaps that need to be filled and is it feasible to fill the gaps?
Given current utility systems and assuming the systems are integrated, how would the CAISO or an UDC operate its control centers in a military (or another) C3I style? With up-to-date real-time information and the ability to control all of its available assets, given a particular operational scenario, how would a plan to address the scenario be executed using strategies based on military (or another) C3I?"
The requirements identified in this document are based on existing use cases (e.g., [1-3]), interaction with San Diego Gas & Electric stakeholders, and coordinated efforts between EnerNex Demand Response experts, the Open Smart Grid AMI Enterprise team, and C3I system engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL).


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NEW ULM – Kurt Winkler, 53, of New Ulm, died Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at the New Ulm Medical Center as the result of a motorcycle accident.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 2, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in New Ulm with Pastor Deb Bergstrand officiating. Burial will follow in the New Ulm City Cemetery.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Monday and 7:30-9 a.m. Tuesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home NORTH CHAPEL in New Ulm and will continue for one hour prior to the time of service on Tuesday.
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KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Press Wins the Green Technology Award
NEXPRESS earned a Green Technology Award in the 2012 Green Printing Awards, the largest green event in China'sprinting industry. NEXPRESS was recognized for features that include virtually no emissions, including volatile organiccompounds (VOCs) and dry inks that do not require a hazardous material removal process. The KODAK NEXPRESS Dry Inks have also received EU safety certification for printing indirect food packaging and toys.


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Debates of Dec. 15th, 2011
House of Commons Hansard #68 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was person.
- Question Period
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Tanning Equipment Prohibition and Warning (Cancer Risks) Act
- Business of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act
- Amendments to Community Plans
- Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act
- 2012 Olympic Games
- Community Support Organization in Lemoyne
- 2012 Ontario Winter Games
- Zelman Cowen
- Government of Canada
- Vallée Bras-du-Nord Co-operative
- Doreen Champagne and Hyacinth Colomb
- Tanzania
- David Robertson
- International Trade
- Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel
- New Democratic Party of Canada
- Government of Canada
- Religious Freedom
- Committees of the House
- Syria
- The Conservative Government
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Canada-U.S. Border
- Minister of National Defence
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Justice
- Aboriginal Affairs
- The Economy
- Pensions
- National Defence
- Justice
- Government Accountability
- Human Rights
- Employment
- Syria
- Search and Rescue
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods
- Foreign Affairs
- Employment Insurance
- Social Housing
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Canada Post Corporation
- Government Priorities
- Rail Transportation
- Federal Government
- Business of the House
- Points of Order
- Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act
Community Support Organization in Lemoyne
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Sadia Groguhé Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, with the holiday season upon us, I would like to take a moment to extend my best wishes to the people of Saint-Lambert. May the new year be filled with peace, health and happiness.
The holiday season is the perfect time for everyone to get together with family and friends in order to celebrate the arrival of the new year. Thanks to the contributions of several community organizations in my riding, many people will be able to enjoy this time of joy and sharing more fully. In particular, I would like to commend the essential role of the Comité d'action populaire de Lemoyne, whose main goal—with the help of many volunteers—is to fight poverty in the community by taking steps to improve housing and food security.
At a time when so many people are having trouble making ends meet, I feel it is my duty to regularly call the attention of the House to the importance of community organizations and the need to provide them with stable funding over the next few years.
2012 Ontario Winter Games
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Kellie Leitch Simcoe—Grey, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today in support of the 2012 Ontario Winter Games being hosted in the beautiful town of Collingwood in my riding of Simcoe—Grey.
The Ontario Winter Games, which are less than 100 days away, are a chance for over 2,000 young athletes from across Ontario to compete in 24 different sporting events.
Our Winter Games, which include everything from skiing to curling and hockey to snowboarding, are an excellent opportunity to see some of our province's best young athletes.
Recently, I had the opportunity to meet the chair of the Ontario Winter Games, former rowing Olympian and Collingwood resident, Brian Saunderson, who kicked off the games and spoke about the important lessons that young athletes learn at these types of competitions. These games are, for some athletes, a stepping stone to the Olympics and they promote healthy active living among young adults.
I am proud to be part of a government that supports Canadian athletes. I wish the town of Collingwood, Mayor Cooper and the over 2,000 athletes all the best in the Ontario Winter Games.
Zelman Cowen
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Irwin Cotler Mount Royal, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour the memory of the late Sir Zelman Cowen, former governor general of Australia, and one of the great jurors and leaders of the 20th century. A distinguished constitutional lawyer and academic, Cowen attended Oxford. As a Rhodes scholar, he became dean of law at Melbourne University and served as provost at Oriel College, Oxford.
A truly remarkable human being, his inspiring leadership as governor general helped unify Australia at a time of national division.
I met with Sir Zelman Cowen and his wife, Lady Anna, in the summer of 2010 and told him that he had always been a role model for me, as he had been to so many others in Australia and beyond. Indeed, I had the privilege of delivering the Sir Zelman Cowen Oration on International Affairs upon my first trip to Australia in 1998, which was a particularly moving experience for me.
My sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Sir Zelman Cowen. May they all be inspired by his memory and may that memory serve as a blessing.
Government of Canada
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Brian Jean Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Mr. Speaker, today is the last day of Parliament and I want to highlight some of our great Canadian achievements in 2011: First, the shipbuilding contracts and jobs from coast to cost; second, the very successful visit of the Royal couple; third, legislation to end the discriminatory Wheat Board; fourth, legislation to end the wasteful long gun registry; fifth, out of Kyoto and into real environment solutions; sixth, creating jobs, jobs and more jobs to keep us the strongest economy and the best country in the world; seventh, the Winnipeg jets return to the great city of Winnipeg; eighth, our brave men and women in uniform return from two very successful missions both in Libya and Afghanistan; and finally, Canadians elect a strong, stable, national Conservative government.
It has been a great year for our Conservative government and a great year for Canada. I wish all my friends, family, constituents and the great team that I work with, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah.
Vallée Bras-du-Nord Co-operative
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Élaine Michaud Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC
Mr. Speaker, Vallée Bras-du-Nord is a co-operative whose purpose is sustainable tourism development in Saint-Raymond. This social-economy co-operative has launched the En Marche project, a social and occupational integration program for young people that has developed and continues to maintain a network of walking trails.
In 2006, the co-op received a Quebec trail award from the Quebec hiking federation, which is a testament to the quality of the facilities and proof that young workers can carry out this type of project.
In the past few years, more than 100 young people in this rehabilitation program have worked on developing over 140 km of trails.
The project was funded by the skill links program and Emploi Québec, but in summer 2011, the skill links program reduced its funding. The co-operative was able to hire only four young workers, when it had hired a dozen or so in previous years. There were 20 young people on the waiting list.
The Vallée Bras-du-Nord co-op is known for having a positive influence on young people and it is imperative that its funding be restored—
Vallée Bras-du-Nord Co-operative
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
Order, please. The hon. member for Saint Boniface.
Doreen Champagne and Hyacinth Colomb
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Shelly Glover Saint Boniface, MB
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honour two very special people who, unfortunately, both passed away on Monday, December 12.
My beloved friend, Doreen Champagne, passed away at the Riverview Health Centre surrounded by friends and family after a courageous battle with cancer. She was known for her volunteer work with the Boy Scouts from the 4th Winnipeg Group, including sewing neckerchiefs since the 1970s. She was also a regular blood donor and very active with her social club at 41 Clayton Drive. Her smile and warmth will be sadly missed by our community and her family.
I would also like to take a moment to remember Hyacinth Colomb, a 95-year-old elder and aboriginal leader from Pukatawagan. Throughout his life, he served his community as chief, band councillor and president of the Manitoba Trappers Association. He operated a trap line until he was 86 years old. Cree people deeply appreciated his wisdom and vast knowledge of their history, culture and traditions. He worked for Manitoba Conservation for more than 30 years and, in 2001, he was inducted into the Order of Manitoba recognizing his life of service to others.
I ask the House to join me in honouring the memories of both Hyacinth Colomb and Doreen Champagne. May they rest in peace.
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Deepak Obhrai Calgary East, AB
Mr. Speaker, on December 9, I had the honour to represent Canada at Tanzania's 50th anniversary celebration in Dar es Salaam. I left Tanzania 34 years ago with my wife and eldest daughter to immigrate to Canada to start a new life. Tanzania will always have a place in my heart as it is the land of my birth, where I studied and spent the early years of my life working as an air traffic controller.
East Africa, including Tanzania, remains imbedded in our hearts and I had the honour and privilege to be strongly engaged in promoting strong relations between Canada and East Africa. I am happy to note that progress has been made in Tanzania since implementation of the multi-party democratic system. However, as President Kikwete said, "more needs to be done".
I wish the leadership and all Tanzanians at large the best in the next 50 years for the country to become prosperous and economically powerful under sustained peace and unity.
David Robertson
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Dan Harris Scarborough Southwest, ON
Mr. Speaker, I stand today to remember a good friend and colleague, David Robertson, who passed away last Friday, December 9.
David Robertson served his community for decades in various capacities. He served as a councillor for 13 years on Etobicoke City Council. He worked in Premier Rae's correspondence department in the 1990s. We were Scarborough running mates in the 2006 federal and municipal campaigns and, more recently, David was my campaign manager in this year's federal election.
In addition to his many years of public service, David was a teacher who taught ESL programs to new Canadians, a job he was very passionate about, and helped to integrate thousands of new Canadians into our society.
I wish to offer my most sincere condolences, those of the New Democratic Party of Canada and her Majesty's Loyal Opposition to David's mother, Helen; his wife, Phoenix; their son; Long You; and sister, Joan.
I thank David for dedicating so much of his life to building a better Toronto, a better Ontario and a better Canada.
International Trade
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Randy Hoback Prince Albert, SK
Mr. Speaker, Canadians gave our Conservative government a strong mandate to stay focused on what matters: creating jobs and economic growth.
On Monday, the NDP said that it would vote against the Canada-Panama economic growth and prosperity act. Yesterday, when the Canada–Jordan economic growth and prosperity act was debated, the NDP trade critic said that the NDP had issues with the bill and suggested that the NDP would not move forward on this agreement.
The NDP streak of opposing trade continues. Our government will press forward with our pro-trade plan. These bills would create jobs and economic growth for Canadian workers and families.
Yesterday, the Minister of State for Sport was in Brampton highlighting the Canada–India trade negotiations. Today, the hard-working Minister of International Trade is at the WTO fighting protectionism and opening up new markets for Canadian workers.
With one in five Canadian jobs generated by trade, the NDP's anti-trade agenda is proof that it is simply unfit for Parliament.
Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel
Statements By Members
December 15th, 2011 / 2:10 p.m.
Libby Davies Vancouver East, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise in the House on behalf of the NDP to pay tribute to one of Parliament's most distinguished procedural officers, Robert R. Walsh. Since his appointment in 1999, Rob has carried out his duties as Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel with fortitude and expert knowledge.
I have had the honour to know Rob over the years and to appreciate his wisdom, integrity and fairness. We recall in particular, in 2009, his outstanding contribution to uphold the rights of MPs to disclosure of documents pertaining to Afghanistan detainees. He never wavered in providing advice and expert opinion to the House.
He has shown immense dedication to serve and support individual MPs. He has courageously defended the democratic mandate of this parliamentary institution, a true public servant in the most honourable sense.
I know I speak for members from all sides in giving sincerest thanks to Rob for his service to Canadian democracy, and wish him all the best in his retirement.
New Democratic Party of Canada
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
John Carmichael Don Valley West, ON
Mr. Speaker, the NDP has had quite a year of attacking Canada at home and abroad. Its members fought against good paying union jobs in the energy sector. They have opposed tax measures that helped Canadian families. Instead they offer lavish spending schemes that would push Canada off track and from a return to balanced budgets and have offered a whole range of higher taxes.
The NDP leadership candidates have proposed tax hikes on job creators, on consumers, on investors, on families, on banks and even a carbon tax that would raise the price of gas, energy and almost everything people buy.
The NDP agenda will put the economic recovery at risk, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and hurt Canadian families. Canadians cannot afford the ineffective, disunited NDP—
New Democratic Party of Canada
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
The hon. member is out of time.
The hon. member for Cape Breton—Canso.
Government of Canada
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Rodger Cuzner Cape Breton—Canso, NS
Mr. Speaker, 'twas the week before Christmas and all over the Hill
The self-absorbed Tories were imposing their will
The stockings in Muskoka were stuffed to the brim
But life on first nations remained woefully grim.
And at the North Pole, Santa's problems abound
There was much work to do, but no workers around.
How can we do Christmas with no reindeer or elves?
The sleigh is a wreck, there are no toys on the shelves.
Costs have just spiralled, the elves threaten strike
They won't work this Christmas without a pay hike.
Federal money for deer feed and vets
Has just been reprofiled for big jails and jets.
Heartbroken children would spring from their beds
The first Christmas ever shut down by the feds.
No presents for Christmas, Tories felt the frustration
So they saddled the elves with back-to-work legislation.
No reindeer or sleigh can stop our roof-topper
Call Coast Guard and send in a Cormorant chopper.
The moral I share: Tories lack rhyme and reason
Nonetheless, all the best for a great Christmas season.
Religious Freedom
Statements By Members
2:15 p.m.
Candice Bergen Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, Canadians are concerned about crime and that is why they gave our government a strong mandate to keep our streets and communities safe. We have taken strong action on this file, specifically with the safe streets and communities act. However, we still see in our society ugly incidents of violence and discrimination based solely on an individual's race, colour or creed.
Violent attacks against synagogues, mosques and churches cannot be tolerated. That is why our government introduced the security infrastructure program in 2007, and that is why we extended it in the budget.
This program is important for cultural and religious communities to protect themselves from those who wish to harm them.
Today, the Minister of Public Safety has announced that we are now accepting applications for the next round of funding. I encourage any religious or cultural group that needs protection from racist or religious attack to bring forward an application.
As Canadians, we can all work together to protect important religious and cultural institutions from violence.


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14 Jul 2009
It is now even easier to enhance your skills and advance your career with a new online seminar booking system developed by the Institute of Swimming (IoS).
The new system, which is being piloted throughout the summer, enables candidates to book their place on a selection of continuing professional development (CPD) seminars via the British Swimming website. Users simply enter their IoS membership information and credit card details onto the website in order to book their place. They then receive immediate confirmation of their acceptance onto the seminar via email. Non-IoS members are also able to log in by completing a brief online registration process.
Workforce Development Quality Manager for the Institute of Swimming Michael Hallewell said "The system has been developed in response to customer feedback and we are happy to provide a way to make booking onto a seminar easier for them. We are looking forward to being able to offer all seminars via the online system in the future, following a successful pilot."
The seminars currently available for online booking are as follows:
• National Plan for Teaching Swimming: AquaFun – 5th September – Alton Sports Centre, Hampshire
• National Plan for Teaching Swimming: mini-polo! – 6th September – Bramcote, Notts
• National Plan for Teaching Swimming: mini-polo! – 12th September – Bracknell, Berks
• ASA/scUK Safeguarding & Protecting Children – 13th October – SLM, Stratford on Avon
• Introduction to Breaststroke – 18th October – Leasowe Recreation Centre, Wirral
Click here for information on how to book and gain access to the system.
For a full listing of all the CPD seminars available via the standard booking system click here.
For more information contact the ASA PR Officer Claire Freeman on 01509 632265 or email email@example.com
About the ASA
The ASA is the English National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, Open Water and Synchronised Swimming. It organises competition throughout England, establishes the Laws of the Sport and operates comprehensive certification and education programmes for Teachers, Coaches and Officials as well as its renowned Learn to Swim Awards scheme. The ASA supports 1,220 affiliated swimming clubs through a National/Regional/County structure. The ASA aims to ensure everybody has an opportunity to learn to swim.
In order to comply with national education and training standards it has developed two separate and independent arms – the ASA Awarding Body and the Institute of Swimming (IoS) - which represent the awarding and delivery channels for all ASA qualifications.
ASA Awarding Body
The ASA Awarding Body develops, assesses, awards and quality assures all ASA qualifications. It is the equivalent of other awarding bodies such as City & Guilds and OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations). The ASA Awarding Body is licensed by British Swimming to award qualifications in England and Wales. It also has the remit for quality assurance of all areas of UKCC standards.
Institute of Swimming (IoS)
The IoS is a licensed training provider, like a school or college. It is one of many ASA Awarding Body Approved Centres. The IoS is also a membership body for qualified swimming teachers and coaches, providing insurance, advice and learning opportunities to its members.
About British Gas
British Gas, the biggest energy supplier in the country, has the lowest carbon intensity of any of the major UK energy suppliers in terms of tonnes of CO2 emitted per megawatt hour of electricity supplied to customers. The company is one of the biggest investors in renewable power generation, principally offshore wind. Its recently completed Lynn and Inner Dowsing development, off the Lincolnshire coast, is the UK's largest offshore wind development. British Gas is committed to energy efficiency. Our Energy Savers Report provides free expert advice on how you can cut energy use in the home and, in turn, save money. So far, the report has shown over 2 million people how they could make an average saving of £175 a year. To complete a report go to .www.britishgas.co.uk/energy-efficiency/energy-savers-report
About Kellogg's
The Kellogg Company was founded in 1906 and today produces 40 different cereals including popular brands such as Special K, Cornflakes and Coco Pops, and 56 different snacks including brands such as Nutri-Grain and Special K snacks. Kellogg's has been a partner of the ASA and British Swimming for 13 years, sponsoring the Kellogg's ASA Awards and enabling over 50,000 people to take up swimming as part of an active lifestyle.
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In short: hills hills and more hillsIn full: good enjoyable race through Cheshire Countryside, tough work in places but well worth the effort.Date of review: September 28, 2008
In short: very good race with new PB for meIn full: good race, wind was not a problem, not many hills and a good atmosphere. PB of 1hr38.02Date of review: February 24, 2008
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In short: good quick race despite the head wind on the up hill sectionDate of review: September 15, 2007
In short: enjoyable run except the tunnel exit, doesnt seem that long or steep in the car!!Date of review: June 3, 2007
In short: hilly than previous years due to change in courseIn full: water problems caused by selfish runners taking water at 2 miles, anyone taking water at this stage in yesterdays weather conditions should not be doing a race of this distance. Two people in forny of me who took it were carrying there own water bottles in any event - selfish B@@@@@ds.Date of review: March 26, 2007
In short: Reasonable pre london run, not much to look at.Date of review: February 26, 2007
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Mar 20, 2013:
- 9:27 PM Changeset [12750] by
- tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/tracpm.py
Get actual start and finish for active and closed tickets. Refs #9648, #10717.
Use these dates in scheduling.
Note that closed tickets don't require resource leveling, display their
actual start and finish times.
This defaults to disabled (0) and can be controlled by useActuals option in
the TracPM section of trac.ini (1=use actual dates, 0=schedule). The
useActuals parameter to the Gantt chart macro overrides the TracPM value.
- 9:27 PM Changeset [12749] by
- tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/tracpm.py
Recompute schedule and save changes (if any) in a private table. Refs #9648.
- All datetimes used in schedule are now in local time zone.
- Had to be "offset-aware" (to use to_utimestamp() utility function)
- TracPM.start(), .finish() now return calculated date, then stored date, then None depending on what is available.
- postQuery() now reads schedule from private table rather than having it queried from custom fields
- When the rescheduler is done calculating a schedule it uses INSERT or UPDATE to write only changed tickets back to the private schedule table.
- Changes to the schedule are stored in the schedle_history table.
This handles inserting initial schedule into DB and updating only changed tickets when rescheduling.
With the changes to TracPM.start(), .finish(), a caller (e.g., the Gantt chart) can:
- Query tickets
- Optionally schedule them
- Iterate over them getting the start and/or finish dates
If the scheduling step is skipped, the dates from the database are used.
There's a potentially inefficiency in how potentially inactive tickets
are found. We might get this set by first getting all the affected
tickets then following the predecessor links from the goal but there
isn't a function for that yet and preQuery() is fairly efficient. I
don't want to optimize prematurely.
For this to work, I have to splice the in-memory ticket graph based on
ticket changes.
This has some gross code that is specific to plugins we use and makes
TracPM less portable but I want to prove this works before trying to
make it generic.
- 9:27 PM Changeset [12748] by
- tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/tracpm.py
Add a ticket change listener to detect related tickets. Refs #9648.
This doesn't do any rescheduling. It just notes how many tickets need
to be rescheduled and how long it took to find them.
- 9:27 PM Changeset [12747] by
- tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/db_default.py
- tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/tracpm.py
Add private table creation. Refs #9648.
I'm not sure that the name of the table, schedule, is sufficiently
obscure that it won't step on users or other plugins.
We're going to store the schedule in a private table. We can use
IEnvironmentSetupParticipant methods to check for the table and create
as needed the first time the plugin is activated.
The general principles are at http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/PluginDevelopment/ExtensionPoints/trac.env.IEnvironmentSetupParticipant
The Trac schema is at
http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/trac/db_default.py for
comparison. I modeled schedule on ticket_change (int64 for
datetimes) and ticket_custom (index by ticket to get values).
Some of the detail code came out of api.py in git://git.sixnetio.com/git/misc_tools/trac_plugin_source/trac-subtickets-plugin.git.
- 9:27 PM Changeset [12746] by
- tracjsganttplugin/0.11/tracjsgantt/tracpm.py
Make graph augmentation a TracPM method. Refs #9648.
Need to do this before trying to reschedule in ticket change listener.
- 12:34 PM Ticket #10957 (Please clarify license) created by
- setup.py states the software is distributed under BSD license terms, …
Mar 19, 2013:
- 11:40 PM Changeset [12745] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/htdocs/acctmgr.css
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/admin_accountsconfig.html
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/admin_users.html
AccountManagerPlugin: CSS clean-up, getting decent presentation for Trac 0.12 too, refs #9946.
While most changes are just to unify formatting, some more are specifically
done to prevent badly interfering Trac 0.12 styles from admin.css.
- 8:01 PM Changeset [12744] by
- timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.12-Permissions/setup.py
- timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.12-Permissions/timingandestimationplugin/reports.py
- timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.12/setup.py
- timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.12/timingandestimationplugin/reports.py
make report joins to enum be left joins to prevent missing data due to invalid priorities
- 6:00 PM Ticket #10956 (Macro TracJSGanttChart fails when using Trac 1.1.1's date ticket fields) created by
- Set custom ticket fields userstart and userfinish to "time": […] …
- 4:11 PM Ticket #10955 (Error using advanced query expressions) created by
- When using the following operator, (because we have components with …
- 2:17 PM Ticket #10954 (how to query a local db from trac) closed by
- invalid: The short story is, you will need to write a plugin. See t:TracPlugins …
- 1:46 PM Ticket #10954 (how to query a local db from trac) created by
- Hi! I have a trac system that is connected to a local oracle db (for …
- 1:40 PM Changeset [12743] by
- statushistorychartmacro/1.0/statushistorychart/htdocs/js/enabler.js
- statushistorychartmacro/1.0/statushistorychart/statushistorychart.py
StatusHistoryChartMacro: Thick the line on hover a mouse.
- 12:31 PM Dawuid created by
- New user Dawuid registered
- 11:40 AM Ticket #10953 (Add support for TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin) created by
- TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin
- 3:38 AM Changeset [12742] by
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/COPYING
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/db.py
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/milestone.py
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/roadmap.py
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/templates/version_edit.html
- …
Refs #10952:
- Implement IResourceManager so that attachments can be added.
- Attachments section on the version view page was not folding.
- Set focus on the #name element when the edit version page loads.
- Add a datetimepicker in Trac 1.0 and later, where it is provided by Trac.
- Added additional author to file headers.
- Cleaned up imports in roadmap.py.
- 3:16 AM Changeset [12741] by
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/0.12
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/1.0
Removed empty directories.
- 2:36 AM SimpleMultiProjectPlugin edited by
- Added syntax highlighting. (diff)
- 1:41 AM Ticket #10952 (Can't upload attachments to a version) created by
- The following error results: [[Image(...)]] It looks like …
- 1:38 AM Changeset [12740] by
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/htdocs/css/version.css
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/templates/version_view.html
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/extendedversion/version.py
- extendedversionplugin/trunk/setup.py
Refs #10951:
- Bumped version to 1.0dev. A change log will be maintained after the initial 1.0 release.
- Renamed extendedversion.css to version.css
- Use CSS from roadmap.css rather than redefining it in version.css.
- Fixed layout of milestone progress bar on the version view with Trac 1.0.
- Made strings on the version view template translatable.
- 1:24 AM ExtendedVersionPlugin edited by
- Time to take this one over, but 0.11 won't be supported. (diff)
- 12:01 AM Ticket #10951 (Layout of Versions view is poor in Trac 1.0) created by
- [[Image(...)]]
Mar 18, 2013:
- 11:40 PM Changeset [12739] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/htdocs/acctmgr.css
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/admin_users.html
AccountManagerPlugin: Tweak 'max_per_page' preferences dialog to save space for user list, refs #9946.
Hey, someone has shrunken the preferences side-panel! Done to allow full-width
user listing, not only in pager mode.
- 9:01 PM Ticket #7010 (Not only with "versions" but also with "components") closed by
- wontfix: Replying to mestudd: > I think he means make another …
- 1:24 PM AccountManagerPlugin/AuthStores edited by
- (diff)
- 12:57 AM Changeset [12738] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/admin.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/account_details.html
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/admin_users.html
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/db_cleanup.html
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/changelog
AccountManagerPlugin: Move pager to user list in accounts admin panel, refs #809, #9946, #10682, #10745, #10754 and #10873.
This should fix broken display of extra-long user lists, and it makes
selections from user list useful for the clean-up page as requested.
Dumped access to anonymous session attributes for the current solution,
so these are no longer available for clean-up in the admin web-UI, but
I'll re-implement this later on, if it will be missed too much.
- 12:10 AM Ticket #1524 (How about a list of currently online users?) reopened by
- Since I went into some wiki macro implementations last year I wont say …
Mar 17, 2013:
- 7:06 PM Ticket #10947 (Version date internationalization) created by
- In internationalized Russian Trac Version Date field looks like this …
- 4:29 PM Changeset [12737] by
- tracmigrateplugin/0.12/tracmigrate/admin.py
tracmigrate: copy files directory instead of attachments on Trac 1.0+. The attachments directory is moved to files by trac/upgrades/db28.py. (refs #10946)
- 3:49 PM Changeset [12736] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/model.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/opt
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/opt/__init__.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/opt/announcer
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/opt/announcer/__init__.py
- …
AccountManagerPlugin: Add optional user ID changer components for other plugins, refs #10900, #10901, #10902, #10944 and #10945.
In addition to VotePlugin (supported by RenameTracUsersScript too) support for
- AnnouncerPlugin > 0.12.1
- ScreenshotsPlugin (all versions)
- TracFormsPlugin > v0.2
is provided within this plugin.
With the publication of this code the requests for feedback are almost
obsoleted, even more, because non of the pre-existing solutions provided the
coverage and extensibility, that is offered now within this plugin.
- 3:42 PM Ticket #10946 (Entries lost, structure for 1.0 changed) created by
- Hello, this plugin looses additional tables like for votes plugin or …
- 3:42 PM Ticket #10945 (Add extensible user ID change support) created by
- This is the consequence of successive code reviews after creating …
- 3:00 PM Ticket #10944 (Review user ID changer component) created by
- Please decide, if you would like to take the upcoming user ID change …
- 2:30 PM Ticket #10943 ([PATCH] Add i18n support and some translations) created by
- I've noticed, that this plugin is even used at t.e.o, so localized …
- 2:23 PM Ticket #10942 (Improvements for plugin's db schema) created by
- In addition to issues with the db code itself (#10706) I feel that the …
- 2:11 PM Ticket #10941 (Change permission action definition for intuitive inheritance) created by
- From description: > If a user has a valid session (created through the …
- 9:25 AM Changeset [12735] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/admin_accountsnotification.html
AccountManagerPlugin: Prevent excessive white space in a textarea, refs #8063.
Thanks to Ryan J Ollos for his hint and proposing a fix.
Mar 16, 2013:
- 9:26 PM Ticket #10155 (Autocomplete fields on the custom query page) reopened by
- There are added fields for BatchModifyPlugin in Trac 1.0. See t:#525 …
- 9:20 PM TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin edited by
- (diff)
- 9:18 PM Changeset [12734] by
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk/tracticketconditionalvalidatefield/api.py
small fix
- 9:14 PM TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin edited by
- (diff)
- 9:12 PM Changeset [12733] by
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk/COPYING.txt
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk/setup.py
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk/tracticketconditionalvalidatefield
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk/tracticketconditionalvalidatefield/__init__.py
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk/tracticketconditionalvalidatefield/api.py
Initial import.
- 9:11 PM Changeset [12732] by
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/trunk
Initial import.
- 9:10 PM TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin created by
- New hack TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin, created by zshahan
- 9:10 PM Changeset [12731] by
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/0.12
- tracticketconditionalvalidateplugin/1.0
New hack TracTicketConditionalValidatePlugin, created by zshahan
- 4:09 PM Ticket #10940 (Use plugin's own permissions for tagging actions instead of unrelated ...) created by
- TracTags support is currently flawed in the following way: If you …
- 3:14 AM Changeset [12730] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Add a default link to table titles.
- 3:10 AM Changeset [12729] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Add configurable links to table titles.
- 12:39 AM SimpleMultiProjectPlugin edited by
- (diff)
- 12:35 AM SimpleMultiProjectPlugin edited by
- (diff)
Mar 15, 2013:
- 11:56 PM Changeset [12728] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Set table width to 100%.
- 11:03 PM Changeset [12727] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/admin.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/templates/admin_accountsconfig.html
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/setup.cfg
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/setup.py
AccountManagerPlugin: Some i18n-related improvements, refs #8930.
Mostly pulling from Jun Omae's Git branch here, where he hinted on obsolete
extraction markers for the configuration hints.
He also confirmed, that extract_python works fine using get_l10n_cmdclass,
what I didn't even try before. Thank you, Jun.
While at it, I noticed the appearance of a 'check_catalog' command in
Trac 0.12.4, that is supported now as well, if available.
- 10:36 PM Changeset [12726] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Don't add link to non ticket rows in tables.
- 10:32 PM Changeset [12725] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Vertical aligned tables.
- 10:19 PM Changeset [12724] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Don't remove the group column from reports.
- 9:55 PM Changeset [12723] by
- jqchartmacro/1.0/jqplotchart/macro.py
Use html entities for unicode symbols.
This avoided the UnicodeDecodeError genshi error.
- 9:31 PM Ticket #10939 (Add link in ctxtnav that goes back to previously viewed hack) created by
- === Need a back link in upper right corner, ie: "Back to Active Hack …
- 8:22 PM Ticket #10935 (Installation Problem) closed by
- fixed: Sorry answered my own question about OperationalError. Seems to be an …
- 8:26 AM Ticket #10938 (AttributeError: hdf) closed by
- duplicate: Duplicate of #7066. You won't be able to use this plugin in Trac 1.0 …
Mar 14, 2013:
- 10:49 PM Changeset [12722] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/admin.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/api.py
AccountManagerPlugin: Clean-up after [12721], refs #8930.
Now 'cleandoc_' is all we need.
- 9:55 PM Changeset [12721] by
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/admin.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/api.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/compat.py
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/htdocs/js
- accountmanagerplugin/trunk/acct_mgr/htdocs/js/acctmgr_admin.js
- …
AccountManagerPlugin: Change class doc-string extraction for i18n to actually work.
This especially reverts and reworks parts of [12589] and [12663].
The exploration after cboos's hint in t:#11088 made me turn round and use an
approach closely resembling what already had been done to translate docs for
Trac core WikiMacros, although I changed it to fit for Trac 0.12 as well.
Trac core functions are used by default, but the configuration is tweaked
intentionally to not create catalogs in the '*-js' and 'tracini' domain.
So everything is still collected in 'messages', even if three compiler runs
on the same set of catalogs and generating unneeded message javascripts look
a bit awkward.
Because compatibility code predominated in acct_mgr.util it was about time
to re-arrange and form a dedicated acct_mgr.compat module.
- 8:15 PM Ticket #10938 (AttributeError: hdf) created by
- ==== How to Reproduce ==== While doing a GET operation on …
- 6:54 PM Changeset [12720] by
- directoryauthplugin/trunk/tracext/adauth/db.py
- updated the schema to create a blob vs a binary
- 6:25 PM Changeset [12719] by
- directoryauthplugin/trunk/tracext/adauth/auth.py
Incomplete - # 10139: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 9-10: ordinal not in range(128)
Fixed unicode display for errors in logs.
- 6:24 PM Ticket #10139 (UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position ...) closed by
- fixed: Researched and found …
- 5:53 PM Ticket #10666 (Error logging typo) closed by
- fixed: (In [12718]) Patched for the typo.
- 5:53 PM Changeset [12718] by
- directoryauthplugin
- directoryauthplugin/trunk/tracext/adauth/auth.py
Incomplete - # 10666: Error logging typo
Patched for the typo
- 2:34 PM Ticket #10937 (Weird results when using planned_finish) created by
- I wrote a script that automatically updates the "Planned finish" / …
- 6:45 AM Ticket #10936 (REPORT: Active Ticket query help) created by
- Can you provide the proper SQL syntax for the "Active Tickets" report …
- 6:11 AM Ticket #10935 (Installation Problem) created by
- Installed on a freshly created 1.0 instance of Trac using the mysql …
- 1:03 AM Ticket #10934 (TracHoursByComment breaks GridModify plugin) created by
- I just installed TracHours on my Trac that already had the …
Mar 13, 2013:
- 7:25 PM Ticket #10882 (ProjectPlanPlugin does not support Trac 1.0) closed by
- fixed: Issue seems to have been fixed in [12688].
- 7:04 PM Changeset [12717] by
- backlogplugin/trunk/backlog/web_ui.py
refs #10331: follow-up to [12488], use pkg_resources.parse_version to compare the version strings
- 6:10 PM LdapPlugin edited by
- modifying and adding some directive changes (diff)
- 5:57 PM sabbasth created by
- New user sabbasth registered
- 4:16 PM InterMapTxt edited by
- Alias for StackOverflow. (diff)
- 4:12 PM InterMapTxt edited by
- Added StackOverflow. (diff)
- 3:25 PM Changeset [12716] by
- tractabplugin/0.11/tractab/templates/tractab.html
Refs #5742: Refactored template.
- 3:08 PM Changeset [12715] by
- tractabplugin/0.11/tractab/tractab.py
Refs #5742:
- Moved import of resource_filename to its customary location within the ITemplateProvider method.
- Organized imports.
- Minor source code formatting changes.
- Removed unused method.
- 2:55 PM Changeset [12714] by
- tractabplugin/0.11/setup.py
- tractabplugin/0.11/tractab/__init__.py
- tractabplugin/0.11/tractab/tractab.py
Refs #5742: Misc changes.
- Modified entry point.
- Added url to setup.py.
- Added to setup.py:
- license header
- description and long description
- project url
- included "2-Clause" in license description
- Formatted source code.
- 2:43 PM TracTabPlugin edited by
- Added syntax highlighting. (diff)
- 2:29 PM Ticket #10932 (undefined variable en in auth.py line 279) closed by
- fixed: (In [12713]) Fixes #10932: Fixed typo in passing exception object to …
- 2:29 PM Changeset [12713] by
- directoryauthplugin/trunk/tracext/adauth/auth.py
Fixes #10932: Fixed typo in passing exception object to TracError.
- 12:33 PM Ticket #10933 (HTML: link substitution/export as an archive) created by
- Hello, the "Printable HTML" export does not work well for me, as all …
- 10:45 AM sebasbaumh created by
- New user sebasbaumh registered
- 5:37 AM Ticket #10932 (undefined variable en in auth.py line 279) created by
- Hi, First off thanks for keeping this critical plugin moving along ;-) …
- 12:01 AM Ticket #8602 (Not showing Submit Policy in the Web Admin Panel or Plugins Panel either) closed by
- worksforme
- 12:00 AM Changeset [12712] by
- ticketsubmitpolicyplugin/0.11/ticketsubmitpolicy/htdocs/js/exclude.js
- ticketsubmitpolicyplugin/0.11/ticketsubmitpolicy/htdocs/js/requires.js
Code formatting changes.


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Before college basketball's biggest weekend gets underway, we take a deeper look at the teams still alive for the national championship and present four facts you didn't know about the Final Four schools.
1. High-five pioneers? Louisville's claim that its 1978-79 team invented the high five sounds like George Costanza saying he coined the term "pardon my French." However, the story about the Doctors of Dunk creating the celebration at a practice has some validity, even if the true origins of the popular move will always remain murky.
2. Disco never dies. Ninety percent of the disco balls manufactured in the United States are made in Louisville. This raises two questions. First, who's producing the other 10%? Second, is Rick Pitino's white suit actually an homage to John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever?
3. Coaching stability. Louisville has had just two coaches since 1971: Denny Crum and Rick Pitino. It sounds remarkable, until you notice that it's not the longest tenured duo at the Final Four. Syracuse has made only one coaching change since 1968. That was when Jim Boeheim took over from Roy Danforth way back in 1976. No other team in major college basketball can match either streak.
4. It's "looavull." But no matter how you pronounce it, someone from Louisville will insist you're saying it incorrectly.
1. Art appreciation. Unemployed musical theater and graphic design majors, you have Syracuse to thank. The university boasts that it was the first in the nation to offer a bachelor's degree in the fine arts.
2. Carrier Dome-ination. More than 75 teams have played multiple games against Syracuse at the Carrier Dome. Only one of those teams -- Massachusetts -- has a winning record there.
3. Orange you glad no one else picked that color? In 1890, Syracuse students wanted to come up with more festive school colors than the university's pink and blue. After some meetings, the school went with solid orange because no other college had that monochromatic color scheme.
4. Heroin inspiration? Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed wrote many of the band's early hits while an undergrad at Syracuse. In 2010, Spin asked Reed about developing his songwriting process. "That happened when I was in college and starting to write the stuff that ended up on the first Velvet Underground record," he said. "I don't remember if it was the first song I wrote, but Heroin was the first one where I remember saying, 'I'll leave that one alone.'"
Wichita State
1. Non-state state school. Wichita State is the first "State" school without an actual state in its name to make the Final Four since Memphis State in 1985.
2. The shocker origin. Want to know what a Shocker is but don't want to Google it at work? WSU's name comes from 1904, when the school played a football game and the team manager chose to promote the team with the moniker. It refers to the off-season harvest (also called "shocking") of nearby Kansas wheat fields. Interestingly, an anagram of "Wichita State" is "wheat is tacit," though maybe I was being too liberal with the use of "interestingly."
3. Final Four return. This is Wichita State's second Final Four appearance. The first came in 1965. That gives the school the same number of appearances as Maryland, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Stanford and Virginia and one more than Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Wake Forest, among others.
4. Alum-no. Other than some famous names from the sports world (Bill Parcells, Xavier McDaniel, Joe Carter), the famous alumni list from Wichita State is a veritable who's who of people you'd actually have to ask "who?" about. The most famous attendees are probably the guys who founded Pizza Hut and the BTK serial killer.
1. Darth Vader went here. On the other end of the famous alum spectrum, Michigan boasts former presidents, cabinet appointees, astronauts, Google co-founders, Super Bowl MVPs and famous racial and religious pioneers as former students. Yet the school's website chooses to lead its alumni page with the sentence "James Earl Jones has a U-M degree." This is awesome (said like JEJ's famed CNN tagline).
2. The war heroes. The film Saving Private Ryan was based on members of coach John Beilein's family. His mother, Josephine Niland, had two cousins killed on D-Day and another who was shot down weeks before and presumed dead. The military sent her fourth cousin, Fritz, back home in order to spare the Niland family the grief of losing four sons in battle. Josephine's brother, Tommy, was also on the shores of Normandy that day. He survived and later became an athletic director at Le Moyne College. In 1983, he hired his nephew, John Beilein, to become head coach.
3. Bo Shembechler's pep talk. After coach Bill Frieder took a job at Arizona State before the 1989 NCAA tournament, the famous football coach and athletic director told Frieder not to bother showing up for the postseason. ''I don't want someone from Arizona State coaching the Michigan team,'' Schembechler famously said. ''A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.'' Days later, Schembechler gave a similar speech to the players on the basketball team, telling them that they were Michigan men who would fight the Michigan way. Star Glen Rice credits the pep talk with helping the team regain focus. Three weeks later, the Wolverines were national champions.
4. Chris Webber walked. It's usually overlooked, but the timeout wasn't the most egregious error Webber made on that fateful play in the 1993 national championship.


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DUNBAR, John E., 85, of Onaway died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, at Hancock Haven, Cheboygan.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret; sons, Anthony (Sandra) of Charleston, S.C., John (Ellen) of Onaway, and Rick (Angela) of Onaway; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; sisters Janice (Bob) St. Clair of Onaway, Norman Hudson of Cheboygan, and Jeanie Allen of Whitmore Lake; brother, Sherly (Josie) Dunbar of Lillian, Ala.; sister-in-law, Rose Dunbar of Onaway; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, from 4-8 p.m. at the Chagnon Funeral Home in Onaway.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Chagnon Funeral Home, Onaway.
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Airbus Helicopters will display its mission-ready military rotorcraft lineup at Eurosatory 2014 defense exposition near Paris, France, including one of its newest military helicopters, the twin-engine EC645 T2. Also shown at Eurosatory 2014 will be Airbus Helicopters' single-engine high-performance AS550 C3e Fennec, tailored for scout, armed reconnaissance and light utility missions.
The French Army will display one of its NH90s – the multi-role helicopter deployed by this military service and by allied forces in Afghanistan, and used for the French Navy's rescues of more than 120 persons; along with the presence of Tiger attack helicopter, which has been combat-proven while serving in Afghanistan, Libya and Mali.
Completing the company's presence at Eurosatory – its first in the Airbus Helicopters identity following the rebranding from Eurocopter – are scale models of the EC725 Caracal, endorsed through combat deployments with French forces in Afghanistan along with the support of France's role in NATO-led operations during the Libyan military campaign and French Special Forces missions in Mali; as well as the military Panther version of the well-known Dauphin family.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (105 votes).
In short: Very poor organisation but good mementoesIn full: The race started late and with no loudspeakers the warm-up was a game of Chinese Whispers. No distance markers meant that laps were the only measurement available. Some marshalls were quite grumpy and at the finish there was no cheery welcome and you had then head back across the playing field to the cricket pavillion. Lots of dogs (largely without leads), cyclists, other sports events, prams, walkers and families out and about combined with narrow paths led to some hold-ups which could have been avoided had there been some signs on the route warning passersby of the race (some asked what the race was and had charity collectors been nearby they could have upped their collecton considerably and helped keep the route clear by wandering along the route). Chaos at the end as some grabbed goody bags and T-shirts and left before we were told to wait. Everyone made to wait for the presentaions then asked to collect T-shirt (fun but loads of XL and L with just a few M sizes!), goody bag and medal (some on ribbons) resulting in a scrum. Decided to get a shower but the only showers were for men only. So, headed home pleased with my haul but a bit disappointed in the organisation of the event. Set a new personal best but the route was altered on the day due to another sporting event so it was under 10km. Good value for money and plenty of parking but please can the organisation and signage be better next year! Date of review: October 29, 2007
In short: Well worth the drive across LondonIn full: This was my second 10k this year. Lovely course, a lot of marshalls to ensure you didn't come off track. Marshalls were lovely, a few miserable faces but on the whole as you came up to them and waved they gave you lovely words of encouragement. Some interesting parts of the track especially over a very narrow little bridge, my husband had to stop as a woman and her small daughter were on the bridge and weren't coming off until they were ready which I though was a bit mean, I found all the other park users to be very supportive and I chatted and waved at anyone who came across my path! The goodie bags were so so, rather poor quality T shirt that didn't seem to commemorate the race itself, the medals didn't have ribbon, even the organisers were apologising for the quality of the goods but for £10 my argument is what more do people expect. I got an apple, T shirt, keyring, pen and a leaflet in my bag. Excellent water supplies so full marks for that. I took a bottle on my first lap just in case they ran out and I ran with it for another two laps unopened and at the finish there was still plenty left to refresh runners. A shame finishers were diverted away from the finish line to the pavilion as it would have been nice for runners to come to the end of the run and be cheered on by more people. Fortunately my friends and I kind of travel in an entourage and we stayed to cheer the last person home as that person has probably put more effort into doing it that the people at the front! The organisers were delightful although I would have appreciated something sent to me in the post but email contact was very forthcoming when I contacted them. My Garmin read just over 9.5km but then again it's not about the distance it's the feeling of elation at the end and knowing you've done something pretty amazing and shared it with lots of other amazing people. One of my friends did drop out on the first lap as they felt the support was not forthcoming from the marshalls but I am sure we'll all be signing up for the January event! Roll on January and thank you for organising this race. Date of review: October 29, 2007
In short: Great first 10kIn full: Aside from a little trouble with the start due to all the other sports clubs using the park, race went great! Friendly marshalls, great route and a very generous goody bag for all finishers. Highly recommended!Date of review: October 29, 2007
In short: started 15 mins late, t shirts etc not avail at finishIn full: would have been nice to have a marked start line/ finish, better organisation at start, being well marshalled on the course stopped this getting the brewrey rating! after finishing was told to walk back to baggage check to get tshirt as they hadn't brought them over yet.Date of review: October 28, 2007
In short: Excellent, enjoyable run in a friendly atmosphere as last year. Staff fantastic and looking forward to 2008 already.Date of review: October 28, 2007
In short: seemed to lack organisation - 15 min late start... nothing sent to me to tell where the race would start from in the park. Felt like it was less than 10km. Didnt know there were medals or goody bags afterwards. Friendly people though.Date of review: October 27, 2007
In short: First 10km and loved it!In full: Great atmosphere, great warm up, loved it!Date of review: October 27, 2007
In short: Pretty, but pretty short?In full: Lovely parkland setting, flat but a few dodgy turns over bridges and round the lakes, made it more interesting though.Garmin measured at 9.3 km - didn't cut that many corners so interested to know what others thought.Nice climacool hat in goody bag, t shirt, medal,keyring etc.Organisation slightly lacking, but a small charity event so not a huge problem.5 mins walk from home, so will be doing it next year!Date of review: October 27, 2007
In short: Organisation was a let down, started 15 mins late, some marshalls had to be asked the way as they weren't pointing and they recorded my time 30 seconds too quick! Date of review: October 27, 2007
In short: great to get t-shirt(will try harder for medal)Date of review: October 30, 2006
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Check out Masters.com during the tournament for sure, but even before it starts the site is worth browsing. Lots of new video, hi-res photography, interviews, history, info on all 18 holes, etc.
During the tourney there will be lots of live streaming and hole flyovers, etc.
Shameless bragging section: My son is again the webmaster for the site (via IBM) and he is also the technical lead for the iPhone and Droid apps that are now up and available for download at the site. (He's there, but no, he can't get me in to the event...still the toughest ticket in sports)


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (240 votes).
In short: Scenic run on a glorious spring morningIn full: First couple of miles a bit crowded and I was held up at the first road crossing at 3 miles to let cars pass which probably added a minute to my time but as it's not a PB course it wasn't a problem.The course is one of the nicest halves I've done (but not the fastest)Organisation was very good, thanks to all the marshalls and the youngsters manning the water stations. Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Brilliant race, lovelly scenery, very well organised, this was the 1st forest of dean half I've done and I'll definatly be doing it next year. A big thank you to all involved with organising this event . . WELL DONE :-) Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Good choiceIn full: All my friends were trying to persuade me to do the bath half with them, but after looking at the reports on runners world I think i was the one who made the right choice. By the sounds of it this run was everything that bath wasn't... it started bang on time, excellent organisation and friendliness, great parking zones,great course, great scenery, nice medal, nice t-shirt, oh and although there was a diversion to get there on to day, the diversion signs (all the way from chepstow) were fantastic! We (4 of us)travelled a long way but all agreed it was one of our best events to date. Thanks to all concernedDate of review: March 16, 2009
In short: warm and friendly atmosphere with support the whole way roundIn full: Only my third race but this half was thoroughly enjoyable. The weather couldn't have been better and the support throughout was fantastic. The organisation was very good and the course well marshalled.Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: Well organised, beautiful sceanery around the forest plus cracking weather!!!In full: Not a p/b course but still pretty quick, plenty of rolling inclines to get the legs pumping (reminded me very much of wyre forest 1/2 marathon). Wonderful scenic course with supportive marshall's through out, great free leg massage at the end, plus really liked the special T-shirt for the top 50 men & women back, very nice touch. Only small gripe was not enough toilets at start (but isn't the same every where,lol) & poor sign posting for spectators from start to finsh, but they ammended that during the day. Overall a great run. Date of review: March 16, 2009
In short: great weather,great course,great atmosphere!Date of review: March 15, 2009
In short: Mildly challenging trail course, smoothly run and friendly race. In full: Not a PB course in comparison to the pancake flat city half-marathons, but a quick time is possible. The quality of the trail course was mostly excellent apart from the first couple of miles because of forestry work but we were warned about that in fairness. Would have liked a bit more than a medal and carton of Ribena post race for my money, but it was a really enjoyable early spring race in fabulous weather. Date of review: March 15, 2009
In short: 4th year, bigger and better! Congratulations to Chris and everyone involved.Date of review: March 15, 2009
In short: Well-organised off road race in the beautiful Forest of DeanDate of review: March 15, 2009
In short: First time here and so glad did this instead of BathIn full: Great organisation, with even markers from the road diversions, nice coach (free) from car park to start. great support and great scenery, lovely free massage at finish.and all helped by great sunshine. thanks FODDate of review: March 15, 2009
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A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world's most exotic cities.
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep - a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. - is hell-bent on wreaking revenge.
On a vigilante mission to capture his partner's murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones and captures her heart in the process. In a city fueled by illicit drugs and infinite corruption, prostitution and priceless art, Sonchai's quest for vengeance takes him into a world much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
©2003 John Burdett (P)2011 Random House Audio
"A tour de force.... Burdett is purely and simply a wonderful writer." (The Washington Post)
"A stiletto-sharp mystery/thriller... brilliantly rendered." (The Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer)
"Like Thai cuisine, Burdett's comic thriller blends spicy, sour, salty and sweet - and makes for a delicious wake-up for jaded palates." (People)
"Tales from Thamkrabok?"
This book is a great story but it's not so much a work of fiction. Having lived in BKK for many years. This story is all to true and repeats itself regularly. I left BKK in 2555 (2012) and this is still very much the way of the kingdom, the land of fake smiles and deep feeling Jai Dee locals doing what they must. I myself loved the book but had a hard times with some of my own memories that this book kicked up! The author gets it spot on and then some.
"After a while, I didn't care who-done-it."
This book and author were recommended to me by a "reader", so I got it with high hopes.
It has an interesting setting, with exotic characters but alas, it's just another
detective-gets-bad-people-with-the-help-of a-hot-smart-chick,
(not that's there's anything wrong with that).
But there are SO many writers saturating the "Scooby doo" genre (including vampires, aliens and the like/unlike) that a story, THE STORY needs to be even more engaging and compelling.
This one isn't.
I recommend: "I Am Pilgrim", the Matthew Corbitt series and without a doubt,
Stephen King's Bill Hodges.
"Very dissapointing"
I had a lot of optimism for this book and tried to like it long after I knew it was a dud. The writing is juvenile. The references to Buddhism fortune cookie like. The story starts with a couple of detectives tailing a man driving through town, and though the car they are tailing is stuck in traffic and moving at normal speeds the detectives are forced to drive through alleys, do power slides and fly through the air to catch up, only to find that some assailants on motor scooters have filled the car with deadly snakes, scores of them and they have killed the occupant. The story does not improve from there, everything is improbable, is seedy, and poorly written.
Not recommended
I do not know, I will not even finish this book
The story hops from scene to scene with little warning. It is supposed to be a murder mystery but spends too much time on social history
Paul Boehmer might be an excellent narrator for a mid-western story but not for this genre. He does not bring these characters to life.
I would not cut anyone. I would just like them to sound like more they were Thai, not Americans.
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