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San Diego, CA – Daniel Chong, the California student who was thrown into a cell and forgotten about by DEA agents has filed a $20 million dollar suit against the agency. Chong was left in the cell for five days without food, water or human contact. He drank his own urine to survive and after suffering from psychosis he even ate broken glass and carved "sorry Mom" into his arm.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Attorney Eugene Iredale sent a demand notice on behalf of UC San Diego senior Daniel Chong, 23, to the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) general counsel,
The claim said,
"The deprivation of food and water for four and one-half days while the person is handcuffed the entire time constitutes torture under both international and domestic law,"
Chong was discovered and sent to the hospital where he spent an additional five days being treated for a perforated lung, possible kidney failure and other illnesses.
Wednesday the DEA acting special agent in charge William R. Sherman issued an apology on behalf of the agency saying,
"I am deeply troubled by the incident that occurred here last week. I extend my deepest apologies to the young man and want to express that this event is not indicative of the high standards that I hold my employees to. I have personally ordered an extensive review of our policies and procedures."
Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is set to review the case and find out why something like this could happen.
"Chairman Issa and the Oversight Committee will be asking the DEA for an explanation of this outrageous incident,"
Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation.
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Mr. Sanders: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the funds which are available to local authorities on application, indicating those for which the Torbay Unitary Authority has successfully applied in each of the last two years. [124197]
Mr. Nick Brown: Local authorities can apply for a range of funds managed by my Department, depending on their individual circumstances. My Department's records show that Torbay Unitary Authority had three successful applications under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme in 1998-99.
Joan Ruddock: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what percentage of those farmers requesting information from the organic conversion information service entered the organic farming scheme. [127027]
Mr. Morley: Precise figures are not available. However, we estimate that around 25 per cent. of farmers who contact OCIS eventually enter land into conversion.
Joan Ruddock: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many farmers requested information from the organic conversion information service in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [127028]
Mr. Morley: In the period 5 June 1999 to 2 June 2000, just over 2,000 farmers contacted the organic conversion information service.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on his policy towards beta-sitosterol products. [126892]
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Ms Stuart: As responsibility for food safety and standards matters have now passed to the Food Standards Agency which reports to Parliament through Health Ministers, I have been asked to reply.
I am advised by the Food Standards Agency that products containing beta-sitosterol require pre-market approval under the European Commission Novel Foods Regulation 258/97 if they did not have a significant history of consumption in Europe at the time the regulations came into force.
28. Dr. Godman: To ask the Advocate-General what recent advice she has given to the Government concerning the cross-examination of complainers in court cases involving sexual assault and similar offences in relation to (a) the human rights of such witnesses and (b) the European convention on human rights. [126363]
The Advocate-General for Scotland: This raises difficult questions which require to be handled with great delicacy by policy Ministers. These questions include issues of human rights, of the complainer as well as of the accused. In England and Wales, this is the responsibility of the Home Secretary and legislation has been passed by Parliament. The relevant provisions of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 will be brought into force once the necessary rules of court, which are at an advanced stage, have been made. In Scotland, where the matter is devolved, the Executive have announced their intention to examine options open to them.
29. Mrs. McKenna: To ask the Advocate-General in what type of cases, intimated to her as devolution issues, she has intervened. [126364]
The Advocate-General for Scotland: I have intervened in a variety of devolution issues cases. Each case is considered on its merits. In general terms I have intervened, for example, where important issues of principle have arisen particularly in cases which might have ramifications for the whole United Kingdom. I do not usually intervene until a case has reached appeal or Privy Council stage.
6. Mr. McFall: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in Scotland have moved in to unsubsidised employment as a result of the New Deal; and if he will make a statement. [126341]
Mr. Wilson: At the end of March this year, 28,795 people had moved in to unsubsidised employment as a result of participating in the New Deal in Scotland.
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7. Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the time scale for reducing the number of hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies. [126342]
Dr. Reid: It is not possible to be precise on this. The Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Scotland has not yet formally started its next review. It is for the Commission to determine when this commences, keeping in mind the requirement that it needs to report between December 2002 and December 2006. Following the report, implementation will take some time.
9. Mr. Syms: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what discussions he has had with the Boundary Commission for Scotland about the Government's plan to reduce the number of hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies. [126344]
Dr. Reid: I have had no such discussions. The rules for the redistribution of parliamentary seats are set out in the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended, and the Scotland Act 1998. The Boundary Commission is required to follow these in any review of the number of constituencies in Scotland.
25. Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister about reducing the number of hon. Members sitting for Scottish constituencies. [126360]
Dr. Reid: I have regular discussions with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on various matters.
8. Mrs. Laing: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has made to the Secretary of State for Social Security regarding pensioners. [126343]
Dr. Reid: I have frequent discussions with my right hon. Friend. We are proud of this Government's record: we are spending an additional £6.5 billion on pensioners over the course of this Parliament.
10. Sir Teddy Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the operation of the Barnett formula in respect of the block grant to the Scottish Executive. [126345]
Dr. Reid: I have not received any such representations in the past six months.
11. Mr. Eric Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action is being taken to regenerate coalfield communities in Scotland. [126346]
Dr. Reid: This Government are very aware of the specific problems faced by coalfield areas and remain committed to a long-term plan of action to regenerate coalfield communities. As I explained in my reply to my hon. Friend on 18 April, the work of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust is a matter for the Scottish Executive.
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With the publication of the report "Improving Lottery Funding Access and Delivery in the British Coalfields" on 5 June, this Government have signalled their intention to ensure that people in coalfields and other deprived areas can get the fullest benefit possible from the National Lottery.
12. Mr. Wray: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many Scottish companies have had action taken against them to enforce the national minimum wage. [126347]
Mr. Wilson: Since the introduction of the minimum wage on 1 April 1999, national minimum wage inspectors in Scotland have taken action against 17 companies to enforce the national minimum wage. There are presently 229 cases being investigated by national minimum wage investigators. The Low Pay Commission reported on 15 February that the Inland Revenue has made a successful start to enforcement and was working proactively to ensure compliance with the legislation.
15. Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many workers in Scotland have benefited from the introduction of the national minimum wage. [126350]
Mr. Wilson: Over 100,000 workers in Scotland are entitled to higher rates of pay as a result of the introduction of the national minimum wage on 1 April 1999.
13. Mrs. Ewing: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has had with the Department of Trade and Industry and the Scottish Executive regarding the assisted area status map for Scotland. [126348]
Dr. Reid: I have had various discussions with both the Department for Trade and Industry and the Scottish Executive about the assisted areas map for Scotland. I am hopeful that the Commission will soon agree to a map that will secure a very favourable outcome for Scotland.
14. Mr. Peter Atkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will raise in the joint Ministerial Committee between the Scottish Executive and the UK Government the subject of planning decisions with cross-border implications. [126349]
Mr. Wilson: My right hon. Friend has no plans to raise this issue in the Joint Ministerial Committee. Planning decisions are in the first instance a matter for local government, and it will generally be desirable that local authorities should discuss planning matters that span their boundaries with neighbouring local authorities, whether those authorities are in Scotland or England. The bilateral concordat between the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Scottish Executive provides for communication and co-ordination between these central government bodies.
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Guest Blog: Islander — Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Week 1
Islander recently released their debut full-length, 'Violence & Destruction,' and are currently rocking stages across this great nation as part of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. While they are out on that tour, the band's vocalist, Mikey Carvajal, will be providing us with updates and photos from the road.
Today we are headed to Las Vegas to play an off-date from Mayhem Festival with our homies in Ill Niño and Mushroomhead. Mayhem Festival has been great so far. We've had the opportunity to play some of the biggest shows we've ever been a part of, and we've made a lot of new friends. My wife is out with us also running our merch table, so it's been great having that time with her. Everyone involved with the tour has been nothing but nice to us, and we really couldn't ask for a better crew to be on the road with. The catering has been great, as well. Our debut album, 'Violence & Destruction,' dropped this week so we've been excited about that. The response for it has been great and we've been totally blown away at all the love everyone has already shown us.
All the bands have been killing it every day. KoRn, Ill Niño, and Body Count have been great to us. Take yesterday for instance, Fieldy and I went to the gym to work out for a bit. The gym is something that I've always been intimidated by. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the workout equipment, as well as all of the dudes walking around staring at themselves in the mirrors while grunting. I've been conflicted about that recently, though. I believe that if we are spiritually and mentally healthy, we will also want to be physically healthy and take care of the body that God has blessed us with. Fieldy is holding me accountable with that. It's a process and a struggle. I'm not trying to look like Hulk Hogan or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I do want to be a more healthy and thankful person.
OK, we are jamming some Future Islands and riding through the most beautiful desert, so I'm going to end this here. We look forward to seeing everyone on the road and killing it every day. Until next week, y'all. Take care!
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Séjour agréable dans l'ensemble. Hôte serviable et souriant. Très belle propriété.
points négatifs:
-quelques moustiques
-humidité (salle de bain)
-ballon eau chaude un peu petit
-les 30 euros de ménage, excessif.
points positifs:
-appartement climatisé, congélateur, cuisine équipée.
-proche des moyens de transports.
-hôte sympathique.
Very well situated flat in Roma with a very good connection with the tramway. But people have to know the restaurant under this appartment is quite noisy in the evening half of the week (including Sundays). It is necessary to come with good earplugs (with them you have not at all any trouble to sleep) and a night mask because curtains protect few from the day light in the morning. Internet wifi connection is difficult to get and is available only near the kitchen window.
the place was not good, we asked for a 3 room appartment and it was just a big room with curtains. the toilet had a terrible leakage, everything got wet in there. the internet never worked.
and it is not near the centrum of the city.
If I where you I will never go to Sabelli house
everything perfect as usual. soon andrea
tout parfait comme d habitude .à bientôt andrea
The stay at the apartment well. Comfortable, clean, as shown in the photos. The location is good but not in the center but has good communication and the neighborhood is very typical, we liked. The only negative was that we had become with bad taste was the transport, the person who recommended us to transport back to the airport it would be more direct and comfortable and although we had been almost 3 hours in advance so just got to the airport, We were wandering around Rome 1 ½ hours without saying anything nearly had to pick up more people and we had previously advised the way to the airport and he was to scared to not be too fast even later, and all that without realizing no explanation. A shame not to score at all well stay.
La estancia en el apartamento muy bien. Comodo, limpio, como aparece en las fotos. La ubicacion esta bien aunque no esta en el centro pero tiene buena comunicacion y el barrio es muy tipico, nos ha gustado. Lo unico negativo que hizo que nos volvieramos con mal sabor de boca fue el transporte, la persona encargada nos recomendo volver en trasporte hacia el aeropuerto que seria mas directo y comodo y aunque habiamos quedado con casi 3 horas de antelacion llegamos al aeropuerto muy justos, nos tuvieron dando vueltas por Roma 1 hora y media casi y sin decirnos nada tenian que recojer a mas personas y no nos habian avisado previamente y el camino al aeropuerto asustados pues iba a demasiada velocidad para no llegar mas tarde aun, y todo eso sin darnos ninguna explicacion. Una pena no poder puntuar del todo bien la estancia.
Apartment is (too) far walk from the sights, but with public transport, these easy to reach. Space itself is a little musty and damp due to insufficient ventilation. Towels are only 1x a week. Hot water is scarce because only 20 ltr. cylinder volume.
Appartement ligt (te) ver lopen vanaf de bezienswaardigheden, maar met OV zijn deze wel goed bereikbaar. Ruimte zelf is enigzins muf en vochtig door onvoldoende ventilatiemogelijkheid. Handdoeken worden slechts 1x per week verschoond. Warm water is schaars vanwege slechts 20 ltr. boilervolume.
Welcome! We have not had any problems to recover the keys. The apartment complies with photos. This is a nice apartment in very good condition in a nice building.
But unfortunately it is located on the first floor just above a restaurant that closes at 2am. So we were disturbed by the noise of consumers installed on the terrace followed by the sound of customers who smoke outside in the window. Apartment for rent only if you lie very very late
(2 h 00).
Beautiful apartment just above Huadu goal was far too noisy restaurant.
Bon accueil ! Nous n'avons pas eu de difficulté pour récupérer les clés. L'appartement est conforme aux photos. C'est un appartement agréable en très bon état dans une bel immeuble.
Mais malheureusement il est situé au premier étage juste au dessus d'un restaurant qui ferme à 2h du matin. Nous avons donc été dérangé par le bruit des consommateurs installés en terrasse puis par le bruit des clients qui fument dehors sous la fenêtre. Appartement à louer seulement si vous vous couchez très très tard
(2 h 00).
Beautiful apartment but situated just above a far too noisy restaurant.
The apartment is very well organized davero spaces. The area of the residence is very quiet but within a stone's throw from the life of lively San Lorenzo district. Comfortable in even the connections with the main points of the city. Would improve only the frequency of the supply of laundry and some of the kitchen equipment. My choice has, however, proved to be excellent and advice.
L'appartamento è davero molto ben organizzato negli spazi. La zona del residence è molto tranquilla ma a un tiro di schioppo dalla vita del vivace quartiere San Lorenzo. Comodi anche i collegamenti con i principali punti nevralgici della città. Migliorerei soltanto la frequenza della fornitura della biancheria e qualche dotazione della cucina. La mia scelta si è, comunque, rivelata ottima e la consiglio.
It was a very nice apartment. The rooms were very clean and there were lots of nice restaurants around the corner. I think I will stay there again. We really had a nice time in Rome!
I liked the San Lorenzo area and the apartment was in a very calm inner courtyard. I enjoyed the private little garden very much. Didn't like the charge for cleaning as I left the house spotless but everything else was perfect! I had a very sweet time in this house and will book it again soon!
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If you thought 2014 was already packed with celebrity baby births — Gwen Stefani's, Scarlett Johansson's, and Megan Fox's, to name a few — just wait until you see who's on tap to welcome new additions to their families. The next few months are already shaping up to be packed with new Hollywood additions. While there are several first-time moms eagerly awaiting their new arrivals — Jessica Biel is reportedly the latest to join this list — there are also plenty of seasoned parents anticipating their second and third children. Keep reading to see which celebrities will be adding to their families in the coming months.
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Food Network stars go to print
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, October 28, 2008
First up is Jamie Oliver, followed by Guy Fieri, Sunny Anderson, Alton Brown and Paula Deen.
And that's only on the first page.
There's a fresh medium for Food Network stars to display their cooking chops -- they're sharing stories and recipes in print in the new Food Network Magazine ($3.99).
The end result is a cheerful mix-and-match of star turns and home kitchen fare and punchy news bites and cooking tips. The inaugural issue includes a behind-the-scenes look at an "Iron Chef" show, step-by-step directions for tying a butcher's knot around a pork roast, advice on boxed wines (yes, boxed wines) from a high-class Manhattan sommelier, Thanksgiving recipes, Q&A columns with Ellie Krieger and Ted Allen, a look at Tyler Florence's home kitchen, and on and on.
"We're in touch with (the stars) constantly," said editor Maile Carpenter, who previously had edited Every Day with Rachael Ray. "I'm sure they're thinking, 'What just happened?' All of a sudden they have a whole magazine to fill every month. Since day one, they've all been, knock on wood, fantastic to work with."
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But the chefs also have been excited about translating their interests to the magazine world, she said.
"They can do stories with us they wouldn't be able to do on the air."
Carpenter said she wanted to "capture the spirit and energy" of the TV network in print.
But does it make sense to have the stars all in one place rather than on their own? Are people really Food Network fans, or Giada De Laurentiis fans or Mario Batali fans?
Again, Carpenter said, people told her they liked diversity.
"I realized what they liked about the network is, you get such different styles of cooking," she said. "I'm talking both in terms of the level of cooking, whether it's simple or complex, and the types of cuisine. You can watch Bobby (Flay) cooking and then watch Ina (Garten) make an amazing dinner for friends and then you can watch Duff (Goldman) do his crazy cakes."
Beyond the known stars, the magazine also gives a more public face to the unsung heroes of the Food Network kitchens -- recipe developers, a nutritionist, a test-kitchen director and other staff culinarians.
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I've been on a reading binge lately, devouring true crime books at the gym as I cycle away the results of a healthy appetite. And the more of these books I read, the angrier I get at Gov. Jerry Brown and his legislative shills.
It seems that when they're not trying to figure out ways to increase taxes to feed their union benefactors they are toying with budget cuts that go directly against what's supposed to be the No. 1 goal of government: to keep us safe.
The state's prison realignment program is a disaster that's no longer waiting to happen. It is happening. Brown and his legislative henchmen effectively have washed their hands of dangerous criminals and are leaving it up to already-overburdened county governments to rise up to meet the challenge -- which, of course, they're in no position to do.
Here in Riverside County, the five county jails were at 80 percent capacity when the program was launched in October 2011. Within three months, all 3,906 jail beds were filled. Since then, the Sheriff's Department has had no other choice but to release nearly 7,000 prisoners to make room for newly sentenced criminals who in the past would have gone to state prison, but now are being sent to the county jail, as long as their latest offense is considered "non-violent."
To his credit, Sheriff Stan Sniff is making the best of a bad situation. He's proposing to offset the growing number of inmate releases by sending some of them home wearing electronic ankle bracelets while they wait for court appointments, so at the very least we know where they are.
Up to now, more than 2,000 of the inmates tapped for release from jail because there wasn't any room had been arraigned on other charges and were waiting for their day in court. As long as they made bail, they were released without any supervision or monitoring at all.
Under Sniff's proposal, inmates who are being held in lieu of bail would be sent home, but on what effectively amounts to an electronic leash.
The end result: more dangerous cons under the watchful eye of the law.
Sniff's proposal, which Riverside County supervisors approved last week, is far from perfect, but it's certainly better than doing nothing.
As Supervisor Jeff Stone told this newspaper, it's a "short-term fix to a long-term problem."
The best solution, of course, would be to build more jails -- actually that's No. 2, the ideal solution would to be elect a new governor who understands public safety and would undo the folly perpetrated against us by Brown.
But a $237 million expansion project at the county's Indio jail, which would give us 1,250 more jail beds won't be completed until 2016, and by then who knows how many more crooks our county will need to contend with, particularly under the worst-case scenario of Brown or another soft-on-crime Democrat still occupying the state house.
So to the sheriff and our local supes, good going. By all means, short-term fix away ...
Thomas K. Arnold is editorial editor for U-T The Californian.


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Barre Stages Teddy Roosevelt Flash Mob
09/04/12 12:50PM Angela Evancie
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You've probably heard of flash mobs: large groups of people carefully choreographed to show up at a mall to sing the Hallelujah chorus or the variant cash mobs who swarm a local book or hardware store.
This past weekend, the city of Barre staged what might be the first ever Teddy Roosevelt Flash Mob to mark the 100th anniversary of the politician's visit to the area.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt visited the city of Barre to rally support for his bid for president. He was the candidate for the Progressive, or Bull Moose, party. Friday marked the 100-year anniversary of Roosevelt's visit, and to mark the occasion, Barre pulled out all the stops.
While lots has changed in the past 100 years of politics, some things are still the same.
Pretend, for a moment, that it's August 31, 1912. Teddy Roosevelt has just arrived in Barre, where a throng of people has gathered to hear him speak. Roosevelt is running for a third term in the White House. He's broken from the GOP to lead a new Progressive party.
"We do say that if you choose to put into power the old parties, you will make no progress toward any solution at all," actor John D. Alexander recited to the crowd in Barre on Friday, acting the part of Roosevelt. "Here in Vermont, I feel we have a peculiar right to make an appeal on behalf of the Progressive Party. You men and women of Vermont represent the very type of American citizen in whom we must trust when we strive to make this government really a government by the people themselves. In the interest of all the people and not any one class of people."Vermont Historical Society organized the gathering. The goal was to recreate an iconic photograph of Roosevelt addressing the 8,000 Vermonters who turned out to see him.
"We tried to get the stage as close to the original spot," said Tess Taylor is the director of Education and Public Programming. "But darn it, there's a maple tree that wasn't there 100 years ago. Pretty much everything else looks the same."
Friday's crowd was shy of 200 people, but there was plenty of spirit. Old-fashioned hats and dresses abounded. And young newsies sold copies of commemorative newspapers for a penny a piece. "It's the old-time Barre Daily from 1912," said Zachary Stabell. "It's called "Throng of 8,000 Saw Roosevelt in Barre Today." (Spoiler alert: Vermont didn't actually vote for Roosevelt in the 1912 primary election. The incumbent Republican, William Howard Taft, took the state. And of course Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, beat the both of them in the general election.)
"We think of Vermont today as a
very progressive state," said Matt
Dickinson, a professor of Political Science at Middlebury College.
"But it wasn't. For a very long time, for most of the
twentieth century up until the mid-1970s or so, it was one of the more
staunchly conservative states."
But it's easy to imagine today's Vermonters rallying behind Roosevelt.
Reporter: "If you were a voter in 1912, would you
have voted for Teddy Roosevelt"?
"I like to think that I would have."
"And I would too."
"I would have voted for him."
"I would certainly vote for him if he
was running. I'm all for him. I wish he were running now!"
"Uh, I probably would have voted for Eugene Debs, the socialist. I'm that kind of Vermonter."
Vermont's politics have changed. But in a lot of ways, modern voters are still grappling with issues that haven't changed since Teddy's era. "Audience members came up to me afterwards and said that very thing, that there's so many connections with the present day," said John Alexander, the actor who played Roosevelt. "It's almost as though the issues hadn't changed. Or many of them haven't. Children working in factories is not an issue anymore, but a lot of other issues are still current, in terms of true equality, in terms of labor laws and truth in politics."
And these connections aren't lost on politicians. Last year, President Obama spoke on another Roosevelt-related anniversary. "But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you can from whomever you can," President Obama told a crowd in Osawatamie, Kansas. Political scientist Matt Dickinson says Obama was trying to tap into a Roosevelt ethos, "regulating the trusts and working on behalf of the common man." Dickinson adds, "I think in that sense, yeah, the mythical Roosevelt is a role model for Obama."
Soon enough, Barre's Roosevelt re-enacters will be casting their ballots - not in the election of 1912, but of 2012.
Note: The historical audio of Teddy Roosevelt in this story was courtesy of Marston Records.


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Current Version
EasyTable Pro! version 1.4.8 is a Joomla! 3.4.3+ and 2.5.28 compatible extension.
This is the stable release of EasyTable Pro! 1.4.0 which introduces "Automatic Uploads" and adds international features to the DATE column/field type, support for Label overrides in AJAX tables and more notifications for empty search results and misconfigured options.
For completeness a list of changes, additions and fixes applied since the EasyTable Pro! v1.0.0 release are detailed below.
1.4.8 Fixes
- Fixed Joomla Javascript language files not being loaded for minimised Javascript files.
This is one of the last releases in the 1.4 line, Joomla 2.5 compatibility is not guarenteed in the upcoming 1.5 version of EasyTable Pro
1.4.7 Fixes
- Restored access control to a records detail view.
1.4.6 Fixes
- Restored missing 'access' setting.
- Removed redundant (& confusing Table Stats tab)
1.4.5 Fixes
- Removed a redundant call for a MooTools request object
- Fixed the version check layout for Joomla 3.x
1.4.4 Changes
- adds support to the router for direct component URL sometimes generated in Joomla.
i.e. urls of the form: /component/easytablepro/tablename/99
1.4.3 Changes
- Add support for Label overrides in DataTables (AJAX tables)
- Add Language Keys for DataTables strings
- Add language strings to DataTable options
- Add warning for users that enabled a linked table but don't configure it.
1.4.3 Fixes
- Fix incorrect sprintf syntax.
- Fix route to detail views for some AJAX tables.
1.4.1 Changes
- Add fallback to URL filter_search values for Ajax sourced tables.
1.4.1 Fixes
- Fix searchable attribute not being honored.
1.4.0 Fixes
- Fix bug where "New Record" button edits first ticked record.
- Fix detection of new record state in Edit Record Toolbar setup.
- Fix embedded images in table description of Records view.
- Fix legend/title for record edit view with new records.
- Fix no-records found error due to J3 returning 'false' rather than 'null' or an empty array.
- Fix table count in Upload msg after append
- Fix table duplication and clean up process.
- Fix undefined variable in preflight of install script.
- Fix UserFilter (regression to old "id:field_name" in select value).
1.4.0 Additions
- Add a sanity check for the datatable being deleted.
- Add Date internationalisation via JDate
- Add icon to record editing view.
- Add message when search returns no matching tables
- Add missing language keys
- Add support for CRON/CLI record imports for tables.
1.4.0 Changes
- Changed install script to move 'cli' file into place.
- Improve messages for User filtered tables.
- Move file upload handing to model.
- Set "hits" to zero 0 for newly duplicated tables.
- Sort Language file.
1.4.0 Fixes
- Fix bug where "New Record" button edits first ticked record.
- Fix detection of new record state in Edit Record Toolbar setup.
- Fix embedded images in table description of Records view.
- Fix legend/title for record edit view with new records.
- Fix no-records found error due to J3 returning 'false' rather than 'null' or an empty array.
- Fix table count in Upload msg after append
- Fix table duplication and clean up process.
- Fix undefined variable in preflight of install script.
- Fix UserFilter (regression to old "id:field_name" in select value).
1.3.2 Changes
- Improve messages for User filtered tables.
1.3.2 Fixes
- Fix no-records found error due to J3 returning 'false' rather than 'null' or an empty array.
- Fix UserFilter (regression to old "id:field_name" in select value).
1.3.1 Changes
- Set "hits" to zero 0 for newly duplicated tables.
1.3.1 Fixes
- Fix table duplication and clean up process.
- Fix table count in Upload msg after append
1.3.0 Additions
- Add empty 'metadata.xml' files to front-end views work around a bug in the Joomla Menu Manager Menu Items view not showing the view name correctly.
1.3.0 Changes
- Change to EasyTable view names for more consistent presentation in the Menu Type selector display.
1.3.0b3 and 1.3.0b4
The releases fixed issues with the packaging of EasyTable Pro! from our new build system. Sorry about that!
1.3.0b2 Additions
- Add Duplicate Table function to EasyTable Pro! Manager.
- Add J3 support to fields via JFormHelper
- Add Joomla 3 record editing tmpl.
- Add Joomla 3 specific "Link table" views.
- Add Joomla 3 tmpl files to "Records" view.
- Add pagination helpers for views.
- Add support for display of resources using relative URLs in table description fields in backend.
- Add support for version specific views to "Records" view.
- Add version specific tmpl support to "Record" view.
1.3.0b2 Changes
- Implement Joomla 3.x specific "Upload file" views.
- Refactor paginationHTML() to allow for differences in Joomla 3 top and footer pagination elements.
- Remove deprecated JRequest calls.
- Remove hard coded limit on small table size for AJAX tmpl loading.
- Remove legacy workaround for PHP 5.2 since we don't support it anymore.
- Remove unnecessary interim variable.
- Remove unneeded addIncludePath() calls for 'Record' tables and models.
- Replace deprecated JDatabaseDriver->query() calls with the new hotness ->execute()
- Replace deprecated JError messages with enqueueMessage()
- Sort language keys.
- Speed up pre-sorted tables by only calculating a ranking for 'ranked' layouts.
- Standardise variable name for Joomla App references.
- Update Delete Record and Edit Record buttons to J3 font-icon from JUI
- Update JModel references to JModelLegacy for Joomla 3.
- Update Tables view to support J3 pagination.
- PHPCS cleanup.
1.3.0b2 Fixes
- Fix missing pagination limit control.
- Fix javascript error in Toggle All buttons on Joomla 3.
- Fix jQuery loading issues for Joomla 3 and the AJAX layouts.
- Fix JSHint issues.
- Fix pagination elements for Joomla 3.
- Fix pagination items in Ranked view for Joomla 3.
- Fix pagination not displaying when 'show_pagination_header' is off.
- Fix records view for Joomla 3 pagination elements.
- Fix silent error in "Save as Copy" for records.
- Fix strict error for $leaf values that are invalid property names.
1.3.0b1 Additions
- Add a view 'title' for J3 standardpop button.
- Add J3 'hasTooltip' class to interface widgets.
- Add J3 table sorting elements.
- Add Joomla 3 Table editing views.
- Add List limit box to J3 view.
- Add support for J3 Bootstrap to Tooltips strings.
- Add 'id' to standardpop elements.
- Add 'min'imised versions of CSS & JS files.
- Add a function to ensure Advanced Filters of type PHP return a valid comparison value type.
- Add clarifying comments about the *now* older input field names.
- Add clarifying comments.
- Add filters to sidebar and restore search field.
- Add missing search description.
- Add odd/even number detection to aTools.js
- Add preference to turn of "Autowidth" for AJAX table layouts.
- Add support for jQuery in place of MooTools.
- Add support to minimised JS and CSS files to views.
- Add version specific tmpl files for Upload view.
- Add version specific view tmpl support.
1.3.0b1 Changes
- Change Upload Btn to work with J3
- Fix Alias Lock, feature toggles btns and "Modify Structure" feature for J3.
- Fix Table Editor buttons for J3
- Move list pagination footer to J3 standard location after
- Split Tables view tmpl file into J2 and J3 versions.
- Adjust Joomla version check to allow install on 3.x series.
- Change "Add Table" and "Link Table" buttons to use our new 'Standardpop' toolbar button type.
- Change component menu item to be consistent with installer etc.
- Change general helper calls to use new class name.
- Change language file to be sorted correctly.
- Change language key names to be consistent with sprintf usage.
- Change ManagerHelper to include GeneralHelper.
- Change strings to language key value pairs.
- Change to let JModelList handle all pagination for tables view.
- Change Upload controller error message to language key/value pairs.
- Change Upload Icon to the same size as Edit Icon.
- Change version check to use JVTag for consistency.
- Change version meta to tokens for replacement by phing during build process.
- Check user has 'core.admin' before adding Preferences button to Toolbar.
- Define initial CSS for EasyTablePro font icon.
- Improve layout of table options by function, break out filters into it's own group.
- Improve linked field by converting to <select> of field names in target table.
- Make jtag available to the whole view.
- Mark old `sorttable` script as deprecated for removal in 1.5/2.0 which ever comes first.
- Move < form>< /form>start into version specific sub template.
- Move helper functions to ET_ManagerHelper.
- Move helper functions to ET_RecordsHelper
- Move helper functions to new ET_RecordHelper class.
- Move helper functions to separate ET_TableHelper class.
- Move Joomla version tag calculation to helper function because you know we're going to need it again.
- Move/consolidate in ET_ManagerHelper.
- Rationalise getting toolbar.
- Simplify entry point file.
- Update Controllers to "Legacy" naming.
- Update copyright details.
- Update Edit and Upload buttons for disabled cases.
- Update key for 'Upload File' title and tip
- Update Version string to reflect more accurately to reflect "current" nature.
- Whitespace changes.
- Rename general helper class for clarity.
- Rename Table view tmpl's to use our versioning J2 tag.
- Replace Create Date with a token for phing to replace.
- Replace deprecated $db->nameQuote() with current 'quoteName()' version.
- Replace version in installer description with a token for phing to replace.
- Restore column ordering and add sorting by Table ID.
- Restore version details.
- Revert "Add preference to turn of "Autowidth" for AJAX table layouts."
1.3.0b1 Fixes
- Clean unneeded imports/requires, temporary variables and else's.
- Clean up base controller.
- Clean up empty @var comments.
- Clean up entry point file and root controller. Remove useless or unused methods.
- Clean up JInput's to use 'int' and 'string' filters where appropriate.
- Clean up view controllers (unused variables, remove unneeded imports, requires)
- Create a JToolbarButton class to provide standard button looks for a popup button.
- Fix 'strict' warning for function definition on _getAssetParentId()
- Fix blank upload view due to missing )
- Fix brokenmissing a closingfor alias of linked tables.
- Fix context property for Joomla's caching.
- Fix CSS headers.
- Fix deprecated JDatabase log messages.
- Fix deprecated warning in table model.
- Fix dynamic assignment warnings.
- Fix invalid calls to jQuery using $.
- Fix JSHint issues.
- Fix JSLint issues.
- Fix language keys that start with C0M i.e. C Zero M
- Fix misleading language keys in Table 'delete()'
- Fix missing _JEXEC
- Fix missing language strings for Auto Width preference and Adv. Filter PHP Result Type error.
- Fix missing variable warning for $id
- Fix page advance by setting a default list order and direction.
- Fix path for AJAX call when Joomla is not in the root directory.
- Fix PHPCS issues, dead code and inaccurate comments.
- Fix query to only show keys marked as PRIMARY.
- Fix scope of sub functions. Remove duplicated methods not being used.
- Fix sort field labels for sort menu.
- Fix standard button error.
- Fix strict methods signature for 3.x (now causes strict error on 2.5)
- Fix toggle buttons on new fields.
- Fix typo in variable of error msg in updateMeta()
- Fix undefined variable for record count (now handled in Table model).
- Fix upload screen's Joomla.submitButton() check.
1.3.0b1 Removed
- Remove dead or unnecessary code blocks.
- Remove deprecated 'nameQuote()' call.
- Remove deprecated JError calls.
- Remove deprecated JRequest calls.
- Remove JRequest() call.
- Remove old JImport calls.
- Remove old JObject style assignRef calls.
- Remove unused helper method.
- Remove useless override.
- Removed unnecessary MetaTable table files.
1.2.3 Additions
- Add preference to turn of "Autowidth" for AJAX table layouts.
1.2.3 Fixes
- Fix invalid calls to jQuery using $.
- Fix missing language strings for Auto Width preference and Adv. Filter PHP Result Type error.
- Fix path for AJAX call when Joomla is not in the root directory.
1.2.0 Additions
- Add "Advanced Filter" option to view params.
- Add "Mandatory Table Filter" option to allow enforcement of table based filters before menu based filters.
- Add a filter to prevent linking to external tables that don't have a primary key.
- Add CDN loading for DataTables JS & CSS.
- Add control to stop old SortableTables() from being loaded if we're AJAXing.
- Add DataTable detection & sort plugins for formatted numbers.
- Add DataTable plugins for numbers wrapped in HTML and Currency detection.
- Add DataTable specific preferences.
- Add DataTables default images for sorting and pagination.
- Add Datatables layout for small tables (< 5000 records)
- Add preference values to determine table "size".
- Add support for custom CSS file defined in Global preferences.
- Add support for DataTables server-side sorting.
- Add option to load the default CSS DataTables file or an override.
- Add Global Preference to enable AJAX view.
- Add current major stable versions of JQuery UI
- Add JQuery and DataTables JS files.
- Add version selection preferences for JQuery and JQueryUI libraries.
- Add preference to control loading of JQuery & JQueryUI
- Add Joomla version check to preflight() of install script.
- Add notifyAdminsOnError() to general helper.
- Add Table level filters.
1.2.0 Fixes
- Fix 'Undefined $Sortable' warning.
- Fix checking of SortableTable when not defined.
- Fix error from trying to access undefined attribute $this->params when menu item has no table.
- Fix search, limit box, pagination, state storage for larger tables (i.e. server side processing).
- Fix SQL error when sort field is set correctly.
- Fix undefined function error
- Fix Yes/No form field options (i.e. replace the literals with JText keys JYES & JNO)
1.2.0 Code Clean Up
- Change location of filter methods to RecordsHelper where they belong.
- Dry the adding of the UserFilter.
- Drying change to ET_Helper::addFilter()
- Fix JSLint issues.
- Make menu items consistent.
- Refactor adding table filters into a Helper.
- Refactor so all param levels (component, table and menu) are available as well as the merged version.
- Remove `defer` setting from addScript call to avoid issues with JS not being loaded.
- Remove old Joomla style ->assign()'s.
- Remove Option to load datatables.
- Remove unused `require_once`
- Rename layouts to reflect DataTables.
- Rename tmpl file to better reflect contents.
- Change string literal 'Use Global' to JText token JGLOBAL_USE_GLOBAL
- Restore handling of multiple search values when building filters.
1.1.7 Changes
- Added caching to EasyTable meta table requests.
1.1.7 Fixes
- Fix table hit counter.
1.1.6 Additions
- Improved creation of column labels for UTF8 CSV files.
1.1.6 Changes
- Change RecordController to JControllerForm to resolve ongoing issues with AkeebaAdminTools system plugin..
1.1.6 Fixes
- Fix UTF8 CSV files that have column headings that can't be converted to safe entities for MySQL columns and HTML entities.
- Fix invalid HTML entities in COM_EASYTABLEPRO_MENU_SELECT_FILTER_OPERATOR_DESC
- Fix broken list buttons in Edit Records view.
1.1.5 Additions
- Add a "Search Only" view — no records are show without the user supplying search terms.
- Added option to show/hide table headings in the Default & "Search Only" views when a search term has no matches.
- Added a user configureable "No Results" message to the "Default" and "Search Only" records views.
1.1.5 Changes
- Change - reformatted view options to group related features.
- Change table contexts to include the specific view to allow separate view options and search terms per view.
1.1.5 Fixes
- Fix bugs in pagination, default search term and changing terms for SRO view.
- Fix reversion of the EasyTableProTableTable which prevented the alias from being saved if it had been accidentally deleted.
1.1.4 Fixes
- Fixes the problem with a table's search box returning to the website homepage if Joomla! SEF was not enable and certain third party plugins for SEF were enabled.
1.1.3 Additions
- Throw a 404 if the table requested is not found. e.g. from an old menu entry pointing to a deleted table.
1.1.3 Changes
- Change `edit` link to a `href` to avoid issues with new version of Akeeba AdminTools
- Changed default for $pk to match int nature of key.
- Cleanup of router to make record detail links more consistent, especially for external tables.
- Standardised Menu labels & descriptions for view.
- Remove (int) cast on External Tables to better support external tables with non-int key's.
- Moved a copy of the utility getTable() to the general helper file.
- Replace getTable() in Records model with general helper version. DRYing.
- Replace hardcoded string with text key.
1.1.3 Fixes
- Fix missing language string for "Record not found".
- First pass at applying Joomla Platform coding standards.
- Fix bug in converting a field to a `DATE` type.
- Fix buildRoute when no MenuItem provided or Active menu exists.
- Fix front-end references to $pk so that it uses the tables actual $pk column name.
- Fix JText key 'Rank' label and reordered key in file.
- Fix strict error on non-object.
1.1.3 Preparation for 1.2 and Joomla! 3.x
- Code clean-up per Joomla! Platform code sniffer.
- Remove invalid `var` declaration.
- Remove unused variables.
- Removed unused object.
- Replaced depreciated calls.
- Applied more Joomla! Platform code sniffer standards.
- Replace depreciated JRequest() calls with JInput
- Replace JRegistry->loadArray() with loadString().
- Standardised $jApp variable name.
1.1.2 Additions
- Add front-end search options by `id` ( e.g. id:44 ) and key-value pair ( e.g. president::bill )
- Add missing blank index.html files.
1.1.2 Changes
- Improvements to database queries to remove old style string SQL queries.
1.1.2 Fixes
- Fix external linked tables that used unusual primary keys in tables.
- Fix SQL problem where `id` field was assumed to exist in Joomla! tables.
- Fixed search bug where an active menu item might not actually exist.
- Fix upload type detection for append or replacement of data.
1.1.1 Additions
- Add 'hits' back, they are now visible again in the table editor.
- Add caching to records request.
- Added support for record leaf's from a linked table record displayed in a master table.
1.1.1 Changes
- Improvements to 'leaf' and 'page title' handling.
- Modify field alias creation and checking to prevent purely numeric alias from being created.
- Updates to router to improve links to sub-table record views.
1.1.1 Fixes
- Fix /media paths in JS for table manager view.
- Fix CSS and JS paths for cases where the installation is in a sub-directory.
- Fix link table bug when nothing is set in "Restricted Tables" setting.
- Fix more paths, hard coded ones, to the /media/ directory so that they work in cases where Joomla! is installed in a sub-directory.
- Fix retrieval of field/column alias/name given the use of the new combined 99:aliasname format.
- Fix retrieval of sort and filter field names.
- Fix situation with `ranked` view not working as expected when settings in table conflict with settings in menu item.
1.1.0 Additions
- Add a calculated `et-rank` column to sorted records views.
- Add better support in router for directly linked from menu record views with next/prev record links enabled.
- Add filtering to table manager view.
- Add missing check of import success/failure.
- Add missing string for Table not found errors.
- Add sorting to table name and state in Tables view.
- Add support for `Alternative Layouts` to the `records` view.
1.1.0 Changes
- Change 'ranked' mechanism to be highest is first until we implement it fully in 1.2.0
- Change language strings to reflect the 'ranked' naming.
- Change to a view name that better reflects the 'ranked' function.
- Layout change to version check & display.
- Limit "State" filter to Published/Unpublished
- Move updating of creation and modified dates to table.store() from bind()
- Remove 'attention.gif' from version comparison.
- Update Javascript message to include table name.
1.1.0 Fixes
- Fix a route parsing error that would result in the `records` view rather than the `record` being loaded.
- Fix an error when the `record` view was showing the first/last record and 'Show Next/Prev Links' was set to 'Yes'
- Fix file uploads accept mime types.
- Fix language string for "Open Table" button on upload_completed tmpl.
- Fix missing created by entry.
- Fix missing reference to $jAp on records view.
- Fix path resolution in file cleanup section of install script's update()
- Fix prev/next record route parsing for `record` view inside a `tables` list menu item.
- Fix Rank calculation so that equal results in first rank not last. e.g. Equal 3rd both get 3 not 4 as a rank value.
- Fix record editing view to deal with situations where the table has now list view columns specified.
- Fix references to '.tab' rather than the correct '.tsv' suffix.
- Fix search SQL to work when a table is filtered.
- Fix the display of date modification.
- Fix undefined variable on upload_completed tmpl.
1.1.0ß4 Fixes
- Fix search SQL to work when a table is filtered.
- Add better support in router for directly linked from menu record views with next/prev record links enabled.
- Added missing string for Table not found errors.
- Fix prev/next record route parsing for `record` view inside a `tables` list menu item.
- Fixed an error when the `record` view was showing the first/last record and 'Show Next/Prev Links' was set to 'Yes'
- Fixed a display issue when no record title field is specified.
- Fixed a route parsing error that would result in the `records` view rather than the `record` being loaded.
- Fixed a URL error when a 'record' title field wasn't selected.
1.1.0ß3 Additions
- Removed conditional code around opening DIV's to ensure they always balance.
1.1.0ß2 Additions
- Linked external tables are now implemented
1.1.0ß2 Changes
- Table Manager is now sorted by Table Name
- More messages use table names rather than table id's for clarity.
1.1.0ß2 Fixes
- Fixed a bug in records model to avoid rare situation where administrator changes default list length while a user is online.
- Fixed path resolution to allow for installation in a Joomla! not in the websites root.
- Fixed several language keys.
- Initial public Joomla! 2.5 release
1.1.0ß1 Changes
- Joomla! 2.5 support
- Joomla! 2.5 ACL support
Aug. 2012: In line with the end of life for Joomla! 1.5, support for Joomla! 1.5 compatible versions is no longer available.
1.0.0 Additions
- Added 'strip_tags' to the table 'summary' (derived from table description)
1.0.0 Changes
- Change table search fields to show the text as originally entered.
- Change the retrieval of the number of records to the Joomla! way.
1.0.0 Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented fields from being deleted at the same time as new fields were added.
- Fixed last few references to Joomla! 1.0 legacy globals
- Fixed several language keys.
1.0.0FC2 Changes
- Change retrieval of record ID to a more reliable mechanism in EasyTable Record view.
- Change Language strings for clarity.
1.0.0FC2 Fixes
- Fixed Javascript error on data upload pop-up.
- Fixed issues in the final leaf elements of SEF URLs.
- Fixed a bug when a table filter is selected but no filter value is specified.
- Fixed checking for field options value on image fields.
1.0.0FC1 Changes
- Fixed duplicated ID elements on record view pages.
- Fixed all XHTML errors identified by W3C Validator.
1.0.0RC6 Changes
- Fixed crash with page title backlinks on record view pages.
- Changed column headings in table record list view to pop a tooltip with the fields description if present.
1.0.0RC5 Changes
- Change record view to append record link label to last node of breadcrumbs.
1.0.0RC4 Fixes
- Fixed saving of the new "Raw Data Entry" preference.
1.0.0RC3 Fixes
- Fixed joined sub-tables when the sub-table is a linked table.
- Fixed processing of field options on sub-tables when a field is not shown in list view.
1.0.0RC3 Changes
- Changed the wrapper on table descriptions from a <p> to a <div> to better support the change to large descriptions that support the Joomla! default editor.
1.0.0RC2 Fixes
- Fixed error for in SQL for joined sub-tables in record view.
1.0.0RC1 Additions
- Added paginaton and table name filtering to EasyTable Manager (for people with lots of tables)
- Added filtering of data records to EasyTable Data Records view (for tables with lots of records).
- Added access control to upload function in EasyTable Editor.
- Added buttons to Flip, Turn On √ or Turn Off X all fields in List view, Detail view and Searching.
- Added support of multiple table filtering values using the pipe character | as the separator.
- Added Javascript to Upload screen to make sure a valid file was selected before uploading.
1.0.0RC1 Changes
- Changed install script to update table descriptions to a full TEXT type (descriptions as long as you want)
- Changed EasyTable Editor to use the default Joomla! editor for the new larger TEXT table description (also supports HTML).
1.0.0RC1 Fixes
- Fixed unwanted checkout() of tables when opening Upload lightbox.
- Fixed SQL errors in rare cases where column headings weren't properly escaped.
- Fixed SQL errors when some column headings were blank on initial creation of table import.
- Fixed table list checkbox problem in EasyTable Manager for users that don't have all permissions.
- Fixed sprintf: typo in "delete X records" language string.
- Fixed missing "modal.js" for users lacking all permissions in EasyTable Manager.
- Removed old uninstall preference from EasyTable Pro Global preferences.
1.0.0ß3 Additions:
- Added the "Raw Data Entry" preference to the Settings screen.
- Added language strings for the creation of EasyTable Pro Settings
1.0.0ß3 Fixes:
- Fixed permission check so that Super Admins are always valid.
- Fixed hard coded 'jos_' reference in creation of EasyTable Pro settings.
- Fixed the tooltip text for the Raw Data Entry preference.
1.0.0ß2 Additions:
- New Version checking to avoid remote simpleXML issues on some servers.
- New preference to allow specific groups to enter raw data into table fields (HTML etc).
1.0.0ß2 Changes:
- Change max_upload_filesize preference to reference the servers php.ini setting.
1.0.0ß2 Fixes:
- Fixed the table column heading for Delete (<th> wasn't closed)
- Fixed install script references to ET_MgrHelper and JText references.
1.0.0ß1 Additions:
- Add component settings for
- user defined 'restrictedTables' from settings into filter array.
- the MAX_FILE_SIZE settings value to the EasyTable view object for use in the form.
- access setting for Settings
- access setting for linking external tables
- access setting for table management
- access setting for data upload
- access setting for editing table records
- Add SQL to error message to help with debugging.
- Added French and Portuguese language file submitted by users.
1.0.0ß1 Changes:
- Change EasyTable Manager to disable table options based on settings.
- Change the lockout tooltips to include the user->name of the user currently locking out a table.
- Change display of version check results to only display the version number and a link to the release notes.
- Change the Upload popup to use the settings value for MAX_FIELD_SIZE rather than a hard coded value.
- Change the table editor MAX_FILE_SIZE value to use the setting value rather than the hard coded value.
- Change file processing chunk size to use the settings value rather than a hard coded value.
- Change location of Toolbar setup in EasyTable Manager to view.html allowing Settings Access & Linking Tables to be conditional.
- Change the 'You are not authorised...' text to a language file entry.
- Change getSettings() to create default settings record if none exists.
- Change hard coded list of restricted tables to remove 'jos_' references ('jos_' is not used on all sites!)
- Change JS files to split out JS for data editing screens.
- Change install script to add a default settings record to the meta table.
- Change manifest to include helpers folder.
1.0.0ß1 Fixes:
- Fix the situation where a user filters out all tables ie. table list is empty.
- Fix the checking for settings call to db.
- Fix/Remove old code in custom install script.
- Fix the creation of default settings in managerfunctions - use \n not \r for end of lines - DOH! Add suitable messages about settings.
- Fix processing of restrictedTables parameter to correctly use newline \n rather than carriage return \r.
- Fix mangling of setting during save when the user is not a 'Super Administrator'
- Fix tooltip description for 'Image Directory'
- Fix custom uninstall script to obey the "uninstall-type" preference.
- Fixed several JText strings that had illegal characters at their ends that prevented them being used.
- Fix typo in error message.
- Fix direct file reference to easytabledata.js in manifest (it's moved to a new location).
- Fix path reference for JS files to new /assets/ folder in admin record view.
- Fix the getFWO functions to recognise that our packed 'params' are at least 1 char long even when empty. Resolves issues with empty fields and empty options.
- Fix record views retrieval & merging of menu params.
- Fix/Clean up comments and spacing.
- Fix hard coded 'jos_' references in initial data editing functions.
0.9.0a Fixes:
- Fix missing fields for use as tokens when not field displayed in list or detail view or no linked table.
0.9.0 Additions:
- Add 'editData' to the submitBtn function
- Add 'et_table_page' ID to DIV on table page.
- Add a component & table level preference to control display of pagination elements above the table.
- Add class to allow styling list elements per table 'et_list_table_XXXX', where XXXX is the easytablealias.
- Add custom icon file for table data edit view.
- Add custom icon to table data edit view in EasyTable Admin.
- add icons for data upload column in Mgr view.
- Add interface to upload replacement/additional data to a table via the Manager view.
- Add Joomla tooltips to EasyTable manager and table editor views.
- Add Joomla tooltips to EasyTable Mgr Editor view
- Add missing returns to if statement.
- Add new and updated icons for manager view.
- Add pagination to table records view.
- Add preference to remove backlink from page title ie. tablename on record view
- Add preference to remove linked table from record view.
- Add preliminary editData support to Controller.
- Add record creation, deletion and editing.
- Add support functions for DataEditorIcon, EditorLink and publishedIcon to manager view.html.php
- Add table list and record views
- Add the tooltip for "Access Level" in Table Preferences.
- Add Upload Data to EasyTable Pro Management screen.
- Add user definable label for modification date.
- Add User filtering to table records. ie. rows in a table will only appear if they have a column value that matches the 'User ID' or 'username".
0.9.0 Changes:
- Change 'Description' column position in manager view to last position, added a column width of 20 & entabbed code.
- Change 'Published' icon to use publish_g.png and tidy icon spacing in manager view.
- Change affected messages to JApplication->enqueueMessage & JText format.
- Change all <BR > tags to the same format.
- Change base model to include username as editor in EasyTables model ('editor' is required by 'grid.checkedout').
- Change code & functions layout to make more sense for the 1.0 feature set.
- Change feedback message in EasyTable manager view.
- Change manager view to a simplified format by moving some logic for row elements to view.html.php
- Change rendering of description to only show if there is a description.
- Change Table Editor view to allow for user selection of 'appending' or 'replacing' records.
- Change table modifaction warning to stay visible even after controls hidden.
- Change viewfuctions helper getImageWithOptions() to use JUri for site base.
0.9.0 Fixes:
- Clean up/remove old debug echo's from controller.
- Fix bug when 'Show pagination' is set to 'No' and 'Show Footer Pagination' is set to 'Yes' In this case the pagination object isn't created but is referenced for the footer.
- Fix call to getDataEditorIcon()
- Fix duplicated pageclass_sfx (removed class from page title).
- Fix getDataEditorIcon function (we now pass in rowID and cid correctly.
- Fix grey background on icon files.
- Fix incorrect use of ID for 'etTableListLockElement' - should be a 'CLASS' not and ID
- Fix incorrectly closed 's.
- Fix JS validation for initial creation of the data table.
- Fix misspelled JText key in EasyTable Mgr list view.
- Fix mistake where row->id was passed rather than table row position.
- Fix placement of closing </form> tag so that pagination elements below the table work.
- Fix reversion in table description not accepting HTML
- Fix row->check back in the right position.
- Fix table description in record view by removing extra call to 'htmlspecialchars()'
- Fix the position of 'getUser' so that it's only called once per page.
- Fix the record count so that it doesn't get all records from the table, just a count of all records.
- Fix typo in EasyTable icon css.
- Fix unnecessary routing through etSubmitForum()
- Fix XML style closing 'span' tag.
0.8.0 Additions:
- Add a show_pagination_footer preference.
- Add a show_pagination_footer to global component preferences.
- Add cross browser row creation.
- Add element names & id's to support table structure modifcation features.
- Add eMail cloaking to 'EMAIL' fields in table list and record views.
- Add et_last_row class to last record of table where record count=id
- Add functions to add and delete fields to an EasyTable.
- add graphic elements for table modification functions
- Add ID's to key table elements incl. TR in table editor, in prep. for Table Modifications.
- Add improved user messages on table changes.
- Add JavaScript file for mail cloaking.
- Add JS function to validate user edited alias' and to warn about data truncation.
- Add JS to create new fields, delete fields and automatically create an Alias after user entry.
- Add JS warning about data truncation when changing field types.
- Add language file entries for new features.
- Add ModifyTable button to Toolbar and controls to table fields
- Add support for new fields and deleted fields.
- Add try/catch to table rendering.
0.8.0 Changes:
- Change 'Modify Structure' button so that it's only visible when a table structure exists.
- Change 'toggleModifyControls' to disable data file uploads and show a Waring Notice.
- Change 'validateAlias' to reject empty alias' and inform user.
- Change pagination DIV so it only renders if in use.
- Correct number type to FLOAT
- Improve display of top pagination when limit is set to all.
- Update Alias lock icon path to use the our lock/unlock assets.
- Update meta XML for component.
- Work around Joomla bug for component menu icons. (EasyTable & EasyTable Pro now show their own icons when both are installed)
0.8.0 Fixes:
- Fix AliassAreUnique check to include last alais and reject blank/empty alias'
- Fix alterEasyTableFieldName 'text' bug
- Fix Label & Description storage with addslashes.
- Fix missing CSS for Warning
- Fix missing tbody in table editor.
- Fix PHP 5.2 bug in foreach unrolling cause master index to be advanced.
- Fix storage of FieldOptions where servers have dangerous get_magic_quotes turned ON.
0.7.0 Additions
When upgrading to 0.7.0 from 0.6.0 please read this article to understand how these changes will affect the storage of your table data.
- Add field 'alias' editing
- NB: you must unlock the alias before you can edit it.
- NB: within any given table the alias' must be unique.
- Update admin JS to check for unique alias' per column.
- Implemented field types => MySQL data types selection.
0.7.0 Changes
- Add try/catch to table rendering - to help track rare circumstance where only the first column is displayed in a table view.
- Update CSVParse to allow fgetcsv to use PHP local defaults for installation rather than forcing ',' as separator.
- Change 'fieldalias' to editable field in EasyTable Editor view.
- Change controller to store new field alias values and change mySQL table.
0.7.0 Fixes
- Fix pass by ref in record view.
0.6.0 Additions
• Add support for detecting and importing TAB delimited files ( ie. files with a TAB instead of a COMMA, with a file suffix of .tab
• Added support for Joomla 1.5 Access control ie. Public | Registered | Special
0.6.0 Changes
• Change 'Create Date' & 'Modified Date' to match Joomla standard s.
0.5.0 Additions
• Added a Joomla Search plugin for EasyTable Pro. • Add per field preference to control a fields inclusion in the search functions.
• Add searchable by Joomla to EasyTable Manager interface.
• Add searchable by Joomla preference
• Add a hit function to increment 'hit' on each display.
• Add the record ID to each row's html in the table display.
0.5.0 Changes
• Restructure et_search_pagination DIV into multiple elements.
0.5.0 Fixes
• Clean up translations using Translation Manager component.
• Update translation files for menus.
0.4.0 Additions:
• Add a Javascript alert to the EasyTable editor to ensure that at least one (1) field is selected for the List View.
• Add support for field token substitutions in Field Options, where a token, of format #fieldalias#, will be replaced by the value in fieldalias for that row.
• Add 'Reset' button to search form for front-end users.
0.4.0 Changes:
• Change the way field options are stored to hex format.
0.4.0 Fixes:
• Empty page counter parenthesis () are not displayed when there is only one page of records.
0.3.0 Additions:
- Table lists can now have a sort order specified (ascending/descending) by name, creation or modification date.
- Table's can now have a default sort field specified (ascending/descending) in the menu's "Basic" settings.
- Table's can now be filtered (contains/exact match)based on any of the fields in the table.
- Added 'Page Class Suffix' support to Tables list, table and record views.
- We now report an error when no fields have been specified for the list view.
0.3.0 Fixes:
- Joomla mainmenu is now disable when editing a table to prevent "Checked Out Table" issues.
- Fixed display of URL fields that contain HTML anchor tags ie. start with ' < a href='
- We now catch tables that don't have any fields selected for the list view.
- Fixed pagination to allow for limit 0 (All)
- Table lists can now have a sort order specified (ascending/descending) by name, creation or modification date.
- Added 'Page Class Suffix' support to Tables list, table and record views.
- We now report an error when no fields have been specified for the list view.
0.2.1 Fixes:
- We now catch tables that don't have any fields selected for the list view.
- Fixed pagination to allow for limit 0 (All)
- Added a preference to turn on SortableTable
- Included JS SortableTable to cause tables to sort by clicking on column headings
- added classes to indicate sort direction of a column 'etAscending' & 'etDescending'
- URL fields now support HTML entries, ie. < a href='http://en.wikipedia.org' > Click Here < /a >
0.2.0 Fixes:
- Fully qualified URL field values once again open a new window
0.1.1 Additions:
- Links to Next/Prev record in detail view.
- Added a preference to control display of Next/Prev record links in detail view.
- Editor screen now shows a list of fields for the current table in the "Linked Table" preferences pane.
- Menus can now link to a specific record by row number in original CSV file.
- Added DATE and NUMBER field types
- Field options Part 1 are now implemented.
- URL field options replaces displays the text option as a hyperlink to the URL eg. Click Here
- Image field options are used to specify additional attributes to the html tag, eg. class = "portrait" or width = 50 px;
- Number fields support number_format() options
- Date fields (in US En format mm/dd/YY(yy) only) support strftime() options
- Added better breadcrumbs and fixed Page Titles of tables from table lists.
- Added global preference for unistall type.
- Modified uninstall script to allow for Complete/Partial Uninstalls.
0.1.1 Changes:
- Updated meta table with 'params' column in prep for field options in Pro
- Updated path to component usage to be more consistant.
- Added a global current table ID for admin use.
- Re-imports reset record IDs so they match row numbers.
0.1.1 Fixes:
- updated the css to use the component icon in the manager view.
- Fixed table selection menu in ET Manager table view
- Cleared up two more low impact PHP & XML mistakes.
- Resolved two minor bugs resulting from inconsistent capitalisation of variable names.


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The committee makes recommendations to the Judicial Council on criteria for identifying and evaluating collaborative justice courts and for improving the processing of cases in these courts, which include drug courts, domestic violence courts, youth courts, and other collaborative justice courts.
Date Established: January 1, 2002
Key projects of this advisory body are outlined in the annual agenda.
May 8, 2017 Meeting
12:15 p.m.
Previous Meetings
The advisory committee is comprised of superior court judges, court executives, advocates, subject matter experts, and advisory staff from the Judicial Council and reports directly to the Judicial Council of California. Members are appointed by the Chief Justice for a one-year term. The current membership term runs until October of this year.
Download the committee roster.
Ms. Nancy Taylor, Lead Staff, Principal Manager, Center for Families, Children & the Courts, Judicial Council of California
Collaborative justice courts, sometimes referred to as problem-solving courts,
combine judicial supervision with intensive social and treatment services to offenders in lieu of jail or prisons. Collaborative justice principles include a multidisciplinary, nonadversarial team approach with involvement from the court, attorneys, law enforcement, and community treatment and service agencies to address offenders' complex social and behavioral problems. There are over 450 collaborative justice courts operating in California, with a collaborative court in nearly every jurisdiction.
Committee Structure
The Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee is chaired by Judge Richard Vlavianos, Superior Court of San Joaquin County. Per rule 10.56 of the California Rules of Court, the committee comprises at least five judicial officers, a judicial administrators, a district attorney, a law enforcement representative, a public defender, a treatment providers, a probation officer, one treatment court-coordinator, a treatment court graduate and a public member.
The mission of the Collaborative Justice Courts Advisory Committee is to do the following:
Several committee projects have been developed to achieve these goals. Outreach and education activities include sponsoring annual conferences for peer and youth courts, drug and mental health courts, and homeless courts; developing internship programs for law school and social work students in collaborative courts throughout the state; and providing judicial education curricula in collaborative justice, mental health courts, DUI projects, and veterans' court programs. Research and evaluation projects include evaluations of mental health courts and parolee reentry courts, as well as a cost-benefit study of California's adult drug courts and the implementation of a web- based cost self-assessment tool that is available to drug courts interested in identifying their own costs and benefits.
The committee also makes funding allocation recommendations for the distribution of the Judicial Council Collaborative Justice Substance Abuse Focus Grant; assists local collaborative justice courts in grant and funding development; and co- administers state drug court funding with the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. The committee promotes the institutionalization, expansion, and enhancement of collaborative justice courts throughout the state by providing policy guidance to the Judicial Council and by establishing linkages with justice system partners at the state and local level.
Center for Families, Children & the Courts
Operations & Programs


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Five Essential Oils for Happy Healthy Children
Busy parents are always on the lookout for natural, effective alternatives to support their children?s health and happiness. Invoking gentle calm in an otherwise hectic family life is especially appreciated. Essential oils can offer this support in a fun, safe and natural way. A few essential oils are particularly suitable for use with young ones, both for bringing soothing emotional calm and contentment healing the small wounds of childhood ? here?s a quick primer to help you safely and effectively use five valuable essential oils with children.
We?ll begin with a few tips on using oils with children and infants. There are three primary methods of using oils with little ones: Topical application through massage or applying directly to wounds or sores; Inhalation from a handkerchief, spray bottle, warm bowl of water, the bed sheets, or diffuser; and Baths, which actually combines the topical and inhalation methods. The main difference in using essential oils with children and adults is that children will simply need smaller amounts. There are a few oils that should not be used with children ? peppermint, for example, is considered too powerful for the wee ones under two (spearmint is called for instead, which can be helpful with tummy trouble). Ask someone with experience if you are unsure about a particular oil.
Also, the younger the child, the more dilute the concentration of essential oils should be in a formula, bath, or inhalation application. Massage formulas, for example, can contain approximately 1 drop essential oil per ounce of carrier oil for each year of age ? this is flexible depending on the oil and the situation, within a range of 3 drops for each year (i.e. For children one and under, up to 4 drops can be used with gentle oils such as Vanilla, Lavender and Chamomile ? use only 1 or two drops with newborns). The child?s weight can also be considered; if a child is larger for their age, a little more essential oil can be used. If using a diffuser, only enough oil so that the scent can be detected is necessary ? nebulizing diffusers may output too high a concentration of oils for children; warming or humidifying diffusers are more appropriate.The oil?s we?ll look at here are all quite safe and can be used as often as feels appropriate; Tea Tree, though, should be reserved just for it?s potent antiseptic applications.
And now for the oils! We?ll start with soothing the very little ones; comforting an infant can seem a full-time job for many parents, where support is always welcome. For this, there?s one indispensable tool: pure Vanilla essential oil. Mmmm! Who doesn?t like vanilla? Infants really respond to its calming, sweet scent. And it?s so easy to use. A belly, back or foot rub with a blend containing 1/2 percent vanilla in any quality carrier oil (jojoba, hazelnut or other seed or nut oil of your choice) works magic for many parents. To make a 1/2 percent Vanilla blend, purchase a small amount of pure Vanilla essential oil and add 4 drops into each ounce of carrier. Use as frequently as you like, as vanilla is completely non-toxic. You can even add a few drops to your favorite cookie recipe for an exquisite flavor, far surpassing that of the commonly found vanilla extracts.
Next up is Chamomile. There are several varieties of Chamomile, with an array of uses. German Chamomile is an exceptional oil for skin inflammation and rashes, applied in a 1/2 to 1 percent dilution in Hazelnut oil. Roman Chamomile is premier oil calming little ones over two years of age. The oil may be used in a number of ways; aromatherapy massage, in a diffuser or room spray (with this and other oils, dilute 10 drops per cup of water in a clean spray bottle ? shake well and lightly mist the air), a drop or two sprinkled on bedding, or in a bath. According to Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt in Advanced Aromatherapy, "Even in very small concentrations, whether alone or in combinations with other oils (Roman Chamomile) has a soothing effect?it is appropriate to massage a few undiluted drops into the solar plexus." It is noted as particularly suited to calming tantrums or bringing calm after nightmares.
True Lavender essential oil (Lavendula angusitifolia) is wonderful for its soothing effects as well, along with a great variety of other healing actions. It is an excellent remedy for small burns, applied directly to the area, undiluted. For small cuts and scrapes, Lavender may be used alone, or in a 50/50 blend with Tea Tree for added antiseptic properties. Lavender supports sleep, and is an excellent choice for diffusing in the evening time. Lavender may also be used in a bath, and is the first choice for a gentle foot rub. For a good night?s rest, blend 2 to 1 with Roman Chamomile, diluting as needed depending on the child and application method.
For brightening sour moods, the aromas of sweet citrus oils are unmatched. Children especially enjoy Tangerine; Mandarin (a Tangerine variety) has an additional calming action not found in any other essential oil. Mandarin oil is either cold-pressed from the peels of the fruit, or steam distilled from the leaves of the tree (known as Mandarin Petitgrain). The cold pressed oil is excellent for aromatic use (in a diffuser or room spray), and the steam distilled variety is recommended for baths and in body oil blends. Care should be taken with using any cold pressed citrus essential oil on the skin, as they will make the skin more sensitive to UV rays for the following day or two where it has been applied. Citrus oils should not be avoided for this reason, just consider if your child will be bundled up in the darker days of winter, or building sand castles at the beach!
And for all those little abrasions of childhood, Tea Tree is highly regarded as a natural antiseptic for cuts and scrapes. Once a wound is washed, it may be covered with a Band-Aid which has a drop of Tea Tree placed on the gauze. Tea Tree may be a bit strong to apply directly to the injury, though when mixed with equal parts of Lavender, Tea Tree will prevent infection while the Lavender will relieve pain and actually speed wound healing. A few drops of the Tea Tree/Lavender mixture can be added to a warm cup of water to use as a cleansing wash. An effective, home made antiseptic spray can also be made: use 2 ounces water, 1/2 half ounce rubbing alcohol, 8 drops Lavender, 12 drops Tea Tree and 8 drops Roman Chamomile. Shake vigorously and store, shaking again before each use. Tea Tree is considered a ?universal antiseptic?, with a great many uses in first aid and around the home. At 20 drops per cup of water, it can be used as a non-toxic (if not pungent!) general cleaner which you?ll be happy to use instead of many chemical laden household cleaners where your children will be crawling about ? and you can mix with lemon oil for a more pleasing aroma.
This is just a start at incorporating the magic of essential oils into your children?s lives. Safe, natural and effective means of supporting their health and wellness is always welcome. There are a great many more oils, many with profound healing effects. Particularly with children, start slowly ? your nose might tell you when you?ve had just the right amount of aromatherapy, but children may not be able to express this. And where one child may not respond particularly to a certain oil, another will be entranced by the same aroma. There are many wonderful books available for the beginning aromatherapist with oodles of oil descriptions and recipes. Experiment, be creative and have fun!
*The FDA has not evaluated the statements on this website. The information presented here is for educational purposes of traditional uses and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases.