wait longer before telling user to give up
get debug setting from env
backport chosen search_contains option from 1.0 release; and use it by default -- to allow chosen searches to be performed across anywhere in a string, rather than just searching on word prefixes.  this makes it possible to search on actionkit page shortnames, which are rendered here with a paren up front, making them -- until now -- unsearchable by end users unless they know to prefix their search with a paren.