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By Captain Aloha
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Comments about Nashbar 360 Repair Stand:
I put it together (easy) then put a bike on it. The bottom plastic bracket cracked immediately and now the things is useless.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Feldo
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This was easy to put together and ready to use immediately. Sale price was right. Made my repaire and maintainance life so much easier
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Pretty good for the money
By Sean
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About Me Casual/ Recreational
I use this stand almost every day, it folds up to store really easily. My only complaint is that the Head is made of plastic!!! the rotating head is basically a quick release skewer inside a hollow plastic head which flexes ALOT if you are really wrenching on your bike. I usually clamp the seatpost and adjust it so that the front tire is resting on the ground so that it doesn't seem so flimsy, like I could snap it. This is the first Nashbar product that I am disappointed with.
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By BL
from Glastonbury, CT
About Me Avid Cyclist
Decided to learn how to work on my bike, as components needed replacement after 8000 miles.Stand is sturdy, easy to assemble and flexible and easy to use. keeps bike at and ease to work on height. Clamp is rubber coated to prevent damage to bike. Works for me!!
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By Ram
from Berwyn Illinois
It's easy to Assemble n easy to put away I used to to fix my bike and my friends bike no more using a table or the floor
seems ok
By xcalakboy
from madison, wi
Took a few tries to attach the head to the stand. Must be fitted exactly. Used it a couple of times since purchase and seems to fit the bill thus far.
Excellent Unit
By buzz
from Arizona
It works equally well for my mtn. bike as well as my road bikes!
Very effective tool
By rickliwanag
from Las Vegas, NV.
This product is very effective and very secure and stable. Well made and very easy to assemble. Everything is complete right out of the box, all I need to do was install the head clamp which was just one allen screw to tight.
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not stable
By k2mykel
from Earth
I have had this for over a year now and for the first 6 months it was fine BUT then the bracket that holds the legs down started failing. It collapsed on my son with his 24 inch bike. I now have to use hose clamp to hold the legs open.The top clamp doesn't open as far as others. Nor does it rotate.Spend the extra $30 and get a better stand.
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By NoName
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I bought the repair stand to use at home about 14 months ago. The clamp section began to loosen up about three months ago. It finally fell out of the vertical tube. I inspected it and found that one of the expansion tabs had broken off. It is still useable. I had bought a second one just before the repair stand head fell off, so I could have two projects in work stands at the same time. The head pivots well. It would be nice to be able to buy a tool tray to install on the vertical tube of the work stand. It's a useful repair stand and at a good price. I just hope the clamp head will continue to function and the second one won't break. I'd recommend it, but with a caveat that the head should be periodically adjusted or tightened.
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By GARY ARRINGTONSports writer
In the just completed presidential election, one of the common phrases heard time and time again was spread the wealth. Although I am not sure what this applied to exactly, I like the idea especially in sports.
Let's look at high school football. Timpview High School just won its third straight state championship. That does not seem exactly fair. How is it that they can win over and over but cross-town rival Provo cannot hardly win at all. Timpview needs to share the talent.
Emery High, with an ever-shrinking student population, could use a couple of Juan Diego's big linemen. Why should they get all the 6'5" guys that weigh 290 pounds. We should be able to have at least one of them.
And Delta, do they really need all those good wrestlers? They, along with Uintah and Wasatch should spread those wrestlers around to all the other schools. Why should they all keep adding to their totals when it comes to championships?
And how about me? Why should I not have had more stuff spread to me? If I had been nine inches taller, I might have been a really good power forward in basketball. If I could have hit a curve ball, I might have been a really good baseball player. It just doesn't seem fair that I lacked while others did not.
Unfortunately, spreading the wealth will never work in sports. Pro basketball has a salary cap but it does not stop the good teams from being good or the bad teams from being bad. Legislation cannot prevent excellence. Or can it?
Can we really spread the wealth or the talent? Not really. That has always been the driving force for me. When I was a kid, everyday I would show up to play one on one basketball with one of the neighbor kids and everyday I would go home looking forward to tomorrow when I just knew that I would beat him.
When I hit the golf course, I play time and time again against the same people hoping and working to get a better result. Some days I compete and some days could be better but I always try.
I can hit a 300 yard drive regularly but I cannot hit a 30-yard pitch shot with any regularity. I keep trying though. I will shoot par golf one day because I work at it, not because Tiger Woods decided to share the wealth of his talents.
Spreading the wealth or the talent will not work on any permanent basis. If you want to help, you have to spread the opportunity. That is all I ever wanted. Just give me a chance. Let me see what I can do. If I work hard, I will be rewarded, if I do not I shouldn't be. That's just the way it is or at least should be. To be fair, just give me the opportunity.


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Needed The Highest Setting.....I would not recommend this to someone with coarse or hard to straighten natural hair. I have to set it on the highest setting of 10 and that is not really hot enough for my hair. It is ok for doing touch ups, but for complete pressing after washing and drying, don't use this, you will be disappointed.Nov 10, 2012LauraHAIR TYPEDark Brown / Normal Hair
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Not Hot EnoughI have natural hair and this does not get hot enough to press it. If you are a natural I would avoid this pressing comb. I don't even see how it would work on anyone's hair really.Apr 19, 2012Dell / AtlantaHAIR TYPEDark Brown / Thick or Coarse Hair
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December 22 2007 12:42PM
We were blown away by the Devils fans in Rexall last night, proudly wearing their Brodeur and Pandolfo jerseys. Why the hell would you be Devils fans and live in Edmonton? Woohoo: boring defensive hockey that you can see live every six years. Well, fight the good fight, we guess. But really. it's like being a Washington Capitals fan.
In any event, the Devils beat the Oil. Is this a big deal? Over the course of the 82 game season, probably not. It looked to us like everyone on the ice was allowing visions of sugarplums to dance through their heads already. The the Oil have played a lot of hockey and it's time for a rest.
Except Joni Pitkannen. Hells bells, he is one heck of a defenceman. Apparently he didn't like Edmonton at first, but is now starting to warm to it. It reminds him of Northern Finland; didn't we all have that in the back of our minds when we decided how to paint and landscape our houses? "How would they do this one hour north of Helsinki?" we all wonder. K-Lowe should make signing Pitkannen his number one priority. Let's get him one of those 15-year contracts being handed out.


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This drawing is a study for Lambert's revised version of the head of the mother in his major painting, Important people c.1914 (cat.54) Her head is in the same position as in the painting with her eyes looking downward, and she wears a similar open-necked jacket and broad-brimmed hat. But the effect is quite distinct: there is a gentle sweetness to this face and a slight melancholy. Lambert hardened her facial features in the painting, and made her expression slightly petulant or disdainful.
The model for the drawing was Eunice Graham (1886–1968), née Mort, the sister of Australian artist Eileen Mort. She trained as a violinist and pianist in Sydney. She lived with Australian artist Thea Proctor throughout the war while her husband was interned in Germany. This included a time in the Lamberts' home. Lambert also used her as a model for his painting An Australian lady (Mrs Gilbert Graham) 1917 (present whereabouts unknown). Eunice Graham told her daughter that in London, sometime between 1915 and 1917, Lambert reworked the face of the woman in Important people , using Eunice as a model.


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Dale Weise: Too Famous for Lavalife, Too Real For Twitter
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January 31 2012 11:07AM
In case you didn't notice, or were too busy being mesmerized by Marian Hossa's sweet third period back-hand goal - a goal that represented an isolated outburst of real hockey in Ottawa this past weekend - social media, and Twitter in particular, took centre stage at the NHL's All-Star festivities. The All-Star showcase always feels frightfully static: at the end of the day it's just a skill game, played in slow-motion, absent the faintest hum of hockey's usual intensity. All-Star weekend is like eating a Subway sandwich: you know what to expect, you know it'll fill you up, and you know in advance that it will always, always leave you feeling underwhelmed.
For better or for worse, we've seen various names, jerseys and venues over the years. We've seen the league experiment with formats, and last year the NHL added the "All-Star Draft," which, while a bit dull at times, at least feels genuinely fresh (unlike the North America v. The World stinkers a decade ago). This year, the dramatic change was the wholesale incorporation of "Social Media" into every facet of the proceedings, and for the most part: it was an impressive showing for the league and their players.
As Tim Thomas ably demonstrated last week, it's a significant risk for a massive brand like the NHL to turn responsibility for brand marketing over to the players themselves. For professional hockey players, like all public figures, you're always one off colour joke, one unwise tweeted photo, or, one randomly capitalized status update away from creating a media firestorm, and a major distraction. Despite the risks, the upside is something like #HartnellDown, a social media based initiative that will benefit charity, and lets fans see a human, likable side of a high-profile NHL player. It's great for the league, if done right.
Clearly, the NHL has put a lot of trust in their players to do it right. Without exception, the All-Stars this weekend did exactly that, but while guys like Hartnell and Lupul make it look easy, "doing it right" on a complicated, totally open social network like Twitter is no small thing. Because when it goes wrong, it can get uncomfortable for all parties involved in a hurry.
Which brings us to Dale Weise, who deleted his Twitter account at some point this weekend (it was noticed by earnest Canucks fans on Sunday evening). Dale Weise is a twenty-three year old rookie forward, who the team picked up off of waivers in early October. He's played reasonably well and has become a mainstay on the fourth line of the one of the league's top-teams. Sadly, he also made the wrong sort of waves with his short lived Twitter account.
Right from the start, Dale Weise's Twitter usage got noticed. The right-winger joined Twitter around the same time "the activity tab", a mini-feed type activity monitor, was introduced. The "activity tab" tool gave fans an unusual glimpse into the priorities of their team's newest tweeter. Along the way, Dale Weise got into a Twitter dust-up with bloggers over their lack of "real jobs" and for their criticism of his fighting ability (his hockeyfights fight card puts his record at 0-6-1 in 7 fights this season). His efforts alienated a number of passionate fans who were well disposed to like and root for him. It was all kinds of ironic, and Alannis would have approved.
Now, I've never met Dale Weise, but I've got a lot of sympathy for him. He's a fringe NHL player, sure, but he looks to me to have the skill to make it long-term, and maybe eventually play a top-9 role. He's not the best fighter by any means, but he has the courage to go toe-to-toe with some scary dudes on a regular basis. He spent the last six years in Swift Current and Hartford, and I have to imagine that going from being a member of the Hartford Wolfpack/Connecticut Whale, to being a member of the "OMG Vancouver Canucks" was an eye-opening experience.
I don't need to tell you how insatiable, and over the top, the Vancouver market is about their hockey team. Riots, nasty rumours, booing the goalie, obsessing about a rookie's December ice-time - we've got the "no sense of proportion" thing down pat. For a guy like Weise, being thrust into that milieu, with all the attention and a lot of disposable income; must have been at once: intoxicating, annoying and too much fun.
Over the weekend, a distasteful Twitter account popped up with the goal of harassing Dale Weise. It tweeted five times, and one of the tweets was a screen-shot of an anonymous post from a rather disturbing sports-talk "girlfriend" forum. That forum post detailed a one night stand with Weise, set up over Twitter DMs. The anonymous account of the Twitter hook-up is most likely fake, but even if it's a true story: the details are not sordid at all. To turn the comment into the basis for a twitter account bent on harassment is beyond the pale.
I'd freak out if anyone ever set up an account with the goal of harassing me about my, relatively unspectacular, sexual exploits. You would too. I have no idea if this harassing account (which I will not link to) had anything to do with Weise shutting his account down, but I'd theorize that this type of negative attention was a factor.
As I see it, Dale Weise's aborted experiment with Twitter raises pertinent questions about the relationship between "fan" and "athlete," and how Twitter especially has altered that equation. Twitter is an open book, especially with its "search" feature. Now that some of us record our observations about the games we're watching on an open public forum, in real-time, players are exposed to fan reaction to their performance, personality and physical appearance in a way that just wasn't possible a couple of years ago. Needless to say, it requires thick skin.
The directness with which tweeters interact with one another, has opened major doors in terms of fan interaction with the NHL's stars. Sometimes all people want is a birthday retweet (who knows why, but people always seem to want some sort of retweet from athletes), or to thank a player for taking time to pose for a photo with them, or to thank them for supporting a particular charitable cause. It should be mentioned that there were a lot of tweets thanking Weise for these sorts of contributions in the community.
As a fourth line guy, with charitable inclinations, who brings sandpaper and a workmanlike approach on the ice: Dale Weise had all the necessary ingredients to leverage an entertaining social media feed, into fan favorite status. But he missed the boat.
I think there are several reasons why, namely that he used his account selfishly, and that he was too sensitive to criticism. Remember, Scott Hartnell was originally miffed that strangers on-line were making fun of his skating ability, or at least the frequency with which he lost an edge. But he harnessed a pre-existing Twitter joke for good, and comes out of the endeavor looking like one of the league's most beerable, funny dudes. Dale Weise on the other hand, occasionally called out fans for their critical comments, even if the fan had avoided tagging him in the tweet.
Twitter provides users with boundless opportunity, the forum is kinetic energy incarnate. For professional hockey players, this opportunity is two-sided: you can mess up and face criticism, or you can can communicate directly with fans, which, can boost your profile, your team's profile and the profile of the entire league.
Alternatively, a player account can end up like Dale Weise's did, and fall somewhere in the middle. Weise's feed wasn't offensive enough to create a true media fire-storm, but it was just sleazy enough to rub a lot of fans the wrong way, and to leave a vapor trail of nasty internet rumours. Conversely, while I don't think he came off as a jerk, it's hard to argue that Weise's account was likable enough to add any supplementary value to the team's own marketing.


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Caffeine has its perks, but it can pose problems too. Find out how much is too much and if you need to curb your consumption.
If you rely on caffeine to wake you up and keep you going, you aren't alone. Caffeine is used by millions of people every day to increase wakefulness, alleviate fatigue, and improve concentration and focus.
Up to 400 milligrams (mg) of caffeine a day appears to be safe for most healthy adults. That's roughly the amount of caffeine in four cups of brewed coffee, 10 cans of cola or two "energy shot" drinks.
Although caffeine use may be safe for adults, it's not a good idea for children. And adolescents should limit themselves to no more than 100 mg of caffeine a day.
Even among adults, heavy caffeine use can cause unpleasant side effects. And caffeine may not be a good choice for people who are highly sensitive to its effects or who take certain medications.
Read on to see if you may need to limit or even end your caffeine routine.
Heavy daily caffeine use — more than 500 to 600 mg a day — may cause side effects such as:
Some people are more sensitive to caffeine than are others. If you're susceptible to the effects of caffeine, just small amounts — even one cup of coffee or tea — may prompt unwanted effects, such as restlessness and sleep problems.
How you react to caffeine may be determined in part by how much caffeine you're used to drinking. People who don't regularly drink caffeine tend to be more sensitive to its negative effects. Other factors may include body mass, age, medication use and health conditions such as anxiety disorders. Research also suggests that men may be more susceptible to the effects of caffeine than are women.
Most adults need seven to eight hours of sleep each night. But caffeine can interfere with this much-needed sleep. Chronically losing sleep — whether it's from work, travel, stress or too much caffeine — results in sleep deprivation. Sleep loss is cumulative, and even small nightly decreases can add up and disturb your daytime alertness and performance.
Using caffeine to mask sleep deprivation can create an unwelcome cycle. For example, you may drink caffeinated beverages because you have trouble staying awake during the day. But the caffeine keeps you from falling asleep at night, shortening the length of time you sleep.
Certain medications and herbal supplements may interact with caffeine. Here are some examples.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about whether caffeine might affect your medications. He or she can say whether you need to reduce or eliminate caffeine from your diet.
Whether it's for one of the reasons above — or because you want to trim your spending on coffee drinks — cutting back on caffeine can be challenging. An abrupt decrease in caffeine may cause withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, fatigue, irritability and nervousness. Fortunately, these symptoms are usually mild and resolve after a few days.
To change your caffeine habit more gradually, try these tips:
If you're like most adults, caffeine is a part of your daily routine. And most often it doesn't pose a health problem. But be mindful of those situations in which you need to curtail your caffeine habit.
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Above, a rendering of Solar Roadways photovoltaic pavers in Sandpoint, Idaho, home to the technology's developers.
Solar power has an area problem. Unlike fossil fuels, which pack large amounts of energy into small volumes, solar power relies on each unit of area delivering relatively small quantities of harvestable energy. When it comes to building-integrated photovoltaics, this fact privileges groundscrapers—low-slung structures with roofs that make up a large portion of the envelope. Geometrically, small structures and towers are not as effective as their wider and shorter counterparts since compact buildings lack adequate surface area for solar collection and tower façades generally collect less energy than roofs due to incident sun angles.
Given these limitations, Idaho-based entrepreneurs Julie and Scott Brusaw looked to another, yet-untapped component of the built environment to collect solar energy. Solar Roadways is a multi-functional paving surface powered by the sun. Citing that the U.S. alone has some 72,000 square kilometers (27,800 square miles) of concrete and asphalt paving, the Brusaws developed a proposal to harness up to three times the current U.S. energy demand by using roadbeds and parking lots as energy collectors.
Solar Roadways consists of interlocking hexagonal pavers made of high-strength, textured glass embedded with photovoltaics, LEDs, and sensors—a compelling example of infrastructure-integrated photovoltaics. The Brusaws developed two phases of prototypes with funding from the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Their initial objective is power generation; Solar Roadways is designed to provide energy to neighboring homes and businesses. Some of this energy is also used to power programmable LED lights for lane lines and signage, and to allow the road to self-heat and melt snow and ice. Though the pavers have no batteries to store energy, their nocturnal power demand is offset by their diurnal energy supply to the grid. The designers anticipate that Solar Roadways will one day power electric vehicles, either via parking lot–based charging stations or direct induction through the road surface.
The next-step is full-scale production. On April 21, the Brusaws launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Web-based platform Indiegogo with the goal of raising $1 million to help grow their team and streamline production. Even if the project doesn't meet that mark, Indiegogo allows them to keep any funds raised for use on the project. The campaign will run through May 31.
Mass production will allow the Brusaws to address remaining questions, such as how a system of hexagonal units will conform to the curvilinear geometries of winding roads and turning radii; how to stomach the high initial cost and embodied energy of a glass roadway; how to prevent the interruption of safety lighting in the event of an electrical malfunction; and how the incorporation of cable corridors can effectively handle large quantities of storm water. Nevertheless, the Solar Roadways project offers an intriguing vision for technology-infused infrastructure that addresses solar power's surface-area-to-power-generation conundrum.
Blaine Brownell, AIA, is a regularly featured columnist whose stories appear on this website each week. His views and conclusions are not necessarily those of ARCHITECT magazine nor of the American Institute of Architects.
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The Emery County Commission met for their yearly meeting in Green River. The commission voted to approve a $250 donation to the Emery County Business Chamber to help with their kick-off event planned for October. County Attorney David Blackwell said he is helping the group with their articles of incorporation and bylaws.
Mike McCandless from the Emery County Economic Development office as well as planning and zoning director gave an update. He has recently returned from Louisiana where the Business Expansion and Retention Program of Carbon and Emery counties has received a worldwide award. They were granted the top award for communities of less than 50,000 in population. The BEAR program is now in its fourth year. The program cost $38,000 to operate with Carbon and Emery counties each donating $5,000. The remainder of operating monies have come from grants for drug education. BEAR has conducted classes on prevention of drugs in the workplace with the help of Four Corners Behavioral Health.
From this low operating capital big things have transpired with $1.2 million in cash directly coming into area businesses. These monies have been grants, low interest loans and other creative ways of financing new businesses and expanding existing businesses in the two county area. BEAR has three Vista employees who visit local businesses and conduct interviews. These interviews identify the needs of the employers. The needs of the business are then addressed and everything possible is done to solve any problem a business may be having. The BEAR program has been able to identify numerous businesses in Emery County. The Workforce Services has a list of 199 businesses and the BEAR program has been able to identify 500 businesses in Emery County. These include owners who have multiple businesses. The BEAR program makes 1,000 visits a year to businesses. When a business needs a referral then the referral is kept track of until the referral has been met and taken care of, that way problems are resolved and not forgotten. BEAR is good at outreach and staying in contact with the businesses.
At the convention where the award was given there were 450 people present from around the world. McCandless had the opportunity to teach and speak about the BEAR program and its success.
McCandless said the money for the VISTA staff will end in April. Between now and then BEAR is looking at alternative funding to maintain these three positions.
Other counties in Utah are interested in the work of the BEAR program and these counties might be able to contribute funds as the Carbon and Emery BEAR programs provides services for them with the software and other helps.
Another project for BEAR has been the development of a rural Utah economic development program. The governors office is very positive about this. This rural Utah economic development program will be run from the Southeastern Utah group with Ethan Migliori.
BEAR is also looking at funding from Workforce Services to do survey work for them.
Fast Track grants are available statewide, but Emery and Carbon counties have received 78 percent of the grants because of the BEAR program and letting businesses know what options are available to them. "There are other eligible counties, but because we are organized we are able to take advantage of this state money," said McCandless.
In other economic development news, McCandless reported the road is being bladed leading to the Mancos Hills Industrial Park. Jones and DeMille is doing the engineering for the roads and designing the culverts.
Blue Castle, the company involved in the nuclear power plant is waiting on the results of the water rights hearing and they should know something by October.
McCandless reported they are still working on legislative bills to bring natural gas service to Green River and Emery as well as other rural communities. The bill if it becomes law will approve a small fee to be added to gas bills to contribute to a fund to begin service in underserved areas. Dennis Stowell is sponsoring the bills, two bills one for the natural gas and one to expand electrical capacities in rural Utah. Also included would be seed money for renewable energy projects. Green River and Emery are listed in the top five of priority communities that need natural gas and Kanab is another in the top five. It is estimated to cost $7 million to bring natural gas to Green River. The cost is somewhat less for Emery. After the communities that need natural gas are funded then the fund would go away.
The posters for the Marshalls and TJ Maxx department stores featuring Emery County will be out soon.
The planning and zoning department is working on updates to the county plan. One area that will be discussed in the September meeting in Green River will be a change to the mountain ordinance. It will bring the plan up to state code. There are concerns at Joes Valley around the Trail Mountain resort area. The changes in the ordinance will address the concerns.
The Emery County Travel Bureau approved advertising on Delta airlines. There will be two minute spots shown on flights across the US and some overseas flights as well. These will run next April and May. The spots will run for approximately a month or longer.
Charlie DeLorme from San Juan County is going to come and work with the travel bureau and assist them with worldwide advertising. "We are getting visitors here from around the world, but the county isn't taking full advantage of these visitors and what they can bring to the county," said McCandless.
Commissioner Jeff Horrocks thanked McCandless for the outstanding job he does for Emery County.
The commission approved an amendment to the Boarding House Ridge Communication site permit.
McCandless had a planning and zoning question during the citizen concerns he said the cities are unclear on the enforcement issues dealing with planning and zoning. The county provides the inspections through Sunrise Engineering, but each city is responsible for its own planning and zoning enforcement. McCandless said the roles need to be defined and each city needs to know they are responsible. Commissioner Horrocks said he will bring the matter before the council of governments.
In the commission reports Commissioner Horrocks said he attended the CRIK meeting and it was held in Castle Dale. They discussed what is going on with the display in the lobby of the College of Eastern Utah prehistoric museum. They discussed how to get more partners involved in the promotion of Castle Country. They met with the new director of the CEU museum and he seems very outgoing and looking for community involvement for the museum.
The commissioners attended the opening of the Tie Fork rest area on SR-6. Videos will run at the visitor center there at all times. Emery County has videos advertising the golf courses and attractions in the county.
Horrocks reported the public lands council is proceeding with the land use bill. He also attended the Emery County Business Chamber meeting. The commissioners toured the Lila Canyon mine and it is an exceptional facility.
Commissioner Laurie Pitchforth said the Tie Fork rest area is a beautiful facility and encouraged people to pack a picnic and go there for a visit. "There is a lot to see there and to enjoy," she said. "The landscaping is done at the care center and it's beautiful. Stoddard Sprinkler and Landscaping did the job and it looks great. It is going to be a fabulous facility for our county. It is such an addition to the community. The east wing will be complete by Friday. The care center is planning an open house on Sept. 11 during Peach Days. The Emery County Business Chamber is working hard and they are excited. They have a great vision and they are planning a kickoff event in October. The event will feature a guest speaker and lunch. They will give ideas on how to make your business better and we hope all the businesses will support the new organization."
Pitchforth said the Association of Governments is involved in a new housing project where the people cooperate and help build their homes as well as other family homes in exchange for low interest loans for the homes. The cooperative housing will be for Carbon and Emery counties.
The drug coalition met, "They are trying so hard to make a difference. There is a drug called Spice that is a manmade substance that is legal and its sold as incense. People are smoking it for a marijuana like high. Hopefully the legislature will make it illegal. It looks like sagebrush," said Pitchforth.
The RSVP is having a recognition dinner. On Sept. 10 will be the senior citizen bbq at Bear Creek campground," said Pitchforth.
Commissioner Gary Kofford said he and Capt. Kyle Ekker, Sheriff LaMar Guymon and Mary Huntington from personnel; attended a risk management training in Cedar City for three days.
Broderick and Henderson are the low bidder on the food bank building. They will begin work by Sept. 1. Lila Canyon has 20,000 ton of coal on the ground and they are awaiting the road to be completed enough to get trucks to the mine site. Lila Canyon is in the process of gathering bids for the hauling of the coal. By late September they hope to be hauling out of the mine. "It is a real plus for the county to have that mine. It will add to the tax base. It is good for the citizens of Emery County," said Kofford.
The consent agenda items included the hiring of Brinne Dawes, Marqui Moss and Eli Oliverson as part-time lifeguards working 19 3/4 hours a week with no benefits. Sheriff Guymon requested approval for the promotion of Alexander O'Neil and Mike VanWagoner from correction officer I to correction officer II for being a POST certified corrections officer for at least two years. Morris Sorensen requested approval to hire Natalie Gardner as a 3/4 time secretary working 32 hours with pro-rated benefits.
The wellness clinic will be on Oct. 20-21 at the Emery Medical Center. Flu, pneumonia and tetanus vaccines will be given to county employees. Cost for the wellness visits will be $173-$177 depending on age and gender. Employees who participate in the wellness clinic will be given an additional four hours of paid vacation.
The next meeting for the Emery County Commissioner will be held Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. in the commission chambers.


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i had to join in on this discussion though I'm a n00b as most would call me.
to me it seems that the dangers of the eight gate chakra manipulation goes into effect when "gai/lee" releases the chakra itself in the different gates (whether lotus peacock or tiger.) i do believe gai knows and most likely has opened all eight gates but hasn't released the energy associated with the eight gate itself. basically it could be like pouring out your essence (just because you open a bottle does not necessarily mean its contents will spill out and the gate itself is a cap.)
once again its just my outlook on the gated seeing as the after effects become more strenuous on the user the higher it goes and the eight may be the users actual life force in the attack (someone speculated its name to be like midnight tortoise.)
logically speaking the gate being opened is opening the user the potential to that form of energy (yes there will be strain from opening any of the gates but that's where muscle memory comes in.) i believe its the usage of the technique to release said energy that makes the difference. once again just my personal opinion to this lovely debate.


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Crews and helicopters have made good progress on containment of this fire. Yesterday afternoon the fire transitioned from the joint jurisdiction of Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands and the Manti-La Sal National Forest to a local Type 3 Incident Command Team under the Command of Steve Rutter.
Today's actions will be focused on eliminating heat from the bottom end of the fire closest to the homes to eliminate the threat to structures. Crews will be securing containment lines and conducting grid search operations to locate any hidden pockets of heat. From the air, three helicopters will be dropping water to subdue the most actively burning areas.
"We're going to use every tool available to us," says Rutter. "Every hotspot will be addressed until we see no more smoke near these homes."
Residual smoke is moving into the area from fires burning in western Utah and California and has settled in valleys throughout the state. People with breathing difficulties should remain indoors and take proper precautions.
Carbon County issued an evacuation order for the Scofield Mountain Homes subdivision yesterday. The road on the west side of Scofield Reservoir is closed to the public due to smoke and high traffic from fire vehicles.
This afternoon agency managers will assess the need for continued evacuation and road closures. The threat to structures from the fire has dropped, but traffic from the 30-plus fire vehicles is of primary concern. A decision to relax the evacuation level could be made by this afternoon.
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This is a very large and important patch, so I am waiting for all issues to be resolved before I submit the code to CVS.
security and coding problems:
1/ CSRFs in the new tree/index.php code - we MUST test sesskey before changing anything in db
2/ wordwrap(addslashes_js is not correct, the addslashes_js should be the last step - grader report
3/ text going into overlib should be processed with addslashes_js() too - s($intersection_info) in grader report
I have applied this patch to a local copy of Moodle 1.9 stable for testing.
I received two errors:
\moodle\lang\en_utf8\gradereport_grader.php (Cannot apply hunk @@ 7 )
\moodle\lib\simpletest\testmoodlelib.php (Cannot apply hunk @@ 4 )
Since both seemed to be mostly harmless, I proceed with testing, initially trying to recreate the Moodle Gradebook Tutorial I write for for docs.moodle.org.
I did not see the new tabs in the grader page. There is also no way to get to Categories and items that I can see (the menu item is missing).
I will start testing this and then try it with my school's many courses once this is ready.
I was happy to see that turning off the unlimited grading feature did not change the scores already entered (only the summaries).
The new patch includes 4 new files, which you seem to be missing. Depending on how you are applying the patch and your file and directory permissions, these files may not be correctly created in your source tree. Please make sure you have the following:
Note that after chatting with Nicolas, it turns out these items are there. But since the Category and items entry has become a heading and changed its location in the menu structure, it was not where I was expecting it and I missed it.
It is now near the top, where it belongs.
Also, tabs were turned off by default which is not what I expected.
I will add these to my notes as others will probably have similar problems. A fix would probably be to have tabs and the menu on by default.
I will continue testing over the next few days as I have time.
Actually the tabs must be turned off by default, this is what most people will be expecting, since it keeps the previous behaviour. This is documented on http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Gradebook_improvements_in_Moodle_1.9.5#Tabs_navigation
I hope other users won't give up looking for "Categories and items" as quickly as you did, though
Should we post our testing notes here too?
We have applied the patch to our test environment with the course data, and everything looks great so far! Most previous calculations seem to be in place.
Several of our faculty tested it as well, and liked it a lot. I am going to post a summary in the forum later.
The only thing that we have got for some reason is the missing indents in the dropdown menu. Here is a screenshot: http://umn.edu/moodle/samples/dropdown.png
indents: Looks like a CSS issue, could you please try purging your browser cache and using standard theme?
I confirm Petr's comments. I had the same issue until I reset my browser's cache (ctrl+F5).
Hi, yes, I completely forgot that our css was not updated there!
I think I found more bugs. Well, some of them are things that need interface improvement. Here are my notes (Please let me know if I should post them somewhere else or create separate tickets).
1. Non-graded Assignment and Quizzes are getting displayed in the gradebook, and they look like being included into aggregation in the Cat&Items interface (Other activities behave definitely. E.g. If Forum is not graded, it does not appear in the gradebook as a column. Which for me is an expected behavior)
- Add an Assignment. Set it to No Grade. Column will still appear in the gradebook. Now go to the Cat&Items interface. It will display Max Grade for that column to be 100 points. (Though it will not be actually included into the calculation)
- Add an Assignment. Set it to be graded on a scale (scales are NOT included in aggregation for us). Maximum Grade in the Cat&Items interface will display some number (e.g. 3, if there are 3 items in a scale). It is confusing, since one would now expect that 3 to be calculated toward course/category total.
- Add a quiz, add some questions, and make the quiz to be worth 0 points. Maximum Grade in the Cat&Items interface will still be 10 points (or 100). Interestingly enough, I can manually delete a gradebook column for this kind of quiz.
I think it
MDL-14017 is related
2. Once you add a category and set Aggregation method to Sum, it defaults to be worth 100 points (even though this category can have nothing inside). Those 100 points are included in the calculation of the course total, so students are getting penalized for nothing.
Is it possible to default Max grade to 0 points in such case?
3. Weird "extra credit "check mark, if the Course Total is set to Sum aggregation
When I look on the Cat&Items interface, it looks fine (no extra credits marked anywhere). Then, I click Edit icon near the name of any category, and it has the Extra Credit checkbox marked.
Helena, your items 1 and 2 are valid but not related to this tracker issue. No doubt we will still find small bugs in the gradebook 6 months from now, but we don't need to delay the current patch for them. If you could create a separate tracker issue for each of these, it would be very appreciated.
Item 3 has just been fixed, I'm updating the patch now.
Just looking at the test site, I noticed the immensely useful tooltips for each cell. Nice one!
However, I also noticed from the markup that they are using overlib and that each one is defined individually. I think it would be far better to use YUI panel and attach one event listener to the gradebook table so that all of these panels are defined in one place. Is overlib in the process of being phased out in favour of YUI, or is it being kept in parallell?
Apart from
MDL-13433 (sometimes, long tooltips go off the bottom of the page), my major reason for saying this is that it would save effor later in the AJAXifying of the gradebook, when I'm sure we will want to be able to edit cells using YUI dialogues (which are extensions of the panel module) as well as perhaps adding more information to the cells or altering the styles so that the tooltips are sticky or have links etc.
If the data was placed in the cell in standard module format http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/container/module.html
ready to be picked up by the mouseover event handler, then it could be easily extended dynamically for later display, i.e. adding/altering a div after a cell edit, which will be difficult at the moment, using hardcoded function calls.
Thank you, Nicolas.
I have created
MDL-18770 and MDL-18772 (I could not choose 1.9.5 as "affected"version though).
Sorry if I will add more non-related stuff here. It is hard to distinguish which bugs should be considered for this release, and which for the next ones.
p.s. I am still struggling with the css stuff in the gradebook (items are non-indented even in the standard theme, plus my editing controls for columns/items are 2 columns off from where they are supposed to be).
Thanks for your idea, Matt. I've followed your advice and replaced overlib with the YUI Tooltip widget. I've improved the look of the tooltip, and fixed the issue of category totals not showing. I've also updated the patch attached to this issue.
Linking to the issue I commented about.
Thanks for the changes Nicolas - it's much better and fixes this issue (almost). I've added huge feedback comments at the start and end of the lowest row of the gradebook in the 1.9 test site gradebook test course. A bit of an issue still with the tooltips vanishing when they are hovered over.
I think the tooltips would be complete with a fix for MDL-13902 as the quiz essay questions are the only place where human inputted feedback will be missing from both the grader report and user report. I have stopped using quizzes for timed essays because of this, as the students don't even realise there are any comments there at all a lot of the time.
I suggest:
<Quiz name>
"General feedback"
<General feedback>
"Manually enetered feedback on essay question answers follows (automatic feedback on your other answers available in the quiz itself)"
"Question 1 "
<teacher feedback>
"Question 2"
<teacher feedback>
When I apply the last patch (03/Apr/09) and I try to configure the categories, there is a fatal error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class grade_edit_tree_column_category in /var/www/moodle/grade/edit/tree/lib.php on line 1454
Students can see hidden grades and categories in the gradebook if the new patch is applied (even if you set viewhidden capability to Prevent as an admin).
Just in case I have tested regular 1.9.4 and it was OK (students could not see hidden grades).
Thanks for the bug report, Elena, I fixed it and updated the patch file.
I wold love to test it, but getting an error at Cat and Items page: "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class grade_edit_tree_column_category in /var/www/html/test/1.9/grade/edit/tree/lib.php on line 1454"
(May be you are working on it at the moment).
If you login as a real student, User report is getting misaligned.
Studnet view: http://umn.edu/moodle/samples/student1.jpg
Instructor view: http://umn.edu/moodle/samples/instr1.jpg
In the new Category and items view, whether the weight and extra credit columns appear depends on whether certain aggregation types are used someplace in the grading method. This can be confusing, as neither is true in the default case (Simple weighted mean of grades), so it make it difficult to know the options are even available.
I would suggest showing those columns in all cases, even if there is no checkbox of fields for methods where these features are not yet implemented. This would mean that the columns are always consistent, and users would be able to discover which methods have the feature implemented.
Either or both of these columns could be visible in only the "full view" if desired (or keep both in the simple view).
Removing the conditional check at line 62 and 65 of \grade\edit\tree solves this issue.
hmm, I personally think we do not need to show those weight and extra credit columns because not everybody needs/wants them
I don't think the criteria for including items on the Category and item page is one's view on whether everyone will want our use them. For example, I am fairly certain that more people will use Extra Credit and Weight than will use multiplicator and offset. In the full view, at least, this page should show any setting that may affect computation.
The more subtle point in my last suggestion is whether a column should appear or be hidden depending on if an aggregation method someplace within a course is able to use the feature. It is a balance between three usability qualities: minimalism, discoverability, and completeness.
Having tested the feature, I am of the view that columns should not be changing around as one tries different settings of aggregation methods. The reason is that, if one does want extra credit or weight (or any other feature), having the column always there means that one knows they are on the right page to determine if a feature is enabled or not. And I think that is more important than the screen space saved by not displaying the column. Since the cells will be empty when not used, I don't think it adds too much to the complexity of the page.
In both cases I think it is fine to put these columns in the full view, which gives a very clean display for the most simple (and the default) gradebook which will be fine and less intimidating for first time teachers.
I disagree with Gary on this one. Something that is not there (weight/extra credit) cannot be confusing. Besides, seeing a column with nothing in it is very likely to confuse people, especially if the column is called "Weight" and the aggregation method is "Simple weighted mean of grades".
I'm happy with the conditional columns as they are.
I agree with Gary.
It is indeed confusing to have those columns to appear/disappear. Empty unused cells (if the aggregation type does not support such calculation method) are much less confusing.
I also agree that more people will use Extra Credit and Weight rather than Multiplicator and Offset (I honestly do not get at the moment how they are supposed to work. Are they supposed to act like extra credits? Since I was actually expecting them to act like calculation mechanisms and increase the individual grade item AND category total).
Please do not speak for the whole world again, some countries may not use extra credit and weights at all
Petr, I was simply wondering how Multiplicator and Offset are supposed to work, plus I was expressing my own opinion on what people would want to use.
And, honestly, I do not understand the whole deal with "you, in canada/us".
Yes, there can be different needs depending on different ways of Moodle use, but they do not depend on what country we are from.
Multiplicator and offset were in the old 1.8.x gradebook because somebody implemented it that way. I hope they will be removed from 2.0 after we complete the transition of grading implementation from activities into gradebook plugins.
All I say is I know many people here that do not use extra credit or weight at all. I understand that it may be needed in some other parts of the world. In this case I think it is a good compromise to show those columns only when appropriate - imagine admin disables all aggregation types with weights or extra credit, why should the column be there at all?
To Elena: Do you know how is grading done in Europe? It sounds like previous gradebook was "perfect" for US/Canada, but for teachers in my country it was totally unusable. During the gradebook development we talked a lot how grading is done in several countries, unfortunately there was nobody from the US/Canada in the development team - all the feedback came much later after the database and UI freeze (very big thanks to Gary Several people from different parts of the world discussed what to do with those weights and extra credits and we all agreed that the autohiding of those columns is a good compromise - indeed it may not be the best solution for everybody (in this case for people that like to use extra credit and weights).
In any case thanks for the all the feedback, it is really welcome. I personally hope we will all learn something new and in the end 1.9.5 or 1.9.6 will be much more suitable/usable for everybody (especially US/Canada)
Thank you, Petr.
And I am from Russia (does it considered to be Europe?) , where we have both concepts of extra credit and weights. Even though they are called and managed differently, they do exist.
sure, it is also in Europe - that makes your votes more important, we did not get much feedback from Russia
Nicolas already fixed the issue when students could see hidden grades/items and categories in the gradebook when "Show hidden items" is set to No. (Though there is a misalignment issue)
I have just noticed some other things.
1. Go to Settings > User Report > Show hidden items > Set to Yes.
Students will now see the hidden grade item AND the grades. I believe they shouldn't see the actual grade, just an item.
2. Go to Settings > User Report > Show hidden items > Set to Hidden until
Hidden grade items will now be hidden completely from students, but items that are set to be Hidden until", will be displayed to a student grayed out with a grade assigned.
3. Even though the item is hidden from the student view, it is still included into the aggregation, and such total is displayed on the User Report for a student.
Regular 1.9.4 behaves differently (User report for a teacher shows total with hidden items being included in aggregation. User report for a student has total that does not include hidden items).
Please let me know if screenshots are needed.
Thank you!
Many thanks for the bug reports and useful feedback. I've just fixed items 1 and 2 in your list. Item 3 needs an explanation:
In 1.9.4, we were getting lots of people complaining that the course totals were inconsistent for students and teachers. It is clear that some people prefer to aggregate the hidden items, while others don't. Each approach has merits. Unfortunately we cannot implement both without adding a User Report Setting controlled by teachers/admins for the whole course. This requires a new database field for the user report, so we can't add it in 1.9+ and will have to wait for 2.0.
In the meantime, we are aggregating hidden items for the user report. If you don't want your users to see how hidden items are affecting their course total, you could maybe hide the course total until all hidden items are shown, or put your hidden items in a category of their own, with a weight of 0.
Again getting an error at Categories and Items page: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class grade_edit_tree_column_category in /var/www/moodle/grade/edit/tree/lib.php on line 1454
I applied the latest patch: 15/Apr/09 09:43 PM
Thanks. J. Martín
If you've already applied the patch on your code, you cannot apply it again, otherwise the new files (such as grade/edit/tree/lib.php) will append to themselves, duplicating most of their code. You must first revert the patch or do a fresh checkout of MOODLE_19_STABLE
Hi again.
First of all, I replaced all the files with the Moodle 1.9.4+ (built weekly) with cp -r * /var/www/moodle
Then I applied the new patch.
This is the code from 1.431 to 1.454 (/var/www/moodle/grade/edit/tree/lib.php):
abstract class grade_edit_tree_column_category extends grade_edit_tree_column {
public $forced;
public $advanced;
public function __construct($name) {
global $CFG;
$this->forced = (int)$CFG->
$this->advanced = (int)$CFG->{"grade_$name"."_flag"}
& 2;
public function is_hidden($mode='simple') {
global $CFG;
if ($mode == 'simple')
elseif ($mode == 'advanced') {
if ($this->forced && $CFG->grade_hideforcedsettings)
else{ return false; }
Thanks again.
Thank you, Nicolas.
I agree that we want to make the views as close to each other as possible, so it seems like a good temp solution.
Something weird is happening with hidden totals though. I was hiding/unhiding them to check what the student will see, and some totals became "stuck" to be hidden.
1. Go to Cat&Items > Hide Total for a Sub-category (or a course). The whole category will become hidden there, plus from students on the User report. ( I believe that students still should the category with grades). However, if you will check the Grader report, it will still show items in this category as non-hidden=not gray.
2. Now, on Cat&Items unhide the Sub-category back (Not the Total). Total for the category will also become unhidden. Or at least the icon will indicate so.
Go to the Grader report. Notice that Total for that subcategory still looks hidden there.
Click Turn Editing on. You will see that Total itself is indeed unhidden (eye open), but all individual totals below are hidden.
It seems to me that this should not be happening, though I am not sure if there is an easy fix.
I just updated the patch again, because it contained PHP5-only keywords
This file only has 965 lines. In addition to replacing existing files with those from 1.9.4, you must also DELETE manually the 4 files that are NEW in 1.9.5:
- grade/edit/tree/lib.php
- grade/edit/tree/functions.js
- grade/edit/tree/tree.css
- grade/report/styles.css
All this is working fine, actually.
A note of explanation: the hide/show icons have additional function than the Hidden setting. They also cascade the Hidden setting down to all children categories and items. For example:
- When you click the hide icon of the course category, Everything becomes hidden in your course
- When you click the hide icon of the course category's total, only the total and its grades become hidden. The category itself remains visible including all its children
- When you change the course category's status to Hidden in the category edit form, no cascading occurs.
Also important: categories do not have a hidden status, only their grade item does. The confusion here is that the eye icon represents a status for grade items and an action for categories. I'm not sure how to resolve that without using two different icons.
I think a good solution would be to change the action of the category total's icon: make it hide all the grades, but not hide the item itself. The problem then becomes: what state do we show for the category total's hidden icon? It could potentially look hidden when in fact it is not. This will be subject to discussion for 2.0, or maybe 1.9.6.
If you want to only hide the category total, but not the category itself:
1. Click the hide icon of the category total
2. Click the show icon of the category
"When you click the hide icon of the course category's total, only the total and its grades become hidden. The category itself remains visible including all its children "
It is not doing that in the current test environment. Please login as a student, and you will see that the whole category is gone from the user report
And, yes, I was indeed expecting that if Cat&Items interface shows Category Total as Unhidden, then the Grader/User reports will reflect that and all total grades will be unhidden too.
Since it is not the case now, it looks like a bug.
I am a little bit lost with the last suggestion
"category total's icon: make it hide all the grades, but not hide the item itself."
Do you mean that we will show words and column "category total", but still hide the grades inside from students? If so, I think the icon should look like a closed eye, and words "Category total" should be grayed out on the User report.
Though, yes, the behavior would be different from regular gradable items. Should we create a separate control: "Show hidden Totals: Only Hidden until"?
We should move this discussion to a different tracker issue. This will NOT get resolved in 1.9.5.
Thanks for your help with the patch, Nicolas.
In the outcomes report, the activity column shows the complete name of the outcome, not the name of the activity.
J. Martin
I am sorry to re-post. But since we had a lot of items in this ticket, I was a little worried that my last comment on the bug can be lost. %)
Basically, once you hide category's total, the whole category becomes hidden for a student (not just the total and its grades). As far as I can tell from the note above this is not the intended behavior.
Screenshot (1 part: settings; 2-instructor view of the user report; 3 - student view of the user report with missing Category 1):
Sorry, it if already on the to-do list, or if it is for the next version to fix.
Hello! Recently I've updated CVS on my test moodle installation and came upon the new grader report interface - it's nice, but there's a problem: one of our courses has about 60 grade items, some have even more. Currently the page seems to run a JS to create a tooltip for every grade table cell: even if I restrict user per page count to 20, for example, it's still 1200 tooltips in the array. This causes browser to hang up for about a minute to create all tooltips after loading the page. If there's no performance solution for this, I suggest adding a setting to disable generating tooltips in grader report would be reasonable.
hmm, alternative solution could be to attach the tooltips later when page is fully loaded, right?
Yes Petr, I propose to use AJAX to load the tooltip on-the-fly (keeping them cached).
We have the same issue as Vlas. We have some courses with over 800 students and 20+ grade items which kills every browser we've tried it on.
The AJAX solution would probably be the best solution for the problem at hand.
I should add, that some instructors like to view those pages with 100 students per page, or alternatively, all members of a group, which can be large as well. Definitely the AJAX solution is preferred in case someone has 60 items and 800 students and decides to show all of them.
I think this can be fixed by using event bubbling and a single listener on the root element.
Sorry this isn't a proper patch - I've not worked out how to get NetBeans to do one on Windows yet (any tips appreciated)
Replacing index.php and styles.php with these ones switches the tooltips to a single listener on the user-grades table, so there's no looping when the page loads. I've also made it use YUI panel, not YUI tooltip so that very long tooltips can now be read even if they go off the page (
MDL-13433, linked). You can also move your mouse over them and they are not fixed width, so long assignment titles are not poking out. This was causing me a problem because tooltips for items with long feedback or with comment inline enabled were disappearing as soon as they appeared and couldn't be read.
I've noticed two remaining issues - with no javascript, the tooltips are messy as they are full of HTML tags, so not very accessible (can't think of an easy fix for that) and also feedback with tags like br ul and li seem to have those stripped out, which is a shame as some of the comments I'm using rely on those heavily and the YUI panel can deal with them fine.
Matt, thank you heaps for this patch. I've tried it and it works wonders. I'm creating a new subtask for these tooltips (
MDL-18963) so that we don't pollute this meta-issue with it.
should be done now, please file regressions as separate issues
thanks for testing
btw, gradebook on http://test.moodle.org/1.9 gives the error: "XML Parsing Error: not well-formed"
Thanks Elena, the XML parsing error is reported in
I have several sites that are running Moodle on Windows servers (some IIS, some Apache) and they are seeing the gradebook issue where the comment box is full of html code. I don't see it on any Linux based sites. I assume it is fixed for Linux, but what extra needs to be done for Windows based servers? Happy for login access to see this.
Paul, as this issue has been marked resolved, please could you report the problem of html code in the comment box as a new issue.


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