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Create a portfolio of ghoulish loon figures at the School of Visual Art's course on "Distortion" (212-592-2000, schoolofvisualarts.edu). Each assignment will explore a new mode of misrepresenting the human body. Bloating, shrinking, and dismembering encouraged.
When your latest story (this one about a knight and/or fairy) begins to feel a bit clunky, enroll in Cooper Union's "Calligraphy, the Italic Hand" (212-353-4195, cooper.edu/ce). After learning the basics in "chancery cursive," you won't even have to read anyone that valiant little tale. Really, just show them how it looks.
A survey on young and emerging New York artists, Parsons' "Gallery Tour Seminar: Williams- burg, Brooklyn and Beyond" (212-229-5690, parsons.edu/continuing_ed) will equip you with a mini-bank of conversational flourishes. Don't sit silently on the L train, head in a book. Draw attention to yourself! Drop names! Rachel Aviv
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Need to get classy quick? Here's a good way to do it with the bonus of being able to drink in school. NYC Wine Class (212-647-1875, nycwineclass.com) offers cheap "Wine 101" packages, and courses that show you which cheeses to snub at the supermarket.
The irresistible selection of cakes NYC has to offer makes you feel like a traitor if you don't take part. How about a compromise? Take "Eat Well in the New Year," offered by NYU (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu), to learn how to fine-tune your judgment when choosing food. Apparently colors are just as important as chemicals, so find out if that means pink cupcakes are OK. Get svelte and indulge.
At the renowned Tribeca kitchen set in a spacious loft and host to Cooking by the Book (212-966-9199, cookingbythebook.com), food preparation is followed to the letter for private parties of 12 or more. Become an informed connoisseur of the steak or the artichoke, or perhaps find new and exciting ways to employ the arugula in an "oh so chic" kitchen that satisfies the stomach and the ego with its emphasis on personal attention. Janine Armin
An entirely tutu-free dance space, Djoniba (212-477-3464, djoniba.com) has no interest in delicacy and/or anorexia. While students move through routines in West African, Haitian, and Brazilian dance, a row of drummers pound at the front of the room. Classes run from $13 to $16; physical ineptness encouraged.
The first same-sex dance program in the country, OUTdancing (646-742-9400, steppingoutstudios.com) offers salsa, swing, fox-trot, cha-cha, and rumba for lesbians, gays, and transsexuals. Students choose to lead or follow, regardless of gender. Experienceand partnersunnecessary.
Perched over the Hard Rock Café, Broadway Dance Center (212-582-9304, bwydance.com) is deeply indebted to its pop-feverish surroundings, teaching hip-hop, break dancing, and "musical theater" to more than 5,000 dancers a week. Past students include Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, and J.Lo. Classes are $15 apiece. Rachel Aviv
If you're tired of endless auditions and want to get back to the texts, the New School's course on Tennessee Williams and Samuel Beckett (212-229-5690, nsu.newschool.edu/), beginning March 14, is a good place to start. Plus you'll finally have a good excuse to scream "Stellaaaaaa!" over and over again.
A class on voice-over techniques at NYU (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu) might the best way to find yourself billed with an A-list star on a major film release, if you don't mind settling for Pixar. Of course, there's no guarantee you'll end up a superhero like Sarah Vowell, or a fish à la Angelina Jolie.
Sick of seeing reheated one-man shows on the boards? Take a class on playwriting at Columbia (212-854-3774, ce.columbia.edu) and reinvent your life in an edgy Off-Broadway show. It can't be any worse than what's out there already, right? Classes start on January 18. Gautam Hans
With knitting taking the gold two years running in the hipster hobby category, Parsons (212-229-5690, parsons.edu/continuing_ed) is on top of the ancestral trend and will train you in the next big thing with classes in "Hand Embroidery and Appliqué Beading." BYOB will have new meaning after you enroll in this class.
Get with the pro-gram: F.I.T.'s "Learn to Sew Like a Pro I" (212-217-3334, fitnyc.edu) shows the tricks of the fashion trade for those who are all thumbs and no Lagerfeld. Make the most of your end-of-the-line fabrics by using techniques from the ages you never thought mattered.
You'll be in stitches with this all-you-need-to-know-about-knitting course, "Knitting for Pleasure," at F.I.T. (212-217-3334, fitnyc.edu). So kick back and knitwith these skills, you and yours will be warm for the price of a post-Christmas Yule log. Janine Armin
Contrary to what Mick might have said decades ago, it seems that time is very rarely on our side; it's getting so that even budding filmmakers have to draw the soul of wit as their bottom line. The School of Visual Arts' "The Big Story in the Short Film" (212-592-2000, schoolofvisualarts.edu/ce) will walk you through all the shortcuts, teaching you how to say what you want and get it out in less time than it takes Paul Thomas Anderson to reach the end of the first act.
Can't tell McCabe from Brewster McCloud? The New School's "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror: Robert Altman's Cinema of the 1970s" (212-229-5600, nsu.newschool.edu) offers an in-depth look at the man who defined the auteur in one of American cinema's most fruitful periods. The class will examine a wide breadth of Altman's oeuvre, from the usual suspects (M*A*S*H, Nashville) to the dark horses (his early work in television). Popeye, sadly, will not be discussed.
Everybody knows that the post-movie confab can be just as much fun as the movie itself (or, in the case of certain offenders, much more so). NYU offers to bring your game up from Michael Medved to Pauline Kael in just a couple of weeks with "How to View and Talk About Movies Like a Critic" (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu). Impress your friends with discussions of "mise-en-scène" and "diegetic elements" and, um, "cinematography." Chris Tamarri
Malcolm "The Tipping Point" Gladwell brings his sociocultural-business guru savvy to the Learning Annex to instruct you on "How to Flood Any Business With Customers" (212-371-0280, learningannex.com). Coming on the heels of his new book, Blink, about the wisdom of making snap decisions, the class should fill up quickly with people who decided to attend just that night. Avoid the indecision and pay $19.99 ahead of time for his two-hour seminar on February 1.
You've done the temp thing, you've tried the unemployed life, and you're getting sick of ramen. If selling out's sounding good, why not join the other little piggies and earn an MBA? Ranked 14th for its part-time program by U.S. News & World Report, Baruch's Zicklin School of Business (646-312-1300, zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu) is the country's largest B-school, but it comes with a CUNY-sized tuition and an outsize repmaking it a bargain for such a potentially lucrative investment of time, energy, and (especially) soul. There are campus tours for prospective students on January 14 and 28. Register now and you'll have all spring and summer to dwell on the decision you've made. Take comfort, though; as you'll learn, everyone has their price.
Everyone's got a no-lose investment strategy, and CNNfn.com and Money contributor Lewis Schiff is no exception. Free up the evening of February 23, head on over to Makor (212-601-1000, 92y.org), plop down your $25, and take notes on Schiff's "investing technique that returned more than 35 percent in 2003 and only takes 15 minutes each month to prepare." Now that's the kind of investment in investing that anyone can make. John Giuffo
A new Homeland Security head doesn't mean that immigration issues are going to get resolved anytime soon, so the New School's course on the "Anthropology of Migration and Globalization" (212-229-5690, nsu.newschool.edu) will keep you appraised on the latest developments regarding gender, diaspora studies, and transnationalism. Classes start January 27.
If the constant shifts in American foreign policy make you feel adrift, "Intro to International Politics" at Columbia (212-854-9699, ce.columbia.edu) will catch you up on the basic theories on why exactly we like to annoy every other country in the world. Classes start January 18.
Tired of having to pay $10 every time you want a latte in Berlin? Learn why the euro is pounding the dollar in NYU's "International Corporate Finance" (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu), starting February 8 or 9. Maybe you can't influence the exchange rate, but you can at least figure out how to afford a European half-caf. Gautam Hans
If you're tired of having to communicate with wordsor if the cold weather is freezing your ungloved fingersconsider the New School's introductory course in sign language, starting January 25 (212-229-5690, nsu.newschool.edu). It's the perfect way to warm your frostbitten limbs and keep your friends guessing about what you're really thinking.
Regret that you've forgotten Spanish after four years of it in high school? NYU offers a refresher "immersion weekend" on February 26 and 27 (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu): 13 hours of intensive learning designed to finally make you understand the difference between ser and estar. Similar programs are available in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, and Russian.
Introductory Japanese classes at the Japan Society, starting January 24 (212-832-1155, japansociety.org), can let you live out your Lost in Translation fantasy and one-up Bill and Scarlett by knowing what's going on in Tokyo. Professionals need not worry: The textbook, Japanese for Busy People, lets you work the class around your life. Gautam Hans
Sooner or later you have to ask yourself, Am I the brooding, musically proficient sort or more of the pretty-and-vacant, stage-front-and-center ilk? For the former, there's the Piano School of NYC (212-386-2274, pianoschoolofnyc.com), and for the latter the New York City Guitar School (646-485-7244, nycguitarschool.com), both of which offer a variety of lessons on how to grind their respective axes. (Note: Jerry Lee Lewis and Simon and Garfunkel types also welcome.)
It's not generally regarded as very rock and roll to actually be able to read music; even Sir Paul wrote his hits with the Beatles mostly illiterate of musical notation. But when the Ramones sang of a "Rock 'n' Roll High School," they could've been talking about the honors class of the Kaufman Center's Lucy Moses School (212-501-3303, kaufman-center.org/lucy.htm), which offers instruction in sight singing for various levels of proficiency.
Party like it's 1997 with NYU's "Scratch: The Art of the DJ" (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu). The eight-week class offers instruction from members of the Scratch DJ Academyco-founded by the late Jam Master Jayand features a mash-up of written study with literal hands-on training, as well as promised appearances by "celebrity DJs." Chris Tamarri
Dr. Merryl Kafka, curator of education at the New York Aquarium and an Alfred Kinsey for the life aquatic, takes a peek under the sheets of the aquarium's resident hedonists. Evidently, undersea animals have kinkier sex and are more promiscuous than Tom Wolfe's co-eds, and the "Sex in the Sea" program has been designed to give adults (21 and older only) a chance to meet other singles to try out the mating habits of the single seal. The program is on February 12 and costs $34 for non-members.
Tired of watching all your beloved plants die as winter deepens? The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (718-623-7200, bbg.org) comes to the rescue with a plethora of classes on making that home garden work. And even if you can't get a single petunia to survive, they also offer a class on designing funeral and sympathy arrangements, so you can pay your respects with the flowers bought from the bodega across the street.
New Yorkers with telescopes that have been gathering dust since Christmas '89 can now get a glance at the astros considered imperceptible by layers of smog and that Thoroughly Modern Millie sign with the Hayden Planetarium's course on urban stargazing (212-769-5200, amnh.org). The class meets four Wednesdays, January 19 through February 9, from 6:30 to 8:30, and costs $64 ($48 for members, students, and seniors). David Blaylock
For the person who has everything, including an absurd amount of photos of indistinguishable buildings, sidewalks, and sunsets: Learn how to translate your random collection into a body of work in "Travel Photography: Making It Work" at the International Center of Photography (212-857-0001, icp.org). You'll also get helpful hints on what to pack on your exotic tripsand how to get respect from the pros when you get back.
Talk shop at Parsons (212-229-5690, parsons.edu). For the digitally inclined, "Photoshop Basics" will show you how to work it on the screen in five easy sessions. Discover what "intuitive interface" means while improving upon important skills like tweaking and manipulation.
Serious photographers and hapless hopefuls come together at the School of Visual Arts (212-592-2000, schoolofvisualarts.edu/ce), which offers a range of photography workshops at all levels. Class presentations will allow you to showcase your fragile art and have it judged by people who know more than you. Janine Armin
Have an out-of-body experience without the caffeine jitters or hangover lethargy. Chakrasambara Buddhist Center (212-924-6706, meditationinnewyork.org) offers a variety of classes that promise to seriously refocus your energy and balance those runaway chakras. Achieve the happiness and well-rounded satisfaction of the burly Buddha himself.
If your diet consists of items with 2006 expiration dates and your evening mantra lacks focus, take NYU's "Whole Health I" (212-998-7171, scps.nyu.edu) for cost-effective ways to look young and "tap into your own personal power." Save bank by becoming your own self-help book.
The New York Open Center (212-219-2527, opencenter.org) has an open-door policy to self-help practices from every corner of the world. From Taoist theory to Jewish teachings of the afterlife, you are sure to find the culturally appropriate practice for you. At a not too expensive price, pick a country you like, go forth, and let the ethnic-region-of-choice healing begin. Janine Armin
For i-bankers looking to productively unleash cubicle-induced fury, Church Street Boxing Gym's four-week Introductory Boxing course (212-571-1333, nyboxinggym.com) teaches anyone the basic skills involved in good punching. Blaring hip-hop, shrieky time bells, and the sight of definitive nonbeginners provoke growlings of inspirationas well as deep fear. Cost: $199.
A lovely pastime for unathletic white men, pétanque is best described as a cross between bowling, golf, and stone skipping. The player attempts to toss the boule (ball) as close as possible to the but (another ball, this time smaller). The excitement is breathtaking. Try it out at Bryant Park with La Boule New Yorkaise (212-529-4204, labouleny.com, bryantpark.org/amenities/activities.php); if nothing else, classes are free.
Run mostly by activist women, the Center for Anti-Violence Education (718-788-1775, cae-bklyn.org) holds women/transgender-only classes in karate, tai chi, and general self-defense. Instructors teach "nonviolence" while giving tips on how to take out bratty opponents. Fees are on a sliding scale. Rachel Aviv
"The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates. "And besides, who ever got rich and famous by not talking about themselves?" He might be dead, but that doesn't mean his point's invalid. The New School's "Writing to Save Your Life" (212-229-5600, nsu.newschool.edu) will teach you how to turn the unexamined into the amazing, addressing such issues as "developing your style" and "giving yourself permission."
With movie franchises like Spider-Man, X-Men, and the soon-returning Batman heating up movie theaters, you could say that comic books are the new actual books. NYU's "Writing Comics and Graphic Novels" (212-998-7200, scps.nyu.edu) provides comprehensive instruction on creating comics, from both the creative and commercial perspective, for those of you looking to get on the bandwagon or relive fantasies of taking Jean Grey back to your Danger Room.
After having labored over your Great American Graphic Memoir, it might seem that your work is over. But why spend so much time crafting what's inside the book, only to ignore what's going on outside? Cooper Union's class on "Handbound Books" (212-353-4195, cooper.edu/ce) will give you all the basics on getting in and out of a bind in a variety of styles, from clothbound multi-sectioned books to "Japanese box." Chris Tamarri
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NW Division Preview - Vancouver
Robert Cleave
October 04 2010 09:35PM
Over the next few days, Flames Nation will offer previews of every team in the Northwest division. To start off, here's an overview of the Vancouver Canucks.
Regular season – NW division champions: 103 points, 3rd seed in WC playoffs
Playoffs - Beat L.A. 4-2 in first round, lost 4-2 to Chicago in second round
Significant additions - Manny Malhotra, Raffi Torres, Dan Hamhuis, Keith Ballard
Injuries – Alexandre Burrows, and shockingly, Sami Salo
Key players – Sedins, Kesler, Luongo
Cap position – tight
Predicted finish - 1st in the division
The Canucks are this season's semi-fashionable pick to end Canada's Stanley Cup drought, given that they didn't lose any major contributors and might have added a couple of very nice, albeit somewhat overpaid D. The team also appears to have filled in a hole or two in their bottom six. As much as I might like to see them fail, Vancouver are division favourites for good reason.
Alan Vigneault gave Ryan Kesler the full time job of taking on the other team's best players last season, and until they ran into a team that was deeper than themselves in the second round of the playoffs, that strategy was sound. Kesler is a terrific player who can carry other decent players again top comp, and playing with him likely helped give Mason Raymond's bank account a nice boost this summer. Once they get healthy, I'd suspect that the Canucks either use Burrows or Samuelsson as the other winger on Kesler's unit, and it will be the play of Kesler that can really give Vancouver a leg up. His ability to at least saw-off everyone else's first lines allows Vigneault the luxury of using the Sedins against lesser forward lines, and Hank Sedin's Hart Trophy campaign was aided immeasurably by not having to play the toughs night after night.
The Sedins are certainly good, though, and they took full advantage of those cushy circumstances to kick the living hell out of soft competition. Some of that was certainly percentage driven in Henrik's case, but I do note that he shot from a significantly shorter distance than he had in previous seasons. It will interesting to see if he can sustain that sort of production, but even if there's a drop off, he and his brother Daniel are first rank forwards, and they along with Kesler are the best 1-2-3 in the division at the moment.
Of course, being a team that was only two lines deep ended up biting the Canucks in the ass against the Hawks, so Mike Gillis dipped into the UFA pool for Manny Malhotra. It's an interesting move, and it isn't without the potential to backfire. Malhotra's a decent enough player, but his salary now reflects results gained in some measure by good fortune. His PDO (combined EVSV% and EVSH% while he was on the ice) was 105.1. That's not normally the type of number that holds up year after year. His numbers over the two previous seasons in Columbus were acceptable enough, but I wouldn't be shocked if his 5v5 +/- took a hit this year.
The other potentially useful forward obtained via free agency was Raffi Torres, whose 1M deal might end up being a worthwhile expenditure. He can compete at some sort of decent level against bottom sixers, and he'll be a fill-in on the Kesler line while Alex Burrows spends another month or so rehabbing a bum shoulder. I suspect the Canucks would like to see the return of Crazy Raffi, but I'm still of the opinion that Torres hasn't been quite the same since he was hurt in Edmonton. He's not terrible, though.
The Canucks spent major money on defenders this summer, and as a result have a pile of dough tied up on the back end. They acquired Keith Ballard from Florida at the draft in exchange for not much, adding his 4M+ ticket to the payroll. He played the other team's best with the Panthers in 09/10, but he was very bad at it, with possession numbers that might make me think that he's being overpaid.
Another big salary arrived via the UFA market, with Dan Hamhuis returning to his home province for 4.5M a year on a six-year deal. Again, though, he was pushed out of Nashville's top pairing by the middle of last year on the merits. He's a very nice third defenceman, and if I were to summarize Vancouver's entire D corps with one statement, that would be it. They have plenty of good defencemen, and several expensive ones, but Alex Edler might be the closest they have to a player that can handle the other top lines. Willie Mitchell was the guy for Vancouver in that role until his concussion, and I'm not quite convinced they've replaced him. Sami Salo might also get that sort of duty for two or three games after his return from injury, before he stabs himself with a spork, or sleeps on his eye wrong, or whatever the hell else afflicts him next.
Like any other team that's sunk big cash into a goalie, it's probably Bobby Lou or bust. Luongo didn't have his best year by raw save percentage in 09/10, but his .926 EVSV% was right in line with most of the other top goalies in the game. He'll be backed up by Cory Schneider, as the long-time prospect will finally get a chance to open the gate as a back-up. Luongo has certainly taken his share of hits for his post-season play, but for all I know Dustin Byfuglien relocating his big keister to the other conference might be enough to push him, and the Canucks, farther along in the playoffs.
Teams mostly go as far as their best players, and the Canucks have the best collection of top end forwards in the division, a reasonable group of defenders and a good goalie. They aren't without holes, and the absence of a serious shut-down D might hurt them in the post season, but they have fewer chinks in their armor than the other teams in the Northwest. They'll likely finish first again absent some very strange happenings or a long-term injury to Luongo.
October 05 2010, 12:47AM
If Vancouver is Canada's best hope to bring a cup back north of the 49th, I'd rather see the drought last a few years longer. I can't stand that team!
October 05 2010, 08:13AM
Alot of pressure here. I think if Vancouver are going to win a cup with that team, it would have to be this year. I'm just not convinced that they are THAT good. They remind me a lot of the Sharks; great in the regular season.. choke in the playoffs. But they have filled some holes in the roster, and if they can stay healthy... they could definetly make a run at it this year.
regher for kesler???? :)
As much as I hate the Canucks, and living with Canucks fans everyday, this team is probably the team to do it.
October 05 2010, 09:48AM
regher for kesler???? :)
It would take an act of God to pry Kesler out of Vancouver's hands. Haha. I'd take it even though he's a dick, though.
open question....
is kesler or jordan staal the better shut down guy????
I would think that as a shut down guy Kesler would be better, but Staal has way more of an offensive upside to him, so overall player, I would pick Staal. Hard to compare Kesler who's played more offensive minutes than Staal (2nd line vs 3rd line for Staal) Staal had the goals (21 vs Kesler's 25) but was lacking in assists ( 28 vs 50).
But I think since Kesler had to play both a defensive role and an offensive role, and succeeded in both, I would think that his defensive ability would be better.
On a side note, Kesler wouldn't come to Calgary, because he hates Canadians, remember?


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The Carbon High School Farm Bureau Invitational track meet was held Saturday at the Carbon High track and both Emery County high schools were there to participate. The Emery girls' team finished in second place behind Stansbury High School. The Emery boys finished in seventh place with region foes Richfield, Grand and San Juan all finishing in the top five with the Wildcats winning the track meet.
The Emery girls finished the day with four first place finishes. Senior Hailee Rogers led the Spartans with wins in both the 200 meter race and the 400 meter race. Sophomore Ashlynn Allred, out the past couple of weeks with a leg injury, returned to action and won the 100 meters in 12.71 seconds, a top 10 time in the state of Utah this season. Rogers' times were 27.25 in the 200 and 1:00.64 in the 400.
Both Hailee and Ashlynn were members of the relay team that also took first place. The 4 x 100 relay team finished with a time of 51.02, less than a second off the school record. The second place team finished in 52.73. The first leg was ran by Paytn Jeffs, the second was ran by Rogers, the third leg was ran by Bayler Griffin and Allred ran the final leg.
Senior Brenden Jorgensen had a good day for the Emery boys' team. Jorgensen finished second in the 300 meter hurdles, fourth in the 110 meter hurdles and fourth in the long jump. In the 110 meter hurdles, Ammon Mitchell of San Juan and Lance Allen of Richfield had the second and third best time in the state this track season. Mitchell is the defending 2-A state champion.
The Emery girls' 4 x 400 relay team of Rogers, Kelsie Cox, Jessica Guymon and Blayr Jeffs finished second and the sprint medley relay team finished third.
Other members of the girls' team that placed were Bayler Griffin in third place in the 100 meters, Kelsie Cox in third place in the 300 meter hurdles, Jessica Guymon in sixth place in the 800 meters and third in the long jump, Paytn Jeffs third in the high jump and fourth in the long jump, Bailey Rasmussen seventh in the shot put and Kira Oelmann eighth in the javelin.
For the boys' team, Taylor Hansen finished fourth in the high jump with Dawson Jensen finishing seventh. Curtis Mason finished fifth in the javelin and Scott Jackson finished in fifth place in the 400 meter race. The medley relay team finished fourth and the 4 x 100 relay team finished fifth.
The Green River Pirates also participated in the track meet. Tay Johnson had a good day as she finished fifth in the 100 meter hurdles and sixth in the long jump. The Pirate boys 4 x 100 relay team finished sixth. Team members listed were Kyle Johnson, Tyrell Shumway, Joe Serafin, Greg Johnson and Jovani Flores.
Other Pirates that nearly placed were Joe Serafin ninth in the 200 meters and 11th in the long jump, Greg Johnson was 11th in the 100 meters, Cassidee Moore was 11th in the 800 meters and Corbin Mecham was 11th in the shot put.


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Jason Gregor
November 06 2012 09:50AM
Theo Peckham needs to play, and yesterday he made the decision to suit up for the San Francisco Bulls of the ECHL. With the NHL and NHLPA finally meeting again there is a glimmer of hope that the NHL might be playing by December 1st, and if that's the case, Peckham needed to play some games.
With Andy Sutton out another two months with an injury, Peckham will battle Corey Potter for the #6 spot on the Oilers blueline, when/if the season resumes. Potter has been playing in Vienna for over a month already and I think Peckham realized he needs to get playing so when camp starts he's in game shape.
Ryan Whitney, Jeff Petry, Nick Schultz, Ladislav Smid and Justin Schultz are locks to be in the top-five, and due to his style of play I think Peckham has a slight edge over Potter for the #6 slot. Peckham has become a decent penalty killer, he was 2nd in PK icetime last year, and during our brief interview he explains why he should be even better on the PK this year.
He also can be abrasive, and outside of Smid the Oilers blueline doesn't possess a lot of grit. The Oilers should be excited that Peckham choose to start playing so when/if the season starts he'll be ready to go and not a half step behind.
JG: How did this come about, and when do you plan on getting playing?
TP: Well I've known the head coach probably since I was about 14, so we just exchanged a couple of Facebook messages and it all happened pretty quick. I guess he went up to Alaska and they've got a few guys running around up there. When he called me Monday and said if I wanted to come that I could and since the NHL announced that they were cancelling November I figured it would be a good chance to come down.
JG: Was part of the process for you to ensure that you at least got some sort of game stimulation in case the NHL came back, and then you'd be on even par with the guys in the AHL and guys in Europe?
TP: They're all skating right now and when the NHL decides this is going to get going, this is all going to happen fast. I want to make sure that I'm not scrambling around trying to find a place to skate with four other guys, when the NHL decides they want to get this thing done. So I figured that this would be a good chance to come down and enjoy the weather and make sure that I was on top of it as much as I could.
JG: When we talked to at the end of the season you stated you wanted to get off to a good start and you wanted to put yourself into the best possible shape that you've ever been in. Are you in the best shape of your career right now?
TP: Oh yeah for sure, getting ready to go into [Oilers] camp I was by far in the best shape I've ever been. While not being able to skate for the past couple of weeks has definitely hindered that a bit, but that's why I'm down here skating every day so that when the time comes around that I am in the best shape that I can possibly be in.
JG: You're an NHL defenceman, we would assume that you should be one of the best guys down in that league. How do you ensure that you're not going to get bad habit?
TP: I think that the biggest thing is trying not to do too much, stay within my game and truly trying as hard as you can to be the best defenceman down here. And I think that there are two ways of going about this. You can come down here and think you're from the NHL and you're better than everybody and I think that that is how you start to develop bad habits. But if you come down and you work hard and you treat every shift like it is a shift in the NHL I think that that is how you prevent picking up those bad habits.
JG: You joked on twitter, "maybe I'll get some power play time", but I think that ultimately you would expect to get some power play time, and, if anything, improve your skill set in every element.
TP: Well yeah, I'm sort of excited about it, playing on the power play for a couple of minutes [laughs]. I don't get too many chances in Edmonton! I think that I did once this year when we lost three defencemen in Chicago I think, or maybe Minnesota. I actually remember, there were three defencemen left, they were both on the ice and I was alone with Ralph [Krueger]. And I told him 'look Ralph, you've got nobody left, you've got to put me on the power play.' [laughs]
JG: Did he laugh?
TP: I think so, and he said 'alright get out there' and I said 'yes!'
JG: Did you play the power play in junior at all?
TP: Yeah, I played in junior. I played the power play in a little bit in Springfield as well.
JG: You've got a pretty decent shot and while I'm not expecting you to be Justin Schultz and score six goals in seven games or anything like that but...
TP: I might though, you never know.
JG: It's possible you're right.
TP: Get pucks on net you know. (laughs)
JG: Have you talked to any of the guys down in OKC, are you surprised at how dominating Schultz has been?
TP: You know what; I haven't talked to anybody to be totally honest. It's good to see, it's good for the Oilers, it's good for the team coming up that these young guys are putting their time in the minors and having so much success. It's good to see.
JG: What number are you going to wear?
JG: Other than sheer will power to block shots, is there anything that you can work on specifically to be a better penalty killer?
TP: Conditioning helps out a lot with that, being able to keep going and out work the power play the entire time helps. Also getting your angles right. Blocking shots like you said, it's a will power thing, but just to put yourself in the position to block them and a lot of blocking shots has to do with the five seconds before and just noticing where the guy is and making sure that you're in that lane so that when the puck gets there that you can just go on one knee and take it for the goalie. There's always stuff that you can work on, unless your penalty kill is working at 100%, there's always room for improvement.
JG: Theo, what about the physical aspect of your game. Some people wonder if you want to risk an injury in the ECHL. Do you go down there with an attitude to not engage, or do you have to play the same robust Theo Peckham style of the NHL down in the ECHL?
TP: I actually spoke to my agent this morning and I told him, 'look I only have one gear, I only know one way to play.' It gets me in trouble sometimes playing men's league with my buddies, but I'm sure that once the puck drops I'm going to be the same old player. I need to play that way to be successful in the NHL and I plan on playing that way in the ECHL. I'm going to try and play every shift like I would in the NHL, regardless of who I'm playing against.
JG: You and I spoke before about how last year coming off of that concussion; it took you some time to get back to 100%. Do you feel 100% now, is everything is good?
TP: 100% and that's what goes with this process, coming down and taking some contact and getting comfortable with that situation again and I feel 100% right now.
JG: Now I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the San Francisco Bulls have ice girls named the Cowbelles.
TP: I know, I've seen them. I'm very excited to be here, and that they are part of the organization. (laughs)
JG: You're already down in San Francisco, when is your first game?
TP: They play Wednesday; I'm here for practise today with the guys. I may play Wednesday, we're not too sure but I'll play Friday for sure.
JG; Now let's be honest, you could play Wednesday, who are we kidding?
TP: Ah... we'll see. There's that comfort level you want to be at when you're getting on the ice. I might be there; I'll probably end up playing. I came down thinking I wasn't but now I skated today and think by tomorrow it will be 100% that I play [laughs].
- Nail Yakupov was named the KHL rookie for of the month for October after racking up 10 goals and 14 points in 13 games. He'll be in Canada for the next ten days playing for Russia in the Super Series. He scored a goal last night during Russia's 6-2 romp over the QMJHL.
- Playing a new position is difficult for most players, and last night we saw the concensus #1 pick in the upcoming draft, Nathan McKinnon, struggle adjusting to the wing. McKinnon was a non-factor for the QMJHL, and I wonder if they move him back to centre on Wednesday. McKinnon and Jonathan Huberdeau were both -4.
- How refreshing have the past three days of the lockout been? The NHL and NHLPA met on Saturday and neither camp leaked out any rhetoric or PR propaganda. Maybe, just maybe they will decide to negotiate and get a deal done rather than waste our time trying to sway public opinion.
- Anton Lander has zero points in six games. Tyler Pitlick has no goals in nine games. It is very early, but Lander needs to play better if he hopes to stick with the Oilers when the lockout ends. I still feel he'd be better off playing first or second line minutes in the AHL all season rather than playing 8-10 minutes on the 4th line in Edmonton.
- If the season started next week Teemu Hartikainen, not Magnus Paajarvi, would be in Edmonton. Hartikainen has been very good according to head coach Todd Nelson and if he consistently uses his size, I'm sure Ralph Krueger would love to have him in Edmonton with Hall, Eberle, Yakupov, RNH, Gagner and Hemsky. The Oilers need some size in their top-six.
- Here is a quick stats update on the Oilers who are playing in Europe:
Ales Hemsky: 11-10-21 in 16 games. He had a hat-trick in his last game.
Nail Yakupov: 10-4-14 in 13 games in the KHL.
Laddy Smid: 1-8-9 in 16 games for Liberac in Czech league.
Sam Gagner: 5-3-8 in 7 games for Klagenfurt in Austria.
L. Petrell: 8-0-8 in 14 games for HIFK Helsinki
Corey Potter: 0-3-3 in 10 games for Vienna.
- The Oilers still own Linus Omark's rights and he's ripping it up the Swiss league with 7-19-26 in 19 games. There is no room for him on the Oilers top-six, and while they couldn't get a 5th round pick for him at the draft, this hot start might fetch them a 3rd rounder when the season resumes.
- Some are concerned that Devan Dubnyk and Nikolai Khabibulin haven't played a real game since April and that rust might be a factor when the season starts. That is a valid concern, however many western conference teams face the same reality. Mikka Kiprusoff, Mike Smith, Cory Schneider/Roberto Luongo, Jimmy Howard, Kari Lehtonen, Corey Crawford, Jonas Hiller, Jaro Halak/Brian Elliott and Nick Backstrom are sitting at home as well. Jonathan Quick is on a two-week conditioning stint, but can't stay in AHL long-term.
Only Pekka Rinne (NASH), Antti Niemi (SJ), Sergie Bobrovsky (CBJ) and Semyon Varlamov (COL) are playing in Europe. Although Varlamov hasn't played a game yet according to hockeydb.com. Dubnyk isn't proven like many of the other veterans and I'm sure he'd love to start playing, but realistically the Oilers, like 11 other western teams, will have to hope their goalies are staying sharp skating and practicing by themselves.
November 06 2012, 09:53AM
Last week of the lockout. Things will be getting back to norm next week.
November 06 2012, 10:19AM
Petrell is a goal scoring madman! He just might be a candidate for my star when the season starts up again.
November 06 2012, 10:27AM
I'm not sure if this means anything, but the Barons made an interesting move signing ECHL player Eric Hunter to an AHL contract. He's a centre and is 1-5-6 in 9 games in Stockton, +6 19 shots. It's interesting to me because there are two other centres in Stockton who are (barely) outscoring him, but they're younger. Are the Barons thinking of bringing up a vet centre maybe at the expense of Martindale? Or is Lander going to be out for more time? I thought the Barons had more of a solid presence at C than on D or wing.
November 06 2012, 10:33AM
Last week of the lockout. Things will be getting back to norm next week.
Я надеюсь на это, им надоело писать на языке великих людей, живущих Инна сумасшедшей стране.
Smid is a beast, points are a bonus!
November 06 2012, 10:39AM
Toveri Petrell, miksi ei kiekko pass?
November 06 2012, 10:41AM
If NHL comes back and the Oil are in need of a center I say bring the Vet VandeVelde up and keep Lander down.
November 06 2012, 10:44AM
Не бойтесь мечтать НХЛ возвращается на следующей неделе. Я не буду задерживать дыхание ждет сделке будет объявлено дополнительно.
Реквизит для всех моих друзей, не говоря английски!
November 06 2012, 10:57AM
So, Peckham has to play so he won't be a half step behind? If he is ONLY a half step behind it will be an improvement.
I see that a Canadian jr. named Huberdeau was -4 last night. Must be Johnathan's brother, right DSF?
So, Peckham has to play so he won't be a half step behind? If he is ONLY a half step behind it will be an improvement.
I see that a Canadian jr. named Huberdeau was -4 last night. Must be Johnathan's brother, right DSF?
Yeah, I see that McKinnon kid was also -4.
I'm thinking they're both busts or maybe judging a player on one game's plus/minus pretty much a waste of oxygen.
November 06 2012, 12:00PM
McKinnon can be sneaky. I leave the game with a less than impressed impression, only to later realize he's got 3-4 assists.
Mooseheads have a very good team this year, but I'm still waiting to see the player that has been projected to go 1st overall...
Yeah, I see that McKinnon kid was also -4.
I'm thinking they're both busts or maybe judging a player on one game's plus/minus pretty much a waste of oxygen.
For some reason th words pot, kettle, etc come to mind???
November 06 2012, 12:42PM
I am really hoping Hemmer is in good form for a while - health wise. He's paid his dues and is a whale of a player when it's all clicking. Not sure how the Czech league compares but those have got to be encouraging numbers, right?
November 06 2012, 12:45PM
JG - Re: Omark Given the uncertainty of a 3rd rounder and the time it takes to develop one, don't you think the org. would be better off trading for a guy from a similar draft year who is maybe in the A, but still developing
Krueger could be the best thing that happened to Peckham and obviously being in better shape won't hurt. He just has to cut down on the brain cramps on the ice. Were they concussion related I don't know, but damn we need his heart and fists in the lineup.
Is it wrong that I went hunting for online photo's of the Cowbells?
When is this lockout going to end?
November 06 2012, 03:22PM
"Although Varlamov hasn't played a game yet according to hockeydb.com."
Hockeydb is a little behind on that one. Varlamov has played 9 games for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, with a .942 sv% and a GAA of 1.94, per the KHL website (en.khl.ru).
No, because so did I. IF I had found any they would have been in the article..
They are the Cow Belles not bells, thats why you can't find them!
I see from their site they signed Ryan Clowe today.
November 07 2012, 12:03AM
Once a team gives Omark a legit chance to play top six minutes in the NHL I think he will be at least a 50pts per year player, and I will be cheering for him. Common Columbus, make it happen..they could use him.
November 07 2012, 09:13AM
Lenny Petrell going for the Cy Young. Awesome.
November 07 2012, 01:38PM
Yes, but there were no takers on any sort of deal at the draft. The Oilers can hope his stock rises due to his play this year...But need a dance partner who is willing to give up a prospect who is playing in AHL.
A 3rd rounder for Omark would be pointless at this point. At this point a mediocre defensive prospect that's playing in the AHL would be ideal.
Schultz- Great offensive instincts, but needs to polish the defensive game
Marincin- Nice offensive instincts , but still very raw
Fedun- Decent 2 way defender, but still getting his legs back and working out some rust.
Davidson - Decent showing, but is now sidelined indefinitely
Teubert- Started out poorly, but has been playing well as of late and with an edge. Proably playing the best I have ever seen. Still can't make a breakout pass to save his life though
Plante has been awful and slow(no surprise here)
Teigan Zahn - Not an AHL caliber defender, constantly makes errant passes.
Dan Ringwald- Not particularly good at anything, he looked awful last season and the talent bump in the AHL has done him no favours.
OKC could sure use the added defensive depth especially if the NHL resumes.


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The Future of Law and Economics: A Discussion
Henry G. Manne
George Mason University School of Law (Deceased)
Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
June 2008
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 08-35
There are a several forces pushing on the law and economics (L&E) movement from different directions. The authors exchanged perspectives on trends in economics, and in particular the increasing mathematical formalization of economics, and their implications for the future of L&E in legal scholarship. The authors discuss strengths and weaknesses of the modern L&E movement, speculate as to where L&E might be headed in the future, and how potential pitfalls might be avoided. The exchange between the authors took place at Truthonthemarket.com and the blog posts have been compiled into this essay.
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Keywords: detachment, econometrics, empirical, law and economics, mathematical formalizations, mathematization, Olin Foundation, scholarship, trends, truthonthemarket.com
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People in the Israeli capital are not as used to rocket attacks as those in southern Israel.
JERUSALEM – The city's air raid sirens signaling an oncoming rocket began to wail Tuesday a little after 2 p.m., minutes after most of Jerusalem's children had left school for the day.
Pedestrians ran for cover or simply lay face down on the ground, as they have been instructed to do by the country's Home Front Command. Bus drivers stopped and ordered passengers to get out quickly, fearful that a direct hit from a missile would cause their buses to explode.
Panic took over more than 100 children and their parents at the Efrata Elementary School, which was especially crowded because of a parent-teacher conferences. People ran for cover at the school. Other children who were on their way home from school could be seen running without adults.
Uriel Laloum, the school's security guard, said parents "abandoned their cars in the middle of the street and ran with their children."
"The younger children were especially upset," Laloum said. "Many were crying."
Ella Issacharoff, a 17-year-old high school student, said she "didn't know what to do" when the siren went off. She and her friends found safety in a small falafel restaurant.
The rocket landed outside the Israeli capital, but people here are not as used to the rocket attacks as are Israelis in southern Israel. The south has been hit by hundreds of rockets fired by terrorists from Gaza in the past 10 days.
But Jerusalem has rarely been targeted. Some here believed it was because Hamas did not want to accidentally hit Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, or the famous al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City.
The sirens didn't dissuade Michal Lazarus from bringing her two children, a 20-month-old girl and a 4-year-old boy, to a Jerusalem playground.
Lazarus, originally from South Africa, said she feels less safe in Johannesburg, "where you may be held up at gunpoint" than she does in Jerusalem.
Pushing her daughter, Devorah, in a swing, Lazarus said she was hoping Israel would not agree to a cease-fire unless it receives guarantees that Gaza becomes and stays a weapon-free zone.
"Israel has the right to defend itself," she said. "No one likes to see civilians hurt, but Hamas is using their women and children as human shields, sending rockets from residential neighborhoods. Of course people will be hurt."
Palestinian shop owners in Jerusalem's Old City crowded around television sets to monitor the damage as air raid sirens sounded for the second time in a week. They were as vulnerable as their Jewish neighbors to the rockets.
Palestinians here said they hoped for a quick political solution to the conflict, said Samir Abu Khalaf, a resident of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem and the owner of a family haberdashery shop in the Christian Quarter of the Old City.
He said their businesses as well as their families depended on it.
"We hope that something will happen soon," he said. "Everybody, the people here in East Jerusalem, they don't like to make problems. They want a solution immediately.
"Morsi has to push Hamas and Israel," he said of Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi, who was involved negotiations in Cairo between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire.
Israel's Ministry of Tourism said there had been no significant downturn in tourism. The usually bustling Old City, which is dominated by Palestinian-owned businesses, was quiet though.
The Israel Defense Forces said 48 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza by 5 p.m., in addition to 51 rockets that were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
Saman Khoury of Palestinian Peace Coalition Geneva Initiative said a majority of Palestinians in East Jerusalem wanted a cease-fire. But he said they also feel a sense of solidarity with the population of Gaza and its government, Hamas, a U.S. designated terror organization that denies Israel's right to exist.
"People feel that Gaza is part and parcel of the Palestinian people. They feel as if they personally were attacked," he said. "They would not be happy if missiles are falling on their homes, but they would consider it friendly fire."
The news media refers to Hamas as if it is a separate entity from the Palestinian people, but that is not the case says Khoury.
"Gaza is Palestinian and has the same aspirations as we do."
Hesham Murrar, a 22-year-old Muslim resident of Ras al-Amoud in East Jerusalem, objected to the term "rockets".
"Excuse me," he said. "We don't call them rockets. We call them fireworks. That's all they are compared to what Israel has. If Israel wants to fight, they should fight someone their own size, not a lion with a cat."
Murrar was at the Mamilla Mall in West Jerusalem on Friday afternoon when the air raid sirens sounded in the city warning of incoming rockets, the first time Israel had ever experienced rockets fired from Gaza.
As Jewish shoppers ran for the shelter of underground parking areas he said he was nonchalant about the possibility of being struck because more than 100 Palestinians had already died in Gaza.
"If it's my house, for me to die is nothing. I'm not better than the people in Gaza."
Rachel Schwartz, who ran from the mini-bus she was riding in as the rockets flew overhead, said she could not imagine enduring missile attacks every day, as Israelis in the south do.
"There's no question that people" in the hard-hit southern cities of "Sderot and Be'er Sheva shouldn't have to live under the constant threat of death," she said.
"It upsets me that the rest of the world isn't paying attention to the killing going on in Syria, yet they see Israel as an aggressor. It's a totally distorted view," Schwartz said.
Mervyn Poliak, a 64-year-old resident of Kfar Azza, said he's often felt helpless in the face of a decade of rocket fire.
"I've felt the government has left us to be sitting ducks here," Poliak said.
The international community "must let the Israeli government do its job," he complained hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Jerusalem to discuss a ceasefire.
"If Mexico or Canada was rocketing the US, the American government would have gone in long ago. When my enemy places its weapons next to a mosque or a school, how can they not expect people to get hurt?"


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It would be useful to be able to specify extra time either as a set number of minutes or as a percentage of the regular quiz duration. This would have to be on a per-user basis (or possibly per-user, per-quiz) as not everyone would need extra time.
Somehow a user could be flagged as "extra time" in their main profile, and each quiz has a "extra minutes" or "extra %age" setting when you create the course, so any user flagged as needing extra time would have the quiz duration extended automatically.
I work at a college and we have two settings depending on the special need involved of either 33% or 50% extra time. this may be easier than a typed-in minute or %age duration...?
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We are required to allow extra time for accessibility students; this is essential for our college. Would be wonderful to have the choice available to be set for the student so we don't have to set each quiz separately.
Note that if you just want extra time, this is already available: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_user_with_unlimited_time_role. There is just no way to get Moodle to enforce a specific amount of extra time. You would need to do that manually, or just point out to the student that Moodle records how much time they take, and so they are on their honour to only use the amount of extra time you say.
Your advice is exactly what is practised at our University for the time being.
It is common policy in many educational institutions for a specific amount of time to be added to quizzes for those with special needs. For Moodle to enforce a specific time upon the standard student but not the exceptional student seems a little odd from a user's perspective. In other words, using the "Quiz user with unlimited time role" in this situation comes off more like hack than a feature.
Is there really "just no way" to implement a feature like this?
Well, it is obviously a little harder to do a specific amount of extra time - you need to store that settings somewhere - rather than just ignoring the time limit based on a capability. And if you want different amounts of extra time for different people it gets harder still.
If you want a, quick solution, search the code for places that refer to mod/quiz:ignoretimelimits, and change the if statements there to use the time limit plus a multiplier, rather that ignoring it altogether, for people with the capability. (That capability is referred to in 4 places in the code, and only 2 of them need to be changed.)
But you are right, what we have at the moment is the minimal implementation required to let Moodle comply with accessibility regulations. At some point it would be nice to do something better.
Our college has just decided to change from Etudes to Moodle. Etudes current test module does already allow individual students to be given special access (either extra time - specified in minutes, or additonal attempts - again specified by number with the instructor able to see the reslts of each attempt). I use this feature extensively with our special access students and it has been very succesfull in building confidence for these students becasue they do not need to have special proctors and test arrangements that "flag" them to the rest of the class as special ed students. It is this feature that I will miss most in Moodle. I have found a time intensive and tortuous work around using groups in Moodle and will use this. However, if Moodle is to stay competitive with other open access courseware, adding this feature would seem to be essential, especially since it will enable instructors to more easily comply with the legal requirements of special access while also substantially improving the learning experience for these students.
This bug is a step beyond
MDL-14234, it is about allowing a specific %age extra time, rather than just removing the time limit as at present.
Is this not the exact case for which the 'groupings' functionality was created to accommodate?
I used the 'experimental' groupings feature (v1.9.2) successfully with assignments. What you could do is to create a 'grouping' called Special Needs or whatever (and you can create any number of different groupings), assign the appropriate students to this grouping and then set up the same Quiz with a different time allotment. Obviously, you'll need to also assign the non-special students to a differently named grouping. In the gradebook all the groupings for the one Quiz will be treated as a whole and so there will just be a single grade counted. Would this not work?
The advantage of this approach is that you can have a multiplicity of different settings depending upon circumstances and you would not be restricted to arbitrary built-in time settings.
Mark, the problem with that is the "set up the same Quiz with a different time allotment" bit. That is a pain. And, even if you copy the quiz using backup and restore, if you later need to make a change you have to do it in two places. So, we really would like something better.
I have found a simple way of doing this IF the user has administrative access or if the administrator is assigned the task of assining extra time per student.. What I have is an extra database field in mdl_user that, at least for me has options of 1.5x and 2x extra time with a default of 1 for all other students (additonal option e.g 3x could easily be added if needed). Then it is just one extra line of code and one line of code edit to make this work.
My question is would this be valuable to those who are looking for a fix. If this is set up the way I have done it, the work of designating students with accommodations and setting the amount of the accommodation will be done by administration and the instructor will simply need to be informed that the a student has such an accommodation. I administer my own Moodle server so this is not an issue for me. One possible downside is that the student will be given extra time in all online classes they are enrolled in on that Moodle server (could be reset each semester).
Thanks Douglas. Yes! Please share your code with us! I'd like to see how you implemented it.
Douglas, That sounds like a useful patch to have circulating in the community, but I am not sure that it is a complete long-term solution to be added to Moodle core.
There are a whole bunch of related use-cases, like let one student have one extra attempt. Allow one student to submit after the deadline. Allow one student a certain amount of extra time. Allow different start and finish dates for each group, ...
These really need an extra database table linking from a quiz to student and/or groups, and user-interface for controlling the settings. So, probably a few weeks or a couple of months work. Anyway, I would rather wait and do a proper solution later, and have people who really need it rely on hacks in the short-term.
Tim. I just do not agree with the philosophy that only a fully implemented solution to all of these issues is acceptable.
First, I would point out that I have now developed two patches that together add functionality that is ESSENTIAL to my task as an instructor (and I am sure it is for many others since they have been referenced many times in the Forums and Tracker. My first patch allows both a deadline and close date to be set. This second one allows students to be granted extra time in a quiz. Those solve MOST of the issues you list if not all and are two things that can NOT be done in ANY reasonable way with the existing standard setup.
Second, the other related issues you mention CAN be accommodated not perfectly but relatively easily by the existing setup.
1) My first patch allows ANY student to submit after the deadline and leaves it up to the instructor to decide whether to assess manual penalties (it would be desirable to have the ability to levy penalties automatically with penalty settings instructor selectable but not as essential as allowing a late submission in the first place - in other words - that can wait).
2) It is already easy to allow a student one extra attempt simply by deleting a previous attempt (not perfect but functional).
3) Different start and finish dates CAN be set for different groups by having different (cloned quizzes) - again not perfect but functional.
My point is that I believe incremental fixes that provide NEEDED capability not otherwise possible are a very good way to go, especially since that would allow more time to be spent in developing the more sophisticated capabilities that instructors want.
Moodle is considerably behind the curve in this area compared to at least some other courseware packages. My two patches address two things VERY important to instructors - how to improve retention, particularly of students who are disadvantaged and have limited or no computer skills going into the course (about 30% of some of my college classes) - and how to obey the law (at least in the US) and allow appropriate extra time accommodation to students.
My new patch discussed here is already operating in my installation but I have not yet had time to fix the data table and backup and restore files. I will work on those and upload the patch here as soon as I can. However, it may be a while since I have over 200 students in 5 classes this semester which keep me pretty busy. I only found the time needed to develop the patches because I could not function properly without these capabilities. They are capabilities that I knew were needed NOW because they were routine tools in the courseware our college moved away from last semester and I had seen how they improved retention and enhanced the learning experience for disadvantaged students .
I decided not to create a patch for this fix. I do not have the time and it is actually easier to do manually. Also, we do need to go the next step and make the designation course specific. The interim fix here will give extra time to the designated student in all courses on a particular Moodle installation. Not a problem for me but it will be on installations with many courses.
The "patch" is actually VERY easy.
Go to moodle/mod/quiz/attempt.php
Find the line following code right near the end of the file
if ($quiz->timelimit > 0 && !has_capability('mod/quiz:ignoretimelimits', $context, NULL, false)) {
$timerstartvalue = min($timerstartvalue, $attempt->timestart + $quiz->timelimit*60->extratime- time());
$showtimer = true;
replace the middle line of this sequence with
$timerstartvalue = min($timerstartvalue, $attempt->timestart + $quiz->timelimit*60*$USER->extratime- time());
Done except that it is also necessary to create a new field in the table mdl_user. For this, you will need administrative access (sorry no way around this). You will also need to have phpMyAdmin installed http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=448&filter=1
or http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
Then do the following:
Go to your Admin page.
Select Server->Database (phpMyAdmin then installs if it is not already active)
Scroll down the list of data tables and select mdl_user
Below the end of the first table on the page that appears find and select the Radio Button "At the end of Table" (it should be preselected)
Click on the "Go" button to the right
In the table that appears enter the following (No entry needed if a box is not listed)
Field: extratime
Type: SET (from drop down list)
Length /Values: '1',1.5','2' (this adds 1.5x and 2x as options, you can add more just follow the syntax)
Collation: select utf8_general_ci
Attributes: leave blank
Null: not null
Default: 1
Remaining fields blank
Then select "Save" button below table.
That's it. Close and restart Moodle and visit Admin Notifications page and you are done except for designating students with extra time. Since this is only a small number on my installation I do this by manually editing mdl_user. The extratime field is pre-populated with default 1. Find a student record. Open for ediit. Select 1.5x or 2x from option list in the extratime field (the last field on the right). Simple and fast.
If I ever find the time I will work on a course specific fix.
Comments are welcome.
Interesting solution Douglas. Thanks.
But isn't there the risk that students who shouldn't have extra time can go into their profiles and change that extratime value on their profiles and thus get extra time when they shouldn't be allowed extra time?
No. The extratime field does not show on the user profile settings page. As written now, it can only be changed by directly accesing the database table and doing a manual edit or by a user information upload from a file or linked database. Administative access is required for amy of these actions.
Here is a slightly better fix. This one allows the extra time to be course specific (i.e. allows for a student to be given extra time in one course but not in another) something that may be needed, especially in installations a lot of courses.
The fix does require administrative access to install but is then available for teachers to assign appropriate roles per course.
Step 1.
Go to admin->server->database
Select table mdl_capabilities
Click on Insert link at top.
On the page that loads add data to the two new row entry forms that appear. Enter as follows:
Leave all function fields (left column) blank
In right column "id" leave blank
"name" mod/quiz:timeandhalf
"captype" read
"context level" 70
"component" mod/quiz
"riskbitmask" leave blank
repeat for the next row entry form except "name" is mod/quiz/doubletime
Click on the "Go" button next to the "Reset" button at the bottom of the page.
This inserts two new rows of data in the mdl_capabilities table
Step 2.
Go to admin->users->permissions->Define roles
Click on the Student role (on the left NOT the edit button)
Click on Duplicate Role button at top of screen then click "Yes" button
Repeat the previous two steps.
There are now two new roles showing in the list of roles Student copy 1 and Student copy 2
Click the edit button for the Student copy 1 role
Edit the role description fields as follows
Name: Student with time and half
Short name: student_15
Description Student with extra time - 1.5 times quiz time limit
NOTE: only the short name must be as above. You can use your own Name and description of you wish
Now scroll down the list of permissions. In the Quiz group you will now see an entry [[quiz:timeandhalf]]. Click on the allow radio button (second from left)
Scroll to bottom and click "Save changes button"
Repeat this process for student copy 2 with
Name: Student with double time
Short name: student_20
Description: Student with extra time - 2.0 times quiz time limit
Quiz group entry: [[doubletime]]
Step 3
Edit the file moodle/mod/quiz/attemp.php as follows (starting at line 524 in ver 9.5) - I do not have time to work up a complete patch)
echo '<input type="hidden" name="questionids" value="'.$pagelist."\" />\n";
echo "</form>\n";
+ //Check if student has extratime allowed and set parameter
+ $xtratime = "1.0";
+ if (has_capability('mod/quiz:timeandhalf', $context))
+ if (has_capability('mod/quiz:doubletime', $context)){ + $xtratime = "2.0"; + }
// If the quiz has a time limit, or if we are close to the close time, include a floating timer.
$showtimer = false;
$timerstartvalue = 999999999999;
if ($quiz->timeclose)
if ($quiz->timelimit > 0 && !has_capability('mod/quiz:ignoretimelimits', $context, NULL, false)){ - $timerstartvalue = min($timerstartvalue, $attempt->timestart + $quiz->timelimit*60*- time()); + $timerstartvalue = min($timerstartvalue, $attempt->timestart + $quiz->timelimit*60*$xtratime- time()); $showtimer = true; }
if ($showtimer && (!$ispreviewing || $timerstartvalue > 0)) {
$timerstartvalue = max($timerstartvalue, 1); // Make sure it starts just above zero.
Save the edited file. Visit admin notifications page and you are done. Teachers will now have two additional optional roles to assign. On that allows 15x time and the other 2.0x time. These are the only two needed for my college but, of course, if you need additinal or different options you can just follow this same path and add or edit roles but remember to edit attempt php appropriately
There is a patch at http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-16808 which provides per-user and per-group due dates and time limits for moodle 2.0.
Hi Tim, Thanks for all the comments on my code. I'll incorporate the changes. A couple questions first:
You mentioned:
> 6. In attemptlib.php. Is it really necessary to have a separate protected $override; ? Why not just overwrite the default values in $this->quiz with the appropriate overridden values. Wouldn't that simplify things? For example, it would no longer be necessary to make so many changes to accessrules.php (although, arguably the changes you made to use methods on quizobj rather than directly accessing $quiz are good - I just wonder if it really helps to have the word effective_ everywhere.
1. Let me see if I understand this: the quiz object (from attemptlib.php) is conceptually tied to a specific user. So, it makes sense that quiz->get_timeclose() etc. should return the values for a particular user, including any overrides. If this is the case, then we should probably pass the user in the class constructor. That way the subclass quiz_attempt can pass in whatever user the attempt applies to.
2. To me, it seems cleaner in the quiz class to have $this->quiz be the real quiz 'object' and $this->overrides be the overlay. That saves cloning the quiz parameter, and helps separate the '$this->quiz' (user-independent) from the quiz class (user dependent) code. What do you think?
The thing is, it is not clean if in lots of places, you have to allow for $this->quiz and $this->overrides, especially as you have to allow for overrides being null, which leads to if statements.
But you are right, it is not transparent to just mess around with $this->quiz.
So, in a way we are both right. I think the correct design is to create a new $userspecificquizsettings, that holds the combination of the default quiz settings, and the user-specific override. Because that has all the same fields as $quiz, you can pass it in the place of $quiz where appropriate, and you don't have to rewrite all the other code.
(That is not a serious suggestion for a variable name, by the way. I just can't think of a better one now, and at least that makes my point clear.)
As for the question of whether the quiz class is conceptually tied to a specific user. There are two conflicting answers to that.
First, I think it should not care. The constructor takes a $quiz configuration, and the class should implement the behaviour based on that configuration. That is, it is reasonable to pass the plain $quiz or a $userspecificquizsettings to the quiz class constructor, and both should work appropriately. (I think it will without modification). The class should not care whether the configuration came from.
Second, however, the behaviour is already indirectly tied to the current user, because some of the methods call has_capability, which users global $USER.
Of course, the quiz_attempt constructor will need to be changed. That is because I was sloppy, and just made the constructor take an $attemptid. Proper design would be to have the quiz_attempt constructor take the 4 objects it needs, and have a separate helper function that constructs a properly initialised quiz_attempt based on $attemptid.
I'm afraid I remembered one other thing:
13. Lots of people ask for the maximum number of attempts to be adjustable per student. (In particular, they want a way to allow one particular student an additional attempt.) Would be nice if you could add that too.
I think I understand, but before I go changing your classes, let me run it by you:
We create a factory method quiz::create($quiz, $user) which merges the $user's overrides into $quiz, and then returns a new quiz object, and a factory quiz_attempt::create($quiz_attempt) which does essentially the same thing. Both would clone $quiz and then call a new function $quiz = quiz_update_effective_access($quiz, $user) which merges $quiz with the $user overrides.
I'll still leave the access methods quiz->get_timeopen() etc. since they are arguably better style than accessing quiz_obj->quiz->timeopen directly.
Hi Tim,
A new version of the quiz overrides patch is attached. I tried to incorporate all the changes you suggested, although I didn't go through and purge all the ? : operators from my code. I think everything else is fixed.
Your suggestion to merge the overrides into the quiz object on creation time actually cleaned up the code quite a bit. It was a good idea. As was the idea to make the fields null'able.
One minor thing, though, I'm not sure the right way to modify the theme anymore. After installing this code, the theme cache needs a purge.
Let me know if I need to change anything else before this goes into trunk. Thanks!
This is needed for the override edit screen to work right: (a one-line fix)
End of a long week here. I'll look next week. If I don't please remind me.
This looks great! Thank you very much for all your hard work.
Remaining minor problems with the patch (I fixed all these as I went along reviewing.)
list($extra, $params) = $DB->get_in_or_equal(array_values($groupings[$groupingid]));
FROM {quiz_overrides}
WHERE quiz = ".$quiz->id."
AND groupid $extra";
$records = $DB->get_records_sql($SQL, $params);
You should not put variables into SQL using string concatenation. (Also $sql should be lower-case.) It should be:
list($extra, $params) = $DB->get_in_or_equal(array_values($groupings[$groupingid]));
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM {quiz_overrides}
WHERE groupid $extra AND quiz = ?";
$params[] = $quiz->id;
$records = $DB->get_records_sql($sql, $params);
2. I found a few tabs for indent.
3. Correct package name is @package mod_quiz, but this was wrong in the coding guidelines until last week. And you should use @copyright 2010 Matt Petro for new files, rather than @author.
4. I don't know if it is really significant, but the four new files had windows line ending, not unix.
5. It should be "Group overrides", not "Group Overrides" in the UI.
One comment, the User Overrides page, in particular the select user box will not be great for a course with 10,000 users. Still, I guess it is a standard Moodle control.
The one remaining issue is that if there are no groups defined on the course, it still gives you the option to add a group override. Instead, I think that a message should be displayed on the overrides.php page, and the 'Add group override' button should be disabled. I have created a separate issue for that:
But, basically, this is done, and I have committed it to CVS.
I have just added this to the Moodle 2.0 roadmap (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Roadmap#Changes_to_activity_modules). In due course, would you be able to add a page to Moodle Docs explaining this new functionality. (Link to it from that roadmap entry, and from the other quiz docs.)