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In this episode Pokket discusses the changes to Sage and Sorc healing in SWTOR's Patch 1.2 and how it'll affect PvE, as well as predictions for how it'll affect PvP. Check out Game Face: Sage & Sorc Healers.
video doesn't play =(
"This video is private"
Whats a pokket?
Come on, Suzie! Every frickin time you post a video it is private.
Rant, Rant, Rant, Rawr, Rawr, Rawr, Blah, Grrrrr, Grumble.
Happy Friday, Suzie.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
You should be happy you can't watch it.
Why you no let me watch you do that thing you do when me watch?
8) Funny!
Private video, this seems to happen everytime mmorpg post one on youtube
Playing: WoW, Lotro, Wildstar
Future: wishing for SWG 2, Project Copernicus!
Played: Most current and extinct MMO's - 16 Years in....
Do you think a pirate lives in there?
Still private
i hope they are nerfing soc healing into the ground. i have a Operative, BH and Sorc and playing the sorc is like playing a whole different game in which you are god and everyone else is a deformed spastic hobbit.
it is rediculous how easy owning with a sorc is in this game.
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Whats a pokket?
something you put change in
Originally posted by WhiteLantern
Come on, Suzie! Every frickin time you post a video it is private.
Rant, Rant, Rant, Rawr, Rawr, Rawr, Blah, Grrrrr, Grumble.
Happy Friday, Suzie.
She's getting good...
still private???
Yea yea with tons of skill and hard workd, but do not fear after 1.2 they will be so weak and worthless in pvp not even able to get off 1 heal before getting slaughter everyone will quit then go reroll a BH healer as they are already epic with their anti interupt and dmg reduction, heavy armour and knockback.......
The video is here.
Hopefully they will fix it.
Originally posted by WolfClaws
The video is here.
Hopefully they will fix it.
Pokket doesn't have full Battlemaster Sage set yet?
It is amazing how quickly I quit playing this game... Ran outa interesting stuff to do in under two months. I'm glad to see they are making improvements, but I still see very little that would bring me back. People can trash talk SWG all they want, but it at least had more staying power than this does. Nice video either way.
"They have no defensive cooldowns"
Looks like they fixed the video here.
Glad I could help.
Lol love that diagram with the stick figures. made me laugh
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hmmmm why does it sound like there is a mobile(cellphone) ringing in the background all the way through that vid?
Cluck Cluck, Gibber Gibber, My Old Mans A Mushroom
Im wondering how much bioware paid you to make this video, and if you curled up into the fetal position and cried for your soul after.
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I was surfing this website and went first to the "articles" section, where I found an article on understanding dog food labels, with this title: "Demystifying the Dog Food Label. Brought to you by petMD in partnership with Hill's® Science Diet Ideal Balance®."
I then surfed some more and found this petMD page title: "Nutrition Center, developed by petMD in partnership with Hill's Pet Nutrition - your resource for properly balanced pet nutrition." See for yourself: http://www.petmd.com/centers/nutrition
Right now, I am viewing a photo on this page of "The Power of Protein". It is a beautiful, colorful picture of wedges of cheese, fresh eggs, salmon filet, meaty pork ribs, fish filet, and beef steak. None of these, of course, is to be found in Hill's Science Diet kibble.
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Milk bottle lids can be used in many fun ways. Below is a collection of ideas. To see the relevant post, click on the title.
Milk Bottle Lid Boats
Make the most of a rainy day by creating milk bottle lid boats and sailing them in the water run off or inside in a bowl of water.
Milk Bottle Lid Plates
Milk bottle lids are peffect dinner plates for dolls. Draw your own food on a piece of paper or use the free template below with a range of food options. There is no need for glue, simply cut out around the circle and press inside the milk bottle lid. This way, it's easy to change the food at whim!
Milk Bottle Lid Tree House
I want to show you how easy it is to turn a small tree or shrub into a tree house for the kids to play with.
Milk Bottle Lid Lily Pad
My inspiration for this project is milk bottle lids; on water, they look very much like lily pads. It really is very easy and cheap to set up!
Interesting Bath Toys
There are many different items my kids use in the bath for play, other than the traditional bath toys like the rubber duck. And bath time doesn't just happen at night; my son often has a bath during the day as an activity. We have found many items around the house that are fun to play with in the bath.
Milk Bottle Lid Rainbow Seats
Milk bottle lids can be transformed into cute rainbow chairs or plates of food, perfect for small dolls like the mini Lalaloopsy Dolls.
Milk Bottle Lid Stepping Stones
Milk bottle lids can be turned into stepping stones to be used in play scene like this one or in a drawing. All you need is milk bottle lids and the free template.
Milk Bottle Lid Water Trough
A milk bottle lid can be a perfect water trough for farm animials. Colour the white on the inside of the milk lid with blue permanent marker or use the blue circle in the below template as an insert in the milk bottle lid.
Game Board Pieces
Another way you can use these handy objects is as board game pieces. Simply cut around the faces -- about the size of a 20 cent piece -- in photographs of the family (I put a collection of pictures into Word document before printing them out on one A4 page). Then all you need to do is press the photo circle into the milk bottle lid.
A milk bottle lid can be used as a stencil to draw circle shapes on a piece of paper. Easy, and fun!
Naughts and Crosses
Milk bottle lids can be easily turned into a game of Naughts and Crosses. This is fun for rainy days, travelling and holidays.
Patty Case Flowers (with photo centre)
If you're looking for an easy craft to do, this patty case flower with a milk bottle centre is super sweet.
Milk Bottle Lid Hanging Album
Hang your family tree on the wall. Fun for Mother's Day.
Shell Shadow Box
Display Kids shell collection in milk bottle lids on a canvas. It looks a little like a shadow box.
Milk Bottle Lid Street Signs
Make street signs using milk bottle lids. Perfect for match box cars.
Milk Bottle Lid Stamps
Make your own stamps from milk bottle lids
Lady Bug Milk Bottle Lids
Easy and super cute.
Happy Lunchbox Message Buttons
Milk bottle lid messages are a sweet way to give your child a little surprise in their lunch box and remind them that you love them through out the day.
Ice Candle Holder
Make a candle holder with only a balloon, water and milk bottle lid
Bottle Lid Snowman
This is so simple and fun to do. What I really like about it is that it's made out of items that are most likely to be found around your house, so you don't need to make a special trip to the shops.! It's very quick too – a perfect afternoon activity for some festive fun with the kids.


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A failed ska group turned alternative popsters, Save Ferris was originally formed as a ska-punk band named Los Pantelones. After the group broke up in 1995, guitarist Brian Mashburn and saxophone player Eric Zamora began writing songs, together with former bandmates Bill Uechi (bass) and José Castellaños (trumpeter). The quartet later recruited drummer Mark Harismendy, vocalist Monique Powell, and trombone player T-Bone Willy.
The band gigged around the Orange County area for just one month, and recorded the EP Introducing Save Ferris. Invited to compete in a Grammy Showcase of unsigned bands, Save Ferris won local and regional competitions, then flew to New York for the final round; after just one show, a senior executive at Epic Records began talking to the band and signed them, even before they found out the results of the competition. Working with producer Peter Collins, Save Ferris recorded their debut full-length It Means Everything. Thanks to an energetic cover of "Come on Eileen" (by Dexy's Midnight Runners), the album did well on alternative radio. Modified followed in 1999. ~ John Bush, Rovi


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BLM Seeks Public Comment on Vegetation Removal Project in Ford Ridge
Price, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab and Price Field
Offices invite the public to review and comment on an Environmental
Assessment (EA) analyzing the potential impacts of a vegetation
removal and restoration project.
The EA analyzes a 6,840-acre project to thin conifer stands in
heavily wooded areas in the Ford Creek/Diamanti Canyon area eight
miles northwest of Helper, Utah. Treatments will include mechanical
shredding, hand thinning and piling, prescribed burning, and fence and
kiosk construction. The proposed project is needed to prevent the
potential for catastrophic wildland fires that could threaten life,
property, firefighter safety, and ecosystem health. It will also
benefit wildlife by restoring aspen, grasses and shrubs.
The EA is available for public review and comment on the
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2013. Please note that the most useful comments are those that
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businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as
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For further information, contact Brian Keating at (435)259-2194.
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The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most
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Alaska. Â The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface
mineral estate throughout the nation. Â The BLM's multiple-use
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public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future
generations. Â In Fiscal Year 2012, activities on public lands
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States where the activities occurred. In addition, public
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Skip to comments.Michelle Obama: "Don't Go Into Corporate America"
Posted on 02/29/2008 7:54:58 AM PST by SE Mom
I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center. According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages. Just 12.2 percent of adults in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher, also well below the state and national averages. About 20 percent don't have a high school degree. Nevertheless, Mrs. Obama urged them to foreswear lucrative professions like corporate law or hedge fund management and go into the helping industry, even if the sacrifice is great:
-As she has many times in the past, Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. The salaries dont keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so youre in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids, she says.
Barack and I were in that position, she continues. The only reason were not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books It was like Jack and his magic beans. But up until a few years ago, we were struggling to figure out how we would save for our kids. A former attorney with the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. We left corporate America, which is a lot of what were asking young people to do, she tells the women. Dont go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and were encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond. Faced with that reality, she adds, many of our bright stars are going into corporate law or hedge-fund management.
What she doesnt mention is that the helping industry has treated her pretty well. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obamas compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office. And that does not count the money Mrs. Obama receives from serving on corporate boards. She would have been O.K. even without Jacks magic beans.
Mrs. Obama also bemoaned the amount of money she has to spend nearly one-third of the median household income in Zanesville on piano, dance, and other lessons for her two children. But she was grateful for the concern her husband's supporters have shown for her. "Everywhere I go, no matter what, the women in the audience, their first question for me is, 'How on earth are you managing it, how are you keeping it all together?'" she told the women.
article references Ohio area
Oh, and Michelle is getting her back door digs at entrepreneurial capitalism. Surprise, surprise.
How does that kind of a raise happen? 200%
Simple- she had HOPE that her salary would CHANGE...
"Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Team America, and then Team America goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money." — Tim Robbins, or not as the case may be.
Do not forget that South side mansion that they are paying off, oh wait I think Rezko is helping to pay that off
listening to Rush, he had woman caller explain that this whole diatribe was directed at Hillary and Chelsea. Do not become a lawyer(Hillary) do not go into hedge funds (Chelsea), supposedly sniping at them because they are sniping on Barack
Take Warren Buffet for example. When he speaks to young men and women in business school, he always advises that you should love what you do ... whether you make thousands or billions. Methinks Michelle Obama could learn a thing or two from Mr. Buffet.
I am sure she loathes herself! When the last "rich" person leaves America, please turn out the light!
Yep stole that one from Clintons also.
Shouldn't Michelle be telling people to earn more money, so they can pay more taxes, and thus help more underprivileged folks?
Well now,,,that's a really easy question to answer.
If it is left up to Hussein and Obama-Momma,,,,,,
GOVERNMENT JOBS WILL BE THE LUCRATIVE PROFESSION TO GO INTO!!!! (Just look at what they promise public employee unions!!...of course, those DON'T count as 'special interests' to liberals)
Someone should look into how much time spent performing her duties for the Univ of Chicago. Word is "she was never there." Her position appears to have been grease to the wheel.
Nurses and social workers often work for privately owned facilities like nuring homes, some hospitals. If nobody goes into business management who is going to be able to own and operate these facilities and provide these jobs, hmmmm Michelle?
Socialist idiot.
Plus, just who in the hell is Michelle Obama to try and tell ANYONE what they should do with their lives?!
sorry for the second post
I know we all carry our own burdens, but I'm sure Michelle doesn't wash her own dishes, scoop up the dog's poop in the backyard, iron her husbands shirts, drive her children to school, does her own nails, prepares 3 meals each day for her family, or scrubs her own toilets.
I think its' great that many people in this country CAN hire people to do these things. But let's not sit around talking about things we don't have to personally deal with. Complaining about how much someone spends on riding lessons, piano and dance lessons, is a little bit like complaining that you don't like the color of your personally chauffered limo. I'm glad she was finally able to pay off her student loans (I'm 43 also, and will be paying them off when I'm 50).
But being a woman who has class, and integrity, and privilege should require that she conducts herself with a little more humility (I would think) and a LOT less "ghetto".
And I'm sorry — I don't think a 43 year old woman is old enough to be the 1st Lady. Just MO....
Exactly. So few Democrats seem to speak Liberalese well enough to understand who they are planning to vote for. Michelle Obama is basically telling them they should be serfs and not aspire to anything better or more challenging careers.
If Liberals would stop telling people they are victims, the 'helping' professions would see high unemployment.
"Shouldnt she be correcting essays or changing bedpans instead?"
Mrs. Hussein is a typical RAT/lib/socialist/commie — "Do as I say, not as I do. Good for me, but not for thee."
I think if elected, Michelle will be the Marie Antoinette of our times. She has the perfect princeton/harvard superior/eltist attitude. "Let the peasants eat cake" while she and Obama dine on lobster and steak at the palace, er White House.
You speak for many of us:)
what a bitch, if no one finds he's cheating on her harridan arse I'll be shocked.
he is after all, Gawd.
I didn't think I'd see the day when a presidential candidate's wife told voters to NOT go to college, get the best education possible!!! Mrs. O is an IDIOT, and an arrogant one at that. I hope the white lib feminazis go after her on this.
A college education is the one GREAT EQUALIZER in America!! Both my parents grew up desperately poor in rural Arizona, children of menial laborers. Both parents learned the value of a good education and somehow put themselves through college. They have lived comfortable middle class lives for decades. They also set a brilliant example for their children, who also went to college.
Both hubby and I put ourselves through college and graduated without debt. We had to live dirt poor lifestyles while we were in school: no cars, no fancy clothes, rarely eating out, no money for boozing or spring break vacations.
At age 52, hubby and I are closing in on a net worth of $2 million dollars (not including our paid-off house). We did this the hard way: working as corporate cogs (LOL), paying ridiculously high payroll taxes, and living within our means.
I cannot stand this woman...
MIchelle Osamabama will be our best ally going into the election...she will turn off more voters than her husband will.
You are SO right!!
Exactly, however, they did put her there just as General Motors, GE and several others put people in office.
Bet you she's a big fan of the WNBA.
More so. She's an affirmative action Hillary. Without the charm.
The CHOICE to go to a very expensive ivy league school requires working, loans, or some sort of benefactor (I suspect she would want the government to be the benefactor).
The CHOICE to have children is the biggest sacrifice of all.....time, money, etc....I suspect that Ms. O also would want the State to take care of this.....THE NATIONAL DANCE LESSONS PROGRAM!
Hillary has charm?!?!? lol
SO if everyone takes her advice and works for the gov't, who pays for the gov't?
If the Republicans are wise, they will point out that the difference between Senator McCain's captors and an Obama administration is not a matter of kind, but degree.
In my school dist. the average pay is over $90,000. And the benefits are out of this world fantastic, way better than the private sector.
Michelle, meet the loaf.
They are both Marxists, Stalinists or Maoists, who knows for sure, but Marxists to the core.
Become social workers,
just what Obama needs, more social workers handing out our tax dollars to the under achievers. Michelle is priming the engines for her husbands waste of hard earned tax dollars.
Not to mention what she has to spend on the King Kong Hair Straightener she needs to put forth an image befitting the next possible First Lady.
Every one knows she could save bucks using jeri curl
Pretty AUDACIOUS, don't you think? ;o)
and if she doesn't make it to the white house, she won't be proud of America anymore.
That's a very succinct way to put it.
I mean, what in the world would one do? Is there a President of community affairs? WTH does he do besides give her raises?
Do they teach this at the community college - or do you have to claw your way to the..the...where the heck would you claw your way to, anyways?
122k w/ a 195K raise after one year, you'd think there'd be an awful lot of qualifiied applicants scratching each other's eyeballs out for that job - I wanna hear from some of the losers - where did they fail? Was it their thesis? Did they not know what a community was? An affair?
ROTFL.....I need to know!
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Blocker
Resolution: Won't Fix
Affects Version/s: 2.1
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Themes
Environment:windows and ie7
Testing Instructions:
- Prepare for this one. You will need IE7 & IE8, IE9 Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (minimum). You will also need to know a RTL language. So a tester with this ability would be better equipped.
- Ensure you have a custom menu created on your site with multi lang capability.
- Switch to a RTL language.
- Enable "Allow theme change by URL" in theme settings
- In each browser open the following pages (order is important)
- /index.php?theme=base_rtl
- /login/index.php(and login as an admin)
- /course/report/outline/index.php?id=1
Make sure that blocks and layout works on all pages, it should look nearly identical in all pages. However, blocks normally on the left will swap to the right and visa-versa.
After testing in RTL change back to LTR and test to see that the theme works OK, checking to see that the blocks are positioned correctly.Prepare for this one. You will need IE7 & IE8, IE9 Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (minimum). You will also need to know a RTL language. So a tester with this ability would be better equipped. Ensure you have a custom menu created on your site with multi lang capability. Switch to a RTL language. Enable "Allow theme change by URL" in theme settings In each browser open the following pages (order is important) /index.php?theme=base_rtl /login/index.php(and login as an admin) /course/report/outline/index.php?id=1 Make sure that blocks and layout works on all pages, it should look nearly identical in all pages. However, blocks normally on the left will swap to the right and visa-versa. After testing in RTL change back to LTR and test to see that the theme works OK, checking to see that the blocks are positioned correctly.
Affected Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE
This BUG affects all CORE themes apart from Standard (Legacy)
while using windows and ie7 on RTL languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)
both right and left blocks aren't appearing at all...
other problems extend to the Login page, where the middle part of the page appears blank, whilst the header and footer are visible, including performance info as seen in Moodle Q&A Test site when viewing Standard theme in IE8 in IE7 Compatibility Mode.
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can be fixed by adding these lines to theme style/core.css
/* fixes for heb and IE7 */
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-pre
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-post{ left: 200px; float: none;}
better - but not final...
/* fixes for heb and IE7 */
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-pre
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-post{ left: 200px; float: none;}
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-main-box{ width:100%; }
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-main-wrap{ right:50%; }
/* for removing horizontal scrollbar */
this doesnt work for me - from some reason.
ie7 still displays "blank" screen - shows only header
in order to get better view , course block in right size add the following lines in same file
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content #region-main{ margin-left:-200px; }
.ie7.dir-rtl div#page-content .region-content{ padding-left:2px; }
.ie7.dir-rtl .block .header{ text-align:right; }
you must delete the cache in moodledata/cache to see the changes.
any progress made with this report ?
it seems to be forgotten...
this is a very "painful" bug, and me telling clients to install chrome\firefox is a bad solution...
I am assuming that the problem is in the layout, and as some CORE themes use different layouts, this makes fixing this BUG quite a task, as each theme will need to be looked at individually.
This problem has come to light again because the fix offered (see above) is not working.
I can most probably do the fixes, but I will need someone to test them as I don't have IE7, and IE8 in IE7 Compatibility Mode is not a very good alternative .
Sam, I have made you a watcher for this issue as I think I may need some guidance!
Login page @ Moodle Q & A Test Site as viewed in IE8 (Compatibility Mode) which mimics what is seen when using IE7.
1- i'll be happy to assist in any way possible (though i'm not very good with CSS)
2- what will be the "Road map" for this issue ? i'm guessing it won't be fixed for the upcoming 2.1 release..
Hi Omar
Thank you very much for your offer to help in this project.
There is no way this will get into Moodle 2.1 unless I get some divine inspiration, as whatever fixes I add seems to have little or no impact whatsoever on the core themes.
While writing this comment this morning, and at the same time praying for some inspiration, it occurred to me to try one of my very first themes for |Moodle 2.0 and see how that compares. Strangely enough I can get the Login page when lang is in Hebrew, which is a start! LOL So things are looking good in IE8 Compatibility mode. This is perhaps the fact that the theme 'Cafelite' works independently and as such has no parent theme.
I've set up a Sandbox at http://visible-expression.co.uk/sandbox/ where you can do the testing. The version is Moodle 2.0.3 (Build: 5th May 2011)
I'll set you up with an account and then you can add a course or two if wish, as the site is a fresh install and empty.
Hi guys,
Just popping in to say that it looks like this is heading in the right direction.
With the pressure now on to get Moodle 2.1 ready for release I don't think I will have time to lend a hand here sorry.
I've brought this to the attention of the higher powers - if there is any chance that changes will land for 2.1 this will have to be looked at immediately (only about 16 hours now until nothing more will be integrated).
If this doesn't make it to 2.1 surely it should make it to 2.1.1
Hi, Mary.
Thanks for taking on this work.
Please let us know if we can help you test the results.
In response to what Sam Hemelryk wrote - why it is not listed on developments to 2.1.1? Hope it is not forgotten ..
No one has forgotten this...I am still waiting for someone to give me feedback, to tell me if they can see the login page in IE7 in the following website! http://visible-expression.co.uk/sandbox/
The theme at that site is built differently than any theme in Moodle Core. If you can verify that the theme works I can get on with loading it into Moodle, and when I get the all clear from Sam, it will be integrated into whatever version of Moodle I can get it into - ASAP. It's not rocket science...but it is a lot of hard work for a little lady!
If you want a copy of the theme I can give you a link to download it.
Hi Mary
look great using IE7/IE8 on an Hebrew Windows XP
in both Hebrew and English Moodle UI modes.
BTW, does this theme can invert (switch sides of) block columns when switching from LTR to RTL ?
I am asking, since all current Moodle 2 themes do not.
And I am not sure if this is a bug or a new intent or feature of the new layout (holy-grail-no-quirks-mode)
Nadav! you are checking IE visibility ?? how did you get to an operating system that use this browser ??
Hi Yedidia
Indeed a rare occasion to see a closed source OS in our neighborhood.
My brother is visiting us. I borrowed his laptop for this occasion.
It is all from concern to all those "locked in" K12 schools that do not have
the technicians that could install Firefox/Chrome or even upgrade to IE9.
(Omer from MASHOV told me they installed Moodle 2 at 70 K12 Schools
and i do not want them to get disappointed from the experience of using Moodle)
Hi Mary,
How are things going on this? any luck finding the cause or and solution to the problems?
We're really keen to get this fixed, I've had a bit of a play today and noted that yes it is easily reproducible on IE7 and 8, both of which are browsers we try to support.
I haven't had a chance to really look at the cause of the problems yet however.
If you would like a hand I am more than happy to help.
Hi Sam,
I've looked through all the CSS in Base theme, and there does not seem to be anything that stands out, except in pagelayout. I have ruled out Canvas as this uses Base anyway.
Last year you may recall I created a theme called Cafelite where I used one of Matthew James Taylor's layouts that uses percentages, not pixels. The difference in that layout and the one used in Base theme is that #region-side-post does not exist, and in it's place is #region-side-pre. I named it that, because of its position in the layout. There was a forum discussion at the time which you may also recall... (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=148688)
The theme I am using on my website ( http://visible-expression.co.uk/sandbox/) to test this phenomenon, uses that same layout, and as you will see, works when RTL language is selected. If you want to test that theme against others on the site I've set it up so you can change theme by url.
So the conclusion I have come to is that it's nothing to do with Moodle, but more to do with Base theme's layout.
I did wonder if it was possible to add this theme to Moodle Core as a base for other themes to use as a parent. In fact I did wonder why other layouts, like the 2 column or 3 column blog style layouts which Matthew J. Taylor offers on his website (http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column-blog-style.htm) were not already set up to use as parent themes. Having a selection of basic layouts, with hardly any styling, (as the styling of the main areas within Moodle could come from Base theme but exclude Base pagelayout), would make themeing easier, similar to the lines of the CSS Zen Garden (http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/) where there is a set layout, but hundreds of different designs, as it is the layout which is the crux of the theme, and also the hardest to get right.
Hi Sam,
Since this problem only presents itself at the login page in IE7, when a RTL language is selected, and I know the layout I have used on some of my own themes works in this scenario, could we just go from a theme based login.php layout page similar to the report.php? This would get over the login part of this problem, as once logged in I think the problems are lessened, but at the same time making the CORE themes usable again.
What do you think?
Hi Mary,
Sorry I totally forgot to reply to you the other about this last week!
I am in the process of moving at the moment so not a work but I really wanted to let you know about this.
I spent a little bit of time on Friday and investigated this, I managed to track down what I believe to be the culprit (of most of it anyway).
The YUI custom menu CSS (moodle/lib/yui/3.2.0/build/node-menunav/assets/.css and moodle/lib/yui/3.2.0/build/node-menunav/assets/skins/.css) has some styles that are setting left:-10000px or close to that, of course on rtl languages the browser scrolls to the left which is what is causing things to disappear off screen and causing that scroll bar.
A quick test to override the couple I found there seemed to fix 90% of the problems, however I didn't have much time and may have missed one or two, hopefully it solves it 100%.
Hi guys,
Alright after much research, testing and cursing I think I've managed to find both the problem and the solution.
I've sent several patches up to my github account now that I will start testing in all supported browsers to ensure consistency.
If anyone who actively uses a rtl, any rtl language could test them as well that would be most appreciated. The details have now been added to this bug report.
Hi Sam
Thank you for those fixes!
I have tested you patches (only on several themes) and they look OK.
I used a VirtualBox instance with Windows XP using IE8 running IE7 compatibility mode.
Tested current (4/11/2011) moodle/master... working (IE8)
Tested current (4/11/2011) moodle/master... not working (IE7 compatibility mode)
Tested sam's fix ... working (IE8)
Tested sam's fix ... working (IE7 compatibility mode)
Hi Nadav,
Thanks for testing all of that - its a BIG help!
I'll be attempting to get Petr to peer-review this today and putting it up for integration so that this makes the next release (which is nearly here).
Hi Petr,
Any chance I could get you to take a peak at this in the next day. I'd really like to get this up for integration and I know Eloy would appreciate your thoughts on these changes from a theme perspective (it makes changes to nearly every core theme).
Hi Sam,
There are another RTL patches which Nadav as put in for Peer Review in
MDL-29226 at the moment this is assigned to me but not sure how best to move forward with it. If you have a moment can you check it out?
Thanks Mary - Sorry about not getting back to you on things I'm insanely busy at the moment. I'll endeavour to look at that but please if I forget harass me! You have my complete permission to pester me continually until it gets done if you want
@ Sam,
I there ANY chance this will get nearer to being resolved?
The RTL group are getting anxious! Very anxious at that...
Hi Mary,
I am keeping my fingers crossed that this will get integrated as part of the daily integrations that will be starting shortly as we build up for the next releases.
This issue hasn't made it up because I have been kept busy reviewing and on in house projects, certainly it needs to be in and I will pushing that with HQ as much as possible.
The main moodle.git repository has just been updated with latest weekly modifications. You may wish to rebase your PULL branches to simplify history and avoid any possible merge conflicts. This would also make integrator's life easier next week.
TIA and ciao
PS: Note this is the last message of this type that you will receive along the whole November month, because we are running continuous integration this weeks while QA tests for release of Moodle 2.2 (Dec 1st) are being performed.
Oki, after sharing with Sam about this, some points:
A) It's a horrible hack, but surely the only able to revive IE7 usage for 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2
B) It's huge, it modifies ALL layouts in ALL themes in 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2
C) It's safe (html only, no css nor js) and 3rd part themes will continue working the same at worst (if they override/have own layouts) or will be magically fixed if they use parent's layouts.
Knowing that, this is the plan:
1) Agree about IE7 support to be dropped in Moodle 2.3. Requires MD confirmation here.
2) Agree about fix IE7 ltr support (i.e. about to apply this "hack"). MD confirmation too.
3) Integrate the patch.
4) Test it for all themes in the target pages, as specified in the instructions, both for 2.1 and 2.2
5) The day 1 after branching 2.2, we will be reverting this change in master, so it won't be in 2.3 at all. Create one issue about that.
So, if knowing A), B) and C), MD gives his to 1) and 2), we'll proceed with the plan. Simple!
Sounds like a good plan so:
1) +1 for IE7 to be dropped in 2.3. In fact, was already announced. http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Roadmap
2) +1 to apply the patch for 2.2 and 2.1 only (not sure about 2.0, as we are just about to drop support for it, but if the port is done already then I guess we might as well apply it).
My only doubt: Will this make maintenance of themes painful in future, when devs are making ports to 2.3, 2.2 and 2.1? It's probably worth it though: I imagine there is a large amount of people needing RTL on IE7.
As commented above, this patch fixes RTL for all core themes, so no problems with that. And also, related with 3rd part themes it causes one of these behaviors:
A) If the 3rd part theme had inherited layouts from parent (core) theme, then they will get their RTL problems under IE automatically fixed.
B) If the 3rd part theme had own defined layout, it will continue behaving 100% like it was before the patch. Not affected.
So I think that both possible behaviors are ok to be assumed by default. I don't think there are more cases for 99% of 3rd part themes.
Just perhaps it would be worth adding one more step to the process:
6) Comment in the release notes about how the change has been performed for all core themes, and heads-up 3rd part themes in case they need to review and/or add the same type of patch to their theme layouts (if the are using them). The patch for each layout is really simple.
Uhm, finally I got here IE7, IE8, FF, Safari and Chrome.
And before sending anything to integration, I applied locally the patch and started testing. And there is something that, after testing some themes, was detected:
- Without the patch applied, master branch
- Set the theme to base (via URL): htttp://yoursite/?theme=base
- Set to ltr language and login.
- With all browsers go to the outline report: htttp://yoursite/report/outline/index.php?id=1
- In ALL browsers, you'll see the navigation and settings blocks on the left.
- Switch to rtl language
- Refresh the report page. You'll continue viewing the navigation and setting blocks (now on the right) in ALL browsers (IE7 included, imperfectly but they are there)
- Apply the patch (master)
- Refresh the report page.
- BOOM, the blocks have disappeared completely, BOTH in IE7 and IE8! But... also from Safari, FF and Chrome!
The other 2 pages seems to work consistently (index and login), but the report one, as said, is really worse once the patch is applied, and affects all browsers.
I've been able to reproduce this wrong behavior in: base, standard, anomaly, boxxie, canvas...
In others I see how the blocks are there, on the right, but 90% offscreen: arialist, binarius, formfactor...
More yet, others get the blocks perfectly in: brick, formal_white (but on the left)...
And I've stopped there, something seems to be wrong in the report page layout and the patch makes it really worse, affecting ALL browsers.
So I think this only can be rejected, sorry. Ciao.
Hi Eloy,
Dietmar and myself have found that there are some potential problems with report and pagelayout as there are only 8 themes which actually use theme/base/style/pagelayout.css as some themes exclude it because they use a different pagelayout/ These themes are Afterburner, Magazine, Sky High, Nonzero and Overlay.
MDL-29904 outlines some problems we have found along these lines and this has in itself opened up a host of other issues mainly with pagelayout in some themes.
Dietmar and myself are questioning if BASE and CANVAS (parent themes) are actually causing the problems.
But it is a great pity that these patches are rejected based on your testing.
Mary, are you able to continue testing and analysis to try and narrow the issues here? Can you bring in anyone else from NewSchool?
Hi Martin,
I have been thinking about the problems here for a long time, and my conclusion is not to change anything in the standard core themes for IE7 but to create a new layout which WILL work in that scenario. I am sure there are people like Nadav who would be willing to style a new parent theme purely for RTL. I know for a fact the HolyGrail Percentage layout works better in this senario, which I was trying to do with my Cafelite theme from the start. http://visible-expression.co.uk/sandbox/?theme=cafelite but ran into problems as I don't have IE7 now, although I do have IE6 on a laptop. But yes I am willing to help with this...but to be truthful you can analyse it till you are blue in the face...and not realy get anywhere as the face of Moodle is changing so rapidly.
I'll talk with Patrick, but I doubt whether he has the time, as his workload is pretty manic, from what I can gather. I am not too sure about John either, as he also has a pretty tight work schedule, but I will ask and see what can be done.
I agree with Mary. And after talking to fellow Moodle administrators I would also like to add...
The IE7 user base is shrinking in Israel (as far as the global stats show:http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-IL-monthly-201004-201103 ) Users of IE7, in the educational sector, that are not upgrading to IE8 or other modern browsers because of old Educational web services that they depend on and use, daily, which do not support W3C standards are dissolving, rapidly.
Basically, users of IE7 can upgrade to IE8 and still have "compatibility mode" (IE7 mode) to view some specific (educational dependent) websites. More over, I predict a major Moodle 2 install (shift from Moodle 1.9) at the end of this academic and K12 year. by that time and according to the IE7 dissolvement trend, I do not see the necessity to integrate support for IE7 inside core Moodle themes which will make the CSS more "heavy" for no good reason.
So basically, let's not adjust the core themes. Instead, let's make a single base theme for the RTL users of IE7/8 like Mary suggested.
I(We) thank Mary for all the efforts and help she invested in those issues and helped us solve these problems. I would not like to see it dissolved.
+1 for Mary's comment
I understand from previous comments in the thread that Mary's cafelite layout went back to Matthew James Taylor's original layout as a base, I did the same with my recent multilayout theme and both of those (by removing the base theme pagelayout.css) appear to work in IE7/rtl - @Mary, I did some (light) testing of your sandbox site on IE7 when I was doing multithemed and it came up in one of the forum discussions.
So I would recommend Mary's solution of providing a base-like 'empty' theme with layout files which work correctly for rtl/IE7 and this can then be styled on top as a parent theme in the same way as Canvas/Base etc.
Happy to help out with any testing, or contributing to the theme(s) to get this happening, just let me know what needs doing
I just added you as a watcher knowing how much you learnt with Cafelite last year!
The proposal is to create a new parent theme with one difference it will be only designed with RTL languages in mind. So whatever is left will be right, and via-versa.
It is going to be a steep learning curve but I am, perhaps naively, hopeful it will be successful, if it is accepted.
PS...It needs to work in IE7
Hi all,
after several tests I would like to recommend Mary's conclusion in as much as we will only get a working rtl theme if we use percentages for measuring the widths of the regions. And perhaps we need a new parent theme (or additional core themes like Mary's CAFEL(R)ITE) as the only core theme that uses percentages is MAGAZINE. But I'm not quite sure about that.
In the moment I would like to start with core theme MAGAZINE and look what's possible.
I see the following two options for making MAGAZINE rtl compatible:
1) Add
- the line .dir-rtl html
{overflow-x: hidden;}
to the pagelayout.css (or core.css) [Yedidia's idea, 11/March/11]
- the file afterburner/style/rtl.css to the directory magazine/style/ and
- rtl to the theme sheets in config.php.
and ... I think theme MAGAZINE now works for ltr as well as for rtl. I hope so!!!
2) Move the custommenu from the header to the main-content and magazine again seems to work for both directions (rtl.css should be added again):
<div id="region-main-wrap">
<div id="region-main">
<div class="region-content">
<?php if ($hascustommenu){ ?> <div id="custommenuwrap"><div id="custommenu"><?php echo $custommenu; ?></div></div> <?php }
<?php echo core_renderer::MAIN_CONTENT_TOKEN ?>
If the necessary tests are successfull we are only two steps away from a solution. All kinds of ideas, feedbacks and test results are as always very much appreciated.
@Mary: I tested your theme C (on 2.1) and I (still) love it. After including a custommenu - just below the HAEDER - I got the scrollbar at the bottom as expected. It vanished after adding html{overflow-x: hidden;}
to CSS.
This is great news Dietmar! Thanks for that.
I wonder if we could rope John in at this point as he put the magazine theme together, as if you remember we where bother working with that percentage layout last year.
The fact that Magazine uses Base as a parent is hopeful too as this will enable it to pick up all the RTL fixes Nadav is working on.
Thanks again for all your help Dietmar.
I have created a theme which will work both in RTL as well as LTR languages as well as work in IE7. The main objective of this theme, which I have called RTLBase (rtlbase), is for it to become a parent theme for RTL themes.
RTLBase is based on Matthew James Taylor's Holy Grail percentage layout, and as such works well in Moodle 2.2(beta) and earlier.
RTLBase uses Base as a parent theme, from where it draws most of the core CSS plus much of the RTL which is currently being updated by Nadav Kavalerchik.
RTLBase is pretty minimalist in appearance but could be restyled to become a Default theme for Moodle 2.2 as it works well in both LTR & RTL.
With your permission I would like to submit it for Peer Review.
Special thanks and acknowledgments to Dietmar Wagner for his constant help in testing and finding solutions which has made this theme possible.
Taking this out of the sprint and assigning to our wonderful theme masters.
I'm going to submit a new theme for consideration as the basis for development of RTL themes for Moodle 2.3.x. The theme itself is called base_rtl
Please add me to the watch list for that new themes you are uploading
Hi Nadav,
It is the BASE-RTL I am going to submit for Peer Review first. So perhaps you can let me have some feedback after I add it here in
MDL-26400 this weekend. OK?
Initially it is for Moodle 2.3, but it will work in Moodle 2.2.x and Moodle 2.1.x in IE7 & IE8 so if it passes Peer Review and Testing (if Integrated) then it can be added to Moodle 2.1.x & Moodle 2.2.x if Martin wishes it so.
Over to you...
I'm not expectiing too many things to be wrong with this theme, but if you can Peer Review it that would be great.
I have copied your base_rtl into my updated (last week) Moodle 2.3 devel tree
and changed standard/config.php to use base_rtl (from using base)
When i am viewing a regular Hebrew content course, i get allot of visual issues.
Am i using/testing it correctly?
Hi Nadav,
No you have this all wrong. Base-RTL is a theme on it's own, the pagelayout is completely different than Base theme which Standard theme is based on. All the CSS in standard is for the pagelayout of base theme, not Base-RTL. Just try using Base-RTL on it's own.
Because Base-RTL is hidden, by default, from the Theme selector, you will either need to change the settings in the base_rtl/config.php so you can un-hide this theme or you will need to enable Theme designer mode in theme settings otherwise you can't see it in the selector.
Also...have you seen the test Instruction in the top half of
MDL-26400 Moodle Tracker page?
Thanks again for testing this.
base_rtl - Hebrew Translation
base_rtl -
MDL-31777 - Switch block's columns when course is set to RTL Mode (patch)
( I had to use that patch, since the columns were not switched, as expected, in RTL mode )
Well I know it's not going to look good in some pages, but I know it looks OK on most pages.
MDL-26400 - base_rtl theme - right align activity completion checkboxes (in RTL mode)
I'm just committed these changes.
However, what about report.php you missed that off in your base theme changes.
I think there is going to be a conflict with the report page, more in the way it is styled rather than the layout, although that will have some bearing on it eventually.
For the tie being I have saved a copy of general.php as report.php to see how that works.
More later
yes, i left the report out. since i was not sure if the "switch columns" patch is good.
here is a little different patch for the report.php
MDL-26400 - base_rtl theme - right align the DOCK panel (in RTL mode)
MDL-26400 - base_rtl theme - right align menu element (in RTL mode)
I am wondering if you are ok with removing the following css rules from #page
width: 95%;
margin: 2% auto;
Yes sure...you can change #page width to whatever you think best, probably width: 100%; margin: 0;
I agree too with Report changes, custom menu also to float right. I am concerned about getting the menu to work properly, I found it really difficult when I tried it that's why it was on the left side by default. It's strange as I got this to work in Moodle 1.9 but YUI CSS was a different build in 1.9.
I was not sure if you needed dock on left or right....so the change there I approve of too. Thanks for taking time to fix these.
I am stuck with figuring out the YUI3 menu
Maybe, it is best to move it back to the left? for now.
(until someone figure it out - make it work in RTL mode)
The alternative to the menu is to use the same one that is in Afterburner, this uses renderers.php which change the way the menu is set which gives you a better way of styling the menu.
I'll have a play with this and see how I get on.
You might as well leave the code in for float: right for the menu because that' where we want it. If you check out Magazine theme the styling for the YUI menu works as you want it to on the right and dropdown open to left which is how it should work. But this reverses in RTL, but even so, there may be a way to style YUI Menu, or we change it to use renderers. We will get it to work eventually.
Just this minute pushed commit:
MDL-26400 theme_base_rtl: Added fixes for RTL custom menu. to my GITHUB. It still needs some work, but is looking better.
Just pushed report fixes to GITHUB
Thanks for all these extra fixes Nadav you are a star!
I am blushing ("Blushing refers to the involuntary reddening of a person's face due to embarrassment" / Wikipedia)
Have you had time to test the custom menu? It works in IE7 (using IE9 browser set to IE7 browser & IE7 document standards settings in F12 Web Developer). At one point it looked better, but then the dropdown menu worked in one section but not another...very odd. I think it is YUICSS it really does some odd thing...too many CSS selectors for my liking.
But at least the float right works and the dropdown opends to the left...so this is an achievement.
I found a couple of errors in the code I committed yesterday and so corrected these and pushed them to my GITHUB in the early hours of the this morning before I logged out.
I'll be testing this again later today, but would love some feedback if you get time to review what I have done so far?
I have finished testing your updated base_rtl theme against the entire system.
It looks properly (Beautifully) aligned and can be the base of more complex RTL themes. GREAT WORK !!!
(got it from your github as of : https://github.com/lazydaisy/moodle/commit/0ec6c9c32fd8800c585f35df98c96b838afe6e79 )
Here are my tiny additions on top of yours:
(It is a little bit mixed with yours, since I committed them together by mistake)
- added hacky css rules to have the menu and sub menus visible ( you are welcome to fix those !important rules )
- added missing images (weird)
- removed underline dashed links
- removed redundant php code that added dir-rtl class to custommenu (we already have dir-rtl in rtl mode, so i changed all the css rules in rtl_menu too)
- some rtl box, table and table cells alignments
- $bodyclasses[] right_to_left() manipulations (for pages with only one side of block columns)
Please ignore my personal UI css roles at theme/base_rtl/style/core.css
under the remark "add some visual borders to make the course more usable"
which are committed out of the code. (as they should be)
Happy Holidays
This is all music to my ears!
Thank you for making these finishing touches.
I think I will now create a sub-task of
MDL-26400 to add base_rtl as a new theme, then it leaves MDL-26400 free and if the theme is accepted and integrated to 2.3 we can close this MDL as it serves as a reminder of the discussions which went on here.
Happy Holidays to you too Nadav!
and Many, many thanks.
Is there a way I can copy this commit to merge into my GitHub
MDL-26400_master branch.
I'm still learning GIT and can do most things, but this one is new to me as this commit does not seem to be on a branch.
I still about to fix all the core themes, regarding the "RTL mode, column switch" and some minor theme specific CSS rules for RTL
and Commit it in one big patch. regardless the new base_rtl theme. Is that OK? (with you and with Moodle HQ)
Hi Nadav,
If you are intending to change ALL core THEMES individually, to make the column switch the same way it has been done in BASE-RTL, that's great!
The only reason I am submitting BASE-RTL is that it works in IE7 where CORE themes don't, other than perhaps Magazine theme, but that was built on an earlier version of this theme which I first built two years ago, called Cafelite. It uses the percentage layout, rather than the fixed values of core themes and so is built completely differently.
However, whatever commits you make to Moodle themes are nothing to do with me, I only do what I do as a volunteer, I don't work for HQ, although I get the feeling you think I do.
You will need to talk with Sam Hemelryk about this. But I have no objection to your proposed work adding more RTL fixes. If BASE-RTL is not required then it will become a FREE theme to download, either way it will be a Moodle theme people can modify.
Does that answer you question?
Thanks for all the support you give for getting Moodle fixed for RTL languages.
I agree with nadav that changing all themes will be great...
We (Atar + Plus Company) could also help with css writing and testing.
Hi Mary,
I am part of the Israeli Moodle Translation team which is funded by the Israeli ISOC to do just that. (Translate and fix RTL and BIDI issues in Moodle's core)
Indeed, I was under the impression that you work at Moodle HQ and responsible to the "themes" plugins. none the less, I am very happy for your huge support to us (the RTL world wide community)
I regard the very important "base_rtl theme" to be a grace present and last support effort to all those people who have difficulties upgrading their IE7 browser to a more modern version of IE (currently 9 and soon...10) due to various dependency issue with old educational websites and service. (Though, they probably should be use IETAB with Chrome or Firefox)
I know of two Universities that were anxiously waiting for base_rtl and I guess the other five are also in the same boat (Yedidia, which supports all of them, can probably confirm this) not counting the Teacher Training collages and K12 sectors...
Back to "business"...
I am about to open a new RTL Theme issue as sub task to the famous Meta RTL Themes into which i will link a new git branch with all the accumulating commits for each theme i fix (considering all the updated CSS rules and php code from base_rtl which we know to work) that way, it can be merged entirely or each theme can be cherry picked
I would LOVE to get Your and Yedidia's feedback on them as they show up.
What do you think?
Thanks for all this nice work.
As I already wrote - we will be happy to help in tests, and we could also help in CSS work.
Just let me know.. you know how to find me
What Yedidia said goes for me too!
I'll be watching out for this new initiative, and will willingly give you feedback, and any assistance you may need with this.
Best wishes and thanks
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MDL-32959 Convert BASE theme layout to Perfect Holy Grail Percentage Layout.
By converting Base theme whilst preserving the layouts of all CORE themes, the only ones truly affected would be Afterburner & Anomaly, as all the other CORE themes use CANVAS as parent, so Canvas theme would carry the current Base theme pagelayout.css (baselayout.css.
At this moment in time my testing is proving to be successful, and as if by magic, the problem with IE7 just disappears.
Well it is good news and bad news as the majority of the themes in CORE are based on the Holy Grail Pixel Layout which does not work in IE7 with Moodle so either I will need to convert those themes that use 3 column layout ([left][middle][right]) like Boxxie, FormFactor, Formal White, Leatherbound, Magazine, Serenity and Splash, but the others that use 2 columns blog style ([middle] [right]) or 3 column blog style ([middle][left][right]) will have to stay as they are.
Either way it makes for an interesting project.
html{direction: ltr;}
fix the problem on most of the themes.
but, somehow it breaks all JS
language selector and tree menus stop working...
something w/ YUI ?!?


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Adult Entertainment Businesses for Sale in Mansfield, Queensland 4122
Brisbane QLD - Brisbane City
Managed Personal Service Business for Sale - Brisbane Industrial Region Ref: 3049-3CA
Rare opportunity to acquire an industry leader in the personal service industry sector in the Brisbane region. * This business has delivered significant sales and profit returns in the past 11 years. Delivering net returns to the owner in excess of 35% on a turnover of $1...
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