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No idea. I got the impression when i found it, it had been heavily Photoshoped.
Not because something looks unusual does it mean it's "heavily Photoshopped" :) This beauty is the islet of Vila Franca do Campo, just a stone's throw away from the coast of the town with the same name on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores (Portugal). You can find a bit more of info here: http://tinyurl.com/4dumfft
Wow, that's cool.
Wow, thanks for the accurate info @hierodule!
*lol* NP... I also was curious where was that picture from. :D
This is at Azores, São Miguel island! ;)
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Hey everyone! I haven't made any posts in a while. The reason for this is because when I made website changes, stuff stopped working and I spent my time fixing. I'm not sure if this is the most technical post so far but I added GIFs so its OK. Our site is in my hands and I have butterfingers.
Yes I know all of the pretty colors have gone away and everything is set back to default. pretty much went from "Oh wow I get to learn CSS finally!" to deciding which problem to fix first.
Now, all of the problems I was having until now I am not 100% sure what they were all caused by. That being said, every time I filed a help desk ticket with OIT all they pretty much said was "We don't really work with WordPress, only Drupal so when you have random problems like you always seem to, we can only suggest you disable your plugins and try to work from there." Solid advice because all of the times I have done that, stuff started to work again. In fact, this is such a regular thing, I used to have to look up how to disable my plugins from the database (normal people with normal problems do this from the admin panel. Since the entire site or just the admin panel would not work, I could disable plugins via SFTP or from the database. The nice thing about the database is I can re-enable the plugins via the admin panel which is way more convenient than messing with remote files.) level but since I have done it so often, I can debug the tour program when they get back.
In the history of this site, outages have occurred because of plugins more than anything else. One might say "Well stop using those plugins!" and others might say "These plugins that routinely kill the site must be poorly developed!" which would be very fair observations. When I find out a plugin has killed the site one way or another, I mess with it a bunch, stop using it, or find a suitable replacement. So yes, I stop using plugins that cause problems.
What about the development of the plugins? To explain that, I first must briefly explain that wmich.edu as a domain is crazy restrictive. Its like asking a 1992 Taurus SHO owner how fast their car is, most will tell you a Taurus SHO is stupid fast. This isn't the best analogy because having a fast car seems super awesome and having a domain that restricts as much as OIT does is not super awesome. In my opinion, developing for wmich.edu is like replacing one's front lawn with bamboo so you have to use a machete to get your front door.
Is the way they do that bad necessarily? I don't manage servers at a sysadmin level but I would imagine a website for a national University not only gets a lot of hits, but people probably try to hack in a bunch. The way I understand the websites on campus, all of the departments do their own development in house. If someone has an insecure site, it could compromise the entire domain in theory. Thanks to firewalls and restrictions, any site that could get hacked into wouldn't be able to do that much. That being said, I have no idea how the hosting for my personal domains protects themselves since they don't restrict me at all. At western, it will eat a lot of compute cycles, they'll lose part of the system for a while, there is a finite amount of memory you can't use it for everything, are you going to compile for half an hour..
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type TXQueryEngine = class(TObject)
This is the XPath/XQuery-engine
You can use this class to evaluate a XPath/XQuery-expression on a certain document tree.
For example,
TXQueryEngine.evaluateStaticXPath2('expression', nil) returns the value of the evaluation of expression.
Syntax of a XQuery / XPath / Pseudo-XPath-Expression
This XQuery engine currently supports XPath 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and JSONiq, with some extensions and minor deviations.
Some very basic, standard XPath examples, for people who do not have seen XPath before:
"something" or
This returns the string 'something'.
This returns the value of the variable
a + b
This returns the numerical sum of
a and
Instead of +, you can also use one of operators
-, *, div, idiv, =, !=, <, >, <=, =>, to, or, and, eq, ne, lt, gt, le, ge
This returns the number 1245.567
This concatenates the strings a,b and c.
There are many more functions than
concat, you can look them up in a XPath reference
This returns a sequence (1,2,3).
Sequences can not be nested.
(1,2,3)[. mod 2 = 1]
This returns the sequence (1,3) of all odd numbers.
This is the value of the attribute
attrib of the current tag
This returns a sequence of all direct text node children of the current tag (see below)
This returns a sequence of all direct comment children of the current tag
This returns a sequence of all direct children of the current tag whose node name is
This returns a sequence of all children of the current tag whose node name is
This returns a sequence of all children of the current tag whose name is
def and whose parent has the name
abc and is a direct child of the current tag
This returns a sequence of all children of the current tag whose name is
def and whose parent has the name
This returns a the html root tag
This returns all text nodes in the current html document
This returns all text nodes in the current html document whose parent satisfies condition
for $x in
seq return $x + 1
This adds 1 to all elements in the sequence
some $x in
seq satisfies condition
This returns true iff one element of
seq satisfies
every $x in
seq satisfies condition
This returns true iff every element of
seq satisfies
if (condition) then $x else $y
This returns
$x if
condition is true, and
$y otherwise
Differences between this implementation and standard XPath/XQuery (most differences can be turned off with the respective option or the field in the default StaticContext):
Extended syntax:
If a string is prefixed with an x, all expressions within {..}-parenthesis are evaluated and concattenated to the raw text, similarily to the value of a xquery direct attribute constructor. (option: extended-strings)
This assigns the value
value to the global variable
var and returns
So you can e.g. write
((a := 2) + 3) and get
5 and a variable
a with the value
All string comparisons are case insensitive, and "clever", e.g.
'9xy' = '9XY' < '10XY' < 'xy',
unless you use collations.
The default type system is weaker typed, most values are automatically converted if necessary, e.g. "1" + 2 returns 3.
(option: strict-type-checking)
If a namespace prefix is unknown, the namespace is resolved using the current context item.
This basically allows you to do namespace prefix only matching. (option: use-local-namespaces)
JSON-objects: JSON/JSONiq objects are supported. (option: json)
Arrays can be created with
Like a sequence they store a list of values, and can be nested with each other and within sequences.
Object can be created with
{"foobar": 123, "hallo": "world!", ...}
They stores a set of values as associative map. The values can be accessed similar to a function call, e.g.:
{"name": value, ...}("name").
This implementation also provides an alternative property syntax, where these properties can be accessed with the usual OOP property dot syntax, i.e.
{"name": 123}.name will evaluate to
123 (can be changed with the option property-dot-notation).
If an object is assigned to a variable, you can append the dot to the variable name, e.g.
let $obj := {"name": 123} return $obj.name. (drawback: variable names are not allowed to contains dots, if this extension is enabled)
Objects are immutable, but the properties of objects that are global variables can seemingly be changed with
$obj.property := newvalue. This creates a new object with name
$obj that has all the properties of the old objects plus the changed properties.
Objects can be assigned to each other (e.g.
obj1 := {}, obj2 := {}, obj2.prop := 123, obj1.sub := obj2 ).
obj1.sub.prop = 123, but changing obj1.sub.prop won't change obj2.prop (i.e. the objects are always copied, there are no pointers).
An alternative, older object creation syntax is the object-function (see below).
At default all values are allowed as object properties. If the option pure-json-objects is enabled, property values are converted to pure JSON types. (empty sequence => null, sequences => array, nodes => string)
The additional module xquery_json implements all JSONiq functions, except JSONiq update and roundtrip-serialization.
Using it also activates the JSONiq literal mode, in which
true, false, null evaluate to
true(), false(), jn:null(). (option: json-literals).
Element tests based on types of the xml are not supported (since it can not read schemas )
Regex remarks:
The usual s/i/m/x-flags are allowed, and you can also use '-g' to disable greedy matching.
$0 and $& can be used as substitute for the whole regex, and $i or ${i} is substituted with the i-th submatch, for any integer i. Therefore $12 is match 12, while ${1}2 is match 1 followed by digit 2
Most of them can be disabled with 'declare option pxp:respective-option "off"' (that there are syntax modifying options is another extension)
New functions:
This is the concatenated plain text of the every tag inside the current text. You can also pass a separator like deep-text(' ') to separate text of different nodes.
extract($string as xs:string, $regex as xs:string [, $match as xs:integer,[$flags as xs:string]])
This applies the regex $regex to $string and returns only the matching part. If the $match argument is used, only the $match-th submatch will be returned
(This functions used to be called filter, but was renamed to due to XQuery 3)
eval($query as xs:string)
This evaluates $query as a XQuery-expression.
css($css as xs:string)
This evaluates the $css string as a css selector.
parse-date($input as xs:string, $format as xs:string)
Reads a date/time from string with the given format. $format is a standard Pascal format, using ymdhnsz (e.g. "yyyy-mm-dd"), not a XQuery 3.0 picture string.
parse-time(input as xs:string, $format as xs:string)
Reads a date/time from string with the given format. $format is a standard Pascal format (see above)
parse-datetime($input as xs:string, $format as xs:string)
Reads a date/time from string with the given format. $format is a standard Pascal format (see above)
inner-xml($node as node())
Returns the inner xml of a node as string (like innerHTML in javascript)
outer-xml($node as node())
Returns the outer xml of a node as string (= inner-xml plus the opening/closing tag of the node itself)
inner-html($node as node())
Returns the inner html of a node as string (like inner-xml, but valid html)
outer-html($node as node())
Returns the outer html of a node as string (like outer-xml, but valid html)
form($form as node()*[, $override as item()*])
This creates the request corresponding to a html form. The request includes the value of all input/select/textarea descendants of the $form parameter.
You can use the $override parameter to give a sequence of values replacing the default values of the form elements.
A value is either a string, e.g.
"name=value&name2=..." which has to be url encoded and is splitted at the &-separators to override each parameter separately. (so the order of the name=value pairs is changed to the order of the input elements in the form)
Or a JSON-like object
{"name": "value", ...}, in which the properties must not be url encodeded (i.e. the form method url encodes each property) and in which each property overrides the corresponding parameter.
It returns a JSON object with these properties:
url: The url the form should be send to (includes the encoded data for a GET request)
method: POST or GET
post: Url encoded post data (in future versions it might be multipart-encoded, if enctype is set correspondingly)
is-nth($i as xs:integer, $a as xs:integer, $b as xs:integer)
Returns true iff the equation
i = a * n + b can be solved by an non-negative integer
n. (This is used to implement the css functions like nth-child )
var := object()
This creates an object with name
$var. Default values can be passed as sequence of name/value pairs.
A alternative syntax is
get-property($obj as object(), $name as xs:string)
Returns the property with the given name of an object. Since this is just a normal function, it can also be used, if the object.property syntax has been disabled
Deprecated, now the JSONiq syntax
$obj($name) should be used. This function may be removed in later versions.
join($sequence as xs:item()*[, $seperator as xs:string])
This is the same as string-join, but without type checking. If seperator is omitted it becomes " ".
match($template as item(), $node as node()+)
Performs pattern matching between the template and the nodes, and returns a list or an object of matched values.
match({{.}}, <x>FOOBAR</x>) returns
FOO, and
match(*{{.}}, <x>FOOBAR</x>) returns
(FOO, BAR)
It is also possible to use named variables in the template, in which case an object is returned, e.g:
match(<x>{{first:=.}}{{second:=.}}</x>, <x>FOOBAR</x>) returns an object with two properties
first and
bar, containing
FOO and
BAR respectively. These properties can be accessed like
match(<x>{{first:=.}}{{second:=.}}</x>, <x>FOOBAR</x>).first
Multiple values assigned to the same variable are merged into a single sequence, e.g.
match(<x>{{res:=.}}{{res:=.}}</x>, <x>FOOBAR</x>) returns an object with a single property
res with value
(FOO, BAR)
If unnamed and named variables are mixed, the unnamed variables are treated like variables with the name
The template can be a node or a string. Written as string the example above would be
match("{.}", <x>FOOBAR</x>).
You can pass multiple templates and nodes, in which case each template is applied to each node, and the result of all matching calls is returned in a single sequence.
If the template can not be matched, an error is raised.
see THtmlTemplateParser for the full template reference. (This function is not actually declared in xquery.pas, but in extendedhtmlparser.pas, so it is only available if latter unit is included in any uses clause. )
json($source as xs:string)
Reads a json object/value from a string and converts it to an object/value (see object extension above).
If the string is an url the json is loaded from there (i.e. be aware of possible security issues when using it. jn:parse-json from xquery_json / JSONiq will only parse it)
Only available if the xquery_json unit is included in an uses clause.
serialize-json($object as item()* )
Converts an xq value to a json string.
Only available if the xquery_json unit is included in an uses clause.
All above functions belong to the namespace "http://www.benibela.de/2012/pxp/extensions", which is at default bound to the prefixes "pxp" and "". This namespace also contains a copy of all standard XPath function
You can look at the unit tests in the tests directory to see many (> 3000) examples.
Using the class in FPC
The easiest way to evaluate a XQuery/XPath-expression is to call the class methods like
TXQueryEngine.evaluateStaticXPath2('expression', nil) or
TXQueryEngine.evaluateStaticXPath2('expression', nil).toInt64 which returns the value of the expression, converted to the corresponding type.
If you want to process a html/xml document, you have to pass the root TTreeNode (obtained by TTreeParser) instead of nil.
If you call
TXQueryEngine.evaluateStaticXPath2('expression', nil) without a following toType-call, you obtain the result as an IXQValue. (see IXQValue on how to use it)
With a toType-call it is converted in the corresponding type, e.g.
toInt64 returns a int64,
toString a string,
toNode a TTreeNode or
toDecimal an extended.
You can also create a
TXQueryEngine instance and then call
parseXPath2('expression') and
This is not as easy, but you have more options:
For the basic you can set separate root (/) (with the property RootElement) and parent elements (./) (with the property ParentElement), or you can read and define variables in the expression, or change other behaviours.
Compatibility to previous version
The following breaking changes occured to make it more standard compatible:
Language changes:
Variables are no longer replaced inside "-strings. Instead x"-strings were added. All old uses of "$var;" therefore have to be replaced by x"{$var}"
All string comparisons are now (non-localized ascii) case-insensitive, not only equal comparisons (as always mentioned in the documentation)
Variables defined by a PXPath expression inside an PXPath eval call are exported to the outside
== is no longer allowed as alias to =
the function deepNodeText is now called deep-text
regex flag s defaults to off
API changes to previous versions:
everything has been renamed, pseudoxpath.pas => xquery.pas, TPseudoXPathParser =>
TXQueryEngine, TPXPValue => IXQValue
The TPXPValue class has been replaced by an interface => memory deallocation has become implicit and .free must not be called.
=> functions like toString and asString become identically and latter has been removed. Similarly functions like getValueAsString() are not needed anymore and have been removed as well
TPXPValue is now a class with subclasses instead of a case record
Some things have been renamed, the new names should be obvious
The evaluate functions return now a TPXPValue instead of a string, since they may return a typed value or sequence.
RootElement: TTreeNode;
ParentElement: TTreeNode;
TextElement: TTreeNode;
CurrentDateTime: TDateTime;
ImplicitTimezone: TDateTime;
StaticContext: TXQStaticContext;
VariableChangelog: TXQVariableChangeLog;
OnEvaluateVariable: TXQEvaluateVariableEvent;
OnDefineVariable: TXQDefineVariableEvent;
OnDeclareExternalVariable: TXQDeclareExternalVariableEvent;
OnDeclareExternalFunction: TXQDeclareExternalFunctionEvent;
OnImportModule: TXQImportModuleEvent;
OnTrace: TXQTraceEvent;
OnCollection: TXQEvaluateVariableEvent;
OnParseDoc: TXQParseDocEvent;
AllowExtendedStrings: boolean;
AllowJSON: boolean;
AllowJSONLiterals: boolean;
GlobalNamespaces: TNamespaceList;
AutomaticallyRegisterParsedModules: boolean;
procedure clear;
function parseXPath2(s:string; sharedContext: TXQStaticContext = nil): IXQuery;
function parseXQuery1(s:string; sharedContext: TXQStaticContext = nil): IXQuery;
function parseCSS3(s:string): IXQuery;
function evaluate(tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
constructor create;
destructor Destroy; override;
function evaluateXPath2(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
function evaluateXQuery1(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
function evaluateCSS3(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
class function evaluateStaticXPath2(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
class function evaluateStaticCSS3(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
procedure registerModule(module: IXQuery);
function findModule(const namespaceURL: string): TXQuery;
class function findNativeModule(const ns: string): TXQNativeModule;
class procedure registerCollation(const collation: TXQCollation);
class function getCollation(id:string; base: string): TXQCollation;
class procedure registerNativeModule(const module: TXQNativeModule);
property LastQuery: IXQuery read FLastQuery;
RootElement: TTreeNode;
Root element
ParentElement: TTreeNode;
Set this to the element you want as current. The XPath expressions will be evaluated relative to this, so e.g.
TextElement: TTreeNode;
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CurrentDateTime: TDateTime;
Current time
ImplicitTimezone: TDateTime;
Local timezone (nan = unknown, 0 = utc).
StaticContext: TXQStaticContext;
XQuery static context, defining various default values.
VariableChangelog: TXQVariableChangeLog;
All global variables that have been set (if a variable was overriden, it stores the old and new value)
OnEvaluateVariable: TXQEvaluateVariableEvent;
Event called if a variable has to be read. (Defaults to @VariableChangelog.evaluateVariable, but can be changed)
OnDefineVariable: TXQDefineVariableEvent;
Event called if a variable is set (Defaults to @VariableChangelog.defineVariable, but can be changed)
OnDeclareExternalVariable: TXQDeclareExternalVariableEvent;
Event called to import a variable that is declared as "declare variable ... external" in a XQuery expression
OnDeclareExternalFunction: TXQDeclareExternalFunctionEvent;
Event called to import a function that is declared as "declare function ... external" in a XQuery expression.
OnImportModule: TXQImportModuleEvent;
Event called to import a XQuery module that has not previously be defined
OnTrace: TXQTraceEvent;
Event called by fn:trace
OnCollection: TXQEvaluateVariableEvent;
Event called by fn:collection
OnParseDoc: TXQParseDocEvent;
Event called by fn:doc (if nil, a default xml parser is used)
AllowExtendedStrings: boolean;
If strings with x-prefixes are allowed, like x"foo{$variable}bar" to embed xquery expressions in strings
AllowJSON: boolean;
If {"foo": bar} and [..] can be used to create json objects/arrays (default false, unless xquery_json was loaded, then it is true)
AllowJSONLiterals: boolean;
If true/false/null literals are treated like true()/false()/jn:null() (default true! However, this option is ignored and handled as false, if allowJSON is false).
GlobalNamespaces: TNamespaceList;
Globally defined namespaces
AutomaticallyRegisterParsedModules: boolean;
procedure clear;
Clears all data.
function parseXPath2(s:string; sharedContext: TXQStaticContext = nil): IXQuery;
Parses a new XPath 2.0 expression and stores it in tokenized form.
function parseXQuery1(s:string; sharedContext: TXQStaticContext = nil): IXQuery;
Parses a new XQuery expression and stores it in tokenized form.
function parseCSS3(s:string): IXQuery;
Parses a new CSS 3.0 Selector expression and stores it in tokenized form.
function evaluate(tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
Evaluates a previously parsed query and returns its value as TXQValue
constructor create;
destructor Destroy; override;
function evaluateXPath2(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
Evaluates an XPath 2.0 expression with a certain tree element as current node.
function evaluateXQuery1(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
Evaluates an XQuery 1.0 expression with a certain tree element as current node.
function evaluateCSS3(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
Evaluates an CSS 3 Selector expression with a certain tree element as current node.
class function evaluateStaticXPath2(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
Evaluates an expression with a certain tree element as current node.
class function evaluateStaticCSS3(expression: string; tree:TTreeNode = nil): IXQValue;
Evaluates an expression with a certain tree element as current node.
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function findModule(const namespaceURL: string): TXQuery;
Finds a certain registered XQuery module
class function findNativeModule(const ns: string): TXQNativeModule;
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class procedure registerCollation(const collation: TXQCollation);
Registers a collation for custom string comparisons
class function getCollation(id:string; base: string): TXQCollation;
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class procedure registerNativeModule(const module: TXQNativeModule);
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A masseur once extolled the beauty of massage to me with the kind of phrase that called to mind grade school reports on multiculturalism, with accompanying dioramas. "It's about enjoying cultural differences," he said, by way of explaining why it is that one would intentionally seek out shiatsu in Iceland, New Age woo woo in Santa Fe, or the knee in the back at Bangkok's Wat Po.
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In my experiences with Indian massage, I have sometimes left feeling like a lab rat (as when an Ayurvedic doctor in Kerala insisted on blowing turmeric smoke up my nose, administering a raw flower paste to my hair, and applying medicinal goo to the insides of my eyelids) and sometimes been moved toward a state of consciousness one associates with recreational drugs.
At the newly built spa of the Taj Malabar hotel in Cochin, I recently found myself drifting in white-light serenity as a masseur slathered me with medicinal oils. The oils had been prescribed by an Ayurvedic physician, who first analyzed the doshas that apparently constitute my energetic essence, and then noted that I would do well to spend the first 10 minutes after waking meditatingon my priorities. But I already do that. And, let's face it, what one seeks from therapeutic treatment is relaxation and increased well-being, not self-help advice filched from some faded text by Dale Carnegie.
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The mind is changeable. We notice this not just from day to day, but even in the passing of an hour. I'm told that something so changeable and impermanent is not fitting to be regarded as 'me' or as 'mine'. Fair enough, I agree.
I'm also told that I alone can train this mind to liberation from all these manifold ills that are pressing on me.
Am I to understand it that although there is nothing in mind and body that is fitting to be regarded as me or mine - therefore this mind is not mine - that, nevertheless it is to be trained by me and no one else? I am to train, mould, shape and teach something that is not mine, but that if trained well, will lead to happiness, but if left wild and untrained, leads onward to more sorrow?
What is this strange world we live in? It seems that I am intimately related to this mind, but that at the same time, I cannot lay claim to it as a possession.
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Specialties: Rehabilitation of ischemic stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease
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Specialties: Electrodiagnostic medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, chronic pain management, sports medicine
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Specialties: Neurorehabilitation, stroke rehabilitation
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Medical Director, RETURN! Brain Injury Outpatient Community Re-entry Program
Specialties: Concussion, brain injury, stroke, evaluation and treatment of patients who need outpatient neurorehabilitation
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Specialties: Chronic neck and back pain: acute and chronic management; interventional pain management, vertebral compression fractures
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Specialties: Pain management via spinal injections and nerve blocks, rehabilitation medicine, musculoskeletal and neuromuscular medicine, electrodiagnostic medicine
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It's down to the final four on this week's Top Model. Marjorie is struggling to deal with her self doubts and ends up a drunken mess in trying to embrace her new mentality. The girls learn how to use their expressiveness to sell a product, and after an extreme makeup shoot, another girl is sent packing.
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Back at the house, Marjorie has become a more of a ballsy kind of spastic when she invites the boys over that took them around their go-sees. They bring over many bottles of vino, and the only one of the girls who drinks is Marjorie who over does it. The next thing you know, she's a drunken mess who hooks up with a guy on a dare and ultimately ends up in the hot tub with him while fully clothed. Analeigh and the others try to look out for her sloppy pal by booting the boys. But of all the drunken madness, my favorite part is when McKey wrestles one of boys. And we're not talking cute flirty wrestling—we're talking headlocks and shoulder pinning. What goes with that girl?!
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Below is a letter several of us wrote and submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration around the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's November 12 & 13, 2009, Advisory Committee Meeting hearing around the use of social media.
Dear U.S. Food and Drug Administration:
There are many required activities to bring a new drug into the hands of the people who need it most. We believe the most important role is played by the drug development, clinical research, and patient recruitment process. To assist your agency's Advisory Committee on crafting guidelines regarding Internet and social media tool usage to promote medical products[1], we write to you to offer our recommendations. We also provide our thoughts concerning relevant topics that we feel are crucial in determining your policy decisions.
- 70 thousand clinical research studies are conducted at any given time.
- An estimated 2% of the U.S. population participates in clinical research studies with more than 70% of those participating likely to do so again (CISCRP).
- 94% of the public recognize the importance of participating in clinical research in order to assist in the advancement of medical science. Yet 75% of the general public state they have little to no knowledge about the clinical research enterprise and the participation process (CenterWatch).
- 57% of Americans say they would be likely to participate in clinical research (CICSCRP).
- Less than 5% of Americans know where to find information about relevant clinical trials (Getz, Tufts University)
Thus, the need to raise awareness of clinical trials among the public has never been more crucial. This demands that all media channels be harnessed, including traditional and digital means.
When drugs obtain FDA approval, marketing, advertising and communications initiatives are used to raise awareness of these new products. Likewise, at the beginning of the clinical research process, those same media initiatives are used by drug sponsors to help patients find treatment alternatives available in clinical studies. Every patient enrolled into a clinical study accelerates the advance of science and brings new viable treatments closer to reality.
We believe that raising the awareness of clinical research is an essential part of the drug marketing equation and is one that you must consider seriously. Why? Because more Americans are turning to the Internet to find medical information, so we need to help them find credible sources to make informed choices. Moreover, use of media, including social media, can serve as powerful agents to assist with patient enrollment, and ultimately in helping to bring new treatments to patients in need.
For more than 20 years, patient recruitment has been focused solely on attracting patients into clinical research studies by traditional marketing, advertising, and community outreach efforts. Our belief is that patients are best served by maximizing all communications channels, from traditional advertising to public relations to social media.
Historically, broadcast and print media have been used to great effect to enroll patients into clinical studies. With the advent of social media communication, we have witnessed an increasing use of this medium for patient recruitment purposes. Patients are finding it easier to search for alternative therapies online and gain access to treatments that they may not have been able to get or afford elsewhere. With 61% of American adults seeking medical help online, this trend will likely increase.[1]
Since the FDA currently allows for live television and radio interviews on scientific studies, clinical research, and FDA-approved drugs to be conducted with thought-leaders, we believe that a working model for communication in "real time" already exists. It is our recommendation that this model be adapted for crafting social media communications guidelines.
The rules governing Satellite Media Tours (SMTs) and Radio Media Tours (RMTs) provide a perfect example of the flexibility required for social media communications messaging while also adhering to FDA and HIPAA requirements. During TV or radio media interviews, the clinical study spokesperson must faithfully respect the core content requirements approved by the IRB, yet is given latitude to address the questioner appropriately. That is, the response of the study spokesperson is not pre-scripted because the question is unpredictable. However, the foundational content from which the spokesperson may cultivate his answer must align as closely as possible. This allowance for adaptive response provides a perfect balance between the need to honestly inform the public and still conform to the nuance of live conversation.
It is this same balance that we as practitioners within the social media realm seek from the FDA as it develops its guidelines regarding social media for patient recruitment. Sites such as Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and others have instant messaging functionality, rendering their format akin to live Q&A sessions on radio or TV. The spontaneity of conversations, particularly on Twitter, requires an adaptive framework to achieve transparency and trust within these mediums from ordinary users. Simply sending IRB-approved promotional messages about a clinical trial without using the medium in ways typical of a common user raises suspicions of spamming. We ideally envision using this medium through messages that are faithful to IRB-approved core clinical study content, without the rigidity of a pre-fabricated response. That is, allowing adaptive messaging that conforms to IRB-approved content is crucial to communicating effectively and establishing transparency and authenticity. This approach means viewers won't have to be subjected to canned messages and awkward responses, but can rely on a fluid conversation that honors social practice. Given the character limitations of certain mediums (e.g. Twitter's 140-character text limit), we also see a need for flexibility in messaging through acronyms and abbreviated responses.
Using Twitter as an example, a typical user will "re-tweet" (or re-send) messages of others deemed newsworthy or interesting. Likewise, Twitter users "follow" other users online to stay attuned to their messages, just as Facebook and MySpace users adopt "friends" to become a part of their social network. These typical uses form the etiquette of participation. This behavior helps viewers on social media sites to intuitively determine that the message sender is a bona fide human and not an automated spammer. Hence, we think that alongside IRB-approved clinical study awareness messages, there should be an allowance for non-study related messaging that includes news clips, resource links, re-tweets, and allows for the free exchange of conversation in much the same way that live radio and television Q&As are now managed by the FDA.
Accordingly, we encourage the FDA to expand its rules in the public relations area, specifically its SMT and RMT rules, to embrace the social media tent. We believe that the familiarity with these current rules among all stakeholders provides the necessary predictability and assurance that the public and communicators expect, while streamlining the FDA's administrative responsibilities. All learning curves are avoided by applying tried-and-true rules already in place. We add that the success of the current regulatory framework for live television and radio is predominately because it is geared to their mediums. By expanding this long-standing rubric to social media, which shares its characteristics, the FDA can confidently predict a good fit. Protecting the safety and welfare of the public depends on rules that have proven their muster. We sincerely believe that the body of rules governing television and radio messaging for patient recruitment in a live forum meets this benchmark and should be adopted for social media.
As you consider the commercial market in developing your policies on social media usage, we encourage you to consider what is taking place on the clinical side. 87% of clinical trials should not be failing due to lack of patient recruitment. This number is too high and the toll on waiting patients seeking new treatments is unconscionable. Social media communications can help us close the gap between patients and the trials available for their participation. By developing concrete social media guidelines in the clinical research arena, your agency will bring expanded access of alternative treatments to patients across this country.
We are eager to make further recommendations to assist your mission and welcome your feedback. Thank you for your consideration.
- Leigh Fazzina, Sr. Healthcare Communications|PR|Social Media Consultant
- Carmen R. Gonzalez, Patient Clinical Trial Recruitment Strategist
- William Stone, Sr. Healthcare Marketing Consultant
- John Benbrook, CEO, MMG
- Christine Pierre, CEO, RxTrials Inc.
- Deborah R. Tunick, RN, Director of Clinical Operations, Chesapeake Research Group, LLC
- Ira J. Gottlieb, DPM, Medical Director, Chesapeake Research Group, LLC
[2] Pew Internet & American Life Project, June 11, 2009; http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1248/americans-look-online-for-health-information


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The Cold Commands (A Land Fit for Heroes #2) by Richard Morgan
|Written by Michelle on Oct 10, 2011 | 5 comments | Forum Discussion
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This review contains minor spoilers for The Steel Remains.
The Cold Commands is the much anticipated sequel to The Steel Remains, the 2008 fantasy debut of acclaimed science fiction author Richard Morgan. After a three year hiatus, the second installment of A Land Fit for Heroes has finally arrived—and it will not disappoint. No holds are barred in this fast-paced genre shake-up, its pages veritably bursting with passion, action, intelligence, and pathos.
Set approximately one year after the events of The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands reunites us with forgotten war heroes Ringil, Archeth, and Egar, albeit in somewhat altered circumstances. Exiled from his homeland and endowed with strange abilities from his time in the Grey Places, Ringil has taken to what he refers to as 'abolishing slavery.' However, as the slave trade is legal in Trelayne, his actions have marked him as an outlaw with a rather hefty bounty on his head. Hunted from every direction and with nowhere else to go, his last hope may be to seek asylum in Yhelteth with the Kiriath half-breed royal adviser, Archeth Indamaninarmal.
However, not all is well in the southern capital. In addition to dealing with the increasingly fanatic Citadel and serving the whims of her decadent monarch, Archeth is receiving strange warnings of approaching darkness from the Helmsmen. Furthermore, her house-guest Egar the Dragonbane, former steppe nomad, feels stifled by Yhelteth society and grows ever more reckless in his boredom. Tensions reach breaking point, old enemies plot, dark forces stir. And with an insidious plot penetrating Yhelteth society to its very core, never has the danger lurked so close to home.
Anyone for some edgy 'retro dystopic sci-fi/fantasy noir?'
All in all, The Cold Commands takes everything that made The Steel Remains great and amps it up to the next level. It's darker, faster, grittier, and more violent than its predecessor while providing the same generous servings of black humor, snappy dialogue, and cynical, razor-sharp wit. The fascinating alien technologies, strange powerful races, and science fiction elements introduced in the previous novel also receive enhanced focus. For instance, the self-aware mechanical constructs, the Helmsmen, play a much greater role throughout The Cold Commands, and we learn more about their abilities and purpose. The origins of their creators—the ebony-skinned, technologically advanced Kiriath—are also explored in further detail, as are those of their enemy, the reality-shifting Dwenda. The strange gods of the Dark Court also play a hand in events, and we see more and learn more of the significance of the Grey Places: the realm between realities full of unrealized possibilities and unchosen paths.
However, there's more to The Cold Commands than strange creatures and sword fights. Morgan resumes his edgy socio-political satire and re-embarks on his poignant exploration of human nature. Themes of corruption, fanaticism, and bigotry are all addressed throughout the novel, and readers are forced to question their beliefs regarding concepts such as revenge, justice, love and camaraderie. Nevertheless, it's not all darkness and despair. The Cold Commands also contains more tender, hopeful scenes to offset the bloodshed, providing a peculiar sense of warmth in a world more accustomed to the cold clash of steel. These stand as small reminders that perhaps there is still something worth fighting for in Morgan's otherwise bleak version of reality.
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Undeniably, Morgan's main strength lies in his characters, specifically his ability to make the reader care about them even when their actions verge on the reprehensible and their motivations are morally suspect. Throughout The Cold Commands, we learn more about the damaged, imperfect misfits we first met in The Steel Remains. Ringil, Archeth, and Egar are undeniably and recognizably human and face greater challenges than ever before both in the events that unfold around them and from within themselves. They are not infallible and frequently make mistakes or allow their passions to cloud their judgement. Even if we don't agree with a character's actions in a given situation at least we can understand them.
Once again, there is no black-and-white morality in this series; everything and everyone is a shade of grey. For instance, we are reminded that Archeth—despite appearing superficially to be the least morally ambiguous of the protagonists—is instrumental in preserving the empire of a rather cruel and self-indulgent Emperor. As a near-immortal, she is able to take 'the long view' and overlook immediate corruption if it serves a greater purpose. Yet the answers to various questions are never clear cut. It may be corrupt and imperfect, but if not the Empire, what else? The fanatical Citadel? In some cases, one must be willing to choose the lesser of two evils. Additionally, like the reader, the characters are frequently forced to face that age old question: does the end justify the means? And what do you do if it doesn't?
A conclusion that will leave you gasping for breath
While still relatively self-contained, The Cold Commands encompasses a much larger scope than its predecessor and is more obviously part of a trilogy. It lays down the foundations for the third and final novel while carefully avoiding the dreaded 'second book slump' that has some writers sacrificing the middle book as mere filler before the final installment. Although the plot slows down slightly around the middle to encompass some enhanced character development, all the pieces fall into place soon enough and the story continues on its path to a truly epic and relentless climax. For the last quarter of the novel, I found myself glued to the book, frantically turning pages and unable to look away. Morgan is not averse to killing characters and I must admit this was one of the rare instances in which I had literally no idea whether my favorite characters would even survive the next few pages. To top it off, the conclusion is absolutely stunning and left me feeling shell-shocked and hungry for the next installment.
You haven't read gritty until you've read this
Those who have already read The Steel Remains probably know what to expect; however, any new readers should consider themselves forewarned. Those who pick up The Cold Commands expecting mindless escapism will be in for a rather nasty surprise. Morgan does not shy away from the depiction of graphic sex and violence, drug use or coarse language and although all are used within context, anyone adverse to gritty realism may want to look elsewhere. Some may also detect a rather cynical portrayal of organized religion. While this may alienate certain readers, I personally interpreted it as more disparaging towards blind religious fanaticism in general than an attack on any particular real-world faith. Additionally, those put-off by the homosexual aspects of The Steel Remains will find no respite here, as Morgan brings them back with renewed vigor. Nevertheless, I doubt anyone likely to be scared off by such content will have managed to make it this far into the trilogy.
Why should you read this book?
Richard Morgan is an accomplished author at the top of his game and The Cold Commands stands as a testament to this fact. While new readers should probably start with The Steel Remains in order to experience the books to their fullest, this work surpasses its predecessor on almost every front. While it may not be for everyone, A Land Fit for Heroes will undoubtedly appeal to anyone tired of the old fantasy tropes or just looking for something a little bit different. Sharp, fast, furious, and well written, The Cold Commands is a must read for anyone who likes gritty, edgy fantasy that is unafraid to explore complex or difficult issues. Lastly, it is the second book in what is shaping up to be an absolutely unforgettable trilogy and sets the scene for what should be a truly mind blowing conclusion in the third book. All I can say is this—bring it on!
Michelle received an advance copy of The Cold Commands courtesy of Gollancz Australia.
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The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) is responsible for licensing drivers. Visit http://www.iowadot.gov/ to find an office near you.
What Percentage of People Fail the Test?
According to statistics, 70% of first-time test takers will fail the exam. Should you fail, please be aware that many states require you to wait at least a day to retake the exam and many also charge a re-examination fee. To improve your chances of passing the first time, try taking multiple practice exams that have been designed to closely mirror the actual Iowa drivers' test.
How Much Does This Test Cost?
The fee is $6.
What Can I Expect on Test Day?
Plan to visit the local driver testing office with proper identification and a parent or guardian who will need to sign your application. While at the office you will also need to pass the written knowledge test and a vision test to receive your Learner's Permit.
The Iowa Permit Test–What You Need to Know
It's such a great feeling to get your permit as it represents the first time you can really experience the freedom that comes with being a legal driver. And before you know it, you'll have your driver's license allowing you go where you want, when you want.
But before the state can issue you a learner's permit, Iowa's Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) requires you to first pass the Iowa permit test. This written exam is designed to test your understanding of the rules of the road, traffic and road signs, safety rules, and Iowa traffic laws.
Now is the Time to Prepare for Your Iowa Permit Test
Did you know that statistics tell us that 1 out of every 2 first time test-takers fail the exam? Why are there so many test failures? Is it lack of preparation or failure to practice? The answer is both.
To help you successfully begin preparing for your permit test, we've put together a collection of essential study material on this page. Here you'll find top-notch study resources including our free Iowa practice permit test. You'll also find the official driving manual for Iowa for easy reference. We even provide study resources for those who want their motorcycle permit.
Stop wishing you had your learner's permit and let our study material help you begin preparing for success. Take advantage of the study tools now and before you know it, you'll be enjoying the freedom of the open road.