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Clojure today exists at a balance point between performance and dynamic flexibility. Some users would be willing to sacrifice dynamic features to gain more performance. Other users would be willing to sacrifice performance to gain better development error messages or debugging. The problem we aim to solve is to alter the Clojure build such that we can produce alternate versions of Clojure that are useful to smaller audiences while retaining Clojure as it is today.
Example builds we may want to produce (examples, not finalized):
- "dev" build
- More detailed error messages that would affect performance if included in default build
- Skip locals clearing or other features to aid in debugging
- Other features that may aid in development but affect performance
- "dyn" build
- Similar to what you get now with Clojure 1.6
- "prod" build
- Direct linking (static vars are inlined to be static fn calls) to gain greater perf
- Trim metadata (omit docstrings for speed and space savings)
- "experimental" build
- A place to provide experimental compiler features that we want users to evaluate for the default build
Clojure users:
- Build profile artifacts should be available in public Maven repositories for use with existing build systems (Leiningen, Maven)
- Different artifacts: [org.clojure/clojure-foo "1.6.0"]
- Different qualifiers: [org.clojure/clojure "1.6.0-foo"]
- Different classifiers: [org.clojure/clojure "1.6.0" :classifier "foo"]
- Some features may require further compiler flags or metadata to activate even if using the specialized build
- For example, you may need to supply ^:static metadata on a function to get access to this feature
- Ideally, use of the special feature should be simply ignored if not using the specialized build (or a warning should direct you)
- Produce multiple output jars each time we build a version (snapshot or release)
- The jars will contain different versions of the classes
- Specialized build flags or env variables will need to be set during the build for each variant
- Hudson CI server must be able to build and test custom builds as part of the dependency matrix
- Hudson CI server must be able to perform releases for all of the variants
- The compiler will need a standard way to determine which variant is active to make decisions during compilation.
Usage Scenarios
Clojure dyn (AOT)
- Same as now, can redef calls to core Clojure fns both externally and internally
- Metadata available
Clojure prod (AOT)
- Clojure code is compiled with direct linking
- Internal calls from one Clojure core function to another cannot be redefined (due to AOT)
- External code can redef calls to core Clojure fns
- Some metadata is trimmed (docstrings) to save space and loading time
- Same as now (but use of Clojure core depends on which version you use as above)
- As source is loaded and compiled, internal references are statically linked
- External calls to application functions can be redefined
- Internal calls to application functions can be
Clojure prod (AOT) + Application dyn source
Clojure prod (AOT) + Library prod source + Application prod source
How do these scenarios affect what the end Application can do? How do intermediate libraries choose what they depend on and publicize what they're doing to users?
A particular ns could choose different choices for how to link other namespaces, its own namespace, or even some functions in its own namespace. Leaving a small number of "main loop" fns dynamic could allow for runtime system patching.
Maven coordinate options
- Different artifactId
- Releasing different artifacts would probably require running the build multiple times - there are probably some complexities in the CI and release process as a result.
- Different qualifier
- Qualifiers are really designed to give you more information about the purpose of a released version (alpha, beta, GA, build number), so this would be departing from standard Maven expectations.
- Different classifier
- Classifiers are designed for this use case - they allow you to create variants of the same group/artifact/version specialized for a particular environment (JDK variants is one example given)
- Lein and Maven can both specify a classifier - in lein with [org.clojure/clojure "1.6.0" :classifier "foo"]
- It seems good that the main build and variant share Maven co-ords - there is then a standard way to get from main artifact to (for example) the dev variant for tooling.
- How-to in Maven
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3092085/building-same-project-in-maven-with-different-artifactid-based-on-jdk-used
- Create one Maven profile per output artifact, in each profile:
- Set a property that can be used as the <classifier> in the maven-jar-plugin
- Set <activation><active-by-default> to false
- Set system property compiler flags that need to be active during Clojure compilation for the foo variant
- Turn off generation of the -sources and -javadoc classifier artifacts in these variant builds
- Run the release once per profile - this can be automated in Maven with a matrix build
- How-to in Ant
- Define property that can be set to activate a particular variant
- Set that property when running the build
Maven custom assembly
- The Maven assembly plugin allows for arbitrary customization of the artifacts created by the build. However, creating multiple artifacts with different Maven coordinates will likely require multiple builds to produce each artifact for deployment.
Custom script (ant, make, etc)


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Yosemite National Park > North Peak > Northwest Ridge > Climber's Log
Northwest Ridge Climber's Log
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|NW Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2012
|Great scramble. Climbed this route with two other climbers (Scott and Rob). Good challenge at the second impasse and a great summit view.
|Posted Oct 16, 2012 1:09 pm
|Vitaliy M.
|NW ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2011
|Fun solo after hiking up to Shepherd Crest for some views from across
9/17/2011 Link up of NW ridge with North ridge of Conness and West ridge of Conness...great day out
|Posted Aug 22, 2011 6:26 pm
|Fun scrambling
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2010
|Nice outing from Saddlebag Lake on a beautiful day !
|Posted Sep 17, 2010 1:27 am
|Very fun cruise!
|Posted Sep 9, 2009 9:30 pm
|Sam Roberts
|Fun climb
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2009
|Fun morning scramble on good rock. Too bad it isn't longer...
|Posted Aug 29, 2009 12:16 am
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2009
|Linked up NW Ridge of North Peak with North Ridge of Conness (second time). With Mike who had his first free solo experience. Cloudless and beautiful day
|Posted Aug 16, 2009 6:31 pm
|Solo traverse w/ Conness
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2008
|Great route - beautiful rock with exciting exposure... technical section much shorter than expected.
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 6:49 pm
|3 Route Solo Linkup
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2008
|Soloed with Miguel. First Sierra climb ever. Warmup rout of our North Peak NW Ridge -> Conness N Ridge -> Conness W Ridge linkup (all 3 routes in just under 11 hrs car-to-car). First Sierra climbing day!
|Posted Aug 20, 2008 2:46 pm
|Part of 3 routes day
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2008
|Warmed up on North Peak's NW Ridge as part of our 3 routes day link-up: NW Ridge North Peak --> North Ridge Conness --> West Ridge Conness. Climbed with Will. We started just before 6:00AM at Saddlebag Lake and summited North Peak by ~ 8:40AM.
|Posted Aug 18, 2008 3:39 pm
|Fun Scramble
Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2008
|Fun climb, great addition to the north ridge of Conness. It also has some exciting gap jumps.
|Posted Jul 31, 2008 1:13 am
|Fun route!
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2008
|First time dealing with such exposure, awesome time. Wish we could've hit Conness afterwards...
|Posted Jul 28, 2008 12:53 am
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2008
|Started with this short route and followed with the North ridge of Conness. The technical section is fairly short and involved some big jumps in order to clear gaps. Fun route though.
|Posted Jul 9, 2008 11:26 pm
|Fun scramble
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2006
|A fun scramble, climbed with D-Rod and ScottyS. It would be nice if the technical section were a bit longer, it was quite entertaining, steep but manageable.
|Posted Sep 1, 2006 2:19 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2006
|Warmed-up on NW Ridge for the solo of North Ridge of Conness. Good climbing with a couple of interesting moments. I just wish that it was longer and more technical :)
|Posted Aug 28, 2006 4:28 pm

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By Jaideep Varma and Jatin Thakkar
Australia 252/9; India 165 (Australia won by 87 runs)
The scorecard of the match is here.
India undid the good work that their bowlers did for them when Australia batted first and soundly repeated their recognizable theme of the Australian summer - resounding failure with the bat. It was only during the 7-over (from the 8th over to the 16th), 44-run stay from familiar quarters - also the biggest partnership of the innings, when India actually looked on even keel, perhaps even ahead. But it all ended abjectly, pusillanimously...familiarly.
This is the match seen through the Impact Index prism.
David Warner
, with an innings of 66 in 68 balls, within the context of this match, was easily the highest impact player of the match. He absorbed the pressure of 57 for 3 and was out at 107 (in the 21st over) and was largely responsible for there being no run-rate pressure on the Australians. His was the highest impact batting performance of the match and he was rightly given the Man-of-the-Match award.
Shane Watson provided the highest impact bowling performance of the match - despite being saddled with captaincy responsibility in his very first match after his injury break. As the premier ODI all-rounder in the game today, he lived up to his IMPACT numbers, and followed up a disappointing early dismissal with the highest Economy IMPACT of the match to go with his 2 crucial wickets when India was beginning to stabilise, which also registered the highest Pressure Building IMPACT on the match. Along with the impact of his captaincy and his two catches, he had the second-highest impact in the match.
Matthew Wade, Australian wicketkeeper, produced a crucial 56 (off 66 balls) at a crucial juncture (107 for 4) and had the third-highest impact in the game.
David Hussey, who was very lucky to survive an obstructing-the-field appeal at a crucial juncture (it is strange how many laws are being allowed to be rendered useless due to this nonsensical application of the "spirit-of-the-game" sentiment; a good percentage of penalties in football would not be given if a similar logic was applied - "self-defence"), was the fourth-highest impact player of the match with his 54 in 64 balls - it took Australia to considerable safety, which in the end, perhaps made all the difference.
Warner and David Hussey were the only batsmen in the match to absorb pressure successfully.
Xavier Doherty and Daniel Christian produced the only all-round performances of the day. Doherty's 13 (in 9 balls) and 2 for 26 (in 7.3 overs) getting him a Batting IMPACT of 1 and Bowling IMPACT of 2.40 respectively. He was the fifth-highest impact player of the match. Christian got 24 in 32 balls, and then pitched in with 1 wicket for 8 runs…all of which got him an IMPACT of 3.08. It was that kind of a match.
Virender Sehwag's unexpected spell of 3 for 43 in the end-overs had an impact of 2.94 and a very minor contribution with the bat actually narrowly made him India's highest impact player. It is a sad reflection of India's poor batting performance that just 5 runs in 11 balls could have even registered any kind of impact.
Praveen Kumar was India's best Test bowler in 2011 and the star when India won the CB Series in 2008. So, it had been very perplexing why he was not being given an extended run in this tournament, especially after a somewhat rusty beginning to this campaign. That sanity was perhaps on a rotation basis too was somewhat demonstrated today as he was overwhelmingly India's best bowler - he helped India begin the match very well. He was India's highest impact bowler and had a significant Economy IMPACT.
Umesh Yadav was the only bowler to have a Partnership-Breaking IMPACT in the match. His two wickets got him a reasonable impact in the match but his negative Economy IMPACT undid a lot of his good work.
That the much-vaunted Indian batting failed miserably can be seen from the fact that Ashwin and Pathan were India's highest impact batsmen, with scores of 26 and 22 respectively. They might have just failed to take their last chance in this series.
Overall, Australia had a Team IMPACT of 2.42 as compared to India's 1.57 in this match. A big gap to reflect the sorry state of Indian affairs, especially with the bat.
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By Alessandro Pasetti and Edward Tan
Taking a page from U.S. Cold War foreign policy, China is encouraging its banks to stake claims far from their home turf, from the Philippines to Australia, Venezuela and Ghana. The motives are geopolitical, and some of the Chinese lending is on less-than-commercial terms.
But at a time when U.S. and European banks are capital-constrained, Chinese banks, with their ample, low-cost capital and political backing, could carve a significant niche for themselves in regions that Western banks have long dominated.
It is easy to dismiss the Chinese moves as foreign aid rather than commercial banking — particularly the $1.5 billion financing Venezuela's national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) signed up in April. China Development Bank (CDB) and Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento were the sole bookrunners; Citigroup is the lone U.S. bank among the 13 lead managers. Six other Chinese banks participated. [Read our coverage here.]
Given Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's hostility to the States, U.S. banks were not destined to lead the PDVSA deal. And the Chinese lenders may learn the hard way the perils of lending to a country with 30% annualized inflation, 38% of its people below the poverty line and food shortages. On top of the country's problems, the borrower has suffered an exodus of skilled workers and it has been strained as the government nationalizes other businesses and rolls them into PDVSA, diluting its focus on restoring oil production and reserves.
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What is this medicine?TRIAMCINOLONE (trye am SIN oh lone) is a corticosteroid. It is used on the skin to reduce swelling, redness, itching, and allergic reactions.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
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The Produce Marketing Association and Western Growers Association partnered with the Center for Produce Safety on a new report about agricultural water and its effect on food safety.
The five-year research review features key findings from the center and research efforts and other public sources. Topics in its 45 pages include:
- Human pathogen prevalence, quality and persistence in agricultural water;
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"It's an excellent resource for industry members participating in the forthcoming Food Safety Modernization Act produce rule policy debate regarding appropriate and effective agricultural water preventive control standards," Jim Gorny, PMA vice president of food safety and technology, said in a news release.
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Boat Tests
- Palm Beach
- Palm Beach 45
- 2013
- Cruiser
- 49'0"
- 14'6"
- 3'0"
- 26,880 lb.
- Various pods, conventional shafts, or jet-drives
- 315 gal.
- 185 gal.
Layout Diagram
CONDITIONS DURING BOAT TESTAir temperature: 79°F; humidity: 45%; seas flat
LOAD DURING BOAT TEST300 gal. fuel, 100 gal. water, 5 persons, misc. gear.
2/435-mhp Volvo Penta IPS600 diesels
The Numbers
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|Speeds are two-way averages measured by Garmin GPS. GPH taken via Volvo display. Range is based on 90% of advertised fuel capacity. Sound levels taken at the helm.
The Power of One
Boatbuilder Mark Richards of Palm Beach Motor Yachts knows that success for his company is gained through quality, not quantity.
Before I properly introduce you to this special 45-foot express boat, I have a concept that I'd like to run by you. Don't get too excited, it's far from earth shattering. It's certainly not something as awesome as combining peanut butter with jelly in the same jar. Man, that was pure genius. No, this is a bit simpler and far less innovative.
My little personal thesis is that true boatbuilders—passionate souls like Mark Richards of Palm Beach Motor Yachts—belong on their shop floors with a light coating of sawdust from head to toe, a sharpened pencil resting behind the ear, with one eye always monitoring the surrounding beehive of activity. And the private-equity bankers and accountants that descended upon the boatbuilding business a decade ago belong in the boardroom.
I mean no disrespect to the latter. After all, my former business banker was a godsend and eventually became a friend—well, right up until my venture crashed and burned. However, I just don't see boatbuilding—I'm talking the practice of honest-to-goodness craftsmanship—as a financial enterprise where large investors are going to extract healthy yields to satisfy their own investors and consistently generate big-time profits. Lord knows folks have tried.
There are no columns on those bankers' spreadsheets to account for innovation, skills, and most importantly, passion. Frankly, most of the large financial plays have unraveled, all the while certain folks like Richards have kept their heads down, their pencils sharpened, and gone on producing beautiful boats for discerning, like-minded individuals.
My friend, boatbuilder Mark Pearson—son of fiberglass boat pioneer Everett Pearson—enlightened me on his philosophy of boatbuilding as a business during dinner in Rhode Island some years back, "Some years will be good, and you'll make money," he said. "Some years you won't, but if you can keep good people employed and do what you all love, then you're ahead. People will never understand that." Well, Mark Richards does.
"I don't want to be the biggest, I just want to build the best boats for a dozen or so people a year and I'm happy," he told me last spring while we were leaving Southport, Australia, along the country's Gold Coast, onboard the new 45. And this latest creation will certainly help lead the charge in that pursuit.
Since starting operations in 1995, Richards and his team have perfected and evolved his hull design. If you've perused enough boat reviews, you surely have read a line about a boat's hole shot and time required to plane. Well, this sort of thing is not exactly appropriate in a review of the new Palm Beach 45 Express. The waterline grabs hold of the surface with a vengeance during the entire speed curve. When more power is applied the bow doesn't shoot skyward, the boat just moves faster with a seakindly motion. This is a result of Richards's slippery, warped planing-hull design that keeps the bow down without the need to apply any trim tabs at all, even with pod drives.
Palm Beach is essentially a custom yard, although on the 45 Richards is hoping to achieve a little more standardization since the smaller the boat, the smaller the margin. The yard accommodates a variety of propulsion systems based on owner preference, including conventional shafts, IPS pods, and Zeus pods, as well as jets. A pair of 435-horsepower Volvo Penta IPS600s powered our test boat. The engines are placed just abaft amidships and employ jackshafts that connect the engine with the pods located beneath the cockpit. This distributes the weight appropriately and enhances the aforementioned, fine running characteristics. During our test, we achieved a top speed of nearly 34 knots at 3600 rpm. However, I found the sweet spot at about 83 percent load, or 3000 rpm. This produces 25 knots while burning a total of 25 gallons per hour. And it's so damn quiet at these speeds that I kept looking at both GPS units in disbelief.
The Palm Beach 45 benefits from Richards's extensive sailboat-racing background, where weight reduction is the name of the game. Composite construction and high-tech laminates keep the 45's displacement down to a featherweight 26,880 pounds. All bulkheads and furniture are bonded to the hull and deck for added strength. Richards approaches mechanical and electrical systems through the eyes of an offshore sailor, where simplicity and serviceability are key to both safety and success. Every filter, pump, and piece of equipment is arranged for easy access. I tested another Palm Beach a few years back that Richards built for a die-hard sailor and the boat was innocent of almost all extra mechanical equipment, such as air conditioning, generator, or extra fridges. It got me thinking.…
The interior of the 45 is a departure from the builder's traditional all-teak fit out. (In my opinion, the craftsmen of Palm Beach are some of the best in the world, bar none. I try and try to look for a flaw, just one little raised joint or blemish, and can never find anything.) For this model, Richards eliminated some teak and introduced exquisitely finished and stylishly painted fiberglass and composite components trimmed with satin-finished teak accents. The result is a lighter build, less cost, and a fresh, contemporary look. A more traditional teak interior is available as an option.
Our test boat featured a single-stateroom, galley-down arrangement. Several layouts are available, including a two-stateroom version. Without the galley, the saloon is huge and benefits from overhead hatches, opening windows, and almost completely unobstructed, 360-degree lines of sight. The aft-galley arrangement also works well and places the food-service area directly at the cockpit. Drop the bulkhead window and you're in business.
The 45, however, is not just a delicate flower, better suited for wine and cheese sojourns in the next cove. She's designed to cruise. During our test, I kept thinking about taking this boat to repeat a trip I took up the Inside Passage a few years back, terminating in Wrangell, Alaska. The layout, the wide decks, beefy hardware, well-engineered anchoring system with Muir windlass, the abundant stowage for necessary items such as spare parts, tools, food, cases of beverages, and more, make the 45 a better cruising boat than some boats that are marketed as such. Yes indeed, anchored in the deep waters of Santa Ana Inlet with my crab trap over the side, a pot of coffee brewing on the stove, what could be better?
Australia's emphasis on outdoor entertaining and family time parallels America's. Our test boat had a semi-permanent canvas top tightly stretched on stainless steel vertical supports. This option would be more than suitable for the cold cruising scenario or the tropics. A telescoping unit is available if the lines of the more rigid top offend your aesthetic senses. The 45's spacious cockpit also features an L-shaped settee, a transom door to the large swim platform, a refrigerator, and loads of stowage. The space flows seamlessly up one step into the saloon.
Richards offers express and flying bridge models from 45 feet to 65 feet, and I've been fortunate to drive them all. Better yet, I've been fortunate enough to sit down and talk shop with a boatbuilding addict who knows success will be gained by building the best boats, not the most.
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The Navy has released a San Diego commander's flirtatious cellphone texts and emails that were sent to female sailors under his command.
U-T San Diego reported Wednesday ( http://bit.ly/16bfsvz ) that the Navy released the messages that led to the removal of Cmdr. Allen Maestas in response to the newspaper's Freedom of Information Act request.
Maestas was removed May 16 from his post as the second-in-command of his unit because the Navy said the messages were inappropriate for a senior-subordinate relationship.
Over a series of texts to one sailor under his command, Maestas said "weekends sorta suck cause I don't get to see you until Monday" and "I'm jealous u r in (pa)jamas. I wish I could join u."
He also sent texts asking the sailor to send photos of herself in shorts or "in any pose." He also texted, "Sure wish U could give a good back massage."
According to the Navy's findings, Maestas sent similar messages to other women under his command.
To one of the women, Maestas offered to wash her truck for her if her boyfriend couldn't do it. In her statement, the sailor said she traded in the vehicle to avoid future comments from him.
The investigation concluded that Maestas inquired about sailors' personal lives out of a genuine interest in helping them, but that he also used it as a pretext to cross the line.
The report also says that he followed offensive remarks with a smiley face in the messages so that later he could claim he was only kidding.
The executive officer denied any wrongdoing, according to an interview transcript, but later wrote a statement stating that family problems from deployments made his professional standards "slip."
"I started allowing myself to have conversations with my subordinates that I wouldn't normally have," he wrote. "I was looking for someone to talk to."
Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, a spokeswoman for San Diego's Naval Surface Forces command, told the U-T: "The messages were inappropriate and unprofessional and did not respect the senior-subordinate relationship. Sailors deserve an environment where they feel comfortable in the work place."
The case came as the military has been under the spotlight for how it handles sexual assault cases.


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The usual accoutrements line the stylist stations at Johnny's Classic Barber Shop: straight razors, clippers, Barbasol and Clubman talc. Owner Johnny Boucher plans to add picture wire, a level, hammer and nails to the mix, as the shop hosts its first-ever art show.
"One of my clients, a photographer, pitched me the idea," Boucher says of the exhibit, which he hopes will morph into a monthly series. "Before I knew it, artists started coming out of the woodwork. Everybody's an artist here…it's Santa Fe!"
Hence Classic One, a group show that features New Mexico landscape photographer Xavier Anderson, who rocks a "fairly traditional gentleman's haircut"; abstract expressionist Larry Blissett, who sports a pompadour; and Polaroid artist Matt Sanford, whose work is pictured and has a "pretty wild haircut: short on the sides and tapers up steeply."
"I'm dying to see it happen," Boucher says from a barber's chair, taking a breather between appointments.
The accidental curator says the show will run the gamut from "really beautiful, professional-level work to some quirky, individualistic" pieces.
He explains that the show arose from his clients'/artists' need to exhibit their work outside of the local gallery system.
The initiative follows a local trend of artists finding alternative venues for display and representation—like Grant Kosh [Arts Valve, Jan. 30: "Brush With Fame"], who shows his work exclusively at the Atomic Grill.
"It's a frustrating situation for them," Boucher, a former textbook publisher, points out. "We have wonderful galleries and museums here, but for a modest artist, it's difficult."
Distancing his initiative even further from traditional galleries, Boucher says that, in keeping with a "for the love of art" vein, he won't take a commission on sold works.
"This is just for my guys," he says. "It'll be interesting for the clients, it'll be fun for me and everyone will be happy. It's one of those win-win situations."
Classic One
6 pm "to whenever" Friday, March 22. Free.
Johnny's Classic Barber Shop, 855 Cerrillos Road


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Major Areas of Study: PUBLIC AFFAIRS
The interdisciplinary public affairs major at Muskingum University is designed to foster civic education and participation, and exposes students to a plethora of different views, insights and theories on government, business, and society.
The program is designed to give students the necessary tools for democratic citizenship and to help prepare them for a lifetime of engaged citizenship in the larger world where practical political decision making and democratic deliberation occur.
Student Opportunities
Students who major in public affairs are required to participate in an internship. Qualified students have the opportunity to study off-campus in the Washington Semester Programs at American University, which include classes at American University and internships, or at World Capitals Program of American University, a semester spent studying in various capital cities around the world. Our Public Affairs majors may also choose to pursue studies at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Interested and qualified students may also participate in Drew University's United Nations Semester, the London Semester, or the Semester in the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.
In addition to these possibilities, the department maintains an active traditional intern program in the surrounding area. Opportunities for students include ongoing internship arrangements with local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, as well as internships with state or federal agencies and elected officials. Additionally, the advisor to the public affairs major will help interested students make arrangements to intern near their home or summer location. These experiences provide on-site participation and a chance to apply what was learned in the classroom to a real-world setting. When students complete their internship, they will have a finished product that can be used to demonstrate critical thinking, writing, statistics, or other skills and attitudes to potential law schools, graduate schools, professional programs, or potential employers.
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The Public Affairs program is designed to prepare students for careers with various agencies and organizations at the national, state, and local levels by improving their skills to conduct planning, analysis, and evaluation of programs, projects, and the functioning of organizations. Options for majors include opportunities in the federal government (in the United States or overseas), state and local government, nonprofit organizations, law, business, international careers, journalism, campaigns and polling, pre-collegiate education, MA/Ph.D. careers, and careers in public service. Students are encouraged to share their career ideas with their advisor so that she or he can better suggest classes and internships that will enhance the students future success.
Additionally, the Public Affairs major is designed to prepare students for study beyond the bachelors degree in such areas as Law, Business, Public Administration, and Political Science. Students are encouraged to view their undergraduate education as part of a long-range process of rigorous professional education and preparation. Our recent grads in Public Affairs have primarily gone on to grad school or gotten jobs in the public sector (e.g., Director, Main Street Ohio, City of Cambridge; Zoning Administrator, Zanesville, Planner, Newark, OH and grad programs at Miami Ohio, Ohio University, and Cleveland State University.)
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A Young Family's Dreamy White Los Angeles House
Is this the smallest place you've ever lived in?
Zach Motl: No, my last apartment was 178 square feet, and I live on a sailboat on summer weekends— the ultimate small space.
Where do you hide your pillows?
In the closet, which is about 25 square feet. I hide everything in there. My clothes. Bike helmet. Shoes. Luggage. Bills. Old tax forms. Things that relate to work. The vacuum cleaner. Laundry. The closet helps a lot.
Your apartment is the size of a two-car garage, yet every corner seems zoned, practically with its own ZIP code. What's your small-space philosophy?
It's about making one room feel like five. It's about how you arrange the furniture, and how the pieces play off one another. The bed is in its own little niche; I call that the bedroom. The office is where my desk is, and the desk is opposite the bed, so the room feels balanced. The books are in another cor- ner—you could say that's the library. Everything has to fit like a puzzle. It's also about the reveal. I created an entry hall with the screen, so when you walk in, you don't see everything at once.
Talk about ruthless editing.
You have to edit! Every once in a while I go through a manic state where I throw stuff out, or store it. I have a sweater addiction, but this is it. My closet is maxed out. For a while I had 50 or 60 vintage National Geographics, and the stacks were beau- tiful, but they came to feel like curated clutter. If something doesn't work, it's got to go. I bought an amazing neoclassical daybed, three-quarter size. It was elegant, but too tall—it blocked too much win- dow. I tried to love it there. I even whitewashed it to make it airy, but it had to go.
Invention and salvage are style trademarks for Zach Motl, a window designer at Ralph Lauren's Madison Avenue store. The daybed in his Brooklyn studio is an assemblage of two Ikea Malm twin beds—he used the headboard and rails of one bed, substitut- ing the footboard with the headboard of the second bed. A street-find library table sawed in half yielded the slim console. Thomas O'Brien Longacre sconces, Visual Comfort.
I count seating for about 10. Is it party-friendly?
I had 37 people here for a holiday party! I removed one chair—it went in a friend's apartment upstairs—and people congregated in the kitchen and by the fireplace. When they're mingling, you'd be surprised how many people can fit.
Name the best piece you own.
I love my tuxedo-arm sofa. I got it at the Brooklyn flea market and had it reupholstered in a wool herringbone. The shape is hard to find, and it's on casters. It's modern, but it's classic.
What about the stripped-down modern daybed?
I made it from two Ikea Malm beds. I used one com- plete twin bed with its headboard, and for the other end, just the headboard from the second bed. It's very Parsons-style, very Jean-Michel Frank. And cheap—the beds were on sale for about $79 each. Spill some storage secrets. Those baskets under the bed are for electrical supplies and a hammer and glue gun. It's a toolbox, but spread out. I keep files and papers in boxes under the desk. I built a bathroom cabinet in the space vacated by an old metal hamper. And I have a car in New York as well, which is great for small-space living. My sewing machine is in my car.
Normally "an addict of color," Motl knew that a "crisp, clean, light" backdrop was key to expanding the space. He finished the floor with white stain; it practically flows into the white walls and melts into the Ralph Lauren Home sisal and Ikea flokati rugs. The low-slung chrome chair with linen back is from Beall & Bell, with a vintage blanket folded on the seat. "Chairs help define a space," Motl says, "both for seating arrangements and personality."
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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotel4.5-star luxury hotel, walk to Touro Synagogue
Popular property highlights
Located in the heart of Newport, this luxury hotel is steps from Jane Pickens Theater and Touro Synagogue. International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum and Naval War College Museum are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features 2 restaurants, a full-service spa, and an indoor pool. Free WiFi in public areas and free valet parking are also provided. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a sauna are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 33 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, along with conveniences such as refrigerators and microwaves. Free WiFi and iPod docks are standard, as are TVs with DVD players.
Guest Highlights
- Friendly, helpful staff
- Good location
- Breakfast
Grace Vanderbilt
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Grace Vanderbilt features an indoor pool and a health club. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
Business amenities at this 4.5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Event facilities measuring 1580 square feet (147 square meters) include a conference center. This Beaux Arts hotel also offers a seasonal outdoor pool, a sauna, and a rooftop terrace. Complimentary valet parking is available on site.
Grace Vanderbilt has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Health club
- Total number of rooms - 33
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Number of floors - 4
- One meeting room
- Free valet parking
- Picnic area
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 147
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Steam room
- Bar/lounge
- Wedding services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Billiards or pool table
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Rooftop terrace
- Garden
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 1909
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 1580
- Conference center
- Sauna
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free WiFi
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Television
- iPod docking station
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:30 AM and 11 AM.
Muse - This fine-dining restaurant serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
The Conservatory - This poolside restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a seasonal outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
Children under 14 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, or fitness facility without adult supervision.
Spa Services
The Vanderbilt Grace Spa has 3 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, massages, and facials. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna.
Children under 15 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Prenatal massage
- Number of treatment rooms 3
- Couples treatment rooms
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 10 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 150 per pet, per stay (maximum USD 100 per stay)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: USD 53.50 per accommodation, per night
- Pool access
- Spa access
- Beach towels
- Health club access
- Fitness center access
- Internet access
- In-room safe
- In-room coffee
- In-room bottled water
- Concierge/valet service
- Self parking
- Valet parking
- Parking
- Housekeeping
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 10 and USD 15 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: USD 150 per pet, per stay (maximum USD 100 per stay)
- Late check-out fee: USD 100.00
Hotel Name
- Grace Vanderbilt
- Vanderbilt Grace
- Vanderbilt Grace Hotel
- Vanderbilt Grace Hotel Newport
- Vanderbilt Grace Newport
- Vanderbilt Hall Newport
- Hotel Vanderbilt Hall
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We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. This property offers transfers from the train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 10 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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While I appreciate the benefits bike-a-thons give to organizations like the American Cancer Society, etc., the 22nd annual Konocti Challenge seems to benefit just the joy of biking and that's fine.
But when the bikers really tend to goad the drivers of cars, I draw the line. I was traveling up Soda Bay Road from Riviera West to the market and I saw them all traversing down Soda Bay in the opposite way. I noted that more than a few of them were not particularly paying attention to the bike lanes but were rather cycling down the middle of the street.
I finished my shopping and traveled down Soda Bay again to get home. There were throngs of bicyclists. Many were paying attention to staying in the bike lanes but more than a few were traveling in the middle of the road. I was patient to a point, but when safety demanded my car to slow down to 10 miles per hour or less I did get a bit frustrated and gave my car horn a light tap to indicate they should pull over to the bike lane.
The cyclists just ignored the horn and continued traveling down in the middle of the road. Obviously they loved the control they had over our streets.
Konocti Challenge organizers should, for next year's event, educate the cyclists as to the legal courtesies to fellow car travelers. The actions of these bicyclists were against the law.
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Ferndale all-around performer Meagan Earley watches her block drop in on the opponents side of the net in a Nov. 7 North Coast Section volleyball playoff game in Ferndale. The Lady Cats closed out the Chinese Christian Rams in three straight sets (25-22, 25-20, 25-17) to win their Division 6, opening round match. The Cats lost last Saturday evening down in Boonville, to the No. 1 seed Anderson Valley, 3 sets to 1.
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There is plenty of blame to go around in the credit crisis, and many investors and public officials have been placing it on the credit rating agencies that gave AAA ratings to some of the mortgage-backed financial instruments that allegedly contributed to billions in investor losses.
Attorneys general in Connecticut and Ohio have sued the big three rating agencies--Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch--and, in May, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office was revealed to be investigating the relationship between the ratings agencies and certain banks that peddled mortgage-backed securities. (Cuomo settled an investigation into the rating agencies' conduct leading up to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in 2008.) Moody's just disclosed that it received a Wells notice indicating a forthcoming SEC action. And more stringent regulation of the rating agencies is part of the financial reform package the Senate just passed.
"People bought this stuff that was rated Triple-A, and it went up in flames right and left," says Michael Gass, chair of the Securities Litigation and Corporate Governance Practice at Choate Hall & Stewart. "While there's been longstanding criticism of credit rating agencies, the sub-prime market securitization debacle really brought that issue to a very fine and intense point."
And the private litigation against the rating agencies is unfurling as well. The New York Times reported in May that of approximately 30 lawsuits against the agencies, judges have ruled on motions to dismiss in 15, with the rating agencies prevailing 12 times. Five have been dropped. But the tide may be turning.
"We're seeing now a very small handful of cases where plaintiffs' claims against the rating agencies are going forward," says Kevin LaCroix, an attorney and a partner at Oakbridge Insurance Services. "At the outset of the litigation wave [against the rating agencies] there was some question of whether anybody would get anywhere because of the rating agencies' success in past litigation." But LaCroix emphasizes that plaintiffs' success in recent litigation doesn't necessarily mean a wave of huge losses is about to hit the rating agencies--plaintiffs in these cases still face numerous hurdles.
Contemporaneous Crisis
In one case in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Shira Scheindlin rejected Moody's and S&P's motion to dismiss claims that their ratings fraudulently misrepresented the value of a structured investment vehicle named Rhinebridge, which plaintiffs called "the shortest-lived Triple-A investment fund in the history of corporate finance." Scheindlin's ruling at the motion to dismiss stage is a rare example of plaintiff success in litigation against the credit rating agencies.
In their motion to dismiss in King County, Washington v. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, et al., Moody's and S&P argued that the plaintiffs' losses were caused by the broader credit crisis, not their ratings of the Rhinebridge SIV.
Scheindlin didn't buy the defense, writing in an April 26 order, "To hold that plaintiffs failed to plead loss causation solely because the credit crisis occurred contemporaneously with Rhinebridge's collapse would place too much weight on one single factor and would permit S&P and Moody's to blame the asset-backed securities industry when their alleged conduct plausibly caused at least some proportion of plaintiffs' losses."
The ruling is a big blow to the "broader credit crisis" defense being raised at the motion to dismiss stage in these suits (see "Elephant in the Room").
Unprotected Speech
Another defense that has taken some recent hits is what Adam Savett calls "the strongest arrow in the quiver" for the rating agencies: the argument that the ratings, as the agencies' opinions, are protected by the First Amendment.
"I have trouble recalling a single case prior to 2008 where any of the credit rating agencies wasn't successful with the First Amendment defense," says Savett, director of Securities Class Action Services at RiskMetrics Group. "But starting in 2008, the allegation wasn't simply that the agency had an improper or incorrect rating, it's that instead of simply acting as a credit rater that they are involved in the design, implementation and issuance of the securities they rated."
In one such case in the Southern District of New York, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank v. Morgan Stanley, Judge Scheindlin wrote that First Amendment protections may protect rating agencies because "their ratings are considered matters of public concern."
"However," she continued, "where a rating agency has disseminated their ratings to a select group of investors rather than to the public at large"--as was the case in Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank--"the rating agency is not afforded the same protection."
In another high-profile case in which CalPERS, the country's largest pension fund, is making similar claims against rating agencies, California Judge Richard Kramer also rejected a First Amendment defense on April 30, relying in part on Scheindlin's earlier ruling in Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.
"Even though there have only been a small number of decisions, ... each time it gives plaintiffs more authority on which to rely and more to argue in future cases," LaCroix says. Incrementally, this is helping their position in other cases."
If the rating agencies do maintain their winning streak in the courtroom in the current wave of litigation, Gass believes they still won't get off scot free forever.
"I think we'll see more legislative efforts to reform the system and continue to see plaintiffs, private attorneys and AGs go after rating agencies on common law and state fraud theories," he says. "Because federal securities claims just haven't worked."


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Nearly a third of the potatoes packed at Heimbuch Potatoes go in 3- and 5-pound packs, but the family business sees room for growth in smaller sizes.
"Everybody is planning meals on the day of now," said Chad Heimbuch, president and sales manager of the Cogswell, N.D., company.
"Everything is trending to smaller packages. Instead of 10s, it's more 3s and 5s. Consumers are buying more frequently. People used to shop once a week and planned for the whole week. Now it's two to three times a week."
Heimbuch installed a new Daumar weigher and two baggers to increase capacity for 3- and 5-pound packs this season.
The company also installed a new line for C-size potatoes.
"Before, they were mixed in with our Bs," said Heimbuch, who added that the C-sized potatoes, or creamers, primarily will be packed in cartons or totes.
Nearly 100% of the fresh-market potatoes grown in the Red River Valley are reds, which is why Heimbuch Potatoes puts an emphasis on yellows.
Heimbuch's father, Tom, grew red, russet and yellow in the Red River Valley for years, but the family's potato operations had been idle for more than a decade when Chad Heimbuch and his brother, Josh, restarted the business five years ago.
"When my brother and I took over, there was so much established business between red sellers and buyers, we thought yellows would be easier to market," Chad Heimbuch said. "Yellows give us a niche in the area."


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At least 15 die in Damascus area as Tunisia set to expel Syrian ambassador
At least 15 civilians were killed and 30 wounded Saturday by gunfire from security forces during a funeral in the town of Daraya near Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. "12 civilians were killed and 30 wounded by security forces who fired at funeral participants in Daraya for people killed yesterday in this town", which is located about 20 kilometers south of the Syrian capital, said the head of the London-based body, Rami Abdel Rahman.
Meanwhile, Tunisia decided Saturday the expulsion of the Syrian ambassador to Tunis and the withdrawal of recognition of the regime of Bashar al-Assad as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, announced the Tunisian presidency. "Tunisia announces the launch of procedures for the expulsion of the Syrian ambassador to Tunisia and the withdrawal of any recognition of the ruling regime in Damascus, "said the head of state in a message posted on the Facebook. "The only solution (for the crisis in Syria) is the removal from power of Bashar al Assad and the launch of a democratic transition," added the Tunisian President on Saturday.
These decisions were taken after the "bloody massacres" perpetrated Friday night in the city Homs, which have, according to the opposition, killed more than 300 dead and injured over 1,000.
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- Iran deploys 15,000 troops to support Assad in Syria
- At least 30 killed as Syrian opposition disappointed by Tunis conference
- Syrian opposition praises Jordan expulsion of Assad ambassador
- No man's land: Inside the life of a Palestinian Syrian refugee
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Recruitment status was: Recruiting
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Introduction: Hypertensive emergency in pregnant women with pre-eclampsia should be treated for preventing stroke and placental abruption. However, the benefit of antihypertensive medication maintenance remains unclear, mainly due to the potential risk of fetal growth restriction.
|Drug: methildopa Drug: placebo
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effectiveness Of Anti-Hypertensive Treatment In Stable Pregnant Women With Severe Pre-Eclampsia: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: preeclampsia
MedlinePlus related topics: Blood Pressure MedicinesU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Professor Fernando Figueira Integral Medicine Institute:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Arterial blood pressure stabilization after methildopa use [ Time Frame: one week ]Stabilization of arterial blood pressure in stable pregnant women with severe pre-eclampsia after methildpa or placebo use will be investigated, as well as occurrence of complications for mother and fetus.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Complications in stable pregnant women with severe preeclampsia after methildopa use [ Time Frame: one week ]Complications in stable pregnant women with severe preeclampsia after methildopa use
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|May 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|February 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|May 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: methildopa
pregnant women with stable severe pre-eclampsia will use methildopa (1,5g/day)
Drug: methildopa
methildopa, 1,5g/day (500mg 8/8 hours, orally)
Other Name: ALDOMET
Placebo Comparator: placebo
stable pregnant women with severe preeclampsia will use placebo
Drug: placebo
placebo 500mg 8/8h, orally
Other Name: Placebo comparator
Detailed Description:
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of antihypertensive treatment maintenance with 1.5 g / day of methyldopa for controlling maternal blood pressure in pregnant women with severe pre-eclampsia and stable blood pressure. Methods: A clinical, randomized, triple-masked, placebo-controlled study will be conducted at the Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira from March 2011 to March 2012. The study will include 200 patients with severe preeclampsia between 20 to 34 weeks of gestation, which will be randomized into two groups: placebo and methyldopa. Patients with more severe hypertensive disorders, congenital anomalies and maternal medical complications or conditions that may compromise the mother-child well-being will be excluded from the study. The primary outcomes will be: systolic, diastolic and mean maternal heart rate, need for association with another antihypertensive agent, need and reason for discontinuation of treatment, frequency of hypertensive peaks and uncontrolled hypertension. The variables relating to maternal characteristics of pregnancy, clinical and obstetric complications during pregnancy and after delivery, and adverse perinatal outcomes will be considered secondary outcomes. After inclusion of patients in the study, numbered boxes containing methyldopa or placebo will be offered to patients with appropriate explanations about oral administration. The initial dose of methyldopa is 1.5 g / day divided into three daily doses and can be reduced to 1.0 g / day or increased to 2.0 g / day depending on the clinical need of patients. On the other group, three tablets / day of placebo will be administered and this dose may be reduced or increased to two tablets to four tablets per day. Statistical analysis will be performed using the statistical program Epi-Info 3.5.1. and Minitab, version 14.2. for Windows. The analysis will be performed with the groups identified as A or B, and the secrecy will be broken only after obtaining the results and preparing the tables or by resolution of the Committee for External Monitoring. Categorical variables will be compared in contingency tables, using chi-square and Fisher exact test, when appropriate. Risk ratio (RR) and its 95% confidence interval will be calculated as a measure of relative risk. Regarding the quantitative variables, if they have normal distribution, comparison between groups will be performed using the Student t test for unpaired samples. If it is found that the distribution is not normal, the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test will be used.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- single pregnancy
- severe preeclampsia
- life fetus
- stable blood pressure
- gestational age between 20 weeks and 34 weeks
Exclusion Criteria:
- fetal anomalies
- antihypertensive drugs use
- others drugs use
- active labour
- tabagism
- Intra-Uterine Growth Restriction process
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01361425
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|Contact: Carlos N Neto, M.S
|Melania Maria Ramos de Amorim
|Campina Grande, João Pessoa, Brazil
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|Principal Investigator: Carlos N Neto, MD
|Leila Katz
|Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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|Principal Investigator: Carlos N Neto, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Professor Fernando Figueira Integral Medicine Institute
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
|Study Director:
|Melania M Amorim, PHD
|Fernando Figueira IMIP
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|M.D; M.S Carlos Noronha Neto, IMIP
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01361425 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 24, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 27, 2011
Keywords provided by Professor Fernando Figueira Integral Medicine Institute:
clinical trials
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced
Pregnancy Complications
Antihypertensive Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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TWO of Welsh rugby's most promising young backs have been assigned to Bedwas for the coming season – but head coach Steve Law doesn't want them to be plying their trade at Bridge Field.
Instead the Bedwas boss hopes that full-back Hallam Amos and centre Jack Dixon are turning out for the Dragons at Rodney Parade.
The teenage pair made their regional debuts last season and are tipped to play a prominent role this term.
But Amos, who will be in the final year of his A-levels at Monmouth School, and his fellow 17-year-old, Dixon, will also have to impress when on Premiership duty with Bedwas.
"It's exciting to have Hallam and Jack involved with us but part of our remit is to develop them as quickly as possible," said Law.
"If they are not playing here for us then we are doing our job because the Dragons want them to be playing more regional rugby.
"That puts pressure on us as a club but that's exactly what we want – if you are happy to just go with the flow rather than challenge yourself then you are in the wrong game.
"Ultimately the Dragons are still in control of the destiny of all of their young players but we are excited by the role that we are going to play in their development."
Amos and Dixon will be joined at Bridge Field by fellow academy prospects Lewis Hudd (wing), Ethan Davies (fly-half), Dan Goode (prop), Derryn Jones (second row), Elliott Dee (hooker) and James Benjamin (back row).
They are far more likely to feature prominently for Bedwas and will join a squad that boasts plenty of Premiership experience and also a number of players who still harbour ambitions of becoming professionals.
"The business model of Welsh rugby is about developing your own talent and we are going to have a massive part to play in that," said Law.
"We have plenty of age-grade internationals that will be with us but the blend of youth and experience will be key.
"There are high hopes for a number of these boys but they certainly won't all be thrown in together.
"Rome wasn't built in a day and mistakes will be made. It's a steep learning curve for these boys but you have got to put up with that because they also have a lot of talent.
"Their ability and enthusiasm will be terrific and I hope they will benefit from the experienced campaigners that we have."
Among those experienced campaigners will be openside Tom Organ, who has joined fellow back-row forward James Thomas in making the move from Pontypool following their demotion from the Premiership.


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Sarah Hadland to Star in Michael Wynne's CANVAS Premiere in Chichester May-June
Sarah Hadland and Dean Lennox Kelly feature among the ensemble cast of a new comedy by award-winning playwright Michael Wynne in which three couples attempt to get away from the stresses and dilemmas of modern life on a camping trip. CANVAS, directed by Angus Jackson, will play 18 May– 16 June at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.
Canvas is a razor-sharp comedy which shines an incisive, witty light on middle-class preoccupations with parenting, the environment and mod cons. Three couples in search of a rural idyll find themselves in adjacent tents in the Welsh countryside. Justine and Alan need to get away from it all, but are reluctant to explain what they're escaping from. Bridget and Rory are seasoned campers with domestic issues. Alistair and Amanda seem to live upwardly mobile lives in which everything is under control, but is everything what it seems?
Sarah Hadland plays Bridget. She is perhaps best known through her role in the award-winning BBC comedy Miranda, in which she plays the best friend of the central character. Her theatre credits include Décor Without Production (Royal Court Theatre), The Vegemite Tales (Riverside Studios) and the West End production of Grease. Radio credits include That Mitchell & Webb Sound and Miranda Hart's Joke Shop.
Dean Lennox Kelly plays Alan. He has numerous screen credits, including Kev Ball in the popular Channel 4 comedy drama series Shameless, the role of William Shakespeare in Doctor Who, Married, Single, Other, Sorted and Cranford. Theatre credits include This Happy Breed (Theatre Royal Bath) and Oh! What a Lovely War for The National Theatre.
Hattie Ladbury plays Amanda. She has just finished The Seven Year Itch for Salisbury Playhouse. Other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and Lady Be Good (all for the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park), After Mrs Rochester (UK tour and West End) and Tess of the D'Urbervilles (RSC).
Elliot Levey plays Rory. His recent theatre credits include the West End production of Much Ado About Nothing alongside Catherine Tate and David Tennant, Danton's Death, The Habit of Art, All's Well That Ends Well, England People Very Nice, Henry IV Parts I & II and His Dark Materials (all for The National Theatre) and The Comedy of Errors (RSC).
Oliver Milburn plays Alistair. His theatre credits include Lulu (Almeida Theatre), The Day I Stood Still and John Gabriel Borkman (both for The National Theatre). His screen credits include the television drama series' Mistresses and Scott and Bailey.
Lucy Montgomery plays Justine. Her television credits include Bellamy's People, Tittybangbang, The IT Crowd and The Armstrong and Miller Show. Theatre credits include the West End production of Jerusalem and Lucy Montgomery Live. Radio credits include Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack and Down the Line.
Lisa Palfrey plays Bronwyn. Her theatre credits include Ingredient X and Under the Blue Sky (both for The Royal Court Theatre), Festen (The Almeida Theatre and West End), The Iceman Cometh (The Almeida Theatre), Cardiff East and Under Milk Wood (both for The National Theatre). Screen credits include the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm and the film Maybe Baby.
Canvas is Michael Wynne's first play for Chichester. His last play Priory (Royal Court Theatre) won the 2010 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Other work includes The People are Friendly and The Knocky, (both also for The Royal Court Theatre), Sell Out and Dirty Wonderland (Frantic Assembly). Screen credits include the BAFTA and Evening Standard Award winning film My Summer of Love and the television drama Lapland.
Angus Jackson is Associate Director at Chichester where his credits include The Browning Version (which transfers to the West End from 19 April), Bingo, Wallenstein, Funny Girl, The Waltz of The Toreadors, The Father and Carousel. Other theatre credits include Elmina's Kitchen, Fix Up, Rocket to the Moon and The Power of Yes for The National Theatre.
Design is by Jonathan Fensom whose theatre credits include Journey's End (West End, Broadway and UK tour), The Globe Mysteries, Hamlet, Henry IV Parts I & II, King Lear and Love's Labour's Lost (all for Shakespeare's Globe), Six Degrees of Separation and National Anthems (both for The Old Vic), Citizenship and Chatroom (both for The National Theatre), Smaller (UK tour and West End) and The Sugar Syndrome (The Royal Court Theatre). He was Associate Designer for Disney's The Lion King, which premiered on Broadway and has subsequently opened worldwide.
Lighting design is by Mark Howland whose credits include Electra (Young Vic), Yerma, Wittenberg and Vanya (Gate Theatre), The Kreutzer Sonata (Gate Theatre and New York) and The Taming of the Shrew (Watermill Theatre and The Old Vic).
The composer is Grant Olding whose previous Chichester credit is Wallenstein. Other theatre credits include Travelling Light, England People Very Nice, The Man of Mode, The Alchemist and Southwark Fair (all for The National Theatre), Broken Glass (Tricycle Theatre and West End), the West End production of Breakfast at Tiffany's and One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre, West End and Broadway).
Sound design is by Gareth Fry whose Chichester credits include The Father, The Scarlet Letter and The Accrington Pals. Other recent theatre credits include the Helpmann and Olivier Award winning production Black Watch and The Missing (both for National Theatre Scotland), The Master and Margarita (Complicité), Truth and Reconciliation, Wastwater and Chicken Soup with Barley (all for The Royal Court Theatre), A Woman Killed with Kindness and Beauty and the Beast (both for The National Theatre).
Canvas is sponsored by Pridewatch Events and Graylingwell Park.
Canvas runs from 18 May – 16 June at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, evenings 7.45pm, matinees 2.30pm. Tickets £23.50 Previews/Press Night, £29.50 Evenings/Matinees. To book online, visit cft.org.uk or contact the Box Office on 01243 781312.
Playwright Michael Wynne introduces Canvas, in conversation with director Angus Jackson in a free pre-show talk. This event is on Tuesday 22 May, 6.00pm, Steven Pimlott Building. Please reserve tickets through the Box Office on 01243 781312.
After Words – a post-show talk with some of the Canvas cast and creative team – is on Thursday 14 June.


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Workplace sexism takes many forms. Some women are paid less than their male counterparts. Others are consistently passed over for promotions. And some are sexually assaulted on the job.
A recent Defense Department report claims that in the American military—one of our nation's largest workplaces—26,000 men and women (mostly women) were sexually assaulted last year.
Reporting these incidents can destroy a victim's career, and the numbers show it: only 3,374 of these assaults were reported to commanders. And just about 300 of the 2,558 incidents victims wanted to pursue were ultimately prosecuted.
Why does this matter?
Because the military is the only career path for some women and a career dead-end for many—even those in our nation's elite military academies.
Our military could be a training ground for some of the country's bravest and brightest women. Instead, many never advance inside the military—or, when they get out of it, in the corporate world, which could use a few more talented women in its ranks and on its boards.
There are two ways to solve the escalating problem of sexual assault in the military: legally require its current leaders to do the right thing, or make sure more women assume leadership positions in the services.
At a recent hearing held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a tough group of women senators pushed for legislation holding the commanders who were supposed to be preventing sexual abuse accountable for their failure to do so. There are currently seven bills pending that would address this issue, the most potent of which would, for the first time, completely alter how the crimes of sexual harassment, assault, and rape in the military are prosecuted.
Most critically, this legislation would allow independent military prosecutors, rather than victims' commanders, to decide which cases go forward. Makes sense, given how many of those who have reported incidents to their commanders have suffered retribution, isolation, ruined careers, and even additional assaults.
The Committee chairman is pushing to ramp up the consequences for retaliation against victims and make it harder for commanders to overturn the recommendations of military lawyers—but also to keep the status quo on the prosecutorial front. This will come up again when the provision goes to the full Senate and has to be reconciled with a House bill; if accepted, it will considerably weaken the proposed legislation.
But the panel's women senators are not going to allow this crisis to be swept under the rug.
"You have lost the trust of the men and women who report to you," said Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY). Gillibrand wants to take discipline decisions out of the chain of command because "not every commander can distinguish between a slap on the ass and a rape." She also expressed concern that commanding officers might refuse to court-martial a sexual predator if he were a good pilot or had some other professional asset.
Much as these derelict military commanders have done, too many companies rely on damage control when crimes against women employees are made public, rather than striving to create workplaces in which such behavior is unthinkable.
Anyone can be in charge. But only a leader can reshape an institution as multifaceted and powerful as the military or the corporate world. And working women deserve real leadership, whether their workplace is an office or a battlefield.