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HARTFORD — A former state senator from Stamford who has been Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's chief legal counsel for the last two years has been nominated to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
If confirmed, 46-year-old Andrew J. McDonald would become one of the few gays nationally to be named to their state high courts and the first to serve on Connecticut's appellate level.
Malloy, citing a 20-year professional relationship and personal friendship with McDonald, made the announcement during a morning news conference Thursday.
"I believe in making this appointment we embrace Connecticut's great diversity," Malloy said.
"In my estimation, Andrew possesses an exceptional ability to understand, analyze, research and evaluate legal issues," Malloy told reporters and friends of McDonald gathered in the Capitol. "I am sure those are the same skills that will allow him to be a great jurist on the state Supreme Court."
McDonald, a former partner with Pullman & Comley LLC, needs to be approved by the legislative Judiciary Committee, of which he is a former chairman and which will hold a public hearing on his credentials when the General Assembly convenes next month.
"I'm honored that you would put your faith and the faith of the people of Connecticut in me with this nomination," McDonald said, recalling the occasion when, as a young lawyer, he first appeared before the Supreme Court, unable to imagine that he would ever become a member.
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McDonald attended Stamford public schools before graduating from Cornell University and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He married Charles Gray in 2009, with Malloy performing the ceremony as Stamford mayor.
McDonald was campaign manager for Malloy as he sought the Stamford mayoralty, then later became the city's top lawyer under Malloy.
McDonald also served on the city's Board of Representatives and the Board of Finance.
As a four-term senator, McDonald became a lightning rod while co-chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, when in 2009, acting on the request of a constituent, he and the other co-chairman, then-Rep. Michael P. Lawlor, scheduled a bill for public hearing that would have changed the way the local Roman Catholic churches could be governed, putting more power into the congregation and less into pastors and bishops.
The hearing was eventually canceled amid busloads of Catholic protesters who arrived from parishes statewide.
McDonald's mother, Anne McDonald, was a state representative for Stamford from 1991 until 2003, rising to the chairwoman post on the powerful Finance Committee. She died in 2007 at age 74 and McDonald's father, Alex, died at 82.
McDonald grew emotional when he mentioned them during his brief remarks to reporters.
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Supreme Court justices are paid $162,250 per year. If confirmed, McDonald would replace Associate Justice Lubbie Harper Jr., who last month reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.
Another court opening is the result of Justice C."Ian McLachlan who reached retirement age earlier this year and has resigned from the court.
Malloy said he will soon announce a nominee to succeed McLachlan and a candidate to replace McDonald as his legal counsel.
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Universal Languages and Inference; Systems; and Applications
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Daniel Roy (MIT)
Vikash Mansinghka (MIT)
John Winn (MSR-Cambridge)
David McAllester (TTI-Chicago)
Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT)
If you want to join our workshop mailing list and receive important announcements directly, please visit the following link and sign up: http://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/probabilistic-programming
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The first day of the workshop will be held at the Westin in the Alpine CD conference room.
The goal of the second day is to provide more unstructured time where participants can discuss specific issues, brainstorm, and start collaborations. We have five talks planned in the morning, although we may spread these out. We will be finalizing this schedule in the next week.
| Constraint-based Probabilistic Modeling
Taisuke Sato Tokyo Institute of Technology
| Probabilistic Programming for Cognitive Science
Noah Goodman MIT
| Syntactic Independence in Stochastic Functional Languages
David McAllester Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
| Towards Digesting the Alphabet-Soup of Statistical Relational Learning
Luc de Raedt Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
|The Programming Languages Prospective Panel
|Invited Talk by Gregor Kiczales University of British Columbia
|Group Lunch
|Brainstorming Session: Next steps
Probabilistic graphical models provide a formal lingua franca for modeling and a common target for efficient inference algorithms. Their introduction gave rise to an extensive body of work in machine learning, statistics, robotics, vision, biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science. However, many of the most innovative and useful probabilistic models published by the NIPS community far outstrip the representational capacity of graphical models and associated inference techniques. Models are communicated using a mix of natural language, pseudo code, and mathematical formulae and solved using special purpose, one-off inference methods. Rather than precise specifications suitable for automatic inference, graphical models typically serve as coarse, high-level descriptions, eliding critical aspects such as fine-grained independence, abstraction and recursion.
PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES in AI (e.g., IBAL [14,15,30], Csoft/Infer.NET [8], Church [7], PTP [25], PFP/Haskell [26]; and logical approaches including BLOG [12], iBLOG [36], PRiSM [19], BLP [22], SLP [13], Markov Logic [18]) aim to close this representational gap, unifying general purpose programming with probabilistic modeling; literally, users specify a probabilistic model in its entirety (e.g., by writing code that generates a sample from the joint distribution) and inference follows automatically given the specification. These languages provide the full power of modern programming languages for describing complex distributions, and can enable reuse of libraries of models, support interactive modeling and formal verification, and provide a much-needed abstraction barrier to foster generic, efficient inference in universal model classes.
We believe that the probabilistic programming language approach within AI, which has been emerging over the last 10 years yet builds on over 40 years of work in range of diverse fields including mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, formal methods, programming languages, as well as machine learning, computational statistics, systems biology, probabilistic AI, has the potential to fundamentally change the way we understand, design, build, test and deploy probabilistic systems. A NIPS workshop will be a unique opportunity for this diverse community to meet, share ideas, collaborate, and help plot the course of this exciting research area.
One of the central goals of the workshop is to bridge the NIPS, UAI and programming languages communities, introducing PL researchers to a wealth of critical statistical machine learning problems and yielding an influx of new mathematical ideas, compilation techniques, and application problems to NIPS.
Topics of the workshop will include (but are not limited to):
- languages, in particular programming languages, for specifying joint and conditional distributions (i.e., probabilistic models)
- inference algorithms for executing probabilistic programs, exact and approximate, deterministic and randomized
- killer applications (what can we do now that we could not before)
- learning and using structured representations of uncertain beliefs; large-scale probabilistic knowledge engineering
- relationships between logical and procedural representations
- how to build useful systems and environments for different user groups
- trade-offs between the various existing languages and systems for probabilistic programming
- how programming language research can help us, and vice versa:
automatic differentiation; contracts; partial evaluation; identifying mathematical relationships between fundamental statistical notions like exchangeability, conditional independence, and random measures; and programming language notions like referential transparency, concurrency, and higher-order procedures; framing key conjectures and open problems
- computable analysis and probability theory, e.g. finding exact, effective representations of continuous distributions
- analysis of probabilistic programs and recursive stochastic processes and mechanical verification of probabilistic models and algorithms
Several recent probabilistic programming languages support modeling idioms and exploit inference methods pioneered at NIPS, and are direct outgrowths of the NIPS research community. For example, Csoft is a probabilistic language based on C# used within the Infer.NET inference engine (Winn and Minka [8]) to apply variational message passing or expectation propagation to large models. It has been effectively applied in large-scale problems in information retrieval and computational biology. In addition to being Turing-universal, Church (Goodman, Mansinghka, Roy and Tenenbaum [7]) naturally handles recursive stochastic processes, nonparametric Bayesian models (e.g. the Dirichlet process, adaptor grammars [5], and the HDP-PCFG [24]) and planning-as-inference [21]; exploits Monte Carlo inference methods widely used in many probabilistic modeling papers at NIPS; and has drawn interest from NIPS-oriented cognitive scientists. Other languages are outgrowths of overlapping communities, especially probabilistic AI: IBAL (Pfeffer [14]; Pfeffer, McAllester, Koller [15]; Ramsey and Pfeffer [30]) emphasizes efficient dynamic programs for exact inference; PTP (Park, Pfenning, Thrun [25]) has been applied to simulation problems in robotics.
Research into probabilistic programming languages extends far beyond the NIPS community. There is a large body of work within theoretical computer science that studies the mathematical foundations of lambda-calculus with probabilistic choice, much of it geared towards the analysis of randomized algorithms [28, 29, 33, 34, 35]. On the applied/modeling side, programming language ideas are filtering into systems biology; Phillips and Cardelli [31, 32] have modeled the kinetics of thousands of interacting chemical networks in cells using their SPiM language (a stochastic pi-calculus) to capture the modular structure and recurrent concurrency inherent in the physical chemistry and molecular biology of these systems. Compared to languages coming from the machine learning and probabilistic AI communities, recent languages introduced by members of the PL community generally have not addressed the use of such languages for statistical inference; notable exceptions are PTP (mentioned above) and PFP/Haskell [26], which has been used to build computational models of micro-RNA formation, but is limited to finite domains where enumeration is possible. Interestingly, preliminary evidence suggests that providing state-of-the-art approximate inference in models specified by probabilistic programs will require generalizations of program analysis and compilation; bringing PL expertise in these area in contact with NIPS expertise on inference seems especially fruitful to both communities.
Finally, machine learning researchers interested in specifying or learning logical representations of data have developed a host of probabilistic logics and approximate inference algorithms (e.g., Markov Logic [18], BLOG [12], iBLOG [36], npBLOG [20], BLP [22], PRiSM [19], SLP [13]) which approach the expressiveness gap from a fundamentally different mathematical perspective, in some sense analogous to the difference between undirected (logics) and directed (programs) graphical models. Characterizing the relationships between deductive/logical and procedural/probabilistic-programming approaches (and exchanging techniques and applications) is a central challenge ideally suited for NIPS.
This one day workshop will consist of invited and contributed talks, spotlights, poster sessions, and round-table discussions. Due to the considerable interest we have already received and a widely stated preference for a highly collaborative workshop environment, we anticipate spending the bulk of the workshop on poster sessions and open discussion, with very few talks.
We are also soliciting feedback on whether a second day focused more on work and fostering collaboration would be of interest to our attendees, especially those only attending the workshops. If you would be interested in an extra day (timed so as to allow late afternoon/evening flights out of Vancouver), please contact us.
Authors interested in presenting their work and ideas at the workshop should send an email with subject "Workshop Submission" to email@example.com and include:
- a title
- authors and emails
- abstract (2 pages, NIPS style, PDF or PostScript)
Organizer Mailing List: email@example.com Roy (Ph.D. student, MIT) is a graduate student in computer science at MIT. His theoretical interests lie at the intersection of computer science and probability theory. Using probabilistic programming languages, he is developing a computational perspective on fundamental ideas in probability theory and statistics. His recent research has focused on recursive stochastic processes that induce coherent nonparametric models for Bayesian inference. These include generalizations of the Dirichlet process via hierarchical Poisson processes and clustering models based on Kingman's coalescent.
Vikash Mansinghka (Ph.D. student, MIT) is a graduate student at MIT. His work centers on probabilistic programming languages, virtual machines for stochastic computation, and physical machines based on natively stochastic digital circuits that recover classical abstractions in a deterministic limit. He also develops models and algorithms based on cognitive and industrial applications, emphasizing nonparametric Bayesian methods.
John Winn (Microsoft Research Cambridge) works on automating probabilistic inference and applying these inference methods to solve problems in vision and computational biology. He developed Variational Message Passing for automatically applying variational Bayesian methods to large models and also several software inference frameworks including VIBES and the probabilistic language Csoft used in Infer.NET (with Tom Minka). He is interested in developing probabilistic programming frameworks which are both flexible and efficient enough to meet the challenges of today's inference tasks.
David McAllester (Toyota Technology Institute at Chicago) is a prominent figure in several closely related areas. He is well known in the programming languages community for static analysis algorithms and for work on the semantics of types and contracts. He is well known in the machine learning community for the PAC-Bayesian theorem relating Bayesian priors to frequentist generalization bounds. Recently he has been working on grammar-based models for computer vision and was part of a team that took second place in the 2007 PASCAL object detection challenge.
Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT) is a world leader in computational models of human cognition, probabilistic knowledge representation, and inductive learning. He has a strong scholarly record in machine learning based on intricately structured probabilistic models, including best paper or best student paper awards at NIPS (for learning hierarchically structured semantic models), CVPR (for separating style and content in visual recognition), and the Cognitive Science conference (for probabilistic schema-based models of human causal learning and categorization). He is also the creator of Isomap, an influential approach to learning nonlinear manifolds.
We are grateful to Microsoft Research Cambridge for generously offering to help fund the workshop.
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SKF's redesigned tapered roller thrust bearings can better overcome the above problems, helping to improve the performance and reliability of top drives. This is all the more important, considering that drill rigs are drilling deeper than ever before, putting higher demands on the equipment. One of the main causes of failure is excessive shock loads on the gearbox – and that is what the new bearing is designed to resist.
Outward appearance
There is no outward difference in the bearing's appearance. In fact, it will look very similar to many competitive products. However, the devil is in the detail: advanced simulation helped SKF to fine-tune the internal geometry, giving the bearing the highest possible load rating.
One element is a new cage design. Using a pin-type cage – rather than a standard brass cage – allows more rollers to fit within the bearing, and thus withstand a greater load. That said, many customers will be fine with a brass cage – as the pin-type cage will be for extreme applications.
Other key design changes include optimising the logarithmic profile, which balances load distribution along each roller. At the same time, rollers are designed to be virtually identical to one another – reducing stress peaks on single rollers, as well as cutting noise and vibration.
While design changes were the key factor behind the performance of the new bearing, some manufacturing changes were also crucial. Enhancing the surface finish by using a different type of coating can help the bearing withstand the effect of marginal lubrication in extreme operating conditions. Drilling often takes place at -40 degrees C (-40F), which can cause the lubricant to thicken. This, combined with high loads, can affect correct lubrication – leading to bearing damage. The advanced surface finish maximizes the effect of the lubricant, reducing excessive friction and damage to the bearing contacts.
It's important to note that the improved performance is achieved using standard quality SKF steel. For similar performance improvements, competitors are forced to use enhanced material specifications.
SKF has spent significant amount of time developing the new bearing design. It began by analysing SKF bearings that had been used in the field, in an attempt to understand – and overcome – any wear patterns that it found on them. Later, improved designs were modelled using simulation software. The optimized and improved design was validated by simulation tools and field tests.
In addition to these new tapered roller thrust bearings, SKF will showcase two other important bearing innovations at OTC 2016: Kaydon slewing ring bearings; and a sensor bearing unit. Both are appropriate for use in top drives.
Its Kaydon slewing ring bearings can be used in the pipe handling system that is fixed to the bottom of the gearbox of the top drive. Many OEMs save money by making a 'tailor made' version using a standard bearing and adding some tooth gears. A better solution is to use a slewing ring bearing with integrated gear, which can help cut failures in the pipe handler.
At the same time, its sensor bearing unit can be used in the top drive's motor. The product was originally used in the railway industry, but has been adapted for oil and gas – including a version for top drives.. The single unit replaces a bearing and an encoder – and is thus more compact and robust.
Top drives are a critical part of any oil and gas operation, and anything that can improve them – such as these bearing innovations – will help to cut downtime and boost reliability.
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Rest in Peace: Central Florida Knights EditionPosted by Mike Lemaire on February 5th, 2014
Although we aren't even halfway through the AAC schedule, the herd of NCAA Tournament contenders has thinned considerably and there are some teams whose prospects of playing in any meaningful postseason tournament are already dead in the water. We are gathered here today to celebrate their brief turn in the conference conversation.
Why are we mourning UCF?
The Knights have exactly one half-decent win this season and that was a late November triumph over a mediocre Miami (FL) team. Their next best win is a two-point home victory over Temple that came in the beginning of January and also serves as their only conference win thus far. The rest of the team's wins are almost too embarrassing to mention. They have a win over Division II Tampa and a win over NAIA school Rio Grande, and then they have four wins over teams that rank 300th or below in KenPom's team rankings.
In fact, since beating the Owls, the Knights have lost their next six games by no fewer than 10 points (albeit against the cream of the conference crop for the most part), and they probably won't be the favorite in more than one or two games the rest of the way. It's true that the Knights had to replace one of the best big men in school history when Keith Clanton graduated, but they returned every other meaningful contributor from a 20-11 squad. No one expected the Knights to take their new and better conference by storm, but most expected them to field a competitive team. Unfortunately, the roster has been too weak and the team has been too inefficient on both ends of the floor to make that happen.


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Soon after the big iPhone announcement last week, a friend and I met for dinner. He was an early adopter of a Motorola Droid, which has since departed this earth due to hardware issues that occurred conveniently after the warranty had concluded. He was now "rockin'" his wife's old, purple Blackberry.
No man should have a purple phone. No professional woman, like his wife, should either. But that's beside the point.
Recognizing that he is both out-of-date and hideously color-coordinated, my friend had decided on his next phone: the Nokia Lumia 900. But he wasn't committed yet.
"Sell me on the iPhone 5," he said, knowing that I am both a technology columnist of very little note and a member of the Church of Jobs. So I went through the specs. Since we knew the details months ago thanks to the numerous leaks Apple has in its outfit, I already had them memorized. As we were talking, it turns out the Nokia is similar in nearly every respect, as is the Samsung Galaxy S3.
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I ran out of steam. He was gracious enough to let me come up with my own conclusion: There's nothing new under the sun. Cell phone technology hasn't changed all that much since his purchase of the original Droid. Screen sizes are roughly the same (excluding the Samsung Note). Processors are, too. Features that one doesn't have over the other are usually solved by a third-party app.
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I went back to read some reviews of the original iPhone, trying to remember what features and designs got us excited back then. It's hard to remember because those features are now ubiquitous, or so says a patent jury.
The overall tenor of the reviews was that it seems the iPhone was a hit because it was the first to meld a bunch of features and functions together. It eliminated the need for multiple devices. People no longer had to carry a phone, an iPod, a camera, and (for some uses) a laptop anymore. We were experiencing what I call "device-creep" back in 2007. Our messenger bags were filled with these toys and then were suddenly made lighter by one device.
We have device-creep again.
It might not be quite as pronounced, but it's there. And this time, it's even more redundant because our devices, for the most part, all do the same thing.
I know quite a few people these days who own a phone, a tablet of some variety, and a laptop, including me. Granted, they rarely carry them all around at the same time, but they are all used in very specific environments. The phone is obviously for staying extremely mobile and on the move. The tablet is usually used in front of the TV or in bed. The laptop is for work and either stays docked on a desk or propped up at the most conspicuous table in Starbucks so that everyone can see the bright Apple logo. Wait, that's just me…
The point is, the next big thing needs to eliminate this device-creep yet again.
I don't know how it would work. That's Jony Ive's job, not mine. But somehow, whether it folds in on itself or stretches organically using the "rubberband electronics" idea as shown in the video DT published a couple of weeks ago, it changes its shape from something the size of our typical phone to a tablet to a tablet-with-keyboard. You can carry a laptop in your pocket!
Further off, I think the future of mobile technology will combine Google Glass with the input controls from Minority Report. People will be walking down the street wearing what amounts to a monocle gesturing into thin air. In other words, everyone will be that elderly person I avoid at the grocery store. But the Foldy Phone (TM) is something that is possible now with very little advancement of technology. We just need someone to realize the need and invest in a solution.
I don't think people like that exist in our technology companies anymore. At least, not in the decision-making positions.
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Samsung's new PB22-J 256GB solid-state disk (SSD) promises a goodly amount of storage and high performance for the well-heeled notebook user.
The future is static. Compared to the rapidly spinning and fragile platters of your normal hard disk drive, the future of storage would seem to be solid-state memory. Static, unmoving, solid-state drives (SSD) don't suffer from the perils of being moved around while in use - suiting laptops and portable devices perfectly - as well as offering many other advantages. The list of potential benefits include low (zero) noise, lower power consumption and heat output, and very quick read speeds.
Write speeds are another matter, though, especially with the newer high-capacity generation of technology featuring multi-layer cells (MLC), used to raise formerly small capacities and lower impossibly out-of-reach price tags. But price is still an issue, so if you're intent on acquiring a quarter terabyte of solid-state storage for less than the price of a, say, a complete 15in laptop - best look away now.
Samsung is a world leader in semiconductors, and that includes the type of silicon used in RAM and NAND Flash memory. Its new Samsung PB22-J 256GB SSD promises very high performance, and in our straightforward tests at least, certainly delivered.
We were keen to throw the full gamut of multi-platform tests at this 2.5in notebook drive, but the message we received from Samsung at the outset was clear: that this drive should only be tested on a Microsoft Windows operating system (OS).
So we ran the drive through the HD Tach benchmark, using Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, with the Samsung PB22-J 256GB SSD connected directly to the internal SATA bus of a Dell Studio XPS 13 notebook. Boot volume was the notebook's original storage (itself a 128GB Samsung SSD) connected via eSATA.
Using this connection, the maximum burst rate, which gives an idea of the ceiling on throughput imposed by the bottleneck of the data bus, was 233MB/s. We recorded average read speeds of 173.5MB/s, using HD Tach's 'Quick' test of 8MB zones. This rose slightly to 176.0MB/s using the 'Long' 32MB test.
Write speeds of the Samsung PB22-J 256GB SSD, traditionally the Achilles' Heel of MLC SSD technology, were lower but still far ahead of what you'd find from the best 2.5in HDDs currently on the market: we measured 106.9MB/s with 8MB zones. This fell to 97.7MB/s when writing in the longer test, but is still an impressive figure relative to hard disk technology.
Almost as impressive, latency scores were breathtakingly low. Where most hard disks will take around 10-20ms to find any randomly chosen sector on the platter, this Samsung PB22-J 256GB SSD could find its data in 0.2ms. At up to two orders of magnitude faster, this should translate into real perceptible snappiness in daily PC tasks.
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The daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is the first Member of Congress to have graduated from Head Start! She attended Head Start in Orange County, California.
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Shaquille O'Neal, former professional basketball player, honorary U.S. Marshall, and recipient of both an MBA and a Doctorate in Education, attended Head Start in Newark, New Jersey.
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The son of a teacher and delivery truck driver, Chris Rock attended Head Start in Brooklyn, New York.
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Darren Walker, son of a single mother, attended one of the first Head Start programs, in rural Texas in 1965.
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Some members of the Head Start community are wary of the prospect of universal pre-K. Cynics and people outside of Head Start might think that these fears are about losing children to other settings or funding to other programs, and the emotional way we express our misgivings about universal pre-K sometimes supports that perception. But this perception couldn't be farther from the truth.
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The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is currently seeking qualified hunter education volunteer instructors for its 2012 statewide education courses.
"There's a long legacy of hunting in this great state," said DFG Director Charlton H. Bonham. "At the department, we're going to continue to seek ways to manage our resources for hunting and fishing as well as improve access and opportunity. But we need help in cultivating the next generation of sportsmen and sportswomen who will step in our shoes once we have gone. We thank those that already volunteer to teach our hunter education courses, and we're looking to recruit even more."
In 2009, approximately 30,000 students completed the state's 10-hour minimum hunter education course. The courses are offered throughout the state, on weekends and weekday evenings. The courses are taught by veteran hunters who volunteer their time to help ensure that the newest generation of hunters has a thorough understanding of safety, ethics and conservation.
"The backbone of California's hunter education training effort rests on the volunteer instructors, who give their time, passion and energy to the program," said Captain Roy Griffith,DFG's Hunter Education Program Administrator. "These dedicated individuals have passed on a tradition and trained well over one million outdoor enthusiasts since the start of the program. As a result, they have increased safety and conservation within the community."
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Nvey Eco Eye shadow Palette
In a moment of frivolity I ordered one of their eye palettes. I went for palette #6 (£35) as it looked like it contained the most neutral sort of shades.
Its contains: #170 charcoal with a tiny bit of sparkle, #171 dusty satin finish purple, #168 shimmery peach, #172 shimmery fawn and #173 moss with a tiny bit of sparkle.
The shadows contain chamomile and jojoba, and are meant to "create a smooth and soft formula, excellent for dry and sensitive skin". However I find the texture (apart from the peach) quite dry, most noticeably with the charcoal and moss shade (in the swatches this is really apparent with the moss shade).
Pigmentation is more subtle. They blend together quite well and with an eye primer they last the day with a minimal colour fade after roughly 7 hours.
Though I can't help wishing all the shades had the same texture of the peach, I do really like the looks that can be achieve with this palette as the colours work extremely well together. I'm always interested in finding new to me brands with promise and this is a brand I am going to explore more.
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Shame! Hate it when the textures vary.ReplyDelete
That does look like a beautiful combination. I have a lilac/peach/cool brown quad from Lunasol Autumn that I find very flattering (of course containing all the evil stuff...)ReplyDelete
i ve been using nvey eco products for about 2 years ...all my makeup foundation,tinted moisturizer,powder,eyeliner,mascara,eyeshadow,lipsticks and many others from this brand and i have this palette in 6 as well ...i love their products and pigmentation looks good on my skin and the fact that they are organic makes me buy them though a little bit pricey in my country ...ReplyDelete
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In a moment of frivolity indeed!!! Haha, had to laugh when I read that! Great respect for going cruelty-free, hopefully one day brands like this one will be the norm. Pity about the texture, but it does look like an interesting colour combo: look, please!! (you know I love those!) Any interesting lippie stuff from the brand? xxxReplyDelete
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Well my dear I did try and do a look to put with this post, 36 pictures I took and they were all off, the light here at the moment is rubbish.
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Tonight's game took 2:31, and 3 of the 4 runs scored were via solo home run. Not a whole lot to talk about, but I have some thoughts on the limited action.
- Had a chance to talk with David Garcia before the game. Well actually Mr. Garcia talked and I listened. His baseball reference page talks about his 6-year managerial career, and that is only the tip of the iceberg. He's been in the game for over 70 years, the vast majority of which spent as a scout. I wish I had more than 25 minutes with him.
- Wonder why Josh Collmenter has such an awkward motion? He learned to throw an ax before throwing a baseball. Rumor has it he was a Michigan state champion in ax-throwing.
- Andy Parrino walks to the plate to Iron Man. I like to think it's the Ozzy Osbourne version. I do believe I'm an Andy Parrino fan.
- Orlando Hudson suffers from a lot of mental lapses. Apparently last night he lost the handle on the ball while attempting to throw Justin Upton out at first, then lay on the ground while the ball rolled away from him. Upton ended up at second, gifted a double. Earlier in the year he did the same thing after Troy Tulowitzki's low line drive glanced off his glove and rolled away. Tonight it appeared he missed a hit-and-run sign and hung Nick Hundley out to dry - caught stealing 2-6-3. He's a former All-Star in the 152nd game of the season - why does this stuff happen? Hudson did homer later in the at-bat to give the Padres the lead.
- Starter Wade LeBlanc had an odd line - 103 pitches thrown, 53 strikes. He got hit hard in the first inning, which is a trend. He's allowed 8 first inning earned runs this season, and 16 ER to teams the first time through the order (of 37 total allowed). On this night, however, LeBlanc gutted through 6 innings, allowing only that first inning home run to Aaron Hill.
- Odd line of the night. Chris Young of Arizona saw 14 pitches from 3 different pitchers. One strike. And he just missed that strike, hitting a 'home run in a silo' off Gregerson that went as a pop-up to short. I can't remember the last time I saw a hitter walk 3 times in a game on 12 pitches.
- At one point, there was a Qualls and a Ziegler pitching against each other. When was the last time the pitching matchup was a guy who's last name started with a 'Q' facing a guy who's last name started with a 'Z'?
- Four caught stealings in the game, although one was of the picked-off-caught-stealing variety.
- Finally the double play Anthony Rizzo started to end the fifth. He made a nice play on the ground ball from Parra as it reached the bag, but his throw was sublime. He threw it so it pulled Jason Bartlett's glove to the feet of John McDonald, who was running from first to second on the play. If he doesn't throw that ball that way McDonald is likely safe. Superb defensive play.
San Diego goes for its first series sweep since taking four from Florida almost a month ago.
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San Diego County's apartment market saw rents drop for the first time on record in recent months amid the highest vacancy rate in 15 years, according to a pair of new reports.
The surveys of large apartment complexes by the MarketPointe Realty Advisors and RealFacts research firms found a weakening rental market that analysts believe will continue into 2010.
San Diego-based MarketPointe reported the vacancy rate at 5.29 percent, up from 2.25 percent in September and 3.63 percent in March 2008. It was the highest rate since 5.36 percent in September 1994 at the depths of another major economic downturn.
The average monthly rent in March was $1,323, down 1.6 percent from $1,344 recorded in September, the first decline in MarketPointe's 22 years of record keeping for San Diego area apartments.
MarketPointe President Russ Valone said the county's sudden turnaround in vacancies was caused by renters and families doubling up and young people moving in with parents and other relatives.
"I was surprised when I saw the vacancy rate go up," Valone said. "I would have thought with the increasing foreclosure rates we've seen, it would have driven people into the rental market and we would have seen a stability or a drop-off in the vacancy rate, which we didn't."
MarketPointe's figures are based on a survey of 810 apartment complexes of 25 or more units. The company conducts its survey twice a year.
RealFacts, releasing its first-quarter survey today, found that San Diego County's vacancy factor was 6.3 percent, up from 4.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008. The average rent was $1,381, down from $1,394 in the fourth quarter.
The Novato-based firm looked at projects with at least 100 units in 31 metropolitan areas, mostly in Western and Southern states.
San Diego ranked fifth among the selected metro areas for highest rental rate; San Jose was No. 1 at $1,612. On vacancies, San Diego ranked seventh, with Albuquerque, N.M., first at 7.3 percent.
RealFacts owner Caroline Latham said she was not surprised.
"There hasn't been any change in economic circumstances here in California," Latham said. "The unemployment rate is continuing to climb. It's almost a direct correlation to occupancy: fewer people working, fewer people will be renting apartments."
She predicted a further increase in vacancies in the present quarter and no improvement until the end of the year at best. Other observers said the vacancy rate could rise to 7.5 percent locally, near the 7.86 percent peak set in early 1988 after a flood of new apartment construction.
Robert Vallera, a principal with Commercial Realty Advisers in San Diego, said the economics are not as dire for apartment owners as they were then because banks have insisted on much higher down payments from investors than in the late 1980s and have used stricter underwriting standards.
"Apartments are being referred to as the most favored asset class within commercial real estate," Vallera said, adding that lower interest rates are resulting in lower payments by investors holding adjustable-rate loans.
Consequently, few if any renters will face rental increases in the foreseeable future, said Robert Pinnegar, executive director of the San Diego County Apartment Association. Some landlords may even take action to entice renters to stay.
Pinnegar said owners are beginning to offer free rent for several weeks and lower security deposits to new tenants, and possibly gift cards, televisions and free vacations to tenants if they renew their leases.
Rick Snyder, who owns or manages apartments throughout the county, said he has given away $300 computer game consoles to attract families.
"I think everybody likes something free," Snyder said.
Snyder also is advising his property managers to spruce up their surroundings by adding balloons and banners and catching up on deferred maintenance.
At Snyder's 236-unit El Norte Villas complex in Escondido, for example, property manager Irene Potter said the pool and spa have been refurbished and balloons and banners are set out every day.
She said there have been about 10 move-outs and eight move-ins this month, resulting in an occupancy level of 94 percent to 97 percent.
"The market for us is going to be good," Potter said. "Unfortunately, when people go through foreclosure and tough times, they need a place to live. I see it being not necessarily a downside for the apartment industry."
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