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You might have been hearing about L'Oreal MagicSmooth Souffle since the near year. It launched January of 2011 like Maybelline Fit Me, but was spotted in some stores a little earlier. The first time I came across this foundation was when I spotted Maybelline Fit Me and purchased it. It was something I was interested in purchasing, but with the close to $15 price tag, I decided to hold out until some reviews popped up for it. What's pretty cool is that the display for L'Oreal MagicSmooth Souffle has little samples that you can take for free to try it for yourself. Each display doesn't have very many, so I took one each time I went to a different drugstore. I accumulated four.. so I thought it would be a good time to try it out.
What I don't like about the sample is that for some reason, it isn't labeled what shade it is. The color is light/med neutral beige. The sample is the smallest smudge of product, that you wouldn't even be able to cover your chin with one packet. With a free sample, you'd expect at least a full face application.. but I can't complain, right? At least there are samples so you can at least test it and feel the consistency.
I knew that even the 4 packets weren't going to be enough for the type of coverage I'd want, so I decided only to apply it to half of my face and on the other half of my face apply Revlon Colorstay - mostly to compare the coverage and finish.


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STEUBENVILLE - In a game that saw Steubenville Catholic Central score quickly and Weirton Madonna score with long drives, the Blue Dons drove 80 yards in the final three minutes and scored the winning touchdown on a 6-yard pass to edge the Crusaders 21-20 Saturday night at Harding Stadium.
Junior Elliott Nero pulled in a pass from quarterback Ross Comis at the Central 1-yard line and fought his way into the end zone for the touchdown that tied the game at 20-20. Sophomore kicker Matt Green was perfect on the extra point kick to win the game and boost Madonna's season mark to 7-1. The victory should boost the Blue Dons into solid position for home field advantage in the West Virginia playoffs.
"This is the kind of game that we live for," said victorious Blue Don coach, Doug Taylor. "My wife keeps wondering why I do this year in and year out. Well this is why. The excitement, the emotion, the kids coming out and playing hard. The cream rises to the top and we took care of business tonight."
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GETTING HIT — Weirton Madonna's Elliott Nero hits Steubenville Catholic Central's Stone Romano during Saturday's 21-20 come-from-behind win for the Blue Dons in the final minute.
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HITTING PAYDIRT — Steubenville Catholic Central's Doug Maslowski runs in for six as Weirton Madonna's Marcello Biondillo tries to make a play during Saturday's 21-20 come-from-behind win for the Blue Dons in the final minute.
When Green's kick sailed through the uprights, it was the only time Madonna had the lead as Catholic Central took advantage of good field position three times in the first half to go ahead by 20-7 at the intermission.
"I thought their defensive pressure on us all night was the difference in the game," said Crusader coach, Steve Daley. "They made some adjustments in the second half so we didn't have time to get our routes.
"But hats off to them. They're a good football team. Both teams fought hard to the end and it was a good football game."
Fact Box
Madonna 21, Central 20
Madonna 7 0 0 14 - 21
Central 7 13 0 0 - 20
C: Maslowski 1 run (Romano kick)
M: Comis 3 run (Green kick)
C: Carapellotti 22 pass from Colabella (Romano kick)
C: Maslowski 6 run (run failed)
M: Comis 7 run (Green kick)
M: Nero 6 pass from Comis (Green Kick)
RUSHING: Madonna 49-229 (Comis 28-99-2, Ossman 13-85, Nero 8-45); Central 20-67 (Maslowski 12-56-2, Colabella 7-8, Laukert 1-3).
PASSING: Madonna 8-17-76-1-1 (All by Comis); Central 12-23-132-1-1 (All by Colabella).
RECEIVING: Madonna (Nero 2-11-1, Biondillo 2-22, Bowser 2-23, Hypes 1-22, Ossman 1-(-2)); Cental (Laukert 5-59, Carp 2-20-1, Herrington 2-19, Maslowski 1-10, Fletcher 1-7, Murphy 1-17).
FIRST DOWNS: Madonna 19, Central 10.
PENALTIES-YARDS: Madonna 9-65; Central 5-45.
FUMBLES-LOST: Madonna 1-1; Central 0-0.
The loss likely will knock the Crusaders out of contention for home field advantage in the Ohio playoffs, but a win next week against Magnolia could change all that.
The Crusaders got on the board early when the defense held Madonna to a three-and-out to pin them deep in their own territorywith the opening possession. Senior Kyle Laukert gave Central good field position when he lugged a Wil Bowser punt from the Blue Don 46 to the 32.
It took the Crusaders just six plays to find the end zone with a Doug Maslowski one-yard plunge over right tackle. Stone Romano, Catholic Central's sophomore kicker, booted the extra point to arm the Crusaders with a 7-0 lead less than five minutes into the game.
The touchdown was set up by a 27-yard pass from Brenton Colabella to Laukert. Colabella, who leads the area in passing yardage, completed 12 of 23 passes for 132 yards, well below his per game average.
The Blue Dons retaliated with a 13-play scoring drive that started at their own 33 and finished when Comis blasted into the end zone on fourth and one at the Central two yard line. The drive consumed 5:50 of the first period and when Greene added the extra point the score was tied at 7-7.
Central used its quick-strike offense to go ahead in the second period putting a Bowser punt in play at their own 47-yard line.
Maslowski, who rushed 12 times for 56 yards, got loose for 20 yards to the Blue Don 33 and then he caught a Colabella swing pass for 10 more yards. On the third play of the possession, Colabella found Michael Carapellotti in the end zone. Carapellotti leaped and out fought a Madonna defender for the touchdown. Romano split the upright again to put the Crusaders ahead 14-7.
The Crusader defense played a big role in the third Catholic Central touchdown as junior, Khalil Jones, picked off a long Comis pass at his own 25 and returned it 45 yards to the Madonna 30.
It took them just five plays to score with Maslowski finishing off the short drive with a six-yard run to his left after accepting a pitch from Colabella. The touchdown came just 33.9 seconds before the half, but with Central lined up to kick the extra point, there was a problem with the snap or hold and the attempt was unsuccessful.
Little did anyone know at the time that miscue would be costly.
The two teams traded possessions throughout the third quarter, but the Blue Dons got another scoring drive going with its first possession of the fourth period.
The Blue Dons put a short Colabella punt into play at their own 42 and methodically marched 11 plays to the end zone with Comis going the final seven yards deftly dodging several Crusader defenders and refusing to stop till he hit paydirt.
"There was two plays in the long drive of the first half and once in the second half drive that Ross got us out of a bad play," said Taylor. "He checked out of plays and into ones where we had substantial gains to keep the drives going. It's great to have him running our offense. He knows what we're trying to attack. He's looking for the defensive positioning and he's going to put us into the best advantage to run the football."
The highlight of the drive were two Comis passes, an 11-yarder to senior Garrett Hypes and a strike to Bowser for 12 yards. Green's kick cut the Central lead to 20-14.
The Blue Don defense went to work on Central's ensuing possession. After yielding a first down, they stopped the Crusaders at the Madonna 40 where, faced with a fourth and 13, Daley chose to have Colabella punt the football. His high kick landed at the Madonna five-yard line, but before a Crusader could touch it, the ball bounced into the end zone.
That gave Madonna the ball at its own 20 and set the stage for the winning drive, which was aided by a 15-yard Crusader pass interference penalty.
Madonna's Nick Ossman, who ended up with 85 rushing yards, 80 of them in the second half, and Comis, who carried the ball 27 times for 99 yards steadily moved the ball toward the Catholic Central goal line as the game clock began to wind down inside a minute. Comis escaped for a 26-yard gain during the drive and got loose against for 11 yards down to the Central 11-yard line.
Ossman reeled off eight more yards to give the Blue Dons a first down at the Central one. However, a snafu with the center snap cost the Blue Dons a five-yard penalty back to the six setting up the Comis to Nero pass that tied the game with 30.7 seconds left on the clock.
After Green's game-winning kick, the Crusaders threw a scare into the Madonna faithful.
Laukert once again gave Catholic Central good field position when he hauled Adam Robertson's kickoff from his own 15 to the 40-yard line with 22.2 minutes left on the clock.
Colabella hit Zach Herrington for nine yards and found Ryan Fletcher for 17 more to the Madonna 34. However, his last two passes fell incomplete as time expired.
Madonna returns home to host Toronto next week while the Crusaders go on the road to play Magnolia.

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Raiders overcome slow start to rough up Watertown
TORRINGTON — It was almost like a big tease. Like somebody gives you a birthday present, let's you play with it for a while and then says, "Oops, too bad. Give it back." Just enough to put a smile on your face, then slap it off with no apology.


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I heard somewhere that listening to what you need to memorize during your sleep actually helps retaining the information. Based on that I converted a piece of text to a music file to listen last night. It didn't work. If it is true that it works then I must be doing something wrong. So my questions are two:
- Does it work?
- How is it supposed to be done ideally to retain the most information?


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16 Jul 2010 2:55 AM #1
Form field qip help
I'd like to add a help icon next to form field to show qtip with help text. Just like error message when msgTarget is set to "side". Is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
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from module import function be called the FMIF coding style.
import module be called the IM coding style.
from package import module be called the FPIM coding style.
Why is IM+FPIM considered a better coding style than FMIF? (See this post for the inspiration for this question.)
Here are some criteria which lead me to prefer FMIF over IM:
- Shortness of code: It allows me to use shorter function names and thus help stick to the 80 columns-per-line convention.
- Readability:
chisquare(...)appears more readable than
scipy.stats.stats.chisquare(...). Although this is a subjective criterion, I think most people would agree.
- Ease of redirection: If I use FMIF and for some reason at some later time want to redirect python to define
alt_moduleinstead of
moduleI need to change just one line:
from alt_module import function. If I were to use IM, I'd need to change many lines of code.
I am interested in all reasons why IM+FPIM may be better than FMIF, but in particular, I'd be interested in elaboration on the following points mentioned here:
Pros for IM:
- ease of mocking/injecting in tests. (I am not very familiar with mocking, though I recently learned what the term means. Can you show code which demonstrates how IM is better than FMIF here?)
- ability for a module to change flexibly by redefining some entries. (I must be misunderstanding something, because this seems to be an advantage of FMIF over IM. See my third reason in favor of FMIF above.)
- predictable and controllable behavior on serialization and recovery of your data. (I really don't understand how the choice of IM or FMIF affects this issue. Please elaborate.)
- I understand that FMIF "pollutes my namespace", but beyond being a negative-sounding phrase, I don't appreciate how this hurts the code in any concrete way.
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How can I know if an app of an unknown author (like gTasks) is reliable for me to give my mail password to use it?
You have to trust the developer of the app. Period.
Besides code analysis there is no way to eliminate the possibility that an app does send your password somewhere.
And even tools like Little Snitch won't help you if the app is allowed to send emails from your account. If you send an email to somebody it would just use the established connection to afterwards send another email with your password. Since the connection is encrypted you can't see what the app is doing. And because the whole purpose of the app is sending emails the connection is not suspicious at all. Same thing is true for all apps that need access to the internet, if you enter the password to an facebook app it could just use facebook to send a private message with your password and so on.
To make it even more difficult to detect, the developer could implement it in a way that the malicious routine waits 30 days before it sends your password. And if the developer is a smart criminal (he wrote a great app so he probably is) he can detect testers who just fast forward their device date setting too.
Entering your password somewhere is all about trust.
Having a different password for different services helps in case you have accidentally trusted an untrustworthy developer.
I'd do the following: use two step authentication in Google, create a password specifically for the app, and then from this page you can check the last time that certain password has been used. If it always correspond to your last gTask usage, then you should be safe.
If that's not the case, you can revoke the password from there.
Note: with this method the developer could read your mail anyway, so better be safe than sorry. However you could create a dummy account and see whether that gets hacked.
Something like a Little Snitch will help you to determine if app creates any outbound connection besides obvious connection to Google servers.
It still possible for the app to just send your data to google account of rough developer but I don't have idea how to check that.
If you are not sure about an application search google for reviews or at least a website. If a lot of people complain you wil know not to download the application.
In general you can't trust anyone with your details and it is best to keep them as much as possible to yourself. If you do have to give out your details, make sure you use a different password each time. It will be hard to remember all your passwords, but it also keeps your accounts such as your email or facebook safe.


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What is the history behind the colorful name of this result? Cartan-Eilenberg states it without any particular fanfare.
I suspect the name just arose naturally (for obvious reasons) but that it would be tough to trace back to any single person. After Cartan-Eilenberg proved it in 1956 (Homological Algebra, p.40) the first mention I see in English is by Tate in 1966/67 (p-divisible groups, p.178) followed by Hartshorne in 1968 (Cohomological Dimension of Algebraic Varieties, p.446), neither of which bother with a citation, reference, or quotation marks (1). However, it was used a bit earlier - also without citation or quotation marks - by Begueri-Poitou in 1965 (2) as 'lemme du serpent'; mentioned early on in their abstract. [NB: the first page of the linked pdf incorrectly lists the second author's surname as Poiton.]
Edit: I used numdam to search for 'serpent'. Cartan has an unrelated quotation about a snake nearly biting its own tail (1965, pdf p.16/17), but actually relevant is a paper by Grothendieck dating to 1964 mentioning a snake diagram ("le diagramme du serpent", pdf p.195/258) that he attributes to (Bourbaki, Alg. comm, chap. I, $\S$1, no 4, prop. 2). You can see the term snake diagram in the much later English translation, and (confirmed by the comments below) it is found in the 1961 original, as well. As far as I know, this is the first published instance that uses the snake terminology.
My guess for the time being: The term snake diagram originated (in French) around 1961 and was first used by one of the Bourbaki members (possibly Cartan, Eilenberg, or Grothendieck). Snake lemma almost certainly has a similar origin.
If you Google for "diagramme du serpent" it becomes plausible that it was a diagram in Cartan-Eilenberg first of all, before a lemma. Interesting example of how Bourbaki became the standard grad student syllabus.


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How does one apply to graduate school when he has been working for sometime? I am interested in pursuing a PhD in math and making a career switch. Would my work experience benefit my application (I am an actuary)?
I am director of graduate admissions for a math Ph.D. program. My main advice is not to use recommendation letters from your current employment -- they are very unlikely to offer information relevant to your potential in research mathematics, even given that your job is highly quantitative. Instead, get letters from your undergrad math professors. You don't say how long you've been out of school -- if you're concerned your undergrad professors don't remember you, I would recommend sitting in on a course or two at a university near you, if the professor doesn't object. This will both a) give committees a chance to hear from someone who's talked math with you recently, and b) give you the chance to make sure that spending a lot of time learning math is what you want for the next phase of your life.
The advice to study hard for and do well on the subject GRE is also sound; the GRE has its problems, but it can be a good bolster for an applicant whose qualifications are unconventional in other ways.
I was out of school for five years before grad school, and I did exactly what JSE recommended and I highly recommend it: I sat in on a graduate course at a (well-known) local university, to make sure I wanted to really quit my job to go to grad school, to give me some idea of what I might field I wanted to go into, and to make sure I had the mathematical chops to have a reasonable chance at success. My professor wrote a rec letter for me (which surely helped) and also gave me very useful advice on applying to grad school. All of this made a huge difference.
The advice to apply separately for a master's program is very good. If you can take the GREs (general and math subject) and do well, then many institutions will be willing to take a chance on you as a master's student. Especially if you are willing to pay your own way even for the first year, then you should not have much trouble getting accepted at a decent program.
Reputation on MO is not worthless, but it is not a commodity with any recognized exchange rate. I am on the graduate admissions committee in my department, and I can't really imagine giving any weight to MO rep specifically. It is true that I have become deeply impressed by some undergraduates via their activities on this site. But this is not by virtue of having accumulated a certain amount of reputation per se but rather because of the deep knowledge and cleverness that oozes out of every corner of their posts. Anyway, I sincerely doubt that these pyrotechnic undergrads need a leg up in their graduate applications: there will be ample conventional evidence of their excellence.
As for whether being an actuary will be helpful in your application: that will probably be very department-specific. As others have said, if you can find a department which has some kind of actuarial program, it is worth contacting someone in that program (even if you don't want to pursue actuarial anything as part of your PhD) because they will be able to evaluate your skills and accomplishments and, if appropriate, convey their esteem to the admissions committee. To give one data point, I believe the current admissions committee at UGA has little or no experience with actuarial science, and it would be hard for us to evaluate a candidate with that background. I have the vague impression that actuaries are smart, mathematically minded people (and wasn't one of the biggest Jeopardy winners of the classical era an actuary?), but if you told me you had passed seven out of nine actuarial exams [note: I have no idea whether there are nine actuarial exams; I just made the number up], I wouldn't know what to make of it.
Come to think of it, perhaps a letter from someone with one foot in the actuarial community and another in academic mathematics would be a good idea. She could explain and translate your accomplishment into terms we would better understand.
Of course, your situation is not as mine was. If your undergraduate professors don't remember you, then it will be hard to get good letters of reference. In which case you need to develop or utilize your current relationships to get good letters of reference. For encouragement though, a brief telling of my experience follows.
I spent 5 years in industry between leaving my undergraduate institution and entering graduate school. I still had professors who remembered me and were willing to write letters of recommendation. That, combined with luck, a system for mass application (to over 70 programs, essentially down to 4 that I liked and 1 I really cared to attend), and a strong personal letter indicating a strong motivation for bringing my work experience into degree studies, was instrumental in my securing entry to graduate school. I did not need to provide references from work, but I was prepared to supply those.
One thing I could have done to improve my chances was to talk to some members of the department I liked and find out what parts of my situation would help my application. Igor Rivin seemed especially helpful in his comments and offer of time; if you get some one like that at the department you want to attend, pump then for all they are worth and repay them as appropriate, usually by thank you letters, acknowledgments in publications, and small tokens of candy or liquor or textbook or other appropriate treat. (Do this in a socially acceptable way, and not like bribing a member of an admissions committee.)
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2011.01.24
I was in a similar position: I worked in a technical, mathematically sophisticated but very specialized job for ten years out of undergraduate before applying to an applied math PhD program. I am currently in my first year of this program.
In addition to taking the subject GRE, I got letters of recommendation from supervisors at various technical positions I had been in. I was lucky in that my employer is very well known in the academic circles in my area, so I think that the math department believed that the letters of recommendations knew what they were talking about, even if they didn't understand them exactly.
So, it might be helpful if you can get letters of recommendation from some colleagues who are at least in touch with academic circles. Depending on the size of your employer and/or the school, this might be easier or harder.
I'm a faculty member who reviews many applications. I think that your actuarial experience would actually be a positive factor in your application to some graduate programs (particularly for programs with professional master's degrees and applied programs that focus on applications in financial mathematics, applied statistics, etc.), but it would not be helpful (and might even hurt) in other cases (e.g. the top PhD programs in pure mathematics.)
I would encourage you to either start taking graduate courses at a local university on a part time basis, or to enter a full time MS program with the intention of transferring to a PhD program after completing the MS.
As an actuary, if you have passed a reasonable number of exams, you will have a proven record of mathematical ability. Most graduate programs should be familiar with actuarial science, and it might help if you apply to a school that does have an actuarial program (housed in math preferably), even if that's not what you're planning to specialize in.
There shouldn't be any resistance from the math department; there might be some administrative issues from the university-wide graduate school, which is usually the place where admissions take place. But in general, if the Math dept is interested, they'll be able to help you navigate these complications.
Assuming you are in the US and applying to US graduate school. Good GRE scores. Unless you are applying to Harvard or Princeton, that is your primary thing. These others (including recommendations) are secondary... They may be used when you have weak GRE scores, for a graduate program to admit you anyway.


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Racing Safety - Beat the HeatWritten by on September 3, 2013 When the racing heats up, be sure to stay cool!
It's common knowledge that racing can be a dangerous sport if you don't properly prepare for the task at hand. While that does include the proper safety equipment (seat, belts, firesuit, head-and-neck restraint, and so on) complete preparation goes even further. Anyone who's raced in a long, caution-filled feature, or had to suffer through the feature before yours while in the staging lanes in the summer knows how oppressive the heat can be, especially in a car with little or no heat insulation for the driver. Just in our own research and testing, we've seen cockpit temperatures breaking the 140-degree mark. Prolonged exposure to this kind of heat can be extremely dangerous, and the harmful effect can go unrecognized, and escalate very quickly.
We are talking about heat exhaustion. Like minor concussions, heat exhaustion can easily be brushed off, but can also quickly progress into something much more serious if untreated. Prolonged exposure to high heat (above 90 degrees) and dehydration has serious side effects when untreated, and for racers, personal care often gets overlooked at the racetrack when work needs to be done to the car. Not taking five or 10 minutes to rest and have a cold drink (or two or three) can be the difference when on the verge of heat exhaustion.
There are two types of heat exhaustion—water depletion and salt depletion. Each is equally dangerous, but has different symptoms. The signs that you are suffering from water depletion include excessive thirst, weakness, headache, and loss of consciousness. The signs of salt depletion are nausea and vomiting, frequent muscle cramps, and dizziness. None of these symptoms are good while behind the wheel of a race car, and if symptoms go untreated, heat exhaustion can turn into heat stroke.
Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion
- Confusion
- Dark-colored urine (a sign of dehydration)
- Dizziness
- Fainting
- Fatigue
- Headache
- Muscle cramps
- Nausea
- Pale skin
- Profuse sweating
- Rapid heartbeat
If you or another racer have heat exhaustion, which may have progressed to heat stroke, it's extremely important to get the person out of the heat and start treatment immediately, as heat stroke can be fatal. Heat stroke (or sun stroke) causes damage to the brain and other vital organs. While it's most common in people over 50, young healthy athletic people can be affected also.
Although it is most common for signs of heat exhaustion or other heat related illnesses to show up first, heat stroke can come on suddenly. Heat stroke, like heat exhaustion, is a result of prolonged exposure to high temperatures combined with dehydration. These conditions can lead to the body's inability to regulate temperature.
The predominant symptom of heat stroke is a core body temperature above 105 degrees. Exposure to body temperatures this high can cause central nervous system damage, brain damage, and internal organ damage. Other common symptoms include nausea, seizures, confusion, disorientation, and sometimes loss of consciousness or coma, but fainting may be the first sign.
Symptoms of Heat Stroke
- Throbbing headache
- Dizziness and light-headedness
- Lack of sweating despite the heat
- Red, hot, and dry skin
- Muscle weakness or cramps
- Nausea and vomiting
- Rapid heartbeat, which may be either strong or weak
- Rapid, shallow breathing
- Behavioral changes such as confusion, disorientation, or staggering
- Seizures
- Unconsciousness
Regulating body temperature and staying hydrated is key to avoiding heat exhaustion and heat stroke. While the ambient outside temperature may not be hot enough to induce heat related illnesses, the temperature in your race car is most likely well above the threshold to cause heat exhaustion. Even without windows in the car, the airflow may not be enough to regulate body temperature when wearing a helmet and firesuit.
Luckily, the racing community is full of safety equipment designed specifically to control body temperature while in an extremely hot race car for long periods of time. Raceday Safety, which specializes in racing safety equipment, sent us one of Cool Shirt's Club Racer Systems to test. This simple system does a great job of bringing a racer's core body temperature down by pumping ice water into a matrix of tubing affixed to a shirt. In our test, the cold water pumping through the shirt brought the surface temp of the shirt down almost 30 degrees. One bag of ice is said to last about four hours, so two bags should be good for an entire day at the track. The system retails for $493.95 and easily installs in any vehicle that has room for a small cooler.
If $500 is more than you want to spend, there are other ways to stay cool. Many helmet companies now offer helmets with fresh air ports built into the shell. They allow for the use of an air pump with can circulate either cooled or non-cooled air into the helmet, cooling the driver's head. In many cases, grabbing fresh air from outside the car will be cool enough to keep you cool. If you race in the South where the summer months are brutal, Raceday Safety sells systems that pump air through an ice chest, giving you a blast of cold air directly into your helmet.
If a Cool Shirt and helmet blower isn't enough, or you need more than four hours of cooling, A/C systems like those from Artic Racing Air can keep you cool as long as you're in the car.
Outside of cooling devices, heat reflective and insulation material on the inside and outside of your car can make a huge different in cockpit temperature. Design Engineering, Inc. specializes in thermal barriers for all kinds of automobiles. They make everything from spray on thermal barriers to heat wrap for headers and exhaust, and insulation sheets for the floorboards and firewall. Products like these are great for reducing radiant heat without adding a lot of weight.
Besides staying cool, hydration is extremely important. It's recommended that drinking 24 ounces of fluid about two hours before exposure to the heat, and drinking an additional 8 ounces of water or sports drink right before hitting the track will give you a good starting point to stay hydrated. Over the course of day, you should roughly consume 8 ounces of water every 20 minutes, even if you don't feel thirsty. Also, drinks that contain caffeine or alcohol should be avoided, as these have a negative effect on fluid retention and can quicken the effects of heat exhaustion and dehydration.
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It's not out of the ordinary to see temperatures inside a race to get close to 150 degrees. With this kind of heat, you should be prepared for prolonged exposure.Companies like Raceday Safety and most racing warehouses sell systems like this from Cool Shirt. These systems are designed to keep the driver cool during hot days on track. They are extremely effective and can be the difference between winning or loosing during oppressive heat.Cool Shirt's Club Racer System is simply a cooler filled with ice and water, and a pump that pushed cold water through the tubing sewn to the shirt.The tubing is pumped in and out of the shirt and circulates ice water around the driver's torso. This can bring core body temperature down significantly when the temperature rises in the car.We wanted to test the effectiveness of the Cool Shirt system so we put in our truck, wired it up, and tried to freeze editor Fisher. The ice water in the cooler checked in at 29.3 degrees, and it gets pumped to the shirt through heavily insulated water lines.
After about 10 minutes in the truck with the water flowing (and Fisher's cheeks turning blue) we measured the temperature again. This time the shirt was 53.7 degrees. That's 29.2 degrees cooler than the base temp reading. That's enough to keep you cool when it's almost 150 in the car.Another great way to stay cool is with a fresh air system for your helmet. These systems pump outside or cooled air directly into you helmet through a port like the one on this helmet.Another way to beat the heat is with thermal barrier products like the Boom Mat from DEI seen here. The insulation is adhesive on one side, metal on the other, and heat resistant fibers in the middle. And it's also easy to install.Transfer the template onto the sheet of Boom Mat, and cut it with a pair of sheers or good scissors. We had luck with a sharp razor knife, but this can be dangerous if you're not careful.Once it's in place, work it around any bends so it sits flush on the floor. This will create a thermal barrier and help keep heat from the exhaust and track out of the cockpit of your race car.


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Scientists say that in times of extreme stress, your perception of time slows down.
I was experiencing this – the restaurant around me was frozen, my salad fork hovering over my plate. The world disappeared into a tunnel and nothing existed but Hot Yoga Girl's eyes, boring into my forehead while waiting for an answer to the question that is the anathema to every bachelor heart.
"Is this your girlfriend?"
You know it's coming. We've all been there. There will always be a waiter cruel and heartless enough to roast you on that spit. Like a predator, they can smell fear.
I could try and avoid restaurants, but the only thing in my refrigerator was half a bottle of Chardonnay and some expired mustard. Dining out was a necessity.
I might cook, but why? Eating Salisbury Steak out of a plastic tray in my underwear is not exactly the image of the man-about-town I was hoping to promote.
It was our sixth date. We were firmly entrenched inside the nebulous area between "just-met" and "boyfriend-girlfriend." Make no mistake, this is an important question. The wrong answer could halt all progress immediately.
Don't expect any help from the woman. Thirty-nine years of intermittent bachelorhood has produced one solid piece of certainty concerning women: They will never, ever, help you with this question. They like to watch you squirm.
I looked her over. She was wearing a baby-doll shirt with Daisy Duke cut-offs and cowboy boots, which showcased her tan, sculpted thighs.
Was she claimable? From a purely superficial perspective, it seemed so.
She was completely Looney Tunes, but that's never really been a problem for me. She'd also been spending several evenings at my house, but no sanitary napkins or feminine hygiene products had mysteriously appeared in one of my bathroom drawers, so I surmised full co-habitation was a few weeks away.
But was she my girlfriend? What did that even mean? Did she want to be my girlfriend? What if she wanted to be my girlfriend, but didn't want me to know it? What if I didn't want her to be my girlfriend but didn't want her to know it?
It was too confusing. I started imagining incredibly creative ways to torture the waiter with my salad fork. That rotten bastard had cornered me. It was a precarious situation.
Leaving this question hanging would destroy the relationship before it began.
"Yes" would mean "Yes, I want to continue having sexual relations with you without actually making a commitment."
"No" would mean "No, I don't want to stop having sexual relations with you, but I'm not willing to make a commitment."
The room started spinning around me like some kind of carnival ride. I was being crammed into one of two pegs, neither of which was appealing.
I had a flash of inspiration.
"We're dating."
It was certainly not definitive, but it was beyond reproach. We were on a date. You couldn't argue with that!
The problem was that I didn't know whether I really wanted to give up my bachelorhood. It's difficult to invest that level of commitment into somebody you barely know.
Pursuing a woman as your girlfriend requires a certain level of desire and long-term attachment. Did I like her? Yes. Did I trust her? Hell no. But who can you really trust?
The look on her face was telling. This was not the preferred response. It was the beginning of the end.
I have no regrets. If I'd wanted to be her boyfriend, my answer would've been different. This wasn't Junior High. We were adults. The stakes are higher. We all have more to lose.
We would quickly drift apart after that. Sometimes there's no getting around it. If you're not willing to make that leap in front of a waiter at Café Mimosa, you aren't ready to have a girlfriend. No matter how sexy she is. There are times when every bachelor will measure his life by the women he didn't end up with.
But by then, he'll already be in a committed relationship. How's that for irony?
You should never make a commitment unless you are 100 percent sure that's what you want. If you do, it will only be that much more painful when you both realize it isn't going to work.
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A total of 14 terminal companies were recognized. Two companies demonstrating exemplary safety cultures were awarded the 2012 Platinum Safety Award. CITGO Petroleum received the large terminal company award, and Motiva's New Jersey complex received the small terminal company award.
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As per my knowledge, both these sounds are considered the same in Mandarin. Do Chinese speakers them have difficulty in distinguishing between say Paul and Ball? How do they deal with it?
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In the International Phonetic Alphabet, for stop consonants, the three following categories are distinguished:
The true situation is a little more complicated, but for any given language, we really only need to distinguish 2 or 3 of these in order to explain the phonological structure. To give some examples:
The mismatch between different 2-way distinctions can either be unnoticable or a huge communication barrier. My experience is that English speakers have no problem communicating with either the aspiration-distinguishers or the voicing-distinguishers. If I say "to"/"do" (= [tʰu]/[du]), an aspiration distinguisher will perceive it as [tʰu]/[tu], and a voicing distinguisher will perceive it as [tu]/[du] (and vice versa).
The real problem is when aspiration-distinguishers attempt to communicate with voicing-distinguishers. This can be hard. A Chinese friend of mine complained about an Indian person who asked for "the [t]ime", and she had no idea what the "dime" he was asking about! Similarly, I've heard Europeans complain that Pinyin "makes no sense" because pinyin 'p' and 'b' "sound the same".
To address the OP's question, Mandarin speakers do distinguish a "p" and "b", but they do so on the basis of aspiration. This works fine for communicating with native English speakers, but works poorly for communicating with other non-native speakers who only make voicing distinctions (e.g., many Europeans).
As others explained, there are two qualities of these sounds which distinguish them in different languages: voicing and aspiration. I'll leave you to look up on Wikipedia what these mean exactly.
Since p is usually aspirated in English when at the beginning of words, Mandarin Chinese speakers usually have no difficulty distinguishing it from b based on aspiration alone. Paul and ball do differ in aspiration and are easily distinguished by Chinese speakers.
It's more interesting to look at languages where aspiration can't be used at all to distinguish these two. In Hungarian (my mother tongue), p and b differ in voicing only, and they are both unaspirated. I know from first hand experience that Chinese speakers do indeed have a little difficulty distinguishing the Hungarian p and b, as I did teach some Hungarian to Chinese people I know. To them the Hungarian p and b tend to sound similar, and more like the Chinese b, because both lack aspiration. Not to say they can't distinguish them after some practice, but this was indeed a point of difficulty.
Naturally, when people learn a new language, they still keep focusing on sound differences that are important in their mother tongue. While in English p and b are (usually) differentiated by both aspiration and voicing, native Chinese speakers focus more on aspiration, and if you listen carefully, you'll notice that they occasionally get the voicing wrong in English (crab vs crap? :-) Similarly, native Hungarian speakers tend to focus on the voicing more, and will often get the aspiration wrong (they'll say Paul with an unaspirated unvoiced p). It also goes the other way: When native English (or Chinese!) speakers learn Hungarian, they'll typically aspirate initial p's, which is one of the things which makes their accent sound "English".
For Chinese (native language speaker), someone from south of China may have issue to distinguish between
P lease b elieve me my friend, most of Chinese speakers handle this well.
/b/ and /p/ are both commonly used in daily life.
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6 Silly Sounding Jobs That Are Way Harder Than You Think
Sometimes you run into a guy who just plain doesn't have a real job. When you meet a sports mascot, a "food critic" or an Internet comedy writer, you kind of shake your head and wonder what it's like to draw a paycheck for something completely ridiculous.
Keep in mind before you apply, though: Some of these frivolous-sounding jobs are harder, more dangerous and deadlier than anything you've ever done in your life, such as ...
#6. Flight Attendant
What People Think:
Flight attendants read the safety instructions and hand out snacks, then they say goodbye to people as they leave the plane. Hell, airlines don't even need to hire people for this job -- couldn't passengers just take turns doing that shit?
Otherwise, it's all about traveling around the world, yet never having to sit still for hours at a time. Flight attendants get to meet all kinds of exciting people and get on the plane before all the other assholes. It's like being on vacation all year round, only they get paid.
That gesture is French for "Go fuck yourself."
The Reality:
You may not realize it, but flight attendants are basically the airplane equivalent of those rhesus monkeys NASA used to launch into space. As they take your crap with big, fake smiles on their faces, you might notice that those faces are flushed and sweaty because flight attendants are very likely to get sick. In fact, their health is so poor that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention actually has an entire program that examines and evaluates flight crews for things like infectious diseases, mold and the constant barrage of cosmic radiation that affects every flight (most of us don't fly enough to be affected by it).
"We figure we've got around a 30 percent shot at getting superpowers."
Honestly, how many of you have a job so crappy that scientists study you to determine the experimental mystery diseases you might catch just by showing up for work? And to be clear, this isn't just a preventative measure in case something happens in the future -- most flight attendants rate their physical health from "fair" to "poor." Being packed into an airtight tube with 200 other people every day will make you sick.
As for how the job affected their mental health, on a scale of 1 to 12 (with 1 being "I'm cool" and 12 being "You probably had to slide this test under the door of my padded cell"), most ended up with a score of 6 or higher. In total, 17 percent of flight attendants showed signs of psychological distress. The biggest complaints were low job satisfaction and sexual harassment by passengers.
Then there's the being-away-from-home part. If flight attendants have families, they might as well leave them all in the woods and hope some kind wolves raise them, because they're going to be staying in hotels most of the time and spending about 80 to 90 hours a month in-flight. That's not counting the time they spend waiting in the airport and things like that.
"Each day I picture myself strangling all of you with this."
And, of course, if we're going to talk about flying, we have to mention terrorism. (It's a law. Listen carefully next time you see Starscream on The Transformers.) Nowadays, flight attendants have to be trained to spot suspicious activity and, in case shit gets real, they have to know self defense as well. Plus, if someone gets sick or hurt, they have to be fully trained in first aid and CPR. How much is a free flight to Barbados once a year worth to you?
Then there's the everyday stuff. Like everyone else who works in customer service, flight attendants have to put up with dickheads, some of whom will apparently do things like kick them if they don't bring another drink. Only it's worse, because airline customers are probably going to be some of the shittiest to deal with, since no one likes all the bullshit that goes along with flying.
"Sir, I'm gonna need to see your balls right now. Both of them, please."
#5. Professional Wrestler
What People Think:
Professional wrestling is a contact sport with no contact -- a sissy slap-fight with nonsensical story lines and amateur acting. It's more dancing than fighting, elaborate moves that are designed only to look cool while missing the opponent completely. And that ain't real blood; they just suck at opening those little ketchup packets from McDonald's.
Via Cagesideseats.com
Next time, just order a McFlurry and move on.
The Reality:
They die early. And we mean there's a really good chance a professional wrestler will die before 50.
First, try willingly falling onto a stage made out of wood and steel dozens of times a week, then let us know how it feels. But, OK, you could have guessed that part -- we've covered how difficult it is to wrestle before, including what it's like to continue performing with broken bones. But to many a wrestler, going out there and performing is the easy part. Everything else about the job separates the overly muscled men from the overly muscled boys.
Above: An overly assed face.
Take the daily grind, for one. As recently as the late '90s, it was not uncommon for wrestlers to be on the road 300+ days a year and to go months between days off. Today, things have softened, and full-time wrestlers are only on the road about 250 days a year. Babies.
This rushed and unrelenting travel schedule can bring even the toughest hard-asses to their knees. Tons of wrestlers, including legit tough guys like Brock Lesnar and Nathan Jones (the latter of whom had served seven years in maximum security prison), quit the business mainly because of the travel schedule.
Via Listal.com
This guy takes up two full seats. In first class.
If they survive the brutal travel schedule, there's a good chance professional wrestlers will end up crippled or dead. Drug use has always been rampant in wrestling, as it's the only way some of these guys can survive the grind and deal with the very real injuries they regularly work through due to having no insurance or benefits offered through work. Steroids, sleeping pills and hard-line painkillers are all readily available, and the results are not pretty. An extensive study focusing on wrestlers from the early '80s to today reveals that the death rate for wrestlers age 45 and younger is higher than for most any other job, unless there are a ton of up-and-coming volcano inspectors out there we haven't heard about yet.
"Your theory was correct, Jim -- it's pretty hot."
Then there's the brain. Taking a steel chair to the cranium happens all the time in wrestling -- and yes, they are making contact -- and many moves involve wrestlers being dumped on their necks and heads. Concussions are commonplace and, unlike in the NFL, the show does not grind to a screeching halt if somebody gets hurt midmatch. Brock Lesnar reports not being able to remember the ending to his WrestleMania match with Kurt Angle, as he had knocked himself loopy during a failed finishing move near the end. He went on to win the match. While blacked out.
"Wait, did I win, or is my face being overly assed?"
Chris Nowinski suffered over a half-dozen concussions in a two-year career. They studied Chris Benoit's brain after his death and concluded that he had traumatic brain damage and dementia equal to that of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient. He was 40.
#4. Costumed Mascots
What People Think:
They're furry cheerleaders who don't look nearly as good in a skirt. Mascots are seen largely as silly entertainment for the kids, who just love to watch grown men dressed as various anthropomorphic creatures doing the Pee-wee Herman big-shoe dance because the home team just scored a run.
And soul-scarring forefathers who have just escaped hell.
The Reality:
You probably wouldn't last one minute inside that suit. To be a mascot, you need to be able to withstand working conditions so bad that the local elephant masturbator might send you a sympathy card. For one thing, that cute little costume you'd be wearing? It can weigh anywhere from 20 to 30 pounds, far more if it rains, and that doesn't include the big-ass head. Lugging around the giant Mr. Mets head day in and day out could quickly snap your neck if you don't keep it in shape.
And even with a fan inside, temperatures in the suit can get to 113 degrees or more, resulting in quick dehydration or heat stroke if you don't excuse yourself repeatedly for water. This must be done strategically, of course, since nobody's allowed to see you with the head off, least of all a bunch of dumbasses who just have to have their picture taken with the dying man dressed as Tigger right now.
"I owe you nothing, Carly Simon."
So now you have a heavy, wet, furry suit that makes you feel like you're being cooked alive. That suit now smells like a worm's asshole, and you can never wash it. The material won't allow a good scrub, so you can only dry-clean it. This does diddly squat for the smell, which is why mascots will almost never wear another mascot's head. As an NBA mascot put it, "If you put [my mascot head] within a foot of you, you might gag."
Moments after this photo was snapped, the actress vomited.
Then there are the injuries: yes, the skinny kid in a giant gopher suit is just as likely to get hurt as any athlete. A study of pro sports mascots revealed that more than had suffered a heat-related injury, 44 percent complained of chronic lower back pain and about 20 percent sustained knee injuries at work. And not just sport mascots, either: more than a third of the 1,900 people working at Disney World in 2005 suffered some sort of injury.
Awareness of one's nose distance is vital to both mascot and patron safety.
For all this, mascots typically pull in $60 or so per night, even at the major league level. The surly kid at 7-Eleven who spits in your coffee and reads magazines all night pulls in more than that.


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Otoe County prosecutors reduced felony arson charges to misdemeanors against a Nebraska City man accused of setting his house on fire out of frustration over his son's activities there.
Lawyers for Rex D. Peterson Sr., 54, said he did not approve of his 30-year-old son's use of the house on H Road as a hangout for what he perceived as illegal drug activities.
Prosecutors say Peterson poured gasoline at several locations around the house on Jan. 5 and set fire to a paper towel.
"Mr. Peterson intentionally started the fire in an attempt to oust his son from the house," said Otoe County Attorney David Partsch.
The state dropped the charges of arson involving the house, which Peterson owns with his sister Dawn Peterson, and Peterson entered guilty pleas Monday to the destruction of personal property belonging to his son and sister.
Peterson agreed to pay reasonable restitution to the Nebraska City Rural Fire Department and state Fire Marshal's Office for their response to the fire.
Otoe County Attorney David Partsch said he had received a bill of $6,900 from the fire department, but Peterson's attorney John Voelker said a court hearing could be needed to determine the exact amount of restitution.
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People with mental disorders must often cope with the sting of social stigma in addition to their illness. Those with mental disorders have long staggered under the weight of negative attitudes and beliefs that cause others to fear them, avoid them and shun them.
Why should we care?
Stigma shapes how people interact with those with behavioral health challenges. Stigma keeps others from socializing with those with mental illness. Some landlords won't rent to someone with mental illness; some employers won't hire them.
Negative public perceptions sometimes hamper a persons' access to housing, employment and funding for care. The discrimination associated with stigma can seriously affect a person's willingness to seek, or continue, treatment for mental illness. Stigma can erode a person's self-esteem and sense of dignity so that shame prevents them from seeking help.
Who is affected by behavioral health disorders?
1 in 4 people are affected by behavioral health disorders any day. This includes friends, family, co-workers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, athletes—it can be anyone!
What would it look like if everyone with mental illness lived in one state?
The number people with a diagnosable mental illness couldn't live in one state. The 57.7 million people with mental illness are greater than the populations of California, New York, Rhode Island and the U.S. Virgin Islands combined.
Mental Health: Everyone Has It!
Reducing stigma and promoting inclusion is a societal responsibility takes all of us. Wellness, for each of us, includes physical health and mental health. Every human being – no matter their age, gender, ethnicity, orientation or income - has mental health.
Arizona's Statewide Initiative to Reduce Stigma
In an effort to reduce stigma and build a greater sense of community that supports people with mental illness and substance use disorders, the Arizona Department of Health Services/Division of Behavioral Health Services (DBHS) implemented a statewide stigma reduction initiative. The Arizona Stigma Reduction Committee (ASRC) was established to lead the change.
Join the Movement!
Overcoming stigma and increasing community inclusion starts with you and grows from there. You can start by simply being more aware of the language you use. Then educate yourself and others about mental health and learn the many more things you can do to help fight stigma!
You Can Help Fight Stigma
- Know the facts about mental illness and substance use disorders.
- Educate others - share what you've learned.
- Invite the Arizona Stigma Reduction Committee (ASRC) to conduct a presentation or an Arizona Dialogue for your organization, association or faith community.
- Choose your words carefully - language matters.
- Be aware of your own attitudes and behavior - recognize the signs and get help if you need it.
- Be supportive and compassionate with people who experience behavioral health challenges.
- Encourage people in their recovery.
- Welcome everyone to your community and place of worship.
- Hire people in recovery from behavioral health challenges.
- Take care of your mental health just as you do your physical health.
- Volunteer your time and skills to help behavioral health organizations.
- Make financial donations to non-profit behavioral health organizations serving your community.
- Donate clothing and household items to nonprofit organizations.
- Fight Stigma: Articles of Interest
- Fight Stigma: Arizona & National Resources
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, 1999
Penn & Martin, 1998; Corrigan & Penn, 1999
Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America Final Report, July 2003


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DOVER, Del. (February 13, 2013)--Thomas Matusiewicz, 68, the rural South Texas man who killed his former daughter-in-law and another woman in a Delaware courthouse before shooting himself to death, complained about not getting justice in a lawsuit filed against his family.
Matusiewicz complained to a Delaware judge in 2011 that he and his family had no money to defend themselves in a lawsuit filed by his former daughter-in-law Christine Belford after her ex-husband, David Matusiewicz, kidnapped the couple's three daughters and took them to Central America.
Thomas and his wife, Lenore, also complained they spent or lost more than $1 million trying to get the three young girls to safety.
Matusiewicz walked into the lobby of the New Castle County Courthouse Monday, and shot and killed Belford and her friend before taking his own life, police said.
Relatives said they so no signs he planned such a drastic step.
Juan Gonzalez, Matusiewicz's son-in-law, said he and his wife, Amy, saw Matusiewicz about five or six days ago when they were making arrangements for their animals to be fed while he was in Delaware to attend a court hearing.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies and FBI agents executed a search warrant on the family's rural South Texas home.
The affidavit filed for the search warrant says the man's son and wife are also suspects in the deadly shooting.
According to the affidavit, Matusiewicz, his wife and his son are "suspected of intentionally and knowingly participating in a murder."
The document describes video that shows Matusiewicz and his son hugging in the courthouse lobby.
After the son left, Matusiewicz waited for his victims, killed them and wounded two officers before shooting himself.
Police found two handwritten death certificates for Belford and her lawyer on his body.


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A baby's skin is much more sensitive to hot water and can scald easily. The National Safety Council recommends setting your water thermostat to 120° F. Bathwater for a baby should be about 100° F, so always check your baby's bathwater with your wrist or elbow before bathing him. A mixer faucet on the tub, sink, or shower will also help to prevent burns.
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City to Launch Pet-Adoption Push
New York City Animal Care and Control plans to launch an adoptions department within a year, a shift for an agency that has struggled to connect with the general public and has come under withering criticism from politicians and animal advocates.
To a greater extent than public animal shelters in many large American cities, the city has mostly left the task of finding homes for stray dogs, cats and other pets to a hodgepodge of more than 100 private groups. From 2006 to 2011, adoptions at Animal Care and Control's three shelters dropped 37%.
Now, city officials said they want to play a larger role in helping residents find a pet. The adoptions department would have 10 to 12 staff members and would actively seek owners for its animals, much like large private organizations such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"There's a lot of competition out there, with many pet shops and many places where you can adopt animals," said Risa Weinstock, the agency's interim executive director. "We want to make AC&C one of the first choices."
The adoption department would mark a new strategy for Animal Care and Control, which has long had regular employees or volunteers with other responsibilities handle adoptions. It would be part of an expansion of the agency's staff from 150 to 250 over the next three years, using $10 million in new city funding that would boost its budget to $13 million this year.
Officials said they want shorter waiting times for those looking to adopt and a more individualized process, with adoption counselors consulting with prospective owners one-on-one. Counselors will seek past adopters and actively tout animals via social media and paid advertising. They hope to have more adoption events and eventually stage events at the shelter, officials said.
"We want a department with all the bells and whistles," Ms. Weinstock said.
Animal Care and Control has been the target of a series of critical reports from auditors, City Council members and other officials.
The most recent, by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's office, accused the agency of maintaining filthy conditions in shelters and a lack of financial transparency.
Mr. Stringer's report also targeted the agency's record on adoptions, saying they declined from 9,313 adoptions in 2006 to 5,843 in 2011. AC&C sent a record 15,500 animals to private shelters in 2012, according to the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, a liaison group that includes nearly all of the city's 150 private animal-rescue groups. That is up from 9,937 in 2006. The city shelter employs several full-time staff members to handle the transfers.
"The measure of success has been, can we move these animals to underfunded organizations and volunteers who have to then take responsibility for finding homes for these animals," Mr. Stringer said. "The whole purpose of AC&C is for them to do this job and not rely on outsourcing to underfunded organizations."
Ms. Weinstock said Mr. Stringer's criticisms are a "mischaracterization of our efforts." Mr. Stringer's office said it stood behind the report.
At the same time, several of the U.S.'s biggest cities show adoptions from public shelters have increased or essentially remained the same, according to data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. In Dallas, adoptions have more than tripled to 5,399 from 1,500 since 2007. Numbers in Los Angeles have hovered around 20,000 a year. Adoptions have significantly jumped in Phoenix and Houston, too, data shows.
Animal advocates and longtime critics of the shelter welcomed Animal Care and Control's new focus on adoptions with cautious optimism.
"If they bring in the right people to do that, I think that's great," said Doug Halsey, director of Ready for Rescue, a nonprofit animal-rescue group. "Do I have the confidence they're going to do it right with their leadership? I'm not sure that I do."
Organizations such as Mr. Halsey's have had to shoulder increased medical and housing costs for animals the city has given up. At the same time, critics said, the city's policy of giving away animals to private groups allows it to tout a lower kill rate.
The city euthanized 23,743 animals in 2004 compared with 8,151 in 2011, but animal advocates and private shelters say they are responsible for much of the drop. The private groups said they have been faced with an untenable choice: allow more animals to face euthanasia with the city, or take increasing loads themselves. "As adoptions have dropped, we have all taken on the burden," said Mr. Halsey. "There's no doubt about that."
City officials said the animal-control agency had been dealt a series of debilitating budget cuts over the past 10 years, with much of its staff and operating funds slashed. The organization has had eight different executive directors in the past decade. The shelter is currently without a medical director to care for animals.
"With the strapped budgets and reduction in the number of employees, of course their adoptions dropped. What a surprise," said Jane Hoffman, director of the mayor's alliance. "They really do some heroic work despite tough situations."


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Performance is what matters during progress, which is not the same as valueing raw output.
The main issue is then; How does the pets do double the damage per attack of the other hunter (ANY other hunter).
Went and got a corehound. With bloodlust - 20 attacks. Without bloodlust - 16. 4x extra attacks. Can't test how it stacks with berserking as I'm an orc :<.
That said, siamat's buff (assuming you get 3 stacks of it on all pets) count as a permanent bloodlust. Simple math but -
I get 17 attacks baseline at 16.3K haste (the bloodlust test was with 14K as I hadn't reforged from the berserking test earlier) with raidbuffs. Megabloks had 50 total (2x stampedes).
17+2 from berserking = 38.
+4 from bloodlust = 42.
+8 from 2x summons with siamat's buff = 50.
Top kek!!!!
My sides are in orbit
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This thread has turned to a huge in japan troll thread. Ban em all I say. Dang cheats
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Alright, I'll admit I lol'd hard at Megablok's only post.
Crying lols over here too.
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