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There have been so many excuses to eat badly the past few months. Think about the holidays. Then the Super Bowl. And most recently, Valentine's Day. In today's post, Dr. Sally Porter Ross tackles the subject of weight loss:
Mary, a lively, talkative, extremely overweight 30-year-old, was angrily reproaching herself for having overeaten the past week: "I am just so disgusted with myself. I can't believe that I just sat there and kept stuffing myself with three rolls, a huge helping of chicken fried steak and not one, but two desserts! What's wrong with me?"
What was wrong with Mary was the fact that she had established a very non-productive rut in her life. Her pattern was predictable: rather than using her mistakes as guideposts for the future, she employed them as self-recriminations for the past. I had heard this same refrain from Mary before. She would overeat and then mentally beat herself up for her destructive behavior. How much better if Mary had told herself: "OK., I ate too much tonight. So tomorrow night when I sit down for dinner, I'll take a minute and remind myself that I will only eat one serving of anything in front of me and that I do not have to finish my entire meal."
If Mary had utilized her mistake in that way, she would have been much kinder to herself, thus keeping a healthy ego intact and she would have definitely increased her odds of losing weight.
When you let yourself down, don't fall into Mary's rut. Instead of giving yourself a mental working-over for your past mistakes, give yourself a helping hand for a more productive future. No experience is wasted if we learn from it.


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Mackenzie Brown was 3-for-4 with a triple and three runs as Bayonne defeated Hoboken, 10-7, in Bayonne.
Autumn Peterson was 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs and two RBI for Bayonne. Haley Johnson was 3-for-3 with two RBI and a run and Alexandra Fajardo went 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI.

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You'll laugh hard at 'Cursing Mommy's Book of Days'
"The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days"
By Ian Frazier
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 244 pages; $25
The Cursing Mommy is one of Ian Frazier's funniest creations.
It's naughty, dark, funny; the whole shtick is that the Cursing Mommy is going to attempt some type of homemaker-y craftsy thing, probably while drinking one of her favorite types of liquor, of which she has many.
And then something is going to go horribly, horribly wrong. And then, the Cursing Mommy is going to curse. A lot.
It's a good routine, good enough to have been used repeatedly in The New Yorker. But stitching a series of them together into a novel? I had doubts.
Many of the guffaws come from knowing that the Cursing Mommy is going to fail, and trying to anticipate just how big a catastrophe it's going to be. (Echoes of Wile E. Coyote, perhaps?)
Masterfully, though, Frazier has given his cartoon character of a protagonist recognizable modern-life challenges: Troubled children. Vile insurance companies. A distant husband, working harder than ever for less pay for a creepy boss.
Unlike the coyote, who deals in rocket skates and falling anvils, we can understand the challenges, big and small, in her life -- and wish we could react with her righteous, profane, dish-smashing rage.
Frazier also concocts ingenious, absurdist situations that, frighteningly, don't seem all that implausible.
This book is not for mommies who have it all together, or would like the world to think they do. Nor is it, obviously, for anyone who disapproves of a great quantity of four- and seven-letter words.
But for any real-world mommies (or daddies) who have been left bewildered by their lives and been tempted to let a few choice words fly at any aspect of it, I recommend putting on a video for the kids, pouring a favorite beverage and picking up this book. I am glad I did.


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It all started out so nicely for the Baltimore Ravens.
They were returning home after picking up back-to-back road wins in Pittsburgh and San Diego and facing a Pittsburgh Steelers club that was missing its two best quarterbacks, one of their key linebackers and their best cornerback.
They led 13-3 at one point in the second quarter and had forced the Steelers into back-to-back three-and-outs on defense.
Yet from there, it all came apart.
By the end of the game, they had given up a mind-boggling 276 yards to third-string QB Charlie Batch and lost their home winning streak, as well as their winning streak against fellow AFC North foes.
So what happened?
Here's the good, the bad and the ugly from Sunday's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, NORWAY
Address for correspondence: Jostein Steene-Johannessen, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, PO Box 4014 Ullevål Stadion, 0806 Oslo, Norway; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Submitted for publication October 2008.
Accepted for publication December 2008.
Purpose: To examine the independent associations of muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with clustered metabolic risk in youth.
Methods: In 2005-2006, a cohort of 9- and 15-yr-olds (N = 2818) was randomly selected from all regions of Norway. The participation rate was 89% and 74% among the9-and 15-yr-olds, respectively. We assessed muscular strength by measuring explosive, isometric, and endurance strength. Cardiorespiratory fitness was measured directly as peak oxygen uptake during a cycle ergometry test. Risk factors included in the composite risk factor score (sum of z-scores) were systolic blood pressure, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, insulin resistance, and waist circumference.
Results: Muscle fitness was negatively associated with clustered metabolic risk, independent of cardiorespiratory fitness, and after adjustment for age, sex, and pubertal stage (β = −0.112, P < 0.001). Independent of muscle fitness, an inverse association was found between cardiorespiratory fitness and clustered metabolic risk (β = −0.337, P < 0.001). Moreover, the odds ratios for having clustered risk in the least fit quartile compared with the most fit quartile were 7.2 (95% confidence interval (CI)=4.3-12.0) and 17.3 (95% CI = 9.2-32.7) for muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness, respectively.
Conclusions: Our results show that muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness are independently associated with metabolic risk in youth.
CHD is the leading cause of death in western society (33). Factors associated with an increased risk of developing CHD include abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, insulin resistance and elevated triglycerides (TG), and lowered high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c). These factors tend to cluster in some individuals. The constellation of these cardiovascular disease (CVD) and metabolic risk factors has been termed the metabolic syndrome (1). Although the clinical symptoms of CVD do not become apparent until later in life, it is now recognized that CVD is partly a pediatric problem because the onset of atherosclerosis occurs in early childhood (25). In addition, clustering of elevated levels of these risk factors has been observed in both children and adolescents (31) and tends to persist from childhood into adulthood (27).
In exercise science, the term fitness is often referred to as health-related fitness (12) and is defined as an ability to perform daily activities consisting of morphological, muscular, motor, cardiorespiratory, and metabolic components (9). In adults, low cardiorespiratory fitness is known to contribute to the early onset and progression of CVD and is associated with a doubling of the risk of premature death (7,26). Moreover, recent research findings have shown that cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong predictor for clustering of CVD risk factors in children and youth (5,14,29,32). However, in these studies, the term fitness mainly refers to cardiorespiratory fitness.
Recently, the role of muscular strength has been increasingly recognized in the prevention of chronic disease in adults (30), and features of the metabolic syndrome have also been negatively associated with muscle strength in men (20) and women (36). Consequently, inclusion of resistance training as part of an exercise program for promoting health in adults has been endorsed by several organizations. To date, however, few studies (6,15,19) have examined the association of the muscular component with CVD risk factors among children and adolescents, and they have been conducted with a limited number of subjects. Furthermore, two studies (6,19) included measurement of maximal strength only, and the associations are only analyzed with individual CVD risk factors and not clustered metabolic risk. By contrast, Garcia-Artero et al. (15) measured muscle endurance, explosive strength, and maximal strength and included a lipid-metabolic risk score in their analyses. However, they did not directly measure cardiorespiratory fitness. Hence, there is sparse knowledge about the independent association of muscle strength with both individual CVD risk factors and clustered metabolic risk in youth. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first study that provides an opportunity to evaluate the independent association of both single and combined muscle strength measurements with clustered metabolic risk, compared with direct measurement of cardiorespiratory fitness in a national representative sample of children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the independent associations of muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with clustered metabolic risk in youth. We hypothesized that muscle fitness is an equally important predictor for clustered metabolic risk as cardiorespiratory fitness.
This is a cross-sectional study of a randomly selected cohort of 9-yr-olds (4th grade) and 15-yr-olds (10th grade). A total of 63 schools were included in the study that included all regions of Norway. Of 2818 subjects invited to participate in the study, 2299 accepted, giving an overall participation rate of 82% (89% and 74% for the 9- and 15-yr-olds, respectively). Data were collected between March 2005 and October 2006. Tests were performed at the schools, and 10-15 children were examined per day. The study was carried out according to the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics and the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. Each participant's parent or guardian provided written informed consent, and all subjects assented to participation.
After an overnight fast, venous serum blood samples were collected between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. The samples were spun for 10 min at 2500g and separated within 30 min. Body height (nearest mm) and body weight (nearest 100 g) were measured in light clothing. Waist circumference was measured with anthropometric tape around the umbilicus at the end of a normal expiration. After being seated for at least 5 min, blood pressure was measured automatically five times at 2-min intervals (Omega™ Noninvasive blood pressure monitor; Invivo Research, Inc., Orlando, FL). The mean value of the last three measurements was used in the analyses. Identification of pubertal status was assessed by trained personnel according to Tanner's (34) classification. Analyses in the current study are based on breast development in girls and genitalia development in boys.
Upper limb strength was assessed by ahandgrip strength test using a hand dynamometer (Baseline® Hydraulic Hand Dynamometer, Elmsford, NY). The subject used the dominant hand, stood with the arm completely extended, and squeezed the dynamometer with maximum isometric effort for about 2-3 s. Explosive strength in the lower body was assessed with a standing broad jump. The participants stood behind a line, with feet slightly apart. They were instructed to perform a two-foot takeoff and landing and to jump as far as possible, landing on both feet without falling backward. The distance from the takeoff line to the nearest point of contact on the landing (back of the heels) was measured, and the better of two attempts was used for analyses. Abdominal muscular endurance was measured by a sit-up test. The subject started in a lying position with hands clasped behind the neck, knees bent at a 45° angle, and heels and feet flat on the mat. The subject had to rise to a position with the elbows pointed forward until they touched the knees. The total number of correctly performed and completed sit-ups within 30 s was counted. Endurance of the trunk extensor muscles was measured by how many seconds the subject was able to keep the unsupported upper body (from the upper border of the iliac crest) horizontal while placed prone, with the buttocks and legs fixed to a balance pad with the arms folded across the chest (modified Biering-Sørensen test).
To account for differences in body size, peak handgrip was adjusted for body weight (kg). Each of these variables was standardized as follows: standardized value = (value − mean)/SD. A muscle fitness score was computed by combining the standardized values of handgrip strength, standing broad jump, sit-ups, and the Biering-Sørensen test. The muscle fitness score was calculated as the mean of the four standardized scores by age and sex.
Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed through a progressive cycle test to exhaustion using an electronically braked cycle ergometer (Ergomedic 839E; Monark, Varberg, Sweden). Initial and incremental work rates were 20 W for children weighing less than 30 kg and 25 W for children weighing 30 kg or more. For 15-yr-old girls and boys, the initial and incremental work rates were 40 and 50 W, respectively. The work rate increased every third minute until exhaustion. HR was recorded throughout the test using an HR monitor (Polar Vantage, Kempele, Finland). Expired air was measured with a portable oxygen and CO2 analyzer (MetaMax III X; Cortex Biophysics, Leipzig, Germany). The criteria for maximal exhaustion were met if there was a subjective judgment by the tester in that the subject showed signs of intense effort (e.g., facial flushing or difficulties in keeping up the pedal frequency) and if the HR was ≥185 bpm or if the respiratory exchange ratio was ≥0.99. Eight percent of the girls and boys failed to meet the inclusion criteria, whereas 4% were absent on the test day. Hence, 2027 (88%) children and adolescents had valid test.
HDL-c, TG, and glucose were analyzed by colorimetry on a Cobas Integra analyzer (F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland). The total analytic coefficients of variation were 4.0%, 4.0%, and 3.0% for HDL-c, TG, and glucose, respectively. Insulin was measured by fluoroimmunoassay using an automatic immunoassay system (AutoDELFIA® Insulin; PerkinElmer, Turku, Finland). The total analytic coefficients of variation for insulin were 6%-8%. Homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) was calculated as the product of fasting glucose (mmol·L−1) and insulin (μU·mL−1) divided by the constant 22.5 (24).
A continuous score representing a composite CVD risk factor profile was derived by computing standardized residuals (z-score) by age and sex for HOMA score, waist circumferences, TG, HDL-c, and systolic blood pressure. The z-scores of the individual risk factors were summed to create the metabolic risk score. These variables were chosen because they represent the same variables as used in the adult (1) and youth (37) clinical criteria for the metabolic syndrome. A lower metabolic risk score is indicative of a better overall CVD risk factor profile. To calculate the odds ratio, metabolic risk was dichotomized at the cutoff value plus 1 SD, identifying children with clustered risk. The cutpoint of 1SD above the mean was chosen to match the prevalence of clustering of risk factors in similar studies (2). When calculating the odds ratio, the cutoff value for the mean metabolic risk score was 0.63 (+1 SD); in addition, the mean metabolic risk score ranged from 3.33 to −1.50.
Analyses were executed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 15; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Means and SD for muscle fitness and components of the metabolic syndrome are presented by sex and age groups for the children with complete measurements. Of 2229 participants, a total of 1851 (81%) had valid blood samples. The reasons for exclusion were failing to provide a consent form for the blood sample (n=45), hemolyzed samples or not enough blood (n = 85), and not fasting or being absent on the day of blood sampling (n= 318). Moreover, in the present study, only participants (n = 1592) with valid measurement of muscle fitness, cardiorespiratory fitness, HDL-c, TG, HOMA (insulin and glucose), systolic blood pressure, and waist circumferences were included. Because only analyses on complete data are presented, we analyzed whether those with complete data differed from those without. There were no differences in mean age, sex distribution, body mass index (BMI), metabolic risk factors, or cardiorespiratory fitness between those with and those without complete measurements.
ANOVA was used to assess difference in metabolic risk across quartiles of muscle fitness, and the linear trend analysis was performed via polynomial contrast. Post hoc analyses were conducted with Tukey's least significant difference. Partial correlations adjusted for sex, age, and puberty were used to examine bivariate correlations of muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with single CVD risk factors and clustered metabolic risk. Furthermore, two separate multiple regression models were used to examine the association of muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with the clustered metabolic risk score. Model 1 contained muscle fitness or cardiorespiratory fitness and was adjusted for age, sex, and pubertal stage. In model 2, we additionally adjusted for the other predictor variable to test the independent associations of both muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with clustered metabolic risk. Moreover, the same two models were used in logistic regression to estimate odds ratios to examine the association of muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with risk of having clustered metabolic risk. The interval scaled variable (quartiles 1 to 4) was treated as if it was a continuous variable when we tested the slope for significance (test for trend). ANOVA was used to assess the difference in metabolic risk score across different body mass index (BMI) and muscle fitness groups (tertiles). The linear trend analysis was performed via polynomial contrast, and post hoc analyses were conducted with Tukey's least significant difference. On the basis of BMI, we classified children and adolescents as overweight and obese according to the age-adjusted cutoffs described by Cole et al. (10).
Descriptive statistics for girls and boys in the two age groups are shown in Table 1. In both age groups, there was a pattern of higher muscle fitness in boys than girls (P<0.001), except for the Biering-Sørensen test where the 15-yr-old girls performed better than the 15-yr-old boys (P< 0.001).
Table 2 shows partial correlations for muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with individual CVD risk factors and clustered metabolic risk. Weak to moderate associations were observed for individual muscle fitness tests with individual CVD risk factors; all r values being below r=0.3, except for the negative association between handgrip and waist circumference (r = −0.50, P < 0.001). Stronger associations (r = 0.14-0.55, all P values <0.001) were observed for cardiorespiratory fitness with single CVD risk factors.
Results showing the graded association of muscle fitness with the metabolic risk score are displayed in Figure 1. A main effect of muscle fitness was observed across quartiles (P < 0.001), with metabolic risk declining from Q1 (low fitness) to Q4 (high fitness). The same pattern was found in all sex and age subgroups (all groups P < 0.001), and there were no differences in sum of z-scores between the groups within each of the four quartiles. In all groups, participants in the lowest quartile of muscle fitness had significantly poorer metabolic risk scores compared with all other quartiles (all groups P < 0.05), whereas there were no differences among the other quartiles. The relationship was better described as an exponential function compared with the linear assumption, indicating that the largest difference was seen between the lowest quartiles (Q1 and Q2).
The regression analysis revealed that muscle fitness was negatively associated with clustered metabolic risk (P<0.001) after adjustment for age, sex, and pubertal stage (model 1) (Table 3). In addition, although adjustment for cardiorespiratory fitness (model 2) weakened the association, it remained significant (P < 0.001). An inverse association was found for cardiorespiratory fitness after adjustment for model 1 (P < 0.001), and these associations remained similar after additional adjustment for muscle fitness (P < 0.001).
Figure 2 shows the risk of having clustered risk in quartiles of muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness. For muscle fitness, the odds ratio for having clustered risk was 7.2 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 4.3-12.0) in the least fit quartile (quartile 1) compared with the reference quartile (quartile 4). The test for trend was highly significant (P<0.001). Additional adjustment for cardiorespiratory fitness attenuated the odds ratio for having clustered risk to 1.73 (95% CI = 1.0-3.1) in the least fit quartile compared with the referent quartile. However, the test for trend was still significant (P = 0.003). For cardiorespiratory fitness, the odds ratio was 17.3 (95% CI = 9.2-32.7; P for trend <0.001) for the least fit group, and after additional adjustment for muscle fitness, the odds ratio declined to 9.4 (95% CI = 4.8-18.4; P for trend <0.001).
To further explore the association of muscle fitness with weight status and metabolic risk, both overweight and normal weight participants were divided into tertiles based on muscle fitness (low, moderate, and high). Significant differences in metabolic risk across muscle fitness groups existed among both normal weight (P = 0.013) and overweight participants (P < 0.001) (Fig. 3). In the normal weight group, post hoc analyses showed significant differences between tertiles 1 and 3 (P = 0.009), whereas in the overweight group, tertile 1 was significant different from tertile 2 (P = 0.001) and tertile 3 (P < 0.001). The overweight low muscle fitness group had the highest metabolic risk score (4.71 95% CI = 4.1-5.3), which presents a poorer CVD risk factor profile. Furthermore, the metabolic risk score in the overweight high fitness group was 1.10 (95% CI = −0.4 to 2.6), which was markedly lower than for the overweight low fitness group.
This study demonstrates that muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness are independently and inversely associated with clustered metabolic risk after adjustment for confounding factors. Moreover, risk for having clustered risk was raised in the least fit quartile for both muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness compared with the most fit quartile. We observed the poorest metabolic risk profile among the overweight children and adolescents with low muscle fitness.
In line with the present study, several previous reports have shown inverse associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and individual CVD risk factors (8), clustered CVD risk (5,15), and metabolic syndrome (18) in children and youth. So far, only one other study has reported the independent effect of muscle fitness on clustered CVD risk in youth. Garcia-Artero et al. (15) found an inverse association between muscular strength and lipid-metabolic profile, but the observation was only apparent in girls. In the present study, the association between both muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with clustered metabolic risk was significant after adjustment for the other fitness variable. There are some methodological differences that could partly explain discrepancies in sex difference between the two studies. First, Garcia-Artero et al. (15) have a smaller study sample, and second, they have included participants from a broader age range (13-18 yr). Cardiorespiratory fitness was more strongly associated with the clustered metabolic risk in comparison with muscle fitness, and additional adjustment for cardiorespiratory fitness weakened the associations between muscle fitness and clustered metabolic risk. Nonetheless, the associations remained significant after adjusting for cardiorespiratory fitness, suggesting that muscle fitness may already be an independent protective factor in thedevelopment of CVD risk in childhood. However, it is important to underline that the present study shows that cardiorespiratory fitness still appears to be the most important factor in predicting metabolic risk.
In adults, the central mechanisms through which high muscle fitness reduces CVD risk include improved TG (23), HDL-c levels (16), blood pressure (21), abdominal fat (35), and insulin sensitivity (17). It is possible that these biological pathways are transferable to the young population; however, the exact mechanisms that elicit the protective effect are not yet established in the young population. As sex hormone levels change and affect muscle mass during childhood, the apparent protective effect of muscle fitness in children and youth could be a function of puberty. Nevertheless, the associations were apparent already in prepubertal 9-yr-old children and in both sexes. Therefore, it is likely that the possible protective effect of muscle fitness is a function of participation in regular physical activity.
The protective association of muscle fitness was observed across both normal and overweight participants. The association was stronger in overweight subjects (P < 0.001). Several studies have shown that the poorest metabolic risk scores are observed among youth who are overweight and have low cardiorespiratory fitness (3,11,13). Findings in the present investigation suggest that additional benefits may be conferred with increased muscle fitness. Some overweight individuals may be averse to aerobic training, and therefore strength exercise may be a more attractive and better tolerated form of exercise.
The predictors found in this study are modifiable, highlighting the importance of identifying individuals at risk at an early age and the possible contribution cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle fitness can make when developing effective strategies for the prevention of CVD. Optimal health-related fitness might be a combination of cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle fitness. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends that the appropriate public health approach, in adults, is to promote regular participation in both strength and aerobic activities. On the basis of our findings, we additionally suggest applying these recommendations specific to children and adolescents.
In addition, the strong association of the two physical fitness components with metabolic risk observed in this study suggests the importance of including physical fitness testing in health-monitoring systems. We showed that a simple muscle fitness test battery may predict clustered metabolic risk comparable with direct measurement of cardiorespiratory fitness. Although measuring cardiorespiratory fitness directly is time consuming and expensive, determining muscle fitness is cheap and feasible. In the present study, muscle fitness was assessed by four tests that were easy to perform and required minimal equipment, taking only 15 min per child.
We used a continuous composite risk score for metabolic risk that is widely used for investigating associations between physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and metabolic risk (2,5,12,14,28). This type of outcome may reflect health better than single risk factors and could to some extent compensate for the day-to-day fluctuation in the single risk factors (4). Although the children in this study did not suffer from clinical diseases, multiple risk factors of any type could be of concern. Additional strengths of this study include the availability of measures of insulin resistance, blood lipids, and objective measurement of both muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness. Furthermore, along with a high participation rate, the inclusion of participants from all regions of the country made our sample a national representative of 9- and 15-yr-old Norwegians.
Our results must be interpreted with some limitations. First, we are aware of the fact that cross-sectional design does not permit explanations of causality. Second, the clustered risk score is sample specific and is based on the assumption that each component is weighted equally in predicting metabolic risk. Further, available evidence indicates that the risk accelerates from far below the so-called cut points. In our logistic regression to predict poor health, we defined individuals with a clustered risk score over 1 SD as being at risk. Thus, although we could have classified individuals who are not at risk as being at risk, we consider this a conservative choice. Finally, muscle fitness was measured by explosive strength, isometric strength, and endurance strength only. We could have selected other tests. The Eurofit test battery has been widely used with children and adolescents throughout Europe, and the tests are simple, practical, and reliable (22). Future prospective studies are needed to examine the independent and the combined effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle fitness on the likelihood of having CVD later in life.
In summary, we found inverse and independent associations for muscle fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness with clustered metabolic risk in Norwegian children and youth. Cardiorespiratory fitness appears to be the strongest predictor for clustered metabolic risk and may be conferred with increased muscle fitness. From a public health perspective, this highlights the need to promote regular participation in both strength and aerobic activities. Finally, in the light of the strong and consistent associations between different physical fitness components and clustered metabolic risk, cardiorespiratory and muscle fitness testing should be included in health-monitoring systems.
The authors thank all the test personnel for their work during data collection and Professor Ingar Holme for statistical guidance. They also thank the Central Laboratory Ullevaal University Hospital and the Hormon Laboratory Aker University Hospital for using blood analysis. Financial support for this study was received from the Directorate for Health and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. The results of the current study do not constitute endorsement by the ACSM.
There is no conflict of interest.
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- I hear that Tubereuse Criminelle is going export. Bwahaha. Except, I spent a lot of time resigning myself to spending a lot of money for half an ounce in a bell jar from The Perfumed Court. I sort of crave that bell jar now.
- Don't I recall that Les Exclusifs were coming out in less ridiculously large bottles, right about the time I stopped buying? I do love Cuir de Russie.
- I just read a review of Serge Lutens Jeaux de Peau, and I want to smell it. Vitriol d'Oeillet, not so much.
- I wore Eau de Pfefferneusse (aka Parfume Generale Un Crime Exotique) the other day and found it surprisingly suitable for summer.
- The Perfumed Court still remembers my wish list. That's dangerous.
- It would be wrong to buy Parfumerie Generale Hyperessence Matale just based on my love of L'Eau Rare Matale, right? Say right. Please.
- Bois Blond is still around. I remember when I used to worry that "limited edition" meant that I'd better hurry up.
- There are four Parfumerie Generale fragrances that I've never smelled. How could that happen?
- Bois 1920, on the other hand, apparently has nothing new. But I still love Sutra Ylang. What excuse would make a purchase excusable?
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Perfume: Random Thoughts
6 comments:
- Vanessa said...
The smaller bottles of Les Exclusifs are quite dinky, and reasonably priced ml for ml. Aren't you tempted? : - )
If you like a popcorn, peanut brittle, almondy praline kind of vibe, Jeux de Peau might appeal!
- August 28, 2011 at 2:05 AM
- museinwoodenshoes said...
It would indeed be wrong to buy PG Hyperwhatevs Matale because you love something else with "matale" in the name. Yes. Easy one.
I find that the best thing for my wallet is to not visit TPC. Unless I absolutely, unquestionably, have to...
- August 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- ChickenFreak said...
Very belatedly, yo, Vanessa! Yes, yes, I am tempted. I want.
Ooh, I like nutty popcorny toasty-sugary smells. The main risk with them is the risk of stale-nut smells, but it's certainly worth a try.
- September 11, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- ChickenFreak said...
Yo, Mals! Yeah, but. But. But. OK, yes, you're right. No more Matales. Well, no unsniffed Matales.
TPC is, yes, extraordinarily dangerous. And it's not as if I don't have boxes of insufficiently-evaluated samples.
- September 11, 2011 at 7:39 PM
- anotherperfumeblog said...
This is my first visit to your blog, and I find a reference to pfeffernusse, my favorite Christmas cookies. It's a sign! :)
- September 28, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- ChickenFreak said...
Hey, another! I do love those cookies. And the scent of them.
- October 3, 2011 at 11:19 PM


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ron doesnt use tam stuff anymore....
like you said the only reason I wasn't think about the TJ 120 on 12 with the 1915 1y was thinking it would be a bit low on power for what I'm doing and on 14s the 1915 1y would be to much... like 6.7 kw.
I didn't know that the 1917 1y was an option... you will have to let me know what numbers you put out on 14s. That could also be a real good setup for me... if it's a bit over 5kw that would be good for what I'm doing. I'd like to see 5.5kw to 6 kw and in the 125 amp range.
please keep me updated
everything is cool
More progress....
the carbon plates are done... not going to snap this hornet in two
Looks pretty trick Ron! Years ago I drove by a garage sale and the retired couple were selling (amongst many artifacts) an old glass coffee table and side table. I paid $5 for the pair and only kept the glass tops. They are 1/2" thick and weigh a lot. They work ideal for laminating stuff like you're doing, or clamping wing cores etc as you can sandwich your parts between them, add extra weight if you want, and you wind up with something dead flat. Glass is also nice to build on because you can clean it really easy, scrape off glue, etc etc. Killer to push pins into, but other than that it can be really handy. Something to keep your eyes open for. :-)
That's a good idea Sean.
I thought of weighting it between two sheets of wax paper but was worried about the epoxy mess oozing out the sides... do you press it, wipe the oozing, then put it back to sit over night?
In this case I think they will be ok, with the carbon being so flat. But I like your idea and will have to keep an eye out for thick glass. I do the other sides tonight.
On a side note, what thickness G-10 did you use when you made your DS-94 HST duct? I'll have to make a 6" adaptor and was going to try and roll one out of G-10 instead of making a foam plug..
any thoughts or tips?
thanks bud, nice to have a guy like you helping me out
Once I press the stuff together I just leave it overnight. I use west systems epoxy and try not to gob it all over the place so not alot oozes out. The stuff that does is not a problem as it won't get on the faces of the part (because they are tight to the glass). The glue that seeps out dries along the perimeter and is easily sanded with a block once cured. I usually use great planes plan protection sheet between the parts and the glass. If I'm laminating CF cloth onto ply then I use peel ply between the cloth and the plan protection sheet. It gives it a nice matte finish to glue to.
I used Fliteskin for the duct and it was too thin. The trouble with rolling a duct out of G10 is that if it's thick it will be strong, but you can't roll it. If you go thin so you can roll it you'll find it's too thin and not strong enough. Is your adapter a cylinder or a truncated cone (lampshade)? Personally I think it will be stronger if you cut a plug out of foam, cover it in monokote or packing tape, then glass it with CF cloth and melt the plug away.
Well Doo Doo...
I just wanted to roll it and make it easy.. It's a cylinder
hey what do you think of carbon fiber veneer rolled up as an adaptor?
they had it one the site where I pick up my 1/8 carbon (dragon plate)
here is a link:
it has to work there is even a picture of an F-18 on there site
I can make a plug, but that sucks
How about take some really thin g10 or fliteskin, roll it, tape it in a couple spots. Check sizing and fit. Mark the overlap, then un roll it. Sand the entire outside and along only the edge that is on the overlap. Reroll it, check fit the glue along your seam/overlap. Once dry wrap entire tube in 1 layer of CF cloth. Make the tube about , inch longer on each end.
Once dry trim and install. This will give you a nice smooth inside and a very rigid outside. Sounds complicated but I'm sure it would take less time than it took me to type this out on my BB with only my right thumb. ;-)
I like that idea... better than sanding a big old mess of foam.
Dude you typed all that with one thumb
Well thanks for taking the time you must be bored like me
If I go with a 120mm then I may just try the BVM adaptor and see if I can make that work...
worse comes to worse I'll be sanding a big chunk of foam
I wouldn't sand 'a big old mess of foam'. That's what a hot wire is for. You just need a template for each end and you're off to the races. If you don't have a hotwire there are plenty of outfits that could cut you a cylinder. Bob at flyingfoam is one of them. Just get it cut longer than you need.
i've used 9oz cloth laid up on a piece of glass plate and when it is about 75% cured (still rubbery) i remove it from the waxed piece of glass plate and roll it up .then after full cure you could roll it to the size you need and glue about a 1/2" to 3/4" overlap .a bit of C/F tow in the middle and you are ready to go .
Thanks for the tips guys, will cross that bridge when we get to it....
Bit more tonight, pictures are worth a thousand words (plus I don't want to type )
Very nice Ron, you are in deep my friend! Nice to see someone not only do electric but embrace it and even push it. I like your choice of fans but may I suggest you limit it even further to fans that have or can accept the 19xx series of Neu motors, the 15xx is really pushing it for constant 6,000 + Watts. I think you've got a good handle on what you want, stick to it, should be an awesome sight! If you have it for Cali Jets next year I'll come...
I'm not sure when she will be done, I'm not in a rush. But either way I hope you come out to Cali Jets so we can hangout.
I've been leaning hard towards the Dynamax with the big Scorpion 5035 outrunner.. it can handel more power that the 19XX motor
I wish the 19XX would make more power on 12s in the Dynamax.. I'd like to see 6000 watts at the fan on 12s. I'm leaning towards a twin 12s setup to save weight and cost. Not to mention I can put four 6s 65c 6500 mah thunder powers on my powerlab 8 and charge them all at once.
You do have a good point Jack, I wonder if I had the dynamax speacial made for me. Keep it full size (128mm) all the stators the 19xx motor... it may put out 6000 watts if I use the new 65c thunder power pack? humm ...interesting
I'll put that in my memory bank
more today....
got it ready to glue the main formers, that's coming soon
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Nationwide and international teams, flexible work hours, and four-day workweeks all contribute to change in when and where teams work together. This article presents tools and code to help you find the best times to reach various members of your team across geographical areas using Google Earth. Using a common method of message time-tracking (e-mail headers) and a program to generate Keyhole Markup Language (KML) with appropriate settings, this article demonstrates useful visualization techniques using Google Earth's TimeSpan feature and the "time slider."
Any hardware with 3-D acceleration capable of running Google Earth has sufficient processing power for the code in this article. The KML described herein uses tens of thousands of polygon vertices for the United States alone, so faster processors may be required for global rendering or precision beyond the state level.
Google Earth V4 or later is required to support the TimeSpan feature critical to the visualizations described. Perl is required for KML building, as well as extracting e-mail header information. You'll need the Mail::IMAPClient and IO::Socket::SSL modules from CPAN (see Resources).
Note that the code presented here is cross-platform and should run on any platform Google Earth and Perl will run on.
Description of general approach taken to building time-availability maps
Time-availability maps provide a listing of who is most likely to be available for a certain hour in a certain location. For example, Figures 1 and 2 show users in different portions of the country that will be likely to receive messages during a particular time window. Instant messaging logs, phone-usage records, group calendars, badge-reader access, and any number of other time-related data records are suitable for creating these time-availability maps.
This article focuses on the extraction of perhaps the most common form of availability data: e-mail headers. A person is most likely to be available around the times they are most active sending messages. Each user is assigned the appropriate geographical area, and KML is created with designator fade depths based on message count per hour. Using Google Earth's time-slider feature, including animation and total time window selection, helps visualize the resulting availability map for users throughout a geographic area. Consider Figure 1, which demonstrates an example visualization early in the day.
Figure 1. Example visualization -- start time
Figure 2 displays a broader time window, later in the day, which helps identify regions of availability for users through the United States.
Figure 2. Example visualization -- later time
Extracting state outline information
One of Google's many excellent KML documentation pages lists an example with a rough outline of U.S. states in KML. Comprising about 13,000 points, these rough outlines provide an excellent basis for highlighting states. Grab the Google U.S. states example file and read on for details on how the extractStates.pl program separates the state information.
Listing 1. extractStates.pl full program
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # extractStates.pl write each state coordinates into a separate file use strict; my $str = ""; # built output string my $fname = ""; # current filename my $cmd = `mkdir states/`; while( my $line = <STDIN> ) { if( $line =~ /<name>/ ) { # extract the state for file name $fname = substr( $line, index($line,"CDATA[")+6 ); $fname = substr( $fname, 0, index($fname," (") ); }elsif( $line =~ /<TimeSpan>/ ) { # change the TimeSpan designator for later processing $line = <STDIN>; # begin tags $line = <STDIN>; # close TimeSpan $line = qq{ <TimeSpan></TimeSpan>\n}; }elsif( $line =~ /<\/Placemark/ ) { # write out the file, reset variables after closing tag open( OUTFILE, "> states/$fname ") or die "Can't write state file"; print OUTFILE $str; print OUTFILE $line; close(OUTFILE); $str = ""; }#if closing tag # add a line if it's at the start or the built string is not blank if( $line =~ /<Placemark/ || $str ne "" ){ $str .= $line } }#line in
After declaring variables and creating the states directory, the
extractStates.pl program reads every line from
STDIN. The us_states.kml file contains the state's rough border
geometries, and the
extractStates.pl program will write each
of these geometries into its own file. The TimeSpan entries specific to the
us_states.kml file are replaced with a more-easily modifiable
placeholder, and the entire information for each state is written out to the states directory.
Save the code in Listing 1 above into a file named extractStates.pl and run the program
with the command
cat us_states.kml | perl extractStates.pl.
Check the states directory to see a list of files like that shown below.
Listing 2. List of states directory
ls -la states/* | head -rw-r--r-- 1 nathan nathan 6708 2008-07-08 17:11 states/Alabama -rw-r--r-- 1 nathan nathan 85426 2008-07-08 17:11 states/Alaska ... -rw-r--r-- 1 nathan nathan 15804 2008-07-08 17:11 states/West Virginia -rw-r--r-- 1 nathan nathan 11536 2008-07-08 17:11 states/Wisconsin -rw-r--r-- 1 nathan nathan 3298 2008-07-08 17:11 states/Wyoming
Extracting e-mail time information
Extracting e-mail headers and processing the entries for sent time is relatively easy with the Mail::IMAPClient and IO::Socket:SSL modules from CPAN. The example below uses the Google Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) interface, but the code presented here should work on any number of mail servers. You may have to eliminate the SSL connection, depending on your server setup.
Listing 3. extractEmails.pl modules, connection setup
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # extractEmails.pl get all e-mails, print listing of from at what hour use strict; use Mail::IMAPClient; use IO::Socket::SSL; my %timeHash = (); # data structure for whom at what time # create a SSL socket to the imap server my $socket = IO::Socket::SSL->new( PeerAddr => 'imap.gmail.com', PeerPort => 993 ) or die "can't create socket"; # create an imap connection through the ssl socket my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new( Socket => $socket, User => 'email@example.com', Password => 'yourPassword' ) or die "can't connect imap"; $imap->select("INBOX"); my @messages = $imap->search('ALL');
Creating the socket and IMAP connection is straightforward. Listing 4 creates and prints the e-mail and time-data structure.
Listing 4. Hour extraction, data-structure printing
my $msgCount = 0; for my $msg ( @messages ) { my $from = $imap->get_header($msg,"From"); my $date = $imap->get_header($msg,"Date"); # set date to main hour $date = substr($date, index($date,":")-2,2); # increment the hour's count for that id $timeHash{$from}{$date}++; $msgCount++; if( $msgCount % 10 == 0 ){ print STDERR "$msgCount\n" } }#for each message $imap->logout(); # print all of the hour/from combinations for later processing for my $from( keys %timeHash ) { for my $time( keys %{ $timeHash{$from} } ) { print "$from TIME $time $timeHash{$from}{$time}\n"; }#for time }#for id
Note that in this example, the time selected is the hour of sending for each e-mail.
You may find it useful to select hours, minutes, days, or weeks for your particular
availability scenario. Run the extractEmails.pl program with the command
extractEmails.pl > emailHours. After printing a progress indicator every 10
headers to
STDERR, the command above will produce an
emailHours file like that shown below.
Listing 5. Example
emailHours file
Dave <email@example.com> TIME 11 6 Dave <email@example.com> TIME 21 8 ... Bob <email@example.com> TIME 07 6 Bob <email@example.com> TIME 11 36
The format of the
emailHours file is name (if available),
e-mail address,
TIME delimiter, hour.
Assigning e-mail addresses a geographical location
emailHours file now contains a list of all of the e-mail
addresses and the number of times they sent a message for a given hour. You may want
to process a select few of your contacts, or create a list of the top senders of
e-mail. Consider the following one-liner to create a list of the top 50 e-mail senders
in the
emailHours file.
Listing 6. Command to produce top 50 e-mail senders
cat emailHours | \ perl -lane '@a=split "TIME";$h{$a[0]}+=$F[@F-1]; \ END{for(keys %h){print "$h{$_} $_"}}' | sort -nr | head -n50 > top50emails
Note that the
\ characters in Listing 6 are for formatting
only and should not be included when the command is run. Running the above command
produces a list like that shown below.
Listing 7. Example
top50emails file
44 Bob <email@example.com> 38 Dave <firstname.lastname@example.com> 34 Tom <firstname.lastname@example.com> 30 Mike <email@example.com> ...
Modify the
top50emails file by inserting the state name,
then a
STATE delimiter at the beginning of each file. You
can do this manually or link the state designator with a
geo-ip locator, employee
address database, or other source of geo-locating data. Save the modified file as
stateMapping, as shown below.
Listing 8. Example
stateMapping file
New York STATE 44 Bob <firstname.lastname@example.com> North Carolina STATE 38 Dave <firstname.lastname@example.com> Virginia STATE 34 Tom <firstname.lastname@example.com> Georgia STATE 30 Mike <email@example.com> ...
Generating KML markup with createKml.pl
With the state coordinates extracted, the full e-mail headers and times counted, and each relevant e-mail ID associated with a state name, a KML file can be generated to produce the desired visualization. Listing 9 shows the beginning of the createKml.pl program.
Listing 9. createKml.pl program header, main loop
#!/usr/bin/perl -w #createKml.pl build google earth kml, fade states based on entries per hour use strict; die "specify state mapping file, maximum, intervals " unless ( @ARGV == 3 ); my( $inFile, $max, $interval ) = @ARGV; my %state = (); loadStateMapping(); kmlHeader(); kmlStyles(); while( my $line = <STDIN> ) { # for bogus entry elimination next unless length( $line) > 20 ; chomp($line); #change firstname.lastname@example.com TIME 11 2 into components my( $mail, $time ) = split "TIME ", $line; my( $stHour, $countVal ) = split " ", $time; # continue if a state defined for that mail next unless exists($state{$mail}); open( INFILE,"states/$state{$mail}") or die "no state input file"; while( my $line = <INFILE> ) { if ( $line =~ /<name>/ ){ print "<name><![CDATA[$mail]]></name>\n" } elsif( $line =~ /<TimeSpan>/ ){ getTimes( $stHour ) } elsif( $line =~ /Style_/ ) { getStyle( $countVal ) } else { print $line } }#while line in close(INFILE); }#line in print qq{</Document>\n</kml>\n};
After ensuring the proper usage and declaring variables, the
loadStateMapping subroutine is called. The assigned state is read
for each e-mail address, and the
kmlHeader and
kmlStyles subroutines are called to print the appropriate KML markup for the specified threshold and intervals.
The main loop is entered to read every line on
STDIN and
extract relevant information. The e-mail address is specified as the place-mark
name, the TimeSpan start and end points are computed, and the appropriate style are all
written based on the thresholds and intervals specified.
Listing 10 shows the first of these subroutines,
loadStateMapping, in detail.
Listing 10.
kmlHeader subroutines
sub loadStateMapping { # create a hash storing which mail corresponds to which state open( INFILE,"$inFile" ) or die "no in state file"; while( my $line = <INFILE> ) { chomp($line); my( $sname, $mail ) = split "STATE ", $line; # skip the total count $mail = substr($mail, index($mail," ")+1); $state{$mail} = $sname; }#stateMapping lines close(INFILE); }#loadStateMapping sub kmlHeader { print qq{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n}; print qq{<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2">\n}; print qq{<Document>\n}; print qq{ <name><![CDATA[Time Availability]]></name>\n}; print qq{ <open>1</open>\n}; }#kmlHeader
For faster processing, the
loadStateMapping file simply
reads the state assignment file. Create a hash keyed on e-mail address for each state
name, to be checked in the main program loop. This allows certain entries to be
skipped over if a state has not been assigned. The
kmlHeader subroutine prints out the main header markup for the KML
document. Listing 11 shows the
getTimes subroutine.
Listing 11.
getTimes subroutine
sub getTimes { my $endHour = $inHour + 1; if( length($endHour) == 1 ){ $endHour = "0$endHour" } print qq{ <TimeSpan>\n}; print qq{ <begin>2008-07-01T$inHour:00Z</begin>\n}; print qq{ <end>2008-07-01T$endHour:00Z</end>\n}; print qq{ </TimeSpan>\n}; }#getTimes
Specifying the correct TimeSpan markup is performed by the code listed above in the
getTimes subroutine. Listing 12 below shows the more-complex
getStyle subroutine.
Listing 12.
getStyle subroutine
sub getStyle { # find the appropriate style based on the input value my $inputVal = $_[0]; my $decInc = $max / $interval; my $count = $decInc; my $styleCount = 0; # move through each interval, exit when the input value no longer fits while( $count <= $max ) { if( $count > $inputVal ){ last } $styleCount++; $count += $decInc; }#While count less than max # default to the last style if interval is outside the boundary if( $styleCount >= $interval ){ $styleCount-- } print qq{ <styleUrl>#style} . $styleCount . qq{</styleUrl>\n}; }#getStyle
Like the
kmlStyles subroutine shown below, the
getStyle subroutine first creates a incrementer that is the maximum
specified value divided by the interval. For example, a maximum value of 100 and an
interval of 5 while produce a series of "buckets" 20 units apart that each input value
will fall into. An input value of 40, for example, will correspond to a low-medium
fade style, whereas a value of 80 or greater will correspond to the most opaque fade
setting. Listing 13 shows the
kmlStyles subroutine with a similar function.
Listing 13.
sub kmlStyles { # create a incremented "fade range" according to the number of intervals my $hexInc = 255/$interval; my $count = $hexInc; my $styleNum = 0; while( $count <= 255 ) { my $fade = sprintf("%X", $count ); print qq{ <Style id="style} . $styleNum . qq{">\n}; print qq{ <IconStyle>\n}; print qq{ <scale>0.4</scale>\n}; print qq{ <Icon>\n}; print qq{ <href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/}; print qq{shapes/star.png</href>\n}; print qq{ </Icon>\n}; print qq{ </IconStyle>\n}; print qq{ <LabelStyle>\n}; print qq{ <color>9900ffff</color>\n}; print qq{ <scale>1</scale>\n}; print qq{ </LabelStyle>\n}; print qq{ <LineStyle>\n}; print qq{ <color>99FFFF99</color>\n}; print qq{ <width>2</width>\n}; print qq{ </LineStyle>\n}; print qq{ <PolyStyle>\n}; print qq{ <color>} . $fade . qq{FF9933</color>\n}; print qq{ <fill>1</fill>\n}; print qq{ <outline>1</outline>\n}; print qq{ </PolyStyle>\n}; print qq{ </Style>\n}; $styleNum++; $count += $hexInc; }#while count }#kmlStyles
Regardless of the maximum or number of intervals specified, each defined style needs to
have a fade percentage of
00-ff. The appropriate conversion between decimal intervals
and hexadecimal fade percentage is performed using the
modifier in the
sprintf command. Save the above code in a
file called createKml.pl and read on for usage information.
Selection of appropriate maximum and interval variables is largely dependent on your
specific data. Try a maximum value of 20- to 40-percent less than the maximum value
recorded in
top50emails. Choosing an interval is largely a
trade-off between presenting too much information with a high number of intervals, or
showing too little change between the intervals when a low number is selected. Try a
straightforward example with the command
cat emailHours | perl
createKml.pl stateMapping 20 2 > timeMap.kml.
After opening Google Earth and loading the timeMap.kml file, look for the "time slider" in the upper center of the screen. Move through the visualization in time by dragging the slider, or press the play button to show an animation. Also try expanding the visible time window to expand the time range certain states are visible.
Conclusion, further modifications
With the incredible Google Earth interface, and the custom code above for creating KML, you can build your own time-availability maps for a wide variety of applications. Consider extracting login and activity times from your instant messaging logs, phone records, or other sources to build additional and overlapping data sets. Expand the time windows, or focus more on a minute-to-minute spread of information through your company or customer set. Extract your Web-server visitor information and build a municipality-specific set of place marks and designators to explore where and when your Web-site visitors see your content.
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MOBILE, Alabama – An unexpected guilty plea Monday in the Midtown Winn-Dixie robbery that led to the shooting of a police officer highlighted a busy court docket that otherwise was dominated by child sexual abuse cases.
In the Winn-Dixie case, Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich was preparing to personally prosecute Ronald Crear when the defendant announced his intention to plead guilty. He admitted to first-degree robbery and five counts of attempted murder – one of each of the police officers who responded to the March 2, 2012, incident.
One of those officers, Chad Wynne, nearly died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Ballistics tests and prosecutors agreed that the gunshot came from an accomplice, but Rich said Crear was equally culpable as an accessory.
Each of the six counts is a Class A felony, carrying a sentencing range of 20 years to life in prison.
Alicia Gray, a math teacher at Mary G. Montgomery High School accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student, waived her appearance and pleaded not guilty. On Monday, her attorney and Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Chris McDonough met briefly with District Judge Jay York to work out the details of a court order governing the handling of evidence in the case.
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In another case that had been scheduled for trial, George McIlwain pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a child younger than 12.
Following the terms of the plea bargain, Mobile County Circuit Judge Ben Brooks sentenced the Wilmer man to 10 years, with all one year in the county jail suspended. McIlwain will be on probation for five years and will have to register as a sex offender.
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I write the code below to search string in array for 6 times, if I input a string not exist in array more than one time first time it return not found and this true but then it print found although that's string not exist in array.
the error is here
I need to put the content of str in arr[ii] not to make arr[ii] point to location of str. how I can do that??
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Re: array of string
arr doesn't store strings. It's of type char*, so it stores pointers only. If you want to store char data, you need a char array, not a pointer to char.
Here's the problem. Suppose str represents 512 bytes at memory location 1000. arr[1]=str; sets arr[1] to 1000. If str contains "hello", arr[1] DOES NOT contain "hello", it's just a pointer. It contains 1000 and *currently* points to "hello". So now if you overwrite str so it now holds "goodbye" and do arr[2]=str;, arr[2] and arr[1] will now both point at 1000 and when you dereference each they will both find "goodbye". arr[1] never contained "hello", it only ever contained 1000, so it will point to whatever is at 1000, i.e. whatever is currently in str.
You always need to be careful with pointers in C. They're really easy, but you have to be aware what they're pointing at, and it's confusion over that which makes pointers appear difficult.
So the solution is to make arr a 2D array of strings, which you can do either with char *arr[12] and a bunch of malloc statements (remember "free" so that you don't leak memory), or you can do char arr[12][512]. arr[1]=str then won't work; you'll have to do strcpy(arr[1],str).
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