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Friday, November 02, 2007
Maggots are People Too.
If you have been in medicine for a few years, you will probably have seen maggots chewing on some guy's foot ulcer. This is sounds pretty nasty, but in truth, maggots can be helpful. They will clean away dead tissue and prevent infection. They have been used for millennia for wound debridement and are still used today in some settings. As recently as WWII, in the days of limited antibiotic availability, wards of soldiers would have maggots applied to open wounds, saving life and limb.
I recently got a foot amputation specimen in the pathology lab. This had a deep heel ulcer extending to the bone (don't get diabetes people!). I cut into the wound and hundreds of maggots poured out. My instinct was to puke, but then I recalled my admiration for these humble creatures. I sectioned and sampled the foot then placed it in a large jar of formaldehyde. My respect for fly larva was about to grow.
Formaldehyde (or Formalin) is a chemical agent used for fixing tissues. This roughly means that it stops meat from rotting. It turns human tissue firm (M.D.s will recall the feel of the bodies in gross anatomy – in a non-sexual way, we hope) and disinfects by killing organisms. In fact, it is such a good disinfectant that - at least according to the texts that I have read – everything is killed with the possible exception of prions (these cause the spongiform encephalopathies such as 'mad-cow', wasting disease of elk, kuru, fatal familial insomnia, scrapie, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker and Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease. These are called 'spongiform' because when you cut up the brains of people and animals with these conditions, they have holes like a sponge – so, aside from not getting diabetes, please don't ritualistically eat the brains of the dead like the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, ok!).
Anyway, two days after I put the foot in formalin, I went back to pull out an old specimen and I saw something moving in one of the adjacent jars. When I looked closer, it was the maggots swimming happily around, like a miniature koi pond filled with animated rice grains. Again, I gulped the vomit from the back of my throat; my heart filled with love for these beautiful infant flies. I thought to myself: 'cockroaches are pussies', and went back to work.
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As much as I want to, I just can't unread that. Maggots...(shiver)ReplyDelete
Etop, don't forget about leeches!! They are still used in clinical settings such as re-implantion of digits, large surface are skin grafts and such to decrease venous congestion!ReplyDelete
Oh, I forget, those are live people we're working on..You don't see live people....
*wipes tear from eye* Beautiful 'ipi. Absolutely beautiful.ReplyDelete
When my mom was in nursing school, she participated in a few instances of maggot therapy,where they placed specially raised maggots into wounds to help with the cleaning.ReplyDelete
When I see some of the wounds on neglected old people, I wish for maggots.
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- Anonymous2:14 PM, November 02, 2007
Ok. Yes, but EEW.ReplyDelete
My favorite bug story was cleaning all the maggots from a patient who had stroked out in a field in a rural area and survived for 5 days in the field with no food nor water. He said in his broken sentences that he stroked, fell off his riding lawnmower in the field and spent the first couple of days trying to drag himself back to the house to call 9-11. After the first couple of days, he just lay there waiting. Medics said it looked like he dragged himself 200 yards. Finally his family came to check on him and found him there.ReplyDelete
Bugs in general (I'm fairly certain maggots were involved) ate away at his skin alive until large, gaping holes were there that needed to be packed every day. He arrived covered in dirty, grime, and bugs and needed the full body shave, etc in addition to major fluid resuscitation etc etc.
'cockroaches are pussies',ReplyDelete
I think I love you.
Etoh, I knew there was a poetic little boy beneath that gruff exterior. This could well be a bedtime story for your children.ReplyDelete
Since you complimented my assonance yesterday, I feel I should tell you I like your diction. If you hadn't gone into medicine you could have been quite the cunning linguist.ReplyDelete
Several years ago, the NIH did a similar experiment with Yellow Page attorneys. They put two groups in formalin, and the ones facing the TV with an ambulance driving down the road were somehow able to survive.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:46 PM, November 03, 2007
I've got a poetic little boy in my trousers.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:46 PM, November 03, 2007
Maggots are cool! I did wound care in an LTAC where our specialty was maggot debriedment. Toss the little buggers in the wound, cover with guaze and water every 3 hours, and in a few days what was a necrotic wound is now nice and pink!ReplyDelete
Didn't realize they lived in formalin though. ick.
- Anonymous12:58 AM, November 04, 2007
My HMO will only pay for generic maggots.ReplyDelete
Etotheipi: Why don't you and your little poet drop by my place and give me some good input? Professional input on the xanthochromia issue I have posted on my blog, that is. Seriously, I'd like an MD point of view from you or anyone else who cares to comment.ReplyDelete
generic maggots are 97% as effective as name brand maggots (according to recently published studies), but if you are stuck on names, go with paris hilton maggots.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:54 AM, November 05, 2007
"My instinct was to puke, but then I recalled my admiration for these humble creatures."ReplyDelete
I would have gone with my instinct. :-)
"Again, I gulped the vomit from the back of my throat; my heart filled with love for these beautiful infant flies."
*sniff* What a sweet, romantic tale about maggots. I can tell you're deeply in love. Hee hee!
We just had a patient present with an I&D that was completed 3 years ago, with the original bandage still on her wound! We gowned, masked, bootied up, got the vicks vapor rub under our noses, put the winter green oil on tubs of guaze and headed in expecting the worst. Well, we were right about the smell, but once we pulled off the nasty (and stanking) little bandage, and got over the hundreds of little maggots in her wound, what a surprise to see that the wound itself was cleaner than just about any wound Ihave ever seen! Those maggots saved her leg and prolly her life.ReplyDelete
Oh I can't stand it when patients come in with maggots. I hate bugs any ways, and should know by now to keep my distance, but I can't help but stare...like a car wreck/ReplyDelete
Beautiful post! I love when you talk dirty!ReplyDelete
nocturnalrn: how do you deal with the "roach in the ear" at 2am? Those are the best!ReplyDelete
Hey was it really necessary to tell the maggot story...huh was it...I draw the line at maggots. I will run screaming from the room and probably never come back...ReplyDelete
In your trousers? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I hadn't read the comments before I commented. I love medical people...ReplyDelete
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"cockroaches are pussies." laughing my freakin a$$ off.
"Don't get diabetes people." can't believe nobody's commented taking offense to that! You and I know what you mean, but non-medical? "Uhoh...I can "get" diabetes? Do I need to wash my hands more, like I do to keep away from the MRSAbug???" and "you arrogant doctor, it's about hormones...you don't "get" diabetes, you just have it or not!!!"
- Anonymous12:58 PM, November 09, 2007
If someone doesn't 'get' the "don't get diabetes" comment, then they should not be reading this blog because they are literal minded dipshits.ReplyDelete
Although my comment was basically ironic / sarcastic, you actually CAN, in a sense, GET diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is often directly related to obesity - many people who lose weight, lose the diabetes.
So there.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that you will likely get some combination of Ebola and 'flesh eating' staph if you don't wash your hands and genitals on an hourly basis. I certainly do this, although it has nothing to do with disease avoidance.
- Anonymous9:37 PM, November 29, 2007
Etotheipi, I find this fascinating...any theories as to why or how the maggots can live in formaldehyde? ThanksReplyDelete
By the way, you might be surprised to learn that Type I Diabetes can be caused by a Coxsackie B infection (hypothetically). So there, you have something to avoid like the MRSA bug (something which I'm sure you heard on House MD). And lay off doctors you arrogant nooblet!


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The Last Horror Blog: Scaremaster Guillermo del Toro Reveals His Next Horror Movie
Guillermo del Toro reveals Crimson Peak plot details – Guillermo del Toro is arguably the busiest man in horror cinema. The filmmaker has seemingly dozens of projects on his docket – some that he's producing, some directing – and yet he keeps adding more.
Currently, he's prepping his giant-monsters-versus-giant-mechs film Pacific Rim for its debut this summer, but he's already working on his next projects – a sequel and a new horror film entitled Crimson Peak. The filmmaker offered up this description for the latter:
"It's the turn of the century. So it's at the turn of the century and half of the movie takes place in America, and the other half takes place in a crumbling mansion in Cumbria, and basically it's a ghost story and gothic romance, trying to subvert the rules of the usual gothic romance. It's very much... the first half is a love story, then that love story turns darker. And it's at the same time a ghost story. I'm working at this moment with Lucinda Clarkson who is a really great playwright from the U.K. She has the proper degree of perversity and intelligence to turn it into something interesting to watch. It's sort of a very compelling version of the classic gothic romance, where you have the spookiness and the windswept landscape that dooms the characters, you know?"
Scream Factory Reveals New Horror Blu-ray lineup – Shout Factory's horror imprint Scream Factory has only been around for a few short months – but what a few months those have been for horror fans. The company is just killing it with releases – reminding us of the early days of Anchor Bay.
It is not done yet, either – the company has just announced five new titles that will be getting the high-def Blu-ray treatment: Deadly Blessing, The Nest, Prison, Terrorvision and The Video Dead. We're actually pretty excited about all of those, particularly Deadly Blessing (which is an early Wes Craven effort with Ernest Borgnine in the cast) and Terrorvision. The latter will be part of a two-movie set, sharing space with the similarly themed The Video Dead.
All of these films will come packed with extras (a Scream Factory tradition at this point) and will be available this year.
Horror Review
When you think of found-footage horror films, the first thing that often springs to mind is that they're low-budget productions made by filmmakers looking to break into the business. Sure, Cloverfield had J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves involved, but that was an exception. Myrick and Sanchez were unknowns when they made The Blair Witch Project – and the films that have come in that movie's wake have often been made by directors we weren't familiar with and who didn't have a huge body of work.
This is part of what makes The Bay so interesting to me as a critic and fan – the title, which didn't have a huge budget, was directed by Hollywood veteran Barry Levinson. Levinson doesn't have a horror film pedigree (he made Rain Man and Good Morning, Vietnam), but he should certainly consider making more genre movies after this effort.
Claridge, Maryland is gearing up for their big Fourth of July celebration, but unbeknownst to everyone, there's a killer lurking in the water. It's not a great white shark – it's a mutated isopod created through pollution running into the town's bay – and when it gets inside you, it's coming out like the Xenomorph in Alien. With a record number of people in the water, Claridge soon becomes a hot zone – with a local doctor and the CDC trying to figure out what's happening and a local wannabe reporter (Kristen Connolly) recording everything the authorities never wanted you to see…
Levinson's film is a slick mixture of found footage and mockumentary stylings, integrating not only the reporter's footage, but Skype calls, cell phone camera, and even traffic light recordings to help tell the tale of a town being overrun by a force it doesn't even comprehend. It's an eco chiller that feels surprisingly real and totally plausible – which works in the feature's favor as it allows the audience to more willingly suspend its disbelief.
For a filmmaker who's never worked in the genre prior to this, Levinson does an admirable job of building the tension throughout The Bay. The director gives us characters who are more well developed than you'd find in a traditional found-footage flick, but he also delivers when it comes to the scares and the gore. Some of the FX work is quite impressive – and suitably icky. And basing the whole thing around water? Brilliant. I was afraid to even drink for days.
While it's become easy to bag on found-footage films these days – and with good reason, since many of them aren't particularly good – The Bay demonstrates that this narrative gimmick is still viable in the hands of an experienced filmmaker. Levinson's latest doesn't do anything new with the format, but it takes the tropes and polishes them until they gleam. Because of that, The Bay was one of the more interesting genre films to emerge last year. Hopefully it finds an appreciative audience when it makes its DVD and Blu-ray debut in March.
Horror on the Horizon
February closes with one final horror release in theaters – albeit a limited release – with the arrival of the extraterrestrial-based fright fest Dark Skies. We hope this is more like Fire in the Sky than The Fourth Kind.
March keeps the horror train rolling with the release of The Last Exorcism Part 2 (insert your own joke about the title here…). The trailers for this one haven't looked all that great – and we'd be more onboard if Cotton, the main character from the first film, had returned for the sequel.
Also in limited release on March 1 is Stoker -- the highly anticipated new film from Park Chan-wook – and The Frankenstein Theory, which presumes that Mary Shelley's story wasn't entirely fiction.
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There's no shortage of horror hitting the DVD and Blu-ray market on February 26, but unless you like low-budget under-the-radar stuff, the pickings are slim. Silent Hill: Revelations 3D on Blu-ray 3D is the only truly notable title hitting shelves that week.
The week of March 5 is much more impressive. Fans can finally see Barry Levinson's The Bay, cult-classic robots-run-amok flick Westworld turns up on Blu-ray, Grave Encounters 2 tries to follow in the footsteps of the first film, and Freddy goes Blu with the Nightmare on Elm Street Collection box set (previously a Best Buy exclusive).
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BERWICK, Maineww — The story still makes the Bowie family giggle every year.
Aidan Bowie was just 3 years old at the time and had just received his very first wheelchair, with impressive light-up wheels, right around the holidays. Aidan was born with a developmental disability, but has made significant milestones of improvement with his handicap since.
Garreth and Heather Bowie have been Berwick residents for eight years. The comical story comes from one of their first Christmas' spent in their new home.
Aidan has always had a very special relationship with his cousins, especially, Owen, who is about the same age.
"Owen is a tender hearted love bug who has always been attentive to Aidan," said Heather Bowie.
On this particular Christmas, the cousins were waiting patiently for Aidan to wake up and come downstairs for some present opening. Sleepy eyed Aidan, nestled in his new light-up wheelchair, was waiting at the top of the stairs. He was quite a sight for all to see.
Owen, ever so cutely, said, " Is this the new baby Jesus?"
Everyone boomed with laughter, as did Aidan. He was truly their Christmas miracle that morning.
The Bowies plan to travel to Connecticut for Christmas this year.
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NEW YORK -- Get ready for a new set of Joba Rules.
The New York Yankees have scrapped their plan for Joba Chamberlain once again, opting to give him a regular spot in the rotation for the remainder of the season and shorten his outings to hold down his innings.
Chamberlain had been getting extended rest between some starts since the All-Star break because the Yankees are concerned about the 23-year-old's workload in his second full season in the majors.
"It's the results. The bottom line is for us to win games and get the best out of players," manager Joe Girardi said before the Yankees hosted the Chicago White Sox on Friday night. "So in evaluating what happened, it looked like it was working great. He came out of the break, was lights out, but we think that a change needed to be made."
Girardi talked to pitching coach Dave Eiland and general manager Brian Cashman after Chamberlain was hit hard in Tuesday night's 10-9 loss to the Texas Rangers, allowing seven runs and nine hits over four innings to drop to 1-2 with an 8.55 ERA in his last four starts.
After sleeping on it for a couple of days and more talks, Girardi called Chamberlain into his office before the series opener against the White Sox and told him about the new plan.
"He said he's running out of erasers but that's all right," Chamberlain said. "At least I'm always on his mind."
Chamberlain pitched only 88 1-3 innings in the minors before he joined the Yankees in August 2007, arriving with a set of guidelines -- the Joba Rules -- designed to protect the prized right-hander. He entered this season with 124 1-3 innings in the majors but ran his total for this year to 130 2-3 innings with the outing against Texas.
"The Joba Rules are still going strong," Chamberlain said with a grin. "I still see the T-shirts every once in a while."
Chamberlain went eight days between starts over the All-Star break and responded with 6 2-3 sparkling innings in a win against Detroit on July 19. He worked on regular rest in each of his next two outings, allowing just one run over 15 innings in wins over Oakland and Tampa Bay.
Then came a shaky outing against Boston on seven days' rest, starting his rough stretch. He had eight days off before facing the Rangers.
"We thought it was working and then we decided, you know what, we're going to keep him on a routine," Girardi said. "Routine is important and we had discussions with Joba and we changed it."
The AL East-leading Yankees still plan to hold down Chamberlain's innings, so the switch means he will leave some predetermined outings early in the game. It also will affect how Girardi uses his bullpen, but the Yankees could add some relievers when rosters expand on Tuesday to lessen the strain.
"The important thing is to make sure by the end of the month that he is extremely ready to go, the end of September," Girardi said.
Chamberlain, 8-4 with a 4.34 ERA in 24 starts this season, acknowledged Friday he had been frustrated with the staggered rest even though he understood the reasoning. He also praised Girardi and Eiland, saying they did a great job of communicating with him about the schedule and how it was working out.
"It's going to be something that's going to be good for all of us," Chamberlain said. "The wins are going to come. I'm not worried about that. But at the end we need to win a World Series."


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Our friends at Bangshift pass along word of a hardcore Ford fan from Massachusetts who is living the dream of every old-car geek: His new restoration project is a well-weathered but completely intact 1967 Shelby GT500 that sat undriven for 25 years in Death Valley.
The Mustang was parked outside, exposed to the California desert conditions; while the paint has been steadily sandblasted (that's the raw fiberglass on the hood and rear deck) the rest of the car was well-preserved in the low-moisture climate. It's clearly not pristine, and an impressive amount of sand had to be cleaned out of the body panels, but rust is nonexistent and the mechanical parts need little more than a thorough refreshing.
It has been certified as a genuine Shelby product and still carries all the right tags and details, including the dual four-barrel carburetors on top of the 428-cubic-inch big block and the too-cool twin center headlights. Although it's probably not an official Shelby piece, the trailer hitch it once sported is an interesting detail as well.
The new owner is not planning to do a full restoration. Instead, he intends to clean up the mechanical parts and get the car up and running but leave the well-earned desert patina (extensive workshop gallery here) as it is.


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I began the 2015-2016 year with an email newsletter to our parents explaining that one of the goals for the year would be to work with students to build the garden, and within a few minutes, one of our parents responded to the newsletter with information about a way we could actually make it happen with help from the University of Kentucky Campbell County Extension Cooperative. We reached out to DJ Scully at the Cooperative, and within a few meetings we had a good plan for where the garden would fit and how we might fund it through the writing of a grant. We were so fortunate to have been awarded the grant within just a few short months!
We looked for ways to try to encourage full school participation in the project, but the best scenario turned out to be to have fourth graders use the project as inspiration for one of their project based learning options, while our Spanish teacher covered migration patterns and life cycle with the primary aged students.
The TaskFor this particular project, I challenged students to learn about how to build a raised bed garden, identify the materials we would need within the budget of the grant that we were awarded and learn about what we would need to do to create a habitat for Monarch butterflies to survive.
4th Grade Standards
- NGSS - 4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction
- NGSS - 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time or cost.
- NGSS - 3-5 ETS 1-2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
- NGSS - 3-5- ETS1-3 Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
- CCSS - RI 4.1 - Explain procedures in a scientific or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific evidence
- CCSS RI 4.9 - Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably
- CCSS W.4.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Driving QuestionsOver 3 classes, there were 8 groups who chose to work with the butterfly garden idea. As part of a year long study of developing their own guiding questions, I gave students the freedom to write their own questions based on the task and their personal interest in the topic. After conferencing and discussion approved questions included:
- How do you build a raised bed garden, what materials do you need and how can we protect the environment from deer?
- How do you build a raised bed garden and how do you create an environment that will be safe for monarch butterflies to survive?
- How do you build a raised bed garden and how will we attract butterflies to the garden?
InquiryFor the extended inquiry, we received some of the resources we would need from Mr. Scully. The kids all watched two videos about raised bed gardening and read some information about creating the right environment. The kids also took notes over their individual focus questions regarding deer and habitat.
We use the Big6 model of research, and the kids all have a standard set of graphic organizers they use through the process. For the kids in the butterfly group - with these resources to start them off, they really demonstrated a great deal of success.
Through conversations with students, I found them really going deep with their topics. On their own they were researching materials and cost on websites like Home Depot and Lowes, they were calculating the amount of dirt needed using area and perimeter of the proposed bed sizes and bag size, and they were passionately discussing things like composting, deer control, organic gardening, water collection and flower bed arrangement.
The kids in the butterfly garden groups took the lead of students researching aquaponics and asked me to create a Padlet for them to post ideas and share resources across classes.
Throughout the inquiry process, the kids demonstrated a great deal of focus and ownership. In their research they found many ways they would like to extend the original scope of the project, and I think in the future the entire school community will find many ways to expand the project.
Once students were finished with their research we were able to purchase the materials needed to build the raised bed garden, with input from our local expert, Mr. Scully. On one morning we were able to have the kids work in small groups to build the beds. All wood was precut, so all the kids had to do was assemble. Mr. Scully gave the kids directions for how to assemble the beds and use the power tools and then we were able to turn the kids loose. Groups took turns using the power tools, and documenting the steps using note taking strategies, photos and videos.
Here's a time lapse video one of the groups took - faces blurred:
In all, this year we built 4 raised beds. We planted milkweed and plants to attract butterflies in two of the beds and the other two beds we plan to use for rotating different types of vegetables and flowers. The milkweed went in a little late in the season, so we're concerned it did not actually germinate. If that is the case, we will try again in the fall.
Future PlansIt is my sincere hope that the raised bed garden is the beginning of many learning opportunities. Students have already mentioned wanting to try composting and organic vegetable gardening as well as building additional beds and creating a system to collect water in rain barrels. The garden has the potential to inspire many different grade levels with future project based learning, and will hopefully become a great habitat for Monarchs.
ReflectionThis learning experience was very successful for all groups involved. I think it really helped having an expert to consult through the entire process. Students are really invested in the success of the garden and have plans to talk with teachers about collaborating further to expand. In fact, without my knowing it, a small group of students hosted a bake sale and lemonade stand during a community garage sale and raised almost $200 to donate to the garden cause. We were able to use that money to buy some fencing as a way to deter deer.
I believe the raised bed gardens alone will provide the school community with ongoing learning experiences. I know that we may not be successful this year in creating the right habitat for preserving Monarch butterflies, but over the next few years it is something that we can work towards.


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The Unborn Shidduch
A man seeking a shidduch visited Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, seeking advice and a beracha. He was one of the many people who visit with the Torah giant during the afternoon hours. The man, in his 30s, visited the rabbi about two months ago. The teary-eyed man explained he could not find a shidduch and asked Rav Kanievsky for a beracha. The rabbi probed the man's details somewhat and reportedly responded, "Your zivug hasn't been born, beracha v'hatzlacha", leaving the man in tears, apparently despondent over hearing these words.
The man recently returned to the great rabbi, this time with a smile on his face, announcing "I am engaged". Those present were somewhat surprised, wondering how he accomplished this in the two months after hearing the rabbi's previous words. The happy groom explained that his bride-to-be is a convert who converted a month earlier, thus explaining the great rabbi's words "your zivug has not been born".


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Hi All,
I would like to simplify some of my code to handle the opening and writing of files. Currently, every time I open or write a file, I have the code right there in the program. I'd like to write two functions (readfile, writefile) so that I save space, and can reuse this code.
First, to open a file, I would like to pass to it a file name to open. How can I do this? Pass a char array? How would I do this. Say I want to open a file named "file.txt"?
Currently, I use this method to open a file:
Code:unsigned int array[200][200][10]; if (!(file = fopen("text.txt","rb"))){ exit(1); } fread(array, sizeof(unsigned char), filesize, file); fclose(file); // with this, my array is filled with the file contents...
How do I get the file name from a passed character array into the "text.txt" place? Or, can I just say:
Code:openfile("file.txt"); or openfile(filename[]);
Then, I want this function to return a 3 dimensional array of the contents from that file, say.. array[200][200][10]. How would I pass this back? In the openfile function go:And what call do I make in my code? Do I do something like:Code:return array[][][];
Code:array[][][] = openfile(filename[]);
Then, I will do some processing on this 3 dimensional array, and then I want to pass the array and a file name to a "write file" function. How can I pass the array, and the file name (array?) and have that function write the file.
Do I do something like:
Code:writefile(array[][][], filename[]);
I know how to do the file handlng as I already have the code for it.


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A Beginner's Guide to Being a Historian: The Kids' Stuff
Here we've made a list of books for not just young readers, but also the especially young readers–these books are probably only going to be stimulating for kids twelve and under, and some of them only for six and under. These books begin to cross the genres of history and 'Early Readers'. They mix entertainment, information, and educational technique to give kids a taste of history from a starting point that won't make them prematurely squeamish.
Archaeology for Kids: Uncovering the Mysteries of Our Past by Richard Panchyk. Chicago Review Press, 2001.
The Archaeology of North America by Dean R. Snow. NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990.
Collect It! Making collections–From Fossils to Fakes by Elizabeth Newbery. London: A & C Black, 1991.
A Day in the Life of a Museum Curator by Judith Tropea. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1991.
A Visit to the Sesame Street Museum (A Random House picturebook) by Liza Alexander. NY: Random House/Children's Television Workshop, 1987. (Bert, Ernie and Grover introduce young children to the concept of a museum. Ages 4-8)
Discover: Investigate the Mysteries of History with 40 Practical Projects Probing Our Past by Katherine Grier. Royal Ontario Museum, 1989; Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA, 1990.
Diving to the Past: Recovering Ancient Wrecks by W. John Hackwell. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
Do People Grow on Family Trees? Genealogy for Kids and Other Beginners (The Official Ellis Island Handbook) by Ira Wolfman. NY: Workman Publishing, 1991. Ages 4-8
Ella's Trip to the Museum by Elaine Clayton. NY: Crown Publishers Inc., 1996. (Ella, on a field trip to an art museum with her class, interacts with the paintings and statues in a magical way. Ages 3-8)
The Field Mouse and the Dinosaur Named Sue by Jan Wahl (Bob Doucet, illustrator. NY: Cartwheel Books, Scholastic, Inc., 2000. (The Field Mouse loses his home under one of Sue's bones during the archaeological excavation, accompanies the T. rex's bones to Chicago and explores the Field Museum looking for his special bone. Ages 4-8)
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg. Dell Publishing Co. paperback printed 1997. (1967 Newbery Medal. Twelve-year-old Claudia and her younger brother Jamie discover the Metropolitan Museum of Art, solve a mystery, and grow up a little. Ages 9-12)
Going to the Getty by J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. (This creative book about the Getty will give you ideas for new ways to look at any museum! Ages 4-8)
How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum by Lois Wyse and Molly Rose Goldman. NY: Workman Publishing, 1998. (Grandma usually takes Molly to "Interesting Places," but this time Molly takes Grandma on a tour of the American Museum of Natural History. Ages 4-8)
I Can Be an Archaeologist by Robert B. Pickering. Chicago: Children's Press, 1987.
Inside the Museum: A Children's Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Joy Richardson. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. Ages 9-12
Let's Go to the Art Museum by Virginia K. Levy. NY: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
Mastodon Hunters to Mound Builders: North American Archaeology by Peter and Belia Nichols. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1992.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Activity Book by Osa Brown. NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989.
My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners by Rosemary A. Chorzempa. NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982.
Right Here on This Spot by Sharon Hart Addy, illustrated by John Clapp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. (Picture book provides a wonderful introduction to archaeology and concept of history for the youngest readers. Ages 4-8)
Visiting a Museum by Althea Braithwaite. Over, Cambridge, England: Dinosaur Publications, Ltd., n.d.
Visiting the Art Museum by Laurene Krasny Brown and Mark Brown. NY: E.P. Dutton, 1986.
Who Came Down That Road? by George Ella Lyon (Illustrated by Peter Catalanato). NY: Orchard Books, 1992. (Picture book explains the concept of history to the youngest child. Ages 4-8)
Who Put the Cannon in the Courthouse Square? (Discover It Yourself Book) by Kay Cooper. NY: Avon/Camelot Book, 1993. (Ages 10-12)
Working at a Museum (Working Here Series) by Arthur John L'Hommedieu. CT: Children's Press, 1999. (Ages 4-8)
You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Preiss Glasser (illus.). (No words, just delightful line drawings of museum exhibits and complementary New York City scenes as a little girl tours the museum while her yellow balloon, an escapee from the museum guard, scoots about the city. Ages 4-8)
The Young Scientist Book of Archaeology by Barbara Cook and Sturand Reid. Tulsa, OK: EDC Publishing, 1987.


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Friday, November 17, 2006
Chasing success, again
If you are not having the success you think you should be having, make a resolution right now to spend the next six weeks focusing on one chart pattern (look at Tom C's RMBS example from yesterday for an idea). Learn it, live it, trade it. Print off a few examples, and hang them above your computer. DO NOT make a trade unless the set-up you are looking at is at least 90% similar to the examples you printed.
You have six weeks left in 2006 - what are you going to do with them?
"Chasing success"
originally posted September 16, 2006
I talk to numerous people through email every week who are struggling to be successful at trading. And, I find two common traits in most of them:
1.) They trade too much - most of the people struggling make multiple trades daily, some as many as 10+ round trips.
2.) They have a lack of focus.
I will start with #2. I have discussed this in the past - most people jump from indicator to indicator, timeframe to timeframe, method to method. They will use something for a few days, hit a bump, and move on to something different all together. One day the holy grail is a XX period moving average, the next day it is MACD or an oscillator. One day it is a 30-minute chart, the next day it is a 5-minute chart. One day it is buying the break of the first inside bar, the next day it is a pullback from the high.
I call this "chasing success". The bottom line is the person does not spend enough time on any one method to really understand and execute it properly. They bounce around, and before they know it a lot of time has passed and they are still struggling.
If you pick something and stick to it, you get good at it. Once you get good at it - once you perfect it, THEN you can add something else to your arsenal.
There are plenty of set-ups I have highlighted in the blog that have a 70%+ success rate. Do you want an idea? Look at 30-minute charts that break the opening range high, then pullback and consolidate with a textbook hammer at a key moving average. You may ask, "well how many of those are there a week?" My answer is a pretty high number - you just have to focus and find them. But, say you can only find 2-3 per week. Would you rather have 2-3 great trades and a positive, money making week? Or 30+ trades and a negative, losing week?
Regardless of what set-up you choose, focus on it and study 1,000's of charts. Analyze the details - does it work better when the tail of the hammer also touches the opening range (OR) high or the Fibonacci extension? What produces better results - a slow, 3-5 bar pullback or a violent 1-2 bar correction? Does it matter if the bar preceding your hammer is narrow-range or wide-range? What about the hammer being green (closing positive) vs. being red (closing negative)? Learn your set-up inside and out!
A final though on #1 - why do you want to make 20-30 (or more!) trades a week when you are losing money? Stop trading so much! And a way to "force" yourself to do that is to FOCUS on one thing. Pick a timeframe. Pick a moving average. Pick a set-up. And wait for it to happen. What do you do while you wait? Study charts!!! And if a day passes and you do not make a trade, so be it. Look at it as a positive - you did not lose any money!
And feel free to email me when you think you study as many charts a day as I do!!!
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GREAT INFORMATION!!! Trader X.
I think you hit the nail on the head about mastering each type of trade system before you trade any of them on anything but paper and never confuse them or intermix them with each other unless you are very organized.
I disagree with you on limiting the number of trades and kind of compare it to a Blackjack dealer at the Casino...the dealer makes about 55 hands per hour, the more hands played the more the advantage goes to the house over time...thats why if a Blackjack dealer falls off in the number of hands per hour they get yelled at by the Bosses or replaced.
This strategy must go along with the good setups on trades to work along with STOPS that must be respected. There are thousands of them every tradeing day over many markets.
Have a good weekend.
- Trader-X said...
We will agree to disagree. I think overtrading kills most people, and if they can find a few high probability set-ups and focus on trading them, taking fewer trades and concentrating on managing open positions...they will be much better off.
Thanks for giving me something to think about going into 2007.
- QQQBall said...
went to see the new James Bond flick... it is very, very good. highly recommended!
- Trader-X said...
qqq - I saw it too. It was really good. Daniel Craig is a great James Bond.
- QQQBall said...
you're right daniel craig is awesome as james bond. i cant wait for the next one
Hey Trader X.
Bit of background - I regard myself as a market timer over medium timeframes (1 week to 6 months). I've been into it for about 6 yrs now since I left high school. During that time i've come out ahead. I would claim to have a disciplined and repeatable strategy - i've went to zero once, but never considered giving up and always always learn from my mistakes.
The problem I am facing now is my market timing (Dow futures) works, but only in limited circumstances. I believe strongly that nothing can replace good intuition (I would study a new market for about a year, making 'virtual' trades & studying results before doing the real thing, to build up a feel for the product). I'd like to leave my job and go full-time, but as yet my trades are too infrequent to make a stable living from. I've considered day-trading the same market but haven't yet gained the intuition and ideas (I prefer to develop my own rather then work off recommendations without understanding them) to enter it.
My strategy on market timing is based on two main themes: market psychology and macro economic trends. I'd like to exploit my understanding of these areas into other markets (hopefully uncorrelated with the Dow). At the moment I'm thinking FX/commodities, but am aware of the high levels of volatility in these markets, even though it is this that I feed off in my Dow plays.
Any advice from a day trading shark? ;)
X- Rated
I have been a trader for 20 years, and I have yet to trade X's methodology,but do use his principles and techniques in my style. This is HANDS DOWN the premier site for a non-profitable trader to learn how trade and make Dough. If I had to point ONE website for a losing trader to go to, with NO BS, and easy straight up quantifiable rules. This is it! Happy Holidays to the X!!!. X knows to Give...you GET back more!
KayakHandy has a point but what your forgetting is that the market is the house. Therfore the more trades that you take your putting the odds in Mr markets favor not yours.
I agree with ta trader, this is a great place. I appreciate X's kindness in sharing so freely. I read that you have studied Buddhism and I also read the Tad principle. It is no wonder that you are successful, you reap what you sow. And the help you give out and the kindness you show to others comes back to you multiple times over. God bless!
- Trader-X said...
Thanks for all the kind words though I don't know that I deserve them. But thanks. Everyone have a great weekend, and don't forget to check out all the other great blogs on my Blogroll...TraderMike, Tale of the Tape, Wall St. Warrior, Ugly, Estocastica...there are too many to list but they are all good and you can learn from each.
I extend to you a personal invitiaion to my trading room during business hours...I believe you will see who the house is.
Just tell me when you want to come and see the operation and how it really works in real time.
- LP said...
great post! As a young trader this hits home. Why trade a hundred times when a few great trades will build you P&L and confidence. Without confidence nothing else will follow. All young traders must learn how to do one thing really well before learning and experimenting with other things (be it another market or setups). Learn to earn your bread before you work towards your feast.
- downtowntrader said...
I loved this post the first time you put it out, and I think the timing is perfect for re-releasing it Disney style for the holidays.
As far as Kayak's comments, I think you are both right to an extent. If you have a system that yields a positive expectancy, then there is no reason to limit your trades as long as they meet the systems criteria. In fact, the more trades the better as your edge will be exploited. The key is to not take questionable setups as the trade frequency increases.
However, in most traders cases, they don't have a profitable system, and taking more trades will just accelerate their loss of money. I think this is where X's advice is right on the money. For traders still feeling out for a system, it is best to limit trades to only the exact criteria that they are testing or trading. Just my two cents.
Keep up the good work,
Are you going to pass up 100 good trade set ups only to take a couple? ...just makes no sense unless capital funds are an issue or you have trouble manageing more than one or two positions at a time. I can't think of a better way to limit profits than to not make trades.
- Trader-X said...
Kayak, most people don't make good trades, and most don't just take good set-ups. That is why I talk about having focus, and say "Would you rather have 2-3 great trades and a positive, money making week? Or 30+ trades and a negative, losing week?"
Again, it is all about focusing on good set-ups. That is what my blog is about.
- Trader-X said...
Yes DT, you are right. That is why I say take the next six weeks and focus on a high probability set-up. Even if you only find a few trades a week and make money, it beats trading a few (or 10+) times a day and ending the week losing money.
Makes perfect sense X. Thanks for the great post.
Kayak, I think you are missing the point of X's post. That is to focus on a few great setups, and only trade them when they come instead of having your focus on many different setups and overtrading, usually trading mediocre setups.
X, I didn't see your comments above where you elaborated. Sorry to post a repetitive comment.
More thoughts: Kayak, X is not saying if you are focusing on a great setup and it happens 10 times, only trade it 2. He is saying that it may only happen 2, and traing only those 2 is better than trading 20 mediocre setups.
- Trader-X said...
Brook P - well put. Good comments.
Everyone have a good trading day.
- LP said...
I was just re-reading your interview and I can't believe you get hate mail. I was gay, I send you love mail. The stuff you have on your site can only help most traders. I know it's helped me, and I've been only trading for the pas month and a half. If it wasn't for this blog & TraderMike's, I would be out of the game by now. I've learned position sizing and setups right here. I hope to one day learn out to exit on profitable trades properly as this is quite possibly the hardest thing for me. But thank you so much for everything.


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Transfer news: Manchester United boss David Moyes rules out striker move
Manchester United boss David Moyes has ruled out a move for a striker in January, feeling he has enough forward options.
By Pete O'Rourke - Follow me: @skysportspeteo
Last Updated: 22/12/13 12:22pm
Moyes has been credited with an interest in unsettled Monaco striker Radamel Falcao, while Atletico Madrid ace Diego Costa has also been mentioned as possible target.
However, Moyes insists there is no need to bring in a new forward as he is happy with his current strikeforce, feeling Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez, Danny Welbeck and Shinji Kagawa offer more than enough up front.
"I would not say we are in desperate need of an out-and-out centre-forward," said Moyes. "We have got Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Chicharito (Hernandez), Danny Welbeck. Shinji can play in behind as well, we are covered.
"It is easy for people to throw names up, but when they look at it more closely you might say it wasn't that good a suggestion."
Moyes has confirmed he will look to add to his squad in the New Year, but accepts it may be difficult to land his top targets in January.
"We will look [at targets]," Moyes added. "But I wouldn't turn around and say that I'm massively sure that we will get them.
"Because a lot of the players we would be interested in wouldn't be available for us in that month of January.
"But we'll certainly be looking."


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Incoming income: Duplex could work in a down economy
Address: 614 Bolling Avenue
Neighborhood: Belmont
Asking: $199,950
Assessment: $171,600
Year Built: 1920
Size: 1,797 fin. sq. ft.
Land: 0.13 acres
Agent: Ross L. Stevens, Stevens and Company, 296-6104, ext. 107
Curb Appeal: 8 out of 10
It's easy to see why first-time home buyers might shy away from taking on a mortgage in this uncertain economy, but interest rates are low and prices are still coming down. Because they provide an income to help with the bills, duplexes can be an appealing option.
This Belmont farmhouse is zoned R2 (units are up and downstairs), so it's legal to rent. The upstairs tenant has a separate entrance via an external staircase. The property is being sold by the estate of the previous long-time resident, which means it feels like a home, not a rental. On the down side, buyers will not find glossy newness or much storage– there's no basement or attic, just a crawl space.
From the porch (with swing), the front door leads directly into the living room, which shares the pretty, original pine floor with the dining room. The place is empty, so shoppers need to use their imagination to envision how these spaces would fill out. Mostly white walls reinforce the blank slate impression.
A small bedroom off the living room (carpeted, no closet) may be better classified as a den or office. The bath (shower only, no tub) shares space with an avocado washer and dryer. It's a funny setup that could stand a facelift. With stacking units and some rethinking, the space could probably accommodate a standard tub.
The original line of the house has been extended on the first level, creating a wacky-shaped kitchen: a galley opens to a separate area with an island and range. A curved wall separating the kitchen from the master suite creates a kind of spaceship vibe, but it's more Jetsons than Starship Enterprise. Bringing the whole space back to earth could be a costly long-term project that inexperienced do-it-yourselfers may find out of their league.
This master suite off the kitchen is a reasonable size, with a full bath with tub. This side of the spacey curved wall is a focal point. A minor facelift could bring the bathroom– with faux marble sink and stripy yellow wallpaper— into this century. White tile lining the bath and a slate floor create an attractive and functional space that is satisfactory as is.
Upstairs, a one-bedroom apartment running the length of the original house, with '70s-vintage paneling painted white, is just big enough for one person. Like downstairs, the design of the eat-in kitchen is a little funky (the sink seems to be in the entryway), but almost floor-to-ceiling windows provide lots of light. This apartment is on a separate natural gas line, so it's ready for a tenant, and the neighborhood should be a draw for renters.
The level, rectangular lot is fully fenced and sports a couple of window boxes (currently empty), a clothesline, and a shed.
Ok, so it's not a place where a family would feel immediately at home, but it's a reasonable starter for folks transitioning from tenants to owners. A buyer will find a few projects here, and it may be attractive to investors looking for a low-cost and hopefully low-maintenance project. In short, as is, it's a livable space in a decent neighborhood without too many obvious drawbacks.
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Athena, practicing the withering squint of derision that will undoubtedly get her through her teenage years. Unless she tries it on her mother, whose paralyzing stare of outrage rather handily trumps this particular look (the best I can manage is the quirky look of amusement, which is not feared by anyone).
And now she's done practicing and back to her normal self. She does in fact look a lot like me, especially around the eyes. Far cuter, though. And you know, I'm good with that.


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I'm usually loathe to post "hey mainstream tabloids are crazy" stories here, but a piece on the front page of the latest Metro, a free newspaper handed out on public transport in Britain, is too good to ignore.
The headline? "Xbox paedophile predators 'move in on prey within two minutes of contact'"
There's of course almost nothing in the actual story to substantiate that whatsoever, but between the headline and the fact they use a giant picture of an original Xbox for the story, it's required reading if you want to get your Wednesday started with a smile.
Xbox paedophile predators 'move in on prey within two minutes of contact' [Metro, via MCV]


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Is the party over?
Mallorca is getting a makover. All over the Spanish island, jokingly referred to as the "17th federal German state," new high-end hotels are opening, even on the infamous S'Arenal nightlife strip
It's two in the morning, and in the Megarena, a party basement of the size its name suggests, the bass beats are pounding, the go-go girls are strutting their stuff, and the crowd is going wild. "Uncle Jürgen," the man at the mike, tears open his white ruffle shirt and sings the ever-popular hit "…no panic on the Titanic." Mondays are Drews day on Ballermann, the German-dominated booze and clubbing strip on Mallorca. Veteran pop singer Jürgen Drews has been putting tourists into party mode since 1976. At 70, Drews is often the oldest person in the room, an eternal symbol of Ballermann tourism: that phenomenon both cringe-inducing and very popular – most all of the time.
"I am a therapist, a dispenser of feel-good hormones," the pop old-timer explains later, adding that he has never even considered retiring from the stage. "I'll carry on performing for as long as it gives me pleasure." But that doesn't mean Drews has failed to notice certain changes taking place inside his "kingdom." "There's so much happening, it's incredible," he says. In a small area of woodland once frequented by prostitutes and their clients not far from his stage in the Megarena, the Hipotels chain is currently building a five-star design hotel called Playa de Palma Palace. In fact, the entire Playa de Palma beach, including S'Arenal, the top German party strip, will be getting a makeover in the next few years: It's been slated for a chic new, updated and more upmarket image.
Codes of behavior have already been tightened up on Palma's city beach since last May, including a ban on the consumption of alcohol in public – and especially the binge drinking of beer and sangria from buckets that was, until recently, part and parcel of the Ballermann experience. Also, anyone caught spitting out chewing gum, urinating in public or flicking a cigarette butt onto the ground can look forward to paying a 50 euro fine. Even excessively loud music is no longer allowed in the streets. The new code of conduct is part of a ten-year master plan under which the city aims to invest 496 million euros in refurbishing the hotel tower blocks and giving the balneario resort complexes a makeover (The name "Ballermann" is a German corruption of "balneario" based on the slang word "ballern" for "boozing"). There are 15 balnearios at regular intervals along the 4-kilometer stretch of the Ballermann promenade. This past spring already saw the opening of the Garonda, the first five-star hotel on Schinkenstraße, a Mallorcan street with a telling German name.
For a long time, no classy establishment even considered opening in S'Arenal, but the Garonda's hotel manager, Miguel Amengual Delgado, 34, feels well equipped for the future here. He explains his business philosophy as we follow him through the minimalist lobby: to attract discerning, well-heeled tourists, the type of people who see Playa de Palma as a kind of Las Vegas complete with sunshine and seaside, a colorful den of iniquity, gaudy, crazy and on the seamy side. A strip where vanities are rife and embarrassments non-existent. "We may be seeing a very different Playa in a few years' time," Amengual says. Numbers like this make him feel optimistic: The junior suites with a sea view costing roughly 300 euros a night were already booked up by early June.
How do the traditional German "Ballermen" and "Ballerwomen" feel about the changes taking place? Tim, 28, a local league soccer player from Breisgau says: "People come here to let their hair down." Denise, 24, a bank clerk from Oldenburg, puts it like this: "The great thing is that here you can leave all your worries behind you." Claudia, 34, a clerk from Stuttgart responds: "It's okay for things to get really wild here – much wilder than at home in Swabia in southern Germany." Claudia has been coming here every summer to spend a week clubbing with the girls on "Malle" (the German nickname for Mallorca) – to take a break from their husbands, as she puts it. But she, too, has noticed that "it's already much quieter than it used to be." So will she soon be saying adios to the magic of Schinkenstraße? Claudia certainly isn't enamored of the five-star visions of the hotel trade: "It could just all stay the way it is as far as I'm concerned."
It's already much quieter here than it used to be
The stylish (and affluent) classes of tourists which the Garonda would like to attract are already getting together at the Puroeach, a beach club a few kilometers down the coast. It's the haunt of jetsetters and business nomads, and world champion soccer players Manuel Neuer and Mario Götze reputedly party here. A similar set also strolls the trendy Portixol neighborhood at the western end of Playa de Palma. Gentrification has rapidly transformed Portixol, which was once a sleepy fishing village – driving up real estate prices and turning rank tavernas into smart-looking bars. The stench of a fabric and leather factory once hung over the neighborhood; now the combined scents of barbecued prawn, perfume and cigars fill the air. Allison, a 23-year-old student from South America, is also hoping that the Playa de Palma will soon change because she dreams of running her own hotel there. Stylish, young, hip is how she envisions it – just like the trendy Cocco bar, where she works as a waitress. Allison's mother is from Ecuador, and she also works on the island, as a chamber maid. "Not a great job, but we have a better life here than we did at home," says Allison, who has been studying hotel management since October. "There are plenty of opportunities at the Playa for anyone willing to work hard."
Back on Ballermann: Breakfast for the hungover is sizzling at the sausage stall outside the Megarena. Basement discos are regurgitating their last remaining revelers, and the neon lights of the strip joints are still mirrored in puddles of pee, but the show will soon be over, even in the topless bars. Then, for a couple of hours, everyone can catch their breath before the madness starts up all over again. Ballermann has often been declared dead, but it never really died. "S'Arenal should always be a clubbers' eldorado," says Jürgen Drews, as he climbs into his vintage convertible and drives off into the rising sun. No panic on the Titanic.
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If scientists had a test to confirm Alzheimer's disease, would that have changed the outcome for some treatments that failed to pass scientific muster in clinical trials? Would such a test open doors for future treatments? Alzheimer's researchers hoping to explore these questions had mixed reactions last week after Medicare recommended that the national health plan for the elderly and disabled only pay for a controversial $3,000 test that detects brain plaque linked to Alzheimer's in several specific instances—including clinical trials that seek better treatment for the disease. The recommendation, if acted on, could mean more people will learn if they have significant buildup of a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer's. But some researchers in the Alzheimer's community say that the proposed coverage limitation falls short of giving many patients valuable clinical information.
Current science prevents doctors from making a definitive diagnosis determining if a patient has Alzheimer's until they can analyze the postmortem brain under a microscope during an autopsy and find telltale signs of the disease. During life, physicians typically make a presumptive diagnosis of the disease via a neurological and psychological evaluation that rules out other reasons a patient may have Alzheimer's-like symptoms (including tumor, stroke or vitamin B12 deficiency).
Last year physicians received a new tool when U.S. regulators approved a test that uses an imaging agent owned by Eli Lilly and Co. that detects a certain kind of protein in the brain. Scientists are still not sure if elevated levels of amyloid beta indicate a patient has Alzheimer's or if it is merely a symptom of impaired brain function. But if more patients receive the test and are aware that they have a buildup of the protein, theoretically scientists could cast a wider net for research on the disease—including tracking its progression and how, or if, it manifests itself when the plaque is apparent. When previous Alzheimer's treatments failed during clinical trials, one critique from pharmaceutical companies was that perhaps the data were sullied by patients who had other dementias or reasons for Alzheimer's-like symptoms rather than the disease.
Implementing this amyloid-imaging test as a requirement for inclusion in trials could potentially strengthen testing because it could weed out individuals without the protein buildup. Already, ahead of last week's decision, clinical trials were in the works that would use amyloid imaging as an entry requirement. So if Medicare foots the bill for the test, it could help to marginally lower the costs for that research, backers of the test say. But not all Alzheimer's experts are sold on amyloid's importance. Whereas some scientists believe that the protein blocks communication between neurons and its presence is a harbinger of disease, others point to work that suggests the predictive powers of the scans are severely limited, given that individuals with normal brain function may also show up with positive scans.
To date, a large obstacle to finding treatments for Alzheimer's has been identifying patients who are still in the very early stages of the disease. Medicare's recommendations on when to cover the cost of the test does little to change that, charges Dan Skovronsky, CEO of Lilly subsidiary Avid Radiopharmaceuticals. The draft decision from Medicare did not suggest covering the test in the wide variety of circumstances that were laid out in earlier protocol recommendations from a task force convened by the Alzheimer's Association, a voluntary health organization focused on the disease. Instead, it said that Medicare should pay the bill for people receiving the test in clinical trials geared toward finding better treatments (and thus those patients would have already been diagnosed through traditional methods and funneled to the trial). It proposed Medicare should also pay for the imaging test in instances where physicians want to rule out Alzheimer's as a diagnosis or when medical providers are trying to distinguish Alzheimer's from frontotemporal dementia. Currently Medicare does not cover any amyloid beta PET scanning.
Both Lilly and the Alzheimer's Association issued statements following the decision saying that the proposed level of coverage would not be enough and that funding the test in only those limited circumstances would hamstring patient care. The last word on the coverage is due this fall when Medicare issues its final decision. Whereas private insurance companies often follow Medicare's lead on coverage decisions, there is no requirement that the companies mirror its ruling.
A negative result from the PET test is actually more informative than a positive result, says Lawrence Honig, an Alzheimer's expert at Columbia University Medical Center. No buildup suggests it is unlikely that a patient's neurological condition is a result of Alzheimer's. And teasing apart when cognitive impairment is due to Alzheimer's versus another condition such as frontotemporal dementia is important because drugs used to manage Alzheimer's could have negative side effects for a patient without the disease, Skovronsky says. Neither Alzheimer's nor frontotemporal dementia has any existing treatment that stops or slows its progression.
The test from Lilly uses positron emission tomography (PET) to detect collections of amyloid in the brain. To perform the test, a radioactive chemical is injected into the body and then taken up by the brain. The chemical, patented by Lilly, temporarily attaches itself to areas of the brain where there is a concentration of amyloid, and the PET scan picks up that radioactive tag. "Ultimately, what we're trying to find is like a cholesterol test for the brain," says Gary Small, director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Longevity Center. "If you go to a doctor and you're over a certain age, a doctor will test your cholesterol. And if it is high, the doctor will give you a statin and lower your risk of heart attack or stroke." With Alzheimer's, however, there is no existing treatment to act as the statin if risk is identified earlier.
Ronald Petersen, director of the Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in Rochester, Minn., says that physicians should have such amyloid imaging data at their fingertips because it gives clinicians information that differs from other scans. "In reality, it may not change the treatment plan all that much," Petersen says. "But I still think it's important to know if that is what is going on. It may motivate people to engage in lifestyle activities that may influence this process and help people plan for the future—though the timing of that planning may be uncertain."


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Review: 'Veronica Mars' Is a Fantastic (for Fans) Resurrection of the Television Series
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It's remarkable how much Veronica Mars feels like coming home again. Ms. Mars has had nearly a decade off from her detective duties, but the character and the series at large saunters right back into form with such a confident swagger, it feels like she never really left at all.
The product of a now infamous Kickstarter campaign, Veronica Mars is the film sequel to the much beloved but scarcely watched CW series that followed the adventures of a teenage private eye. Mars solved mysteries surrounding the seedy denizens of the fictional Neptune California, a beach town where the rich socialites and working class heroes clash quite frequently and often violently. The series was a terrific mix of Nancy Drew and Raymond Chandler, give or take a Buffy, airing for three seasons before being canceled. But thanks to creator Rob Thomas' audacious Kickstarter and a brewing cult of fans, Veronica Mars has been given a second chance at life, a chance that precious few shows receive.
The film picks up with Veronica (Kristen Bell) knocking on 30's door and enjoying a comfortable life in New York City with her long time boyfriend Piz (Chris Lowell). Her youthful gumshoe years are well behind her, but her old life comes back into swing when former flame Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring) is charged with murdering his starlet girlfriend. Veronica tells herself that she only wants to consult a friend, but Neptune's magnetic pull becomes too hard to resist.
The film is a ton of fun. It's still as whip smart as the series ever was, and the quips whiz by effortlessly and constantly… often right over the heads of those who aren't already baptized by the gospel of Veronica. The show quickly falls back into familiar rhythms, and the nine years away haven't dulled the character's verbal barbs. Prepare to be bathed in waves of wit. Even outside of the near-relentless banter, the show maintains a nice and heavy sense of tension when the mystery sets in, and things get serious. While the actual mystery itself is far from brilliant, it's still engaging enough to entertain. In any case, the main course here is the characters, and they are as stellar as ever. Keith Mars (the fantastic Enrico Colantoni) is still the easy frontrunner for dad of the millennium.
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The most remarkable thing about the film is how much it feels like the Veronica Mars of old, and that's the best compliment we can pay it. The returning cast members slip into their old roles with so much ease, and the film never feels like it's straining to regain that old Neptune spark. It turns out that watching a near 30 Veronica is just as much fun as watching the sleuth in her teenage years. And the fact that the show's general formula doesn't feel out of place now that we're following a load of late 20-somethings instead of high schoolers probably says something about how smartly and strongly crafted the original show was in the first place.
Rob Thomas clearly isn't trying to broaden his formula to catch new fans, and it doesn't make sense that he'd do so anyway. This is clearly a film built from the ground up for Veronica Mars fans, as it should be. A hefty intro montage at the beginning tries its best to get newcomers caught up on the three seasons of the television show, but if you didn't spend at least a couple hours cruising along the seedy streets of Neptune all those years ago, some of the film's charm might be lost on you.
The Veronica Mars film, at its core, is basically a damned good two hour episode of the original series. Now, that's not exactly ambitious, but the fans that put down their hard earned money to fund the film weren't necessarily paying for ambition. What we have here is unquestionably and purely Veronica Mars. So self-assured and comfortable in it's own celluloid skin, it's a film that dutifully embraces everything that made that series so brilliant and fun in the first place. Welcome home, Veronica, it's been a while.


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Updated 12:44 p.m. - South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, an influential Republican who has helped prod his party rightward, will step down from his seat in January to become the next director of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
NBC's Chuck Todd and Kelly O'Donnell discuss the departure of Tea Party favorite from the US Senate, and possible replacements South Carolina Gov. Haley could pick.
DeMint announced Thursday that he planned to succeed Ed Feulner, the longtime head of the Heritage Foundation, next month. The news of his departure was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
"I'm leaving the Senate now, but I'm not leaving the fight. I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas," DeMint said in a statement. "No organization is better equipped to lead this fight and I believe my experience in public office as well as in the private sector as a business owner will help Heritage become even more effective in the years to come."
The Heritage Foundation said DeMint's "passion for rigorous research, his dedication to the principles of our nation's founding, and his ability to translate policy ideas into action make him an ideal choice to lead Heritage to even greater success."
Since being elected to the Senate in 2004, DeMint has not-infrequently clashed with Republican leaders on specific pieces of legislation and the overall direction of the party.
His conservative obstinance made him a hero among the party's grassroots. DeMint wielded that influence through his Senate Conservatives Fund, supporting more ideologically pure candidates over candidates deemed more politically-able by Republican Party leaders.
DeMint had even been rumored in 2011 to be thinking of challenging Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell for the position of Republican leader, though he eventually declined.
Among DeMint's successes through his Senate Conservatives Fund was the championing of senators like Florida's Marco Rubio, Kentucky's Rand Paul, and Utah's Mike Lee. Among DeMint's failures were the two Senate candidates -- Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Todd Akin in Missouri -- who lost their 2012 bids in the wake of controversial remarks about rape.
"I think if you're interested in having Republicans control the Senate you have to back Republicans who fit their state and who can win in a general election not just in the primary," Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican, told NBC News about whether there were any lessons from DeMint's tenure on Capitol Hill.
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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
DeMint had said he would leave the Senate in 2016, following the completion of his second term, meaning his departure in January will be ahead of schedule.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, another conservative Republican who enjoys grassroots support, will be allowed to name a replacement, who would have to face a special election in 2014 to serve out the remaining two years of DeMint's term. A variety of Republicans could jockey to replace DeMint, from Haley herself to a couple of her allies -- Tedd Pitts, her deputy chief of staff, or State Rep. Nathan Ballentine -- to U.S. Rep. Tim Scott or other members of the state's GOP establishment.
"Looking forward, Governor Haley will now appoint a new Senator, and I know she will make the right choice both for South Carolina and the nation," Scott Said in a statement.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a relatively more moderate Republican who's expected to face a primary challenge, is also up for re-election that fall.
There is also the broader question of who, among the 45 Senate Republicans, will seize the mantle of conservative leadership in the upper chamber. Several of the senators whom DeMint helped elect have modeled their actions after the Palmetto State senator, creating their own political action committees and breaking on occasion with the GOP leadership.
NBC's Tom Curry contributed.


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