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Hungry, I looked at my options, all delicious but time consuming. Everything was made fresh and from scratch. No fast food in this town! I found the quickest option, which was a small, but quaint diner with sandwiches to go. I ordered my Chilean favorite, the Barro Luco and waited as the owner cooked the meat and melted the cheese on the stove top.
I thanked her, took my sandwich and started my 25 minute walk. The first 10 minutes weren�t so bad, as the streets were well-lit, it was the last 15 minutes I was dreading. As soon as the dark spot started, I wished I had thought ahead and brought the hotel lantern. Even the full moon couldn�t help me, except to show me the pack of stray dogs that had assembled, all smelling my freshly cooked meat sandwich. It seemed as though dogs were coming from everywhere, approaching slowly and eerily. My instincts started to kick in. What if they attacked me? Do I throw the sandwich at them and run?? Hell no!! That would mean turning back and having to brave that walk again! I was disappointed in myself. The night before I had been fearless during that same walk - proud of myself in my own fearlessness! And now, one meat sandwich and 15 dogs later and I could barely hear my own inner voices above the sound of my poor pounding heart.
So what did I do? Absolutely nothing. I kept walking and willed myself to be fearless again. If I was meant to die being mauled by a pack of wild dogs, then at least it happened in a Chilean desert as I was pursuing intrigue and adventure and not back at home in an alley in Providence!! As luck and God would have it, the dogs walked with me, sniffed me with interest, but never lunged at me or my sandwich. Matter of fact, the dogs actually made me feel protected as I walked the last mile. I had a canine shield around me, lest any shady characters lurching in the desert thought they were going to bring me harm. Needless to say, I made it back to the hotel in one piece and thoroughly enjoyed my Barro Luco before going to bed.
In my tour, I also learned that Punta Arena has strong Yugoslavian roots, as many immigrated to the area during the war. She said they were called "puro ich" people, as their surnames tended to end in ich, like Maslovich, etc. We drove past many interesting sites, but my favorite stop was the local cemetery. Hailed as the "Recoleta" cemetery of the South, it definitely was architecturally stunning and rich with local history and folklore. It was also adorned with the Punta Arenas pines, which by city ordinances all have to be meticulously umbrella-shaped.


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Registration for the Flair Symposium, "The Sense of Our Time: Norman Mailer and America in Conflict," closes soon. Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Morris Dickstein, David Oshinsky, and Sam Tanenhaus are among the featured speakers. Student discount available by contacting Robert Fulton. Register now for the November 9-11 event.
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quote Emberguardquote KoiLooks like ORAS already granted this one. All you need to do is use the pokenav app on the bottom screen 5 times on the particular pokemon before it starts showing more info. Keep encountering that pokemon with the app and it'll start showing more info. I forget what number you need to show natures though.I wish you could tell a pokemons nature before capturing it.
Anyway, back to the current one:quote xellokgDakiGranted but it won't obey you and keeps fainting itself even after obtaining all badgesGranted, but you can only get one of them per game and they cannot be traded in any way.
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As far as I'm aware, nobody is actually all that fond of Night at the Museum, a film that rather unnecessarily made over $250 million upon its release during the Christmas season of 2006 to become the second-highest-grossing movie of that year. At any rate, I've never once heard of somebody saying, "That Night at the Museum picture, that was pretty fantastic. I sure did love it, and I am very eager to see it again at the first chance I get." This is as it should be: Night at the Museum is altogether dumb. Not "entertainingly dumb", nor "watchably dumb", nor "reassuringly, comfortingly dumb". It's just a dumb movie, the kind that advertising campaigns convince kids to beg their parents to go see it, the kind that childless adults and teens go to see because apparently everybody else is, so it must be some kind of fun. It is not, maybe, dangerously dumb; I would never seek to call it a vile motion picture. Indeed, its dumbness is somewhat restful, the kind of thing that you go to see, and find your mind drifting to other places, like the bills you have to pay this week, the wonderful dinner you had last night, landscaping design, whether you should ask out that cute girl who looked like she wanted to talk to you after class, and all sorts of other things that are not the movie itself.
That said, it did make a staggering and unexpected $250+ million, and that means that it was going to get a sequel, and if all the moviegoers of America and the world weren't clamoring for another chapter in the story of intrepid museum guard Larry Daley, fuck 'em. Open it on Memorial Day weekend, precede it with a large enough ad campaign, and people will show up whether they want to or not. Which is exactly what seems to have happened.
Now, about that sequel, the crudely-named Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: it is not restfully dumb. And it is certainly not entertainingly, nor watchably, nor comfortingly dumb. It is atrociously dumb, the kind of bad movie whose badness achieves a kind of rarefied fairy tale wickedness. It is the kind of movie that leaves me feeling that the quality of my life has been lessened: not because I saw the movie, but because the movie exists at all. If this is the state that successful children's entertainment has reached in this country, I fear for the generation of soul-starved vampires that will be coming to power in about 25 years.
Battle of the Smithsonian returns us to the company of Larry, played as before by the increasingly useless Ben Stiller (sure, Tropic Thunder was just last summer, but before that, you have to go all the way back to 2001 and The Royal Tenenbaums). Since we last saw him, Larry has quit his job as night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History to become a successful paid-programming inventor and pitchman on the Ron Popeil model; his current big hit is a glow-in-the-dark flashlight - not actually a new invention, but let's run with it. In his rare free time, Larry still visits the museum to spend some time with his friends there, the display figures that magically come to life every night thanks to the magic of an ancient Egyptian tablet held by the Pharaoh Akhmenrah. On the day the new movie opens, Larry arrives for the first time in months, to learn that most of the displays are being moved into storage in the federal archives under the Smithsonian, which means that for most of his historical buddies, this will be their last night of life.
Ah, but the thieving monkey Dexter, who caused such mirthless hijinks last time, endeavors to steal the tablet on the way out, and Larry gets an alarmed call one night from the miniature cowboy Jedediah (Owen Wilson), saying that something horrible is happening in Washington. So off he goes, to find that a new mummy has plans for the tablet: a villainous sort named Kahmunrah, played by Hank Azaria with a slight British accent and a heavy lisp that I assume is meant to be an affectionate parody of Boris Karloff, cinema's most famous mummy, but comes across as a pointless, irritating affection that grows old within seconds of its introduction. Kahmunrah has designs on using the tablet to open a gate to the underworld and calling forth an undead army to take over the world.
So Larry has but one night to stop Kahmunrah, and he enlists an all-star cast of historical figures to help him: old friends like Jedediah, the centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), and new faces like General George Custer (Bill Hader) and Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams). But Kahmunrah has put together a rogues gallery all his own, including Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest)*, Al Capone (Jon Bernthal) and Napoleon Bonaparte (Alain Chabat).
As in the previous film, the actual plot is devoured whole by "wouldn't it be cool if" moments: wouldn't it be cool if Larry jumped into that photo of the sailor kissing the girl on V-J day? Wouldn't it be cool if all the exhibits in the Air and Space museum came to life and were flying about all crazy-like? Wouldn't it be cool if famous statues, some of which aren't even located in the United States, let alone the Smithsonian, got up and walked around and talked? The answer tends, in most cases, to be "no, it would be bombastic and pointless". Of course, since Battle of the Smithsonian, like the first Night at the Museum, was directed by Shawn Levy, this isn't at all surprising. Levy, as merciless a hack as American filmmaking has right now, is a filmmaker who will at no point go for a grace note when a blaring trumpet in a flat key will do the the trick.
If the first film made some small feint in the direction of being all pro-museum and learning, in between the extended passages of crazy shit bobbing about in every direction, the new film replaces those tiny moments with a cheerful ignorance of anything and everything historic: from the collection of artworks that are not technically present at the Smithsonian to the hash made of nearly every one of the non-American characters (especially poor Napoleon), and even some of the Americans: no way is Custer going to have a nice conversation with an Indian woman, like we see here. But complaining about the history in this film is like complaining that fish piss in the sea. I just had to get it off of my chest, because it is part of what pushes the film from "unenjoyable" to "foul".
The last little thing there might be to enjoy is the big ensemble, but they're almost all wasted: Azaria on his accent, Guest on being a second-tier villain, Coogan on being separated from everyone else for almost all of his screentime. Jonah Hill gets a sort of cameo where he demonstrates his most annoying tendencies in a back and forth with Stiller that goes on for about twelve hours; Ricky Gervais walks onscreen and delivers a couple of lines in that shrill squeak that he does when he's acting angry, and then heads off the deposit his paycheck in what I pray is the fund for a new BBC sitcom. Adams is probably the most frustrating thing in the movie: her cheerful persona is ratcheted up to unendurable levels as the film's romantic co-lead - yes, the film posits a romance between Larry and Amelia Earhart, and it's just as godawful as it sounds. Worse than that, the screenplay saddles her with a litany of peppy Depression-era euphemisms that are so old-timey, homespun and squeaky-clean, that when she actually says "dammit" in one scene, it's as jarring a profanity as if Mickey Mouse were to refer to Minnie as a filthy cunt.
As for the Jonas Brothers as a trio of pop-singing Cupid statues: the Jonas Brothers are in the film, as pop-singing Cupid statues, and if that doesn't fill you with acidic tears, then damn your eyes.
I cannot imagine how anyone would manage to scrape any entertainment out of this hellish thing at all. Some of the jokes work, a couple of them actually even work really well. And many of the sequences - I can hardly call them "scenes", as they do not follow each other naturally, nor add up to anything cohesive - must have seemed very cool when they were first set to paper. But there's a long path between first draft and the screen, and everything cool in Battle of the Smithsonian has long since been ground under the heel of indifference and sloppiness and hate. This is no kind of fun movie at all: it is a horrid, brainless thing that makes no sense, treats history and our nation's finest museum recklessly, and is no more magical than the sterile pitch meeting where the whole soulless affair was birthed.
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- liquid_stone14 said...
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- KingKubrick said...
Tim I must say I love your work. Ever since I stumbled upon your classic dissection of the 13th series ( a series I loved as an adolescent until the advent of the internet where gratuitous female nudity can be viewed sans ten minute intervals of morally subject, inept cinema). You point to the increasing commodification of what should be an art form and do it with wit and verve. Films like night at the museum 2 are even worse than product films like transformers because they can't even provide the entertainment value they promise. Keep up the good work my man. And don't let the rotten tomatoes kids get you down with their hate over your star trek review. I liked the film but you raised valid criticism. Keep doing your thing. I'd donate to your blog had I any money
- KingKubrick said...
*correction:friday the 13th. not 13th
- inkBlot said...
Fantastic review. My senior class took a field trip to see this movie the other day (and no, I was not aware that this was the movie we were going to see - I might not have gone). The most terrifying aspect of the experience for me was the fact that the large majority of my peers saw nothing wrong with the film, and in fact enjoyed it and quoted it on the ride home. As you said, this film truly bastardizes the history of our nation and our world in revoltingly witless ways - I wanted to burn the movie theater down when a magic bobble-head Einstein stated the "exact" value of pi in less than eight digits. This review perfectly describes my feelings about this horrible, stupid piece of shit film, and I feel less alone in the world because of it.
- danl said...
My boyfriend wanted to watch this last night and since he was feeling I never want to watch movies he chooses I relented and agreed.
About 30min.in(it seemed like hours) when the salmon CGI octopus started attacking everything I had a full blown anxiety attack..bolted upright out of my chair and fled the room. I would have slain worlds..ANYTHING not to have had to endure even one more frame of this asinine,MINDLESS BULLSHIT!!


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The lead-in to the new product, Google Instant Search,
mentioned Eric Schmidt's
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Google's New Definition of search. Google Instant search uses predicated
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The Google Instant Search page provided the following info about where you
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text: BioMed Central http://hdl.handle.net/2139/9925 BioMed Central 2016-10-17T17:24:21Z Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus auras producing Panton-Valentine leukocidin toxin in Trinidad and Tobago: a case report http://hdl.handle.net/2139/39813 Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus auras producing Panton-Valentine leukocidin toxin in Trinidad and Tobago: a case report Akpaka, Patrick E; Monecke, Stefan; Swanston, William H; Rao, AV C; Schulz, Renee; Levett, Paul N Abstract Introduction Certain Staphylococcus aureus strains produce Panton-Valentine leukocidin, a toxin that lyses white blood cells causing extensive tissue necrosis and chronic, recurrent or severe infection. This report documents a confirmed case of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus strain harboring Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes from Trinidad and Tobago. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that such a case has been identified and reported from this country. Case presentation A 13-year-old Trinidadian boy of African descent presented with upper respiratory symptoms and gastroenteritis-like syptoms. About two weeks later he was re-admitted to our hospital complaining of pain and weakness affecting his left leg, where he had received an intramuscular injection of an anti-emetic drug. He deteriorated and developed septic arthritis, necrotizing fasciitis and septic shock with acute respiratory distress syndrome, leading to death within 48 hours of admission despite intensive care treatment. The infection was caused by S. aureus. Bacterial isolates from specimens recovered from our patient before and after his death were analyzed using microarray DNA analysis and spa typing, and the results revealed that the S. aureus isolates belonged to clonal complex 8, were methicillin-susceptible and positive for Panton-Valentine leukocidin. An autopsy revealed multi-organ failure and histological tissue stains of several organs were also performed and showed involvement of his lungs, liver, kidneys and thymus, which showed Hassal's corpuscles. Conclusion Rapid identification of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in methicillin-sensitive S. aureus isolates causing severe infections is necessary so as not to miss their potentially devastating consequences. Early feedback from the clinical laboratories is crucial. 2011-04-20T00:00:00Z Immune responses associated with homologous protection conferred by commercial vaccines for control of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli in turkeys http://hdl.handle.net/2139/39475 Immune responses associated with homologous protection conferred by commercial vaccines for control of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli in turkeys Sadeyen, Jean-Rémy; Wu, Zhiguang; Davies, Holly; van Diemen, Pauline M; Milicic, Anita; La Ragione, Roberto M; Kaiser, Pete; Stevens, Mark P; Dziva, Francis Abstract Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) infections are a serious impediment to sustainable poultry production worldwide. Licensed vaccines are available, but the immunological basis of protection is ill-defined and a need exists to extend cross-serotype efficacy. Here, we analysed innate and adaptive responses induced by commercial vaccines in turkeys. Both a live-attenuated APEC O78 and#916;aroA vaccine (Poulvacand#174; E. coli) and a formalin-inactivated APEC O78 bacterin conferred significant protection against homologous intra-airsac challenge in a model of acute colibacillosis. Analysis of expression levels of signature cytokine mRNAs indicated that both vaccines induced a predominantly Th2 response in the spleen. Both vaccines resulted in increased levels of serum O78-specific IgY detected by ELISA and significant splenocyte recall responses to soluble APEC antigens at post-vaccination and post-challenge periods. Supplementing a non-adjuvanted inactivated vaccine with Th2-biasing (Titermaxand#174; Gold or aluminium hydroxide) or Th1-biasing (CASAC or CpG motifs) adjuvants, suggested that Th2-biasing adjuvants may give more protection. However, all adjuvants tested augmented humoral responses and protection relative to controls. Our data highlight the importance of both cell-mediated and antibody responses in APEC vaccine-mediated protection toward the control of a key avian endemic disease. 2015-01-23T00:00:00Z Development of a sustainable access to medicine model in the Caribbean: a case study of the chronic disease assistance program http://hdl.handle.net/2139/39326 Development of a sustainable access to medicine model in the Caribbean: a case study of the chronic disease assistance program Maharaj, Sandeep; Pandey, Sureshwar; Pathak, Yashwant; Janodia, Manthan 2014-12-17T00:00:00Z Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms http://hdl.handle.net/2139/39299 Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms Speiser, Daniel I; Pankey, M S; Zaharoff, Alexander K; Battelle, Barbara A; Bracken-Grissom, Heather D; Breinholt, Jesse W; Bybee, Seth M; Cronin, Thomas W; Garm, Anders; Lindgren, Annie R; Patel, Nipam H; Porter, Megan L; Protas, Meredith E; Rivera, Ajna S; Serb, Jeanne M; Zigler, Kirk S; Crandall, Keith A; Oakley, Todd H Abstract Background Tools for high throughput sequencing and de novo assembly make the analysis of transcriptomes (i.e. the suite of genes expressed in a tissue) feasible for almost any organism. Yet a challenge for biologists is that it can be difficult to assign identities to gene sequences, especially from non-model organisms. Phylogenetic analyses are one useful method for assigning identities to these sequences, but such methods tend to be time-consuming because of the need to re-calculate trees for every gene of interest and each time a new data set is analyzed. In response, we employed existing tools for phylogenetic analysis to produce a computationally efficient, tree-based approach for annotating transcriptomes or new genomes that we term Phylogenetically-Informed Annotation (PIA), which places uncharacterized genes into pre-calculated phylogenies of gene families. Results We generated maximum likelihood trees for 109 genes from a Light Interaction Toolkit (LIT), a collection of genes that underlie the function or development of light-interacting structures in metazoans. To do so, we searched protein sequences predicted from 29 fully-sequenced genomes and built trees using tools for phylogenetic analysis in the Osiris package of Galaxy (an open-source workflow management system). Next, to rapidly annotate transcriptomes from organisms that lack sequenced genomes, we repurposed a maximum likelihood-based Evolutionary Placement Algorithm (implemented in RAxML) to place sequences of potential LIT genes on to our pre-calculated gene trees. Finally, we implemented PIA in Galaxy and used it to search for LIT genes in 28 newly-sequenced transcriptomes from the light-interacting tissues of a range of cephalopod mollusks, arthropods, and cubozoan cnidarians. Our new trees for LIT genes are available on the Bitbucket public repository (http://bitbucket.org/osiris_phylogenetics/pia/) and we demonstrate PIA on a publicly-accessible web server (http://galaxy-dev.cnsi.ucsb.edu/pia/). Conclusions Our new trees for LIT genes will be a valuable resource for researchers studying the evolution of eyes or other light-interacting structures. We also introduce PIA, a high throughput method for using phylogenetic relationships to identify LIT genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. With simple modifications, our methods may be used to search for different sets of genes or to annotate data sets from taxa outside of Metazoa. 2014-11-19T00:00:00Z


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Plug-Talk #002
An Interview with Nils Kokemohr from nik
Plug-Talk is a a series of interviews
that give you a better idea about the people behind the scenes
of the Photoshop plugin business.
Can you please tell something about yourself? How did you get into developing Photoshop plugins?
There is a bit of history to how I began developing plug-ins. Before beginning science and engineering studies at the university, I had always been an avid painter, photographer, and cellist. I spent a significant amount of time pursuing these creative aspects of my life before beginning at the university. As I later studied astrophysics and imaging science in the early 1990's at the University of Hamburg, I found myself among engineers and scientists almost entirely. As I looked for a way to be more creative, I started combining my creative side with the technical aspects of my studies.
I began developing Photoshop plug-ins as I found that this was a way for me to combine everything that I enjoyed. Well, almost everything
I later wanted to develop more creative outlets to share my ideas, and I began to develop Photoshop actions. When these actions grew in popularity, and especially when they became among the top selling graphics software in Japan at one point, I then decided to dedicate my professional life to developing software. In the late 1990's, I sat down with one of my business partners (who is now our CEO) and I discussed digital photography and what I saw as a future product direction. We talked about my ideas and I talked a lot about my photography (well mostly I talked about that) and what I think. I must have talked for over an hour about what I couldn't do in analog photography. That was what motivated the concept of developing filters that go beyond the capabilities of analog photographic filters. My partner and I soon agreed on a path for developing Photoshop plug-ins dedicated to digital photography and the concepts for nik Sharpener Pro and nik Color Efex Pro began.
You created your first plugins with Filter Factory in the mid 90s. The dialog of your nik plugins almost appears like an advanced version of the original Filter Factory dialog. Did your experience with Filter Factory have a big influence on your later plugins?
When I began developing my first filters (which were named Nils' Filters), I did use Filter Factory, which was good start for me as I didn't need to program the interface. However, I wanted to do more with overall filter functionality and I especially wanted to try to make more creative UI's and add some spice to an interface. Kai Krause had released his software, and I saw this as a beginning for moving away from the many 'system-looking' interfaces. With this direction being established, I began developing filters solely in C++ and designing the interfaces myself.
One of the plugins of nik Color Efex 2
Do you know FilterMeister, which more or less replaced the old Filter Factory plugin? What do you think of it?
I do know of FilterMeister. Its very flexible and a good tool. But I have never really used it as when it came out I had already begun developing solely in C++.
There are a lot of plugin developers from Germany: You, the famous Kai Krause, myself, several people in the old Filter Factory scene. And there are probably even more developers from the US with German ancestors. Is the old spirit of German engineers at work here?
I think that there are many good plug-in and software engineers in Europe and the U.S. The graphics and print industry in Europe, and especially in Germany, is very big and graphic design was very big in the 90's and there was a bit of a cult-like following to program and create with Photoshop. If you look at this and how Photoshop grew (especially in the 90's) then it is a bit natural for German software engineers to gravitate toward plug-ins; especially Photoshop. As for the German engineers, I have to say that I do know many very good ones.
Which of your products do you consider the most important? Or are you equally proud of all of them?
That's hard to say. But first of all, I have to mention that I do not do all of this alone. In the beginning I did do all of the work myself. But now, I am far from alone in creating them. I give credit to our product team and our team of engineers that help me do what I do and enable me to develop the ideas and concepts that help our products grow. We have a very talented team that is extremely dedicated to accomplishing things that I envision and their support is very important to me.
If I think about the question though, I think answering that is like asking any developer, artist or designer which of their work is the best. I don't really see things from the market perspective or see products in comparison to each other. Instead, I see things that I set out to accomplish the way that I envision them and I am proud of how they turned out. What I am pleased about is that as people use the products that we create and that people use them as I had hoped AND in ways that I did not think of.
The plugin market is a niche market with a lot of small companies relying mostly on electronic commerce. Did you ever think of producing standalone or mainstream software?
I think that many plug-in developers have dreams of increasing the number of people that their work reaches. That is natural and I am no different in that regard. E-commerce really has helped many developers (including me and my company) reach the market that they pursue, whether it is design, print, photography or any other niche market. As I mentioned before, developers are very much like, or they are at least not very different than artists or designers as they want to present and share their work to many people and are often proud of their creations. So I would say that reaching more people is always something that developers (myself included) would like to do. As for going mainstream, I think we all dream of this in some way.
Dfine, a noise reduction plugin from nik multimedia
How aware are users of Photoshop and other graphic applications of the possibilities to enhance their workflow with Photoshop plugins? Do many people consider it unnecessary to use plugins? How did the plugin market and plugins themselves change during the last decade of their existence? Do you see any future trends in this area?
Well, I can speak of my experiences in the mid to late 90's as it relates to plug-ins for the graphic design market on one hand and then my experience as we grew as a company when we began to focus on digital photography. And both of these are different.
In the mid to late 90's, there was a different type of movement or atmosphere for plug-ins. Kai Krause did a lot for bringing plug-ins into the minds of the graphics and design market. This really helped people see that plug-ins can help the user be even more creative and that they can support people's creativity.
As Photoshop has grown and added features and continues to grow, I think it is even more challenging to come up with ideas and show people that plug-ins add value. This was even more the case in digital photography as this industry was very early in development when we began in 1999. But, this challenge to come up with ideas is actually something that I really enjoy. As digital photography grows and we develop our products even further, I think that this challenge will be bigger. But again, that is what I love.
As for trends in this area, I see a number of small developers continuing to come into the market here and there and I think this is great for the market. When more small companies come into the market and push to get their message out, then everyone benefits. People start talking more about problems and solutions that software can provide and we begin to see how we can create more products and give users what they are looking for. I think that this is a good trend for us and for all users of software.
What are your plans for the future?
Our plans for the future are to continue making products and features that users ask for. I think that I am fortunate that I found great partners that helped me grow the company that I started 10 years ago this year, and I plan to focus even more of my time on developing new and innovative products and features that I hope users enjoy.
This interview was conducted by Harald Heim from The Plugin Site in May 2005.
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Life Without Health Insurance
A few weeks ago I took a trip with my girlfriend to lovely, lovely Julian, California — a lovely little mountain town where there are lovely, lovely wine tastings and just the most lovely apple pies you've ever eaten. The town has a lovely gold-rush era feel with a small, but dense main street and plenty of lovely open space. Just outside of town there are lovely fields of lovely tall grass filled with lovely, lovely ticks that latch on to my genitals.
It was a lovely time.
Actually it was. Julian is a beautiful, reasonably priced alternative to Napa, charming romantic and all that. But a tick to the balls has a way of putting a damper on a perfectly good trip – especially when you don't have health insurance.
I'm from Boston, where Lyme disease is a real problem. Friends and acquaintances that have come down with the disease suffered months upon months of misery, and in some cases permanent neurological damage.
Coming from Boston, I also happen to know that tiny deer ticks are the ones that carry the greatest risk of spreading the disease, and that the longer the tick stays attached, feeding, the grater the chance of infection. My tick was definitely tiny, with the exception of his blood-engorged body. He'd been feeding on me for two days before I caught him.
Not good.
They say the obvious sign of Lyme disease is a telltale bull's-eye-like rash that appears on the site of the bite after the tick is removed. Now, trying to remove a tick that has its head buried fairly deeply inside your genitals is neither an easy nor pleasant task. By the time I got the sucker off, lets just say there was some carnage. Impossible to tell whether what I was looking at was a bulls-eye, a scab or Godknowswhat. It's not a particularly pleasing aesthetic canvas down there.
It seemed like I didn't have a bulls-eye, but I couldn't be sure. And on top of that I was getting headaches and a wickedly stiff neck – two of the 5 billion signs of Lyme disease.
So much for self-diagnosis.
The disease is treatable if caught early. But, to catch it and treat it I would need a doctor. But how does one do that without health insurance these days? Well, there are three things a person could do in my predicament: go to the emergency room to get an immediate test for Lyme disease, but that struck me as a bit excessive and potentially costly; I could schedule an appointment with a private doctor and pay out of pocket; or I could go to a free clinic and get checked out. If it looked bad, maybe my lab results would even be covered. I went with option number three. Trust me, if you make what I do you'd take door number three as well.
In my relatively large LA County city there is only one free clinic, run by a local church. It meets once a week in the church's upstairs offices. It's open for about three hours after working hours. I got there five minutes early and was the fortieth person in line.
The bureaucratic task of processing us was left to a handful of geriatric volunteers. They were slow as could be, but let me tell you, those of you out there who don't respect your elders better recognize these people are the only ones willing to volunteer to help you out. When they go, so goes a whole lot of earnest people willing to help others for free. The generations that came after them don't seem to have it in them.
That said, the nurses that volunteered their services were all young, and man were they caring and earnest…and hot. Seriously, guys, girls, it was ridiculous. If you were trying to cast a wildly vapid reality TV show about sexy nurses living and working and Los Angeles, you could just set up shop in the free clinic. No need to look anywhere else.
I waited for about an hour before I was brought from a waiting room to the treatment room and was processed by one of the kindly geriatrics. 15 minutes later one the nurses came to interview me about my situation. She was very polite and smiley as I described the situation with my tick-mauled genitalia. She said she'd get me one of the doctors.
The place was now absolutely packed, and it took several minutes for a doctor to become available. There were several private nooks carved out in this room with drapes hanging in front of them for private examinations. By the time a doctor did come to see me, none of these spaces were open. "So, what can I do for you?" he asked. "Oh" he replied curiously after I told him.
He led me down a long hall to the church reading room, the only empty room on the entire floor, which just happened to have no doors. Just a massive open space that anyone could storm right into. Statues of Jesus in various states of terror and pain on the cross were the room's primary decorations.
"Drop your pants," he said.
Now, I'm definitely not Christian, never have been, but there's something strange about presenting another man your testicles for inspection in front of stigmata-stricken Jesus.
Anyway I dropped my pants and the doctor immediately began to look confused. He seemed to have no clue what he was looking for. Something tells me Lyme disease isn't a common ailment people bring to the free clinic – especially in Southern California.
After about five minutes of genital inspection by both the doc and Jesus, he finally said he needed to consult the head doctor of the clinic. The doctor said this, not Jesus.
Anyway, we left the church reading room and headed back to the main treatment area. The doctor sat me at a desk while he conferenced with several other doctors nearby. They were laughing quite a bit and drawing pictures.
Several minutes later, three doctors came over and showed me a clipboard with two pictures of ticks – one round and robust the other tiny. I pointed to the tiny one.
"Well, that is the type of tick that carries Lyme disease in this area," the head of the trio told me. "I can give you the anti-biotics and you can take them preemptively. But that's gonna cost you."
Getting a lab test would be even more expensive. Back where we started.
The doctors assured me that the bulls-eye is very noticeable, even painful, when you're afflicted with it. They didn't think I had the disease, but I should come again if any kind of rash developed. I said I thought I'd be fine.
I haven't noticed any rashes or advanced neurological damage yet. At least no more than usual.
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