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Recalls and Letters
The Letters module features a powerful recall and marketing system which represents the most efficient way to retain patients and build your business. Create any kind of personalized letter from within the program without the need for any other word-processing software.
- Create letters from patient demographics, prescriptions, appointments, orders and exams
- Built-in word processor to create custom letters from within the system
- Extensive search criteria to create custom mailing lists
- Import and export letters from and to word processing software such as Microsoft Word
- Perform mail-merge to create custom emails, letters, labels, or postcards using extensive search criteria
- One-click creation of patient address labels or file folder labels
- Setup recall schedules
- Integrate with the e-mail system to send your recall reminders and other messages as mass e-mails
- Track correspondence history
- Accessible throughout the program
- Setup compliance and consent forms so that the system reminds you to print them for patients
- Generate HIPAA compliance, Medicare and miscellaneous forms required by insurance plans
- Specify expiration date for each consent form
- Share your letters with other My Vision Express customers and import letters that they have created
- Interfaces with 4PatientCare, Demandforce, and Websystem3
Email integration allows you to send secure e-mails directly from My Vision Express. Effectively communicate with your patients and vendors, as well as outside physicians in your My Vision Express database. Simplify the communications from your office without the use of postage.
- Target a marketing promotion; send recalls or any other kind of communication with your patients
- Create custom recipient list based on search criteria you specify
- Send reports, receipts, referral letters, and more via e-mail
- Notify patients of new products, special sales, appointment reminders or a notice concerning your office schedule
- Send emails to an individual or group of patients
- Communicate securely using encryption and hash verification in your e-mails
Accept marketing coupons and automatically calculate accurate discounts based on the marketing information that you specify. It is one of the most powerful time and money saving features. Eliminate calculation errors by automatically calculating discounts based on marketing promotions and ordered items.
- Create your own marketing promotions and set valid and expiration dates
- Create marketing packages with a group of items for a fixed price
- Discount specific item types as a percentage of the retail price or as a fixed amount
- Discount separate item types at different levels with a single marketing promotion
- Discount 6 and 12 month supplies of contact lenses
- Create two-for-one ("Buy One, Get One Free") promotions*
- Coupons are activated for a range of dates allowing them to be only available during the promotional period
- Automatically calculates discount based on the coupons and items ordered
- Specify discounts with or without sales tax
- Identify the most effective marketing methods
- Track marketing sales with the Marketing report
* Not available in Canada
Picture Viewer
My Vision Express Picture Viewer allows you to take patient pictures with a digital camera or a webcam and email them. Allows patients to simultaneously see themselves with different frame styles!
- Assists patient in making a wise decision and selecting frames that suit them
- Email pictures to friends and family for their opinion on selected frames
- Take patient's pictures wearing different frame styles
- Take up to 8 digital pictures
- Perform side-by-side comparison
Patient Tracker
Monitor and update the status of your patients throughout the duration of their office visit.
- Perform patient check-ins and check-outs
- View patient waiting time
- Prioritize appointments
- Review services being performed
- See the time elapsed since a patient was dilated
- Monitor and update the physical location of patients within the office
Document Manager
The Document Manager feature in My Vision Express allows you to store all of patient's files electronically — eliminating the need for paper charts. You and your staff can easily scan and store outside prescriptions, previous medical records, diagnostic test results, and more.
Document Manager is the perfect solution for a paperless office, enabling your practice to:
- Create paperless storage of all patient-related documents organized by date, category, and name.
- Store all patient-related documents organized by date, category, and name.
- Lock documents with date and time stamps for additional security.
- Print, fax, or export documents.
- Store documents in any file format.
- Scan, review, and save paper documents.
- Zoom and rotate images.
- Access documents easily from the Patient and Exam modules of My Vision Express.
Want to learn about our Document Manager and how My Vision Express can help your practice transition to a paperless office?
Call My Vision Express at 1.877.882.7455 . You can also submit your questions about My Vision Express online.
Patient Profile
The Patient module acts as the central repository for all information on your patients. It gives you access to their prescriptions, orders, appointments, insurance claims, images and scanned documents.
Patient Features:
- Easily find patient records using multiple search criteria or quickly select from records previously accessed during the day
- Make important fields mandatory so that your staff does not miss them during patient data entry
- Capture extensive demographic, prescription and insurance information
- Snap pictures, scan documents and select files to link to patient records
- Scan driver licenses and insurance cards. Capture the information in them automatically through an optional OCR interface
- Track unlimited prescriptions for spectacle lenses; as well as soft, rigid and custom contact lenses
- Order from prescriptions with one click
- Link family members together to create family statements, pay for balances and synchronize their address and phone information
- Access patient's appointments, orders, exams and insurance claims history
- Set up patient alerts
- Track patient and insurance balances
- Track consent forms for HIPAA as well as for Medicare and other insurance plans
- Message your patients securely through e-mail
- Create letters that merge patient and prescription data
- Define your own custom fields
- Avoid duplicate records. When adding a patient, the system will warn you if an existing patient has the same name
- Monitor access to patient records through an audit trail that identifies for each record what employees have accessed it, and at what date and time


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Introduction and Features
SilverStone was one of the first PC power supply manufacturers to design and market a fanless power supply for silent operation. While many of their competitor's fanless products have come and gone, SilverStone continues to build on their reputation and recently added the SST-NJ520 520W fanless power supply to the Nightjar Series, which currently includes three models: NJ520, ST50NF, and ST40NF. The Nightjar 520W PSU incorporates premium quality components and a state of the art design to deliver high efficiency (80 Plus Platinum certified), tight voltage regulation (±2%), and clean DC outputs. The new NJ520 fanless power supply comes with fully modular, flat ribbon-style cables that provide 4+4 pin ATX12V/EPS and 6+2 pin PCI-E connector support.
Here is what SilverStone has to say about their new fanless 520W PSU: "SilverStone's Nightjar NJ520 is a fanless power supply that offers a whole new experience of quietness and stability. Its premium components and engineering helped it achieve 80 Plus Platinum level of efficiency, reducing wasted heat and enabling reliable operation without a fan. This noiseless performance can be maintained with stringent electrical characteristics even in 40°C operating environments.
As a versatile power supply, the NJ520 has a powerful +12V output of 43A for high-end system usage and its flexible, flat modular cables make assembly easy for improved case airflow. For professionals looking to build PCs or workstations for specialized settings such as recording studios or sound-optimized laboratories, the Nightjar series PSUs with their consistent emphasis on quality, stability, and reliability, are sure to satisfy."
SilverStone Nightjar NJ520 Power Supply Key Features:
• Fanless thermal solution, 0 dBA acoustics
• High efficiency with 80 Plus Platinum certification
• 100% Modular cables
• Strict ±2% voltage regulation and low AC ripple & noise
• Class leading single +12V rail, up to 43A (516W)
• Four PCI-E 6+2 pin connectors
• Protections: OCP, OVP, OPP, OTP, UVP, and SCP
• Universal AC input and Active PFC
Please continue reading our SilverStone NJ520 fanless power supply review!
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Courtesy of Noctua
Noctua is well known among enthusiasts for their high performance and sonically tolerable processor cooling solutions. Their U-series coolers combine unrivaled cooling performance with an innovative design to ensure quiet operation and motherboard compatibility. The NH-U12S is composed of a single aluminum-finned radiator with five nickel-plated copper heat pipes seamlessly integrated into the copper base plate. For performance testing of the NH-U12S cooler, we put it up against other high-performance liquid and air-based coolers. With a retail MSRP of $69.99, the NH-U12S CPU cooler is an affordable solution offering superior cooling potential.
Courtesy of Noctua
Courtesy of Noctua
Noctua construct the NH-U12S cooler for optimal heat transfer between the processor and its 125mm wide aluminum radiator. The NH-U12S contains a total of five heat pipes directly integrated into the copper base plate, terminating on each side of the aluminum-finned radiator. The use of copper heat pipes allows for optimal heat transfer of heat from the processor to the aluminum radiator fins and ultimately the air medium. To facilitate this transfer, Noctua paired the NH-U12S with their NF-F12 120mm, 1500RPM fan. The fan features rubber cover plates on all four corners to minimize fan vibration and vibration transfer to the radiator, further reducing fan noise. The CPU base plate is seamless and polished to a mirror finish, ensuring an optimal mating surface.
SecureFirm2™ LGA115x mount kit
Courtesy of Noctua
Noctua bundles their SecureFirm2™ mounting kits for using the NH-U12S with any current AMD or Intel socket motherboard. Also included are the Noctua-branded NF-F12 120mm 1500RPM fan, NT-H1 thermal paste, a PWM power splitter cable, and two sets of fan mounts (four mounts total) for use with up to two fans with the unit.
Continue reading our review of the Noctua NH-U12S CPU air cooler!
Modular 'flat pack' PSUs from Cooler Master
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 23, 2014 - 05:22 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: PSU, cooler master, Cooler Master V Series, 80 Plus Platinum, 80 Plus Gold, modular psu, 850W, kilowatt, 1200w
The three stars of the Cooler Master V Series, the 850W, 1000W and 1200W are up for review at Legion Hardware. All three have a 135 mm fan for cooling and feature a single +12VDC rail though the amperage differs, 70A, 83A and 100A for the three respectively. The two lower powered PSUs feature a 5 year warranty and are rated 80 Plus Gold while the 1200W carries a Platinum rating and a 7 year warranty. The modular cabling is worth mentioning, it is flat which will allow you to have very clean cabling in your machine and may tip the scales towards this series if you like to keep your case clean looking.
"Finally, we have been very pleased with the Cooler Master V series, and believe that they would make a fine addition to any high-end gaming system. Enthusiasts will be able to invest their hard earned cash in a V Series power supply knowing it is backed by a full 5-year Cooler Master warranty, while the V1200 Platinum offers an industry leading 7 year warranty."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Seasonic X-Series 1250W @ Kitguru
- EVGA SuperNOVA G2 850 W @ techPowerUp
- Be Quiet! Pure Power L8 700W Power Supply Unit Review @ NikKTech
- XFX XTR Series 650 W @ techPowerUp
- Be Quiet! PurePower 600w Power Supply Review @ TechwareLabs
It is slim but not that quiet; BeQuiet's Shadow Rock Slim
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 20, 2014 - 02:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: bequiet!, Shadow Rock Slim, air cooling
For those who's cases are small and CPU sockets are crowded the enormous dual fan 1kg heatsinks you commonly see are not an option. BeQuiet has a smaller cooler called the Shadow Rock Slim which is a much better choice. As the name implies it is quite slim and so should not interfere with your RAM's heatspreaders and the 159mm (6.25") height means it can fit in a wide range of cases. Even with it's small size the tests that FrostyTech performed show it performs quite well at stock fan speeds, though they do not recommend running it a lower speeds on hot processors as the performance simply changes too much.
"BeQuiet's Shadow Rock Slim heatsink stands 159mm tall and has a footprint of 130x74mm so it will fit most motherboards where space between the memory slots and videocard is on the tight side. The Shadow Rock Slim heatsink weighs 730 grams and is constructed around four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes onto which are swaged raw aluminum cooling fins."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Noctua NH-D15 D-Type Premium CPU Cooler @ eTeknix
- Noctua NH-D15 150mm D-Type Premium Heatsink Review @ Hardware Asylum
- Deepcool Gamer Storm Lucifer @ techPowerUp
- NZXT Sentry 3 Fan Controller Review @ Neoseeker
- Noctua NH-D15 @ techPowerUp
- Antec ISK600 Mini-ITX Case @ Benchmark Reviews
- NZXT H440 Mid-Tower Chassis @ Legion Hardware
- COUGAR MX500 Midi Tower Review @ NikKTech
- Antec P100 Mid-Tower Chassis @ eTeknix
- BitFenix Colossus Computer Case Revisited @ Benchmark Reviews
SilverStone Announces the Raven RV05 Case - The Dark Knight Returns
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 19, 2014 - 05:22 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: Silverstone, raven rv05, raven, enclosure, cases, atx case
SilverStone's Raven series, what I would describe as the "Batmobile" of PC enclosures, has graduated from the Tim Burton-like approach of the RV01, to a little more of a Chris Nolan-reboot feel with its fifth incarnation. Announced today, the RV05 is a sharply angled matte black design sure to strike fear in the hearts of villains everywhere.
In the same move SilverStone is making with the upcoming Fortress series revision, the new Raven eliminates the 5.25" bays from the prior iterations and the result is a much smaller size overall.
Still utilizing the trademark inverted layout of the series, the RV05 includes two of their 180mm "Air Penetrator" fans at the bottom of the case to force warm air upwards and across components. The case also offers support for various watercooling radiators along the bottom in place of the included 180mm fans (up to 120mm x3 or 140mm x2), and 120mm support on the top.
The case retains the full ATX form factor with the new smaller footprint, which is listed as 242mm W x 529mm H x 498mm D - or 9.52" x 20.83" x 19.60" if you aren't on the metric system.
The SilverStone Raven RV05 will be available next month and will be offered in two versions, the SST-RV05B (black) and SST-RV05B-W (black + window).
Features and Specifications
As the popularity and availability of small form factor PC components continues to grow, more companies are coming out with new enclosures that support this expanding market. Today, we are taking a detailed look at Cooler Master's latest entry into the mini-ITX arena; the Elite 110 case. It's amazing just how powerful a PC can be built around one of the latest mini-ITX motherboards and how much hardware can be stuffed into a small cube. In addition to basic computing needs, the Elite 110 enclosure offers a great many expansion options, with support for overclocking, a high end graphics adapter, up to four HDD/SSDs, a full size ATX power supply, and even water-cooling; all inside a small ~10" cube!
Cooler Master Elite 110 mini-ITX case key features:
• Small footprint: 280 x 208 x 260 mm (11.1 x 9.2 x 10.3")
• Supports mini-ITX motherboard
• Front mesh panel with vents on both sides and top
• One 120mm intake fan in front (included) or one 140mm fan (optional)
• Two 80mm fans on the side (optional)
• Supports a 120mm radiator in front for water-cooling
• Supports a standard length ATX PSU (up to 180mm)
• Supports one dual-slot graphics card (up to 210mm length)
• Supports up to three 3.5" HDDs / four 2.5" SSDs
• External I/O panel with two USB 3.0 ports
• Blue LED On/Off switch on front panel
Specifications for the Elite 110 case (Courtesy of Cooler Master):
Please continue reading our Cooler Master Elite 110 Case review!
Razer and NZXT Announce H440 "Special Edition" Case
Subject: General Tech, Cases and Cooling | June 17, 2014 - 06:39 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: nzxt, razer, cases, steel
There does not seem to be much difference between the newly announced Special Edition H440, "Designed by Razer", and the original. The announcement claims: a custom paint design, LED lighting, a tinted window, and more. The design includes four fans (3x 120mm and 1x 140mm) and supports water cooling radiators up to 360mm.
By the specifications, nothing is different, functionally. That said, when you are dealing with a company who will budget out hundreds of thousands of dollars in research and development for a USB port color, it is entirely possible that a few screws might have moved slightly, and so forth. Then again, the images on the product pages seem fairly identical. Speaking of Razer's expensive USB ports, it looks like the USB 3.0 ports are that shade of green. Call it, "Extending their return on investment"?
Annnnd of course, no pricing or availability. That is, apart from: "Coming Soon".
BitFenix Aegis, Atlas, and Pandora Enclosures Shown Off at Computex 2014
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 13, 2014 - 11:31 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: enclosure, computex 2014, computex, cases, bitfenix pandora, bitfenix atlas, bitfenix aegis, bitfenix
Yes, Computex is over - and in its wake we're still left with a ton of new product announcements. Three of these come from BitFenix, who unveiled new enclosures at their booth in Taipei last week.
The first is the BitFenix Atlas, which has incorporated some interesting design features including what they are calling "swappable chambers" and a "test-mode motherboard tray". (Could this be an open test-bench feature?)
The design is very interesting (a bit along the lines of the Corsair Carbide Air 540), and the extra width allows for no less than ten 3.5" hard drive bays behind the motherboard tray! The Atlas also has six 2.5" bays for SSDs, and features a full array of dust filters and nifty RGB lighting.
Next we'll look at the Aegis, a sleek minitower enclosure.
The Aegis supports micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards and features water cooling support and a built in fan controller. In addition to 240/280mm radiator support on the top, the Aegis also boasts 360mm radiator support up front.
Finally we have the Pandora, which in addition to streaming music (as I've been informed) is also apparently a PC case that looks like part of a stormtrooper's armor.
Besides protecting imperial troops from rebel attacks, the Pandora offers a stylish take on a mini-ITX tower design and offers support for full-size ATX power supplies and (presumably) liquid cooling via two pairs of 120mm fan mounts.
No specifics on pricing or availability from BitFenix on these three new enclosures just yet, but expect them this year as they are part of the 2014 BitFenix catalog.
Check out the fan on that Shadow Rock 2
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 12, 2014 - 03:52 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: bequiet!, purewings 2, shadow rock 2, air cooling
The 120mm BeQuiet PureWings 2 that comes on the Shadow Rock 2 heatsink has a unique look with ripples on all the blades and can be mounted on any side of the cooler which could be handy for those with tall DIMM heatspreaders. The heatsink weighs in just over a 1.1 kg and measures 159x122x149mm (6.25x4.8x5.8") with the fan attached which could be a tight squeeze in some systems. FrostyTech hooked it up to their testbed and found it to be a very quiet cooler, especially on the low fan setting and relatively decent performance. It is unlikely to show up on a top 10 list as it offers only reasonable performance and is quite expensive.
"In this review Frostytech is checking out the boxy BeQuiet's Shadow Rock 2 heatsink which stands 159mm tall and weighs in at 1120grams. This heatsink has a footprint of 122x122mm without a fan, 122x149mm with the supplied 1600-800rpm, 120mm PWM fan installed."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Noctua NH-D15 Review @ OCC
- Cooltek ITX30 Low-Profile CPU Cooler Review @ NikKTech
- Xigmatek Midgard III Review @ OCC
- Updated NZXT Kraken X40 Liquid Cooler Review @ Frostytech
- Zalman Reserator 3 Max Dual Ultimate Liquid CPU Cooler Review @ Legit Reviews
- Fractal Design ARC XL water cooled system build @ Hardwareoverclock
Computex 2014: New SilverStone Strider Gold 1500W and More Powerful SFX Power Supplies Announced
Subject: Cases and Cooling | June 8, 2014 - 10:58 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: Silverstone, SFX PSU, PSU, Fortress, computex 2014, computex, atx case, aluminum case, 1500W PSU
Computex may be over but SilverStone had enough new product announcements to last us for a while! Among the many offerings there were a number of highlights, including new enclosures and power supplies. We'll check out a few of the new PSUs here.
The first is a new 1500-watt PSU with a smaller size.
ST1500-GS 1500W 180mm ATX PSU
At 180mm deep the most powerful Strider Gold S-series PSU isn't small, but compared to other 1500-watt options (including SilverStone's ST1500 at 220mm) the shorter depth promises some additional chassis options for a high-power build. The ST1500-GS is fully modular and also features all flat cabling.
New SFX Options!
The smallest PSUs in the SilverStone lineup also have new models, with two new SFX power supplies for mini-ITX builds. The first is a more powerful version of the popular 450-watt ST45SF-G, now in a 600-watt flavor in the SX600-G.
Next we have the SX500-LG, and perhaps more exciting to mini-ITX enthusiasts the new 500-watt option in the SFX lineup features a 120mm fan!
SX500-LG "SFX-L" PSU with 120mm fan
The SX500-LG's 120mm "ultra-quiet" fan adds a bit to the depth of the PSU, which is 130mm compared to the 100mm of the ST45SF-G and SX600-G, and it is classified as an "SFX-L" form factor - with only the length being non-standard for SFX. This new fan implementation should really help reduce some additional load noise from a small high-powered system. Both of the announced additions to the SFX family will also feature all flat cabling this time.
There are new models across all of SilverStone's lineup coming up, so stay tuned. No pricing or availablity just yet, but there's a lot to look forward to from SilverStone this year in the cases and cooling department!
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Video: Colorado Rapids land 2015 MLS All-Star Game
The Colorado Rapids will host the MLS All-Star Game for the second time this year as Dick's Sporting Goods Park is the site for the game between the MLS All Stars and an International team yet to be named.
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Photos from Colorado Rapids vs San Jose Earthquakes at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Saturday evening, September 27, 2014.
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Chile dominated Austraila 3-1 during FIFA World Cup play on Monday June 13, 2014.
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Durban - John Smit will start his first game of the Vodacom Super Rugby season at tighthead when the Sharks face the Melbourne Rebels on Friday. Kick-off is at 10:40 SA time.
A calf injury kept the Sharks captain out of the team's opening game of the season, but he was then brought back slowly off the bench in the last two matches.
For the first game, Smit was initially named to start at loosehead prop, while he has featured at hooker in his appearances off the bench, and now on Friday he will start in place of Jannie du Plessis in the No 3 jersey, typifying his versatility.
It will also be the first time Smit will lead the team out onto the field, with Stefan Terblanche having captained the team in the first three matches.
In other changes to the starting line-up from last weekend, Lwazi Mvovo replaces the injured JP Pietersen on the left wing, while Ryan Kankowski returns at No 8 to restore the familiar loose-trio combination with Willem Alberts and Keegan Daniel.
The good news for the Sharks is that Odwa Ndungane has recovered sufficiently to take up his place on the wing after he was on the receiving end of a nasty spear tackle last weekend that saw him hospitalised.
The final change to the Sharks' match-day 22 sees Adrian Jacobs adding depth off the bench.
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Substitutes: 16. Craig Burden, 17. Jannie du Plessis, 18. Anton Bresler, 19. Jacques Botes, 20. Conrad Hoffmann, 21. Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 22. Adrian Jacobs
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Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies.
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Tin Toy is a 1988 Pixar short film.
It's about a small toy named Tinny, who is trying to escape from Billy, a baby who wants to play with him and dribble on him. When Tinny tries to walk, his musical instruments on his back play notes. He then begins to run, but is chased by Billy. Tinny soon finds cover under the couch, and when he looks up, he sees that there are several other toys hiding, also afraid of Billy. While walking and trying to find the toy, Billy falls down and begins to cry. Tinny, feeling bad for the baby, tries to go and cheer him up. When he does, Billy just ignores him and plays with the boxes Tinny came in. Mad, Tinny tries to follow Billy to get his attention, but is still ignored. Near the end of the credits, other toys hiding under the couch come out from underneath and begin to play.
Efforts for a Sequel
A follow-up entitled A Tin Toy Christmas was planned as a holiday TV special. The plot involved Tinny being put into storge at a mall after he failed to sell, where he would have met with other toys who had had the same thing done to them. However, due to lack of funding for the project, it was dropped. Later, when Pixar and Disney collaborated on Toy Story, Tinny was to be the main character of the film. The original draft of Toy Story's script told the story of how Tinny got left behind at a rest stop and teamed up with a ventrloquist dummy in search of a new home. Later it was decided that both toys were too old-fashioned and they were replaced with Lunar Larry (later renamed Buzz Lightyear) and Woody respectively.
Tin Toy won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the first time a computer animated film had won in that category.
- One of the boxes that Billy is playing with near the end of the short wields the old Pixar logo on the bottom-left.
- At the beginning of the short, when the camera shows the entire room, there is a picture of a Luxo lamp at the top-right.
- In Toy Story 2, when Hamm is flipping through the channels to find the Al's Toy Barn commercial, you can see brief clips of Tin Toy and other early Pixar shorts.
- Some of the toys from the short can be seen cowering under a table at Sunnyside when the kids come into the Caterpillar Room in Toy Story 3.
- Tinny can be seen under the bed in Lifted.
- A Tin Toy book can be seen stacked on Andy's bookshelf during the first Toy Story. The book is located on the second to the bottom shelf, and can be seen when Woody passes by Etch before their duel, or when Woody talks at the toy meeting.
- The book's author is shown as "Lasseter." A reference to the director and writer of the short, John Lasseter.
- In a bag the camera passes over towards the beginning, you can see the old Pixar Logo in the top left corner.
- The picture on the table is an actual photograph of director John Lasseter.[1]
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Resistance to the new auto fuel economy standards threatened passage until the final hours. Democratic leaders held off a vote until shortly before midnight as senators were called back to the Capitol to assure the votes needed to overcome a threatened filibuster by opponents of the tougher fuel regulations.
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If you plot up the presidential results since Reagan came along, you get something interesting: a nice little regression. Using results from 1980-2008 (excluding 1992), you would have predicted that Obama would win in 2012 with about 53 percent of the vote, close to the actual result of about 51 percent, which is pretty surprising considering this method does not take into account any consideration of economics, who the Republican nominee was, or anything else of that nature. Here's the graph:
But how much faith should we put in political trends like this? I went looking for another example to test how well they can predict the future. In this case, it's an increasing Republican trend. I used the trend from the first 20 years of data to predict the election in Year 24, and the results from the first 24 years of data to predict the election in Year 28, and so on. Here's what we get:
Until 1932. The trends predict a Republican victory with 60 percent of the vote. Actual Results: The Republican only managed 40 percent of the vote. That's waaaaay down there in the lower right hand corner.
But that's not fair! you might say. These were unusual circumstances! The Great Depression! A popular Democratic governor from a Republican state running for president!
And that's the point. Circumstances change. Parties change. Generic Republican almost never is paired off against Generic Democrat at the national level. Political trends can be interrupted.
Such an interruption would probably be pretty obvious well in advance. Several possibilities would be an extraordinary economic or geopolitical disruption (worse than 2008), a major third party candidate that draws primarily from voters who otherwise would have voted Democratic, a major criminal scandal in the either party, or a major policy shift in either party that alienates a substantial portion of their base. For the interruption to shift votes from Democrats to Republicans permanently, it would have to be accompanied by a major change in the Republican party, namely, the elimination of Republican's openly hostile tone towards so many Americans (is this even possible?).
A few more considerations below.
Another question to consider is when does a trend start? Above, I chose to begin the graph in 1980 with the rise of Reagan. However, another possibility would be to begin the graph in 1968, with Nixon's Southern Strategy, and exclude Clinton and Carter, Democratic governors of Southern states. That would have predicted an Obama win of 52 percent in 2012, and the graph looks like this:
There is no "best" starting point, really. The only thing we can say is no matter how we pick a starting point, we see a trend. So we can feel fairly confident that the trend up until now has been real.
Of course, the next step would be to explain the trend—but that's the easy part. It's one part demographic change, one part Southern Strategy, and one part karma. Younger voters are more ethnically diverse than older voters and older generations are also growing more diverse, meaning the electorate is growing steadily more diverse over time, and more diverse meansmore Democratic given the current attitudes of Republicans.


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There's no question that homelessness is a serious problem. In some parts of the country, it can be a killer with the snow and the cold. We complain about panhandlers in the medians and on the street corners. It's easier to look away than it is to look at the homeless and panhandlers.


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"Q: THE WINGED SERPENT" (Scream Factory Blu Review)
Week after week, we are "treated" to monster movies on the Syfy channel, most of which seem to be based on a template script that they never bothered to personalize; random people are chomped or stomped, a hero (usually played someone from a Syfy show, or a has-been) comes on the scene, suspects things are wrong despite heavy opposition from the mayor or someone (bonus if they go full JAWS and insist that the town parade/bicentennial/dog track opening remains on schedule), gets some proof with the aid of a lovely lady, and kills the beast as a one-man army. Usually his teenager, often visiting against their will, will go off with some new friends and find themselves trapped by the monster, adding some (very minimal) personal stakes for our hero, who will rescue them and earn their respect in one fell swoop. These movies aren't given the biggest budgets in the world, so I can more or less forgive the cheesy FX, but the anonymity that they all possess truly baffles me. Why are they so opposed to the idea of making them memorable?Read more »


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If Clemson is going to win this, they better stop playing like middle school girls, it's now 17-0 with Florida State ahead in the 1st. Maybe Bill Murray would like to try a stint at linebacker.
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I saw the Blue Chair book the other day and it looked great. Tons of great pictures. I'm not a canner or a jammer (except in the sense of listening to music), but that book made me want to make some jam. There was a strawberry-pluot jam that caught my eye.


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Locking down this sort of access would prevent the most likely security flaws from being exposed, but that's problematic with the current OS. Configuration management software does exist to help such a lockdown, but again, Mac support may not exist in the software you're running companywide.
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From the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; the Infectious Disease Research Consortium of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia; St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, New York, New York; the Institute for HIV Research and Treatment, Davies Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Burroughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Park Plaza Medical Center, Houston, Texas; the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, Orange, California; the Research and Education Group, Portland, Oregon; Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Harbor City, California; the AIDS Clinical Research Consortium, Redwood City, California; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; the Regional Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Acknowledgments: The authors thank the men and women who participated in this study and the following persons for their assistance: Joel Rosenstock, Diane Blum, Michael Thorn, Noel George, Gifford S. Leoung, Gene Mortillaro, Edward Stool, Jane Goldstein, Jarlath Black, Jeremiah G. Tilles, Bobi Keenan, Norma Martinez, Larry Rick, Cliff Chen, Brian Camp, Debbie Claire, Debra Ray, Nancy Pietroski, Eileen Cushid, Joyce Amann, Michael Baker, Wendie Lubin, Joan E. Wilson, Beverly Heinze-Lacey, Ellen Godfrey, Teri Flynn, Vel Sivapalan, Jamie Carroll, and Ann Johiro.
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Objective: To test the hypothesis that the therapeutic success rate of oral atovaquone is not worse than that of intravenous pentamidine in the primary treatment of mild and moderate Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and to detect differences in the toxicity rates of the two treatments.
Design: Patients were randomly assigned to receive 21 days of open-label therapy with either atovaquone, 750 mg orally with meals three times daily, or intravenous pentamidine, 3 to 4 mg per kg body weight once daily.
Setting: Multicenter study including university and community treatment facilities.
Patients: Patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and clinical presentations consistent with mild or moderate P. carinii pneumonia were eligible. For efficacy and safety analyses, patients with histologically confirmed P. carinii pneumonia were emphasized.
Measurements: Patients were monitored by clinical and laboratory evaluations for therapeutic efficacy and adverse events during the acute treatment phase and for 8 weeks after therapy was discontinued.
Results: As initial therapy for a histologically confirmed episode of P. carinii pneumonia, 56 patients received atovaquone and 53 received pentamidine. More patients were successfully treated with atovaquone (57%) than with pentamidine (40%), a difference of 17% (95% CI, −3% to 38%; P = 0.085), but more patients failed to respond to atovaquone (29%) than to pentamidine (17%), a difference of 12% (CI, −6% to 29%; P = 0.18). Discontinuation of original therapy because of treatment-limiting adverse events was more frequent in the pentamidine group (36%) than in the atovaquone group (4%) (difference, −32%;CI, −48% to −17%; P < 0.001). Nine patients in each treatment group died during the study.
Conclusions: Oral atovaquone and intravenous pentamidine have similar rates for successful treatment of mild and moderate P. carinii pneumonia, but atovaquone has significantly fewer treatment-limiting adverse events.
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- By Kori SchakeKori Schake is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and contributor to Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog.
Amid the furor over the attack on our U.S. consulate and the death of four Americans serving in Libya, Secretary Hillary Clinton convened an internal State Department review — and that Accountability Review Board has just released its report. Clinton has cannily already said she will adopt all of the recommendations in the report. Unfortunately, even doing so will not solve the problems that occurred in Benghazi.
The New York Times describes the report as sharply critical, but it is not. While acknowledging that "there was no protest prior to the attacks, which were unanticipated in their scale and intensity," and "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels," the report concludes that the solution lies in more money with fewer congressional strings attached. Yet when Congress has given State money and allowed it latitude to program those resources, this has not resulted in an adequate supply of expert diplomats to high-risk postings or adequate security for our diplomats operating in those postings.
The report contains all the well-known State Department refrains: The world is newly complicated, diplomacy is underfunded, Congress must change its approach. Here's the medley of greatest hits, in language from the report itself:
"the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) is being stretched to the limit as never before … for many years the State Department has been engaged in a struggle to obtain the resources necessary to carry out its work … it is imperative for the State Department to be mission-driven, rather than resource-constrained — particularly when being present in increasingly risky areas of the world is integral to U.S. national security … [any] solution requires a more serious and sustained commitment from Congress to support State Department needs … the United States cannot retreat in the face of such challenges."
What the State Department does not acknowledge — but what is at the core of its institutional failures — is that it sets priorities, and that those priorities have not adequately changed with the changing needs of American diplomacy or the changing demands of security for our diplomats. Since 9/11, funding for the State Department and USAID has increased by 155 percent and the size of the Foreign Service has doubled, yet State has chosen to channel its increased resources to the functions the institution values more than diplomatic security. There is not even a mandatory training program for diplomats being assigned to high-risk posts.
Prior to the Benghazi attacks, State's advocates complained that post-9/11 funding increases had been predominantly in consular and diplomatic security rather than in new staff for multilateral organizations, international law, economics, science and technology, public/private partnerships, and international organizations. By which they meant that the terrorist attacks on the United States should have resulted in more involvement in activities to which State is already optimized, rather than in increasing security for embassies and screening people applying for visas even though those are critical vulnerabilities highlighted by attacks on American embassies in the past 15 years. The report just released uses this opportunity to argue for more language training; it offers insight into the institutional culture of an organization that begrudges security at the expense of additional staff to do what the department is already doing.
The report's top recommendation is that "the Department should urgently review the proper balance between acceptable risk and expected outcomes in high risk, high threat areas." The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review called for the same thing; yet in the two years since the QDDR was released, State has not developed such a risk model nor expended institutional effort in building consensus with the executive and with Congress. Having our diplomats actively engaged in dangerous circumstances — as Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya and Ambassador Robert Ford in Syria have been — is essential. If our diplomats remain bastioned inside our embassies, they could just as well perform their functions from Ohio as from Libya. But State has not made solving this problem a priority.
The report's second recommendation is to applaud State for having already created "a new Diplomatic Security Deputy Assistant Secretary for High Threat Posts." Its third is more personnel for assistant secretaries in Washington. This is deeply discouraging, because it reinforces State's tendency to believe that more money and more high-level positions are the solution, rather than clarifying accountability. The report states that "among various Department bureaus and personnel in the field, there appeared to be very real confusion over who, ultimately, was responsible and empowered to make decisions based on both policy and security considerations." Yet, with its advocacy of external threat evaluators, increased staffing in Washington, and "multi-bureau support cells," it does not make recommendations for resolving that irresponsibility.
In one crucial way, the system worked in Libya: the ambassador-in-country determined whether the mission justified the risks. Ambassador Stevens undertook an extraordinary set of risks traveling to Benghazi, given the problems the report explains with local security forces. State allowed Benghazi to become "a floating TDY platform with successive principal officers often confined to the SMC due to threats and inadequate resources, and RSOs resorting to field-expedient solutions to correct security shortfalls." The report acknowledges similar security problems and proposed solutions have been extant since 1999. The tragedy of Benghazi is that, once again, State has proven itself incapable of arraying the institution to support the terrific individuals serving on the front lines of American diplomacy.
The problems identified in the report are systemic problems, and fixing them is almost wholly within State's existing authorities. As Congress explores the Benghazi debacle, it ought to force State to look clearly at the deficiencies of its institutional culture, and align incentives to correct them. The questions State should be pressed to answer are: Why have you not fixed these problems before now? How can you make us confident you will fix them going forward?
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