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Toe Sprain
by Cynthia M. Johnson, MA
A toe sprain is caused by a partial tear of the ligaments that support a toe. Ligaments are strong bands of tissue that connect bones to each other.
Toe sprains may be caused by:
Risk Factors
Here are some factors that may raise your risk:
This problem may result in:
You will be asked about your symptoms and how you injured your toe. Your toe will be checked to find out if it is stable and how badly it is injured.
Pictures may need to be taken of your toe. This can be done with:
Toe sprains are graded from 1 to 3.
Grade 1
Some microtearing of ligament
Grade 2
Grade 3
Treatment includes:
You will need time to heal, but strict rest is rarely needed. RICE therapy is often advised:
Consider wearing a shoe with a stiff sole to help protect the toe.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and over-the-counter pain medicines may be advised.
Topical pain medicines, such as creams and patches, can also be put on the skin.
Often, toe sprains can't be prevented. However, to reduce your risk of getting a sprained toe, wear stiff-soled athletic shoes when playing sports.
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Omaha Bridecast Episode 7
Friday, April 30, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 11:43 AM
The latest edition of our OmahaBrides.com web show is out and I want to thank Jeremy Johnson for sitting down with me for this interview. Jeremy is a great wedding photographer and give some great tips and insight to Brides looking to hire their wedding photographer.
Steve Bergeron
Wedding Wish Tree
Thursday, April 29, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 10:52 AM
This is from a reception I just DJed at the Millard Social Hall. These trees were covered in wish cards that guests could fill out and drop in the box. Some guests even put money in the wish card envelopes. This was the first time I had ever seen wish cards and I thought it was a creative idea. For the Bride and Groom those wish cards will be fun to look at in 10 years.
Steve Bergeron
Up-lighting effect
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 11:36 AM
Recently I have been experimenting with up-lighting at some of the weddings I have DJed. Here is some simple up-lighting I used behind the cake table. I thought it really made a difference. We have not gone full blown yet but a lot of DJ companies have been finding extra ways to make money and offering up-lighting around the reception venue is one of them. And why not? This effect is easy to do and really can have a dramatic appearance when placed properly.
Steve Bergeron
Swiss Rolls Grooms Cake
Monday, April 26, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 10:02 AM
As silly as this sounds I am always very eager to see the Groom's cake every week at the receptions I DJ. Over the years I've seen some pretty creative stuff. Props to all the cake makers in Omaha who have managed to pull off some pretty impressive designs. Here's a cake from the Wedding I DJed on Saturday night. Can you guess what the grooms favorite snack is?
Steve Bergeron
Bride vs. Groom dueling cakes
Saturday, April 24, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 1:59 PM
Just did a wedding Friday night where the Bride was a Husker fan and the Groom was a Hawkeye Fan. So why not have your cakes go to battle. So not only did they have their standard wedding cake but they also had a Hawkeye Grooms cake and a Huskers Bride cake. Now that's a lot of cake. Just for the record more people at the Husker cake than the Hawkeye cake. I don't really know what that means.
Steve Bergeron
Photo Booth After Prom
Thursday, April 22, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 10:01 AM
We just recently provided our Photo Booth services for an after Prom party. What a riot! I am very happy to say that out of all the different things available to the students during the party that the Photo Booth was the most popular attraction. During the 5 hour event we never had a break in the action and over 300 photo strips were printed. Happy prom season everyone.
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The choreographed Bride & Groom Dance
Friday, April 16, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 12:34 PM
The Bride & Groom dance is one of the most important parts of the reception. For the most part I always see a very typical slow dance between the bride and groom but every now and again I see a very tasteful dance they have choreographed. This always makes the dance a lot more enjoyable to watch and I always appreciate the effort the bride and groom have put in. In this photo from a recent reception the bride and groom had a beautifully coordinated waltz and it was a really unique and tasteful way for them to get things started on the dance floor.
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Play Ball!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 11:20 AM
Last Saturday's wedding was awesome. The groom was the head coach of a local youth baseball team and 7 of his players served as the ushers. This photo is of the grooms cake. It was a fun night and you could tell the kids really loved there coach. Congratulations to R.J. and Jami on their marriage and good luck.
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Evidence of a good time...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 10:11 AM
After last weeks reception was over I took this photo before the clean up started. Considering that there were only four guys sitting at this table I'm certain none of them were feeling any pain when they left. I just hope they had rides home. I not clear why but there is something very "manly" about the beer can pyramid.
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Monday, April 12, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 9:15 AM
I took this photo at the last reception I was the DJ for. Before anyone arrived I snapped this shot of the head table. I thought it was really cool how the bride and groom had gift packages on all of the chairs of their wedding party members. The contents of the bags included such things at beer steins for the groomsmen and comfortable shoes for the bridesmaids. This was a great reception and was held at Legacy Hall in Omaha.
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Cute toasting glasses!
Thursday, April 1, 2010 , Posted by Bandstand Music Inc at 2:51 PM
For those that read this blog you are aware that when I am out DJing weddings I am always looking for anything fun and interesting to blog about. At Friday nights wedding I noticed these Bride and Groom toasting glasses over by the cake. I found it very cute that the glasses were dressed in a Wedding Dress and Tux.
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Dr. Michael Stearns, President of e-MDs, sits down with Dr. Eric Fishman to discuss a variety of issues. e-MDs has grown to over 19,000 users and expects continued growth due to its powerful functionality and the recent HITECH Act. Stearns addresses some of the features the e-MDs solutions offer, such as a patient portal, and the fact that it has won a variety of honors from various medical societies.
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Dr. Eric Fishman: Dr. Eric Fishman for EHRtv. Today, we have a special guest, Dr. Michael Sterns, President and CEO of e-MDs. e-MDs is an electronic health record company founded by Dr. David Winn in the mid 1990s. And Dr. Sterns, would you be good enough to tell us a bit about how the company was founded originally?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes. David Winn, a primary care physician in Texas was trying to find an electronic medical record back in the mid 90s and he couldn't find one to his satisfaction so he built his own kind of a primitive tool but it was effective enough for other physicians to be interested and they asked if they could get it in their offices. So we hired some developers and it started out very slowly and gradually gained momentum. Eventually, the program was being written by developers on the second floor of a clinic and on the first floor, they're practicing medicine. So it develops an opportunity to see really how medicine was practiced and the live input from several physicians to get the program started. So it really had its roots in clinical medicine where developers were involved almost at the point of care with designing the product.
Dr. Eric Fishman: So that was in 1996 and Dr. Winn was practicing medicine and having the software developed for his own office and he had, I imagine, one customer if you will and take us now over the next decade or so. I understand that you've got a substantially larger customer base.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes, we've steadily grown. We have physicians using our product in 49 states. We have about 19,000 total users. We're up to about 170, 180 employees right now and we anticipate some very dramatic growth in the next couple of years with the new incentives. We are doing very well and objective evaluations have been done by the groups such as the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Neurology are three very respected organizations which have taken an in-depth look or at least in a survey of electronic health records and we've been right at the top of that.
That has led to a lot of interest in our company and we've seen a very substantial growth over the last few years. We average about a 16 percent increase in revenue each year which has been well sustained. However, we're anticipating much greater growth in the next couple of years through the incentive package.
Dr. Eric Fishman: So this incentive package, the stimulus package, this is part of President Obama's $787 billion package and I understand that there are quite a few billion dollars that are available and I guess it's the HITECH act that is available to stimulate the adoption of electronic health records. I understand that you've had a lot of experience in politics. You've spoken with a number of congressional offices for instance. Tell us about your understanding of the stimulus package.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Well, our understanding of the stimulus package, and this was supported by HIMSS, is that the congressional budget office is estimating there's going to be about a $36 billion outlay of funds related to the incentive package for physicians. They're hoping there'll be a tremendous number of savings towards the end of the stimulus package outlay and the net benefit is going to be $19 billion.
Dr. Eric Fishman: So we hear $19 billion over and over and over again and as I understand it, that is the difference between the total amount of money that will be spent by the federal government in incentivizing physicians to acquire this technology, to put in some framework, to get the HIEs up and running and the savings that the government is anticipating getting from that $36 billion.
Dr. Michael Stearns: That's our understanding at this time and these are all estimates as what the outlay will be. It will depend on how many physicians partake, become meaningful users, et cetera, but yes, that's the rough estimates right now. That also requires there be very substantial savings of roughly $17 million dollars which I anticipate will not occur in the early phases of the incentive program however, this will start to kick in later.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Now, you've mentioned physicians a number of times. Let me go back to your company of physicians. Dr. Winn, a practicing physician for many, many years is the founder of the company. You are a physician and neurologist by trade, you probably have other physicians in the 170 employees as well certainly if you're developing software for physicians, it's helpful to have physicians developing it. Can you tell us about them?
Dr. Michael Stearns: We have the founder and chairman of the board, Dr. David Winn, who's a family physician and he still does some missionary work mostly in Mexico. Otherwise, he's primarily retired. We have myself, I'm a neurologist and I've been doing informatics and EHR's for about the past 10 years. I got started with the National Institute of Health working on a national medicine project helping the pubmed tools that do literature searches which a lot of physicians are familiar with. I also worked at the National Cancer Institute starting a research database for tracking how research dollars are being spent and also helping to identify new research opportunities and that's called the NCI ____Source.
Then I was recruited by the College of American Pathologists to work on a project called Snomed CT and I was instrumental at the center of bringing together a very large British medical terminology design for computer usage with an American version and that became Snowmed CT and the U.S. government purchased rights to that for about $35 million I think it was over five years ago and now that's evolving into the international standard of medicine.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Now you'd told me many years ago about your involvement in Snowmed and Snowmed CT. Can you elaborate a little bit more on why databases of that nature are of critical importance in improving the quality of medical care?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Absolutely. Well, ICD is the one that everyone uses right now, but one ICD code can mean many different concepts. So it's very difficult to use ICD codes to get realistic data from databases that are using HR's.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And so the ICD is the International Classification of Diseases and I think we're up to ICD 9 and people are talking about ICD 10?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Right.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And maybe you can give us an example of an ICD code that would lead to confusion but where Snomed or a database of that nature might be able to segregate them out to different conditions?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes, a good example is pelvic pain for gynecologists, a commonly used term. There is no code in ICD which matches pelvic pain so doctors are forced to choose either the non-specific code for I think it's female reproductive organ systems symptom which is very non-specific. It could mean a large number of different concepts. There's also left lower quadrant pain and right lower quadrant pain of the abdomen which doctors can use any three of those and it all really means pelvic pain for billing purposes. However, if you're trying to evaluate a database for research purposes, you really don't know what you're pulling if you use one of those codes.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And so if you're trying to figure out what type of treatment is appropriate for what type of condition, it's way too generic to just say pelvic pain or right lower quadrant pain and be able to determine whether they should have had an appendectomy or an ovarian condition was being treated.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Exactly. And there was an interesting article in the New York Times where they compared baseball managers to doctors. Baseball managers now have statistics. They have valuable data to use and they're able to, at a very relatively low cost, have much better performance - the ones that have chosen to go this path - because they have real data to use in the evaluation of the performance of their athletes. So they make decisions based on this clinical evidence you can almost call it where doctors are more shooting from the hip, basing their decisions upon what they learned in medical school without the data and evidence to back it up. And that was a significant part of the incentive package which was of great interest to me because there is funding now for efficacy studies.
Dr. Eric Fishman: So that brings up the entire subject of EBM or evidenced based medicine, quality improvement and I understand that not only do you personally know a lot about that but that e-MDs if you will, prides itself on being able provide better quality care to the patients when a physician is using that product. Maybe you can give us some specific examples of how a physician using e-MD's can provide better quality care than one without e-MDs.
Dr. Michael Stearns: That's a great question. The advantages of the technology primarily we've seen in medications where there is the "To Err is Human" was a report published by the Institute of Medicine about 10 years ago now, but they estimated about 100,000 lives are lost each year. Now, if you're going to take advantage of the technology, you have to get doctors to actually use it. So it has to be a very usable product and that's where we think we excel.
We have very high ratings in usability, ease of use. Our goal is to get the physicians to use the product and then almost by secondary nature, the patient care is going to be improved. At the time you are writing a prescription, the tools will provide you with information that maybe there's a contraindication for the medication. Maybe the patient is allergic to a drug or there's a cross-reaction with another medication. Maybe there's another drug the patient's on which is a contraindication and maybe the patient has a disorder which is a contraindication. Physicians using the product will occasionally get (inaudible) it's kind of a backup tool. The VA for instance when they implemented their electronic medical record recently reported they saw an 80 percent reduction in medication errors from before they had the electronic health record to when they have it now.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Now, you've mentioned the American Academy of Neurology, the American Academy of Family Physicians and other austere entities that have done studies and I imagine that these are queries of their members as to which electronic health record programs they're using and how they like them. And in these studies, I would anticipate they're quite a number of different electronic health records that you are compared against. Are you able to give, in addition to the qualitative information that e-MDs ranked well, can you give us some specific indications as to in what methods, what manners e-MDs ranked well?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Sure. The AFP, the American Academy of Family Physicians study is available online and it compares how about 13 different vendors did in a number of different settings. It looks at ease of use, evidenced based medicine, more data collection, and it looks at immunizations, prescription tools, a long list of things and kind of looks at the responses to members to how highly they ranked these tools. That is a very valuable survey especially for primary care physicians, family physicians.
The American Academy of Neurology, for the last three years or for three years, they did an in-depth evaluation of products. They selected the tools they thought were the best, the EHRs that were the best and they gave a script. And it was like taking your oral boards over again getting in front of about 15 members of the Academy and they did in-depth evaluation of the product and asked a lot of tough questions and then rated you afterwards. So that's very useful.
The one that's really very under recognized, which CMS felt when we talked to them, was probably the best one available, is the American College of Physician's study.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Tell me about the ACP study. I understand that that was done in a more sophisticated fashion if you will.
Dr. Michael Stearns: The ACP program they did was called the HR Partners program I believe and it's only available to members unfortunately. It wasn't really promoted by the ACP outside of their membership of course. But when it was looked at objectively by others, like CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, they were looking for objective information to share with doctors and they heard about this and they thought it was great, very interesting and they're considering using it as a reference tool.
Dr. Eric Fishman: When was the ACP study done?
Dr. Michael Stearns: They did one last year. They had only limited enrollment. They had five, what you might consider top tier vendors, evaluated. The evaluation they did was they sent out a request to members for them to participate. Then they did not allow however members to call in and say I've got a great EHR which eliminated a lot of bias because that way, the vendors couldn't reach out to their internists and say please call and fill out the survey to make us look good. So it was much more objective than the other evaluations that have been done in the past. They also went on site visits. They went to a clinic using that particular tool and evaluated its performance and did a nice write-up on that for each vendor.
They also did an RFI so they evaluated what the vendor stated the product could do and got background information on the vendor so it's a little bit more vendor marketing. They also identified key things in the RFI that they felt would be of value from their standpoint and they did an in-depth online product demo. Each vendor had to do that. So they had four components that were very solid. The survey was the one really where they compared the features and these are based on the internists using that product's rating of how it worked and they had up to four stars. Nobody got four stars, including us unfortunately, but we were the only one to reach three stars.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Very good.
Dr. Michael Stearns: The other top tier vendors all reached a two-star level and that study's available to ACP members.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Understand. Speaking about features, can you tell me about some specific features of e-MDs? For instance, I'm particularly interested in a patient portal, or the ability for patients to interface with e-MDs, possibly from their own home for instance.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes, that's a great question. We have our patient portal which is very popular. The thing the docs identify right away is the ability to get a normal lab value, say a normal pap smear. Just click a box and that information goes to the patient so they don't have to get staff involved with sending out normal results.
Dr. Eric Fishman: That must save a tremendous amount of time for the office and also give great patient care.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Right.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Are patients also able to, for instance, make appointments, change appointments online?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes, make appointments and they're also able to fill out the history. We use another companion product called Instant Medical History, where patients can do their own HPI, ROS, past medical history. It's really nice for say, mothers with small children. They don't have to bring their kids in to run around the waiting room. They can fill all that out before they get there. So it really makes it more efficient for them once they arrive.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And so it would seem as if a patient can get at least the same quality of medical care, if not better and spend less time in the actual office?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Exactly. This also supports e-visits which is an emerging trend. CMS is not paying for those. I recently gave a talk to the American Association of Professional Coders on this. It was an audio program televised nationally just last week. The e-visit trend's basic concept is there's a fee that a patient pays for using an email interaction with a physician. But the value to the physician is not so much to get a big block of unstructured text, it's more to get some structure. So if patients are using some sort of algorithm and this is where this instant medical history in the patient portal program seems to offer a lot of benefit, docs can review that in a very short period of time and they say, get paid $25 for that visit and it saves the patient the trouble of coming in.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Certainly.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Now, there's a lot of issues around still a new technology and there's some concerns medical, legal et cetera about how this is going to work of course but the ideal setting might be one doctor said I've got female patients who are prone to urinary tract infections. They know exactly what it is. They come in, they get seen and they get a UA and it's always positive and they would be comfortable potentially with, in certain situations, managing that through an email correspondence.
Dr. Eric Fishman: It certainly seems much more efficient and saves the federal government a lot of money if they're paying the bill. It saves whoever is paying the bill a lot of money.
Dr. Michael Stearns: And interestingly, it has the potential to generate additional revenue for physicians because they can very efficiently go through and they can also do it when they have time available. So if a patient doesn't arrive for a visit, the patient cancels and they have an opening in their schedule they can manage the visits. So that's an evolving trend but I think that potentially has some value for the whole health information technology implementation.
Dr. Eric Fishman: I understand that e-MDs is very well connected with a variety of different entities outside of itself such was with respect to the RIOs or the DHIEs and maybe you could explain that a little bit.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Right. The first part is the access to medication history (inaudible). The second part is the conduit care document which is the --
Dr. Eric Fishman: That's the CCD?
Dr. Michael Stearns: -- CCD. Right. And that right now is kind of the fundamental underpinnings of the HIEs, Health Information Exchange and the RIOS. If you're certified, if there's a certification commission for health information technology the CCHIT, they certify products each year. And in 2008, the most recent one, if you're certified in that, you have to be able to send and receive this information packet called the CCD.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And can you tell me the relationship between CCD and CCR?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Right. CCR was the original kind of communication tool developed I believe by ASTM and it was a huge breakthrough in the ability to communicate between enterprises. We adopted the CCR right away. I think Google Health's adopted the CCR and it's still an actively used component. However, there's some conflict between the HL7-CDA and that was eventually resolved and what came out of that was a combination tool called the CCD. The CCR is Continuity Care Records, CCD is Continuity Care Document. So CCD now is a required standard and this is where it's mandated now that if you have a current product and it says acute care vendors as well as ambulatory vendors. Acute care vendors I don't think they're required this year but they're about to be required.
The beauty of it is if a patient is seen in a clinic and seen by say the cardiologist and they go back to the internist, the medication, everything is updated in the CCD. It gets published to the Internet and there's a lot of security provisions obviously and privacy protection, published to the Internet and a privileged provider can then with the patient - the patient has to provide consent of course - the patient provides consent and the next doctor is in the network, as a privileged provider then he can download that information. Right now, it's viewable information but in the near future that will become structured data that can be imported.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Now you've mentioned Google Health and there's also Microsoft Healthvault. I assume that e-MDs is fully compatible with personal health record software of that nature?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Our database model is very similar to Google Health so we have active plans to connect with them this year. Probably by the summer we'll be connected with Google Health. We've also been talking with Microsoft and there's a bunch of different ways that we can connect through some other third parties as well.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Dr. Sterns, I understand that e-MDs has 19,000 users across almost the entire country and I understand that thousands and thousands of them are practicing physicians and others are the staff from these offices. I understand further that the implementation rates for e-MDs has been growing rapidly. Do you anticipate that that will change with the stimulus act in a meaningful fashion?
Dr. Michael Stearns: There's some interesting challenges right now. The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that was funded by the Office of National Coordinator funded by the federal government to evaluate the usage of EHRs and Dr. Blumenthal is one of the authors who's now our national coordinator and they found that 17 percent of physicians have elected to go with an EHR but amazingly, four percent were meaningful users or effective users the term they used. So that's a 96 percent potential. They are roughly 340, 350,000 practicing physicians who are, you know, who see patients in ambulatory care that would be potentially in the market for an ambulatory vendor. So we have well over 300,000 physicians who need to implement EHRs.
The challenge will be how we can possibly take on that many providers with all the combined resources of all the companies right now. So we're making some fairly dramatic steps in preparation for that. We have invested heavily in cognitive engineering which is where we hired a third party company to come in and evaluate every nuance of our product. And later this year, we're releasing a version of our product which is enhanced by cognitive engineering and it's a very dramatic difference. The goal is for eventually, this will be down the road a little bit, we will have greatly reduced training burden.
Dr. Eric Fishman: How long does it take to train - I'll pick a random number - a three physician office? How many days will it take of your staff's time to physically go to an office and train the physicians, the staff and everyone involved?
Dr. Michael Stearns: It's going to take probably for one provider it's about three days. So if you have the simplest model for a single provider. For a larger group, you're going to have a much more complicated project management. It has to be really done as you would almost like building a bridge.
Dr. Eric Fishman: If it's three days for one provider, can I multiply that and it's nine days for three providers or is there a certain (inaudible).
Dr. Michael Stearns: No, if it's two providers you may just do three or you may do four and that would be for the EHR. For practice management, you would want probably a separate set of time. So a typical solo physician and staff, say they've got six, seven staff, you'll spend three days doing practice management and you might at the same time have another person there to do the EHR or you may do them separate time blocks. We'd encourage doctors going live with EHRs to strongly consider the voice recognition tools because when you first go live, you haven't had a chance generally to go and refine every one of your templates. So we see it as a great starting tool. It really makes you more efficient when you first start to use the electronic health record and you always have that as a fallback
Dr. Eric Fishman: How long does it take a physician to have a very full grasp of the reach of the different templates that are available?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Depends on the specialty. If it's something where the visits are fairly repetitive, then it's (inaudible) so more of the specialties it's usually a bit easier but they generally have a hard time. There's not as much generic content for them to start with usually so you usually have to do more content work. However, once they're got those defined the primary care docs are going to have more templates available at their disposal and they've got more variety to choose from.
Dr. Eric Fishman: I bet it's a lot fun. It allows a physician who's been out of their residency for many years to re-think the process of medicine and it's like a review course for the boards I bet.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes and it's the tools though because you have to match what a doctor thinks, follow the algorithm. So a patient comes in with chest pain. What's your next question? So you have to think through that. It's very algorithmic. Now what it does do though however, it protects you from sometimes getting distracted because it kind of keeps you entrenched in an algorithm. I think we're going to be working with some medical schools in the future, we're talking to a few right now, where we'd like to see if a group of medical students, using templates that are embedded by say the professors at the university, compared to a control group that does a more standard preparation to see how they perform better because it's basically the extenuated knowledge of an expert is flowing the template.
Now, there's a lot of challenges with templates. There's where the voice recognition, certain settings they work, reasonably well, they're also very good for capturing structured data.
Dr. Eric Fishman: I've forgotten a little bit since medical school myself and it wouldn't be a bad idea to be reminded about some of the questions that you're supposed to be asking when a patient presents to the office.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Right. And we also have a dermatologist to reuse our product who has written about 300 templates. She reviews literature each month, identifies clinical guidelines that she wants to incorporate into the templates. Very impressive. That's very labor intensive but one doctor is able to do that.
Dr. Eric Fishman: If a doctor in the system of the e-MDs users produces templates are they readily available to other physicians?
Dr. Eric Fishman: Right. It's standard. So she contributed about 125 the ones she thought were most applicable to us. She gave those to us and we put them into our product and they're available to all users now. But that's very important. Now, clinical guidelines being built into the EHR is another area which is really going to help prevent medical errors and improve preventative medicine. But there's a huge challenge with the content maintenance efforts. So the AMA and the NCQA have gotten together and we're working with them on a program that will allow you to import a file that will update the templates within your system with new clinical guidelines.
Dr. Eric Fishman: You're calling them clinical guidelines. I've also heard them called clinical practice guidelines. This is the same?
Dr. Michael Stearns: Yes, right. So ideally, we'll be able to see practice modifications. A lot of these are fairly subtle things or either things easy to forget so the tools just kind of act as a reminder. Some physicians are reluctant to the idea that we're going to improve the quality of care you provide but I'm rare to see a doc who's using a product for a period of time and not realize "there's several things that I'm glad that the system reminded me of." It might even be an expanded differential diagnosis. They go through and see a patient with a headache and it turns out to be temporal in origin. They may not have thought of something, you know, tooth abscess or something and it's like, you know, it's good to at least have that pop up as a consideration. Again, these are all optional things. We don't force it upon the physician. We try to make it so it's there if they need it just one step away. You can also connect the system to other content resources like UpToDate and others which are available so you can swing to that if you want that but it's timely. It's where you need it.
Dr. Eric Fishman: At the point of care.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Exactly. It's when you need the information not something you have to remember to look up or go to the library or something or go online and just do a Google search.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Dr. Sterns, I thank you very much. It's been a pleasure speaking with you today and I thank you for joining us.
Dr. Michael Stearns: Nice talking with you. Thanks for your time.
I have been closely following e-MDs. I like their product a lot. I think EHRtv is also a good way to learn more about the people in the company.
I have been using e-MD's for over a year now and still have support issues that are unresolved. Stay away from them and do your homework before buying.
What kind of success have people had with the patient portal on this product?
e-mds have some major limitations that they should resolve in order for the software to be effective. At this time they are not willing to resolve these issues any time soon may be because the users just may not have the time and energy it takes to force these issues. That is the problem with an EMR for physicians who has decided on purchasing one. I am thinking of changing to some thing else as soon as i have the time to investigate another software. At least the consult note of the specialist who used e-clinical works looks a hell better then what i can produce with emds when churning out preop notes. I have alluded to these issues on their so call forums but those forums are useless as there is no one on the side of development who really take any input from users seriously.
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Japan and South Korea trade cheating
Posted by Québec de Droite in Chine, Corée, Japon, Libre échange, Mondialisation on lundi 7 mars 2011
Extrait de: Japan and South Korea trade cheating, Diane Francis, Financial Post, March 5, 2011
China's auto jackpot open to Detroit's Big Three
Investment reciprocity should determine which foreign entities should be allowed to invest in Canada.
If, as in China or Abu Dhabi, Canadians cannot buy resources then these foreigners should not be allowed to buy resource here.
This has been my mission for several years.
But there is another issue:
Opportunity reciprocity.
Canada's trade officials should only allow foreign entities to sell goods to our country if we are allowed to sell goods without interference to their country.
Right now, tariffs are used to measure this but that totally misses the mark. There are a raft of tricks and non-tariff barriers deployed by China, Japan and South Korea which are designed to block entry of our stuff into their markets.
Japan and South Korea are worse than China in some respects and have remained below the radar, due to the focus on China. But they have attacked, and continue to seriously damage, North America's industrial cornerstone, the auto sector.
Interestingly, China has a level playing field and last year General Motors, through various joint ventures, became the biggest carmaker and car seller in China.
But Japan and South Korea sandbag attempts by the Big Three to crack their markets and, at the same time, they unfairly subsidize their exports here. By the way, this is not because their cars are superior. GM and Ford make cars that the Chinese lap up. This is about cheating.
Japan and Korea have been trying to negotiate special trade deals with Canada and the US. Frankly, any deals should include guarantees to remove subsidies and non-tariff barriers and to import dramatically higher numbers of vehicles.
Here are some numbers:
· In 2010, Canada imported $2 billion worth of automotive products from Korea (85% vehicles and 15% parts). Canada sold only $10 million worth of automotive products to Korea, according to Industry Canada.
· The Big Three sold less than 8,000 vehicles in 2009 in Korea or 0.5% of its market.
· Korea's Hyundai-Kia sold 150,000 vehicles in Canada alone, 30,000 of which were made in the US.
· In 2009, Koreans bought 1.5 million new vehicles and only 60,000 came from outside that country or 4%, wrote Ward's Automotive.
· Canada's auto trade deficit with South Korea has increased every year since 1997 when trade with South Korea was balanced or mutually beneficial. But Canada's modest auto exports to Korea, in fact, declined by 92% during those 13 years while Korea's exports of autos to Canada grew by 725%, pointed out the Canadian Auto Workers union.
· Some 30% of vehicle sales in the US and Canada came from outside NAFTA.
· Korea's unfair trading games include: Impediments to foreign dealerships, involving zoning and regulations that limit imports. Vehicle taxes are skewed in favor of homegrown cars. Environmental certification is biased too.
Japan plays many of the same games.
· Japan's market is also virtually closed to imports. In 2009, there were 4.6 million vehicles sold there and only 178,527 were imports, or 3.8%, according to Ward's Automotive.
· In 2010, Canada imported from Japan $5.8 billion in automotive products (one-third parts, rest vehicles). Canada sold $39.5 million the other way, said Industry Canada.
· Japan, like China, keeps the Yen artificially low for trade cheating purposes, provides Toyota and others cheap capital from its government development bank and provides free access and use of port and trade infrastructure.
· Japan also prevents dealerships through land and zoning games, imposes bans against certain foreign vehicles and deploys other non-tariff barriers.
The Canadian Auto Workers Union has been opposing new trade deals with Japan and South Korea and it's pretty obvious why. But so should Canadian and American taxpayers who bailed out two of the Big Three and, in Canada's case, are still major shareholders in GM and Chrysler.
Proposed free trade deals miss the market by concentrating in lowering or removing tariffs.
Korea's deal has been iced but Japan's
is very much alive and should not be.
Both countries must immediately remove non-tariff barriers, subsidies and commit to dramatic increases in imported vehicles and parts from Canada and the US.
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by Chris Haire
The Tar Baby gets a bad rap.
As does Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox and Brer Bear and all the other characters that inhabit what's commonly known as the Uncle Remus stories. Truth be told, there's nothing innately racist about the Tar Baby. Nothing.
But much like the character of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Tar Baby as a character, if you can call it that, has been corrupted by decades and decades of racism until it has come to represent something that in the original stories it is not.
I'm not really sure when or how the Tar Baby was transformed into a racial slur, but there's no doubt that it is. As such, it's one of those no-no words that's off limits to everybody — especially politicians. And frankly that's a shame.
The Brer Rabbit stories were based largely on African folk tales, and the ones that we commonly know as the Uncle Remus stories were written by Atlanta reporter Joel Chandler Harris in the 1880s. Harris had originally been told the stories by the former slaves he knew as a child.
While Harris performed a great service to African-American culture by popularizing these stories, today he is largely dismissed as a racist because he wrote in a strong dialect, one that even then was surely beginning to fade away. However, as written by Harris, the Brer Rabbit tales were largely an attempt to preserve an important part of American cultural history before it disappeared.
But these days, we've forgotten all that.
And so when a politician ill-advisedly invokes the tale of the Tar Baby, which Minnesota's Michele Bachmann did recently, the pitchforks come out. And that's a shame. Because at heart, the Brer Rabbit stories are about the strength and intelligence and wit of the Africans who had been brought to America in chains and those who were born here to a life in service to the master and the whip.
Truth be told, Brer Rabbit was a symbol of hope and inspiration to the slaves of the time. His stories were their stories, and their stories were his.
But the Tar Baby — that silly little thing was nothing more than a plot device, that is until a bunch of racist assholes turned it into something else, something mean and nasty and hateful. And we've fallen into to the Tar Baby they've created. We're trapped. But escape is possible. All we have to do is remember what the Brer Rabbit stories were about in the first place.
If you're interested in learning about the Brer Rabbit stories — and the controversial Walt Disney film Song of the South — check out the story I wrote for MetroBeat back in 2003.
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Who Framed Brer Rabbit?
The truth about Disney's classic & controversial Song of the South
Song of the South is one of Walt Disney's most celebrated films. It's also one of its most controversial.
For many, the film, which is based on the Uncle Remus stories of Georgia-native Joel Chandler Harris, is simply a heartwarming tale about a young white boy named Johnny and the kindly old black man who befriends him. Throughout the movie, Uncle Remus serves as a surrogate parent and mentor to young Johnny. Uncle Remus' method of instruction: stories about Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear.
Originally released in 1946, the film has been praised as a landmark cinematic achievement for its successful synthesis of live-action and animation. (The segments featuring Uncle Remus and Johnny, the grandson of plantation owners, are live-action, while the segments depicting Brer Rabbit and company are animated.) A song from the film, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1948 and has since gone on to be one of Disney's most famous hits. The star of the film, James Baskett, also won a honorary Oscar in 1948 for his portrayal of Uncle Remus.
Although the film remains popular, Song of the South has never been released on video in the States, and it hasn't been shown at movie theaters since 1986. Since then, rumors have sprung up regarding the movie, the most popular being that the movie was banned by Disney following a boycott by the NAACP. Another claims that Bill Cosby bought the rights to the movie and refuses to release it. Both are untrue.
However, the demand for Song of the South remains high. As such, a grassroots movement of sorts continues to fight for the re-release of the film. Their method of appeal: petitions and letters. Meanwhile, others have no desire to wait for Disney to change its mind. They turn to overseas vendors where the Song of the South was released on video, or they turn to black marketeers selling bootleg copies of the movie at flea markets and conventions and over the Internet. Up until 2001, Disney sold Song of the South video cassettes in the UK in a format not recognized by American VHS players. The film was also available in Japan on laserdisc. But make no mistake, purchasing a copy comes at a price, sometimes as high as $300 or more.
Stateside, Disney continues to profit from Song of the South in one form or the other. You can still purchase a video entitled Singalong Songs: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. The packaging for the video even features James Baskett as Uncle Remus. And if you go to Disney World, you and yours can hop on Splash Mountain, a log ride based on Song of the South. It features audio-animatronic versions of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear. The Tar Baby and Uncle Remus are noticeably absent. Recently, Disney released a set of pins which featured Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear and a set of figurines commemorating Walt Disney's 100th birthday featuring the same. The official Disney website also has a link to the film; however, it notes that the film is unavailable. (At press time, Disney had not responded to questions about their reluctance to release Song of the South.)
With this in mind, it's easy to see that Disney hasn't abandoned Song of the South just yet. It may very well be released one day.
So what's all the hubbub about?
The film's detractors say it presents an idealized vision of the Old South. It is a world where whites live in expansive plantation homes and blacks in charming little shacks. It is a world where blacks joyfully work in the fields, spurred on to work not by the threat of the lash, but by the cheerful songs in their hearts. It is a world that never existed.
One problem with Song of the South concerns exactly when it takes place. Is it pre- or post-Civil War? According to Karl Cohen, author of Forbidden Animation, the film clearly takes place after the Civil War. "Disney did not make it clear that it was after the Civil War," Cohen says. "Part of the confusion is that he [Walt Disney] was warned by the censors in Hollywood who read the scripts, the Hayes Office, to please make it clear that the film takes place in the 1870s or 1880s. He did not do that. They suggested that he open it with a card that said 'Georgia' and a date. He ignored that, and so you don't know when it took place."
As such, many are left to wonder if Uncle Remus and his fellow African Americans are slaves or free men and women? "What I enjoy talking to my students about the film is its deep confusion about the time period that it is supposed to represent, and that is both tricky in Uncle Remus and the movie," says Susanna Ashton, professor at Clemson University and a specialist in post-Civil War literature. "The film has some people who are wearing costumes that are clearly Edwardian, that are clearly from the 1890s. But then you look at the movie and all of the people are in hoop skirts and pretty clearly everybody is a slave, so clearly we're in a pre-Civil War era."
Arguments over settings aside, let's be honest here. Song of the South may be a charming family film, but the fact that some folks find it offensive shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. Even its fans recognize the trouble spots.
"It's simple. It has racist elements," Cohen says. "When Disney made it, he didn't realize that he was making something quite volatile as it could be. If anything, the basic problem is with Disney. He was insensitive."
The problem for Cohen: the live-action segments of the film present a beautiful, idyllic world where whites live in mansions and work indoors, while blacks live in lovely, little shacks and work in the fields all day long, singing songs and carrying on. Make no mistake about it: the whites are in charge, and the blacks bow and scrape before their masters. "It comes across as a idealized master/slave relationship for the people who see it," Cohen adds. "[Disney] found it to be a very beautiful, sympathetic depiction of the South, but he didn't realize that his depiction was a Southerner's depiction."
R. Bruce Bickley Jr., an English professor at Florida State University and author of Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study also acknowledges the trouble with Song of the South. "Disney does kind of a whitewash of the stories in the Song of the South. I'm afraid that a lot of people who think they know these stories know Disney's five animated tales," says. "There the Uncle Remus character is very much kissing up to 'massa.' [He's] a cooperative sort of figure, not as complicated a figure by far as the Uncle Remus in Harris' stories."
The film also overlooks the more rebellious and anarchist overtones of the original tales where slaves are represented by the meeker creatures Brer Rabbit, Brer Possum and Brer Tarrypin, while the ruling whites are represented by the predators, Brer Fox, Brer Bear and Brer Wolf.
Christian Willis is the webmaster behind SongoftheSouth.net (www.songofthesouth.net), so you know he's a fan. But he's also well aware of the troublesome representation of blacks in the film. "Overall, I believe the charge is valid, although a bit exaggerated," Willis says. "It should be noted first and foremost that this movie was not set in antebellum times, so any act of servitude is not as a slave, but as a servant. This is very important in explaining the attitudes of the African Americans throughout the movie."
Potentially offensive or not, the film tries to be true to the times it depicts, although in a sanitized, family-friendly sort of way. "It cannot be denied that this movie was created with subservient roles for the African Americans because that was the general mindset of not only the time in which it was filmed, but also the time in which the movie depicts," Willis says.
Still, the relationship between blacks and whites may be viewed as progressive for its time. For starters, you can look at the relationship between Uncle Remus and Johnny — that of teacher and student, surrogate father and son. Of particular importance is how Uncle Remus is portrayed. "The boy [Johnny] looks up to Uncle Remus as a role model no more than the way we look up to our own role models," says James McKimson, the man behind the Uncle Remus Pages (www.uncleremuspages.com). "Uncle Remus is portrayed as an older man full of wisdom. He is more like a father figure that enjoys telling stories and making things right. He is not portrayed as a negative character."
For Willis, Remus is not as subservient as much as he is polite. "Uncle Remus may bow slightly and remove his hat in the presence of a woman, but that was common respect shown by all civilized men, regardless of race."
For Courtney Cromwell, a Song of the South fan who runs Brer Rabbit Stew (www23.brinkster.com/brerrabbit), the character of Uncle Remus is no Uncle Tom. "He is shown as being one of the wisest people on the plantation," Crowell says. "His stories help the children learn important lessons, and more often than not, he ends up being right."
Hints of the equality between the races are evident in other ways. "I am especially fond of the moments shared between Uncle Remus and Miss Doshy [Johnny's grandmother], where their common interest for Johnny transcends any racial barrier, and you see two mature human beings talking to one another," says Willis. "Yes, it's brief, but it's there. I'd say these were pretty good steps for a movie depicting the Old South created in the 1940's."
It's also important to remember that Disney was trying to make a family film, not a historically accurate account of the Old South. "Disney did the best they could to keep this film a family movie. We really didn't see any violence between slaves and their masters or any racial slurs," says McKimson. "You didn't see any discipline, which made them look like free individuals that could do anything they wanted. People know life on the plantation wasn't as joyful as depicted in the movie, but you have to remember it's a family movie."
In many ways, Disney was simply doing what he had always done: producing sanitized, family-friendly versions of popular stories. Many of these stories, like the Grimm Brother's "Snow White" and "Cinderella," were oftentimes violent and grotesque. Disney had no problem discarding these undesirable elements. After all, his films were made with 5-years-olds in mind. "Some people feel as if Disney doesn't portray plantation life correctly. They want to see sinister plantation owners who treat their slaves like dirt," Courtney Crowell says. "[T]his is Disney. People don't complain when Ariel doesn't kill herself at the end of The Little Mermaid like she does in the original tale. It's the same concept."
For some critics, the trouble with Brer Rabbit and company extend well-beyond Song of the South, all the way back to the man who originally published the tales, Joel Chandler Harris, and the character he created — Uncle Remus.
Harris was a journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution during the post-Civil War years. The 180-plus Uncle Remus stories Harris compiled were based on tales he had heard from slaves as a teenager. "Harris luckily had a darn good ear. He was able to transcribe these stories and capture the dialect, and thank goodness. Even the black critics who are upset with Harris's white man's treatment of black slavery narratives are still thankful that somebody captured these stories and brought so much attention to them," Bickley says.
Altough Harris was enamored with these African American folk tales, he was by no means a champion of equal rights. "He had the standard white prejudices," Bickley says. "He couldn't see mixed marriages. He couldn't see mixed classrooms."
Despite his prejudices, Harris also had his progressive side. "He was one or two or three of the most important journalists who came out of the Civil War and helped us think through Reconstruction and all of its bad consequences to address the Negro problem," Bickley says. "Harris said, 'We have to get our act together. We have to accept who we are now. We have to accept the humanity of our black former slaves who are now citizens like we are.'"
Even though some critics commend Harris' efforts to collect African American folklore, they disapprove of the one character Harris did create — Uncle Remus. Unlike Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear and even the Tar Baby, Uncle Remus was solely the creation of Harris, and it was Harris who gave the character his more Uncle Tom-like qualities. Like Harris, "Uncle Remus has his prejudices against uppity blacks pushing too hard, too fast," Bickley says.
However, these critics may be missing the point. Like Brer Rabbit, Harris' Uncle Remus may also be a trickster. And by extension, Harris. "The cagiest character in the Uncle Remus stories is Uncle Remus himself," Bickley says. "Sure, he seems content on the old plantation. But in the stories, he tells about the inner life of what it is to be a slave in a power structure dominated by the stronger critters."
In the debate over Song of the South and the Uncle Remus stories, it's this identification that is often overlooked. "The black folk narrators, both male and female, identified with Brer Rabbit, Brer Possum, Brer Tarrypin... as the wily folk heroes. They don't look very threatening. They're not anything anybody would think twice about, but they are fast and fast-witted," Bickley says. "Even though they're not physically stronger, their wits help them be survivors, so they're always out-tricking the would-be tricksters."
According to Bickley, the Brer Rabbit tales, as they were told by slaves to slaves, were instructive in nature. "Brer Rabbit uses his head to escape. It sends a message to the slave listeners, 'Use your head. Don't be stupid. Don't fall for these traps. Think before you act and outwit your master,'" Bickley says. "Out of these come a whole tradition of the black slave's evasion of responsibility, using ruses like, 'Oh, the plow done broke today. Massa, I can't do that for you.' Or, 'I'm feeling poorly,' 'I'm feeling sickly,' all kinds of strategies for evading the demands of the power structure."
Another troubling point for both the movie and the stories concerns the Tar Baby. On the surface, the Tar Baby, with its jet black "skin," is an extremely disconcerting racial stereotype, especially when one considers how the term "tar baby" has been used as a racial epithet. "The trouble with the term 'tar baby' is people associate it with the 'N-word,'" Bickley says. "During Harris' time and the '20s and '30s as well, the Tar Baby is associated with any black person or figure."
For those of you who don't remember the tale of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, here's a brief summary as it appears in Harris' work. Brer Fox makes a female figure out of tar, and he sets it on the side of the road. His goal: to catch and kill uppity ole Brer Rabbit. Eventually, Rabbit comes along and greets the Tar Baby. The Tar Baby doesn't respond. Rabbit continues to say hello to the Tar Baby, but he fails to get a reply. Angered, Rabbit attacks the Tar Baby. He gets stuck. Fox emerges. He takes Rabbit and starts to plot how he's going to kill Rabbit. Being the quick-witted trickster that he is, Rabbit tells Fox he can do anything he likes to Rabbit but throw him in the briar patch. Of course, Fox throws Rabbit in the briar patch, Rabbit's home turf. Rabbit is safe. He has once again escaped danger.
The story is quite simple on the surface, but Bickley says that the tale is pretty heady stuff, especially when you consider matters of race. In case you forgot, Brer Rabbit is black. "It's a famous piece of reverse psychology," Bickley says. "If you try to fight your own blackness, you get trapped in it. You have to deal with it. It's really complex stuff."
He adds, "It's a term for a dealing with your own identity."
While the segment with the Tar Baby is probably the most famous animated sequence in Song of the South, it's safe to say Disney failed to recognize its deeper meaning. In fact, he completely gets it wrong, ignoring the complex racial allegory in favor of kindergarten didacticism. In the movie, Brer Rabbit represents Johnny, with Brer Fox and Brer Bear, representing two bullies who pick on the boy.
Disney also misrepresented the Uncle Remus tales in ways which glossed over the tales' more rebellious connotations. In the adaptation from page to screen, the violent, revenge-oriented nature of the stories was toned down. In Harris' work, not only does Brer Rabbit lose some of his children at the hands of his enemies, but ultimately, Brer Rabbit orchestrates the deaths of his enemies Brer Fox, Brer Bear and Brer Wolf, the symbolic representations of the white master. In one tale Brer Rabbit feeds Brer Fox's head to Fox's own children. In another, Brer Rabbit kills Brer Wolf by locking him in the cellar and pouring boiling water on him. "I've done an index of the plots and themes of these stories, and like 40% of the stories of both of his first books are about predatory violence, revenge-taking, loss of limb, physical punishment, death. Harris wasn't afraid to transmit these stories from his black sources," Bickley says.
In the end, Song of the South has its flaws. There is no argument there. But does it really deserve to sit on a shelf until the end of time? The folks interviewed for this story don't think so. After all, we can learn about the history of motion pictures and the history of America by watching this film. Through it, we can see where we came from, where we've been and where we are now. "This is an historical film that needs to be preserved," Christian Willis says. "Not only can future generations learn from the Uncle Remus stories, but [they] can learn how we have progressed in filmmaking, both racially and through the techniques used to combine live-action with animation."
Karl Cohen, for one, hopes that day is just around the bend. "There will come a day when people aren't upset and threatened by these stereotypes from the past. They recognize them as such, and say, 'This is an old film. Let's recognize it for its merits,' " Cohen says.
"But until that happens it's going to stay in the closet."
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Eight Tiny Stories, Translated From the Emoji
James Hannaham and John W. Bateman play a game: one of them texts five random emoji to the other, and the recipient then creates a micro-story. Read some of their collaborations at Electric Literature
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Specializing in flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry under 1,000 words, Lost Balloon, a literary journal based in Chicago, shows good things can come in very small packages.
One Day Music Came
"There was something in the tones, between the tones that made the world seem like a better place, the sky a bit bluer, the problems lighter to carry." The writer and illustrator at Fictionspawn Monsters tells a tale in which music brings hope and joy.
Microfiction Monday: 63rd Edition
Among this collection at Microfiction Monday Magazine, a snippet of micro fiction by Digby Beaumont: "He loses things: A pair of paisley socks, computer files, his job at Panasonic, the desire to sing the old songs, his trust in the goodness of others."
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The official site of speculative fiction author N.K. Jemisin. A prolific author, Jemisin is the first black person to win the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel for The Fifth Season.
The Most Beautiful Thing I've Ever Seen
"They both came in close, singing into each other's invisible microphones. Then, they spread their arms wide as the last verse died, their pot bellies kissing for the first and last time." Writer Benjamin Davis and artist Nikita Klimov share a story, set some years ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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After The Fall
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A Terrible Day And A Tree
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Cool automation tools
Few months ago I started gathering all testing articles and examples that I came across. I have a really awful memory, and discussing with my QA Lead about different approaches I could just remember some of the details, which led to awkward conversations; so starting to build my own "Testing Bible" sounded like an amazing idea. And so I did.
It's actually a Google Doc where you can find chapters about specific testing methodologies (Rapid Software Testing, Quality Assistance), automation tricks, arguments to convince stakeholders and developers, a bullet point list of my achievements and some cool automation examples. Today I want to talk about the later!
I really love hearing about tools or techniques that organisation has developed to meet their really weird and niche testing needs. Google Testing Automation Conference is an amazing place to find some of them, as well as companies with tech blogs (although in some cases they think testing is not an enough appealing subject to talk about). So let's talk about some of the ones I felt in love with!
This is bringing fault injection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_injection) to the next level. In order to build a resilient system, Netflix realised that they need to be ready for errors. The best way the found to probe it was injecting errors in the pieces that are out of their control, so they understand what's going to happen when those genuinely occurs. The talk is centred about the army of simians that they have causing AWS errors in production.
Things, like killing AWS instances or faking an entire region downtime on Amazon, are the duties of this monkey gang. They periodically trigger them on production to see the progress and be ready for when shit happens. Because we know that shit always happens. Part of the source can be found here.
As I've already mentioned, Facebook is known for not having Testing roles. They heavily rely on automation, although we know that flakiness and inconsistency is one of the biggest pains automating tests. That's why they've come with a system where tests have to gain trust before the system will consider them as necessary; as well as a way to identify, heal and fix tests that cause more noise than benefits.
The system automatically marks the failed tests as "unknown value", passing them through various states and identifying the responsible of it. It helps to review the code, and the system is the one disabling someone else's test when it starts feeling flaky, so it's not a "me against you" argument.
Creating a complete suite of unit testing can be a daunting task. particularly when you scale up the product size. With this solution, they rely on an extensive logging and machine learning techniques to generate stateless and contextual assertions, building the skeleton of the functional tests.
You'll still need some human intervention, but this is undoubtedly an amazing starting point, leveraging the most tedious part of the process. This is proper automation: something that assists us to achieve our goals!
Testing all the range of values in a unit test is impossible, that's why Spotify has used the RapidCheck idea to help them build better coverage of the range. It randomly tests a broader set of values, setting a skeleton of important cases. Every tool that helps us get confidence on the solution faster is welcomed!
Do you know about another interesting testing tool? I've left some of them unsaid, but only because I love having pending subjects to talk about in future posts!


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Stony Plain Records proudly announces the November 17, 2017, release of the latest CD from multi Blues Music Award-winning guitarist Ronnie Earl and his band, the Broadcasters, The Luckiest Man. Ronnie Earl calls the album, A traditional blues album of remembrance, love, and unwavering resolve to live with faith and gratitude. The new album was recorded at Woolly Mammoth Studios, Waltham, Mass.; Keep the Edge Studio, Quincy, Mass.; and in Groton, Mass.
On The Luckiest Man, Ronnie and the Broadcasters, both current as well as some of the earliest members, contribute to the new album, which follows the sudden loss of Jim Mouradian, the bands beloved bass player following a show in January. Mouradian was also a respected guitar luthier, family man and a gentleman. This musical journey through loss and healing can be felt in the hauntingly beautiful Death Dont Have No Mercy, and in Ronnies tender tribute to his brother on Jims Song. Life moves ever onward in the pulse and beat of Heartbreak, and faith takes hold in Never Gonna Break My Faith. For the song, Long Lost Conversation, Ronnie is reunited with some of the earliest Broadcasters and current members of Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, who were on his first albums in 1983, all of whom contributed to this truly being a family band project: Sugar Ray Norcia vocals, harp; Anthony Geraci piano; Mike Welch guitar; Neil Gouvin drums; Michael "Mudcat" Ward double bass & Fender bass.
The title of the album, The Luckiest Man, is a phrase and response spoken by Jim Mouradian who always lived with gratitude in his heart and who never wasted a moment of his life: Im the luckiest man you know and I dont even know who you know.
Besides the original songs on The Luckiest Man, Ronnie Earl puts his own, indelible stamp on interpretations of Aint That Loving You, So Many Roads and You Dont Know What Love Is. In addition to Ronnie Earl on guitar, the Broadcasters include Dave Limina piano and Hammond B3; Diane Blue vocals; Forrest Padgett drums; and Paul Kochanski bass. Guest musicians on the new release also include Nicholas Tabarias guitar; Mark Earley baritone sax; Mario Perrett tenor sax; and Peter Ward guitar.
They say that you cant keep a good man down and that inner resolve is both heard and felt within each song on The Luckiest Man, Ronnie Earls twenty-fifth album and his eleventh on Stony Plain Records. Since 1983, Ronnie Earl has released a series of traditional blues albums, often interlaced with jazz, gospel and soul offerings; however he has always returned home to his mother music which is traditional blues.
Ronnie Earl continues to be one of the most emotive blues guitarists today, whose musical voicings deal with loss and healing, gratitude and love, compassion and passion. Indeed, it is those emotional touchstones within his music, which is so beautifully reflected in the swirl of colors expressed in artist Tom Nolls painting of Ronnie on the cover.
The Luckiest Man confirms Ronnie Earl's status as one of the most soulful blues/soul/jazz guitarists working today. He is a three-time Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year, a DownBeat magazine winner for Blues Album of the Year, an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and has taught at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut.
Tom Noll is the artist and owner of Creative Bone Artworks® Inc. & Art that Rocks®. For more information on Tom and his work see www.tomnoll.com.
Beyond The Blue Door
The Luckiest Man
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The Luckiest Man confirms Ronnie Earls status as one of the most soulful blues/soul/jazz guitarists working today. A three-time Blues Award winner as Guitarist Of The Year, Earl has worked with his band The Broadcasters for almost 30 years. This is his 25th release.
This album is dedicated to the memory of long-time Broadcaster bass player Jim Mouradian. As Jim would say when he first met someone: Im the luckiest man you know and I dont even know who you know.
Hear the lead track "Ain't That Loving You" now:
- Ain't That Loving You (5:38)
- Southside Stomp (4:13)
- Death Don't Have No Mercy (6:00)
- Jim's Song (3:00)
- Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) (6:43)
- Howlin' Blues (4:11)
- Never Gonna Break My Faith (5:25)
- Long Lost Conversation (10:15)
- Sweet Miss Vee (4:16)
- Blues for Magic Sam (5:24)
- So Many Roads (10:52)
- You Don't Know What Love Is (4:04)
By John Emms
Maxwell Street
Ronnie Earls release Maxwell Street is named in honour of blues pianist and previous member of the Broadcasters David Maxwell and is a nod to Chicagos Maxwell Street where blues musicians gathered to play outside for the Sunday market crowds.
It confirms Ronnie Earls status as one of the most soulful blues/soul/jazz guitarists working today.
- Mother Angel (5:37)
- Elegy For a Bluesman (5:40)
- In Memory of T-Bone (6:00)
- Kismet (6:18)
- Double Trouble (11:43)
- (I've Got To Use My) Imagination (4:19)
- Blues For David Maxwell (8:25)
- You Don't Know Me (8:03)
- BroJoe (4:57)
- As The Years Go Passing By (7:06)
By John Mitchell
"The whole album is a delight but the two openers find Ronnie at the very top of his game.This is an album that should be added to the collection of all Ronnie Earl fans and deserves to bring his playing to a new audience."
Father's Day
Order the 180g vinyl (with mp3 download card) from Ronnie directly (and ask for it to be signed!), your favourite local record store, or amazon.com.
Voted by The Blues Foundation as "Blues Guitarist of the Year" in 2014, guitar master Ronnie Earl and his band return with an even stronger package of music. Added to the spellbinding intensity and soulfulness of Earl's guitar, is the presence of a horn section for the first time in decades, adding another dimension to his sound. Stony Plain also plans to release the album as a vinyl LP late 2015.
The 13 tracks on Fathers Day also feature two special guest vocalists throughout: Diane Blue, whose previous work with Earl created a sensation; and Chicago-based Michael Ledbetter, best known as lead singer of the Nick Moss band. Ledbetter is also a distant relative of the iconic Huddie William Leadbelly Ledbetter, whose 12-string blues style has influenced generations of blues, folk and rock musicians.
- It Takes Time (5:00)
- Higher Love (4:28)
- Right Place Wrong Time (7:46)
- What Have I Done Wrong (4:47)
- Giving Up (6:09)
- Every Night About This Time (4:37)
- Father's Day (8:13)
- I Need You So Bad (4:39)
- I'll Take Care Of You (9:05)
- Follow Your Heart (4:08)
- Moanin' (6:24)
- All Your Love (7:20)
- Precious Lord (6:33)
By Melanie Young
"Deeply felt and beautifully executed, Ronne Earl and The Broadcasters' 'Father's Day' is an album to savor"
Good News
Ronnie Earl, along with The Broadcasters his band of over 25 years, presents ''Good News,'' a mostly instrumental album of spellbinding intensity and deep soul that will satisfy his growing legion of fans who await each new release.
- I Met Her On That Train (4:44)
- Change Is Gonna Come (6:02)
- Time To Remember (6:10)
- In The Wee Hours (10:53)
- Good News (3:33)
- Six String Blessing (9:24)
- Marje's Melody (6:45)
- Blues For Henry (7:16)
- Puddin' Pie (4:08)
- Runnin' In Peace (5:59)
By Brian Cady
Just For Today
- The Big Train (5:26)
- Blues For Celie (9:32)
- Miracle (4:37)
- Heart Of Glass (6:58)
- Rush Hour (3:08)
- Vernices Boogie (3:32)
- Blues For Hubert Sumlin (8:31)
- Equinox (8:12)
- Aint Nobodys Business (9:09)
- Robert Nighthawk Stomp (3:52)
- Jukein (4:45)
- Id Rather Go Blind (6:08)
- Pastorale (6:06)
By Mike Rick
Spread The Love
- Backstroke
- Blues For Dr. Donna
- Chitlins Con Carne
- Cristo Redentor
- Happy
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- Miracle
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Living In The Light
- Love Love Love (8:47)
- Take A Little Walk With Me (7:34)
- River Charles Blues (5:46)
- What Can I Do For You (8:00)
- Recovery Blues (7:17)
- Blues For Fathead (3:40)
- Child Of A Survivor (9:28)
- Blues For The South Side (3:24)
- Ain't Nobody's Buisness (5:56)
- Donna Lee (5:30)
- Pastorale (3:47)
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Hope Radio Sessions DVD
- Intro (1:30)
- Bobby's Bop (6:01)
- Blues For The Homeless (8:02)
- Eddie's Gospel Groove (5:20)
- I Am With You (8:13)
- Kay My Dear (6:44)
- New Gospel Tune (4:26)
- Blues for Otis Rush (9:58)
- Blues for the West Side (8:42)
- Lightnin' Hopkins Thing (4:33)
- Interview (10:58)
- I Shall Not Be Moved (2:15)
Note: This is a DVD disc, and will not work in a CD player.
By Reb Landers
Hope Radio
- Eddie's Gospel Groove (5:07)
- Bobby's Bop (5:55)
- Blues For The West Side (8:48)
- I Am With You (8:15)
- Katrina Blues (3:35)
- Wolf Dance (8:07)
- Kay My Dear (6:39)
- Blues For The Homeless (8:32)
- Beautiful Child (8:45)
- Blues For Otis Rush (9:52)
- New Gospel Tune (4:40)
By Eric Thom
The Duke Meets The Earl
- West Side Shuffle (7:43)
- Two Bones & A Pick (8:06)
- My Tears (15:53)
- Looking For Trouble (6:42)
- What Have I Done Wrong (6:42)
- Zeb's Thing (7:27)
- I Need You So Bad (8:14)
- A Soul That's Been Abused (13:05)
Now My Soul
- Blues For J (7:10)
- Double Trouble (10:40) Featuring Kim Wilson
- Feel Like Goin On (6:40)
- Abandoned (7:16) Featuring Kim Wilson
- Walkin On The Sea (6:25)
- Black & White (5:59) Featuring Kim Wilson
- Kay My Dear (8:49)
- Maxwell, Mudcat, and Per (4:58)
- My Buddy Buddy Friends (3:43) Featuring Kim Wilson
- Walter Through Kim (5:09)
- #7 (5:49)
- The Magic Of Sam (3:50)
I Feel Like Goin' On
- Hey Jose (5:12)
- Blues For Otis Rush (8:29)
- Little Johnny Lee (6:33)
- Wolf Dance (6:23)
- Mary Don't You Weep (6:46)
- Howlin' For My Darlin' (7:44)
- Blues For The Homeless (11:21)
- Big Walter (5:35)
- Alone With The Blues (4:26)
- Travelin' Heavy (4:48)
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