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(The ideation phase is the honeymoon phase of a startup – when anything is possible. That is until you are forced to confront the brutal realities of your current situation which is riddled with constraints. Most of us complain about constraints, but constraints are a gift.
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The spark of inspiration for Aesop's Garden came from a problem I personally experienced. My niece Caty and I have lived in different cities (different countries) since she was born. Given the little time we've shared together and her young age, she should see me more as a stranger. But thanks to the effort her parents and family put into showing her pictures of me and explaining the context of our relationship, she knows who I am, smiles and hugs me when she sees me.
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This is a hindsight tale of how those initial fun ideas evolved to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which strives to create more hugs between family, friends, and those special seedlings.
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For instance, I was against any solution that required a physical product. I didn't want to hold inventory or have to deal with shipping. I failed to consider that many parents strongly prefer physical books and don't allow their children to play with digital gadgets until they are much older. I am not a parent myself. More importantly, I am NOT the customer.
I didn't yet understand the concerns or demands parents experience. The majority of ideas I had during this period were not used in the final MVP. An overabundance of ideas also meant I wasn't making measurable progress.
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Second, working on my unique value proposition made me consider what mattered most – not just to the customer but to me also. Aesop's Garden was my dream. While I was trying to make parents and little kids happy, it still ultimately needed to make me happy. I believe without passion it's hard to create something special.
The Lean Canvas gave me focus and help put down what was important to me and what I believed to be true.
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My first two problem interviews weren't very smooth. I was vague on articulating the problem I was trying to solve, and communicating with parents was tricky as I didn't yet understand their world.
I was asking open-ended questions, having small-talk, testing multiple hypotheses, and barely winging it. I ended up with way too much information to sift through when reviewing my notes.
I read the Problem Interview chapter again in Ash Maurya's book: Running Lean, created my script, and got him to sit in on the next interview. Needless to say this interview went much better. It wasn't perfect and Ash interjected with a few questions when I missed an opportunity to explore a possible solution. My two must-have problems became clear and a solution I had dismissed on my own earlier re-emerged – printed stories.
Problem #1 – Building relationships between family members who live in different cities is difficult to do.
Problem #2 – Parents are super busy which means they don't have a lot of free time to create things that solve problem #1 .
Armed with clarity from problem #1, it was easy to eliminate the educational aspects to my solutions. Did adding pictures of family members to educational games make them better? Probably So. But did educational games serve as the best vehicle for building relationships. Definitely Not.
When you hit the problem(s) on the head like this, a rainbow explodes inside of you because with every subsequent interview you know what people are going to say. Within the first five minutes of the interview, your problem hypotheses are validated and from there you're testing out possible solutions.
Talking to possible customers was invigorating, legitimized my ideas, and made me more accountable. I also received many great blog ideas and plots for stories. I started to understand the customer's pain points.
Chapter 4: Creating a Demo
I began working on a demo story that demonstrated my unique value proposition. But little was accomplished, as I quickly ran into a boatload of obstacles:
- I didn't have the graphic design capabilities to produce the required vector art myself
- I couldn't easily find people who could perform this for me, and even if I could find them, I didn't have the budget to hire them
- There were technical challenges to integrate people's faces into a story. If a parent uploaded a picture that was at the wrong facial angle, or if the photo was low-quality, then the resulting story wouldn't be appealing to view.
- I wasn't sure which plot to use for the stories, since I received a wide range of responses (an adventure in the park, learning to share, family history, etc.)
- I wasn't able to find a printing company willing to do individual print-on-demand books at a commercially viable price point.
- I needed to make my books out of special "boards" because young children are quite destructive, and finding a publisher for this type of book was challenging.
I had to stop and reassess my situation. I began by diagramming the components of my possible MVPs, the challenges in creating them, and a forecast of my net income with each one. Then met with my mentor, and other entrepreneurs, and a clear path was found.
What emerged was reducing down my MVP on many levels. Instead of doing an illustrated book that was personalized with pictures and available in hard copy, my new MVP did not involve any photos. Instead, it was about coloring stories slightly personalized with text that parents could print themselves. Coloring books are easier to design as they are line drawings and easier to output since parents can print them at home. Doing just text for the personalization removed risk, and still allow me to test one of my riskier hypothesis that personalized stories would increase the child's engagement with the story.
I was concerned that this level of personalization might not be enough so I presented my problem/solution to a few people. One of them was the founder the Tech Ranch incubator, Kevin Koym. He made a commitment on the spot and then so did two other people! That next day I found an illustrator and the money from the commitments covered seventy-five percent of the cost of getting the demo produced. Six days later I had a real physical personalized coloring story created and ready for feedback.
The End
The first customer I showed it to loved it so much that she cried!
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I posted previously about a spinal epidural shot & blood patch procedure & having problems ever since down my left leg. Dr. Lowe answered my question satisfactorily & based on that I was not planning to pursue a new MRI.
However, newer problems have begun surfacing that confuse me. I'm not sure if all this is related, or if I should be posting this on a forum about the spine/back. Here goes:
I went to the doctor for "carpal tunnel" type problems primarily in my left arm - had them a long time, but recently it had gotten really bad - so I went, seeking advice on care. They sent me for an EMG. I get the results next week. The physician administering the EMG asked a lot of questions about my neck and shoulder, and told it MAY not be carpal tunnel.... Since that EMG, which caused pain in my arm all evening.... the pain has gone into my neck and won't go away.
So, what I'm wondering is this....... the entire LEFT side of my body hurts... left side of my back, down into my hip, buttocks & leg all the way to my feet - sharp pains with numbness. Also the left side of my neck hurts, down through my shoulder, arm and into my wrist and hand with some numbness in that arm/hand as well. I have occasional pain in my right side (same areas on that side) but it is only occasional. My left side hurts ALL the time.
Could all this be related to one central problem or is this most likely separate problems causing my whole left side to act up????? I'm thoroughly confused... and a bit worried.
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By what you describe, this more looks like a pinched nerve in the cervical as well as lumbosacral area, causing pain, tingling, numbness. nerves get pinched when they emerge from between the two vertebral bodies if the disc between the vertebrae has slipped a little or gotten thin due to degeneration. Some simple X rays should confirm/ rule this out. If so, you may need a course of physiotherapy and short wave diathermy.
|ShakinThingzUp - Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:53 pm
Cervical MRI (without contrast) showed only: mild narrowing of spine at C6, C7, C8 and bone spurs; Brain MRI (without contrast) came back "normal." Neurosurgeon said that these results did not give an indication of what causes my pain/numbness from shoulder to hand......
They later did a lumbar MRI, and I have a copy of them, but have not yet been given the results ( I don't know for certain how to read them, but one disc is completely black) - at least 3 appear to be bulging or worse. I do not have an appointment for results, etc. until May 5. That appointment is with a neurologist.
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|Dr. A. Madia - Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:59 am
If its not a pinched nerve, you could ask your doctor whether it is a 'Thoracic Outlet Syndrome'.
|ShakinThingzUp - Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:59 am
Thank you for the advice. I read about TOS & will remember that during his exam.
On Wednesday, I saw my eye doctor because I had a stabbing pain behind my eye & blurred vision. He says I have mild optic neuritis.... My family doctor has been out of the office since that morning, because she had the flu (the really bad one). So, she was unable to look over the information sent to her by my eye doctor. He wanted her to put me in the hospital for intravenous steriods...
My eye has not gotten worse, but it has not gotten better either. The blurred vision & the pain seem to come and go. I've actually been having pains all over my face (sharp, like electric shock) occasionally & wonder if this is related to the optic neuritis or just a migraine from the stress of all this.
Thank you very much for your responses. I really just want to get this overwith, get a diagnosis (whatever it is) & get some help for all the pain.
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text: I noticed that there are shops that carry Korean version DS Lite and some carry US Version DS Lite. Are there any different between both of them, software or hardware wise? In term of using flash card and upgrade, any problem with Korean version of DS Lite? Will the korean version work with all the games found online, especially games from US? The Korean version seems to be cheaper than the US version. Sorry for the N00B question, would like to know before investing in it. Thank you


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Usually when a singer goes off to do a solo project, it's either because of "creative differences" or a "need to express myself away from the band." In either case this can be translated as "I'm sick and tired of sharing credit with these bozos; I'm the real creative force in this band." All too often the result is a less-distinctive version of the band's albums made with studio hacks or a big-name producer (say, Don Was or Mitchell Froom). Mark Lanegan is different. His previous two solo albums were miles away from the Screaming Trees, revealing a sparse, thoughtful singer-songwriter under the angsty, Zeppelinesque screeds of his former band. The title of his new album, Field Songs, would lead you to believe that it will be even sparser than The Winding Sheet or Whiskey for the Holy Ghost. Surprisingly it's the lushest sounding of the three.
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That's not to say it's overproduced. At the center of each song stands Lanegan's rough-hewn composition and tundra-cool voice. The arrangements -- a well-placed treated guitar here, a tumbleweed mellotron there -- sonically echo the beautiful losers about whom Lanegan sings, displaced loners who know the "stars and skies are where they're supposed to be" but find themselves going the wrong way on a one-way street. He's at his best on hushed, quiescent ballads like "Kimiko's Dream House" or flinty atmospherics such as "Resurrection Song" or "Miracle." Field Songs has the worked-in comfort of an old pair of Levi's. Best listened to as the sun goes down with the first beer of the night cooling your hand, its creased, leathery charms feel earned.


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VidaBox Exhibits at the Asian Pacific CEDIA EXPO with Smart Home Distribution Pty Ltd as New Distributor
VidaBox LLC announces Smart Home Distribution Pty Ltd as their new distributor for Australia & New Zealand. Integrators can see how multiroom HD AV distribution works via IP on a single CAT cable at the Asian Pacific CEDIA Expo at Booth 3A.
Garden City Park, NY - June 11th - VidaBox LLC, a leading manufacturer of Blu -ray, DVD, music servers and control systems is proud to announce Smart Home Distribution Pty Ltd as their new distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Dealers and integrators can see how multiroom HD audio and video distribution works via IP over a single CAT cable at the Asian Pacific CEDIA Expo, running June 23rd to 25th in Booth 3A.
"VidaBox is excited to be exhibiting alongside our new distributors," says Steven Cheung, President of VidaBox, LLC. "Our unique, cutting edge technologies that have been so successful here in the US is now even more widely available to qualified integrators. Combined with Smart Home Distribution's training facilities and support resources, VidaBox becomes an excellent choice for dealers looking to add Blu -ray capable media servers to their product line."
Beyond supporting Blu -ray, DVD, and CD playback, archiving, and multiroom distribution, VidaBox servers and extenders are also ready for online content. Users can access a full array of music, videos, and other media - all streamed directly from the internet. Not only can VidaBox provide the complete solutions needed for archiving the popular, disc -based media today, but these systems are ready for online, streaming content in the future.
"We are ecstatic about the opportunity to represent VidaBox," says Emmanuel Moutsos, managing director of Smart Home Distribution. "VidaBox is home entertainment at its finest. VidaBox media products are best of breed and in keeping with our company philosophy to offer feature rich solutions that are reliable, simple to install and use, thereby positively impacting on the integrators success and the end users satisfaction."
For more information on the VidaBox line of digital entertainment and control hardware solutions, please visit the company website at http://www.vidabox.com, call 516 -730 -7500, or see them in action at the Asian Pacific CEDIA Expo in Booth 3A.
About Smart Home Distribution Pty Ltd.
Smart Home Distribution offers best of breed solutions to the Australian & New Zealand Custom Electronic Design and Installation Industry. We are the Exclusive Distributor for Colorado vNet and Current Audio and now proudly add VidaBox to the line up. As a proud supporter of CEDIA, Smart Home Distribution recognises Dealer requirements and provides industry leading support and service. Smart Home Distribution is located in Caringbah NSW, Australia. For more information, visit www.shdist.com.au or call +61 2 8213 9390.
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VidaBox LLC is a digital entertainment and controls solutions company focused on manufacturing premium media centers, audio servers, and integrated home control & automation solutions. VidaBox is on a mission to create user -friendly, stable, high -performance Media Center systems that work right out of the box and integrate seamlessly with multizone audio and smart home technologies. For more information, visit www.vidabox.com or call 1 -516 -730 -7500.


text: I'd been looking for a 9mm carbine that uses Glock mags, that was not a Keltec, for a while now. Found out about the JRC, and my LGS had one in stock, so I decided to give them a try. The gun is all metal with the exception of the collapsable stock, and feels much like a AR in my hands. Uses AR furniture, and a AR trigger setup. The bolt handle can be moved to either side of the gun, and so can the ejection...and they can be moved from one side to the other, independantly of each other. Unfortunately, the mag release isn't like the bolt. It's on the left side, and there is no changing it to the right. So far, I've put 150 rounds through it, and had a single jam that I'm fairly certain was not the guns fault. When it jammed, it ended up with 2 pieces of fired brass in the ejection area, and fed a fresh round on top of the most recently fired brass. I'm fairly certain one piece of brass fell back into the ejection port after firing another shot, due to the rest I was using (a pile of carpet). This is the only thing I can think of that would have caused that to happen. In the 150 rounds I've put through it, it's never actually shot twice with one trigger pull, but I don't want that to even be a possibility. With the above said, I'm not wild about the ejection of the rifle. The brass almost trickles out of the ejection port. It's tossed maybe a foot out, and down by my feet. This was using Winchester NATO, Geco 124gr, and RWS 124gr ammo. I suspect using cheap WWB might cause some problems, but I rarely use that anyway, so... One somewhat major problem (that should be easily and cheaply fixed) I noticed this morning is that the trigger releases the hammer twice with one trigger pull. I noticed this prior to going to the range with it today (which made me cancel the range trip) while looking the gun over at home today, doing a check. Racked the bolt, pulled the trigger, racked again while holding trigger, and then let off of the trigger...hammer fell again. It won't do it if I quickly let off the trigger, but slowly releasing it, it does. It seems as if everyone that has sent their JRC back to the factory, waited 2+ months to get it back. Too slow for my liking, so I'm going to put in a new disconnector and hammer in and see if that takes care of it. The trigger of the rifle is pretty gritty feeling. It feels like it's near what it's advertised to be (4.5 pounds), but it's not a clean and crisp trigger at all. It has seemed to get slightly better with firing, but still not great. Good enough for it's intended purpose though, and not too much different than my Glocks. Feeding and firing has been perfect. It's worked great with both 33 round mags I have, the 10 round G17 mag that was included, 17 round G17 mags, and 15 round G23 mags. It does NOT like NFML Glock mags though. They're all but impossible to get in the magwell, harder to get them locked in, and takes a winch to get them back out. If I get the above problem fixed, I'll probably just sell off the couple NFML mags I have and buy FML mags. FML mags fit and lock in fine, albeit they have some wobble. The wobble hasn't effected function though, and I've wiggled them every way possible trying to get the gun to malfunction, and it won't. I may have a friend make me a longer (top to bottom) mag well though, so that it gets rid of the wobble. While it doesn't seem to effect function, it drives me mad. One thing I'm not wild about on the JRC, is it uses a metal mag release. Not a big deal if you use metal mags, but I'm a little worried it'll chew up the plastic Glock mags. IF it does, I'll either have to buy mags that are primarily used for the JRC, or see if I can get someone to make me a plastic mag release. Field stripping is kind of dumb as well. To field strip and remove the bolt, you must remove the buffer tube/stock. As much as it seems this rifle tries to be an AR, why didn't they make it more like an AR? The upper reciever is similar to an AR, except the buffer tube is mounted to the upper. Also, rather than using pins to hold it together, it has allen screws that hold it to the lower. The mag well comes off seperately, and the gun is advertised to be multi caliber, being able to easily swap out barrels, mag wells, and bolts. Supposedly the hole swap is $250, but I haven't verified this myself just yet. Calibers offered are 9mm, .40, and .45. I do wonder if it'd be possible to make a 10mm carbine out of it using a .45 mag well and 10mm Glock mags, .40 bolt and barrel, and have the chamber reamed to 10mm length...and use a stiffer buffer spring and/or buffer. Hmm... Overall, despite everything noted above, I actually really like the JRC. It feels well built, uses Glock mags, and parts availability is pretty good since alot of the parts are AR15. The parts that aren't AR, that are likely to get worn, I'll buy some spares from the manufacturer of the gun (mostly the extractor, and probably a spare ejector as well, and a firing pin).


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Anyway, I'm not familiar with the whole roll your own thing. It sounds to me more like a tobacco company's slogan, and a lot like the, "Roll Tide" thing that Alabama fans give each other. (If you're a Harley owner in Alabama, I wonder if you get dizzy from all that rolling?)
Oh, well, what do I know. I drive a minivan most of the time, so as a father of three young kids with mediocre health insurance, I shouldn't be riding a motorcycle anyway.
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With a flex of 70 and a fit of 102 mm, the DELIGHT 70 W corresponds to an all mountain use, fulfilling the expectations of skiers on all types of terrain.
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At Duetto, we are building a modern cloud application tailored to the needs of the travel industry and lodging companies in particular. Although every lodging company above a certain size uses a software system as its cash register (so called Property Management Systems which take reservations and output customer bills) we find a surprising lack of products focused on Operational Intelligence in the travel world.
Most hotels lack basic systems that help managers and owners understand trends, make operational forecasts and predictions, and identify unusual circumstances that need addressing both for a single property as well as at a corporate level.
While Duetto Edge derives new data (such as the forecasts we produce and score over time) much of our database content is mastered in another system (e.g. the Property Management Systems). Therefore Duetto Edge resembles a Data Warehouse in many respects. We form a historical record of transactions (such as past rates and reservations) though we also capture brand new data sources such as web analytic data from booking engine web sites (so-called "Regrets and Denials"). The integrity and reliability of the data is paramount. But the system also experiences a relatively high read volume compared to write volume.
Of course one major architectural decision early in our product development was the choice of data store and we chose MongoDB. Despite our significant personal experience with relational databases such as Oracle (or perhaps because of that experience) Mongo provided an interesting blend of simplicity and power, both functionally and operationally.
MongoDB has started to run away with the lead in the "NoSql" wars of late. Although other data stores provide more industrial strength scalability and write performance (see HBase, Riak, Cassandra) Mongo does provide an interesting horizontal scalability model through its use of replica sets and sharding. The single writer problem is real, but not necessarily something that can't be worked around.
But Mongo's most important features, especially early on in a company's development lifecycle, are those that center around simplicity. As a strongly consistent data store (when using the appropriate journaling features) Mongo represents a reliable place to store data and reason about your application. Much has been written about the beauty of Mongo's developer Api and language-specific drivers and they are in fact world class for ease of use. We use the Java driver and everything from the natural Map/List data structures of its Api's to its pre-built connection pooling and thread safety make working with Mongo simple.
As a Document Store Mongo lacks complex transactions (a single document, which can be surprisingly deep and rich, is the only unit of atomicity) but it does provide features that bring it closer to a relational database than other new data stores. The presence of consistent secondary indexes and a query optimizer that uses them well is a huge need for an enterprise application like ours. Duetto uses configurable metadata stored in Mongo as the life blood of the application and through the use of several novel techniques we approximate key features of a relational data model including many-to-many relationships, semi-joins using Mongo multi-key array semantics, etc.
And of course the schema-less nature of Mongo allows for much more fluid design and upgrade processes than those that are possible with a rigid relational database schema. For a young product undergoing frequent changes and major enhancements this has proven extremely effective for Duetto Edge.
We've had to build a number of infrastructure levels on top of the underlying data store but so far Mongo has hit the mark for enterprise application development – in ways that might surprise its naysayers.
Craig Weissman, CTO and Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Duetto
Craig is a widely recognized leader in the field of SaaS software development and design. Before co-founding Duetto, he was the CTO of Salesforce.com. He has a master's degree in computer science and a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University and holds multiple technology patents.
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text: i have a 1tb hard drive with all my wii games i am thinking of converting them all to .wbfs files with wii back up manager to create more room question 1 if i do that i can always covert back to .iso (to burn to a disc for a burnt games) correct ? 2 if i convert back to .iso will it be original .iso i remember back in the day there was something about wii that had like 4.3 firmware that wouldnt play truncate .iso or .iso that were brick blocked or anything . is that true (or does something know what i mean ) ? if that is true when converting .wbfs back to .iso will it be a 1:1 copy .iso again or will have it be altered (truncate) meaning i couldt play that burnt game on a 4.3 wii ?? my fear is that if i convert to .wbfs then i need to create a back up disc for a friend that when i convert back to .iso it will not work on his 4.3 wii


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Police arrest two men allegedly targeting and robbing Hispanic residents in east Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, NC (FOX 46) - The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said they've arrested two men for their involvement in more than a dozen robberies, including several shootings, targeting the Hispanic community in east Charlotte.
Dashawn Pope, 22, and Marlon Woods, 19, are each charged with four counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, four counts of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
According to CMPD, the first incident happened at 7:07 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 in the 1900 block of Eastway Drive. The victims told police they were standing in the parking lot when they were approached by two armed men who demanded money. The victims said the suspects went through their pockets, removed their wallets and fled the scene. One of the victims was assaulted and sustained minor injuries during the robbery.
The second incident happened at 12:23 p.m. Monday, May 1 in the 1800 block of Anderson Street. Upon arrival, the victims told officers that they were getting out of their vehicle when two armed men confronted them and demanded property. The suspects fled the scene once they obtained the victims' property.
The third reported incident happened at 1:49 a.m. Tuesday, May 9 in the 5900 block of Monroe Road. The victim said that the two men approached him when he walked outside to get something from his vehicle. The suspects then brandished firearms and demanded his two-tone Ford F-150. The suspects fled the scene in the stolen truck. The F-150 was later recovered in an apartment complex on Tennessee Avenue. Detectives were notified and determined that the stolen Ford F-150 was the same truck used in the Kingsford Drive robbery.
A few hours later, officers responded to an armed robbery from person call for service in the 100 block of Kingsford Drive. The victim stated that he was robbed at gunpoint by two men who took his wallet. The victim provided a detailed description of the suspects and also advised that the suspects left the scene in a two-tone Ford F-150. Detectives were able to determine that the stolen Ford F-150 was the same truck used in the Kingsford Drive robbery.
The F-150 was recovered later that day in an apartment complex on Tennessee Avenue, police said.
Detectives believe Pope and Woods are involved in more than a dozen robberies, including several shootings, and were targeting members of the Hispanic community in apartment complexes. The investigations are active and ongoing and additional charges will be forthcoming.
Anyone with anyone information about the suspects or any open cases, is encouraged to contact CMPD's Armed Robbery Unit at 704-336-5072 or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.


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Sometimes all we need is a quick suggestion from our peers to zero in on a good story. Here we turn to front-line journalists for advice, some simple insight to add to our repository of "shared wisdom."
What important factors should journalists keep in mind when reviewing CDC lead data for a local area? – Brie Zeltner
The Centers for Disease Control has data going back to 1995 from states and cities it funds. It's important to keep in mind that some states use different testing methods (venous blood draws versus finger sticks, for example) which make it impossible to accurately compare data across states and jurisdictions. Also remember that these are not figures that can be generalized to a whole population, because testing is targeted to high-risk areas. You can get an overall picture of trends within a locale, though, and it's a convenient spot to find all the state data in one place.
Brie Zeltner (@briezeltner) joined the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2003 as an intern and has been covering the health care industry and hospital news in northeast Ohio since 2007. She is the 2015 inaugural winner of the Urban Health Journalism Prize.
You recently wrote about how nonprofit hospitals fared under the Affordable Care Act. What are some under-reported stories concerning these hospitals, and what suggestions do you have for reporters who have such hospitals in their coverage area? – Shefali Luthra
The 2010 health law includes a provision intended to hold hospitals to a higher standard when it comes to justifying their nonprofit status. Even if the law is repealed, that kind of scrutiny probably won't go away – but hospitals say it's going to be a lot harder for them to fund "community benefit" programs if they have to treat more uninsured people. This creates an interesting dynamic that reporters should definitely monitor. Hospitals must do a "community health needs assessment" every three years, develop an implementation plan to address those needs and generally be transparent about what community good they provide (beyond just caring for patients). I'd advise reporters to look through the needs assessments and implementation plans to see what issues arise and how much money hospitals have put toward addressing them. Has it changed substantially? If hospitals launch new initiatives or partner with other organizations, see what kind of impact have those have had – both quantitatively and qualitatively – and whether those programs are tackling the root causes of poor health in their communities.
Shefali Luthra (@shefalil) has reported for Kaiser Health News (KHN) in Washington, D.C. since 2014. Her work focuses on health policy, access to care and public health concerns, and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR and CNN Health. Prior to joining KHN, she spent two summers interning at The Texas Tribune.
What are some key aspects of the intersection of health care and the criminal justice system that journalists should focus on? – Jaclyn Cosgrove
Definitely mental health and/or addiction. In Oklahoma, we've seen the number of inmates with mental illness increase substantially … The following questions could lead to some interesting stories:
Jaclyn Cosgrove is an Oklahoma native, now based in Los Angeles, who covered health, medicine and policy for The Oklahoman. An AHCJ member since 2012, she received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2015. She tweets at @JaclynCosgrove.
Where are some key health areas to watch regarding the impact of changing rules and laws regarding transgender individuals? – Andrew M. Seaman
The transgender community is going to be an interesting area to watch as new policies come up for debate and ultimately become implemented. I think the main areas to watch are access to health care, including cross-sex hormone treatment, surgery and mental health services.
Stigma and bullying will be one area to watch tor among people who are transgender or other types of sexual minorities like lesbian, gay or bisexual.
Andrew M. Seaman (@andrewmseaman) is an AHCJ member and a senior medical writer for Reuters Health in New York covering medical studies on a wide range of issues, including LGBT health. His work was recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in 2015.
You've written about many health topics that touch on health disparities. What other aspects involving the social determinants of health need more coverage? - Laura Ungar
Oral health and mental health are covered far less often than other aspects of care, and both of these areas would yield many good stories about health disparities.
And where there are disparities, there are often problems with the overall health system that a reporter is examining. In other words, disparities often point toward the weak link in a system.
Laura Ungar is a national/regional health enterprise reporter for USA Today and Gannett.
You've previously written a tip sheet for AHCJ on the intersection of poverty and health. What is one way poverty can be overlooked in health care coverage? – Carolyn Crist
When reporters focus on class and income in the U.S., they tend to look at the extremes — the wealthy 1 percent or unemployed people below the poverty line. With the changing health care landscape, I've found it important to focus on the "working poor," or those who have jobs but can't afford health care coverage. Many members of the middle class fall in this category.
Is the Affordable Care Act opening up opportunities for them, or are they finding it more difficult to see doctors or pay deductibles? I've heard tales from both sides, and both aspects are important to cover.
Carolyn Crist is a freelance journalist based in Georgia and the author of the Covering Poverty weekly newsletter.
You recently tracked down lead levels for the Cleveland Municipal School District that found dangerously high levels of lead in the water for at least 60 schools. What tips do you have for other reporters seeking local lead data? - Brie Zeltner
In Cleveland, we were fortunate that our local school district decided on its own to test the water in many older school buildings before we requested the information. If your school district, or city, hasn't taken such steps, you'll probably need to push.
Before you get the data, make sure you talk to an expert on toxics, water and EPA regulations — it'll save you a lot of headaches and help you ask the right questions about how the testing was done, and why.
Brie Zeltner (@briezeltner) of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was named as one of AHCJ's 2016-17 Regional Health Journalism fellows. The inaugural winner of the Urban Health Journalism Prize in 2015, Zeltner has been covering the health care industry and hospital news in northeast Ohio since 2007.
A lot of your work has looked into the consumer side of health care finances as a determinant of care. What are a few health care "pocketbook" issues worth reporters' time? – Paul Kiel
I'd say this: Medical expenses can be both enormously costly and enormously complicated, and that's a pretty bad combination. A recent Federal Reserve U.S. survey found that 22 percent of respondents experienced a major unexpected medical expense that they had to pay out of pocket in the prior year, and 46 percent of those who said they had a major medical expense reported that they currently owe debt from that expense. That's a whole lot of people struggling with this, and this is something (dealing with insurers and providers) that can be quite confusing and frustrating.
Paul Kiel is a reporter covering consumer finance at ProPublica. His stories have looked at the role of nonprofit hospitals and others serving poorer patients, race and debt, payday loans and the foreclosure crisis. He is the author of The Great American Foreclosure Story, an e-book.
How did you find people willing to go on the record about their home-care experience for your investigation? – Kelly Grant
One of the major challenges of the investigation was finding clients who were willing to publicly share their home-care experience. Many feared speaking out would make them a target for retaliation.
We found our subjects in three main ways:
Kelly Grant (@kellygrant1) is a health news reporter for The Globe and Mail in Ontario.
As an enterprise reporter, what tips do you have for fellow health writers who are searching for good story ideas and "big" pieces, especially when it comes to the more untold stories surrounding health disparities? – Laura Ungar
The theme of health disparities seems to show up in nearly every health story I write. For instance, I worked with health policy reporter Jayne O'Donnell at USA Today on a big project about Medicaid that explored many problems with access to care faced by low-income Americans, particularly the working poor.
I've also written about oral health disparities in Appalachia and difficulties low-income people face getting access to substance abuse treatment. If you look at practically any health topic today, socioeconomic and racial disparities are an issue, pushing up health costs and keeping our nation from moving up in world rankings of health status.
Laura Ungar is the national/regional health enterprise reporter for USA Today and Gannett. An award-winning writer, she is based in Louisville, Ky., at The Courier-Journal, where she spent a decade covering medical news. Previously, she spent eight years in Delaware at The News Journal and six years at The Hartford Courant in Connecticut. Her projects have examined cervical cancer in India, prescription drug abuse in Kentucky, cancer in Delaware and a breast cancer patient's dying mission. She's won more than 30 national, regional and local awards, including the annual company-wide prize from Gannett for long-form writing and a public health award from the Association of Health Care Journalists, among others.
You recently completed several stories geared toward patients and LGBT health care. What was one of the best resources you found to help you in your reporting? – Lisa Esposito
Whitman-Walker Health was one of the first resources I turned to. Located in the District of Columbia, it was a pioneer in treating gay men with HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s. Now it provides an array of services to LGBT people from health care to legal assistance, and is quick to offer journalists time with experts who can discuss the issues. Whitman-Walker connected me to a transgender patient to interview about his transition. GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality (previously known as the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association) is another great source for experts who combine professional and personal perspectives. Journalists can use GLMA's provider directory to find local facilities. If your focus is transgender health, the UCSF Center for Excellence in Transgender Care has medical experts and a website that details comprehensive care.
Lisa Esposito (@lisaespo) is a health reporter for U.S. News, focusing on patient advice. Her recent LGBT-related stories are here and here.
Your coverage of children and poverty won the inaugural Urban Health Journalism Prize in 2015. How has that impacted your view of urban health issues and journalism, and what more do you think could be done in that area? How would you encourage other health writers to get started in covering that area? – Brie Zeltner
It's not easy to work in the business that we've chosen to devote our time and energy to. It's much easier to live with the uncertainty in journalism if you're able to find a way to go after stories you really care about. I feel incredibly fortunate to have the support to do that right now.
My advice, which may not work for everyone, is that if there's a story you want to write, go write it. If there's an area of your coverage that you think is being neglected, shine some light on it. It's much harder for editors to turn down passion and a finished product.
Brie Zeltner (@briezeltner) joined the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2003 as an intern and has been covering the health care industry and hospital news in northeast Ohio since 2007. Her piece, More than half of Cleveland kids live in poverty, and it's making them sick, won the first Urban Health Journalism Prize.
Much of your work involves writing about medical studies, including some that look at LGBT health issues. What is something reporter and editors should keep in mind when reviewing studies involving these populations? – Andrew M. Seaman
Reporters and editors need to pay special attention to data quality when writing about studies involving LGBT populations. Until recently, data collection among large populations rarely asked about sexual orientation or gender identity. Even today, many of the studies looking at sexual minority groups have significant limitations. For example, they may include data on sexual orientation but not sexual partners. Also, reporters and editors should know that while researchers often lump LGBT populations together, transgender and gender non-conforming people face significantly different barriers, issues and realities than gay, lesbian and bisexual populations.
Andrew M. Seaman (@andrewmseaman) is an AHCJ member and a senior medical writer for Reuters Health in New York covering medical studies on a wide range of issues, including LGBT health. His work was recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in 2015.
How do you find compelling personal stories on what can be difficult health subjects to talk about? – Olga Khazan
It's definitely tricky: Usually the person has already lived through a very difficult health ordeal, and now you're asking them to walk you back through it just for a news story. Sometimes, though, people say they find it cathartic to talk about what's happened to them. I do a lot of social media call-outs seeking individuals with specific experiences. Sometimes I'll comb through online message boards or look to certain advocacy or consumer groups. If the person is unsure about being interviewed, I'll walk them through what it would mean to be quoted, both the advantages and disadvantages. A lot of people say "no," but sometimes people say "yes." Hopefully, as stigma around mental and physical health issues continues to decrease, more people will be willing to come forward and share their experiences with journalists.
Olga Khazan (@olgakhazan) is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers health. She was a finalist for the New York Academy of Medicine's 2014 Urban Health Journalism Prize.
How, if at all, did your recent wellness reporting impact you and your own thoughts or attitude toward healthy habits? – Barbara Anderson
I walked away from the series with admiration for the people I met who struggle day-to-day with a chronic illness. They aren't willing to give up, no matter the odds stacked against them. And I gained an appreciation for programs that are accessible to people with chronic illnesses.
So many such patients are low-income and can't pay for gym memberships and nutrition counseling to stay fit – a key part of preventing diabetes and heart disease – or buy items such as a high-efficiency vacuum cleaner to prevent asthma attacks.
Barbara Anderson (@beehealthwriter) has reported on health at The Fresno Bee since 1999. She recently published a month-long, front-page series spotlighting serious chronic conditions, taking a fresh look a programs tackling asthma, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
Several experts appear in the piece, each of them contributing solid quotes and revealing perspectives. How did you choose the experts, and did you interview others and eliminate all but the best? – Dan Gorenstein
Perhaps to the irritation of my editor, I talked to a lot of people. There are one or two other experts I still wish I could have included in the story. While I've done very little print reporting, print can carry the weight of lots of experts. In radio, I think the best pieces are more of a blend of experts and "real people." If you end up with too many talking heads and not enough 'story' the piece often bogs down.
Dan Gorenstein is the senior health care reporter for the public radio business show Marketplace, covering the business of health care. Gorenstein recently reported on how a personal story can illustrate the physiological effects of stress. Prior to Marketplace, he spent more than 11 years at New Hampshire Public Radio. He's won numerous national and local awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award.
It's easy to blame disadvantaged people for engaging in behaviors that put them at risk for developing diabetes. In the short space of a typical news article, how do you explain the deeper environmental and social forces that contribute to higher rates of unhealthy behavior and illness in low-income neighborhoods? – Rhiannon Meyers
One of the trickiest parts about reporting my yearlong series on South Texas' diabetes crisis was bridging the divide between what medical professionals told me and what I saw when I visited with patients.
Over and over again, I heard doctors blame our region's high rates of diabetes and related complications on noncompliant patients unwilling to make the necessary changes to get healthy. But when I met people at their homes, attended their doctors' appointments with them and ate dinners with them, I realized that "noncompliant" didn't take into account all of the barriers they faced in eating healthy, exercising and managing their diabetes. How do you exercise when your neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks and you don't feel safe walking around outside? How do you count carbs if you don't know how to read nutritional labels? How do you worry about your diabetes when there are so many other, more pressing concerns: How to pay rent, keep the electricity on, buy dinner? And there's no way the doctor in the span of a 15-minute appointment could've seen all of these barriers their patients faced.
I'm a big believer in show-don't-tell journalism. To illustrate the underlying social and environmental factors factoring in to our region's diabetes crisis, I've spent a lot of time with sources, usually at their homes, asking a lot of detailed questions about their lives. And I employ those details in my stories to paint a picture of the social determinants of health. I think readers better understand the concept when they see it in the people I write about. I wrote about one woman who started jogging to get off insulin after her doctor warned her she would die soon if she didn't lose weight. I went running with her one morning before sunrise. We jogged along the sidewalk in her neighborhood, dodging the cracks and the spots overgrown with weeds, which was difficult because it was really dark. There were no streetlamps illuminating the path. I subtly weaved those details into my story to show the struggles she faced in getting healthy. The anecdote wasn't long - two sentences tops - but by describing that run, readers could better understand why she was having a hard time losing weight and getting her Type 2 diabetes under control. And perhaps they could relate. Eli Saslow's recent Washington Post piece, "Too much of too little," which explored a food stamps diet in South Texas mastered the concept of describing the social determinants of health through a series of compelling narratives.
What's even more important for journalists than being able to explain these social determinants is understanding them well enough to ask the right questions and challenge those who dismiss chronic illness as strictly a matter of "personal responsibility," another phrase I heard often in this series. Understanding how someone's diabetes can be affected by where and how they live helped me provide richer context to my stories. It also allowed me to explore what our community is doing, and what it is not doing, to address our Type 2 diabetes crisis in a meaningful way.
Rhiannon Meyers, a reporter at The (Corpus Christi, Texas) Caller-Times, is author of "Cost of Diabetes," a yearlong series of articles on the diabetes problem in South Texas. She received an AHCJ Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance.
How did you find mothers willing to talk about being unable to buy enough diapers for their children? – Eryn Brown
The conversations with the diaper banks helped me establish that there were many mothers and caretakers in the region who couldn't get their hands on enough diapers.
Finding one of those mothers to talk with took a bit more legwork.
Both diaper donation groups work with partner nonprofits, who distribute diapers (usually, as an incentive for parents who complete parenting classes). I worked through one of these partner non-profits, Children's Institute Inc., to find a 41-year-old mom in Los Angeles who was willing to meet with me at her son's daycare center and talk about her own struggles with diaper need.
She told me that she had foregone food some days to get diapers for her baby. A friend had been arrested for stealing diapers.
Eryn Brown, who wrote about mothers who must re-use diapers because they can't afford an adequate supply, has been a reporter since 1994. She joined the Los Angeles Times in 2006 and moved to the paper's Science and Health desk in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @LATerynbrown.
Once the data analysis and mapping revealed vast differences in life expectancy for nearby neighborhoods, how did you find people to profile? – Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman
We upped the ante by deciding to seek subjects living in the ZIP codes with the lowest, highest and average life expectancies, which narrowed our options but told the most powerful story. We also sought to profile a child living in a neighborhood with high asthma rates who was struggling with the condition and an adult with heart disease living in an area with high death rates from it.
This would help show how lack of access to good food, convenient transportation, decent housing and fear of crime in poor neighborhoods, among other factors, contribute to the chronic stress and exposure to pollutants which trigger these and other diseases.
We also showed how even the middle-class are affected by this health disparity, although less severely than poorer residents.
It proved challenging to find suitable profile subjects, as well as ones willing to have their lives described in newspapers. It took many dozens of calls and numerous dead ends before we finally found appropriate profile subjects.
Neighborhood groups, churches and nonprofits in these ZIP codes were called, as well as hospitals and clinics. The Alameda County Public Health Department helped find a subject in the neighborhood with the lowest life expectancy. These calls, and the many referrals they netted, finally yielded results; we found ideal subjects for all neighborhoods.
How, if at all, did your recent wellness reporting impact you and your own thoughts or attitude toward healthy habits? – Barbara Anderson
I walked away from the series with admiration for the people I met who struggle day-to-day with a chronic illness. They aren't willing to give up, no matter the odds stacked against them. And I gained an appreciation for programs that are accessible to people with chronic illnesses.
So many such patients are low-income and can't pay for gym memberships and nutrition counseling to stay fit – a key part of preventing diabetes and heart disease – or buy items such as a high-efficiency vacuum cleaner to prevent asthma attacks.
Barbara Anderson (@beehealthwriter) has reported on health at The Fresno Bee since 1999. She recently published a month-long, front-page series spotlighting serious chronic conditions, taking a fresh look a programs tackling asthma, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
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* House Of Blues Gospel Brunch (Downtown Disney)
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* Boston Lobster Feast, I-Drive
* Buddy Freddy's, several locations
* Holiday House, Lee Road
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Explore and appreciate the world around you through a variety of media. You are encouraged to create works that are products of your experiences. The program's environment is such that you are encouraged to develop your own strengths and style.
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