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I gladly give my permission for any family member to use any photos that I post (be aware that this does not apply to photos belonging to Judy Campbell).
If I have any photos of people that you want for your home, please let me know - I will be happy to send you the largest (best for print) file that I have.
Should you have old photos that are damaged, I would be happy to repair them (some can be repaired quite well...others marginally).
I am fascinated by old cemeteries. My favorite in California is the Phillips Ranch cemetery. The old English cemetery near Mulege (Baja), and the old Grand Canyon cemetery are also quite interesting. My favorite of all is the Fredricksted cemetery on St Croix.
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Herbert & Mildred Christiansen
Hi there - I just posted a picture of their grave that I took last week. Enjoy!
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Arlis Ross
HELLO, my Name is Arlis Ross and I noticed you had left flowers at many of my ancestors memorials. I am wondering if you might be a relative or family friend and if so,we might have information to share.
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Janet K
Still born Girl Clarkson photo request
You have a photo request for (Still Born Girl) Clarkson in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw, MI.
There is an Infant John Clarkson buried in Forest Lawn with a date of birth/death (stillborn) of 12/2/1913. There is no record of any other Clarkson with a date of death in 1913 in that cemetery.
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She's my 7th great grandmother, too! Let's see how we are related.
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Im Distantly Related to her Would love to chat with u plz reply
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Hi Sunny: I found the obituary for Ernst and added it to his memorial. I thought you might enjoy reading it. Leilani
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Hi, just wanted you to know I attempted to fulfill your request for a headstone picture. I visited Downey District Cemetery yesterday and was overwhelmed. My husband and I walked off rows for over a hour and didn't make a dent in the search. It has almost 3,000 graves, many of the headstones are very worn - hard to read, no one on site to help...without a plot number, etc. it is going to be almost impossible to find the grave.
I called the city this morning to request direction. Their database is down (hopefully be up in about a month), the only employee available to assist with such a request is part-time and when the database is up, she has other requests ahead of mine. Additionally, they don't have a very helpful map of the cemetery even after we get the plot number.
Sorry, but I'll keep trying. Hopefully you'll get a picture within the year.
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Thank you for the suggestion to post about Dobbs cemetery being inaccessible at this time. Is it possible to post this message to the cemetery page instead of only to the individual memorials?
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You are welcome.
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I have great grandparents in the Penfield family. I have one copy document in my folder that you may be interested in. It was written Nov. 5, 1919 to Miss Grace A. Stayt, Galesburg, Ill...maybe a relation? It was written by someone in Hartford, CT and provided my first solid Penfield leads. I noticed your last name is Stayt and you'd posted on William Penfield's page. Please let me know if you'd like a copy and I'll be happy to scan and send to you. My e-mail address is email@example.com. Best regards, Bill Haner
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Nancy Bjella, longtime Mobridge teacher, dies
Nancy Gay Bjella, 86, of Bismarck, N.D., passed away on Dec. 23, 2012, at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center.
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Nancy was born on April 4, 1926, in Mobridge, the daughter of Leonard and Lucy (Kingsbury) Clark. She was raised and educated in Mobridge, graduating from Mobridge High School in 1944 after being very active in choral, vocal and ensemble music. Her love of music led her to attend Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, where she attained a BA in music. She majored in vocal plus graduate work at Northern State University in Aberdeen and summer observation work at UCLA.
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Upon retiring, she and her husband, Herb, moved to Bismarck where for a short time she worked as teacher's assistant at Roosevelt School. Later she accepted a position with North Dakota Department of Human Services from 1978 to 1991. Nancy enjoyed her work immensely and her co-workers became very meaningful friends. During this time she became a member of the McCabe Chancel Choir and later became the choir's director. In 1988, she began organizing the McCabe Centennial Choir and in 1989 the group, attired in 1880s dress, traveled around the state representing the history of Methodist hymn-singing in North Dakota. The Centennial Commission recognized the group as an official representative. Later, the group continued singing under the name, Sounds of The Gospel. She was a very active person and loved the western atmosphere until the day she died.
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She is survived by nieces, Suzanne (Roger) Haug of Mandan, Libby (Frank) Kilzer of Bismarck, and Diana Clark and Linda Clark, both of Bonners Ferry, Idaho; nephews, Chris Clark of Bonners Ferry, Dave (Sue) Clark of Bismarck, and Tracy Clark, Missoula, Mont.
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Final Major Project // Perception of type
University of Greenwich // Year 3 May 2012
University of Greenwich // Year 3 May 2012
Typography is a huge aspect of design, and through my threeyears at university I have found that how people perceive it can varyenormously. What is good typography? Is it a matter of opinion?
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|Kay O'Loughlin Kennedy
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Concern Worldwide (often referred to as Concern) is Ireland's largest aid and humanitarian agency.[1] Since its foundation 49 years ago it has worked in 50 countries and currently employs 3,200 staff in 25 countries around the world.[2] Concern works to help those living in the world's poorest countries to achieve real and lasting improvements in their lives.[3] Concern is engaged in long term development work, in addition to emergency relief in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Concern's core work focuses on health, hunger and humanitarian response in emergencies.[4] They work in partnership with small community groups as well as governments and large global organisations. Concern is just one of fourteen fully certified members of Humanitarian Accountability Partnership.[5]
Concern Worldwide US is an affiliate of Concern Worldwide. It has offices in New York City and Chicago. Concern Worldwide is a partner of the One Campaign.
Concern Worldwide was set up by a small group of people including John and Kay O'Loughlin Kennedy in their home in Dublin in March 1968, following an appeal for aid by missionaries for the starving population of war torn Biafra. In June 1968 Africa Concern as it was originally called, launched their famine appeal "Send One Ship". The ship, the Colmcille landed off the coast of Biafra in September 1968 with supplies of powdered food and medicine. In 1970 the public were asked to respond to the cyclone in East Pakistan and Africa Concern became Concern.[6]
Concern's Work[edit]
Concern has worked in 50 countries and currently employs just under 3,200 staff in 25 countries around the world delivering programmes benefitting 8.5 million people annually.[7] Concern's work is centered on 5 main programmes, Education, Emergencies, HIV and AIDS, Health and Livelihoods. Concern launched an appeal to tackle the drought in East Africa[8] in June 2011. They also responded to the earthquake in Haiti[9] and the floods in Pakistan.[10] The Chief Executive Officer is Dominic MacSorley. Concern is a member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership.
Concern is controlled and regulated by its members who have responsibility for the Articles of Association, election of the Council, appointment of the auditors and approval of accounts. The Council of Concern is elected from membership at each AGM. The maximum number on the Council is 24 and one third must step down every year. They meet at least 4 times per year. The Council is accountable to the relevant government Minister to ensure that the Companies Act is adhered to. They are also accountable to the general public to ensure that donations are put to an appropriate use.[11] Concern is the first Irish Charity to receive certification from the Geneva-based organisation Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), which works to make humanitarian work more accountable and transparent through self-regulation, compliance verification, and quality assurance certification.[12] Concern is a member of the Irish Charities and Tax Research Reform Group.[13] Concern Worldwide's annual report and accounts won the charity and not-for-profit category in the annual Chartered Accountants Leinster Society awards for published accounts for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[14]
Concern raises money from individuals, communities, sponsored events and companies as well as receiving financial support from the Irish government, European Union, the United Nations, the British government and other government agencies, private donors, and major trusts.[15] Concern is one of many charities that use street collectors often referred to as Chuggers (charity muggers).[16] In 2007, the Irish Government announced a 5-year strategic funding programme with Concern which would see funding double from €60 million (for the period 2003 to 2006) to €148 million over the 5-year period from 2007 to 2011.[17] Subsequent to the announcement, Irish Aid announced a series of cutbacks to Ireland's Official Development Aid, including the programme under which Concern was funded.[18]
Current campaigns[edit]
1000 DAYS[edit]
By improving nutrition in the 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child's second birthday, Concern hopes to help families, communities and countries break the cycle of poverty and hunger.[19]
Ongoing initiatives[edit]
Concern Fast[edit]
The Concern Fast is a sponsored 24-hour fast and programme of events to raise money to fight child malnutrition.[20]
Creative Writing Competition[edit]
Since 2008 Concern has run an annual creative writing competition in a number of age categories.[21] In 2012, they received hundreds of essays from all over the world [22]
Concern Challenges[edit]
Concern runs a number of different physical challenges around the world during the year which provides participants with the opportunity to fund raise.[23]
Further reading[edit]
Tony Farmar, Believing in action: Concern the first thirty years, 1968–1998. (Dublin, A. & A. Farmar, 2002) ISBN 1-899047-81-6
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- International Community must help people of Haiti build a better future by Tom Arnold
- Praise for Ireland's approach to hunger
- Father Aengus Finucane - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Irish Aid Background Note for the Minister of State
- Millennium Development Goals
- ^ "Irish Aid : Background note for the Minister of State March 2011".
- ^ "Our History : Concern Worldwide".
- ^ "About Concern".
- ^ "About Our Programmes : Concern Worldwide".
- ^ "Humanitarian Accountability Partnership".
- ^ "Our History : Concern Worldwide".
- ^ "Annual Report : Concern Worldwide".
- ^ Gartland, Fiona (2 August 2011). "Concern Appeals for more aid for Africa: Irish Times". The Irish Times.
- ^ "YouTube : Tom Arnold of Concern Worldwide thanking the public for their support of the people of Haiti".
- ^ "Our work in Pakistan : Concern Worldwide".
- ^ "How we are governed : Concern Worldwide".
- ^ "How About us : Humanitarian Accountability Partnership".
- ^ "Chartered Accountants".
- ^ "How we raise money-Concern Worldwide".
- ^ Blackley, Michael (10 March 2010). "Call for Crackdown on Charity Collectors : The Scotsman, 10 March 2010". Edinburgh.
- ^ "Minister Lenihan to announce new €148 million multi-annual package for Concern".
- ^ http://www.dochas.ie/shared/files/1/090501-government_cuts_support_to_irish_charities.pdf Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "https://www.concern.net/get-involved/campaign-with-us/1000-days". Concern Worldwide. Retrieved 2016-10-04. External link in
- ^ "Concern Fast".
- ^ "Concern Writing Competition".
- ^ "Concern Writing Competition". The Irish Times. 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Concern Challenges".


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Minorities in health stories: How newspapers promote stereotypes,
role models, and awareness of social challenges
Paper submitted to the Minorities and Communications Division
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annaheim, California
August 10-13, 1996
Minorities in health stories: How newspapers promote stereotypes,
role models, and awareness of social challenges
Kristie Alley Swain
Ph.D. student,
College of Journalism and Communications
2000 Weimer Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
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College of Journalism & Communications
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Paper submitted to the Minorities and Communications Division
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Annaheim, California August 10-13, 1996
Minorities in health stories: How newspapers promote stereotypes,
role models, and awareness of social challenges
Many news accounts based on facts subtly reinforce racial stereotypes
when they present minorities in a negative light. This study of minority
portrayals in health stories is a content analysis of 134 health-related
articles containing minority coverage that were published in U.S. newspapers
during 1993. After 400 articles from six elite U.S. newspapers and 1,000
non-elite newspaper health articles were downloaded from Lexis/Nexis, these
health stories were analyzed for minority keywords in order to select the 134
health stories (9.6 percent of health stories) that included minority coverage.
The dependent variable was the nature of the minority coverage, while the
independent variable was the play the stories received. Minority coverage
included five dimensions: headline content, story focus, theme of minority
coverage, diseases included in minority coverage and identification of minority
groups that received coverage. The four play variables were newspaper type
(elite or non-elite), wordcount, story placement, and newspaper section type.
Themes were grouped into three categories: those promoting awareness of
health-related challenges facing minorities, those supporting racial
stereotypes, and those promoting a positive or role model image of minorities.
Minorities in health stories: How newspapers promote stereotypes,
role models, and awareness of social challenges
This content analysis studied health-related articles containing
minority coverage published in U.S. newspapers during 1993. After 400 articles
from six elite U.S. newspapers and 1,000 non-elite newspaper health articles
were downloaded from the Lexis/Nexis online database, these stories were
analyzed for minority keywords to select the 134 health stories that included
minority coverage (defined as headline content, story focus, coverage theme,
diseases included in minority coverage and identification of minority groups).
Four play variables were newspaper type (elite or non-elite), wordcount, story
placement, and section type.
Minorities in health stories: How newspapers promote stereotypes,
role models, and awareness of social challenges
On any given day, many news accounts based on facts subtly reinforce
racial stereotypes when they present minorities in a persistently negative
light. Most studies of stereotyping have focused on portrayals of
African-Americans over time and the number of photos of blacks in news and
advertisements, but little has been written about the portrayal of minorities in
health coverage.
After 1965, the year of the Watts riots in Los Angeles, political and
religious critics accused the nation's media organizations for stereotypical
portrayals of African Americans and failure to report on the social inequalities
faced by African Americans. These critics claimed that the portrayals presented
African Americans only as train porters, sports heroes, entertainers, or
criminals and that these stereotypes fueled the frustration that led to the
violence (Lester, 1994).
In a study of photos in Life, Newsweek, and Time magazines from 1937 to
1988, Lester and Smith (1990) found that percentages of African American
visibility have increased over the years, especially in the categories of
everyday life, prominent person, and advertisement subject categories rather
than the stereotypes of crime, sports, and entertainment subject categories.
The Kerner Commission's report on civil disorders (1968), accused the
media of "failing to portray the Negro as a matter of routine and in the context
of the total society," which in turn "contributed to the black-white schism in
this country." Thibodeau (1989) argues that when today's norms regarding what
constitutes stereotyping or subtle racism are not clear, media professionals
face the risk of inadvertently invoking a stereotype.
Martindale (1986) examined African-American portrayals in stories,
columns, letters to the editor, and pictures in the New York Times, Boston
Globe, Chicago Tribune, and Atlanta Constitution. She concluded that editors
have shown "an increased awareness of blacks, and perhaps a desire to cover them
more extensively and realistically than in the past." Sentman (1982), who
looked at African-American coverage in Life magazine from 1937 to 1972, found
that although there was a sharp increase in the total percentage of
African-Americans in the last two years of her study, coverage of blacks
constituted a minute portion of Life's content.
Moore (1990) notes that when newspapers are confronted with complaints
about negative reporting about minorities, many journalists raise the issue of
pandering. In 1994, nearly two-thirds of African Americans said they were upset
at least once a week by the way news organizations cover black issues, according
to a USA Today / CNN / Gallup poll. African Americans are far less satisfied by
press coverage of minority issues than Hispanics or Asians. The telephone poll
also found that a third of blacks, Hispanics, or Asians read their local paper
six or seven days of the week.
In its third annual "State of Hispanic America," the National Council of
La Raza argued that newspapers tend to focus on Latinos as "objects of the news
to be commented on by others, rather than as subjects of the news who have an
authoritative or legitimate perspective to share" (Fitzgerald, 1994, p. 11).
Further, the NCLR argued that Hispanics are often treated as either perpetrators
or victims of crime, drugs, poverty, and sloth.
Lee (1994) notes that Asians are stereotyped as the hardworking, docile,
and meek model minority, while Chinatowns are portrayed as exotic ghettos where
crime is rampant and where a flood of new immigrants are straining resources and
taking away jobs. In her on-line content analysis of 27 major U.S. newspapers
from 1989-1993, Lee found that 2,007 stories covered Asian Americans, 5,282
covered African Americans, and 4,710 covered Hispanic Americans.
Conflict theory, as developed by Duke (1972) assumes that the news and
entertainment media reflect societal issues. Corea (1993) argues that the
television entertainment industry has deliberately developed programs that
broadcast stereotypical projections of African American life, from "Amos 'n'
Andy," "The Jeffersons," and "Sanford and Son" to the more recent sitcoms.
In its coverage of minorities, the news media can create and reinforce a
distorted image of these groups. In her analysis of New Yorker cartoons
portraying black characters, Thibodeau (1989) defined stereotypes as traits and
behaviors that are common to all human beings but are overgeneralized to a
particular group.
Stereotypes "become destructive when they provoke prejudiced,
undifferentiated attributions about the personalities of individuals belonging
to the stereotyped group," Thibodeau argues (p. 492). For example, when
Dickerson (1994) used frame analysis to examine New York Times coverage of two
professors' controversial remarks about race, she found that a black professor
was framed as "illegitimate" while a Jewish professor was framed as
Lee (1994) contends that media images play a key role not only in
constructing opinions and attitudes about minorities, but also shape how
minorities see themselves in the context of the larger society. The concept of
media framing, which undergirds the premise of this study, has three different
theoretical meanings:
(1) news frames, in which an organizing news story line can be framed
with various devices such as catch phrases, depiction, and examples (Gamson and
Modigliani, 1989). The placement, headlines, and other organizing elements of a
news story are presumed to guide the construction of meanings. The amount of
material presented to the readers helps determine a frame's importance. Sizing
reflects how important a story is to the newspaper and tells the reader about a
story's importance relative to the rest of the day's stories. Bleske (1994)
found that headlines cue readers to organize and integrate the material with
prior information in their memories.
(2) schematic frames, in which an person's knowledge, beliefs, and
experiences lead, emphasize, and select a certain line of interpretations
(Gamson, 1992).
(3) social/contextual frames, in which both news discourse and audience
interpretations simplify and conceptualize ideologies and cultural norms
(Morley, 1992).
This study is a content analysis of 134 health-related articles
containing minority coverage that were published in U.S. newspapers during 1993.
This particular year was selected for analysis because it is assumed to be the
most recent year before health care reform became the central health-related
issue in the news media. Thus, it was hoped that health coverage from 1993
would show a representative range of story themes and would not be skewed by the
political health care reform agenda.
Lexis/Nexis, a full-text on-line database, was the source of these
articles. A health article was operationally defined by a string of 69
keywords that appeared in the headline or lead of the articles (Figure 1). This
list of keywords was developed by analyzing health-related stories in a variety
of newspapers and by including names of diseases or other health problems listed
as the top causes of death in the 1990 U.S. census report.
The sampling strategy excluded business journals, obituaries, newswires,
journals, and magazines. A sample of 400 articles was drawn, using systematic
random sampling, from six elite U.S. newspapers: New York Times, Chicago
Tribune, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street
journal. Wall Street Journal articles were downloaded, using the same keywords,
from Wall Street Journal-Ondisc (a CD-ROM archive) because Lexis/Nexis does not
include full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal. These six newspapers
were selected because of their national prominence, their large circulations,
and the elite status conferred on them by previous agenda-setting studies (i.e.,
Shoemaker et al (1989), Shaw and McCombs (1977), and McCombs (1981).
A second systematic random sample of 1,000 non-elite U.S. newspaper
health articles was downloaded from Lexis/Nexis (Table 1). Using a word search
function in the Microsoft Word software package, the 1,400 stories were analyzed
for minority keywords (see Figure 1), in order to select the 134 health stories
(9.6 percent of health stories) that included minority coverage.
One coder analyzed all articles, while a second coder analyzed 20
percent of the articles in order to estimate intercoder reliability. Overall
intercoder reliability was 78.3 percent. The intercoder reliability was 96.4
percent in determining whether a headline was minority-related, 78.6 percent in
determining the minority focus of an article, 96.3 percent in determining which
minority groups were the focus of an article, 87.2 percent in determining the
theme of the minority coverage, 75.5 percent in determining which minorities
received any coverage in an article, 64 percent in determining whether this
minority coverage was about a group, individual, or both; and 45 percent in
determining the precise number of words devoted to each instance of
minority-related coverage. The variables that had intercoder reliabilities of
less than 75 percent were not included in the analysis, but will be recoded
using a different coding scheme. Thus, the valid overall intercoder reliability
for the variables which were included in this study is 86.4 percent.
The unit of analysis for this study was a health-related newspaper
article. The dependent variable was the nature of the minority coverage, while
the independent variable was the play the stories received in the newspapers.
Minority coverage included five dimensions: headline content, story focus, theme
of minority coverage, diseases included in minority coverage and identification
of minority groups that receive coverage. The four play variables were
newspaper type (elite or non-elite), wordcount, story placement, and newspaper
section type.
Headline: The headline of each article was coded according to whether
it contained the name of a minority group or a general minority keyword
(minority, ethnic, racial, race, or immigrant).
Focus: The focus of the article was classified as a specific minority
group, a specific minority individual, more than one minority group or
individual, or no minority or minority issue.
Theme: The theme of the minority-related coverage within an article
was classified using a coding scheme developed through a preliminary screening
of minority articles.
Diseases: When the minority coverage theme was about disease
prevention efforts or how a minority is disproportionately affected by disease,
the coders were asked to identify the diseases or other health problems
associated with this coverage.
Identification of Minorities: If the focus of an article was
classified as minority- oriented, the coders used a classification scheme to
identify the ethnicity of the group or to identify the focus as a general
minority issue.
Newspaper Type: Each story was classified as an elite newspaper (New
York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post, or
Wall Street Journal) or as a non-elite newspaper.
Wordcount: The total wordcount was provided within the Lexis/Nexis
header of each article. A minimum wordcount of 500 words was established in
order to eliminate briefs.
Placement: The coders recorded the letter or number identifying the
section, as well as the page number. This information was provided in the
Lexis/Nexis header of each article. The section and page number were then
combined to indicate whether an article was a front page, section front, or
interior story.
Section Type: The section type of each article, provided in the
Lexis/Nexis header, was classified according to whether it was national,
local/state/regional, health/science, financial, features, or
The use of the Lexis/Nexis full-text database posed unique challenges
and possibilities for content analysis. One limitation is that coders cannot
see the visual placement of stories on a page. Also, the researcher must impose
an operational definition of content in using keyword search strategies, which
seldom can be exhaustive enough to retrieve every article containing the desired
content or selective enough to eliminate every article containing irrelevant
usages of the keywords. Another disadvantage of databases is that none can
archive every newspaper in publication nor every article from those newspapers
it does include.
Traditional newspaper content analysis calls for drawing a random sample
from all articles in a given time period, or looking up articles cited in a
newspaper index. When studying a relatively narrow topic, the sample typically
yields a small number of stories. An advantage in using a keyword search is
that a database can quickly and efficiently retrieve every article within a
specific time frame, search for keywords within a particular story segment, such
as the headline or lead, and can exclude newspapers and story types that are not
needed. Also, the database provides information at the top of each article,
such as section type, story location, and wordcount, which can require tedious
coder effort when using bound newspapers or microfiche to measure widths and
lengths of columns, dealing with stories that jump from one page to another, or
manually counting hundreds of words in a story.
Since this is a descriptive study involving a population of articles, no
tests were performed to assess whether any differences are significant.
Analysis of play variables
Most health stories containing minority coverage did not mention a
minority in the headline (79 percent). Of the stories that did have a
minority-oriented headline, all contained less than 2,000 words, two-thirds were
in non-elite newspapers. These stories most frequently focused on Native
Americans, followed by African Americans, Hispanics, immigrants, and general
minorities (Tables 2 and 4).
About 63 percent of all stories were interior stories. About 60 percent
did not actually focus on a minority group or person. Of the ones that did, 22
percent focused on a minority group, 6 percent focused on a minority individual,
and 12 percent focused on two or more minority groups. Non-elite newspapers
were more than twice as likely to focus on a specific minority group, and were
three times as likely to focus on two or more minority groups.
Of the stories with a minority focus, 37 percent appeared in the
national section, 34 percent appeared in the local, state, or regional section,
10 percent appeared in the features section, 8 percent appeared in an opinion
section, and 2 percent appeared in the health or science section. About 8
percent of stories with a minority focus were front page stories, while a third
were section front stories and the remaining 41 percent were interior stories
(Table 3).
Most stories were interior stories (61 percent), while 23 percent were
section front stories and 13 percent were front page stories. Most with a
minority headline were interior stories (59 percent), 34 percent were section
front stories, and 7 percent appeared on the front page (Table 6)
Most stories appearing in the national, features, and opinion sections
focused on African Americans, while those appearing in the local/state section
were more often about Hispanics. The only story with a minority focus appearing
in the health section was about Asians (Table 5). Most national section stories
received interior placement, while most local/state/regional section stories
were section front or interior stories. Most financial stories received section
front placement. All health or science stories were interior, while most
features and opinion section stories also were interior (Table 6)
A secondary analysis of the coded stories resulted in 22 disease
categories. This is similar to the results of a content analysis of health
articles published in three African-American interest magazines between 1981 and
1991, in which Cobb (1993) identified 24 types of health disorders. As in the
present study, Cobb found that the largest number of health articles featured
When themes were associated with disease coverage, the minority coverage
usually focused on how a minority is disproportionately affected by disease or
about disease prevention efforts targeting minorities. The diseases
disproportionately affecting minorities included AIDS, Hantavirus, infant
mortality, tuberculosis, heart disease, ovarian cancer, apnea, breast cancer,
diabetes, fetal alcohol syndrome, kidney disease, prostate cancer, skin
diseases, and asthma. Stories about minority disease prevention efforts usually
focused on AIDS (28 percent of these stories), followed by diabetes, eating
disorders, preventable childhood diseases (each accounting for 11 percent of
these stories), and breast cancer, eye diseases, heart disease, hepatitis,
hypertension, oral cancer, and tuberculosis. When disease coverage was
associated with discrimination in health care delivery, it discussed AIDS, fetal
alcohol syndrome, or prostate cancer. Discussion of the Hantavirus appeared in
coverage about racial stereotypes (Table 7).
When a minority group was mentioned in the headline, the disease
associated with the group was most often the Hantavirus, followed by AIDS,
diabetes, heart disease, eye diseases, oral cancer, and ovarian cancer. The
Hantavirus also received the most coverage within stories focusing on a specific
minority group, the Native Americans. Other stories focusing on a specific
minority group covered AIDS, heart disease, eye diseases, and infant mortality.
AIDS was the most frequently covered disease within stories focusing on two or
more minority groups. When a story focused on a minority individual, it
discussed AIDS as associated with Arthur Ashe, breast cancer associated with a
malpractice suit against a Hispanic doctor, and skin diseases associated with
Michael Jackson (Table 8).
When a story focused on African Americans, the coverage usually
discussed an AIDS issue, which accounted for 55 percent of the disease coverage
about this group. Other African-American diseases included preventable
childhood diseases, heart disease, infant mortality, and skin diseases. The
only disease-related coverage in stories focusing on Asians discussed heart
disease. The stories focusing on Hispanics most frequently discussed AIDS,
followed by diabetes, preventable childhood diseases, breast cancer, eye
diseases, and heart disease. Coverage of the Hantavirus accounted for 18
percent of all stories that included discussion of a disease, and these stories
focused on Native Americans. Diabetes also was discussed in a Native American
story. Among stories focusing on immigrants, the disease coverage addressed
AIDS, heart disease, preventable childhood diseases, and eye diseases. When a
story focused on minorities in general, the disease coverage addressed diabetes
and eye diseases
(Table 9).
Minority-related disease coverage that made front page news included
AIDS, breast cancer, diabetes, Hantavirus, hepatitis, hypertension, ovarian
cancer, and tuberculosis. The disease discussion that was always buried in the
interior pages included infant mortality, fetal alcohol syndrome, eating
disorders, kidney disease, oral cancer, prostate cancer, and skin diseases.
Discussion of AIDS was almost twice as likely to appear in a non-elite
newspaper, while discussion of preventable childhood diseases, kidney disease,
ovarian cancer, and skin diseases only appeared in elite newspapers. Diseases
that exclusively appeared in non-elite newspapers included discussion of
tuberculosis, infant mortality, breast cancer, apnea, eating disorders,
hepatitis, prostate cancer, and asthma (Table 10).
Of the longest stories containing disease discussion, those more than
1,500 words, half talked about AIDS. Other diseases that appeared in long
stories were tuberculosis (25 percent of these stories), apnea and asthma (12.5
percent each). Of the shortest stories, 500 to 1,000 words, AIDS was again the
most frequently discussed disease (27 percent of these stories), and other
frequently discussed diseases in these stories were the Hantavirus and infant
mortality (Table 11).
Most minority coverage of disease appeared in the national section (32
percent), local / state / regional (30 percent), or features (24 percent)
sections, not the health or science section (5 percent). About 6 percent of
disease coverage appeared in an opinion section (Table 12).
The 33 themes identified in minority coverage within health stories
could be grouped into three categories: those promoting awareness of
health-related challenges facing minorities, those supporting racial
stereotypes, and those promoting a positive or role model image of minorities.
Promoting awareness of challenges
Weaver and Garrett (1983) argue that "nowhere is discrimination more
prevalent than in the treatment which women and minorities receive at the hands
of the health industry" (p.79). In the present study, the coverage themes that
promoted awareness of this and other special minority challenges included issues
discrimination in health care delivery or financing
disease prevention efforts targeting minorities
how minorities are disproportionately affected by disease
lack of minority health care providers
the problem of racial stereotypes
adoption of minority children
environmental racism
ethnic genocide in the past
the need for health care facilities for minorities
health care reform issues
nutrition of ethnic food,
parenting issues for minorities
the implications of racial differences in pharmaceutical effects
job discrimination in hospitals
These stories tended to be the longest, typically more than 1,500 words
(Table 13) and nearly 82 percent of stories with a minority headline covered one
of these themes (Table 14).
Reinforcing racial stereotypes
Weaver and Garrett (1983) contend that race role stereotyping acts to
dissuade ethnic minorities from seeking entry into medicine, dentistry, health
care administration, or pharmacy and that media organizations systematically
exclude minorities who have succeeded in the health professions.
Some of the coverage themes could be viewed as subtly reinforcing racial
stereotypes, even when the stories are factual. In this study, these themes
w labeling the Hantavirus as the "Navajo flu" by stating that Navajos
are disproportionately affected by the disease
w substance abuse among African Americans, Asians, Native Americans,
and minorities in general, which can reinforce the image of minorities as
problem citizens
w AIDS among minority groups, which can reinforce the stereotype of
immoral, promiscuous or drug-abusing minorities
w ban of HIV-infected immigrants, which creates a fearful,
disease-ridden image of all immigrants, especially Haitians and Cubans
w cultural factors in fitness, which stated that Asian, Hispanic, and
other minority children tend to exercise less, thus reinforcing stereotypes of
w depression and other mental illnesses, which could foster the
stereotype of incompetent, problem people
w Native American healing techniques, which promotes a stereotype of
exotic mysticism and non-scientific attitudes
w indigent health care issues, which can reinforce the idea that
minorities are poor, lazy, or sapping resources
w malpractice by a minority physician, in which the story pointed out
the doctor's Hispanic ethnicity and promoted an unethical or incompetent image
of this minority group
w racial discrimination against pregnant African American cheerleaders,
in which the story highlighted the ethnicity of the teens and supported the
stereotype that young blacks are always having babies and burdening society
Creating role models
Not all of the minority coverage addressed problems or reinforced
stereotypes, as several of the themes promoted a role model image of minorities.
These stories:
w highlighted the accomplishments and social contributions of Arthur
Ashe, an African American after he died from AIDS
w focused on the credentials, views, and political agenda of top
minority leaders of government health organizations, such as the African
American surgeon general, the African American national secretary of health,
and the minority heads of National Institutes of Health and Centers for
Disease Control.
w discussed the tobacco industry's attempts to win the support of
minority legislators, thus portraying minorities as stakeholders in national
policy making
w highlighted the community contributions of a minority leader in the
health insurance industry
The results of this content analysis imply that newspapers throughout
the United States should be commended for their sensitivity and willingness to
give voice to a wide range of health-related social challenges facing
minorities. However, when certain health issues are repeatedly tied to minority
groups, this coverage can re-inforce negative racial stereotypes.
Newspapers should strive for a more balanced presentation of minority
issues in their health coverage and continue to dig deeper for the underlying
sources of frustration facing minorities competing for resources and equality in
the health care system. Although most newspapers have evolved from the blatant
stereotypical coverage of 30 years ago, there still appears to be a need for
greater sensitivity on the part of editors to show minorities as equal members
of society.
In her critical analysis of racially charged stories in the national
media, Moore (1990) commented that "to cover communities that are increasingly
diverse, journalists are going to have to bring to the story a knowledge of and
sensitivity to different kinds of people and cultures. It is no longer
acceptable to work from a limited personal perspective and yet claim to be
objective" (p.23).
Several newspapers provided thorough reporting in stories that created
minority role models, which may indicate that particular newspapers are
sensitive to this issue. However, the stories devoted to minority role model
themes was only 7 percent of all health stories containing minority coverage.
Williams (1975) noted that popular press publications are often the
primary source of medical information for individuals. A phone survey of Ohio
adults found a direct relationship between perceived positive news coverage of
health care and positive perceptions of health care, but less so for one's own
health than for health care in society at large (Culbertson and Stempel, 1985).
It could be inferred that positive health-related coverage of minorities could
promote positive perceptions of health care among minorities, many of whom are
underserved by the health care system.
Bleske, G. L. (1994). Schematic frames and reader learning: the
effect of headlines. Paper presented to the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Atlanta, GA.
Cobb, L. D. (1993). Mobilizing information in the health content of
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If you're looking for something that closely matches the $200 Jambox in portability and sound, but costs substantially less, the $100 Logitech UE Mobile Boombox is the device I'd recommend.
Logitech UE Mobile Boombox
Great sound for the size — dual 1-inch drivers inside this tiny box get mighty loud without getting too cruddy. Rubberized outer shell helps it stay put during playback, and you can pick from an array of colors. Works as a speakerphone. Battery charges over USB and lasts nine hours. Easy to pair. A value at 0.
Not much bass to speak of. Same with stereo separation. Logitech claims a 50-foot wireless range, but it's closer to about 20.
How We Rate
- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
I spent two months testing a baker's dozen of these tiny speakers, and this UE Mobile Boombox was my favorite of the entire lot. And not only because of the sound, which is great, but also because of all the little things: the shape and size, the materials, the ease of pairing, and the battery life.
A pair of 1-inch drivers are hidden under that grill, and while they certainly won't blow your hair back, they are plenty loud.
Ultimate Ears made its name designing fancy high-end earphones and custom in-ear monitors for musicians and audiophiles. Then the company was acquired by Logitech in 2008. Since then, the innovation around earphones has continued (especially with this year's excellent Logitech UE 900s) but the company has also been branching out and bringing its extensive audio expertise into less-fancy areas. One of the most successful products is this one, a tiny speaker that sounds great, has an attractive design, and has a long-lasting battery (around nine hours in my tests) that charges over USB.
Of all the contenders currently flooding the Bluetooth speaker market, the Logitech's tiny boombox is the one that comes closest to matching Jawbone's golden child, the Jambox. The company also makes the much larger, much louder UE Boombox, which has a handle and charges via an AC adapter.
Bluetooth pairing is easy, and it doubles as a speakerphone, so you can use it to take calls. The sound is great — a pair of 1-inch drivers are hidden under that grill, and while they certainly won't blow your hair back, they are plenty loud. The audio stays remarkably clear when you turn it up, and there's a slim bass port in the back to help control the low-end performance.
I really wasn't expecting much as far as sound quality when I first saw how exceedingly small this thing is, but after using it for a couple of weekends in a hotel room and on my back deck, I'm sold.
Also — and this is important — it doesn't try too hard. Outwardly at least, it keeps everything very simple, from the design to the operation, and it succeeds because of it.
This article originally appeared in a different, shorter form as part of a gallery of product reviews on Saturday, December 22, 2012.
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2007 Mitsubishi Outlander Reviews and Owner Comments
2007 Mitsubishi Outlander owners review and rate their 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander.
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2007 Mitsubishi Outlander (3 Reviews)
NEVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE WILL I BUY A MITSUBISHI. Contstant sensor problems and to get a tune up on this vehicle will cost you a mortgage payment! Quoted $739.00 for just a tune up. This car is a piece of garbage.
I purchased my outlander with 2000 miles now it has 100,000 miles and it has been the most dependable car I have ever owned. everything still works it burns no oil and the engine sounds brand new I have always done all the regular maintenance The car has never been in the shop
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October 11, 2012,
Inventors: are looking for decor in which function meets fun, and enjoy trying things out and experimenting.
By David Gill
Messe Frankfurt introduced the design trends to be seen at the upcoming Heimtextil trade show at a meeting in New York City last month.
Among the trends to be seen at the January trade fair are "the historian," consisting of individuals who will be decorating their homes with designs from history, including those with aristocratic and very ornate looks. Historians are "lovers of luxury," according to the panel's report. "Born into a technology-dominated culture, they are devoted to finding ways to fit history into their contemporary lifestyles."
The "historian palette," the report said, is muted with pearlescent pale shades, candlelit metallic sheens and "dim and mysterious dark shades."
"The eccentric" involves consumers who are chasing unique and eclectic looks, exemplified by ostentatiously attired elderly urban women, and who are looking to make statements expressing their individuality. Eccentrics are hunters and collectors, according to the report, who assemble flamboyant decor pieces with timeless qualities and "extremely decorative character."
The eccentric color palette is a "palette of passion." It is "a range that stages the abundant as well as the understated to enable the flamboyant color clashes where extravagance meets elegance and exoticism."
"The inventor" trend involves individuals who, like eccentrics, are free thinkers looking for decor in which "function meets fun," according to the report. They love experiments, seek adventure and look for the undiscovered. They are opportunistic characters who enjoy trying things out and making their mark on the design and production processes.
The color palette for inventors consists of vivid shades, combining colors in "strange contrasts," according to the report. Examples of such contrasts include combining the clinical and the organic, the hot and the cold, and functionality with fun.
"The geologist" includes consumers who are looking to decorate their homes with decor using materials from nature, and with colors such as those found in precious stones. Geologists are nature lovers who choose colors by exploring the layers of the earth.
At the same time, geologists "are still intrigued by the fact that man, the city and the economy are an integral part of our current ecosystem," the report said. "The interest of designers is shifting from the end products to sources, tools and processes. They are succeeding in finding alternative resources and methods of production."
The color palette the panel associated with geologists "reflects the mysterious, dark side of nature," the report said. It includes intense colors "sparked with poisonous brightness and metallic sheen to light up our urban caves," combined with "dense and understated natural shades."
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