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South African Journal of Education
On-line version ISSN 2076-3433
Print version ISSN 0256-0100
S. Afr. j. educ. vol.34 n.1 Pretoria Jan. 2014
Framing of school violence in the South African printed media - (mis)information to the public
Lynette Jacobs
School of Education Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa email@example.com
The way in which the media report on school violence influences public perceptions, gives rise to particular attitudes and can influence decisions by policy makers. The more frequently an issue is presented in a specific way, the more likely it is for readers to perceive the media's version as the truth. Although news is assumed to be reliable, comprehensive and unprejudiced, journalism can be questioned. This study explores how school violence is framed in the South African print media. A framing analysis was done of 92 articles that appeared in 21 different public newspapers during one year. I found that the way in which the public is informed encourages the perception of school violence as being an individual, rather than a societal, problem and encourages the acceptance of assumptions and stereotypes. Typical 'blood-and-guts' reporting is popular, while issues such as emotional and sexual violence in schools appear largely unnoticed by journalists. I argue that the main frames provided to readers in South African newspapers fail largely to elicit social responsibility, while at the same time promoting civic indifference.
Keywords: emotional violence; media framing; physical violence; school violence; sexual violence; social responsibility
The constitutional right to freedom from violence is mutatis mutandis applicable to schools as places of education within the social structure of South African society (Republic of South Africa (RSA), 1996:Section 12(1)(c)). The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa specifically affirms the right of children to be protected from any form of maltreatment (RSA, 1996:Section 28(1)(d)), and their right to education (RSA, 1996:Section 29). The violent reality in South African schools is, however, not congruent with these and other fundamental human rights (Prinsloo, 2005). Masitsa (2011:164) argues that violence is "deep-rooted" in South African schools.
Violence is by no means a simple phenomenon and numerous definitions exist. Violence is often seen as the intentional use of brute force or power aimed at harming another, including intimidation or coercion by the threat of force (Henry, 2000). There are, however, other elements of harm that can also be classified as violence, such as emotional or psychological pain (Krug, Mercy, Dahlberg & Zwi, 2002), manipulation (Henry, 2000) and deprivation, as well as neglect (Krug et al., 2002). What sets school violence apart is the context of the school, its fundamental purpose, the educational activities associated with the school, the school community and school property (De Wet, 2007). Informed by the various views on violence and school violence and based on the definition of violence by the World Health Organisation (cf. Krug et al., 2002:1084), I demarcate school violence as follows (Jacobs, 2012:24):
School violence refers to any intentional use of physical or other force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group, at school, that either results in or has the likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation. It thus includes any intended use of psychological power or physical force with the aim to harm another physically or emotionally. It includes manipulation and coercion as well as rejection, and can take place during or outside school hours, during class times and breaks, at school-related events (sport, cultural and social), as well as while commuting to and from school.
School violence in its countless forms is a constant threat for role-players in current South African schools (Kgobe & Mbokazi, 2008:63). Physical violence, such as beating, kicking and punching one another, as well as physical assault, in various degrees, frequently occur in our schools, while psychological violence in schools is also widespread (De Wet, 2005:84). Direct verbal victimisation is, for instance, prevalent in secondary schools (De Wet, 2005:84), while intimidation also takes place (Masitsa, 2011:170). Various forms of sexual violence are common in schools, including sexual name-calling and suggestive storytelling, unwanted sexual comments (De Wet & Jacobs, 2009:63) and physical, sexual harassment, such as unwanted kissing, touching, grabbing and pinching in a sexual way (De Wet, Jacobs & Palm-Forster, 2008:106-107). Various forms of deprivation, such as stealing personal belongings (De Wet, 2003a:88), and disregard for a person's property (Marais & Meier, 2010:50) are common in schools. Hadebe (2000:67) furthermore argues that educators deprive learners of quality schooling through their negative attitudes towards their work, their continual absenteeism, their lateness, and their general lack of discipline. As research indicates that school violence is rife, it is essential for society to be aware of this problem, and Oosthuizen and De Waal (2005:5) urge role-players to cooperate to combat this violence.
The role of the media
The print media regularly inform the public about incidences of school violence; for instance, learners being assaulted (Maphumulo, 2010), raped (Davids & Makwabe, 2007) and killed (Fredericks & Mposa, 2012), by using scissors, knives and firearms (Business Day, 2006; Carstens, 2006; Seale, 2008). Educators and learners are portrayed as both victims and perpetrators (Fitzpatrick, 2006; Govender, 2009).
The regularity with which such newspaper articles appear confirms that school violence is a newsworthy problem in South Africa, and raises public awareness. Media reporting on issues has the power to shape the views of readers regarding what is of importance, and the concomitant public awareness has the potential to influence policy making (Bullock, 2007; Carlyle, Slater & Chakroff, 2008; Snyman, 2007). De Wet (2003b), however, points out that media reports are not necessarily unbiased. Whilst news is socially constructed, it is constructed based on the needs of journalists, news agencies and consumers, and it is limited by economic imperatives and constraints (Bullock, 2007; Jones, 2005). Although Froneman (in De Wet, 2009) emphasises that news articles are supposed to provide news accurately, the lack of good journalism is pointed out by Jones (2005:153) (emphasis in original):
Every journalist knows intuitively which terms to use when characterising the favoured and unfavoured players in a situation ... we plan, they plot. We form strategies, they conspire ... We defend ourselves, they attack. Therefore, while school violence is an emotive public issue and receives wide media coverage in South Africa, the coverage may be distorted.
Media studies on (school) violence
Studies focusing on media reporting of school violence in South Africa and beyond are limited. I have, therefore, also drawn from media studies on the portrayal of other kinds of violence in South African communities to inform this study, namely, on how the violent crime in Gauteng is reported, how the xenophobic attacks of 2008 were covered in the print media, as well as how violent conflict in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is portrayed in the media.
In a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles on school violence published between June and September 2008, De Wet (2009) focused specifically on how victims and perpetrators are portrayed in the South African print media. She found that while harsh pictures of perpetrators of school violence regularly appeared in newspapers, a deficit of information prevents the creation of a portrait of the "typical victim" (De Wet, 2009:60-64). Snyman (2007) conducted a content analysis on crime reporting in three Gauteng daily newspapers. She found that while the newspapers did make their readers aware of violent crimes taking place, the three newspapers each portrayed only a fraction (and a different fraction) of the reality of crime in South Africa. She found that each newspaper presented a [distorted] view of reality to match the perceived worldviews of its target readers. Snyman (2007) concludes that newspapers make certain assumptions about the type of reporting that their readers want to read, and report accordingly.
In a study on newspaper coverage of the xenophobic attacks during May 2008 in South Africa, Coplan (2009:64-83) found that while local journalists tried to report on these incidences in a responsible manner, "urging an end to violence", they too readily accepted "the most obvious social and 'pop' psychology glosses as necessary and sufficient explanations". Coplan (2009:64-83) warns that by using "facile 'explanations' and self-serving denial, concerning both the economic and social realities of life for the majority of South Africans", reporters, as well as the government, create an "imagined South Africa of competing rhetorical discourses" which makes recognition of the true situation impossible. In a comparative analysis study on the media coverage of violent conflict in KZN, analysing a selection of articles from three KZN newspapers, Jones (2005:151-158) found a "significant breakdown in ethical journalism", superficial reporting, racial bias in coverage and a tendency to use police and other reports as the main sources of reporting.
The above findings of a skewed representation of reality resonate with international research on media portrayal of various forms of violence (e.g. Carlyle et al., 2008; Bullock, 2007). These authors claim that the media fail to expose societal problems and support hegemonic structures in society.
Problem statement
School violence is a severe problem in South African schools and this scourge needs to be addressed. Role-players, inter alia, are informed in the media about the problem, and coverage in the media raises awareness about the problem. Whether or not, and how, newspapers cover a problem could make a difference to how the public views the problem and what should be done about it (Bullock, 2007). Concomitantly, it influences whether readers perceive an issue to be an individual problem or a collective problem, and contributes to perceptions regarding who is responsible for dealing with the problem (e.g. society, the legal system, etc.) (Carlyle et al., 2008). Research on media portrayal of various topics, however, suggests that the media coverage could be distorted, but there is a deficit of studies focusing specifically on the portrayal of school violence in the South African print media. If strategies to curb school violence are constructed in tandem with the (mis)information, these efforts can be compromised. In order to explore the way in which the print media inform the public on school violence, I therefore pose the following research question: How is school violence framed in South African newspapers? I specifically aim to explore the dominant frames presented to the public and identify possible missing frames that could distort the public's perception.
Research methodology: Framing analysis
According to Gamson (1989:157), media framing is "a central organizing idea for making sense of relevant events and suggesting what is at issue". Pan and Kosicki (1993) describe framing analysis as a specific technique for content analysis to explain how the media promote certain aspects of a perceived reality. Carlyle et al. (2008:172) comment that:
[t]he efficacy of frames is found in their ability to make certain elements and perspectives more salient, thereby increasing the chances that certain schemas of interpretation will be evoked.
Pan and Kosicki (1993:58) note certain differences between framing analysis and alternative approaches to news texts. They do not consider news texts as "psychological stimuli" of objective meaning, but rather "organized symbolic devices" that will interact with one's memory for the construction of meaning. Framing analysis also acknowledges that frames in news texts, to some extent, depend on the readers of the texts. Framing goes beyond the obvious topic of a news article by looking at the themes that serve as central organising ideas, as well as how an issue is discussed in the media (Pan & Kosicki, 1993). The aim of framing analysis is to examine the way in which news is framed with the purpose of "audience processing" (Pan & Kosicki, 1993:69), taking into account that the quantity of coverage influences how visible and important the issue appears to be (Bullock, 2007). I employed framing analyses as a method of exploring how newspapers portray school violence in South Africa.
Newspaper articles as data
Document collection was used as a data collection technique (Merriam, 2009). I used newspaper articles as textual data to explore the framing of school violence in South African print newspapers. Newspaper articles are categorised as documents that fall into the category of public records, and are considered important in conveying news that has current interest (Creswell, 2008). Documents offer qualitative data that do not depend on the cooperation of the participants, are not produced for research, and are not affected by the presence of the researcher (Merriam, 2009:139). Documents that are available electronically furthermore provide data that are accessible to others and are easy to obtain (Merriam, 2009:155). From the SAMedia clipping service of the University of the Free State (http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/) I obtained, in electronic format, all the newspaper articles classified as pertaining to [school and violence],1published in the 21 newspapers2 that the services use, during 2009. When retrieving documents electronically, the researcher is no longer the primary instrument for collecting data (Merriam, 2009) and I depended solely on the categorisation of articles by analysts at the clipping service to obtain my initial set of 134 newspaper clippings.
While many researchers use documents as secondary sources, in this paper media articles form the core of the research question (cf. Merriam, 2009). I do not use the media articles as secondary sources to gain insight into actual occurrences, but rather as primary voices informing the public and thus shaping public perceptions.
From the documents obtained, I used criterion sampling as a sampling technique (cf. Nieuwenhuys, 2007). Focusing on journalists' reporting as my criterion in view of the purpose of the research, I scrutinised the 134 articles, considering each for its suitability. Only clippings from public newspapers were included, so I removed articles in the sample that appeared in publications of churches and other organisations (e.g. Die Kerkbode and Servamus). In addition, I removed columnists' points of view, as well as editorials and letters from readers. I was then left with a total of 92 distinct articles (not duplicate articles that appeared in different newspapers of the same newsgroup) from 21 public newspapers as my sample.
Using newspapers as data, specific issues pertaining to the integrity of the research emerged, and are discussed below.
The integrity of the research
I took a number of steps towards increasing the integrity of the research. I consider the documents used as authentic (cf. Merriam, 2009) because the cutting service provides a scanned-in, unedited version of the original newspaper clipping, the name of the newspaper, publication date, and the page on which the article appeared. Informed by the focus of the paper, I followed the example set in similar papers by inter alia Bullock (2007) and Welch, Fenwick and Roberts (1998) by listing the newspapers from which the cutting service provided the set of articles. By accessing the website address of SAMedia and the words used in the electronic search, I believe I have left an audit trail. I lastly used an external auditor (cf. Creswell, 2008), namely, an experienced critical reader, to review the paper at various stages. As triangulation of data and member checking are not applicable to this study, I consider the external auditing an effective strategy to address the issue of validity and credibility.
Data analysis
This paper is based on a framing analysis; a specific method of analysing media documents. Issues pertaining to frames in news reporting can include the frequency of coverage, labelling, information included and omitted, and episodic or thematic focus (Bullock, 2007). In line with the guidelines given by Merriam (2009:152) that the point of departure for analysing documents is to "adopt some system of coding and cataloguing them", I carefully read through each article with the aim of coding the primary news frame as episodic or thematic. I furthermore coded the sources that the reporters used, the suggested solutions, the types of violence and contextual information provided (cf. Bullock, 2007; McManus & Dorfman, 2001). I repeated this process with a second set of prints of the articles, and compared the two sets of coding. I captured all coding and keywords in an Excel file.
Based on the coding, I portray media framing in terms of frequency of reporting. Frequency tables provide information on the number of times newspapers report on a specific issue, using specific information, during a certain time period. When considering the number of articles purporting a specific frame, one needs to keep in mind that the frequency of framing should not be equated with the actual frequency of the occurrence of violence. In some cases, only one article described an incident, while in other cases, the same incident was reported repeatedly, sometimes in the same newspaper, but also in various other newspapers. The frequency tables that follow thus present the frequency of frames presented in the selected sample of newspapers. The frequency of frames matters, as it shapes the perceptions of the readers concerning the importance of an issue.
I have converted the frequencies into a percentage format to ensure easy comparisons. One should, however, be mindful that some articles focused on campaigns and not on incidences of violence, whereas others reported on more than one incident; therefore the figures do not add up to 100%. I provided percentages to relativise the figures. The analyses rendered the findings that follow.
Episodic versus thematic coverage
Episodic coverage focuses on personal tragedies isolated from the social context, using explanations about individual personalities. Thematic coverage focuses, in addition to the individual aspects, on the wider circumstances and the role of society. While the former promotes indifference and civic powerlessness, the latter draws social or political response (Carlyle et al., 2008; McManus & Dorfman, 2001).
I found that 75% of the articles in the sample were episodic reporting, in other words, merely reporting on what happened, without placing the incident within the larger societal picture. The 17 articles that focused solely on campaigns, by bodies such as the Department of Basic Education (DBE), the South African Police Services (SAPS) and others, in order to reduce the levels of violence in South African schools, showed a smaller proportion of episodic coverage (eight) compared to thematic coverage (nine), which constitutes a ratio of 47:53. In contrast, the 75 articles that reported on incidences of school violence used 61 episodic frames compared to only 14 articles that used thematic frames, which is a ratio of 81:19.
Who gets to speak to the public?
Reporting on school violence is dominated by references to government officials, such as Members of Executive Councils (MECs) and DBE spokespersons (43.5%). The second most frequently quoted sources come from the criminal justice system, such as members of the SAPS, court officials, and court proceedings (30.4%). In only one article the perpetrator is used as a source and, likewise, in only one article a relative of the perpetrator is used as a source. Further details are supplied in Table 1.
The majority of the articles were, furthermore, based on only one or two sources (67.4%), while articles based on more than four sources were scarce (5.4%). In three (3.3%) articles the source was not identifiable. Further details follow in Table 2.
The single article that used six different categories of sources used a parent of the victim and the victim herself, other parents, other learners, an SAPS official, a hospital spokesperson, as well as court proceedings to obtain information. Likewise, one of only two articles that used five different categories of sources used the victim, teachers, other learners, a DBE spokesperson and an SAPS spokesperson. These few journalists attempted to portray incidences of violence from various perspectives, even if they did not exhaust their options.
Solution frames
Solution frames suggest some form of cure for a problem and send out a message to the public that something can be done to improve the situation (McManus & Dorfman, 2001:17). However, in 42.4% of the articles in my sample, no solution was offered to the problem of school violence. A wide variety of solutions was indicated in the rest of the articles, the most popular solutions being listed in Table 3.
The two most common solutions put forward in the articles, namely, firearm and weapon control (18.5%) and greater law enforcement (18.5%) both suggest that school violence is a criminal justice problem.
The types of violence
I looked at what is regarded as newsworthy types of school violence. Details of this reporting are given in Table 4.
Incidences of physical violence, which ranged from shoving and fighting to lethal stabbings and shootings, were reported in 62% of the articles. Deprivation, categorised as school violence, received the least attention in these articles (5.4%). None of the articles focused specifically on deprivation, neglect or psychological violence, but merely discussed these as part of reports focusing on physical violence. Only two articles reported solely on sexual violence, but both the articles dealt with the same incident in which a girl was gang-raped in a school dormitory by outsiders - an indisputably severe physical and sexual act of violence. In the other 10 articles that reported sexual violence, the focus was, once again, on physical violence.
Contextual frames
Contextual frames are important for the way in which news is framed, as they can strengthen or weaken society's perception of the culpability of its environment regarding school violence (McManus & Dorfman, 2001). These frames further contribute to stereotypical perceptions of dangerous schools. I looked at the provincial frames, the school type frames and the weapon frames, as these were recurrent contextual factors that dominated in the sample of articles I selected.
Provincial frames
Reporting on school violence in the various provinces varies in frequency, as can be seen in Table 5. One cannot assume that incidences of school violence that occur in a specific province will always only be reported in newspapers distributed in that province. I found it was not the case.
Newspapers reported on incidences of school violence which occurred in the Western Cape more often than on incidences in any other province (37%), while Mpumalanga was referred to in only one article.
School type
Reporting focused mainly on incidences of school violence that occurred at secondary schools, while only one article reported on violence in a pre-primary school. Specific references to other school types were also made. It should be noted that the categories in Table 6 are not mutually exclusive.
Frames on weapons used
The weapons that are most frequently reported as used in incidences of school violence are knives and other sharp objects (42.4%). Not all articles reported the weapon used and firearms were mentioned in only four articles (4.3%) (see Table 7).
In this study I explored the dominant frames put forward in the media when reporting on school violence in South Africa. Journalists seem, when reporting on campaigns against school violence, to be more prone to portray school violence as a societal problem but, when reporting on incidences of school violence, the portrayal moves to frames that ignore societal factors. The dominance of episodic coverage is in line with findings in other framing analyses (cf. Carlyle et al., 2008; McManus & Dorfman, 2001). Maxwell et al. (in Carlyle et al., 2008:173) state that, by doing this, the media shift the responsibility of solving the problem from society to the individual [for instance the school, or the parent of the perpetrator]. Reporting on school violence seems to be dominated by official sources such as DBE members, district officials and other provincial officers, together with members of the SAPS, and court officials. Furthermore, the majority of journalists appear to consider the views of the perpetrators and their relatives, as well as those of community members, as irrelevant when reporting on school violence. This, in my view, represents a disproportionate voice.
In many articles no solution to the problem is suggested. McManus and Dorfman (2001:23) claim that the sense of there being little need for the explanation of solutions suggests that the public already understands [school] violence and, therefore, there is no need to stimulate thinking about "what can be done". In the articles that did present some solutions, the two most common solutions, namely, firearm and weapon control, as well as greater law enforcement, both suggest that school violence is a criminal justice problem. This, in my view, strengthens the perception that society is powerless regarding the prevention of school violence and that it is simply a "law and order" problem (cf. Bullock, 2007:52).
Media coverage focuses mainly on physical violence. As such, newspapers are gradually convincing the public that school violence equates to physical violence (Carlyle et al., 2008). Studies comparing levels of the different types of school violence, however, suggest that although physical violence is indeed a problem in South African schools, other types of violence are an equal problem, if not more so (for example, De Wet, 2007; Prinsloo & Neser, 2007). These studies suggest furthermore that seemingly less sensational physical violence is more common in schools than the fierce acts which are reported in newspapers. While reporting on psychological violence, sexual violence, and deprivation may have occurred during the year from which the sample of articles was drawn, it was clearly not strongly framed as school violence and, therefore, was not identified as such by the clipping service I used. The possibility, however, also exists that reporting did not take place because these crimes were not considered to be sufficiently newsworthy. Whichever is true (and I suspect both to be true to some extent), such framing strengthens the conceptualisation of school violence as having a physical dimension only, and fails to acknowledge other forms of violence, in spite of the severity of their effect. This has implications in terms of social awareness, and how society should respond (cf. Carlyle et al., 2008).
Specific perceptions regarding contexts that generate school violence are created. School violence is specifically framed as an issue that occurs mainly at Western Cape secondary schools, where knives and sharp objects are used by the learners.
In line with the second objective of the study, I find it essential to reflect briefly on frames that I found lacking in the sample of newspaper articles. The costs of school violence rarely appear, and where they do, only the cost of setting up security systems for schools is mentioned (but no figures are provided). Medical costs, police costs and court costs are, for example, are not mentioned at all. Ethnic descriptions are omitted in all cases. The words 'racial violence' and 'racism' are used in some articles, however, without giving any further details. This lack of information could result in readers falling back on default frames of racial stereotypes that exist in South African society. On the other hand, in a study in California, USA, on the frames portraying youth violence, the race of perpetrators was mentioned in 39% of the articles that were studied (McManus & Dorfman, 2001:20).
While some weapons were reported on, none of the newspaper articles mentioned how learners obtained the weapons. The public is rarely informed about the long-term effects of school violence incidences on the people involved. I also found that there is a lack of follow-up articles on incidences of violence, while the outcomes of the judicial proceedings of school violence receive little attention. Although drug abuse and alcohol abuse are mentioned in a small number of articles, I did not find a strong enough frame to elicit a reaction from society to do something about the easy access that learners have to these substances. In an USA study, this was also the case, and McManus and Dorfman (2001:24) state that such reporting has "far less chance to make an impression on public consciousness".
While considering the insights that I gained during the analyses done in this study, I also needed to reflect on the strengths and limitations thereof.
Strengths and limitations
The first limitation that should be noted is the sole use of newspaper articles. I suggest that follow-up research on news media portrayals of school violence could consider the portrayal of school violence on radio, television, and in popular magazines. The second limitation came from using only two words, [school] and [violence] to search the SAMedia database. In retrospect, I believe I could have expanded the search by using various other key words to include specific acts; for instance [school and rape], [school and bullying] and [school and assault].
In spite of the limitations mentioned above, this paper hopefully provides a fresh method in terms of education research, and specifically, research on school violence. Framing analysis, as a research method, is still developing and many interpretationsexist (Shaw & Giles, 2009). Other studies could build on this one, possibly exploring alternative framing structures. Although the media provided only partial information, I gained insight into perspectives that I would otherwise not have obtained. No researcher can immediately go to where incidences of school violence have occurred and gain access to the sources; therefore, such media-data is valuable. Furthermore, I believe that this paper provides unusual insight into the information on school violence that newspapers make available to the public. People use this, and other information, to make sense of school violence.
Conclusion and recommendations
School violence is complex and has many facets, some of which are difficult to see. Newspapers give school violence unbalanced coverage and, in this way, fail to inform and make the public aware of this danger to society. The main frames provided to readers in South African newspapers largely fail to elicit social responsibility, while at the same time, promote civic indifference.
I therefore suggest that schools should make role-players aware of the many facets of school violence. In addition, I recommend that schools collaborate with the media so that authentic information can be provided via the schools to the public, and reporters can have access to information from the schools. Striving towards creating positive learning environments in schools requires inter alia the support of a well-informed public. The mass media therefore has a responsibility to inform society comprehensively, accurately, and impartially on violence in South African schools.
1 The electronic service allows for only two search words and I used 'school' and 'violence'. The 'and' indicates that both these words need to be in the classification.
2 Beeld, Burger, Cape Argus, Cape Times, Citizen, City Press, Daily Dispatch, Daily News, Diamond Fields Advertiser, Pretoria News, Saturday Argus, Saturday Star, Sowetan, Star, Sunday Argus, Sunday Times, Sunday Tribune, The Herald (EP Herald), The Times, Volksblad, Witness.
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While GameStop might not be the best place to trade-in your used games for store credit, but undercover officers in the Memphis, Tennessee area found it an excellent destination for those looking to fence stolen property. An undercover operation performed between April and June of this year resulted in eight current and former GameStop employees pleading guilty to theft of property charges for receiving stolen goods. Agents entered the stores, making clear their product was stolen, and the employees in question gave them cash, a major no-no that has resulted in the voluntary suspension of cash trades in the area until early next year.
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We are a small company servicing the Semiconductor manufacturing field. We repair, service and provide parts, mostly for Electroglas™ probers. We also work on automatic test equipment in the Semiconductor field. We have been in business for over 5 years, but recently changed our name when incorporating and need a logo.
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| My nephew Lucas and me at home for Christmas
OK, not really new goals, just picking up from where I left off in 2012, but I do always take time at the beginning of the year to re-evaluate everything that has or hasn't happened the past year for me as a person and an athlete. Setting goals is an important part of my life, regardless of what you are doing for a profession, goals allow you to track your success and focus on your future.
Despite being in the sport for 15 years now, I can say that 2012 was certainly a year of tremendous changes for me as an athlete. I started out the year in transition of being recovered from my Arnold Chiari syndrome, but not yet being back to my shape as a luge athlete. While I was relieved to be experiencing far less symptoms from my Arnold Chiari, I was carrying around a lot of doubt if I would ever be able to get my body back into the form it needed to be competitive in the sport of luge. Fortunately I was surrounded by a great team. Our team doctor, Eugene Byrne, who is based out of Lake Placid, as well as the entire sports medicine staff were great support in ensuring me that if I kept doing what I was doing, training smart, listening to my body, and pushing it slowly that I would find my way back. I finished up the 2011-12 season third at U.S. National Championships, and very ready to return to Maine, and hang up the sled for the year.
| The leaderboard after the first run in Koenigssee
I took a different approach to my off-season training this year. In the past I would consider myself much of a workhorse, I felt my work outs were judged by quantity vs. quality. This spring and summer, I knew balancing my work outs were going to be very important in order to sustain my health through the entire year. I switched up my lifting schedule – in the past I would lift four days a week, every week; this past year I kept myself on three week rotations of four days a week, three days a week, two days a week, and filled the extra days I wasn't in the gym with swim workouts, core and a lot of balance and stretch work. Max testing wise I am not as strong as I was heading into the 2010 Olympic season, I would say I am roughly 10% weaker than I was that year, but what I have gained is far less "bad days" with my body, and I find myself focusing much less this winter on how to ensure I am at peak strength for the competition days on the weekend, and find that I can turn my strength on and off when I want (with a proper warm-up of course).
|Me, Swiss slider Martina Kocher and former U.S. junior slider Vika
Gatka. We met 13 years ago and are still great friends.
It is funny how in sport and life you are constantly evolving as a person and discovering new strengths and different weaknesses. Changing my workouts didn't weaken my starts at all. I am still consistently in the top three of the women's field if not the fastest, but it has also given me great gains as a slider, looking back I realize I spent too many years being too muscular and bulky for our sport, I was lacking finesse and smoothness with my body; had I not undergone my surgery almost two years ago I may have never realized that. With this season halfway over, I recognize that my training plan for next year will not require much adjustment, which is always a nice feeling. I have had my best season to date in the sport, and more importantly I am feeling the best on my sled that I have ever felt. I wrapped up the first half of the season with a U.S. Start Championship win, U.S. National Championship title, a season opener sixth place finish in Igls, Austria, followed up by a 10th place finish in Sigulda, Latvia in the final race before Christmas, and I just opened up the year with another sixth place in Koenigssee, Germany (where I was the closest to the Germans I have ever been time-wise, even on their home track), and followed that up with another sixth place finish in Oberhof, Germany.
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A British judge was shown graphic pictures of dead and mutilated Iraqis who allegedly died at British hands as a public inquiry began Monday into claims that U.K. soldiers murdered and abused civilian detainees after a 2004 battle in southern Iraq.
The Al-Sweady Inquiry is investigating claims that up to 20 Iraqis were tortured and killed in May 2004 at a British military base in Iraq's Maysan province after a battle between British troops and insurgents. It is looking at some of the most serious allegations made against British forces during the war in Iraq and is named after one of the dead, 19-year-old Hamid Al-Sweady.
The inquiry will also examine whether five other Iraqis were mistreated at two British facilities.
Inquiry lawyer Jonathan Acton Davis said in his opening statement that there was a "stark dispute" between the evidence of the Iraqis and that of the British military about what happened on May 14 and 15, 2004.
The British military denies abuse and says 20 Iraqis were killed in battle after ambushing British troops. Several soldiers were decorated for bravery in the fierce engagement - dubbed the battle of Danny Boy after the checkpoint where it took place - which included the British army's first bayonet charge in two decades.
Iraqi witnesses, however, say some of the Iraqi men were taken from the battlefield alive.
"The Iraqi witnesses say that the evidence points to there having been a number of Iraqi men taken into (Britain's Camp Abu Naji) alive by the British military on May 14, 2004 and who were handed back to their families dead the next day," Acton Davis said.
The inquiry was shown gruesome pictures of some of the dead Monday. Acton Davis said the death certificates recorded injuries including gunshot wounds, broken bones, signs of torture and mutilation, including missing eyes. One man's penis was missing.
The government ordered the inquiry after Britain's High Court ruled that an earlier Royal Military Police investigation into the killings had been inadequate. That investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by British troops.
The inquiry was ordered more than three years ago, but the hearings had to await a lengthy police investigation to gather evidence.
The inquiry, led by retired High Court judge Thayne Forbes, is expected to last a year and hear from hundreds of witnesses, including several Iraqis who will travel to London to give evidence.
The inquiry is opening just before the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Some 120,000 British troops served in the invasion and the subsequent occupation.
Allegations of abuse dogged the six-year British deployment, which ended in 2009. The most infamous was the case of hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, whose death in a detention facility outside the city of Basra led to the first conviction of a British soldier under international war crimes legislation.
Britain has paid more than 15 million pounds ($23 million) to settle more than 200 abuse cases.
Britain has already held an inquiry into the death of Mousa, as well as a separate wide-ranging public inquiry into the Iraq war, which is due to report later this year.
Online: https://www.alsweadyinquiry.org


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
When Brad Paisley was in Las Vegas for the Academy of Country Music Awards, he took some time to play his new Wheelhousealbum for a small audience. I was lucky enough to be there, to hear the songs and all the stories behind them. The one I loved the most was a tune called "The Mona Lisa," which I thought would be about the Leonardo da Vinci painting. But it's not. Well, not totally. "When I was growing up in West Virginia, I had never been west of the Mississippi River," he recalled, admitting that he did go to California once in the fourth grade. "So to go from being a redneck hillbilly that looks like I belong on Duck Dynasty to someone who has done things I've never been allowed to do is inspiring and crazy." For example, he talked about his first time visiting the Louvre museum in Paris. "I got to see the Mona Lisa. And I thought, 'All right, what's the big deal?' It's the greatest painting in the world, but come on. She's kind of half attractive," he joked. "But you walk around the corner and there it is. All I kept thinking was, 'What's the deal with that frame? How did that frame get that gig?" So the song, which Paisley wrote with Chris DuBois, is a love song of sorts. It's about "every time I put my arms around you, I feel like the frame that gets to hold the Mona Lisa, and I don't care if that's all I ever do."


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NEW YORK: A backup generator failed at a New York City hospital, forcing it to move out more than 200 patients, including 20 babies from neonatal intensive care.
About two dozen ambulances were lined up around the block outside New York University Tisch Hospital Tuesday morning. Doctors and nurses began the slow process of evacuation Monday night, starting with the sickest and youngest. Some were on respirators operating on battery power.
Officials said all but a handful of patients were evacuated by Tuesday morning. The remaining few were in rehab or were epilepsy patients on the 12th floor.
�It�s a challenging situation,� NYU Medical Dean Robert Grossman told WCBS-TV. �We drill all the time for this kind of thing. But this isn�t a drill. This is the real thing.�
Much of New York was plunged into darkness by superstorm Sandy, a monstrous hybrid system that swept across a huge swath of the East.
Most of the power outages in lower Manhattan, where Tisch is located, were due to an explosion at an electrical substation, Consolidated Edison officials said. It wasn�t clear whether flooding or flying debris caused the explosion, said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Con Edison.
Without power, there were no elevators, meaning patients � some of whom were being treated for cancer and other serious illnesses � had to be carefully carried down staircases, Grossman said.
As the patients were evacuated Monday night, gusts of wind blew their blankets. Nurses and staff huddled around the patients, some holding IVs and other equipment.
Ambulances came from around the city to help transport the sick. Patients were taken to other hospitals including Mount Sinai and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, Lenox and Bellevue.


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(Best months for growing Strawberry Plants in New Zealand - cool/mountain regions)
P = Plant out (transplant) seedlings
September: Protect from frost
Strawberries are low-growing, leafy plants,between 12-15cm (about 6 inches) high and will spread to about 50-100cm (20-40 inches). They have five petalled flowers, usually white or sometimes pink. The flowers are followed by delicious red fruits, which have their seeds on the outside. Later in the season, the plants send out runners like thin stems, across the garden. They will take root to form new plants. Cut them off and leave the parent growing.
At the end of fruiting, trim off old yellow leaves and clean up any mouldy fruit still attached.
Strawberries like well drained soil with plenty of humus . To prepare your bed, dig in some compost before planting and possibly use a liquid fertiliser during the growing season. Well fed strawberries taste better. To protect the fruit from moulds, use some form of mulch around the plants. Straw, pine needles, or black plastic are all suitable. Mulch will also help suppress weeds. Protect your plants with some sort of netting or bird scarer or you will lose most of your crop.
Pick strawberries and eat them straight from the garden - warm from the sunshine, delicious!
Strawberries can be used in any dessert needing soft fruit or berries. Summer pudding which also has raspberries and blackberries or boysenberries, mousse, trifle, dipped in melted chocolate or just with cream.
Sprinkle a bowl of strawberries with balsamic vinegar and a little sugar to enhance the flavour and colour.
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Study shows half of federal workers considering leaving government
Frustrated by pay freezes, furloughs and the current political environment, 50 percent of federal employees are thinking of jumping ship and working outside of government.
Mission effectiveness is already suffering as a result.
According to a poll of 370 federal workers conducted by Market Connections and FierceGovIT, many government employees cited recent policies as a reason to defect from government work, and 39 percent of respondents said staffing issues have gotten so bad that mission-critical work is going undone.
"This level of frustration is fueled by what policies and budget cuts we've seen recently, particularly with the government shutdown," Lisa Dezzutti, Market Connections president, told Washington Technology. "(Government workers) are feeling pressured to do more with less."
But there may be a silver lining in the poll's findings for government contractors.
"The flipside for industry is that this may indeed be an opportunity," Dezzutti said.
Contractors can step in and step up to plug the holes left by under-staffed, under-supported feds, Dezzutti said, and if federal employees begin leaving the government in droves, contractors can snatch up top talent.
"Of course, contractors are tightening their own belts," she said, so departing federal workers won't find the wide-open job market of yesteryear.
One of the most worrying findings: the government workers who seem to care the most are the most likely to leave.
Only 30 percent of respondents who were not considering a job change feared that staffing issues were impacting mission-critical work, but 48 percent of those looking to leave said mission-critical work was being neglected.
Potential defectors were also more likely to say that retention of the federal workforce is a greater problem than finding qualified people.
Three-quarters of all respondents said "brain drain" – experienced employees retiring or leaving government work – will erode mission effectiveness, and a strong majority (61 percent) thinks there isn't enough young talent in government to offset these losses.
The top three reasons respondents offered for leaving government were:
Civilian agency employees were more likely to cite the political environment as a source of frustration, while those working in defense agencies were most irked by furloughs and last year's government shutdown.
"Workers are really being impacted by the gridlock, the inability of our government to get anything done," Dezzutti said.
All is not doom and gloom, of course, as the poll's respondents may simply be coming off the particularly rough year of the government shutdown.
"'Considering leaving' and 'actually leaving' are two different things," Dezzutti said, saying that she suspected that a similar study conducted a year from now might reveal lower levels of dissatisfaction – so long as government leaders get their act together.
Dezzutti said the federal government needs to avoid the partisan gridlock that led to last year's shutdown if worker morale is to improve.
Over the past year, government agencies have been skimping on pay and staffing, the poll's respondents said.
63 percent of respondents said their agency had frozen wages, 59 percent said departing workers were not being replaced and 49 percent said they lacked the resources to do their jobs properly.
Only 26 percent of respondents said their agencies were hiring to replace retiring workers.
"We tend to forget about the impact (of restrictive policies and government gridlock) on federal employees," Dezzutti noted. "Travel and training budgets are being slashed, people are leaving and not being replaced."
It's tough on federal workers, Dezzutti said, who feel hard-pressed to keep the government functioning and retain the public's trust.
What will happen if morale and staffing issues don't improve?
"Things (in the government) are going to start to fail," Dezzutti said.
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Government employees had grown fat and indolent on bloated salaries. The Federal government's pay scales were higher on average than those in the private sector. So the third reason for leaving government service sounds dubious.
As far as more opportunities go, for contractors, it's an agonizing process that our Resumes are put through by brain dead reviewers whose method for estimating the viability of a prospective Resume is to match up buzz words in the job description to the content of a Resume. So a contractor's chance to get a crack at government contracts is in the hands of the dumb and clueless. It's "mission-critical" that they be forced out the door first.
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UPDATED August 21, 2013
By Julie Montanaro
Harper Moore just heard her dog bark for the first time, her sister sing for the first time and her parents's voices for the first time.
The seven month old from Tallahassee is deaf and one of the youngest children to receive a cochlear implant. We were there when doctors turned it on for the first time.
Harper Moore has been profoundly deaf since birth. Seven months and 11 days later, her parents are in the doctor's office at Shands Childrens Hospital waiting for her to hear for the first time.
"I'm sure I'll cry," her mother Amber Moore said as they waited for the doctor to arrive. "They've already stocked the room with tissues for me!"
Harper Moore had a cochlear implant embedded in her skull in July. Now doctors are attaching a processor - held in place with a magnet - that will allow her to hear the sounds so many of us take for granted.
"From the beginning the thing that bothered me the most was that she can't hear me tell her that I love her. So that'll be the first thing that I tell her," her mother said.
When doctors tuned on the tiny implant, it is indeed the first thing little Harper ever heard.
"Did you hear that? I love you. I love you."
"Harper?" her father Justin Moore said.
"Who's that?"
"Who is that?" he said.
"Is that daddy?"
Then doctors started testing the implant to make sure it was working properly and to make sure Harper could really hear.
The audiologist handed Harper's parents a bell to ring, blocks to clack, and a maraca to shake.
Audiologist Dr. Melissa Hall will turn up the volume gradually.
"She can just become uncomfortable because she's not accustomed to the stimulation yet," Hall said.
Now the family will have to saturate Harper with sound and immerse her in speech therapy. If all goes well she'll have a cochlear implant embedded in her left ear in a few months.
The Moore's know this procedure has its critics in the deaf community, but they hope it will give Harper a chance to be mainstreamed with other children her age.
Dr. Hall says the FDA recommends cochlear implants for children one year and up and most insurance companies do cover them as a medically necessary procedure.
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July 10, 2013
Tallahassee, FL - A Tallahassee child may soon hear her mother's voice - and so many other sounds - for the very first time.
The six month old is one of just a handful of children in Tallahassee to receive cochlear implants. We met her when she got home from the hospital today.
Harper Moore can't hear her mother's soothing voice - or the dog barking out back.
She was born deaf. From her very first newborn screening to advanced audio brain response tests, doctors say to Harper it all sounded like this (silence).
"I cried that entire first day and then the next day decided we were going to do whatever we could to help her and get her hearing," her mother Amber Moore said.
The six month old had cochlear implant surgery at Shands on Tuesday.
Doctors imbedded a tiny receiver into her skull and in a few weeks, they'll attach a processor to the outside of her head and then turn it on.
"From the beginning the thing that bothered me most is she can't hear me tell her that I love her, so that'll be the first thing that I tell her," Moore said. "The audiologist will activate that ear, they'll point at me and I'll be the first person to talk to her. My husband and I have talked about ot and discussed it. He's fine with that. His big thing is she'd never be able to hear music, so I'm sure he'll play music the whole
way home from Shands so she can hear that."
Little by little, Harper's mom says, doctors will turn up the volume and if all goes well with the right ear, they'll do a cochlear implant on the left ear in a few months.
'At this age, they're like little sponges and they soak it all up and so if we immerse her in speech and language this early, she should be talking by the time she's 15 months old," Moore said.
Doctors are expected to activate Harper's implant on August 8th. We hope to share that life-changing moment with you.


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How you word your ad makes all the difference, as this video eloquently demonstrates.
This video reminds me of something Bill Bernbach once said.
Logo Design Love says your logo doesn't have to show what you do. I heartily agree.
In 1895, Coca-Cola ran its first advertisement. I doubt this is that ad, but it does date back to the 1890's. My how ad styles change, except for the logo.
Here's a look at the new logo for Wrough Iron Contracting, a logging contractor in British Columbia. Wrough iron is another name for wrought iron, the metal that blacksmiths bend and pound to make their wares.
The company name immediately brought to my mind the image of a branding iron, and the owners loved the idea. Early drafts incorporating a literal branding iron were abandoned. Eventually the mark became an actual representation of a livestock brand.
The WR in the icon was selected to emphasize the spelling of the word "Wrough," distinguishing it from its homonym, "rough." If the brand is "called," or read aloud, it is the Bar W R Combined. Both the icon and the lettering have a rough feel to them, as if they have been burned into the page by a branding iron.
This was a fun logo to work on. The client loved it and it will serve them well into the future.
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Weekly financial Q&A, with advice on saving money, finding a deal on a used vehicle and keeping money safe from a scumbag.
Dear Dave,
In your plan, you talk about Baby Step 3 as saving enough to have three to six months of expenses in your emergency fund. My husband and I were wondering how you can determine whether you need to be on the low end or high end of that range.
Dear Amanda,
Lots of times in a marriage you'll have a situation where one person wants to save more, while the other is excited to move on toward investing. Technically, neither is wrong, so the emergency fund really deals with someone's own personal level of peace. Remember Murphy's Law, and how it says that says if something can go wrong it will go wrong? Your emergency fund is Murphy Repellant. Some people just want to make sure he doesn't knock on the door, while others want to make sure he stays in the next county!
There are always practical considerations you can use to determine the amount of your emergency fund. If you both have very stable jobs, you'll probably be OK saving up three or four months of expenses. But if just one of you works outside the home, or if one is self-employed or on commission, leaning toward the six-month side is probably a good idea. Plus, you can always compromise. Start out with three months, but add a little every once in a while until you reach a point where you're both comfortable!
Finding the deal
Dear Dave,
You mentioned on your show that you once bought a truck below wholesale price. Do you have any tips for finding a good deal on a used car?
Dear Anonymous,
When it comes to things like this, I just go on a big treasure hunt. I don't really care where I buy something, because the best deals will sometimes pop up in the most unlikely places. The rule to remember when buying big-ticket items is this: He who has the most patience and the most information wins.
If you do a little research and don't get car fever, you can find some pretty sweet deals. I'm all about good deals, so the patience part of the equation wasn't a big thing for me. I did a lot of digging around while I was looking, and in the process became an expert on certain types of trucks in particular areas. It's really hard to get burned if you have a little patience and plenty of good, solid information!
Keeping the money from the scumbag
Dear Dave,
My nephew was recently left a large sum of money from a life-insurance policy after his mother died. She did not have a will. His father, who has been out of the picture for some time, is about to be granted custody, and he's been asking lots of suspicious questions about the money. We don't trust his motives. How can we help make sure the money is protected?
Dear Anonymous,
You need to talk to a lawyer, and take this matter to probate court immediately. Tell the judge about the situation and your concerns. Ask him to put your nephew's money into a trust through a bank or other third party. Otherwise, as his guardian, there's a good chance the father will be granted control of the money.
I'm not big on bank trust departments, but I am big on keeping scumbags from taking money away from kids!
Dave Ramsey is a nationally known personal finance expert. Visit www.davesays.org for more financial advice.


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Forbes published its Forbes 400 which chronicles the 400 wealthiest people in the country. On the list was Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at No. 20 whose personal wealth was nearly doubled by Facebook stock finally giving investors a profit from its initial public offering. Last year the boy billionaire was listed as No. 36.
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To those who doubted the public stock performance of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg may be having the last laugh. After the company's troubled initial public offering in May 2012, shares of the social networking giant bounced back over the summer. That's why the net worth of the hoodie-wearing CEO, who owns more than 17% of Facebook, has doubled since last year.
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Facebook's stock price rose to $45.30 last week, the highest since its $38 IPO in May 2013. Since then, the price has been primarily lower driven by reports that Facebook had little or no mobile strategy. That belief changed this year as stock prices climbed.
Zuckerberg's 17 percent ownership of Facebook is the main reason for his rise in fortune, as well as his college roommate and co-founder Dustin Moskovitz who owns 5 percent, according to the Telegraph.
Bill Gates, however, still holds the No. 1 spot as he has for the last 20 years.
Facebook's reverse of fortune not only helped its company and reputation, but also has lined the pocketbooks of its founders. Despite the youth of Zuckerberg, 29, he has weathered a tough year and likely learned valuable lessons about business and going public. Luckily, he seems to have been well-compensated for it.


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Watch Channing Tatum Backflip Out of a Helicopter, Strip Off His Pants [VIDEO]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
Our hearts are racing — and not only because we just watched Channing Tatum jump out of a plane! During his episode of 'Running Wild with Bear Grylls' (airing Aug. 11), the actor backflipped from the aircraft into a body of water … and then removed his pants.
Channing, who confessed that he'd never actually performed a backflip, was total game to try the maneuver as the helicopter hovered over the water.
"I would absolutely say this is more exciting than any movie I'd been on," the '22 Jump Street' actor told the camera. "Everything in the movie world is so planned and generally rehearsed. This is not rehearsed. I don't know what's going to happen."
Of course, when Channing made it to dry land, he warmed up his body temperature with a series of pushups. He also dried off by removing and wringing the water out of his pants. Even Bear poked fun at the 'Magic Mike' star, commenting, "You're good at stripping. This is your heritage!"
Watch the sneak peak on Channing of 'Running Wild with Bear Grylls' in the video above, and be sure to catch the full episode when it airs on Monday, Aug. 11 on NBC.


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