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A Franklin man was arrested last week after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase through two counties.
After being blue-lighted by Jackson County Sheriff's Officers in the early morning hours last Friday, Ian Alexander Neal, 23, fled the pursuing officers on U.S. 441 south heading toward Macon County. According to Macon County Sheriff Robert Holland, it was at that point that his officers were alerted and began assisting the pursuit.
At approximately 2:42 a.m., Neal reportedly drove over spiked stop strips deployed by the Franklin Police Department as he arrived near the intersection of 441 South and Dowdle Mountain Road. During the chase, the suspect reached speeds of 115 miles per hour, according to Holland.

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Yvette R. Riendeau
NORTH SMITHFIELD - Yvette R. Riendeau, 100, died peacefully at St. Antoine Residence, North Smithfield on Thursday, October 11, 2012. She was the beloved wife of the late Alphonse 'Al' Riendeau. Mrs. Riendeau was born in Pawtucket, the daughter of the late Philias and Celina (Bessette) Benoit and was a lifelong resident of the Blackstone Valley.
Mrs. Riendeau was a homemaker and her home and family were the centers of her life. She was an avid bowler, golfer, and bridge player.
She is survived by her sons Richard (Eileen) Riendeau of Seekonk and Normand Riendeau of North Smithfield, her grandchildren Marc (Christene) Riendeau of Northbridge, MA and Aimee (Sean) Sullivan of Foxborough, MA and four great-grandchildren, Mathieu and Brian Sullivan and Luc and Leyton Riendeau.
She was the sister of the late Normand Benoit, Doris Duffy, and Loretta Skrydalewicz.
Her funeral will be held on Monday, October 15, 2012 from the Darlington Mortuary of L. Heroux & Son, 1042 Newport Avenue, Pawtucket at 10:00 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in the Chapel at St. Antoine Residence, 10 Rhodes Avenue, North Smithfield, RI at 11:00 a.m. Burial will follow at Notre Dame Cemetery, Daggett Avenue, Pawtucket. The family will receive visitors from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Monday morning.
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text: Mauricio67 5pts It is the end of January 2013 and General Motors dared to bring a subcompact to this country, the SPARK and it is selling more than expected, way more!. I am buying one of them by may 2013 without waiting for the gasoline to go even more expesive, that eventually it will!. My reazon? I LIKE smalll CARS AS WELL AS small WOMEN BEING 6'4". It is just a mater OF TASTE. brng the PICANTO, bring the i10, there are sufficient people in this country, to buy and enjoyed them regardless others criteria. Good thing General motors is following their own CRITERIA


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In my mind its always been Memorial Day that marks the beginning of all things summer. Time to fire up the grill, break out the swimsuit, and retire our tights and boots for the next four months. Its a weekend that marks the beginning of summer music festivals, trips to the beach house, and lends approval to an entirely white wardrobe (but only until labor day). But, what I really love about the beginning of summer is one simple thing-
No. More. Jackets.
Exposed arms = exposed wrists = exposed watches. And this weekend, Hollywood celebrated summer, showing off sun-kissed skin, white apparel and, of course, some serious wrist-candy from big names like Audemars Piguet and Jacob & Co.


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Seacoast donates backpacks for summer camp graduates
VERO BEACH - Harvest Food & Outreach Center's Lunch & Learn campers were recently presented with new backpacks provided by Seacoast National Bank that were stocked full of school supplies donated by the community during "Harvest Days" in April.
During the nine-week summer program Lunch and Learn campers enjoyed a varied curriculum five days a week, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., which included a combination of activities focusing on the arts, physical exercise, nutrition, reading tutoring and interactive presentations. Tutoring was provided in collaboration with AmeriCorp and The Learning Alliance. Professionals from various backgrounds visited the children during lunchtime to tell them about their careers and how important reading is as a foundation for life-long learning. Harvest also offered concurrent workshops for parents that focused on life skills and job readiness training.
"We appreciate Seacoast's support of our educational programs," explained Annabel Robertson, Harvest's Executive Director of Indian River County. "In addition to providing the backpacks Seacoast employees also volunteer many hours to facilitate workshops that teach students at Harvest's Life Enrichment Center about finance related topics such as how to improve a credit score and how to budget."
Harvest Food & Outreach Center, founded in 2003 by Austin and Ginny Hunt in Indian River County, provides a holistic, multi-component approach that provides a hand up to those living at or under the 200 percent federal poverty level. For more information about Harvest's programs, volunteer opportunities, or how to make a donation visit www.harvestfoodoutreach.org or call 772-778-3977.
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After starting as a general assignment reporter and obit writer for small city newspapers in Ohio and Tennessee, Jennings spent several years as a business journalist in London and Washington before moving into documentary television production in 1996.
Since then he has worked on dozens of films and produced documentaries covering a spectrum of subjects, from the science of heart transplantation to hard investigations into disaster aid graft, corporations that make money on poverty and big-city police cover-ups.
Jennings has been producing for FRONTLINE since 2009, when he was assigned to work with A.C. Thompson, reporter for the online investigative news group ProPublica. His resulting film, Law and Disorder, about police shootings of civilians during the week after Katrina, was nominated for an Emmy Award and won the prestigious George Polk Award for television reporting. Jennings subsequently produced Doctor Hotspot with New Yorker writer Atul Gawande and A Perfect Terrorist, with ProPublica reporter Sebastian Rotella, about the American citizen behind the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai. He was a producer on the 2012 landmark economy miniseries, Money, Power & Wall Street, which won a George Polk Award. In addition to his two Polk Awards, Jennings has also won two national Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and three Writer's Guild of America Awards.
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Videography – Lessons Learned
I've been fairly disappointed with how bad my raw video footage looks from my last trip to Isla Mujeres. For example, I had an idea to show people exactly how to get to some of the more out of the way locations that don't really conform to addresses. Simply providing a point on a map doesn't really show the best way to navigate to it if a rocky path is along the direct route, while a clearer indirect path might be available. So, I thought, "I'll walk it from a major landmark, and show everyone exactly how to get there."
However, when I reviewed my footage after this attempt, every footstep created so much shake of the camera, it almost made me sea sick to watch it. In fact, since I had forgotten to take my tripod, even the most basic of shots from around Isla Mujeres were subject to my ability to keep a dinky little camera completely still for anywhere from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. Sometimes I could find something to prop the camera up on, like a rock wall when I was snorkeling. But, a lot of the time, they ended up being low angle shots and provided a poor perspective of the environment.
Ugh! I obviously have a lot to learn about making better videos. I'd like to think I'm pretty good with a still camera, but video work is different enough that I feel almost novice at times. One of those times was when I reviewed my footage from Isla Mujeres to determine my next blogging topic.
I was hoping maybe I could simply straighten out the video in post-production using Adobe After Effects with the Warp Stabilizer effect, but the perspective changes so often and extremely (it seems I have a very bouncy and heavy step) from each jarry footfall, that the only remaining footage after trying to clean it up was a tiny chunk in the center of the screen. Maybe I'll publish the resulting video so everyone can see what I ran up against. The video of Tiffany Wareing from Barlito's, on the other hand, ended up being very nice after a little cleanup, even though it was with a handheld.
As a result of this introspective soul-searching epiphany of my petty foibles, I decided to handle this problem the way I handle most problems – research and practice. I won't get any good without practice, and practice is meaningless if I merely reinforce existing bad habits. With that in mind, I watched hours and hours of video on how to make good videos. I got better ideas about lighting and camera angles, insert shots, panning and so much more. Some of what I learned is that I don't have the right tools for the job to film more interesting footage. Sure, it's possible to do something the "hard way", but just as we don't use manual-set type any more for publishing, there's no reason to force myself to do things the hard way just for the exercise of it.
Obviously, my tripod would have been useful, but I need something a little different to help me steady the camera while I'm in motion. I can't have anything too huge or too heavy that I couldn't take on the plane to Isla Mujeres. So, I'm working on a way to build a few different little handles, holders, and tracks out of PVC that let me move the camera very steadily which I can disassemble and reassemble on location. I'd also like to assemble a stabilizer rig that I could mount on a golf cart so I can get a video tour of the island's major landmarks.
Even though I didn't do many interviews in Isla Mujeres last time around, I'd really like to get a wireless lavaliere microphone so that I can drop the camera on a tripod somewhere, aim at a nice scene somewhere and record a little narration fairly audibly without a ton of background noise. The location of the microphone on my current camera is just miserable. The mike is on the top of the viewing LCD. So, wherever I point that edge of the viewing LCD, that's where the microphone picks up best. As you can tell from my earlier Paloma video, this odd placement results in audio that is muffled at best and fades in and out as the subject moves around. My camera doesn't have an external mike jack, so this means an external recorder and clapboard to synch the two are on the list as well. I considered getting a clapboard app for the iPad, but I just don't want to get sand in it during my beach-side run-and-gun missions while her Sharkness is getting spa treatments or running on the treadmill.
Vivitar DVR 690HD Underwater Video Camera – Mini Review
Finally, I needed a waterproof video camera for the snorkel shots. Getting pictures of the fish swimming up to my face is just impossible without one. That's pretty simple to fix, so I picked up a random cheap HD underwater video camera just so I could get some experience filming underwater. The Wheel of Destiny picked the Vivitar DVR 690HD. When it arrived, I was pretty excited. It took 3 hours to charge up for it's first run, and required an SD card. Conveniently, I happened to have an extra SD Card lying around. As soon as it was ready, I grabbed some quick footage of the kitchen. The unit is incredibly light, especially compared to my brick of an iPhone which has roughly the same dimensions. I imported the footage using the included mini-USB cable, and concluded "Wow! What a piece of crap this thing is." I had assumed there was some lowest common denominator of video quality for a camera marked as "HD". The Vivitar website describes their unit thusly:
The Vivitar DVR 690 will blow you away with its crystal clear video and still image quality.
Oh my GOD, is this ever so blatantly false. I guess "HD" simply means that the pictures have the pixel dimensions of 1280 x 720. It doesn't mean that every pixel is used properly. Photos and video from this thing in anything other than the brightest of daylight look like the most pixelated photo I've ever taken with under candle light with any other digital camera, it's so horribly grainy. Even in broad daylight, the video from the iPhone blows this sucker away. Maybe it's worth it to keep the unit for underwater shooting, but it's certainly worth making sure no one else every buys a Vivitar DVR 690HD without understanding how miserable these images are unless you are in broad daylight. The sound on it is atrocious as well, but I'm going to be using this underwater mostly, so, the sound isn't something I'm really interested in. A camera like this might have been good for my trip to Niagara Falls, so I could have recorded the whole thing without fear of melting my camera's innards. It's been rainy around here a lot lately, so I haven't had a chance to test it underwater yet.
5 Responses to "Videography – Lessons Learned"
I'm terrible at taking videos, in fact, I've never really tried to learn it..if I ever need to, I just use the video capability from my DSLR…you're making me want to get a video recorder!
Just wanted to stop by and say … Happy Sunday
Hola! I have been having the same issues. I have found that the software Video Reveal 3 works fairly well at stabilizing video. I have also tried using Youtube's stabilizer option and have had mixed results. On a video that is fairly stable it works great. If there is alot of panning footage you tend to get some strange tilting and askewing in the rendered video. I have been seriously considering investing in a Flycam Nano stabilizer unit. Have seen several go for aaround $200 on ebay. I am hoping to invest in one before my next trip to Isla in December. Good luck in your quest and I will be following along to see what you come up with.


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ISI-CITED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS in 2011
Field of Research
Applied Linguistics
Azirah Hashim and Norizah Hassan. 2011. Language of the Legal Process; An Analysis of Interactions in the Syariah Court, Multilingua, Vol. 30, 3-4, pp. 333-356.
This study examines interactions from trials in the Syariah court in Malaysia. It focuses on the types of questioning, the choice of language and the linguistic resources employed in this particular context. In the discourse of law, questioning has been a prominent concern particularly in cross-examination and can be considered one of the key communicative practices in legal encounters. Usually based on expectations and assumptions about what the responses are likely to be, an extended question and answer dialogue can allocate or remove blame and make a party appear trustworthy or unreliable. Questions which are supportive of witnesses can simply ask for confirmation, leading witnesses through straightforward narratives and information-seeking questions. On the other hand, questions during cross-examination create a negative evaluation of witnesses and defendants, destroying their credibility and casting doubts on defence statements. Data are collected from a Syariah court in the country and examined for the strategic lexical choices, specific linguistic resources, including code-switching, through which utterances are constructed as questions and how questions are sequenced in this particular context.
Applied linguistics
Bahrani, T., & Tam, S, S. (2011). Technology and language learning: Exposure to TV and radio news and speaking proficiency. Kritika Kultura (17): 144-160.
Today, technology has dominated the world by extensive improvements in audio/visual mass media such as TV and radio. TV and radio are not just entertainment tools anymore. It can be used as pedagogically valuable technology that can provide authentic language input for language learning. In the same line, this study examined the effect of exposure to TV and radio news on improving EFL learners' speaking proficiency. To achieve this purpose, a speaking proficiency test was administered to two hundred language learners and ultimately sixty intermediate language learners were selected and randomly divided into group one and group two. During the experiment, group one participants had exposure to TV and radio news to work on in-and out-side the classroom while the participants in group two had only exposure to a sample selected utterances extracted from different kinds of TV and radio programs other than news. At the end of the experiment, both groups took another sample speaking proficiency test to see whether or not any significant improvements happened in their speaking proficiency. The results obtained from the post-test indicated that group one participants performed better than group two participants. This was indicative of the fact that exposure to TV and radio news promotes EFL learners' speaking proficiency.
Chua, Y.P., Tie, F. H., & Don, Z.M. 2011. Creating an Education Research Acculturation Theory for Research Implementation in School. Education and Urban Society, pp.1-21.
This study investigates the implementation of educational research among urban secondary schools in Malaysia. The respondents include school teachers and administrators, lecturers in education institutions, and committee members of the state education departments. Data collected from interviews were coded and analyzed using open, axial and selected coding procedures. Six core categories emerged from the data namely implementation initiative, implementation obstacles, collaboration, research knowledge, research needs, and suggestions to overcome the weaknesses. The findings showed that the quality and quantity of education research in school depend on the existence of a research culture. The findings of this study form an education research acculturation theory for research implementation in schools.
Coluzzi Paolo, 2011. Majority and Minority Language Planning in Brunei Darussalam, Language Problems and Language Planning, pp. 35, 3.
This paper is an overview of language planning as carried out in Brunei Darussalam for Malay, its official language, English, its de facto other official language, and for the other eleven minority languages spoken in the country. After a general introduction to the country and its sociolinguistic situation, the paper outlines the main language planning activities carried out in Brunei through corpus, status and acquisition planning. The overview of status planning includes a brief description of the linguistic landscape of Brunei. The second part of the paper discusses the advantages of education using the students' first language, something that is not happening in Brunei, and the future of education in the country after the introduction of the new education reform (SPN21). The paper closes with some general remarks on the importance of maintaining minority languages and some suggestions on how this can be achieved.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.35.3.02col
David, M. K. & Yoong, D. (2011). Islamic activism: Anti-apostasy propaganda in the Lina Joy case. The Indian Journal of Social Work 72(2), pp.199-222.
In early 2007, the legal case of Lina Joy's conversion from Islam to Christianity was under both local and international media spotlight because it openly questions whether or not a Malaysian Muslim can become an apostate, by resorting to the High Court and bypassing the Syariah courts (Islamic courts). The issue was whether or not the Syariah courts supersede the highest court in Malaysia, the Federal Court. Joy's case highlights whether a Malaysian Malay has constitutional freedom to choose one's religion, as well as a non-Muslim life partner (Koshy, 2007). Since apostasy is a serious offence in Islam, conservative Muslims frown upon any attempts that would allow Muslims to renounce Islam, and Joy's case is seen as a threat because it may provide an easy exit for Muslims to leave Islam by bypassing the Syariah court. Furthermore, conservative Malay Muslims claim that Joy, being a person of Malay heritage, threatens the Malay identity because the Federal Constitution states that a Malay has to be a Muslim. This research analyses the techniques used by PEMBELA, an Islamic activist group comprising of more than seventy Islamic Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), to propagate their cause and solicit support from Muslims to oppose Joy's victory. Jowett and O'Donnell's (2005) content analysis is used to study the official leaflet distributed by PEMBELA.
Ding, Seong Lin, Ng Yean Leng. (2011). The China Image in Malaysian Chinese Literature. Foreign Literature Studies, 33(6):140-145.
The "China Image" express in the Malaysian Chinese Literature has been under acute transformation over a long period of time. First of all, what is meant by "China"? Secondly, different views held by various people with different identities and acquiescence,might bring to a complete diversion of "China image". The changes of times and minds, or perhaps the different perspectives in thought and review angle might also lead to a distinctive conclusion. This paper intends to analyze from three perspectives so as to have a closer reading of the "China image" in the context of Malaysian Chinese Literature.
Discourse studies
Dumanig, F. and David, M.K. 2011. Conversion Narratives and Construction of Identity among Christians in Malaysia. Multilingua 30 (3-4), pp. 319-331.
Conversion narratives in the form of testimony are powerful means of consolidating and strengthening one's new religious identity (Beit-Hallahmi, Prolegomena to the psychological study of religion, Bucknell University Press, 1989; Rambo, Understanding religious conversion, Yale University Press, 1993; Stromberg 1993, as cited in Emmons & Paloutzian, Annual Review of Psychology 54: 377–402, 2003). Using conversion narratives is common among Christians in testifying how they came to know Christ. The testimony usually presents two distinct identities of the speaker: before and after accepting Christ as Lord and savior. These two distinct identities are examined in this paper to see how speakers construct themselves in the form of testimony. This paper specifically analyzes the moves and lexical choices used in the narratives. To carry out the study, 15 recorded conversion narratives were used.
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2011.015, August 2011
Ghajarieh, A. B. B., & Kow, K. Y. C. 2011. Addressing Men and Gender Diversity in Education: A Promising Solution to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. Health Care for Women International, 32(4), pp. 314-327.
To date, researchers investigating gender in relation to social issues underscore women and appear to sideline men. Focusing on women in studies concerning sociogender issues may exclude not only men from mainstream research, but also those who do not fit into the binary gender system, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people. One area closely related to gender issues is the HIV epidemic. Mainstream discussions of men and other versions of masculinity and femininity including GLBT people in the gender-related studies of the HIV epidemic can decrease the vulnerability of individuals against HIV infections regardless of their biological sex.
doi: 10.1080/07399332.2010.532577
Discourse Studies
Kaur, J. 2011. Intercultural communication in English as a lingua franca: Some sources of misunderstanding. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8(1), pp. 93-116.
Intercultural communication is perceived as being somewhat problematic, given the varied cultures that come into contact with one another. Misunderstanding and communication breakdown are said to mark many intercultural encounters as participants rely on the norms of their mother tongue and native culture to interpret meaning. This paper reports on the findings of a study conducted to identify and explain the sources and nature of misunderstanding in intercultural communication in English as a lingua franca. Fine-grained analyses of 15 hours of naturally occurring spoken interactions in ELF reveal that none of the misunderstandings occurring in this type of intercultural communication can be attributed to differences in the participants' cultural background. While a few misunderstandings are language-related, the source of many of the misunderstandings can be traced to ambiguity in the speaker's utterances. Other reasons for misunderstanding include mishearing and lack of world knowledge, namely, factors that also contribute to misunderstanding in intracultural communication. It is suggested that the diminished role of culture in such interactions stems from the lingua franca context of the interaction. Intent on arriving at mutual understanding in a language that is native to none of the participants, cultural differences are tolerated and often overlooked as the participants negotiate and co-construct understanding in the lingua franca.
Kaur, J. 2011. Raising explicitness through self-repair in English as a lingua franca. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(11), pp. 2704-2715.
A key feature of interaction in English as a lingua franca (ELF) is diversity – in the varieties of English spoken, the levels of proficiency displayed and the cultural norms and communicative styles of the participants – which can pose challenges to the process of achieving shared understanding in talk. Research into ELF, however, shows that participants make adept use of interactional practices to both pre-empt and resolve problems of understanding. Additionally, speakers use various "explicitness strategies" (Mauranen, 2007) to enhance the clarity of utterances and promote the comprehensibility of speech. This paper examines further the notion of raising explicitness of expression by looking at some of the self-repair practices of speakers using ELF. Using conversation analysis procedures, 15 h of audio-recorded naturally occurring ELF conversations of international graduate students were analyzed for this purpose. Instances of self-initiated repair were examined to identify the types of repair performed and the kinds of trouble addressed. The results show that in addition to correcting, the participants employ a variety of self-repair practices that make utterances explicit and improve communicative clarity. The speakers' meticulous attention to clarity and explicitness possibly stems from an awareness of the precarious nature of the ELF situation.
Lean, M.L. 2011. A visual analysis of festive television commercials in Malaysia, Multilingua (Special Issue) Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication. 30, pp. 305-317.
Malaysia is a multiracial country with a diverse range of religions, leading to a broad range of religious festivals throughout the year. In recent years, corporate giants such as Petronas, Telekom Malaysia (TM), Tenaga and Astro have taken to airing television commercials (TVCs) that contain a local touch when greeting their customers. Perhaps the TVCs that have noticeably touched the hearts of most Malaysians are those sponsored by Petronas. Petronas used to commission the late Yasmin Ahmad to produce these TVCs. Thus, this paper is a visual analysis of the Petronas advertisements for one of the main religious festivals celebrated in Malaysia: Hari Raya Aidilfitri. The corpus selected for analysis is those TVCs directed by Yasmin Ahmad for Petronas between the years 1995 and 2008. The theoretical framework for the analysis of these social-commentary type commercials is the one proposed by Theo van Leeuwen.
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2011.014, August 2011
Rani Rubdy, T. Ruanni F. Tupas, Corazon D. Villareal, Maya Khemlani David, Dumanig, Francisco. 2011. Review of doctoral research in English language education in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia (2007-2010). Language Teaching, 44(04). pp.64-84.
This review highlights recent doctoral research in English language education and related areas completed between 2007 and 2010 in three countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Out of sixty dissertations initially chosen from major universities in these countries, five from the Philippines, four from Malaysia and three from Singapore were selected for review, the selection being based mainly on their quality of work and representation of key areas of intellectual work in the field in these countries. This review shows how the shared postcolonial identities of these countries and their unique sociohistorical locations help explain the coalescing and diverging agendas and trajectories in English language education doctoral research in the region. Much of the work affirms the dominant intellectual position of the West as the producer of knowledge, so there is a need to reposition the intellectual stance of research in English language education in the region within and emerging from its multilingual but unequally globalizing landscapes. Thus, there is an urgent need for more nuanced attention to socio-cultural factors that impact on English language education in the three countries under review, which, in turn, can help scholars produce new knowledge that can contribute to academic conversations in the field.
Richard Powell and Azirah Hashim, 2011, Language Disadvantage in Malaysian Litigation and Arbitration, World Englishes, 30(1), pp. 92-105.
Based on extensive observations of courtroom proceedings and more limited observations of arbitration practice, this study compares how each system approaches language disadvantage. In Malaysian common law the usual constraints on courtroom discourse, institutionalised by de jure rules of speaking and reinforced by professional practice, are supplemented by a language policy, enshrined in the constitution, statutes and judicial directives, which requires the use of Malay while also allowing English where deemed in the interests of justice. The result is a bilingual system, with all other languages admissible only through interpretation. In the fast-growing alternative dispute sector, however, there are few hard and fast rules governing either code choice or discourse. With most Malaysian arbitrations involving commercial disputes, English is the dominant medium, but as in the courts, English-Malay code-switching is common. Ways of speaking are generally more relaxed than in the courts, but with a majority of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) advocates coming from common law, many discursive practices are carried over. While the more relaxed atmosphere of ADR seems to encourage freer discourse than in the courts, there are some indications that current practice may be underestimating the needs of participants who are less proficient in English. The stricter rules imposed on courtroom discourse may inhibit free discussion but they do reveal a high awareness of the problems of language disadvantage.
Wang Xiaomei and Chong Siew Ling, 2011, A hierarchical model for language maintenance and language shift, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 32(6), pp. 577-591.
Social factors involved in language maintenance and language shift (LMLS) have been the focus of LMLS studies. Previous studies provide fundamental support for the theoretical development of this research branch. However, there is no discussion regarding the hierarchical order of these social factors, i.e. the degree of importance of various social factors in the process of LMLS in a specific multilingual society. This article aims to illustrate the hierarchy of population factor, settlement mode factor, and status and institutional support factor in the process of LMLS across various dialect groups in the Malaysian Chinese community in Kuala Lumpur. Based on the analysis of the decline of language proficiency, discontinuation of intergenerational transmission and decline of language use in public settings, a hierarchical model of LMLS is constructed.
Zainon Shamsudin & Kamila Ghazali. 2011. A discursive construction of homosexual males in a Muslim-dominant community. Multilingua (Special Issue) - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, Vol. 30 (3-4), pp. 279-304.
This paper addresses the issue of identity construction of four young Malay homosexual men in Malaysia. Through narrative discourse of their lifeworlds (Habermas, Theory of communicative action, Polity Press, 1987), this study explores the participants' linguistic repertoire and discursive strategies in the formation, negotiation and establishment of their identities. Specifically, the aim is to investigate their identities as Muslims living a homosexual lifestyle in a predominantly heterosexual Muslim society. The narrative data were gathered through semi-structured interviews cum conversations which allowed the participants to express their sentiments about their lives in a heterosexual society. Using an adapted Critical Discourse Analysis framework proposed by Reisigl & Wodak (The discourse-historical approach (DHA), Sage, 2009), this study analyses the participants' emergent language use and discursive strategies in representing themselves and others and in disclosing their positions towards the dominant sexual ideology. There is evidence of their internal struggle between their desire to stay homosexual and their obligation to assimilate to the dominant sexual ideology.
Zuraidah Mohd Don & Ahmad Izadi. 2011. Relational connection and separation in Iranian dissertation defences. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(15), pp. 3782-3792.
This article examines ways in which participants achieve face in Iranian dissertation defences, while doing interactional work in their roles as candidate, examiner or supervisor. Following Arundale, we adopt the notion of face as an interactional and relational phenomenon which is conjointly co-constituted by participants as they conjointly co-constitute meanings and actions in talk-in-interaction. This dynamic conceptualization of face requires an approach grounded in Conversational Analysis. The data for analysis is taken from two PhD defence sessions conducted at Iranian universities. Selected segments of talk from the Question and Answer sessions during these dissertation defences were analyzed to investigate how participants achieve face. The data analysis shows that interpreting and doing relational work are not only influenced by the participants' culture but also by the institutional nature of the talk itself. When covert rules are flouted, the reaction from co-participants and the audience demonstrates disapproval of inappropriate behaviour.
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As an information security professional, your toolkit is the most critical item you can possess — other than hands-on experience and common sense. Your hacking tools should consist of the following (and make sure you're never on the job without them):
Password cracking software, such as ophcrack and Proactive Password Auditor
Network scanning software, such as Nmap and NetScanTools Pro
Network vulnerability scanning software, such as GFI LanGuard and QualysGuard
Network analyzer software, such as Cain & Abel and OmniPeek
Wireless network analyzer and software, such as Aircrack-ng and CommView for WiFi
File search software, such as FileLocator Pro and Identity Finder
Web application vulnerability scanning software, such as Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner and WebInspect
Database security scanning software, such as SQLPing3 and AppDetectivePro
Exploit software, such as Metasploit
Common Security Weaknesses that Hackers Target
Information security professionals should know the common security weaknesses that hackers and malicious users first check for when hacking into computer systems. Security flaws, such as the following, should be on your checklist when you perform your security tests:
Gullible and overly trusting users
Unsecured building and computer room entrances
Discarded documents that have not been shredded and computer disks that have not been destroyed
Network perimeters with little to no firewall protection
Poor, inappropriate, or missing file and share access controls
Unpatched systems
Web applications with weak authentication mechanisms
Wireless networks running without WPA, or WPA2 enabled
Laptop computers with no drive encryption
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Commonly Hacked Ports
Common ports, such as TCP port 80 (HTTP), may be locked down — but other ports may get overlooked and be vulnerable to hackers. In your security tests, be sure to check these commonly hacked TCP and UDP ports:
TCP port 21 - FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
TCP port 22 – SSH (Secure Shell)
TCP port 23 - telnet
TCP port 25 - SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
TCP and UDP port 53 - DNS (Domain Name System)
TCP port 443 - HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol) and HTTPS (HTTP over SSL)
TCP port 110 - POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3)
TCP and UDP port 135 - Windows RPC
TCP and UDP ports 137–139 - Windows NetBIOS over TCP/IP
TCP port 1433 and UDP port 1434 – Microsoft SQL Server
Tips for Successful Ethical Hacking
Whether you're performing ethical hacking against a customer's systems or your own, you must be prudent and pragmatic to succeed. These tips for ethical hacking can help you succeed as an information security professional:
Set goals and develop a plan before you get started.
Get permission to perform your tests.
Have access to the right tools for the tasks at hand.
Test at a time that's best for the business.
Keep the key players in the loop during your testing.
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Study malicious hacker and rogue insider behaviors and tactics. The more you know about how the bad guys work, the better you'll be at testing your systems for security vulnerabilities.
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Make sure that all your testing is aboveboard.
Treat other people's confidential information at least as well as you would treat your own.
Bring vulnerabilities you find to the attention of management and implement the appropriate countermeasures as soon as possible.
Don't treat every vulnerability discovered in the same manner. Not all weaknesses are bad. Evaluate the context of the issues found before you declare that the sky is falling.
Show management and customers that security testing is good business and you're the right professional for the job. Ethical hacking is an investment to meet business goals, find what really matters, and comply with the various laws and regulations. Ethical hacking is not about silly hacker games.


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Asia Iced Tea Report 2013
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Published by Canadean, the Asia Iced Tea Report 2013 provides a detailed analysis of the Iced Tea drinks market in Asia, with data at a regional and individual country level, including forecasts to 2016
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Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2011)
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Saturday afternoon at this year's Texas Frightmare Weekend there was a screening of six short horror films (there was supposed to be seven, but we'll get to this below). Whoever chose the shorts did a nice job of gathering up some diverse films. There's an experimental flick, a horror-comedy, two that take place in an … Continue reading
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JENSEN BEACH - High blood pressure - more than one in four adults and 50 percent of people over age 60 have it … and 30 percent of them don't know it. Twenty-five percent that are on medication have above safe levels and 10 percent are doing absolutely nothing about it.
The American public now has a 90 percent chance of developing high blood pressure. An estimated 58 million Americans currently have high blood pressure, a 25 percent increase from the 1990s. At age 55, even if your blood pressure is normal, your lifetime risk of developing hypertension is approximately 90 percent.
Scared yet? I am not trying to scare you, but the statistics are pretty frightening. Following some healthy lifestyle recommendations can prevent you from ever getting hypertension and at the very least decrease the need for drug therapies.
Blood pressure… the new "normal" has been redefined. Systolic pressure is the maximum pressure in an artery during contraction of the heart and diastolic is the minimum pressure in an artery between contractions. What was once known as normal blood pressure is now known as "pre-hypertension".
That's right, no longer is 120 over 80 considered normal or optimal blood pressure. Normal pressure is now considered "less than" 120 over 80 and anyone between high and normal is considered pre-hypertensive. That works out to roughly one out of every five adults in the pre-hypertension range.
Are you under treatment but out of control? With about 60 percent of people being treated for hypertension, only half ever get their pressure below "high" - that is, under 140 over 90. It has been documented that most people need two medications to get below 140 over 90. If you have diabetes or chronic kidney disease, you need to get your blood pressure below 130 over 80.
Medication alone cannot always do this, consistent exercise should be a part of an overall treatment program. Targeting the cause and not the symptom is proving to be the most beneficial approach. Identify the reasons for your hypertension and work with a professional to help you make lifestyle changes. Dietary and physical activity changes create the 1-2 punch to knock down hypertension.
Once you are over 50 your systolic blood pressure starts to climb. This is due to arteries losing elasticity and becoming harder. Once arteries become stiff and lose the ability to contract, systolic pressure rises. This also causes the diastolic pressure to drop and diastolic pressure below 70 has been determined to be a risk factor in atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.
High blood pressure has also been determined to increase dementia, add that to the list of increased risk of stroke, heart attack, congestive heart failure, and kidney disease. The ability to think declines with high blood pressure due to the impairment of blood flow to the brain.
Experts agree: lifestyle changes that include exercise have a greater overall affect than medications. However, a University of Maryland study shows that most physicians focus on drugs and do not recommend exercise often enough to their patients.
Here is what really works to drop those blood pressure points without the side effects of drugs.
Weight loss: 5 to 20 points for every 20 pounds lost.
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