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January 15, 2005 - Issue #194
From the Desk of Laurie Likes Books:
January 15th marks one of those dates at AAR on which we certain events occur. Robin presents her annual look at the previous year's buried treasures with a little help from her AAR colleagues and, as I did last time, delves into her reading year. Robin's column provides us with one last chance to share with you some of the great but lesser-noticed reads from the past year, which puts us in good stead for kicking off our annual reader poll.
Robin's buried treasure column is now in its sixth year and kicks off our ninth annual reader poll. That's right - we've been polling our readers for the best and worst in romance reading for nine years! It is also at this time that I open another annual contest - our Isn't It Romantic? Contest. This year marks the eighth year we've conducted this contest, and as always, it coincides as closely with Valentine's Day as possible.
Why Look for a Buried Treasure? (Robin Uncapher)
How did you start reading romance? Did you pick up a Nora Roberts because it was on the best seller list? Did your best friend give you a Mary Stewart when you were fourteen and tell you it was the best thing she'd ever read? Did you fall madly in love with Mr. Darcy and go searching through every possible 19th century novel trying to find a similar story, only to find yourself compulsively reading Georgette Heyer?
Every year when I begin thinking about the buried treasures column it brings me back to those first days that I read romance. Unlike many of you I was completely ignorant of the genre and, to make things much worse, had a prejudice against best selling authors. This might seem ridiculous until one considers that my best selling introduction to romance included Robert James Waller and Nicholas Sparks. Like many literary fiction readers I was under the erroneous impression that the NY Times Bestseller list was probably serving up the very best books in a terrible genre. I figured if The Bridges of Madison County and The Notebook didn't tickle my fancy why would a book by some unknown named Carla Kelly?
In the fall of 1998 I was low on funds and itchy to write a story that might sell. Why not try romance? Everyone said it was a cinch to write, right? I decided to do some research at the library and what I wanted to read was the worse and most mediocre romance books I could find. The reason for this was simple. For years I had written training courses and technical manuals for banks and insurance companies. One key to my success was this. I was very good at copying style. When a client handed me a nearly incomprehensible booklet on inputting tax codes in Italy and told me to write one just like it for the United Kingdom, I was there. When a client told me to write module three of a seventeen module course on managing people, I could make module three look just like modules two and four.
I can hear you snickering now. Wasn't I just the person you wanted to be reading?
So, in my search for mediocre romances I brought home a stack of potential losers sure to be easy to copy. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that many of these unknown authors were putting out books a whole lot more interesting than those on the bestseller lists! Carla Kelly's With This Ring was my first experience with a truly buried treasure and it turned my thinking around. Suddenly I did not want to write a book as bad as the midlist, I wanted to write a book that was just as good.
This lead to the birth of the ATBF Buried Treasures column. From the moment I joined AAR I hoped that Laurie's goal of an ongoing conversation of romance readers having an intelligent and sophisticated conversation about romance novels could lead to romance readers discovering new and exciting romance books—books that almost nobody outside the genre had heard about.
As you probably know this column is always published at the kick off of AAR's Annual Reader Poll. The idea is that some of you, in reading my suggestions and the suggestions of AAR staff and readers, will come up with some good ideas of which books to vote for.
My Reading Year 2004
My Reading Year 2004
I read eighty-four books in 2004, broken out into these genres/sub-genres:
It is always impossible for me to separate my reading year with my impressions of buried treasures in that year. This year , though, it is easier than usual. The reason for that is that what was interesting in 2004, for me, was the large number of very good books that were produced by major authors. With Linda Howard, Jennifer Crusie, Mary Balogh, Lisa Kleypas and Laura Kinsale writing great books, was it even necessary to look for buried treasures in 2004?
Maybe not for people who read 25 or 30 books a year but for the average AAR romance reader it probably was. My favorite buried treasure of 2004 was Nonnie St. George's Courting Trouble (a book Laurie has written about a couple of times this year, most recently in the last issue of this column as one of her top 2004 reads) . The Duke of St. Fell, the hero and Arabella Swann, the heiress heroine, are both so smart, so witty and charming that you might think that you have come across a long lost Oscar Wilde play. Arabella is an heiress who has always promised herself she would marry for love. She is irritated when she accidentally falls madly in love with a Duke who has set out to marry her in an arranged marriage. I hate when that happens! Many authors trying to write a similar kind of book would create a series of situations and accidents to keep the hero and heroine apart. That is not necessary for author Nonnie St. George, who excels at writing witty dialogue and repartee that the characters make up their own conflicts. And yet, even as you read the verbal sparing it is pretty obvious that these two people are perfect for each other.
Another book I loved was Jessica Benson's The Accidental Duchess, which is a Regency-in-Disguise but it is also a kind of trad Chick Lit book told in the first person by a woman who is tricked into marrying one twin when she thinks she is marrying another. I laughed all the way through it. If you like trads and/or Chick Lit, it is really worth checking out.
My two other buried treasures were Lorraine Heath's Smooth Talkin' Stranger and Janice Kay Johnson's Mommy Said Goodbye.
Though it's a single title contemporary, Smooth Talkin' Stranger reads just like a really good series romance. Its got a CIA agent hero who can't love and a tortured heroine widow who is still in love with her dead husband. There was nothing really new in Heath's second contemporary, but reading it reaffirmed for me the idea that there doesn't have to be anything new in a really good love story. After finishing it I walked around for weeks wishing I could find a series book that was just as good.
My last buried treasure is Mommy Said Goodbye, a series romance - one of only three 2004 series titles I read this year. The plot is, as they say in the Law & Order commercials, "ripped from the headlines." The hero, Craig, is a man whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. He has a young daughter and is befriended by Robin, the heroine, who also was a friend of his wife's. Given the creepy evidence of the Scott Peterson case I was both curious and doubtful about this book. Luckily Craig is his own guy and its pretty obvious from the start that he is innocent. Johnson's story has all the things I like in a series romance. It's a simple story set in a place I recognize - the suburbs. Craig deals with school teachers, pick-up times and his daughter's troubles. Robin is smart and sensible. The love scenes in this book are delayed and given the story that made sense too, and did not make it less romantic for me.
All in all, 2004 was a year that didn't require a reader to search for buried treasures in order to read very good book, but finding buried treasures is always a boon.
In this column you've read about my reading year - in the previous issue you read about Laurie's. Before moving on to buried treasures more specifically, here's an encapsulated version of Blythe's reading year for 2004.
Blythe's Reading Year
2004 was definitely one of my better "reading years," especially when
compared with the last two. I managed to increase the number of books read
to 81. It seems like nothing compared to most of my colleagues (and even
compared to my own past reading habits), but it's a good personal showing
for me. The categories break as you see them to the right:
I was surprised to see that I had read so many contemporaries (more than any other single category), perhaps because few of them were very memorable books for me. I was also discouraged to see the continuing downslide of my American Historical reading. American Historicals were really my first love, but they seem so hard to come by these days. I think I'd kill for a really good colonial romance. Of those I read, the only one I liked was By Twilight, by Bess Henderson. The other two were, regrettably, terrible. On the other hand, the most encouraging trend for me this year was in my European Historical reading. I can't remember the last time I read so many that I really enjoyed. Mary Balogh, Loretta Chase, Julia Ross, Julia Quinn, and Diane Farr all wrote European Historicals this year that I really enjoyed. I also read some good Regencies, most notably Miss Thornrose and the Rake (Geraldine Burrows).
I only grade books I review, so my grades don't really tell the whole story about the quality of books I've read during the year. But from a reviewer's standpoint I find it useful to tally them up anyway. The grades I gave are as you see them to the left.
This is more or less a typical pattern for me, though I was very excited about writing my first DIK review in over a year and a half (I should note that though I read the book in 2004, the review and the book were published in 2005).
I think my Buried Treasure would be The Wicked Lover by Julia Ross. I read it at the beginning of last year, but the wonderful opening scene with the hero's mistress burning all his clothes has never left my mind. I also have to mention Miss Thornrose and the Rake. I know it's ineligible for the contest (first published by Five Star) but nobody heard of it until Signet published it this year, and it was really a fantastic Regency.
My reading goal for the coming year is to crack 100 again, something I used to do routinely.
More on Buried Treasures
Rather than present to you buried treasures by individual, this year we'll showcase buried treasures by sub-genre. We'll list them as they appear on the ballot for the annual reader poll for the sake of consistency.
Medieval Romance
Medieval Romance
Man in a Kilt by Sandy Blair - AAR reviewer Jane Jorgenson recommends this as a buried treasure. She wrote that, "I hate to make the comparison, but this one reminded me of older Garwoods because of the humor and the relationship between the h/h."
The Norman's Bride by Teri Brisbin - AAR Pandora's Box columnist Linda Hurst loved this book. She wrote, "The Norman was the villain of the previous book and Teri did a fabulous job of redeeming him and found the perfect heroine for him. A real gem that I am afraid did not get the attention it should have."
The Linnet by Elizabeth English aka Minogue - New AAR reviewer Cheryl Sneed liked Minogue's The Prince so much that she sought out her medieval trilogy. The last of these books, The Linnet, turned out to be her favorite medieval of the year. AAR reviewer Lynn Spencer also loved this romance set during the bloody border disputes between the English and Scots. In her Desert Isle Keeper review Lynn wrote: "With brilliantly written characters and a story powerful enough to suit them, The Linnet is an all-round winner."
The Knave and the Maiden by Blythe Gifford - Lynn Spencer selects this romance about a mercenary knight and a young woman who believes that she will be a nun. What distinguishes The Knave and the Maiden is its emphasis on medieval thinking, which is based far more on faith and magic and lacks scientific assumptions that we take for granted. In her review Lynn wrote, "Every now and again, though, an author does a truly excellent job of creating a different world and filling that world with people who really belong to it. In her debut novel, Blythe Gifford has done just that."
Lady of the Knight by Jackie Ivie. - Though it was thought to be only average by Cheryl, Jane loved Lady of the Knight. This 14th century romance set in Scotland is another of Jane's buried treasures. She wrote, "I'm a fan of cross-dressing romances to begin, with but what really got me was the doomed aspect of the romance. I wasn't sure how the author would work it all out - and this even though it's a romance and of course it would work out. I loved the strong, fatalistic Morgan as heroine and thought Zander was a perfect match for her."
European Historical Romance
Regency Historical
European Historical Romance
Regency Historical
Regency Historical
Under A Lucky Star by Diane Farr - Like many of our AAR staff, editor/reviewer Ellen Michelleti likes this book about a young woman who needs to marry for money, and the wonderful man who falls in love with her. When she recommended the book Ellen wrote that the book, "featured the best hero of the year - Derek Whittaker. He was perfect, handsome, kind, had a good sense of humor and not one fault." Farr, who previously wrote traditional Regencies, is an auto-buy for several of us at AAR; we look forward to her signing a new contract so that she may publish additional books in the near future.
The Spare by Carolyn Jewel - Lists editor/reviewer Rachel Potter choses this book, saying, "This is a Regency Historical, but you would never know it, so atmospheric and funkily paranormal is it. A very different read, and one I highly enjoyed.I really enjoyed the ghost angle, and I'm not much for that usually"
The Runaway Duke by Julie Anne Long - Ellen recommends this story of a duke who hides from his past working on an estate and falls in love with the daughter of the house. In her DIK review, Ellen wrote, "I thought the characters were delightful, and it also featured a couple of interesting and reformable villains whom I hope to meet again."
The Wicked Lover by Julia Ross - Blythe selects this book as her buried treasure. She wrote, "I read it at the beginning of last year, but the wonderful opening scene with the hero's mistress burning all his clothes has never left my mind.
A Scandalous Situation by Patricia Frances Rowell - Cheryl choses this book about a heroine was the victim of a gang-rape years before. Cheryl described the hero as, about the sweetest, most patient, beta-est, guy I've ever read - and he had to be in that situation."
Must Have Been Moonlight by Melody Thomas - Cheryl recommends this 1870s set romance with a background in Egypt and England. It's a romance between an independent and reform minded suffragist and an English soldier. She liked it so much that she went looking for Thomas's previous book. Cheryl told us that, "The Victorian Egyptian setting was different and vivid, and here is another couple who do not have an easy road to travel."
Traditional Regency Romance
Traditional Regency Romance
Miss Thornrose and the Rake by Geraldine Burrows. This traditional regency reissue is one of Blythe's favorites of the year. It's the story of a girl from a family dedicated to good works. In her review she wrote that it is "one of the most entertaining Regencies I've read in years." The book pairs heroine Verity, a determined spinster with a former rake, Alaric Tierney, Earl of Brathmere. Unfortunately it is ineligible for the AAR Annual Reader Poll, having first published by Five Star in 1999.
Courting Trouble by Nonnie St. George. Quite a few members of the AAR staff, including Laurie, Jane, and me, love this extremely clever drawing room comedy. In her Desert Isle Keeper review Jane wrote, "It made me smile and laugh and sigh. St. George's incredibly fast and sharp dialogue is spoken by a hero and heroine who are as delightful as they are intelligent, and the supporting cast sparkles. Add in hilarious spoofing of some of the romance genre's hoariest clichés and you have a winner."
American Historical/Frontier Romance
American Historical/Frontier Romance
Moon in Water by Elizabeth Grayson - Leigh recommends this arranged marriage romance, which takes place on a riverboat on the Mississippi in 1867. Chase, the hero, agrees to marry a young, pregnant woman in order to become the owner of a riverboat. In her review Lynn wrote, "This is a rich, emotional story that is engaging from the very first page."
Somebody Wonderful by Kate Rothwell - This is a late 19th century historical set in New York City. The hero is a New York City cop. The heroine is a young woman who has run away from being forced into a brothel. Reviewer Jennifer Keirans named the book as one of her buried treasures for 2004. In the review she wrote of the first chapter, "first-time author Kate Rothwell creates a quiet intimacy between Mick and Timona that really moved me."
Contemporary Romance
Contemporary Romance
Echoes by Erin Grady - Lynn and editor/reviewer Sandy Coleman both select this romantic suspense novel about a New York woman who is summoned to California to take care of her niece when her sister suddenly disappears. Sandy, who awarded Echoes DIK status, "This book struck me on so many levels. The basic plot itself isn't that different. What is different, though, is the extraordinary skill the author showed in telling two fully fleshed-out stories of love and murder, with one being just as intriguing as the other."
Smooth Talkin' Stranger by Lorraine Heath - Laurie and I both liked this romance between small town widow Serena Hamilton and Hunter Fletcher, a mysterious CIA agent who avoids attachments. As reviewer Leigh Thomas wrote, "It's a very familiar, very predictable story, and in many ways it feels like nothing more than a pretty good Harlequin Superromance. But Heath's gentle storytelling and memorable character moments make it a moving experience all the same."
Fair Play by Deirdre Martin - Leigh recommends this romance about a PR executive and a hockey player from her old neighborhood. When suggesting Martin's book, Leigh wrote that although the book had its flaws, it was so "involving and engaging that I couldn't put it down. Just a great read."
Alternate Reality Romance
Alternate Reality Romance
The Royal Treatment by Mary Janice Davidson. Author MaryJanice Davidson has gone a long way in one year. In 2003 - who knew? But in spite of her success with Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed, The Royal Treatment probably qualifies as a buried treasure. Laurie recommends it as one of hers - and she is still loving Davidson's snarky, bullet-speed dialogue and terrific love scenes. In The Royal Treatment Alaska is a sovereign nation whose king and family are, to put it mildly, eccentric. In our review of the book, Leigh wrote, "The story abounds with clever bits and unexpected moments of wit. The dialogue is very sharp and often quite funny."
The Prince by Elizabeth Minogue aka Elizabeth English - Cheryl names Minogue/English her big discovery of the year. While the author is new to fantasy, Cheryl found Minogue's world "to be a fascinating place," adding, "it is the complicated relationship between Florian and Rosamund, with its many layers, which thoroughly engrossed me as they worked to find a balance between duty, destiny and love."
Run No More by Catherine Mulvany - Ellen recommends this book, sharing that it is "a time travel romantic suspense, set in Brazil. It had a May December romance that really worked, and a most unusual twist at the end."
Heart Duel by Robin Owns - AAR Reviewer Liz Zink awarded this book DIK status and editor/reviewer Jennifer Keirans also names it as one of her buried treasures of 2004. Heart Duel is the third in a series and is a fantasy romance set in another world. Though not all of our reviewers loved the series, Liz wrote in her review that they are all on her keeper shelf and advised readers in her Heart Duel review to "Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and pick this one up, you won't be disappointed!"
Series Romance
Series Romance
Mommy Said Goodbye by Janice Kay Davidson - I loved this series romance about a man accused of murdering his wife. In our review of the book, Rachel wrote, "Mommy Said Goodbye is a very interesting story about how a family and a community copes with the unsolved disappearance of one of their own. Johnson skillfully explores a number of very complicated emotional issues, and that, combined with the mystery, makes this one of the more absorbing category romances I've read lately."
Emergency Contact by Susan Peterson - Leigh also recommends this amnesia story, writing that that Peterson's book was that "rare series suspense that actually generated some real suspense, more so than many single-titles."
Chick Lit
Chick Lit
Miranda Blue Calling by Michelle Curry Wright - Rachel adores this book about a Chick Lit heroine who moves from New York City to Colorado to start a home business calling on elderly shut-ins. She meets a farmer, William Wordsworth Steadman, whom Rachel describes in her review as "Kind, helpful, creative, thoughtful, and delightfully quirky."
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen - Rachel also selects this Young Adult novel about a young girl who has lost her dad. Rachel wrote that this book, "is her most romantic to date and a beautiful piece of writing to boot. Why isn't everyone reading Sarah Dessen???"
Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richards, aka mystery author Laurie King - Jane suggests this post-apocalyptic book set in the near future. She wrote that, "Disease and bioterrorism has killed a large part of the world's population and most of the men. So men are now the protected group and women have had to become the hunter gatherers. This book was dark and sometimes bleak but also incredibly gripping. I read it in one sitting though my stomach was often tied in knots. Weird I know, but I hope, hope, hope that the author will write another soon."
Coyote Dream by Jessica Davis Stein - When recommending this book. Leigh wrote that it was "a character-rich and insightful love story between a Jewish New Yorker and a Navajo artist from Arizona. It dealt with people's complicated emotions and the contrast between different cultures more effectively than most romance novels do."
The Perfect Cover by Maureen Tan - Jennifer picks this book as one of her buried treasures. She wrote, "Like other novels in Silhouette's new Bombshell line, A Perfect Cover is not a romance. It's a suspense novel starring a smart and resourceful female heroine, working undercover to solve a series of ugly murders. It's pretty darn good.
Earlier this week I asked our readers to post their favorite 2004 Buried Treasures on the Potpourri Board. Here are some of their choices:
Announcements (LLB)
Today we kick off two annual features - our Isn't it Romantic? Contest, now in its eighth year, and our Annual Reader Poll, now in its ninth year.
The Isn't it Romantic Contest gives readers the opportunity to share their most romantic true story and perhaps win a great "bookie" prize. The contest's winner will receive one of the remaining AAR bookbags stuffed to overflowing with books. (The public announcement of the winner will be made in the February 15th ATBF column, along with the story submitted.) Click here for further details.
The links in the paragraph above and below are "jump" links that will open new windows in your browser. That's because we don't want you to close this column for the contest or poll before you read the questions related to this ATBF.
The links in the paragraph above and below are "jump" links that will open new windows in your browser. That's because we don't want you to close this column for the contest or poll before you read the questions related to this ATBF.
As you've picked up from reading this column, our annual reader poll begins today and runs through midnight, February 14th. We began this poll of the best (and worst) romances many years ago - our first awards were for romances published in 1996. This year we are obviously polling for books first published in the US in 2004. For the first time in years we've not added a new category - we know how lengthy the ballot is and how much time it requires from you.
Mid-way through the voting process we'll be posting interim results. And because last year you asked, we've again provided a list of all the books granted DIK status by AAR Reviewers; you can find it on the ballot page (but if the review was written by a reader or author, you won't find it on this list). Results of the ninth annual reader poll will be presented in the March 1st issue of this column.
Please respect our request not to post your list of poll answers on any of our message boards until we've brought you the March 1st column.
Please respect our request not to post your list of poll answers on any of our message boards until we've brought you the March 1st column.
Time to Post to the Message Board
This column kicks off our annual reader poll, and as such is a look back at 2004 both in general terms and as regards buried treasures. We began to discuss the 2004 reading year in the previous issue of ATBF; feel feel to continue that discussion now, and to also talk about your 2004 buried treasures. While AAR staff mainly focused on buried treasures published in 2004, not all did, and neither should you be limited in your discussion. Because we'd like to "save" discussion of your favorite 2004 romances for a future column, let's frame this discussion around buried treasures. Obviously there will be some cross-over, but by framing it around buried treasures, we're less likely to duplicate discussion. Let's also take this opportunity to talk about how it feels to discover a buried treasure author or book. Finally, if any of the titles listed in this column were buried treasures for you, now's the time to share that; other readers may pick up on your enthusiasm, coupled with ours, and read those books in time to vote on them.
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TUPELO – Tyson David kept looking back, to see if anyone was going to challenge him in the second half of Saturday's Gum Tree 10K.
"I thought somebody might make a run at me," David said.
Instead, the former Alabama standout cruised to an easy victory, his second 10K win in eight days.
On a fine morning for running – sunny, a bit cool and breezy – a field of almost 1,000 runners turned out for the Gum Tree, with an additional 288 participants in the 2K race.
David, 22, led them all to the finish line in 30:15. Robert Scribner, the former Tupelo High School and Mississippi State standout, was second in 30:55.
Ramilia Burangulova, a Russian living in Gainesville, Fla., won the women's race in 35:37 – almost 90 seconds ahead of the runner-up.
"A great turnout," said race director Andy Hughes, who was pleased the event avoided last year's thunderstorms. Mayor Jack Reed fired the starter's pistol and a group of racers pushing wheeled chairs in the Chad Payne Memorial event took to the course ahead of the runners.
The race officially began at 8:36 a.m., and within 10 minutes David was in command.
Last weekend, David won the Coca-Cola 10K in Corinth in 31:20.
In the Gum Tree, David didn't challenge the course record of 28:43, possibly because no one really challenged him. "I had a tougher race in Corinth last week, but that was my first race of the season," he said. "I thought today went very well."
David won in Corinth by just a second over Philip Koech, who finished fourth on Saturday.
It didn't take long for the top runners to assert themselves.
"I was kind of sizing everybody up at the beginning," Scribner said, "and it was pretty clear from the beginning it was going to be a pack of four guys."
Former Ole Miss runner Charlie Dawson, 34, went to the front from the start and led David and the others as the course turned onto Jefferson Street. After the first mile, run at about a five-minute pace, Koech and eventual third-place finisher MacHuka Elkanah were in the lead with David and Scribner close behind.
David moved into the lead in the second mile and held about a nine-second lead by the time he reached Rob Leake Park, with Scribner shadowing him in second place.
By the time he reached McCullough Blvd., nearing the four-mile mark, David had opened up a 20-second lead. For the third time in the race, he grabbed a cup of water from volunteers along the roadway.
"I was feeling a little dry," David said.
That didn't keep him from extending his lead and breezing unchallenged down Front Street for the victory.
The top eight men's racers – including early leader Dawson, who finished seventh – were followed by women's winner Burangulova, 48.
"I have run this race once before, a few years ago," she said through an interpreter. "This was a very good day for running a good time. I'm surprised that I won."
A three-time Boston Marathon champion in the field, Olga Markova, 41, finished second in 37:06.
Tiffany McWilliams-Dudley, the former Mississippi State standout, finished third. Dudley ran a 37:20 after winning in Corinth last weekend with a 38:41.
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Italy Vs Slovakia:World Cup 2010 – Arrivederci Italia – Good Bye Squadra Azzurra – As many experts had predicted, the struggling Italian team was eliminated today in their game against Slovakia. Slovakia was able to reach the Round of 16, by defeating their formerly high-powered opponents. Slovakia went into the game knowing that if they won, they would be moving ahead in the tournament. Italy also needed a win to earn them a spot in the next round. They also likely would have advanced had they been able to leave the game with a draw.
Both teams played very well throughout the game, and Slovakia was able to survive a late game rally by Italy, and hold them off for the win. The first goal of the match came in the 25th minute, when Marchetti was unable to save a shot on goal. The Italians looked as though they were playing out of rhythm throughout the match, and were unable to get their game together in time to make a legitimate run for the win.
Slovakia, on the other hand, almost let the game slip through their fingers toward the end of the match, but was able to regain their composure before time could expire.
Both teams failed to capitalize on numerous opportunities that were provided to them throughout the match. Italy missed several open shots on goal, and Slovakia had a problem with intercepted passes throughout the game. While the two teams could have certainly played much better, they fought through the last second and never let up, as both teams searched for victory in order to advance to the next round.
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A Democratic senatorial candidate from Texas is calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama.
"This president has to be impeached immediately to stop his drive toward World War III," Kesha Rogers told Examiner.
The Texan is not alone in the Lone Star State. She is, however, the only Democratic candidate saying such things.
In the reddest of red states, no fewer than four sitting congressmen, the lieutenant governor and a U.S. senator have discussed Obama's removal.
Republican Rep. Steve Stockman -- who, like Rogers, is running to unseat Sen. John Cornyn – gave House colleagues copies of the book, "Impeachable Offenses: The case for removing Barack Obama from office," by Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott.
Texas' other Republican senator, Ted Cruz, brands Obama the "most lawless" chief executive in American history.
Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, said he thinks the House of Representatives would vote to impeach. Fellow Texas Republican Blake Farenthold echoed that view.
Rep. Louie Gohmert faults Obama on the skyrocketing debt and Rep. Lamar Smith says the president's immigration record comes "awfully close" to violating the oath of office.
Last fall, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called for impeachment.
Rogers has them all beat by years. She staked her congressional campaigns in 2010 and 2012 on the issue.
Not surprisingly, the Democratic Party scrubbed its websites of all references to her candidacy.
Yet Rogers, running against three other Democrats in a March 4 primary, insists that she is true to the spirit of the nation's oldest political party.
"I want to revive the legacy of (JFK) John F. Kennedy and FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt). The Democratic Party has to rid itself of this president immediately," she declares.
While Republicans blame Obama for everything from a politicized IRS and a raft of executive orders to the ongoing Western drought, Rogers sees a still bigger picture.
"(Republican) members have laid out offenses, but haven't done anything. This is not a Republican or Democratic issue – it's a question of the oath of office," she says.
Rogers, whose Senate run is supported by 1980 Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, said that after graduating from Texas State University – San Marcos in 2001, she realized that her generation "had been given no future and had been maliciously robbed of the knowledge of principles and methods necessary for building one."
She concluded that Obama, like his predecessor, George W. Bush (another Texan) have fatally undermined national interests.
"It's a continuation of U.S. policies creating confrontations across the world, and going along with Wall Street," Rogers says. She cites political upheavals in Syria and Ukraine as current examples of staged "imperialist" conflict. Venezuela looms as another.
Asserting that global "financial speculation" drives international tensions and undermines national sovereignty, Rogers favors a return to the Glass-Steagall Act that protected Main Street depositors from Wall Street brokerages.
On Glass-Steagall, she's in line with several senators, including Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Independent Bernie Sanders and Republican John McCain. All support legislation to restore the FDR-era law that was repealed in 1999. Repeal set the stage for Wall Street's meltdown and the multibillion-dollar bailout by taxpayers less than a decade later.
Ultimately, Rogers says the buck stops at the White House.
"Russia knows this. China knows this. You have to start from the top," Rogers said of America's chief executive.
Obama has not publicly acknowledged talk of impeachment from Texas … or anywhere else. And even rock-ribbed Republicans backpedal on the legal basis for removal.
When asked what it would take to oust the president before his term expires, Sen. Cruz glibly responded: "218 votes in the House."
Rogers says she has reached out to Rep. Stockman's office in an effort to bridge the partisan gap and advance impeachment. She has yet to hear back.
"I'm contacting members of Congress who have spoken out. I'm encouraging voters to do the same," she said.
Andrew Napolitano, a former judge who has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution, places a pox on all the houses.
"The whole purpose of separating government powers is the preservation of personal liberty by preventing the accumulation of too much power in one branch or, heaven forbid, in one person," he wrote recently in the Washington Times.
"Whoever permits this to take place lacks fidelity to the Constitution, is unworthy of holding government power in a free society and should be removed from office."


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College Hockey:Sejna Just in Time to Send CC Into Semis
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Dany Heatley, former rookie phenom, meet Peter Sejna, current rookie phenom.
Colorado College's Sejna, annointed earlier in the day as the WCHA's rookie of the year, showed late Thursday exactly why he got the award.
His goal with 46.3 seconds left broke a 2-2 tie, and despite Wisconsin's Heatley scoring two goals, the Tigers advanced to the WCHA semifinals with a 4-3 victory over the Badgers in the Final Five opening game at the Xcel Energy Center.
Sejna, quiet all night, made a whole lot of noise when it counted. His one-timer wrist shot off a deflection in the slot beat Wisconsin goaltender Graham Melanson before he could react.
"I didn't even look; I just tried to shoot it as hard as I can on net," Sejna said. "There's not so much to say about it, it just went in."
The Tigers, who further cemented their claim to an NCAA tournament berth, will play top-seeded North Dakota in Friday's first semifinal, at 2:05 p.m. Central. The Badgers, meanwhile, have to watch the scores roll in from other conferences and hope for an at-large bid when the 12-team field for the NCAAs is announced on Sunday.
"If everything falls the way hopefully it will fall," Wisconsin coach Jeff Sauer said, "I expect a NCAA bid on Sunday."
Sejna's last-minute winner came out of the blue. A Mark Cullen centering pass deflected off a Wisconsin defenseman in front of Melanson. It went between the circles, right to Sejna's stick.
He fired a quick wrister and sent the Tigers into the WCHA's final four.
"If he's right-handed," Sauer said of Sejna, a lefty, "he never takes a shot."
Heatley, last year's rookie of the year, scored his 22nd and 23rd goals of the year for the Badgers, the first one being his 50th collegiate goal. The second came after CC's Justin Morrison hit an empty net with 34.2 seconds left, and provided the final margin.
"He's tricky. He's got a lot of tools," CC defenseman Paul Manning said. "It's fun to play against guys like that … and sometimes it's not so fun."
After Joe Cullen scored 4:02 into the game to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead, Wisconsin appeared to tie things just over four minutes later.
Andy Wheeler followed a rebound with another attempt that ended up in the back of the net. Video replay judge Greg Shepherd, however, ruled that Wheeler's second attempt went in off his skate.
Wheeler didn't deny it.
"I kicked it toward the net," Wheeler said. "You try to kick it to your stick. I thought I got my stick on it; it must have hit his arm instead."
Heatley's first goal, though, five minutes after the disallowed goal, brought the Badgers to even. He used a superb individual effort to shake off the CC defense and get the puck past Jeff Sanger.
With CC's Mark Cullen marking him as he cut to the net from the left, Heatley somehow fought his way to the net and flipped a backhand over Sanger from close range.
"The puck just seems to gravitate to his stick," Manning said. "When he gets around that net, [the puck] finds its way into the net."
But the Tigers responded just 76 seconds later to take away any momentum the Badgers gained. A perfect execution of a 2-on-1 break — resulting from a UW defensive miscue along the boards — led to Noah Clarke's 11th goal of the season.
Clarke brought the puck up the right wing and fed linemate Trent Clark. Clark, on the left, gave the puck right back to Clarke, catching the UW defenseman and Melanson moving.
Clarke had an easy tap-in for the 2-1 lead at 14:28.
Melanson helped the Badgers stay in the game going into the third period with a stellar save in the final seconds of the middle period.
Clarke had another golden try on a 2-on-1 break on the left side, but Melanson kicked it out with a right-pad save.
The Badgers took advantage of that extra life early in the third. Off a turnover along the right boards, Wisconsin's David Hukalo poked the puck free and Heatley picked it up and fired it to the slot.
Rene Bourque, behind the defense, barely made contact with the puck but touched enough of it to send it slowly into the right side of the net as Sanger was moving to the left side.
But Sejna broke the Badgers backs, and come Sunday, maybe even their hearts.
"It just came down to who was going to make a play," Tigers coach Scott Owens said.
Meet Peter Sejna.
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Copyright Takes Down High-Profile Translation Of Thomas Piketty's Comments On Germany & Greek Debt
Jul 7th, 2015 @ 2:54pm
Re: Re: No
If I were a deluded Euro-worshipping German-speaker who was conducting an interview such as this, I'd certainly use every opportunity to prevent the English with their more stable, state-currency from laughing as much as possible.
Even if it means promoting a deliberate mistranslation with pro-Euro subtitles that were not accurate, where all other dissenting translations were stamped on using copyright law, or better yet preventing English translations entirely.
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Copyright Takes Down High-Profile Translation Of Thomas Piketty's Comments On Germany & Greek Debt
Jul 7th, 2015 @ 2:48pm
Re: No
What gives you the right to say that English-speaking folk have no right to conduct journalism by researching the words of foriegn speakers?
Copyright grants the right to deny works even be read in a certain langugae AT ALL. That is a clear-cut profanity of freedom of expression: everyone forgets that freedom of expression is not just the right of someone to be heard but also the right of everyone to listen and to read.
DIE ZEIT could deny its English translation ENTIRELY if it wished too. Are you happy with that level of power copyright gives to somebody? Especially when the stakes over Greece are very high right now?
If the interview were funded through an assurance contract (e.g. crowdfunding) to cover the expenses and profit, something that doesn't need copyright to function, with the interview in the public domain there would be no problem and the journalists would carry on with their crucial profession *as well as journalists of other tongues.* Everybody wins.
It is you who is putting roadblocks to the journalistic profession.
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Jun 26th, 2015 @ 3:24pm
Re: Is there a Google venture that Masnick doesn't love?
Google is the new illuminati to some people. And why shouldn't it be? Quite easy to think how Google can pull all the strings of the planet.
And because it is easy it must be dismissed.
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Russia's Internet Propaganda Farm Is Being Dragged To Court For Labor Violations
Jun 25th, 2015 @ 1:19pm
Re: Re: "even [FOR 3RD TIME] pointing out that these operations exist will grab you a heaping helping of anonymous troll scorn."
This was my comment, I forgot I hadn't signed in.
And let me add, I am so sick to death of this mentality. As if the US controls the whole fucking world. As if IT is the source of fascism and not the most reactionary religious theocratic fascism the planet has ever seen in the form of the Islamic state.
How can people such as the above moron call themselves Leftists at all? "US doing a mission of 'liberation'? LOL! Suicide bombers resisting the Iraq occupation? THAT'S totally liberation! Like the march of the Minute Men!" As the Islamic fascists butcher and slaughter without any hint of empathy for Iraqis.
It doesn't get enough condemnation. Even the "right" of America doesn't come down hard enough on it. It persists and is expected to be taken at face value with no criticism among these circles. As if the US is 100% evil/worse than Hitler and that is the end of the conversation.
I wonder how history books will judge such armchair crackpots.
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Taylor Swift Is Not The Savior Artists Need
Jun 23rd, 2015 @ 2:44pm
What's more valuable? Zimbabwean dollars or Zimbabwean dollars with copyright protection extending to their JPEG format on the internet?
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Canadian Court: Yes, We Can Order Google To Block Websites
Jun 12th, 2015 @ 12:35pm
And I highly doubt everybody has forgotten the said links that were ordered to be removed.
And I highly doubt Google's links to THOSE links have been made to be removed either.
We're living in a wish-thinking world if we think this will do anything to attack piracy. If we've learned anything from the stupidity of the war on drugs, it is that if there is a majority demand in a black market, it will always cause a supply for that black market no matter how many times you attack the supply. Some conservatives think you should deter against the demand in the drug war by bringing in harsher punishments for possessers, but everyone knows deterrents are all talk if you can't enforce them. What bloody fool thinks you can enforce a deterrent against an infringing downloader?
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Canadian Court: Yes, We Can Order Google To Block Websites
Jun 12th, 2015 @ 12:30pm
It says a lot that this court is going after Google on a global scale instead of their ISPs on a local scale.
It is the ISPs that provide access to out-of-state Google domains which are not under the state's jurisdiction. They should be the prime target, not a body that is not within local jurisdiction.
But irrational Google-hatred knows no bounds. I've said this a million times, there are very good reasons to be hostile to Google: its tax dodging, its monopoly powers, its corporate lobbying, all the traditional working-class-against-the-ruling-class stances etc. But it's incredible how they are the last things people want to bash Google for.
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Congressional Rep Makes A Pull Request On GitHub, Which Is Then Merged By US Gov't CIO
Jun 11th, 2015 @ 10:13am
Isn't a contribution a push request, not a pull?
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Torrent Madness: UK Cybercrime Official Argues That File Sharing Is A Gateway Drug To Crime
Jun 9th, 2015 @ 11:02am
Oh man. Fools need to realise that many copyright advocates detest comparisons with the war on drugs because they know what that would mean.
And now we've got the police making those comparisons.
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Putin's Internet Propaganda War Is Much Bigger And Weirder Than You Think, Now Extending Into The States
Jun 4th, 2015 @ 4:37pm
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"the US sponsoring coups worldwide (eg, ...Ukraine...)"
Where's your evidence of this?
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Putin Has Shifted His Internet Propaganda Army Into Overdrive
Jun 2nd, 2015 @ 4:07pm
Ahh yes the unmistakable stench of Putin-bots and Russia Today. And the bile that is Russian nationalism.
And ladies and gentlemen, now I give you the leaders of your nonsensical "no blood for oil" slogan for the past 13 years, the Putin apologists themselves the Stop the War coalition!
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/the-real-enemy-is-not-russia-or-vladimir-putin-it-is-the-hypocrisy-of-the -us-and-britain
I looked forward to seeing millions of you marching against the imperialist, irredentist invasion of Ukraine by a Putin-revived-Tsarist Russia when it happened. I don't think it reached even a thousand.
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Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies
May 27th, 2015 @ 1:16pm
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It's almost as if a signature (or a trademark) is itself a valid form of artificial scarcity that doesn't depend on copyright law, isn't it?
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Richard Prince Continues To Push The Boundaries Of Copyright Law In Selling Other People's Instagram Selfies
May 27th, 2015 @ 11:58am
If you're paying $100K for something you know you can get by much cheaper means, you are a moron. There's no other way of putting it. That's the simplest explanation.
And if anything, copyright makes this WORSE. The fools paying this amount of money are doing so precisely because they think there is artificial scarcity behind these transformatives. That has to be why they are not going out to make their own copies of what they see in the exhibit in private, which is what any sensible person would have done.
If you want to help people to stop paying tons of money for copies of your work that were done without your permission,
I recommend you eliminate the idea of permission for copies
. That way there's no incentive for folk to pay so much for something so forgeable. "If you paid for this free fansub, you were ripped off!" is not a slogan in fan-subbed anime for no reason.
We need to make the incentive to pay artists
come from assurance contracts
and not this farce of an economic system that is as good as a monetary system of JPEG dollars. If you pay the artist before the work is done, and millions of folk do it depending on popularity, you get a system where the artist is at liberty to ask for whatever price he/she wants without having to depend on nonsense like this where some copies end up more equal than others, and beyond any kind of control of the artist.
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That Time Hitler Used Copyright Law To Block Future Senator Alan Cranston From Publishing Mein Kampf
May 15th, 2015 @ 2:11pm
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I reckon Godwin's Law is thrown around too easy. There are legitimate reasons to bring up the Nazi regime, and Hitler's attempt to use copyright to prevent American's from knowing about his intentions has grave implications that surely don't need spelling out. Slogans of "death to fascism" should never be in short supply, and it is hard to mount such protest when you are
not allowed to even read about your enemy in your own language
. Same with the great religious conflicts of the past 100 years.
If you believe in copyright you have to believe in forbidding certain languages. You have to believe in forbidding derivatives. You have to believe in forbidding blasphemous content that is by definition an "unauthorised infringement". It is in no way disingenuous to bring up unwelcome powers that copyright advocates themselves claim should be given away so lightly.
These are uncomfortable observations that I have not heard a satisfactory rebuttal for.
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That Time Hitler Used Copyright Law To Block Future Senator Alan Cranston From Publishing Mein Kampf
May 15th, 2015 @ 1:55pm
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Though if they had sued their opponents through copyright instead, according to the supposed morality of copyright that would have put the Inquisitors in the moral right. It's nonsense.
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That Time Hitler Used Copyright Law To Block Future Senator Alan Cranston From Publishing Mein Kampf
May 15th, 2015 @ 1:26pm
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And I should clarify that this is if copyright law were even possible to enforce in the first place, which I believe it is not. This push for literary opposition regardless of the papacy's probable petty claims of thought-property would have happened even if they had copyright protection.
If it WERE possible to enforce, it would clearly not be desirable for the reasons I've given. Copyright is not something that can work and it is not something that we should want even if it did.
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That Time Hitler Used Copyright Law To Block Future Senator Alan Cranston From Publishing Mein Kampf
May 15th, 2015 @ 1:21pm
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My point is that copyright would have nonetheless been a useful weapon in the hands of these killers in putting down revolutions.
They couldn't kill EVERY believer of an opposing religious sect, sure, but they could have curbed their derivative holy books if they had the luxury of copyright law. Forever forbidding more secular derivatives of the holy books from ever seeing the light of day, and forever preserving ignorance and one-sect states.
When we ask the question "would copyright have been a hefty obstacle for reformers?", the answer can only be "yes".
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May 15th, 2015 @ 12:48pm
If you think this was bad, consider what evil consequences would have unfolded in world history if the Bible or the Koran had been given copyright status.
Every rebellious translation and derivative would be legally crushed if not physically annihilated. The King James version would have had an injunction against it. The Reformation would have had inexcusable legal hurdles to jump.
And everybody knows how vomit-inducing it would have been if Islamofascists resorted to copyright claims of the prophet Mohammed over Charlie Hebdo in the case of a failed assassination.
It is not possible to comprehend the disgusting consequences of all of this. The only reason we pushed passed theocracy into secularism in Christianity (and what will be THE reason that will push Islam past theocracy into secularism too) was open discussion, derivatives and alternative translations of the holy books they claimed was God-mandated and God-copyrighted. Soon enough they learned, and will learn, to take God out of the equation entirely in political and philosophical atmospheres. If you believe God's holy books are infallible, you have to assume any deviation from them is an
, and use any means at your disposal to stop revolutions occurring against your holy order, and that ultimately means using copyright to attack derivative works of the holy books.
This is not an exaggeration. Many Islamofascists will still put people to death for reading translated Korans of any other language than Arabic because it is blasphemous - they may as well say that unauthorised translations are piracy and they infringe on their rights in order to get the end-result of quelling dissent.
No. No. No. Only a fool would think that this is all worth it in the name of defending property rights that
can't even be defended
because breaking copyright law is so easy.
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Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Declares Silicon Valley A 'Gallery Of Rogues And Thieves'
May 12th, 2015 @ 2:21pm
Re: Re:
There are claims going around that because anybody can upload anything to the App store and Apple reviews the stuff before it is put on the store, that therefore proves that copyright can be respected in a way that doesn't involve the Google/YouTube approach of stuff being uploaded first and checked afterwards, with the addition of no respect for copyright due to "whack-a-mole" and DMCA methods of takedown.
My response was to say that it's fecicious considering how Apple still profit from piracy in some way in another if the machines and the OS take part in it - that YouTube should be expected to have ContentID and take down copyrighted content while Apple is under no such obligation to fill their OS with ID checking software and reporting mechanisms to inform artists of breaches of copyright.
Apple also hosts a YouTube app, which according to hysterically-anti-Google logic makes Apple just as guilty.
Though, if Apple really DID try all of the anti-copying measures I described above it would look ridiculous to any thinking person. Though when it comes to copyright believers I'm not so sure.
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Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Declares Silicon Valley A 'Gallery Of Rogues And Thieves'
May 12th, 2015 @ 9:12am
See this is what happens when you believe in copyright: you end up being frustrated again and again when technology keeps moving forward.
And who's to say the internet will stop where it is now? Soon enough (if not already), GBs worth of videos will be as quickly downloadable as MP3s, and on phones to boot. Are copyright advocates the least bit prepared for the new speeds Moore's law is going to provide? Of course not.
I'm still laughing at things like Dropbox's hash-define content-ID system and how easily bypassable it is. As well as YouTube's and others.
I'm still laughing at how Apple's iTunes and App Store are hailed as examples of what a corporation can do when it "respects copyright" when I can still choose to use their internet browsers to download pirated content all for Apple's profit.
I'm still laughing at BitTorrent - the mighty monster that no copyright advocate can tame via any kind of practical suggestion to stop it at all.
I'm still laughing at the fact that the tracker files of the entire Pirate Bay website are only about 10MB in size.
I'm still laughing at the image-search websites that supposedly gives photographers means to find infringing images when these sites' hash-systems can be bypassed by one pixel and/or encryption and/or anything else.
I'm still laughing at the ISPs who will profit from all the piracy one way or another. Even toppling Google entirely won't do anything about that.
I'm still laughing at China's exporting of pirated goods to reap in the profit of foreign currencies in a way that would make Al Capone drool with envy. I'm not so sure if there has ever been a better time to be a prohibitionist profiteer.
I'm still laughing at deviantArt which strictly speaking makes a ton of profit out of piracy too.
I'm still laughing at anime conventions which strictly speaking make a ton of profit out of piracy too.
I'm still laughing at the fact that radio stations don't pay musicians properly - a very basic house that should have been in order by now. These people are meant to be trusted to enforce copyright on the internet?
I'm still laughing at the fact that copyright advocates would have stopped dissidents of the Soviet Union from reading pirated (and punishable by show trial) material to fight back against their authoritarianism, and would have stopped them in the name of "property rights".
I'm still laughing at recent Buzzfeed articles suggesting that national holidays (fucking Mother's Day) ought to have been copyrighted all the way back in the early 1900s because how else are movements meant to keep their original meanings? How else do folk preserve their right to choose
what people think of their movement?
Don't you realise that going out to celebrate your mother on a day of the year is PIRACY? Especially more so when you engage in activities that distort the original meaning of the day? Such as
buying a card?
(Look it up. I am not making this up.)
But don't worry I'm sure that when photographers finally find that a textbook on the other side of the world has been pirating their photos for 30 odd years solely because they could get away with it, their eventual suing will prove the system works. Plus you just know that copyright needs to last life plus X years because if it were reduced to 14 years, any sudden profit over a work for an artist would just vanish unfairly! How else are artists meant to make a living from idly waiting 14 years on no food before any profits come in?
It's a world of wish-thinking. What do you expect when you want to bombard the internet with legal content while removing such bombardments when it becomes illegal? It's hard enough for police to remove stuff from the internet when it's ALL illegal never mind half-illegal. And these guys depend on puny lawyers instead?
It's like if you were trying to make a country's money out of JPEGs and genuinely expecting nobody to cheat the system.
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Hello, I hope you are having a pleasant weekend. A few days ago we learned that the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom class contains multiple severe vulnerabilities. As a result all private keys generated on Android phones/tablets are weak and some signatures have been observed to have colliding R values, allowing the private key to be solved and money to be stolen. The public security alert is here: http://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-08-11-android I will shortly post in the bitcointalk forums as well. An update for the Bitcoin Wallet app has been prepared that bypasses the system SecureRandom implementation and reads directly from /dev/urandom instead, which is believed to be functioning correctly. All unspent outputs in the wallet are then respent to this new key. The process is automatic and does not involve user intervention. Andreas can control the process via a percentage throttle, which we will use to slow things down if the memory pool load gets too high. A fixed APK is available here: https://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/downloads/detail?name=bitcoin-wallet-3.15-beta.apk&can=2&q= Andreas plans to release this to beta either today or tomorrow. Once some reasonable population of users has completed testing the automated re-keying process, it will be released via the Play Store. All users will get a notification informing them of the new version and some will be upgraded automatically. Other wallet maintainers have also been notified and are working on similar updates. thanks -mike


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As far I understand, the job was well done.
Thanks you for sharing.
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Gold mourning ring, the bezel set with crystal covering a monogram in gold wire over a mat of hair, the hoop with a raised central ridge
16.71 mm internal ring diameter; 3.18 g weight
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Presented by Dr C.D.E. Fortnum in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897; WA1897.CDEF.F652
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A combination of factors challenged firefighters Sunday; smoky conditions, snags, steep terrain, rolling logs and extremely dry vegetation. Firefighters continue to work professionally and safely and enjoyed more success than setbacks yesterday. Helicopters supporting the firefighters returned to base in the early afternoon due to smoky conditions.
The Chinook National Guard helicopter was painted for higher visibility, enabling it to join the suppression efforts. Aviation resources will be setting up a batch mixing station for retardant. Helicopters are flying out of Pangborn Field, the Chelan Airport and from the Leavenworth area.
Over 300 firefighting resources have moved to a base camp at the Entiat City Park in Entiat, WA. This move is for firefighter and public safety. It reduces drive times and increases time on the firelines. Resources stationed at Entiat will be working on the First Creek, Byrd and Klone fires.
The Byrd Canyon Fire, is approximately 13,960 acres, and is located just north of Entiat, Washington. The fire is burning in grass and shrub land. Sunday crews continued to mop-up around structures and secure firelines. This fire is considered 45% contained.
The First Creek Fire, located 10 miles west of Lake Chelan, is approximately 1,200 acres. It is burning in very difficult and steep terrain. Today, crews continued line construction along the northeastern and western flanks while others provided structure protection in First Creek and Granite Falls Creek. A Level 3 evacuation remains in place for First Creek and Granite Falls Creek. This fire is considered 10% contained.
The Pyramid and Klone Fires, north of Entiat, are approximately 377 and 570 acres respectively. These fires are burning in timber that was severely impacted by disease and insects. Crews on the Klone fire worked closely with local employees to minimize impact on sensitive and/or threatened resources in the area. Crews worked to protect 37 summer recreation cabins. The lower parts of the cabins were wrapped along with propane tanks and firewood was removed from the area. Sprinklers were installed on multiple homes and aimed on shake roofs. Firefighters also worked on contingency lines to the southeast, toward the Entiat Valley.
The area is extremely dry and conditions are right for rapid fire growth on existing fires and new fire starts. All outdoor burning is restricted and campfires are only allowed in designated campgrounds on Federal Lands. All outdoor burning including campfires is banned in all counties east of the Cascades through midnight, September 18. Hunters and recreationists are asked to be aware of and conform to fire restrictions that are in place.
The Incident Management Team would like to express appreciation to the community for your support and help in our efforts to suppress these fires. It is vital that the community cooperate with evacuations, road closures, and avoiding areas of high traffic for fire suppression.
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Hospitality House
The Hospitality House at North Colorado Medical Center offers affordable overnight accommodations for families visiting their hospitalized loved ones and for out-of-town patients receiving out-patient treatment.
Charitable gifts to the North Colorado Medical Center Foundation provide ongoing support for the Hospitality House.
Location: The Hospitality House is conveniently located on 15th Street on the north side of the hospital campus. The address is 1910 15th St..
Office Hours:
Reservations, Rates and Services: Call (970) 810-6577 or email.
- Standard Room:
- Two single beds or queen bed and a private bathroom, $20 per night.
- Two queen beds and a private bathroom, $25 per night.
- One queen bed, two twin beds and a private bathroom, $25 per night.
- Apartment: Two single beds, sofa, loveseat, private bathroom nd efficiency kitchen,
$30 per night.
All rooms are clean and comfortably decorated. All rooms are equipped with a microwave oven, refrigerator, coffee pot, cable television, and complimentary snack basket.
Amenities: Guests also have use of on-site laundry facilities, as well as the large common kitchen and living area.
Dining: Guests of the Hospitality House may dine at the NCMC Banner Bistro or the NCMC 16th Street Terrace restaurants. Guests will be provided with a guest card to receive meal discounts at these restaurants. The guest card can also be used to receive a 10-percent discount on merchandise at the NCMC Gift Shop.
Pets, Alcohol and Tobacco: Guests are not permitted to bring pets or alcohol to the Hospitality House. North Colorado Medical Center is a tobacco-free campus.
Donations: Monetary donations can be made to Hospitality House through the North Colorado Medical Center Foundation. Gifts of unopened travel-sized toiletries, paper products, snack items, etc., can be donated at Hospitality House, 1910 15th St.


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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Utah earthquake today 2013 has just struck north of Salt Lake City. The Utah earthquake today May 27, 2013 erupted in the early morning hours near Garland. No reports of damage have yet to be indicated by local news.
Officials tell news that a 3.0 magnitude Utah earthquake today erupted at 6:00 am local time. The quake had no depth, however. USGS indicates to news that the Utah earthquake struck at only 0.5 miles below ground level. As a result the quake could be felt across the immediate region.
USGS tells news that the Utah earthquake was eleven miles northwest of Garland. The quake was also twenty-seven miles west of Logan and twenty-eight miles northwest of Brigham City. Officials also tell news that the quake began forty-two miles northwest of North Ogden, and seventy-eight miles northwest of Salt Lake City.
In November another quake struck close to the same vicinity. That quake was thirty-two miles west of Hooper, thirty-three miles west of Plain City. Officials also told news at the time that the quake struck west of West Haven and thirty-six miles northwest of Roy. The quake also erupted fifty-six miles northwest of West Valley City and Salt Lake City.
In February, another Utah quake hit the region. It was five miles west of Enoch. The quake also started eight miles west of Cedar City and sixteen miles west of Parowan.


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The District 300 Board of Education Monday approved a plan to prepare $6 million in stepped contingency cuts from next year's budget in case the State of Illinois descends into financial Doomsday.
Board President Joe Stevens painted a gloomy picture of the state's finances leading to possible bankruptcy until he was reminded the state isn't allowed to go bankrupt. "Well, I don't want to be around to see the taxes to pay for it," he said.
Finance Officer Cheryl Crates said the district needed to be ready for the worst in preparing its budget. She said she was worried, "in mid-Spring (2011) we may get a Dear John note from the state saying, 'We're sorry but we don't have the money.'"
Superintendant Ken Arndt disputed newspaper and blog speculation the district's financial worries were a smokescreen for a plan to ask for more taxes. "We are not going to have a referendum," he said.
Nor would after-school activities be held hostage. "We're not going to take away the extracurriculars," said Arndt.
Even so, money's tight at Distct 300. The board agonized for half an hour over spending $40,000 for design plans to revamp the kitchens at four schools. Updating the kitchens would cost $600,000 but the financing is decidedly iffy. Members worried kitchen design money would be largely down the drain if funding didn't show up.
Crates detailed how repairs come out of the operating budget rather than the capital one and the board voted ("reluctantly"--Stevens, "very reluctantly"--Monica Clark) to approve preparing the kitchen plans.
The board also wrestled with when to start the next school year which educators would like to begin in mid-August. Feedback from residents planning summer vacations has been largely negative. "This is the only topic I've ever been approached about in church," said Stevens.
Member Chris Stanton said the proposed early start was only out of sync for grade school parents. "This looks like a college schedule," he said.
The proposed calendar is here and won't be voted on until next month:
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
District 300 To Ready $6 Million Contingency Cuts
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The Color of Money (1986) features Paul Newman, reprising his role of "Fast" Eddie Felton, a talented pool player, originally created decades earlier in The Hustler (1961). Directed by screen legend Martin Scorsese, the movie follows Felton as he discovers a gifted, young pool player with a lot to learn about life: Vincent Lauria. Lauria is played by Tom Cruise, then an up and coming star, as he joins a bevy of young talent in the film, including Mary Elizabeth Martrantonio, John Turturro, and Forest Whitaker. Felton and Lauria struggle to control their massive egos as they work their way to Atlantic City for a nine ball championship.
The Color of Money is a blues soaked portrait of a transforming culture. Felton leads Lauria and his girlfriend through the remnants of a once thriving industry. He quickly discovers the game that he knew has changed, his instincts are dulled with time, and once thriving pool halls are little more than the skeletons of forgotten dinosaurs. Gone is the generation run by alcohol and straight pool; it has been replaced by the quicker, more television friendly nine ball, and fueled by amphetamines. Felton lays out all he knows: the secrets of a good hustle, and how a good player can ironically win more money by losing.
Fans of Newman and Cruise will enjoy the tension they develop between their characters in The Color of Money. As Felton struggles to teach Lauria the tricks of hustling with a cue stick, the more he learns about his own limitations and possibilities. Ultimately, both men lose themselves in the game in an attempt to search for who they truly are.
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CFTV: The Cyclones prepare for the Diamond Head Classic
Jared Stansbury
Staff Writer
Iowa State will travel to Hawaii over Christmas to participate in the 2013 Diamond Head Classic.
First off is a date with George Mason on Sunday at 4:30 on ESPNU.
What are the Cyclones anticipating out of their first and only non-conference tournament this season?
Fred Hoiberg, Dustin Hogue, Georges Niang and Melvin Ejim get you primed for Hawaii in this CFTV production.


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*I have a new serger I got for my birthday! It's still in the box, though, intimidating me with every glance. I keep thinking I'll need a quiet evening to figure it out. Complicated machines + three noisy children = one grouchy mama. So I'm waiting.
*I had the privilege--and I mean privilege--of sitting a mere few feet away from Bishop T. D. Jakes last night as he preached at the final night of our church conference. Bridget and I said, as we were on our way to the church, that we were excited to see what all the hype was about. On the way home, we just kept saying, "I get it now." The way he weaved his message together to culminate at the end was awe-inspiring, and I was so focused on him in front of me that I could've been sitting between two lions and not noticed. It was remarkable, and I've run out of adjectives to describe it further. To top it off, he's a Diet Coke lover himself. That clinches it for me. (I'm feeling blessed in the preaching department lately--the night before, Brian Houston of Hillsong Church in Sydney spoke, and I get to hear my own pastor, Ed Young, every week. If you're able to come to the C3 Nights services at our conference next year, don't miss it! What a great experience! And I just have to say that the worship/media team did an amazing job. As always :)
*We're on a school break this week. We have six weeks on, one week off throughout the year, and I'm looking forward to getting a few more things off the "Get the House Ready to Sell" list. Although I'd rather have lessons with Caiden than paint baseboards. He's always bummed when we reach a break. His love of books and learning and pencils reminds me of a third-grade me.
*I haven't forgotten the questions I was asked a while ago. I still have several to answer, and I will get to them soon.
*Our camera we bought before Christmas has died. I'm having terrible luck in the camera department. In three years we've gone through three. So no pictures lately, although I'm literally hurting from not being able to send my mother a picture of Grayson's coat I finally finished. It reminds me of Paddington Bear's coat--a knit version. It's dark blue and fastens at the top with four large, wooden buttons. I'm exceptionally proud of it, and Bridget and I agreed we'd love one for ourselves. I also finished the Burda peasant blouse and cargo jeans I sewed for Addison, and a version of that in my size would also be welcome. But no camera, so no pictures. When I finally do get the camera repaired/replaced, I'm going to have some catching up to do!
So that's what we're up to, a little of this and a little of that! I hope your weekend is a happy one! If you're in the area and don't have a church to go to, our pastor is beginning a new message tonight--I'd love to see you there! You can go here for more details.


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The crew got its wake up call at 2:28 p.m., in the form of 'We're Going to be Friends' by the White Stripes. The song was played for Mission Specialist Robert L. Behnken.
The main task of the day will be the spacewalk by Mission Specialists Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman. The two will be installing two 11-feet-long robotic arms on the Canadian Space Agency's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator -or Dextre, as it was dubbed by a Canada-wide naming contest.
Dextre is the third in a trio of robotic elements Canada has provided for the space station. Along with the 57-foot Canadarm2 and a mobile base system that allows the Canadarm2 to move along the station's truss, Dextre will form the station's mobile servicing system. Dextre will be able to attach to Canadarm2 or travel by itself on the mobile base system and install or remove small payloads and scientific experiments.
Today's spacewalk -which is the second of three involving Dextre assembly -is scheduled to begin at 7:23 p.m. and last for seven hours and five minutes. The bulk of Dextre assembly is planned to take place today.
While Foreman and Linnehan are outside the station, Mission Specialist Takao Doi will be working inside the station's newest module, the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module, Pressurized Section, or JLP. The JLP is the first section of the Japanese Space Agency's module, Kibo. Doi, a Japanese Space Agency astronaut, will resume JLP outfitting at about 5:30 p.m.


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Tennis To Close Fall Season At Big Green Invite
UMass will travel to Dartmouth for its final of four tournaments in the 2014 fall season.
Tennis Finishes Season With A-10 Semifinal Loss To VCU
VCU bested the Minutewomen 4-0 and will advance to the A-10 Championship Final match on Sunday.
Tennis Tops Dayton 4-0 In First Round Of A-10 Championship Play
The UMass tennis team advances to the A-10 Quarterfinals this Friday against Richmond.
Tennis To Feature Four Minutewomen On Senior Day
The UMass tennis team will host Rhode Island this Saturday at 1 p.m. on Senior Day.
UMass Tennis Downs Sacred Heart 6-1
The UMass tennis team rebounded from Thursday's 4-3 loss with a 6-1 win over Sacred Heart.
Judy Dixon Previews The 2013 Spring Schedule
The UMass tennis team starts the 2013 spring campaign this Friday at Brown and Sunday at home against Saint Joseph's. Head coach Judy Dixon sits down with UMassAthletics to talk about the progress from the fall and what she expects to see this spring.
TENNIS vs. URI
TENNIS vs. URI Photos by Thom Kendall '93
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As a Sophomore (2011-2012): Spring: Against Army (2/18), added wins from both No. 3 singles and doubles...Recorded a 7-5, 6-1 win from No. 3 singles against Duquesne (2/12)...At St. Joseph's (2/11), posted victories from No. 4 singles and No. 3 doubles...Notched a win from No. 3 singles against Columbia's Ioana Alecsiu 6-2, 6-3 (2/4)...Fall:11-3 on the season ...Notched two singles victories at the Big Green Invitational (11/4-11/6) and also added a doubles victory with the help of partner Chanel Glasper...Fell to Monica Mical of Boston University in three sets at the ITA Regionals (10/21)...At Fordham (10/9), defeated Angelika Dabu and Julie Leong, 8-4, along with Chanel Glasper from the third doubles slot...Also lost to Dabu at Fordham in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3...Won her singles match against UConn 6-2, 6-1 ... Defeated the UConn doubles team with teammate Chanel Glasper 8-2 ... UMass Athlete of the Week (9/26) ... Won her second straight flight championship of the season, going 4-0 at the Eastern Collegiate Invitational at Army (9/32-9/25) ... Won the Flight B Championship, going 4-0 while only losing one set, at the Harvard Fall Classic (9/16-9/18) ...
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Condo Complex: Durant Condominiums
This first floor 1-bedroom, 1-bath deluxe condominium features excellent views and a wood-burning fireplace, and is only two blocks from the Silver Queen Gondola and even closer to downtown Aspen.
Unit amenities include an updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops, and flatscreen TV in the main living area and bedroom.
(A maxuimum of two people are allowed to occupy this unit.)
Complex amenities at the Durant Condominiums include an on-site heated pool and two hot tubs; an outdoor grill; laundry room; complimentary Aspen airport transfers; on-site free parking; and free wireless internet access.
The Durant Condominiums offers ski-in access from Aspen Mountain!
All Frias Properties of Aspen guests receive complimentary passes to the Aspen Club & Spa, the valley's premier full-service spa and workout facility.
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Great unit, great location. One block from downtown I was able to leave my car park and ride to the start line of my event in Peapke Park in 3 mins. Floor to ceiling windows helped at first light and quiet street helped with rest. Granite counter tops, leather chairs and couch, great touch control lighting. All buildings have stairs in the area, a hillside overlooking town so count on that, the views are great!
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We loved the location of the condo so close to the gondola, restaurants and shopping. The condo itself is nicely appointed and very bright with all of the windows in the living room/kitchen. Our only complaints are (1) the bedroom is small; and (2) even though this is a "first floor" condo, you actually have to walk up a ton of steps to get there which is a bit of a hassle with lots of luggage and a baby.
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Northwest Ohio Intensive Stuttering Clinics
The University of Toledo (UT) Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic will be offering two intensive stuttering clinics. The clinic is directed by Rodney M. Gabel, Ph.D. Dr. Gabel is a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist and a Board-Recognized Specialist in Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Dr. Stephanie Hughes, Assistant Director, Brooke Steele, and Cindy Marshall, all speech language pathologists, are supervisors in this program. In addition, the staff of the clinic includes graduate students in speech-language pathology who are studying to become speech-language pathologists.
The first clinic offered is the Intensive Stuttering Clinic for Children and their Families (ISCCF). The clinic is designed to provide services for older children between the ages of 8 and 12 and their parents. The program will focus on teaching children about stuttering, address negative attitudes and feelings about speaking, learn better means of coping with stuttering, and use effective techniques for speaking more fluently. Parents will be engaged in an educational program during the clinic, so one parent is required to be involved during the entire program. Parents are a critical part of treatment, thus the educational program is a critical part of this program.
This 5 day clinic will be offered July 11th -15th during the summer of 2016. This is one of very few intensive programs for children in this age group in the country. The cost of the clinic is $600 for the entire clinic, including the cost of therapy and housing for those traveling a great distance to attend the clinic. This low price is possible due to the generosity of the UT Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic and the Psi Iota Xi National sorority (other scholarships may be available).
The Intensive Stuttering Clinic for Adolescents and Adults (ISCAA), will also be offered during the summer of 2016. This intensive therapy program
includes 60 hours of direct treatment (both groups and individual sessions). The purpose
of this intensive clinic is to help adolescents (12 years and older) and adults who
stutter to develop positive coping strategies for dealing with stuttering. Participants
will increase their understanding of stuttering and learn to communicate effectively.
They will learn to eliminate their maladaptive reactions to stuttering and reduce their stuttering severity. This clinic is for individuals who are willing to invest a significant amount of time and energy to make meaningful changes in their speech and their lives. To date, research suggests that this program helps people who stutter to make significant changes.
As with the ISCCF, this 10 day clinic (offered Monday-Friday, no weekend therapy) is one of very few intensive clinics that are offered throughout the country. The 2016 clinic will run from July 11th through July 22nd. The cost is $1,200 for the entire clinic. This fee includes the price of all therapy and housing for the entire intensive portion of the clinic. As with the ISCCF, this low price is available due to the support of the University of the Toledo (UT) Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic and generosity of our community supporters, especially the Psi Iota Xi National sorority. Additional scholarships and sliding scales may be available.
"Therapy helped me realize that being okay with stuttering can actually help me with
my speech.
Important details about both clinics are as follows:
- Up to 10 participants for each clinic. The ISCCF will include students between 8 and 12; the ISCAA Is for individuals over the age of 12.
- The therapy delivered during each clinic emphasizes teaching individuals to modify his/her stuttering, eliminate maladaptive behaviors related to stuttering, and change the negative or self-defeating emotional reactions, feelings, and attitudes related to speech.
- The ISCCF offers 30 hours of therapy and the ISCAA offers 60 hours of formal treatment during the intensive clinic. The clinic sessions will run from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm for each clinic. Participants will also schedule three 30-minute diagnostic sessions to be completed prior to attending the clinic. Details regarding these sessions can be discussed with Dr. Gabel.
- Housing will be offered in one of the residence halls at UT. Meals are not included, but there are several dining halls on campus and many restaurants close to campus. Those participants under the age of 18 will need to stay with a parent or guardian during the program. Those interested in housing in Toledo, but not in the residence hall, should contact Dr. Gabel to discuss options.
Telepractice and Afterschool Therapy Program
After the intensive clinics, follow-up therapy is very important. As a part of the follow-up therapy, the participants will be guided in developing a self-therapy program. The purpose of this self-therapy program is to allow the individual an avenue for continued use of the effective coping strategies s/he learned during treatment. As a part of their self-therapy, participants are encouraged to continue therapy. These services can be provided through the Speech and Hearing Clinic at the University of Toledo. Additionally, for those individuals living far from Toledo, follow-up sessions can be offered via telepractice (i.e., over the Internet).
To contact Dr. Gabel, please Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or Phone: 419-530-6682
This clinical program is supported through a National Project Grant from the Psi Iota XI National Sorority and through donations made by Psi Iota Xi chapters in Ohio. To learn more about Psi Iota Xi, please visit their website. http://www.psiiotaxi.org/
Research Papers About the Therapy Programs
Gabel, R., & Irani, F. (2012). Improving services for people who stutter: Intensive therapy and telepractice. eHearsay, 2, 71-78.
Irani, F., Gabel, R., Daniels, D., & Hughes, S. (2012). The long term effectiveness intensive stuttering therapy: A mixed methods study. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 3, 164-178.
Irani, F., & Gabel, R. (2011). Intensive stuttering therapy with telepractice follow-up: A case study. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, 21, 11-21.
Gabel, R., Irani, F., Palasik, S., Swartz, E., & Hughes, C. (2010). Treatment Outcomes of the Intensive Stuttering Therapy for Adolescents and Adults. In A. Harrison (Ed.), Speech Disorders: Causes, treatments, and social effects (pp. 139-158). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Gabel, R., Daniels, D., & Hughes, S. (2008). A mixed-model approach to studying treatment outcomes. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, 18, 6-16.