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Hippieville

By: Marcia K. Matthews

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Bad Boy Reforms for Love A rock god crashes from his pedestal when the innocent young girl he victimized turns the tables. Just as the prodigal son rose up and came home, the rock god of Hippieville finds himself at the end of a long, hard road. He seeks a spiritual advisor to confess to and give him guidance. In 1968, Ben Z. ruled the town. Likable, rich, and non-involved, at first he wouldnt admit he did anything wrong. He committed a crime and now he has to atone for it. When a friend asked, "Was it the kind you commit with a car, a gun?" he said, "No, with your body." He was so wasted that he blundered into sex with the wrong girl, and raped her. Instead of his willing groupie, she turned out to be an innocent high school girl who had too much to drink at her first big party. Leda woke up pregnant. Scandal rocks the small New Hampshire town, and she bears "The Scarlet Letter." But Ben isn't spineless like Dimmesdale in Hawthorne's classic. He stands up for Leda in front of the whole town. Leda acts as though she looks up to him, but she plots with her cousin Evie, the singer in the band, to force him to sign a confession. Ben fights to maintain a facade of honor as his world crashes down. The cops, his father, and the jealous town boyshe has to face them all. Leda runs away to the city and vanishes among the Flower Children. Ben follows, searching for a chance to redeem himself. Disinherited, he works as a lowly dishwasher in a cafeteria near the encampment the Mayor of Boston calls Hippieville. Boston boils over with anti-war protests. In a disastrous riot, the police chase the hippies off the Common. When Ben meets Leda again, she distrusts him, but in desperation, she moves in with him. They live for months as platonic roommates, their dialog an escalating war of insults in the cramped apartment on Beacon Hill. Cover art used by permission Linda B. Levine Quotes on HIPPIEVILLE: "It's about people and how they fit into their generation and how their times affect their lives. It is timeless, because the search for independence and a sense of family is a timeless theme, but one that seemed particularly poignant in the '60's when the young were coming up and overthrowing the old. It was exciting to be running wild and searching for a better family than the one from which we all came." --Sam Southworth, Portsmouth NH "The external turbulence of the times is woven seamlessly into the inner turbulence and demons of the main characters. HIPPIEVILLE never pulled any punches. It never got soft. It was raw, fast and real." --Karen Clayton, Toronto ON

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Speech and Language Technology for Language Disorders

By: Katharine Beals,Deborah Dahl,Ruth Fink,Marcia Linebarger

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Speech and Language Technology for Language Disorders

By: Katharine Beals,Deborah Dahl,Ruth Fink,Marcia Linebarger

This book draws on the recent remarkable advances in speech and language processing: advances that have moved speech technology beyond basic applications such as medical dictation and telephone self-service to increasingly sophisticated and clinically significant applications aimed at complex speech and language disorders. The book provides an introduction to the basic elements of speech and natural language processing technology, and illustrates their clinical potential by reviewing speech technology software currently in use for disorders such as autism and aphasia. The discussion is informed by the authors' own experiences in developing and investigating speech technology applications for these populations. Topics include detailed examples of speech and language technologies in both remediative and assistive applications, overviews of a number of current applications, and a checklist of criteria for selecting the most appropriate applications for particular user needs. This book will be of benefit to four audiences: application developers who are looking to apply these technologies; clinicians who are looking for software that may be of value to their clients; students of speech-language pathology and application development; and finally, people with speech and language disorders and their friends and family members.

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Hippieville

By: Marcia K. Matthews

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