Learning verb conjugations and dealing with irregular verbs in the Spanish language is a serious challenge for many English speakers. Dr. Juan M. Gonzlez, an assistant professor of Spanish at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, and Dr. Dan Bishop have developed a unique visual framework within which students can more easily learn Spanish verb irregularities.

Gonzlez and Bishop present most verb irregularities as two easily manageable groups of ten simple spelling rules and ten common vowel variations. Conjugation diagrams and charts throughout the text enhance the learning process. Verb lists specify all commonly encountered verbs that exhibit vowel variations. Special attention is also placed on the nineteen truly irregular verbs that depart significantly from these rules.

Mastering Spanish Irregular Verbs is an excellent reference volume for Spanish teachers and students alike. The verb classification scheme, visual presentations, and comprehensive verb lists significantly help the reader along the road to Spanish fluency.

"Stunningly original and wonderfully realized, this book charts a clear path through the jungle of Spanish irregular verbs. Gonzlez and Bishop have pioneered an approach that transforms what many students find an impossible task into an intellectual pleasure. As I looked over the charts which provide the center of their approach, I found myself wondering why no one thought of this before."

-Craig Werner, PhD, Chair, Integrated Liberal Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The 2005 Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy was the tenth in the annual series that started in 1996.Over the yearsACISP has grown from a relativelysmallconferencewith a largeproportionof paperscoming from Australia into a truly international conference with an established reputation. ACISP 2005 was held at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, d- ing July 4-6, 2005. This year there were 185 paper submissions and from these 45 papers were accepted. Accepted papers came from 13 countries, with the largest proportions coming from Australia (12), China (8) and Japan (6). India and Korea both contributed 2 papers and one came from Singapore. There were also 11 papers from European countries and 3 from North America. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all authors who submitted papers to ACISP 2005. The contributed papers were supplemented by four invited talks from e- nent researchers in information security. The father-and-son team of Prof. and Dr. Bob Blakley (Texas A&M University and IBM) gave a talk entitled "All Sail, No Anchor III," following up on a theme started at their ACISP 2000 - vited talk. Adrian McCullagh (Phillips Fox Lawyers and QUT) talked on the bene?t and perils of Internet banking. Ted Dunstone (Biometix) enlightened us on multimodal biometric systems. Yvo Desmedt (University College London) elucidated the growing gap between theory and practice in information security.

Learning verb conjugations and dealing with irregular verbs in the Spanish language is a serious challenge for many English speakers. Dr. Juan M. Gonzlez, an assistant professor of Spanish at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, and Dr. Dan Bishop have developed a unique visual framework within which students can more easily learn Spanish verb irregularities.

Gonzlez and Bishop present most verb irregularities as two easily manageable groups of ten simple spelling rules and ten common vowel variations. Conjugation diagrams and charts throughout the text enhance the learning process. Verb lists specify all commonly encountered verbs that exhibit vowel variations. Special attention is also placed on the nineteen truly irregular verbs that depart significantly from these rules.

Mastering Spanish Irregular Verbs is an excellent reference volume for Spanish teachers and students alike. The verb classification scheme, visual presentations, and comprehensive verb lists significantly help the reader along the road to Spanish fluency.

"Stunningly original and wonderfully realized, this book charts a clear path through the jungle of Spanish irregular verbs. Gonzlez and Bishop have pioneered an approach that transforms what many students find an impossible task into an intellectual pleasure. As I looked over the charts which provide the center of their approach, I found myself wondering why no one thought of this before."

-Craig Werner, PhD, Chair, Integrated Liberal Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

On 5 August 2004, the United States entered into the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). Congress passed the implementing bill on July 28th, 2005, and CAFTA-DR entered into force with El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, thereafter. This permanent, comprehensive, and reciprocal trade agreement eliminates tariff and non-tariff barriers to two-way trade, building on unilateral trade preferences begun under the 1983 Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). It enhances rules and other standards for services, intellectual property rights, government procurements, investment, and other disciplines. It also reinforces Congress's historical support for trade as a foundation of broader foreign economic, political, and security policies in the region. This book provides an analysis of the trade and investment trends since CAFTA-DR entered into being.