Dr. Harold Thomas Beck is one of the foremost experts in the area of Applied Linguistics in the world today. The author of ten books and thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, he is the former host of The Bud Beck Show, a Liberal Talk Show in the Tampa Bay area from 2002 - 2005, and Professor of English at Rasmussen College and later the College of Central Florida. He is current the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Stolen Knife Magazine.