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What's better than working more to make more money?
Answer: Not working more to make more money.
All you have to do is set aside what you can and put it towards the many different and easy investment options presented in this article.
First, look at your spending habits. You know you can save at least $100 a month somehow. There is no excuse for any working American to not find a way to save at least $100 a month. Look at your spending habits: Did you really have to eat out that one night? Did you really have to go to the bar to buy a $10 beer when you could have bought a six pack for cheaper? There is simply no excuse why you cannot find a way to come up with $100 a month. Buy cheaper food, cut out a gym membership and workout at home instead, cut coupons if you have to… The point is: you CAN do it if you try.
But why scrimp and save just to throw money to something you won't see come back to you for possibly years? Why is it important to invest? Simply put: For most working Americans, your paycheck isn't enough. Do you want a comfortable retirement? Do you want to be able to pay for your kid's college? Do you want to have more money when you're older and need it for possible life-changing events? If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, unless you got a killer job making over $200,000 a year, then you need to invest. I know it sounds like a risky business, but think about this way: most millionaires (that weren't born into a rich family) got to be millionaires by being smart investors. Plus, you've gone to a casino and lost money, right? If you're smart, you know that you lost your money because the odds are against you. In the investing world, the odds are in your favor! Now doesn't that sound like a more fun game to play?
If you're a complete beginner, this article is a great starting point to start investing now. None of these are get-rich quick schemes. They are just conservative basic easy ways to make a little extra money off your extra $100 or $1000 or whatever you can spare per month that you can use to play with. Bear in mind, for the purpose of being concise, I'm leaving out a lot of information here and I could probably blab for days about each option, but I'm hoping if you're interested that you can just google articles and financial experts' advisories about the subject to learn more.
So here's what you can dabble in. But first remember that it's ALL about diversification. You do not want to put ALL your money into one investment just because it might be low-risk or because you think you'll make good dough.
For the long-term: Buy a condo or house (when able). Once all debts are paid off, credit is good, and you make enough to afford a property, buy a house. Even if it takes you 30 years to pay off the loan, before it's time to retire, you will never have another rent or mortgage payment! That means after your usual bills, ALL of your paycheck is YOURS! Plus you get tax benefits and the ability in an emergency to take out home-equity loans that are better rates than any credit card or installment loan you could ever get. Not to mention house appreciation making your home worth more over time and thereby increasing your net worth. Look up houses for sale in your area on trulia.com.
Retirement: First off: For reasons I won't get into, maxing out your 401k is by far the best investment advice you will ever receive. Start young. Start now. Invest as much as you can reasonably afford every month towards it. Choose a high-risk, high-reward target retirement; over time, you will generate more money by the time you are able to retire. If your employer matches 401k contributions, contribute as much as possible: that's FREE MONEY!! To get more info, talk to your employer's 401k provider and set something up. If you do not have a 401k and cannot get one, get an IRA Vanguard account (vanguard.com) and talk with them over the phone about your options.
To counter-balance a recession: Buy some gold and/or silver. When the stock market sucks, you can still make money. Buy over $1,500 worth and you won't have to pay the sales tax (in California). Also, be sure to buy when the economy is good so you can get it as cheap as possible. Precious metals' worth increases when there's a recession. Since the economy is becoming more stable, buying now or soon would be a smart thing to do. Buy gold and silver at usagold.com or go to a local retailer.
Retirement: Get a Roth IRA on top of a 401k so you can retire sooner with more money and tax benefits. Go to vanguard.com to learn more.
For the medium term (e.g., College savings for your kid, etc.): EE Savings Bonds from the U.S. Treasury. Guaranteed to double in 20 years. You can buy one for as little as $25. Check out treasury.direct.gov.
Short to Medium term: Vanguard STAR mutual fund. Minimum investment: $1,000. 60% Stocks 40% Bonds. All in one fund completely diversified for your convenience. When the stock market is doing well and you need a few extra bucks to get you through the month, cash some of it out. If you got $3,000 and you're feeling a little more risky, purchase and add into the Vanguard 500 Index Fund; it makes more on average than the STAR fund but its lows can be really low which may cause doubt, but its highs can be high causing eventual satisfaction. Go to vanguard.com.
Short to long term: For cash that you will see within a few months vs. waiting years, buy 30 Year Treasury Bonds. Minimum investment: $100 per bond. You get dividends every 6 months. Once you have enough of them, you'll be getting paid monthly. FDIC-insured safest bonds you can ever buy. They don't pay much, but it's the safest investment you can make, even safer than the bank and at a better rate of return! Go to treasury.direct.gov.
Short to long term: This one's a bit risky, but if you conservatively keep your selection of who you lend money to, Peer 2 Peer Lending can be profitable. Check out Prosper.com or Lendingclub.com. Lend small portions to lots of people. 99.9% of people who invested little bits of money to over 100 or more borrowers received a positive profit. You can start lending for $25. Check out lendingclub.com
Of course there are many other investment schemes one can dabble in, but these seem to be the easiest to jump into for the beginner investor. For someone that can spare $100 a month for now, I would recommend starting or increasing their 401k contribution at $125 (pre-taxed) per month. In 30 years, if you never increased your contribution amount and did not have an employer match, you would have roughly $200,000. The more you put into your 401k, the more you will have and the faster you can retire!
If you can spare $200: put $125 to 401k (pre-taxed), $25 to EE Savings Bond, $25 to P2P Lending, and $50 contribution to either Roth IRA or towards a $100 30-year Treasury Bond.
If you can spare $300: $175 to 401k (pre-taxed), $100 to 30-year Treasury Bond, $25 to EE Savings Bond, $25 to P2P Lending, $25 towards purchase of silver coins (American Eagle Silver Coins are the best choice).
Overall, you can never go wrong as long as you diversify. Just be sure to be debt-free before you start investing. It makes no sense to try and make 8% on your investments when you're paying over 20% interest to credit cards.

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Why Being A Sole Founder Might Be Perfect For You (Or Absolutely Horrible) – with Lindsay Saewitz
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It is well known that if $(P, \leq)$ is a partial order then $\leq$ can always be extended to a linear order. This is sometimes called Szpilrajn´s theorem although it had been previously proved by Banach, Kuratowski and Tarski.
Now suppose that $f$ is an automorphism of $(P, \leq)$ and we want to extend $\leq$ to a linear order in such a way that $f$ remains an automorphism. Of course, this is not always possible since $f$ could have a finite orbit and automorphisms of linear orders can´t have finite orbits; but I wonder if this is the only obstruction. So let $A$ be the collection of all those $f$´s for which it is possible (for instance $Id_P \in A$); here are my questions:
1) Is it true that If $f$ has no finite orbits then $f \in A$?
2) Is $A$ a subgroup of $Aut(P, \leq)$?
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3) If the answer to 1 is negative. Can we somehow characterize the elements of $A$?
Perhaps this is all well known and studied but I couldn´t find anything at all in the literature, so references are also appreciated.


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Vital, D; Hofer, M; Boehler, A; Holzmann, D (2013). Posttransplant sinus surgery in lung transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis: A single institutional experience. European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 270(1):135-139.
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Chronic rhinosinusitis is hypothesised to play a major role in lung transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis. Paranasal sinuses are considered to accumulate a significant bacterial load, potentially leading to lung allograft infection with ensuing complications such as bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, i.e. allograft rejection. We therefore would like to present our combined medical and surgical treatment plan, which consists of an endoscopic fronto-spheno-ethmoidectomy as well as a meticulous daily nasal care program. The microbiological results show that our combined concept is effective, whereas especially daily nasal care with isotonic saline solution is the cornerstone in preventing significant colonisation of the sinuses and spreading bacteria to the lower respiratory tract causing lung allograft infection. Regarding the surgical part of our treatment, it should be emphasised that all sinuses and ethmoidal air cells should be widely opened. Edges such as bony overhangs should be smoothened to avoid mucus retention and consecutive bacterial recolonisation requiring subsequent revision surgery.
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DURHAM, N.H. — The University of New Hampshire rode six special team goals and a four goal first period to down The University of Ottawa, 9-1, in exhibition play.
Lanny Gare led the scoring parade with two goals and three assists. Jim Abbott chipped in with a goal and three assists and Darren Haydar added two goals.
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Texas State Board of Education's Rejection
of a Math Textbook is Illegal
Steven Schafersman
Texas Citizens for Science
2008 February 11
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Mathematics Textbook Rejected
On Friday, 2007 November 17, the SBOE rejected a math textbook in violation of the statutes that govern textbook selection, and the publishers have rightfully appealed the decision to the Commissioner of Education. If that appeal is not upheld and the textbook rightfully adopted, the decision will be appealed to the Texas Attorney General, and then ultimately undergo litigation in a court of law, because the unlawful rejection will cost the publisher, McGraw Hill, tens of millions of dollars in lost sales.
By Texas law, textbooks can only be rejected by the SBOE if (1) the textbook contains factual errors that the publisher refuses to correct, (2) the book does not teach all the subject's curriculum standards, the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and the publisher refuses to make changes, or (3) the book's binding is not sturdy and the publisher will not fix this. None of these apply in this case. The book contained some errors but the publisher promised to fix them, and the book fully met the math TEKS.
Some SBOE members say they rejected the book because it taught "fuzzy math"--in the real world known as reform, conceptual, standards-based, or whole math--that allows students to use calculators earlier than the members wanted, but the Board does not have the authority to reject a book for that reason. Reform or conceptual math textbooks are written--as are all math textbooks offered for adoption in Texas--to cover all the Texas math curriculum standards--the Math TEKS. To do otherwise is plainly irrational, since that would guarantee that the book would not be acceptable in Texas. The math standards are published, easily available, and not difficult to cover. If by chance or oversight a textbook failed to cover one or more math standards, the publisher would of course agree to fix that problem immediately, as has been done hundreds of times in the past.
Other SBOE members simply refused to give a reason for their rejection, but this stance blatantly violates the law, since the statute explicitly names the only permitted reasons for rejection, and at least one of them must be specified for a rejection to be legal. In reality, the math textbook rejection was a power play designed to assert a precedent for the Board's self-claimed power to reject books for no reason at all, so that they will have this power to reject biology books when they come up for adoption in future years. The radical religious right members of the SBOE have not been able to get mainstream biology texts that contain evolution information thrown out or censored by legitimate means, so they are resorting to naked political force and are daring anyone to sue them. I hope McGraw Hill does precisely that.
Several large school districts in Texas use the Everyday Mathematics textbook and math program. The reform math program was recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and has proven successful in achieving high scores in national studies. Many of the state's math teachers are trained to use this math instructional program. There is no legitimate reason to reject this math book except to set an illegitimate precedent. There are reasons, of course, for a school district to not want to use this book or the others in its series. For example, there is evidence that reform math doesn't work as well as traditional computational math. A school district may want to use math texts that teach math using the traditional computational methods. This is perfectly consistent with a school district's authority and, in fact, most school districts in Texas apparently make this choice. But the point is that the choice belongs to the school district, not the State Board of Education. Math instructional programs should be chosen and taught by the trained and qualified math teachers in Texas, not by the untrained and unqualified members of the State Board of Education.
Postmodernist Constructivism
Reform or conceptual math can be characterized as the constructivist (i.e., postmodernist; constructivism is one aspect of postmodernism) program in mathematics education contrasted with traditional or computational mathematics, occupying the same place as whole language reading instruction (or, as opponents term it, the "look-say" method) contrasted with phonics instruction. These controversies are known as the Math Wars and Reading Wars respectively, and both are still raging in Texas (Texans love wars). Conservatives and the radical religious right always sides with traditional math and phonics regardless of what math and reading experts say.
There are, in fact, legitimate professional and educated critics and advocates on both sides of both of these wars. Both sides can show studies that show that their instructional methods work best. But these facts are not the point. The point is that a very few individuals (7 or 8) in very powerful positions (members of the Texas SBOE) are using their official powers to illegally impose their collective will on everyone else (students, teachers, education supervisors, and curriculum experts) in the state to accept only one of two possible choices in the Math Wars. State educational laws do not permit the SBOE to determine educational methodology or specific curricula of instruction, and that's what the SB is doing. And they intend to do this again in the future: to impose their minority will on others in the Biology Textbook Wars when they illegally reject biology textbooks that refuse to compromise or weaken their language about evolution.
Although not nearly as well known, the same traditional v. postmodern constructivist battle also goes on with science instruction: the Science Wars. Here, while traditional science instruction methods rely on reading, note-taking, memorization, and laboratory exercises that have expected outcomes. The alternative postmodern or constructivist instructional method is called "inquiry-based" science, in which students don't memorize important information, but practice or perform a simulacrum of science. Laboratory exercises are open-ended and can have many different but always acceptable outcomes. A common practice is to have students work with real-world data and "analyze" the data as scientists would, but the methods are usually superficial and the results almost invariably useless except to give students some sort of an appreciation for how science is done. Emphasis is placed on having students perform in class like scientists supposedly perform, with class exercises that engage and inspire the student but without the requirement of actually learning specific information.
Sometimes students are allowed to choose their own science topics, construct their experiments or observational methods, and generate their own data, with little concern for rigor or conformity to genuine scientific methods. This is termed "student-directed inquiry," and is distinguished from "instructor-directed inquiry," which is when the teacher assigns students to complete specific research topics or exercises. Finally, assessment of what was learned is given very low priority in inquiry-based science. Typically, there are no exams, but grades are assigned on the basis of completion of student projects. The mantra of constructivist science instruction is "process over substance," i.e. exposing students to the process of science and having them engage in it is more important in the long run than obliging them to learn specific scientific facts or information (which they often forget later and may cause them to develop an antipathy to science). Most working scientists--when they learn about inquiry-based science instruction--find this method to be somewhat controversial and counter-productive, but inquiry-based science instructional methods are quite popular in primary, secondary, and higher education today.
There is probably justification for some constructivist methods in science, such as allowing students to feel good about engaging in scientific inquiry, but such methods should not be used at the expense of learning necessary information. There has to be a balance, and the role of objective reality in scientific discovery must be emphasized. Good science students can certainly participate in instructor-directed and even student-directed inquiry, but this includes only a minority. I have seen science courses that are overwhelmingly constructivist and postmodernist, and it is not a pretty sight; the students enjoy the course but end up knowing little or nothing. Only science curriculum specialists (such as myself) are really aware of this controversy. The public and even many science teachers know little about the Science Wars, which exactly parallel the Math Wars and Reading Wars. Postmodernism and constructivism have made inroads in teaching every academic discipline, but the public has only heard of the Math Wars and Reading Wars.
In fairness, I should point out that almost all scientists, including myself, who are aware of the philosophical issues (most aren't) are opponents of postmodernism and constructivism. Specifically, I am not fond of reform or conceptual mathematics instruction. But this is entirely beside the point. Textbooks have been written and should be available to school districts and teachers who wish to use whatever instructional method they want, depending on their training and interest. In some cases, school districts have been more successful teaching students math using conceptual math instruction than by using traditional methods. The State Board does not have the responsibility of choosing among the various instructional programs any more than it should involve itself in specific pedagogical techniques or skills. Therefore, it should not impose its power into this issue or controversy by its authoritarian rejection of textbooks that espouse one method or the other.
The Minority Report
The seven religious right SBOE members who voted to reject the McGraw Hill math book are radicals and fundamentalist religionists, not social or traditional conservatives as they self-style themselves, because they do not respect traditional values such as public education, science, and now the rule of law. What is most disturbing, however, is that Rick Agosto, a San Antonio Democrat on the State Board, voted with the radical religious right seven-member minority on 2007 November 17 to give them a majority to reject the math book in November (he abstained so the right-wingers could win) and again on 2008 January 18 to strike the minority report from the record that six members of the SBOE wrote to express their claim that the math textbook rejection was illegal. Someone needs to get in touch with Mr. Agosto and teach him the facts of life about the politicization of public education in Texas. He should be helping the students and teachers in our state, not the seven radical-right Creationists who are his fellow Board members. What is going on? Did the Radical Seven know Mr. Agosto would abstain before they voted to reject the book in November, since they would not have succeeded without it? I tried to ask Mr. Agosto these questions on January 17. He told me he abstained because he didn't like the math book, but he wouldn't tell me specifically what was wrong with it. I began to explain why the book's rejection was illegal (because the Texas Education statutes only allow rejection for specific reasons, none of which apply in this case) and that the SBOE didn't have the authority to determine specific educational methodology for the state, but he refused to engage in further discussion and told me he couldn't discuss those legal matters because they were going to come up in executive session when the Board would be briefed by the TEA attorney about McGraw Hill's appeal later that day. Our conversation ended at this point on Thursday.
I was not present on January 18 when six members of the SBOE attempted to get a minority report entered into the minutes so their viewpoint could be recorded. The minority report is short, and hardly begins to analyze all the issues in this complex controversy, but it is revealing. It can be found at http://www.texscience.org/reviews/math-minority-report.pdf. The seven-member radical right bloc on the SBOE, plus Democrat Rick Agosto, voted 8-6 to strike the report from the official record (one member was absent); the reason they gave was that its presence would demonstrate that a significant number of SBOE members thought the rejection was illegal, valuable ammunition for McGraw Hill when they sue the SBOE. Contrary to them, I can state that the minority report is an accurate portrayal of the math textbook rejection episode and is, in fact, illegal. Of special note is Rick Agosto's quoted statement: "This is about the credibility of this board, and I will challenge anyone here who tries to challenge my credibility." I think the Board member doth protest too much. The Board's credibility becomes Mr. Agosto's personal credibility before the sentence is even finished. Why is a freshman Democratic Board member voting with the most radical, extreme members of the SBOE? TCS does not know the answers to these questions.
SBOE Member Terri Leo's Faulty Legal Justification
The most active SBOE member among those who rejected the math text and voted to strike the minority report from the record is Terri Leo. In several letters and columns, she has explained her rationale for rejecting the textbook without acknowledging one of the three legitimate statutory reasons. Her explanation involves an idiosyncratic reading of the educational statutes that govern textbook adoption in Texas, plus an analysis of two court decisions that followed a similar but not identical SBOE rejection of a science book in 2002 that led to court litigation which the SBOE "won." Unfortunately for Ms. Leo, her reasoning and justification for precipitous textbook rejection by the State Board is--as is the case for so many other claims she makes--faulty.
To be continued.... (I apologize for the delay, but new events and circumstances keep getting in the way of finishing this and other reports.)
Texas Citizens for Science Last updated: 2008 February 11


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The Vatican declared the rites "invalid and null" and excommunicated all seven women, who became known as the Danube Seven. As for the bishops, Rome considered them already excommunicated because they were part of independent Catholic groups that did not have Vatican approval. Still, the bishops had been validly ordained, and the seven women made the case that their ordination was equally valid because it was performed in accordance with the doctrine of apostolic succession. Once a priest is consecrated as a bishop, he retains the power to ordain others, even if he gets excommunicated, they claimed. A year later, three bishops, all in good standing with the church but whose identities have remained secret, consecrated two of the Danube Seven as bishops, which allowed them to begin ordaining priests themselves. Over the past 10 years, these two female bishops have been actively ordaining, with the result that, worldwide, 124 women now call themselves priests and 10 call themselves bishops. Of those, 70 priests and five bishops are American.
Venne heard about the Danube Seven, and when she graduated with a master of divinity degree in 2004, she began mulling over whether she, too, should become a priest. But she also knew that ordination would inevitably lead to excommunication. "I had a great fear of that," she says. It would place her outside the safe spiritual zone she had occupied her entire life, relegating her to the status of Protestants and others outside the church and possibly put her beyond salvation as well. The threat of this exquisite spiritual torture, whereby the offender faces damnation unless she repents, kept her longings in check.
"The church sees excommunication as a medicinal penalty," says Father Thomas Reese, a Vatican analyst for the National Catholic Reporter. "Once you do the right thing and promise good behavior, the excommunication is lifted." But repentance would not be an option for a woman who chose to become—and remain—a priest.
Venne decided to brave the threat. In 2007, she witnessed the ordination of two women—one of them a friend—who had overcome their personal terror of excommunication. "Their faces expressed deep joy and no fear of the consequences," she says. "Seeing that convinced me I had nothing to fear. A month later, I began the application process."
Working through the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP),one of the two main U.S. groups that promote and facilitate female ordination (the other is the much larger Roman Catholic Women priests, or RCWP–USA), Venne became a priest on June 26, 2011. Now 55, she copastors a Minneapolis congregation of about 20 that rents space in a Methodist church. The position is part time, and she and her husband live on his salary as a college professor. She officiates at weddings; organizes the worship service for her congregation, Compassion of Christ; serves on the national board of the RCWP–USA; and is the administrator for the RCWP's Midwest region. "What continues to fill me with gratitude is that God never withdrew my call to be a priest when I first didn't recognize it and later suppressed it," she says. "When I had the ability to acknowledge my calling, it was still there, as fresh as ever."
Pauline Cahalan, 68, a charter member of Venne's congregation, attends a traditional Catholic church as well as Compassion of Christ and regards both as her spiritual home. "I have a fundamental disagreement with the Roman Catholic Church's position that women and married men can't be priests," she says. "We get our vocation from the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit doesn't discriminate between men and women. To me, this is all about men's egos. The bureaucracy of the Catholic Church is so threatened by the thought that women would have any power. The older I get, the less I am buying this. I keep going to Compassion of Christ because we have to support the women who are taking these risks. I think we are groundbreakers for something that will hopefully broaden as time goes by."


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It's a "fact" well known to students of medieval English literature that Geoffrey Chaucer was the inventor of Valentine's Day, an attribution made on the basis of a famous line from the Parliament of Fowls (here modernized; for the Middle English original see below): "For this was Saint Valentine's day, when every bird of every kind that men can imagine comes to this place to choose his mate." It's a beautiful moment in Chaucer's oeuvre, rightly celebrated as a hallmark of poetic love in English literature.
Wikipedia claims that Valentine's Day "was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished." Scholarly sources, too, attribute the probable founding of Valentine's Day to Father Chaucer. The Riverside Chaucer, though more qualified in tone than the Wikipedia entry, puts it thus: "The Parliament of Fowls is surely the most delightful–and possibly the first–celebration of Saint Valentine's Day ever written. No one knows how 14 February became one of love's 'halydayes'…Perhaps Chaucer himself hit upon the pleasant idea of enlivening the dreariest of winter months with an occasion redolent of spring."
But perhaps Chaucer fucking stole the idea for Valentine's Day from one of his contemporaries, friends, and long-time literary rivals: John Gower. Since it's Valentine's Day and four days from the US publication of A Burnable Book (a historical thriller that features Gower as the protagonist), I think it'd be a shame not to make the case for Gower as an equally likely candidate for the invention of a tradition celebrated to this day in myriad sickly bursts of chocolate, flowers, and love.
First, the sources. Just as Chaucer wrote of St. Valentine and his day in the Parliament of Fowls, Gower wrote two ballades to St. Valentine and later collected them in his compilation of lyrics, the Cinkante Balades. One of these ballades, Saint Valentin plus qe null Emperour, evokes not only the saint but the 'parlement et convocacion' held 'a son jour':
St. Valentine, greater than any emperor,
Holds a parliament and assembly
Of all the birds, who come on his day,
Where the female takes her mate
In proper love;
Though virtually unread by scholars of medieval English literature these days, Gower's Cinkante Balades are a remarkable and significant set of poems, one of the few surviving vernacular lyric cycles by an English author before Wyatt. R.F. Yeager, the dean of Gower studies, compares them to Petrarch's Rime sparse: "As does Petrarch in the Rime, Gower offers a narrative of an (ultimately unsuccessful) love affair as seen en pastiche through the eyes of a first-person lover whose poems to and about his lady explore the range of his feelings." Though written in French (Anglo-Norman, or "the French of England," in current parlance), the Cinkante Balades stand as a unique testament to the thriving tradition of vernacular lyricism in late fourteenth-century England. Chaucer, whose strengths lay in narrative poetry rather than lyric, never came close to rivaling the Cinkante Balades in his own short poems.
Second, the evidence. The dating of both of these works has been a matter of enduring guesswork and fierce disagreement. The dating of the Parliament of Fowls is highly speculative. It could date from as early as 1380 (written around the marriage negotiations between Richard II and Anne of Bohemia), or as late as the 1390s, and most of the scholarly guesses at the poem's date are based on biographical or political allegories that leave a lot of room for doubt. Likewise, the two Valentine poems in Gower's Cinkante Balades could date from practically any moment in the poet's career. While their sole manuscript witness is British Library Additional MS 59495, the so-called Trentham Manuscript that was dedicated to the newly crowned Henry IV in 1399, the poems themselves span Gower's adult life. While they could be late productions, they could equally well be juvenilia (i.e. written in Gower's youth). Gower was born as early as 1330, so we could even be talking about the 1350s here, decades before the Parliament was a gleam in Chaucer's eye. (If you're interested in following up on the technicalities of dating, you can click here, here, and here for starters.)
After a studious, careful, and deliciously pedantic review of the evidence, I see no even mildly compelling reason to believe that Chaucer's poetic evocation of Valentine's Day came first–and no reason not to grant John Gower the coveted title of Prime Mover of St. Valentine's Day. Indeed I think the Valentine poems are much more likely to be Gowerian juvenilia than mature works. Why? Well, when you've read as much Gower as I have (and I've read practically all of Gower over the last few years), you start to get a feel for the fellow: his likes and dislikes, his biases and prejudices, his habits and his heart. The Valentine ballades just feel like early Gower to me, and I'm beyond convinced that Geoffrey Chaucer stole Valentine's Day from the older and–let's face it–the better man.
But you know what? I'll let you, reader, be the judge. Here are the two passages in question. First, in a suitably drab brown, I've given you Chaucer's lines, in the original Middle English and a modernized version by Gerard NeCastro. Next you'll see John Gower's Saint Valentin plus qe null Emperour (in Yeager's edition and translation) highlighted in a vivid red to mark the poet's almost certain invention of Valentine's Day as we know it. We report, you decide. Enjoy!
From Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowls:
And in a launde, upon an hil of floures,
Was set this noble goddesse Nature.
Of braunches were here halles and here boures
Iwrought after here cast and here mesure;
Ne there nas foul that cometh of engendrure
That they ne were prest in here presence
To take hire dom and yeve hire audyence.
For this was on Seynt Valentynes day,
Whan every foul cometh there to chese his make,
Of every kynde that men thynke may,
And that so huge a noyse gan they make
That erthe, and eyr, and tre, and every lake
So ful was that unethe was there space
For me to stonde, so ful was al the place.
And right as Aleyn, in the Pleynt of Kynde,
Devyseth Nature of aray and face,
In swich aray men myghte hire there fynde.
This noble emperesse, ful of grace,
Bad every foul to take his owne place,
As they were woned alwey fro yer to yeere,
Saint Valentines day, to stonden there.
This noble goddess Nature was set upon a flowery hill in a verdant glade. All her halls and bowers were wrought of branches according to the art and measure of Nature. And there was not any bird that is created through procreation that was not ready in her presence to hear her and receive her judgment. For this was Saint Valentine's day, when every bird of every kind that men can imagine comes to this place to choose his mate. And they made an exceedingly great noise; and earth and sea and the trees and all the lakes were so full that there was scarcely room for me to stand, so full was the entire place. And just as Alan, in The Complaint of Nature, describes Nature in her features and attire, so might men find her in reality. This noble empress, full of grace, bade every bird take his station, as they were accustomed to stand always on Saint Valentine's day from year to year.
From John Gower, Cinkante Balades:
Saint Valentin plus qe null Emperour
Ad parlement et convocacion
Des toutz oiseals, qui vienont a son jour,
U la compaigne prent son compaignon
En droit amour; mais par comparison
D'ascune part ne puiss avoir la moie:
Qui soul remaint ne poet avoir grant joie.
Com la fenix souleine est au sojour
En Arabie celle regioun,
Ensi ma dame en droit de son amour
Souleine maint, ou si jeo vuill ou noun,
N'ad cure de ma supplicacion,
Sique d'amour ne sai troever la voie:
Qui soul remaint ne poet avoir grant joie.
O com nature est pleine de favour
A ceos oiseals q'ont lour eleccion!
O si jeo fuisse en droit de mon atour
En ceo soul cas de lour condicioun!
Plus poet nature qe ne poet resoun,
En mon estat tresbien le sente et voie:
Qui soul remaint ne poet avoir grant joie.
Chascun Tarcel gentil ad sa falcoun,
Mais j'ai faili de ceo q'avoir voldroie:
Ma dame, c'est le fin de mon chançoun,
Qui soul remaint ne poet avoir grant joie.
St. Valentine, greater than any emperor,
Holds a parliament and assembly
Of all the birds, who come on his day,
Where the female takes her mate
In proper love; but by comparison
Of such a thing I am unable to have my own part:
Whosoever remains alone is unable to have great joy.
As the phoenix is alone in its home
In the region of Arabia,
Just so my lady in the place of her love
Remains alone, where whether I wish it or not,
She has no care about my supplication,
Because I know not how to find the pathway of love:
Whosoever remains alone is unable to have great joy.
Oh how Nature is full of favor
To those birds who have their choice!
Oh if, instead of my state, I might be
In just that same situation of theirs!
Nature is more capable than reason is,
And in my state it senses very well the path:
Whosoever remains alone is unable to have great joy.
Each gentle tercel has her falcon,
But I am lacking what I want to have:
My lady, it is the end of my song,
Whosoever remains alone is unable to have great joy.


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April 7, 2008 -- The teen birth rate in the U.S. rose for the first time in 14 years in 2006, and the number of cesarean deliveries and births to unmarried women hit all-time highs, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Teen childbirths rose by 3% in 2006, to about 42 births for every 1,000 females between the ages of 15 and 19.
That was up from 40.5 births per 1,000 in 2005, but still well below the 62 births per 1,000 recorded in 1991, when teen birth rates began their decade-plus decline.
About 20,000 more births were recorded among teens in the U.S. in 2006 than the previous year, with a 5% increase seen among African-American teens, a 3% increase among non-Hispanic whites, and a 2% increase among Hispanics.
While it is too early to say if the rise represents the beginning of a trend, Stephanie J. Ventura, who heads the NCHS reproductive statistics branch, says it is cause for concern.
"This could continue or it could reverse, but it is not the direction we want to see," she tells WebMD.
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Overall, the birth rate increased by 3% to 4.26 million between 2005 and 2006, the largest single-year increase since 1989 and the largest total number of births since 1961, which was one of the last years of the baby boom.
Birth rates rose by 4% among women between the ages of 20 and 24, to 105 births per 1,000 and by 3% among those aged 40 to 44, to 9.4 births per 1,000.
An increase in the total fertility rate, which represents an estimate of the number of children a woman will have over her reproductive life, may be one explanation for the increase in overall births, Ventura suggests.
She says the rise represents a reversal in a trend, as an increasing number of families are made up of more than one or two children.
So when it comes to family planning, three may be the new two.
"I've heard people say that," she says. "All we can say is that the fertility rate is higher than it has been."


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Sheri from Awesome Sauce & Asshattery had a full skirted maxi dress in the back of her closet that rarely saw the light of day. Shari says, "It fits me like a tent anyway so why not just let it become one." Literally!
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The Fishnet House, once a home and then used as a place for a local fisherman to mend his nets while his wife worked the loom, has woven itself a new life as an art gallery and boutique. Part beach shack, part humble Victorian, The Fishnet House exudes a rustic elegance.
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This weekend Examiner.com is sponsoring the 8th Annual Denver Chalk Art Festival on Larimer Square! Come out to meet Examiner.com staff, other Examiners and check out all of the amazing chalk art.
More about the festival: Over a span of 48 hours, 200 professional, amateur and student artists will paint 67,000 square feet of raw pavement into re-creations of masterpieces, modern art and their own original pieces during the 8th annual Denver Chalk Art Festival on Larimer Square. This two-day festival will transform four downtown city blocks right before art enthusiasts' eyes, only to be washed away over night. A festival which compliments Colorado's outdoor spirit, Denver Chalk Art Festival will also feature wine, food and music provided by the Denver Theatre District.
When: Saturday, June 5, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, June 6, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: Larimer Square, downtown Denver. Larimer Street between Speer Blvd. and 15th Street, and 14th Street from Market to Lawrence.
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Six Featured Artists: The event showcases six madonnari (professionals in this medium); all are award-winning street painters including first place finishes in the International Street Painting Competition in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy. Two of the madonnari, Stephen DeOrio and Mark Hollenbeck, are Colorado residents.
Wine Pavilions: Guests can taste their way through wines from different regions. Wine tasting punch cards are available for $15 for five tastings.
Mike's Camera Capture the Color Contest: Amateurs and professionals alike will compete to capture the best festival moment for two roundtrip airline tickets from Southwest Airlines.
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design Youth Challenge: Some of the most talented groups of art students from Colorado schools and organizations will compete for cash prizes that will go to their respective school's visual arts departments.
Kids' Corner: Children and their parents can take part in this festival for a small donation and let their imaginations soar as they create their own mini masterpieces.
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From visual inspiration to a brand new logo: The Art of Creating a Brand.
Bree and her creative team first approached me to redesign their logo in November, and I was thrilled to tackle the project for them. We began where I have every client begin: doing their homework.
Creating a brand, or rebranding your business isn't necessarily an easy task. It's one that requires a lot of work. But if you're invested in the process and put the necessary amount of time into providing the clearest information possible to your designer, the journey will be a smooth one. That's exactly what the team at The Creative Mama did.
This is what their logo was when we began the redesign process:
The pros of the design:
– clean and feminine
– the brand itself is easily carried through other avenues with the script font
The cons of the design:
– the fonts are unchanged and not customized or edited, much like a photograph displayed straight out of camera
– anyone could recreate the design once they know the fonts used
The vision behind the new brand was to create a design that can be used across many genres and applicable to anything from food pages to DIY projects. This is visual inspiration they provided us with:
And this is the color scheme we were given to work with:
With that information, combined with a completed comprehensive questionnaire, we set to work on their new brand. We explored every company they listed as inspirational taking note of their branding style, color scheme, images, and fonts. Then we created four unique initial concepts based on the patterns we saw. Starting with the very first step in our exclusive 4-Step Logo process, we presented our ideas strictly exploring fonts and color scheme:
Right off the bat, the middle two concepts were ruled out. And they also knew immediately that they wanted to pursue the green shown in the first concept. They were just left them torn between the first and last designs.
Usually step 2 of our process explores the more whimsical part of the logo: building the mark or adding a border. But since we knew that this logo was going to be text-only, we took some time show different combinations of concepts one and four together to help get a well-rounded idea of all the possibilities:
By the time step three came around, we had narrowed down the eight colors we started with to two final colors and decided on a modern sanserif font to pair with the custom illustration within the brand. The process was so smooth that we didn't even need to reach the fourth step of final polishing!
The result was a new custom brand the entire team loved featuring a custom illustration that can't be recreated with a simple font:
Bree's notes:
Developing a brand was a more involved process than I thought that it would be. To get a finished product that you love (and I am in love with our new branding), you need to invest some time in the process. Finding inspiration and deciding what you want to project with your brand. Does it fits with you and your vision? Does it look like you? These are things that you really need to consider when it comes to finding the right designer, and when developing your brand. Working with Jane was a pleasure, she really helped us focus on the little details that make our branding different from everyone else. Ultimately, we changed the final color scheme, and as you can see, it reflects the vision that we have at The Creative Mama. We could not be happier with the final result.
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Debattista, V P; Moore, B; Quinn, T; Kazantzidis, S; Maas, R; Mayer, L; Read, J; Stadel, J (2008). The causes of halo shape changes induced by cooling baryons: Disks versus substructures. Astrophysical Journal, 681(2):1076-1088.
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Cold dark matter cosmogony predicts triaxial dark matter halos, whereas observations find quite round halos. This is most likely due to the condensation of baryons leading to rounder halos. We examine the halo phase space distribution basis for such shape changes. Triaxial halos are supported by box orbits, which pass arbitrarily close to the density center. The decrease in triaxiality caused by baryons is thought to be due to the scattering of these orbits. We test this hypothesis with simulations of disks grown inside triaxial halos. After the disks are grown we check whether the phase space structure has changed by evaporating the disks and comparing the initial and final states. While the halos are substantially rounder when the disk is at full mass, their final shape after the disk is evaporated is not much different from the initial. Likewise, the halo becomes (more) radially anisotropic when the disk is grown, but the final anisotropy is consistent with the initial. Only if the baryons are unreasonably compact or massive does the halo change irreversibly. We show that the character of individual orbits is not generally changed by the growing mass. Thus, the central condensation of baryons does not destroy enough box orbits to cause the shape change. Rather, box orbits merely become rounder along with the global potential. However, if angular momentum is transferred to the halo, either via satellites or via bars, a large irreversible change in the halo distribution occurs. The ability of satellites to alter the phase space distribution of the halo is of particular concern to galaxy formation simulations since halo triaxiality can profoundly influence the evolution of disks.
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I'm a graduate student so I have an extreme mix of important tasks with no deadline (thesis, career, personal development, health) and immediate tasks with deadlines (teaching, assignments, errands, social obligations). My problem is that I neglect long term projects as I run through the short term items on my todo list.
Each day, I need to compose a daily ToDo list that includes immediate, pressing items AND small next-steps for long terms projects.
I've been trying different productivity software to support this for about a year now, they include: Todoist, evernote, workflowy, muraly, freemind, trello, and targetprocess. So far, they seem to either support long-term planning or ToDo lists, but not both.
Does anyone know software that will do both, or have you worked out a system that uses multiple pieces of software?
Extra info: My long-term projects are poorly defined (e.g. get a job) but they don't have very many moving parts, so I prefer visual software that lets me organize my thoughts (mind mapping) over visual software that lets me coordinate many small pieces (Kanban boards).


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Each year on Valentine's Day, there may be a bit of pressure to impress your other half by lavishing them with gifts of roses, chocolate, or an expensive dinner at a posh restaurant in the city. What if you want to think a little outside the box or need to show your appreciation in a less over-the-top fashion? Here are just a few suggestions and ideas for Valentine's day that you and your partner for the day/month/life may enjoy a bit more than the usual.
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A Mexico earthquake struck on Friday morning. While the powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake's force was felt throughout Mexico, there was reportedly no damage, according to an NBC News report on Friday. Many buildings shook throughout the country, however.
Specifically, the quake struck just east of Petatlan, Mexico in the southwestern state of Guerrero. This location is north of Acapulco which is a popular resort city in Mexico. The quake struck at 9:28 a.m. local time which equates to Central Time. The United States Geological Survey first said that the earthquake had registered at a 7.5-magnitude but was revised to read a 7.2-magnitude sometime later in the day, according to Yahoo! News.
The earthquake was mostly felt by having shaken central and southern Mexico. Mexico City, with its world's-largest population, felt the earthquake's shake for at least 30 seconds in Mexico City. People ran from high-rise buildings as buildings swayed. However, the verification regarding no injuries from the earthquake came from Mexico's national coordinator of civil protection – Luis Felipe Puente. Via a Twitter social media message, Puente said that there were no reports of damages from the earthquake. Another message came from Mexico's Secretary of the Interior Miguel Angel Osorio Chong stating that earthquake protocols were underway.
By hitting on Good Friday in Mexico, many people were not at work as most businesses close on the religious holiday in the country. In Mexico, Good Friday is a strict day of prayer. The holy day is widely observed due to the nation's extremely high percentage of Christians in the country.
Friday's Mexico earthquake turned out to be much less-damaging than two years ago when a similar earthquake struck. In 2012, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the same region of the country. In that incident, 2 persons were killed and some 30,000 homes were destroyed. Looking back to 1985, there was an 8.1 magnitude quake that killed more than 6,000 people and destroyed many buildings in Mexico City. The center of that deadly temblor was located 250 miles away on the Pacific Coast.


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Taco Bake is a specialty of Marlene Logan's in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her hearty dish is perfect for a hungry family or to serve to company.
- 1 pound ground beef
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- 1 package (8 ounce) shell macaroni, cooked and drained
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- In a skillet, brown ground beef and onion over medium heat; drain. Add the water, taco seasoning and tomato sauce; mix. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in macaroni, chilies and 1-1/2 cups of cheese. Pour into a greased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 6 servings.
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In the United States, more than one school shooting has happened each week over the last 18 months, according pro-gun control advocacy group "Everytown for Gun Safety." After Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012 and killed 26 people, including 20 children, President Obama stated that "meaningful action" would need to be taken to right the wrongs. Following strong support from nearly 90 percent of the American people, President Obama presented Congress with a simple, common sense background check bill and it couldn't even pass the Senate were Democrats had majority control.
Everytown for Gun Safety also notes that most of the school shootings have happened not at colleges or universities, but rather at elementary, middle and high schools. The latest shooting occurred at Reynolds High School just outside of Portland, Oregon where two people were found dead, including the gunman.
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Joe Jonas is giving fans the whole truth, and nothing but it.
In a revealing piece that Joe gave to Vulture, the former Jonas Brothers member opened up about everything from the band's recent breakup, to losing his virginity, to the first time he smoked pot.
JoBro fans are bound to learn a lot from this uncensored essay, which is why MTV News has rounded up seven new facts about Joe from his candid tell-all.
Not-So-Sudden Breakup
Fans may have been left shocked and heartbroken over the Jonas Brothers split, but Joe explained that the trouble was "going on for a lot longer than people thought." Joe admits that he and his brothers, Kevin and Nick, weren't "jelling" anymore in the studio and on video sets. They couldn't agree on how they were going to release their new music, which ultimately resulted in a band-breaking argument.
"The fight got loud. I was screaming. When Nick presented the idea of closing a chapter and moving on, I freaked out," Joe said. "I didn't know whether to pick up and leave or just punch something, because I was furious. I'd spent so long working with my brothers on this band, and in my mind, it felt like we were just giving up. It didn't make sense to me.
"But once I started peeling back the layers, I understood. There were a lot of dysfunctional things going on."
Disney Pressure
In 2006, the Jonas Brothers released their debut album, but their level of fame changed once they were embraced by the Disney family. They went on to star in their own television series, "Jonas" and the "Camp Rock" Disney channel specials, but the fame came with a downside. The group was forced to maintain a clean-cut image and saw the repercussions of what would happen if they slipped through the cracks.
"We were working with Disney in 2007 when the Vanessa Hudgens nude-photo scandal happened. We heard that she had to be in the Disney offices for a whole day because they were trying to figure out how to keep her on lockdown," Joe said. "We'd hear execs talking about it, and they would tell us that they were so proud of us for not making the same mistakes, which made us feel like we couldn't ever mess up. We didn't want to disappoint anyone — our parents, our fans, our employers — so we put incredible pressure on ourselves, the kind of pressure that no teenager should be under."
Coming Clean About Demi
While it was short-lived, Joe and Demi Lovato dated for about a month back in 2010. Joe revealed that while dating Demi, which was a relationship that "meant a lot to fans," he felt the need to "take care of her" as she was struggling with personal issues.
"I felt like I needed to take care of her, but at the same time I was living a lie, because I wasn't happy but felt like I had to stay in it for her, because she needed help. I couldn't express any of that, of course, because I had a brand to protect," Joe said.
"Things kept building up, and Demi ended up punching a girl in the face on a plane, because she thought the girl was blaming her for something. Everybody gasped, and the girl just started bleeding. That's when her team and her family told her, 'You need to go into rehab.' I remember being in South America, and fans immediately jumped to the conclusion that we kicked her off the 2010 tour, and they just hated on us for it."
Smoking With Miley And Demi
For a period of time Miley Cyrus, Demi and the Jonas Brothers were the most popular faces of the Disney channel, so it's no surprise they would get together outside of work. It's what they were doing that may come as a surprise to some fans.
"The first time I smoked weed was with Demi and Miley. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, 'Try it! Try it!' so I gave it a shot, and it was all right. I don't even smoke weed that often anymore," Joe said. "I was caught drinking when I was 16 or 17, and I thought the world was going to collapse.
"But I was in another country, and it was legal there. My 21st birthday, I fell down a flight of stairs. I was unconscious that time, and my whole team was scared to death that somebody was going to get a picture. Now I appreciate wine or a vodka-soda at the end of the day every once in a while."
On Those Purity Rings
A major talking point around the Jonas Brothers during their teenage years revolved around their purity rings, which displayed that they'd wait until marriage to have sex. Joe revealed they were a topic they eventually "couldn't escape," and in some ways, they hurt the creative direction of the group.
"Because of our age, because of Disney, because of those rings, there were so many things throughout our career that we had to sugarcoat," Joe said. "If a lyric was slightly sexual, someone at the record company would tell us we had to change it. It could be the most innocent reference, like "I'm alone in a room with you," and it would have to go. It felt like we couldn't be creative, so we stopped listening to them and just started handing sh– in."
Eventually the rings came off and Joe lost his virginity at the age of 20, but admits that he "waited for the right person," which may have been "Twilight" star Ashley Greene, whom he dated at that age and said in the essay that she was his first serious relationship.
Joe Has Dated Fans
While Joe admits that he's in a relationship with someone he really cares about, he does reveal that he "did date a lot," sneaking out to hook up with a girl in her car and having a steamy encounter with a fan.
"I can't say that I've never put a foot in that world; there were times when I definitely took advantage of the opportunities I had. I remember I invited a fan to a movie, and we just made out the entire time," Joe said. "I don't even remember what the movie was about. I must have been 16 or so.
"Afterward, I was kind of freaking out, because I thought she'd go public and the whole world would find out. Luckily, she never did, I think because she assumed there'd be another meet-up down the road."
He's Not the Next Justin Timberlake
When the Jonas Brothers were taking a break in 2011, Joe decide to venture out on his own, but it resulted in one of his "biggest career disappointments." Joe had recorded songs that had a Hall & Oates type of vibe, but when they were presented to Hollywood Records, they weren't onboard with the direction of the sound. Joe then went on to record his album Fastlife, which sold 18,000 copies in its first week.
"I think there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen, and I think it was rushed, and I couldn't speak up because I was scared to," Joe said. "They wanted me to be this Justin Timberlake clone. Even one of the heads of Hollywood Records said, "He's the new Justin Timberlake!"


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College Hockey:Wilson notches three points as Mass.-Lowell holds off Vermont
LOWELL, Mass. — Massachusetts-Lowell swept of the University of Vermont on Saturday night with a 6-4 win in front of a home crowd of 5,125 at the Tsongas Center.
The win improves Lowell's record to 18-7-0 overall, and 13-6-0 in Hockey East, good for second place in the league.
The Catamounts fall to 5-21-1 and 2-17-1 within the conference.
"I thought we got beat by a very good hockey team tonight," said UVM coach Kevin Sneddon. "Lowell did a good job and deserved the weekend. We're disappointed. We got off to a bad start tonight."
After a few minutes of back-and-forth play, Mass.-Lowell took advantage of a power play five minutes into the game for the first lead of the night. After losing possession in the Vermont end, Chad Ruhwedel intercepted a clearing attempt and found some open space in the top of the right circle. The defenseman then fired a shot that beat Catamounts goaltender Alex Vazzano glove side. The goal was Ruhwedel's third of the year.
The River Hawks doubled their lead just 56 seconds later when Vazzano misplayed a slap shot from behind the blue line by Terrence Wallin that beat him stick side. Vazzano was pulled following the goal and replaced by Rob Madore.
"I thought Alex played great last night," said Sneddon. "But I could tell early on that he just wasn't ready to play tonight."
Although Lowell continued to dominate play after Wallin's goal, it was Vermont that notched the game's next tally. Working on the man advantage, Kyle Reynolds flipped a puck toward the net that was tipped on net by Drew MacKenzie. The initial stop was made by River Hawks netminder Doug Carr, but the rebound was chipped in by Sebastian Stalberg, cutting the deficit to 2-1.
Mass.-Lowell regained its two-goal lead at 13:51 of the first on a goal by Scott Wilson. Off of a faceoff win by Riley Wetmore, Wilson one-timed a slap shot past Madore from the top of the left circle for his 13th goal of the season.
"It was a good draw win by [Wetmore]," said Wilson. "I saw that we got some traffic in front of the net, so I just shot it."
Vermont concluded the scoring of the back-and-forth first period on a goal by Kyle Reynolds. After a turnover by the River Hawks' defense, Reynolds took the puck in alone on Carr and lifted a backhanded shot into the mesh to end the first period with 3-2 deficit.
The River Hawks began the second stanza on the man advantage, and were able to use the power play to keep momentum on their side. Just 24 seconds after having a power-play goal waved off for a crease violation, Mass.-Lowell grabbed its third two-goal lead of the night when Derek Arnold hopped on a loose puck and jammed it home for a 4-2 lead.
Mass.-Lowell upped the lead to three when, once again off of a faceoff, Wilson wristed a shot toward the net that was redirected by Colin Wright into the back of the net for his second goal of the season.
The majority of the third period was held at a stalemate between the two clubs, despite the fact that Mass.-Lowell spent nearly half of it on the penalty kill.
Vermont mounted a late comeback when it went up two skaters, plus the extra attacker, for the final two minutes.
A pair of power-play goals from Stalberg and Matt White made it close, but an empty-net tally from Josh Holmstrom was enough for the River Hawks to seal the 6-4 victory.
"We felt pretty happy to get out of that one," said Mass.-Lowell coach Norm Bazin. "I don't care where [Vermont] is in the standings, they're a very good team. It's such a good conference that it doesn't really make a difference if you're in first or last."
Scott Wilson came up big yet again for Mass.-Lowell, picking up a goal and two assists to wrap up a five-point weekend (two goals and three assists). Kyle Reynolds led the Catamounts vain effort with four points of his own (one goal and three assists).
"Coach [Bazin] has put me in the right situations to succeed, and I've been able to put up some points," said Wilson, who is now leading the team with 26 points as a freshman. "But we're competing for a national title, so points and standings don't really mean anything to us. We're always looking to move forward, and right now forward is the top."
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