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Top 3 Reasons Your Site Might be Affected by Penguin 3.0 and Upcoming Penguin Updates
If you've been doing SEO for a while, you've probably heard of Google's Penguin algorithm that combats spammy and low-quality backlinks. 17tth October, 2014 was a highly significant date in SEO world as Google officially has released Penguin 3.0 update with the core aim to show more quality results. Sites that somehow managed to bypass from the Penguin 2.0, an algorithm that combats spammy and low-quality backlinks as well, should now be detected by the latest update. The Penguin 3.0 is just an updated version of the Penguin algorithm that specially designed to target web pages that used to amplify their rankings by tricking Google through unethical SEO practices.
Actually, Google was never 100% satisfied with the outcome of the Penguin 2.0 update before and that's why started manual penalty as well to support the automated penalty. So Penguin 3.0 is a much expected update by Google's spam control team. It has been reported that approx 1% English results have been affected for that automated penalty.
While working to recover sites from Google's penguin 3.0 penalty we have primarily found the below 3 issues –
- Unnatural link structure
- Too many outbound links that passes link juice
- Poor quality content
Generating a mass of inbound links was always a significant part of any SEO strategy since the stone age of SEO as number of inbound links determined website's importance and ranking. The most widely discussed feature of all Penguin updates is the way it treats backlinks. All Penguin algorithm updates are designed to penalize sites having artificial link structure irrespective of the fact that those links were acceptable before and helped to improve ranking.
You can be buried deep within the search results if you have been using wrong SEO techniques now to create backlinks to achieve page one ranking desperately. However SEO is not dead – ethical SEO practices will definitely reward your site to hit the bull's-eye gradually – slowly but steadily, thanks to the rapidly advancing science behind search engines and the new Penguin!
Outbound Links
If your site contains too many "dofollow" external links that would be suspicious to Google and your site might be affected by the latest Penguin update. One simple explanation is Google will think that you are selling links. We have seen the sites having a link directory or link page which was made before for link exchange etc., external links from several blog posts to other commercial sites are penalized with the Penguin 3.0 update.
Poor Quality Content
If even a single page of your site contains any duplicate or spun content that can affect the entire performance of your site. Be it just an innocent blog post or other page, such pages may be the culprit.
Hope now you have a clear insight to protect your site from Penguin 3.0 and all such future updates. Google algorithm are being updated on much shorter cycle than in the past, making Google more coherent at identifying unethical ways used to boost ranking and traffic. Always sustain a quality website that follows Google Webmaster guidelines and you will probably never get affected by any algorithm changes.
How to Analyze the Behaviors of Website Traffic through Google Analytics
Have you ever wondered how visitors interact with your website or some specific landing pages? Are the most important portions of your web pages or website are properly visible to the visitors? Are they clicking on your various offers or call to action buttons? Well, Google's In-Page Analytics tool is the answer to all of the above questions. Here you go -
- Login to your Google Analytics account.
- Select your website whose page click metrics you wish to analyze.
- Change the date range of the analyzed period as required.
- From the left side panel click on the Content option and then click In-Page Analytics.
- Your default page i.e. Homepage's In-Page Analytics stats would be displayed within the integrated browser located at the right panel. You can adjust the view by clicking expand (which will hide the left panel) and then clicking the Up-direction arrow just above the integrated browser to hide Site Usage metrics. You can also analyze the page click metrics of the other pages by browsing other pages from that browser.
Google In-Page Analytics tool also gives you a clear insight about the content part which appears within the first fold of the page without any scrolling and a percent of visitors who scroll down to see more. So to judge how things are working at your website or how popular a particular link or button is – do an in-page analysis using Google analytics.
Please be sure that you have sufficient click data before you come to any conclusion about any onsite SEO changes.
How Dedicated or Offshore Hiring Model Works at SERP Consultancy
If you are sort in time or manpower and have bulk internet marketing and web development related works – our dedicated hiring work model would be best for you to save time and money. See how you can be benefited as follows -
Key Points
- Your hired person will work from our office from Monday to Friday (except national holidays) on 8hrs per day basis. You are guaranteed to get atleast (8hrs x 20 working days) 160 hrs. of work in a month. Also we understand that you are paying for hours. All your resources will work for 8 hours per day excluding lunch time or other pleasure breaks from Monday to Friday.
- You will be able to see what tasks he is performing on day to day basis with hour's usage details anytime you want.
- You will be given a free Account Manager who will act as a single point of contact and team leader for your hired resource(s). No need to manage individual resources, your account manager will be at your service to answer all your queries during the business hours promptly.
- We can sign NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) to protect your privacy, client details, promotional activities done etc.
Key Advantages of Offshore Hiring –
- Quick Turnaround – You can assign priority of your projects and we will work accordingly. This is something like instructing an in-house staff and getting the job done quickly.
- No hiring burden, setup fees, and office expenses – you're guaranteed to save more than 50% cost than an in-house employee who will do the same tasks.
- Quick Solution to Any Problem – we are specialized in all internet marketing and web development activities. If your hired person get any problem or need assistance we are here to solve his/her problem promptly, so your work will not be hampered anyway.
- Quality Control – we are responsible to meet all your expectations from us. So we monitor all activities of your hired person closely and ensure 100% error free work always.
List of tasks that can be performed by your hired person –
- Total SEO activities including link building, content marketing, making your websites 100% search engine friendly for both English and non-English websites
- All promotional content writing.
- Complete Paid Advertising Campaign management including Google AdWords, Microsoft adCenter etc. for both English & Multilingual websites.
- Social Media Profile Management including Twitter, Facebook account setup and promotion and online reputation management.
- All kind of website development works including but not limited to web design, web programming, website maintenance etc.
Type of resources that we can provide based on your requirements –
Web Guru – Can execute all SEO activities, paid advertising activities, web design and web development activities.
In this model of hiring, 2 or 3 experts will work simultaneously to produce 8hrs of total output in a day. For example, if you have some design requirements – we will assign a designer, if you have some SEO requirements – we will assign an SEO expert.
Your account manager will manage these resources for you based on the given assignments. So, you will get all kinds of capabilities within a single virtual resource.
SEO Expert – Can execute all internet marketing related activities including total SEO and paid marketing support. SEO expert can't do any web design or development related works and is limited to only internet marketing related jobs.
Link Builder – can execute all SEO link building activities and promotional content writing. Not capable to execute any paid marketing, onpage SEO works and any web development related activities.
A Review on Meta Tags & Their Current Usages
|Meta tags are used since the stone age of website development and search engine optimization. But over the years, these tags are lost its importance due to excessive keyword staffing or spam as an onsite optimisation tool. Most of the major search engines no longer use them to understand a site and rather prioritise other on-page aspects to understand the relevancy of a website for any specific set of keywords.
Syntax: <meta name="attribute" content="content type" />
Based on their characteristics, Meta tags mainly classified in the following two categories –
- Meta http-equiv – this tag is used to send information to the browsers as per its content attribute. However this is no longer the only way to specify character set of a webpage. For example, <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="20″> instruct the browser to refresh a page automatically after 20 seconds of loading.
- Meta Name – these are user generated optional Meta tags that can be used to provide some specific info to the search engines and/or web developers.
Below are the standardized Meta Name tags which are recognised by most search engines.
Meta Description Tag – It is used to provide a short description of a page within approx 160 characters limit. Most search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing show content of that tag as a part of snippet shown in the search results. Though, actually you can write more but most search engines display till 160 characters in SERP. Writing a compelling Meta description within that character limit can help to improve conversion or influences searchers to click on your website from SERP.
Meta Keywords Tag – Google has confirmed a long ago that they do not use Meta Keyword tag or give any weight on that tag as a ranking factor. However I have not found any official reference for Bing about whether they use it or not but Yahoo surprisingly still encourage to use that tag on their guidelines. Personally, I think it's worthless to use that tag and it would better to concentrate on other parameters that influence more as ranking factor.
Meta Robots Tag – It is recognised by all major search engines. However, it does not make any sense to use it to specify something explicitly like "content =index, follow" or "content=all" as by default all search engines index and follow links found on a webpage. So, we should use that tag only when we don't want a page to be indexed or its links to be followed by the search engines. It can be also useful for other negative scenarios including "noodp" – when we don't want to show DMOZ's description in SERP; "noarchive " – to prevent showing cached link of a page; "nosnippet" – to prevent snippet to appear in the SERP etc. purposes.
Watch the below video to find what Matt Cutts has said about Meta tags –
There are also some particular search engine specific Meta Name tags which can be used to instruct a specific search engine spider like Google, Yahoo, Bing as follows -
- <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow">
- Google / Bing / Yahoo Site verification Meta Tags by specifying the following as meta name agent – "google-site-verification", "msvalidate.01″, "y_key"
There are some arbitrary or obsolete Meta tags found as well. However most search engines now do not recognise them at all or those are not related anyway as a ranking factor for SEO. Here are some of those arbitrary tags -
<meta name="title" content="some text goes here" />
<meta name="generator" content="Frontpage">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="period">
<meta name="expires" content="tue, 01 Feb 2007″>
<meta name="distribution" content="option">
<meta name="rating" content="general"
<meta name="subject" content="your website's subject">
<meta name="copyright" content="company name">
<meta name="language" content="en">
<meta name="author" content="company name or person name" />
Hope now you have a clear insight on Meta tags and their usages in 2013. Do leave your feedback as comment if any.
The Impact of Google Dance – September, 2012
If you are in the SEO field for the last couple of years you should be able to remember that there was a well known term in the industry called "Google Dance". The effect of the Google Dance encountered most in the year 2007 and 2008 and from late the 2009 onwards it was less frequent as far as I can remember. Starting from 2011 until September this year it was almost vanished or not noticeable like before.
What is Google Dance?
Google Dance is an experimental algorithm update to try to improve search results or drop-off web spam in search results. It generally happens without any official update from Google. As an effect, organic rank for some sites jump (up or down) even 3 to 5 pages. The live search results impacted for a period of 1 or 2 weeks approx and then again come back to the normal steady state. However for some victims the effect stays longer and appears permanent.
Google Dance is just an indication of a major permanent algorithm change which generally not happens at one go. As for example, the last "Panda" and "Penguin" updates were just the final stage performance of so many Google Dance rehearsals. Google generally announces about those dance factors officially much later – if they got satisfied with the results and decide to go for those algorithmic changes permanently.
What happened at the dance floor for the last rehearsal in September?
Here are the top 3 impacts according to our analysis –
- URL Devaluation – Domains and URLs which were getting advantage solely for having keywords in the URL are identified and devalued for lacking other offpage and onpage SEO friendly factors. Here is an official confirmation from the Google web spam team head Matt Cutts – https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/251784203597910016.
- Structural Devaluation – websites hosted in the same server (shared hosting) with very similar design/coding, navigation structure, pages and content are identified and kick-out from the floor.
- Authority Reward – website link found as ethical sponsor advertising such as banner and text ads across relevant network got rewarded in organic ranks.
The results now got steady and some sites negatively affected for that dance got back to the previous position automatically. But I believe websites who are true victims are still not on the dance floor as Google may retain a minor part of that algorithm change permanently or will soon apply it and they will be just out.
"Prevention is better than cure", I encourage you to follow only ethical SEO and strongly avoid challenging Google with tricky techniques. Consider to go for periodical SEO audit and ensure everything is Google friendly.
Do let me know your views by commenting here, oh! wait, wait, 1 more thing – I hope you are still not using those old-school comment spam techniques?
The Link Building Mantra after Google's Rank Algorithm Update
|Google officially announced a rank algorithm update on 24th April, 2012 which is popularly known as Google Penguin Update. Though I have not found any official reference about the name "Penguin" but anyway, the name not sounds too bad . The algorithm change has affected approx 3% of the English searched results as declared in their blog. However this is just a smarter version of their previous update called Panda and the effect of both these update has changed approx 15% of the search results. Now that's a dramatic change.
Based on my research and analysis over the time, I have seen that the update mainly affected following 5 kind of SEO practices –
- Continuous practice of using exact targeted keywords to generate incoming links.
- Too many links from the same websites or same categorized sites.
- Practice of building poor quality or off-the-topic links mainly through the stereotype blog comments (includes username spam), forum post signature etc. specifically just to generate a link for your website.
- Building irrelevant contextual links or content spam as demonstrated in their official post (I was really not aware about such kind of spam technique).
- Links from a website with minimum to no unique and useful content and specifically created for link building or more specifically 3-way link building purposes.
We have heard couple of questions from our clients recently like –
Should we not use article submission or press release distribution anymore as Google appears to penalize mainly these content aggregators?
Should we do only contextual link building?
Should we remove all previous links that we have generated from all article and press release sites etc. and etc?
Well, let me first specify that I have no intention to promote any of our services through that post. I would be just happy to guide about the safe link building strategies after that update. The mantra is "Diversify, Diversify and Diversify".
Domain Diversification:
Lots of links from the similar categorized sites always appear suspicious to the search engines. That was applicable even before the effects of that update – the difference is that now Google is smart enough to detect them easily. For example, if there are say 3000 links pointing to your websites and more than 80% links are coming from the article directories that's unnatural and your website likely to be penalized. Your website should have links from all possible resources like social media websites, blogs, business listing sites, directories, press release sites, article sites to name a few. You must not use or prioritise a single method and just forget about all other techniques.
Second thing is that needs to be keeping in mind that diversification among the same category link building sources. For example – are you submitting your articles to the same list of article directories over and over? Well, consider not doing that anymore and instead pick a list of top quality aggregators and vary the site list you use on weekly or monthly basis for a particular project.
Keyword Diversification:
Exact targeted keywords as anchor text was useful to get on top about some months ago but now that can be the main reason of penalty. That always sounds unnatural and you know Google always loves natural links . So tweak your keywords by using synonyms, singular-plural forms, by including prefix or suffix with your keyword, preposition/articles if that makes sense or by changing the keyword order and even use common misspelling as anchor text. Also consider to have some links using the URL itself i.e. without any anchor text.
Content Diversification:
Write content for users; create value etc. that what Google says. Well, what you really need to do is that use quality unique articles to build contextual links. Though it's natural that the same article can be traversed among several content aggregators but it is safer to use an article version once only. Article spinner can be useful to save your time; however I must suggest checking each spun version manually to ensure those are upto the mark or acceptable by the human editors.
Link Type Diversification:
Now you also need to build non SEO friendly links for the sake of SEO! Yes, you can't have all "dofollow" links, that's unnatural. The natural look link structure should have incoming links from the images, nofollow text links etc. from the relevant sources.
URL Diversification:
You must not build links particularly for the Homepage or only for some of the priority inner pages always. Your site should have several other pages which may not be useful for SEO but for visitors. So there must be some balance so that it looks natural.
I hope that post will help somehow to conceptualize what you need to do next. Let me know your thoughts here.
Statutory note – "no comment" is better than posting stereotype comment to get a link
Quick 5 Steps to Change or Install a Custom WordPress Theme
To give your blog the look and feel of your website or to simply just change the look of your WordPress site or blog you may need to change the theme. There are several WordPress theme aggregators or WordPress theme submission directories which offer both free and premium WordPress themes. So if you don't have any ready-to-use theme just Google the term "free wordpress themes" to find a list of those directories. Browse and download the theme of your choice (comes as a .zip file).
Now you have the WP theme ready at your hand and here is how you can install it quickly –
Step 1: Login to your WP Admin panel using the administrative username and password.
Step 2: From the left navigation menu under the Appearance, click on Themes.
Step 3: Now select the Install Themes tab (located just beside Manage Themes) and click on the Upload option.
Step 4: You should find an option to choose the theme related ZIP file from your hard drive. Select that file and click on the Install Now button.
Step 5: A page should be displayed with the message "Theme installed successfully". Click on the Activate option if you wish to apply the theme now or just return to the theme page to use it later.
Please note that the above options may slightly vary depending on the version of your WordPress.
Hope this quick manual will help you to change or install a new WP theme easily.
Google's Top 10 Flop Products
2. Answers:
Google tried to compete with the Yahoo Answer by making a similar kind of thing. But unlike Yahoo Answers, Google Answers was not free and it seems to be the main reason of the failure. While askers can get a quick solution through Yahoo community for free why they might pay for it – seems to be the prime reason of the failure.
3. Google Base:
It's my favorite Google flops! The concept is quite similar like online classified sites. As of September, 2010 that product is promoted to Google Merchant Center. But as there are a huge number of free local and international sites which supports similar features like this – so there is nothing exciting!
4. Power Meter:
I'm quite sure that many people even have not heard about it. Google discontinued that program since 24th June, 2011. The main aim of that software was to show electricity usage in real time and create an awareness of how much energy they use.
5. Google Sets:
It's appears quite complicated and I'm not very sure why I need to make a set for any practical usage. Thank God Google shuts it down from 5th September, 2011.
6. Google Squared:
Another complicated search product which discontinued along with the Sets from 5th September. Wish to thank Google again for their wise decision to discontinue it.
7. Buzz:
Buzz is a social networking service integrated with Gmail service allowing users to share updates, photos, videos and more at once. It lets users make conversations about things they find interesting. It was released on February 9, 2010. It's scheduled for discontinuation by end of 2011.
8. Jaiku:
Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. People are well engaged in twitter so it is expected that most of us are not looking for another similar program. Thanks again that Google decided to shut down it on January 15, 2012.
9. Labs:
A website demonstrating and testing new Google projects. Google Labs closed on October 17, 2011.
10. Wave:
There was a huge buzz about that service but it was another super flop program that calls back so quickly. I still have no idea what it was intended to do after accepting a wave invitation.
What's next? I guess Google Plus would be on the next list. I forgot when I last opened it after signing up and browsing for merely 15 minutes. Oh yes, I logged another time there to add few friends to my circle and to accept few invitations. Though I still have not enough chance to review it thoroughly but have not seen anything more interesting or much different than Facebook community.
I would love to hear from you all – comment your review on that topic.
Does Google recognise "nofollow" links?
|First of all, in short the answer is "Yes, Google recognises nofollow links and can pass trust vote"!Now let me give a short introduction about nofollow links for those who are new to it. Nofollow is a link attribute used to instruct search engine crawlers to not follow that link. By default, search engines follow all links found in a webpage. But if you want to prevent search engines to not follow or crawl some links for preventing to pass link juice then you can do so by using rel="nofollow" attribute.
Now we all know that nofollow links don't pass any link juice or anchor text across the link. Ok, let's come to the point – so does it make any sense to build "nofollow" links as far as SEO is concerned? Here are why it's definitely makes sense to build nofollow links as a part of your entire link building efforts –
Recognisable to all search engines including Google -
If you give a closure look to the link section after logging to your Google Webmaster Tools account, you should find that Google is counting links from the web pages with nofollow attribute! I guess you already have a Twitter and Facebook account and you promote your site through these platforms and you know links from Twitter, Facebook are all marked with the nofollow attribute automatically. BUT you would see that Google Webmaster Tools is displaying the incoming links from the web pages with nofollow attribute including Facebook, Twitter, nofollow blogs, article aggregators etc. So, should there be any further doubt on that topic?
Trust vote -
By now, you should be agree that Google and other leading search engines can detect all your incoming links irrespective of the link attribute. So eventually if the search engines detect that you have a link from a highly relevant page then that passes a hidden trust vote to your site. The thing matters here is that search engines know about your site's link source and link source from a authority domain or relevant page passes trust vote regardless of the link attribute.
Natural link structure -
Nofollow links are an absolute must to make your total link structure natural to the eyes of search engines. If you focus to build only "dofollow" (or links without the "nofollow" attribute) links that would be suspicious to the search engines. So you just need to maintain a balance between followed and not followed links for best SEO benefits.
So, some nofollow links are valuable as well for SEO – PROVED
Google Geo Targeting – Things You Must Know
You can target visitors mainly in 2 ways as discussed below –
- Area Names – You can just select the countries, regions or the city names you wish to target.
- Custom Targeting – You can target the required area you wish to cover from a particular given location. For example, if you have a restaurant you may be want to target 50 miles radius from your restaurant's location point. Covering an area other than circle shape is also possible. You can even exclude areas within your target.
Sounds great, isn't it? Let's now discuss how Google determines to show the ads based on the target area specified.
- By Domain extension – Searchers using a country specific Google domain will view the ads targeted to that country.
- By Language – Search Keyword language that matches with the Google Preference Setting language given by the advertiser.
- By IP address – Whenever you connect to the internet you are assigned a unique IP address assigned by your ISP. Google can track your location through your IP and show you ads targeted to that area.
- By Query Parsing – Query that matches with your ad and targeted keywords in the campaign.
Now you understand how Google geo targeting works and how Google determines which ads to show in response to a query. But is that all you just need to know to run a successful campaign? Not at all – there are some pitfalls you may be probably unaware or not thought before. To get the best ROI from your AdWords campaign you must need to ensure that you are not getting unnecessary clicks and impressions. So what are those Geo targeting problems that can just drain your money? Let's see -
Geo Targeting Problems
Have you ever thought that your ads can be visible to different countries other than the country name you specified in your campaign? Yes, this can happen if searchers use a Google search domain dedicated to that particular country you have targeted. For example, if you target UK, then your ads would be displayed if someone searches using google.co.uk – regardless of the searcher's actual physical location or country.
Your ads can also be visible to the users located in different countries or areas rather than the areas you actually target depending on your target language and the searched domain used. For example, if you target France and specify French as your target language, then your ad would be displayed if someone searches using any French term you specified in your target keyword list – regardless of the searcher's actual physical location or country.
IP address plays a major role in city or custom area targeting. For example, if you wish to target the New York City and 50 km. around the New York City – you would probably expect that you will get visitors only from that particular area, right? But eventually this is not 100% true, and there are big chances that you lose potential visitors and/or get unnecessary traffic beyond that area! Why? Because it depends on the IP address assigned by the ISPs covered a large area. So even visitors located around 200 miles away from New York can be treated as visits from that area and also visitors actually located inside that area can be treated as outsiders.
Now you can understand that how improper AdWords campaign management can ruin your money or how you can lose potential customers. Hope this post will help you to setup your campaign cleverly.


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COLUMBIA, Mo. For 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body. In this system, the appearance of the tongue is one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng. Now, University of Missouri researchers have developed computer software that combines the ancient practices and modern medicine by providing an automated system for analyzing images of the tongue.
"Knowing your zheng classification can serve as a pre-screening tool and help with preventive medicine," said Dong Xu, chair of MU's computer science department in the College of Engineering and study co-author. "Our software helps bridge Eastern and Western medicine, since an imbalance in zheng could serve as a warning to go see a doctor. Within a year, our ultimate goal is to create an application for smartphones that will allow anyone to take a photo of their tongue and learn the status of their zheng."
The software analyzes images based on the tongue's color and coating to distinguish between tongues showing signs of "hot" or "cold" zheng. Shades of red and yellow are associated with hot zheng, whereas a white coating on the tongue is a sign of cold zheng.
"Hot and cold zheng doesn't refer directly to body temperature," said Xu, who is also on the faculty of the Bond Life Sciences Center. "Rather, it refers to a suite of symptoms associated with the state of the body as a whole."
For example, a person with cold zheng may feel chills and coolness in the limbs and show a pale flushing of face. Their voice may have a high pitch. Other symptoms of cold sheng are clear urine and loose stool. They also may prefer hot foods and drinks and desire warm environments.
In Chinese traditional medicine both hot and cold zheng can be symptoms of gastritis, an inflammation of the stomach lining frequently caused by bacterial infection.
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BCHL's three solid defensemen
Stats Update – Prospects Ranked In Round 1-4
Stats Update – Prospects Ranked In Round 5-8
Rangers Make Some More Moves
Vitali Yeremeyev's recent play for the Rangers is living proof that success in the AHL does not always translate into success in the NHL. Yeremeyev, who shot up the depth chart this season after playing great down in Hartford, has been roughed up pretty bad so far in his stint in the NHL.
Yeremeyev is 0-4-0 in 4 games in the NHL this season, allowing 16 goals on 120 shots. He has a 4.53 GAA and an .846 Save percentage during those games. Although he has looked very good in practice, he hasn't played the same during the games. He'll be excellent for 10 minutes, than he'll give up 3 goals in 2 minutes, which was basically what we saw Monday night in a 5-2 loss against the New York Islanders. Yeremeyev made some great saves in the first half of the 1st period, but then everything went downhill from there, as the Islanders goals just starting to keep piling up.
One thing I have noticed about Yeremeyev that needs improvement is the fact that he comes out too far on breakaways. He has let up 3 breakaway goals, and all because he was way too far out, allowing the player to just go around him and tuck the puck into the open side of the net. Martin Straka scored against him this way in Pittsburgh, and so did Jason Blake and Kenny Jonsson on Monday at the Garden. I'm surprised though that the Rangers have given up a couple of breakaways with the rookie in net, as you would think the Rangers would tighten up defensively do help their young goalie out. But, that hasn't been the case and one can only wonder why.
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OHL Prospect Report : Jay McClement
young prospect should play the game of hockey, especially in
this era of a defence-first NHL, they could do worse than use
the Brampton Battalion's Jay McClement as an example. The 18
year-old native of Kingston, Ontario has exhibited hockey smarts
and attention to defensive detail not often seen in a player
this young, combined with a steadily improving offensive game.
DEFENSIVE ZONE: When he's not actually going behind the
defenceman's position in front of the net. When he sees that the
opposing forwards have been tied up, he will be the third man in
and gain possession of the puck. Earlier in the season Jay was a
very conservative, safety-first player who would dump the puck
out of danger into the neutral zone. As the season has
progressed, he has started to make outlet passes, work the give
and go, and make the rush out of the zone. On occasion he has
calmly taken the puck behind his own net to start the transition
game, as if he had been playing defence for the past ten years.
penalty-kill, McClement does a good job of making an obstacle of
himself. He will either block the shot or force the point-man to
shoot around him, ensuring that the point-blast does not become
a shot on goal.
Islanders Prospect Report Part II
Stephen Valiquette- Right before a foot injury, the man they call
Rangers Acquire Peter Smrek
From the 1st day of this season, fans of the Rangers pleaded for General Manager Glen Sather to deal the high-priced veterans on the club who no longer could help them out in return for some young players and draft picks to quicken a hopefull rebuilding process that most fans would like to see take place.
It took until March 1st for the Rangers to finally make a deal that could actually help them out in the future, by dealing soon-to-be UFA Eric Lacroix to the Ottawa Senators in return for 25 year old, 6'4 215 pound Colin Forbes. Although Forbes is not known for his offensive abilities, he's a nice sparkplug for the 4th line who mucks it out in the corners and plays a physical game. Forbes has looked pretty good in his 2 games so far as a Ranger, and I am already liking him better than Eric Lacroix.
But the better deal came today, March 5th, as the Rangers traded 36 year old defenseman Alexei Gusarov to the St. Louis Blues for 22 year old Slovak defenseman Peter Smrek. I love this deal for the Rangers. Smrek is a solid two-way defenseman who has the potential to put up 10 goals and 20 assists in the NHL. He has spent the majority of this season with the Worcester Ice Cats of the AHL, posting 2 goals and 6 assists in 47 games this season, to go along with 69 penalty minutes. In 6 games with the St. Louis Blues, he has registered 2 goals and 2 penalty minutes. To put things in a different perspective, the Rangers acquired Alexei Gusarov from the Colorado Avalanche in December for a 5th round pick. So in reality, we give up a 5th round pick for Peter Smrek. I woul Read more »
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Tellqvist: The regular season of the Swedish Elite League finished on Saturday February 25th … Djurgarden played four times during the previous 10 days and Mikael Tellqvist appeared in the nets three times … Djurgarden was 4-0 in those final four games and the team is red hot heading into the play-offs … the last game of the season was truly wonderful to watch … at the Globe Arena, Djurgarden outshot Brynas 44-22 but were unable to convert numerous scoring chances into goals … the 2-2 draw went into a penalty shot contest and Tellqvist was again spectacular as he stopped 3 attempts by Brynas … in the end, this was a very appropriate season ending performance by the Djurgarden star … with 2000/2001 regular season statistics now final, Tellqvist led all SEL goaltenders in wins, GAA and shutouts …
Prospect news: Fresh news from snowy Newfoundland this week … Sniper Jeff Farkas is back on the Rock and continues his assault on the team scoring lead … Jeff is up to 50 points (19G, 31A) in 58 games and is arguably the most impressive rookie in the AHL this season … Adam Mair (a Shayne Corson in the making) continues to play strongly as well … Adam now has 40 points (16G, 24A) in 43 games … former Ottawa 67's star Alyn McCauley has finally shaken off a recent illness and is again playing a significant role for St. John's … McCauley has 35 points (14G, 21A) in 37 games … Donald MacLean has recovered fully from his early season funk … MacLean has 43 points (22G, 21A) in 43 games … rookie rearguard Allan Rourke
Lukas Musil – new goaltending star
Born: 9.5.1984
Lukas Musil started to play for HC Hvezda Praha, but moved to Slavia Praha in season 1999 – 2000. Soon he proved himself as probably the best young goaltender in league and finished playoffs with fascinating 0,92 goals per game and 96,8 save percentage. And this season he continues to put up high numbers – 30 games, 1726 minutes played he has 1,32 gaa and 93,53 save percentage. That couldn´t stay unnoticed by national team coaches and Lukas made it to under 17 National team. Soon he proved to be more than just another wild try in Czech team and now he is regularly invited for every national tournaments.
JR: Have you always played goalkeeper ?
JR: Do you have any individual prizes yet ?
LM: Yes, I was named as the best goalkeeper on the national championship in 9th class category and I won a prize for the best goalkeeper on Jaromir Jagr´s tournament.
JR: And what about your plans for the future ?
JR: Thanks Lukas
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Paul Wagner is biology program manager at the Washington Department of Transportation. He earned a B.S. from Juniata College (1986). He has served on a number of review panels, including a National Cooperative Highway Research Program synthesis study of ecology and transportation issues. Mr. Wagner participated in a technical oversight committee that developed a set of ecological models and methodologies for wetland functions assessment for Washington based on the hydrogeomorphic method concepts.
J.M. Yowell (retired) was state highway engineer at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. He earned a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky (1959). Mr. Yowell has 45 years of experience in the transportation industry and has held such positions as project manager for an engineering and construction firm and vice-president for multimillion dollar construction firms. He has served on a number of advisory boards including the Advisory Board of Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky, Industry Advisory Board of Civil Engineering Department.


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MANILA, Philippines—Eric Dawson put up monster numbers and Meralco held off powerhouse Talk N' Text, 99-92, Saturday night in the PBA Commissioner's Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Dawson sizzled with 37 points, and registered 14 rebounds, two assists, two steals and four blocks for the Bolts, who squandered an 18-point lead but still hung on to win.
"He understands he needs to do for our team to be successful," said head coach Ryan Gregoio of the versatile Dawson.
Ronjay Buenafe came in second best in scoring with 19 points for Meralco, which recently underwent changes in its roster and lost top scorer Sol Mercado.
Chris Ross had two points but hauled down nine board and dished out eight dimes.
Mark Cardona, who added 16 points, made it a 42-24 lead in the second quarter—their biggest lead—as the Bolts banked on a blistering 27-point opening period.
But the Texters, after drawing all but two points from Keith Benson in the first quarter, quickly went back in the game before halftime.
Talk N' Text tied the game twice in the third quarter, but never got the taste of the lead as Meralco always found a way to keep its distance.
Benson finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds, Jimmy Alapag added 18 points and five assists and Jayson Castro had 17 points but did not play in the second half.
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Comparison of chromosome 3B maps. The SynDH1 map (SynDH1-3B) obtained in this study was compared with the physical map (physical-3B) [7], the CIMMYT-integrated map (CIMMYT-3B) [4], the durum wheat integrated map (C-L-3B) [5], and triticale genetic map (S-M-3B) [6]. The scales on the left side indicate distances in cM (Kosambi). The black arrow indicates the point of separation between two different linkages. To reduce complexity, only markers shared between these maps are shown. Map comparison was performed using the JoinMap 4.0 program [44]].
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What more could you want from a Noicattaro spa hotel than free breakfast, accommodations that come with premium bedding and a rooftop terrace? UNA Hotel Regina offers all this and more, and is located connected to the airport.
REGINA SPA is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering Ayurvedic treatments, a mud bath, aromatherapy, body scrubs, as well as Turkish bath/hammam, body treatments and body wraps. Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner as this 4-star hotel in Noicattaro has its own restaurant. You will want to leave some space in your luggage for swimwear as this hotel features an outdoor pool, an indoor pool and a seasonal outdoor pool. Outfitted with a bar/lounge, you'll find the perfect place to have a drink. Have hours of fun for all the family as there is also a waterslide. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can provide express check-in and express check-out.
Planning a meeting? This hotel has 11 meeting rooms, as well as a business center. Free Wi-Fi is provided. Fresh coffee is available in the lobby area. Other amenities include a train station pick-up service, a hair salon, dry cleaning/laundry, an area shuttle, an elevator (lift) and beach/pool umbrellas.
The hotel was beautiful, the staff extremely helpful and courteous. The wine bar ...Venere Guest, USA
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Breakfast at UNA Hotel Regina
A free continental breakfast is available between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Facilities at UNA Hotel Regina
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Conference room
- Bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Snack bar
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Room service - limited hour
- Hairdresser
- Beach umbrellas and deck loungers
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Laundry room
- Garden
- Personal newspapers
- Multilingual staff
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Concierge
- Luggage room
- Indoor swimming pool
- Outdoor swimming pool
- Children swimming pool
- Shuttle service
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Shuttle service from and/or to the railway station
- Free parking
- Health club
- Sauna
- Steam bath
- Hydromassage Jacuzzi
- Turkish bath
- Internet/Email services
Know before you go
- Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
- This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
- This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- A resort fee is included in the total price displayed.
- Children 6 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
Check-in: between 2 PM and midnight.
Check-out: before 11 AM.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 35 per room (one way)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 25 per night
- Facilities fee: EUR 20 per person, per day and includes use of:
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the hotel:
- All citizens of Italy will be charged the national value-added tax
The charges below are included in your overall room price:
- Resort fee
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
UNA Hotel Regina reviews
- June 2013
- Venere Guest
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The hotel was beautiful, the staff extremely helpful and courteous. The wine bar was not open at the time of visit and there was just one restaurant. The pool was not open. It would be helpful to have better directions on how to get to the hotel, exactly which exit to take off of SS16. We had to stop and ask for help. Many of the staff had some English language skills. Overall it is certainly the nicest place I have ever stayed at in Italy.
- August 2014
- Venere Guest
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- Spain
The hotel is good although a bit old comparing with the photos in the webpage. Good breakfast, very good coffee and good facilities. The address was not correct (the number of the street)and the hotel is in the middle of nowhere, not abig problem if you have a car. Our stay was very noisy. The staff told us one day there was a birthday party in the pool, but this finished a good hour (12 noon), but the second day there was a wedding with music until 3am and the attendees staying in the gardens until 5 am. Terrible ............ Nobody from the staff asked quiet to the guest!!! The noise
- August 2011
- Venere Guest
- Italy
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Book your spa accommodation at UNA Hotel Regina, offering 99 guest rooms with climate control. Plasma televisions with pay movies in each room provide entertainment and relaxation at the end of a busy day. Corporate travelers will benefit from free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as desks, complimentary newspapers and phones during their Noicattaro visit. Guest rooms are individually furnished, making each stay a unique experience. A good night's sleep in comfortable beds with premium bedding will have visitors waking up refreshed and well-rested throughout their vacation or business trip.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with superior features such as shower/tub combinations, rainfall showerheads, bidets and complimentary toiletries. Minibars and hair dryers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Additional guest comforts include soundproofing, air conditioning and safes.
Accommodation Services
- Telephone
- Air conditioning
- Pay-Per-View
- Mini bar
- Extra beds
- Baby cots/cribs available
- Soundproof rooms
- Hairdryer in each room
- Safe
- Desk
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Wireless Internet access
How to reach UNA Hotel ReginaBy car
By Car: S.S. 16 Bari-Brindisi, continue on Via Vecchia Noicattaro, turn into via scizzo, the hotel is 200 metres on the right
By train
By train: Rail Station of Bari and then take a taxi
By airplane
By Plain: International Airport Bari and then take a taxi
Distances from UNA Hotel ReginaOgnissanti Church - 8.1 km / 5 mi
Villa d'Aloja - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi
San Rocco Church - 9.4 km / 5.9 mi
Pane e Pomodoro Beach - 9.6 km / 6 mi
Teatro Petruzzelli - 11.2 km / 6.9 mi
Petruzzelli Theatre - 11.3 km / 7 mi
Barialto Golf Club - 11.3 km / 7 mi
University of Bari - 11.3 km / 7 mi
Fortino di Sant'Antonio - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi
Teatro Margherita - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi
Provincial Archaeological Museum - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi
Piazza del Ferrarese - 11.5 km / 7.1 mi
Historic Civic Museum - 11.7 km / 7.3 mi
Teatro Piccinni - 11.8 km / 7.3 mi
Bari Cathedral - 11.8 km / 7.3 mi
The preferred airport for UNA Hotel Regina is Bari (BRI-Karol Wojtyla) - 20.1 km / 12.5 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.
Transportation services UNA Hotel Regina
- Shuttle service
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Shuttle service from and/or to the railway station
- Free parking
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard Kunstler
Sleepwalking into the Future
Carl Jung, one of the fathers of psychology, famously remarked that ?people cannot stand too much reality.? What you?re about to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we live in, and especially the kind of world into which time and events are propelling us. We are in for a rough ride through uncharted territory.
It has been very hard for Americans?lost in dark raptures of nonstop infotainment, recreational shopping, and compulsive motoring?to make sense of the gathering forces that will fundamentally alter the terms of everyday life in technological society. Even after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that collapsed the twin towers of the World Trade Center and sliced through the Pentagon, America is still sleepwalking into the future. We have walked out of our burning house and we are now headed off the edge of a cliff. Beyond that cliff is an abyss of economic and political disorder on a scale that no one has ever seen before. I call this coming time the Long Emergency.
What follows is a harsh view of the decades ahead and what will happen in the United States. Throughout this book I will concern myself with what I believe is happening, what will happen, or what is likely to happen, not what I hope or wish will happen. This is an important distinction. It is my view, for instance, that in the decades to come the national government will prove to be so impotent and ineffective in managing the enormous vicissitudes we face that the United States may not survive as a nation in any meaningful sense but rather will devolve into a set of autonomous regions. I do not welcome a crack-up of our nation but I think it is a plausible outcome that we ought to be prepared to face. I have published several books critical of the suburban living arrangement, which I regard as deeply pernicious to our society. While I believe we will be better off living differently, I don?t welcome the tremendous personal hardship that will result as the infrastructure of that life loses its value and utility. I predict that we are entering an era of titanic international military strife over resources, but I certainly don?t relish the prospect of war.
If I hope for anything in this book, it is that the American public will wake up from its sleepwalk and act to defend the project of civilization. Even in the face of epochal discontinuity, there is a lot we can do to assure the refashioning of daily life around authentic local communities based on balanced local economies, purposeful activity, and a culture of ideas consistent with reality. It is imperative for citizens to be able to imagine a hopeful future, especially in times of maximum stress and change. I will spell out these strategies later in this book.
Our war against militant Islamic fundamentalism is only one element among an array of events already under way that will alter our relations with the rest of the world, and compel us to live differently at home?sooner rather than later?whether we like it or not. What?s more, these world-altering forces, events, and changes will interact synergistically, mutually amplifying each other to accelerate and exacerbate the emergence of meta-problems. Americans are woefully unprepared for the Long Emergency.
Your Reality Check Is in the Mail
Above all, and most immediately, we face the end of the cheap fossil fuel era. It is no exaggeration to state that reliable supplies of cheap oil and natural gas underlie everything we identify as a benefit of modern life. All the necessities, comforts, luxuries, and miracles of our time?central heating, air conditioning, cars, airplanes, electric lighting, cheap clothing, recorded music, movies, supermarkets, power tools, hip replacement surgery, the national defense, you name it?owe their origins or continued existence in one way or another to cheap fossil fuel. Even our nuclear power plants ultimately depend on cheap oil and gas for all the procedures of construction, maintenance, and extracting and processing nuclear fuels. The blandishments of cheap oil and gas were so seductive, and induced such transports of mesmerizing contentment, that we ceased paying attention to the essential nature of these miraculous gifts from the earth: that they exist in finite, nonrenewable supplies, unevenly distributed around the world. To aggravate matters, the wonders of steady technological progress under the reign of oil have tricked us into a kind of ?Jiminy Cricket syndrome,? leading many Americans to believe that anything we wish for hard enough can come true. These days, even people in our culture who ought to know better are wishing ardently that a smooth, seamless transition from fossil fuels to their putative replacements?hydrogen, solar power, whatever?lies just a few years ahead. I will try to demonstrate that this is a dangerous fantasy. The true best-case scenario may be that some of these technologies will take decades to develop?meaning that we can expect an extremely turbulent interval between the end of cheap oil and whatever comes next. A more likely scenario is that new fuels and technologies may never replace fossil fuels at the scale, rate, and manner at which the world currently consumes them.
What is generally not comprehended about this predicament is that the developed world will begin to suffer long before the oil and gas actually run out. The American way of life?which is now virtually synonymous with suburbia?can run only on reliable supplies of dependably cheap oil and gas. Even mild to moderate deviations in either price or supply will crush our economy and make the logistics of daily life impossible. Fossil fuel reserves are not scattered equitably around the world. They tend to be concentrated in places where the native peoples don?t like the West in general or America in particular, places physically very remote, places where we realistically can exercise little control (even if we wish to). For reasons I will spell out, we can be certain that the price and supplies of fossil fuels will suffer oscillations and disruptions in the period ahead that I am calling the Long Emergency.
The decline of fossil fuels is certain to ignite chronic strife between nations contesting the remaining supplies. These resource wars have already begun. There will be more of them. They are very likely to grind on and on for decades. They will only aggravate a situation that, in and of itself, could bring down civilizations. The extent of suffering in our country will certainly depend on how tenaciously we attempt to cling to obsolete habits, customs, and assumptions?for instance, how fiercely Americans decide to fight to maintain suburban lifestyles that simply cannot be rationalized any longer.
The public discussion of this issue has been amazingly lame in the face of America?s post-9/11 exposure to the new global realities. As of this writing, no one in the upper echelon of the federal government has even ventured to state that we face fossil fuel depletion by mid-century and severe market disruptions long before that. The subject is too fraught with scary implications for our collective national behavior, most particularly the not-incidental fact that our economy these days is hopelessly tied to the creation and servicing of suburban sprawl.
Within the context of this feeble public discussion over our energy future, some wildly differing positions stand out. One faction of so-called ?cornucopians? asserts that humankind?s demonstrated technical ingenuity will overcome the facts of geology. (This would seem to be the default point of view of the majority of Americans, when they reflect on these issues at all.) Some cornucopians believe that oil is not fossilized, liquefied organic matter but rather a naturally occurring mineral substance that exists in endless abundance at the earth?s deep interior like the creamy nougat center of a bonbon. Most of the public simply can?t entertain the possibility that industrial civilization will not be rescued by technological innovation. The human saga has indeed been amazing. We have overcome tremendous obstacles. Our late-twentieth-century experience has been especially rich in technologic achievement (though the insidious diminishing returns are far less apparent). How could a nation that put men on the moon feel anything but a nearly godlike confidence in its ability to overcome difficulties?
The computer at which I am sitting would surely have been regarded as an astounding magical wonder by someone from an earlier period of American history, say Benjamin Franklin, who helped advance the early understanding of electricity. The sequence of discoveries and developments since 1780 that made computers possible is incredibly long and complex and includes concepts that we may take for granted, starting with 110-volt alternating house current that is always available. But what would Ben Franklin have made of video? Or software? Or broadband? Or plastic? By extension, one would have to admit the possibility that scientific marvels await in the future that would be difficult for people of our time to imagine. Humankind may indeed come up with some fantastic method for running civilization on seawater, or molecular organic nanomachines, or harnessing the dark matter of the universe. But I?d argue that such miracles may lie on the far shore of the Long Emergency, or may never happen at all. It is possible that the fossil fuel efflorescence was a one-shot deal for the human race.
A coherent, if extremely severe, view along these lines, and in opposition to the cornucopians, is embodied by the ?die-off? crowd.* They believe that the carrying capacity of the planet has already exceeded ?overshoot? and that we have entered an apocalyptic age presaging the imminent extinction of the human race. They lend zero credence to the cornucopian belief in humankind?s godlike ingenuity at overcoming problems. They espouse an economics of net entropy. They view the end of oil as the end of everything. Their worldview is terminal and tragic.
The view I offer places me somewhere between these two camps, but probably a few degrees off center and closer to the die-off crowd. I believe that we face a dire and unprecedented period of difficulty in the twenty-first century, but that humankind will survive and continue further into the future?though not without taking some severe losses in the meantime, in population, in life expectancies, in standards of living, in the retention of knowledge and technology, and in decent behavior. I believe we will see a dramatic die-back, but not a die-off. It seems to me that the pattern of human existence involves long cycles of expansion and contraction, success and failure, light and darkness, brilliance and stupidity, and that it is grandiose to assert that our time is so special as to be the end of all cycles (though it would also be consistent with the narcissism of baby-boomer intellectuals to imagine ourselves to be so special). So I have to leave room for the possibility that we humans will manage to carry on, even if we must go through this dark passage to do it. We?ve been there before.
The Groaning Multitudes
It has been estimated that the world human population stood at about one billion around the early 1800s, which was roughly about when the industrial adventure began to gain traction.** It has been inferred from this that a billion people is about the limit that the planet Earth can support when it is run on a nonindustrial basis. World population is now past six and a half billion, having more than doubled since my childhood in the 1950s. The mid-twentieth century was a time of rising anxiety over the ?population explosion.? The marvelous technological victory over food shortages, including the ?green revolution? in crop yields, accelerated that already robust leap in world population that had begun with modernity. Dramatic improvements in sanitation and medicine extended lives. Industry sopped up expanding populations and reassigned them from rural lands to work in the burgeoning cities. The perceived ability of the world to accommodate these newcomers and latecomers in a wholly new disposition of social and economic arrangements seemed be the final nail in the coffin of Thomas Robert Malthus, the much-abused author of the 1798 ?An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society.?
Malthus (1766?1834), an English country clergyman educated at Cambridge, has been the whipping boy of idealists and techno-optimists for two hundred years. His famous essay proposed that human population, if unconstrained, would grow exponentially while food supplies grew only arithmetically, and that therefore population growth faced strict and inevitable natural limits. Most commentators, however, took the math at face value and overlooked the part about constraints. These ?checks? on population come in the form of famine, pestilence, war, and ?moral restraint,? i.e., the will to postpone marriage or forgo parenthood (from a perhaps antiquated notion that the ability to support a family might enter into anyone?s plans for forming one, or even that society could influence such choices). Malthus?s essay has been mostly misconstrued to mean that the human race was doomed at a certain arbitrary set point, and the pejorative ?Malthusian? is attached to any idea that suggests that human ingenuity cannot make accommodation for more human beings to join the party on Spaceship Earth.
Interestingly, Malthus?s essay was aimed at the reigning Enlightenment idealists of his own youth, the period of the American and French Revolutions, in particular the seminal figures of William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet. Both held that mankind was infinitely improvable and that a golden age of social justice, political harmony, equality, abundance, brotherhood, happiness, and altruism loomed imminently. Although sympathetic to social improvement, Malthus deemed these claims untenable and thought it necessary to debunk them.
In recent times, population pessimists such as Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb (1968), Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute, and other commentators who predicted dire consequences of overpopulation by 1980, were supposedly shown up by the failure of dire events to occur; this led a new generation of idealists (including cornucopians such as economist Julian Simon) to proclaim that hypergrowth was a positive benefit to society because the enlarged pool of social capital and intellect would inevitably lead to fantastic new technological discoveries that would in turn permit the earth to support a greater number of humans?including social or medical innovations that would aid eventually in establishing a permanently stabilized optimum human population.
I would offer a different view. Malthus was certainly correct, but cheap oil has skewed the equation over the past hundred years while the human race has enjoyed an unprecedented orgy of nonrenewable condensed solar energy accumulated over eons of prehistory. The ?green revolution? in boosting crop yields was minimally about scientific innovation in crop genetics and mostly about dumping massive amounts of fertilizers and pesticides made out of fossil fuels onto crops, as well as employing irrigation at a fantastic scale made possible by abundant oil and gas. The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plenitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime, a hundred years. Within that comfortable bubble the idea took hold that only grouches, spoilsports, and godless maniacs considered population hypergrowth a problem, and that to even raise the issue was indecent. So, I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves arc toward depletion, we will indeed suddenly be left with an enormous surplus population?with apologies to both Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift?that the ecology of the earth will not support. No political program of birth control will avail. The people are already here. The journey back to non-oil population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way that population hypergrowth was simply a side effect of the oil age. It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck with it.
* www.dieoff.com, an Internet site started by Jay Hanson, popularizing the ideas of many who believe that the Industrial Age is a terminal condition of humankind.
* Historian Paul Johnson?s notion of ?the Modern? commencing around the end of the Napoleonic Wars is a good benchmark. See Johnson, The Birth of the Modern, New York: Harper, 1991.
Copyright © 2005 by James Howard Kunstler.
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Re: Hunter 28.5 1985 buy or not to buy
You have got some confusing information here. The 28 mentioned in the review is not the 28.5 which is an entirely different boat. There is a Hunter 28.5 forum with more info on the boat.
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The price seems a little steep at $20K. Depending on the condition price should be between 12 and 18 K. I would imagine a boat in Miami would have the usual salt water and sun ageing conditions.
2 weeks from Miami to New York on the ICW is a little tight. Since you are only running in daylight that means about 100/mi day which probably is not realistic at 6knot motoring speed, waits for bridges etc. Obviously the Yanmar 2GMF-20 needs to be in top shape with a recent oil change and new filters, the shaft aligned and the engine aligned. The bottom should also have been recently painted and clean for the trip. You also would need some engine spares to be safe like primary, secondary filters and belts. My guess that your plan would be a touch ambitious with an untested boat. You could go offshore for stretches and with the right weather window and Gulfstream conditions you could make it. I wouldn't with a boat new to you. Too many things can go wrong with a boat that you don't have experience with and an intimate knowledge of its history.
I've sailed a Hunter 28.5 and they nice performing boats although not up to offshore conditions. Gelcoat cracks at the chainplates and stanchions are pretty common. Additional areas of concern are the cast iron keel and deck compression issues due to leakage around the wiring at the mast.
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First off, please, please don't include Ice Ice Baby. As popular as it was as a pop song, your child should not be introduced to hip hop believing Vanilla Ice is a legitimate artist in this genre. (I agree, though I must admit I like the tune, Family Man.)
Some ideas for other songs to include (some old school; some quality new school:
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- Dear Mama – Tupac
- Smooth Operator – Big Daddy Kane (excellent example of less explicit old school)
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