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Just replace the tank.
If you want to replace the bladder there are 6 nuts on the bottom of the tank holding the cover flange in place. Remove the nuts, remove the flange, pull the old bladder out
and carefully insert the new one after reattaching it to the flange
be sure the air and water pressure are relieved before removing the cover flange
My tank is only 1.5 years old, I suspect the bladder not functioning properly. I want to avoid buying a new tank. Is it a viable option to replace the bladder. I have never done it before.
Why do you think the bladder has failed? This would be very unusual in a tank this new.
I drained the tank and checked the pressure....there was no pressure....should have been 28psi because I have 30-50 pressure switch.
Does your pump short cycle?
Have you tried to recharge the tank?
Yes. When no water is being used, pump will cycle about every 5 minutes.....when water is being used, pump cycles faster
The pump should not run once it's up to pressure and no water is being used, but what you describe when water is being used sounds like short cycling
Do you suggest I try charging tank....to be sure?....drain tank pressure tank with air compressor to 28 psi, right?
Yes try recharging the tank, yes take the pressure off before charging
If bladder is ruptured, what will happen?
if you mean when you recharge, nothing is likely to happen if you have the main stop turned off
the tank should hold the pressure but it will dissipate fairly quickly and go back to short cycling
OK...so...if I recharge, and then pump goes back to short cycling, then I conclude that bladder is ruptured?
I don't have a copy of the warranty in front of me but most of these tank are warranted for 5 years
Ok....if bladder is ruptured....best solution is.....replace bladder?....or...replace tank?....
I would replace the tank with a Welltrol by Amtrol if you can't get some warranty relief
Welltrol.....ok....my tank size is 85 gallon pre-charged.....I run just my house (9 fixtures), but also run my lawn sprinklers.....should I stick with this size?
The models aren't necessarily obviously interchangeable so consult with you plumbing supply house for the appropriate Welltrol model
Thank you.....I will try tank recharge....if pump short cycles still, I will replace tank.
Check out warranty options since a tank of this size is not cheap
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Behind the scenes at CSUEB's Arroyo literary magazine with alumni sponsor Stan Pisle, programmer and poet
- February 15, 2012 5:35am
Alumnus Stan Pisle '85 may seem like an unlikely poet to many, with his computer science degree and a job as Senior Technical Director – IT Voice, Global Customer Service Division at AT&T. But he minored in English at then-Cal State Hayward, and has always been a writer, even as the computer degree paid the bills.
College literary magazines are one of the prime venues for publishing poetry, so when the English department's Prof. Susan Gubernat approached him about a new project — a literary magazine produced by students in the graduate program — Pisle was more than receptive.
"Having gone through the rejection process a lot myself, I figured putting another venue out there for writers couldn't hurt," he says.
Pisle has been the sponsor of Arroyo, now in its fourth year, since its inaugural edition in 2009. This year's edition of Arroyo was released a bit early, to be ready for the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. The launch party will be held Feb. 23 at the Bistro in downtown Hayward, open to ages 21 and up. Copies are available at the University Book Store and University Library. More information is online at the Arroyo Web site.
When he met with the first editors, Eric Neuenfeldt and John Gannon, Pisle says he found the situation "amusingly familiar," since he's no stranger to the proposal side of projects. But the budget they proposed for Arroyo was modest, and Pisle recalls his reaction by paraphrasing e.e. cummings: "It was a spring day, and my blood approved." Pisle decided he could cover the costs himself, especially with matching funds from the AT&T Foundation.
As for his own interests in computers and poetry, Pisle says it's not unusual. "Technology takes the same level of innovation and creativity as the arts."
Working in AT&T's speech application development group, he draws "as much on the writing and speech skills I learned at CSUEB than as I do on programming skills. Probably more."
Pisle has also been a sponsor of CSUEB's Distinguished Writers Series, and has continued to write for both his job — position papers and work-related projects— and outside. Occasionally the two intersect. "Sometimes an amusing poem sums up a $100 million dollar project better than a expense report."
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How high has Carlos "Charlie Sheen" Estevez jumped his personal shark?
Even his publicist can't take any more.
Veteran Hollywood publicist Stan Rosenfield, who represented Charlie Sheen through the actor's rehab attempts and breakup with his employers on the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men," abruptly resigned on Monday.
"I have worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much," Rosenfield wrote in a brief statement. "However, at this time, I'm unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned." In a follow-up e-mail, Rosenfield said he had represented Sheen for at least seven years.
The move came on the same day that Sheen turned up in another round of interviews on ABC, NBC, TMZ and elsewhere, attacking everyone from CBS to his father, former "The West Wing" star Martin Sheen. Since CBS and Warner Bros. decided last week to halt production on "Two and a Half Men" after Sheen attacked his boss, Chuck Lorre, the actor has gone on a manic round of media interviews.
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Just an idle thought here: Five'll get you ten he started with pot. y'think?
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We are really excited about presenting the Camden Classics Cup (CCC) July 27-29. CCC is on the calendars of classic, vintage, and Spirit of Tradition boat owners looking for the best sailing in New
A happy gathering of owners of signature boats built by Lyman-Morse over the past 38 years graced the face docks in Camden this past weekend. C. Raymond Hunt designed, Whistler and Taba; the Chuck
We have partnered with the newly formed Classic Yacht Owners Association (CYOA) and the Camden Yacht Club to present the Camden Classics Cup. Having another regatta in Maine will add momentum to
After a two year refit at Lyman-Morse, VOLARE, a 73-ft Ron Holland designed aluminum yacht is better than new. Every system has been replaced, refurbished or reconditioned. Every department in the
Accolades attest to the growing reputation that something special is happening here. Yachting Magazine named PBR as one of the Best Regattas.
Cabot and Drew will be racing on Puffin and Towhee! This
Team Lyman-Morse is headed south for this boutique boat show. When we signed up for this show we were excited to show Excellence (ex-Wombat) as a platform to showcase our work, now the boat is for
Winter is coming but we are already planning a summer party for the 3rd of July. Here is the scoop: The Second Annual Coal Pot Regatta is open to any and all boats heading to New England in
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Even if it's not snowing where you are, Newsround brings you all the fun there is to be had outside - without leaving the house!
In Sheffield, it's so deep that pets can't resist making the most of it, and a highland terrier has taken to a bit of snowboarding.
There's so much in Nottingham that your average snowman isn't enough, so they've made a family of snowpeople instead.
And there's a warning from Northumberland, where people have been hit by an avalanche! Don't worry though, it was only the snow off the top of rooftops and no-one was hurt.


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July 9) -- A blue lobster is likely feeling anything but after his rare color saved him from being served as dinner.
The blue-hued crustacean, named Donald, has been displayed in a tank at a restaurant in Charlottetown on Canada's Prince Edward Island for several weeks, CBC News reported.
The 2-pound lobster is attracting a few visitors to the Water-Prince Corner Shop and Lobster Pound, some more interested than others.
"We have been asked for a certain time or two to serve a blue lobster," store owner Shane Campbell told CBC News. "We wouldn't bother doing it, because it's more valuable to us to either have (it) mounted or put back in the ocean."
Donald is a truly rare find: Only one in 2 million lobsters is blue.
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Tech Tuesday – AT&T's Unlimted Data Plans Are Not so Unlimited
AT&T was the first to drop unlimited data plans from their cell phone offerings, then Verizon followed suit. The next shoe has now dropped with AT&T now saying that they will throttle data speed on the top 5% of cell phone data users. So if you listen to Pandora at work or watch Law and Order on Netflix at the State Offices, you won't be for long.
This new policy of throttling data speed comes after Verizon and Virgin Mobile have done the same with their customers. More and more data hungry apps are being published for smart phones everyday. AT&T didn't say what the threshold would be for those top users, but it did say it was a vast majority of subscribers.
AT&T has suggested using WiFi to alleviate the drain on your data plan if you are a heavy user, and you have access to all of their WiFi hotspots when you have their plans. Plus WiFi is much faster then a 3G data connection by far. And most users never go over 200 mega bytes on their smart phone in a month or even come close to the 2 Gigabyte limit.
But data usage, along with smart phone sales have been going up. Will those sales and the data cap that AT&T is imposing, but not releasing the number of, affect those new users a year or so down the road? And what about the new 4G network that everyone will be rolling out at some point and the faster speeds that will give users? Will the data cap go up? Will it remain the same? A lot of questions from AT&T have yet to be answered.
In the mean time, count your bits and bytes because Unlimited now means 'Unlimited use of the data you are allowed to use', which is 200MB or 2GB.


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The Soul Society of Korea is a society of souls based in Korea. The departed souls of koreans were usually accommodated here. For this reason, it is similar to the more popular Soul Society of Japan. The military force is known as the YeongHon ShiDae (영혼세대, "Soul Generation"), which originally consisted of 6 divisions but due to the support of the society, it has been increased to 9 divisions. Their real name is ShinKi (신기, God's Period)
Although described as copy of the human world, it is actually a paradise in comparison to the other societies. The progression of technology is higher than most countries and is even comparable to that of Japan. Souls of fallen human reside in a place known as Donghae (동해, "East Sea"), in which is divided into 5 parts. Four of which surround the middle, which is for the YeongHon ShiDae. The four divisions related to the 4 basic shinigami techniques each reside in one part which surround the middle. They aid the souls when in need.
The Human World and ShinKi are perpendicular to each other. Families separated by death are rarely reunited in the ShinKi unless they arrive there together.


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Pumpkin Pie Pizza
Recipe by Chef Jean
This is a great fall dessert pizza. Something a little different, but with familiar flavors. I suggest using Pilsbury crescent roll dough because it tends to unroll a little larger than some store brands.
Top Review by annlouise
I doubled the recipe into a jelly-roll pan. I thought with all these scrumptious ingredients that this would be perfect, but I think it lacked just a pinch of salt. Also, the dough did not bake all the way, perhaps because I had doubled this. I would bake another 5 minutes the first round if I doubled this again. I left it in for about 7 min. the second time around, but since the marshmallows started to brown, I figured it was done. Next time I will also use a little less peanut butter, as the flavor of that seemed to dominate the squash. I also would add more spices; I love spice! Still, this was a fun breakfast on a cool fall morning!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (8 ounce) package crescent roll dough
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter, creamy
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 3⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
- 1⁄4 teaspoon clove, ground
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg, ground
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, chopped
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 cup miniature marshmallow
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- Preheat oven to 350°F Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
- Unroll crescent roll dough, but do not seperate the rolls. Lay the dough on the cookie sheet, pinch perferations together and press out the dough to about an 8"x13" rectangle.
- Drizzle the 1 TBLS honey over all the dough(try not to go over the edge, it may cause sticking) and sprinkle with the 1/4 tsp cinnamon.
- In a small bowl mix together all the ingredients except the pecans, brown sugar and marshmellows.
- Spread the mixture over the dough going about 1/4 inch from the edge. Sprinkle with the pecans and brown sugar.
- Bake for 10 minutes, remove from oven and top with the marshmellows. Bake for an additional 5 minutes or until the crust is very golden and the marshmellows are melted.


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Last year, Monticello girls basketball took a step previously unmade by the program. They won their first section title and earned their first state berth.
This year, they'll look to take another new step, one that was previously unavailable to them. Defend a section championship.
Tuesday, at their home opener, they certainly looked ready to defend – the basket, at least.
The Magic allowed the visitors just 19 first half points, and even less in the second half, on their way to a 56-34 victory, Monticello's second of the young season.
The defense set the tone early in the game, as the Magic used full court pressure to create turnovers and easy baskets on their way to a 12-2 lead.
Last year, Monticello relied largely on a half court defense. This year, that won't be the case.
"We feel like we got a team where we can get up and down a little bit," said Coach Craig Geyen.
Tuesday night, Monticello needed that up-and-down pace. In the half court set the offense struggled to take care of the ball and get good looks. When they did get good looks, they rarely fell in.
When the turnovers stopped coming to the Magic in the first half, so did points. After scoring 12 points in the opening six minutes (four each for Bailey Bechtold, Gabby Laimer and Alyssa Lentner), Monticello picked up just two more over the next six minutes, allowing the visitors to cut the lead to 14-10.
As the half wound down, Monticello found the basket a few more times. But instead of finding steals, the defense found fouls. Sauk Rapids got into the bonus, and earned numerous trips to the free throw line, scoring 10 of their first half points at the stripe. Those easy points allowed the Storm to pull all the way within 20-19, before two free throws from freshman Melissa Schmitt right before the half extended Monticello's lead to 22-19.
The second half started as more of the same. Magic turnovers led to easy points for Sauk Rapids, and eventually the visitors had taken a lead, 28-27.
"We stress, stress, stress take care of the ball," said Geyen. "And we just didn't do it tonight."
But, right as it was beginning to seem clear that Sauk Rapids was going to hang around till the final horn, Monticello resumed its defense.
The Magic again started forcing turnovers, rather than making them.
They finished fast breaks. When they didn't finish, they earned second and third opportunities – finishing the game with 17 offensive rebounds.
While it had taken a whole half for their initial lead to evaporate, it took just seconds to get it back. An 8-0 spurt put Monticello back up by seven points. An ensuing 13-1 run put the Magic out of reach, giving the home team a 48-29 lead with just a few minutes left to play.
"We started playing defense again," said Geyen. "And our defense created our offense."
That offense was created largely for and by Laimer and Lentner who led the Magic with 12 points apiece. Ten players scored in the game for the Magic, helping them to a comfortable victory despite getting just five points on a tough shooting night from standout junior Grace Sawatzke.
"We need other kids [to step up]," said Geyen, who was pleased with the balance scoring. "Any level you go to, you need [at least] three kids who can score."
The Magic will score points this year. Between Laimer and Lentner, Sawatzke and Bechtold, they have girls who have already proven capable. But, for Monticello this year will largely be about defense. Both on a nightly and season-long basis.
"We're getting better," said Geyen. "But we still got a long ways to go."
Monticello opened their season with a 59-42 win over St. Anthony last Friday, before falling 58-33 to New Prague Saturday. Sawatzke led the Magic with 19 points in the victory, while Laimer led the Magic with 16 points against New Prague.


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|2012-02-04, 17:49
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In the manga, way back in chapter 3, Taurus helped Natsu, Happy, and Lucy save Macao from falling into a ravine to his death after he got taken over by a Vulcan and beaten, which sent him crashing through a hole in the cave wall. If not for his brute strength, everyone would have fallen. In fact, if it weren't for Taurus, Lucy never would have been able to destroy one of the lacrimas powering Nirvana. Then there's Aquarius, who pushed the fake Salamander's ship to the harbor to rescue the kidnapped girls, washed Sherry out of her giant Rock Doll and get her dizzy so Lucy could beat her by hand, and pinned Vidaldus Taka in place so Lucy and Juvia could get a good shot at him. Cancer was responsible for landing the finishing blow on Duke Everlue, and Horologium pulled various rescues (he summoned himself automatically to save Lucy from the crumbling Nirvana and from being sucked into the Anima portal, as well as Wendy against Hades's ultra-powerful technique). In Edolas, Virgo even provided the Fleuve d'étoiles whip to Lucy, and even Scorpio and Aries were vital in saving Lucy from those guards. Did you really think Natsu and Wendy, who couldn't use their magic and totally sucked at using their weapons, were responsible for saving Lucy, the strongest wizard of Fairy Tail at the time? And don't even get me started on Leo...
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Leo and Capricorn are the only two that seem fit for any serious fighting. Every thing else is just a joke.
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According to the score, Juvia and Gray got a few offpanel touch though.
The RT guy finished at +8 and got all his touches from FT and got -2 for being found by Sabertooth and failing at attacking him, so he got 10 at least 10 touches on FT. FT got at least -2 from touching decoys. So they should total -12 (-11 with the Leon panty shot), yet they totaled +1.
From the way Mashima drew it, they sucked completely, but they must have owned the other teams to manage to simply even their score.
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Same thing with Gray, he had a negative score, putting him in last place so he only received 0 points for the team. Juvia got 1 point because she had less of a negative score than Gray, meaning she was placed above him in the final placements.
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Anyway, I liked the chapter, I don't think anyone was dumbed down. Losing a point for wrong attacks bars massive AoE offense, and showing their true potential in the game could have meant trouble for the battles that follow. First fight of the day, psychotic blonde-hater Flair vs Lucy! I want it to be another voodoo magic user
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I like to go out and wander around to see new places or things. I have set a goal to try and visit every continent some time within the next 5 or 6 years. So far I'm only up to 2 of 7 , I got back from Iceland and Ireland back in May and it really was great.
I love to find any thing with a good story to it, be it book, movie or game, but after saying that I also have huge love of B horror and Scifi movies, the goofier, the better, think MST3K candidates. I also have a love of the old pulp radio shows like the Phantom and Dick Tracy.
Over all trying to keep my self busy, if I'm bored I tend to get into trouble.
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Hall County commissioners approved the rezoning of a 9.86-acre tract on Old Winder Highway on Thursday to pave the way for a shopping center area residents once vehemently opposed.
Dunhill Developers LLC requested the county commission rezone the property adjacent to the Mulberry River at the intersection of Old Winder Highway and Howington Road from agriculture residential to highway business. The proposed shopping center would contain 68,000 square feet of retail and office space, as well as an 8,000-square-foot restaurant.
Mike Townsend lives near the proposed shopping center site and was among the group of neighborhood residents who spoke against the development when it came under Hall County Planning Commission review on Feb. 4. Since that meeting, where five residents spoke against the development, Dunhill Developers met with opponents to determine possible concessions that could be made to appease nearby homeowners who said they did not want the traffic and odor associated with the potential restaurant.
"Financially, this is the best choice we have — to work together to maintain my property value," Townsend said. "I would rather have some say of what's going to happen. It's easier to control what goes in rather than fight a losing battle. It's better than what could be there."
The developers agreed to establish a 100-foot buffer with evergreen trees between Mulberry Creek and the shopping center in an attempt to muffle noise and odor emitted from the shopping center.
Commissioners also approved Baker Land Design's request to rezone a 266-acre tract on the south side of Union Church Road from agriculture residential and planned residential development to planned residential development to allow Eagle Ranch, a home for youth, to be updated. The rezoning allows construction of two more girls' homes, maintenance buildings and a community lodge.
"The rezoning will enable Eagle Ranch to provide a home for 12 additional girls, bringing the total capacity of the ranch to almost 70 children," said Eddie Staub, founder and executive director of Eagle Ranch. "It also takes into account other needed buildings in the ranch's future growth plan."
In addition to rezoning, Hall County Board of Commissioners authorized a $50,000 per year commitment to fund the City of Lula's downtown Veterans Park. The Veterans Park will be built on less than one acre on Main Street in Lula, and will feature fountains and walkways to honor past and present members of the military.
Lula has already designated $100,000 of its own funds toward the project that Lula City Manager Dennis Bergin said will total $650,000.
County commissioners also agreed to send a resolution to the state General Assembly asking the legislature to authorize the creation of community improvement districts in Hall County. Hall County Administrator Jim Shuler said community improvement districts, if the General Assembly approved them in Hall County, could be used as a tool by commercial companies to generate funds for shared improvements in a commercial district the county might not be willing to fund, such as additional lighting.
Shuler said a commercial improvement district is a special tax district that only commercial property owners can levy against themselves, on top of property taxes, for the purpose of funding improvements to the district.
Hall County Board of Commissioners also sanctioned a proclamation recognizing March 3 as the National Education Association's Read Across America Day. Monday marks the 104th birthday of Dr. Seuss, and will be celebrated as a day to encourage children and adults to read.


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Allergies can be life-threatening health issues, and now doctors are seeing a relatively new one: an allergy to meat. Patients have reported rashes, hives, even anaphylactic shock hours after eating a steak or hamburger. This allergy can be dangerous; anaphylactic shock can be fatal, and the incidence of the allergy seems to be on the rise.
The cause is a sugar known as alpha-gal, present in beef and pork (as well as the meat of all other mammals that are not primates).
The allergy that develops to that sugar starts with a tick bite, which took researchers some time to figure out. One factor adding to the confusion was the relatively long time it took for the reaction to appear, which was several hours after a person ate meat. Normally, food allergies produce reactions in an hour or less. The delay is, in part, because alpha-gal tends to be concentrated in fat, and fat moves through the digestive system slowly.
An associate professor of medicine at the University of Sydney Medical School, Sheryl van Nunen, got credit for first making the connection between tick bites and meat after she started seeing unusual numbers of cases of anaphylaxis. While the condition is rare, van Nunen says that it's the most common cause of anaphylaxis in Sydney.
The culprit there is the paralysis tick. Where alpha-gal allergies have appeared in Europe, they've been blamed on the castor bean tick. In the United States, the lone-star tick, whose territory covers most of the eastern half of the country, has been implicated. The tick, whichever kind it is, needs only to bite its host. It doesn't need to stay attached for long. During the bite, alpha-gal is injected into the skin. In some people, this causes the immune system to release a flood of antibodies, which then signal the body to release histamines to fight off the perceived allergen. The body is now sensitized to alpha-gal. When the person next eats meat, alpha-gal is introduced to the body again and the reaction, the overreaction, begins. The body detects a threat and deploys the antibodies.
Researchers investigating the alpha-gal allergy have now also documented the first U.S. cases of another rare meat reaction: pork-cat syndrome, which is an allergy to pork caused by a sensitization to cats. It's been known in Europe since the 1990s.
The researchers found that some people, almost all of them cat owners, develop an allergic response to a protein made by a cat's liver that cross-reacts with albumin in pork. When these people ate pork, they had severe allergic reactions, including hives and anaphylaxis.
Experts describe meat allergies as being quite rare, at least in terms of documented cases. They suspect there are many more cases still undiagnosed. The only way to a definitive diagnosis is a blood test, and the only cure is giving up red meat. But an alpha-gal allergy does seem to go away in time, though it may take several years.


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We are considering changing our current dynamic pages into static html ones for a variety of reasons. All content on the page will be identical, it is just the urls that are changing.
We are planning to 301 redirect all the old URLs onto the new static pages.
My main concern is that our rankings will drop in Google if we do make these changes.
Should I be concerned? - or - will it just be a simple case of Google updating their cache and links?
Any help greatly appreciated.
(Moderator's note: Poster's original title asked about "rewrites", but question phrasing was about "redirects". Going forward... I've changed title to "redirects," as I assume that's what the question should be discussing.)
I'll answer the 301 redirect question anyway. Yes, its a problem. You are likely to see your rankings decimated, at least for a time. Assuming perfect technical execution, and no lingering "trust" issues, they will come back over time.
If you absolutely have to do it, I would redirect the pages in batches.
But, unless it was essential, I wouldn't. Cool URLs don't change.
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:39 pm (utc) on July 17, 2009]
In general your rankings should not change (in Google), other than to improve because you are presumably moving away from less-friendly URLs to more search-friendly URLs.
It would be a good idea to test a few site sections though before doing the whole domain at once.
I have had some lingering concerns, though, about big sitewide 301 changes. I had to change an entire site's URl structure which meant 800+ pages with 301'd external links pointing to them. There have been some rumours about excessive 301 redirects when it comes to inbound linking. Whether it affects sites which alter their entire internal linking structure using 301s has never really be debated.
We took several factors into consideration that I think helped a lot. The most important was have no CHAINS of 301 redirects - not even [old url] >> [canonical fix] >> [new url]. another was that we did not 301 every legacy url, only those that were ranking or had significant backlinks or direct navigation.
Matt Cutts once posted about that approach, saying that in his mind it was better to redirect every one of the old urls. All I can say is that in projects that redirected all the old urls, the traffic faltered for weeks and even months. That's why I took this approach -- and the experience seemed to work.
Other important factors - the internal link structure is KEY in getting new urls indexed speedily. And remember that 301 redirects pass along "most" of the link juice. That's not the same as saying "all".
Some SEOs advocate submitting an xml sitemap that contains the old urls - to help Google find the redirects. I never took that approach, so I have no practical experience to share. However, there are several places where Google asks webmasters not to include urls in a sitemap that only redirect. Such urls will show up as Sitemap errors, so I took that at face value. It's comeing from the Sitemaps and spidering team after all, not the algo team.
I'll add that you need to make sure that both www and non-www version of the old URL redirect to the www version of the new URL, and do so in ONE HOP.
You also need to make sure that requests for named index pages (both www and non-www) get to their final destination in just ONE HOP.
Ensure that the redirects from old URL to new URL return a 301 status (NOT a 302).
If the old URLs have parameters in them, then you'll need Mod_Rewrite (RewriteRule) to do the job. Redirect and RedirectMatch cannot 'see' parameters.
And remember that 301 redirects pass along "most" of the link juice. That's not the same as saying "all".
Certainly true from what I've seen. I would even tentatively throw in that 301s from one site to a new one see even less link juiced passed ... but that could be a co-incidence due to the site move in general and is something I am still testing.
The most important was have no CHAINS of 301 redirects - not even [old url] >> [canonical fix] >> [new url].
To clarify, you are saying don't do this:
301 http://www.example.com/file.php?page=11290
which then has to be 301'd to:
There should be no reason to 301 to a non-canonical URL, but a reasonable chance the unwary will canonically resolve a URL, then redirect from the old canonical to the new.
Incidentally, if I were making this kind of change, I would take the opportunity to drop the extension. Final URL would be:
Thank you very much for making the effort to reply to my query.
I have a more important element that needs addressing, which i really should have mentioned in the beginning.
The pages I am rewriting the URLs for are all inner pages which do not rank very highly at all (apart from two or three).
My Main concern is with my homepage... This is the only page that has an important rank and PR value.
Although the homepage is not having its URL re-written, will it be affected in any way by the rewrite of the other URLs? Could the homepage rankings be affected by the re-write changes elsewhere within the website? To confirm... the current homepage link is website.com/index.php and will not be changing.
Any help gratefully received
Redirect website.com/index.php to website.com/
As for inner pages, any changes to anything anytime might cause Google to screw up, but in general structuring the rest of your website properly will only improve the PR and ranking of your main page.
To confirm... the current homepage link is website.com/index.php and will not be changing.
An extra point with regard to the above... in addition to the redirect, make sure that you don't link to index.php in your page code. When linking to "home", link either to "/" or to the absolute url of your domain's canonical form.
This is a point that I at one time found confusing... I thought that's what the redirect was for... so I think it's worth noting for others who might be reading this thread.


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Once Upon a Time… Dorothea and Mats Bernesjo were looking for a new cat. The couple had been married for about four years, and had recently lost their cat, Claire, to lung cancer. "I had a cat when my husband met me," Dorothea Bernesjo says. "I told him, I'd like to get another cat, but it's up to you, because I already had one when you came into this marriage." Mats agreed, and they started the search for a new pet.
They visited Animal House Fund, which had come up in their preliminary Internet searches, and were excited to find that it was exclusive to cats. "I thought it was just spectacular because of the way it was set up—you're able to interact with the cats as you're choosing one." The Bernesjos grew fond of one particular cat, called Winona, and took her to a separate room to see how she would interact with them. "For some reason she was just too fascinated with that space, which she had never been in, and she was more into that than us," Bernesjo says. A little disheartened, they decided to call it a day and come back another time.
When they returned, Dorothea was browsing the room when she noticed Mats seemed to be getting along with one cat in particular. "She was rubbing his hand, and licking him to pieces," she recalls. "I went over to say hi--and it was Winona, the cat who had thought we were nothing!" They realized that despite the initial interaction, this really was the cat for them, and decided on the spot to name her Kisse. The name, which is Swedish for 'kitty,' turned out to be a big hit with Mats' family back home in Sweden.
The staff at Animal House delivered Kisse to their Hortense Place home, and the Bernesjos have grown to love their new kitty. "She's so sweet, so friendly and so loving," Bernesjo says. "My grief from my other cat is practically gone because of her." Even Mats, who didn't grow up with pets, is converted, she says. "He calls her 'the new model with more features—all the bells and whistles.' " Kisse is highly social, belying the common stereotype about aloof cats, Bernesjo says. "If I'm in one room, she's always there, or I can at least see her in the hallway," she says. "She even sleeps with us—I've never had a cat sleep with me. When cats are asleep, they're the most vulnerable, so it's a great sign of affection."
Kisse also has a few other behaviors that had even the veteran cat owner scratching her head. The couple kept coming home to find their two plush toys—a minion from Despicable Me and a Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc.—in the middle of the carpet. "We couldn't figure out why, and I talked to some people who told me, She's bringing you her prizes. It's like when they kill something and bring it to the owner to show them. She doesn't have anything to kill, so this is her prize. Now, when she brings us the toys, we always give her praise. I even sent Animal House a picture of her holding Minion in her paws with a caption saying she's a good provider."
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In 1992, Ben Stiller first made his breakthrough in the Fox sketch comedy series, "The Ben Stiller Show." Twenty years later, Stiller may find a new home on TV at HBO.
According to Deadline, Stiller has been signed to star in "All Talk," a new HBO comedy pilot from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close").
A statement released by HBO describes "All Talk" as "politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent" as it follows "the daily and life-altering dramas of a Jewish family in Washington, DC." Stiller will also direct the pilot from Foer's script, with both men slated to executive produce the potential series alongside Scott Rudin and Eli Bush.
Stiller is best known for his starring turns in dozens of feature films, including "There's Something About Mary," "Meet the Parents," "Zoolander," "Tropic Thunder," "Night at the Museum," "Starsky & Hutch," "Mystery Men," "Zero Effect," "Reality Bites" and "The Cable Guy." Stiller is currently starring in and directing a movie called "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
"Ben Stiller continues to be a major, multi-talented star because of his discerning ability to embrace creative and innovative projects – whatever the medium," related Michael Lombardo, HBO's president of programming. "From major blockbuster motion pictures to small independent films; from Broadway to off-Broadway, the common thread is always the excellence of the material. We were enormously pleased that Ben responded to this extraordinary work from Jonathan Safran Foer."
"All Talk" is expected to begin filming in the fall of 2012. The pickup marks the latest addition to HBO's busy production slate. Earlier this week, Rudlin signed a deal to develop the documentary "Indie Game: The Movie" into a comedy series.
Rudlin is also working on two other projects for HBO, Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom;" which launches this fall. And the other potential drama series is, "The Corrections;" an adaptation of Noah Baumbach's novel with Dianne Wiest and Ewan McGregor in the leads. A recent report on Deadline suggests that McGregor and Wiest may soon be joined by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bruce Norris, Greta Gerwig and Rhys Ifans.


text: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB) (the "Company") today announced the winners of its first annual Pebby Awards. The Pebby Awards winners were chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in 2012, as determined by the Company. "We want to acknowledge the hard work, commitment to excellence and overall successes of our hotel management teams in 2012," noted Jon Bortz, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. "And while so many of our property teams were great performers, these award winners, working closely with our asset managers, stood out for driving particularly exceptional results during the year. We created the 'Pebby' awards to recognize some of our star performers for 2012." The categories for the awards are Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Visual Effects, Best Adaptation of an Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Production. THE WINNERS Best Picture CRITERIA – For best overall performance by a hotel in 2012, based on operating execution and profitability, taking into consideration the strength of the market in which the hotel is located. AND THE 2012 WINNER IS – INTERCONTINENTAL BUCKHEAD ATLANTA, MANAGED BY INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP! Best Directing CRITERIA – For best overall leadership by a management team in 2012, including revenue management, sales, marketing and comprehensive expense management. AND THE 2012 WINNER IS – THE ARGONAUT HOTEL IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA, MANAGED BY KIMPTON HOTELS & RESTAURANTS GROUP! Best Visual Effects CRITERIA – For best overall performance during a major renovation, following the Company's standard of "Relentless pursuit of continuous improvement," maintaining a pleasant and professional demeanor while living through disruption, surprises and great inconveniences. AND THE 2012 WINNER IS – THE WESTIN GASLAMP QUARTER, SAN DIEGO, MANAGED BY STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS! Best Cinematography CRITERIA – For best implementation of energy conservation programs and green initiatives in an effort to reduce the hotel's carbon footprint and energy expenses. AND THE 2012 WINNER IS – THE HOTEL MONACO WASHINGTON, DC, MANAGED BY KIMPTON HOTELS & RESTAURANTS GROUP!


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Papergirl Street Art Project
Papergirl Street Art Project
by Ariston Anderson
When it comes to street art, itâs difficult not to reinvent the wheel. We often see the same wheatpaste graphics or stencil styles over and over. Thatâs why we were thrilled that our friend, Berlin artist Aisha Ronnigerâs pet project, Papergirl, is starting to gain traction. Ronniger started the project in 2005 when there was still debate over whether or not to punish wheatpasters the same way in which graffiti artists were punished. While most Berliners saw it as a lesser crime, the police force was intent on cracking down on street art.
Ronniger started brainstorming about new ways to show and distribute art in public spaces. A friend told her, âYou should be throwing your art around, like the paperboys in America do.â She realized it would be an easy and fun way to distribute great works of art on a large scale, and thus the project was born.
Four years later, Ronniger and the Papergirls and Paperboys of Berlin are still collecting art and distributing it throughout the streets. They ride their bikes, carrying rolls filled with collections of art, throwing them to lucky catchers on the street, in their cars, other bikers, people who might not normally be exposed to urban art. In addition a Papergirl USA project recently launched and new projects are sprouting up in over a dozen cities around the world. We spoke with Ronniger to find out more about the project and how you can get involved.
Tell me about some of the artists who contribute work.
The project is open for everyone! We want to show a wide range of works and we think you canât tell anyone what heâs aloud to give away as a present. Papergirl comes from the streets and thus it is the recipient that decides what he likes!
In the first year I contacted artist friends and colleagues from school. The core group of artists came from a streetart background—people that are used to giving away their art for free and understand the pleasure of it! Some of them take part almost every year, for example artists like Kowalski, Boxi, Evol, Tower/Klub7, Gould, Solovei, Cake, Nepomuk and many more.
Now, since we posted open calls on several blogs, there are more and more people coming from all over the world that want to start a Papergirl project in their hometown too! We will also start a Papergirl World-Blog, to connect these people, tell them how it works and let everybody check if thereâs a Papergirl where they live too!
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Oasis was the Best Cruise Ever: Oasis of the Seas Cruise Review by kumbaya99
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Oasis was the Best Cruise Ever
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
First off, to all you BIPAP/CPAP users out there, take note. When we were on the Serenade of the Seas last year, there was only one electrical outlet in the room and it was a ways from the bed. When we realized we couldn't plug in my husband's BIPAP, we called Guest Services for an extension cord only to find out several hundred people had beaten us to the punch and they had given them all out. We pleaded for them to look and see if they could swipe one from somewhere else on the ship and they were able to come up with one (two, actually). This time we took an extension cord and plugged it in under the dresser like we did on the Serenade, only to find the next morning that our cabin steward had unplugged it and plugged it back in right under the bed when he came in to make up the room. So, good news. Apparently, RCCL realized the problem of not having an outlet under More the bed and rectified it on their newer ships or at least this one.
OK. Enough with the breathing machines. One of the new wrinkles we encountered since last year on the Serenade of the Seas was the shooters they were serving at dinner. Brilliant idea, if you stop and think about it. At dinner they would come around with a different color shooter glass each night that you got to keep with the purchase of the "Shooter of the Day." They served shooters like a B52, Italian Stallion, etc. I ended up buying four, but another couple with us bought one every night for the complete set of seven. I suspect they make a lot of money on those things. Towards the end of the cruise you could buy the shooter glasses separately along with some glasses they were using for Mojito's. I ended up buying several of those for $3.95 each. They are nice glasses and are quite versatile. I used them the other night to serve shrimp cocktail. Unlike the glasses you get with the Drink of the Day which are plastic, these are actually glass.
In addition to the glasses, I bought some T-Shirts on the last day of the cruise when they had their $10.00 T-Shirt sale. Beware some of the nuts that show up early. They opened up at 9:00 a.m., so I ventured down to the Royal Promenade to see what they were selling. A little before 9:00 a.m. they opened the doors and brought the T-Shirts out on two tables. One table had smalls and mediums and the other table had large and X-large. As the guy was explaining what was on each table and not to grab anything until they were officially open for business, the lady next to me shoved me aside and started digging through the T-Shirts and from there it turned into a madhouse and they weren't even open for business yet. I guess there's one or two...maybe more...in every crowd. Here's a secret. They replenish the shirts all day long. No need to kill anybody for a $10.00 T-Shirt. I will say the T-Shirts are fairly nice and they say "Royal Caribbean" on them and have the different ports of call on them, too. I have already worn and washed several of them and they held up well.
My husband mentioned that we had our pictures taken at the Smile Photo Studio on the Boardwalk. Here's a word of caution. We made the mistake of putting costumes on our upper torso and not our lower. We assumed (big mistake) that the photographer would only shoot the upper half of our body that had the costume on it. Instead, she shot us so that you saw the costume as well as the shorts we were wearing, etc. Also, feathers were falling of the boas and instead of cleaning them up, they appeared in all of our other pictures on the floor of the white background we were shooting on. After looking at the pictures, we assumed she would crop out the lower part of our bodies and photo shop the feathers on the floor. That didn't happen. Of course, shame on us for not asking questions. The flip side is it would have been nice if she would have told us what to expect. You live, you learn.
It's been noted on some of the reviews that you would think with 6000 people it would seem crowded. Amazingly, it never did. There was a conference on the ship for a travel company with 1200 attendees. We hardly knew they were on the ship except for their name badges. Actually, I think because most of them were in class, it made it feel even less crowded. We never had a problem finding a chair to read, relax, or catch some sun. In the Windjammer, we were always able to get a seat pretty quickly and there were six of us each morning. The shows never seemed crowded and all the standbys got to get a seat. I did notice that if someone tried to get in a show without a reservation, they were sent to the standby line no matter how loud they protested that they DID have a reservation. If you're not in the system, forget it. They are not going to take your word for it.
Oh and here's a new one for us. The morning of our departure, they had added towel charges of $50.00 to our account. Surprise! Guest Services closes at 8:00 a.m. the morning you are getting off the ship, so we had to flee down there to get our money back. Our friends in the cabin next door got the same surprise, so we all went down together. We had turned our towels in, so I wonder how many other folks this happened to. My advice is to make sure when you take your towels back that they swipe your Seapass card and assure you that you have been credited for returning your towels. They didn't argue with us when we asked for a credit, but it was an inconvenience to deal with when you are trying to get off the ship and head to the airport.
We decided to do the valet service where you leave your bags out the night before departing the ship and you don't see them again until you get home. The cost is $20.00 per person and well worth it. All we had was our carry-on's getting off the ship. We breezed through Customs, met our shuttle and headed off to the airport. The valet service also includes you getting your boarding passes, so when we got to the airport we went straight to security and were at our gate in no time. Again, well worth the $20.00.
Back to the ship, another misconception we had was that the Zip Line and the Flow Riders were going to be busy all the time. Not so, at least for the times we were there. There was never a long wait for either one and as for the rock climbing wall, I never saw anyone on it. Even with 6000 people, the miniature golf, basketball, ping pong, etc., were never too crowded if you wanted to participate. As popular as the Park Cafe is, we could walk up at almost any time and get right in line for the salad bar or skip right to the famous roast beef sandwich. They whip everyone in and out of there pretty fast. Sitting is a little limited, but we could always find a seat outside. Sometimes that meant going over to Giovanni's Table, but that wasn't a big deal.
Another note about food, I didn't realize it until it was too late, but at Sorrento's they will make you a pizza with whatever you want on it. They had four choices of pizza each day already made up and pretty much every day, two of those choices were pepperoni and cheese. The last night of the cruise I noticed them bringing pizzas to the tables (we were sitting there waiting on one of the many parades) and I turned to my husband and asked him what those were and he said, "Oh. You select the ingredients and they will make you a pizza. Now you tell me.
At the Frozen in Time show, they had a couple that I don't think anyone has mentioned that make pictures in a box of sand. They were unbelievable. They brought this tall box of sand out onto the ice rink and this man and woman would create all different kinds of scenes in the sand going from one thing to another with the stroke of their fingers. They had a camera in the ceiling that was shooting down on the sand so you could see what they were drawing/creating in the sandbox. While all this was going on, there was music in the background along with the skaters. It was very surreal. Be sure and catch this show. You won't want to miss it.
We made our reservations for all the shows about a month or two before the cruise. It's best to get it out of the way and not wait until you get on the ship or you may not get the times you want. We had charted what we wanted to go to and when, based on when we were in port or at sea. However, when we went to make reservations, some of the shows were already sold out. The RCCL reservation system will not let you hold one reservation while you search to see if you can get the same show at a different time or on a different day. Instead, you have to cancel each time to search for the same show on a different date. Hope that makes sense. It probably will once you start trying to schedule all the shows.
Folks always ask if you can take liquor on the ship. While RCCL definitely discourages this, we brought some wine in our luggage, as did our friends, and it was still there when our luggage made it to our room. They had a mini-bar style fridge in our room, so we used that to chill our wine. It doesn't get very cold, though. I wouldn't recommend leaving any wine in the fridge while you are out, as it might get confiscated by your room steward. However, I would guess he doesn't want to lose his tip. Speaking of liquor, the prices in the store on the ship are good and in all cases where I checked, cheaper than in the ports. It costs $26.00 plus tax for Baileys at home and you could get two for $35.95. The vodka and practically everything else is a great buy. They did have a liquor tasting, but we had to miss it because we were at dinner.
Not much mention has been made on the fitness room. It is huge and there was never a shortage of treadmills and it never seemed crowded. The treadmills do not face the front of the ship like on most RCCL ships. Instead you face either side of the ship. Be sure and bring your headphones if you want to watch TV or listen to music.
Another tip for any first time cruisers out there. If you don't see what you like on the dinner menu, ask for something you like. The very first night we asked for shrimp cocktail. It eventually showed up on the menu one night during the week, but we ate shrimp cocktail every night. If they have it back in the kitchen, they will bring it to you. Don't wait for it to show up on the menu. We love key lime pie, so rather than wait for the night it was on the menu (last night on this cruise), we could order it during the week if we didn't like what we saw. This is typical of any cruise you go on, but I thought I would mention it for those who were not aware you could do this.
The Muster Drill -- Most cruise lines are getting away from you having to haul a life jacket around. Last year on the Serenade, they had a verbal roll call to see who was present. On the Oasis, your Seapass card gives you the location info for your muster station (ours was the Aqua Theater ) and they swiped our Seapass card to register that we were there. Sure beats the roll call. They had a video they showed on the big screen at the Aqua Theater and the whole thing was pretty painless and did not take very long.
Rising Tide Bar -- This thing is amazing. The bar rises from Deck 5 to Deck 8 and back down about every 45 minutes. One of the entertainment staff generally operates the bar moving up and down, so you get a bit of "entertainment" while you are enjoying the ride and a drink. As the bar rises from Deck 5, water starts spurting from a number of areas and they are highlighted by laser lights. Once the bar gets to Deck 8, a blast of water shoots from Deck 5 to the middle of the bar and jets of water shoot out of a lighted circle in the middle of the bar from Deck 8 down to Deck 5. The whole thing is well engineered and thought out. Be sure and go for a ride.
Getting around the ship -- OK the ship is big, but it is not so big that it is that hard to get around. One night we came out of the Opal Theater exiting on Deck 4. We took the elevator up to 14 and walked to the other end of the ship to our cabin. One of our friends in a wheelchair went up to Deck 5, across the Royal Promenade and up the other set of elevators to Deck 14 and beat us to our cabin. You can cross on Deck 4, too, but you have to go through the casino...which is huge. Moral of the story, it's not a big deal to go from one end of the ship to the other.
Meet & Mingle -- We had about 92 people sign up for the Cruise Critic Meet & Mingle. I would say 1/3 of them showed up. RCCL staff gave out some decent prizes including several bottles of wine to go with the cheap stuff you generally get. They scheduled the Meet & Mingle for our first day at sea (Monday) at 11:15 a.m. in Dazzles.
Hopefully, this information will be of help on your cruise. The Oasis of the Seas is an incredible ship and it deserves the number one rating it has had on Cruise Critic. Less
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Deck 14 - Inside aft near elevator. Pretty typical. Nice size room, but not really any bigger than other ships. Lots of storage space. Enjoyed the mini-fridge. Bathroom was pretty standard...small.
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For a while Hollywood was into bromance. Now there's momance.
In her new movie, Admission, Tina Fey stars as an unmarried college administrator who belatedly regrets not being a mom.
Fey played a single woman in her late 30s who hires a surrogate in Baby Mama. And, of course, on her late, great NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, her character, Liz Lemon, spends the later part of the series agonising about whether to have children, and then how.
So it's pretty clear that for Fey, motherhood is a long-standing preoccupation. But her choices also echo a broader cultural mood swing: Pregnancy is an increasingly fertile field for romantic comedy.
Heroines used to focus mostly on mating; lately the genre has stretched to include the pursuit — or avoidance — of offspring.
And Fey, perhaps not surprisingly, tapped into the subject early (Baby Mama came out in 2008) and often enough to own the territory. But she is not alone.
Jennifer Lopez played a woman who becomes pregnant on her own through artificial insemination, then meets Mr Right in The Back-Up Plan (2010). And that's also what happens to Jennifer Aniston's character in The Switch (2010), though she encountered messier complications.
In Knocked Up (2007) Katherine Heigl becomes pregnant after a one-night stand. Last year Jennifer Westfeldt starred in and directed Friends With Kids, about a woman who makes a deal with a male friend to make a baby, without benefits.
What to Expect When You're Expecting, a 2012 comedy based on a parental advice book, flopped, but the stellar cast looked like a stay-at-home campaign for mid-career Hollywood actresses.
Maternity is not a new subject, of course. The decision to have — or not have — children has been a perennial obsession that blooms in a thousand blog posts and talk show debates every time science pushes a new boundary or The New England Journal of Medicine prompts a fresh scare.
There's a cycle to the fertility fixation.
Five years before Diane Keaton starred in Baby Boom, Time magazine put a pregnant Jaclyn Smith on a 1982 cover promoting a story about older, affluent women having babies.
The topic doesn't grow old, mothers do: New York magazine helped ignite a new round of late-baby buzz in 2011 with a cover of a wrinkled, grey-haired woman, Photoshopped to look naked and very pregnant, a la Demi Moore.
The only real difference is that in today's 24-hour tabloid culture signs of celebrity baby bumps, morning sickness and secret surrogacies are as closely monitored via Telephoto lens and minicams as engagement rings and cosmetic surgery scars. Nothing is private anymore, and everything about celebrity parenthood is up for grabs and public exposure.
Right now older mothers, along with gay adoptions, are in vogue and in the news.
But back when show business was ruled by men, the trajectory from girlfriend to wife to mother was a downward, one-way spiral; now there's more mobility.
That's partly thanks to actresses like Fey and Kristen Wiig, who defy expectations that men won't watch movies or shows geared to a female audience, and also because there is at least one woman running a major studio and lots of female writers, producers and directors who welcome seeing their own concerns — boyfriend, baby, ex-boyfriend — reflected on screen.
But Hollywood comedies still colour inside the lines of conventionality.
Once a woman in her 30s gets her man, or can't find him, then she has to want a baby — or cope with a baby she didn't plan on.
That's become so inviolate a rule of comedy than anything else seems abhorrent: a steadfastly single, aging woman who is not grappling with infertility or hidden mommy yearnings is branded a psycho. And even Charlize Theron in Young Adult had a traumatic miscarriage.
The main way around that rule is a buddy film. The genre provides the only really safe alternative for comic actresses on the far side of nubile. Wiig proved that resoundingly with her hit movie Bridesmaids.
Fey chose the mommy track for Liz Lemon on 30 Rock. Her sitcom was certainly not the first to showcase a woman who contemplates having a baby alone.
In 1992 Candice Bergen's character accidentally became pregnant and decided to have the baby on her own on Murphy Brown, a decision that became a cause celebre after the vice president at the time, Dan Quayle, denounced her family values.
But Fey, who in real life has a longtime husband and two children, seems more determined than most to express her generation's anxieties about infertility and parenthood.
Even in the caper comedy Date Night Fey plays a mother who gets into trouble when she tries to take a break from the kids.
In Baby Mama Fey put herself in the role of a childless, unmarried woman who can't get pregnant — a foreshadowing of Liz Lemon's predicament.
In that movie Sigourney Weaver has a hilarious star turn as the founder of an upscale service that matches parents and surrogates; the woman is well past her childbearing years, but thanks to genes and possibly lots of mysterious fertility treatments, is glowingly pregnant and insufferably smug about it.
For Fey the focus on maternity seems to be a personal preference as much as a bow to the spirit of the age.
Leslie Knope, Amy Poehler's character on Parks and Recreation, is in the same age group as Liz Lemon but is not weighed down by the same doubts and discontents.
It may seem a little counter-intuitive that Fey is the one to give into maternal yearnings. Both Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock are satirical workplace comedies and very funny, but Poehler's show has a sweeter, almost sentimental vein that is noticeably softer than the caustic, self-conscious humor on 30 Rock. Even the sappier moments in Fey's series finale were undercut with farce.
But Fey isn't nearly as cutting about child rearing as she is about network executives and comedy writers. That's most evident in her book, Bossypants. In that otherwise blithe and biting memoir Fey writes quite feelingly about the working mother's guilt, social pressure to breast feed and other topics that glut the mommy blogosphere. She devotes an entire chapter to her ambivalence about having a second child.
"Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?" she asks herself. "Do I want another baby? Or do I just want to turn back time and have my daughter be a baby again? "(She got over it: Her second daughter was born in 2011.)
And she channeled all that concern and uncertainty into Liz Lemon's story line, sending up fertility specialists, adoption agencies, nannies and all the other headaches of privileged motherhood. She taps into her own guilt over putting work ahead of her family.
As with most of her other movies Fey didn't write Admission. Due out in US cinemas today, the Focus Features film is based on a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz and is set in the ivy-covered jungle that is the Princeton admissions office.
But she once again chose to play an unmarried, late-30s career woman, named Portia Nathan, who begins to regret her decision not to be a mother, and the film has a poignant undertone beneath the jokes.
It's hard not to suspect that for Fey, vestigial fears or unconscious desires are also at work.
As a writer and performer Fey mocks everything, but she rarely disparages her children even in jest, which is almost surprising in such a sharp-edged humorist.
Plenty of female comedians — and ordinary mothers — mine the shock value of dissing the kids and bemoaning the burdens of parenthood. Fey doesn't.
It's a mommy omerta that clashes with so much of her seditious humour that it stands out.
It's another reminder that even as she makes fun of the lengths people go to have children, she takes motherhood very seriously.
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