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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Bjørn Lomborg. xxiv + 515 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2001. $27.95.
Every few years, someone who's not an environmental scientist announces that there is no environmental crisis, that the state of the Earth is improving, and that the future looks so rosy that our treatment of environmental resources requires—at most—minor adjustments. Notable examples are reporter Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (1996) and economist Julian Simon's The Ultimate Resource (1996). The Skeptical Environmentalist, by political scientist and statistician Bjørn Lomborg, is a similar but more expansive effort. In 515 pages that include 2,930 endnotes, he deals to a greater or lesser extent with most major environmental issues—waste, pollution, biodiversity, global warming, energy—with the unrelenting message that each is a relatively minor problem greatly exaggerated by scientists abetted by politicians and environmental organizations, all of whom benefit from scaring the public.
This startling claim, and some favorable notice from the lay press, has so alarmed environmental scientists that they have generated Web sites and publications where they review, in detail, Lomborg's treatment of various topics in which they have expertise. Among the most informative are a collection of reviews in Scientific American (January 2002), an ongoing series of reviews that the Union of Concerned Scientists has solicited, and reviews of many of the chapters in the online publication Grist Magazine. Lomborg also has defenders, although few among environmental scientists. The broad scope of The Skeptical Environmentalist means that even reviewers of the entire book (for example, Stuart Pimm and Jeff Harvey in Nature [414:149–150]) must concentrate on those areas in which they have the most expertise, as I will here.
The main focus of my own work is biodiversity and the forces affecting it. Lomborg discusses biodiversity at many points and devotes an entire chapter to it, but a very short one—nine pages (in contrast to 65 pages on global warming). This brevity makes it difficult for him to deal adequately with a complicated subject and may reflect a different mind-set from that of most authorities in the area.
Lomborg sees the importance of other species wholly in terms of how they can serve humans. The service can simply be providing a sense of well-being by their existence, or it can consist of fostering human wealth or welfare, but Lomborg's measure of value is always dollar value to humans. Thus, the loss of individuals or species is not of great concern so long as net dollar loss to humans is nil. As an example, the increasing "dead zone" caused by fertilizer-fed hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico is the price we let some marine organisms pay for our success in feeding a burgeoning humanity, and Lomborg sees the benefit to people as far greater than the cost. This is not a heretical stance, of course; many cost-benefit analyses of resource issues rest on the assumption (usually unstated) that dollar value to humans is the universal measure. However, one can imagine that current and future valuations, and confidence limits around them, would foster great disagreement between Lomborg and many environmental scientists.
The gist of the biodiversity chapter is that extinction rates, and their likely cost to humanity, have been greatly overestimated. The chapter is a disappointment. Lomborg begins with a few partially valid but well-worn criticisms. For example, he is correct that Norman Myers's estimate in 1979 that 40,000 species are disappearing annually was based on no more than a hunch; this fact has been widely cited. He is also correct that some estimates of the total dollar value of biodiversity are highly questionable because they tacitly assume that ecosystem processes are maximized by maximal biodiversity, when in fact many ecosystem functions may rest on activities of a small subset of species. Again, this criticism has been voiced repeatedly by others. It is the basis for one of the major research programs (uncited by Lomborg) in biodiversity and ecology, on the significance of number of species to ecosystem function (see S. Naeem et al., Fall 1999, Issues in Ecologyno. 4:1–12).
However, Lomborg's modus operandi is that of a polemic rather than a good-faith attempt at the stated goal of "Measuring the Real State of the World." First, he cites some extreme and poorly documented statements (in this chapter, primarily Myers's estimate of extinction rate). Next, he uses these statements to caricature what is really a large, complicated, improving literature. He assiduously ignores research not buttressing his thesis, occasionally misinterprets published data and some of the arguments that he does cite, and judiciously omits context so as to warp a conclusion or even becloud an issue. He veers toward ad hominem attacks; in this chapter, his major bêtes noires are Myers and E. O. Wilson (in others, Lester Brown, Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore are repeatedly targeted). Lomborg concludes that extinction rates for animals will likely remain below 0.2 percent per decade (which works out to about 11,000 species per decade if we accept R. M. May's estimate [in P. H. Raven (ed.), Nature and Human Society, 1999] that there are 5.57 million species of animals).
Lomborg's coverage of extinctions associated with deforestation in North America and Puerto Rico exemplifies his approach. He notes that in eastern North America the loss of 98 to 99 percent of primary forest over two centuries caused the extinction of one forest bird species. What he does not mention is that secondary forest, some of it very substantial, replaced much of the primary forest so that at any one time about half of all previously forested area was forested, providing habitat for some forest birds. Also highly relevant but unstated is that in tropical forests, where the main loss of species is anticipated, many bird species have very small geographic ranges, whereas those of eastern North American forest almost all have large ones. Thus destruction of a large swath of tropical forest habitat is far more likely to encompass all or most of the range of a bird species than is analogous destruction in eastern North America.
For Puerto Rico, Lomborg observes that a 99 percent reduction of primary forest over 400 years led to the extinction of 7 out of 60 bird species and the addition of 44 species. He does acknowledge that the overall forest area of Puerto Rico never fell below 10 to 15 percent (thanks to the presence of secondary forests and coffee shade trees that served as habitat for some forest birds). However, he fails to mention that the species increase is due to introductions (even though this fact is noted in the source he cites) and that several forest birds, such as the Puerto Rican parrot, are hanging on by a thread. Islands worldwide are plagued by the establishment of cosmopolitan, introduced species, which often thrive in the same modified habitat that is inimical to the natives. Some introduced species even directly harm dwindling native forest species; the pearly-eyed thrasher is a key threat to all three highly endangered Puerto Rican bird species. The important point is that extinct species are lost forever, not that a modified landscape abounds in birds that are common elsewhere.
Lomborg seems oblivious to the mechanics of extinction. By far the major single cause of recent species extinction and current endangerment is habitat destruction. For example, habitat destruction contributes to the threat to 85 percent of all imperiled and federally listed species in the United States, and contributes similarly to the threat to imperiled birds alone. One main finding of evolving research in ecology and conservation biology over the last half century has been the exquisite and often subtle habitat specificity of many species. It is thus not surprising that massive habitat modification should lead to great numbers of extinctions. Nor would such extinctions be expected to be instantaneous; research in paleobiology, palynology and conservation biology abounds with examples of species doomed to extinction by habitat change but persisting for extended periods before the death of the last individual.
The second greatest cause of recent species endangerment and extinction is the impact of introduced species, a rapidly growing phenomenon fostered by burgeoning trade and travel, which is nowhere mentioned by Lomborg. Of all imperiled U.S. species, 49 percent are threatened at least partly by introduced species, a figure greater than the proportion threatened by pollution and/or overexploitation (issues Lomborg addresses). Lomborg may not be distressed at the prospect of a "planet of weeds" (to borrow David Quammen's phrase), so long as diverse weeds everywhere provide energy, food and other human goods and services, but he should acknowledge that extinctions and invasions are advancing us in this direction.
Estimating the rate at which species are going extinct is a difficult matter, as so many taxa are so poorly studied that unnamed species are estimated to account for about 80 percent of all species (R. M. May in P. H. Raven [ed.], Nature and Human Society, 1999), and few if any nations have adequate systematic monitoring programs to establish the status of named species. Species-area relationships predict substantial extinction, but they say nothing about when these extinctions will occur, and, in any event, such relationships typically account for only half the variation in number of species. Scientists are therefore forced to rely partly on taxon-by-taxon accounts. Some of these are anecdotal, others are quite systematic, and very many of them indicate recent extinctions or great danger to existing species. It is unfortunate that no common repository exists, but that does not mean these accounts are invalid.
Lomborg pillories Wilson for asserting much ongoing extinction from hundreds of such reports, but, in sum, they paint a dismal picture. For birds, for example, at least 103 species have disappeared since 1800, and careful examination of range and biology of the survivors suggests that at least 1,186 (12 percent of all birds) are threatened, of which well over 400 are unlikely to survive a century (BirdLife International, 2000, Threatened Birds of the World). Such a loss would translate to an extinction rate of about 0.4 percent per decade, twice Lomborg's estimate for animals. For parts of the Earth, similar and even more alarming detailed studies are available for other taxa such as mollusks and fish. Systematic data are very scarce for insects and plants, which each make up a far greater fraction of biodiversity than vertebrates and mollusks combined, and which are, on the whole, likely to include a far higher proportion of threatened species than vertebrates do, because of small geographic ranges (especially in the tropics). However, it is true, just as Wilson says, that most longtime students of particular groups and regions can point to at least a few species that have not been seen for a long time and whose habitat is destroyed in its historic range. These add up to a large number of species.
Forests have a chapter of their own—eight pages—and again the treatment is sketchy and misleading. Relying on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Lomborg depicts a slight change in total global forest area and not much loss of species-rich tropical forests. Problems with this scenario are barely acknowledged. First, many of the FAO data are unreliable estimates provided by individual nations. (Lomborg recognizes the inaccuracy of FAO data but relegates his acknowledgment of this problem to the endnotes.) Second, the FAO has changed its accounting procedures so significantly that an accurate time series of their data is impossible. Third, the FAO has consistently considered even highly damaged forest still to be forest, whereas to many previously resident species, many damaged forests are uninhabitable (BirdLife International, 2000, Threatened Birds of the World). The FAO even tallies clear-cuts as forest, so long as they are planned for reforestation; they are characterizing land use, not habitat.
Two other major global changes that impinge on biodiversity are the destruction of wetlands, which is untreated by Lomborg, and fisheries, to which he devotes about two pages. The omission of wetlands is a surprise, as much of the concern about this loss has been for the services wetlands provide to humans (such as flood control and pollutant filtration), Lomborg's key value. In many areas, an even higher fraction of wetlands has been lost than of forests, with little replacement. In the coterminous United States, 53 percent of wetlands was destroyed between 1780 and 1980 (M. T. Bryer et al. in B. A. Stein et al. [eds.], 2000, Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States). It is lamentable that there has been no systematic survey of the number of species that depend on these wetlands directly as habitat or indirectly for services, but perusal of data on individual taxa shows that it is large.
Fish, which make up the majority of vertebrate species, are one taxon in which many species rely heavily on intact wetlands. Lomborg's entire treatment of fish focuses, perhaps unsurprisingly, on their value as food for humans, and he sees no substantial problem, based on two arguments. First, fish are a small part of total human caloric and protein intake. Second, he claims that the total catch of fish per capita increased greatly from 1950 through 1990 and then held almost level in the 1990s. One wonders about his latter assertion in light of the recent analysis by Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly (Nature 414:534–536) indicating that Chinese officials systematically exaggerated catches through the 1990s to meet rising government targets, with the upshot that, instead of rising over the last decade by 330,000 tons per year, the global catch has actually fallen by 360,000 tons per year.
With respect to biodiversity, the recent history of fishing has been the depletion of one species after another as fishing focuses increasingly on less desirable species, lower trophic levels and residents of deeper habitats. For some species, such as the Atlantic halibut, there has yet to be substantial recovery since pressure was eased. Globally, about 30 percent of individual fishery stocks are overfished, depleted or recovering (National Research Council, 1999, Sustaining Marine Fisheries). The incidental loss of other species (including mammals, birds, invertebrates and plants) associated with much fishing is often a horrendous problem. Further, as fishing comes to target bottom-dwelling species (such as scallops) and deep-sea species (such as orange roughy), trawls, dredges and traps are devastating benthic habitats (P. K. Dayton et al., 1995, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 5[3]:250).
Lomborg's solution to the leveling (actually, decline) of catch is fish farms, where he cites a quintupling in production since 1984, led by China. He does not address the two main environmental impacts of aquaculture, both of which can greatly damage at least local biodiversity. First, aquaculture is often highly polluting (National Research Council, 1999, Sustaining Marine Fisheries). Second, for cultured carnivores such as salmon or shrimp, aquaculture can require enormous amounts of other species as food (R. Naylor et al., 1998, Science 282:883–884).
Reviews by experts focusing on other chapters suggest that the sorts of deficiencies that plague Lomborg's treatment of biodiversity, forests and fisheries—failure to cite relevant countervailing literature, omission of context, occasional misstatement of fact and neglect of entire issues—are not anomalies. That such a polemic could get through the review process of a respected academic press amazes me. There are enough controversial aspects of environmental forecasting, particularly at the global level, that a conscientious, comprehensive, authoritative examination would be a valuable contribution, but The Skeptical Environmentalist is not such a book.—Daniel Simberloff, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/skewed-skepticism
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Callaway RAZR X Forged IronsThursday, January 27th, 2011
Last fall it was the Diablo Octane Driver and this spring it will be the new RAZR X Forged Irons that will make serious waves throughout the golf industry. The new RAZR X Forged Irons are the latest forged offering from Callaway and they will replace the tired Forged X-Prototypes that achieved cult status amongst better players over the last few years. Although I am not crazy about the "RAZR" name, from a technology and aesthetic standpoint the RAZR X Forged irons are nothing short of amazing. From the thin topline to the higher heel and squared-off toe, these irons set up beautifully. A narrow sole with a sharp leading edge and a shortened blade length makes this iron extremely versatile from a wide variety of turf conditions. As far as feel is concerned, the RAZR X over delivers thanks in large part to the premium 1020 carbon steel and Callaway's patented Triple Net Forging process which helps to ensure the tightest of tolerances which cannot be achieved through the standard forging process. In an effort to combat the new groove rule, the RAZR X features Callaway's Tour CC Grooves which maximize spin by tightly spacing up to 30% more conforming grooves. The RAZR X Forged irons are stocked with Rifle Project X steel shafts, however more custom shafts options are available through Callaway. So far, this is the iron we are the most excited for this season. It is already being heavily played on the PGA Tour and it was recently awarded a Gold Medal in Golf Digest's 2011 Hot List. Pre-order your set from Budgetgolf.com for a mid-February ship date!!!
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The 2010 Callaway lineup keeps getting better and better with the release of the new X-24 Iron Set. The new Callaway X-24 irons begin right where the X-22 irons left off bringing with them a fresh new look and updated technology making them one of the best irons Callaway has produced to date. For starters, the X-24s look stunning at first glance starting with the stealthy dark PVD finish and the flashy orange cavity badge. (more…)
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The new Callaway Diablo Edge Irons have been released and are currently on Golf Digest's 2010 Hot List and are this years Gold Medal award winner. The new Diablo Edge iron is the latest and greatest in game improvement technology and are by far the longest and most forgiving iron Callaway has made to date. (more…)
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Coronado Biosciences Inc. (CNDO): Chairman and CEO Harlan F. Weisman Bought 20,000 Shares
Chairman and CEO of Coronado Biosciences Inc. (CNDO) Harlan F. Weisman bought 20,000 shares on 01/14/2013 at an average price of $6.52. Coronado Biosciences Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, engaged in the development of novel immunotherapy agents for cancer and inflammatory diseases. Coronado Biosciences Inc. has a market cap of $159 million; its shares were traded at around $6.52.
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I would like to inform you of the coach parking arrangements for the forthcoming Arsenal v Burnley FA Cup 5th Round match on Sunday 8th March 2009, Kick Off 1.30pm.
It is anticipated that there will be an increased number of coaches travelling from Burnley to Emirates Stadium on Sunday 8th March 2009. As with normal match days, Queensland Road and the Sobell Centre (both off-street parking) will be used to park supporters' coaches.
However, in order to facilitate the extra number of coaches, we have agreed with both Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police that Hornsey Street will also be required to be used on Sunday 8th March 2009.
The location will be the north (By Tesco Metro/FitSpace Gym) side of Hornsey Street – up to 13 coaches.
The coaches are predicted to arrive between 2 - 4 hours before kick-off (i.e. between 9.30am and 11.30am) and they will leave Hornsey Street within one hour after the final whistle which will be at approximately 3.30pm.
Arsenal FC stewards will be deployed at Hornsey Street from 9.30am onwards to advise drivers to switch off their engines and air conditioning, direct spectators to the stadium and to assist the coaches into the parking spaces. Stewards will remain with the coaches until they depart ensuring the engines and air conditioning are switched off to minimise the impact on residents and businesses. There will also be a Police presence on the spectator route between Hornsey Street and Emirates Stadium before and after the match.
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This is the New Jersey home where Whitney Houston married Bobby Brown in 1992. Still owned by the late singer's estate, the modern mansion home in Mendham, New Jersey Township has been on and off the market since 2009. Originally offered for as much as $2.5 million, the home last publicly listed for $1.75 million in early 2012, shortly after the singer's passing. It has now returned to the market at a $250,000 discount, relisting for $1.5 million.
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26) Had "off the record" meetings with lobbyists
In June 2010, the New York Times reported that Obama administration officials had held hundreds of meetings with lobbyists at coffee houses near the White House, in order to avoid the disclosure requirements for White House visitors, and that these meetings "reveal a disconnect between the Obama administration's public rhetoric — with Mr. Obama himself frequently thrashing big industries' 'battalions' of lobbyists as enemies of reform — and the administration's continuing, private dealings with them."
27) Falsely claimed to believe in public education
Although Obama said, "We need to uphold the ideal of public education," he expressed his true opinion of America's public education system by sending his own children to private schools while living in Chicago and Washington D.C.
28) Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory because it was owned by a Republican
President Obama had armed SWAT agents raid the Gibson guitar factory, ordered the employees to leave, and seized guitars and other property from the factory – and all of this happened without any charges being filed.
It was later reported that Gibson had not broken any U.S. laws.
Obama's so-called justification for the raid was that Gibson had broken environmental laws from India regarding the imported wood that Gibson had been using.
However, Gibson claimed that it had not broken any Indian laws – and no charges were filed against it.
In addition, it was also reported that Henry E. Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson, was a Republican donor.
Meanwhile, C.F. Martin & Company, Gibsons's competitor, had used the exact same imported wood, but had not gotten raided. Chris Martin IV, the CEO of Martin, was a Democratic donor.
29) Shut down Amish farm
In February 2012, Obama shut down an Amish farm for selling unpasteurized milk across state lines, even though the customers were happy with what they were buying.
30) Rewarded his fundraisers by giving them federal jobs
Although Obama had promised to have "the most sweeping ethics reform in history," and had often criticized the role of money in politics, the truth is that after he was elected, he gave administration jobs to more than half of his 47 biggest fundraisers.
31) Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees
In February 2009, U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) expressed concern that Obama's dozens of czars might violate the U.S. Constitution, because they were not approved by the U.S. Senate. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) expressed a similar concern in September 2009.
32) Gave tax dollars to corrupt private contractors
While Obama was a state Senator in Illinois, he used tax dollars to build 504 units of slum housing, which had mice and backed up sewage. Federal inspectors graded the condition of the housing so bad that the buildings faced demolition.
33) Used tax dollars to glorify murderers
The Obama administration spent $1.6 million to restore graffiti that glorified communist murderers Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
34) Falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress
Despite having taught constitutional law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, in April 2012 Obama falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress.
35) Supported new bailouts for speculators who caused housing bubble
In March 2012, Obama announced a new set of bailouts for speculators who had caused the housing bubble.
36) Spent $205,075 of taxpayer money on a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16
As part of his economic stimulus, Obama spent $205,075 of taxpayer money to relocate and care for a single specimen of Arctostaphylos franciscana, a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16.
37) Spent taxpayer money to see if using cocaine helped rats to enjoy the music of Miles Davis
Obama's administration funded a study to see whether or not rats' enjoyment of the music of Miles Davis was increased when the rats were high on cocaine.
38) Tried to outlaw family farms
In April 2012, the Obama administration proposed new regulations which would prohibit farm children under 18 from working at grain elevators, silos, feed lots, stockyards, and livestock auctions, as well as from storing, marketing and transporting farm product raw materials. Critics claimed that this would prevent children from the common practice of working on their friends' and relatives' farms, and that farm children did not need "help" from a community organizer in Washington.
39) Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands
In April 2012, Obama nominated Timothy Broas, who had "bundled" more than $500,000 for Obama's 2012 campaign, to be U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
40) Claimed that written tests are a form of "racial discrimination"
The Obama administration accused fire and police departments in Jacksonville, Florida, New York City, and Dayton, Ohio of "racial discrimination" because they required potential firefighters and police officers to take a written test. Ten real examples of these "racist" questions from the New York test can be read here.
41) Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush
The Obama administration gave a very invasive patdown to a three-year-old boy in a wheelchair, which caused the boy to tremble in fear. The Obama administration gave an aggressive patdown to a seven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. The Obama administration said that a four-year-old girl was a "high security threat." The Obama administration placed an 18-month-old girl on its no fly list. The Obama administration gave a patdown to Henry Kissinger. The Obama administration forced a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper and fly without it. The Obama administration ripped open the urostomy bag of a 61-year-old bladder cancer survivor, and forced him to fly covered in his own urine.
42) Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request
The Obama administration demanded that the Goldwater Institute pay $78,935.80 before it would share public records which it had requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
43) Fined public school $15,000 for selling soda
The Obama administration fined a high school $15,000 for selling soda to students during lunch.
44) Conducted dangerous and illegal scientific experiments on people
From January 2010 through June 2011, the Obama administration conducted illegal scientific experiments which exposed 42 people to dangerous levels of toxins.
45) Gave middle finger to Vietnam veterans, their families, and their friends
On Memorial Day 2012, Obama prevented Vietnam veterans and their friends and families from visiting the Vietnam memorial for seven hours, so Obama could have his picture taken.
46) Had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors
In July 2009, Obama had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors, and fired the CEO.
47) Forced banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back
While working as a "community organizer," Obama filed lawsuits which forced banks to give mortgages to people with bad credit and low incomes. As a result, many of these people ended up defaulting on their mortgages. As their attorney, Obama collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself.
Then in April 2013, during Obama's second term as President, the Washington Post reported that President Obama was still pressuring banks "to make home loans to people with weaker credit."
48) Stole money from retired Delphi employees
In 2009, Obama eliminated the pensions of 20,000 retired Delphi employees.
49) Used taxpayer money to buy soda for $3.40 per can
During Obama's presidency, the federal government repeatedly purchased soda for a cost of $3.40 per can. Obama did not express any desire to switch to a cheaper seller, such as Costco, amazon.com, or Wal-Mart – or to an even still cheaper seller such as a wholesaler. Instead, Obama repeatedly forced taxpayers to pay these outrageous prices for soda.
50) Paid $7 million per household to connect people to the internet
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Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is live-blogging on his Facebook page this afternoon. Judging by the silence from mainstream media, most journalists are not impressed.
And who can blame them? Another baby-boomer politician on Facebook is not exactly a stop-the-presses story.
But if reporters looked beyond the obvious, they might just see an event that could very well signal a sharp change in how we conduct our politics and engage as citizens. For anyone paying attention to the growing chatter in the social media environment, Michael Ignatieff's live Facebook conversation is happening at a tipping point.
Two recent events in particular signal a change in the prevailing domestic winds: the creation of an anti-prorogation Facebook page and the social-media response to the Haitian disaster.
Today, all but the most hardened sceptics or partisans are admitting that there might be something to the outpouring of online anger and frustration channelled by the Facebook group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (now over 200,000 strong).
And look at how social media sites are being used to share information and engage Canadians in Haitian relief efforts. You'll see a different, more synergistic expression of solidarity than at any other time in our history. While Facebook, MySpace and other social networking platforms were around at the time of Hurricane Katrina or the South East Asian tsunami, this time the response has a different feel. It is not only more pervasive and widespread, but more organic.
How can we explain this?
There are probably two key factors at play. We may have achieved a degree of critical mass in Canada with respect to social networking participation across demographics; and social media sites create both a platform for sharing information quickly within social networks and a place where subtle peer pressure is applied.
Today, Michael Ignatieff takes his first go at live blogging. In doing so he becomes the first federal party leader to use social media to engage directly and in real time with Canadians. More importantly, taking a page from president Obama's playbook, he taps into a powerful tool for citizen engagement that until today, had been largely neglected in our country.
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The service was excellent. I did not mind the $12 added to your bill daily as it took care of the tipping for the team you don't see that often. We did give the cabin steward and extra boost as all of my service needs were either met or exceeded my expectations.
This was my first Alaskan cruise. Before traveling, I had read that if you are going to cruise Glacier Bay, try to book an 'Aft-Facing' balcony. We did and it was certainly worth it. A panoramic view without leaving the cabin. Awesome!
The only downside was the sit-down meal we had at Indigo. Hated it. So we just had all of our meals at the buffet, except for the really late-night snacks on deck 8 - mid. (I forgot the name). There they have wings, burgers, salads, and dessert, etc. Nice for late night. The food at the buffet was very good. More I enjoyed every meal. Such a wide selection for every palate. I really like the 'Washy Washy' to keep down germs. They made it fun.
We booked all of our tours through NCL. I was not disappointed. The Mendenhall and Whale Watching in Juneau was excellent. So too was the Yukon Scenic Drive in Skagway. Unfortunately because of weather issues, we did not make it to Ketchikan. Victoria, BC, because we knew we would not be in until 6:30pm, we decided to just get off and take a taxi into town. We were fortunate in that we hooked up with two very nice couples from Tennessee, who invited us to ride with them. We had a great time and got some really good pictures of downtown Victoria. From the chocolate shoppe, I got a few of the Espresso Bombs - wow !!! I also got a box of the After Dark chocolate to bring home. Soooo gooood.
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4. If there are not six players at the scheduled start of the match, the first game will be a forfeit. There is a 10-minute limit to start the second game. If 6 players are not present at the end of the 10 minute period, the second game and the match will be a forfeit.
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10. The ball may contact any part of the body on or above the waist providing such contact is simultaneous and the ball rebounds immediately.
11. Scooping, lifting, pushing, or allowing the ball to roll on the body will be considered a held ball and illegal.
12. Two time-outs per game will be allowed for 20-seconds each.
13. Blocking can only be done by front row players. Attacking the ball in front of the 10-foot line can only be done by front row players.
14. The receiving team on a serve cannot attack the serve. The first hit by the receiving team shall be a bump or set.
15. Only the team captain may address the officials.
16. To help ensure player safety, blatant interference by a player (in the judgement of the official) with an opposing player who is in the progress of playing the ball, shall be declared a fault and a sideout or point will be awarded.
17. Misconduct shall result in: first infraction-team warning; second infraction-point or sideout; third infraction-forfeit of game.
18. All decisions of the official are final.
19. Consolation game (3rd & 4th place) and championship games will be best 2 out of 3..