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Friday Funny – Sekrit Kidz Science
Today's Friday Funny from Josh is a double feature with the SkS kidz and the Royal Society, who seem to be acting like the kids when they demanded a secret meeting with The GWPF. Shhhh. About these ads
Posted in Humor, Satire
Tagged Cartoon, Friday Funny, Hiroshima, Nigel Lawson, Royal Society, Skeptical Science, The Spectator
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The Important Difference between Climatology and Climate Science
Why did the Royal Society need secret meetings? Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Recent events underscore problems with understanding climate and how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) achieved their deception. Comments about my recent article appreciated it … Continue reading
A question for Oreskes – But what do we mean by consensus?
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Politicians pay for science, but scientists should not be politicians. Consensus is a political concept. Unwisely deployed, it can be damagingly anti-scientific. A reply to Naomi Oreskes (Nature, 4 September 2013). Subject terms: … Continue reading
Corn up 7% worldwide, Paul Ehrlich of course sees agricultural collapse
While the alarmists wail over 400PPM of CO2, and push doom and gloom crop failure scenarios, in the real world where people risk money and livelihood, the news is far, far, better. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-25/world-grain-harvest-seen-jumping-7-by-igc-on-corn-crop-surge.html Of course Paul Ehrlich thinks the … Continue reading
Stephan Lewandowsky 'flees' Australia in wake of investigations
People send me stuff. Amid complaints about the veracity and ethics of his psychological research trying to equate climate skeptics to conspiracy theory nuts and "moon landing deniers", it seems that Professor Lewandowsky is no longer at the University of … Continue reading
Quote of the week – solving the peer review integrity issue
A poll follows. Over at Bishop Hill, he's listed some quotes from Geoffry Boulton on scientific integrity that I found interesting. He writes (with apologies for posting in full, I couldn't see any way to excerpt this short article): ============================================================== … Continue reading
Posted in Peer review
Tagged Bolton, Earth Sciences, Education, Journal, Peer review, Royal Society, Scientific method
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The UK Growing Season
Guest post by David Archibald Next week I am hosting a dinner party at which a Fellow of the Royal Society will be guest of honour – one of the Gang of Four who got the Society to tone down … Continue reading
The Royal Society Disaster Movie: starring the Ehrlichs and The Prince of Wales
This is funny and sad at the same time. The funny part is the fact that none of Paul Erhlich's doom and gloom predictions about the human condition from the 70′s on have even come remotely close to true, the … Continue reading
Editorial in Nature calls for open access data – 'Science's capacity for self-correction comes from its openness to scrutiny and challenge.'
An excerpt: Open your minds and share your results An open approach is the best way to maximize the benefits of research for both scientists and the public, says Geoffrey Boulton There is a compelling case for having open access … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic publishing, Open access, Open access journal, Open data, PLoS, Research, Royal Society, Scientific journal
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with … Continue reading
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Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what … Continue reading
Royal Blatherfest
Ray G writes: Donna Laframboise has a post up on the upcoming Royal Society-sponsored meeting with 2,500 attendees expected. the topic is climate change. Donna holds up the ridicule the list of attendees, singers, bureaucrats, song writers, PR professionals. The … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: "…it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere, never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art, that comes before them. The 'advertisement' … Continue reading
The genesis of RealClimate.org appears in the Climategate emails, and surprise, the BBC's Roger Harrabin seems connected
This email in December 2003 shows what appears to be the genesis of the idea of setting up the RealClimate.org website. There a BBC (impartiality – ho ho) connection. Roger Harrabin at this meeting at Tyndall (why was he there … Continue reading
Friday Funny – This is London: "make China bend to our will"
Josh writes: There was a debate last night at the Royal Society entitled "London's Policy on Climate Change Should begin in Beijing". Event info: If a windmill is about to blight your cherished view of the green English countryside, you … Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing, China, climate change, Department of Energy and Climate Change, London, Royal Society
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Monckton on Paul Nurse's "anti-science"
Monckton submits this rebuttal argument to the piece in the New Scientist Stamp out anti-science in US politics here. He doesn't expect his rebuttal to be published. Background: Paul Nurse is a Nobel prizewinner and Royal Society president. Stamp out anti-science … Continue reading
Obama snubs Royal Society, plays ping pong
Post by Ryan Maue: The British media continues to mock and criticize the President, which has been petty and unfair in some respects. But how do we reconcile this? From the UK Telegraph Barack Obama snubs British scientists by refusing … Continue reading
Booker on BBC's Science Under Attack
Christopher Booker on BBC and The Royal Society bias, ClimateGate, The Met cold winter forecast and 2010 hottest year ever: Horizon's "Science Under Attack" turned out to be yet another laborious bid by the BBC to defend the global warming … Continue reading
Metrology crisis – the grand kilo loses mass
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Climate Change and the Corruption of Science: Where did it all go wrong?
Guest post by Bernie Lewin As it is the time of year for reflection, let us consider for a moment the Climate Change scare in the bigger picture. One thing that became more evident as the year progressed was that … Continue reading
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I'm sitting on a plastic chair on a piece of wasteground created by the collapse of two tall, previously imposing Arab townhouses in the old quarter of Zanzibar Town. Just outside the remains of one, my friend Hisdori is squatting next to a charcoal stove, stirring Masala curry in the glow of a naked lightbulb. The light cast from inside the ruined house casts an eerie glow on stray cats threading their way in and out of the shadows, and Hisdori sings along under his breath to a Swahili rap song playing on the radio inside. He's is my best friend in Zanzibar, one of the papaasi - beach boys - who patrol the town trying to persuade tourists to use their services as guides and middlemen for tour agencies and car hire firms. It's a precarious existence, and Hisdori, at 23, dreams of a better future - a visa for the UK, work as a cleaner or factory hand, and the chance to send good money home.
But for now, as we finish eating, the conversation turns to shetani - the spirits who inhabit almost every part of Zanzibar, and whose existence here no islander doubts. Zanzibar, and to a greater extent its smaller neighbour Pemba, have throughout the centuries been notorious centres of black magic, alongside their better-known role as centres of the spice and slave trades. Evelyn Waugh, visiting Pemba in the 1930s, reported: 'Zanzibar and Pemba are the chief centres of black art on the whole coast, and novices come from as far as the Great Lakes to graduate here. Even from Haiti, it is said, witch doctors will occasionally come to probe the deepest mysteries of voodoo.'
Today, by all accounts, the cult of the shetani is still going strong, a dark undercurrent entirely unknown to the 80,000 or so tourists who flock to the islands every year. On the glittering sliver beaches of the coast and in the picturesque, Arabic courtyards of the capital Stone Town, shetani, believe the islanders, wait and watch malevolently. Spirit carvings in ebony depict their many forms - a hunched, hideously twisted old woman, a man-dog hybrid, a young girl with the legs of a donkey.
Last night, returning late from a disco, Hisdori says he clearly saw a shetani, a shadowy, immensely tall figure, standing in the doorway of his room. He felt gripped by a great force and unable to move or shout for help, until he remembered to say a few verses from the Qu'ran, whereupon he was released from the spell and able to stand up and rouse a neighbour with his shouts. The man allowed Hisdori to sleep in his bedroom, and carefully locked the door, but to no avail. The shetani reappeared inside that room too, paralysing both Hisdori and the neighbour until it glided away.

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City Representative and Executive Director of Welcome America, Inc. Desiree Peterkin-Bell spoke of the addition of Hunter Hayes, saying, "We are very excited to have Hunter Hayes join us for the Philly 4th of July Jam tomorrow... Hayes is one of the biggest stars in country music right now and we know that he will be a great addition to the stellar lineup we already have in place!"
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Type: semi automatic
Platter: 312mm aluminium alloy
Speeds: 33 and 45rpm
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Wow and flutter: 0.025% WRMS
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Tracking force adjustment: 0 to 2.5g
Effective length: 230mm
Dimensions: 430 x 130 x 375mm
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I have bought and sold a few of these SL-Q2 tables and keep a SL-Q3 as my main table. Like the SL-Q3, the Q2 is a great, dependable turntable. It's a good as you want to make it. The better the cartridge and system behind it, the better it sounds. It is easy to operate and keeps the pitch under rock steady control. They are a good looking table too. I won't say they never break, but if you get one that is still in good working order, it will likely keep playing for you without any problems. Your needles will wear out long before your Technics SL-Q2 will!
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This is a great lo-fi turntable that has performed without a hitch for the last 20 years. It has survived countless moves over the years without any damage. Easy to set up, easy to maintain, great listening, minimal rumble even at high sound levels. Recently lost the head shell and cartridge in the last move, found another generic that will do. New cart is the Ortofon Red M2. Will have to see how that sounds.
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Educate or incarcerate? NAACP pushes states to shift priorities.
While education spending declined during the recession, most states increased prison spending, according to a new report from the NAACP.
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The spending balance hasn't always tipped so far toward prisons. In California, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted in a speech last year that thirty years ago, 10 percent of the general fund went to higher education and three percent went to prisons. By 2010, the priorities had flipped: 11 percent was going prisons and only 7.5 percent to higher education.
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"Misplaced Priorities" also highlights three cities where neighborhoods with high prison rates significantly overlap neighborhoods with low-performing schools. In Houston, 5 out of 6 lower-performing schools (based on math scores) are in the areas with the highest percentage of incarcerated residents. In Los Angeles, the figure is 69 out of 90; in Philadelphia, 23 out of 35.
While Houston public schools face a budget shortfall of at least $30 million this year, the cost of incarcerating Houston residents is about $500 million a year, the report notes.
Building more prisons gives people "a false sense of security," says Dick Molpus, an education advocate in Jackson, Miss., who founded the national group Parents for Public Schools. "By the time someone fills that jail cell, they've already committed a crime.... And the way to really make society safer is to make sure everyone participates in it, and that's by making sure they have a decent school to go to."
In Mississippi, 3 out of 4 inmates don't have a high school diploma, Mr. Molpus says, and yet there's always a big fight in the legislature over funding education.
Nationally, if the trend of spending more on prisons and less on education continues, Molpus says, "we'll see [what you see] in third- and fourth-world countries, where the 'haves' live behind their own fences and have their own guards and they essentially become prisoners themselves."
Several states, including New York, have had success in changing sentencing policies and reducing their prison populations while also seeing crime rates go down, says the NAACP's Mr. Jealous.
Among the changes recommend in the report:
- Reform drug sentencing: Eliminate mandatory-minimum sentencing guidelines for certain drug offenses, and give more people treatment or counseling. In addition, remove disparities between crack and powder cocaine sentences.
- Increase "earned-time" initiatives: Allow more prisoners to earn an earlier release by participating in educational and vocational programming and treatment.
- Shorten prison terms for youthful offenders: Send them to intervention programs designed to address root causes of their behavior, such as lack of education, unemployment, or child abuse.
Better education can save society money in the long run, "but our refusal to make sane investments in these kids has led to an explosion in the costs of our criminal justice system," says Amy Wilkins, vice president for government affairs at Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on narrowing the achievement gap.
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Americans who care about the right to vote are faced with an ugly reality as the 2012 elections come into view: no matter how many courts rule that voter identification laws will disenfranchise eligible citizens and no matter how many states U.S.
Newly elected Republicans are pushing state-level voter-ID laws designed to disenfranchise minority voters.
State Rep. Debbie Riddle, a Republican, camped out in the lobby of Texas' House of Representatives for two days in early November to make sure she was first in line to prefile a bill for the new session.
"I felt it was important to be first to file because I want my bills to have the lowest possible bill numbers," Riddle told Houston Community Newspapers. "That doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to pass, but it helps them get into and out of committee quickly."
"The low bill number also shows that I have fire in my belly and that I am serious about getting these bills passed," she added.
Americans know the 2000 election was a fiasco. What they don't know is that the 2004 election, in many ways, might have been even worse. The purported margin of victory in November has led many to believe that the process went relatively smoothly. But the appearance of a smooth election obscured troubling developments, from simple human errors to likely felony violations of federal law. In addition to the ineptitude and faulty machinery that led to the problems of 2000 (both of which persisted), 2004 should be remembered as the year that a number of partisan election officials and party leaders usurped the process and manipulated the new federal voting law in ways that disenfranchised voters.
This week, the House is expected to consider Republican-backed legislation that would impose a $250,000 cap on damages for pain and suffering in suits filed against doctors, health maintenance organizations and manufacturers of drugs and medical devices. The bill, which President Bush called for in his State of the Union address, is the latest installment in the Republican Party's ongoing war against lawyers of all kinds. The intended targets in this particular phase of the campaign are personal-injury lawyers, but the fight is much broader than that.
As a consolation prize for losing the majority leader's post, Senate Republicans have given Trent Lott (R-Miss.) the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. The announcement has received little attention, but liberals should be elated. That's because the position wields a tremendous amount of power in the area of federal election law. And who better to occupy such a post than the senator who recently pledged to promote an agenda friendly to the interests of African Americans?
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Doyle Fairchild is the opposite of terrorism.
"I try to help anybody I can," he said over the phone Monday.
Fairchild is 79, a widower, and on the sunset end of a good, long life defined by compassion and callouses.
"I've always worked since I was 12. Me and my dad went into Mr. Bolton's barber shop in Red Bank. A guy came in and wanted a shine ... my dad looked over at me and said: this boy will shine your shoes. I shined shoes there for three years," Fairchild remembers.
Someone ought to sing a country song about his life -- good family and fingernail dirt, church attendance and canned vegetables -- and sing it today, on the 12th anniversary of 9/11. Belt it loud, like George Jones would.
Because the coming world and the next 100 years will demand we not only reject the dead-end, myopic philosophy of terrorism and violence but embrace the big humanity of Doyle Fairchild and those like him.
"If you take care of others, the good Lord will take care of you," he said.
It sounds front-porch simple, but this Fairchildian ethic actually reflects a growing body of science that gets to the (might we say bleeding?) heart of what it means to be human: we are built, created, engineered toward empathy and compassion more so than competition and violence.
"Though economists have long argued the contrary, a growing body of evidence suggests that, at our core, both animals and human beings have ... a 'compassionate instinct,'" wroteEmma Seppala in a recent journal for the Association for Psychological Science. "Research... showed that even rats are driven to empathize with another suffering rat and to go out of their way to help it out of its quandary."
Rats do it. Birds and bees do it. Humans do too. Why? Because nature is far more empathetic than blood-red in tooth and claw; humanity far more bound together than all men as isolated islands.
What's that you say about survival of the fittest? Pshaw. In his "Descent of Man," Darwin only makes two references to that well-known phrase.
But he mentions love nearly 100 times.
"I love to help people," said Fairchild.
Researchers have been eyeing the hormone oxytocin as a chemical behind the feel-good-feeling we get when we're compassionate and generous.
"A group of UCLA researchers is studying the link between oxytocin and the emotion they call 'love of humanity,' wondering if the hormone might be the actual milk of human kindness," wrote Marc Ian Barasch in "Field Notes on the Compassionate Life."
Hormones? Milk of human kindness? No politician is going to talk like that, at least not these days. It seems we are tethered to some hamster wheel foreign policy, where the only ideas are the old, worn ones.
Case Study 1,372: bombing Syria could help the one group we've been trying to defeat for years.
Al Qaida.
"American and allied cruise missiles would be degrading the capability of the regime's military units to the benefit of the al-Qaida-linked militants fighting Assad -- the same militants whom U.S. drones are attacking regularly in places such as Yemen," wrote Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the Washington Post.
Nuts. Madness. Bang-your-head-against-the-wall-insane. Makes me want to megaphone Washington the old, cratchety Jack Nicholson line: go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here.
So forget crazy. Let's go back to Fairchild, whose brother is former Board of Education member Everett Fairchild. I first met him last year, during his Thursday outings: Each week, he takes vegetables and homemade salsas and canned jellies to four or five locations around town. The courthouse. Siskin. The Creative Discovery Museum. His doctor's office.
He sells most, but gives some away, too, if folks don't have enough money.
Last week, he called to brag on his friends at Swafford Farms up on Summer City Road in Pikeville, Tenn. They've got acres and acres of tomatoes, and Fairchild dropped by to see if he could pick some spares to give away. Of course, they told him. Be our guest.
"Ten boxes of red tomatoes," Fairchild said.
Fairchild took them down to the Community Kitchen, and called to see if I would print something kind about Swafford Farms.
"They're good church people and they do everything they can to help everybody," Fairchild said of the Swaffords.
Just like you, Mr. Fairchild.
And just like so many others, too. After all, it's in our nature.
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Enter the Mah'habara from the Archlyte Steppes by taking the pathway exit found near the Save Station in northern part of the Steppes.
Move down the path to travel straight on past the save station inside the Mah'harara and straight through a reinforced tunnel section. Continue past the first first two-level platform structure and on down the path to cross the first bridge. You are now in the Twilit Cavern portion of the Mah'habara.
Just across the bridge, go straight on to the opposite side of the platform. The Mission 18 Cie'th Stone will be on your left.
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Its in Mah'habara, in gran pulse, when you walk past the behemoth and the tiger fighting, on the other side of the map. Deep in that cave is the twilit cavern.
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I'll be coming down on Thursday hopefully!
Anyone fancy doing the filling in a poll dance? be nice to see the spread and plan pizza
I will be coming Sat as I can't get time off for BETT during the week. What is it like on Sat, typical London business clothing or "Finally it's the weekend!" type of affair?
I also know a great place to eat in Chinatown for after...
little-miss-man hmm interesting, lets not go there.
but you're staff anyway now
I'm coming down on the train Friday morning and will be at BETT on the afternoon, stopping over on the Friday night and will come along to BETT again on the Saturday morning before my train home.
Wasn't going to be able to get there but it looks like I might make it on Saturday.....
I'll be there on the Thurs, Fri, Sat this year! Wooo, blagged a couple of nights and days. Any evening activities planned yet this year?
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I just booked a five day trip to Raro staying at the Palm Grove, now I am looking for advice. Should I book a day trip to Aitutaki before I leave home? Which dive shop is recommended. Where is the best place to purchase black pearls? Restaurants? Car or scooter?
Any other recommendations is appreciated.
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Could you please let us know when you are going as it helps to give you more accurate advice. We rented a car but young friends of ours rented scooters. Your preference I guess but I wouldn't want to be riding a scooter in a tropical storm! Speed limit is 50 kph.
I always prebook what I can but I guess it depends on when you are going to Raro.
Tamarind House is a great restaurant. Trying to think of the other restaurant we enjoyed a meal at. Just remember that almost all their food is imported and sometimes stocks are low if weather conditions are adverse. We discovered that when we were there 2 years ago - even the restaurants were experiencing difficulties.
Most shops in Avarua (main town) close at 4:30, although the supermarkets are open later. I bought my black pearls as loose pearls at the Beachcomber Pearl Market, but lots of places sell black pearls made up. Hopefully someone else will be able to advise you about this.
Captain Tama's lagoon cruises are a lot of fun, and you have the opportunity to snorkel and swim in the lagoon with the fish.
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Aututaki is well worth a look, assuming of course that you like snorkelling and white sandy/coral beaches and all that goes with it. I would book in advance, then you are certain and can plan around it.
It is nearly 20 years since I went, but we didn't need a car or scooter, the round island bus was very cheap and efficient. One goes clockwise on the hour and the other anti clockwise on the half hour (from memory).
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We are leaving Nov 13. We want to plan Aitutaki around are scuba.
As for black pearls, I too bought loose pearls in Moorea, I was thinking of something for my girls and g-daughters. Also maybe a few as X-mas gifts.
Bus has been recommended & think we will probably go with that unless we rent scooters for a day.
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A commuter rail train hit a bumper at the end of a track this morning at South Station, bringing the train to an abrupt stop and causing at least 18 minor injuries.
The engineer told his supervisors that he misjudged the stopping distance and hit the metal bumper post at the end of the track while traveling less than 5 miles per hour. A preliminary investigation has ruled out problems with signals, dispatching, and equipment and appears to point to operator error.
"What I've heard is that there was judgment error on the part of the engineer, but we haven't gotten anything definitive," said William Mitchell, acting general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Riders described a lurching stop at 9:08 a.m. that knocked some people off their feet just as they were standing to get off the train.
"It just stopped short as it was coming in very slowly into the station," said Sam Wood, one of about 300 passengers on the train. "It hit hard, it stopped suddenly. A bunch of people went flying."
An elderly woman stumbled backward and hit her head on the arm of the seat, Wood said, adding, "It was obvious she was hurt."
The impact knocked Shaw Lively off his feet and left him on all fours. "It was a very sudden stop. The momentum just flew you through the air," Lively said.
At total of 13 people were taken to hospitals, including nine passengers who were carried from the scene on backboards. Another five people at the scene with minor injuries refused medical treatment.
"Most of the injuries were cuts and bruises," said Deputy Chief Timothy Holland of Boston Emergency Medical Services. No one appeared to be seriously hurt, but some people did report feeling neck and back pain, he said.
Investigators from the Federal Railroad Administration have responded to the scene. There does not appear to be signal or equipment problems, according to John D. Ray, director of MBTA railroad operations. Engineers control when and where trains stop.
"They know what the track looks like, they know where they have to stop," Ray said.
The mishap appears to be unrelated to a dispatching problem Monday night in an area of track overseen by CSX, where two trains nearly collided near Back Bay Station. The dispatching in South Station is handled by Amtrak, Ray said.
Outside South Station on Atlantic Avenue, 10 people held ice packs on their head, knees, elbows, and necks. Medics attended to three people on stretchers, including a man who appeared to be a train conductor, wearing a uniform and holding his hat on his stomach. Firefighters helped fit other riders with neck braces and tied them to backboards.
The engineer operating train number 512 from Worcester will be tested for drugs and alcohol, as is standard, Pesaturo said.
At a brief news conference at Boston Medical Center, Jonathan Olshaker, chief and chairman of emergency medicine, said the hospital had treated five patients involved in the accident for cuts, bruises, and possibly broken bones. Of the five patients, four would likely be released, and one would be admitted for observation.
"At this time there's no evidence of serious or life-threatening injuries," he said.
The hospital activated its emergency response plan in preparation for large numbers of patients with serious injuries.
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2.1 Evaluation Design
2.1.1 Summative and Formative Elements
The evaluation design and questions were based in part on the Evaluability Assessment of the Aboriginal Peoples' Program. The evaluation considered quantitative and qualitative evidence under multiple lines of evidence to support the findings and conclusions.
2.1.2 Understanding Results, Outputs and Outcomes
The document and file reviews found that the terms results, outputs and outcomes were used with different meanings to describe APP program and project achievements. This report uses the following Treasury Board Secretariat definitions5:
- Expected Result: An outcome that a program, policy or initiative is designed to produce. Treasury Board policies and guidelines discuss results as immediate, intermediate and final or ultimate outcomes.
- Outputs: Direct products or services stemming from the activities of an organization, policy, program or initiative, and usually within the control of the organization itself. Examples of outputs are completed radio broadcasts, cultural awareness and sensitivity training, and the delivery of program services and support, all of which are delivered to program beneficiaries.
- Outcome: An external consequence attributed, in part, to an organization, policy, program or initiative. Outcomes may not always be within the complete control of a single organization, policy, program or initiative; rather, the concept of organization's contribution to a result, or capacity to influence others to achieve a result may also be of importance. Outcomes can be qualified as immediate, intermediate, or ultimate (final), expected, and/or direct.
2.1.3 Methodology and Lines of Evidence
The following multiple lines of evidence were used for the evaluation and are detailed in the sections below:
- A document review of: (i) program documentation to gain increased familiarity with the APP, its components and programming elements;
- Evidence-based research on Aboriginal demographic trends, urban Aboriginal People and youth issues, women's issues, and Aboriginal languages and cultures for Aboriginal Peoples;
- Seventy-five (75) key informant interviews6;
- A review of 164 project files covering all APP components and programming elements;
- A review of National Association of Friendship Centres' (NAFC) Database(s) and PCH's APP Reporting Database;
- Eighteen (18) case studies covering all APP components and elements; and
- A comparative review of a federal Aboriginal comprehensive program.
2.1.4 Document Review
The document review examined a comprehensive list of documents including:
- Official program documents, instruments and tools;
- Independent reports of the APP initiatives;
- Annual reports for delivery organizations;
- Terms and Conditions of the APP and its components;
- Evaluations and review reports of APP components and programming elements;
- The Evaluability Assessment, including its literature review report;
- Monitoring and reporting templates; and
- Studies conducted or commissioned by the PCH.
The document review was successful in providing background and supporting information, as well as answering some of the evaluation questions and sub-questions. The review of previous evaluation reports, most predating the 2005 consolidation of APP, did not provide answers to evaluation questions about the implementation of APP.
2.1.5 Literature Review
The literature review sought to collect evidence-based research on Aboriginal demographic trends, urban Aboriginal people and youth issues, women's issues, and Aboriginal languages and cultures for Aboriginal peoples both in Canada and internationally. The literature review incorporated a previous review undertaken for the Evaluability Assessment.
While the document review and literature review addressed many of the same evaluation questions, the literature review produced demographic and Aboriginal languages information. The literature review found no published academic research on the APP or of its programming elements.
2.1.6 Key Informant Interviews
PCH identified 75 key informants, individuals and organizations:
- 15 officials from PCH7;
- 15 Third-party delivery representatives (at national or provincial/territorial level);
- 30 Ultimate Recipients, including one representative for each of the territorial governments; and
- 15 Potential Ultimate Recipients8.
Interviews were completed with 75 key informants or their replacements if they were unavailable or no longer associated with the project9.
2.1.7 Project File Review
A stratified random sample of 175 funded project files was identified. The file review was augmented by discussions with NAFC and PCH staff to obtain a full understanding of the files and differences between projects. Selected project files were distributed across the projects in each APP programming element and across the full evaluation timeframe.
The final file review included 164 of the 175 selected project files as eleven files were received too late to be included. Twenty (20) of the 80 evaluation sub-questions were addressed by the file review.
Table 6: Project File Distribution by Selected Programming Element
Element | Number | Percentage | PCH (%) | NAFC (%) | Other (%) |
Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI) | 21 | 12.8 % | 19.4 % | - | - |
Aboriginal Women's Programming Element (AWPE) | 13 | 7.9 % | 14.5 % | - | 30.8 % |
National Aboriginal Broadcasting (NAB) | 6 | 3.7 % | 9.7 % | - | - |
National Aboriginal Day (NAD) | 2 | 1.2 % | 3.2 % | - | - |
Aboriginal Friendship Centers (AFC) | 36 | 22 % | - | 48.6 % | - |
Territorial Language Accord (TLA) | 3 | 1.8 % | 4.8 % | - | - |
Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centers (UMAYC) | 83 | 50.6 % | 48.4 % | 51.4 % | 69.2 % |
Project files were selected to ensure that about 25% of the project files were from each of the four (4) years of the evaluation. Table 7 below shows the distribution of the selected project files across the four (4) years covered by the evaluation.
Table 7 : Project File Distribution by Fiscal Year
Element | Number | Percentage | PCH (%) | NAFC (%) | Other (%) |
2005 / 2006 | 44 | 26.8 % | 29 % | 20.3 % | 46.2 % |
2006 / 2007 | 40 | 24.4 % | 14.5 % | 32.4 % | 23.1 % |
2007 / 2008 | 41 | 25 % | 24.2 % | 24.3 % | 23.1 % |
2008 / 2009 | 39 | 23.8 % | 32.3 % | 23 % | 7.7 % |
2.1.8 Database Review
The focus of the database review was to determine if the databases contained information appropriate for PCH program-level policy and management purposes. The database review included the examination and analysis of two(2) of the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) databases and PCH's APP reporting database10.
NAFC's AFC database houses information about the Aboriginal Friendship Centers (AFCs). NAFC is a Third-party Organization contracting Ultimate Recipient Organizations to deliver UMAYC projects, mostly within AFCs. PCH staff developed the APP database in 2008 with the expectation that it would contain project results and other information needed to support the policy and program management of the APP. The APP database contained electronic files for 76 (46.3%) of the 164 reviewed project files.
2.1.9 On-site Case Studies
Eighteen (18) case studies helped gather illustrative information on the APP, its components and programming elements. The case study methodology sought to have the Ultimate Recipient Organizations identify their project results, best practices and lessons learned.
2.1.10 Comparative Review
The purpose of the comparative review was to compare APP to another federal government-funded comprehensive Aboriginal program. The comparison looked for similarities and differences in the regrouping of programming elements, challenges faced by the program during the transition phase, issues arising from the integration process, impact on program performance as a whole, and achievement of expected results.
The Children and Youth Cluster of Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch was the only group (cluster) of federally funded Aboriginal programs identified that had recently been grouped together into a larger program (or cluster of programs), in a manner similar to the APP. Discussion with the Evaluation Steering Committee resulted in an in-depth comparative review of that group of Aboriginal programs.
2.2 Methodological Limitations and Adjustments
2.2.1 Limitations
Time Frame to Realize Outcomes Achievement
The complexity of the Program, the holistic character of the approach and the length of time to realize specific outcomes were limitations to providing summative information for APP. Many factors have a bearing on outcomes, including such considerations as the social and economic conditions in which participants live. As the APP continues to mature and adjust to its transition from multiple programs to a single entity; the program will have an opportunity to refine its approach to measuring the immediate, intermediate and longer-term outcomes for the program.
Program Beneficiaries Interviews
Interviews or surveys of program beneficiaries11 of Canada's urban Aboriginal Peoples were not part of the evaluation methodology. This decision was based on recommendations made in the Evaluability Study12 that pointed to challenges in surveying and consolidating responses from the many types of recipients for APP (i.e. Aboriginal Languages Initiative, Family Violence Initiative, Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting); and consideration these organizations in terms of the process involved. This decision removed a potential source of information and a direct line of evidence regarding the level of achievement of some of the expected outcomes.
2.1.1 Adjustments
Informal Discussions with APP Staff Added
The addition of formative issues to the evaluation required the gathering and analysis of additional qualitative and quantitative information. This was not anticipated when the key informant guides were developed and resulted in informal discussions with a limited number of PCH key informants.
Key Informant Interviews Expanded
The list of key informant interviews was expanded with the addition of 15 potential Ultimate Recipient Organizations to address the question: Is the level of program access appropriate? Potential Ultimate Recipient Organizations are Aboriginal organizations that have not yet received funding, directly or indirectly, to deliver an APP funded project.
Expert Panel Dropped
The methodology consisted in identifying up to six (6) individuals, mostly from the academic community, with the objective of providing an additional line of evidence from an unbiased source of expert opinion. As the evaluation progressed, and with limited information for the expert panel to consider, the Evaluation Working Committee decided to forego consultations with the expert panel.
Comparative Review
The original statement of work foresaw two (2) or three (3) comparative reviews. A review of Aboriginal programming in the Federal Government revealed that only First Nations Inuit and Health Branch of Health Canada had recently completed a restructuring and integration of their health programs. This one comparative review was completed in more detail than initially planned.
5 Treasury Board of Canada, Evaluation in the Government of Canada; the New Treasury Board Policy on Evaluation; Results-based Management Lexicon, April 1, 2009.
6 The number of key informant interviews was increased from 60 to 75 with a new group of unfunded organizations added to address the 'accessibility to project funding' evaluation sub-questions.
10 The database review for NAFC covered all the evaluation period while the database review for APP covered fiscal years 2007/08 and 2008/09, the years for which project information is contained within the APP database.
11 The National Association of Friendship Centres was interviewed for this evaluation study. The National Association of Friendship Centres serve as both beneficiaries and third party delivery agents.
12 Prairie Research Associates (PRA) Inc. (2009) Evaluability Assessment of the Aboriginal Peoples' Program Final Report, Prepared for Department of PCH, January 13, 2009.
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