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This week, we provide an update to last Thursday's post on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least three major developments have occurred since the declaration of an Ebola outbreak in Equateur Province on May 8, potentially signaling a worrisome escalation of the situation. The international community has responded by deploying public health experts, distributing financial resources, and shipping an experimental Ebola vaccine to the region.
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First, the total case count has increased significantly. As of May 15, WHO reports a total of 44 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases, including 19 deaths. This means cases have more than doubled (21 to 44) since the outbreak was declared last week. WHO also confirms that an additional specimen has tested positive for Ebola following diagnostic testing at the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa. As a result, a total of three cases have been confirmed by the INRB; diagnostic testing for Ebola may be ongoing in other patients. Health officials are also monitoring an additional 393 contacts for possible Ebola exposure. As we pointed out last week, overcounting of cases is not uncommon during the initial stage of the response, as investigators scramble to gather information, attempt to distinguish Ebola cases from more common diseases, and continually reclassify cases.
Second, reports indicate that the outbreak is occurring over a larger geographic area than initially reported. Initial cases were reported in Bikoro health zone and Iboko health zone, but as of May 17, the virus has spread to three health zones within Equateur Province: Bikoro, Iboko, and Wangata. The Wangata health zone is located approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the town of Bikoro, the site of the first reported cases. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Equateur Province covers 100,000 square kilometers (39,000 square miles) of remote jungle and is "extremely difficult for the international community to access, with limited transportation and communications infrastructure." As a result, the timely movement of medical personnel, supplies, and personal protective equipment into the region will require air assets, which are costly and in short supply. Equateur Province also neighbors the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic – which all share access to the Congo River, a major waterway – underscoring the importance of screenings at border crossings to prevent the spread of cases into other countries.
Third, officials have confirmed that Ebola has spread to the city of Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur Province. The spread of Ebola from rural areas into densely populated Mbandaka – a city of 1.2 million people – marks "a new phase" for the outbreak, according to the DRC Minister of Health Oly Ilunga Kalenga. It is worth recalling that the introduction of Ebola cases into cities in West Africa in 2014 is often cited as a key driver in escalating that outbreak, demonstrating "how swiftly the virus could move once it reached urban settings and densely populated slums." Mbandaka is also a busy port city along the Congo River, which could facilitate the spread of the virus via water transport. This will introduce a challenging new dimension to the response, requiring a concerted effort by public health officials to locate and isolate contacts in Mbandaka before they can infect others.
It is worth noting that the WHO has not released a revised timetable of when Ebola cases may have first occurred. Some reports last week indicated that the outbreak may have started as early as December or January – allowing more time for the virus to spread across further distances – but more recent updates do not necessarily confirm this. Greater knowledge of the origins and spread of the initial cases of Ebola will be critical for understanding whether there are any systemic weaknesses in case detection and reporting and subsequent understanding of how best to control the spread of disease
Response Priorities
Given the rapidly evolving situation and high level of uncertainty, a flexible response will be key to containing the outbreak. The response at this stage has revolved principally around isolating and treating patients, strengthening surveillance and identifying contacts, and deploying vaccine countermeasures. In the past week, the response has coalesced around three main areas: 1) partnerships, 2) finances, and 3) vaccines.
First, the WHO is working with international NGOs and national and local partners to scale up and coordinate the response, focusing principally on contact tracing and "conducting a retrospective analysis of the chain of transmission." The WHO has deployed 30 experts to the outbreak zone, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus personally visited the affected town of Bikoro on May 13. Tedros will convene an emergency committee of experts on Friday to determine whether the situation might represent a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
WHO represents only a small percentage of international capacity on the ground and is such is working with numerous in-country partners, including Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the Red Cross, the African Union CDC, and the US CDC. For example, the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) activated an air bridge between Kinshasa to Mbandaka and Mbandaka to Bikoro, enabling transport of supplies and personnel to these remote locations. IOM, meanwhile, is monitoring flows at border crossings and mapping population movements in affected areas. The African Union activated its Emergency Operations Center in the country and mobilized an Epidemic Response Team. Leveraging the expertise and capacities of these in-country partners as well as outside experts will be critical to containing the outbreak.
Second, millions of dollars have been allocated to support a rapid Ebola response in a bid to contain the outbreak before it grows to larger – and costlier -- proportions. The WHO released $2.6 million from its Contingency Fund of Emergencies (CFE), while the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) provided an additional $2 million to help humanitarian partners in the DRC. The fact that both WHO CFE and UN CERF are both funding the DRC Ebola response – despite the different, sometimes competing aims of these funds – suggests an alignment among health and humanitarian partners in prioritizing this response. In addition, the UK has emerged as an early bilateral supporter of the response by pledging 1 million British pounds (US$1.36 million), with UK charity the Wellcome Trust committing an additional 2 million British pounds (US$2.7 million). Despite this, these contributions appear to fall short of the $18 million needs estimate requested by the WHO for three months of operation. It is worth noting that outbreak response is notoriously hampered by inadequate financing: During the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, sufficient financial resources did not materialize until about six months after the outbreak was declared.
Third, officials are launching an unprecedented Ebola vaccination campaign to help bring the outbreak under control. The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines, developed by Merck, arrived in Kinshasa on Wednesday and are expected to be transported to affected areas and used for the first time over the weekend. Another 4,000 vaccines are on the way. The vaccination campaign will prioritize high-risk individuals, including health workers, as part of a ring vaccination strategy, which was shown to be protective in a cluster-randomized clinical trial in West Africa. WHO Health Emergencies Programme Director Peter Salama said he will certainly receive the vaccine before his next visit to the affected region, even though it is not formally licensed. The vaccine will need to be transported and stored in freezing temperatures to ensure its potency. Maintaining this so-called "fridge bridge" presents a logistical challenge, and it remains to be seen if the vaccine will be effective.
Several potentially concerning developments have occurred in the DRC since last week's Ebola outbreak declaration. These include a sizable increase in the total number of cases, the spread of the virus to new geographic areas, and its entrance into the densely populated city of Mbandaka along the Congo River. While the situation is evolving rapidly amid a high level of uncertainty, national and international response partners have responded with a surge in public health expertise, emergency financing, and medical countermeasures in the form of a new Ebola vaccine. It remains to be seen whether these aggressive measures will be sufficient to stay ahead of the outbreak as it grows increasingly dangerous.
Photo: A view of the Congo River between Kinshasa and Lukolela in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is used as a waterway for travel and trade in the region.
Photo courtesy of Ollivier Girard/CIFOR via Flickr.
Outbreak Observatory aims to collect information on challenges and solutions associated with outbreak response and share it broadly to allow others to learn from these experiences in order to improve global outbreak response capabilities


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Francisco Xavier, a well-known missionary from the Society of Jesus, departed from Goa, India, for Kagoshima, Japan, in 1549.
Born of an aristocrat in Spain, Francisco Xavier established the Society of Jesus in Paris in 1534. The Society of Jesus, which was organized for the propagation of the Christian religion into the world, was engaged in the missionary work particularly in Asian countries, based in Goa, India.
Francisco Xavier visited Japan in 1549 and stayed here for two years, since he was very interested in Japanese culture. He heard about Japan from Yajiro, a Japanese missionary he met in Malacca, Malaysia. The first picture shows the seashore in Kagoshima City, where he first landed in Japan. He set about working as a missionary at the place in the central part of that city, as shown in the second picture.
After that, he worked in other places in the country, such as Nagasaki, Yamaguchi and Oita, however his final goal was not fulfilled because the emperor and Ashikaga shogun in Kyoto didn't allow him to propagate Christianity across the country. Although he died in China after two years missionary work in Japan, the parts of his remains are enshrined in some Catholic Churches in Japan.
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The seas and skies were calm as the adventurers from the Realm of Orcs sailed, music and laughter carrying on the breeze. The storm came up suddenly, unnaturally, and carried wailing, screaming voices that rattled the adventurers souls, and awoke a long forgotten piece of themselves that had been missing. The ships were swept into a pitch-black tunnel and the voices made themselves heard:
"The world itself is cracking open!"
"What happens when you let nature run wild?"
"The town unchecked will ravage us!"
"The woods untamed will consume us!"
"We used to live in harmony! Where did we go wrong?"
The boats emerged from a cavern and found themselves fast approaching a fork in the path they had been drawn down. Choosing quickly, Tyrcath leaned towards the path that flowed to the woods, while Freeport and Ralkea choose the opposite and swiftly headed towards a city. Tyrcath landed first and discovered a cliff, after some time they managed to climb up and befriend the Ents, the Trees that lived at the top of the cliff. The creatures of the forest were starving, as the town hoarded the food that the forest desperately needed.
On the other side of the island, Ralkea and Freeport similarly climbed a cliff and met with the guards of the city, who held a certain undead vibe that the clerics of the countries noticed. The people within the dilapidated walls needed wood from the forest to fix their crumbling city. Both sides of city and forest had been in a stalemate for centuries, unable to cross into the others domain and unwilling to compromise.
Scholars from Eileana' Reult had this to say about the island:
"Centuries ago, a wooded kingdom and a city kingdom dwelt in harmony together. Then a catastrophic natural event struck. The ground was torn in two and a great, rocky chasm split the two kingdoms apart. Only one small natural bridge connected their kingdoms. The forest folk blamed the city folk for the catastrophe, and the city folk blamed the forest folk. Enraged, they rose up intending to destroy each other.
A young and powerful sorcerer, born of a city-dwelling father and a forest-dwelling mother, sought to avert the war. He bound his own sword in blood magic and buried the sword in the center of the rocky bridge, to make the bridge and chasm impassable for the enraged forest and city folk."
After some light negotiating, Tyrcath turned to violence to solve the issues of the forest, stealing the food for them through force. Ralkea tried their best and took serious losses helping the city. Freeport was patient and steadily beat back the forest to take the wood for the city.
The sword remains on the bridge despite efforts to remove it; the island remains divided and while symptoms have been dealt with, the underlying problem remains.
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That is Bryan with Jason Narvy of Power Rangers fame. Probably the best thing that happened this weekend.
Wizard World Chicago 2011 is over. May we never speak of it again. Except here, which is what I'm doing. Right now.
CON REPORT IS GO! This was my second WWC and, just like last year, it was awesome. Awesomer than last year simply because I had a better idea of what I was doing this time around. Last year, I spent most of the weekend standing on my table, covered in filthy rags, and screaming random guttural syllables at the con-goers. This year, I actually presented and sold my work to enthusiastic readers. Much more successful approach than last year.
My table this year. Notice the lack of filth and hate.
A few things of note:
- A lot of people remembered me from last years convention, which made me feel like a real boy.
- A lot of people scolded me (often violently) about not having Wayward #4 done yet. I have learned a terrible lesson about about deadlines this weekend.
- Ellen Sandweiss, or Cheryl from The Evil Dead stopped by my table and liked my stuff.
- Kids really like the Chubs.
- The Orphans did surprisingly well.
I also met a lot of great artist, writers, and podcasters. All of whom I intend on linking to and given proper props in a follow-up post. Finally, here's a picture of Bryan with a Mr. T clone.
* All pictures in this post taken by Bryan and Brodie. Props.


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Japan secured four gold medals on the opening day of the International Judo Federation (IJF) Paris Grand Slam as home favourite Clarisse Agbegnenou delighted the home crowd with victory in the women's under-63 kilograms category.
Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Ami Kondo was among Japan's quartet of winners at the French capital's AccorHotels Arena, claiming her sixth Grand Slam title and her first in Paris.
She dispatched World Judo Masters winner Distria Krasniqi of Kosovo with a sumptuous ko-uchi-gari for ippon.
Victory sees Kondo take a major step towards selection for the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo.
The first bronze medal contest saw France's Melodie Vaugarny beat compatriot Melanie Clement, while the second went the way of Kazakhstan's Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh at the expense of Mongolia's Narantsetseg Ganbaatar.
There was also success for Japan in the women's under-52kg category with former world champion Ai Shishime defeating compatriot Natsumi Tsunoda, the World Judo Masters gold medallist, to win her third Grand Slam title.
The win puts Shishime in front of Tsunoda in the domestic pecking order as both aim to topple world champion Uta Abe in the race for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
A third shido for Tsunoda for passivity gave victory to Shishime, who still has a fair chance of selection for the 2019 World Championships.
France's Astride Gneto won the first bronze medal contest against Mongolia's Urantsetseg Munkhbat before Italy's Odette Giuffrida overcame Spain's Nina Estefania Esteo Linne.
World Champion vs Olympic Champion, what a match! The crowd was alive with a nervous and excited energy - Clarisse Agbegnenou made them wait for it, but with a clever counter she eventually gave them what they wanted - a French victory! #JudoParis2019 pic.twitter.com/UOHJR3akQM— #JudoParis2019 🥋 (@IntJudoFed) February 9, 2019
Japan's two other gold medals came courtesy of Naohisa Takato in the men's under-60kg category and Soichi Hashimoto in the men's under-73kg division.
Three-time and reigning world champion Takato triumphed at the Paris Grand Slam for the fourth time as he maintained his 100 per cent winning record over former world champion Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan.
Takato, who has now won in Paris in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, set a record as his victory was his ninth on the Grand Slam stage.
He countered a desperate attempt from Smetov with te-waza with 13 seconds left on the clock for a waza-ari.
Former world champion Hashimoto, meanwhile, was back among the winners on the IJF World Judo Tour for the first time since 2017 as he showed his character to grind out a hard-fought win.
He registered a much-needed gold medal by beating Hohhot Grand Prix bronze medallist Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir of Mongolia.
Hashimoto, who failed to hit top spot in his three IJF outings in 2018, threw the former under-60kg competitor with a right-sided seoi-otoshi for ippon with 12 seconds left.
The men's under-60kg bronze medallists were Mongolia's Amartuvshin Dashdavaa and Georgia's Temur Nozadze to the disappointment of The Netherlands' Tornike Tsjakadoea and Israel's Daniel Ben David respectively.
Georgia's Lasha Shavdatuashvili defeated Azerbaijan's Hidayat Heydarov in one of the two men's under-73kg bronze medal matches with Italy's Fabio Basile overcoming Kosovo's Akil Gjakova in the other.
Under-63kg world champion Agbegnenou wrote the latest chapter in the biggest rivalry in women's judo as the French superstar defeated Olympic gold medallist and two-time Paris champion Tina Trstenjak of Slovenia to win her home Grand Slam for the fifth time.
In a re-match of the Rio 2016 Olympic final, Trstenjak more than matched Agbegnenou in regulation time and for three minutes of golden score until the three-time world champion rolled over her opponent for a waza-ari score.
Japan had mixed fortunes in the bronze medal matches with Nami Nabekura beating Canada's Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard and Aimi Nouchi losing to Slovenia's Andreja Leski.
Also tasting victory today were Canada's Christa Deguchi and Moldova's Denis Vieru in the women's under-57kg and men's under-66kg categories respectively.
World bronze medallist Deguchi successfully defended her title with a win over team-mate Jessica Klimkait.
Vieru, the Budapest Grand Prix bronze medallist, won his first Grand Slam final to record his country's inaugural victory at a Grand Slam, beating Georgia's Vazha Margvelashvili.
Japan's Momo Tamaoki and South Korea's Kim Jisu were the women's under-57kg bronze medallists, while Israel's Baruch Shmailov and Ukraine's Georgii Zantaraia rounded out the men's under-66kg podium.
Competition in Paris is due to conclude tomorrow.
Watch all of the action on Judo TV.


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The full list of achievements for Lionhead's upcoming Fable III has been released, and some of them make for some interesting reading.
Specifically, two trophies which promote hooking up with other players on Xbox Live. In fact, getting the achievements titled "Long Distance Relationship" and "Cross-Dimensional Conception" is only possible by doing just that.
The first requires players to have a relationship with someone from Xbox Live, while the second requires them to have a child. Completing each achievement will be worth a whopping 10 achievement points.
Source: Joystiq


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Marketing consists of many tools and techniques. The use of these within a business depends on the type of business and the goals the business would like to achieve. Working with me starts with a consultation to discuss your businesses requirements. I will then advise on the best course of action for your business. I can assist you with carrying out the marketing activity required or I can offer training and support to enable you to undertake the planned activity yourself.
Below are some of the main areas of marketing I can carry out for you or train you in.
| Social Media |
Over the last few years social media has become a key player in any businesses marketing tool kit. There are a few reasons for this; Its free, fast, reaches a wide audience and it is easy to do…once you know how.
The social media sites that I typically cover are:
Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.
Whilst I believe these 4 are the most useful for small businesses, you may not want to, or need to use them all and that is something I will discuss with you to make sure you are only spending your time using sites that will work for your business.
| Email Campaigns |
Keeping in contact with your audience is essential. Creating a mailing list and setting up interesting, quality messages to communicate with them is a great way to keep your products and services in their mind.
I can help you to set up and create a mailing list, as well as design and develop content to mail out regularly.
Email campaigns are a great way to share special offers, added extras and keep a relationship between yourself and your customers. A key part of your marketing tool kit.
| Blog Writing |
Having an up to date blog is a great way to help with your websites SEO and keep your customers engaged. However, it can be hard to create regular content as well as finding the time to fit it into your busy week.
I can help you to come up with new and fresh ideas as well as write the content, create the images and pull the blog together ready for submitting to your audience.
If you are happy to write your own blogs, why not join me for a training session to learn some handy tips and improve the SEO elements of your posts.
| Event Support |
Events can be a great way to get your products to market and reach a new audience. There are lots of events to choose from these days but making sure you invest in the right ones is essential for your business.
I can support you in identifying and applying for the right events as well as stand planning, set up and managing on the day of the event.
| Product Photography |
Portraying your products in the right way is incredibly important, especially in the online world that we live in where people buy as a reaction to the visuals they are exposed to.
The photos of your products can make or break your business, especially when they are on your website; your online store front.
I can help you capture your products in a styled shoot to help you portray your business and brand. Images will be high resolution to allow you to use them through all your digital activity as well as through printed material.
Please contact me for a specific quote for the marketing activity or training you require.


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Gartner Market Guide for AIOps Platforms
For the past several years, IT Ops has been in a world of pain because of overwhelming IT noise, the use of rules-based tools, and a continued reliance on manual workflows and processes.
But in the last 2-3 years, this has to started to change, as enterprises of all sizes start to consider Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) powered IT Ops tools, aka AIOps tools.
In its 2018 "Market Guide for AIOps Platforms", Gartner provides a framework for AIOps so you can understand the AIOps landscape better. Download this guide now to:
- Learn why it's time you and your organization considered AIOps seriously
- Understand how AIOps can augment your existing monitoring tools (APM, NPM, others)
- Explore use-cases for AIOps, including noise reduction and root cause analysis
Gartner, Market Guide for AIOps Platforms, Pankaj Prasad, Charley Rich, 12 November 2018
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Comment on WordPress SEO Categories by SEO Dave.
Some really good questions regarding category SEO, unfortunately there's no simple no more than X categories answer, depends on the site and how much effort you are willing to put it.
Since we had our earlier discussions regarding tags and categories Stallion Responsive has improved regarding Category SEO. Go to "Posts" >> "Edit Categories" and edit one of your current categories and you'll find the "Google Panda Buster Settings".
SEO Category/Tag Description : Adds some content at the top of the category.
Google Panda Buster Keyphrase 1
Google Panda Buster Keyphrase 2
Google Panda Buster Keyphrase 3
Google Panda Buster Keyphrase 4
The 4 keyphrases and the Category Name is used when a category has enough posts to be paginated. My Responsive tutorial series is the best example on this site because it includes 38 posts. Most of my categories have under 20 posts each.
Currently doing some category SEO testing and have decreased the number of articles on a category page from the default 10 to 5 "Settings" >> "Reading" : "Blog pages show at most" = "5" (not suggesting others try this). Made this change so more categories break into multiple paginated pages, a category with 20 posts will paginate over 4 pages with the "Blog pages show at most" set to 5. So made this change so I can SEO test the feature better.
If you go to the Responsive Tutorial category and browse through the paginated archives you'll find the title tags change, they use the Google Panda Buster Keyphrases.
https://stallion-theme.co.uk/responsive/stallion-responsive-tutorials/ = Stallion Responsive Tutorials (Category Name)
https://stallion-theme.co.uk/responsive/stallion-responsive-tutorials/page/2/ = WordPress SEO Package Tutorials (Keyphrase 1)
https://stallion-theme.co.uk/responsive/stallion-responsive-tutorials/page/3/ = SEO Package Tutorials (Keyphrase 2)
https://stallion-theme.co.uk/responsive/stallion-responsive-tutorials/page/4/ = WordPress SEO Package Guides (Keyphrase 3)
https://stallion-theme.co.uk/responsive/stallion-responsive-tutorials/page/5/ = WordPress SEO Package Tutorial (Keyphrase 4)
After page 5 it repeats
https://stallion-theme.co.uk/responsive/stallion-responsive-tutorials/page/6/ = Stallion Responsive Tutorials (Category Name)
What this means is if your categories paginate over 5 pages as long as you've set the Google Panda Buster Keyphrases you have 5 webpages with unique enough content targeting 5 different phrases. After page 5 it repeats so no benefit to having page 6, 7, 8…
This is the same SEO feature you see with WordPress posts that have enough comments to paginate, Stallion uses the keyphrases from the posts for the title tags. With paginated posts (posts with lots of comments) I'm seeing SERPs from the paginated comment pages, they aren't as easy to rank as the main post (page 2 won't have many internal links), but they do rank. I expect the same results with paginated categories where the keyphrases are set.
The question is how to use this effectively if you use it at all. Depends on the site :-)
If we average 25 posts per category and use the settings above we can maximise potential SERPs from category archives.
If we average 50 posts per category and set "Blog pages show at most" to "10" again we can maximise potential SERPs.
I've always advised to try to minimize how deep a category paginates because the posts on page 2+ of a category aren't going to get a great deal of link benefit from the category archive links.
So we have two competing SEO concepts. Keep the category pagination to as few pages as possible to maximise link benefit flowing to posts and paginate up to page 5 of a category to maximise potential category SERPs. One of the reasons I'm doing an SEO category test, to see what happens.
I'm still tending towards keeping paginated categories to a minimum (link benefit flow is very important), but if you can't create enough categories to mimimize pagination at least the first 5 paginated categories can gain SERPs in their own right.
With a small site where there tends to be no or few paginated category pages you can see the above SEO category feature doesn't add much to a site. For a large site where you have no choice but to add dozens of posts in a category, could add new traffic.
I would try to avoid categories with 50+ posts, based on this with 1,400 posts you'd be looking at around 30 categories.
How to silo the categories links depends a lot on what they are called. Your current 14 categories are tightly niches around the keyword Amish, only two lack the word Amish.
If the entire site are pretty much targeting Amish SERPs there is the argument the category links help the vast majority of your 1,400 posts. Read what I wrote about why I don't have a sitewide categories widget on this site on the SEO silo article. The anchor text of the categories link cause SEO damage to each distinct set of niches targeted under this domain. I don't want a link to a category with anchor text "Product Reviews" on posts about "WordPress SEO Themes", different niches.
If all your niches are related to Amish, you can see a category link with anchor text "Amish Food" helps your posts about "Amish Furniture". So for you there is the argument for a sitewide category widget, but if you follow my advice about adding more categories you'll have them all sitewide.
On this site because the category widget does have a variety of anchor text (different niches) I've used the display widget options to not load it on posts, this means for this site the anchor text on individual posts tend to be better targets to that page.
You should look at some of your posts and see what the anchor text (all of it) says about each webpage, does it generally support your posts? Will posts be better/worse optimized if you remove the category links anchor text?
If you find you would have better optimized anchor text for each post if the category widget wasn't loaded on posts, do what I've done and load the category widget on archives, home page and whatever pages makes sense. When I've looked at posts at amishamerica.com some aren't optimized very well when I look at the title tags.
Look at the current posts at amishamerica.com/category/pennsylvania-dutch/
These aren't good title tags:
The (Mostly) Finished School
Building a New School (9 Photos)
Bench Wagon Graffiti
Putting Days Gone By to Good Use
They aren't targeting Amish SERPs, in isolation you wouldn't know "Building a New School (9 Photos)" is really about "Building a New Amish School Photos".
You might find because of posts like these the category links which do include the Amish keywords helps these poorly SEO'd posts, adds relevance.
I would keep the category link in the meta date area, it should be relevant to the post and adds a link to the category.
On tags I'd convert the ones with traffic to categories and delete any with no traffic, but manually 301 redirect them to the most relevant webpage on the site.
If this was my site I'd probably work on breaking the content over around 50 categories (about 30 posts a category: I'd aim for between 20 and 50 posts per category).
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CEO Change At SOLIDWORKS: "Au revoir" to Bertrand, "Ciao" to Gian Paolo
January 15th, 2015 by Jeff Rowe
Well, we can't say that 2015 in the MCAD industry has started off on a dull note.
With what many in the industry I'm sure consider a surprise, this morning Dassault Systèmes announced that Gian Paolo Bassi has been appointed CEO of its 3D design software brand SOLIDWORKS. Gian Paolo Bassi replaces Bertrand Sicot, who will become Vice President Sales of Dassault Systèmes' Value Solutions sales channel.
The press release says Bertrand was "promoted," but going from CEO to VP doesn't exactly seem like a promotion to me. However, this isn't the first "promotion" of this type. Sicot's CEO predecessor, Jeff Ray, endured a somewhat similar fate about four years ago when he became Executive Vice President of Geographic Operations, at the time a newly created position within Dassault. I guess, just chalk it up to "business is business."
Paolo Bassi will lead the development of SOLIDWORKS' future product and technology strategies designed for the desktop and the cloud, as well as continued collaboration with the brand's user community.
Going back just a year, in the following video Bertrand Sicot, then CEO of DS SOLIDWORKS, speeds down the Lake Placid sled track at 95 mph in a bobsled designed in SOLIDWORKS by Bo-Dyn Bobsled.
SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot's Bobsled Ride for SolidWorks World 2014
"Behind every great brand is great talent, and Gian Paolo and Bertrand have been architects of change for SOLIDWORKS," said Bernard Charlès, President and CEO of Dassault Systèmes. "SOLIDWORKS has developed into a comprehensive portfolio for intuitive, integrated 3D design, simulation, electrical design, product data management and technical communication and continues to thrive thanks to engineering ingenuity and user collaboration. We look forward to continued success for SOLIDWORKS under Gian Paolo's leadership and to strong Value Solutions channel sales growth from Bertrand's extensive sales experience."
According to the press release that was issued today, "Gian Paolo Bassi has been instrumental in the growth of SOLIDWORKS since joining Dassault Systèmes in 2011 as SOLIDWORKS Vice President Research and Development. With a hands-on technical approach and working in close collaboration with SOLIDWORKS' tight-knit user community of more than two million engineers and designers, Gian Paolo Bassi led the development of the brand's cloud applications, SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual and SOLIDWORKS Industrial Conceptual, to provide users with an instinctive powerful 3D modeling environment with online data storage and social collaboration on Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform."
Gian Paolo Bassi, 55 years old, has more than 25 years of experience in 3D, CAD, and PLM application development. Prior to joining Dassault Systèmes' SOLIDWORKS brand, he was founder and CTO of RIWEBB where he oversaw the development of new technologies for the mechanical and architectural design automation industry. He was also previously vice president and CTO of ImpactXoft, where he co-invented three of his five patents in functional modeling. He also served in the R&D organizations of companies like Computervision and think3 (there's a blast from the past!).
In the following video Greg Mark and Gian Paolo Bassi discuss the MarkForg3D, the world's first carbon fiber 3D printer.
Gian Paolo Bassi Introduces MarkForg3D – The First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer at SolidWorks World 2014
As of today, Bertrand Sicot, former CEO of SOLIDWORKS, is now Dassault Systèmes' Vice President Sales of its Value Solutions sales channel, its indirect sales network of over 500 partners in 36 countries.
Bertrand started his career at SOLIDWORKS in 1997 as the regional sales manager for Western Europe and Scandinavia. He was SOLIDWORKS' second European employee. Bertrand improved worldwide distribution, performance, revenue, profit, and global market share, and this success earned him promotions with increasing responsibility and global scope, including country manager for Western Europe in 1999, and VP, North American sales in 2004. Bertrand began his career at IBM France, and was a branch sales manager for Computervision France before joining SolidWorks.
Bertrand's departure as CEO is really not so surprising, the more I think about it. His CEO predecessors also lasted 3-4 years, as well. I always found Bertrand very professional, polished, personable, and approachable. His new position will allow him to not only return to his sales roots, but to interact with partners – both of which are strengths I have observed over the years. I'm sure he'll do well in his next and future endeavors.
Gian Paolo I don't know nearly as well, as he is a more reserved and quiet person. However, he is a smart guy who will be leading SOLIDWORKS in an ongoing period of transition, as well as trying to generate more interest in the SOLIDWORKS Mechanical and Industrial Conceptual offerings.
They say that timing is everything, and the timing of this executive move is interesting, because SOLIDWORKS World, the company's international user conference in three weeks in Phoenix. It will be even more interesting to see how the changing of the CEO guard is perceived and received.
Overheard: During a webinar presented by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) on additive manufacturing, we heard an interesting thought from one of the participants: "In the future, products will not be designed, they will be calculated." Although I don't totally agree with that sentiment, it's an interesting thought, nonetheless.
Tags: Bertrand Sicot, Dassault Systemes, Gian Paolo Bassi, SolidWorks, SolidWorks Industrial Conceptual, SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual


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While in Seattle I hit the MS company story store for my own little geek Christmas. Since there were not really any new Xbox games, and my PC is not able to run any game made after 1999, I kind of randomly grabbed Links 2004. I would never have thought this possible, but I have since become kind of, you know, addicted to golf on the Xbox. It is actually quite fun.
In my thesis class last year, my friend Pedro did his project on golf, being as he is an avid golfer. (it also let him justify traveling to 3 or 4 golf courses as 'research') his focus was on golf course design, and the visual representation of the golf course in maps and video games. Those discussions were what got me interesting in it enough to give it a try.
One interesting revelation was that there are 3 types of golf courses: Classic, Penal, and Heroic. Knowing who designed a course and what type they created apparently makes a big difference to how you can expect to play. Classic is the oldest, and probably the most fun for the casual player. Penal was popular for the early part of the century, and is designed to be really tricky- they are the ones with lots of trees, and sand trap bunkers, to crank up the risk associated with making a mistake. Finally from WWII on, the Heroic style has been dominant. These are courses designed for the Tiger Woods of the world, and are built extra long. That way they can attract the top players to the course, and are able to host top tournaments. The down side is that for the casual player, it is not as much fun, because you are going to feel like you suck more then you really do.
Another notable thing is that Golf is really expensive, not because it has high operating costs. Instead the whole game is based on the idea of an individual alone in this big park space playing the game. When a course has too many players, that becomes impossible and the game becomes less fun, and less true to the ideal. So golf courses have to keep membership down, which the only way to do so without running the risk of being accused of being discriminatory, is to raise membership fees until demand for memberships drops down to an acceptable level. (note: this came from Ted, who is a card carrying Marxist.)
The big thing though was the group realizing that while most sports are player against player, (soccer, baseball, etc) or player against the clock, (most individual/non-team sports) Golf was fairly unique, in that you were not competing directly against other players or the clock. Instead you are competing against the Golf Course designer, to see if you can beat the Par. This is significant, in that the only other analogous sport is video games. It is man against the environment, where the environment is artificially created to oppose the player.
But that is not why I am hooked on Links. I think the problem with golf is the same as with online video games. Most people who play are jerks. The games are cool, but the awfulness of dealing with these people sucks any fun out of the activity. So playing on the Xbox with its great graphics allows one to play the game as it is intended, which is actually pretty fun. But I guess if I want the authentic golf experience, I can take it online, and play against some jerk. But if I am going to do that, I will probably switch to some game that lets me shoot him with a shotgun.
Embarrassing but true
While in Seattle I hit the MS company story store for my own little geek Christmas. Since there were not really any new Xbox games, and my PC is not able to run any game made after 1999, I kind of randomly grabbed Links 2004. I would never have thought this possible, but I have since become kind of, you know, addicted to golf on the Xbox. It is actually quite fun.


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NPOESS Activity Book, 2007
Sometimes public outreach takes strange forms. I ran across this children's activity booklet at an exhibit booth during the 2008 American Meteorological Society Meeting. It was meant to introduce kids to NPOESS, an environmental satellite system under development.
Kids could color in a picture of NPOESS sensing clouds, volcanic smoke, and noticing a ship in distress at sea. They could decide which picture of NPOESS was different from the others, or connect the dots to "find out what is detecting the Earth's weather patterns" (surprise, it's NPOESS!). Other activities included a word search, a crossword puzzle, a word jumble, a maze, a picture for coloring, and a cryptogram. The age-appropriateness varies wildly from one activity to the next, and rough hand-drawn sketches and clip art graphics make the booklet look more homemade than professional. NOAA has never spent the kind of serious money on public outreach (or history) that NASA does.
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"Satellites, circling over 800 kilometers above the earth, help us to detect and monitor weather changes; not just the changes we see daily, but also the less obvious changes to our environment. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is the future system that will provide this data."
But we can't let the kids miss the real challenge here, which is intra-agency cooperation:
"NPOESS is a joint effort between the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). These three government agencies have come to work together to create the next-generation weather satellite system." (Three agencies, one mission?? Tell me more, Dad!)
And it's gonna be great!
"This future satellite system will remotely sense the environment from space. It will obtain a lot more information than the current satellites and be able to transmit that information much quicker than ever before." (More data faster? That's better than ice cream!)
The Obama administration announced the end of NPOESS on February 1st, 2010. The expected cost had more than doubled from $6.5 billion, and the timeline had slipped by years. A postmortem report blamed a range of factors, including "the divergent missions of the agencies involved, a dysfunctional management structure, poor contractor oversight, inexperience among government program managers and unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, among other reasons," according to Space News. The report also noted that NPOESS had been championed by Al Gore in 1994, and thus had no strong advocates during the second Bush administration.
Learn More:
· Government Accountability Office, "Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Challenges and Risks Remain," Congressional Testimony, June 7, 2007.
· Turner Brinton, "White House Dissolves NPOESS Partnership in Blow to Northrop," Space News (February 2, 2010)
· "US Weather Satellites: From NPOESS' Hairy Crises, to DWSS/ JPSS Split Ends," Defense Industry Daily, August 26, 2013.
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Erica Handlemann and Jane Whitcomb, NPOESS Activity Book (Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, and NASA. March 2007).


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As noted above, not only is the nationwide employment outlook in HVAC bright, but there is some evidence that there will be even greater opportunities in Delaware. By illustration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2017) estimated a 15 percent increase in HVAC openings across the country between 2016 and 2026, a figure which is double the average percentage growth projected across all occupations during that time period (7 percent). And the 48,800 fresh HVAC opportunities in the US are only part of the story. CareerOneStop (2017)—a partner of the US Department of Labor—anticipated that HVAC would have the eighth most job openings in Delaware for workers with "some college" with 230 annual job openings expected between 2016 and 2026. With the expected addition of 360 new jobs in the state, the future looks bright for Delaware's HVAC workers.
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There are 16 categories, and a total of 54 finalists. Valley Ranch Town Center is a finalist in the Retail Category.
Projects are recognized for excellence in land planning, design, construction, economics, marketing and management. Entries were judged on impact to Houston, such as job creation, innovation, best use of land, site plan, development of surrounding neighborhoods, visual plan, amenities and being environmentally friendly.
The Signorelli Company, the developer of Valley Ranch Town Center, was founded in 1994, and is a visionary leader in the real estate industry. Diversified in all aspects of real estate, from single-family and multi-family to retail, commercial and mixed-use projects, The Signorelli Company is recognized as a leader in Texas and Oklahoma, and is one of the largest privately held development companies in the state of Texas.
The Houston Business Journal will reveal the winners at the Landmark Awards event on April 19th.


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Mirjam Berg
Mirjam Berg received a Magister in German Literature and Political Science from the University of Bonn in 2010 with a thesis on the poetological significance of taking a walk in the works of Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Peter Waterhouse. Before joining the department in 2011, she spent a year as a visiting student at the German Graduate Program of Johns Hopkins University. Mirjam is currently working on a dissertation, which investigates the concept of 'home' and its proliferation in diaristic novels by women writers of the early twentieth century. Primary authors include Margarete Böhme, Emmy Hennings, Irmgard Keun, and Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Publications on the correlation between the perception of the city and of the text in works by Rilke and Keun as well as on the significance of the writing room in Rilke, Woolf, and Keun are forthcoming. Mirjam is also a passionate language instructor and has taught elementary classes as well as self-designed intermediate and advanced courses.


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Responsible Conduct of ResearchDavid Mogk, Montana State University
Much of the ethics training in the STEM disciplines is focused on the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). This training is now a requirement for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation. The following is a collection of resources that support training in RCR.
General Resources that Inform Responsible Conduct of Research
- MUST READ: Fostering Integrity in Research, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Fostering Integrity in Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/21896. See the overview of National Academies Releases Sweeping Review of Research Misconduct and Detrimental Practices from the American Institute of Physics.
- Singapore Statement on Research Integrity--
"The principles and responsibilities set out in the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity represent the first international effort to encourage the development of unified policies, guidelines and codes of conduct, with the long-range goal of fostering greater integrity in research worldwide. The Statement is the product of the collective effort and insights of the 340 individuals from 51 countries who participated in the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity. These included researchers, funders, representatives of research institutions (universities and research institutes) and research publishers. The Statement was developed by a small drafting committee (listed below); discussed and commented upon before, during and after the 2nd World Conference; and then finalized for release and global use on 22 September 2010."
- USDA Scientific Integrity Policy Handbook -- July 2013 and updated March 8, 2016. "USDA is committed to a culture of scientific integrity.. Science, and public trust in science, thrives in an environment that shields scientific data and analyses and their use in policy making from political interference or inappropriate influcuence. Scientific and technical findings should not be suppressed or altered for political purposes."
- Integrity of Scientific and Scholarly Activities--United States Department of the Interior
Training in Responsible Conduct of Research
- NSF Reiterates Policy on Teaching Good Research Habits Despite its Limitations--Jeffrey Mervis, Science, posted August 17, 2017.
- America COMPETES at 5 Years: An Analysis of Research-Intensive Universities' RCR Training Plans--Phillips, T., Nestor, F., Beach, G. et al. Sci Eng Ethics (2018) 24: 227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9883-5
Responsible Conduct of Research Key Topics That Need to be Addressed
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. --Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, 1871, Volume 2, Chapter XXI, p. 385.
- Responsible Conduct of Research modules from Ethics Core--a series of interactive tutorials available at no cost to groups affiliated with educational or other non-profit institutions.
The Treatment of Data and Data Management
- On Being A Scientist--A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 8-11)
- Data Management--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- Pain, E. Your Data, Warts and All; Science 2013; doi: 10.1126/science.caredit.a1300211
- Data--watch the case study video from Ethics Core.
- Case of Manipulating Data; Moving Ahead--from the American Chemical Society
- Do you expect me to just give away my data?--Brewer, P. (2017), "Do you expect me to just give away my data?", Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO081175. Published on 14 September 2017. "The Editor-in-Chief of JGR: Oceans explains why the new AGU data policy is important for the rigor and long-term security of scientific research."
American Library Association (ALA) and Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)-- The Code of Ethics in the Field of Library and Information Science.
- Provide highly organized services and resources, unbiased replies to requests, and fair access.
- Ensure fair treatment to everyone, including library users and colleagues.
- Develop a sense of responsibility toward individuals and society.
- Maintain professional excellence, accuracy, integrity and cooperation while offering transparency.
- Find an appropriate balance between professional and personal convictions.
- Respect intellectual property rights and refrain from censoring library resources.
- Protect intellectual freedom and property as well as the right to confidentiality and privacy.
- Do not pursue private interests to the detriment of the institution.
- Data provide the factual basis for scientific work. The integrity of research depends on integrity in all aspects of data management, including the collection, use, and sharing of data.
- Integrity of the data is a shared responsibility. All researchers have an interest in, and responsibility for, protecting the integrity of the research record.
- Quality of data collection depends on thoughtful planning. Adequate preparation for data collection helps to ensure that resources are not wasted and that significant results can be obtained.
- Selection and analysis of data should be specified. If the research is to be presented in a useful and significant way, critical decisions about selection and analysis must be made before the research commences, when possible.
- Data should be shared. An open data policy reflects positively on those who share and benefits science by increasing the likelihood for new insights, collaboration, and reciprocal sharing.
- Ethical Challenges in a Digital World. Who controls information and how it is used (for good or bad)? Is there an expectation of making information universally accessible? Who has right to use information and under what circumstances? How to cite or indicate credit for information that's "in the ether"? Who can use the information, and under what circumstances?
Mistakes and Negligence
- On Being A Scientist --A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 12-14)
Research Misconduct and Fraud
- On Being A Scientist --A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 15-18)
- Scientific Misconduct--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- NOAA Scientific Integrity Commons
- Scientific Integrity--Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Office of Research Integrity--Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Fraud and Misconduct In Research Detection, Investigation, and Organizational Response--Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, 2017, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-13055-9. An examination of 750 known cases between 1880 and 2010. See the related interview with the authors by Nick Roll, from Inside Higher Education, December 5, 2017.
- Research Misconduct--watch the case study video from Ethics Core.
Responding to Suspected Violations of Professional Standards, Whistle Blowing
- On Being A Scientist --A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 19-23)
- Whistle Blowing--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- Role Play Scenario: Whistleblowing--see the video and study guide from Ethics Core Digital Library.
Laboratory Safety in Research
- On Being A Scientist (page 28)--A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press
- Professional Ethics and Chemical Safety - the Intersection-from the American Chemical Society
- The Aberdeen Three--a case study on proper disposal of chemicals from the American Chemical Society
Sharing Research Results
- On Being A Scientist--A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 29-34)
- Collaboration--see the case study video from Ethics Core. Part of a series of videos on Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) produced by the Office of Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Authorship and Allocation of Credit
- On Being A Scientist--A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 35-38)
- Authorship--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- "Responsible Authorship" , Online Ethics Center for Engineering 8/17/2006 National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Monday, June 09, 2014
- The Most Terrible Experience of My Life: Authorship Dispute Leads to Lawsuit--from Retraction Watch
- Authorship--watch the case study video from Ethics Core. Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) produced by the Office of Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Responsible Authorship--a compilation of methods and scenarios to promote group discussion and reflection from the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science.
- Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication--Marcia McNutt, Monica Bradford, Jeffrey Drazen, R. Brooks Hanson, Bob Howard, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Veronique Kiermer, Michael Magoulias, Emilie Marcus, Barbara Kline Pope, Randy Schekman, Sowmya Swaminathan, Peter Stang, Inder Verma. (2017). Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication. bioRxiv 140228; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/140228
- Coming to Grips with Coauthor Responsibility--This posting looks at an important issue regarding coauthor responsibility for the integrity of their published work. It is by Catherine Offord and is from the May 1, 2017 Careers issue of The Scientist. http://www.the-scientist.com/. © copyright 2008-2017, The Scientist. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. From Tomorrow's Professor, message 1583.
Peer Review
- Peer Review--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- Let's End Reviewer Fraud--From Publons, posted 16 January 2018. See also Elsevier Retracting 26 Papers Accepted Because of Fake Reviews--from Retraction Watch
- Peer Review--watch the case study video from Ethics Core. Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) produced by the Office of Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers--Committee on Publication Ethics
- Diversifying the Reviewer Pool--Hanson, B., and J. Lerback (2017), Diversifying the reviewer pool, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO083837. Published on 04 October 2017.
Opinion: We Must Demand Evidence of Peer Review--Nikolai Slavov, posted May 21, 2018, The Scientist. "Peer review varies in quality and thoroughness. Making it publicly available could improve it...The exit from this very sorry state is for journals to publish the anonymized peer reviews."
- Publication--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- White Paper on Publication Ethics--Council of Science Editors (2012)
- Committee on Publication Ethics--resources, reports, flow charts on many aspects on ethics in publishing; Publication Case Studies from COPE, including context, advice and resolutions.
- A Troubled Tradition It's time to rebuild trust among authors, editors and peer reviewers by David Resnik, American Scientist, 2011 Volume 99, Number 1
- Fang, F. C., Steen, R. G., & Casadevall, A. (2012). Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 109(42), 17028–17033.
- Collaboration--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
Conflicts of Interest
- Conflicts of Interest--Resources for Research Ethics Education, UC San Diego
- Conflict of Interest--watch the case study video from Ethics Core.
- U.S. Office of Government Ethics--Preventing conflicts of interest in the Executive Branch
Intellectual Property
- On Being A Scientist--A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 39-42)
Competing Interests, Commitments and Values
- On Being A Scientist --A Guide to Responsible Conduct of Research 3rd Ed., 2009, National Academy Press (pages 43-47)
Responsibilities of Editors
- Responsibilities of Editors from Online Ethics Center
Reproducible Science
- Paving the Way to More Reliable Research--Stephanie Wykstra explores issues related to lack of reproducible Science and possible remedies. From Inside Higher Education, July 10 , 2017.
- [linkk http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False']--John Pl Ioannidis, PLOS Medicine, posted August 30, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.00201
- 1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility--Monya Baker, Nature, posted 25 May 2016.
Intrinsic Ethics
- Intrinsic Ethics Regarding integrated assessment models for climate management -- Schienke, EW, Baum, SD, Tuana, N., Davis KJ, and Keller, K., Sci Eng Ethics. 2011 Sep;17(3):503-23. doi: 10.1007/s11948-010-9209-3. Epub 2010 Jun 8.
In this essay we develop and argue for the adoption of a more comprehensive model of research ethics than is included within current conceptions of responsible conduct of research (RCR). We argue that our model, which we label the ethical dimensions of scientific research (EDSR), is a more comprehensive approach to encouraging ethically responsible scientific research compared to the currently typically adopted approach in RCR training. This essay focuses on developing a pedagogical approach that enables scientists to better understand and appreciate one important component of this model, what we call intrinsic ethics. Intrinsic ethical issues arise when values and ethical assumptions are embedded within scientific findings and analytical methods. Through a close examination of a case study and its application in teaching, namely, evaluation of climate change integrated assessment models, this paper develops a method and case for including intrinsic ethics within research ethics training to provide scientists with a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the critical role of values and ethical choices in the production of research outcomes.
Political Influence on the Conduct of Science
- USDA Scientific Integrity Policy Handbook -- July 2013 and updated March 8, 2016. "USDA is committed to a culture of scientific integrity.. Science, and public trust in science, thrives in an environment that shields scientific data and analyses and their use in policy making from political interference or inappropriate influcuence. Scientific and technical findings should not be suppressed or altered for political purposes."
- A recent troubling incident: Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings--article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eliperin, published December 9, 2016 in the Washington Post.
- Communication Chill--Andrew Kreighbaum, from Inside Higher Education, posted January 25, 2017; "As EPA freezes grants, agencies issue internal guidance to employees on outside communications, stirring fears of political interference in science."
- Freedom to Bully,How Laws Intended to Free Information are Used to Harass Researchers--Michael Halpern, February 2015, Union of Concerned Scientists, Center for Science and Democracy. "Open records laws are increasingly being used as a weapon against researchers whose work threatens private interests"
- New Energy Dept. guidelines: Changing culture or political ploy?--Ellen Powell, January 12, 2017, Christian Science Monitor; "Scientists can now speak freely to the media and publish in scientific journals. The guidelines may set the course for the upcoming confirmation hearing for Energy Secretary – and the department's next four years." Access the U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientific Integrity Policy "This document sets forth a policy intended to 1) ensure a culture of scientific integrity; (2) strengthen the actual and perceived credibility of the Federal Government and Federal Government-sponsored research; (3) facilitate the free flow of scientific and technical information consistent with privacy and classification standards and applicable laws, regulations, and DOE Orders and Policies; and (4) establish principles for conveying scientific and technological information to the public."
- Following Reports of Interference, GAO to Study Scientific Integrity at Federal Agencies--from American Institute of Physics, posted October 27, 2017. "The Government Accountability Office has agreed to evaluate the state of scientific integrity at federal agencies at the request of Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), who says he is concerned about reports of political interference in scientific work."
- Perspectives of Scientists Who Become Targets: Katharine Hayhoe--Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, posted August 10, 2017.
Responsible Conduct of Education Research: Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER)
A two-year study by the NRC (2012) of Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER): Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering explored 1) the current status of DBER, 2) evidence-based contributions of DBER to STEM education and 3) future directions for collaborative discipline-based education research.There are three principle components of DBER:
- The contours of DBER are emergent from the parent disciplines, reflecting deep disciplinary knowledge, skills, and ways of knowing that inform disciplinary research in a given field;
- DBER investigates teaching and learning in a given discipline, which reflects the questions asked, approaches to problem solving, and representations to explain phenomena that are intrinsic to a given discipline; and
- DBER is informed by complementary research on human learning and cognition.
Researchers in the geosciences are increasingly contributing to geoscience education research (see: overview of Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences. See an overview of Contributions and Opportunities for the Geosciences in their participation in DBER.
Researchers who are engaged in any research involving human subjects should be fully aware of the ethical guidelines that apply to this research. Be sure to check with your Institutional Review Board (IRB) to make sure you are in compliance with training and reporting requirements to conduct your research.
The Belmont Report
This report is the source of Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research. These include:
Respect for Persons
"Respect for persons incorporates at least two ethical convictions: first, that individuals should be treated as autonomous agents, and second, that persons with diminished autonomy are entitled to protection. The principle of respect for persons thus divides into two separate moral requirements: the requirement to acknowledge autonomy and the requirement to protect those with diminished autonomy." This states that the person must be capable of making an informed decision on whether or not to participate in a human subjects research project.
Key considerations: autonomy (ability to freely choose to participate), mental capacity, voluntariness, informed consent
- "Informed consent will be sought from each prospective subject or the subject's legally authorized representative,
- "Informed consent will be appropriately documented,
- "When appropriate, there are adequate provisions to protect the privacy of subjects and to maintain the confidentiality of data."
- "When some or all of the subjects are likely to be vulnerable to coercion or undue influence, such as children, prisoners, pregnant women, mentally disabled persons, or economically or educationally disadvantaged persons, additional safeguards have been included in the study to protect the rights and welfare of these subjects."
"Persons are treated in an ethical manner not only by respecting their decisions and protecting them from harm, but also by making efforts to secure their well-being." Such treatment falls under the principle of beneficence. The term "beneficence" is often understood to cover acts of kindness or charity that go beyond strict obligation. In this document, beneficence is understood in a stronger sense, as an obligation. Two general rules have been formulated as complementary expressions of beneficent actions in this sense: 1) Do not harm, and 2) maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms.
- "Risks to subjects are minimized: (i) By using procedures which are consistent with sound research design and which do not unnecessarily expose subjects to risk, and (ii) whenever appropriate, by using procedures already being performed on the subjects for diagnostic or treatment purposes."
- "Risks to subjects are reasonable in relation to anticipated benefits, if any, to subjects, and the importance of the knowledge that may reasonably be expected to result. In evaluating risks and benefits, the IRB should consider only those risks and benefits that may result from the research (as distinguished from risks and benefits of therapies subjects would receive even if not participating in the research). The IRB should not consider possible long-range effects of applying knowledge gained in the research (for example, the possible effects of the research on public policy) as among those research risks that fall within the purview of its responsibility."
- "When appropriate, the research plan makes adequate provision for monitoring the data collected to ensure the safety of subjects."
- "When appropriate, there are adequate provisions to protect the privacy of subjects and to maintain the confidentiality of data."
"Who ought to receive the benefits of research and bear its burdens? This is a question of justice, in the sense of "fairness in distribution" or "what is deserved." An injustice occurs when some benefit to which a person is entitled is denied without good reason or when some burden is imposed unduly. Another way of considering the principle of justice is that equals ought to be treated equally. However, this statement requires explication. Who is equal and who is unequal? What considerations justify departure from equal distribution? Almost all commentators allow that distinctions based on experience, age, deprivation, competence, merit and position do sometimes constitute criteria justifying differential treatment for certain purposes. It is necessary, then, to explain in what aspects people should be treated equally. There are several widely accepted formulations of just ways to distribute burdens and benefits. Each formulation mentions some relevant property on the basis for which burdens and benefits should be distributed. These formulations are:
- To each person an equal share.
- To each person according to individual need.
- To each person according to individual effort.
- To each person according to societal contribution.
- And to each person according to merit.
"Selection of subjects is equitable. In making this assessment the IRB should take into account the purposes of the research and the setting in which the research will be conducted and should be particularly cognizant of the special problems of research involving vulnerable populations, such as children, prisoners, pregnant women, mentally disabled persons, or economically or educationally disadvantaged persons."
Are There, or Should There Be, Limits to Geoscience Research?
The medical professions decided long ago that there must be limits to medical research on human subjects, and researchers must adhere to strict guidelines (see the Belmont Forum Report; the topic of bio- and medical ethics is beyond the scope of this project, but there are important lessons learned from related disciplines). Given that Earth exhibits complex system behavior, do geoscientists have permissions (explicit or tacit), authority, or consent to do unbridled research, particularly in areas that may produce unforeseen consequences (e.g. geoengineering to mitigate climate change; attempts to control earthquakes)? On a local scale, is it appropriate and permissable for geoscientists to sample and analyze for environmental hazards in communities? What are the consequences to the people living in the potentially impacted areas?
What you don't know may indeed hurt you, but in some cases the remedy may be more harmful than the original situation. There are no clear answers here, but this is something to think about. As Hamm says to Clov in Samuel Beckett's End Game: "I love the old questions. (with fervor) Ah the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them." Or from Adlai Stevenson: "Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls." Who decides when or if geoscience research goes "out of bounds"? Do we need an equivalent IRB for the geosciences equivalent to that required of human or animal subjects? Are there instances where knowing the results of research could actually cause harm?
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