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he witnesses the aftermath of mountaintop removal.
headless birds on a last dash from death.
kneel along the interstate, awaiting the blade.
M. Stone is a bookworm, birdwatcher, and stargazer who writes poetry while living in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bop Dead City, SOFTBLOW, Calamus Journal, and numerous other print and online journals. She can be reached at writermstone.wordpress.com.


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Are midwives safer than doctors?
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In a clinical assessment that could have implications for the United States, Britain's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has concluded that it is safer for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies to give birth under the supervision of midwives than in a hospital maternity ward run by doctors. The reason: Doctors are much more likely than midwives to use interventions like forceps deliveries, spinal anesthesia and cesarean sections — procedures that carry risks of infection and surgical accidents.
The guidance applies to healthy women who are considered at low risk for complications because they have had no previous complicated birth, they are expected to deliver a single baby at full term and their baby is presenting head first. These mothers and their babies fared better with midwives than with doctors in almost all settings, except for first-time mothers delivering at home.
Although there are important differences between the British and American health systems, there is no good reason that midwives should not play a more important role in childbirth here, despite a longstanding turf war between obstetricians and midwives that has tended to keep midwives under the thumb of doctors.
Last year there were more than 3.9 million births in the United States. Ninety percent of them were attended by physicians and only 9 percent by midwives. Most births with midwives occur in hospitals, with relatively small percentages at free-standing birth centers or at home. Three-quarters of certified nurse midwives, a category that includes the highest number of trained midwives, work in physician practices or in hospitals where they interact with or are supervised by doctors. But they might well acquire more autonomy to handle low-risk, straightforward pregnancies on their own.
Certified nurse midwives are licensed registered nurses. They have typically earned at least a master's degree from an accredited college, received clinical training, won certification from a national board and passed a state licensing exam. A number of studies have shown that they do as well as or better than obstetricians in low-risk cases.
The professional society for obstetricians, however, cites evidence that planned home birth carries an increased risk of neonatal death, compared with planned hospital birth. It warns that a pregnancy that seems low risk can quickly develop complications that only a hospital can handle.
Some medical centers are trying to have the best of both worlds by allowing midwives greater autonomy within the hospital. The Mayo Clinic, often a pacesetter, lets midwives handle low-risk pregnancies independently and hand off to doctors any cases that become complicated.
In a time of spiraling medical costs and increasing demand for health care, midwives can offer a cost-effective way of providing good maternity care. They could also provide greater geographical reach: Nearly half the counties in the United States have no maternity care professional, either midwife or obstetrician.
Bipartisan legislation pending before Congress would require the federal government to identify areas with significant shortages of such professionals and take steps to plug the gaps. It is backed by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The bill would help many more women gain easy access to maternity services, and it should be approved.
Original Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/opinion/are-midwives-safer-than-doctors.html
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Narrator(s): Rupert Bush
AD265 - In the shadow of Mount Etna, slaves are rising up. As the rebel leader declares Sicily the new land of the free, men and women are slaughtered, and cities across the island are sacked and burned. When a ship is wrecked off the island's west coast, all but two survivors are cut down in the surf by the rebel slaves. Ballista, an experienced Roman soldier, has always found a way to survive against the odds - but his son Marcus is still just a boy. With the burning road stretching out ahead of them, father and son must cross the war-ravaged island in a race against time to save the rest of his family, and somehow find a way to extinguish the brutal rebellion, before it all goes up in flames.
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Triple murderer Nikita Joakim Foughantine, formerly known as Juha Valjakkala, has been released from a Finnish jail.
Foughantine is to be kept under close observation until July 1st, when his conditional release is made permanent, Finnish authorities said on Monday.
Foughantine's early release was sanctioned by Helsinki Court of Appeal as a means of ensuring that he is kept under strict supervision for the initial period of his return to civilian life.
Finland's decision to grant Foughantine a pardon provoked strong reactions in Sweden late last year.
The Helsinki court agreed to release Valjakkala on a suspended sentence more than 19 years after he began serving his life sentence. He had sought a pardon on a number of previous occasion and had escaped or attempted to escape from prison at least five times.
The Finn and his girlfriend were arrested a week later in Denmark. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and deportation. His girlfriend was sentenced to two years in jail for serious assault.
Church of Sweden minister Marie-Louise Marsjögård said that the village had recovered from the worst of its trauma.
"Maybe there is a sense of discomfort but there is no major sense of fear anymore. Some emotions bubble up to the surface when the mass media come up here but it feels a bit like we've already got over this," said Marsjögård, who has been a minister in the village for ten years.
"It's time for him to come out into realty and I hope it goes well for him," she added.


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Mom of a third grader here! And if you have a kid in elementary school too, I'm sure you're no stranger to Reading Programs. They help us parents keep our kids reading in the summer and in return the kids get cool prizes.
Even after summer is over, my third grader continues to read. From school Book Club to Weekly Reading Logs, there is a whole lot of reading going on — and for good reason.
With the new Read By Grade Three law, third-grade students will take the M-Step reading assessment and if their score is too low, they may not move on to fourth grade.
Schools are taking extra steps to help kids reach their grade reading level and libraries are partnering with teachers and parents, too.
And that's how a cool and massive 1,000-day reading challenge came about from Kent County Public Libraries! Mission: Read is here to pump K-3rd graders up to read each day so that they have the skills to advance to fourth grade.
It's super easy to sign up. You and your K-3rd Grader just need to see a librarian at any Kent County Public Library, including Cedar Springs Public Library, Kent District Library, Grand Rapids Public Library, and Sparta Township Library. There are 30 locations to pick from.
No setting timers or only being able to choose specific books. Any reading counts, from reading the back of a cereal box to being read a bedtime story. The goal is to make reading a fun, daily habit!
Cool prizes. Stickers and small prizes every 100 days. Pick out a free book to keep at 500 days. And at the 1,000-day mark: a Tablet Reader and a sit-down with a librarian to get a one-on-one tutorial on how to use it.
Book and Activity Lists (in both English and Espanol) make it simple for you to find books that focus on Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. Whether it's Llama, Llama, Red Pajama to help with Phonemic awareness or Fancy Nancy Easy Readers for working on vocabulary, there are engaging books and games for each grade.
The librarians ROCK! They are approachable and ready to help. Have an Individualized Reading Improvement Plan (IRIP) from your child's teacher? KDL Librarians have been trained on IRIPs and are ready to take steps to help you and your reader. You can also search on KDL's online catalog for things like "IRIP Phonemic Awareness" to find books for a particular reading skill.
Special Game Nights for the whole family! KDL Branches are inviting everyone in on the fun at their Mission Read: A Galactic Family Game Nights. Make-and-take activities, prizes, and snacks are fun and FREE.
Two words: Booster Packs. Ready and waiting for you at the KDL Comstock Park Branch (with more KDL branches offering them this summer), these Booster Packs are filled with books, games, and activities to keep challenging kids in a fun and interactive way!
Mission: Read runs year round and is for kids Kindergarten – 3rd Grade.


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SFOepi workshops, seminars and courses
SFOepi organises different kinds of workshops, seminars and courses over the year.
Statistical Methods Week
Time: June 7-10, 9:00-16:30
The strategic research area in epidemiology and biostatistics and the statistical methods node of the national network for register-based research invite all interested in statistical methods for the analysis of data to attend the seminars.The goal is for researchers in all disciplines to interact, discuss new statistical methods, and discover the wealth of methods that are being developed. The tutorials are intended for biomedical researchers or practitioners with research in or using mathematics, biostatistics, and computational statistics. Link to the full program and information on how to sign up here.
Seminars:
Dr. Jason Liang - "Prognostic accuracy measures for survival models"
Dr. Brice Ozenne - "Toward a unified framework for analyzing repeated measurements with a continuous outcome"
Professor Hongwei Zhao - "An improved survival estimator for censored medical costs using kernel methods"
Professor Ken Rice - "Fixing fixed-effects meta-analysis: some theoretical and practical advances"
Professor Andrea Rotnitzky - "Towards deriving graphical rules for efficient estimation in causal graphical models"
Professor Karla Diaz-Ordaz - "Causal machine learning for heterogeneous treatment effects"
Dr. Tim Morris - "Nonparametric bootstrapping for standard errors and confidence intervals: silver bullet or fool's gold?"
Dr. Michael Sachs - "Recent advances in regression modeling of censored time-to-event outcomes using pseudo-observations"
"Prognostic accuracy measures for survival with Covid-19 example" in R with Dr. Liang.
"Analysis of repeated measurements with mixed models using the R package LMMstar" with Dr. Ozenne and Dr. Forman
"Analysis of medical costs with censored data" In Stata with Professor Zhao.
"Introduction to meta-analysis" in R with Professor Rice.
"Introduction to causal machine learning" in R with Professor Diaz-Ordaz.
"Nonparametric bootstrap" in Stata with Dr. Morris.
"Using the eventglm R package for regression modeling of censored time-to-event outcomes" with Dr. Sachs.
Reconsideration of the Kaplan-Meier Estimator: Censoring and Time-varying Covariates
Time: June 11 at 15:00 on zoom
Speaker: Professor Rebecca Betensky, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health at New York University
Panel on Artificial Intelligence in Epidemiology
Dr. Mattias Rantalainen, Senior Lecturer of Epidemiology at the Department of Medical Epidemiology Karolinska Institutet.
Dr. Sema Sgaier, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Surgo Foundation, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health University of Washington.
Dr. Andrea Ganna, FIMM-EMBL group leader, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland and Instructor, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Christian Guttman, Vice president, global head of Artificial Intelligence and Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data officer at TietoEVRY, adjunct associate professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Adjunct researcher at Department of Learning, Informatics, Management, and Ethics and the Karolinska Institutet.
Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Arkema, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.
Details: February 12 at 15:00 on zoom
Impacts of Biostatistics on Advancing Human Health in the 20thCentury and Beyond: My Personal View
Speaker: President Kung-Yee Liang, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C., Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biostatistics
Time: January 29, 9 am CET on zoom
Statistical models for the natural history of breast cancer: likelihood and likelihood-free estimation
Speaker: Professor Marco Bonetti, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Time: November 6 at 11:00 on zoom
A reevaluation of dementia incidence trends in the Framingham Heart Study cohort
Speaker: Dr Nadine Binder, Senior researcher, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Institut für Digitalisierung in der Medizin
Time: October 16 at 11:00 on zoom
Pairwise composite likelihood for mixed models under complex sampling
Speaker: Professor Thomas Lumley, Chair in Biostatistics at The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Time: September 25 at 9:00 on zoom
Machine Learning for Causal Inference: review of recent developments
Speaker: Dr. Karla Diaz-Ordaz, associate professor of biostatistics, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: August 28 at 11:00 on zoom
SFOepi Epidemiology and Biostatistics Day 2020 (cancelled due to travel restrictions)
Time: May 8, 2020, 09:00-18:00
Location: Aula Medica
Hot Topics in Epidemiology and Biostatistics - a full-day conference with confirmed Keynote Speakers Professor Sonia Hernandez-Diaz and President of Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes, Professor Kung-Yee Liang
Epi-Biostat Expo 2019: Sparking collaborations
Time: Nov 26, 09:00-15:00
Location: Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9
Speakers: Petter Ljungman, Elisabeth Arkama, Davide Vetrano, Erin Gabriel, Gaetano Marrone
Causal mediation with longitudinal mediator and survival outcome
Time: Nov 15, at 11:00
Location: Strix, von Eulers väg 4, Solna
Professor Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany
Host: Erin Gabriel
When is a statistical method fit for use?
Time: Nov 8, at 11:00
Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
Career Day for Epidemiologists 2019
Time: May 9, at 11.30
Location: Biomedicum1, Biomedicum, Solna
Host: Camilla Wiklund
A Bayesian adaptive comparative effectiveness trial - an example in Status Epilepticus - CANCELLED DUE TO SAS STRIKE
Time: May 3, at 9.30
Speakers: Dr. Jason Connor
Introduction to Mendelian Randomization
Time: May 2 at 9.00-11.45
Location: Biomedicum 1, Biomedicum, Solna
Speakers: Arvid Sjölander and Sara Hägg
Host: Elisabeth Dahlqwist and Arvid Sjölander
Pleiotropy robust Mendelian Randomization Workshop
Speakers: Jack Bowden and Wes Spiller from the University of Bristol
Polygenic risks in cardiometabolic diseases and breast and prostate cancers and their impact on behaviour
Time: April 5, at 11.00
Location: Strix von Eulers väg 4, Solna
Speakers: Professor Samuli Ripatti
Flexible parametric survival models in epidemiology: standard survival, competing risks and multistate mode
Time: April 3-5
Location: To be confirmed (Campus Nord, Solna)
Speakers: Dr Michael Crowther and Professor Paul Lambert
Host: Professor Paul Lambert
Towards Personalized Computer Simulation of Breast Cancer Treatment
Time: March 1, at 11.00
Speakers: Professor Arnoldo Frigessi
Course on Competing Risks and Multistate Models
Time: Februari 5-7, 9.00-17.00
Speakers: Dr. Ronald Geskus and Professor Hein Putter
Host: Sandra Eloranta, KEP, MedS
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/LR6tuiZtV7eRJPdp1
SfoEpi Research Seminar: Psychological stress, health, and potential biological mechanisms
Time: December 11, 9.30-16.00
Location: Biomedicum 3 Lecture Hall, Karolinska Institutet, Solna
Speakers: Professors Meena Kumari, Nina Alexander, Hugo Westerlund, Asya Rolls, Erica Sloan and Dr. Robert Miller
Moderators: Professors Mats Lekander and Unnur Valdimarsdóttir
Host: Fang Fang and Kelli Lehto, MEB, Karolinska Institutet
Climate change, Air Pollution and Health: The use of big data in epidemiology for causal inference and implications for affecting health policy
Time: November 29, 13.00-16.00
Speakers: Professor Joel Schwartz and Associate Professor Gregory Wellenius
Hosts: Petter Ljungman and Erik Melén, Karolinska Institutet
SFO-Epi workshop: Multimorbidity research at the cross-roads: developing the evidence for clinical practice and health policy
Time: May 21, 8.30-16.30
Location: Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Karolinska Institutet, Solna
Speakers: Mary Tinetti, Martin Roland, Luigi Ferrucci, Stewart Mercer, Cynthia Boyd, Jose M. Valderas and Alessandra Marengoni
Host: Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet
Further information: http://www.multimorbidity2018-stockholm.se/
SFO-Epi workshop: How to prepare a Cochrane systematic review: Practical and methodological issues
Time: April 12, 08.30-16.00
Location: Andreas Vesalius, Berzelius väg 3, plan 2, Karolinska Institutet, Solna
Abstract: The scope of the Worskhop is to provide an introduction to the understanding of systematic reviews and meta-analyses following the Cochrane methodology, with both theoretical and practical prospective. In addition, to inspire and support researchers to become authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, presenting available resources and tools and national and international level.
Further information and registration: http://sweden.cochrane.org/how-prepare-cochrane-systematic-review-practical-and-methodological-issues
SFO-Epi workshop: Time series methods in health research
Time: April 12, 9.00-12.00
Location: Lecture hall Atrium, Nobels väg 12B, Karolinska Institutet, Solna
Register for the course using the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/
Host: Petter Ljungman (e-mail: petter.ljungman@ki.se), Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
The session will involve a mix of mini-lectures and mini-practicals on the various topics covered in the in workshop, including illustrative examples and real-data analyses. The session will cover:
Introduction to study design and statistical models for time series analysis using R
The use of interrupted time series as a quasi-experimental design: applications for the evaluation of public health interventions
Time series models for the analysis of short-term effects: applications for investigating health risks of environmental factors
More sophisticated techniques: two-stage designs and the use of distributed lag models
Individual-level analyses with the novel case time series design: applications in clinical and pharmaco-epidemiological studies
Invited speakers:
- Antonio Gasparrini, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He is a leading expert in the development of study designs and statistical methods for time series analysis applied for environmental studies or public health evaluation. Antonio is the author of the R packages dlnm and mvmeta, and of several tutorials on the use of R for epidemiological analyses. He has taught R and time series analysis in MSc courses at LSHTM for several years.
- Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Epidemiology and Statistics at LSHTM, with special interests in Climate Change research. She is an experienced epidemiologist in time series analysis, mainly on studies on air pollution and temperature-related mortality. Ana has developed and applied routines in R for state-of-the-art modelling approaches in environmental epidemiological analyses.
- Francesco Sera, MSc, is a Research Fellow in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). His research activity focuses on modelling data from observational and experimental biomedical studies. Currently, his interest lies on time series models in environmental epidemiology and in the development on multivariate meta-analytical statistical methods and software. Francesco is an experienced R user, programmer, and teacher.
SFO-Epi seminar: N-of-1 Trials for Making Personalized Treatment Decisions
Time: April 4- at 13:00-14:00
Speaker: Christopher Schmid; Professor of Biostatistics; Co-Director, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health; Brown University School of Public Health
Please register here: http://bit.ly/2DqgxF8
Abstract: N-of-1 trials hold great promise for enabling patients to create personalized protocols to decide on medical treatments. Fundamentally, they are single-participant multiple-crossover studies for determining the relative comparative effectiveness of two or more treatments for one individual. An individual selects treatments and outcomes of interest, carries out the trial, and then makes a final treatment decision with or without a clinician based on results of the trial. Established in a clinical environment, an N-of-1 practice provides data on multiple trials from different patients. Such data can be combined using meta-analytic techniques to inform both individual and population treatment effects. When patients undertake trials with different treatments, the data form a treatment network and suggest use of network meta-analysis methods. This talk will discuss ongoing and completed clinical research projects using N-of-1 trials for chronic pain, atrial fibrillation, inflammatory bowel disease, fibromyalgia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It will describe design and analytic challenges as well as unique aspects deriving from use of the N-of-1 design for personalized decision making such as defining treatments, presenting results, and assessing model assumptions and the pros and cons of combining information from different patients in order to provide a better estimate of each individual's effect than from his or her own data alone.Register-based Randomized Clinical Trials – New Possibilities for Clinical Research
Time: February 7 at 15:00-18.00
Location: Leksellsalen, Eugeniahemmet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna
- Stefan James, Uppsala University: RRCT studies in cardiology using Swedeheart
- Torsten Olbers, University of Gothenburg: Obesity surgery RRCTs
- Martin Neovius, Karolinska Institutet: Economic outcomes in RA using Register Enriched RCTs
Host: Olof Stephansson
Past, present and future of cardiovascular disease prevention: applications of multi-state life tables
Time: January 30 at 15:00-16.00
Location: Samuelssonsalen, Karolinska Institutet
Invited speaker: Professor Oscar Franco, Department of Epidemiology, ERASMUS Medical University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Host: Karin Leander
Link to SfoEpi event
Stress research seminar and networking event
Time: December 11 at 12:00-17.30
Location: Klara Strand, Klarabergsviadukten 90, Stockholm
- Prof. Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland
- Prof. Mats Lekander, Stockholm Stress Center / Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Assoc. Prof. Jiong Li, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Assoc. Prof. Katja Fall, Örebro University, Sweden
Hosts: Fang Fang, Kelli Lehto, Mina Rydell, Bronwyn Brew
Lunch seminar at IMM: "What are they doing at MEB?"
Time: Monday January 30 at 12.00-13.00
Location: Bergendorff lecture hall, IMM (level 2)
- Catarina Almqvist; Twin studies and new methods to detect causality
- Kamila Czene; Update on breast cancer prognosis and key determinants
- Jonas Ludvigsson; Celiac disease prevention: state-of the-art approaches 2017 and beyond
- Weimin Ye; Understanding gastro-intestinal cancer development using molecular studies
Hosts: Sofia Carlsson, Rickard Ljung, Erik Melén, Karin Modig
Advanced survival models for correlated data
Time: October 24-25 at 9.00-12.00 and 13.00-16.00
Location: Karolina. Tomtebodavägen 18A, Widerströmska huset
Invited Lecturer: Virginie Rondeau, INSERM (Bordeaux, France).
1. Standard frailty models for recurrent and clustered data (models, estimation, dynamic prediction and illustrations)
2. Extensions with nested and additive frailty models (models, estimation and illustrations)
3. Extensions with joint frailty models for recurrent events and a longitudinal biomarker (models, estimation, dynamic prediction and illustrations)
4. Extensions with multivariate frailty models (models, estimation and illustrations)
Abstract: Simple shared frailty models have been largely developed and applied for recurrent or clustered survival data in the literature. However extensions of frailty models are less common in publications and are not well developed in classical softwares. We are aiming at filling this gap by considering extension of frailty models (as additive frailty models, nested frailty models or joint frailty models) and by presenting an implementation of these models using also the R package frailtypack. A particular interest will be devoted to joint frailty models in order to analysis jointly recurrent events such as cancer relapses and a dependent terminal event (death or lost to follow-up). Prediction tools associated with this package will be presented also.
The first part of this course will introduce general frailty models, the estimation methods and the research questions they may address. The second part of this course will be dedicated to the joint frailty models with illustration on real data. The estimation and the predictive dynamic tools that can be derived from them will be exposed, with methods to evaluate their performance.
Emphasis is given, via examples on real data, of the ability of extended frailty models to describe a very broad range of practical situations. Each concept will be illustrated through implementation of these models using the R package frailtypack.
Host: Nicola Orsini
Current Status Data: Epidemiology, Avalanches and Screening
Time: December 10 at 14:00-15:00
Location: Lecture Hall Atrium, Nobels Väg 12A, Solna Campus
Speaker: Nicholas P. Jewell, Professor of Biostatistics & Statistics,University of California, Berkeley
Abstract: More than 800 people died from avalanches in Europe and North America over the six winters from 2003--2009. Avalanche survival curves describe the probability of survival as a function of burial time. These curves provide the basis for international recommendations for rescue and resuscitation and for the design of safety and rescue devices. However, estimation of such curves is complicated by the fact that the time of death is unknown for individuals who are not alive when rescued. Such data is formally referred to as current status data. I will review current status data analysis techniques, statistical ideas that have broad application to a variety of other data structures that arise naturally in epidemiology, demography, and economics. I will briefly discuss some new estimation problems related to current status measurements associated with grouped screening.
Hosts: Rino Bellocco (MEB), Nicola Orsini (IMM)
Consensus formation from observation of complex systems with limited intervention: Why statistics needs to be absorbed into epistemology
Time: Thursday, April 2 at 13.00-14.00
Location: Samuelssonsalen, Tomtebodavägen 6, Karolinska Institutet
Speaker: Sander Greenland,
Department of Epidemiology and Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by: Nicola Orsini, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.
Aim: Experienced epidemiologists recognize that current statistical formalisms are inadequate for inference in risk assessment and health policy; astute social scientists recognize analogously that those formalism are inadequate for inference in economic and social policy. The inference problems in these fields are examples of consensus formation from observation of complex systems with limited intervention (CFOCLI). CFOCLI is a conceptually hard problem being addressed only slowly the statistics profession, in part because addressing it requires an epistemology both far more broad and more detailed than found in conventional statistical theory. There are alternative inference systems under development in computer science which claim to address at least some of the more severe limits of current statistical formalisms; their ability to address CFOCLI is intriguing but as yet far from demonstrated. Some crucial elements for CFOCLI absent from most formalisms include coalescing inferences from multiple agents that each have severe cognitive biases. These biases may be viewed as priors that down-weight large regions of the parameter space to the point of no influence. Shared biases develop and can lead to disastrous loss when all agents severely down-weight a region that contains reality in its interior. Examples include the history of diet and health recommendations by academically-based societies, as well as the collapse of hedge funds run by econometric theories. Such examples underscore the need to incorporate concepts from antifragility as well as information and cognitive sciences into the core of CFOCLI.
Three new SfoEpi awardees present their projects
Location: Lecture hall Wargentin, Nobels väg 12A, Karolinska Institutet
Time: December 15 at 12.00-13.00
Aim: To introduce our three new SfoEpi aawardees and their projects
PhD course 2790: How to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses (3hp)
Organizer: Nele Brusselaers, post-doc (Dept. Molecular Medicine and Surgery)
Background:This course falls within the second SFO theme"Molecular, genetic and clinicalepidemiology".The interactive lectures and seminars will be given by the 3 lecturers mentioned above who are allepidemiologists, coming from 3 different epidemiology units (and departments) within KarolinskaInstitutet. One afternoon will be organised by the library of Karolinska Institutet (Klas Moberg, CarlGornitzki), to learn practical skills on how to perform a proper systematic literature search.
Aim: This epidemiology course aims to provide students with the basic skills and knowledge to performsystematic reviews and meta-analyses. The exams mainly consists of writing a study protocol for anown systematic review/meta-analyses, including a detailed description of the systematic search of the literature.
Planned schedule: 1-5 December: interactive lectures and seminars; Wednesday 10 December: Feedback seminar on study protocol; Wednesday 17 December: Examination
Epidemiological designs in a statistical framework (short course)
Organizer: Anna Johansson (biostatistician/phd student), Cecilia Lundholm (head of the applied biostatistics group at MEB), Caroline Weibull (biostatistician/phd student), Therese Andersson (post-doc)
Background: The lecturer will be Professor Esa Läärä from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Oulu University, Finland (http://stat.oulu.fi/laara/). He has agreed to deliver this one-week course, where epidemiological concepts will be derived and discussed from a general methodological view combining statistics with epidemiology. Professor Läärä gave a similar, much appreciated course at our department in 2011 and has since developed the material further. Furthermore, Professor Läärä teaches at the highly-regarded course "Statistical Practice in Epidemiology using R" in Tartu.
Aim: We aim to host a one-week advanced course on epidemiology theory aimed at participants with a strong epidemiological and statistical background working at Karolinska Institutet. The scientific aims are:
- To give students a deep understanding of epidemiological theory and concepts
- To discuss around implications of epidemiological designs for different study questions
- To encourage interaction between epidemiology and statistics
Schedule: 3-7 November: The planned course will consist of lectures and interactive sessions, combined with practical work and group discussions among participants. The course covers the main types of epidemiologic designs and discusses their setup from a statistical sampling perspective. It builds on the distinctions concerning the concepts of study population, study base, and sampling strategy. Study populations can be closed or open, and the study base may be cross-sectional or longitudinal. Measurement of risk factor data can be based on full census of the study base, or on some outcome-selective sampling strategy, such as traditional case-control study, density sampling including nested case-control design, and case-cohort sampling. The properties of various designs are compared in terms of their statistical validity and efficiency in estimating the target parameters as well as their practicality in concrete research settings.
Target Group: The course is aimed at participants from any department or research group at Karolinska Institutet, with a strong background in epidemiological methods and biostatistics, e.g. persons with either a degree in statistics or who otherwise have a good knowledge of statistics within epidemiology (e.g., have completed biostat 3, and preferably also advanced doctoral courses such as a causal inference course and longitudinal data analysis). We have informed potential participants at MEB about the planned course, and have had expressions of interest from students and staff at MEB, but we expect there to be interest from other epidemiology departments at KI, such as IMM, KEP and PHS, as well. If the high level of interest should result in the course being over-subscribed, we will prioritise the applications based on the participant's previous training, area of work and the visiting lecturer's advice concerning level.
Neuroepidemiology Workshop 16-17 July
Organizer: : Fang Fang, M.D. Ph.D., Assistant Professor, MEB
Background: Neuroepidemiology is a relatively young member of the entire epidemiological research field at KI. Although it has been under vivid development during the last years at MEB for example, a strengthened collaboration within KI and with research entities outside KI is largely needed. To fulfill this aim, in 2012, we organized the first Neuroepidemiology workshop including participants from MEB, IMM and Department of Clinical Neurosciences. This workshop resulted in several important collaborations afterwards. Furthermore, already in 2008, we initiated a collaborative PhD program on ALS between MEB and NIEHS where the PhD student spent one-year research sojourn as a predoctoral fellow at NIEHS. The student was jointly supported by KI and NIEHS. During the following years, this initiative was supported by the KI-NIH joint PhD program in Neuroscience and we have to date enrolled another 3 PhD students (2 in ALS and 1 in PD) of the same training track. Many collaborative works have been carried out through these years, leading to ~20 publications. Now we aim to hold another Neuroepidemiology workshop, aiming to further the development of Neuroepidemiology research at KI
Scientific Aim: To organize a workshop on Neuroepidemiology, focusing on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease (PD), and to foster collaboration between different epidemiology units at KI as well as between KI and the Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIEHS/NIH), on epidemiological research of neurodegenerative diseases
Target group: Researchers interested in Neuroepidemiology from MEB, IMM, KEP, Department of Public Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, etc.
Advanced Regression Methods for Large Register Studies
Organizer: Marie Reilly
Background: This will be a hands-on course emphasizing both general concepts and application of the methods (using Stata). The instructor is David V. Glidden, from University of California at San Francisco, co-author of the text book Regression Methods in Biostatistics, Vittinghoff, et al. Second Edition, which will be used as the course text.
Scientific Aims: The scientific aims are to enhance the methodological tools in use for register-based research to enable researchers to conduct meaningful analyses of health and disease over the life course using real observational data with recurrent events, competing risks, missingness and confounding. A second aim is to present a range of epidemiological designs for sampling from a cohort for a more efficient study, which is of relevance for pursuing genetic and molecular studies within register cohorts.
Target Group: The target group is participants from any department or research group in Karolinska who work with data from national, regional and quality registers of health and disease. Collaborating epidemiologists and biostatisticians will be encouraged to attend together and to apply the methods to their current research work.
Schedule: 14-16 April
Two 2.5-days advanced courses in epidemiology
Aim: To provide in-depth knowledge and understanding of modern epidemiological methods.
Organizers: Nicola Orsini, Anita Berglund (IMM)
Target Group: Any epidemiologists, biostatisticians (doctoral students, postdocs, junior and senior researchers) at KI.
Time: 2-4 April
Course 1: Time-varying exposures and confounders
Teacher: Professor of Epidemiology, Miguel Hernan, Harvard School of Public Health
Aim: To provide an in depth investigation of statistical methods for drawing causal inferences from observational studies with time-varying exposures.
Background: Epidemiologic concepts such as time-varying exposures/confounders and selection bias, intermediate variables, overall effects and direct effects are formally defined within the context of a counterfactual causal model. Methods for the analysis of the causal effects of time-varying exposures in the presence of time-varying covariates that are simultaneously confounders and intermediate variables are emphasized. These methods include g-estimation of structural nested models, inverse probability weighting of marginal structural models, and the g-formula.
Course 2: Sensitivitey and Bayesian analysis for biases
Teacher: Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Statistics, Sander Greenland, UCLA
Aim: to explain and illustrate how to perform a sensitivity and Bayesian analysis for common biases in epidemiological research.
Background: In the analysis of observational studies different types of biases or errors (selection, participation, measurement, confounding) arise from the fact that is often not possible or feasible to observe exactly one would like to observe. Only few papers, however, investigate the role of bias on the observed findings. Bias analysis is about quantifying the direction and magnitude of potential sources bias on the results.
Post graduate course in molecular epidemiology at KI
Time: 5-9 May
Organizer: Bruna Gigante
Background: Molecular Epidemiology is a growing field of research in epidemiology where basic concepts and methods of molecular biology are applied to understand the determinants of a disease using an epidemiological approach. The aim of this application is to get support from the SFO to organize a course in Molecular Epidemiology for doctoral students during the autumn term 2013. Such a course is given regularly at the Imperial College in London does not exist at Karolinska Institutet and is indeed of importance for the next generation of epidemiologists to approach critically these novel methods, understand their potential and limitations and how to use them to answer their research questions.
- to give the students an overview of the different –omics (transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics) platforms available
- to discuss the differences among the different –omics approaches
- to analyse how to interpreter the results in the different study designs
- ethical issue related to occasional findings
Practical GWAS analysis course
Time: 6-12 November
Organizer: Boel Brynedal, IMM
Aim:The course follows a classical GWAS analysis of a complex trait, from receiving the data to processed and illustrated association results. During the course the student will use multiple different tools and computer languages. Each step of the analysis will be discussed and assessed within the group to reach critical understanding.
Background: The latest decade of years have brought a genomic revolution, in large mediated through the ever decreasing cost, and increasing feasibility and range of genomic assays. The problem is no longer the production of data, but the handling and analysis. Very few individuals have the biological understanding as well as the technical expertise in programming to perform the analytical tasks needed. This course is intended for students with an epidemiological/biological/biostatistical background who are or will perform analysis of genome wide association study (GWAS) data. The focus is on understanding and hands on knowledge, and experience, of each step of a standard GWAS analysis. This course is unique at KI, and will enable large-scale projects in genetic epidemiology. This course will be given for the first time this autumn within the PhD program for epidemiology. During January a pilot course was conducted for 5 students, which was given a very good evaluation.
Lifespan approach to health and disease
Organizer: Dr Marita Södergren and Centre of Family medicine at NVS
Aim: The aims of the visit are to stimulate collaboration between researchers and academic staff at the Departments of NVS and of Public Health Sciences (PHS), and initiate and foster collaboration between Karolinska Institutet and Deakin University. The fields of family medicine and social medicine are concerned with peoples health and disease in interaction with surrounding society. The work involved in conducting education or research within the field of nutrition and physical activity at NVS/PHS encompasses epidemiology, healthcare research, health promotion and preventive work, focusing on risk groups and risk factors in their social and gender-related aspects. Benefits with collaboration are likely to be largest when it involves partners from more divergent scientific backgrounds, like in this visit. An international collaboration is a source of stimulation, creativity, intellectual companionship, and a cross-fertilisation of ideas which may in turn generate new insights or perspectives. Thus, collaboration ensures a more effective transfer of knowledge, skills and techniques.
Epidemiologic research on inflammatory diseases
Organizer: Erik Melén, IMM, Julia Simard and Johan Askling, KEP
Aim: The aim of this full-day workshop is therefore to bring together active epidemiology researchers from these different fields to present their work and thoughts on the study of inflammation and inflammatory diseases through an epidemiologic lens, and thereby to foster important discussions and knowledge transfer. We hope to increase collaboration and awareness of methodologies and to provide a platform to further support translational research.
Brief background: Inflammation underlies a myriad of diseases and is the subject of scientific investigations in countless areas. Whether the target is the skin, the airway, the vascular system, the brain, the gut, or the joint, chronic inflammatory processes are pivotal. Karolinska Institutet has a strong track record of translational research, including epidemiology, in the field of chronic inflammatory diseases. Yet, despite a highly translational setting for epidemiology within each inflammatory field (respiratory, gastrointestinal, rheumatic diseases, et cetera), there is little cross-fertilization between the epidemiology research groups across these fields, which are further physically dispersed all over Karolinska Institutet. In fact, we are convinced that many, like us, lack an overview of ongoing activities, upcoming methodologies, and emerging data here at KI.
Prediction models in medicine
Organizers: Hatef Darabi, Andrea Ganna, Marie Reilly
Aim: With this application we aim to host a short course focused on the development, evaluation and implementation of prediction models in medicine.
Background: Prediction models are used in clinical practice to guide the decision-making regarding further intervention strategies for preventing diseases or adverse treatment responses. These models use several risk factors or marker of diseases to calculate the individual's chances of illness. Predictors may range from subject characteristics (e.g. age and sex), history and physical examinations to biological or genetic markers. With the development of new technologies and opportunities for large-scale analysis of different omics profiles, sophisticated modelling to develop a truly individualised risk assessment is increasingly important. Together with the ability to build efficient prediction models, biostatisticians and epidemiologists should be able to make an accurate evaluation of the usefulness of a prediction model in clinical practice
Registry-based research in Sweden - past, present and future
Organizer: Rickard Ljung, MMK, KI
Aim: To deepen the understanding of opportunities and limitations of registry-based research.
Background: The excellent opportunities for registry-based research in Sweden can improve health, but this 'goldmine of data' is underused and there are also methodological limitations and funding issues requiring attention.
Two-day course in competing risks
Organizers: Sandra Eloranta, MEB, Therese Andersson, MEB and Karin Ekström Smedby KEP
Aim: Conceptual understanding of central topics for competing risks analyses.
Short Background: Competing risks is an increasingly recognized problem in follow-up studies. However, the existing literature is often very technical and sometimes even contradictory, which has led to a lot of confusion on this topic. At the same time, many studies investigating prognosis and survival do not recognize potential implications of competing risks neither in their analyses or interpretation of results. We propose a two-day seminar/course with the aim to clarify the definition of competing risks and to help identify study designs, settings and research questions where competing risks need to be addressed versus when competing risks do not need to be taken into account, and a shorter session on methods to deal with competing risks. The overarching goal is to increase the analytical quality in this field at KI. The proposed activity mainly supports SFO theme II Molecular, genetic and clinical epidemiology, but also supports other themes to the extent that study questions involve follow-up analyses. The course will be organized in collaboration between two epi units, namely MEB and KEP. Involvement of other epi centers/departments at KI will be ensured by reserving a defined number of course slots for each center (IMM, MEB, KEP, IARC, other) until up to two weeks before the start of the course.
Psychiatric genetic epidemiology: Process and progress
Organizer: Sarah Bergen, MEB
- Allow leading experts in conducting, analyzing, and overseeing psychiatric genetic epidemiology research from the Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) department the Theme Center for Inflammatory Diseases, and the Broad Institute to share their knowledge and experience at the forefront of this field with the Swedish research community.
- Maintain and strengthen ties between MEB and the Theme Center for Inflammatory Diseases at Karolinska and the Broad Institute and foster communication between researchers at these institutes.
- Facilitate new collaborations between these departments and institutes to enhance academic excellence in the field of psychiatric genetic epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet.
Background: Large, international collaborations have formed to unravel the genetics of many complex genetic diseases and traits including psychiatric disorders. The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has been a world leader in the genotyping and analysis for many of these studies and has close ties to the Karolinska Institute. Talks explaining the formation and management of very large-scale international projects, the data and analyses used for them, the recent explosion of breakthroughs in this field, and the future of psychiatric genetic epidemiology will all be given by experts on these topics.
Data management and graphics using STATA
Organizers: Debora Rizzuto, Giola Santoni and Weili Xu, Aging Research Center (ARC), NVS, Karolinska Institutet
Aim: This workshop aims to discuss key issues on data management and preparation for data analysis, and to introduce methods on making simple and complicate graphs as well as better Log storage using Stata based on the practical issues raised by researchers.
Background: ARC regularly organizes statistical workshops, where PhD students, postdocs and researchers congregate to review key issues on statistics in their data analysis and management, and discuss these issues with the experts in statistics. As Stata has been commonly used, this workshop focuses on practical issues about data cleaning and conversions between formats, preparation for analysis and making graphs using Stata. During this activity, participants may share experiences and views on data quality, collection, and analysis. The Statisticians may provide a review and comments on methodologies and concepts of statistics/indicators. Such workshop is an important platform to ensure proper methods and interpretation that are applied in data analysis. Although many participants participated in many statistical courses previously, practical issues are often encountered and their knowledge on statistics needs to be updated. This workshop also promotes cooperation and collaboration among different epidemiological units within KI.
Basic reproductive epidemiology
Organizers: with Dr Anastasia Nyman Iliadou, MEB, Prof Sven Cnattingius, and Dr Olof Stefansson, MedS
Aim: The aim of the course is to first lay the foundations - the basic principles of reproductive physiology, demography, infectious diseases, and genetics as they apply to human reproduction. In parallel it will deal with the endpoints of reproductive epidemiology - a spectrum ranging from infertility and fetal loss to birth defects and the delayed effects of fetal exposures. The course will end with discussions of unsolved problems, suggesting possible research projects for a new generation of epidemiologists.
Background: There is no regular course in reproductive epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet today. Nevertheless reproductive epidemiology is a large scientific field in which several departments are involved both epidemiological and clinical, but also involving basic science. Hnce the need for a course in reproductive epidemiology is warranted.
Bayesian methods and bias analysis in epidemiologic research
Organizer: Nicola Orsini, IMM
Teacher: Professor Sander Greenland, who is considered a leading authority on quantitative methods and statistical theory in epidemiology.
Aim: Bayesian methods and bias analysis have become common in advanced training and research in epidemiology. Unfortunately there is no elementary training available at KI on these specific topics. Therefore, aim of this short course is to provide the knowledge and understanding of these modern epidemiological methods.
Background: It is unlikely that an epidemiologist collects and analyzes its own data without any prior knowledge on the topic. Nevertheless, standard analysis (logistic, Cox) disregards the scientific evidence accumulated in the field and focus on the data at hand. A Bayesian approach is about incorporating (e.g. averaging) prior knowledge or expert judgments with study-specific results. In the analysis of observational studies different types of biases or errors (selection, participation, measurement, confounding) arise from the fact that is often not possible or feasible to observe exactly one would like to observe. Only few papers, however, investigate the role of bias on the observed findings. Bias analysis is about quantifying the direction and magnitude of potential sources bias on the results.
Activities aiming to increase scientific collaboration between epidemiology units at Karolinska Institutet
Organizer: Yang Cao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Unit of Biostatistics, Division of Epidemiology, IMM
Aim: To hold a full-day workshop on research and data resources of Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (SCDC) and Shanghai Institutes of Preventive Medicine (SIPM), and to foster collaboration between KI epidemiology units and between KI and SCDC/SIPM.
Brief background: Shanghai is the largest city in China and in the world. The 2010 census put Shanghai's total population at 23,019,148, which is more than double of Swedish national population. The diversity and complexity of disease model in Shanghai provides a unique opportunity for global epidemiologists to conduct research on cause and mechanism of diseases. SCDC is the first and one of the largest provincial CDCs in China, which was based on the example of the US CDC and marked a significant step forward in improving public health in China. SCDC owns abundant and high quality data on birth and death, cancers, chronic diseases and communicable diseases and has a well-known reputation for scientific works. On the international level, SCDC collaborates with WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, EU, US CDC, US NIH, the Department of Health Services of California, and University of Toronto. Now, it is looking for research collaborators in Nordic countries.
Applied statistical workshop
Organizer: Weili Xu, Neda Agahi and Anna-Karin Welmer, Aging Research Center (ARC), NVS, Karolinska Institutet
Aim: This workshop aims to discuss key issues and review updated statistical methods for data analysis on quantitative measurements, and to solve practical problems that researchers commonly encountered in the data analysis.
Brief background: ARC regularly organizes statistical workshops, where PhD students, postdocs and researchers congregate to review key issues on statistics in their data analysis, and discuss these issues with the experts in statistics. This workshop focuses on a selected set of estimation issues that we generally encounter for quantitative measurements in data analysis. During this activity, participants may share experiences and views on data quality, collection, and analysis. The experts may provide a review and comments on new statistical tools, methodologies and concepts of statistics/indicators. Such workshop is an important platform to ensure proper methods and interpretation that are applied in data analysis. Although many participants participated in many statistical courses previously, practical issues are often encountered and their knowledge on statistics needs to be updated. This workshop also promotes cooperation and collaboration among different epidemiological units within KI.
Early life seminar with invited speakers
Organizers: Catarina Almqvist Malmros and Anastasia Nyman Iliadou on behalf of the Strategic Research Program (SFO) in Epidemiology
Aim: To visualize current knowledge on the effect of conception, IVF and early perinatal factors on subsequent health
Background: The importance of early life effects such as IVF, intrauterine growth restriction, preterm birth as well as growth patterns in childhood has been assessed in contemporary cohorts. Fetal growth has been found to have a profound effect on subsequent diseases across the lifespan in a plethora of studies. Further, differing growth patterns have also been associated to later adult diseases. IVF is related to low birth weight and preterm birth with an unknown etiology. Epigenetics has been suggested as a possible mechanism. Epigenetic programming may operate through manipulations of the gametes and embryos in early stages or through maternal characteristics during pregnancy. It has also been shown to be related to mode of delivery.
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The state of Kansas won a summary judgment today in Shawnee County state court, upholding that the Pro-Life Protections Act of 2013 did not violate the Kansas Constitution's "single subject" rule of legislative construction.
expanding the state health department notices of resources available to mothers facing challenging prenatal diagnoses.
The first provision underscores what kind of laws for unborn children are allowed despite the Roe v Wade ruling, and the second prevents women from turning to abortion in frustration or due to ignorance of agencies assisting the disabled. Abortion attorneys made the lame claim to the court that because the word abortion did not appear in those provisions, they were unrelated to abortion!
Also filed today in Judge Crotty's court was a formal stipulation from both the state and abortion attorneys, clarifying that women seeking Kansas abortions will receive the state "Woman's Right to Know" abortion materials–as printed–24 hours prior to abortion, including information that the clinic does not support.
Although abortionists Hodes and Nauser lost round one, the lawsuit as originally filed makes a variety of claims against the constitutionality of the Pro-Life Protections Act and further court filings are expected in state court (read more here).
a mandate to place a link to the state informed consent website on the clinic's homepage.
Last week we noted Kansas pro-life laws being taken to court without good reason, however it is encouraging that the federal lawsuit filed by Comprehensive Health/Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid-Missouri is moving relatively quickly.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment maintains a website containing objective, nonjudgmental, scientifically accurate information about the development of the unborn child, as well as video of sonogram images of the unborn child at various stages of development. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's website can be reached by clicking here.
As background, women obtaining Kansas abortions since 1997 have been required to sign certification forms for their medical file that they "accessed" these WRTK materials 24 hours prior to abortion. The right to supply state-issued abortion information was upheld in the 1992 Casey ruling, in which the U.S. Supreme Court said the state has a role in ensuring abortion-seeking women are well informed.
Abortionists oppose WRTK information, as it not only indicates the clinics lack candor on full informed consent, but also can reveal alternative solutions to abortion. And, in fact, Kansas annual stats show hundreds of women do not have abortions after getting this info (see KFL post here).
In August, Planned Parenthood stipulated on record all their abortion clients are receiving the printed version of these WRTK materials. Furthermore, all Kansas abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, voluntarily placed a link to the state website somewhere on their websites after the WRTK materials became accessible in that manner.
So, since Planned Parenthood affirms it distributes the printed WRTK materials (even while objecting to the content) and links to the state WRTK website, why do they oppose the weblink being positioned on their homepage?
The State of Kansas has supplied strong rebuttal filings in defense of this lawsuit. They argue that the WRTK weblink does not interfere with any First Amendment speech rights as the abortionist is not prohibited from voicing or publishing opinions in disagreement with the Kansas information, as one clinic has notoriously done for years (see KFL post here).
Rather, defense attorneys say this WRTK weblink with accuracy description is permissible state regulation of abortion commerce. After all, Kansas Planned Parenthood is a business; the "Who we are" section of their website reads: "Our primary service is providing abortion services from 4 to 22 weeks gestation." And at a profit.
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Abortionists may bristle at government consumer protection actions, but,"The well-being of people who may be unsophisticated in health care matters is a compelling interest of the state" under Kansas case law (Bolton, 1979).
Kansas defense attorneys point to four other rulings since Casey [Lakey (TX 2012), Rounds II (MN, ND,SD 2008), Summit (AL 2003), Eubanks (KY 2000)] where courts denied abortionists' claim that state informed consent regulation violated their free speech.
Both Planned Parenthood and the state of Kansas have filed formal requests that federal Judge Kathryn Vratil rule without a trial– as a matter of judging on the law—whether the weblink is permissible. We believe Kansas will prevail.
The reality is, that after the U.S. Supreme Court Roe decision legalized abortion, every state law trying to regulate abortion– no matter how carefully crafted– is subject to court challenges. Of our seven recent pro-life laws, four have been sued. We expect to prevail, but court action moves slowly, sometimes at a snail's pace.
Lengthy, and even patently ludicrous, legal arguments that our opponents propose in litigation must be answered.
The first recent Kansas pro-life law that went to court was our 2011 law ending coverage for elective abortion as part of standard private health insurance. This was a law that had already been on the books in other states for decades, yet the ACLU and Kansas N.O.W. insisted on filing a challenge. We WON, but with a legal defense cost of $149,000.
$252,000 for defense of the 2011 law establishing minimum abortion clinic safety and sanitary regulations, including a ban on webcam abortions.
complaints about informed consent provisions that clinics have already complied with for years!
The Title X case should have been the national abortion story …how Planned Parenthood is propping up two of its financially failing clinics with approximately $400,000 in tax money that it is not properly eligible for!
Explanation? Planned Parenthood sued the 2011 Kansas budget provision that requires Title X federal family planning money go to full service health facilities that best serve the indigent. District court Judge Thomas Marten ruled in Planned Parenthood's favor, and –without proper authority– ordered funding of Title X money for their "feeder"clinics in Hays and Wichita that were losing nearly one quarter million dollars annually.
And while Kansas has waited over a year for an overturning of that ruling from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, we are compelled to keep sending non-recoverable money to Planned Parenthood while also keeping lawyers busy battling this ruling. It is a steep price, but the end result is important for Kansas' state sovereignty as well as for other states with similar laws.
Then there's the lawsuit fighting our 2011 clinic regulation bill which, outside the webcam ban, largely imitates the South Carolina version that the U.S. Supreme Court let stand twenty years ago. The case is creeping along in state court.
That fact that our pro-life Attorney General, Derek Schmidt, pays for the assistance of two private law firms does not "offend good financial stewardship" as complained by Planned Parenthood's CEO, Peter Brownlie. Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life observes that, for our opponents to complain about the cost expended on lawsuits they filed, is ridiculous!
It is appreciated that our AG sought highly qualified defense firms. State AG offices aren't generally populated by attorneys with abortion expertise—and as our readers know—the rules for abortion seem to be different than for every other field.
States that pass pro-life laws only to have their AG undermine the defense of such laws are truly in a bind. Thankfully, Kansas is not now in that spot, as we were when former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' hand-picked, pro-abortion Attorney General Steve Six failed to properly prosecute George Tiller for violating late-term abortion statutes.
When it comes to passing life-protective laws, logic and public support cannot protect them from costly litigation, but the price is worth paying.
Andrea Grimes, writing at RH reality check, a pro-abortion blog, has issued a clarion call to forestall a Texas proposal that would require three hours of adoption counseling prior to any abortion. Her plan? Undermine pro-lifers' "hold" on the issue by "exposing" adoption as a corrupt, woman-coercing, money-making cartel!
that adoption victimizes both the mother and child.
Then Grimes asserts that the proposal for pre-abortion adoption counseling "would serve predominantly to detain, and perhaps shame, pregnant people who are already in a time crunch." But far from 'shaming' women, the great majority of women facing unanticipated or 'problematic' pregnancies would be empowered by facts, such as accurate information about support systems, maternity homes, and adoption options.
Grimes announces that adoption leaves parents and adoptees with "complicated and mixed emotions about their experience…[and] not unilaterally the joyful exploration of loving kindness.. heroism and bravery." Well, no duh.
She maliciously paints adoption facilitators and supporters as suppressing or denying such totally expected after-effects. Why? You guessed it–for the greater goal of profit and/or religious ideology.
This is untrue and unfair, but not unsurprising given that Grimes' target audience of "reproductive justice" advocates frame all issues as battles against patriarchy, capitalism, and Christian fanaticism.
Whereas the self-serving, coercive claims against abortion are true, Grimes' allegations of a coercive adoption cartel remain just that—allegations without actual cases cited. And the tactic is stated—to attack pro-lifers by associating us with adoption agencies which she has demonized.
Let's not forget that adoption is not a "political weapon" for pro-lifers. It is a practical remedy for the situation of a child not born into a welcoming family who will otherwise be killed by abortion.


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In the wireless telecommunication world, technological advancements are always in rush hour. While the world is still pampered by the high internet connection and HD video streaming speed offered by 4G technology, the demand of a faster and more versatile next-gen wireless telecommunication technology is getting more and more pressuring. Although the new technology will not be available until at least the end of this decade, a number of telecommunication companies, notably AT&T and Nokia, have started to unfold their 5G plans and elaborated what they can promise when the next-gen wireless technology finally arrives before the public. Here you will read about some amazing breakthroughs that you can achieve with such technology.
Most obviously, the exposition of every new wireless technology is always directed toward significant enhancement of internet connection speed. The question is, how significant the enhancement of internet connection speed the next-gen technology offers? A recent experiment done by Nokia shows that with 5G, it is possible to download 30 gigabytes of data in one second! This means that using 5G technology, you can theoretically enjoy internet connection that is 1,000 times faster than that offered by 4G. In reality, with shortcomings like environmental elements and heavy connection traffic getting in the way, you can still expect speed that is 10 to 100 higher than that of 4G. So basically, with 5G technology, sluggish internet connection will be something of the past.
With higher connection speed, it is possible to transform almost every dumb object around you into smart robot. You can make your home and every appliance that you have in it much smarter and automation tasks, which you are already familiar with, will receive enhancement that is so significant that you can even have an AI driver drive your car. With wireless connection that is both fast and seamless, latency and lag will not become impending shortcomings anymore when controlling mobile objects like a car. The driving mechanism of the car can be controlled digitally from the cloud without lags that may cause the car to crash.
5G technology also allows robots to be more helpful than ever. Surgeons can now command robots to perform precise surgical operations and industrial robots will become so smart that they can communicate not only with their human operator, but also with other robots on the assembly line. Robots will become so human-like that it is predicted that in the near future, they will be capable to perform complicated tasks that so far can only be done by human.
Imagine you can enjoy a lifelike social media world where you can truly live in it. Instead of rummaging tweets and statuses using your finger, you can communicate and interact personally with other social media users in a real livable virtual world, thanks to the combination of fast 5G connection and VR gadgets that will soon become more common. Gaming experience, especially online one, will also be enhanced when virtual reality technology has been effectively implemented in the gaming world.
4G technology gives you a chance to effectively enjoy HD video streaming everywhere. With 5G, you can now enter the stunning 4K world where videos will be 4 times better than their HD counterparts. Besides offering the exclusive 4K video streaming, 5G technology also enables multi-casting function, which allows you to switch to different video sources conveniently. In a football stadium, you can enjoy close video coverage of each goal by connecting your device to a camera near the goal line. Fun, isn't it?
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The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/41131/volunteers-deploy-to-colo-flood-region
Volunteers deploy to Colo. flood region
by Joe Conway, posted Friday, September 20, 2013 (5 years ago)
LONGMONT, Colo. (BP) -- After torrential flooding in Colorado's Front Range, Southern Baptist volunteers are among relief workers now deployed to the region where heavy rains and steep mountains combined to wash out homes, bridges and roads from Estes Park to Boulder and beyond.
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers from at least four states have joined fellow Baptists in Colorado to provide aid to survivors.
Communities as far east as Greeley and Dearfield also suffered flood damage from rain that began Sept. 10. The storm peaked Sept. 12 when Boulder received more than nine inches, double the previous one-day record, according to the National Weather Service. Authorities attribute six deaths to the flooding. At one point as many as 1,400 people were unaccounted for in the state. That number dropped to 200 by Thursday as power and cell phone service were restored across much of the region.
"Things are going well as we are gearing up for cleanup and recovery," said Eddie Blackmon, North American Mission Board SBDR coordinator. Blackmon is serving in Longmont with Colorado Baptist disaster relief director Dennis Belz. A NAMB mobile command center was headed to Longs Peak Baptist Church in Longmont to serve as the overall incident command center. NAMB also is dispatching a recovery unit and a semi load of supplies.
Volunteers from the Missouri Baptist Convention and Texas Baptist Men will staff incident management teams in Longmont and Loveland, respectively, Blackmon said. Oklahoma Baptist SBDR volunteers are en route to serve as another management team in Boulder. The host churches are Orchards Baptist Church in Loveland and East Boulder Baptist Church. SBDR volunteers from other states are on standby.
Colorado Baptist SBDR volunteers were preparing meals for distribution to survivors. Colorado volunteers also are staffing aid stations at Colorado State Disaster Assistance Centers.
"They are ministering to the families and survivors of the floods," Blackmon said. "They are taking job requests that we hope to begin fulfilling soon. Some of the best news today is that Lyons, the community that was an island, was opened today for residents to return."
Blackmon said the spirit of cooperation from both city and county officials has been encouraging. He added that the positive reaction from government officials has even surprised some volunteers.
NAMB coordinates and manages Southern Baptist responses to major disasters through partnerships with 42 state Baptist conventions, most of which have their own state disaster relief programs.
Southern Baptists have 82,000 trained volunteers -- including chaplains -- and 1,550 mobile units for feeding, chainsaw, mud-out, command, communication, childcare, shower, laundry, water purification, repair/rebuild and power generation. SBDR is one of the three largest mobilizers of trained disaster relief volunteers in the United States, along with the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
To donate to SBDR efforts, contact the Baptist convention in your state or visit https://donations.namb.net/dr-donations. Other ways to donate are to call 1-866-407-NAMB (6262) or mail checks to NAMB, P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. Designate checks for "Disaster Relief."
Joe Conway writes for the North American Mission Board. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


Here it is folks, my Antique store beauty. It only seemed appropriate for the summer of Hexagons that I would find this antique Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt top. I carried it with me all through our visit at the Antique Emporium just to make sure I wasn't making a rash decision, and in the end, I couldn't resist.
The only quilt my grandmother ever pieced was a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt right before she got married in 1934. My mom still has that quilt and I've always loved it, but it's looking pretty raggedy after years of wrapping up kids with chicken pox or taking on family picnics. When I found this quilt top I about fainted. It's not identical to the one my grandma made, but it's so similar. The same shade of Nile Green and definitely made in the same era.
This quilt is all hand pieced and in fabulous condition. No stains, so fading, no signs of wear. Probably kept neatly folded away some place safe for a lot of years. After starting my own adventures with hand sewing hexagons – much bigger than these babies I might add – I knew this was something I would never in a million years complete on my own. All those tiny hexies? No way. And the gorgeous, mint condition vintage fabrics sealed the deal. I think I got it for a steal.
I love examining all the vintage fabrics.
And even more amazing, most of the prints are fussy-cut!
Someone put some serious effort into this quilt.
The colors are so vibrant too. I think the reds, yellows and browns are my favorites.
I have been thinking so much about the woman – or women – (I'm assuming) who made this work of art. I wish I knew more about her. I just hope she knows that her investment is in the hands of someone who greatly appreciates her talent and time to create such a beauty. I'm going to hand quilt this one – probably very s.l o.w.l.y, but it's the only way to do it justice. Hooray for happy hexies!
PS If you're local, there's a Garden Quilt Show today at Amy McClellan's home in Orem, Utah. (Remember last year?) It's from 11:00-1:00 and you can find more details at the American Quilting Blog. Ice cream included!
Wow, I'd love to know how many hours went into completing that amazing quilt! Great find!
I would have fainted! I'm so glad that it is in the hands of someone who will treasure it! I would love to know the story behind it and more about the woman who loveingly pieced it too!Enjoy!
Oh gosh A, those photos really do the quilt justice! What an amazing find…and I am so glad that someone who appreciates it found it!
Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous!!!
Wow – what a real treasure to love. Even more cool how you can REALLY appreciate it after doing so many hexies of your own.

And the last photo is wonderful!
OH WOW, you lucky girl. Way to go!
Absolutely beautiful! I love the green/white hexie border.
So glad you didn't leave it behind! What a treasure – thanks for sharing!
Oh my goodness – what an amazing quilt!
What a wonderful find.You have a real treasure there.
Hexie love! No wonder why blogland is loving the hexies. We come from talented stock! Thanks for the eye candy!
I think I would've started hyperventilating when I saw the quilt. It must not have been terribly expensive or I'm sure you wouldn't have bought it. Congratulations on your marvelous find!!!! WOWee!!!
this is so beautiful…sometime last year i came across a quilt like this at a antique shop and fell in love, and got an amazing deal on it too!!! perfect condition but mine is all that nile green, no white. i love it, which makes me understand just how much you love yours.
It's just gorgeous Amy! And guess what? I too found a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt top last year at an antique shop. It too has mostly nile green and is all hand pieced. I am in the process of deciding how to finish it so I can use and enjoy it. I can't even imagine how many years it would take for me to hand quilt it. What are you going to use for a backing?
Holy COW!! That is tremendously beautiful. You are so fortunate to have that quilt top! My grandma has one my great-grandma made, but it's yellow where yours is green. I l love your quilt! Good eye!
Amy, that quilt is absolutely amazing!!! Even if you paid thousands of dollars it would have been totally worth every penny. Just gorgeous. I am sure it is something that you will treasure.
Congratulations on having such a treasure. It is pretty special.
it's really beautiful!!! What a great finding!
Oh, I'm sad I have to work! I wanted to go to that quilt show! Well, I love this hexagon quilt. I'm sure it was worth every penny. Good luck on your hand quilting endeavors!
I'm going through the same process with a 30's quilt top I found. I absolutely agree that hand quilting is the only way to honor such lovely finds!
Amy Smart! Guess what….I went to my Aunt's house and she pulls out my GREAT-Grandmother's hexagon quilt! And I now own it! I was SO thrilled because of your love for hexagon quilts I know about them now! Thanks for being a quilting star!
Hello, I have a beautiful hexagon quilt in excellent condition made by my grandmother or great-grandmother. The flowers are on the inside row instead of the outside. Do you have any idea how much it would be worth? I'm interested in selling it. It's for a double (full) bed.
My breath is taken away as I have a metal box with hexagons that my grandmother put together and I had no idea how to finish it. Am thinking of making 6 (for her grandchildren) smaller items… any ideas?
Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this. I recently helped my grandmother who is now 85, clean out her storage and we found a dozen hexagon blocks in a box. It was stared bu her mother (my great grandmother) at about 1934 and was intended as a graduation gift for my grandmother. But she never finished it. My grandmother still remembers how much she was looking forward to it's completion. Seeing the look on her face as she told me the story, I just had to take it and finish it for her. Thus starting my resurch into a pattern or pictures of a finished quilt similar to these blocks. I can't tell you my delight in finding this on your blog! Not only do I have so many wonderful pictures to reference now, but how wonderful to see how many similar fabrics colors and prints these have in common. Now that I have an example to work from I'm realizing the hard part will be finding fabrics today that will fit well with those she has already used. Thank you again for posting this. You have made my day!
She appliqued the individual blocks onto solid white fabric blocks and then pieced them together that way. Still the same over all feel, but with a lot less work. Just a thought.
Good luck to you with your wonderful labor of love!
I know it has been a few years since this last posting but I was searching for how to finish a grandmothers flower garden quilt and your link came up. I recently acquired a grandmothers flower garden quilt top that needs to be layered and quilted. The more reading I do the more I realize that doing this by hand is probably going to be the way to go. I am wondering if you have had a chance to work on yours and if so how is it going and what tricks or tools have you been using?


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Tec-Mec (pełna nazwa: Studio Tecnica Meccanica) – dawny włoski konstruktor Formuły 1, którego samochód uczestniczył w niej w jednym wyścigu sezonu 1959.

Firma została założona przez Valerio Colottiego w 1958 roku. Nadwozie samochodu Tec-Mec, oznaczone symbolem F415, było de facto zmodyfikowanym nadwoziem Maserati 250F. Z samochodu Tec-Mec skorzystał zespół Camoradi podczas Grand Prix Stanów Zjednoczonych w 1959 roku, podczas którego ich kierowca, Brazylijczyk Fritz d'Orey, odpadł na szóstym okrążeniu wyścigu z powodu wycieków oleju.

Po 1959 roku firma produkowała samochody dla Formuły Junior.

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