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Knai, C; Petticrew, M; Mays, N; Capewell, S; Cassidy, R; Cummins, S; Eastmure, E; Fafard, P; Hawkins, B; Jensen, JD; +4 more... Katikireddi, SV; Mwatsama, M; Orford, J; Weishaar, H; (2018) Systems Thinking as a Framework for Analyzing Commercial Determinants of Health. The Milbank quarterly, 96 (3). pp. 472-498. ISSN 0887-378X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12339
Lopez Bernal, J; Cummins, S; Gasparrini, A; (2018) The use of controls in interrupted time series studies of public health interventions. International journal of epidemiology. ISSN 0300-5771 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy135 Item availability may be restricted.
Nightingale, CM; Rudnicka, AR; Ram, B; Shankar, A; Limb, ES; Procter, D; Cooper, AR; Page, AS; Ellaway, A; Giles-Corti, B; +6 more... Clary, C; Lewis, D; Cummins, S; Whincup, PH; Cook, DG; Owen, CG; (2018) Housing, neighbourhood and sociodemographic associations with adult levels of physical activity and adiposity: baseline findings from the ENABLE London study. BMJ open, 8 (8). e021257. ISSN 2044-6055 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021257
Panter, J; Mytton, O; Sharp, S; Brage, S; Cummins, S; Laverty, AA; Wijndaele, K; Ogilvie, D; (2018) Using alternatives to the car and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality. Heart (British Cardiac Society). ISSN 1355-6037 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312699
Procter, DS; Page, AS; Cooper, AR; Nightingale, CM; Ram, B; Rudnicka, AR; Whincup, PH; Clary, C; Lewis, D; Cummins, S; +4 more... Ellaway, A; Giles-Corti, B; Cook, DG; Owen, CG; (2018) An open-source tool to identify active travel from hip-worn accelerometer, GPS and GIS data. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 15 (1). p. 91. ISSN 1479-5868 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-018-0724-y
Shareck, M; Lewis, D; Smith, NR; Clary, C; Cummins, S; (2018) Associations between home and school neighbourhood food environments and adolescents' fast-food and sugar-sweetened beverage intakes: findings from the Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) Study. Public health nutrition. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1368-9800 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018001477 Item availability may be restricted.
Thompson, C; Ponsford, R; Lewis, D; Cummins, S; (2018) Fast-food, everyday life and health: A qualitative study of 'chicken shops' in East London. Appetite, 128. pp. 7-13. ISSN 0195-6663 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.05.136 Item availability may be restricted.
Thompson, C; Smith, D; Cummins, S; (2018) Understanding the health and wellbeing challenges of the food banking system: A qualitative study of food bank users, providers and referrers in London. Social science & medicine (1982), 211. pp. 95-101. ISSN 0277-9536 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.05.030
Ahn, JV; Sera, F; Cummins, S; Flouri, E; (2017) Associations between objectively measured physical activity and later mental health outcomes in children: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 72 (2). pp. 94-100. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209455
Clark, C; Smuk, M; Cummins, S; Eldridge, S; Fahy, A; Lewis, D; Moore, DG; Smith, N; Taylor, SJC; Stansfeld, SA; (2017) An Olympic Legacy? Does the urban regeneration associated with the London 2012 Olympic Games impact on adolescent mental health? American journal of epidemiology, 187 (3). pp. 474-483. ISSN 0002-9262 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx205
Cornelsen, L; Mytton, OT; Adams, J; Gasparrini, A; Iskander, D; Knai, C; Petticrew, M; Scott, C; Smith, R; Thompson, C; +2 more... White, M; Cummins, S; (2017) Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 71 (11). pp. 1107-1112. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209947
Cummins, S; Clary, C; Shareck, M; (2017) Enduring challenges in estimating the effect of the food environment on obesity. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 106 (2). pp. 445-446. ISSN 0002-9165 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.117.161547 Full text not available from this repository.
Ghosh-Dastidar, M; Hunter, G; Collins, RL; Zenk, SN; Cummins, S; Beckman, R; Nugroho, AK; Sloan, JC; Wagner, L; Dubowitz, T; (2017) Does opening a supermarket in a food desert change the food environment? Health & place, 46. pp. 249-256. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.06.002 Full text not available from this repository.
Lopez Bernal, JA; Lu, CY; Gasparrini, A; Cummins, S; Wharham, JF; Soumerai, SB; (2017) Association between the 2012 Health and Social Care Act and specialist visits and hospitalisations in England: A controlled interrupted time series analysis. PLoS medicine, 14 (11). e1002427. ISSN 1549-1277 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002427
Mason, KE; Pearce, N; Cummins, S; (2017) Associations between fast food and physical activity environments and adiposity in mid-life: cross-sectional, observational evidence from UK Biobank. The lancet Public health, 3 (1). e24-e33. ISSN 2468-2667 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30212-8
Ram, B; Shankar, A; Nightingale, CM; Giles-Corti, B; Ellaway, A; Cooper, AR; Page, A; Cummins, S; Lewis, D; Whincup, PH; +3 more... Cook, DG; Rudnicka, AR; Owen, CG; (2017) Comparisons of depression, anxiety, well-being, and perceptions of the built environment amongst adults seeking social, intermediate and market-rent accommodation in the former London Olympic Athletes' Village. Health & place, 48. pp. 31-39. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.001
Rutter, H; Savona, N; Glonti, K; Bibby, J; Cummins, S; Finegood, DT; Greaves, F; Harper, L; Hawe, P; Moore, L; +5 more... Petticrew, M; Rehfuess, E; Shiell, A; Thomas, J; White, M; (2017) The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health. Lancet, 390 (10112). pp. 2602-2604. ISSN 0140-6736 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31267-9
Savona, N; Rutter, H; Cummins, S; (2017) Tackling Obesities: 10 years on. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 72 (2). p. 93. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210121 Item availability may be restricted.
Savona, N; Thompson, C; Rutter, H; Cummins, S; (2017) Exposing complexity as a smokescreen: a qualitative analysis. [Conference or Workshop Item] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32938-0 Full text not available from this repository.
Savona, N; Thompson, C; Smith, D; Cummins, S; (2017) Proportional responsibility versus individual responsibility for healthy eating: a complex systems analysis. [Conference or Workshop Item] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33015-5 Full text not available from this repository.
Thompson, C; Lewis, DJ; Greenhalgh, T; Smith, NR; Fahy, AE; Cummins, S; (2017) "I don't know how I'm still standing" a Bakhtinian analysis of social housing and health narratives in East London. Social science & medicine (1982), 177. pp. 27-34. ISSN 0277-9536 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.054
Vogel, C; Lewis, D; Ntani, G; Cummins, S; Cooper, C; Moon, G; Baird, J; (2017) The relationship between dietary quality and the local food environment differs according to level of educational attainment: A cross-sectional study. PloS one, 12 (8). e0183700. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183700
Bernal, JL; Cummins, S; Gasparrini, A; (2016) Interrupted time series regression for the evaluation of public health interventions: a tutorial. International journal of epidemiology, 46 (1). pp. 348-355. ISSN 0300-5771 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw098
Clary, C; Lewis, DJ; Flint, E; Smith, NR; Kestens, Y; Cummins, S; (2016) The Local Food Environment and Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach in the ORiEL Study. American journal of epidemiology, 184 (11). pp. 837-846. ISSN 0002-9262 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kww073
Cummins, S; Ogilvie, D; White, M; Petticrew, M; Jones, A; Goodwin, D; Sautkina, E; Mapp, F; (2016) National Evaluation of the Healthy Communities Challenge Fund: The Healthy Towns Programme in England. Technical Report. UNSPECIFIED. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/3163750
Fahy, AE; Stansfeld, SA; Smuk, M; Smith, NR; Cummins, S; Clark, C; (2016) Longitudinal Associations Between Cyberbullying Involvement and Adolescent Mental Health. The Journal of adolescent health, 59 (5). pp. 502-509. ISSN 1054-139X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.006
Flint, E; Cummins, S; (2016) Active commuting and obesity in mid-life: cross-sectional, observational evidence from UK Biobank. The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology, 4 (5). pp. 420-35. ISSN 2213-8587 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(16)00053-X
Flint, E; Webb, E; Cummins, S; (2016) Change in commute mode and body-mass index: prospective, longitudinal evidence from UK Biobank. The lancet Public health, 1 (2). e46-e55. ISSN 2468-2667 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(16)30006-8
Greenhalgh, T; Annandale, E; Ashcroft, R; Barlow, J; Black, N; Bleakley, A; Boaden, R; Braithwaite, J; Britten, N; Carnevale, F; +66 more... Checkland, K; Cheek, J; Clark, A; Cohn, S; Coulehan, J; Crabtree, B; Cummins, S; Davidoff, F; Davies, H; Dingwall, R; Dixon-Woods, M; Elwyn, G; Engebretsen, E; Ferlie, E; Fulop, N; Gabbay, J; Gagnon, MP; Galasinski, D; Garside, R; Gilson, L; Griffiths, P; Hawe, P; Helderman, JK; Hodges, B; Hunter, D; Kearney, M; Kitzinger, C; Kitzinger, J; Kuper, A; Kushner, S; Le May, A; Legare, F; Lingard, L; Locock, L; Maben, J; Macdonald, ME; Mair, F; Mannion, R; Marshall, M; May, C; Mays, N; McKee, L; Miraldo, M; Morgan, D; Morse, J; Nettleton, S; Oliver, S; Pearce, W; Pluye, P; Pope, C; Robert, G; Roberts, C; Rodella, S; Rycroft-Malone, J; Sandelowski, M; Shekelle, P; Stevenson, F; Straus, S; Swinglehurst, D; Thorne, S; Tomson, G; Westert, G; Wilkinson, S; Williams, B; Young, T; Ziebland, S; (2016) An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research. BMJ (Clinical research ed), 352. i563. ISSN 0959-8138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i563
Petticrew, M; Viehbeck, S; Cummins, S; Lang, T; (2016) [Same words, different meanings: How epidemiological terminology struggles with population health intervention research]. Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique, 64 Suppl 2. S43-54. ISSN 0398-7620 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respe.2016.02.004 Full text not available from this repository.
Ram, B; Nightingale, CM; Hudda, MT; Kapetanakis, VV; Ellaway, A; Cooper, AR; Page, A; Lewis, D; Cummins, S; Giles-Corti, B; +4 more... Whincup, PH; Cook, DG; Rudnicka, AR; Owen, CG; (2016) Cohort profile: Examining Neighbourhood Activities in Built Living Environments in London: the ENABLE London-Olympic Park cohort. BMJ open, 6 (10). e012643. ISSN 2044-6055 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012643
Vogel, C; Ntani, G; Inskip, H; Barker, M; Cummins, S; Cooper, C; Moon, G; Baird, J; (2016) Education and the Relationship Between Supermarket Environment and Diet. American journal of preventive medicine, 51 (2). e27-34. ISSN 0749-3797 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2016.02.030 Full text not available from this repository.
Dubowitz, T; Ghosh-Dastidar, M; Cohen, DA; Beckman, R; Steiner, ED; Hunter, GP; Flórez, KR; Huang, C; Vaughan, CA; Sloan, JC; +3 more... Zenk, SN; Cummins, S; Collins, RL; (2015) Diet And Perceptions Change With Supermarket Introduction In A Food Desert, But Not Because Of Supermarket Use. Health affairs (Project Hope), 34 (11). pp. 1858-68. ISSN 0278-2715 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0667 Item availability may be restricted.
Smith, NR; Clark, C; Smuk, M; Cummins, S; Stansfeld, SA; (2015) The influence of social support on ethnic differences in well-being and depression in adolescents: findings from the prospective Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) study. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 50 (11). pp. 1701-11. ISSN 0933-7954 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-015-1098-y
Smith, NR; Lewis, DJ; Fahy, A; Eldridge, S; Taylor, SJ; Moore, DG; Clark, C; Stansfeld, SA; Cummins, S; (2015) Individual socio-demographic factors and perceptions of the environment as determinants of inequalities in adolescent physical and psychological health: the Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) study. BMC public health, 15 (1). p. 150. ISSN 1471-2458 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1459-1
Thompson, C; Lewis, DJ; Greenhalgh, T; Smith, NR; Fahy, AE; Cummins, S; (2015) "Everyone was looking at you smiling": East London residents' experiences of the 2012 Olympics and its legacy on the social determinants of health. Health & place, 36. pp. 18-24. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.08.008
Viehbeck, SM; Petticrew, M; Cummins, S; (2015) Old Myths, New Myths: Challenging Myths in Public Health. American journal of public health, 105 (4). pp. 665-9. ISSN 0090-0036 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302433 Full text not available from this repository.
Black, C; Ntani, G; Inskip, H; Cooper, C; Cummins, S; Moon, G; Baird, J; (2014) Measuring the healthfulness of food retail stores: variations by store type and neighbourhood deprivation. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 11 (1). p. 69. ISSN 1479-5868 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-11-69
Bonell, C; Jamal, F; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Cummins, S; (2014) 'Dark logic': theorising the harmful consequences of public health interventions. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 69 (1). pp. 95-8. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204671 Full text not available from this repository.
Cummins, S; Flint, E; Matthews, SA; (2014) New neighborhood grocery store increased awareness of food access but did not alter dietary habits or obesity. Health affairs (Project Hope), 33 (2). pp. 283-91. ISSN 0278-2715 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0512
Cummins, S; Flint, E; Matthews, SA; (2014) Grocery Stores And Obesity: The Authors Reply. Health affairs (Project Hope), 33 (5). p. 907. ISSN 0278-2715 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0290 Full text not available from this repository.
Fagg, J; Chadwick, P; Cole, TJ; Cummins, S; Goldstein, H; Lewis, H; Morris, S; Radley, D; Sacher, P; Law, C; (2014) From trial to population: a study of a family-based community intervention for childhood overweight implemented at scale. Int J Obes (Lond), 38 (10). pp. 1343-9. ISSN 1476-5497 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2014.103
Fagg, J; Cole, TJ; Cummins, S; Goldstein, H; Morris, S; Radley, D; Sacher, P; Law, C; (2014) After the RCT: who comes to a family-based intervention for childhood overweight or obesity when it is implemented at scale in the community? Journal of epidemiology and community health, 69 (2). pp. 142-8. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204155
Flint, E; Cummins, S; Sacker, A; (2014) Authors' reply to McGregor and Foley. BMJ (Clinical research ed), 349. g5921. ISSN 0959-8138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5921
Flint, E; Cummins, S; Sacker, A; (2014) Associations between active commuting, body fat, and body mass index: population based, cross sectional study in the United Kingdom. BMJ (Clinical research ed), 349. g4887. ISSN 0959-8138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4887
Lorenc, T; Petticrew, M; Whitehead, M; Neary, D; Clayton, S; Wright, K; Thomson, H; Cummins, S; Sowden, A; Renton, A; (2014) Crime, fear of crime and mental health: synthesis of theory and systematic reviews of interventions and qualitative evidence. Public Health Research, 2 (2). ISSN 2050-4381 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/phr02020
May Goodwin, D; Mapp, F; Sautkina, E; Jones, A; Ogilvie, D; White, M; Petticrew, M; Cummins, S; (2014) How can planning add value to obesity prevention programmes? A qualitative study of planning and planners in the Healthy Towns programme in England. Health & place, 30C. pp. 120-126. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.08.012 Full text not available from this repository.
Sautkina, E; Goodwin, D; Jones, A; Ogilvie, D; Petticrew, M; White, M; Cummins, S; (2014) Lost in translation? Theory, policy and practice in systems-based environmental approaches to obesity prevention in the Healthy Towns programme in England. Health & place, 29C. pp. 60-66. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.05.006 Full text not available from this repository.
Thompson, C; Cummins, S; Brown, T; Kyle, R; (2014) What does it mean to be a 'picky eater'? A qualitative study of food related identities and practices. Appetite, 84C. pp. 235-239. ISSN 0195-6663 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.09.028
Dalton, AM; Jones, A; Ogilvie, D; Petticrew, M; White, M; Cummins, S; (2013) Using spatial equity analysis in the process evaluation of environmental interventions to tackle obesity: the healthy towns programme in England. International journal for equity in health, 12 (1). p. 43. ISSN 1475-9276 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-12-43
Flint, E; Cummins, S; Wills, J; (2013) Investigating the effect of the London living wage on the psychological wellbeing of low-wage service sector employees: a feasibility study. Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 36 (2). pp. 187-93. ISSN 1741-3842 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdt093 Full text not available from this repository.
Lorenc, T; Petticrew, M; Whitehead, M; Neary, D; Clayton, S; Wright, K; Thomson, H; Cummins, S; Sowden, A; Renton, A; (2013) Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness. Systematic reviews, 2 (1). p. 30. ISSN 2046-4053 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-30
Smith, D; Cummins, S; Clark, C; Stansfeld, S; (2013) Does the local food environment around schools affect diet? Longitudinal associations in adolescents attending secondary schools in East London. BMC public health, 13 (1). p. 70. ISSN 1471-2458 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-70
Lorenc, T; Clayton, S; Neary, D; Whitehead, M; Petticrew, M; Thomson, H; Cummins, S; Sowden, A; Renton, A; (2012) Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: Mapping review of theories and causal pathways. Health & place, 18 (4). pp. 757-65. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.04.001
Beaulac, J; Kristjansson, E; Cummins, S; (2009) A systematic review of food deserts, 1966-2007. Preventing chronic disease, 6 (3). A105. ISSN 1545-1151 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2722409
Cummins, S; (2009) Improving population health through area-based social interventions: generating evidence in a complex world. p. 287. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1012245 Full text not available from this repository.
Cummins, S; (2007) Commentary: investigating neighbourhood effects on health--avoiding the 'local trap'. International journal of epidemiology, 36 (2). pp. 355-7. ISSN 0300-5771 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym033 Full text not available from this repository.
Petticrew, M; Cummins, S; Sparks, L; Findlay, A; (2007) Validating health impact assessment: Prediction is difficult (especially about the future). Environmental impact assessment review, 27 (1). pp. 101-107. ISSN 0195-9255 http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1012241 Full text not available from this repository.
Cummins, S; MacIntyre, S; (2002) The price and availability of food in Glasgow: a systematic study of an urban foodscape. Urban Studies, 39 (11). pp. 2115-2130. ISSN 1360-063X http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1012236 Full text not available from this repository.
Macintyre, S; Ellaway, A; Cummins, S; (2002) Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them? Social science & medicine (1982), 55 (1). pp. 125-39. ISSN 0277-9536 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00214-3 Full text not available from this repository.
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Rates: 170-135 EUR per night. Minimum Rental - 2 nights.
Located on the 5th floor of a traditional French apartment villa, the Paris holiday apartment is great for long term or short term holidays. The one bedroom, one bathroom apartment is fully furnished and the modern kitchen is equipped for those nights you just want to relax at home and cook a nice dinner or grab some food from the street vendors up the road. The spacious living room is great for entertaining friends and it has cable television with a built-in DVD player in the entertainment center if you prefer to relax at home.
Our 5th floor rooftop terrace is the best place to watch the sunset in all of Paris. You can sip a glass of wine as you watch the sun slowly set of the Eiffel Tower.
In the bedroom you will find a luxury queen size bed, spacious closet, and beautiful Parisian décor. It is the perfect to rest after a long day of sightseeing and eating at some of the great cafes all around town. As the morning sun gently streams through the window you will be well rested and ready for your next day of touring around Paris.
The Paris apartment has unlimited broadband speed wireless connectivity so you can easily handle any business needs or communicate with friends and family back home.
Weekly Rates 950 euros all year. For shorter stays the rate is 170 Euros per night.
Cancellation Policy: 50 % is due with reservation and 50% is due prior to arrival.
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A must see for everyone visiting the Pigalle or Montemarte area is the Sacre Coeur Church. The building of this extravagant mock Romano-Byzantine structure was undertaken in 1877. Just behind the church and right next to Montmatre's vineyard is Le Jardin Sauvage-St. Vincent, a beautiful, self sown garden that was fully the product of nature until the city designated it a biodiversity enclave in 1987. Now it is a wonderful place to visit and learn about the gardens secret treasures.
PIgalle also has a young hip vibe at night, where people can be seen lining the pavements waiting to get into a popular nightclub like La Machine du Moulin Rouge or Boule Noire.


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Sinking Teeth Into The Mysteries of Plague -Thursday, February 6, 2014
Two plague victims in Aschheim-Bajuwarenring cemetery in Bavaria, Germany who died some 1500 years ago have been unearthed and are able to help provide an international team of scientists with a better understanding the type of virus that was responsible for their deaths sometime between 541 and 543. Thanks to the dental remains of these two unearthed plague victims, researchers using very sophisticated methods were able to extract DNA fragments of plague from the teeth from the skeletal remains and reconstruct the genome of what is now the oldest pathogen obtained to date. Yersinia Pestis or Y. Pestis is also known as plague. This bacterium was found to be responsible for the Justinian outbreak and the results showed that this was unique and distinct from various other strains that would later become the Black Death and other plague pandemics that would follow.
"This study raises intriguing questions about why a pathogen that was both so successful and so deadly suddenly died out. One testable possibility is that human populations evolved to become less susceptible," says Edward Holmes, an NHMRC Australia Fellow at the University of Sydney.
Up until now little has been known about the exact cause of the Justinian epidemic's origins or cause. The Justinian plague is thought to have been instrumental in bringing about the end of the Roman Empire and was, until the recent findings were too discover, responsible for the Black Death. The Justinian Plague is believed to have killed 30 to 50 million people, estimated to have been at least half of the world's population at that time. Later the Black Death would emerge to ravage the medieval population killing 50 million Europeans between 1347 and 1351 some 800 years later. These recent findings now show that the Justinian plague was a unrelated strain from the plague that caused the Black Death.
The new results that are published in online edition of The Lancet Infectious Disease, show that the Justinian Plague was a distinct and separate genome of the same Pathogen know as Yersinia Pestis and not an evolutionary forefather or related to the same Yersinia Pestis strains responsible for the Black Death. Another pandemic that had taken hold in Hong Kong and spread across the globe is now more likely to be considered the precursor to the Black Death.
These findings would suggest that the Justinian pandemic strain also originated in Asia and not in Africa as some scientist originally thought. This would lead them to theorize that earlier epidemics, such as the Plague of Athens (430 BC) and the Antoine Plague (165 – 180 AD) may have also been unique and distinct emergence of related Yersinia Pestis strains.
"We know the bacterium Y. Pestis has jumped from rodents into humans throughout history and rodent reservoirs of plague still exist today in many parts of the world. If the Justinian plague could erupt in the human population, cause a massive pandemic, and then die out, it suggest it could happen again. Fortunately we now have antibiotics that could be used to effectively treat plague, which lessens the chances of another large scale human pandemic" says Dave Wagner, an associate professor in the Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics at Northern Arizona University.
These studies would suggest that the threat of an outbreak of Yersinia Pestis can occur at any time now, or in the future, is quite possible. Add to this, the possibility of some individual or person intent to using the pathogen as a weapon to wreck terror on an unsuspecting population raises the stakes even higher. New technologies are now available to health and safety teams in the early detection of such possible natural outbreaks and first responders now have the capabilities to be able to equip themselves with the latest tools required to easily and reliably detect not only Yersinia Pestis, but other possible pathogens that could be used as weapons against humanity. This ability to provide early detection is essential in containing and maintaining control of a terrorist planned outbreak and is crucial to preventing another full scale global population pandemic such as those seen in the past.
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Anthrax Vaccine for Children? -Wednesday, November 2, 2011
A recent article published in the Homeland Security Newswire Oct 26,2011 titled "Government considers testing anthrax vaccine on children" discusses the issues currently being considered by the US Government for inoculating children for Anthrax. While the vaccine has been administered to adults with no ill effects to date. The question about the safety of vaccinating children has raised some serious questions. How is it justifiable to vaccinate children for Anthrax with a new untested drug when there is no immediate danger of anthrax present? The more rational answer of course is it's better to test the drug now then to wait when there is a full blown emergency and find out only then whether or not the vaccine is safe for children.
The article does not go into detail about how well the vaccine was received by the adults (mostly military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan) or list any ill side-effects. Nor does the article explain where the US Government plans to locate these parents who will be willing to subject their children to a untested vaccine for a serious life threatening disease. Especially for a threat they may never come into contact with in their lifetime. Since this is an issue of proper preparedness there might be other options to consider. Companies like AdVnt Biotechnologies LLC, now provide early detection test for anthrax and now it is possible get results to show in as little as 3 to 15 minutes. Early detection of exposure will noramlly allow plenty of time for proper medical attention. But how much more prepared can we be through the use of vaccinations and more important, how safe can we make our children?
On the surface it seems that maybe the US Government is acting a bit hasty in getting this new vaccine to the general populace. It is important to remember in the framework of Domestic Preparedness, the argument can seem rational when confronted with the day to day possibility that at any time one person acting alone or in concert with others can create a bio-terror crisis by releasing weaponized anthrax or other harmful bio-agents into a heavily populated area. Therefore, being able to conceive of a plan to prepare a nation of fully vaccinated bystanders could go along way to contain the spread of such a threat if such an bio-terrorist event such as the release of anthrax were to occur. So we also have to take into consideration, what are the chances going to be of this event happening in or around our children?
To get a better understanding of this discussion, it might be a good idea to take a moment to step back and reacquaint ourselves with anthrax and why it has become one of the most notorious bad boys in the bio-threat arena. The Center of Disease Control has listed Anthrax as a class A agent meaning it poses a hazard to human health and is able to affect large population and requires a great deal of planning to control
Anthrax comes from the bacteria Bacillus anthracis and is able to spread through spore growth. Anthrax infection can be introduced through three manifestations, cutaneous (skin), inhalation, and gastrointestinal. The most common mode of Anthrax infection is cutaneous, which can enter the body though cuts or abrasions on skin. Anthrax can contaminate animal hides such as wool, hair products and leather goods from infected animals. It is also known for it's ability to lay dormant in the ground or in the environment for extremely long periods of time. The symptoms of anthrax depends on the manner in which it is delivered to your system. If it is through the skin, symptoms include raised itchy bumps that resembles insect bites but within 1-2 days develops into a vesicle and then a painless ulcer, usually 1-3 cm in diameter, with a characteristic black necrotic (dying) area in the center accompanied by swollen Lymph glands near the adjacent area. Deaths are rare if treated with the appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
The second manifestation of anthrax is gastrointestinal and most likely to come from contaminated meat. Incidents of death through gastrointestinal contact is usually very high. Infections through gastrointestinal anthrax is an acute inflammation of the intestinal tract. Initial signs of nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, and fever are followed by abdominal pain, vomiting of blood, and severe diarrhea. Cases of gastrointestinal anthrax is higher then skin infection.
Anthrax can also be transmitted through inhalation. This method of infection presents the most serious threat to humans. Inhalation of anthrax resembles a common cold or flu like symptoms accompanied by a sore throat, mild fever, muscle aches with weakness and lightheadedness. Because of the familiar flu like symptoms, anthrax can infections can often be overlooked as a possible cause of infection for several days until the symptoms progress to severe breathing problems and toxic shock. The inhalation of anthrax is usually fatal.
Once the forensic details of the anthrax threats are laid out, it is easy to see why the development of a anthrax vaccine and it's application has become a matter of concern for the US Government in designing a preparedness plan in case of a bio-terrorist anthrax attack. The risk of vaccinating children with a yet unproven drug seems pale in comparison with the harsh reality of what those children could be facing should they ever come into contact with weaponized anthrax. Imagine how parents felt when confronted with the choice of inoculating their children with the then unproven polio vaccine when they were confronted with the very real possibility of seeing their children infected with polio.
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Bomb hidden in body in Saudi attack "invisible" to normal detection -Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Re-printed from Homeland Security Newswire
A terrorist in Saudi Arabia tried to kill the Saudi antiterror chief by carrying explosives inside his body; experts say there are "tremendous implications for airport security with the potential of making it even more complicated to get on to your plane"
HSNW wrote two weeks ago about a terrorist using explosives concealed inside his body who blew himself up on receipt of a mobile phone signal (9 September 2009). The terrorist passed through several checks undetected. The attack has security experts very worried that this method is likely to become a real threat.
The intention was to kill a Saudi prince, who happened to be the chief of antiterrorism operations in Saudi Arabia in a complex plot involving the terrorist gaining access to the target by pretending to defect.
An important point to glean from this unbelievable attempted murder/suicide has got to be that the enemy we are battling in this war will resort to anything to martyr themselves for the cause. Do any of us in the west really think that our way of life is not in jeopardy? (Oh yeah, I forgot, we are no longer involved in that conflict, therefore a majority of Americans are being lulled into a false sense of security.)
We better believe that any weapons of mass destruction these zealots come upon will be used against the most innocent among us. Thus the need for preventative measures throughout our communities. We at AdVnt BioTechnologies feel that our biological agent detection devices are just what the doctor orders for simple, fast and accurate screening devices that can be properly operated by any twelve year old. I know, my twelve year old, Jake has proven it time and time again.
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What a coincidence!!! Murtha and the Biowarfare business? -Thursday, May 7, 2009
Murtha's Nephew Got Defense Contracts
Millions in Work Came Without Competition
The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at the 10 loading bays at the back of the building.
Yet last year, Murtech received $4 million in Pentagon work, all of it without competition, for a variety of warehousing and engineering services. With its long corridor of sparsely occupied offices and an unmanned reception area, Murtech's most striking feature is its owner — Robert C. Murtha Jr., 49. He is the nephew of Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has significant sway over the Defense Department's spending as chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
Robert Murtha said he is not at liberty to discuss in detail what his company does, but for four years it has subsisted on defense contracts, according to records and interviews. He said Murtech's 17 employees "provide necessary logistical support" to Pentagon testing programs that focus on detecting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, "and that's about as far as I feel comfortable going." Giving more details could provide important clues to terrorist plotters, he said.
Murtha said he does not advertise being the nephew of John Murtha and considers it "unfortunate" that some will unfairly assume Murtech received its federal contracts because of his uncle's influence at the Pentagon.
Coincidently, over the years, John Murtha has proudly claimed credit for using his Appropriations Committee seat to steer hundreds of millions in Pentagon work to companies in his district, many of them fledgling enterprises run by campaign contributors. His influence also may be seen in the military improvements at the Johnstown airport that bears his name. The little-used commuter airport doubles as a wartime preparedness facility for the Pentagon after $30 million in improvements.
Murtha's power has had beneficial effects within his family. His brother, Robert C. "Kit" Murtha, built a longtime lobbying practice around clients seeking defense funds through the Appropriations Committee and became one of the top members of KSA, a lobbying firm whose contractor clients often received multimillion-dollar earmarks directed through the committee chairman.
Robert C. Murtha Jr. of Murtech is Kit Murtha's son. He also is a former Marine who once served as a presidential security officer and aide to the president for White House functions. He worked for eight years for ACS, a defense and information technology contractor. When Lockheed purchased ACS in 2004, he started several companies, including Murtech, which he registered as a defense contracting firm.
Murtech received its contracts primarily from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala., which has been generous to companies in John Murtha's district and enjoys a close relationship with the congressman through a mutual interest in breast cancer research. The Army command has won at least $200 million a year in federal funding for the cancer research, of which Rep. Murtha is a stalwart supporter. In a program called Missiles to Mammograms the command has collaborated with a contractor in Murtha's district, Windber Medical Center, in a multimillion-dollar project to explore using missile-tracking technology to detect breast cancer.
The command awarded its first storage contract to Murtech without competitive bidding, paying $1.4 million a year. Robert Murtha Jr. says the no-bid arrangement was "the government's choice" and occurred because the government "got itself in a bind." A contract with SA Scientific of San Antonio was about to lapse, and the command needed Murtech, then serving as a subcontractor to the Texas company, to store materials for the military's Critical Reagents Program. The program produces lab materials that can be used in handheld devices and sensors to detect the presence of biological toxins.
"We were uniquely qualified because we had already been doing that work," Murtha said.
I find this simply amazing and adequate proof that despite all the laws, rules and regulations to discourage graft and corruption at the federal level, there are ways to circumvent these laws that apparently are just for the rest of us!
When will enough be enough?
THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPON "PLAGUE" (Y. PESTIS) KILLS 40 AL-QAEDIANS -Monday, March 16, 2009
40 al-Qaeda terrorists dead after failed experiment with plague weapon
40 al-Qaeda members died after being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test; test took place in cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province, 150 kilometres east of the Algerian capital Algiers.
Last month (23 December 2008 HS Daily Wire) we reported that leaders of the U.S. Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism said that the Obama administration must do more, much more, to prevent a terrorist attack on the United States. The most urgent task:
Focus on bioterrorism. The united States must raise the priority of the most likely form of attack — bioterrorism — by mobilizing the life sciences community to develop protocols that prevent misuse of scientific research; tightening oversight of U.S. high-containment laboratories and the security of those around the world; improving U.S. response time in the event of an attack; and educating the American people in order to prevent panic. "We must lead the international community in the development of an action plan for universal adherence to and compliance with the anemic 36-year-old Biological Weapons Convention."
The commission, led by former senators Bob Graham (D-Florida) and Jim Talent (R-Missouri), is apparently correct in its assessment. Peter Goodspeed writes in the National Post that the very day Barack Obama was sworn in as president, warning Americans "our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred," there were reports an al-Qaeda affiliate recently abandoned a training camp in Algeria after forty terrorists died from being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test. The report, which first surfaced in the British tabloid The Sun, says members of al-Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQLIM) hurriedly abandoned their cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province, 150 kilometres east of the Algerian capital Algiers, after being exposed to plague bacteria.
The newspaper said they apparently became infected while experimenting with biological weapons. Algerian security forces discovered the body of a dead terrorist alongside a road near the abandoned hideout.
U.S. intelligence officials, speaking anonymously with Eli Lake of the Washington Times on Tuesday, could only confirm the sudden base closure after an unconventional weapons test went wrong. The officials said they intercepted an urgent communication in early January between the AQLIM leadership and al-Qaeda's top leaders in the tribal region of Pakistan. The Algerian terrorists said they were abandoning and sealing off a training area after a leak of a chemical or biological substance.
AQLIM, once known as the Salfist Group of Call & Combat, is one of the most radical and violent Islamist groups operating in North Africa. It has ties to Moroccan terrorists who carried out the 2004 Madrid train bombings and bombed the UN headquarters in Algiers in 2007, killing 41 people.
Plague comes in two types of plague. Bubonic plague, which is spread by bites from infected rat fleas, killed a third of Europe's population in the fourteenth century but can now be treated with antibiotics. Pneumonic plague is less common but more deadly. It is spread, like the flu, by airborne bacteria, and can be inhaled and transmitted between humans without the involvement of animals or fleas.
Goodspeed reports that for years, U.S. Defense Department officials have warned al-Qaeda operatives have been actively pursuing sophisticated biological weapons research.
News of the latest al-Qaeda threat broke four days after Mike McConnell, U.S. director of national intelligence, said Osama bin Laden's third-eldest son and heir apparent, Saad, has been released from house arrest in Iran. The 27-year-old, who was groomed by his father to assume a leadership role in al-Qaeda, had been detained since after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. U.S. intelligence says that during his detention, Saad bin Laden was allowed to continue to operate. He played a prominent role in ordering a 2002 suicide bombing of a Jewish synagogue in Tunisia, commanded a series of bombings that killed 45 people in Casablanca, Morocco, in May 2003, and sent suicide car bombers who killed 35 people in Riyadh, also in May 2003.
During his final news briefing of the Bush administration, McConnell said Saad bin Laden is now "probably in Pakistan." His departure could signal a new relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda, but it might also suggest al-Qaeda is moving to consolidate its leadership in territory under its control in Pakistan.
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Gladue Rights: What Justice Service Providers Need to Know
This blog post was written in partnership with the BC First Nations Justice Council
The overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian prisons has been a critical issue for decades. In the 1999 landmark Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") decision, R v Gladue ("Gladue"), the court recognized this issue as a crisis and a pressing social problem. The SCC's interpretation of section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code in Gladue gave rise to what are now known as Gladue principles or Gladue rights, which require judges to consider the impacts of colonization for all Indigenous people who are accused or convicted of a crime.
Despite accounting for about 5% of the total Canadian population, Indigenous people now make up 31% of adult admissions to provincial/territorial institutions and 29% of people in federal custody. For Indigenous youth, women, and others with marginalized genders or sexualities, the rates of incarceration are even more dire. Indigenous youth make up 47% of youth in custody, while accounting for 9% of the general youth population in Canada. The National Inquiry into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls final report has made clear the disproportionate and unique impacts that criminalization and incarceration have on Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. For instance, Indigenous women account for 42% of correctional admissions—a rate approximately 12 times higher than non-Indigenous women. This crisis of Indigenous overrepresentation in Canadian prisons is a result of colonial policies and intersecting forms of systemic oppression against Indigenous Peoples in this country.
With these disturbing statistics, we must also ensure that Indigenous Peoples are not confined to being framed only through a lens of victimhood. The strength, resilience, and agency of Indigenous Peoples, laws, and cultures should never be overlooked.
Given these statistics and that many JHS Pacific services support people who have been incarcerated or otherwise involved in the justice system, it should come as no surprise that 31% of JHS Pacific service users self-identify as Indigenous. It is likely that many service users have experiences with Gladue reports, have encountered barriers to asserting their Gladue rights, or may not be aware that they have these rights as an Indigenous person.
So, what do service providers who work with Indigenous individuals involved in the colonial justice system need to know about Gladue rights? Where can justice service providers, such as JHS Pacific staff and volunteers, refer Indigenous clients who may have questions about their Gladue rights? These questions and more are explored below.
What are Gladue rights?
Gladue rights stem from the 1999 SCC's decision in Gladue, which required the court to interpret the scope of section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code. This provision was enacted in 1996 and states that,
"All available sanctions, other than imprisonment, that are reasonable in the circumstances and consistent with the harm done to victims or to the community should be considered for all offenders, with particular attention to the circumstances of Aboriginal offenders"
Essentially, this provision requires the courts to consider incarceration as a last resort. The Gladue case dealt with interpreting the scope of consideration for the circumstances of Indigenous offenders. The SCC made clear that section 718.2(e) applies to all Indigenous people before the court "wherever they reside, whether on- or off-reserve, in a large city or a rural area" (para 91). The court determined that the provision should be applied broadly and alternatives to incarceration must be considered for all cases involving Indigenous accused or offenders because,
"Its purpose is to ameliorate the serious problem of overrepresentation of aboriginal (sic) people in prisons, and to encourage sentencing judges to have recourse to a restorative approach to sentencing" (para 93).
Other high-profile cases have continued to help shape how Gladue rights work today. For example, in R v Ipeelee ("Ipeelee"), the SCC clarified that Gladue rights must be considered regardless of the severity of the offence. In other words, Gladue principles must be considered in bail, sentencing, appeals, parole, long-term offender, and dangerous offender hearings.
What are common Gladue factors?
While not exhaustive, the BC First Nations Justice Council ("BCFNJC") lists the following as common Gladue factors:
Impacts of colonialism
Feelings of loneliness, abandonment, dislocation from culture, community, and family
Loss of access to ceremonies and healing practices
Racism and systemic discrimination
Lack of opportunity and isolation of community
Housing shortages and homelessness
Foster care, adoption, 60s scoop
Victimization/offenders of violence
Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
High rates of incarceration
Lower education levels
Lower-level employment, unemployment, and poverty
Problematic substance use
Mental health related issues
What is a Gladue report? Who can get one?
Gladue reports are powerful documents that assist judges in considering how the impacts of colonialism have played a part in the reasons Indigenous people appear in court, as well as provide guidance on the types of sentencing procedures and sanctions that may be appropriate in the circumstances.
Each Gladue report contains an individualized healing plan designed to address the specific needs of each client. By recognizing the impacts of intergenerational trauma tied to colonialism, Gladue reports seek to help Indigenous people heal in ways that are meaningful to them and their families. Gladue reports also support First Nations in using their laws and legal traditions in the administration of their own justice processes for their nation members.
All self-identified First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people who are accused or convicted of a crime are eligible to get a Gladue report, regardless of their Indian Act status, place of residence, or severity of the crime. However, as stated in Ipeelee, there are ways other than a Gladue report for the court to get access to Gladue information.
How can someone access their Gladue rights?
Recently, in April 2021, the BCFNJC took over Gladue services from Legal Aid BC. Gladue information, and how it is collected, reported, and disseminated, is now in the hands of an Indigenous-led organization. The transition of Gladue Services to the BCFNJC removes some barriers related to requesting a Gladue report. For example, any First Nations, Métis, or Inuit person can now request a Gladue report, whether they have retained a private lawyer or are a client of Legal Aid BC.
Where possible, the best way for someone to request a Gladue report is through their defense lawyer or, if they are self-represented, in court through Crown counsel. Otherwise, someone who wants to access Gladue services can be directed to the Gladue Services Department at the BCFNJC, where they can request a Gladue report writer online or find the contact information for the Gladue Services Coordinator to ask questions.
Why should justice service providers be familiar with Gladue principles?
As Connective staff and volunteers already know, it is vitally important for service providers to be person-centred. As one of JHS Pacific's core values, being person-centred means that,
"We adapt our approach to the individual and use empathy and compassion in all of our interactions."
When serving Indigenous clients, it is essential to understand the individual's circumstances within the context of colonialism and systemic discrimination to provide meaningful person-centred support.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's ("TRC") Calls to Action include a call for a commitment from all levels of government to end the overincarceration of Indigenous Peoples. The TRC states that reconciliation "is a multi-generational journey that involves all Canadians." As such, while not a government actor, non-Indigenous service providers can contribute to the work of ending the overincarceration of Indigenous peoples by helping enhance awareness and access to Gladue rights. For service providers who regularly provide referrals for Indigenous people seeking legal advice or representation on criminal issues, knowing that Gladue rights exist and where to refer people can enhance an individual's ability to assert their Gladue rights.
Are Gladue rights resolving the overrepresentation crisis?
Over 20 years have passed since the Gladue decision, and yet the number of Indigenous people incarcerated in federal prisons has reached an all-time high. As stated by the TRC,
"A failure to provide sufficient and stable resources for the community and treatment programs that are necessary to implement Gladue and Ipeelee helps explain why those decisions have not slowed increasing Aboriginal overrepresentation in prison" (TRC Executive Summary, 173).
Without adequate resourcing of restorative alternatives to incarceration or adequate access and funding of Gladue reports, Gladue's reach cannot be fully realized.
Further, Gladue has mainly been used in sentencing so far, but the BCFNJC sees Gladue rights as applicable throughout the criminal justice process. The BCFNJC explains that,
"Gladue principles are about recognizing that the social determinants of crime, aka Gladue factors, have had a disproportionate impact on Indigenous people in Canada. They apply across the entire criminal justice system."
While an important legal tool, Gladue is not without critiques and should not be seen as the be-all and end-all solution to the overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian prisons. The disproportionate rates of Indigenous people involved in the criminal justice system is a complex problem caused by the far-reaching impacts of colonization; ending this crisis requires a host of social and legislative changes at all levels of Canadian society. Gladue rights are one piece of this process and the transfer of these services to the BCFNJC will expand their influence.
This blog post has provided an overview of Gladue principles and their relevance to justice service providers. There is much more to know!
Here is a list of sources where you can go to do further reading:
Gladue Services, BC First Nations Justice Council
Gladue and You, Legal Aid BC
Gladue Principles, BC Aboriginal Legal Aid
Spotlight on Gladue: Challenges, Experiences, and Possibilities in Canada's Criminal Justice System, Research and Statistics Division Department of Justice
About the BC First Nations Justice Council
The BCFNJC represents First Nations in BC on justice-related issues to bring about transformative change to the legal system. Through the BC First Nations Justice Strategy, the council provides an ambitious roadmap to both reform the current Canadian justice system and revitalise Indigenous legal traditions and systems of justice.
About Our Partnership
One component of the ongoing partnership between JHS Pacific and BCFNJC has included hiring a summer law student to work on a variety of projects that bridge the work of the two organizations—including writing this blog post. This position is generously funded by the Law Foundation of British Columbia's Public Interest Work Placement program. Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell (they/them/she/her) is a Korean/Scottish settler and University of Victoria Faculty of Law student in the joint degree program in Canadian Common Law and Indigenous Legal Orders (JD/JID).
This blog post was created by Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell
With special thanks to Mitch Walker (he/him), BCFNJC's Director of Gladue Services, for his expert review of this content and all other JHS Pacific and BCFNJC staff who helped craft this blog post.


the 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Woman of the Year Award.
The NCAA Woman of the Year program celebrates the accomplishments of female college athletes across all three NCAA divisions. This year, more than 200,000 women are playing college sports, and the NCAA received a program record of 581 nominations for this prestigious award.
Danielle has been an exemplary and outstanding collegiate athlete. She was a recent member on the prestigious Bahamas Fed Cup Team. The Team was a finalist for promotion this year in Ecuador. To be considered for this high honor in the competitive college arena speaks to Danielle's excellence in academics, athletics and leadership.
Continue to raise the bar Danielle!


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Development of paediatric ophthalmology services in Malawi: the VISION 2020 LINK between Blantyre and Glasgow
By Tim Lavy, Gerald Msukwa, Jane MacKinnon, Catherine Lunduka, Marcia Zondervan
5 August 2020 | Tim Lavy, Gerald Msukwa, Jane MacKinnon, Catherine Lunduka, Marcia Zondervan | Ophthalmology, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Cataract and Refractive
A VISION 2020 LINK was established in 2005 between the Lions Sight First Eye Hospital (LSFEH) in Blantyre, Malawi (part of the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital) with Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children to help to develop a paediatric ophthalmic service for the country. The LINK got under way in 2006 with reciprocal needs assessment visits and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. This was in response to the priority need identified by the Malawian Ministry of Health for a national children's eye care service.
Reflections on our partnership
Looking back at our LINK partnership with the LSFEH in Blantyre, it is clear that we have come a long way. Our achievements include aiding the setting up and equipping of a national centre for paediatric ophthalmology capable of managing the most serious and complex of cases as well as many simpler conditions [1].
Of particular importance at the beginning was the need to provide safe anaesthesia for younger children. Our anaesthetist colleagues from Glasgow who came with us in the first three years were invaluable in establishing this.
As well as establishing the unit, the first three years saw us training the ophthalmic clinical officers (OCOs) working in Blantyre on how to measure vision in pre-school children, toddlers and babies. None of this had been performed before our LINK began, and it is crucial in the management of visual problems in children. During this time, Malawi's first Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Dr Gerald Msukwa, received training in Tanzania from Tim Lavy, so again the Scottish team had input.
Paediatric Ophthalmologist Gerald Msukwa presenting a certificate and vision testing pack
to a participant on completion of the Paediatric Ophthalmology training course.
The second three years saw the establishment of a course to train OCOs across the country on the range and importance of children's eye conditions. What started as a desire to cover practitioners in all areas of the country became a desire to train every OCO in the country to recognise and refer children. In order to achieve national coverage, we moved our course north to Lilongwe for two years. During this period, Malawi's second Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Dr Chatonda Manda, was selected and sent for training in India.
The third three years saw the gradual handing of the annual OCO training course over to the Malawian team for delivery. All the 130 OCOs across the whole of the country were trained to recognise and treat or refer children with eye conditions to LSFEH, Blantyre. In addition, the opening of the Malawi School of Optometry in Mzuzu in the north of the country gave the opportunity to include newly graduated optometrists and optometric assistants in the OCO course. Using the 'train the trainers' approach, nine members of staff at LSFEH were trained to run the annual course and it has since been successfully run twice by the Malawian team. We are safe in the knowledge that training of OCOs in children's eye care is continuing sustainably with or without further input from Scotland.
Establishing visual recognition in a child prior to measuring acuity using an age-appropriate test.
Checking visual acuity in a baby using the Malawi Livingstone preferential looking vision chart.
More recently, the team in Blantyre joined the Retinoblastoma Network, (Rb-NET) [2], to benefit from training and capacity-building for retinoblastoma, focusing on enhancing detection and management. Centres in India, Israel and the UK share knowledge and expertise with partners in Africa, for mutual learning.
It is clear that our plans at the beginning of the LINK were ambitious. Getting to know each other as partners and the services in Malawi in the first period allowed us to plan better our activities in the second and third periods. Having to re-apply for funding every three years from the Scottish Government [3] was helpful in this regard, forcing us to re-examine our targets and allowing us to change tack where sensible.
With so few healthcare personnel in a populous country like Malawi, the scope for improving services is limited. Gerald Msukwa and his team see 6000 child patients per year and he carries out about 160 paediatric cataract surgeries per year [4]. The development of the paediatric eye service was dealt a huge blow by the departure of the newly-trained second paediatric ophthalmologist for another nearby country. It illustrates the fragility of attempts to build a health system when it is so short of resources, principally human. In this regard, real lasting progress needs to be planned over decades, not years.
Iknow Ngwira
Iknow Ngwira is a six-year-old boy from Sumbi Village, Malawi. When he was five-years-old his parents noticed that their son started refusing to go to school and he stopped playing with his friends. After asking him why he was refusing to go to school and play with his friends as before, he told his parents that he could not see the board and does not play with his friends because he was afraid that he could be hurt. His father took him to Monkey Bay Hospital where he was examined by an OCO who had been trained in paediatric ophthalmology at LSFEH in Blantyre through the LINK with Glasgow. The boy was diagnosed with bilateral cataract and was referred to LSFEH in Blantyre for cataract surgery. Iknow has been successfully operated by Dr Msukwa on the left eye and Dr Manda on the right eye and gained back his sight. His father was very happy to see his son playing outside with his friends without complaining. He has promised his father that he will go back to school.
Iknow Ngwira before and after cataract surgery.
Kwacha Kamanga
Kwacha Kamanga is a five-month-old boy from Lilongwe, Malawi. At the age of two months his mother noticed that her son was not able to follow objects and took him to a nearby Health Centre, where he was referred to Lions Sight First Eye Hospital at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe. Upon being seen by an OCO who had been trained to recognise and refer children through the LINK with Glasgow, he was diagnosed with bilateral congenital cataract and was referred to Lions Sight First Eye Hospital, Blantyre for cataract surgery. His mother was planning to come too when she found money for transport. One day Kwacha's mother was listening to the radio where she heard that there would be a visiting paediatric ophthalmology surgical camp by a paediatric ophthalmologist at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. After hearing that, she returned to Kamuzu Central Hospital to confirm that the news of the visiting paediatric ophthalmologist was true and was told to come back on 19 November, and she came with her son. On 20 November Kwacha was successfully operated on both eyes by Dr Gerald Msukwa and gained back his sight. The mother was very happy to see that her son is able to follow objects, a thing that he could not do before cataract surgery. She has promised that she will encourage other people to go to hospital as soon as they discover any problem with their children's eyes.
Kwacha Kamanga before and after cataract surgery.
1. T Lavy, G Msukwa, J Waterson Wilson, et al. Paediatric ophthalmology training in Malawi through the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme: a decade of partnership. Eye News 2017;23(4):35-7.
2. Williams P, Bowman R, Foster A, et al. Rb-NET: a network to save life and preserve vision in children in Africa. Eye News 2018;24(6):32-4.
3. Scottish Government. Malawi Development Programme:
https://www.gov.scot/policies/
international-development/development
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Last accessed June 2020.
4. Jamison A, MacKinnon JR, Lavy TE, et al. Establishing a Pediatric Ophthalmology Service in Malawi: Developments in Childhood Cataract Surgery. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2019;26:77-82.
The team acknowledges with grateful thanks the successive grants awarded by the Scottish Government to enable the development of the national children's eye care service in Malawi.
Tim Lavy
NHS Forth Valley, Scotland, UK
Gerald Msukwa
Head of the Lions Sight First Eye Hospital, QECH, Blantyre, Malawi.
Jane MacKinnon
Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK.
Catherine Lunduka
Lions Sight First Eye Hospital (LSFEH), Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
Marcia Zondervan
VISION 2020 Links Programme, International Centre for Eye Health, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.


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SW Ohio task force agencies meet to reflect on first year's success
Lieutenant: 10 homicides were closed in 12 months, it's unbelievable
Ben Petracco
Representatives from six agencies involved with the Southwest Ohio Violent Crimes Task Force gathered Thursday and shared some of their success stories.Authorities said in its first year, the task force's investigations have led to 119 indictments. Investigators served 197 search warrants and closed 10 homicide cases, three of the homicides being cold cases. They also debunked a murder-for-hire plot hatched by a suspect while he was in jail."We've arrested subjects who were responsible for multiple murders. There are 10 homicides that are closed in a year. That alone is a testament to the violent people that have been arrested by this task force. Just to close 10 homicides in the first 12 months of the task force, it's unbelievable," said Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brian Stapleton.Officials said the task force has also seized more than 400 grams of heroin and 31 pounds of marijuana.Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil said he sees the task force growing in the future.
HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio —
Representatives from six agencies involved with the Southwest Ohio Violent Crimes Task Force gathered Thursday and shared some of their success stories.
Authorities said in its first year, the task force's investigations have led to 119 indictments. Investigators served 197 search warrants and closed 10 homicide cases, three of the homicides being cold cases. They also debunked a murder-for-hire plot hatched by a suspect while he was in jail.
"We've arrested subjects who were responsible for multiple murders. There are 10 homicides that are closed in a year. That alone is a testament to the violent people that have been arrested by this task force. Just to close 10 homicides in the first 12 months of the task force, it's unbelievable," said Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brian Stapleton.
Officials said the task force has also seized more than 400 grams of heroin and 31 pounds of marijuana.
Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil said he sees the task force growing in the future.


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