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Rotary Club to hold a medical camp in Narok County in partnership with Surgical Society of Kenya

The Rotary Clubs of Nairobi Magharibi, Maasai Mara, and Enkare-Narok have partnered with the Surgical Society of Kenya and the County of Narok to hold a free surgical camp in Narok. The free surgical camp aims to provide much-needed surgical services to the residents of Narok and its surrounding areas. The camp is scheduled to take place as from September 27th to 31st September 2023 at Narok…

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Appasamy's invention of Brilliant Advent FS-9 Ophthalmic Surgical Microscope is designed to provide High contrast and detailed imaging of all regions of the human eye. It offers a higher quality view with improved efficiency to the Ophthalmologist's working conditions.

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Major national initiatives

Countries are making progress in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity. The global maternal mortality ratio decreased by 44 per cent from 1990 to 2015 and the number of maternal deaths has fallen, over the same period, from 532,000 per year to 303,000.10 Notwithstanding the remarkable gains made in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality and in improving reproductive health, major challenges remain and must be addressed. Improving sexual and reproductive health must be a country-owned and country-driven process. Countries need to allocate a greater proportion of their national budgets to health, with additional technical and financial support provided by the international community. According to data being collected by UNFPA, at present, at least 15 countries affected by fistula have national strategies for eliminating obstetric fistula, and nine of those countries have costed, time -bound operational plans. Additionally, at least 28 countries have national obstetric fistula task forces, which serve as a coordinating mechanism in-country for partner activities.

Several countries employ innovative approaches to raise awareness and increase access to treatment. Telephone hotlines continue to provide information about fistula treatment in Burundi (in partnership with Médecins sans frontières), Cambodia, Kenya, Malawi and Sierra Leone, using mobile phones to connect women living in remote locations to medical care. In the United Republic of Tanzania, the mobile phone-based money transfer microfinancing service known as M-PESA, established in 2009, continues to cover the upfront transportation costs of impoverished fistula patients, so they can access fistula surgery. That system, along with those sponsored by Freedom from Fistula Foundation in Malawi and Sierra Leone, also provide free accommodation and meals before and after surgery, thereby addressing major barriers to accessing fistula treatment. In Malawi, fistula ambassadors, former patients who have undergone training in community awareness of fistula, are now also patient recruiters, escorting new patients to the Fistula Care Centre in Lilongwe for treatment and speaking to rural communities about how to prevent fistula and access care. Many initiatives are under way for improved data collection to track patient outcome and improve surgical practice. Despite the ongoing humanitarian situation, fistula task forces were established in all three zones of Somalia in 2015, addressing the prevention and treatment of fistula through family planning, delivery and post-delivery care, including maternity waiting homes, providing ambulances, and awareness-raising campaigns through the media and goodwill ambassadors for the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa. With the support of UNFPA, enhanced service delivery contributed to increased rates of skilled attendance at birth, expanded and improved midwifery education and workforce policies and strengthened midwifery associations.

In 2015, Bangladesh disseminated its strategy to address fistula, in collaboration with EngenderHealth and UNFPA, which includes a costed plan with multiple approaches to tackling fistula in the country. The Government acknowledged the status of midwifery as a profession in 2016 and announced the creation of 3,000 midwifery posts, as only 42 per cent of births are currently attended by skilled providers. To date, 10 medical colleges are being supported in providing fistula repair services, while complicated cases are referred to the national fistula centre. Approximately 250 doctors and 280 nurses have been trained on surgery and management of fistula and at the national level, 5,000 patients have had fistula repair surgery. In 2016, Bangladesh plans to conduct a national study of maternal mortality and morbidity, which will include estimating the national prevalence of obstetric fistula.

In 2015, the Government of Togo, UNFPA and civil society partners launched a socioeconomic reintegration campaign for fistula survivors. Following surgery to repair their fistula, women were offered training and start-up funding towards their chosen profession. A similar rehabilitation programme in Chad has supported 2,000 women since 2007. The programme also educates health-care workers and midwives uses media to spread the message that obstetric fistula is a major risk associated with giving birth as a teenager.

Healing Hands of Joy operates a safe motherhood ambassador training and reintegration programme in Ethiopia for women who have received treatment for fistula. In 2015, the organization opened two new centres in Bahir Dar and Hawassa, in addition to their previously established centre in Mekelle. The centres trained 524 ambassadors between 2010 and 2015, and they in turn have educated an estimated 13,720 pregnant women, contributed to 12,171 safe institutional deliveries and identified 80 cases of fistula during that period. They have also provided 115 microloans to fistula survivors to support income-generating activities. The organization partners with others, including Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and Pathfinder International, to ensure all aspects of fistula prevention, treatment and support for survivors are addressed.

In the Sudan, the national health sector strategy has strengthened the provision of emergency obstetric and newborn care by upgrading and/or equipping health-care facilities, training midwives and health-care providers, supporting the referral system for complicated deliveries and training doctors from rural areas at the national fistula centre in Khartoum. The federal Ministry of Health agreed to establish a national fistula task force, under its own leadership, for implementing the fistula national work plan and mobilizing funds, including establishing an association of fistula surgeons in Sudan.

In 2015, Pakistan launched a campaign to end obstetric fistula, including by establishing a national and six regional fistula centres to provide free fistula surgical repairs. More than 4,300 fistula patients have had fistula repair surgery and 600 women and girls have been rehabilitated. Seven surgeons have been trained on surgical techniques while, in addition, approximately 650 doctors have been trained on fistula prevention and management. The national midwifery degree programme was introduced in 2013 with a curriculum based on the International Confederation of Midwives and WHO competencies. In addition, the Government is revitalizing the family planning role of women health-care workers to enable greater access to and use of modern contraceptives and advocate healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies.

Tragically, the outbreak of Ebola virus disease severely threatened and worsened maternal and newborn survival and health in the affected countries. Nevertheless, countries affected by Ebola in 2014 and 2015 made significant efforts to continue work to prevent and repair obstetric fistulas. Liberia channelled much of its resources and activities in directly responding to the outbreak and put some regular activities on hold. Nevertheless, with the support of organizations including Zonta International and UNFPA, some services to fistula survivors continued to be provided. In Sierra Leone, while maternity care continued at the Aberdeen Wome n’s Centre, fistula surgeries were temporarily paused, but resumed immediately once the country was declared Ebola-free.

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Magoha issues Form One selection rules

Magoha issues Form One selection rules

Thursday, March 31st, 2022 06:00 | By Education CS George Magoha (right) shares a light moment with the secretary-general of Surgical Society of Kenya. PD/Bonface Msangi Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha yesterday assured integrity in Form One placement. He said the selection criteria will take into account affirmative action and geographical distribution. The process is already…

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University of Uyo won 2020 African Regional Online Anatomy Competition

University of Uyo won 2020 African Regional Online Anatomy Competition

University of Uyo has won the 2020 African Regional Online Anatomy Competition.

The University which represented Nigeria, came first and emerged the overall best in the competition organized by the International Association of Students’ Surgical Societies.

Over 9 countries including Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Zambia and Uganda took part in the exercise.

The great Uniuyo was…

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Kenya census to include male, female and intersex citizens

Kenya will become the first country in Africa to collect data on intersex people in its national population census, in a major victory for rights activists. The August survey will determine the number of citizens who do not identify as either male or female. Intersex people in Kenya often face violence and discrimination. There are thought to be more than 700,000 of them out of a general population of 49 million. "Getting information about intersex people in the census will help people understand the challenges we go through," Ryan Muiruri, founder of the Intersex Persons Society of Kenya (IPSK), said he welcomed the government's decision. "Being included in the census is a big achievement for us," he told the BBC. South Africa was the first African country to explicitly include intersex people in anti-discrimination law.

What is the background?

In 2009, a woman in Kenya went to court after doctors wrote a question mark instead of a gender on her child's birth papers. He wanted three things: identity documents for her child to be able to attend school, a law preventing surgery on intersex children unless it is medically necessary, and proper information and psychological support for parents. In a landmark ruling in 2014, the High Court ordered the government to issue a birth certificate to the five-year-old child.

Media captionMphatso reveals his intersex secret to his friend Mirriam In addition, it ordered the attorney general to create a task force that would look at ways of providing better support for intersex children. That task force handed its recommendations to the Attorney General in April. They include delaying surgery until children can choose for themselves and a robust survey on numbers. It also recommended that an I-marker, an intersex identifier, be used in public documentation.

Intersex

An umbrella term used to describe people who are born with biological variations in their sex characteristics that don't fit typical male or female categories There are many possible variations, involving genitalia, ovaries and testicles, chromosome patterns and hormones The UN says that according to experts, between 0.05% and 1.7% of the population is born with intersex traits.

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Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories 'The doctor wrote a question mark for my child's sex' The midwife who saved intersex babies Now I have a penis, I hope I will find love Doctors hid secret from me

'They wanted to know if I squat or stand'

Ryan Muiruri, IPSK founder, speaking to BBC I was born an intersex but assigned a female identity and named Ruth. My parents didn't accept me and went to the witchdoctor because they wanted to correct what most people saw as a curse. People would tease my mum about my identity, and I would often see her crying. I knew I was different when I was five. One day when I was playing with other children, one of them called me a girl and another said: "Who told you Ruth is a girl." They went ahead to undress me. In school, every time I went to the toilet people would follow me to see if I stand or squat. It was so embarrassing and extremely uncomfortable. One thing that hurt me the most is being called "a curse" by a village elder and being blamed for a drought that had hit our region. I tried to take my life five times because I felt alone and rejected. One day I was in a bank to do a transaction, the teller called the police instead accusing me of impersonation. I tried to explain my situation to them but they didn't understand. It's only after I undressed that they believed me and allowed me to do the transaction. I started the Intersex Persons Society of Kenya to help people like me. Being included in the national population census is a big achievement for us.

An intersex timeline

2013 The UN special rapporteur on torture says non-consensual "genital normalising surgery arguably meets the criteria for torture" 2015 Malta becomes the first country to ban non-consensual modifications to sex characteristics 2017 Human Rights Watch and interACT call for a moratorium on all safely deferrable surgical procedures on children with atypical sex characteristics 2018 Germany adopts intersex identity into law - people can register as intersex on birth certificates and passports from 1 January 2019 2019 a UK task force of NHS doctors and intersex activists is assembled to look into informed consent and surgery on children 2019 Kenya to collect data on intersex people in its national census SOURCE:https://www.bbc.com/ Read the full article

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New post in LET'S CREATE AFRICA (L.C.A.): lable full time for the duration of the program (July to September 2019). Should be a Fresh Graduate from a recognized University. Can be a continuing student pursuing a Degree from a recognized institution. Should have a valid introduction letter from the learning institution Interested candidates are required to send their applications to mentoryouth@optiven.co.ke before or on 15th June 2019 with their department of interest, i.e. “Mentorship & Graduate Trainee-Sales & Marketing Department” being the subject of the email with detailed CV, names & addresses of three referees. For more information, please contact us on: mentoryouth@optiven.co.ke or visit our Website: www.optiven.co.ke Note: We do not charge for job applications and interviews. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. [6/10, 13:27] Nelson Komba: Pharmaceutical Technologist Job 2019. Rangechem Pharmaceutical Technologist Jobs. We are a legally established pharmaceutical company that imports quality pharmaceutical products, wholesales and distributes branded products as generics and surgical. We are currently looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmaceutical Technologist to join our team in Nairobi. Responsibilities Provide advice for non-prescription medications Monitor drugs and other medical supplies levels and initiate the procurement process. Take inventory and track medication and supply orders Keep records of all drug stocks ordered, drugs issued to clients and stocks remaining. Arrange drugs in the required manner Establish and maintain good relationships with customers which includes clinics, doctors, hospitals and other institutions Monitor storage conditions i.e. expiry status and security of the pharmaceuticals Dispensing of prescriptions, Patient counseling and counter- prescribing to optimize the Pharmacy Sales. Maintaining cleanliness of the Pharmacy and all storage areas and conforming to good storage practices Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time. Qualifications Must be registered with the Pharmacy and Poison Board Degree/ Diploma holder from a recognized institution. Original Professional and academic certificates with up to date license At least 2 years of working experience in a similar position Strong negotiation and customer care skills How to Apply Applicants to send their CVs to career@rangechem.co.ke or hand delivered to the Mitihani Hse Mfangano Street [6/10, 13:32] Nelson Komba: Economic Security Generalist NGO Job. ICRC Duration: Maternity Reliever The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation with the exclusively humanitarian mission to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening International Humanitarian Law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC’s Regional Delegation in Nairobi co-ordinates the institution’s humanitarian activities in Kenya, Tanzania and Djibouti. Overall Responsibility Economic Security Generalist 2 plans, implements and monitors the ICRC’s economic security program in line with the country strategy and under the supervision and guidance of his/her hierarchical superior. S/He implements the EcoSec activities and resources in the areas of assignment according to agreed objectives and plan of action. S/He reports on the progress and achievements of the program as required. S/He ensures a smooth working relationship and effective coordination with Kenya Red Cross Society at field level. Travel remit 75% field work in Lamu and Garissa Counties. Responsibilities S/he is the focal point for Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) Project; Carries out assessments, implementation, as well as monitoring visits and evaluation of the EcoSec projects together with Kenya Red Cross Society teams; Supports in development of data collection tools and data analysis; Assists EcoSec Coordinator in identifying operational strategies and defining short and mid-term plan http://bit.ly/2Rkp3Oq

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This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

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This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings—unacceptable for carrying out justice in a “civilized” society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life.

Now mosquitoes are getting the same treatment in the pursuit of a vaccine for malaria, a disease that killed 440,000 people in 2016. To produce a vaccine for mass deployment, biotech firm Sanaria has to decapitate and dissect out the salivary glands, which hold the malaria-causing parasite, for each individual mosquito—by hand. To speed up this painstaking process, they’ve partnered with medical roboticists from Johns Hopkins University to engineer a mosquito guillotine that technicians can use to decapitate 30 insects at a time. It’s a first step toward an eventual goal of a fully automated robotic guillotine, which could help Sanaria produce that elusive mass-produced, effective malaria vaccine.

Despite decades of work, a malaria vaccine is still not widely available. The first reason is the complex life cycle of the microbe that causes malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Unlike a bacteria or virus, which tend to have relatively simple life cycles, this protozoan parasite develops both in mosquitoes and in humans. In particular, the challenge is targeting the parasite during its short invasion times between different cell types in the body, like liver and red blood cells.

“We don’t have any vaccines in widespread human use against parasites,” says Ashley Birkett, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, who wasn’t involved in this research. “They’re extremely complex.”

Two, the idea behind a vaccine is to encourage the body’s own immune system to fight an invader. A flu vaccine, for instance, uses a deactivated version of the virus to trick your body into ramping up production of antibodies, which protects you from the real flu virus out in the wild. But with the malaria parasite, researchers are finding that the immune response you need to protect against this parasite is far higher than with a bacteria or virus vaccine.

“In some cases we’re talking orders of magnitude higher immune responses,” says Birkett. The protective responses might only last for six months. “One of the key challenges in developing more effective malaria vaccines is really to understand how can we induce immune responses that can persist at a level that’s needed to provide high-level protection for many years.”

Even with all these challenges, one promising malaria vaccine called RTS,S, made by GSK, has been undergoing trials in Africa. It uses a single protein from the parasite, which is thought to induce production of antibodies that prevent the parasite from entering liver cells, where the fiend matures. In a group of children between 5 months and 17 months old, RTS,S reduced malaria by about 40 percent, meaning it can prevent up to 4 out of 10 malaria cases. Accordingly, the World Health Organization is now coordinating a pilot introduction of the vaccine, expected to reach around a million children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi.

What Sanaria is developing is a bit different. Instead of using a single protein from the parasite, they’re using entire parasites—which come with more than 5,000 proteins—deactivated with low doses of radiation. Sanaria’s vaccine, called PfSPZ, is thought to work by inducing killer T cells to attack the parasites in the human body as they’re developing in the liver. In a study conducted in malaria-ravaged Mali, published in 2017, researchers found that 66 percent of adult participants given the vaccine still ended up developing a malaria infection, compared to 93 percent of participants given a placebo. (Malaria vaccine experts warn that it’s difficult to directly compare the efficacy of one vaccine versus another, since the testing locations and participant populations differ.)

To manufacture PfSPZ, which is currently in phase two clinical trials, they need whole parasites. Accordingly, Sanaria’s technicians are highly trained in the delicate operation that is manual mosquito dissection. “One by one, we grasp each mosquito by its abdomen and then we sever its head from the body and squeeze out the glands,” says Sumana Chakravarty, Sanaria’s managing director of vaccine extraction, immunology, and model systems. “That squeezing process just ensures that the gland and the immediate surrounding material comes out of the mosquito, which is where our precious parasites reside, but nothing else.”

These mosquito surgeons train for six hours a day, three days a week, for two months to become proficient in the art. When Sanaria started the vaccine production campaign, a dissector could extract parasites from about 60 mosquitoes per hour. Now, given all that training, they’ve got folks that can do an average of 300 mosquitoes per hour.

Automating the process, even partially, would theoretically boost that rate even higher. Which is all the more important when you consider that it takes one mosquito to make one dose of the PfSPZ vaccine, and there are 3.2 billion people exposed to malaria worldwide, with around 200 million contracting the disease a year.

Which brings us to the mosquito guillotine. “We came up with the idea that if you could sort mosquitoes into these cartridges, once the mosquito was in a cartridge with its head and neck and thorax in well-defined positions, you could then perhaps cut off all the heads at once and squeeze the glands all at once and then collect them,” says Johns Hopkins University engineer Russ Taylor, who helped develop the system. This has had a big impact on the time it takes to train technicians: with manual dissection, it takes anywhere from 60 to 120 hours to get to the 300 mosquitoes-per-hour rate, whereas with the device it’s more like 4 to 6 hours of training.

Is no job safe, then, from the robotic takeover? Well, that’s not quite how automation works, especially in this context. In the near term, robots may be more likely to take over parts of your job. Think about the word processor: Its introduction made workers more productive, not redundant. Same principle with the mosquito guillotine—humans are still in the loop and probably always will be to some degree. “Our goal is to get it perfect, so when we do institute the robotic approach we can really take off,” says Steve Hoffman, CEO and chief scientific officer of Sanaria.

So why all this effort? Why pursue two kinds of malaria vaccine, if they’re both showing efficacy? Because they each have their own strengths. “The PfSPZ vaccine has been shown to prevent infection risk in adults across an entire malaria season, which RTS,S has not been shown to do,” says Patrick Duffy, who studies malaria at the NIH and has collaborated with Sanaria in the past on field efficacy trials. On the other hand, RTS,S has been shown to reduce clinical malaria in children, which PfSPZ has not been shown to do, Duffy adds.

Really, the fact that we’ve gotten to this point in the war against malaria is a feat of science. Just decades ago, there was a lot of skepticism that a malaria vaccine would ever be possible. “I think the question is no longer will there ever be a vaccine,” Duffy says. “It will be how far can we get with a malaria vaccine.”

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This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

New Post has been published on http://unchainedmusic.com/this-tiny-guillotine-decapitates-mosquitoes-to-fight-malaria/

This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings—unacceptable for carrying out justice in a “civilized” society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life.

Now mosquitoes are getting the same treatment in the pursuit of a vaccine for malaria, a disease that killed 440,000 people in 2016. To produce a vaccine for mass deployment, biotech firm Sanaria has to decapitate and dissect out the salivary glands, which hold the malaria-causing parasite, for each individual mosquito—by hand. To speed up this painstaking process, they’ve partnered with medical roboticists from Johns Hopkins University to engineer a mosquito guillotine that technicians can use to decapitate 30 insects at a time. It’s a first step toward an eventual goal of a fully automated robotic guillotine, which could help Sanaria produce that elusive mass-produced, effective malaria vaccine.

Despite decades of work, a malaria vaccine is still not widely available. The first reason is the complex life cycle of the microbe that causes malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Unlike a bacteria or virus, which tend to have relatively simple life cycles, this protozoan parasite develops both in mosquitoes and in humans. In particular, the challenge is targeting the parasite during its short invasion times between different cell types in the body, like liver and red blood cells.

“We don’t have any vaccines in widespread human use against parasites,” says Ashley Birkett, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, who wasn’t involved in this research. “They’re extremely complex.”

Two, the idea behind a vaccine is to encourage the body’s own immune system to fight an invader. A flu vaccine, for instance, uses a deactivated version of the virus to trick your body into ramping up production of antibodies, which protects you from the real flu virus out in the wild. But with the malaria parasite, researchers are finding that the immune response you need to protect against this parasite is far higher than with a bacteria or virus vaccine.

“In some cases we’re talking orders of magnitude higher immune responses,” says Birkett. The protective responses might only last for six months. “One of the key challenges in developing more effective malaria vaccines is really to understand how can we induce immune responses that can persist at a level that’s needed to provide high-level protection for many years.”

Even with all these challenges, one promising malaria vaccine called RTS,S, made by GSK, has been undergoing trials in Africa. It uses a single protein from the parasite, which is thought to induce production of antibodies that prevent the parasite from entering liver cells, where the fiend matures. In a group of children between 5 months and 17 months old, RTS,S reduced malaria by about 40 percent, meaning it can prevent up to 4 out of 10 malaria cases. Accordingly, the World Health Organization is now coordinating a pilot introduction of the vaccine, expected to reach around a million children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi.

What Sanaria is developing is a bit different. Instead of using a single protein from the parasite, they’re using entire parasites—which come with more than 5,000 proteins—deactivated with low doses of radiation. Sanaria’s vaccine, called PfSPZ, is thought to work by inducing killer T cells to attack the parasites in the human body as they’re developing in the liver. In a study conducted in malaria-ravaged Mali, published in 2017, researchers found that 66 percent of adult participants given the vaccine still ended up developing a malaria infection, compared to 93 percent of participants given a placebo. (Malaria vaccine experts warn that it’s difficult to directly compare the efficacy of one vaccine versus another, since the testing locations and participant populations differ.)

To manufacture PfSPZ, which is currently in phase two clinical trials, they need whole parasites. Accordingly, Sanaria’s technicians are highly trained in the delicate operation that is manual mosquito dissection. “One by one, we grasp each mosquito by its abdomen and then we sever its head from the body and squeeze out the glands,” says Sumana Chakravarty, Sanaria’s managing director of vaccine extraction, immunology, and model systems. “That squeezing process just ensures that the gland and the immediate surrounding material comes out of the mosquito, which is where our precious parasites reside, but nothing else.”

These mosquito surgeons train for six hours a day, three days a week, for two months to become proficient in the art. When Sanaria started the vaccine production campaign, a dissector could extract parasites from about 60 mosquitoes per hour. Now, given all that training, they’ve got folks that can do an average of 300 mosquitoes per hour.

Automating the process, even partially, would theoretically boost that rate even higher. Which is all the more important when you consider that it takes one mosquito to make one dose of the PfSPZ vaccine, and there are 3.2 billion people exposed to malaria worldwide, with around 200 million contracting the disease a year.

Which brings us to the mosquito guillotine. “We came up with the idea that if you could sort mosquitoes into these cartridges, once the mosquito was in a cartridge with its head and neck and thorax in well-defined positions, you could then perhaps cut off all the heads at once and squeeze the glands all at once and then collect them,” says Johns Hopkins University engineer Russ Taylor, who helped develop the system. This has had a big impact on the time it takes to train technicians: with manual dissection, it takes anywhere from 60 to 120 hours to get to the 300 mosquitoes-per-hour rate, whereas with the device it’s more like 4 to 6 hours of training.

Is no job safe, then, from the robotic takeover? Well, that’s not quite how automation works, especially in this context. In the near term, robots may be more likely to take over parts of your job. Think about the word processor: Its introduction made workers more productive, not redundant. Same principle with the mosquito guillotine—humans are still in the loop and probably always will be to some degree. “Our goal is to get it perfect, so when we do institute the robotic approach we can really take off,” says Steve Hoffman, CEO and chief scientific officer of Sanaria.

So why all this effort? Why pursue two kinds of malaria vaccine, if they’re both showing efficacy? Because they each have their own strengths. “The PfSPZ vaccine has been shown to prevent infection risk in adults across an entire malaria season, which RTS,S has not been shown to do,” says Patrick Duffy, who studies malaria at the NIH and has collaborated with Sanaria in the past on field efficacy trials. On the other hand, RTS,S has been shown to reduce clinical malaria in children, which PfSPZ has not been shown to do, Duffy adds.

Really, the fact that we’ve gotten to this point in the war against malaria is a feat of science. Just decades ago, there was a lot of skepticism that a malaria vaccine would ever be possible. “I think the question is no longer will there ever be a vaccine,” Duffy says. “It will be how far can we get with a malaria vaccine.”

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This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

New Post has been published on http://unchainedmusic.com/this-tiny-guillotine-decapitates-mosquitoes-to-fight-malaria/

This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings—unacceptable for carrying out justice in a “civilized” society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life.

Now mosquitoes are getting the same treatment in the pursuit of a vaccine for malaria, a disease that killed 440,000 people in 2016. To produce a vaccine for mass deployment, biotech firm Sanaria has to decapitate and dissect out the salivary glands, which hold the malaria-causing parasite, for each individual mosquito—by hand. To speed up this painstaking process, they’ve partnered with medical roboticists from Johns Hopkins University to engineer a mosquito guillotine that technicians can use to decapitate 30 insects at a time. It’s a first step toward an eventual goal of a fully automated robotic guillotine, which could help Sanaria produce that elusive mass-produced, effective malaria vaccine.

Despite decades of work, a malaria vaccine is still not widely available. The first reason is the complex life cycle of the microbe that causes malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Unlike a bacteria or virus, which tend to have relatively simple life cycles, this protozoan parasite develops both in mosquitoes and in humans. In particular, the challenge is targeting the parasite during its short invasion times between different cell types in the body, like liver and red blood cells.

“We don’t have any vaccines in widespread human use against parasites,” says Ashley Birkett, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, who wasn’t involved in this research. “They’re extremely complex.”

Two, the idea behind a vaccine is to encourage the body’s own immune system to fight an invader. A flu vaccine, for instance, uses a deactivated version of the virus to trick your body into ramping up production of antibodies, which protects you from the real flu virus out in the wild. But with the malaria parasite, researchers are finding that the immune response you need to protect against this parasite is far higher than with a bacteria or virus vaccine.

“In some cases we’re talking orders of magnitude higher immune responses,” says Birkett. The protective responses might only last for six months. “One of the key challenges in developing more effective malaria vaccines is really to understand how can we induce immune responses that can persist at a level that’s needed to provide high-level protection for many years.”

Even with all these challenges, one promising malaria vaccine called RTS,S, made by GSK, has been undergoing trials in Africa. It uses a single protein from the parasite, which is thought to induce production of antibodies that prevent the parasite from entering liver cells, where the fiend matures. In a group of children between 5 months and 17 months old, RTS,S reduced malaria by about 40 percent, meaning it can prevent up to 4 out of 10 malaria cases. Accordingly, the World Health Organization is now coordinating a pilot introduction of the vaccine, expected to reach around a million children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi.

What Sanaria is developing is a bit different. Instead of using a single protein from the parasite, they’re using entire parasites—which come with more than 5,000 proteins—deactivated with low doses of radiation. Sanaria’s vaccine, called PfSPZ, is thought to work by inducing killer T cells to attack the parasites in the human body as they’re developing in the liver. In a study conducted in malaria-ravaged Mali, published in 2017, researchers found that 66 percent of adult participants given the vaccine still ended up developing a malaria infection, compared to 93 percent of participants given a placebo. (Malaria vaccine experts warn that it’s difficult to directly compare the efficacy of one vaccine versus another, since the testing locations and participant populations differ.)

To manufacture PfSPZ, which is currently in phase two clinical trials, they need whole parasites. Accordingly, Sanaria’s technicians are highly trained in the delicate operation that is manual mosquito dissection. “One by one, we grasp each mosquito by its abdomen and then we sever its head from the body and squeeze out the glands,” says Sumana Chakravarty, Sanaria’s managing director of vaccine extraction, immunology, and model systems. “That squeezing process just ensures that the gland and the immediate surrounding material comes out of the mosquito, which is where our precious parasites reside, but nothing else.”

These mosquito surgeons train for six hours a day, three days a week, for two months to become proficient in the art. When Sanaria started the vaccine production campaign, a dissector could extract parasites from about 60 mosquitoes per hour. Now, given all that training, they’ve got folks that can do an average of 300 mosquitoes per hour.

Automating the process, even partially, would theoretically boost that rate even higher. Which is all the more important when you consider that it takes one mosquito to make one dose of the PfSPZ vaccine, and there are 3.2 billion people exposed to malaria worldwide, with around 200 million contracting the disease a year.

Which brings us to the mosquito guillotine. “We came up with the idea that if you could sort mosquitoes into these cartridges, once the mosquito was in a cartridge with its head and neck and thorax in well-defined positions, you could then perhaps cut off all the heads at once and squeeze the glands all at once and then collect them,” says Johns Hopkins University engineer Russ Taylor, who helped develop the system. This has had a big impact on the time it takes to train technicians: with manual dissection, it takes anywhere from 60 to 120 hours to get to the 300 mosquitoes-per-hour rate, whereas with the device it’s more like 4 to 6 hours of training.

Is no job safe, then, from the robotic takeover? Well, that’s not quite how automation works, especially in this context. In the near term, robots may be more likely to take over parts of your job. Think about the word processor: Its introduction made workers more productive, not redundant. Same principle with the mosquito guillotine—humans are still in the loop and probably always will be to some degree. “Our goal is to get it perfect, so when we do institute the robotic approach we can really take off,” says Steve Hoffman, CEO and chief scientific officer of Sanaria.

So why all this effort? Why pursue two kinds of malaria vaccine, if they’re both showing efficacy? Because they each have their own strengths. “The PfSPZ vaccine has been shown to prevent infection risk in adults across an entire malaria season, which RTS,S has not been shown to do,” says Patrick Duffy, who studies malaria at the NIH and has collaborated with Sanaria in the past on field efficacy trials. On the other hand, RTS,S has been shown to reduce clinical malaria in children, which PfSPZ has not been shown to do, Duffy adds.

Really, the fact that we’ve gotten to this point in the war against malaria is a feat of science. Just decades ago, there was a lot of skepticism that a malaria vaccine would ever be possible. “I think the question is no longer will there ever be a vaccine,” Duffy says. “It will be how far can we get with a malaria vaccine.”

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This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

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This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings—unacceptable for carrying out justice in a “civilized” society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life.

Now mosquitoes are getting the same treatment in the pursuit of a vaccine for malaria, a disease that killed 440,000 people in 2016. To produce a vaccine for mass deployment, biotech firm Sanaria has to decapitate and dissect out the salivary glands, which hold the malaria-causing parasite, for each individual mosquito—by hand. To speed up this painstaking process, they’ve partnered with medical roboticists from Johns Hopkins University to engineer a mosquito guillotine that technicians can use to decapitate 30 insects at a time. It’s a first step toward an eventual goal of a fully automated robotic guillotine, which could help Sanaria produce that elusive mass-produced, effective malaria vaccine.

Despite decades of work, a malaria vaccine is still not widely available. The first reason is the complex life cycle of the microbe that causes malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Unlike a bacteria or virus, which tend to have relatively simple life cycles, this protozoan parasite develops both in mosquitoes and in humans. In particular, the challenge is targeting the parasite during its short invasion times between different cell types in the body, like liver and red blood cells.

“We don’t have any vaccines in widespread human use against parasites,” says Ashley Birkett, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, who wasn’t involved in this research. “They’re extremely complex.”

Two, the idea behind a vaccine is to encourage the body’s own immune system to fight an invader. A flu vaccine, for instance, uses a deactivated version of the virus to trick your body into ramping up production of antibodies, which protects you from the real flu virus out in the wild. But with the malaria parasite, researchers are finding that the immune response you need to protect against this parasite is far higher than with a bacteria or virus vaccine.

“In some cases we’re talking orders of magnitude higher immune responses,” says Birkett. The protective responses might only last for six months. “One of the key challenges in developing more effective malaria vaccines is really to understand how can we induce immune responses that can persist at a level that’s needed to provide high-level protection for many years.”

Even with all these challenges, one promising malaria vaccine called RTS,S, made by GSK, has been undergoing trials in Africa. It uses a single protein from the parasite, which is thought to induce production of antibodies that prevent the parasite from entering liver cells, where the fiend matures. In a group of children between 5 months and 17 months old, RTS,S reduced malaria by about 40 percent, meaning it can prevent up to 4 out of 10 malaria cases. Accordingly, the World Health Organization is now coordinating a pilot introduction of the vaccine, expected to reach around a million children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi.

What Sanaria is developing is a bit different. Instead of using a single protein from the parasite, they’re using entire parasites—which come with more than 5,000 proteins—deactivated with low doses of radiation. Sanaria’s vaccine, called PfSPZ, is thought to work by inducing killer T cells to attack the parasites in the human body as they’re developing in the liver. In a study conducted in malaria-ravaged Mali, published in 2017, researchers found that 66 percent of adult participants given the vaccine still ended up developing a malaria infection, compared to 93 percent of participants given a placebo. (Malaria vaccine experts warn that it’s difficult to directly compare the efficacy of one vaccine versus another, since the testing locations and participant populations differ.)

To manufacture PfSPZ, which is currently in phase two clinical trials, they need whole parasites. Accordingly, Sanaria’s technicians are highly trained in the delicate operation that is manual mosquito dissection. “One by one, we grasp each mosquito by its abdomen and then we sever its head from the body and squeeze out the glands,” says Sumana Chakravarty, Sanaria’s managing director of vaccine extraction, immunology, and model systems. “That squeezing process just ensures that the gland and the immediate surrounding material comes out of the mosquito, which is where our precious parasites reside, but nothing else.”

These mosquito surgeons train for six hours a day, three days a week, for two months to become proficient in the art. When Sanaria started the vaccine production campaign, a dissector could extract parasites from about 60 mosquitoes per hour. Now, given all that training, they’ve got folks that can do an average of 300 mosquitoes per hour.

Automating the process, even partially, would theoretically boost that rate even higher. Which is all the more important when you consider that it takes one mosquito to make one dose of the PfSPZ vaccine, and there are 3.2 billion people exposed to malaria worldwide, with around 200 million contracting the disease a year.

Which brings us to the mosquito guillotine. “We came up with the idea that if you could sort mosquitoes into these cartridges, once the mosquito was in a cartridge with its head and neck and thorax in well-defined positions, you could then perhaps cut off all the heads at once and squeeze the glands all at once and then collect them,” says Johns Hopkins University engineer Russ Taylor, who helped develop the system. This has had a big impact on the time it takes to train technicians: with manual dissection, it takes anywhere from 60 to 120 hours to get to the 300 mosquitoes-per-hour rate, whereas with the device it’s more like 4 to 6 hours of training.

Is no job safe, then, from the robotic takeover? Well, that’s not quite how automation works, especially in this context. In the near term, robots may be more likely to take over parts of your job. Think about the word processor: Its introduction made workers more productive, not redundant. Same principle with the mosquito guillotine—humans are still in the loop and probably always will be to some degree. “Our goal is to get it perfect, so when we do institute the robotic approach we can really take off,” says Steve Hoffman, CEO and chief scientific officer of Sanaria.

So why all this effort? Why pursue two kinds of malaria vaccine, if they’re both showing efficacy? Because they each have their own strengths. “The PfSPZ vaccine has been shown to prevent infection risk in adults across an entire malaria season, which RTS,S has not been shown to do,” says Patrick Duffy, who studies malaria at the NIH and has collaborated with Sanaria in the past on field efficacy trials. On the other hand, RTS,S has been shown to reduce clinical malaria in children, which PfSPZ has not been shown to do, Duffy adds.

Really, the fact that we’ve gotten to this point in the war against malaria is a feat of science. Just decades ago, there was a lot of skepticism that a malaria vaccine would ever be possible. “I think the question is no longer will there ever be a vaccine,” Duffy says. “It will be how far can we get with a malaria vaccine.”

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New Mexico and Colorado, 48 and 49th Relay States

Santa Fe, New Mexico - July 13, 2018

Our first stop for the weekend of Relay For Life was Santa Fe. I was told this is the land of enchantment and it certainly was for us (my husband was able to attend these Relays with me). We met a lot of wonderful people along the way and am happy to share their stories. I apologize for the huge delay. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my personal life that have caused major interruptions.

A very special thank you to the Residence Inn for giving us such a great deal on our stay. The location was great, the room very comfortable and the people helpful. I’d love to stay there again if we are ever lucky enough to visit again. https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/safnm-residence-inn-santa-fe/?scid=bb1a189a-fec3-4d19-a255-54ba596febe2

The very first person I met was Raven Anderson, Community Development Manager for New Mexico.

Me and Raven Anderson, Community Development Manager

Raven is a “super volunteer”, someone who devotes a LOT of energy and time to help not only raise funds but also help other people.

Raven’s story is amazing. She was disabled and in a wheelchair for 14 years and has only been out of the wheelchair and off a cane for about 3 years. Her goal was to walk in a Relay without assistance, which she did 2 years ago in Orlando. She was in community college at the time. She is a doctoral student now and has been writing her thesis on diversity. After everything she has been through in her life she promised herself that she wanted to make change in the world, impacting others as much as she possibly could. What amazed me even more is the fact that even though she was “disabled” she was doing things to help other people. Part of the promise she made to herself was that if she became healthy enough she would search for a job with American Cancer Society (ACS) so she could put all her energy and knowledge to good use.

Raven was looking on Cancer.org and saw a position in Albuquerque. She applied but received an email stating the position that had been open for 30 days, was filled. Two days later she received another email saying they were wrong and the position was still open, would she be interested. As you can see Raven not only accepted the position she is the epitome of Relay.

I found out about something I had never heard of….a virtual Relay. It’s called Relay for Life of Second Life and is Raven’s home Relay. She explained that you build an avatar, build a home, etc. There are too many things to explain here but Raven says it is like SIMMS on steroids. This is their 14th year and they have raised $3.1 million. It is a 24-hour virtual Relay and Raven walked with people in 2016 from 96 countries. Two years ago she walked the survivor’s lap and has walked with the most amazing people, young and old (90’s). They have their own special avatar’s such as unicorns and elves, etc. There was an event that raised funds for a Hope Lodge in Kenya. In 2018 the event raised over $200,000.

You can find out more info on Second Life at https://secondlife.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3haQ1sznNM This was the live stream of this year

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz7dJZZeZ_YkLVsqy3XBNWA This is a collection of videos

Raven shows that nothing can stop her and that inspirational attitude spills over into everything she does including fundraising, supporting others fighting cancer, or fighting for their loved ones as caregivers. Cancer needs to be stopped and Raven is unstoppable in that fight!

Joyce Graves, from Gallup, NM, is a 3-time cancer survivor. In 1993 she had breast cancer. Her doctor performed a “segmental” surgical procedure. This is where he took about a ¼ of her breast. She has a great sense of humor as she said she has a perky 20-year old breast and an “old lady” breast. Joyce also went through chemo and radiation for this cancer.

Me and Joyce Graves

In November, 9 years later she went to Portland for a national summit for ACS and Relay For Life. Joyce had become involved with Relay on a national level in 2000. The speaker at the summit was a leukemia survivor. She spoke about a new drug she was on that had no side effects and she was in remission. Joyce thought that was wonderful and was excited for people fighting the disease.

In May the next year, Joyce’s husband was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. Joyce called her staff partner to tell her and her friend reminded Joyce of the woman who spoke at the summit. That woman had the same type of cancer Joyce’s husband had. She said at that moment she knew her husband was going to be ok because of what she had learned at the summit.

Paul, Joyce’s husband, took 4 chemo pills a day with no side effects. He said he felt guilty taking the medication. Joyce asked him why. Paul said he knew what she went through when she fought her cancer and he knew what other people had gone through or were going through. He said he felt guilty that all he had to do was pop a pill and have no side effects. Joyce told Paul that this was the exciting progress that was being made in the fight against cancer and someday there would be a pill for breast cancer as well.

In August that same year Joyce went for her mammogram. As soon as the radiologist walked in the door Joyce said she knew she was in trouble. The radiologist said there was a suspicious area that needed to be investigated. Joyce thought the radiologist might say let’s just wait and watch it (which Joyce knew she didn’t want to do). Instead she was told that they needed to check it out right away.

It was breast cancer again and thankfully it had not metastasized. It was a brand-new site, caught very early, but found in the other breast. This time a lumpectomy was performed, and radiation was needed.

Three years later Joyce had Basal Cell skin cancer that was taken care of easily (compared to the other cancer’s Joyce had dealt with).

As for Relay, she has been involved since 2000 and really gives her all to the events. One year she was taking a coat to her husband across the track and she tripped over a tent stake. She broke both elbows, but as they were taking her to the ambulance Joyce was saying “I’ll be back”. It was a little more than she thought so she didn’t come back that night (one elbow required surgery with plates and screws) but she has been back every year to Relay. Her email address says it all - “bleeds purple” is part of her email address, which really does say it all!!!

Joyce has been on both sides of cancer as a survivor and caregiver. Her words of wisdom for dealing with cancer is, first to keep your sense of humor. Facing cancer is tough but your sense of humor can really help get you through the toughest times, Joyce explains. Joyce also says, if you have a spouse or significant other, family and/or friends that want to help, be sure to do your best to be a good communicator. If you are tired, don’t feel good, or don’t want to do something then make sure to tell them. This also means letting people know when you want them to help. She said be specific in what you need. Give them ideas on ways they can help you.

When Joyce speaks to women through the “Reach to recovery” program that ACS has she tells them that women are the strong ones in the family. We are the “doers” Joyce says, and now we need to be the ones that let others do for us. In a way it is easier for us because we get the action part of cancer – we have the surgery, we receive chemo and/or radiation, etc. The others feel helpless. So those cancer survivors need to let their loved ones help in any way possible. Joyce’s advice includes remembering that asking for help isn’t really as much for ourselves (the survivors dealing with cancer) as much as it is a gift to the caregivers and those who are having to watch the battle. Suggestions include cleaning the house, making meals, grocery shopping, etc. The other advice she gives is to keep loving people as much as possible.

Joyce really is the embodiment of Relay. She was on the training task force locally for 2 years before becoming a member of the training task force nationally. She said this year (2018) she gets to enjoy her local events. Joyce really does “bleed purple”.

Angela Luna is the event chair for the New Mexico Relay. She is also a survivor of thyroid cancer. Eleven years ago Angela was in the hospital for severe bronchitis and during an exam her doctor found a lump on the side of her throat. Angela didn’t think anything of it at first. She figured her lymph nodes were swollen due to the bronchitis. The next day her doctor came in and said he really felt she needed to get the lump checked out. He said it could be nothing but wanted her to get it checked.

Rachel Romero, Angela Luna, and me

Angela admits she didn’t take care of her health as well as she should have back then, so she put off getting the lump checked. Finally she said something to her primary doctor. She started getting tests to see what the issue might be. Angela asked her doctor what they were looking for and the nurse said it could be several things. Angela pressed and was told “well the worst it could be is cancer”. That is when Angela started getting nervous.

When the results came back Angela went and saw her doctor. She was told that it was indeed cancer. Angela was stunned. She had this doctor for quite a while and never expected to hear those words. She felt that having cancer was basically a death sentence.

The doctor told her that she was in good hands and that they would take care of her. Angela had a needle biopsy and other tests. She was sent to Dr. Shapiro for her cancer, a great doctor in her opinion. He gave her two options: She could have chemo and radiation to try to get rid of the cancer or he said they could just “cut it out”. Angela thought at first it would mean cutting out the cancer but she found out that they would remove the entire thyroid. Angela chose the surgery and to have an radioactive iodine to kill the rest of the thyroid cells.

Angela learned a lot about taking care of herself through her cancer experience. She is diabetic and wasn’t taking care of herself very well but because of cancer she is very serious about her health now. She lost 70lbs., has good levels for her sugar and cholesterol, and now she takes care of herself. It scared her into appreciating life.

If she had to tell someone the things she has learned it is to take care of yourself, don’t try and face cancer alone, and stay positive. She was pretty angry when she was first diagnosed.

She was involved with Relay in 2011 but life got in the way for a while. Through her classes and phi theta kappa her involvement with Relay was recharged. Her team raised $1,300 the first year which is rather high compared to most first year teams. In 2017 she and Judy were asked to be the event co-chair leads but she chose not to. This year (2018) she was asked to be an event lead and accepted with renewed commitment and appreciate as a survivor and community-minded leader.

Rachel Romero is the staff partner with ACS. She has only been the staff partner for a year but has been involved with Relay For Life for several years. Her involvement started because of her experience with cancer in her family.

Rachel Romero and Angela Luna signing the Relay shirts

Rachel’s sister is 4 years younger and was diagnosed with acute lymphomas leukemia when Rachel was 6 and her sister was 2. Rachel said it was weird because no one in the family had leukemia before.

It all started when Rachel’s mom told her that her mom’s friend was going to take the kids home that day which was unusual. Rachel’s mom runs a daycare and when they were little she was putting blush on Monica when she noticed a lump. She ended up going to the hospital where Monica spent Halloween in the hospital as they were trying to figure out what was wrong with her. The doctors told Rachel’s mom that she needed to go to UNM Children’s hospital right away. Her mom called her dad and they met there. Her sister was diagnosed very quickly.

Rachel was so little and she remembers her sister being in and out of the hospital for about 6 months. She visited her a couple of times but she remembers that she came home with a catheter for her treatments.

Rachel said her sister is the bravest person she knows. She said that her sister is now a 21-year survivor. The whole family is closer and stronger because of it.

Her sister went to camp enchantment which is for cancer patients, enjoying a time when they don’t have to think about having cancer. Rachel and her brother went to Camp Superstar for siblings of cancer survivors. She said the camp helped her understand the mixture of emotions that comes from being a sibling of a survivor.

Rachel said that her sister has grown up and now doesn’t want her cancer to define her. She definitely wants to advocate for others but doesn’t feel the need to tell everyone she had cancer. Rachel said there are so many things that people don’t understand unless they’ve been in a survivor’s shoes.

She loves being a part of ACS and would love for this disease to be gone so no one has to go through what her sister and her family had to face.

Dolores Anaya-Gomez, is a 22-year ovarian cancer survivor and a very encouraging person. She had some back pain, so she decided to go to the doctor. The doctor sent her for an ultrasound. Dolores was asked how she found her issue. The question was surprising because she didn’t know what she had yet.

Dolores Anaya-Gomez and me

She had surgery where they found that she had ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is a silent killer because it usually isn’t caught early. Dolores found that her back ache was bothering her enough to get checked. During her hysterectomy they found the ovarian cancer. Being so many years ago it was great that her doctor was careful enough to check the ovaries for cancer.

Dolores became involved in Relay about 3 years after her cancer diagnosis. She was invited by a friend to attend a Relay as a survivor. The next year another friend asked her to join a team (Mayor Delgato’s wife was the team captain) and she helped sell bags and raise money doing as much as she could to help the team. The following year she started a team of her own.

Dolores felt being a part of Relay was extremely important so she could help as many people as possible. Every year she helped a little bit more. At one point she was part of 8 teams; teams from her church, her grandchildren started the first kids team, she had a team with people from her class reunion, etc.

Dolores served as event chair for several years as well. She mentioned that Relay has changed since she first started participating, with events such as Making Strides Against Breast Cancer for example. This year’s Relay is back to a 24-hour event, which is longer than the last few years.

Dolores has a passion for helping others and raising money. She said she appreciates the fact that her employer matches what she raises most of the time.

Dolores says don’t ignore your body, go ahead and go get that exam. She knows it’s scary but there are many cancers that can be detected early, so listen to your body and pay attention, get any issues checked out. Most of all don’t give up! Keep searching, keep helping and have a good life.

Grace Vigil, is a breast cancer survivor of 17 years. Being in the medical field she knew the importance of breast exams.

She noticed a little dimpling in her breast but brushed it off. It wasn’t long before she went for her routine mammogram and they saw something that they wanted to check. Nothing could be felt in the breast, so they sent her for a needle biopsy which showed that she did have cancer.

Grace Vigil and me

At the time her daughter was turning 21 and the family had a trip to Vegas planned for the following month after the cancer detection.

When they got back from their celebration Grace had her surgery scheduled. She had a partial mastectomy with lymph node removal. Four of the lymph nodes were cancerous. Grace had been on the medical side of these types of diagnosis so as the patient it was a bit shocking. She had not anticipated the lymph nodes to be involved at all.

There is no breast cancer in Grace’s family, but her sister did pass away at 37 from gall bladder cancer. Her brother had lymphoma 14 years ago and her other brother was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. Heart and diabetes issues ran in the family until cancer popped its ugly head as well.

Grace worked for the surgeon who did her surgery. Then she went to the oncologist who happened to be her primary doctor before he became an oncologist. What a small world!

It was decided that Grace would need 6 weeks of chemotherapy. She said it felt like a long time. She got very sick during her treatments. At one point she needed an antibiotic because she had gotten so sick. The medication wasn’t cover by insurance, so she had to pay over $100 for less than a weeks’ worth of medication. She worked the whole time, answering phones during time dealing with cancer.

After getting through chemo Grace had radiation. Again, a small world because the radiologist was someone she knew. She didn’t have a lot of issues with this part of her treatment. Grace said she had a little sunburn, but they gave her cream that took care of the issue.

She found her diet was interesting because there were only certain things she felt she could eat. She drank lemonade from the health food store, Gatorade, and she ate Natillas (an Indian pudding) and mashed potatoes.

Grace said she can say she is truly blessed. She had a lot of support from her family and her church along with coworkers. In fact one of her coworkers shaved Grace’s head for her when she started losing her hair. This is a much more difficult, yet supportive act than some might understand.

As a nurse she finds that now when she relates to patients it is in an entirely different way. She has always had compassion for her patients but now she has an amazing amount of encouragement she shares as a survivor. She will tell her patients, I’ve had breast cancer too. I have survived and so will you.

She has many patients that have touched her through the years. There was one that is still a survivor even though she never had surgery or treatments. She followed holistic type of medicine and is still doing well today.

Grace said she is faithful about getting her mammograms now. Since her original diagnosis she had a walnut size lump in her left breast that was removed and was benign. She took tamoxifen for 4 years and another medication for one additional year. She is doing well with negative issues now.

She says 17 years survivor and working for 47 years in the field she has seen a lot. The one thing she wants people to know is that getting checkups is a safe thing to do. It is something that is within your control.

Cheryl Archuleta is a breast cancer survivor. Her journey started in 2007 when she had a mammogram. The doctor said there was something in the mammogram but said they would just watch it.

Cheryl and Joe Archuleta

One year later Cheryl went back for her mammogram and the spot was still there. The doctor set up a biopsy, which did come back with a cancer diagnosis. Cheryl then went to see a surgeon that performed a lumpectomy and they did MammoSite Radiation. This is where they cut the side of the breast and insert a balloon that has a radioactive liquid used to kill cancer cells. Cheryl then went to her oncologist to confirm the that everything was good for the next step. She then had 3 wires on the outside of the breast. This is where they would hook her up to have the radiation administered. Cheryl had 10 treatments, 13 minutes in the morning and 13 minutes in the afternoon for 5 days.

Cheryl felt very lucky because the cancer was extremely small and caught very early. She said she was barely considered stage 1.

There was a lot going on at the time that Cheryl was diagnosed, this was not her first encounter with cancer. Her husband, Joe, had prostate cancer and her mom had struggled with colon cancer. Cheryl knew cancer from both sides, as a caregiver and a survivor. Her mom lost her battle 13 years ago. Her husband had his prostate removed and he is now cancer free.

Cheryl had a scare in 2017, when the doctor thought he saw something. She had another biopsy, but thankfully it was not cancer.

Cheryl shared more about her mother’s battle with colon cancer. Originally when she was diagnosed the doctors said they got it all. Cheryl’s brother was in Las Vegas, so he wasn’t able to help with their mom during her diagnosis and surgery. However, once the doctors said they removed all the cancer, their mom moved to Vegas with Cheryl’s brother. About a year after her original diagnosis, their mom was in a lot of pain. The cancer had come back. Now, locally the doctor wouldn’t do radiation or chemo on Cheryl’s mom because she was in her mid 80’s but when the cancer came back while she was in Las Vegas, the doctors there were willing to be more aggressive in their treatments. Cheryl’s 85-year-old mother went through both. Cheryl was still working full time but managed to go monthly to see her mom during her treatments, from January through June, when her mom passed away. Her mom had several side effects from the treatments. It was tough watching her mom suffer and she understood the doctors concern with how the treatments would affect her mom.

Cheryl said cancer is a terrible disease and it is hard no matter what side of it you are on. She and her husband are both healthy now. With the support of family and friends they continue to appreciate life after cancer.

The Santa Fe event was very welcoming, encouraging and heartwarming. I was able to share my journey with the people who attended the event and they welcomed my husband and I with open arms. Not only that but they have a heart for each other as well as for raising money to destroy this dreadful disease.

A little rain can’t stop this Relay from happening in Santa Fe.

Supportive cancer survivors, walking in the survivor’s lap!

Such grace and beauty in the dancing. The stories told through dance was wonderful.

Even though it was sprinkling the smiles and peace that was felt from the music and movements was incredible.

My husband and I were so happy to have attended another wonderful event. The people and their stories were another example of encouragement, strength and perseverance in the face of difficult circumstances at times. The people I was able to talk to at this event had a great deal of longevity since their cancer diagnosis. I am always encouraged when I talk to survivors of 22, 17, 11 or even a few years. Or a 3-time survivor who is going strong. It shows that often cancer is treatable and beatable as we wait to find a cure!

Firestone, Colorado – July 15, 2018

Colorado, a mile high and hearts a mile wide! The people I met were kind and strong and resilient. It was such a hot day when we attended the Relay and yet I think I was the only one that look like I was going to melt. There was even someone dressed up as the Chick-fil-A mascot. No one complained, they ran the event with love and determination to raise money and support one another.

Chick-fil-A standing in the shade!

The starting line or finish line, cancer needs to be eradicated!

Sherri Everett was the guest speaker at the Carbon Valley event, she is a teacher, and an absolutely amazing women.

During her speech she told a story about Mr. Rogers and how he talked about how his mother helped him feel safe when he was afraid by saying “always look for the helpers in this world”. She tried to keep his story about helpers in her mind as she faced the scariest events of her life, cancer. She explained that she met a gentleman this past year that had gone through some of the same surgeries she had; removal of part of her stomach and intestines. Sherri said “you don’t realize how important that plumbing is until you no longer have it”.

Her sense of humor showed as she talked about this gentleman that had a stool transplant (he had a stool transplant from his wife to replace the good bacteria that was missing because of his surgeries). Yup, she said he had tons of jokes and an attitude that just made you laugh. He said things like “have you met my wife? She’s my number 2 girl.” Or “I used to think my wife gave me a lot of crap but now I know she does”.

Sherri said that she also had helpers at the infusion center provided by the nurses who asked how she was feeling, how her family was, and provided expert care.

Lastly she talked about her two co-workers, helpers that were the light in a very dark tunnel. They never gave up on Sherri. The came to see her (even if they got lost), sent text, and kept her spirits up even when she thought she’d rather be left alone. Her “blond comedy team” never stopped encouraging her and loving on her. She said they kept her from falling into the depths of despair.

Sherri said that we need to make sure we don’t ignore or push away the helpers. She said look for the helpers in your life. Give them the opportunity to be there for you.

Sherri explained more of her “depths of hell” story when I sat with her and her husband Jim. Sherri is a teacher. Her story started 4 years ago when she was diagnosed with breast cancer on the first day of summer vacation. She opted for a double mastectomy and had planned reconstruction. She now believes that reconstruction isn’t necessarily the way to go. She was 9 weeks out and after all the infections and issues she had, they had to pull the idea of reconstruction. She is still very angry about the reconstruction issues to this day, especially her concern that girls may believe that without breasts you aren’t feminine or beautiful.

Sherri had chemo that ultimately caused her loss of hair and the results are that her hair is the way it is now…not much chance of it growing more than where it is now (I think she is beautiful and I know her husband does too).

Sherri and Jim Everett

She had a lot of issues such as lymphedema and infections, so she was glad when that portion of her cancer journey seemed to be over.

Fast forward to last summer. Sherri’s belly seemed to be getting thicker and she chalked it up to weight gain, however her doctor wanted blood work to be certain. Sherri’s doctor wanted her to get a physical to make sure everything was ok. First Sherri’s liver enzymes were up. With each test her doctor said it was probably diet and exercise changes that were needed but she wanted another test, then another. Almost 3 years to the day the doctor called Jim and said she wanted both of them to come into the office.

The results were that Sherri had tumors all throughout her peritoneum (the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity). They decide to do a laparoscopy, fearing that Sherri had ovarian cancer. The oncologist came out and told Jim that Sherri had a year to live, as long as she had surgery. Jim said the doctor was crying at that point.

They found that Sherri had appendix cancer (her appendix were encased in a tumor) that secretes this gelatinous matter. Sherri didn’t really realize that she had issues but looking back she can see that she wasn’t feeling well but chalked it up to chemo, etc. She was winded or felt worn out whenever she tried going for walks or did too much in a day.

Her surgeon sent her to a team at CU Anschutz Medical Campus where, last May they had recruited a new surgeon from Pittsburg who performed the particular surgery she needed.

She said it is really hard not to google what is going with your type of cancer but for her, she found that she didn’t want to know about what the statistics say. Her journey is her journey and her statistic is her statistic. She doesn’t want to be compared to someone else because she isn’t them! Sherri said that she read a book called “Anticancer” that she really liked because the doctor who was diagnosed with a brain tumor said he wanted to be on the right side of the graph. We all do!

Sherri said they decided to do the surgery on September 15th. It is a very extensive surgery that takes a team of doctors approximately 14 hours to basically shopvac the gelatinous cancer out. However Sherri ended up with a fever labor day that ended up taking her to the hospital. It was discovered that Sherri was septic! It took so much planning for the type of surgery that Sherri needed, so she focused on getting as healthy as she could so the surgery could be performed as scheduled!

On September 15th they wheeled Sherri into surgery. She says she was calm. She felt that no matter the outcome it would be fine. She said if something happened she’d be asleep and if all went well she’d start the healing process.

Jim took over the explanations from here since Sherri was completely out of it. Since their day started at 7:30 a.m. Jim knew the day was going to be long. He saw the doctor at 9:30 that night. He also saw the residents as they wheeled Sherri down the hall. Jim says the surgeon looked pretty good but the residents looked wiped out. Part of what Sherri had during this special surgery was “hot chemo”. The procedure is called HIPEC or hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy and is performed with cytoreductive surgery (although Sherri calls it MOAS = Mother of all surgeries). They put chemo that was 109 degrees into Sherri’s abdomen and then had to rock her back and forth for an hour and a half to get the chemo into every nook and cranny. Sherri and Jim also said there are only about 1,000 cases of peritoneal cancer per year.  

The doctor that performed Sherri’s surgery has done 500 of them. Originally Sherri and Jim were going to go to MD Anderson in Houston, but the hurricane stopped that travel idea. However after meeting her surgeon they knew that staying and having him perform the surgery made the most sense. They trusted him and his skill set, especially once they find out that MD Anderson was sending him their worst cases when he was in Pittsburgh.

Jim spent the whole month that Sherri was in the hospital in their camper in the parking lot. Jim would get up in the morning to make the 5:30 a.m. rounds, spending as much time as possible by her side.

Their sense of humor is amazing. They told a story about the day after surgery when one of the residents was telling Sherri their goals of the day. This was 24 hours after surgery and Sherri was still on a respirator. Jim was anxious when they said they planned to get her up to walk but Sherri responded to his concern with a very special “finger gesture” that makes them both laugh now. Sherri was strong and Jim could see she was in the fight with all her strength (and humor).

Sherri mentioned that Jim looked as bad as she did during those months. Often we forget that the family members struggle as they watch their loved ones fight this disease. They feel helpless and frustrated and angry and scared! They try not to show it and to keep the survivor on the path to recovery as best they can.

Sherri and Jim talk about the pain management team and all that the nurses, residents, and doctors did to help her recover. It’s hard to believe listening to Sheri that she had only been recovering for about 10 months after such a massive surgery. She had an ileostomy so she had trouble getting nutrients. That was reversed December 1st, 2017. They removed 30 pounds of organs and she has lost a total of 70 pounds as of July 14. Because part of her stomach has been removed it is like a weight loss surgery. Sherri only eats a ¼ cup of food at a time, several times a day.

Sherri had to receive 6 months of chemo. It is the same chemo that is used for colon cancer. She would receive the chemo though a port for 46 hours every 2 weeks. When I met her she had finished her last chemo 3 weeks prior to the Relay!

I missed meeting Sherri and Jim’s three children (Jake, Scott???, and Grace). Their eyes light up as they talk about how wonderful their kids are. The boys were away at college and Grace was home when she went through her first bout with cancer. This time Grace is away at college and the boys are home. They’d rather their kids didn’t have to deal with cancer at all!

Grace was just about to start her senior year when Sherri was diagnosed breast cancer. She shaved her head (she had long hair at the time) when her mom and Dad shaved their hair off. When Grace started applying for college the essay on the common application was “name a time when you transitioned from childhood to adulthood” so Grace wrote about how she applied to colleges by herself because her parents were going through so much dealing with Sherri’s cancer. She told her parents that they could read her paper but they couldn’t edit it.

Sherri and Jim give me hope for the end to cancer. Their fight against this disease and for their life together is inspiring. Sherri mentioned that the doctor said that at her scan in July she had no significant changes so the cancer was at a standstill. The doctor told her to go home and live her life for the next 3 months when they would scan her again (in October).

Sherri said because cancer is something that invades your body it also can invade your mind. She wakes up in the morning and thinks…. “is today the day? I feel pretty good, so I don’t think so.” She then tries her absolute best to leave that thought alone and plan her day of living. Everyone who has faced cancer can let that fear creep in but Sherri has an amazing attitude. Jim and Sherri show what a family unit of strength, power, humor, and love looks like. Her appreciation of her family and friends is apparent as she lives her life to the fullest every day, as we wait for the cure to this terrible disease. Not only does she look for the helpers in this world, she IS one of the helpers in this world.

Another wonderful woman I met was Heather Sewczak, a 19-year melanoma survivor. Heather said that her cancer was detected when she was only 22 years old. It was the summer she got married and she said that she wore her scar as a badge of honor not for herself but to bring awareness to others that skin cancer is detectable, treatable, but also deadly if ignored. Because of her annual physical her doctor found her original cancer. Because it was on her shoulder she did not see that there was a questionable area on her skin that needed to be checked.

Me and Heather Sewczak

Heather continues to remind people that because the doctor recognized that something on her skin wasn’t right she was sent to a dermatologist that diagnosed and treated her melanoma, something that is often missed. She and her family are checked annually, and she reminds her family members, coworkers and friends to do the same. She says she is that obnoxious friend on Facebook that reminds people to get their examinations. Getting these checks, she believes have kept people healthy and safe.

Last year it was discovered that she had basal cell carcinoma, another type of skin cancer. As she said she is “resetting her clock” when it comes to cancer.

Melanoma diagnosis continue to rise each year. It is the most common skin cancer. There are many facts that people are not aware of so please do not take this type of cancer lightly.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/melanoma-skin-cancer/about/key-statistics.html

Barb Bolander was diagnosed in July, 1998 with stage 2B breast cancer. Barb found her cancer herself. She made an appointment with her doctor he sent her for a mammogram, then a biopsy, and then surgery.

Barb Bolander in her “Disney Friends” ears, walking as a survivor but also a friend whose last name was Disney.

Barb had a lumpectomy but because the margins were not clear she ended up having a mastectomy. She chose not to have reconstruction surgery. She also had 8 chemotherapy treatments and 27 radiation treatments. Barb mentions that 20 years ago the treatments were so different from today (and it’s hard to remember 20 years ago), but progress is wonderful!

Barb believes that she has many gifts and angels in her life so as a way to give back she hosts/coordinates a support group in Longmont, Colorado.

The support group in Longmont has actually been going since the 70’s. Barb has been facilitating for about 15 years. She said it is a group that contacts through email, calls, etc. There are approximately 40 people on their list but 6-15 usually attend the monthly meetings. They have speakers that come talk to the group, such as oncologists, that share their knowledge and answer questions for the attendees.

She is also part of a movement on the ground stages called Roberta’s Legacy (http://robertaslegacy.org/contact/) which she was asked to participate in as a board member, but had to resign. She said she will continue to be part of this group as much as time allows.

Barb finds that giving back helps her to continue to appreciate the life she has been blessed with, especially after cancer. She said she wondered how she could celebrate 20 years cancer free and felt that being a part of this wonderful group was an impactful way to rejoice.

Barb’s husband, family and friends were a phenomenal support for her. She said she received a card almost every single day during her 6 months of treatments from her brother and sister-in-law, and many of her friends. Barb laughs when she says she doesn’t know where they got that many cards but she kept them on the table by her chair so she could look at them whenever she was having a down day. Barb said that those reminders of love, in card form, were what kept her spirits high and her focus on getting better.

Barb says that being in remission for 20 years is an amazing blessing. She Relays for a friend of hers who was diagnosed with a reoccurrence of breast cancer when Barb was diagnosed. Sadly her friend lost her battle. She was a coworker (they were both elementary school teachers) and dear friend. She walks on a team called Disney Friends because her friends last name was Disney.

Janie Hug is a two-time cancer survivor. During a routine exam the doctor found something that she felt warranted an ultrasound. It was found that Janie had kidney cancer, so she underwent surgery. The cancer was completely contained within the kidney so after the kidney was removed no other treatments were needed.

Me and Janie Hug

Janie went in for a scan and a checkup every year. At her 5-year mark she had her scan and was called back to the doctors because they saw something in the lower lobe of her left lung. Because they were actually looking at her kidney the radiologist couldn’t see the questionable area on her lung very well. How wonderful that the radiologist looked so thoroughly at the scan, otherwise the second cancer might have been missed. She had another scan focusing on the lung area, which they could see the cancer.

Janie went to a surgeon to see what was needed but she didn’t like the first one. She called her primary doctor and asked for the name of another surgeon. She met the second surgeon and she really liked him.

The first surgeon wanted to do a much more radical surgery which Janie didn’t agree with. The second surgeon agreed with Janie, saying that since they couldn’t see cancer in specific areas they shouldn’t just be radically removed unnecessarily.

Janie had 4 rounds of chemotherapy. It was suggested that she also have radiation to the brain since lung cancer can affect that area of the body. At first Janie said no but after thinking about it she did agree. She had 10 radiation treatments for prophylactic purposes. Because she spoke with the radiologist for the treatments she felt the decision to have a lower dose of radiation as a preventative measure was much better than having higher doses if there was an occurrence of cancer.

Even though she knew it was a possibility Janie was sad to lose her hair again. Once she was done with her treatments though she was happy to move on with her life again! She went and visited her kids, met her friends in Reno to celebrate her 70th birthday, and this year she’s going to meet her friends in Las Vegas.

Janie loves Relay! She has been on both sides of cancer. Her last caregiving experience was in 2014 when her sister had small cell carcinoma in both lungs. The doctors missed the cancer, stating that the issue was COPD. Janie’s sister was never scanned to see if there was anything else going on, she only had x-rays which will not catch some types of cancer. Janie said her sisters’ last 6 months was very difficult. It was very hard to watch her sister suffer.

Janie has known many people that have had cancer. In fact she lost 3 neighbors in the last 2 years; ages 57, 69, and 74. The neighbor next to her has also had 2 bouts with cancer and chemotherapy.

Janie does what she can to help raise money for the end to cancer, and to raise hope for others. Her last name is very fitting, she is like a loving HUG.

I met two very special women involved with Firestone’s Carbon Valley Relay For Life event who work for American Cancer Society, although I bet if you ask them they will say it is much more than a job. At least that is how it felt to me.

Amanda Seier, Senior Manager, Community Development at American Cancer Society became interested in the fight against cancer about 15 years ago when she was working at a YMCA camp in Michigan. She was motivated by the children she worked with at the World Oncology Camp, that was in partnership with American Cancer Society, bringing children from 13 different countries to camp during their cancer journey so they could “just be a kid”. Amanda said these children were amazing and touched her deeply.

Me and Amanda Seier, Senior Manager, Community Development at American Cancer Society

Amanda said that when she moved to Colorado in 2003 she wanted to continue to support ACS so she became a volunteer on the planning committee and a team captain for the Weld County Relay For Life event in Greeley, Colorado.

She moved to Denver in 2011 and started working for ACS full time. She says “Now my motivation is thanks to the dozens of survivors and those who have passed from cancer that I have had the distinct pleasure of meeting throughout my journey with ACS.”

Caleb and Amanda, one is drawing a picture and the other is signing the Relay for Life Shirts

As a mom I also understand when Amanda said she also wants her son, Caleb, “to grow up in a world with less cancer”. She is working to help that happen!

The other person I had the privilege to meet was Marissa Jones, Community Development Manager for the Carbon Valley Relay For Life event, as well as Relays throughout the Denver area.

At the time this event was held Marissa had only been with ACS as a staff partner for 10 months, but she explained that her connection to the mission of ACS has been much longer.

Me and Marissa Jones, Community Development Manager

Her relationship with Relay For Life began her freshman year in high school when it was first introduced to her school. That same year her mother was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. 

She and her family went through a very difficult time as Marissa’s mom lost her cancer battle the following year. Marissa said that “Relay for Life gave my family a place to turn to find hope and a community in the midst of a very difficult time for us”. She and her family continued to participate in Relay for years in memory of this important and loved woman. She also said that “Relay For Life has and always will be very near and dear to my heart”.

She loves her job because, as staff partner, she gets to experience the joy of participating in all different types of Relays all over the Denver area. The passion and commitment that Marissa feels is explained when she says “I continue to see and hear so many wonderful stories of hope from individuals on all different types of cancer journeys.  Relay helped me when all felt lost and I now use that as my motivation to do all I can to help even one person who may be going through the same type of experience I did”.

Both Marissa’s and Amanda’s drive and hope for a world with less cancer comes from their life experiences and hope for a world that will someday be cancer free.

Every person my husband and I met at Firestone’s Carbon Valley Relay had that same desire. Either as a survivor, caregiver or having been on both sides of cancer, each person wants others to know that there is life after cancer. Even if a family member or friend has lost their battle with this terrible disease, there memory and the love that others feel for them continues, which mean they live on. Cancer can take a lot of things away but it can’t touch the memory and love we have for one another.

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There are masculine deities and feminine deities. Are there any deities who represent the in between, or genderless deities?

I actually have a document from a class that was all about this. The Instructor gave me permission to post it on here for you. Her name is Darlene Wagner and she’s a huge activist for LGBTQ+ rights. These notes probably have what you’re looking for and much more!

The Spirituality andCultural Diversity of Transgender Persons

An individual with inborn traits, appearance, or social roledifferent from the traditional definitions of gender within his/her society istermed “Gender Non-Conforming”.  Different societies around the world andthroughout human history have had different names for gender non-conformingpeople, while in Western societies, transgender has become thepreferred term.  Many traditionalcultures attribute religious or spiritual meaning to gender non-conformity.  In some traditional, non-Western cultures,lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are grouped with gendernon-conforming individuals.  Bycomparison, Western society considers LGB persons as   separate from transgender.  Western society also seeks to exclude LGB,transgender, and other gender non-conforming people from religious andspiritual life.  Here, I seek to empowertransgender, intersex, and LGB people with a sense that the Divine encompassestheir gender non-conformityand sexuality.  

 I. Terminology of Gender Non-Conformity

- Modern Western

 Transgender is the mostwidely accepted term in developed countries for gender non-conforming personswho self-identify as gender role distinct from biological sex.  Transgender is considered an umbrella termencompassing individuals who permanently change their gender, individuals wholive as the opposite sex without permanent physical change, individuals bornwith ambiguous sexual anatomy, or individuals who self-identify as neither malenor female.  Sexual orientation oftransgender individuals can be gay, lesbian, heterosexual, bisexual, pansexual,or asexual.

Cisgender is used to refer tonon-transgender people.  Anon-transgender person performs gender roles or have a gender identity thatconforms to expectations of his or her society. Cisgender remains a controversial term since it tends to dismiss gendernon-conformity among non-transgender people, such as gay men and lesbian women.

Male-to-Female Transgender- Transwoman - MtF.  Born anatomically male but identifies asfemale or feels “inwardly” female. During transition or change to living full-time as female, maytake estrogen as pills or injection. Sometimes have “bottom surgery” or sex-reassignment surgery.  Not all transwomen living full-time as womentake estrogen or seek bottom surgery.

Female-to-Male Transgender- Transman - FtM. Born anatomically female butidentifies as male or feels “inwardly” male. During transitionor change to living full-time as male, may take testosterone injections.  Sometimes have “top surgery” or breastremoval.  Not all transmen livingfull-time as men take testosterone or care to have top surgery.

Intersex Individuals born withgenital configuration, endocrine function, or genetic characteristics givingbiological characteristics of both sexes or indeterminate sex.  Not all intersex people identify as part oftransgender community.

Genderqueer is a broadcategorical term for individuals not strictly to identify as male norfemale.  Sometimes prefer to be called bynon-gendered pronouns such as they or ze.  Genderqueer may include agenderor non-binary persons who identify as no gender.  Genderqueer may also include bigenderor genderfluid individuals who are comfortable presenting as either/bothmale and female. Not all genderqueer people identify as part of transgendercommunity.

Transvestite is widelyconsidered a derogatory term in Transgender community.  Cross-dresser is a more acceptable term, butsome biologically male individuals who dress as women prefer terms such asgender queer or gender fluid.

Tranny , Shemale,and He-she are very derogatory — often used in hate-speech bynon-LGBT persons and is too often inappropriately used as a term of endearmentby LGB persons.

Hermaphrodite is alsowidely considered a derogatory term in Transgender community.  Hermaphrodite is occasionally used inacademic or medical contexts to to refer specifically to intersex individualsborn with both male and female anatomical characteristics.

Transsexual is acceptable,but is becoming less commonly used. Typically only transwomen and transmen who permanently change theirbodies and societal roles are inclined to self-describe themselves as ‘Transsexual’.  Some individuals in the transgender communityonly use transsexual to self-identify with respect to surgical change, as inpre-operative or post-operative.  Somepostoperative transsexuals do not identify as part of the transgendercommunity.

- Historical Western World

 Eunuch - An individualborn male but having testes removed (partial castration) or both penis andtestes removed (full castration).  Giventhe association between castration and slavery in Byzantine and OttomanEmpires, it is not surprising that the term eunuch, is not favored inthe modern world.

Castrato - In renaissanceItaly, opera singers having testes removed before puberty to maintain sopranoor alto singing voice  - usually dressedand presented as male, so not necessarily transgender or gender-non-conforming

Gallus or Gala- Cross-dressed and/or castrated males transformed into priestesses to variousGoddesses in the Roman Empire.  Galliserving Cybele, the Great Mother and Protector of Rome, have the most writtenaccounts surviving from the ancient world. The Galli were systematically exterminated during the 5th Century ADafter Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Note that there are no historical termsknown to the present day for female-to-male gender non-conforming individuals

- Traditional Societies and non-Western World

Indigenous cultures of Asia andOceana -

Māhū - Hawaiian third gender

Fakaleiti - Tongan third gender

Fa’afafine - Samoan - sometimesyounger sons raised to perform female household tasks when a family does nothave daughters

Katoey -  “second-type female” of Thailand

Mak Nyah - trans femalesand cross-dressed males of Malaysia

Pak Nyah - trans males ofMalaysia

Takatāpui - literallymeans “intimate partner of the same sex”. Maori LGBT individuals often prefer this term.

Waria - traditional third genderrole found in modern Indonesia

Mukhannathun - Arabian peninsula- function socially and sexually as women - do not fit neatly into western gaymale nor trans-female categories

Indigeneous cultures of Africa andthe Americas -

for Aboriginal people, sexualorientation or gender identity is secondary to ethnic/tribal identity. SomeNative American Tribes recognize four genders: feminine woman, masculine woman,feminine man, masculine man.

Astime - Third sex individuals inMaale culture of southern Ethiopia

Mashoga - Third sex individualsof Swahili Coastal Kenya

Mangaiko - Third sex individualsof the Mbo people from Congo

Two-spirit - is a pan-Indian termchosen to express the Native/First Nations’ distinct approach to genderidentity and non-conformity.  AmongNative American communities, ’Two-spirit’ replaces the imposed non-Native termsof berdache, gay, lesbian, and transgender. Most Indigenous communities have specific terms in their own languagesfor the gender-non-conforming persons and the social and spiritual roles theseindividuals fulfill within their communities.

Winkte - historical Lakota culture - male-bodied people who adopt theclothing, work, and mannerisms that Lakota culture usually consider feminine.In contemporary Lakota culture, the term is more commonly associated with gaysexual orientation.

Nádleeh - intraditional Navajo culture, are male-bodied individuals described by those intheir communities as “effeminate male,” or as “half woman, halfman”

Ikwekanaazo - Ojibwe Men who chose tofunction as women

Ininiikaazo - Ojibwe Women whofunction as men

Travesti - In Brazil - any personwho is biologically male who has a feminine, transfeminine, or femme gender identity

Muxe - Zapotec Indians of Mexico- assigned male at birth individual who dresses and behaves in ways otherwiseassociated with the female gender; they may be seen as a third gender - “Vestidas” (fully cross-dressed)” and“Pintadas”(makeup but wearingmen’s clothes)”

II. Gender Non-conformity, Mythology, and Religion in the Ancient World

- Deities as Matrons/Patrons ofGender-Nonconforming Persons:

 Inanna- As the Sumerian Goddess of Love and Sexuality, she presided over maleprostitutes and cross-gender prostitutes as well as female prostitutes.  Her Assyrian/Babylonianequivalent, Ishtar, was also matron of male, cross-gender, andfemale prostitutes.

 Cybeleor Kubala - Great Mother Goddess of Phrygia and Hittite Empire (central Turkey)associated with livestock fertility. Both the historical and mythological King Midas claimed to beson of Cybele.  By 600 BCE, she wasworshipped in Greece but usually merged with Rhea, Motherof Zeus and his siblings.  In 202 BCE,her icons and priestesses were brought directly from Phrygia to Rome.  To the Romans, she wasGreat Mother and Protectress of Cities. She is often shown seated on a throneflanked by lions or seated in a chariot drawn by lions.

Attis- Phrygian deity of vegetation and shepherd lover of Cybele.  Originally    served Cybele assubordinate Grain-God consort.  Attislater transformed to     female, making Cybeleand Attis the only lesbian couple in the Greco-Roman   pantheon.

Adonis- Lover of Aphrodite who is killed by a boar and is “reborn” as the          anemoneflower.  Like Attis, Adonis servesAphrodite in a subordinate, consort role. Adonis assumedfemale appearance to serve Apollo for a time. A few       accounts suggest Adoniswas served by cross-gender or eunuch priestesses.

Hera- Wife of Zeus in mythological accounts. However, remains of extensive   temples and ceremonialsites suggest she was the dominant Deity around the    AegeanSea prior to the ascendance of Zeus as Sky God.

Atargatis- Syrian Water Goddess who was sometimes called “Syrian Hera”

- Deities Exhibiting Gender-CrossingAbilities or Gender non-Conformity:

 Galaturraand Kurgarra - Eunuch-Spirits created by the Sumerian Sea-God Enki torescue Inanna from the underworld.

Asu-Shu-Namir- Eunuch created by Ea (Assyrian) to rescue Ishtar.

 Athena- In the Odyssey, she transforms herself into the likeness of King Mentes  tomeet with Odysseus’ son Telemachus.  AsGoddess of defensive warfare, it is reasonable that Athenawould show female-to-male gender fluidity.

  Attis- dies from self-castration and is resurrected by Cybele and/or Zeus to live infemale form.  His/Her resurrection wascelebrated every spring in ancient Rome and involved theritual castration of Galli priestesses devoted to Cybele. Attis is the onlyWestern Deity appearing as a true, male-to-female transsexual.

 Agdistis- an intersexed being born of Gaia and Zeus. Agdistis had both male    and female sex organs aswell as a strong libido.  The OlympianGods feared this hypersexual, two-sexed creature and castrated hir.  After removal of the male organs, Agdistis became Cybele, the Great Mother andMatron of the eunuchs and intersexed.  Alternate variations of the story haveAgdistis as the intersex  child of Cybele. After castration,Agdistis’ severed male organs become the gender-changing Deity of vegetation,Attis.

 Hermaphroditus- son of Aphrodite and Hermes. Hermaphroditus and the         nymph, Salmacis, made love sopassionately that they permanently fused into a singlebody having both male and female anatomy.

Dionysis- raised as a girl during childhood and was often portrayed in feminine attirewhen presiding over his bacchanalia

Hercules- Following his labors, Hercules spends three years in service to       Omphale,Queen of Lydia.  He dresses in femaleattire and learns to spin and   weave. Eunuch or cross-dressedpriests could be found in the service of           Hercules at his temple atAntimachia.

Thor- Convinced by Loki to dress up in a bridal gown and veil to sneak into       Jotunheimto retrieve his hammer, Mjolnir.  UnlikeHercules, who seems to have enjoyed exploring hisfeminine side, Thor was quite unhappy dressed as a bride.

Loki- dresses as Thor’s bridesmaid when retreiving Mjolnir from Jotunheim.    Later, after the deathof Balder, Loki shape shifts to the form of an old woman in Hel.  Loki appears to be quite gender-fluid and/orgenderqueer.

- Humans exhibiting gendernon-conformity and gender-crossing

 Tiresias - Strikes a pair ofcopulating snakes with his staff.  Herais displeased  and transforms him into awoman.  While in female form, s/he servesas a        priestess in Hera’s temple.  After seven years, s/he sees another pair of            copulating snakes, leaves themalone, and is returned to male form.

Gallaturraor Galli  - singular Gala-  Eunuch or non-castrated cross-gender       priestessesserving Inanna or Her equivalents, Istar and Ashterah.  Galli are     referred to as “templeprostitutes” or “eunuchs” in modern English translations of theOld Testament.  The King James Versiontranslates Galli as “sodomites”

Gallior Third Sex - singular Gallus - Eunuchs living as women inthroughout the Roman Empire in service to Cybele or on theisland of Samos                    in service to Hera.Renowned as musicians and for their skills in divination.  

Megabyzoi- Eunuch priests of Artemis at Her great temple at Ephesus

 Bycomparison, female-born priestesses of Greco-Roman Goddesses were      called‘Melissae’, singular Melissa

III. Gender Variance and Spiritual Communities in theModern World

Hinduism - Strongest enduringGoddess-Faith traditions.  India’sGoddess traditions confer a connection between male-to-female gender crossingand spirituality.

- Gender-crossing Deities and MatronDeities of Gender Non-conforming people:

The three principal male Deities, Brahma,Vishnu, and Siva, are temporarily transformed to female form toenter into the presence of the Great Goddess, Devi Bhagavati.

 Krishna- in the Mahabharata, assumes the form of a beautiful woman, Mohini, to givethe hero, Aravan, a chance to marry and consummate on the final night of hislife.

 BahucharaMata - Current mythical accounts tell of Bahuchara’s marriage to a  prince.  Rather than consumate the marriage, theprince spends the night outside the house in the forest dressed as awoman.  Bahuchara gives him rebirth throughemasculation.  Bahuchara is served by acaste of cross-gender eunuch priestesses called Hijras.

 Yellama- A local Goddess in Karnataka in southern India.  She is served by      cross-dressedmales, Jogappas, honored as a special caste of sacred female  men.

  Ardharnarisvarna- A Divine Androgyne with a female left side of the body and   maleright side.  Combines the Divine FeminineEnergy (Shakti) with the God,   Shiva.  Often worshipped by practitioners of TantricHinduism.

- Gender-crossing human

 Arjuna- hero of the Hindu epic, Mahabharata. Arjuna was temporarily               transformed to a eunuchfor one year by Urvashi, daughter of the Thunder God, Indra.

 Hijras- castrated “post-operative” male-to-female priestesses of the Great        Goddessor Bahuchara Mata.  Undergo ritualcastration in the presence of icons of Bahucahra Mata.  After castration, Hijra initiates undergo aperiod of secluded meditation to reflectupon rebirth and to take in the Spirit of the Goddess.

Jogappas- In the state of Karataka, boys who grow up with many feminine       qualitiesare considered to be chosen for service to a local Goddess, Yellama.   Jogappas, or sacred femalemen, do not undergo castration nor any other       physical sex-change, butlive, work, and dress full-time as women. For a boy to refuse Yellama’s call isbelieved to be harmful.

African Diaspora - Deities andspirits of Diaspora religions such as Santería and Voodoo accept and protecttransgender and LGB practitioners.  ManyAfrican Diaspora Deities themselves exhibit gender non-conformity and same-sexintimacy.

- Gender-crossing Deities in Voudou:

 Mawu-Lisa- bigender or transgender creator Deity or Iwa,

 AyidaWédo - a bigender deity,  Bringer ofProsperity and symbolized by a        rainbow serpent.

 Danbala- the androgynous spouse of Ayida Wédo, also appearing as a rainbow serpent.   During channeling rituals, Danbala prefersto possess gay men.

 EziliFreda - the Iwa of love, sensuality, and art.  Matron of femme gay males.  Sometimes appears in aform similar to Our Lady of the Sorrows.

 EziliLayrénn or La Sírene - the Iwa of maternal love andbisexuality.  Takes the formof a mermaid and has as consort a masculine female Iwa, Labalén.

 Labelén- Iwa of the deep sea and consort of Li Sírene.  Labalén tends to posses lesbianpractitioners during channeling rituals.

 EziliDantó - A “Black Madonna”, defender of the poor, and matron of lesbian    practitioners.

 BaronSanmdi - Leader of realms of the dead. Wears a top hat and sunglasses with one lensremoved.  Presents as bisexual and genderfluid.

 GedeNibo - son of Baron Sanmdi and Maman Brijit.  Nibo is usually depicted     wearingall black trousers, coat, and hat, but he also presents in drag.

- Gender-crossing practitioners inHaitian Voudou:

 Masisi- gay men or transwomen Voudou practitioners

 Madivin- lesbian Voudou practitioners

Mambo- Voudou priestess

 Oungan- Voudou priest

 Kosio- transgender priestesses of Danbala in West African Voudou

 - Gender-nonconforming Deities ofCuban Santería and Brazillian Candomblé

 Ochossior Oxóssi - Lord of the hunt and lover of Osanyin, whom he initially       mistakesfor a woman.

Osanyinor Osain - Patron of medicinal plants and variously portrayed as a       femmegay male or a pre-operative transsexual with large breasts.

 Obataláor Oxalá - the lawgiver and peacemaker among the orishás.  Portrayed as an androgynous beingwith long white hair and dressed in white.

 Yemayáor Yemoja - ruler of the sea, maternal compassion, andshape-shifting. Matronof lesbian and transmale practioners.

 Olokun- androgynous or gender-fluid ruler of the sea depths.  Portrayed with    blueskin, indigo hair, a man’s head, a female torso, and the tail of a fish.

 Oshúnor Ochún - The orishá of rivers, lakes, sensuality and art.  Matron of gay  menand transwomen.

 Oshumaréor Oxumaré -  The androgynous,gender-fluid Rainbow Serpent,      related to the VoudouDanbala.  Oshumaré presides over movementof the stars the oceans, and communication between the realms of theliving and the dead. Oshumaréis variously portrayed as a femme male or transwoman.  Can be considered patron of all LGBTpractitioners.  

- Gender-crossing practitioners inYoruban faiths, Santeríaand Candomblé:

 Adéare gay males who incorporate their sexuality into Candomblé ritual, serving  eitheras “wife” of a deity or sexual partner of a fellow practitioner.  Some Adé present as female,androgynous, or may cross dress during ritual to channel a  femaleOrisha.

 Monokó- lesbian female practitioners of Candomblé

 Notethat traditionalist Yoruban priests of Ile-Ife in Nigeria do not share the same acceptanceof gay and gender-fluid practitioners. Most Yoruban traditions tolerate cross-dressingand gender-fluidity, but do not accept permanent modificationof the body for gender change.

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A LIST OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE NWO

Secret Geophysical Weapons (earthquake, floods, storms, fires) Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar, China, Iran, USA, Central America, Turkey, Greece, Pakistan, India, Japan and Indonesia killing well over a million people and massive destruction.

 War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Torture using Directed Energy and Neurological Weapons to cause the most horrendous psychological tortures, rapes, sexual abuse, surgical mutilations, and other mental and physical mutilations on many, many thousands of people worldwide - leaders, citizens and combatants.

 Dirty Wars and Black Operations fomenting and prolonging conflicts and civil strife in Algeria, Sudan, Congo, Thailand, Somalia, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Turkey,  Russia, Chechnya, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, China, Tibet, Colombia, Bolivia causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

 Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan resulting in the deaths of well over a million people and the ongoing destruction of those countries, as the criminals pretend that the world's most powerful surveillance and military forces can't establish peace and stability there in 5 and 7 years respectively

 Crimes Against Humanity using Directed Energy Weapons to cause crashes, electrical and mechanical disasters, and violations of the integrity of electronic data and systems killing thousands of people and causing much criminal malfeasance. Active Criminal Complicity in all of the above crimes by the Media Monopolies as almost all public discourse, and as much as 80% of 'international news', 'events' and 'history', has been degraded into produced and managed dramas/atrocities (i.e. wars, disasters, civil strife etc.), and criminally presented as infotainment, endogenous socio-political changes, propaganda and/or pseudo-science.

 THE NWO

the USA, UK, NATO (with Secret Geophysical Weapons "Weather Machine" War Crimes Bases in Alaska, Norway, Greenland, Australia), Canada, and the Agencies, Corporations, and the Media Monopolies actively involved in the planning, initiation and perpetration of these crimes

 Active Criminal Complicity in all of the above crimes by other

Governments, Agencies and International Organizations.

 "October 10, 2007

Dear Member of the Legislature and Friends:

This letter is to ask for your help for the many constituents in our

country who are being affected unjustly by electronic weapons torture and

covert harassment groups. Serious privacy rights violations and physical

injuries have been caused by the activities of these groups and their use

of so-called non-lethal weapons on men, women, and even children.

I am asking you to play a role in helping these victims and also stopping

the massive movement in the use of Verichip and RFID technologies in

tracking Americans. . . . . ."

Sincerely, Representative Jim Guest

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Sincerely,

Representative Jim Guest

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MIND CONTROL & SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTION - 100 USA PATENTS http://www.rexresearch.com/sublimin/sublimin.htm

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PROJECT CENSORED - AN ELECTION WITHOUT MEANING “WILL HABEAS CORPUS AND POSSE COMITATUS BE RESTORED TO THE PEOPLE? WILL TORTURE STOP?...WILL THE US NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES STOP MASS SPYING ON OUR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS? WILL THE NEO-CONSERVATIVE AGENDA OF TOTAL MILITARY DOMINATION OF THE WORLD BE REVERSED?" http://www.projectcensored.org/articles/story/an-election-without-meaning/

WALL STREET JOURNAL - NSA's DOMESTIC SPYING GROWS http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511973377523845.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

AUSTRALIA FIRST TO ADMIT "WE'RE PART OF GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM" - ECHELON OUTED BY THE HEAD OF AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE SIGNALS DIRECTORATE (DSD), MARTIN BRADY.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/2/2889/1.html

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THE EUROPEAN UNION...A TOTALITARIAN POLICE STATE IN THE MAKINGa*|.? http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/browse_thread/thread/ad50ce7bbeaffbca?hl=en

BUSH/USA - WAR CRIMES & HITLER CONNECTIONS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/all-the-presidents-nazis_b_102022.html

STATE-SPONSORED TERROR: BRITISH AND AMERICAN BLACK OPS IN IRAQ http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9447

PROJECT CENSORED - THE PROPAGANDA MODEL & ACCELERATED MEDIA CONCENTRATION A HANDFUL OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS CONTROLS NEARLY EVERYTHING WE SEE AND HEAR ON THE SCREEN, OVER THE AIRWAVES AND IN PRINT. WHAT IMPACT DOES CONSOLIDATION HAVE ON NEWS COVERAGE, ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE, FREEDOM OFSPEECH AND DEMOCRACY? http://www.projectcensored.org/articles/story/left-progressive-media-inside-the-propaganda-model/

THE NEW MEDIA MONOPOLY - BEN BAGDIKIAN DESCRIBES THE CARTEL OF FIVE GIANT MEDIA CONGLOMERATES WHO NOW CONTROL THE MEDIA. THEY MANUFACTURE POLITICS AND SOCIAL VALUES... A COUNTRY WITHOUT ALL THE SIGNIFICANT NEWS, POINTS OF VIEW, AND INFORMATION ITS CITIZENS NEED TO BE INFORMED IS RISKING THE LOSS OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS. http://benbagdikian.net/index.htm

ABOUT THE CAUSES OF THE 2ND WORLD WAR http://www.agitprop.org.au/lefthistory/1948_falsifiers_of_history.php

USA REPRESENTATIVE JIM GUEST'S (MO) LETTER http://www.freedomfchs.com/repjimguestltr.pdf

PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:- Yours in the search for openness and respect for universal human rights John Finch, 5/8 Kemp St, Thornbury, Vic 3071, Australia, TEL: 0424009627 tijohnfinch@gmail.com

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http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/misc/truth.html

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/misc/moreMindLinks.html

SURVEILLANCE ISSUES MR PAUL BAIRD www.surveillanceissues.com

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SECRET ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND ATTACKS MS LESLIE CRAWFORD

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MIND JUSTICE MS CHERYL WELSH

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FASCISM - "9-11" - MIND CONTROL MR JAMES MARINO http://www.9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com/ peaceseeker12@hotmail.com

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  THE AMERICAS

1. NAME: ELIZABETH ADAMS

2. NAME: AKU

3. NAME: al23

4. NAME: NEAL ALCHALABI (NEAL CHAMBERS)

5. NAME: ALETA

6. NAME: GARY ALGAR

7. NAME: RON ANGELL

8. NAME: ANN

9. NAME: ARIZONA - 6 VIGILANTE/ELECTRONIC HARASSMENT VICTIMS

10. NAME: ANNYCE ARNTZEN

11. NAME: RANDY ARRASMITH

12. NAME: SANA ASFOUR (Reham Dawood)

13. NAME: DEVORAH BAKER

14. NAME: LINDSAY G. BALDWIN

15. NAME: VERNON WAYNE BALL

16. NAME: BRENDA BARAQUIL

17. NAME: ALLEN BARKER

18. NAME: KAY BARNES

19. NAME: ERIC BAZAN

20. NAME: DAVID ALAN BEACH

21. NAME: MATT BEAL

22. NAME: PAUL BEGGS

23. NAME: SHERRY BELL

24. NAME: MARILYN BERRY

25. NAME: STACEY BERRY

26. NAME: KATA BILLUPS

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28. NAME: JOHN BRASWELL

29. NAME: LAURIE BRODIE

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31. NAME: BETH BUCHANAN

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35. NAME: CADEWCH

36. NAME: CARLO CALANDRA

37. NAME: KELLY CASLAR

38. NAME: MILAGROS CEDANO

39. NAME: RICHARD CENTENO

40. NAME: DIANA MARIE CHAPMAN

41. NAME: ROMY COCHRAN

42. NAME: GREGORY COUSINS

43. NAME: LESLIE L. CRAWFORD

44. NAME: CHRIS a** FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOR AMERICA

45. NAME: MARY CROOK

46. NAME: OPHNELL CUMBERBATCH

47. NAME: VALERIE CUTLER

48. NAME: D

49. NAME: N D

50. NAME: WANDA AND SARA DABLIN

51. NAME: DAVID

52. NAME: D DEERWOMAN

53. NAME: RaA-ol Luis DEL VALLE

54. NAME: ROBERT ALAN DESROSIERS

55. NAME: BETH DONAHUE

56. NAME: DONALD DUNLAP

57. NAME: BOB G DUNLAP

58. NAME: DICK EASTMAN

59. NAME: TARGET ELEPHANT

60. NAME: SAM EVANS

61. NAME: DOUGLAS EVERMAN

62. NAME: RAISA EYDELMAN

63. NAME: MARY FAIR

64. NAME: PAM FARNSWORTH

65. NAME: SCOTT FITZGERALD

66. NAME: DONALD FOSTER

67. NAME: KEVIN FOWLER

68. NAME: KATHLEENE SUSAN FRANCIS

69. NAME: BILL GALLAGHER

70. NAME: HERBERT GARTNER

71. NAME: GENA aka FREEDOM

72. NAME: PAUL GOLDING-CLARK

73. NAME: FLORA GOLTSMAN

74. NAME: RAFAEL GONZALEZ

75. NAME: ERIC R GOODMAN

76. NAME: MARY GOODWIN

77. NAME: AARON GOODWIN

78. NAME: JAMES HENRY GRAF

79. NAME: ERIC GRIFFIN

80. NAME: SHERI GRUTZ

81. NAME: ERIC H

82. NAME: MARGARET HABIB

83. NAME: MIKAL HALEY

84. NAME: DEB HALL AND SON

85. NAME: JIMMY HALLER

86. NAME: JONATHAN C HANSEN

87. NAME: MOLLY R. HARDIN

88. NAME: NAOMI HARRIS

89. NAME: RONALD HAUCKE

90. NAME: KATHLEEN T. HECKMAN

91. NAME: DORIS HICKS

92. NAME: SUSAN HONAKER & FAMILY

93. NAME: MOSTAFA HOSNY

94. NAME: ROSARIO HOUSEHOLDER (MARA)

95. NAME: JULIE HOWELL

96. NAME: JOHN HUGHES

97. NAME: MARLENA HUGHES

98. NAME: MARK IANNICELLI aka. Muhammad Iannicelli,

aka Muhammad Li,

99. NAME: INTERIQ

100. NAME: "IQPRISONER"

101. NAME: JACK

102. NAME: PHILLIP JACKSON

103. NAME: RICHARD DEAN JACOB

104. NAME: JEANNIE

105. NAME: JENNIFER

106. NAME: JIM

107. NAME: JILLYJOHNSON

108. NAME: MARY JOHNSON

109. NAME: JON

110. NAME: GEORGE JONES

111. NAME: MARK JONES

112. NAME: STEVEN JONES

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115. NAME: KEVIN JUNIOR

116. NAME: KATHI

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120. NAME: SHAFIQ KHAN

121. NAME: KIM

122. NAME: PATRICIA A. KINSELLA

123. NAME: NICHOLAS KIRKLAND

124. NAME: THOMAS J. KLUEGEL

125. NAME: LINDA KMIOTEK

126. NAME: TREVOR KOKOTYLO

127. NAME: KOMMY

128. NAME: VICTORIA KUPHALL

129. NAME: GALINA KURDINA

130. NAME: C L

131. NAME: JOHN GREGORY LAMBROS

132. NAME: GARY N LANDRY

133. NAME: EDGAR R. LAVERDE

134. NAME: DONALD LEE aka the Shadowillowist, Geshe Roache

135. NAME: MARCIA LEE

136. NAME: NADINE LEE

137. NAME: JANET LEIH

138. NAME: JENNIFER LICHY

139. NAME: JOHN M LITO

140. NAME: VICTOR LIVINGSTON

141. NAME: STEPHEN LONG

142. NAME: RAMONA LOPEZ

143. NAME: RENE LOSADA

144. NAME: ROGER R. LOWE

145. NAME: C C M & FAMILY

146. NAME: BARRY MADISON

147. NAME: WAYNE MADSEN

148. NAME: SANDRA L MAIZLAND

149. NAME: WAYNE MANZO

150. NAME: BRUNO MARCHESANI

151. NAME: STEFANO MARESCOTTI

152. NAME: JAMES F. MARINO

153. NAME: JON MASON

154. NAME: MICHAEL A MATLOFF

155. NAME: A J MCKAY

156. NAME: FRED McKENNA

157. NAME: DARREN C MCMAHON

158. NAME: JOHN MECCA & DEBBIE LAMB

159. NAME: MICHELLE MELLEMA

160. NAME: JESUS MENDOZA

161. NAME: BARRY MICHAEL

162. NAME: NANCY MILLER

163. NAME: MELODY MINEO

164. NAME: FERNANDO ARAKAKI MIRANDA

165. NAME: CINDY MITCHUM

166. NAME: AMIR MOHAMADI

167. NAME: M. ALEX MOLARO

168. NAME: RICHARD MONGEON

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170. NAME: KATHERINE MOORE

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172. NAME: ANGELA MORGAN

173. NAME: CAROLYN MORIYAMA

174. NAME: VICTOR N. MOTURI

175. NAME: MASSIE MUNRO

176. NAME: CHUCK MURPHY

177. NAME: KAMRAN NAQVI

178. NAME: GLORIA NAYLOR

179. NAME: BRYAN NAZAM

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189. NAME: PAMELA PARKER

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193. NAME: ARIEL FELICE PHILLIPS

194. NAME: DENISE S. POMPL

195. NAME: POW

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197. NAME: ANDREA PSORAS

198. NAME: MARY R

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210. NAME: MELISSA SANDERSON

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INVESTIGATED MINDCONTROL CRIMES/ MUERTES SOSPECHOSAS DE PERIODISTAS SOBRE

CONTROL MENTAL

233. NAME: DOROTHY SZCZEPKOWSKI

234. NAME: ADAM TAMBLE

235. NAME: GRIMS TAROEEL

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237. NAME: TERESA TAYLOR

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247. NAME: CHAD VANDERGRIFF

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250. NAME: BAY RIDGE VIETNAM

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253. NAME: PETER K.VOSOUGH

254. NAME: JAMES WALBERT & FAMILY

255. NAME: TIMOTHY WAITE

256. NAME: ROBERT WALKER

257. NAME: FELICIA WARD

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259. NAME: STEW WEBB

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261. NAME: CLARE WEHRLE

262. NAME: DOMINIE WELCH

263. NAME: JOHN WELLS

264. NAME: TERRY WENTZELL

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266. NAME: GLENDA WHITEMAN

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271. NAME: GEORGE ZACHYSTAL

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90. NAME: RANDOLPH

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CONTROL MENTAL

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New post in LET'S CREATE AFRICA (L.C.A.): lable full time for the duration of the program (July to September 2019). Should be a Fresh Graduate from a recognized University. Can be a continuing student pursuing a Degree from a recognized institution. Should have a valid introduction letter from the learning institution Interested candidates are required to send their applications to mentoryouth@optiven.co.ke before or on 15th June 2019 with their department of interest, i.e. “Mentorship & Graduate Trainee-Sales & Marketing Department” being the subject of the email with detailed CV, names & addresses of three referees. For more information, please contact us on: mentoryouth@optiven.co.ke or visit our Website: www.optiven.co.ke Note: We do not charge for job applications and interviews. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. [6/10, 13:27] Nelson Komba: Pharmaceutical Technologist Job 2019. Rangechem Pharmaceutical Technologist Jobs. We are a legally established pharmaceutical company that imports quality pharmaceutical products, wholesales and distributes branded products as generics and surgical. We are currently looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmaceutical Technologist to join our team in Nairobi. Responsibilities Provide advice for non-prescription medications Monitor drugs and other medical supplies levels and initiate the procurement process. Take inventory and track medication and supply orders Keep records of all drug stocks ordered, drugs issued to clients and stocks remaining. Arrange drugs in the required manner Establish and maintain good relationships with customers which includes clinics, doctors, hospitals and other institutions Monitor storage conditions i.e. expiry status and security of the pharmaceuticals Dispensing of prescriptions, Patient counseling and counter- prescribing to optimize the Pharmacy Sales. Maintaining cleanliness of the Pharmacy and all storage areas and conforming to good storage practices Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time. Qualifications Must be registered with the Pharmacy and Poison Board Degree/ Diploma holder from a recognized institution. Original Professional and academic certificates with up to date license At least 2 years of working experience in a similar position Strong negotiation and customer care skills How to Apply Applicants to send their CVs to career@rangechem.co.ke or hand delivered to the Mitihani Hse Mfangano Street [6/10, 13:32] Nelson Komba: Economic Security Generalist NGO Job. ICRC Duration: Maternity Reliever The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation with the exclusively humanitarian mission to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening International Humanitarian Law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC’s Regional Delegation in Nairobi co-ordinates the institution’s humanitarian activities in Kenya, Tanzania and Djibouti. Overall Responsibility Economic Security Generalist 2 plans, implements and monitors the ICRC’s economic security program in line with the country strategy and under the supervision and guidance of his/her hierarchical superior. S/He implements the EcoSec activities and resources in the areas of assignment according to agreed objectives and plan of action. S/He reports on the progress and achievements of the program as required. S/He ensures a smooth working relationship and effective coordination with Kenya Red Cross Society at field level. Travel remit 75% field work in Lamu and Garissa Counties. Responsibilities S/he is the focal point for Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) Project; Carries out assessments, implementation, as well as monitoring visits and evaluation of the EcoSec projects together with Kenya Red Cross Society teams; Supports in development of data collection tools and data analysis; Assists EcoSec Coordinator in identifying operational strategies and defining short and mid-term plan http://bit.ly/2Rkp3Oq