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"I love the process of designing and crafting. It is a great feeling to craft something out of almost nothing, it feels like giving life to an object."
"I was born a creative person, I have a love and passion for art. At school I loved creating beautiful collages and jewelry items. Eventually I understood the economic potential behind arts and crafts when I realized the deep sense of fulfillment I first felt when I could earn from it. I learned I could provide my basic needs by doing what I created out of love and passion. The jewelry products I made then were made out of wood I carved out myself, leather and glass beads.
"My interest rose higher when I passed to enroll in the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where I graduated after six years with an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in Sculpture, First Class. In the same year I won the Mobil Award for the best student sculptor. I am a Masters graduate in African Art from the same university.
"I joined the crafts production department of the National Cultural Center in Kumasi, Ashanti Region in 1983 and rose to the position of its head. I resigned from that position in 1987 and worked at various craft companies and institutions working in various positions for another seven years until I founded my very own workshop with my late wife in 1994.
"I have since been designing and crafting for both retail and wholesale. I love the process of designing and crafting. It is a great feeling to craft something out of almost nothing, it feels like giving life to an object. A plank of wood, for example, takes on a form or meaning once carved into a dreamed up design.
"As a pioneer in the contemporary handicraft sector I have a strong tradition of product design and adaptation through the process of recycling wood and metal (iron, brass, and aluminum) and glass scraps, giving them added value. Much of the reclaimed wood I use would has been used as fuel wood with its attendant degrading impact on the environment.
"I also work as a Product Design Consultant, collaborating with local craft men and women. I have so far helped close to thirty wood carvers, brass smiths, and glass workers living in the countryside by re-directing their creative skills towards more innovative, environmentally and socially friendly production methods and materials to craft products that meet contemporary tastes and needs.
"Through my work as an artist, I was able to build a wood bridge for my community in 1994. In 2003, I built a water reservoir behind my home from which members of my community to this day continue to fetch water. I have also provided a strong metal ramp over an open drain. This enables free and easy movement for both vehicles (including tipper and cargo trucks) and pedestrians.
"My favorite thing about the art of carving is the ability to add value to a piece of raw material which could have been used as firewood. Nature, the environment, crafting traditions and existing products as well as human needs inspire me to create. I have also drawn a lot of inspiration from Yoruba, Dagon, Ashanti, Fanti, Bamileke, Baluba, Bakongo African tribes craft traditions.
"I have a great interest in cultures in general and crafting traditions in particular: their promotion, sustenance and development. Job creation and economic empowerment have contributed to help me master the crafts that I am engaged in. Over the years designing and crafting in general has evolved beyond 'making art for art sake'. We are more conscious of environmental issues and one must always consider how materials used in making a piece of jewelry or furniture will impact the environment.
"The greatest challenge I face is how to craft products with zero negative impact on environment. However I have taken steps to overcome this challenge by adopting the use of off cuts and scrap material from other artisans. Minimalism and eco-design are my current philosophy in art.
"In 2006 I lost my wife and business partner after nearly five years battle with ovarian cancer. I also lost focus, morale and enthusiasm. With the support of my two daughters, family and friends, the church and encouragement from the Bible, I managed to bounce back. I am taking steps to revamp my business. I remarried in 2008 and now a couple of friends, also widowers, confided in me that they wish they could also remarry. I thank God for my life.
"I currently have two assistants who help me with the jewelry-making, although I do most of the carving of the wood pendants myself. My second daughter who is an art student in KNUST (Department of Integrated Rural Art and Industry) also helps me with painting and finishing when she is on holidays.
"Friends describe me as creative, responsible and resourceful. I am also known to be a big dreamer and it is my wish to translate my numerous ideas into wonderful products.
"I hope to set up a Design Consultancy through which I can continue to provide assistance to students and artisans. I would also like to build exclusive gallery where I can promote my work. My dream is to design more environmentally friendly products as my contribution to save our planet."
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Note from Peter T. Chattaway: David and Goliath opened in 31 theatres in the United States this weekend, where it reportedly earned about $161,000. My friend Martin Stillion offered to review the film for this blog. Here is what he had to say:
Christian Bale isn't the only actor to play Moses in the last few months.
One of the issues that some people have had with Darren Aronofsky's Noah — it was never a big-enough deal to become a full-fledged controversy, per se — concerns the ethnicity of the actors.
The film depicts the annihilation of the entire human race, except for one family that will go on to produce the entire human race as we know it today — so it seems a little odd to some people that pretty much every character we see in this film fits into a single ethnic category, i.e. Caucasian.
It seems even more odd when one considers that the human race was entirely dark-skinned at first, and that lighter skin was a later genetic mutation that emerged as certain population groups moved "into areas of low UV radiation". The film flips this around by positing that the entire human race was light-skinned at first, or at least right after the Flood, and thus darker skin must have evolved later.
The Bible epic, as a genre, is typically associated with the 1950s, and for good reason. That's when Hollywood churned out a series of Bible-themed films, such as David and Bathsheba (1951), The Robe (1953) and The Ten Commandments (1956); and both the decade and the genre reached their climax with Ben-Hur (1959), which won a record number of Oscars in addition to becoming one of the biggest box-office hits of all time.
But the decade arguably got its start in the 1940s, when Cecil B. DeMille produced Samson and Delilah (1949), starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr. It was the first major Bible movie made by an American studio since the silent era — or since the early sound era, if we count DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), which takes place after the Book of Acts, as a "Bible movie" — and it was a fairly big hit, thereby paving the way for all the bathrobe epics that followed.
It's common these days for each new episode of a TV series to begin with a montage that sums up all the relevant plot points from previous episodes. So it was only natural that, when the History Channel aired its five-part mini-series The Bible over the month of March, all but one of the episodes began with narrator Keith David intoning, in his deep baritone voice, "Previously, on The Bible…"
All of the show's strengths and weaknesses are captured in that one phrase. Produced by Mark Burnett (a TV mogul best known for unscripted "reality" shows like Survivor and The Apprentice) and his wife Roma Downey (who once starred in Touched by an Angel), the mini-series rushes through the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, in ten hours — though it's more like seven, once you bracket off the commercial breaks — and it zips through the stories so quickly that you barely notice when they are compressed even further in those opening sequences. But the mini-series also makes a point of emphasizing the continuity between Bible stories in a way that is quite rare among Bible films, and in a way that sometimes allows individual stories to shed light profitably on others.
Another week, another episode of the mini-series The Bible. These are my first impressions of the second episode.
The pacing, redux. The second episode is 86 minutes long, and the first six minutes consist of footage from the first episode, so that leaves only 80 minutes for the second episode to take us all the way from the spies in Jericho to the birth of King Solomon — a period that covers about two or three centuries.
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Just four years before his death, legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman sat down with Swedish documentarian Marie Nyreröd in his home on Fårö Island to discuss his films, his fears, his regrets, and his ongoing artistic passion. This resulted in the most breathtakingly candid series of interviews that the famously reclusive director ever took part in, later edited into the feature-length film Bergman Island. In-depth, revealing, and packed with choice anecdotes about Bergman's films, as well as his personal life, Nyreröd's film is an unforgettable final glimpse of a man who transformed cinema.
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"Proof That Group Meditation Can Change The World"
An article on "PeacefulWarrriors.net": Meditation has the potential to literally transform the world. In 1978, what is known as the "Maharishi Effect" took place when a group of 7000 individuals over the course of 3 weeks were meditating in hopes of positively effecting the surrounding city. They were able to literally transform the collective energy of the city which reduced global crime rates, violence, and casualties during the times of their meditation by an average of 16%. Suicide rates and automobile accidents also were reduced with all variables accounted for. In fact, there was a 72% reduction in terrorist activity during the times at which this group was meditation. …
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Putin May Add Yoga to His Repertoire
JULY 8, 2015 for New York Times: "It's a Stretch, but Putin Will Add Yoga to His Repertoire"
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/world/asia/its-a-stretch-but-putin-will-add-yoga-to-his-repertoire.html?_r=0
Inspiring photos from International Yoga Day
See http://mashable.com/2015/06/21/photos-international-yoga-day/ and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3133167/That-s-LOT-downward-dogs-Incredible-photos-millions-people-world-taking-International-Day-Yoga-army-prime-minister-involved.html and http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/jun/22/international-yoga-day-readers-pictures
PM Narendra Modi said in his speech inaugurating the IYD in Delhi:
"This is the beginning of a new era. I bow down to the sages who encouraged Yoga through centuries," he said.
"Everything is moving forward, we dont want the situation where humans are lagging behind. Just making a body flexible, turning body into shapes is not yoga. Else everyone in a circus would be a yogi. Mind, intellect, body and soul, all have to be in sync."
"We are not only celebrating a day but we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, goodwill. This is a programme for manav kalyan (benefit of man), a tension free world and a programme to spread the message of goodwill."
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Quiet Time and Transcendental Meditation at Aspire Ollin Preparatory Academy
This video features the Transcendental Meditation and Quiet Time program at Aspire Ollin Preparatory Academy which began in 2012. Its goal is to reduce stress and improve learning ability.
Jennifer Garcia, Principal: "Everybody who walks through this door to serve kids, really believes in their heart that they are serving kids."
Keith Drucker, 8th Grade Humanities Teacher: "Kids have a lot going on these days. Stress is definitely a factor in whether they're learning or not learning. Our goal is to show that our students are as capable as any other individual."
Betzaida, student: "My anxiety has reduced, and now if you look at my grades, I have A's. Mostly A's and two B's."
Andrea, student: "I used to get very nervous for tests, and headaches. With TM, I see a difference: I'm calmer, I feel better."
Dalilah: "I do dance, I sing, act, model. TM helps me manage all that. I get the rest I need and it helps me focus in class."
Darnell: "I used to feel like people will mess with me and I get distracted. Since I learned TM, I feel peaceful and calm. I'm participating now."
Keith: "Since they started TM, they get our goal, and they want to do their best."
Katie Spencer, 7th Grade Education Specialist: "Having a calmer class, and having a calmer teacher is always good."
Timothy Gomez, 9th Grade Writing Teacher: "Anyone will tell you, behavior has been amazing since they brought the Quiet Time program."
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The Healing Power of Transcendental Meditation
By William T. Hathaway
I suffered a brain injury at birth. An EEG test showed chaotic, abnormal brain waves, and in school I had attention deficit disorder. I couldn't concentrate and my thoughts were cloudy. My grades were mediocre, and I flunked out of my first university. I wanted to become a writer, but my writing was disorganized and unclear. In despair I took marijuana and other drugs, but they made my thoughts even foggier.
Then I started Transcendental Meditation. My thoughts became clearer, and I didn't want drugs anymore. I could concentrate. And I could write. One of my essays gained me entrance to a much better university, Columbia in New York City, and this time my grades were so good I received a scholarship. My first novel won a Rinehart Foundation Award, and I became a professor of creative writing. I've now published eight books and many shorter pieces.
My EEG now shows normal, orderly brain waves with no sign of damage. TM healed my birth injury and gave me access to my talent and mental abilities. Without meditation, this change would not have occurred.
How did it happen? Physiologists have discovered that during Transcendental Meditation nourishing blood flow to the brain increases by 20%. Our brain waves become more coherent, synchronizing and coordinating across both hemispheres, an indication of more integrated mental functioning. The whole brain becomes more activated, and that gives us access to more of our potential. In the blood stream arginine vasopressin, a hormone that improves memory and learning ability, increases, as do serotonin and melatonin, hormones that indicate relaxation and well being. Adrenalin, cortisol, blood lactate, and blood pressure decrease, indicating lessened anxiety. The effortless process of TM produces mental and physical rest that is twice as deep as in sleep, although we're fully awake. This rejuvenating state enables the body's self-healing mechanism to repair the damage from traumatic events and illnesses. With these blockages gone we are more able to develop our full capabilities.
Physiological studies published in independent peer-reviewed journals indicate that TM creates this state of deep rest and removes these stress blockages more effectively than other forms of meditation: http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/TMResearch/ComparisonofTechniques/index.cfm.
Research on the physiological changes: http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/TMResearch/TMResearchSummary/SummaryContinued/index.cfm – physiology.
More information on the effects of TM on attention deficit disorder: http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/schools.html.
William T. Hathaway's new book, Lila, the Revolutionary, is a fable for adults about an eight-year-old Indian girl who sparks a world revolution for social justice. Chapters are posted on www.amazon.com/dp/1897455844. A selection of his writing is available at www.peacewriter.org.
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During October 1, 1979 to March 31, 1982, the U.S. Attorney for the Panama Canal Zone sent a number of final judgments against the Panama Canal Company by the U.S. District Court for the Canal Zone to GAO for certification and payment from the permanent indefinite appropriation for judgments. The judgments were paid from a permanent judgment appropriation account. GAO reviewed this matter in response to a question as to whether these payments should have been made from Panama Canal Commission operation and maintenance appropriations.
GAO found that judgments against the Panama Canal Company should not be paid from the permanent judgment appropriation. The judgment appropriation is available only when payment is not otherwise provided for. If a given judgment can be paid out of some appropriation or fund under the control of the agency involved, then payment is otherwise provided for and the judgment appropriation is not available. Prior to dissolution, the Panama Canal Company, as a Government corporation empowered to sue and be sued, paid its own judgments. Under the Panama Canal Act of 1979, the Panama Canal Commission was made successor to the Panama Canal Company and its funds, and its liabilities. Thus, the funding source that would have been used to pay the judgments had they become final prior to the company's dissolution still exists and is now within the control of the Commission. Therefore, Commission funds are available to pay judgments against the former Panama Canal Company.
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Comments: When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Recommendation: The Panama Canal Commission should take action to reimburse the judgment appropriation account for the payments erroneously made. The reimbursement can be accomplished by a transfer of funds or check payable to the U.S. Treasury.
Agency Affected: Panama Canal Commission
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Shoma Chaudhury is the former managing editor of Tehelka, a weekly news-magazine based in New Delhi.
In a sense, to be a woman in India is to straddle two imprisonments: the idea of the goddess and the idea of the slut. Both extreme repute and extreme disrepute can be a form of enslavement. In between, there lies a whole spectrum of other staggering disempowerments.
Earlier this year, after the horrific Delhi gangrape that caught world attention, I worked on a cover story on male attitudes to women in India. The story was purely anecdotal, but it threw up fascinating insights into the nature of misogyny in India. Male after male – cutting across class, strata, region and religion – spoke of women as either property or provocation.
For instance, a banker in Srinagar said, "To me, a woman is a pearl that is
For instance, a banker in Srinagar said, "To me, a woman is a pearl that is safe inside a shell. Keep it open and everyone will try to snatch it."At the other end, an autorickshaw driver in Delhi said, "If someone offers you fruit on a plate, will you deny the invitation? Delhi girls are like mangoes. What do you do with the fruit? You eat it, suck it, and throw it away." And here's what an office bearer of a lawyers' association in Karnataka said, "Women today have become too wayward. They have moved away from Hindu culture. Boys always know when they see a girl who is ready to sleep around. Why can't women wear churidars instead of skirts?"
Together, these men present a sort of DNA of the dominant male attitude to women in India: they have no concept of male accountability; no concept of the hijab of eye and action. Women, for them, are never victims, they are the agent provocateurs. The burden of social order lies only with them.
In a nutshell, in every way possible, a woman in India is likely to live as an inferior being
Shoma Chaudhury, Managing Editor, TehelkaNew Delhi
But sexual violence – or sexual blame – is only one chilling aspect of the brute reality the Indian woman lives with. The truth is, from birth to death, women are subject to a vicious cycle of discrimination and violence that is terrifying in its proportions. Very literally, the girl child has less of a chance to be born than a boy: the current gender ratio in India is 915 girls to a 1,000 boys. Multiply that to a scale of 1.2 billion people, and one might understand just how many million baby girls are exterminated every year: poisoned, buried alive, left out to die in hot sun or freezing winter or, most often, just scooped out of the womb.
If they do win the macabre obstacle race to birth, in a poor family, the girl child is less likely to be fed and less likely to go to school than a boy. Further into her life, be it in rich or poor settings, she is less likely to have a say in her life, more likely to be married off early, be killed for dowry, sold into prostitution, have acid thrown on her face, or die during childbirth. She is more likely to have anaemia and calcium deficiency and less likely to have a right over property. She is also less likely to get the job of her choice. In a nutshell, in every way possible, a woman in India is likely to live as an inferior being.
But this is only to look at the dark side. No story about India is ever simple or monochromatic. For every account of despair, there is always one of hope.
Customarily, defenders of a feel-good India focus on the surface gloss: the fact that India has more women leaders than any other country in the world. It has had a woman president, the speaker of the Lok Sabha is a woman, it has four powerful women chief ministers (a fifth is likely to be elected soon), and of course the president of the Congress Party is a woman.
But in itself, all this means nothing. The hopeful story about India is located elsewhere. The success of these women has a deeper foundation. Crucially, unlike almost every other democracy in the world – unlike either the US or UK – equal rights for women were enshrined in the very conception of the nation. Unlike First World countries, where women had to fight elemental battles for something as basic as suffrage rights, the Indian Constitution recognised equal rights for women from the very moment of India's birth. No matter how imperfect the practice therefore, what we have as moral ammunition, are sublime articles of faith.
It would've been wondrous if these articles of faith had worked as a miracle cure. But pitted against centuries-old social attitudes, they function rather as slow oxygen in the system.
This oxygenation, however, should not be underestimated. Over the last few decades, many significant (structural) changes have been achieved. Women are beginning to be elected as sarpanches (council head) at the village level; government schemes are increasingly being disbursed through women rather than men, there is a sharp jump in school enrollment for the girl child, governments are taking greater interest in the human development index, and more women have been absorbed into work spaces than ever before in the history of the civilisation.
This "stepping out", this slow economic empowerment, will have – and is already having – an exhilarating snowball effect on old, settled patriarchies. Self-respect and assertion are the natural codicils to economic independence. In millions of homes across the country, in small towns and villages, as young women are starting to work, tiny unseen rebellions are triggering massive social change. The boundaries are being pushed. In the unrecorded arguments between daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, the grand spirit of the Constitution is starting to bear slow fruition.
Some of this was evident in the unprecedented protests that followed the rape of a young girl in New Delhi last last year. The language of female autonomy had seeped into the streets. Women were not just screaming for protection: they were demanding the right to be gloriously individual, to work, love, dress and think as diversely and independently as it is humanly possible to be. They were demanding a right over their own lives.
These protests had several effects: they resulted in a more enlightened legislation on rape; they caused a shift in vocabulary; and, for the first time, they made it politically and socially embarrassing to blame the victim.
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But even more tectonically, the protests displayed another slow but profound change coming over India: a discernible shift in male thinking. There were as many young men as women shouting for women's rights and an end to sexual violence in these protests. The importance of this cannot be overstated. The reality of women's lives cannot change unless there is this companion shift in men.
In this tug and pull; in this tension between the old and the new; the men who speak of women as pearls and mangoes and those who march with them as equals; in this unequal graph of victories and defeats, the modern story of India is playing itself out.
The journey may be full of contradictions and riddles. But, hopefully, the destination is firmly a brighter one.
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That's An Interesting Decision, Isn't It? That forehead piece right there? It's like those tattoos you see little kids pull out of a cereal box and then plastered onto their faces, and you're like, "Damn, that would be insane to get a real tattoo there." And now this.
"Hello . . . . . . my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Silver Alert Cedric here just went out for a quick eighteen on the country club golf course. Six months later, after the funeral, he wandered in. Got lost in the woods between the back and front nine. Killed the caddy with a 3 wood, turned him into jerky, that's how Cedric survived so long. Just like in 'Nam.
A Classic American Type Back-bench stoner face, head just going "ugggggggggggcheesefriesuggggggggnachobellgrandeugggggggggbloomingonion."
Trends in Male Facial Hair Scott Ian of Anthrax beards making a big splash in the 954?
Yup. Scott Ian of Anthrax beards making a big splash in the 954. This goes regional, expect to see a Sunday Times style section piece.
I Am He as you are he.
Hey Mama I know, it's been ages. Things have really been going well with me. They finally bumped me up from junior analyst to senior junior analyst. That means the 401K set up is now a full match, so we'll have enough to refinance the condo. The twins are nailing their ukulele lessons. And Janice, sweet woman, has finally built up enough hours at the ashtanga studio so she can start teaching her own classes. Things are just going so well for me these days, I decided to get a little celebratory tattoo. I know, Mama, but life is just so damn good, I want everyone to know it.
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HER2-Positive Diagnosis on "Parenthood"
Guest blog post from Susan Brown, Managing Director, Community Health of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Last month, we applauded NBC's "Parenthood" for portraying the difficult realities of a breast cancer diagnosis through one of its main characters, Kristina Braverman, played by Monica Potter. Recently, Kristina found out that she has HER2-positive breast cancer, a more aggressive form of the disease which accounts for about 15 to 20 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses. HER2/neu, also called ErbB2, is a protein that appears on the surface of some breast cancer cells and is an important part of the pathway for cell growth and survival.
Although breast cancer is often referred to as one disease, thanks to research over the last thirty years, today we know that there are actually many different types of breast cancer.
All breast cancers start in the breast – which makes them alike in some ways – but they are different in others. For instance, they can be invasive or non-invasive, and the tumor cells can vary in location and how they look under a microscope. The type of breast cancer you have often affects your prognosis.
Tumors also have characteristics, such as hormone receptor status and HER2/neu status. By knowing her HER2/neu status, Kristina and her doctors can decide on the right treatment, instead of a "one-treatment-fits-all" approach. Today, HER2/neu-positive breast cancers can benefit from the drug trastuzumab (Herceptin), which directly targets the HER2/neu receptor.
Breast cancer is not an easy journey, for those diagnosed or loved ones who are trying to provide support. We encourage you to check out our resources for helping you understand breast cancer and learn more about different tumor characteristics. Here at Komen, we are continuing to watch "Parenthood" to see how Kristina's story plays out and would love to hear your thoughts on the storyline as well.
Affliate Spotlight: Komen West Virginia Rocks a Local Hospital
There are countless ways that Komen Affiliates across the country make an impact in the lives of local women and men every single day. For some, it's access to free breast screenings. For others, it may be transportation to and from treatment, a wig, or other support services – all provided by local community grants. For Komen West Virginia, an excerpt from Komen founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker's book Promise Me, combined with the passion of two artists, resulted in a project that totally rocked a local hospital.
In Promise Me, Brinker described the long hours Susan G. Komen spent in the cancer wards while battling breast cancer. Suzy wished that there was a way to make the chemo wards less depressing and instead, fill them with things to remind those inside how wonderful the world is outside of the treatment rooms. And while she was never able to fulfill her desire, artists Amy Ocasio and Nancy Ballard, along with the help of nearly the entire community of Parkersburg, WV, made this dream a reality at Camden Clark Medical Center.
Through support from the Camden Clark Foundation, Komen West Virginia and Whimsical Spirits of Whim-en, the Rooms that Rock 4 Chemo project got underway on Sep. 14. Working only during the nighttime hours, Amy, Nancy and other artists took the dreary and bare chemo rooms and got to work, painting themed designs in each room such as Paris, butterflies and dogs. Komen West Virginia joined in on the fun as well, decking out one special room in Ford Warriors in Pink scarves, representing the powerful and courageous who fight against cancer.
The unit administers nearly 5,000 chemotherapy treatments each year and sees about 120 patients a week, one of whom is patient Julie Gray Dye. Julie expressed her appreciation for the work of all of the volunteers, saying "Before Rooms that Rock 4 Chemo, the rooms were cold and sterile, and six hours staring at hospital walls seemed like an eternity. The teams have truly changed the experience for patients like me."
Many of the volunteers, like Sharyn and Jon from "Team Fuzzy Friends," shared their passion for this project as well. Jon was inspired by his father's journey battling cancer to do his "little part to make it a little easier for the patients." Sharyn was very excited to join the project as well, saying that Rooms that Rock became her way of showing love and support for the patients that would receive treatments in the very rooms they were painting.
As the artists transformed the nine treatment rooms and one conference room, local hospital officials were so impressed, they decided to approve more funding for the project, making it possible to renovate the entire 5,000 sq. ft. chemo unit. One of the medical center's oncologists, Dr. Nik Shah, shared how touched patients and their families are by the new surroundings. "Many of the patients and families have expressed how beautiful the unit looks and really appreciate what the community has done… Not only are the patients happy, the office staff has tremendously enjoyed the work environment. It really makes our day a lot brighter."
On Oct. 20, the new ward was officially complete, and volunteers, hospital workers and sponsors were excited to present the newly decorated ward to the public. With donated artwork lining the walls, including a hand-stitched Ford Warriors in Pink quilt created by Komen West Virginia Race for the Cure survivors, the ward now offers a completely different atmosphere – one of hope – for patients and their loved ones.
Our hats are off to Komen West Virginia and every other organization and volunteer that made this project possible. And this story is just one of many that tell of the amazing work Komen Affiliates, so keep reading Komen's blog and see how your local Affiliate is making an impact in the fight against breast cancer.
Check out the before and after pictures of the rooms in our slideshow below.
Remembering Suzy and the last 30 Years of Progress
Today would have been my Aunt Suzy's 69th birthday. Aunt Suzy – Susan G. Komen – was born on Oct. 31, 1943 and died in August of 1980 at the age of 36, after 3 grueling years suffering from breast cancer. Before she died, she asked my mother, Nancy Brinker, to do something about breast cancer, so that no one would suffer as she and the women she met were suffering. Mom, of course, promised that she would, and 2 years later, Mom started Susan G. Komen in her sister's memory, so that no one would ever forget the sister she loved and missed.
I was a very young kid when Mom and her friends set out in our living room to fulfill this promise, and I can remember the hushed conversations about women being afraid or ashamed to admit they had the disease. At that time, cancer in general, and breast cancer in particular, were never discussed. I remember people calling it "The Big C," and I remember the doors slammed in Mom's face when she set out to raise money for this cause. No one wanted to be associated with such a personal "woman's disease."
I thought of all this as I stood in an arena in Charlotte, N.C., just this past week, accepting a very generous donation from WWE Superstar John Cena, in front of thousands of screaming fans. I was especially moved by the breast cancer survivors in the audience, wearing pink survivor tee-shirts with pride, holding up signs that proclaimed their status and hope to the world.
And even through the din of that arena, I had a moment of quiet reflection about how much has changed since the days of the hushed conversation. I thought of how proud Aunt Suzy would have been to see this – to know that her suffering had not been in vain, and that because of this promise between my mother and her, millions of women and men are facing a very different world today than the Suzy's of the world faced 35 years ago.
Today, largely due to the work of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, more women are living longer even with aggressive and metastatic forms of breast cancer. We have virtually cured early stage breast cancer, with relative five-year survival rates of 99% today versus 74% when we started. We're hard at work funding hundreds of active research grants around the world as I write this, striving to understand the key questions in breast cancer science today: how to keep breast cancer from developing, stop it before it spreads, and cure the aggressive and metastatic cancers that are killing too many women and men.
Very importantly, we've been the helping hand that has truly made a difference in the lives of women who hear the diagnosis and need our help, especially the low-income and uninsured women whose breast cancer journeys are made more difficult by a lack of insurance and a lack of resources. Komen and our Affiliates pay for the mammograms they can't afford (700,000 last year alone). We provide the co-pays; we pay for surgeries; we pay for groceries and living expenses, wigs, prosthetics, and transportation to treatment. We help with their follow-up care, every day.
Every time I meet someone with 5, 10, 15 or 20 years cancer-free, I marvel at how much has been made possible by this movement, thanks to the generous support of the people who run in our Komen Races, volunteer at our Affiliates, hold the fundraisers, organize the bake sales at work, or otherwise support this cause. Thanks to all of you, Komen alone has been able to invest more than $2 billion to research and community outreach, and our movement has grown to more than 30 countries around the world. We've come a very long way in just one generation.
It goes without saying that Aunt Suzy would be proud. I know, on her 69th birthday, that she would be overwhelmed with gratitude. And so on her behalf, and on behalf of all of us at Susan G. Komen, let me say "Thank you" for all that you do to create a world without this disease. I only wish – as any of us who have lost someone to breast cancer would wish — that Aunt Suzy were here to see it.
31 Days of Impact – Day 31, Lisa Carey
The story of breast cancer is the story of people. Learn about Komen's impact and work in the fight against breast cancer as told through the eyes of breast cancer survivors, researchers, community health workers and advocates. Read more stories.
LISA A. CAREY, MD, CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA – Physician and Researcher
The Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professor in Breast Cancer Research; Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology; Physician-in-Chief North Carolina Cancer Hospital; Medical Director of the UNC Breast Center; Associate Director for Clinical Research; UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Funding from Susan G. Komen has yielded an incredible wealth of information that helps us, the clinicians, understand breast cancer behavior better and, we hope, improve our ability to tailor treatments appropriately."
"As a researcher and doctor, I am thrilled that our work looking for ways to identify and study different subtypes of breast cancer is already benefiting our patients. Our next challenges are to identify tumor characteristics that predict response to therapy and develop novel treatment approaches for the subtypes we have identified."
My focus – as a researcher and doctor – is to improve the lives of breast cancer patients. My work with colleagues has led to the understanding that women do just as well if their chemotherapy is given before surgery as after. It's scientific advances like these that inspire me – we will be able to use molecular science to improve the lives of mothers, grandmothers, fathers, and other loved ones.
When I was an undergraduate at Wellesley College, my honors thesis project was to develop a mask that would allow workers in freezing temperatures to save water from their exhalations. My friends would avoid me on Sundays, when I had access to the dormitory walk-in freezer, because they were my guinea pigs. After college, my training included a medical degree, then Internal Medicine Residency followed by a Medical Oncology fellowship, all at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
I earned an advanced degree in Clinical Investigations at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1998 and then joined the UNC faculty rising from assistant to full professor. During my training, I continued my research efforts, first in limb injuries, then in infectious diseases like AIDS. I decided to become an oncologist during my second year of residency when I spent Christmas week on the inpatient Oncology ward – a truly inspiring experience and one that confirmed for me that I wanted to take care of cancer patients.
Since joining the faculty at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, I have spent a lot of time with scientists spending all of their time trying to understand the variations within breast cancer – why do some behave more aggressively than others, why do some relapse and others not? The most useful work I do is trying to extend their findings – understanding and characterizing the molecular subtypes of breast cancer to the clinic so that we may develop better prevention and treatment strategies. I was fortunate enough to lead the first trial looking at a new drug regimen in the breast cancer subtype, triple negative breast cancer.
But ever since I've joined this field, I've understood that this kind of research doesn't fund itself. Organizations like Susan G. Komen carefully examine the work that various researchers are doing that will eventually save lives and impact women around the world.
For example, in part based upon work performed at UNC, we now know that women do just as well if their chemotherapy is given before surgery as after, however the chemotherapy-first approach means that they are more likely to save their breast. In addition, with preoperative therapy it is possible to tell if the drugs are working since the tumor is still measurable when the chemotherapy is given first. Part of my clinical research program uses this preoperative approach in order to investigate new drugs and combinations of drugs as well as factors that might predict response to these drugs.
And just this year, Komen awarded me a grant of nearly $1 million to profile the kinome (a group of hundreds of proteins that regulate cancer cell growth) in HER2+ breast cancer, specifically to look at how the cancer cells try to evade HER2-targeted therapy.
I hope that future grants will enable researchers like me to design and lead clinical trials testing novel ways to better treat breast cancer. Only with the kind of funding that Komen provides will we be able to use molecular science to improve the lives of our patients.
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31 Days of Impact – Day 30, Dr. Trey Westbrook
The story of breast cancer is the story of people. Learn about Komen's impact and work in the fight against breast cancer as told through the eyes of breast cancer survivors, researchers, community health workers and advocates. Read more stories.
DR. THOMAS "TREY" WESTBOOK, HOUSTON, TEXAS – Scientific Researcher
"Watching someone you care about deeply go through the heartache of struggling with breast cancer is an immediate and daily reminder of the urgency to find a cure."
"My research team at Baylor College of Medicine has been using new technology to discover the genes breast cancer cells depend on, and translating these discoveries into new therapies."
"Thanks to Komen research grants, my colleagues and I – and researchers around the world – will continue to uncover new therapeutic opportunities for women fighting breast cancer."
For me, cancer research is both a professional and personal passion. Watching someone you care about deeply go through the heartache of struggling with breast cancer is an immediate and daily reminder of the urgency to find a cure. I've experienced that first hand. Much of my family had to go through the trials of fighting cancer, and I have known for a long time that I wanted to address the fundamental problems in cancer – to take what we can learn about cancer and use this knowledge to help people.
I'm a geneticist – and most of my Komen-funded research is focused on applying novel genetic technologies that we developed to find new treatments for human breast cancer. Our new technology, sometimes called a functional genomics technology, enables us to scan the human genome for genes that play a role in cancer. We're using these new tools to identify vulnerabilities of cancer cells and find ways to exploit them. Strikingly, some of our newest therapeutic targets are lethal only to cancer cells, while healthy, non-cancerous cells are spared.
With Komen-funded support, we've discovered that the very genes that are driving cancer are also creating new vulnerabilities. Our work is focused on finding and better understanding those weaknesses and turning those weaknesses into new medicines. Our work has inspired a new clinical trial for triple-negative breast cancer patients. Collaborating with our partners in the pharmaceutical industry, we are striving each day to ensure our discoveries are turned into real medicine.
I am grateful to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for funding my work. I've received $450,000 in Komen funding over the past 3 years to find new therapeutic strategies for triple-negative breast cancer. In 2011, we received a $180,000 grant for my research focused on HER2-positive cancer. Thanks to Komen research grants, my colleagues and I – and researchers around the world – can continue to discover new targeted therapies in order to help men and women defeat breast cancer. There's a lot more research to be done and as someone with loved ones fighting cancer, my mission is to continue to work passionately towards finding a cure.
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