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Apr 14, 2011 - 9:33 pm
Today I bit the bullet and called my oncology nurse about my concerns regarding my hair regrowth (or lack thereof). It's been 7 mos since my last chemo. I do have hair and the follicles that are there are growing, but I have this male pattern baldness pattern and a very visible scalp, especially in the back. The hair itself is also very fine. Regrowth on the rest of my body is also sparse. I called simply to see if there is anything I can do to either stimulate the growth (vitamins, Rogaine, Nioxin, etc.) or whether I just be patient.
The call back was that she talked to the doctor about this and she said this isn't normal and I need to see my primary care physician to check my thyroid and potentially refer me to a dermatologist - that it has to be because of something else is going on, not the chemo. What?
Doggone it! I thought I've read here that others have also had slow and sparse regrowth for a while. I love my pcp and contacting her, but decided that I should call oncology because of the chemo. Chemo, afterall, made my hair fall out in the first place! I can't be the first woman with this problem! I'm really upset. This isn't the response I wanted. I wanted to be told yes, sometimes this happens and what helps is X or patience.
Comments? I'm now going to try to make an appointment with my pcp - who doesn't prescribe chemo and probably doesn't know whether this is normal or not!
Apr 15, 2011 - 5:41 am
I will tell you my experience: I had very thick, beautiful hair before chemo. After my treatment which finished in June of 2008, my hair did grow back but it was much thinner, especially on the sides and on top. I kept on waiting and waiting for it to grow back, and it never did. I did go to a dermatologist but this was of no help. I talked to many other women with the same problem, and my conclusion is that either the Taxotere I took or the Femara I'm still taking was what did this. There is a group called Taxotears (google it) in which they talk about the true, but little publicized fact, that Taxotere can cause permanent hair loss in some women. Femara reports that 5% of the women have hair thinning, but I think (based on my conversations with other women) that the actual percentage is much higher.
My advice to you: don't waste your time going to dermatologists. All they have to offer is Rogaine, which is a terrible drug. You have to take it the rest of your life and in most women, it only prevents further hair loss and doesn't help the hair grow back. It also causes hair to grow on the face as a side effect. I firmly believe the solutions are COSMETIC, not medical: I went to a great hairstylist who did things (highlights, coloring, a good cut) to disguise the hair thinning. I also use a product called Hair So Real (you can google it) which is something you sprinkle on the thin spots and is totally effective at disguising them.
It took me a long time to accept that my hair could still look okay with the above cosmetic tips, but would never be the same. Feel free to PM me if you have further questions.
Good luck.
Apr 15, 2011 - 8:23 am
Rogaine is not an oral drug...you do NOT "take it"...it is a topical treatment..
Apr 24, 2011 - 12:55 am
I know it's topical: I just misstated it in my response. It's still a horrible drug and not worth it in my opinion, though.
Apr 15, 2011 - 8:38 am
Hi Ohilly - It is good to see your post. I have hair thinning too. It's not just my head! I have no hair on my legs from my feet until about 1/3 of the way up my calf/shin. I always thought it was the chemo, but never asked. It is nice not to have to shave to wear capris, tee hee. I think Arimidex also can cause the hair to thin. xoxoxox Lynn
Apr 15, 2011 - 9:19 am
Has anyone tried the Nioxin products? I know it works for those whose hair thinning is due to age.
Apr 24, 2011 - 11:19 am
I've always had fine thin hair.I didnt need chemo and was glad for that.I was afraid if I had it my hair would def not come back in like so many others.I take tamoxifin.My hair is thinning from that and I have over 3 years to go.I am worried.My friends who had chemo and radiation did fine with their hair growning back.They say it is thin but it is very thick.Probably thinner to them.
Since my hair is so fine and thin I use a good shampoo that gives body.I roll my hair on tight rollers and brush it.It looks good and doesn't look as thin as it really is.If I cut it I would really look bald.But the way I do it now no one has any idea of my hair loss. It is Esp thin for someone who didn't have chemo.My sister is pretty much bald on top.I don't want that.She has been most of her life.She's had no illnesses.
I know some is my genes but this tamox isn't helping.Then after tamox there is another drug for 5 years.UGH!!!!
Lynn Smith
Apr 15, 2011 - 12:08 pm
Oh Suzanne, how frustrating. Wouldn't it be nice if they had said "Oh yes, that does happen once in a while. Here's a cream that has worked for some. Use it sparingly twice a day."
I've heard that biotin helps...something else to ask the PCP.
Hope to see you soon.
Apr 15, 2011 - 2:24 pm
It's been 1 yr and 4 mo since chemo and while the hair on sides and back is normal like before, my top and crown are thin. Good color, cut and style really helps, oh and lots of products. Before bc the hair right in fron had begun thinning and I used Nioxin and I liked it. It's shampoo, conditioner, sclap treatment and follicle booster. Expensive, but I want hair. I started using a product called Enjoy after chemo and it was ok and then I switched back to Nioxin and did see hair regrowth. But you should use it everyday and I don't always wash my hair everyday so I forget to use the foam and follicle booster. My vote is to try it, it can't hurt and certainly may help. But I think this is all I'm gonna get so I'm just trying to keep what I got!
I would try the Hair So Real, but isn't that a poweder? I am a very warm person and can soak my scalp and I'm afraid a poweder would start running down my face. Ever had any problems like that?
Thin and combing over, Judy :-)
Apr 15, 2011 - 4:43 pm
Thanks for input. I may try some Nioxin. I'm really disappointed that my oncologist couldn't even say this happens sometimes, but lets rule out other causes. Her nurse acted like they'd never heard of such a thing. Yet I looked it up online (from reputable websites) and they clearly say that "in most cases" (I think 95%) hair grows back after chemo. I also wondered about Arimidex effecting regrowth. Why can't they just own up to the fact that sometimes stuff like this happens as a result of the treatments? I'm pretty irritated.
Maybe it will grow in eventually. And maybe as it gets longer, I can do an effective comb over. Sigh. I don't think I have a thyroid issue. I just had thyroid tests a few months ago and all was well. I also don't think a dermatologist will be able to do anything, but I'd like some Latisse. In the meantime, my primary care physician has jury duty next week and I don't have an appointment until the 29th.
Apr 24, 2011 - 12:54 am
I really, really recommend HairSoReal: it's actually natural keratin fibers that you sprinkle on the thin spots and it really covers them very effectively. If you get your hair wet or it rains, it does not 'run' because they're keratin, which is almost like real hair fibers.
I hate to be a naysayer, but I tried Nioxin, Biotin, everything! Nothing will make your hair any thicker because of these darned Aromatase inhibitors we have to take, but you CAN deal with it cosmetically through a good hair cut and products like HairSoReal. I wish the oncologists would tell you these drugs will do this, instead of trying to minimize the side effect or cover it up, which I believe is what the drug companies do (I believe hair thinning from AIs is pretty common based on my conversations with other women, and that the drug companies underreport it).
I have been on Femara almost three years. Does anyone out there know if your hair gets thicker once you get off the drug?
Jul 15, 2011 - 1:39 am
Like you, I would LOVE to know if anyone who's been off Femara has had their hair re-grow!
I was finished chemo 27 months ago, and have been on Femara for about a year. I have kept waiting, and trying EVERYTHING I can think of - taking Silicea Gel, getting Indian Head Masage, massaging essential oils into my scalp nightly - I'm SLOWLY getting regrowth, but at this rate I'll have about 10% of my origianl hair in about 5 years! Every time I loook in the mirror it's a constant reminder of loss.
I just decided today that enough is enough. I was a beautiful woman, who had a full head of thick, long, beautiful hair - that always looked good - even when I woke up in the morning! I'm setting up an appointment to enquire about hair extensions.
It's terrible, isn't it? That NO ONE understands the impact this has on us. Between having my ovaries removed (electively), being on Femara (which inhibits ALL hormonal activity in my body) and the hair loss, I feel like I've been robbed of my feminity and identity. I went out without makeup a couple of months ago, and a male clerk in a variety store was actually unsure as to whether I was male or female! Talk about a moment you never thought you'd have to endure! I told my husband it's like this: imagine you've been castrated and then someone has aplied permanent makeup on you face that has given you a female appearnce. I still don't think he gets it.
So, I'll let you know how my hair extentsions consulatation goes. I'm done waiting for my hair to come in. I'm going to do something about it NOW.
By the way - if you read the ingredients list on Nioxin, it's not very encouraging. It's full of ingredients that we as breast cancer survivors, especially, should be avoiding at all costs. Yeah, that sucks too. Check Environmental Working Groups site to give you information as to the substances you should be avoiding.
Jul 15, 2011 - 2:09 am
Not that I'm happy for your dilemma, but it does feel nice to have someone to talk to about this.
When I saw my oncologist last month, I showed her my hair. She said I might think about switching to Femera (from Arimidex) in December if things don't get better. Of course, she doesn't know if this happened because of the chemo or Arimidex, but she did admit that ANY chemo that causes hair loss could be permanent. Swell. She also said that while all of the AI's have similar side effects (including alopecia) some women have different side effects on different drugs. I'm doing so well on the Armidex, I hate to risk a change, but we'll see how the hair thing is in December.
I'm currently using a "snake oil" treatment. The woman who did my permanent make-up is convinced she can help me with her needling techniques. www.estellesplace.com. I truely don't hold out much hope on this, if any. She does this "dry tatoo" thingie and then I'm supposed to apply minoxidil 2 X a day. So if I do grow more hair, we'll never know if it was the needling, minixodil, or just plain time and I don't care what is responsible. I just want more of my hair back.
JWI, is your hair loss consistent all over your body? Mine is. It's so wierd. Not to mention depressing. There are definitely worse things than having no hair, but it does suck - big time.
Jul 15, 2011 - 8:11 am
My taxatere and Cytoxin treatment ended 1 and a half yrs ago. I had very thick hair and its now much thinner and less body, doesn't hold a curl for long. And still no eyebrows and just a few lashes. Its just something I've accepted. I used to wear styles with height on top of my head, now it's flat as a pancake, not attractive on my round head. Hope yours does better soon.
Jul 15, 2011 - 2:19 pm
I too suffer from thin hair, sparse eye brows - and thinner lashes. Frustrating, to say the very least.
I've tried EVERYTHING..the best thing that I've found that works .. is Biotin .. I take the capsules, as use the shampoo J/A/S/O/N -- I purchase shampoo on line, much cheaper. Biotin tables for oral consumption -- available at Henry's or Natural supplement store. 6 months after starting this regiment, I am seeing healthier lashes - and my hair feels, looks and appears much better.
Hoping you find something that works for your hair issues :)
Vicki Sam


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Axle Town (Japanese: タワータウン Tower Town) is the 5th and last accessible town in Pokémon Rumble Blast, located within The World Axle. It holds a Move Vendor for Draco Meteor and a Yellow Move-a-Majig. It also holds the normal town facilities, including stations for co-op play, a StreetPass telescope, and more.
Axle Town can be re-visited by going through regions near it and hopping on the elevator. Likewise, there will be elevators in Axle town to the region with elevators. The player can also press start and "Return to Town".
- Glowing Fountain: The fountain heals the player when he or she has low HP, as it has Glowdrops.
- Move Vendor: Draco Meteor for 5,000,000Ⓟ.
- Move Swapper: Swap moves between A and B for 15,000Ⓟ.
- Two-Player: The player can share his or her Mii names, Nintendo 3DS user names, etc. The original Toy Trainer's name may be shown to the player being communicated with. The player can also recruit other players, or search for other players.
- Information: The player can check their play info, battle(s) info, switch info, battle records, misc info, money acquired, money spent, information about the Battle Royales the player took part in, team battle data, and Top Defeated Pokémon.
- Collection: The player can check the Pokémon he or she found in different areas.
- Shopscope: The player can peek at the Toy Shop, where his or her Mii will be standing, looking at the Pokémon. The player can also invite another player to come to the Toy Shop, as well as activate StreetPass. Additionally, the player can look at his or her collection, which consists of the Pokémon befriended in battle. Using the Stylus, the player can edit their greeting, the default being, "Hello!" The player has a card which has the player's greeting, most powerful Pokémon, power of the player's collection, time played, and the number of team Pokémon the player has. On the back, the player can check how much money is owned, total power, how much Pokémon has been befriended, attacks, Pokémon switches, and StreetPass hits.
- Move-a-majig: Obtain a random move up to ★★★★. Cost changes depending on the power level of the Pokémon being used.
- Launch Pad: Launch Pads are found on the east end of the town that take the player back to Toy Town, Easterly Town, and Westerly Town, as well as Northerly Town.
- Move School: Team Pokémon will teach their move to a Pokémon. They will leave after teaching it.
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"Heroes are violent, and, as such, are rewarded for their behavior. They become role models for youth. It is "cool" to carry an automatic weapon and use it to knock off the "bad guys." The typical scenario of using violence for a righteous cause may translate in daily life into a justification for using violence to retaliate against perceived victimizers."
(Eugene V Beresin, M.D.
Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training
Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital)
Video Games
Tend to be more aggressive
Prone to get into more arguments with adults
May start or get involved in fights with others
Start lacking in academic ability
Tend to cheat more
Less self control
Video Games are a different form
of entertainment than movies or TV
as the person is actively participating
in the activity instead of just watching
what is happening.
The player knows what happened is because
of a direct result of what they just did
Violent video games generally are
repeating violent acts throughout the
game therefore reinforcing the message.
A lot of video games come in a first
person form, instead of a movie
or TV show where someone is passively
watching the main character act out
these violent actions, the player can feel
more like they're the one in that situation
or the main character.
Players of violent video games are also rewarded
for violent actions such as getting 'Points' or
compliments like 'Nice shot!'. Rewards keep the
player playing and are basically told what they're
doing is right. You wouldn't go to work if you were never paid, would you?
Video games as a result have shown to have people react to an obstacle or challenge with more anger or unstable emotions.
Limit the amount of time a kid can play
Look at the ratings of the video games they play
If they do play violent video games discuss the kind of messages they see in the games they play
Experience the game with them to know if what you think they're playing is appropriate
How can we prevent this?
Now although there aren't any studies
yet that have shown violent video games
being a cause of something major like
violent crime they still have a bit of a minor
effect on teens or kids mindset.
Some studies have shown that as violent
video game sales have rose that youth crime
has dropped by half from 1994 to 2010 to
224 reports per 100,000 people.
More studies have shown violent crimes to
be seasonal with more crimes happening
in the Summer than in the Winter while
most video games are released in the
Fall-Winter time.
Some teens admit to having violent thoughts
but the act of playing a violent video game
acts as a harmless outlet for those thoughts
rather than actually committing a violent
It's difficult to know if any crimes are a direct
result of violent video games as many factors
can play a role into a person's thoughts that
may have lead them to committing a crime.
Video games and Crime
Effect of Video Games on Teens:
However some Video Games are violent but
have a positive goal in mind.
A zombie game where you have to protect a friend is much different than a zombie game where you're just trying to kill as many zombies as possible.
This has shown a different effect in teens
as teens who have played something
like "the former" are shown to be
considerably less aggressive than teens who have played a game like "the latter".
What differs Video Games from
other forms of media?
Video Games like
Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto,
Mortal Kombat,
are getting increasingly
popular everyday with no signs of stopping. Are
violent video games really affecting how kids think
or act?
Most games nowadays like the ones stated above
have many negative themes like:
This video is basically explaining
a study on how violent video games
can affect emotional behavior and how
people who play violent video games
are showing signs of being desensitized
to things like war or killing.
The killing of people or animals
Drug/Alcohol abuse
Criminal behavior/disrespect for the law
Sexual exploitation
Foul language and gestures
Overall, violent video games are showing a negative mental effect on people, but it is still unknown whether or not this still plays a role in crime rates.
This is a bit of a drastic example but
as you can see he was very hostile
to who he was playing with and
making death threats. This also
continued outside of the game as
he was also yelling at his mom.
Some studies have shown that boys who've played violent video games for longer intervals have an easier time sleeping and lower heart rates. This backs up that the more someone plays a violent video game
the more they get desensitized to violence and war.
Effect of Violent Media on society
Movies violence on people.
Effect of Violent Television
The effects of violent movies.
The researchers set up an investigation in which 53 male and 40 female college students with various behavior types (empathetic, Type A, etc.)(Harris 1999)
They first took tests to determine their primary personality traits. (Harris 1999)
The films included innocuous movies, such as "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Little Man Tate," in which conflicts are resolved without bodily harm, and violent films, such as "Universal Soldier" and "Excessive Force," representing the new cinematic genre of super violent movies that are laden with maiming and killings and often have a hero who uses such violence. (Harris 1999)
Exposure to the gratuitously violent film also produced this effect without provocation by the experimenter. The study showed that prolonged exposure to gratuitously violent films is can escalate hostile behavior in both men and women and instigate such behavior in unprovoked research participants. They determined that the effect is not short lived, but remains for some time after the viewing of the films. (Harris 1999)
Weaver says, "It could be showing that prolonged exposure to media violence can facilitate hostility indiscriminately. That is, it may be that the concepts of hostility planted by the media violence can be activated by any ill feelings and can foster mean-spirited toward the person's social environment at large." (Harris 1999)
Women rated the experimenter as less courteous than did males, and people with empathetic, extroverted, or Type A behaviors also were more hostile. The researchers speculate that, since the experimenters were all female, the women participants were hostile to their authority and "felt comparatively uninhibited in their hostile behavior toward female targets." (Harris 1999)
Too, the male participants may have been exhibiting chivalry in rating the experimenters as more courteous, Weaver says. As for extraverts, they may be more apprehensive of being evaluated and react negatively to the authoritative ? and especially to the abusive ? evaluations. Type A people may have been impatient and annoyed at changing from viewing a film to taking tests, the researchers said. (Harris 1999)
It's virtually impossible to keep your kid in a violence-free environment "90% of movies, 68% of video games, and 60% of TV shows show some depictions of violence" says Caroline Knorr, parenting editor for Common Sense Media. Kids 8 and under watch an average of 1 hour and 40 minutes of TV or DVDs a day. older kids watch an average of 4 hours daily, but does the violent content of many of these shows really have a affect on our minds? It is common belief that these shows cause people to become "immune" or numb to violence and that violence becomes a viable way to solve problems. It is also believed that enough exposure creates a aggressive and violent individual.
By Grayson Miller, Max Wyckoff, Steve Pilon, and Josh Whitt
Bullet Train
But those were college students.
A study took a group of five to six year old and had them watch a kids movie and a another group watch a violent movie and then had them play together. Without knowing who how was in what group he was able to guess just by there behavior who was in the group that watched the violent movie and who watched the kid movie.
"With both preschool and school-aged children, studies have found that they are more
likely to imitate the violence they see on screen if someone they see as a 'good guy' is
using the violence to solve a problem, especially if there are no realistic consequences for the violence," says Garrison.
Think Spider-Man and a bad guy smashing into the side of a building, but both appear unhurt and keep on fighting.
A new study published today in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Academy of
Pediatrics, found that viewing shows in which cooperation and empathy are emphasized (instead of shows that demonstrate aggression) can improve behavior in 3- to 5-year-olds in just 6 months.
Scary images can spook kids even as they are drawn to them. "With toddlers and preschool-aged children,
everything can seem much more immediate -- and so seeing violence on TV can leave them feeling like their world is a scary place, where things like that might happen at any moment," says Garrison. "In our research, we've seen that sleep problems like nightmares and trouble falling asleep go up in preschool children even when the violence they're seeing on
TV is comic cartoon violence, suggesting that there really isn't such a thing as 'safe media violence' at this age."
Look for shows with a rating of TV-Y, which are virtually violence-free, on the channel's web site or your local TV listings.
Quantity is key.
Lots of parents question the violence in many of today's cartoons and video games, but many of us grew up watching Tom & Jerry, The Road Runner, and other animated favorites where violence was also a key ingredient.
So was humor – and the reassurance that no matter what happened, no one ever got hurt; at least not fatally. Everything always ended well.
In fact, you can argue that aggression and hostility has been the linchpin of cartoons and fairy tales forever.
What is Sleeping Beauty without the evil threat of the jealous witch, or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs without a near-fatal dose of poison.
A new study from New Zealand, also published today in Pediatrics, found that excessive TV watching in childhood and adolescence is associated with an increased risk of criminal convictions and anti-social behavior in young adults. The APP recommends no screen time for kids under 2, and no more than 1-2 hours for kids preschool age on up. Age seven or eight is a turning point, what experts refer to as "the age of reason." While kids under seven have a difficult time distinguishing between fantasy and reality, older kids get that slapstick violence is funny because it's happening in a way that never could in real life, says Garrison (think Wile E. Coyote going over a cliff and emerging without a scratch in the next scene). Although it can make parents squirm to see their kids giggle at someone getting hurt, it's the disconnect from the way things really work that makes it funny, and doesn't mean they'd laugh at a friend's injury in real life. Kids this age also grasp the concept of special effects. However, they're still not old enough to handle realistic depictions of violence, so look for shows rated TV-Y7. These shows feature only mild comic or fantasy violence, a la Wile E. Coyote.
The effects on adults
Studies have shown that the effects of media violence on adults are more short term compared to on children who aren't short term they are more long term effects.
Teenagers and young adults who watch even as little as an hour of television
a day are more likely to get into fights, commit assaults or engage in other
types of violence later in life, according to a provocative new study.
The more television people watch, the more likely it appears that they will
later become violent, an effect that researchers argued bolsters the case that
it is television that causes the aggression.
The study tracked the impact of television on violence among more than 700
young people over 17 years. Previous studies have found an association between
television violence and aggression. But this is the longest study to track the
consequences of TV viewing of any kind and the first to show that adults are
affected as surely as children, the researchers said. If the study had examined
violent programming alone, the link would have been more dramatic, they said.
Video Game Violence & Children
Violence in The Media
DESENSITIZED: Violent Media & Children
Possible Negative impact
The possible negative impact of Movie violence are pretty real because in 2012 a men dressed up as the joker and shot up a movie theater during the newest batman movie.
there are some simple things any parent can do to immensely reduce the chances of having a violent and aggressive teen.
Make thoughtful media choices and co-view them with children. Co-viewing should include discussing the inappropriateness of the violent solutions offered in the specific television show, movie, or video game and helping the child to generate nonviolent alternatives. Parents tend to limit sexual content more than violent content, yet research has indicated that the latter is potentially more unhealthy.
Limit screen time (including television, videos, computer and video games) to 1 to 2 hours per day, using the V-chip, and avoiding violent video games (defined as games that include intentional harm to other game characters, including cartoon or unrealistic violence as well as realistic or gory violence). Counseling about limiting screen time has been shown to be effective in office settings.97 For example, just a minute or two of office counseling about media violence and guns could lead to less violence exposure for more than 800000 children per year.97 Parents also need to be reminded that they are important role models in terms of their own media use.
Avoid screen media for infants or toddlers younger than 2 years.98 There have been no studies to indicate that screen time contributes positively to infant development,99,100 and there are now 7 studies that have documented possible language delays among children younger than 2 years who are exposed to television or videos.
Possible solutions:
Limited the amount of violence in movie.
Limit how many come out at one time or just don't watch them.
Prevent smaller kids from watching them with parent-lock be more active in what they watch.
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Carey, Benedict. "Shooting in the Dark." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
Etchells, Pete. "What Is the Link between Violent Video Games and Aggression?" Theguardian.com. Guardian News and Media, 19 Sept. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
Bushman, Brad J. "The Effects of Violent Video Games. Do They Affect Our Behavior?" The Effects of Violent Video Games on Behavior. International Human Press, 12 Feb. 2013. Web. 06 Mar. 2014.
Harris, Sally. "Violent Movies Can increase Violent Responses in Real Life." Science from Virginia Tech. Science at Virginia Tech, 1999. Web. 06 Mar. 2014.
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But is all of the violence in children and adults alike from the cartoons and action shows? The news also plays a big role, sometimes the news can get just as gruesome if not more than the average TV show. Now a days it seems that every time you turn on the news its about a body being found or a public place being shot up, because this is true and not some television show with special effects this hold influence much longer than the average show which is starts to loose influence at about the age of seven when children begin to grasp that most shows aren't real.
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Soooo it's no secret that I'm a pillow hoarder and Shannon from Burlap & Lace certainly hasn't helped the situation – there's no way I can't add more pillows to my stash after seeing these amazing {DIY Designer Inspired Painted Pillows} that she created. Three pillows for a total of less than $15! Seriously amazing…
On all of the snowy winter days that we've been having, I've pretty much stayed in my robe all day and watched movies and played games with my girls. But no such slacking for Cassie of Primitive & Proper – she and her husband took advantage of being house-bound to build these gorgeous {Industrial Pipe Built-ins}. Not only can the girl build some killer shelves but she can style them with the best of them too…
Elizabeth of The Little Black Door had two problems with the bathrooms in her house – there was only one of them and it was a bit ho-hum. While she couldn't make a second bathroom magically appear, she was able to whip the ho-hum out of the one she has with a colorful {Bathroom Makeover} including that beautiful green and white striped shower curtain that I'm totally coveting! You'll be amazed by how different it looks from the "before"!
Am I the only gal in blogland who doesn't yet have the addicting Waterlogue App? Beth from DesignPOST Interiors not only has the app but she's used it to create this fabulous {Waterlogue App Gallery Wall} in her home office/guest room. I don't know which I love more – her gallery wall, the colorful drapes and cornices, or that huge desk with the red legs – such an unbelievable space!
People who sew well amaze me. So Jill from Sew A Fine Seam is a total rock star in my eyes! She used European grain sacks to create this unbelievable {Union Jack Pouffe} for her friend's son. Swoon!
One of my favorite things about our link party was that we got to see what some of our nonblogger friends have been up to this month too! Like Holly's beautiful new living room that she shared via Instagram! Loving those blue chairs and gorgeous pillow fabrics Holly! You can find Holly on Instagram {here}
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Superstar John Cena may dominate ring, but he melted hearts during a recent "Monday Night Raw."
Cena, along with his opponent Sting, took a moment after their match to honor a little girl who won the battle of a lifetime.
Kiara Grindrod, 7, has been battling cancer, E! reported.
"We've got a special fighter in the house," Cena said. "We have a young lady who is 7 years old, and she just got some amazing news. She's been fighting quite a tough battle, and I'm proud to announce she won."
Cena added that Kiara is, "an inspiration to not only us in the ring, but to every single person outside the ring around the world."
He was then joined by Sting, Cena giving her a big hug and both giving the little fighter WWE gifts as the crowed changed words of encouragement.
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Josephine Meckseper
Whitewall - N°24, winter 2012
Unabridged version
Timothée Chaillou: We could easily think that your work depicts the world as a huge circuit of commodities, money and labor operating to satisfy the economic interests of the power elite. I suggest we start this interview with the general narrative and the poetic dimension of your displays. Could you tell us more about this?
Josephine Meckseper: The work equally reflects the role of the artist in our current consumer society. How does one reconcile the symbolic and the monetary value of cultural production? How does one make visible real economic and political realities without just mimicking them? Is there really still a subculture or subversiveness in art? This is the narrative behind the recent display sculptures.
TC: In your work, you're used to denouncing the absurdity of consumerism by using images of luxury goods and ads. Could you expand on your use of Cartier's ads?
JM: I was mainly interested in how they were placed in the New York Times as full-page ads. There was something propagandistic in the way they appeared; their monumental scale and the militaristic manner of calling a watch "Tank."
TC: In the same way, your recent images wrapped in plastic film, as well as your 0% Down video, show expensive cars. Do they symbolize masculine futility?
JM: These works demonstrate the endpoint of traditional production methods in relationship to the automobile industry and art production. The "car painting" with its shrink wrapped car imagery seems to have come directly from a conveyor belt, not an artist studio. The shrink-wrapped paintings and my film 0% Down also draw comparisons between art history and consumer culture and how it has been defined and shaped by gender. In 0% Down car commercials are combined to negate the manipulative force of advertising, by exposing the potential for violence in the car products by using a neo fascist sound track.
TC: You once said that you explore the contradictions, absurdities and contingencies of juxtaposition between, for instance, an article about an African massacre and a Chanel model, or underwear adverts. Could you explain this choice? Is this exploration still an important aspect in your current work?
JM: The commodification of news and how political content has been instrumentalized both in the media and in an art context. Both offer digestibility and packaging of human tragedy. The image of a "real event" has to compete with an advert. My works exaggerate this mode of disseminating information and consumerism in order to expose it.
TC: Your work questions the aesthetics of photography, both because it reuses images from the luxury world, but also because your installations are themselves very aesthetic. The quest for aesthetics sets rather strict rules in order to convey a message efficiently in the media. Do you aim at "visual efficiency working 100%"(Xavier Veilhan)?
JM: I think we are talking about conventions and stereotypes at this point. The mainstream media usually taps into the lowest common denominator to effectively reach their audience. People tend to buy what everyone else has. It's fairly easy to deconstruct the aesthetic principles of advertising and propaganda, which I do to some extent in my work. However, art has not followed any golden ratio type of aesthetic guidelines for many decades. The reasoning behind cultural production has become a much more complex process.
TC: Jeff Koons has said, "People in search of luxury are like insatiable alcoholics who lose all control up to depravity". Do you think an object of desire and temptation can intoxicate the viewer?
JM: No, I don't believe in this terminology, that's advertising language. I think the mechanisms behind products are political and propagandistic. Capitalism is defined by the hidden power structures behind each product.
TC: What led you to use the shop window as a conceptual and structural framing device?
JM: I built the shop window displays as a frame of reference to go next to films that I had shot at demonstrations and riots. The films show acts of reclaiming the street and the politicizing of commercial shopping districts. The films show underexposed civil disobedience and protest, the display works overexposed modes of our consumer society.
TC: You have said that the clean surfaces of your shop window "are a provocation for vandalism and destruction. They represent the moment right before a demonstrator picks up a stone and smashes a window." How do you deal with this tension between the viewer and your work? What will you do if a window is actually vandalized?
JM: What is meant here is that the windows were conceived in relationship to the demonstrator and not intended to be affirmative art objects. The inescapable reason for their existence is in anticipation of their own destruction.
TC: Jacques Rancière compared your display of images to the display of goods on a market. But at the same time, he said that you showed the viewer what he didn't want to see, what he was ashamed of, to the extent that this satirical display became a luxury commodity belonging to what you denounced. I myself just can't tell if you express some inner disgust for power symbols, or some fascination, some kind of delight to make the viewer's inhibition resurface. What are the common features with real shop windows that make them so annoyingly provocative? Do you use objects that repulse you? What is your way to "de-fascinate"?
JM: I am not emotionally invested in the iconography of capitalism. I'm much more interested in capturing the present it all its forms as a reflection of our time. Artists have done this for centuries in painting, I'm just doing it in three dimensional forms. The display forms and objects are only signifiers of consumerism and are easily interchangeable. This is a key to the work – the objects themselves are mere signs of capitalism.
TC: Do you agree with Okwui Enwezor who has said about your work that you "employ the language of negation in order to explicitly defamiliarize the image of pop from its critical apparatus, namely, in the circulation of the message of commodity value"?
JM: Yes, the value of appropriated and recycled imagery and objects is central to my work. I'm looking for cultural and sociological end points as a platform to subvert notions of authenticity and value. The idea is to undermine an elitist art vocabulary that is not accessible to a broader audience.
TC: In the context of a fair or an exhibition in a gallery, displaying your shop windows on podiums creates an interesting mise en abyme of the art market. Does this reflect how human desire works?
JM: The reading of the work is circumstantial, as it reflects the respective degree of criticality that the viewer brings to his environment. The display works stand in a non affirmative relation to their own aesthetic and how they function in the gallery or institutional space.
TC: Everyone has a little arrangement of objects, somewhere right up front or stacked in a niche. Why is it that we have to express ourselves through objects by creating a mise en scène?
JM: Agamben describes the early roots of the collecting impulse in The Man Without Content and how the Wunderkammer in the Middle Ages were shelves from floor to ceilings filled statues and paintings next to natural wonders like ostrich eggs and strange rock shapes, etc. He goes on to explain, "this is why the individual objects seem to find their meaning only side by side with others, between the walls of a room in which the scholar could measure at every moment the boundaries of the universe."
TC: For Hal Foster, the appropriations in commodity sculpture "evoke the ambivalence of the surrealist object, if not the tribal gift. In the first tendency, strong in Steinbach, the art object is presented directly as a commodity – as if in a suicidal strike against consumption that is also an ecstatic embrace of it. In the second tendency, strong in Koons, the lost aura of art is replaced with the false aura of the commodity – a paradoxical move as well, given that it turns the readymade from a device that demystifies art into one that remystifies it. In both tendencies, then, the readymade according to Duchamp is reversed, and explicitly the commodity takes the place of the "allegorical way of seeing."
In your work, how do you go beyond this aesthetical state described by Hal Foster?
JM: There is less of a recognizable signature work method at play in my work. It meanders and follows a more encyclopedic principle and rejects categorization. In the nineties, for example, my work took the form of a conceptual magazine; aside from the shop windows and display works, there are oil pumps and military bunkers that demonstrate other more militaristic sides of our current culture.
TC: What does being committed/subversive in the field of art mean to you?
JM: It's no longer necessary to choose between a subversive working mode and a commercial presentation, because they no longer have to negate each other. Artists are taking more control the distribution of their works. Art today has the capacity to move in an out of the parameters of an art market.
TC: What does the pedestal/the podium recall for you? What does it allow?
JM: The pedestal in its original definition and form is as outmoded as the altar in the church. In my work I am reversing its role of elevating form and value of the displayed objects by degrading it to a cheap department store - like appearance.
TC: Through the use of the podium, do you think that presented objects increase their coefficient of visibility?
JM: Worthless things can be ascribed a new significance or meaning if placed on a display platform. But they can also be ridiculed or devalued by putting them in an inflammatory context. There is nothing affirmative about the way objects are placed on shelves or on platforms in my work. Instead they represent artificial ignition points, targets like shop windows at a violent demonstration.
TC: Are you interested, and why, by catwalks and shopping display?
JM: I am employing the concept and strategy of consumer display platforms such as shop windows, vitrines, shelves, etc., to bring out the absurdity of useless consumer goods and the hidden power structures, such as labor conditions, associated with them.
TC: Does the use of the podium bring everything on a single plan to be more legible – a kind of pedagogy?
JM: My aim is to reconstruct simulate situations of consumer display modalities in order to deconstruct and question them.
TC: The plinth, the pedestal, the podium are areas of power, competition, emphasis and authority. Why do you use this typology? Can we elude these principles?
JM: I don't want to elude principles of authority. Instead, I want to address them directly in my work. My "display sculptures" mostly incorporate or are hung next to photographs and films that I take at political demonstrations. The display forms become vulnerable targets and mockeries of established capitalist structures.
TC: What do you think about Barthes' statement when he says 'whatever the sense: things don't matter, but the place of things does'?
JM: Or who is producing, distributing or consuming them… Things by themselves are indeed of no importance. Only the means of production relations and their consequences are of real interest. The romantic idea of sentimental value does not really factor into my work.
TC: How to avoid – or to play - the game of fetishism and object of desire/of temptation, with the podium?
JM: By demystifying the notion of value and class. Karl Marx described in his 1867 essay The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret, how concealment of the values and powers associated with a commodity is at the center of commodity fetishism. The very design of a product is a mirror reflecting its meanings and desires but concealing the power structure implicit in its fabrication.


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When it comes to protecting fisheries, not all property rights are created equal.
Daniel Benjamin
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People in Regina, Saskatchewan were shocked to learn their household glass wasn't being recycled. On CBC's Morning Edition, Dan Benjamin helped them understand why.
Charlotte Huus-Henriksen, Annie Ireland, Todd Graham
Fri, 04/25/2014
In first-of-its-kind legislation, the National Park Service and the Oglala Sioux have proposed the 133,000-acre South Unit of Badlands National Park be turned into a Tribal National Park. Can it be done?
Daniel Benjamin
Wed, 04/09/2014
To recycle or not to recycle? That is the question.
Todd Graham, Jeremy Gingerich
Mon, 02/24/2014
The Park Service wants another large buffalo herd in the Great Plains, which would advance the Department of the Interior's Bison Conservation Initiative. In what may be a huge opportunity for the Oglala Sioux, a Tribal National Park is emerging in South Dakota—the first of its kind.
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Fracking concerns
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As someone who was a major Disney fan growing up (and still is!), I was pretty excited when Eliska from Ruffles and Bells sent over this adorable Beauty and the Beast inspiration shoot. It was like love at first sight! From the gorgeous palette of golds, mustard yellows, deep blues and purple to all the rich and delightful details that pay tribute to the movie so well, there's so much beauty to swoon over. There's even a beautiful gold lamp that reminds me of Lumiere! I think I'm going to have to dust off the DVD this weekend. Captured perfectly by Marie from Lilelements, you can see all of it right here.
Eliska of Ruffles and Bells shares, "The shoot is an outtake on Beauty and the Beast and the Marie of Lilelements and I stayed with the fairytale's classic colors of blue and gold but we added our own little twists to it. Imagine a garden wedding with a mixture of luxe detail brought by the gold and deep blue, featuring spring blooms with pale and bright colors. It showcases the bride and groom in more ways than one. Contrasts of soft and hard textures, foliage and pale flowers, wooden table against pretty cakes. It's for the modern couple who wants to keep things fun and interesting. Drawing inspiration from castle stained windows, Two Love Birds designed the invitations with intricate details and classic fonts to bring out the formality of the event. The gorgeous cakes and cookies designed by Minnie's Sweet Creations were based on the invites keeping with the blue and purple tones."
Photographer: lilelements / Stylist: Ruffles and Bells / Fashion: Savvy Brides / Cake: Minnie Sweet Creations / Hair & Makeup: Miss Juile Makeup / Models: Lea and Rede / Furniture & Props: Something Borrowed Vintage Hire / Florist: Hanako Floral Designs / Stationery: 2 Love Birds.
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In July 2015, Uganda joined the list of African countries that have implemented Public Private Partnerships laws.
On 1st July 2015, the parliament of the Republic of Uganda passed the highly anticipated Public Private Partnerships (hereinafter referred to as PPPs) Bill, it was later assented to by the President of Uganda on 12th August 2015. The new law filled the gaping void for a legal framework to regulate the development and implementation of PPPs in the country.
Before the passing of the new PPP's law, Uganda lacked a formative regulatory framework tailored to Public Private Partnerships arrangements. Stakeholders would refer to the 2010 National PPP Framework policy in conducting their operations.
The new law's objective is to regulate the procurement, implementation, maintenance, operation, management and monitoring of PPPs from project conception to conclusion. It elucidates on the core infrastructure areas for which PPP arrangements may be engaged, including but not limited to, transportation, water management, oil and gas pipelines, tourist infrastructure, sports and recreational facilities, mining, energy related facilities, social infrastructure etc.
The Act requires a private party to be incorporated in Uganda as a special purpose company for the purposes of implementing a specific PPP. The Act further limits any share capital and shareholding alterations to the company without the express approval of the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the respective ministry under which the project falls. There is no specific time frame within which such an approval may be obtained.
The scope of the Act is limited to government ministries, departments and the contracting authorities; local governments are expressly excluded.
There is a requirement that prior to the commencement of a PPP project, the contracting authority must conduct a cost benefit analysis of the project. Once the project is given a green light, it must be registered with the relevant line Ministry. After the said registration, the line ministry conducts a feasibility study of the project and gives an approval (if any required). Once the approval is obtained, the procurement of the private party can be initiated.
In instances where the Ugandan Government is the financial sponsor of the project, there must be ministerial confirmation of availability of funds for the implementation of the PPP project before the procurement process commences. It is noteworthy that the Government is expressly prohibited from borrowing, guaranteeing or raising a loan for a PPP project except with approval by Parliament as provided by the Constitution of Uganda. Further, projects above a certain monetary value threshold require a Cabinet approval. However, the extent to which parties can modify the terms and conditions after this approval is unclear; thus the rationale for stakeholders to be involved in the process from conception before an approval is secured.
The Act requires all PPP projects to have specified manpower requirements and permits the appointment of personnel, presumably, from the private sector.
The procurement laws in the PPPs Act differ from the mainstream procurement laws under the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA) Act (as amended). Under the PPDA Act, the government can shortlist and appraise a PPP private partner through a tailor-made PPP procurement process which can involve either competitive (through open or restricted bidding) or non-competitive procurement methods (direct procurement or private initiatives through unsolicited proposals; though once approved, this is subject to a competitive bidding, where 'all interested parties' may participate).
An evaluation committee is required to evaluate bids applying the lowest price criteria, factoring in the technical, professional and financial capacity of the bidder. The successful bid must be fair equitable, transparent and competitive and the most economically advantageous. In analyzing the source of the bidder's funds, the capital they have secured in the form of loans, guarantees or assurances required are looked at cumulatively.
The grounds for disqualification of bidders are spelt out in the Act including, but not limited to, a bidder or their representative's conviction of a criminal offence punishable by a minimum sentence of three months, conviction of an offense related to professional misconduct, tax evasion, non-fulfillment of obligations relating to payment of social security contributions, declaration of bankruptcy, or ordered into liquidation.
The nature and form of a PPP agreement is provided for under seven models, these are: a concession, operation and maintenance agreement, lease develop and operate agreement, build, own and maintain agreement, build own operate and transfer agreement, design build finance and operate agreement and the build own and operate agreement.
Regardless of the model adopted, all PPP agreements must include clear and detailed terms such as the type of PPP, descriptions of rights and obligations of the parties, the project specifications, sums to be paid to the private party, financing of the project, risk and profit allocation between the parties, insurance policies for the project to mention but a few.
All PPP projects are to be audited every financial year from the year of project inception to conclusion by the Auditor General or such other auditor that that office appoints.
An illustration of one of the major PPP projects in the pipeline that will benefit from this law is the Kampala – Jinja Expressway PPP project. It is a very ambitious project, but once completed will be a PPP success story.
In a nutshell, the PPP Act is a progressive statute aimed at helping to unlock Uganda's economic potential and giving stakeholders a certain degree of certainty over their projects.
Alice Namuli and Joanne Katende