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BLOND chapter II

Evolution of blond hair

Natural lighter hair colors occur most often in Europe and less frequently in other areas. In Northern European populations, the occurrence of blond hair is very frequent. The hair color gene MC1R has at least seven variants in Europe giving the continent a wide range of hair and eye shades. Based on recent genetic research carried out at three Japanese universities, the date of the genetic mutation that resulted in blond hair in Europe has been isolated to about 11,000 years ago during the last ice age.

A typical explanation found in the scientific literature for the evolution of light hair is related to the requirement for vitamin D synthesis and northern Europe's seasonal deficiency of sunlight. Lighter skin is due to a low concentration in pigmentation, thus allowing more sunlight to trigger the production of vitamin D. In this way, high frequencies of light hair in northern latitudes are a result of the light skin adaptation to lower levels of sunlight, which reduces the prevalence of rickets caused by vitamin D deficiency. The darker pigmentation at higher latitudes in certain ethnic groups such as the Inuit is explained by a greater proportion of seafood in their diet. As seafood is high in vitamin D, vitamin D deficiency would not create a selective pressure for lighter pigmentation in that population.

An alternative hypothesis was presented by Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, who claims blond hair evolved very quickly in a specific area at the end of the last ice age by means of sexual selection. According to Frost, the appearance of blond hair and blue eyes in some northern European women made them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males.

A theory propounded in The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994), says blond hair became predominant in Northern Europe beginning about 3,000 BC, in the area now known as Lithuania, among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers (according to the Kurgan hypothesis), and the trait spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia. As above, the theory assumes that men found women with blond hair more attractive.

It is now hypothesized by researchers that blond hair evolved more than once. Published in May 2012 in Science, a study of people from the Solomon Islands in Melanesia found that an amino acid change in TYRP1 produced blonde hair.

(Tyrosinase-related protein 1, also known as TYRP1, is an enzyme which in humans is encoded by the TYRP1 gene)

SKIRT PARTY in SWEETGRASS

Last Sunday: A cool breeze will make you feel like heaven down there gives you the touch of freedom. 

But only if you are wearing

a skirt to our party at the pool Sunday !

You'll have the chance to win L$ 1000 !

So come over and get that feeling at  the Sweetgrass Pool

DJ JennaRose will entertain us with her great tunes.

More pictures of the party at:

http://sweetgrassparties.weebly.com/index.html 

BLOND chapter I

Blond or blonde, or fair hair, is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some sort of yellowish color. The color can be from the very pale blond (caused by a patchy, scarce distribution of pigment) to reddish "strawberry" blond colors or golden-brownish ("sandy") blond colors (the latter with more eumelanin). On the Fischer–Saller scale blond color ranges from A to J (blond brown), the RGB color value is typically #FAF0BE (250,240,190).

Blond or Blonde

Etymology, spelling, and grammar

The word "blond" is first attested in English in 1481 and derives from Old French blund, blont meaning "a colour midway between golden and light chestnut". It gradually eclipsed the native term "fair", of same meaning, from Old English fæġer, to become the general term for "light complexioned". The French (and thus also the English) word "blond" has two possible origins. Some linguists say it comes from Medieval Latin blundus, meaning "yellow", from Old Frankish blund which would relate it to Old English blonden-feax meaning "grey-haired", from blondan/blandan meaning "to mix" (Cf. blend). Also, Old English beblonden meant "dyed" as ancient Germanic warriors were noted for dying their hair. However, linguists who favor a Latin origin for the word say that Medieval Latin blundus was a vulgar pronunciation of Latin flavus, also meaning yellow. Most authorities, especially French, attest the Frankish origin. The word was reintroduced into English in the 17th century from French, and was for some time considered French; in French, "blonde" is a feminine adjective; it describes a woman with blond hair.

Brad Pitt Cannes 2012

British actor Daniel Craig
named as the first blond Bond

"Blond", with its continued gender-varied usage, is one of few adjectives in written English to retain separate masculine and feminine grammatical genders. Each of the two forms, however, is pronounced identically. American Heritage's Book of English Usage propounds that, insofar as "a blonde" can be used to describe a woman but not a man who is merely said to possess blond(e) hair, the term is an example of a "sexist stereotype [whereby] women are primarily defined by their physical characteristics." The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records that the phrase "big blond beast" was used in the 20th century to refer specifically to men "of the Nordic type" (that is to say, blond-haired). Particularly this had associations with Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch. The OED also records that blond as an adjective is especially used with reference to women, in which case it is likely to be spelt "blonde", citing three Victorian usages of the term. The masculine version is used to describe a plural, in "blonds of the European race", in a citation from 1833 Penny cyclopedia, which distinguishes genuine blondness as a Caucasian feature distinct from albinism. By the early 1990s, "blonde moment" or being a "dumb blonde" had come into common parlance to mean "an instance of a person, esp. a woman... being foolish or scatter-brained." Another hair color word of French origin, brunet(te) (from the same Germanic root that gave "brown"), also functions in the same way in orthodox English. The OED gives "brunet" as meaning "dark-complexioned" or a "dark-complexioned person", citing a comparative usage of brunet and blond to Thomas Henry Huxley in saying, "The present contrast of blonds and brunets existed among them". "Brunette" can be used, however, like "blonde", to describe a mixed-gender populace. The OED quotes Grant Allen, "The nation which resulted... being sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette."

"Blond" and "blonde" are also occasionally used to refer to objects that have a color reminiscent of fair hair. Examples include pale wood and lager beer. For example, the OED records its use in 19th century poetic diction to describe flowers, "a variety of clay ironstone of the coal measures", "the colour of raw silk", and a breed of ray.

Blonde song

Hello My Name Is... is the debut studio album by American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter Bridgit Mendler (born December 18, 1992) released on October 22, 2012, through Hollywood Records. The first single of the album, "Ready or Not", was released on August 7, 2012. It premiered on August 3, 2012, and was released as a digital download on August 7, 2012. The song was written by Mendler herself, Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou and Evan "Kidd" Bogart. The song debuted at number 98 and peaked at number 49 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was later certified Gold in Canada and Platinum in New Zealand. She has used three more songs to promote her album: "Hurricane"; which is the official second single off of the album, "Forgot to Laugh" and "Top of the World".

The album has received generally positive reviews from music critics.

The song "Blonde" is a little clichéd but ends up as a convincing argument that hair color isn't a gauge of brains.

Blonde lyrics

Hey, I think you got my number

 When I was out with my brother

 You said 'hi' and I think I liked you

 Oh we talked about maybe getting together

 A raincheck on the weather

 Cloudy skies and I had to get home

 Oh those eyes

 I thought you were a really nice guy

 I thought you were just my type

 But I forgot your name

I'm a blonde so excuse me

 I'm a blonde I get crazy

 And everybody knows

 We're a little more than fun

 I like to play it up like I'm dumb

 D-dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb

 'Cause I'm a blonde

Hey I'm not a college grad yet

 There are some books I haven't read yet

 But I could quote

 A little bit of shakespeare in my sleep

 But there have been those times

 When I've clearly forgotten

 How to spell words like R-E-E-D-I-N-G

 Me, me and myself

 And I try really hard to get by

 With simple little things

I'm a blonde so excuse me

 I'm a blonde I get crazy

 And everybody knows

 We're a little more than fun

 I like to play it up like I'm dumb

 D-dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb

 'Cause I'm a blonde

Oh oh oohh (I-I'm a blonde)

 Oh oh oohh (I-I'm a blonde)

 Oh oh oohh 'cause I'm a blonde

 Maybe if I cared enough to dye my hair

 Then you'd take me serious

 Maybe I could try to change up their minds

 So they take me serious

 Oohh so they know

 Everybody knows that I'm not dumb

 D-dumb, dumb, dumb

I'm a blonde so excuse me

 I'm a blonde I get crazy

 And everybody knows

 We're a little more than fun

 I like to play it up like I'm dumb

 D-dumb, dumb, dumb

 D-dumb, dumb, dumb

 D-dumb, dumb, dumb

 'Cause I'm a blonde

Oh oh oohh (I-I'm a blonde)

 Oh oh oohh (I-I'm a blonde)

 Oh oh oohh (I-I'm a blonde)

Lighten Up Party at T.R.A.C.S

Saturday we had a wonderful party at T.R.A.C.S. DJ Infa had made a great mix of tunes and everybody could notice that he had a lot of fun.

▲ It made me smile that our guests had fun 

▲ The balloons, cake and champagne for a special guest........

▲▼ ........ our birthday kid Gandalle

▲ DJ Infa

▲ Norbie

▲▼ Przemko and Coco

▲▼ Alvei and Caasper

▲ Racker

▲ Draco

▲▼ DJ Infa, Ellbee and Guy

Lighten Up Party at T.R.A.C.S

Thursday May 23 2013, is recorded as the coldest May 23 ever in the Netherlands. It was not warmer than 10.3 degrees Celsius. The old record was about 10.4 degrees, in 1975. The lowest temperature measured was Thursday in South Limburg. There it was locally not warmer than 8.4 degrees. 
On average the temperature around this time in May is 18 degrees.

After this weekend the Netherlands slowly move to temperatures with normal values.

Gladly we have DJ Infa, this Saturday, to cheer us up.

Saturday it is also 135 years a go that the American stage and screen dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (5/25/1878 - 11/25/1949) was born. So come to T.R.A.C.S, dance and get warm.

T.R.A.C.S at Timothy Plaza on River Island

Land Mark: http://slurl.com/secondlife/River%20Island/221/249/22

Lighten Up part II

Mr. Bojangles

So, the inspiration for the song, Mr. Bojangles, was not the famous stage and movie dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was an American tap dancer and actor of stage and film. Audiences enjoyed his understated style, which eschewed the frenetic manner of the jitterbug in favor of cool and reserve; rarely did he use his upper body, relying instead on busy, inventive feet, and an expressive face.

A figure in both the black and white entertainment worlds of his era, he is best known today for his dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930s, and for starring in the 1943 musical Stormy Weather, loosely based on Robinson's own life.

The name Bojangles

Bill Robinson lost both parents when he was a young boy, and by the time he was six Robinson was dancing in beer gardens and on neighborhood street corners. All his life he carried the nickname “Bojangles,” but he could never be quite sure why. One story was that some of his friends had stolen a hat from a Broad Street haberdasher named Boujasson. He inherited the hat, along with the name youthfully mispronounced “Bojangles.”

Another story is that he, as young man, earned the nickname "Bojangles" for his contentious tendencies.

"African-American writer Donald Bogle called him “the quintessential Tom” because of his cheerful and shameless subservience to whites in film. But in real life, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, was the sort of man who, when refused service at an all-white luncheonette, would lay his pearl-handled revolver on the counter and demand to be served.

Bojangles life and dead

Bill Robinson began dancing in local saloons at the age of six. He soon dropped out of school to pursue dancing as a career. He became a popular fixture on the vaudeville circuit just two years after that. His first professional gig was the part of a “pickaninny” role in the show “The South Before the War” which toured the northeast. By 1900, he had made his way to New York and Robinson rapidly rose to become one of America’s best loved nightclub and musical comedy performers.

In 1908, Robinson met Marty Forkins, who became his manager. Forkins urged Robinson to develop his solo act in nightclubs. Robinson took a break from performance to serve as a rifleman in World War I. Along with fighting in the trenches, Robinson was also a drum major who led the regimental band up Fifth Avenue upon the regiment's return from Europe.

In 1928, he starred on Broadway in the hugely successful musical revue Blackbirds of 1928, which featured his famous "stair dance." Blackbirds was a revue starring African-American performers, intended for white audiences. The show was a breakthrough for Robinson. He became well known as "Bojangles," which connoted a cheerful and happy-go-lucky demeanor for his white fans, despite the nearly polar-opposite meaning of the nickname in the black community. His catchphrase, "Everything's copasetic," reinforced Robinson's sunny disposition. Although he worked regularly as an actor, Robinson was best known for his tap-dance routines. He pioneered a new form of tap, shifting from a flat-footed style to a light, swinging style that focused on elegant footwork.

Robinson’s was not the conventional shuffling flat-footed style, but instead he danced with a light, swaying style on the balls of his feet. He refined the “stair dance” in the 1928 Broadway review Blackbirds and then with Shirley Temple in the 1935 movie The Little Colonel.

Rarely did he depart from the stereotype imposed by Hollywood writers. In a small vignette in Hooray for Love he played a mayor of Harlem modeled after his own ceremonial honor; in One Mile from Heaven, he played a romantic lead opposite African-American actress Fredi Washington after Hollywood had relaxed its taboo against such roles for blacks. He only appeared in one film intended for black audiences, Harlem is Heaven, a financial failure that turned him away from independent production.

In 1939, he returned to the stage in The Hot Mikado, a jazz version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta produced at the 1939 New York World's Fair, which was one of the greatest hits of the fair. His next performance, in All in Fun (1940), failed to attract audiences. His last theatrical project was to have been Two Gentlemen from the South, with James Barton, in which the black and white roles reverse and eventually come together as equals, but the show did not open. Thereafter, he confined himself to occasional performances, but he could still dance well in his late sixties, to the continual astonishment of his admirers. He explained this extraordinary versatility—he once danced for more than an hour before a dancing class without repeating a step—by insisting that his feet responded directly to the music without his head having nothing to do with it

Robinson continued to dance into his 60s; however, due to a penchant for gambling and a generous spirit, he died penniless in New York in 1949 at the age of seventy-one. He was mourned by many fans, tens of thousands of whom attended his funeral which was said to be one of New York’s largest up to that time.