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Animal Interactions: Making Responsible Travel Decisions - Page Two
GoNOMAD has published numerous articles about interacting with wild animals because this is often part of people's travel experience, but there are many important issues that responsible travelers should consider in making decisions about game parks and reserves.
Everyone can feel the sadness and suffering of animals in zoos and circuses. But then there are responsible programs that provide resources for conservation, and for local communities, and promote awareness of the plight of endangered species.
So there are many important issues involved, and GoNOMAD would like to provide an open forum to discuss them.
To add your input, email Stephen Hartshorne, GoNOMAD Associate Editor.
Kristie Giannetto
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As Elevate Destinations is a travel philanthropy company that gives back to the places that we visit, we are very concerned with the rights and well-being of all animals, organisms and ecosystems in areas that we travel to.
Everyday people trek across the world despite the fact that we are in a time marked by crises between individuals and communities. Elevate Destinations believes responsive travel to be a bridge between cultures and historical mentalities. It is a way to have varying opinions and groups connect on a personal level and forget the isolated beliefs common in today's society.
Many of these small animal reserves and nonprofits in developing countries do serve as a source of income for the local people, however they also provide refuge to animals that would normally be affected or damaged by the normal run of tourism. The local people form relationships with the wildlife and protect them in return.
If the organization is accredited and are helping to rehabilitate these animals and/or give them a better chance of survival, why fight them? It is true that they might turn a profit off of the care they provide these animals, but are you really going to deny this symbiotic relationship that has existed between animal and man forever.
People are going to travel no matter what and romp through ecosystems, so Elevate Destinations would like to promote traveling in a responsive manner.
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January 29, 2012 By: liwen
Android tablets have increased their marketshare in 2011, from 29% in late 2010 to 39%, but not because of the strength of the Android ecosystem. Sure, us geeks like them for their powerful hardware, but most normal consumers are rather drawn to the Kindle Fire. The Amazon tablet runs a forked Android version, as we explained earlier, and has proven to be extremely popular. Even though there are still more Galaxy Tabs in the wild, the Kindle Fire already sees the same amount of user engagement.
The data from Flurry, a mobile analytics provider, shows that both Kindle Fire and Galaxy Tab are now responsible for 36% of all application sessions, defined as "the launch and subsequent exit (or pause for more than 10 seconds) of an app". Compare that to last November, when 63% of all application sessions were tracked on the Galaxy Tab – the Fire, which only launched at that time, was at a mere 3%.
While impressive, this does not mean that the Kindle Fire already caught up in terms of marketshare. Due to a headstart of more than a year, Flurry estimates that the number of active Galaxy Tabs is still over twice as much as that for the Kindle Fire. However, this makes the above statistics even more impressive – clearly, those who own a Kindle Fire use it much more frequently than those who own other Android tablets.
Kindle Fire owners are also much more willing to buy apps, as they download over 2.5 times as many paid applications through the Amazon Appstore than Galaxy Tab owners through the Android Market.
In the end, while 'traditional' Android tablets do offer a lot of functionality, they haven't really caught on in the marketplace, nor are they being used as much as other tablets. While one might have speculated that many only bought the Kindle Fire because of its extremely low price, without actually using it a lot, these numbers tell a different, and rather troubling, story. At least for Google.
Read the full report at Flurry.
January 21, 2012 By: liwen
What seems to be the most popular Android tablet out there right now, Amazon's Kindle Fire, has received an OTA update starting a few days ago. As always, it initially broke root access, but our forum members have already found a workaround for that. So, there's no point trying to prevent it now, else you won't get the following features:
This update enhances fluidity and performance, improves support for manually set up e-mail providers in the Email app, and offers a new full screen mode for viewing web pages.
If you've already received and installed the OTA update, use BurritoRoot by recognized developer jcase, who has updated his tool to work with the new 6.2.2 version, to regain root. If not, then head over to this forum thread to download the pre-rooted update package flash-able with TWRP, courtesy of forum member nfinitefx45.
January 12, 2012 By: Former Writer
XDA Senior Member Azdian has developed a nice little mod that will add RTL (right to left) language support for Amazon Kindle Fire users.
The process is a little complicated and involves switching out a few lib files. So if you're not confident with fiddling with the framework of the device, make sure you do some homework and get comfortable with it before attempting as messing up can damage your device. Be sure, as always, to perform a full back up just in case.
The process is otherwise not complicated, as Azdian says:
*Download Madmack RTL Patacher HERE, then extract the files, you will see some subfolders and files what you need to remember is input and output subfolders and command.exe for later use.
*Go to your kindle open Root Explorer [or any app can do the same] and copy these files from your kindle to your pc
*move these files to input subfolder , and then run commands.exe DO NOT close the black cmd screens that will pop up, wait till its finish, once its done you will find these files in the output subfolder
So if you're of the Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc persuasion and want the RTL support on your Kindle Fire, you can find the download links, the complete instructions and further information in its original thread.
January 10, 2012 By: Former Writer
For those who don't like Windows, we've already told you about Firekit LiveUSB Repair Kit, but if you do like Windows, there's now a way to fix your Amazon Kindle Fire.
XDA Member Zombiepiratez has created a helpful little program for Windows that will help you fix the brick. It runs in Windows Command Prompt, so the UI is dead simple to use and the selections are easy to understand, so noobs need not fear in terms of difficulty. Unfortunately, Zombiepiratez has sustained personal injury, as he says:
Unfortunately, I have broken/sprained my wrist, and am unable to move my fingers without a fairly great amount of pain. This is only my right hand, but sadly, I am right-handed. For the next month, I will be unable to code, meaning no new versions or bugfixes.
So, if you find a bug, feel free to report it and don't get discouraged if you don't hear back.
For more information, download links and screen shots, check out the original thread.
January 6, 2012 By: Former Writer
Sometimes, Windows just doesn't cut it. Many developers use some distro of Linux for most of their work and, while better off than most Mac users, Windows has the capacity to cause mammoth headaches.
This is especially true for some Amazon Kindle Fire owners, who've reported having trouble with ADB and Fastboot drivers on Windows.
To rescue comes XDA Senior Member pokey9000 who has devised a method for getting around this and restore Kindle Fire owners to their headache free ways. He explains what it is exactly:
Firekit combines all the command line tools for Kindle Fire recovery with the Ubuntu LiveUSB. All you need is a USB stick and a PC that can boot off it. All files stay on the stick, so nothing on your PC is changed.
While this will require a little know-how about creating Ubuntu LiveUSB, once you get passed that, it's a relatively simple process. After you create your Ubuntu LiveUSB and get the files on there, you can use the command line to do anything from restoring your Fire to fixing messed up partition tables. Here's a full list of the commands (to be entered in the command line):
install_fff_twrp_from_stock: Install FFF and TWRP while in stock Android. Uses fbmode to reboot. Use this to get FFF/TWRP installed on 6.2.1 stock OS.
install_fff_twrp: Install FFF and TWRP while in fastboot. Good if you're stuck in fastboot and you want FFF/TWRP.
fix_parts Restore partition table to stock while in fastboot. Do this if you're in fastboot and your partition table is screwed up.
normal_boot: Set the bootmode to boot android and reboot while in fastboot. Try this if you're stuck at the Kindle Fire logo.
usb_boot_twrp: USB boot TWRP without installing. Boot TWRP if your Kindle black screens when you try to power it on. Needs the USB boot mode trick.
usb_install_fff_twrp: USB boot FFF, install FFF and TWRP. Install / recover the bootloader and recovery if they are broken. Needs the USB boot mode trick.
usb_fix_parts_and_install_fff_twrp: USB boot FFF, restore partition table to stock, install FFF and TWRP. Fix everything if you screwed up the partition table and your Fire's screen no longer turns on. Needs the USB boot mode trick.
If this powerful alternative to trying to get things to work via Windows is something you would like to check out, you can check out the original thread for additional instructions, a tutorial on its use and download links. It seems that pokey9000 is also planning to do more support for this, as he does have a to-do list at the bottom of the first post for things he intends to fix and improve on.
January 3, 2012 By: Former Writer
We all knew it would be happening soon, as the AOSP ROMs are essentials for most new phones and tablets and the Amazon Kindle Fire is the latest and greatest device that MIUI calls home and the development of the Amazon Kindle Fire remains on fire (bad pun ftw!).
XDA Senior Member leech2082 released the port which, for a first release, has a surprisingly low number of things not working in comparison to most ports that make first appearances on devices. According to him:
Everything seems to be working except MIUI Themeing and Video! Certainly you guys will find something I missed
So if MIUI theming and video are a couple of things you can live without and MIUI is something you've been waiting for, then now would be a great time to check it out. The installation instructions are easy and pretty standard for a ROM flash. Boot into recovery, wipe everything, flash and profit.
The boot up can take a few minutes, and as leech2082 will tell you:
what i have found is the boot animation may cycle twice before fully booting. Also after flash when you hit reboot sometimes it brings up the TWRP screen again. If that happens just hit reboot. Since there is not hard buttons on kindle we included Button Savior you will see if on the right side of screen by default
Not a big deal and easily fixable so nothing to be scared of and no reason not to take advantage of the always fun MIUI goodness. For more information, the shout outs, download links, screenshots and more thorough instructions, feel free to mosey on over to the original thread.
December 27, 2011 By: liwen
For those of you who don't fancy running Amazon's heavily modified Android version, even with root, there's a new option on the horizon: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. After forum member g1011999 manged to get it booting three weeks ago, JackpotClavin, who's also responsible for the Kindle Fire's CyanogenMod 7 port, has posted a working build that he says isn't even alpha.
So, unless you want to help on the development or are really curious (we know you are), we'd suggest you to wait for a more stable version. For everyone else, head over to the forum thread to get downloading and flashing.
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December 26, 2011 By: liwen
Last week, we reported on the 6.2.1 update for the Kindle Fire, which brought some nice improvements but had one major disadvantage: it broke root access. Luckily, recognized developer jcase has managed to get this new update rooted as well, so you can comfortably get your Kindle Fire to the newest software version without any caveats.
Continue on to the forum thread for more information.
December 21, 2011 By: liwen
Seems like Android tablet makers are on a roll these days. After Barnes & Noble, Amazon has also officially begun pushing out an OTA update to its inexpensive Kindle Fire, which ups the version number to 6.2.1 and, well, breaks root access. On a positive note, there are also some substantial improvements: scrolling is smoother, WiFi access can be locked with a password (to prevent kids from spending all your money through Amazon's shops, we presume), and, most importantly, you can finally remove those recently used items from the carousel. Overall performance and touchscreen response are said to be greatly improved as well.
Head over to the forum thread to report your experiences with the update, and whether you have face any issues.
December 1, 2011 By: orb3000
Many announcements have been occurring with the new work of Cyanogen team, even some versions of CM9 starting to pop out for the Nexus S and Galaxy S. But now we want to let you know about the latest CyanogenMod ROM 7 for the Kindle Fire; XDA member JackpotClavin posted a couple of images showing the Gingerbread-based ROM booted up on his 7-inch Kindle tablet, he is not giving the code for download yet because there are still a lot of bugs to work out.
With source code and root firmly in hand it was only a matter of time before someone got a custom ROM up and running on the Kindle Fire. Judging from the pictures it seems that WiFi is working but if you are not a power user we recommend waiting for something a little more polished before risking your shiny new Kindle.
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[ROM] CM7 for the Kindle Fire
Howdy everybody! I just got CM7 to boot for the first time on the Kindle Fire. As of right now, I believe the touch screen is off 90 degrees. I know there's a fix in the source code, I just forgot where it is but I'll look. It might actually be an edit to the build.prop.
Since we can't navigate to items in Clockwork, we have to bring the items to us. Basically what I did was I shifted the entries of Clockwork so the "Install update.zip from sdcard" was listed first, not the Reboot system now option. That way, we can just press OK (The power button) and it'll install the CM zip. I also changed it so you don't have to scroll all the way down to the "Yes" option to confirm install as I pushed that to the top also so we can just press OK. In the update.zip I included the wiping of system, data, and cache because we can't navigate to mounts and storage to wipe those things in Clockwork, so we have to do it automagically.
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November 21, 2011 By: Will Verduzco
We've recently seen a great deal of Kindle Fire activity in the forums. With root achieved on launch day and Google Apps access the following day, it's certainly quite a hacker-friendly device. In fact, development has taken off so quickly that we even questioned whether the Fire would steal the Nook Tablet's thunder in the budget tablet battle.
However, what happens when someone tries to approach the hacks from the other direction? GigaOM staffer Kevin Tofel decided to do exactly this. After purchasing his Fire, Kevin realized that there was a substantial functionality overlap between his aging first generation Galaxy Tab and his brand new Fire. Rather than trying to eek more functionality out of the Fire, he decided to load some of the Fire software onto his Galaxy Tab. After discovering that the main interface of the Fire was simply a replacement launcher and glorified skin, the rest was a cinch. And with a little bit of tweaking with the Fire's preinstalled apps, Kevin even managed to get Amazon Prime videos to play on the Tab! Unfortunately, all was not perfect. Kevin experienced frequent Fire UI crashes, which ultimately lead him to uninstall the alternate interface and return to standard Galaxy Tab operation.
If you're interested in learning how Kevin was able to achieve this logic-defying feet, visit his post on GigaOM. If you're only after Amazon Prime Video functionality, visit this thread. And if you're interested in turning your own tablet into a Kindle Fire, make a quick pitstop at the Kindle Fire ROM dump thread first. If you do attempt to modify your own device into a Fire, please let us know how it goes!
November 20, 2011 By: Will Verduzco
Just a few days ago, we wrote about how the Kindle Fire was rooted, cracking the doors wide open for development. We were then unshackled from Amazon's chains the very next day with full access to Google's Apps. With all that development work so soon after launch, we assumed that Amazon had stolen Barnes & Noble's niche.
Perhaps we were a bit too hasty. Today, we are proud to state that the Barnes & Noble's latest device, the Nook Tablet, has been rooted as well. XDA forum member Indirect achieved root access using the zergRush method, similar to what death2all110 used to root the Fire. Six forum pages later, iShepherd found out that the same method for installing Google Apps on the Fire also works on the Nook Tablet.
I have gotten zergRush to work on the nook tablet as well as created a batch script for you to run to allow you to root your tablet. This does NOT unlock the bootloader software/hardware checks this is just so you can remove whatever unnecessary crap you wish to get the **** off your device.
If you're the lucky owner of a Nook Tablet, head over to the original thread to get started. Once you've achieved su, get in on the Google Apps fun by following these instructions. We all know that's the real reason you bought an e-reader.
November 17, 2011 By: Will Verduzco
Just yesterday, we wrote about how the Kindle Fire is poised to become the next hackable and budget-friendly tablet of choice. With a specifications sheet eerily similar to tablets costing twice as much or more, it's no wonder that the Fire has sparked intense developer interest. It is precisely this fascination, which lead to the Fire being rooted so promptly after release. However, although gaining root privileges is cool in its own right, being able to use root access to unlock functionality is even better.
Thanks to some easy-to-follow instructions compiled by XDA forum member Jolleyboy, we now have full Google Apps access on the Fire. This means that we are no longer restricted to Amazon's curated Appstore. Instead, we now have free roam across the entire expanse of the official Android Market. The other Google-graced usual suspects such as Gmail, Talk, Youtube, Maps, Reader, Google+, and Voice are also present and accounted for. In the words of the developer:
I've had a couple requests to post step by step directions for how I got my Google apps working. Be forewarned, you're going to have to restart your kindle a few times. If you don't restart it this won't work.
This download includes:
Google Services Framework
Android Market
Street View
As well as some goodies that everyone needs:
Dolphin Browser
Go Launcher
Kindle Fire owners, you want this. Head over to the original thread to get started. Now. Just be sure to tread carefully. There's always the risk of your brand new toy becoming a paperweight if you're not careful.


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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." — Voltaire
Quinoa Salad with Tomato, Corn, and Mozzarella
So…we went to Pizza Ranch yesterday (why is that so embarrassing to admit?). There's been a longstanding rumor that Pizza Ranch has the best fried chicken in Minnesota. Even though we're not exactly known for our fine Southern cuisine here, I've been pretty disappointed at the lack of good fried chicken. I won't delve into the details of our mediocre dining experience but I'm now definitely very motivated and determined to make a fried chicken post very, very soon (even though I feel kinda gross). After a deep fried dinner, I always go on a 24 hour health kick because the grease just sticks and I end up feeling and looking languid. That's why I made a quinoa salad with tomato, corn, mozzarella and lime juice for lunch.
Citrusy quinoa salads have always been my favorite lunch dish to eat after a night of deep-fried and greasy foods because there's something about the acid, lime juice in this case, makes me feel invigorated (or something like that). The fact that it's called a salad also makes me feel mentally and physically better and healthier as if I had made amends with my body for eating all those greasy/deliciously horrible things.
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"A new daaaaay and I'm feeeeeling"….(you get the point)
I've been MIA (what else is new). I've had some life changes and blogging unfortunately took a back seat. But I have so much material that I need to post, including yummy pics from my trip to Spain! I"m sure that I'm pretty much talking to an empty room at this point (HA!) but I appreciate those of you that take the time to read. Let's celebrate food and life!
Thai Red Curry w/ "Beef", Carrots, Zucchini, Orange Bell Pepper, and Green Beans over brown rice
So the picture I took basically sucks so I deleted it…I don't need to be showing up on Twitters list of struggle plates. But the meal was great! I used the "beef" that I bought from the health food store, veggies, and Trader Joe's Red Thai Curry sauce. I seasoned the veggies and "beef" with thyme, bay leaves, spike (a vegetarian/vegan seasoning), and red cayenne pepper. So easy……so quick! Now, I'm not gonna lie and say "mmhmmm it tastes JUST LIKE beef" because it doesn't. But it's still good! It gives you a beef "essence" (HAHAHAHAH) and is a great alternative to tofu. I can't wait to try the "chicken"!
10 years ago, food writers with staff jobs were able to earn $80,000 to $150,000 a year, and freelancers were regularly paid $2 a word; today, these jobs barely exist… Online, $35,000 to $60,000 a year and $.25 to $.75 a word is more like it… And the real problem with these figures is that they're static – you don't start at $40,000 and work your way up to $80,000. You either happily stay at $40,000, or leave and let the next young, bright writer take your spot. This $40,000 also comes with many fewer perks – no expense accounts and little travel budget. In 1998, the New York Times sent me to France for two weeks to find some stories. Today, this would be unimaginable.
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BLT with Tempeh bacon, arugula, tomato and veganise on whole wheat pita
I know, I know…GASP! TEMPEH BACON?! YUCK! But this really was a great sandwich and a healthy alternative to your regular SUPER fattening BLT. Again, I never lie and say that soy meats taste JUST like real meat…they don't. But that's ok they are still flavorful and a yummy addition to any meal. The tempeh gives the sandwich just a enough bacon flavor and the arugula is a lot more interesting than regular lettuce. I've been using arugula in a lot of things lately….eggs, salads, pasta, sandwiches…..gives everything a more sophisticated flavor.
So let's talk about this veganaise. Now, unlike faux meat, I think that veganaise actually tastes exactly like mayonaise. I looked at the ingredients and it's really only missing the egg other than that it's the same thing….same flavor. I mean I guess you could tell the difference if you took a spoonful of each and compared….but who's doing that? So, for the purposes of a sandwich or wrap, it works just fine in my opinion.
Try it out! You just might like it! :)
I don't agree with these three things: roasted chicken, classic salad, and chocolate cake??? But I also can't think of just three things that I think should be mastered. hmmmm…a breakfast dish perhaps? Eggs? some pasta dish?
Again, I dont't know….the things they suggest just don't seem to make sense to me. What do you think?
WAIT! That's not meat!!!!!
I bought this "beef" and "chicken" from a health food store near my place, Watkins Health Foods. They have everything for your vegan and vegetarian needs! Anyway, my old roomate, who is vegan used to bring these veg chunks back from Jamaica and they were delish so I thought these might be similar. I used the "beef" in my dinner tonight. Pic and description to follow!


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The budget New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio recently presented to the City Council bears no resemblance to the first spending plan he unveiled after his election as mayor, the one that infamously proposed a 20 percent tax increase and largely sustained services. That was dead on arrival at the council. After much debate, program cutting, extended arguments over revenue projections, and one referendum, Mayor Finizio ultimately signed a budget with a 5.1 percent tax increase into law.
Going from one extreme to another is a fit term in this case. Mayor Finizio second budget proposal would decrease general government spending by $1.07 million, while passing along the Board of Education's request for a 2.5 percent spending hike, about $1 million. All totaled, that's a city budget of $81.09 million, a $71,615 cut.
Things being equal, an essentially flat budget would produce no increase in taxes. But Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposes reductions in municipal aid. As a result the mayor suggests a modest 3.1 percent tax increase to support current spending. Due to inflationary pressures, and contractual salary increases, maintaining spending actually means cutting the projected increase. And some of the cuts are quite drastic.
The budget would eliminate about 20 police positions, close a fire station, defund the senior center, cut back at Public Works, at Parks and Recreation, and slash funding for the library.
To Mayor Finizio's credit, and in working with the City Council, he has confronted the city's fiscal problems since his election. Before his arrival the city was spending beyond its means, exhausting its Fund Balance Reserve and running deficits. If his budget were adopted it would mean a total decrease in general government expenditures of $3.5 million since his election, a nearly 8 percent reduction.
The council is not happy with many of the cuts, particularly in public safety, but we see no obvious alternatives to achieving needed savings. Trimming the education budget request to find more cash for city services appears likely, but after several years of flat funding some increase in education spending is necessary. What Mayor Finizio said he will not accept is any phony boosting of revenue projections, and he shouldn't.
While the degradation in city services is becoming alarming, New London has to live within its means, and Mayor Finizio proposes a budget that does that.
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05 - The Wilhelm Scream
07 - Let the Drummer Kick
08 - Live Your Life
09 - Open
10 - Lovin' Me 4 Me
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p.s. that pic took me all of 5 mins to make so no throwin shade on it… it has feelings :-/
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This ain't no fetish, ain't objectifying no one
I reject your deconstruction of my taste
But ignoramus always look in my direction
They're so frustrated I don't keep it in the race
Like they've never seen this before
Like it's 1954
But the whole world's turning brown and who cares
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Yeah, my mom says
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La, la la la la, la la, la la la la la
You know I got some love for black girls
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Where's all the love for black girls
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:-D … cannot stop making THAT face…
this ish is trending on twitter…………
Note: Chester French is an American indie pop band consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter David-Andrew 'D.A.' Wallach and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Maxwell Drummey. They are signed to Pharrell of The Neptunes Star Trak record label.
Read about them here X Chester French WIKIPEDIA
Edit: Okay after second and third viewing, I wish it had not been such a sexual proclamation of love for black women. because as a re-blogger noted it does bring to mind an impermanence and fad "chocolate fantasy" (ya'll have to know that is not new ground.. ie the ooh i've never been with a [insert a visible minority group] girl before] and the over-sexualization of black women is nothing new. trust me. However, the lyrics denote none of that connotation and ain't nothing wrong with celebrating black women…..so it's possible i may be sensitive to this based on a recent Swedesh incident. Food for thought though. food for thought, as this song could definitely have been given a number of video treatments to showcase "black girls".
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ThEESatisfaction is their name. AwENaturalE is their new 2012 album.
If you haven't heard of em. take a listen. one of my favorite new 2012 bands next to "The Seshen" ( they'll be up on the blog soon as well)
they are: experimental.hip hop.soul.jazz.disco.funk.R&B.
similar to : erykah badu.shabazz places.TV on the Radio.Gil Scot-Heron.Andre 3000. Four Tet. etc.
But they are all their own TBH. if all the artists above got together that would maybe make ThEESatisfaction's kind of groove. one of my favorite albums. I'll post more gems soon.
for now enjoy their single "QueenS"
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill.--Einstein
Monday, February 28, 2011
Can a sista with rainbow hair get respect?
Last week, Dodai at Jezebel wrote a post about the debate over the roots (no pun intended) of the colorful hair trend. A recent London Evening Standard article attributes the trend to English street culture, specifically a Dalston salon called Bleach. The blog Black Girl with Long Hair cries foul and says the style originated with black women. Blogger Leila says of the salon owner that is taking credit for candy-colored tresses: "Sam Teasdale, I don't mind that you've managed to sell this style to a number of bandwagon celebs but please give black women and all their hair eccentricities credit where it is due. Admit it! This is not your signature 'look'. You spotted it on a black girl about 10 years ago."
I suspect Teasdale and Alex Brownsell, co-owner of Bleach salon, are engaging in a little shameless self-promotion, trying to hook their salon to a trend. Folks have been wearing colorful hair since before the 20-something stylists were even born. But I also disagree with Black Girl with Long Hair. The first time I (a black woman who grew up in a predominately-black city) spotted brightly-colored hair was on 70s/80s-era British punks and New Romantics, which had scant to do with Bleach salon or the U.S. black community. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that if one looks through hairstyle history, one might find unnaturally-colored tresses in a variety of communities, including ones neither white nor black. Pinpointing who originated it all is likely a fool's errand.
What I'm really interested in is how Kool Aid-colored dos are evaluated differently, based on the race of the wearer. Black Girl with Long Hair gets at this issue: "Any black girl sporting a weave like this after 1999 would be considered GHETTO/YARDIE/HOOD! Making it hardly a new trend."
I have a 40-something white female friend who sometimes adds a streak of hot pink or blue to her trendy hairstyles. It is accepted as a marker of her bohemian, hipster lifestyle. I suspect, though, that I do not have the latitude to do such a thing. It is enough that I wear my hair naturally. That alone provokes attention. And, in a different professional field, may mean the difference between being employed and not.
This has me noticing, again, that black women have far less latitude in terms of personal style than white women, perhaps especially when it comes to what's on our heads.
What do you think? Is my assessment correct?
Also, I'm curious how this plays out across other races.
Photo Credit: babytarragon on Flickr (right)
11 comments:
- Kristin Craig Lai said...
I think you're bang on. I would imagine that there's some of that "getting it from both sides" action too. On one hand there's the whole "ghetto" comment that gets thrown at so many black women the moment they start getting fun/crazy/creative with their style on the other there are all of the issues of how people perceive black women for changing their hair colour to something other than black.
Black women seem to constantly be expected to toe the line between "too black" and "trying to be white". Where in all of this external scrutiny is the freedom to just be who you are and why do so many people think they have the right to put their definitions of 'blackness' onto others?
I would love to see more people talking openly about this kind of stuff. Thanks for the post.
- February 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Kelly Hogaboom said...
I too appreciate this post and the openness and frankness you display, as per usual.
I have some attendant class shame wherever I go and I also love bright colors (last year I was neon green, then lemon yellow, later candy-apple red). I know how it feels to go one minute from feeling expressive and "me" and great - to, by some women and in some circumstances - feeling [judged as] "white trash". It sucks.
As you allude to and Kristin would probably grant, there are lots of beauty standards that are intensified and racialized, amped up times one thousand percent when regarding black women, often nuanced in ways many whites feel free to ignore or disbelieve. I'm not surprised at all bright colors in hair would be part of this.
I haven't read much about celebrated performer Nicki Monaj's bright colors as discussed regarding beauty performance / race / class. I'm wondering if you've read any good pieces? If you haven't, I'm sure you could write one... ;-)
- February 28, 2011 at 3:23 PM
- Slay Beau said...
Everybody but EVERYBODY has missed the boat in this. The majority of comments on Dodai's post and the commenting blogs date hair dying in unnatural colors to the 80s, with some sensible few dating it back to the punks in the 70s, and all of it is wrong.
A Louis Jordan song suggests that black women were dying their hair wild colors in 1938 (You dyed your hair chartreuse), and while his was a genre with tongue firmly in cheek, such ideas never come from the ether. So maybe it is rooted in the black community, but it dates much earlier. Still:
A book was published in London in 1661 with directions on how to dye your hair gold, silver, red, yellow (but those are regular colors!) and green. It's even available in the public domain via google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=nDYVAAAAQAAJ&q=hair#v=snippet&q=hair&f=false
- February 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM
- CaitieCat said...
No argument from me - as a white woman, having my hair bright purple (or, as of last week, bright blue) leads to almost exclusively positive interactions. And I sincerely doubt that a WOC wearing the same colours would receive the same positive reactions. White privilege for the loss. :/
- February 28, 2011 at 6:33 PM
I agree 100%. Can't even comment, really, just nod my head.
- February 28, 2011 at 10:05 PM
Oh seriously, for REAL, Tami. I could tell all kinds of stories about the shit I got being a Black goth girl with even relatively conservatively styled "freaky" colored hair, even after I eased out of my cyber/rivethead/J-Rocker phase and went more subdued and Victorian-ish with my look. And this was in the mid-90s, before this stuff really went mainstream and was co-opted by Hot Topic and the like, so it really was just associated with Crazy White Girls. My hair's been every color of the rainbow but green, and the minute it's something that doesn't occur in nature, I get the side-eye. It's like people get this cognitive dissonance about what Respectable Black Women are supposed to look like, their brains shatter and they just get diarrhea of the soul at me.
I even internalized this bullshit to a degree. I'd walk down the street in full garb (ie: I'd set off every metal detector in a 5 mile radius) and electric blue Manic Panic bob wig rolling my eyes at the chicks walking out the hood salon on the corner, rocking their blue weaves! See, when I had blue hair, it was avant garde, ~unique~, and indicative of my awesome and totally creative (and tragically misunderstood) subculture. But when LaShawn around the way had it, she was ghetto and trashy! Damn, I was dumb when I was young. Thank god I got over my special snowflake bullshit.
To this day though, as an aging goth, I still get the nonsense Kristin talked about in her comment about policing blackness and what the boundaries are as far as Acceptable Creative Self-Expression for Black Women. From my own family (though they've essentially given up that I will ever look "normal"), as well as busybodies on the street and on the internets. Black women in a lot of subcultures feel this conflict. Just being black is a non-comformist act, why do you have to be all freaky and stand out and draw negative attention to yourself like that? Not to mention the pressure to constantly Uplift the Race. Completely ignoring that black women have always been trendsetters breaking molds. Grace Jones, anyone? So, well, I'mma be me.
- March 1, 2011 at 5:33 AM
- CAROLYN MOON said...
Tami, I think you've made your point here quite well.
I can remember many years ago that my mother, aunts and many women of color in my neighborhood would sport this kind of brownish red hair color. Maybe henna??.... not sure though. It wasn't brash or ostentatious but I saw it a lot. I realized later that it was to cover that gray.
They would talk rather catty about the women of color whose hair had a brassy blond, blue (remember the blue mainly on older women) or jet black (too harsh)hair coloring.
I'm pretty conservative and wore a natural for approx. 30 yrs. or so and "relapsed" (it's a cultural 60's concept) :-) for a period. I'm about to return to my "roots" so to speak. Now my dilemma is rather or not to continue to color my hair a dark brown (remember black is too harsh and frankly I'm too old)or let the grey-white show. My youngest adult daughter doesn't like the latter. She doesn't want to believe that her Mommy is getting up there in age. Oh well...
To Slay Beau...everything is cyclic..there is really "nothing new under the sun". The only comparisons we have unless we're history buffs is what we see with our contemporaries or we have pictures of elders(during their heydays)in our family albums. hmmm.....
Thanks for this Tami. Your posts are thought provoking on a myriad of issues/topics--as usual!
- March 1, 2011 at 1:35 PM
"Rainbow hair on a black woman provokes a whole lot of judgments about class and education, even among other black people. Meanwhile, a bright blue streak in a white woman's hair is accepted differently, I think."
I disagree slightly. I think it's heavily tied to overall dress / individual style. Compare Kelis and Rihanna to a mid-1990s, honey-blonde Mary J. Blige. Or early, dark haired Lil' Kim to her purple wig moment (which struck me, at least, as more drag than hood).
This concept that "white=edgy / black=ghetto" dynamic gets thrown out the window balance when you know and see black hipsters, black rockers, and white people who grew up in the hood. Paul Wall's grills are still ghetto and Lenny Kravitz is still not hood.*
(*Male examples, but helpful ones in this case.)
- June 15, 2011 at 1:16 PM
I think the analysis is quite accurate.
Incidentally, I have shoulder length (when it's not shrinking too much) African American natural hair, and when I have to be in a formal business setting, I make sure to tone the rest of my outfit down. The hair is as much as I feel comfortable pushing it.
But I have to admit, I've never had a screaming desire to dye my hair pink or sport huge tattoos. (Or did society choose my choice? :-) )
- September 16, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Nonsense! Black women can wear their hear however they want. It's to do with class. You guys are making me want to dye my hair a bright colour just to prove you wrong. Break the mould dammit. Who is telling you that you cannot dye your hair? Who is fostering this conformist behaviour in you?
- April 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM
- An Again said...
I wasn't going to comment since this was posted so long ago, but with the last word (before this), I can't help myself.
Since childhood, I had the urge to wear my hair in colors not found in nature (at least not on the head). Alternative before some ass hat created that label, I went on and did it: I was already not-black-enough/too-black so why deny what I wanted to please others? I took a lot of crap for it, but those who loved me, loved it, and that was fine...Until the cycle of relaxing/lightening/dying caught up to me.
I stopped for a long time, picking it up in my 20s while living in a South West college town and at a job so liberal that the dress code included a reminder that it was not safe to wear chains connecting your earrings to your nose rings. It was fine there. (Hell, my supervisor helped me pick out the right shade of blue-green.)
Cut to recently, back in the North East in a mixed (but largely black) neighborhood, returning to college to change careers and renewing my relationship with Manic Panic. You would think by the behavior of some black women that my blue hair had done something *to* them. It's one thing to know that I can't go on interviews with my hair like that, but as it turned out, I can't (peacefully) ride a city bus, either.
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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for having a gun at a school with six live rounds in his pocket and book bag.
It happened on Thursday in Cleveland at the East Clark School on East 146th Street.
A police report shows the boy had a .357 Magnum.
A staff member saw him in the hallway with other kids around him, and she later saw him acting suspiciously. A security officer then searched the teen, and he admitted he had a gun in his waistband.
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When my wife last week saw that Maroon 5 was a candidate to win the American Music Awards entertainer of the year, she was surprised. She doesn't follow pop music very closely and thought they were far past due.
But nope. That's not the case. Adam Levine lifted the group's profile by joining "The Voice" and releasing a hot single in "Moves Like Jagger." Then the group garnered two more big hits: "Payphone" and "One More Night," which has been the most popular song on Atlanta radio for more than three weeks.
According to Mediabase 24/7, the song was spun 334 times last week locally: 33 on B98.5, 65 on Star 94, 140 on Power 96.1, 22 on Wild 105.7/96.7 and 74 on Q100.
Rihanna, who has had several No. 1's on Atlanta radio the past couple of years, is rising quickly and will probably take over soon with her single "Diamonds."
She's at 325 spins with 55 on Hot 107.9, 19 on V-103, 89 on Power, 123 on Wild and 39 on Q100, up 112 spins on one single week. Nobody else is even close or in position to take over any time soon, though Ke$ha's "Die Young" and Bruno Mars' "Locked Out in Heaven" are rising quickly.
Here's the top 10 songs the past week:
1. Maroon 5 "One More Night"
2. Rihanna "Diamonds"
3. Ne-Yo "Let Me Love You"
4. Ellie Goulding "Lights'
5. Ke$ha "Die Young"
6. Chris Brown "Don't Wake Me Up"
7. Bruno Mars "Locked Out in Heaven"
8. Miguel "Adorn"
9. Fun. "Some Nights"
10. Katy Perry "Wide Awake"
Top 5 songs on major Atlanta radio stations
1. Lil Wayne "No Worries"
2. Beyonce "Dance For You"
3. Kanye West "Clique"
4. Kendrick Lamar "Swimming Pools"
5. 2 Chainz "I'm Different"
ADDS: Trinidad James "All Gold Everything" Rihanna "Diamonds" Alicia Keys "Brand New Me" Kendrick Lamar "Poetic Justice" A$AP ROcky "F**kin Problems"
Hot 107.9
1. Miguel "Adorn"
2. Frank Ocean "Thinkin Bout You"
3. Beyonce "Dance For You"
4. Juicy J "Bandz a Make Her Dance"
5. French Montana "Pop That"
ADDS: Usher "Dive" Rocko "Nachos" Chief Keef "Love Sosa" B.o.B. "Still in this B****" Kendrick Lamar "Poetic Justice" Travis Porter "Do a Trick" A$AP Rockiy "F**kin Problems" The Weeknd "Wicked Games"
Kiss 104.1
1. Anita Baker "Lately"
2. John Legend "Tonight"
3. Tank "Next Breath"
4. Robin Thicke "All Tied Up"
5. R. Kelly "Feelin' Single"
ADDS: Robin Thicke "All Tied Up" Keyshia Cole "Enough of No Love" Charlie Wilson "My Love Is All I Have"
Majic 107.5/97.5
1. Miguel "Adorn"
2. John Legend "Tonight"
3. Mary J. Blige "Don't Mind"
4. Avant "You & I"
5. Mary Mary "Go Get It"
ADDS: Avant "You & I"
Wild 105.7/96.7
1. Ne-Yo "Let Me Love You"
2. Rihanna "Diamonds"
3. Kanye West "Clique"
4. 2 Chainz "No Lie"
5. Flo Rida "I Cry"
ADDS: Alicia Keys "Girl on Fire" Ludacris "Rest Of My Life"
Power 96.1
1. Ke$ha "Die Young"
2. Maroon 5 "One More Night"
3. Chris Brown "Don't Wake Me Up"
4. Bruno Mars "Locked Out Of Heaven"
5. Rihanna "Diamonds"
ADDS: Ludacris "Rest Of My Life" Calvin Harris "Sweet Nothing" The Script "Hall of Fame" Nicki Minaj "Va Va Voom"
1. Maroon 5 "One More Night"
2. Fun. "Some Nights"
3. Ke$ha "Die Young"
4. The Script "Hall of Fame"
5. Katy Perry "Wide Awake"
ADDS: Pink "I Try" Maroon 5 "Daylight" Flo Rida "I Cry" Justin Bieber "Beauty and a Beat"
Star 94
1. Fun. "Some Nights"
2. Ellie Goulding "Lights"
3. Alex Clare "Too Close"
4. Maroon 5 "One More Night"
5. Pink "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"
ADDS: Imagine Dragons "It's Time" Pink 'Try" Lumineers "Ho Hey"
1. Adele "Skyfall"
2. Neon Trees "Everybody Talks"
3. Pink "Blow Me"
4. Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
5. One Direction "What Makes You Beautiful"
ADDS: Adele "Skyfall" Maroon 5 "One More Night" (This is not counting new Christmas songs it just started playing yesterday)
Fish 104.7 (Before it went all Christmas on Wednesday)
1. Chris Tomlin "Whom Shall I Fear"
2. Rhett Walker "WHen Mercy Found Me"
3. TobyMac "Me Without You"
4. Matthew West "Forgiveness"
5. Big Daddy Weave "Redeemed"
ADDS: Lots of new Christmas songs or covers there of including Francesca Battistelli's "Christmas Is," Jason Castro's "Gloria" and Steven Curtis Chapman's "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Praise 102.5
1. James Fortune & Fiya "Hold On"
2. Charles Jenkins "Awesome"
3. Israel Houghton "It's Not Over"
4. Tamela Mann "Take Me to the King"
5. Andrae Crouch "Let the Church Say Amen"
ADDS: Lecrae "Tell the World" Mario J. Brown "Glory"
Kicks 101.5
1. Rascal Flatts "Come Wake Me Up"
2. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl in Town"
3. Luke Bryan "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
4. Florida-Georgia Line "Cruise"
5. Jake Owen "The One That Got Away"
94.9/The Bull
1. Florida-Georgia Line "Cruise"
2. Luke Bryan "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
3. Jake Owen "The One That Got Away"
4. Kip Moore "Beer Money"
5. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl in Town"
ADDS: Tim McGraw "One of Those Nights" Carrie Underwood "Two Black Cadillacs"
Rock 100.5
1. Kid Rock "Let's Ride"
2. Green Day "Oh Love"
3. Shinedown "Unity"
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Homegrown"
5. Rush "Headlong Flight"
ADDS: Rolling Stones "One More Shot"
97.1/The River
1. Heart "Magic Man"
2. Crosby Stills & Nash "Southern Cross"
3. Tom Petty "Don't Do Me Like That"
4. Led Zeppelin "All My Love"
5. Paul McCartney "Maybe I'm Amazed"
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November 23rd, 2012
11:42 am
Santa Watch: 93-3 JOY FM goes 24/7 Christmas
November 24th, 2012
12:54 pm
"Sorry" by Ciara didn't make the cut? tsk tsk
November 25th, 2012
8:10 pm
I'd rather listen to a dial-up modem than the stuff they play today.
November 26th, 2012
6:47 am
Atlanta radio sucks! Bring back Davefm!


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio visited a Bronx middle school's after-school program on Thursday, promoting the kind of activity he'd like to see in all the city's middle schools.
He once again made the case for a tax increase to fund those programs, along with universal pre-kindergarten, as he was joined by Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina at Middle School 331, the Bronx School of Young Leaders.
He watched a group of young people in a dance program and talked to them about why they liked it. In response to one young girl's enthusiasm, he said, "I think she should run for mayor one day."
De Blasio said after school programs were useful in keeping middle school students engaged and involved, and also helped working parents by providing their children with safe places to be in the afternoons.
"It's a powerful, powerful tool," he said.
The middle school years are important ones for students, he said, since it's such a transitional time for young people physically and emotionally as well as educationally.
The tax increase de Blasio is pushing for has to be approved by the state.
The nursery school plan for all students in the city, plus after-school programs for all middle schools, would cost $530 million a year for five years, de Blasio has said. He's looking for an increase in taxes on people earning $500,000 or more annually.
In his State of the State speech this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was time to provide universal access to all-day kindergarten, but didn't talk about how it would be paid for.
De Blasio said efforts to build support for his proposal would continue to be ongoing, and that he had met with elected officials in Albany this week.