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All I gotta say is Damn.

Is New Orleans trying to go back to '93 & '94 when we earned the Murder Capital title? We are the only city that has a yo-yo murder rate, one year it's up & next year it's down; not to mention we manage to break our own record. It's been that way since the 90s to this day. This quote caught my eye:

"That means New Orleanians are murdering each other at a rate of 73.5 murders per 100,000 residents. That figure is above that of the nation's most murderous city

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All I gotta say is Damn.

Is New Orleans trying to go back to '93 & '94 when we earned the Murder Capital title? We are the only city that has a yo-yo murder rate, one year it's up & next year it's down; not to mention we manage to break our own record. It's been that way since the 90s to this day. This quote caught my eye:

"That means New Orleanians are murdering each other at a rate of 73.5 murders per 100,000 residents. That figure is above that of the nation's most murderous city

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All I gotta say is Damn.

Is New Orleans trying to go back to '93 & '94 when we earned the Murder Capital title? We are the only city that has a yo-yo murder rate, one year it's up & next year it's down;

New Orleans murder rate is always high. Even when its low by previous year standards its still high. There are other besides New Orleans that have murder rates that go up and down from year to year.

LMAO :rofl: Only in New Orleans can you walk down the French Quarter with a drink in your hand and the cops can't hound you.

You can do that in Savannah, Georgia too.

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-shotgun house in the U.P.T. (aka Uptown)

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-Another shotgun house

Beautiful pictures.

Very cool photos, Uptown! I've always thought those camelback shotgun houses in Uptown were cool. :D For anyone curious, the Shotgun House originated in New Orleans, and can now be found everywhere around the country.

They actually originated in West Africa.

http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2002/Space/shot2.htm

Shotgun houses exist in abundance throughout America, especially in the South.

The shotgun house originates in structure and name from West Africa. The Yoruba word "togun" means "house;" "shogun" means "God's house."

Folk etymology explains the word "shotgun" comes from the fact one can shoot a shotgun through the front door and out the back door without hitting a wall. The word shotgun is a creolization of these explanations.

Yoruba (West Africa)

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Haiti

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American South

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The above floor plans detail the transition of the shotgun house from West Africa, to the Caribbean, and into New Orleans.

The Yoruba House had the shotgun structure without the porches.

During the slave trade, West Africans were brought to the Caribbean for sugar cane production in 1503. The Tainos, the original inhabitants of Haiti, lived in simple houses made of thatched walls and roofs. When the Africans arrived in Haiti they combined the house of the Tainos with their own. These houses, called cailles, were made of mud, straw, wood, and thatch.

The caille was usually a thin, narrow building with a gabled entrance, with plastered, stucco walls, a thatched roof, and shuttered windows. Houses such as these may still be found in rural Haiti, where villages without monetary resources are limited to using only natural materials. But more commonly one will find shotgun houses made of wood the next logical transformation.

In 1791 the slaves revolted sending plantation owners fleeing with their slaves to America arriving in New Orleans, with many moving north to the Mississippi Delta. At the same time African refugees from Haiti arrived in Charleston, South Carolina. In both South Carolina and Louisiana, the shotgun house soon appeared throughout the countryside.

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Native American (Original Haitians) "Bohio Hut"

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New Orleans (camelback)

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Charleston

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These houses transformed as they moved from rural to urban. One thing that remained the same was the need to group the houses in rows. This grouping reflects a West African method of houses working together as groups. The "shotgun row" kept the houses cool in the summer time and warm in the winter. West Africans think communal before individual, and the architecture reflects this philosophy. While the construction of these houses deviate from the West Indies, their grouping comes from West Africa. Shotgun rows are used in both rural and urban.

In New Orleans, the shotgun house has been transformed into the "New Orleans style shotgun house."

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In Charleston, the shotgun house has been transformed into the "Charleston single house."

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One more interesting thing is that. There are 3 completely original African-American style houses in America.

1) Is the traditional shotgun house.

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2) The praise house

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3) The Charleston Freedmans Cottage.

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Denmark Vesey, leader of one of the most famous slave rebellions in American history, who was one of the freed slaves relocated from Haiti, house is a shotgun house/freedmans cottage. And his house is still standing today. 200 years later.

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You also have the Creole Cottage of New Orleans. Which is also said to have come by way of the Caribbean

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How many of you are graduating this year

-I'm getting my MBA from Tulane this semester. I just did grad check online and now I'm all ready. Just need to finish these last classes and that's it. I only have a couple finals to take (project grades in two courses=counts double as class grade & final exam grade), then New Orleans is going to be my personal playground :shades: I'm just going to continue making fire beats and thinking of a good name for my label.

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-I'm getting my MBA from Tulane this semester. I just did grad check online and now I'm all ready. Just need to finish these last classes and that's it. I only have a couple finals to take (project grades in two courses=counts double as class grade & final exam grade), then New Orleans is going to be my personal playground :shades: I'm just going to continue making fire beats and thinking of a good name for my label.

Fond memories: I graduated from law school 13 years ago. (OUCH!)

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French Quarter Fest rebounds big time

Posted:

NEW ORLEANS — The 24th French Quarter Festival posted a single-day attendance record and nearly returned to pre-Katrina attendance levels. An estimated 425,000 festivalgoers included a record 208,000 people Sunday.

The festival, which began in 1984, is the largest free music festival in the Southeast. Attendance nearly matched the pre-Katrina average of 450,000 after dropping to 340,000 last year.

The festival also recorded a single-day historic high in attendance on Sunday with 208,000 visitors. French Quarter Festivals Inc. CEO Kathleen Alter said that no single day had ever exceeded 200,000.

Fifteen stages throughout the French Quarter presented New Orleans music, representing every genre from traditional and contemporary jazz to rhythm & blues and New Orleans funk, to brass bands, folk, gospel, classical and international.

The Coors Light Stage even featured the Saturday nuptials of New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins.

Nearly 60 food and beverage booths in Jackson Square, Woldenberg Riverfront Park and the Louisiana State Museum’s Old U.S. Mint made up the “World’s Largest Jazz Brunch” featuring cuisine from area restaurants.

The three-day weekend included the official FQF second-line parade, courtyard tours, a Pirate’s Alley Art Show and Gumbo Ya Ya’s “Guess the Weight of the World’s Largest Praline” contest.

The event is produced by French Quarter Festivals Inc., a 501

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Live with Regis and Kelly will be broadcasting from Fulton Street, next to Harrah's Casino, in New Orleans on May 22rd, and 23rd. Anyone going? Anyone's wife going? :lol:

More info

I'm happy to see this, though, as I think it will be positive for the city. Live has a huge and dedicated viewership all over the nation, so lots of people will be tuning in to see these two live broadcasts and two taped broascasts in the city.

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That's GREAT news. With any luck, the broadcasts will finally dispell rumors that New Orleans remains flooded and that tourists should receive vaccinations before they come to the city.

:lol: :lol: As much as I'd like to go to the broadcasts, I'll be working those two days. The good thing is my job has a TV strategically placed in the bldg to where we can watch it.

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Regis & Kelly hope to shine positive light on N.O.

Article from the Times-Picayune

The good and the bad of post-Katrina New Orleans -- but mostly the good -- will be on display when Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa bring their nationally syndicated morning show here for four telecasts next week.

"New Orleans has a special place in our hearts," "Live With Regis & Kelly Ripa" executive producer Michael Gelman said. "We all felt for the city when the whole Katrina disaster happened.

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I was pretty suprised to see New Orleans on that list; even more so when I saw the city at #25, ahead of many other major cities. However, considering this list focuses on things like culture, activities, things to do, people, etc. it's not too suprising.

Here's the list, 1-25:

1. Fort Worth-Arlington TX

2. Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro TN

3. Kansas City MO-KS

4. Indianapolis-Carmel IN

5. Austin-Round Rock TX

6. Pittsburgh PA

7. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington MN-WI

8. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham MA

9. St. Louis MO-IL

10. Cincinnati-Middletown OH-KY-IN

11. Columbus OH

12. San Antonio TX

13. Dallas-Plano-Irving TX

14. Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn MI

15. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News NA-NC

16. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta GA

17. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale AZ

18. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown TX

19. Memphis TN-MS-AR

20. Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord NC-SC

21. Denver-Aurora CO

22. Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor OH

23. Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills MI

24. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton OR-WA

25. New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner LA

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I agree with Nate. I do alot of outreach (school visits, etc.) across the metro area with my job, and the rate of return has increased substantially in the last 6 months. Areas of St. Bernard Parish north of Judge Perez are filling in nicely, the East is seeing a ton of activity once you get off of I-10, Gentilly is beginning to see some activity infill from the lake and ridge, and Lakeview has demos and rebuilding happening all over the place. The areas where I don't see much happening right now are all of the 9th Ward (except Bywater) and parts of the Gert Town/Hoffman Triangle area. There was an article put out last week saying the Postal Service is delivering to 62% of addresses they delievered to before the storm. If that is true, about 280,000 people are now in the city. I think that woudl put the metro area at around 1.1 million. However...if you add in Tangipahoa Parish...we would be over 1.2 million now.

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I agree with Nate. I do alot of outreach (school visits, etc.) across the metro area with my job, and the rate of return has increased substantially in the last 6 months. Areas of St. Bernard Parish north of Judge Perez are filling in nicely, the East is seeing a ton of activity once you get off of I-10, Gentilly is beginning to see some activity infill from the lake and ridge, and Lakeview has demos and rebuilding happening all over the place. The areas where I don't see much happening right now are all of the 9th Ward (except Bywater) and parts of the Gert Town/Hoffman Triangle area. There was an article put out last week saying the Postal Service is delivering to 62% of addresses they delievered to before the storm. If that is true, about 280,000 people are now in the city. I think that woudl put the metro area at around 1.1 million. However...if you add in Tangipahoa Parish...we would be over 1.2 million now.

Sli: Where is Hoffman Triangle? I definitely know where Gert Town is. I'm hoping for 1.250 by 2010. We just need a NEW GOVERNMENT.

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The show Survivor is not urban enough. I wanna change that. I want to put 6 people in 13th Ward, MLK Blvd. @ Valence St. The missions would include selling dope right in front of the people that own that block. They would have to take over the spot in 2 hours or their mission would have failed. There next mission would include going to the corner store at 2am to get some chicken with money hanging out there pockets....Do you think the people would last or quit?

Note: I'm dead serious about submitting this idea to the appropriate parties.

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Not sure if this has been posted yet.

Big plans little action

Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced plans to build high-rises.But 20 months after the storm, most have fallen by the wayside. The slow pace of the recovery gets much of the blame. New Orleans still has no comprehensive rebuilding blueprint, and funding is falling far short of planners
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