DFN:VMA-231 - Bayou Thunder NAVAL AIR STATION NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES 01.29.2019
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VMA-231 - Bayou Thunder
NAVAL AIR STATION NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES
01.29.2019
Video by Lance Cpl. Cody Rowe
2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
U.S. Marines conduct exercise Bayou Thunder at Naval Air Station Joint Air Base New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 29-31, 2019. The purpose of the exercise is to enhance Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 231's air-to-air and air-to-ground capabilities while also strengthening service interoperability with joint services. The Marines and aircraft are assigned to VMA-231, Marine Aircraft Group 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Cody Rowe)
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4,800 people are serving life without parole in Louisiana.
That’s more than the number of people serving life without parole in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas – combined, according to a 2017 report by the Sentencing Project.
Louisiana is one of only two states in the country that has a mandatory life sentence without parole for second-degree murder.
To address laws like this that made Louisiana the incarceration capital of the world, a Justice Reinvestment Task Force reviewed the state’s policies and recommended a number of changes aimed at reducing the prison population, saving tax dollars and improving public safety.
As the recommendations worked their way through the Louisiana Legislature, 10 bills passed, but the language that would give people serving long sentences like Starr an opportunity to share their stories with a parole board was left on the cutting room floor.
The legislation would have extended parole eligibility to those who have served 20 years and are reaching age 45 and would have made most lifers eligible for parole after serving 30 years in prison and reaching age 50.
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This week on Louisiana, The State We’re In, we interview the one investigative reporter who told the story of pilot Barry Seal, the drug smuggler turned DEA informant, who was eventually shot to death in the parking lot of a Baton Rouge halfway house. Seal’s story is currently on display in theatres in the Tom Cruise flick, American Made.
We also talk with a state non-profit, who is actively working to ease the unexpected challenges of ex-cons and they adjust to life on the outside of prison walls.
Election day is upon us, and we speak with public radio reporter Sue Lincoln and John Couvillon from JMC Analytics & Polling about the upcoming decisions voters need to address.
Plus, we’re at the Louisiana prize film festival in Shreveport to see how this film fest has grown into a prize event for the state’s third largest city.
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New Orleans is the 46th largest city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Louisiana. The city is well known for its French Creole Architecture as the city is named after Philippe d' Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France. Here you will find fine cuisine, music (the birthplace for Jazz music), festivals and celebrations and the famous New Orleans Mardi Gras that is held annually in this most unique city.
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* Audubon Aquarium of the Americas -- an experience of a lifetime featuring Caribbean Reef, Amazon Rainforest and the Mississippi River
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'Top Chef' judges walk red carpet in New Orleans to promote new season
TOP CHEF HITS THE BIG EASY
New Orleans' po-boy shops, gourmet restaurants and suburban bayou-side eateries are the backdrop for the country's search for its next Top Chef.
Bravo's 11th season of the hit reality TV food competition show was filmed in and around the city.
On Wednesday (25 SEP2013), some of New Orleans' own top chefs walked a red carpet for a special pre-premiere screening of the show, which debuts on the cable network channel Oct. 2.
Chef Emeril Lagasse, who returns this season as a judge, said the season is sure to be different from any other.
It's going to be a very interesting season because I think a lot of this new talent maybe haven't worked with alligator, maybe haven't worked with turtle, he said. The culture and cuisine here is over 200 years old. You can't say that about a lot of cities. It's really amazing.
Chef John Besh, who also served as a guest judge on two of this season's episodes, praised his home state and the show's coming season.
What we have here is really special, said Besh, who owns several New Orleans restaurants, including Restaurant August and Domenica. We have the only indigenous urban cuisine in the country, and to share it with an audience of millions is really special.
The show pits contestants competing in various food preparation scenarios and they have to survive weekly eliminations for the honor of being named the nation's Top Chef.
It will include glimpses inside Lagasse's restaurant kitchens, Besh's bayou-side home and kitchen and modest places such as Cafe Reconcile, which grew in popularity after Hurricane Katrina when its kitchen was spared flooding.
Cafe Reconcile was among the first restaurants to reopen after the 2005 storm. It's also been celebrated for its mission to train high school students in at-risk neighborhoods for work in the restaurant industry. It serves up New Orleans specialties such as red beans and rice and gumbo.
Several contestants walked the carpet among the veteran chefs but it remained unclear who would survive the first cut. The screening stopped short of revealing who would be eliminated.
The show's executive producer, Matt Reichman, said prior to Wednesday's red carpet that one episode was shot with a focus on the city's ongoing recovery from Katrina. But the city has provided many other storytelling opportunities, such as its rich culinary traditions, its history and music.
Among those included in the series is Kermit Ruffins, the jazz trumpeter known to cook up eats on a giant, curbside grill outside his New Orleans night club between sets.
The competition is nuts, Reichman said. The chefs are talented and fierce, but there's a layer this season that captures the atmosphere of being in New Orleans that was a lot of fun. It really is an embarrassment the riches we had access to.
Besh said he appreciates that the show ventured beyond New Orleans, to bayou-side communities such as Lafitte, Chalmette and north of Lake Pontchartrain.
Our food ways don't end at the city limits, he said. You have to go out to the bayou, out to the country, to understand where our food comes from.
Other New Orleans chefs making appearances in the series include Leah Chase, John Folse and Susan Spicer.
The show is an Emmy and James Beard award-winning series. Previous host cities include New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Las Vegas.
Mark Romig, chief executive of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp., said it was only a matter of time before the show landed in New Orleans.
Food is one of the top reasons people visit New Orleans, he said.
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Louisiana Creole people | Wikipedia audio article
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Louisiana Creole people
00:04:27 1 History
00:04:36 1.1 1st French period
00:07:05 1.1.1 Casket girls
00:09:21 1.2 Spanish period
00:10:50 1.3 2nd French period and Louisiana Purchase
00:15:33 2 Ethnic blend and race
00:24:22 3 Culture
00:24:31 3.1 Cuisine
00:28:38 3.2 Music
00:31:21 3.3 Language
00:35:32 3.4 New Orleans Mardi Gras
00:37:50 4 Creole places
00:37:59 4.1 Cane River Creoles
00:40:27 4.2 Pointe Coupee Creoles
00:42:40 4.3 Avoyelles Creoles
00:43:46 4.4 Evangeline Parish Creoles
00:48:07 4.5 St. Landry Creoles
00:49:40 5 Notable people
00:49:49 6 See also
00:50:27 7 Notes
00:50:35 8 Further reading
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Louisiana Creole people (French: Créoles de Louisiane, Spanish: Criollos de Luisiana), are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during the period of both French and Spanish rule. The term creole was originally used by French settlers to distinguish persons born in Louisiana from those born in the mother country or elsewhere. As in many other colonial societies around the world, creole was a term used to mean those who were native-born, especially native-born Europeans such as the French and Spanish. It also came to be applied to African-descended slaves and Native Americans who were born in Louisiana. Louisiana Creoles share cultural ties such as the traditional use of the French and Louisiana Creole languages and predominant practice of Catholicism.Starting with the native-born children of the French, then later the Spanish in Louisiana, 'Creole' came to be used to describe these Louisiana-born people of full European descent. Creole has its roots in Latin America meaning native-born. Creole was used casually as an identity in the 1700's in Louisiana. Starting in the very early 1800's in Louisiana, Creole began to take on a more political meaning and solid identity, especially for those of Latinate culture versus the newly arriving Americans from the Upper South and the North. In the early 19th century, amid the Haitian Revolution, thousands of refugees (both whites and free people of color from Saint-Domingue (affranchis or gens de couleur libres) arrived in New Orleans, often bringing their African slaves with them and essentially doubling the city's population. As more refugees were allowed in Louisiana, Haitian émigrés who had first gone to Cuba also arrived. These groups had strong influences on the city and its culture. Half of the white émigrė population of Haiti settled in Louisiana, especially in the greater New Orleans area. Later immigrants to New Orleans, such as Irish, Germans, and Italians, also married into the Creole groups. However, there was a sizable German creole group of full German descent, centering on the parishes of St. Charles and St. John the Baptist. Over time this group absorbed many French Creoles, who are Louisiana-born whites of colonial heritage. French Creoles made up the majority of white Creoles in Louisiana. Louisiana Creoles are mostly Catholic in religion. Throughout the 19th century, most Creoles spoke French and were strongly connected to French colonial culture. The sizeable Spanish Creole communities of Saint Bernard Parish and Galveztown spoke Spanish. The Malagueños of New Iberia spoke Spanish as well. The Isleños and Malagueños were Louisiana-born whites of creole heritage. (Since the mid-twentieth century, the number of Spanish-speaking Creoles has declined in favor of English speakers, and few people under 80 years old speak Spanish.) They have maintained cultural traditions from the Canary Islands, where their ancestors came from, to the present. However, just like the Spanish Creoles, native languages of all creole groups such as the French Creoles, German Creoles and Creoles of color, have declined over the years in favor of English. The different varieties of Louisiana's Creoles shaped the state's culture, particularly in the southern areas around New Orleans and the plantation dis ...
Are Blacks Indigenous To America?
The Washitaw were direct descendants of the Olmecs who mixed in with the Malian Moors. The name Washitaw comes from the Washita River which flows along Northwest Texas and Oklahoma to the Red River, where the Cheyenne Native Americans lived with the Chawasha, meaning Racoon People . The Washo were a tribe of Negroids who lived above the New Orleans Bayou and were of Tunican linguistic stock. The name Washitaw is a derivative of the term Ouachita or what is now Wichita. The term is a Choctaw term which means Big Arbor which represented the Grass thatched arbor homes that the people lived in.
The Washitaw was originally from lower Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama (named after Nubian-Sudanese Ali Baba). The tribe was officially named Wichita by the U.S. Government in the Camp Holmes Treaty of 1835. This tribe were unmistakably a Negroid tribe! The Wichita were also known as Paniwassaha or by the French Panioussa which means Black Pawnee. French traders from Illinois called them Pani Pique which means Tattooed Pawnee. The Washitaw or Racoon People were called Racoons because of their black faces. When describing the Washitaw, the French describes the blacks who lived in large grass houses. The Washitaw called themselves Kitikitish which is an interpretation of Raccoon Eyed. The term was later shortened to Coon which became a term used in reference to blacks in America. The Washitaw were an offshoot of the Pawnee Confederation. When the Moors came to America, they mixed in with the Washitaw Native Americans and became known as Washo. So the Washitaw Moors are the so-called Lost tribe of Indians that are spoken of in the history books? Yes! They are the hidden tribe that were the descendants of the Olmecs and Toltecs of Mexico. The Washitaw tribe are also the ancestors to such tribes as Pawnee, Osage, Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, Catawba, Comanche, Nez Perce, Tuscarora, Gingaskin, Mattaponi, Powhatten, Micmac, Lumbi, Mandan, Blackfoot, Natchez, Chickasaw, and many more tribes.
The misconception is that Black Indians were never taken into slavery. This is not the case. Black Indians were also captured and sold into slavery along with their African cousins. The land of the Black Indians were taken. Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Illinois, Florida, Delaware, Tennessee, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana all belonged to the Washitaw Moors. The land was invaded by the French and British. The women were sold as sex slaves and the men were sold into slavery as Negros. The U.S. Government even persuaded the red Indian tribes to own slaves. The Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw tribes all agreed to slave holding of black Indians and Africans. The only tribe to resist the idea of slavery was the Seminole tribe. The Seminoles rejected the idea because they were the descendants of African explorers who settled in Florida and mixed with Muskogee refugees who had mixed in with the Spanish. They called themselves Runaways. These black Seminoles who settled in the swampy terrain of Florida established cultivation methods that were identical to that of the methods of Sierre Leone in Africa. Georgia slave holders were soon invading Florida looking for runaway slaves and were soon met with opposition with Seminoles.
The Seminoles tried to live a peaceful life in their own territory but Georgia militias were preparing to raid Florida looking for African slaves (many whom had already sought refuge with the Seminoles and blended in perfectly since both Africans and Seminoles were black.) The Seminoles, African runaways, and the Spanish all aligned with each other to fight off the slave holders. In 1739 slave fugitives in St. Augustine built a fort to protect themselves and the British. Black Seminoles led the coalition against slavery in the North. Black Seminoles even planted spies posing as African slaves being sold by Creeks to the British just to gather information. Eventually the red Seminoles began to join the resistance. This is when the U.S. Government became worried. The government never anticipated the well working relationship between the reds and blacks. Georgia slave holders soon realized that the Seminole Nation could put an end to slavery. This caused the first Seminole War. Seminoles struck U.S. slave plantations. When the St. Augustine blacks joined in the Seminole raids were destructive and the Seminoles could not be stopped. General Andrew Jackson of the U.S. Military vowed to wipe out the Seminoles. The Seminoles took control of a British fortress and re-named it Fort Negro which was manned by black Seminole officers. The Seminole army consisted of 300 Seminole men in which only 34 were red Indians.
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Aerials show town almost wiped off the map by Rita
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1. Various aerials of devastated Cameron Parish
2. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Russel Honore, Army Lieutenant General - head of the military task force for Hurricane Katrina
In Cameron Parish, the lower part of the parish and the city of Cameron and Creole are destroyed and most of the buildings. The only useable building of public use is the courthouse. The schools are all destroyed, the churches, all the stores and businesses. It's pretty sad.
4. Biologist Tom Hess in the helicopter
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Hess, Biologist for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife Fisheries:
The hurricane came in and moved all the houses and destroyed all the houses in the area. There are very few structures standing. As you saw, there were many of those structures that were washed into the marsh north of the inhabited areas there.
6. Various Cameron Parish aerials
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Five days after Hurricane Rita roared ashore along the Texas-Louisiana state line, new aerial pictures on Wednesday revealed the remains of a community that was virtually wiped off the map.
Cameron Parish - population 19-hundred - no longer exists.
Seawater pushed as far as 20 miles (31 kilometres) inland, drowning acres of rice, sugarcane fields and pasture.
It's thought 80 percent of the buildings were levelled and there were reports that four thousand cattle died.
Debris was strewn for miles over Cameron Parish, a coastal, sparsely populated town next to the Texas line.
Much of the area remained under water on Wednesday.
The only building left standing was the courthouse, which was built on stilts on higher ground.
Further inland, half of the town of Creole, population 15-hundred, was left in splinters.
Houses in the marshland between the two towns were reduced to piles of bricks, or bare concrete slabs with steps leading to nowhere.
Witnessing the destruction on Wednesday was army lieutenant general Russel Honore
The head of the military task force for hurricane Katrina component of the relief effort said the devastation was pretty sad.
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Welcome to New Orleans is a 58 minute documentary about the city of New Orleans during the first year after Katrina. This film depicts the violence and racism in the impoverished American South. This is a story about the bottom-side of United States--a society that has been left to fend for itself. But more importantly, this film is about hope, in the face of overwhelming adversity.
Welcome to New Orleans depicts the ravaged city through the eyes of Malik Rahim, a 58-year-old former member of the Black Panthers, who stayed during and after Hurricane Katrina, in order to help residents. He has become a local hero, as he has built up his grassroots organization, Common Ground Collective, over the past two years. Common Ground has served over 170,000 residents with the help of over 12,000 volunteers, who have traveled from all 50 states and 40 different countries.
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Battle Flag in honor of Filipino-American Warriors: Manilamen aka Delta Swamp Pirates
I made this flag to honor the services and sacrifices of Filipinos Americans. Here are just as sample of their sacrifices. We have been fighting for America since 1815. We also fought in the Civil War. In the war registry, they were listed as born in Manila.
Battle Flag info: Delta Swamp Pirates nickname given to Filipinos in the bayou. Two bolos represent their fighting arms
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St. Malo New Orleans – neworleans.me
Original site of the Filipino settlements in Louisiana starting in the 1760’s
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Seaman Agustin Feliciano - first recorded Asian to serve in the US Armed Forces around 1812-1815
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Col Napoloen Valeriano - Colonel with the Philippine and U.S. Army in the 50’s-60’s. CIA Operative in Vietnam and Cuba (trained anti-Castro forces in Guatemala).
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SSgt. Reymund Transfiguration – U.S. Army Special Forces – died of wounds from IED blast Afghanistan in August 12, 2018.