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Billy Currington celebrates ninth number one
Time sure flies when you're having fun … or even when you're just enjoying the moment.
For Billy Currington, the success of a single called "We Are Tonight" was finally realized back on October 15 when he was surrounded by friends and industry peers to celebrate his ninth chart-topping hit. Joining him for the celebration were the song's three writers, Marc Beeson, Josh Osborne and a rising country newcomer in his own right, Sam Hunt.
When Currington finally took the mic that evening, he not only thanked every person in the room for being there, he thanked them for showing up to celebrate the song's success. It was another in what has been a string of No. 1 hits with his label, Mercury Records, and there will certainly be more to come when Currington releases his new (as of yet untitled) album next year.
Currington recently released "Don't It," the first official single from the aforementioned new album. He recently told The Boot the song was one of the first cut for the new project, and the sound really guides the new direction of the album. The lyrics go, 'Baby Don't Say No So Quick / This ain't me trying to see how far that I can get / But I ain't gonna lie / I wouldn't mind just a little bit of you eye to eye, lips on lips.'
Next spring, Currington will hit the road with the new music and says he looks forward to playing it live. Fans should keep an eye (or an ear) out for an announcement to snag their Billy Currington tickets.
Billy Currington looks forward to 'Tonight' (Updated July 5, 2013)
It should be a September to remember for Billy Currington. The singer/songwriter is slated to release a new album titled "We Are Tonight" on September 17, 2013 on Mercury Records. It will mark his first album of new material since 2010's "Enjoy Yourself."
Currington's lead single off the upcoming album, "Hey Girl," was released to country radio in March. Plus there are some other surprises on the album, which was produced by Carson Chamberlain, Dann Huff and Shy Carter. They include Currington's cover of Jack Johnson's "Banana Pancakes" and Willie Nelson singing on "Hard to be a Hippie."
Though the back half of 2013 looks bright for Currington, the year hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows. He was indicted by a Chatham County, Georgia Grand Jury on April 24 on felony criminal charges of "abuse of an elder person by inflicting mental anguish" and "making terroristic threats." Both charges stem from an incident involving a boat captain on April 15. Currington was released from a Georgia jail after posting $27,700 bond, but faces a prison term of 1-5 years if convicted.
Currington is busy touring coast-to-coast this summer and into the fall, with dates currently booked through October. That includes stops at Webster Hall in New York City on September 5, the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ on September 7 and the House of Blues in Boston on the 15th.
About Billy Currington
Billy Currington was just 12 years old when he penned the chorus to what would become his very first single. "Walk a Little Straighter," released in 2003, drew heavily on Currington's experiences with an alcoholic father. That title track, in many ways, would also become a metaphor for the singer's life, which has had a lot more ups than downs since he landed a recording contract with Mercury Records in 2003.
A Georgia native, Currington was back and forth to Nashville while also holding down jobs for a concrete company and working as a personal trainer. While he played gigs at clubs and various watering holes, he also found the time to cut demos. One of them was put on hold by singer Mark Wills, and would lead to Currington's big break on the country music scene. "Walk a Little Straighter" would peak at No. 8 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, finally giving Currington a stronger hold in the industry.
Currington's four albums have produced nine singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including six No. 1 hits: "Must Be Doin' Something Right," "Good Directions," "People Are Crazy," "That's How Country Boys Roll," "Pretty Good at Drinkin' Beer" and "Let Me Down Easy." He was also on the charts as a duet partner with Shania Twain on the single, "Party For Two," though the pop version released in Europe and remixed for clubs instead featured Mark McGrath.
The country crooner shut down his tour and sought treatment in late 2007, revealing first to Nashville's Tennessean newspaper and later to a multitude of media outlets that he had endured more than a decade of abuse from his stepfather. The 30-day recovery period at Arizona's Sierra Tucson led to an extended break in Hawaii, where he worked with therapists who specialized in childhood trauma. When he emerged it was to consecutive chart-topping singles and a new wave of success.
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date city state venue 05/29/2015 Mansfield MA Xfinity Center 05/29/2015 Las Vegas NV The Boulevard Theater 04/25/2015 Atmore AL Wind Creek Casino 04/24/2015 Punta Gorda FL Florida Tracks & Trails 04/17/2015 Biloxi MS Beau Rivage Theatre 03/20/2015 New York NY Best Buy Theater 03/19/2015 Bethlehem PA Sands Bethlehem Event Center 03/14/2015 Houston TX NRG Stadium 02/27/2015 Phoenix AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion 02/25/2015 San Antonio TX AT&T Center
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date city state venue 10/08/2014 Patchogue NY Patchogue Theatre 09/27/2014 Fort Worth TX Billy Bob's Texas 09/26/2014 San Antonio TX Cowboys Dance Hall 09/21/2014 Council Bluffs IA Mid America Center 09/13/2014 Philadelphia PA Xfinity Live! Philadelphia 09/12/2014 Baltimore MD Power Plant Live! 09/05/2014 Wayzata MN Wayzata Beach 08/31/2014 Gilford NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook 08/30/2014 Bangor ME Darling's Waterfront Pavilion 08/29/2014 Canandaigua NY Constellation Brands Performing Arts Center 08/23/2014 Burgettstown PA First Niagara Pavilion 08/22/2014 Clarkston MI DTE Energy Music Theatre 08/16/2014 Des Moines IA Iowa State Fair 08/14/2014 Louisville KY Freedom Hall 08/10/2014 Jackpot NV Cactus Petes 08/09/2014 Sacramento CA The Cove at Cal Expo 08/07/2014 Costa Mesa CA Pacific Amphitheatre 08/01/2014 Sweet Home OR Oregon Jamboree 08/01/2014 George WA Gorge Amphitheatre 07/27/2014 Wantagh NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 07/25/2014 Seymour WI Outagamie County Fair 07/24/2014 Noblesville IN Klipsch Music Center 06/29/2014 Greeley CO Greeley Stampede 06/28/2014 North Platte NE Nebraskaland Grounds 06/21/2014 Cullman AL Cullman Heritage Park 06/20/2014 Cullman AL Cullman Heritage Park 06/16/2014 Washington DC Nationals Park 06/01/2014 Bethel NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts 05/31/2014 Bethel NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts 05/30/2014 Cincinnati OH Riverbend Music Center 05/17/2014 Tampa FL MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds 05/10/2014 The Woodlands TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 05/09/2014 Dallas TX Gexa Energy Pavilion 05/09/2014 The Woodlands TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 05/08/2014 Dallas TX Gexa Energy Pavilion 05/03/2014 Fort Smith AR Fort Smith Convention Center 05/02/2014 Bossier City LA Dare Dayclub 05/01/2014 Austin TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater 04/27/2014 Knoxville TN Thompson Boling Arena 04/25/2014 Raleigh NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek 04/24/2014 Dothan AL National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds 04/11/2014 North Charleston SC North Charleston Performing Arts Center 04/10/2014 Pikeville KY Eastern Kentucky Expo Center 03/29/2014 Troy OH Hobart Arena 03/28/2014 Johnstown PA Cambria County War Memorial Arena 03/27/2014 Bethlehem PA Sands Bethlehem Event Center 03/22/2014 Milwaukee WI The Rave/Eagles Club/Eagles Ballroom 03/21/2014 Rochester MN Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall 03/20/2014 DeKalb IL NIU Convocation Center 03/15/2014 Robinsonville MS Harrahs Casino Tunica Event Center 03/14/2014 Biloxi MS Hard Rock Live Biloxi 03/08/2014 North Little Rock AR Verizon Arena 03/07/2014 Shawnee OK Firelake Casino 03/06/2014 Catoosa OK The Joint - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa 02/22/2014 San Antonio TX AT&T Center
Billy Currington Tour Dates 2013
date city state venue 10/27/2013 Temecula CA Pechanga Entertainment Center 10/26/2013 Phoenix AZ Veterans Memorial Coliseum 10/12/2013 Cleveland OH House Of Blues Cleveland 10/11/2013 Madison WI Orpheum Theatre 10/05/2013 Fort Worth TX Billy Bob's Texas 10/04/2013 Tunica MS River Bend Park 09/28/2013 Richmond VA The National 09/27/2013 Silver Spring MD The Fillmore Silver Spring 09/14/2013 Boston MA House of Blues Boston 09/13/2013 Hampton NH Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom 09/09/2013 Charlotte NC Coyote Joe's 09/07/2013 Sayreville NJ Starland Ballroom 09/06/2013 Columbus OH Lifestyle Communities Pavilion 09/05/2013 New York NY Webster Hall 08/24/2013 Du Quoin IL Duquoin State Fair 08/16/2013 Mount Morris MI Genesee County Fair 08/15/2013 Milwaukee WI The Rave/Eagles Club/Eagles Ballroom 08/10/2013 Minneapolis MN Cabooze 08/09/2013 Springfield IL Illinois State Fairgrounds 07/31/2013 Bakersfield CA Bakersfield Fox Theater 07/25/2013 Jacksonville OR Britt Pavilion 07/05/2013 Norman OK Riverwind Casino 06/27/2013 Oshkosh WI Country USA Fairgrounds 06/25/2013 Oshkosh WI Country USA Fairgrounds 06/13/2013 Hunter NY Hunter Mountain 06/13/2013 Hunter NY Hunter Mountain 05/31/2013 Niagara Falls NY Rapids Theatre 05/17/2013 Fredericksburg VA Celebrate Virginia Live 04/26/2013 Kinder LA Coushatta Casino Resort 04/20/2013 Biloxi MS Mississippi Coast Coliseum 03/30/2013 Fort Worth TX Billy Bob's Texas 03/29/2013 San Antonio TX Cowboys Dance Hall 03/22/2013 Melbourne FL Wickham Park 03/09/2013 Winnie TX Nutty Jerrys 03/03/2013 Sault Sainte Marie MI Dream Makers Theatre 03/02/2013 Battle Creek MI FireKeepers Casino
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date city state venue 10/27/2012 Thibodaux LA The Fireman's Fairgrounds 10/26/2012 Thackerville OK WinStar World Casino 10/20/2012 Raleigh NC North Carolina State Fair 10/13/2012 Phoenix AZ Veterans Memorial Coliseum 09/28/2012 West Springfield MA The Big E Xfinity Arena 09/27/2012 Bloomsburg PA Bloomsburg Fair 09/15/2012 Hutchinson KS Kansas State Fair 09/09/2012 Warsaw IN Kosciusko County Fairgrounds 09/01/2012 Grand Island NE Heartland Events Center 08/31/2012 Rockford IL On The Waterfront 08/30/2012 Rockford IL On The Waterfront 08/22/2012 Lancaster CA Antelope Valley Fair 08/18/2012 Brownsville OR Willamette Country Music Festival Grounds 08/12/2012 Billings MT Rimrock Auto Arena 08/03/2012 West Allis WI Wisconsin State Fair Park 07/28/2012 Niagara Falls NY Seneca Events Center 07/26/2012 Columbus OH Celeste Center 07/13/2012 Bismarck ND Bismarck Civic Center 06/22/2012 Cadott WI Country Fest Festival Grounds 06/22/2012 Cadott WI Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds 06/21/2012 Cadott WI Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds 05/18/2012 Charlotte NC Uptown Amphitheatre at NC Music Factory 05/17/2012 Asheville NC U.S. Cellular Center 05/12/2012 Saint Louis MO The Pageant 05/05/2012 Atlantic City NJ Trump Taj Mahal 05/04/2012 Wallingford CT The Dome at Oakdale Theatre 05/03/2012 Lowell MA Tsongas Center 04/28/2012 Knoxville TN Knoxville Civic Auditorium 04/27/2012 Huntington WV Big Sandy Superstore Arena 04/26/2012 Salem VA Salem Civic Center 04/21/2012 Rama ON Casino Rama 04/20/2012 Kingston ON K-Rock Centre 04/19/2012 Glens Falls NY Glens Falls Civic Center 04/13/2012 San Antonio TX Cowboys Dance Hall 04/12/2012 Catoosa OK The Joint - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa 03/24/2012 Biloxi MS Hard Rock Live Biloxi
Billy Currington Tour Dates 2011
date city state venue 10/29/2011 Fort Worth TX Billy Bob's Texas 10/08/2011 Mount Pleasant MI Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort 10/01/2011 Chattanooga TN Soldiers And Sailors Memorial Auditorium 09/30/2011 Pikeville KY Eastern Kentucky Expo Center 09/29/2011 Johnstown PA Cambria County War Memorial Arena 08/27/2011 Foxborough MA Gillette Stadium 08/26/2011 Foxborough MA Gillette Stadium 08/20/2011 Detroit MI Ford Field 08/13/2011 East Rutherford NJ MetLife Stadium 08/05/2011 Raleigh NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek 08/04/2011 Virginia Beach VA Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach 07/30/2011 Kansas City MO Arrowhead Stadium 07/29/2011 Thackerville OK WinStar World Casino 07/28/2011 Maryland Heights MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 07/22/2011 Tacoma WA Tacoma Dome 07/21/2011 Spokane WA Spokane Arena 07/20/2011 Vancouver BC Rogers Arena 07/16/2011 Edmonton AB Rexall Place 07/13/2011 Winnipeg MB MTS Centre 07/09/2011 West Valley City UT USANA Amphitheatre 07/07/2011 Morrison CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre 07/06/2011 Morrison CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre 07/02/2011 Pittsburgh PA Heinz Field 06/30/2011 Cincinnati OH Riverbend Music Center 06/25/2011 Columbus OH MAPFRE Stadium 06/24/2011 Noblesville IN Klipsch Music Center 06/23/2011 Cuyahoga Falls OH Blossom Music Center 06/18/2011 Philadelphia PA Lincoln Financial Field 06/11/2011 Green Bay WI Lambeau Field 06/09/2011 Bridgeview IL Toyota Park 05/29/2011 Baton Rouge LA LSU Tiger Stadium 05/28/2011 Biloxi MS IP Casino Resort and Spa 04/15/2011 San Antonio TX Cowboys Dance Hall 03/12/2011 North Myrtle Beach SC House of Blues Myrtle Beach
Billy Currington Tour Dates 2010
date city state venue 11/17/2010 Chicago IL Joe'S Bar 10/05/2010 Nashville TN Bridgestone Arena 09/24/2010 Puyallup WA Puyallup Fairgrounds 07/30/2010 Thackerville OK WinStar World Casino 07/25/2010 Twin Lakes WI Shadow Hill Ranch 07/24/2010 Eau Claire WI Country Jam USA 07/22/2010 Twin Lakes WI Shadow Hill Ranch 06/26/2010 Manhattan KS Country Stampede 06/24/2010 Mack CO Country Jam USA Campground - Grand Junction 06/15/2010 Burlington IA Burlington Steamboat Days Grounds 06/04/2010 Buffalo NY Coca-Cola Field 05/13/2010 Norfolk VA The Norva 05/07/2010 Dixon CA Dixon May Fair 04/28/2010 Fairbanks AK Carlson Center 04/27/2010 Anchorage AK William A Egan Civic And Convention Center 04/23/2010 Coarsegold CA Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino 04/10/2010 Biloxi MS IP Casino Resort and Spa
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JON CARDINELLI says the injury situation can only worsen for the Stormers in the next three weeks and fans should brace themselves for at least one loss.
Coach Allister Coetzee's worst fear was realised on Saturday when No 8 Nizaam Carr hobbled off the field. The log may not reflect the fact, but Carr's knee injury has plunged the Cape franchise even deeper into crisis.
The Stormers will be without Schalk Burger and Nick Koster until the end of June, and may have to make do without Duane Vermeulen for the rest of their campaign. It was hoped that they could survive this four-game stretch without conceding further injuries, and that Jebb Sinclair would play a supporting role to the incumbent loose trio of Siya Kolisi, Rynhardt Elstadt and Carr.
But with Carr joining a lengthy list of casualties, Sinclair will be thrust into the starting line-up. It means that Coetzee will also have to promote a loose forward from the Western Province Vodacom Cup team, as apparently there are no other experienced players available.
When asked whether he would seek further help from abroad, a despondent Coetzee replied, 'Who? Do you have any names for me?'
It was a statement that explained the recruitment of Sinclair. The Stormers had failed to acquire the services of Springbok flank Francois Louw and presumably failed to acquire other high-profile players with unbreakable club commitments.
Outside of Sinclair, a Canadian who plays his club rugby for London Irish, there aren't many players with a gap at this point of the season.
Saracens enjoy a good relationship with the Stormers, and it was suggested after their recent exit from the Premiership semi-finals that some of those players may be available. Saracens hooker Schalk Brits did after all play loose forward for the Cape side when they were similarly afflicted last year.
But Coetzee's response didn't inspire any confidence of a Saracens forward flying to the Stormers' aid. It is likely that the Stormers will have to make do with what they have until Burger and Koster return at the end of next month.
It's a massive blow, and you'd have to say they'd do well to stay in contention for a home semi-final. They may have lost only one game to date, but because they haven't scored four-try bonus points their position in the top six is far from secure.
They need to keep winning to stay in contention for that crucial home play-off. It's going to be a tough ask with a depleted pack, even more so considering the demands of looming forward-oriented contests against the Waratahs, Sharks and Bulls.
It will be nothing short of amazing if they manage to win their next three matches, two of which are away from home. It will be incredible if they can come through these inevitably brutal physical clashes without losing more players to injury.
They will also hope that the Highlanders and Chiefs do them a favour by beating the Bulls and thus preventing the Pretoria side from extending its lead at the top of the South African conference.
Two defeats for the Bulls will allow the Cape team to stay in touch despite their own (and here I say probable given their depleted stocks) losses in the next three rounds.
The Stormers have a slightly easier run-in to the play-offs than the Bulls with matches against the Lions (home), Rebels (home) and Cheetahs (away) scheduled for after the June Tests. The Bulls will host the Cheetahs and Lions, but face a difficult trip to Durban.
The Stormers will be boosted by the returns of Burger and Koster for those matches, but they won't want to leave themselves with too much to do in terms of securing a home semi-final. They need to survive the next three matches without conceding further injuries, and they also need to pick up some crucial log points.
A win against an inconsistent Waratahs side this weekend is non-negotiable, as away victories in Durban and Pretoria for a depleted Stormers side seem far less likely.


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Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region by unraveling the complex history of the contentious T-SPLOST (Transportation Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax) initiative that was defeated in a 2012 referendum.
"A Well-Tied Knot" joins Southern Spaces' growing collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia scholarship on the Atlanta metro region—a collection we have titled "Changing Atlanta." Readers interested in such work might also be interested in the new Atlanta Studies Network, which "connects scholars, activists and residents with one another around a shared interest in Atlanta."
If Hatfield's essay on the T-SPLOST referendum inspires you to join this debate, please consider leaving a comment by using the form below.
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies»
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.
- In Atlanta, two historic African American churches potentially stand in the way of plans to build a new, billion-dollar football stadium for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. The first, Friendship Baptist Church, was founded before the end of the Civil War and has stood at its current location since 1880. Spelman and Morehouse Colleges were founded in First Baptist. Also, Maynard H. Jackson, Sr., the father of Atlanta's first black mayor Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., was the church's head pastor until his death in 1953. The other church, Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, has occupied its current space since 1955, having already moved several times due to development in the area. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Falcons owner Arthur Blank, and other local business leaders are in negotiations with the churches over their properties and promise significant investments in the neighborhood in which the churches are located if they agree to relocation.
- On March 29, Exxon-Mobil's sixty-five-year-old Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas. The town, which lies twenty-five miles northwest of Little Rock, was inundated with an estimated 210,000 gallons of heavy crude oil from Canadian tar sands as a result of the spill. The aging pipeline runs from Illinois to Texas and its rupture forced the evacuation of twenty-two homes in Mayflower. Area residents and environmentalists are concerned that neither Exxon-Mobil nor the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (the government entity overseeing the cleanup) are prepared to deal with a spill of this type of oil of this magnitude. Compared with those associated with ordinary oil drilling, the processes required to extract, process, refine, and clean up tar sands oil are "complex, energy-intensive, and expensive." While this spill is unusually large and has received significant media attention, it is but one of the hundreds of "significant incidents" involving oil pipeline spills reported to the US Department of Transportation each year.
- On April 17, a fertilizer plant in West, Texas exploded killing 14 people, injuring hundreds more, and damaging or destroying buildings within a half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop nutrient) and stored upwards of 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, an extremely volitile solid fertilizer which was used in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Despite the presence of these dangerous and explosive chemicals, the plant has not been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) since 1985, and the company filed a 2011 report with the Environmental Protection Agency stating that there was "no" risk of fire or explosion at the plant. While Texas lawmakers suggest that increased regulation would not have prevented the blast, many labor and workplace safety groups are calling for increased regulations and more funding for OSHA enforcement.
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013»
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
|The dual attraction of New Orleans. From Katie Gillett, The Post-Grad Hipster's Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities, 2011.
Since I left New Orleans for good in 2007, I hear more and more stories of twenty- and thirty-somethings of my demographic—and by my demographic, I mean hipsters with MFAs in creative writing—moving there. Apparently, this is a trend, so says Richard Campanella, a geographer with Tulane's architecture program, in "Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from New Orleans." In this article, he ties this migration southward to so-called "revitalization" movements that displace generally poor and African American residents. He posits a four-phase cycle, each phase representing a different influx of people into a particular neighborhood, each phase a wave carrying with it progressively more intense collateral gentrification. According to Campanella, this is the process of New Orleans gentrification: first, gutterpunks squat in poor neighborhoods near "historic" or touristy areas; second come hipsters; third, the cultural capital accrued by young artist types attracts bourgeois bohemians; and finally, the rich arrive.
While I find this model to be convincing, it is also reductive. There's a too-neat linearity at play—one that elides both institutional forces that lure writers and artisanal bread makers into poor and working-class neighborhoods and other neighborhood life-cycles that somehow remain in a not-quite-attractive-enough limbo. For instance, even as Campanella uses the Bywater as an example of NOLA-gentrification par excellence, he ignores the relocation of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1 Nevertheless, the streamlined process Campanella enumerates seems to be a fair representation of NOLA gentrification. It was just before Hurricane Katrina that the neighborhood around NOCCA began to be seen as a hip option—at least in my experience.
Which is to say that Campanella's analysis is compelling to me because I did live in New Orleans, knew the gutterpunks and proto-hipsters who dropped out of Tulane's English program to colonize blighted houses in the Bywater, washed dishes in their bathtub, never showering, barely wearing shoes. I still have strong familial ties to greater NOLA thanks to my wife, whose family is scattered throughout the city and its suburbs. Professor Campanella uses fleeting biographical details in his essay, adding to his geographical, statistical, and historical evidence the heavy authority of being an "insider." My question here is what role experiential knowledge has in making arguments about a space, whether we take for granted that extensive time living and working and loving and playing in a place gives us a special sort of access to some "truth," whether we can (or should) escape our emotional attachments to (or severed from) a place.
Take the comments on Campanella's essay. The earliest, posted by local writer Mark Folse, links to a blog post he wrote in 2005 prophesying the coming of a sterile, museum culture post-Katrina. Another comment, whose author notes he moved from Brooklyn to live in the Bywater after Katrina—more or less proving Campanella's schema—claims that "Bywater is more like Fort Greene and NOTHING like Williamsburg,"2 referring to Campanella's glib reference to people apparently comparing Bywater to the Brooklyn neighborhood. This commenter criticizes Campanella's characterization (using statistics) of the Bywater as taking a turn toward a white majority, using this bit of evidence: "I see whites, blacks, Vietnamese, Hispanics, and every other color on my street every day. We live in a community of many cultures, not a white gated one."
|Richard Campanella, Post-Katrina gentrification hot spots, New Orleans, 2012. From Campanella's Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans, 2008.
The most interesting comment is by a person named 12ward, who levies against Campanella charges of outsidership, ignorance of the local, poor research skills, and lack of comparative perspective. One way to say this is that Campanella's account doesn't match 12ward's own experience of New Orleans. 12ward says, "This sounds like a guy who got here yesterday and lacks even the most basic 2005–2008 city infrastructure/operation knowledge." 12ward asks, "I know you claim to live here . . . but have you actually talked to ANYONE here?" The rest of his 1,584 word comment/counter-essay contains lists of dates, events, and brief personal and speculative narratives that attempt to amass a wealth of local (and professional?) credibility with which 12ward might be able to challenge Campanella's political position and analysis of population trends. In the course of this jeremiad, we learn that 12ward has worked as a public school teacher, has been homeless, moved to New Orleans for his vegetarian wife (who loves it there!), housed FEMA workers for free in October 2005, lives Uptown, and considers himself well versed in history.
12ward's hostility3 seems to stem from two places: 1) a misreading of Campanella's "white teapot" map (a map Campanella made to illustrate the racial distribution of New Orleans and where gentrification is currently underway), and 2) a disagreement with the political dimensions of Campanella's argument. 12ward conflates the plotting of white people with the plotting of gentrification hotspots; nowhere does Campanella argue that all white New Orleans neighborhoods are gentrified, only that gentrification tends to occur near areas that are considered "historic" and are near well-to-do-neighborhoods (which are generally white in NOLA). The second root of 12ward's problem, the political implication of Campanella's reading, is more interesting.
|Infrogmation, Photo of the front steps of a Bywater home, 2008.
Ultimately, 12ward defends the non-native New Orleans creative class, a defense that at once privileges the economic, aesthetic, and cultural tastes of the outsider, the colonizer, the upper class, while also staking a claim—through experience-knowledge and pseudo-scholarly posturing—of ownership of a place. Campanella's argument—that gentrifiers run the risk of both supplanting the working class population and turning the neighborhoods they renovate into sterile neighborhoods-qua-museums—is one that could be extremely insulting if you consider yourself a progressive, civically engaged, culturally aware transplant to NOLA. It undermines the "super native" project of nouveau-New Orleanians. It reminds them that they enjoy living in a place that was once a home of poverty, misery, and rot but is now a well-joindered house full of wifi and Restoration Hardware, that they immerse themselves in a culture and locality they did not grow up in, and that they do these things because they can afford to. On the other hand, Campanella recognizes this even as he appeals to the same logic of biographical locality: after using the birth of his son to illustrate the paucity of babies in New Orleans, he categorizes his family as "category-3 types, I suppose, sans the 'bohemian,'" referring to his four-phase cycle, to himself as a member of the bourgeois-scum class, and echoing the official designation of Hurricane Katrina, a category-3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Campanella's article becomes a call for New Orleanians of all sorts to have more children and make the city friendlier to families. On all other issues—the injection of liberal and progressive ideology into a more conservative population, the frenetic cultural adoption and reenactment by newcomers, the emphasis on making every enclave of well-educated, arts-oriented, internet-blogging, artisanal-food-making twenty-somethings more like Williamsburg—Campanella remains equivocal. He seems concerned that where once there was life there will soon be empty space bordered by lovely walls. Although it is hard to tell from 12ward's mean, reactionary, and occasionally absurdist4 diatribe, he shares a concern for wanting to preserve the place he lives in as a place of life, a concern that manifests through the use of experience-knowledge as an authority that trumps all other sources of knowledge. 12ward's comment yearns for the reader to share not just the eyes and politics of the interpreter, but his mythos and autobiography as well. This reliance on the personal experience of the writer, the appeal to insider knowledge, the individual interpretation—however well-meaning and progressive—is yet another gentrifying move, one that is both precious and consumptive, sentimental and displacing.
- 1. This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat how much the building cost. She calculated this number by remembering how when she would lean on the walls as a student at NOCCA, teachers told her, "Don't lean on the wall: this is a twenty-three million dollar building." I call this method for conducting geographical/infrastructural analysis the "ask a friend" method.
- 2. This is surely the best evidence that Bywater is in fact Williamsburg: there's nothing more "Williamsburg" than claiming that something you do is more like Fort Greene.
- 3. 12ward's language is very hostile, using words like "fuckall," "bullshit," and "abortion." 12ward doesn't like hipsters (as he assumes Campanella's point was to attack hipsters), and claims that it isn't hipsters who move into poor neighborhoods, it's "[g]ay men and women. (by and large gay men)." When attacking Campanella's history, 12ward uses the debate tactic "What about x?"—x being a litany of decontextualized dates or event names or neighborhoods—especially in defending gentrifying neighborhoods as racially diverse or in attacking Campanella's sketch of how gentrification has occurred in the past.
- 4. 12ward muses, "as for the hipsters. do you fear them? This city has the power of temptation in the swamp. It will de-bone and devour a good number of them in so many ways. No matter WHAT you do, and every few years, (think of what I mean) this city will remind you of your safety obsession folly."
|Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013.
Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia.
Southern Spaces uses Wikipedia pages as hyperlinks in our articles. While we favor scholarly open-access materials or well-curated collections of primary documents for our links, we often end up choosing Wikipedia links because of the kind of coverage and access they offer. Wikipedia entries are frequently more complete than individual pages, particularly when it comes to biographies or major historical events. They provide our readers with references to additional resources, allowing them to learn more. An additional advantage is that Wikipedia is not behind a pay-wall. Sadly, many good sources accessible through university libraries are not accessible to readers outside the academy. Finally, Wikipedia links are stable, unlike many links to open-access pages produced by individuals and organizations.
Just as our site often directs readers to Wikipedia pages, thousands of visitors a year come to our site by following links on Wikipedia pages which cite our pieces as sources. Even more significantly, people who come from Wikipedia clock enough time on our site that they seem to be reading—they don't just click-and-leave. I hope this reflects two things: first, that at least a percentage of Wikipedia users attend to references and are invested in the topics they research, and second, that the links from Southern Spaces are helpful and add to the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia.
Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge, and as an open-access journal, we'd like to share that knowledge with a wide audience. So, for a long time, when we published a piece, we also went onto Wikipedia and updated articles related to the publication. Then we told that we were self-promoting and should stop; also some of our contributions were removed.
As the managing editor at Southern Spaces, I am invested in making our journal better and in promoting open-access knowledge, so I spend time thinking about Wikipedia. On my to-do list for a while has been to rethink our approach to Wikipedia and to train some of our newer editorial associates in best-practices. Then, in the middle of March, I got to be part of a really great wiki-edit-a-thon.
In my other position at Emory, as a fellow in the Digital Scholarship Commons, I worked with Moya Bailey and Sarita Alami to coordinate THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West at Scripps and THATCamp Feminisms East at Barnard. The initiative, called Feminists Engage Wikipedia (#tooFEW), was planned in order to help flesh out women's representation as subjects and editors on Wikipedia, which is ninety percent male-edited.
To prepare for the wiki-edit-a-thon, we talked with editors, watched a tutorial by Adrianne Wadewitz, and learned about the methods and protocols of Wikipedia editing. We learned about the importance of secondary sources and how Wikipedians interpret ideas like "neutrality." Then we spent four hours together creating and improving articles while trying to uphold the five pillars of Wikipedia. (We also discussed, at length, the ways these pillars, which can seem impartial and good, are interpreted to constrict knowledge production and replicate racist, classist, and sexist hierarchies.)
|Screen capture of Wikipedia's five pillars, April 10, 2013.
The preparation for the event and the four hours of collective editing and discussion helped me better understand Southern Spaces' relationship to Wikipedia and has better equipped us to engage with Wikipedia.
Through Feminists Engage Wikipedia, I learned some of the reasons that Wikipedia pages can seem like good sources to us at Southern Spaces. I knew that we gravitated toward them because of stability, accessibility, and breadth. However, one of the key reasons we use them is also institutionalized in their code of conduct: they require citations. Their references and recommended resources sections aggregate online materials, provding users with a range of further reading. They also seem to be working within scholarly modes of knowledge production. (Of course, the structures of evaluation and review are different at Wikipedia, which is why we evaluate the any Wikipedia page before we link it.)
I also, and perhaps more importantly, realized that a few easy steps may have helped us present ourselves better to the Wikipedia editors as we've worked to add material to this massive, open, online encyclopedia. First, we should have created accounts. While on the one hand, this may have made it more obvious that we were overwhelmingly adding materials from Southern Spaces, it may also be have been a way to present a track record of real engagement, rather than looking like we were self-promoting. (We are pretty selective in the articles to which we contribute.) It also would have provided us a space to present who we are, as people working for a non-profit cultural-sector institution, invested in knowledge production and sharing. Second, we should have made sure to amend articles instead of simply adding to their recommended resources—in part because doing so would be a better investment for readers. Finally, we should have described our edits. All of these practices seem pretty easy. In the next couple of months, we are going to work on improving our Wikipedia contribution practices and also improving Wikipedia.
As we make changes here at the journal, I wanted to encourage our readership to think about contributing to Wikipedia. When you read an essay, engage with a project, or watch a film here or elsewhere in your research, consider adding some of that knowledge to Wikipedia articles, which you can edit anonymously or when signed-in with a user name. If we all took a few scholarly moments to share our knowledge of secondary resources1, more Wikipedia users (read: almost everybody online) will have access to high quality information and ideas. At the same time, it is important to remember and consider the structures and shortfalls of the Wikipedia model.
- 1. No original research, and with that an aversion to primary sources, is a core part of Wikipedia's policy.
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia»
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.
- Some important William Faulkner archival material is going up for auction in New York. Considered one of the most significant literary figures in the United States in the twentieth century, much of Faulkner's work centered on the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. Sotheby's announced on March 28, 2013 that the prolific author's Nobel Prize medal could end up being sold for over two million dollars. Other items to be auctioned include the first draft of Faulkner's Nobel speech, unpublished letters from Faulkner to his wife, Estelle, and an early unpublished story. According to Reuters, some of the items were found on the Faulkner family's Virginia property. According to an article in The New York Times, the Faulkner family hopes that a public institution will end up purchasing the material.
- A recent poll commissioned by Democrats reveals that Atlanta's political landscape is deeply divided. The poll results portray Atlanta as divided into three sections that vote very differently: the South Side, Middle Atlanta, and the North Side. South Side voters tend to be Democrats and members of racial and ethnic minorities; Middle Atlanta is split along ethnic and ideological lines; while North Side voters are more conservative and are generally white. The blog "Blogging While Blue: News & Views from a Few Spirited Georgia Democrats" declared that the poll is important because Atlanta elections are typically decided by Middle Atlanta, with its "multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ideology, and multi-partisan" makeup. This is because voters on the North and South Sides generally cancel one another out, leaving Middle Atlanta the decider in metropolitan elections.
- On March 27, 2013 Arkansas legislators overrode Democratic Governor Mike Beebe's veto of a law that will require voters to show photo identification at the polls. When the law takes effect on January 1, 2014, Arkansas will join eighteen other states that have introduced similar laws requiring voter identification at the polls this year. According to The Boston Globe, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas executive director Rick Sklar called the override a "terrible shame," stating that the group is prepared to sue in order to block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators in Arkansas have compared the new law to the poll taxes used in southern states during the Jim Crow era.
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013»
|John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D.
Recommended Resources
Related Southern Spaces Links
Burns, Shirley. "Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia," Southern Spaces, September 30, 2009, http://southernspaces.org/2009/mountaintop-removal-central-appalachia.
Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment," Southern Spaces, July 16, 2008, http://southernspaces.org/2008/coalfield-generations-health-mining-and-environment.
Fisher, Steven and Barbara Ellen Smith. "The Place of Appalachia," Southern Spaces, January 31, 2013, http://southernspaces.org/2013/place-appalachia.
A few months ago, my husband and I moved from rural Arkansas to the great Atlanta sprawl and settled in Druid Hills, a neighborhood within walking distance of Emory University's campus. The land that constitutes the Druid Hills neighborhood was originally ceded to the Georgia government by Native Americans in 1821 and was subsequently surveyed and sold to white settlers. Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth century, envisioning "healthful living in a country setting, yet not far from the city."
|Sam Fowler, General plan Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-6.
|Sam Fowler, 1930 City of Atlanta quadrangle map, Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta,Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-10.
Reverberations of Olmsted's designs are surfacing today in Druid Hills, a suburban space that exists as a borderland, literally "outside the city", but not quite in the country. Having lived in major metropolitan areas, small towns, and rural communities, I did not initially realize that we had moved to "the suburbs." In my mind, Atlanta was one big mass of city and I had prepared myself for an urban jungle. However, while we live one mile from the Atlanta city limits, my new neighborhood hosts a variety of wildlife, including chipmunks, rabbits, foxes, owls, and hawks, not to mention large wooded areas that provide habitat for the band of coyotes whose presence is testing the limits of Olmsted's bucolic vision. Often associated with rural and western spaces, coyotes have been migrating eastward for the past century and now occupy increasingly contested territory in major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta. A 2012 New York Times article noted that "the urban coyote problem has come to Atlanta at last."
In response to increased coyote sightings and several coyote/pet skirmishes, the Druid Hills Civic Association sponsored a community meeting on January 29, 2013, to discuss the concept of coexistence. As the term implies, humans and coyotes exist in shared territories, confounding distinctions we sometimes draw between human and animal worlds. Central to the concept of coexistence is modifying the behavior of both human and animal, requiring an ongoing effort to sustain a dialogue-of-sorts with another species. In essence, coexistence asks us to take coyotes seriously as participants in a community defined by all living beings that inhabit it—plant, human, and animal-life alike.
|Janet Kessler, Coyote coexistence Atlanta, 2009. Courtesy of Janet Kessler, CoyoteYipps.com.
The parish hall of the Church of the Epiphany was packed, as concerned neighbors, and at least one intrigued graduate student, gathered to hear three speakers representing a spectrum of professional backgrounds and perspectives. Chip Elliott, an animal trapper with over ten years of experience in the Atlanta metro area, promoted both education and trapping as important measures to maintain a critical balance between humans and coyotes. While Elliott endorsed trapping as a successful mechanism for coyote control, he acknowledged that the practice would not eliminate the population. Instead, Elliott presented trapping as a controlled human response intended to "put fear" into increasingly bold coyote communities. Dr. Chris Mowry, a biologist at Berry College, provided insight into contemporary research on urban coyote populations, prefacing his presentation with the admission that, "We don't understand the coyote in Atlanta very well." Mowry's presentation highlighted the need for more research on the urban coyote phenomenon and introduced the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project. A collaboration that Mowry spearheads with Zoo Atlanta and the Fernbank Science Center, the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project studies behaviors and activity patterns of urban coyotes in order to develop more effective management strategies of these populations. Mary Paglieri of the Little Blue Society for Human-Animal Conflict Resolution concluded the evening's presentations. As a professional tracker, Paglieri emphasized the concept of "just balance," which weighs human and animal needs as equally important parts of a larger ecosystem. Paglieri described the coyote's ability to adapt to most human behaviors and responses, requiring a sustained "management co-existence program" that responds to coyote's "natural instincts," as opposed to "aberrant behaviors" the animals learn from contact with humans.
|Coyote Meeting, Druid Hills Civic Association, Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29, 2013.
From the outset of the meeting, it was clear that meeting attendees had strong feelings about what the moderator identified as the "coyote matter." As such, many of the questions revealed tensions between ideals of human compassion and their application. In a moment of levity, a Druid Hills resident asked whether peeing on a trapped coyote might deter it from establishing territory in human spaces, enabling it to be released into the neighborhood, as opposed to euthanizing it according to state law. While the question resulted in laughter, it highlighted one of the central concerns in the room: Can we demarcate space and establish identifiable boundaries that coyotes both recognize and respect? As all three speakers agreed that coyotes will maintain a permanent presence in the Druid Hills landscape, it is apparent that we need to learn how to speak across the human-animal divide. The coyote matter provides an opportunity to reflect on the limitations of distinctions we draw between oppositional binaries such as rural/urban, domesticated/wild, human/animal that have profound implications for our understanding of the spaces we inhabit. As a new resident of Druid Hills, the neighborhood coyotes challenge me to consider Olmsted's vision of a "country" neighborhood within the Atlanta landscape and to look across the boundaries of my comfort zone, identifying opportunities for meaningful coexistence with both humans and animals in the suburban wild.
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills»


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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
On Nov. 22, 2012, I expect to be ...
Re:Working to cover for the USA (Score:2, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, 2012 @07:18PM (#42022565)
Indeed. Thanks, war4peace, for covering. And unlike most other first world countries, there is no legally mandated minimum yearly vacation in the US. Some workers may get no vacation at all during the year, so these holidays are a welcome time off.
Loy Kratong (Score:4, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, 2012 @11:17PM (#42023819)
November 28 is the Thai holiday "Loy Kratong". It is an ordinary weekday (this year), but in the evening my family and I will go to the park to LOY (float) our KRATONG (flower boat) to give thanks to the Goddess of Waters for another successful year and hope for the future. (Or thanks to Jehovah, or Allah, or Buddha, or Vishnu, or whomever you prefer to thank.)
Re:Working to cover for the USA (Score:4, Interesting)by Killjoy_NL (719667) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Monday November 19, 2012 @08:39AM (#42025819)
Wow, in the last 10 years I have had +/- 42 paid vacation days per year here in the Netherlands, I am taking 14 to 2013, so I will have +/- 56 next year.
I do have to say though, I work in a school and we get +/- 17 more vacation days than the private sector.
Since I work in our IT department, I don't even have to follow all the school holidays and take my vacation in the off season which is cheaper.
We don't have the "sick days" system that you guys have though, if I get sick for 7 weeks, then there will be no consequences.
I guess I am just a lucky guy
Re:Working to cover for the USA (Score:0, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19, 2012 @11:49AM (#42027397)
Wow, in the last 10 years I have had +/- 42 paid vacation days per year here in the Netherlands
See, this is why Europe is circling the drain right now. An entire continent of people feeling entitled to being paid to take more than 2 months of vacation each year. And that's assuming a 5 day work week, you probably work 3 or 4, so it's probably closer to 2 and a half to three months.
Re:What's Happening .. (Score:4, Interesting)Yeah, if you bear in mind that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by religious nutters who were too repressive for seventeenth-century Europe (!), that explains a lot about America.
Re:Working to cover for the USA (Score:3, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19, 2012 @04:26PM (#42031011)
...and yet they get more done in that shorter amount of time than other countries that don't have such policies...
This is a cliche Europeans like to fool themselves with, and it may be true in grocery stores and restaurants, where Americans like the place to be clean, and like to receive actual service, so more people tend to be employed. This is made possible by the low taxes, which make it affordable to hire people for menial jobs. In Europe, this is simply too expensive, and menial work barely gets done at all. That's why there's garbage and poop in the streets everywhere, and you have to pack your own groceries.
I've spent a lot of time (maybe too much) in the country the GP mentioned, and I can tell you that 'getting more done in that shorter amount of time' are words you will swallow if you ever take a look outside Europe. In China, they'll build a 15 storey building in two days. A main road that's broken up, disrupting traffic for for months on end with very little visible progress each morning is something I've never seen outside of Europe.
The quality of life is certainly fine in many parts Europe, but actual productivity most definitely is not something to boast about.
Re:Working to cover for the USA (Score:4, Interesting)by HornWumpus (783565) on Monday November 19, 2012 @05:36PM (#42031915)
It's simpler then that. The real flat foots drag down the average productivity.
Europe's higher long term unemployment keeps the worst of their idiots out of the worker pool. Hence higher average productivity (active workers as denominator) but lower productivity per capita.
Re: Working to cover for the USA (Score:1, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19, 2012 @07:38PM (#42033563)
+5 Insightful?
What a load of crap. The US has provided more to the western world economically, technologically, and culturally than any one else, especially over the past 100 years. If you believe the US is a third world country, you're blinded by either jealousy or hatred. We're no saints, and we do have some backwards laws, but you would need a massive redefining of "third world" to classify it as such.


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Gadhafi: If I fall, Bin Laden will control the Mediterranean
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to investigate the riots in his country and promised investigators free access. In an interview published Sunday, also warned that the riots would spell disaster for Europe.
"First of all I would like that an investigatory commission of the United Nations or the African Union comes here to Libya," he told the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche. "We will let this panel work unhampered," he said.
Gadhafi noted that the violence would have serious repercussions for Europe. "Thousands of people from Libya will invade Europe," he said, "and there will be no-one to stop them."
Gadhafi repeated his charge that the revolt against his regime was being spearheaded by Al-Qaeda. "There is an Islamic jihad facing you from the Mediterranean," he said. (Osama) Bin Laden will install himself in North Africa... You will have Bin Laden at your gates.
"They will attack the US Sixth Fleet. There will be acts of piracy here at your gates, about 50 kilometres from your borders. Bin Laden's men will demand ransom from land and sea. This will really become an international crisis."
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The war profeteers wont have pity on euro land france and sarkozy
when the war speads to europe.With the usa as friend you dont need
your military tactics flawed these unions are teh daygoe sex preist weirodo cults from outside world------you need to full reverse until sid bad use sheild like a mirror---------goth aim for goth attila kubla tamogin hun---------fight like him very bad -------here come teh roman legions of america again----very bad military tactics dude----------let me help you moramar with your tactics i drive one of your tanks arm it with boom box large movie screen like in america--------i win for you
Oh my days if Gadhari isnt stop the may become the start of world war three!!! excep thes time it might be parts of asia against the united nations! THE END TIME OF REVELATION ARE COMING!
Oh my days if Gadhari isnt stop the may become the start of world war three!!! excep thes time it might be parts of asia against the united nations! THE END TIME OF REVELATION ARE COMING!


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First Known Use: before 12th century
adjective \ˈkwik\
: done or happening in a short amount of time
: fast in thinking, learning, or understanding
: fast in moving or reacting
Full Definition of QUICK
: acting or capable of acting with speed: asa (1) : fast in understanding, thinking, or learning : mentally agile <a quick wit> <quick thinking> (2) : reacting to stimuli with speed and keen sensitivity (3) : aroused immediately and intensely <quick tempers>b (1) : fast in development or occurrence <a quick succession of events> (2) : done or taking place with rapidity <gave them a quick look>c : marked by speed, readiness, or promptness of physical movement <walked with quick steps>d : inclined to hastiness (as in action or response) <quick to criticize>e : capable of being easily and speedily prepared <a quick and tasty dinner>
archaic : pregnant
: having a sharp angle <a quick turn in the road>
— quick·ly adverb
— quick·ness noun
See quick defined for kids
Examples of QUICK
- They had a quick drink at the bar.
- She took a quick shower.
- She gave him a quick kiss.
- You're back already? That was quick!
- We made a quick decision, but it turned out to be a good one.
- He got a quick reply to his inquiry.
- His quick thinking allowed him to escape trouble.
- Her friends admired her quick wit.
- He walked with quick steps.
- She has quick, agile hands.
Origin of QUICK
Middle English quik, from Old English cwic; akin to Old Norse kvikr living, Latin vivus living, vivere to live, Greek bios, zōē life
Related to QUICK
- Synonyms
- alacritous, alert, expeditious, prompt, ready, willing
- Antonyms
- airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
Synonym Discussion of QUICK
quick, prompt, ready, apt mean able to respond without delay or hesitation or indicative of such ability. quick stresses instancy of response and is likely to connote native rather than acquired power <quick reflexes> <a keen quick mind>. prompt is more likely to connote training and discipline that fits one for instant response <prompt emergency medical care>. ready suggests facility or fluency in response <backed by a pair of ready assistants>. apt stresses the possession of qualities (as intelligence, a particular talent, or a strong bent) that makes quick effective response possible <an apt student> <her answer was apt and to the point>.
synonyms see in addition fast
Rhymes with QUICK
Definition of QUICK
quick plural : living beings
[probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse kvika sensitive flesh, from kvikr living]a : a painfully sensitive spot or area of flesh (as that underlying a fingernail or toenail)b : the inmost sensibilities <hurt to the quick by the remark>c : the very center of something : heart
archaic : life 11
Examples of QUICK
- <that nasty comment cut me to the quick>
First Known Use of QUICK
before 12th century
: in a fast or quick manner
Full Definition of QUICK
: in a quick manner
Examples of QUICK
- a scheme to get rich quick
- I got used to living with a roommate pretty quick.
- I can't run any quicker.
First Known Use of QUICK
14th century
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ABC has been searching for a ratings hit to fill the Sundays at 10pm timeslot. Turns out that Betrayal isn't that show but could it still return for a second season? Has it already been cancelled?
Betrayal revolves around professional photographer Sara (Hannah Ware) and top attorney Jack (Stuart Townsend) who, despite being married to other people, have a torrid affair. Things become even more complicated when Sara's husband and Jack end up on the opposite sides of a murder trial. The rest of the cast includes Henry Thomas, Chris Johnson, Wendy Moniz, Braeden Lemasters, Elizabeth McLaughlin, and James Cromwell.
The series debuted in September and got off to a slow start with a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.16 million total viewers. The numbers got even worse in week two, dropping more than 24%. In week three, they dropped another 26%.
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In short, the ratings were awful but the network didn't pull the series off the air and a rep even said that ABC was sticking with the show. Why? Likely because they'd already cancelled another new drama, Lucky 7, and fellow freshman Once Upon a Time in Wonderland was also tanking.
Though Betrayal's ratings have leveled off, that doesn't mean that ABC is any more satisfied with the numbers and there's just no way that they're bring it back for a second season. It's still on the air because they didn't have anything to take its place.
The network has released their plans for early 2014 and, to no surprise, Betrayal isn't part of them. That's not an outright cancellation but, realistically, there's as much hope of this show coming back as there being a second season of Pan Am or GCB.
ABC has taken to calling Betrayal a limited series which wouldn't have stopped them from making a second season had the ratings been stronger. Hopefully for the fans who have stuck with it, the show will end in a satisfying way and won't not leave a bunch of unresolved storylines.
What do you think? Do you like Betrayal? Would you like to see a second season or does the show deserve to be cancelled? Why didn't it catch on?
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I went to all the forums. I am not particularly interested in any of them. But I am sure this topic should be covered somwhere. It is somehow akin to the "if not god than what" topic in the beyond belief discussion . I have read the end of faith, I am a practicing taoist, and my spiritual life is not based on belief. I am very interested in how both spirituality and morality does not have to be grounded on an irrealistic belief system, but on rationality and experience.
I know Sam is interested in this, as he often speaks about how meditation experiences from Buddhism could be used as first guideline to develop a new spirituality. Now Buddhism is not the only religion who uses meditation. In fact I have a hard time in thinking of any religion who does not have at his core a set of practices that helps a person have direct personal experiences of something trascendental. Now some of those experiences might require that the person joins a set of beliefs. But not all do! Well, can we have a section to discuss those that does not do.
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Nurse and theater owner has full life
Melanie Calderwood believes you find time for the things you love.
Annie Mulligan / For The Herald
Phoenix Theatre founder and actress Melanie Calderwood reads lines during rehearsal for the show "Wild Dust" at The Phoenix Theatre in Edmonds.
Annie Mulligan / For The Herald A copy of "Wild Dust" sits on a table in the Phoenix Theatre during rehearsal for the show on Jan. 13th. The Phoenix Theater will produce the show Feb. 8th -- March 3rd in Edmonds. Photo taken 011313
Melanie Calderwood laughs with cast member Kenna Kettrick during rehearsal for the show "Wild Dust" at The Phoenix Theatre.
Well, that break didn't come.
But today, Calderwood, 61, has found a way to combine her two worlds: She's a full-time nurse and an actor.
In fact, she's a theater owner, having taken over what used to be Edge of the World Theater in Edmonds in 2008 and turned it into The Phoenix Theatre.
Calderwood said she is often asked where she finds the time for both.
Calderwood's answer: "If you really enjoy something, you find time for it."
Calderwood has enjoyed acting ever since her first performance in a drama when she was 24 back East.
Locally, Calderwood acted at Edge of the World theater for 16 years before founding The Phoenix Theatre and becoming its artistic director.
Besides running the theater, Calderwood often stars in its productions. She has earned a reputation for having keen comedic timing and appears now in the comedy "Wild Dust."
Calderwood enjoys physical comedy but said one of her favorite roles was playing poet Emily Dickinson in basically a one-woman show that involved memorizing lots and lots of lines.
How does she do it?
Calderwood said she has plenty of time on her hands to work on theater stuff while she's taking the shuttle bus from her home to her job at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
Calderwood used to work at Group Health as a pediatrics nurse. Now, she is a transitional nurse with SCCA helping discharge patients who have undergone bone marrow transplants.
Her job is tense and stressful but primarily her patients are those who are doing well and going home.
Still, theater offers her a break.
"My job can be intense so it helps to have something to go to and escape," she said.
Calderwood believes theater benefits others as well; perhaps not as much as a good nurse but theater plays its part in fulfilling people's lives.
She sees that as artistic director at the Phoenix, adding that the theater is doing well and she has no regrets about taking the venture over.
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She paused, adding a bit wistfully.
"Theater is theater. If it paid the bills it's what I would do," Calderwood said. "Nursing has been good to me but in a perfect world if I could I would cut back on the nursing."
She said if she could take more time at the Phoenix doing administrative tasks the theater would probably be even more successful.
Still theater and nursing is a combination that she'll keep juggling for now.
"I enjoy both," Calderwood said. "And I'll do both as long as it's beneficial because that's what I need."
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SWANSBORO — One could argue that watching the first half of the Swansboro-Southwest girls' basketball game Tuesday night was more like watching a chess match.
Both coaches were mixing up defenses to throw the other off, and even though Swansboro led for most of the half, it was coach Bev Marley's Stallions who walked into the break with a 14-11 lead.
However, Swansboro coach Kim Miller made a key halftime adjustment, which allowed the Pirates to emerge with a 40-33 nonconference victory over Southwest.
"I told the girls we needed to slow down when bringing the ball up the court," Miller said. "Instead of us taking off and running into their traps, it allowed us to open up, get the ball into the middle of the floor, and find some lanes straight to the basket which allowed us to play composed and not helter skelter like we did in the first half."
In doing so, the Pirates used a 14-0 run to completely shut out the Stallions in the third quarter as Swansboro (2-3) notched its second win of the season while Southwest fell to 0-3.
"We are basically working on fundamentals and getting our post players more involved in the offense," Marley said. "We have come a long way since our first two games and our defense has been a primary strength for us so far. We are still trying to put everything together, but I liked the hustle tonight and we celebrated the improvement and will continue to build off that."
Both teams came out of the gate in the first quarter with a full-court press and a very active man-to-man defense. The success that both teams shared on that end resulted in a first quarter score of 5-4 in favor of the Pirates.
Swansboro held a two-possession lead throughout the second quarter but the Stallions' full court pressure forced several turnovers in the waning minutes that translated into baskets, ultimately gaining a 3-point halftime cushion.
However, from the start of the third and beginning of the fourth quarter, it was all Swansboro as junior forward Kylie Cleve, who finished with her consecutive second double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds, did most of her damage during that span.
"She is a very aggressive player and goes all out on the floor every game," Miller said. "Her versatility allows us to put her underneath the basket to rebound as well as bring her out on the perimeter where she can hit those types of jump shots when we need her to."
Southwest ended its scoring drought in the first minute of the fourth quarter when sophomore center Mikhayla Dugan drove to the basket for a layup to pull the Stallions to within 27-16. The Stallions, who were having trouble getting into their offense, began to press the Pirates full-court and cut the lead to 10 with 4:28 remaining in the contest.
Strong play from fellow sophomore Taylor Marley and Dugan brought the Stallions back within 5 points with 2:25 left to go, but Swansboro point guard Alex Watkins iced the game for good with a pair of free throws with 40 seconds left, and Cleve hit 1 of 2 from the line to push the Pirates' lead to 40-30.
Taylor Marley hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for the final margin.
"I'm OK with my team getting the ball and making errors because those are good errors. At least they are trying," coach Marley said. "We are still leaving a lot of holes in our game and even though we got the loss, I am happy with my team's attitude and we will keep moving up from here."
Southwest 4 14 14 33 — 33
Swansboro 5 11 25 40 — 40
Marley 12, Brooks 2, Dugan 11, Bligen 1, Burney 5, Botzenhart 2. Totals— 33.
McTaggart 4, Sheehan 2, Yingling 2, Cleve 15, Watkins 7, Johnson 7 Champion 3. Totals— 40.
3-Point Goals— SWO 2 (Marley, Burney), S 1 (Watkins). Rebounds— NA. RECORDS— SWO: 0-3, at Richlands on Friday. S: 2-3, hosts Lejeune on Friday.


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