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Post by betty on Dec 27, 2015 3:43:10 GMT -5
Betty, the cakes in the last 3 days are amazing! Thank you
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Post by rihannsu on Dec 27, 2015 7:58:26 GMT -5
I am in southwestern Louisiana -- close enough for me!! I have unlimited fresh shucked, grilled oysters and Abida on tap here. No think I will stay in Louisiana. And I know that I will eventually get a lot of snow up north when I return to Ohio. Lafayette? Lafayette is Central or South Central. Maybe more like Lake Charles which is closer to the Texas border.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Dec 27, 2015 10:44:21 GMT -5
Lafayette is Central or South Central. Maybe more like Lake Charles which is closer to the Texas border. I grew up in Natchitoches, LA, home of Nothwestern State University, where my father was a professor. Back then, University of Southwestern Louisiana was in Lafatette, Northeast Louisiana University was in Monroe, and Southeastern Louisiana University was in Hammond. The universities in Lafatette and Monroe have since changed their names to University of Louisiana at Lafatette or Monroe. I basically grew up on the campus of Northwestern State University, so in my mind the geographic division of Louisiana is done in quarters following the naming of the universities. Lafayette is in the Southwest quarter by universiry name, but also because Lafayette is closer to the Texas border than to the Mississippi border. Now, if you divide the state into 9 geographical sections instead of 4, than Lafayette would be in the central section of South LA. But Lafayette is definitely not in Central LA. Alexandria is smack in the center of LA and Lafayette is 2 hours south of Alexandria.
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Post by rihannsu on Dec 27, 2015 11:05:29 GMT -5
Lafayette is Central or South Central. Maybe more like Lake Charles which is closer to the Texas border. I grew up in Natchitoches, LA, home of Nothwestern State University, where my father was a professor. Back then, University of Southwestern Louisiana was in Lafatette, Northeast Louisiana University was in Monroe, and Southeastern Louisiana University was in Hammond. The universities in Lafatette and Monroe have since changed their names to University of Louisiana at Lafatette or Monroe. I basically grew up on the campus of Northwestern State University, so in my mind the geographic division of Louisiana is done in quarters following the naming of the universities. Lafayette is in the Southwest quarter by universiry name, but also because Lafayette is closer to the Texas border than to the Mississippi border. Now, if you divide the state into 9 geographical sections instead of 4, than Lafayette would be in the central section of South LA. But Lafayette is definitely not in Central LA. Alexandria is smack in the center of LA and Lafayette is 2 hours south of Alexandria. I grew up in Lafayette, Lake Charles is an hour West, Baton Rouge an hour South or maybe a little Southeast. I think in term's of Lafayette being central because it is more to the interior of the state. I always see the state as two overlapping perpendicular rectangles with Lafayette being central in terms of the overlapping sections. I was born in Baton Rouge and lived in Scott, Lafayette, New Iberia, Lafayette again, Duson & Rayne. My maternal grandparents and my husbands family were from Abbeville. As far as we were concerned anyone from North of Opelousas were "Northerners". LOL
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Dec 27, 2015 11:20:31 GMT -5
I grew up in Natchitoches, LA, home of Nothwestern State University, where my father was a professor. Back then, University of Southwestern Louisiana was in Lafatette, Northeast Louisiana University was in Monroe, and Southeastern Louisiana University was in Hammond. The universities in Lafatette and Monroe have since changed their names to University of Louisiana at Lafatette or Monroe. I basically grew up on the campus of Northwestern State University, so in my mind the geographic division of Louisiana is done in quarters following the naming of the universities. Lafayette is in the Southwest quarter by universiry name, but also because Lafayette is closer to the Texas border than to the Mississippi border. Now, if you divide the state into 9 geographical sections instead of 4, than Lafayette would be in the central section of South LA. But Lafayette is definitely not in Central LA. Alexandria is smack in the center of LA and Lafayette is 2 hours south of Alexandria. I grew up in Lafayette, Lake Charles is an hour West, Baton Rouge an hour South or maybe a little Southeast. I think in term's of Lafayette being central because it is more to the interior of the state. I always see the state as two overlapping perpendicular rectangles with Lafayette being central in terms of the overlapping sections. I was born in Baton Rouge and lived in Scott, Lafayette, New Iberia, Lafayette again, Duson & Rayne. My maternal grandparents and my husbands family were from Abbeville. As far as we were concerned anyone from North of Opelousas were "Northerners". LOL Looking at a map, Baton Rouge is East and slightly North of Lafayette. New Oreleans is East and slightly South. Both of my sisters lived in Lafayette for a while in the 80's. My mom also lived there for a while until she died.
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Post by rihannsu on Dec 27, 2015 12:24:33 GMT -5
I grew up in Lafayette, Lake Charles is an hour West, Baton Rouge an hour South or maybe a little Southeast. I think in term's of Lafayette being central because it is more to the interior of the state. I always see the state as two overlapping perpendicular rectangles with Lafayette being central in terms of the overlapping sections. I was born in Baton Rouge and lived in Scott, Lafayette, New Iberia, Lafayette again, Duson & Rayne. My maternal grandparents and my husbands family were from Abbeville. As far as we were concerned anyone from North of Opelousas were "Northerners". LOL Looking at a map, Baton Rouge is East and slightly North of Lafayette. New Oreleans is East and slightly South. Both of my sisters lived in Lafayette for a while in the 80's. My mom also lived there for a while until she died. LOL, well Compass points have never been my strong suit but looking at the map shows Lafayette more central than I thought in terms of East/West positioning. It is almost the center of the lower section of the boot. I guess I always thought of Baton Rouge as south because it is on the way to New Orleans which is southeast of Baton Rouge. I've been gone since 2000 and don't think I've looked at a map in all that time but I was right in that Lafayette may be South but not really West in spite of the University naming scheme. It's actually further east than Alexandria. I had a similar problem recently in trying to describe where my mother and brothers live in relation to Wash DC. I kind of know where they are positioned but realized that I didn't really have the compass points lined up and I was totally wrong about where my friends who live in Alexandria are in relation to DC. It doesn't help living in Orlando where the East/West I-4 travels almost North/South through a good bit of the city so you have two major East/West Highways (408 & 528) intersecting with I-4 East/West. I can usually navigate just fine using a map but tend to orient the map to match the direction I'm facing and don't think in terms of compass points.
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Post by LindaG23 on Dec 27, 2015 12:25:31 GMT -5
I grew up in Natchitoches, LA, home of Nothwestern State University, where my father was a professor. Back then, University of Southwestern Louisiana was in Lafatette, Northeast Louisiana University was in Monroe, and Southeastern Louisiana University was in Hammond. The universities in Lafatette and Monroe have since changed their names to University of Louisiana at Lafatette or Monroe. I basically grew up on the campus of Northwestern State University, so in my mind the geographic division of Louisiana is done in quarters following the naming of the universities. Lafayette is in the Southwest quarter by universiry name, but also because Lafayette is closer to the Texas border than to the Mississippi border. Now, if you divide the state into 9 geographical sections instead of 4, than Lafayette would be in the central section of South LA. But Lafayette is definitely not in Central LA. Alexandria is smack in the center of LA and Lafayette is 2 hours south of Alexandria. I grew up in Lafayette, Lake Charles is an hour West, Baton Rouge an hour South or maybe a little Southeast. I think in term's of Lafayette being central because it is more to the interior of the state. I always see the state as two overlapping perpendicular rectangles with Lafayette being central in terms of the overlapping sections. I was born in Baton Rouge and lived in Scott, Lafayette, New Iberia, Lafayette again, Duson & Rayne. My maternal grandparents and my husbands family were from Abbeville. As far as we were concerned anyone from North of Opelousas were "Northerners". LOL I did not grow up in Louisiana, but I did grow up and work in the oil field including the Gulf Coast. Not that that is relevant to anything, LOL. I do have one good friend story though. One of my best friends took a lot of French in High School in Longview Texas and was very proud of her skills. She headed off to college and in her first French course, her professor was aghast at her pronunciation. That is when she discovered that her beloved HS French teacher was Cajun. I am not sure she ever lived it down.
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Post by Holst on Dec 27, 2015 13:33:49 GMT -5
Cassie wrote: Normally Adam soars up to the E5 and just holds it for about 8 beats in the song. This time, he held it briefly, and then riffed. It is an impressive run, isn't it? From a high note of E5, it cascades down to an F#4 with 16 notes in rapid succession. For those of you who read music, it is eight and sixteenth notes: E5, D5, C#5, D5, C#5, B4, C#5, B4, A4, B4, B4, B4 A4 B4 A4 F#4 8 16 16 8 16 16 16 16 16 8 8 16 4.5 16 16 4.5 (Damn, I wish I had a program that would write musical notes on a staff. It would be so much easier.) End of quote. ----------------------- Anyone familiar with MuseScore 2.0 ? If yes, can you recommend it. Seems from the post above that Cassie is also looking for scorecard writing software. By the way. What is a 4.5 note? A quarter note with dot (as in 3/8), maybe? Technology is amazing, isn't it? Several years ago I looked into a computer program for producing music notation. They ran in the hundreds of dollars range. Now, I see that there is a free program called MuseScore. Gotta try that out for sure! And, yes, I was trying to figure a way to express a dotted quarter note, and wrote 4.5. Just my invention, but you got it! I use MuseScore occasionally and it works fine. I don't do major composing in it. Mostly I rewrite parts for my tiny band at my tiny school--so mostly one instrument at a time. In any given year I might not have a sax or a trombone, etc., and write cues for other instruments. For what I need, it's great. Cassie, if you were wanting to write out excerpts for Atop, you would probably have to export them as PDFs and then post that from a cloud or something.
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Post by rihannsu on Dec 27, 2015 14:53:11 GMT -5
I grew up in Lafayette, Lake Charles is an hour West, Baton Rouge an hour South or maybe a little Southeast. I think in term's of Lafayette being central because it is more to the interior of the state. I always see the state as two overlapping perpendicular rectangles with Lafayette being central in terms of the overlapping sections. I was born in Baton Rouge and lived in Scott, Lafayette, New Iberia, Lafayette again, Duson & Rayne. My maternal grandparents and my husbands family were from Abbeville. As far as we were concerned anyone from North of Opelousas were "Northerners". LOL I did not grow up in Louisiana, but I did grow up and work in the oil field including the Gulf Coast. Not that that is relevant to anything, LOL. I do have one good friend story though. One of my best friends took a lot of French in High School in Longview Texas and was very proud of her skills. She headed off to college and in her first French course, her professor was aghast at her pronunciation. That is when she discovered that her beloved HS French teacher was Cajun. I am not sure she ever lived it down. LOL, yes that would be a major accent difference. I had a friend in college who's parents were czechoslovakian but who was raised in Venezuela so she spoke Czech & Spanish with English as a third language learned when she started high school here in the states. She took Spanish in College at USL in Lafayette and got a "C". Her teacher was not a native speaker and spoke only book learned Castilian Spanish. So in spite of being a native spanish speaker she almost flunked Spanish in school. LOL
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