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Things to see and do - Perth
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Premier Inn Perth City Centre from60 £Book
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Perth : Michelin's recommendations
This former royal burgh has retained a country town atmosphere and is an ideal tourist centre. Perth lies on the River Tay, renowned down the ages for its salmon and freshwater mussels which produce handsome pearls. Some of the finest specimens adorn the Crown of Scotland, on display in Edinburgh Castle.
Tourist attractions Perth : Things to see and do
Queen's View
GB - Pitlochry PH16 5BX
Queen's View is a viewpoint up above Loch Tummel. There is a magnificent panorama over the loch and the cone-shaped peak of Schiehallion (1,083m). Queen Victoria visited this place in 1866, hence the name.
Scone Palace
A93 GB - Perth PH2 6BD
The estate of Scone Palace encompasses Moot Hill, one of Scotland's most hallowed historical sites since Pict times. Kenneth MacAlpine made it the centre of his new Picto-Scottish kingdom in the middle of the 9C and a counterpart of the ecclesiastica..
Meigle Museum
rd. Dundee GB - Meigle PH12 8SB
The old village school houses an exceptional collection of Picts steles sculpted from red sandstone (7-10C) that were discovered in the region. Cross-shaped flagstones, tombs and various fragments display the life and art of the Picts. Even if not ev..
Hotels Perth
Premier Inn Perth City Centre
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Situated in Perth city centre opposite the Concert Hall, this Premier Inn offers limited free onsite parking and an on-site restaurant. Each air-conditioned room offers an en-suite bathroom, flat-screen TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The Kitc..
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Stay at the 3-star Mercure Perth Hotel, a charming converted 15th century watermill. This Perth hotel is located right in the city centre Perth, less than 1 km from Perth Museum and it has the rugged Scottish Highlands as a backdrop. Complimentary Wi..
Best Western Queens Hotel
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Situated in the heart of Scotland and close to Perth city centre, Best Western Queens Hotel is only a short walk from the River Tay, and has a lounge bar, a restaurant and a leisure club. The Queens Hotel is right next to both the bus and train stat..
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Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles
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63 Tay Street
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No.1 The Bank
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Intimate conservatory restaurant with a relaxed lounge, set within a privately run hotel. The gourmet-style 5 course menu offers one or two choices per course and changes weekly; cooking is modern and features some interesting combinations.
Pig Halle
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About LIM College
LIM College Among First to Join National Retail Federation Student Association
New group will provide more opportunities to meet retail executives and learn about the industry
LIM College is among the first higher education institutions to become part of the newly-launched National Retail Federation Student Association (NRFSA), which will offer member students the opportunity to leverage the National Retail Federation's (NRF) vast retail network to take advantage of education and networking opportunities.
The vision of the NRFSA is to foster and recruit talented students into the retailing industry, enhance their educational experience at participating colleges and universities and help them build an early network of peers who will become leaders within the industry.
"NRF's Student Association will connect young adults with top retailers seeking talent to fuel their companies' success," said NRF President and CEO and NRF Foundation President Matthew Shay. "This group offers students a competitive advantage over their peers through access to networking events with retail hiring managers, opportunities to take part in research opportunities, industry competitions and leadership programs, helping students to build their resume and prepare them for rewarding retail careers."
The NRFSA provides student members access to NRF's unique educational programs and the opportunity to network with retailers from all formats and channels. Membership also enables NRFSA members to attend NRF events at a discounted rate.
LIM College students who are interested in being a part of this new group should contact Professor Marla Greene in the Marketing & Management Dept. (212.752.1530 Ext. 304).
"Retail executives realize that in order to be competitive we need the brightest young talent, and we're making a conscious effort to entice the very best students into this innovative industry," said Kip Tindell, Chairman of the NRF Foundation and CEO and Chairman of The Container Store. "Participation in NRFSA will offer students opportunities and face time with executives and recruiters that have been impossible until now, helping them launch careers with a huge assortment of the nation's top retail brands."
In addition to LIM College, 14 other colleges committed to offering students the opportunity to join NRFSA:
• FIDM/The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
• The Fashion Institute of Technology
• Florida State University Center for Retail Merchandising and Product Development
• Georgia Southern University Center for Retail Studies
• Fashion School at Kent State University
• Longwood University
• Ohio University
• Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University
• The University of Florida David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research
• University of Arizona Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing
• University of Arkansas Center for Retailing Excellence
• University of North Texas School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management
• University of Tennessee
• University of Wisconsin-Madison The Kohl's Center for Retailing Excellence
As the world's largest retail trade association and the voice of retail worldwide, NRF's global membership includes retailers of all sizes, formats and channels of distribution as well as chain restaurants and industry partners from the United States and more than 45 countries abroad. In the U.S., NRF represents an industry that includes more than 3.6 million establishments and which directly and indirectly accounts for 42 million jobs – one in four U.S. jobs. The total U.S. GDP impact of retail is $2.5 trillion annually, and retail is a daily barometer of the health of the nation's economy.


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POO POWER! GENeco, a waste treatment company in Bristol, UK set out to prove that bio-gas could be a reliable alternative transportation fuel, so they imported special equipment to help process their waste and upgraded a VW Bug to run on methane. The poo-powered Bio-Bug is being hailed as a breakthrough, because the bio-gas it runs on doesn't affect the performance of the vehicle like previous versions of the fuel.
The new Bio-Bug only needs 70 homes worth of solid waste in order to drive 10,000 miles a year with a fuel efficiency of 5.3 miles per cubic meters of bio-gas. Modified from a conventional 2 litre VW Beetle convertible, the Bio-Bug can run on both conventional fuel and compressed methane gas. It actually needs a bigtof regular gasoline to start up, then switches to bio-gas when it is warmed up, and can switch back to gasoline if it runs out. Previous attempts to run cars off bio-gas have resulted in a degradation of performance because the fuel wasn't clean enough, but GENeco claims that they have improved the reliability to the point where performance is not affected at all.
GENeco, which is owned by Wessex Water, has a number of facilities around the country processing solid waste. Their facility in Avonmouth has been producing bio-gas which is used to generate electricity for the national grid for many years. About 18 million cubic meters of biogas is produced yearly – and amount which could power 95,400,000 miles of driving per year for a savings of 19,000 tonnes of CO2. The UK company plans on converting its fleet of vehicles to bio-gas after a trial period with the Bio-Bug.
Via BBC and Daily Mail
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July 11, 2011 at 9:57 am
Great ideas, now all we need to do is continue to close the gap between the creation of waste and its beneficial production into energy so that farms and companies that produce waste that can be converted into bio-fuels are self sustaining and providing another energy for society that is efficient and non or low polluting. The better and faster we implement known technologies into our current systems, the faster we will see more positive change.
August 11, 2010 at 11:41 am
[…] classic VW Beetle is about to get a(nother) green makeover: Volkswagen is set to unveil a hybrid Bug at next year's Detroit auto show. […]
August 9, 2010 at 3:48 pm
[…] at Inhabitat we've seen vehicles powered by algae, poo, and magnets — but our favorite source of sustainable propulsion is human power! The HumanCar […]
August 6, 2010 at 10:16 am
This use of sewer waste is a good way to get something for nothing. The waste treatment plants of all towns should capture the gasses instead of releasing them into the air as is done now.It seems that it might be more efficient to burn the gas to make electricity at the waste plant instead of using the gas for cars. Hopefully this resource will be widely utilized.
August 5, 2010 at 11:22 am
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NWU News
June 7, 2011
A long-time Nebraska Wesleyan University French professor has died. Professor Emeritus Anthony Epp died Monday, June 6. He was 69.
June 3, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University will open its summer theatre season with two free productions including a mystery and a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.
June 2, 2011
Children ages 7 to 12 years who are interested in theatre will have the opportunity to work alongside Nebraska Wesleyan University theatre students at a week-long children's theatre workshop.
June 1, 2011
Two Nebraska Wesleyan University students have been recognized by the school's Mathematics and Computer Science Department.
June 1, 2011
Two Nebraska Wesleyan University students have been recognized by the university's Psychology Department.
June 1, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Chemistry Department has recognized its chemistry students for their academic success.
June 1, 2011
Brad Gilligan of Fremont has been honored by Nebraska Wesleyan University's Communication Studies Department.
June 1, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's English Department has recognized its students with department awards.
June 1, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Department of Business, Accounting and Economics has honored its students with academic awards.
May 31, 2011
A new Lincoln Public School will bear the name of former Nebraska Wesleyan University professor and Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn.
May 24, 2011
Jerry Bricker's idea of a "summer vacation" is probably not one that many can relate to.
May 23, 2011
Former professor and Nebraska State Poet William "Bill" Kloefkorn died May 19, 2011 at his home in Lincoln. He was 78.
May 23, 2011
Help Nebraska Wesleyan's opera director win the chance to sing the National Anthem at the 2011 Cornhusker State Games.
May 18, 2011
A celebration of life for longtime English professor Leon Satterfield have been scheduled for Saturday, June 18 at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
May 17, 2011
Dr. Fred Ohles, president of Nebraska Wesleyan University, awarded degrees to nearly 450 undergraduate and graduate students during Nebraska Wesleyan University's 122nd annual commencement held...
May 13, 2011
Twelve members of Global Service Learning will travel to China where they will spend two weeks participating in service work that will focus on education and migration.
May 11, 2011
Final exams aren't meant to be easy.
May 9, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's 11th annual Visions & Ventures Symposium has been scheduled for September 14-15. This year's theme is "More Than A Game: Economics, Ethics & Politics of Sports...
May 9, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's faculty will say goodbye this month to a faculty dynamo and university fixture: retiring Professor Emerita of Economics Loretta Fairchild.
May 9, 2011
Two Nebraska Wesleyan University students are among only 151 students in the nation to win the prestigious Boren Scholarship.
May 9, 2011
Spring semester may be over but many students and faculty are packing their bags for summer academic courses that will take them far beyond the classroom walls.
May 3, 2011
Students and colleagues of Rita Lester say the religion professor is known for her rigorous courses. And in the same breath, they're quick to point out that her courses are so intriguing and engaging...
May 2, 2011
Students are encouraged to have their mail forwarded after finals week.
May 2, 2011
The Emmy-nominated Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir will perform a concert of classic choral literature during its upcoming tour that will include concerts in Libertyville, Ill. and Madison, Wis.
April 29, 2011
The executive director of the Food Bank of Lincoln will deliver the address at Nebraska Wesleyan's University's 122nd annual commencement.
April 28, 2011
A Nebraska Wesleyan University junior elementary education major is the 2011 recipient of the Nebraska Student Education Association Retired Teachers Scholarship.
April 27, 2011
On Monday, May 2, NWU theatre students will host a fundraiser to help defray medical costs of theatre professor Joan Korte.
April 27, 2011
Senior Bria Langer was merely hours away from performing in her final Nebraska Wesleyan opera when she was notified of her next adventure.
April 26, 2011
Eight Nebraska Wesleyan University biology students have returned from the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference where two NWU students received top honors.
April 26, 2011
A Nebraska Wesleyan senior biology student has been awarded the University of Nebraska Medical Center's (UNMC) highest honor for undergraduate research presentations at the Nebraska Academy of Scie
April 26, 2011
The Weary Center's summer 2011 hours will be: Monday - Thursday11:00 AM - 8:00 PM Friday11:00 AM - 7:00 PM *Hours effective: May 17 - August 19
April 26, 2011
After serving 13 years at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Inger Bull, Director of International Education, has said goodbye.
April 26, 2011
The NWU student body has elected Phil Bakken of Fremont and Lindsey Jones of Lincoln as the new president and vice president of the 2011-2012 Student Affairs Senate.
April 26, 2011
Mark your calendars for September 22-25 and plan to join your classmates and friends for homecoming 2011. This year's theme is "Good Vibrations."
April 22, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's President Emeritus John W. White, Jr., died Monday, April 18, 2011.
April 20, 2011
Willard Sorority will hold it's annual "Build Your Own Burrito" fundraiser to benefit Fresh Start.
April 20, 2011
An author and educator on Muslims in America will deliver his lecture, "Islamophobia: How Muslims Became America's Enemy" at Nebraska Wesleyan University on Thursday, April 28.
April 18, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University professor Kristie Pfabe is this year's recipient of the Kenneth R. Holder Fellowship for Instructional Improvement.
April 15, 2011
Preparations are under way for the 2011 commencement exercises set for Saturday, May 14, on the Nebraska Wesleyan campus.
April 15, 2011
A Nebraska Wesleyan University history professor has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship that will take her to Estonia next year.
April 14, 2011
Two Nebraska Wesleyan University seniors have been awarded Fulbright scholarships that will take them to Germany next year.
April 13, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University's annual Holder Lecture will feature an expert on Arabic rhetoric.
April 12, 2011
Greekelodeon! Greek Week 2011 is April 11-18. Activities will include:
April 12, 2011
Sodexo will again offer for the fall 2011 semester a scholarship opportunity for students to receive a semester's worth of the Gold Plan dining at no charge.
April 11, 2011
Ever since she was 8-years-old, Lindsey Jones wanted to be a doctor.
April 11, 2011
As a member of the Student Technology Assistance Resource Team (START), it wasn't uncommon for NWU senior Brent McKain to watch recycle bins in the computer labs fill quickly.
April 11, 2011
An upcoming fundraiser will help assist an NWU staff accompanist and her family who are dealing with multiple health problems.
April 11, 2011
Nebraska Wesleyan University will hold its eighth annual Relay for Life event on Friday, April 15. This year's theme is "Wild About a Cure."
April 11, 2011
Theresa Wadkins was chosen as the 2011 commencement speaker to represent graduating University College students.
April 11, 2011
Theresa Wadkins was chosen as the 2011 commencement speaker to represent graduating


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In the United States, asylum on the basis of sexual orientation was first granted in 1994. Swetha Sridharan of the Council on Foreign Relations explains why U.S. immigration law focuses on sexual identity rather than sexual conduct, and what this distinction has meant for asylum seekers.
Latinos in the United States are a fast-growing community that is strategically situated in the 2008 elections. Mark Hugo Lopez and Susan Minushkin of Pew Hispanic Center review the results of a recent survey of Hispanic voters.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the decrease in unauthorized immigration, the latest ruling on Arizona's employer-sanctions law, Iraqi refugees, Alabama and Arkansas on the in-state tuition debate, and more.
In 2006, Department of Homeland Security immigration officials made over 1.2 million apprehensions of immigrants at points of entry along the U.S. border and within the United States. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines the most recent data on immigration enforcement.
MPI's Claire Bergeron and Muzaffar Chishti report on the Democratic and Republican platforms, the worksite raid in Mississippi, the new citizenship test, and more.
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This report provides a summary of issues discussed during a meeting convened by the Migration Policy Institute in which 50 senior experts explored the current policy agenda on immigrant integration.
This report examines the sweeping changes in the way identity documents are issued and used under the REAL ID Act, an effort to enhance the security of identity documents in post-9/11 America. It takes a detailed look at how this legislation will affect document issuing agencies, state budgets, and the employment verification system, in addition to immigrants and citizens.
This report provides an overview of United States border enforcement throughout the 20th century, highlights how it has changed since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act nearly two decades ago, and further examines its unprecedented expansion in the aftermath of 9/11. The author concludes with a set of policy questions.
This fact sheet is an overview of U.S. immigration based on Fiscal Year 2004 data released by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics in 2005.
This brief provides a historical overview of various attempts at implementing workplace enforcement in the United States before arguing in favor of a process not unlike credit-card verification that allows employers to swipe a card at the point of hire and receive a response in real time from the Social Security Administration informing them whether an employee is authorized to work in the United States.
This report explores the successes and failures of various attempts to create an employment verification system that reliably establishes an employee's eligibility to work since the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986. Through this analysis, the author evaluates the effectiveness and potential contributions of the current system and seeks to inform proposals for future initiatives.
This policy brief examines the flaws in the United States' existing employer sanctions regime and proposes six types of reform that could strengthen the system: improvements to document security, document consolidation, mandatory use of employment databases, increased enforcement staffing, a revised penalty structure, and better worksite access for investigators.
This report closely examines the rapid growth of government appropriations directly targeted to immigration enforcement activities since the passage of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986 (IRCA). Focusing primarily on data between 1985 and 2002, authors highlight trends in the overall immigration enforcement spending as well as in specific activities.


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Dorothy E. Hodgson, 100, of Geneseo died on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, in the long-term care unit at Hammond-Henry Hospital, Geneseo.Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 2, at Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services, Geneseo.
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The pilots of a helium-filled balloon flying across the Pacific Ocean surpassed a duration record Friday as they approach North America, marking a historic day for the team that already has eclipsed a distance milestone.
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Tell Us Your Favorite YA Books of 2012December 28, 2012
We want you to tell us your favorite YA reads of 2012. So, what is your most favorite YA book of the year? Why is it your favorite? Have you read other books by the author? Who would you cast in the movie version? What would you change about the book? Or if that doesn't work for you tell us about the worst YA book you read in 2012 and why it was such a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad book. Ready, set, comment!…
My top YA pick for 2012 is Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Check out the book's description courtesy of the publisher:
And here's what a few others had to say about the oh-so-terrifical read:
"Benjamin Alire Saenz is a writer with a sidewinder punch. Spare sentences connect resonant moments, and then he knocks you down with emotional truth. The story of Ari and Dante's friendship widens and twists like a river, revealing truths about how hard love is, how family supports us, and how painfully deep you have to go to uncover an authentic self."–Judy Blundell, National Book Award-winning author of What I Saw and How I Lied
"This book took my breath away. What gorgeous writing, and what a story! I loved both these boys. And their parents! Don't we all wish we had parents like theirs? The ending – and the way it unfolded – was so satisfying. I could go on and on…suffice it to say I will be highly recommending it to one and all. I'm sure I'll reread it myself at some point. I hated having it end." –James Howe, Author of Addie on the Inside
"I'm absolutely blown away. This is Saenz's best work by far…It's a beautiful story, so beautifully told and so psychologically acute! Both Ari and Dante are simply great characters who will live on in my memory. Everything about the book is absolutely pitch perfect…It's already my favorite book of the year!"–Michael Cart, Booklist columnist and YALSA past president
Oh, and is it too late to tell you my favorite book of 2011?? Probably. But I'm going to anyways because, coincidentally, if you like Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe then you will love, love, love I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan as well. Trust me on this one.
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Vote For Your Favorite House in the 2011 Solar Decathlon!
The DOE & the Solar Decathlon are also running their own People's Choice Award for the first time ever, so you should definitely go check it out and vote! Read on for a look at each of these amazing solar-powered homes:
While other homes in the competition wooed us with fancy features like moving walls, we were impressed to see that Middlebury College's Self Reliance House really worked on perfecting the basics. The home's concept focused on sourcing many materials locally, including wood from the College's own forests and insulation made from sheep's wool from a local farm. Another feature that we at Inhabitat, being big fans of urban gardening, loved was that the house has plenty of space for residents to grow their own food.
Team New Zealand is showing how things are done south of the equator with their beautiful First Light home, which just won the engineering contest at the 2011 Solar Decathlon! Locally-sourced materials like sheep's wool insulation are combined with handmade furnishings and smart design to create this breezy "Kiwi Bach" inspired home.
Ohio State's enCORE house is built around a central mechanical core and features a locally manufactured solar array on the roof. Geared towards a family on a budget, the home is an affordable and space conscious design.
The Southern California-based dynamic duo of Sci_Arc and Caltech have combined their powers to design the out-of-this-world inside-out CHIP house, which was inspired by an astronaut's suit. A puffy, white, heavily-insulated exterior encapsulates a compact yet flexible interior complete with enough high-tech gadgetry to keep the house running completely off-grid.
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September 30, 2011 at 1:12 pm
definately the new zealand house.
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Thanks for covering this fabulous event! But how about Vermont's own Middlebury College solar home? They were in 4th place last I looked. It would be great to be able to vote for them here. http://solardecathlon.middlebury.edu/blog/
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Sean Galloway aka Cheeks has a campaign in progress! Appears to have started yesterday and is a 45 day campaign.
The project is a comic entitled "Gumshoes 4 Hire".
Looking for $20,000 he's at $3,890 through 56 backers with 44 days to go.
There's no video on YouTube to embed so here's a link to the project where you can watch what Cheeks has to say. Will be keeping an eye on this!
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Cheeks is a super cool cat and his work is top notch. I wish them all great success!
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Alright! Cheeks hit his goal and will be funded at the end of his Kickstarter campaign!
Here's where he's at so far...
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Cheeks is doing pretty good with his first Kickstarter campaign.
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Funny how crowdfunding success is becoming almost routine.
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Cheeks finished up with a successful campaign on Kickstarter.
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Last night I got rebaptised in the Jazz gospel, by my old jazz instructor Herb Smith. When it comes to classical I have been around some prominently trained musicians, but my jazz experience has been pretty humble. I really got into jazz at Spelman, a little school in Atlanta. After a horrific experience at Spelman where my intellect or political views were not accepted (note to all: being a militant right wing republican on a black campus is a really bad idea), I continued to play at Northern Virginia Community College.
Being the elitist academic that I am, going to community college was perhaps the most embarrassing moment in my life. I'm not going to lie I was mortified at going to a community college. Where I come from, (and this not true for every community college) only pot heads go to community college, not honors students who listen to classical music. I did not give up my youth in favor of academics to go to a school full of pot heads.
Luckily for me I found jazz and strangely I have learned to embrace drug users of all kinds. Like the Statue of Liberty, I now can say, "Give me your pot heads, your junkies and pill poppers, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my trumpet beside the golden door of jazz!" LOL. But I digress….as usual….
I do agree with Wynton about one thing Jazz is so much like true democracy. However, where we differ is where the roots of jazz come from and the reason for this is Herb Smith. Again I met Herb 10 very long years ago when I was 19, before I had two kiddies and a soon-to-be ex husband. In fact before last night I hadn't seen Herb in 10 years, because once I met my husband at said community college I pretty much left jazz behind because it was causing too much trouble in the relationship. Well the hubby is gone so jazz is back. I should have known it wasn't going to work from the start, I wanted to be a female Miles Davis he wanted me to be a black Donna Reed. Clearly a conflict of interest that came to horrible head this year. C'est la vie.
As I have been going through this horrible divorce, jazz continues to sooth me, which is why I sought out Herb after so many years. During my 10 year marriage I lost a piece of my soul trying to be something I wasn't for man that couldn't appreciate or accept all that I am anyway :_( So instead of doing the whole Waiting to Exhale crying in the corner thing, I figure I would go find Herb and just start playing again since he was was the first one to baptize me in the jazz gospel.
You see Herb was the first one to explain to me 10 years ago that jazz is a religion and I have never forgot it. That man ruined me for all other jazz instructors because he embodies the spirit of what jazz means to me. I have come to realize after several months on this forum and kicking it with Herb last night, that you cannot control what people think about jazz, because again jazz is a lifestyle and an experience. Herb explained to the class that you have to walk like the jazz greats and be around them to truly understand the music. I asked him what should I do to get better at theory and he said just come around, that I don't need a book. He told me to be patient and trust my ear. As a classically trained musician that was the most liberating advice I had ever gotten, because you don't trust your ear when it comes to classical, you trust your eyes. There are no room for mistakes in classical, while Herb said don't be scared to make mistakes just keep trying to you get it right. Jazz has something that classical music doesn't have, which is GRACE.
Then he spent 2 hours lecturing a class of predominately white students about how jazz is language and you have to feel the music and not over intellectualize it. He explained that Miles never liked being asked questions by band members but kept telling them to listen and find their own voice. Then Herb went off and started cussing at the class about how screwed up this country is and how we are living in dangerous times. Only if you have watched a Bernie Mac film can you appreciate how Herb behaves. People on this forum continue to negate the fact that black people have their own culture and voice that is distinct from white American culture. But like the Washington Post, "if you don't get it, ya don't get it."
I have to admit I am SO old school when it comes to jazz. In fact Herb watched me play for the first in long time last night and said" you look just like Miles when you play." Normally I would just blow comments like that off, but Herb has actually played with Miles and still talks to his kids, so I was really flattered. Plus I think Herb is an old jazz journey man looking to pass off his knowledge about jazz to someone he can trust. In African culture, legacy is built through the spoken word not written language. This is not unlike what the Bible says about "life and death lie in the power of the tongue." Herb spoke so much life into me when he said "you are Miles, you are Sarah Vaughn" and I don't think he meant musically necessarily but that I as an African American embodied the struggle and experiences that shaped these jazz greats. I don't know about white culture, but in black culture it gives a person a sense of pride when someone says "you look just like your mama" because it means the power of a person's countenance has been passed on to you.
With that in mind, I don't care what anybody says black people need jazz now more than ever. Herb echoed what another great jazz artist told me this year, just because its music doesn't mean its quality. This other jazz artist said "people go eat at McDonald's every day, but that doesn't mean they are eating quality food. Yeah its good but it will kill you if you eat too much." I didn't understand it at first because the brother is so deep sometimes it takes me a while for my brain to catch up. He was so right, once you get a steady diet of some good jazz it is amazing how your whole soul throws up at the thought of listening to another dumb pop or hip hop song. Case and point before spending time with Herb last night I loved the new Beyonce song "If I was a boy" but then after playing jazz with Herb, I all of sudden realized how dumb that song is. One night in the presence of a jazz great and my who conscience was seriously raised. With the average IQ of black Americans being 80, I think jazz is what needs to be prescribed for my people or else we will be relegated to a Pootie Tang existence say "Waditai my dimee damies". PLEASE JAZZ SAVE MY PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES !!!! ROFL.
But to be fair, I LOVE QUALITY MUSIC but I have to find balance though. Otherwise I will lock myself in my house and refuse to be sociable. I am already a pariah as it is in my family because I refuse to listen to Smooth Jazz 105.9 or really bad Gospel. I seriously can not go on road trips with them, because the music they listen to is SO bad. Wynton may be moving to a higher ground, but I am trying to find a middle ground. Herb even agreed that Wynton while an excellent musician and jazz technician, he is simply not innovative, because he is not connected to the roots of jazz. I love Wynton, but seriously a blues album with Willie Nelson ?!! That should tell you right there that the black community has gone a little OJ Simpson on Wynton pre-Johnnie Cochran and the glove. Last I checked B.B. King is still a live. I still don't get the rationale on why he choose a white country singer to do a blues album.
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Dr Wahoo said "that Wynton while an excellent musician and jazz technician, he is simply not innovative, because he is not connected to the roots of jazz." Again, are you serious? As for not being "connnected to the roots of jazz"...what does that actually mean? Please define for us, the "roots of jazz"? Work songs, blues songs, criers selling in the markets, marching bands, vocal effects, and West AFrican drummers…? Honey, he's done all that. Are you insinuating that because he hasn't had a drug addiction he isn't "real"? That because he went to college and has a father? Those are all cliches that have been proven false time and time again. As for the CD, first of all it was a live album, they didn't plan the project, it "happened". Second, he has performed with BB…at a blues summit for the Spring Gala a number of years back, that was where he met Willie…and Willie, played some bad ass guitar that frankly, (IMHO) was the equal if not better than everyone else there, regardless of color…and , these cats backstage, were pure love to each other…sometimes, things are just about music and playing..and it has nothing to do with race. Third, it wasn't a "Blues" album..there are a few blueses on there, but just as many standards…the title was a marketing decision..damn girl, stop being so gullible to the proclivities of marketing!...innovation? Look, I challenge you, as a trumpet player, to transcribe some of his solos, lets see, how about Knozz Moe King from "Live at Blues Alley" to start with and see if that shit isn't innovative…Wynton's rhythmic and harmonic language is waaaay advanced of most trumpet players of the past 30 years…
Man you really need to chill out with this whole white vs. black music shit. It's funny how someone like Louis Armstrong who truly had to deal with some racist shit could travel the world with a white brother, Jack Teagarden, by his side. And here you are dissing Skayne and Willie Nelson over some trivial shit.
Wynton is very much connected to the roots of jazz. He has profound respect for many of the jazz icons and has studied the works of many seasoned jazz musicians. Shit just listen to the Majesty of the Blues and you'll see what I'm talking about.
I never heard of Herb Smith but for him to say that Wynton's lack of innovation is do to the fact he is not connected to the roots of jazz is simply absurd. I'm a huge fan of Miles myself when did Herb play with him? On which album? I really want to learn more about this cat. Thanks Miss N.W.A
I am gonna tell you something, Dr. Wahoo. The many levels that Wynton works on transcend technique, sound, politics, and whatever is tangible. Jazz is a religion, you say? The power of the spirit that is expressed in Wynton's music is great. It is a great great thing which heals and deals in pure expression and is often felt as the very substance of love. Todd Barkan always says, "Take care of the music and the music will take care of you".
Perhaps that's why you keep writing on Wynton's site.
It is healing you.
As for Herb Smith, he's a trumpet played from Rochester, NY. He teaches at the Eastman School and plays with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. There is a clip on youtube of Wynton and Herb playing at the Roch Jazz Fest from June, 2007. It is called:
Wynton Marsalis and Herb Smith trading on "Straight no Chase
Herb played great with Wynton that night, but he rarely gets the chance to play like that in the RPO.
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> Look, I challenge you, as a trumpet player, to transcribe
> some of his solos, lets see, how about Knozz Moe
> King from "Live at Blues Alley" to start with and
> see if that shit isn't innovative…
Drwahoo, after you transcibe that solo can you send me a copy? Thanks!
I love you all, lol. It is NOT white VERSUS black. It is black WITH white.
Herb Smith is not a trumpet player. He is a old black guy from Memphis who plays woodwinds. That was his perspective about Wynton, not necessarily mine. I am sure if you talked to alot of old time jazz musicians they would agree with Herb. But I am willing to keep an open mind about Wynton.
As for Wynton being connected to the roots of jazz….uhmm he was originally a classically trained musician from an upper middle class background. I highly doubt his parents would allow him to listen to low class music like gospel or old negro spirituals. In fact alot people like me who grew up listening to Wynton as a classical player prefer his classical music to jazz. Look if you are looking for a "yes, WOman" I am not the one. My mama always said "tell the truth shame the devil" or more eloquently put "open rebuke is better than secret love".
Everyone has their own personal preferences and I don't in general like Wynton's jazz playing, because I am a huge fan of Miles Davis and PREFER his style. I don't even really like be-bop because I prefer more melodic and lyric types of jazz. Be-bop though very impressive technical wise, is like a wordy paragraph to me. Like Herb explained to me, your horn is an extension of who you are and you speak through it. So as for Knozz Moe
King from "Live at Blues Alley", how about I just send you a CD of my 3 year old son playing my trumpet it would sound about the same. Just because someone is playing a bunch of notes doesn't mean that he is talking in a language that others can others can understand or appreciate. It is like speaking GRE words to high school students. So let's be clear I have no desire to play like Wynton Marsalis what's so ever when it comes to jazz, because I don't want to play in a concert hall. Jazz is the people's music, I rebel against the bourgeoisie when it comes to culture. I think jazz should remain accessible to people of all socioeconomic statuses.
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Dr. Wahoo, you talk in nonsensical terms…my statement about Knozz was in regards to your statement on innovation, and you completely "Bushed" (dodged) my assertion that Wynton has been innovative in terms of trumpet vocabulary…my challenge was that you don't have what it takes to make any serious musical statements on a more than cursory level. Your inability to make any indepth analysis of his playing undermines your credibility as a serious scholar of music. (There is very little bbe bop in that solo BTW…)
"Jazz is the people's music, I rebel against the bourgeoisie when it comes to culture. I think jazz should remain accessible to people of all socioeconomic statuses." You're completely disregarding 2 issues here. The first being that Wynton plays out with "the people" all the time, he spends more time sitting in at clubs than any musician I know…and not getting paid for it, second, your idol, Miles, sure did play a lot of bourgeoisie concert venues throughout his career, especially eschewing the "clubs" towards the end of his life…
"he was originally a classically trained musician from an upper middle class background. I highly doubt his parents would allow him to listen to low class music like gospel or old negro spirituals." Here I have to say you're completely out of your mind…you have absolutely no basis in fact for this statement other than your prejudicial assumption that because he played classical music he must have a certain type of upbringing…wow, you're so obtuse and frankly on the verge of your own type of socioeconomic bigotry that I'm at a loss for words…you assert that you are an elitist academic with very high standards, trained more in classical music, yet you equate "real" jazz with a certain type of more "natural soulfulness" that is not equated with academic intellect. That jazz should have struggle and hardship, it should come from the streets…huh? Wow. Unbelievable…a few names you should learn…Jellyroll Morton, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Monk, Dizzy, Bird, Coltrane, these men (among many, many others) were GREAT intellectuals who studied and learned and had incredibly high elitist standards and (now this is important) WANTED to be recognized as such by American culture. To disavow the idea of the "Noble Savage" and establish jazz as a fine art….have you ever spoken with any of these men? Or anyone who knew them? Again, your own prejudice and almost sociopathic denial of reality is blinding you from understanding the reality of this music…
My good DR, do you live in NYC? Please let me take you to lunch someday, I would love the opportunity to explain to you how this shit actually is…
DrWahoo said, "As for Wynton being connected to the roots of jazz….uhmm he was originally a classically trained musician from an upper middle class background."
And Miles wasn't? Do you know ANYTHING about the way Miles was brought up? OMFG, I've never heard someone with so many unsubstantiated opinions.
Please oh please research just a tiny bit about how Wynton grew up. PLEASE!
Also, if you're not a fan of Wynton then please PLEASE stop posting on his fan club website.
You know, people that thrive on this kind of drama and controversy are obviously in a desperate situation. They are trying to distract themselves from something they can't deal with. Maybe you'd be a happier person if you just dealt with your personal problems.
I am suprised that i dont see more white jazz musicians in Rochester asking Herb to play with them at special clinics, events the strath whats up with that????
As another student of the reed-playing Herb Smith (who didn't look terribly white, and didn't take out a trumpet in the five years I hung around), he had a generally high opinion of Wynton, enough to reccommend that another student and I take some friends to go see Wynton's septet gig out at Wolf Trap. It was fantastic.
Later, another of Herb's students told me that, in addition to Paul Pieper, Ericka Ovette, and Eva Cassidy, Herb once taught Dan LaMaestra, who toured with Wynton on bass for a bit. So he can't have hated the man too much.
In fact, when I was lucky enough to travel to New Orleans, Herb recommended I keep an eye out for Ellis Marsalis, and I was lucky enough to catch another great evening of music that both spoke to me and amazed me. So the rivalry can't have been insurmountable.
But jazz is about conversation and improvisation; about challenge, about differences of identity, and about the search for common ground—not just historically, but personally, in the moment, with whoever is involved in a conversation. So if someone criticized Wynton's choice to make an album with Willie Nelson over a hypothetical option to record with the late, great B.B. King (who was busy paying his own rent by re-recording squeaky clean versions of his back catalog with Eric Clapton around that time), then I could see Herb taking a good-natured swing at Wynton. I'm sure if Wynton Marsalis had been there for that conversation, he'd have come right back, in his mild way, swinging, and either explained the importance he saw in integrating jazz with Willie Nelson's twangy talking-over-a-guitar thing, or played something deep enough to reaffirm the roots of his own identity.
Jazz is about conversation, about equality, and about the freedom to speak, limited only by ability and desire. It's the quintessential American art form. Part of that art form includes posturing and gerrymandering the artistic landscape, and being ready to strive, toe-to-toe, with the masters. I don't think Wynton would be anything but pleased to hear somebody challenge him to innovate in a new direction. But if you're ready to be the female Miles Davis, as a fellow Northern Virginian, I'd love to hear some of your work.
Miles, at Newport, in 1958, paid tribute to Duke Ellington by playing a full set of new originals. Perhaps you could pay tribute to Wynton in the same spirit. Heck, if you're ever out in Indy, I'll help you record it.


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Description:Genuine HP/Compaq 1024MB SDRAM 133MHz Memory ModulePart Number(s)Option Part# 236854-B21
Note: Our Part# 236854-B21 is guaranteedgenuine HP product with a HP serial number and logo. We do not sell 3rd party HP memory.
Overview:Information technology professionals rely on HP quality to ensure maximum productivity. As the power of applications processors memory adapters and storage devices increases high-end computer users are seeking ways to optimize their system performance. HP provides leading solutions adding new levels of performance availability flexibility and management.
CategoryProliant Memory
Sub-CategoryGenuine HP Memory
Part Number236854-B21
Products ID141601
Storage Capacity1GB
Form FactorDIMM 168-pin
Memory Speed133MHz ( PC133 )
Data Integrity CheckECC
Signal ProcessingRegistered
ApplicationServer Memory
Server ModelHP Proliant
CompatibilityHP Proliant Servers
HP Serial NumberYes
HP LogoYes
Guaranteed Genuine HPYes