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Jacqui Sutton: At the Edge of the Frontier
All About Jazz: In your press bio, you begin, "Turning 50 and starting a garage band is not the usual vocalist's narrative..." You are a child of the '70s with a most eclectic taste. What popular music did you grow up listening to and what of that spoke to you most clearly?
Jacqui Sutton: We really didn't have much music in the house, but we heard it on the radio plenty. My earliest memories of being profoundly moved by music takes me back to at least age eight. I remember vividly leaning my head against this furniture-like wooden radio that sat on our kitchen table and for some reason, it seemed that this one radio station played The Beatles' "Yesterday" every morning at the same time. I felt this heartsick, pain, loneliness; I'm surprised I don't have a negative association with eating oatmeal, because that's usually what we ate in the mornings before going to school.
Of the few records that my mother owned, I remember an LP for "Boogaloo Down Broadway," and it had foot patterns on the back so you could learn how to do the boogaloo. Later, there were the usual pop staples: The Jackson Five, The Osmonds. "One Bad Apple" was one of my favorites. As I got older, we were really subjected to the American Bandstand/Soul Train Top 40 culture that brought in those groups.
In high school, the music got "naughtier," with groups like The Ohio Players (who doesn't remember [Fire (Mercury, 1974) with] the picture of the nearly-naked woman on the cover holding a fire hose?). The music also got classier with the introduction of Earth, Wind & Fire. If I recall correctly, as they were ascending in popular culture, I got to see them perform live in our high school gym of all places. Or maybe it was the local performing arts auditorium. I seriously can't remember. I even got into Muzak, otherwise known as "elevator music." "Going Out of My Head," and "Cherish" were two songs in particular that hit me right to the bone.
The only formal childhood musical education that I received was playing the flute from around age eight to eleven. I got pretty good at it, had a couple of recitals. And then in junior high, I somehow lost the flute; and because I went to a public school (and because I had a seriously unhealthy regard for authority), I never reported the lost flute, assuming that I would be arrested if I did so. That was the end of what probably would have been a promising instrumental career.
I didn't even think about music as a pursuit until I was in my early 20s, living in San Francisco after having gone through (but not graduated) Syracuse University. To this day though, I would say that The Beatles' "Yesterday" probably had the biggest impact on me emotionally and musically.
AAJ: Your debut, Billie and Dolly, was conceptually focused, particularly for a first recording. How long did Billie and Dolly have to percolate before becoming a workable goal and what went on during that conceptive period? Did you consider any other singers as a focus and, if so, who?
JS: Billie & Dolly literally took about 25 years to brew, and the majority of that was unconscious. Even though I was singing in my early 20s (with the San Francisco-based vocal jazz ensemble Jazzmouth), I had neither the confidence nor sense of direction or passion to pursue it full-time. I had too many bad habits, mostly born from that stubborn authority fear from my youth: mainly, that I literally and figuratively "held my own tongue." I can't tell you how long it took me to feel comfortable initiating sound from my gut, rather than producing a non-offending shallow sound from my throat. I didn't understand vocal mechanics. Most of what I felt inside (physiologically) felt like so much "crush, kill, destroy" that I interpreted all those levers and pulleys as "bad"; in other words, "my voice cracked," or it sounded different in my head moving from one register to another.
It was through years of studying theater, and continuing to study voice, moving from one voice teacher to another, each adding to my understanding as I went along, until lo; 25 years and many voice teachers later, at age 50, I finally understand what the mechanics were all about. Some people are very visual in the way they understand their voices. I've always been a kinesthetic learner, so when I had a teacher that explained physical mechanics, I fared much better. I think this goes back to my years as a competitive gymnast. If I can understand something physically, I do a better job of incorporating it intellectually.
So, add to the tortuously circuitous technical route, the fact that I was listening to jazz and bluegrass, and loving both for many years, and you can see why the meld might take some time to sort out. Also, with a sidetrack into musical theater, classical vocal music began to filter in as well. I love it all. Besides, there were no vocalists that I knew of who were mashing up styles. I was either listening to jazz vocalists or bluegrass/folk vocalists, or classical vocalists. Everyone was in their own stylistic silo. And the only musician that I knew who was melding these styles was Bela Fleck, with his amazing banjo.
It wasn't until I moved to Houston four years ago, still continuing with vocal study (and I still do, and will until I take my last breath) that I started to hear the styles in my head as having some kind of integrity. It was here in Houston where I met the musicians that now make up the Frontier jazz sound, and who were talented and adventurous enough to take the journey with me. And I'm only in Houston because my husband [Edward Porter] is pursuing his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at UH. I seriously doubt whether the Frontier Jazz sound could have been created anywhere else. It seems so contingent upon circumstances...and my husband will tell you, I came here kicking and screaming.
Once I knew what I wanted to do, there were really no other artists who embodied the spaces of jazz and bluegrass as fully as Billie Holiday and Dolly Parton. They were my first and last choices to honor as springboards for the Frontier Jazz sound.
AAJ: Your "garage band," the Frontier Jazz Orchestra, is a really splendid ensemble, distinctive and solid. How long were you in Houston before you began assembling this band and what were the nuts and bolts of that assembly?
JS: I was in Houston for a little over a year. We arrived six weeks before Hurricane Ike hit, so our first year was concerned with a new place, a hurricane, my husband's PhD studies, and my work adaptation. I was telecommuting to my current job, which is based in NYC. At some point, one of my husband's colleagues at UH (Brandon White, an accomplished R&B guitarist and composer) randomly asked Ed how I was doing, and Ed responded, "She's really bummed. She's not making any music connections, and she just wants some kind of community." Brandon said, "Listen, I'm recording my CD right now. Tell her to come to the studio and I'll introduce her to some people." Those people turned out to be my current recording engineers. At the time, I was just sitting and listening. I told the studio owner about my idea of fusing jazz and bluegrass and he was intrigued by it.
In the meantime, another of Ed's colleagues (F.M. "Patrick" Turner, who wrote "Risk" on Billie & Dolly) also knew that I wanted to experiment with this jazz/bluegrass thing. He was studying at UH at the time, and when I told Patrick that I needed an arranger, he quickly recommended Henry Darragh, because he was a big band arranger, also at UH. I contacted Henry and had a couple of rehearsals with him just to run the idea by him. Then I asked Henry if he could recommend other musicians; I was specifically looking for a banjoist. He immediately recommended Paul Chester.
So, it was a combination of Henry making recommendations, and me searching people out on my own. For example, I found Anthony Sapp after being introduced to another bassist here in Houston (Keith Vivens). When it came time to plan rehearsals, Keith had just had a baby, and I think our rehearsal schedule required him to commit too much time to the project. He said, "My go-to man is Anthony Sapp," and Anthony is right there, to this day. Aralee Dorough is my neighbor, and we met through a series of conversations that started with me admiring her rose bushes. I had no idea that she was the principal flutist at the Houston Symphony, or that her father is the Bob Dorough of Schoolhouse Rock.
AAJ: AAJ reviewer Dan Bilawsky said, of your new recording, Notes from the Frontier: A Musical Journey (Toy Blue Typewriter Productions, 2012), that ..."true musical spirits aren't satisfied [with simple novelty]; they never stop searching. These musical pioneers explore the cracks and crevices between styles to find something new and meaningful to say..." What are some of the musical "cracks and crevices" you have been interested in and what are some you would still like to explore?
JS: I realize this is a harder question to answer than I thought. Those cracks and crevices really are not stylistic; they are emotional. It's about what moves me to my core that I want to sing every note of the song, and that I could sing it over and over and over again without fear of boredom settling in. I think it goes back to the intense feelings I had listening to "Yesterday" or "Cherish" or "One Bad Apple."
It just so happens that "Lady of the Harbor" moves me as much as "Freed" does, as much as "Summertime" does. There are songs by the metal band Evanescence that I'd like to cover. Gosh, that woman's voice cuts right through me. So I guess any future cracks or crevices will correlate with what moves me. Lately, I've been learning Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," and some of his hermit songs. I've also had a songwriter send me a country song called "Sweet New Love" that I'm learning because it has such a great hook. Somehow, I wonder if all of my CDs should be subtitled "A Musical Journey."
AAJ: Notes from the Frontier: A Musical Journey presents two compositions by the American "classical" composer Lee Hoiby (1926-2011). What was it about Hoiby's music that warranted including two of his pieces on this recording and what artists might you look to in the future for material?
JS: I partially answered this question earlier, but specifically regarding Lee Hoiby, "Lady of the Harbor" and "Where the Music Comes From," have this magnificencea sense of yearning and striving. Hoiby was such a beautiful composer, and he knew how the voice worked, and what lines a vocalist would want to sing. They are technically difficult, but make absolute sense musically. I've never lost my place in a Hoiby piece.
I've spoken of Samuel Barber. But I'm also internalizing a medley of "Danny Boy" and "Peggy Gordon," as both songs have a similar sense of chord changes and mood. And there's a bubbly jazz tune called "Summer Sun" that I want to try my hand at. See? It's all over the map.
AAJ: Rumors are that you are working on a project of entirely original material. Considering the tight focus of your last two projects, can you comment on this new project?
JS: Yes, I'm collaborating with composer Danny Ashkenasi (he wrote "Mississippi Song" and "Keeper of Your Love" from Billie & Dolly). I approached Danny a year ago about the possibility of collaborating. He's cast me in several of his musicals, so he knows my voice. He's a wonderful composer so I thought that it would be interesting for us to create something together. He was completely open to it.
The working title of the CD is American Anthem. It's intended to be a CD of anthemic odes to segments of our society who have not necessarily felt included, or felt that their story or song has been told sufficiently. While the "Star Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" are considered songs for the whole country, there are times when I've felt left out of that equation, culturally, politically, and emotionally.
What really sparked my desire to write these "separate" anthemsnot so much to balkanize American experience, but to tease out the ingredients and let our taste buds experience them as discrete, but part of the wholewas the constant accusations that President Obama was not American. I began asking myself "Who gets to define what it is to be American then?" I also was reacting to a lot of right-wing insinuations that if you are liberal you are not patriotic. Who gets to decide that?
So I started writing sketches of different stories. The process so far is that I write the basic melody and song (sometimes it's only a motif), and then Danny and I work together to fully shape the songs compositionally.
One example is a song I wrote called "Grass Dolls," which is based on a story my aunt told me about growing up poor in Florida (this would be the early 1940s). They literally lived in a shack, and literally had no toys to play with. So the girls would go out to this field of long grass; they'd claim a patch, and sit in the grass braiding it as if it was doll's hair. The effect was to render the earth underneath as the scalp of the doll, which was this huge female earthen doll. This story spoke volumes to me about the power of imagination to lift you out of your environment to create something beautiful.
I was also deeply saddened by the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia a couple of years ago. Those are some hard-working people, working in dangerous conditions. (Our vets and first responders do the same, but they are celebrated more). I kept hearing a melodic trumpet motif that sounded like a Siren song, except that it keeps echoing down in the caverns of the earth. Mariners are drawn to the sea by a watery siren; it seems to me coal miners are drawn deep into the belly of the earth by a different kind of siren. It takes a special kind of person to do that work. So I call this song "Holler: Siren Song of the Coal Miner." Another song has a heavy driving bass motif with a big band feel, which is called "De-Life"; it's a celebration of patriotic LGBT Americans.
There are several more. The stories are of believers, atheists, miners, Black girls braiding grass, LGBT military. It's all a work in progress, and I suspect Danny and I might have something ready for FJO workshop by spring sometime. He and I will be working on them some more during my next trip to NYC.
Selected Discography
Jacqui Sutton, Notes From The Frontier: A Musical Journey (Toy Blue Typewriter, 2012)
Jacqui Sutton, Billie & Dolly (Toy Blue Typewriter Productions, 2011)
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All-singing and all-dancing but maybe not all-knowing
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. The 'Kylie effect' – when women rushed to get checked for breast cancer after Ms Minogue was diagnosed with it in 2005 – was a perfect example of that.
Here's how it goes: Young Kylie talks about her cancer. Women everywhere rush to get tested thanks to the hyperawareness created and some lives are saved. Kylie gets awarded a doctorate for her work promoting breast cancer awareness
But other women are unnecessarily exposed to radiation or given invasive treatment because of 'false positives' – an imperfect system accidentally finds they have cancer, but they don't. Younger women flock to get tested, although age is the biggest risk factor.
One study found "over-diagnosis" of breast cancer meant one in three women 'diagnosed' had treatments - such as mastectomies and radiation – that they didn't need (there are similar issues around prostate cancer checks).
Then there were the thermal imaging clinics that cropped up, which marketed themselves to younger women suffering the Kylie effect, offering 'early detection', when in fact – according to the NHMRC's draft report – "there is no compelling evidence to demonstrate that it is effective for early detection or screening."
So women got unnecessarily fearful, had a dodgy check, and maybe got a false all clear.
Good intentions, imperfect outcome. In today's British Medical Journal two experts go head to head on the Kylie factor. The University of Sydney's Simon Chapman says celebrities can bring a personal authenticity to the debate and just because sometimes it goes wrong doesn't mean it always will. City University London honorary research fellow Geof Rayner says the fleeting spotlight isn't worth it.
He points out, rightly, that celebrities are far more often pushing rubbish diets, wacky beauty techniques, and a consumerist lifestyle that is at odds with public health goals.
I'll leave the Kylie effect here, because I just remembered I already had a crack at her here.
Let's get back to a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. Messages now often come to us from celebrities and we lap it up as part of our vacuous worship of all things famous.
The PR companies know that we're suckers for it; that we somehow connect fame to truthiness, or we're so befuddled by our aspirations that we forget how to think rationally and before you know it we're forking out gazillions for moisturiser made from frog sperm because someone from the movies said it was good.
As Professor Rayner points out, Gwyneth Paltrow successfully sells her fans all manner of healthy sounding woo woo, including her "widely promoted colon cleansing routines".
Celebrities are brands; not experts. They can use their power for good or for evil. They are, often, paid to spruik a certain message. Other times they nobly use personal experience to throw their clear-skinned weight behind a cause.
Some famous people are super smart, and many have important and valid ways in which they can add to the national debate. Others are not so bright, and can be seriously misled on how the world works.
We need to bear in mind that just because they rock a perfectly cut suit, mesmerise us on the big screen, or have seemingly miraculous hair, the famous people don't necessarily know what they're talking about. We need to remember that experts are called that for a reason; because a working knowledge of Wikipedia does equate to years of study.
If an actor is telling you something is true, just find out whether they actually know what they are talking about or have a bloody good director.
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Rose says:
Famous people can be useful to start the conversation, Kylie gets breast cancer so young women start checking their breasts for irregularities, that is a good thing. What needs to happen though is that once the conversation has started the experts need to take over. Much like Jimmy Barnes' efforts in the north of Adelaide. He wrote a letter to The Advertiser, outlining his concerns for the area, he then bowed out (I think he may have done a free concert, but I can't remember exactly). What he effectively did was highlight the problems he saw, acknowledged that he had neither the power nor the knowledge or capacity to fix them, but he got some action happening. The problems are no where near solved, and the success was limited, mostly by a lack of resources and political will, but there was a start made.
Celebrities are not experts, they are high profile people but they are not necessarily any more switched on than any one else, but if their profile can get others talking, maybe it's a good thing.
The risk is that people just believe everything they say, especially ridiculous when most have the internet and have access to plenty of information which proves how wrong some of their ideas are, particularly in terms of health and diet.
andrew says:
i remember seeing adds promoting full body (head, chest and abdomen) CT scans to screen for cancers in patients without symptoms - we are not allowed to do them on patients under 50 years of age without informing them that we are more likely to cause a cancer than we are to find one.
Fellow radiographers tell me that since breast screen encourages women to have mammograms every 2 years between the ages of 50 and 70 , women reach the age of 70 and assume they can stop worrying about breast cancer - when the opposite is in fact true. I do believe though that the younger a breast cancer sufferer is the more likely the cancer is to be an aggressive one.
Budz says:
You mean Kim Kardashian isn't selling diet products for the reason of helping other people? And saying how great it is even though she doesn't use them?
Freeman says:
"We need to bear in mind that just because they rock a perfectly cut suit, mesmerise us on the big screen, or have seemingly miraculous hair, the famous people don't necessarily know what they're talking about."
Yep; Celebs are full of advice on Parenting, AGW, War, Politics in gereral, all of which should be ignored. But this is now Tory's 2nd (or 3rd?) column denouncing Kylie Minogue for promoting awareness of a leading killer of Australians.
If Kylie was actually practicing medicine with her fake degree Tory would be justified in singling her out. Methinks Tory just doesn't like Kylie.
Marius says:
No, she isn't, but unlike the Jenny McCarthys of the world, or any of the other vacuous celebs, Blanchett's opinion is supported by a vast body of evidence.
Alex says:
The fact this even needs to be said is an indictment on media. The 'market-forces' approach to media means that you must have entertainment. It's all about what people want to see isn't it? So instead of experts talking to us, who are just plain boring, let's get celebrities. In fact, let's get anyone who is attractive and funny and just call them a 'commentator'. Hence you get ridiculous scenarios like on Q&A with Catherine Deveny mocking Bishop Jensen. Were they trying to get a reasoned debate? Were they going for comedy? Who cares, they were just going for sets of eyes watching Q&A of course, because that's all that matters.
Mahhrat says:
Exactly why advertising - and celebrities are a part of the advertising industry, make no mistake - needs tighter regulations than it already has.
It is a psychology; the art of getting you parted with your income. That is ALL it is.
You, me, nobody can fight it all. I can't fight it all, because I'm human and I'm not perfect. I cannot shield my daughter from everything. I can't shield myself!
I have the ADO to protect me from the Kumarians. I have a police force to protect me from the Clarendon Valiens. I have a hospital to keep me protected from the 'flu, and a Council to protect me from garbage.
We need something to protect us from the never ending assault on our psyche that is organised advertising (aka PR). From the top down, if you please.
Alex says:
What we need to be encouraging is good education, and people actually listening to information that is already in the public sphere. Adults just prove they are little children if they need a famous person in a costume jumping up and down and reminding them to do good things.
Miles Heffernan says:
C'mon T2 if you had to have just one more crack at Kylie, what would it say?
The law of unintended consequences at play combined with uber cautious medicos using the "better out than in" principle, scarring and even harming someone's personal or gender identity that remains long after nuclear medicine or the surgeon's scalpel has left the building.
Two Sugars says:
Yet ANOTHER slow day in the public service Ahaharat!!!
Your Australian taxpayer dollars at work.
Cappuccino, anyone?
nihonin says:
Dr. Kylie, I'm ready for my prostate examination.
What she's not that type of doctor, bugger, well the offer still stands.
Don says:
I am not one who really gives too ****s about what celebrities do or get up to. I think you misread their influence or the types of people who are influenced by them.
Kika says:
They say knowledge is power and if they save 1 life than that makes it worth it, right? An ultrasound every now and then ins't going to kill you. Air hostesses and stewards and pilots are subject to more because of living life in an aeroplane and are subject to cosmic radiation and DO have a higher chance of developing breast cancer. But for the rest of us who have an ultrasound once every few years our exposure is low. Think of all the pregnant women getting ultrasounds every few months!
As for the people undertaking surgery for false positives and things I think it's better safe than sorry, right? I'd rather have removed something possibly dangerous than ignore it and wait for it to turn malignant.
Steve says:
What about the 'celebrity experts' always ready with a media statement and to grab the microphone? Being a celebrity certainly helps the expert's career.
Are they the best experts or just the highest-profile ones?
Mark says:
I would say the concern here is not celebrities promoting one treatment over another, but with the individual's who develop an irrational fear because of it. The media surely have a large part to play in this as the coverage they give to celebrities like Kylie is unbalanced.
The "Kylie Effect" would not exist if it weren't for the media as the general public would not be bombarded with loaded information on the topic for weeks.
SimpleSimon says:
I think that the false-positives are worth it for the number of genuine cases caught and treated. I think endorsing diet pills is very different to raising awareness of a particular type of cancer.
Amanda says:
Thank God for people like Kylie Minogue, Jane McGrath, Belinda Emmett and Jim Stynes using their public battles with cancer to raise awareness. People do not pay anywhere near enough attention to skin cancer, and as others on the thread have pointed out, Breast Canver is usually far more aggressive in younger women. I remember when Belind Emmett announced that she had been diagnosed - she was 24! General opinion was breast cancer was a "Mum" age disease - middle age certainly. But the fact that Belinda was only a few years iolder than me sacred the bejesus out of me. I think Kylie's comments were fantastic. Even young women need to be checking their breasts for lumps. I know I wasn't racing out for a mammogram when I heard, but Belinda's diagnosis certainly made me start self-checking.
BTW, I don't remember Kylie ever declaring herself an expert, or playing up the doctorate.
lostinperth says:
Tory, it appears to me that you somehow blame Kylie for having cancer. What someone may or may not have told another person about their individual health issues has nothing to do with Kylie.
Thoiugh I must agree that "celebrities" get way too much media coverage on issues they know nothing about just because they are celebrities. I call it the Bono effect - some rich tosser trying to tell the world what to do because they can play a guitar.
sami says:
I don't recall Kylie telling anybody to go and get unnecessary tests/scans etc. Tory are you just making things up? Do you really hate Kylie that much that you're effectively picking on her because she had cancer? Harsh.
Scotchfinger says:
Tory writes: 'We need to remember that experts are called that for a reason; because a working knowledge of Wikipedia does equate to years of study.' If only certain Punchers took this advice to heart, it would save a lot of hand-wringing. Be aware of what you are good at - er, will get back to you on that one - and be humble when those with superior knowledge (i.e. Scotchfinger) crush you flat.
Mouse says:
OK Scotchie, remind me to never, ever, disagree with you. Hang on, where's the fun in that big fella???? LOL ;o)
stephen says:
I don't mind pop icons finding reasons for being good by telling us to get a bath, a dog, or to walk instead of drive, but now and again I want Brahms, or to hear the sound of my giggling niece, or maybe Byron would do ?
Pop divas and divettes make popular sounds right through the bandwidth, and if teenagers want to stare at their boobs through the mirror, concerned that if she can get it then maybe the rest of us deserve it, then such attention will take them off the next Kardashian.
Pop sounds of all kinds are OK, but then, if that lump doesn't go away, then Pop won't save you.
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IUCN's European region covers the European continent, North and Central Asia and includes the overseas entities of European Union countries. Representing one third of the global membership, this is IUCN's largest programmatic region.
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"Influence, encourage and assist societies in Europe to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable."
The spring issue of the IUCN SEE e-Bulletin brings the nature conservation news from the region and invites the readers to learn about the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 themes. The focus section on IUCN website will be introducing the main themes of the Congress, showcasing the many ways protected areas benefit species and people. …
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The European Parliament today adopted legislative plans to prevent the introduction and manage the spread in the EU of invasive alien species (IAS) of plants, animals or insects that cause ecological and economic damage. The legislation aims to tackle the threat through better, more coordinated action by member states, and provides for a ban on species declared to be of "Union concern". …
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Wildlife crime, including poaching, illegal harvesting and other illegal cross-border trade in biological resources taken from the wild, has reached worrying levels and become a serious transnationally organised criminal business, now representing the fourth largest illegal activity in the world after drug trafficking, counterfeiting and human trafficking. This can have potentially disastrous implications for the conservation of the trafficked species. …
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The need to increase protection for oceans is urgent, not only to fulfill international commitments, but to alleviate the increasing degradation of marine ecosystems. To this end, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Mediterranean Action Plan – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-MAP) have organised, from 7-11 April in Malaga (Spain), a Mediterranean regional workshop to facilitate the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs). … | French | Spanish
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The primary goal of this course is to give an overview of the research universe that will make the transition from law school to law practice easier and more productive. In order to give students a framework for developing successful research strategies, we will be exploring the history of legal materials and examining the structure and use of the various research tools. Students will be working with all types of research books and systems, from the earliest nominative reporters to the newest online research tools.
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This file contains documentation on the ANC Second Release, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2005T35 and ISBN 1-58563-369-0.
The American National Corpus (ANC) project fosters the development of a corpus comparable to the British National Corpus (BNC), covering American English. Corpus-analytic work has demonstrated that the BNC is inappropriate for the study of American English, due to the numerous differences in use of the language.
The availability of a corpus of American English will significantly contribute to language and linguistic research, the development of language understanding computer applications (e.g., language translation and search and retrieval software), and the compilation of reference works such as dictionaries and thesauri. It will also provide a rich national resource for use in education at all levels.
ANC Second Release contains over 20 million words: 10+ million words added in the Second Release, and a new corrected and validated version of the 11 million word ANC First Release. The Second Release also contains software for searching and retrieving multiple stand-off annotations.
ANC Second Release contains texts from the following sources (* denotes new source in the Second Release):
ANC Second Release contains data governed under two types of licenses, an open license and a restricted license. Both the Open License Agreement and the Restricted License Agreement need to be signed in order to receive ANC Second Release, and the data must be used in acordance with the agreement by which it is governed.
The ANC will ultimately contain a core corpus of at least 100 million words, including both written and spoken (transcripts) data comparable across genres to the BNC. The genres in the ANC will be expanded to include new types of language data that have become available in recent years, such as web blogs and web pages, chats, email, and rap music lyrics. In addition to the core 100 million words, the ANC will include an additional component of potentially several hundreds of millions of words, chosen to provide both the broadest and largest selection of data possible.
The American National Corpus is being developed with the help of consortium of publishers of American English dictionaries and companies with interests in language processing was formed in 1999. Consortium members are providing materials for inclusion in the corpus, and provided initial financial support for the project.
Additional documentation and information is available at the ANC web site at http://americannationalcorpus.org/2ndrelease.html.
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The publication of this corpus was facilitated by funding extended by the TalkBank project. TalkBank is an interdisciplinary research project funded by a five-year grant (BCS-98009, KDI, SBE) from the National Science Foundation to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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In a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Addams created several thousand cartoons, sketches and drawings, many of which were published in The New Yorker. But it was his creation of characters that came to be known as The Addams Family that brought Addams his greatest acclaim. With a unique style that combined the twisted, macabre and just plain weird with charm, wit and enchantment, Addams' drawings have entertained millions worldwide and served as the inspiration for multiple television series and motion pictures.
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Claire Pitman-Massie, Director, Lantic Marketing Consultancy
Channel partners move around, it's a fact of life. While there can be many reasons for this, one of the issues continually raised is they move as a result of lack of support. While many vendors and distributors would take umbrage at this statement, in today's economic climate, one cannot afford to lose partners for any reason. Indeed it is the channel marketeers' job to ensure that they do everything in their power to keep, improve and enable their partner community. Enablement can be come in many forms including: personal relationships between the tiers of distribution, availability of accurate and up to date information, knowledge of vendor activity within the sector as well as ensuring the partner has the tools with which to do their job.
This webinar walks through these four key areas of enablement and offers some advice on how better to engage with your channel partners or in other words, how to improve their "on board" experience. This webinar is aimed at channel marketeers with every level of experience, across all communities, vendor, distributor and partner.
With nearly fifteen years' in the technology sector, Claire has sat both sides of the fence when it comes to channel marketing. From partner through to vendor Claire has had extensive knowledge and experience of working with all levels of channel from the entrepreneur reseller through to the largest of global system integrators. Now the owner and Director of her own marketing consultancy, Claire is in continued demand for both field and channel marketing services as well as sitting on several Boards of technology organisations as a strategic marketing consultant. Her extensive background and client base spans from being one of the initial team of Vistorm, SafeStone Technologies, CipherTrust (now McAfee), Presence Networks, Proofpoint, through to more recent award winning clients including: ChangeBASE (now Quest), Webroot and Avecto.
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Engagement with prospects is always a challenge - in both marketing or sales. It would be great to be able to send a quick email to each of our leads on an individual basis - but is this always a realistic option? Lead nurturing helps address this engagement challenge and helps deliver the right information to the right leads at the right time.
Join Mathew Sweezey, author of "Marketing Automation for Dummies," as he addresses the challenges of lead engagement for both marketing and sales teams and gives us valuable information on how lead nurturing can help solve this problem.
Spinning Plates: Personalisation vs. Automation Roundtable
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John Sweeney, DemandGEN, Stephen Partridge, Sitecore, Peter Veash, the BIO Agency,
The connected, digital savvy consumers are more demanding than ever: they expect to receive the right messages and content at just the right time and through the channels they use.
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Join this panel session to learn from the experts how to achieve personalisation through automation and make spinning plates a doodle in 2014.
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Collaboration is crucial when it comes to your marketing team. No matter if you're based locally or globally, the concept of work and the way we interact is completely changing. With smartphones and tablets taking over our lives, efficient collaboration, coordination, and consistency around marketing campaigns and messaging can be challenging when running a marketing organization.
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Collaboration, coordination, and consistency around marketing campaigns and messaging can be challenging when running a global marketing organization. Without the ability to store, share, and monitor your campaigns and content on a common platform, marketers struggle with communicating across the silos of their company. The potential result of this disconnect can range from wasted content to inconsistent messaging.
Join this webinar with Fathom, a top digital marketing agency, to learn how their marketing team works together with Box to save time, keep branding consistent, and increase efficiency.
Big Data In The Age Of The Customer
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Brian Hopkins, VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Big data has received a lot of media attention in the last two years, but the noise is drowning out the real opportunity. That is to use more available data to help your business win, serve and retain increasingly powerful customer. This webinar will present Forrester's point of view on why most firms are missing the true nature of big data, and illustrate how leaders are using data that is more diverse, messy, and large to make better competitive decisions.
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In this webinar, Phil Sharp, Senior Marketing Manager of UserTesting, will show you how usability testing can help you get inside your customers' heads and uncover the hidden problems that are affecting your bottom line.
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Modern data provides a multidimensional view of the customer, giving necessary insight into campaign and budget planning. Digital marketers feel like they're well covered. But there is still a major dimension that is missing from most digital marketer's view, leaving them naked to a critical data point - those high value, offline conversions. Creating a clear, accurate marketing plan and budget is tricky enough on it's own, and it becomes especially challenging when you don't have insight into all of your conversion points and accurate ROI.
Join Invoca CMO Eric Holmen and special guest Paul Wicker with Kenshoo, as they discuss how to get a complete picture of cross channel conversions, to create a complete and accurate marketing budget and plan. You'll learn:
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How Does Cisco Use Big Data to Predict Sales?
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Learn how Cisco is using big data to predict sales, improve marketing effectiveness and forecast business. Cisco uses a method called ESP—Enterprise Sales Predications — to understand in advance which prospects are likely to buy, what products/services interest them, when and how much they'll buy. Get a sneak peak at their secret sauce, and deep dive insights into how these predictions accelerate the sale cycle, increase the funnel, and seamlessly integrating into all downstream sales and marketing systems (CRM, SFDC, marketing automation, and CMS for targeting and personalization).
Tapping Data Science to Create Lasting Customer Relationships
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Michelle Jones, Director of Product Marketing, AgilOne
If you're trying to market to customers without taking data into consideration, then you're marketing in the dark. To have a truly effective engagement with customers, marketers must get into the minds of their customers. Predictive data science can help businesses anticipate a customer's next move and even optimize that customer's potential lifetime value.
This session will provide tips on how to leverage the power of predictive data science to build customer relationships that last a lifetime. Attendees will also learn how practitioners are putting predictive analytics into action to retain customers, boost margins and grow revenue.
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Katherine Van Domelen, Product Marketing Manager, DataSift
Chances are that Justin Bieber is not the top influencer for your business, but chances are also good that he has more likes and followers than the top influencer for your business. Every day your influencers are generating signals in social media for your business and it's up to you to identify, interpret and leverage these signals. With billions of posts every day, social data is big data and it is continuing to grow.
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Feedback and survey research is about asking the right questions of the right people at the right time. If we can master these three things then the likelihood of delivering action- oriented information to your "clients" (whether internal, like senior management, or external) increases significantly. However, impediments to good survey design are on every corner.
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KITTERY — The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, connecting Maine and New Hampshire, will be closed for several days because of an accident Monday in which a 470-foot tanker drifted from its moorings and hit the bridge.
Tugboats seen in this aerial photograph hold the Harbour Feature in place against the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge in Kittery on Monday, after the tanker snapped its mooring lines at the New Hampshire State Pier in Portsmouth, N.H.
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Seafood >Salty's At Redondo Beach Seafood Grill
28201 Redondo Beach Dr S, Des Moines, WA | Directions 9819847.349055 -122.324178
Mon-Thu 11:30am-2pm, 4:30pm-9:30pm
Fri-Sat 11:30/12am-3pm, 4:30pm-10pm
Sun 4:30pm-9:30pm
Very disappointing service here. I was trying to arrange a nice dinner for approximately 20 people to celebrate the retirement of a trustee on our board. Salty's at Redondo Beach looked like the perfect option. After playing phone tag for a couple rounds, the group dining coordinator never returned my call. I called & sent multiple emails to the restaurant trying to get ahold of someone-anyone- who would help me make a reservation and get all of the dinner details sorted and never recieved a response. If this is the level of customer service I can expect when dining at this location, I will not be stopping by or attempting to make arrangements here any longer.
We'll be back! – Great food, great service, great location. There is a boat ramp nearby so this location is perfect for a post boat ride beverage or two. Our first time there, we had just sat down out on the deck on a late summer day when a tray of Oyster Shooters was carried past us. Hmmm! That was it, we were hooked. Awesome coconut prawns, too btw. Go to Salty's at Redondo and you will be happy.
Over Priced/Over cooked – This was a mediocre meal served at a high price.
We had the family style dinner:
Coconut prawns, not bad, but slightly over cooked
Steak, Very good, done perfectly
Salmon, a bit dry...definitely should not have been cooked a second longer.
Asparagus...giant, but shaved the woody parts off. Was good, not over cooked.
Mango Salsa over sticky rice. OK, this was a huge disaster! Mango Salsa should be sweet, taste of mango, with a bit of heat.
The mango was to green and had NO FLAVOR....they made up for it with way to much jalapeno and cilantro. If it weren't for the orange color of mango, you would never have a clue there was mango in it!
Their signature cake was good.
We each had 1 drink (4 of us) and the bill came to $200. Seriously, for 1/2 that amount I could have gotten a good meal elsewhere. Or even a mediocre meal, like this one, for 1/2 that amount.
Thank you for taking the time to provide us feedback regarding your dinner. I sincerely apologize for your experience, I have shared your feedback with the Executive Chef, with a sincere desire to improve on your feedback. Our goal at Salty's, is to always exceed our guests expectations, please give me a call at 253.945.8248, or email, I look forward to speaking with you and making your next dining experience spectacular.
Terianne Broyles GM
Best Brunch Ever – Best brunch ever. Huge selection of food expertly prepared. Service is great.
Major disappointment – Our hotel recommended Saltys. We were looking for seafood and atmosphere. We ordered a bucket of schrimp and fish and chips.
The fish was not eatable. The halibut was thin and like card board. We are accustomed to fish frys that offer bear battered cod or halibut. I described the fish to the maitre d as "disgusting". There just was no any other word to describe it. We could not eat it.
The schrimp were tiny. At this type of restaurant, I was surprised they would serve such tiny schrimp.
As I described my experience to the maitre d, I felt that he was not being honest about the quality of the food he was serving. It was so bad, he had to know that is was bad. Point of fact, I have questions his integrity.
He said we may get 1 complaint a year. He should read his own reviews.
Hi, thank you so much for letting us know how we did on your visit to see us last week. I am so sorry to hear that your visit was so horrible. This is not what you should expect coming to Salty's. When you say maitre d were you talking about the manager at the restaurant? I am hoping that you did talk to the manager and got some assistance with your meal. Please let me know and I will definately forward this information on to our General Manager. I am so sorry for your experience here,
Pam Corbray
Guest Sevices
Salty's Seafood Grills
Less Than satisfied – I ordered the Garlic prawns and Jasmine ginger rice. The rice was extremely dry and obviously prepared in chicken stock which when paired with a seafood dish does not make a good combination, not to mention the presentation of the rice (looked as though it was plopped down upon the middle of the plate with an Ice cream scoop). The rice completely lacked any ginger flavor and was very dry and gummy for a jasmine rice. The garlic prawns were so overpoweringly seasoned with garlic and butter that the natural flavor of the prawns could not be tasted at all. This meal was prepared with out any care for the final product. I would expect something of this low quality when dining at a restraunt like applebee's but I would also expect to pay $9.99 instead of the 24.99 that the meal was quoted at. Upon receiving this meal I sampled the rice and the prawns than boxed the meal up to see whether or not my dog or cat would find the meal more edible than I.
Next was the herb crusted chicken breast with garlic mashed potatoes and asparaus. The chicken was slimy and as for being herb crusted I was unaware that simply dry rubbing some herbs de provence on the outside of a chicken breast passed for being herb crusted. The chicken also had a rubbery texture and was overcooked. The garlic mashed potatoes tasted as though they were made from instant potato buds, the texture was like a mush I would have liked to see fresh garlic cloves even small peices in the mashed potatoes but that was also non-existant. The only bright spot of this entire meal came from the service which was prompt and very courteous needless to say I am going to give Salty's another chance only because I recieved a free sunday brunch coupon otherwise I would never set foot in Salty's again.
Great Food + Great Service = Salty's at Redondo – Salty's at Redondo is always our destination place for a special night out! The food is always wonderful and the service is above average. The chef's fresh market sheet is always a tasty choice but, I have a hard time not ordering the "Crab Mac and Cheese". The bar also has great daily specials (prime rib on friday's for under $20, YUMMY).
I am not sure if the people writing the previous reviews usually eat super-sized Claim Jumper portions but, the portions are more than adequate. I would always rather have quality over quantity. If you are in the area, I highly recommend giving Salty's a try!
Thanks you so much for letting us know how we are doing, we appreciate your taking the time! I have the same problem with the Mac and Cheese, too hard not to order, definately one of my favorites!
We look forward to your return visit, Have a great Day!
Pam Corbray
Guest Services Manager
Dont ever ever eat here – I dont know what it is about Salty's at Redondo. When you walk in its a nice resturaunt but then you see these signs you can put your face in and balloons everywhere it reminded me of Red Robin. Then you sit down and get to looking at the menu. To be honest the menu doesn't sound intriguing at all its like every dish only comes with mash or rice WOW thats a good choice...then when you order your salad it looks like it was just thrown on there. The dishes are sloppy. I wonder what the chef is thinking when he sees this go on. Then its just way to expencive to eat there and not get proper portions. I have so many bad things to say about this resturaunt it boggles my mind. Well pretty much do not eat there its not worth it
Picturesque – Our first visit was to our liking. We had a party of 18 people and they had set up the tables in a platformed area of the restaurant, so we felt we had our own little room, in a sense. The waiter, Noel, was very very accommodating, entertaining, and polite. The food was fresh (most of us ordered halibut), and the prices competitive. The restaurant sits right on the Puget Sound with the beach that adds to the whole experience. The restaurant definitely gave us that sea worthy feeling. Loved it!
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