This book presents computational methods for extracting the useful information from audio signals, collecting the state of the art in the field of sound event and scene analysis. The authors cover the entire procedure for developing such methods, ranging from data acquisition and labeling, through the design of taxonomies used in the systems, to signal processing methods for feature extraction and machine learning methods for sound recognition. The book also covers advanced techniques for dealing with environmental variation and multiple overlapping sound sources, and taking advantage of multiple microphones or other modalities. The book gives examples of usage scenarios in large media databases, acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, and context-aware devices. Graphical illustrations of sound signals and their spectrographic representations are presented, as well as block diagrams and pseudocode of algorithms.

Voila I titled this book "Pass Christian Omnibus" because it evolves from my book, "Pass Christian Discovered," and moves forward and backward in time by pulling from additional information gathered through the years. Examples of this information were built into my many internet pages found at my www.PassChristian.Net website. By using sub-domains, I was able to store a multitude of facts, photographs and graphics that were never put in my books. In a number of instances I extracted pertinent data from my files that comprised the resource from other of my contributory books such as: "Trinity and Live Oak" - "St. Paul Jubilee" - "Pass Christian Historic District" - "Jazz in the Pass" - "Images of Pass Christian" - "Henderson's Point" - "Lighthouses and Islands" - "Sails, Trails and Rails" - "The Great Gulf Coast" - "All About Camille" - and "Katrina - Survival and Revival." And not the least of - but by sifting from the many emails I have received through the years - from interested persons and friends and relatives of folks who lived in the Pass or who had parents or ancestors who did.

A collection of personal experiences by the author with the inclusion of additional personal experiences by others who survived the Big Storm of 2005 - Hurricane Katrina. Most of these facts and incidents were culled from the existing web-sites and sub-domains created by Dan Ellis during the immediate aftermath of Katrina. There has been no attempt to not disclose the persons responding through emails or the collection of news events captured from news media. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of a brief quotation in a review.

The Hendersons of Henderson's Point We are here today to honor John Henderson and his family members who planned for and developed all of the area known as Henderson's Point. John Henderson, Sr. of New Jersey became a lawyer about the same time that his first wife died. With their son, John Jr., he moved to Natchez and then to Woodville, Mississippi where he met and married Louisa Fourniquet Post and adopted her daughter, Julia. While there he was elected a state senator and later, he became a U.S. Senator. Following the birth of their son, Elliot, and the 1836 purchase of a large tract of land, they moved to Pass Christian. The large land purchase consisted of almost the entire peninsula of Pass Christian, extending to the middle of Long Beach as it is today. In 1837, the land partnership with Charles Shipman and David Hughes was dissolved. The vast area contained approximately 12,000 acres consisting of two township sections (one-square-mile each) and other partially platted areas. Each of the three men was allocated 21 portions of 63 units, many of which contained 330-foot lots fronting the Gulf - starting from the Bay of St. Louis all the way eastward to Bear Bayou and northward to Bayou Portage. Following their division of interests, John Henderson started swapping his eastern lands with Shipman and Hughes and from their successors. This land swap resulted in his accruing properties that were predominantly aggregated on the west side of the Lighthouse. From this base, he became aggressive in land development and promotions. His large home was located near the Fort Henry site. His older son, John Jr, also an attorney, did not have the same penchant for land sales as his father or the younger son, Elliot. John Henderson, Sr.'s Will, allocated his remaining properties to his wife, Louisa; his adopted daughter, Julia; his daughter-in-law, Kate (who was John, Jr.'s wife); and to his younger son, Elliot. Elliot followed in his father's foot-steps - and had become an attorney, a Mississippi Senator, and Mayor of Pass Christian. John, Jr. and Catherine had two sons, Louis Fourniquet Henderson and John Leland Henderson. Due to Catherine's health problems, the two boys remained with their mother, as she moved to different places. As a young man, John Leland Henderson returned to this area from Oregon and became a junior partner with his uncle Elliot. He established an office in Bay St. Louis and with Elliot, formed the Mexican Gulf Land Company in 1903. They were the first promoters of land sales in Henderson's Point that extended from the Gulf to Bayou Portage. John Henderson Sr. also donated the land for the St. Louis Cemetery, the Episcopal Church, and other community causes. His son Elliot donated part of the land where Fort Henry was built in the vicinity across from this marker. Today, streets which commemorate this family are Henderson Avenue, and Louisa, Julia, and Elliot streets.

Pass Christian is situated on a peninsula like many of the other Gulf coast resorts. The town has essentially contained itself within its current city limits for more than a hundred years, having a six-mile frontage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. On the west is the Bay of St. Louis and at its north are the bayous of Bois d'Ore, Portage, DeLisle, and Riviere des Loups; as they were named by early French explorers in 1699. Pass Christian was named for Nicholas Christian Ladnier, who settled at nearby Cat Island in 1745, naming the channel pass for himself and by which the town followed suit. "The Pass," as the city is often called, became one of the early port towns to have schooner access to New Orleans. As years passed, New Orleanians adopted the Pass and its surrounding areas as resort spas for second residences. That lifestyle custom has prevailed for the past 150 years. The Pass is famous for its 300-year-heritage through French, English, and Spanish domination until the American flag was raised in 1811. Following its incorporation in 1848, hundreds of cottages were built along its coastline - many still remain with architectural styles consisting of Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and local vernacular Creole. Before the Civil War, architects were hired to redesign and convert many of the homes to Colonial Revival architecture. Pass Christian is noted as the birthplace of Southern Yachting when in 1849, the second yacht club in the nation was organized.

Pass Christian Historic District This book devotes attention to the city's colorful past in enumerating the heyday of elaborate and grandiose hotels as well as recalling the beautiful mansions which have been lost forever. All of which are shown with undistributed photographs, complete with well researched historical data. Ellis describes the Miramar Nursing home on Scenic Drive as the most historically active site in the early days of the Pass. It was the first elaborate "Watering Hole" between the New Orleans and Mobile schooner and steamboat run. The Pass Christian Hotel was built just a few years following the construction of the Pass Lighthouse. While en route to Washington D.C. for his presidential inauguration, Gen. Zachary Taylor was celebrated at the hotel with a grand ball in his honor. It was there that the Southern Yacht Club was formed, becoming the second such club in the United States. Following the Civil War, the hotel burned down and went through a number of hotel changes, including the Magnolia Hotel which also burned down in 1915, and was replaced by the Miramar Hotel, which changed names several times afterward. The book's, pages are filled with photographs, in color, of every home listed in the National Registry of Historic Places - which includes nearly every home on Scenic Drive. Each structure is architecturally described, including construction and renovation dates, names of builders, and listings of most former owners and/or tenants. Where known, there are many anecdotal memories recalled such as where Cole Porter stayed as a boy, the "Union Quarters," the "Bed-Sheet Surrender," the first automobile in the Pass, where John L. Sullivan stayed while training in the Pass for the last bare knuckle fight, presidential visits, and many more such stories. Uniquely, the book also lists names, ages, and locations for most of the Registered Live Oak trees that are strewn along the scenic drive-by while viewing the mansions and cottages. Many of these homes date to the Antebellum period. Not left out, is the historic development of many of the streets as described within the pages. Besides a thumbnail historic sketch of Pass Christian, Ellis touts the pertinent organizations that promote the heritage and preservation of the Pass. The book is dedicated to Billy Bourdin for his significant contributions for "making the book possible," as Ellis states, "without Billy's photographs and files - as well as those at the courthouse, the book would be drastically incomplete."

As a writer of cultural and heritage community history, it has always been a challenge to discover some uniqueness that heretofore had not been uncovered, rather than simply to replenish that which was already there, but now "empty" due to being out-of-print or removed from public access. Therefore, much like a person performing restorations to former stately edifices, I attempt to glean that which is available but with a perspective for the truth of factuality. As the storm winds blow the sands of the dessert, I have become a grain of sand that has been blown away from its former beachhead at Pass Christian and have now come to adopt a new habitat. I find Eureka Springs to be very comfortable, challenging, overwhelming - and with new histories to uncover. It usually takes two or three years of research before I commence to write, but having attended several of the Crescent Hotel Wine Tastings, I decided to put together a booklet that would be a nice Door Prize for the many beautiful folks. What could be more appropriate than to introduce Carrie to her adversaries? Prior to 1900, Carrie Nation was caught up in the developing years to prohibition along with other Christian Temperance Ladies who attempted to close up saloons and Blind Tigers - but to no avail. Previously, she experienced dreams that proved to come true in forecasting meaningful occurrences in her life. Enraptured by religious zeal at age 54, she began believing in her hallucinations wherein God instructed her to smash the whiskey joints much as did Jesus Christ in casting out the immoral Money Lenders from the Temples. She began her crusade of "Hatchetations" by smashing Saloons, the bars, the liquor, the gambling tables, the mirrors and all that she could attack before being arrested while threatening any who attempted to stop her raised menacing hatchet. At 185 pounds and standing nearly six feet, she was a startling figure to confront. She called the saloon keepers "swill-faced, beak-nosed bed mates of Satan." During her celebrity tours, she was witty, out-going, and brazenly armored with the confidence of controlling her audiences. Beyond doubt, she can be signaled out as having rendered the impetus to Prohibition Laws that lead to the passage of the18th Amendment on December 18, 1917, followed by ratification on January 16, 1919. Carrie chose Eureka Springs as her chosen place of retirement, where she established a boarding home for battered wives and children and a training school for young women. Ah , but, where is a better place for one to reach their end - but right here, in Eureka Springs?