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Items where Author is "Jackson, P"
Francombe, Jon, Woodcock, James, Hughes, Richard J., Mason, Russell, Franck, Andreas, Pike, Chris, Brookes, Tim, Davies, William J., Jackson, Philip J.B., Cox, Trevor J., Fazi, Filippo M. and Hilton, Adrian (2018) Qualitative evaluation of media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66 (6). pp. 414-429.
Coleman, Philip, Franck, A, Francombe, Jon, Liu, Qingju, de Campos, Teofilo, Hughes, R, Menzies, D, Simon Galvez,, M, Tang, Y, Woodcock, J, Jackson, Philip, Melchior, F, Pike, C, Fazi, F, Cox, T and Hilton, Adrian (2018) An Audio-Visual System for Object-Based Audio: From Recording to Listening IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20 (8). pp. 1919-1931.
Liu, Qingju, Wang, Wenwu, de Campos, Teofilo, Jackson, Philip and Hilton, Adrian (2017) Multiple Speaker Tracking in Spatial Audio via PHD Filtering and Depth-Audio Fusion IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20 (7). pp. 1767-1780.
Xu, Yong, Huang, Qiang, Wang, Wenwu, Foster, Peter, Sigtia, S, Jackson, Philip and Plumbley, Mark (2017) Unsupervised Feature Learning Based on Deep Models for Environmental Audio Tagging IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, 25 (6). pp. 1230-1241.
Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip, Coleman, Philip and Wang, Wenwu (2017) Acoustic Reflector Localization: Novel Image Source Reversion and Direct Localization Methods IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 25 (2). pp. 296-309.
Coleman, P, Franck, A, Jackson, P, Hughes, R, Remaggi, L and Melchior, F (2017) Object-Based Reverberation for Spatial Audio Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 65 (1/2). pp. 66-77.
Milner, T, de Lusignan, S, Jones, S, Jackson, P and Irvine, T (2015) Breast cancer metastasis burden in sentinel nodes analysed using one-step nucleic acid amplification predicts axillary nodal status The Breast.
Conetta, R, Brookes, Tim, Rumsey, F, Zielinski, S, Dewhirst, M, Jackson, P, Bech, S, Meares, D and George, S (2015) Spatial Audio Quality Perception (Part 1): Impact of Commonly Encountered Processes JOURNAL OF THE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 62 (12). pp. 831-846.
Conetta, R, Brookes, Tim, Rumsey, F, Zielinski, S, Dewhirst, M, Jackson, P, Bech, S, Meares, D and George, S (2015) Spatial Audio Quality Perception (Part 2): A Linear Regression Model JOURNAL OF THE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 62 (12). pp. 847-860.
Olik, M, Jackson, PJB, Coleman, P and Pedersen, JA (2014) Optimal source placement for sound zone reproduction with first order reflections JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 136 (6). pp. 3085-3096.
Coleman, P, Jackson, P, Olik, M and Pedersen, JA (2014) Personal audio with a planar bright zone Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136 (4). pp. 1725-1735.
Alinaghi, A, Jackson, PJB, Liu, Q and Wang, W (2014) Joint Mixing Vector and Binaural Model Based Stereo Source Separation IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, & Language Processing, 22, 9. pp. 1434-1448.
Kundegorski, M, Jackson, PJB and Ziolko, B (2014) Two-Microphone Dereverberation for Automatic Speech Recognition of Polish Archives of Acoustics, 39 (3). pp. 411-420.
Alinaghi, A, Jackson, PJB and Wang, W (2013) Comparison between the statistical cues in BSS techniques and Binaural cues in CASA approaches for reverberant speech separation IET Conference Publications, 2013 (619 CP).
Liu, Q, Wang, W, Jackson, PJB, Barnard, M, Kittler, J and Chambers, J (2013) Source separation of convolutive and noisy mixtures using audio-visual dictionary learning and probabilistic time-frequency masking IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 61 (22), 99. pp. 5520-5535.
Olik, M, Jackson, PJ and Coleman, P (2013) Influence of low-order room reflections on sound zone system performance Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19.
Jackson, PJ, Jacobsen, F, Coleman, P and Pedersen, JA (2013) Sound field planarity characterized by superdirective beamforming Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19.
Olik, M, Jackson, P, Coleman, P, Olsen, M, Mo̸ller, M and Bech, S (2013) Influence of low-order room reflections on sound zone system performance. J Acoust Soc Am, 133 (5).
Jackson, PJ, Jacobsen, F, Coleman, PD and Abildgaard Pedersen, J (2013) Sound field planarity characterized by superdirective beamforming. J Acoust Soc Am, 133 (5).
Coleman, P, Jackson, P, Olik, M, Olsen, M, Mo̸ller, M and Pedersen, JA (2013) The influence of regularization on anechoic performance and robustness of sound zone methods. J Acoust Soc Am, 133 (5).
Jackson, PJB and Desiraju, NK (2013) Use of 3d head shape for personalized binaural audio Proceedings of the AES International Conference. pp. 81-86.
Coleman, P, Jackson, PJ, Olik, M, Olsen, M, Møller, M and Pedersen, JA (2013) The influence of regularization on anechoic performance and robustness of sound zone methods Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19.
Liu, Q, Wang, W and Jackson, P (2012) Use of bimodal coherence to resolve the permutation problem in convolutive BSS Signal Processing, 92 (8). pp. 1916-1927.
Litwic, Ł and Jackson, PJB (2011) Source localization and separation using random sample consensus with phase cues IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. pp. 337-340.
Alinaghi, A, Wang, W and Jackson, PJB (2011) Integrating binaural cues and blind source separation method for separating reverberant speech mixtures IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. pp. 209-212.
George, S, Zielinski, S, Rumsey, F, Jackson, PJB, Conetta, R, Dewhirst, M, Meares, D and Bech, S (2010) Development and Validation of an Unintrusive Model for Predicting the Sensation of Envelopment Arising from Surround Sound Recordings Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 58 (12). pp. 1013-1031.
Haq, S and Jackson, PJB (2010) Multimodal emotion recognition pp. 398-423.
Edge, JD, Hilton, A and Jackson, PJB (2009) Model-based synthesis of visual speech movements from 3D video EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2009, 597267. p. 12.
Jackson, PJB and Singampalli, VD (2009) Statistical identification of articulation constraints in the production of speech SPEECH COMMUNICATION, 51 (8). pp. 695-710.
Shiga, Y and Jackson, PJB (2008) Start- and end-node segmental-HMM pruning ELECTRON LETT, 44 (1). 60-U77.
Jesus, LMT and Jackson, PJB (2008) Frication and voicing classification Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 5190. pp. 11-20.
Russell, MJ, Zheng, X and Jackson, PJB (2007) Modelling speech signals using formant frequencies as an intermediate representation IET SIGNAL PROCESSING, 1 (1). pp. 43-50.
Pincas, J and Jackson, PJB (2006) Amplitude modulation of turbulence noise by voicing in fricatives JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 120 (6). pp. 3966-3977.
Russell, MJ and Jackson, PJB (2005) A multiple-level linear/linear segmental HMM with a formant-based intermediate layer COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE, 19 (2). pp. 205-225.
Pincas, J and Jackson, PJB (2005) Amplitude modulation of frication noise by voicing saturates 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. pp. 349-352.
Jackson, PJB, Lo, BH and Russell, MJ (2002) Data-driven, nonlinear, formant-to-acoustic mapping for ASR ELECTRONICS LETTERS, 38 (13). pp. 667-669.
Jackson, PJB and Shadle, CH (2001) Pitch-scaled estimation of simultaneous voiced and turbulence-noise components in speech IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING, 9 (7). pp. 713-726.
Jackson, PJB and Shadle, CH (2000) Frication noise modulated by voicing, as revealed by pitch-scaled decomposition Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108 (4). pp. 1421-1434.
Brownleader, MD, Hopkins, J, Mobasheri, A, Dey, PM, Jackson, P and Trevan, M (2000) Role of extensin peroxidase in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) seedling growth PLANTA, 210 (4). pp. 668-676.
Brownleader, MD, Jackson, P, Mobasheri, A, Pantelides, AT, Sumar, S, Trevan, M and Dey, PM (1999) Molecular aspects of cell wall modifications during fruit ripening CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION, 39 (2). pp. 149-164.
Kroos, Christian, Bones, Oliver, Cao, Yin, Harris, Lara, Jackson, Philip J. B., Davies, William J., Wang, Wenwu, Cox, Trevor J. and Plumbley, Mark D. (2019) Generalisation in environmental sound classification: the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge In: 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), 12-17 May 2019, Brighton, UK.
Remaggi, Luca, Kim, Hansung, Jackson, Philip J. B. and Hilton, Adrian (2019) Reproducing Real World Acoustics in Virtual Reality Using Spherical Cameras In: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio, 27-29 Mar 2019, York, UK.
Blanco Galindo, Miguel, Coleman, Philip and Jackson, Philip (2019) Robust hypercardioid synthesis for spatial audio capture: microphone geometry, directivity and robustness In: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio, 2019-03-27-2019-03-29, York, UK.
Kim, Hansung, Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip and Hilton, Adrian (2019) Spatial Audio Reproduction System for VR Using 360 degree Cameras In: The 12th Asia Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality (APMAR 2019), 28 - 29 March, 2019, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Osaka, Japan.
Kim, Hansung, Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip and Hilton, Adrian (2019) Immersive Spatial Audio Reproduction for VR/AR Using Room Acoustic Modelling from 360° Images In: IEEE VR 2019, 2019-03-23 - 2019-03-27, Osaka, Japan.
Huang, Qiang, Jackson, Philip, Plumbley, Mark D. and Wang, Wenwu (2018) Synthesis of images by two-stage generative adversarial networks In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 15–20 Apr 2018, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Duel, Tijs, Frohlich, David M., Kroos, Christian, Xu, Yong, Jackson, Philip J. B. and Plumbley, Mark D. (2018) Supporting audiography: Design of a system for sentimental sound recording, classification and playback In: HCI International: 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 15-20 Jul 2018, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Coleman, Philip, Liu, Qingju, Francombe, Jon and Jackson, Philip (2018) Perceptual evaluation of blind source separation in object-based audio production In: 14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, 02-06 Jul 2018, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip, Coleman, Philip and Parnell, T (2018) Estimation of Object-based Reverberation using an Ad-hoc Microphone Arrangement for Live Performance In: 144th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, 23 - 26 May 2018, Milan, Italy.
Remaggi, Luca, Kim, Hansung, Jackson, Philip, Fazi, Filippo Maria and Hilton, Adrian (2018) Acoustic reflector localization and classification In: ICASSP 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 15 - 20 Apr 2018, Calgary, Canada.
Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip J. B., Kim, Hansung and Hilton, Adrian (2018) An Audio-Visual Method for Room Boundary Estimation and Material Recognition In: 2018 Workshop on Audio-Visual Scene Understanding for Immersive Multimedia (AVSU’18), 22-26 Oct 2018, Seoul, Korea.
Liu, Qingju, Xu, Yong, Jackson, Philip, Wang, Wenwu and Coleman, Philip (2018) Iterative deep neural networks for speaker-independent binaural blind speech separation In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 15 - 20 April 2018, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Liu, Qingju, Wang, Wenwu, Jackson, Philip and Safavi, Saeid (2018) A Performance Evaluation of Several Deep Neural Networks for Reverberant Speech Separation In: 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 28 - 31 October 2018, Pacific Grove, CA.
Hammond, Benjamin and Jackson, Philip (2018) Robust Full-Sphere Binaural Sound Source Localization In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018), 15 - 20 April 2018, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Jackson, Philip, Plumbley, Mark D, Wang, Wenwu, Brookes, Tim, Coleman, Philip, Mason, Russell, Frohlich, David, Bonina, Carla and Plans, David (2017) Signal Processing, Psychoacoustic Engineering and Digital Worlds: Interdisciplinary Audio Research at the University of Surrey In: Speech and Audio in the North East (SANE 2017), 19 October 2017, New York.
Kim, Hansung, Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip, Fazi, F and Hilton, Adrian (2017) 3D Room Geometry Reconstruction Using Audio-Visual Sensors In: International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2017), 10 - 12 October 2017, Qingdao, China.
Liu, Qingju, Wang, Wenwu, Jackson, Philip and Tang, Yan (2017) A Perceptually-Weighted Deep Neural Network for Monaural Speech Enhancement in Various Background Noise Conditions In: 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 28 Aug - 2 Sep 2017, Kos Island, Greece.
Francombe, Jon, Mason, Russell, Jackson, Philip, Brookes, Timothy, Hughes, R, Woodcock, J, Franck, A, Melchior, F and Pike, C (2017) Media Device Orchestration for Immersive Spatial Audio Reproduction In: Audio Mostly conference on Augmented and Participatory Sound and Music Experiences (AM '17), August 23 - 26 2017, London,UK.
Blanco Galindo, Miguel, Jackson, Philip, Coleman, Philip and Remaggi, Luca (2017) Microphone array design for spatial audio object early reflection parametrisation from room impulse responses In: 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV24), 23 - 27 July 2017, London, UK.
Coleman, Philip, Blanco Galindo, Miguel and Jackson, Philip (2017) Comparison of microphone array geometries for multi-point sound field reproduction In: 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV24), 23 – 27 July 2017, London, UK.
Huang, Qiang, Xu, Yong, Jackson, Philip, Wang, Wenwu and Plumbley, Mark (2017) Fast Tagging of Natural Sounds Using Marginal Co-regularization In: ICASSP2017, The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2017-03-05 - 2017-03-09, New Orleans, USA.
Kim, Hansung, Hughes, RJ, Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, Philip, Hilton, Adrian, Cox, TJ and Shirley, B (2017) Acoustic Room Modelling using a Spherical Camera for Reverberant Spatial Audio Objects In: 142nd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, 2017-05-20 - 2017-05-23, Berlin, Germany.
Hammond, Benjamin and Jackson, Philip (2017) Full-Sphere Binaural Sound Source Localization by Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Interaural Parameters In: AES 142nd Convention, May 20–23 2017, Berlin, Germany.
Jackson, Philip, Stenzel, Hanne and Francombe, Jon (2017) Modeling horizontal audio-visual coherence with the psychometric function In: AES 142nd Convention, 2017-05-20 - 2017-05-23, Berlin, Germany.
Coleman, Philip, Franck, A, Menzies, D and Jackson, Philip (2017) Object-based reverberation encoding from first-order Ambisonic RIRs In: 142nd International Convention; AES Berlin 2017, 20 - 23 May 2017, Berlin, Germany.
Coleman, Philip and Jackson, Philip (2017) Planarity analysis of room acoustics for object-based reverberation In: 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 23 - 27 July 2017, London, UK.
Liu, Qingju, Tang, Yan, Jackson, Philip and Wang, Wenwu (2016) Predicting binaural speech intelligibility from signals estimated by a blind source separation algorithm In: INTERSPEECH 2016, 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016-09-08 - 2016-09-12, San Francisco, US.
Xu, Y, Huang, Q, Wang, W, Jackson, PJB and Plumbley, MD (2016) Fully DNN-based Multi-label regression for audio tagging In: DCASE2016 Workshop (Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events), 2016-09-03 - 2016-09-03, Budapest, Hungary.
Coleman, Philip and Jackson, Philip (2016) Planarity-based sound field optimization for multi-listener spatial audio In: AES Sound Field Control Conference., 2016-07-18 - 2016-07-20, Guildford, UK.
Liu, Qingju, deCampos, T, Wang, Wenwu, Jackson, Philip and Hilton, Adrian (2016) Person tracking using audio and depth cues In: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop on 3D Reconstruction and Understanding with Video and Sound, 2015-12-11 - 2015-12-15, Santiago, Chile.
Coleman, P, Franck, A, Jackson, PJB, Hughes, R, Remaggi, L and Melchior, F (2016) On object based audio with reverberation In: AES 60th International Conference, 2016-02-03 - 2016-02-05, Leuven, Belgium.
Remaggi, L, Jackson, PJB, Coleman, P and Francombe, F (2015) Visualization of compact microphone array room impulse responses In: AES 139th Int. Conv. (e-Brief), New York NY, 2015-10-29 - 2015-11-01, New York, USA.
Liu, Q, Wang, W, Jackson, PJB and Cox, TJ (2015) A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio In: 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France.
Remaggi, L, Jackson, PJB and Coleman, P (2015) Source, sensor and reflector position estimation from acoustical room impulse responses In: 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2015-07-12 - 2015-07-16, Florence, Italy.
Coleman, P, Jackson, PJB and Francombe, J (2015) Audio Object Separation Using Microphone Array Beamforming In: 138th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, 2015-05-07 - 2015-05-10, Warsaw, Poland.
Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, PJB and Coleman, Philip (2015) Estimation of Room Reflection Parameters for a Reverberant Spatial Audio Object In: 138th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, 2015-05-07 - 2015-05-10, Warsaw.
Francombe, J, Brookes, T, Mason, R, Flindt, R, Coleman, P, Liu, Q and Jackson, PJB (2015) Production and reproduction of programme material for a variety of spatial audio formats In: 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention.
Remaggi, L, Jackson, PJB, Wang, W and Chambers, J (2015) A 3D model for room boundary estimation In: ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
Rafique, W, Naqvi, SM, Jackson, PJB and Chambers, JA (2015) IVA algorithms using a multivariate student’s t source prior for speech source separation in real room environments In: ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
Rafique, W, Naqvi, SM, Jackson, PJB and Chambers, JA (2015) IVA ALGORITHMS USING A MULTIVARIATE STUDENT'S T SOURCE PRIOR FOR SPEECH SOURCE SEPARATION IN REAL ROOM ENVIRONMENTS In: 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014-04-19 - 2014-04-24, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.
Remaggi, L, Jackson, PJB, Coleman, P and Wang, W (2014) Room boundary estimation from acoustic room impulse responses In: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD 2014), 2014-09-08 - 2014-09-09, Edinburgh.
Jackson, PJB and Desiraju, NK (2013) Use of 3D Head Shape for Personalized Binaural Audio In: 49th AES Audio for Games Conference, 2013-02-06 - 2013-02-08, London.
Liu, Q, Wang, W, Jackson, PJB and Barnard, M (2012) Reverberant Speech Separation Based on Audio-visual Dictionary Learning and Binaural Cues In: IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2012-08-05 - 2012-08-08, Ann Abor, USA.
Liu, Q, Naqvi, SM, Wang, W, Jackson, PJB and Chambers, J (2011) Robust feature selection for scaling ambiguity reduction in audio-visual convolutive BSS In: 19th European Signal Processing Conference 2011 (EUSIPCO 2011), 2011-08-29 - 2011-09-02, Barcelona, Spain.
Liu, Q, Wang, W and Jackson, PJB (2011) A visual voice activity detection method with adaboosting In: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD 2011), 2011-09-27 - 2011-09-29, London, UK.
Liu, Q, Wang, W and Jackson, P (2010) Audio-visual Convolutive Blind Source Separation In: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence, 2010-09-29 - 2010-09-30, London, UK.
Liu, Q, Wang, W and Jackson, PJB (2010) Use of Bimodal Coherence to Resolve Spectral Indeterminacy in Convolutive BSS In: 9th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (formerly the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation), 2010-09-27 - 2010-09-30, St. Malo, France.
Liu, Q, Wang, W and Jackson, PJB (2010) Bimodal Coherence based Scale Ambiguity Cancellation for Target Speech Extraction and Enhancement In: 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2010, 2010-09-26 - 2010-09-30, Makuhari, Japan.
Jackson, PJB, Dewhirst, M, Conetta, R and Zielinski, S (2010) Estimates of perceived spatial quality across the listening area In: AES 38th International Conference: Sound Quality Evaluation, 2010-06-13 - 2010-06-15, Piteå, Sweden.
Soltuz, SM, Wang, W and Jackson, PJB (2009) A HYBRID ITERATIVE ALGORITHM FOR NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION In: 15th IEEE/SP Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, 2009-08-31 - 2009-09-03, Cardiff, WALES.
Edge, JD, Hilton, A and Jackson, PJB (2009) Model-based synthesis of visual speech movements from 3D video In: SIGGRAPH '09, 2009-08-03 - 2009-08-07, Louisiana, USA.
Jackson, PJB, Dewhirst, M, Conetta, R, Zielinski, S, Rumsey, F, Meares, D, Bech, S and George, S (2008) QESTRAL (Part 3): system and metrics for spatial quality prediction In: 125th Audio Engineering Society Convention, 2008-10-02 - ?, San Francisco CA.
Dewhirst, M, Conetta, R, Rumsey, F, Jackson, PJB, Zielinski, S, George, S, Bech, S and Meares, D (2008) QESTRAL (Part 4): Test signals, combining metrics and the prediction of overall spatial quality In: 125th Audio Engineering Society Convention, 2008-10-02 - ?, San Francisco CA.
Conetta, R, Rumsey, F, Zielinski, S, Jackson, PJB, Dewhirst, M, Bech, S, Meares, D and George, S (2008) QESTRAL (Part 2): Calibrating the QESTRAL model using listening test data In: 125th AES Convention, 2008-10-02 - 2008-10-04, San Francisco USA.
Edge, J, Hilton, A and Jackson, P (2008) Parameterisation of Speech Lip Movements In: AVSP, 2008-09-26 - 2008-09-29, Tangalooma, Australia.
Conetta, R, Dewhirst, M, Rumsey, F, Zielinski, S, Jackson, PJB, Bech, S, Meares, D and George, S (2008) Calibration of the qestral model for the prediction of spatial quality In: 24th Reproduced Sound Conference: Reproduced Sound 24: Immersive Audio, 2008-11-20 - 2008-11-21, Brighton, UK.
Longton, JH and Jackson, PJB (2008) Parallel model combination and word recognition in soccer audio In: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2008), 2008-06-23 - 2008-06-26, Hannover, Germany.
Jackson, PJB (2007) Time-frequency-modulation representation of stochastic signals In: 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2007-07-01 - 2007-07-04, Cardiff.
Turkmani, A, Hilton, A, Jackson, PJB and Edge, J (2007) Visual analysis of lip coarticulation in VCV utterances In: INTERSPEECH 2007, 2007-08-27 - 2007-08-31, Antwerp, Belgium.
Every, MR and Jackson, PJB (2006) Enhancement of harmonic content of speech based on a dynamic programming pitch tracking algorithm In: 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing/INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006 - ?, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dewhirst, M, Zielinski, SK, Jackson, PJB and Rumsey, F (2005) Objective assessment of spatial localisation attributes of surround-sound reproduction systems In: 108th AES Convention, 2005-05-28 - 2005-05-31, Sound.
Ypsilos, IA, Hilton, A, Turkmani, A and Jackson, PJB (2004) Speech Driven Face Synthesis from 3D Video In: 2nd International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2004-09-06 - 2004-09-09, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Jackson, PJB, Moreno, DM, Russell, MJ and Hernando, J (2003) Covariation and weighting of harmonically decomposed streams for ASR In: 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Eurospeech 2003, 2003-09-01 - 2003-09-04, Geneva.
Jackson, PJB and Shadle, CH (2000) Frication noise modulated by voicing, as revealed by pitch-scaled decomposition In: 2nd International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (ICVPB), 1999-03-12 - 1999-03-14, BERLIN, GERMANY.
Jackson, PJB and Shadle, CH (2000) Performance of the pitch-scaled harmonic filter and applications in speech analysis In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000-06-05 - 2000-06-09, ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
Shadle, CH, Mohammad, M, Carter, JN and Jackson, PJB (1999) Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging: new tools for speech research In: 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1999-08-01 - 1999-08-07, San Francisco, CA.
Coleman, P, Jackson, PJB, Olik, M and Pedersen, JA Numerical optimization of loudspeaker configuration for sound zone reproduction In: International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2014-07-13 - 2014-07-17, Beijing, China.
Coleman, P, Jackson, PJB, Olik, M and Pedersen, JA Stereophonic personal audio reproduction using planarity control optimization In: International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2014-07-13 - 2014-07-17, Beijing, China.
Jackson, PJB Characterisation of plosive, fricative and aspiration components in speech production Doctoral thesis, University of Southampton.
UNSPECIFIED (2014) Zonal sound distribution .
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Conetta, R, Jackson, PJB, Zielinski, S and Rumsey, F (2007) Envelopment: What is it? A definition for multichannel audio .
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Allround VP elevators are designed to overcome heights in production lines. The machine is designed to transport the produce in a gentle but fast manner. The belt has a double layer of PVC, two guide lines and is adjustable in height and in angle.

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Have you ever wondered what Carlos Santana would sound like if he had to go back to playing covers in clubs, taking requests written in a smudgy scrawl on the back of a bar napkin, or humoring the punter in the back yelling out for Smoke On The Water for the fifth time that night?
Santana's latest release Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time features our favorite guitar hero playing through a selection of tunes as they might appear on aforesaid proverbial napkin.
Granted, each tune is given enough of a twist to not be a mere carbon copy, but you've got to wonder if the punter in question in this case might be producer/record mogul Clive Davis. Using the same winning formula that brought sales of 27 million copies for 1999's Supernatural, Davis teams Carlos up with some of the more current names in the business to provide the foil on Guitar Heaven's 12 tracks (14 on the Deluxe Edition) -- Chris Daughtry, Scott Weiland, Chester Benington, Rob Thomas, Gavin Rossdale, India Arie, Scott Stapp, Chris Cornell and Joe Cocker make guest vocal appearances.
For me, some of the material works, some of it doesn't quite fly. But that's what you get when attempting an entire album's worth of classic tunes. But Carlos gives it his all on each cut -- I especially dig his take on Jimmy Page's guitar fills on the solo breakdown of Whole Lotta Love!
And you've got to admit, few guitar heroes out there today are able to weave such tasty guitar fills around a vocal line with such elegance and spontaneity, without getting in the way.
Check out Carlos's heartfelt version of Little Wing with Joe Cocker on vocals in this clip!
Remember Guitar Heaven the next time someone yells out for Smoke On The Water at your local weekly gig. Smile, play it your own way and remember that no one really finishes paying their dues. Not even Carlos Santana.
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text: The annual celebration of La Romería on 12 October, honouring the image of the Virgin of Zapopan, is a tradition that dates back to 1734. The day marks the final phase of the annual ritual cycle popularly known as ‘The Carrying of the Virgin’, which begins in May and encompasses many community and liturgical activities. The cycle ends with the return journey to the Basilica, in Zapopan. More than two million people take part, and one of the main features of the festivity is the huge presence and participation of different native dancer groups. The carrying (“La Llevada”) and the activities derived from the ritual cycle encompass a mass public demonstration in which the streets and public spaces become a ritual festival for the community, featuring different artistic expressions of collective collaboration. Throughout the year, the planning of the activities depends on the interaction of different communities, helping them to renew and reinforce their social ties. Thanks to the community’s support for the practice year after year, La Romería is considered as one of the most popular and strongly rooted traditions in west Mexico. Through organized civil and ecclesiastical groups, the community of bearers and practitioners has ensured the survival of this cultural manifestation.

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This is the 4th time we have used Twin Oaks. The owner, Jeff Bulcock, is exceptional in every regard. Our first experience was when he built my husband's workshop - complete with mud sink, bath, extensive electricity, an approximate size of a large 2 car garage with a front porch and a number of windows; 2 doors, one a garage door for easy access of large equipment. The kitchen remodel was our last project, although we are planning to contract with them for an outdoor room - with fireplace and rock structure to match the house. Jeff and his team have consistently provided only the highest quality product - his attention to customer service, his detail, responsiveness, creativity, and commitment to satisfaction arequalities that make it a pleasure to recommend Twin Oaks Remodeling.
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The series will debut on their streaming service toward the end of 2019.
The first live-action Star Wars TV series is currently being developed by Disney, CEO Bob Iger has announced.
As the project is still in its very early stages, any details regarding major elements like plot, casting and the exact part of the extensive Star Wars timeline it'll be taking place in have not yet been made available.
Iger has confirmed however that the series will debut on Disney's brand-new Netflix style online streaming service toward the end of 2019.
The currently unnamed platform is also set to launch in 2019 and is the company's attempt to directly compete with popular streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video which have enjoyed absolutely staggering levels of success over the last few years.
Its content catalogue will be a mix between older and brand-new original films and TV shows from both Disney and sister company Pixar and, according to Iger, will have a lower monthly subscription fee than Netflix.
Although this series would be the first live-action Star Wars one to ever be created, there have already been two well-received animated Star Wars TV series released by Lucasfilm.
The Clone Wars, set between Episode Two: Attack of the Clones and Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, ran from 2008 to 2014 on Cartoon Network and Star Wars Rebels, set between Episode Three and Episode IV: A New Hope, which is currently running on Disney XD.


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The Center for Literacy Development is a network created to support professional development initiatives in schools and communities from Pre-K through Grade 12. The Center Members are teachers, supervisors, administrators, coaches, interventionists in public, private, and charter schools.
The Center provides, presentations, coaching, evaluations, assessment, advice with the design of the literacy curriculum, and courses at school districts for those seeking a certification or degree.
On campus, we provide multiple programs throughout the year with outstanding scholars in the field of literacy. Our work is year round and designed to suit the needs of those who work with us. During 2016-2017, we presented 6 conferences. The Rutgers Reading and Writing Conference had 1000 professionals in attendance.
We are interested in creating University Partnerships with schools.
We offer a variety of services and programs to facilitate literacy development in our education system.
Visit rutgersliteracycenter.org to learn more.

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text: Liz Scavilla Photography offers the finest family, newborn, and birth photography in the Daytona Beach area, including Ormond Beach, Palm Coast, Holly Hill, South Daytona, Port Orange, New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater, Oak Hill and more. From newborn photography, including Fresh 48 (images taken within the first 48 hours of being born) to Milestone Portraits (such as 6 months photos, 1st birthday photos, smash cake photos), Liz Scavilla Photography can capture your baby’s special moments so you have them always. We also offer birth photography, in addition to our baby and newborn photography. Please be sure to contact us directly to discuss our rates. We work within all family’s budgets to suit your needs for your newborn photography, maternity photos, milestone images, and more. We also offer in-home studio shoots on your location to make things easier with your family for your newborn photography. Contact us today for more information.


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My wife has a blog. We have been full-timing for 18 months.
Here is a blog by a mother of many who road-schools: http://ourtravelingtribe.com/ . Best wishes to you.
We are 6 months into full time on the road. If you go to my Mississippi post I write about some wonderful homeschool people that I met there. Thanks for asking!


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Who can blame Margaret Tudor for being dwarfed in the shadow of her famous baby brother, King Henry VIII of England? Yet in all honesty, Margaret—as a thrice-married, husband-deposing, serial divorcee and regent of Scotland in her own right—pursued enough scandal to hold her own against Henry. Unfortunately, Margaret also had a serious problem with self-control.
While this character flaw was bad news for her political career, it certainly makes for a new, salacious, and lesser-told story in the Tudor canon. Indulge in these 43 queenly facts about Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland and saucy sister to Henry VIII.
Margaret was the first Tudor princess of England. Born on November 28, 1489, she was the second child—but oldest girl—born to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, who welcomed a daughter at the exact moment they desperately needed foreign alliances. Just four years earlier, the Tudor dynasty had blossomed upon the deposition of Richard III. With the validity of his crown still in question, Henry Tudor had to play nice with the other European powers—and that meant having daughters to marry off to them.
Abnormally for a Tudor princess, Margaret’s childhood is barely documented. It’s mostly sure that she was named after her imperious maternal grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, who also served as her godmother. Princess Margaret was raised in Eltham palace with her younger siblings: the infamous Henry VIII, her sister Mary, and others that died in infancy.
Even before she was born, Margaret’s future husband tried to depose her father. The Scottish ruler James IV had even once set up a pretender named Perkin Warbeck to try and pass as Margaret’s long-lost maternal uncle (one of the Princes in the Tower) and “true” heir to the English throne.
Before she was even 6 years old, Margaret’s was betrothed to the 22-year-old King James IV of Scotland. Her hand in marriage would seal England and Scotland’s sweetly named “Treat of Perpetual Peace,” in which King James agreed to stop sending pesky usurpers (and violent raids) to Henry VII’s doorstep. In exchange, Henry would give him his eldest daughter. Name a better deal?
5. Tudors Will Take Over the World!
The English people deeply protested Margaret’s first marriage—but not for the creepy age difference. Council members feared that marrying the oldest Tudor princess to James IV could pave the way for Scots to inherit the English throne (as they eventually would with James VI…). Henry responded, classily, that England was too big and important to be subsumed by the Scots; if things ever came down a wild thing happening like, say, every Tudor male dying out (which did happen), England would take over Scotland!
When she was 10 years old, Margaret’s mother and grandmother tried to save her from a dangerously early marriage. As she reached double-digits, Henry VII was impatient to send her to finally marry the now 27-year-old King James IV of Scotland. Fortunately, Margaret Beaufort stepped in to remind Henry of about the perils of early consummation: Beaufort herself was just 13 when she gave birth to Princess Margaret’s father. Both mother and child almost died, and it permanently “spoiled” her ability to have more children. Thus, King Henry decided to wait a few years.
At the time of Margaret’s engagement, James IV of Scotland had several illegitimate kids over multiple mistresses. Her betrothed’s lusty rep added to her Beaufort’s fear that James would not wait to consummate the marriage with young Margaret.
Not too much survives about Margaret Tudor’s appearance. However, it’s believed she was petite and slight of frame in her youth, which meant she got her father’s rather bird-boned Lancastrian genes—not her mother’s tall York genes, which produced big boys like Edward IV and Henry VIII.
Even before the advent of conference calling, Margret’s first marriage was a long-distance affair. At age 12, she was married to James IV of Scotland via proxy ceremony at Richmond Palace. Celebrations and jousts took place as if the groom were actually there. Although Margaret stayed in England for two more years, she was legally referred to as Queen of Scots.
In 1503, aged not yet 14, Princess Margaret was finally sent to her husband in Scotland. King James orchestrated a “spontaneous” meeting for them in accordance with the chivalric tradition. He would “accidentally” come across the princess on a hunting trip while she was still on the way to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. Nothing like planned coincidence to make a child bride feel at home, right?
The “pre-honeymoon” of Margaret Tudor and James IV was a storybook romance with animal death. A stable fire had killed off the young queen’s favorite horses. Playing the savior, James came by to wipe her tears, replace the noble steeds, and also gift her some expensive riding gear made from cloth-of-gold. Money is only next to spontaneity in first impressions, after all.
Wanting to ease his bride into marriage with a stranger, James defaulted to is go-to-move: party tricks. Entering the capital, James jumped directly onto his horse rather than use stir-ups like some boring dude. To the shock and joy of the Scottish people, he let Margaret ride “farmer’s wife”-style behind him into Edinburgh.
Despite the observed PDA throughout their first meeting and Margaret’s coronation, James did not immediately leave his mistress, Lady Janet Kennedy. That, and Margaret’s lack of children for the first four years of their match, suggests James did wait until Margaret was mature enough to begin regular “marital” duties with him. A low bar for decency in our age, definitely, but we can’t doubt that many people—including Margaret and her grandmother—were grateful.
It’s rumored that James IV cast all his illegitimate children from court to please Margaret. Before their marriage, James housed his half-dozen children across multiple affairs in the same nursey at Edinburgh. Soon after meeting their new stepmom, the kids were broken up into different households. This led historians to believe James—who liked to spoil Margaret—also indulged her by erasing reminders of his other liaisons.
Upholding his reputation as a royal cheapskate, Henry VII defaulted on paying Margaret’s staff of English attendants to Scotland. James wrote this his father-in-law—rather cattily I might add—that while he was not obligated to foot his wife’s bill, he would “gladly” do so.
Margaret had six children, including two sons named James. Unfortunately, all but the second James (future James V of Scotland) died as infants.
Margaret was less inclined to public religious displays than her king-husband. It was James who made the 120-mile pilgrimage on foot to hand out alms and pray for Margaret’s recovery after her traumatic first pregnancy. She made this trip later but traveled by sweet royal litter—i.e., with horse and attendants.
18. Show Me the Money?
Margaret is at the center of the mystery of Henry VII’s lost will. As English and Scottish relations broke down in 1511, the late King Henry’s will made some mention of a “legacy ”…at least, according to Margaret. The Scottish queen was supposedly left more money for Margaret in the document, which was supposed to have been in the ownership of her late big brother, Prince Arthur, but was then lost. Was this money so important?
In the will of James IV, Margaret was made official regent for their young son, Prince James, in the event of James Sr.’s death. However, Margaret could only keep her regency for as long as she remained a widow.
As per the old king’s will, Queen Margaret was declared regent over her 17-month-old son, James V. Unfortunately, Margaret’s power was deeply resisted. For one, people hesitated to let a woman rule as a king’s governor. The traditional appointee for governor was usually the next heir. In this case, that meant the French-based cousin of James V: John Stewart, Duke of Albany.
The Duke was a living embodiment of French-Scots relations, versus the English-biased Margaret. For this cauldron of reasons, Scotland became the middle child between England and France for much of Margaret’s tenure.
In the spring after James IV’s death, Margaret gave birth to his son, Alexander. Like all of Margaret’s children, except for James V, Alexander died just one year later, in December 1515.
Margaret let a spy into her household. The lady-in-subterfuge was actually nun by the name of Isabella Hoppringle, who used her profession and closeness with the Queen to sell secrets to Henry VIII. In 1523, the jig was up. It looked like both Isabella and her convent were going to pay the price by angry Scottish nobles until Queen Margaret stepped in to fight for mercy on behalf of her old friend. In return, Hoppringle was to stop spying and be loyal only to Margret. Hoppringle returned the favor by continuing for the English. It’s now accepted Margaret was probably in on this.
Margaret could have become a Holy Roman Empress. Talks were in place to wed to her Emperor Maximillian after James IV’ death. Unfortunately, the widow made had other plans.
In 1507, Margaret was passed over for her younger (and maybe prettier) sister, Mary Tudor. King Louis XII of France was offered the widowed Queen Margaret, but he preferred to wed the 18-year-old Princess Mary instead. Of course, Mary would elope to a lower-born man almost immediately upon widowhood. As you’ll see, some things just run in the Tudor family.
On August 6, 1514, in what some consider the political blunder of Margaret’s career, she eloped with Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus. As per the terms of old King James’s will, the marriage effectively ended Margaret’s regency over her son.
26. Brother, Can You Spare a Room?
Margaret did not have a peaceful exit from the Regency. Pregnant with her second husband’s child, she accepted her brother King Henry VIII of England’s help to flee from the country for the safety of her own life under the Duke of Albany’s regime.
For most of Henry VIII’s early reign, Margaret was the technically his heir. His marriage to Catherine of Aragon had failed to produce any healthy children until the birth of future Mary I in 1516—almost seven years into the marriage. Mary’s birth pushed Aunt Margaret down just one sport in succession. This probably informed Henry’s decision to keep Margaret close—and to also send her second husband back to Scotland to make peace with the pro-France, Albany-led regime.
By 1521, Margaret was both romantically and politically alienated by Angus, who was living with another woman and withholding control of her lands as well as place in her son’s government. Luckily for Margaret, the Duke of Albany didn’t really want the job of Scotland’s Governor. After all, he was mostly based in France and not eager to return to the tumultuous scene in Scotland. Margaret successfully campaigned for her once-rival Albany to return and seize the government from her own husband’s faction.
In November 1521, Margaret successfully waged a coup against her husband, Angus Douglas. The rebound beau was relieved of all his government titles. Douglas could only watch as his wife marched victoriously into Edinburgh, side-by-side with their once mutual enemy, the Duke of Albany.
Here’s the kicker: even after her coup against him, Margaret still begged Angus to forgive her actions. Of course, she still regretted ever marrying him, but the Queen did feel rather bad about so publicly humiliating Angus by overthrowing his cheating pantaloons out of office.
31. Stayeth Away from Mine Sister!
Margaret was officially divorced from Archibald Douglas in March 1527. Just one year later, she married Methven, who turned out to be even more adulterous and wasteful than her second husband. 10 years later, Margaret was petitioning for her second divorce. How miserable was she? Several times, Margaret tried to escape across the Scottish border back to her home country. She was carried back to Edinburgh each time.
After June 1528, James V began to rule for himself—but Margaret held no role in her son’s government. In fact, mother and son didn’t seem to get along when forced to interact directly. Margaret often complained about lack of money and having “to follow her son about like a poor gentlewoman.” For his part, James couldn’t even make it in time for her death on October 18, 1541. She was aged just 51 years old.
Margaret spent the rest of her life petitioning for Henry VIII to return her younger child, Lady Margaret Douglas. The young woman was raised in the English court, where she followed her mother in scandal: this Margaret also an affair with a courtier and landed herself in the Tower of London. While the younger Margaret was released, she remained at her uncle’s court and never saw her mother again.
During both times that Margaret sought divorce, she waged a scandalous argument: her first love, James IV of Scotland, might still be alive after all. Of course, her complaint didn’t fly.
After a lifetime of political farces, Queen Margaret Tudor of Scotland got the last “laugh” over her famous brother. Her descendants are the ones who sit on the throne today, not Henry’s. Henry VIII died without grandchildren, but Margaret was grandmother to Mary, Queen of Scots and thus great-grandmother to James I, who succeeded Elizabeth I on the English throne. Therefore, today’s British royal family owes their claim via dignified descent from the scandalous Margaret.
In 1509, Margaret’s little brother Henry VIII ascended to the throne of England. Unfortunately, the Treaty of Perpetual Peace that had made Margaret’s marriage began to break down. Due to Scotland’s conflicting interest with allies in France (England’s enemy), tensions rose until baby brother Henry threatened to disinherit Margaret (and thus, her Scottish children) from the throne.
It’s been mythologized that Margaret had a premonition of King James’s doom. She apparently woke from a nightmare of James falling from a great height and dying. In the dream, Margaret had also lost an eye. She insisted the vision was real—and even cited non-dream rumors that Queen Catherine of Aragon was collecting an army against him—but James insisted it was just anxiety coming for her at night. This story might have been edified over the years, but it’s certainly foreboding. At least Margaret never lost that eye.
Catherine of Aragon was Margaret’s childhood friend and sister-in-law, but she was also complicit in the slaying of Margaret’s husband. This awkward triangulation did not stop Catherine from offering the 24-year-old, widowed, and pregnant Margaret some “comfortable messages.” Of course, these soothing was sent with a catch: Catherine would ensure peace from England’s if Margaret would quell the Scots’ rage about the whole “slain king” thing.
Margaret’s marriage to Archibald Douglass produced one living daughter, Lady Margaret Douglas. Their bliss was not to last. After a year away in England, Margaret returned to Scotland to an upsetting sight: Douglas was living with another woman on Margaret’s dime.
Upon discovering her second husband’s adultery, Margaret immediately sought to divorce him in 1518. Her brother, Henry VIII, was aghast that his big sister would treat the sacrament of marriage so lightly. Centuries later, Henry’s offense remains the source of riotous laughter for many historians.


text: These sterling silver cufflinks are one of a kind. They are handmade with a creative design using Jasper and Malachite. These may be worn everyday to the office or to a black tie function. A custom design by Jorge Adeler.


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The culmination of the 8th Annual Washington County Read, will be a free reception, open to the public, at Unity Theatre with refreshments, a dramatic reading, presented by Unity Theatre, and an interactive discussion with Honorary Chairs, Rev. Randy Wells, Executive Director of Faith Mission and Dr. Walter Jackson, Superintendent of Brenham ISD. In addition, various Washington County community members will have their personal stories related through a multi-media display.
Find a copy at the Brenham Book Nook or HEB. It can also be ordered online as an e-book, hardback, or paperback. And don't forget the Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library as a resource.
In his novel, City of Refuge, which won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, award- winning author and longtime New Orleans resident, Tom Piazza, tells this story as if the reader were experiencing the harrowing events before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. This page turner is a “must read” for all who followed, in utter disbelief, the life-altering events that took place during the hours, days before, and the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina. The story unfolds in the deep mid-August heat of the oppressive New Orleans summer of 2005, weather reports gave warnings about a huge hurricane swirling in the Gulf of Mexico. As national newscasts and meteorological reports show Hurricane Katrina taking aim at their beloved city, two families -- one black, one white -- must make decisions that significantly shape the rest of their lives.
“So detailed, so rich with New Orleans atmosphere, and so believable… it’s like living through the storm again. It’s a book that finally explains what happened and why people in New Orleans did what they did” says the Baton Rouge Advocate.
"Whatever Tom Piazza writes is touched with magic. As a former longtime New Orleans resident, I was astounded at how brilliantly Piazza captured (in vivid detail) the nuances of his City of Refuge. Although this is ostensibly a Katrina novel, Piazza transcends genre or pigeonholing in what is one of the most deeply humanistic portraits of people coping with cataclysm since The Grapes of Wrath."

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Puerto Rico was hit hard by Hurricane Irma, devastating homes, families and businesses. When a community is ravaged by a natural disaster, its people must come together in order to survive. More than just survive, people must keep their spirits high, and one of the best ways to do so is through music.
On Saturday, June 20, 2018, Gary Nunez and four time Grammy nominated Plena Libre with special guest Lalo Rodriguez, widely known for his hit song “Ven, Devorame Otra Vez” will perform at the Knight Concert Hall, bringing Miami audiences, many who have connections to the wounded island, much needed high-spirited sounds from the soul of Puerto Rico.
On the streets of The Island of Enchantment, percussion driven sounds have always moved people to dance. The musical traditions of the island are “plena” and “bomba,” and they reflect the African heritage of the people. These melodious conventions, which consists of certain patterns and rhythms, have given people more than just a social experience with the warmth of a community united in spirited movement. They provided an outlet of information for people in the barrios and opened conversations about issues in the country, mostly related to hardships of agricultural workers.
After the 1960s, when mass media took over, the music “stopped having a connection to the new realities,” explained Gary Nunez. According to Nunez, after 1994, “plena” woke up. It had a second wind. “The lyrics were changed and the approach to folklore renovated. For the new generation, the music became related to their new reality. In the 90s, there was a song about cell phones, which told a fun story. Music still pertains to the history. If you are not talking about things related the people, the people will not listen to you because there is nothing for them to relate to,” he said.
A resident of Puerto Rico, the legendary artist experienced first hand the effects of Hurricane Irma. Nunez said that the government did not do a good job, but the people came together in solidarity. Neighbors were there for each other; they worked together and had a beautiful experience. “We did what we had to do for ourselves and others and it was a good experience. I don’t want people to forget each other,” he said.
Nunez expressed his desire for those attending the evening, which is similar to his sentiment about his fellow people. He wants audience members to get up, dance, and have a great time. He will set aside a moment at the end of the show to talk about the history of his home country. As he said in relation to his approach to the traditional music style, “You have to know your history before you try to change it,” a truth that may be applied to life in general.
Salsa megastar Lalo Rodriguez, who won a Grammy when he was just a teenager, put his own money into a very risky record named “El Nino, El Suenador y El Loco in the 1980s, in which he used the “plena” and “bomba” percussion heavy tradition, Nunez explained. Part of the style’s revival, he will join Gary Nunez and Plena Libre at the Saturday evening show, a real treat for lovers of the Latin genre.
Come for the show, then stay for the Salsa Lovers post-show dance party in the lobby with DJ Jr Sosa.
Plena Gary | Plena Libre in San Juan.


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the N and KN versions come without a bunch of media related libraries.
This apparently makes it impossible to use OpenCV.
So use a normal Windows version or install the available media package from Microsoft.
I guess, there is some "Visual C++ Redistributable …" missing on your system.
As far as I understand: the opencv_java342.dll (from the official opencv Windows package) needs a Redistributable suitable for VS2014/2015.
I have the Redistibutable 2017 on my Windows 10 and it works.
I am seeing this issue on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 7. I have Redistributable 2017 installed on both machines as well as the latest JRE.
I have this issue on windows 7 with latest JRE and Redistributable 2017 but without latest updates of windows (a lot of windows updates was missing in fact).
I updated window, tested it again and it work now.
I am adding a comment because I have the same issue on one of my test Win10 machines. I tried the solutions here and found elsewhere on the web, but nothing has helped so far.
I do have a Win10 machine that will run Sikuli - same Sikuli version. The difference is the Windows versions. The one that Sikuli does not run on has the Red Stone 5 (1809) update installed - the one that works has Red Stone 4 (1803) still.
I am thinking this may be the issue - as I have uninstalled various KB updates to see if one of them is causing the error. None of the uninstalled KBs helped.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I am using Sikuli SNAPSHOT from 2019-03-15.
On the version that does not work, I have the C++ Redistributables from 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2017. Uninstalled and reinstalling all that did not help.
Update to say that I reinstalled Windows RedStone 4 (fresh Windows, but didn't format the drive). The issue still persisted - so it wasn't the Red Stone update to blame.
I then ended up nuking n' paving (formatted and reinstalled Win 10 RedStone 4). NOW a simple 'click the start button' script works again. This was all with the SNAPSHOT 2019-03-20 build.
So, some wires where seriously crossed and I still have no idea how to uncross them without this 'last resort' solution. I still have no idea how thy got crossed in the first place - Sikuli worked on this machine and then when I tried it again a few months later, it didn't work.
As adviced in this thread I went to find the "api-ms-win-downlevel-shlwapi-l1-1-0.dll" and put it in the same folder as on my source machine, but no solution.
Reinstalled the machine, fresh windows 10 iso downloaded today.
Didn't take the N-version when reinstalling, perhaps that made the difference?

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According to the latest news, the carmaker is planning to introduce the new version of the Corolla iM or how is it now called, the Corolla Hatchback. So, this time, the 2020 Toyota Corolla iM should get just some minor upgrades which will include more tech features and perhaps some new colors both inside and out.
Like the current, 2019 model year, the 2020 Toyota Corolla iM will get the previous 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine which is used in the 2018 model year, and will now feature a stronger unit which is first used in the outgoing model. And it is a 2.0-liter inline-4 engine with direct injection and variable valve timing. IT is capable of producing 168 horses and 151 pound-feet of torque which makes is stronger than its predecessor for 31 hp and 25 lb-ft of torque.
Furthermore, the engine will work with a 6-speed manual transmission but a continuously variable gearbox with paddle shifters will also be offered. Moreover, the rear-wheel drive system will be standards. When it comes to fuel economy, this engine will get 32 mpg in the city, 42 mpg on the highway, and 36 mpg combined.
The 2020 Toyota Corolla iM or as it is now known as the Toyota hatchback, will be underpinned with the TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture like the current model and will feature an upgraded sport-tuned suspension. And because of this relatively new platform, the Corolla is now larger, longer, wider, and lover which will make it more comfortable inside the cabin. As well, because of the usage of lightweight materials, its weight won’t change.
Furthermore, as for the exterior design, the 2020 Toyota Corolla iM now features a sportier, more modern, and more attractive design. The front end will be dominated by the black mesh and massive grille trimmed with chrome and there will be angular and sharper headlights. Both headlights and taillights, but also the fog lights will be equipped with quality LED lighting. The rear fascia will get distinctive rear window spoiler and chrome diffusers. Furthermore, the 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels will be offered in the more expensive models.
The interior of the 2020 Toyota Corolla iM will be cozy, nicely designed, and functional. The dashboard will get some nice contrast stitching and will be fitted with an 8.0-inch touchscreen for the infotainment system. The Corolla will be available in several trim levels and the standard equipment will include single-zone climate control a here-door SmartKey system, a 4.2-inch multi-information display, two USB ports, an electronic parking brake, power windows, and so on. The higher trim levels will add a leather-wrapped steering wheel, leather seats, dual-zone climate control, an 8-way power adjustable driver’s seat, heated front seats, etc.
There is still no news when exactly we can expect to see the newest 2020 Toyota Corolla iM. But, it could arrive later this year. As for its price, it is expected to begin at roughly $21,000.

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If you are a carriage operator, chances are you have multiple liability exposures that can be most effectively covered through a Commercial General Liability Policy (CGL). Insurance professionals encounter a vast array of insureds and operations when insuring this risk, from the owner-operator with one vis-à-vis doing the occasional wedding to the commercial hack service in large metropolitan areas employing a small army of drivers who pick riders up at curbside for a tour of the city’s historic downtown district. While the loss exposures vary between insureds, the need for liability insurance remains constant.
Because of the oftentimes unpredictable nature of horses and the risk it presents for bodily injury or property damage, standard insurance carriers have been reluctant to insure these exposures. Usually, carriage liability insurance is placed through a brokerage or a surplus lines agent with an admitted insurance carrier in the state the carriage operator conducts his or her business in.
Insurance companies use actuarials, along with loss experience in a certain class of business, to determine liability rates for a given industry. Underwriter discretion, as well as an insured’s loss history, can play an additional role in determining an individual’s premium pricing. Carriage operators can assist in creating an environment that attempts to minimize and control loss exposures by being proactive in the management of their companies and reducing or eliminating areas of their operations that present high loss potential.
Many insureds choose to have safety and training programs they require their drivers to complete before they can operate on public roads. Having first aid kits on board the carriage, or drivers/assistants trained in first aid, are also ways to reduce the size of losses, should one occur. Having standard safety procedures, such as always having a driver maintain contact with the lines, or having a header for the horse when customers are loading or unloading are just a few additional steps that responsible operators can take to ensure they are providing a safe environment for their drivers, their customers and the general public.
There are multiple reasons why this is of interest to each and every carriage operator, whether your company is loss-free or loss-laden. Losses in a small niche market industry, like carriage operators liability, can lead to industry-wide rate increases. As a line of business experiences more losses it becomes unprofitable for a company to insure. When the loss ratios exceed profitability for the company they are presented with two options: Discontinue writing that line of business, or take an industry-wide rate increase to offset the loss volume.
Often, the first step will be a rate increase, and the second step will be the carrier exiting the market. The ramifications of this can be broad; carriage operators will find it increasingly more expensive to insure their businesses, minimum premiums rise which makes it difficult for small operators to be profitable and justify the operation costs associated with doing this type of business, and, in the event a carrier exits the market, all carriage operators are left with one less option of where to find a viable program to insure their liability risks. Along with the negative insurance effects of high claim volume, public opinion can become adversely affected when individuals and businesses start to view the horse-drawn carriages on their streets or in their parking lots as a high risk to their property or person. The importance of public perception in a time of high industry scrutiny cannot be overlooked.
As an industry, it is more important than ever for carriage operators to band together and provide adequate resources for the new start-up company and veteran operator alike. Networks that facilitate the sharing of safety tips, ideas, and procedures should be cultivated. Those networks and affiliate groups that already exist should be nurtured. Equine professionals, and their resources, should be tapped to provide knowledgeable expertise in the areas of safety and loss control.
Consult your insurance agent about what you can do to minimize your liability exposures. If he or she doesn’t fully understand your operations, find another agent who does. For the horse-drawn carriage operators out there, this is your industry and your passion, it is up to us all to do our due diligence to ensure losses are kept to a minimum so that the future of carriage operators, the availability of insurance programs, and the opportunities for the public to experience a bit of equine recreation remain constant and secure.


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The Kariega Foundations community co-ordinator, Nomawethu Ngangqu, had the pleasure of collating and distributing the parcels to the dancers. She reported that the children were so happy and even excited to go back to school!
The parents of the dancers sent Nomawethu messages of appreciation expressing how grateful they are for the positive impact this project has in their children’s lives.
The Kariega Foundation and Kariega Game Reserve launched the collaborative project with the Indoni Ezenthe boma dancers at the end of 2017. This community project has proved to be a huge success, adding value to the safari experience of our Main Lodge guests as well as significantly uplifting the lives of the performers.
In 2018, we observed that the dancers needed help with their homework. We adapted their routine on boma nights to include sufficient time for a meal and supervised homework for the school children before their performance. Our intention is to continually improve the academic support we offer the children and our hope is to see an increase in their academic progress in 2019.
Based on the successes of this project to date, we plan to grow the group from 20 to 40 dancers in 2019 to enable us to offer our guests at River Lodge and (hopefully) Settlers Drift the opportunity to be entertained and inspired by these wonderful children from our neighbouring communities. Many of the boma dancers are also the children of our staff.
We will keep you updated with our progress.
We are ever mindful that the funds to continue our rewarding work come directly from our Kariega Game Reserve's guests via the Kariega Foundation conservation and community levy. Our work, present and future, is the collective legacy of many generous people and we are deeply grateful for their contributions. Thank you, always!
If you would like to know more about the Kariega Foundation please email us on foundation@kariega.co.za.


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Exciting opportunity for journalists aspiring to gain skills investigative and data journalism.
Transparency International Kenya (TI-Kenya) through the Action for Transparency(A4T) Project has partnered with USIU-Africa, to conduct training for journalists in Nairobi. The training aims to empower journalists with skills to investigate cases of suspected corruption or mismanagement of public funds and analyse financial/budgetary information to reveal gaps affecting the health and education sectors.
Journalists will undergo training from 28th to 30th November 2017 at United States International University (USIU-Africa), in Nairobi.
TI-Kenya in partnership with Swedish based Fojo Media Institute, is implementing the Nairobi based A4T project that uses technology, aided by an empowered citizenry, to strengthen democratic accountability and transparency in Kenya through citizen monitoring of government expenditure.
Journalists wishing to take part in this training (free of charge) should Apply Here, by providing all required information and a story idea that they wish to pursue.
10 best investigative ideas will be awarded grants and mentorship for 3 months after the training.
Deadline for application is 11:59pm, 17th November 2017.
“For people to benefit from the Internet, it must be not only available and affordable. It also must be relevant to their lives and they must have the skills and confidence to use it” The Economist.
According to the Inclusive Internet Mapping Progress 2017 done by The Economist Intelligence Unit, Kenya ranks 51 out of 75 countries, supported by a strong Relevance score. The indexing commissioned by internet giant Facebook, is assessing internet exclusivity across four pillars of Connectivity, Availability, Affordability, Relevance, readiness and an analysis of policy, culture and gender gaps. Kenya outperforms most African countries with a rank of 7th out of 26, but it falls behind many other lower-middle-income nations (16th out of 24).
It is rousing that Kenya has been featured in this study, despite the low score. The relevance of this to us is not so that we can compare our performance with our East African neighbors, but it should make us feel ashamed and find ways of improving. We must concur that there are few studies done about the state of internet connectivity and other aspects, in order to identify and address the gaps so as to achieve an inclusive internet in Kenya. Notably, such studies help inform numerous interventions led by non-state actors that rely on the state of internet connectivity to implement part or in whole projects in uplifting the lives of Kenyans.
Such a project is the one being implemented by PAWA 254 in collaboration with Transparency International Kenya, called Action for Transparency. Action for transparency, or abbreviated as A4T, is an ambitious project that seeks to empower citizens and civil servants to act on corruption experienced in their daily lives. The A4T project partly has developed a set of secure tools like a mobile phone App, where an individual using a mobile phone with Internet access, is able to check the amount of government money given to a public primary school or health center and the amount actually spent by the institution. The App provides the capability of reporting anonymously, an institution or individuals who are involved in corruption.
To be able to achieve this development, the A4T project relied on a baseline survey that aimed at collecting data that would help inform the design and implementation of the project. In the survey, media was named by the respondents in Embakasi as the main source of information about corruption. This coupled with the high access to mobile phones specifically smart phones means the citizens of Embakasi have great opportunity to access information on governance and accountability through media and Information Communication Technology. The project which was designed by Swedish based Fojo Media Institute with funding from The Swedish Embassy, has also been implemented in Uganda and Zambia.
Inevitably, no such project like A4T, that aims to address a social concern for Kenyans especially those living below the poverty line, can be implemented without massive investment into surveys for data collection. The internet sphere is fast changing, there is no singularity of data explaining the reach access and use of internet. Nevertheless, it is with deep research that we are able to reveal the challenges affecting optimal use of this technology, principally for positive social change. We do require, consistent, accessible and segmented data, that could help inform social change interventions.
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) have been playing a pivotal role in carrying out quarterly sector statistics for the communication industry. To this extent, there is relevant data on the use of mobile phones, internet subscriptions among other things. Growth and drops in internet use is captured in these reports, but there is little data/information about users and the use of these internet services. Making it tasking for players who would want to understand such statistics and put them in a different use, other than for commercial purposes, as you would be purported to think of the CAK statistics.
While major multinationals are concentrating on providing access to cheap internet (mainly for profit), there are other players represented by local grassroots organizations, Non-governmental and civil society movements (Like PAWA254 & TI-Kenya) that need data for knowledge and learning of the availability, affordability and ability of everyday use of the internet and other technologies, in order to design and implement projects that are relevant to their communities, for positive social change. Governments therefore need not just to be seen to be working to enhance information for wealthy private sector, but also to enable the non-state actors deliver appropriate services to help improve the lives of citizens.

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OpenText Acquires Hightail | Industry Analysts, Inc.
WATERLOO, Ontario, Feb. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced today that it has acquired Hightail, Inc. (“Hightail”), formerly known as YouSendIt, a leading cloud service for file sharing and creative collaboration with approximately 5.5 million customers globally spanning enterprise accounts, paid subscribers, and individual consumers.
Hightail is not expected to contribute significant revenue to OpenText’s results for the fiscal third quarter ending March 31, 2018.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding OpenText’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions relating to the acquisition, as well as the acquisition’s expected contribution to OpenText’s results, may contain words considered forward-looking statements or information under applicable securities laws. These statements are based on OpenText’s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the operating environment, economies and markets in which the company operates. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, and the actual outcome may be materially different. OpenText’s assumptions, although considered reasonable by the company at the date of this press release, may prove to be inaccurate and consequently its actual results could differ materially from the expectations set out herein. For additional information with respect to risks and other factors, which could occur, see OpenText’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC and other securities regulators. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, OpenText disclaims any intention or obligations to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Image enables the drawing of images in the SuperCollider GUI.
Creates a new Image instance. "multiple" here stands for multiple arguments.
If multiple is a number, then this argument indicates the height of the new image.
Creates a new Image instance filled with the specified color.
Creates a new Image instance from the local file at path.
Creates a new Image instance from the local SVG file at path.
A Size. SVG contents will be drawn into an image of this size. If not provided, suggested size provided by SVG will be used.
A String refering to an element of the SVG. If this argument is provided, image will only include this element of the SVG.
// NOT IMPLEMENTED YET Creates a new Image instance from a valid image at the specified URL path.
Creates a new Image instance from another Image.
Creates a new Image from a portion of a Window. this can be used to capture either a window or a specific View.
optional. the constrained rect to capture inside the Window. By default, it is the window size.
returns an Array of the different levels of interpolation you can specify when drawing an Image.
close all the Image plot windows currently opened.
deallocate the receiver. this method is useful if you want to manage and reclaim yourself resources. otherwise you do not need to call this method since each object is automatically garbage collected.
returns or set the url of the receiver. Returning only if any where supplied at creation, otherwise returns nil. Setting may be used for different purpose but try to supply a valid one since it is used for archiving the image as an object.
get or set the level of interpolation used when rendering the image - it has not effect when the Image is accelerated. see *interpolations for a valid range of values.
write the Image to a file.
(optional) format to use. see Image.formats for supported formats. If nil, it will get the format depending on the path extension.
plots the image in a Window.
the title of the Window. may be nil.
the bounds of the Window. may be nil.
flag to tell if the Window should free the Image when closed.
shows pixel coordinates while the mouse is over the image's plot window.
sets the receiver as the current graphic context. So you can use Pen to draw inside of it.
restore the graphic context state. the receiver is not anymore the current graphic context.
render the image or a portion of it in the current graphic context.
the compositing operation to use. 'sourceOver' is the default.
render the image or a portion of it in a specified rectangle of the current graphic context. This may stretch the image depending on the destination rect.
tile the image or a portion of it in a specified rectangle of the current graphic context. This may stretch the image depending on the destination rect.
fill a pixel located at x @ y.
fill the pixel located at x @ y with the specified color.
retrieve the pixel value at x @ y as a Color.
retrieve or set all the pixels of the receiver.
the array that will be filled. Should be an Int32Array of size receiver.width * receiver.height.
the start index of the array.
set the pixels in a specific portion of the receiver.
a rectangle defining the portion to update in the receiver. By default rect is nil, meaning full image size.
Get/set pixel ratio of the image.
This does NOT affect the content of the image, only how it is interpreted when it is drawn onto a View or another Image. For example, in a high DPI context, the pixel ratio of a View might be 2. When drawing an image with a pixelRatio of 1, each pixel of the image will fill a 2x2 area of the View. If both the Image and the View had a pixel ratio of 2, each pixel would be 1:1 with pixels in the View.
By default, the pixelRatio of all Images is 1 - this ensures that an image will look the same when drawn on a normal or a high DPI view. Setting a custom (!= 1) pixelRatio should generally only be done to draw specially rendered high DPI images to a View that is known to be high DPI.
Note that when drawing to an Image using Pen, pixelRatio is accounted for - so, a line of width 1 will have a true width of 1px for an image where image.pixelRatio==1, and a true width of 2px where image.pixelRatio==2.
apply an array of ImageFilter to the image. this should be considered as an in place operation, meaning the Image is altered after it.
the crop region to finally use. This may be required for extending bounds since some ImageFilter / CoreImageFilters require to set a wider region (to be applied correctly) or may create a huge image. Setting crop to nil sets no crop region. In case the current maximum size of a filtered Image is 4096 / 4096. Any larger size will be clipped. by default crop is constrained to the receiver bounds.
NOTE: supported only in macOS 10.5 and later.
option to constrain the filter to a specific region IN the Image.
returns a new Image, copy of the receiver filtered with an array of ImageFilter. arguments are the same as -applyFilters (except for region).
NOTE: Beware: you are responsible for freeing the newly created Image !!!
see ImageFilter for an example on how to use the filters array.
you can also attach filters to the receiver for real-time changing operations. In this case the receiver will create a cache before each rendering to maintain his previous state, and allowing you to use filters without applying them in place. The cache is managed directly by the receiver. you can add several filters to the receiver, the first filter in the array is the first applied in the rendering chain.
see ImageFilter for an example on how to use addFilter.
see ImageFilter for an example on how to use removeFilter.
the ImageFilter to remove from the rendering chain.
if -filters is not zero sized, this method will apply all those filters in place. if the image is accelerated this method force a bitmap representation of the receiver.
see ImageKernel for examples and more info.
apply a Kernel in place. the receiver is modified after this call.
you can now use a Image as a valid view background. 16 drawing modes are defined to behave differently.
fromRect - the portion of the image to use. by default use the full image.


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Blue Ocean Event Center – Do you dream of salt air kisses, waves lapping beneath your feet, wowing guests with picture perfect views, and an elegant reception by the sea? At Blue Ocean Event Center, the only thing we overlook is the ocean, the perfect setting for the day of your dreams. Weddings at Blue Ocean Event Center feature breathtaking ceremony options with the ocean as a backdrop, elegantly modern and versatile waterfront reception spaces for 35 to 450 guests, menus and set-up styles to reflect your personal style and tastes, and customized planning with our expert event managers to create the wedding of your dreams. Catered by the on-site Seaglass Restaurant culinary team, our menus celebrate the bounty of the land and sea offering guests fresh, seasonal cuisine with an array of menu options and reception styles. Invite your guests to experience the beauty of a seaside wedding and award-winning dining in an exclusive beachside atmosphere that is unique and rejuvenating.
Four Oaks Country Club – Offering something for every bride and groom, Four Oaks Country Club provides a very unique experience when creating the wedding of your dreams. The contemporary-styled Clubhouse and Grand Oaks Ballroom sit on Marsh Hill, offering beautiful views extending as far as Boston. Our experienced Wedding Director will provide you the undivided attention and service you deserve throughout your day. The Grand Oaks Ballroom seats up to 230 guests and has multiple options for arrangements and decorations. It also includes a full dance floor. The cuisine at Four Oaks Country Club is as exceptional as the venue. We can tailor any menu to delight you and your guests!
we will help you celebrate your wedding day in style!
Middlesex Community College Foundation John Nesmith House – An elegant setting for intimate weddings and receptions, the MCC Foundation’s John Nesmith House reflects the splendor of the era when Lowell was home to some of America’s first captains of industry. Built in 1843, this 22-room Greek Revival mansion has been beautifully renovated – with central heat, air conditioning and a full professional kitchen – and features period furnishings throughout. The spiral staircase can provide the bride a grand entrance. The beautifully landscaped grounds offer several unique indoor and outdoor ceremony locations, and spectacular photography opportunities. Nesmith House can accommodate up to 100 guests for a cocktail reception or 65 for a plated dinner. Our experienced staff will work with you every step of the way to ensure your special event is everything you want it to be.
Tuscan Kitchen – At Tuscan Kitchen, our finely appointed event spaces are designed to offer an intimate atmosphere to entertain your guests with exceptional service and artisan cuisine in a beautiful, tasteful environment. Our chef will custom design a menu for each guest’s individual needs, budget and taste. We create personalized menus and an event program that features the same artisan cuisine we serve in our dining room. Our private dining and event rooms are designed to offer guests flexible space to have events ranging in size from 20 to 500. Whether it is a family style dinner for 12 or a dinner party for 150, our private dining space and warm hospitality will make your next event truly memorable.
UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center – Whether you’re planning an intimate gathering or an extravagant affair, the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center can customize any event to make your wedding dreams a reality. The luxurious Grand Ballroom can accommodate parties of up to 440 people. For smaller weddings, showers and rehearsal dinners, the Lower Locks and Hamilton rooms feature an abundance of natural lighting. An outdoor patio off of the Lowell Locks is perfect for your ceremony or reception. Overlooking the city’s canals on the banks of the Concord River, the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center offers a beautiful backdrop for your wedding photos. We offer tiered wedding packages that can be customized to fit your taste and budget. Local, sustainable ingredients are used to create a delicious meal for you and your guests, and our lodging features 31 inn-style guestrooms as well as 120 seasonal (summer) hotel rooms.

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