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Facing the Truth: Using Color to Improve Facial Feature Extraction
Maria Jabon email@example.com
Christopher Tsai email@example.com
Damien Cerbelaud firstname.lastname@example.com
March 20, 2008
EE 362 - Applied Image and Vision Systems
Introduction -> Prior Work -> Methods -> Results -> Conclusions -> References -> Acknowledgements -> Source Code
Face detection is an integral component of many real-world systems. As artificial intelligence pervades computers across cyberspace, programmers strive endlessly to find ways in which computers can view, interpret, and respond sensibly to human beings; since images constitute a primary means of communication between humans and machines, extracting faces, facial features, and emotions from images can serve numerous functions in computer vision. Furthermore, with electronic databases growing to gargantuan proportions, use of face recognition has also spread rampantly across a multitude of fields, from medicinal records and employee databases to crime-fighting profiles. Finally, face tracking in particular has piqued the interest of engineers and computer scientists interested in automating surveillance, motion sensing, advanced video capture and conferencing, and dynamic zoom. In this particular problem, not only the human face but also the robustness of the features are paramount to success; facial feature extraction must prevail despite ambient noise, motion blur, spatial as well as temporal irregularities, and neighboring features across a wide variety of subjects.
OKAO Vision – face vision in Japanese – is a face recognition software package that Omron Corporation developed to both recognize and characterize faces in AVI video sequences. By localizing a number of facial regions, extracting keypoints such as eyes and mouth, comparing the face against a labeled database, and evaluating the shape and size of the extracted facial features, OKAO estimates age, gender, and other characteristics.
However, based on the Japanese demographic and the trends of test subjects used to measure OKAO's performance, the segmentation algorithms used to detect edges and limn facial features do not perform equally well for all humans. In particular, because Omron has optimized OKAO to successfully identify Asian and Caucasian subjects, the face detection software is not optimally trained for darker complexions[1]. Because the shade of lip color and the nearby skin tone can be deceptively similar for dark-skinned people, OKAO often fails to separate the lip cleanly from the face. Meanwhile, black lines such as eyelashes or mascara are also less conspicuous on darker skin, so segmentation of grayscaled images becomes even more difficult, even for noteworthy points such as the eyes. When evaluating the feature identification output from OKAO, for example, we notice several mislabeled frames:
For example, the young woman in the left frame has lip color that is very similar to her cheek color, especially under the overhead lighting of the test room, while the adjacent male also possesses dark skin tones with minimal pinkness in his lips. In both cases, OKAO mistakes other parts of the subjects' faces for the mouth; the feature detection algorithm segments the woman's chin instead of her lip and the man's left nostril instead of his lip. Meanwhile, OKAO also mislabels both eyes, likely due to both the failed registration of the mouth and the lack of color contrast between black pupils and surrounding black skin. The low lighting also does not help. At worst, OKAO sometimes fails to capture any facial feature, resulting in an unlabeled frame.
Testing our methods through the black box that is OKAO facial feature detection, we strive to enhance the edges in input Red-Green-Blue (RGB) three-channel color images in order to facilitate more robust feature detection at OKAO's output. Since OKAO does not accept binary or grayscale images – only color channels – we must somehow enhance the color frames themselves before submitting them to OKAO for grayscaling and segmentation:
Unfortunately, OKAO performs grayscaling and pattern matching within its own software code [1], so we can only model its operation and tailor our color edge enhancement to make the internal grayscale image more amenable to the subsequent edge detection and pattern matching. Because Caucasian faces are detected and segmented nearly perfectly, we experiment on enhancing primarily dark-skinned subjects, the people with whom OKAO struggles most.
Prior Work
Even before they incorporated all three color channels into edge detection, engineers designed face trackers with grayscale or luminance images. Monochrome edge detection has plagued the minds of scientists for decades, and numerous ingenious techniques in color originally made their debut in binary or grayscale segmentation; a single colorless image can capture most of the edges visible in a color image.
Even when the original image is color, many methods simply convert to grayscale before beginning processing. The luminance channel in the YIQ (Luminance-Hue-Saturation) and YCbCr (Luminance-Blue Chrominance-Red Chrominance) color metrics provides enough high spatial frequency detail to locate the lines between a face and background. Luminance, by virtue of its high spatial frequency content, contains most of the edge detail in a multispectral image.
Feature-based methods dominate the literature for face
detection and recognition.
Algorithms like the Hough transform, the Radon transform, and the hit-or-miss
transform isolate common alignments such as horizontal or vertical edges.
Thresholding and watershed segmentation reduce a complicated image into
localized regions around object points by eliminating – flooding – surrounding
regions in an intensity image with empirically determined threshold values.
Adaptive thresholding is also popular in face detection, since we can
often use one threshold to separate the face from its background and then
another, more stringent threshold on the segmented face candidates to ascertain
the locations of eyes and mouth.
Gradient-based edge detection methods are also rampant for their simplicity and
speed: the Sobel, Prewitt, Roberts, and Canny edge detectors all approximate the
directional derivatives in images by convoluting the image with small 3x 3
filters (or 2x2 filters for the Roberts detector); the points where a
directional derivative is high indicate edge-like behavior[2]:
represent the horizontal
and vertical Sobel gradient filters.
and represent the horizontal and vertical Sobel gradient filters.
represent the horizontal
and vertical Prewitt gradient filters.
and represent the horizontal and vertical Prewitt gradient filters.
represent the horizontal
and vertical Roberts gradient filters.
and represent the horizontal and vertical Roberts gradient filters.
Finally, features such as eyes and lips possess strong corner points, so Harris and Haralick developed robust corner detectors that are specialized to find places where the edges change direction abruptly[3].
The Harris and Haralick corner detectors represent one case of a popular family of template matching or pattern matching algorithms.span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> Even for gray images, pattern matching can be quite effective, because the large number of pixels in an image ensures that distinct features have well-defined arrangements. The two endpoints of the eye and mouth, for example, almost always bear pixel arrangements similar to < or >[4]. One can also specify desired features in detail to prevent false features from falling into detection bins[5]. Eyes for example, might exact their own special template[6]:
Template-matching algorithms need not be so specific. A myriad of computer scientists have generalized the definition of a feature or template to the looseness of basis functions, which, roughly speaking, approximate features to a fundamental order of magnitude. For example, Bay, Tuytelaars, and Van Gool devised the Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) algorithm to detect and match features using Haar-like box filters:
Their method, which approximates the Hessian and its determinant with a more easily computable version, essentially describes a distribution of Haar wavelet responses in the neighborhood of interest points[7], using the Haar coefficients to distinguish one uniquely shaped feature from another:
The SURF method derives from another feature detection algorithm, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), which blurs the image with a succession of varying-variance Gaussians to selectively accentuate features of different scales[8]. A survey of the number of techniques that SIFT and SURF have spawned would exceed the scope of our project[9].
For face recognition in particular, adaptive techniques such as those developed for neural networks are especially powerful. With access to a large image database, algorithms need to rely less on feature precision since a small subset general statistical descriptors such as eigencoefficients can suffice. Thus, image processors interested in applying face segmentation to recognition often train their detectors with a series of similarly structured face images (with eyes and mouth positioned in similar locations) to expedite detection and identification.
The use of all three color channels, however, has been less prevalent, likely because computation time and processing complexity increase roughly threefold, depending on the method. Strong directional derivatives still generally indicate the presence of edges, but compiling a gradient image from three channels is often more cumbersome. Nevertheless, image processors perform the Sobel gradient (or Canny gradient) on each channel separately and use the multispectral norm as an indicator of edginess:
The use of all three color channels, however, has been less prevalent, likely because computation time and processing complexity increase roughly threefold, depending on the method. Strong directional derivatives still generally indicate the presence of edges, but compiling a gradient image from three channels is often more cumbersome. Nevertheless, image processors perform the Sobel gradient (or Canny gradient) on each channel separately and use the multispectral norm as an indicator of edginess:
We can also intertwine the three channels differently, as Gonzalez and Woods propose in their text [10]:
Computer scientists and psychologists have also standardized the use of skin color to identify candidate face regions [11], followed by template matching within the skin regions to eliminate false positives (such as hands, feet, and other body parts)[12][13].
For systems that convert RGB images to YCbCr, the luminance channel often fails to properly identify color edges between objects that share comparable luminance values:
The blue sheet of paper disappears because its luminance is the same as the table's luminance despite their contrasting colors. In light of this failure, Dikbas, Arici, and Altunbasak proposed principal component analysis (PCA) for quality edge detection robust to luminance similarities; they transformed the RGB axes into eigenspace axes, with the first eigenimage representing the maximal variance components in the image [14][15]. For instance, the following differently colored squares share similar luminance values, thwarting normal color gradient segmentation. Edge detection on the first principal component, however, succeeds:
Notice that the color Laplacian – a variant of the color gradient method – performs particularly poorly on the skin tones in the lower-left corner of the grid. A number of methods display this difficulty, as we illustrate with a test image. In the following grid of skin tones, the luminance changes discontinuously after every 16 columns, while the chrominance jumps after every 16 rows:
Both the grayscaled image and the luminance channel omit edges in one direction because of their relative insensitivity to color changes. The color gradient finds all of the discontinuities but returns some undesirable double edges where two color channels differ. The first eigenimage is cleanest.
Edge detection functions noticeably better on the first principal component, but, unfortunately for us, many prepackaged face detectors like OKAO successively perform grayscaling and edge detection; thus, we can influence the edge detection only through a color image, as the grayscaling occurs within the black box, out of our reach. However, we can still use the principal component (as well as various color gradient metrics) to boost edges in all color channels, or even in the luminance channel. This edge boosting enhances color contrast and makes detection more robust despite continued use of OKAO's internal grayscaling function.
For all of the edge detection algorithms mentioned in the
literature, we had to determine how best to incorporate edge-boosting features
into color images.
Do we replace the luminance channel with the principal component?
Do we duplicate or triplicate the principal component images into the
three color channels? Can we boost
only the locations in the color images where color edges appear?
Or do we selectively enhance all
regions in the luminance channel by edges detected in the principal
component? We attempted a variety
of these alternatives and observed the results.
I. Histogram Equalization
Histogram equalization is a logical first step to compensate for imbalanced illumination. For example, segmentation of dark-toned subjects in particular suffers under low lighting, so compensating for this lighting is important and generally unequivocally helpful. Equalizing a windowed region – the face segmented from its background – also improves detection because the color tones displayed on the human face generally occupy a limited portion of the color and luminance histograms, making equalization to the full dynamic range especially helpful for distinguishing two otherwise close shades of brown or tan:
The African-American face, for example, contains a plethora of reds but mainly low-intensity blue and green content. The luminance, too, is limited to a range between 20 and 200, inviting dynamic range stretching. First, we equalize the color (RGB) channels separately, producing the results:
Whereas the color histograms are now maximally expanded to fill the dynamic range, the luminance mass function still seems lopsided and limited, so we separately equalize the luminance channel in our next experiment:
When we equalize the luminance channel, OKAO performs significantly better in detecting the eyes and mouth on dark-skinned faces. Because the luminance histogram of darker skin tones is initially quite compressed in the low intensity values, rarely eclipsing 200, equalization unsurprisingly yields significant improvement.
II. Eigenimage and Color Gradient Edge Boosting
We can still incorporate images with strong color edges into a full-color image by selectively boosting those edges in either each channel or the luminance channel. Simple channel replacement significantly lowers the average brightness without more processing (see below), so we focus on enhancement rather than replacement:
The principal component image often contains the most sensible color edges, as shown below:
We boost the luminance channel – the most logical choice for high spatial frequency edge detail – by this principal component and renormalize the scale. Instead of simple image addition, we weigh the importance of the edges by a variable factor that we perfect through repeated trial and error. No matter our choice, the enhanced image will have values that exceed the original dynamic range, so our renormalization returns the intensity values to the [0, 255] range of our original color image. For example, if we boost the luminance channel through straight addition (with a coefficient of unity), then our renormalization will essentially halve the impact of the original luminance channel and accentuate its edges by the edges in the principal component.
The resulting image preserves the visual quality of the original RGB image while slightly boosting the presence of points that would be highlighted as edges if OKAO performed edge detection on the principal component itself. This allows us to influence the type of edges that will appear from OKAO's pattern-matching algorithm despite our relative lack of knowledge concerning the black box's grayscaling method. We can also increase the probability of color edge detection if we boost by the edge image rather than the component image:
The color gradient, on the other hand, does not offer us this luxury, because the color gradient image itself is inherently an edge map:
Thus, unable to boost every pixel value, we boost only the edges. Because over-boosting results in an image with less and less pointwise detail (in the regions not deemed color edges), we opt for lighter boosting in the luminance channel to preserve the most important pointwise qualities.
We see that boosting the luminance channel strengthens the lines between lip and cheek while also outlining the eyes. However, because we did not inundate the luminance channel completely, other edges that the color gradient did not accentuate also remain, as we desire.
III. Specialized Grayscaling
We also tried several methods using grayscale input images,
to address the problem of localization.
We tried these functions on a test image composed of a light red square over a darker red square. Colors were chosen such that the contrast is very low. The results we obtain for each method are displayed below.
As expected, the results given by the first principal component are the best, and we can also see that the simple grayscale performs very poorly in terms of highlighting the color differences.
We then used these three methods to generate videos, and we ran OKAO on them. We noticed nearly no visual improvement for the scaled grayscale and for the principal component method compared to simple greyscale. The reason for this might be that color information in the sample videos is very important, relatively the color information of the face is quite low. For instance, large areas of white or blue in one of the sample videos we used predominated in the calculus of the variance and the brown contrast where the face edge information is might not be enhanced with such a technique.
The algorithm we designed to find the coordinates of each
window is adaptive. For each frame, the window coordinates are calculated using
the previous estimated position of the eyes and the mouth; if detection does not
arise in one frame, the previous window is stored until new detected position
update the coordinates. Below is a block diagram showing the adaptive windowing
However, we could not modify OKAO so that it would adapt itself to the eye/mouth position. In order to simulate the adaptive windowing, we generated a stream of positions for the eyes and mouth using the original video, and each frame would have windows generated from the corresponding previous frame in the original video. It induces some irrelevancy in the process, in particular when the original detection was absent or really poor; however, for most of the frames, our simulation proved to do very well.
The dimensions of each window are 2h*(h+e), where h is the distance between, respectively, the two eyes and the mouth corners; e is an offset corresponding to vertical differences between the positions of the two eyes/mouth corners.
Each of the windows would now define a portion of each
frame, and considering these windows as separate pictures, we applied to them
each one of the different techniques we used previously. We also added one
method, which consists in multiplying the principal component image by a scaling
factor and truncate every pixel value below 1, so that differences between dark
pixels are emphasized. As we considered mainly dark skinned characters, the face
edge informations were mainly contained in these low luminance pixels.
The results we got by using adaptive windowing were not really improved for the scaled grayscale. However, the principal component method turned out to lead to noticeable improvement on the quality of the detection of the eyes and mouth. The best results were obtained for the scaled version of the principal component, with a much better accuracy in the mouth detection than the original video.
Evaluation and Results
In order to evaluate the performance of our algorithms we used videos
of three dark skinned African American subjects and ran them through OKAO
vision, recording the confidence level for each frame.
Then, for each algorithm we selected, we processed each frame of each of
the three videos and ran the resulting videos through OKAO, recording the new
confidence levels for each frame. Due
to limited processing power each video was kept to 6 seconds (300 frames).
We found, however, that the percent improvement in confidence averaged over all frames was not a good indicator of performance as it was greatly influenced by outliers. Given that our videos were kept to 6 seconds in length, only one or two frames with a spurious zero for confidence threw off the entire reading. The percentage of frames with improved confidence proved a robust evaluator however, often matching our visual evaluation of the movie. A summary of the percentage of frames with higher confidence for each method is shown below:
Our third evaluation technique was to visually examine each movie while OKAO was performing face tracking in order to note any improvements. This step was necessary because at times OKAO gives high confidence ratings while tracking the wrong feature, for example when tracking the nose instead of the mouth. We found, however, that our visual evaluations matched the percentage of frames with higher confidence ratings very well.
Conclusions and Future Work
Overall we found that the simple grayscaling techniques were the most effective across all subjects. We noted some improvement with principal component, most specifically with subject 50. We also saw significant results when luminance of the first maximal varience projection was scaled and truncated in subject 40. Overall, however, it seemed that no one method worked exceptionally well across all subjects.
In future work we would like to extend the current project to include much more comprehensive test data, including more face-tracking systems, real time acquisition and processing of movies, more subjects, and longer video sequences. We would also like to try our algorithms on subjects of other races, not just African Americans. The current study was limited in scope due to lack of appropriate test data and computing power.
We are also interested in applying more techniques based upon what we have learned in this project. For example, since the system of selectively scaling certain areas of the image seemed promising, we would like to try selective color boosting for edges only in a certain range, centered around skin tones. We would also like to apply pre-grayscaling techniques to other feature detection and extraction algorithms, and see how they improve. For example, it could be interesting to see how an algorithm like SURF that detects contrast differences between adjacent pixels would react to color contrast enhancing before grayscaling.
The extension we are most interested in, however, is creating a system that could could dynamically choose which algorithm to apply based upon the first few frames of the video. Various techniques could be experimented with for choosing the algorithm; a RGB histogram could be calculated from the first few frames of the video, for example and the algorithm chosen based upon the color spread, or the average luminance could be calculated and the algorithm chosen based upon that. In fact, many statistics could be computed about the frames and we could use machine learning to determine the best algorithm given all the computed statistics.
The above system could even be extended to include the video capture device itself. We could interface back to the device and change settings, such as exposure rate in order to obtain the optimal image for face tracking. In that way we could truly create an Applied Vision and Image System, the fundamental concept of this course!
[1] Tsukiji, Shu., Discussion about OKAO Face Tracking System., Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, March 3, 2008.
[2] Gonzalez, Rafael C., Richard E. Woods, and Steven L. Eddins. Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
[3] C.G. Harris, M. Stephens,A combined corner and edge detector.In 4th Alvey Vision Conference, pp 147-151, 1988.
[4] Girod lecture, Feature Detection, slide no. 28
[5] Boehnen, Chris, Trina Russ. "A Fast Multi-Modal Approach to Facial Feature Detection." Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2005.
[6] Feris, Rogerio F., Teofilo Emidio de Campos, Roberto Marcondes Cesar Junior. "Detection and Tracking of Facial Features in Video Sequences." Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1793, pp. 197-206, April 2000.
[7] Bay, Tuytelaars, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc J. Van Gool: SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features. ECCV (1) 2006: 404-417
[8] Lowe, David G. "Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints," International Journal of Computer Vision, 60, 2 (2004), pp. 91-110.
[9] Huang, Szu-Hao, Shang-Hong Lai. "Detecting Faces from Color Video by Using Paired Wavelet Features." National Tsing Hua University. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004.
[10] Gonzalez, Woods Digital Image Processing . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
[11] Campadelli, Paola, Rafaella Lanzarotti, Guiseppe Lipori. "Face Detection in Color Images of Generic Scenes." IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety. Venice, Italy, 21-22 July 2004.
[12] Feris, Rogerio F., Teofilo Emidio de Campos, Roberto Marcondes Cesar Junior. "Detection and Tracking of Facial Features in Video Sequences." Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1793, pp. 197-206, April 2000.
[13] Campadelli, Paola, Rafaella Lanzarotti, Guiseppe Lipori. "Face Detection in Color Images of Generic Scenes." IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety. Venice, Italy, 21-22 July 2004
[14] Dikbas, Salih, Tarik Arici, and Yucel Altunbasak. "Chrominance Edge Preserving Grayscale Transformation with Approximate First Principal Component for Color Edge Detection." Georgia Institute of Technology. ICIP 2007.
[15] L. Sirovich and M. Kirby, "Low-dimensional procedure for the characterization of human faces," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(3), pp. 519-524, 1987.
We would like to thank Professor Wandell, Professor Farrell, Dr. Manu Parmar, Dr. Peter Catrysse, and Christopher Anderson for all their help throughout the course and in the completion of our project. We would also like to thank Omeron Corporation for the use of OKAO vision, and Shuichiro Tsukiji in particular for the interface programs he provided. We would also like to thank the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab for the use of their videos.
Source Code
SourceCode.zip - all MATLAB files
SupplementaryData.zip - supplementary data including OKAO output for each video
Original18.avi - Subject 18 video
Original42.avi - Subject 42 video
Original50.avi - Subject 50 video
Division of Work
Overall we feel we all contributed equally in this project. A general breakdown of the work is as follows, although we all helped out when needed.
Chris Tsai - responsible for the histogram equalization methods, eigenimage methods, and color gradient methods, much of the prior work research, writing, and finalizing slides
Damien Cerbelaud - responsible for the specialized greyscaling techniques, helping to decompress videos using Linux, and writing
Maria Jabon - responsible for working with OKAO, finding data, testing all results, processing and recreating movies, some prior work research, writing, and making the webpage


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Pronunciation: /pəˌsinēən ˈkôrpəs(ə)l /
Definition of Pacinian corpuscle in English:
An encapsulated ending of a sensory nerve that acts as a receptor for pressure and vibration.
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- Hair follicles and smooth muscle (arrector pili), sweat and sebaceous glands, and Pacinian corpuscles are located in the reticular layer.
- The feet of elephants are more than mere clumping cylinders; their interiors are filled with vibration sensors known as Pacinian corpuscles, which have a structure similar to an onion, with a slimy gel between each layer.
- Snakes have simple nerve endings for vibration perception and Herbst corpuscles in birds and Pacinian corpuscles in Eutherian mammals allow for perception of vibrations.
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Hynes gets mixed reviews for learning & attention issues. They are willing to meet and willing to set up a 504, but much less willing to really address a specific child's issues in the classroom. You have to fight to get evaluations, IEPs, and other services that would make a big difference. Some teachers understand the issues these kids face and do more to give them avenues to success; others are unwilling to differentiate their teaching methods even a little bit. The French Immersion program is particularly inflexible to these kids' needs and much more could be done to help these kids be successful in that program. The school could also use technology a whole lot more and better to help parents to help their kids. In general, the faculty need to learn more, much more, about LDs and ADHD, especially what executive function deficits are, how they impact kids learning and organizational skills, and how they can be addressed. An effort to teach kids *how* to study would help all students, not just those with these issues, succeed. Also, an after-school tutoring program could do wonders.
I have a child in Kindergarten and another in 1st grade. We switched our kids from a local private school to Hynes. We were scared to death and spent many sleepless nights worrying about our decision. Let me tell you that we could not be happier. We feel certain that our kids are getting a better education than they were getting at the expensive, private school in our neighborhood. In fact, our daughter was BEHIND other kids in her Hynes class when she started the year! Of course the Hynes staff took notice and immediately got her the extra help she needed to catch up and now she is excelling. The teachers are wonderful, the staff is dedicated, communication with parents is phenomenal. The only improvement I see needed (and which I feel is getting better) is parental involvement. We have so many wonderful parents who give tirelessly of their time and talents but at the private school I would say nearly 100% of the parents would step up to the plate, so to speak, when asked and at Hynes, a few parents carry all the weight. But the staff? They give 110%! We are very pleased.
Great school, great team work. I cannot complain anything about the school. I am very proud that I am part of the team.
Hooray!!! The Hynes Husky Family has returned to its pre-Katrina site in a brand new, modern building at 990 Harrison Avenue!! The French Immersion program, Art, Band, Choir and all the sports teams now have plenty of room. The library and computer labs are amazing. Our children are thriving in an academically focused setting under the caring guidance of the talented staff and administration.
They take anyone, just normal kids and help them shine. No culling out the kids who will bring down their statistics. They love their kids.
The best new Orleans public school and the most dedicated teachers.
We visited many private schools in the area before visiting Hynes. I was so impressed with all Hynes had to offer, even in the less than perfect temporary building. The administration and teachers are dedicated and caring and there is a strong PTO. My child is in his second year at Hynes and we could not be happier with our decision.
From our first day at Hynes I felt as if we were part of a family. The principal, assistant principal, office staff, and teachers all know by children by name. There is a constant vein of caring and respect that exudes from the students, teachers, and staff. It is a wonderful, caring, loving, learning environment for my children.
Award winning teachers and caring staff plus great extra curricular activities make Hynes THE best choice for my two sons!
My daughters have learned so much at Hynes. They love their teachers and all the teachers and administrators know my girls. I feel like we are a family here.
The address listed on Carrollton Avenue is not current. That was a temporary address after the storm. The school is being rebuilt right now (due to flood/Katrina), and is currently housed on Gentuilly Blvd. Love love love this school! My daughter has attended since pre-K and now she;s in 7th grade! Can't wait until the new school is rebuilt in Fall 2011! The teachers are excellent, and parental involvement is great!
The faculty and staff are amazing. My daughter is in the gifted pre-K program and loves going to school everyday. She's learning french, music, and of course the basics and has just blossomed since she has been there.
This school has been through so much and despite still being displaced since the levees broke in New Orleans, they have maintained a positive attitude that is evident amongst both the students and the falculty.
I love Edward Hynes Charter school because 2 of the most important grand daughters are students there.. Hynes was destroyed in Katrina, but that didn't stop them they relocated to an older building that was another school, the teachers and staff so dedicated to getting the school going and back to normal for the many Hynes families! What an inspiration the entire staff and teachers are! I love the fact that my grandchildren will be bilingual! They are just now in the process of building their new building on the same lot as the school that was destroyed by katrina! These teachers could put a $20,0000 gift to such good use replacing many things they list and haven't been able to do because of lack if funds! The teachers care sooo much for their students and it shows as the students return that care and love back to them! Hynes is a wonderful school and so deserving of this gift!!!
Great teachers, great staff.
The falculty, students, and parents all work together to obtain student achievement in all areas. Everyone is dedicated to havin all students achieve thier best. The work after hours to offer any help needed and are very inveted in their community.
I have 2 nieces that go there and they are learning so much and so advanced in so many things I really hope that Hynes Charter Scool wins.
Excellent Pre-K program and French Immersion
Why do you love Edward Hynes Charter School? Hynes provides a wonderful education thanks to its fabulous teachers and administration.
Exceptionally high educational standards, great teachers and administrators, receptive staff, strong PTO, fabulous plans for the new campus
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BEMIDJI, Minn. The 30th Annual Remember When Dances on Friday, Oct. 31, and Saturday, Nov. 1, will take music lovers and dancers back to the Big Band Era in two music-filled evenings presented by Bemidji State University jazz groups.
The dances will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight each night at the Jammers Blue Note Ballroom, north of Bemidji on Bemidji Road NE, also known as Old Highway 71.
Entertaining throughout both evenings will be approximately 35 musicians and vocalists, mostly students from the BSU Department of Music.
Music will include actual charts that the big bands played, including standards by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Count Basie. In addition to the Big Band classics, the musicians will perform other dance favorites such as ballads, cha chas and mambos. Several vocalists will also perform music from the swing era.
Dr. Darrin Oehlerking, director of bands at Bemidji State, will direct BSU Jazz I while Craig Haugen, BSU adjunct professor of music, will direct BSU Jazz II for the dances.
Admission for each evening is $7 for the general public, $5 for senior citizens and free for BSU students with a valid ID. Tickets will be available at the door.
Proceeds from the event support the Joe Plumer Jazz Scholarship, tours and the purchase of new music for the groups.
For more information, please call the Department of Music at (218) 755-2915.
Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 8 p.m. to midnight The 30th Annual Remember When Dances presented by Bemidji State University. Location: Jammers Blue Note Ballroom, north of Bemidji on Bemidji Road NE (Old Highway 71), Admission: $7 adults, $5 senior citizens and BSU students with valid student ID.
About Bemidji State University Bemidji State University, located in northern Minnesotas lake district, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. Enrolling more than 5,000 students, the University offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate programs encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. The University is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and has a faculty and staff of more than 550. University signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global and multi-cultural understanding. For further information about the University, visit bemidjistate.edu. Become a fan of Bemidji State University on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.


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Dan Leventhal has always considered himself a safe motorcycle rider. He makes it a point to obey all posted traffic laws and doesn't take advantage of his bike's superior maneuverability by cutting off other motorists or splitting lanes to trace the white line. For Dan, who's in his late twenties and has been riding for a decade, his motorcycle isn't a recreational vehicle, but his main form of transportation. As such, he treats it much as cowboys circa the mid-1800s treated their horses: with admiration, with respect, with affection -- and with an awareness that the two of them are traveling through a dangerous world.
Dan knows that since he's not protected by steel framing, padded dashboards and air bags, he's especially vulnerable to injury or worse. And in his mind, the popularity of mammoth sport utility vehicles and equally large trucks only adds to this threat. After all, SUVs ride so high that many of their drivers have difficulty seeing motorcyclists, period, and the sheer size of these roadway leviathans can do an awful lot of damage to anything that gets in their way. That's why Dan tries never to ride when he's angry or emotional -- any loss of focus can be fatal -- and prefers to pilot a motorcycle with a boxer twin engine, which juts out on either side of the bike's frame. The design isn't as sleek as those of sportier motorcycles (dubbed "crotch rockets"), but in a collision, a car might hit the engine instead of the driver's legs -- and that could mean the difference between walking away and never walking again.
Dan also outfits himself in $1,500 worth of protective gear, but he resents having to do so. "It doesn't seem right that I have to dress like I'm going to war to ride my motorcycle," he says. Yet each day before he hits the streets, he dons the ensemble. A leather jacket that's reinforced with Kevlar body armor. A kidney belt. Jeans -- never shorts. Custom-made knee-high boots padded with foam that's specifically designed to absorb impact. Gloves also lined with Kevlar.
And, finally, a helmet. Dan's not opposed to Colorado's helmet law, which gives motorcyclists the right to ride without this headgear; he doesn't like the government telling people what they should and shouldn't wear. But he started putting one on regularly several years ago, after a young, healthy, helmetless friend of his was smacked by a van -- poor guy hasn't been the same since. His resolve was strengthened further after he himself became an accident victim and discovered firsthand just how at risk motorcyclists are.
He's learned a lot of other things since the crash, too. Most of them bad.
The lessons began on May 27 last year. The day was bright and clear -- beautiful conditions for riding -- and after waking, Dan opted to motor a few blocks from his Denver home, near Eighth Avenue and Clermont Street, to a barbershop. He put on his protective gear before departing, with the exception of his helmet. The place was so close that strapping on a helmet seemed unwarranted. Why bother, he thought.
At the time, Dan owned a 1996 BMW boxer twin, which he kept in top condition; whenever he switched it on, the engine purred with delight. That morning, a little before 10 a.m., he revved it up and headed out, but he arrived too early: The joint wasn't open yet. So Dan swung the bike around and headed to a nearby Einstein Bros. Bagels for breakfast. He was rumbling west on Eighth toward Colorado Boulevard when the signal at the intersection turned red. He waited there for it to change to green, and when it did, he nudged the motorcycle forward at the same moment that Thomas Comcowich, a 34-year-old resident of Leadville heading north on Colorado Boulevard in a 1995 Chevrolet pickup, accelerated in a belated effort to beat the light.
An instant later, the pickup slammed into the motorcycle, hurling Dan approximately thirty feet. (The motorcycle wound up wedged under the truck.) Dan landed in the right lane of northbound Colorado and was dazed as a result of a potpourri of wounds even his protective gear couldn't prevent: multiple fractures of his left tibia and fibula, a fractured hip, and a severe concussion that affected the part of his brain governing vision; he had trouble seeing without pain for weeks afterward. He also sustained serious bruising and a large cut over his left eye where his face hit the truck, and a large bruise on the right side of his head where it smacked the pavement.
There were plenty of witnesses to the accident, including several with medical training; when Dan tried to drag himself out of the street fearing that other cars might run over him, two pros held him stationary and kept the other vehicles at bay. A moment later, a buddy of Dan's, who was riding his bicycle in the neighborhood, happened upon the scene and immediately used his cell phone to call Dan's longtime companion, Lisa Polisher. I'm at the corner of Eighth and Colorado, he said, and it's not good. Lisa, now a clinical research coordinator at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, jumped in her car and arrived in time to see Dan being loaded into an ambulance for transport to Denver Health Medical Center -- the beginning of two and a half weeks of emergency care, surgery and treatment that also included a stay at Rose Medical Center.


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The pilot experience a total loss of power when beginning a descent. He reported that the fuel analyzer gauge showed that 1.5 hours of fuel was remaining, but the fuel quantity gauges were erratic. The pilot received radar vectors toward an airport, but he was unable to see it and elected to land on a road. Examination of the wreckage disclosed that there was about 1 gallon of fuel in the fuel system. The fuel tanks were not compromised. The upper surface of the left wing disclosed numerous orange/brownish streaks aft of the fuel cap. The right wing did not display any fuel streaking aft of the fuel cap. The left wing fuel tank was pressurized with water and water leaked from the cap. The right wing fuel cap was put on the left wing fuel tank. Water did not leak from the tank with the right wing fuel cap installed. The left wing fuel cap seal was brittle. Examination of the engine logbooks disclosed that the applicable airworthiness directive for the fuel cap was complied with about 33 hours before the accident.
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Wickham: Sunderland must improve at home
Striker Connor Wickham has warned Sunderland they have to start to make home advantage count if they are to haul themselves out of the relegation mire.
The Black Cats turned in a spirited display as they lost 2-1 at high-flying Liverpool on Wednesday evening to suggest once again that they do have it within their powers to escape the drop.
However, they have won just one of their last eight Barclays Premier League fixtures at the Stadium of Light and with their remaining four away games taking them to Tottenham, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United, that is a situation which is going to have to change, and fast.
Gus Poyet's men host West Ham on Monday looking for a first win in seven attempts in all competitions, and Wickham admits they have to turn around their home form.
He said: "We are going to have to, we haven't got a choice. We need to start picking up points.
"We need to start looking at the reality now that we need to start picking up points. Scrappy points or good points, we just need to get the points on the board.
"It's up to us to start performing against not just the big teams, but the teams in and around us and start picking up points."
Goals, or more accurately, the lack of them, have been Sunderland's most pressing concern for much of the campaign to date.
Substitute Ki Sung-yueng's header at Anfield was their first in four games and just their fourth in the eight outings they have had since the 3-0 derby victory at Newcastle on February 1.
That return, coupled with Steven Fletcher's ankle injury, prompted Poyet to recall 20-year-old Wickham from his loan spell at Leeds, and he was thrown straight into the starting line-up at Liverpool alongside the misfiring Jozy Altidore.
Loan signing Fabio Borini, who celebrated his 23rd birthday on Saturday, was ineligible to play against his parent club in midweek, but will return to the fold on Monday to leave the manager facing a big decision.
But England Under-21 international Wickham is ready to play his part if called upon.
The £8.1million signing said: "That's why I came back, that's why I wanted to come back. That's what I have said all along: I want to play football and that's what the aim is to do."
Poyet needs his frontmen to belatedly find their touch in front of goal with midfielder Adam Johnson's seven league goals to date matching the total contribution of Fletcher, Altidore, Borini and Ignacio Scocco with Wickham having spent much of the season out on loan.
Altidore in particular has found the going tough since his £6.5million summer switch from AZ Alkmaar, but Poyet insists the failings are collective.
He said: "Apart from Jonno, who has scored seven, the rest, nobody has scored, so it's a team problem and he is part of it because he is a striker and he is a striker we got in the summer.
"Sometimes we look for excuses for a few players, but we are not looking for any for Jozy.
"For me, it's one of the most difficult parts. There are different ways to be at the bottom.
"It's either because you cannot defend and you concede too many goals, or because you don't score enough, sometimes both.
"When you have both, you are down, you go down for sure. If you can cope with one of them, sometimes you have got a chance.
"We had that balance in January in a few games, now it looks like we have lost it a little bit. We are conceding a few and we are not scoring enough, so we need to make sure that the balance comes the other way around and we score more and we don't concede many."


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Fun.'s "We Are Young" featuring newcomer R&B singer Janelle has topped the Billboard Hot 100 this week, making them the first rock band in a decade to debut at No. 1 on the charts. The song knocked Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You" to No. 2. The last time a rock band hit No. 1 on their very first try was back in 2001 with Nickelback's "How You Remind Me".
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All good things come to an end and ForgottenTour #66 in Tottenville marked the end of a good-luck weather streak that had lasted the latter part of 2011 and all of 2012, as downpours of varying intensity marked the day's events. The crowd was kept down by the rain as well. We'll have to invest [...]
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Congratulations to Chairman Bob Doris, Mark Ely and others at Sonic (for whom I previously consulted back in the day); and congratulations (again!) to my good friend Kevin Hell (former CEO of DivX).
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Merry Xmas Sonic! Your $720 Million Gift (Thanks to Rovi)
Wow, I didn't see this coming! Rovi (formerly Macromedia) is buying Sonic Solutions for $720 million. This follows Sonic's buy of DivX earlier this year. It truly is the season of giving!
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Cricket Web's 2013/14 Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"I don't believe a word of Pietersen's book, but then I don't believe a word anyone else has said either."
- Simon Barnes renders further comment on KP's autobiography superfluous in a sentence
Can he bat as well? If yes then he surely will be very handy for the Proteas!
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Season 1 M Hayden, G Gooch, R Dravid, W Hammond, K Pietersen, G Sobers, R Marsh (wk), R Benaud (c), D Steyn, W Hall, N Adcock
Season 2 J Hobbs, B Richards, D Boon, H Taylor, C Lloyd (c), A Stewart (wk), T Goddard, A Davidson, H Tayfield, C Ambrose, H Griffith
Season 3 H Sutcliffe, M Hayden, I Chappell (c), G Pollock, A Faulkner, M Hussey, D Lindsay (wk), I Botham, A Kumble, M Marshall, D Lillee
This would be a team that could play a bit I reckon:
De Villiers
M Morkel
If you're counting Tahir as 'white' though, the team's only got two non-whites in it, which could be a problem.
If ABdeV is going to bat down the order you might as well give him the gloves, drop Boucher and play another Cape Coloured batsman. Can't think of anyone right now mind.
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Alviro Petersen is also in good form so far this season, he just made a hundred in each innings for the Lions against the Warriors, and had a good A series against Sri Lanka A.
That's not a bad suggestion, but dropping Bouch would be a hard thing to do, he hasn't done much wrong since he was recalled in 2005.
Haha, good grief, how on Earth did I forget Duminy is a Cape Coloured? Been a fan of his for years.
I like Bouch, really do and I doubt any other South African would have supported captain Smith like he did at Birmingham but I definitely think in regard to the one day team he should be given the axe. He worked when South Africa had the likes of Kempie, Hall and Polly in the ODI set-up for the team batted extremely low but given that South Africa dont have such depth anymore, the more recognised and proficient batsman in the top order the better.
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Do you think AB could be a Gilchristesque keeper, coming in at 7, but being good enough to bat anywhere in the Top 6, or will keeping full-time affect his batting?
That could be a power team, having Duminy or Petersen at 6, with AB coming in at 7.
The days of SA playing 2 keepers in the XI must be drawing to the close.
People are right here, with quotas, the obvious choice is to get rid of Boucher.
If that doesnt happen then 1 of the seamers or McKenzie would be the most likely to make way.
Though, despite having 3 during the England tour, the target is 4 quota players, so with Tahir as white, that would start making things interesting.
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It's more to do with how many are in the squad, 7 out of 15 i think is the target, maybe 8. Something like that.
According to Shaun Pollock, the plan is that Kallis and Boucher will leave the team together, with AB taking up the gloves (without changing his batting position, i presume) so SA can retain a 5-man attack. The team would then become something like:
(Kallis's replacement, probably Duminy)
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Daniel Elena has risen extremely quickly through the rally ranks, in recent years. He started out in 1997 as co-driver for Herve Bernard, but took up with Loeb from the following season and quickly developed a strong relationship with the unshakable Frenchman which netted the Citroen Saxo Trophy in 1999, the French gravel title in 2000 and the FIA Super 1600 championship in a Citroen Saxo in 2001.
Naturally, he was picked to partner Loeb in the WRC, and the pair has since become one of the top WRC crews in recent years.
In 2006, Elena became the most successful co-driver in the history of the WRC in the passenger's seat of Loeb's Citroen Xsara. In 2007 he partnered Loeb back at the factory-backed Citroen team, this time in a Citroen C4 WRC, and secured his fourth consecutive co-drivers? title. The dream team will be together again in 2008 aiming for a record breaking fifth consecutive title.
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