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Is it normal to want to suck a girl's toes?
Is this weird? do any girls like it when a guy does?
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its a common fetish to love girls feet, but I'm not sure about the sucking part...id want my guy to sort of just kiss the top of my feet and then slowly work up the legs...but the sucking part is a bit abnormal...i guess because it reminds me of sucking his willy and its not supposed to be the other way around ya know?
Yea that's a good point I guess. What about giving a footjob though?
I wouldn't mind footjobs...but I rather we just do something normal and makeout or something
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i wouldn't say it was 'normal' it's certainly a fetish thing. (not saying it's wrong either- just that it's not classed as normal- being something commonly done)
i've never had a guy suck my toes... none have ever asked to, and I'm not sure I could handle a guy doing such because it might end up tickling and he'd get kicked in the face.
Still- as being a fetish, means there are others out there who share it! So you're not alone :)
Definitely fetish category.
I have an aversion to feet, so I would not be able to stand it. I wouldn't ever ever ever want to kiss you again. But, that's just me, and even my friends think it's weird how much I detest feet. But maybe there's some girl out there just waiting for the right guy to suck her toes?
I wouldn't like it personally but I wouldn't be totally creeped out either because my brother has a foot fetish too and when he was younger he use to suck on my moms toes...uh weirdo! lol he loves his gf's toes, he even talks about how they're long and flexible in a baby voice...its so ridiculous haha
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George Clooney: The Private Life of a Superstar
Never mind those two Oscar noms: Behind George Clooney's confident charm is a very real man who wrestles with doubt, wakes five times a night and is "terrified" of not achieving what he wants.
ER executive producer John Wells recalls how Clooney avidly pursued the gig, recognizing the quality of the script trumped the fact that Ross was a supporting role: "George was -- as he is now -- an extraordinarily talented networker, and he'd befriend the secretaries and get all the material before anybody else did. I hadn't even hired a director and he insisted on coming in." After Wells finally let him read, the producer called then-WB executive Les Moonves and said, "I've found our guy."
How Clooney handled himself once the series aired is indicative of the fundamental decency that remains his hallmark. He stuck to his five-year contract without trying to renegotiate or wriggle out of his deal; he even refused to take a $1 million bonus that was offered to the leads during season two because he didn't want to imply he'd stay.
"We were the number-one show, and it was very clear that George was breaking out, and Quentin Tarantino -- who directed an episode in season one -- wanted him for From Dusk Till Dawn," says Wells. "He was great and very professional, and when everyone else was getting huge raises, George always said no. He said, 'I'm going to honor my commitment to you.' "
ER helped launch Clooney as a movie star in pictures such as 1996's One Fine Day and 1997's The Peacemaker. For three years, until he left ER in 1999, he worked seven days a week to the point of exhaustion, juggling television and pictures.
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But with 1997's Batman and Robin, Clooney, cast in the lead role opposite Chris O'Donnell, was forced to reassess. The movie was simply terrible, and so was Clooney -- and he knew it. This was one of his many "revelations," to use Heslov's word. Now he wanted not just to work, but to do work that mattered.
When he teamed with director Steven Soderbergh on 1998's acclaimed Out of Sight, it was transformative, and he followed that film with a host of memorable pictures, from 1999's Three Kings to 2005's Syriana.
It was while making the latter that he fell during a scene in which he was taped to a chair while his character was tortured. His head split open, days before he was scheduled to wrap.
"I knew immediately [how serious it was]," he says. "I thought I'd had a stroke. It was like a train horn going off in your head and you can't see and you can't stand." Instantly, he chartered a plane from Morocco back to Los Angeles and checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
For three weeks, nobody was able to diagnose him, even though spinal fluid was leaking out of his nose. It was only when actress Lisa Kudrow led him to her neurologist brother that he discovered fluid also was leaking from his spine and he had torn his dura, the outermost layer enveloping the spinal cord.
"Then we started doing these things called myelograms, where they shoot contrast into your system and you can see what's leaking out," Clooney adds. "I had a two-and-a-half-inch tear in the middle of my back and a half-inch tear in my neck. The doctors did these blood patches, where they tie you down to a bed, and you're awake because they have a long needle and need to know if they're touching your spinal cord. And they take blood out and shoot it directly into your spinal column to try to get the blood to coagulate in those spots. I did about 15 of those over 15 days. It's like getting a spinal tap every day, and you're awake. But what we didn't understand was how big the holes were."
The pain was so great, he has said he contemplated suicide. "I thought I was going to die. Talk to any doctor about a CSF -- a cerebral/spinal fluid leak -- and they'll tell you it's way up there on the pain scale. There was this whole coming to terms with [mortality]."
On Christmas Day 2005, Clooney endured a successful nine-hour surgery. "Then you start on a series of painkillers. They'll hand you a giant tub of Vicodin, which is not a good drug for me; I had a lot of stomach pain and I really didn't like the high it gave me. Then there were a lot of other drugs. I was on morphine for a while, which created this horrible anxiety where I really thought I was in trouble."
The pain never has vanished but at least has diminished over time.
"It's been a long recovery," the actor says. "I had to accept that I'm going to beat this on a very different level, almost psychological. I went to a pain-management guy whose idea was, 'You can't mourn for how you used to feel, because you're never going to feel that way again.' Meaning, you wake up with the worst hangover ever, and that's your day, and you have to come to terms with it."
This is his life now. He recognizes he's getting older, must deal with pain that afflicts him on average three times per week and speaks of it with a characteristic lack of complaint.
"I've gone from where I can't function, where 'I just can't live like this,' to 'I've got a bad headache.' It's called 'positional,' meaning the longer you sit upright or stand upright, the worse it gets. That's how it is. As the day goes on, it gets worse. My ears will literally pop and my head goes ape-shit. But I'm scrappy."
He brushes it off. "My friend [actress] Karen Duffy, who is in unimaginable pain [from sarcoidosis, a disease in which inflammatory cells coalesce around various organs], has taught me so much: That any complaints I have are the most ridiculous thing in the world, because her pain is so much greater."
It was during this time that awareness of others' pain led to his concern for Darfur.
He first learned about the Sudanese government's killings of ethnic groups from a 2005 column by New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof, then contacted Kristof and decided to go to Sudan himself. He plans to return in March, though he doesn't want to go into detail because his entry into the country will put him at risk.
That aside, "It's really hard on your system," he says. "I got malaria two years ago, and it really knocked me out. I've had a couple of recurrences. I didn't understand that it keeps coming back." His last attack was during the Christmas holiday, but he still wants to return, with just a cameraman and two others, because he believes he can draw attention to the hundreds of thousands who have been killed and whose story is often ignored.
"Everything about it is difficult, and you never feel safe, and we are not traveling with guns and security guys," he continues. "I ran into the Machine Gun Preacher [Sam Childers, a former gang member who crusades for Sudanese orphans], and he's like, 'Who do you travel with?' And I say, 'I just go with three people.' "
Once, while in Sudan with his father, Clooney was held up at gunpoint. It was "in the middle of nowhere and we were pulled over by a bunch of 13-year-old kids with Kalashnikovs, and that's where it's dangerous because it's random violence." Luckily, a colleague just walked over to an assailant and pushed his gun away as if speaking to a child and said, "No."
"I couldn't believe it was that simple," Clooney marvels, "because I was embarrassed at how scared I was."
When he needs refuge from all this, he heads to Lake Como, where he owns a huge waterfront home discovered almost by accident in 2001, when his motorbike broke down right outside it. After the owners invited him in for pizza and asked if he wanted to buy it -- and Clooney learned it was $7.5 million, half the price he had expected -- he pounced.
"I truly bought it as an investment," he says. "I didn't think I'd ever spend time there. I thought, 'Screw it, I'll buy it, hold it for a year, roll it over' -- and then I stayed there and went, 'Oh my God!' It is the thing singularly that I've done for myself that's brought me the most joy. It changed everything in my life."
Clooney has invited Hollywood friends such as fellow Oscar nominee Viola Davis to honeymoon there and has welcomed guests from Walter Cronkite to former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan. Payne and his editor even cut Descendants in Como. Clooney loves the back-and-forth of conversation and speaks glowingly of late dinners in the fading light.
But his world increasingly is centered on his social causes (he was honored by former Nobel laureates in 2007 with the prestigious Peace Summit Award), his work and his friends. He will appear next in the Proposition 8 play 8, running for one night -- and was thrilled the afternoon of our Feb. 7 discussion that a California court of appeals had overturned the anti-gay marriage resolution. "But they've still got a long way to go and a lot of court battles ahead," he says.
After the play, he'll star in Monument Men, a Nazi-era drama he currently is writing with Heslov, in which he wants his father to play his older self. But he admits at this stage that directing, more than acting, is his greatest passion. "I like acting now, because I am able to be much more selective," he says, "but there's nothing more creative than directing."
His drive as actor, writer and director consumes him, along with his need to create a body of work that genuinely stands the test of time. "When you make those kinds of films, often it's just by the skin of your teeth," he says. "The major thing that scares me isn't failure; I've experienced that a lot. What scares me is not making the attempt."
This man who already has an Oscar, and a body of work that almost anyone in Hollywood would envy, becomes even more pointed. "I'm terrified of dying and having not accomplished the things that I want to do," he says. "I am terrified of not finishing, or at least not participating enough. Everybody has a fear of death, but my fear isn't dying; it's of not getting the job done."
CLOONEY ON CLOONEY: The actor looks back on some of his signature projects.
Out of Sight (1998) -- "Steven Soderbergh and I were both coming off of really low points in our careers. Steven had to audition for [producers] Danny DeVito and Stacey Sher, and I sort of had to audition as well. Initially, Sydney Pollack, who became a very dear friend of mine, was to direct, and when they decided that I was going to do it, he said, 'George isn't a movie star!' "
Three Kings (1999) -- "I saw David [O. Russell, the director with whom Clooney had a famous falling-out] a few weeks ago at a party. There was a bunch of filmmakers there. And I felt compelled to go over and go, 'So are we done?' And he goes, 'Please.' And I said, 'OK.' Because we made a really, really great film, and we had a really rough time together, but it's a case of both of us getting older. I really do appreciate the work he continues to do, and I think he appreciates what I'm trying to do."
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -- "It was hysterical to be shooting the burning-of-the-cross scene, with all these guys in Ku Klux Klan outfits. Half of them were black! We were underneath the Van Nuys airport at 2 in the
morning as the planes were flying in and all they'd see is this cross and this giant parade of [African Americans] dressed like the Ku Klux Klan."
Ocean's Eleven (2001) -- "Putting it together was exactly like the opening of the movie. Steven Soderbergh and I would go to people's homes and sit down and say, 'Here's what we think.' We sat down with Matt Damon and
Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, and they all signed on and it all worked out easily. But we also sat with Johnny Depp, and we didn't get him. I think the part was for a Brit, and he didn't want to do it."
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) -- "Fox News and other places were calling me a traitor [for his opposition to the war in Iraq], and my dad said, 'This isn't courage -- what other people did is.' And he talked about the people who really took chances -- when Muhammad Ali said, 'I won't fight in Vietnam.' And that's what made me write Good Night, and Good Luck. I made $120,000 and there was no backend. But honest to God, there was nothing more fun."
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Yeah I learned how to post a picture. Thanks Bevios and HPF. So Scotty and Gumby when are you guys going to carry the OTM mouth piece?
which custom mouth guard company made that for you. it would be cool if you could go to the shop and take the impression and then they could do the rest. send it for you etc etc. they could work out a quantitiy discount with the actual manufactorer. the only problem is these mouth piece guys are so damn flakey.
hpf? flakey? in what way. have not ordered a custom mouthpiece before. are there individuals to avoid?
They can be a flakey group. I ordered mine through my dentist so I got mine in two weeks. I like they way it fits but they are more expensive to order this way.
thanks to kibuninc for the info ah flakey and mention of a time table. so they are somewhat unreliable? then dentist sounds like the way to go.
yes the dentist is more than double. usually 300. the custom guys can be 65 to 85 to 115. and they are better in design. like more impact absorbtion in the moler area to combat concussion. or a hard outer shell on the rubber. but if you are not serious and just grappling the dentist one is fine. flakey as in you pay them then you cannot get ahold of them. you pay them and it takes over a month to get your product. general flakeyness.
thanks to hpf for the clarification. so, if ordering from flakey guys, just make sure nothing important is coming up in the next 2 months?
hahahahahaha!!! agreed. that situation would be aggrevating.
THe one I got from my dentist has a sub frame on it. I told him it was for fighting so it was speacially made for that. The ones from dentist are usually around $300 and the flakey guys are about $150 (here in Cali). My dentist did this one for me for $103 since I just spent $2500 at his office.
hey kibuninc? a sub frame? what is this? have never heard of it. sounds like either "designed for submission fighting" or some type of framework built in? wow. like a rollcage for your teeth!!! hahahaha!!!
The mouth piece is built in two layers. This helps the mouthpiece last and also absorb an impact.
sounds good. will have to find a dentist or a flake. should be interesting.
definitly two layer is way to go. one way dentist and customs guys guards are differentiated, but Kibun got hooked up.
agreed. kibuninc has a good dentist. so, layered with subframe is the way to go.
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Woodbine Golf CourseRead MoreDesigned in a country-club style by PGA professional Gordon Cunningham, Woodbine Golf Course welcomes linkspeople with 6,020 yards of challenging tracts populated with bentgrass tees, fairways, and greens. The layout's five ponds, natural-grass preservation areas, and clusters of grabby-branched trees have beckoned both low- and high-handicap golfers for nearly a quarter of a century. A contorted fairway and aquatic hazard make the 14th hole the course's hardest, and the 4th hole ranks second hardest with a tricky dogleg left whose elbow hosts a sand bunker that lures distractible golfers with a siren song of sandcastles. After games, golfers can retreat to Woodbine's clubhouse. At the Timber Restaurant and Bar, flat-screen TVs flicker above a long wooden bar, diners feast on pasta and pot roast, and a stone fireplace provides the ideal backdrop for tales about 9-irons that transformed into 10-irons with hard work and a little gumption. Course at a Glance: 18-hole, par 70 course Length of 6,020 yards Two tee options See the scorecard14240 West 151st StreetHomer Glen, IL US
Michael Camastro Golf AcademyRead MoreSince becoming a pro instructor in 1988, PGA teaching professional Michael Camastro has fine-tuned the swings of aspiring aces in more than 25,000 lessons. When Michael encounters a new swing, he looks for subtle adjustments he can make to improve it without disrupting the natural style of the students' form. To help reveal problematic swing habits or the translucent souls of any loitering poltergeists, Michael uses slow-motion video swing analysis in all private lessons, one of many technological teaching aids he calls upon to enhance his diagnostic powers. With a staff that consists of two head instructors and three assistant aces, Michael Camastro Golf Academy spreads score-shaving tactics and techniques in private, group, and imaginary golf lessons.16325 Broken Arrow DriveLockport, IL US
Indoor Golf Links of AmericaRead MoreA stable of 14 golf simulators lines the walls of Indoor Golf Links of America's sleek facility, enveloping an open space that feels more like a lively sports bar than a posh country club. Each simulator occupies its own private stall with an adjacent sitting area and a table, where duffers can tend to succulent burgers, piping-hot pizzas, and drinks from the full-service bar a safe distance from whizzing golf balls and 6-irons that have a reputation for covertly unscrewing saltshakers. The simulators' immense screens whisk duffers to digital reconstructions of legendary courses, allowing them to brave the coastal crags of Pebble Beach or the charging koala bears of Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Golfers struggling with their pendulous form can improve wrist movements at the foosball table, pinpoint precision during a round of shuffleboard, or live vicariously through the professional athletes broadcast on one of the studio's 16 big-screen TVs.16356 104th AveOrland Park, IL US
Odyssey Country ClubRead MoreOdyssey Sweet Spot lets players unwind with cold beverages, sizzling pub fare, and a lineup of crisp high-definition TVs that funnel sporting events throughout the tavern. As bartenders sling drink specials, full table-size shuffleboard and Golden Tee 2014 arcade games allow players to enjoy the game of golf while still giving misbehaving 9-irons the silent treatment. The attached 24-station driving range gives golfers plenty of space to practice their shots, with 12 heated stalls available for cooler weather.19110 S. Oak Park Ave.Tinley Park, IL US


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March Madness Betting
March Madness is a hectic three weeks of betting action that takes college basketball fans from the First Four to the Final Four with 60 more games in between. And those that want to wager successfully on the NCAA Tournament will need to do their homework, study the odds and betting trends, and take an organized approach to the Big Dance. Here at OddsShark we have everything you need for March Madness betting throughout the event.
For a printable OddsShark-branded bracket for this season's NCAA Tournament, click here.
- College basketball bettors and fans alike can easily make a case for March Madness as the most exciting sporting event of the year.
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It's known by many names - March Madness, the NCAA Tournament, the Big Dance - and for sports bettors it's one of the most intense wagering opportunities of the year.
The NCAA Tournament offers up 67 games for bettors to handicap, starting with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio, and continuing through the regional action, the Sweet 16, the Elite Eight, and finally the Final Four - which will be held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
And OddsShark will have you covered for that entire slate of games, starting with betting previews for the First Four in Dayton that will break down the matchups that determine the final schools admitted into the main March Madness bracket.
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As well, get a roundup of the betting trends for the Midwest Region, West Region, South Region, and East Region before you begin placing wagers on the early March Madness action, and then check out the bracket breakdown, detailed matchup reports, and updated futures odds for each of the Midwest, West, South, and East regions.
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The 2015 NCAA Tournament gets underway on March 17 and March 18 with the First Four in Dayton, followed by second-round March Madness action on March 19 and March 20, and third-round action on March 21 and March 22. Sweet 16 matchups will take place on March 26 and March 27, with the Elite Eight held on March 28 and March 29.
The Final Four then gets underway in Indianapolis on April 4 with the national semifinal games, and the championship game will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6. Connecticut beat Kentucky in last year's title game - can the Wildcats, the favorites on the latest NCAA Tournament futures, rebound with a win this season?


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Does Michelle Obama secretly hope her husband will be kicked out of the White House?
By FnF Desk
PUBLISHED: Jan 14, 2012, 13:13 pm IST | UPDATED: Mar 12, 2013, 13:40 pm
Keywords: Barack Obama First black president of America Michelle Obama Book: The Obamas: A Mission A Marriage by Jodi Kantor
A few days after Barack Obama swept to victory as the first black president of America, in November 2008, his wife Michelle took their elder daughter Sasha to a tennis lesson close to their home on Chicago's South Side. A friend she bumped into asked if plans had been finalised for the move to Washington.
'I still don't know what we're doing,' said a worried-looking Michelle.
Michelle had to teach him basic things, such as phoning home every day from a trip. Her coolly intellectual husband didn't see much point in calling if he didn't have anything to say.
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Details of New VERONICA MARS Book 'Mr. Kiss & Tell' Revealed
Details of the second installment of the VERONICA MARS book series have just been released on Amazon.com and the Barnes & Noble website. Titled 'Mr. Kiss & Tell', and co-written by series creator Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham, the book is described as follows:
In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptune's most murderous locations.
The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside town's ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the owners know that they have a potential powder keg on their hands. They turn to Veronica to disprove-or prove-the woman's story.
The case is a complicated mix of hard facts, mysterious occurrences, and uncooperative witnesses. The hotel refuses to turn over its reservation list and the victim won't divulge who she was meeting that night. Add in the facts that the attack happened months ago, the victim's memory is fuzzy, and there are holes in the hotel's surveillance system, and Veronica has a convoluted mess on her hands. As she works to fill in the missing pieces, it becomes clear that someone is lying-but who? And why?
Mr. Kiss & Tell will be released on October 28, 2014. The book is available for preorder now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The first Veronica Mars book, The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, was released March 25 and picked up where the Veronica Mars movie left off.
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Since I had some time to myself, I went ahead and packed my hospital bag!Ā It got me so excited!Ā I packed all the stuff for me then I packed Josalin's coming home dress, booties, a little onsie that says "Little Sister", a receiving blanket, and the pretty white blanket that both my oldest daughter and son came home in.Ā (That's my tradition.)Ā Plus I snagged some of DH's change from his change jar so that way he will have some coins to purchase drinks and snacks if he needs to do so.
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An object or document, such as a credit card, passport, or bank note, is secured against forgery or fraud by the provision of a unique pattern of overlying individual fibers which are embedded in a sheet of transparent base material, and such that the fibers form geometrical configurations which are optically scannable through a surface of the transparent base material. The object or document is thus made unique and impossible to forge, and its authenticity may be verified by initially scanning the geometrical configurations with the scanned information being converted into digital data which may be compressed and encrypted, and then stored in a permanent memory. Following the distribution of the object or document, an inspector may scan the object or document and compare the obtained data with the stored date to thereby verify the authenticity of the object or document.
1. A product having provision for verifying the legitimacy of the product against forgery and comprising
a body member including a surface, a plurality of overlying individual fibers which are randomly disposed so as to define a number of differing geometrical configurations, and a transparent base material completely encasing and fixedly supporting said fibers so that said fibers are visible on said surface and such that said surface is optically scannable through the transparent base material so as to permit the geometrical configurations of the fibers to be scanned.
2. The product as defined in claim 1 wherein at least most of said fibers comprise a polyester core and a polyamide covering.
3. The product as defined in claim 1 wherein said fibers are non-magnetic.
4. The product as defined in claim 1 wherein said body member is relatively thin and has opposite parallel surfaces, and said transparent base material extends through the thickness of said body member and such that said fibers are visible from both of said surfaces.
5. A product having provision for verifying the legitimacy of the product against forgery and comprising
a body member including a surface, at least one identifying mark visible on said surface, a plurality of overlying individual fibers which are randomly disposed so as to define a number of differing geometrical configurations, and a transparent base material completely encasing and fixedly supporting said fibers so that said fibers are visible on said surface and such that said surface is optically scannable through the transparent base material so as to permit said at least one identifying mark and the geometrical configurations of the fibers to be scanned.
6. The product as defined in claim 1, wherein said fibers are in the form of a sheet of non-woven material which is supported by said transparent base material so that the sheet of non-woven material is generally parallel to said surface.
The invention relates to an object or document secured against fraud. The invention also relates to a system for securing said object or document against fraud.
An object or document of the above-mentioned type can be, for example, a passport, a banker's card, a credit card, a security such as a banknote, a cheque or a share certificate, a product label, a travel card such as an airline ticket, or an admission ticket, but it can also be a painting, a compact disc, a music-, photo-, film- or video cassette, or a car.
If, by way of example, a passport is considered, it is provided with identifying marks with the object of safeguarding use of the document by making it unique and confined to one person. These identifying marks can comprise a specific layout of the document, a person's name, a passport photograph, an alphanumeric code, signatures, stamps and the like.
Another example of a document is a banknote, in the case of which efforts are made to counteract forgery by providing a watermark and other identifying marks which are difficult to copy, and also a unique serial number.
Some of the provided identifying marks are generally applied by means of very advanced equipment and techniques--in particular in the case of banknotes--in order to minimise the chance of illegal duplication of the documents. The price which has to be paid for these security measures is consequently high.
However, none of the above-mentioned measures provides adequate protection against the forgery of individual objects or documents, since in the first place the identifying marks can be copied with little or great effort. Further, when a passport is being checked the passport number or the person's name specified are used to check in a data file whether the passport number and the person's name exist and go together. This check does not, however, rule out the possibility that the person using the passport could be a different person from the one to whom the passport belongs, a fraud which can remain unnoticed through, for example, an indiscernible change of the passport photograph in the passport. It is also possible for the document itself to have been forged in such a way that this is not noticed by the authority checking it.
Secondly, a check on a specific combination of identifying marks is often impossible in practice. As already described above, it cannot be ruled out in the case of, for example, a passport that the document itself has been forged or that one of the identifying marks placed on it, such as a passport photograph, does not form a unit with the other identifying marks with which it is provided. The reason for this is that the data file forming the reference for the check contains purely alphanumeric information such as names and numbers and does not have any graphic information relating to, for example, the picture on a passport photograph or a signature.
Besides, it is generally not possible to check whether a specific object or document is genuine by means of a data file, but only by a human or mechanical assessment of a number of identifying marks of the object or document which are the same for all objects or documents, such as a line pattern, a colour, a watermark or the like.
From U.S. Pat. No. 4,218,674 a system comprising an object, in particular a document, secured against fraud is known, which object is provided with random imperfections consisting of fibers of a magnetic or magnetizable material which can be detected when measuring along a predetermined measuring track on the object. The measured imperfections are converted into a row of electric pulses and synchronised with a timing pulse also derived from marks on the object. Such a security system obviously does not function properly when the object has been subjected to external magnetic fields and therefore is of limited practical value. Besides, only a track is scanned, which provides only a limited quantity of security data for securing the object.
In the known method, the obtained security data are not combined with any data related to possible identifying marks on the object, and although the authenticity of the object can be shown by proving by way of comparison with previously recorded security data the authenticity of the security data obtained from the object, this provides no proof whatsoever of the identity of the user of the object without further precautions being taken.
Another disadvantage of the known system resides in the fact that no measures are taken to reduce the obtained quantity of security data to a more compressed form. Consequently, a relatively large storage capacity of a computer is used and a relatively long processing time will be necessary to compare a read security code with a large number of previously stored codes.
Last but not least, for an expert forger in the field of electronics and computers it does not present many problems to prepare a forged document which will produce a valid security codes and visually cannot be distinguished from an authentic one. This could be accomplished, by example, by breaking into the computer where a list of security codes is stored, by tapping the electrical connection between a measuring station and said computer, or by analysis of the magnetic properties of an authentic document.
EP-B-0 054 071 discloses an authenticator card secured against fraud, provided with identifying marks and containing a paper layer, embedded in a transparent material of which paper layer the mean translucency is different from one area to another. The translucency of predetermined areas is measured by illuminating the card from one side and scanning the card from the other side and after recording serves for ensuring the security of the card.
The object of the invention is in the first place to provide an object or document which is provided with a unique mark which cannot be copied. The object or document, which is provided with at least one identifying mark and at least one confined pattern of fibres which is incorporated in a surface of the object or document, the fibres being fixed in an arbitrary manner relative to each other and the surface, is to that end characterised by a pattern made up of a piece on nonwoven material embedded in a transparent material filling the space round said fibres, the geometrical properties of the individual fibres of the pattern being optically scannable from the side of said surface and being used for the security of said object or document against fraud.
If the pattern, in which many parts of fibres constituting the nonwoven material lie arbitrarily directed, is incorporated in a surface of an object or document, the latter is provided with a unique mark which cannot be copied. The object or document is thus itself made unique and impossible to forge; the pattern forms, as it were, the fingerprint of the object or document. For a definition of nonwovens reference is made here to international standard ISO 9092.
Great advantages of the use of nonwovens are their low thickness, the very low mass per unit volume, and the low cost.
The transparent material in which the nonwoven material is embedded can, in thin objects or parts thereof, take the form of a window where the pattern is visible both from the front and the back side.
The unique pattern must be constant in all circumstances of use, such as varying ambient temperature, humidity, mechanical stress, chemical, electric and magnetic influences and the like. It has been found that a particularly stable pattern is obtained if the core of the fibres is of polyester, and is surrounded by a polyamide covering.
The invention also provides a system for securing the object or document according to the invention, the system comprising, as is known from EP-B-0 054 071: scanning means for optically scanning the entire pattern at an angle relative to the surface in which it is incorporated; scanning means for optically scanning one or more additional identifying marks of the object or document; converting means for converting the optical information obtained by the scanning means into digital data, vice versa; data compressing means for converting the original quantity of digital data into an reduced quantity of equivalent digital data, vice versa; data encryption means for converting the reduced quantity of digital data into coded digital data, vice versa; storage means for recording the reduced quantity of digital data in a read-only memory; and comparing means for comparing the data obtained with the scanning means, the converting means, the data compressing means and the data encryption means concerning an object or a document with data previously recorded in the storage means. According to the invention the converting means are arranged to determine one or more characteristics of a polygon defined by fibre parts of the nonwoven material on the basis of the optical information, and to convert these characteristics into digital data, vice versa.
Optically scanning the pattern enables a noncontact scan wherein only the positions of the fibres play a role and imposing wear on the pattern is avoided. When the entire pattern is scanned and not just a track across the pattern, depending on the resolution with which it takes place, much information is obtained which, as a whole, is quite unique.
The scanning means--e.g. a high resolution camera--scan the pattern at an angle which for practical reasons will be close to or equivalent to 90�, but may also be chosen much less, depending mainly on the angle of refraction of the transparent material.
Apart from the pattern at least one additional identifying mark is scanned. In most cases this mark will be the appearance of the object as a whole, while in the case of an object being an identity card said mark may be a photograph of the owner.
The converting means then convert the output, e.g. pixel data, of the scanning means into a suitable form for processing the data in data compressing means, where the original quantity of digital data is converted into a reduced quantity of equivalent digital data by processing the data with predetermined algorithms. The resulting reduced quantity of digital data is then encrypted and stored in a permanent memory, where a minimal quantity of memory is required for recording the data.
The comparing means of the system enable a user to utilize the system for security checks. Such a check can be done quickly, since only reduced quantities of data need to be compared. The system may comprise central or distributed storage means to be able to use the system at arbitrary places. In both cases a copy of the stored data must be transported over large distances which involves a risk of the information falling into the wrong hands. The data encryption means render the information useless for unauthorized people.
To enable a visual check performed by a security person, the system can reassemble the original optical information from the data stored in the memory of the storage means by reverse operation of the converting means, the data compressing means and the data encryption means.
The pattern of nonwoven material comprises several layers and consequently has a three-dimensional structure. It is advantageous to scan this pattern from at least two different angles, because this produces different information which is correlated by the arrangement of the fibres, and which is more unique than the information derived from a single scanning of the pattern.
In a preferred method for putting into public circulation and checking the object or document according to the invention with the system according to the invention, prior to the issue of the object or document, the related reduced quantity of possibly coded data is recorded in the memory of the storage means, which memory is retained at a data keeper and when the object or document is being checked it is optically information thus obtained is processed by means of the converting means, the data compressing means and the data encryption means, and the resulting data is compared with the data recorded in the memory of the storage means or a copy thereof. The data keeper, an independent person or institute, plays an important role in ensuring the integrity of the data obtained prior to the issue of the object or document, and can provide material evidence that an object being checked is forged or not.
The invention is explained with reference to the drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a first pattern of fibres on a greatly enlarged scale according to the invention; and
FIG. 2 illustrates a method according to the invention for issuing and checking a passport.
FIG. 1 shows a part of a large, arbitrary pattern of intersecting fibres 2, which pattern continues in an arbitrary manner towards all sides outside the figure. The fibres 2 are fixed relative to each other. A confined smaller pattern is obtained, for example, by cutting through the fibres 2 along the dashed and dotted line 4. The confined pattern thus formed can be fixed in a surface of object or document.
It should be pointed out here that it is irrelevant for the invention whether or not the fibres are the same thickness as each other, whether or not the fibres are the same thickness over the entire length, whether the fibres are straight or bent, and whether or not they intersect one another.
In FIG. 1 the fibres 2 define many different polygons, two of which are indicated with dashed lines. Thus, a triangle 3 and quadrangle 5 can be recognized, which are characteristic for the specific pattern of nonwoven material. Attibutes of such polygons, e.g. angles α, β and γ of triangle 3, may be evaluated and used for characterization of the pattern.
FIG. 2 shows a passport 10 in which a page 12 is provided with a number of identifying marks. A passport photograph 14, an alphanumeric code 16, a signature 18 and a pattern 20 are provided on the page 12. For the sake of clarity, the pattern 20 is shown relatively large, but in a practical application the largest dimension need not be greater than a few mm.
When the passport 10 is being issued not only the passport photograph 14, but also the signature 18 and the pattern 20 of fibres on the page 12 are optically scanned by a camera 22, and after data conversion, data compression and data encryption, which operations are performed by means symbolised by block 24, the resulting coded data are stored in a permanent memory, symbolised in FIG. 2 by disk 26. Such a permanent, read-only memory may comprise an optical WORM (Write Once Read Many) device.
Disk 26 or a copy thereof can be used at the place where the check is taking place for checking passports presented at that place. The information obtained there by a check scan with camera 22, after data conversion, data compression and data encryption, jointly symbolised by block 28, is compared in comparison element 30 with the coded data stored on the disk 26, as a result of which fraud which may have occurred with the passport can be established.
It is also possible for the purpose of checking by means of data communication to consult a central memory which is accessible from several points.
If it is found during the check that one or more identifying marks of the combination of scanned identifying marks differ from those of a combination of the recorded identifying marks, it is concluded that a forged passport is being presented. If, on the other hand, the combination of checked identifying marks corresponds fully to the combination of recorded identifying marks, it is then concluded that the passport is not forged.
The coded data of at least as many identifying marks of an object or document as is necessary to established fraud is stored in the memory.
By way of example, another application of the system according to the invention is the issue of a registration certificate for a car, which is provided with a chassis number as usual, and a pattern of nonwoven material. The registration certificate is also provided with a pattern of woven material. At issuing the registration certificate together with the car both patterns and additional identifying marks are scanned and the coded scan data, together with the chassis number, are recorded in a database. This information now is inseparably combined and can be found in the database. If at a check the information is not found, the originally scanned pictures can be found and it is easily discovered where and how forgery took place.
Still another application of the system and the method according to the invention is the production of trade mark labels for clothes, etc. As a first step in the process a data keeper, also referred to as a security printer, produces for a client a series of trade mark labels with a pattern of nonwoven material and a code number. The security printer fully automatically records the pattern and the code number by means of a digital camera, axed stores the concerning coded data on a WORM optical disk. Next, the security printer delivers the trade mark labels and the optical disk or a copy thereof to the client and retains a copy of the optical disk or the original thereof, respectively. The client then processes the trade mark labels in the clothes and distributes the clothes. If there is a suspicion that certain batches of clothes are imitations, an inspector scans the label of a piece clothing with a digital camera, which scan is sent by modem in coded form to a central place, where it is compared with the data recorded on the optical disk. If the scanned data are not found in the database, it can be proven that the piece of clothing is an imitation without any doubt, since the security printer posesses the original scanned data.
In accordance with the present invention, both the security printer and his customer (i.e. the firm bringing the product to the market) may have a copy of the unique coded data for the product that is secured against forgery. Following distribution of the product, an inspector may scan the product and compare the obtained data with the stored unique coded data. In this way, not only the firm bringing the product to the market, but also the original security printer can prove the legitimacy or forgery of the product.
If the clothes are stolen and the trade mark labels are still fixed to the clothes, a proof of the batch from which the clothes originate can be established at any time.
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Two homes have been hit by lightning after thunderstorms hit Kent overnight and torrential downpours caused flooding.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service said properties in Herne Bay and Ramsgate were damaged when aerials were hit in lightning strikes.
Firefighters were also called to reports of flooding in Folkestone, Margate, Dover, Lyminge, Hythe and Herne Bay.
A spokesman said they received around a dozen calls to localised flooding at about 10pm.
Crews were called to a property hit by lightning in Queen Bertha Road, Ramsgate, at 10.30pm.
The strike hit a TV aerial and caused electrical damage, although no one was hurt.
Firefighters were than called to a loft fire after lightning hit a house in Linden Avenue, Herne Bay, at about 11pm.
Fast-acting neighbours Tony Allard and Lee Hollingsbee jumped into action after lightning hit the property.
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The pair, both 27, were watching the storm come in over the Reculver coast.
Tradesman Mr Allard said: "It was on us before we knew it. Then we heard a loud thunderous crack and thought our mate's caravan had been hit.
"But then we saw a house behind us had been struck and a section of the roof was missing and all the lights were out.
"We could smell burning so expected the worse. We thought the house was on fire.
"We went over there and the family was in shock. One of the two kids was really upset.
"We went up in the loft and stuffed a tarpaulin in the hole to stop the rain coming in. It was bucketing down and we were soaked through.
"It was amazing the damage it had done. We were just glad we could help."
Crews dealt with the blaze in an aerial booster box, which caused further electrical damage throughout the home.
No one was hurt and the residents were advised to call an electrician.
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Cars were left in several inches of water as rain hit the shopping parade.
Folkestone resident Kay McLoughlin said: "I watched the storm whilst outside the Butt of Sherry pub on Hythe High Street. It reminded me of when I was in a monsoon in the Maldives.
Forecasters say the rain will continue this morning before getting brighter this afternoon and over the weekend.
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Newton County School System will hold its annual Kindergarten Round-Up during the week of May 4- May 7. Children must be 5 years old by Sept. 1, 2015 (child must have been born on or before September 1, 2010) to register for the 2015-2016 school year. Parents should bring the prospective kindergarten student with them to the roundup so teachers can conduct screenings with the children.
A decision by a woman to not help authorities in their investigation against her alleged abuser had deputies contacting the Department of Children Services Wednesday evening on the child's behalf.
Deputies from the NCSO are searching for a group of black males who allegedly fired shots and busted into a home on Oak Terrace Drive late Wednesday night.
Two days after Newton County moved to a county manager form of government, officials have yet to detail how the new structure will work.
Newtonians of all ages came together last night for the annual lighting of the courthouse.
Though reports of his death are indeed correct, Mark Twain will appear in Newborn at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Old Newborn Schoolhouse, 4326 Ga. Highway 142.
The Newton County School System cancelled after school programs at Indian Creek, Liberty Middle and Newton High due to inclimant weather. Students are to ride their assigned buses home.
An overturned tractor-trailer stalled traffic this morning on I-20 East. The accident occured between the Covington and Alcovy exits.
The Newton County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to immediately create a county manager position and to place John Middleton in that position.
Hometown Realty owner and longtime Covington resident Darlene Smallwood has spent the last eight years building a reputation for helping her customers. The business, located on Hazelbrand Road, has become known in the community for those efforts.
Three months of discussions between Mansfield residents and the Georgia Transmission Corporation ended Tuesday without compromise, and the corporation is moving forward with its original plan to build a new 3.2 mile transmission line that will pass through part of Mansfield.
The Eastside High Chorus Show Choir will be presenting their Fall Musical Review, "Re-living the 80s," this Thursday. The show will take place in the Eastside High School Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 19, at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., and will cost $4 for adults, $3 for students and $3 for senior citizens. The show will feature the best of the 1980s music in an upbeat atmosphere.
A public vote on whether to allow restaurants and hotels to sell alcohol in unincorporated Newton County is likely in 2012, after the Newton County Board of Commissioners gave a consensus Monday night to move forward on the issue.
Covington Police officers were called to Settlers Grove Road around 5:30 a.m. Thursday after neighbors called 911 to report two people fighting in the street.
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