text: [[quoteright:284:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/schwarzenegger-with-cigar_8513.jpg]][[caption-width-right:284:Behold [[AwesomeMcCoolname THE GOVERNATOR]]!]]->''"Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Governor of California. There's a perfectly ordinary English sentence."''-->-- '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlLpCh-lE54 Dylan Moran]]'''Austrian-born actor (born in 1947, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1983), former [[UsefulNotes/{{Bodybuilding}} bodybuilder]], and [[FanNickname Governator]] of the state of UsefulNotes/{{California}} from 2003 to 2011, a fact that a lot of people in general find to be very funny. As a child he idolized British bodybuilder Reg Park (among others), star of the cult sword and sandal favorite ''Hercules In The Haunted World'' opposite Christopher Lee, and took up bodybuilding as a teenager; he even befriended Park in the 1960s and had the honor to train with him. After making a name for himself with multiple Mr. Universe wins, he broke into acting with an unfortunate ''Hercules'' movie - the infamous ''Film/HerculesInNewYork'' AKA: ''Hercules Goes Bananas'' (where he was billed by the very porn star sounding name "Arnold Strong" and his voice was actually dubbed, which just makes the film even funnier - an alternate version with his original voice performance is said to be available), which he then followed with a number of lesser films, the exception being ''Stay Hungry'' opposite Jeff Bridges and Sally Field, before landing his first real hit in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. He is now most famous for his roles in action films such as the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series and ''Film/{{Predator}}'', with characters [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent that always have a thick Austrian accent]] (it has, in fact, become so iconic of him that he has a speech coach to help him maintain the accent after years in America). His comedies (and even his later action films) vary. He was also a lifelong friend of Creator/StanWinston, the master-puppeteer who quite literally made [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} The Terminator]] out of him.Also famous for his many {{Bond|OneLiner}} and {{Pre Mortem|OneLiner}} One Liners; some of the cornier ones [[MemeticMutation end up getting oft repeated]] [[NarmCharm for the sake of their corniness]].Note also he is ''not'' as dumb as he looks, as he was smart enough to graduate with a University Degree in Business and Economics. When he made his breakthrough as an action star with ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', he had already been a self-made millionaire for years[[note]] Arnold himself has stated as of late that his "millionaire" status is often exagerated. He had money, but nowhere near as much as most people say he did. [[/note]], due to a number of smart business decisions. The acting was more of a hobby, and you could call him a GeniusBruiser in RealLife. Indeed, if you watch the documentary ''Pumping Iron'', we see a young Arnold talking about his use of psychological warfare against his fellow body builders, meaning he was trying to [[SeriousBusiness outsmart his competitors]] in what just about everyone else would consider a purely physical activity.As governor of California, was a real-life case of AsskickingEqualsAuthority. He's also the biggest [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]] fan known to man, being the man who paid thousands for a set of golf clubs used by JFK as well as marrying into the family... and yet, somewhat oddly, he's a Republican. A rather liberal Republican (especially in an era where GlennBeck and [[TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]] are major opinion leaders), but a Republican nonetheless. Also, he credits his loyalty to the Republican Party to a speech by an American President while he was still in Austria. The president? UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Chew on that for a while.Went on record saying that when he was up for reelection in 2010, he would not seek another term, nor will he run for a House or Senate seat. Most likely because [[UnpleasableFanbase the harsh realities of politics]] have been less than kind to him due to him being too far to the left of his own party and too far to the right for the Democrats. The sex scandal didn't help either. He has since returned to films (he also later admitted that he originally threw his hat in the ring as a throw-away joke during an interview, and was astonished that so many people took him seriously). [[Film/DemolitionMan Unless the Constitution is amended]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie to allow foreign-born citizens to run for President...]]Also of note in being a real life {{Determinator}}, claiming that choosing it as a life philosophy was the key to his success.Released an autobiography in 2013, called ''Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story''. Not to be confused with TheAhnold, though he's the TropeNamer.YMMV tropes may be found [[YMMV/ArnoldSchwarzenegger here]].----!!Notable for:[[index]]* ''Film/TheLongGoodbye'' -- Augustine's henchman* ''Stay Hungry'' -- Joe Santo* ''Pumping Iron''[[note]] On lifting weights: "It's as satisfying to me as cumming is."[[/note]], a 1970's documentary about the pro bodybuilding scene.* ''Film/HerculesInNewYork'' -- Hercules* ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'' -- Lars* ''Film/TheVillain'' -- Handsome Stranger* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' [[note]] ("What is best in life?") "To crush your enemies, see them driven them before you, and hear the lamentation of zer vimmim!" "... And if you do not listen, then [[BlasphemousBoast TO HELL WITH YOU!]]"[[/note]]** ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'' * ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''** ''Film/TheTerminator'' [[note]][[CatchPhrase "I'll be back."]][[/note]] -- The eponymous KillerRobot** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' [[note]] "Hasta la vista, baby."[[/note]] -- The KillerRobot becomes a bodyguard** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' [[note]] "Talk to zhe hand."[[/note]]** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' -- Set for release in 2015, with the killer robot aging to fit a man bordering on 70...* ''Film/RedSonja'' -- Kalidor* ''Film/{{Commando}}'' [[note]] "Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? [[ILied I lied]]."[[/note]] -- John Matrix* ''Film/RawDeal'' -- Mark Kaminsky* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' [[note]] "GET TO DA CHOPPA!" (And others.)[[/note]] -- Dutch (this movie also starred Wrestling/JesseVentura, who would go on to become Governor of Minnesota.)* ''Film/RedHeat'' -- Ivan Danko* ''Film/TheRunningMan'' [[note]] "Here's Sub Zero! Now...PLAIN Zero!"[[/note]] -- Ben Richards* ''Film/{{Twins}}'' -- Where he played Danny [=DeVito=]'s twin brother.* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' [[note]] "Get your ahss to Mars."/"See you at the party, Richter!"/"Consider this a divorce."[[/note]]* ''Film/KindergartenCop'' [[note]] "IT'S NAWT A TUMAH! '''[[BigShutUp SHUT UUUUUUUUUUPPPPP!!!!!]]'''"[[/note]]* ''Film/LastActionHero'' [[note]] "No sequel for you."[[/note]]* ''Film/TrueLies'' [[note]] "You're fired!"[[/note]] -- Harry Tasker* ''Film/{{Junior}}'' [[note]] "My nipples are getting sensitive."[[/note]] -- He [[MisterSeahorse got pregnant]] in this one.* ''Film/{{Eraser}}'' [[note]] (To an aligator) "You're luggage."[[/note]]* ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' [[note]] "Put dat cookie daughn! NAUGHH!"[[/note]]* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' -- Mr. Freeze [[note]] "WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS? DER ICE AGE!" [[PungeonMaster And a barrage of other terrible cold-related puns]]. [[/note]]* ''Film/EndOfDays'' -- Jericho Cane* ''Film/The6thDay'' -- Adam Gibson* ''Film/CollateralDamage'' -- Gordy Brewer* ''Film/TheRundown'' -- Cameos as himself, telling [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] to "have fun".* ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays (2004)'' -- Prince Hapi* ''Film/TheExpendables'' -- His last official film role while governor, albeit just a cameo. Also significant in that it is the first film he has ever shared actual screen time with 80's action hero rivals Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/BruceWillis. His role in ''Expendables 2'' is much larger, and acts as a post-governor return to his action movie roots.* ''Film/TheLastStand'' -- His first lead role in a movie since his post-governor era.* ''Film/EscapePlan'' (formerly known as ''The Tomb'') -- Swan Rottmayer* ''Film/{{Sabotage}}'' -- John "Breacher" Warthon[[/index]]* ''The Legend of Conan'' -- An official sequel to ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', which also [[CanonDiscontinuity completely disregards]] ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer''.* ''Maggie'' -- Wade Vogel!!Other:* ''{{Hamlet}}'' - A [[ShowWithinAShow film with in a film]] found in ''The Last Action Hero'' shows us what this might look like. -->"Hey, Claudius. [[YouKilledMyFather You killed my faddah]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVc5TaPpe8 Big mistake.]]"-->"To be, or not to be." [Beat] "[[BondOneLiner Not to be.]]" [Cue StuffBlowingUp]* ''Film/DemolitionMan'' -- He doesn't appear, but is mentioned as having become President. SylvesterStallone doesn't want to hear the details. [[NotSoCrazyAnymore The movie came out a decade before he ran for Governor.]]* [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Kalifohrnya]] -- Former Governor of.* ''WesternAnimation/TheGovernator'' -- As an [[InkSuitActor animated version of himself]]... who's also a superhero. Apparently an AffectionateParody of MerchandiseDriven eighties and nineties cartoons, now sadly cancelled in the wake of the personal scandal.* ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'': Arnie's young face was [[http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/4318434 recreated in CGI]] for the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YYfgx_cHo brand new T-800 (in that timeline)]].!! Tropes associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger* AbusiveParents / WellDoneSonGuy: Arnold disclosed in 2004 that he [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-312729/Arnie-I-abused-child.html was abused by his father as a child]] which led to an emotional gap between the two men that was never reconciled. He ultimately didn't even attend the man's funeral, though rumors that he opted to do a bodybuilding competition held at the same time have been disputed. Arnold was the UnFavorite, (wrongly) suspected by his father of being the product of an affair by his mother. No wonder his PapaWolf scenes play so well!* AdamWesting: He seems to honestly love hamming it up as a {{Flanderized}} version of himself almost as much as he loves subverting the trope. Examples include BoisterousBruiser Jack-Slater!Arnold's confrontation of Ditzy-Movie-Star!Arnold in Last Action Hero, and his appearance in The Expendables as a RetiredBadass with HiddenDepths gone into politics.* TheAhnold: The TropeCodifier and TropeNamer.* {{Badass}} / OneManArmy: A common theme of his characters, and a key part of his image.** BadassGrandpa: He's this nowadays. * BilledAboveTheTitle: And at times, only the surname given it's long enough and also looks really good on a poster. * BondOneLiner: Arnold has always been great at these (especially in ''Film/{{Commando}}''). Say what you will about his acting, it's impossible to deny that he has a good sense of comedic timing.** FountainOfMemes* CatchPhrase: "I'll be back". Many times lampshaded (''Last Action Hero'') or played with (''Terminator 3'', ''The Expendables 2'').** "Get to da choppa" is probably the second most famous and most often quoted. There was one time Arnold participated in a kitchen talk show and refers about getting to the part where you chop down food with knives with the phrase, it generated laughter.* CigarChomper: Arnold is so devoted to his cigars that when he was Governor of California, he had a tent with his desk placed on the grounds outside the governor's mansion so he could smoke while conducting business; it's illegal to smoke inside government buildings in California. * DefeatMeansFriendship: Arnold engaged in fierce rivalries with Sergio Oliva (bodybuilding)and Gray Davis (for the governorship of California), but became friends with all of them, once he had defeated each of them. He's also become friends with action movie rival Sylvester Stallone over their respective careers of dueling blockbusters, to the extent of becoming business partners in the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.** Technically, Arnold didn't 'defeat' Gray Davis, as the two men never stood against each other in an election. [[labelnote:overly detailed explanation here]]Davis was recalled by referendum, and Arnold ran on the subsequent open ballot (which listed 135 candidates, including former child actor Gary Coleman and porn star Mary Carey along with Schwarzenegger). Arnold had by far the best name recognition of any candidate, and had been previously floated as a gubernatorial candidate on the Republican ticket as early as TheEighties. Although he was only elected with 48% of the votes, Schwarzenegger still managed a landslide, leading the #2 challenger[[note]]Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, a Democrat, who would continue to serve in that capacity until 2007[[/note]] by 17% and gaining more votes than the next five candidates ''combined''. Schwarzenegger's reelection in 2006 was a bona fide landslide, which he won with 56% of the vote and led his opponent by 17%--as it turns out, he was actually a pretty good governor, all things considered.[[/labelnote]]* {{Determinator}}: Not only are many of his action film roles walking definitions of this trope, (one in particular being partial TropeNamer), the man himself is a RealLife example. When Arnold decided he wanted to become the world's best bodybuilder, he did it. Then he wanted to be a successful buisnessman, so he got a degree in Business and Economics and became a millionaire. Then he decided he wanted to become the biggest movie star on the planet, he did that also. Then he decided to become the Governor of California and pulled that off as well. When Arnold decides he wants to do something, it's wise not to bet against him.* DullSurprise: His most notable roles are [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} an emotionless robot]], [[Film/{{Predator}} an emotionless soldier]], [[Film/{{Commando}} an emotionless ex-soldier]] and [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 an emotionless barbarian warrior]]. Really, Schwarzenegger is the best when he can play a killing machine (either literally or figuratively). Honestly, you do not want to see him try to act emotions. It can alternate between bad acting (''Film/JingleAllTheWay''), [[ChewingTheScenery weird facial expressions]] (''Film/KindergartenCop'', ''Film/TotalRecall1990''), [[HamAndCheese overacting for the sake of it]] (''Film/BatmanAndRobin'') or [[PlayedForLaughs for fun]] (''Film/TrueLies''). His best performance ironically came in a ''parody'' film: ''Film/LastActionHero''. He actually shows some emotional depth in the film.* EarnYourHappyEnding: A real life example. He came from ''very'' humble beginnings, became a champion body builder, one of the most popular action heroes of the 1980s and 90s, a successful businessman and even governor of California. SelfMadeMan indeed. * TheEighties: Most of his iconic roles originated in this decade.* FanNickname: Ahnold, an approximation of pronouncing his given name in his trademark Austrian accent.** The Governator, a portmanteau of "Governor" and his most iconic role "The Terminator", in reference to his time as Governor of California.* GeniusBruiser: His muscles may have made him a household name, but his brains are what made his fortune via success in business (most of his money comes from investments, real estate, and ownership of several companies) and politics.* GoofyPrintUnderwear: He wore these while filming the biker bar scene in ''Terminator 2'' to get [[EnforcedMethodActing the desired reaction]] from the extras.* GreenEyes: Except in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' where [[http://s3.goodfon.com/wallpaper/previews-middle/416544.jpg lenses make for]] ''literal'' IcyBlueEyes.* HandsomeLech: In RealLife, he's known to be a bit...touchy with the ladies, and has boundary issues. Supposedly, his father thought he might be gay so he often tried to encourage little Arnie to chase skirts as much as he could, so this is likely a result of that up bringing.* HollywoodActionHero: One of the most successful and iconic of all time. Parodied in ''Film/LastActionHero''.* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: To the point that whole films have been made specifically to be Arnold does X: "[[Film/{{Junior}} Ahnold gets pregnant]]," "[[Film/JingleAllTheWay Ahnold shops for Christmas toys]]," etc.* IAmNotMyFather: Arnold's father was a member of the Nazi Party in Austria before and during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, along with the SA (the Nazi storm troopers) and Arnold has spent much of his career [[IAmNotMyFather battling accusations that he is a fascist sympathizer]] because of this. Arnold eventually commissioned the Simon Wiesenthal Center to research his father's wartime record. No evidence that the elder Schwarzenegger committed any atrocities was uncovered.* IHaveManyNames: His nicknames are various. Arnie, Austrian Oak\Styrian Oak (from his bodybuilding days), Conan the Republican (bestowed to him by Ronald Reagan himself!), Governator (after being elected in California)...* LargeHam: When the role allows him to definitely not take it seriously, Arnold will overact as much as possible.* TheMentor / HeterosexualLifePartners: To Italian bodybuilder (and his successor as Mr. Olympia) Franco Columbu. The two also had a [[FriendlyRival friendly rivalry]] in the European bodybuilding circuit during the 1960's although they never officially competed against each other for a title (being in different weight classes). Columbu served as best man at Schwarzenegger's wedding, appeared in several of his films (including ''ConanTheBarbarian'' and ''TheTerminator'') and was a model in Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding books. The relationship culminated in Columbu's appointment by Schwarzenegger to the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, a position he holds to this day (Columbu is a certified chiropractor in addition to being a bodybuilder, trainer, and actor).** He was also lucky to train with the late Reg Park, his personal favorite among the many bodybuilders he admired, and even roomed with him. Arnold even spoke at Park's funeral in 2007, referring to him as "a dear friend" and "a personal hero". Arnold also credited Park as being the one who taught him the depth of just how far he would have to go to achieve his goals. ** He acts as a mentor/patron saint to the subreddit /r/fitness, occasionally dropping in to give advice and motivation to its users. * MrFanservice: Back in his heyday he was quite shameless about showing off his physique. * NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Arnold has expressed regrets that he was never able to do a movie with Creator/EddieMurphy. Though he now plans to do a sequel to ''Twins'' with Murphy as the third son (?!) that had been languishing in DevelopmentHell for a while.* NinetiesAntiHero: Mostly his turn in Terminator 2, where his popularity led to James Cameron writing the script so that his T-800 was the protagonist instead of the villain. ''Eraser'' and ''End of Days'' also count.* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Arnold ALWAYS talks in his well-known accent. No matter what part he's playing. In most cases, this can be excused because his characters are rarely, if ever, claimed to be native-born, so there's nothing stopping the character from being an immigrant like in ''Commando'' where it is said his character hails from East Germany. Still, one has to wonder why the T-800 has an accent that will make him stick out almost as much as his horrifying metal skeleton.[[note]][[WordOfGod James Cameron has said]] that he liked Arnold's thick accent because it made it seem like Skynet hadn't [[FlawedPrototype finished development on the Terminators]]. The T-1000 would correct this issue.[[/note]]** This gets {{Lampshaded}} every now and then. For instance, a deleted scene in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' shows him as the human the T-800 was modeled on, speaking with a silly and whimsical Southern accent. When someone comments on the voice, a scientist, speaking in Arnold's actual voice, responds "We can fix it."** Arnold has gone so far as to work with a voice coach to help him ''retain'' his accent, as it has become as iconic as the man himself.* OldShame: ** Arnold has expressed quite a bit of SelfDeprecatingHumor over several of his less iconic performances:*** He's flat-out stated on a few occasions that ''Film/RedSonja'' was the worst movie he ever appeared in and has joked that he used to punish his children's bad behavior by making them watch it from start to finish.*** He also humorously threatened the California legislature with 13 consecutive screenings of ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' if they couldn't come up with a budget by August. Its not clear if he was entirely joking.*** He also disliked ''Hercules in New York'', once suggesting the film should be used as an alternative to waterboarding in Guantanamo.** On a more serious note, his infamous sex scandal has become this, albeit somewhat mitigated by the fact that he had taken responsibility for his actions and financially supported his mistress and their son (which is how the story came out in the first place) and despite ultimately separating with his wife in 2011, public appearances suggest they remain amicable.* PapaWolf: As shown by ''Film/{{Commando}}'', ''Film/KindergartenCop'' and even ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', hurt a child or a teenager near to him and Arnie WILL fuck you up so bad that you'll need more than one coffin to be buried in.* PlayingAgainstType: ** ''Film/EndOfDays'' [[spoiler: (not least as this is the only non-''Terminator'' movie to date where his character's killed off at the end)]]. His character is a cop but ''isn't'' an unstoppable OneManArmy.** ''Maggie'', where he plays a father trying desperately to spend as much time with his daughter as possible until the inevitable when she gets bitten by a zombie and is liable to turn.* RealMenWearPink: He reveals in a Reddit IAMA that [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vshw2/iamarnold_ama_20/cevdgel he likes to paint]]. Apparently it was a childhood hobby, that he only took up again after fatherhood.* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: How he portrayed himself as governor of California, and the theme of his reelection campaign.* RunningGag: People love to make jokes disputing his height. Arnold has always given his height as being 6'2" while his old body building rivals claim he was 6'1.5" (6'1" in other words). And that's not the half of it. * SelfMadeMan: Before he ever appeared in any movies, Arnold was a self-made millionaire at age 22 thanks to his investments in real estate and a mail-order bodybuilding supply company.* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He actually auditioned for the role of the Hulk in the 1970s TV series ''The Incredible Hulk'' based on the Marvel comic, but lost out to bodybuilding rival Lou Ferrigno. Reportedly the 6-foot-2 Arnold was deemed "not tall enough", especially when compared to the 6-foot-5 Ferrigno.** Additionally, when James Cameron first approached Arnold with ''The Terminator'' he actually originally considered him for the part of the film's hero Kyle Reese (which eventually went to Michael Biehn) while considering the more slimmer, more averagely built Lance Henriksen for the Terminator, but during their meeting Cameron changed his mind, figuring Arnold was practically a living machine anyway and hired him for the Terminator instead - which was just fine by Arnold since he felt the Terminator was the more interesting part anyway. ** He was planning a movie with director Stuart Gordon called ''Berserker'', about a muscle builder who turns into a monster after abusing steroids. However, it fell through because they couldn't agree on the final script.** He had plenty of scripts on his sight in 1997, including an adaptation of ''IAmLegend'' directed by RidleyScott and ''MinorityReport'' [[DolledUpInstallment as a sequel to]] ''Total Recall''. Then Arnie was forced to go through open heart surgery, and studios became afraid (to the point he only returned in 1999 with ''End of Days'').----


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A California man said he created the hoax in which former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o fell for a fake, online girlfriend because he was in love with the football player.
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo spoke publicly for the first time in an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw for the "Dr. Phil Show," the first part of which aired today.
The 22-year-old Tuiasosopo said he built the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman who Te'o said he fell for without ever meeting in person and later believed to have died of leukemia.
Tuiasosopo said he felt Kekua was a part of him, and grew feelings and emotions for Te'o that he could not control. He acknowledged that the hoax was cruel, but said it was never intended as a joke and that he got no financial gain from it.
"I pretty much had this escape of Lennay and this was where my heart had pretty much invested, not just time, but all of my energy went into this," he said.
"As twisted and confusing as it may be, yeah, I cared for this person," he said, referring to Te'o. "I did all that I could to help this person become a better person, even though I wasn't getting nothing out of it."
When the ruse was reported by Deadspin.com on Jan. 16, the report raised the questions about whether Te'o was involved. The story about how the All-American played through pain learning about the deaths of his girlfriend and grandmother on the same day led to an outpouring of support from Notre Dame fans. It became the backdrop to the Fighting Irish's undefeated regular season and run to the BCS championship, where they lost to Alabama.
Tuiasosopo said Te'o knew nothing of the hoax, and doesn't believe he ever suspected Kekua wasn't real.
"He had no involvement," Tuiasosopo said. "He did not know anything."
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from ENI News
Muslim converts in the United Kingdom — a small but growing number — often bring new energy to their faith communities, but also report facing obstacles to acceptance.
"Converts are a bridge between non-Muslim, mainly white, communities and Muslim communities who are mainly from sub-continent communities," said Fiyaz Mughal, founder and director of London-based Faith Matters, an inter-faith organization, in an interview with ENInews.
However, converts also told researchers last year that they felt cast adrift after their acceptance of Islam. Although mosques were delighted to welcome new members, they often failed to provide support when their new co-religionists faced hostility from family and friends, they said.
The study, by Kevin Brice of Swansea University in Wales, said there were about 100,000 converts to Islam in the U.K. in the 2000-2010 decade, up from 60,000 in the 1990s.
The report, called "A minority within a minority: a report on converts to Islam in the United Kingdom," was sponsored by Faith Matters, which is supported by the British government and faith groups. There are about 1.8 million Muslims in the U.K., out of a total population of 62.5 million.
British converts to Islam — "muhtedis" in Arabic — can serve as a bridge over which Muslims and non-Muslims can meet and exchange ideas, said Mughal.
Northern Irish Young 'Friendly Across Religions'
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An increasing number of teenagers in Northern Ireland have friendships across the religious divide, a research study has said.
Only a minority of young people have no acquaintances from other religious or ethnic backgrounds, added the university Young Life and Times Survey (YLT).
Dr Paula Devine, from Queen's University, said: "The YLT survey found that friendship patterns among 16-year-olds are wider than ever before, encompassing both religious and ethnic diversity."
They found 12% of young people never socialise with those from a different community and 16% do not associate with other ethnicities.
Dr Devine added: "The comments made by young people in the survey suggest a blurring of the traditional us and them categories. Whether someone is like us or them is not purely based on their religious or ethnic background but on other factors such as personality."
Key findings in the report, No More Us And Them For 16-18-year-olds?, include that cross-community friendship was more common in 2011 than in 2003. In 2011, 22% of YLT respondents had no friends from the other main religious community, compared with 33% in 2003.
London 2012: How Do the Olympics Handle Religion?
by Michael Hirst
from BBC News
How do you cater for athletes of nine different religions at the Olympic Games?
The man charged with answering that question for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, Locog, is Reverend Canon Duncan Green, an Anglican priest who has been seconded to Locog as its head of faith services.
His starting point was to form a faith reference group comprising representatives of the UK's nine largest religions – Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Jain and Bahai – to advise on issues around faith in order to cater to the observations of practicing athletes, spectators and officials.
Rise in UK Multifaith Prayer Rooms, a Liverpool Study Reveals
from BBC News
The number of shared spaces for prayer, reflection and meditation has risen over the last 10 years, a study has found.
Researchers from The University of Liverpool said there were more than 1,500 multifaith spaces in the UK.
Dr Andrew Crompton from the University of Liverpool said the increase came in spite of "a decline in the popularity of established religion".
UK Jews Muslims Sikhs and Others Join Christians to Wish Happy Christmas 4 All
By Alexander Goldberg
From Reuters
There are no Christmas trees in my home, not even a Chanukah bush, no sign of tinsel and no sound of children singing carols. If I was asked on Facebook to describe my relationship with Christmas, like most Jews I would opt for the 'it's complicated' or even the 'separated' status. The personage of Jesus, whose birthday it marks, is the main theological divide between Christianity and Judaism. So whilst a minority in my community do mark it in some way, it would be difficult for me as an observant Jew to do so. Perhaps therefore, it is surprising to some that I have joined the HappyChristmas4All campaign. So why?
For me, it comes down to good neighborliness. It gives me no satisfaction to see others denigrate another person's religious festival or stop my neighbours from practising their beliefs. That's why I joined the HappyChristmas4All campaign that has attracted over a thousand supporters on Facebook and captured the attention of the broadcast media in Britain. People have signed up for their own reasons, but in essence Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs and secularists have joined together to say Christmas in Britain must be respected. Some from other communities have gone further and I have learnt this week from both Muslim and Buddhist friends the meaning that the birth of Jesus has in their traditions.
The 'War on Christmas' myth needs to be debunked. I share similar concerns to my closest Christian neighbours that the festival risks becoming on one hand a secular consumerist feast or on the other a time when the majority of the population wrongly believes it has to play down celebrations so as not to offend others.


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News about Target Corporation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Top Target Officer to Exit Post as Part of Retailer's Reshaping
A Target spokeswoman said that Target would be considering both internal and external candidates for a successor.
June 26, 2015, Friday
Morning Agenda: Split Decision for Greenberg in A.I.G. Lawsuit
Split Decision for Greenberg in A.I.G. Lawsuit | Goldman Sachs to Offer Consumers Online Loans | CVS' Healthy Appetite for Expansion | 2 Giant Health Insurers Said to Court Smaller Rivals
June 16, 2015, Tuesday
CVS to Buy 1,600 Drugstores From Target for $1.9 Billion
Under the deal, CVS would acquire more than 1,600 pharmacies from Target in 47 states and operate them under its brand name within Target stores.
June 16, 2015, Tuesday
Target, Posting a Profit, Hopes for Calmer Seas
The retailer said its signature lines contributed to a strong quarter, as did online sales growth of almost 40 percent.
May 21, 2015, Thursday
Walmart to Buy 13 Former Target Stores in Canada
Walmart said it would spend $290 million to buy and renovate the stores, creating 1,500 construction jobs.
May 9, 2015, Saturday
House Passes Cybersecurity Bill After Companies Fall Victim to Data Breaches
It was the government's most aggressive response yet to a spate of computer attacks on targets including Sony Pictures Entertainment and the health insurer Anthem.
April 23, 2015, Thursday
Lilly Pulitzer for Target: They Came, They Waited, They Went Home Mad
An affordable line of brightly printed clothing, home goods and makeup ran out in hours, stunning even Target, which said the collection would not be restocked.
April 23, 2015, Thursday
Target's Hasty Exit From Canada Leaves Anger Behind
The American retailer has stirred resentment among landlords, in part for its use of bankruptcy law in shutting down Canadian operations.
April 22, 2015, Wednesday
Target Names Industry Veteran to Revamp Its Grocery Unit
Target has named Anne Dament, a 20-year grocery and consumer product industry veteran, to help revamp the chain's food business.
April 14, 2015, Tuesday
$10 Million Settlement in Target Data Breach Gets Preliminary Approval
The settlement of a class-action suit in federal court would provide $10 million to compensate victims of a 2013 online data theft that affected as many as 110 million people.
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For almost as long as there have been computers, there have been people intent in playing games with them.
For almost as long as there have been computers, there have been people intent in playing games with them.
Diehard gamers in Japan who began queuing earlier this week finally got their hands on a new PlayStation 4 as Sony unleashed its console on home turf in a midnight launch.
Sony Computer Entertainment America added a new chapter Friday to popular video game "The Last of Us," filled with combat against zombie-like infected people and tailored for PlayStation 3 consoles.
Hugely popular SimCity will be coming down from the cloud, letting fans play the rich world simulation game without needing to be connected to the Internet.
Computer games can be a popular item on many kids' Christmas wish list. But for some parents, gaming has been linked to a range of negative connotations, from time wasting to promoting violence.
(Phys.org) —In grade school classrooms across the country, students have been hard at work this semester trying to figure out how to smash a virtual frog with a virtual truck.
An online video game company accused of infecting thousands of computers with malicious software and using that access to illegally mine for the electronic currency Bitcoin has agreed to pay a $1 million settlement, the New ...
Knack was created to be the perfect beast to show off the spectacularly vamped up visual powers of the PlayStation 4 game console. The hero of the game, which is also called "Knack," is made up of 5,000 parts ...
The Tokyo Game Show this year has two big stars, Sony's PlayStation 4 and the Microsoft Xbox One, the first new home consoles to go on sale in seven years.
The crowd stands and cheers. The exhausted, triumphant winning team is handed its trophy, which the captain lifts while the rest of the players raise their arms in victory.
Facebook on Tuesday got into the business of publishing mobile games, offering developers help at going global with smartphone or tablet titles in exchange for a share of revenue.
Graphics chip star NVIDIA has set a July 31 release date for its Shield handheld gaming and entertainment device powered by Google's Android software.
The fingers of thousands of people who created sketches of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on their iPhones can collectively guide and correct the drawing strokes of subsequent touchscreen users in an application created by ...
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We recap the 2015 UIL State Track Meet.
Five Texoma athletes earned medals in the Early Action at the UIL State Track and Field meet.
Jermaine Ferrell talks to students about playing in the UIL Tennis Tournament until 3:30 a.m.
For the 8th time in school history, the Throckmorton boys golf team wins the 1A state title.
The 2015 UIL State Track & Field Meet will take place May 14 -16 at the Mike A. Myers Stadium University of Texas at Austin.
The 2015 UIL State Tennis Tournament will take place May 12 -13 at the Mitchell Tennis Center and Omar Smith Instructional Tennis Courts, Texas A&M University in College Station. 12 Texoma athletes qualified for the tournament.
Olney's Tanner Thompson joins Jermaine Ferrell on Sports Sunday to discuss the upcoming UIL State Boys Golf Tournament this week in Austin.
Petrolia's Breanna Smith and Archer City's London Steele join Jermaine Ferrell on Sports Sunday to discuss the upcoming UIL Girls Golf State Tournament this week in Austin.
Throckmorton Greyhounds win their 3rd state football title in 4 years as they beat Groom 66-20 in the 1A Division II Final Saturday afternoon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Crowell Wildcats win back to back state football titles as they beat May 62-16 in the 1A Division I Final Saturday afternoon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Steven Perez named Defensive MVP. Mitchell Parsley named Offensive MVP.
FOX Sports Southwest and NFHS Network will provide live webcasts of the 2014 UIL Volleyball State Tournament on November 20, 21, and 22 from the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland Texas.
Petrolia defeated Albany in 4 sets to win the 2A Bi-District title Tuesday in Graham. The Lady Pirates play Sterling City in the area round Thursday night at 7:00 in Eastland.
Rider Lady Raiders advance to the Area Round with a 3 set sweep of Birdville in the 5A Bi-District playoffs Monday night at Bowie High School.
The UIL legislative council today approving changes in athletics for the 2015-16 school year.
The Iowa Park Hawks take game 1 of the 3A Region 1 Baseball Finals 11-1 over Lubbock Cooper in 5 innings Wednesday night in Abilene. The series continues Friday afternoon at 5 at Walt Driggers Field. Game 3 if necessary will be played 30 minutes after Game 2. Iowa Park broke open the game by scoring 3 runs in the 3rd, 4th, & 5th innings.
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By the time I got to the pub it was raining properly.
And within an hour the creek at the end of the street looked like this.
Blinman had 117mm in the next 6 hours or do, it was positively cyclonic.
The postie bikes strugged in, having been caught between creeks and trailered across, dragged across, whatever.
This is well documented elsewhere, so I won't go on about it here, but they couldn't have picked a worse weekend if they tried, it was the most rain Blinman has had in 24hrs, in 128 years.
Pizzas were good but.
As you can imagine, there was no room at the inn, or anywhere else, the hall had 40 bods sleeping on the floor. Camping was not an option, it was blowing fit to kill by this stage, so I took option Z.
Yep, the Ladies in the camping ground at the back of the pub.(No-one was camping)
At least it was dry, but there were times during the night when I thought we were going into orbit, Jeeze it blew!
In the morning it was freezing and raining lightly so I decided to bolt for Hawker while the going was good.
The morning's 100k run to Hawker would go down as the most challanging bitumin ride I've ever done, it was freezing, raining and blowing 100k/hr.
Add to this the rock climbing necessary at every creek crossing, and there were plenty of them.
Not much incentive to stop and take photos.
This was one of the shallower ones.
The heater in the motel in Hawker got a workout as I spent the day reading my book and formulating a New Plan.
The Oodnadatta Track was definitly out, Marree had supposedly had 80mm.
So what to do?
The Nullabour loomed as option 1.
If I took this it would make bike trip #28 across the paddock, so I wanted to try to avoid this if possible.
Option 2 was down to Port Augusta, then up the Stuart Hwy and down the Great Central Road, which is dirt, to Laverton in Western Australia.
So that's what I decided to do.
The country on the way to PA looks lush, if you decide to come here next year, don't expect it to look like this.
At PA I ran into a bunch of Farriders who had been up to the top of Horrocks Pass to remember Davo, FR #1 who was tragically killed in the US last year after hitting a deer on the last day of the Iron Butt Rally.
Some of these guys I would meet up with further up the Hwy, as one of them was attempting to ride 3000km in 24 hrs! Bigger nuts than me mate!
I camped that night north of Coober Pedy in the middle of the Painted Desert,
It is only relatively recently that this hwy was sealed, before then it was known as the worst road in Oz.
At Erldunda roadhouse we turn west, to Yulara, the GCR, and home.
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You can't spell "scare" without "care." And the fiendish folks behind Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights clearly understand this. That's why they put a full year of careful thought and planning into the 24th edition of this seasonal scare-fest. Which officially opens to the public tonight at Universal Studios Florida.
I like to watch TV. Okay, maybe I love to watch TV. Either way, you get it. I'm 'addicted' to many shows, and I admit that a time or two, I have opted to stay in and watch a show over going out for human contact. What I don't like is to be judged for it.
Yes it's been over since past Monday night's August 25th gala event. But what was the entertainment public left with after celebrating television's highest annual ceremonial awards? The answer is rerun winners.
Sometimes doing the job is reward in itself. That's what it was like for me to talk with Greg Nicotero.
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When I would complain about some trivial disappointment as a child (or even a teen -- and, really, disappointments at that age never feel as trivial as they are), my mother would say, "Well, it's not the end of the world." Fortunately, she didn't live to see contemporary pop culture.
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Thousand of people who should be on slabs in a morgue are walking our streets. Worse still, they are going to work in the morning.
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Negative - Natimuk, Victoria, circa 1885 Reg. No: MM 6976
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- A family in front of the police station. Small weatherboard building with a fenced front garden. One of the children is sitting on a rocking horse on the verandah.
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- Copied from Heather Griffiths, 1988
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- The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
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Chris Wallace, better known as The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls or Big Poppa, lived up to his various nicknames. He was a force to be reckoned with in the rap world and remains an enormous influence a decade after his death. Brooklyn born and bred, Wallace dropped out of school at age 17 and turned to a life of crime. He spent nine months in prison for dealing crack. Soon after getting out in 1992, he parlayed his amateur rhymes into a record contract and started working with some of the biggest names in the business: Sean "Puffy" Combs, LL Cool J, Mary J. Blige and Tupac Shakur.
His 1994 album "Ready to Die" came at a time when the East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry was going strong, and according to Rolling Stone, Biggie shifted the focus back to New York. This created tension with Shakur, who was leading the West Coast rap scene at the time. When Shakur was shot to death in September 1996, rumors swirled about Biggie's involvement, though he denied all allegations. In March 1997, while in California to promote his upcoming album, Biggie, 24, was shot to death while riding with his entourage in a GMC Suburban. His murder remains unsolved, and in 2007 his relatives filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles. A movie chronicling his life is due out in 2009.
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Like Wallace, Tupac Shakur's death was a tragedy of the East Coast/West Coast hip-hop rivalry. Though he hailed from Harlem, Shakur began rapping in California in the early 1990s. He released his first solo album, "2Pacalypse Now," in 1991 and formed the group Thug Life in 1993. As he gained fame, Shakur ran into legal troubles: He was accused of sexually abusing a woman in '93 and convicted of attacking a former employer in 1994.
In November 1994, Shakur was shot five times and robbed in the lobby of a New York recording studio. While serving a prison sentence for sexual abuse charges, Shakur released "Me Against the World," which went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. After getting out of jail, suspicious that former friend Biggie Smalls set him up for the '94 shooting, Shakur railed on Biggie and his associates on the track "Hit 'Em Up." On Sept. 7, 1996, while driving through Las Vegas with his entourage, Shakur was shot 12 to 13 times in a drive-by shooting. He died six days later of internal bleeding. Shakur's death remains a mystery, though some speculate Biggie was involved in the murder. Biggie's family has vehemently denied those claims. More than 10 years after his death, Shakur remains a hip-hop legend. He's been named the highest-selling rap artist by the Guinness Book of World Records, with more than 75 million albums sold worldwide.
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Cobain, frontman for the iconic grunge band Nirvana, was a symbolic figure during the shift from the glam/pop rock of the 1980s toward early 1990s alternative rock with the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit," considered by many to be the anthem of Generation X. Some viewed him as the unofficial spokesman for '90s teens and 20-somethings, but Cobain turned to drugs and alcohol to help him cope with the pressures of the media, years of depression, chronic bronchitis and mysterious stomach pains. Cobain committed suicide in April 1994, shooting himself in the head in his home on Seattle's Lake Washington after leaving a one-day stay at a rehab center in Los Angeles. He died at age 27, leaving behind wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain.


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Ello ello,
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I painted a thumbnail of this a little while back and I thought now was a good time to get the piece going. Seeing as my last piece was already pretty finished in terms of rendering I thought itd be cool to show something from grassroots. Usually I dont render up pieces as tightly as Death of the Blade, but I want some more polished pieces for the ol portfolio; this might be one of them, well see ^______^
Loooots to do...as you might be able to tell ;P
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Just a quick update on this, Mass Effect and Elite Beat Agents seem to be pulling me away today! Still just playing around with shapes and colour mostly, not tying things down too much.
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Beautiful colors. I'm enjoying the overall flow of the piece. It does a great job of carrying my eyes all over the place.
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The colours are looking really good again mate. Personally I'm not a big fan of the lsightly cartoony faces, but its your work obviously
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Methods of embedding and detecting a watermark into-from a digital image are disclosed. A method of embedding a watermark in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention into a digital image, the method comprising: generating a difference from an original image; segmenting said difference image into sub-regions; and calculating a watermark block into each sub-region by adding said watermark block with pixel values of each sub-region.
1. A method of embedding a watermark into a digital image, the method comprising:
generating a predicted image of an original image by using a linear predictor;
generating a difference image by subtracting the predicted image from an original image or vice versa;
segmenting the difference image into sub-regions;
calculating a watermark block for each of the sub-regions; and
embedding the watermark block into each of the sub-regions by adding the watermark block with pixel values of each of the sub-regions.
2. The method of
calculating a watermark amplitude for each of the sub-regions or each pixel of each of the sub-regions;
performing a channel coding process on a set of watermark data bits; and
generating a pseudo random sequence (PRS) for embedding the watermark.
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. The method of
This application is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 10/106,856, filed on Mar. 27, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,058,201, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/279,124, filed on Mar. 28, 2001. The entire contents of each of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method of embedding a watermark into a digital image, and more particularly, to a method of embedding a watermark into an image in a manner that the embedded information is robust against any modifications including loss data compression, filtering, channel noise, cropping, geometrical transformations, and etc.
2. Discussion of the Related Art
Digital images are widely distributed on the Internet or with uses of many types of storage such as CD-ROM, hard and floppy disks, and etc. Therefore, the copyright protection of such digital images has become a very significant issue in the current digital media industry. One of ways of preserving the intellectual property rights of the digital images is digital watermarking.
One of typical digital watermarking methods is a statistical approach, which will be referred to as Patchwork hereinafter. Patchwork is based on a pseudo random and statistical process. It invisibly embeds a set of specific statistical information that has a Gaussian distribution into a host image. Some of main features of this approach are an extremely low rate of the embedded data and difficulties of decoding a watermark in the presence of severe affine transformation.
Another digital watermarking method is a spread spectrum technique, which proposes to embed watermark information in a log-2-spatio domain by using a spread spectrum technique. In the log-2-spatio domain, the variance of the information is significantly reduced. This improves the efficiency and robustness of spread spectrum technique. Low intensity and midband regions are selected to embed the information in order to guarantee the invisibility of the watermark as well as the robustness to JPEG compression.
Also, an effect that a channel coding process produces on the performance of the watermarking detection is analyzed. However, the mentioned methods or techniques do not achieve the main demands for watermarking, which are invisibility of watermarks and robustness to attacks including loose compression, filtering, geometric attacks such as re-sampling and rotations, and so on.
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a method of watermarking a digital image that substantially obviates one or more problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
An object of the present invention is to provide a method of watermarking a digital image that is robust to any prevailing attacks
Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.
To achieve these objects and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, a method of embedding a watermark into a digital image includes the steps of generating a predicted image of an original image by using a linear predictor; generating a difference image by subtracting the predicted image from the original image or vice versa; and segmenting the difference image into sub-regions.
In another aspect of the present invention, a method of detecting a watermark from a digital image includes generating a predicted image from an original image by using a linear predictor, wherein an original watermark sequence is embedded into the original image; generating a difference image by subtracting the predicted image from the original image or vice versa; and segmenting the difference image into sub-regions.
According to another aspect, the present invention provides a method of embedding a watermark into a digital image, the method comprising: generating a difference from an original image; segmenting said difference image into sub-regions; and calculating a watermark block into each sub-region by adding said watermark block with pixel values of each sub-region.
According to another aspect, the present invention provides a method of detecting a watermark of a digital image, the method comprising: generating a difference image from an original image, wherein a watermark sequence is embedded into said original image; segmenting said difference image into sub-regions; calculating a convolution set of a pseudo random sequence and at least one pixel of each sub-region; and estimating a watermark data bit corresponding to each sub-region by using said convolution set.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description of the present invention are exemplary and explanatory and are intended provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principle of the invention. In the drawings;
Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
A pseudo random sequence (PRS) generator generates a PRS for watermark embedding. Initial parameters and period characterize this sequence. The algorithm of the watermark embedding and detecting processes using a PRS is given by
A watermark of six-bytes sequence XABCDE is used, where X represents the constant byte for inner purposes of the algorithm, and other bytes contain the copyright information of an image. The watermark is recorded into the image K times depending on the block size and the image size. During the decoding process, the values of bits for all blocks are estimated. Further, the beginning of the watermark is searched by using the X value and the obtained bit sequences are written into an array
The estimation of the watermark can be obtained for every bit by
The perceptibility of a watermark depends on the amplitude of an embedded sequence, which is determined by a scale coefficient αj. This coefficient controls the compromise of the perceptibility versus the possibility of detection. The scale calculator calculates the amplitude of the watermark for every block by one of the following ways:
In addition to the modes mentioned above, an adaptive scale mode can be implemented. The adaptive scale mode chooses the best value of the Scale parameter by iterations. The adaptive scaling process of choosing the best value depends on the original image. A larger Scale value leads to better watermark detection, but it deteriorates the quality of the image. The use of a smaller Scale value decreases the quality of the watermark detection. The adaptive calculation is performed with a feedback. At first, the block is encoded with Scale=10. Then the decoding is fulfilled. If decoding is successful, then the encoding of the next block is executed. Otherwise, the value of Scale is decreased (Scale=Scale/2), and the encoding is executed. The minimal value of Scale is set to Scale=2. So it is possible to select the optimal value of Scale. In the case where it is impossible to decode the watermark, this fact is known at the encoding stage.
The granulator is used to resist the low pass filtering and embeds the element PRS not in a pixel but in a square (g�g) of pixels. The increase of the parameter g leads to decrease the frequency of the embedded signal. But it increases the watermark perceptibility. The acceptable values of the parameter g are 2 and 3. The usage of the granular mode increases the block size for writing the watermark. It leads to decrease the number of watermarks written into the image.
The randomization is used for decreasing the watermark perceptibility in the granular mode. In this mode, a random sequence {tilde over (ε)}ik=εi+wk is embedded in square instead of the constant signal εi, where wk is uniformly distributed in the range [−εi, εl]. Under decoding, the estimation of the obtained signal is performed by
The usage of the channel coding unit and the granulator unit decreases the number of bits, which can be written into an image. Therefore, the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a way of writing additional bits into a block, and this is called a high-density mode. The block scheme of a method of detecting a high-density watermark is shown in
Another distinctive feature is to order an image block for increasing the number of states coded. Then the convolution unit calculates a set of convolution values for the shifted PRSs and orders an image block in different ways. The maximization unit compares the obtained convolution values and selects the convolution value corresponding to the maximum absolute value. The index of found convolution values conforms to the decoded bit set. The preferred embodiment of the algorithm writes 8 bits into a block. It uses 16 shifted PRSs and 8 types of ordering for transmitting 256 states.
The base-coding mode presumes to write a watermark in a sequential order (row-by-row). This means that the watermark does not go into the block row. In a case where the size of an image is slightly changed, all watermarks included in the image will be destroyed. Another problem is that if the blocks containing the watermark flag are not decoded, the whole watermark will be skipped until the next watermark flag. The block mode presumes to write the watermark into compact regions, for example, a square region (4�4) of the block size. Under this mode, the high-density mode is used automatically. In as much as the watermark is written into 16 blocks, four blocks are used as flags bounding the watermark region. Another 12 blocks are used for writing the watermark information (4 information bytes and 8 control bytes providing the correction of 4 bytes). The bounding bytes contain different values so it is possible to determine the type of the corner. Therefore, in case of decoding errors, it is sufficient to decode two bytes to determine the correct position of the watermark. The number of watermarks embedded into the image is less, but the reliability is apparently higher.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the inventions. Thus, it is intended that the present invention covers the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
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The #1 team? They agree with all of us, but the #7 was a surprise to me. Tell me what you think!
The #1 team? They agree with all of us, but the #7 was a surprise to me. Tell me what you think!
That is a major surprise to me.
The 1975 team was a lot better than the 1990 team. It's the same line-up as the 1976 team...the best team.
I love the 1990 team, lot of good memories, but Larkin is the only HOF'er on that team.
1st pick of the 2022 baseball amateur draft
-LTlabnerIf you can't build a winning team with that core a fire-sale isn't the solution. Selling the franchise, moving them to Nashville and converting GABP into a used car lot is.
I think what the poll is saying is just that...a one year team. No one in baseball could have beat the 1990 Reds, that team was on a mission to win, refused to lose and was destined for glory.
BTW Larkin is definitely a HOFer.
I wish Rijo was HOF-worthy. If only his career had lasted longer.
Tom Shearn... who knew?
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Not to change the topic, but has anyone here ever tried the sim games at Whatifsports.com? I've been playing the college basketball sim for a couple of years now, a lot of fun.
A lot of similar evaluations over the years have come to the conclusion that the '76 Reds were, at the very least one of the 2 or 3 best teams in B'ball history. Look at the line-up. 3 HOfs, would have been 4 if not for Pete's ban, and argueably 5 (Davey, who re-invented SS). Don't understand why some of the griping posters to the article can't see that.
Keep in mind they are only talking about 1990.
Dibble, Norm and Myers aren't Hall of Famers either but collectively they were that year. The 76 Reds had the greatest line-up top to bottom, ever. The 90 Reds might of had the best bullpen ever.
Dibble: 98 innings, 134 Ks, 1.79 ERA, 8-3 record. 11 saves
Norm: 12-9 record, 16 starts and 40 relief appearances, 2.74 ERA, 2 saves.
Myers: 87 innings, 98 Ks, 2.08 ERA, 31 saves.
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Terrebonne wants federal dollars for public boat launch repairs
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Officials are seeking federal money to help repair public boat launches in Terrebonne Parish.
The Parish Council unanimously voted Tuesday at its Public Services committee meeting to improve the Texas-Gulf Road, South Houma Fire Station site and Ashland boat launches.
The council is asking for the money by authorizing Parish President Bobby Bergeron to apply for federal money administered by the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The Wallop-Breaux money is used by the state for fish restocking, water safety and related programs.
Some of the money comes from a federal tax on fishing gear and equipment. Most of it comes from federal fuel taxes.
Under the plan, the parish would pay $75,000 to match the state's $300,000.
The money would not go to acquiring more public boat launches - only to repair those in place.
Repaired public boat launches will boost recreation for residents and spending by fishermen who visit the parish from elsewhere, proponents said.
Bergeron likened the Ashland boat launch to the Cannon's boat landing, which the parish took over and repaired last year.
"It opens itself in just a matter of minutes to Lake Boudreaux and that whole area back there," Bergeron said.
But he said he would prefer moving that boat launch about a quarter of a mile up from where it sits now, on St. Louis Canal just below the parish jail.
Bergeron said people who use that boat launch, though it is behind a locked fence, have to sign in and out so the parish knows they are there.
"We got our sewer treatment plant, our solid waste," he said, noting they want to know who is accessing the landing for insurance purposes. "We've got our jail back there, our juvenile detention center."
Council members also voted to apply for $20,000 in Rural Development Grant money to improve and repair the Little Caillou public boat launch facility that Recreation District No. 7 operates.
According to the council resolution, that district adopted a resolution recently requesting the parish government to apply for this grant money.
The council formed its Boat Launch Advisory Committee last year after residents complained that Terrebonne lacks enough launches to support a growing number of recreational boaters and fishermen.
Some council members have said that while to acquire more public boat launches would open more avenues to fishermen and hunters, they may hurt privately owned boat launches that may suffer from having to compete with free public ones.
Councilman Harold Lapeyre was absent.
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