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4 messagesMost Subliminal Messages In A YouTube Video
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Darryl Learie
I would say or posit that a subliminal message is one that is definitely noticeable if it is shown to the person where to look, but presented in such a manner that most people will not even notice the message.
Akin to find the words in a word find - the words are there, its just not obvious. So I would go further as to say my subliminal messages at 0.9 seconds are slow enough for the eye, and brain to process, in HD thats about 29 frames/second - but the message takes a whole 25 frames (aprox.) that's about an equivelant to 1 frame a second , anything that is beyond 12 frames a second is undiscernable to the eye-brain connection. 1/12 of a second, the brain can no longer comprehend it, and thus renders it as motion. So I would say my messages are 12 times slower than necessary for the brain to be aware of the word - even if the mind is not.
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Tai Star
good stuff. so, uh... how do you count subliminal messages???
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Emily Miethner
What defines a subliminal message? I don't think this should be a record.


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iTunes 11: album art tab is greyed out, so can't add image
I tried searching the web for this one, but no luck. In iTunes 11, when I open "Get Info" for an album iTunes cannot find the artwork for, the Artwork" tab is greyed out. Therefore, I cannot add album art manually like I have always done in iTunes. It still works for other tracks not related to this album which is made by a small institute for therapeutic reasons ("rhythmic entrainment" from the Strong Institute).
Now, I should say that I first tried to highlight about 3 albums by this artist to use the same album art on all of them. The album art window in the "Get Info" window is very small and in the lower right hand corner with at check box next to it. I dragged the jpg image into it, it displayed there, and the box became checked. But when I closed the window the the album did not have the art/image. And when I again open the "Get Info" window for multiple tracks or just one track for this album, there is no album art anywhere--plus, as I said, the tab is greyed out. WTF?!
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In CSX Transportation v. McBride [oral arguments transcript], the court heard arguments on whether recovery under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) [45 USC §§ 51-60 text] requires proof of proximate causation. The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit declined to hold [opinion, PDF] that common-law proximate causation is required to establish liability under FELA. Counsel for the petitioner argued that FELA was intended to follow the ordinary common law procedural approaches in respect to proximate cause:
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Several trials and appeals have delayed criminal prosecution of Enron executives over the years. Of all the those indicted, three received prison sentences, and two, including Shelby, have been given probation sentences. One executive was acquitted when his charges were dismissed at trial. In 2008, a judge ordered [JURIST report] that three of Enron's CEO's be retried after an appeals court refused to dismiss charges [JURIST report] against the men. In 2006, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] reversed the convictions [JURIST report] of four former Merrill Lynch [corporate website] executives found guilty in connection with an Enron. All of the Enron defendants were acquitted on various charges in 2005, but the jury failed to reach a verdict on all counts, and prosecutors later re-indicted [JURIST reports] the defendants.
This decision marks the second time Kosovo's highest court has declared circumstances surrounding the country's president unconstitutional since the country declared its independence from Serbia [JURIST report] three years ago. Then-president Fatmir Sejdiu resigned [press release] six months ago following a decision [press release] by the Constitutional Court that his dual roles as president and head of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) violated the constitution [JURIST report]. The fledgling country also remains embroiled in several war crimes proceedings stemming from the 1998-1999 Kosovo war [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], including the recent demand [JURIST report] by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) [official website] that Albania and Kosovo investigate and prosecute alleged incidents of organ trafficking, inhuman treatment and other crimes by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [official website].
The investigation into al-Nashiri's allegations of the secret prison's existence and his abuse there began soon after former Polish prime minister Leszek Miller denied any knowledge of a secret CIA prison [JURIST report] in Poland. His denial followed confirmation by a former CIA agent that the agency tortured [Spiegel report] al-Nashiri in 2002 at a secret prison located in Poland. According to the agent, al-Nashiri was stripped naked and hooded before a gun and a drill were held close to his head. In addition to denying the existence of the prisons, Miller also stated that he believes claims of the prisons will jeopardize the safety of Polish citizens and members of the military currently serving in Afghanistan. Former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski has also denied the existence of the prisons. Both he and Miller maintain that they will not discuss the allegations of torture until the completion of an investigation into Poland's role in the US prisoner rendition [JURIST news archive] program. The original investigation into the existence of the CIA-operated prison was launched by the Polish government [JURIST report] in September 2008.
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In reality, many of these countries use the death penalty as a convenient way of getting rid of troublesome people and showing that authorities are tough on crime. It is often imposed after unfair trials and based on confessions extracted through torture. It is often used against political opponents, poor people, minorities and members of racial, ethnic and religious communities. It is sometimes even used against people who allegedly committed crimes when they were under 18 or who have significant mental impairments.
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26 February 2001
When Advertising Isn't According to Hoyle
by Ed Ross
The Super Bowl has come and gone. My wife and I are like Jack Sprat and his wife, in that I want to watch only the game and she wants to watch only the commercials. We cross each other quite often going in and out of the room.
Inger says that the ads are much better than the game. Her proof is that she stayed awake during the commercials, but I slept through part of the game. In fact, I did start to find the ads interesting, and I laughed aloud at one about the running of the squirrels, where brave, but terrified, madmen ran through the streets of Pamplona pursued by squirrels.
"Inger," I asked, "Would you like to buy a squirrel? I think they are selling them."
"We have squirrels. We don't need any more," she protested.
It brought back a memory of me as a rookie sales engineer. I was calling on a small electronics company while its president was taking a final look at a fancy ad that somebody from his ad agency had brought for his approval. Spotting me, he said, "Here's a sales guy. Let's see what he thinks about it."
I looked at a colorful layout with many circuit modules spread over a full page. "Are you selling modules?" I asked.
"No," said the president. "We want to modularize other company's circuits."
The president turned to the adman and exploded, "WE'RE NOT TELLING THEM WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO SELL. NOW TAKE THIS DOWN!"
He indicated a broad headline across the top of the page. "LET US ENCAPSULATE YOUR CIRCUIT."
(Cut to the present.) On Super Bowl day plus one, the Boston Globe interviewed ad agency people to rate the Super Bowl ads. The criterion for their judgment seemed to be "creativity." They didn't seem to care how many squirrels were actually sold.
They liked a commercial where a fellow squirts beer into the face of a date he's trying to impress, and they loved one about a car that's up in a tree. I saw both of these, but there was so much going on in the ads that I missed the sponsors' identities. Fortunately, the Globe told me, so now if I want face-squirting beer or a tree-climbing car, I'll know where I can find them. The squirrels are a little harder to find; the Globe said the sponsor is EDS. Looking up EDS (Electronic Data Systems) on the Internet, I found that the squirrels "represent the quick and nimble companies you must compete against to survive in the Digital Economy." I'm not making this up.
EDS's ad agency could counter with the observation that I did in fact find out who the sponsors were, so the ad must have worked. I admit that anybody who has decided to write a column about beer squirting, tree-climbing autos, and squirrels that represent companies is going to find out something about the sponsors, but I doubt if I'm typical in that respect.
I believe that advertising is one of the professions whose members strive to impress one another with how clever they are rather than perform the function for which they're paid: selling the clients' products.
I'm not against cleverness in advertising. In fact, I think humor in ads is great. But for an effective message, you need to make sure your prospective customer knows who you are, what you're selling, how to contact you, and why he should. These are the basic rules of advertising. Follow them and you are, as the old expression goes, doing things "according to Hoyle." (The original Hoyle, Edmond, published his Rules of Games in 1742.)
Motion control isn't immune from vacuous, clever advertising.
When I make up my Ross Guides, I ask motion control manufacturers the question, "Why do customers buy from you rather than from somebody else?" The answer is often something like, "We have the shortest delivery time" or "We give the best design assistance" or "Our product is super reliable." Usually, their advertising has no more to do with their actual capabilities than squirrels have to do with data processing or encapsulation.
Back when I worked at Raytheon, I had the best idea I've ever had. Our big thing at the division was quality. We knew we had the largest and best quality assurance department in the business. We always had great statistics on the products' reliability, but we never felt we got the proper recognition. I tried to get the ad people to trumpet, "ALL OUR COMPONENTS ARE MADE ACCORDING TO HOYLE!" Our quality control (QC) manager was Herb Hoyle. A picture of Hoyle himself, smiling and confident, would have been included. This would have been followed by stories of how hard it had been to find a QC manager named Hoyle and of whether Herb was one of Edmond's descendants. This would have been clever, but it would also have focused the publicity on the key sales problem.
The ad people would have none of it. If you think there's a not-invented-here syndrome among engineers, wait until you deal with ad men.
So if you can't make your company advertise effectively, I won't blame you. I understand. MC
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Edward A. Ross is president of Ross Associates in Needham, Mass., and author of The Ross Guide to the Motion Control Industry. Contact Ed at (781) 449-5123; fax: (781) 449-2942.
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Ring Modulation Nation
Hello again Everyone,
up late again trying to save the universe! I've got a special treat for you all tonight. Ring Modulation. As a few of you have heard, I now own a Moog MF-102. I've been trying to research how players use this pedal, or others that function in the same schematic. To be honest, it's been rather rough, trenching through the internet looking for settings, tips, tricks, anything and coming up with enough of the picture that I figured out how to fill my gaps. So this all starts off with basic addition and subtraction. Whatever frequency (or pitch) you input will be added to and subtracted from the carrier frequency (the one you set with the Freq. knob on the bottom left), which gives you two new frequencies. Now, using the mix knob on the top right you can blend your original signal with the new one, combining to three pitches coming out. If I playA4 @ 440 and set the frequency knob to C6 @ 1040 we hear F#6 @ 1480 and a rather sharp D5 @ 600, which could be interrupted as a D major triad with it's fifth (A) in the bass. Where it gets crazy is when you play notes other than A, the two "new frequencies are going to move because of the moving relationship of your source and the frequency knob. Throughout my searches in forums I found it interesting that just about everyone referred to the Ring Modulator as it's own instrument being triggered by yours, and that thinking about it like this yields more musical results. There are a few things to take into account when playing with an instrument like this: It is a numbers game. If you tune your frequency knob to close to a perfect unison, it could sound rather hollow, because x-x=0, so some distance between the two is a good idea. Additionally, because of the equations nature, it doesn't take into account that the amount of Hz between pitches increases as you move up through the spectrum. What this can yield is a much more stable set tones, that act more like drones, moving in 2nds instead of 5ths and 6ths. Another common production is that your descending line will have more motion, because of the nature of the spectrum. Just for a clear example, moving up 180 Hz from 914 yields what we hear as a Major 2nd (Bb5 to C6), where as moving down 180 Hz from 653 yields what we hear as a Major 3rd (E5 to C5) Another thing to keep in mind, you will find negative results in the subtraction side of the algorithm. What happens here is that it will fall further and further into the negative side of the spectrum. What the pedal, and additionally our ears translate this as, is it's inverse. If you cross 0, you will hear two rising pitches. If I understand correctly, it will happen when your source is playing a higher frequency than the frequency knob is set to. So I just finished using Excel to create a pitch to Hz spreadsheet and a series of equations displaying the output pitches of two major scales. They are listed below for you to look at, along with the frequency chart. I also posted a video I found helpful on youtube. It's a 3 part series, and it's heady, but I found it helpful. This is going to be a rather extensive research, so keep a look out for more. Enjoy, CJF Thanks PSMProjectVids, I found this very useful! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=mATt_HyfhOc Here is another helpful video I found on the web. Thanks Knobz.net! http://vimeo.com/38672729
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