Conveying Messages Through Subliminal Tape Feed - by Moses

It was in the 1950's when a Projectionist for a film company had an idea. For Theatre film why not insert a frame within 30 frames, of a picture of ice cold Coca-Cola to see if it would increase Coca-Cola sales at the Drive-ins. It worked like a charm, people flocked to the procession stands at the intermission in great numbers, and we saw the beginning of subliminal messaging within tape feeds in film. For the actual film tape, or audio tape for that matter, there are standard test frequencies to preserve the integrity of the broadcast (ie. 1khz, 5khz, and 10khz frequencies are test on analog audio tape, as a measure of insuring that the tape has not been altered from the manufacturing level). It is in the studio however, that the audio engineer has carte blanche in effecting and conveying message to the viewer before the finished product is released into production. Take for example panning signal into different tracks and mixed down to two-track. The engineer in the studio can actually make a statement on a headphone mix to stimulate different areas of the cognitive brain perceptions to guide the viewer into accepting the message that the artist is trying to convey in his/her music (a spacial mix). What would happen if the audio engineer inserted an extremely low-line level track within the mix to convey a message perceived subconsciously, yet not actually heard in conscious realms? This form of subliminal messaging is common place today, and leaves one to wonder if the de-regulated telecommunications industry is better off today than in years' past. This is not to say that subliminal messaging shouldn't exist, it's inevitable and has been around for as long as the recording process in film and audio has been around. In the audio realm there is what is known as precedence effect. This is a minute delay of 5-35 milliseconds, in which a signal is enhanced from the original sound by either a second identical sound broadcast 5-35 milliseconds later, or by panning effect (left signal first, followed by the right side appearing 5-35 ms later). This panning effect was first developed by a speaker manufacturer in the early 1920's, in the name of the Lesley Cabinet Speaker. It has a rotating motion in broadcasting from the source amplifier, giving the viewer the perception that the sound is louder from the side in which the signal is broadcast in origin, as the turning motion of the speaker is continuous. There is also what is known as doubling tracks to create this effect. This is when a second track is added for an instrument and played on top of the first track to add warmth and body to the recording in enhancing the message (especially on vocal tracks). It was in the late sixties that Led Zeppelin was accused of subconscious tape messaging in the form of recording demonic messages and playing them backwards. Did this actually occur? We still don't know definitively to this day.
In film however, there is a danger that subliminal messaging poses. The standard tape feed in film is 30 frames/second non-drop (drop for Television - simply meaning that it can appear to be spliced in T.V, and continuous for film). What would happen if instead of a random frame insertion of a man drinking Coca-Cola, there was a man with a gun pointed at his head? How would the audience' subconscious be effected? We have standards in film and audio tape for this reason in both the analog and digital domains. What we see in the digital domain that exists today is a feed with greater resolution. The concern that this writer has with this change in perception on the visual (or audio for that matter) is that the mapping may be skewed. This, in 'lamen' terms means that with such finite resolution, we aren't capable of digesting the subconscious messaging within the optical cabling. So if the feed is altered from another source (satellite), it could in fact be undetectable to our Government and cause widespread pandemonium. This is the premise; We have a film standard of 30 frames/second in North America. Some Terrorist faction routes one of our broadcasts into one of their satellites and breaks down the feed and creates 1000 frames for each frame. Now, there are 30,000 frames. They insert an image of their choice every 100 frames within the new 30,000 frame protocol. The Government has no idea that our population is being coerced into perceiving what it is that this terrorist faction wants us to believe in our subconscious state. By mapping each frame into 1000 frames and fragmenting the feed in this manner, one has a lost and disengaged connection to the broadcast.
This also works in the audio domain in the name of tape speed. We used to operate at 7.5 Inches/Second in recording studio's. Today we operate at a standard 30 inches per second. When we operated at 7.5 IPS we were maximizing domains, and it was a much more granular perception, in other words the vinyl that was made had greater warmth. One opinion would be to record at 7.5 IPS (to maximize domains) and map (transpose) to 30 IPS. This would convey the message of the feed more effectively to the viewer.

2011/12 NFL Forecast - by Moses

AFC Regular Season

East

New England 14 - 2
New York Jets 12 - 4

West

San Diego Chargers 13 - 3

North

Pittsburgh Steelers 15 - 1
Baltimore Ravens 11 - 5

South

Indianapolis Colts 13 - 3


AFC Playoffs

Division Round

Indianapolis Colts 31 - New York Jets 13

Baltimore Ravens 17 - San Diego Chargers 13


AFC Conference Semi-Finals

Pittsburgh Steelers 34 Baltimore Ravens 13

Indianapolis Colts 31 - New England Patriots 27


AFC Conference Final

Indianapolis Colts 31 - Pittsburgh Steelers 28



NFC Regular Season

East

New York Giants 13 - 3
Dallas Cowboys 11 - 5

West

San Francisco 49'ers 11 - 5

North

Green Bay Packers 14 - 2
Chicago Bears 12 - 4

South

New Orleans Saints 15 - 1


NFC Playoffs

Division Round

Dallas Cowboys 24 - New York Giants 21

Chicago Bears 17 - San Francisco 49'ers 13


NFC Conference Semi-Finals

New Orleans Saints 45 - Dallas Cowboys 17

Green Bay Packers 31 - Chicago Bears 10


NFC Conference Final

New Orleans Saints 27 - Green Bay Packers 24



Superbowl

Indianapolis Colts 35 - New Orleans Saints 34

Steroids and Sport (rehashed) - By Moses

It was 1978 and Ken Norton was the Heavyweight Champion of the World. In his first defence of the belt, Norton was set to fight Larry Holmes. After Holmes and Norton pummeled eachother for 14 Rounds, the commentators of the fight gave their between round analysis. 'There has been some speculation that Larry Holmes is taking a new wonder drug called steroids.' 'Surely the drug isn't infallible.' the commentator said. At the start of the fifteenth, Norton knocked out Holmes mouth-guard. The gas had run out on Holmes and he was dominated in the Fifteenth with the ropes saving him in the final seconds, preserving a split-decision for Holmes and he became the new Champion of the World.
Three years later, Lyle Alzado (a defensive tackle with the Oakland Raiders) came clean to the American media and confessed that at least half of the N.F.L'ers were steroid users. The National Football League refused to act.
It was 1988, and during the Seoul Summer Olympics, Ben Johnson took home Gold for Canada in the 100 Metre Dash (also the 4x100m) with an unprecedented time of 9.78. But wait just a minute. Johnson's' urine sample tested positive for anabolic steroids and the Worldwide Audience watched in disbelief as he was stripped of his title. In the period 1978-1988 no Professional sports League banned their athletes from using anabolic steroids. It is also a very naive assumption that only Ben Johnson used steroids at Seoul. He was however, one of the few that were caught.
This brings us to the argument, at what cost will a Country, Sport, Team, or Athlete go to in hiding rampant steroid use in the name of winning Gold Medals, Championships, and pleasing to the eye statistics.
The Western World was condemning Eastern European training and conditioning methods; ie - impregnating their Women Athletes and aborting the fetus to raise estrogen levels, just prior to the meet. At the same time there were severe denials in the West, of rampant steroid use (and it was widespread). This leads us to the quagmire that we face today. It wasn't until the early nineties that the N.F.L instituted a ban on steroids. Hockey (N.H.L) and Basketball (N.B.A) followed suit, only after embarrassments of Olympic Athlete's Jackie Joyner Kersee and Florence Griffith amongst others during the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.
Major League Baseball however, buried their heads further into the sand. In the early part of the 21st Century it was noticeable that Ballplayers had bulked up, yet M.L.B Commissioner Bud Selig still didn't put together a full-scale ban on steroids. In fact, after Mark McGuire's' monster 1998 - 70 Home-run campaign, he admitted to using legal performance enhancing drugs. The owners seemingly only cared about Gate Revenue and mind boggling statistics, not the integrity of the game. Then came along Barry Bonds superlative 73 Home-run Campaign of 2001, and the press were never a Bonds advocate. This began the smear campaign on athletes in Baseball. Finally, after the 2004 Campaign, Selig and the MLBPA signed an agreement to test athlete's for steroids as a BANNED substance, and it finally became a banned substance in MLB.
In one fell swoop Superstars Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens amongst others were named in a farce of a Congressional hearing, and, continuing the denial that was put in place by MLBPA, Selig, and the Owners, one should at least context the time-frame of steroids becoming illegal in Baseball, as a person can't be held accountable for using a 'legal' product on a whim of trying to look good to the American Public at a later date.
So here we are in mid-2011. Alex Rodriguez has admitted to failing a Steroids test in 2003. Does anyone really care at this point. There are not going to be any astericks next to his name, or to his numbers, as steroids weren't even a banned substance when he tested positive in 2003. This is really just a statement of the decline of Modern Western Civilization at its' finest. Suck the air out of the best of the best to deflect attention from the simple fact that this cheating was documented 30 years ago. It's really a fantastic idea. Scapegoat those people that set the records for you, filled the Stadiums, and won you Championships and Titles, let them lose their jobs and be blacklisted from their collective Sports. Americanism at its' finest, passing the buck, a bureaucratic wet dream.

NFL Season Treat - by Moses

50 Greatest Quarterbacks of All-Time

1. Joe Montana
2. Roger Staubach
3. Tom Brady
4. Steve Young
5. Peyton Manning
6. Johnny Unitas
7. Russ Jackson
8. Warren Moon
9. Brett Favre
10.Bart Starr
11.John Elway
12.Troy Aikman
13.Kurt Warner
14.Dan Marino
15.Terry Bradshaw
16.Y.A Title
17.Otto Graham
18.Fran Tarkenton
19.Dan Fouts
20.Bob Griese
21.Drew Brees
22.Len Dawson
23.Jim Kelly
24.Ben Roethlisberger
25.Aaron Rodgers
26.Philip Rivers
27.Randall Cunningham
28.Kenny Stabler
29.Sammy Baugh
30.Ken Anderson
31.Donovan McNabb
32.Tony Romo
33.Michael Vick
34.Condredge Holloway
35.Doug Flutie
36.Damon Allen
37.Eli Manning
38.Ron Jaworski
39.Rich Gannon
40.Matt Ryan
41.Joe Namath
42.Danny White
43.Joe Theisman
44.Matt Dunigan
45.Brian Sipe
46.Phil Simms
47.Steve Bartkowski
48.Boomer Esiason
49.Vinnie Testevarde
50.Steve Grogan