Word: ambiente
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Underneath the ambient lighting of the Queen’s Head Pub and the white noise of people talking and laughing, a strong voice cut through, and the crowd quickly hushed. It was Chiazotam N. Ekekezie ’08 with the Sisters of Kuumba, starting off the night for “Sing It, Sister! A Celebration of Black Women in Music.” The show’s repertoire ranged from old African-American spirituals to modern songs such as Erykah Badu’s “Tyrone...
...this simplified, consumer-focused Philips, the idea is that advances in lighting technology can migrate quickly to other parts of the company. At the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, heart patients visiting Philips' Ambient Experience catheterization lab can choose from a range of lighting themes, projected onto ceiling screens, to help them relax. And in Philips' new Aurea TV, the shades of light in whatever you're watching are mirrored by lights inside the frame around the screen, luring the viewer...
...study published this week in the European Heart Journal. Study participants were outfitted with ambulatory blood pressure monitors, which were programmed to take readings at 15-min. intervals throughout the night. The volunteers' bedrooms were also equipped with an MP3 recorder and a noise-meter, which recorded all ambient noise, its timing and its volume. Researchers considered a "noise event" to have occurred if any sound, from road traffic, aircraft or a partner's snoring, exceeded 35 decibels (dB) - not a very high threshold, considering that a quiet whisper from 3 ft. away measures about...
...longtime Sarkozy adviser and current presidential spokesman - be handed the nomination many locals believe should go to outgoing deputy mayor, Arnaud Teullé. Teullé and other local UMP officials soon accepted Martinon's being parachuted into the safe seat by the national party, but they failed to diffuse ambient resentment...
...song by adding a story. Instead, the video focused on the sound itself, and it did a perfect job. Koichiro Tsujikawa’s wonderfully strange video for the Cornelius song “Like a Rolling Stone” was another highlight. To accompany Cornelius’ ambient electronics, Tsujikawa created a detailed, swirling world of archways, pedestals, and many small plastic humans. At the end of the video, the plastic humans turn back into rocks. Of the twenty one videos shown, “Like a Rolling Stone” least resembled “commercial flash...