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...Louisiana man filed suit against Apple, claiming that iPods are "not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss." Soon after, health authorities in France demanded increased safety measures. So the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., revised its software to set the maximum volume at 100 dB (the equivalent of standing next to a pneumatic drill) for devices sold in Europe. Portnuff says certain devices sold in the U.S. can reach beyond 100 dB, however; some have recorded levels as high as 115 dB, similiar to a chainsaw or rock concert...
...cruising, though, Bombardier's noise-and-vibration-reduction system (cousin to technology used in submarines) monitors sound levels through microphones inside the plane walls. A computer initiates vibrations through special absorbers to counter those from the propellers, reducing the resonance of the airframe and hushing the cabin about 4 db quieter than many jets. ATR upgraded its four-blade propeller to a six-blade fiber-composite one with a smaller diameter that generates less vibration and cabin noise when coupled with other noise-dampening features...
...deep and throw everything they found onto canvas. The results were displayed at the VES 25: Non-Observational Painting open house on January 9. Roving Reporter showed up to admire the artwork and bother people.Drew Beattie, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental StudiesRR: What is your middle initial?DB: I don’t really use it.RR: Sure, but it’s The Crimson’s style to attribute people using their middle initials.DB: No.RR: Okay. So what were you trying to get your students to accomplish in this class?DB: Well, it’s technically a beginning...
...Deutsche Bank (DB), the largest bank in Germany, said it would post a loss of $6.4 billion. Analysts believe the red ink at Citigroup (C) could be more than $10 billion. Bank of America is expected to turn in a $3.6 billion loss. Those figures do not include JP Morgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS) and a number of deeply troubled overseas companies including UBS (UBS), Credit Suisse (CS), and Barclays...
...Than a Feeling," but it's not a riff anyone had heard before. If you'd asked one hundred Sex Pistols/Ramones wannabes how F-Bb-Ab resolves, one hundred of them would've told you it goes to C, duh. Kurt knocked the world on its ass by choosing Db instead. Turn up "Teen Spirit" even louder and the noise goes fractal, exposing the overdubs and high production values, and revealing the apotheosis of punk-rock authenticity as a magnificent simulation - better than the real thing could ever...