December 19, 1990

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New chairs bring peace-of-mind

BALTIMORE (AP) — Imagine
leaning back in a chair amid the buz
of the office and hearing only silen-
ce.

The secret is in the chair headrest,
which has speakers on each side that
duplicate a sound wave of the
repetitive background noise, then

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create the exact opposite.

The meeting of the waves cancels
the noise.

“You don’t know what the
background noise is, then you hear
this wonderful silence,’’ said Wayne
Swann, director of technology liaison
at the University of Maryland.

The speakers don’t affect the

can silence engine noise as well as or
better than a muffler can, said Eldon:
Ziegler, president of general systems
at Noise Cancellation Technology.

mufflers will increase engine efficien-
cy and reduce fuel consumption
because traditional mufflers drag on

Ziegler and Hesse says the new
reducing noise

the engine to decrease exhaust noise.
Ziegler predicts the new mufflers will
be on some cars by 1994.

Another company, Digisoriix of
Stoughton, Wis.,

headphones for pilots in 1988.

eliminating redundant noises in of-
even,"’ Swann said.

is focusing on

from industrial

affect irritability, stress levels."”

began manufacturing sound-reducing
“We're talking about reducing or

fices,
“You don’t notice them but they can

ability to hear or music,
They just eliminate annoying hums
and other background sounds.

The chair sits in the office of
Noise Cancellation Technologies Inc.
as an example of the potential for
the new silencing technology.

The commpany is one of about a
half-dozen worldwide that are racing
to apply electronics and digital

Lambada loses step

By MARK BASTIEN
CP National Writer
Fads have a way of making folks who were
jastic about them during their 15 minutes of

to make
quiet headphones, noise-cancelling
mufflers and non-vibrating engine
mounts. The technology also reduces
engine noise that Permeates airplane

interest airplane
cabins and car interiors.

The increased interest in reducing
noise comes as more and more
workers and companies are becoming
aware of the dangers of noise
pollution. The U.S. National In-
stitutes of Health says more than 10
million Americans have suffered
hearing loss from noise exposure.

Steve Tretter, a University of
Maryland professor, created a

formula that Noise
Cancellation Technology has applied
to computer circuitry to reduce noise
from several sources at the same
time.

The first experiment with sound
cancelling noise came in 1936, but it

fame feel, well, a lithe woozy when reminded of them
after the novelty has faded.

So if yOu were a willing participant in 1990's No.
1 fad, prepare yourself for a sick thud when you read
the next two words.

The Lambada.

It seems so long ago and far away, doesn't it?
But there you were, half-naked, sexily swaying to
sultry sounds imported from Brazil via France.

At first it seemed little more than a rumor, but
when news reports gave eyewitness accounts of
shimmying Muscovites, we knew it had to be true.
Then, doctors in Taiwan announced the dance led to
“‘abnormal sexual relations’’ between partners.

Which is probably why, in New York City, 13
scantily clad couples got married in a mass
to the Lambada beat.

But now The Forbidden Dance has found its
final resting place in the fad Hall of Shame, along

with such things as the hula hoop, Happy Face and
pet rock.

We salute it — and hope we never hear about it
again.

Of course, there were other things in 1990 that
were far too ubiquitous for our taste, and so we
hereby bid them a non-at-all-tearful farewell in this
completely disrespectful list.

HOME VIDEOS —. They were supposed to be
funny, but wasn’t it unsettling that so many people
were eager to show their pants falling down on TV?
And what about all those schizoid cats careering into
walls?

TORN JEANS — The point of this fashion fad
— shredding your jeans across the backside — was to
reveal wildly patterned boxer shorts beneath. Some
people, however, wore nothing beneath, and thereby
revealed all.

BREAST IMPLANTS — They've always been
big, but in 1990 they were a cosmetic surgery must.
Even Jane Fonda bought a pair — size large — and
by the end of the year she had a big engagement ring
from a big media mogul, Ted Turner. Coincidence?

SEASONS onrelines

From All of Us at

puter circuitry in the mid-1970s that
the field took off.

By the end of the 1980s, the
technology was being applied to

Used cars a better deal

By TIM O'CONNOR bank loan for $15,000 at 16 per cent interest to buy a
The Canadian Press new car.

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or used car, you can bet the family rustbucket that two —-bank $17,400 (principal plus $2,400 interest). But with

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Vibration Technologies Inc. in
Phoenix, Ariz.

+ The Maryland company and

cliches will get tossed into the fray.

The first is that buying a = car is buying
someone else’s problems.

The second bs that as S08 as you drive a new car
off the dealer’s lot, you’ ve lost thousands of dollars.

“I’ve always favored a new car, but you are in-
creasing the cost of carrying the car because of
depreciation,”’ said Gordon Pape, a Toronto author
and broadcaster specializing in personal finance.

“It’s compensated for by personal convenience

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and are working with muffler
manufacturers.

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and and lower repairs,
But purely from a cost point of view, a used car is bet-
ter.”

North American cars depreciate by 20 per cent af-
ter one year, 50 per cent after three, said

20 per cent depreciation, the car would be worth only
$12,000.

However, the numbers don’t persuade everyone.

“*With a used car you're getting a car that’s been
serviced, and, depending on how it’s been treated, you
can’t really be sure what you're getting,’’ said Pat
Curran of the Canadian Automobile Association,
which provides members with road assistance and
travel information.

Bouchama acknowledges the risks, but argues
it’s smarter and more economical to buy a used car as
long as buyers do some research and take some
precautions.

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OTTAWA (CP) — Canadians will

content starting Sept. | under a new
policy announced Monday by the
Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission.
“We're trying to place increased
emphasis on Canadian by

More play for
Canadians on FM

g the Canadi
chairman of the federal broadcast
regulator.

Popular-music stations on FM will
have to boost Canadian contefit to
30 per cent of on-air time — the
same percentage AM stations now
are required to play — from FM’s
current 20 per cent.

The new policy also increases the
advertising allowed on FM stations
by up to eight per cent.

Instead of the current daily limit
of 150 minutes, or 1,050 minutes in a
normal broadcast week, FM stations
can use 15 per cent of their week —
1,134 minutes — for commercials.

Colville denied that the advertising
limits were boosted to assuage
stations which must play more music
by Canadians.

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Director in B.C.

VANCOUVER (CP) — Dan
O’Bannon became a film director
because he got tired of seeing what
other moviemakers did to his scripts.

O’Bannon authored the 1979
science-fiction classic Alien. The
script, written on spec, would be
worth a couple of million dollars
today — much more than when he
wrote it.

“The trouble is, just when the
prices got really high I decided to
stop selling "em because I’m tired of
giving away my best scripts to other
directors,"’ he said in an interview.
“‘When you’re directing, it’s your
creative voice that gets to the public.
As a screen writer it never does. It’s
an interpretation by someone else.””

O’Bannon has other box-office
hits, including Total Recall with Ar-
nold Schwarzenegger and Blue
Thunder, which starred Roy
Scheider.

This week he’s in suburban Bur-
naby, wrapping up his second effort
at directing on the $3.5-million
horror film, The Tomb of Charles
Dexter Ward.

Souvenier coins losing face

VANCOUVER (CP) — It’s a case
of heads it wins, tails you lose.

At least that’s the way it seems for
collectors of souvenir coins, who are

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discovering there’s a flip side to
buying coins from the Royal
Canadian Mint.

The mint, which has raised billions
of dollars in gold and silver coin
issues in the last 15 years, has
refused to honor the face value on
some of its coins.

Until recently collectors assumed
they had a guarantee that coins are
legal tender.

But coin collectors have recently
found that more than $193 million
worth of silver coins issued for the
1976 i Olympics are not wor-

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th their face value — and the mint is
not accepting them back.

The mint flooded the com-
memorative coin market with 25
million of the silver coins in $5 and
$10 versions from 1972 to 1976.

At the time it was considered a
bargain. Investors paid $86 for a set
of four coins with a face value of
$30, the lure being that the value of
the coins’ silver contest was then
$80.

It meant the downside risk was
limited by the $30 redemption value.

But today they may bring $16.

World silver prices are so low the “i

metal value is below the face value
stamped on the coins.

But the Bank of Canada won't
take them, the chartered banks don’t
want them and the mint says it
doesn’t buy back what it sells.

“It’s only coming to light that
there’s potentially a huge problem,”
says Tony Ma, president of Van-
couver Bullion Currency Exchange.

“*Does this mean the government
does not have a buy-back policy for
any of its coins?’’

A New Jersey-based investor pum-
ped $120,000 Cdn into the Montreal
coins on the assumption they could
be banked in Canada.

Now he’s got a sack of coins and
nowhere to spend them.

His Ottawa coin dealer, Paul
Nadin-Davis, says that’s tolerable if
you only own $120 worth but not so
nice if you have $120,000.

“The government is legally and
morally obliged to provide a
mechanism for the redemption of the
coins,"’ he said. ‘‘It wants to keep
the profit from the coins but it
doesn’t want to honor them as
‘money.”’

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O’Bannon said he didn’t strike it
right with Total Recall, either. He
finished writing it in the early 1980s
and struck a ‘‘low-ball deal’’ before
Alien was a hit.

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It's about the commitments
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With Total Recall, he got ‘‘totally
fed up with handing over my
stuff to another director.’

“I said: ‘That's it. Let it sit oa the
shelf and rot if I can’t direct

While producers aren’t exactly
beating a path to his door, O’Ban-
non said, ‘‘they’re starting to take a
few steps up the lawn.”

And directing The Tomb of
Charles Dexter Ward is a labor of
love, said O'Bannon, who has been a
fan of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft
since he wasa 12-year-old growing
up in Missouri.

The Lovecraft tale was made into
a film in 1963 by Roger Corman and
starred Vincent Price. But O’Bannon
denied his film is a remake of The
Haunted Palace.

“Usually, it’s a mistake to remake
a good film because it’s hard to do
anything except do it worse,’’ he
said. ‘‘In the case of The Haunted
Palace, it was a very minor film.
They had done almost none of the
things that I wanted to do. They had
diverged from the original material,
leaving a wide-open field.””

O'Bannon is no fan of sequels
to
Alien, should never have been made,

either. Aliens, the follow-up

he said.

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