The countdown was accompanied by distorted bass so alarmingly loud it drove people into the lobby where — voila!
After classes, she would "get into her car, turn up the rock 'n' roll music loud, and drive home fast.
And I'm not saying that about all the people who have written about me in that way, but there are some people clearly for whom me saying that out loud, it has driven them insane because it's something women genuinely are worried about".
On Capitol Hill, the loudest complaints seemed driven by the failure of the usually smooth Obama team to consult Senator Dianne Feinstein, the new chairwoman of the intelligence committee.
"The decision to be loud or not is driven by the client," Ms. Yiu said.
The criticism leveled at me included being "too much" of everything: I was too smart, too attractive, too athletic, too driven, too loud when I laughed, too enmeshed with my children as a single parent and the coup de gras -- I was too fearless.
"So I went to see the show 'In the Heights,' to try to feel better, and I loved the energy, but I still thought that musicals were bigger and louder and more performance driven than two reserved people just talking and singing to each other".
We'd play it so loud you could drive down the block and make somebody's pictures fall off their wall".
The row centres on the so-called Mosquito, a £500 device that emits a high-pitched whine loud enough to drive away teenagers in the vicinity.
She rented an apartment in Sanaa and asked Abu Jandal to mount a camera on the dashboard of his taxi, so that he could film himself chatting with passengers or thinking out loud as he drove.
