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Boom, Bang Ka-Pow. Reading these words will never have the same impact as hearing the real sounds in action. Written words (and hand gestures) are the way an ever-growing part of our population communicates, due to the worldwide increase in hearing loss.

Combine modern music players, cellphones, cars, trains, planes, lawnmowers and construction tools, with our need for dangerous decibels at concerts and on TV. For even more of an earful, there has been an increase in heavy machinery and loud factories thanks to mass industrialization.

Now a music player or cellphone can deliver a death metal concert straight into your ear canal which, unless you want a permanent ringing soundtrack, is not a good thing. Worst of all, hearing damage is permanent and irreversible. If you need more motivation to dial down the volume, know that chronic noise affects your health. It increases anxiety levels, elevates blood pressure, disturbs sleep and even causes you to eat more in restaurants. To prevent these health dangers and permanent loss of hearing, use this guide to ensure you're always equipped with surround sound.

Sound Travels

To understand how hearing happens, imagine a fluid-filled, snail-shaped corridor (cochlea) .1 which contains a structure called the Organ of Corti, which consists of inner hair cells and outer hair cells that are topped by a large number of stereocilia. When sound is relayed by the outer and middle ears into the cochlea, a wave goes through the fluid, strumming the hair cells that are strung across the interior. This movement is then transformed by the hair cells into electrical energy, which is sent to the auditory cortex in the side of the brain (in the temporal lobe) where it's understood as sound. Exposure to loud noises for extended periods causes those hairs to lose their ability to snap back into place and, in some cases, break off.

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is caused by two types of noise: sudden bursts (such as guns, car backfires or fireworks) or continuous exposure to loud noise (such as working on an airport runway or regularly listening to a dangerously loud MP3 player). At first the hairs sustain what is called a temporary threshold shift (TTS) - a brief shock to the system. If this type of noise exposure continues over a prolonged period of time, permanent changes may occur. This is called permanent threshold shift (PTS) and typically affects the higher speech frequencies around 4 000 to 6 000Hz. This is due to actual damage - or even death - of the cilia. Initially, the sufferer might not notice the hearing loss, but rather a difficulty understanding what people are saying, particularly when there's background sound. As the high-tone hearing loss worsens, an obvious hearing loss appears.

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The first warning sign of permanent hearing loss comes in the form of tinnitus, a constant noise defined as the perception of sound without an external stimulus. Non-pulsatile tinnitus is the high-pitched ringing sound one often hears, and research suggests that the tinnitus is generated in brainstem structures in response to damage to the cochlea. It can affect sleep, concentration and even mood. The cure in the Middle Ages was to pop the eardrum (tympanic membrane) [2]. Thankfully, we’ve moved on since then.

While there is no effective cure for tinnitus at this stage, one can recover with a period of ‘rest’ for the background noise levels to fall. If the threat of both these complications isn’t enough to make you drop the volume levels, consider that repeated exposure to excessive noise may increase your risk of developing an acoustic neuroma, a benign nerve tumor that grows inside the skull and increases hearing loss, according to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Not ideal. See below for the culprits that cause tinnitus and hearing loss and the solutions to beat them.

Hear no Evil

Without question, noise exposure is the number one risk factor for acquired hearing loss these days. Other factors include genetics, disease, specific medication and a few others. But these all pale in comparison to the damage caused by noise. One common myth with hearing loss is that you lose it naturally as you grow older due solely to biological factors. Not true. Hearing loss associated with old age (known as presbycusis) is at least partly related to noise exposure. So loud noises are the enemy, no matter your age. Here’s a list of the most common noise offenders.

Portable Music Players

Current research shows that portable music players are public enemy number one when it comes to sabotaging your sense of sound. The damage caused by noise exposure of this type is a function of both the loudness as well as the duration of the sound. The tendency for young people to spend every spare moment listening to a MP3 player with earphones in is placing them at higher risk. And research provides proof. In a study of 238 students at West Virginia University, 50 percent of the students were exposing themselves to potentially harmful loud music.

Most of the students considered the hearing loss to be serious, but 76 percent of the students believed that they would not lose their hearing until a greater age. These and other studies highlighted how hearing loss is perceived to be age related. Unfortunately, being male doesn’t help things as we tend to think we’re invincible. In a study done by the University Medical Center in Rotterdam, they found that most adolescents – especially male students – indicated that they often played their MP3 players at maximum volume. Although they appeared to be generally aware of the risks of exposure to loud music, they felt little vulnerability. In the West Virginia study, 66 percent of the students had experienced tinnitus but 58 percent of those students reported not being concerned about it.

Sound Solutions

Typically, a person can tolerate about two hours of 91-decibel sound per day before risking hearing loss. The answer seems pretty simple – keep your volume below 75 decibels. To do that, see if your MP3 player has a volume-limit function. iPod users can download a volume limiter. A quick rule of thumb. You should be able to hear someone that’s an arm’s length away from you. However, it’s not that easy. When there’s background noise from the gym, car or construction site, we tend to pump the volume up. At full volume, music players can reach over 100 decibels, only slightly softer than a chainsaw and loud enough to damage your hearing in five minutes.

If you want some protection, choose your earphones carefully. Invest in a decent pair of noise-blocking headphones. When music has more low-frequency sound waves, you perceive it as louder even at a lower volume. Both those tricks will help you to keep the volume down. Lastly, if you ever experience any ringing in your ears, see an ENT specialist or audiologist.

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Everything about Doorbells

Inventors start with the idea about how to do something or how to do something better.?Mark Twain once said that ‘an accident is the best inventor’. An apple falling on Newton’s head was an accident that led to his discovery of gravity. In the same way Joseph Henry invented electronic doorbell in the year 1831 because he never wanted his visitors to holler their heart out to inform him of their arrival.

The ice box turned into the refrigerator, black and white movies turned into Technicolor and land phones turned into cell phones. While progress moves us forward, it turns yesterday’s inventions into tomorrow’s wonders. Man has always looked for convenient ways to lead his life. This is the reason why a simple device like a door bell has not been spared.?The “pull” type doorbells, where one had to pull a short handle or a knob to make the bell ring. These were the good old mechanical doorbells. Mechanical doorbells came in many forms – but the most popular were the twist style and pull styles. For a twist mechanical doorbell – the user had to twist a stem which moves a set of gears to push against a bell (much like a mechanical alarm clock). Pull style doorbells consisted simply of a rope hooked to a bell.

As other inventions were improvised, door bells were also improvised. The “pull” type door bells were soon replaced by the “press” type door bells.
Designer doorbell buttons were popularized in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. Long before more modern electric doorbells came into fashion, grand mechanical doorbells abounded and could even help distinguish one house from the other.

Wired Doorbells became more compact and flexible. But there was always the problem of wires when looking to install the wired doorbells. So soon, wireless doorbells were introduced. The Wireless Doorbell is yet another extension of modern society’s focus on function and electronics. The Wireless Doorbell’s ability to be installed easily and its increasing signal strength make it a valuable purchase for many consumers.

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The sky is the limit in the case of wireless doorbells or door chimes. There are basic sounds like Westminster, Dong, or Ding Dong and then there are others that offer a lot more. Some models will play a list of over 50 songs and some will even let you record a message or play your favorite song in CD quality recording. This can be an especially intriguing option around the holidays as there are a number of different holiday songs. At the very least, this feature will be a good conversation piece. Also, for those who already have a wireless doorbell, you can even purchase add ons that provide more chimes or sounds. Regardless, of the option chosen most devices offer 12 or 13 basic chimes. Whether you want to go beyond this list will depend a lot on your personality and personal taste.?

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One of the great things about guys is they’re generally uncomplicated creatures and most of the time it’s not difficult to make them happy.

The exception is when it comes to intimate-relationship issues. So, as part of our ongoing quest to help you understand the male mind, we asked some guys to fill us in on what women everywhere want to know. With guaranteed anonymity they were very honest (occasionally, brutally so):

1. I think about you more than you realize. I just don’t phone or e-mail you every time it happens.

2. I never tell my guy friends details of our sex life. But I make sure they know I’m getting it regularly and I lie about how hot it is just to show off.

3. Making me ask a man for directions is like me telling you to ask another woman for fashion advice.

4. I love being seduced, so please do it more often. Always being the one to start things off sexually puts more pressure on me than you realize.

5. It’s actually not okay to pee in front of me all the time. It’s just a little too familiar, you know?

6. If I stand a chance with you, never play hard to get. I’m so freaked out by rejection I’ll just assume you aren’t into me and stop calling.

7. When it comes to your guy’s penis, remember three things: if it’s small, say it’s the perfect fit; if it’s average, say it’s huge; if it’s huge, he’ll know – but he’ll love hearing you say it anyway.

8. Until we have The Talk it’s safe to assume I’m still exploring my options when it comes to relationships.

9. Ask me to do something for you and you’ll remind me I’m a man. Tell me how to do something and you’ll remind me of my mother.

10. Anything impressive I do dating-wise I probably learnt from a previous girlfriend.

11. You may have heard you can tell whether a guy is good in bed if he’s a good dancer. It’s not true. Like most men, I’m too self-conscious to let loose on the dance floor.

12. Telling me I’m right – no matter the topic – will score major points with me.

13. The fastest way to get me to do something in bed that really gets you going is to tell me what it is and ask me whether I’m up for the challenge.

14. A $2 T-shirt that barely covers your butt is sexier than 95% of costly lingerie.

15. I’m sensitive about my body but I won’t admit it. If you point out my stomach flab I’ll probably shrug off the comment in front of you, then privately check out my stomach later.

16. It’s not a good idea to read something into every word I say when we fight. I’ll be caught off-guard. For me, it’s like trying to pass an oral exam I never knew I had to study for.

17. If I walk away from you without an explanation, I either had to let one rip or scratch my balls.

18. I only ask you to dress up as a schoolgirl to try to have the sex I never had in high school.

19. If you’re playing with me and I’m not getting hard, you’re probably doing it too lightly.

20. It’s a good sign if I make fun of you. We men only do that with people we like.

21. If you have to ask me whether I enjoy giving you oral sex then you have your answer; I don’t.

22. I’m honestly blind to reading your body language in bed. Speak up.

23. You can discover what fires me up if you can find my porn stash.

24. If I say you look nice when I show up, it’s polite. If I say it later on, it’s an excuse to stare.

25. I have at least one ‘girlie’ song on my iPod. But I’ll deny knowing how it got there if you ask.

26. I know girls burp and fart. But hearing you do it is worse than when I do it – not fair but true.

27. Next time you insist on freshening up in the bathroom before sex, make it quick – or I will probably start wondering what nasty deed you’re doing in there.

28. I pick out clothes that feel good. If you want me to dress cool, get something comfy.

29. When you get up from our table at a restaurant or bar to go to the bathroom, I scan the room to see who checks you out.

30. Seeing your feisty side makes me feel as connected to you as you do to me when I’m sensitive.

31. Looking at other women does not mean anything other than that someone’s outfit happens to be more revealing than yours.

32. Making me carry your bag in public may be helpful to you but it makes me feel like I’m wearing a skirt: emasculated. If you ask me to carry it all the time I’m going to resent it.

33. All guys masturbate. Most of us have been doing it since we learnt how to use the thing.

34. I’m totally in favor of you wearing some skimpy clothes when we’re out with my friends.

35. Want me to watch more chick flicks with you? Then don’t tell all your friends how I got tearful during the last one. My reputation is at stake.

36. When I bring up something I did for an ex, I’m trying to prove I’m good boyfriend material.

37. I know I’ll never be the bad-boy type – but please don’t refer to me as a ‘nice guy’.

38. If you hate my mother, I’ll think less of you. But if you always agree with her, I’ll also think less of you.

39. Giving me details about your period is as attractive as me describing my bowel movements.

40. When I propose something kinky in bed, always tell me you’ve never done it before.

41. Sex is much more intense if you look into my eyes.

42. Yeah, it’s annoying you take so long to get ready – but when you look so fantastic, all is forgiven.

43. Ask me how many women I’ve slept with and it’ll be low if I like you and high if I want a fling.

44. Do something naughty in bed once in a while; something that will shock me. Getting a glimpse of your wild side is the sexiest thing ever.

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Some crushes are inappropriate but excusable. For example, you may find yourself doing a double take when someone from the sales department walks past. He may be cute but it’s not a good idea to admit you have a thing for him, because you work with him. And because he’s a salesman.

Still, at least he’s hot. What happens when you find yourself going weak in the head for somebody who really is not in the slightest bit nice to look at?

Funny Guys

It’s vaguely understandable when the object of your crush is attractive in other ways – for example, he could be funny. Take American talk-show host Conan O’Brien. (I would.) He looks a bit like Tilda Swinton, only more unsettling. He has ginger hair. He has no discernible eyebrows. He’s about nine feet tall and can’t weigh more than 65kg. But every time he gives the double thumbs up, grins into the camera and says ‘Buddy boy,’ I want to jump his bones. Funny is so sexy that it can make up for there being no actual sexy present at all.

That’s why I’d happily do Michael Cera or Seth Rogen. Or Steve Carell or Vince Vaughn, spare tyre and all – though – if you needed glasses but didn’t have them on, you could justifiably think those two fairly good-looking.

Right, so we can like men because they make us laugh, but that doesn’t explain it all the way. It’s not as though the world is short of sexy men who are also funny. Remember Brad Pitt in Snatch? Hysterical. Jimmy Fallen is adorable and one of the funniest men on screen. But, given the choice, I think I’d rather sleep with Jack Black. I think it’s the chubby cheeks.

Nerds

One step away from the funny-looking funny guy is the funny-looking clever guy. Cathy, is into Barack Obama. Who isn’t? But if you take away the power and the stage lights, what you’re left with is a sexy voice stuck in a stick figure with big feet and crazy ears.

Still, Obama is an extremely glamorous nerd, and he does have that smile, the one that could probably charm even Julius Malema into submission. Obama is also cool. Cool goes a long way. That’s how men such as Billy Bob Thornton and Slash – get my sexiness vote.

My own nerd crush is not cool. If I ever saw Jarvis Cocker walking in the street, I would immediately delete all the Blur songs off my iPod and run over to accost him. I might break a bone, but I’d do it anyway. I don’t know why. I can’t explain it.

Crusty Old Men

Which takes us another step further, into the category of just plain inexplicable. These are the really inappropriate crushes, because they seem not to have any redeeming features at all. Or, if they do, they are not enough to cancel out all the scary features. And yet these men are sexy. I’m not the only one who thinks so – just look online.

Did you sense that I was procrastinating a bit in the last paragraph? I was, because I keep cringing at the thought of typing what I need to type next. Okay, I’ll be brave. Here goes: Gordon Brown. I would totally do Gordon Brown. I expect it would take years of therapy to discover why.

Some people believe power can make a man sexier. In some ways they’re right. It might be because charismatic people are often the ones who end up holding power, and charisma is sexy. Someone I know once met red-faced, puffy-nosed Bill Clinton – just after the Monica Lewinsky thing – and described him as ’sex on wheels’.

But the thing is, Gordon Brown doesn’t even really have power on his side. He’s one of the least popular prime ministers in British history. He’s not funny; he looks like he doesn’t brush his teeth; he has a freakier smile than Dracula.

At least Jeremy Clarkson, my number-one ‘older’ crush, is less embarrassing than Mr. Brown. He’s crusty and flabby, and his habit of wearing jeans that sag around the bum has been blamed by some for the decline in denim sales during the ’90s.

But he’s also opinionated and clever and funny. And politically incorrect and often inappropriate. Like my crush on him.

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Despite an investment of over 10 000 man years and l$ billion of research money, Creative’s latest product, the Zii, hardly inspired anyone when its true nature was revealed earlier this year. We were hoping for something like an iPod-beating MP3 player. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting concept, and a very big move for Creative, which moves it away from the sound cards with which the company has become synonymous.

Creative was so excited about the Zii that it decided to merge its 3DLABS with key personnel from Creative to form ZiiLABS, a wholly-owned subsidiary revealed at the same time as the Zii chip. It’s worth pointing out that Zii isn’t really an entirely new concept-it’s based on a 3DLABS media chip known as the ZMS-05.

Creative obviously decided the Nintendo-esque Zii was a catchier name, and the new processor is subtitled the ZMS-05.

What, exactly, is the Zii? It’s touted by Creative as ‘Stemcell computing’ which doesn’t mean it’s a freakish experiment that’s able to sprout new limbs, unfortunately. The naming instead refers to the base cells that make up multi-cellular organisms, the ones that can repurpose themselves to be a bit of bone or skin if needs be.

Stemcells are actually a good analogy for the Zii. The processor is able to repurpose its processor elements (PEs) – the 24 ‘cells’ that make up the chip – for different tasks, such as processing video, 3D graphics or sound. This differs from traditional parallel processing architecture, where the processing elements can only perform one task. In addition, each processor element is capable of switching between functions thousands of times each millisecond.

The advantage of this system, according to Creative, is that unused parts of the chip can be switched off to save electricity. In fact, Creative state that the Zii will consume 1/100th of the electricity of a supercomputer. But bearing in mind supercomputers probably require a small power station to run, that isn’t saying much. We get the idea, though.

Zii Selling Point

The Zii can also be infinitely scaled upwards – if you have a million chips, they’ll all work together as a single supercomputer processor. Admittedly, that’ll be one humungous device, but the Zii’s other selling point is its size. It’s a tiny chip, and Creative is marketing it primarily for use in mobile devices. And, with motherboard and netbook supremo MSI onboard, it could be featured in any number of upcoming devices.

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To demonstrate the Zii, Creative used a desktop-like PC platform with the footprint of an A4 sheet of paper. It showed how it can handle high-definition video without straining and display 3D graphics in Half-Life (ahem). The paradigm here is for the Zii to be able to output from a small mobile device, such as a smartphone, onto a high-definition 1,080p display. Which will be mightily impressive in practice.

The Zii chip includes all the codecs needed to display video and 3D graphics, as well as web pages and images. Creative hopes to put it in the hands of manufacturers, who will repurpose the chip as they see fit. The platform delivered alongside the chip includes a Linux-based operating system, the software development kit, hardware platforms and ecosystem.

What is Zii Cost?

What will make or break the Zii is its price. Creative is boasting a low cost per chip, and its energy-saving properties will be attractive to people looking to build credit-crunch-defying devices. It’s all there on paper, but we’re going to have to see something really impressive before we give the Zii the red carpet and full blessing.

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Breaking Down Cravings One at a Time

I know you’ve heard of one-day at a time, but one-minute at a time? Come on, who needs that? Hum, maybe you. If you’ve struggled repeatedly, yet continue to fail in your weight loss efforts, what’s going wrong? Was the way you tried to stop eating a specific food too restrictive? Did you say, “I’ll never eat ice cream again,” or “I can’t eat cookies again.”

Now, veering off from your eating plan occasionally will not be earth-shattering, but if you make a habit of giving in to your eating impulses, your moments of weakness will certainly catch up with you.

Studies have found that the majority of people tend to have most of their cravings in the evening between dinner time and bed time. They believe that this is due to not only being tired and therefore not being able to fight your cravings but also the stress of the day may be on your mind and you don’t even notice what you are putting in your mouth.

Ensure that you have at least 5-6 meals per day on a regular basis. It helps to guard against carbohydrates and sugar cravings for most people. For weight watchers, you should regulate the intake proportion with a right balance mix of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, fatty acids, minerals and fiber. Getting the right nutritional support is basic to curbing your body cravings.

A physical craving has the following qualities:

? You are physiologically hungry.
? The craving does not go away if you try to wait it out.
? The craving intensifies over time.
? It has been sometime since your last snack or meal

Your sleep-wake cycles are out of whack and you are relying on stimulants to get you through the day. This could be stress/lifestyle related, or it could just be that you’re not getting to bed on time, or at consistent times.

When your having food cravings try to create an emergency distraction. Turn on the ipod, your favorite tunes, call up a friend, do something you were putting off or go exercising. Being with friends, music and exercise are all really great ways to pass the time until the craving is gone.

In concert with the fundamental principle of impermanence found in mindfulness literature, Dr. Marlatt developed a technique called “urge surfing” which uses mindfulness and breath-focused meditation to help us ride out the urge. An urge to engage in an addictive behavior can be seen as an ocean wave in that it starts small, gets bigger, crests, and finally subsides.

And last but not least, you should equip your house with smart carbs. This way, when a craving does occur, you don’t have anything unhealthy to munch on. Try purchasing more whole grain products, more fruit and more vegetables. All of these foods contain fiber, vitamins, and minerals which will sustain hunger quickly and naturally.

This takes away much of the emotional pressure you feel in wanting to eat your favorite foods. In this sense the “cheating” days are like pressure valves which help you regain your strength and continue with the diet for longer.

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There are every few easy ways to lose weight. However, you can lose weight by walking. This is one of the most overlooked but most effective exercises when it comes to weight loss. Without the appropriate exercise then you won’t lose weight at all.

Here are a few ways that you can lose weight by walking:

Walk the walk.
Take the time out of your day (about 30 minutes a day) and just take a walk outside. It is best to take a walkman, cd player or ipod with you so you can keep yourself entertain while walking. You should do this about 4-5 times a week if you want to see immediate results. This is really one of the easy ways to lose weight.

Diet Journal: Record what you eat and when you eat it. This is important. It is surprisingly easy to forget what you eat. I’ve had people delude themselves into thinking they barely eat and complain when they don’t lose weight. The fact is that they’re munching on potato chips and candy while they’re busying working at their job.

Reduce your meal portions

One of the easy ways to lose some excess weight is to cut down the quantity of your meal portions to reduce food consumption. Make sure that you take small portions of food every time and increase the frequency of eating to about 5-6 times a day by including healthy servings of fruits and vegetables like salads. However, make sure to avoid salad dressings that are oily and fattening.

Eat more protein-based foods

Eat more protein-based foods which can help in increasing your metabolism and burn fat more easily. A protein rich diet helps you to preserve your lean muscle and gives you good energy after a workout. Make sure that the protein foods that you choose are low in fat to get the best results.

One of the best ways to get your body burning the fat that you want it to burn is to spike up your metabolism. This puts your body into a super overdrive mode that will have your metabolism killing all the calories you eat, which also forces your body to burn the excess fat. The way you do this is by intense cardio for a short period of time. Usually running sprints can do this kind of thing. It doesn’t have to be crazy, it just has to be efficient.

Spinning like when you were a kid

Remember how you naturally would spin around as a child? Those were the days. No stress, no job, no responsibilities… just pure fun. Well anyway, guess what? Those spins act in a natural way on your body to balance out your hormones. Without balanced hormones, you can’t lose weight and keep it off.

Control of calories. Take anywhere from 1300-1800 calories per day. Although you can eat 5 meals a day, each meal should not exceed 400 calories. If you find it hard to follow, you can replace 2 -3 meals a day with shakes and easy calories.

If you are really in search of an easy way to weight, there are multiple way outs. What you need to do on your end is to stick to a particular positive plan and you will be successful.