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Sensory hair cells inside the cochlea, the auditory portion of the inner ear, convert sound waves into electrical pulses which are then delivered to the brain.

The loss of these cells and the neurons they contain is the most common cause of hearing impairment and  deafness.

At birth, humans have about 30,000 hair cells, which can be damaged by infections, ageing, genetic diseases, loud noise, or medical treatments.

Ususally, the damaged hair cells do not regrow in humans. But recent research has kindled hope that nerve deafness may one day be curable.

Experiments have shown that implanting a gene known as Atoh1 into the inner ear of a mouse embryo caused non-sensory cells to become the sensory hair cells.

Earlier research had hinted that this would happen, but this was the first time that working hairs werre created by gene therapy.

The production of the working hair cells in a mouse embryo are a crucial step toward using similar therapies in human patients.

How can a silly ear cause me stress?  Well, my uber-cheap headphones I use when I run shorted out again.  I had them less than a year!  So, in order for me to run with entertaining music playing in my ears, I needed to get a new pair.  Here is the problem.  I had to spend nearly an entire day going from store to store to find an old-school set of earphones that have the foam speakers that sit on top of your ear.  You know the kind that are connected by a wire that goes over the top of your head?  Every store looked at me like, "why would you want those?" and said they didn't carry them any more!  What?!  I cannot use any other type of headphones because of the ear deformity!

You would think that buying headphones would be no big deal, right?  Thanks to this IPod, earbud craze, the stores no longer have old-school earphones!  Actually they do carry the huge ones that air traffic controllers would wear, but I can't run in those!  They only carry the kind that actually have to be inserted into your ear (impossible for me due to the outward fold), or have this hook-thing that hooks onto your ear.  The hook-thing doesn't work either since my ears are also unnaturally small and flat against my head. 

So, I am now the victim of what I call ear-discrimination!  Don't the marketers and retailors realize that not all ears are the same?  Some of us were just born different and should not be punished for it or be made to feel like a second-class citizen!  As a white middle class person, I have never experienced discrimination of this magnitude and I, for one, think it should be stopped!  We all would like to enjoy music while we run, and yet, some of us are being denied! 

I would also like to take this time to applaud one maker of headphones who has maintained its sale of traditional headphones.  Ironically, they are 'Koss' headphones who perhaps I have a cosmic connection to as I have married into that very name.  (I would also like to say, that if there are any makers of Koss brand electronics reading this now, and think I should somehow be included the electronics fortune as a long-lost family member, please feel free to contact me directly at any time).  So here's to the under $5.00 Koss headphones!  Fight the good fight against ear discrimination and please, don't let the music end for me!

• jBPM es un framework de desarrollo (recordemos que termina siendo un jar que contiene clases para conformar un BPMS  - Business Process Management System) y no un producto para usuarios finales. Por esto mismo no hay que caer en la mentira de que jBPM es una herramienta solo para analistas que dibujan procesos y estos ya funcionan.
• Cuando usamos el framework jBPM no hay ninguna instancia de servidor de jBPM corriendo. Pensar de esta manera lleva a conceptos erroneos sobre el framework. En el caso de que estemos usando jBPM con persistencia, en este caso si tenemos una instancia de Base de Datos con un schema propio de jBPM corriendo, con la cual el framework jBPM va a mantener conversaciones stateless.
• WebConsole es una aplicacion web que funciona out-of-the-box para probar los procesos que modelamos y ver si se comportan correctamente. Lamentablemente WebConsole no es una aplicacion que puede ser puesta en produccion debido a sus comportamientos erroneos, su falta de QA y su falta de seguridad (opinion personal y respaldada por lo que dicen los foros oficiales de jBPM)
• GPD (Graphic Process Designer, plugin para eclipse) ayuda pero esconde varias cosas y deja afuera a muchos usuarios de otros IDEs que no sean eclipse. Mejor aprendamos a escribir XML.
• Entre jbpm-jpdl.jar y jbpm-enterprise.ear, la diferencia es el empaquetado, las configuraciones (jbpm.cfg.xml, hibernate.cfg.xml) y algunas clases que van a ser fundamentales en entornos Java EE

Marlee was born to Libby and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. Marlee lost all hearing in her right ear, and 80% of hearing in her left ear at the age of 18 months. Marlee was raised in a Jewish family in Morton Grove, Illinois, USA. Marlee graduated from John Hersey High School in nearby Arlington Heights and attended Harper College.

Marlee made her stage debut at the age of 7, as Dorothy in a children's theatre version of The Wizard of Oz, and continued to appear with the same children's theatre group throughout her childhood.

Marlee's film debut, 1986's Children of a Lesser God, brought her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and an Academy Award for Best Actress. Marlee is one of the few actors to win an Oscar for their debut performance, and as of 2008, still holds the record for youngest winner in the Best Actress Oscar category. Marlee was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her work as the lead female role in the television series Reasonable Doubts (1991–1993) and was nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest appearance in Picket Fences. Marlee became a regular on the series during its final season.

Marlee later had recurring roles in The West Wing, and Blue's Clues. Other television appearances include Seinfeld ("The Lip Reader"), The Outer Limits ("The Message"), ER, Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Marlee was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest appearances in Seinfield, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Practice.

In 2002, Marlee published her 1st novel, Deaf Child Crossing, which was loosely based on her own childhood.

In 2004, she starred in the movie What the Bleep Do We Know? as Amanda.

In 2006, Marlee was honored at AOL's 2nd Annual Chief Everything Officer Awards. Marlee joined the cast of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on Sunday, 17 September, 2006. In the episode featuring a deaf boy with a blind father, grandmother and sisters, Marlee was the guest host. Marlee wrote and published a sequel to Deaf Child Crossing, titled Nobody's Perfect, which was produced on stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in partnership with VSA arts in October 2007.

Also in 2006, she played a deaf parent in Desperate Housewives. Marlee also had a recurring role as Joy Turner's (who made many jokes of Marlee's deafness at her expense) public defender in My Name Is Earl and played the mother of one of the victims in an episode of CSI: NY. Marlee starred in the Baby Einstein videos Baby's Favorite Places: First Words-Around Town and Baby Wordsworth: First Words Around the House, both of which were designed to introduce sign language as a form of non-verbal communication.

In 2006 Marlee was cast in season 4 of The L Word as Jodi Lerner, a gay deaf sculptor. Marlee appeared in season 4 (2007) and season 5 (2008) as the girl friend of the show's main protagonist Bette Porter (played by Jennifer Beals). It is unclear if Marlee will continue in season 6, the show's final season.

On 4 February, 2007, Marlee performed the Star Spangled Banner in American Sign Language at Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida. Marlee again starred in Baby Einstein in March 2007 with My First Signs, which introduced sign language using common words such as "mommy" and "milk." Marlee also appeared on Hollywood Squares with Tom Bergeron as emcee. Though she could not hear and was not encouraged to use her own voice to speak, her personal interpreter Jack Jason (who also appeared with her during talk show and publicity appearances) accompanied her on the panel and she handled questions with his assistance - including offering some humorous quips (in ASL) in her own right.

In January 2008, she appeared on Nip/Tuck as a television executive.

On 18 February, 2008, it was announced that Marlee would participate as a competitor in the 6th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Marlee's dance partner was newcomer Fabian Sanchez. Marlee and Fabian were eliminated from the competition on 22 April, 2008.

On 13 July, 2008, Marlee participated in the Taco Bell All Star Legends and Celebrity Softball game as part of All-Star Weekend activities at Yankee Stadium. Marlee scored a run and had 2 RBI for the National League team.

Marlee is actively involved with a number of charitable organisations, including the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, VSA arts, and the Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. Marlee was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to the Corporation for National Service and served as chair of National Volunteer Week.

Marlee received an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from Gallaudet University in 1987. In October 2007, she was appointed to the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees.

Marlee has been close friends with actress Jennifer Beals since they met in an airport in the 1980s.

Marlee married law enforcement officer Kevin Grandalski on 29 August, 1993 (in Henry Winkler's back yard). They have 4 children: Sara Rose, born on 19 January, 1996; Brandon Joseph, born on 12 September 2000; Tyler Daniel, born on 18 July, 2002; and Isabelle Jane, born on 26 December, 2003. Marlee lives in Los Angeles with her family.

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The Spirit
Watchmen
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Rock N Rolla
Eagle Eye
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Quarantine (ha just kidding... wanted to make sure you were paying attention.)
Terminator Salvation
Quantum of Solace

Hopefully these films, or at least most of them, are good; so that I can fantasize that I'm in most of them right before I drift off to sleep at night.

In other news, I moved back to my apartment to telecommute part time for my mom, and am currently trying to get another part time job for spending money, of which I have absolutely none at the moment. In fact, to prove my sudden urge for alcohol but not a penny to my name, last night I found an almost empty bottle of vodka sitting in the back of my freezer which had practically turned into sludge since there was almost none left. I searched through my fridge for a mixer, and found an old Ruby Red Squirt. I quickly mixed the vodka in with the Squirt and had myself a cocktail, and it was delicious!
After one drink and a partially empty stomach, I was feeling slightly buzzed (I know, I was pretty ashamed by that too.) I suddenly had the great urge to make my computer set-up a lot more comfortable and, in a clumsy stumble, began moving furniture from one side of the house to where my computer sat. In the end I came up with a rather large yet squat chair, of which is dirty pink with a nice layer of cat hair on the ass of the chair. I added pillows and blankets and ended up with a rather habitable situation, since I sit in this exact spot 20 hours a day anyway.

As some of you know, I do play WoW and had my account hacked one time awhile back, had all my guys deleted, everything gone. So I started over, and started to build a repertoire of guys; all different walks of life. Well, to put a little salt on the 'ol wound, my account was taken over once more and everything deleted just a couple of weeks ago. So much to my chagrin I needed to start over, so I got a brand new account with brand new account information, and shiny new characters waiting for me to play and level them. Well... I've played a bit, but to be honest, I am so sick of going through the same shit over and over again to climb my way up agonizingly so, to my friends' levels. The moral of this story is that I just haven't been playing as much as I had hoped. When I got the internet I psyched myself out and was saying things like,
"When I get my internet, I am SO going to be on WoW all day and night!" And here I sit now, bored as shit, not even wanting to double click the enticing gold and black icon.

Sorry I haven’t been posting a whole lot, but I would love to get back into it, since I have a fondness for writing. Quite frankly I’m not very good at writing, but if I went through my life only doing things I was good at and not attempting to do things I was bad at, then I would probably be a lump on the floor of an unfurnished bedroom sucking my thumb.
Let’s be honest, I’m not that great at a lot of things, but I do them anyway. And if not for my own satisfaction then for the look on the peers around me being pissed off that I’m skiing down a black diamond course with my arms flailing about and my eyes soaked with frozen tears from the inevitable death ahead of me.

Well now I am going to fumble around the internets trying to find something to do so that I don’t have to go to sleep and be awoken with an insatiable itch from having an ear infection and it now healing improperly (it is still stuffed like mad.)

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If I squeeze it, pus comes out. It’s totally disgusting.

My housemate also has a gross ear spot. It has developed over time into a bulbous red lump which protrudes unattractively from the side of his head. While he’s watching TV, reading, etc. he picks at it.

…While he’s picking at the lump, his face contorts hideously while he concentrates on whatever he is doing with simultaneous ear-picking in such a way that his skinny chin bunches up around his throat and his mouth takes on an equestrian appearance which consists of a combination of teeth, lips and tongue.

My point is – I’m trying to resist the urge to go near my tiny ear-lobe spot for fear of it snowballing into the scene described above.

One just never knows.

Since my last post I’ve done so much stuff I now can’t be bothered to write about it.

I am going to the dentist and the orthodontist this afternoon so I get to leave work at 3. I’m actually a bit pissed off because I DID have the following appointments:

3:30 Orthodontist

4:20 Hygenist

4:40 Filling

But then this morning the dentist called me to cancel the 4:20 hygenist appointment!

Totally annoying as it means I still have to take the same amount of time off work – PLUS I now have this random (shopping) gap in the middle, PLUS I now nee to reschedule, thus taking even more time off work.

Not to mention the orthodontist appointment is only the first of many.

Why does everyone in this country just assume that no-one has full time jobs to go to!!!??

N’ermind!

Anyhoo – that was boring. I’m off now! xxx

Two Ogden [Utah] neighbors got into a fight after a minor league baseball game that ended with one them biting off a part of the other's ear. The two men had returned home from the Ogden Raptors baseball game late Wednesday when police said one man apparently offended the other with a comment.

Ogden Police Lt. Scott Sangberg said the offended man responded by striking the other in the face several times and then clamping down on his ear with his teeth and pulling back with enough force to rip off a part of the ear.

OGDEN -- A night of baseball for two Ogden neighbors ended in mayhem when one of the men assaulted the other and bit off a portion of his ear, police said.

Read the story here.

As the man of God Pastor Chris extensively taught the word of God, the already excited crowd heard words that instilled hope and joy into their hearts. They were reminded that God loves them and desires every one of His children to trust in His word and enjoy the best in life. How glorious!

Night of Bliss Canada was so exceptional; it was a night of great impartation as countless miracles were recorded. One of such mind blowing miracles was the testimony of a lady who was shot in her left eye in the year 1991; she became deaf in her left ear and blind in her left eye as a result of it. But when she came in contact with the tangible presence of the Holy Ghost at the meeting, her left ear popped open and she also began to see in her left eye that had been blind for seventeen long years. Wow! What a double miracle!!

This was one of numerous testimonies that took place at Night of Bliss and in subsequent blog posts we will bring you more of the great testimonies of that unforgettable night in Ontario, Canada.

Why not share yours too? The Night of Bliss Blog is just the platform for you to do that. Hurry now, post your testimonies and experiences during and after the blissful night in Canada; let’s celebrate the blessings of God in our lives!

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Oi. I'm very hygienic okay. I like being squeaky clean as much as the next psycho with OCD. But see, I'm not biologically privileged to have large ear holes and stinking wet ear wax. My DNA simply does not compute large ear holes and stinking wet ear wax. Instead, I was 'blessed' with really tiny ones (holes, not wax), so instead of being able to clean my ears with a regular cotton bud, I end up pushing the wax deeper inside.  And the wax, fortuitously, is always hard, dry and stinks no less than yours.

Hm... I've heard of candle waxing or ear candling, which is supposed to use the heat from a candle to draw out dirt and residue. This service is available in spas and massage centres. Haven't dared to try it though. Sounds scary. What if the candle wax drips into your ear and then your eardrums are permanently scarred and deaf? What if your OWN wax catches fire? Lol. Anyway, a quick Google on it tells me that medical researchers say its a hoax. *shrug*

Googling it also told me THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE ME OUT THERE. Hallelujah, I'm not alone!! I always think I'm the only donkey with this problem but ermm yea, there are other freaks of nature out there too. I think evolution kind of overlooked us in this respect. Maybe the extra space for the ears went up to the head to make more room for the bigger brains. Heh heh.

God bless you all.

Love and hugs

~Anointed

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¡La música está realmente todo sobre la audiencia! Cuando usted juega u oye que la música su oído está utilizada para reconocer las notas, intervalos, tonalidad importante/de menor importancia de los acordes, escalas, séptimos acordes, dominantes y así sucesivamente. EarMaster favorable es un programa de entrenamiento del oído que combina una variedad de ejercicios tuvo como objetivo al principio y a músico avanzado. Las áreas del ejercicio en EarMaster cubren todas sus necesidades de entrenar acordes, intervalos, ritmos, melodías, escalas y modos. El profesor particular estándar incluye 440 lecciones y el profesor particular del jazz tiene 211 lecciones específicas al jazz. Usted puede también crear sus propias lecciones y configurarlas exactamente mientras que usted desea.

# EarMaster Pro es increiblemente interactivo.
# Le ofrece información en actividad a desarrollar.
# La lección cambiará cada vez que usted la tome.
# La dificultad incrementará en función a sus progresos.
# Desarrolla su habilidad para tocar con otros músicos.

Idioma: Mulitlenguaje.
Tamaño: 6.9 MB

Link de Descarga

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There's also an ear modeling tutorial by the same user, which I have to check out still.

If you want to, feel free to check out the BlenderNation posts for both the head and ear tutorials.

So, five days until I fly to London, leaving all of my Floridian dramas behind.  

While I should be focusing on packing and the exchange rate, my mind rather likes to circle around my loose ends here (Guitar Guy) and the ones I have over there (Royce), and all of the fantastic new ends, loose or no, that are inevitably on the horizon.

I sent Guitar Guy a rather propositioning email on facebook, a day or two after he added me (would've been the night before last).

Initially, I obsessed about whether it was worth risking the very movie-esque ending we'd already had, in which he scooped me into his arms right in front of his girlfriend, and I had to literally grip onto a door-frame to prevent myself from chasing him outside and kissing him so passionately that the gods would have no choice but to start a spontaneous rainstorm ... but I came to the conclusion that not knowing if there could've been more would eat at me for the rest of my life if I didn't send it.

So, basically, I told him that he'd blind-sided me with the whole taking my last week off of work thing, that I didn't get to properly say goodbye, and let's have a drink (or something).  I then left my phone number and told him that either way, it'd been fantastic knowing him.  I sent it right after getting home from work on Monday, before the hazy, judgement-impairing effect the club has on people wore off.

He hasn't responded, and honestly, I don't really expect him to.  It's enough to know he was flooded with numbness and sexual frustration upon receiving it, and will likely continue to experience these things every time he sees an updated friend status or added pictures from me.

Maybe when I come back to visit, in February or so, I'll swing into the club and finally have that covert, stairwell tryst I so fantasized about.  Maybe not.  I'm afraid that if I ever go back to the club, even if he is there, that the magic will have passed, and that really is a tragedy.

So, while it will likely eat at me, here and there, that I never got to kiss him (etc.), I don't think it's going to seriously haunt me, just because of how well I've been dealing with the aftermath of our possible final encounter, and the fact that I'm not psychotically anxious after having sent that email.  I'm rather calm about the whole affair, and I feel like I've done everything I possibly could in the situation.

Rather opposite of how I was when I arrived back from England in December, after having met Royce.  Every time I sent an email to him, I sat around in rabid bouts of anxiety hoping for a good response, and being uncharacteristically needy.  The odd thing there, was that I really didn't think I'd ever see Royce again, so I'm not sure why I cared so very much.

Anyway, like it or not, my whole world is about to get turned on its ear.  In five days.  

I tend to enjoy jolts, though.  I tend to enjoy them very much.

Maybe I should've put that in my email to Guitar Guy.

A hearing impairment exists when an individual is not sensitive to the sounds normally heard by its kind. In human beings, the term hearing impairment is usually reserved for people who have relative insensitivity to sound in the speech frequencies.

Hearing loss can be inherited. Both dominant and recessive genes exist which can cause mild to profound impairment. If a family has a dominant gene for deafness it will persist across generations because it will manifest itself in the offspring even if it is inherited from only one parent.

People who are hard of hearing have varying amounts of hearing loss but usually not enough to be considered deaf. Many people who are deaf consider spoken language their primary language and consider themselves "hard of hearing".

People with unilateral hearing loss (single sided deafness/SSD) can hear normally in one ear, but have trouble hearing out of the other ear. Problems with this type of deficit is inability to localize sounds.

Those who lose their hearing later in life, such as in late adolescence or adulthood, face their own challenges. For example, they must adjust to living with the adaptations that make it possible for them to live independently. They may have to adapt to using hearing aids or a cochlear implant, develop speech-reading skills, and/or learn sign language.

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