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http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Hearing_Loss_te...ge_164_2006.php Everybody list their age along with a personal assessment of how you think your ears are or tell us if you have been diagnosed by a audiologist. Then let us know how you fare with the frequency test. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am 30 going on 31 at the end of Feb. and have tinnitus along with lots of ear wax. Use headphones for accuracy. For the low frequencies, I can hear 20 & 50 Hz well. Not as well on 15 Hz except a faint hum and rattling. For the high frequencies, I can hear clearly through 18000 Hz. No dice after that. It's still better than many teenagers today if the comments on the second link are legit.

Go screw yoself.

Mr. Brecker's death is confirmed. Still no official word on Ms. Coltrane yet.

Yea, I tried toggling with it last night. It wouldn't get stuck in the middle. You need a solid nudge either way.

Enough crud to move a rocker-type switch?

I hope it is the first answer.

There is a manual switch fan over my stove at home. Last night, while I was in another room and nobody else was in the kitchen nor was anything cooking at the time (it does not have an auto sensor), it turned on by itself. How can this happen? I'm baffled, stumped, mystified.

Thank you all! I appreciate the suggestions. The paper itself is 6-8 pg. for a history class I'm taking and almost done, so nothing too heavy.

I'm looking more for specific recommendations bookswise. Are there any that stand out?

...anybody here know of good resources besides Google, Wikipedia and online research libraries? Books, maybe? A lame post, I know. But any resources you guys can point me to are appreciated.

My thoughts, exactly. Everybody has a right to their own opinion, but IMO, criticizing somebody who died in this way is so effing lame. It's always easier when you're a Monday morning quarterback. And... I wouldn't exactly call that "abandoning" his family.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGH6MR3191.DTL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STRANDED FATHER'S HEROIC LAST HOURS He crawled, climbed through 5-mile canyon seeking help for family Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, December 7, 2006 (12-07) 04:00 PST Grants Pass, Ore. -- James Kim put himself through a desperate ordeal, climbing down a ravine over boulders and logs, through nearly impenetrable brush, and in and out of an icy creek, in what one rescue leader called a "superhuman" effort to save his family. In the end, his exhausting trek took him in a big, oval-shaped loop to within half a mile of where Big Windy Creek empties out into the Rogue River in the southern Oregon mountains. It was there, surrounded by towering cliffs, that the body of the missing San Francisco man was spotted just after noon Wednesday. He was found floating in the middle of Big Windy Creek, 11 days after his family's car became stuck in the snow on a side road and four days after he ventured off to look for help. The death of Kim, 35, came as a blow to rescue workers, two of whom broke down in tears while talking about his heroics. "We are devastated," said Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson, his eyes moist and his voice cracking. "I'm crushed." In the end, Kim's circuitous hike took him to within a mile as the crow flies from the spot where he had left his stranded family in their car. Rescuers said that if he had continued down the road in the direction he was driving when the car became stuck on Nov. 25, he would have reached a lodge and almost certain safety. About 100 rescuers from seven counties, two federal agencies and the Oregon State Police had searched for Kim since his wife, Kati, and two young daughters were found alive Monday with the car. His family had rented three helicopters and arranged for care packages to be dropped in Big Windy Creek canyon, where searchers had focused their efforts after finding his tracks and articles of clothing and a torn-up map that Kim apparently was leaving as a trail. Even a satellite was moved in space so it could be used in the search. Kim died after picking his way nearly to the end of the steep, 5-mile canyon in the Siskiyou National Forest west of Grants Pass. Wearing tennis shoes, a jacket and sweater, he had left his family on Saturday, following a logging road back the way the family had come, winding around a ridge, first south, then west. After walking 3 to 5 miles along the road, he turned east into the ravine, apparently to follow the creek in the hope that it would lead down to homes. That used to be a recommended survival tactic, but it has fallen out of favor because people who try it usually become more susceptible to hypothermia. Trackers followed Kim's footprints through dense forest and over slippery boulders from one side of the creek to the other. "I can only describe him as an extremely motivated individual," said Joe Hyatt of the local Swift Water Rescue Team, which tracked him along the creekbed. "There were areas where the only option for us to pass through was to enter the water and physically swim." Kim was almost certainly dripping wet. It's not known whether he realized he was approaching the Rogue River, but authorities said he wouldn't have found civilization even had he made it to where the creek empties out. "Based on what the searchers were describing, the terrain they were working in, it seems superhuman to me,'' Anderson said of Kim's effort. A helicopter crew spotted Kim's body in the creek at a place where the terrain becomes impassable on both sides because two sheer cliffs line the water. "He was probably too weak to get back up out of there," Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters said. Had Kim known to continue down the logging road from where the car stopped, he soon would have come to a fishing and rafting resort known as Black Bar Lodge. It was vacant for the winter, but rescuers checked it several times, Winters said. "I admire his effort, I truly do," Winters said. "He has a lot of intestinal fortitude. He comes from the city without a lot of outdoors experience, and he was thinking on his feet, he was very meticulous. ... He had a strong will to survive." Kim's body was taken to the Oregon State Police Crime Lab, where a medical examiner will determine the cause and time of death. Autopsy results could be released as soon as today. Earlier Wednesday, authorities said Kim had been leaving clothing and bits of maps in the canyon, apparently as a trail for searchers to track. "He was motivated -- I mean, we were having difficulty in there," Anderson said. "That was what has been so frustrating; we couldn't seem to get in front of him." The discovery marked the end of a saga that was closely watched in San Francisco, where Kim worked as an editor at the tech news site Cnet, and around the nation. Kim left his wife and two daughters early Saturday to look for help a week after the family became stranded off Bear Camp Road in the mountains between Grants Pass and Gold Beach. Kati Kim, 30, and daughters Penelope, 4, and 7-month-old Sabine remained with their car, 15 miles from Bear Camp Road, and were spotted and rescued Monday. Oregon State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings said that "the commitment by those involved in the search for Kati, for the kids and for James has gone nonstop around the clock. This is obviously extremely tough on those who have had an emotional commitment over the last several days here." Winters said he admired the love and intense commitment Kim's father, Spencer Kim, showed for his son. "He was there, he was relentless in his support of us, and when he looks you in the eye and says he is depending on you. ..." Winters' voice cracked, and he turned away to hide his tears before choking out, "It's tough." Spencer Kim paid for 18 care packages that were dropped in the area this week. Each package included clothes, a wool blanket, gloves and other survival items, and each contained a letter from Kim's family. The Kims left San Francisco on Nov. 18 for a combined vacation and work trip for James Kim. They spent Thanksgiving in Seattle with family, then went to Portland, Ore., where they had brunch with a friend Nov. 25. The family then left on their way to a stopover in Gold Beach. At 8:30 that night, they ate dinner in the central Oregon town of Roseburg, where authorities say they intended to take state Highway 42 over to the coast. But they missed the turnoff, consulted a map, and decided to drive the 55 miles down Interstate 5 to Grants Pass. There they turned onto Bear Camp Road, which is lightly traveled even in the summer and often is closed in the winter. It was stormy, and around the 2,300-foot elevation, about 50 miles from their intended destination, James Kim turned off onto the logging road, apparently by mistake. They were soon winding up the mountains, hopelessly lost, authorities said, and finally became stranded in snow. The Kims ran the engine of their station wagon to power its heater, and when the gas was gone, they burned the tires. They ate what little food they had, and Kati Kim breast-fed her two daughters. Kati Kim and her daughters were spotted Monday afternoon by a private helicopter pilot.

You'd be surprised at how poorly even grads from supposedly elite universities write. My English prof was whining about this today in our class.

I have heard some people swear by ginko biloba.

Hey Jan, I do. It gets pretty loud at night, so I leave the music on. Of course, my problem, besides loud music, may be not having my ear wax cleaned out for at least 15 years. Sometimes, I can hear the wax rattling in there or see it fall out. I've read that scientists are working on ways to regrow the inner ear hair cells (it has worked on lab mice so far), and if they are successful, we will all one day have a cure.

The only thing those two comments had in common are the word "fork", period. I think that was kind of the point being made. One "fork" led to another, as it were. I think we all agree ("doesn't make it right"). I think the guy obviously tried to "push the envelope" (trying to shock the hecklers into submission), and it spiraled out of control (yes, insanely... and hard to understand for a veteran performer of his age). Hasn't our culture been moving closer and closer to "the edge"? Isn't comedy these days increasingly agressive, loud, nasty, vulgar, offensive? Well, I've been around long enough to answer that one myself. Yes. Richards pushed it too far, and in his anger, lost control of any semblance of sanity to control the "comedy". He blew it. Big time. He may have been harboring racist tendencies for years, and maybe not. None of us can know that for sure. It's a huge gaffe, an offensive gaffe, but he didn't kill anybody. Whether or not you like(d) him as a comedian, I think it's best to try to forgive the guy (not in any way to condone, but to allow for the fact that he's a human being who made a huge mistake) and move on. I remember him from a time before Seinfeld, and I never thought he was very funny, fwiw. edit: Just for the record, my post was made before I saw the two previous posts. So, my "we all agree" comment may have come at the wrong time... I see your point and respect it, Jim. It is some of these other comments that have me shaking my head. Thank you and have a great holiday.

I think you need to go back and watch the video again because you are seriously detached from reality.

Buy 4 CDs, get 5th free Thanksgiving and Black Friday. So says an ad in today's paper, at least in the Bay Area.

The only thing those two comments had in common are the word "fork", period. A heckling about being washed up directed at a perfomer in a comedy club should not provoke a rant about lynching and racial slurs for 3+ minutes.

What did you guys think about his apology to "Afro-Americans" on Letterman? Do you think it was sincere? In Richards defense, the clowns laughing in the audience were morons too. BTW, if you think cracker and the n-word carry the same weight and are equally offensive, you have your head in the clouds.

"Reacted poorly"? Uh, he went on a 3 minute racist rant about how they should be lynched and used the slur repeatedly. White folks who are not racist do not do that, no matter how they are provoked.But, uh, black people are f'ed up, in your words, so I guess it's OK. Stop defending this dickhead. Goodness!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061120/ap_en_...ichael_richards --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richards racial tirade draws castigation By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES - A barrage of racial epithets unleashed by former "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards during a stand-up comedy routine drew condemnation from Richards' industry colleagues. Comedian Paul Rodriguez, who was at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood on Friday when Richards responded to two black hecklers with the "n" word and profanities, said he was shocked by Richards' remarks. "Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining," Rodriguez told CNN. "Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations." Jerry Seinfeld issued a statement saying he was "sick over this." "I'm sure Michael is also sick over this horrible, horrible mistake. It is so extremely offensive. I feel terrible for all the people who have been hurt," Seinfeld said of Richards, 57, who played eccentric Kramer on the hit 1989-98 sitcom and whose major credit since was the failed 2000 comedy series, "The Michael Richards Show." Calls to Richards' representatives were not returned Monday. His Laugh Factory tirade began after the two clubgoers shouted at him that he wasn't funny. A videotape of the incident was posted on TMZ.com. Richards retorted: "Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f------ fork up your a--." He then paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities. "You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now mother------. Throw his a-- out. He's a n-----!" Richards shouts before repeating the racial epithet over and over again. Moderating his tone at one point, Richards tells the audience: "It shocks you. It shocks you" and refers to "what lays buried." While there is some chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and people respond with "ooh" after Richards uses the n-word. Eventually someone calls out: "It's not funny. That's why you're a reject, never had no shows, never had no movies. `Seinfeld,' that's it." On Monday, about a half-dozen community activists gathered at the club to denounce Richards' remarks and demand an apology. "These kind of comments hurt all of us," said protester Lita Sister Herron of the Youth Advocacy Coalition. She called Richards' comments hate speech. The protesters also demanded an apology from the Laugh Factory. At a news conference a short time later, club owner Jamie Masada expressed remorse and said Richards will not be back at the club until he says he's sorry. "This is one thing we don't tolerate. ... I personally apologize. I apologize from my heart," Masada said Monday. Richards did appear at the club Saturday, without incident, but that was because he had told the club he intended to apologize, according to a Laugh Factory statement Monday. Rodriguez, also at the news conference, said: "I kept expecting a punch line. It didn't come." Veteran publicist Michael Levine, whose clients have included famed comedians George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield, called Richards' remarks inexcusable. Comics often face hecklers without losing their cool, he said. "It's never seen anything like this is my life," Levine said Monday. "I think it's a career ruiner for him. ... It's going to be a long road back for him, if at all." Daryl Pitts, a Laugh Factory audience member interviewed by CNN, compared the incident to another recent celebrity controversy. "You think about Mel Gibson and what he said, and put that in the context of this, it's very upsetting," Pitts said, referring to Gibson's anti-Semitic outburst during his arrest for drunken driving. Scrutiny of Richards' remarks likely will continue but won't match the level prompted by Gibson's behavior because Richards is far less famous, Levine said. Comedian George Lopez told Los Angeles television station KTLA that he thought Richards' lack of stand-up experience may have been a factor. "The question is you have an actor who is trying to be a comedian who doesn't know what to do when an audience is disruptive," Lopez said. "He's an actor whose show has been off the air, he shouldn't ever be on a stand-up gig."

The guy obviously has some issues. The very fact that he was still allowed to perform the next night is offensive in itself.

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