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It’s time to have my ears what?
Smart consumer Listen up: It’s time to have your ears checked By John Cradden Absolutely no pun intended, but here is a piece of information that tends to fall on deaf ears. One in six people worldwide has a hearing loss greater than 25 decibels (dB), according to the World Health Organisation. About half of […]
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Irish Times article: music to my ears
I wrote an article for the Irish Times Insight supplement, which appeared last week, based on a chat with Richard Reed, a musician with a cochlear implant, who I first talked about here. Here’s the PDF First page of article Second page of article
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Tinny radio rocks!
It’s been just over four months since I was activated, so time for an update. I knew that my soundscape would change as soon as I got the implant, but even after four months, it’s still changing. If you’ve read previous blog entries, you’ll remember that I struggled to settle into a program that I […]
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Mapping a path to a hearing sun
I went for my third mapping on Thursday 1st Dec, a week ago. First, a warning: what you are about to read is quite long and technical, and therefore probably quite dull and uninteresting if you’re not a CI user yourself, or at least profoundly interested in the audiological science surrounding it. Jacki, my audiologist, […]
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Hanging on the telephone
On Thursday I’ll be going for my second mapping session, so now seems a good time to report on progress. I had the volume turned up near to its max for the last few weeks in the assumption that I would need more volume as time goes on. But in my case, the volume seems […]
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Richard Reed, a musician with a cochlear implant
I attended a music workshop for CI implantees yesterday at Beaumont Hospital given by a chap called Richard Reed. Reed, from the USA, is a professional musician who lost his hearing several years ago and subsequently got a cochlear implant, although not until about ten years later. Since then, he has embarked on his own […]
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The digital TV switchover
Saorview will replace all analogue TV by 2012. John Cradden looks at how this will work Get connected: Paddy Mulhern from Kinsale, Co Cork, with his many remote controls Thursday October 20 2011 It was all supposed to be a very big deal. The Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte, announced last week that the old, […]
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Pondering a book, but still seeking a stable map
Three weeks since my last post. I need to go to blogging confession again. It’s not as if there isn’t plenty to say. In fact, I am thinking of writing a proper book about all this between now and next year, and have actually spent much of this morning thinking about a tentative outline and […]
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Self-assessed tax returns: DIY or use an agent?
Like visits from the grim reaper, there is never a convenient time for taxes. But for the nearly 300,000 among us who are self-employed, as well as the many thousands more who have non-PAYE sources of income to declare, it’s not like you haven’t been warned. The tax-return deadline date of October 31 is well […]
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Holidaying on the cheap