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seaeagle
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 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: James Kim from CNET found deceased |
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News just in:
James Kim found deceased | CNET News.com
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The body of missing CNET editor James Kim has been located, authorities announced Wednesday.
Arrangements are being made to transport Kim to an undisclosed location, according to police. Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness for 11 days. The Kim family has asked not to be contacted at this time.
"They have been true champions throughout this whole ordeal," Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said of the family at a press conference. "We just want them to know our prayers have been with them from day one."
After being rescued in good condition Monday, Kim's 30-year-old wife, Kati, and daughters Penelope (4 years) and Sabine (7 months) have been reunited with family members. Kati Kim suffered frostbite on two toes, but will not lose those toes, according to a close family friend. James Kim, 35, left the stranded family car Saturday morning to search for help.
While stranded, the family stayed warm using the car heater, then burned tires when they ran out of gas, authorities said. Kati Kim also nursed the girls.
James Kim, Kati, Penelope and Sabine left their home in San Francisco two weeks ago on a Thanksgiving road trip to the Pacific Northwest. They had been last seen on the Saturday after the holiday in Portland and later at a Denny's restaurant in Roseburg, according to a San Francisco Police Department missing persons report.
The family was expected to return to San Francisco on November 27. When both James and Kati failed to show up for appointments on November 28, co-workers began to worry for their safety. The Kims are known for keeping in touch daily with their friends and co-workers, either by phone or e-mail.
Throughout the Kims' ordeal, messages of support and concern have continued to pour in by the hundreds to CNET, as well as to a Web site set up by family and friends. The site was available only intermittedly following release of the news Wednesday.
James Kim was a senior editor covering digital audio who also co-hosted a weekly video podcast for the Crave gadgets blog. He had been writing a book on Microsoft's Zune MP3 player. Formerly, he was an on-air personality on the now-defunct cable television network TechTV. (continued) |
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Tim
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seaeagle
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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This is interesting. He may have used online directions which recommended a route that should not be used in Winter:
Faulty online mapping linked to wrong turn disaster - Technology - smh.com.au
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Questionable directions given by online mapping services could have contributed to the death of James Kim, who perished while trying to save his stranded family.
Kim, 35, was driving home from a vacation with his wife, Kati, and daughters, four-year-old Penelope and seven-month-old Sabine, on November 25 when he took a wrong turn and they became lost in the wilderness in Oregon, in north-west US.
Kim left his family on Saturday to find help, but never returned. When searchers found his lifeless body yesterday, he had already walked 13 kilometres through rugged terrain, wearing only light clothing.
But Kim - undoubtedly tech-savvy given that he worked as a technology reporter for the online publisher CNET - may never have made that fateful wrong turn if he hadn't used the internet to look up directions for his journey, US media reports suggest.
According to Associated Press, drivers are advised not to take Bear Camp Road to Gold Beach in winter, the route taken by the Kims.
"Authorities say the cyber-savvy family may have plucked the route from Grants Pass to Gold Beach from an online mapping service, unaware of the elements," AP reported.
"Despite its impassable snowdrifts and single lane, Bear Camp Road is offered as the preferred route on some websites and on-board-directions software available on some new cars. And most of those have no business in those mountains in the winter." (continued) |
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Debora
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:19 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| He was a wonderful and very intelligent man....He is sadly missed by many... My heart goes out to his family. |
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seaeagle
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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This is a lovely tribute to James Kim from someone who was not a co-worker:
Russell Shaw: What We All Can Learn From James Kim | The Huffington Post
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I write this not as someone who draws paychecks from CNet, the same employer James Kim did.
I write this as someone who draws air from the same planet that James Kim did.
A planet where the ultimate expression of a husband's and father's love is available to be expressed, but seldom is.
And it is that which we can learn from James Kim.
When James Kim concluded that a week without rescue in the snowy and impassable Southwest Oregon wilderness would likely mean no rescue at all, he committed an act of transcendent eloquence.
Perhaps he should have stayed in the car, but that's not the point here.
For we are considering James Kim as a human being, not as an outdoorsman.
So the story begins.
Clad in tennis shoes and clothing that provided little real shelter against the elements, James decided to leave his wife and two young daughters and set out in search of help. (continued) |
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seaeagle
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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Report highlights mistakes in search for Kims | CNET News.com
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The official search for James Kim and his family in the Oregon backwoods was plagued by squabbling among police agencies, confusion, indifference and mistakes, a government report released Thursday says.
Kim, an editor at CNET Networks, and his family became stranded deep in a wilderness area in southern Oregon during a Thanksgiving road trip. Kati Kim and her two daughters were rescued a week later on December 4, but the body of James Kim was found on December 6. He had died of exposure and hypothermia following a 16-mile hike in ice, snow and water.
The report from the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association was based on extensive interviews with the Kim family and officials from 10 agencies involved in the search effort. It represents a telling critique of what went wrong during the effort, which the authors say will provide "lessons that we can learn from."
To be sure, all search and rescue operations are difficult, and the one for the Kim family was complicated by the fact that nobody could narrow the search area until a local mobile provider provided some information on December 2. Until then, searchers had a dizzying array of less-traveled roads to explore in less-than-perfect weather.
Other aspects that worked well, according to a summary of a post-search meeting, were that volunteer searchers were dedicated, air operations experienced no major hiccups, the Red Cross helped out quickly, and only one injury was sustained during the search. (continued) |
Some of the findings (visit the link for more details) were:
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• Squabbling
• Poor training
• Indifference
• Nobody in charge
• Politics
• Claiming credit
• No standards
• Aerial search (poorly coordinated)
• Mobile tracking (no-one asked the phone companies if they had been "pinged" by the Kims' phones) |
Hopefully some lessons will be learnt from the mistakes made. |
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