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Definitions for unrealʌnˈri əl, -ˈril
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word unreal
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
un•re•alʌnˈri əl, -ˈril(adj.)
not real or actual.
imaginary; fanciful; illusory; fantastic.
not genuine; false; artificial.
Origin of unreal:
Princeton's WordNet
lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
"ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
"this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"
artificial, unreal(adj)
contrived by art rather than nature
"artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal(adj)
lacking material form or substance; unreal
"as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
unreal(adjective)ʌnˈri əl, -ˈril
very strange, like a dream; = weird
All the bad things that happened seem unreal now.
unrealʌnˈri əl, -ˈril
fake; not real
larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
I just had an unreal hamburger.
Origin: Negating prefix un- + adjective real
Webster Dictionary
not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal
Unreal is a first-person shooter video game developed by Epic MegaGames and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive in May 1998. It was powered by an original gameplay and physics engine that now bears the game's name, one that had been in development for over three years in founder Tim Sweeney's garage before the game was released. Since the release of Unreal, the franchise has had one sequel and two different series based on the Unreal universe. One official bonus pack, the Epic-released Fusion Map Pack, can be downloaded free of charge. Unreal Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali was released in June 1999, and added new missions to the single player campaign of Unreal. Unreal and Return to Na Pali would later be bundled together as Unreal Gold. Additionally, the games were updated to run on the Unreal Tournament version of the game engine.
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not existing in fact
He lives in an unreal world imagined by himself.
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Caption: This 3-D image derived from NASA's TRMM satellite Precipitation Radar data on February 26, 2013 at 0654 UTC showed that the tops of some towering thunderstorms in Rusty's eye wall were reaching heights of over 12km (~7.5 miles) as it approaches landfall near Port Headland, Western Australia.
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In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed us that the most glorious food in an American city was not to be found at the pretentious rooftop restaurant he called La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books, he established himself as "our funniest food writer" and, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of American eats." Now the three books have been combined in what Trillin calls The Tummy Trilogy.
Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own." Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond "Your children are either the center of your life or they're not," Trillin has clearly reveled in the role of family man. Acknowledging the special perils to the privacy of people living with a writer who occasionally remarks, "I hope you're not under the impression that what you just said was off the record," Trillin deals with the subject of family in a way that is loving, honest, and wildly funny.
Remembering Denny is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir of a friendship, a work of investigative reporting, and an exploration of a country and a time that captures something essential about how America has changed since Trillin--and Denny Hansen--were graduated from Yale in 1957. Roger "Denny" Hansen had seemed then a college hero for the ages: a charmer with a dazzling smile, the subject of a feature in Life magazine, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a varsity swimmer, a Rhodes scholar...perhaps a future president, as his friends only half-joked. But after early jobs in government and journalism, Hansen's life increasingly took a downward turn and he gradually lost touch with family and old friends before eventually committing suicide--an obscure, embittered, pain-racked professor--in 1991. In contemplating his friend's life, Calvin Trillin considers questions both large and small--what part does the pressure of high expectations place on even the most gifted, how difficult might it have been to be a closeted homosexual in the unyielding world of the 1960s Foreign Service, how much responsibility does the individual bear for all that happens in his life--in a book that is also a meditation on our country's evolving sense of itself.


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Seeded seventh among the 14 squads in the New England Wrestling Association (NEWA), Wesleyan went 2-2 during the annual NEWA Duals, this season hosted by Bridgewater St. Sun., Jan. 26. The Cardinals had a solid day on the mats, winning 20 of 32 matches actually wrestled. The Cardinals team efforts were hampered by six forfeits do to an open weight class at heavyweight and injuries. Thus, nearly half the team points collected by Wesleyan's four opponents came that way. Wesleyan began with a 33-18 victory over #10 Southern Maine before falling in a tight battle to second-seeded Johnson & Wales, 21-15. The Cardinals then dropped a 29-13 decision to #6 WPI before rebounding in the match for seventh place by decimating #8 Coast Guard, 31-9, winning seven of the eight matches wrestled while trading forfeits.
Leading Wesleyann on the day were 165-pounder Alex Cannon '14 (top photo) and Ryan Sblendorio '15 (bottom photo), who competed twice at 174 and once at 184. Each went 3-0 during the competition with Cannon, named to the all-tournament team, most impressive behind a pin vs. Southern Maine, a major decision vs. WPI and an exciting 3-2 victory vs. Coast Guard. Sblendorio had a pair of pins, getting falls against Southern Maine and Coast Guard, while registering a decision vs. JWU. James Hamilton '16 also had a three-victory tournament at 125 pounds, going 3-1 with three decisions. Josh Roometua '16 was 3-1 with one win by forfeit, handing duties at 197 pounds.
Up next for the team was a match against Springfield, which finished second in the NEWA Duals. The match took place Sat., Feb. 1 in Clifton Park, N.Y. at Shenendehowa High School. Wesleyan captured three of the eight wrestled matches as Sblendorio came up with a first-period pin at 184. Taking decisions were 141-pounder Matt Pelton '17 and 174-pounder Taran Carr '16. Springfield took the match, 29-12, taking four decisions and a technical fall along woth forfeit wins at heavyweight and 125.
The Cardinals are back in action Sat., Feb. 8, visiting Oneonta for a quad match with Williams and Ithaca as the other two teams.


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Thursday, December 18, 2014
Crews battle fire in the Town of Stark
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STARK, N.Y. (WKTV) - Multiple departments responded to the scene after a fire engulfed a home in the Town of Stark Wednesday morning.
The fire broke out shortly before Noon at 768 Elwood Road in Stark, with crews from South Minden, German Flatts, Van Hornesville, Springfield and Fort Plain all responding to the scene.
The home was fully engulfed in flames and crews were still on the scene battling the blaze shortly after 1 p.m.
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Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California
My husband got arrested for auto burglary amd is on probation. They r adding 3 enhancemnts rhat happened in 96,97,and 06. What does this mean when being done? He pleaded not guilty and has pre prelim next week, what happens at this court date?
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He and you should be asking his lawyer about the case, as none of us out here know anything about it.
A prelim is the mini-trial for the DA to show he should be bound over for trial. It implies plea bargaining failed, and he is headed for trial.
Under the 3-Strikes law, prior convictions 'enhance' the sentencing on the current case. A felony conviction with one prior strike doubles the sentence. A felony conviction with two prior strikes gets him 25-life. His new case will violate his probation, likely resulting in him serving the actual jail/prison sentence imposed on that prior case.
He is facing a felony count with priors, with multiple years in prison if convicted. The only advice that is worth anything is for you to get legal counsel who knows how and what to do to best represent you, using whatever credible facts and evidence you may have for motions and defenses at trial, if necessary. Most cases are 'plea bargained' to avoid the risk of loss at trial and mandatory sentencing to the full term provided in the law upon conviction. The attorney's job is to get a good 'deal' you can live with, or prepare for trial.
If serious about hiring new counsel to help in this, and if this is in SoCal courts, feel free to contact me.
You used the term "pre pre lim" which means that actual preliminary hearing is not going to take place, but will be scheduled at that time. Usually the District Attorney and the defense attorney will attempt to resolve the matter during the pre pre lim with plea bargaining If no agreement is made, the court then will schedule the preliminary hearing on the record at that time.
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Attorneys arguing against a public vote on a new arena say the different versions of a petition to put the measure on the ballot have errors and should be excluded.
McGeorge School of Law Professor Mary-Beth Moylan says existing law allows for "minor errors" and the different versions will likely be counted with one exception.
"One of those does not have the actual language of the petition attached," she says. "That would be a substantial defect."
Moylan says if the petitions are different enough, the argument could be made that people were not all signing the same petition and that could also open the way for many signatures to be voided.
The county registrar has begun the process of counting 35,248 petitions and comparing them to 9,800 forms submitted by people who say they signed a petition, but now want to void that signature.
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(adj.) Describes any system based on discontinuous data or events. Computers are digital machines because at their most basic level they can distinguish between just two values, 0 and 1, or off and on. There is no simple way to represent all the values in between, such as 0.25. All data that a computer processes must be encoded digitally, as a series of zeroes and ones.
The opposite of digital is analog. A typical analog device is a clock in which the hands move continuously around the face. Such a clock is capable of indicating every possible time of day. In contrast, a digital clock is capable of representing only a finite number of times (every tenth of a second, for example).
In general, humans experience the world analogically. Vision, for example, is an analog experience because we perceive infinitely smooth gradations of shapes and colors. Most analog events, however, can be simulated digitally. Photographs in newspapers, for instance, consist of an array of dots that are either black or white. From afar, the viewer does not see the dots (the digital form), but only lines and shading, which appear to be continuous. Although digital representations are approximations of analog events, they are useful because they are relatively easy to store and manipulate electronically. The trick is in converting from analog to digital, and back again.
This is the principle behind compact discs (CDs). The music itself exists in an analog form, as waves in the air, but these sounds are then translated into a digital form that is encoded onto the disk. When you play a compact disc, the CD player reads the digital data, translates it back into its original analog form, and sends it to the amplifier and eventually the speakers.
Internally, computers are digital because they consist of discrete units called bits that are either on or off. But by combining many bits in complex ways, computers simulate analog events. In one sense, this is what computer science is all about.
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The old saying goes, 'you don't kick a man when he's down' but how can you resist. We have been feed this false legend for years, while real true champions had to suffer and not get their shot at glory because of networks and promoters wanted to keep milking the cow. Now the chickens have come home to roost, Manny Pacquiao was knocked out cold by a sharp and powerful right hand that woke up the world. The great boxing legends that have left us, are probably cheering from their graves. Now I will sit back and let you hear from boxing fans around the world about how they feel about Manny Pacquiao now.
Derrick ~ Madison,WI. "Man...Pacquiao should just fight Mayweather and get his money and then retire. I thought he had a shot at Mayweather, like a puncher's chance, but now ...he's done."
Michael ~ Bethesda, MD. "Styles make fights Karceno, Manny is and was a great champion, he just got beat by a fighter that has his number. If Manny fought Mayweather, he still could give him hell, cuz styles make fights, so don't write him off just yet. Everybody is jumping the gun too soon, he will be back."
Lucy ~ Las Vegas, NV. "The fight was heads or tails, and Manny just got caught Karceno, He made a mistake and you and the rest of the internet world needs to get a life, he has political reasons, and religious reasons as to why he can't train like he use to. He should just retire because he has so much money already, Manny is a legend."
Deshawn ~ San Diego, CA. "Well Manny got surprised by Marquez power, he said damn after that first knockdown, then he grabbed some shuteye, so you know, I think dawg is done, cuz once you get hit like that...it's curtains. Who get's knocked out like that and come back to dominate the sport."
Greg ~ Detroit, MI. "Manny don't stay behind the stick, he just flick it out there, so Marquez ain't bite and popped that ass, his legs was gone after the first knockdown to me, I knew his ass was going to go again, soon as Marquez caught him flush. Manny ain't nothing man, Floyd would have destroyed that boy, all that bouncing around gon get his ass dropped hard against Floyd."
David ~ Leeds, UK. "It takes great courage for anyone to take the ring and do what Manny Pacquiao does, I am one who truly believed he had a shot at defeating Mayweather. I can see that now Manny is too far gone. A decade of battling has caught up to him, and there is no shame in that. It happens to the best of fighters."
Ryan ~ Dublin, IR. "Manny Pacquiao is overrated, Mayweather is far better class of fighter, He should retire before he gets really hurt of there. He's done."
Juan ~ Mexico City. MX. "Pacquiao was a great champion and fighter but at this moment he is not the same fighter. He should not have another fight, not even against Juan Marquez, he would only get hurt more easy."
Tyler ~ Cebu, PH. "I think he should retire and not face Mayweather, He has accomplished a great many things, he has inspired a nation, and may someday be the President of the nation. Mayweather can never say that, and should have a worn down Manny on his resume."
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I agree, Pacman gave the sport the electric shock needed to resecitate the sport, and Marquez K.O.'d Pacquiao in such a devastating way that it seemed he was the one in need of an electric jolt.
Pacman was a great champ. I think a KO loss like that is damn near insurmountable to bounce back from. Add to the fact that he is unwilling to take Olympic testing is getting annoying. I didn't mind him and Floyd not giving an inch in negotiations over testing but this dude doesn't want to test at all for no one, even if the opposition is willing to take the exact test...hmm...but as a fan of the sport Pac gave us all a hot topic to rant on good bad or ugly.


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Interesting point (Martys blog).
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There is a case, 490 US 680, Hernandez vs Commisioner, wherein Dave argued the doctrine of exchange.
For the Florida instant case, Dave is estopped from denying that a central tenet of Scientology is exchange and the repayment request before the Court is for something NOT exchanged, i.e., undelivered services.
The Court doesnt have to become excessively entangled into interpretation of church policy on refunds/repayments. All it has to do is cite the above case.
Funny thing this estoppel. While DM can contradict himself moment to moment as he runs amok at Int (and no amount of word-clearing of his PT orders only can make sense of what this dipshit spouts in contradiction to himself minute to minute), he CANNOT remove from the Court record what hes said.
Bert and Lynne have every right to their money. Their donation for undelivered services withheld by the FSO is a violation of the doctrine of exchange which DM argued to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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490 US 680, Hernandez vs Commisioner is here:
I won't paste it here, but it is relatively easy to understand.
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Word clear "substantive duress" and "procedural duress". I'm sure Jeffrey has word cleared those. Just like he seemed to word clear estoppel.
I'm pretty sure that Marty was in the court room for the substantive bit and the video was all about the procedural bit. In fact, all the shit about being in the Hole, beatings, broken fingers, etc., was all about procedural duress.
Or, in plain English, the judge wasn't allowing testimony of this shit because Perez Hilton was after it. And this is EXACTLY why all of us should want to see more of these contracts challenged.
As you were, folks.....
It's a good point that some of the posters here have not got their wits around.
Time will tell how these contracts work out for the cult, I was kinda thinking they'd be like swimming with an anvil in the end.
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The contracts are a BLUFF.
From Blacks Law Dictionary:
Fraud: An intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing or to surrender a legal right; a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words ot conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal inquiry; anything calculated to deceive, whether by a single act or combination, or by suppression of truth, or suggestion of what is false, whether it be by direct falsehood or innuendo, by speech or silence, word of mouth, or look or gesture; fraud comprises all acts, omissions, and concealments involving a branch of legal or equitable duty and resulting in damage to another.
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But that is actually the beauty of the situation, imo. This is such a hard presumption to overcome that you need to air a ton of dirty laundry in order to prevail.
" Insist on yourself ; never imitate ".
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Educational application developer Steve Glinberg is a friend of edu.Mac.nation and the creator of KidCalc, 123 Color Talking Coloring Book, and 123 World Geography Coloring Book. He also has created "HD" versions of 123 Color and 123 World Geography for the iPad.
Steve recently launched a wonderful donation program for iPhones and iPod Touches. Below is information about the recycling program…
"Put your old iPhone or iPod touch to the best possible use – donate it to a public or private school or to my recycling program so it can be put to effective use as a learning tool for kids. Steve Glinberg, developer of the popular iPhone and iPad apps KidCalc Math Fun, 123 Color Talking Coloring Book, and 123 World Geography Coloring Book, today announces a recycling program for iPhones and iPod touches that aims to bring high technology mobile devices into classrooms.
With the recent release of the iPad and impending release of a new generation of iPhone, iPhones and iPod touches of previous generations are going unused in homes everywhere. Children around the world are successfully using high technology mobile devices for learning in classrooms. Teachers are incorporating iPhones, iPod touches, and now iPads into their curriculum at an increasing rate. However, schools are constrained by ever tightening budgets. Many of these powerful devices with the capacity to interest, engage and teach children are ending up in drawers, or on shelves, where they sit, hardly being used, after the owner upgrades a newer version.
I have heard from teachers and parents for nearly a year just how valuable a role iPhones and iPod touches are serving in classrooms.
We need to get used iPhones and iPod touches into classrooms, where price is the barrier precluding their introduction into the curriculum. That is what I aim to accomplish with this new recycling program.
Owners of iPhone and iPod touches that are hardly used or that you are for other reasons willing to part with, please contact me at the email address below. People interested in making a financial donation or in donating a new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, please ship the device to:
iPhone/iPod touch Recycling Program
c/o Steve Glinberg
4230 East Towne Blvd, Suite #231
Madison, WI 53704
Upon receiving used iPhones and iPod touches, I restore them to factory state, install dozens of apps currently in the App Store's education category, and send them on to teachers who have registered to receive one."
(Via KidCalc Learning)
Interested teachers can leave a comment at Steve's website or email firstname.lastname@example.com to register to become a recipient of an iPhone or iPod touch. When you register make sure to include information about where you teach, the age range of your students, information about their exposure and use of computing and mobile computing devices, as well as a description of your need for an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Thank you Steve for launching such a wonderful recycling program!


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A Holiday Dance With The Sounds Of Big Band Jazz
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The popularity of swing dance can be enjoyed this weekend, as The Jazzers present a community-wide dance this Saturday evening. Mike Dunn, the band's drummer, shares on the event, and how both the music and dance of the big band era continues to entertain crowds of all ages.
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April 4, 2014 - Marshall Coyle
Top 2014 Consumer Reports mattress ratings comments.
2014 Consumer Reports Ratings:
Serta, Charles P. Rogers, & Simmons
Earn Top Grades In Lab Tests.
The top-rated mattress retailer again is a factory-direct franchise operator, Original Mattress Factory with most stores in Ohio and at the bottom of the list and the least best for two years in a row is Sleepys, an East Coast large specialty retailer who apparently has been unable to shake off an unenviable earned reputation. These opinions are from many thousand CR subscribers who share their good and bad experiences with Consumer Reports.
Consumer Reports, the nations's premier product rating organization published its annual mattress report in their March issue. Consumer Reports does not accept advertising or any anything else that might compromise their judgment and reputation. Their sole source of support is annual dues and donations from members. I consider their reviews to be a highly reliable source for any mattress shopper.
Consumer Reports laboratory physically tests mattresses using purpose built devices. Some evaluate wear and others to accurately describe the amount and quality of support and air circulation. This methodology aside from being completely unique is capable of predicting comfort for back and side sleepers as well as issues of heating and cooling. Their professionalism removes much of the surprise when buying a new mattress.
Other recommended innerspring mattresses in addition to the Charles P. Rogers St.Regis include several from Beautyrest, Sealy, and Stearns & Foster. Recommendations for Memory Foam included Novaform , a Costco exclusive and the heavily advertised Bob-O-Pedic featured at Bob's Discount Furniture as well as the Simplicity from Tempur-Pedic. CR's Best Buy formula (nothing to do with Best Buy stores) awards the $800 memory foam Novaform at Costco.
The ratings of walk-in stores are based on over 6,000 reported shopping experiences commencing in 2011 and ending June 2013 CR takes pains to point out that their praises or condemnations are based solely on reviews from their members and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the general public. Costco has come in second twice in a row as a good place to shop owing partially to their clear and workable customer service policies and competitive prices. Possibly the non-existence of sales people is , unfortunately, another reason.
The top three recommended innerspring mattresses are the Serta Perfect Day iSeries Applause, the Beautyrest Recharge Palisades Court Luxury Firm Pillow-top, and the Charles P. Rogers St. Regis Pillow-top
And now, as is my old guy right, I now go off message and ramble a bit.
This Old Bed Guy was pleased to notice that the sleep set that we have happily used for the last eight years, the Charles P. Rogers St. Regis was recognized for outstanding quality, durability, and as "the coolest". It is nice to now that by taking our own advice a decade ago we foreshadowed an eventual Consumer Report test confirming my choice.
Equally interesting is that the St. Regis which has been now tested by Consumer Reports for the first time has been in production since before I was born 83 years ago. It has been improved continuously and was produced every year except during WW2 when the military used all the steel available. The Beautyrest that shares this year's top is based also originated more than eighty years ago and made in Elizabeth, a few miles down the road from the new Charles P. Rogers bleeding-edge factory in East Rutherford, NJ. The New York area once had hundreds of mattress factories. I don't think that five or six survive. I slept on one when I was very young and always wondered why I couldn't feel the metal buttons. The Charles P. Rogers of those days was also tufted as no one had yet invented quilt top mattresses.
We have been praising old time family owned NYC area based mattress companies such as Shifman and Charles P. Rogers for decades and the last few years on the blog. Another local survivor is the Beckley company in the Bronx that literally makes nineteenth century mattresses for the design trade. They have no technology newer than the Spanish American war and use mainly animal products. Their coils are tied to one another with twine. I am mentioning but not praising as their mattresses are unnecessarily costly and, in my opinion, not very comfortable. However, if one owns an odd size antique, Beckley can fill it. Shifman has also been making one of the worlds best, mostly by hand, and mostly unchanged except visually and thickness since 1950 when "Mrs Coyle" and I started our now 63 year marriage sleeping on a gift Shifman Sanotuft. Beautiful grey striped 8oz. cotton fabric. By hand is a euphemism because Shifman has plenty of machinery including their own cotton felt processing, but the final finishing must be done by hand. It was hard as a hunk of New York Central Park rock but those were the days when Sealy grew to leadership by promoting, "No Morning Backache From Sleeping On A Too Soft Mattress". To their credit, Shifman does make use of latex foam where appropriate including a two sided all latex mattress. Nothing at all wrong except that many of their mattresses cost as much a nice small car. I sometimes feel nostalgia for the good but hard old days, nevertheless, current mattresses are capable of giving you a much more comfortable and healthful night's sleep.
To their credit, even if they are not New Yorkers, Marshall Mattress in Toronto and McCroskey in San Francisco are far better in every respect than the major brands, but tend to be almost as unaffordable as most Shifman. Shifman, out of character, makes a tiny line of machine tufted reversible mattresses at very competitive prices. Apparently not for Bloomingdales, but these rock hard mattresses show up at furniture store sales.
We also opened our first store about that time and for decades were in the habit of constantly taking the newest mattress design breakthroughs home for a long test. We sold every important name brand, and slept on all for weeks or months at a time, but nothing received permanent status in decades except this one, the Charles P. Rogers that we bought at full retail after retiring. Shifman, in the era of hard mattresses was unquestionably as good as one could get in a retail store and comparatively was not as strikingly expensive as the line on Bloomingdales sales floor. For decades Stearns and Foster occupied a reputation notch above the best Beautyrest or PosturePedic but the king size super pillow top with foamed in place edge was the worst I ever took home. In less than six months it was history. Soon after that, Sealy bought S&F, mainly for the name, closed the S&F factories and today makes both brands on the same line with the same labor. Last year as their fortunes sagged, TempurPedic bought them on the cheap and is in the process of integrating the three brands. I have seen a lot of newish PosturePedics with knock-off pocketed coils trying to emulate the Beautyrest, and what appears to be a large proliferation of synthetic foam in both Sealy and S&F. This is progress?
We got the Charles P. Rogers mattress when we moved back to the city after a period of country living following my retirement. No longer in the business, not wanting to ask for a favor from old suppliers , we went to Charles P. Rogers who then, as now, only sold direct to the public, and for the quality just about wholesale cost for a similar Sealy or Serta. No favors needed. At that time the top of their line was the St.Regis which earned the name in the 1920′s when Rogers designed it for what was then the best hotel in NYC, the St.Regis. They had upgraded the cover occasionally , but it still had hand assembled pocketed coils and the best possible filling materials of the era regardless of cost.
Now, almost nine years since I spent maybe $5-600 in 2004 dollars. The perception of comfort was immediate on night one. The mystery would be durability as I had no personal experience selling the product, just some Beautyrests with fairly similar specifications. Time has passed my St. Regis by. It is amazingly like new, but unfortunately "Mr. and Mrs. Coyle" are not. We have not been able to stave off the ravages of time. Every ache and pain known to modern medicine inhabits one of us some of the time or both all the time. The medical profession has done miracles and at this rate we can just go on and on, one or new two meds at a time, an occasional joint replacement and we are up and mobile, but we really needed a softer mattress.
I shopped all three big brand mattresses praised most highly in the Consumer Reports. NYC stores have everything except legitimate bargains. They all felt good. The big brands were twice as thick as good mattresses used to or need to be. I visited the Charles P. Rogers showroom on 17th street. "My" St. Regis is still being sold but costs twice as much as when when we got ours. In fairness, the current top rated model has been updated technologically with more and better coils and a lot more padding. And it no longer needs turning. It still weighs in queen size, 120 pounds owing to the added quantities inside. For the record, competing highly rated mattresses from major makers in this Consumer Report weigh more than 25 pounds less but don't cut the price. Charging for air. The extra filling in the St.Regis is one reason that it defy's time. A pressing need for economy in raw materials is the major reason that mattresses from the big S companies tend to need replacing so much more rapidly than a Marshall Mattress in Canada, Charles P. Rogers or a Shifman , or for you Left Coast people, McCroskey Mattress in San Francisco. "Marshall Coyle" recommends all four as "good old quality" with modern materials and techniques. Comfort varies, but so do people's needs. Rogers is sold direct only through their two showrooms and the internet. The others have limited retail regional distribution.
Displayed next to the St. Regis on the Charles P. Rogers mattress floor was their new three-number line, the PowerCore Estate. If it's only difference was that it had more coils than just about any other mattress, it wouldn't be such a big deal, however, it is. We ordered one on the spot. Rogers, alone in the USA has recently invented bleeding edge, computer controlled coil making machines needed to make the PowerCore proprietary coil. This coil is wound and shaped differently and is capable of sensing the weight and contours of the sleeper(s). This dynamic coil doesn't just go up and down like every other. It moves at different speeds and with different resistance depending on whether a shoulder or a butt is weighing it down. Rogers has achieved the mattress Holy Grail with an innerspring that really conforms to the occupants, not the other way around.
"Mrs.Coyle" and I had a hard time deciding which of the three as they all had the same innerspring unit, however the 100% layered Talalay latex in all three was designed for three discrete "feels". The common thread was that all three have the most coils with the most wire packed in the most intelligent way to provide the most comfort and durability and they feel enough different while remaining very comfortable that it makes a decision difficult. We have one on order and after the ultimate test, sleeping at home, I will reveal which model.
I am not a fan of synthetic foam. Too many variables and too many are negative. I know that like many other products you can't paint all with the same brush. Synthetic foams can be as hard as your hiking shoe sole or ethereally light and fluffy. Depends on the chemical and the ratio of solids to air. It is like a sponge cake. Tiny bubbles with thick cell walls is hard and great big bubbles with thinnest membranes can start out feeling like sleeping on a cloud. Unfortunately, these plush foams start to lose their feel and support in the first five minutes of use and each time they are forced down by the weight of the sleeper crush a little more speeding to an early trip to the landfill. You can get good synthetic foam and you can get awful synthetic foam.
The PowerCore Estate mattresses are upholstered and padded exclusively with layers of genuine clean and cool foamed latex from the actual sap of the rubber tree. You can get good or better latex foams, but you can't get bad latex foam. The mattress maker can order from a wide range of firmnesses to dial up any feel he or she wishes without worrying that the mattress will lack durability. The big drawback of genuine Talalay Process latex foam is cost. And it is a big deal for cost-cutting major brands. Therefor little or no latex, and when they use it, a mattress can quickly hit five figures. They spend so much on advertising and distribution that the mattress filling comes last. It is far more expensive and cooler than synthetics like memory foam. It is naturally cool, naturally comfortable, and naturally durable, and unlike chemically derived foam. It does not continually bleed invisible but not odorless gas.
When trying to empty my crowded mail box daily, I have not yet found a situation that called for me to recommend memory foam. New versions seem to come out hourly and possibly when the heat, odor, and outgassing problems will dissipate and I can become a fan. Rogers uses a mixture of memory foam and gel in one or two models below the PowerCore line. They also use where called for, a latex foam infused with gel. I doubt, but have no direct knowledge that they would offer anything with noxious characteristics. Makers of Gel assisted foam tout the gel's ability to temper the heat issues present in memory foam while adding a certain undefined bounce.
As usual, I welcome emails to email@example.com. You can post a comment, but will get a quicker answer by mail. Please try to supply me with details such as I request in many places in this blog. I can not recommend a mattress if I do not know at least basics about the users. I can't tell you about your antique bed without some clear pictures. I can sometimes supply simple ways to deal with a mattress service problems and your dealer is not living up to your expectations. The mattress brands that I may have praised above are not necessarily the best ones for you specifically to buy. They are at least four outstanding companies that make honest mattresses. I can often tell you how to make some simple changes to make your present mattress more comfortable. I can not provide a solution to some memory foam being hot and saggy.
Hi, Marshall.
As you know I bought the Charles P. Rogers PowerCore Estate 7000 after our correspondence a while back. And I love it! It's neither too soft nor too hard but "just right" (as I believe a certain porridge was). I also got the foundation and frame plus two of their sheet sets.
It took about three weeks to arrive in California from New Jersey and I was so happy when it came. The packaging was incredible. The personal helpers I hired put it all together quickly and easily, and took the old bed to the dump.
I would say I have been sleeping on it for about two months. I will admit that for the first ten days or two weeks I did not sleep well, not because of the bed but because, having downsized from a California King to a queen I was afraid of falling off the bed , catching the nightstand on my way down, breaking the lamp and phone, and possible breaking an arm, twisting a leg, and/or cracking my head open. However, as I grew more comfortable with the smaller size I really did begin to sleep better.
One thing I hadn't considered is that this bed is high even though the mattress if only 14.5 inches high. At 5'2″, I need to do a small catapult up into the bed, which amuses me. Had I know this, though, I probably would have ordered the shorter foundation.
I also got their sheets and you are right, they feel great and wear like iron. I do wish they were made to fit taller mattresses but it's a small complaint. At any rate, I am so glad I used Consumer Reports and YOU to educate myself and buy a superb mattress. I have recommended your blog to anyone who brings up even the idea of buying a new bed. You provide a tremendous service, and I am so very appreciative. Thank you a hundredfold!
Good information about mattress. I agree with you.
Which Powercore Estate model do you recommend? I was looking at the Estate 7000 and the 9000, but am no sure the 7000 justifies the significantly higher price. I would appreciate your thoughts on that.
do you still recommend the St. Regis? the PowerCore Estates 7000 is a little out of my price range. I', 5'9″ 155. sleep on my side and stomach. Work in front of a computer all day so get ache neck and shoulders. No pet in bed. Like a semi-firm bed.
Marshall Coyle—I am writing to you from Canada—We have just purchased a "Marshall Rest Assured IV Essence tight top Queen mattress set" I have read about this manufacturer on the internet – we know they are in Toronto,Ontario–they do have good reviews – My huaband is 5'8″–260 lbs—will this be a good support for him–the set will be delivered on Oct 4/14–appreciate your input–
Good day Marshall. My darling and I are in the market for a new bed again after buying off of the Internet a couple of years ago. We bought the "bed in a box" brand memory foam bed and seemed pleased with it for the first few months. Now the pain is back, we are sinking in the bed and my insomnia is something fierce. So here we are. I've now taken to writing letters to older gentlemen from the web that seem to know what's what and who's who when it comes to beds.
I'm 42 wife is 37. V8g5g8. Im 6'3″ 220 she is 5'7″ 155. Both seem to be side sleepers, at least wake up that way. We own a retail location, sales, some heavy lifting for me and she is near the computer screen a few hours a day doing books. She has been involved 1 hour a day 4 a week for 5 years, missed last 3 months of exercise Never been diagnosed for apnea. I do occasionally snore. 5 times a month. I herniated a disk in my neck a year ago that effects my sleep, not that it wasn't bad before, the sleep that is. I have restless leg syndrome I guess. No diagnosis but have worn through the sheets from my feet moving so much. No allergies known. Two pillows for me. Med soft. 1 for her. We have been buying pillows lately trying to get comfortable but to no avail. No pets. Have ordered before off the internet. 3- 5000 price range. Just want a comfortable bed. We slept on a bed at a hotel in Victoria bc and it was awesome. Phoned them about it and they said one of the brand names but I'm so wary now. Anyways, looking forward to your response. We are on the other side of Canada here, way up in northwest bc so that needs consideration. What are your thoughts on Air beds??? Thanks in advance for your time. Steve
Sorry missed a few things. I do get leg cramps and what feels like electric shocks in my legs. I get very little sleep at night most nights up till 2 or 3 then up at 7:30. Sometimes can't sleep till 5. We would like to replace our queen size bed with another of the same size. Thz


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Mitochondria, oxidative stress and cell death
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The Canadian Press Disappears Honduras
Even the Canadian press noticed when, on June 28, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was driven out of his house at gunpoint by soldiers and forced onto a plane to Costa Rica. The Honduran Congress promptly read out a forged letter of resignation and named Roberto Micheletti as the new president. These crimes were perpetrated because Zelaya attempted to conduct a non binding poll that would have established how the public felt about initiating constitutional reform. The Supreme Court ruled that the opinion poll was illegal and ordered Zelaya's arrest after he refused to obey its preposterous ruling.
Various Canadian newspapers wrote editorials about the coup, but, as noted in a previous CMM alert, there was something very odd about them. [1] None denounced the Supreme Court for making it a illegal to ask Hondurans the following question
"Do you agree that in the general elections of November 2009 a fourth ballot box should be installed to decide whether to convene a National Constitutional Assembly that would approve a political Constitution?" [2]
It is worth repeating that this was a non binding poll. Regardless what was asked, or how the public voted, no laws would have been changed. Even if it had been binding, it would only have led to another question being put to the public at the same time as Zelaya's successor was elected.
The Toronto Star, whose editorial was the most sympathetic to Zelaya, lashed out at him for being "reckless and divisive". The Star's editors, like numerous others, repeated the lie that Zelaya's opinion poll was really a "referendum" on abolishing the one term limit on the presidency. Numerous journalists and pundits working for the corporate press never bothered to learn the basic facts about the poll - even though it was crucial to understanding the coup. Unfortunately, the Star's editorial was one of the high points in the Canadian media's coverage of the coup. Others openly applauded it. [3]
If the elected president of Honduras, a wealthy and well connected man, could have his basic rights so flagrantly and violently disregarded, it was easy to predict what would happen to opponents of the coup, especially those among the impoverished majority of Hondurans.
The regime has blocked efforts to thoroughly investigate its crimes, but reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have made its record abundantly clear to anyone who cares to look. As of late October, COFADEH, a Honduran human rights group reported 21 coup related assassinations and over 3000 cases of arbitrary detention. The National Front Against the Coup in Honduras (FNR) estimated more than 100 coup fatalities. Rape and torture have also been used against protestors. [4]
In September, after two failed attempts by Zelaya to return to Honduras, he succeeded in sneaking into his country and taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy. The regime responded with intensified repression. Security forces drove protesters away from the embassy. A nationwide curfew was imposed and eventually followed up with an (official) state of siege. [5]
The Two Faced Front - Canada and the US
Condemnation of the coup was near universal, and it included the US - the country that mattered most to the Honduran elite thanks to decades of close military and economic ties. However, it became obvious that the Obama administration had tremendous sympathy for the Micheletti regime. The US State Department refused to officially designate Zelaya's ouster as a military coup. Officials from Micheletti's regime traveled in and out of US at will - at least once invited by Republican politicians who openly supported them.[6] The Obama administration refrained from freezing billions of dollars in assets that perpetrators of the coup have in the US. Lanny Davis, Hilary Clinton's former campaign manager and a paid lobbyist for a Honduran business group that backed the coup, dishonestly defended the regime's actions in the US media. [7]
Hilary Clinton called Zelaya's efforts to return to Honduras "reckless". In contrast , she referred approvingly to a nationwide curfew the regime imposed when Zelaya took refuge in the Brazilian embassy. Obama himself declined to meet publicly with Zelaya while he was in the US. The mixed signals from Obama's government could not have been missed by the regime. [8]
Canada also found ways to wink at Micheletti's government. Shortly after the coup, at a special meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Canada's minister for the Americas, Peter Kent, urged Zelaya not to return to Honduras. Kent also advised that the context of Zelaya's ouster (i.e. the bogus constitutional arguments the regime and its apologists were making) be taken into account. Apparently the context - for Kent - has never included the regime's human rights abuses about which he has been disgracefully silent. [9]
After the coup, Ottawa did not exclude the Honduran military from its Military Training Assistance Programme - a sanction that would only target the perpetrators of the coup. Peter Kent justified this by saying that the program was "not a major issue" - thereby offering some major encouragement to the regime. [10]
By early November, a US brokered accord between Zeleya and Michellti was signed. It called for a unity government to be formed by November 5, and for Congress to vote on Zelaya's reinstatement. [11] After the accord was signed, Micheletti - with the backing of the US - interpreted it to mean that Congress could vote on Zelaya's reinstatement after the elections on November 29 (weeks after the deadline for forming a unity government). In fact, according to this cynical "interpretation", Congress could vote on Zelaya's reinstatement years later. US Sub Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Thomas Shannon, then announced that the US would recognize the results of the elections whether or not Zeleya was reinstated. [12]
US complicity with the regime was now so transparent that people who had claimed that it was "Obama's first coup" found their arguments greatly bolstered. [13] The Obama administration unmasked itself further when it stated that the elections of November 29 met "international standards for fairness and transparency". [14]
On election day, Amnesty International put out a statement calling on the regime to disclose the whereabouts of people it had illegally detained. Honduran soldiers and police attacked peaceful protesters in San Pedro Sula. Independent candidate Carlos Reyes spent weeks in hiding because of death threats - and then in the hospital after being attacked at an anti-coup protest. Reyes eventually heeded the call of the FRN and withdrew from the elections in protest. The Honduran electoral council initially announced a record turnout of over 60% - a fraudulent claim that it has since recanted. The regime's official number is now 49%. The FRN has estimated (much more creditably according to an investigation by the Real News Network) 30 to 35% turnout. [15]
Peter Kent congratulated the Honduran regime on the elections and stated
"While Sunday's elections were not monitored by international organizations such as the Organization of American States, we are encouraged by reports from civil society organizations that there was a strong turnout for the elections, that they appear to have been run freely and fairly, and that there was no major violence." [16]
Peter Kent could praise the sham elections without fear of ridicule because the corporate press has buried the coup and Canada's complicity.
In Search of Canadian Coverage
It would be a great challenge, to put it mildly, to learn much about the struggle for democracy in Honduras by reading the Canadian press during the months that followed the coup. Fortunately, independent journalists such as Grahame Russell (of Rights Action) and Al Giordano (of Narco News) among others have been in Honduras reporting about the pro-democracy movement. They uncovered an inspiring movement fighting for much more than the restoration of Zelaya. Constitutional reform is the rallying cry of the resistance to the coup.
Rights Action pointed out in their response to Peter Kent's praise for the elections
"Since the June 28 military coup against the government of President Zelaya, Rights Action (Canada & USA) have published over 100 'Honduras Coup Alerts' documenting systematic repression and human rights violations used by the coup regime to try (unsuccessfully) to quell and silence the pro-democracy, anti-coup movement. Other Canadian civil society organizations and media outlets (Common Frontiers - www.commonfrontiers.ca, CoDevelopment Canada - www.codev.org, The Dominion - www.dominionpaper.ca) have been active and reporting on the same."
The corporate press has been considerably less interested.
According to a Lexis Nexis search for "Zelaya" and "Honduras", Canada's five major newspapers combined for only 77 articles since the coup took place over five months ago. By comparison, in only one week, they combined for 103 articles about the Tiger Woods scandal.
Anthony Fenton put the search terms "Zelaya" and "Honduras" through the Canadian Newsstand Database. [17] His search covered two months and included five days after the election. Excluding articles that were "briefs" of only a few sentences, he found 72 articles. Only 9 of the 72 articles (12.7%) mentioned Canadian policy or officials like Peter Kent; only thirty were written by a Canadian journalist or pundit and, of those thirty, half were reprints of an op-ed by Gwynne Dyer.
Gwynne Dyer's Game
On his website, Dyer's two articles about Honduras are entitled Zelaya's Game I and II. Both were published in newspapers across Canada.
Dyer depicts Zelaya as an opportunist with minimal popular support who has orchestrated events in Honduras to make a power grab. [18] In his first article, Dyer accused Zelaya or provoking confrontation in an attempt to extend his term, the same charge made by the perpetrators of the coup. In his second article, after perhaps becoming a bit more familiar with the facts, Dyer made the more vague claim that Zelaya was seeking to "destroy the existing constitutional order". Dyer accuses Zeleya's opponents of "stupidity" for over reacting to Zelaya's machinations and thereby creating conditions under which Zelaya "could win" - a possibility that Dyer clearly dreads.
Dyer does not produce the lunatic right wing ravings of a writer like David Warren (who called Zelaya a "totalitarian maniac"). I did not think it would be a waste of time to send Dyer an email urging him to look at the work done by independent journalists on the ground in Honduras.[19] In fact, Grahame Russsell of Rights Action also sent an email to Dyer. He never replied to either of us, but he wrote an article a month later that was not much better informed than his first and, if anything, even more supportive of Micheltti's regime (despite deploring its supposed tactical "stupidity").
Dyer claimed that the coup was "all done quite legally" This would mean that expelling Zelaya from his country at gun point and reading a forged letter of resignation in Congress was legal - to say nothing of the illegal (and very well documented) acts of repression committed against the population which Dyer wrote nothing about.
Incredibly, he takes Zelaya's opponents at their word when they claim that protecting the one term limit on the presidency was their motive for overthrowing Zelaya. He says nothing about US and Canadian complicity with the coup. He does not quote or consider anything said by the Hondurans organizing resistance against the regime at tremendous personal risk.
Dyer refers vaguely to polls that claimed that Zelaya's support among Hondurans was at about 25% at the time of the coup. He ignores polls done since the coup (some of which I forwarded to him weeks before his second article appeared). Recent polls have found that roughly 2/3 of Hondurans assess Zelaya's presidency positively - an equal proportion assess Micheletti harshly. According to one recent poll the majority of Hondurans would like to change the "existing constitutional order" which has kept Honduras among the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. [20] Only two countries in Latin America (Guatemala and Bolivia) rank lower in child mortality than Honduras. [21] The existing "constitutional order" has, of course, worked very well for the perpetrators of the coup.
According to Dyer, the use of direct democracy was a strategy Zelaya dreamed up near the end of his term as part of his "game" to extend his power. In fact, Zelaya had campaigned promising to increase direct citizen participation and Congress has passed a law to facilitate it in 2006. Dyer also overstates Zelaya's shift to the left during his presidency. Dyer presents closer relations with Venezuela as part of Zelaya's unilateral shift to the left, but joining the Venezuelan initiated trade block, ALBA, was a decision ratified by Congress. Zelaya did issue a decree raising the minimum wage by 60%, hardly uncalled for in a nation as poor as Honduras. [22]
Helmut and Janet Enns, two Canadians who have been to Honduras since the coup, wrote a reply to Dyer. Two newspapers published it. In contrast, Dyer's second article on Honduras was published in twelve Canadian newspapers. The Enns clearly identified the interests served and the people hurt by the smokescreen Dyer throws up his articles:
"....Any voices opposing the coup will continue to be silenced with killings, torture, rape, disappearances. Any small improvements made during Zelaya's term will be wiped out. Multi-national, like Canada's T-shirt giant, Gildan, and mining companies, including Goldcorp will have free rein to do whatever they want, at immeasurable costs to the Honduran people and the environment. The Honduras of today, since June 28, is eerily similar to the era of the military death squads 30 years ago. And, should this coup be successful in Honduras, which Central American country will be next?"
1) Send polite, non-abusive emails to the following
( copy all letters and replies to email@example.com )
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[1] http://canuckmediamonitor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=143
[2] see June 29 entry http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/
see also IPS;"Honduras: Coup d'Etat - What's In a Name?" by Diana Cariboni]
[3] See note 1
[4] Http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/08/25/hond...tional-pressure
[8] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbro...l_b_300271.html
[9] http://hondurassolidarity.wordpress.com/20...edia-silent-on/
[10] http://www.rightsaction.org/Alerts/Hondura...t39_073109.html
[11] The accord stipulated the following timeline:
" October 30, 2009
1. Signing and entrance of the Accord into effect.
2. Formal delivery of the Accord to Congress for the effects of Point 5, "Regarding the Executive Power."
November 2, 2009
1. Formation of the Verification Commission.
After the signing of this Accord and no later than November 5
1. Formation and installation of the National Unity and Reconciliation Government."
[12] http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option...mp;jumival=4431
[13] http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/golinger160709.html
[14] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8392368.stm
[15] On election say repression see http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-...s-people-deta-0
MEDIA RELEASE, December 4, 2009
Rights Action (Canada) disputes misleading statements made by Canadian Minister Peter Kent concerning repression during Honduras' undemocratic elections on November 29th.
On turnout for the election see
[16] see note 15 - Rights Action response to Peter Kent
[17] http://www.webofdemocracy.org/canada_covers_honduras_ii.html
[18] http://www.gwynnedyer.com/articles/Gwynne%...39;s%20Game.txt
[19] http://canuckmediamonitor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=251
[20] Recent Polls:
Poll below found majority support reforming the constitution
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Recently, a news item appeared about a group of British researchers who were able to rebuild nerves in the ears of gerbils. They said that the same technique could conceivably be applicable to deaf humans.
Always the loud one, I decided to ponder the implications on Twitter. I wrote, " 'Deafness cure' is trending. My concern is that it's bigger than a 'trend.' It involves PEOPLE and not as simple as the 4 letters in 'cure.' " I knew I would generate a discussion, but I didn't realize it would generate so much controversy. As one Twitter follower commented: "You wouldn't deny fixing a hole in your child's heart? Why would you deny fixing someone who has lost their hearing?"
About fifteen years ago, I had the opportunity to address similar concerns when a reader wrote to Ann Landers' column lamenting the loss of his hearing. He wrote, "Deafness cuts you off from people," and went on to say if he had been given a choice he would've rather gone blind than deaf. Ann asked for comments and, of course, I jumped in. "Deafness cuts you off from people only if you LET it," I wrote. "If that were not the case, we would not have successful deaf doctors, lawyers. There's even a deaf Oscar winner and a deaf Miss America." I ended by writing that the "real handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind."
Allow me to clarify my controversial tweet: Never in my wildest dreams would I want someone not to be cured of a hearing loss, if that's what they wanted. Anyone who knows me, however, knows that I am about choice. I want people to make informed choices about what to do when faced with a hearing loss. It's what I've told thousands of parents of deaf children who've asked me if they should get their child a cochlear implant. "Do whatever you feel is best," is my standard reply, but I always add, "Make sure you look over all options: speech classes, assistive hearing devices and American Sign Language. It's what my parents did for me, and look where I am today."
My intention was the same with my tweets about the new stem-cell research. Stories about potential "cures" make great headlines, but at the end of the day we must recognize that behind all this talk there are millions of deaf people who have families, jobs and productive lives. Some of us sign, some of us speak and some of us do both. If you told us we needed to be "cured," many of us would respond with, "Of what?"
I am proud of who I am, of the beautiful language and culture of American Sign Language and proud to be able to speak as well. Despite what people view as a "handicap," I would ask people to look at our abilities, rather than dwell on our perceived dis-abilities.
With her interpreter Jack Jason
Oscar winner Marlee Matlin currently stars in "Switched at Birth" on ABC Family. Her new app, "Marlee Signs," is available in the iTunes App Store, and can be downloaded at http://Bit.ly/marleesigns
Marlee donated her fee for writing this column to the La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation.