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[tbender]

RIP, Eddie Felson.

[sciencet_cher]

RIP, Eddie Felson.

Fast Eddie will be missed

[scottfaison]

"Shaking off this mortal body boss..."

Shake off the mortal body Cool Hand, you deserve it....

[Grog]

Why you crazy bastard, the fall will probably kill you!
- Butch Cassidy

[Paul Taylor]

What a legacy, Actor, husband of 50 years+, race car driver and owner, entrapaneur, and charity giver.

All profits from his food company, Newman's Own, $250 million+, given to charities worldwide since its inception in 1982. And don't forget the "Hole in the Wall Gang Camps" developed for children with cancer and other diseases.

He will be missed.

[Grog]

Newman was successful at just about everything he did. He was a ladies man and a mans man. When you took your girlfriend to the movies she would melt over his blue eyes, while you were admiring how cool Eddie, Luke, and Butch all were. Not many like him left, Sean Connery is about the last now.
50 years with the same woman, a successful actor and director, he was Hollywood; and refused to get caught up in their egos. He started racing at an age when most are retiring from the sport, while not a marquis driver he succeded. I'll mention again his donations to charity, which his daughter maintains in his name. Proof good guys can and do finish first! Newman definitely had what so many celebrities now sorely lack. Class!

[pterodactyl]

ditto

[sandalman]

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[Pizza God]

A smile from God

[md21954]

A smile from God

i think thats really just a [censored]eating grin.

[Grog]

News Story

Tola snialpxe Sith!

[Pizza God]

My mom was dyslexic and I am too. Every person who has ever spent time ready my rants knows this. I misspell the simplest words. (one of the reasons I use Firefox) I also have problems repeating numbers. If an order is $17.49, I will sometimes mix up the numbers. My younger son is showing signs of Dyslexia, hopefully he is not as bad as mine or my moms. (my moms case is much worse than mine)

[sandalman]

how many moms do you have?

[Grog]

My mom was dyslexic and I am too. Every person who has ever spent time ready my rants knows this. I misspell the simplest words. (one of the reasons I use Firefox) I also have problems repeating numbers. If an order is $17.49, I will sometimes mix up the numbers. My younger son is showing signs of Dyslexia, hopefully he is not as bad as mine or my moms. (my moms case is much worse than mine)

Za,

The post was not intended to offend. What caught my eye to the news post was the fact while people in this instance both my children were tested for dyslexia when they were in grade school. The results were negative, but both were still determined to be "Slow Learners". Most of this was based on their reading skills, my son's math skills however were always several years ahead of his cohorts. In first grade he was even doing his sisters math homework (3rd grade level) in his head, what she was unable to do on paper. Slow Learner? I knew then the teachers were wrong, and I'm sure school administrators were ecstatic when my son dropped out his sophomore year. He was failing after missing 30 some odd classes anyway. The school didn't notify us that he was skipping until he had already missed 20 days, and was going to have to repeat anyway... But that is another subject I could rant on about our education system and not what this is about. After failing a court ordered GED and working at Mickey D's for two months, school started looking pretty good. He enrolled in a correspondence school to take 3 years of high school classes. He would receive the books, hole up in his room, study, and take the tests. My job was to check his test. All I would do is tell him questions 3, 7, and etc are wrong. I would not tell him the correct answer at all. He would then go back, study some more, retake the test and send it back to the school. He finished the 3 years in just under 24 months with a 3.75 out of 4.0 GPA. These were standard HS courses with the exception of language, he opted for additional Business classes instead. He missed the deans list his first semester in college by .2 points. So some one tell me again how he is a slow learner. Instead maybe if the test for dyslexia had been modified or tested for this gene his education experience may have been more gratifying and rewarding ie Wharton School of Business?

My wife for all her faults, such as bad taste in men , is one of the most logical people I know. However it is up to me to read and explain all contracts, notices, etc to her. She flat refuses to read them, yes she was Special Ed too, and tested negative for dyslexia, and was even called stupid by some of her teachers. Something that still sets bad with her, (Pick on her all you want, she'll fire it right back. Hell she has to, she's had to contend with me all these years...but call her stupid and your everlovin butt is mine.)
Since everyone has graduated it's not worth the time and effort to have them tested for this defective gene, but the article sure hits home.

I hope everything goes well for your son, and if anyone ever calls him "stupid" please slap em one more time for me. For everyone else if your child has been determined to be Special Ed, Learning Disabled or whatever your school district wishes to call it, keep fighting for their rights of a decent education. There are programs for those with dyslexia.

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[Alacrity]

Cannot post pics, can anyone else? Also the option to change code type is missing.

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Being a Chiefs' fan IS pretty scary... [img]/msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Alacrity]

My bother was diagnosed with a form of dyslexic as well. When he was in elementary school the teachers and the admin use to call our mom in regularly and tell her that he was learning disabled and need to be in the "children with disabilities" classes. Back then that pretty much meant he would ride the short bus to school. It pi$$ed my mother off to no end. She would tell them he was not mentally retarded (which is what they were saying), he just had problems understanding written word. She refused to allow them to hold him back. He did his work and passed his grades, but he struggled.

He graduated from college as a veterinarian. A tough degree to say the least. He put himself through college, and had to spend about 25 to 50% more time studying, because he could not work his way through written word as easily as others. Several years back he was invited to attend a study program by the US government. Very few doctors or vets get this offer. Of the approximately 20 invited to participate only 5 generally complete the program. Of the five that complete the program only 1 is asked to continue study. It is a program to study pathology and try to figure out what diseases do to animals and people. This group is also involved in finding solutions to germ warfare. My brother is now one of those people…….

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Go to way!

[Alacrity]

Can't help myself, here is one of the papers my brother has assisted on, I am pretty sure I don't understand anything he has written here.....

http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:8598537

and a few more

http://www.nextbio.com/b/literature/...uthor=JS+Estep

[woote01]

nice gothca, Rock Hill.

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