ignorance or plain blatancy
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Any one had problems with heavy transport such as quarry wagons from 5:30 AM all day until 5-6 PM and speeding traffic using the road outside their home as a rat run i have asked the police to put a restriction on to slow it down to the speed limit and asked what the speed limit should be they said they dont know i will have ask the local council highways so i asked them they said they dont know ask the police i said i have asked the police traffic division and they said ask you then they said ring the county council h they said they dont know but ring the road safety council so i rang them they said they would look into it
i did ask about weight restriction and the damage to the road the reply i got from the council highways was ask the police
you can see why council tax goes up every year perhaps they know ?
i did ask about weight restriction and the damage to the road the reply i got from the council highways was ask the police
you can see why council tax goes up every year perhaps they know ?
Doesn't dyslexia affect people's spelling, rather than punctuation?Saleen836 said:
Every day the road outside my house (30mph limit and narrow) has idiots speeding up and down and sometimes double the limit!
According to the local police, random speed traps wont work as "they will only be effective while in place!"
Ah, so, finally, they admit they're there to make money.According to the local police, random speed traps wont work as "they will only be effective while in place!"
It is very easy to pick up on someone else's misfortune and not look upon themselves to admit that they maybe whose wrong .
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Famous Stars with Dyslexia!
by horne_jeffrey created 20 Nov 2014 | last updated - 19 Oct 2015
15 to 20 percent of the general population suffer from a reading condition known as dyslexia. Dyslexia is a reading learning disability where people usually read words, letters, and sentences backward, which can drastically affect their comprehension. This condition is labeled as the most common learning disorder and most recognized reading disorder. Dyslexics tend to struggle with auditory short term memory, phonological awareness, phonological decoding, processing speed, orthographic coding, language skills/verbal comprehension, and rapid naming. Dyslexics tend to learn to read instead of reading to learn. To elaborate, learning to read is dyslexics asking other people the definition of a unfamiliar word or constantly sounding out difficult words, which can distract them from finding the point of the story. Reading to learn can be dyslexics who having the coping mechanisms to understand and enjoy what they are reading. In some cases, dyslexics may read entire book or essay without discovering the author's thesis. Helpfully, individuals can receive help by receiving extra time and attention in the classrooms. For example, most common class accommodations includes giving students time in a half to finish their exams. If the exam is 90 minutes long, dyslexic students may receive 2 hours and 15 minutes since half of 90 is 45, which will be added to the 90 minutes. Other types of coping tools are using pen to highlight, put a star, or circle main ideas. Interestingly, people with dyslexic tend to have average and above average intelligence, which means they have the ability to do the work.
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Tom Cruise
Actor, Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. Nonetheless...
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2.
Whoopi Goldberg
Self, The View
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in a funeral parlor and as a bricklayer while taking small parts on Broadway...
Image of Jay Leno
3.
Jay Leno
Producer, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jay Leno began his career in night clubs, where he worked 300 nights a year before hitting it big in 1992 with his own late-night talk show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. By that time he had appeared on television, acted in a few films (American Hot Wax) but hit paydirt with his late-night television appearances (he made a record number of visits to Late Night with David Letterman); for several years...
Image of Henry Winkler
4.
Henry Winkler
Actor, The Waterboy
Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945, in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Ilse Anna Maria (Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler, were Jewish immigrants who avoided the German Holocaust, moving to the US in 1939. His father was the president of an international lumber company while his mother worked alongside his father...
Image of Orlando Bloom
5.
Orlando Bloom
Actor, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, England on January 13, 1977. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he briefly knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary political activist who fought for civil rights in South Africa...
Image of Lara Flynn Boyle
6.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Actress, Men in Black II
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7.
Patrick Dempsey
Actor, Grey's Anatomy
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Image of Cher
8.
Cher
Actress, Mask
The beat goes on ... and on ... and as strong as ever for this superstar entertainer who has well surpassed the four-decade mark while improbably transforming herself from an artificial, glossy "flashionplate" singer into a serious, Oscar-worthy, dramatic actress ... and back again! With more ups and downs than the 2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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9.
Keira Knightley
Actress, The Imitation Game
Keira Christina Knightley was born in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh origin...
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10.
Caitlyn Jenner
Self, Keeping Up with the Kardashians
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11.
Anthony Hopkins
Actor, Hannibal
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, he moved to London and joined the National Theatre...
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Anderson Cooper
Producer, Anderson Cooper 360°
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Steven Spielberg
Producer, Saving Private Ryan
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Harry Belafonte
Self, Sing Your Song
Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also, he appeared in the Broadway revues "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" and "Three for Tonight"...
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Tommy Hilfiger
Self, The Cut
Image of Jamie Oliver 16.
Jamie Oliver
Writer, Jamie at Home
Jamie Oliver's cheeky manner, constant use of the word 'pukka', and down to earth personality have won him legions of fans around the world. He has sold millions of cookery books, opened a restaurant, starred in several TV shows and revolutionised UK school dinners. He was born May 27th, 1975 and brought up in Clavering...
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Magic Johnson
Self, Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
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Charles Schwab
Self, Ennis' Gift
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Alyssa Milano
Actress, Charmed
Alyssa Milano comes from an Italian-American family; her mother Lin Milano is a fashion designer and father Thomas Milano is a film music editor. Alyssa was born in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn and grew up in a modest house on Staten Island. One day her babysitter, who was an aspiring dancer...
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Liv Tyler
Actress, The Incredible Hulk
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Salma Hayek
Actress, Frida
One of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses, Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten by her well-to-do businessman father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, and her opera-singing mother...
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Danny Glover
Actor, Lethal Weapon
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Erin Brockovich-Ellis
Self, Journey Into Dyslexia
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Albert Einstein
Self, Champagne for Caesar
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, to a German Jewish family. He was the son of Pauline (Koch) and Hermann Einstein, a featherbed salesman. Albert began reading and studying science at a young age, and he graduated from a Swiss high school when he was 17. He then attended a Swiss Polytechnic...
“ I told people dyslexics have the potential to become geniuses and great thinkers. ” - horne_jeffrey
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Michael Dudikoff
Actor, Platoon Leader
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Art Department, Parajanov: The Last Spring
The archetypal "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest scientific minds as well as one of the greatest visual artists the human race has ever produced. The illegitimate son of a wealthy Florentine notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman named Caterina, Leonardo was born in Tuscany on April 15, 1452, in Anchiano, a town near Vinci, which is in the proximity of Florence...
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Galileo Galiei
Composer, Kanseitou
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Susan Hampshire
Actress, Monarch of the Glen
Susan Hampshire, the English actress who has won three Emmy Awards, was born in Kensington, London on May 12, 1937. Her original ambition was to be a nurse, but she could not pass her O-Level exam in Latin. (She found out when she was 30 years old that she was dyslexic, and her work on dyslexia subsequently...
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Steve Jobs
Self, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Steven Paul Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California, to students Abdul Fattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble who were unmarried at the time and gave him up for adoption. He was taken in by a working class couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up with them in Mountain View, California...
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Dean Kamen
Self, Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story
“ He is the inventor of the Segway (two wheeled, self balancing vehicle), which helps immobile people to get from plan A to plan B. ” - horne_jeffrey
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Keanu Reeves
Actor, The Matrix
Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patricia Taylor, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese...
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Steve McQueen
Director, 12 Years a Slave
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Ozzy Osbourne
Soundtrack, This Is the End
Born in Birmingham, England, after leaving school and having many odd jobs he ended up in a band with Geezer Butler. This group then split leading Ozzy and Geezer to join Tony Iommi and Bill Ward in a new band that went under several names (including Earth) that ended up being called Black Sabbath after a song of the same name that appeared on their first album (released 1969/70)...
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Dallas Page
Actor, The Devil's Rejects
A star collegiate basketball player, Diamond Dallas Page entered the nightclub business in the 1970s, becoming one of South Florida's top club owners and promoters. He began training to become an in-ring performer at the age of 35, the oldest rookie in Pro Wrestling history. "DDP" captivated audiences around the world with matches alongside greats like Hulk Hogan...
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Rex Ryan
Actor, Sweet Jane
“ NFL football coach of the New York Jets. ” - horne_jeffrey
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Lindsay Wagner
Actress, The Bionic Woman
Lindsay Wagner makes little distinction between her life as an actress, advocate, mother or author. What unites these various parts is a commitment through her work and her personal life to exploring and advancing human potential. Lindsay first came to prominence in the critically-acclaimed role of Susan Fields in The Paper Chase...
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Holly Willoughby
Self, This Morning
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Jim Carrey
Actor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color but leading roles in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber and The Mask established him as a bankable comedy actor...
“ JC is said to have dyslexia as a child while living with ADHD all his life. ” - horne_jeffrey
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Jennifer Aniston
Actress, Friends
Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father is Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City where her parents divorced when she was nine...
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Suzanne Somers
Actress, Step by Step
Suzanne Somers is the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up living in constant fear of being hurt or even killed at the hands of her verbally and physically abusive alcoholic father. She was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was young...
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Vince Vaughn
Producer, The Internship
Vincent Anthony Vaughn was born on March 28, 1970, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, and was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. His parents are Vernon Vaughn, a salesman and character actor, and Sharon Vaughn (née Sharon Eileen DePalmo), a real-estate agent and stockbroker. They divorced in 1991. He has two older sisters...
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Muhammad Ali
Self, When We Were Kings
Muhammad Ali beat more champions and top contenders than any heavyweight champion in history. He defeated heavyweight kings Sonny Liston (twice), Floyd Patterson (twice), Ernie Terrell, Jimmy Ellis, Ken Norton (twice), Joe Frazier (twice), George Foreman and Leon Spinks. He defeated light-heavyweight champs Archie Moore and Bob Foster...
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Babe Ruth
Actor, The Pride of the Yankees
Most of Babe Ruth's records have been broken. In 1961, not only did Roger Maris break The Babe's 34-year-old record for most home runs in a season with 61*, but Maris' teammate on the '61 Yankees, pitcher 'Whitey Ford' broke The Babe's 43-year-old record for most scoreless innings pitched in a World Series when the Yankees dispatched the Reds that year in the post-season...
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Bill Gates
Self, Das Milliardenversprechen
Born William Henry III is an American entrepreneur, business mogul, investor, philanthropist, and widely known as one of the most richest and influential people in the world. William Henry III was born to attorney, William Henry II and teacher, Mary Maxwell Gates in Seattle, Washington, USA. Bill Gates as a child was very competitive...
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Pablo Picasso
Art Department, Le mystère Picasso
Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of 20th century art, who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time. He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso on October 6, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez...
Image of George Washington 46.
George Washington
Image of Thomas Jefferson 47.
Thomas Jefferson
Actor, Forbidden
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John F. Kennedy
Self, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Rose Kennedy (née Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald) and Joseph P. Kennedy. John was named after his maternal grandfather, John "HoneyFitz" Fitzgerald, the mayor of Boston. John was very ill as a child and was given the last rites five times...
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George W. Bush
Camera and Electrical Department, Journeys with George
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John Lennon
Actor, A Hard Day's Night
John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, to Julia (Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. He was of Irish, and some Welsh and English, ancestry. In the mid-1950s, he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, later became The Beatles...
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Robin Williams
Actor, Dead Poets Society
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford Motor Company executive from Indiana...
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Will Smith
Actor, Men in Black
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Mark Anthony
Makeup Department, Minority Report
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Vince McMahon
Producer, WWE Monday Night RAW
In the world of sports and sports entertainment, few promoters have been as successful as Vincent K. McMahon. Born August 24, 1945, to second- generation wrestling promoter Vincent J. McMahon, the young Vince eventually transformed his father's regional wrestling promotion, the northeastern U.S.'s World-Wide Wrestling Federation (later World Wrestling Federation...
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Joe Montana
Self, Joe Montana and Tom Mitchell: The Winning Spirit
Considered by many experts to be the greatest quarterback in the history of NFL football, Montana was recruited by the San Francisco 49ers from Notre Dame in 1979 after leading the "Fighting Irish" to a Cotton Bowl victory in 1978. "Joe Cool," as he was known for his ice cool disposition in the heat of the game...
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Jewel Kilcher
Soundtrack, Valentine's Day
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Channing Tatum
Actor, 21 Jump Street
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Harrison Ford
Actor, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
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Richard Branson
Self, Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story
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Lucille Ball
Actress, I Love Lucy
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Billy Bob Thornton
Actor, Armageddon
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“ Inducted into the Dyslexia Hall of Fame in Washington DC. ” - horne_jeffrey
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Kaya Scodelario
Actress, Moon
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Famous Stars with Dyslexia!
by horne_jeffrey created 20 Nov 2014 | last updated - 19 Oct 2015
15 to 20 percent of the general population suffer from a reading condition known as dyslexia. Dyslexia is a reading learning disability where people usually read words, letters, and sentences backward, which can drastically affect their comprehension. This condition is labeled as the most common learning disorder and most recognized reading disorder. Dyslexics tend to struggle with auditory short term memory, phonological awareness, phonological decoding, processing speed, orthographic coding, language skills/verbal comprehension, and rapid naming. Dyslexics tend to learn to read instead of reading to learn. To elaborate, learning to read is dyslexics asking other people the definition of a unfamiliar word or constantly sounding out difficult words, which can distract them from finding the point of the story. Reading to learn can be dyslexics who having the coping mechanisms to understand and enjoy what they are reading. In some cases, dyslexics may read entire book or essay without discovering the author's thesis. Helpfully, individuals can receive help by receiving extra time and attention in the classrooms. For example, most common class accommodations includes giving students time in a half to finish their exams. If the exam is 90 minutes long, dyslexic students may receive 2 hours and 15 minutes since half of 90 is 45, which will be added to the 90 minutes. Other types of coping tools are using pen to highlight, put a star, or circle main ideas. Interestingly, people with dyslexic tend to have average and above average intelligence, which means they have the ability to do the work.
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Tom Cruise
Actor, Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. Nonetheless...
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2.
Whoopi Goldberg
Self, The View
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in a funeral parlor and as a bricklayer while taking small parts on Broadway...
Image of Jay Leno
3.
Jay Leno
Producer, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jay Leno began his career in night clubs, where he worked 300 nights a year before hitting it big in 1992 with his own late-night talk show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. By that time he had appeared on television, acted in a few films (American Hot Wax) but hit paydirt with his late-night television appearances (he made a record number of visits to Late Night with David Letterman); for several years...
Image of Henry Winkler
4.
Henry Winkler
Actor, The Waterboy
Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945, in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Ilse Anna Maria (Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler, were Jewish immigrants who avoided the German Holocaust, moving to the US in 1939. His father was the president of an international lumber company while his mother worked alongside his father...
Image of Orlando Bloom
5.
Orlando Bloom
Actor, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, England on January 13, 1977. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he briefly knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary political activist who fought for civil rights in South Africa...
Image of Lara Flynn Boyle
6.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Actress, Men in Black II
Lara Flynn Boyle was born in Davenport, Iowa on March 24, 1970 to 21-year old Sally Boyle. For Sally and young Lara, money was not plentiful so Sally was required to work three jobs in addition to raising baby Lara by herself. Since Lara was mostly around Sally, they developed a bond that still binds Lara and Sally today...
Image of Patrick Dempsey
7.
Patrick Dempsey
Actor, Grey's Anatomy
Patrick Dempsey has lived two charming but separate lives on film and television. From an exuberant, somewhat awkward charmer in college comedy films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, he has morphed spectacularly into a dreamy, wavy-haired television hunk of the new-age millennium and this seductive...
Image of Cher
8.
Cher
Actress, Mask
The beat goes on ... and on ... and as strong as ever for this superstar entertainer who has well surpassed the four-decade mark while improbably transforming herself from an artificial, glossy "flashionplate" singer into a serious, Oscar-worthy, dramatic actress ... and back again! With more ups and downs than the 2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Image of Keira Knightley
9.
Keira Knightley
Actress, The Imitation Game
Keira Christina Knightley was born in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh origin...
Image of Caitlyn Jenner
10.
Caitlyn Jenner
Self, Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Image of Anthony Hopkins
11.
Anthony Hopkins
Actor, Hannibal
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, he moved to London and joined the National Theatre...
Image of Anderson Cooper
12.
Anderson Cooper
Producer, Anderson Cooper 360°
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Steven Spielberg
Producer, Saving Private Ryan
Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer...
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Harry Belafonte
Self, Sing Your Song
Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in New York City. He was educated at the New York Dramatic Workshop. He grew up in Jamaica, British West Indies, and did folk-singing in nightclubs and theaters, and on television and records. His debut was at the Village Vanguard in New York. Also, he appeared in the Broadway revues "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" and "Three for Tonight"...
Image of Tommy Hilfiger 15.
Tommy Hilfiger
Self, The Cut
Image of Jamie Oliver 16.
Jamie Oliver
Writer, Jamie at Home
Jamie Oliver's cheeky manner, constant use of the word 'pukka', and down to earth personality have won him legions of fans around the world. He has sold millions of cookery books, opened a restaurant, starred in several TV shows and revolutionised UK school dinners. He was born May 27th, 1975 and brought up in Clavering...
Image of Magic Johnson 17.
Magic Johnson
Self, Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
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Charles Schwab
Self, Ennis' Gift
Image of Alyssa Milano 19.
Alyssa Milano
Actress, Charmed
Alyssa Milano comes from an Italian-American family; her mother Lin Milano is a fashion designer and father Thomas Milano is a film music editor. Alyssa was born in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn and grew up in a modest house on Staten Island. One day her babysitter, who was an aspiring dancer...
Image of Liv Tyler 20.
Liv Tyler
Actress, The Incredible Hulk
Liv Tyler was born in New York City, New York. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith, and Bebe Buell, former model (and Playboy Playmate of the Month) and stalwart of the backstage rock scene of the 1970s. Liv grew up thinking that rock star Todd Rundgren was her father...
Image of Salma Hayek 21.
Salma Hayek
Actress, Frida
One of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses, Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten by her well-to-do businessman father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, and her opera-singing mother...
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Danny Glover
Actor, Lethal Weapon
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Albert Einstein
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Michael Dudikoff
Actor, Platoon Leader
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Susan Hampshire
Actress, Monarch of the Glen
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Steve Jobs
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Keanu Reeves
Actor, The Matrix
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Steve McQueen
Director, 12 Years a Slave
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Dallas Page
Actor, The Devil's Rejects
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Rex Ryan
Actor, Sweet Jane
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Lindsay Wagner
Actress, The Bionic Woman
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Holly Willoughby
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Jim Carrey
Actor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Jennifer Aniston
Actress, Friends
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Suzanne Somers
Actress, Step by Step
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Actor, The Pride of the Yankees
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Bill Gates
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John F. Kennedy
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Actor, A Hard Day's Night
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Will Smith
Actor, Men in Black
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You should know what the speed limit is outside your own house ,depending on what the street is like.
Built up area ,probably 30 ,country road ,could be 60 ,dual carriageway ,could be anything ,depending on what council
think how dangerous it is.
As i have been told there is no speed sign coming into the uphill road at one end and there is a speed sign coming in from the top end from 60 to 30 and there is 40 - 60 ton quarry lorries running down hill and damaging the road seriously, and as said previously no one seems to care with a disaster waiting which is inevitable.There is also a school sign showing going uphill a child holding a younger childs hand . speed limit ( what speed limit )
Built up area ,probably 30 ,country road ,could be 60 ,dual carriageway ,could be anything ,depending on what council
think how dangerous it is.
As i have been told there is no speed sign coming into the uphill road at one end and there is a speed sign coming in from the top end from 60 to 30 and there is 40 - 60 ton quarry lorries running down hill and damaging the road seriously, and as said previously no one seems to care with a disaster waiting which is inevitable.There is also a school sign showing going uphill a child holding a younger childs hand . speed limit ( what speed limit )
i suggest you involve your local councillor, the one on the county council or whichever authority is responsible for highways in your area. Also, get together with your neighbours and write to your local paper; a bit of media coverage may prompt the council to remember the speed limit - good luck.
If there are no speed limit signs and it's single carriageway and no traffic calming... Then it's 30 if there are street lights (defines "built up") or NSL (60 on single c/w) if no street lights.
All other limits (on single carriageway) have to be sign posted and where they start and have small repeater signs at intervals. If there traffic calming it should be 20mph but should also be signed (there are some that are either not signed or signed as 30).
At least thats what I was told on the speed awareness course...
All other limits (on single carriageway) have to be sign posted and where they start and have small repeater signs at intervals. If there traffic calming it should be 20mph but should also be signed (there are some that are either not signed or signed as 30).
At least thats what I was told on the speed awareness course...
Riley Blue said:
i suggest you involve your local councillor, the one on the county council or whichever authority is responsible for highways in your area. Also, get together with your neighbours and write to your local paper; a bit of media coverage may prompt the council to remember the speed limit - good luck.
Go to a Parish Concil meeting, raise the issue. Often there will be a County Councillor there, and occasionally a neighbourhood PC or PCSO. A councillor will likely visit with you at the scene. Being a Parish Councillor is often a thankless, unpaid task, but these are typical issues. The County Councillor should have the ear of the county Highways Committee. I had the same issues with HGVs coming down our lane, taking a short cut, despite, or perhaps because of what their sat-nav said. The problem is some can look large but still be under 7.5 tonne, so you may want to consider width as well as weight restrictions.
AAGR said:
shouldbworking said:
here you are mate, I have some going spare and you seem to be short a few
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