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[MindBomber]

Originally Posted by MG1

I wish I had learned to sign. I would love to understand what deaf people are saying to each other.

this is a bit of a thread jack, but a fascinating article and since Kienan's home the crisis is over.

WHAT have famed pianist Arthur Rubinstein, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, India's self-taught mathematical genius Ramanujan, Nobel Prizewinning economist Gary Becker, talk show host G. Gordon Liddy and renowned physicists Richard Feynman, Edward Teller and Albert Einstein all had in common?

Aside from being remarkable people, they were all late in beginning to speak when they were children. Edward Teller, for example, did not say anything that anyone understood until he was four years old. Einstein began talking at age three but he was still not fluent when he turned nine.

While most children who are late in beginning to speak are male, there have also been some famous female late-talkers -- celebrated 19th century pianist Clara Schumann and outstanding 20th century mathematician Julia Robinson, the first woman to become president of the American Mathematical Association. In addition, there have been innumerable people of exceptional ability in a number of fields who were years behind the norm for developing the ability to speak when they were children.

Parents and professionals alike have been baffled as to the reason for delayed speech in children whose precocious intellectual development has been obvious, even when they are toddlers. Some of these kids can put together puzzles designed for older children or for adults. Some can use computers by themselves as early as age two, even though they remain silent while their peers are developing the ability to speak.

No one really knows for sure why this is so. These children have only begun to be studied within the past decade. My own recently published book "The Einstein Syndrome" is one such study. More research on these children is being conducted by Professor Stephen Camarata at the Vanderbilt University medical school. He was himself late in talking.

Research on Einstein's brain has suggested to some neuroscientists that he was late in talking because of the unusual development of his brain, as revealed by an autopsy. Those portions of his brain where analytical thinking was concentrated had spread out far beyond their usual area and spilled over into adjoining areas, including the region from which speech is usually controlled. This has led some neuroscientists to suggest that his genius and his late talking could have been related.

At this point, no one knows whether this is the reason why Einstein took so long to develop the ability to speak, much less whether this is true of the other people of outstanding intellect who were also late in beginning to speak. What is known, however, is that there are a number of disabilities that are more common among people of high intellect than in the general population.

Members of the high-IQ Mensa society, for example, have a far higher than normal incidence of allergies. A sample of youngsters enrolled in the Johns Hopkins program for mathematically precocious youths -- kids who can score 700 on the math SAT when they are just 12 years old -- showed that more than four-fifths of them were allergic and/or myopic and/or left-handed.

This is all consistent with one region of the brain having above normal development and taking resources that leave some other region or regions with less than the usual resources for performing other functions. It is also consistent with the fact that some bright children who talk late remain impervious to all attempts of parents or professionals to get them to talk at the normal time. Yet these same kids later begin to speak on their own, sometimes after parents have finally just given up hope and stopped trying.

Noted language authority and neuroscientist Steven Pinker of M.I.T. says, "language seems to develop about as quickly as the growing brain can handle it." While this was a statement about the general development of language, it may be especially relevant to bright children who talk late. As the whole brain grows in early childhood, increasing the total resources available, the regions whose resources have been pre-empted elsewhere can now catch up and develop normally.

My research and that of Professor Camarata have turned up a number of patterns in children with the Einstein Syndrome that were similar to what biographies of Einstein himself reveal. Most children who talk late are not like those in our studies. But a remarkable number are.

Unfortunately, many of these children get misdiagnosed as retarded, autistic or as having an attention deficit disorder.

Thomas Sowell

[cressydrift]

RCMP arrest B.C. abduction suspect in Alberta - CTV News

they got him.

Diffrent story on the same site...

Updated: Tue Sep. 13 2011 10:48:33

ctvcalgary.ca

Randall Hopley, the man who allegedly abducted three year old Kienan Hebert from his home only to return him five days later, has been captured on Tuesday.

RCMP found Hopley hiding at a gravel pit near Crowsnest Pass at around 10 a.m. on Tuesday.

A K-9 team from Kelowna is credited with capturing Hopley, who tracked him to the area.

Hopley was brought back to Sparwood in police custody soon afterwards.

Hopley has remained at large in the community ever since Kienan's disappearance on Sept.5 and mysterious return on Sunday.

Police gathered in the community of Sparwood B.C. early Monday morning and set out on ATV's, on foot and in a helicopter to search the area.

The search continued in Crowsnest Pass on Tuesday morning and at about 10:30 a.m. a flurry of RCMP activity was reported in the community, indicating that something big was happening.



Police want to talk to 46-year-old Randall Hopley in relation to the abduction of the little boy from his home last week.

Kienan, meanwhile, remains at home with his family and was unharmed during his ordeal.

[wasabisashimi]

i hope this is the real ninja that took the boy.

[Mr.C]

Originally Posted by cctw

so technically the suspect can enter and leave the house unnoticed?..this doesnt sound right.

Yeah, that's what I thought when I read the news. My spidey-sense is tingling on this one.

Was it even this dude that took him?

[StylinRed]

the mother said on the news that she'll be leaving their door unlocked again now that Hopley was arrested

[InvisibleSoul]

Originally Posted by MeGusta

I remember reading the Vancouver Sun and it said the parents left the doors to the home unlocked because they were afraid of fidgeting with keys at night when they get home. WTF were they thinking about leaving a 3 year old home alone with no doors locked??

Fucking idiots. I'm just glad the kid is back home and hope the parents wake the fuck up

Originally Posted by StylinRed

the mother said on the news that she'll be leaving their door unlocked again now that Hopley was arrested

You know what though, Sparwood is a small town, and living there might have similarities to what it was to live in a bigger city like Vancouver back in the 80's. Back then, people weren't that concerned about locking doors to their houses. People just felt safer than they do now. I don't know whether it really was safer or not, but people just weren't as concerned that a random stranger would come rob the house or whatever.

[fsy82]

Summer time we leave our door open to get a nice breeze in our home. I feel safe in our neighborhood and our neighbors always report weird shit.

[MG1]

Originally Posted by fsy82

Summer time we leave our door open to get a nice breeze in our home. I feel safe in our neighborhood and our neighbors always report weird shit.

All it takes is the one time.

[PB10]

Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul

You know what though, Sparwood is a small town, and living there might have similarities to what it was to live in a bigger city like Vancouver back in the 80's. Back then, people weren't that concerned about locking doors to their houses. People just felt safer than they do now. I don't know whether it really was safer or not, but people just weren't as concerned that a random stranger would come rob the house or whatever.

Maybe so, but i feel it was pretty idiotic of her for public announcing it.

[AzNightmare]

Originally Posted by fsy82

Summer time we leave our door open to get a nice breeze in our home. I feel safe in our neighborhood and our neighbors always report weird shit.

Yeah... but I assume you do that when people or the family is in the house to monitor if some random just walks in.

Originally Posted by MG1

All it takes is the one time.

Apparently not for this woman... since she said she will leave her doors unlocked again now that Hopley's been caught.

[wasabisashimi]

Originally Posted by fsy82

Summer time we leave our door open to get a nice breeze in our home. I feel safe in our neighborhood and our neighbors always report weird shit.

You probably dont live in East Van

[Girl]

Originally Posted by fsy82

Summer time we leave our door open to get a nice breeze in our home. I feel safe in our neighborhood and our neighbors always report weird shit.

Ya I did too, until they found a body down my street. And I live in a freakin' awesome neighbourhood where the neighbours still know one another and bring each other little gifts here and there, or borrow sugar. But way too many random stuff happening over the past 2 years that most of everybody locks their doors now.

[GabAlmighty]

My neighbourhood's like that^^^ Everyone knows everyone.

I lock my truck on the street, haven't done it when it's parked in the carport for ages. We lock the door at night, cuz we've been robbed a couple times, during the day i never lock the door.

[AzNightmare]

Oh, this reminds me of something.
Just the other day at around 1am, I was going to get some cash from the ATM.
I saw another guy there at the ATM machine, but he left his car running, with no one in the car.

Then it occurred that occasionally, when I go to 7-Eleven late at night, I see some people leaving their car running,
while they are inside making a quick purchase.



Am I the only one that's "paranoid" ??

[wasabisashimi]

Originally Posted by AzNightmare

Oh, this reminds me of something.
Just the other day at around 1am, I was going to get some cash from the ATM.
I saw another guy there at the ATM machine, but he left his car running, with no one in the car.

Then it occurred that occasionally, when I go to 7-Eleven late at night, I see some people leaving their car running,
while they are inside making a quick purchase.



Am I the only one that's "paranoid" ??

Nope, Just wait til someone drive away with their cars. It happened to my neighbor who starts his car in the morning to warm up and went back inside to grab his coffee and breakfast (back in 2001, we had no remote starter). Another time with my friend who left her car running while going inside to grab laundry to go to the dry cleaner.

You are pretty much inviting the thief in by leaving door open or engine running

[dinosaur]

Global BC | Woman comes forward to allege possible Hopley motive

weird.

[s13_drifter]

Originally Posted by dinosaur

Global BC | Woman comes forward to allege possible Hopley motive

weird.

She might be lying. Who knows.