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Gordon Goodwin, and the fortunate souls witnessing his youthful talent mature to mastery, felt a sense of deja vu when he brandished the baton before his Big Phat Band at the 55th annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
Just as he did on the same stage 40 years ago, Goodwin and his amazing musicians took the world's oldest continuous and best jazz festival by storm. In 1972, Bonita High School teacher/music director Robin Snyder had the foresight to know Goodwin's potential and unleashed it before an instantly appreciative audience of jazz aficionados, critics and legends at Monterey.
He opened the Friday night concert of the Sept. 21-23 festival this year with a bang, again drawing on the masters of music and original compositions to play with and for an awed audience.
He's always liked America's great composers - evidenced in the Big Phat Band's more-than-amazing rendition of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" that left people sighing ecstatically - but he additionally intertwines humor.
The latter was reflected in his originals - phonetically pronounced "Howdiz Songo" for a jamming Latin-tinged tune; "That's How We Roll" to explain the band's musical momentum, the intense "Race To the Bridge" and the "Hunting Wabbits" tune inspired by animated music man Carl Stallings.
The original "Backrow Politics" best showed how connected Goodwin and his musicians are, how much fun they have playing together and how adept the band and its leader are at drawing an entire audience into a mirthful exchange.
When teenage Gordon accepted the MJF baton from Snyder in 1972, Snyder already knew what the world would soon discover: Gordon Goodwin has skills far beyond normalcy and would become a familiar name associated with excellence, dexterity and imagination to performers, composers, critics and fans.
"I owe so much to Robin Snyder, for his inspiration and for stepping aside and saying `Here you go, Gordon, the band's yours.' It wasn't about ego with him," asserted Goodwin, now 56. "It was about nurturing the music. I can never re-pay him for what he did. He'll never fully know how important he was and is in my life. He had such joy about the music, about us and it was infectious.
"He taught me how to lead a band, set the tone, be positive and energetic, incorporate access into our music so it's visually fun to watch," he continued. "He taught me you can have fun and be 100 percent serious about music at the same time. He helped me find and sustain the joy in music."
Goodwin didn't disappoint in 1972, 2012 or the years in between, always delivering the goods and leaving folks happy and wanting more, especially after the wailing horns of trumpeters Wayne Bergeron, Dan Fornero, Dan Savant and Willie Murillo battled with saxes-on-flutes Sal Lozano, Eric Marienthal, Jeff Driscoll and Brian Scanlon.
"Wow!" and "Oh, my!" were oft-repeated phrases while Goodwin's Big Phat Band made music that was pretty hot and tasty.
"They were very upbeat, almost electric in mixing the old with the new. I wasn't the only one patting my feet," said Gayle Claiborne of Pomona.
Snyder, the La Verne man who became the grandfather of Southern California high school jazz when he added America's only original art form into Bonita's music program, remembered Goodwin as a "talented kid burning up and brimming over with music."
Although the MJF program mistakenly credited Wichita, Kan. as the incubator for his creativity, Goodwin corrected that to say he was 2 when his parents, Gordon E. and Alice Goodwin, moved the family to Pomona. The family, which also included Gordon's trumpet-playing brother Mark, moved to La Verne when Gordon was 8.
The foundation for music was laid by his church-choir-singing parents, Snyder and the talented peers who trusted and accepted him as their student leader. An early music teacher, Janet Hodges, implanted the idea he could compose in his head after she heard his first original piece.
"It was terrible," Goodwin recalled, cringing. "I wasn't Mozart, but I guess my piano teacher saw I had an inclination for composition."
Snyder said Goodwin returned to school each fall with original compositions and arrangements of music by pioneering jazz artists. He remembered Gordon as a well-adjusted child who didn't plaque him with trouble in the classroom or on competitive stages. Gordon remembered himself as an insecure teen trying to fit into a world where other teens grooved on rock while his head and heart were filled with jazz, jazz and more jazz.
"I thought rock was awful, but I couldn't say that then," said the man who succumbed a tad to non-jazz formats at Hollywood Bowl's Battle of the Bands competitions and jams, a stage he shared with Lynwood High School trumpeter Wayne Bergeron, now a Big Phat Band master trumpeter who has also played with Quincy Jones and Maynard Ferguson.
Bergeron admitted he wasn't seriously into jazz until after high school. He became serious enough to play in Quincy Jones' and Maynard Ferguson's bands, become a first-call studio musician and be featured on 300 movie soundtracks. Bergeron was one of the first artists Goodwin signed for his Big Phat Band.
"The wonderful thing about jazz and working with Gordon is there's always room for personal embellishment and improvisation," Bergeron added.
Goodwin always liked "walking outside the boundaries of mainsteam thought." As he matured, he became more comfortable with the flow of his own energy and creativity. Besides conducting, composing and arranging, he plays piano and tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
There were low points when it took all he had to remain creative and forceful. His two lowest points were the death of his brother Mark in 1982 and, a month later to the day, his father's death. He credited the "absolutely amazing strength" of his mother, now 82, for keeping him steady.
Alice Goodwin, Bonita High and lifetime friend Eric Olsen of San Dimas and friend Jon Baker believed in him so much they gave him the money for his first big band project.
"Their willingness to invest in me was remarkable. They didn't have a lot of money, but they were willing to help me realize my dreams," said a still-appreciative Goodwin.
Snyder noted Goodwin's humility has never waned. He has "never had a big head about his talents and he's always remembered who he is, where he came from and people who helped him," said Snyder, 88. "He's one of my achievements. I'm proud to have had him in class. He made my teaching career at Bonita tolerable. He pushed me harder because he put his whole being into the music."
As a Bonita teen in 1972 and an all-star teen in 1973 at Monterey, Goodwin played with and listened to such great ones as Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Louie Bellson and Bill Watrous.
"I remember telling Clark Terry how appreciative we were to play with him. He put his arms around me and said `one of the most gratifying moments of my life was playing with you young people.' Those 10 minutes he spent with me showed me how I'm supposed to relate to and communicate with people. Mr. Terry had humility and didn't see talent as an excuse for being conceited or rude."
He and his wife, Westlake High School Instrumental Music Boosters president Lisa Goodwin, are passing on those same virtues and musical encouragement to their children. Daughter Madison, 24, sings; son Trevor, 22, plays acoustic and electric bass; and youngest son Garrison, 16, plays piano and percussions.
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DALLAS (AP) A document said to be the flawed original version of President John F. Kennedy's death certificate is up for sale, 43 years after a typo helped make it void.
Don McElroy, a funeral home worker who helped load Kennedy's casket into the hearse at Dallas Parkland Hospital, believes he has the first death certificate from the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination.
The document mistakenly lists Kennedy's address as "600 Pennsylvania Ave." — not 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., better known as the White House. The certificate also omits Kennedy's Social Security number, another error that forced the certificate to be amended.
McElroy says he kept the flawed certificate after his boss tried throwing it out, and auctioneers now trying to sell the document put its worth between $80,000 and $120,000.
"I never thought it would be valuable," said McElroy, who now works for an East Texas funeral home in Tyler.
The Worldwide Group Auctioneers, based in Auburn, Ind., pulled the certificate from the Internet auction site eBay this week after not finding a buyer. John Lyons, a spokesman for Worldwide Group, said eBay was the "wrong venue" for the item and that the certificate will likely go to a live auction.
The curator of a Dallas museum devoted to the Kennedy assassination believes the document is authentic.
"It's an interesting artifact," said Gary Mack of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. "We'd be interested to have it in our collection."
McElroy, now 68, worked for the Vernon O'Neal Funeral Home, which provided the nearly $4,000 solid bronze casket that contained Kennedy's body on the flight back to Washington, D.C.
When the funeral home filed the death certificate to the Dallas Bureau of Vital Statistics on Dec. 11, 1963, McElroy said the agency noticed the mistakes and requested an amendment. His boss simply typed a new version and began to throw the original away. McElroy said he stopped him.
McElroy said he helped load Kennedy's casket into the hearse that transported the body and Jacqueline Kennedy from Parkland Hospital to Love Field, where Air Force One awaited.
The Worldwide Group Auctioneers is also trying to sell the hearse, which received a top bid of $910,000 at a Houston auction last month. That fell short of the $1 million asking price, but Lyons said the company is negotiating with potential buyers.
"A lot of Kennedy stuff is coming out of the woodwork as people are getting older and planning their estates," Lyons said.
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Kimball Office introduces the second phase of the Vision collection, a new surfacing materials platform developed with the assistance of Perkins+Will design principals Eva Maddox and Eileen Jones.
Companies in the design industry invest millions of dollars and countless
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existing offerings. Kimball Office's investment in Vision, the company's brand new materials platform, appropriately illustrates this point. Rolling out in three separate phases over the course of two years, Vision is an ambitious revamping of the company's textile and surfacing offerings, all made possible by research, collaboration and a sizable bankroll.
Georgy Olivieri, director of architecture, design and sustainability strategies for Kimball Office, says that company officials saw a two-fold need when they began the process of reviewing its surface materials platform. "We realized that we had not done an overall refresh of this part of our business in many years. The economy was also a major factor. A number of our existing vendors had gone out of business. We needed to develop relationships with strong, financially sound vendors with excellent design and manufacturing capabilities."
Olivieri says that the undertaking also coincided with an overall strategy developed by company executives that focuses on working more closely with architects and designers to support end-users.
Executives at Kimball Office selected Eva Maddox and Eileen Jones of international architecture and design firm Perkins + Will to help develop the new platform. "It was an easy decision to choose them for this effort," says Olivieri. "We knew that their process and ultimate recommendations would give us deliverable, actionable results and that they would bring that commitment to all phases of this comprehensive project."
The Vision collection's rollout began in late 2010, with the introduction of over 70 highly acclaimed panel and seating textiles. The second phase, wood veneers and finishes, premiered at NeoCon this year, and will be followed by the launch of the platform's final phase, laminates and paints, at NeoCon 2012.
"We started with textiles because we saw that as the biggest need," says Olivieri. "To achieve the success we wanted, we enlisted the talents of some of the best designers and manufacturers in the industry, a commitment that will continue as the Vision collection grows. Each design and manufacturing partner must have outstanding capabilities in their respective area, including a commitment to sustainability and to meeting our delivery requirements."
The textiles portion of the Vision collection features fabrics from Maharam, Carnegie, KnollTextiles and Mayer Fabrics, in addition to the company's own offerings. The design team identified textiles with both today's market preferences and future trends in mind. As a result, the collection includes a range of classic colors, solid textures, stripes, leather and faux leather, and small, medium and large patterns. The line also includes 19 healthcare-specific fabrics with a variety of antimicrobial, bleach-cleanable and moisture-barrier attributes.
Eileen Jones, design principal at Perkins + Will, says that Kimball Office presented their team with some goals, while others were developed by all team members after the two companies joined forces. "Our primary goal was to create a materials
collection with finishes and a color platform to support the company's brand, customers and growth markets," she says. "Other key goals included integrating the platform to align with potential new product directions, designing for longevity and reducing the number of materials offered to address sustainability requirements."
The platform's development spanned two years, and included visioning and research sessions; an external review of competitor offerings; a thorough analysis of the information that was gathered; crafting of the program and aligning partnerships with key vendors; and the final selection and development of individual designs.
Jones says that the collection features two important components: a core group of finishes and a trends category that will be refreshed on a three-year basis. "Some designs within the collection will have an eight- to 10-year life, while others will be available for a shorter time. Vision will be continually updated in response to the needs of the marketplace."
"Officials at Kimball Office did a great deal of soul searching in bringing Vision to market," Jones adds. "The comprehensive nature of this project was fueled by the creative energy and expertise of all team members, and the desire to do the right thing was integral in every aspect of this effort."
Part of "doing the right thing" meant committing to sustainability. High-quality and environmentally friendly textiles were used, and most materials are crafted from recycled polyester or rapidly renewable materials, including cotton and wood. Fabrics are certified by either Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) or the McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) Cradle to Cradle standard.
The wood veneer and finishes portion of the Vision Collection includes 10 new and three existing wood finishes, and will be available this fall. Both Olivieri and Jones note that the strong connection between individual designs in the two segments of the collection that have already premiered will continue into the design and launch of the laminate and paint portion of the collection in 2012. Visit Kimball Office at www.kimballoffice.com or Perkins + Will at www.perkinswill.com for more information.
Janet Wiens is a freelance writer based in Memphis, Tenn. She was formerly a marketing manager for HNTB and now works with industry clients to address their marketing
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Peer Competition: The market is the final say, and although Tenet was up 28% in the past year, United Healthcare Group ( UNH) was up only 8%, WellPoint ( WLP) was down 16% and Cigna ( CI) was up 21%: United Healthcare has a financial strength rating of A+ and is rated by TheStreet as an A- stock. Revenue is projected to be up 8.7% next year, and earnings are expected to increase annually by 10.48% for the next five years. WellPoint has a financial strength of A and is rated as a B by TheStreet. Revenue is expected to increase by 8.2% next year, and earnings should increase by 8.29% annually for the next five years. Cigna has a financial strength of B++ and TheStreet gives the stock and A rating. Revenue might be up 10.2% next year, and earnings are estimated to increase by 10.21% annually for five years. Conclusion: With risk comes return, and I look for Tenet to benefit from Obamacare. Analysts expect the earnings to compound by 11.73% annually for the next five years and also expect the annual total return to investors to be in the 25%-30% range for that same period. The stock has gotten good support since July, and the lower 14-day turtle channel shows nice steady increases in that support as is evidenced in the chart below. If you want an Obamacare play, I think you'll find it here.
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1. Re: Use Projec segment in Chart of account with Auto project numbering.HowDina Rotem Oct 28, 2012 6:40 AM (in response to oracle_samba)Hi
There is no out-of-the-box solution to keep the GL value set synchronized withthe list of projects.
You might develop a customization like a data base trigger that will maintain the value set for the COA.
You may need to consider changes in project status so only approved project will have a value enabled in GL. When project is closed in PA you will need to automatically disable or end date the value in GL.
2. Re: Use Projec segment in Chart of account with Auto project numbering.Howoracle_samba Nov 4, 2012 9:38 PM (in response to Dina Rotem)Hi Dina,
First of all thanks for your response.
I was just validating further about this scenario and come up with understanding that if I make a value set assigned against project segment with Validation type as "None" instead of "Independant" then will I be achieving creating projects dynamically without doing customization?
This is sheer theorotical and wanted to confirm you.
3. Re: Use Projec segment in Chart of account with Auto project numbering.HowDina Rotem Nov 5, 2012 10:08 PM (in response to oracle_samba)Hi
Your approach may work if all your journals are accounted automaticlly based on Projects.
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Gil Evans Biography
Ian Ernest Gilmore Green, 13 May 1912, Toronto, Canada, d. 20 March 1988, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Although self-taught, Evans became extraordinarily proficient as a pianist and composer, though his greatest talent lay in his abilities as an arranger. He formed his first band in 1933 in California, where he was raised. He wrote most of the arrangements, a duty he retained when the band was later fronted by popular singer Skinnay Ennis. Up to this point Evans work had followed the orthodox line demanded of commercial dance bands, but his musical ambitions lay in other areas. A long stint as chief arranger for Claude Thornhill during the 40s gave him the opportunity he needed to explore different sounds and unusual textures. Thornhills predilection for soft and slowly shifting pastel patterns as a background for his delicate piano proved to be an interesting workshop for Evans, who would always remark on this experience as being influential upon his later work. Towards the end of his stay with Thornhill, Evans was writing for very large ensembles, creating intense moody music. However, by this time, he was eager to try something new, feeling that the music he was required to write for the band was becoming too static and sombre.
During this same period, Gerry Mulligan was a member of the Thornhill band and was also writing arrangements. Both he and Evans had become fascinated by the developments of the radical new beboppers such as Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, and in 1948 the two men embarked upon a series of arrangements for Davis nine-piece band. These records, subsequently released under the generic title Birth Of The Cool, proved very influential in the 50s. Despite the quality of the material Evans was creating at this point in his career, he did not meet with much commercial or critical success. His own recordings during the 50s were all fine albums, but they seemed to miss out on critical favour. New Bottles, Old Wine (featuring some blistering playing from Cannonball Adderley) was the best example. Towards the end of the 50s Evans again worked with Davis, together they created a batch of landmark albums such as Miles Ahead, Porgy And Bess and Sketches Of Spain. His arrangements for Davis was a highly effective amalgam of the concepts developed during his Thornhill period and the needs of the increasingly restrained trumpet style Davis was adopting. Evans use in these and later arrangements for his own band of such instruments as tubas and bass trombones broadened the range of orchestral colours at his disposal and helped him to create a highly distinctive sound and style. Davis was in no doubt as to the importance of Evans in making these recordings work so well. Out Of The Cool was another excellent album, again under his own name, but it was further uncredited work with Davies that paid the bills. His work on Kenny Burrells Guitar Forms in 1964 was another important step in Evans career.
As with many other gifted arrangers and composers, Evans real need was for a permanent band for the expression of his ideas, but this proved difficult to achieve. Such groups as he did form were in existence for only short periods, although some, fortunately, made records of his seminal works. He continued to write throughout the 60s, composing many extended works, often uncertain if they would ever be performed. However, in the early 70s he was able to form a band which played regularly and the music showed his ready absorption of ideas and devices from the current pop music scene. After a number of international tours during the 70s, his work became more widely known and his stature rose accordingly. So too did his popularity when it became apparent to audiences that his was not esoteric music but was readily accessible and showed a marked respect for the great traditions of earlier jazz.
By the late 70s, the music Evans was writing had developed a harder edge than hitherto; he was making extensive use of electronics and once again was happily absorbing aspects of pop. In particular, he arranged and recorded several Jimi Hendrix compositions. He had closely followed his career since the late 60s and became hugely impressed by Hendrix the composer. Evans creativity showed no signs of diminishing as the 80s dawned and he continued a punishing round of concert tours, record sessions, radio and television appearances, all the while writing more new material for his band. One of his final commissions was with Sting, arranging a fine version of Hendrixs Little Wing.
One of the outstanding arrangers and composers in jazz, Evans was particularly adept at creating complex scores which held at their core a simple and readily understandable concept. Throughout his career, his writing showed his profound respect for the needs of jazz musicians to make their own musical statements within an otherwise formally conceived and structured work. Perhaps this is why so many notable musicians - including Steve Lacy, Elvin Jones, Lew Soloff, George Adams, Ron Carter and David Sanborn - were happy to play in his bands over the years. As a result Evans work, even at its most sophisticated, maintained an enviable feeling of freedom and spontaneity that few other arrangers of his calibre were able to achieve.
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Earlier this week, a photo surfaced of Joran van der Sloot, sans shirt, being examined by a prison doctor. And folks couldn't help but notice that he had a tattoo across his chest. The tattoo is in Thai and it reads, "No worries." Oh, the irony—since van der Sloot has confessed to murder, let it slip that he knows where Natalee Holloway's body is buried, and is being held in a jail in Peru where he is supposedly fearing for his life. Oh, and today his lawyer quit. Maximo Altez said that after receiving death threats, he is done with the case. "I'm an older person. This isn't for me," he said. Hopefully, this will make you think before getting any tattoo involving words like "happiness," "money," or "love." You are only tempting fate. [Gawker, NY Post]


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The DSM attempts to represent a consensus view of the members of the American Psychiatric Association. However, more so than in other parts of the DSM, the classification of Axis II personality disorders—deeply ingrained, maladaptive, lifelong behaviour patterns—has come under sustained and serious criticism from its inception in 1952[How to reference and link to summary or text]. The DSM adopts a categorical approach, assuming that personality disorders are "qualitatively distinct clinical syndromes" (p. 689). This is doubted by many[How to reference and link to summary or text]. The polythetic form of the DSM's Diagnostic Criteria—only a subset of the criteria is adequate grounds for a diagnosis—generates diagnostic heterogeneity. In other words, people diagnosed with the same personality disorder may share only one criterion or none. Some people think that this is unacceptable[How to reference and link to summary or text].
The DSM has arbitrarily separated off Axes I and II so that it:
- "... ensures that consideration will be given to the possible presence of Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation that might otherwise be overlooked when attention is directed to the usually more florid Axis I disorders. The coding of Personality Disorders on Axis II should not be taken to imply that their pathogenesis or range of appropriate treatment is fundamentally different from that of the disorders coded on Axis I. (American Psychiatric Association, 2000, p. 28)"
However, the DSM does not contain an explanation of the relationship between Axis II (personality) and Axis I (non-personality) disorders, or the way in which chronic childhood and developmental problems interact with personality disorders. It is possible that the arbitrary separation of Axes I and II, although well intended, has created the wide spread false impression that these are fundamentally and possibly even biologically different types of illnesses[How to reference and link to summary or text]. This has contributed to the stigmatization of Axis II disorders in the mental health field[How to reference and link to summary or text].
One of the problems with diagnosis of personality disorder is that these such diagnosis typically has a lower reliability than most other disorders - indeed, Dahl (1986; cited in Marshall & Serin, 1997) found only modest test re-test reliability coefficients (between .5 and .6) for diagnoses of personality disorders over time, although as Marshall and Serin point out, evidence suggests that use of structured interviews can improve reliability of diagnosis. Improving breadth of information may also, as Marshall and Serin note, improve reliability of diagnosis.
Christine Warner, a neuroscientist, thinks that the differential diagnoses are vague and the personality disorders are insufficiently demarcated[How to reference and link to summary or text]. This overlap is addressed in the DSM by grouping the personality disorders into three clusters, which contain similar disorders. The result of the overlap is excessive comorbidity: people often receive multiple Axis II diagnoses[How to reference and link to summary or text]. This casts doubt on the assumption that the diagnostic categories correspond to independent disorders[How to reference and link to summary or text]. The necessity of the "not otherwise specified" basket category can also be seen as an indication of poor construct validity[How to reference and link to summary or text]; the current diagnostic categories are apparently insufficient to categorize all people with personality disorders.
The distinction made between "normal" and "disordered" personalities is also rejected by some[How to reference and link to summary or text]. The "diagnostic thresholds" between normal and abnormal are either absent or weakly supported. The judgment whether a behavioural pattern is normal or disordered is also highly subjective. The DSM contains little discussion of what distinguishes personality styles (personality), from personality disorders and much is left to clinical judgment.
Cultural bias is evident in certain disorders such as Schizoid personality disorder, Antisocial personality disorder, and Schizotypal personality disorder[How to reference and link to summary or text]. Also, diagnosis of some disorders may be vulnerable to bias because of gender role expectations.1
The emergence of dimensional alternatives to the categorical approach is acknowledged in the DSM-IV-TR itself:
- "An alternative to the categorical approach is the dimensional perspective that Personality Disorders represent maladaptive variants of personality traits that merge imperceptibly into normality and into one another" (p.689)
Despite considering all of the above, the DSM continues for the present to prefer the use of a categorical approach over a dimensional approach which is seen as, "less useful than categorical systems in clinical practice and in stimulating research."
In the mental health field, the category of personality disorder has become a pejorative concept[How to reference and link to summary or text]. Of all of the personality disorder categories, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder, have become most negatively identified categories[How to reference and link to summary or text]. Some clinicians refuse even to specify which Axis II category may be present, using instead the evasion, "Diagnosis Deferred"[How to reference and link to summary or text]. Personality disorder symptoms, as with all mental disorders, can vary markedly over time and become much more acute during times of stress in an individual's life.
The following issues, long neglected in the DSM, are likely to be addressed in future editions as well as in current research:
- Development of disorders over time
- Genetic and biological underpinnings of personality disorders
- Development of personality psychopathology during childhood and its emergence in adolescence
- Interactions between physical health and disease and personality disorders
- Effectiveness of various treatments (talk therapies as well as psychopharmacology)
Finally, because the diagnostic categories are seen as less flexible than dimensional ones, a spin-off problem is created in managed care settings. Because personality disorders may be defined as enduring and inflexible behavioral patterns that are not as likely to change over time, insurance companies sometimes refuse to reimburse psychotherapy fees when the patient/client has received an Axis II diagnosis, i.e., a personality disorder diagnosis.
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|Personality disorder | Psychopathy
|Cluster A (Odd) - Schizotypal, Schizoid, Paranoid
|Cluster B (Dramatic) - Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
|Cluster C (Anxious) - Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive, Avoidant
|Personality disorder not otherwise specified
|Assessing Personality Disorder
|MCMI | MMPI | Functional assessment
|Treating Personality Disorder
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well. LD, when you moved from open to hunter
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there were few folks shooting hunter. I don't recall thinking that you were trying to avoid competition nor do i remember anyone accusing you of it. Not everyone that chooses a class is trying to avoid comepetition. When i started shooting with casa it seems like there were a lot more piston shooters and thats the kind of gun i had. What i saw was a movement away from piston to PCP so maybe guys were moving from a hard to master gun to an easier one thinking they would do relatively better. What a lot found was they did not change thier position in the hierarchy. If they were average in piston they stayed average in PCP. So, the bottom line is that i do not agree with your assumption. I think people try to find a class where they shoot comfortably. I don't think most of them would abandon that small class as it grew hoping to find the next easy gig. There are always exceptions but i don't think that MOST guys are trying to avoid competition.
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Yes Larry, and at tht time, I was pretty vocal that I was trying to
- L D on Aug 3, 2012, 12:54 AM
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The French Football Federation (FFF) insists it has agreed to face England for the curtain-raising match.
But the FA, which is said to be in discussions with a number of national associations, insist this is premature.
"The FA hasn't made any decisions about the first game to be played at Wembley," said an FA spokesman.
"Clearly it will be a hugely exciting match and we look forward to being able
to announce details of our upcoming fixtures in the future," he added.
A spokesman for the FFF said earlier: "The English FA has asked the FFF to
play against England and the FFF said yes."
The FFF also claimed a return clash had been pencilled in for 2007.
The new £757m Wembley Stadium features a 133-metre arch, and will seat 90,000 fans with state-of-the-art facilities.


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Hunter S Thompson's suicide note
Hunter S. Thompson killed himself on 20 February 2005. Doesn't seem like four years ago. Paste magazine reveals his suicide note.
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
At the top of the note, "Football Season Is Over" had been scribbled in black – it had been three weeks since the conclusion of the Super Bowl.


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Initiatives pushed by Secretary Hillary Clinton
From KeyWiki
- Revolution @State: The Spread of EDiplomacy, Fergus Hanson, Lowy Institute for International Policly, March 2012.
- 21st Century Statecraft
- Video: Secretary Clinton Comments on 21st Century Statecraft, statevideo, Youtube, April 4, 2012.
- Obama's Unsung Tech Hero: Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post Tech Blog, Jan. 25, 2011.
- TechCamp, Hashtag #techcamp
- TechCamp Agenda
- TechCamp Bangkock, March 20-21, 2012.
- TechCamp Montevideo, Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2011.
- TechCamp Bucharest, Dec. 15-16, 2011.
Youth Issues
- Office of Global Youth Issues
- Secretary Clinton delivers remarks on Youth in Tunis, Tunisia, YouTube, Feb. 25, 2012.
- 11:33 Description of Youth Councils and Office of Global Youth Issues.
- 14:25 Global Youth Jobs Alliance, especially English language training, the language of commerce
- Hillary in Tunisia Answering Question About U.S. Presidential Candidates Pandering to 'Zionist Lobbies': 'It's a Fair Question', CNSNews.com, Feb. 27, 2012.
Cookstove Alliance
- Creating a global cookstove alliance - beyond headlines: Hillary Clinton, Headlines India, Feb. 29, 2012.
LGBT Issues
- "LGBT" Demands Get a Boost From Hillary Clinton and the U.N., National Catholic Register, April 11, 2012.
- Clinton: Gay rights and human rights are 'one and the same' (with video), The Hill, Dec. 7, 2011.
- Hillary Clinton's Historic LGBT Speech Provides Hope and Change, HuffPost Gay Voice, Dec. 6, 2011.
- US diplomats spied on UN leadership, The Guardian (UK), Nov. 28, 2010.
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Why are business leaders so invested in Buffalo schools?
Buffalo-area employers in the next decade will need to hire 165,000 workers, many of them for new jobs spawned by massive development projects such as the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and the RiverBend energy hub.
And demographics suggest that number could be even greater, depending on when baby boomers retire.
Meeting that demand depends largely on the success of the Buffalo Public Schools, and that reality increasingly is fueling interest from business leaders representing all facets of the area's economy. Those employers realize the success of their ventures – and the region as a whole – lies in their ability to cultivate a sustainable workforce and create a school system that can entice families to the area.
"We're making big bets on Buffalo," said developer Nick Sinatra, the latest businessman to publicly get involved with education in the city. "You also have to make big bets on the children in Buffalo, because you can't have a successful city without a successful school system."
Sinatra announced this week a plan to donate a share of the profits from his next real estate venture to Say Yes Buffalo, which provides college scholarships to city school students. Sinatra, who partnered with a New York City hedge fund manager and Buffalo native, plans to contribute 10 percent of the monthly profits from his project at the former Phoenix Brewer Co. to the education initiative.
The developer is among a swelling number of business leaders throwing their interest – and dollars – into Buffalo's education programs, from donating to scholarship programs to running for seats on the School Board.
Local business leaders say that interest comes with a growing awareness of the problems of the Buffalo Public Schools and the effect a graduation rate that hovers around 50 percent has on the future workforce.
"There have been business leaders in the Buffalo community who have taken an interest in education for quite some time," Mayor Byron W. Brown said. "It is exciting now to see younger business leaders recognize the critical importance education plays in the growth and development of our community."
"Say Yes is an absolute game changer for the children in Buffalo that will help transform their lives, their families, their neighborhoods and, ultimately, the city," Brown added.
The interest in Buffalo's schools underscores what has been happening across the country for the past decade as notable and high-profile business leaders seek to leave their mark on public education.
Business leaders have long argued that U.S. schools do not adequately prepare students for the 21st century and the high-tech jobs that are now available. That forces them to outsource labor to countries with stronger education systems and much larger pools of qualified workers.
"The bigger picture, and the way they see it, is you can't have a strong city without a strong public education system," said David Rust, executive director of Say Yes Buffalo. "This is about the economic development of the city. The other stuff is great. The cranes are good. The buildings are great. But we need people to work in all these places."
Even as Buffalo saw a uptick in its graduation rate to 57 percent this past year, the state estimates that just 12 percent of students are prepared for college or a career.
For all too many young people, that lack of preparedness leads straight to the unemployment line, or worse.
"We're not teaching kids, we're not conditioning them to succeed," said developer and School Board member Carl Paladino. "No one's telling these kids you can go into welding and make the same amount of money out of school as a pharmacist. There's no one showing them they can do this instead of selling drugs on the corner to buy a fancy car. That's how you break this cycle of poverty that plagues urban areas."
In response to that dire outlook, national business leaders have invested in programs they believe will yield results. Most notable is former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funnels billions of dollars into public education. Influenced by the work of Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefeller family, Gates sold some of his Microsoft stock to create the foundation.
Representing the younger generation of entrepreneurs, Facebook Inc. Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg contributed $100 million to the Newark Public Schools.
Those business leaders have also been a driving force behind the hotly debated Common Core Learning Standards, which they say will equip students with the skills needed to succeed in the future.
M&T's leadership
In Buffalo, M&T Bank Corp. was the first major business player to get involved in the city schools when about two decades ago it partnered with the district to open what is now the Westminster Charter School.
The bank has since grown its presence in the schools and the community, becoming the driving force behind the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood, which aims to provide students with resources and support from birth to college.
"Bob Wilmers saw an opportunity to create sort of a unique partnership with the Buffalo school district," said David Chamberlain, chief executive officer of Buffalo Promise Neighborhood and a senior vice president at M&T Bank.
"This is an opportunity to give back to the community," he added. "I think businesses want to be involved in education. I'm not sure they know exactly how to go about doing it."
Some of that has come with awareness, and that too is growing with the help of organizations like Say Yes and the John R. Oishei Foundation, which in recent years has made education a top priority. Both organizations have boards that include high-profile business leaders such as Luke Jacobs, Daniel Lewis and Alphonso O'Neil White, and are credited with driving interest and dollars to education programs.
"It doesn't take much to get me talking about education reform and what it means in this community," said Robert D. Gioia, leader of the Oishei Foundation and a member of the Say Yes scholarship board.
"With the whole workforce development initiative, the Buffalo Billion, Say Yes Buffalo, I think the stars are aligning," he added.
And now, even some of the area's wealthiest and most influential businessmen, have seats at the table as policy makers. In the past two years, Paladino and Larry Quinn, a former part-owner of the Buffalo Sabres, have won seats on the Buffalo School Board.
"Generally the view, and my view until recently, was there's nothing you can do," Quinn said. "Why get yourself frustrated? People like to invest in things they think are going to win. If you were going to try to affect education before, some might say it's just throwing money down a rat hole."
'A big impact'
Sinatra's newest effort, a partnership with Daniel Lewis, founder and managing partner of Orange Capital LLC, calls for Lewis to join Sinatra and Matt Connors, vice president of real estate for Sinatra and Company Realty, as owners of the Phoenix project at 835 Washington St.
The building, which Sinatra acquired in April for $1.78 million from Joseph Parlato, is located at the corner of Virginia Street, on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
The three plan to redevelop the 55,000-square-foot warehouse building into 35 to 40 high-end loft apartments, aimed at doctors, researchers or other campus workers. The $5 million historic renovation also calls for retail space to serve tenants, as well as indoor parking.
In turn, the partners have now agreed, in writing, to contribute 10 percent of their monthly profits to the Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Fund, the educational initiative that pays college tuition for Buffalo high school students. Those proceeds, from rents or other revenues, could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars over 20 years, Sinatra said.
"We want to have a big impact on the community," Sinatra said. "That's a way to give back in a sustainable way."
And both Lewis and Sinatra hope that will provide a model for other developers and business leaders to follow as well.
"This is something I'd love to replicate," Lewis said. "We want to get other people to think similarly and invest with us in similar types of projects."
Say Yes was formed to encourage high school students to get a college education by providing scholarships to public and charter schools graduates. The Buffalo Scholarship Fund, established in 2011, has grown to $19.2 million, mostly from local individuals, families, businesses and other organizations.
Last year, the fund helped pay for 1,015 students to attend college, and officials expect that number to increase significantly this year. But backers hope to raise even more, with an interim target of $30 million, but a long-term goal of $60 million to $100 million to last 20 years.
"Daniel Lewis has been one of our earliest and continues to be one of our most generous supporters of the Say Yes initiative. He is always thinking, always coming up with new ideas about how we can support the initiative," said Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship chairman Alphonso O'Neil-White. "One of our goals is to create a college-going culture in Buffalo and that takes time and a commitment from the community to sustain this initiative."
The developers will apply for construction permits from the city, and will seek approval from the Planning Board. They also hope for state and federal historic tax credits to offset up to 40 percent of the renovation costs. Sinatra said he hopes the building will be finished and open by late spring 2015.
Meanwhile, during construction, the team wants to use the building as a billboard of sorts for Say Yes to promote the initiative and raise community awareness.
"We've looked at other things, but this just seemed like a really good, high-profile project that made a ton of sense," Lewis said. "What you're hoping for is a positive cycle of growth and development for the economy, but all starting with the idea of helping a child."
Commitment to area
The project continues a high level of engagement for Sinatra and Lewis, both of whom wear their Buffalo pride on their sleeves.
"It's a unique feeling that everybody can feel but it's hard to express," Lewis said. "It's very much who I am, and I feel really proud to be from the area, and I want to do my part."
Lewis, the son of two retired Buffalo-area teachers, graduated from Cornell University before pursuing a career on Wall Street, where he rose to become a director with Citigroup's Global Special Situations Group. In 2005, he and Russell Hoffman founded Orange Capital to invest in undervalued firms and push for change.
Sinatra, a Yale University graduate and former Republican political operative, returned to his hometown in 2009 to invest in real estate, focusing on historic renovations. Backed by deep pockets within the Pritzker family that founded the Hyatt hotel chain, he began snapping up property in Kenmore, Tonawanda and North Buffalo. More recently, he ventured into Allentown, the Elmwood Village, the medical campus, and downtown, where he is buying the Market Arcade Building.
But it's their community commitment to Buffalo and education that brought the duo together, and attracted Connors. Lewis set up the Lewis Family Foundation in 2009 at the Community Foundation to support Western New York nonprofits, and worked with Clotilde Dedecker of Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo to bring Say Yes to Buffalo as one of its angel investors. He now serves on both the Buffalo Scholarship and national boards of the group, and has donated over $1 million to the local and national efforts.
"It's a critical part of our company to be involved in positive ways in our community," Sinatra said. "It's what gets me out of bed in the morning."
So when Lewis came up with the idea of combining real estate investment and economic development with support for Say Yes, and asked Dedecker for help in finding a partner, Dedecker suggested Sinatra, and "it didn't take much convincing," Lewis said.
"Nick has built a terrific track record in real estate development," said Lewis, "but what I admire most is his commitment to the Western New York community."
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Flip open the cover and bend back the spine. Skip over the Roman numerals until you reach the first chapter heading. Now, prepare to search and destroy. Find the weakness. Fire. This is studying.
This is studying?
The 21st century intelligent university student increasingly hunts through her assigned books with one strategy: preemptive strike. The goal is disagreement.
Of the Nobel-prize winning economist's book on reducing global poverty, the 95% with which she agrees is the part she won't bring up in class. That part puts her on edge, even makes her feel a little insecure. She can't say anything smart about it, since the author already did. But, oh, that one strategy she sees the flaw in – that's her mark! It's where she aims her critical thinking. And the whole point of reading it was critical thinking, right? What could anyone learn from an author with this major oversight, which her own critical thinking skills have so justly sniped?
On one hand, disagreeing with authors is good. Refusal to test boundaries and assumptions imprisons education on the bottom floor of reason. Indeed, when students have room to disagree with authority, they develop a vital battery of demanding skills which are fundamental to education and foundational to democracy. However, the war method produces an incomplete set of critical thinking skills.
By declaring war, by needing to triumph over her books, the student closes off avenues to growth. On the national level, war, by limiting trade, stifles a country's development. The same is true of war between student and text. Disagreement's benefits, in isolation, fail to justify its place as the Crown Jewel of the Intelligentsia.
The other side of critical thinking must have its place. The university seems to have rejected the application of Disagreement's starched, boring older brother. Agreement, we are told, is the former order. (I'm using the term loosely; by agreement I mean developing thoughts in line with an author's thoughts, rather than contrary to them.) Agreement, the belief goes, is rote. It's uncritical. It's thoughtless.
The distaste for agreement assumes that disagreement proves critical thinking in a way that a thorough, respectful understanding of text does not. In that view, true engagement with text is, by necessity, military engagement.
This view of critical thinking is restrictive and dangerous. Agreement should have a place in critical thinking. For one thing, if the student's whole focus hones in on the 5% of a book she can undercut, the majority of the work is being ignored. Additionally, realistically, controversially, an author often thinks and knows better than the student, who would gain from being disciplined by the wiser mind. Rejecting agreement even reduces the benefits of disagreement; without the openness necessary to understand the structure of a complicated idea, disagreement remains shallow and surface level, often missing the most dangerous aspects of a work.
A student's critical thinking requires a balance of diplomacy and defense. Without that balance, learning cannot happen.


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Knight Riders hold on to secure vital victory
The Kolkata Knight Riders survived a major scare to register a tense two run victory over the Auckland Aces to start their t20 Champions League qualifying campaign on the right note.
Faced with a victory target of 122, the Aces went into the final over needing 11 runs but Kyle Mills (19) and Andre Adams (9) were unable to see the Kiwis home thanks to Bret Lee who conceded just eight runs to secure the victory
Having been restricted to a total of just 121-6 the Knight Riders were in serious danger of suffering a heavy defeat after Jimmy Adams (18) and Lou Vincent (40) shared a second wicket stand of 60 from just 9.0 overs to put the Kiwis on top.
Inspired by Yusuf Pathan (2-21) who picked up the wickets of Adams and Robert Quiney (0) in the space of three deliveries the Knight Riders struck back to leave the Aces 61-4 at the end of the 10th over.
Gareth Hopkins (10) soon followed and despite cameos from Colin Munro (20) and Mills the Aces were unable to secure their first victory in this years tournament.
Having won the toss, the Knight Riders got off to a great start thanks to Mavinder Bisla (45) and Jacques Kallis (33) who shared an opening stand of 73.
Pathan added 12 before a middle order collapse saw the IPL franchise slump from 93-2 to 106-6 in the space of three overs as the Aces fought their way back into the game to restrict the Knight Riders to a total of just 121-6.


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The seventh century which saw the rise of Islam also saw Christian Europe enters the Dark Ages. In the Western Europe the invading Goths had almost obliterated the culture and technology of the Romans.
In the Eastern Roman Empire, centering in Constantinople, the Church had all but suppressed Greek science and philosophy. India was languishing in a period of stagnation; and China, while blossoming richly in the arts, was almost wholly devoid of science.
It was during this period of decline and stagnation that Muslim Arabs, the followers of Muhammad (S) – the Prophet of Islam, became the torchbearers or vanguards of knowledge in our world. They created an Islamic civilization, driven by inquiry and invention, which was to become the envy of the rest of the world for nearly a millennium.
It is this spirit, the unquenched thirst for knowledge, which made Abu Rayhan al-Biruni to ask a question on inheritance law or some other related issue while he was lying on his deathbed. (Abu Rayhan al-Biruni was a great scientist, physicist, astronomer, sociologist, linguist, historian and mathematician whose true worth may never be known. He is considered the father of unified field theory by Nobel Laureate – late Professor Abdus Salam. He lived nearly a thousand years ago and was a contemporary of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Sultan Mahmoud of Ghazni.)
The jurisprudent was quite amazed that a dying man should show interest in such matters.
Abu Rayhan said, "I should like to ask you: which is better, to die with knowledge or to die without it?"
The man said, "Of course, it is better to know and then die."
Abu Rayhan said, "That is why I asked my first question."
Shortly after the jurisprudent had reached his home, the cries of lamentation told him that Abu Rayhan had died. (Murtaza Motahari: Spiritual Discourses)
Speaking about the Islamic civilization, Carli Fiorina, the former (highly talented and visionary) CEO of Hewlett Packard, said, "Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration. Its writers created thousands of stories; stories of courage, romance and magic. When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others. While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I'm talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent. Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians."
Truly, there is a hardly a field that is not indebted to these pioneering children of Islam. Here below is a short list (by no means a comprehensive one) of Muslim scientists from the 8th to the 15th century CE:
• 701 (died) C.E. – Khalid Ibn Yazeed – Alchemy
• 721-803 – Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber) – Alchemy (Great Muslim Alchemist)
• 740 – Al-Asma'i – Zoology, Botany, Animal Husbandry
• 780 – Al-Khwarizmi (Algorizm) – Mathematics (Algebra, Calculus) –
• 776-868 – 'Amr ibn Bahr al-Jajiz – Zoology
• 787 – Al Balkhi, Ja'far Ibn Muhammas (Albumasar) – Astronomy
• 796 (died) – Al-Fazari, Ibrahim Ibn Habib – Astronomy
• 800 – Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi – (Alkindus) – Medicine, Philosophy, Physics,
• 815 – Al-Dinawari, Abu-Hanifa Ahmed Ibn Dawood – Mathematics,
• 816 – Al Balkhi – Geography (World Map)
• 836 (b.) – Thabit Ibn Qurrah (Thebit) – Astronomy, Mechanics, Geometry
• 838-870 – Ali Ibn Rabban Al-Tabari – Medicine, Mathematics
• 840 – Abu Kamil ibn Aslam – Algebra, Mathematics
• 852 – Al Battani Abu Abdillah – Mathematics, Astronomy, Engineering
• 857 – Ibn Masawaih You'hanna-Medicine
• 858-929 – Abu Abdullah Al-Battani (Albategnius) – Astronomy,
• 860 – Al-Farghani, Abu al-`Abbas (Al-Fraganus) – Astronomy, Civil
• 864-930 – Al-Razi (Rhazes) – Medicine, Ophthalmology, Chemistry
• 873 (died) – Al-Kindi – Physics, Optics, Metallurgy, Oceanography,
• 880-943 – Sinan ibn Thabit al-Qurra – Mathematics, Astronomy,
Medicine, Anatomy
• 888 (died) – 'Abbas ibn Firnas – Mechanics, Planetarium, Artificial Crystals
• 900 (died) – Abu Hamed Al-ustrulabi – Astronomy
• 903-986 – Al-Sufi (Azophi) – Astronomy
• 908 (b.) – Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit Ibn Qurrah – Optics, Astronomy,
Geometry, Engineering
• 920 (b.) – Abul Hasan al-Uqlidisi – Mathematics
• 912 (died) – Al-Tamimi Muhammad Ibn Amyal (Attmimi) – Alchemy
• 923 (died) – Al-Nirizi, AlFadl Ibn Ahmed (Altibrizi) – Mathematics,
• 930 – Ibn Miskawayh, Ahmed Abu-Ali-Medicine, Alchemy
• 932 – Ahmed Al-Tabari – Medicine
• 934 – al Istakhr II – Geography (World Map)
• 936-1013 – Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahravi (Albucasis) – Surgery, Medicine
• 940-997 – Abu Wafa Muhammad Al-Buzjani – Mathematics, Astronomy,
• 940-1000 (ca.) – Abu Sahl Waijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi (al-Kuhi) –
Astronomy, Mathematics, Geometry
• 953-1029 – Abu Bakr al-Karaji – Mathematics
• 943 – Ibn Hawqal – Geography (World Map)
• 950 – Al Majrett'ti Abu-al Qasim – Astronomy, Alchemy, Mathematics
• 958 (died) – Abul Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi – Geography, History
• 960 (died) – Ibn Wahshiyh, Abu Baker – Alchemy, Botany
• 965-1040 – Ibn Al-Haitham (Alhazen) – Physics, Optics, Mathematics
• 970-1036 – Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraqi – Mathematics, Astronomy
• 973-1048 – Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni – Astronomy, Mathematics, History,
• 976 – Ibn Abil Ashath – Medicine
• 980 (b.) – Al-Baghdadi – Mathematics, Advanced Numerical Methods
• 980-1037 – Ibn Sina (Avicenna) – Medicine, Philosophy, Mathematics,
• 983 – Ikhwan A-Safa (Assafa) – (Group of Muslim Scientists)
• 1001 – Ibn Wardi – Geography (World Map)
• 1008 (died) – Ibn Yunus – Astronomy, Mathematics
• 1019 – Al-Hasib Alkarji – Mathematics
• 1029-1087 – Al-Zarqali (Arzachel) – Astronomy (Invented Astrolabe)
• 1044 – Omar Al-Khayyam – Mathematics, Astronomy, Poetry
• 1060 (died) – Ali Ibn Ridwan Abu'Hassan Ali – Medicine
• 1077 – Ibn Abi-Sadia Abul Qasim – Medicine
• 1090-1161 – Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) – Surgery, Medicine
• 1095 – Ibn Bajah, Mohammed Ibn Yahya (Avenpace) – Astronomy,
• 1097 – Ibn Al-Baitar Diauddin (Bitar) – Botany, Medicine, Pharmacology
• 1099 – Al-Idrisi (Dreses) – Geography, Zoology, World Map (First Globe)
• 1110-1185 – Ibn Tufayl, Abubacer Al-Qaysi – Philosophy, Medicine
• 1120 (died) -Al-Tuhra-ee, Al-Husain Ibn Ali – Alchemy, Poem
• 1128 – Ibn Rushd (Averroe's) – Philosophy, Medicine, Astronomy
• 1130 (b.) – Al-Samawal – Algebra
• 1135 – Ibn Maymun, Musa (Maimonides) – Medicine, Philosophy
• 1135 (b.) – Sharaf al-Din – Algebra, Geometry
• 1140 – Al-Badee Al-Ustralabi – Astronomy, Mathematics
• 1155 (died) – Abdel-al Rahman Al Khazin-Astronomy
• 1162 – Al Baghdadi, Abdel-Lateef Muwaffaq – Medicine, Geography
• 1165 – Ibn A-Rumiyyah Abul'Abbas (Annabati) – Botany
• 1173 – Rasheed Al-Deen Al-Suri – Botany
• 1180 – Al-Samawal – Algebra
• 1184 – Al-Tifashi, Shihabud-Deen (Attifashi) – Metallurgy, Stones
• 1201-1274 – Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi – Astronomy, Non-Euclidean Geometry
• 1203 – Ibn Abi-Usaibi'ah, Muwaffaq Al-Din – Medicine
• 1204 (died) – Al-Bitruji (Alpetragius) – Astronomy
• 1213-1288 – Ibn Al-Nafis Damishqui – Anatomy
• 1236 – Kutb Aldeen Al-Shirazi – Astronomy, Geography
• 1248 (died) – Ibn Al-Baitar – Pharmacy, Botany
• 1258 (b.) – Ibn Al-Banna (Al Murrakishi), Azdi – Medicine, Mathematics
• 1260 (b.) – Al-Farisi – Mathematics
• 1262 (died) – Al-Hassan Al-Murarakishi – Mathematics, Astronomy,
• 1270 – Abu al-Fath Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini – Physics, Astronomy
• 1273-1331 – Al-Fida (Abdulfeda) – Astronomy, Geography
• 1306 – Ibn Al-Shater Al Dimashqi – Astronomy, Mathematics
• 1320 (died)-Al Farisi Kamalud-deen Abul-Hassan – Astronomy, Physics
• 1341 (died) – Al-Jildaki, Muhammad Ibn Aidamer – Alchemy
• 1351 – Ibn Al-Majdi, Abu Abbas Ibn Tanbugha – Mathematics, Astronomy
• 1359 – Ibn Al-Magdi, Shihab-Udden Ibn Tanbugha – Mathematic,
• 1369 (died) – Ibn Katina – Medicine
• 1375 (died) – Ibn Shatir – Astronomy
• 1380-1424 – Ghiyath al-Din al Kashani – Numerical Analysis, Computation
• 1393-1449 – Ulugh Beg – Trigonometry, Astronomy
• 1412 (b.) – Abul Hasan ibn Ali al-Qalasadi – Algebra
(References: Hamed Abdel-Reheem Ead, Professor of Chemistry at Faculty of Science, University of Cairo Giza-Egypt and Director of Science Heritage Center, http://www.frcu.eun.eg/www/universities/html/shc/index.htm; See also the books: 100 Muslim Scientists by Abdur Rahman Sharif, Al-Khoui Pub., N.Y; Muslim Contribution to Science by Muhammad R. Mirza and Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi, Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1986.)
With such a train of Muslim scholars, it is not difficult to understand why George Sarton said, "The main task of mankind was accomplished by Muslims. The greatest philosopher Al-Farabi was a Muslim; the greatest mathematicians Abul Kamil and Ibrahim Ibn Sinan were Muslims; the greatest geographer and encyclopaedist Al-Masudi was a Muslim; the greatest historian, Al-Tabari was still a Muslim." The Oxford History of Technology sums it up as follows: "There are few major technological innovations between 500 A.D. and 1500 that do not show some traces of the Islamic culture." Dr. Murad Wilfried Hofman, an ex-German diplomat and author, similarly writes, "The European intellectual exploits of the Renaissance would have been unthinkable without Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, al-Biruni, al-Khawarizmi, ar-Razi, lbn al-Haytham, Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun." [9]
History before Islam was a jumble of conjectures, myths and rumors. It was left to the Muslim historians who introduced for the first time the method of matn and sanad tracing the authenticity and integrity of the transmitted reports back to eyewitness accounts. According to the historian Henry Thomas Buckle 'this practice was not adopted in Europe before 1597 AD.' Another method: that of historical research and criticism – originated with the celebrated historian Ibn Khaldun. The author of Kashfuz Zunun gives a list of 1300 history books written in Arabic during the first few centuries of Islam. That is no small contribution!
The rise of Muslim rule was dramatic. So also was its decline to the point where in 1492 the Caliph Abdullah abandoned Granada to the conquering Spaniards, "weeping like a woman for what he could not defend like a man."
For the next five centuries while the Islamic civilization declined – politically, economically, socially and culturally, it set all Christendom aglow. Thus, the same period that saw a dawning of the Christian West, sadly, for the vast majority of Muslims living (outside the Ottoman and Mughal Empires) in Asia, Africa and Europe it has been a period of doom and gloom. By the mid-19th century, the Christian West had colonized all Muslim territories except what was left by then of the once powerful Ottoman Empire, setting in motion a process that not only saw the great plunder of immense natural resources but the utter decimation of former Islamic institutions. Nowhere was this destruction or strangulation felt more severely than in the intellectual sector. Consequently, when the former colonizers either had left on their own volition or were forced out in the post-World War II era, Muslims in the newly emerged nation states found out that they have become a nation of zeros. Their excellence in science, arts and literature — a matter of much national pride — has vanished and become only a matter of fond memory about a distant and glorious past that has nothing in common with the current harsh reality!
Some years ago a published UN report on Arab development noted that the Arab world comprising of 22 countries had translated about 330 books annually. That is a pitiful number, only a fifth of the number of the books that (tiny) Greece (alone) translates in a year! (Spain translates an average of 100,000 books annually.) Why such an allergy or aversion from those whose forefathers did not mind translating older works successfully to regain the heritage of antiquity, analyzing, collating, correcting and supplementing substantially the material that was beneficial to mankind? Why is the literacy rate low among Muslims when the first revealed message in the Qur'an is 'Iqra(meaning: Read)?
How do Muslims get out of this predicament? What strategy should they follow?
To be continued>>
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