tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91584951602820695732024-03-12T14:28:28.362-10:00The savant syndromeSpecial people, with very special abilitiesWeb Design Ct 2023http://www.blogger.com/profile/12868533535323491638noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158495160282069573.post-21604278304469231142014-01-25T13:23:00.002-10:002017-09-10T11:03:40.029-10:00Ellen Boudreaux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen Boudreaux is a blind autistic savant with exceptional musical abilities. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She can play music perfectly after hearing it just once, and has a such a huge repertoire of songs in her head that a newspaper reporter once tried to "stump Ellen" by requesting that she played some obscure songs and failed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen knew them all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen has two other savant skills that are unusual. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">First, despite her blindness, she is able to walk around without ever running into things. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">As she walks, Ellen makes little chirping sounds that seems to act like a human sonar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen has an extremely precise digital clock ticking in her mind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">To help overcome her fear of the telephone, Ellen's mom coaxed her to listen to the automatic time recording (the "time lady") when she was eight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">From then on, Ellen knows the exact hour and minute, any time of the day without ever having seen a clock nor have the concept of the passing of time explained to her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">“With a song in her heart, music is her bridge to the world” the heading reads in the Sacramento Bee newspaper on January 18, 2.001 written by Bob Sylva. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">The writer tries to “stump Ellen” with request after request and cannot. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">“By any measure of musical virtuosity and genius, this is a remarkable performance. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">For Ellen, it’s a form of child’s play” the writer concludes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen is blind, with an astonishing musical ability, superior spatial sense and remarkable memory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Her sense rhythm is pervasive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She is driven by time as if a digital clock is incessantly running in her head. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">But, of course, she has never seen one. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">At precisely the moment her favorite news program begins she will bound into the room from wherever she is, flip on the TV and the announcer will start the program, as if on clue from Ellen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen plays piano, guitar, and now the keyboard and soloist with a Rock and Roll band in her hometown that has become well known in the area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Among these multiple instruments and many musical interests she has developed a vast repertoire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">It is very hard to stump Ellen, as the newspaper writer found out in a flawless recollection by Ellen of a variety of tunes and styles ranging from the Supremes to “Dueling Banjos” (in which she plays both parts) to “Ellen’s tour de force orchestration of ‘Whole Lotta Love’, the Led Zeppelin apassionata in which she replicates, uncannily, every voice, instrument and studio sound effect.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen is a startling example of the rare yet reoccurring triad of blindness, mental handicap and musical genius.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen was born prematurely in 1.957 and developed the blindness of prematurity (retrolental fibroplasias) following birth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen developed slowly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">When she was 4 months old doctors confirmed what the parents suspected she was blind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">From the very beginning she was aware of large objects, wall, fences and buildings from a distance of 6 feet or more and insisted on going to them and touching them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Her father noted that from those early years on she has been able to walk in thick, strange forests without running into trees. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">As Ellen learned to navigate she made a constant little chirping sound, like her own form of personal radar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">At age 4½ psychological testing provided a score of 40 on the Vineland Social Maturity Scale which suggested an estimated IQ, at that time, of between 30-50. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">The family became very determined to find the best educational and vocational opportunities for their daughter and enrolled her in the San Juan Unified School District in Fair Oaks, California. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen did extremely well in school and has proceeded through a series of steps in the special education program, including now Adult Special Education programming. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Speech therapy began in 1.983 and progress in language development was impressive as well, with no sacrifice of her artistic skill.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen’s musical skill and memory are prodigious. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Her interest in music began as early as 6 months of age. At about age 4, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen surprised her mother by picking out some tunes on a small electronic organ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">At age 7, a teacher advised her parents to get Ellen a piano. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">They did and the music has poured forth ever since. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen now constructs complicated chords to accompany melodies she hears on the radio or the stereo. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She has transposed the orchestra and chorus of Evita to the piano with complex, precise chords. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She reproduces the crowd and mob sounds with intense dissonances using both hands. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">That rendition is an impressive, and lengthy, performance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Ellen taught herself guitar by spending countless hours going up and down each string, memorizing the tones that each fingering produced and experimenting with chords. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She is driven by and enamored of rhythm of any type, form or origin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She loves to improvise and after listening to almost any album will begin to play chords with it, improvising very unusual but striking accompaniments. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She will play what she has heard in one form such as jazz, then in another style, perhaps classical. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She will transpose rock and roll to a waltz form in three-quarter time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" ,;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">She is fascinated with radio and television commercials and will immediately transpose those to the piano as well.</span></span></div>
Web Design Ct 2023http://www.blogger.com/profile/12868533535323491638noreply@blogger.com0Finlandia61.924109999999992 25.74815109999997347.674139499999995 -15.560442900000027 76.174080499999988 67.056745099999972tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158495160282069573.post-3726488761808772582013-08-30T06:37:00.001-10:002017-09-10T11:03:03.645-10:00Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cardenal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (19 September 1.774 – 15 March 1.849) was an Italian cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot.<br />
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Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his theological studies before he had reached the minimum age for ordination as a priest; he was ordained in 1.797.<br />
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In the same year, he became professor of Arabic at the University of Bologna.<br />
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He later lost the position for refusing to take the oath of allegiance required by the Cisalpine Republic, which governed Bologna at the time.<br />
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In 1.803 he was appointed assistant librarian of the Institute of Bologna, and soon afterwards was reinstated as professor of Oriental languages and of Greek.<br />
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The chair of Oriental languages was suppressed by the viceroy in 1.808, but again rehabilitated on the restoration of Pope Pius VII in 1.814.<br />
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Mezzofanti held this post until he left Bologna to go to Rome in 1.831 as a member of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Congregatio de Propaganda Fide), the Catholic Church's governing body for missionary activities.<br />
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In 1.833, he succeeded Angelo Mai as Custodian in Chief of the Vatican Library, and in 1.838 was made cardinal of the title of St. Onofrio al Gianicolo and director of studies in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.<br />
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His other diverse interests included ethnology, archaeology, numismatics, and astronomy.<br />
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List of languages spoken<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHbEne-2aZb6PR27vLJhzVpywcNt_OQ_2x73Bw3vmO6cdz6D60JfqoWZ60adRzNujet2XyKR0VHjSMz9SdUU99cAM7vjafHFZK07v5Sf2h7oVay6qc7SiVSEdJddTQAjlbHYY98BPW1LH/s1600/Giuseppe+Caspar+Mezzofanti+the+savant+syndrome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHbEne-2aZb6PR27vLJhzVpywcNt_OQ_2x73Bw3vmO6cdz6D60JfqoWZ60adRzNujet2XyKR0VHjSMz9SdUU99cAM7vjafHFZK07v5Sf2h7oVay6qc7SiVSEdJddTQAjlbHYY98BPW1LH/s200/Giuseppe+Caspar+Mezzofanti+the+savant+syndrome.jpg" width="153" /></a>Mezzofanti was well known for being a hyperpolyglot who fluently spoke thirty-nine languages.<br />
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Also, the study by Russell indicates that many of the dialects are so different that they actually should be seen as a separate language.<br />
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Classifying the languages and dialects according to today's language system, over 150 years later, would be a separate study.<br />
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The list, in the conclusion of his study :<br />
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<b>"Languages frequently tested, and spoken with rare excellence."</b><br />
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Biblical Hebrew<br />
Rabbinical Hebrew<br />
Arabic<br />
Chaldean<br />
Coptic<br />
Ancient Armenian<br />
Modern Armenian<br />
Persian<br />
Turkish<br />
Albanian<br />
Maltese<br />
Ancient Greek<br />
Modern Greek<br />
Latin<br />
Italian<br />
Spanish<br />
Portuguese<br />
French<br />
German<br />
Swedish<br />
Danish<br />
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Johannes Mallow (left) with Wigald Boning (right) at the opening ceremony for the Year of Science in Magdeburg 2.006.</div>
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Johannes Mallow (born June 7, 1.981 Brandenburg an der Havel) is a German memory sportsman. </div>
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He studies Communication Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg. </div>
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2013 Memory Champion of Germany<br />
2012 World Memory Champion<br />
2012 Memory Champion of Germany<br />
2011 runner-up at Memory Championship of Germany<br />
2010 runner-up at World Memory Championships<br />
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2009 runner-up at World Memory Championships<br />
2008 Memory Champion of Germany<br />
2008 Memory Champion of North Germany<br />
2007 World Memory Champion in the discipline of Historical Dates<br />
2007 Memory Champion of North Germany<br />
2006 Memory Champion of North Germany<br />
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Memorize 912 numbers in 15 minutes (March 23, 2.013 in Rom/Italy at the Italian Memory Open Championship 2.013).</div>
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Memorize 132 Historical Dates out of 140 in 5 minutes (September 25, 2.011 in Gothenburg/Sweden at the Swedish Memory Open Championship 2.011).</div>
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Many memory sportsmen use this method. </div>
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His particular instance of the message uses 1000 images with corresponding numbers, so that each combination of 3 digits corresponds to a unique image.</div>
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Antonio Magliabecchi was a famous librarian, scholar and librarian born in Florence in 1.633.</div>
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Son of Marco Magliabecchi, and Ginevra Baldorietta Bourgeois.</div>
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Although Magliabecchi was apprentice goldsmith and worked it until his fourteenth year, Michele Ermini, librarian of Cardinal de 'Medici, recognized his talent and taught him latin, greek and hebrew.</div>
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In 1.673 he became librarian of Cosimo III de 'Medici. Magliabecchi became the central figure in the literary life of Florence, and scholars from many countries wanted to meet and correspond with him.</div>
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Although its important position given enough recognition, is remembered more for their personal abilities, and their great ability to memorize all what he reads.</div>
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He has been described as a literary glutton, and more rational librarian maniac since read each and every one of the books that fell into their hands.</div>
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His personal library contained about 40,000 books and 10,000 manuscripts.</div>
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His house was literally overwhelmed by books, the stairs were full of them, and even reached the front porch.</div>
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Have been told many stories about his amazing memory, which was "like wax to receive and marble to save".</div>
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One of the best known of these stories says when asked Cosimo extremely rare book, he replied: "Sir, there is only one copy of that book in the world, is in the library of the Great Lord in Constantinople, and is the tenth first book of the second shelf to the right as you enter. "</div>
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In worldly matters, Magliabecchi was extremely confused. </div>
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Even forgot to claim his salary for a year. </div>
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He wore his clothes until he fell because he thought it was a waste of time to change clothes every night: "Life is so short, and there are so many books."</div>
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He welcomed all scholars who asked, provided they do not disturb you while working.</div>
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I had a special craze for the Jesuits.</div>
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One day a man told the Palazzo Riccardi and said: "Here came the new birth of learning", and then, turning to the college of the Jesuits: "there came to bury him."</div>
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It was a wild looking man, very careless with himself.</div>
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He refused to be expected, and rarely off his clothes to go to bed.</div>
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Your dinner is usually based on three boiled eggs and a little water.</div>
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Had a small peephole in his door, he could see all those who came to him, and if he did not want his company, the rejected.</div>
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It is said that never in his life he left Florence to go more than Pratz, where he accompanied the Cardinal Norris to see a manuscript.</div>
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He died at age 81 (in 1.714) in the monastery of Santa Maria Novella.</div>
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He donated his books to the Grand Duke to be used as a public library, and his fortune was donated to the poor.</div>
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In 1.861, King Victor Emmanuel joined his collection, known as private Magliabechiana the Grand Duchy, forming the National Library.</div>
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Harry Lorayne (born 1.926) is an American magician and a memory-training specialist and writer who was called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine. </div>
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He is well known for his mnemonic demonstrations and has appeared on numerous television shows including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. </div>
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His book The Memory Book was a New York Times bestseller. </div>
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He grew up in New York's Lower East Side and he learned sleight of hand at the Hamilton Fish Park in the 1.930s. </div>
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At age 18, he began to perform as a table magician at Billy Reed's Little Club at 70 E. 55th St. in New York. </div>
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The actor Victor Jory, noted for his role as a magician detective, was a regular visitor to the club. </div>
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Lorayne started performing memory tricks for Jory and Jory's enthusiastic response changed Lorayne's approach to performing.</div>
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He began appearing on national television in 1.963 (after hosting a local show of his own in 1.951, The Prof. Magic Show), first on I've Got a Secret, where he demonstrated his ability to remember everybody's name in the audience.</div>
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Later appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and numerous other television shows including Jack Paar, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Regis Philbin Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, That's Incredible, David Susskind. </div>
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The number of members of a club could reach up to 1,500. </div>
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Lorayne also made news by memorizing and recalling information from phone books with no errors. </div>
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He'd ask them to sit down as, and if, he pointed to each person and said his or her name. </div>
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He sat down everyone in the audience. He had a memory school in New York employing such instructors as Darwin Ortiz. </div>
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His video course (Memory Power) was used as part of the training of many top corporations.</div>
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How To Develop a Super Power Memory (1957)<br />
Harry Lorayne's Secrets of Mind Power (1961)<br />
Close-Up Card Magic (1962)<br />
Personal Secrets (1964)<br />
The Harry Lorayne Memory Isometrics Course (1968)<br />
My Favorite Card Tricks (1965)<br />
Dingle's Deceptions (1966)<br />
Miracle Math (1966)<br />
Best of Bill-fooled (1967)<br />
Deck-Sterity (1967)<br />
Reputation-Makers (1971)<br />
Tarbell #7 (1972)<br />
The Great Divide (1972)<br />
Good Memory - Good Student! A Guide to Remembering What To Learn (1972)<br />
Rim Shots (1973)<br />
Afterthoughts (1975)<br />
The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play (1974)<br />
The Epitome Location (1976)<br />
Remembering People (The Key To Success) (1976)<br />
The Magic Book (1977)<br />
The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel (1978)<br />
Quantum Leaps (1979)<br />
Best of Friends, Vol. 1 (1982)<br />
Memory Makes Money (1985)<br />
Best of Friends, Vol. 2 (1985)<br />
Star Quality (1987)<br />
Super Memory, Super Student: How to Raise Your Grades in 30 Days (1990)<br />
Trend Setters (1990)<br />
Doug Edwards Packs A Wallop (1997)<br />
Complete Guide To Memory Mastery (1998)<br />
The Himber Wallet Book (1998)<br />
Personal Collection (2001)<br />
How to get Rich Using the power of your mind (2003)<br />
The Classic Collection, Volume 1 (contains Close-Up Card Magic, Personal Secrets, My Favorite Card Tricks, Deck-Sterity, The Epitome Location) (2005)<br />
Ageless Memory: Simple Secrets for Keeping Your Brain Young (2007)<br />
Best of Friends, Vol. 3 (2007)<br />
The Classic Collection, Volume 2 (containing Reputation-Makers, Rim Shots, Afterthoughts) (2008)<br />
The Classic Collection, Volume 3 (contains Quantum Leaps, Trend Setters, Dingle's Deceptions, The Great Divide) (2010)<br />
Special Effects (2011)<br />
The Classic Collection, Volume 4 (containing The Magic Book, Star Quality, The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel) (2012)<br />
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Apocalypse Magazine - 1978-1997<br />
Genii Magazine
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Born : 1 April 1.895 in Dunedin, New Zealand</div>
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Died : 3 Nov 1.967 in Edinburgh, Scotland</div>
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Alec Aitken's family on his father's side were from Scotland, and on his mother's side were from England. </div>
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Alec's mother, Elizabeth Towers, emigrated with her family to New Zealand from Wolverhampton, England, when she was eight years old. </div>
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Alexander Aitken, Alec's grandfather on his father's side, had emigrated from Lanarkshire in Scotland to Otago in New Zealand in 1.868, and began farming near Dunedin. </div>
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Alec's father, William Aitken, was one of his fourteen children and William began his working life on his father's farm. </div>
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However he gave this up and became a grocer in Dunedin. </div>
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William and Elizabeth had seven children, Alec being the eldest.</div>
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He attended the Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin, where he was head boy in 1.-912, winning a scholarship to Otago University which he entered in 1.913. </div>
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Surprisingly, although he had amazed his school friends and teachers with his incredible memory, he had shown no special mathematical abilities at school. </div>
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He began to study languages and mathematics at university with the intention of becoming a school teacher but his university career was interrupted by World War I.</div>
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In 1.915 he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France, being wounded at the battle of the Somme. </div>
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His war experiences were to haunt him for the rest of his life. </div>
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After three months in hospital in Chelsea, London, he was sent back to New Zealand in 1.917. </div>
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The following year he returned to his university studies, graduating in 1.920 with First Class Honours in French and Latin but only Second Class Honours in mathematics in which he had no proper instruction. In the year he graduated, </div>
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Aitken married Mary Winifred Betts who was a botany lecturer at Otago University. </div>
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They had two children, a girl and a boy.</div>
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Aitken followed his original intention and became a school teacher at his old school Otago Boys' High School. </div>
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His mathematical genius bubbled under the surface and, encouraged by R J T Bell the new professor of mathematics at Otago University, Aitken came to Scotland in 1.923 and studied for a Ph.D. at Edinburgh under Whittaker. </div>
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Aitken's wife, Mary, had continued to lecture at Otago up to the time they left for Edinburgh. </div>
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His doctoral studies progressed extremely well as he studied an actuarially motivated problem of fitting a curve to data which was subject to statistical error. </div>
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Rather remarkably, his Ph.D. thesis was considered so outstanding that he was awarded a D.Sc. for it in 1926. Even before the award of the degree, </div>
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Aitken was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1.925.</div>
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He was appointed to Edinburgh University in 1.925 where he spent the rest of his life. </div>
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After holding lecturing posts in actuarial mathematics, then in statistics, then mathematical economics, he became a Reader in statistics in 1.936, the year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. </div>
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Ten years later he was appointed to Whittaker's chair.</div>
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Aitken had an incredible memory (he knew π to 2000 places) and could instantly multiply, divide and take roots of large numbers. He describes his own mental processes in the article.</div>
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Although some may suggest this has little to do with mathematical ability, Aitken himself wrote:-</div>
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Familiarity with numbers acquired by innate faculty sharpened by assiduous practice does give insight into the profounder theorems of algebra and analysis.</div>
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Aitken's mathematical work was in statistics, numerical analysis, and algebra. In numerical analysis he introduced the idea of accelerating the convergence of a numerical method. </div>
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He also introduced a method of progressive linear interpolation. In algebra he made contributions to the theory of determinants. He also saw clearly how invariant theory fitted into the theory of groups but wrote that he had never followed through his ideas because of:-</div>
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... various circumstances of anxiety, or duty, or bad health ... I have observed my talented younger contemporary Dudley Littlewood's assault and capture most of this terrain.</div>
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The theory of canonical matrices (1.932) which was written jointly with Turnbull. With Rutherford he was editor of a series of the University Mathematical Texts and he himself wrote for the series Determinants and matrices (1.939) and Statistical Mathematics (1.939). </div>
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In 1.962 he published an article very dear to his heart, namely The case against decimalisation.</div>
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In describing his period of recovery from a small operation in 1.934 Aitken writes:-</div>
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The nights were bad, in the daytime colleagues and other friends visited me, and I tried to think about abstract things, such as the theory of probability and the theory of groups and I did begin to see more deeply into these rather abstruse disciplines. </div>
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Indeed I date a change in my interests and an increase in competence, from these weeks of enforced physical inactivity.</div>
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Also Aitken describes the reaction of other mathematicians to his work:-</div>
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... the papers on numerical analysis, statistical mathematics and the theory of the symmetric group continued to write themselves in steady succession, with other small notes on odds and ends. </div>
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Those that I valued most, the algebraic ones, seemed to attract hardly any notice, others, which I regarded as mere application of the highly compressed and powerful notation and algebra of matrices to standard problems in statistics or computation found great publicity in America...</div>
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Colin M Campbell, now a colleague of the authors of this archive at the University of St Andrews, was a student in Edinburgh in the early 1.960's. </div>
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He writes :Professor Aitken's first year mathematics lectures were rather unusual. </div>
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The fifty minutes were composed of forty minutes of clear mathematics, five minutes of jokes and stories and five minutes of 'tricks'. </div>
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For the latter Professor Aitken would ask for members of the class to give him numbers for which he would then write down the reciprocal, the square root, the cube root or other appropriate expression. </div>
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In fact Aitken's memory proved a major problem for him throughout his life. For most people memories fade in time which is particularly fortunate for the unpleasant things which happen. </div>
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However for Aitken memories did not fade and, for example, his horrific memories of the battle of the Somme lived with him as real as the day he lived them. </div>
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He wrote of them in near the end of his life. </div>
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These memories must have contributed, or perhaps were the entire cause, of the recurrent ill health he suffered.</div>
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These black periods must have been harrowing in the extreme, but were borne with great fortitude and courage.</div>
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Leanne Rowe, an Australian woman who suffered eight years ago in a traffic accident, began speaking english with a slight french accent after recovering from injuries sustained in the back and head.</div>
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Jacob Barnett was diagnosed with severe autism with just two years and experts said they might never read or tie their shoes.</div>
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At 14, the young Barnett pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum physics.</div>
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The brilliant mind of this child prodigy Indiana, United States, nearly lost in a disease that often parents do not know how to cope.</div>
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Since I was diagnosed, Jacob Barnett, Jake, for friends, did not speak again.</div>
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They were long hours spent at home surrounded Jacob special education experts that guided him in a sort of endless therapy exercises strict, focused on developing its most basic skills to remove the child from what is believed to be a disease that mark lifetime.</div>
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"When Jacob spoke again, it was in four languages," said her mother, Kristine Barnett in an interview with the Bbc.</div>
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Then, Barnett had already realized the special talent of his son.</div>
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Since childhood, has Kristine Barnett, "memorized every street in the cities where we travel and then recreated the flat on the floor of our house with sticks."</div>
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Recite the alphabet run from beginning to end-including the Z to mathematical patterns or draw on the ground with a rope were the most common exercises for Jacob Barnett, who trained in the silence of autism.</div>
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Once surpassed the speech at age 4, Jacob began an outstanding learning that would take him to college with just 11 years.</div>
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A year later he received a salary as quantum physics researcher helped students of the University in his work as "assistant professor".</div>
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Now, at 14 years, this student of Indiana University is completing a PhD in quantum physics "by the hand of his guardian" as specific to the Bbc young.</div>
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The mother of the child prodigy, Kristine Barnett, picks up his story in a book that the difficulties and spectacular discoveries that has passed since his son was diagnosed with mild autism, almost severe.</div>
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The news was devastating for the family.</div>
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As told Bbc Breakfast TV, initially struggled to find the right education for Jacob.</div>
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After dealing with therapists daily, Kristine Barnett decided to take the education of their child and prepare to go to school with other children: they had forgotten to provide a childhood as that of others.</div>
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"Why we have worked to 'fix' Jacob?</div>
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Increasingly more locked himself in books huddled in the corners of the house and was not playing with friends, "said the mother.</div>
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The secret to help you shine was to focus on the positive aspects of Jacob and allow the child to do what he did best: fill the floor and walls of mathematical models.</div>
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"Only by surrounding kids love and what they like to be able to make the best of them"</div>
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Jacob knew what he was doing. "For me, those employers had much sense."</div>
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His mother was the first to realize the rough diamond that had at home.</div>
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"We went out one day to see the stars. We lay on the roof of the car, listening to jazz, and had a fabulous time mother and son. </div>
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Months later, we went to a local planetarium and Jacob raised his hand to answer all the questions a teacher made to a group of students.</div>
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They were complex physical concepts that a child of three years and a half does not understand, "he said.</div>
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"The problem posed in that class was trivial," he said as he laughed nervously.</div>
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At the age of 8 years, the obsession with the universe had invaded to the point that she started going to classes at the university.</div>
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He sat in the last row, in silence, but I could not avoid answering all the teacher's questions. No failed one.</div>
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For Kristine Barnett, who knew how to handle the extraordinary mind of Jacob and cope with their disease, all children "have a special gift."</div>
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The best, he says, is knowing surround them "muchness" which she attributed to a lot of things the boy or girl worship music, art ...</div>
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Jacob is a child who has Asperger's syndrome at an early age.</div>
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It is self-taught. By their own learned geometry, trigonometry, algebra and calculus in just two weeks.</div>
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They also that their 8 year old decided to leave school to take advanced astrophysics classes at the University.</div>
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Moreover, his parents say Jacob I can not sleep at night, as it goes for hours thinking about the theory of relativity, looking to achieve his own theory.</div>
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Jacob Barnett has an intеlеctual coefficient of 170, edging past century genius Albert Einstein, who also has also worked on correcting, because he has developed earlier even their alternative theory of relativity.</div>
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In this bold assertion, his madrе, not knowing if you were writing his numbers and formulas hijο meaningless or had some truth, decided to contact the Institute of avanzadοs, near Princeton univеrsidad ... The answer was surprising.</div>
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Scott Tremaine, a renowned Canadian astrophysicist and professor at the same Institute for Advanced Study School of Sciences natυral replied surprised the mother about the cοmυnication of Jacob and stating that "the theory that is working jovеn contains some of the problems and more difficult concepts of theoretical physics and astrophysics aсtual ".</div>
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We do not know if the theory goes buеn wrong way or will eventually be, but that a 12 years old kid to be able to understand these concepts and move with comοdidad between mathematical formulas that sea is simply exciting.</div>
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Experts say that Jacob Barnett, who wants to dedicate his life to physics, has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and point out a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize for his original theory on astrophysics, he developed at age 12, an age in which the interests of a young are always out of the classroom.</div>
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He attained the ability to mentally evaluate large arithmetic expressions at the age of 21. </div>
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Featured on the Discovery Channel program the Real Superhumans, he was examined by Allan Snyder, an expert on savants, who concluded that Gamm's ability was not a result of savant syndrome but connected to genetics.</div>
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In the 2.008 Mental Calculation World Cup in Leipzig, he recited 81100, which took approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds. </div>
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In the tournament itself, he performed strongly, finishing in 5th position overall.</div>
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If only we can figure out the strategies to tap into these mental capabilities. </div>
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Rudiger, who regularly failed his math at school, has learnt at age of 21 how to activate the other 80 per cent of his brain, making him a modern day genius.</div>
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Also known as the Human Calculator, Rudiger Gamm was known in his school as being the worst one in math. </div>
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However, at age of 21, Rudiger discovered his mental abilities in memorizing and calculating the most complex mathematical problems. </div>
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Soon, he became very demanded amongst scientist to study the anomalies of his brain. </div>
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In 2.006 Rudiger was part of the international documentation “Voyage Into The Brain”. </div>
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In 2.007 he was documented in a Discovery Channel programme “Real Super Humans”. </div>
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Rudiger published a book “Train Your Brain” in 2.008, and now for over 10 years works as a mental trainer for managers, sportsmen and schools.</div>
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In Zurich, there’s a woman with incredible sensory powers. </div>
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When Elisabeth Sulser hears music, she can see it and taste it too</div>
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She is a synesthete. </div>
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In the course of a 2.004 and 2.005 neuro psychological research project at the University of Zurich, in which she participated as a test subject.</div>
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Elisabeth Sulser was identified as having an uncommon form of synesthesia, a story which went through the international media.</div>
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Elisabeth Sulser is one of the “protagonists“. </div>
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Ralf Isau is an author and fantasist. In his new book about synesthesia, Die Dunklen, he has given Elisabeth Sulser's talent that of “seeing” musical tones to his main character.</div>
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Synesthesia is a phenomenon whereby the direct or sympathetic excitation of a single sense organ simultaneously produces not one, but multiple sensations. </div>
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In music : colour synesthesia, for example, one of the more common forms, aural sensations such as tones or words also produce visual perceptions. </div>
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Similarly, visual stimuli may produce secondary auditory sensations, or sounds may actually be “felt”. </div>
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Numerous artists and musicians have been identified as possessing synesthetic abilities, including Alexander Scriabin, Frank Zappa, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.</div>
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When Elisabeth Sulser hears music or even individual tones, she finds that what she is hearing is projected onto a “screen” in her head. </div>
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The result is a constantly changing, kaleidoscopic painting. </div>
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Colours change with the tempo, and the forms reflect musical figures: C – red, D – yellow, E – brown, F – green, G – dark blue, A – light blue, B – grey, C sharp – pink, D sharp – maroon, F sharp – violet, G sharp – turquoise, B flat – gold.</div>
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For Elisabeth Sulser intervals have a taste : that is, she perceives tones separated by less than an octave as a taste on her tongue. </div>
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A minor second “tastes” sour; a minor third, salty; a major third, sweet; and a fifth like a glass of water. </div>
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A minor sixth tastes like whipping cream, a major sixth like half-and-half; a minor seventh is bitter, similar to a major second; and a major seventh is sour, like a minor second.</div>
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Work field : painting</div>
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Eşref Armağan is a blind painter of Turkish origin. </div>
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Born without sight to an impoverished family, he taught himself to write and print. </div>
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He has painted using oil paints for roughly thirty-five years.</div>
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Using a braille stylus to etch the outline of his drawing, Armağan requires total silence to create art. </div>
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This unique method is used so that colors do not smudge. </div>
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The art pieces themselves are created without help from any individual. </div>
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He is also able to create art that has visual perspective.</div>
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Both scientists had evidence that in cases of blindness, the "visual" cortex acts differently than how it acts with the non-blind. </div>
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Pascual-Leone has found that Braille readers use this very same area for touch. </div>
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Amedi, together (with Ehud Zohary) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, found that the area is also activated in verbal memory tasks. </div>
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Moreover in scans that were held while Armagan drew, his visual cortex signals seemed as he was seeing to the extent that a naive viewer of his scan might assume Armagan really could see.</div>
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Mr. Armagan is married with two children. </div>
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He has appeared several times on television and in the press in Turkey and has been on programs on BBC and ZD. </div>
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In 2.004, he was the subject of a study of human perception, conducted by the psychologist John Kennedy of University of Toronto.</div>
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In 2.009 Armağan was invited by Volvo, to paint the new model S60. </div>
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The painting was for sale on Ebay, and sold for US $3,050. </div>
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Pen name : The Human Calculator</div>
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Occupation :Mental Calculator</div>
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Language :English</div>
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Nationality :American</div>
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Notable work(s) : Math Magic</div>
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Math Magic for Kids</div>
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Notable award(s) : Guinness World Record 2.001</div>
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Scott Flansburg is an American man often called a mental calculator. </div>
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Dubbed "The Human Calculator" by Regis Philbin, in 2.001 he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for speed of mental calculation. </div>
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He is the annual host and ambassador for World Maths Day, and is a math educator and media personality. </div>
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Flansburg has appeared on shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Larry King Live, and Stan Lee's Superhumans, and has published the books Math Magic and Math Magic for Your Kids.</div>
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Scott Flansburg was born on December 28, 1.963, in Herkimer, New York. </div>
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Scott has stated that he was nine years old when he first discovered his mental calculator abilities, after he was able to solve his teacher's math question without needing to write down the calculations. </div>
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Afterwards he would keep a running tally of his family's groceries at the store, so his father could give the cashier an exact check before the bill had been rung up. </div>
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In his youth he also began noticing that the shape and number of angles in numbers are clues to their value, and began counting from 0 to 9 on his fingers instead of 1 to 10.</div>
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<b>Early career</b></div>
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Flansburg can subtract, add, multiply, divide, and find square and cube roots in his head almost instantly with calculator accuracy. </div>
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Around 1.990 he began using his ability in an entertainment and educational context.</div>
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He was dubbed "The Human Calculator" by Regis Philbin after appearing on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee.</div>
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The Guinness Book of World Records listed him as "Fastest Human Calculator" in 2.001 and 2003, after he broke the record for adding the same number to itself more times in 15 seconds than someone could do with a calculator.</div>
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In 1.999 Flansburg invented a 13 month calendar that uses zero as a day, month, and year alternative to the Gregorian calendar that he called "The Human Calculator Calendar."</div>
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In 1.998 he published the book Math Magic for Your Kids: Hundreds of Games and Exercises from the Human Calculator to Make Math Fun and Easy on Harper Paperbacks. </div>
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A revised edition of his book Math Magic: How to Master Everyday Math Problems was published in 2.004.</div>
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Since about 1.990 Flansburg has regularly given lectures and presentations at schools. </div>
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He has appeared as a presenter at institutions such as NASA, IBM, The Smithsonian Institute, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Mental Calculation World Cup. </div>
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The latter has described Flansburg as "more an auditory than a visual [mental] calculator."</div>
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According to Flansburg, one of his personal missions is to use education to elevate mathematical confidence and self-esteem in adults and children, stating "Why has it become so socially acceptable to be bad at math? </div>
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If you were illiterate you wouldn’t say that on TV, but you can say that you are bad at math. </div>
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We have to change the attitude.</div>
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" He is a proponent of students becoming comfortable with calculation methods instead of relying on table memorization.</div>
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Flansburg is the annual host and ambassador for World Maths Day.</div>
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He is also an official promoter of the American Math Challenge, a competition for students preparing for World Math Day.</div>
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Flansburg has appeared on television shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Larry King Live. </div>
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On April 26, 2.009, while on the Japanese primetime show Asahi's Otona no Sonata, he broke his own world record with 37 answers in 15 seconds.</div>
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He was featured as The Human Calculator in the first episode of Stan Lee's Superhumans, which aired on The History Channel on August 5, 2.010. </div>
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Part of the episode analyzed his brain activity.</div>
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An Mri scan while he was doing complex calculations revealed that his brain activity in the Brodmann area 44 region of the frontal cortex was absent. </div>
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Christophe Pillault Olivet France was born in Iran in 1.982.</div>
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<span lang="es">An autistic savant, he is unable to talk, walk or feed himself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="es">He began painting in 1.993. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="es">His capacities were discovered by his special education teacher and then
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<span lang="es">A singular figure in art, he paints with his hands and uses acrylic on
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<span lang="es">His artwork was introduced to the United States by Dr. Becker in April,
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<span lang="es">His paintings are striking due to the imagery, fascinating, improbable,
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It appears often that he is painting ethereal beings.</div>
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<span lang="es">It is a strange world in which we can penetrate with the renewed wonder
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From Derby in the United Kingdom,Pridmore achieved this by winning a 10-discipline competition, the World Memory Championship, which has taken place every year since 1.991.</div>
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He held the official world record for memorizing the order of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck, and has memorised a pack in a time of 24.68 seconds on television.</div>
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This record was beaten in 2.010 by German memory athlete and lawyer Simon Reinhard. </div>
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He is ranked number four in the world ranking list for Memory Sports.</div>
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Pridmore's victory at the 2.009 World Championship was his eighth consecutive memory competition win since coming second at the 2.007 World Championship.</div>
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Besides memory sports he is famous for his mental calculation skills and took part in the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2.004, 2.006 and 2.010.</div>
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He has also won several medals at the Mind Sports Olympiad including becoming the 2.001 World Champion at the ten disciplined mind sport competition the decamentathlon.</div>
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Like most memory experts, he creates a mental story, comprises a sequence of images that he has permanently memorised as representing number groups, playing card pairs etc. </div>
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Pridmore often envisages a story around his old school, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle as the framework for these memory sequences.</div>
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Birth: 30 November 1990 (21 years)<br />
Nationality: Norwegian<br />
Occupation: Chess Player<br />
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Sven Magnus Carlsen Øen (November 30, 1.990, Bærum, Akershus, Norway) is a norwegian International chess Grandmaster.<br />
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In the year 2.010 he reached the top of world rankings of the International Chess Federation.<br />
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He was the youngest player to surpass the 2800 ELO points, and achieving the position of world number one to get at the age of 19 years and one month.<br />
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It should be noted further that today (12/06/2012) has 2835 Elo points as shown in the FIDE rating.<br />
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On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months and 27 days, at the time the youngest in the world. Carlsen is the third youngest grandmaster in getting the title in the history of the game after Sergei Karjakin and Negi Parimarjan.<br />
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Carlsen live in Lommedalen, near the Norwegian capital, Oslo.<br />
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At eight he played his first tournament, was trained at the Sports Gymnasium led by Norway's best player, Grandmaster Simen Agdestein. Featured Victories: Magnus has beaten the likes of Nigel Short (former world runner), Kramnik, Ivan Sokolov, Dolmatov, Ernst and Karpov.<br />
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It has come to draw with Kasparov.<br />
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Magnus received from the 2,002 support from the Norwegian computer company Artic Securities and is currently sponsored by Microsoft.<br />
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Danish Grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen has trained, but from 2009 became known the news that former world champion Garry Kasparov had trained in secret since January of that year.<br />
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Carlsen was the youngest player to participate in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, but was eliminated in the first round by Levon Aronian.<br />
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<b>In the year 2002 was proclaimed world runner at U-12.</b><br />
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He drew international attention by winning the Group C of Corus Chess Tournament in January 2004, with 10.5 points of 13 possible.<br />
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Two years later he won the Group B of the tournament.<br />
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In the Norwegian Championship Chess, 2005, Carlsen ended in a shared first place, this time with his mentor Simen Agdestein.<br />
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<b>2006 Olympic chess player</b><br />
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Magnus scored 6/8 at the 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006 against opponents averaging 2627 Elo.<br />
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One of his notable wins was against the English grandmaster Michael Adams.<br />
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But in the last Olympics in 2010, Michael Adams took his revenge, defeating it.<br />
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<b>Results of 2,007</b><br />
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In the Corus Chess Tournament in the Netherlands was ranked 13 th, achieving 4.5 points of 13 possible, with 9 boards and 4 losses.<br />
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<b>Runners-up in Linares, 2007.</b><br />
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In March 2007, the International Chess tournament Morelia-Linares, Carlsen was ranked in 2nd place with 7.5 points in 14 games, with a score of (-3 +4 = 7) being first Viswanathan Anand.<br />
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<b>Gausdal Victoria, 2007.</b><br />
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In April 2007, Carlsen won the tournament Gausdal Chess Classics, held in Norway, achieving September 7 points, ahead by 1.5 points to runners, Rozentalis (2nd), Portisch (3rd) and Kramsenkow (4th) of a total list of 10 chess.<br />
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<b>Victoria in Biel, 2007</b><br />
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Carlsen won the 40th International Chess Festival in Biel, Switzerland from July 21 to August 3, 2007, 10 chess players, all against all.<br />
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After leading the tournament for several days, was ahead in the standings by two players, yet the victory in the last round against Teymur Rəcəbov allowed him to tie for first place with Onischuk.<br />
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In the tiebreaker, having won 4 games tables in the last game, earning this prestigious tournament.<br />
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Confirming once again that is a chess genius.<br />
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<b>Corus Tournament Champion, 2.008</b><br />
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Magnus won, tied on points with Aronian, Corus Chess Tournament 2008, held in Holland, making 8 of 13 possible points.<br />
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<b>Runner-up for the second time in Linares, 2.008.</b><br />
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In March 2008, the International Chess tournament Morelia-Linares, Carlsen was classified as in 2007, in 2nd place with 8 points in 14 games, with a score of (-3 +5 = 6) being first Anand place.<br />
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<b>Runners-up in Melody Amber, 2,008.</b><br />
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Carlsen was the tournament runner-up, after the winner Aronian, level on points for 2nd place with Kramnik, Leko and Topalov, all at 2, 5 points behind the winner.<br />
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Carlsen won by 5-3 points in Leko rapid chess match played on 28 May to 1 June 2008 in Miskolc, Hungary, to the best of 8 games.<br />
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2 games played each day of play at a pace of 25 minutes and 5 seconds per move.<br />
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<b>Play the Grand Slam Final Chess, 2.008</b><br />
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Carlsen, participated in Grand Slam Final Chess, from 2 to 14 September 2008 in Bilbao, Spain.<br />
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The classification is obtained, at the invitation of the organization, being co-winner of the Corus Chess Tournament, 2008 as well as being runner-up in Linares, 2008.<br />
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<b>Blitz world champion in Moscow.</b><br />
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Carlsen blitz world champion by winning the final, held in Moscow from 16 to 18 November 2009.<br />
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There were 22 players, playing 42 games each, with double round robin, a time of 3 minutes + 2 seconds per move<br />
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<b>The classification was as follows:</b><br />
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1 º. - Carlsen 31 points<br />
2 nd. - Anand 28 points<br />
3 º. - Karjakin 25 points<br />
4 °. - Kramnik 24.5 points<br />
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<b>Tal Memorial</b><br />
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Shortly before the World Championship held in blitz, from 5 to 14 super tournament took place this Category XXI with the participation of 10 of the 13 best players in the world, in which Carlsen was second behind Kramnik and tied with Ivanchuk.<br />
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Carlsen started the tournament as the best placed in a tournament involving Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Ni Hua, Luke McShane and David Howell. Kramnik beat heading into the first round to win the tournament with 13/21 (otorgándose 3 points for a win, and 1 tie) and a performance rating of 2,844, a point ahead of Kramnik.<br />
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This victory secured first place in the FIDE rating list, overtaking Veselin Topalov by 5 points.<br />
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The average FIDE rating Carlsen July 2009 to January 2010 allowed him to qualify for the Candidates Tournament Cycle World Championship 2011.<br />
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<b>2,010 Results</b><br />
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<b>Corus Tournament Champion, 2.010</b><br />
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Magnus won the Corus Chess Tournament, 2.010, held in the Netherlands, from 16 to 31 January 13 achieved 8.5 points possible.<br />
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2nd place Kramnik, Shirov 3 rd of 14 participants.<br />
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<b>Champion Melody Amber Chess Tournament, 2010</b><br />
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Magnus won, tied with Ivanchuk, this tournament held in Nice, France, 13 to March 25 of 22 scores of 14.5 points possible.<br />
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Champion Grand Slam Final Chess, 2011 (São Paulo and Bilbao).<br />
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Magnus won, tied with Ivanchuk and untied by two games to 5 minutes.<br />
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There’s a book by Smith & Tsimpli from 1.995 called “The Mind of a Savant : Language Learning and Modularity.” </div>
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This excerpt is from the textbook “Introduction to Language” seventh edition, by Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams. </div>
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His last name is not given in the textbook, though, but it sounds like him. </div>
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Christopher has a nonverbal IQ between 60 and 70 and must live in an institution because he is unable to take care of himself. </div>
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The tasks of buttoning a shirt, cutting his fingernails, or vacuuming the carpet are too difficult for him. </div>
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However, linguists find that his “linguistic competence in his first language is as rich and sophisticated as that of any native speaker.” </div>
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Furthermore, when given written texts in some fifteen to twenty languages, he translates them quickly, with few errors, into English. </div>
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The languages include Germanic languages such as Danish, Dutch, and German; Romance languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; as well as Polish, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Turkish, and Welsh. </div>
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He learned these languages from native speakers who used them in his presence, or from grammar books. </div>
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Christopher loves to study and learn languages. </div>
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Little else is of interest to him. </div>
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Orlando L. Serrell (born 1.968) is an "acquired savant" someone who exhibits savant skills after CNS injury or disease, as opposed a person born with autistic disorder or other developmental disability.</div>
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Orlando Serrell did not possess any special skills until he was struck by a baseball on the left side of his head on January 15, 1.979 when he was ten years old. </div>
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The answer to these questions may lay inside the mind of Orlando Serrell.</div>
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Orlando Serrell is what is known as an acquired savant (prodigious savant). </div>
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There are two types of savants: acquired savants and autistic savants. </div>
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An acquired savant is a person with a rare condition with various developmental disabilities, including autistic disorder and an astonishing ability for brilliance.</div>
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In 1.979, Orlando was the typical 10 year old boy. </div>
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And like most children of that age, he enjoyed various sports including baseball. </div>
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But, one baseball game would alter him for the rest of his life. </div>
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August 17, 1.979, Orlando was engrossed in playing a baseball game with his friends. </div>
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As Orlando made a frantic dash to first base, the baseball struck him on the left side of his head.</div>
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Orlando fell to the ground and stayed there for a while. </div>
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Moments later, he got up and continued to play baseball. </div>
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“I didn't tell my parents, therefore, I had no medical treatment for the accident,” says Orlando. </div>
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But, his head continued to hurt for a long while.</div>
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Eventually, the headache ended, but Orlando soon noticed an uncanny ability to perform calendrical calculations of baffling complexity. </div>
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In addition, he can recall the weather, where he was, and what he was doing for every day since the accident.</div>
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Soon, the media became interested in this “calendar-brain” and he began to appear in various local newspapers. </div>
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On June the 17th, 2.002, he received a telephone call from NBC News (Dateline). </div>
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They invited Orlando to visit the University of Columbia in New York to perform a functional MRI testing on his brain. </div>
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During the procedure, the news staff video taped Orlando undergoing the MRI which would be used to compare his brain functions to that of other people who are not savant or at the genius level of brain functionality. </div>
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On January 13th, 2.003, NBC News televised a documentary on “savants” on the Discovery Channel and included Orlando in the program.</div>
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What makes Orlando Serrell so unique is that he may indeed hold the key that unlocks the genius in us all. </div>
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Orlando Serrell did not possess any special skills until he was struck in the head by a baseball when he was 10. </div>
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And his extraordinary gifts seem to be his only side effect. </div>
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Could this mean once a key hemisphere in the brain is stimulated, we can all attain the level of genius Orlando posses and beyond? </div>
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Only time and research will tell. </div>
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Until then we will do well to keep our eyes on Orlando and learn what we can from his experience.</div>
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Anthony Torrone (born circa 1.955) is an American Christian author who is developmentally disabled. </div>
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A savant, Torrone's 2.011 book, Anthony's Prayers was inspired by his time and the abuse that he experienced as a resident of the former Willowbrook State School which was a New York State mental hospital for children. </div>
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Torrone has been a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan since the 1.970s.</div>
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27 October 1.980 in Eger, Hungary</div>
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Occupation : Autistic savant artist</div>
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Literary movement : Autistic art</div>
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She is a Hungarian autistic savant poet, writer and artist became world famous with one book title Autizmussal önmagamba zárva ("Closed into myself with autism") and her one sentence on many cubes from her book made one monodrama, title Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature"), before the age of 30 worldwide and internally having regard to her childhood autism and heart disorders as mitral valve prolapse, three eye disorders as nearsightedness, astigmatism, strabismus, orthopedic diseases and other physical disorders. </div>
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She gave up creative music career altogether at the age of 13, creative writing altogether at the age of 25 and she also gave up creative painting altogether before the age of 27. </div>
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Her organization was attacked by cancer in 2.009. Henriett Seth F.' s life and arts can be compared Arthur Rimbaud' s life and arts after her "Little Wassily Kandinsky" 's early childhood savant syndrome years. </div>
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Henriett universal effect of all that was what we now call autism and savant syndrome, see Darold Treffert, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Henriett Seth F. - Rain Girl and National Talents Support Council, Particular Educational Talents Support Council, Budapest, Hungary: Henriett Seth F. - The Rain Girl Artist.</div>
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Henriett did not make eye contact in her early childhood. </div>
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In 1.987 all the primary schools in her town refused her admission application because of her communication problems; she also did not make eye contact. </div>
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She was placed in a music and art class, but she never sang songs so in 1.989 sent mentally handicapped primary school by two teachers, but she remained music and art class.</div>
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She played flute at age 8 and played contrabass at the age of 10-12, and until the age of 13 she was in many concerts in the Garrison and Soldiers of Club (in Hungarian: Helyorsegi Klub). </div>
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She gave up creative music career altogether at the age of 13.</div>
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She was also found to have echolalia, communications problems and repetitive behaviors, see Henriett as a young girl - on the first digitized videos of childhood autism and savant syndrome on Hungary - on investigations and language development with her photos of paintings by Hungarian Autism Research Group, Budapest, 2.002. </div>
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She was diagnosed with childhood autism by Hungarian Autism Research Group (Autizmus Alapítvány és Kutatócsoport) and two psychiatries of Eger.</div>
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Henriett had a long history of visual art, poetry and writing in her childhood; beginning at age nine and at age thirteen. </div>
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Henriett universal effect of all that was what we now call autism and savant syndrome, she painted autistic art paintings to the House of Arts, Eger, and Hotel Stadion of Budapest in the East-European Autism Conference, 2.004.</div>
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She won the Géza Gárdonyi Prize at the age of 18 for her art and literature. </div>
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Henriett went to Eszterhazy College at the age of 18 to the Psychology Institution but her communication and her behavior problems pensioned with a diagnosis of childhood autism in 2.002. </div>
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She has Raven IQ above 140 and Mawi IQ above 120 with part some under IQ 90, so she was considered handicapped genius, a perfect example of childhood autism and savant syndrome, see disability support.</div>
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In 2.005, she wrote a book, Autizmussal önmagamba zárva ("Closed into myself with autism"), that was published by the Hungarian Autism Research Group and Ministry for National Cultural Heritage.</div>
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Henriett was invited to the Friderikusz Sándor's documentary film, to Szólás Szabadsága ("Freedom of Speech"), in 2.005, that was seen by 700,000 people. </div>
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This documentary film was entitled Esőlány ("Rain Girl"). </div>
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In 2.006 Henriett wrote one novel, Autizmus - Egy másik világ ("Autism - Another World"). </div>
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That work was published by University of Pécs, in the New Galaxy anthology. </div>
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Henriett won the 6th-place prize in the International Literature Competition in 2.000, at the age of 19. </div>
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She came in first in 2.001, at the age of 20 (by International Alliance of Hungarian Writers). </div>
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Henriett wrote novels and poems during her childhood, as well as in college life to the periodical Esőember ("Rain Man"), 2.006.</div>
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She showed her last art work in Brody Sandor Public Library in June, 2.007.</div>
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She gave up creative writing altogether at the age of 25 and she also gave up creative painting altogether before the age of 27. </div>
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She did not sold work of childhood and teen age literature and visual art her mother's advice but her own room transformed childhood autism and savant syndrome memorial room at age 30, see Henriett's high-definition video.</div>
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She also had three autoimmune disorders and now living with childhood autism, heart disorders as mitral valve prolapse, three eye disorders as nearsightedness, astigmatism, strabismus, orthopedic diseases and other physical disorders. </div>
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Her organization was attacked by cancer in 2.009.</div>
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In 2.010, Orlai Produkciós Iroda made a monodrama, Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature"), from book of Henriett Seth F. </div>
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The text book contains details of Donna Williams' s Nobody Nowhere : The extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl few lines, Birger Sellin' s Don't want to Be Inside Me Anymore: Messages from Autistic Mind few lines and a few lines by Mark Haddon' s: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. </div>
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That played in Esztergom, Budapest, Pécs, Tatabánya, Székesfehérvár and Eger theatres and made from it TV documentary in Hungarian Television, 2.010, and Budapest, Gyöngyös theatres in 2.011. </div>
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Henriett Seth F.' s life and arts can be compared Arthur Rimbaud' s life and arts after her "Little Wassily Kandinsky" 's early childhood savant syndrome years.</div>
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Henriett Seth F.' s unpublished poems from her childhood and teen years before the age 25 with title It may be...; Autumn; Well, don't speak this child; Something easy to write and sweet; There in the distance; Silently; Somewhere; A dream in a cage; Liberation from the slavery of the soul and Poem to the patron, on title 2th: Existence, infinity, and the world years between (1.989–2.005).</div>
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Winner of the XIIth and XIIIth International Literature Competition(2000–2001) International Alliance of Hungarian Writers.</div>
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Novels to the periodical New Face, (2.001)</div>
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Autizmussal önmagamba zárva ("Closed into myself with autism") by Henriett Seth F. to Hungarian Autism Research Group and Ministry for the National Cultural Heritage (2.005)</div>
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Autizmus – Egy másik világ ("Autism - Another World") by Henriett Seth F. to University of Pécs (2.006) </div>
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Novel to the periodical Esőember ("Rain Man") (2.006) by Henriett Seth F. from her kindergarten's, primary school's and Eszterhazy College's life.</div>
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Henriett Seth F.' s paintings and galleries in House of Arts and Brody Sandor Public Library, Eger, 1.993-2.007</div>
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Henriett Seth F. on the first digitized videos of childhood autism and savant syndrome on Hungary on investigations and language development with her photos of paintings by Hungarian Autism Research Group, 2.002.</div>
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Friderikusz Sándor.: "Seth F. Henriett: Esőlány", ("The Rain Girl") - Freedom of Speech, Hungarian Television, 2.005.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F.: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Esztergom' s Theatre by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.010.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Budapest Trafó House of Contemporary Arts by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.010, 2.011.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Pécs' s Harmadik Theatre by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.010.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Tatabánya' s Jászai Mari Theatre by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.010.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Székesfehérvár' s Vörösmarty Theatre by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.010.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Eger' s Gárdonyi Géza Theatre by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.010.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Budapest' s Radnóti Színház by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.011.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F., text book contains details of Donna Williams, Birger Sellin and Mark Haddon: Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature") in Gyöngyös' s Mátra Művelődési Központ by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, 2.011.</div>
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<b>External links in English and Hungarian</b></div>
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Henriett Seth F.'s web site – Contains this autistic savant woman's biography, paintings/galleries/books/novels/prizes/theatres/tv documentaries of Henriett, multiple gifted autistic savant.</div>
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Article (Rain Girl) from Henriett Seth F. – Contains biography of Henriett, paintings and photos by Dr. Darold Treffert.</div>
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Documentary film from Henriett Seth F. – Contains autism and savant syndrome from Henriett, title with Esőlány ("The Rain Girl") - Freedom of Speech in Hungarian Television by Friderikusz Sandor, 2.005.</div>
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Monodrama from book of Henriett Seth F. – Contains book (Autizmussal onmagamba zarva) of Henriett Seth F., title with Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature"), by Orlai Produkciós Iroda, RTL Klub, ATV, Port, 2.010.</div>
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Henriett Seth F.' s international influences: Arts in Difference; – Contains Arts in Difference: Henriett Seth F., Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek "Notanobodycreature", 2.010.</div>
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Criticism from Henriett Seth F.'s book of Autizmus - Egy másik világ ("Autism - Another World") by Magazine Solaria Science Fiction.</div>
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George Widener is an autistic savant with the ability to perform incredibly complex calendar calculations in mere seconds. </div>
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He can almost instantly determine the day of the week for any date in history or far in the future and has incredibly detailed knowledge historical events.</div>
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After a troubled and lonely childhood, George was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and he found a release for the constant swarm of numbers in his head through art.</div>
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George now shows his richly detailed calendar art in galleries around the world. </div>
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Cutting edge Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging is helping neurologists see how George's brain processes information differently than neurotypical brains.</div>
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Give George Widener any date in history and he can, within seconds, tell you what day of the week it was.<br />
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At his home in Asheville, North Carolina, George works into the night drawing elaborate calendars.<br />
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Before bed he reads, not a novel but, printed sheets of population figures.<br />
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Numbers follow George wherever he goes, he finds comfort in them, he considers them his friends.<br />
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George says no one ever taught him to calculate calendars. In fact, he insists he's not calculating at all.<br />
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George's skill is phenomenal, but it comes at a cost.<br />
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He suffers from a form of autism, a brain disorder that leads to awkwardness and social isolation.<br />
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As a child, school was a place of fear and dread, but a chance encounter at his grandmother's house when he was seven changed his life.<br />
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He met another child who was fascinated with his grandmother's calendar.<br />
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Today, George is perhaps the world's greatest calendar calculator, but he is not unique.<br />
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He belongs to a select group of people known as savants.<br />
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One of 12 kids in a large Irish family… Boxing… Prison… </div>
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A thriving building firm… Junkie… Wives… Children… Friendships bitter and sweet… </div>
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Being visited by Death, getting a headache and telling it to fuck off…</div>
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A swirl, a fugue of events and experiences spiralling back and forward in time all meeting at one big bang moment when something split at a quantum level and Tommy the artist was born another life slipping anchor and heading to god knows where and when.</div>
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Just my impression of Tom and his work. </div>
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Tom as an artist and how, as an artist myself, I see us all fitting into this...</div>
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It’s all about the face, the face as representative of identity and loss of it. </div>
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You see each of them fighting for attention in his busiest, more heated work—when he’s in that fever and they all peek their noses out to be seen. </div>
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A mass of them but no confusion. I imagine it’s how a particularly harassed medium must feel all of those presences vying for attention as the séance is about to begin. </div>
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But somehow, some way, out of the hustle bustle, there’s coherence of multiple identity… </div>
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Then the single faces, the portraits he paints where one identity has grabbed him for that few moments it takes him to put the paint down. </div>
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Peering out of the fog, lit up by sunlight, hiding but wanting to be seen.</div>
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And all these faces—is it just me or do I see Tommy’s high cheek bones in them? Self portraits of all the other quantum selves that flash through the perpetual motion machine that is Tommy’s creativity.</div>
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Over coffee recently Tommy told me it sometimes felt like he was walking through this life as if it's a constanty changing alien landscape. </div>
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And that's part of the artistic experience I suppose. Always observing, always mystical and anthropological looking at the inner and the outer play of consciousness and actions coming and going and making of them what you will. </div>
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I experience this to some degree. But with Tommy and his scuffle with death and the unleashing of his creative genie, unarbitered and free with Tommy this experience is intense and frighteningly out of control. I don't know how he copes. </div>
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But he does as long as there's a brush and paint to magic the intensity away, or a lump of stone to carve...</div>
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I first met Tommy some time ago, not too long after his double annoyance and the bursting of the dam.</div>
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I was just another person in an office and he'd come along for some help, some advice. </div>
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Though he seemed to be doing OK without my help as a hindrance organising exhibitions of himself all over the Wirral. </div>
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And it was only when I came to work at Neurosupport in Liverpool that our paths crossed again and now Tom's paintings hang in the atrium of the Neurosupport building and draw amazement and comment from everyone who sees them. </div>
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Now, with documentaries about him, journalists and sundry seekers after the bizarre and remarkable interviewing him Tommy is something of celebrity, a one-man painting machine with one thing in his mind. </div>
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To dispel a few myths, and open more than a few eyes...</div>
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I know that Tommy has sometimes felt more of a lab rat than an individual with a fascinating experience to relate. It seems the individual gets lost in the mechanistic world view of most 'specialists' and probers. </div>
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Only Dr Alice W Flaherty of Harvard University (and author of the remarkable 'The Midnight Disease') has the insight and empathy to see what is happening: a chrysalis opened and a beautiful winged creativity emerged and changed one man's life in a miraculous way.</div>
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I know Tommy doesn't dwell too much on the future he's far too busy creating and imagining in the present. </div>
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But I hope this website gives us a glimpse into a future where the mystery of creation opens up before us and we see ourselves reflected back. </div>
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Is there a Tommy McHugh in all of us? I hope so...</div>
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Dane Bottino is a self-taught artist.<br />
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He started drawing when he was two years of age. </div>
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He is autistic and lost his beginning language about the same age. </div>
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He instead spent every waking moment drawing to express his emotions, desires and thoughts. </div>
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Surprisingly, even at three years of age, he could draw with correct perspective and correct spelling, etc. </div>
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He would give grocery lists of intricate and correct images of whatever he wanted. He has always been very obsessive and compulsive about his drawing.</div>
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For example, when he was young he would draw on whatever he could get his hands on: books, newspapers and telephone books. </div>
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He would have a picture on every page, front and back. He would stay up all night until a series of pictures was complete. </div>
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For example, early pictures were drawn over and over until he was pleased with the image and then he would not draw that subject again. </div>
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Sometimes this process would include thousands of drawings on the same theme.<br />
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He has gone through periods on Dr. Seuss, imaginary animals, realistic animals, cartoons, etc. </div>
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At fifteen years old he has basic functional language, yet he still chooses to communicate through art instead of common language.</div>
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Dane is very right brained and this rules the way he sees the world. </div>
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Lately, he has done a series on the history of art, interpreting the following: cave art, Greek, Medieval, Renaissance, Impressionism, Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol, etc. </div>
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Additionally, he has become interested in graphic arts and would like to create a web page to sell his art.</div>
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He has also shown a talent in music and has been found to have a perfect pitch. He can sing language and this might be an avenue for future expression. </div>
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He can easily adjust his styles and seems to be expanding his creativity and horizons.</div>
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Dane has been on TV numerous times and has been filmed by the Discovery channel and the BBC. </div>
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He is located in Southern California and exhibits on a regular basis. </div>
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He sells his work and will have a recent piece in the UC Davis Mind Institute Gallery collection. </div>
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He hopes to hear from you.</div>
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Robert Gagno is an autistic young man who may never live independently from his parents, but he has an incredible talent : he's one of the top-ranked pinball players in the world.</div>
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Robert's brain seems hard-wired for pinball wizardry: intense concentration and focus, the ability to almost instantly recognize the impetus, trajectory and velocity of the ball, and an incredible memory that allows him to memorize shot patterns and rack up huge scores.</div>
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Robert and his father head to the Mayo Clinic to meet with a leading neurologist to see what makes Robert's brain unique. </div>
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However, it's a visual processing test that presents the biggest clue as to why Robert is such a gifted pinball player.</div>
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Robert is tall and rail-thin, with tousled brown curls, oval-framed glasses, and great big sapphires for eyes. </div>
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When he's playing pinball, which is most of the time, those eyes bug out in a state of twitchy hyper-alertness. </div>
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At other moments, like when he has to meet a stranger, they quickly make for the ground.</div>
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Robert is also autistic, which helps explain the lack of eye contact and why he wouldn't have offered his hand for a shake had he not been reminded to do so by his mother and father, Kathy and Maurizio, who, as both parents and pinball competitors, are usually right by his side. </div>
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Moreover, Robert is a savant, which helps to explain why at 22 he's the top-ranked player in the league. </div>
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He's also tops in a league in his hometown of Vancouver, B.C. In a sport where the elite have been playing for decades, Robert is something of a prodigy.</div>
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Just two years ago, on a whim, Maurizio signed up Robert for the Canadian World Championships, his son's first competitive tournament. </div>
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"I had to go to Toronto for business anyway," Maurizio says. "So I figured 'What the heck?'"</div>
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"What the heck" turned into a 12th-place finish. </div>
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Shortly thereafter, the people responsible for ranking pinballers decreed that this impressive debut meant that there were only 3,722 players in the whole world better at pinball than Robert. </div>
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Today there are 22.</div>
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Whatever it is, it'll have to wait, because shortly after the handshake, Robert spins on his heels and marches back into the house with a slightly herky-jerky gait that will soon become familiar.</div>
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Robert delicately nudges a button so that a ball jumps from one flipper to the other, an advanced technique known as an alley pass. </div>
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The look on Robert's face is something between a smile and "Oh my God, they're removing my fingernail without anesthetic!" </div>
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One of them has a clipboard. "Aw, man, he's still going," he says. </div>
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"Is that a good score?" asks Kathy.</div>
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"Yes," answers Robert, one arm flung up and behind his head as if he were patting himself on the back.</div>
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Daniel Tammet (born on 31 January 1.979) is a British writer. </div>
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His best selling 2.006 memoir, Born On A Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2.008 by the American Library Association.</div>
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Tammet was born Daniel Paul Corney and raised in East London, England, the eldest of nine children. </div>
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He suffered epileptic seizures as a young child, which he subsequently outgrew following medical treatment. </div>
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At age twenty-five, he would eventually be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism (Spectrum) Research Centre at Cambridge University.</div>
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Tammet is one of fewer than a hundred "prodigious savants" according to Dr. Darold Treffert, the world's leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome. </div>
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Tammet finished school with nine GCSEs (an 'A*' in History, 'A' grades in English, English Literature, French, and German, two 'B' grades in the Sciences, a 'B' in Maths, having obtained an 'A' in his preliminary Maths exam, and a 'C' in Woodwork) and three A-Levels in History, French and German, all at grade 'B'.</div>
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Preferring travel to university, Tammet taught English for a year in Lithuania.</div>
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Tammet twice participated (in 1.999, and 2.000) under his birth name in the World Memory Championships in London. </div>
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Placing 12th in 1.999, and 4th in 2.000, behind a trio of present and future 'World Memory Champions'.</div>
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He changed his birth name by deed poll because "it didn't fit with the way he saw himself."</div>
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In 2.002 Tammet launched his website, Optimnem.</div>
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The site offers language courses (currently French and Spanish) and has been an approved member of the U.K.'s National Grid for Learning since 2.006.</div>
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<b>Savantism</b></div>
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Tammet's memory, mathematical and linguistic abilities have been studied by some of the world's leading neuroscientists at California's Center for Brain Studies and the UK's Cambridge Autism Research Centre and have been the subject of several peer-reviewed scientific papers.</div>
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Professor Allan Snyder at the Australian National University has said of Tammet: "Savants can't usually tell us how they do what they do. </div>
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It just comes to them. Daniel can describe what he sees in his head. </div>
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That's why he's exciting. He could be the 'Rosetta Stone'."</div>
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Tammet's unusually vivid and complex synesthesia has been widely reported. </div>
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In his mind, he says, each positive integer up to 10,000 has its own unique shape, colour, texture and feel. </div>
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He can intuitively "see" results of calculations as synaesthetic landscapes without using conscious mental effort and can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. </div>
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He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. The number 6 apparently has no distinct image yet what he describes as an almost small nothingness, opposite to the number 9 which he calls large and towering.</div>
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Tammet has described 25 as energetic and the "kind of number you would invite to a party".</div>
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Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but has also created artwork, including a watercolour painting of pi.</div>
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Tammet holds the European record for reciting pi from memory to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes on 14 March 2004.</div>
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Tammet's record currently ranks 6th in the world.</div>
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Tammet states in Born On A Blue Day that he speaks ten languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Icelandic, Welsh, and Esperanto. </div>
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He learned conversational Icelandic in one week, which he demonstrated in a live television interview conducted entirely in the language.</div>
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Segments of the interview showing Tammet responding to questions in Icelandic were shown in a documentary film entitled (in the UK) The Boy with the Incredible Brain, first broadcast on the British television station Channel Five on 23 May 2.005.</div>
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Segments of the interview were also televised on 28th January 2.007 edition of the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes.</div>
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The British documentary showed Tammet meeting Kim Peek, a world famous savant. </div>
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Peek was shown hugging Tammet telling him that "Some day you will be as great as I am," to which Tammet replied, "That was a wonderful compliment; what an aspiration to have!".</div>
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Born On A Blue Day, Tammet's memoir of a life with Asperger's syndrome, received international media attention and critical praise. </div>
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Booklist's Ray Olson stated that Tammet's autobiography was "as fascinating as Benjamin Franklin's and John Stuart Mill's" and that Tammet wrote "some of the clearest prose this side of Hemingway". </div>
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Kirkus stated that the book "transcends the disability memoir genre". </div>
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Other reviewers praised Tammet for his "elegant," "eloquent," and "engaging" style.</div>
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For his U.S. book tour, he appeared on several television and radio talk shows and specials, including 60 Minutes and Late Show with David Letterman.</div>
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In February 2.007 Born on a Blue Day was serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in the United Kingdom.</div>
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Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was published in 2.009. </div>
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Professor Allan Snyder, director of Sydney University's Centre for the Mind, called the work 'an extraordinary and monumental achievement'.</div>
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Tammet argues that savant abilities should not be seen as "supernatural" or computer-like but as "an outgrowth" of normal brain functioning and "natural, instinctive ways of thinking about numbers and words", which suggests that affected brains might be at least partially retrained and that normal brains might be taught to develop or retain some savant abilities.</div>
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In other people blue is connected with sadness for example, but when you think about it sadness is an abstract concept so why is it blue, why not green or yellow?</div>
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It makes no more logical sense for sadness to be blue than for four to be blue. </div>
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So there are certain connections, certain concepts in everyone's brain that are connected that way and mine just takes it to a whole other level.</div>
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Tammet was among the invited speakers at the TED2.011 'Rediscovery of Wonder' conference in Long Beach, California.</div>
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Tammet's abilities have been examined in several scientific investigations.</div>
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After the World Memory Championships, Tammet participated in a group study of several superior memorisers later published in the New Year 2.003 edition of Nature Neuroscience.</div>
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The researchers investigated the reasons for the memorisers' superior performance. </div>
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They reported that the superior memorisers used "strategies for encoding information with the sole purpose of making it more memorable", and concluded that superior memory was not driven by exceptional intellectual ability or differences in brain structure.</div>
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In another study, Simon Baron-Cohen and others at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge tested Tammet's abilities in around 2.005.</div>
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He was found to have synaesthesia according to the "Test of Genuineness-Revised" which tests the subjects' consistency in reporting descriptions of their synaesthesia. </div>
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He performed well on tests of short term memory (with a digit span of 11.5, where 6.5 is typical). </div>
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Conversely, test results showed his memory for faces appeared to be impaired, and he scored at the level expected of a 6-8 year old child in this task. </div>
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The authors speculated that Tammet's savant memory could be a result of synaesthesia combined with Asperger syndrome, while noting that mnemonic strategies (such as the method of loci) could also explain savant memory abilities.</div>
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Baron-Cohen, Bor and Billington investigated whether his synaesthesia and Aspergers syndrome explained his savant memory abilities in a further study published in Neurocase in 2.008. </div>
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The authors state that the memory training used by other experts does not explain his abilities, as he had not had explicit training. </div>
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They concluded that his abilities might be explained by hyperactivity in one brain region (the left prefrontal cortex), which results from his Aspergers syndrome and synaesthesia.</div>
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On the Navon task, relative to non-autistic controls, Tammet was found to be faster at finding a target at the local level and to be less distracted by interference from the global level.</div>
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In an fMRI scan, Tammet did not activate extra-striate regions of the brain "normally associated with synaesthesia", suggesting that he has an "unusual and more abstract and conceptual form of synaesthesia". </div>
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Published in Cerebral Cortex (2.011), another fmRI study by Professor Jean-Michel Hupé and others at the Centre de Recherche Cerveau and Cognition at the University of Toulouse observed no activation of color areas in ten synaesthetes.</div>
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Hupé suggests that synaesthetic color experience lies not in the brain's color system, but instead results from "a complex construction of meaning in the brain, involving not only perception, but language, memory and emotion".</div>
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In his book Moonwalking with Einstein (2.011), former US Memory Champion Joshua Foer speculates that study of conventional mnemonic approaches has played a role in Tammet's feats of memory, while accepting that Tammet meets the standard definition of a prodigious savant.</div>
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In a review of his book for The New York Times, psychologist Alexandra Horowitz described Foer's speculation as among the book's few "missteps" and his decision to devote space to the case of a "renowned savant" such as Tammet "inexplicable," questioning whether it would matter if he had used such strategies or not.</div>
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<b>Personal life</b></div>
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Tammet met his first partner, software engineer Neil Mitchell, in 2.000. </div>
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Tammet lived with him in Kent, where they had a quiet regimented life at home with their cats, preparing meals from their garden.</div>
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Tammet and Mitchell operated the online e-learning company Optimnem, where they created and published language courses.</div>
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Tammet now lives with a new partner, Jérôme Tabet, a French photographer whom he met while promoting his autobiography. </div>
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Although he has said that he did not think he would be here if it were not for the love and support of Mitchell, more recently he noted that he used to live a rigid existence aimed at calming his many anxieties .</div>
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"I was very happy, but it was a small happiness" whereas now, as the subtitle of Embracing the Wide Sky : A tour across the horizons of the mind asserts, he believes that we ought to seek to liberate our brains a belief reflected in his new life :</div>
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My life used to be very simple and regimented but since then I have travelled constantly and given lots of lectures and it just changed me...</div>
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It made me much more open, much more interested in, I guess, the full potential of what my mind could do... </div>
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Because of that change I grew and in a sense I grew apart from my long-term partner, so we parted amicably in 2.007, and a short while later I met my current partner, who is from France so I decided to go and live with him in Avignon.</div>
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Mänti is a constructed language that Tammet has created.</div>
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The word 'Mänti' comes from the Finnish word for 'pine tree' (mänty). </div>
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Mänti uses vocabulary and grammar from the Finnic languages. </div>
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Mänti<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>English<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Estonian<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finnish<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Notes</div>
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buss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>buss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bussi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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kuppi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cup<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>kruus,kapp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>kuppi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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kellokült<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>lateness, tardiness<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>viitsimatus, hilinemine<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>myöhästyneisyys<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Literally "clock-debt". In Finnish kello = a clock / a bell</div>
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puhukello<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>telephone<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>telefon<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>puhelin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Literally "speak-bell". In Finnish puhua = to speak</div>
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tontöö<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>music<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>muusika<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>musiikki<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Literally "tone-art". In Estonian töö = work</div>
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nööt<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>night<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>öö<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>yö<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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koet saapat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>footwear<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>jalanõud<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>jalkineet<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In Finnish saappaat = boots. In Estonian saapad = boots.</div>
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hamma<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>tooth<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>hammas<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>hammas<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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rât<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>wire<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>traat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>johto<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vZniLc6HuNQ" width="400"></iframe>Web Design Ct 2023http://www.blogger.com/profile/12868533535323491638noreply@blogger.com0Francia46.227638 2.213749000000007134.974007 -18.440547999999993 57.481269 22.868046000000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9158495160282069573.post-89872628538555920442012-03-14T11:15:00.000-10:002017-09-10T10:42:13.738-10:00Richard Wawro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Richard Wawro was a remarkable Scottish artist who earned widespread acclaim for his detailed drawings created with the unusual medium of wax oil crayons. </div>
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With these he produced exceedingly detailed, dramatic images of intense depth and colour.</div>
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Richard died on February 22nd, 2.006 after a brave fight against cancer. </div>
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Richard developed his art well beyond the constrictions of his autism and physical disability. </div>
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The drawings of Richard Wawro have a popular appeal which is not confined to traditional artistic circles. </div>
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His work is admired and owned by people who would not consider themselves art collectors. </div>
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Notable owners of Richard Wawro originals are Lady Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. </div>
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Richard was born in 1.952. </div>
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When he was three years old his parents were told that he was moderately to severely retarded. </div>
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He also showed considerable autistic behavior with the characteristic obsession for sameness, withdrawal, walking in circles, spinning objects endlessly, and a preoccupation with the piano striking a single key for hours at a time. </div>
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He did not have useful language until the age of 11. </div>
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He required surgery for cataracts on both eyes during childhood.</div>
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Richard began drawing on a chalkboard at about age 3. </div>
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He immediately covered the tiny chalkboard with numerous images. </div>
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At age 6 he entered a Children's Center where he was introduced to drawing with crayons where his immense talent was immediately apparent. </div>
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When Richard was 12 years old, Professor Marian Bohusz-Szyszko of the Polish School of Art in London viewed Richard's drawings and was "thunderstruck"; he described his works as an "incredible phenomenon rendered with the precision of a mechanic and the vision of a poet."</div>
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Like other savants Richard had a phenomenal memory. </div>
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He remembered where he drew each picture and had each of them precisely dated in his mind. </div>
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He used no models for his drawings, but drew from images seen only once, on television or in a book at one of the bookshops he loved to visit. </div>
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He had perfect recall but often added his own touches, interpretations or improvisation to the images. </div>
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He seemed especially fascinated, and facile, with light its sources and its dispersion and the tones he uses to capture lights and shadows are masterful.</div>
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For Richard art was his life and his love. </div>
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He took pride in his talent and loved to share it. </div>
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At the completion of each picture Richard would take it to his father for approval and then received appropriate and deserved compliments, followed by a mini-celebration in which he and his father raised joined hands in a sort of present-day high-five. </div>
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He and his father shared an unmistakeable enthusiasm and appreciation for each other. Richard's mother, who also loved and appreciated him unconditionally, died in 1.979 but in spite of their closeness, Richard's work did not stop. Richard's father died in 2.002.</div>
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Richard had his first exhibition in Edinburgh when he was 17 years old. </div>
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Now he is known worldwide and has sold over 1000 pictures in over 100 exhibitions. </div>
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One of his exhibitions was opened by Margaret Thatcher when she was Minister of Education. </div>
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She owns several of his pictures as did the late Pope John Paul II. </div>
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A very impressive and moving documentary about Richard called "With Eyes Wide Open" had its world premiere in 1.983 and has won numerous awards in many countries. </div>
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Dr. Laurence Becker who produced that film states "it enables the viewer to experience Richard Wawro as a highly gifted artist and as a person. </div>
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It reveals the nurturing environments that enabled Richard's spirit and talent to grow and develop. </div>
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It is as though deep within him that 'spirit was clamoring to be free' and for himself and for each viewer or his art, his drawing sets it free. </div>
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This remarkable artist's life and his art provide abundant evidence of the quality and persistence of the human, creative spirit."</div>
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A videotape entitled A Real Rainman, Portrait of an Autistic Savant was also produced by Dr. Becker and is now available. </div>
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