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"Here's To The Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the
square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have
no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the
human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who DO !"

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"In front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat
and long and steep is the way to it, and hard at first.
But when you come to the top, then it is easy,
- even though it is hard."
~ ~ Hesiod (700 BC)








Alex Honnold    

"For Completely Redefining CRAZY!"

Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American
big wall free solo climber. He has broken a number of
speed records, including a free climb of Salathé Wall,
as well as a 5h49m aid solo ascent of the 2,900 feet
(900 m) Nose of El Capitan, a route normally
demanding two to four days. He was born in Sacramento,
California and graduated from Mira Loma High School.
Honnold started climbing when he was 11 years old.
At the age of 19, he dropped out of UC Berkeley,
where he was an engineering student, and devoted
all his time to climbing. Between climbs, he runs or
hikes to maintain fitness. Alex prefers big walls
and sport climbing, but enjoys any climb
calling for extreme commitment. Yosemite remains
his favorite area because of its impressive walls and
unbeatable weather. Honnold found inspiration from
such noted climbers as Peter Croft, John Bachar
and Tommy Caldwell, but, he says, not as much as
the stark simplicity and beauty of El Capitan. In 2010,
Honnold was awarded the "Golden Piton" for his
climbing achievements. Journalist Lara Logan
interviewed Honnold as part of CBS 60 Minutes
program airing on October 2, 2011.


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Philippe Petit

"For The Artistic Crime Of The Century!"

"On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named
Philippe Petit stepped out on to a wire he illegally
rigged between New York's twin World Trade Towers,
the worlds tallest buildings at that time. After
performing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was
arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, taken to
jail and then finally released. Following six and a half
years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight
months in New York City planning the execution of
his "coup". Aided by a team of friends and
accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous
& extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way
to bypass the WTCs security; smuggle the heavy
steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers
and up to the rooftop; pass the wire between
the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to
withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings.
First, a fishing line was passed between the buildings
using a bow and arrow. Sequential lines were then
passed until one strong enough to pass the cable
was strung. The rigging was done by night in
complete secrecy. At 7:15 AM, Philippe took his
first step on the high wire 1,350 feet above the
sidewalks of Manhattan. James Marsh's
documentary brings Petits extraordinary
adventure to life through the testimony of
Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators
who helped him create the unique and magnificent
spectacle that became known as . . .
"The artistic crime of the century."













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Steve Jobs

"For changing the ways we live,
         watch and listen to our lives!"

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955)
was an American business magnate and inventor.
He is well-known for being the co-founder and chief
executive officer of Apple. Born in San Francisco,
he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain
View, California. His biological mother nearly refused to
agree to the adoption after she learned that the
adoptive mother never graduated from college and
the father never graduated from high school. She
relented only after his new adoptive parents promised
that Steve would go to college. They kept their promise.
Jobs would dropped out of college after one semester.
He never went back.

"Everything else - speaks for itself!"


Apple Press Release Jobs Retires
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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- Click HERE for Interactive Time-line of Jobs
and how he revived Apple and remade entire
industries, defying the worst economic conditions
since the Great Depression --
and his own serious health problems.

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1955 - 2011

"Remembering that you are going to die,
is the best way I know to avoid the
trap of thinking that you have
something to lose."
          ~ Steve Jobs
















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"I'm not drivin' the trucks - I'm just loadin' 'em."
~ Unknowen

This Is By The Way The Universal Answer To Any Question
You Get Asked And Don't Know The Answer To!





Tyler Bradt

"Cause It's There And Cause He Can!"



Tyler Bradt (born June 2, 1986) is an American
professional whitewater kayaker who holds the
unofficial world record for the highest waterfall
successfully run in a kayak. In 2007 Tyler ran the
107-foot (33 m) Alexandra Falls on the Hay River
in the Northwest Territories. This record was
broken by a Brazilian kayaker, Pedro Oliveira,
when he ran a 127-foot 39m) falls in Brazil,
breaking Tyler Bradt’s former 107-foot record
by 20 feet. On April 21, 2009, just a month after
Oliveira set a new world record, Bradt successfully
took back the record when he kayaked the
186-foot (57 m) Palouse Falls in Eastern
Washington. This drop was re-measured at
189 ft. A few feet taller than we had previously
thought. Tyler had smashed the world record
by 62 feet! The freefall lasted approximately
four seconds. Bradt suffered only minor injuries
from this record feat. His media agent
released the photographs and video footage
of him dropping over the falls to Sports Illustrated,
which carried a video of the plunge on their website.
The May 18, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated
included the first published photo of Bradt's
world record descent. Tyler Bradt and
kayaker/filmmaker Rush Sturges included
footage of the plunge in their 2010 film Dream Result,
which they collaborated on and released in 2010.


































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Kim Peek

"For Redefining Think Different &
       For Having The Best Memory Ever! "

"Laurence Kim Peek" (November 11, 1951 –
December 19, 2009) was an American savant.
Known as a"megasavant", he was confounding
mixture of disability and brilliance. Gifted with
the worlds best memory, he was also burdened
with social awkwardness and the inability to perform
even simple activities of daily living, such as combing
his hair or brushing his teeth, without assistance.
He was the inspiration for the character of
Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman in
the movie Rain Man. Unlike Babbitt,
Peek had FG syndrome.


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Peek was born in Salt Lake City, Utah with acrocephaly
damage to the cerebellum, and agenesis of the corpus callosum, a condition in which the bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain is missing;
in Peek's case, secondary connectors such as the
anterior commissure were also missing. There is
speculation that his neurons made unusual connections
due to the absence of a corpus callosum, which
resulted in an increased memory capacity. Peek
did not walk until the age of four and then in a
sidelong manner. He could not button up his shirt
and had difficulty with other ordinary motor skills,
presumably due to his damaged cerebellum,
which normally coordinates motor activities.
In psychological testing, Peek scored below
average (87) on general IQ tests. But, according
to Peek's father, Fran Peek, Kim was able to
memorize things from the age of 16–20 months.
He read books, memorized them, and then placed
them upside down on the shelf to show that he had
finished reading them, a practice he maintained
throughout life.. He could speed through a book in
about an hour and remember almost everything he
had read, memorizing vast amounts of information in
subjects ranging from history and literature, geography
and numbers to sports, music and dates. According to an
article in the Times newspaper, he could accurately
recall the contents of at least 12,000 books.

But perhaps the most stunning feature
of Kim's reading abilities was the fact that,
because his two hemispheres functioned
independently, Kim would read two pages
simultaneously - reading the left page
with his left eye and the right page
with his right eye, remembering nearly
everything he read - all 12,000 volumes!

And that my friends is truly crazy!






















Inside The Mind Of A Mega-Savant



Kim Peek A Real "Kimputer".

"I think this is probably my personal favorite thus far!"

You see, if you try hard enough, you could pull off
most, if not all of the things on thes pages, at least to
some extent. But Kim Peek wrote new rules on the
meaning of think different, doing something that
no other person on the planet could have done, no
matter how hard they practice or train or work, or
try - not matter how crazy they are.

Kim Peek could do what no other person on the
plant could even come close to - even though born
with severe brain abnormalities that impaired his
physical coordination and made ordinary reasoning
difficult. He couldn't button a shirt or brush his
teeth or even operate a light switch without help.
He found metaphoric language incomprehensible
and conceptualization baffling. Mr. Peek was not
retarded or autistic — not all savants are autistic
and not all autistics are savants. He was however
compensated with an astonishing skill that allowed
him to read facing pages of a book at once —
one with each eye — he read as many as
12,000 volumes. Even more remarkable, he
could remember almost everything that he had read.

To date, almost all documented savants — people with
an extraordinary depth of knowledge and the ability to
recall it — have been restricted in their expertise to
specific fields like mathematics, chess, art or music.
But Mr. Peek had a wide range of interests and could
instantly answer the most arcane questions on subjects
as diverse as history, sports, music, geography and
movies. “He was the Mount Everest of memory,”
Dr. Darold A. Treffert, an expert on savants who
knew Mr. Peek for 20 years, said in an interview.

Mr. Peek had memorized so many Shakespearean
plays and musical compositions and was such a stickler
for accuracy, his father said, that they had to stop
attending performances because he would stand
up and correct the actors or the musicians.
“He’d stand up and say: ‘Wait a minute!
The trombone is two notes off,’ ”










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In 1984, screenwriter Barry Morrow met Peek in Arlington, Texas and the result of the meeting was the 1988 movie Rain Man. The character of Raymond Babbitt, although inspired by Peek, was portrayed as having autism. Dustin Hoffman, who played Babbitt, met Peek and other savants to get an understanding of their nature and to play the role accurately and methodically. The movie caused a number of requests for appearances, which increased Peek's self-confidence. Barry Morrow gave Kim his Oscar statuette to carry with him and show at these appearances; it has since been referred to as the "Most Loved Oscar Statue" as it has been held by more people than any other. Kim also enjoyed approaching strangers and showing them his talent for calendar calculations by telling them on which day of the week they were born and what news items were on the front page of major newspapers. Peek also appeared on television. He traveled with his father, who took care of him and performed many motor tasks that Peek found difficult.



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John Stephen Akhwari

"For The Greatest Last Place Finish Ever!"
           - The 1968 Olympic Marathon


In the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games, a young
African runner from Tanzania, named John Stephen Akhwari,
would compete in the last event of the games - the 26 mile,
385 yard marathon. Although he would ultimately finish
last, nearly an hour behind the rest of the runners, he would nonetheless finish the race and in doing so deliver a
finish that will be remembered long after the winner
has been forgotten. Early in the race he suffered a bad
a fall but he got up and kept running. Now running on
a badly injured leg, and knowing full well that he
was out of the competition, a voice called from within
to go on, and so he went on. The other runners would
reach the finish line nearly an hour before Akhwari.
When Akhwari did finally approach the stadium, it was
nearly empty. As he entered the stadium the meager
crowd rose to their feet and began cheering.
Photographers scrambled to set up cameras they
had long stowed away, barely managing to capture
one of the greatest finishes in Olympics history.

Afterwards, it was written, "Today we have seen the
young African runner who symbolizes the finest in the
human spirit. A performance that gives true dignity to sport.
A performance that lifts sport out of the category of grown
men playing at games. A performance that gives meaning
to the word courage. All honor to John Stephen Akhwari
of Tanzania. Perhaps the words of John Stephen Akhwari
epitomize all that is right in the human spirit.
When asked why he did not quit, he said simply . . .

'My country did not send 5000 miles to start the race,
they sent me 5000 miles to Finish the race!'



































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Arthur C. Guyton, M.D.

"For Being a Crazy Good Father!"
He did all of this in spite of significant disabilities!


"Arthur C. Guyton, MD ((September 8, 1919 – April 3, 2003))
was an American physiologist who later became Dean of the University of Mississippi Medical School. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi, to Dr. Billy S. Guyton, a highly respected eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist, and Kate Smallwood Guyton, a mathematics and physics teacher who had been a
missionary in China before marriage.

Guyton received his undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi and then served in the Navy in World War II. After the war, he moved on to Harvard Medical School. From there he moved on to a Cardiothoracic surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1946, in the final year of his residency he contracted polio. Guyton turned to teaching and research after contracting polio in 1946 in his surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Suffering paralysis in his right leg, left arm and both shoulders, he spent nine months in Warm Springs, Ga., before returning home to Mississippi to join the faculty of the medical school at the University of Mississippi. In spite of the need for crutches and a wheelchair he took up teaching. A composite of his lecture notes would eventually lead the the first edition of his now world renowned Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology. This book would became a household name in every field of medicine including medical, nursing and allied health. Guyton's obituary states "unlike most major textbooks, which often have as many as 10-20 authors", the first eight editions "were written entirely by Guyton with a new edition always arriving on schedule for nearly 40 years. From the ninth edition onwards,
John E. Hall co-authored the textbook. However, all prior editions were written entirely by Guyton, with the eighth edition published in 1991. Subsequent editions, including the latest, preserve his legacy within the title, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology. This feat is unprecedented for any physiology or medical text. His textbook is unique in the history of medical publishing"and is the world's best-selling physiology book that has been translated into at least 15 languages. Arthur Guyton also made significant research contributions, which include more than 600 papers and 40 books. His work earned him a legendary place among the greatest figures in the history of cardiovascular physiology.

Tragically, Dr. Guyton would perish in an automobile accident near his home in Jackson, Miss., on April 3, 2003. He was 83 years old. His wife of 59 years, Ruth, was injured in the
crash and died on Thursday at the University of
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Now For The Crazy Part

Dr. Guyton and his wife would have 10 children. ALL 10 of them
would graduate from HARVARD. ALL 10 of them would become physicians. Eight of them, all the boys, would graduate from HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. Catherine Greenberger received her Medical Degree from the University of Miami after earning a bachelor's and doctorate in organic chemistry from Harvard, and Jean Gispen graduated from the Duke University Medical School after finishing her undergraduate work at Harvard.
That is just Crazy. How would you like to
pay those tuition bills?


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THE GUYTON FAMILY

David L. Guyton, M.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine

Robert A. Guyton, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Cardiothoracic Division,
Emory University, School of Medicine

John R. Guyton, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Steven W. Guyton, M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle

Cathy Greenberger, M.D.
Internist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jean Gispen, M.D.
Rheumatologist in Oxford, Mississippi

Douglas C. Guyton, M.D.
Anesthesiologist in Reno, Nevada

James L. Guyton, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgeon at Campbell's Clinic in Memphis, Tenn.

Thomas S. Guyton, M.D.
Anesthesiologist in Memphis

Gregory P. Guyton, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgeon in Baltimore, Md.










Faith Dickey

"For Being Good At Being Crazy!"

'Faith Dickey' (23 years-old) began slacklining with the
same ambitions as most, just to cross between two trees
in the park. Little did she know that these humble beginnings would turn into a passionate lifestyle where the pursuit of balance was at the forefront. After one year of slacklining
in the USA, she traveled to Europe and began the more
extreme aspects of the sport, Longline and Highline.
Longlining invokes extended focus-time, endurance
and control despite the elements. th keep your keep
your mind focus on one feat for such a long time
is a new challenge for the human mind. Faith's current
Longline best and the female World Record is 22m (728ft). Faith's ambitions as a highliner were humble in the
beginning, however Highlining took everything she
thought she knew about fear and threw it into the sky.
To stand on a one inch webbing stretched across
a void, with all exposure penetrating ones vision and
unhinging your brain, every iota of your of your being
is telling not to be there. this is fear and each step
across that line pushes it slowly away. Faith broke
the original female world record within 4 months
of Highlining, and has since set the female world
record for Highlining length at 81m (266ft); record for
height int the Swiss Alps at 1200m (4000ft) from the
valley. She continually breaks her own records to set
new ones. She had an extensive free solo (walking
with no security) record, the longest of which is
26m (85ft). Free solo continues to be a major focus
for Faith, as the feeling of walking a Highline with no
security or safety line is the ultimate experience in
mind and body control. In addition, she aims to
continue establishing new lines around the world,
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walking along a slackline strung between two sandstone
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Magnus Carlsen

"For Being Crazy Smart !"

 


'Sven Magnus Øen Carlen (born 30 November 1990)
is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess
prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked
player in the world. In January 2010 he became the
seventh player in history to be ranked number one
in the world on the official FIDE rating list. His peak
rating is 2837, the second highest in history,
after Garry Kasparov. On 26 April 2004 Carlsen
became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years,
148 days, making him the third-youngest Grandmaster
in history. On 1 January 2010 the new FIDE rating
list was published, and at the age of 19 years, 32 days,
he became the youngest chess player in history
to be ranked world number one, breaking the
record previously held by Vladimir Kramnik.
Carlsen was also the 2009 World blitz chess
champion. His performance at the September-
October 2009 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament
has been described as one of the greatest in
history and lifted him to an Elo rating of 2801,
making him the fifth player to achieve a rating over
2800 – and aged 18 years 10 months at the time,
by far the youngest to do so. Based on his rating,
Carlsen qualified for the Candidates Tournament
which determined the challenger to World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship
2012. In November 2010, however, he announced
he was withdrawing from the Candidates tournament.


Next to his chess activities, world's number one,
Magnus Carlsen has started a fashion model career.
The 22-year-old Norwegian is contracted by international clothing brand G-Star. In a campain launched in
Berlin, Carlsen stared together with world
famous actress Liv Tyler.

























 









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