Alia Sabur youngest college prof

Alia Sabur became the youngest college professor at 18.  Sabur began college at age 10 and at 14 became the youngest female in history to obtain a college degree. Her education did not stop there however as she continued her post graduate studies at Drexel in materials science and engineering. Three days before she turned 19 she was hired to teach at a college in South Korea.

On top of her unprecedented academic achievements, Sabur has a black belt in the Korean martial art of tae kwon do and is also a music prodigy. She has been playing clarinet with orchestras since her solo debut at age 11, playing with recording artists Lang Lang and Smash Mouth.

Man wanders world for 18 years

Harry Lee Mcginnis has been on a Forest Bound like cross country trip for the last 18 years; except he’s been all over the world. He has walked the US, Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America carrying only a 100 pound backpack and a steel walking stick.

Mcginnis tries to only travel by foot but does take other transportation occasionally. His official country count is at 66, and he says the adventure has afforded him new tastes such as roasted termites. He plans on continuing his walking until 2010 or 2012, writing a book about all of the adventures and playing tennis at the age of 100.

Quite the strange one indeed.

You can view his official website, which includes a far more indepth biography, as well as a Q and A session at Http://www.hawkwalk.com

Bobby Knight

Bob Knight is one of the most entertaining coaches in any sport of all time. From his smart ass comments, to his dedicated work ethic, to his uncontrollable temper tantrums, he is quite the entertainer on and off the court.

Knight was born in 1940 in Massilon, Ohio and earned the nickname “the general” from his militaristic approach to the sport of college basketball.  Knight has coached at the United Stated Military Academy, Indiana University, and most recently Texas Tech, and is also the winningest coach of all time in Division I basketball.

However what sets Bob apart from the rest is his wide display of emotions while coaching on the court. He has been fined and sanctioned numerous times by the NCAA, thrown a chair across the court and even been arrested for assault as well as threatening members of the press. Knight went to The Ohio State University (my alma matter) where he graduated in 1962 while a member of the men’s basketball star among legends Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek.

Knight was quite successful at Indiana, however a string of events led to his eventual departure following an alleged grabbing of a students arm for disrespect as well as several other events that happened after IU enacted the zero tolerance policy on Knight’s behavior. He is still widely respected among IU fans.

Here are a list of alleged controversies Knight has been involved with courtesy of wikipedia.

• In 1979, Knight was arrested for assaulting a police officer during the Pan American Games in Puerto Rico. Knight was angry that a practice gymnasium was not opened to his team, which went on to a 9-0 record in the tournament. Knight was later convicted in absentia in a Puerto Rican court. However, the charges were later dropped when Indiana Governor Otis R. Bowen refused to cooperate in extraditing Knight to the island commonwealth.^[25]

• In 1985, Knight threw a chair across the court to protest a referee’s call during a game against the rival Purdue Boilermakers.^[26] Knight was suspended for one game and received two years’ probation from the Big Ten Conference.

• Women’s groups nationwide were outraged by Knight’s comments during an April, 1988 interview with Connie Chung in which he said, “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”^[27] Knight’s comment was in reference to an Indiana basketball game in which he felt the referees were making poor calls against the Hoosiers.

• Knight allegedly kicked his own son, Pat Knight, during a 1993 game (Knight claims he actually kicked a chair).^[25]

• Knight was shown berating an NCAA volunteer at a 1995 post-game press conference following a 65-60 loss to Missouri in the first round of the NCAA tournament held in Boise, Idaho. The volunteer, Rance Pugmire, informed the press that Knight would not be attending the press conference, when in reality, Knight was running a few minutes late and had planned on attending per NCAA rules. Knight was shown saying: “You’ve only got two people that are going to tell you I’m not going to be here. One is our SID (sports information director), and the other is me. Who the hell told you I wasn’t going to be here? I’d like to know. Do you have any idea who it was?…Who?…They were from Indiana, right?…No, they weren’t from Indiana, and you didn’t get it from anybody from Indiana, did you?…No, I—I’ll handle this the way I want to handle it now that I’m here. You (EXPLETIVE) it up to begin with. Now just sit there or leave. I don’t give (EXPLETIVE) what you do. Now back to the game.”^[28]

• In February 2004, Knight made national headlines when he had an argument with then Texas Tech University Chancellor David Smith at a Lubbock supermarket.^[29]

• In March 2006, a student’s heckling at Baylor University resulted in Knight having to be restrained by a police officer. The incident was not severe enough to warrant any action from the Big 12 Conference.^[30]

• On November 13, 2006, Knight was shown allegedly hitting player Michael Prince under the chin to get him to make eye contact. Although Knight didn’t comment on the incident afterwards and as of yet hasn’t done so, Prince, his parents, and Texas Tech Athletic Director Gerald Myers insisted that Knight did nothing wrong and that he merely lifted Prince’s chin and told him “Hold your head up and don’t worry about mistakes. Just play the game.” Prince commented, “He was trying to teach me and I had my head down so he raised my chin up. He was telling me to go out there and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. He said I was being too hard on myself.”^[25]

• On October 21, 2007, James Simpson of Lubbock, Texas, accused Knight of firing a shotgun in his direction after he yelled at Knight and another man for hunting too close to his home.^[31] Knight denied the allegations. An argument between the two men was recorded via camera phone and aired later on television.^[32]

Also I have collected a few interesting videos of Bob Knight off of Youtube.

Bob Knight Golf Video Outtakes (Hilarious)

Random Knight Quotes

Knight Losing Temper

Police love hookers

A policeman in London was recently fired after being sent to investigate a local brothel, and winding up as one of their customers. According to the article the police officer engaged in the sexual activity in December 2005, so how did they discover this just now, over two years later?

The officer was sent to investigate the alleged brothel for suspicious activities and he apparently didn’t know wear to draw the line between work and play.

As the always say, all work and no play make jack a dull boy

but all play and no work, make jack a mere toy, a sex toy that is…..

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Man hypnotizes self before op

Alex Lenkei chose to use the mind instead of drugs as anesthetic. Using self hypnosis Alex claims he was able to block out all of the pain from the surgery while being fully aware. The surgeon David Llewelyn-Clark had no qualms over the unusual request.

However, before you try this on yourself from some internet self help book, Lenkei has been a registered hypnotist since age 16. Throughout the surgery Lenkei said he felt deeply relaxed and there was a anasthesiologist on hand the entire time in case Lenkei’s plan did not go as well as he intended.

Wow. now only if UFC fighters could do this.

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real life macguyver’s

Cracked.com posted an interesting article that detailed some of the most unbelievable Macguyver like  solutions imaginable. They include a WWII soldier that copied a map with Jello, Astronauts building a airscrubber with space junk, a scientist who made a breakthrough with Shrinky dinks, and two stories of prison escape; one by way of dental floss, the other via raincoats.

The spacecraft crew worked 1.5 days without sleep in order to construct a air-scrubber which was held together with random junk and duct-tape in order to survive when Nasa miscalculated oxygen needs for two members instead of three. (Rocket scientists eh)

The Scientist had been studying microfluidics (fluids on the microscopic scale) and was strapped for materials so she used the SlinkyDinks and based the design off of the pattern of the platic.

Three inmates escaped the world famous Alcatraz prison relying only on a lifeboat made out of raincoats. They made a drill out of a vacuum cleaner motor to drill through the prison walls, and made dummy heads out of toilet paper and soap so that they would appear to be in their respective beds. Supposedly one of the inmates had spent his entire life in and out of prison and possessed an extremely high IQ. The inmates constructed a raft out of 50 raincoats either stolen or borrowed from their time spent in prison. The three were never found.

In the second prison escape story Vincenzo Curcio used dental floss to saw through the metal bars in his prison cell. In the same year Antonio Lara also escaped by using the same method, although he only made it out of his cell to kill another inmate, not escape from prison.

Finally, the  WWII pilot copied a map using jello which they pressed onto the map, and then pressed the jello onto a sheet of clear greaseproof paper. They used to Jello to copy over thirty maps without raising the suspicion of the enemy because the maps remained intact.

You can read the whole story here.

mind coach accused in teen rape

Carmine Edmund Baffa is a mind coach who claims to be able to hypnotize people and conducts life seminars around Georgia. However, it appears he is using his mind powers for all the wrong purposes. Cops are accuring Baffa of child abuse, rape, and fraud in connection with private sessions with two teens at his former home.  A 13 year old and 19 year old both claimed that Baffa raped them

Michael Wallace, who maintains the website www.manifestation.com visisted Baffa’s home in connection with his hypnotic claims and describes one weekend in detail. “The weekend is a blur to me,” he wrote. “My blood was rushing, I couldn’t stop smiling and I could almost feel my brain cells rearranging themselves.”

This just goes to show why I have never, nor ever plan to let anyone hypnotize me.

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Article on Baffa from manifestation.com

Man raises lion in garden

Apparently a Romanian man was discovered to have been raising a lion in his garden. At first his neighbors did not report the man until the roaring became too much to bear.  The story gets more interesting as authorities also discovered two deer, a stag, and two peacocks as well. The man faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

My question is, did he plan on feeding the animals to the lion? Or was he teasing it?

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Woman that lives with hundreds of rats and snakes

Authorities discovered a woman in Washington that apparently was living with hundreds of rats and four snakes. The woman was reported over a month ago but aparently was reluctant to cooperate with officials. The woman called the rats “her friends” When authorities finally entered the home they found the floor covered with rat shit and soaked in urine. The woman aparently bought a few rats to feed the snakes but they escaped and the situation got out of control fast.

I’m wondering, how is there a house full of rats, with 4 boas and they don’t eat them?

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Boy gets knife stuck in head

11 year old Tyler Hemmert from Vancouver recently had a butter knife lodged in his skull. That’s right, a butter knife. Another boy threw the knife at the boy during an argument and the knife became lodged. His father was notified and the father decided not to pull the knife out because of seeing similar situations on medical television shows.

A cat scan revealed that the knife had only became lodged underneath the scalp and had not penetrated the boys skull. The knife was removed and the boy left the hospital with only five stitches. The incident earned the boy the nickname “butterhead”. Local authorities have not yet decided whether or not to file a charges against the boy who threw the knife.

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