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After the Notre Dame years, Ruettiger became a motivational speaker, giving talks to school-age children, university students, and professional athletes. He has also published the books “Rudy’s Insights for Winning in Life,” “Rudy’s Lessons for Young Champions,” “Rudy & Friends,” and “Rudy: My Story.” Ruettiger set up The Rudy Foundation, a non-for-profit organization that helps develop programs that have a positive impact on children’s lives. The organization created the Rudy Award, which recognizes the achievements of high school and college football players....

Fregin co-founded RIM in 1984 with his childhood friend Mike Lazaridis. In 2008, at the peak of BlackBerry’s success, both Doug and Mike were multi-billionaires. At the company’s all-time peak market cap, RIM was worth $85 billion. At that point Mike was worth $3.8 billion and Doug was worth $2 billion. Unfortunately for Doug and Mike, the introduction of the iPhone eviscerated BlackBerry as a product and RIM as a company....

She also wrote “Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now” and “Notes on a Life”, which is her personal memoir. She worked as a cinematographer on 2006’s “A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now”, “Heard Any Good Movies Lately? The Sound Designs of Apocalypse Now”, “The Birth of 5.1 Sound”, and “The Music of Apocalypse Now”. She also directed “The Making of ‘Marie Antoinette’”, “Francis Ford Coppola Directs ‘John Grisham The Rainmaker’”, and “Coda: Thirty Years Later”....

Early Life Erivan Haub was born Erivan Karl Matthias Haub on September 29, 1932, in Wiesbaden, Germany. Erivan was the son of Elisabeth Schmitz-Scholl and Erich Haub. The Schmitz-Scholl family owned the Tengelmann grocery chain. Haub earned an Economics degree from the University of Hamburg, and he completed two internships in the USA prior to his graduation, at Chicago’s Jewel Tea company and La Habra, California’s Alpha-Beta company. Career After college, Haub and his wife, Helga, moved to the U....

Cline has appeared in episodes of the TV series Game On!, Ain’t It Cool with Harry Knowles, and Today. He has also appeared in the documentaries Video Games: The Movie, Atari: Game Over, Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, and Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary. Cline performed his original work and was the Austin Poetry Slam Champ in both 1998 and 2001. He also wrote the film Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League in 1996 which was made available on the internet....

The Mayweather/Nasukawa fight was scheduled to be up to three rounds under boxing rules, but Mayweather only required one to take Nasukawa out. Less than one, actually, since with 48 seconds left to go in the first Nasukawa’s manager saw the writing on the wall and threw in the towel, pulling his fighter out of a match in which he was clearly outweighed, outmatched, and outfought by the more experienced and seemingly more powerful Mayweather....

Tupac actually spent part of his teen years in Marin County attending Tamalpais High School. From his apartment in an area called Marin City, Tupac’s view looked directly out at a town called Tiburon. In my opinion, Tiburon is where you want to live after you sell your company for a billion dollars. Sure, you could buy a house down in Silicon Valley or even Los Angeles, but only Tiburon allows you to live in a ridiculous mansion that has a private beach and unobstructed views of the Golden Gate bridge while also being just a 30 minute ferry ride to San Francisco or a 30 minute drive to Napa....

He is best known for being the founder of the website Media Take Out which is a gossip website about celebrities. Media Take Out calls itself “The Most Visited Urban Website in the World”. The website has broken stories including Kim Kardashian’s first pregnancy and Michael Jordan’s divorce.

Sony reportedly paid around $1.2 billion for the Queen catalog and image rights, in a deal that is among the biggest such sales in a music business climate that has produced a lot of them in recent years. The deal also includes revenue from Queen merchandise, the smash hit 2018 film “Bohemian Rhapsody” based on Mercury’s life, as well as any future Queen projects, and Austin’s share is said to be nearly $240 million in US dollars....

Early Life Gareth Emery was born Gareth Thomas Rhys Emery on July 18, 1980, in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Gareth’s sister, Roxanne, is a singer-songwriter who goes by the stage name RØRY, and his mother, Linda Angela Teresa Emery, died of cancer. Emery moved to Manchester when he was 26, and he had a studio there and ran a record label and a nightclub that were both named Garuda. Gareth earned a Politics degree from the University of Warwick, and he is a classically trained pianist....

Early Life Giorgio Armani was born on July 11, 1934, in the northern town of Piacenza in Italy. Armani’s family was from humble beginnings, experiencing the hardships of World War II firsthand. Giorgio was raised with his older brother, Sergio, and younger sister, Rosanna, by his mother, Maria Raimondi, and his father, Ugo Armani. He attended secondary school at the Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan. At an early age, Armani developed an interest in anatomy, “…making dolls out of mud with a coffee bean hidden inside,” he told “The Guardian” newspaper....

Early Life Harry Wayne Huizenga was born on December 29, 1937, in Evergreen Park, Illinois. His grandfather moved to the United States from the Netherlands. His father, Gerrit, worked as a cabinet maker, while his mother, Jean, worked as a home decorator. He was raised in a Dutch community in Chicago and the family were strict Dutch Reformed Christians. He grew up with his younger sister, Bonnie, and attended Chicago Christian High School until his sophomore year when the family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida....

Fortunately, in 1992, NBA players could participate in the Olympics for the first time. And boy, did America put together an amazing team. The Dream Team stormed through Barcelona, reclaiming the gold medal with the most dominating performance in Olympic history. They defeated Croatia in the final 117-85, and that was the smallest margin of victory for the team during their run. They defeated opponents by an average of 44 points....

To re-cap (just in case you just woke up from a two week coma): On May 8, the Wall Street Journal confirmed rumors that Apple would be acquiring headphone maker Beats By Dre for $3.2 billion. The specifics of the deal were not detailed but the official announcement from Apple was expected to come three days later, on Monday May 12. At that acquisition price, company founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, who each owned a 25% stake, would each be $800 million richer before taxes....

Park dropped out of Harvard University and worked for a year at Morgan Stanley. He was a founding engineer at software company Epesi Technologies which he co-founded. In 2002 Friedman and Park started the digital photo sharing service Windup Labs and then sold it to CNET in 2015. Friedman stayed on and led a team of engineers before he left to start Fitbit.

He created, wrote for, and produced the TV series Criminal Minds beginning in 2005. Jeff Davis has also worked on episodes of the TV series Let the Right One In, War of the Worlds, and Teen Wolf: Search for a Cure. He earned his master’s degree from the University of Southern California and worked as a script reader and editorial assistant as well as a computer support specialist and writer for computer software manuals....

Dykstra has worked in the visual effects department for the movies Silent Running, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Caddyshack, Invaders from Mars, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Spontaneous Combustion, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Stuart Little, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Hancock, Inglourious Basterds, X-Men: First Class, Django Unchained, Godzilla, Seventh Son, The Hateful Eight, and X-Men: Apocalypse. Dykstra won a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy Awards in 1978 and won another for Spider-Man 2 in 2005....

His company currently produces candles, home décor, bath accessories, handbags, lighting, and more. He also studied ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently married to his partner of fourteen years, Simon Doonan. Adler is a known gay rights advocate.

She has appeared in episodes of the TV series Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, The Unknown, Castle, Where Would We Be, and Mob City. Kate Siegel wrote the 2016 film Hush. She has also starred in several shorts including Knocked Down, Puke in My Mouth, The Collector, Dead Room: Origins, The Program, and Wine Jabs. Siegel has been nominated for Best Actress for Hush at the BloodGuts UK Horror Awards, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Fright Meter Awards, and iHorror Awards....