by tyler | Mar 19, 2024 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft.
Birth date: March 24, 1956
Birth place: Detroit, Michigan
Birth name: Steven Anthony Ballmer
Father: Fred Ballmer, manager for Ford Motor Co.
Mother: Bea (Dworkin) Ballmer
Marriage: Connie Snyder (1990-present)
Children: three sons
Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1977, double major in Mathematics and Economics; Attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1979-1980
Became friends with Bill Gates while at Harvard University.
Worked for Procter & Gamble as assistant product manager before Microsoft.
Met his wife, Connie Snyder, while both were working at Microsoft.
1980 – Begins his Microsoft career as a business manager and is the company’s 24th employee.
July 1998-February 2001 – President of Microsoft.
January 13, 2000 – Is named chief executive officer when Gates steps down to concentrate on philanthropy.
February 4, 2014 – Steps down as Microsoft CEO.
May 29, 2014 – Ballmer signs a binding agreement to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion from the Sterling family trust.
August 12, 2014 – Ballmer becomes the official owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, according to Ballmer’s attorney, Adam Streisand. The negotiated $2 billion sale price is a record at the time for an NBA team.
August 19, 2014 – Steps down from the Microsoft board of directors in order to concentrate on the Clippers.
October 16, 2015 – Announces he has bought a 4% stake in Twitter during the past few months, becoming one of its largest shareholders.
2015 – The Ballmers found the Ballmer Group, a philanthropic organization focusing on civic activism and economic mobility.
June 4, 2016 – Along with Brandt Vaughan, founds USAFacts Institute. Ballmer later describes the work of the institute as creating a “10-K for the government,” according to a Bloomberg interview.
March 1, 2022 – The University of Oregon launches The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health. The institute is founded through a $425 million donation from the Ballmers.
October 19, 2022 – The Ballmers announce they will invest $400 million with organizations focused on Black-owned businesses. The organizations are Fairview Capital, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, GCM Grosvenor and Ariel Alternatives’ Project Black.
March 7, 2024 – Announces the formation of an umbrella brand called Halo Sports and Entertainment that includes the LA Clippers, their G-League affiliate team, Intuit Dome and KIA Forum.
by tyler | Mar 19, 2024 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.
Birth date: April 1, 1955
Birth place: Lapeer County, Michigan
Birth name: Terry Lynn Nichols
Father: Robert Nichols, farmer
Mother: Joyce Nichols
Marriages: Marife (Torres) Nichols (1990-2003, divorced); Lana (Osentoski) Nichols (1981-1989, divorced)
Children: with Marife Nichols: Christian and Nicole; with Lana Nichols: Joshua
Education: Attended Central Michigan University
Military service: US Army, 1988-1989
The FBI accused Nichols of helping build the bomb and arrange a getaway car for Timothy McVeigh after the bombing.
Nichols’ defense attorneys painted Nichols as a family man who had little to do with the bombing.
Nichols was not in Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing but was at home in Kansas. Prosecutors said Nichols helped McVeigh make the bomb the day before.
Nichols and McVeigh shared a fondness for guns, interest in survivalist training and a distrust of the US government.
Nichols learned how to mix fuel and fertilizer to make bombs while growing up on a farm. His father, a farmer, used such bombs to blow up tree stumps.
Nichols’ wife Marife complained at Nichols’ trial of being jealous of her husband’s close relationship with McVeigh.
May 24, 1988 – Enlists in the Army at the age of 33.
1988 – Meets McVeigh while in basic training at Fort Benning.
May 1989 – Is given a hardship discharge so he can go home to take care of his son Joshua.
Fall 1993 – McVeigh lives with the Nichols brothers, Terry and James, in their farmhouse.
March 1994 – Takes a job as a farmhand in Kansas.
Fall 1994 – Quits his job as a farmhand to go into business with McVeigh, selling guns and military surplus.
October 1994 – Along with McVeigh, steals blasting caps and other explosives materials from a quarry in Kansas.
November 5, 1994 – Reportedly robs Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore to finance the purchase of bomb materials.
November 1994-January 1995 – Makes a trip to the Philippines where his wife Marife and daughter Nicole are living. Before leaving on the trip, Nichols gives his ex-wife Lana letters and instructions for McVeigh, which are to be read if he doesn’t return from the Philippines.
April 19, 1995 – A bomb explodes at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
April 21, 1995 – Nichols surrenders to Kansas police when he hears they are looking for him.
December 23, 1997 – Is found guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and on eight counts of involuntary manslaughter.
June 4, 1998 – Federal Judge Richard Matsch sentences Nichols to life in prison without parole after the federal jury is unable to decide on the death penalty or a life sentence.
September 13, 1999 – A federal judge rejects Nichols’ request for a new federal trial.
September 5, 2001 – The Oklahoma County District Attorney announces that Nichols will face a state trial for his role in the bombing. District Attorney C. Wesley Lane says he is going forward with the trial because he is concerned the federal conviction will be overturned.
March 22, 2004 – Nichols’ state trial opens.
April 20, 2004 – Michael Fortier testifies that McVeigh asked him to help build the bomb because “Terry was backing out.” Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison as part of a plea deal for testifying against McVeigh and Nichols.
May 26, 2004 – Nichols is found guilty in Oklahoma state court on 161 counts of murder. The jury spent five hours deliberating before announcing the verdict.
June 11, 2004 – The jury in Nichols’ state trial says it is deadlocked over a sentence of life in prison or death by lethal injection.
August 9, 2004 – District Judge Steven Taylor sentences Nichols to 161 consecutive life terms, without the possibility of parole.
April 1, 2005 – The FBI finds residual bomb making material in Nichols’ former residence, not detected in previous searches.
May 4, 2005 – In a letter written from his Colorado prison cell, Nichols names Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore as the man who supplied him and McVeigh with bomb components. Moore denies any involvement.
March 16, 2009 – Files a 39-page handwritten lawsuit against the Colorado prison where he is staying for violating his religious and dietary needs. In the lawsuit Nichols requests 100% whole-grain foods, fresh raw vegetables and fruit, a wheat bran supplement and digestive bacteria and enzymes.
February 2010 – Goes on a fast, protesting the processed foods he is being served in prison.
August 12, 2010 – US District Judge Christine M. Arguello dismisses Nichols’ lawsuit over prison food.
November 28, 2011 – Jannie Coverdale, grandmother of two victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, reveals she has been corresponding with Nichols for several years and that he apologized and asked for her forgiveness, which he received. In copies of the letters published in The Oklahoman, Nichols admits he knew there was to be a bombing but didn’t know the federal building was the target and that the building would be occupied.
July 13, 2015 – Nichols files a motion asking the court to force the FBI to turn over approximately 10 firearms, belonging to him, that were seized after the bombings. Nichols suggests in the motion that the FBI turn the guns over to his family so the firearms can be sold to help provide financial support for his children.
April 15, 2016 – Judge Matsch orders the government to destroy the firearms belonging to Nichols, and that the fair market value of $6,922 be applied to his court ordered restitution of $14.5 million.
March 9, 2017 – Evidence from Nichols’ state trial is transferred to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
by tyler | Mar 19, 2024 | CNN, cnn10
March 18, 2024
Today on CNN 10, we give you the latest on the extreme weather conditions seen throughout the country, which included tornadoes ripping through the states of Indiana and Ohio. Next, we head to Thailand where that country is dealing with pollution and air quality problems. Then, we head to a Massachusetts private boarding school that banned the use of smartphones. We learn why this school enforced this ban and get reactions from their students. And before you go, we’ll explain why a beekeeper is creating a lot of buzz on the internet at a tennis match in California! All that and more on this episode of CNN 10.
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CNN 10 serves a growing audience interested in compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom. The show’s priority is to identify stories of international significance and then clearly describe why they’re making news, who is affected, and how the events fit into a complex, international society.
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by tyler | Mar 19, 2024 | CNN, cnn10
March 19, 2024
Today on CNN 10, we travel to Iceland, where evacuations are underway after a volcano erupted for the fourth time in three months. The current eruption is the most powerful yet. Then, we look at the high cost of a conspiracy theory about paper ballots for one Arizona county. And finally, we look at a bracket-style tournament to see which bears nap the best. All that and more on CNN10.
Click here to access the printable version of today’s CNN 10 transcript
CNN 10 serves a growing audience interested in compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom. The show’s priority is to identify stories of international significance and then clearly describe why they’re making news, who is affected, and how the events fit into a complex, international society.
Thank you for using CNN 10
by tyler | Mar 18, 2024 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of award-winning actor William Shatner.
Birth date: March 22, 1931
Birth place: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birth name: William Shatner
Father: Joseph Shatner, business owner
Mother: Ann Shatner
Marriages: Elizabeth (Anderson Martin) Shatner (February 13, 2001-March 3, 2020, divorced); Nerine Kidd (November 15, 1997-August 9, 1999, her death); Marcy Lafferty (October 20, 1973-1996, divorced); Gloria Rand (1956-1969, divorced)
Children: with Gloria Rand: Melanie Ann, Lisabeth Mary and Leslie Carol
Education: McGill University, B.A., Business, 1952
Nominated for seven Emmy Awards and has won two. Was also inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
Nominated for one Grammy Award for a spoken word recording but did not win.
His family is of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.
In the shows “The Practice” and “Boston Legal,” he plays the same character, Denny Crane.
His character, Capt. James T. Kirk, appears in 10 of the 13 Star Trek franchise films. Shatner portrays Kirk in the first seven.
He breeds and owns champion horses.
1954 – Joins the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.
January 1956 – Makes his Broadway debut in “Tamburlaine the Great.”
1958 – “The Brothers Karamazov” premieres, his first major film role.
1963 – Appears in “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.”
1966-1969 – Appears in the lead role of Captain James Tiberius Kirk in “Star Trek.”
November 22, 1968 – The “Star Trek” episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” airs. It is the first interracial kiss shown on television, when Capt. Kirk is forced to kiss Lt. Uhura.
1979 – Stars in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”
1982-1986 – Stars in the police series “T.J. Hooker.”
1989 – Stars in and directs “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.”
1997-2004 – Stars in the legal drama series “The Practice.”
2004 – Wins the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama series for “The Practice.”
2004-2008 – Co-stars in “Boston Legal.”
2005 – Wins the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for “Boston Legal.”
December 14, 2006 – Is inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
2011 – Begins performing a one-man show “Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It.”
2016 – Stars in the NBC reality TV series, “Better Late than Never,” with Terry Bradshaw, George Foreman, and Henry Winkler. The show is about a group of celebrities who travel across Asia with a young guide, comedian Jeff Dye.
March 25, 2016 – Is sued by Peter Sloan for libel and slander. Sloan says that Shatner is his biological father, a claim which Shatner denies. The case is dismissed in June 2018.
October 13, 2021 – Blasts off onboard a New Shepard suborbital spacecraft — the one developed by Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, before parachuting to a landing, making Shatner the oldest person ever to travel to space.
October 4, 2022 – Shatner’s biography, “Boldly Go,” is published.
March 11, 2024 – Shatner publicly discusses his stage 4 melanoma diagnosis and treatment at the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting. He did not disclose when it occurred.
by tyler | Mar 18, 2024 | CNN, world
Here’s a look at the life of world-renowned primatologist, activist and conservationist Jane Goodall.
Birth date: April 3, 1934
Birth place: London, England
Birth name: Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Father: Mortimer Morris-Goodall, businessman
Mother: Margaret Myfanwe (Joseph) Morris-Goodall, a novelist
Marriages: Derek Bryceson (1975-1980, his death); Hugo van Lawick (March 28, 1964-1974, divorced)
Children: with van Lawick: Hugo
Education: Cambridge University, Ph.D. in ethology, 1965
Obtained a doctorate without receiving a bachelor’s or master’s first.
Was the first scientist to give names to her research subjects instead of the conventional practice of assigning them numbers.
Found that chimpanzees engage in warfare with neighboring communities and that chimps are capable of altruism, which they display by adopting unrelated orphaned infants.
First to observe chimps eating meat and making and using tools.
1956 – While working as an assistant in a London film studio, she receives an invitation from a friend to visit her farm in Kenya.
1957 – Arrives in Africa and meets famous archeologist and paleontologist Louis Leakey. He hires her as an assistant and then asks her to study a group of chimpanzees living in Tanzania.
July 1960 – Arrives at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees.
October 1960 – Goodall observes chimpanzees eating meat; they were thought to be vegetarians.
November 1960 – Observes the first recorded instance of chimpanzees making and using tools.
1977 – Founds the Jane Goodall Institute.
1991 – Begins the Roots & Shoots environmental program for young people.
2002 – Designated a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
February 20, 2004 – Is invested as a Dame of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace.
2010 – A documentary film about her life, “Jane’s Journey,” premieres.
March 2013 – Apologizes for plagiarized passages in her book, “Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants,” scheduled to be released in April. The Washington Post first reported on the borrowed passages, saying they came from Wikipedia and other websites.
September 30, 2014 – A new species of orchid is named after Goodall. The Dendrobium goodallianum orchid was collected in Papua New Guinea in 2003.
October 20, 2017 – “Jane,” a documentary about Goodall’s early work with chimps, directed by Brett Morgan, opens.
January 2019 – Announces launch of the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation, “in the hope that we can create an endowment that will enable the programmes I have developed to continue, new ones to be initiated, and so that the fight for the good of the natural world will continue beyond my lifetime.” It is registered in Switzerland.
April 17, 2019 – Is named to the Time 100, the magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world.
May 8, 2020 – In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Goodall says that humanity’s disrespect for nature led to the coronavirus pandemic, saying “we brought this on ourselves.”
May 20, 2021 – Is announced as the winner of the Templeton Prize, an award worth over $1.5 million, that honors “outstanding individuals who have devoted their talents to expanding our vision of human purpose and ultimate reality.”
July 12, 2022 – Mattel Inc announces the release of a new Barbie doll of Goodall, made from recycled plastic, as part of its Inspiring Women Barbie collection.
