Terry Fox - The Famous Canadian Hero

Terry Fox - The Famous Canadian Hero

http://www.terryfox.org/

Name                :   Terrance Stanley Fox
Mother              :   Betty Fox.
Father               :    Rolland Fox
Siblings            :    Two Brothers and One Sister 
Place                 :   Winnipeg, Manitoba
Country            :    Canada
Period               :    Born   :  28th July 1958                  
                          :   Died    :  28th June 1981
Age                   :   22  years
Cause of Death :   Osteogenic Sarcoma (Bone Cancer)
Title-Award       :  Companion of the Order of Canada

Terry Fox was born on July 28, 1958, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Rolland and Betty Fox. Rolland was a switchman for the Canadian National Railway. Terry had an elder brother, Fred, a younger brother, Darrell and a younger sister, Judith.  He was an enthusiastic athlete, playing Soccer, Rugby and Baseball as a child.  His passion was for basketball.  In grade 12, he won his high school's athlete of the year award jointly with his best friend Doug Award.

On November 12, 1976, as Fox was driving home to Port Coquitlam, he became distracted by nearby bridge construction, and crashed into the back of a pickup truck.  While his car was left undriveable, Fox emerged with only a sore right knee. He again felt pain in December, but chose to ignore it until the end of basketball season. By March 1977, the pain had intensified and he finally went to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a form of cancer that often starts near the knees. Fox believed his car accident weakened his knee and left it vulnerable to the disease.  He was told that his leg had to be amputated, he would require chemotherapy treatment, and that recent medical advances meant he had a 50 percent chance of survival. Fox learned that two years before the figure would have been only 15 percent; the improvement in survival rates impressed on him the value of cancer research.

An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with Osteogenic Sarcoma (Bone Cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.  While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.  He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.  It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.

In the summer of 1977, Rick Hansen, working with the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association, invited Fox to try out for his wheelchair basketball team. Although he was undergoing chemotherapy treatments at the time, Fox's energy impressed Hansen.  Less than two months after learning how to play the sport, Fox was named a member of the team for the national championship in Edmonton.  He won three national titles with the team, and was named an all-star by the North American Wheelchair Basketball Association in 1980.

After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran close to 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada's Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario. However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry  passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22 one month before his 23rd birthday. The Marathon of Hope had collected $24.17 million, enough to have met his goal.Terry The Heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, over $650 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.  Since his death, Terry's heroic perseverance is honoured through numerous awards and research grants. Funds have continued to be raised for cancer research as more and more people join in the annual run that Terry began.

 

Fox's story was dramatized in the 1983 biopic The Terry Fox Story. Produced by Home Box Office, the film aired as a television movie in the United States and had a theatrical run in Canada.  The film starred amputee actor Eric Fryer and Robert Duvall, and was the first film made exclusively for pay television.  The Terry Fox Story was nominated for eight Genie Awards, and won five, including Best Picture and Best Actor.

A second movie, titled Terry, focused on the Marathon of Hope, was produced by the CTV Television Network in 2005. Fox was portrayed by Shawn Ashmore. He is not an amputee; digital editing was used to superimpose a prosthesis over his real leg. The film was endorsed by Fox's family, and portrayed his positive attitude.  Canadian National Basketball Association star Steve Nash, who himself was inspired by Fox when he was a child, directed a 2010 documentary Into the Wind, which aired on ESPN as part of its 30 for 30 series.

Every September thousands of people, in 60 different countries, take to the streets to run and to continue the dream of a single man. Who could have inspired such participation and what was his cause? The man was Canadian Terry Fox and the cause was to raise money for cancer research. It began when Terry Fox was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a form of bone cancer. His right leg was amputated six inches above the right knee. Always an athlete, once Terry recovered he resolved to run across Canada with the goal of collecting one dollar for every Canadian. Terry began his "Marathon of Hope" on April 12, 1980 as he dipped his artificial foot in the Atlantic Ocean. He hoped to dip the same foot in the Pacific at the end of his run. However, the grueling pace that Terry set for himself, through rain or shine, was cut short when doctors discovered that cancer had spread to his lungs.

Honours

September 18, 1980 - Governor General Edward Schreyer presents Terry Fox with the Companion of the Order of Canada. He is the youngest recipient of the award.

December 18, 1980 - Sports editors present Terry with the Lou Marsh Awardfor his outstanding athletic accomplishment.

December 23, 1980 - The editors of Canadian Press member newspapers and the radio and television stations vote Terry, Canadian of the Year.

June 6, 1981 - Simon Fraser University awards Terry the first annual Terry Fox Gold Medal. It is awarded annually to a student showing courage in the face of adversity, as exemplified by Terry Fox, himself, a former student of the university.

July 17, 1981 - British Columbia designates a 2,639-metre (8,658-foot) peak in the Rocky Mountains as Mount Terry Fox.

July 30, 1981 - The 83-kilometre (52-mile) section of the Trans-Canada Highway, between Thunder Bay and Nipigon, is re-named Terry Fox Courage Highway.

July 30, 1981 - The Canadian government creates a $5 million endowment fund to provide scholarships each year called the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award.

August 29, 1981 - Terry is inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

April 13, 1982/Jan 17, 2000 - A Terry Fox Stamp is issued by Canada Post; prior to this no commemorative stamp had been issued until 10 years after the death of the honouree.

June 26, 1982 - The Thunder Bay Monument, a 2.7-metre (9-foot) bronze statue of Terry, is unveiled at Terry Fox  lookout west of Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is re-dedicated in Ottawa in 1998 and is part of the Path of Heroes.

June 30, 1999 - Terry Fox is voted Canada’s Greatest Heroin a national survey.

July 1, 1998 - The Terry Fox Monumentis re-dedicated in Ottawa, ON and is now part of the ‘Path of Heroes’.

January 27, 2003 - Time Magazine includes Terry in a story called Canada’s Best.

March 14, 2005 - The Terry Fox one dollar coinis unveiled. Terry is the first Canadian to be featured on a circulation coin.

April 12, 2005 - “Terry”, a pictorial book by Doug Coupland, debuts at #1 on the Canadian bestseller list.

September, 2005 - Terry Fox statuesin Port Coquitlam, Victoria, and Prince George, British Columbia are unveiled.

September 11, 2005 - “Terry”A new TV movie airs with an audience of 1.6 million.

October 29, 2007 - The Terry Fox Research Instituteis launched, combining the clinical knowledge of cancer  physicians with advanced laboratory expertise of scientific researchers, overcoming barriers of discipline and geography.

February 27, 2010 - The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee creates the Terry Fox Award, presented to an athlete who embodies the values that Terry did, showing determination and humility in the face of obstacles. It is awarded to Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette and Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdic.

September 10, 2010 – Canadian basketball star Steve Nash directed “Into the Wind,” an installment of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series. It played on TSN to rave reviews and ESPN donated more than 10,000 copies to Canadians schools.

September 16, 2011 - A new Terry Fox Memorialis unveiled at BC Place in Vancouver. The memorial consists of four individual sculptures, replicating Terry’s running gait, created by renowned artist, Douglas Coupland.

March 28, 2012 - The Canadian Medical Hall of Fameinducts Terry, recognized as a “builder” for his work to raise money for cancer research. Terry is the youngest-ever inductee into the CMHF and the first whose achievements were non-professional.

April 12, 2012 - A new bronze sculpture, depicting the moment Terry began his journey by dipping his artificial leg into the ocean, marking Mile 0, was dedicated in St. John’s, NL.

March 18, 2014 - Many Canadians proudly wear their Terry Fox shirts when travelling around the globe. Now we will all be carrying a little something else "Terry" on our international travels. Passport Canada announced a new epassport which celebrates Canadian history. An image of the iconic Terry Fox Monument in Ottawa can be found on page 31. So make sure when you get your new passport and take your first trip, ask the Immigration Agent to stamp page 31 first!

Steve Jobs - Famous Pioneer of the PC Revolution

Steve Paul Jobs - Famous Pioneer of the PC Revolution

Name           :   Steve Paul Jobs

   

 

Country        : U.S.A.

Period           :  Born :  24th February 1955                    

                      :  Died  :  5th October 2011 

Cause of death  : Cancer

Age               :  56  years

Adoptive Parents :

Mother         : Mrs. Clara Jobs

Father          :  Mr. Paul Jobs

Biological Parents :

Mother         : Mrs. Joanne Schieble Simpson

Father          : Mr. Abdulfattah Jandali

Spouce(s)     :  Chrisann Brennan and Laurene Powell

Occupation : Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.                        Funded Pixar                        Founder and CEO of NeXT Inc Known for Pioneer of the personal computer revolution with Steve Wozniak

Steve Paul Jobs was born on 24th February 1955.  Adopted at birth in San Francisco and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s.  As a senior at Homestead High School, in Cupertino, California, his two closest friends were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Steve Wozniak and his countercultural girlfriend, the artistically inclined Homestead High junior Chrisann Brennan. Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out, deciding to travel through India in 1974, and study Buddhism. He co-founded Apple in 1976 in his parent's Los Altos home on Crist Drive in order to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. "Jobs and Woz" gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II.  The Apple II dominated the personal computer market until it was destabilized by the introduction of the IBM-PC in 1981.  The Macintosh also instigated the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Jobs did changes for number of times during the period of 1985-1996. After leaving Apple, he took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in state of the art, higher end computers for higher-education and business markets.   A few years later in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee would use a NeXT Computer to create the first browser for the World Wide Web. In addition to NeXT, Jobs helped to instigate the development of the visual effects industry when he purchased the computer graphics division of George Lucas' company Lucasfilm in February 1986. The new company, renamed Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully computer-generated animated film, Toy Story, an event made possible in part due to Jobs' financial support.   Paul and Clara adopted Jobs' sister Patricia in 1957 and the family moved to Mountain View, California in 1961. It was during this time that Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son in order to "pass along his love of mechanics." Jobs meanwhile admired his father's craftsmanship “because he knew how to build anything. Jobs traveled to India in mid-1974 to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi ashram with his Reed friend (and later Apple employee) Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. When they got to the Neem Karoli ashram, it was almost deserted because Neem Karoli Baba had died in September 1973. Then they made a long trek up a dry riverbed to an ashram of Haidakhan Babaji. In India, they spent a lot of time on bus rides from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.  After staying for seven months, Jobs left India[24] and returned to the US ahead of Daniel Kottke.  During this time period, both Jobs and Brennan became practitioners of Zen Buddhism through the Zen master Kobun.   His vision is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company.  Along the way he helped to transform seven industries:              1. Personal Computing             2. Animated movies             3. Music             4. Phones             5. Tablet Computing             6. Retail Stores and              7. Digital Publishing.  He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business.   Jobs aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering, rather than merely ignoring, complexity. Achieving this depth of simplicity, he realized, would produce a machine that felt as if it deferred to users in a friendly way, rather than challenging them. “It takes a lot of hard work,” he said, “to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.” Jobs was worth a million dollars when he was 23 (1978), 10 million when he was 24, and over 100 million when he was 25. He was also one of the youngest "people ever to make the Forbes list of the nation's richest people - and one of only a handful to have done it themselves, without inherited wealth." The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story (1995), with Jobs credited as executive producer, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company produced box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998); Toy Story 2 (1999); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Finding Nemo (2003); The Incredibles (2004); Cars (2006); Ratatouille (2007); WALL-E (2008); Up (2009); and Toy Story 3 (2010). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for e-waste in the US by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. A few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The Computer TakeBack Campaign responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the commencement speaker. The banner read "Steve, don't be a mini-player—recycle all e-waste." In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. In mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.  On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation as Apple's CEO, writing to the board, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."  Jobs became chairman of the board and named Tim Cook as his successor as CEO. Jobs continued to work for Apple until the day before his death six weeks later. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest. He had lost consciousness the day before, and died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side. His sister, Mona Simpson, described his death thus: "Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve’s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW." He then lost consciousness and died several hours later. A small private funeral was held on October 7, 2011, of which details were not revealed out of respect to Jobs's family. At the time of his death, his biological mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, was living in a nursing home and suffering from dementia. She was not told that he died. Governor Jerry Brown of California declared Sunday, October 16, 2011 to be "Steve Jobs Day." Honors and Awards Statue of Jobs at Graphisoft Park, Budapest.     2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.     2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music                industry  in areas unrelated to performance.     2007: Jobs was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California               Museum for History, Women and the Arts.     2007: Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine.     1989: ’’Entrepreneur of the Decade’’ by Inc. magazine.     1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service.     1985: National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak).

 

MOS - EXCEL Specialist

Microsoft Office Specialist - Exam - MOS-EXCEL


Excel Sample Questions

1. In cell J6 of the sales worksheet, enter a formula that sums the values in the total column by using existing named range.

Answer: in cell J6 add the formula =SUM(Total)



2.In Sales work Sheet delete all the comments in the columns B,C,F

Ans: Select B,C,F columns and goto Review tab Click on delete present in the Comments category.



3.In Quarter 1 worksheet,modify the heading1 style to use 18pts (Note: Accept all other default settings)

Ans: open quater1 Worksheet change the font size of heading to 18



4.Save the file as PDF file in the Document Folder.

 5. In the summary worksheet change the order of evolution in cell F12 by using paranthesis so that it correctly calculates the increase in the revenue percentage from Quarter1to Quater2

Ans: Edit the Cell as shown in the figure.

7.In the partner order worksheet,Use Find and Replace to Find all the instances of 2765 in the Unit ID no and Replace them with 2762

8.In the Page orders Worksheet,set the page setup options so that only table headings are repeated in the worksheet is printed.

Ans: Add the title in the Print Titles Section.



9.In the Partner Order Worksheet,Sort the data in Desending order by order number and in ascending order by unit price.

Ans: Use sort and filter in home tab or sort in Data Tab.

10.In Order Analysis Worksheet,apply a correction to the image so that it is sharpened by 25%, and apply a paint brush Artistic effect.

11.In the sales by Region worksheet use the format painter to apply the format from the total sales(All products) Data range to the cell ranges D6:I9,D12:I15, and D18:I21

Ans: Select mineral water cell and click on format painter. So, format gets copied into clipboard. Now select the cell to copy the format.

12.In Sales By Region worksheet,Hide the columns C,L and M

Ans:Right click on the tabs to hide and select option to hide them.

13. Color codes for each of the quarter tab so that each tab has different color

Ans: Select the tab name. Right click and select the different colors for each tab.

 

14. In Summary Work sheet modify the comment in cell c7 so that it says Done instead of Review.

Ans: Select cell C7, Goto review tab, Click on show comments, Now change the comment.










15.Split the work sheet vertically into two separate ones.

Ans: Goto view tab, Select the option Split, now drag and drop the horizontal line to the bottom to remove the horizontal split.

 


16. Apply orange gradient fill data bar conditional formatting of the total rows of each of them.

Ans: select the cells Home tab -> Conditional formatting -> data bars -> orange bars.



17. In the Budget Worksheet remove the background of the image,and apply a Pencil Gray Scale Artistic Style.

Ans: in the image format tools




18. In the sales worksheet, Autofill only the format in the cell A4 through the end of the data series.

Ans: select cell A4, Click on format painter, and select the rest of the column to copy the format.


19. In the Partner order worksheet changes the hyperlink in the merged cell F1:H1 so that it links to cell B2 on the order Analysis worksheet.






 

Ans: Right click on cell F1:H1 Edit Hyperlink cell reference is B2 and place in document is Order analysis.




 

20. In the Order analysis worksheet, scale the chart so that it is 90% of height and width.

Ans: Right Click on the chart -> select format chart area -> in the dialog select size -> change the height and width to 90%.

21. Check the documents for personal information. Remove the only comments and Document properties close the Dialog box when you are finished.

Ans: File menu options -> check for issues -> inspect document -> check only comments and personal info -> inspect ->remove all -> done

 

22. In Summary worksheet, Copy the cell range E4:E7 and paste only the values into the cell range B8:B11

Ans: copy cells E4:E7. Paste in B8:B11 using paste only values option.



 
23. In sales worksheet add header that uses the owner, page number, current date format. Add a field to the left footer that automatically displays the sheet name.

Ans: In Insert -> select header and footer -> in Header select the appropriate option.
 


24 In sales worksheet, filter the table to show only records with a unit price less than 200 and that have at least 10000 units on order.

Ans: Apply filter Properties.


 
25. In the summary work sheet insert a formula in cell c4 that totals the values in the cell F12 on the other four worksheets.




 

Ans: Apply sum function.

 

26. In Quarter 1 worksheet, apply conditional formatting to the price column so that values greater than 100 are formatted with a green fill with dark green text and values less than 100 are formatted with a red border
 

Ans: Apply filter followed by conditional formatting in the home tab.
 

 

27. In the sales work sheet, create a custom view named preview that displays document in the page break preview at 80 %( Note: Accept all the default settings)

Ans: Goto View tab -> custom View -> add View Called Preview—> click on show -> now click on page break Preview -> adjust the zoom level % to 80%.

 

28. In Sales worksheet, apply continuous arrow process layout to the smart art Graphic, Change the style to polished and reverse the direction from Right to Left.
 

Ans: Change the layout of smart art to continuous process and reverse the direction.

29. Merge and Right align the cells in the range B2:J2

Ans: Initially Merge and center. Then followed by right alignment of text in alignment column

 

30. Add Line Spark Lines in I19, I15, I21 that uses the data in the cells C9:H9, C15:H15, C21:H21

Ans: Insert line sparkline in the respective cells and select the data in the total coloumns.

 

31. In the sales work sheet edit the formula in the cell F4 so that formula automatically maintains the correct cell references when copied through cell F43.Copy the formula through F43.

Ans: Apply the same formulae in all other cells.

 

32. Copy Entire sales work sheet in the productcategory.xslx and insert it between the sales and goals worksheet in the salesResult.xslx workbook
 

Ans: Copy Paste.

33. Edit the formula in the cell N13 so that it correctly checks the values in the Q2 total column against the Q2 Goals column and shows when goals were met.

 

Ans: Change the formulae in the cell appropriately.
 

34. Set the margins of the following specifications
.5''(1.25cm) Top and Bottom
1.25''(3.25cm) Left and Right
1''(2.5cm) Header and Footer
Change the margins in the page layout .