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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul was born on February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 was an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolutionand for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chiefexecutive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical userinterface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.[10]
After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and businessmarkets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006. In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system ,Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became thefoundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.
As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of theseproducts and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011.[ The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported ahormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011.
Jobs has received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence in thetechnology and music industries. He has widely been referred to as "legendary", a "futurist" or simply "visionary" and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution", a "master of innovation",and a "design perfectionist".
Susan Howlet Butcher

December 26, 1954 – August 5, 2006. Was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, thesecond four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. She is commemorated in Alaska by the Susan Butcher Day.
Susan Butcher was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a lover of dogs and the outdoors. When she was young her parents divorced. Her brother died of leukemia at a young age. She studied at Colorado State University and ultimately became a veterinarytechnician.
To pursue her love of dogsled racing and breeding huskies, she moved to the Wrangell Mountains area of Alaska.
There Butcher began training to compete in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a grueling 1,112 to 1,131-mile race through arctic blizzardconditions across the Alaska wilderness, which tests the endurance of both mushers and dogs over the course of one to two weeks. After placing...