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<mask> (; born March 10, 1946) is a conductor, composer, singer, author and professor at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University (CSB/SJU) in Minnesota. He conducts the professional a cappella choir Kantorei (Minneapolis/Saint Paul), the National Catholic Youth Choir and the Amadeus Chamber Symphony, and as of 2020 is in his 52nd year as a music faculty member at CSB/SJU, where he conducts CSB/SJU Chamber Choir and the SJU Men's Chorus. He is on the faculty and is executive director of the VoiceCare Network. He is an acknowledged expert on healthy vocal production for solo and choral singing, and the effect of conducting gesture on vocalists and instrumentalists. His choirs are known and praised for their particularly warm, natural, expressive and efficient sound. Biography

Early life
Theimer was born in 1946 in the village of Sankt Johann in Tirol in the State of Tyrol, Austria. His parents managed a retreat camp in the Austrian Alps for children from the nearby city of Innsbruck.In the farm-like setting, Theimer's earliest exposure to music included singing folksongs around the campfire, while hiking, and at evening gatherings. Theimer began taking piano lessons at age four in the village of St. Johann, about an hour's walk down the mountainside every other week. Education
Theimer was accepted into the training choir of the Vienna Boys’ Choir at age seven and joined one of the touring choirs at age nine. He was a member of the choir until age 14. During those years he toured Europe, South Africa, Rhodesia, Mozambique and, twice (1958 and 1960) the United States. The tour in 1958 included a concert at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. After completing his time with the boys’ choir, he finished his high school education (Realgymnasium) with the matura while also continuing his piano studies and singing with several choral groups in Vienna, including the Jeunesse Musicale and the Zusatzchor at the Vienna State Opera.After high school he was a student at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna until he moved to the United States to begin his tenure on the music faculty at CSB/SJU. Theimer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint John's University (1971). He received a Master of Fine Arts in choral conducting (1974) and Doctor of Musical Arts in vocal performance (1984) from the University of Minnesota, where he was a student of Tom Lancaster and Roy Schuessler. Career

Conducting
While living in Vienna, Theimer conducted the Chorus Viennensis, the adult performing partner ensemble to the Vienna Boys’ Choir, for two years. In 1969, SJU Men's Chorus director Gerhardt Track recommended Theimer to succeed him as the choral director at Saint John's University. Theimer arrived in Minnesota that summer. Theimer has conducted the SJU Men's Chorus since joining the faculty at Saint John's University in 1969.In the same year, he also organized the first mixed choir for students of the College of Saint Benedict (a college for women) and Saint John's University (a college for men), which evolved into the CSB/SJU Chamber Choir, now one of the major touring ensembles of the combined CSB/SJU music department. In 1984 Theimer founded the Amadeus Chamber Symphony, a community chamber orchestra for central Minnesota musicians and audiences. The orchestra plays a full concert season each year and participates in annual Christmas at Saint John’s and other concerts involving CSB/SJU choral ensembles. The orchestra also hosts several community and youth partnership concerts each season. Since 1988, Theimer has conducted Kantorei , a professional choir specializing in 19th- and 20th-century a cappella music from central Europe. The choir is known throughout the Midwest for its distinctively effortless sound, warm blend and expressive interpretation. It has been praised for reflecting the emotional content of both text and music.Kantorei presents concerts at churches in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area and collaborates with schools as a part of its “Singing for a Lifetime” educational outreach program. Kantorei has been featured on Classical Minnesota Public Radio (KSJN), A Prairie Home Companion, and Twin Cities Public Television, and has produced five CD recordings. While its main repertoire is a cappella choral music, Kantorei has collaborated with the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Sinfonia and Minnesota Chorale during its 22 seasons. Kantorei is not affiliated with the choir of the same name based in Denver, Colorado, or the boys’ choir of the same name based in Rockford, Illinois. Since 2000, Theimer has been music director of the National Catholic Youth Choir, a choir for Roman Catholic high school students from across the United States that meets each summer at Saint John's University. Theimer has conducted all-state choirs, choral festivals, and honor choirs throughout the United States, Canada and Asia, and has presented master classes, workshops and seminars for state, regional and national music conventions and conferences, including ACDA, MENC, VCDA (Virginia Choral Directors Association) Senior Honors Choir Director  MMEA, OKMEA, and NPM. His annual Impact Course offered by the VoiceCare Network has attracted choir directors, classroom teachers, singers and others interested in the human voice and human compatible learning/teaching, from around the world.Solo and recital career
Theimer is an active solo performer and recitalist. He regularly sings with Pastiche, an ensemble of the music faculty at CSB/SJU. His solo recitals, while focusing frequently on the art song repertoire by Beethoven, Brahms, Frederick Loewe, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, also include major literature by Samuel Barber, Gabriel Fauré, Gerald Finzi, Bohuslav Martinů, Francis Poulenc, Peter Warlock and others. With guitarist O. Nicholas Raths, he has produced two solo recordings of Austrian folksongs. Theimer also frequently appears as a baritone soloist with choirs and orchestras for oratorio performances, including everything from J.S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion to the CSB/SJU and St. Cloud State University music departments’ 2008 presentation of Stephen Paulus’s Holocaust memorial oratorio To Be Certain of the Dawn.Teaching
At CSB/SJU, Theimer teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, choral conducting and other related courses. Writings
Theimer is co-author of several chapters in Bodymind and Voice: Foundations of Voice Education, co-edited by Dr. Leon Thurman and Dr. Graham Welch. The book is used as vocal pedagogy text in universities in the United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. He is currently executive director of the VoiceCare Network, a professional association offering seminars and training to music educators, choral conductors, voice teachers and singers. Awards
In November 2001 Theimer was named Choir Director of the Year by Minnesota American Choral Directors Association (ACDA-MN). He received the Alumni Achievement Award from Saint John's University in 1997 and, in 2004, was inducted to the Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) Hall of Fame. In 2011, Theimer received the ACDA-MN F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award.Music

Compositions
Theimer's choral compositions and arrangements are published by Alliance Publications in Wisconsin.


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<mask> (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress and singer known for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway musical Hamilton, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her other Broadway credits include Nettie Harris in the original Broadway cast of The Color Purple, and Mimi Marquez in Rent. She has portrayed many roles on television, including Geneva Pine on The Good Wife, and Evangeline Williamson on One Life to Live, for which she received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. As of 2021, she stars in the Peacock musical comedy Girls5eva. Also that year, she received nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series or Movie for her performance in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton, which was released in 2020. Early life and education
<mask> was born in San Jose, California and raised in both Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. She is the daughter of Betty Sanders, an industrial psychologist, and father, an automotive industry executive in Michigan.<mask> has one older brother and two younger brothers. <mask> was introduced to theater in summer camp when she was 8 years old. Renée's younger brother was shy, and their mother enrolled both of them in camp at the HITS Theater in Houston taught by Carolyn Franklin. After graduating from Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, she attended Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater, in 1993. This is also where she became a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority through the Theta Beta chapter. She subsequently attended graduate school at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she received a Master of Music in jazz studies, graduating in 1997. Career

Television
Between 1997 and 2002, <mask> had a recurring role on the Fox legal comedy-drama Ally McBeal, as one of the back-up singers who frequently accompanied Vonda Shepard's performances.She appeared in a total of 43 episodes prior to the series' cancellation. <mask> also carried the role over into a three-episode guest appearance on the spin-off series Ally. <mask> portrayed attorney Evangeline Williamson on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 2003 until 2007. She was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2004 for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series, and won a Soap Opera Digest Award in 2005 with co-stars Michael Easton and Melissa Archer. <mask> was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in both 2006 and 2007 for the role. After she left One Life to Live, <mask> held a recurring role as assistant state attorney Geneva Pine on the CBS political drama The Good Wife, appearing multiple times every season throughout its run. She ultimately appeared in 23 episodes between 2010 and the series' end in 2016.<mask> has also made guest appearances on series such as Evil (2019 TV series from the same creators of The Good Wife), Star Trek: Enterprise, Royal Pains, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Younger, Masters of Sex, and That '80s Show. In 2017, <mask> starred as Henrietta Lacks in the HBO television film adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's nonfiction work, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In 2018, appeared in the Netflix science fiction series Altered Carbon as Quellcrist Falconer, and reprised the role in season 2. She also performed the Johnny Cash song "Ain't No Grave" for the end credits to the final episode. <mask> currently stars on Girls5eva in the role of Wickie Roy, a member of a one-hit wonder 1990s girl band group Girls5eva. Girls5eva chronicles their reunion and attempts to reignite their stardom. The series premiered on May 6, 2021, on the Peacock streaming service.Film
In 2001, <mask> had the lead role of Nicole Taylor in the romantic comedy All About You, for which her performance was praised. She also portrayed Drea Smalls in the 2008 action film Pistol Whipped, and small supporting roles as Cynthia Barnes in the crime drama Every Secret Thing (2014) and Kim in the comedy Sisters (2015). In 2019 she starred in Waves (2019) with co-star Sterling K. Brown. Theatre

<mask> played a replacement Nala in the Broadway production of The Lion King, and was in the cast of the United States national tour of Dreamgirls. She was nominated for a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, and won a New York magazine Best of 2005 Award, for her performance as Sylvia in the 2005 Shakespeare in the Park revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona. <mask> later originated the role of Nettie Harris in The Color Purple, the Broadway musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name. She starred in the production from November 2005 to January 2006.<mask> returned to the Off-Broadway stage in The Baker's Wife in 2007, before taking over the role of Mimi Márquez in the Broadway musical Rent, making her the final actress to play the role on Broadway. Rent last performance was filmed and made into a DVD, Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway, which also aired as a television film. In 2011, she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of Kate Dillon in the Broadway production of David Lindsay-Abaire's play Good People. She went on to appear in off-Broadway productions of Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It, and appeared in I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road at Encores!. <mask> originated the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, playing her last performance in the role on September 3, 2016. For her work in the production, she won a 2015 Drama Desk Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, and the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. In addition, as a member of the principal cast, she also received a Grammy Award after the original cast album won Best Musical Theater Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards.Music
<mask> has had a lengthy singing and songwriting career, co-writing and performing more than half the soundtrack to the 2001 film All About You, including the title song. She was also the grand prize winner of the 1997 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her rock music. <mask> wrote and recorded an album titled Everything But the Kitchen Sink (2001) and an EP titled Beautiful (2006). In October 2015, she appeared at the BET Hip Hop Awards, where she was one of two women to rap in the Cypher. Personal life
In 2002, <mask> married New York attorney Alexis Johnson. In May 2009, she gave birth to their first child, a son named Benjamin Johnson. In 2014, she and her husband adopted a second child, a daughter from Africa.Her name is Brielle. Filmography

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Discography
 Everything But the Kitchen Sink (2001, out of print)
 A Holiday Affair (2006, sings "The Christmas Song")
 Beautiful (2006, EP; out of print)
 The Color Purple (2006, original Broadway cast recording)
 Hamilton (2015, original Broadway cast recording)
 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020, Season 1 Soundtrack)
 Girls5eva (2021, soundtrack)

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External links

 <mask> <mask> at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Detroit
Actresses from Houston
African-American actresses
American film actresses
American musical theatre actresses
American soap opera actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
Cranbrook Educational Community alumni
Drama Desk Award winners
Grammy Award winners
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Thornton School of Music alumni
Tony Award winners
African-American women singers

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<mask> (born Oct 23, 1984) is an American jazz singer and songwriter from Sitka, Alaska. Her albums have reached number one on the Billboard Japan Top 20 Jazz Albums chart. Career

Albums
<mask>'s recordings are distributed by JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment, Justin Time Records, and Burnside Distribution Corporation. They Oughta Write a Song

In 2008, They Oughta Write a Song debuted at number three in Billboard Japan jazz album sales and appeared on the chart for 33 weeks. [8] Critical reception was positive. [9] [10] "With her bell-clear voice, careful but natural diction and a subtle sexiness in her delivery, she offers a new — and perhaps less drug-hazed — take on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," reviewer Serena Markstrom wrote in The Register-Guard. [11]

A YouTube video for the album single Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps was viewed 5.6 million times as of October 2017.Many Times, Many Ways

Many Times, Many Ways: A Holiday Collection was released in 2008. The duo album featured two original compositions by pianist/co-producer Matt Treder. Stages

Stages, <mask>'s first live CD, was recorded at two concerts on the Oregon Coast and released in March 2010. CD Baby selected it as an Editor's Pick in October 2010, writing that "Her respect for the past is undeniable, while her finger on the pulse of modern music gives her songs a wide appeal that reaches far beyond jazz clubs. "[12] Wildy's World named it  the best live album of the year. [13]

After Dark

In 2010, <mask> released After Dark. Wildy's World called it one of 2010’s top three indie albums and named her Artist of the Year.[19] [20] [21]

<mask>’s original song "Thirsty" was nominated for best jazz song for the 2011 Independent Music Awards[26] and won for best jazz song in the IMA Vox Pop poll. [27] <mask>'s original song "In Time" was released as a single to benefit the Japanese Red Cross in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. [40]

Heart First

Loren's fifth jazz album, Heart First, was released in Japan December 14, 2011, and in North America on March 6, 2012. [29]

Jazz Critique magazine chose Heart First as the best vocal jazz album of 2011.☂ In Canada it peaked at number one in jazz album sales on iTunes[33] and number two on Amazon. On December 11, 2011, the album's prerelease single, Fly Me to the Moon, was the number-one jazz track on iTunes Japan. [35]

On December 14, twelve Loren tracks concurrently appeared on iTunes Japan's top 100 chart. [36] The album's eponymous song Heart First was number one in jazz singles on iTunes Canada on March 24, 2012.JazzTimes reviewer Christopher Loudon praised her "chameleonic vocal skills" and reported that the album "generated plenty of buzz about her emergence as the next big thing among jazz vocalists. "[37]

Dan Bilawsky on All About Jazz wrote, "Loren’s ability to find something new in the old makes this a fun ride. … Depending on the song, Loren can be sweet, sly, or sultry, but she always finds the right read. "[38] Brian Arsenault in The International Review of Music wrote, "Alternately sexy and smooth, sultry and wry, Ms. Loren uses her not inconsiderable gifts well. "[39]

Simply Love

Her sixth jazz album, Simply Love, was released in 2013. It entered Billboard Japan's Top Jazz Albums chart at number two in its first week of release. [34]

Positive response came from USA TODAY, with reviewer Elysa Garnder writing, "The twenty-something chanteuse brings a playful precocity and an easy sexiness to the standards on Simply Love."The Seattle Weekly found that "To hear <mask> <mask> sing is to glimpse the divine, and it is easy to see why this jazz vocalist is getting noticed here and abroad." "For sheer vocal beauty and old-school warmth, few among her contemporaries can match <mask> Loren," Christopher Loudon wrote in Jazz Times. Butterfly Blue

Butterfly Blue, released in 2015, was <mask>'s seventh jazz release and second number-one Billboard Japan jazz album. In a 4 1/2 (out of 5) star review, All About Jazz reviewer C. Michael Bailey noted that "Loren brings that voice, her compositional and arranging skills, and a damn good band," and praised her daring choice of standards. NPR reviewer George D. Graham cited it as one of the best albums of 2015. From his review: "If you are looking for an appealing jazz-influenced female singer-songwriter, there are a lot of outstanding chanteuses from which to choose on the music scene these days. <mask> <mask>’s new album underscores her place in the ranks among the best of them, and the variety on her new album provides extra appeal."The Best Collection

The Best Collection, a selection of hits from her catalog and a new song recorded for the album, was released in Asia in 2014. Live at Cotton Club

Live at Cotton Club was released in Japan in 2016. Selected performances
In 2017, <mask> toured internationally at the Suwon Jazz Festival in Korea, Orchestra Siciliana in Italy, the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival, and an eight-show engagement at Cotton Club Tokyo. She also performed at Jazz Aspen Snowmass. In 2016, she performed with Oliver Jones at Victoria International JazzFest. She headlined the Britt Orchestra summer pops concert helmed by music director and conductor Teddy Abrams at the Oregon Britt Festival. In 2013 she performed a holiday concert in Louisiana with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra.In 2012, she performed with the Corvallis/OSU Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Siciliana. <mask> is a member of musical group The Sugar Beets and records and performs with her band halie and the moon, which has released two EPs. <mask> independently released Full Circle in 2006, a collection of her original songs performed by her on vocals and keyboards and featuring co-producer James M. House on guitar and bass. Biography
<mask> grew up in Sitka, Alaska, making her performing debut at age ten at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. She received a degree in visual arts from the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. Awards and honors
 First Place, Country category, Pacific Songwriting Competition, "What We're Fighting For" written by <mask> <mask> and Larry Wayne Clark (2005)
 Jazz Song of the Year, "Thirsty", Independent Music Awards, Vox Pop poll (2011)
 Best Vocal Jazz Album, Heart First, Jazz Critique magazine (Japan) (2011)
 Her debut album, They Oughta Write a Song, won best vocal jazz album at the 2009 Just Plain Folks awards.and in 2010 became Japan's second highest-selling jazz album. [2]

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External links
 Official site

Living people
Singer-songwriters from Oregon
Musicians from Portland, Oregon
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Smooth jazz singers
American women jazz singers
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21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
Justin Time Records artists
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<mask> (born 28 May 1940) is a computational neuroscientist. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and professor emeritus at the University of Southern California; before his 2016 retirement he was the Fletcher Jones Professor of computer science, as well as a professor of biological sciences, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, neuroscience and psychology. Education and career
<mask>ib was born in England on 28 May 1940, the oldest of four children. His parents moved to New Zealand when he was about 7, and on to Australia when he was about 9. <mask>ib was educated in New Zealand and at The Scots College in Sydney, Australia. In 1960 he took a BSc (Hons) at the University of Sydney, with the University Medal in Pure Mathematics. <mask>ib received his PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.He was advised by Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, and Henry McKean. As a student, he also worked with Warren McCulloch, the co-inventor of the artificial neural network and finite-state machine. Following his PhD, <mask>ib moved to Stanford for a postdoc with Rudolf E. Kálmán. <mask>ib spent five years at Stanford, before moving to become becoming the founding chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1970. He remained in the Department until 1986, when he joined the University of Southern California. He retired and was granted emeritus status in 2016. <mask>ib's collected papers from the period 1960 through 1985 are held by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Research

As both a theoretical neuroscientist and a computer scientist, <mask>ib argues that by deducing the brain's operating principles from a computational standpoint we can both learn more about how brains function and also gain tools for building learning machines. With Richard Didday, he developed one of the first winner-take-all neural networks in 1970. More recently, with Giacomo Rizzolatti, the leader of research team that discovered mirror neurons, he proposed an evolutionary link between mirror neurons, imitation, and the evolution of language. Awards and honors
In 1992, <mask>ib was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for "his work in schema theory and neural networks to provide a linking methodology between distributed artificial intelligence and brain theory." In 2008, <mask>ib was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Selected Bibliography

Authored and Co-authored Books
 (2012) How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis OUP
 (2005) Beyond the Mirror: Biology and Culture in the Evolution of Brain and Language OUP
 (1989) The Metaphorical Brain Second Edition" Wiley  (First edition Wiley 1972
 (1988) with Robert N. Moll and A.J. Kfoury An Introduction to Formal Language Theory Springer
 (1987) Brains, Machines, and Mathematics Second Edition Springer  (First edition McGraw-Hill 1964 LC 63-21473)
 (1987) with E. Jeffrey Conklin and Jane C. Hill From Schema Theory to Language OUP
 (1986) with Mary B. Hesse The Construction of Reality CUP
 (1986) with Ernest G. Manes Algebraic Approaches to Program Semantics Springer
 (1985) In Search of the Person: Philosophical Explorations in Cognitive Science UMass
 (1984) Computers and the Cybernetic Society Second Edition" Academic Press  (First edition 1977)
 (1982) with A.J.Kfoury and Robert N. Moll A Programming Approach to Computability Springer
 (1981) with A.J. Kfoury and Robert N. Moll A Basis for Theoretical Computer Science Springer
 (1978) with Suad <mask>c The Design of Well-Structured and Correct Programs Springer
 (1975) with Ernest G. Manes Arrows, Structures, and Functors: The Categorical Imperative Academic Press
 (1973) with Louis Padulo System Theory. A Unified State-space Approach to Continuous and Discrete Systems Saunders
 (1969) Theories of abstract automata Prentice-Hall
 (1968) Algebraic Theory of Machines, Languages and Semigroups

Edited Books
 (2005) with Jean-Marc Fellous Who Needs Emotions: The Brain Meets the Robot OUP
 (2003) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks 2nd Edition MIT  (First edition MIT 1995 0-262-01148-4)
 (1984) with Oliver G. Selfridge and Edwina L. Rissland Adaptive Control of Ill-Defined Systems Plenum Press {{ISBN|978-1-4684-8943-9) (Proc. Nato Conference Series. II, Systems Science, V. 16, June 21–26, 1981 Devon, England)
 (1982) with David Caplan and John C. Marshall Neural Models of Language Processes Academic Press

Other Publications

 Dynamic Interactions in Neural Networks: Models and Data (Research Notes in Neural Computing) by <mask><mask>, Shun-Ichi <mask> (1 January 1989)
Vision, Brain, and Cooperative Computation by <mask><mask> (Editor), <mask>. Hanson (Editor) (24 January 1990)
Natural and Artificial Parallel Computation by <mask> A. Arbib (Editor), J. <mask> Robinson (Editor) (Hardcover – 21 December 1990)
Neuroscience: From Neural Networks to Artificial Intelligence : Proceedings of a US-Mexico Seminar Held in the City of Xalapa in the State of Verac (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) by Pablo Rudomin, et al. (1 June 1993)
Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamics by <mask> A. Arbib, Péter Érdi and János Szentágothai et al. (31 October 1997)
Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action Series) by Robert J. Russell, et al.(1 January 2000)
Computing the Brain: A Guide to Neuroinformatics by <mask>, Jeffrey S. Grethe (15 March 2001)
The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain Modeling by <mask>, et al. (1 July 2002)
Visual Structures and Integrated Functions (Research Notes in Neural Computing, No 3) by <mask><mask>, Jorg-Peter Ewert
Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots by Jorg Peter Ewert, <mask>. <mask>ib

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<mask>, M.D. (April 20, 1905 – July 28, 1950) was an American physician who devised the medical uses of radioactive iodine. Hertz pioneered the first targeted cancer therapies. Hertz is called the father of the field of theranostics, combining diagnostic imaging with therapy in a single or paired chemical substance(s). Early life and education
<mask> was born on April 20, 1905, to father Aaron Daniel (A.<mask> and mother <mask> in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Jewish immigrants from what is currently Golub-Dobrzyń in Poland. A.D<mask> was a successful real estate developer.The <mask>'s raised their seven sons according to Orthodox traditions. <mask> attended public school and went on to graduate from the University of Michigan with Phi Betta Kappa honors in 1924. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1929, at a time when there were strict quotas for outsiders (particularly Jews and Catholics – there were no women). Hertz completed his internship and residency at Cleveland's Mount Sinai Hospital, which had been established to serve Cleveland's East side Jewish population. Early studies with radioactive iodine
Hertz  joined  the Thyroid Clinic and Metabolism Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1931. Although initially a volunteer, shortly thereafter, Hertz became Chief of the Thyroid Clinic, serving in this capacity from 1931-1943. On November 12, 1936, Karl Compton, then president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave a presentation, entitled "What Physics Can Do For Biology and Medicine" in Harvard Medical School's Vanderbilt Hall.<mask> spontaneously asked President Compton, "Could iodine be made radioactive artificially?" on possible applications of physics to medicine. Compton responded in a letter to <mask> on December 15, 1936, writing, "Iodine could be made artificially radioactive" and "emits gamma rays and beta rays." On December 23, 1936, <mask> replied, “that iodine is selectively taken up by the thyroid” and “that he hopes that it will be a useful method of therapy.”

In 1937, <mask> began a collaboration with the physicist Arthur Roberts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The purpose of the collaboration was to explore possible applications of iodine radioisotopes for diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases. Robley D. Evans, Director of the Radiation lab of MIT hired Arthur Roberts. As a condition of his employment, any papers forthcoming would include Robley Evans as an author.The Harvard Milton Fund sponsored the first preclinical studies of isotope iodine-128 on thyroid function in 48 rabbits, which Roberts produced without a cyclotron. Roberts produced the iodine-128 by means of neutron bombardment, building on previous studies by physicist Enrico Fermi. Roberts also devised a Geiger-Müller detector for quantifying the amount of the radioisotope of iodine present in the biological specimens produced in the experiment. <mask>'s experiment with Roberts involved studies of 48 rabbits. They determined in the study that the hyperplastic thyroid gland absorbed more of the radioactive substance than the normal gland. This proved that radioactive iodine could serve as a radioactive tracer in thyroid function. The tracer procedure was critical for determining the amount of iodine the human thyroid took up so that the dosage of radioactive iodine could be established for therapeutic purposes.The original manuscript describing their rabbit study findings had <mask> and Roberts as the coauthors as they had done the work and written the paper. Primary sources document Roberts' production of I-128 at the MIT laboratory, while <mask> and Roberts solely administered and analyzed the biodistribution of the radioisotope in the rabbits. Robley Evans insisted that his name be added to the author list at the time the Hertz/Roberts study paper was published. Evans had taken no part in the research or writing of the paper. At the time of the 1937 rabbit studies, <mask> predicted the therapeutic use of radioactive iodine for treating thyroid carcinoma in a medical journal. Therapy with radioactive iodine

Hertz's initial studies were conducted with iodine-128. However, this isotope has a half-life of only 25 minutes, rendering it impractical as a therapeutic or diagnostic agent.Human application of the iodine radioisotopes required a more suitable radioisotope of iodine. Dr. Joseph Hamilton, a neurologist in a medical practice near Berkeley, became interested in the Hertz-Roberts research. Hamilton measured the differential absorption ratio of various radionuclides produced by the Berkeley cyclotron. Dr. Mayo Soley, a former colleague of <mask> at MGH, wrote to <mask> congratulating him on his RAI work. Dr. Soley was then at University of California Berkeley, where Ernest Lawrence had built a cyclotron. Hamilton and Soley were motivated by the animal work of Hertz and Roberts and sent Hamilton to Boston. Hamilton went to California to join Soley in the thyroid clinic.Hamilton Complained to Berkeley's Glenn Seaborg about the short half-life of I-128. In 1938, Glenn Seaborg and John Livingood had artificially prepared I-131 using the University of California Berkeley's cyclotron. With a half-life of 8 days, this isotope was better suited to practical medical applications than I-128. The building of the cyclotron at MIT for producing suitable isotopes was funded for $30,000 by the Mary Markle Foundation of New York City in 1938. The construction project was completed two years later in 1940. During those two years, the experiments with rabbits continued. In early 1941, <mask> administered to the first human patient a therapeutic dose of cyclotron-produced radioiodine (RAI), the patient suffering from Graves Disease, a form of hyperthyroidism.This clinical trial was at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This administration was the first successful treatment of humans with an artificially produced radioactive material. Subsequently, a series of 29 patients were treated in this way, and their outcomes were documented. The Journal of the American Medical Association published “Radioactive Iodine in the Study of Thyroid Physiology" with <mask> as lead author in its May 1946 issue. This article was a five-year follow-up study of the 29 patients, and it documented the successful treatment and safety of radioactive iodine for the treatment of hyperthyroidism. The follow-up study established the use of radioactive iodine therapy as a standard treatment for Graves’ disease. World War II interval
In 1943, <mask> joined the United States Navy Medical Corps.He served as an adjunct to the Manhattan Project, working in an aspect of the project related to biology and medicine for furthering medical uses of atomic energy. After his return from military duty, <mask> learned that MGH's Earl Chapman (who had taken over Hertz's clinical trials) and MIT's Robley Evans, had submitted a scientific publication to the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) claiming priority for the development of the use of RAI to treat Graves' Disease. Morris Fishbein, editor of JAMA, requested that <mask> and Roberts, submit their seventh article on the subject, describing their successful use of RAI in the first clinical trials. As a result, two scientific publications appeared side by side in the May, 1946, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, with the Hertz publication with Roberts appearing first in the issue of the journal. Stolen Intellectual Property
Current historians have documented the reason for two articles from the same institution appearing side by side in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) May 11, 1946 issue. The first by Hertz and Roberts, and the second by MGH's Earle Chapman and MIT's Robley Evans. Chapman, who took over Hertz's established cases during the war, teamed up with Evans to treat 22 new cases of their own.Chapman and Evans used Hertz's data to do their own human trials with minor tweaks and were the first to submit an article to JAMA, without consulting or acknowledging <mask>. They claimed propriety of the RAI therapy in treating Graves' disease. <mask> was informed about the Chapman-Evans Paper submission after the Chapman-Evans paper was sent sent back for revisions. Roberts insists that neither Chapman nor Evans have any propriety for the development of RAI treatment stating, "I would believe nothing on this subject from Chapman, whose self interest is obvious, and who bungled, whether deliberately or not, the follow up on <mask>’s original series when <mask> joined the Navy." Nuclear fission products in cancer treatment
Interest in atomic energy for peaceful purposes was heightened as the Atomic Age commenced following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. <mask> envisioned broader applications of radioisotopes in cancer treatment stating, “My new research project is in cancer of the thyroid which I believe holds the key to the larger problem of cancer in general". <mask> established the Radioactive Isotope Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, in September 1946, with Samuel Seidlin of New York City as the associate director.Its purpose was to develop the applications of nuclear fission products to the treatment of thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths. After WWII, <mask> joined the newly expanding Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. There, <mask> directed the successful use of RAI in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid carcinoma. <mask> worked with the government to centralize an agency to handle the distribution of radioactive isotopes for use by private enterprises working on approved projects. He advocated for the Atomic Energy Commission to produce iodine-131 in the government’s atomic piles (nuclear reactors) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which lowered the cost and increased radioiodine's distribution. He made extensive studies of radioactive iodine in the  treatment of thyroid cancer as well as in the production of total thyroidectomy in the treatment of certain cases of heart disease. In 1949, <mask> established the first nuclear medicine department at the Massachusetts Women's Hospital where he expanded his research to use radionuclides to diagnose and treat other forms of cancer.Hertz studied the application of radioactive phosphorus and the influences of hormones on cancer as displayed by isotope studies. Later career and influence
<mask>'s research was seminal in the emergence of the field of nuclear medicine. His research continued with his appointments as instructor at Harvard Medical School from 1946 to 1950 and as an attachment to the Nuclear Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1950. The application of radioactive iodine in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease is the cornerstone of nuclear medicine. Barbara Bush, who was successfully treated with radioiodine, wrote to Vitta <mask>, his widow, “It is comforting to know that so many people are well because of the scientific expertise of people like Dr. Hertz.”

In the early 21st century, there is a significant rise in the use of radioisotopes to diagnose and treat cancer, in a field of nuclear medicine referred to as theranostics. Yttrium 90 (Y-90) and Lutetium-177 are being used to diagnose and treat neuroendocrine tumors. The use of dosimetry has its origin in <mask>'s work.Alpha targeted therapy is a therapy for patients with neuroblastomas (brain tumors). The use of the protein called NIS, that is needed for the thyroid to take up the RAI in the treatment of thyroid carcinoma, is being explored to treat breast cancer. Additionally I-131 is  being utilized in the treatment of stem cell replacement for leukemia patients. These are all modern applications of nuclear medicine. <mask> died on July 28, 1950, at age 45 of a heart attack. Selected honors
Dalton Scholar - Massachusetts General Hospital - 1931 - 1933
Henry Pickering Wolcott Fellow - Harvard Medical School - 1935 - 1937
Key to Science/Sigma XI - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Scientific Society) - 1940

Enduring memorials
The Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Engineering administers the <mask>, MD, Award in honor of <mask>. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of radionuclide therapy.Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal entered into the congressional record on May 11, 2021 "Senate Remembering Dr. <mask>tz." He stated "Mr. President, today I rise to recognize Dr <mask>tz, a pioneer for medical uses of radioiodine, RAI... On March 31b, 1941... Hertz administered the first therapeutic use of radioiodine... Today, medical uses of RAI remain the g©old standard of targeted precision oncology." Beginning in 2000, <mask>'s daughter Barbara Hertz has led an effort to more thoroughly document the contributions of <mask> to medicine. This has included a website with his major publications. <mask> also co-authored with Kristin Schuller a 2010 publication in the journal Endocrine Practice on her father's major contributions to human health. In 2014, the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, a Smithsonian affiliate, displayed the, "Dr. <mask> and the Origin of Nuclear Medicine" exhibit. In 2021, the American Chemical Society (ACS) designated the Mass General Hospital as the "<mask> and the Medical Uses of Radioiodine" National Historic Chemical Landmark.ACS Landmark commemorates this seminal achievement in the history of chemical sciences and provides a record of Dr. <mask>'s contributions to chemistry and society that have profoundly transformed our lives. See also
Nuclear Medicine
Radioactive iodine
Hyperthyroidism

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American nuclear medicine physicians
Physicians from Cleveland
University of Michigan alumni
Harvard Medical School alumni
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<mask> (born October 17, 1958) is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. Alden has recorded many albums for Concord Records, including four with seven-string guitar innovator George Van Eps. Early life
<mask> was born in Newport Beach, California on October 17, 1958. He grew up in Huntington Beach, playing piano, harmonica, the four-string tenor guitar, and then four-string banjo at age ten. After hearing recordings of Barney Kessel, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and other jazz guitar greats, he got a six-string guitar and started teaching himself to play. As a teenager he played both instruments at venues in the Los Angeles area. He studied guitar with Jimmy Wyble when he was 16.In 1977–78 he studied jazz guitar at the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood with Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, and <mask>. At GIT he assisted Roberts in organizing and preparing curriculum materials. <mask> then conducted some of his own classes at GIT. Musical career
<mask> made his first trip to the east coast in the summer of 1979, playing in a trio led by vibraphonist Red Norvo for three months at Resorts International in Atlantic City. He moved to New York City in 1982 to play an extended engagement at the Café Carlyle with jazz pianist/songwriter Joe Bushkin. Soon afterwards, he was discovered by Joe Williams and Woody Herman. In 1983 he was already collaborating with Dick Hyman, when he appeared with him and a host of other musicians at Eubie Blake's one-hundredth birthday concert.<mask> formed the Alden-Barrett Quintet in 1985 with Dan Barrett, which played in the swing idiom, as he has done for most of his career. He also began partnerships with Ruby Braff, Kenny Davern and Jack Lesberg. He joined George Van Eps, innovator of the seven-string guitar, on tour and recorded albums with him, switching to the seven-string himself in 1992. Sweet and Lowdown
<mask> recorded the guitar performances for Sean Penn's character Emmet Ray in Woody Allen's 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown, and taught Penn how to mime the performances for the film. The score also featured Bucky Pizzarelli on rhythm guitar and arrangements by pianist Dick Hyman. (Telarc, 1999)
 You're the Top: Love Songs of Cole Porter (Telarc, 1999)

With Warren Vaché Jr.
 Easy Going (Concord Jazz, 1987)
 Talk to Me Baby (Muse, 1996)
 Mrs. Vache's Boys (Nagel-Heyer, 1999)

With others
 Harry Allen, I'll Never Be the Same (Master Mix, 1994)
 Harry Allen, Love Songs Live! (Pipe Dream Chartmaker 1997)
 Frank Tate, Live in Belfast (Nagel-Heyer, 2001)
 Mel Torme, A Tribute to Bing Crosby (Concord Jazz, 1994)
 Allan Vache, Jim Galloway, Raisin' the Roof (Nagel-Heyer, 2000)
 Terry Waldo, Footlight Varieties (Stomp Off, 1990)
 George Wein, Swing That Music (Columbia, 1993)
 Bob Wilber, Bufadora Blow-up (Arbors, 1997)
 Chuck Wilson, Echo of Spring (Arbors, 2010)
 Lillette Jenkins & Doc Cheatham, The Music of Lil Hardin Armstrong (Chiaroscuro, 1988)

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 Official site

 New England Jazz History Database Audio Interview

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<mask><mask>, RN, (1889 – July 25, 1981) was a nurse, author, feminist and activist. She established various health clinics throughout Puerto Rico and was the founder of The Association of Registered Nurses of Puerto Rico. In 1929, Gonzalez wrote a book titled Los Hechos Desconocidos (The Unknown Facts), in which she denounced the discrimination against women and nurses in Puerto Rico. <mask>’s book convinced James R. Beverley, the Interim Governor of Puerto Rico, to sign Ley 77 (Law 77) in May 1930, which established a Nurses Examining Board. In 1978, she was the first recipient of the Public Health Department of Puerto Rico Garrido Morales Award. Early years
<mask> (birth name: <mask>) was born and raised in the town of Lares, Puerto Rico. There she received her primary and secondary education.She was still a child when Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States in accordance with the agreement reached in the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Spanish–American War. She attended the Congressional day school and converted to Protestantism when she was nine years old. Her father, a small merchant, suddenly died when she was just a child and she went to live with her aunt and uncle. While she was attending public secondary school she learned that the Presbyterian Hospital of Puerto Rico needed nurses. She became interested in pursuing a career in nursing despite the protests of her family. <mask> enrolled in the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she earned her nurse certificate in 1909. In 1914, she went to New York City and continued her studies and earned the title of Registered Nurse at the New York Presbyterian Hospital.Return to Puerto Rico
In 1916, <mask> returned to her homeland and organized the Dr. Susoni clinic in the city of Arecibo. Also in that year, she founded and presided over The Association of Registered Nurses of Puerto Rico. Under her leadership the association was able to raise enough funds for the construction of a building to house the Club de Nurses, where convalescent nurses could reside. In 1917, <mask> wrote her first book Diccionario Médico para la Enfermera (Nurse's Medical Dictionary). In 1918, the Swine Flu swept through Army camps and training posts around the world including Puerto Rico, infecting one quarter of all soldiers and killing more than 55,000 American troops. <mask> was sent to Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she assisted Dr. Dolores Piñero and four male colleagues, when they opened a 400-bed hospital to care for infected patients and World War I veterans. <mask> served as the voluntary Director of Emergency Unit in the city of Mayagüez, helping the victims of the San Fermín earthquake.From 1919 to 1924 <mask> was the Director of Puerto Rico's Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing. During this time (1921), she traveled to New York and attended Columbia University. After leaving the Presbyterian Hospital she became director of the nursing at the Hospital Episcopal San Lucas (St. Lukes Hospital) in Ponce. While there she organized the nursing program and finally published her “Diccionario Medico para Enfermeras”, which she had written in 1917. In 1924, she worked as an educator and trainer of nurses for the Sanitation Department of Puerto Rico. In 1925, she was named director of the American Red Cross dispensary in the barrio of Puerta de Tierra in Santurce. She was hired by the mayor of San Juan, Roberto H. Todd Weels, to organize the nursing school in Santurce and named the Executive Secretary of the Association of Graduated Nurses of Puerto Rico.In 1926, <mask> founded a magazine for nurses called Puerto Rico.. She publicly criticized the deplorable conditions of the municipal hospital and was fired in 1927, by the mayor on the false accusation that she signed diplomas for nursing students who had not completed their clinical training requirements. She denied the charges but, was unable to sue the city because a law at the time forbade municipal employees from suing the city. Nurses Examining Board

In 1929, <mask> wrote a book titled Los Hechos Desconocidos (The Unknown Facts), which she dedicated to the Governor of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican Legislature and the Medical Association. The book was also dedicated to the Puerto Rican Nurses Association and the Association of Puerto Rican Women Surrogates. In her book she denounced the corruption, abuses and unhealthy practices in the municipal hospital. <mask> used her book to promote the establishment of a Nurse Examiners Board in Puerto Rico. As a Women’s Rights activist, she also denounced the discriminatory practices against women in the health care professions.<mask>’s book convinced James R. Beverley, the Interim Governor of Puerto Rico, to sign Ley 77 (Law 77) in May 1930. Previously the Medical Board, which was made up of male doctors who regulated nursing matters, had pressured the Governor not to sign the bill into law. This was because if the bill became law it would establish a Nurses Examining Board responsible for setting and enforcing standards of nursing education and practices. <mask> believed that the "Medical Class" discriminated against female nurses and stated this clearly in her book:

The law (Ley 77), influenced by <mask>’s written work, also stipulated that the Board of Medical Examiners include two nurses and established the Nurse Examiners Board. The passage of Ley 77 proved that women can operate both in the formal public sphere while working in a female oriented field. Founder of medical institutions in Puerto Rico
Amongst the institutions which she organized were the Amarosa Sanitarium in the town of Villalba (1929), the school of the Institute of Medical Surgery (1930), and the nursing school on the grounds of the School of Tropical Medicine in San Juan (1931). Dr. Clarence Gamble, an American physician, established a network of birth control clinics in Puerto Rico during the period of 1936 to 1939.He believed that Puerto Rican women and the women from other American colonies did not have the mental capacity and were too poor to understand and use diaphragms for birth control as those in the United States mainland. He inaugurated a program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation which would replace the use of diaphragms with foam powders, cremes and spermicidal jellies. He did not know that in the past Gonzalez had publicly battled with prominent physicians and named <mask> and Carmen Rivera <mask>, another nurse who was a Puerto Rican independence advocate, to take charge of the insular birth control program. <mask> organized and, from 1936 to 1940, headed the first clinic dedicated to maternal health in her hometown of Lares. However, the insular program lacked funding and failed. When the United States entered World War II, <mask> was named Director of the Nurses Services of the American Red Cross in Puerto Rico. Legacy

In 1978, <mask> became the first recipient of the Garrido Morales award, an honor bestowed upon her by the Governing Board of the Association of Public Health in Puerto Rico.She continued to provide medical services free of charge for the children in Guaynabo where she resided. She died in her home on July 25, 1981 . The Salud Pro-Mujer (Pro-Woman's Health) organization named an award the "ROSA GONZALEZ AWARD" which recognizes health professionals who have contributed to improving the health of women. Further reading
Further reading: Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico; By Laura Briggs; Publisher: University of California Press;  ;
Advancing The Kingdom Missionaries And Americanization In Puerto Rico, 1898 – 1930s; By: Ellen Walsh; Publisher: ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing; ;

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List of Puerto Ricans
History of women in Puerto Rico

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<mask>,  (born April 17, 1947) is a lawyer, executive, and former politician in Saskatchewan, Canada. She represented Regina Lakeview (1986–91) and Regina Hillsdale (1991–95) in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. Personal life
<mask> was born on 17 April 1947 in Val-d'Or, Quebec, and grew up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. She is a descendant of Pierre Poitras, a member of Louis Riel’s Provisional government in what is now Manitoba. Her ancestors were active in bringing Manitoba into Confederation in 1870. She is a citizen of Métis Nation—Saskatchewan. After receiving a BA (Philosophy) in 1969 and LLB degree (Jurisprudence Award) in 1970 from the University of Saskatchewan, Simard articled in Regina and was called to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1971.Simard has two children, Paul and Marin, from her first marriage. Career

Early career
In 1974, Simard became the first female Legislative Council and Law Clerk for the province of Saskatchewan. From 1978 to 1986, Simard practiced law in Regina, during which time she served as an agent of the Attorney General of Saskatchewan. From 1978 to 1983, Simard served as Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. During this time, she was also a consultant to the Government of Saskatchewan on the development of the Matrimonial Property Act, 1980, which gave equal sharing rights to spouses in a marriage, and on the amalgamation of the District Court and the Court of the Queen's Bench. From 1982 to 1985, Simard was consumer representative on the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. She was one of the first public members appointed to the Medical Council of Canada (1996), and later became the first public member (i.e.non-physician) to become President of the Medical Council of Canada (2002–2003). She was also a non-medical representative on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Nurses Association. Political career
Simard represented Regina Lakeview (1986–91) and Regina Hillsdale (1991–95) in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. She held numerous ministerial portfolios during this period, mostly notably during her time in the Official Opposition from 1986 to 1991 as the Opposition Health Critic, as well as the critic for women's issues, SaskPower, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, and the Ombudsman; and in government from 1991 to 1995 as the Minister of Health and Minister Responsible for the Status of Women (now Minister of Status of Women). At the time, Simard was only the second female lawyer to have been elected to serve in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. As Minister of Health, she was responsible for the strategy, vision, and development leading to a complete reform and restructuring of the health care system in Saskatchewan. She introduced a "wellness" model of health care, which emphasized primary health care and population health goals, converted many small rural hospitals to health centres, and established regional health districts and boards.This was a very challenging time for the Government of Saskatchewan following the difficult financial years, near default, and scandals faced by the Grant Devine government, establishment and changes to The Established Programs Financing Act (EPF) under the Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney governments that reduced federal healthcare funding transfers to the provinces, and Bill C-69 (1990) and Bill C-20 (1991) (Federal Restraint Law) that froze EPF for five years to the end of the 1994–1995 fiscal year and thereafter capped EPF increases to gross national product minus 3 per cent. Simard has been recognized as a leader in the field of health planning. Simard oversaw numerous other ministerial portfolios while in office, including the Treasury Board, SaskTel, Wascana Centre Authority, Health Services and Utilization Commission, Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation, Health Research Board, Women's Advisory Council, Centre of the Arts, Public Service Commission, and the Mental Health Advisory Council. Post-political career
Simard resigned from office in 1995 to return to the practice of law and was named Queen's Counsel in 1997. From 2000 to 2003, she was president and Chief Executive Officer of the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) before moving into the role of president and Chief Executive Officer of the Health Employers Association of British Columbia. In 2002, Simard received the Commemorative Medal for the Queen's Jubilee. Simard dedicated herself to serving on boards, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (in which she is also part of the Indigenous Committee), the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, the Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Nursing Human Resources, among others.Simard has also served on the Canadian Medical Association Task Force on Physician Supply in Canada and the Canadian College of Health Services Executives. In 2010, Simard served as Professional Affiliate at the University of Saskatchewan, where she delivered a class on Health Reform at the School of Public Health She was awarded Alumni of Influence that year by the university's College of Arts and Science. Simard is an honorary member of the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses’ Association, a past non-medical representative on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Nurses Association, and a life member of the Saskatchewan Lung Association. Simard is also a recipient of the 2011 Katharine Pearson Caregiver Award from the Victorian Order of Nurses. In fall of 2018, Simard took the position of Chief Operating Officer at the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan (MN-S) where she focused on Nation-building. In the summer of 2020, Simard announced that she would be stepping away from that post. References

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Living people
Canadian Queen's Counsel
People from Val-d'Or
Politicians from Regina, Saskatchewan
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<mask> (20 March 1939 – 22 June 2015) was an Irish hurler who played as a right wing-forward for the Tipperary senior team. Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, <mask> first played competitive hurling whilst at school in Thurles CBS. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of fourteen when he first linked up with the Tipperary minor team. He made his senior debut in the 1957–58 National League. <mask> went on to play a key part for Tipperary during a hugely successful era for the team, and won six All-Ireland medals, nine Munster medals and seven National Hurling League medals. An All-Ireland runner-up on three occasions, <mask> also captained the team to All-Ireland victory in 1962 and 1965. As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team for twelve years, <mask> won eight Railway Cup medals.At club level he won ten championship medals with Thurles Sarsfield's. At the time of his retirement <mask>'s career tally of 18 goals and 176 points ranked him as Tipperary's all-time top scorer. It was a record which stood until 24 June 2007 when it was surpassed by Eoin Kelly. His father, Gerry, his uncle, Tommy, and his brother, <mask>, also enjoyed All-Ireland success with Tipperary. Throughout his career <mask> made 39 championship appearances. His retirement came following Tipperary's defeat by Limerick in the 1973 championship. In retirement from playing <mask> became involved in team management and coaching.At club level he guided Portlaoise to championship success before later taking charge of the Laois senior team. <mask> is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of the game. During his playing days he won three Cú Chulainn awards, as well as being named Texaco Hurler of the Year in 1965. He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including at right corner-forward on the Hurling Team of the Century in 1984 and at left corner-forward on the Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000. Playing career

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<mask> attended Thurles CBS and enjoyed some success. In 1956 he played a key part for the college in the provincial championship. A 2–5 to 2–3 defeat of the North Monastery, Cork gave <mask> a Harty Cup medal.Club

<mask> played his club hurling with Thurles Sarsfield's and enjoyed much success in a career that spanned three decades. He first came to prominence as a member of the club's minor hurling team, winning four championship medals in-a-row between 1954 and 1957. By 1956 <mask>, as a sixteen-year-old, joined the Thurles Sarsfield's senior team. It was a successful debut season, as he won his first championship medal following a 3–8 to 1–4 defeat of Lorrha. It was a hugely successful era for <mask> and Sarsfield's, as he added further championship medals to his collection in 1957, following a 4–14 to 4–4 defeat of southern "combo" Na Piarsaigh, and in 1958 as Toomevara were downed by 4–11 to 3–3. <mask> won a fourth successive championship medal in 1959 as Kilruane MacDonagh's were defeated by 3–12 to 2–6, in spite of both teams being on level terms with just ten minutes remaining. Thurles Sarfield's great run of success came to an end in 1960, however, in spite of facing defeat on the furling field, <mask> won a championship medal with the Thurles Croke's football team following their defeat of Clonmel Commercials.While many thought that Thurles Sarsfield's were now in decline as a hurling power, the team bounced back in 1961. A 3–4 to 0–9 defeat of Toomevara gave <mask> his fifth championship medal. It was the beginning of another glorious era for the team, as further defeats of Moycarkey-Borris in 1962, Roscrea in 1963 and Holycross-Ballycahill in 1964 brought <mask>'s championship medal tally to eight. In 1965 <mask>'s side had the chance to make history by winning a record-equalling fifth successive championship. Carrick Davins provided the opposition and took Sarsfield's to a replay. A 3–11 to 2–7 victory at the second time of asking gave <mask> a ninth championship medal. Almost a decade past before <mask>, who by now was captain of the team, enjoyed one final success.A 3–6 to 1–10 defeat of Silvermines gave him a remarkable tenth championship medal. Minor

<mask> was just fifteen years old when he made his debut the Tipperary minor hurling team as a goalkeeper on 20 June 1954 in a 6-5 to 0-1 Munster semi-final defeat of Clare. Later that year he collected his first Munster medal following a 3–5 to 2–3 defeat of Limerick Limerick. The subsequent All-Ireland final on 5 September 1954 saw Dublin provide the opposition, however, Tipperary were defeated by 2–7 to 2–3. It was after this defeat that <mask> hinted that he wanted to be moved from the position of goalkeeper to a more favoured position in the forward line. His wish was granted and he won a second consecutive Munster medal in 1955 following an 8–11 to 2–5 trouncing of Waterford. <mask> later appeared in a second All-Ireland final on 4 September 1955 with Galway providing the opposition.His move to the forward line was a worthwhile venture as he scored a remarkable 2–8. Tipperary won the game by 5–15 to 2–5 giving <mask> an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship medal. In 1956 <mask> collected a third successive Munster medal as Waterford were downed once again on a 10–10 to 4–4 score line. On 23 September 1956 Tipperary faced Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. A 4–16 to 1–5 trouncing, with <mask> contributing 2-3, secured his second successive All-Ireland medal. <mask> was appointed captain of the Tipperary minor team in 1957, in what was his last year in the grade. A 3–8 to 1–4 defeat of Limerick gave him a record fourth successive Munster medal.For the second year in-a-row, Kilkenny provided the opposition in the All-Ireland final. In a close game Tipperary eventually triumphed by 4–7 to 3–7. The victory gave <mask> a record-breaking third successive All-Ireland medal as well as the honour of accepting the cup

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First victories

<mask> was still in the minor grade when he joined the Tipperary senior team for the 1956–57 National Hurling League. It was a successful campaign as <mask> collected a National Hurling League medal following a 3–11 to 2–7 defeat of Kilkenny in the decider. He made his senior championship debut, while still captain of the minor team, in a 5-2 to 1-11 Munster semi-final defeat by Cork on 30 June 1957. In 1958 <mask> won his first Munster medal as Tipperary regained the provincial crown following a 4–12 to 1–5 trouncing of reigning champions Waterford. Tipperary later defeated Kilkenny in the All-Ireland semi-final, with <mask> giving a master class by scoring 1-8, before lining out against Galway in the All-Ireland decider on 7 September 1958.Galway got a bye into the final without picking up a hurley. Liam Devaney, Donie Nealon and Larry Keane all scored goals for Tipperary in the first-half, while Tony Wall sent a seventy-yard free untouched to the Galway net. Tipperary won the game by 4–9 to 2–5 giving <mask> his first All-Ireland medal. He also ended the championship as the top scorer with 2–23. <mask> won a second National League medal in 1959 following a 0–15 to 0–7 defeat of Waterford, however, Tipperary subsequently surrendered their provincial and All-Ireland crowns in remarkable fashion to the same opposition. Tipperary asserted their dominance in 1960 by retaining the National League title with a 2–15 to 3–8 defeat of Cork. It was <mask>'s third winners' medal in that competition.He later won a second Munster medal, contributing 1–8, following a narrow 4–13 to 4–11 defeat of Cork in what has been described as the toughest game of hurling ever played. This victory allowed Tipperary to advance directly to an All-Ireland final meeting with Wexford on 4 September 1960. A certain amount of over-confidence was obvious in the Tipperary camp, particularly in trainer Phil Purcell's comment that no player was capable of marking <mask>. The game ended in remarkable circumstances as the crowd invaded the pitch with a minute to go, mistaking the referee's whistle for the end of the game. When the crowd were finally moved off the pitch Tipperary continued playing with only twelve men, but Wexford won on a score line of 2–15 to 0–11. It was <mask>'s first All-Ireland defeat, however, he still ended the season as the championship's top scorer. He later won his first Oireachtas medal following a 4-11 to 2-10 defeat of old rivals Cork in the decider.Total dominance

1961 saw <mask> collect a fourth National League medal following a 6–6 to 4–9 defeat of Waterford. He later added a third Munster medal to his collection, as Cork were downed once again by 3–6 to 0–7. The game was not without incident as <mask>'s ankle was broken following a wild stroke from <mask>. He was an immediate doubt for the All-Ireland final as the ankle was reluctantly put in plaster. <mask> walked several miles every evening to strengthen the broken bone, however, when the plaster was removed the ankle was still badly discoloured and swollen. On the Wednesday prior to the All-Ireland final, he failed a fitness test and was a doubt for the game. On 3 September 1961 Dublin provided the opposition in the All-Ireland decider and <mask> was named in the starting fifteen.Prior to the match he received two injections on either side of his ankle that deadened the leg from his toes to his knee. The treatment was risky as <mask> would have no way of knowing if his ankle broke. He received two more injections at half time, however, towards the end of the game his ankle did give way but he couldn't be replaced as Tipperary had used all of their substitutes. The game itself was a close run thing, however, Tipperary held on to win by 0–16 to 1–12. It was <mask>'s second All-Ireland medal, while he finished the championship as top scorer once again. He later won a second successive Oireachtas medal following a 2-13 to 3-4 defeat of Wexford in a replay. In 1962 Tipperary were still the kingpins of Munster as <mask> was appointed captain of the team.A 5–14 to 2–3 trouncing of Waterford in the decider gave him a fourth Munster medal. Tipperary's nemesis of two years earlier, Wexford, waited in Croke Park to test them once again in the subsequent All-Ireland final on 2 September 1962. Wexford, however, were not the force of old and the side got off to possibly the worst start ever by a team in a championship decider. After just ninety seconds the Leinster champions were down by two goals, however, the game turned out to be much closer than people expected. Tipperary eventually secured the win on a score line of 3–10 to 2–11, however, <mask> had to be stretchered off the field with a fractured collarbone. As a result of this he was denied the opportunity of collecting the Liam MacCarthy Cup. For the third year in-a-row he ended the campaign as the championship's top scorer.In spite of being denied by Waterford in their quest for a third successive All-Ireland title, <mask> won a third Oireachtas medal in 1963 following a 4-15 to 3-12 defeat of Wexford. His performances throughout the year also earned him a Cú Chulainn award. Tipperary bounced back in 1964 with <mask> collecting a fifth National League medal following a 4-16 to 6-6 defeat of New York. The team subsequently cantered past Cork by fourteen points in the provincial decider, giving <mask> a fifth Munster medal. The All-Ireland final on 6 September 1964 saw Kilkenny enter the game as firm favourites against <mask>'s side. John "Mackey" McKenna scored Tipperary's first goal after ten minutes as the Munster champions took a 1–8 to 0–6 interval lead. The second half saw Tipperary score goals for fun, with Donie Nealon getting a

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After surrendering their provincial crown in 1966, Tipperary bounced back the following year, with <mask> winning a seventh Munster medal following a 4–12 to 2–6 defeat of Clare. On 3 September 1967 Kilkenny faced Tipperary in the All-Ireland decider. Tipperary looked like continuing their hoodoo over their near rivals as they took a 2–6 to 1–3 lead at half-time. Goalkeeper Ollie Walsh was the hero for Kilkenny as he made a series of spectacular saves, however, the team lost Eddie Keher and Tom Walsh to injury in the second half.In spite of this, Kilkenny laid to rest a bogey that Tipperary had over the team since 1922, and a 3–8 to 2–7 victory resulted in defeat for <mask>'s team. <mask> won a seventh National League medal in 1968 as New York were defeated on an aggregate score of 6–27 to 4–22. Tipperary retained their status as provincial kingpins once again and a 2–13 to 1–7 trouncing of Cork gave <mask> an eighth Munster medal. For the fourth time of the decade, Wexford were Tipperary's opponents in the subsequent All-Ireland final on 1 September 1968. At half-time it looked as if Tipperary were cruising to another victory as they took an eight-point lead. Just after the restart Wexford had a Christy Jacob goal disallowed before Tony Doran scored a goal after just six minutes. Tipperary fought back, however, it was too late as Wexford won by 5–8 to 3–12.In spite of this setback, <mask> finished the year with a sixth oireachtas medal following a narrow 1-9 to 1-6 defeat of Cork. In 1970 <mask> won a seventh and final Oireachtas medal following a 1-12 to 0-8 defeat of recently crowned All-Ireland champions Cork in the final. Last hurrah

By 1971 <mask>'s career was drawing to a close. The back trouble that had dogged him throughout his life was taking its toll. <mask> lost his place on the starting fifteen for the start of the championship, however, he was back on the team for the Munster decider against Limerick. A 4–16 to 3–18 victory gave him a ninth Munster medal. On 5 September 1971 Kilkenny faced Tipperary in the All-Ireland final, the first to be broadcast in colour by Telefís Éireann and the only eighty-minute meeting between the two sides.<mask> started the game on the bench. Kilkenny's ever-dependable goalkeeper, Ollie Walsh, had a nightmare of a game in which he conceded five goals, one of which passed through his legs, while that year's Hurler of the Year, "Babs" Keating, played out the closing stages of the game in his bare feet. <mask> came on as a substitute for Séamus Hogan for the last ten minutes as Tipperary emerged the victors on a score line of 5–17 to 5–14. It was his sixth All-Ireland medal, making him one of only a handful of players to have claimed winners' medals in three separate decades. <mask> continued to play for Tipperary for the next two years but time was now running out. Broken fingers, ankles, knuckles, collar bones and premature arthritis meant that he was no longer able to command an automatic place on the team. In 1973 the regular Tipperary goalkeeper, Tadhg Murphy, was forced to emigrate to England.With no other goalkeeper available <mask> was asked to play in goal. Although reluctant he lined out between the posts in the respective  Munster quarter and semi-final victories over Waterford and Cork. Murphy returned for the Munster final against Limerick and <mask> was dropped to the substitutes' bench. Tipperary lost the game and <mask> retired from inter-county hurling shortly afterwards. Inter-provincial

<mask> was first picked for the Munster inter-provincial team in 1958. <mask> was at left wing-forward, with his boyhood her Christy Ring at full-forward, for the inter-provincial decider against arch rivals Leinster. A narrow 3-7 to 3-5 victory gave <mask> his first Railway Cup medal.It was a hugely successful era for the southern province as subsequent defeats of Connacht in 1959 and Leinster in 1960 and 1961 secured four successive Railway Cup medals for <mask>. In 1962 <mask> was captain of the team as his bid for a fifth successive winners' medal faltered with a 1-11 to 1-9 defeat by Leinster. He retained the captaincy the following year, however, the final with Leinster ended with a 5-5 apiece draw. The replay was also a close affair, however, Munster triumphed by 2-8 to 2-7. Not only did <mask> collect a fifth Railway Cup medal but he also had the honour of lifting the cup. Defeat was Munster's lot over the next two years, however, <mask> was restored to the captaincy once again in 1966. Another narrow 3-13 to 3-11 defeat of Leinster secured his sixth Railway Cup medal and his second as captain of the side.After being dropped from the starting fifteen in 1967 and dropped altogether from the team in 1968, <mask> was back at right corner-forward in 1969. Munster faced a scare in the decider that year as Connacht secured a 2-9 apiece draw. The replay was more conclusive with <mask> winning a seventh Railway Cup medal following a 3-13 to 4-4 victory. <mask> was now in the twilight of his career, however, he was picked for the Munster team for the twelfth time in thirteen years in 1970. A 2-15 to 0-9 trouncing of old rivals Leinster secured his eighth Railway Cup medal. Coaching career

Portlaoise

In 1980 <mask> took over as coach of the Portlaoise senior team with Tom Lalor and guided the team to the championship decider. A 3-4 to 1-8 defeat by Camross was the result on that occasion.Both Portlaoise and Camross met in the decider once again in 1981. A narrow 2-13 to 4-5 victory for Portlaoise gave <mask> his first success as coach with the club. It was the first of four successive championships for Portlaoise as subsequent defeats of Errill in 1982, Camross in 1983 and Harps in 1984 secured the four-in-a-row. Five-in-a-row proved beyond Portlaoise who were defeated by old rivals Camross in the 1985 final on a score line of 1-5 to 0-7. Laois

In October 1985 <mask> was appointed coach of the Laois senior hurling team. His first season in charge saw Laois lose all but one of their league games before being relegated. In the subsequent Leinster Championship, Laois had a convincing win over Westmeath in their opening game before succumbing to All-Ireland champions Offaly on a score line of 1-23 to 4-9 in the provincial semi-final.Laois made some progress in Division 2 of the league during 1986-87, including a defeat of <mask>'s native county Tipperary at Semple Stadium, however, they failed to gain promotion to the top tier. The subsequent championship campaign ended at the provincial semi-final stage, once again at the hands of Offaly. <mask>'s side failed to claim any major victories during the 1987-88 league campaign, while Laois's interest in the championship ended with a 3-10 to 1-8 quarter-final defeat by Wexford. Recognition

A decade after his retirement, <mask> received the ultimate honour during the GAA's centenary year in 1984 when he was chosen at right corner-forward on the Hurling Team of the Century. He was later switched to left corner-forward on the Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000, before being named at right wing-forward on the Tipperary Hurling Team of the Century and at centre-forward on the Munster Hurling Team of the Millennium. On 13 March 2008 <mask> was profiled on the TG4 television programme Laochra Gael. As part of the GAA 125 celebrations in 2009, <mask> was chosen as the Tipperary representative to be part of a commemorative torch parade through Thurles on the day of the Munster final.As a native of the town, <mask> had the honour of carrying the torch into Semple Stadium where it was presented to the chairman of the Munster Council. In April 2012 the <mask> Road was named in his honour. The road links the Nenagh road and the Templemore road. Following his death in June 2015, the tributes poured in from across the hurling world. Former teammate Michael "Babs" Keating recalled a conversation with <mask>'s boyhood hero Christy Ring: "I suppose the best tribute I could pay him was when I was having lunch with Ring in 1966 or ‘67 in Mallow and in those days all the talk was about hurling no matter who came to the table. He was putting me under pressure about who was the best ever but as we walked out Ring said, "Babs, if <mask> was as strong as you and I nobody would ever ask who was the best". Probably the greatest compliment that was ever paid to any hurler."Contemporary Kilkenny hurler, Eddie Keher, said: "He was brilliant. I was always a great fan of his even though we were great rivals. <mask> was also a gentleman both on and off the field and such a beautiful striker of the ball." Former teammate Len Gaynor said: "<mask> was a master of his craft, that was for sure. He was one of the best hurlers ever, unbelievably skilful, a terrific forward. You are talking about Ring, Mackey, <mask>, Eddie Keher – he's in those four right up there." Legendary Gaelic games commentator Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh said: "He's ranked among the very, very best ever and proof of that was, he was on the Team of the Millennium, the Team of the Century.He was unique." Personal life

Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, <mask> was one of six children. His father, <mask>, s cobbler by trade, had been the substitute goalkeeper on the Tipperary team that won the 1937 and 1945 All-Ireland titles. His uncle, <mask>, won five All-Ireland medals with Tipperary between 1937 and 1951. <mask> was educated locally at Thurles CBS, however, he had few academic leanings and virtually no interest in school. His mother would do his homework for him while <mask> practiced his hurling skills with his sheepdog Pal in the shadow of the famous Thurles Sportsfield. It was with his dog that <mask> learned the basic skills of hurling and, in particular, the need to control the sliotar.After his schooling <mask> worked as a cobbler with his father before working at the Assumption Hospital in Thurles. <mask> died unexpectedly at his home in Thurles on 22 June 2015. 3
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