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<mask> (born 6 June 1962) is an English sports correspondent and former footballer. Born to a Gambian father and English mother, he was adopted into a foster family in Stoke-on-Trent at an early age. He played non-league football for local side Leek Town, before joining nearby Football League side Port Vale in 1981. He turned professional at the club the following year, though would only enjoy an extended run in the first-team during the 1983–84 season. He signed with First Division club Leicester City in June 1984. He failed to find success with Leicester however and was sold on to Crystal Palace in November 1986. He helped Palace to win promotion out of the Second Division via the play-offs in 1989 and went on to play on the losing side of the 1990 FA Cup final, before winning the Full Members' Cup in 1991.Building an effective strike partnership with Ian Wright, he scored 114 goals in 286 league and cup games for Crystal Palace and was also named on the PFA Second Division Team of the Year in 1987–88 and as the club's Player of The Year in 1990. He was sold to Premier League rivals Sheffield Wednesday for a fee of £1,375,000 in September 1992, where he would stay for the next five years, scoring a further 70 goals in 170 games in all competitions. He featured in the 1993 League Cup final and 1993 FA Cup final, which ended in defeat to Arsenal both times. He lost his first-team place in the 1996–97 season and was loaned out to Millwall, also spending time at Swiss club Sion, who were unable to play him in competitive fixtures after failing to come to an agreement with Sheffield Wednesday. He eventually signed with Charlton Athletic in March 1997 and helped the club to win promotion to the Premier League with victory in the 1998 First Division play-off final, before announcing his retirement the following year shortly before his 38th-birthday. After retiring as a player he worked as a pundit on various television and radio programmes. He married singer Michelle Gayle in 1996 and divorced in 2007; they have one son.Early life
<mask> was born in Stoke-on-Trent, to <mask>, a forklift truck driver from The Gambia, and <mask>, a white English woman. His mother left home in November 1964, and his father put <mask> and his brother, Phillip, up for adoption. His first foster home was with Helena Parton, where he and his brother stayed with while his sisters lived with his mother, who divorced Edwin in 1968. Parton ceased fostering the two boys in 1969 after she developed health problems and the boys went on to live with a new foster family in Kidsgrove, Bob and Irene Davies, who were experienced foster parents. The rest of his childhood was relatively happy and stable under their care until he left home at the age of 18. As the only black children at Dove Bank Primary, the two brothers were a target for bullies and were put in the same class to help the pair feel more comfortable. A clumsy attempt to combat the racism from the headteacher in a school assembly worked and the boys began to be accepted by the other children due to their natural footballing ability.<mask>, frontman of rock band Exit State, claims to be a half-brother of <mask>. Football career

Port Vale
Bright spent a year as a youth-team player at Port Vale before being released at the age of 16. He then played part-time football at Cheshire County League outfit Leek Town and for Sunday league side Mason's Arms, before he rejoined Port Vale as an amateur in October 1981 on the recommendation of Mason's Arms co-manager Russell Bromage. Manager John McGrath handed him his full debut on the last day of the 1981–82 season, in a 2–0 win over Torquay United at Vale Park, two weeks after coming on as a substitute in a goalless home draw with York City on 1 May 1982. In the game against Torquay, he provided as assist for Paul Bowles, although missed an opportunity to score himself, telling a local reporter that, "I was waiting for the ball to bounce instead of having a go straight away". He went on to sign an initial one-year part-time contract on £10-a-week, while also working as an apprentice for Staffs Hydraulics in Kidsgrove. He played just once in the 1982–83 Fourth Division promotion campaign, scoring Vale's second goal in a 2–0 home win over Hereford United on 9 October.At the end of the season he turned down an initial full-time professional contract offer as it paid less than his factory job, though he did sign a revised offer of £110-a-week with appearances and goal incentives. <mask> came to prominence for the "Valiants" under the stewardship of new boss John Rudge towards the end of the 1983–84 season, scoring ten goals in 31 games, though this was not enough to save the club from relegation out of the Third Division. Graham Barnett advised him to reject John Rudge's offer of a two-year contract, and <mask> was consequently sold to Leicester City for £33,333 in June 1984. This fee was later doubled due to a top-up clause. <mask> turned down a contract offer from Sheffield Wednesday manager Howard Wilkinson as he had already promised Leicester manager Gordon Milne he would sign for Leicester. Leicester City
Bright's contract with Leicester ran for three years and earned him £300-a-week, nearly tripling his Port Vale wages, as well giving him a £10,000 signing-on bonus. The "Foxes" struggled in the lower half of the First Division table in the 1984–85 season and <mask> was limited to 18 appearances and spent most of his time on the bench as Gary Lineker and Alan Smith were the club's established strike partnership.Lineker finished as the First Division's top-scorer, but was sold to Everton in summer 1985, leaving <mask> with an opportunity to establish himself in the starting eleven at Filbert Street. <mask> opened the 1985–86 season by scoring two goals in a 3–1 home win over Everton. However, he struggled to match this performance for the rest of the campaign and lost confidence, which was worsened when a section of the Leicester crowd turned on him with racially aggravated abuse. At a low point in his career, he was diagnosed with depression after seeking treatment for sleeping problems. Milne was moved upstairs at Leicester at the start of the 1986–87 season to become the club's general manager and <mask> was not rated by new manager Bryan Hamilton. <mask> turned down the offer of a move to Brian Horton's Hull City, as he did not want to move too far north, although took Horton's advice to ask Leicester for a move as the club were not willing to let <mask> reach 50 club appearances and so trigger another top-up payment to Port Vale. Crystal Palace
Bright was signed to Crystal Palace by manager Steve Coppell for a £75,000 fee in November 1986.The initial contract was only a temporary three-month deal as there were medical concerns with his Osteitis pubis, meaning that if he was unfit at the end of this period he would be returned to Leicester. However, he went on to sign a permanent contract after completing the trial period. Palace already had a successful strike partnership in Ian Wright and Andy Gray, though Coppell moved Gray into central midfield to accommodate <mask> up front. The "Eagles" were pressing for promotion out of the Second Division, but finished two points outside the play-offs in 1986–87. <mask> was named on the PFA Team of the Year and earned the Golden Boot for the highest scorer in the division in 1987–88 with 24 goals, although the club finished one place and two points outside of the play-offs. A third-place finish in 1988–89 secured them a place in the play-offs and <mask> scored in the semi-final victory over Swindon Town, which helped Palace to reach the play-off final; Palace then beat Blackburn Rovers 4–3 on aggregate to win promotion to the top-flight. Palace competed well in the First Division, except for the trip to Anfield where they were beaten by a club-record 9–0 margin by Liverpool, an experience <mask> described as "numbing".He ended the 1989–90 season with 12 league goals, including a brace against Manchester United at Old Trafford, helping the team to finish five points above the relegation zone. The club's greatest achievement would come in the FA Cup however, as they gained revenge on Liverpool by beating them 4–3 after extra-time in the semi-finals at Villa Park to secure a place in the 1990 FA Cup final, with <mask> scoring the first of Palace's four goals. The club's first ever FA Cup final appearance, they held Manchester United to a replay after an initial 3–3 draw at Wembley Stadium, but lost the replay 1–0 to a late Lee Martin goal as Alex Ferguson won his first trophy as Manchester United manager. <mask> was particularly disappointed as he felt he had not performed in the original game. One consolation for <mask> was that he was named as Crystal Palace's Player of The Year for the 1989–90 season. As Palace impressed in the First Division throughout 1990–91, <mask> proved his predatory skills at the highest level with a sequence of seven top-flight goals in just ten midwinter games as the "Eagles" secured their highest ever league finish of third. The potency of <mask> and Wright's partnership was demonstrated on 25 September, when both players scored hat-tricks in an 8–0 win over Southend United at Selhurst Park in the League Cup.Palace went on to win the Full Members' Cup, beating Bristol Rovers, Brighton & Hove Albion, Luton Town, Norwich City and then Everton in the Wembley final, with Wright scoring a brace in extra-time. After Wright had left the club, <mask> continued his great form for Palace and hit a total of 22 goals in the 1991–92 season. However, Coppell failed to adequately replace Wright, and Marco Gabbiadini was bought and sold on within the space of four months for a loss of £600,000. <mask> scored on the opening day of the 1992–93 season, the start of the newly created Premier League, before being sold on to Sheffield Wednesday. Sheffield Wednesday
Bright joined Sheffield Wednesday in September 1992 in a cash plus player exchange deal involving fellow striker Paul Williams that was rated at a total transfer value of £1,375,000. The Wednesday players were experienced and at the peak of their careers; manager Trevor Francis was eager to win trophies at Hillsborough and felt <mask> would prove a good partner to club stalwart David Hirst, particularly with the highly talented Chris Waddle in midfield. After scoring six goals in the League Cup, <mask> played in the League Cup final, which ended in a 2–1 defeat to Arsenal.Wednesday also reached the final of the FA Cup, where they would again face Arsenal, with <mask> scoring an extra-time header against derby rivals Sheffield United to secure victory in the semi-finals. The final proved to be a disappointment however, as he controversially elbowed Arsenal defender Andy Linighan in the face, causing a broken nose. Later, with the scores level in the last minute of extra time, a heavily bandaged Linighan out-jumped <mask> from a corner to score the winning goal. After the game, <mask> phoned Linighan to apologise. <mask> finished as the club's top-scorer for three consecutive seasons, eventually became the "Owls" highest goalscorer in the Premier League as of December 2019, scoring 48 goals between 1992 and 1996. With 19 goals, he was the Premier League's seventh-highest scorer in 1993–94. He then hit 13 goals in the 1994–95 season, in Francis's last season in charge.He signed a new two-year contract in summer 1995, having rejected an approach from West Ham United manager Harry Redknapp. Wednesday then finished 15th in the league in 1995–96 under the stewardship of David Pleat, with <mask> scoring 14 goals in all competitions despite playing a complete league game only 15 times. Pleat paid £2.7 million for Huddersfield Town forward Andy Booth in July 1996, signalling the end of <mask>'s time at Hillsborough. Having been almost entirely frozen out of the first-team during the 1996–97 season, <mask> was loaned to South London derby rivals Millwall in the Second Division and scored on his debut for the "Lions" in a 1–1 draw at AFC Bournemouth. <mask> began training with Swiss club Sion in January 1997. He left soon after due to unpaid wages and issues with his transfer fee with Sheffield Wednesday. Despite being unwanted at Leicester, the club still demanded a transfer fee of £60,000, which Sion chairman Christian Constantin refused to pay, which meant that <mask> trained with the squad at Stade Tourbillon but was unable to feature in any competitive games.Despite this, he enjoyed his time training under manager Alberto Bigon and alongside Roberto Assis, the elder brother and later agent of Ronaldinho. Charlton Athletic
<mask> eventually signed with Charlton Athletic in March 1997 on a contract to run until the end of the 1996–97 season. After two substitute appearances, he scored a brace in his first start for the "Addicks", in a 2–1 win over Portsmouth at The Valley on 19 April. Manager Alan Curbishley was keen on experienced players to bolster his young squad, therefore signed <mask> to a one-year deal in the summer. He scored seven goals in the 1997–98 campaign to help Charlton to a fourth-place finish in the First Division and a place in the play-offs. Charlton overcame Ipswich Town in the semi-finals and then beat Sunderland in the play-off final, which was won 7–6 on penalties after a 4–4 draw; <mask> started the final, although did not take a penalty in the shoot-out as he was taken off in extra-time. He then agreed a new one-year contract, accepting a role mainly as a squad player and experienced pro for the younger players to learn from.Charlton failed to survive in the Premier League however, and <mask> retired from professional football at the end of the 1998–99 season. <mask> wrote in his autobiography that he earned a total of £1.2 million from his 18-year career as a professional player. Media career
After retiring, <mask> became a football correspondent on The Big Breakfast and co-presented The <mask> Show with former teammate Ian Wright on BBC Radio 5 Live. He also commentates on some international matches, often alongside Jonathan Pearce and Steve Wilson on Match of the Day. He has worked as a sports correspondent for the BBC on BBC London News, Football Focus, Fighting Talk, 5 live Sport, and on Final Score. He has also provided punditry for Match magazine and British Eurosport. In summer 2009, he joined the Crystal Palace academy set-up, along with his former teammate John Salako.He was inducted into the City of Stoke-on-Trent Hall of Fame in 2019. He published his autobiography, My Story - from foster care to footballer, in November 2019. Personal life

He met British singer and actress Michelle Gayle in 1995 and the couple married in Las Vegas the following year. They divorced in 2007, although they remain as friends. Their son, Isaiah, was born in April 2000. <mask> has completed six half marathons since his retirement in 1999, all of them in the Great North Run. He is also a regular competitor in the London Marathon, raising funds for cancer research in 2000, the Willow Foundation in 2005 and The Rhys Daniels Trust in 2006.Statistics
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Football League Second Division play-offs: 1989
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FA Cup runner-up: 1992–93
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<mask> (; born October 24, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 32nd governor of New Mexico since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, <mask> previously served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2013 to 2019. <mask> served as the state secretary of health from 2004 to 2007 and as Bernalillo County commissioner from 2010 to 2012. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, defeating Janice Arnold-Jones. In 2016, <mask> was selected as the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. She won the Democratic nomination for governor of New Mexico in 2018 and defeated Republican Steve Pearce on November 6, 2018. In 2019, James Hallinan, a former campaign staffer, accused <mask> of sexual misconduct.In April 2021, she reached a $62,500 settlement with Hallinan. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and grew up in Santa Fe. Her father, Llewellyn "Buddy" <mask>, practiced dentistry into his 80s until he died in March 2011. Her mother, Sonja, was a homemaker. <mask>'s sister Kimberly was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of two and died at 21. <mask> <mask> says that her ancestors have inhabited New Mexico for 12 generations. She is part of the prominent Lujan political family in New Mexico, many of whose members have served in elected and appointed positions in government.<mask> graduated from St. Michael's High School. She received a Bachelor of Arts in university studies from the University of New Mexico in 1981, where she was a work study student in the engineering department and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. In 1982, she married Gregory Alan <mask>. She also worked as a technical writing intern for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In 1987, <mask> <mask> earned a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Early political career
<mask> <mask> served as director of the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department under Bruce King, Gary Johnson, and Bill Richardson. During Richardson's tenure, the position was elevated to the state cabinet level.In 2004, he named <mask> <mask> as New Mexico Secretary of Health and she served in the position until 2007. <mask> <mask> was later elected to the Bernalillo County Commission, serving from 2010 to 2012. U.S. House of Representatives

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2008

<mask> <mask> resigned as Secretary of Health in order to run for the United States House of Representatives in the 2008 elections, losing in the Democratic primary to Martin Heinrich, who won with 44% of the vote. New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron ranked second with 25% and <mask>-<mask> ranked third with 24%. 2012

<mask> <mask> sought the Democratic nomination for the House again in 2012 after Heinrich decided to run for the United States Senate. She won the nomination, defeating Marty Chavez and Eric Griego. She defeated Janice Arnold-Jones, a former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, in the November general election, 59%–41%.2014

<mask> <mask> defeated Republican Mike Frese in the 2014 elections, 59% to 41%. 2016

In 2016, <mask> <mask> defeated Republican Richard Priem, receiving 179,380 votes (65.1%) to Priem's 96,061 (34.9%). Tenure
<mask> <mask> was sworn in as a member of Congress on January 3, 2013. In 2016, she was one of nine members of Congress who took a trip to Baku that was later found to have been secretly funded by the government of Azerbaijan; she had to turn over gifts the country gave her to the House Clerk after an ethics investigation. Both the Office of Congressional Ethics and House Ethics Committee found lawmakers and aides had no way of knowing the trip was being funded improperly. Also in 2016, <mask> <mask> was selected as the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. <mask> <mask> resigned her House seat as of December 31, 2018 to assume the governorship of New Mexico the following day.Committee assignments
 Committee on Agriculture
 United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition
 United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research (Ranking Member)
 Committee on the Budget

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 Congressional Native American Caucus
 Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues

Governor of New Mexico

Elections

2018

On December 13, 2016, one week after Tom Udall announced he would not run for governor of New Mexico, <mask> <mask> became the first person to announce her candidacy to succeed Susana Martinez, who was prohibited from running because of term limits. On June 5, 2018, she won the Democratic primary to become the party's nominee. On November 6, she was elected governor, defeating the Republican nominee, U.S. Representative Steve Pearce, with 56.9% of the vote. 2022

<mask> <mask> is running for reelection in 2022. Tenure
<mask> <mask> was sworn in on January 1, 2019. In September 2019, she announced a plan to make public universities in New Mexico tuition-free to state residents. On September 5, 2020, <mask> <mask> was named a co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition Team, which was planning Joe Biden's presidential transition.In November, <mask> <mask> was named a candidate for United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden Administration. On December 3, 2020, she was elected chair of the Democratic Governors Association for 2021, having served as vice chair in 2020. In February 2021, an investigative team from KOB (TV) found reports of more than $6,500 worth of groceries bought from the governor's contingency fund to the governor's residence. "According to receipts made public through an Inspection of Public Records Act request, the items include anything from laundry detergent to Wagyu beef, tuna steaks, top sirloin and hundreds of dollars in alcohol purchases." In May 2021, <mask> <mask> and 12 others were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the former executive director of the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, alleging that she was not compensated at the same rate as her male counterparts. In August 2021, <mask> <mask> signed an executive order joining Biden's "30x30" land goal. Political positions

Abortion
In 1969, the New Mexico Legislature passed a law that made it a felony for someone to provide a woman with an abortion unless it was needed to save a woman's life, or because her pregnancy was a result of rape or incest.The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade barred states from regulating abortion in the first trimester; consequently, New Mexico's 1969 abortion law became unenforceable. In her 2019 State of the State address, <mask> <mask> stated her support for a repeal of the 1969 law; she said, "'The old criminal abortion law of this state, only one of nine left in the entire country, must go. Bring me that bill and I will sign it'". <mask> <mask> published an op-ed in support of repeal on March 3, 2019. Repeal legislation passed the New Mexico House of Representatives; however, that legislation was defeated in the Democratic-led State Senate on March 14, 2019, by a vote of 24–18. Following the Senate vote, <mask> <mask> said, "'This old, outdated statute criminalizing health care providers is an embarrassment. That removing it was even a debate, much less a difficult vote for some senators, is inexplicable to me'".In 2021, the New Mexico legislature passed SB10, a repeal of the 1969 abortion law. The bill was approved in the House by a 40–30 margin and in the Senate by a 25–17 margin. Governor <mask> <mask> signed it into law on February 26, 2021. Environment
On January 29, 2019, <mask> <mask> signed an executive order calling for New Mexico to join the United States Climate Alliance and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% below 2005 levels by 2030. This executive order also called for the state to develop comprehensive regulations to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and for state agencies to work with the legislature to increase the state's renewable portfolio standard. In March 2019, <mask> <mask> signed New Mexico's Energy Transition Act. The legislation transitions the state's electricity sector away from coal and natural gas and toward a renewable economy, requiring New Mexico's electricity to be 50% renewable by 2030 and 100% from zero-carbon sources by 2045.She called the legislation "a promise to future generations of New Mexicans." Guns
<mask> <mask> was a co-sponsor of the 2015 Assault Weapon Ban H. R. 4269 Bill that was introduced on December 12, 2015. Israel
<mask> <mask> is a strong supporter of Israel. She condemned the United Nations Security Council's criticism of Israel's settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories. Marijuana legalization
In 2019, after a bill to legalize recreational marijuana passed the New Mexico House but not the Senate, <mask> <mask> announced that she would add the issue to the legislative agenda for the upcoming year. She also announced the formation of a working group to determine the best path forward for legalization during the 2020 session. In 2021, after the legislature failed to legalize cannabis during the regular session, <mask> <mask> called a special session so that lawmakers could pass a legalization bill.She signed the bill into law on April 12, 2021. Minimum wage
In 2015, <mask> <mask> co-sponsored legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $12/hour. Personal life
<mask> <mask>'s husband, Gregory, died of a brain aneurysm in 2004. The couple had two daughters. <mask> <mask> filed a wrongful death suit against her husband's physician, but the lawsuit was dropped. Sexual misconduct allegation

In 2019, a former campaign staffer and spokesperson, James Hallinan, accused <mask> <mask> of sexual misconduct. According to Hallinan, the incident took place during a staff meeting in 2018.By his account, <mask> <mask> poured a bottle of water on his crotch and then slapped and grabbed his crotch through his pants while laughing. He said the incident happened "in front of everybody". In April 2021, <mask> <mask> and her gubernatorial campaign publicly reached a $62,500 settlement with the law firm representing Hallinan. The payment was made in monthly installments of $12,500 from November 2020 to March 2021. See also
 List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress
 Women in the United States House of Representatives

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Members of the United States House of Representatives from New Mexico
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New Mexico lawyers
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<mask> (born 20 March 1934) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Metropolitan see of Glasgow, Scotland. <mask> was succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow in September 2012, with the installation of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, who was previously the Bishop of Paisley. Life

<mask> was born on 20 March 1934, in Elgin, Moray, son of <mask> and <mask> (née Panicali). He studied for the priesthood at The Scots College, Rome and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Aberdeen in the Church of San Marcello al Corso, by Archbishop Luigi Traglia on 26 October 1958. After a period as Assistant Priest at St Mary's Cathedral in Aberdeen, <mask> served as parish priest of the most northerly Roman Catholic parish in the British mainland, St Joachim's and St Anne's (Wick and Thurso respectively) in Caithness from 1962 to 1977. He was appointed bishop of Aberdeen on 28 February 1977, succeeding Michael Foylan. He was consecrated to that post by Cardinal Gordon Gray on 3 May 1977.He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa by the University of Aberdeen in 1989, being the first Catholic priest to be so honoured since the Reformation. As bishop of Aberdeen he rejected claims that the Church sought to protect the interests of nuns and priests above those of children who said they had been abused. It followed the conviction of Sister Marie Docherty on four charges of cruelty towards girls at Nazareth House children's homes in Aberdeen and Midlothian in the 1960s and 1970s. The Liberal Democrats MP for Gordon, Malcolm Bruce, called on the church to apologise to Sister Marie's victims, but <mask> resisted any public apology. Bishop <mask> was translated to the archdiocese of Glasgow on 15 January 2002, succeeding Thomas Winning. He took possession of the archdiocese on 22 February 2002. Pope John Paul II bestowed the Pallium on <mask> on 29 June 2004, the Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.Archbishop <mask> is a member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. <mask> was succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow in September 2012, with the installation of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, who was previously the Bishop of Paisley. Episcopate

Offices and awards
Archbishop <mask> is President of the Commission for Christian Doctrine and Unity and also of the Heritage Commission of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland. The Archbishop is a member of the Catholic Bishops’ Joint Committee for Bio-Ethics and also of the Central Council of ACTS (Action of Churches Together in Scotland) and is a President of CTBI (Churches Together in Britain and Ireland). He holds the following honours:
Commendatore nell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, 1981. Honorary D.D. (University of Aberdeen), 1989.Honorary D.D (University of Glasgow), 2010
Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem Rhodes and Malta, 1991; Principal Chaplain to the British Association of the Order of Malta, 1995-2000. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Honorary Professor of Theology at the University of Aberdeen, 2002
Grande Ufficiale della Stella della Solidarieta' Italiana

Restoration of St Andrew's Cathedral
Following a successful fund raising campaign Archbishop <mask> oversaw the major renovation of St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral in Glasgow between 2009-2011. The £5m programme was described as the most significant renovation of a Catholic church in Scotland since the reformation. The dramatic transformation was widely acclaimed and the opening was attended by Scotland's First Minister and representatives of other Christian denominations. The Cathedral now boasts new flooring, new heating and sound systems, new seating, new altar and ambo (designed by the Archbishop himself) and an iconic painting of St John Ogilvie by acclaimed Scottish painter Peter Howson. To the east of the Cathedral, thanks to a fund raising campaign among the Scots Italian community an Italian Cloister Garden has been created with a dramatic modern monument to recall the Arandora Star disaster in 1940. Accusations against the BBC
In 2004, he accused the BBC of "rudeness and prejudice" in its coverage of the Roman Catholic Church and of "gross insensitivity" at the time of Pope John Paul II's silver jubilee.He said that the 25th anniversary of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II and the beatification of Mother Teresa had been marked with a documentary entitled Sex and the Holy City, which looked at the effectiveness of condoms in the fight against AIDS. He also questioned the plans to broadcast a cartoon called Popetown, which satirised the Pope as a childish pensioner and he accused Newsnight Scotland of conducting a "sneering and aggressive" interview on the church's position on shared campus schools. The National Secular Society described the claims as "grossly anti-democratic and dangerous". A spokesperson for the BBC said: "We are always keen to ensure that all faiths are reflected across our output and are reported accurately." Human cloning
In 2003, <mask> publicly accused the UK Government of paving the way for human cloning. He claimed the first step on the "nightmarish journey" had been the acceptance of test tube babies or invitro fertilisation (IVF) in 1978. Gay rights
Archbishop <mask> has been a vociferous opponent of extensions to gay rights.In 2000, he signed a public letter alongside Cardinal Winning which called for the retention of Section 28 of the Local Government Act despite efforts by the government to repeal. The letter argued that it was important to prevent the funding and promotion of educational material overtly promoting homosexual practice in schools. In 2006 <mask> publicly voiced his views on the case of nine Scottish firefighters who had been disciplined for refusing to take part in a gay pride event, saying it was wrong to expect them to participate. Not because homosexual people should not be given fire safety advice, but because the men felt uncomfortable about the 'kiss-a-fireman' campaign allegedly planned for the event. Also in 2006, <mask> called on MSPs to reject the Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Bill, which would provide unmarried couples in "committed" relationships with equality in areas like inheritance, pensions and bereavement saying, "It is not homophobia and we have no gripe against homosexuals per se but we believe that the homosexual relationship is subversive." He later criticised government proposals to permit the adoption of children by gay couples. Later that same year he preached a sermon which put forward the view that the moral teaching of the Church was being undermined.In part of the sermon, he criticized the UK's civil partnerships legislation which had recently been introduced. He also mentioned the Catholic Church's traditional teaching, stating that homosexual acts cannot be considered equivalent to marital love between a man and a woman. After Patrick Harvie (a Green MSP and advocate of LGBT equality) heard about the Archbishop's sermon, he wrote to the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police asking for the Force to give clarity regarding the criteria for using breach of the peace charges in relation to comments which might be seen to incite hatred on grounds of sexual orientation. More recently, in October 2010 he sent a public letter to all Scottish parishes urging Catholic parishioners to oppose Government plans to give gay couples the right to marry. He warned that the move would create "larger divisions" in society. This prompted the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie to suggest that the Catholic Church was trying to control opinion. Lockerbie bomber
In 2009, <mask> was vocal in supporting the release by the Scottish government of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who had been imprisoned for his part in the Lockerbie bombing.<mask> argued that, "I personally, and many others in the Catholic community, admired the decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on grounds of compassion which is, after all, one of the principles inscribed on the mace of the Scottish Parliament by which Scotland's government should operate." Sexual health
In 2004, <mask> criticised Scottish Executive proposals to tackle sexual health problems among young people. He argued that the draft strategy placed too much emphasis on medical treatment and not enough on spiritual or social worries. Concern over homosexuality being perceived as equal to heterosexual relationships and the absence of references to marriage in the report were also highlighted by the archbishop. Summorum Pontificum
In 2007 he issued directives on the application of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum in his diocese. This clarified arrangements for priests who wished to freely celebrate in Glasgow the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal (the Tridentine Mass). Father John Zuhlsdorf said they were directly disobedient to Benedict XVI's motu proprio, which allowed complete freedom for celebrating this form of Mass without a congregation but demanded certain conditions for its celebration with a congregation.Support for asylum seekers
In 2012 he launched an outspoken defence of asylum seekers facing destitution. The Archbishop wrote an article urging action to defend the asylum seekers at risk (Sunday Herald 10 June 2012) and backed a public demonstration to protest at the asylum seekers' eviction: "It seems utterly inconceivable that a country with such strong traditions of welfare provision, fairness and social cohesion could allow innocent persons to be evicted, banned from working, left without food and shelter, and effectively eliminated from society. But that is exactly what is likely to happen – unless something is done." External links
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<mask><mask> is a Canadian physician who founded and is the current owner of 60 weight-loss clinics in Canada known collectively as the Dr. <mask> Diet & Health Clinics. <mask> has owned and operated weight-loss clinics since 1974 and employs a weight-loss regimen involving a low calorie intake, frequent physician visits and injections of a Vitamin B solution. <mask> is a member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. Early life and education
<mask> was raised near the Moss Park area of Toronto by Polish immigrant parents who owned a used clothing outlet called <mask>'s Second Hand Store on Queen East. <mask> graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966 and followed this by interning at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Career

Establishing the Dr. <mask> Diet & Health Clinics
After completing his internship, <mask> set up a general family practice in 1967 near Gerrard and Greenwood in Toronto, and was also involved in geriatric work at Baycrest Centre. In 1972, <mask> traveled to Las Vegas to attend a conference hosted by the American Society of Bariatric Physicians.It was at this conference where <mask> learned about a group of physicians who were using what was called the Simeons Approach as a way to help patients achieve weight loss. In order to achieve weight loss, the Simeons Approach prescribed a very low-calorie intake and injections of a hormone called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or hCG, a hormone produced by pregnant women to break down fat stores thought to feed the baby. <mask> returned to Toronto and began using this knowledge to treat patients at his practice by helping them achieve a state of Ketosis. Subsequently, <mask> opened his first dedicated weight-loss clinic at the Richmond-Adelaide Centre of Toronto in 1977 and in 1978, his second clinic in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood and his third in 1978 at Yonge and Eglinton, also in Toronto. By the early 2000s, <mask> had 14 diet clinics in Ontario. Over the next few years, his practice expanded to Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary. Around 2005, <mask> opened his first American clinics in Virginia and Florida.As of 2010, <mask> owned and operated 62 clinics across Canada, treating nearly 10,000 active patients. It is estimated that <mask>'s clinics have treated approximately 450,000 patients over the years, including Canadian Archbishop Marcel Gervais and comedian Mike Bullard, who appeared in company advertisements for a period of time. Use of hCG
Starting in 1979, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons warned against the use of hCG in the treatment of obesity due to the lack of scientific evidence concerning the effects of its use. The Ontario College also warned against a 500-calorie diet used in conjunction with hCG treatment, citing the treatment's risk to a patient's health. Several doctors, including <mask>, continued to administer and use hCG in their weight-loss treatments. In 1987, the Ontario College formally banned hCG as a weight-loss treatment. Use of vitamin B
Following the ban on hCG, <mask> discontinued using hCG injections as part of his diet program and replaced it with injections of a Vitamin B complex, the exact composition of which is a closely guarded secret.While on <mask>'s diet program, patients are administered Vitamin B injections multiple times a week and are instructed to maintain an intake of 800 to 1,500 calories per day on a strict diet regimen. Canadian Medical Association Journal editorial
In February 2009, <mask> publicly complained that an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) concerning commercial diets unfairly targeted his clinics. CMAJ's editorial commented on commercial diet clinics and specifically their pattern of manipulating patients with false hopes and using medically unproven weight-loss techniques. As evidence of the latter, CMAJ's editorial specifically pointed out the use of Vitamin B injections. <mask>'s use of Vitamin B injections as part of his weight-loss program has met with skepticism and a lack of agreement by multiple members of the medical community. Glenn Duffin controversy
In 1988, Glenn Duffin, a thirty-one-year-old Canadian died of cardiac arrhythmia eight days after beginning <mask>'s diet program. Following Duffin's death, a jury concluded that his death was caused by stress brought about by family and financial issues and <mask>'s diet program.The jury also advised that patients using commercial weight-loss programs should be encouraged to lose no more than two pounds a week when considering a diet of 1,200 calories per day. Duffin's family filed a malpractice suit against <mask> and was awarded $700,000 in damages in an out-of-court settlement. Litigation against medical colleagues
<mask> has been a part of a number of litigation suits involving the proprietary secrets of his weight-loss clinics and his Vitamin B-based weight-loss program. In 2007, <mask> brought to court Daniela Stoytcheva-Todorova and Vesselin Todorov under allegations that their weight-loss clinic, Veda Healthy Weight Loss Centre Inc., used trade secrets and confidential information belonging to <mask>. <mask> ended up discontinuing all claims against Todorov and Todorova. In 2009, <mask> sought litigation against Dr. Nadia Brown under similar claims, and, following this, in 2011, <mask> filed suit against Dr. Scott Seagrist, a former partner at two of  <mask>'s clinics, and his spouse, seeking $10.5 million in damages under allegations that Seagrist had improperly used trade secrets to begin his own weight-loss clinic. <mask>'s lawsuit against Seagrist was settled in an out-of-court agreement.Litigation against Pat Poon
In September 2009, <mask> launched a lawsuit against Pat Poon, a Canadian weight-loss doctor who operates four weight-loss clinics in the Greater Toronto Area. In the lawsuit, <mask> argued that Poon had defamed <mask> in Poon's book Dr. Poon's Metabolic Diet, as well as in a subsequent television show that Poon was a guest on. Dr. Poon's Metabolic Diet book has numerous breathing techniques for assisting with passing large bowel movements. After a six-year lawsuit, the judge ruled in <mask>’s favor, awarding $10,000 to <mask> in damages. [12] In making the final decision, the judge admitted that the trial was more than a reputational dispute, saying, “It is more about turf warfare in the competitive world of diet medicine than about reputation”. [11]

Formal caution by CPSO over advertising
In April 2014, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario ruled that <mask> had repeatedly breached rules established by the College by advertising his weight-loss clinics through customer testimonials, before and after photos and medically unproven, superlative language. The College also ruled that <mask> had acted against medical standards by connecting himself with the sale of his product, in this case, his diet clinics.As a result, <mask> was instructed to appear before the College for a verbal warning. In May 2014, it was reported that <mask> was set to contest the formal caution imposed on him by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In February 2015, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board dismissed a protest from <mask> and his request that a formal caution on his use of advertising be thrown out. The appeal board found that previous investigations into the complaint that <mask> had violated advertising rules were “adequate and reasonable”. The appeal board requested that further investigation be done into whether <mask> was guilty of “steering” members of the public to visit doctors in his own clinics, which is a violation of rules. Litigation against Norma and Ronauld Walton
In October 2013 <mask> applied for an order for inspectorship over 31 jointly owned properties with The Rose & Thistle Group owners and Toronto attorneys, Norma and Ronauld Walton. In November 2013 he petitioned their entire real estate portfolio into receivership without notice to the lenders.<mask> and the Waltons were legal partners in a property investment agreement, in which <mask> financed the ventures and the Waltons were responsible for the finances, bookkeeping, accounting and filing of tax returns. < By 2013, <mask> had invested $110 million into 31 different projects through the Rose & Thistle Group. <mask>'s receivership caused the portfolio to go into automatic default across all 31 joint entities and receivership and power of sale of the portfolio followed by Schonfeld & Associates, receivers. In 2016, <mask> was awarded $66.9 million in damages also by Justice Newbould via application. The Waltons asked for a trial but that request was denied by the Court. The Waltons have communicated publicly that they "strongly disagree" with the accusations and have appealed the findings of Ontario Superior Court's ordered investigation. Litigation with Trez Capital
In 2015 Trez Capital sued <mask> for over $14 million, alleging fraud and deceit.Trez Capital, a mortgage lender, financed four of the projects owned by Rose & Thistle and Bernstein. <mask> brought a motion to dismiss Trez's claim on the basis of his and his CFO James Reitan’s evidence that Trez knew about their claim in September 2013 and thus were outside of the limitation period for filing. During a mini trial, the judge did not accept the testimony of <mask> and Reitan as credible in comparison to the evidence of Coscia. <mask> later appealed to the Court of Appeal and lost. <mask> has now paid Trez money to settle the Trez litigation that alleged fraud and deceit. He paid this money pursuant to a Pierringer Agreement that mandates confidentiality of the amount paid by him. An amended Statement of Claim is being filed with the Court accordingly.Personal life
<mask> has been married to his second wife, <mask>, since 1992. <mask> also has three adult sons, one who is a radiologist in New York City, one a lawyer, and the third son, a business graduate who works at <mask>'s clinics. Professional controversy
In 1977, <mask> was instructed to testify before the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in allegations that he had inappropriate sexual relations with Jo-Anne Johnston, who was mentally fragile and a patient of his from 1970 to 1973. The Committee concluded that <mask> was guilty of the charge and disciplined <mask> with a suspension from practice for 12 months, as well as a fine of $4,500. <mask> successfully appealed this ruling and the guilty charge, fine and suspension were removed from his record. Criminal controversies
In 1992, <mask> was arrested alongside Peter Gassyt and Arnold Markowitz, who were arrested and charged in a conspiracy to murder a business colleague and a friend. In the trial that followed, both Gassyt and Markowitz were charged with a conspiracy to murder, and in 1993, the two were convicted on a sole count of conspiracy to commit murder.At the time of <mask>'s arrest, undercover officers undertook an unannounced search of <mask>'s residence, where they found $2 million in stolen goods, including 24 Rolex watches. As a result, along with conspiracy to murder, <mask> was also charged with possession of stolen property. Both charges  were later dropped. In 1998, <mask>, along with his wife, were robbed at gunpoint in their Toronto residence and bound and forced into the trunk of <mask>'s Mercedes. The assailants emptied <mask>'s safe of valuables and fled. Both <mask> and his wife were unharmed in the robbery and the assailants were never captured. References

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<mask> (May 14, 1930 – August 23, 2004) was an Argentine-born American chemist who first synthesized captopril, the first ACE inhibitor that was used to treat heart disease. With his co-worker, David Cushman, he won the 1999 Lasker Award for: "developing an innovative approach to drug design based on protein structure and using it to create the ACE inhibitors, powerful oral agents for the treatment of high blood pressure, heart failure, and diabetic kidney disease". <mask> was born and raised in Buenos Aires and received a PhD in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, in his hometown, in 1957. In 1960 he moved to The Squibb Institute for Medical Research in New Jersey where he researched and developed Captopril in 1975. Early life
<mask><mask> was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; on May 23, 1930.Ondetti's background was Italian. His mother was an Argentine-born Italian, while his father's family had first emigrated from Italy to Paris, then to Argentina. Despite this, Ondetti considered himself a "first-generation Argentine".<mask>'s father practiced a family craft of making garden furniture from cement that imitated tree trunks. Following the mid-1930s he became a night watchman. His mother was a housewife who cared for <mask> and his only brother, who is two years older. <mask>'s first experience with chemistry was experimenting with his older brother. <mask> tried to electroplate a knife using a copper sulfate solution, only to shock himself. Education
Both <mask> brothers went to a vocational high school to study bookkeeping and accounting. At the age of 16, <mask> worked a day job while conducting his studies at night.Ondetti stated, "But then, I was already interested in being scientist, I think probably from the year that I started high school" in his 1995 interview. His interest in chemistry stems from book borrowing from the public library. After graduating commercial high school, Ondetti experienced a major setback. The University of Buenos Aires denied admission because he did not receive a baccalaureate from an academic high school. Not discouraged, Ondetti audited his classes and received his baccalaureate in just two years. The University of Buenos Aires subsequently accepted him to their chemistry program. Ondetti supported himself during his university years by working as a bookkeeper, using his first high school degree.He managed to get an early shift at the Department of Energy. This allowed him to attend the required laboratory classes in the afternoon. Ondetti's experience with chemistry laboratory was unfamiliar to his previous knowledge in bookkeeping, but was not off-putting. Ondetti stated that his main interest was biology, "but one can't understand biology without chemistry". He used this for his motivation to studying chemistry. This philosophy has been strongly utilized in the past 30 years, long after Ondetti stated this fact. Ondetti studied chemistry in the early 1950s.The program at University of Buenos Aires was similar to a combined BA/MS program in American education. He spent five years learning organic, physical, inorganic, biological and analytical chemistry. This was standard at the time, with the transition to a more focused program occurring during Ondetti's 4th year, making Ondetti one of the last recipients of the generalized degree. The rationale behind the very broad program was that chemists needed to be prepared for all types of industries such as paint, petrochemical or the pharmaceutical industry

At the end of Ondetti's five years, he received a Licentiate in 1955. In the 1950s, Argentina experienced political turmoil and slow economic growth. Many university professors moved to industry jobs, including the head of organic chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Dr. Venancio Deulofeu. Ondetti accepted a research training scholarship offered by Squibb following the suggestion from a classmate.Early career

The Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Argentina
The Argentine government gave an exclusive license to Squibb to manufacture antibodies in the country. To supplement the fermentation plant, Squibb constructed The Squibb Institute for Medical Research. This presented a truly unique opportunity for <mask>, allowing him to work in one of the most advanced labs in Argentina with world class scientists such as Dr. Deulofeu and Dr. Alfredo Sordelli. Another quirk about the Squibb laboratory was that Ondetti was not an official employee because he was a scholarship-research scientist, enabling him to focus on his thesis. Dr. Deulofeu was the head of chemistry at Squibb and his interests included alkaloid and carbohydrate chemistry. Ondetti reluctantly worked on carbohydrates for one year, after which Deulofeu offered him a job at Squibb. He refused, citing "I turned it down, because Deulofeu was an outstanding scientist, but he was very cold in the interaction with his collaborators".Realizing his mistake after one week of work at another company, he went back to Squibb and received a position there, resuming work on this thesis in 1957. Ondetti received his PhD from the University of Buenos Aires in 1960. As an employee as Squibb, Ondetti focused on alkaloid chemistry. Argentina's rich biodiversity allowed Squibb to screen many plants for unique and useful alkaloids. Any potential drug candidates were tested at The Squibb Research Institute in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Squibb Research Institute in New Jersey was headed by Asger F. Langlykke who visited the Argentine lab once a year. In 1960, he offered Ondetti a job to work in the New Jersey laboratory.Within two days, Ondetti decided to take the job in New Jersey for $7800 a year. The Squibb Institute for Medical Research, New Jersey
Ondetti had multiple obstacles to overcome to work in the US. Primarily, most of Ondetti's English experience had been from chemistry textbooks. Surprisingly, Ondetti's largest language barrier was not Spanish to English, but adjusting from British to American English. Fortunately, he found an English tutor in America. Overall, Ondetti enjoyed his move to America, citing the ease of finding a car and an apartment as examples. The research which Ondetti worked on was also improved.Instead of sending samples to the United States from Argentina, he brought them down the hall. Ondetti was placed in the peptide synthesis research group. As opposed to his initial reaction to carbohydrate chemistry, he was pleased because he enjoyed contact with biologists. Over the next nine years, Ondetti gained recognition in peptide synthesis and the position as peptide chemistry chair. After this promotion, <mask> and his wife, Josephine, definitely decided to stay in America after considering the possibility of moving back during the original move. During the 1960s, peptides were considered valuable drug candidates. Ondetti's group researched synthesis of insulin and venom peptides.In the mid 1960s, the director created a task force to work on peptides. In this rearrangement, Ondetti came to work with Emily Sabo. During Squibb's effort to synthesis secretin, Ondetti stopped carrying a lab notebook. He considered Sabo to be such an accurate and skilled chemist, that he let her do all the experiments. By the end of the 1960s, peptides were phased out as drug candidates. <mask> moved to the gastrointestinal hormone group in the mid 1960s. The first hormone to be studied by Ondetti's group was cholecystokinin, a digestion hormone.This product presented unique challenges because of the small amounts used in reactions. Unfortunately, bioassays were not quantitative enough to use for results and chemical reactions did not run well as such low amounts. Development of Captopril
In 1967, the company changed its goals with a new president of The Squibb Institute, Arnold D. Welch. Cardiovascular drugs became an area of concentration. Ondetti gained inspiration from his previous work on peptides. Peptides are vital in-vivo components, but peptides are cleaved by peptidases, decreasing their utility as drugs. By inhibiting these peptidases, one could increase activity of peptide drugs.Ondetti started work on the isolation of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. By 1973, work on ACE inhibitors stopped followed by dissolution of the peptide program. In 1974, Ondetti resumed unofficial work on ACE inhibitors with strong resolve, "We said this was the thing that we had to do". The first step in making Captopril was determining the characteristics of the enzyme, discovered by comparing it to another enzyme, Carboxypeptidase A. His group tried thousands of compounds from the Squibb library, but none yielded satisfying results. After reading literature involving the peptides by Byers and Wolfenden, Ondetti pointed out flaws in their logic. He argued that using a strong chemical binder to the zinc in the enzyme would increase activity.He settled on using a sulfhydryl group which binds strongly to zinc. Ondetti had discovered Captopril, an ACE inhibitor with much better activity than previous compounds. Ondetti published his primary paper on his synthesis in Science, 1977. The first human trials were done in Switzerland because European drug testing regulations were less strict. Captopril reached the American market in 1982. Captopril gained much commercial success for Squibb. It was also one of the first successful heart medicine and set a long tradition for them.Later career
Ondetti enjoyed success with his synthesis of Captopril. He remained active in research, gaining patents in 1985, 1992, and 1993. Squibb recognized his leadership skills and he received numerous promotions at Squibb. After his Captopril discovery, he was promoted to vice president of Basic Research. In the next ten years, Ondetti assumed more leadership roles in the cardiovascular and metabolic research department, culminating in his promotion to senior vice president of cardiovascular and metabolic in 1990. Ondetti retired the next year in 1991. At this time he lived in Princeton, New Jersey.In 1991, Ondetti was awarded the prestigious Perkin Medal. Ondetti was interviewed by James J. Bohning of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 1995 for The Oral History Program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. <mask><mask> died on August 23, 2004. Publications
Ondetti M A, Sabo E F. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors from the venom of Bothrops jararaca. Isolation, elucidation of structure, and synthesis, Biochemistry 1971; 10 (22): 4033–4039. <mask> M A, Rubin B, Cushman D W. Design of specific inhibitors of angiotensin-converting enzyme: new class of orally active antihypertensive agents, Science 1977; 196 (4288): 441–444.

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<mask> (August 1, 1897 – March 27, 1972) was an American photographer, humanitarian, entrepreneur and teacher. During World War II, she pioneered the teaching of photography to wounded war veterans for the purpose of helping them heal their physical and emotional wounds and re-engage with the world. Building on that work, she founded and led arts-based charity the Josephine Herrick Project, that is based in New York City and still teaches photography to veterans, the disabled and other underserved populations. <mask> also served during World War II as a photographer on the United States’ Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb. Professionally, <mask> was a successful commercial photographer, studio owner and photography instructor. As a fine art photographer, she won a number of awards and her work was exhibited in various publications and venues. Early life
<mask> was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1897.Her father, <mask>, was a graduate of Yale, a prominent attorney in Cleveland and a law professor. Her mother, <mask> <mask>, was an inventor and the holder of patents for several mechanical devices. After graduating from the Laurel School, Herrick worked as a Red Cross nurse in Cleveland during World War I. She attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated from Western Reserve University in 1920. Family
<mask>'s paternal lineage can be traced back to one of the oldest families settled in Massachusetts that fought in the colonial army during the American Revolution. Her great-great-grandfather, <mask>, commanded a regiment during the War of 1812 and was a large landowner and leading citizen of Lorain County, Ohio. Her grandfather, Gamaliel <mask>, served as President of the Cleveland Linseed Oil Company and a director in the East Cleveland Railroad Company.Her cousin, Myron T<mask>, served as governor of Ohio and as U.S. ambassador to France during the early 20th century. Her maternal grandfather was Theodore M. Pomeroy, a businessman, lawyer and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York State during the American Civil War. Her first cousins included New York State Senator Robert Watson Pomeroy (1902–1989) and Janet Pomeroy Avery (1891–1969), who married John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), the U.S. Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration. Photography career

Mentorship with Clarence White
After college, <mask> studied photography at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York City in the early 1920s. Clarence Hudson White was a self-taught photographer who greatly influenced the course of photography in the early 20th century as a teacher and mentor. A number of his students went on to prominent and influential careers of their own including Margaret Bourke-White, Paul Outerbridge, Dorothea Lange and Anton Bruehl. <mask> graduated from the Clarence White School in 1924.According to Bonnie Yochelson, an authority on Clarence White:
 [White’s] pedagogic philosophy was grounded in the arts-and-crafts movement, which sought to bring beauty into the lives of all people, and in the progressive ideals of John Dewey, who encouraged each student to find his own way. In this sense, <mask>'s career presents a characteristic outcome of White's teaching. Like White, she found her calling in using photography to better the lives of others. Beginning in 1924 and continuing into the late 1930s, Herrick submitted photographs to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show, an annual juried exhibition of the works of northeastern Ohio artists. She won several prizes including First Prize in 1927 for her photograph of an infant entitled "Yes". New York studio
In 1928, <mask> joined with Princess Miguel de Braganza to open a photography studio in New York City, specializing in portraits, landscapes and interiors. An exhibit of their portraits was presented in Newport, Rhode Island in 1934.The studio operated until 1941. World War II
At the start of World War II, <mask> was a commercial and fine art photographer in New York City and her nephews were Cleveland schoolboys. Five years later, one of her nephew's fighter jet had been shot down over Germany and he had been taken prisoner of war. <mask> herself had worked on the Manhattan Project that built the world's first atomic bomb and had started an innovative project that taught photography to thousands of wounded veterans and to many others in need, as a form of rehabilitation and artistic affirmation. <mask>'s brother, Sherlock, and two of her nephews served overseas in the theaters of Africa and Europe during World War II. Her nephew <mask> flew as a B-17 navigator in a 1944 air attack on an I.G. Farben oil refinery, a heavily defended German strategic resource.His plane was shot down with five of the men on board killed and the other four, including <mask>, taken prisoner. Theodore survived and resumed his life after the war. In her early support of the war effort, <mask> volunteered for the American Women's Voluntary Services in 1941. As she later recalled:  Those were the war years! There was a great desire to volunteer, to serve, to assist the war effort in any way one could. In 1941 I volunteered to A.W.V.S – American Women’s Voluntary Services – in the field of my own profession, education, training and experience – photography. This led to my starting on September 16, 1941, to teach the first training course, then called "Defense Photography", for the Tenth Division of A.W.V.S Photography COULD play a very important role.Volunteers were vital – - but – trained in a specific field, they could, naturally, perform the greatest service. We took the name "War Service Photography" and became the War Service Photography Division of A.W.V.S. Greater New York and National. Our membership grew quickly. We were drawn together through the common bond of photography and the desire to serve. During the first part of the war, Herrick and the War Service Photography (W.S.P.) division trained volunteer photographers and led the effort to use photographs to maintain the connection among families separated by the war.W.S.P. volunteers photographed servicemen in lunch canteens and U.S.O. facilities and printed the photographs. "The boys send them home to their mothers, wives and girls with a letter of greeting from the A.W.V.S." As the war continued, large number of wounded veterans returned to the U.S. and filled the veterans’ hospitals. In response, and impelled by converging advances in medicine, psychology and public policy, arts-based rehabilitation programs were established in the veterans’ hospitals. One leader in this area was Dr. Howard Rusk, a Missouri physician who enlisted in the Air Force early in the war.His efforts led to the creation in early 1944 of the U.S. Army Air Force Convalescent Training Center in Pawling, New York. Veterans were offered a wide variety of activities. Photographers from Herrick's W.S.P. team taught photography at the Pawling center. In recognition of the value of these programs, the Surgeon General of the United States Navy formalized and expanded the photography program for veterans in May 1944. The first two photography programs for Navy veterans opened at St. Albans Naval Hospital in Queens, New York and the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. <mask> led the programs for W.S.P.and took many photographs herself. Development of the atomic bomb
World War II ended with the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. An August 25 article quoted <mask> as saying "now it can be told." She and her W.S.P. colleague Mary Steers had worked on the development of the atomic bomb as a part of the Manhattan Project based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 1940s after the war
The demand for photography programs for veterans surged after World War II ended. By the end of 1946, <mask> informed the Surgeon General of the War Department that photography programs had been provided in 19 different Army, Navy and Veterans hospitals.Technical ingenuity extended the reach of the programs to the bedside of immobilized veterans. A woman contributor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington imagined a compact and movable darkroom. She made some rough sketches and a volunteer architect drew up plans and blueprints. Then <mask> had the portable darkroom constructed in the prevocational shop at St. Albans Naval Hospital. In 1946, <mask> and her fellow photographers incorporated as a peacetime charity named Volunteer Service Photographers. An article published by Dr. Howard Rusk during that period acknowledged the contributions of the Volunteer Service Photographers organization and noted that "the group, headed by <mask><mask>, a noted photographer, is planning an ambitious expansion." He then quoted Herrick:  "Our five years’ experience during the war in military hospitals has demonstrated how photography can fill the need for a stimulating, even exciting, activity which relieves the monotony of hospital life.We are firmly convinced that it not only helps men get well, but gives them an enjoyable hobby they can continue when they leave the hospital. We hope it can be carried on in every military and veterans’ hospital in the country." Later in the decade, <mask> authored a book entitled  Outline for Training Course in Hospital Rehabilitation Photography. 1950s and 1960s
In the 1950s and 1960s, <mask> continued her work for VSP as it extended its reach into a wider range of settings including schools, inner city youth centers, senior citizen residences, substance abuse recovery centers and elsewhere. Her passion and commitment are apparent in a letter she wrote in 1959 about one of VSP's disabled students who had won a prize in the organization's annual contest:
 It is very inspiring to discover the stories connected with the patients who win the prizes. So many times all of their work may have been done from wheelchairs and on stretchers or, in some cases with photo-oil-coloring, the winners may have performed their photo-oil-coloring under the very greatest of handicaps. Thinking of just one instance, years ago we discovered that a prize-winner was a polio patient, unable to use hands and arms, and held the tufts of cotton on sticks in her teeth to do the photo-oil-coloring.<mask> also joined with Margaret Bourke-White to help publicize the good work of VSP through several appearances on popular radio shows of the day including WNBC, WCBS, WMCA and WRCA. Teaching
In the decades after the war, <mask> also devoted herself to her work as a photography teacher and artist. In addition to individual instruction, she taught photography courses at the New York Institute of Photography, the School of Modern Photography, New York University, Y.W.C.A. and the Germain School. She also taught courses and photographed for many summers at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York. During this period, her travel, landscape and portrait photographs were exhibited in New York City and at Chautauqua. An exhibition of her photographs was presented at the New York Public Library in 1959.The exhibition featured photographs from Chautauqua, from a recent trip to England, Scotland and Wales, from New York City landmarks and from the gardens of Florida. Personal life
Little is known about <mask>'s personal life. She lived for many years on East 73rd Street in New York City. She never married and her obituary said she left no immediate survivors. References

External links
 Josephine Herrick Project

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1972 deaths
20th-century American photographers
20th-century American women artists
Manhattan Project people
Case Western Reserve University alumni
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Bryn Mawr College alumni
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<mask> (née Stanton, 7 August 1914 – 12 February 1974) was a pioneering New Zealand female physician, paediatrician and activist for family planning services and abortion access. Early life and education
<mask> was born in 1914, the first daughter of lawyer Sir Joseph Stanton and Marjorie McMaster. She had two brothers and two sisters and the family lived in Mountain Road, Epsom. She attended Hill Top School and Diocesan School for Girls. <mask> wanted to be a doctor from an early age. After one year's study at Auckland University College <mask> entered the Otago Medical School at the University of Otago, Dunedin, in 1933, and completed her MB and ChB in 1937. At medical school she received the Scott Medal for knowledge of human anatomy but being female was not offered the position of graduate demonstrator in anatomy which was awarded to medal holders.She participated in wider student life in the Women's Students Club, Medical Debating Society and Student's Association. Medical career
In 1938, she was appointed a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital. To take up the appointment she had to obtain permission to live at home in Mountain Road as there was no suitable accommodation at the hospital for female staff. From 1939 to 1940 she was senior house surgeon at New Plymouth Hospital. In 1940 <mask> took over the practice of Dr Edward Sayers when he went to serve in World War II. He specialised in parasitology, infectious diseases and the treatment of allergies and asthma and was on the medical staff of Auckland's Truby King Karitane Hospital and Mothercraft Care facility. <mask> joined the Karitane staff remaining there until her death.When Sayers returned in 1944 he and <mask> practiced in partnership and she also was appointed to a position in the paediatric ward at Auckland Hospital, which she needed to qualify in paediatrics. From 1947 to 1950 she lived in London, where she served as a doctor at the Great Ormond Street Hospital For Sick Children and studied for a Diploma in Child Health. On her return to New Zealand <mask> became a paediatric physician at Auckland Hospital, continued on the medical staff of Karitane Hospital and set up her own private practice in paediatrics and the treatment of allergies and asthma. During the 1940s–50s <mask> gained a number of professional qualifications. She became a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1946 and in 1955 was the first New Zealand woman to become a Fellow of the College. In 1949 she gained her membership of the Royal College of Physicians, MRCP; she became an FRCP in 1970, again the first New Zealand woman to do so. In the forties, <mask> also became involved in medical politics.She joined a study group formed by Douglas Robb and was co-author of a document that recommended A National Health Service (1943) for New Zealand. She also served as Secretary (1945–1946) and President (1948, 1953) of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Medical Women's Association. In 1947 <mask> was one of the founders of the Paediatric Society. She became a lecturer for the YWCA on sex education, particularly the topics of venereal disease and extra-marital pregnancy. She wrote a booklet Personal Relationships (1944) as a result of her lectures. <mask> gave family planning assistance to the Ōtara Māori Committee in the late 1960s and was made an honorary tohunga of Ōtara. She was active in a number of other organisations which supported women and children or other health issues: Zonta Club of Auckland, the National Council of Women, Playcentre Association, Parents Centre, New Zealand Speech Therapists Association, the Auckland Asthma Society and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.Family planning and abortion activism
In the late forties, <mask> also became involved with the New Zealand Family Planning Association, helping to provide respectability to an organisation that still proved controversial, given its role in publicising and distributing contraception. She served on its board (1947) and chaired its medical advisory committee (1960), before serving as liaison with the New Zealand Medical Association and clearing the way for clinic work with doctors before New Zealand approved use and distribution of the contraceptive pill (1961). Her role is chronicled in Helen Smythe's history of the Family Planning Association. <mask>'s biographer, Faye Hercock, also noted that she was concerned about the rise in backstreet abortions and displayed considerable impatience with the conservatism of her male colleagues in her later years when it came to access to safe, legal and affordable abortion in New Zealand. Over time, <mask> gradually radicalised her position and became one of the founders of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand. At the time she died, in 1974, the private Auckland Medical Aid Centre had just opened, providing a free-standing dedicated abortion clinic for the first time in New Zealand. Personal life
<mask> met her husband Faulkner <mask> in New Plymouth in 1939.They married in Auckland on 17 August 1941 in the Diocesan School chapel. Faulkner served in the army in World War II in the medical corps and Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was a teacher and became headmaster of Avondale Primary School in 1964. The couple had two children. <mask> had a myocardial infarction in 1973 and subsequently angina. She died in 1974 at Auckland Hospital. Legacy
The <mask> Memorial Prize is awarded for the best performance in paediatrics at the University of Auckland medical school.<mask> was known for her commitment to paediatrics, and her activities in many areas of child health and family well-being. She believed a child's early emotional and physical environment were crucial to improve society and that sub-optimal health in children was problematic. Her tireless work to help others contributed to her own ill-health. Selected publications

 A national health service (1943)
 Personal relationships (1944)
'Doctor and the delinquent'. New Zealand Medical Journal 60: 60–64 (1961)
'Unhappy child'. New Zealand Medical Journal 61: 85–87 (1962)
'Evaluation of methacycline hydrochloride'. New Zealand Medical Journal 66: 240–243 (1967)
'Allergy over a quarter century'.New Zealand Medical Journal 68: 101–103 (1968)
'Family planning as seen by the paediatrician'. Choice 10, no. 1: 11–13 (1972)

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 Photo of <mask> in Hocken Collection, University of Otago

1914 births
1974 deaths
New Zealand women medical doctors
New Zealand abortion-rights activists
University of Otago alumni
New Zealand activists
New Zealand women activists
Sex educators
20th-century New Zealand medical doctors
New Zealand paediatricians
20th-century women physicians
Plunket Society
People educated at Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland
People from Auckland

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Sevda Alizadeh (; born 1 September 1987), known professionally as <mask>, is an Iranian-Dutch singer, songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director. In 2015, she released two EPs, The Suspended Kid and Children of Silk. While her music is typically in English, she released her first Persian-language song "Bebin" in early 2017 in protest of Executive Order 13769. Her debut album, ISON, was released on 26 April 2017 via her record label, Twisted Elegance. In 2018, she released a third EP The Calling, followed by her second studio album Shabrang in 2020. Life and career

Early life
Alizadeh was born on 1 September 1987 in Tehran, Iran. She is of Azerbaijani, Russian, and Persian descent.She moved with her family to the Netherlands at the age of five. At 16, she left home after obtaining a basketball scholarship, eventually playing on the Dutch national basketball team. She went to university, graduating with a master's degree in communications. <mask> is fluent in Persian, Dutch, English, French, and Portuguese. 2014–2018: The Suspended Kid, Children of Silk and ISON
In March 2014, <mask> released her single "Clear Air" along with a music video. It was later followed by "Sirens of the Caspian" and "Backseat Love". In January 2015, her extended play (EP), The Suspended Kid, was issued, which she had worked on for over a year and half.The title of the EP is about how people responded to Sevdaliza in social situations, saying "I realized that those things that deflect me from social situations—not getting along with your coach or your boss or whatever—it made me realize I had to choose a different path." The Suspended Kid was produced by Sevdaliza and Rotterdam-based producer and frequent collaborator, Mucky. In September, a music video for the last remaining track on the EP, the industrial R&B "That Other Girl", was released. In June, she released "Marilyn Monroe", which served as the lead single from her second EP, Children of Silk. The song has been characterized as trip hop and was accompanied by a music video which was released in March 2016. Children of Silk was released in November. Sevdaliza cited textures such as skin, glass, and silk as the main inspiration behind the EP.In May, Sevdaliza released a short film titled The Formula, which tells the story of how "the pain of losing an unborn child destroyed balance in marriage and leads to tragedy." Directed by Emmanuel Adjei, the short film features three songs by Sevdaliza, "The Formula", "The Language of Limbo" and "Mad Woman"; the latter was issued as a single the following year in October. A new single titled "Time" was released in the same month. In the following month, another single titled "Human" was released along with a music video. "Human", "Marilyn Monroe" and "The Language of Limbo" would later be included on Sevdaliza's debut studio album, ISON. In January 2017, Sevdaliza released her first Persian-language song, "Bebin", in response to Executive Order 13769. She stated, "In protest of the inhumane political climate, I could not rest my head in privilege.I wrote 'Bebin' in Farsi, to solidify. I stand strong with love. In this case I choose to avoid mainstream media, because I have no interest in part taking in a victimized concept. Take this message without lights, camera, action. I am solely a messenger. In the brain of love, there is no place for racism nor bigotry." In February, a music video was released for "Amandine Insensible", which showcases the limited roles women are expected to fill in modern culture.<mask> said, "The story of Amandine explores the concept of 'identity' in a contemporary world that is rapidly changing due to the disappearance of 'boundaries'. Amandine is everything you want her to be. An extreme extraction of average life, representing a world where we have become so universal all feelings have disappeared. Paradoxically, this makes you feel uncomfortable. Her life takes place in an infinite white space, composed with minimal objects that represent different facets of the cycle of daily life." In April, "Hero" was released as the second single from her debut studio album, ISON. The album was released in April 2017, and is named after Comet ISON, a sungrazing comet.In January 2018, Sevdaliza released a new track "Soul Syncable" and it was released on the day of the super blue moon. "Soul Syncable" is the first song from Sevdaliza, following her debut album ISON. In February, she released the track "Human Nature". "Soul Syncable" and "Human Nature" are part of her EP The Calling, which was released in March. In May, she released a Portuguese-language version of her track "Human", titled "Humana", to celebrate and thank its 10 million views. 2019-present: Shabrang
On March 8, 2019, Sevdaliza released a new single which would be the beginning of a new musical chapter in her career, "Darkest Hour". It was succeeded by another standalone single "Martyr" the following month.<mask> then released three singles in 2020, "Oh My God", "Lamp Lady" and "Joanna", before announcing her second studio album Shabrang, which released 28 August 2020. Shabrang also features the single "Human Nature", which also appeared on her 2018 extended play The Calling. Musical style and influences
<mask>'s music incorporates electronic, alternative R&B, trip hop, experimental pop, and avant-pop. Critics have compared her music to the trip hop of Portishead with string arrangements recalling Siouxsie and the Banshees circa "Dazzle" and Homogenic-era Björk. According to Sevdaliza, "I think my sound would mostly be described as pure and raw. I'm not necessarily drawn to a genre, but to a process, or towards a certain mood like melancholy. The interesting thing is that the music my music gets compared to is not necessarily music I've listened to, which makes it super interesting.I was performing once, and a conservatory professor came to me after the show, saying that he could really hear that I draw inspiration from old Persian singers. I asked him, "Wow, that's really interesting. How do you hear that?," and he said because I use certain semitones and microtones when I sing. But I've never had a singing lesson in my life, and I've never listened to Persian music in my life! It's really interesting to me that some things just come to you unconsciously like that. It's like you have this brain and it's unconsciously and consciously registering everything and in combination with your DNA it just becomes... something."<mask>'s music is inspired by ideas of womanhood, identity, and motherhood. Artistry

Music videos
Her album, ISON, is a visual album and has a video that is 1 hour, 6 minutes, and 28 seconds long. Unlike similar visual albums, the film is abstract and meant to be viewed in one sitting, as it subtly changes like a "moving painting". Her general goal with her music videos is to "make it vulnerable and more than human at the same time." "Human"
Sevdaliza appears to be a satyr and an erotic dancer performing in a semi-abandoned large building with classical detailing in front of an audience sitting on a mezzanine. The audience consists of only men, who are clearly wealthy, being served food and receiving this seemingly private and exclusive performance. The time and place that this is occurring remains ambiguous, mostly because of the mysteriousness of Sevdaliza's semi-mythological character, who is  dancing on dirt that has been plowed as in preparation for an animal race.Additionally, her outfit recalls that of Debra Paget in the 1959 film The Indian Tomb, a nod to old Hollywood nostalgia and popular roles women play catering to male sexual desire. The audience members sweat and watch cautiously, as if scared of her. Her video on YouTube is accompanied by the quote, 'the basic human need to be watched was once satisfied by god'. There is an official rendition of the song in Portuguese. The video for Human was directed by Emmanuel Adjei. "Amandine Insensible"
Sevdaliza performs several archetypal figures of women in contemporary society. These archetypes are all solo and set against a bright white background, with watermarks and are meant to represent the limited roles accessible to women.As a commentary on the commercialization of everyday life, Sevdaliza sold clips from the music video to Shutterstock. There is the "confident, powerful woman active wear", "professional woman operator call center business", "glamorous sensual woman in silk garment", "confidant ethnic woman leather suit umbrella", and "glamorous woman wow white fur piano". Sevdaliza says that "The accessibility of information and matter has created a new universal language, in which commercial brands play a key role." "Bluecid"
Sevdaliza dances a slow tango-inspired duet with Francois Sagat in a large, ornately-decorated hall with a golden table set for two in the middle of the room. The video is written and directed by Sevdaliza and Zahra Reijs and was released in 2017. Album art

ISON
The album art for ISON features a hyper-realistic bust of Sevdaliza herself, barely superimposed and upside down over a mannequin copy that appears to be covered with fresh bright red paint. The hair that is hanging upside down, drapes over the shoulder of the bright red bust.Both appear to be sweaty or wet. The silicone sculpture is by sculptor Sarah Sitkin. Stikin says "The idea is based around Sevdaliza being the mother to herself and her past lives. It carries her vulnerability stoically. Her features distorted, some omitted, some emphasized. A new form is repeated through her 16 children (number of songs) surrounding her." Awards and Nominations
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21st-century Dutch women singers
Contemporary R&B singers
Dutch electronic musicians
Dutch singer-songwriters
Dutch women's basketball players
Dutch people of Iranian descent
Dutch people of Azerbaijani descent
Dutch people of Russian descent
Iranian electronic musicians
Iranian emigrants to the Netherlands
21st-century Iranian women singers
Iranian singer-songwriters
Living people
Singers from Tehran
Musicians from Rotterdam
Women in electronic music
Iranian people of Azerbaijani descent
Iranian people of Russian descent

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