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 second-to-most tries of 48 tries than any active Super Rugby player behind New South Wales Waratahs fullback Israel Folau. Despite an outstanding Super Rugby campaign, <mask> went back to being the second-choice halfback with Aaron Smith returning to better form. This was made clear in the 2017 Pasifika Challenge against Samoa where Perenara replaced Smith in the 56th minute of the 78-0 win, scoring a try in the 71st minute.Smith started as halfback in all three tests against the British & Irish Lions in 2017, with <mask> coming off the bench as a reserve in those three matches. <mask> lead the Haka in every single test against the Lions. He carried a heavy workload for the All Blacks in 2017, playing in 14 matches that year and leading the haka in all of those, including starts against Argentina which was a 39-22 win and the Barbarians in a 31-22 win, scoring a try against the Barbarians in that fixture, that was not a capped fixture. <mask> only missed one test that year, which was the last 2017 Rugby Championship fixture, against South Africa. 2018
<mask> was expected to take over as Hurricanes captain for 2018, with Dane Coles ruled out for the season, due to a torn ACL, sustained against France in 2017. <mask> remained as vice-captain, however, with the departing flanker Brad Shields named as captain for his last season with the Hurricanes, instead of <mask> or Coles as captain. He struggled with injury early in the year, but still scored six tries during the 2018 Super Rugby season.<mask>'s most notable contribution to the Hurricanes in 2018 was his Man-of-the-Match performance against the Chiefs in the quarter-final, scoring two tries and performing a try-saving tackle on


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 Blacks won the test, 35-17. Perenara only played in the last 10 minutes during the following test, the last Rugby Championship test, which was a narrow 32-30 win over South Africa.Aaron Smith's fading form saw <mask> begin his 2018 end-of-year tour with a start in the third Bledisloe Cup test, against Australia, in a 37-20 win. After key members of the All Blacks, including the likes of <mask> and Captain Kieran Read, missed the test against Japan, Perenara was named on the bench prior to the 10 November test against England. Perenara performed poorly against England and could potentially have cost New Zealand a win, with England replacement forward, Courtney Lawes, charging down a box-kick from Perenara to set Sam Underhill up, for what could have been England's winning try. The try was not given to England by the referee however, as Lawes was deemed to be offside. New Zealand narrowly won against England, 16-15. <mask> was subsequently benched for the 17 November loss to Ireland, which was a 9-16 against New Zealand. After the big games against England and Ireland, Perenara finished the season off with a start against Italy.He scored the opening try against Italy off a pass from winger, Jordie Barrett, before being replaced by Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi, in the 51st minute of the test, which ended the season in a 66-3 victory. 2019
Starting the season alongside club captain Dane Coles, <mask> had to assume the captaincy when Coles was injured. Under his leadership, the Hurricanes suffered a loss to the Crusaders and a draw with the Chiefs, which was further fractionalized by a second loss to the Crusaders at home on 29 March. From Round 8 on, the Hurricanes enjoyed an unbroken run

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 of victories until Round 14, when the Jaguares South American side defeated them for the first time ever, 20-28 in Wellington. <mask> was rejoined by Dane Coles for the sides tour of South Africa, where two wins boosted the side's chances, as they would end the regular season with a 29-24 win over the Blues that earned a home quarterfinal game against the Bulls. His side won that game 35-28, but it would see the Hurricanes face the Crusaders in the Super Rugby semifinals. Losing that game 30-26 in Christchurch, Perenara would demonstrate that a late interference by Sam Whitelock would influence his team ending the 'Canes 2019 season run.<mask> was widely regarded as the Hurricanes' Most Valuable Player of the 2019 Super Rugby season. Perenara played nine tests for New Zealand in 2019, including five at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, where the All Blacks finished in third place. He was awarded the IRP Try of the Year in 2019, finishing a well-executed team try, during New Zealand's 71-9 Pool Stage win over Namibia. Personal life

<mask> is known for his support of social issues, having spoken widely of his support for inclusiveness and diversity in rugby. In response to Israel Folau's controversial comments on same-sex marriage, <mask> tweeted in support of the rainbow community. He has expressed continued support for LGBT issues. Perenara has followed a vegan diet since November 2019, after being a vegetarian for two years.Talking about his first switch to a vegetarian diet, he said: "I ate meat until about two years ago. I started on the India tour-- I was massive on the environment, pollution, stuff like that. And then I watched the documentary called Cowspiracy. It talked about how


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 much agricultural farming accounts for pollution in the world and I was like man, I can't really say I care about it if I eat meat. My journey is to become vegan, so that's what I'll get to." In early 2020, <mask> and his wife Greer announced they were expecting their first child. He is also a distant relative of former All Black Sonny Bill Williams.References

External links
TJ Perenara Hurricanes profile
Wellington profile
IRB profile
itsrugby.co.uk profile

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<mask> (1 April 1934 – 2 August 2017), was an Indian political leader and a key member of the Indian National Congress. Mr<mask> was first elected to the Parliament in 1980, the first of his seven terms in office as the Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha. Out of these seven, he has represented Silchar constituency, Assam five times and he was elected from Tripura West constituency twice. Mr <mask> has the rare distinction of being elected from two different states. Political career
During his political career as an elected representative, <mask> held crucial cabinet and non Cabinet posts. <mask> had represented India in the Population Conference held in China in 1982 and was a member of the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference at Isle of Man in 1984. He was the Union Minister of State for Tourism and Communications during 1986-1988 and the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs during 1988–1989.He also held the charge of Union Minister of State for Steel (Independent Charge) in 1991. <mask> was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1980 from Silchar constituency in Assam. Subsequently, he was re-elected to Lok Sabha in 1984 from Silchar constituency and in 1989 and 1991 from Tripura West constituency. <mask> was again elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996, 1999 and 2004 from Silchar constituency. <mask> was Chairman, Public Accounts Committee during 1990-1991 and was a member of the Parliamentary Committee of General Purpose Committee. He was also member of Tea Board during 1981–83. Between 1999-2004 <mask> held various parliamentary responsibilities including being the Chairman of Committee on Energy, Member of House Committee and Member of General Purposes Committee.<mask> <mask> lost to Kabindra Purkayastha of the BJP in the 2009 elections for the 15th Lok Sabha. Achievements
During the period 2005 to 2009, he was the Minister of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises in the Union Cabinet. His tenure saw the fruition of a comprehensive automotive policy that will shape the Indian auto industry in the decades to come. This period also saw the

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 rationalisation of Public Sector wages. this brought employees of government run companies closer to the levels of their private counterparts and drastically reduced the exodus of talented managers and executives. His other salient achievements include, the deregulation of steel in the mid 1990s as minister of steel which unshackled potential of the indigenous steel industry making India a global steel powerhouse. He was also instrumental in setting up a national university in Silchar, Assam.He played a key role in the freight equalization scheme in the early 1990s in India which removed unequal rail freight charges among the states, thereby making them more competitive. He is a third generation Congressman. His father was one of the first legislators of independent India. His grandfather <mask> <mask> was also an active member of the Indian freedom struggle and a member of the first ever Silchar Municipal council in 1913. Social and cultural Activities
<mask> was instrumental in several major initiatives, such as establishment of two Central Universities in Assam; welfare of labour especially of workers in tea gardens and villages; flood cyclone relief work; served the rural people of Assam with District Rural Development Agency (D.R.D.A.) Loans; development of rural electrification and transport; provision of water, electricity and sanitation facilities to the slum dwellers; instrumental in extending financial help to the needy individuals and Associations/Clubs through a Trust established in memory of his father Late Shri Satindra <mask>; and developed Silchar Regional Engineering College into an institution of repute; president, Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelani for 2 years; Chief Patron, Bipin Chandra Pal Trust; engaged in Socio-welfare activities established in memory of noted freedom fighter from North-East Region; took initiative in establishing Gas-based Power project at Adamtilla and Banskandi; actively involved in the construction of Barak Dam and extension of the broad-gauge line up to Silchar. Personal life
<mask> <mask> is the eldest of three sons of the renowned

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 Bengali North Eastern Freedom Fighter Satindra <mask>.Satindra <mask> was known as fierce opponent of British Rule and enjoyed the personal confidence of Jawaharlal Nehru. He was jailed a number of times by the British for his resistance activities. In the mid Sixties in an independent India he was offered the governorship of Bihar, but he turned it down, preferring to stay in his hometown of Silchar. A member of the <mask> family has occupied an elected office from South Assam for all but 10 years since Indian Independence. <mask> <mask> was educated at G.C college in Silchar, Assam and has an MBA from the Welsh College In Cardiff UK. <mask> has four daughters and his wife Bithika <mask> was a Member of the state legislative assembly of Assam from his home constituency of Silchar till May, 2011. Mr. <mask> is also a certified and professionally qualified Football Referee.In his earlier years Mr<mask> was also the winner of the All Assam Lawn Tennis Championship. An avid reader, Mr <mask> is personally inspired by Famous Bengali writers like Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Rabindranath Tagore. In September 2009 his daughter Sushmita <mask> was elected chairperson of the Silchar Municipality making her the fourth generation of the <mask> family to enter active politics. In March 2011, Sushmita <mask> became the MLA of Assam Legislative Assembly from Silchar constituency and in 2014 she became the member of parliament  from her hometown Silchar constituency. References

External links
 <mask> <mask> sees ‘India Shining’ in the down-trodden
 Indian Parliament Members' Fact File
 Sontosh <mask>: Information from Answers.com
 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website

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<mask> (born 12 July 1992) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Kristiansund, on loan from Brann. <mask> played for Teie IF in his native Norway before joining the Manchester City Academy system at the age of 16. <mask> has represented Norway at youth international level. Club career

Manchester City
Hailing from Nøtterøy outside Tønsberg, <mask> made his debut for Teie IF in the 4. Divisjon at the age of 14. After training with the Tippeligaen sides Sandefjord and Odd Grenland, he was invited on a trial with Manchester City. After <mask> got a fracture in the foot before his trial, his family managed to get a trial with his brother Tobias instead, who also plays as a goalkeeper.Tobias impressed in the trial and got a contract with Manchester City. <mask> later got a new trial with City, and when he joined the Manchester City Academy in August 2008, their mother and two younger brothers also moved to England. Tobias returned to Norway and Kongsvinger in 2010, leaving him alone in England. <mask> was training regularly with City's first team in the 2010–11 season, and signed a new two-year contract with the club in May 2011. <mask> made his debut for the first team when he played seven minutes of the friendly match against League of Ireland XI on 30 July 2011. After playing regularly for the reserves during the 2011–12 season, <mask> signed a professional contract with the club in July 2012, signing a three–year contract extension. <mask> played a number of pre-season friendlies ahead of the 2012–13 season, and started the season on the bench during Manchester City's FA Community Shield win against Chelsea.He spent most of the season playing in the reserve team for the next seven months. On 7 March 2013, <mask> joined League One side Scunthorpe United on a one month loan deal as cover for the injured number one 'keeper Sam Slocombe, who was out for six weeks with a torn thigh muscle. Two days later on 9 March 2013, he made his debut for the club, starting the whole game, a 1–2 home defeat against Coventry City. <mask>

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 then started in the next seven matches for Scunthorpe United. On 2 April 2013, his loan spell with the club was extended for the rest of the season. But after Slocombe returned from injury, he returned back to Scunthorpe United’s remaining matches of the 2012–13 season. At the 2012–13 season, <mask> went on to make eight appearances in all competitions.Following his loan spell at Scunthorpe United, <mask> remained as the club’s fourth choice goalkeeper and signed a three–year contract extension. On 20 January 2014, he joined Norwegian club Sandefjord on a six-month loan-deal, reuniting with his old goalkeeping-coach from Teie, Hans Petter Olsen and the club stated that they wanted him as their new first-choice goalkeeper, as the first-choice in the previous season, Iven Austbø, had transferred to Viking. Prior to the move, <mask> was also linked with a move to Scottish Premiership side Ross County, but the move fell through. Having not started in goal for the first two league matches, he made his debut for Sandefjord, starting the whole game, in a 2–2 draw against Atla on 20 April 2014. Since joining the club, <mask> quickly established himself as the Sandefjord’s first choice goalkeeper. This led to him extending the club extending his loan spell for the rest of the season. At the end of the 2014 season, he went on to make twenty–nine appearances in all competitions.Following this, <mask> returned to his parent club when his loan spell at Sandefjord ended. New York City FC
On 31 March 2015 <mask> signed with Major League Soccer club New York City. He was loaned to NYCFC's United Soccer League affiliate club Wilmington Hammerheads on 11 May 2015. <mask> made one appearance for the side before returning to his parent club. <mask> made his NYCFC debut on 17 June 2015, starting in a US Open Cup 2(3) - 2(4) loss on penalty kicks against the New York Cosmos. This turns out to be his only appearance in the 2015 season. <mask> made his second appearance for the club, in a 1–0 loss in the US Open Cup against the New York Cosmos, on 15 June.Having been placed

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 on the substitute bench behind Josh Saunders, it wasn’t until on 23 October 2016 when he made his first league appearance, starting in a 4–1 win over Columbus Crew, in the season finale. After the match, Johansen said: "I haven’t seen through too many of the clips yet but to get the start with the first save down to my left was good. When you haven’t played in a long time regularly, you can be a bit edgy because obviously you want to go out and impress. Sometimes that leads to you chasing the game which can lead to bad decisions and mistakes. That save settled me down early into the game and then it was good. On a personal note, it was a pretty decent game for me." Six days later on 30 October 2016, he started NYCFC's first ever playoff, in a 0–2 loss to Toronto in the first leg.<mask>, once again, started in the club’s return leg play–off against Toronto, as the club lost 5–0. At the end of the 2016 season, he went on to make four appearances in all competitions. Ahead of the 2017 season, <mask> and his NYCFC teammates Jack Harrison and Ronald Matarrita earned U.S. green cards. Since the start of the 2017 season, he continued to remain on the substitute bench behind new signing Sean Johnson. After Johnson’ absent due to his international commitment at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, <mask> made his first appearance of the season, starting the whole game, in a 3–1 win against Minnesota United on 29 June 2017. In a follow–up match, he made another appearance for the club against Vancouver Whitecaps, as the club lost 3–2. Following Johnson’s return, <mask> returned back to the substitute bench for the rest of the 2017 season and he went on to make two appearances in all competitions.Following this, <mask> was released by NYCFC on 27 November 2017. Sandefjord
In December 2017, <mask> re-joined Sandefjord on a permanent contract, signing for two years at the club. Upon joining Sandefjord, he said he joined the club in hopes of getting a call up from the senior team. <mask> made his second debut for Sandefjord, starting the whole game, as the club lost 5–0 against

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 Molde in the opening game of the season. Since joining Sandefjord, he quickly became the club’s first choice goalkeeper once again. However, <mask> was unable to help Sandefjord Fotball avoid relegation after the club drew 1–1 against Sarpsborg 08 on 11 November 2018. Despite missing two matches throughout the 2018 season due to Ingvar Jónsson in goal, he went on to make thirty appearances in all competitions.SK Brann
On 9 January 2019, <mask> signed with SK Brann on a four-year contract. Upon joining the club, he was given a number twelve shirt ahead of the Eliteserien. <mask> made his debut for SK Brann, starting out as the club’s first choice goalkeeper, in a 3–2 loss against Odds in the opening game of the season. This was followed up by starting in the next two matches against Strømsgodset and Kristiansund. But following the return of Håkon Opdal, he was demoted to SK Brann’s second choice goalkeeper for the rest of the season. Despite this, <mask> was featured three times in the club’s matches in the Norwegian Football Cup. At the end of the 2019 season, he went on to make six appearances in all competitions.Kristiansund BK (loan)
On 15 June 2020, <mask> signed a loan deal with Kristiansund for the rest of the 2020 season. He previously expressed his desire to leave Brann to get first team football. <mask> made his debut for the club, starting the whole game, in a 2–2 draw against Haugesund on 24 June 2020. Initially, he competed with Serigne Mbaye over the first choice goalkeeper for the next three months, which either of them placed on the substitute bench. Despite Mbaye was loaned out, <mask> continued to remain as Kristiansund’s second choice goalkeeper behind Sean McDermott for the rest of the 2020 season. At the end of the 2020 season, he went on to make eight appearances in all competitions. Following this, <mask> returned to his parent club.International career
<mask> has represented Norway at various youth levels, starting out with Norway U-15 and made three appearances. The following year in 2008, he was called up to the Norway U-16


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 squad and went on to make four appearances. The following year in 2009, <mask> was called up to the Norway U-17 squad and went on to make six appearances. The following year in 2010, he was called up to the Norway U-18 squad and went on to make six appearances. The following year in 2011, <mask> was called up to the Norway U-19 squad and went on to make six appearances. Later in the year, he was called up to the Norway U-21 squad for the first time. <mask> made his U21 debut, starting the whole game, in a 2–0 win against Azerbaijan U21 on 6 October 2011.After a year absent, he was called up to the Norway U21 squad in February 2013 and made an appearance against Turkey U21, losing 2–0. <mask> later made three more appearances for the U21 side by the end of the year. He went on to make eight appearances for Norway U21 between 2011 and 2014. In June 2012, <mask> was called up to the Norway U-23 squad and made his only appearance, coming against Wales C on 5 June 2012. Prior to this, he trained with the senior team in the absence of regular goalkeepers Espen Bugge Pettersen and Rune Jarstein. In October 2018, <mask> was called up to the senior team for the first time against Bulgaria but did not play. Career statistics

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Honours
Manchester City
FA Community Shield: 2012

Sandefjord Fotball
1.Division Norway: 2014

References

External links

Profile at SK Brann

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title: Alfred Burt

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<mask> (April 22, 1920 – February 7, 1954)  was an American jazz musician who is best known for composing the music for fifteen Christmas carols between 1942 and 1954. Only one of the carols was performed in public outside his immediate family circle during his lifetime. Early life
<mask> was born in Marquette, Michigan. His family moved to Pontiac, Michigan when he was two after his father, Bates G<mask> (1878–1948), became rector of All Saints Pontiac, an Episcopal church in Pontiac. At the age of 10, having shown an early interest in music, <mask> received his first musical instrument, a cornet, as a present from his parents. Though he would learn to play several other instruments, including the piano, <mask> spent most of his life playing cornet and trumpet in bands and orchestras, with a special interest in jazz. <mask> studied music at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with an emphasis on Music Theory.He graduated as an outstanding music theory student with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1942. A tradition that the elder <mask> had begun prior to moving to Pontiac in 1922, was the creation of a Christmas card, which he sent to family members and parishioners. On these cards were original Christmas carols, with both the words and music by the Reverend <mask>. After <mask> graduated from college, his father asked him to take over as composer and write the music for the family Christmas card in 1942, "Christmas Cometh Caroling". From then on, <mask> would write the music for the family's Christmas cards. World War II and aftermath
During World War II, <mask> served as an officer in the United States Army, stationed at San Angelo, Texas. While there, he served with the Army Air Force Band and filled in with the Houston Symphony as a trumpeter.His father sent him the lyrics for the carols from Michigan, first in 1943 ("Jesu Parvule") and then in 1944 ("What Are The

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 Signs"). <mask> completed the music from his base. <mask> married his childhood sweetheart, Anne Shortt (August 14, 1922 – November 30, 2000), on October 13, 1945. Finally earning his discharge in early 1946, he formed a short-lived band; after the group disbanded, he and Anne returned to Michigan to spend time with his father. The 1947 Christmas card, "Nigh Bethlehem," was the last collaboration between <mask> and <mask>. <mask> died of a heart attack early in 1948. <mask> and his wife chose to continue the family Christmas card tradition in his honor.<mask> resumed his career in New York as a musician and arranger/composer. He also worked as a teacher at The American Theatre Wing professional school, where he collaborated with Helen Hobbs Jordan (April 6, 1907 – April 26, 2006) on a sight-reading book. Professional life
<mask> joined the Alvino Rey Orchestra in 1949. Meanwhile, Anne remained in Michigan, where the Burts' only child, Diane Bates <mask>, was born on March 8, 1950. While she was pregnant, Anne, in consultation with <mask>, asked an old family friend, Wihla Hutson (1901–2002), the organist at Rev. <mask>'s church, to write the lyrics for the annual Christmas card, which <mask> then would set to music. This carol, entitled "Sleep, Baby Mine" (or "Carol of the Mother") was a lullaby for their unborn child.In the spring of 1950, <mask>, Anne and six-week-old Diane moved to Los Angeles, California. <mask> continued his professional career as an arranger and musician for bands such as Hal Richards, Horace Heidt and Alvino Rey. Over the next several years and, as the <mask>s' circle of friends grew, the Christmas card list grew from 50 to 450 people. But still, the Alfred Burt Carols remained unknown outside the <mask>s' growing mailing list. That changed with the 1952 carol, "Come, Dear Children". <mask> finished writing the music during a rehearsal with the Blue

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 Reys, the vocal group with Alvino Rey's orchestra. He asked them to sing it so he could make sure the harmonies worked; they liked it so much that they asked <mask> if they could sing it at The King Sisters annual Christmas party.It proved to be a hit among the party guests, and served to introduce <mask>'s carols to Hollywood. The <mask> collaboration continued until <mask>'s death in 1954. Illness and death
Through the early part of 1953, <mask> complained of a persistent virus and fatigue. Eventually agreeing to a thorough medical examination, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He spent his final months at home in Pacoima, California. James Conkling, husband of Donna King Conkling, and at that time the president of Columbia Records, was informed of <mask>'s failing health and organized the project, assembling an all-star choir of Hollywood singers to perform <mask>'s four-part harmonies. Recording sessions for the older carols took place in late 1953 in the North Hollywood LDS Church with <mask> present to conduct from his wheelchair.Meanwhile, to fill the album, <mask> was assigned four new carols. One of them, "O Hearken Ye", was sent as the 1953 family Christmas card. For the first time, <mask> knew his carols were going to be recorded. <mask> finished the last of his carols, "The Star Carol", on February 5, 1954. Less than two days later, he died. "The Star Carol" would be used on the final <mask> family Christmas card that holiday season. The artwork and printing of the card was donated by Columbia Records with a staff photographer providing the photo of the little girl looking at a Christmas ornament.Many thought it was Al's daughter, <mask>. First recordings of the carols

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texts: Columbia Choir", conducted by Bud Linn and produced by "Edwin L. (Buddy) Cole", as the LP jacket credits him, who was at that time the husband of Yvonne King Cole. "The Christmas Mood" was recorded by The Columbia Choir under the direction of Grafton (Bud) Linn at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal church, on Coldwater Canyon Ave. in Studio City, California, of which <mask> was assistant choir director and both he and his wife, Anne, were members. The album remained in print for several Christmas seasons. In 1955, the original 10-inch LP was reissued with a new catalog number (CL 2546) as part of Columbia's short-lived "House Party Series", which was designed to keep the 10-inch album alive, even as most labels released most of their new LPs on 12-inch discs. In 1957, the album was reissued once again, this time on a 12-inch LP as CL 1051, including an instrumental brass ensemble, a medley of the carols arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael.The original Columbia Choir album did not include "Christmas Cometh Caroling", "What Are the Signs", and "Sleep Baby Mine", also titled "The Carol of the Mother". Capitol Records artists Tennessee Ernie Ford, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians and Nat King Cole recorded <mask>'s carols. In 1958, Ford recorded "The Star Carol" for his first full-length album of Christmas music and named the entire album of songs after it. The Star Carol (Capitol T/ST 1071) peaked at Billboard #4 in the Christmas season of 1958–59 and reappeared on either the main LP charts or the special Christmas charts for a decade thereafter. In 1959, Waring recorded the Christmas LP The Sounds of Christmas (Capitol T/ST 1260), and six of the Alfred Burt Carols appeared on it: "Caroling, Caroling", "O Hearken Ye", "Jesu Parvule", "The Star Carol", "Come Dear Children", and "This Is Christmas" (the latter also known under the name "Bright, Bright the Holly

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 Berries"). Finally, Cole recorded "Caroling, Caroling" on his 1960 album The Magic of Christmas (Capitol W/SW 1444), which was reissued under the title The Christmas Song in 1963 and has remained in print ever since. Simon and Garfunkel recorded "The Star Carol" in 1967, which was released on the LP A Very Merry Christmas.The first recording of all 15 of The Alfred Burt Carols was released in 1964 by the Voices of Jimmy Joyce called This Is Christmas: A Complete Collection of the Alfred S. Burt Carols (Warner Bros. W/WS 1566). The recording was produced by Anne S<mask>, <mask>'s wife, and James Conkling, president of Warner Bros. Records. The recording engineer was Lowell Frank. The unusual 8-part vocal harmony arrangements were written by <mask>'s lifelong friend, Brinley Bethel. The tracks were recorded during a 3-day session in Hollywood on September 9, 10 & 11 of 1963. The recording was nominated for a Grammy in 1964 in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Performance. In 1964, there was no category for a cappella vocal music, thus the work was placed in the instrumental category.It lost to Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther" theme. Legacy
"Caroling, Caroling" and "Some Children See Him" are the most recorded carols written by <mask><mask>. Other recordings of The Alfred Burt Carols include Simon and Garfunkel's 1967 recording of "The Star Carol", Andy Williams and Kenny Loggins' versions of "Some Children See Him", George Winston's 1982 rendition of "Some Children See Him", James Taylor's 2004 recording of "Some Children See Him", and David Archuleta's 2018 version of "Some Children See Him". The Singers Unlimited recorded six of the Alfred Burt Carols on their 1972 album, "Christmas". Gas House Gang also has recorded Burt carols in their 2000 CD "Some Children See Him". John Williams wrote two medleys of <mask>'s works for the Boston Pops Orchestra, one from the album Joy To

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 The World (TNK 48232) and another for the album We Wish You  A Merry Christmas (Philips 41627). In 1990, Julie Andrews recorded "This Is Christmas" on a Hallmark recording, The Sounds Of Christmas from Around the World, with the London Symphony.Natalie Cole recorded "Caroling, Caroling" on her album Holly & Ivy in 1994. Both The Christmas Mood (VAG Records 4223) of 1954 and This Is Christmas (VAG Records 4222) of 1964 were remastered in 1995, and several of the tracks from those recordings were used to celebrate the 50th year of the carols on The Alfred Burt Christmas Carols Golden Anniversary'' (VAG Records 4225) in 2004. 1980 <mask>, <mask>'s daughter, started an eight voice a cappella ensemble called The Caroling Company to represent the carols. The Caroling Company included eight of the Alfred Burt Carols on their Grammy listed CD, "A Christmas Present From The Caroling Company" in 2003. In 2001 <mask>'s grandniece, the composer Abbie Betinis, revived the family tradition of sending Christmas cards with an original carol each holiday season, which she also introduces each year on Minnesota Public Radio. The carols
 "Christmas Cometh Caroling" (1942)
 "Jesu Parvule" (1943)
 "What Are the Signs" (1944)
 "Ah, Bleak and Chill the Wintry Wind" (1945)
 "All on a Christmas Morning" (1946)
 "Nigh Bethlehem" (1947)
 "Christ in the Stranger's Guise" (1948)
 "Sleep Baby Mine" (1949)
 "This Is Christmas" (also known as "Bright, Bright, the Holly Berries") (1950)
 "Some Children See Him" (1951)
 "Come, Dear Children" (1952)
 "O, Hearken Ye" (1953)
 "Caroling, Caroling" (1954)
 "We'll Dress the House" (1954)
 "The Star Carol" (1954)

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1920 births
1954 deaths
American male composers
Christian music songwriters
Musicians from Pontiac, Michigan
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni
20th-century American composers
20th-century American

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title: Yūki Ishikawa

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is a Japanese male professional volleyball player from Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture. <mask> is the first volleyball player to have a wax figure in Japan. Currently, his wax figure is displayed at Madame Tussauds Tokyo. <mask> was named "Best Outside Spiker" award at the FIVB World Cup (2015, 2019), Asian Championship (2017, 2019, 2021), as well as "Most Valuable Player" award at the Asian Championship (2017). As of April 2021, <mask> is the captain of the Japan men's national volleyball team, and plays as an outside hitter. He currently plays in the Italian Volleyball League (7th consecutive seasons) for Allianz Milano. Personal life
<mask>'s father, Mikihisa, is a former track and field sprinter of DENSO.His mother, Midori, is a former basketball player of DENSO. His elder sister, Naomi, is a former volleyball player and his sister, Mayu, is a member of the Japan women's national volleyball team. Career

Clubs
Due to the influence of his elder sister, Ishikawa started playing volleyball in the 4th grade of Elementary School. His best achievement was an 8th place at the All Japan Volleyball Elementary School Tournament. In 2010, he won the bronze medal at the All Japan Junior High School Volleyball Championship. Then, he was selected as a captain of Aichi Prefecture, and won the silver medal at the JOC Junior Olympic Cup the same year. In High School, he became the first student to win "Triple Crown" at 3 tournaments: Inter-High, National Polity, Harutaka Volley for 2 consecutive years.In the 2014–2015 season, <mask> played for the Italian team Parmareggio Modena about 3 months after the end of the All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship. According to an official of the Japan Association, he was the first student to challenge an overseas league through university (He was the first university freshman to play volleyball in the Italian Volleyball League). In the 2015–2016 season, he returned to Japan to continue playing for Chuo University's club. In December 2016, he transferred to Italy again, played for Top Volley Latina until 2018. During

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 this time, he was an exchange student while actually still playing for his university. After graduating from university in March 2018, <mask> signed his first professional contract with the Italian team Emma Villas Siena (The club was ranked up to the Italian Volleyball League in 2018–2019 season). He moved to Kioene Padova in the next season.He changed club again in 2020, to Allianz Milano, and he extended his contract until the 2021–2022 season. National team
In 2012, <mask> was called for the Japan men's national under-19 volleyball team for the first time, and the Japanese team won the bronze medal at the 2012 Asian Youth Boys Volleyball Championship in Tehran, Iran. He also won the "Best Scorer" award at the end of the tournament. In 2013, as the national team representative, <mask> competed in the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship in Mexico, where the Japanese team finished in 17th place. He continued to compete in the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship in Turkey the same year, where the Japanese team finished in 10th place. In April 2014, <mask> entered Chuo University (Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science), and was called for the Japan men's national volleyball team for the first time. In June 2014, he was elected as a member of "Team CORE" of『Project CORE』(The project responsible for revitalizing volleyball, which was launched by the Japan Volleyball Association).In September 2014, his debut competition was at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. The Japanese team won the silver medal after losing to the Iran team with a set count 1–3 in the final. In October 2014, he was part of the Japanese roster for the 2014 Asian Men's U20 Volleyball Championship in Manama, Bahrain, and led the team to win the 5th place. In September 2015, <mask> participated in the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup in Japan for the first time. The Japanese team finished in 6th place and he won the first "Best Outside Spiker" award of FIVB's tournament as a member of the senior national team. In July 2017, <mask>

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 participated in the 2017 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship in Gresik, Indonesia for the first time (He wasn't called to the tournament in 2015). The Japanese team won the gold medal and he also won the first "Most Valuable Player" award as a member of the senior national team.In 2021, <mask> became the captain of the Japan men's national volleyball team, and was assigned to lead the team at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese team finished in 7th place after losing to the Brazil team with a set count 0–3 in the quarterfinals. Commercial value
 Ishikawa has signed an advisory contract with Japanese brand DESCENTE and a support contract for amino acid brand「VAAM」of Meiji Co., Ltd. since 2018. As revealed by the President of Allianz Milano in January 2022, Lucio Fusaro, there were over 60 season tickets were purchased from <mask>'s fans in Japan and Thailand to support the team despite the fact that they could not go to Italy to watch the games live. Health effect

Injuries
 In 2011, Ishikawa had abdominal muscle strain after the quarterfinals of the National High School Comprehensive Athletic Meet Volleyball Tournament. In March 2016, Ishikawa had a left knee inflammation at the training camp, where the 2016 Summer Olympics were to be played. In June 2016, he twisted his right ankle at the 1st World Olympic Qualification Tournament against Australia team.In September 2017, <mask> injured his right knee ligament at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup against France team. In September 2021, <mask> had a backache and lower back pain before participating in the 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship. COVID-19
In December 2020, <mask> was positive for COVID-19 when he was playing volleyball in Italy. He recovered after nearly 20 days of home treatment. However, his taste and smell were still experiencing abnormal symptoms. 2014 All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship  Champion – <mask> played 6 matches. 2014 61st Student Athletic Association Award【Excellent Group Award】
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 President's Award【Field of sports (group)】
2015 Spring Kanto University Volleyball League  Champion – Ishikawa played 11 matches.2015 Autumn Kanto University Volleyball League  Champion <mask> played 4 matches. 2015 All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship  Champion <mask> played 6 matches. 2015 29th Shibuya Kenichi Encouragement Award【Physical education field】
2015 62nd Student Athletic Association Award【Excellent Group Award】
2015 33rd Student Association President's Award【Field of sports (group)】
2016 Autumn Kanto University Volleyball League  Champion <mask> played 7 matches. 2016 All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship  Champion – Ishikawa played 6 matches. 2016 63rd Student Athletic Association Award【Excellent Group Award】
2016 34th Student Association President's Award【Field of sports (group)】
2017 Spring Kanto University Volleyball League  Runner-up – <mask> played 4 matches. 2017 All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship  3rd place – Ishikawa played 6 matches. 2017 64th Student Athletic Association Award【Effort Group Award】 – The only award of club that Ishikawa didn't contribute gold medals.Italian
2014–2015 Italian Cup  Champion, with Parmareggio Modena
2014–2015 Italian Championship  Runner-up, with Parmareggio Modena
2020–2021 CEV Challenge Cup  Champion, with Allianz Milano

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Italian Volleyball League

CEV Challenge Cup

References

External links
Yuki Ishikawa’s official Instagram
Italian Volleyball League
Ishikawa, un esempio per il Giappone: “Giocatori nipponici in Italia? Dovrebbero essercene di più” at www.volleynews.it
Il Giappone è qui: Nishida contro Ishikawa, stasera si fa la storia at www.gazzetta.it

1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Aichi Prefecture
Japanese men's volleyball players
Outside hitters
Asian Games medalists in volleyball
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Volleyball players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Chuo University alumni
Olympic volleyball players of Japan
Volleyball players at the

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title: Farajallah el-Helou

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<mask>-Helou (6 June 1906 – 25 June 1959) or Farjallah Helou (in Arabic فرج الله الحلو) was a Lebanese communist militant, a popular Lebanese political figure and head of the Lebanese Communist Party. Early life
<mask>-Helou  was born to Estephane el-Helou in Hosrayel, Mount Lebanon in a conservative Maronite family. He studied at a public school in Byblos, then in Amsheet and Notre Dame de Mayfouq. His mother and part of his siblings left Lebanon, <mask> stayed with his father Estephane and who opted to stay and his siblings Mariana, older sister and Ghaleb his brother. He later traveled to Syria where he was a teacher in Arabic language and literature the National Evangelical College in Homs and also continued his studies in literature in Syria where he got exposed to Marxist ideology. At the end of the 1920s, he returned to Lebanon and alongside Fu'ad al-Shimali, Yusuf Yazbek and Artin Madoyan, a founding member of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party and the party's first secretary. He married Virginie el-Helou, a communist party sympathizer and had three daughters, Bushra, Najwa and Nada.Politics

In 1934, el-Helou travelled to the USSR including a tour of the Asian Soviet Socialist Republics and wrote the book A New Humanity Building a New World (In Arabic انسانية جديدة تبني عالما جديدا). In 1935, he became part of the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party later renamed Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) and Syrian Communist Party. El-Helou became a member of its Central Committee and actively took part in demonstrations against the French Mandate of Lebanon and Syria and for independence of Lebanon. He was arrested briefly in Syria and deported to Lebanon. In 1937 he was named secretary of the Central Committee of the party headed by Khaled Bakdash. He unsuccessfully led an electoral campaign to be elected as a member of the Lebanese

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 Parliament from Mount Lebanon. He also supervised the publication of the Lebanese Communist organ Voice of the People (in Arabic صوت الشعب).In 1939, he was arrested again, this time by the French Mandate and put to trial and convicted for 5 year imprisonment. He spent 22 months in prison alongside party leader Nicolas al-Shawi before release in 1941. He headed the party in 1946 as Secretary General, a post that was hastily transferred to Nicolas el-Shawi as he traveled to Paris and London to study Marxism. He was further alienated from the party after his criticism of the USSR for approving the 1947 resolutions in United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine that led to the establishment of Israel in 1948. But he remained a staunch communist and member of the party although he was chastised for his views on USSR. During the Soviet Stalinist hegemony on the Lebanese Communist Party, he was blamed for criticizing the Soviet Union and after a big rift with the pro-Stalinist wing represented by Khalid Bakdash, was forced to write his own "confessions" and "admitting of mistakes" in a document known as "Risalat Salem" (رسالة سالم) in a bid to remain in the party. In the 1950s, his party actively opposed the rule of President Camille Chamoun in what was known as the 1958 uprising.Death
After the Khalid Bakdash communist leadership in Syria was decimated with the Syrian wing of the Communist Party opposing the establishment of United Arab Republic and the union of Egypt and Syria under a Nasserite regime, Bakdash lived in exile in Prague, as many other Syrian Communists found refuge in Lebanon. The Syrian communists drafted a plan of action and <mask> El-Helou was, upon the insistence of Bakdash, sent to Syria to take care of situation of the Syrian communists. After visiting Syria, el-Helou returned to Lebanon in May 1959 presenting a long


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 report to the party Central Committee about the situation. But with the insistence of the exiled and autocratic communist leader Bakdash, on 18 June 1959, <mask> el-Helou went on his second secret mission to Syria in a year. He was duly arrested after five days of his clandestine mission by the secret services of the United Arab Republic led by Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj and its Lebanese Affairs bureau led by Burhan Adham on 25 June after a defecting Syrian communist operative now working with the new pro-Nasser regime led the secret agents to his hideout in Damascus. He was repeatedly investigated by the Deuxième Bureau for naming other Syrian communists and sympathizers opposed to the union which he vehemently refused. He was reportedly killed under torture the same day or the following one or two days.The actual date of death is still a mystery. His body was first buried in a secret location, and fearing exposure of the crime, later his body was reportedly burned in a pool of sulfuric acid and his remains disposed of in the Barada river. Details of his torture, murder and disposal were made public by Al Akhbar, the official organ of the Syrian communists after the dissolution of the Egyptian Syrian union. Legacy
<mask> el-Helou is widely considered as one of the martyrs of Arab communism. Many poems and songs are dedicated to him including one by the Egyptian poet and stage writer Naguib Srour. In 1971 Soviet artist Lev Alexandrovich Russov sculpted a statue of martyr <mask> el-Helou. The commemorative statue was bombed a few years later reportedly by the invading Syrian Army in retaliation after the leftist Lebanese National Movement made up of Arab nationalists, socialists and communists led by Kamal Jumblatt opposed the invasion.Also in 1971, the critically acclaimed comedy/tragedy theatre piece written by Issam Mahfouz was presented on

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 stage titled Why Did Sirhan Sirhan Refuse What the Zaim Said About <mask> el-Helou in Stereo 71 (in Arabic لماذا رفض سرحان سرحان ما قاله الزعيم عن فرج الله الحلو في ستيريو 71) Sirhan Sirhan being the Arab Palestinian Jordanian who killed Robert F. Kennedy and Zaim being the honorific title of Antoun Saadeh, the founder of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. The piece was adapted and staged a second time in 2015 in the Gulbenkian Theatre in Lebanese American University directed this time by Lena Khoury. In 1974, Dar al Farabi publishing house launched the book كتابات مختارة لفرج الله الحلو being excerpts from el-Helou's various writings. After a decision of the Lebanese Communist Party, following the 2005 Cedar Revolution and withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon, Lev Alexandrovich Russov's blown commemorative statue was restored back and its official reopening was made on 19 September 2005, with thousands of sympathizers attending the event in Hosrayel, Farjallah el-Helou's birthplace. In 2009, author Karim Mroueh published through Dar al Saqi the biographical book The Four Great Communists in the Modern History of Lebanon: Fu'ad al-Shimali, <mask> el-Helou, Nicolas el-Shawi, George Hawi. In 2013, the Lebanese communist radio station Voice of the People (صوت الشعب) broadcast a series of programmes about Farajallah el-Helou under the title Farajallah el-Helou: Combatant and Martyr (فرج الله الحلو: مناضلا وشهيدا). Hanna Gharib, the newly elected general secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party visited the house and the statue of Farajallah el-Helou in Hosrayel in June 2016, few months after his election and delivered a speech honoring the historical leader and martyr of the party.See also
 Lebanese Communist Party
 George Hawi
 Hanna Gharib
 Hosrayel

References

1906 births
1959 deaths
Lebanese Communist Party politicians
Lebanese left-wing

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<mask> is a Canadian mixed martial arts commentator, former mixed martial artist, and glam rock musician. History
Originally a member of the Pinawa, Manitoba band Ballroom Zombies, <mask> moved to Toronto in 1998 to form <mask> and the Intergalactic Rock Stars. The band released their first recording, a novelty CD single cut in the shape of a star, in 2000. The album Planet Fame, produced by Moe Berg and Garth Richardson, followed on February 14, 2002. It was filled with  glam rock tracks, led by the single "So Sick of You". A video for the single was also released. Prior to the release of their second album, the band brought in two new members; Chris "The Kidd" Avolos on drums and John "The Creep" Kerns on bass.The 2005 album was named Instant Classic, and was produced by Bob Ezrin along with Garth Richardson. For this release the band's name was shortened to just <mask>. They toured extensively for this release, including internationally. Frontman <mask> also made an appearance on Showcase's TV series KinK. <mask> was also a judge on the 2006 Much Music VJ Search. He holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. <mask> also won his division at the 2008 NAGA World Championships.He now trains MMA at Xtreme Couture in Toronto alongside other professional MMA fighters such as Mark Hominick, Mark Bocek, and Rob Di Censo and retired from professional MMA with a 4-5 record. <mask> toured the UK again across July and August 2008 with support from German glam rock band The Pleasures

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 and British based Patchwork Grace. This tour culminated in a headline show at Trash Stock festival, Nottingham. Mixed martial arts

<mask> is a practitioner of Tae Kwon Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He was featured on a MuchMusic program titled "<mask> Black: Cage Fighter". On the program, <mask> trained with  mixed martial artists Georges St-Pierre, Sam Stout, Mark Hominick, Dan Smith, Charlotte Savage, and Andrew Bradbury. <mask> was also a guest commentator at an XMMA show in Montreal featuring David Loiseau.This marked the first time that <mask> did color commentary for fights. <mask> has since been brought in to interview fighters between rounds at Warrior-1 MMA - Inception, WRECK MMA, CFC and others. In 2009, <mask> submitted opponent Stephane Poirier to become the first ever 135 pound Champion in Canada's ELITE 1 MMA promotion. After a near 2-year hiatus, <mask> returned to the cage at the inaugural SLAMM: Tristar Fights event on November 30, 2012, submitting opponent Derek Charbonneau via Kimura armlock in the 2nd round, bringing his MMA record to 4-5 (W-L). Members

Current
ROBIN BLACK
<mask> - vocals
Peter Arvidsson - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris "Starboy" Cunnane - guitar, backing vocals
Robby Ruckus (who also plays in Darlings of Chelsea) - bass
Aaron Verdonk - Drums (who also plays in Stereos)

Former

<mask> and the Intergalactic Rock Stars
(1998-2002)
<mask> - lead vocals
Stacy Stray - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris "Starboy" Cunnane - guitar, keyboards,

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 backing vocals
jackie Duncan - bass (may-sept. 98)
Killer Ky Anto - bass (sept. 98-May 2002)
Kevin Taylor aka K-Tron - drums

<mask> and the Intergalactic Rock Stars
(2002-2003)
<mask> - lead vocals
Killer Ky Anto - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris "Starboy" Cunnane - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
B.B. McQueen - bass
Kevin Taylor - drums

<mask>
(2003-2006)
<mask> - lead vocals
Killer Ky Anto - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris "Starboy" Cunnane - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
John "The Creep" Kerns - bass
Chris "The Kid" Avolos - drums

Discography

Albums
 Planet:Fame (2002)
 Instant Classic (2005)

Singles
 "Star Shaped Single" (2000)
 "Two Song Tease" (2004)
 "Hellraiser" (2003) (UK only release)

DVDs
 We Came, We Saw...We

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title: Ruth Katz

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<mask> (born 1927) is an Israeli musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel,  professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a corresponding  Member of the American Musicological Society since 2011. She was named laureate of the Israel State Prize in 2012. <mask>'s work addresses  ethnomusicology, philosophy and aesthetics of music, and music cognition. It is characterized by methodological sophistication, broad interdisciplinary perspectives and a synthetic view focusing on unveiling the ideational components. She is also concerned with the general historiography and sociology of culture and art, to aesthetics, and to ethnography and anthropology. Biography

<mask> (née Torgovnik) was born in Germany and immigrated to Israel/Palestine in 1934 with her family, settling in Tel Aviv.After graduating from the Herzliya gymnasium, military service in the Israel Defence Forces, and a short period at the Israel Ministry of Defence, she was sent to New York (1950) by the Jewish Agency's Youth department, as an emissary to the Inter-collegiate Zionist Federation of America. In New York she attended Columbia University (BA 1954, MA 1956, PhD 1963, all summa cum laude). Returning to Israel with her husband (1956), she taught at the Oranim teachers' college and began research in ethnomusicology. In 1963, she was among the founders of the department of musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she taught  until her retirement in 1995,. She became known for academic innovation, including many new programs she developed and led, e.g. the Amirim interdisciplinary excellence program (the first of

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 its kind in Israel, 1989-1995). In addition, <mask> was president of the Israel Musicological Society (1982-1985), chief musical editor of Encyclopaedia Hebraica (starting 1969),  and served on the Israel Broadcasting Authority committee on music (1966-1978) and Israel Ministry of Education advisory  board on higher education in music (1968-1975).<mask> was also fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (1986-7), University of Pennsylvania Institute for Judaic Studies (1995), Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation (1997) and the Liguria Center of the Bogliasco Foundation (1999). She gave a ’s  Paul Lazarsfeld Memorial Lecture at Columbia Universitys (1992) and the Sterosta Lectures on Interdisciplinarity at the Hebrew University (1984). <mask> was honored by an international colloquium on "Interdisciplinarity and Advancement in the Arts and Sciences" (the Hebrew University, 2008.) In 2011 she was elected a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society, and in 2012 received the Israel Prize, the highest state recognition of scholarly achievement in Israel. Research

Western music: practice, theory, philosophy, society

Unveiling the ways in which the manifold forms of music and their surrounding historical worlds mutually constitute each other has been the underlying theme of <mask>'s work since her dissertation (1963), that differentiated between Western art music since 1600 from what preceded it in epistemological, sociological and culture-historical terms, challenging well-established views concerning the rise of opera. The dissertation linked the emergence of opera and related musico-dramatic forms in the

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texts: early 17th century to the "Scientific Revolution" concomitantly under way throughout the West, presenting the former as expressions of a new music- aesthetic paradigm that emerged through "experiments" exploring the powers of music. On a more local level, <mask> further attributed these developments to a 16th-century Italian tradition of proto-scientific, magic engagement with music, and to Italian literary and dramatic genres, thereby explaining why the operatic genre emerged in Italy rather than elsewhere, even though similar ideational developments took place throughout the West.Formulating the new paradigm thus in music-aesthetic terms, <mask> applied it to the development of the operatic medium until the 1980s. <mask>'s work on the constituting interactions between aesthetic ideas and the development of musical styles continued in her  Contemplating Music (1987-1991; with Carl Dahlhaus), a four-volume annotated anthology  containing  texts by major thinkers, and mapping the main topics  of Western philosophy of music from Classical Greece to the 20th century. Continuing her exploration of the thinking embedded in the concrete musical phenomenon in “History as ‘Compliance’: The Development of Western Musical Notation in the Light of Goodman’s Requirements“, (1992),  <mask> connected analytical philosopher Nelson Goodman's  theory of the "Languages of Art"  to the 500-year-long process that historically produced Western musical notation. The twin volumes Tuning the Mind and The Arts in Mind (2003, with <mask>en)  presented the ideational components embedded in the language of Western art music of the 17th and 18th centuries,

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 century, this as an expression of concomitant changes in intellectual and social history. The book then traces the process of Western music further, into the 19th and 20th centuries, in which it became the locus of epistemological innovation anticipating linguistic and cognitive theories. Finally, <mask> shows the gradual disintegration, in the 20th century, of that self-referential system, the drive towards which had informed Western music for the entire second millennium. Ethnomusicology: the Middle East and folk traditions in Israel/Palestine

<mask>'s ethnomusicological work focuses on folk music in Israel – Palestinian Arab folk singing, music of the different Jewish communities, and the Israeli composed "folksong" – this, too, with the aim of unveiling the constituting ideational components –be they universal-cognitive patterns or culture-specific schemes. Part of these studies was conducted in collaboration with Dalia Cohen, with whom <mask> founded, in the 1950s, the Laboratory for Analysis of Vocal Information at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and led jointly, producing influential methodological and theoretical breakthroughs. A turning point in  <mask> & Cohen's laboratory work was the development (in the mid 1950s) of the first model of the "Jerusalem melograph", an electronic apparatus transcribing orally-transmitted monophonic music as a continuous graph representing changes in pitch and loudness over time, thereby providing information that is not only precise but also independent of cultural, stylistic, and notational conventions concerning three out of the four psycho-acoustic parameters (pitch, duration and


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texts: loudness; timbre was added later). The melograph was at the base of all of <mask> and Cohen's ethnomusicological work, since it made it possible to unveil latent principles regulating musical practice that are not expressed in a musical theory, cannot be extracted aurally or through use of available forms of notation (most of the work concerned oral traditions, to begin with), and of which not only researchers but also the carriers of the tradition were mostly unaware.Similar apparati were invented concomitantly but independently in Norway (Olav Gurvin) and the USA (Charles Seeger), but the processing of the findings of the Jerusalem melograph was accompanied by new, more culturally-independent theoretical categories, that proved highly fruitful not only for the specific musical traditions, but also for comparative ethnomusicological research in general, becoming widely accepted in the field, with implications for music-cognition research. For example: the category of "Melody type", expanded by <mask> and Cohen in their studies of Arabic music concerning questions of mode, a subject not well defined in oral musical traditions (even where there is a modal theory) and that has defeated many scholars. <mask> and Cohen showed that even in cases of extreme variability, one can discover modal regularity in musical practice, if one defines it as a "type of intonational skeleton" that may be realized by varying quantitative values. <mask> and Cohen expanded the concept of “type” further, showing that many traditions conform to a system of "types" not only concerning mode, but in other parameters as well, some more latent that others, e.g.


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texts: melismaticism, beat and density tempos, or timbral categories. This made it possible to formulate the aesthetic preferences of each tradition in terms of "type". It should be stressed that since aspects such as these change from one performance to the next, "typical" regularity necessarily relates also to the extent, range, and properties of variability, as well as to relations between manifest and latent factors.The melograph was eventually integrated into computerized methodologies, leading to further elaboration and to its application beyond ethnomusicology: e.g. in the study of Hebrew prosody, or in Western music performance studies. Katz & Cohen’s monumental Palestinian Arab Music: Latent and Manifest “Theory” of a Maqām Tradition in Practice (2005) is a summary of 40 years of collaborative research into the vocal folk music of the Arabs in Israel. In addition to many findings concerning the particular tradition and its methodological and analytical sophistication, the book engages fundamental questions of ethnomusicology and general anthropology concerning the meaning of modal frameworks, the combination of text and music appearing as a-priori fusions, the dynamic between continuity and change in living oral traditions and the role of the individual creative artist therein, or how to assess authenticity. <mask>'s other ethnomusicological research addressed inter alia the music of the Samaritans (1974), in which she identified a case of "oral group notation"' and a connection to the medieval Christian Neannoe-Ninnua, showing that both are rooted in earlier Hebrew traditions. In other studies she examined the singing of


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 Baqqashot by the Aleppo Jews (1968; 1970), applying the notion of mannerism (until then applied mainly to Western art), as an index of cultural change. Both cases served <mask> as test cases of the fundamental anthropological question concerning the reliability of oral traditions, a subject that continued to occupy her in various interdisciplinary international forums, as well as in her book The Lachmann Problem (2004),  about Robert Lachmann, a pioneer of comparative musicology who fled to Palestine from Nazi Germany.The book weaves together the history of the discipline, from its origins as "comparative musicology" in Germany of the early 1900s and the Weimar  Republic with the history of the Yishuv   in British-mandate Palestine and of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Selected works

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The Origins of Opera: The Relevance Social of and Cultural Factors to the Establishment of a Musical Institution, Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1963. The Israeli Folksong: A Methodological Example of Computer Analysis of Monophonic Music, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1970 (with Dalia Cohen). Divining the Power of Music, Aesthetic Theory and the Origin of Opera, New York: Pendragon Press, 1986. Contemplating Music (Sources in the aesthetic of music, selected, edited, annotated and introduced, with original translations, in four volumes), New York: Pendragon Press, 1987-1991 (with Carl Dahlhaus).Vol. I Substance (1987); Vol. II	Import (1989);	 Vol.III Essence (1991);Vol. IV Community of Discourse (1991). The Powers of Music, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 1994 (paperback edition of Divining the Powers of


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 Music, revised with a new introduction). Tuning the Mind, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 2003 (with <mask>en). The Arts in Mind, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 2003 (with <mask>en). "The Lachmann Problem": An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2004. Palestinian Arab Music: Latent and Manifest “Theory” of a Maqām Tradition in Practice, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005 (with Dalia Cohen).A Language of its Own:  Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009; paperback edition 2013. The Discursive March of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Roadmap, New York: Israel Academic Press, 2015. Selected articles
“Explorations in the Music of the Samaritans: An Illustration of the Utility of Graphic-Notation“, Ethnomusicology  IV, 1960 (with Dalia Cohen). “The Melograph in Ethno-musicological Studies”, Ariel, XXI, 1967 (with Dalia Cohen). “The Singing of Baqqashot by Aleppo Jews: A Study in Musical Acculturation”, Acta Musicologica, XL, 1968. “Mannerism and Cultural Change: An Ethno-musicological Example”, Current Anthropology, XI, 1970.“The Egalitarian Waltz”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, XV, 1973. “Quantitative Analyses of Monophonic Music: Towards a More Precise Definition of Style with the Aid of the Computer”, Orbis Musicae, II (with Dalia Cohen). “On ‘Nonsense’ Syllables as Oral Group Notation: Evidence for Werner’s Neannoe-Ninnua Theory“, Musical Quarterly, LX, 1974. “The Reliability of Oral Transmission: The Case of Samaritan Music”, '’Yuval, III, 1974. “The Interdependence of

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texts: Notation Systems and Musical Information”, Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, XI, 1979 (with Dalia Cohen). “Waltz Interlude”, The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Habsburg Era, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. “The Contribution of Music to the Illumination of Ambiguity”, Molad, 1982 (Hebrew).“Collective ‘Problem-Solving’ in the History of Music: The Case of the Camerata”, Journal of the History of Ideas, XLV, 1984. “Societal Codes for Responding to Dissent“, in W. Bennis et al., eds., The Planning of Change (4th edition), New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. “Exemplification and the Limits of ‘Correctness’: The Implicit Methodology of Idelsohn’s ‘Thesaurus’“, Yuval, IV, 1985. “Ut Musica Poesis: The Crystallization of the Conception Concerning Cognitive Processes and ‘Well Made Worlds’“, in H. Danuser et al., eds., Das musikalische Kunstwerk, Berlin: Laaber 1988 (with <mask>en). “Concerning the Relationships Among the Arts: The 18th-Century Legacy to the 19th  Century“, in Peter Andrasche and Edelgard Spaude, eds., Welttheater, Rombach Verlag, 1992 (with <mask>en). “History as ‘Compliance’: The Development of Western Musical Notation in the Light of Goodman’s Requirements“, in Mary Douglas, ed. : How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman among the Social Scientists, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.“Separating Sense from Meaning: On Musical Thought and Cognitive Theory“, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Lecture, Columbia University, 1992. “Musico-Poetic Arabic Tradition: A Comparison between the Oral-Palestinian and the Written Medieval Spanish”, Revista de Musicologia, vol. XVI, no. 4, 1993


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texts: (with Dalia Cohen). “Structural Aspects of Musico-Poetic Genres in Practice and of the Medieval Hebrew Muwassah”,  Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress  Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1994 (with Dalia Cohen). "Attitudes to the Time Axis and Cognitive Constraints: The Case of Arabic Vocal-Folk-Music“, Proceedings of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music,  1994  (with Dalia Cohen). “Why Music?Jews and the Commitment to Modernity“, in S. Volkov, ed., The Jews and Modernity, Munich: Historisches Kolleg, 1995. “McLuhan: Where Did He Come From, Where Did He Disappear?”  Canadian Journal of Communication, 23, 1998;  also in French, Quaderni (with Elihu <mask>). “Wagner and the Jewish Commitment to Modernity“, The Sterosta Lectures, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1984. “Melograph“, New Grove Dictionary of Music (with Dalia Cohen). “The Waltz and the Public Sphere“, in J. Lautman & B.P. Lecuyer, eds., Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1975): La sociologie de Vienne à New York, Paris: L’Harmattan, 1998. “The Melisma as a Musical Parameter: Characterizing Oriental Ethnic Groups in Israel” (in Hebrew), Pe’amim, 77,  1999 (with Dalia Cohen).“‘Authenticity,’ ‘Interpretation,’ and ‘Practice’: Probing Their Limits“, in David Greet, ed., Musicology and Sister Disciplines: Past, Present and Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. “Universal Constraints Concerning the Choice of Stylistic Rules in Various Cultures“,  European Meetings in Ethnomusicology, vol. VIII, 2001 (with Dalia Cohen). “Rhythmic Patterns Reflecting Cognitive Constraints and Aesthetic Ideals“, Journal of New Music Research'', vol. 37, no. 1 (with Dalia


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“Life and Death among the Binaries: A contribution to the symposium on Jeffrey Alexander’s essay on the Holocaust” (with Elihu <mask>). New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.References

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<mask><mask> (February 18, 1932 – February 9, 2019) was an American radio host, entrepreneur, writer and former mayor. His nationally syndicated talk show, first a part of NBC Talknet and later rebranded as The <mask> Show, aired throughout the United States for 29 years, from 1981 until ending production in March 2010. <mask> wrote six books, and he also wrote a syndicated advice column called Smart Money. Early life
<mask> grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. He left Upsala College to serve with the United States Air Force in Korea and earning a degree in education from Newark State Teachers College, now Kean University, he became active in politics, education, and business in New Jersey.<ref name=NYT1989>Eftimiades, Maria. "Radio Personality Without Limits", The New York Times, July 2, 1989. Accessed February 20, 2008.</ref> <mask> was elected to the Franklin Township Council in a June 1967 runoff, one of three members of a Republican-backed slate to win a contest for four seats.He finished second, winning by 99 votes. He was re-elected in 1971 by 163 votes. He served as deputy mayor and mayor. Radio career
In 1975, <mask> entered broadcasting by hosting At Your Service on WCTC in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This was soon followed by his second show, <mask> at Large. <mask> then set his sights on reaching a larger audience, and his persistence paid off. In 1978, he was hired by WMCA in New York City.<mask> made his debut on NBC Talknet when the programming block began on November 2, 1981. His national reputation began to grow. He began each show by saying "Welcome my friends...welcome to my world." <mask> flew airplanes and on December 5, 1982, while attempting to abort a landing, crashed into a few trees in Princeton, New Jersey. Maurice Tunick, Talknet creator and executive producer, remembers the incident:

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 listeners.He stated that he planned to continue writing his newspaper column, Smart Money, which appeared in American newspapers. <mask> also wrote several financial and real estate advice books in addition to his broadcast career. Miscellaneous ventures
During his radio career <mask> spoke frequently about the jobs he held throughout the years. He began by melting down lead pipes into toy soldiers and selling them to other children at the age of 11 during World War II. Later in life, <mask> entered a wide variety of business ventures including insurance sales, driving a beer truck, driving a taxi, real estate sales, a flower shop, a car rental agency, a barber shop, and several nightclubs. He drove an ice cream truck in New York City and was the founder of Lane Robbins, now Oak Crest Day Camp, a private preschool in Somerset, New Jersey. He also spent two terms as mayor of Franklin Township, New Jersey from 1967 to 1975.In his later years, <mask> was involved in a florist business and was a board member of a bank. In 2009, he and several investors founded Jersey Boy Pork Roll, an online store selling pork roll products from three manufacturers. Two of his children, Robbins and Michael, run his Jellyrolls nightclub at Disney's Boardwalk in Orlando. Books
 America Asks <mask> Smart In Business for Yourself Protecting your Financial Future (foreword)
 The <mask> Source Book Thanks for Asking''

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<mask> (1548–1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and painter. He introduced Mannerism to Peru, where he went on a Jesuit mission after having studied in Rome. On his way to Peru, <mask> traveled through Spain, where he became influenced by Sevillian painting, especially that of Luis de Morales. Bitti arrived in Peru in 1575 and started painting for churches first in Lima and from 1583 in Cusco. His works in Lima include the typically Mannerist Coronation of the Virgin and The Virgin of the Candelaria for St. Peter's Church. The Immaculate Conception was a recurring theme in his paintings, one of which is in the  in Cusco. In addition to Mannerism, his works reflect ideas of the Counter-Reformation and religious education of the natives.After 1584, <mask> traveled all over South America, painting where he went. His mobile lifestyle was a testament to his popularity with the Jesuits, but it led to <mask>'s being unable to set up a workshop or have apprentices. Nevertheless, his influence in the region was immense, and resulted in Mannerism persisting in South America even when it had fallen out of favor in Europe. <mask> is regarded as the founder of the Cusco School of painting. Career

Democrito <mask> was born in Camerino, Italy in 1548. Few details about his life in Europe are known. He became a painter at an early age and as a teenager he moved to Rome to study painting for a period of five years.His studies focused on Italian Mannerism. At the age of 20, in 1568, <mask> became a Jesuit and relocated to the novitiate of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, also in Rome, where he stayed until 1573. He might have painted some works there, but none survive. Meanwhile, the Jesuit

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texts: mission in the Viceroyalty of Peru had asked for Rome to send them skilled painters. <mask> was identified as the best one available; his Jesuit background would make him the ideal painter of altarpieces. Thus <mask> was commissioned on a Jesuit mission to Peru in 1571, becoming the first artist to travel on a Jesuit mission to South America. The expedition party traveled through Spain on their way to Peru.It is not known precisely what <mask> did during his stay in Spain, but it appears that he had the opportunity to study Sevillian painting for 14 months. It has been subsequently noted that his paintings resemble particularly those of the painter Luis de Morales, probably through seeing his works rather than by training with him. Influence by Giuseppe Valeriano is also attested. The Jesuit party arrived in Peru in 1575, where <mask> introduced Mannerism to the country. He became a very sought after artist because of the novelty of his style in the new continent. One of <mask>'s first tasks was to paint a collection for the Jesuit college and St. Peter's Church in Lima. His paintings in the church include Coronation of the Virgin and The Virgin of the Candelaria.Bitti also made a retable in St. Peter's Church. He stayed in Lima for eight years, working. In 1583, <mask> moved to Cusco, where he stayed until the end of 1584. There he painted Immaculate Conception and constructed a high altar, both for the Jesuit church of Cusco. For its Indian chapel, he painted a setting of the Last Judgment, now lost, the sight of which persuaded many natives to convert, according to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega writing in 1612. Later in his career, <mask> traveled through Spanish

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 America including Potosí, Arequipa, , Acora, La Paz, Sucre, and Chucuito. Most of his works were made in Juli.Of his paintings, only those in Peru remain. <mask> collaborated with other artists, including his fellow Jesuit Pedro de Vargas, in art projects all over the Peru. These collaborations included the sculptural support for many retablos. Works

Most of <mask>'s works are on the life and persons of Jesus and Virgin Mary. Especially numerous are his works on the theme of the Immaculate Conception, including a noteworthy one in Cusco. Bitti was painting for a dual audience of European-born immigrants and newly converted natives. He was also under the constraint of carefully crafting his works to conform with the requirements of the post Council of Trent era of Counter-Reformation.His work is representative of Mannerism, characterized by elongated figures with slender limbs and delicate fingers in posing gracefully in condensed compositions. Drapery is characteristically crisp and "paper-like". The colors are saturated, often pastel blues and pinks. <mask>'s Mannerism, however, "lacked the confusion, erudition, and sometimes erotic sway" that was typical of the style in his native Italy. <mask> painted in tempera, "with the delicacy of the followers of Michelangelo and Raphael". Lines are dominant and the colors are cool, exposing <mask>'s kinship with the works of Giorgio Vasari. Although there is no contemporary material to conclude if <mask>'s work was well-received, this is likely the case because he was sent to so many locations in South America.Today, <mask>'s work is considered skillfully executed. Coronation of the Virgin in St. Peter's Church is centered


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 but without any eroticism. Agony in the Garden, painted around 1600 and now in the Lima Art Museum, has an elongated and graceful Christ figure and an angel, both in pastel draperies that seem to ignore both gravity and the shape of their bodies. Death and legacy
<mask> returned to Lima and continued to work there until his death in 1610. At the time of his death, <mask> was an esteemed artist. <mask> is considered the founder of the Cusco School of painting.Even though many other Italian painters followed in his footsteps to South America – including Matteo Pérez and Angelino Medoro immediately in his year of arrival – few became as influential as <mask>, whose influence on painting in Viceroyal Peru was decisive. Although <mask> never stayed in one place long enough to establish a workshop or train apprentices, his work influenced many painters of the Andes, especially in Cusco and the Audiencia of Charcas in Bolivia. Gregorio Gamarra is the only artist known to have been a proper follower of <mask>. Lázaro Pardo de Lagos, Diego Cusi Guamán, and Pedro Bedón also exhibit influences. Through Bedón, <mask> influenced the Quito School. Many yet to be attributed works in Peruvian churches and monasteries also carry the hallmarks of <mask>'s influence. Because of Bitti's influentiality, Mannerism featured in Peruvian and Bolivian art even after the style went out of fashion in Europe.See also
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<mask> (; born 1957) is a Kenyan politician and an advocate of social justice. She is a former long-standing member of parliament for the Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister of Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009. Karua has consistently fought for the protection of women's rights and improvements to the democratic process. Early life and education
The daughter of <mask> and his wife Josephine Wanjiru , <mask> was born on 22 September 1957 in Kirinyaga District in the Central Province of Kenya. Brought up in the village of Kimunye in the Gichugu Constituency, she is the second child in a family of eight, four girls and four boys. She attended Mugumo primary school ,Kabare Girls Boarding School,St Michael’s boarding school Keruguya.She attended Kiburia Girls Secondary School, Ngiriambu Girl’s secondary school and Karoti Girl’s secondary schools where she  passed her East African School Certificate at Karoti Girls High School in [[Kirinyaga County.She then attended Nairobi Girl’s secondary school for A levels. She studied law at the University of Nairobi from 1977 to 1980. Between 1980 and 1981 she was enrolled at the Kenya School of Law for the statutory post graduate law course that is a prerequisite to admission to the Kenyan roll of advocates and licensing to practice law in Kenya. Legal career

1981 – 2002
After graduating, from 1981 to 1987 Karua worked as a magistrate in various courts including those at Makadara, Nakuru and Kibera, receiving credit for careful discernment. In 1987, she left to start her own law firm, Martha Karua & Co. Advocates, which she ran until 2002. Cases included the treason trial of Koigi Wamwere and that of the Kenyan member of parliament Mirugi Kariuki.At the risk of being blacklisted by the Moi government, she defended several human rights activists. Her work contributed to family law, especially in regard to matrimonial property. Political career

1990 – 2002
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 in the Kenya's 2012 elections. Karua resigned as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs on 6 April 2009, citing frustrations in discharging her duties. A clear example of her frustrations was when President Mwai Kibaki appointed Judges without her knowledge a few days before her resignation. She was the first Minister to resign voluntarily since 2003.2013 to present
Karua contested the 2013 Kenyan presidential election, under the NARC Kenya party ticket. New Kenyan law barred presidential contenders from simultaneously seeking a parliamentary seat, so she had to give up her interest in her somewhat safe Gichugu seat, with potential risk of being cast out of politics altogether (if she lost her presidential bid). She came in sixth with 43,881 votes in a contested election outcome.ref></ref>

<mask>a would make a come-back in Kenya's political scene in the 2017 general election seeking for a Gubernatorial Seat in Kirinyaga County. She lost to the current Governor Anne Waiguru in a heavily contested election after garnering 122, 091 votes against Ms Waiguru's 161,373 votes. Karua contested the election citing election irregularities and filed a petition at the High Court seeking to have Waiguru's election nullified but lost the petition's at the High court, Court of Appeal and ultimately at the Supreme Court. Karua proceeded to file a petition in the East African Court of Justice suing kenya government for failure of its Judicial arm to dispense justice in the petition. She was among the opposition leaders who President Obama met when he was hosted by Uhuru Kenyatta in 2015 in Obama's only presidential visit to Kenya.Politically, she seems to have inclined toward CORD, the main opposition political outfit led by Raila Odinga , even though she and Raila have been long-standing political foes and for a long time seemed the most unlikely of political allies  Karua later abandoned her political relationship with Raila. In December 2015 Karua admitted to receiving a kshs two million "donation" to her


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 presidential campaign costs from British American Tobacco. Karua said that she thought that the contribution by Paul Hopkins, a BAT employee, was a personal donation. The money was paid via Mary M'Mukindia who was running <mask>'s campaign. Karua has the reputation of being untainted by corruption save for this report of donation of alleged tainted money. No culpability has been proven and the British investigations concluded without any charges against Paul Hopkins. Karua has maintained that she cannot be corrupted and invited Kenyan authorities to investigate any alleged wrong doing.Karua was defeated on 8 August 2017 by Anne Waiguru in controversial election outcome. On 20th September 2021, Senior Counsel <mask>a was unanimously elected as the Interim Mount Kenya Unity Forum Spokesperson by a section of leaders from Central Kenya. “We have chosen <mask>a to be our official convener and our spokesperson,” Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria. Reputation
At one time in her Kirinyaga District when KANU was still in power, Karua walked out on President Moi who was then addressing a crowd in the district stadium. This was an unusual display of open defiance against Moi, who was then feared and ruled the country as an authoritarian. She has been an activist for the widening of democratic space and gender issues in Kenya. She has been involved in championing women's rights through public interest litigation, lobbying and advocacy for laws that enhance and protect women's rights through her work with various women's organizations, particularly the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Kenya) and the League of Kenya Women Voters.In February 2009 during her time as Minister of Justice, she once had a heated argument with the Minister of Agriculture William Ruto at a cabinet meeting as the President sat quietly, watching the sparring ministers, a source at the meeting said: "The President did not say or do anything. He just sat there quietly watching as the ministers took on each other. It was chaotic, hot and

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