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<mask> (; born November 17, 1947) is a Canadian politician and a former member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the Manitoba riding of Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette. <mask> was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, although he frequently criticized and took positions opposite the party and its leader, Stephen Harper. <mask> ran in the 2015 federal election, noting that he is now a Green Party of Canada member but that he would still run as an independent. He lost significantly. Early life
<mask> was born in Taishan, China, and moved to Manitoba as a child. <mask>'s father and grandfather had emigrated from China to Canada some time previously, but were unable to bring their families with them as a result of provisions in the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923. <mask> accompanied his mother when she fled China in 1953, and subsequently settled with his family in the Manitoba community of Gilbert Plains.Education
<mask> has a Bachelor of Arts from Brandon University and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Manitoba. Before entering political life, he worked as a high school teacher and small businessman. <mask> also has a certificate in broadcasting and started a master's degree in education program, although he did not graduate. Political career

Municipal politics
<mask>'s political career started when joined the Board of Directors of the Dauphin First United Church. He was subsequently elected to the Dauphin town council in 1991, and became the town's mayor in 1994. Federal politics

<mask> was first elected to the House of Commons in the federal election of 1997, running as a candidate of the Reform Party in the riding of Dauphin—Swan River. From 1997 to 2000, <mask> was one of only three Chinese-Canadian MPs in the House of Commons.The Reform Party dissolved itself in 2000 in favour of the Canadian Alliance, and <mask> ran as a candidate of the new party in the federal election which followed. On September 12, 2001, <mask> left the Canadian Alliance caucus to sit as a member of the Democratic Representative Caucus, in alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party. The DRC came to an end on April 10, 2002, when Stephen Harper replaced Day as Canadian Alliance leader. Every other member of the DRC requested to be re-admitted to the Alliance; <mask> did not join them, but instead decided to sit as an "Independent Conservative", with the intention of rejoining the Progressive Conservatives at their annual party convention later in the year; he had been a Progressive Conservative before the early 1990s. <mask> formally joined the Progressive Conservatives on August 27, 2002. In December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party formally merged to create the new Conservative Party of Canada. <mask> supported the merger, and formally joined the new party's caucus on February 2, 2004.<mask> was easily re-elected in the Canadian federal election of 2004. In 2005, <mask> alleged that Treasury Board President and Liberal MP Reg Alcock offered him an ambassadorship if he were to resign his seat. Alcock responded by saying, "Frankly, if I was going to recruit somebody, I'd go a little higher up the gene pool." <mask> called this comment racist and filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. As the CHRC does not publish its investigations, it is not possible to know the outcome of this case. Criticism and complaints
While a sitting MP, <mask> gained a reputation as "an outsider" within the Conservative caucus. <mask> is and has been an outspoken critic of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister's Office, and several sitting and former Conservative MPs.He frequently complained that Harper was controlling, and he responded by refusing to attend Conservative events. <mask> has called Harper a "fascist" and complained that he runs a "top-down dictatorship". He says that the Central Intelligence Agency is controlled by the United States' Republican Party, and that the Republican Party installed Stephen Harper as the Canadian Prime Minister in order to sell out Canada to the United States. Following the announcement of his resignation, <mask> complained that the nomination race for his successor was rigged, and allowed Robert Sopuck to be acclaimed without competition. Following his resignation as an MP, <mask> stepped up his criticisms of the Harper government. He complained that the nomination race for the Conservative candidate following the resignation of Labrador MP Peter Penashue was rigged because Harper "wants a candidate he can control". He also complained that the nomination race to replace Merv Tweed was rigged, and that the eventual successor, Larry Maguire, was just a "rubber stamp" for Harper.<mask> was featured prominently in the book Tragedy in the Commons, where almost every chapter quoted <mask>'s complaints about the way Harper's government was run. <mask> complained that the Conservatives' Constituent Information Management System (CIMS) was a secretive database used to track and control Canadians' information and voting preferences, and said that Harper could simply "switch off" this system to punish an MP. Parliamentary work
For his tenure as an MP, <mask> was always a "backbencher". In 2001, as the Alliance's parliamentary critic for Immigration, <mask> was responsible for expressing his party's position on the Liberal government's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which he did during the immigration controversy involving the Sklarzyk family who, as a result of an administrative error, was deported from Canada to Poland in May 2001. He also contributed to the parliamentary committee's work in drafting the final version of the bill, and was generally regarded by MPs from all parties as having made several constructive criticisms to the legislation. However, on June 13, 2001, <mask>'s position on the bill was undercut by Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day, who delivered a speech in parliament supporting tighter restrictions against refugee claimants and reduced opportunities for rejected claimants to appeal to the Refugee Board. Day's comments diverged from <mask>'s stated position on several particulars, and his speech was regarded as very surprising by many other MPs in the House of Commons.For example, Liberal MP Steve Mahoney referred to Day's comments as "treachery" towards <mask>, for which he was ruled out of order by the Speaker. In 2005, <mask>'s private members' Bill C-331 (Internment of Persons of Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act) was passed by the House of Commons and Senate of Canada, eventually resulting in the establishment of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund, supporting educational and commemorative projects recalling Canada's first national internment operations of 1914–1920. Federal resignation and return to municipal politics
<mask> announced in June 2009 that he would be resigning before the next federal election. On August 16, 2010, he announced that he would step down as an MP on September 15 to campaign for another term as mayor of Dauphin. However, he lost to Eric Irwin. Return to federal politics and switch to Green Party of Canada
<mask> announced on November 13, 2014, that he would be running as an independent candidate for the 2015 federal election in Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa, which includes nearly all of his old riding. <mask> announced that he is now a member of the Green Party of Canada, but would still seek election in 2015 as an independent candidate.<mask> finished a distant fourth behind Sopuck, garnering only eight percent of the vote. Electoral record

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<mask> (8 January 1912 in Amsterdam – 17 March 1980 in De Koog) was a Dutch composer and music theorist. He left compositions for chamber orchestra and orchestra, vocal and one electronic composition. <mask> was also a poet, painter and writer. Biography

Youth
<mask> was born the son of the geologist and mineralogist <mask> and the Swiss Emma Brosy. His father was a son of the engineer <mask> and half-brother of the graphic artist <mask>. At the age of four, <mask> moved with his family to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, where his father worked as a geologist for the Batavian Petroleum Company. His father was a good pianist and he gave the young <mask> piano lessons.Study
In 1922, five years later, they were back in the Netherlands, now in Leiden. <mask> went to the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden and continued his piano lessons, now with Bé Hartz. He also played the violin and got harmony lessons. After four years he quit school. At first he could not choose between music, visual arts and letters but in 1929 he decided to become a composer. Next he wanted to go to the conservatoire in Cologne. The Dutch composer Peter van Anrooy advised him to study piano.On second thoughts <mask> went to the Toonkunst Conservatoire in Rotterdam in 1931. Until 1937 he studied the piano as major with the cello as minor. From 1934 to 1937 he also studied composition with Willem Pijper as his teacher. <mask>'s debut was in 1935 with his First piano sonata. He also attracted attention in 1938 with an important essay: Toscanini and Debussy, magic of reality. In this essay his views towards composing are evident. He also wrote a few poems, which were published in Forum.Work
When the Second World War expanded into the Netherlands, many of <mask>'s compositions from his study period were destroyed in the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940. He also lost his house and all his possessions. During the war <mask> composed Musique pour l'esprit en deuil (1941–43). This work quickly elevated him to be the most important composer in the Netherlands. About the compositions from the war, he wrote: 'My work from this period has got a sort of gravity, a doggedness here and there, which makes it clearly to realize as grown amid disasters. For me, personally, that is the ethical significance of it: they are constructions of the mind, in a time that 'mind' (if you can still call it that way) is used almost exclusively for destructive purposes.’

Soon after the war <mask> was a contributor about visual arts and music for the weekly Groene Amsterdammer. He turned out to be a talented poet, publishing poetry in literary magazines into the 1950s.Socially he had little to complain about; he was offered several administrative functions, his compositions were successfully performed, and his publications were followed with interest. After 1946 <mask> befriended the Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen. They shared the same social and literary interests and communist ideals. They had enough trust in each other so that they could write critically about the others' compositions. <mask>'s communist ideals were expressed in his membership of the Communist Party (from 1934 to 1940). He wrote a few critiques for the monthly communist periodical Politics and Culture, using the pseudonym A. Leuvens. During the 1950s he became critical of Russian communism, which he considered a failure.What remained was his leftist political orientation. In 1958 <mask> was present at the 32nd ISCM festival in Strasbourg. About this he wrote reviews to his friend and composer-colleague Peter Schat. In 1960 he was present at the ISCM festival in Cologne. Here he got excited about Pli selon pli of Pierre Boulez. Thus <mask> began experimenting with electronic music and serialism in the 1960s. He took lessons in the technique of electronic music with lectures in elementary sound mechanics, electro-physics and sound technology in Delft.Afterwards he experimented in the Studio for Electronic Music in Delft and then at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. He decided to ask for analysis classes with Boulez, with reference to the piece he heard in Cologne. From 3 to 7 November 1960 he visited Boulez in Baden-Baden. Those days were spent on analyzing Improvisations sur Mallarmé I & II of Boulez. At last <mask> concluded that the techniques did not feel right for him. Nevertheless, in his Wind Quintet from 1967 serial music can be found. He uses structure formulas that remind a listener of Boulez.His visit led a few weeks later to a purification of his works: He wrote a request to the director of the publisher Donemus to remove four works unconditionally and three with some restrictions. In 1960–61 <mask> gave lessons at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. He used his experience with Boulez to give a lecture on "the meaning of structure and form by Debussy with reference to recent serial composition techniques by Boulez." He became Scientific Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Utrecht from 1964 to 1977. His specialization was 'Aspects of the twentieth century'. He gave a lecture "characteristic structure- and form criteria in the music of the twentieth century." Besides music theory he also explored the world of music as a semantic sign system and Audiology.Legacy
<mask> died at the age of 68 in De Koog on the Frisian Island Texel. In 1980 his friends and experts united to create the Escher Committee. Among others involved were Willem Boogman, Elmer Schönberger and Dirk Jacob Hamoen. With the help of the committee the widow of the composer compiled a catalog with comments of <mask>'s works. In 1992 the Centrum Nederlandse Muziek published correspondence between <mask> and the composer Peter Schat, 33 letters and postcards written between 13 May 1958 and 5 August 1961. In the letters they talked about compositions of others as well as their own, and they discussed issues in aesthetics and music theory. The letters give insight to Dutch history, aesthetics, and theory of the 20th-century music, from the inception to the reception of serialism.In the year of the publication of the correspondence Peter Schat published a letter to the dead <mask>. In the letter Schat described the process of change that was happening in that time. He also notified <mask> about the existing state of affairs in the Netherlands. In 1999 David Moore wrote that <mask> is one of the most prominent Dutch composers of the previous generation. Leo Samama was also laudatory when we mentioned <mask>'s work: "Together with the 'Sinfonia per dieci strumenti' (1973/75), the 'Flute sonata' (1976/79) and the 'Trio for clarinet, viola and piano' (1978/79), the 'Wind Quintet' belongs to the works of a master – one of the few our country has known - of an artist that has developed such a personal language, a personal grammar, a personal sound, that every statement about French or German influences, about old or new music, about place and time are futile and meaningless." There is a foundation named after <mask> for young composers. Since 2006 the foundation is in the management at the Prins Bernard Culture Foundation.The Rudolf Escher Composers Foundation supports young composers financially to follow a study in the Netherlands or abroad. It also supports projects where the work of a young (Dutch) composers is being performed and of concerts where works of <mask> are being performed. The foundation is funded by the board of the Rudolf Escher Committee and the inheritance of <mask>. Prizes
<mask> received several prizes for his compositions during his live. In 1946 he got the Music prize of the city of Amsterdam for his orchestral work Musique pour l'esprit en deuil, yet before the first performance sounded. One year later he received the Dutch Government Prize for the suite for piano Arcana. He also received the Music price of the city of Amsterdam for Le vrai visage de la paix for choir a cappella.For Le tombeau de Ravel he got the Prof. Van der Leeuw Prize in 1959. Twice he could receive the Visser-Neerlandia Prize, for Nostalgies (1961) and the Wind Quintet (1968). Between these prizes he got the Willem Pijper Prize in 1966 for the Sonata concertante for cello and piano. Eventually <mask> received the Johan Wagenaar Prize in 1977 for all his works. Works

Orchestral music
 1943 Musique pour l'esprit en deuil
 1951 Hymne du Grand Meaulnes (to be revised as Chant du Grand Meaulnes)
 1954 Symphony nr. 1 (1953–54)
 1958 Symphony nr. 2 (revised in 1964 en 1971)
 1969 Summer Rites at Noon (1962–1969) to be revised
 1977 Orchestration of Six épigraphes antique (Claude Debussy) (1975–1977)

Chamber music
 1935 Sonata No.1 for piano
 1937 Passacaglia for organ
 1943 Sonata concertante for cello and piano
 1944 Sonata for two flutes op.8
 1944 Arcana suite for piano (formerly Arcana Musae Dona)
 1946 Trio d'anches for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
 1949 Due Voci for piano
 1949 Non Troppo ten easy pieces for piano
 1949 Sonata for flute solo op.16
 1951 Sonatina for piano
 1952 Le tombeau de Ravel
 1953 Air pour charmer un lézard op.28 for flute solo
 1959 Trio for violin, viola en cello
 1967 Wind Quintet Quintetto a fiati
 1969 Monologue for flute
 1973 Sonata for clarinet solo
 1976 Sinfonia per dieci instrumenti
 1978 Sonata for flute and piano (1975–78)
 1978 Trio for clarinet, viola and piano. Vocal music
 1951 Chants du désir (Quatre Poèmes de Louise Labé) for mezzo and piano
 1951 Nostalgies (H.J.M. Levet) for tenor and orchestra (revised in 1961)
 1952 Strange meeting (Wilfred Owen) for bariton and piano
 1953 Le vrai visage de la paix (P. Eluard) for choir a cappella(revised in 1957)
 1955 Songs of Love and Eternity for choir a cappella
 1957 Ciel, air et vents (Trois poèmes de Ronsard) for choir a cappella
 1970 Univers de Rimbaud (Arthur Rimbaud) for tenor and orchestra
 1975 Three Poems by W.H. Auden for choir a cappella

Electronic music
 1960 Electronic Music for 'The Long Christmas Dinner' (Thornton Wilder)

Articles
 Toscanini en Debussy: magie der werkelijkheid (Rotterdam, 1938)
 ‘Maurice Ravel’, Groot Nederland (Amsterdam, 1939)
 ‘Rudolf Escher: Musique pour l'esprit en deuil’, Sonorum speculum, xx (1964), 15–33
 ‘Rudolf Escher: Quintetto a fiati’, Sonorum speculum, xxxiv (1968), 24–32
 ‘Debussy and the Musical Epigram’, Key Notes, no.10 (1979), 59–63
 Debussy: actueel verleden, ed. D. Hamoen and E. Schönberger (Buren, 1985)
 met M.C. Escher: Beweging en metamorfosen: een briefwisseling (Amsterdam, 1985)
 E. Voermans, ed. : Brieven, 1958–1961 (Zutphen, 1992) [briefwisseling tussen Escher en P. Schat]

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Literature
 Escher, Beatrijs, ed.<mask>: het oeuvre, catalogue raisonné. Amsterdam, 1998. Samama, Leo. ‘<mask>, <mask>.' Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 19 Januari 2011.Samama, Leo. 'Vermeulen, Pijper en <mask> – Drie erflaters in de muziek van de twintigste eeuw: drie vrienden.’ Erflaters van de twintigste eeuw. Amsterdam: Querido, 1991: 264–289. [in Dutch]
 Voermans, Erik, ed. Brieven, 1958–1961. Zutphen, 1992. [correspondence between <mask> and P. Schat, in Dutch].External links

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<mask> (January 13, 1885 – August 5, 1964) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the first to skate with the puck up the ice rather than pass it to a forward. He was on Stanley Cup championship teams twice in a playing career that lasted thirteen seasons; in January 1907 with the Kenora Thistles and 1908 with the Montreal Wanderers. Like other players of the time, <mask> played for several different teams and leagues, and is most notable for his time with the Wanderers while they were members of the National Hockey Association (NHA) and its successor, the National Hockey League (NHL). In 1911 he led one of the first organized player strikes over increased pay. When the Wanderers' home arena burned down in January 1918, the team ceased operations and <mask> retired as a player. After several years as an on-ice official, he was named head coach of the Hamilton Tigers for one season.When the Boston Bruins were formed in 1924, <mask> was hired as the first coach and general manager of the team. He would go on to coach the team on three separate occasions until 1945 and stayed as general manager until his retirement in 1954. <mask> helped the Bruins finish first place in the league ten times and to win the Stanley Cup three times; <mask> personally coached the team to two of those victories. After being hired by the Bruins, <mask>, along with his wife and two sons, moved to a suburb of Boston, and he became an American citizen in 1938. He died near Boston in 1964. Outside of his association with the Bruins, <mask> also helped to improve the game. He created a style of hockey puck still used today, and advocated an improved style of goal nets, a change that lasted forty years.In 1947 <mask> donated the Art Ross Trophy, awarded to the leading scorer of the NHL regular season. <mask> was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1949. Early life
<mask> was born January 13, 1885, in Naughton, Ontario. His father, Thomas Barnston <mask>, was of Scottish descent and originally from Chicoutimi, Quebec, while his mother was Marguerite (Margaret) McLeod. <mask>'s parents initially lived in Lake St. John, Quebec (now Lac Saint-Jean), where Thomas worked for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). The family had ten children: nine sons and one daughter. Around 1876 Thomas was transferred to a trading post in Northern Ontario close to the Whitefish Lake.Living in a remote outpost, the family would trek  each way twice a year for supplies. <mask> spent his early years at the trading post, and first learned to skate on the nearby lake. He grew up speaking English, and was taught French by his mother, and later in life claimed he knew Ojibwe and Montagnais. In 1892 the family moved back to Lake St. John, though in 1895 Margaret left Thomas, and moved back to Ontario with her younger children. She married Peter McKenzie, who was the Chief Factor for HBC in the region (and thus Thomas' superior) in 1895. They moved again in 1896, settling in the affluent Westmount district of Montreal. Thomas also re-married, and by 1904 was living in Victoria, British Columbia, where he died in 1930.In Montreal <mask> attended Westmount Academy, and became active in a variety of sports, though he was best at hockey and Canadian football (which was still very similar to rugby football at the time). He likely first played organized hockey in the 1900–01 season, joining the Westmount Amateur Athletic Association. With this club he first met the brothers Lester and Frank Patrick, both of whom were later inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. <mask> and Lester had a financially successful ticket resale business at the Montreal Arena, buying tickets for thirty-five cents and selling them for up to a dollar. Playing career

1905–09

The best hockey players on their high school team, <mask> and the Patrick brothers were invited to play occasional games for local league teams in Montreal. <mask> first played in a senior league in 1905, joining Montreal Westmount of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL), the top amateur league in Canada. He scored ten goals in eight games during the season.His opponents regarded him as one of the best rushing defencemen. Most defenders at the time either shot the puck down the ice or passed to a forward; in contrast, <mask> skated up the ice, taking the puck into the offensive zone. Later that year, wishing to pursue a career in banking, he moved to Brandon, Manitoba, where he joined the Brandon Wheat City Hockey Club of the Manitoba Hockey League, the senior league in the province. In 1906, his first season, he scored six goals in seven games while he recorded six goals in ten games in 1907. Around this time, the Kenora Thistles, the Manitoba League champions, wanted to strengthen their team for the Stanley Cup challenge against the Montreal Wanderers in Montreal during January 1907. They paid <mask> $1,000 to play both matches, a common practice at the time, and the Thistles won the Cup. While failing to score, <mask> started many plays and proved an important part of the team.Although he played for the opposing team, he received a good reception from the Montreal crowd. <mask> did not play for the Thistles when the two teams played for the Cup again in March, which the Wanderers won to take back the Cup. The following year <mask> moved back to Montreal. He joined the Wanderers, the team he had helped to defeat, who played in the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), the successor league to the CAHL as the premier league in the country. He scored eight goals in ten games over the two-month season that lasted from January to March. He helped the team to finish first in the ECAHA and retain the Cup in 1908 with challenges from Ottawa, Winnipeg and Toronto. The Wanderers were Cup champions throughout these challenges, so <mask> became the second player to win the Cup with different teams in consecutive years, after Jack Marshall in 1901 and 1902.In January 1908, he participated in the first all-star game in sports history, a benefit for the family of former Wanderer defender Hod Stuart, who died the previous summer. Aside from his time with the Wanderers, <mask> repeated his practice of playing for other teams who paid for his services in important matches. For the 1909 season <mask> demanded a salary of $1,600. Although he settled for $1,200, the average salary of hockey players at the time was $600. <mask> received a cash bonus of $400 to play in a Stanley Cup challenge against a team from Edmonton in December 1908, in which the Wanderers won the two-game, total-goal series 13–10. He finished the season with two goals in nine games. 1909–18

A new league, the Canadian Hockey Association (CHA), was formed in late November 1909.One of the teams, the All-Montreal Hockey Club, hired <mask> as a playing-manager, but the league only lasted to mid-January 1910 before disbanding. <mask>, who scored four goals in four games in the CHA, then signed with the Haileybury Comets of the National Hockey Association (NHA), a league formed in December 1909, which proved to be the stronger replacement to the ECAHA as the highest level of hockey in Canada. He received $2,700 to play in the 1910 season, which lasted from January to March, playing twelve games for the team and finishing with six goals. Before the following season, the NHA imposed a salary cap of $5,000 per team. The players, including <mask>, were unhappy as this would result in a pay decrease, and began looking to form their own league without a cap. <mask> wrote to the Montreal Herald, stating "all the players want is a fair deal ... The players are not trying to bulldoze the NHA, but we want to know where we get off at."The plans were abandoned when they realized all the suitable arenas would be unavailable as they were owned or leased by the NHA. <mask> scored four goals in eleven games with the Wanderers, who finished fourth in the five-team league. During a match against the Quebec Bulldogs on February 25, 1911, <mask> knocked out Eddie Oatman in a fight, provoking a massive brawl between the two teams, which the police had to break up. The fight helped to increase the reputation <mask> had as a tough player unwilling to back down from any opponent. The following season <mask> had eleven goals in nineteen games as the Wanderers improved to second in the league. Prior to the 1913–14 NHA season, <mask> refused to sign a contract for the Wanderers, requesting a salary increase. As one of the top players on the team, the Wanderers agreed to his demands of $1,500 for the forthcoming season, in which he finished with four goals and nine points in eighteen games.The next season <mask>, again concerned with his salary, began negotiating with other players in the NHA to leave their teams and form a new league that would offer higher wages. These actions resulted in his suspension in November 1914 by Emmett Quinn, president of the NHA. <mask> responded by declaring himself a free agent and claiming his contract with the Wanderers was no longer valid. Consequently, although having no technical power to do so, Quinn suspended <mask> from all organized hockey. The proposed new league failed to materialize and <mask> applied for reinstatement to the NHA, which was granted at a meeting of the team owners on December 18, 1914. The owners realized if they suspended <mask>, they would also have to suspend all those he signed, hurting the league. However, <mask>'s actions led to his release by the Wanderers.At first he trained with the Montreal Canadiens, then joined the Ottawa Senators. At the conclusion of the 1914–15 season, the Senators and Wanderers finished with identical records of fourteen wins and six losses. A two-game, total goal series was played to determine the NHA league champion who would contest the Stanley Cup with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association winner, the Vancouver Millionaires. <mask>, who finished with three goals in sixteen games in the season, scored one goal in the first match against the Wanderers, a Senators 4–0 victory, and though Ottawa lost the second game 1–0, they won the series, 4–1. To help the Senators stop the Wanderers, who were known for their speed, <mask> created a new system of defence. Termed "kitty bar the door", it required three defenders to align themselves across the ice 30 feet in front of the goaltender to stop offensive rushes. This style of defence would later be used in a modified version known as the neutral zone trap, later used widely to stop opposition offensive chances.The following year <mask>, who had eight goals and eight assists in twenty-one games, was the second highest paid player on the team; his salary of $1,400 was $100 less than Frank Nighbor made. Even so, <mask> left the team in 1916, returning to Montreal in order to look after his sporting-goods store, and rejoining the Wanderers. He scored six goals and had two assists in sixteen games for the team. The Wanderers, along with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Arenas, Quebec Bulldogs and Ottawa Senators dissolved the NHA and founded the National Hockey League (NHL) in November 1917. <mask> became coach of the Wanderers and played in the first game in NHL history on December 19, 1917, in which the Wanderers defeated the Toronto Arenas 10–9, in Montreal; <mask> earned the league's first penalty during the game and also scored his first and only NHL goal. A fire on January 2, 1918, destroyed their home, the Montreal Arena, and forced them to fold after four games. However, the NHL insisted the team continue to play, and recorded two additional scheduled matches as defaulted losses for the Wanderers, even though the matches were not played.With the Wanderers disbanded, <mask> retired as a player. His NHL career yielded one goal in three games played. Managerial career

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<mask> began his career as a hockey coach in the midst of his playing days, when at age 25 he led the McGill University Redmen to a 4–2–1 record

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 during the 1910–11 season. In 1915, <mask> was the Coach of The Canadian Grenadier Guards Hockey Club. Following his playing career, <mask> became a NHL referee. He was hired to coach the Hamilton Tigers for the 1922–23 season, and adopted new methods in training camp that emphasized physical fitness, including work off the ice. However, the Tigers finished with a record of six wins and eighteen losses, last in the NHL for the third successive year, and <mask> did not return the next season.His next coaching appointment arose from meeting Boston grocery store magnate Charles Adams during the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals. Before the 1924 season, the NHL awarded Adams an expansion team. Adams' first move was to hire <mask> as vice president, general manager, coach and scout. Adams instructed <mask> to come up with a nickname portraying an untamed animal displaying speed, agility and cunning. With this in mind, <mask> named the team the Boston Bruins, after the Old English word for a bear. The team's nickname went perfectly with the original colours of brown and yellow, which were the same colours of Adams' grocery chain, First National Stores. <mask> utilized his many hockey connections throughout Canada and the United States to sign players.Even so, the team started poorly. Early in the first season the University of Toronto hockey team was in Boston for matches against local universities. The team's manager, Conn Smythe, who later owned and managed the Toronto Maple Leafs, said that his team could easily defeat the Bruins—<mask>'s team had won only two of their first fifteen NHL games. This began a feud between Smythe and <mask> which lasted for over 40 years, until <mask>' death; while mostly confined to newspaper reports, they refused to speak to each other at NHL Board of Governor meetings. The Bruins finished their first season with six wins in thirty games, one of the worst records in the history of the league. Several records were set over the course of the season; the three home wins are tied for the second fewest ever, and an eleven-game losing streak from December 8, 1924, until February 17, 1925, set a record for longest losing streak, surpassed in 2004 and now second longest in history. With 17 wins in 36 games the following season, the team greatly improved, and finished one point out of a playoff spot.In 1926 the Western Hockey League, the other top professional hockey league, was in decline. The Patrick brothers, who controlled the league, offered to sell the remaining five teams for $300,000. <mask> realized the potential talent available and convinced Adams to pay the money. As a result, the Bruins acquired the rights to several future Hall of Fame players, the most notable being defender Eddie Shore. <mask> signed goaltender Cecil "Tiny" Thompson in 1928, who was with a team in Minnesota, despite never watching him play; Ralph "Cooney" Weiland was also brought over from Minnesota. <mask> acquired Cy Denneny from Ottawa and made him a player-assistant-coach while he assumed the role of coach and team manager. On November 20, 1928, the Bruins moved to a new arena when the Boston Garden opened.The team played the Canadiens who won the match 1–0 in front of 16,000 fans. The players signed by <mask> helped the Bruins to improve quickly, and they won the Stanley Cup in 1929. Denneny retired after the Cup win, <mask> guiding the team to several league records in the 1929–30 season. The team won 38 of 44 games for an .875 winning percentage, the highest in league history; the five losses tied a record for fewest ever, and the four road losses tied a record for second fewest. The Bruins also only finished one game in a tie, a record for fewest ties in a season since the NHL began recording the record in 1926. One of the longest winning streaks was also set during the season. From December 3, 1929, until January 9, 1930, the team won fourteen games in a row, a record that lasted until 1982 and now tied for third longest, as of October 2010.A home winning streak began the same day and lasted for twenty games, until March 18, 1930, which was tied for the longest of its kind in 1976. In 1930–31, the Bruins again lost only one home game, which equalled their previous record. On March 26, 1931, <mask> substituted a sixth skater for goaltender Tiny Thompson in the final minute of play in a playoff game against the Montreal Canadiens. Although the Bruins lost the game 1–0, <mask> became the first coach to replace his goaltender with an extra attacker, a tactic which became widespread practice in hockey. Stepping aside as coach in 1934 to focus on managing the team, <mask> hired Frank Patrick as coach with a salary of $10,500, which was high for such a role. However rumours spread during the season that Patrick was drinking heavily and not being as strict with the players as <mask> wanted. After the Bruins lost their playoff series with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1936 playoffs, the result of an 8–1 score in the second game, a newspaper claimed that Patrick had been drinking the day of the game and had trouble controlling the team.Several days later, <mask> relieved Patrick of his duties and once again assumed the role of coach. 1936–54

<mask> took over an improved team. He had recently signed three players, Milt Schmidt, Bobby Bauer and Woody Dumart, who all grew up together in Kitchener, Ontario, and had them play on the same line, soon nicknamed the Kraut Line in reference to the German heritage of all three. Along with them, <mask> had acquired a new goaltender in 1938, Frank Brimsek; after Brimsek earned six shutouts in his first eight games, the Bruins traded away Tiny Thompson to allow Brimsek to play. With these players the Bruins finished first in the league in 1937–38; <mask> was named as the second best coach in the league, selected for the end of season All-Star Second Team. The next season the Bruins won 36 of 48 games, and won the Stanley Cup in the playoffs; <mask> was named to the First All-Star Team as the best coach in the league for the season and the team only tied two games, which is tied for the second fewest in a season. He hired the recently retired Cooney Weiland to coach the Bruins for the 1939–40 NHL season.The Bruins would win the Cup again in 1941, and tied their record of only four away losses all season. <mask> once again took over as coach of the team before the 1941–42 season began, as Weiland became coach of the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, and led the team to 25 wins in 48 games, which was enough to earn third place in the league. By this time the Second World War had caused several Bruins players, including the entire Kraut Line and goaltender Brimsek, to enlist in their respective armed forces. The Bruins finished second in the NHL during the 1942–43 season with 24 wins in 50 games and <mask> was again named in the Second NHL All-Star Team as second best coach in the league. The Bruins missed the playoffs in 1943–44, the first time in ten years they failed to qualify, but returned to the playoffs the next season, something they did for five straight years. On November 11, 1943, <mask> became the first NHL coach to pull the goaltender for an extra attacker when he pulled goaltender Bert Gardiner for an extra attacker to go for the tie against the Chicago Blackhawks. Clint Smith score the first empty-net goal in NHL history and the Bruins lost 6–4.In 1949, <mask> had signed Georges Boucher as coach, but Boucher did not work well with <mask> and team president Weston Adams. Looking to hire a new coach in the summer of 1950, <mask> phoned Lynn Patrick, the son of Lester, who had just resigned from the New York Rangers after coaching the team to the Stanley Cup Final. Lynn had moved his family back to Victoria, British Columbia, where he grew up as a child, with the intention of coaching the Victoria Cougars, a team in the minor professional Pacific Coast Hockey League. Though reluctant to move back to the eastern United States, Lynn was hired by <mask> after he was offered a salary of $12,000. He would coach the team for the next four seasons and become the second general manager of the Bruins when <mask> retired at the end of October 1954. Legacy
Aside from his career in hockey, <mask> was interested in improving the game. Prior to the start of the 1927–28 season, the NHL adopted a new style of goal net created by <mask>.With the back molded into a B-shape, it was better designed to catch pucks and the net was used until 1984, when a modified version was adopted. He also improved the design of the puck. <mask>' design had bevel edges, which prevented it bouncing too much, and used synthetic rubber, rather than the natural rubber previously in vogue. Along with New York Rangers coach Frank Boucher, <mask> helped to create the red line, which was introduced to help speed up the game by removing the ability for defenders to pass the puck from the defensive to offensive zone; until 2006 it was against the rules of hockey to make a two-line pass. More scoring chances resulted as teams could not simply send the puck down the ice with impunity. In order to help tell the red line and blue lines apart on television, <mask> suggested that the red line be striped. Regarded throughout his playing career as one of the best defenders in hockey, <mask> was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1949, selected for his playing career rather than his work as an executive.A ceremony for his induction was held prior to a Bruins game on December 2, 1949, where he was given his Hall of Fame scroll and a silver tray with the emblems of the six NHL teams on it. In 1975 he was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Along with his two sons he donated the Art Ross Trophy to the NHL in 1947, to be awarded to the leading scorer in the league's regular season. In 1984 he was posthumously awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for service to hockey in the United States. Personal life
After graduating from high school in 1903, <mask> began working at Merchants Bank, and occasionally played for their hockey team. When he moved to <mask> transferred to a local branch. In 1906 <mask> resigned from the bank, and instead joined the Wheat City Flour Mills Company.<mask> opened a sporting goods store in Montreal, Art Ross & Co. in 1908, and would run that for several decades. In 1928, he served as the traveling secretary of the Boston Braves baseball team, which was owned by Bruins owner Charles Adams. On April 14, 1915 <mask> married Muriel Kay, a native of Montreal; they had two sons, <mask>, Jr. and John. During the Second World War, both sons served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. After the war <mask> made his son <mask> the business manager for the Bruins. <mask> was named coach and manager of the Boston Bruins in 1924 and moved his family to Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, after being hired. He became a naturalized American citizen on April 22, 1938.On August 5, 1964, <mask> died at a nursing home in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, at the age of 79. A sister, both his sons, and three grandchildren survived him. Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

 Career stats from Total Hockey

Coaching record

 Coaching stats from Total Hockey

Awards

NHL

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References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

External links

 <mask>'s biography at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

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is a Japanese singer from Ibaraki Prefecture. She formerly worked under Hyper Voice Managements. Currently she is affiliated with the Love&Light talent management agency. <mask> is known for her theme song performances for anime series such as Ojamajo Doremi, Pretty Cure, and Yumeiro Patissiere. She has performed as part of Project.R and also provides backup chorus for other artists. Biography
<mask> held a normal office job after graduating university. However she soon quit because she wanted a music-related job, and subsequently enrolled to a voice training class.She started out as a backup singer for J-pop artists. She was introduced by her voice trainer to the late Miki Matsubara, who offered her to sing an insert song for the 1999 anime series Ojamajo Doremi. It became her debut song "Mahou de Choi2" and she went on to record several more songs for the series. In 2004, she performed the opening theme for the first Pretty Cure series "Danzen! Futari wa PreCure", one of her best known songs. The song was awarded the Radio Kansai Award for best theme song at the 9th Animation Kobe Awards that year. She released her first original album Iridescent in 2005 under an independent label.It was re-released by Marvelous Entertainment in 2007 with three new additional tracks as Iridescent+. That same year she also released Mayumi Gojo Vocal Best from Futari wa PreCure, a compilation of her Pretty Cure songs. In 2008, she joined Project.R to sing for the Super Sentai Series. Discography

Singles
 "Natsu no Mahou" (Split single with Maho-dou, released July 4, 2001)
 "Kaeru ga Hitotsu Nakya" (Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi: Kaeru Ishi no Himitsu insert song, performed by Maho-dou with Mayumi Gojo)
 Usagi-chan de Cue!! theme song single (Released November 9, 2001)
 "Mou Ichido Energy" (opening theme)
 NHK Hitori de Dekirumon! Dokodemo Cooking theme song single (Released July 21, 2004)
 "Hanjuku Columbus" (opening theme)
 "Danzen!Futari wa PreCure" (Released March 24, 2004, Re-released September 24, 2004)
 Futari wa Pretty Cure opening theme
 coupled with "Gecchuu! Raburabuu?!" (ending theme)
 "Danzen! Futari wa PreCure Ver.Max Heart" (Released February 25, 2005)
 Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart opening theme
 coupled with "Murimuri!? Ariari!! IN jaa na~i?!" (ending theme, performed with Young Fresh)
 "Kokoro no Chikara" (Split single with Shizuka Kudo, released May 25, 2005)
 "Kibou no Namida: Tears for Tomorrow" (Futari wa PreCure Max Heart: The Movie insert song)
 "Wonder Winter Yattaa!!"(Released November 23, 2005)
 Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2nd ending theme
 coupled with "Kogarashi no Ding Dong"
 "Gag 100kaibun Aishite Kudasai" (Split single with Berryz Kobo, released November 23, 2005)
 "Crystal" (Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Yukizora no Tomodachi insert song)
 "Makasete Splash Star" (Split single with Yuka Uchiyae with Splash Stars, released February 22, 2006)
 "'Warau ga Kachi!" de GO!' (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star ending theme)
 "Ganbalance de Dance" (Released October 4, 2006)
 Futari wa PreCure Splash Star 2nd ending theme, performed with Kappei Yamaguchi and Miyu Matsuki *coupled with "Pa!tto Harebare Jan♪" (performed with Orie Kimoto, Atsuko Enomoto and Yuka Uchiyae)
 "Engine Second Rap: Turbo Custon" (Project.R single, released July 2, 2008)
 Engine Sentai Go-onger ending theme, performed by Project.R with Engine Kids
 coupled with "Take Off! Go-on Wings" (insert song, performed as part of Project.R with Takayoshi Tanimoto)
 Engine Oasobi CD Book (Project.R single, released July 30, 2008)
 "Engine Third Rap: Aero-Dynamic Custom" (Engine Sentai Go-onger ending theme, performed by Project.R with Engine Kids)
 "Ganbalance de Dance: Kibou no Relay" (Cure Quartet (<mask> <mask>, Yuka Uchiyae, Mayu Kudo and Kanako Miyamoto) single, released September 10, 2008)
 Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! 2nd ending theme
 coupled with "PreCure Mode ni Switch On!" PreCure All Stars DX: Minna to Tomodachi Kiseki no Zenin Daishuugou!theme song single (Released March 18, 2009)
 "Kirakira kawaii! PreCure Daishuugou♪" (opening theme, performed with Cure Deluxe (<mask> <mask>, Yuka Uchiyae, Mayu Kudo, Kanako Miyamoto, Mizuki Moie and Momoko Hayashi))
 "PreCure, Kiseki Deluxe" (ending theme, performed by Mayu Kudo with Cure Deluxe)
 "Justice of Light" (Released November 18, 2009)
 The Sacred Blacksmith opening theme
 coupled with "Nakisou ni Naru"
 Yumeiro Patissiere theme song single (Released January 20, 2010)
 "Yume ni Yell! Patissiere♪" (opening theme)
 Yumeiro Patissiere SP Professional theme song single (Released October 27, 2010)
 "Sweet Romance" (opening theme)
 Jewelpet Sunshine Opening and Ending Single (Released June 22, 2011)
 "GO! GO! Sunshine" (opening theme)

Albums
 Iridescent (Released September 10, 2005)
 "Birth"
 "Wakeari"
 "Rokunenburi"
 "Sepia Blue"
 "Rainbow: Yorimichi ni Muchuu"
 "Joan"
 "Ao ga Me ni Shimiru"
 "Private Smile"
 "Diamonds"
 "Akai Hana"
 Mayumi Gojo Vocal Best from Futari wa Pretty Cure (Released June 6, 2007)
 "Danzen! Futari wa PreCure"
 "Cure Action"
 "PreCure Tension Bing Bing Bang Bang!" "Jounetsu!(Mugendai)"
 "Gecchuu! Raburabuu?!" Danzen! Futari wa PreCure (ver. Max Heart)"
 Murimuri!? Ariari! IN jaa na~i?!"(performed with Young Fresh)
 "A Wish of a Heart"
 "Kogarashi no Ding Dong"
 "Wonder Winter Yattaa!!" "Makasete Splash Star (cover ver.)" (performed with Splash Stars)
 "Egao no Chikara"
 "'Warau ga Kachi' de GO!" "Pikapika Healing"
 "Ganbalance de Dance" (performed with Flappy and Choppies)
 "Tabidachi no Asa ni (piano ver.)" Iridescent+(plus) (Released September 27, 2007)
 "Birth"
 "Wakeari"
 "Negai Tsuki"
 "In My Way"
 "Rokunenburi"
 "Sepia Blue"
 "Rainbow: Yorimichi ni Muchuu"
 "Joan"
 "Ao ga Me ni Shimiru"
 "Private Smile"
 "35℃"
 "Diamonds"
 "Akai Hana (with piano version)"
 Trilogy (Released September 28, 2011)
 "Danzen! Futari wa PreCure (ver. Max Heart)"
 "Wonder Winter Yattaa!!""Mahou de Choi Choi"
 "GO! GO! Sunshine"
 "Yume ni Yell! Patissiere♪"
 "Sweet Romance"
 "Asairo no Mukou" (Original)
 "Ibara no Mori"
 "Elpis"
 "Aozora no Hate e"
 "Justice of Light"
 "Eternal Wing"
 "in this serenity"

Soundtracks
 Ojamajo CD Club Sono 1: Ojamajo Vocal Collection!! (Released April 21, 1999)
 "Pirikapiri Lucky!"" "Mahou de Choi2"
 "Juubyou Kazoete"
 Ojamajo Ban2 CD Club Sono 2 Mo~tto! Ojamajo Swe~et Song Collection!!(Released May 23, 2001)
 "Ganbarimasu!!" "Miracle Power"
 Ojamajo Dokka~n! CD Club Sono 2: Ojamajo Dokka~n! Song Library!! (Released June 21, 2002)
 "Ojamajo is No.1!" "Kiai Ippatsu Kimechae Otome!" Futari wa Pretty Cure Vocal Album: Duel Vocal Wave!: Arittake no egao de (Released September 24, 2004)
 "Ame nochi Appare"
 "Cure Action"
 "Suki nanoni... Bimyou!!" "Pretty Exercise" (performed with Yoko Honna and Yukana)
 Futari wa PreCure Vocal Album 2: Vocal Rainbow Storm!! : Hikari ni naritai (Released December 22, 2004)
 "PreCure Tension Bing Bing Bang Bang!" "Jounetsu! (Mugendai)"
 Xenosaga: The Animation Original Soundtrack (Released March 23, 2005)
 "In This Serenity" (ending theme)
 Music Album Bouken Ou Beet (Released June 22, 2005)
 "Hero"
 "Eternal Wing"
 Colo-chan Pack: Sanrio Character Song Series Sanrio Character no Dokidoki Kodomo Paradise (Released June 22, 2005)
 "Reggae Paradise"
 Colo-chan Pack: Mahou Sentai Magiranger 3" (Released October 19, 2005)
 "Eien ni..."
 Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart Vocal Album: Extreme Vocal Luminario!! : Onaji yume mite (Released October 21, 2005)
 "Daisuki ga Ippai"
 "A Wish of a Heart"
 Magical Complete Songs: Mahou Sentai Magiranger Zenkyokushuu (Released December 21, 2005)
 "Eien ni..."
 "Sing!Swing!! Smoky!!!" (chorus)
 Futari wa PreCure Max Heart Vocal Album II: "A" kara hajimaru aikotoba (Released December 22, 2005)
 "Challenge Change" (performed with Yoko Honna & Yukana)
 "Saishuu Heiki Kanojo" Ongakushuu (Released January 18, 2006)
 "Kimi no Uta" (performed under the alias MAYUMI)
 Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart Original Soundtrack: PreCure Sound Screw! Max!! Spark!! (Released January 25, 2006)
 "Tabidachi no Asa ni" (insert song)
 Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star Vocal Album I: Yes! PreCure Smile (Released July 21, 2006)
 "blessing" (performed with Yuka Uchiyae)
 "Egao no Chikara"
 Futari wa PreCure Splash Star Vocal Album II: Kiseki no Shizuku (Released November 22, 2006)
 "Nanatsu no Izumi o Dakkanseyo!!: Fifth Element no Gyakushuu" (performed by Dark Elements)
 "Pikapika Healing"
 "Girl's Work" (Performed with Orie Kimoto, Atsuko Enomoto and Yuka Uchiyae)
 Ura School Rumble Nigakki: Megane no Seisen! (Released December 22, 2006)
 "Love&Peace"
 Super Sentai & Futari wa PreCure (Released March 21, 2007)
 Saishin Anime & Super Hero Song Best Collection (Released May 23, 2007)
 "Hello! Licca-chan" (Ningyou Animation Licca-chan)
 Yes! PreCure 5 Vocal Album II: Vocal Explosion! (Released November 9, 2007)
 "Muscat" (performed with Yuka Uchiyae)
 Yamasa 40th Anniversary Tracks (Released December 5, 2007)
 "Space Horizon featuring Mayumi Gojo" (from M-771/BIG BONUS)
 Yes! PreCure GoGo! Vocal Album 1: My dear friend ~PreCure kara no shoutaijou~ (Released August 6, 2008)
 "Rose in Rose"
 PreCure 5th Anniversary: Precure Vocal Box 1: Hikari no Shou (Released August 6, 2008)
 "PreCure 5, Smile Go Go!(Mayumi Gojo ver.)" (bonus track)
 Colo-chan Pack: Engine Sentai Go-onger (Released September 3, 2008)
 "Take Off! Go-on Wings: Break Sky-Mix" (performed as part of Project.R with Takayoshi Tanimoto)
 Engine Sentai Go-onger Sound Grand Prix 3rd Bunbun! Banban! Santoraban!! (Released September 24, 2008)
 "Engine Formation Rap: Gekijou Bang! Custom" (performed by Project.R with Engine Kids)
 Yes!PreCure 5 GoGo! Vocal Album 2: Switch On! : Soshite, sekai wa hirogatteiku (Released December 3, 2008)
 "Sound: itsu made mo kore kara mo"
 PreCure 5th Anniversary: PreCure Vocal Box 2: Kibou no Shou (Released December 3, 2008)
 "Te to Te Tsunaide Heart mo Link!!" (bonus track)
 Engine Sentai Go-onger Zenkyokushuu Song Grand Prix (Released January 14, 2009)
 "Engine Winning Run: Type Formula" (last ending theme, performed by Project.R with Engine Kids)
 Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! Original Soundtrack 2: PreCure Sound Fleuret!! (Released January 28, 2009)
 "Danzen!Makasete Full Throttle GoGo!" (bonus track, performed with Yuki Uchiyae and Mayu Kudo)
 Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! Vocal Best!! (Released April 3, 2009)
 "PreCure 5, Full Throttle GoGo! (Cure Quartet Ver.)" (performed by Cure Quartet)
 Time Rescue Original Soundtrack (Released November 11, 2009)
 "Tokei Jikake no Yume"
 Mini Album Tensou Sentai Goseiger (Released April 28, 2010)
 "Fight" (insert song, performed as part of Project.R)Narcissu: Moshimo ashita ga aru nara Portable Vocal Album (Released June 25, 2010)
 "Elpis"
 Light Vocal Collection IV (Released January 28, 2011)
 "Rose!Rose!Rose!"(R.U.R.U.R -petit prince- opening theme)

Other CDs
 2005-nen Undoukai-you CD 5: Dang Dang Dance (Released March 23, 2005)
 "Dang Dang Dance"
 Kodomo no Uta: Ippai! Fukubukuro (Released November 23, 2005)
 "MushiKing Samba!" (Kouchuu Ouja MushiKing: Mori no tami no densetsu)
 "Hello! Thank You!" : Halloween, Bon'odori, Otanjoukai, Taisou, Christmas (Released September 28, 2016)
 PreCure Ontou: Smile Wink (Go! Princess PreCure, episode 27 & Maho Girls PreCure!, episode 29, insert song)
 Happy Birthday LOVE (performed with Kanako Miyamoto)

Appearances

Animation
 Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi: Kaeru Ishi no Himitsu as Mayuri
 Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart as Highland customer (episode 12)

Web radio
 Radio!Utatane Biyori (November 29, 2007 – September 24, 2009)
 Radio! Utatane Biyori Neo (October 8, 2009–present)
 Gojo Tanimoto no Animex Radio!!'' (April 5, 2010–present)

References

External links
 Official site
 Official blog

 Mayumi Gojo on Love&Light's site
Anican column: <mask> Gojo's "Crosswalk"

1972 births
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese women singers
Anime musicians
Japanese women pop singers
Living people
Musicians from Ibaraki Prefecture

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<mask> (born June 19, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as in Italy and Israel. He is one of the most beloved and successful players in Maccabi Tel Aviv history. After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA draft and played briefly in the NBA before plying his trade in Europe. There, <mask> spent five seasons with the Israeli Super League basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and one season with the Italian Serie A club Lottomatica Roma. With Maccabi he won five Israeli Super League national championships, five Israeli National Cups, three European titles (two EuroLeague Basketball titles, in 2004 and 2005, and the FIBA SuproLeague title in 2001), and was voted two consecutive times EuroLeague MVP. He was also named the 2004 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP. After returning to the NBA as a free agent in 2006, <mask> was the Toronto Raptors' starting shooting guard.In his first season with the Raptors, <mask> helped the team clinch their first-ever division title, first NBA Playoffs berth in five years, and best regular-season record in franchise history. He helped the Raptors reach the playoffs again in the 2007–08 season, before becoming a free agent in 2009. On June 27, 2012, <mask> retired after playing nine seasons in the NBA, five seasons in Israel, and one season in Italy. He then became a scout for the Orlando Magic from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, he became the general manager of the Lakeland Magic, the Orlando Magic's NBA G League developmental team. In 2021, he was moved to Orlando as an assistant general manager. Biography

Early basketball career
<mask> started out playing high school basketball at Naperville Central High School.He then played college basketball at Bradley University where he established himself as a top player, averaging 18.9 points per game (ppg) and shooting 42% from the three-point line in his third season, earning the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Most Valuable Player and All-MVC first team honors in the same season. His outstanding performances for the Braves ensured that he became one of 15 players honored in Bradley's All-Century basketball team named in 2003. Academically, <mask> also excelled. He majored in chemistry before switching to liberal arts and sciences in his senior year, and earned two Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr. Scholarships while at Bradley. <mask> entered the 1997 NBA draft after four years at Bradley and was selected 21st overall by the New Jersey Nets, but he was immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in a multi-player trade. In his two seasons with the 76ers, <mask> was largely plagued by injury and played in only 39 regular season games, averaging just over five minutes a game and totaling 74 points and 26 rebounds.He was subsequently traded together with Harvey Grant to the Orlando Magic for Billy Owens before the 1999–2000 season. <mask> again struggled at Orlando, playing only 16 games with modest averages of 3.6 ppg and 1.7 rebounds per game (rpg) before being released in January 2000. He finished the remainder of the season with the Quad City Thunder of the Continental Basketball Association where he averaged 11.5 points in 26 games. European career
Disappointed in his failure to make a breakthrough in the NBA, <mask> turned to Europe to resurrect his basketball career, intending to return to the NBA after a good season with a European club. Eventually, he moved to Israel in the 2000–01 season, where he was signed by the Israeli EuroLeague powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv. Initially, <mask> and his wife were intimidated by the occasional bomb attacks in the city, but they soon settled in and <mask> was able to focus on his basketball career. Within his first season with his new club, he became one of their most pivotal players.<mask> was signed to fill the void left by Doron Sheffer's retirement at the shooting guard position, but ended up featuring as both a scorer and play-maker for Maccabi. He immediately brought to the team his ability to score, rebound, block shots, and even entertain the crowds with slam dunks. In <mask>'s inaugural season, Maccabi won the Israeli domestic championship and the Israeli National Cup, as well as the FIBA SuproLeague Cup. He continued his fine form for the club in the 2001–02 season, averaging 16.4 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game as Maccabi again won both domestic titles and even reached the Euroleague 2001–02 Final Four. <mask> left Israel in 2002, and in January 2003 moved to Italy, where he signed with Virtus Roma, playing in 27 Italian Serie A league games and averaging 14.5 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game. However, half a year later <mask> longed a return to Israel, a country he had grown to love. Back with Maccabi, he helped his team accomplish two more Triple Crowns by winning the Israeli domestic championship, the Israeli National Cup, and the EuroLeague championship in both 2004 and 2005.In the process, he was named the Israeli Basketball Super League MVP and the EuroLeague Final Four MVP of the Euroleague 2003–04 season, as well as the EuroLeague MVP and first-team All-EuroLeague in the Euroleague 2004–05 season. The 2004–05 season also proved to be a watershed season for <mask>, as he averaged career-highs of 18.0 points per game, 5.3 rebounds per game, and 3.6 assists per game. In his final season with Maccabi, he led the team to another domestic double, but in the Euroleague 2005–06 season's championship game, Maccabi was defeated 73–69 by CSKA Moscow. For his efforts, <mask> was named EuroLeague MVP and first team All-EuroLeague for the second consecutive time. After six years of success in Europe however, <mask> dreamed of returning to the NBA. Overall, he averaged 13.6 points per game, 4.8 rebounds per game and 1.8 steals per game in his Israeli league career, while averaging 15.8 points per game, 5.7 rebounds per game and 1.6 steals per game in the EuroLeague. He made the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors list in 2008, and the EuroLeague 2000–10 All-Decade Team in 2010.<mask>'s experience playing in Israel left a positive impression upon him. He went on to wear jersey number 18 for both Toronto and Cleveland, explaining that: "I played in Israel before I came back to the NBA, and I had such a great time... two of my sons were born while I was playing overseas and one was actually born in Israel. And I just had such a great experience that I wanted to take something from that experience. The number 18, in Judaism, it means 'chai'... and it's the symbol for life and good fortune in Judaism. And I thought that was something to take away from Israel and let them know I'm still representing them." Return to the NBA

Toronto Raptors

In October 2005, during a pre-season friendly representing Maccabi against the Toronto Raptors organized by then Israeli Consul-General Cobie Brosh, <mask> hit the game-winning shot with less than a second remaining to lead Maccabi to a 105–103 win at the Air Canada Centre. This gave the Raptors fans and management a glimpse of his abilities and in July 2006, <mask> was officially signed by Raptors General Manager Bryan Colangelo as a free agent as part of a massive revamp of the 2006–07 Toronto team.He was signed for approximately $12 million (USD) over three years, joining recent European veteran acquisitions Jorge Garbajosa and José Calderón on the team. Adopting a #18 jersey, <mask> quickly established himself as the starting shooting guard for Toronto and a well-respected three-point shooter in the NBA, ranking fourth in the league for three-point field goal percentage by the end of the regular season. Overall, in his first season with Toronto, he averaged 12.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg, and 2.1 apg, leading his team in three-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage. <mask>'s defensive and offensive versatility were credited as instrumental in helping the Raptors clinch their first-ever division title, first NBA Playoffs berth in five years, as well as best regular-season record in franchise history. In the first round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs, <mask> was chosen to defend New Jersey Net and former Toronto favorite Vince Carter. <mask> was effective in shutting down Carter, restricting him to 13-for-43 shooting in the first two games. However, the Raptors were eliminated by the Nets after Game 6.On April 4, 2007, the NBA also announced that <mask> had been selected by a five-member panel of former players as the divisional winner of 2006–07 NBA Sportsmanship Award. The annual award reflects the ideals of sportsmanship in amateur and professional basketball. In the 2007–08 season, <mask> remained—despite the signing of Miami's Jason Kapono—the starting shooting guard for the Raptors, with rookie Jamario Moon completing the wing positions. In a season that was fraught with lengthy injuries to a number of his teammates (such as T.J. Ford and Chris Bosh), he managed to play in all 82 regular season games and ensured that Toronto made the 2008 NBA Playoffs, albeit as the sixth seed. However, the Raptors were eliminated in the first round by the Orlando Magic in five games. <mask> was later named by ESPN as one of the best Euroleague players to have graced the NBA. At the end of the 2007–08 season, he ranked 7th in NBA's all-time leaders in three-point field goal percentage.<mask> played a variety of roles in the following season. First, Kapono was temporarily moved to the starting shooting guard spot after the Raptors fired head coach Sam Mitchell. When Calderón was injured, <mask> had to fill in as the starting point guard. After struggling in December, he hit good form in January and helped the Raptors inch towards a better record after the team went 16–28. Although <mask> eventually regained his starting spot, Toronto fell further behind the playoff race as a result of changing rosters and inconsistent performances, dropping to 21–34 just before the All-Star break. The shooting guard's offensive output was also erratic throughout the season, and the Raptors all but fell out of the playoffs picture by March. The Raptors eventually concluded the regular season with only 33 wins, with <mask> suffering a significant drop in his numbers (shooting percentage and points per game).His future remained uncertain as he was due to become a free agent, but he expressed a desire to return to Toronto for the next season. With Toronto selecting shooting guard DeMar DeRozan in the 2009 NBA draft, that uncertainty was compounded. Cleveland Cavaliers

On July 13, 2009, <mask> James-led Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that had reached the 2007 NBA Finals and 2009 Conference Finals. Cleveland General Manager Danny Ferry said of <mask>: "<mask> will be a solid addition to our roster. He is a very good, intelligent all-around basketball player. Our coaching staff will especially appreciate the good shooting and solid defense that <mask> brings to our team." In a bid to ensure that James had his best shot of winning a title before he could potentially become a free agent after the season, Cleveland also acquired Shaquille O'Neal and subsequently, Antawn Jamison, both of whom were veteran superstars.The new-look Cleveland concluded the regular season with a league-high 61 wins, with <mask> starting all 81 games that he played in. In the first round of the playoffs, they defeated Chicago in five games. Cleveland faced the 2008 champions Boston in the next round, and despite expectations to prevail over the aging Celtics, Cleveland lost the series 4–2. <mask> started all 11 of Cleveland's playoff games. During the 2010 NBA offseason, LeBron James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas left Cleveland for the Miami Heat, which led several other veterans to also leave the team. The departures would thrust <mask>, Antawn Jamison and Anderson Varejão into the spotlight as the veteran leaders for the young team. While Cleveland only managed a conference-worst 19–63 season, they were able to upset LeBron James' heavily favored Miami Heat on March 29, 2011 in a game where <mask> grabbed eight rebounds and scored 20 points.On June 27, 2012, <mask> announced his retirement. National team career
<mask> had a brief stint with the junior United States men's national basketball team, as a college player. He was a member of the Under-22 team alongside future NBA All-Stars Tim Duncan and Paul Pierce. The team defeated host and co-favorite Puerto Rico, twice in the FIBA Americas Under-21 Championship, and captured the gold medal in 1996, en route to qualifying for the 1997 FIBA Under-21 World Cup. In the gold medal game, <mask> scored a game-high 19 points, in a win against Canada. Personal life
<mask> was born in Naperville, Illinois. His father played college basketball at the University of Iowa, while his mother was a cheerleader.<mask>'s younger siblings also played basketball; his brother Marcus played basketball in high school, while his sister Candace plays in the WNBA and was the number one pick of the 2008 draft. Early in his professional basketball career, <mask> married Tamy, and they had their first child in 2002. <mask> is Christian. players
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<mask> (born May 5, 1956) is an American businessman, attorney and former government official. <mask> is the owner, chairman and CEO of Variety Wholesalers, a group of 370 retail stores in 16 states. He is also the president and chairman of the John William Pope Foundation. He previously served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and recently served as the Budget Director for North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. He is a megadonor to the North Carolina Republican Party. He founded the American conservative North Carolina think tank the Civitas Institute and co-founded the John Locke Foundation and the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Early life and education
<mask> was born May 5, 1956, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to John W. and <mask>.He spent his early childhood in the town of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. He moved with his family to the capital city of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the early 1960s. <mask> graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978 with a B.A. with honors in political science and went on to earn his J.D. from the Duke University School of Law in 1981.

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<mask> has been chairman, president and CEO of Variety Wholesalers since 2006. Variety owns and operates 370 stores under the names Roses, Roses Express, Maxway, and Super 10, in sixteen states. Sales for Variety Wholesalers, Inc., a privately held company, are estimated to be at least $700 million and up to $1 billion.The company headquarters is located in Henderson, North Carolina, with a distribution center in Henderson. <mask> first joined Variety Wholesaler in 1986. Before entering business, <mask> was an associate attorney with the firm of Skvarla, Boles, Wyrick and From in Raleigh, from 1982 through 1984. In 1984, <mask> took a leave of absence from the firm to work as the director of organization for the North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of Jim Martin. <mask> served as special counsel to Governor Jim Martin in 1985. Governor Pat McCrory appointed <mask> State Budget Director in 2013. <mask> served as State Budget Director from 2013 to 2014, and then stepped down to return to the private sector.In 2017, <mask> became chairman of the Bradley Foundation, a conservative charitable organization. <mask> is chairman and president of the John William Pope Foundation, which he founded with his father, John W<mask>, in 1986. The foundation has donated to Campbell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the John Locke Foundation (for which <mask> was the founding chairman), The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and other organizations. Politics and public service
<mask> has been active with the Republican Party since the late 1970s, serving in a variety of roles ranging from precinct chairman to chairman of the North Carolina GOP State Convention. <mask> has also served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention on three occasions. <mask> was appointed to serve on the North Carolina State Goals and Policy Board from 1985 to 1989. He also served on the North Carolina Capital Planning Commission.<mask> was first elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1988 to represent House District 61. He served four complete or partial terms in office, winning elections in 1988 and 1990, being appointed to fill a vacancy in 1999, and winning another election in 2000. He was elected Republican Joint Caucus Leader during the 1991–1992 session. <mask> was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state's most prestigious award for public service, in 1992 at age 36. <mask> vacated his House seat to run for the office of Lieutenant Governor in 1992. After winning a three-way Republican primary in May 1992, <mask> lost the general election to Democrat Dennis Wicker. In June 2011, <mask> was appointed to the board of directors for Golden LEAF (Long-term Economic Advancement Foundation), a nonprofit grant-making organization whose mission is to spur economic development in tobacco-dependent areas of North Carolina.<mask> had previously criticized some Golden LEAF funding decisions. <mask> was among several business leaders appointed in September 2012 to serve on a UNC system advisory group tasked with helping to shape the future of the state's public universities. <mask> was also a member of the Electoral College in 2012, casting one of North Carolina's electoral votes for Mitt Romney. In November 2012, it was announced that <mask> would serve as a co-chair on North Carolina Governor-Elect Pat McCrory's transition team, and in December <mask> was announced as the state's chief budget director in the McCrory administration. In October, 2016 Governor McCrory appointed <mask>, along with former Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue,  to serve on a bipartisan committee to evaluate and recommend relief and recovery measures from Hurricane Matthew. On June 25, 2020, the North Carolina Senate elected <mask> to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, by a vote of 32-15, for a term beginning July 1, 2020. All Republicans voted for <mask>, as well as some Democrats, including the Democratic Senate Minority Leader, Senator Dan Blue.Funding and activism for conservative causes
In 1975, as a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill freshman, <mask> filed a complaint under the code of student conduct against Algenon L. Marbley, President of the Black Student Movement, for shouting down David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan during a campus speech. <mask> explained that while he condemned the Klan and thought it was a horrible organization, he was defending free speech for everyone. <mask> co-founded the Libertarian Party of North Carolina as a college student in 1976. According to the News and Observer, <mask> "has invested millions in a network of foundations and think tanks, and advocacy groups, both in North Carolina and nationally, that are designed to further conservative and free market ideas." In 2005, <mask> was a founding member of the NC Coalition for Lobbying & Government Reform. He joined former Democratic state Senator Wib Gulley from Durham, North Carolina, in calling for reform of the state's lobbying laws. <mask> has been a long-time supporter of legislation to establish an independent nonpartisan redistricting commission.In 2019, <mask> spoke on behalf of a bipartisan coalition to support a constitutional amendment, sponsored by both Republican and Democratic legislators, to end gerrymandering in North Carolina. He has advocated doing away with the public financing of judicial elections in North Carolina. As an alternative to the election of judges, <mask> stated he supported the appointment of judges by the governor with confirmation by the state legislature. See also
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<mask> a noted American Activist, has served many roles in  second wave feminism, civil rights movements, and anti-war protests. Her most notable positions were Vice President for Action of The National Organization of Women (NOW) starting in 1990 and Director for the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. Education and Early Activism
<mask> earned her B.A in Sociology from the College of New Rochelle in 1967, which was a private, all women's Catholic college. It is known as the first Catholic women's college in New York State when it was founded in 1904. In the Fall of 2016, the College of New Rochelle admitted men for the first time. Later she earned her Juris Doctor from Rutgers University Law School. As a young student, she began her activist career speaking out during the civil rights movement in the 1960s and participating in anti-war protests.Career Highlights
 Founded "New Jersey Women Take Back the Night," with the goal to generate public awareness and lobby legislators for the fight against violence against women
 Chartered the New Jersey Chapter of NOW as President
Formed a battered women's shelter in New Jersey called Womanspace
Chaired a statewide coalition to pass lesbian and gay rights legislation in New Jersey
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<mask> studied law and worked in the criminal justice system. She practiced law for 12 years in New Jersey, where she founded the feminist law firm McGahen, Dempsey and Case. She became interested in the women's movement in the 1960s because it affected her and every other woman. She came across NOW in 1970 and has played an active role in the organization since. She played a vital role in the chartering of the New Jersey Chapter of NOW in 1973 where she served as their first president. She says, "[NOW] came along at a time in my life when I had little children, and I needed to connect with some meaningful movement." Work with NOW
NOW was founded in June 1966.It started as 28 women who attended the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in DC. Today, NOW is the largest women's rights organization in the U.S. NOW has worked toward women's equality and dignity. To do so, they have gone up against issues such as discrimination in education, credit, and employment. NOW also works to help the reputation of women who choose to stay at home, and have helped to elevate their voices. NOW has also fought for the rights of women in marriage and divorce. <mask> was Vice President of the organization during a tumultuous time for women's rights, and was at the forefront of many key feminists movements. During her time with NOW, she travelled around the country on a speaking tour to talk about feminist issues.Some colleges on this tour included Penn State, Franklin and Marshall College, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Carnegie Mellon University. A main topic during this tour was the wage gap for women. At this time women were making 58% of what men made, so it was at the forefront of NOW's work. <mask> was also Vice President of NOW when Justice Clarence Thomas was nominated as a Supreme Court Justice. She was quoted saying that Thomas' hearing was a "collective click" for women all over the nation. <mask> helped plan the "We Won't Go Back!" March for Women's Lives in Washington DC that took place on April 5, 1992.This march was sponsored by NOW, and advocated for abortion rights in America. This walk had over half a million attendees, and was organized to impress lawmakers and the public during a time when the Supreme Court was hearing a case that had the ability to severely limit women's rights. The New York Times wrote an article that day outlining the dangers of the Supreme Court Case.On April 22, the High Court will hear arguments on a Pennsylvania law that seeks to limit access to abortion through a variety of regulations, including a 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that women seeking abortions notify their husbands. Many people on both sides see that case as a potential vehicle for overturning Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, some states have adopted even stricter limits.The Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey was a landmark case that reaffirmed Roe v. Wade to secure abortion rights to women. This case sparked the March on Washington, and attracted many women, including celebrities and students from around the nation. A similar march took place in Los Angeles a week later.Domestic Violence
In 1991, there were roughly 1 million incidents reported of domestic violence towards women, and another 3 million incidents were predicted as unreported. Domestic violence had become so common in society at the time that it had been named the top health risk against women. She was a founding member of "New Jersey Women Take Back the Night," an organization that helped to generate public awareness for violence against women. This group also lobbied legislators to gain support for the movement to stop violence against women, and create laws to protect women. This was the start to the idea of the Violence Against Women Act. She has also supported women who have faced domestic violence through her work to create a battered women's shelter in New Jersey called Womanspace. Gay Rights
Being an openly gay women, she also advocated for gay rights.During this time, gay couples were not able to have the same rights and privileges as heterosexual married couples. This meant they were barred from the hospital rooms where their partners were being treated, or they were thrown out of their houses after their partners' death. They did not have the same protections as their heterosexual counterparts. <mask> was a lawyer in many cases revolving around these issues, and fought for equal rights for gay people. She also chaired a coalition to pass lesbian and gay rights legislation in New Jersey. Mitsubishi Law Suit
<mask> traveled to Tokyo in 1996 to raise awareness about a sexual harassment issue between Mitsubishi and hundreds of women that were employed by them. <mask> was doing a lot of talking during her trip with many officials from Tokyo including Mitsubishi Motors representatives.With her help and others, the EEOC, sued Mitsubishi which eventually agreed to pay $34 million in a settlement. Personal life

<mask> was born in Connecticut in 1946, and earned her bachelor's degree in New York before moving to New Jersey for law school. She did most of her activist work out of New Jersey, and raised her two children there as well who were born in 1971 and 1972. She gained national media attention after gaining full custody of her two children even though she was openly gay in 1979. This made it easier for future homosexual couples looking to gain legal custody of their children. She and her long-time partner, Kim Costanza, owned a gay restaurant, bar and guest house in Pass-A-Grille, Florida that has since been closed. References

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<mask> (born June 27, 1963) is an American transportation executive and government figure, who is the former executive director and CEO of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) and former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Early life and education
<mask> was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the eldest of four children (sisters Lisa, Karen, and brother David). His father, Drasutis Antanas "Tony<mask>, was a native of Lithuania who emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1949 and died in 2010. His mother, Patricia (Sheehan<mask>, is a native of Milbury, Massachusetts. <mask> grew up in the Central Massachusetts towns of Sutton and Auburn. He attended St. John's High School, received his BA from the College of the Holy Cross and his MBA from Cornell University's Johnson School of Management.Early career
<mask> began his government career in 1987 on the staff of Massachusetts State Senator Mary L. Padula (R-Lunenburg) and soon became her chief of staff. After Padula's appointment as Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Communities and Development (EOCD) in 1991, he briefly worked as chief of staff for State Senator Richard Tisei (R-Wakefield) before joining Padula as a Deputy Secretary of EOCD from 1991 to 1995. He then served as the chief of staff to the Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services. From 1995 to 1996 <mask> lived and worked in Lithuania as the resident program officer for the nonprofit International Republican Institute. In 1997 he became chief of staff in the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development. From 1998 to 1999, <mask> served as the state's Director of Consumer Affairs under Gov. Paul Cellucci.Registrar of Motor Vehicles
From 1999 to 2002, <mask> served as Massachusetts' Registrar of Motor Vehicles. At the time of his appointment, the agency was described by the Boston Globe as "plagued with long lines and charges of mismanagement" and was considered a political liability after series of articles in the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune detailed the interminable waits at the Registry. During his tenure as Registrar, <mask> was able to reduce the average wait time at the agency from an hour and fifteen minutes to less than ten minutes. He also instituted the use of the Q-Matic queuing system, which allows customers to view their estimated wait times on customized tickets or online. In addition, the number of online transaction available to the public was greatly expanded, with online transactions rising from about 30,000 in 1999 to over 500,000 in 2002. Campaign for State Treasurer
In January 2002, <mask> resigned as Registrar to run for Treasurer of Massachusetts. He defeated Bruce A. Herzfelder in the Republican primary 53% to 47%.He lost in the general election to Democrat Tim Cahill 51% to 41%. Secretary of Transportation

After that loss, Governor-elect Mitt Romney named <mask> to his cabinet as Secretary of Transportation and Construction. He also served as a member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board. During his tenure as Transportation Secretary, the department employed a "fix it first" strategy" which prioritized repairs to existing infrastructure over the construction of new ones. He oversaw the introduction of the first statewide 20-year transportation plan. The plan directed that at least 75 percent of all new capital spending be focused toward maintaining and improving the state's existing transportation network with these funds dedicated to bridge repair, highway reconstruction, de-bottlenecking, intersection and interchange modernization and ensuring a transit system that is in a state of good repair. The plan also included limited transit expansions, prioritizing projects that earn federal dollars, win community support and encourage local contribution.MBTA General Manager
In 2005, <mask> resigned his position as Transportation Secretary to become General Manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). During his four-plus years as General Manager, the MBTA switched its payment method from tokens to the CharlieCard, construction on the Greenbush Line was completed, and WiFi service was installed on commuter rail trains and boats. In 2009, the MBTA bought out the remainder of <mask>' contract, citing the Authority's continuing financial problems, customer service complaints, and <mask>' handling of two subway accidents. <mask>' ouster, which was engineered by Governor Deval Patrick and Transportation Secretary James Aloisi, was criticized by the state Republican Party, who believed that the Republican-appointed Grabauskas was being used as a scapegoat. It was also criticized by Democrats Thomas Menino and Steven Baddour, with the latter describing it as "trying to settle a political score at taxpayers' expense". After his departure, <mask> served as a senior fellow for public policy at MassINC and as chairman and senior strategic adviser of the Bronner Center for Transportation Management. Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation
In March 2012 <mask> was named Executive Director and CEO of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) after he and the HART board of directors agreed on a three-year contract that includes an annual base salary of $245,000, a $36,000 a year housing allowance, a transportation allowance of $6,000 a year, and a potential $35,000 annual performance bonus.HART oversees the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project, the largest public works project in the history of the state of Hawaii. The project, scheduled to open in 2019, is a $9.2 billion, 20-mile long automated rail system that plans to operate a fleet of 80 rail cars and an infrastructure of 21 stations, a 43-acre maintenance and storage facility, three park-and-ride lots, and one park-and-ride structure. <mask> resigned from HART in August 2016. HART Board of Directors member Michael D. Formby was named as interim director. References

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