Tita Aida

Nikki Calma, better known as Tita Aida, is a social activist from San Francisco, California. She is a long-time advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness, particularly among Asian American communities, and for transgender people.
Name.
Nikki Calma co-created the persona "Tita Aida" with the Filipino Task Force on AIDS for her role as an auntie, advocate, and HIV/AIDS awareness mentor. "Tita" means "Big sister" in Hawaiian, and it means "Aunt" in Tagalog. "Aida" is a reference to HIV/AIDS.
Activism.
Tita Aida was crucial in educating and de-stigmatizing HIV/AIDS in the Asian & Pacific Islander (API) LGBT communities in the early 1990s through her work with the Asian AIDS Project, which became Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center and now known as San Francisco Community Health Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tita Aida is active in many transgender initiatives in the United States. She is currently the Director of Community Programs and HIV Services in which she also oversees and provides the direction over fifteen HIV services and community programs that is very important for San Francisco. Among them is TRANS:THRIVE, a drop-in center in San Francisco, California that caters to and serves the transgender community of the Bay Area. She oversees the program, activities and services offered by the program.
In 2008, Tita Aida was assigned by Mayor Gavin Newsom to be the first transgender female as a commissioner to the Commission on Status of Women in the City of San Francisco in which she was instrumental in educating and providing vital information about the transgender community to the commission and its constituents.
She participated in the "I am Trans March" campaign for the 10th annual Trans March in 2013. She was also featured in the first PSA developed by and aimed at the wellness of the Asian Pacific Islander transgender community as part of the 20th observance of World AIDS Day.
Tita Aida was the subject of a 2012 film, "Tita: Still Around", directed by S. Leo Chiang.
For the past ten years, Tita Aida also has taken lead in organizing events such as Trans March SF, Transgender Day of Remembrance, National Transgender HIV Testing Day, API Pride Pavilion and Stage at San Francisco Pride in which these events provide safe spaces for these communities to congregate and flourish.
Honors and awards.
Tita Aida has been recognized by the various organizations and was given recognition for the following awards: The 2003 GAPA George Choy Community Award, KQED’s Pride Unsung Hero Award, Transgender Law Center's 2010 Claire Skiffington Vanguard Award, Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center’s Grassroots Award, and the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club's 2014 Bill Krauss HIV/AIDS Activism Award.
In early 2015, Tita Aida was nominated as a Community Grand Marshal for San Francisco Pride, but was not elected. However, she was chosen to receive the Teddy Witherington Award, an award chosen by SF Pride and by the current City of San Francisco Mayor, recognizing those individuals who have contributed a longstanding, large body of work to the LGBTQ community.
In November 2019, Tita was commended by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors during Transgender Awareness Week.
Performance.
Tita Aida is also a member of the "Ladies of Asia SF". Asia SF is a 3-Star Cal-Asian fusion restaurant in the SOMA neighborhood in San Francisco, California. All wait staff are trans women and the group performs for the guests.
Asia SF along with L.A. based production company, World of Wonder Productions, produced their first documentary series, "Transcendent", which aired in the summer of 2015 on Fuse Network, featuring the Ladies of Asia SF. Tita was featured in the third and final episode of this first season, and made cameo appearances throughout the second season.
Tita has hosted numerous fundraisers and community events. She was part of the hosting committee for the Transgender Law Center's A Movement in Motion in 2007, TLC 6th Anniversary Event in 2008, co-hosted the TLC 7th Anniversary Event in 2009 with Margaret Cho, and was the Mistress of Ceremonies for its SPARK! event in 2012 and 2013.
She has MC'd for the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center's Annual Spring Benefit, BLOOM, in 2008.
She has MC'd for the SF LGBT Center's STUDIO 11 celebration in 2013.
She has also MC'd for the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA)'s 20th Anniversary Celebration awards banquet in 2008, and its annual fundraiser, RUNWAY, in 2010, 2011, and 2013
She hosted the Ms. Tang Tang show, which featured a number of Queer API artists, including D’Lo, Mia Nakano and Kit Yan.
Most recently, she has MC'd San Francisco Community Health Center's Pearl Gala in 2018 and 2019.


Ilyse Hogue

Ilyse Hogue (born August 26, 1969) is an American progressive activist who has served as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a reproductive rights lobbying and advocacy organization, since 2013.
Early years.
Hogue was born in Dallas, Texas in August 1969. Her family is Jewish. She graduated from high school at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas before attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she studied environmental sciences. She attended graduate school at the University of Michigan and then later worked as a research assistant at the University of Montana. At Vassar, she engaged in her first political work in April 1989 when she joined the March for Women's Lives, a demonstration focused on reproductive rights.
Career.
Hogue joined NARAL in January 2013. When assuming the role of president, some commentators remarked on her relative youth compared to her sexagenarian predecessor (she was 43 at the time) as an intentional choice on the part of NARAL as it sought to bring a more aggressive approach to defending abortion rights and courting younger supporters.
One of her first moves as president was to build coalitions within the progressive movement with groups that traditionally had little to do with reproductive rights. She has also brought an increased focus on ballot measures, partly in an attempt to force opponents to define what they are in favor of while giving Americans who support abortion rights a platform.
Following a shooting which occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado in 2015, "The Huffington Post" reported on a Facebook post of Hogue's in which she was critical of the rhetoric of anti-abortion activists including David Daleiden and Troy Newman.
Prior to her work for NARAL, Hogue worked for MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Media Matters for America, and the Friends of Democracy PAC, a campaign-finance reform group founded by Jonathan Soros. She serves on the board of "Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice", a Jewish social organization.
On November 15, 2016, Hogue announced she was considering running in the Democratic National Committee chairmanship election, 2017. She ultimately decided not to enter the race.
Personal life.
She is married to John Neffinger with whom she had twins in 2015.


Brian Harradine

Richard William Brian Harradine (9 January 1935 – 14 April 2014) was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Australian Senate, from 1975 to 2005, representing the state of Tasmania. He was the longest-serving independent federal politician in Australian history, and a Father of the Senate.
Early life.
Harradine was born in Quorn, South Australia, and moved to Tasmania in 1959.
Political career.
He was an official for the Federated Clerks' Union. He then served from 1964 to 1976 as Secretary-General of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council and a member of the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
In 1968, the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) refused to let Harradine take his seat on the body. He was suspected of links with the Democratic Labor Party, and had declared that "the friends of the Communists intend to try and silence me". The Executive's actions prompted ALP leader Gough Whitlam, who had supported Harradine, to resign and seek a renewed mandate from the caucus. He was re-elected by a narrow margin, 38 votes to 32, in a ballot against Jim Cairns.
In 1975, the Federal Executive, by a majority of only one vote, expelled Harradine. It subsequently rejected, by the same margin, an attempt to convene a special conference to hear his appeal. The Executive's action came after the Tasmanian State Executive declined to expel him. He had been accused of involvement with the National Civic Council.
He decided to contest the 1975 election as an independent for the Senate, and won comfortably. Thereafter, he remained a senator until deciding not to contest the 2004 election. His term expired on 30 June 2005.
From 1993 to 1999, Harradine and Mal Colston were joint Fathers of the Senate. Between 1999 and 2005, Harradine held the title alone.
He was a particularly important figure in the Senate between 1994 and 1999. (See Australian Senate for the Senate numbers.) From December 1994 to March 1996, the make-up of the Senate meant that Harradine's vote combined with that of Labor and the Australian Democrats was just enough to pass Labor government legislation, making his support extremely valuable to either side of politics. Then, after the March 1996 election and the resignation from the Labor Party by the disgraced Colston, Harradine's and Colston's votes were sufficient to pass Coalition legislation, notably the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (also known as the "Wik ten-point plan") and the partial privatisation of Telstra. He secured $350 million in communications and environmental funding for Tasmania in return for backing the Telstra legislation. However, he refused to support the Goods and Services Tax. After 1 July 1999, the Coalition needed four extra votes to pass Senate legislation so Harradine's vote became less important.
He was socially conservative, reflecting his Catholic values. He opposed abortion, embryonic stem cell research, same-sex marriage, and pornography. He secured a ministerial veto on importation of the abortifacient RU486, and a prohibition on Australian overseas aid financing family planning that included abortion advice.
Death.
He died in April 2014 at his home, in Tasmania, aged 79. He had suffered several strokes prior to his death. Prime Minister Tony Abbott offered Harradine's family a state funeral, which was accepted. The funeral was held on 23 April 2014 at St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart.


The B-Girlz

The B-Girlz are a Canadian drag comedy trio, based in Toronto, Ontario. The troupe's core members are Michael Boyuk, who performs as Kora Harcourt (Hard Kora) and Mark Peacock, who performs as Barbara Quigley (Barbie-Q); while the third member has varied at different times, with performers including Robert Windisman as Conchita Castillio and Shawn Hitchins as Ivana.
History.
The troupe have created a number of live cabaret shows, including "B-Girlz Gone Wild!", "B-Girlz on Thin Ice", "Vegas Bound... and Gagged!", "Dragged Across America", "Attack of the Killer B's", "Thoroughly Modern Girlz", "The B-List" and "The Girlz Most Likely to B". They have toured in Canada and internationally, both with the cabaret shows and at LGBT Pride and fringe festival events.
They have also hosted regular events at Buddies in Bad Times and other venues in Toronto, including the Homo Night in Canada comedy show and the amateur talent show Goontown. Peacock, Boyuk and Hitchins have also performed with the comedy troupe Queer Comedy Collective.
The troupe have also written, created and produced a number of short films, including "B-Girlz Gone Wild", "Canada's Next Top Showgirl", "Degrassi B-Girlz High", "Ice Skate Canada", "The Elevator", "The Dress" and "Toronto! Toronto!!", which screened at the opening gala of the 2004 Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto.


Lester Davenport

Lester "Mad Dog" Davenport (January 16, 1932 – March 17, 2009), was an American Chicago blues harmonica player and singer.
Born in Tchula, Mississippi, Davenport moved to Chicago, Illinois, United States, when he was 14. There he played with Arthur Spires, Snooky Pryor, Dusty Brown, and Homesick James and then worked with Bo Diddley, with whom he played harmonica on a 1955 Chess Records session. He led his own group in the 1960s while working during the day as a paint sprayer. In the 1980s he was the harmonica player for the Indiana group the Kinsey Report.
In July 1994, Wolf Records released the album "Chicago Blues Session, Vol. 11", by Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, recorded in 1988 and 1989. The collection included Davenport on harmonica and Kansas City Red playing the drums.
Davenport released his first album under his own name in 1992 and recorded a follow-up, "I Smell a Rat", in 2002.
Davenport died in March 2009 in Chicago, from prostate cancer, at the age of 77.


Dorothy Norman

Dorothy Norman (née Stecker; 28 March 1905 – 12 April 1997) was an American photographer, writer, editor, arts patron and advocate for social change.
Biography.
Born Dorothy Stecker in Philadelphia to a prominent Jewish family, she was educated in arts and languages from her youth. In 1925, she married Edward A. Norman, the son of an early Sears & Roebuck entrepreneur. They lived in New York City, where Mrs. Norman immersed herself in social-activism groups: as a researcher for the American Civil Liberties Union; with Planned Parenthood, the National Urban League, and the Group Theatre. In the meantime, they had two children together, Andrew and Nancy.
Education.
She attended Smith College, then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, remaining there from 1922 until her 1925 marriage.
Arts patron and Stieglitz devotee.
Her life was motivated by "a desire to advance both art and action". She actively cultivated an interest in people who were involved with either the artistic arena or efforts at increasing social equity. In this role, she became acquainted with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who was already a towering influence in the nascent field of art photography when they met in 1927. Although both were married at that time — she to Norman and he to modern artist Georgia O'Keeffe — they entered into a long-term affair after Stieglitz began mentoring her. Their relationship continued until his death in 1946. Her marriage to Edward Norman ended in divorce in 1951.
Photographer.
Norman never worked as a professional photographer; instead, she captured images of friends, loved ones and prominent figures in the arts and in politics. People she photographed included Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Thomas Mann (with his wife Katia, or Katy), John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Bernard Berenson, Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Elia Kazan, Lewis Mumford and Sherwood Anderson.
She also photographed special sites, trees, harbors, churches and buildings. She detailed the interior of An American Place, Stieglitz's last gallery, in photographs included in "America and Alfred Stieglitz, A Collective Portrait", published in I934. She created an extended portrait study of Stieglitz (he returned the favour by creating a similar study of Norman).
Norman's photographic work is noted for its clarity of vision, masterful blend of light and shading, and professional-quality printing techniques.
Social activism.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Norman was active in various liberal causes, particularly civil rights, education, and independence for India; she was also a Zionist. In order to draw attention to these causes, such as Racial discrimination in America, Supreme Court decisions, and Nazi medical atrocities, she wrote different publications. She was a founding member of New York City's Liberal Party and a member of the Americans for Democratic Action, and served on the boards of both the New York Urban League and the National Urban League.
Writing career.
Norman was a productive author. She wrote a weekly column for the "New York Post" (1942-1949) and for ten years (1938-1948) edited and published the literary and social activist journal "Twice a Year", whose contributors included Richard Wright, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertolt Brecht. Norman chose provocative aphorisms by contemporary and historical writers, male and female, and from various cultures, to accompany the thematic groups of photographs in sections of MoMA's world-touring exhibition The Family of Man for its curator Edward Steichen, a long-term associate of Alfred Stieglitz.
She wrote or edited numerous books, including "The Selected Writings of John Marin" (1949); "Nehru: The First Sixty Years" (1965), a two-volume collection of the Indian leader's writings; "Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer" (1970), the first full-length biography of the American modernist; and "Indira Gandhi: Letters to an American Friend" (1985). Her memoir, "Encounters", was published in 1987. She also wrote the book "The Spirit of India."


Steve Earle

Stephen Fain Earle () (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982.
His breakthrough album was the 1986 album "Guitar Town". Since then Earle has released 20 more studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm, The Highwaymen, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shawn Colvin, Bob Seger, Percy Sledge and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.
Earle is the father of late singer-songwriter and frequent collaborator Justin Townes Earle.
Early life.
Earle was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia, where his father was stationed as an air traffic controller. The family returned to Texas before Earle's second birthday, and he grew up primarily in the San Antonio area.
Earle began learning the guitar at the age of 11 and entered a school talent contest at age 13. He ran away from home at age 14 to search for his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Earle was "rebellious" as a young man and dropped out of school at the age of 16. He moved to Houston with his 19-year-old uncle, also a musician. While in Houston, Earle finally met Van Zandt. Earle was opposed to the Vietnam war as he recalled in 2012: "The anti-war movement was a very personal thing for me. I didn't finish high school, so I wasn't a candidate for a student deferment. I was fucking going." The end of the Selective Service Act and the draft lottery in 1973 prevented him from being drafted, but several of his friends were drafted, which he credits as the origin of his politicization. Earle also noted that when he was a young man, his girlfriend was able to get an abortion despite the fact that abortion was illegal as her father was a doctor at the local hospital in San Antonio while several other girls he knew at the time were not able to get abortions as they lacked access to those with the necessary power to arrange an abortion, which he credits as the origin of his pro-choice views.
Career.
1974 to 1999.
In 1974, at the age of 19, Earle moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and began working blue-collar jobs during the day and playing music at night. During this period Earle wrote songs and played bass guitar in Guy Clark's band and sang on Clark's 1975 album "Old No. 1". Earle appeared in the 1976 film "Heartworn Highways", a documentary on the Nashville music scene which included David Allan Coe, Guy Clark, Townes van Zandt and Rodney Crowell. Earle lived in Nashville for several years and assumed the position of staff songwriter at the publishing company Sunbury Dunbar. Later Earle grew tired of Nashville and returned to Texas where he started a band called The Dukes.
In the 1980s, Earle returned to Nashville once again and worked as a songwriter for the publishers Roy Dea and Pat Carter. A song he co-wrote, "When You Fall in Love", was recorded by Johnny Lee and made number 14 on the country charts in 1982. Carl Perkins recorded Earle's song "Mustang Wine", and two of his songs were recorded by Zella Lehr. Later Dea and Carter created an independent record label called "LSI" and invited Earle to begin recording his own material on their label. Connie Smith recorded Earle's composition "A Far Cry from You" in 1985 which reached a minor position on the country charts as well.
Earle released an EP called, "Pink & Black", in 1982 featuring the Dukes. Acting as Earle's manager, John Lomax "sent the EP to Epic Records," and they "signed Earle" to a recording contract in 1983. In 1983, Earle signed a record deal with CBS and recorded a "neo-rockabilly album".
After losing his publishing contract with Dea and Carter, Earle met producer Tony Brown and after severing his ties with Lomax and Epic Records obtained a seven-record deal with MCA Records. Earle released his first full-length album, "Guitar Town", on MCA Records in 1986. The title track became a Top Ten single in 1986 and his song "Goodbye's All We've Got Left" reached the Top Ten in 1987. That same year he released a compilation of earlier recordings entitled, "Early Tracks", and an album with the Dukes, called "Exit 0", which "received critical acclaim" for its blend of country and rock.
Earle released "Copperhead Road" on Uni Records in 1988 which was characterized as "a quixotic project that mixed a lyrical folk tradition with hard rock and eclectic Irish influences such as The Pogues, who guested on the record". The album's title track portrays a Vietnam veteran who uses his family background in running moonshine to become a marijuana grower/seller. It was Earle's highest-peaking song to date in the United States and has sold 1.1 million digital copies there as of September 2017. Then Earle began "three years in a mysterious vaporization" according to the "Chicago Sun-Times".
His 1990 album "The Hard Way" had a strong rock sound and was followed by "a shoddy live album" called "Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator". In August 1991, Earle appeared on the TV show "The Texas Connection" "looking pale and blown out". In light of Earle's "increasing drug use", MCA Records did not renew his contract and Earle didn't record any music for the next four years. By July 1993 Earle was reported to have regained his normal weight and had started to write new material. At that time a writer for the "Chicago Sun-Times" called Earle "a visionary symbol of the New Traditionalist movement in country music."
In 1994, two staff members at Warner/Chappell publishing company, and Earle's former manager, John Dotson, created an in-house CD of Earle's songs entitled "Uncut Gems" and showcased it to some recording artists in Nashville. This resulted in several of Earle's songs being recorded by Travis Tritt, Stacy Dean Campbell and Robert Earl Keen. After his recording hiatus, Earle released "Train a Comin"' on Winter Harvest Records and it was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1996. The album was characterized as a return to the "folksy acoustic" sound of his early career.
In 1996, Earle formed his own record label, E-Squared Records, and released the album, "I Feel Alright", which combined the musical sounds of country, rock and rockabilly. Earle released the album "El Corazon" (The Heart) in 1997 which one reviewer called "the capstone of this [Earle's] remarkable comeback".
According to Earle, he wrote the song "Over Yonder" about a death row inmate with whom he exchanged letters before attending his execution in 1998. He made a foray into bluegrass influenced music in 1999 when he released the album "The Mountain" with the Del McCoury Band. In 2000, Earle recorded his album "Transcendental Blues", which features the song Galway Girl.
2000 to present.
Earle presented excerpts of his poetry and fiction writing at the 2000 New Yorker Festival. His novel, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive," was published in the spring of 2011 and a collection of short stories called "Doghouse Roses" followed that June. Earle wrote and produced an off-Broadway play about the death of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed since the death penalty was reinstated in Texas.
In the early 2000s, Earle's album "Jerusalem" expressed his anti-war, anti-death penalty and his other "leftist views". The album's song "John Walker's Blues", about the captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh created controversy. Earle responded by appearing on a variety of news and editorial programs and defended the song and his views on patriotism and terrorism. His subsequent tour featured the "Jerusalem" album and was released as the live album "Just an American Boy" in 2003.
In 2004, Earle released the album "The Revolution Starts Now", a collection of songs influenced by the Iraq War and the policies of the George W. Bush administration and won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album. The title song was used by General Motors in a TV advertisement. The album was released during the U.S. presidential campaign.
The song "The Revolution Starts Now" was used in the promotional materials for Michael Moore's anti-war documentary film "Fahrenheit 9/11" and appears on the album "Songs and Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11". That year, Earle was the subject of a documentary DVD called "Just an American Boy".
In 2006, Earle contributed a cover of Randy Newman's song "Rednecks" to the tribute album "Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman". Earle hosted a radio show on Air America from August 2004 until June 2007. Later he began hosting a show called Hardcore Troubadour on the Outlaw Country channel. Earle is also the subject of two biographies, "Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet", by David McGee and "Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle" by Lauren St John.
In September 2007, Earle released his twelfth studio album, "Washington Square Serenade", on New West Records. Earle recorded the album after relocating to New York City, and was his first use of digital audio recording. The disc features Earle's wife, Allison Moorer, on "Days Aren't Long Enough" and "Down Here Below." The album includes Earle's version of Tom Waits' song "Way Down in the Hole" which was the theme song for the fifth season of the HBO series "The Wire" in which Earle appeared as a recovering drug addict and drug counselor named Walon. In 2008, Earle produced Joan Baez's album "Day After Tomorrow". (Prior to their collaboration on "Day After Tomorrow", Baez had covered two Earle songs, "Christmas in Washington" and "Jerusalem," on previous albums; "Jerusalem" had also become a staple of Baez' concerts.) In the winter, he toured Europe and North America in support of "Washington Square Serenade", performing both solo and with a disc jockey.
On May 12, 2009, Earle released a tribute album, "Townes", on New West Records. The album contained 15 songs written by Townes Van Zandt. Guest artists appearing on the album included Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Moorer, and his son Justin. The album earned Earle a third Grammy award, again for best contemporary folk album.
In 2010, Earle was awarded the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's Shining Star of Abolition award. Earle has recorded two other anti-death penalty songs: "Billy Austin", and "Ellis Unit One" for the 1995 film "Dead Man Walking".
In 2010–2011, Earle appeared in seasons 1 and 2 of the HBO show "Treme" as Harley Wyatt, a talented street musician who mentors another character.
Earle released his first novel and fourteenth studio album, both entitled "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" after a Hank Williams song, in the spring of 2011. The album was released on April 26, 2011 and was produced by T Bone Burnett and deals with questions of mortality with a "more country" sound than his earlier work. During the second half of his 2011 tour with The Dukes and Duchesses and Moorer, the drum kit was adorned with the slogan "we are the 99%" a reference to the Occupy movement of September 2011.
On February 17, 2015, Earle released his sixteenth studio album, "Terraplane".
On September 10, 2015, Earle & the Dukes released a new internet single titled "'Mississippi, It's Time". The song's lyrics are directed towards the state of Mississippi and their refusal to abandon the Confederate Flag and remove it from their state flag. The song was released for sale the following day with all proceeds going towards the Civil Rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center.
On June 10, 2016, Earle released an album of duets with Shawn Colvin, titled simply "Colvin And Earle", which was accompanied by a tour in London and the U.S.
On June 16, 2017, Earle & the Dukes released his seventeenth studio album, So You Wannabe An Outlaw. "GUY", Earle's tribute album to his songwriting hero Guy Clark was released on March 29, 2019.
On June 25, 2019, "The New York Times Magazine" listed Steve Earle among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. Earle was one of five artists who filed a class action lawsuit against Universal on June 21, in response to an earlier "Times" report on the fire.
Personal life.
Earle has been married seven times, including twice to the same woman. He married Sandra "Sandy" Henderson in Houston at the age of 18, but left her to move to Nashville a year later where he met and married his second wife, Cynthia Dunn. Earle married his third wife, Carol-Ann Hunter, who gave birth to his son, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle (1982–2020).
Next, he married Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had a second son, Ian Dublin Earle, in January of 1987) and then his fifth wife, Teresa Ensenat, who was an A&R executive for Geffen Records at the time. Earle then married Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally, in 2005, married singer-songwriter Allison Moorer with whom he had a son, John Henry Earle, in April 2010. John Henry was diagnosed with autism before age two. In March 2014, Earle announced that he and Moorer had separated.
In 1993, Earle was arrested for possession of heroin and in 1994, for cocaine and weapons possession. A judge sentenced him to a year in jail after he admitted possession and failed to appear in court. Earle was released from jail after serving 60 days of his sentence.<ref name="Buffalo News 11/3/94">EARLE MOVED TO DRUG CENTER, "The Buffalo News" (Buffalo, NY). November 3, 1994.</ref> Earle then completed an outpatient drug treatment program at the Cedarwood Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee. As a recovering heroin addict, Earle has used his experience in his songwriting.
Earle's sister, Stacey Earle is also a musician and songwriter.
Political views and activism.
Earle is outspoken with his political views, and often addresses them in his lyrics and in interviews. Politically he identifies as a socialist, and tends to vote for Democratic candidates, despite not agreeing entirely with their politics. During the 2016 election, he expressed support for Senator Bernie Sanders, whom he considered to have pushed Hillary Clinton to the left on important issues. In a 2017 interview Earle stated about President Donald Trump: "We’ve never had an orangutan in the White House before. There’s a lot of “What does this button do?” going on. It’s scary. He really is a fascist. Whether he intended to be or not, he’s a real live fascist." However, Earle has called for the American left to engage with the concerns of working class Trump voters, saying in 2017: "…maybe that’s one of the things we need to examine from my side because we’re responsible. The left has lost touch with American people, and it’s time to discuss that". In 2020, he stated: "I thought that, given the way things are now, it was maybe my responsibility to make a record that spoke to and for people who didn’t vote the way that I did. One of the dangers that we’re in is if people like me keep thinking that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist or an asshole, then we’re fucked, because it’s simply not true."
In his 1990 song "Justice in Ontario", Earle criticized the conviction of six Satan's Choice bikers for a 1978 murder in Port Hope, arguing that the accused were innocent, framed by the ruthless Corporal Terry Hall of the Ontario Provincial Police's Special Squad. In the song, Earle compared the conviction of the "Port Hope 6" to the massacre of the Black Donnellys in 1880. In 1990, Earle stated in an interview about "Justice In Ontario": "There’s some concern about reprisals because the O.P.P. (Ontario Provincial Police) is obviously not gonna be thrilled. My hope is that I’ll be far too out-in-the-open and far too public for the police to do anything and get away with it. But the point is, that’s not a reason for doing or not doing anything, because…I very nearly went to prison myself for something I didn’t do, simply because a law enforcement agency didn’t want to admit that somebody had fucked up—they didn’t want to open the whole can of worms and all the other complaints that were constantly brought against the Dallas police department. You can’t stand by and let stuff like that go down without saying anything about it. And I think I especially have a responsibility to do that, ’cause if I didn’t have any money right now I’d be in prison in Texas—I’m convinced of that. It was that close. But I was able to afford decent legal representation. And it comes down to the fact that people who can’t afford decent legal representation—who are subject to something like this happening and turning out very badly—feed my kids. That’s where my money comes from and that’s where my freedom comes from".
Earle is a vocal opponent of capital punishment, which he considers his primary area of political activism. Several of his songs have provided descriptions of the experiences of death row inmates, including "Billy Austin" and "Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)". Conversely, he has also written a song from the perspective of a prison guard working on death row in "Ellis Unit One", a song written for the film "Dead Man Walking", the title based on the name of the State of Texas men's death row. He is pro-choice, and has argued that rich Americans have always had access to abortions, and that the political issue in the US is really whether poor women should have access. His 2012 novel "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" describes the life of a morphine-addicted doctor in 1963 San Antonio before Roe v. Wade who treats gunshot wounds and provides illegal abortions to poor women. Since his youngest son was diagnosed with autism, Earle has also become an advocate for people on the spectrum.


Linda Greenhouse

Linda Joyce Greenhouse (born January 9, 1947) is an American legal journalist who is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for "The New York Times". She is President of the American Philosophical Society (since 2017), and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate.
Early life and education.
Greenhouse was born to a Jewish family in New York City, to H. Robert Greenhouse, a physician and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Dorothy (née Greenlick). She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1968, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School in 1978.
Career.
Greenhouse began her 40-year career at "The New York Times" covering state government in the paper's bureau in Albany. After completing her master's degree on a Ford Foundation fellowship, she returned to the "Times" and covered 29 sessions of the Supreme Court from 1978 to 2007, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered Congress. Since 1981, she has published over 2,800 articles in the "Times." She has been a regular guest on the PBS program "Washington Week".
In 2008, Greenhouse accepted an offer from "The Times" for an early retirement at the end of the Supreme Court session in the summer of 2008. Seven of the nine sitting Justices attended a goodbye party for Greenhouse on June 12, 2008. She continues to blog for "The Times" in the "Opinionator" section.
In 2010, Greenhouse and co-author Reva Siegel put out a book on the development of the abortion debate prior to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the subject: "Before Roe v. Wade". This was largely a selection of primary documents, though with some commentary.
Greenhouse criticized US policies and actions at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Haditha in a 2006 speech at Harvard University. In it, Greenhouse said she started crying a few years back at a Simon & Garfunkel concert because her generation hadn't done a better job of running the country than previous generations.
Awards and prizes.
Greenhouse was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (Beat Reporting) in 1998 "for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court." In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism and the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. She was a Radcliffe Institute Medal winner in 2006.
When she was at Radcliffe, she said in a speech given in 2006, "I was the Harvard stringer for the "Boston Herald", which regularly printed, and paid me for, my accounts of student unrest and other newsworthy events at Harvard. But when it came time during my senior year to look for a job in journalism, the "Herald" would not even give me an interview, and neither would the "Boston Globe", because these newspapers had no interest in hiring women."
Criticism.
Greenhouse has expressed her personal views as an outspoken advocate for abortion rights and critic of conservative religious values, and a 2006 report on NPR questioned whether this compromised the appearance that she maintains journalistic neutrality on such matters. "New York Times" public editor Daniel Okrent said that he has never received a single complaint of bias in Greenhouse's coverage.
Conflict of interest.
Ed Whelan, writing in a blog associated with "National Review", suggested that Greenhouse had an obligation to her readers to inform them when she reported on a Supreme Court case for which her husband, Eugene Fidell, had submitted an "amicus" brief, such as in the "Hamdan" case and the "Boumediene" case. Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the "New York Times", opined that the paper "should have clued in readers" to Greenhouse's conflict, but defended the neutrality of her coverage. Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick, writing in "Slate", complained that the "New York Times" "had failed to stand up" for Greenhouse and defended Greenhouse from Whelan's criticism. They quoted Yale Law School professor Judith Resnik who pointed out that Whelan had been unable to point to any actual sign of bias.
Personal life.
She married lawyer Eugene R. Fidell on January 1, 1981 in Washington, D.C., in a Jewish ceremony. Together they have one daughter, filmmaker Hannah Fidell (born October 7, 1985).


Edward R. Becker

Edward Roy Becker (May 4, 1933 – May 19, 2006) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Education and career.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Becker received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954, and his Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1957. He had a private law practice in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1970.
Judicial appointments.
Becker's career as a federal judge began with his nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon on September 24, 1970 to a new seat created by 84 Stat. 294, was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 8, 1970 and received his commission on October 14, 1970. His service terminated on January 22, 1982 due to his elevation to the Third Circuit.
Ronald Reagan nominated Becker on November 16, 1981 to the Third Circuit seat vacated by Max Rosenn. Becker was confirmed by the Senate on December 3, 1981 and received his commission on the same day. He served as Chief Judge from 1998 to 2003. He assumed senior status on May 4, 2003.
Judicial style and cases.
Becker was known for the case "Mackensworth v. American Trading Transportation Co." a decision that he wrote in verse. He was also known for occasionally inserting humor into judicial rulings.
In 1977 Becker was assigned the massive Japanese Electronic Products Antitrust Litigation in which Zenith Radio Corp. and National Union Electric (“N.U.E.”) sought billions of dollars in damages against most of the Japanese television manufacturers and two American companies, Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Motorola. The case had been pending since 1970 when it was first filed by N.U.E. and had been in the hands of a number of federal court judges. The case had languished and Becker began to work to get this case to trial. In 1981, Becker entered summary judgment for all defendants on the antitrust and antidumping claims and dismissed the lawsuits. Plaintiffs appealed and the appellate court reversed Becker’s rulings in favor of the Japanese manufacturers on the antitrust claims, but affirmed the summary judgment for Sears, Roebuck and Co., Motorola, Inc. and Sony. In March, 1986 the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed Becker’s ruling in favor of the defendants on Zenith’s antitrust claims.
In 2003, Becker authored the decision on "Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia v. Chester County", ruling that the display of Ten Commandments outside of a courthouse of Chester County did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Becker was known for his humility and humanity; clerks were told to come up with strong arguments against his positions and not merely defer to him. He commuted by train for nearly his entire career, often reading cases along the way. His law clerks accompanied him during afternoon walks to visit his elderly mother in center city, discussing cases along the way and back. He was active in civic affairs, including some involvement in the relocation of the Liberty Bell.
Family and personal life.
Becker spent virtually all of his life in and around the city of Philadelphia. His family has a strong legal tradition; his father was a lawyer, his wife Flora was also a judge, and two of their three children are also lawyers; son Jonathan became a teacher, while son Charles Becker is a lawyer in private practice and daughter Susan has worked for the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. His parents, wife, and friends generally called him Eddie. He was a fan of the Sixers basketball team.
He was an expert piano player; a former law clerk of his recruited him to become the pianist for Chief Justice Rehnquist's annual all-court sing-along.
Legacy.
The lobby at the James A. Byrne United States Courthouse in Philadelphia is named in Becker's honor. The block of Chestnut Street that runs from Fifth Street to Sixth Street, between the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, is marked as Judge Edward R. Becker Way, in recognition of his leadership in the campaign to keep the National Park Service from closing that block to public access in the wake of 9/11.
Funeral.
Becker died of prostate cancer on May 19, 2006.
He was both popular and well-connected; the receiving line at his funeral stretched through the synagogue and overflowed into the parking lot, and could not be completed in the two hours time allotted. Eulogies were delivered by Senator Arlen Specter, recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice (and former Third Circuit judge) Samuel Alito, Third Circuit Court colleagues Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, Judge Midge Rendell, and by Stephen J. Harmelin, managing director of Dilworth Paxson. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and David Souter, as well as Justice Alito and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell attended the ceremony.
Citizenship Award.
After his death, the Fox Rothschild Center for Law and Society of the Community College of Philadelphia created the Judge Edward R. Becker Citizenship Award. Recipients have included:
The award is generally presented by Judge Becker's son, Chip, in the early part of the year, February through April.
Law Clerks.
Among his law clerks were:


Victoria Jackson

Victoria Jackson (born August 2, 1959) is an American actress, comedian, and singer who was a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) from 1986 to 1992.
Early life.
Jackson was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Marlene Esther (née Blackstad) and James McCaslin Jackson, a gym coach. From the age of 5 until she was 18, Jackson's father trained her in gymnastics.
After graduating from high school, Jackson attended Florida Bible College in Hollywood, Florida, later transferring to Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina on a gymnastics scholarship. At Furman, she was cast in her first play. She transferred to Auburn University in 1979 for her senior year, changing her major to theater. Midway through her senior year, she left Auburn to pursue an acting career.
In the 2000s, Jackson earned a degree in theatre from Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Acting and comedy.
While doing summer stock theater in Alabama, Jackson met former child actor Johnny Crawford of the 1950s television series "The Rifleman", who cast her in his nightclub act. She moved to Los Angeles in 1981, working various day jobs and performing comedy at night. Her first big break was an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", where she recited poetry while doing a handstand. She went on to appear on the show 20 times. In 1984 she appeared in the pilot for "W*A*L*T*E*R", a "M*A*S*H" spin-off that the networks did not pick up.
Following a role in the short-lived 1985 television series "Half Nelson", Jackson received an offer to audition for the cast of "Saturday Night Live". Because she was not confident her audition had gone well, she performed several impersonations on her next "Tonight Show" appearance and sent the tape to "SNL"s Lorne Michaels. After viewing the tape, Michaels asked Jackson to join the show. A regular cast member from 1986 to 1992, Jackson often appeared on the show's weekly "Weekend Update" segment as a correspondent who would go off topic, reciting poetry and doing backbends or handstands on the desk. She was also known for recurring skit roles where she would impersonate Roseanne Barr, Sally Struthers and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
During her tenure on "SNL", Jackson was cast in a number of films, including "Baby Boom", "Family Business", "I Love You to Death", "UHF", "The Pick-up Artist", "The Couch Trip", and "Casual Sex?". Her film career continued after her 1992 departure from "Saturday Night Live", but mostly in unknown or unnoticed films. On television, she was cast as the lead of her own sitcom, co-starring George Clooney. When there was a change in management at Fox, the show was scrapped without being broadcast. In 1994, she appeared as "Beverly" in the "In the Heat of the Night" episode "Good Cop, Bad Cop", and in 2000 she appeared as the unrequited love of a small-town man who can control the weather in "The X-Files" episode "The Rain King".
Jackson had a regular role as Patty in the 2000-01 Comedy Central sitcom "Strip Mall" and in the 2003–04 seasons of the Nickelodeon show "Romeo!". In 2004 and 2005, she had roles in two romantic comedies, "Shut Up and Kiss Me!" and "Her Minor Thing". During this period, Jackson appeared on the game show "Hollywood Squares" and participated in the show "Celebrity Fit Club". She played multiple characters in the 2014 direct-to-video movie "Campin' Buddies".
Politics.
A self-described conservative Christian, Jackson has appeared in productions such as the 2007 Christian comedy concert "Thou Shalt Laugh 2: The Deuce" as well as a dozen times on "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher as the "token religious conservative". She has supported the Tea Party movement through appearances at events as well as her website, which was affiliated with the Liberty Alliance.
In October 2008, she appeared with other celebrities on "The O'Reilly Factor" in a National Republican Senatorial Committee advertisement poking fun at Al Franken, a fellow "Saturday Night Live" alumnus then running for the United States Senate from Minnesota.
Beginning in 2008, Jackson stated that she believed Barack Obama to be a communist. In 2015, she spread conspiracy theories about Obama's religion, saying he was an "Islamic jihadist" and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood members in his cabinet, and that Obama's support for legal abortion and same-sex marriage showed he was not a Christian.
In 2011, Jackson criticized the TV show "Glee" for showing a kiss between two male actors, citing the Bible to justify her criticism. When accused of homophobia, Jackson countered that the label was merely a "cute liberal buzzword" and suggested that "Glee" be replaced with a show promoting celibacy.
In 2011, Jackson joined the staff of "Patriot Update" as a writer and video blogger and host of the talk show "Politichicks". Co-hosts included Ann-Marie Murrell, Jannique Stewart, and Jennie Jones. Jackson wrote a satirical song for "Politichicks" titled "Shariah Law", with the song's lyrics claiming, "They [Muslims] like beheadings and pedophile weddings". Among her work for Patriot Update was a piece on Occupy Wall Street that was critical of the protesters.
In 2012, White Hall publishers, part of the Liberty Alliance, released Jackson's autobiography, "Is My Bow Too Big? How I went from Saturday Night Live to the Tea Party".
In 2012, after Todd Akin's remarks regarding pregnancies resulting from rape, Jackson said, "If I got raped, I would have the baby. And if I didn't want to keep it because I had these horrible nightmares, I would adopt it out. But I think that God can turn a bad thing into a good thing, and that if I got raped and a beautiful baby who was innocent was born out of it, that would be a blessing."
In 2014, Jackson filed a petition as an independent candidate for one of two District 2 seats in Williamson County, Tennessee. She received 632 votes, not enough to secure either seat against the incumbent candidates.
Personal life.
Jackson married a fellow performer, fire-eating magician Nisan Mark Eventoff, in 1984, and had a daughter, Scarlet (born 1986). They divorced in 1991. Shortly thereafter, she reconnected with her high school sweetheart, Paul Wessel, then a Miami-Dade SWAT team police officer, and they married and had a daughter, Aubrey (born 1994). When her husband retired in 2013, the couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
Jackson was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in October 2015, and underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy. In 2017, BroadStreet Publishing released a comedy/devotional book, about Jackson's cancer journey, "Lavender Hair."


Cheryl Gallant

Cheryl Gallant (born May 23, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke in the House of Commons of Canada. She is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. She is currently the longest-serving woman in the federal caucus.
Early life and career.
Gallant was born in Sarnia, Ontario. She attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. Prior to becoming a politician, she worked for a major Canadian life insurance company as a group insurance executive and for a time as an office manager of a family-owned professional practice. Gallant has been married since 1985, and is the parent of four daughters. She has served as the Chair of the City of Pembroke Downtown Development Commission and as a member of the Economic Advisory Committee for the city.
Political career.
Gallant won her seat in the 2000 federal election, defeating Liberal incumbent Hec Clouthier and making history as the first woman elected to federal office in Renfrew County. Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke was one of only three Ontario federal riding districts not to elect a Liberal. Gallant took advantage of local opposition to Bill C-68, the Firearms Act, and benefited from backlash to Clouthier's support for gun control.
She is currently a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, having previously been a member of the Canadian Alliance party from 2000 to 2003. She is largely viewed as one of the strongest social conservatives in the House of Commons. While a popular figure among the Christian Right and property rights activists, she has occasionally drawn the ire of opponents. Serving in a riding with the largest military base and only national nuclear research facility in Canada, she has advocated for increased federal support for CFB Petawawa and the Chalk River Laboratories.
During the 37th Parliament, Gallant served as deputy house leader of the Official Opposition. She has served as CPC critic for science, research and development, was a member of the Commons Standing Committee on National Defence and Veteran's Affairs, and the Standing Committee on Industry. She has also served as opposition critic of Canadian Heritage, Amateur Sport, the National Capital Commission, Science, Research and Development, the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, and Small Business. In the 39th Parliament, she served as government vice-chair of the House NATO committee and on the House Committee for Natural Resources.
In the 38th Parliament, Gallant served as a member on the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure of the Standing Joint Committee on Library of Parliament, and the Library of Parliament.
Her service continued in the 39th Parliament, where she served on the committee for the Status of Women, National Defence, and Library of Parliament.
During the 40th Parliament, she served for varying lengths of time as a member on the following committees: National Defence, the Library of Parliament, the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure on the Standing Committee on National Defence, Scrutiny of Regulations, Natural Resources, and Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities.
In the 2008 election, Gallant won her fourth term in Parliament, winning 28,906 of 47,314 votes (61.1% of the total). Her nearest rival, Liberal candidate Carole Devine, received 9,740 votes (20.6%).
Gallant won her fifth term in Parliament in a landslide election, collecting 27,462 of 51,398 votes (53.43% of the total). Her closest opponent, Independent Hec Clouthier, received 9,611 votes (18.70%).
In the 41st Parliament, Gallant serves as a member of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science, and Technology, as well as the Standing Committee on National Defence.
She was elected by colleagues to represent Canada as Chair of the Canadian-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Association. The Canada-NATO Parliamentary Association consists of membership of all political parties represented in the House of Commons.
In March 2012, Gallant traveled to Norway to observe Canadian Forces from Petawawa participate in NATO exercises. In April 2012, she received second place in "The Hill Times" poll for Best Conservative Constituency MP.
Gallant was re-elected for a sixth term in 2015.
Gallant was challenged for the Conservative nomination in Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke for the 2019 election by Mike Coates, the campaign manager for former Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary. However, Gallant was successful in winning the nomination 866 votes to 522.
On October 21, 2019, Gallant was re-elected for her seventh term in office after winning 30,387 of 57,506 ballots cast, or 52.67% of the vote. She is the longest serving woman in the federal caucus.
Stance on Carbon Tax.
In a statement on April 2, 2019, Gallant addressed the Speaker in the House regarding the Liberal federal carbon tax. She critiqued the effects the carbon tax would have on Canadians and advocated for college and university students, noting the tax necessitated higher tuition fees to make up for increased heating and carbon payments.
Controversies.
In 2002, she made anti-gay remarks to then Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham, when during a heated exchange, she kept interrupting "Ask your boyfriend" or "How's your boyfriend?".
Shortly before the 2004 election, Gallant made headlines for her criticism of Bill C-250, an amendment to the Criminal Code introduced by NDP MP Svend Robinson which would protect sexual orientation from hate propaganda. Among other things, Gallant claimed that the bill would limit freedom of opinion, make sections of the Bible "hate literature" and provide protection to pedophiles.
During the 2004 election, a controversy erupted when Gallant compared abortion to the beheading of Iraq War hostage Nick Berg. The Conservative Party then announced that she was suffering from laryngitis, and after this, she did not appear at some scheduled debates.
Gallant resurfaced in the spotlight on March 17, 2005, when she suggested that Christians were being persecuted by the Liberal Party in a flyer she sent to her constituents. Conservative leader Stephen Harper, confronted with the news, said "I'll let Cheryl Gallant explain those remarks herself; I haven't seen them."
Several constituents have accused Gallant of obtaining birth-date information from passport applications during the 2006 campaign. Her office regularly sent out greeting cards to constituents when their birthday came. One affected resident told the "Ottawa Citizen", "The principle is really bothering me: that my information has been gathered without my knowledge. I don't know how it's going to be used." Two families who received cards have sent letters to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, asking confirmation the MP won't use the collected personal information. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has no jurisdiction in investigating such matters. Gallant's aide says the Member receives many requests for birthday and anniversary cards, and the office is unsure how the information was put on the list, since Gallant receives thousands of requests for salutations and the birth date could have been on one of the request forms returned by a constituent. In addition, two constituents named Mr. and Mrs. White, who were unsatisfied with the response they received from Gallant's office, contacted the Liberal MP for Ottawa-Vanier Mauril Bélanger. Bélanger contacted the Office of the Ethics Commissioner on their behalf, who found grounds for and did conduct a preliminary inquiry into the matter. Although in their report they commented "personal information should only be used for the purpose for which it is gathered, or for a use consistent with that purpose," they found Gallant's use of the information did not further her private interests as alleged. Because the use of the constituents' information did not meet the definition in Section 3(2) of the Member's Code for furthering private interests, the Office of the Ethics Commissioner discontinued their inquiry.
Of around 60 major candidates in 15 Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec ridings, Gallant was the only one who didn't attending a meeting with the "Ottawa Citizen" editorial board. "Ms. Gallant's decision to duck every difficult question from the media is nothing short of childish", commented "Citizen" columnist Kelly Egan. Gallant has stated that she was focused on campaigning locally in order to keep in touch with the concerns of local constituents.
In February 2011, during Defence Committee hearings in St. John's before an audience which included the family and co-workers of mariners lost at sea in recent accidents on the Atlantic, Gallant remarked, "In Ontario we have inland seas, the Great Lakes, and it would never occur to any of us, even up in the Ottawa River, to count on the Coast Guard to come and help us." Gallant said federal search and ocean rescue should be coordinated with privately operated resources and local governments. Gallant's comparison of recreational boaters in sheltered inland waters to mariners on the Atlantic hundreds of miles from land drew outrage from many who had lost family at sea. She initially refused to apologize saying her remarks were misinterpreted, but on February 10, Gallant said she was sorry and did not mean to minimize ocean dangers.
On March 28, 2011, after stating in a press release that she hoped for a clean election campaign, Gallant compared Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Gallant wrote on her Twitter page: "No carbon tax please, Igaffi!" Her initial tweet was deleted, but not before it was screen-captured and distributed to the national press. She tweeted an apology to Ignatieff for her remarks on April 1.
In March 2016, Gallant caused further outrage and controversy by using the death of Corporal Nathan Cirillo as a means to generate money for her campaign through an Easter ham lottery. Cirillo was killed while standing guard at the National War Memorial on Oct. 22, 2014.
In May 2016, Gallant accused the Rideau Institute of having ties to North Korea, Iran, and Russia on account of the Institute having those countries as options on their donation page when stating their nation of origin.
In June 2017, Gallant was the only Member of Parliament to vote against a government motion re-affirming support for the Paris Agreement.
In February 2021, Gallant was recorded on a Zoom meeting with a university student group, accusing Liberals of wanting to “normalize sexual activity with children”.


Transcend (advocacy)

Transcend is an advocacy group, fundraiser and support group founded in 2012 by actor and advocate Rebekah Robertson, in support of transgender young people.
History.
Transcend was the first parent-led support group and information hub in Australia for gender diverse children and their parents. As an information hub, the website provides information about where to find support and information specific to the reader's location, details on how to access treatment and how to look after a gender diverse child (for parents) as well as specific support services for the child themselves. Furthermore, the website also lists contact details for different services and specialists nationwide. The 'latest news' section contains various links to articles or media pieces that relate to trans issues or to Robertson and her daughter Georgie's advocacy. The blog is still accessible and online.
In 2014, Transcend began raising money for the Royal Children's Hospital Gender Service, a service that provides help for transgender children and support for families. Since July 2017, over $30,000 has been raised. Since their appearance on "Four Corners", Transcend began to focus more on advocacy and law reform surrounding access to stage-two treatment, as opposed to being a support group. Robertson was nominated for "Straight Ally of the Year" at the GLOBE Community Awards in 2016, but lost to Matt Finnis from St Kilda Football Club.


Richard Egan (actor)

Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 – July 20, 1987) was an American actor. After beginning his career in 1949, he subsequently won a Golden Globe Award for his performances in the films "The Glory Brigade" (1953) and "The Kid from Left Field" (1953). He went on to star in many films such as "Underwater!" (1955), "Seven Cities of Gold" (1955), "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (1956), "Love Me Tender" (1956), "A Summer Place" (1959), "Esther and the King" (1960) and "The 300 Spartans" (1962).
Early life and education.
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Egan graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory. He won a public-speaking competition in 1938 that helped fire his interest in performing. He was supported by his brother who was a priest.
Egan was interested in drama and studied it while doing a BA at the University of San Francisco. He left in 1943 and served in the United States Army as a judo and knife fighting instructor during World War II. He served a year in the Philippines and was discharged with the rank of captain.
"The war had given me time to think", he later said, "and to decide what I really wanted to do. I think I had always been an actor in my mind, but now I was going to be one in public, too. Right out in front of everybody."
When Egan returned, he went back to school to earn a master's degree in theater history from Stanford University, with the help of the G.I. Bill. From there, he went on to teach public speaking at Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, he appeared in thirty campus stage productions and was eventually spotted by a Warner Bros talent scout, Solly Bioano, who encouraged him to try Hollywood.
Acting career.
Egan had a series of unsuccessful screen tests. He eventually got a bit role in the 1949 Hollywood film "The Story of Molly X", at Universal. He had a small roles in "The Good Humor Man" (1950), at Columbia; "The Damned Don't Cry" (1950) (as Joan Crawford's husband) and "Return of the Frontiersman" (1950), at Warners; and "The Killer That Stalked New York" (1950), at Columbia.
Universal.
In June 1950 Egan signed a contract with Universal. There he had supporting roles in "Wyoming Mail" (1950), "Undercover Girl" (1950), "Kansas Raiders" (1950), "Up Front" (1951); "Highway 301" (1950); "Bright Victory" (1951); and "Up Front" (1951). Egan later described these roles as saying things like "Charlie, go outside! The horses are ready."
He had a role in "Hollywood Story" (1951), directed by William Castle, and the swashbuckler "The Golden Horde" (1951), where he was billed fourth.
Egan was also in "Flame of Araby" (1951) and "The Battle at Apache Pass" (1952).
Edward Small cast him in a support role in "Cripple Creek" (1952). Egan went to RKO for "One Minute to Zero" (1952) and MGM for "The Devil Makes Three" (1952), shot in Germany. He did "Let George Do It" on TV for "Hollywood Opening Night" (1952).
Egan had support roles in RKO's "Blackbeard the Pirate" (1952) and "Split Second" (1953).
Egan supported Victor Mature in "The Glory Brigade" (1953), a war movie at 20th Century Fox, then had a small part in "The Kid from Left Field" (1953). He did "Malaya Incident" and "Double Bet" for "Ford Television Theatre"(1953).
Egan's career received a boost when a casting director, according to Egan, said "Take off your shirt!", and then cast him in a small role in "Demetrius and the Gladiators" (1954), as a gladiator who fights Victor Mature.
This led to Egan's first leading role, in Edward Small's "Wicked Woman" (1953). On TV he did "Go Away a Winner" for "Schlitz Playhouse" (1954), then had another lead in a low budget movie, "Gog" (1954), produced by Ivan Tors.
Small used him as a leading man again in "Khyber Patrol" (1954). He was used by RKO to costar with Jane Russell in "Underwater!" (1955), a notorious flop. However it led to Hedda Hopper declaring Egan to be one of the most promising actors of 1954.
20th Century Fox.
In July 1954, Darryl F. Zanuck of Fox offered Egan a seven-year contract at two films a year.
Egan was third billed in Fox's "Untamed" (1955), supporting Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward, taking a role that Victor Mature turned down. He was billed second in Fox's "Violent Saturday" (1955), directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Mature. The film was a success.
Fox announced him for "Women in the Woods" with Sheree North and Rita Moreno but it was not made.
Stardom.
Egan was top-billed in Fox's "Seven Cities of Gold" (1955), an adventure film. He had the star part in "The View from Pompey's Head" (1955), which was well received.
He starred in "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (1956), opposite Jane Russell again (playing a part turned down by Marilyn Monroe).
Egan went to RKO for a Western, "Tension at Table Rock" (1956). He followed this with another Western at Fox, "Love Me Tender" (1956), where Egan was top billed. It was a success at the box office. However this was attributed to the third-billed actor who played Egan's character's brother, Elvis Presley, whose first film it was. The success of the film saw Egan voted as the 13th biggest star in the US according to an exhibitor poll.
Egan signed a contract with Universal where he made "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (1957), and "Voice in the Mirror" (1958).
Back at Fox, Egan supported Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner in "The Hunters" (1958), and Don Murray in "These Thousand Hills" (1959).
Egan had another hit with "A Summer Place" (1959) at Warner Bros. However, again, attention focused on younger cast members, in this case Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue.
In 1960, Egan appeared with Jane Wyman and Hayley Mills in Disney's "Pollyanna". He co-starred with Joan Collins in Fox's "Esther and the King" (1960).
Egan was Rod Serling's first choice to narrate "The Twilight Zone", because of his distinctive voice. However, contractual issues got in the way, and Serling himself narrated instead, rather than select any actor other than his first choice.
Egan played the lead role of Leonidas I in Fox's "The 300 Spartans" (1962).
Television.
Egan starred in the NBC western dramatic series, "Empire", which aired from September 25, 1962 to December 31, 1963. In the shortened second season, the program was renamed "Redigo" after Egan's character, ranch manager Jim Redigo.
When the series ended Egan starred in a TV thriller "Fanfare for a Death Scene" (1964). He did "Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney" for "Theatre of Stars" (1966) and the TV movie "Valley of Mystery" (1967).
In 1966, when asked about his lack of film roles, he said, "They want anti-heroes now, and it's just not for me. I'm just not right for that. It's much easier to be cynical than to make a positive statement, to set up a man only to knock him down, than to show convincingly a man who successfully sticks by his beliefs. We desperately need something to give strength and fortitude to the lost. I want to be a part of that. Part of the solution. And if I can't . . . well . . . I'm sure not interested in becoming part of the problem instead."
Egan had the lead in some low-budget films, "Chubasco" (1968) and "The Destructors" (1969) and a support part in "The Big Cube" (1969).
Egan had the lead in "Moonfire" (1970) and co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck in "The House That Would Not Die".
He had the lead in the TV movie "The Day of the Wolves" (1971) and a support part in "Left Hand of Gemini" (1972) and "Shootout in a One Dog Town" (1974).
Later career.
Egan began guest starring on TV series like "The Streets of San Francisco", "Matt Helm", "The Quest", and "Police Story".
He had a lead in "Throw Out the Anchor!" (1974).
In 1974, he returned to the stage and for the next 8 years toured extensively in stage productions starting with "No Hard Feelings". (1974 until 1976). In 1976 he appeared in "Time Out For Ginger", 1976 to 1979 in "Hanky Panky", 1979 to 1981 in "Broken Up" and 1982 in "I Ought To Be In Pictures".
Egan had the lead in a TV movie, "Mission to Glory: A True Story" (1977), and supported Robert Mitchum in "The Amsterdam Kill" (1977) and starred in the low-budget Western "The Sweet Creek County War" (1979).
Egan joined the political soap opera, "Capitol", as a recurring character in 1982.
Personal life.
Egan met his wife, Patricia Hardy, in 1956. The couple married in June 1958 and remained together for almost 30 years until his death. They had five children: Patricia, Kathleen, Colleen, Maureen Egan (a writer and director), and son Rich Egan, the founder of Vagrant Records.
Egan was respected within the acting community for having helped a number of young actors get their first break in the film industry. One of those young actors was Ryan O'Neal. He worked out at the same gym as Egan, who got him credited work in four episodes of "Empire".
Richard Egan died in Santa Monica, California, on July 20, 1987, of prostate cancer. He is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.


Randall Terry

Randall Allen Terry (born 1959) is an American activist and political candidate. Terry founded the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue, which he later abandoned. The group became particularly prominent beginning in 1987 for blockading the entrances to abortion clinics; Terry led the group until 1991. He has been arrested more than 40 times, including for violating a no-trespass order from the University of Notre Dame in order to protest a visit by President Barack Obama.
In 2003, Terry founded the Society for Truth and Justice and conducted a program called Operation Witness. In 1998, he ran for Congress in upstate New York, and in 2006 for a seat in the Florida State Senate, both times losing in the Republican primary.
Career as activist.
In 1986, Terry was arrested for the first time for chaining himself to a sink at an abortion clinic. Terry was often in the news because of his activities as the leader of Operation Rescue.
Terry was named as a co-defendant in the 1994 Supreme Court case, "NOW v. Scheidler", a class-action suit to compel anti-abortion leaders to compensate clinics for loss of business. Terry settled out of court with the National Organization for Women. Rather than pay the settlement, Terry promptly filed bankruptcy, prompting Senator Charles Schumer to propose an amendment to a bankruptcy bill in Congress which would "specifically ... prevent abortion opponents from using the bankruptcy code to escape paying court fines." The amendment was not included in the final bill. In 1998, NOW obtained more than 25,000 "frequent flyer miles" held by Terry in order to help satisfy a legal judgment.
In 1990, Terry helped to organize protests outside the hospital where Nancy Cruzan was a patient, around the time that her feeding tube was removed. The group Missouri Citizens for Life also was involved in the protests, along with the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a former Operation Rescue staffer. He was also involved in protests related to the Terri Schiavo case. In 1994 Terry was a named defendant in Madsen v. Women's Health Center Inc. which ultimately made it all the way to the US Supreme Court. The Justices sided with Aware Woman Clinic and upheld a Buffer Zone. In 1998, Randall Terry ran for the United States House of Representatives in Upstate New York. Terry competed with radio station owner William "Bud" Walker for the Republican nomination to face Democratic incumbent Maurice Hinchey. Terry received the endorsement of Focus on the Family head James Dobson; however, national and state Republicans were not supportive of Terry's candidacy. Terry was defeated by Walker 53% to 35%, but was the Right to Life Party nominee in the general election. Terry came in third place, winning 7% of the vote, with Hinchey and Walker winning 62% and 31% respectively. In 2000, Terry and his son Jamiel promoted the candidacy of Steven Forbes in the Republican presidential primary. In June 2005, Terry announced plans to run in the primary against Florida Republican state senator James E. King, citing King's work in attempting to block legislation which would have kept Terri Schiavo alive. In August 2006, in an attempt to undermine King's support in a Republican primary the next month, Terry publicized an endorsement of King by "Bill Clinton" — actually, robo-calls by a professional impersonator of former president Bill Clinton. The two "Clinton" scripts each contained a disclaimer. One was, "Hello friend, Bill Clinton here – not really!" The other was "This is a celebrity impersonation." Terry used the scripts and the impersonator in 43,000 calls. The "no amnesty" line was a reference to immigration reform proposals which were an issue in many campaigns during 2006. On September 5, 2006, Terry was defeated in the primary, with King receiving over two-thirds of the votes cast.
On March 20, 2009, the White House announced that President Barack Obama was to speak at the May 17 Commencement of the University of Notre Dame. Terry declared that Notre Dame, being one of the foremost Catholic universities in the nation, should not have allowed Obama to speak. Terry's main objection was that Obama supports abortion rights. He was quoted in an article to the University's newspaper, "The Observer", stating that he planned to make the commencement "a circus." Terry was arrested May 1, 2009, on the Notre Dame campus for violating a no-trespass order. He posted a bond of $250 at the St. Joseph County Jail and was released the same day, and assigned a court date later that month. In a statement given to a Christian news service, Terry claimed Notre Dame's invitation of Obama was a betrayal of Catholic teaching, comparing it to Judas' betrayal of Jesus Christ.
When Kansas obstetrician George Tiller was murdered while serving as an usher in his Wichita church on the morning of May 31, 2009, Terry immediately issued a statement critical of Tiller. On the same day, June 1, Terry released a video in which he called president Barack Obama and pro-choice politicians "child killers", and described Tiller as a "mass murderer" who "reaped what he sowed." He voiced regret that Tiller wasn't able to "get things right with his maker" and that it was unfortunate that he didn't get a "trial of a jury of his peers and to have a proper execution." Terry's comments provoked a backlash. The "Albany Times-Union", in an editorial, accused Terry of undermining the credibility of the "generally peaceful" anti-abortion movement.
In 2013, Terry appeared on an episode of MTV's "True Life" advocating the criminalization of all forms of birth control. During the course of the episode he stated, "Do we want to make the pill illegal? Yes. Do we want to make the IUD illegal? Yes. The morning after pill? Yes. The patch? Yes. Anything that's a human pesticide, they all have to be made illegal. A woman has to go to jail if she kills her baby."
Terry produces and hosts a television program titled "Randall Terry: The Voice of Resistance", which airs on The Walk TV and can be seen on his website "Voice of Resistance".
2012 presidential candidacy.
In January 2011, Terry announced his intention to challenge President Barack Obama in the Democratic Party primaries for the presidential election of 2012. His campaign strategy was based upon a commercial during Super Bowl XLVI featuring graphic photographs of aborted fetuses; historically, the networks have refused all political and issue-related advertising during the Super Bowl, citing equal-time rules, and the advertisement did not air.
The attempt to air the ads led to legal action and a statement by the Democratic National Committee that Terry was not a legitimate candidate, and thus should be forbidden privileges given others running.
In December 2011, he became the physical target of candidate Vermin Supreme, who sprinkled glitter over his head during a debate.
According to unofficial results, Terry received 18% of the vote in the 2012 Democratic Oklahoma Presidential Primary. He also won 12 counties in the state, including the entire panhandle, and was awarded two delegates in the Democratic Primary. Kansas TV station KDGL-LD channel 23, is an Independent TV station serving Southwest Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle. It and its sister stations carry Randall's Walk TV program, broadcasting the length of the Panhandle. It was the only primary in which Terry won any counties or delegates. He had also appeared on the ballots in Alaska, Missouri, and New Hampshire.
Campaign finances.
Detailed below are the FEC-filed finances of "Randall Terry for President Campaign Committee" as of 05/09/2014
2012 congressional candidacy.
Although he lives in West Virginia, Terry paid his filing fee and ran as an independent candidate for Congress in Florida's 20th District. Incumbent Democrat Alcee Hastings won that election with 88% of the vote on November 6, 2012.
Personal life.
Terry's personal life has frequently come under public scrutiny, some of which he has welcomed, going so far as to put his foster children on his curriculum vitae as part of his anti-abortion "bona fides". Terry has been married twice, and has had children in both marriages. With his first wife Cindy, he had a daughter and then fostered two additional daughters and a son. He adopted the two youngest foster children. He has four sons with his second wife, Andrea.
The son of public school teachers, Terry was raised in Rochester, New York. After dropping out of high school, hitch-hiking around the United States, and returning home to work various jobs, he attended Elim Bible Institute, graduating in 1981. In the early 1980s, Terry married Cindy Dean, a woman he had met in Bible school. In 1985, he met a woman who had borne her second child in prison and was planning an abortion rather than having a third. Terry persuaded her to continue the pregnancy and a daughter named Tila was born later that year. In 1987, Cindy and Randall Terry had a daughter together, whom they named Faith. In March 1988, they took in Tila, then aged three, and her siblings Jamiel, 8, and Ebony, 12, as foster children. All three are biracial; their mother was white. Terry formally adopted the two younger children in 1994 and began describing his family on his résumé as: "Children: One by birth and three black foster children," although Ebony had left home at the age of 16 in 1991. Ebony, who was not adopted by Terry, uses the surname Whetstone, but Jamiel and Tila took and retained the surname Terry. She converted to Islam, a religion Terry has preached is composed of "murderers" and "terrorists." In 2004, Terry described his relationship with Ebony as "good." However, Terry banned Tila from his home after she became pregnant outside of marriage twice by age 18; her first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
In 1998, when Terry was accused of racism while running for Congress, his son Jamiel stepped forward to defend him. In 2000, Jamiel worked with his father on Steven Forbes' campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. president, and campaigned with his father against gay marriage in Vermont. In 2004, Jamiel publicly announced that he was gay and wrote an article for "Out Magazine" for which he was paid US$2,500. When he learned that the "Out" article was to be published, Terry pre-empted Jamiel by writing an essay, "My Prodigal Son, the Homosexual", in which he writes of pain and disappointment, blames Jamiel's homosexuality and other troubles on his childhood experiences, and contends that much of the "Out Magazine" article is false and was written by other people. Jamiel's response was, "My father's first and foremost aim is to protect himself. He talks about how I prostitute the family's name, but he's used the fact that he saved my sister from abortion and rescued me from hardship in his speeches and interviews. What's the difference?"
In 2000, Terry divorced his wife of 19 years, Cindy, and married his former church assistant, Andrea Sue Kollmorgen. Kollmorgen, born c. 1976, was approximately 25 at the time of their nuptials; As a consequence of the divorce, the home on where he had lived with Cindy and their four children was to be sold. His decision to divorce in 2000 to marry Kollmorgen was unfavorably contrasted by some in the press to his own judgment expressed in his 1995 book, "The Judgment of God": "Families are destroyed as a father vents his mid-life crisis by abandoning his wife for a 'younger, prettier model.' " His sentiments against divorce had been so strong that when his own parents divorced, "Randall refused to let his children speak with their grandfather for three years," according to interviews with the family done by the "Washington Post." As a result of Terry's divorce from Cindy Dean, the pastor of the Landmark Church of Binghamton, New York, "unceremoniously tossed him out" although Terry had been a member there for 15 years. That church had previously censured him for abandoning his wife and the two children still at home in preparation for divorce, and for a "pattern of repeated and sinful relationships and conversations with both single and married women." After the censure and expulsion, Terry joined the Charismatic Episcopal Church, a denomination established in 1992. After a period of study commencing in 2005, Terry formally converted to Roman Catholicism in 2006, taking the confirmation name "David Mark." After his conversion, he disavowed the first marriage and divorce, saying, "There were tragic problems that were inherent to the marriage. According to Catholic doctrine as it has been taught to me, those problems made it an invalid sacrament."
In 2004, the "Washington Post" reported that Terry and Cindy's daughter was in college. Five years into his second marriage, a 2006 article in the "National Catholic Register" described his current family as "his three, soon to be four, rambunctious young boys." Terry's second wife, Andrea, is also an anti-abortion activist and was arrested in 2008 for trespass while leafleting a Roman Catholic cathedral parking lot with campaign fliers for a fictitious candidate promoting slavery for African-Americans. Randall Terry stated, "The piece was intended to be incendiary and basically a satire," a protest against vehicles in the church parking lot which, he said, carried bumper stickers supporting pro-choice political candidates, particularly Rudy Giuliani.
Terry's son Jamiel was killed in an automobile accident in November 2011. They had reportedly reconciled prior to Jamiel's death.
In 2012, Terry moved his growing family to Romney, West Virginia, to focus on his campaign.


Gene Federico

Gene Federico (February 6, 1918 – September 8, 1999) was an American graphic designer and advertising executive.
Early life.
Gene Federico was born in New York’s Greenwich Village on February 6, 1918. His family moved to the Bronx and then to Coney Island, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School, home of Leon Friend’s "Art Squad". The "Art Squad" exposed him to leading European Advertising artists whose inspiration would become the basis for his later work.
He attended the Pratt Institute and took weeknight classes at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He graduated from Pratt in 1939. After taking his first job in Newark, New Jersey in 1941, he became a GI stationed in North Africa and Europe until November 1945.
Career.
Returning from the war, Federico's work was exhibited at A-D Gallery in 1946 where he met Will Burtin, the art director for "Fortune" magazine. Burtin offered Federico a position as his art associate, however Federico didn’t care for editorial design and lasted only 10 months. His wife, Helen Federico worked for Paul Rand at the William Weintraub Agency, and Rand suggested he take a job at Grey Advertising. There, he met Bill Bernbach, Ned Doyle, Bob Gage, and Mac Dane. The men left to start their own agency, Doyle Dane Bernbach.
Federico was best known for his work at the agency for his "Woman’s Day" ads. One of his most memorable ads for "Women’s Day" in 1953, featured a simple and elegant use of the words “go out” to create a bicycle. This advertisement was representative of how his work integrated text and image in a composition. His heavy reliance on typography led him to work intimately with copywriters. In the mid-1950s, he developed a relationship with Aaron Burns (at the Composing Room) who introduced him to new typefaces to experiment with in his work. His work in the late 1950s and 60s was distinctly modern and the mark of American advertising’s “Creative Revolution.”
After a seven-year stint at Benton and Bowles, he started his own agency in 1967 with copywriter Dick Lord. Together, they founded Lord Federico (later renamed Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein Inc.). He left the agency in 1991, to become an advertising and design consultant.
Federico was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1980. He was awarded the AIGA Medal in 1987. In 1991, he was awarded the Type Directors Club medal.
Federico died on September 8, 1999, in Pound Ridge, New York from prostate cancer. He was married to Helen Federico (1921-2012) and had two daughters, Gina and Lisa.


Michael J. Norton

Michael J. Norton is an American attorney who was United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 1988 to 1993, and who serves as council for conservative lobbying groups.
Education.
Norton received his J.D. in 1968 from American University. In 2009, Norton earned a Masters of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from Denver Seminary.
Biography.
Norton was nominated as attorney for the District of Colorado on March 24, 1988. As US Attorney, Norton oversaw expanded prosecution of cocaine and crack cocaine infractions during the crack epidemic.
Norton is council at Thomas N. Scheffel & Associates P.C. in Denver, and at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). At ADF he focuses on law connected with opposition to legal abortion and opposition to birth control. Norton also currently serves on the board of directors of Colorado Family Action, a Christian fundamentalist lobbying organization.
Norton is married to Jane E. Norton, Colorado Lieutenant Governor from 2003 to 2007. Together, Michael and Jane Norton drafted Colorado Amendment 43. This amendment prohibited gay marriage in Colorado from 1992 to 1996, when it was overturned in "Romer v. Evans" because the amendment was, according to the Supreme Court, "born of animosity" toward gays and lesbians.
Cases.
Michael Norton represented Jack Phillips, a baker whose religious beliefs lead him to decline to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in 2012, at an early stage in Phillips's case. The case "Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission" would go before the US Supreme Court.


Michael Kelly (missionary)

Fr. Michael J. Kelly, S.J. (19 May 1929 – 15 January 2021) was an Irish Catholic missionary priest, active in Zambia and known for his education work around the HIV-AIDS pandemic.
Early life.
Michael J. Kelly was born in Tullamore into a family of seven, three of whom (Michael, Joseph and Robert (Bob)), became Jesuit priests. While training as a Jesuit priest, he studied at University College Dublin gaining first-class honours BA in maths and mathematical physics in 1951 and an MA in 1952, continuing his formation he gained licentiate in philosophy in 1955.
Religious life.
In 1955 Kelly was sent to Northern Rhodesia as a missionary. He taught mathematics at the Canisius School. He was ordained in 1961, and later became principal of the school. Then, he received a doctorate in education from the University of Birmingham. In the mid-60s, he became a citizen of the new Republic of Zambia. Fr. Kelly then established centres for education, veterinary science and agriculture in Lusaka. He was then elected Dean of Education at the University of Zambia and, subsequently, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education.
Fr. Kelly was intimately involved in planning for health education during the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia.
Honours.
In 2006 Fr. Kelly received an honorary degree Doctor of Laws from UCD. In 2012, he received an honorary degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
In 2012 Prof Kelly was awarded one of the first "Presidential Awards for Irish Abroad" for his contributions to Peace, Reconciliation and Development, from the Irish Government.
In 2018 Professor Kelly received the Order of Distinguished Service from President Edgar Lungu.
In 2020 he appeared on an Irish postage stamp, as part of series honouring "The Irish Abroad."


Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse is an American conservative political activist, journalist and author. He is the President of a nonprofit NGO, Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), which has been listed as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Through C-FAM and his own writings, Ruse advocates anti-LGBT and anti-abortion conservative positions, and has advocated for the criminalization of homosexuality.
Career.
Ruse received a Bachelor of Journalism degree as well as a Bachelor of Arts in political science (University of Missouri) and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Having been involved in the establishment of the C-FAM, he has headed this organization since the summer of 1997, holding the title of President since 2000. Around the turn of the millennium, he also was a diplomatic attaché of the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.
In July 2013, Ruse was identified as a convener of a Groundswell coalition meeting among conservative activists and journalists.
In 2017 Ruse published the book "Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ", which profiles three devoutly religious children who died after extended periods of illness. Ruse's second book, "Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data" was also published in 2017. Ruse's third book --- "The Catholic Case for Trump" --- was published by Regnery Publishers just prior to the 2020 United States presidential election.
Ruse was a regular contributor to the media outlet Breitbart and was instrumental in encouraging Steve Bannon to get involved with Vatican reporting, which paved the way for the establishment of Breitbart's Rome bureau. Moreover, Ruse has published in First Things, The Washington Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, Human Events as well as Touchstone (magazine), and he has been a columnist for The Catholic Thing (biweekly) and Crisis Magazine.
Awards and Honors.
In 2004, he and his wife Cathy were awarded with the John Paul II Award for Advancing the Culture of life from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences.
Ruse became a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta as well as a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
Views and controversies.
Anti-left views.
Ruse stated that the "hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities... should all be taken out and shot” while hosting a radio talk show on American Family Radio in March 2014. Monsignor Anthony Frontiero, of the St. Joseph Cathedral in Manchester, New Hampshire, resigned from the board of C-FAM because of Ruse's comments. The next day on the same radio program, he described Democrats "get[ting] into the ballot box" as "really dumb ... low-information voters."
After the fallout from his comments, AFR removed Ruse from their airwaves, stated that his views were "un-Christian", and scrubbed all of Ruse's shows from their online archives. Ruse also deactivated his Twitter account. Ruse issued a statement on C-FAM's website later that week in which he said he regretted using the phrase "taken out and shot".
Anti-gay views.
The Advocate has described Ruse as "fanatically anti-gay", stating that he has supported anti-gay legislation backed by Vladimir Putin in Russia as well as the continued criminalization of homosexuality in many African countries. At the UN, Ruse has worked to overturn the Human Rights Council's decision to investigate violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Ruse has warned against "radical homosexuals" and suggested that "they are coming for your daughter and your son and your grandchildren. They don't have any children of their own. They are deliberately barren. So, they have set their sights on yours, your innocent girls and boys." Ruse supports legislation in Russia that criminalizes free speech concerning homosexuality, and has argued that most Americans would like to see a similar approach in the US.
In 2017, Ruse attacked Jesuit priest James Martin on social media for his work that urges gay Catholics to begin conversations with their bishops. Michael Sean Winters described Ruse's attacks as "vulgar and childish", and stated that when it comes to Catholicism, Ruse "seems to adopt the most hurtful interpretations possible and hurls them at the feet of others."
Support for Donald Trump.
Ruse has repeatedly publicly expressed his support for Donald Trump. He has stated that Trump "more closely adheres to Catholic social teaching than Joe Biden".
Ruse mocked the speech impediment of a 13-year-old child appearing during the 2020 Democratic Convention on Twitter, drawing comparison to Donald Trump's past history of mocking people with disabilities. He subsequently claimed he was mocking Biden and claimed, with no basis, the former vice president never had a stutter.
Personal life.
Raised Methodist, Ruse converted to Catholicism. He is a supernumerary member of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church.
Ruse is a descendant of early English colonists. He and his wife Cathleen, a senior legal advisor to the Family Research Council, have two daughters, and live in Virginia.


Antigonadotropin

An antigonadotropin is a drug which suppresses the activity and/or downstream effects of one or both of the gonadotropins, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). This results in an inhibition of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis, and thus a decrease in the levels of the androgen, estrogen, and progestogen sex steroids in the body. Antigonadotropins also inhibit ovulation in women and spermatogenesis in men. They are used for a variety of purposes, including for the hormonal birth control, treatment of hormonally-sensitive cancers, to delay precocious puberty and puberty in transgender youth, as a form of chemical castration to reduce the sex drives of individuals with hypersexuality or pedophilia, and to treat estrogen-associated conditions in women such as menorrhagia and endometriosis, among others. High-dose antigonadotropin therapy has been referred to as "medical castration".
The best-known and widely used antigonadotropins are the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues (both agonists and antagonists). However, many other drugs have antigonadotropic properties as well, including compounds acting on sex steroid hormone receptors such as progestogens, androgens, and estrogens (due to negative feedback on the HPG axis), as well as steroid synthesis inhibitors such as danazol and gestrinone. Some antigonadotropins have a multimodal action, such as cyproterone acetate, which exerts its effects via acting as an antiandrogen, progestin, and steroid synthesis inhibitor. Since progestins have relatively little effect on sexual differentiation compared to the other sex steroids, potent ones such as medroxyprogesterone acetate and chlormadinone acetate are often used at high doses specifically for their antigonadotropic effects.
Danazol, gestrinone, and paroxypropione have all been classified specifically as antigonadotropins.