Spermatocele

Spermatocele is a fluid-filled cyst that develops at the head of the epididymis. The fluid is usually a clear or milky white color that may contain sperm. It can vary in size from several millimeters to many centimeters. Small spermatoceles are relatively common, occurring in an estimated 30 percent of all men. They are generally not painful. However, some people may experience discomfort such as a dull pain in the scrotum from larger spermatoceles. They are not cancerous, nor do they cause an increased risk of testicular cancer. Additionally, unlike varicoceles, they do not reduce fertility.
Causes.
Spermatoceles can originate as diverticulum from the tubules found in the head of the epididymis. Sperm accumulation gradually causes the diverticulum to increase in size, causing a spermatocele. In many instances they appear to occur spontaneously without any preceding instances of injury.
Scarring of any part of the epididymis can cause it to become obstructed and in turn form a spermatocele.
Diagnosis.
Spermatoceles can be discovered as incidental scrotal masses found on physical examination by a physician or by self-inspection of the scrotum and testicles.
Finding a painless, cystic mass at the head of the epididymis that is clearly separate from the testicle can indicate a spermatocele. Shining a light through the mass through a process known as transillumination can also help differentiate between a fluid-filled cyst and a tumor, which would not allow as much light to pass. If uncertainty exists, ultrasonography of the scrotum can confirm the presence of a spermatocele.
Treatment.
Small cysts as well as asymptomatic larger cysts are better left alone and carefully observed. However, treatment can be considered if the cysts are causing discomfort/pain, enlarging in size, or per patient request. There are a few different treatment options, ranging in levels of invasiveness.
Certain drugs can be taken by mouth to decrease spermatocele-related symptoms such as pain and/or swelling. Aspiration and sclerotherapy are treatments that remove fluid from the spermatocele and seal the spermatocele sac closed from further fluid build-up, respectively. Due to a higher risk of epididymis damage, fertility problems, and further recurrences, these procedures are not recommended and not commonly used.
The last option is to surgically remove the spermatocele entirely with a spermatocelectomy. This standard procedure can be performed in an outpatient setting with the use of local or general anesthesia. Depending on the spermatocele, parts of the epididymis may also be removed. After surgical removal, it is possible that the pain will persist. There is also still a risk for recurrence and fertility problems.


Testosterone palmitate

Testosterone palmitate, also known as testosterone hexadecanoate, testosterone 17β-palmitate, and androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one 17β-palmitate, is an anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and an androgen ester – specifically, the C17β palmitate (hexadecanoate) ester of testosterone – which was never marketed. It is a prodrug of testosterone and, when administered via intramuscular injection, is associated with a long-lasting depot effect and extended duration of action.
Testosterone palmitate is a longer-chain ester of testosterone compared to testosterone undecanoate. Relative to testosterone undecanoate, testosterone palmitate shows higher oral bioavailability. However, no free testosterone was observed after administration of testosterone palmitate, suggesting that it is not hydrolyzed as well. On the other hand, another study found that testosterone palmitate was hydrolyzed in humans.


Boy Blue (Cyndi Lauper song)

"Boy Blue" is a pop song written by Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, and Jeff Bova for Lauper's second album "True Colors" (1986).
It was released as the album's fourth single in 1987 (see 1987 in music). The single version is a remix. Charting at #71 on the Hot 100, it was Lauper's first solo single that failed to make a real impact on the charts. Proceeds from the sale of the single were donated to AIDS organizations.
The official video was a live clip of the song in Paris, France and it was pulled from the concert video "Cyndi Lauper in Paris". The video received heavy airplay on MTV when the single was released (during June and July 1987) and was rarely played after. A live version of "Boy Blue" was later released as the B-side of her single "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)".
Song information.
Thematically like "True Colors" on the album, Lauper wrote this song for a friend who died of AIDS, and the title comes from a poem by Eugene Field called "Little Boy Blue". This poem is based on a kid's story:
"Little Boy Blue"
<poem>
 "The little toy dog is covered with dust,"
 "But sturdy and staunch he stands;"
 "And the little toy soldier is red with rust,"
 "And his musket moulds in his hands;"
 "Time was when the little toy dog was new,"
 "And the soldier was passing fair;"
 "And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue"
 "Kissed them and put them there."
</poem>
Here is what Cyndi says about this song:
"I tried to write about my friend. I knew he really loved 'That's What Friends Are For.' I know that maybe he would have liked me to do a song like that. Instead I wrote about him personally. I don't know that my lyrics were good enough, I don't know that anything was good enough. Maybe it was too personal. I don't know. But I wrote it for him. It was because of him that I keep trying to do stuff. And other friends. So many talented people, so many of our friends and so many gifted people have passed on. Or struggle everyday. Just to live. And it was because of my friends and others that I do this. Maybe that song wasn't good enough, I don't know."
When Lauper was asked about her intense live performance that was released as the video for the song, she responded:
"I used to cry every night when I sang that song. I was so mad. You know, you go through so much and I was so mad. I was mad that my friend was gone, I was mad at the way people treated me...We didn't know what the hell it was. We didn't know anything. Then all of a sudden it was out in the open and everyone was talking about it, but when he first told me about it I didn't understand. I didn't know. And then all of a sudden my friend was ill and ill and ill and then...It was so hard. I was so angry and every night I would sing my guts out, but you'd open your eyes after and it was the same. But sometimes, in a lot of ways, it was healing."
Music video.
The official music video for the song was a live video clip pulled from the "Cyndi Lauper in Paris" home video cassette and HBO special. It was directed by Andy Morahan.


Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis

Asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis is a painless inflammation of the prostate gland where there is no evidence of infection. It should be distinguished from the other categories of prostatitis characterised by either pelvic pain or evidence of infection, such as chronic bacterial prostatitis, acute bacterial prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). It is a common finding in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Signs and symptoms.
These patients have no history of genitourinary pain complaints, but leukocytosis is noted, usually during evaluation for other conditions.
Diagnosis.
Diagnosis is through tests of semen, expressed prostatic secretion (EPS) or prostate tissue that reveal inflammation in the absence of symptoms.
Treatment.
No treatment required. It is standard practice for men with infertility and category IV prostatitis to be given a trial of antibiotics and/or anti-inflammatories, although evidence of efficacy are weak. Since signs of asymptomatic prostatic inflammation may sometimes be associated with prostate cancer, this can be addressed by tests that assess the ratio of free-to-total PSA. The results of these tests were significantly different in prostate cancer and category IV prostatitis in one study.


Nazariya

Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group (Nazariya QFRG) is a non-profit queer feminist resource group based out of Delhi NCR, India. The group was formed in October 2014, and has since established a South Asian presence. The organization undertakes workshops/seminars, helpline- and case-based counselling, and advocacy to affirm the rights of persons identifying as lesbian and bisexual women, and transgender persons assigned female at birth. Nazariya QFRG also works to inform queer discourse in institutions, and build linkages between queer issues, violence and livelihoods. They focus on the intersectionality between queer, women’s and progressive left movements in India.
In 2015, Nazariya QFRG supported 19-year-old Shivy by arranging legal counsel, safe shelter and passage to Delhi to challenge the illegal confinement inflicted on him by his parents in Agra. In 2018, the organization endorsed a critique of the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, India, which was censured by many scholars, lawyers and activists for criminalizing vulnerable individuals in the absence of adequate measures to address the factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking in the first place.
Name origin.
The word "Nazariya" means "a way of seeing" or "a perspective". This name reflects the group's mission to make marginalized perspectives heard, in order to counter the toxic cultural and societal "hegemony of heteronormativity".
Key concerns.
The group aims to sensitize groups and individuals working on issues of gender-based violence, education, health and livelihoods from a lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) perspective. They support this work through training, research, advocacy, evaluations and capacity building. Nazariya QFRG works to raise awareness of the 'lived realities' of queer people, and focuses on many issues of work in India and South Asia, including but not limited to HIV & AIDS awareness; sensitivity towards Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI); the criminalization of intercourse against the order of nature under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code; non-inclusion of queer individuals in violence, health and education interventions; non-inclusion of and discrimination against queer individuals in the workspace; lack of support groups in tier-II and tier-III cities, towns and rural areas in India; lack of an intersectionality approach in the discourse on identities
Mental Health.
Nazariya QFRG have maintained that members of the queer community face significant familial, societal, and legal discrimination on the basis of their identity in addition to the stresses brought on by everyday life such as work, relationships, and peer pressure. This additional, unique stress is known as minority stress, which is defined as the additional stress an individual experiences as a result of their status as a minority. Since 2017, the resource group has been working on what mental wellbeing means for queer persons. In September and December 2017, Nazariya QFRG worked with Delhi-based SRHR NGO TARSHI on a series of free, bilingual workshops on stress management and burnout prevention for LGBT*QIA+ individuals. The workshops emphasized self-care as a feminist issue and functioned on a non-medical model with an emphasis on simple stress management techniques that can be practiced individually without any additional equipment or resources.
Shivy's Story.
In September, 2015 Nazariya QFRG was contacted by the National Centre for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), United States, and subsequently by the teenager himself, regarding the illegal confinement and human rights violation of 19-year-old trans person Shivy. An Indian citizen who had been living in the US since age 3, Shivy who identified as a female-assigned-at-birth trans person, was brought to Agra soon after his parents discovered he had a girlfriend; in Agra, his travel documents and passport were confiscated by his parents, and he was forced to enrol in a local college. Shivy was under parental custody and forced to live at home with the prospect of an impending arranged marriage to an Indian man to 'fix' him. Shivy also used the resource group's YouTube channel to publish a video recounting his experiences.
In October 2015, Nazariya QFRG arranged for legal counsel Arundhati Katju to file a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court on behalf of Shivy for protection from harassment and his right to return to the United States. In "Shivani Bhat v. National Capital Territory of Delhi & Others", the Delhi High Court ruled in favour of Shivy and reaffirmed his right to self-determination, travel and education. Additionally, the court ordered, "inter alia," that Shivy's parents return his travel documents so he could travel back to the US.
Shivy returned to Northern California to study neurobiology at UC-Davis after the judgment was announced. Commenting on the judgement, he said that “[the judge] basically applied the law rightfully,” and that “it’s sad that this had to be celebrated, but a lot of laws don’t get applied justly for LGBT people.” Shivy now chooses to be identified by another name.
Activities.
Helpline.
The organization runs a helpline (operational Monday to Friday 11 AM-6 PM, +917291012585) out of their Delhi office space. They believe in the merit of an offline or online space that caters to LBT persons describing their sexual experiences and encounters, as well as for family and friends of the LBT persons.
'Our Lives Our Tales'.
"Our Lives, Our Tales" is an ongoing archival oral history project by Nazariya QFRG to document queer history and queer lived realities in India.
Ishq, Dosti and All That.
In 2018, two of the co-founders of Nazariya QFRG were involved in a bilingual short-film on the lives of Rups and Priyam, a transman and a lesbian, their loves, desires, dating experiences, friendships and intimate relationships. "Ishq, Dosti and All That" was screened on September 16, 2018 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
People.
The following activists founded the group and continue to play pivotal roles in the functioning of the organization:


Howard Bragman

Howard Bragman (born February 24, 1956) is an American crisis manager, public relations practitioner, writer and lecturer. He is often seen as a "PR Guru."
Life and career.
Bragman was born to a Jewish family and raised in Flint, Michigan, the son of Myrna (Wolin) and Leonard Bragman. He graduated with a B.A from the University of Michigan in 1978.
After serving as a vice president in the Chicago and Los Angeles offices of Burson-Marsteller Public Relations, Bragman founded Bragman Nyman Cafarelli (BNC) in 1989. In 2001, BNC was purchased by Interpublic Group, a holding company for marketing firms. In 2005, Bragman established Fifteen Minutes, a strategic media and public relations agency. Bragman founded LaBrea.Media in 2018 as a consultant, pundit and content creator. Bragman was an Adjunct Professor in Public Relations at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication from 1998 to 2003. He is the author of the best-selling book, "Where's My Fifteen Minutes?" (2008). He was also a consultant on the 2017 documentary about the Flint water crisis called "Lead and Copper".
Bragman has provided litigation support as a crisis counselor for cases and individuals including Joseph Steffan; the Lewinsky family; and Sharon Smith in Smith v. Knoller. He is also involved with both the accusers and the accused in the #MeToo movement.
Bragman has been vice chairman of the management firm Reputation.com.
Community work.
Bragman has been active in the AIDS/HIV community, on lesbian and gay civil rights, Jewish causes and First Amendment protections. He has received awards and honors from AIDS Project Los Angeles, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and Congregation Kol Ami. Bragman has founded the Jewish Image Awards, honoring positive portrayals of Jews in television and film.
Public appearances.
Bragman has been a news consultant for ABC News since 2010. He has also made multiple appearances on local and network news programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Today Show, and Larry King Live, as well as in national and local magazines and newspapers.
Bragman made an appearance on an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 2 as Camille Grammer's Publicist, and was a guest judge on Season 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race.


Chris Smith (New Jersey politician)

Christopher Henry Smith (born March 4, 1953) is an American politician serving his 21st term as the U.S. Representative for . Though it has taken various forms, his district has always been situated in Central New Jersey. It currently includes portions of Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean counties.
Smith is the dean of New Jersey's congressional delegation. He has focused much of his career on promoting human rights abroad, including authoring the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 and several follow-on laws. Smith has used his leadership positions, including chairmanships, to author multiple pieces of legislation focused on human rights and conduct aggressive oversight of human rights abuses, actions that have earned him scorn from abusing nations.
Early life, education, and early career.
Smith was born in Rahway, New Jersey, on March 4, 1953. He attended St. Mary's High School in Perth Amboy, where he competed athletically as a runner and wrestler.
After graduating with a B.A. from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), Smith worked in his family's sporting goods business. In the 1976 election cycle, he managed the Democratic primary challenge of Steven Foley, an attorney and anti-abortion activist, against incumbent Senator Harrison Williams; Foley received about 15% of the vote, losing to Williams. In 1978, Smith switched to the Republican Party, and became executive director of the New Jersey Right to Life Committee, a part-time role.
U.S. House of Representatives.
Elections.
1978.
In 1978, while working at his family's sporting goods store, 25-year-old Smith ran for Congress as a Republican. He lost to longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Congressman Frank Thompson 61%–37%.
1980.
In 1980 Smith ran against Thompson again. Initially, Smith was thought to have a very slim chance of winning, but Thompson was indicted as part of the FBI's Abscam probe. With the race now considered competitive, Republicans considered replacing Smith, but two alternative candidates seen as more competitive, Hamilton mayor John K. Rafferty and 1978 Senate nominee Jeff Bell, declined. Helped by Ronald Reagan's strong performance in the district, Smith defeated Thompson 57%–41%.
1982.
In 1982, Smith's district was redrawn to include more Democratic voters and his Democratic opponent was former New Jersey Senate President Joseph P. Merlino, who had run a competitive campaign for governor the year before. It was widely assumed that Smith's 1980 victory over the scandal-plagued Thompson was a fluke, and that he would lose to Merlino. At the end of one of their debates, Smith approached Merlino to exchange pleasantries. Merlino was quoted as saying "Beat it, kid." Smith defeated Merlino with 53% of the vote.
Subsequently, a federal court found the 1982 redistricting was impermissible gerrymandering, and Smith's district was redrawn to more closely resemble the one used in 1980. He has not faced another contest that close since.
1984–present.
From 1984 to 2016, Smith won reelection with over 60% of the vote. Smith's 66% was the highest percentage for any Republican in the New Jersey delegation.
In 2008, Smith defeated college history professor Joshua M. Zeitz, 66%–32%.
In 2010, Smith received 69.4% of the vote, ahead of Democratic nominee Howard Kleinhendler, Libertarian nominee Joe Siano, Green Party nominee Steven Welzer, and American Renaissance Movement nominee David Meiswinkle.
In 2018, Smith defeated Democratic nominee Joshua Welle with 55% of the vote to Welle's 43%. Smith was the only Republican to win a congressional race in New Jersey that year, reducing the GOP to its smallest presence in New Jersey's House delegation since 1918. This was Smith's closest election since 1982.
In 2020, Smith defeated Democratic nominee Stephanie Schmid.
Tenure.
Smith was ranked the 17th most bipartisan member of the House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the second most bipartisan from New Jersey) in the Bipartisan Index by the Lugar Center.
In November 1997, Smith was one of 18 House Republicans to co-sponsor a resolution by Bob Barr that sought to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton. The resolution did not specify any charges or allegations. This was an early effort to impeach Clinton, predating the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. That scandal led to a more serious effort to impeach Clinton in 1998. On October 8, 1998, Smith voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open an impeachment inquiry. On December 19, 1998, he voted in favor of all four articles of impeachment against Clinton (only two of which received the needed majority of votes).
It was revealed in October 2015 that intern applicants for Smith's office were required to rate "27 different personalities, organizations and political issues to indicate whether they tend to agree with them, disagree with them or have no opinion or knowledge of them." Personalities and organizations included Rachel Maddow, the Pope, Planned Parenthood, and The National Right to Life Committee.
Smith has been nominated and confirmed twice to serve as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2015 for the 70th session and by President Donald Trump in 2017 for the 72nd session.
Smith voted against both articles in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, and the sole article of the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
On February 4, 2021, Smith voted with 10 other House Republicans and all House Democrats to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her House Education and Labor Committee and House Budget Committee assignments in response to controversial political statements she had made.
In January 2001, Smith became chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and pushed for policies Republican leadership opposed, including voting against the Republican and for the Democratic budget resolution because the latter included more spending on veterans programs. In 2004, Smith refused to endorse the Republican budget proposal unless it included more money for veterans. In a congressional hearing, Smith articulated his belief that the Bush Administration's budget request was $1.2 billion less than the Department of Veterans Affairs actually required, embarrassing the administration and Republican congressional leadership. During his four years as committee chair, Smith wrote 22 bills addressing veterans' issues. His unwillingness to follow the party line resulted in the House Republican Caucus removing him from his chairmanship (and from the committee altogether) in January 2005, at the beginning of the 109th Congress, with the chairmanship going to Steve Buyer instead, two years short of the normal six-year term. Veterans' groups such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Paralyzed Veterans of America praised Smith and criticized the decision to remove him.
Legislation.
On May 6, 2014, Smith introduced the bill International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking (H.R. 4573; 113th Congress), which would require the notification of foreign governments when an American registered as a sex offender of children travels to their country.
As of April 2020, FiveThirtyEight reported that Smith voted in line with Trump's position 67.7% of the time, the third-lowest percentage among Republican members of Congress after fellow New Jerseyan Jeff Van Drew and Brian Fitzpatrick. Relative to the partisan lean of their respective districts, only Van Drew and Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie were less likely than Smith to vote with Trump.
In March 2021, Smith was one of eight Republicans to join the House majority in passing the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021.
Political positions.
Abortion.
Smith is strongly anti-abortion. He is a co-chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus and is co-chair of the Trump Administration's Pro-Life Coalition. He supports the Mexico City policy, which blocks U.S. federal funding for non-governmental organizations that provide abortion counseling or referrals, advocate to decriminalize abortion or expand abortion services. In 2000, he voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2000.
Smith expressed support for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, an amendment to America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.
Smith has introduced various forms of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, starting with the original proposal in 2011. The 2011 proposal prohibited federal funds from being used for health benefits that cover abortion, unless in the case of rape, incest or if the woman could die. It also disqualified abortions from being written off on taxes. In 2013, Smith reintroduced the proposal, which further restricted insurance coverage of abortions. The bill passed the House but has yet to be voted on by the Senate.
Domestic violence.
Smith voted for the original 1994 Violence Against Women Act and co-sponsored the reauthorization bills of 2000 and 2005, the latter of which provided $1.6 billion for investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave un-prosecuted. Smith voted against reauthorizing the act in 2013, due to the Senate version of the bill's cutting of funding for the Trafficking in Persons Office at the State Department, which Smith's Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 created.
Environment.
As of 2017, Smith has a lifetime score of 62% on the National Environmental Scorecard of the League of Conservation Voters. He believes in climate change and has called it a "global challenge that must be addressed with a global solution."
Smith also opposes offshore drilling, particularly in New Jersey.
Guns.
Smith opposes concealed carry. In 2016, he was one of four Republicans to receive a 100% rating from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and has generally received low or intermediate ratings from pro-gun organizations Gun Owners of America and the National Rifle Association. Smith did not co-sponsor the Brady Campaign's proposed legislation to expand background checks for gun purchasers.
Smith was one of five Republicans to co-sponsor HR 8 in the 116th Congress, which would require mandatory background checks for gun sales.
Mass shootings.
Smith called the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting "tragic beyond words" and said, "The terrorist's motive, if linked to radical Islamist ideology, underscores the escalating national and worldwide threat from global jihad."
In the wake of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Smith co-sponsored a ban on bump stocks with Leonard Lance.
Health care.
Smith has written three major laws to address autism, including the most recent Autism CARES which included $1.3 billion in funding for research, services and supports and requires a report on aging out.
On May 9, 2014, Smith introduced the bill Autism CARES Act of 2014, a bill that would amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize research, surveillance, and education activities related to autism spectrum disorders (autism) conducted by various agencies within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
On May 9, 2019, Smith was one of only three Republicans who voted for HR 986, a measure supported by all voting House Democrats intended to maintain protections of those with preexisting medical conditions to have continued access to affordable medical insurance under the existing provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Five weeks earlier, he had voted with seven other Republicans to pass a resolution condemning the Trump administration's efforts by Department of Justice to have the courts invalidate Obamacare.
Lyme disease.
Smith has been a longtime promoter of the medically unrecognized "chronic Lyme disease", and has pushed for the medical establishment to recognize the condition. The condition, not to be confused with genuine Lyme disease, is generally rejected by medical professionals, and its promotion is generally seen as health fraud. In 2019, Smith proposed an investigation into whether the Pentagon had released "weaponized" ticks infected with Lyme disease into the environment between 1950 and 1975. Scientists identified this proposal—which Congress did not adopt—as based on a conspiracy theory and claimed that an investigation was unnecessary and a poor use of funds.
Human rights.
Smith advocates for human rights, serving on numerous committees that seek to impact both national and international laws and legislation. He has stated that the bills he introduces to the house are meant to make the U.S. take "human rights seriously."
In 1999, Smith proposed, as part of the American Embassy Security Act, to stop a U.S. sponsored program which provided training to Royal Ulster Constabulary with the FBI, due to claims of human rights violations, i.e. harassment of defense attorneys representing republicans in Northern Ireland. However, he voted no on a bill that halts arms sales to Saudi Arabia and removes troops from Yemen.
He supported the return David Goldman's son in the Goldman child abduction case, which involved a trip to Brazil. Smith acknowledges the Armenian Genocide and has made calls for the U.S. to recognize it.
In 2017, Smith co-sponsored an effort to prioritize human rights in Azerbaijan with Jim McGovern. The H. Res. 537 act also seeks to see further implementation of the Magnitsky Act regarding Azerbaijani officials, as well as a call for Azerbaijan to release all political prisoners. He supports efforts to deport Jakiw Palij, a denaturalized former American citizen residing in New York who failed to disclose he worked as a guard at a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Smith condemned Turkey's wide-ranging crackdown on dissent following a failed July 2016 coup.
China.
Smith has held congressional hearings and has proposed bills regarding human rights violations, specifically around women's sexual health, activism and religious groups, in China. He staunchly opposes the forced sterilization and forced abortions being implemented by the Chinese government towards women regarding China's one-child policy. Regarding the victimization of these women, Smith stated that "the agony that those women carry with them is beyond words. They talk about the pain that they carry for their child and for the violation by the state." In response, Smith wrote a bill, which was put into law in 1999, making it illegal for the U.S. to issue visas to foreign nationals who have been involved in forced abortion or sterilization.
Smith held a congressional hearing regarding the disappearance of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng. He attempted, in 2011, to visit Chen in China, when the activist was under house arrest, but was not granted permission. In response to the violations towards Chen and his family, Smith sponsored the China Democracy Promotion Act of 2011, which sought to prevent known Chinese human rights violators from entering the U.S.
In the wake of the 2014 Hong Kong class boycott campaign and Umbrella Movement, Smith co-sponsored the bipartisan Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, supporting Hong Kong's ongoing autonomy and the human rights of those Hong Kongers involved in nonviolent protests and/or those who have had their rights violated by the Chinese government.
In November 2018, Smith raised the issue of Xinjiang re-education camps and human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority. Smith said: "The internment of over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in China is a staggering evil and should be treated by the international community as a crime against humanity. The Chinese government's creation of a vast system of what can only be called concentration camps cannot be tolerated in the 21st century."
South Korea.
Smith has indicated his serious concern on the amendment of the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act in South Korea which passed the South Korean National Assembly on December 14, 2020. It penalizes activists who send anti-North Korean material across the border as balloon propaganda. It was passed by the super-majority of the ruling party of President Moon Jae-in who is keen to improve cross-border ties. Smith stated that "While I would hope that members of Korea’s Democratic Party would see how damaging this proposed legislation is to democratic principles and human rights, and thus reverse course, in the event that they pass such a law, I call upon our State Department to critically reevaluate the Republic of Korea’s commitment to democratic values in its annual human rights report, as well as in its report on international religious freedom. It may very well be that we will see South Korea put on a watch list, which would be a very sad development indeed."
Religion.
Smith supports religious rights regarding international human rights. He supports sanctions against Vietnam regarding their treatment of the Catholics and China regarding the Uyghurs and Falun Gong.
Immigration.
Smith supported the Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act in 2012, which would have extended the deadline for Indonesian immigrants to file for citizenship.
Intellectual property rights.
Smith authored the Global Online Freedom Act in 2007, but it did not become law. The proposed legislation was a bill "to promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to protect United States businesses from coercion to participate in repression by authoritarian foreign governments, and for other purposes." Specifically, the bill would prohibit American companies from turning over data about customers residing in "internet restrictive countries." The bill is supported by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. It is opposed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
January 6, 2021 commission.
On May 19, 2021, Smith was one of 35 Republicans who joined all Democrats in voting to approve legislation to establish the January 6, 2021 commission meant to investigate the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
LGBT rights.
Smith has a "0" rating from the Human Rights Campaign regarding LGBTQ rights; he does not support same-sex marriage and does not consider it a human right.
Labor movement.
Smith supports the Employee Free Choice Act. The AFL-CIO Legislative Scorecard, which tracks support for workers' rights, gives Smith a 61% lifetime rating, ranking him seventh of New Jersey's twelve Representatives, and 195th of the House's 435 Representatives.
The AFL-CIO endorsed Smith for re-election in 2018, calling him one of the "best candidates for working people," due to his support for collective bargaining, opposition to the Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision, and support for infrastructure funding, among other reasons.
As of March 2019, Smith is the only Republican co-sponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act. He also supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which expanded the scope of the statute of limitations for pay discrimination.
Marijuana.
Smith has a "D" rating from NORML regarding his voting record on cannabis-related matters. He has consistently voted against the Veterans Equal Access Amendment, which provides veterans access to information regarding medical marijuana accessibility in their respective states.
Veterans Affairs.
Bob Wallace, executive director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars calls Smith "the best friend" of veterans. In 2004, Smith refused to endorse the Republican budget proposal unless it included more money for veterans. In a congressional hearing, Smith publicly articulated his belief that the Bush Administration's budget request was $1.2 billion less than the Department of Veterans Affairs actually required, embarrassing the administration and Republican congressional leadership. In 2005, Smith was removed from his chairmanship and membership on the Veterans Affair Committee for his aggressive role in seeking more funding for veteran-related causes.
Science policy.
Smith supports efforts to provide alternatives to embryonic stem cell research. In 2005, he co-sponsored a bill with Artur Davis to fund the creation of a network of national blood banks to distribute umbilical cord blood for stem cell research.
Taxation.
Smith voted against the 2017 Republican tax legislation backed by Donald Trump; he was one of five Republican representatives from New Jersey who joined Democrats in opposing the bill. Smith opposed the bill as "unfair to the taxpayers of New Jersey" because it dramatically limited the federal reduction of state and local taxes (SALT). and said he would be "forced to oppose" more tax cuts if legislation included a provision permanently extending the $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction.
Controversy.
Residence.
In 2008, Smith was criticized by many of his constituents for spending about 80% of his time in Herndon, Virginia. At the time, he maintained a residence in Virginia and an apartment in New Jersey. Homeownership and residency were not requirements to run for Congress in New Jersey. Smith did not question the data, but responded that the only issue was whether he was "being effective" as Representative and that it was "an affront to say to anyone who does rent in New Jersey that they're any less a resident of a town."
Town halls.
Since 1993, Smith has been criticized by many of his constituents for taking them for granted and not participating in town halls. Smith held a virtual town hall with the Asbury Park Press in 2018.
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Dean Gallo

Dean Anderson Gallo (November 23, 1935 – November 6, 1994) was an American Republican Party politician, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from 1985 until his death from prostate cancer in Denville, New Jersey in 1994.
Early life.
Gallo was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of Dean and Selma Gallo. He grew up in Boonton, New Jersey, attended public schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, and was a 1954 graduate of Boonton High School. He spent his career as a Realtor and real estate developer, and was an owner of Gallo & DeCroce, a firm he started with another future elected official, Alex DeCroce.
Early political career.
Gallo was elected to the Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Council in 1967, and served as Council President from 1968 to 1971. He was elected to the Morris County Board of Freeholders in 1971 to fill an unexpired term, and elected to a full three-year term in 1972. He was the Freeholder Director from 1973 to 1975. In 1974, Gallo considered running for Congress in the 5th district, which included parts of Morris, Somerset, Essex and Mercer counties. The Republican incumbent, Peter Frelinghuysen, was retiring after 22 years. He instead endorsed Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean, who narrowly lost the GOP primary to Millicent Fenwick.
New Jersey State Assemblyman.
In 1975, Gallo became a candidate for the New Jersey General Assembly in the 24th Legislative District, which included part of Morris County and Summit in Union County. Gallo won the Republican primary by a more than 2-1 margin against four other candidates, W. Thomas Tintle, Gerard R. Hughes, Jack Newberger and Raymond F. Bonnell. In the general election, he defeated two-term Democratic Assemblyman John J. Sinsimer by 6,605 votes, 26,277 to 19,672. Gallo faced Sinsimer again in 1977 and won by an even greater margin, 15,505 votes, 33,306 to 17,801. He was re-elected by equally impressive margins in 1979, 1981, and 1983. Gallo was elected Assembly Minority Leader in 1981 and was re-elected to a second term in 1983.
U.S. Congressman.
New Jersey's congressional map drawn after the 1980 census was thrown out in 1984 on the grounds that the variations in district populations were too large. A panel of federal judges substituted a new map that significantly altered the 11th District, home to 11-term Democratic incumbent Joseph Minish. Democratic-tilting towns in Essex, Hudson, southern Bergen and Passaic counties were cut out. To make up for the loss in population, the district was pushed further into heavily Republican Morris County, and also absorbed several equally Republican areas in Sussex and Warren counties while retaining the more Republican areas of Essex County. Gallo immediately jumped into the race; the redrawn 11th included his home in Parsippany. Minish was thought to face very difficult odds for reelection, but opted to run in the 11th after considering a run in another district.
Ultimately, Gallo defeated Minish by 27,624 votes, 133,662 (56%) to 106,038 (44%). He was undoubtedly helped by Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection bid that year. Gallo's campaign was managed by Assemblyman (and later Congressman) Bob Franks. He was easily re-elected in 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992 in what became one of the most Republican districts in the Northeast. Gallo served on the House Appropriations Committee, and joined the House Republican leadership as a Deputy Minority Whip.
In 1994, Gallo faced a primary challenge from Dr. Joseph Pennacchio, a considerably more conservative Republican. Pennacchio spent over $200,000 of his own money attacking Gallo. Gallo won 26,492 (65.28%) to 10,917 (26.90%) in a four-candidate race.
Illness, death and legacy.
The 1994 primary turned out to be Gallo's final campaign. He had been treated for prostate cancer in 1992 and the cancer returned in 1994. He withdrew as a candidate for re-election on August 29, 1994, and died on November 6, 1994 at age 58. Assemblyman Rodney Frelinghuysen was named to replace Gallo on the ballot, and was elected two days after Gallo's death.
The Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey is named in his honor.


Testosterone phosphate

Testosterone phosphate (brand name Telipex Aquosum) is an androgen and anabolic steroid and a testosterone ester. Its structure is contained within polytestosterone phloretin phosphate.


Rob Flello

Robert Charles Douglas Flello (born 14 January 1966) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent South from 2005 to 2017. He lost his seat at the 2017 general election to Conservative Party candidate Jack Brereton.
Early life.
Flello was born in Bournville, Birmingham. He attended Bournville Junior and Infant schools before going to King's Norton Boys' School. At age 18 he went to University of Wales, Bangor to read Chemistry. He graduated in 1987 with a B.Sc (Hons).
Career.
After graduating, Flello worked for a short time at Cadbury in Bournville before joining the Inland Revenue. In 1989 he left to join Price Waterhouse accountants as a personal tax advisor. In 1995 he moved to Arthur Andersen. In 1999, he co-founded Platts Flello Limited, tax and financial advisors. In late 2003 he left to work as the CEO of Malachi Community Trust until December 2004.
Political career.
Flello was elected as a councillor to the Longbridge ward of Birmingham City Council in 2002, stepping down in 2004. He is a former chairman of the Birmingham Northfield Constituency Labour Party. He served as a governor at the Newman College in Bartley Green, and was Chair of Governors for both Colmers Farm infants and junior schools. He was also a governor at The Meadows primary school. He served as a regional organiser for the Labour Party in 2004 until his election to Westminster.
Parliament.
Flello was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election for Stoke-on-Trent South following the retirement of George Stevenson. Flello held the seat with a majority of 8,681 and made his maiden speech on 19 May 2005.
In parliament he was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee. While Labour were in government he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary first to the Lord Chancellor, Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, then to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, and finally after 2009 to the Secretary of State for Defence, Bob Ainsworth.
In June 2016, Labour Party activists in Stoke-on-Trent South proposed a motion of no confidence in Flello after he called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to "do the decent thing and resign". He had supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.
In 2019 he defected to the Lib Dems and was selected as their parliamentary candidate for his old seat. 36 hours after his selection, however, the Lib Dems deselected Flello, citing "how greatly his values diverge from ours". It is believed that they objected to his socially conservative views on abortion and same-sex marriage.
Social views.
Flello is a convert to Catholicism and stated in 2014 "I could no more leave my faith at the door of the House of Commons than I could my name or my gender or my arms and legs". He was a member of the anti-abortion All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group. Flello also opposes same-sex marriage and was one of the few Labour MPs to vote against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, citing his religious views.
Controversies.
In 2007 Flello was accused of filibustering a fellow Labour backbencher's private members bill. The bill, introduced by neighbouring Staffordshire MP Paul Farrelly, aimed to give temporary and agency workers similar employment rights to permanent staff. It was backed by the Unite trade union. The incident provoked an angry response in the "Daily Mirror".
In 2017, Flello blamed "shocking congestion" in London on the loss of tarmac from building cycle lanes, which received a critical response from bike charity the London Cycling Campaign and cycling website road.cc, both pointing out that tarmac had been repurposed to another form of transport and that the increased number of journeys overall in Central London were what was causing congestion, not the segregated cycle tracks that are on less than 1% of London roads.


Carole Cook

Carole Cook (born January 14, 1924) is an American actress of musical theatre, film, and television.
Life and career.
She was born Mildred Frances Cook in 1924 in Abilene, Texas, one of four children born to Leland Preston (L.P.) Cook, Sr., and his wife, Maudine. She became a protégé of actress and comedian Lucille Ball in 1959, when the television star brought Cook to Hollywood to appear in the “Desilu Review”. It was Ball who gave the ingenue her stage name of "Carole", for Ball's friend Carole Lombard. Ball reportedly told Cook, "you have the same healthy disrespect for everything in general". Cook appeared regularly on "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy". Ball was matron of honor at Cook's wedding in 1964 to actor Tom Troupe, to whom she remains married; the couple have no children together.
Cook starred in the animated Disney film "Home on the Range", voicing Pearl Gesner. She appeared in such feature films as "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", "Sixteen Candles", "Grandview, U.S.A.", "American Gigolo", "Summer Lovers", and "Palm Springs Weekend". She made guest appearances on such television shows as "The Lucy Show", "Here's Lucy", "Darkroom", "Knight Rider", "Emergency!", "Magnum, P.I.", "McMillan and Wife", "Murder, She Wrote", "Dynasty", "Charlie's Angels", "Cagney & Lacey", and "Grey's Anatomy".
In addition to her film and television work, Cook appeared in the original Broadway productions of "42nd Street" and "Romantic Comedy" and was the second actress (after Carol Channing) to star as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" She played Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway production of "The Threepenny Opera", starring Lotte Lenya.
Personal life.
Cook is a longtime supporter of various AIDS organizations and regularly appears as a featured performer in the annual Los Angeles S.T.A.G.E. benefit. With her actor husband, Tom Troupe, Cook received the 2002 Theatre Ovation Award for Lifetime Career Achievement, the first husband and wife to be so honored. Cook received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Baylor University, the S.T.A.G.E. Producers Award and the Hero in the Fight Against AIDS Award from the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation, as well as eight Drama-Logue and Robby Awards.
On September 9, 2018, a reporter from TMZ approached Cook to ask her opinion about an actor who grabbed a Trump 2020 sign from someone who held it up in the audience during a performance of the musical "Frozen". She replied "Where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?" Someone off camera questioned "So we need to kill President Trump?", to which she replied "Why not?" Cook's comment received widespread attention and criticism.


Marcy Bloom

Marcy Bloom (born 1954) is an American pro-choice activist known for serving for eighteen years as executive director of Aradia Women's Health Center in Seattle. Bloom was the 2006 recipient of the ACLU's highest honor, the William O. Douglas Award for her work.
Bloom has described abortion as a "moral good" rather than a necessary evil. She writes a regular column for RH Reality Check, and is a leading fundraiser for reproductive rights organizations in Mexico. In addition to her work for abortion rights, Bloom is regarded as an expert on the biological aspects of sexual intercourse.
During the 2000 Democratic primary campaign, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey enlisted Bloom to tape radio ads critical of Al Gore's past flirtation with opposition to abortion.
Bloom is a board member of the Washington, DC.-based National Abortion Rights Action League.


Tadeusz Pacholczyk

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. (born 1964) is an American Roman Catholic priest, neuroscientist and writer.
Biography.
Pacholczyk grew up in Tucson, Arizona to a Polish family. His father Andrzej Pacholczyk was a professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona. He earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale University and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University.
In 1999, he was ordained a priest, after studying in Rome. He quickly became a church spokesman on what he calls beginning-of-life and end-of-life issues. He is a proponent of the teachings of the Catholic Church in opposition to human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. (See Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells.) He has testified before state legislatures and been quoted in the press. Pacholczyk writes a nationally-syndicated column, titled "Making Sense of Bioethics," that appears in numerous Catholic diocesan newspapers in the United States and has been reprinted in newspapers in Canada, England, Poland, and Australia. He has written on a broad range of medical ethical issues, including ethical prescription and use of opioids, use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional athletics, animal/human hybrids, artificial nutrition and hydration, conscience rights for health care providers and patients, "in vitro" fertilization, palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted suicide. In July 2020, he was appointed by United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar to serve on the National Institute of Health Human Fetal Research Ethics Advisory Board.
, Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He also serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, whose long-time director, John Haas (retired 2019), is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Opposing physician-assisted suicide.
On October 7, 2012, Pacholczyk wrote a piece in the "Wall Street Journal" titled "Please Step Back From the Assisted-Suicide Ledge" in which he notes, "If physician-assisted suicide really represents a good choice, we need to ask: Why should only physicians be able to participate?" He follows the rhetorical question to its conclusion by noting, "Why should doctors have a monopoly on undermining public trust? Police and lifeguards could help out too."
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts.
On October 22, 2018, Pacholczyk wrote a piece in the "Catholic Herald" titled "Sexual Orientation: Hope for restoration and healing with SOCE" (Sexual Orientation Change Efforts). He describes the measured conclusion of a review by Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. of six studies published between 2000 and 2018 which concludes that SOCE "can be effective for some clients in bringing about significant change in some components of sexual orientation", and that "few harms were reported".
Ethical oversight of human scientific research.
In December 2001, Pacholczyk testified before the Massachusetts Senate that "embryonic human life is inviolable and deserving of unconditional respect." On January 10, 2020, he wrote a piece in "The Boston Pilot" titled "The Foxes and the Henhouse" He describes the production of two gene-edited human babies in China, and the apparent inability of the scientific establishment to provide adequate ethical regulation and oversight of research involving embryonic humans.
COVID-19.
Pacholczyk has written and commented about the ethics of COVID-19 vaccines and COVID-19 treatments. His writings and comments have addressed issues such as the rationing of medical care (such as ventilators), whether and when prisoners should be given priority to receive vaccinations for COVID-19, whether public health officials can make it mandatory for people to receive a vaccine, and whether medical treatments and vaccines derived from cell lines derived from aborted fetuses are ethical.


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Cheryl Sullenger

Cheryl Deann Sullenger (born 1955) is an American anti-abortion activist. Sullenger is the senior vice president for Kansas-based Operation Rescue, an organization that works to oppose abortion and to document legal violations by abortion providers. In 1987 she was convicted and imprisoned for two years for participating in a failed attempt to bomb an abortion clinic. She has previously made false claims against individuals that have endangered their careers and lives.
Anti-abortion activism.
Sullenger started her involvement with the anti-abortion movement in 1984, volunteering for a crisis pregnancy center in San Diego County.
Attempted bombing of abortion clinic.
Sullenger and her husband Randall were members of the Bible Missionary Fellowship, a fundamentalist church in Santee, California. On July 27, 1987, a member of that church attempted to bomb the Family Planning Associates abortion business. Sullenger provided a wig for co-conspirator Eric Everett Svelmoe, who planted the bomb. The gasoline bomb was placed at the premises but failed to detonate as the fuse was blown out by wind.
Sullenger and her husband both pleaded guilty to conspiring to damage the Alvarado Medical Center abortion clinic and publicly apologized for their involvement. Sullenger's husband was sentenced to 18 months and she was sentenced to three years by US District Judge Earl B. Gillam. Her sentence was scheduled to begin after her husband's ended so that one of them could stay at home with their daughters, then four and six-years-old. Sullenger served two years in U.S. federal prison and was released in April 1990.
Following completion of her sentence, Sullenger taught children at a Christian school for seven years. She was also elected to the Central Committee of the 75th District of the San Diego Republican Party.
Wichita and Operation Rescue.
In 2003 Sullenger moved to Wichita, Kansas where she began serving as a senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue under Troy Newman. With Newman she wrote the books "Their Blood Cries Out!" and "Abortion Free". In 2003 she and Newman issued a statement on upon the execution of Paul Jennings Hill, alleging that a judge did not allow Hill to mount the defense of his choosing, and thereby denied him due process.
Sullenger was in communication with Scott Roeder, the man who assassinated abortion provider George Tiller in 2009. Sullenger initially denied any contact with Roeder. After Sullenger's phone number was discovered on the dashboard of Roeder's car, she admitted that she had informed Roeder of Tiller's scheduled court dates. Roeder also said that Sullenger had been present at two meetings with Newman where Roeder asked about "justifiable" homicide.


Trevor Khan

Trevor John Khan, an Australian politician, is a Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and serves as Deputy President and Chair of Committees. Khan has been a member of the Council since 24 March 2007.
Background and early career.
Khan attended Illawarra Grammar School in Wollongong from 1962 to 1975. While attending school, his teachers were able to identify that he had dyslexia. Khan was put through a special reading program at that school and was able to leave school with a Higher School Certificate in 1975.
After school, he was employed as a Personnel Officer and was also an Industrial Relations Officer for Australian Paper Manufacturers. He attended the University of New South Wales and completed a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws from that university. He was subsequently admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1985.
Khan moved to Tamworth in 1985, where he practised as a lawyer with principally criminal and family law practice areas. Having become an Accredited Special Advocate, Khan was well known on the court circuit of north-western New South Wales. He became a partner in Egan Murphy solicitors 1990, a role he retained until his election to Parliament. As a lawyer, he was a member of the Family Issues Committee of the New South Wales Law Society.
Political career.
In 2004, he unsuccessfully stood as the Nationals candidate in the regional NSW seat of New England in the Australian federal election.
Khan was number eight on the joint Liberal/National election ticket for the 2007 New South Wales state election, and having been elected to the Legislative Council, he commenced his first term as a Member of NSW Parliament in March 2007. He was last of the twenty one members to be elected at that election.
He has held several roles on Parliamentary Committees, including being the Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Issues, Chair of the Legislative Council's Privileges Committee, Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral matters, and has sat as a Member of the Joint Standing Committee on the ICAC, the Committee on the Ombudsman, the Law Enforcement Commission and the Crime Commission, and the Standing Committee on Law and Justice.
Khan was also a Member of the NSW Parliamentary Working Group on Marriage Equality which introduced the Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2013 into the Legislative Council, and served as a Member of the Select Committee on the Partial Defence of Provocation which resulted in amendments to the law of provocation in NSW including the abolition of the homosexual advance defence.
Khan was reelected to the Parliament of NSW at the 2015 NSW state election, and now holds the office of Deputy President and Chair of Committees of the Legislative Council, deputising for the Presiding Officer of the Parliament of NSW, and Chairing the 'Committee of the Whole' process in the Legislative Council chamber.
Khan is currently a Member of the NSW Parliamentary Working Group on Assisted Dying which introduced the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 into the Legislative Council.
Personal life.
Khan's grandfather, Fazee Gulum Mohammed Khan, was a Muslim immigrant born in the Punjab region of British India who arrived in Australia in the 1890s. Regarding his early family members, Khan remarked that they "faced a range of challenges... The challenges they faced were not Left/Right, they were the challenges of ignorance and fear." He is married to Elizabeth (Libby) and has two children.


Joseph Alioto

Joseph Lawrence Alioto (February 12, 1916 – January 29, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 36th mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1968 to 1976.
Biography.
Alioto was born in San Francisco in 1916. His father, Giuseppe Alioto (1886-1961), was a Sicilian immigrant who owned and operated several fish processing companies. His mother, Domenica Mae Lazio (1893-1971), was born in San Francisco. His parents met on a fishing boat while escaping the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Education.
He attended Sacred Heart High School (presently Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory). He graduated with honors from St. Mary's College, Moraga, California in 1937 and from law school at The Catholic University of America with honors in 1940.
Law practice.
Alioto worked for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and then for the Board of Economic Warfare. He returned to San Francisco after World War II and started an antitrust practice, representing Walt Disney and Samuel Goldwyn, among others, eventually becoming a millionaire. He was on the briefs in "Radovich v. National Football League" and argued Continental Ore Co. v. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., 370 U.S. 690 (1962), an antitrust landmark, and Utah Pie Co. v. Continental Baking Co., 386 U.S. 685 (1967), all three Supreme Court of the United States cases. In Radovich, the Supreme Court held that professional football, unlike baseball, was subject to antitrust laws. Continental Ore is one of the most comprehensive and important antitrust cases ever decided by the Supreme Court.
In 1980, he represented Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders in a landmark antitrust case entitled Los Angeles Coliseum Commission v. The NFL. The case established the right of football franchises to move to football markets throughout the United States without the approval of other franchise owners. In 1993, he represented his father-in-law Billy Sullivan in his lawsuit against the NFL. The court ruled that Sullivan was forced by the league to sell his team at below market value and awarded him $114 million.
Political career.
Alioto served on the San Francisco Board of Education from 1948 to 1954, and in the 1960s, served as the chair of the city's Redevelopment Agency. In 1967, Alioto signed on as campaign finance chairman for the mayoral candidacy of California State Senator J. Eugene McAteer. When McAteer collapsed and died while playing a game of handball, Alioto entered the race. John Shelley, the incumbent, bowed out, allegedly because of poor health but probably because Alioto was more pro-development than Shelley; additionally, Shelley was expected to lose a re-match against his 1963 opponent, Republican Harold Dobbs. Alioto defeated Dobbs, 44.2%-37.8%, in an 18-candidate field.
Joseph L. Alioto was inaugurated on January 8, 1968, served a term, and was handily re-elected in 1971. Alioto delivered the speech nominating Hubert Humphrey at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. There were rumors that Humphrey would select Alioto as his running mate, but Humphrey selected Edmund Muskie. An article in the September 23, 1969 issue of "Look" magazine claimed that Alioto had business and personal ties to the Los Angeles Mafioso boss Jimmy Fratianno. Alioto later sued "Look" for libel and won a $450,000 judgment. In the course of the litigation, Alioto proved that "Look", desperate and on the verge of bankruptcy, simply conjured up (with no proof) an alleged mob meeting in Vacaville, California at the Nut Tree Restaurant. He later claimed that he had documents that showed that the Nixon administration leaked disinformation to the magazine in order to stall his career.
In January 1970, the State of Washington, three cities, a port authority, and eight public utilities brought a civil suit against Alioto because he split a $2.3 million fee in an antitrust case with Washington State Attorney General John J. O'Connell and an O’Connell deputy, George Faler. Attorney General O’Connell had maintained Public Utility Districts as private clients during his time as AG. The Public Utility Districts were suing electrical manufactures that were fixing prices at an improperly high level. The case began in 1962 and O’Connell retained Alioto, a very successful anti-trust attorney, to work on the case. Originally, Alioto agreed to receive 15% of what was awarded with a $1 million cap. Later, O’Connell, apparently without telling his clients, abolished the fee ceiling. Alioto ended up receiving approximately $2.3 million and gave $802,815 of those fees to O’Connell and Faler. The state and other groups sued to have the entire $2.3 million returned; Alioto successfully sought a change of venue from Washington to San Francisco. The trial took six months and jury unanimously found the three were entitled to the $2.3 million.
Alioto was also indicted by a federal grand jury in March 1971 on bribery charges because of the means by which the fees were awarded. When the case went to court, Alioto was cleared of the federal charges by a judge who ordered acquittal because he was convinced a jury would not convict when it considered the evidence.
Under California law it was illegal for public employees to strike. Nevertheless, city employees called a strike in March 1974, picketing city hall and shutting down municipal services. After a week Mayor Alioto and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed to the strikers' demands. The city controller, however, refused to pay out what he believed were illegal salaries. In April 1975 the California Supreme Court ordered the city controller to pay the salaries, with Justice Mathew Tobriner finding that contracts secured through illegal strikes are still legally enforceable.
Major crime became a problem with the Zodiac Killer, the Symbionese Liberation Army attacks and the Black Power Zebra Murders all occurring under Alioto’s watch.
During the Zebra Murders in 1974, Alioto's wife, Angelina Alioto, vanished, reappearing after 18 days to claim that she had taken off to "punish" her husband for neglect. During the time Angelina was missing, she toured the missions of California as part of a religious pilgrimage. Angelina filed divorce proceedings against him in 1975. He remarried in 1978.
Alioto ran in the 1974 Democratic primary for governor, finishing second behind Jerry Brown.
In July 1975 the LAPD unexpectedly announced a pay raise. For years the San Francisco Police Department had been the top paid in the state, with the San Francisco Fire Department guaranteed the same pay. The SF police promptly demanded they be paid more than the LAPD. The Board of Supervisors, however, determined that the pay raise would drive the city into deficit, and unanimously approved a raise only half of what the police requested.
California law still prohibited public employees from striking. The police and firefighters elected to strike anyway, with 90% illegally abandoning their posts.
The city then obtained a court order declaring the strike illegal and enjoining the officers to return to work. The court messenger delivering the order was met with violence and the police continued to strike.
Only managers and African-American officers remained, with 45 officers and 3 fire trucks responsible for the whole city. Supervisor Dianne Feinstein pleaded for Mayor Alioto to ask Governor Jerry Brown to call out the National Guard to patrol the streets but Alioto refused.
When enraged citizens confronted police at the picket lines the police arrested them. Federal authorities were forced to intervene after striking firefighters attempted to seize San Francisco International Airport. Heavy drinking on the picket line became common and after striking police officers started shooting out streetlights the ACLU obtained a court order prohibiting strikers from carrying their service revolvers. Again, the police ignored the court order.
On August 20 a bomb detonated at the Mayor’s home with a sign reading "Don’t Threaten Us" left on his lawn. On August 21 Mayor Alioto advised the Supervisors that they should concede to the strikers' demands. The Supervisors unanimously refused. Mayor Alioto then immediately declared a state of emergency, assumed "legislative powers", and granted the strikers’ demands.
The Supervisors and taxpayers sued but the court reaffirmed that contracts obtained through illegal strikes are still legally enforceable. Nevertheless, the Supervisors placed on the November ballot charter initiatives revoking the mayor’s emergency powers, requiring police to be automatically fired if they strike, preventing firemen from holding second jobs, and requiring future pay raises to be averaged with California’s other large cities. All the ballot initiatives passed by extremely large margins.
After he left office, Alioto went back into private practice. He and his son Joseph Jr. lost a major malpractice case against a cattle rancher in 1980. He received millions in legal fees after counseling the Oakland Raiders win against the City of Oakland. In 1991, he and his son went to battle in court against each other over legal fees in the Raiders case.
Death.
Alioto died of prostate cancer in San Francisco on January 29, 1998 and was interred at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California. A cenotaph is located at Holy Cross Cemetery (Section D).
Legacy.
Alioto presided over a time of turmoil and change in San Francisco.
Events that occurred during his tenure as mayor included strife in the Haight-Ashbury with the drug culture, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, the start of the gay Castro District, Black Panther marches, the Zebra murders and Zodiac killings. He ran on a platform of reducing taxes and fighting crime.
Alioto put his energy behind the development of three major building projects: the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART); the Transamerica Pyramid; and the Embarcadero Center. These efforts engendered opposition in the development stage but were eventually built, transforming the quality of life and skyline of San Francisco.
Alioto helped to bring more minorities into city politics, launched a reform of the city charter, and mediated protracted police and fire department strikes in 1975. Alioto's tenure began with a citywide newspaper strike of the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "San Francisco Examiner" in February 1968. The first faculty strike at a college or university in the United States was at San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University, during 1968–1969; Alioto gave the law enforcement resources of the City and County of San Francisco to the university president, S.I. Hayakawa.
The Joseph L. Alioto Recreation Center at his alma mater, Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California opened in 2015 and is named after him. The privately funded facility cost $23.5 million, and includes an outdoor aquatics center, indoor exercise equipment, a rock climbing wall, and a cafe. The center serves the general student body, while varsity athletes use separate dedicated training facilities.
After his death, the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco was dedicated as the "Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza" on October 28, 1998. Additionally, there is a mini park and community garden named for him in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Alioto family.
Alioto had five sons and a daughter with his first wife Angelina Genaro (1915-2010), and a son and daughter with his second wife Kathleen Sullivan.
Members of Alioto's family are still involved in San Francisco politics. His second wife, Kathleen Sullivan Alioto, was a member of the Boston School committee and a candidate for a United States Senate seat in Massachusetts in the 1978 primary. Sullivan and Alioto married in 1978 and remained together until his death in 1998. Because they were both divorced, the wedding was performed by excommunicated Catholic priest and activist Joseph O'Rourke.
Angela Alioto, the daughter from his first marriage, served eight years as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, two as its President. One of Angela's three sons, Joe Alioto Veronese, campaigned for a California State Senate seat in 2008. One of his granddaughters, Michela Alioto-Pier, was appointed to the Board of Supervisors in 2003 by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and won election to the Board in 2004. His grandson Joseph Alioto Jr. ran an unsuccessful bid for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in District 3. Several of his sons, as well as many of his grandchildren, are successful attorneys and businesspersons in the San Francisco Bay Area.


Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas (Texas Health Dallas, Presbyterian, or Presby) is a teaching hospital and tertiary care facility in the United States, located in the Vickery Meadow area of Dallas, Texas. It is the flagship institution of 29 hospitals in Texas Health Resources, the largest healthcare system in North Texas and one of the largest in the United States. The hospital, which opened in 1966, has 875 beds and around 1,200 physicians. The hospital is the largest business within Vickery Meadow. In 2008, the hospital implemented a program in which critical care physician specialists are available to patients in the medical and surgical intensive care units 24 hours a day, eliminating ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line infections and pressure ulcers. The hospital has maintained an active internal medicine residency training program since 1977, and hosts rotating medical students from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Ebola virus outbreak.
In 2014, the hospital was thrust into the national spotlight as the site of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States (see Ebola incident). One patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, who allegedly told healthcare workers there that he had recently traveled from Liberia, was not initially diagnosed with Ebola, but sent home. When he continued to become sicker he returned to the hospital, where his Ebola was correctly diagnosed, but he died of the disease. Two nurses who had treated this patient, Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson, subsequently contracted Ebola. Ms. Vinson had flown from Dallas to Ohio and back before she was diagnosed with Ebola, potentially exposing a number of other people to the disease in the meantime.
In Popular Culture.
Exteriors of the 1966 hospital building were used extensively in the original nighttime drama Dallas. the building represented the fictional Dallas Memorial Hospital during on location filming and in establishing shots during Seasons 2, 3 & 4 of the series which included record high rated episodes related to Who shot J.R.? storyline.


Danny Dias

Danny Dias (c. 1983 – June 4, 2017) was an American activist and reality television personality. Dias starred on season 13 on MTV's "Road Rules", , in 2004. In 2005, he returned to MTV in Bunim/Murray Productions' spinoff "Real World/Road Rules Challenge", "". He later co-founded an AIDS research charity.
Early life and Career.
Dias was born in Linden, New Jersey. He majored in music education at Westminster Choir College, a music conservatory affiliated with Rider University in Princeton, which he attended from 2001 to 2003. Dias, who was openly gay, was cast in season 13 of MTV's "Road Rules" while he was still attending college. ", which was filmed in an RV in Argentina and Chile, aired in 2004. The season cast included Dias, as well as Derrick Kosinski, Jodi Weatherton, Ibis Nieves, and Patrick Maloney. However, Dias was voted out in Episode 6 as a punishment for losing a mission and was replaced by Nick Haggart.
Dias returned to MTV for ", which aired from 2005 to 2006. He was eliminated from the competition after four episodes.
Following his time on "Road Rules", Dias studied acting and worked in finance. He also become an AIDS activist and co-founded the research charity, Generation Cure.
Death.
Dias was found unconscious at his Flushing Avenue apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on June 4, 2017, at the age of 34. Friends had reportedly not reached him for two days. He was pronounced dead by authorities at approximately 5 p.m., though a cause of death was initially unknown.
In August 2017, a spokesperson for the New York City Chief Medical Examiner’s office said he died from “complications of chronic substance abuse.”


Patti Jannetta

Patti Jannetta is a Canadian pop and rock singer, who was most prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Background.
She was first discovered while going to school in Toronto after which she became a teen actress and landed a role in the Canadian production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." She was later active with the band Mixed Reaction.
Her father is Louis Jannetta, the longtime maitre d' of Toronto's Imperial Room,
Work.
She released her first album, "Patti Jannetta", in 1981. The album's first single "You've Got No One" charted on the Adult Contemporary charts in "RPM", peaking at #7 in the week of April 9, 1983, the second single "I'm Ready for Your Love" peaked at #15 in the week of August 6, and "Don't Change" peaked at #13 in the week of April 7, 1984.
She represented Canada at the Festival Sopot in Poland in 1984, and was presented the "Musician's Favorite" award. In 1986, she hosted her own Christmas special on CFTO-TV.
Her second album, "Breathless", was released in 1988, and garnered radio airplay for the singles "Party Girl" and "Name of the Game". She promoted the album with a cross-Canada concert tour, including a performance in Ottawa as part of the 76th Grey Cup festivities. She was a Juno Award nominee for Most Promising Female Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1989.
She followed up in 1991 with her third and final album, "Mark on My Heart". The album's main singles were "I Know You'll Wait" and the title track; "I Know You'll Wait" reached #28 on "RPM"'s adult contemporary charts the week of July 6, 1991, while "Mark on My Heart" reached #14 on the adult contemporary charts the week of August 29, 1992, and #64 on the general contemporary hit radio chart in the week of July 25. The album also included the song "Even Though You're Gone", a tribute to a friend who had died of AIDS. Her tour to support the album was one of the first concert tours ever to be officially sponsored by a condom company, she included a safer sex education component in her live show, and a portion of the album's sales were donated to AIDS charities.
She has not released any further albums since "Mark on My Heart", instead becoming involved in arts and charity administration, although she has continued to perform at benefit concerts in Toronto and Mississauga, including the 1999 Sick Kids Hospital Mistletoe Ball and Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion's 90th birthday party in 2011. She has also performed and toured as a backing vocalist for Ronnie Hawkins.
In 2013, Jannetta was presented with the Freedom for the Song award, in honour of her role in a 1987 protest by musicians against Canadian royalty payment rates. She was both the youngest and the only female musician active in the campaign.


Mark Gietzen

Mark S. Gietzen is an American pro-life and conservative political activist. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, United States. He is the chairman and founder of the group Kansas Coalition for Life. Since 2004, he has served continuously as the elected President of The Kansas Republican Assembly, a state affiliate of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies.
Pro-Life activities.
Gietzen is the chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life. One of the major projects of this organization was to place crosses each day on public property in front of George Tiller's late-term abortion facility in Wichita. KCFL claims 395 babies saved to date. As part of this project, pro-life volunteers were present on public property in front of the facility whenever it was open for business. Gietzen had protested the facility since 1978.
Gietzen is leading the movement for heartbeat legislation in Kansas, which would prevent abortions from being done if a heartbeat is detected on an unborn baby. This bill would be similar to legislation that has passed the Ohio House. According to the Wichita Eagle, Gietzen feels it would withstand a US Supreme Court challenge. He is working to gather thousands of signatures requesting a special session of the Kansas legislature to take up this legislation.
Political Activities.
Gietzen has been described by the Wichita Eagle as a "staunch conservative". As Vice Chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Party, Gietzen became chairman of the party on August 13, 1992 after the resignation of the party chair. Gietzen went on to be elected chairman later in the year. In his role as chairman, he opposed a city sales tax increase, opposed Wichita taxpayer funding of art projects, converted a Democratic stronghold in the state of Kansas to a Republican stronghold, created a solid pro-life majority in the Sedgwick County Republican Party, and worked to elect Todd Tiahrt for Kansas' Fourth Congressional District. He resigned as chairman on June 10, 1996, in order to run for the Kansas State Senate. He was also a candidate for the same Kansas State Senate seat (28th district) in 1988 and 1992. In 2004, he lost in a Republican primary for the seat. In 2008, he ran in a primary for the Kansas State House in District 96.
At the Kansas state Republican party level, Gietzen worked to bring a pro-life leadership to the Kansas state Republican Party, while he was Chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Party. He serves as president of the Kansas Republican Coalition for Life. Gietzen publicly criticized former GOP state chairman Tim Shallenberger for welcoming Republicans who support abortion to the party, comparing him to President George W. Bush's failed Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers.
Gietzen is president of the Kansas Republican Action Assembly. This group is affiliated with the National Federation of Republican Assemblies.
In 2004 Gietzen was featured prominently in several sections of the New York Times Best Selling book "What’s the Matter with Kansas?" by Thomas Frank and later played himself in a movie by the same title.
Other activities.
Gietzen is the director of the Christian Singles Information-exchange and was employed as a Boeing procurement quality auditor. He wrote a book titled "Is it a Sin for a Christian to Be a Registered Democrat in America Today?" and discussed it on a segment of the June 25, 2001 broadcast of Hannity and Colmes.
In July 1986, Mark Gietzen was charged with battery (spousal abuse) of his first wife. As a result of this crime he was placed on probation for twelve months, and subsequently was divorced. He affirmed these facts about his past in the course of a 1998 libel suit, which he lost, against State Senator Paul Feleciano.
In 1990, Mark Gietzen's ex-wife wrote a letter which was notarized, explaining the circumstances. It was published in September 1992. In the letter, she explained that while she signed a criminal complaint against her husband in 1986, she did not give accurate or complete information about the event to the court. In her letter, she states that she had overdosed on drugs a few hours prior to the incident. Coming back into the house while still under the influence, she began destroying household objects. Gietzen's wife then physically attacked Gietzen himself by throwing household items at him, starting the incident. Immediately after the fight, she intentionally broke a window, injuring herself, while Gietzen and their children were in another room. The letter further indicated that prior to the incident, Gietzen had never once touched her in anger. In the letter, she stated that she regrets signing the criminal complaint against her ex-husband.


Albin Rhomberg

Albin Rhomberg is an American anti-abortion activist and physicist based in Sacramento, California.
In 1978, while Rhomberg was a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, he joined students Susan Erzinger and Peggy Pattonin in refusing to pay a student registration fee that financed an insurance plan that had provisions for health services including pregnancy counseling and abortion. After the students were denied registration materials they filed a complaint in San Diego County Superior Court against the University's regents.
In 1982 Rhomberg broke into the Los Angeles County Coroner's office to photograph aborted fetuses who were seized during a raid on an abortion clinic, Inglewood Women's owned by Morton Barke. He later led pickets at abortion clinics in Sacramento and became director the Center for Documentation of the American Holocaust.
Rhomberg was among eight protesters who disrupted an ecumenical prayer service held as part of the inauguration of California Governor Pete Wilson on January 6, 1991. The protesters denounced Wilson's pro-choice stance at the Sacramento's Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and were placed under citizen's arrest before being booked at Sacramento County Jail. Rhomberg later sued Governor Wilson and others, alleging that his arrest violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Rhomberg was campaign spokesman for California Proposition 85 in 2006. The proposition sought to require parental notification and a 48-hour waiting period for anyone under 18 seeking an abortion. During the campaign Rhomberg argued that telephone recordings created by Life Dynamics "prove pretty unequivocally that Planned Parenthood is protecting men who sexually abuse children." In 2008 he was principal advisor for the California Proposition 4 campaign, which had the same goal. Both measures failed. In 2011 Rhomberg was the spokesperson for the Parental Notification Initiative Campaign.
Rhomberg currently serves on the board of the Center for Medical Progress along with David Daleiden and Troy Newman.


Kristin Cavallari

Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari (born January 5, 1987) is an American television personality, fashion designer, and actress. She first rose to fame in 2004, as a cast member on the popular MTV reality television series, "" (2004–2006), and was later given her own reality series to star in, "Very Cavallari" (2018–2020). Outside of reality television, Cavallari has enjoyed minor success as an actress, appearing in a handful of television shows and direct-to-video films, and as a fashion designer with her own line of clothing and jewellery, Uncommon James.
Early life.
Cavallari was born in Denver, Colorado, one of two children born to Judith Eifrig and Dennis Cavallari, the other being her late older brother, Michael Cavallari. She is of Italian heritage through her father and of German heritage through her mother. After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother from Colorado to Barrington, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where she lived until her junior year of high school, after which she moved to Laguna Beach, California, to live with her father and brother. She graduated from Laguna Beach High School in 2005.
Career.
Cavallari was in her junior year of high school when the first season of "" began production. At the time, she was involved in an on-and-off relationship with senior Stephen Colletti. Cavallari's romance with Colletti caused a rivalry with another cast member, Lauren Conrad. The love triangle became one of the series' central plot lines.
In May 2009, Cavallari confirmed she would be joining the cast of "Laguna Beach"'s spin-off series, "The Hills". She made her first appearance on the series during the fifth season's midseason finale on May 31, 2009, at Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's wedding, where she caught the bouquet. The second half of the season premiered on September 29, 2009, with Cavallari assuming the position of former main cast member and narrator Conrad. Despite originally signing a deal with MTV to appear in two additional seasons following the fifth, the sixth and final season concluded on July 13, 2010.
Cavallari was on the 13th season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and partnered with two-time champion Mark Ballas. She was the third to be eliminated.
After "Laguna Beach", Cavallari headed to Los Angeles and signed on the UPN reality television series "Get This Party Started", which premiered February 7, 2006. The series was canceled after airing two episodes. She appeared on one episode of another UPN series, "Veronica Mars", and went on to guest roles on series including "", "Cane", and "Adventures in Hollyhood". In 2006, she signed on as Crystal in the horror film "Fingerprints".
In 2008, she had a supporting role as Summer in "Spring Breakdown" alongside Amy Poehler. The film was released straight-to-DVD on June 2, 2009, and received mixed reviews. She also starred in the independent film "Green Flash" with Torrey DeVitto. In 2009, she starred in the independent American high school comedy film "Wild Cherry", as Trish, which also starred Rumer Willis. She also starred in the straight-to-DVD film "", as Kaitlyn. The film was released July 14, 2009, to mixed to negative reviews.
In March 2012, Cavallari commented her first Oscars with the E! team and in 2014, began 'hosting the half-hour fashion/lifestyle trends show called "The Fabulist" alongside Orly Shani (Fashion Star).'
On April 4, 2018, E! announced that Cavallari would be getting her own reality show, "Very Cavallari". It premiered in summer 2018 and followed "Kristin as she opens the flagship store and Nashville headquarters of her rapidly growing fashion and lifestyle brand Uncommon James". The show was renewed for a second season on August 23, 2018. In May 2020, Cavallari announced that she was ending the series and there would not be a Season 4.
Charity work and public image.
Cavallari has been involved in the "Until There's a Cure" public service advertising campaign, to raise awareness and funds for AIDS and HIV research and vaccine development.
In March 2014, Cavallari drew criticism for refusing to vaccinate her children, a decision her husband and she made due to their concerns of a connection between childhood vaccination and autism.
From 2015–2016, the former website "Gawker" ran a series of daily articles on Cavallari for a streak of 415 days.
Personal life.
In June 2013, Cavallari married Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. The couple has three children: sons Camden Jack (born August 8, 2012) and Jaxon Wyatt (born May 7, 2014), and daughter Saylor James (born November 23, 2015). In April 2020, the couple announced that they were divorcing.
In June 2018, Cavallari and Cutler put their mansion in Nashville, Tennessee up for sale for $7.9 million. The mansion is seen in numerous scenes of "Very Cavallari". The couple purchased a mansion in Nashville for $4.2 million in April 2018.
Her brother, Michael Cavallari, was found dead on December 10, 2015, having died of hypothermia following a car crash.


InterPride

InterPride is an international organization representing and composed of producers of pride events for the LGBT community that celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture and pride.
History.
InterPride was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in Texas in the 1980s. The organization was originally known as the National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (NAL/GPC), before changing the name to International Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (IAL/GPC) in October 1985, the International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators at the conference in West Hollywood, California, and eventually to InterPride in the late 1990s.
Formation of InterPride.
In April 1981, Pride Coordinators Rick Turner and Marsha H. Levine, from San Francisco and Boston respectively, met at the "call to unite" – a gay and lesbian leadership conference in Los Angeles, and the start of an organization then known as NOLAG (National Organization of Lesbians and Gays). While discussing common issues that their individual pride organizations faced, and remarking that their connections with the New York Pride and Los Angeles Pride committees were helpful for problem-solving, Rick and Marsha felt this trading of information was important and could develop into a potential network.
More than a year later in August 1982, Levine sent out a call for the First Annual Conference of the National Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators (NAL/GPC), to meet in Boston. Rick Turner (now deceased) declined joining in establishing the organization, due to his deteriorating health. With the aid of San Diego Pride Committee and chairperson Doug Moore, who had been collecting a list of national pride organizations, and with small donations from the Los Angeles and Boston Pride Committees, the mailing list from Moore was used to distribute a self-mailing registration form designed and produced by Levine. Though many committees expressed an interest in attending, most didn't have the funds to send delegates at that time.
On October 9, 1982, in Hill House on Beacon Hill, members from the Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, and San Francisco Pride committees gathered in response to Levine's mailing. Three long tables were pushed together to make a triangular seating area. For two days many topics concerning coordinating LGBT prides was discussed, and while each city had different events, they discovered much of the planning and logistics was surprisingly similar. They voted to hold a second conference in San Diego the next year.
The 15 people in attendance at that first gathering were:
Officers.
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Ω term ends October 2024
Membership.
Please refer to the InterPride website.
Activities.
InterPride's programs and activities are geared towards networking, education, and mentoring.
Conferences.
During the last three decades, pride organizations from almost every continent have participated in InterPride's annual world conference.
The conference is held each year in a different city, with the location of upcoming conferences being voted on two years prior to their occurrence. To demonstrate a commitment to support and empower the global LGBTI+ Pride community, the conference is now frequently held outside North America. Scholarships, through the Pamela O'Brien Memorial Scholarship Fund, are available for member organizations that cannot afford to attend. O'Brien was a longtime member of Cape Cod Pride in Massachusetts, USA and served InterPride as a Regional Director and Vice President of Operations.
In addition, several regional Pride networks hold their own conferences independent of InterPride.
WorldPride.
WorldPride, licensed by InterPride and organized by one of its members, is an event that promotes visibility and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT pride) issues on an international level. WorldPride includes parades/marches, festivals and other cultural activities such as human right conference.
At the 1997 world conference and general meeting InterPride members voted to award the inaugural WorldPride to be held in Rome in 2000. The host cities continue to be selected by the members of InterPride with WorldPrides usually held every two years.


Jiggs Donahue

John Augustine Donahue (July 13, 1879 – July 19, 1913) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman and catcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers / Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox and the Washington Senators between 1900 and 1909. Donahue was born in Springfield, Ohio. He batted and threw left-handed.
Donahue had his greatest success from 1904 to 1908, after switching to first base for the Chicago White Sox. Donahue's defensive skills were a key to the White Sox' 1906 World Series championship team, and he led American League first basemen in fielding percentage, assists, and putouts for 3 consecutive seasons, from 1905 to 1907. In 1907, Donahue had 1,846 putouts, which is still the major league record for putouts by a first baseman. He also holds the major league single season record for most chances accepted per game with 12.65 in 1907.
Though known mostly for his fielding, Donahue was also a decent hitter from 1905 to 1907. In 1905, he was among the American League leaders in batting average (.287), on-base percentage (.346), RBIs (76), and stolen bases (32). In 1906, Donahue was among the league leaders in stolen bases (36) and sacrifice hits (36) and was one of only three White Sox starters to bat over .250 for the 1906 World Champion "Hitless Wonders." Donahue hit for a .278 average (5-for-18) with 2 doubles, 1 triple and 4 RBI.
On October 10, 1906, Donahue broke up a World Series no-hit bid by Cubs' pitcher Ed Reulbach with a single in the 7th inning.
In 1907, Donahue led the league in games played (157) and at bats (609) and was among the leaders in hits (158) and RBIs (68).
In Detroit on May 31, 1908, Donahue recorded 21 putouts in a nine-inning game.
In 9 seasons, Donahue played in 813 games with 731 hits, 319 runs scored, 327 RBIs, 143 stolen bases, 90 doubles, 31 triples, and a .255 batting average.
Donahue contracted syphilis and died in 1913 at age 34. He was survived by a brother, Pat Donahue, a major league catcher in the years 1908-10.


Steven Corbin

Steven Corbin (October 3, 1953 – August 31, 1995) was an American writer. He was known for his novel "Fragments That Remain", a Lambda Literary Award nominee for Gay Fiction at the 1994 6th Lambda Literary Awards.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he studied at Essex County College for two years before switching to the University of Southern California to study film. He dropped out of that program, and began to write as a hobby while working as a secretary and taxi driver. He published his debut novel, "No Easy Place to Be", in 1989. He published "Fragments That Remain" in 1993, "A Hundred Days from Now" in 1994, and several short stories.
He died on August 31, 1995 of AIDS complications, in New York City. He was an HIV/AIDS activist and taught creative writing at the University of California.