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Lori Victoria Braun (born November 9, 1966 ) is the owner and founder of Femalemuscle, the largest website devoted to female bodybuilding, fitness, and female athletes. Femalemuscle features thousands of videos, galleries articles, and blogs, updated daily by Braun and other regular contributors. Braun is also an accredited press representative with the IFBB, which is the governing body for all major international bodybuilding contests.
Early life
left Lori Braun was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is the youngest of two children. Her brother owns his own fitness training center. Her father is a designer and an artist, and she credits him for her creativity and artistic sensibilities. Her parents divorced when she was twelve years old.
Braun spent her teenage years causing chaos in Flatbush, alternated between being a gifted student and delinquent troublemaker. At this time, she and her brother kept house by running an account at the corner deli and played music and joined the scene at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.
Braun remembers the first use of her muscle when she was involved in an argument with a group of girl gang members. The gang leader demanded an apology from her. She apologized. Then a second, third, and fourth gang member asked for the same apology. When for the fifth time another gang member asked for Braun's apology, she snapped and beat her up and went back and beat up the others.
Braun's independent nature was also inspired by her grandmother. Braun says her grandmother reinvented herself at the age of fifty five when she left her husband, changed her name, changed her state, acquired a driver's license and got a job in which she carried a gun. All of this at a time when women didn't do these types of things. Braun says her grandmother's courage was always an influence in her life.
College Life
After deciding State University of New York at New Paltz College in upstate New York was not for her, Braun joined her grandmother in a warmer climate and attended the University of Florida where she received a degree in Communications and Journalism. There she became passionate about the bodybuilding culture and started lifting some serious iron in the university's extensive athlete training facilities.
Professional Life
In 1995, the infancy of the Internet, Braun had the foresight to start Femalemuscle.com, becoming an Internet entrepreneur and a legend in the bodybuilding industry. Femalemuscle is the only major bodybuilding site with female ownership and the only site whose major focus is covering and promoting female bodybuilding and women's health.
Educating women regarding health issues and paving the way for other female bodybuilders has made her a role model in her community. In the early 1990s when female bodybuilding was struggling to gain a serious audience, Braun and Femalemuscle contributed significantly to the promotion of female bodybuilding in mainstream media and society.
Lori Braun and the Media
Braun and Femalemuscle have been frequently featured in major social and entertainment media. Braun has also produced major market "Femalemuscle Live" shows that have also received widespread media attention from Fleshbot. Braun has been a featured guest on the ' talk show on multiple occasions.
In addition to her personal and professional media appearances, Braun has also interviewed famous bodybuilding personalities such as Ben Weider and Arnold Schwarzenegger for her online publications. Braun also personally produces video and photographic coverage backstage at the women's bodybuilding, fitness and figure events at the Arnold Sports Festival'.

Brian Rooney (born October 28, 1972) is a constitutional attorney with the Thomas More Law Center. Rooney, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, is currently running for Congress in Michigan’s 7th congressional district.
Personal Life
Brian Rooney received a Bachelor in Arts in History from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1995. While at Williams College, Brian participated as a four year student-athlete on the Williams College NCAA Division III football team that went undefeated his senior year. Brian Rooney enrolled in and attended the Florida State University, College of Law and received his law degree in 1999.
Rooney and his wife Tiffany were high school sweethearts. Their third son Blaise was born with a congenital heart defect and required numerous surgeries at the University of Michigan's Mott Children Hospital to survive. Brian and Tiffany currently live in Dexter, Michigan in Washtenaw County, Michigan with their three children.
Brian Rooney is the younger brother of , a congressman from Florida's 16th congressional district.
Rooney’s grandfather, Art Rooney, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers. His family still owns the Steelers. Brian replaced his father Patrick Rooney, Sr., on the Board of Directors for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Military Service
While still in law school, Rooney joined the United States Marine Corps and went to Officer Candidate School. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1999. Following completion of The Basic Course in Quantico, Virginia in October of 2000, and the Naval Justice School in December of 2000, Brian Rooney was assigned to the Joint Law Center, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona in January 2001. Brian was promoted to the rank of in August of 2001. He served as the Senior Defense Counsel for the majority of his tour in Yuma, and received a prestigious medal from the United States Secretary of the Navy for his work there.
Captain Rooney transferred to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in August of 2003 and was assigned as the Senior Prosecutor for a year. Captain Rooney deployed with the Third Marine Aircraft Wing as the Deputy In-House Counsel in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While in Iraq, Captain Rooney was sent to assist the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Najaf, Iraq to help rebuild the city and win the hearts and minds of the inhabitants.
Captain Rooney was later assigned to Regimental Combat Team-1 (1st Marine Division) as the Deputy In-House Counsel for over a month to help in re-populating, rebuilding, and winning the hearts and minds of the populace during and after the second battle for Fallujah, Iraq. Captain Rooney was tasked with primarily designing, planning, and implementing the largest Humanitarian Assistance site in Fallujah to process over 25,000 refugees back into the city after the battle. Captain Rooney was awarded a prestigious medal from the United States Secretary of the Navy for his work in Iraq.
Upon Captain Rooney’s return stateside, he was maintained as the Deputy In-House Counsel for the Third Marine Air Wing for six additional months. Captain Rooney also served as the Chief Prosecutor (Military Justice Officer) for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar during this same six-month period. Captain Rooney resigned his commission from the United States Marine Corps on October 1, 2006 and received an honorable discharge. Upon completion of this tour, Captain Rooney was awarded a third prestigious medal from the United States Secretary of the Navy. Brian is now a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.
Post-Military Career
After resigning his military commission in 2006, Rooney took a position at the Thomas More Law Center, a public-interest, non-profit, Catholic law firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan to defend the same values he fought for as a United States Marine. The Thomas More Law Center is a conservative law firm dedicated to defending the sanctity of human life, traditional family values, religious freedom, and maintaining a strong national defense. Brian accepted a position as attorney and spokesman at the law center to help raise awareness for the Christian issues advocated by the Law Center.
As an attorney and spokesman for the Thomas More Law Center, Rooney defended Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani of the alleged Haditha Killings. A military judge later dismissed the charges against Chessani without prejudice.
2010 Congressional Elections
On November 5, 2009, Rooney officially announced his intention to run for the United States House of Representatives and unseat incumbent Democrat Rep. Mark Schauer in the 2010 midterm elections.
Many national analysts and pundits believe that Rooney would pose a serious threat to incumbent Democrat Rep. Mark Schauer in November. David Wasserman, an analyst for the Cook Political Report, was quoted as saying "Walberg has to prove that GOP primary voters aren't itching for a fresh face” and “Schauer probably has a better shot of holding on if Walberg is the GOP nominee."
Rooney's campaign announced in January that it had raised $215,000 in the last quarter of 2009. These strong fundraising numbers came only two months after Rooney announced his candidacy. In April, Rooney's campaign reported raising more than $320,000 in the 1st quarter of 2010. With these strong fundraising numbers, Rooney leads former Rep. Tim Walberg in funds raised and cash on hand. Rooney leads Walberg in cash on hand by $73,473.
On 2010 April 10, Rooney was the only Republican candidate from Michigan's 7th congressional district to speak to the Tea Party Express rally at the steps of the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan.
On 2010 April 16, Rooney was endorsed by Mike Stahly at the Branch County Lincoln Day Dinner. Stahly, a Potterville, Michigan city councilman, was a Republican candidate for Michigan's 7th congressional district.
On 2010 April 19, Rooney announced that his campaign has achieved "Contender" status in the National Republican Congressional Committee's Young Guns Program. "Contender" status is the second tier of the three tiered program aimed at assisting candidates in their campaigns. According to the campaign's press release, achieving the second-tier status is recognition of the campaign's fundraising and operational effectiveness.
Issues
As a United States Marine Corps veteran and current reservist, Rooney said that he has a particular interest in veterans' issues. This is important given that Michigan's 7th congressional district has a high number of veterans and active-duty military servicemen and servicewomen.
Numerous prominent military veterans and veterans organizations have announced their support of Brian Rooney's campaign for Congress including retired Rear Admiral and Senator Jeremiah Denton, Vets for Freedom, Iraq Veterans for Congress, and Combat Veterans for Congress.
Rooney was the first Republican candidate to announce his position on the Asian carps invasion of Michigan's lakes and rivers. He favors a short-term separation of the locks connecting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River that were created by engineers in Chicago over a century ago. Rooney criticized long-term studies and other solutions proposed by Rep. Mark Schauer, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and President Barack Obama as ineffective and a waste of $80 million dollars.

Hayagriva Swami (September 2, 1940-August 31, 1989) author, poet, editor, English professor, and co-founder of the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna Community—was born Howard Morton Wheeler on September 2, 1940, in Pensacola, Florida, and was raised in Palm Beach, Florida. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1958-1961), The New York School for Social Research (B.A., 1963), and New York University (M.A., 1964). He taught English at Ohio State University from 1964 to 1965, and from 1968 to 1970. He also taught English at Luzerne County Community College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1968.
Joining the Hare Krishnas
During the early 1960s in New York City, Wheeler experimented with the mind-altering drug LSD and became interested in American Transcendentalism. He studied the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Hart Crane. During October 1965, he traveled to India with his college friend Keith Gordon Ham in search of a guru. Unsuccessful in their quest, they returned to New York after six months.
While living as a beatnik in Manhattan's Lower East Side during the summer of 1966, Wheeler met the Bengali Gaudiya-Vaishnava guru A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and became one of his first disciples. He was initiated into the sampradaya on Janmastami (September 9) 1966 at Swamiji's 26th Second Avenue temple and received the Sanskrit name Hayagriva Das (the servant of the God of knowledge and wisdom, the avatar of Vishnu with a human body and a horse's head who rescued the Vedas, brilliant white in color, with white garments and seated on a white lotus). Hayagriva became Swamiji's principle editor, and worked on Back to Godhead magazine, , The Nectar of Devotion, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrita. During this time he set a high standard for all ISKCON Press and Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publications.
Hayagriva was a gifted writer and editor; he wrote 42 articles and poems for Back to Godhead magazine, beginning with the first issue in 1966: Volume 1, Number 1. His last article published in BTG was in 1980. "Hayagriva Das was Prabhupada's first professor-disciple. Prabhupada used to call him 'Professor Howard Wheeler' even after Hayagriva received his spiritual name." In 1966, Hayagriva met and became friends with the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who also chanted Hare Krishna and contributed toward the temple.
The New Vrindaban community
In 1968, Hayagriva served as co-founder of the New Vrindaban Community in Marshall County, West Virginia—along with his friend Keith Ham (who was initiated as Kirtanananda Das Brahmachari in 1966, and a year later as Kirtanananda Swami). On Christmas Day 1968, Hayagriva was married by Prabhupada to Shama Dasi (Cheryl Ann) in Los Angeles. In January, the newly married couple moved to New Vrindaban. Hayagriva established the ISKCON temple in Columbus, Ohio in 1969, where their first child, Samba, was born in 1970. Hayagriva simultaneously served as the New Vrindaban Temple President until 1972.
In June 1970, Swami Prabhupada appointed Hayagriva as one of the twelve founding members of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC). During August 1970, Hayagriva was the principle defender of Prabhupada's movement during the great ISKCON crisis during the New Vrindaban Janmastami festival. "Hayagriva showed his true colors when he defended Prabhupada during the Great ISKCON Crisis during the New Vrindaban Janmastami Festival of 1970. Four newly-initiated ISKCON sannyasis began spouting mayavadi philosophy and confusing the devotees, but only Hayagriva, who had done the editing for Prabhupada's books, understood Vaishnava philosophy clearly enough to see the errors in the sanyasis' arguments, and he courageously attempted to defeat them by scripture and logic."
One eyewitness reported: "The GBC kept meeting and discussing and trying to figure out what was going on. Because it felt really weird, really off, but nobody knew the philosophy well enough, except Hayagriva, who had done all the editing of the books. Rupanuga was baffled. Hayagriva was the only one who had them pegged. He was unequivocal."
Service for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
During the early 1970s, Hayagriva traveled with Prabhupada in America, Europe and India, and recorded hundreds of Prabhupada's lectures, which he compiled into small paperback books: The Perfection of Yoga, Beyond Birth and Death, On the Way to Krishna, The Path of Perfection, and others, which were published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT). During the month of Kartik (October-November) 1972, he lived with Prabhupada at the Radha-Damodar Temple in Vrindaban, India.
In 1976, in Hawaii and Los Angeles, his conversations with Prabhupada were recorded and later formed the basis of a major work in comparative philosophy: Dialectic Spiritualism: A Vedic View of Western Philosophy (Prabhupada Books: 1985). In 1985, Hayagriva's first book was published: The Hare Krishna Explosion: The Birth of Krishna Consciousness in America—1966-1969 (Palace Press: 1985), based on his personal diaries.
In 1988, during the New Vrindaban "City of God" interfaith era, he wrote a poetic translation in English of the eight verses of the gurvastakam prayers by the 17th century Gaudiya-Vaishnava author and acharya Visvanatha Chakravarti, which was set to music and performed by choir, orchestra and congregation during more than 2,000 morning services at the New Vrindaban temple (until 1994). He also composed other poems which were set to music and sung by the Krishna Chorale.
In 1979, Hayagriva's wife Shama filed for divorce, and later he was married to Purnamasi Dasi with whom he had a son and a daughter.
Last days
In March 1989, Hayagriva was diagnosed with cancer of the spine. Shortly before his death on August 31, 1989, he accepted the Vaishnava order of sannyasa from Kirtanananda Swami, and became known as Hayagriva Swami, although he would have preferred the title "babaji" instead of "swami," as at this time he was becoming more introspective than extroverted. His tomb is at the New Vrindaban Community. His last major work: Vrindaban Days: Memories of an Indian Holy Town, was based on his personal diaries from his 1972 month-long visit with Prabhupada at the Radha-Damodar Temple in Vrindaban, India. This book was published posthumously (Palace Publishing: 1990).
On his deathbed, Hayagriva Swami humbly acknowledged that "I was touched by the hand of God!"

Satyaraja Prabhu always appreciated the writings of Hayagriva Prabhu, especially his poems written in the early Back to Godheads. Over the years he had developed a friendship with Hayagriva and went to visit him in New Vrindaban when Hayagriva was dying of cancer. By the time Satyaraja visited him he was in a very painful condition. Due to cancer his spine had become almost like eggshells. Any movement was extremely painful. Hayagriva happily acknowledged Satyaraja's presence. To view his guest he slowly turned his head upward and to his right. With tears in his eyes, Hayagriva spoke slowly, with a voice filled with appreciation for his great fortune: "A seventy-year old aristocratic Bengali gentleman arrives in New York with a mission to print books in English, and who is the first person he meets? An English professor." Overwhelmed with the realization that he had been the object of inconceivable mercy, Hayagriva paused, and then, with a sense of drama and also with sincere conviction and deep emotion, expressed his heart: "I was touched by the hand of God!"

Bibliography
Books, Hayagriva as author:
The Hare Krishna Explosion: The Birth of Krishna Consciousness in America—1966-1969 (Palace Press: 1985)

Vrindaban Days: Memories of an Indian Holy Town (Palace Publishing: 1990)

Books by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Hayagriva as editor:
Bhagavad-gita As It Is, abridged edition (co-editor) (Collier MacMillan: 1968)

Krishna Consciousness: The Topmost Yoga System (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1970)

Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, chapters 1-37 (co-editor) (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1970)
Bhagavad-gita As It Is, unabridged edition (principal editor) (Macmillan: 1972)

Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1972)
Srimad-Bhagavatam, Second Canto (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1970-2)
On the Way to Krishna (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1973)

Raja-vidya: The King of Knowledge (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1973)

Elevation to Krishna Consciousness (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1973)

Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fourth Canto (chapters 9 through 31) (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1974)
Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto (chapters 1 through 13) (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1975)
Chaitanya-charitamrta (Madhya-lila) (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1975)
Teachings of Lord Kapila (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: 1977)
Dialectic Spiritualism: A Vedic View of Western Philosophy (Prabhupada Books: 1985)

Books by Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada, Hayagriva as editor:
The Song of God: A Summary Study of Bhagavad-gita As It Is (Bhaktipada Books: 1984)

Christ and Krishna: The Path of Pure Devotion (Bhaktipada Books: 1985)

Eternal Love: Conversations with the Lord in the Heart (Bhaktipada Books: 1985)
A Devotee's Journey to the City of God: A Retelling of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Palace Publishing: 1988)
The Illustrated Ramayana: Rama, The Supreme Personality of Godhead (Palace Publishing: 1989)

Heart of the Gita: Always Think of Me (Palace Publishing: 1990)

Articles and Poems in Back to Godhead:

1966 Vol 01, No 01: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna-Krishna Krishna-Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama-Rama Rama-Hare Hare

1966 Vol 01, No 01: Flip Out and Stay

1966 Vol 01, No 02: Krishna: the Divine Lover

1966 Vol 01, No 04: The Process of Surrender in God Realization

1967 Vol 01, No 05: Krishna: The End of Knowledge

1967 Vol 01, No 06: Some Questions to Lord Krishna (Questions probably not conducive to enlightenment)
1967 Vol 01, No 07: Psychedelic Drugs and Krishna Consciousness
1967 Vol 01, No 07: Doubt, Thy Name is Bondage
1967 Vol 01, No 08: Second Avenue Samadhi
1967 Vol 01, No 09: The Spiritualization of Energy
1967 Vol 01, No 10: Krishna Consciousness in American Poetry—Part I: Emerson

1967 Vol 01, No 11: Night Shower Sutra

1967 Vol 01, No 11: Krishna Consciousness in American Poetry—Part II: Thoreau and Dickinson

1967 Vol 01, No 12: Krishna Consciousness in American Poetry—Part III: Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

1967 Vol 01, No 12: Poem to Walt Whitman
1969 Vol 01, No 23: New Vrindaban: A spiritual concept of community life
1969 Vol 01, No 24: Krishna The Chariot Driver—What are the purposes, the practices—and the fruits—of spiritual surrender?
1969 Vol 01, No 26: The Hare Krishna Explosion—The joyful history of a dynamic transcendental movement
1969 Vol 01, No 29: States and Attributes of the Creation 01—Part 1 (Continued in Issue No. 31)

1969 Vol 01, No 31: States and Attributes of the Creation 02—Part 2 (Continued from Issue No. 29)
1970 Vol 01, No 32: Krsna lila: The Divine Forms and Pastimes
1970 Vol 01, No 33: The Opulences of Krsna
1970 Vol 01, No 34: The Guru: Via Media to God
1970 Vol 01, No 35: The Hidden God—The Guise of Maya
1970 Vol 01, No 36: Chant (Part 1)

1970 Vol 01, No 37: Sankirtana in the Bible—Any Name of God
1970 Vol 01, No 38: The Spiritual Master: Emissary of the Supreme Person—The Ultimate Truth
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 39: On the Constitution of the Soul—Eternally Individual
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 40: The Great Watering of the Soul—Love Given Freely
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 40: Authorized Purports on Sripada Sankaracarya’s - Meditation on the Bhagavad-gita

1970-1973 Vol 01, No 42: Govinda—The Primal Cause (Analysis of the First Verse of Brahma-samhita)

1970-1973 Vol 01, No 41: New Vrndavana—The West's First Krsna Conscious Community—The Perfect Society
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 45: Journey to the Real Self—Gross Body Defined

1970-1973 Vol 01, No 46: Sleepers Awake! New York: Summer 1966
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 47: Sleepers Awake! New York: Summer 1966
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 48: Liberation of the Cave Dwellers
1970-1973 Vol 01, No 50: Satan, Witches and homemade Gods
1973 Vol 01, No 51: The First Initiation, Prabhupada Opens the Door
(From the book The Hare Krsna Explosion, a reminiscence of the early days of the Hare Krsna Movement.)

1973 Vol 01, No 52: Bright Day of the Soul—A dialogue
1973 Vol 01, No 53: With Prabhupada in Vrndavana
1977 Vol 12, No 0304: Matchless Gifts—Early Morning Meetings
1980 Vol 15, No 12: Global 2000—Kali-yuga Report to the President. Is the end near? Probably not, but we may be wishing it were.

Articles and Poems in Brijabasi Spirit-Journal of the New Vrindaban Community:

1981, April, Vol. 7, No. 1, “New Vrindaban Diary,” 17.
1981, May, Vol. 7, No. 2, “The Potency of Sound,” 17.
1981, November, Vol. 7, No. 9, “Chant,” 18.
1982, August, Vol. 9, No. 4, “Paramahansa in the Hills,” 12.
1982, September, Vol. 9, No. 5, “Paramahansa in the Hills, Part 2,” 22.
1982, October, Vol. 9, No. 6, “Paramahansa in the Hills, Part 3” 18.
1982, December, Vol. 9, No. 7, “Paramahansa in the Hills, Part 4” 12.
1983, April, Vol. 10, No. 2, “Paramahansa in the Hills, Part 5” 18.
1985, Summer, “Seven Temples on Seven Hills,” 28.

Article in Mother Earth News:

1972, July/August, Issue No. 16, “New Vrindaban: The Making of a Village.”


Poems, set to music and sung at New Vrindaban temple services:
Gurudev, English setting of Vishvanath Chakravarti's gurvastakam prayers (1988)

Hare Krishna über Alles (1988)

Holy Father, Holy Mother, with a refrain by Kirtanananda Swami (1989)