Wednesday, February 3, 2010, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, or you can listen to the program’s live streaming at www.wvox.com. One can call the show at 914-636-0110 to reach us on the radio.  Our guest is Mr. Michael A. Cohen, author and commentator about American politics and issues. Our subject will be President Obama’s the meaning of the State of the Union, the budget announcement and his outlook for 2010.

Michael A. Cohen is the author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America (Walker Books: 2008) . His most recent articles: Is America Ungovernable? and Obama’s Problem is Economy, Stupid can be found at www.livefromthetrail.com. Previously, Mr. Cohen served in the U.S. Department of State as chief speechwriter for U.S. Representative to the United Nations Bill Richardson and Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat. He has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Foreign Policy magazine, and as chief speechwriter for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT). Mr. Cohen serves on the board of the National Security Network and has taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at the New American Foundation.

A frequent commentator on politics and international affairs his work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, the St. Petersburg Times, the World Policy Journal, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New York Daily News, Forbes.com, Courier de la Planete, Talkingpointsmemo.com, Politico, Worth Magazine and he is a frequent blogger at www.democracyarsenal.org. During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign he was a regular contributor to the New York Times Campaign Stops blog.  He has also been featured on ABC News, Fox News, BBC TV and radio, South African television, Al Jazeera, Air America and XM Radio's Potus '08. Mr. Cohen holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from American University and a master's degree from Columbia University.
  

 

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My guest is the Terry Golway, author of Together We Cannot Fail, FDR and the American presidency in Years of Crisis.
Our subject is the legacy of FDR, his speeches, their impact, and the crisis of the banks in the 1930’s and what we face today!
                                
Terry Golway is the director of the John Kean Center for American History at Kean University in Union, N.J. A former member of the New York Times Editorial Board and city editor of the New York Observer, he is the author of several books, including:

    * “Together We Cannot Fail,” a study of Franklin Roosevelt’s speeches.
    * “Fellow Citizens,” the Penguin Book of Inaugural Addresses, co-written
        with Robert Remini;
    *  “Let Every Nation Know,” a study of John F. Kennedy’s speeches; 
    *   “Washington’s General,” a biography of Nathanael Greene;
    *  “So Others Might Live,” a history of the Fire Department of New York; 
    *  “For the Cause of Liberty,” a history of Irish nationalism; 
    * “Irish Rebel,” a biography of the Irish-American journalist John Devoy.
                                                             
                                                                                                                                  
                                                                 

                                                                          
Golway served as a consultant to the Museum of the City of New York for its 2008 exhibit, “Catholics in New York,” and he edited a book of essays about Catholics in New York to be published by Fordham University Press in May.

Golway has appeared on several documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. He has been a guest speaker at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Society of the Cincinnati of New England, New York University’s Ireland House, the New College of California, Catholic University of America, and Fordham University’s Bishop Hughes Center for Culture and Religion. He is a frequent contributor to American Heritage, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. He is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

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On Wednesday, January 20, 2009, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, and you can also listen to the program live streaming at www.wvox.com. One can call the show at 914-636-0110 to reach us on the radio. My guest is the Honorable Joseph DioGuardi, who represented  the 20th CD in Westchester County in Congress in the middle 1980’s.

Our subject is Re-thinking Westchester Government, should the County form of government be replaced, should the County Board be re-structured and what are former Congressman Joe DioGuardi thoughts on our economy: are we in recovery, how can the deficit be dealt with and what type of recovery can we expect.

Joe DioGuardi was raised in the Bronx, New York, where he graduated from Fordham Prep in 1958 and Fordham University with honors in 1962. His late father, who immigrated to America in 1929, was an ethnic Albanian who was born in Greci, the oldest Albanian-speaking village in Italy and his mother is a first-generation Italian American who was born in New York City.

Before coming to Congress, DioGuardi was a practicing CPA who served twenty-two years with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., twelve of them as a partner. In 1984, he became the first practicing certified public accountant ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition to his human rights work while in Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in sounding the call for federal financial reform. After leaving Congress, he established a nonpartisan foundation, Truth in Government, and published a book entitled Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn’t Add Up. DioGuardi currently serves on the board of directors of several private and publicly-held U.S. corporations.

Joseph DioGuardi was the first Member of Congress to bring the issue of Albanian rights in the Balkans to the attention of the U.S. government through a Congressional Resolution that he sponsored as a new Member in 1986. He was also responsible for the first Congressional hearing on Kosova in 1987.  He has made more than thirty trips to the Balkans since leaving Congress in 1989 in his capacity as the founding, volunteer president of the Albanian American Civic League. As the president of the Albanian American Civic League, http://www.aacl.com/ DioGuardi has worked with members on both sides of the political aisle in an effort to bring lasting peace and stability to the Southeast Europe.

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Art and Susan Zuckerman hosted Joe Wiegand reprising Theodore Roosevelt on their “Z” Travel and Leisure Program on WVOX 1460 AM radio, Monday night. Richard J. Garfunkel was their guest panelist, who assisted with questions for the former President and the hero of the charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.

The Zuckermans combine high tech entrepreneurship, writing, collecting, teaching, travel, and adventure –seeking all over the world with their business of taking people on exotic tours of New York City. These tours combine sight-seeing with various themes, which include; hidden museums, murder & mayhem, ethnic heritage and cuisine, secret & strange New York, Brighton Beach & Coney Island, and tales of the “rich and famous,” www.ztravelandleisure.com.

Susan Zuckerman, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 1898, Art Zuckerman, Richard J. Garfunkel



        

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On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, and you can also listen to the program’s worldwide, live streaming at www.wvox.com.  My guest is John Loase and our subject is his book, The Sigfluence Generation, about our youth and the transforming their potential to save America and his views on education and what we have to do s a society to save this system.

Dr. John Loase, a life-long native of Westchester County, is a Professor of Math at Concordia College and served formerly as Professor of Math at SUNY-Westchester Community College. He has had a long career in academics that has spanned decades in both the public and private secondary schools and colleges of Westchester and New York. He has authored over thirty publications including eight interdisciplinary books, the last being the recently published, The Sigfluence Generation. He has been an active lecturer and has been involved in numerous workshops on Advanced Statistics, Mathematical Modeling, among other disciplines.

Dr. Loase received a unique Joint Doctorate in Math and Psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College, after being awarded three Masters Degrees in Math, Counseling, and Psychmetrics from Manhattan College and Columbia University, followed by a sixty credit program that led to permanent certification as School Psychologist from the College of New Rochelle. He has been a member of the following professional organizations: -American Association for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, Past President, New York State- Thought – Consultant Editor (Fordham University) Chair – Task Force on Poverty in New York State (Commissioned by NYSSCA – branch of American Association for Counseling and Development). Past Vice President New York State Counselor’s Association American Statistical Association New York Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Association of America, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, and the American Psychological Association –Divisions:  Measurement and Humanistic Psychology.

  

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My guest is Professor Jean Bodon and the subject is Leon Blum and how he affected the thinking in France between the World Wars and why he made this documentary film on him. Jean Bodon is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He teaches courses in television production, cinema and broadcasting. In 2000, he was honored with the President's Excellence Teaching Award.

Dr. Bodon has worked as a feature film director and producer and as a director of documentaries and television commercials. His films have been screened at some of the world's most prominent film presentation organizations including the Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress and the Cinémathèque Française. Bodon's works have been broadcast on HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, E!, TLC, and many other cable systems and networks throughout the world.

Dr. Bodon's extensive work in the area of film also includes a book on Charlie Chaplin which was prefaced by François Truffaut and "Cinema: an introduction" prefaced by Robert Wise. Jean Bodon has written numerous articles for Communication Monographs, Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, The North American Journal of Psychology, Communication Research Reports and Communication Quarterly. Jean Bodon is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Société des Réalisateurs de Films and is a judge for the International Emmy® Awards.
   

Professor Jean Bodon- film maker                                                 Leon Blum- 
                                                                                                               Prime Minister of France

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Three of my guests on this year’s edition the “Year-end Round-Up” are back from last year.  Again this afternoon we have Dr. Lewis Perelman from Virginia, John Puma from Mount Vernon, John Berenyi from New York and all over the world and Dr. Bob Flower, who joins us for the first time from Bronxville, NY. The topic today will be a review of the year 2009, reflections on how to turn the country around, and predictions for 2010. My special holiday guest in the studio will be Ms. Dana H. Garfunkel, the Assistant Director of ecruitment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Our first guest this morning is Dr. Lewis J. Perelman is a Washington-DC policy and management consultant.  A native of Mount Vernon, New York, and one of my oldest friends, he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the City College of New York, and went on to study space and planetary physics at Columbia University and Harvard University.  He later earned his doctoral degree in administration, planning, and policy from Harvard, where his studies focused on sustainable economic development. Dr. Lewis Perelman has over thirty years of professional experience focused on the processes of innovation, sustainability, and resilience—as a consultant, analyst, author, publisher, and teacher.  Since his graduate studies at Harvard onward, Dr. Perelman has had a long professional interest in sustainable development.  Earlier in his career, he worked on renewable energy R&D and policy initiatives for the US Dept. of Energy. In 1992 he gained renown for his best-selling book “School’s Out”, which anticipated much of the revolution that the Internet and information technology would end up causing in learning, work, and the keys to business success.  Since 2001, Dr. Perelman also has been actively engaged in work on homeland security, for the federal Homeland Security Institute and other organizations. Recently, Dr. Perelman has been working on the connections between infrastructure resilience, security, and sustainability as a consultant to several associations, research institutes, and public agencies, and as a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Regulatory Science in Alexandria, VA.

John Berenyi currently he advises governments, corporations and non profit organizations from Mt. Vernon, NY to South Carolina and cities in South Florida on sustainability, risk management and strategic planning related to alternative energy. Internationally, he is an advisor on these matters to companies and public entities in Israel, New Zealand, Hungary and other areas. He has over 25 years of experience as financial advisor, technology and economic consultant and investment banker.  His work has been at the intersection of engineering, business law, urban planning, management, economics and finance. The focus of his activities: alternative energy projects, power systems, solid waste facilities, mass transit authorities, highways and bridges, affordable housing and mortgage finance, water and sewer systems, long term care facilities, non-profit institutions such as universities, museums, stadiums, hospitals and nursing homes.John has undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial engineering, management sciences and applied economics and public finance from Columbia University and was named a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University. He worked as the Co-Chairman of the NY State Task Force of business and economic leaders and citizens established   to support the amendment to the NY State Constitution which now allows “Tax Increment Financing” by communities throughout NY.

John Puma is a career entrepreneur. His career has ranged from creating start-up businesses, to developing communications systems for multi-national communication giants, to building housing for the middle and working class citizens, and to developing alternate energy concepts for communities. John, who was brought up on Long Island, and gravitated to Mount Vernon, was educated at the State University of NY in Buffalo earned a degree in Management & Finance and earned another degree in TV Production at NYU. John is interested in encouraging and developing local and market interest in alternative Energy and the effort to wean our economy from fossil fuel dependency. Today John is the NY Tri-State Area Manager for Standard Renewable Energy charged with building out operations for Standard Renewable Energy bringing Renewable Energy to the Northeast. SRE is the leading Renewable Energy Company in the US with 2 primary products – Solar Systems for Homes and Businesses and Energy Efficiency Products and Services – most importantly the Weatherization of Homes and Businesses. One can find out more information at www.SRE3.com and he can be reached at 877-923-7733. 

Dr. Robert Flower, who is a resident of Bronxville, NY, is a graduate of both Fordham University and Walden University with a BA degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Philosophy along with Organizational and Systems Sciences. Bob is a successful entrepreneur, scholar and adventurer who has spent 29 years analyzing human potential and developing a methodology for achievement. Through his discovery of the Laws of Potential and development of Natural Intelligence and Thinking, Dr. Flower has achieved tremendous personal success, and helped others to set and reach their goals as well. As Director of The Gilchrist Institute for the Achievement Sciences, a sociopolitical/economic think tank since 1982, he discovered the Laws of Potential and Natural Intelligence. He has written 3 books on Potential and Intelligence and lectured on the subject twice at the United Nations (1991, 1992). His books are published in 3 countries. As a General Systems Specialist (expert in learning, potential and intelligence) he has been frequently featured in newspapers and magazines, and has appeared on national radio and television programs.*
He also hosts 2 shows: The Public Advocate in several cable markets, and The Master Pattern Report -- an international internet show where Dr. Flower predicts economic, political and stock market activity with incredible accuracy. WEBSITES: www.drbobflower.com

John Puma, Dana Garfunkel, Bob Flower	Richard and Dana Garfunkel
John Berenyi	Lewis J.Perelman

My guest is Tim Brooks and our subject is a short history of television and the future of the networks. (Highest rated TV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-watched_television_broadcasts)

Tim Brooks retired at the end of 2007 as Executive Vice President of Research for Lifetime Television. Brooks reported to Andrea Wong, President/CEO of Lifetime, and was responsible for all research concerning Lifetime's programming, online and advertising sales efforts, as well as research for Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Research at Lifetime, a position he held since January 2000.

Prior to joining Lifetime Brooks was Senior Vice President, Research for USA Networks, where he supervised their programming and advertising research in domestic and international markets, and developed and launched new businesses. While there he helped structure the programming plan for the launch of the Sci-Fi Channel in 1992 and USA's Latin American and European networks in the late 1990s. He joined USA Networks in 1991. He was widely quoted in the press on audience matters both while at USA and at Lifetime.
 
Before USA Networks, Brooks was Senior Vice President/Media Research Director for N.W. Ayer from 1989 until 1990, and with NBC in the 1970s and 1980s holding various positions, including Director, Program and Advertising Research and Director, Television Network Research. He began his career in New York with WCBS-TV in 1969-1970. Brooks has been very active in industry affairs, serving as Chairman of the Board of both the Media Rating Council and the Advertising Research Foundation; longtime Chairman of the ARF's Video Electronic Media Council; a board member of the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM); three-term chair of CTAM's Research Committee; and a board member of the recently formed (2005) Council for Research Excellence, among others. He is currently a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards committee. He is a recipient of  a number of industry awards.

Regarded as one of television's leading historians, Brooks has had a parallel career as a writer on television and record industry history. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (1979), co-authored with Earle Marsh, is a standard industry reference that won an American Book Award in 1980 and is now in its ninth edition. His groundbreaking Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry (2004) won three major academic awards, and a related double-CD by the same name won a Grammy Award in 2007. He has also authored or co-authored several other books and numerous articles.  Brooks was an adjunct professor of communications at Long Island University (1979-1988), and also served as a captain in the United States Army. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in television-radio from Syracuse University.

Tim Brooks and his 9th Edition of his Complete Directory of Prime Time Network.

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Tv Shows, Seventh Edition

    

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On Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 12:00 Noon, I will be hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, and you can also listen to the program’s worldwide, live streaming at www.wvox.com. One can call the show at 914-636-0110 to reach us on the radio. My guest is writer and lawyer Amy Bach, who has written, Ordinary Injustice, How America Holds Court, “…the exposure and systematic shoddiness at the core of the American criminal justice system…” from Publishers Weekly. Michael Shapiro, of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn of NYC, will join me as a guest panelist. http://www.ordinaryinjustice.com/

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“This is a magnificent work, a crusading call for reform in the tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring or Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed…This groundbreaking book deserves widespread attention.”
--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals

Amy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications. For her work in progress on Ordinary Injustice, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School. Ms Bach is a graduate of Brown University and the Stanford Law School. After law school she clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett, judge of the 11th Circuit of Appeals in Miami, Fla.

She was raised in NYC and currently lives in Rochester, New York, where she has taught legal studies at the University of Rochester. She is currently a Soros Justice Media Fellow at The Open Society Institute. Recently, she held the Hayward Burns Memorial Fellowship at The Nation Institute, where she wrote a series of articles about injustice for The Nation magazine.

Mr. Michael Shapiro is a long-time Scarsdale resident and noted criminal defense lawyer. Mr. Shapiro, who was raised in the Bronx, was educated at the City College of New York, where he received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude, and later earned his JD from New York University. He is currently a faculty member of the Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Advocacy Program and has been a frequent guest panelist at the Harvard Law School. He is now a partner with the prestigious Wall Street, New York law firm, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, which was established in 1854.
  
                                      

My guest on Wednesday is Samuel Estreicher, NYU’s Dwight Opperman Professor of Law and an expert on labor and employment law. Our subject will be labor law reform and how government can assist in the creation of jobs.

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Mr. Estreicher is a endowed Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law and the Institute of Judicial Administration.  He has published several books including leading casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; edited conference volumes on sexual harassment, employment ADR processes, and cross-global human resources; and authored over 100 articles in professional and academic journals.  He is the Secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, a former chair of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of the Association of the Bar for the City of New York, and chief reporter of the new Restatement of Employment Law, sponsored by the American Law Institute.

In 1975, Mr. Estreicher obtained his law degree from Columbia University, where he was editor-in-chief of Columbia Law Review. He graduated in 1974 from Cornell University with his master's degree and was a Herbert H. Lehman Fellow.  At Columbia College, he received his bachelor's degree in 1970 as a Joseph Pulitzer Fund Scholar.  During 1977, Mr. Estreicher clerked for the late Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the Supreme Court and the late Harold Leventhal of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, D.C.

Samuel Estreicher is also of counsel in the Labor and Employment  and Issues and Appeals practice groups of Jones Day,  resident in the New York office.  His practice focuses on the wide range of issues affecting the employment relationship, including designing ADR systems, training supervisors for performance-based management and employee involvement initiatives, advising clients in OFCCP, EEO and labor relations compliance and representing clients in individual, global HR management, and class EEO and Wage and Hour litigation.