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"Health Care for the Indivdual : How one Can Have a Healthy Heart," with Dr. Ramin Manshadi
My guest is Dr. Ramin Manshadi, the author of The Wisdom of Heart Health and our subject is, “Health Care for the individual, and how one can have a healthy heart.”
Dr. Ramin Manshadi is a Board-Certified physician with the American Board of Interventional Cardiology, American Board of Cardiology, American Board of Internal Medicine and is Board-Eligible with the American Board of Nuclear Cardiology. He is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Cardiology at UC Davis Medical Center. A “Patient’s Choice” physician, Dr. Manshadi was the first recipient of the San Joaquin Medical Society's Young Physician of the Year Award; named a “2011 Top Cardiologist” by U.S. News & World Report; voted “America’s Top Interventional Cardiologist, 2007” by Castle Connelly, Ltd.; “America’s Top Cardiologist, 2006-2007” by the Consumers Research Council and “Future Leader Award, 2008” by the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Manshadi has generously pledged proceeds from the book to help purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for placement in schools. Website: www.DrManshadi.com
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"The Future of Publishing Revisited" with Lewis Frumkes
My guest is Lewis Frumkes, and our subject is, “The state of writing and publishing in America, two years later! ”
Lewis Frumkes and Hunter College
Lewis Burke Frumkes is the author of eight books, his newest being "Favorite Words of Famous People." His other books include "How To Raise Your IQ, By Eating Gifted Children," "Manhattan Cocktail," and "Metapunctuation," He hosts his own radio show on WPAT in New York and is Director of the Writing Center at Hunter College.
Among the Center's premiere offerings is the Best-Selling-Author Series which occurs each spring and features leading authors such as Tom Wolfe, William Styron, Erica Jong, Wally Lamb, Mary Higgins Clark, talking about the writing life. The Center also runs fifteen courses in creative writing and journalism taught by professional writers and editors and listed through the continuing ed department. In summer it puts on a writer's conference focusing on fiction as well as non-fiction that has been called one of the finest small conferences in the land. Frumkes has taught writing as a visiting professor at Harvard University and currently serves on the programs committee of the Harvard Club in New York. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Writer Magazine, the country's oldest writing magazine. His humorous essays have been collected in dozens of journals, and anthologies and he has written for most major magazines. Highly sought after as a speaker Frumkes has delivered talks at The Yale Club, The Harvard Club, Sarah Lawrence College, The English Speaking Union, The Colony Club and numerous other venues, and he frequently appears as a guest on radio and television. He is a graduate of New York University.
This year, on June 9th, he will host The Writers’ Conference, at Hunter College, which is widely considered one of the finest fiction and non-fiction conferences. In addition to keynote speakers Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, and Colson Whitehead, the Writers’ Conference will feature twelve panels with distinguished writers, editors, publicists and literary agents. Steve Berry, Adam Ross, Daphne Merkin and Katharine Sands will be conducting intensive workshops in the days leading up to the conference.
One can find out more about it by going to:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ce/the-writing-center/writers-conference-and-intensives. To register: Online: ceweb.hunter.cuny.edu/cers/cers.aspx - Select Browse Courses, Summer 2012; Search under The Writing Center
Phone: 212-772-4292 or 212-650-3850
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"President Obama Shreds the Constitution: Myth or Political Rhetoric?" with Michael Shapiro
My guest is defense lawyer, legal commentator, and former prosecutor, Michael Shapiro, of Carter, Ledyard, & Milburn. Our topic is “President Obama Shreds the Constitution; Myth or Politic Rhetoric?” Should the president be impeached for violating the Constitution?
A. Are pocket vetoes, executive orders & recess appointments illegal?
B. What about signing statements, sequestering funds, are they illegal?
C. Was the president’s action getting Bin Laden and Khadafy illegal?
D. Is commenting about the Supreme Court illegal and impeachable?
E. Is the modification of the 2nd Amendment & gun control tantamount to impeachment?
F. Is health care for all Americans unconstitutional?
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 has been practicing law since 1973, has been selected as a New York “Super Lawyer” from 2006 through 2012, and is a partner with the prestigious Wall Street, New York law firm, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, which was established in 1854.
Publications Available on this website
• IRS Announces Indefinite Voluntary Disclosure Program for U.S. Taxpayers with Offshore Accounts, Client Advisory, February 8, 2012
• New SEC Whistleblower Rules, Client Advisory, June 6, 2011
• IRS Announces New Voluntary Disclosure Program for U.S. Taxpayers with Offshore Accounts, Client Advisory, February 10, 2011
• Tyco: Can a Civil Discovery Statute Trump a Criminal Defendant’s Constitutional Right to Subpoena, Obtain and Present Favorable Evidence?, NY Litigator, February 2010
• The Prevalence of International Money Laundering Crimes and the Best Practices to Avoid It, International White Collar Enforcement, January 2010
• Madoff Securities Task Force Update: IRS Issues Helpful Guidance, Client Advisory, March 18, 2009
• Madoff Securities Task Force Update: March 4, 2009 Deadline, Client Advisory, January 8, 2009
• Madoff Securities Task Force, Client Advisory, December 30, 2008
• Tyco: When Does a Corporate Probe Become State Action?, New York Law Journal, November 3, 2008
• Paths Back to Professional Work after a Felony Conviction, Client Advisory, November 15, 2007
Additional Publications
• “The USA Patriot Act and Money Laundering,” The Banking Law Journal, July/August 2006
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"Space Our Last Frontier; Can Mankind Take on the Challenge," with Homer Hickam
My guest is Mr. Homer Hickam, author of the new novel, Crater and former NASA engineer, and our subject is, “Space Our Last Frontier, Can Mankind Take on the Challenge?
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel Rocket Boys: A Memoir, was a #1 New York Times Best Seller, is studied in many American and international school systems, and was the basis for the film October Sky. Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels. His books have been translated into several languages.
Homer H. Hickam, Jr. was raised in Coalwood, West Virginia and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering. A United States Army veteran, Hickam served as a First Lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry Division during the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968. For his service, he earned the Commendation and Bronze Star Medals. He served six years on active duty, leaving the Army as a Captain.
Hickam was an engineer for the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command from 1971 to 1978 assigned to Huntsville. For three years (1978–81), he was an engineer for the 7th Army Training Command in Germany. He began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. During his NASA career, Hickam worked in spacecraft design and crew training. His specialties at NASA included training astronauts on science payloads, and extra-vehicular activities (EVA). He also trained astronaut crews for many Spacelab and Space Shuttle missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment mission, the first two Hubble repair missions, Spacelab-J (the first Japanese astronauts), and the Solar Max repair mission. Prior to his retirement from federal service in 1998, Hickam was the Payload Training Manager for the International Space Station Program.
Hickam began writing in 1969 after returning from Argentina. Despite his reputation of being interested in space and astronautics, he has written surprisingly little about this subject. A scuba instructor, he unsurprisingly set most of his focus for his first writings on his scuba diving adventures for a variety of different magazines. Then, after diving on many of the wrecks involved, he branched off into writing about the battle against the U-boats along the American east coast during World War II. This resulted in his first book, Torpedo Junction (1989), a military history best-seller published in 1989 by the Naval Institute Press.
His second book, Rocket Boys, is the story of his life as the son of a coal miner in Coalwood, West Virginia Among its many honors, it was selected by The New York Times as one of its "Great Books of 1998" and was an alternate "Book-of-the-Month" selection for both the Literary Guild and the Book of the Month Club. Rocket Boys was also nominated by the National Book Critics Circle as Best Biography of 1998. In February 1999, Universal Studios released its critically acclaimed film October Sky, based on Rocket Boys (The title "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys"). Delacorte subsequently released a mass market paperback of Rocket Boys, re-titled October Sky. October Sky reached the number one position on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Hickam's first fiction novel was Back to the Moon (1999) which was also simultaneously released as a hardcover, audiobook, and eBook. It has also been translated into Chinese. To date, Back to the Moon is Hickam's only novel specifically about space. The Coalwood Way, a memoir of Hickam's hometown, was published a year later by Delacorte Press, and is referred to by Hickam as "not a sequel but an equal". His third Coalwood memoir, a true sequel, was published in October 2001. It is titled Sky of Stone. Sky of Stone is presently under development as a television movie. His final book about Coalwood was published in 2002, a self help/inspirational tome titled We Are Not Afraid: Strength and Courage from the Town That Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Winning Movie October Sky.
After his memoir series, Hickam began his popular "Josh Thurlow" series set during World War II. The first of the series was The Keeper's Son (2003) set on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The series continued with The Ambassador's Son (2005) and The Far Reaches (2007). both set in the South Pacific. His next novel was Red Helmet (2008), a love story set in today's Appalachian coalfields and dedicated to "Mine Rescue Teams Everywhere." In 2010, he co-authored My Dream of Stars (2010) with Anousheh Ansari, a multi-millionaire Iranian-American who dreamed of going into space and became the world's first female commercial astronaut. Hickam, an avid amateur paleontologist, also wrote The Dinosaur Hunter, a novel set in Montana published by St. Martin's in November, 2010. His newest book is Crater, a novel about a mining colony on the Moon.
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"Severe Weather, Environmental Chaos, Things to Come?" with Stephen Apfelbaum
My guest is Steve Apfelbaum and our subject is. “Extreme Weather, Environmental Chaos, Things to Come?”
Steven I. Apfelbaum is the founder and principal ecologist of Applied Ecological Studies, Inc., (AES) a multi-million dollar international ecological restoration services company. Under his leadership, AES championed plans to close the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, New York and transform it into a new park three times the size of central park in Manhattan. AES also oversaw the nationally acclaimed Prairie Crossings conservation development project in Grayslake, Illinois, which was featured in both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
In addition to his work at AES, Apfelbaum is the co-author of the Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land series, two books that educates readers on the considerable benefits of land restoration and explains how to restore an ecosystem of any size to its natural state. He also wrote Nature’s Second Chance, a personal, thirty-year account of the restoration of his Stone Prairie Farm near Juda, Wisconsin.
Mr. Apfelbaum has conducted ecological research, designed award-winning projects, successfully navigated regulatory programs, and contributed his unique creative scientific expertise and enthusiasm to over 1,500 projects throughout North America and beyond. He is one of the leading ecological consultants in the U.S., providing technical restoration advice and win-win solutions where ecological and land development conflicts arise. Mr. Apfelbaum has authored hundreds of technical studies, peer-reviewed technical papers, books, reports, ecological restoration plans, and regulatory monitoring and compliance reports. He promotes using ecological and conservation design principles in developments, industrial projects and parks that help clients save money while increasing ecological functionality, improving public perception and generating award-winning outcomes. Apfelbaum is also a much sought after speaker at educational events focusing on ecological restoration, ecosystem assessment, alternative storm water management and conservation development.
Applied Ecological Services (AES) is one of the largest ecological restoration companies in the world, with ten offices in the United States and two branches abroad. He is also the author of Nature’s Second Chance, a thirty-year, personal account of the restoration of his family’s Wisconsin dairy farm. Apfelbaum received the Aldo Leopold Foundations’ John T. Curtis Award for Career Excellence in Ecological Restoration in 2010. Website: www.appliedeco.com/ He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received his BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Master of Ecological and Biological Sciences. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist, Ecologist Society of America.
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land and The Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Workbook are available at www.barneandnoble.com and www.amazon.com.
Steven I. Apfelbaum is the founder and principal ecologist of Applied Ecological Studies, Inc., (AES) a multi-million dollar international ecological restoration services company. Under his leadership, AES championed plans to close the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, New York and transform it into a new park three times the size of central park in Manhattan. AES also oversaw the nationally acclaimed Prairie Crossings conservation development project in Grayslake, Illinois, which was featured in both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
In addition to his work at AES, Apfelbaum is the co-author of the Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land series, two books that educates readers on the considerable benefits of land restoration and explains how to restore an ecosystem of any size to its natural state. He also wrote Nature’s Second Chance, a personal, thirty-year account of the restoration of his Stone Prairie Farm near Juda, Wisconsin.
Mr. Apfelbaum has conducted ecological research, designed award-winning projects, successfully navigated regulatory programs, and contributed his unique creative scientific expertise and enthusiasm to over 1,500 projects throughout North America and beyond. He is one of the leading ecological consultants in the U.S., providing technical restoration advice and win-win solutions where ecological and land development conflicts arise. Mr. Apfelbaum has authored hundreds of technical studies, peer-reviewed technical papers, books, reports, ecological restoration plans, and regulatory monitoring and compliance reports. He promotes using ecological and conservation design principles in developments, industrial projects and parks that help clients save money while increasing ecological functionality, improving public perception and generating award-winning outcomes. Apfelbaum is also a much sought after speaker at educational events focusing on ecological restoration, ecosystem assessment, alternative storm water management and conservation development.
Applied Ecological Services (AES) is one of the largest ecological restoration companies in the world, with ten offices in the United States and two branches abroad. He is also the author of Nature’s Second Chance, a thirty-year, personal account of the restoration of his family’s Wisconsin dairy farm. Apfelbaum received the Aldo Leopold Foundations’ John T. Curtis Award for Career Excellence in Ecological Restoration in 2010. Website: www.appliedeco.com/ He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received his BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Master of Ecological and Biological Sciences. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist, Ecologist Society of America.
Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land and The Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Workbook are available at www.barneandnoble.com and www.amazon.com.
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"FDR's Death and the Emergence of the Cold War," with Professor Frank Costigliola
My guest is University of Connecticut Professor Frank Costigliola, the author of Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War, and our subject is “How FDR’s Death and the Emergence of the Cold War.”
Frank Costigliola has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1998. Previously he taught for twenty-six years at the University of Rhode Island. A recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Guggenheim foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute, he received in 2002, the Chancellor's award for excellence in research and the Alumni Association's award for excellence in research. In 2009, he served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).
He is currently editing the diaries of George F. Kennan, which extend from 1924 to 2004. His most recent book, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War, was published by Princeton University Press in January 2012. Professor Costigliola was raised in Rockland County, NY and earned degrees at Hamilton College and Cornell University.
The following are some of Professor Costigliola’s works: "Broken Circle: The Isolation of Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II" in Diplomatic History (November 2008). "Reading for Meaning: Theory, Language, and Metaphor" in Michael Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson (eds.), Explaining American Foreign Relations History, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). "Doing and Defining U.S. Foreign Relations: A Primer" (a revision of Thomas G. Paterson's 1991 essay in ibid. "Language and Power in the Western Alliance," in Kathleen Burk and Melvyn Stokes (eds.), The United States and European Alliance Since 1945 (Oxford, U.K., 2000) "'I Had Come as a Friend': Emotion, Culture, and Ambiguity in the Formation of the Cold War," Cold War History (August 2000), "`Mixed Up' and `Contact': Culture and Emotion among the Allies in the Second World War," International History Review (December 1998), "`Unceasing Pressure for Penetration': Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George Kennan's Formation of the Cold War," The Journal of American History (March 1997), 1309-39. "The Nuclear Family: Tropes of Gender and Pathology in the Western Alliance," Diplomatic History (Spring 1997),."Kennedy, the European Allies, and the Failure to Consult," Political Science Quarterly (Spring 1995), "An 'Arm Around the Shoulder': The United States, NATO and German Reunification, 1989-90," Contemporary European History, (July 1994), 87-110. France and the United States: The Cold Alliance Since World War II (New York: Twayne/Macmillan, 1992). Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984, 1987, 2010).
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"Crisis Management Under Stress," with Jim Moorhead
My guest is lawyer Jim Moorhead, author of “Instant Survivor, Right Ways to Respond When Things Go Wrong!” Our subject is “Crisis Management,” and how it can be achieved.
Jim Moorhead is America’s crisis adviser. A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, Moorhead co-founded the crisis management practice at a major Washington, D.C. law firm where he is a partner. He has helped numerous large organizations and individuals survive crises.
For over two decades, he has handled complex civil and criminal matters, including trials, appeals, mediations, and settlements. He has first-chaired over 25 complex civil and criminal jury trials and litigated a wide range of cases, including class actions, director and officer liability and professional malpractice, securities, RICO, wrongful death, and employment discrimination.
He has conducted numerous corporate internal investigations on a variety of issues including FCPA, internal controls, money laundering, embezzlement, and bank secrecy. He can act as independent counsel in internal investigations for companies, boards of directors, audit committees, or special litigation committees. He has experience designing and reviewing corporate compliance programs from an in-house and outside counsel perspective. He also has litigated on behalf of and counseled insurers on coverage disputes relating to a variety of policies, including errors and omissions and D&O policies.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Moorhead was a federal prosecutor in Baltimore and an investment banker and commercial banker in New York City. He recently served as chief financial officer and general counsel of an emerging growth company. His financial background has led to his representation of lenders, investment advisors, and other litigants in securities and other complex business transactions cases.
He has helped numerous large organizations and individuals survive crises. An instant survivor of his own crises in politics and high tech entrepreneurship, Moorhead is a sought after speaker and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Fox Business News, and Court TV. Website: www.InstantSurvivor.com
Jim Moorhead is America’s crisis adviser. A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, Moorhead co-founded the crisis management practice at a major Washington, D.C. law firm where he is a partner. He has helped numerous large organizations and individuals survive crises.
For over two decades, he has handled complex civil and criminal matters, including trials, appeals, mediations, and settlements. He has first-chaired over 25 complex civil and criminal jury trials and litigated a wide range of cases, including class actions, director and officer liability and professional malpractice, securities, RICO, wrongful death, and employment discrimination.
He has conducted numerous corporate internal investigations on a variety of issues including FCPA, internal controls, money laundering, embezzlement, and bank secrecy. He can act as independent counsel in internal investigations for companies, boards of directors, audit committees, or special litigation committees. He has experience designing and reviewing corporate compliance programs from an in-house and outside counsel perspective. He also has litigated on behalf of and counseled insurers on coverage disputes relating to a variety of policies, including errors and omissions and D&O policies.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Moorhead was a federal prosecutor in Baltimore and an investment banker and commercial banker in New York City. He recently served as chief financial officer and general counsel of an emerging growth company. His financial background has led to his representation of lenders, investment advisors, and other litigants in securities and other complex business transactions cases.
He has helped numerous large organizations and individuals survive crises. An instant survivor of his own crises in politics and high tech entrepreneurship, Moorhead is a sought after speaker and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Fox Business News, and Court TV. Website: www.InstantSurvivor.com
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"Palliative Care as an American Right," with David Leven
My guest is David Leven and our subject is, “palliative care,” for the seriously ill and “end of life care” for our aging population an American Right.
David C. Leven is the Executive Director of Compassion & Choices of New York, an organization working to improve care and expand choice at the end of life. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Syracuse University College of Law.
In 2007 Mr. Leven played a leadership role in having legislation introduced and enacted in New York, to improve pain management and palliative care. Pursuant to the Palliative Care Education and Training Act, $4.5 million dollars is to be allocated to improve medical school and post medical school training in pain management, palliative care and end-of-life care. The Palliative Care Information Act of 2010, which requires that terminally ill patients be offered information and counseling on their palliative care and end-of-life options, was introduced at the request of Mr. Leven on behalf of Compassion & Choices of New York and he was also instrumental in securing its enactment. He is continuing legislative advocacy efforts to ensure that patients have their pain and other symptoms treated effectively and that their end-of-life wishes are respected.
Mr. Leven has recently had co-authored articles published on the Family Health Care Decisions Act and the Palliative Care Information Act in the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care and in Elder Law Attorney of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). He has authored an article in the Health Law Journal of the NYSBA on the connection between the Palliative Care Information Act and the Family Health Care Decisions Act, which was also
published in the Elder and Special Needs Law Journal of the NYSBA.
Mr. Leven lectures frequently to diverse professional groups and citizens on health care decision making and end-of-life issues. He is a regular guest lecturer at College of New Rochelle School of Nursing and Fordham Graduate School of Social Service, and he has spoken at numerous meetings and conferences. In recent years he was a plenary speaker at Consortium of New York Geriatric Education Centers Conferences (2), Jewish Home Life Care Annual Palliative Care Conference, Lawrence Hospital Interdisciplinary Staff Meeting, Westchester/NYS Southern Region, Collaborative for Palliative Care Conference, Westchester Medical Group, West Harrison and Rye. He has also presented at the New York Academy of Medicine, State Society on Aging of New York Conferences and the Hospice and Palliative Care of New York State Annual Meeting. He has lectured at most of the New York City area law schools as well as at Yale, Syracuse and Albany law schools. Mr. Leven has appeared on Fox Cable TV, CBS TV, Channel 2 Local News, Regional News Network TV, Fox Radio, CBS AM radio, BBC, WNYC, WVOX, WFAS and WLIB. He is a periodic guest on the WBAI Health Styles program.
Mr. Leven is a recipient of numerous awards. These include, among others, the Public Interest Law Award of the New York State Bar Association, Committee on Public Interest Law and the Westchester Civil Liberties Union, Civil Liberties Award. In 1999 he was the Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence at Touro Law School.
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"Toxic Plastics and Your Children's Health," with Michael Schade
My guest is Michael Schade, of The Center for Health, Environment and Justice and our subject is their mission.
Mike Schade, Markets Campaign Coordinator for the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, said, “Dioxin is a known ‘human carcinogen’. Learning disabilities, birth defects, endometriosis, and diabetes have all been linked to dioxin exposure. PVC is a plastic associated with more dioxin formation than any other single product purchased by NYC agencies, when its entire lifecycle is considered.” Schade noted that “NYC agencies purchase many PVC products, such as computers and building materials, when safer, cost-effective alternatives are readily available. Leading businesses such as Wal-Mart, Target, HP, Apple and others have policies to reduce or phase out the purchase of PVC.”
Mike, who joined the Center for Health Education and Justice’s staff in July 2005, was previously the Western New York Director of the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition. During his four years there, he coordinated numerous community, marketplace, and policy campaigns resulting in substantial victories for environmental health and justice in Western New York and across the state. He coordinated CEC’s Toxic-Free Legacy, Bucket Brigade Community Organizing, and Kodak Corporate Accountability campaigns in Western New York. He has a BS in Environmental Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a minor in Physical Geography. Mike previously worked for the Buffalo Coalition for Economic Justice/Jobs With Justice on local labor struggles and campaigns. In November 2007, he was named by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics for 2007 and the PVC Campaign was awarded the “Path to Victory” Business Ethics Network award. In 2008, BEN awarded the PVC Campaign its BENNY award.
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"At the Crossroads of Justice:American Wartime Atrocities," with Paul Noto
My guest is Paul Noto, lawyer, former legislator and author of "At the Crossroads of Justice, My Lai and Son Thang" – American Atrocities in Vietnam, and our subject is, “Why American boys become cold-blooded killers seemingly overnight and the failure of leadership”
Paul J. Noto, Esq., a practicing attorney, is a former member of the Westchester County Board of Legislators. From 1994-2001, he served as minority leader and majority leader. Representing parts of Harrison, Rye Town, Mamaroneck Village and the entire Villages of Port Chester and Rye Brook, Paul was involved in key policy decisions of Westchester County Government and served as Co-Chair of the Legislature's highly praised Task Force on Families. He pushed for strong anti-crime measures and was a leading proponent of many environmental initiatives.
Having served in local and county government for over twenty years, Paul's political and professional relationships run far and wide. He has counseled both local and state-wide elected officials on both legal and political matters. Recently, he successfully advised the insurgent candidate for Rye Town Supervisor in his successful bid to win an upset victory in 2007. Paul began his career in government in 1981 when he was appointed to the Village of Mamaroneck Zoning Board of Appeals and was subsequently elected Mayor of Mamaroneck in 1985 at the age of 29 becoming the youngest person ever elected Mayor.
He is a graduate of Washington College in Maryland, received a JD from Western New England School of Law, and earned a MA in history from Iona College, New Rochelle.
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