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This year, some of the finest media professionals are being honored in The Irish American Media Top 30. Here are their profiles:
Margaret Brennan
Margaret Brennan is the anchor of Bloomberg Television's InBusiness with Margaret Brennan, which airs weekdays from 10 a.m.-noon.
Since joining Bloomberg in July 2009, Brennan hosted Bloomberg Television's first live broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she interviewed Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz al-Assaf and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. She has also reported live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and exclusively covered the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009.
Previously, Brennan was a general assignment reporter for CNBC and a contributor to NBC's Today Show, Nightly News and MSNBC.
Brennan began her business news career at CNBC in 2002 as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser.
Brennan graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a BA in Foreign Affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language. She was named an Emmerich-Wright scholar for an outstanding thesis.
As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Brennan studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association and serves on the advisory board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin.
A third generation Irish American, Brennan's father's family came from Galway and Bantry Bay, and her mother's from Sligo.
Patti Ann Browne
Patti Ann Browne was named news anchor for Fox News Channel in August 2000.
She joined Fox from MSNBC, where she hosted Weekend Morning Line, anchored weekday updates and breaking news, and reported from the field.
Before that, Browne worked at News 12 Long Island, a 24-hour cable news channel in New York. She co-anchored the channel's morning show and hosted Reporter Roundtable, a weekly news talk show.
Browne began her career at WLIM Radio on Long Island as morning news anchor. Her first television job was as anchor and news director of WLIG-TV 55, seen in New York City and Long Island, from which she went on to become an anchor/reporter for WSJV-TV in South Bend, Indiana.
Browne earned an MA summa cum laude from the New York Institute of Technology in New York, where she was a reporter for the school's news program LI News Tonight.
Browne also holds a BA from Fordham University, where she was news director, news anchor and Irish music host on Fordham's far-reaching radio station, WFUV-FM. Browne worked at Newsweek magazine throughout college.
She grew up in Bayside, New York. A second generation Irish American, Browne's grandparents grew up in Co. Mayo.
Browne was aide to the grand marshal of the Glen Cove St. Patrick's Day Parade on Long Island in 1997.
Browne lives in the New York City area with her husband and son.
Michael Daly
Working as a top columnist at the New York Daily News for over two decades, Michael Daly knows all about the tribes of New York Irish. His father was born outside Dublin, and his mother was a Canadian of Irish extraction.
A graduate of Yale University, Daly started journalism at Flatbush Life. He is the author of Under Ground, a novel, and The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge about the FDNY chaplain who died on September 11.
Daly lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
Jim Dolan
Jim Dolan has been a reporter with Eyewitness News since 1986.
Dolan knew he wanted to be a reporter in New York before he finished grammar school. Since then, he has reported on virtually every major story around the world -- the LA riots, the Oklahoma City bombing, civil wars and famine in Africa, the death of Princess Diana, the Persian Golf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Intifada in the Middle East.
Though he has reported from more than 30 countries on five continents, Dolan has always had a great love for New York because there's nothing like reporting nightly on neighborhood stories close to home, and close to the heart.
Dolan is a second generation Irish American, and native New Yorker.
Dolan's grandparents came to the U.S from Co. Cork.
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986.
She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, "On Washington," for The New York Times Magazine.
Dowd joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983. She began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writer. When the Star closed in 1981, she went to Time magazine.
Born in Washington, D.C., Dowd received a BA degree in English literature from Catholic University (Washington, D.C.) in 1973.
Dowd's father, a police detective, came from Co. Clare, where the family visited many times. Her mother was a proud Irish American, Peggy Meenehan, who led a demonstration at the British Embassy after Bloody Sunday when 14 were shot by British forces in Derry.
Peter Dunn
Peter Dunn is president of CBS Television Stations, CBS Corporation's group of 29 owned television stations. He was named to the position in November 2009.
Previously, Dunn has served as president and general manager of WCBS-TV New York, the flagship of CBS Television Stations, since 2005, and continues to oversee the station's day-to-day operations.
Prior to that, he was president of sales for CBS Television Stations, as well as president of its spot sales operations.
Dunn also served as president and general manager of CBS's Philadelphia stations KYW and WPSG.
Before coming to CBS in 2002, Dunn served as executive vice president of sales and senior vice president of sales and marketing for the NBC Television Stations division. He also worked as local sales manager, national sales manager and account manager for WNBC-TV, which he joined in 1997.
From 1987-1997, Dunn worked at the ABC Television Network as an account executive for both ABC spot sales and WABC-TV. He also worked as a sales manager for Katz TV in Boston, and served as national sales manager for WHEC-TV in Rochester, New York.
Jim Dwyer
JIM Dwyer is a columnist at The New York Times. Dwyer began writing the "About New York" column in April 2007.
He has spent most of his professional life covering New York as a reporter, columnist and author. He joined The New York Times in May 2001 after stints at the Daily News, New York Newsday and several papers in northern New Jersey.
Born and raised in New York City, Dwyer is the son of Irish immigrants, his father from Kerry and his mother from Galway. For the last 26 years, he has lived in Washington Heights with his family.
Alexis Glick
ALEXIS Glick recently departed Fox Business News, where she was the vice president of business news and anchor of Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell.
Glick joined Fox News in 2006 as the director of Business News. She became the vice president of business news responsible for overseeing all aspects of Fox Business Network's business programming shortly before the launch of the network in 2007. Glick was the first employee and one of the executives responsible for the launch.
Prior to joining Fox News, Glick was a correspondent for NBC's Today, where she co-anchored the third hour of the program. Before joining Today, she was the senior trading correspondent for CNBC and reported from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for CNBC's morning show Squawk Box.
Earlier in her career, Glick was an executive director at Morgan Stanley where she headed floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange. A member of the New York Stock Exchange since 2002, she was the first and youngest woman to manage such an operation for a bulge bracket firm, and served as one of its top producers on the Listed Equity Trading Desk.
She began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the equities division.
Glick is a graduate of Columbia University and serves as a member of the board of directors of the College Alumni Association. She is the proud mother of three young boys.
A third generation Irish American, Glick's father's gamily came from Cavan and Monaghan, and her mother's from Galway.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle joined Fox News Channel in January 2006 as the host of the one-hour crime-based program, The Lineup, which covers major breaking news, including politics and entertainment, with an emphasis on legal affairs and issues of the day. It is the highest-rated cable news program in its time slot.
She also currently serves as a legal analyst for Fox News.
Formerly of Court TV, which she joined in January 2004 as co-host of Both Sides, Guilfoyle also served as a legal analyst for ABC News, featured regularly on Good Morning America, as well as CNN's Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper 360.
She has covered major cases such as O.J. Simpson, Scott Peterson, JonBenet Ramsey, Natalee Holloway, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson.
In February 2004, Guilfoyle had a movie role as a public defender opposite Emmy Award winning actor Ed Asner in Happily Even After, which was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Prior to her broadcasting career, she served as an assistant district attorney at the San Francisco and Los Angeles district attorney's offices. As managing attorney of the trial division in San Francisco, she was co-prosecutor in the case People v. Noel and Knoller, a second-degree murder trial involving a dog mauling, which received national and international attention, and was chronicled on NBC's Dateline, A&E's American Justice, and, most recently, on Animal Planet's Animal Witness.
Guilfoyle is a magna cum laude graduate of University of California, Davis and attended the University of San Francisco School of Law and Trinity College in Dublin, where she studied and was published for her research in international children's rights and European Economic Community law.
Guilfoyle presently serves as an active board member of the Gastro Esophageal Cancer Foundation and on the advisory panel for the American Bar Association.
Guilfoyle's father's family came from Ennis, Co. Clare.
She resides in New York City with her son, Ronan Anthony Villency.
Jack Haire
Jack Haire is CEO of PARADE Publications, a position he has held since June 2009.
A seasoned executive with vast experience in both traditional and digital media, Haire was chosen to succeed PARADE chairman and CEO Walter Anderson. Prior to joining PARADE, he led his own company, Haire Media Ventures, which was formed in 2006 and specialized in innovative digital advertising and distribution strategies. He advised companies including CNET Networks, Quigo Technologies, Hallmark Cards, Outbrain, and UpCompany, among others.
Haire also serves as a director of LodgeNet Interactive, Phoenix Companies, and Top Ten Reviews.
Haire spent 28 years at Time Warner Inc. During his tenure there, he was executive vice president of Time Inc. and president of the Fortune/Money Group, where he helped Fortune to achieve its best years in circulation, advertising market share and profitability.
He was also publisher of Time magazine (1993-1998). On his watch, both Time and Fortune were chosen as Adweek's Hottest Magazine, measured by three year advertising growth.
He also partnered with CNN on the launch of CNNMoney.com, one of the web's most successful and profitable finance sites.
Haire's great grandparents came from counties Cork and Donegal. Like so many others, they came to New York through Ellis Island to escape the Famine. The family settled in the New York area but always retained ties to the home country.
Haire lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity joined the Fox News Channel in 1996, where he currently hosts his self-titled program, Hannity. Since Hannity debuted last year, it has averaged 2.8 million viewers each night.
Previously, Hannity co-hosted Hannity & Colmes with Alan Colmes for 12 years. Hannity has become one of the most popular radio personalities nationwide as the host of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show, syndicated to more than 500 stations and heard in all of the top 50 markets with a loyal listenership of 13.5 million.
Hannity is currently ranked number two in Talker Magazine's Top 100 Talk Hosts in America.
Hannity has interviewed many key political figures including President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Reverend Jesse Jackson and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
Prior to his roles with WABC and FNC, Hannity hosted a radio talk show in Atlanta on WGST-AM and was a frequent substitute for fellow talk show host Rush Limbaugh on WABC in New York.
He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, Let Freedom Ring and Deliver Us From Evil.
All four of Hannity's grandparents came to the U.S. from Ireland, his paternal grandparents from Down, and maternal from Cork.
Hannity lives on Long Island with his wife and two children.
Magee Hickey
Magee Hickey is a reporter for CBS 2 News in New York, where she contributes to the early morning, noon, 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts as a featured correspondent. She has spent more than 27 years covering local news in New York City.
For the past eight years, Hickey has been getting up at 2 a.m. every morning to report for News This Morning, the successful morning newscast from 5-7 a.m. Hickey was the first anchor of the highly successful Weekend Today in New York newscast.
She has won wide recognition for her investigative journalism, including an Emmy Award in 1992 for her yearlong reports on New York City's Emergency Medical Services.
Hickey graduated from Brown University in 1977. Hickey's father's grandfather, Maurice Francis Hickey, came to the U.S from Co. Clare in the early 1850s and founded M.F. Hickey Concrete Company, which was a successful company that supplied the concrete for much of the building boom in Brooklyn in the first half of the 20th century. Her father, Lawrence F. Hickey, served as president of the company for many years.
Hickey's mother, Jean Elizabeth Hogan, an actress and a model, was also an Irish American. Hickey's parents met at an Irish wake.
A native New Yorker, she resides in Manhattan with her husband and their two daughters.
John Hogan
John Hogan has been president and chief executive officer of Clear Channel Radio, a division of Clear Channel Communications, since August of 2002.
Hogan's innovative vision for the radio industry has helped make Clear Channel Radio the leading and most evolutionary radio broadcaster in the U.S. Among the accolades for his leadership, Radio Ink named Hogan Radio Executive of the Year in 2005, introducing initiatives like Less is More and resources like the Creative Services Group to improve the value of radio to listeners and advertisers.
In addition, Radio & Records has named him Group Executive of the Year for the past five consecutive years.
In addition to his responsibilities at Clear Channel, Hogan has further served the radio industry by dedicating his time and energies to several key organizations that make a difference in radio and beyond.
Hogan is currently on the board of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Advertising Council, American Women in Radio and Television and the Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interest in Media.
Hogan graduated from Lake Forest University in 1979. He resides in San Antonio, Texas with his wife Nancy and their daughter, Makenzi.
A second generation Irish American, Hogan's grandparents came to the U.S. from Killarney, Co. Kerry.
Jackie Hyland
Jackie Hyland is currently weekend anchor for PIX News at 6:30 and PIX News at Ten in New York.
Hyland worked at WPIX from 2000-2005 and returned to the station in August of 2009 for the weekend anchor position. She is also reporting three days a week for the weekday broadcasts of PIX News at 6:30 and PIX News at Ten.
Hyland was previously anchor/correspondent at ABC News NOW, where she anchored live coverage and news briefs for ABC News NOW, ABC's digital network. She also filled in as an anchor on World News Now and America This Morning and contributed to Good Morning America.
Prior to joining ABC News, Hyland was a reporter and anchor for WFAA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. While at WFAA, Jackie anchored the morning show, hosted Good Morning Texas and anchored the midday show.
She joined the station in 2005 from WPIX-TV in New York City, where she had worked as a reporter and anchor since 2000.
Hyland began her career in journalism with an internship at Good Morning America. She later worked at ABC Sports on the production team for TV's Daytime Emmy Awards broadcast.
During this time she also filed news reports for a local radio station and wrote a column about life in New York for the Irish newspaper, the Leitrim Observer. She transitioned to local news in 1995 and worked at News 12 Long Island and News 12 Westchester as both a producer and a reporter.
The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognized Hyland's work with a 2004 Emmy Award. She has been nominated for an Emmy six times, a Folio Award and two Associated Press Awards.
Although born in New York City, Hyland and her family moved to Leitrim when she was nine years old. During a decade in Ireland, Hyland became a proficient performer of Irish folk song and dance. She also modeled and appeared in several Irish magazines and newspapers.
Eventually Hyland returned to the U.S., where she attended St. John's University in New York, graduating cum laude with a degree in communications and a minor in business.
Hyland is married and has two daughters. Her mother was born and raised in Mayo, and her father in Leitrim, where her parents currently reside.
Greg Kelly
Greg Kelly joined Good Day New York on Fox 5 in July 2008, where he co-hosts the popular morning news program. Most recently, Kelly was an anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel based in New York.
Kelly joined Fox News in 2002 and went on to serve as a White House correspondent from 2005-2007. He has also covered the war in Iraq extensively, including four long-term assignments in Baghdad.
During the 2003 invasion, he was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade. He was the first television reporter to deliver live pictures of U.S. forces infiltrating Baghdad, as well as exclusive reports of the storming of Saddam Hussein's presidential palace.
Prior to joining Fox News Channel, Kelly was a reporter for New York 1 News, where he covered New York City politics and the September 11 attacks.
He started his career in journalism as an anchor and reporter for NewsChannel 34, the ABC affiliate in Binghamton, New York. Prior to this, Kelly spent nine years as a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps.
A licensed commercial pilot, he currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves.
Kelly is a graduate of Fordham University with a BA degree in political science. Kelly and his family have traced their Irish heritage back to Co. Cork.
Keith Kelly
Keith J. Kelly has been writing the must-read "Media Ink" column for the New York Post since July 1998. He consistently breaks stories on the inner workings of the major companies in the magazine, book, and newspaper publishing businesses.
Kelly was once termed "New York's most influential media columnist" by New York magazine. He jumped to the Post from the Daily News.
Kelly served as a founding member of the New York City-based Kelly Gang Inc., which includes Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and other notables in the media world with the surname Kelly. It evolved from a social group into a charitable organization following the death of author/journalist Michael Kelly, who became the first American journalist killed in Iraq in the Iraq War in 2002.
Kelly has raised approximately $400,000 for causes as diverse as The Wounded Warrior Project to Catholic Charities of New Orleans and the Lower East Side Tenament Musuem.
Kelly freelanced out of Belfast in 1980 and was the first reporter to break the news of the looming IRA hunger strike in Long Kesh Prison. Over the years, Kelly has contributed stories on the troubles in Northern Ireland and its New York connections to The Nation, The Boston Globe, Newsday, USA Today, America Magazine, Catholic News Service, Religious News Service and for years throughout the 1980s was a New York correspondent for the Dublin daily, The Irish Press.
A fourth generation Irish American, Kelly traces his Irish ancestry to Westmeath and Mayo.
Kelly is married to J. Patricia Walsh, the daughter of the late Kerry football great Eddie Walsh. They live in the Stuyvesant Town neighborhood of Manhattan with their three boys, Ruairi, Luke and Eamon.
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly currently anchors America Live, a daytime news program on Fox News Channel which launched in February.
She previously co-anchored America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer, and appears weekly on The O'Reilly Factor in a segment entitled "The Kelly File."
Throughout her tenure with Fox, Kelly has covered breaking news and has reported live from numerous major events. During the 2008 election season, she covered the Democratic National Convention live from Denver and the Republican National Convention live from St. Paul.
She also reported live from Blacksburg, Virginia after the 2007 Virginia Tech campus massacre, and from Huntington, Utah as rescue efforts were underway for six trapped miners.
Kelly notably covered the Duke University rape case involving three of the school's lacrosse players. Reporting from Durham, North Carolina, she broke new details that would ultimately help exonerate the defendants.
Kelly joined Fox in 2004. Prior to her anchor role, she served as a general assignment reporter based in Washington, where she provided wall-to-wall coverage of the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Chief Justice John Roberts.
She also reported on the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, as well as the indictments of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay.
Before joining Fox, Kelly served as a general assignment reporter for ABC News affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington. During her tenure at WJLA, Kelly covered national and local stories of interest, including the 2004 presidential race and the D.C. sniper cases.
Previously, Kelly practiced law as a corporate litigator. She earned her BA degree in political science from Syracuse University and a JD from Albany Law School, where she also served as editor of the Albany Law Review.
Pat Kiernan
Pat Kiernan is the morning anchor on NY1 in New York.
Kiernan's career in broadcast journalism began while he was attending the University of Alberta's Faculty of Business in Edmonton, Canada. Upon the completion of his bachelor of commerce degree, he accepted a full-time job as a general assignment reporter for CFRN television in Canada's fourth-largest TV market.
While at the CTV network-affiliated station, he anchored a weekly business news magazine program and at various times worked as the station's assistant news director, assignment editor, producer and news anchor.
Prior to joining Time Warner and NY1, he was the senior producer of the prime-time newscast ITV News at Ten on CITV, one of Canada's satellite superstations, where his duties included an on-air role as host of "Your Money," a popular segment he created.
Kiernan and his wife Dawn moved to New York in March of 1996. He joined the Time Warner family as the anchor and producer of the Fortune Business Report, and was named NY1's morning anchor in 1997.
Kiernan has traced his Irish heritage back as far as the Famine. He believes his ancestors came from Monaghan and Cork.
Connell McShane
Connell McShane joined Fox Business Network as a correspondent in September 2007. Prior to joining Fox, McShane worked at Bloomberg Television where he served as a news reporter and an anchor working on Evening Edition, On the Markets and Marketweek.
He also broadcasted live reports from both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Before Bloomberg Television,
McShane co-anchored the syndicated morning show The First Word on Bloomberg Radio. He began his career in sports broadcasting. He served as the play-by-play voice of minor league baseball's Pittsfield Mets during the 1998 season.
A graduate of Fordham University with a BA degree in communication and media studies, McShane was named a finalist in both the New York Metro Achievement in Radio Awards and the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters' Association.
McShane's father was born and raised in Kilcar, Co. Donegal, where McShane remembers spending many summers there as a child with his family.
McShane and his wife live on Long Island with their three children.
Megan Meany
Megan Meany joined WNBC's Today in New York weekday morning team in June 2008 as traffic reporter from 4:30-7:00 a.m. Meany is a member of the Shadow Traffic organization and brings with her their extensive resources and in-depth expertise in covering traffic in the tri-state area.
Meany also brings a new look to the broadcast by reporting live each morning from WNBC's Studio 7E, instead of from the Shadow Traffic headquarters located across the Hudson River in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Meany has worked in many different capacities within local, cable and network television. Most recently she worked with E! News as a freelance entertainment reporter interviewing A-List celebrities, and at the Style Network covering the New York fashion scene.
Previously, Meany was the host of Help Wanted, a prime time reality show on TLC. She got her on-air start at CBS's Saturday Early Show covering trends.
In addition to her on air work, Meany has 10-plus years experience producing network and local programming.
Meany's interest in journalism started in print as an editorial assistant and reporter for the Boston Herald newspaper. Her bylines included front-page news, the real estate section's "Home of the Week" feature, and a bi-monthly piece on street fashions.
A Connecticut native, Meany attended Trinity College in Hartford where she earned a degree in English along with a minor in women's studies.
Meany is a fourth generation Irish American and traces her roots back to Co. Clare and Co. Mayo. She resides in Manhattan with her husband and son.
Erin Moriarty
Erin Moriarty has been a correspondent for 48 HOURS on CBS since 1990. She has covered the death of Princess Diana, the JonBenet Ramsey investigation, the murder of financier Edmund Safra, and the war in Iraq.
Before that, Moriarty was the consumer correspondent for CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Moriarty has examined some of the most important social and legal issues of the day, including DNA testing of evidence in death-row cases, the abortion controversy and battered woman's syndrome.
Moriarty has received numerous honors, including nine national Emmy Awards, a 2001 Overseas Press Club Award for her work on 48 HOURS and three Association of Women in Radio and Television Gracie Allen Awards for the weekly talk show that she co-hosted with Nancy Giles on WPHT Radio in Philadelphia (2003-04).
In both 2000 and 2003, she was honored with a Top 100 Award from Irish America magazine. In 1988, Moriarty received the Outstanding Consumer Media Service Award presented by the Consumer Federation of America for "her many contributions of both local and national significance as a consumer reporter."
Prior to joining CBS News in 1986, she was an award‑winning consumer reporter for the NBC owned and operated WMAQ-TV Chicago (1983‑86). She was also a reporter in Columbus (Ohio) at the NBC affiliate WCMH-TV (1979-80), Baltimore at the ABC affiliate WJZ-TV (1980-82) and Cleveland at CBS affiliate WJKW-TV (1982-83).
Born in Cincinnati and raised in Columbus, Moriarty graduated from Ohio State University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in behavioral sciences, and received a law degree from the university in 1977.
A third generation Irish American, Moriarty's great-grandfather came to the U.S. after the Civil War from Cork. He came through Boston and then worked on the railroad, which took him to Ohio.
Moriarty lives in New York with her husband, who is also an attorney, and their son.
Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy is the Emmy Award winning, chief correspondent for the PIX Investigates unit on the PIX News at Ten in New York.
While a student at Queens College in Flushing, Murphy interned in the WCBS-TV newsroom, and after graduating magna cum laude, she was hired by WPIX-TV Channel 11 as a production assistant, working her way up the ladder to staff reporter.
In 1986, WCBS-TV hired Murphy as a general assignment reporter and later, as a breaking news correspondent. Her coverage of the Joel Steinberg and John Gotti trials garnered two Emmy Award wins by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
In 1993, Murphy returned to WPIX-TV as a special correspondent, where she was assigned to major stories, with hosting duties on 11 News Close-up, plus anchor work.
At WPIX, Murphy has continued to win numerous awards, including 14 Emmys (for a total of 16). In 1995, she was honored by the American Women in Radio and Television for a documentary called Schindler: The Real Story, a report on Holocaust survivors living in New York and New Jersey who were the inspiration for the Steven Spielberg film. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for writing.
Murphy's work has been nominated for four Emmy Awards this year, one for anchoring a 10 p.m. newscast, and several of them for investigative reporting.
While weekend co-anchor of the PIX News at Ten, Murphy reported on some of the biggest stories of the last decade. Both Murphy's parents, James and Mary, were born in Ireland, her father in Mayo and her mother in Galway. Murphy's father came by boat to America in the late 1940s.
Murphy's parents met at an Irish dance hall in Rockaway Beach, Queens. The Murphy family was raised in Queens, New York.
Murphy has been to Ireland five times, most recently with her then 10-year-old son.
Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN. Since 2003, O'Brien has reported breaking news from around the globe and has produced award-winning and record-breaking documentaries.
O'Brien's most recent projects, Latino in America Black in America, have been critically acclaimed. O'Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami.
Her numerous other awards include a Gracie Allen Award in 2007 for her reporting from Cyprus on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict as well as her reports from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. The NAACP honored her with its President's Award in 2007 for her humanitarian efforts and journalistic excellence.
In 2008, she was the first recipient of the Soledad O'Brien Freedom's Voice Award from the Morehouse School of Medicine for being a catalyst for social change. Also in 2008, O'Brien was the first recipient of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Goodermote Humanitarian Award for her efforts while reporting on the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina and the Southeast Asia tsunami.
O'Brien came to CNN from NBC News where she anchored the network's Weekend Today since July 1999. Prior, O'Brien anchored MSNBC's award-winning technology program The Site. O'Brien joined NBC News in 1991 and was based in New York as a field producer for Nightly News and Today.
Before her time at NBC, she served three years as a local reporter and bureau chief for the NBC affiliate KRON in San Francisco. She began her career as an associate producer and news writer at the then-NBC affiliate WBZ-TV in Boston.
O'Brien's father is Australian Irish, and she has been to Ireland many times. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly is host of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel.
O'Reilly also is a weekly columnist and published author with many best-selling books, the most recent, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, holding a place on The New York Times best-seller list since it was published in 2008.
O'Reilly started his broadcasting career in Scranton, Pennsylvania, before moving on to report and anchor in other places such as Dallas, Boston and New York. His national exposure began with CBS and ABC News, and as host of the first version of Inside Edition. It was in 1996 that O'Reilly landed at Fox News.
O'Reilly has accumulated many awards, including three Emmys, and a special 2008 Governor's Award.
Although born in Manhattan, O'Reilly was raised on Long Island. His bachelor's degree is in history from Marist College, and he has a master's in broadcast journalism from Boston University, as well as a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
O'Reilly's paternal grandparents came to the U.S. from Co. Cavan.
Kristen Powers
Kirsten Powers is a political analyst on Fox News, appearing on The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, as well as on the morning Fox News Radio show Brian and the Judge.
Powers is also a columnist for the New York Post. Formerly a columnist for American Prospect Online, Powers has also written articles for USA Today, Elle, the New York Observer, Salon and The Wall Street Journal.
Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Powers served in the Clinton administration as the deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs. She was also the vice president for international communications at America Online. Powers was formerly a vice president at the AOL-Time Warner Foundation.
Powers has worked for the New York State Democratic Committee, was the press secretary for Andrew Cuomo for Governor and communications director on the mayoral campaign of C. Virginia Fields.
Powers has consulted for a variety of non-profit organizations including Human Rights First and the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW).
Trish Regan
Trish Regan is an anchor on CNBC's The Call, which airs weekdays 11 a.m.-noon.
An Emmy nominated correspondent, Regan also reports for CNBC's documentary unit. In addition, she provides regular economic reports and analysis for NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams and Today.
Regan recently reported an in-depth hour on the underground marijuana industry entitled Marijuana Inc.: Inside America's Pot Industry. Her investigation exposed a multi-billion dollar underground trade that authorities are nearly powerless to stop.
Regan has reported extensively on international economic issues. She traveled to the Tri-Border region of South America for an investigation into terrorist financing.
Regan joined CNBC from CBS News, where she was a correspondent reporting for the CBS Evening News and The Early Show, and contributed to 48 HOURS and Face the Nation.
Previously, Regan was a television correspondent for CBS MarketWatch, contributing to Marketwatch.com and CBS News.
In 2002, her work at CBS MarketWatch earned her the Most Outstanding Young Broadcast Journalist Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.
Prior to MarketWatch, Regan reported for Bloomberg Television.
Regan began her career working for Goldman, Sachs. She graduated cum laude from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in U.S. history.
A third generation Irish American, Regan's paternal great grandparents were Waterford, and her maternal great grandparents were from Cork.
Sam Ryan
SAM Ryan joined WCBS-TV and CBS Sports in June 2006. Ryan serves as CBS 2's sports anchor for CBS 2 News at 6 and 11 p.m. on Monday through Wednesday evenings, as well as serving as a studio host for college football at CBS College Sports.
She also contributes to CBS Sports' coverage of the NFL on CBS and the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.
Previously, Ryan served as sideline reporter for ESPN and ESPN2's coverage of the National Hockey League playoffs, including the Stanley Cup finals on ESPN and ABC. In 2004, she added reporting duties for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball telecasts.
Before joining ESPN and ABC Sports, Ryan worked as a sports anchor and reporter for WABC-TV. In addition, she also has reported for WFAN radio in New York, News 12 Long Island, WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut, and Fox Sports in New York, where she served as a reporter and anchor for the New York Sports Report.
During her career Ryan has reported on many diverse sporting events, including 2005 Monday Night Football on ABC, Super Bowl XL pre-game (ABC), the Little League World Series (2003-'05), the 1996 Summer Olympics (ABC Radio Network), the 2000 Subway Series between the Yankees and the Mets (Fox Sports New York and Madison Square Garden Network) and women's college basketball (Fox Sports).
She won a local Emmy Award in 1999 for Outstanding Series Feature and garnered a local Associated Press Award in 2000 and a New York Broadcasters Association Award in 2007.
In addition to her on-air work, Ryan is a national spokesperson for the March of Dimes, helping to generate awareness of its Prematurity Campaign.
A second generation Irish American, Ryan's grandmother Mary O'Grady, originally from Galway, lived with her family on Long Island, leaving Ryan with strong a Irish identity, something she wishes to pass on to her children.
Ryan and her husband currently reside on Long Island with their two children.
Kristen Shaughnessy
Kristen Shaughnessy has been with NY1 since 1995 as the station's weekend anchor and breaking news reporter.
When the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11, 2001, Shaughnessy was one of the first on the scene.
Shaughnessy may be one of the city's only television reporters to grow up in a house without TV. Her family's television set broke when she was very young, and her parents decided that the family would be better off reading.
Shaughnessy worked first in radio and then at a television station in upstate New York before coming to NY1.
Shaughnessy has been able to trace her roots back to the mid 19th century, from the south west of Ireland.
Shaughnessy is married to Joe Bush, a professional golfer. They live in New York with their two daughters, Jamie and Kara.
Kate Sullivan
Kate Sullivan joined WCBS-TV in April 2006 as co-anchor of CBS 2 News This Morning with Maurice DuBois, weekdays from 5-7 a.m. In addition, she also co-anchors CBS 2 News at Noon.
A native of New England, Sullivan most recently anchored KATV's Live at Five and Channel 7 News at 6 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
She joined KATV in August 2002, was promoted to Live at Five news anchor and in September 2003, and took on lead anchor responsibilities as well as special assignment reporting.
Sullivan covered 9/11 from New York, where she brought back the reality of Ground Zero and the stories of Arkansans who lost loved ones in one of the greatest tragedies of our generation.
Before KATV, Sullivan worked as a general assignment reporter and intern at WSBT in South Bend, Indiana and at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sullivan has won several awards, including an Emmy Award and the Associated Press First Place award for breaking news.
Sullivan graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame. Known on air as Kate Sullivan, Mary-Catherine Elizabeth Sullivan is named after three great-aunts all of Irish heritage.
A fifth generation Irish American, Sullivan's ancestors on both sides came from Co. Cork. Sullivan has traveled to Ireland, and feels a connection between the Irish flair for storytelling and her journalism profession.
She currently resides in Manhattan.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams is the seventh anchor and managing editor in the history of NBC Nightly News, which represents the largest single daily source of news in America.
Recently, Williams became the most honored network evening news anchor. He received four Edward R. Murrow awards, his fifth Emmy Award, the duPont-Columbia University Award and the industry's highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award. Most were given for his work in New Orleans while covering Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and all were awarded to Williams in only his second year on the job.
Williams was the first and only network evening news anchor to report from New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit, and was the only network news anchor to report from the Superdome during the storm. He remained in New Orleans to report on the aftermath and destruction of Hurricane Katrina, and continues to travel back and forth to the region to cover the recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Originally from New Jersey, Williams attended George Washington University, and the Catholic University of America. After working in the lobbying arm of the National Association of Broadcasters, Williams began his broadcasting career at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1981. A year later he moved back to Washington, D.C. and worked at WTTG-TV as general assignment reporter.
Williams lives in Connecticut with his family.


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Risk Services
1111 Broadway Building (APL): Emergency procedures
Emergency Procedures – Quick Reference (pdf)
AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators)
The Broadway Building has one AED located behind the Treasurer's reception lobby desk (in a closet around the corner). In the event of a cardiac-related medical emergency (or unconscious/unresponsive person) - call 911 - then send a runner to retrieve the AED. Find a trained AED-CPR rescuer (rescuers can be identified by the "AED" sticker on their nameplate; see list of trained staff below). Also notify Broadway Bldg. Security (444-3411) of the medical emergency.
UCOP Trained CPR-AED Rescuers List (PDF)
Volunteers Needed – Training Request Form (doc)
Portable Oxygen Units
- A portable emergency oxygen unit is located next to the AED in the Treasurers Office reception area closet.
- These units should be used to administer oxygen to someone having difficulty breathing or shortness of breath.
- The O2 units can also be used in conjunction with a CPR face mask or the bag valve mask (BVM) to resuscitate a non-breathing victim.

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Solving the human resources equation
HT Staffing gives clients information, flexibility and people
If you want the straight message about the employment situation in the Golden Triangle, go to the source. HT Staffing finds jobs for people and people for jobs, and has a finger the pulse of the local hiring scene.
Jim Gilliam, chairman, and Mark Turpin, CEO, founded HT Staffing in 2001. Both men graduated from West Orange-Stark High School and attended the University of Texas. The company has three specialized divisions – HT Staffing, HT Staffing Technical and HT Staffing Professional – with offices in Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur and Austin.
The majority of placements that HT Staffing does are "temp to perm" positions, according to Cynthia Buckles, manager of the Golden Triangle Region. "About 85 percent of our placements are long-term temporary positions that turn into permanent placements, either with that understanding before the project starts or as the job goes along. "
Filling an employment opening in your business can be time consuming. Some companies have a dedicated human resources department that spends all its time filling open positions. Most companies, especially medium to small businesses, don't have that luxury. "We act as a personnel department for our clients," explained Danielle Dedrick, account manager. "We identify the client's staffing need and vet all candidates we send to them for consideration."
A prospective employee undergoes a rigorous verification process before they ever meet a potential employer.
"We perform all skill tests, confirm they are competent on the appropriate computer programs, arrange for any drug tests that are needed and talk to all references," said Buckles. "Our background check process is something our clients depend on. Our reputation is on the line every time we send a prospective employer a candidate to consider, and we take that very seriously."
To clients, the timed saved by having HT Staffing do the background work and pre-qualifying is well worth it.
"If you need an assistant, you are not only doing your job, you are doing your assistant's job. Taking the time to search for your new assistant is adding another portion to an already full plate," said Dedrick. "It is not an efficient use of time and resources, especially when we are here and can handle all that."
HT Staffing is always on the lookout for qualified employees to place with their clients. "We use social media, job publications and referrals," Buckles said. "Some of our happiest placements have been from networking in the community. We are always feeding the employment pipeline so that when a client calls us, we have candidates ready to send over."
By acting as a clearinghouse for temporary or permanent employees, HT Staffing can work to bring the parties together as easily as possible. "A common complaint of job seekers is that it is almost impossible to look for a job when they are working all day," said Buckles. "We will bend over backwards to set up meetings before or after hours, or during lunch. Our clients know that if we recommend a person, it is worth their time to change the schedule; they will meet a well qualified candidate."
There are people who enjoy the flexibility of a permanently temporary employee.
"Some of our employees want to work on projects that last a few weeks or months, then take some time off," said Dedrick. "That's fine with us. One of the greatest compliments our clients give us is to call back and request a particular employee. That lets us know we have done our job right."
HT Staffing handles all payroll functions for their employees, including all relatable taxes. The client pays fees for personnel placement, either through the hourly fee paid to HT Staffing for a temporary employee or a finder's fee for employees that are hired on a permanent basis right away. Employees are never charged for job placement services.
HT Staffing can place temporary or permanent staff in a wide variety of fields. "We handle administrative and accounting positions, light industrial work and skilled and unskilled labor," said Buckles. "We also have tutorials available for employees who want to upgrade their skills."
HT Staffing Technical Division places employees with specific technical skills on contract or permanent placement. HT Staffing Professional, located in Austin, is an executive placement and recruitment firm that conducts nationwide searches for its clients.
HT Staffing has seen a major increase in business in the past year, and they take that as an indication that the economy in the region is on the rise. Their increase in year to date growth from last year in an astounding 233 percent.
"We are proud to be a part of the growth of the Golden Triangle Region," said Mark Turpin, CEO of HT Staffing. "We have seen tremendous growth in all three of our divisions over the last 18 months and expect this trend to continue in the future."


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Monday, April 5, 2010
Children, Adults, and Choice For Men!
In comments to a post at Sipsey Street, a couple of issues/questions were raised by others.
Take a moment to read the original post and the comments - it will make the rest of this easier to follow.
@ Dennis30: The distinction you're looking for, and coming so close to finding, is simple -- It's Adults vs. Children.
Adults - us - know that we're responsible for our lives and actions.
The Enemy - them - have ever grown up. They FEAR responsibility, they loathe anyone who is truly self-reliant, they NEED someone to tell them what to do.
Best of all, just like all the REAL teenagers in the world, they believe they know EVERYTHING, and absolutely despise true adults who try to tell them that their juvenile plans and theories are unworkable.
They're perpetual adolescents.
@ PioneerPreppy: You too are ALMOST there.
Our current system - with universal access to abortion on demand and literal slavery for the poor, unsuspecting sperm-donor - ENCOURAGES irresponsibility.
"If I get pregnant I can get an abortion. I can make him pay for 18+ years. I can get food/clothing/shelter/etc. for FREE!" What part of this encourages responsible behavior? NONE - obviously.
I too am morally opposed to abortion. IMHO when it's still a "blob" of cells, it's just that - not a "human." The small-l-ibertarian in me also believes it is morally wrong to try to force my opinions on others at this point.
When it develops the ability to feel pain however, no reasonable person can describe an abortion in other than horiffic terms, and I lose all restraint in opposing it. If you were to rip the arms, legs and head off a puppy before feeding its remains through a grinder, you'd be jailed -- and rightly so. How can we tolerate this being done to a tiny being of ANY species?!
Still, I agree that it's a slippery slope to a VERY big problem. We simply cannot legislate morality. We CAN however - with properly composed legislation - accomplish some serious reductions in abortions and still be 100% in line with Libertarian and Constitutional principles.
This would need 2 laws to be passed:
(1) Any abortion process must inform the mother of the details of the chosen procedure. This may be accomplished in any format from printed literature to one-on-one tutoring, so long as she's fully informed of exactly what level of development her child has reached, and exactly what she's choosing to do to it. This would - no doubt - cause a drastic reduction in abortions all on its own.
To REALLY reduce the problem however, all we need to do is SOLVE an existing unfairness and Constitutional crisis -- the unfair, disparate treatment of men.
Women are granted a minimum of 60 days from the time they know (or SHOULD know) that they are pregnant, to avail themselves of a relatively safe and legal procedure to absolve themselves of the life-long consequences of an ill-conceived sexual union.
All we need to do is provide men with the equal protection under the law.
Obviously for men to be able to force or deny an abortion to a woman is unacceptable for a whole host of reasons - so what we're discussing here is a "virtual abortion", or a "legal abortion" if you prefer.
In essence, it would grant men access to a safe, legal procedure by which they too can absolve themselves of the aforementioned consequences. In sum, men would be given 60 days from the time they are informed of the pregnancy, during which they could avail themselves of the services of an attorney to sign a document absolving themselves of any possible rights or responsibilities as regards the unborn child.
This would IMMEDIATELY reduce the rate of both abortion and bastardy, because women would no longer be guaranteed a paycheck.
Any reasonable person would agree that this would force women to be MUCH more careful, and reduce "accidental" pregnancies to the nearly infinitesimal rate of true accidents where properly-used precautions have failed.
A near 100% of what we call "accidental pregnancies" are in fact negligent, or - as happens much more often than we know - a deliberate act on the part of the woman to "trap" a man into a relationship or simply allow her to steal a large part of his earnings for 18+ years by first fraudulently stealing his DNA.
I - personally - was once the victim of such a woman. She insisted that she was "allergic" to latex, and to some component of all the non-latex condoms. She swore there was "no possible way" she could get pregnant due to previous surgery, and that - even so - she was on "the pill" for other medical reasons.
My daughter was born 10 months and 2 days from the night I met this woman, and she's flatly confessed that she lied because she wanted another baby, believed I'd make a pretty one, and that I had the potential to also provide a much higher amount of "child support" to her.
She's made life a living hell for nigh on 2 decades because I refused to pay up and go away.
I didn't want to be a Father, but when forced into the role I determined to be the best Father I was able to be - which has been my overriding life-goal for nearly 2 decades. Nobody's perfect, but I give my all to the attempt - and I possess no delusions as to the rest of us.
Frankly, this responsibility is what made a good man of the worthless POS I was before. I would not be capable of turning my back on my offspring, and would gladly go through all the hell I've lived 10 times if its avoidance meant losing the people I love most in the world.
Still - those were *MY* choices. The fact that thousands of young men are forced into slavery every day is the worst sort of travesty.
Why "slavery"? Simple. The average child-support order ranges ~1/3 of a man's income for 18+ years - this means *ALL* of his income for 6+ years. SLAVERY.
Further, he's robbed of all choices. He cannot accept a lower-paying job, even if he's doing so due to grave and obvious medical concerns. Any lapse in payments - even through no fault of his own - will result in his being stripped of his right to travel, any licenses he may hold, even of his very freedom.
This truly is SLAVERY - there's no better word for it.
Bottom line: Remove all the rewards and return all the risks, and "unplanned" pregnancies will return to their previous rarity.
Ensure every woman wishing to kill her child must face the ugly reality of what she is about to do, and abortions too will become a rarity.
This leaves us with the problem of unwanted children. They are *NOT* "society's" problem - they are the responsibility of their MOTHER, and then their extended family and community.
As in times past, people *WILL* GLADLY step up and do whatever is require -- be it adopt the child or provide other needed assistance -- but not when they're being robbed at the point of a government gun.
Sorry for another excessively-long response, but this is a deep and important subject, and I can't let the opportunity to educate pass...
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Caught your link from sipsey street.
I do have a question(s) that about something that you allude to in your post. It's not the main point of your post, but I have not spoken very many libertarians, and the few that I have spoken to arent very articulate.
I have heard libertarians state that libertarianism consists mainly of 2 ideas 1. Nobody tells you what to do and 2. you don't get to tell anyone else what to do.
I think you kind of invoke that idea when you said that "The small-l-ibertarian in me also believes it is morally wrong to try to force my opinions on others at this point."
But is it wrong for you to tell me (or anyone for that matter) that I shouldnt steal from you? or to burglarize your neighbor? Doesnt a person have the right to say, Hey, sir you really shouldnt murder me today? I believe that we do have the right to tell folks those things, and this is why I am not an official libertarian (and i reject the 2 principal fundamentals of libertarianism listed above). I have many libertarian leanings, but it seems like true libertarianism is anarchy by another name.
That said, I believe in natural law. As a consequence I do believe that we need some laws. Further if you look at any law that exists it is nothing more than legislated morality. Indeed all laws are legislated morality. This doesnt mean I think we need even one tenth of the laws that we have, but I certainly do not believe the myth that "morality can't be legislated". Do not confuse this with passing a law makes a person magically moral, but since I beleive that some laws are needed, and all laws are legislated morality, it follows infallibly from those premises that legislated morality is needed.
I am curious to get your insights on this. By the way I appreciate all of your posts on mikes blog. I have been reading his blog for 1.5 years now, and rarely if ever post. Just to let you know that I am not some fly by night libtard or a guy unfamiliar with the current situation we find ourselves in. I hesitate to post on his blog for two reasons 1. paranoid that the alaphabet soup organizations will get interested in everybody they encounter on "extremeist blogs" 2. I don't have enough intelligent things to add to make the comment sections better.
- April 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM
Your framing of the issues is as good as any I've seen, and would generate political traction if anything can. Very good.
As a libertarian, I've arrived at the practical but unsatisfying conclusion that a) abortion is immoral, but b) the issue cannot be legislated until we have the "consent of the governed." Something like the supermajority required to pass a constitutional amendment asserting human rights for the unborn would be a reasonable standard.
Your difficulty stems from misunderstanding of the core principle of libertarianism: you may not initiate force against anyone else. That's the more appropriate way of phrasing "you don't get to tell anyone else what to do."
The use of force in self-defense is entirely appropriate when you are faced with aggression.
The phrase "You can't legislate morality" applies to attempts to limit consensual behaviors in the absence of force, fraud, or coercion, such as drug use or prostitution, or to enforce "moral" behaviors, such as charitable giving or energy efficiency -- at the point of a gun. It is not intended to contradict the key moral prohibition on aggression.
Actually, though they don't tend to think of it in these terms, my libertarian friends and colleagues are the most moral people I've ever known. At least, when I'm around them, I know I am NOT in a room full of people who would willingly see me murdered rather than permit me the least non-conformity to their idea of morality.
You're a libertarian if you believe in live-and-let-live. A good introduction to the subject can be found at:
Be well,
Mike D.
- April 7, 2010 at 3:12 AM
- Dedicated_Dad said...
thanks to both of you for the comments and kindness.
@ Nanders: Mike explained the "non-initiation (of force) principle very well.
I often say "You have the right to do anything you like - including swing your fist - but your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose!"
On the "Constitutional Amendment" thing, frankly you're a bit off.
A Constitutional Amendment cannot rightly fix everything - especially if it's not in keeping with the letter and spirit of The Constitution.
Suppose we somehow ratified an Amendment that all red-heads could be killed on sight? Or that Congress COULD restrict the press, or (insert obvious but not too outlandish point here...)!
As soon as Dear Reader& his minions add 30 million new voters, they could EASILY pass an amendment allowing "re-education camps" for anyone expressing opposition to the .GOV, or banning all private ownership of firearms.
Would that be legit?
FARK no - NEVER!!
- April 7, 2010 at 9:58 PM
You're welcome!
My point re: abortion is that, without the broad consent of the governed, you'd have a situation no different than the one we have now; a plurality of those in control forcing a moral standard on an unwilling population of similar size. As I see it, the issue won't be fully resolved until the prohibition of abortion is nearly as uncontroversial as the generally accepted prohibition on murder.
I see something like the level of political consensus necessary to amend the constitution as a reasonable minimum standard of consent, whether or not an amendment is the appropriate way to implement the change.
Mike D.
- April 8, 2010 at 3:07 AM
Mike and DD,
I appreciate your clarifications.
If I understand correctly, a libertarian isn't necessarily opposed to having some laws, just as long as those laws revolve around use of force. An example might be if the legislature passes a law against robbery or murder. While on the other hand, a libertarian believes laws against prostitution and drug use are unjust. If I am on the right track with that, then I can certainly understand it's (libertarinaism's) appeal. It sure would eliminate the nanny problem we have now.
I would like to bounce two more questions off you guys if I could.
1. Libertarians seem to be opposed to any and every type of war. I hit up lewrockwell.com once and awhile and get the feeling that all wars including WW2 are unjustified in their view. (I realize that lew rockwell does not represent all libertarians) I have also heard other libertarians speak as though war is never justified. My question is, do you guys feel the same way? Do you believe there is such a thing as a just war? If the answer is "no, there is no justifiable war" I would ask the followup about the Revolutionary war and WW2, I cannot imagine better causes for war.
2. This last question comes from issues of practicality (pragmatism I suppose). I realize that most arguments from pragmatics are nothing but red herrings. If we didnt have laws that dealt with non-aggressive issues (ie eminent domain, all forms of taxes, and laws that deal with enviroment) wouldnt we as a country be just like any other third world hell hole? I am thinking of the river in Ohio that caught on fire in the 60's (pollutants), the idea that our roads would be terrible and we would not have a standing army to deter our enemies.
Thanks for you guys' time in helping me through these issues. I wish you all the best.
P.S. Keep your powder dry...
- April 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM
"If I understand correctly, a libertarian isn't necessarily opposed to having some laws, just as long as those laws revolve around use of force."
Right. From another angle, we're very much in favor of the notion that government exists to secure individual rights, and nothing else. If no-one's rights are violated there can be no crime.
"1. Libertarians seem to be opposed to any and every type of war... Do you believe there is such a thing as a just war? If the answer is "no..." I would ask the followup about the Revolutionary war and WW2, I cannot imagine better causes for war."
If somebody attempted a military invasion of our territory, I'm sure most libertarians would be right there fighting to defend the homeland.
The war had been going on for over two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor and our declaration of war against the Axis. Though we had been providing material support to our allies, until that point the public had resisted going to war. The US embargo of Japan and even speculated foreknowledge of the Japanese attack, are seen by some people as evidence of a calculated strategy by FDR to draw us into the conflict.
In that light, I think those libertarians you're reading believe that we could have remained neutral and dealt with the victors when it was all over.
I think Jefferson's "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none..." expresses the overriding principle here.
I have to think about this some more in the context of the American Revolution...
"2... If we didnt have laws that dealt with non-aggressive issues (ie eminent domain, all forms of taxes, and laws that deal with environment) wouldn't we as a country be just like any other third world hell hole? I am thinking of the river in Ohio that caught on fire in the 60's, the idea that our roads would be terrible and we would not have a standing army to deter our enemies."
Pollution hurts people and infringes property rights. Libertarians would look to a strong judiciary as the best means to deal with such problems. If any individual could expect to effectively sue Dow Chemical, for example, and actually shut them down if they pollute the river or groundwater, then it would be possible to keep such abuses under control.
The people, armed and ready, voluntarily trained, with access to local armories for heavy weapons, would be a formidable alternative to a standing army, especially if you aren't engaged in foreign "adventures."
If the government was pruned back to its essential and important functions, and no more, you'd find that tax rates would be miniscule and most costs could be covered by surcharges for specific services, voluntarily paid.
In my experience, private toll roads are better maintained than public highways... Why?
If the governments of those "third world hellholes" magically became committed to defending the rights (life, liberty, property) of their individual citizens, wouldn't the standard of living explode in response to the industrious efforts of those people to improve their own circumstances and make a better life for their children?
In short, the classical liberal philosophy expressed in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, is pretty close to an ideal statement of our beliefs.
It's a long way from where we are to where I would like us to be. On any given issue there is an, often unrealistic, ideal solution and, at the same time, any number of small, practical, if imperfect intermediate steps to move us in the right direction. In every case, however, you can trace their origins to our core principles by clear logic and reason. That's one of the things that's most satisfying for me.
I suggest the writings of Ron Paul as a good way to gain perspective on the issues from a mostly libertarian point of view. A good resource for this is:
Be well,
Mike D.
- April 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- Dedicated_Dad said...
Asking what libertarians believe is like asking what christians believe.
See, all are different, being humans and stuff...
To me, it's all about Liberty.
What better example could possibly exist than to choose what to do with one's own body, or what to ingest, smoke, or...?
Why is that *ANYONE* else's business?
As a comedian put it - "If a guy who really needs some attention happens to meet a woman who really needs some money - why is that "society's" business?
As to war? Well... There are just wars IMHO. Nobody ever said we'd all agree - in fact the biggest reason the big-L Libertarian party is a joke is because it's like herding cats.
Personally, I believe that our Founders were guided by Divine Providence and created the single best system of government in human history.
NOTHING is so perfect that determined people can't screw it up - but the problem is with THE PEOPLE in question...
- April 13, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- nova said...
Abortion is murder. Pretty simple really.
- May 25, 2010 at 6:26 PM
I like your story about your daughter my first born is my daughter also.
But can you please tell me how these two peoples(actulally more like four or five)different peoples live together.
I don´t see how personaly the burden has become to much and is robbing my familly of their futures.
- July 6, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Dedicated_Dad said...
Sorry that I missed the last 2 posts until now.
NOVA: I agree, once the fetus develops the ability to feel pain or becomes a recognizable human form (whichever is first) it **IS** murder.
Unfortunately we live in a VEEeery twisted society where removing a child feet-first so the Doc can stick scissors through the base of its skull and suck out its brains (before tossing it in the trash like soiled tissue) is acceptable.
Well... Acceptable so long as Doc doesn't allow the head to exit Mom's vagina before said murder occurs. If he slips and has to do the same thing on the table then we call it murder.
As to "how can we continue to live together" - I frankly don't see how we can.
Essentially we have "irreconcilable differences."
WE want our Federal Government to live within its proper bounds, leaving all other matters to the states or the people as the Constitution demands.
THEY want a government without limits, where those savvy enough to win an election are permitted to do anything they please, magically elevating them to a state of infallibility equalled only by - for example - the pope.
This is an inaccurate comparison, because since they recognize no G*d but "the majority", papal infallibility is a cruel joke whereas anyone chosen by The Majority is vested with G*d-like wisdom and power once known only to kings.
The other major fallacy is the concept of "somewhat limited government." As others have said many times, if the government is allowed to decide limits of its power, then there *ARE* no limits.
There is simply no way to reconcile our proper, Constitutional, "Tightly-limited government" with their "unlimited government." It's as if trying to compromise light and darkness -- anything NOT darkness is - by definition - lit!
The question then becomes "division or restoration"?
Do we divide into two separate nations or do we stamp out the evils of collectivism by whatever means may become necessary?
Personally I'd rather see them go -- and may G*d have mercy on their souls -- but that's not going to happen.
Still, I hope they'll get the opportunity, and I KNOW they'll use maximum force to attempt to stop our movement -- at which point we'll be justified in doing what must be done.
God help us -- and God Save Our Republic!!
- July 24, 2010 at 11:22 AM


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The Savvy Aviator #56: Before You Yank That Jug ...
I last wrote about this subject about 18 months ago (Savvy Aviator #37), but it seems as if jugs are still coming off needlessly, so perhaps it's time to revisit the subject. Each week, I receive dozens of emails from aircraft owners seeking advice on maintenance. I really enjoy helping fellow aircraft owners, but I often get frustrated by some of the poor advice they get from their mechanics. Take this one, for example:
"Mike, I really enjoy reading your column. I'm having a problem and need some advice. My airplane is in for annual and for the second year in a row my TCM IO-520 engine has some low compressions. The compression test was done hot (or at least that's what I'm told). The IA is going to do another compression check today, cold, but I don't think that is going to change anything. "He said the leaks seem to be from the exhaust valves. I looked at the exhaust valve of the lowest-compression cylinder through a borescope, and the valve was red in color. The IA said that is because it's run too hot, and suggested that the culprit was my use of lean-of-peak mixture settings in cruise. "I fly about 100 hours a year. Most of my trips are about four hours long. I usually cruise between 8000 and 9000 feet. My power settings, at 8,000 feet, are about 22 inches at about 2400 RPM. I lean to peak on my JPI 700, then go about 15 degrees F lean of peak. My hottest CHT is never above 380 degrees F. What am I doing wrong when flying this airplane?"
Flawed Advice
I told this owner that he's getting flawed advice from his IA. For one thing, the owner isn't doing anything wrong. Fifteen degrees F lean of peak and CHTs below 380 degrees F are exactly where this normally-aspirated engine should be operated at 8000 to 9000 feet. He's doing a great job of powerplant management. For another, an exhaust valve is supposed to be red! The red color is from exhaust deposits on the face of the valve, and such deposits are perfectly normal. In fact, the cooler the valve is operating, the thicker the deposits and the more intensely red the valve appears. It's actually the absence of red deposits that tells us the valve is heat-damaged and leaking.
The key to whether or not the valve is burned is the appearance of those red deposits. On a normal valve, when viewed with the borescope (see photo at right), the red deposits have a relatively symmetrical appearance, with the redness most pronounced in the center of the valve face and less pronounced toward the edges of the valve face. That's because the valve face runs coolest at the center (where it's thickest and its heat is well-sinked by the valve stem), and hottest at the edges (where it's thinnest and not so well heat-sinked). The hotter the valve, the less red deposits there are; the cooler the valve, the more red deposits there are. In other words, red means cool and the absence of red means hot! (I know this sounds counterintuitive, because we're used to thinking of red and hot as being associated, but in this case it's non-red and hot that are associated!)
If the valve is leaking, there will be one (or sometimes two) hot-spots around the circumference of the valve face where almost all the red deposits are gone and you see gray metal. The red exhaust deposits will have an asymmetrical appearance (see photo at right), with the hot-spots identified as being where the valve is least red.
Don't Yank That Jug!
If the borescope inspection shows a valve with a normal-looking, symmetrical pattern of red deposits and no obvious hot spots, I would not authorize the mechanic to remove the cylinder. I would go fly it for a few hours and then repeat the compression test. (Preferably have another mechanic do the test.) To be on the safe side, I would continue to inspect the valve with a borescope every 50 hours (at each oil change). Since the aircraft has a digital engine monitor, I would also suggest keeping a close eye on the EGTs. Always place your engine monitor in its "normalize mode" when in cruise flight. This will level all the EGT bars at mid-scale and increase the sensitivity, so that small EGT variations become very obvious. If the exhaust valve is leaking in flight, you will see it on the engine monitor (provided it is in normalize mode). The classic signature of a leaking exhaust valve is a slow EGT oscillation of 30 degrees F to 60 degrees F that occurs about once or twice a minute (see graphic at right). Any time you see something like this, immediately borescope the cylinder and check the valve. In my experience, a burned valve becomes detectable under the borescope (via asymmetrical exhaust-deposits revealing a well-defined hot-spot or two) at least 100 hours before the valve actually reaches the point of failure. The engine monitor will also detect the problem, but with somewhat less lead time -- perhaps 10 to 25 hours before failure. Consequently, I believe that regular borescope inspections should be the first line of defense in detecting incipient exhaust-valve problems, with the engine monitor used as a backup. The use of regular boroscopy in piston-aircraft engine maintenance is relatively new, and many mechanics don't really understand what to look for. They almost certainly received no training on this in A&P school. Consequently, before authorizing a mechanic to pull a cylinder off your engine, you would be wise to do what this owner did: Seek a second opinion.
Compression Limits
The same owner emailed me a follow-up question:
"Is there any regulation as to the minimum compression on a cylinder in order to pass an annual? My IA tells me the engine should not have passed the last annual because of low compressions."
Excellent question! Yes, there sure is. The applicable regulation -- 14 CFR Part 43 Appendix D (Scope and Detail of Annual and 100-Hour Inspections) -- states that an IA is required to perform a compression check at each annual and 100-hour inspection. It goes on to say that if "weak compression" is found, the IA must perform an internal cylinder inspection to ascertain the reason for the weak compression. The FARs do not define the term "weak compression." FAA Advisory Circular AC43.13-1B (Acceptable Methods, Techniques and Practices -- Aircraft Inspection and Repair) suggests that compression readings below 60/80 are considered "weak," but this default FAA guidance is superseded by any specific guidance offered by the engine manufacturer. Because both Lycoming and Continental (previously TCM) do offer specific guidance, AC43.13-1B is moot. Lycoming's guidance is that the inspecting mechanic should "consider" removing the cylinder if its compression is below 60/80, or if there is more than a 10-point spread between the highest and lowest cylinder. Lycoming also encourages (but does not require) mechanics to use borescope inspections to help assess cylinder condition. Lycoming's use of the word "consider" appears to give the IA some wiggle room, but most IAs will take the position that a Lycoming cylinder with compression below 60/80 has to come off. Continental's guidance is very different from Lycoming's. Continental's guidance appears in Service Bulletin SB03-3, which in my opinion is the best guidance ever written on the subject of determining cylinder condition. Every�Continental�owner should download a copy (by clicking on that link) and read it carefully. If you do that, you'll find that Continental says that the minimum acceptable compression reading is to be established using a "master-orifice tool" hooked up to the mechanic's compression test gauges. For most compression test gauges we've checked, the master-orifice tool sets the no-go limit between 41/80 and 43/80. However, each gauge is supposed to be calibrated with the tool prior to each compression test. (Nowadays, many compression test gauges come with the master-orifice tool built right in, so calibration is done simply by flipping a valve.) SB03-3 goes on to say that even if a cylinder indicates a compression reading lower than the no-go limit, the IA is supposed to inspect the cylinder with a borescope to determine the cause of the problem. If the borescope inspection fails to reveal a problem, then the cylinder should not be removed. Instead, the engine should be flown for at least 45 minutes (preferably a lot longer) and then the compression test repeated.
Have No Fear
Armed with my advice and a copy of Continental service bulletin SB03-3, the owner had a heart-to-heart conversation with his IA, and then reported back to me with the following:
"The IA just called and said that he has completed the annual, and agreed not to pull the cylinder. He said to fly the airplane for 25 hours and he will then recheck the compressions. I feel half afraid to fly the thing."
I advised the owner not to be scared to fly the airplane. Low compression never made anyone fall out of the sky. In fact, before issuing SB03-3, Continental actually ran some dynamometer tests in its test cell that showed an engine with all cylinders having 40/80 compression will make full-rated power. An engine with such low compression will also blow lots of oil out the breather and onto the belly of the aircraft, and will make what's left of the oil in the crankcase filthy in short order, but there will be little or no perceptible difference in performance, and certainly no safety-of-flight issues. An in-flight failure of an exhaust valve is no laughing matter. But as long as the exhaust valve looks normal under the borescope, you can be confident that it's not in imminent danger of failing. Regular borescope inspections, backed up by a digital engine monitor, will reliably detect exhaust-valve problems before they pose a safety hazard. I'm not suggesting that compression readings in the 40s are fine, nor that they should be ignored. Such low compressions are often associated with excessive blow-by that contaminates the oil with combustion byproducts and turns it acidic and corrosive -- not exactly the ideal environment for your expensive crankshaft and camshaft to live in. But such compressions will not cause any perceptible change in engine power or performance, and certainly won't make you fall out of the sky. So it's something to be concerned about, not something to be scared of. With such low compressions, it would certainly be prudent to re-check the compression and re-borescope the cylinder in 25 hours. If the compression continues to deteriorate or the borescope reveals the obvious visual signature of a burned valve or worn barrel, then the jug probably does need to come off for repair or replacement. In the meantime, however, the owner should have no qualms about continuing to fly the aircraft.�
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Many of us believe that to get the results that we want fast, we have to feel some pain and then push ourselves past that level of pain. However, exercise can be uncomfortable at times. We all know that it is a lot of hard work, and we have to keep working a little bit harder and a little bit longer to achieve the best results. However, it should never be painful. So, how do you know when you have surpassed the discomfort and are in true pain? As most people say, you have to listen to your body, but this can be hard for a lot of us, especially for those new to fitness or ones trying a new exercise routine. So, here we have a list of common injuries that may occur when you push yourself too hard, too fast, and the signals your body may be sending you to prevent them.
Over training. This happens when you go into your workout like you could conquer the world. You think you not need breaks, and you have to be in the gym everyday to feel the burn. This kind of thinking will only wreck your body and put an abrupt end to your fitness routine. You need to allow yourself some down time to allow your body to adjust to your routine and repair itself after all that hard work. Your body will send you signals that you are working too hard. You just have to know what to look for. If you have experienced continuous amounts of fatigue, insomnia, soreness that just won't go away or a cold that you can not get over, then it is probably time for you to take a break from your routine. You should get some down time with plenty of sleep and nutritious meals to allow your body the chance to rest and repair itself.
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Not getting enough sleep. Your body has to repair itself after a grueling workout, and sleep gives your body the chance to relax and repair itself. Therefore, we need to ensure that we are getting enough sleep to allow our bodies the required downtime. The worst part is that our lack of sleep can affect more than just our fitness routines such as our attitudes, our eating habits and increasing the levels of certain stress hormones. Sleepless nights can wreck your entire day, so you should be aware of the warning signals your body will send you. You may notice your energy levels crashing throughout the day, unusual hunger, an increased number of mood swings, a lack in motor functions and problems concentrating if you are sleep deprived. You will also have problems staying alert and awake even after ingesting caffeine and other energy drinks. You may need to start scheduling a time to go to bed or visit a sleep specialist if your sleep problem persists.
It may sound so easy to listen to our bodies to avoid fitness injuries, but a lot of us may know the saying but not know the signals to look for. It can be difficult trying to decipher all the pain signals from our regular everyday discomfort. However, with a few of the descriptions above, you may be well on your way to understanding your body's warning signals.


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Dolph Ziggler has, for some time now, been on the cusp of becoming a true main-eventer. The Money in the Bank briefcase, ever in his grasp, has served as a visual reminder to fans that Ziggler is "almost there." At any moment, in fact, Dolph could opt to take his guaranteed World title shot and, in all likelihood, he would become champion. With the exception of a fluke loss by John Cena last year, everyone who has cashed in a MITB briefcase has struck gold. So, with the odds heavily weighted in Ziggler's favor, what's he waiting for?
It's possible that, if he sits idle too much longer, Dolph may regret biding his time. Sure, Edge went almost nine months before cashing in the first-ever Money in the Bank briefcase, and it worked out splendidly for him. Edge, however, remained dominant while holding on to his contract, finally striking only when he was most ready to be a credible champion. This has, arguably, not been the case with Dolph. When Ziggler captured the MITB briefcase last July, he seemed poised to become the hottest commodity in WWE. In recent months, he's underachieved, to say the least. We're not suggesting that Daniel Bryan and Kofi Kingston aren't great athletes, but a near-main-eventer like Dolph should be steamrolling over that kind of competition. Instead, his infrequent wins have come only through the assistance of Big E Langston and AJ Lee.
Say Dolph cashes in successfully at WrestleMania, capturing the World title from the winner of the Alberto Del Rio/Jack Swagger match. Will he be ready to rebuff attempts by Del Rio or Swagger to reclaim the strap? Assuming he makes it past those men, he'll find the entire Smackdown roster standing in line. Randy Orton, Sheamus, Big Show, and other heavy hitters will all be gunning for the target around Ziggler's waist. Given the way Dolph has been performing lately, we're not convinced he'll be up to the task.
According to established Money in the Bank rules, any man who holds the briefcase has a full calendar year to cash in his championship opportunity. Dolph may not seem ready for the demands of a World title reign just yet, but, if he continues to wait, things might only be that much harder. Without a legitimate need to prove himself, Ziggler has faltered. As he spends more time putzing around the middle of the card, the "Show-Off" continues to become less effective at actually winning matches.
Maybe the pressure put upon main-event performers is exactly what Ziggler needs to flourish. After all, he has been labeled an underachiever in the past. In fact, it was his drive to succeed, to silence his critics, that propelled him to where he was last summer. It's a gamble, of course, but abruptly taking the next step may be the only way for Ziggler to get back on his game.
So Dolph, if you're reading this, you might want to consider cashing in that briefcase now. The longer you wait, the more difficult this is going to be.
Then again, maybe that's exactly what the "Show-Off" wants …
Kevin McElvaney
PWI Contributing Writer
@OfficialPWI Contributor
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
It's Now Or Never For "The Show-Off"
2 comments:
- Tony Laplume said...
I think he might cash it in if Cena beats Rock, so all the heat will be able to dissipate, or at least be redirected. With Punk seeming to be ready to take some time off to heal up, Raw could use a fresh new face at the top. Of course, if Ziggler cashes in at WrestleMania for either world title, it would still be historic.
- March 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM
- Unknown said...
"According to established Money in the Bank rules..." This is WWE - and, in fact, pro wrestling in general - where rules are made to be broken when convenient for the storyline.
- March 28, 2013 at 10:17 AM
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