PHILOSUB

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Aristotle urged us to become our best selves through virtue.
Epicurus reminded us to savor simple joys and minimize suffering.
Stoicism trained us to master our emotions and reactions.
Buddhism taught mindful detachment to free ourselves from suffering.
Confucianism highlighted the importance of relationships and ethics.
Ubuntu showed that true fulfillment comes from interconnectedness and shared humanity.
I identify as a multilingual media maestro and an eclectic US citizen with no political affiliation, and vast beliefs.

HAPPINESS

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The Happiness Index finds happiness continuing to fall for Americans.
The happiness industry doesn't appear to help produce long-term happiness, including those who profit from it.
Quality time with others, sharing a meal, or giving back to the community pays happiness dividends.
Spending time with the people you care about and spending time engaging in the activities you enjoy.

MY TOCAYO

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70 years ago, my Tocayo's father scored his first hit in Major League Baseball.. On that day in 1955, Roberto Clemente debuted for the Pittsburgh Pirates in right field as a 20-year-old newcomer to the Steel City. 

As stated by the sports writers, "No one could see into the future that day, but according to Puerto Rican broadcaster and journalist Luis Mayoral, 'Clemente was our [Puerto Rico’s] Jackie Robinson. He was on a crusade to show the American public what a Hispanic man, a black Hispanic man, was capable of.” 

ZEPPELIN JAZZ

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If you’ve ever visited New Orleans, you’ve felt the possibility in the air. It truly is a place where anything can happen—like Robert Plant wandering into a jazz club and surprising the crowd with one of Led Zeppelin’s most timeless hits.

WILD WORD

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How did this character develop? Was it created as a challenge? An April Fools' joke? Or does it have a deeper meaning?

MI AMI

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Miami is where I earned my first advanced university degree, where I got married the first time, where my daughters were born, where I purchased our first home, and where I got my first job offer as a professional broadcaster.

GOOD BYE GLORIA

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I met Gloria on the 6 Subway, when I arrived in NY decades ago to build News 12 The Bronx, and then launch AP Television in N. America.

She was watching me as I gave my seat to a Nun from Mother Theresa’s Convent in The Bronx. She moved closer, thanked and asked where I was from. I said it was the way I was brought up in Cuba. Following a short conversation, she said she was also a Cuban.

DNA CANCER THERAPY

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Professor Björn Högberg and his team at the Karolinska Institutet developed an innovative technology that utilizes a DNA-based nanostructure to shield the weapon until it reaches the tumor microenvironment. DNA-based cancer treatments aim to target and manipulate the genetic alterations that drive cancer growth.

COOLNESS

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Coolness must be bestowwd and never claimed. Initially a descriptor of temperature, cool transitioned from referring to the environment to becoming a term for mental composure and rationality. Being cool is difficult. Staying cool is much harder. It’s an elusive quality, in part because it’s a word with layers of nuanced meaning that peel off as we travel through centuries.

THE JAZZ VOICE

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Experience Jazz live and in-person at the WDNA JAZZ GALLERY – where music lives and breathes. It’s an intimate listening and performance space near the historic Miracle Mile. Broadcasting Jazz, night and day SOUTH FLORIDA'S ONLY SOURCE FOR PRIME TIME JAZZ. Public Media Production and Distribution Center. Public Media Redefined.