A recent study by Bankrate ranked Florida number 19th in the top states to retire. We discuss this and the health of Florida’s economy.
[Air Date: 5/10/2013]
This young & talented ensemble, Kevin & Kristen Seto as violionists and Stephen Seto playing the piano will delight all with a Mother's Day special concertat Cinema Paradiso
about THE SETO TRIO:
Kevin Seto, a junior at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, is majoring in violin performance. He has also studied violin at the Boston Conservatory. Kevin began his violin studies at the age of 3 and joined the Florida Youth Orchestra in third grade. During his time at F.Y.O. Kevin enjoyed many performance opportunities including performing in America’s 400th Anniversary celebration with the Virginia Symphony and playing in Carnegie Hall in New York City. In May of 2009 the Florida Youth Orchestra presented him with the prestigious Joseph Leavitt Award. During his high school years, Kevin participated in the All County and All State Orchestras, was concertmaster of the Flanagan High School Orchestra, and in his senior year was nominated for the Miami Herald’s Silver Knights Award in Music. At FGCU, he was chosen to participate in the Florida Enhanced Learning Through Music programs in Collier County teaching the pre-k violin literacy program, recognized by Florida’s Department of Education, at the Guadalupe Early Childhood Center in Immokalee, Florida. Recent accomplishments include winning third place in the Big Arts Concerto Competition, first place in the Young Artists Awards and first place in the Jillian Prescott Music Awards in Fort Myers.
Kristen Seto:
As a violin performance major at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, Kristen Seto is currently studying with Mrs. Carol Cole and previously studied with Huifang Chen and Thomas D. Moore. Kristen was selected among the nations greatest to play in the National High School Honors Orchestra in Atlanta, Georgia. As a member of the Florida Youth Orchestra for 11 years, Kristen had the opportunity to serve as assistant concertmaster of the Principal Orchestra and first violinist of the Aurora Strings Quartet, where she was awarded the prestigious Joseph Leavitt Music Award. In 2012, Kristen was awarded honorable mention in the New World Symphony concerto competition and was selected as concertmaster for their Side-By-Side Concert. In high school she participated in All-County, All-State, and Florida Federation of Music Clubs Finals where she won first place in violin solo and honorable mention in violin concerto. In 2007, Kristen performed in America’s 400th Anniversary in Jamestown, Virginia where she was one of the 400 musicians chosen from around the country to play her violin with the Virginia Symphony for the President of the United States. Recent accomplishments include winning first place in the Ars Flores Young Artists Concerto Competition, honorable mention in the Miami Herald’s Silver Knights Award in Music and second place in the Big Arts Concerto Competition.
Stephen Seto:
currently pursuing a Professional Performance Certificate in Piano Performance at Lynn Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Roberta Rust. He recently completed his Master’s Degree from Lynn Conservatory of Music at Lynn University and received his Bachelor of Music with honors from the University of Miami where he studied piano with Tian Ying and harpsichord with Frank Cooper. Stephen has participated in piano master classes with pianists Ory Shihor, Jon Kimura Parker, Santiago Rodriguez, Luis Ascot, Louis Lortie, and Margarita Shevchenko. He was first place winner of the Fourteenth Annual Scholarship Competition presented by the Palm Beach County Music Teachers Association and has participated in the Florida Federation of Music Clubs State Convention where he was awarded 2nd place in Piano Solo and 2nd place in Piano Concerto. In 2006 Stephen was among 11 outstanding pianists performing for the Chopin Festival Concert in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His music has been played on local and national public radio stations. Stephen accompanies students of all instruments but enjoys making music with his brother Kevin and sister Kristen, who are violinists. He has also accompanied student’s participating in the Florida Orchestra Association music ensembles of Broward County Schools. Recently, he was the pianist for the award winning musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “Nine to Five” at West Boca High School. Stephen balances out his time with the ukulele, guitar, composing, recording, astronomy, nature, spear fishing, and surfing.
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez spoke at the Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College and Florida International University on Monday. What is the impact of Sanchez's visit to the United States?
[Air Date: 4/05/2013]
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As technology is continuing to advance swiftly each passing year, so does science and health. The many good changes which are shown at present have helped countless families and people who need special attention regarding their health. To be able to deal with the development of science, the health industry has also produced a new field of healthcare practice which is not going anywhere soon and is expected to grow tremendously in the following few years. Physician Assistant is the career being referred to. Essentially, they serve as assistants to medical doctors. A physician assistant is very useful in improving the lives of all people. He/she always give their health care services under the supervision of a physician. Consequently, the physician guides every PA so they can perform well. Every PA is most possibly exposed into extremely stressful working environments, however they're also provided with the right compensation.
Normally, you need to be licensed just like any other medical professionals before you practice such occupation. In each state in the United states, all PAs should join and complete the accredited training programs and clear the PANCE examinations so that they can begin working in the Physician Assistant profession. Physician assistant is not a simple work in the medical industry, so all applicants must be serious in joining this course. In other words, it is not for the faint of heart. Taking note of the patient's medical record, conduct physical checkups, order and also analyze medical tests, diagnose ailments and conduct selected medical treatments, prescribe drugs, help in operations and specialize in other clinical-related work like management and also research are few of the functions of a Physician Assistant.
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A Pew Research Hispanic Center study indicates that the Hispanic population is growing in the United States. Is the Hispanic vote up for grabs? How will this affect future elections?
[Air Date: 2/22/2013]
IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA is the first museum exhibition to celebrate the quintessentially American artistry of the leading fashion trade organization in the United States. Spearheaded by Council president, Diane von Furstenberg, the exhibition includes garments and accessories by the most impactful creators of the last fifty years, on view from January 29 through April 21, 2013.
Featured in the exhibition are interactive touchscreen displays that illustrate a timeline of American fashion and recognize the nearly 600 designers who have been members of the CFDA over the last five decades. Each living designer selected to participate in the exhibition has chosen a single object or ensemble that best represents his or her impact on the fashion world.
Final Statement
Andres Maldonado
Time: Present
Place: Execution Chamber at Florida State Prison
Advisor: Jim Randolph
Stage Manager: Freddy Valle
What do you say in the last moments of your life? What if you're only 32 years old and you know exactly when you will cease to exist? What if your last breath is being anticipated and watched by a crowd through a window? What if they see a monster and not a human being? Eduardo Prieto has been on death row since he was 17 years old and after 15 years of waiting, his time is about to finally come to an end. As protocol states, he is given just minutes to speak for the very last time. As he prepares to go, he prepares to confront who he blames, why he's there, the people watching, and most importantly, himself.
*This show contains Adult Language/Content
The tenth annual celebration for Florida Jewish History Month (FJHM) will take place at the Museum on Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. To complement the statewide observance that marks the 500 years anniversary of the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in Florida, the FJHM theme is “Could Jews as Conversos/Crypto Jews/New Christians have lived in St. Augustine in the 16th century?”
Founding Executive Director,
Marcia Jo Zerivitz
Marcia Jo Zerivitz, the Museum’s
Founding Executive Director, will lead the conversation that will include Dr. Abe Lavender on the history of Conversos in the U.S. and members of the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society, Rabbi Merrill Shapiro and Prof. John Diviney, Coordinator of the Departments of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Flagler College. Dr. Lavender is editor of the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Crypto Jews and Professor of Sociology and Sephardic Studies at Florida International University (FIU).
The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sailed from Puerto Rico to Florida, landing in April 1513. He named the area La Florida after Pascua Florida, or the “Festival of Flowers,” in honor of the Easter season.
The observance concludes in 2015, with the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanent settlement in the United States, established in 1565 by Spanish Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Aviles. The first school, first church, hospital and town hall in the United States were established in St. Augustine. The city was also the first melting pot of different cultures.
Ferdinand and Isabella chose Catholicism to unite Spain and in 1478 asked permission of the pope to begin the Spanish Inquisition to purify the people of Spain. The Alhambra Decree, which ordered the expulsion of Jews, was issued in January 1492. Jews could not live anywhere in the world under Spanish rule. They had three choices: convert to Catholicism (becoming New Christians, Crypto Jews or Conversos), leave the country, or be killed. Since the discovery of Florida and the settlement of St. Augustine were during the Inquisition (1478-1834), were fleeing Jews part of these historic events? Someone needs to ask the question so this is not just a Catholic observance.
Just as these events predate the first permanent English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, if Jews sailed with Ponce de Leon in 1513 (just as we know Jews sailed with Columbus) or with Menendez de Aviles in 1565, these facts predate 1654 when Jews arrived in New Amsterdam.
Currently, the earliest documentation of Jews living in Florida is 1763. From 1513-1762, Spain owned Florida, so only Catholics could live here for those 250 years. Following the French-Indian War when the Treaty of Paris was signed in late 1762, Florida was ceded to Great Britain and people other than Catholics, including Jews, could settle. In early 1763, three Jews arrived in Pensacola, bought land and started businesses there.
More than 25 years ago when Marcia Jo Zerivitz began researching and collecting material evidence on Florida Jewish history, she met with Dr. Eugene Lyon, then the director of The St. Augustine Foundation, who shared with her 16th century records of soldiers and settlers in St. Augustine that reflect Spanish Jewish names. Since that time, Zerivitz has been seeking funding and scholars to research her hypothesis that Jews may have lived in Florida 89 years before the commonly accepted date of 1654 when Jews first arrived in North America and 189 years before the first records of Jewish life in Florida.
If documented, this would rewrite American Jewish history.
The only known persons working on this project currently are members the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society (SAJHS), led by Rabbi Merrill Shapiro.With the impending celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, they rose to represent the Jewish component. Examining evidence that includes Menendez’ taking on “undocumented” passengers after leaving the harbor at Cadiz, Spain; the dates of the sighting of the Florida coastline and the first landing; the archaeological revelations of human remains at Fountain of Youth Park; the founder’s understanding of the native Timucuan as the supposed Ten Lost Tribes of Israel; the markers suggested by the Spanish Inquisition as to the characteristics of Conversos/New Christians and the anthroponomastic study of surnames, comparing them to known Sephardic names and names of those tried by the courts of the Inquisition, the SAJHS finds ample support for the hypothesis that Jews first came to what would become the United States along the northeast coast of Florida in 1565.
Rabbi Shapiro said, “To be sure, the presence of Jews in Florida from 1565, unlike the experience of the Jewish refugees from the Inquisition in Recife, Brazil who came to New Amsterdam in 1654, was neither continuous nor populated by anyone other than those whose religious and cultural identities were ruthlessly suppressed with brutality, threats of violence, torture and death. Nonetheless, the SAJHS is greatly concerned with the future of our past and vigorously labors on in the pursuit of the repatriation of the Jewish souls who came to these shores in the days of the Spanish Inquisition.”
Since the Museum’s partnership with Florida International University (FIU) and the arrival on the faculty of Dr. Tudor Parfitt, there is enthusiastic interest in pursuing the question of Conversos in St. Augustine in the 16th century.
Dr. Parfitt said,”It is not yet certain if the first groups of Spaniards to set foot in Florida in the 16th century contained any New Christians/Conversos or not. However the balance of probability is that they did.” Tudor Parfitt, the new President Navon Professor of Sephardi Studies at FIU, assisted by Olivia Autolino, will attempt to ascertain if there were any Conversos among the early settlers in St. Augustine. Working along with the SAJHS, they plan to examine archives in the United States, Spain, Italy and Cuba in an attempt to discover when the first Jew settled in what is now the United States.
The 113th United States Congress, which met for the first time last week, will deal with many important issues such as: tax reform, spending cuts, gun control, immigration reform and the debt ceiling.
On this program we talk to two of South Florida’s representatives, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R).
[Air Date: 1/11/2013]
The 113th United States Congress, which met for the first time last week, will deal with many important issues such as: tax reform, spending cuts, gun control, immigration reform and the debt ceiling.
On this program we talk to two of South Florida’s representatives, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R).
[Air Date: 1/11/2013]
The tenth annual celebration for Florida Jewish History Month (FJHM) will take place at the Museum on Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. To complement the statewide observance that marks the 500 years anniversary of the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in Florida, the FJHM theme is “Could Jews as Conversos/Crypto Jews/New Christians have lived in St. Augustine in the 16th century?”
Founding Executive Director,
Marcia Jo Zerivitz
Marcia Jo Zerivitz, the Museum’s
Founding Executive Director, will lead the conversation that will include Dr. Abe Lavender on the history of Conversos in the U.S. and members of the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society, Rabbi Merrill Shapiro and Prof. John Diviney, Coordinator of the Departments of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Flagler College. Dr. Lavender is editor of the Journal of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Crypto Jews and Professor of Sociology and Sephardic Studies at Florida International University (FIU).
The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sailed from Puerto Rico to Florida, landing in April 1513. He named the area La Florida after Pascua Florida, or the “Festival of Flowers,” in honor of the Easter season.
The observance concludes in 2015, with the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanent settlement in the United States, established in 1565 by Spanish Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Aviles. The first school, first church, hospital and town hall in the United States were established in St. Augustine. The city was also the first melting pot of different cultures.
Ferdinand and Isabella chose Catholicism to unite Spain and in 1478 asked permission of the pope to begin the Spanish Inquisition to purify the people of Spain. The Alhambra Decree, which ordered the expulsion of Jews, was issued in January 1492. Jews could not live anywhere in the world under Spanish rule. They had three choices: convert to Catholicism (becoming New Christians, Crypto Jews or Conversos), leave the country, or be killed. Since the discovery of Florida and the settlement of St. Augustine were during the Inquisition (1478-1834), were fleeing Jews part of these historic events? Someone needs to ask the question so this is not just a Catholic observance.
Just as these events predate the first permanent English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, if Jews sailed with Ponce de Leon in 1513 (just as we know Jews sailed with Columbus) or with Menendez de Aviles in 1565, these facts predate 1654 when Jews arrived in New Amsterdam.
Currently, the earliest documentation of Jews living in Florida is 1763. From 1513-1762, Spain owned Florida, so only Catholics could live here for those 250 years. Following the French-Indian War when the Treaty of Paris was signed in late 1762, Florida was ceded to Great Britain and people other than Catholics, including Jews, could settle. In early 1763, three Jews arrived in Pensacola, bought land and started businesses there.
More than 25 years ago when Marcia Jo Zerivitz began researching and collecting material evidence on Florida Jewish history, she met with Dr. Eugene Lyon, then the director of The St. Augustine Foundation, who shared with her 16th century records of soldiers and settlers in St. Augustine that reflect Spanish Jewish names. Since that time, Zerivitz has been seeking funding and scholars to research her hypothesis that Jews may have lived in Florida 89 years before the commonly accepted date of 1654 when Jews first arrived in North America and 189 years before the first records of Jewish life in Florida.
If documented, this would rewrite American Jewish history.
The only known persons working on this project currently are members the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society (SAJHS), led by Rabbi Merrill Shapiro.With the impending celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, they rose to represent the Jewish component. Examining evidence that includes Menendez’ taking on “undocumented” passengers after leaving the harbor at Cadiz, Spain; the dates of the sighting of the Florida coastline and the first landing; the archaeological revelations of human remains at Fountain of Youth Park; the founder’s understanding of the native Timucuan as the supposed Ten Lost Tribes of Israel; the markers suggested by the Spanish Inquisition as to the characteristics of Conversos/New Christians and the anthroponomastic study of surnames, comparing them to known Sephardic names and names of those tried by the courts of the Inquisition, the SAJHS finds ample support for the hypothesis that Jews first came to what would become the United States along the northeast coast of Florida in 1565.
Rabbi Shapiro said, “To be sure, the presence of Jews in Florida from 1565, unlike the experience of the Jewish refugees from the Inquisition in Recife, Brazil who came to New Amsterdam in 1654, was neither continuous nor populated by anyone other than those whose religious and cultural identities were ruthlessly suppressed with brutality, threats of violence, torture and death. Nonetheless, the SAJHS is greatly concerned with the future of our past and vigorously labors on in the pursuit of the repatriation of the Jewish souls who came to these shores in the days of the Spanish Inquisition.”
Since the Museum’s partnership with Florida International University (FIU) and the arrival on the faculty of Dr. Tudor Parfitt, there is enthusiastic interest in pursuing the question of Conversos in St. Augustine in the 16th century.
Dr. Parfitt said,”It is not yet certain if the first groups of Spaniards to set foot in Florida in the 16th century contained any New Christians/Conversos or not. However the balance of probability is that they did.” Tudor Parfitt, the new President Navon Professor of Sephardi Studies at FIU, assisted by Olivia Autolino, will attempt to ascertain if there were any Conversos among the early settlers in St. Augustine. Working along with the SAJHS, they plan to examine archives in the United States, Spain, Italy and Cuba in an attempt to discover when the first Jew settled in what is now the United States.
According to America’s Health Rankings, an annual study, the state of Florida ranks 34th in the country in terms of overall health. Why is Florida in the bottom half and what can we do to improve our score?
[Air Date: 12/14/2012]
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the third longest serving justice in American history, addressed a joint meeting of the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches and the Palm Beach County Bar Association on Nov. 9.
Known as "the justice in the bow tie," John Paul Stevens last addressed the Forum Club 18 years ago. He was the oldest member of the U.S. Supreme Court when he retired in 2010. The 92-year-old retired justice is the author of Five Chiefs in which he discusses many of the controversial decisions he was involved with over the years: freedom of speech, affirmative action, capital punishment and sovereign immunity. Widely considered to be one of the more liberal justices, Justice Stevens led the dissent against the Citizens United ruling several years back which allowed a flood of corporate money in U.S. elections and was responsible for many of the negative campaign ads you are now hearing during the presidential election.
Justice Stevens' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was made by President Gerald Ford and confirmed by the Senate in 1975. Five years earlier, President Richard Nixon pegged him for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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The last presidential debate of the 2012 election season focused on foreign policy and was held Monday at Lynn University in Boca Raton. We discuss this debate and what swing states will be critical in this year's election.
[Air Date: 10/26/2012]
