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Now in its 14th year, globalFEST brings musicians from around the world to North America with the goal of building bridges across cultures and increasing the audience for international music.
This year’s lineup ranges from African soul and jazz, Eastern European electronica and Argentine tango to Korean pop, while also finding room for some traditional American musical forms.
Here’s a look at who’s playing at globalFEST, which hits Webster Hall on Jan. 8.
Pedro Coquenao first began working under the name Batida while hosting a radio show promoting African music. As a DJ, he combines 1970s tracks from his native Angola with modern EDM, then adds in dance, video, photography and other visual elements.
Abot is a Ghanian singer whose music encompasses soul, jazz, Afrobeat and electronica. In addition to music, Abot is also a talented designer, photographer and filmmaker. Some fans may have caught Abot when she opened for Lauryn Hill at Radio City Music Hall last fall.
Betsayda Machado is a Venezuelan singer from El Clavo, Barlovento, an area inhabited by descendants of African workers. Known as "The Black Voice of Barlovento" Machado has been famous in her area since the age of seven and is now recognized across her home country as an icon of Afro-Venezuelan music.
Rare Essence has been one of the leading bands in D.C.'s famous go-go scene since the mid-'70s. The band's high-energy shows, audience call-and-response and funky, percussion heavy sound has won it fans including Sean Combs and Doug E. Fresh.
SsingSsing combines traditional Korean folk songs with rock music, adding a theatrical stage show and a visual style influenced by Madonna.
Mahanthappa first became known for his work with pianist and composer Vijay Iyer. With his Indo-Pak Coalition, he combines American jazz with the music of South Asia.
Despite the death of bandleader Tabu Ley Rochereau in 2013, L'Orchestre Afrisa continues performing rumba -- a danceable combination of Cuban and African music. The band, which was created in the 1960s, features singer M'Bilia Bel, who was discovered by Rochereau and later married him.
Septeto Santiaguero formed more than 20 years ago and are regular performers at Casa de la Trova, one of Cuba's most famous nightclubs. The group's 2015 album "No Quiero Llanto -- Tributo a Los Compadres," won a Latin Grammy for best traditional tropical album.
Ranky Tanky is a South Carolina Sea Islands Gullah phrase meaning "work it" or "get funky." The band's repertoire includes Southern jazz, blues, gospel and folk music, with styles ranging from "playful game songs to ecstatic shouts, from heartbreaking spirituals to delicate lullabies."
Nuut is a fiddler and singer who merges traditional music with live electronics, while Kaljujarv is an electronic composer. Together, the pair promises a collaboration that combines Nuut's "hypnotic acoustic loops with more edgy electronic sounds."
Alsarah was born in Sudan, spent part of her youth in Yemen, then moved to the United States to escape a civil war at the age of 12. She studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University before moving to Brooklyn. With her band, the Nubatones, she makes what she called "East-African Retro-Pop," influenced by Nubian "songs...
Sometimes referred to as the "Moroccan Clash," Hoba Hoba Spirit mixes rock, reggae and North African Gnawa music. Like the Clash did with 1970s England, Hoba Hoba Spirit's songs look at the challenges faced by young people in today's Moroccan society.
A tuna sandwich increases your ability to focus on studying and tests.
3 What Brain Foods Are Good for Remembering What You Studied?
Taking exams is generally quite stressful, and taking care of your mind and body relieves some of that and helps you perform better on the tests. Getting sufficient sleep, exercise and the right nutrition is key to studying and learning effectively and performing at your very best. Good foods to eat during exams includ...
Carbohydrates are the body's main source of fuel because they quickly release glucose, or sugar. This is especially important for short-term energy and to supply the brain with glucose for energy. The Franklin Institute advises that carbohydrate-rich foods are necessary for concentration and maintaining your energy lev...
The B-vitamins are essential nutrients that are vital for your body's energy production. The University of Maryland Medical Center notes that all B-vitamins are necessary for the body to convert food into glucose for fuel and also help the body burn fats and proteins for energy. Vitamin B12 helps red blood cells transp...
A study published in the "European Journal of Clinical Investigation" in 2005 reports that omega-3 fatty acids help to improve brain function and focus during complex learning processes. These healthy fats may also play a role in nervous system function and improve reference-based memory, which is particularly importan...
BBC GoodFood notes that minerals such as zinc are important for enhancing thinking and memory. Your body only needs this trace mineral in small amounts, and you can get this by eating seafood for lunch or snacking on a handful of seeds, like pumpkin seeds. Zinc also helps to boost your immune system to help prevent cat...
Haris, Nadia. "Good Foods to Eat During Exams." Healthy Eating \| SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/good-foods-eat-during-exams-4198.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.
“Fighting Nemo!” warns the headline in the New York Daily News. “City braces for the mega-Nor’easter with the cute name and the blizzard conditions.” It seems to one jaded observer, who wrote a “weather” story or two for the Daily News a decade or three ago, that they are making storms the way they used to not make sto...
It turns out that The Weather Channel is the deus ex machina behind the christening of these winter storms -– although monikers such as Caesar, Brutus, Plato, Yogi, and Zeus are decidedly B.C. -– and not the National Weather Service, which has been naming hurricanes and tropical storms for decades with an understanding...
“The fact is, a storm with a name is easier to follow, which will mean fewer surprises and more preparation,” concurs the Weather Channel’s Bryan Norcross. It’s also easier to build a media event – and viewership around. But not everybody is buying in. In fact, the National Weather Service “has advised its forecasters ...
And it also makes for a handy Twitter hashtag, of course. Roll our eyes as we might, cynics are not downplaying the potential havoc and danger posed by Nemo, however.
“This is a very dangerous storm,” according to Jerome Hauer, a man bearing a title that is almost a tweet in and of itself (Commissioner of the [New York] State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services). Better yet, he’s suggested that you stay home today, if you can, or at least plan to leave your workplac...
Schools have been closed, flights and trains out of New York and Boston suspended, and lines are forming at some gas stations, Marc Santora informs us in the New York Times’ main story about the “major winter storm … that forecasters said could be the heaviest snowfall for some cities in the Northeast in a century.” Bu...
But fret not at a lost opportunity as you get the snow shovels and non-clumping cat litter ready between Skypes with clients and colleagues from your home digs today. There are other naming-opportunities-in-the-making for branding types looking to make an impact on the world beyond the shopping cart.
For example, scientists believe they have found humankind’s common ancestor with other mammals -- “a roughly rat-sized animal that weighed no more than half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived on insects,” John Noble Wilford reports in a front page story in today’s New York Times.
What’s it called, you ask? Protungulatum donnae. Turns out that “until now [it] has been so obscure that it lacks a colloquial nickname,” Noble Wilford tells us. If ever there was a job for the scions of Leo Burnett, dubber of Tony the Tiger, Morris the Cat and Charlie the Tuna, this is it.
2 comments about "What's In A Nemo?".
Ronald Stack from Zavee LLC, February 8, 2013 at 10:06 a.m.
Desperate move by a desperate brand. First to the weather party on cable and on the web, and this is what TWC is reduced to? Sad.
Thomas Siebert from BENEVOLENT PROPAGANDA, February 8, 2013 at 12:12 p.m.
Good piece, relevant inside the bigger picture of how once-elevated TV Network brands are dumbing themselves down. A&E launched with costume dramas and quality as its focus; now it's 'the Art of Entertainment' and reality revulsion. The Discovery Channel: a hotbed of aliens and conspiracy theories. The Learning Channel...
By choosing produce from the cleanest fruits and vegetables on the Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and employing some money-saving tips, you can limit exposure to harmful pesticides in food.
June 13, 2011, 9:58 a.m.
This morning I told you that the Environmental Working Group has released its 2011 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. I gave you the list of the most recent Dirty Dozen fruits and vegetables, those with the heaviest pesticide residues. Apples are at the top of the list this year.
Here is the list of the Clean 15.
Since organic produce at the grocery store is usually more expensive than conventionally grown produce, choosing from this list of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables may help you stay within your grocery budget while limiting your exposure to harmful pesticides.
But what if you want apples or some of the other foods that turn up high on the Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce? Here are a few tips to that will help you get the variety you’d like while not breaking your budget.
Buy locally and in season. When produce is in season, it’s more plentiful and it should be less expensive than other times of the year. Use the free Locovore app on your smartphone or Epicurious’ online Seasonal Ingredient Map to find out what is in season right now.
Pick your own. Again, this is a way of buying locally and seasonally, but you’ll get even more bang for your buck if you pick your own. A few weeks ago, I picked a little more than 9 pounds of strawberries for $20. That’s a little more than $2/pound. It’s a great price.
Learn to preserve food. If you do get seasonal produce at a great price, preserve some of it for eating when it’s out of season. You don’t have to know how to can (although learning how to can is a skill you’ll be happy to have). You can freeze seasonal berries or make a large batch of slow cooker applesauce in the fal...
Buy in bulk. Some grocery stores sell bags of organic apples or organic potatoes for less per pound than if you bought them by the piece. My local Wegmans sells a 5-pound bag of organic apples for only $1 more than a bag of conventionally grown apples. They’re usually small apples, so I get 12-15 per bag, and they are ...
Grow your own. Take a look at the Dirty Dozen and some of the other fruits and vegetables near the top of the list and see if you can grow any of them yourself. Cilantro came at number 13. If you have a sunny spot on a windowsill or a fire escape, you can grow potted herbs. Sweet bell peppers (number 8) can be grown in...
Of course, it would be great if all the fruits and vegetables we ate were organic, and if it’s something you can afford, good for you. But for many of us, balancing our budgets with our need to eat healthy, nutritional foods takes a little juggling. Using the Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides ...
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Walter Dale Miller, the 29th Governor of South Dakota, passed away Monday night, state officials say.
Miller, 89, served as governor from 1993 to 1995.
"On the evening of September 28, 2015 South Dakota lost a great man!" says former South Dakota First Lady Patty Miller. "We, as Walt's family, are honored and privileged to have been a part of his life. Walt taught us as a family what it means to live and die with dignity, strength, and honor through God's grace. We ar...
Miller was born Oct. 5, 1925, near Viewfield, South Dakota, and spent his life on his family’s ranch. He served for 20 years in the South Dakota House of Representatives, and is the only person in state history to serve as speaker of the house, speaker pro tempore, majority leader, assistant majority leader and majorit...
Miller was elected lieutenant governor in 1986 and was South Dakota’s first full-time lieutenant governor. He succeeded to the governorship in 1993 after the tragic loss of Gov. George S. Mickelson and seven others in a plane crash.
As governor, Miller ended a riot at the state penitentiary without loss of life, responded to historic flooding on the Missouri River and its tributaries and imposed emergency budget cuts after a court ruling shut down video lottery in the state. He left office in 1995.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard requests that all flags in South Dakota fly at half-staff, effective immediately, and continuing until Gov. Miller’s interment.
Several state officials have issued condolences following Miller's passing.
"“I have lost more than my Governor and home town legislator, as have so many South Dakotans I have lost a true friend,” Attorney General Jackley said.
Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia, posted an intriguing tweet on Friday, generating some bemused and confused responses.
Putin is winning in Syria.
@McFaul what do you mean?
@McFaul what metrics are you using?
McFaul resigned from his diplomatic position in February of 2014, ostensibly to spend more time with his family in California. He is currently a professor of political science at Stanford University.
@McFaul That's not bad with only 69 planes and a bunch of choppers. What has the USA-led coalition been doing all this time?
Are you upset, Professor @McFaul? Who is loosing in Syria?
@McFaul not a worry. your country can find itself useful someplace else. south china sea perhaps?
McFaul’s odd tweet comes just after a plan to end hostilities in Syria was reached between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) in Munich yesterday.
Following the meeting, Lavrov said that Moscow is counting on the US and other ISSG countries to put pressure on the Syrian opposition to cooperate with the UN.
Kerry acknowledged it remains to be seen if the agreements can stand the “real test” of getting the parties involved in the Syrian conflict to honor their commitments.
While Mitt Romney was a missionary in France in 1968, he was afraid his high school girlfriend Ann Davies would leave him for someone else, so he sent her a series of photographic declarations of his love, Time's Paul Moakley reports.
While Mitt Romney was a missionary in France in 1968, he was afraid his high school girlfriend Ann Davies would leave him for someone else, so he sent her a series of photographic declarations of his love, Time's Paul Moakley reports. This was one of them, and it worked. She became Ann Romney in 1969, just a few months...
Citi set to return cash to shareholders, says Pandit \| City A.M.
CITIGROUP chief executive Vikram Pandit said he expects to return significant amounts of capital to shareholders over the next two years.
Pandit, speaking in Singapore on an emerging markets push, also said the bank will begin to see benefits of its Asian investment, 85 per cent of which has been in retail banking.
Pandit, who has been under pressure to cut costs further, said the bank is still on track to return capital to investors in 2012, and that he believes Citi can return much more in 2013, providing regulators agree.
“From our perspective, this is a very strong capital-generation story,” he said.
Investors are keen to see the bank return capital through dividends or share buybacks.
This is a corrected version of the original post; see the note below.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has asked nine companies to voluntarily reveal the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, a method used to extract natural gas by injecting fluids into rock formations deep underground.
The practice has drawn a lot of attention after documented cases of drinking-water wells becoming contaminated near sites where the practice, developed by oil-services company Halliburton, was employed.
Industry and federal studies have shown that 20% to 40% of the fluids used in "fracking" remain in the formation. Those chemicals include diesel fuel, which contains benzene ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene and other chemicals; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; methanol; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; glycol ...
Congress has granted a wide loophole to companies such as Halliburton, which justify not disclosing the ingredients because of "trade secrets."
The EPA requested the list of chemicals from BJ Services, Complete Production Services, Halliburton, Key Energy Services, Patterson-UTI, PRC Inc., Schlumberger, Superior Well Services and Weatherford.
EPA's request is broad: It wants the companies to provide the locations where hydraulic fracturing was used, what the standard operating procedures are for the method, and any data on environmental effects on human health.
“This scientifically rigorous study will help us understand the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water – a concern that has been raised by Congress and the American people. By sharing information about the chemicals and methods they are using, these companies will help us make a thorough and effici...
Hydraulic fracturing and its side effects were the subject of an award-winning documentary, "Gasland," shown recently on HBO.
A federal judge has rejected a request from the Florida Democratic Party to force the state to extend a voter-registration deadline because of Hurricane Michael.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle turned down the party’s request for a temporary restraining order to extend the registration deadline to Oct. 16, a week later than the original Tuesday deadline. The party contended an extension was needed because the hurricane, which devastated parts of the Panhandle on Wednesday, co...
Secretary of State Ken Detzner this week issued a directive authorizing county elections supervisors whose offices were closed Tuesday to accept paper registration applications on the day that their offices reopen. Detzner did not extend a Tuesday night deadline for voters to register online.
Hinkle wrote that the Democratic Party believed the directive did not go “far enough” — but he denied the request for a temporary restraining order, with a few caveats.
Democrats sued the Florida secretary of state to keep voter registration open another week past Tuesday’s deadline due to the effects of Hurricane Michael.
Gov. Rick Scott has declared an emergency for 35 counties along the Gulf Coast, and many state offices are closed today in those counties.
The caveats included in the order dealt with how Detzner’s directive would be carried out. For example, Hinkle sought to make sure Detzner’s directive is considered mandatory for the counties where elections offices were closed Tuesday. Similarly, he sought to make sure it applies on the first “full” business day count...
Voters have three options to choose from to cast their ballots. Here’s a primer on your options to vote in this year’s midterm elections — for many of you, that vote will come well before Election Day.
Without the extension, “there is a strong likelihood that the right to vote of thousands of Floridians, including plaintiffs’ members and constituents, will be severely burdened (if not eliminated entirely) in the 2018 general election,” the party’s lawyers wrote.
Three groups — Common Cause, New Majority Florida Education Fund and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund — filed a similar case against the state Wednesday. That case remained pending Thursday morning, according to an online docket.
Yasser Abbas, a son of President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, filed a $10 million lawsuit late last week against Foreign Policy Group LLC, claiming that an article published about his business dealings in Foreign Policy magazine was libelous.

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