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Tim Needham, of Herrin, applies caulk to a letter while installing the sign at the new location of New Kahala. Foam Features, the company Needham works for, located in Herrin, designs and manufactures 3-D signs. New Kahala is preparing for its grand opening on Saturday, in a new location at Wall Street and Grand Avenue after closing its previous location of more than 20 years on the strip earlier this summer. The new space will be nearly double the size of the original spot.

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Resistance group heads from Carbondale to CubaSTOREY MAYER

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Tuesday evening the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba made a stop in Carbondale on its way to Cuba.

The Social Action Committee of Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship cohosted the event with the Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois.

There was live music by a local Latin band HOT!Sauce, a free Cuban-inspired meal, and a message from Art Heitzer, a Milwaukee civil rights lawyer and chair of the Cuba Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild.

Caravan to Cuba is a part of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) and began in the early ‘90s with two main purposes. The first to deliver materials such as powdered milk, medicines, Bibles, bicycles and school supplies with the second to campaign

for the

release of the embargo on Cuba.“The mission of Caravan to

Cuba is to show the friendship and solidarity between the United States and the people of Cuba by civil disobedience,” Heitzer said. “By bringing goods and traveling to Cuba we challenge the U.S. government.”

President Kennedy enacted the embargo in 1962, after Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. The embargo restricts any travel or trade between Cuba and the United States and has lasted more than 50 years.

The journey to Cuba happens annually each summer. There are 14 different routes with prearranged stops at nearly 100 U.S. and Canadian cities. Often, they travel in bright, noticeable vehicles – generally buses.

Carbondale is one of the stops on the route.

Georgann Hartzog, member of the Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois, said this is their form of non-violent resistance to what is percieved

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as an illegal or non-moral law. He said they have proudly hosted the event four times.

“Absolutely it gets the government’s attention,” Hartzog said. “We hope people learn from these events, get involved and begin to donate money to the caravan.”

Cindy Buys, a law professor and director of international programs at SIU, supports the Caravan to Cuba’s mission. She has traveled to Cuba multiple times and has seen the effects of the embargo in action.

“They aren’t proud of the embargo in Cuba, it has harmed the average Cuban person and allowed them a lot less access to medicine and basic consumer goods,” Buys said. “I believe that engagement at this point would be more effective.”

Buys said she does foresee change in the future. With Fidel Castro no longer in power, the country has made major positive changes. Private

businesses and freedoms of expression are now more openly allowed. Cuba even offers free medical school and training for thousands of financially burdened young people from all over the globe − including the U.S. − and is one of the leading countries in organic agriculture.

“I think this is a great chance for the US to reward Cuba for doing good things the needed to do,” Buys said. “And we should reciprocate by releasing the embargo.”

She said she strongly believes that multitudes of businesses could benefit from the release, especially the agricultural industries. Farm equipment could be sold to Cuba, which would make them a large trading partner and an overall economic benefit.

“Cuba is the world’s leaders in preventive medicine,” Heitzer said. “We have a lot to learn from them just as they could learn a lot from us.”

Heitzer said he does not see any negative coming from the release of the embargo. The only issues he believes could arise are issues of pride.

“People want to continue a policy that hasn’t worked for over 50 years,” Heitzer said. “All this just because they think it will look weak to change.”

IFCO/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba will be making stops all over the nation on their way to Cuba encouraging citizens to become a part of the movement. To get involved, donate or find out where the Caravan to Cuba will be stopping contact 212-926-5757 or visit www.ifconews.org for more information.

“Learning about what is happening and advocating change is what we need to do,” Buys said. “Visit the website, get involved, contact the politicians and let people in Washington know that we care about this issue and want to see a change.”

At the height of WWI, German opposition ran as high as the American flag waved. A century later, four 8th grade girls researched how dangerous patriotism cost a man his life, but eventually saved the lives of many.

Four Unity Point Elementary School students represented Illinois with their original website that placed fifth at the National History Day contest last month.

Leah Hall, Irena Gao, Faith Golz and Marissa Ivory traveled to the University of Maryland at College Park to compete against 57 other teams with their site titled “The Prager Case: A Patriotic Murder?”.

National History Day is a yearlong academic program more than a half million students participate in creating original papers, websites, exhibits, performances and documentaries on a particular theme. This year’s theme was “Rights and Responsibilities.”

“They actually had discussed they wanted to do something civil rights based,” C.J. Buss, the girls’ history teacher, said. “But not necessarily

the civil rights movement taking place in the ‘50s and 60’s like we normally think of it.”

The girls’ website outlines the lynching of Robert P. Prager, a German immigrant coal miner from Collinsville, the court case that led to the pardon of his murderers and legislation to prevent further injustices.

Buss said because Prager was an immigrant and had socialist beliefs, he became a target for mob violence during the height of the red scare.

“He kind of had his civil rights taken away,” Buss said. “He was murdered and the people that killed him were more or less celebrated to an extent.”

The girls retrieved sources from the Illinois Historical Journal and newspapers from the Collinsville, St. Louis and New York City areas. They interviewed professor Jonathon Bean from SIU and historians Charlotte Knapp and Robert Stephens from the Collinsville Historical Museum. At the museum they also retrieved original photos and news clippings for the website.

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Delish 7 Spice Grill freshens up the strip

Though the 2 a.m. cheese fries from Sam’s Café contain some nutrients and Pagliai’s pizza contains every food group accounted for, healthy food is absent from the strip. Delish 7 Spice Grill intends to change that.

Located on the corner of West College Street and South Illinois Avenue, Delish offers freshly marinated meats, fresh produce and a variety of pro-health spices in each dish. Its walls feature seven signs that indicate the flavor and health benefits of each spice: turmeric, ginger, garlic, oregano, cinnamon and black pepper.

Tumeric has a compound that can inhibit cancer cell growth. It’s also an anti-inflammatory, along with ginger and garlic. Ginger helps with gas. Garlic is an antibacterial that fights infections. Cinnamon may be good for a sweet tooth, but it also improves blood glucose levels

in people with type 2 diabetes. Oregano has the most antioxidant properties of all spices.

Black pepper can do it all. It’s a natural antibiotic, a good source of fiber, potassium, iron, and vitamins C and K. It also helps stomach problems, anemia and heart disease.

“We cook with beneficiary spices while cooking from scratch, using all fresh foods and freshly marinated meats,” owner Pad Sidirget said.

She said she originally opened Delish in April 2013 on West Main Street but moved to the strip earlier this month to provide more seating for customers.

Delish changed its menu with the move to let customers

customize their meals. They offer new items such as quesadillas, tacos and salads that can include different proteins and toppings.

Sidirget said the new menu was a collaborative effort with all the cooks and staff. She said the previous menu was still healthy, but this one provides more options. They will also soon have a smoothie menu, she said.

Crystal Pulliam, a grill employee, said she enjoys working longer hours at the new location. She said she appreciates the change in scenery as well as the extended hours.

Previously it was open from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Now they’re open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. while still offering breakfast all day.

MARISSA NOVEL

Daily Egyptian ‘‘We cook with beneficiary spices while cooking from scratch, using all fresh foods and freshly

marinated meats.— Pat Sidirget

owner of Delish 7 Spice Grill

“We got to see a lot of stuff in person so that was really cool,” Hall, 14, of Carbondale, said. “It was also just a good experience to hangout and learn about our project together.”

Gao, 14, of Makanda, said they did research from August to May.

Gao had some experience with online coding, but she said the hardest part of the project was building the site. She said they created original graphics using Photoshop.

“Despite all the stress, building the site was my favorite part of the project,” she said. “There’s something magical about taking so many loose, unique perspectives of a historical event and carefully conducting them into a visual, interactive symphony.”

At nationals, the girls went sightseeing, lived in dorms, and presented their website alongside teams of students from each state, some U.S. territories, and other countries.

“It’s really fun because you don’t just go compete you go and see the city,” Golz, 14, of Carbondale, said. “And meeting people from Guam and Southeast Asia and China was really cool”

She said she met a lot of people from Chicago representing Illinois at nationals and would love to see more people from the southern Illinois and Springfield areas apply.

The girls’ website can be viewed at www.94167088.nhd.weebly.com.

Marissa Novel can be reached at mnovel@dailyegyptian.com,

on Twitter @marissanovelDE or at 536-3311 ext. 268.

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It’s been an astonishing 30 years since the last Top 10 hit by The Go-Go’s, the 1980s band who made history by being the first — and only — all-female group that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album chart.

And yet its hits, such as “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation,” sound as fresh and fun — or even more so — as what’s on the radio these days.

That was by design, lead guitarist and keyboardist Charlotte Caffey says in a phone call from Virginia, where the band had stopped for a show on the Replay America Tour of 1980s acts.

“Interestingly enough, the way we recorded our records were exactly that — we didn’t date them with, like, electronic drums or synthesizers,” Caffey said. “We are just a rock and pop band that’s what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.”

Those songs, and those of the other bands on the tour (Patty Smyth of Scandal, Martha Davis and The Motels, Naked Eyes and Cutting Crew) are central to Replay America, and the reason why The Go-Go’s chose to do it, Caffey said.

“It was presented to us, and we thought, we’d never done anything like this before, we always go on our own tours,” Caffey said. “But the thing is, what we look at

is the songs, you know? We thought it might be fun to join forces and just bring a lot of great songs to people and have them have a great evening — uplift their spirit. And that really was my intention behind saying yes.”

But even at that, how do The Go-Go’s — whose live performances are still vital — feel about performing on a nostalgia tour?

Caffey again refers to the music.“The ‘80s, no matter what kind of wacky

fashion or whatever else that went on in the ‘80s, the songs that came out of it, there was really great songwriting, in my opinion.”

She has a point. The other groups also have music that has stood the tests of time. Scandal’s “Goodbye to You” and “The Warrior” remain fresh. Same with The Motels’ “Only the Lonely” and “Suddenly Last Summer,” Cutting Crew’s “(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight.”

And Naked Eyes’ “Promises Promises” and cover of the Dionne Warwick hit “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” — which the latter song’s writer, Burt Bacharach, has said is his favorite version.

Besides, Caffey said, summer is a time to recapture anyone’s memories, and The Go-Go’s are well suited to do that, with hits such as “Vacation.”

“We were presented with the idea and we thought this could be pretty cool — pretty fun for the summer,” Caffey said. “The lineup, with Martha and Patty, it seemed like it’d be a fun, great, song-centric show. You know, we’re known for summer and we’re

known for fun, so it kind of made sense.”The Go-Go’s have history with some of

the other acts, Caffey said. The band used to share a rehearsal room with Martha Davis and The Motels at the start of their career in a California punk club called The Mask.

“So that’s how long we have known Martha,” Caffey said with a laugh. “So it was a long time ago.”

Not that things haven’t changed for The Go-Go’s.

With all the members now in their mid-50s — Caffey is the oldest at 56 — touring also is more focused on music, she says.

“I mean, we grew up, we’ve grown up,” Caffey said, laughing. “And we don’t party and all that stuff. You know, we were just like a baby band back in the ‘80s. You’re young, you don’t think about that. But, you know, now a lot of us are moms.

“It’s a different feeling because we have grown up and also we’re still together and we’re working and it’s a cool thing. We recognize that — we really appreciate each other as a band.”

The Go-Go’s have toured continuously since re-forming in 1999, and even put out a disc of new material, “God Bless the Go-Go’s,” in 2001 — the first disc of new music since 1984’s “Talk Show.” It just missed the Top-50, and produced a Top-25 Mainstream chart hit, “Unforgiven.”

Asked whether The Go-Go’s will ever put out new music, Caffey said, “We’ve been talking about it. But it all depends on the songs.”

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����'(� Pulse‘Begin Again’ renews the summer movie

The music movie is dead.At least it was, until about a week ago. It

seemed as if after June’s “Jersey Boys” Broadway-turned-movie dud Hollywood was a far cry from the Academy Award winning music biopics ear-lier in the ‘00s, films like “Ray” and “Walk the Line” that found critical and commercial success.

It’s fitting, then, that a movie about rebooting life has also rebooted a passion for music in film. No one goes through the motions in director John Carney’s “Begin Again” (Rated R; 104 min). The performances feel genuine, and like in last month’s “Chef ” the passion is evident. The head-lines may read Hollywood is having a horrible summer, with blockbusters tanking left and right, but this is really a revival of honest filmmaking. You just have to know where to look.

“Begin Again” doesn’t tell an overly compli-cated story; the movie follows two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers, Dan (Mark Ruffalo) and Gretta (Keira Knightly), who cross paths in a bar. Dan has been kicked out of the record label he started and has quite the drinking problem. Gretta figured out her rock star boyfriend has been cheating on her

when she listens to the lyrics of his new song. It turns out Gretta is a talented artist herself,

and Dan believes he can take her from the small time to his label, getting his job back in the pro-cess. The two compliment each other’s flaws. And when they begin recording, “Begin Again” stops being a film and becomes a love letter to start-ing over in New York City. It’s hypnotic watching these two make their way through the streets, lis-tening to and bonding over music.

Carney knows the pitfalls he must avoid and manages to steer clear of melodramatic territory, even when Dan’s daughter Violet (Hailee Steinfeld) threatens the film with a dose of teenage angst.

Even when the script deals with the deepest of Dan’s demons there’s an infectious hope in Carney’s screenplay. Ruffalo and Knightly work together in a give-and-take that mirrors Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook.” There’s no romance here, but there are two flawed characters worth investing our time in because each realizes he or she is the yin to the other’s yang.

It seems as Hollywood can only produce one of these breezy summer films per year; last year it was “The Way, Way Back.” The story is differ-ent here, giving its characters more desperate cir-cumstances. But it’s the refreshing take on the material, bolstered by the film’s appreciation of music, that makes “Begin Again” a showstopper we’ve missed so far in the “Transformers”-assist-ed drought.

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Embiid’s surgeon optimistic about 7-footer’s future

PHILADELPHIA — Even before he stepped into his Los Angeles offi ce to deliver the diagnosis that changed everything about this year’s NBA draft, that might yet change everything for the Philadelphia 76ers, Dr. Richard Ferkel already had taken the measure of the sweet, 7-foot-tall kid who would soon lie on an operating table in front of him.

In an exclusive interview with Th e Inquirer, his fi rst since performing the surgery that is supposed to salvage the career of Joel Embiid, Ferkel described in depth the nature of Embiid’s injury and the process by which he will treat it. More, he sounded a note of optimism that the Sixers were right to select Embiid with the draft’s No. 3 pick and wait for him to recover from a stress fracture in the navicular bone in his right foot.

By his own estimation, Ferkel has done between 20 and 30 navicular-fracture surgeries, and in terms of the injury’s severity and the patient’s likelihood for a full recovery, he said that

Embiid’s situation was far from the worst of those.“Once he’s fully healed, his chances of having a long career are very

good,” Ferkel said in a phone interview. “Th ere’s no reason he shouldn’t have a great NBA career and be very successful. Once this heals, hopefully this won’t be an issue for him in the future.”

Th e director of the sports medicine fellowship program at Southern California Orthopedic Institute, Ferkel has repaired some of the most famous feet in basketball, allowing the likes of Ray Allen and Manu Ginobili to extend their careers into and beyond their mid-30s. Player agents and team doctors seek him out for both his sure hands and his expertise, and after Embiid had complained of pain in his right foot during a predraft workout in Cleveland, Embiid’s agent Arn Tellem had called Ferkel to arrange an appointment.

Now it was Tuesday, June 17. Tellem had provided Ferkel with the results of tests that doctors in Cleveland had conducted on Embiid’s foot, and Ferkel had examined Embiid himself just a few days earlier, performing his own tests before probing Tellem for insight into Embiid’s personality and background.

Once Ferkel began to speak, he could see the shock spread over Embiid’s face. He wanted to insert two screws into Embiid’s foot to stabilize it, then have him begin a rehabilitation program that would last fi ve to eight months. Th e news left Embiid crestfallen, Ferkel said, fearing for his future in the sport, until Ferkel explained that there was no need for panic. In that moment, Ferkel might as well have been talking to Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie, the rest of the team’s power people, and a fan base forever seeking reassurance that the sky wasn’t about to come crashing down.

Embiid sustained what Ferkel called a “clean break” of the navicular — a weight-bearing bone in the middle of the foot — “without any major separation, which is important.” Here’s why: Navicular fractures can be diffi cult to diagnose because they’re not easily identifi ed on an x-ray, in part because the symptoms are often so vague that the patient can’t pinpoint the pain’s origin. If the athlete continues to play, the two sides of the bone can move apart and harden at the break, inhibiting healing. Th e fracture widens and deepens. Fluid-fi lled cysts can develop within the bone.

MIKE SIELSKIPhiladelphia Inquirer