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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 6, 2011) – USA Volleyball has announced the 11 athletes that will travel to Guadalajara, Mexico to compete on Oct. 24-29 at the Pan American Games.
Held every four years in the year before the Olympic Games, the Pan American Games are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.
The veteran member of this year's U.S. Men's Pan American Games team will be U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team member Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) at opposite. Patak led the team in scoring this year at the London Volleyball International Invitational and also saw significant playing time at the NORCECA Continental Championship. He has played with the U.S. Men's National Team since 2009.
The Pan Am Games team will also include four players who will complete their college careers in the spring: outside hitters Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) of the University of Southern California and Matt Stork (Topanga, Calif.) of Cal State Northridge, middle blocker Nick Vogel (El Cajon, Calif.) of UCLA and setter Kyle Caldwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) of UCLA.
Other players on the roster are outside hitters Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.), Jordan DuFault (Lakewood, Calif.) and Tri Bourne (Honolulu, Hawaii), middle blockers Matt Rawson (Los Angeles) and Cody Loe (Chatsworth, Calif.) and libero Kirk Francis (Torrance, Calif.).
Ciarelli, Vogel, Caldwell and Bourne have all played for U.S. men's junior national teams. Bourne was also on the 2011 U.S. World University Games team.
U.S. Head Coach John Speraw, who is the head men's volleyball coach at UC Irvine, is looking forward to seeing what his young team can do against some of the top teams in the world.
"I think there are a number of these guys that could have future on national team," Speraw said. "This will be a good opportunity to see if those evaluations are accurate."
Due to the late date of this year's Pan American Games, many players were not available due to commitments to overseas clubs as well as colleges and universities.
Twelve players were originally selected to be on the team. However one player withdrew for personal reasons after the deadline had passed for a replacement.
"I have to think that other teams are in the same situation as us," Speraw said. "I have no idea what level the other teams are going to be. We're going to take advantage of every opportunity we have to make this the best team possible. We are going to work really hard and represent USA Volleyball the best we can."
Speraw will be assisted by Jeff Nygaard, an assistant at USC, and Charlie Sullivan, head coach at Springfield College. Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.) will serve as team manager.
The team will begin competition on Oct. 24 in Group B with Brazil, Canada and Puerto Rico. Group A will include Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela.
Since volleyball was introduced into the Pan American Games in 1955, the U.S. Men have claimed gold on four occasions, including back-to-back performances in 1955 and 1959. The third gold medal for the American men came in 1967, the only year that the U.S. Men's and Women's team both captured gold medals.
After 20 years, head coach Marv Dunphy brought the U.S. back to the top of the men's volleyball scene with a gold medal finish in 1987. Dunphy and the Americans carried the momentum from the Pan American Games into the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, by winning its second consecutive Olympic gold medal.
In the 14 Pan American Games featuring men's volleyball, the U.S. has played into the final match on eight occasions and has advanced to medal-round matches 11 times.
In 2007, Ron Larsen led the United States to second place at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The U.S. lost to world top-ranked Brazil 25-16, 25-20, 25-22 in the championship match on July 28. The Americans were denied their fifth gold medal at the Pan American Games. However, the U.S. improved upon its previous Pan American Games finish of fourth place in 2003 at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, while using a young group balanced with veterans to win the silver.
U.S. Men's Pan American Games Team
No Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
2 Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., USC)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
5 Eric Vance (OH, 6-4, Camarillo, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
6 Nick Vogel (MB, 6-9, El Cajon, Calif., UCLA)
8 Kyle Caldwell (S, 6-9, Newport Beach, Calif., UCLA)
10 Matt Rawson (MB, 6-7, Los Angeles, Calif., Hawaii)
11 Matt Stork (OH, 6-5, Topanga, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
12 Kirk Francis (L, 5-11, Torrance, Calif., Long Beach State)
14 Cody Loe (MB, 6-8, Chatsworth, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
15 Jordan DuFault (OH, 6-4, Lakewood, Calif., UC Irvine)
16 Tri Bourne (OH, 6-5, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USC, Aloha)
Head Coach: John Speraw (UC Irvine)
Team Manager: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Assistant Coach: Jeff Nygaard (USC)
Therapist/Trainer: Charlie Sullivan (Springfield College)
Athletic Trainer: Aimee Miyazawa
Pan American Games Schedule (All times PT)
Group A
Oct. 24 at 1 p.m.: Cuba vs. Argentina
Oct. 24 at 6 p.m.: Venezuela vs. Mexico
Oct. 25 at 1 p.m.: Cuba vs. Venezuela
Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. Argentina vs. Mexico
Oct. 26 at 1 p.m. Argentina vs. Venezuela
Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. Cuba vs. Mexico
Group B
Oct. 24 at 11 a.m.: USA vs. Puerto Rico
Oct. 24 at 4 p.m.: Brazil vs. Canada
Oct. 25 at 11 a.m.: Brazil vs. Puerto Rico
Oct. 25 at 4 p.m.: USA vs. Canada
Oct. 26 at 11 a.m.: Puerto Rico vs. Canada
Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.: Brazil vs. USA
Oct. 27 at 4 p.m.: A 2nd vs. B 3rd
Oct. 27 at 6 p.m.: B 2nd vs. A 3rd
Classification 5-8
Oct. 28 at 10 a.m.: A 4th vs. Quarterfinal loser
Oct. 28 at 5 p.m.: B 4th vs. Quarterfinal loser
Oct. 28 at noon: A winner vs. Quarterfinal winner
Oct. 28 at 3 p.m.: B winner vs. Quarterfinal winner
Oct. 29 at 11 a.m.: Classification 7-8
Oct. 29 at 1 p.m.: Classification 5-6
Oct. 29 at 4 p.m.: Bronze medal match
Oct. 29 at 6 p.m.: Gold medal match
Past U.S. Pan American Games Men's Volleyball Finishes
1955: Gold
1959: Gold
1963: Silver (Brazil gold)
1967: Gold
1971: Silver (Cuba gold)
1975: Fourth (Cuba gold)
1979: Fourth (Cuba gold)
1983: Fourth (Brazil gold)
1987: Gold
1991: Fifth (Cuba gold
1995: Silver (Argentina gold)
1999: Seventh (Cuba gold)
2003: Fourth (Venezuela gold)
2007: Silver (Brazil gold)


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The New York Post's Page Six revealed Thursday that the actor will play a young Han Solo in a spinoff, due out May 25, 2018. E! News reached out to Disney and Lucasfilm, but the studios declined to comment on the casting.
Other outlets, including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, have since confirmed via sources that the 26-year-old actor won the part. How did Ehrenreich land the most coveted role in Hollywood? "Alden really impressed Disney and Lucasfilm execs with his screen tests," a source told Page Six. "The deal is basically done."
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The actor has big shoes to fill. When most people think of Han Solo, they think of Harrison Ford, who played the captain of the Millennium Falcon in 1977's "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," 1980's "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" and 1983's "Star Wars Episode VII: Return of the Jedi." Ford, 73, returned as the beloved smuggler in 2015's "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens."
Ehrenreich beat out finalists Taron Egerton ("Kingsman: The Secret Service") and Jack Reynor ("Transformers: Age of Extinction") for the coveted role. Casting directors met with over 2,500 wannabes – known and unknown – during their search. At various points, Emory Cohen, Scott Eastwood, Ansel Elgort, Tom Felton, Dave Franco, Colton Haynes, Leo Howard, Landon Liboiron, Rami Malek, Tony Oller, Hunter Parrish, Chandler Riggs, Nick Robinson, Joshua Sasse, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Miles Teller, Max Thieriot and Ed Westwick were all considered.
In March, Teller opened up about his try-out. "I had never even seen any of the original "Star Wars" movies until maybe a month or a couple weeks before my first audition because I was like, 'I should check this out.'" As he explained on Josh Horowitz's "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, "I just love Harrison Ford; I think that's a great character. I love his brand. I mean, so many guys would've played that part so wrong and he has humor at the right times. Harrison Ford is a very big actor – when you see the facial expressions and the things he does he goes big, but he's just always the coolest guy in the room and he's got all of those great qualities."
The following month, Franco said he knew he was no longer in the running. "I'm not good with impressions," he told MTV. "I think that's the reason it's so hard to cast this role, too. It's like, do they want to like perfectly embody who Harrison Ford is, or do they want to go a completely different route? Do they want someone to look really similar him?...I think they're struggling with that, maybe."
Who is Ehrenreich? Here's five things you need to know:
1. Steven Spielberg discovered him in 2003. Ehrenreich made a home movie for his friend's bat mitzvah, which played during the ceremony. Spielberg happened to be in attendance and was struck by his performance. "It's a piece of s--t," Ehrenreich later told Rolling Stone. "It's a video that this girl asked us to do. I mean, there wasn't a script: We would go and just film whatever made us laugh. I'm this 14-year-old, skinny little kid with long hair. I break into her house, try on her clothes and make up a song. All of this is just us literally taking a camera and going like, 'OK, ha ha, do this.' We showed it to our parents – 'We're gonna play this at her bat mitzvah!' – and they were like, 'You look like an idiot in this. I don't think you should really do that.' We didn't care." Regardless, Spielberg scheduled a meeting with Ehrenreich at his studio, Dreamworks. He eventually introduced him to director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him in 2009's "Tetro."
2. Like many of his peers, he toplined a YA adaptation. In 2013, in the wake of Twilight and The Hunger Games' successes, Ehrenreich starred opposite Alice Englert in Beautiful Creatures. "It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out. This movie has so much going for it," he told The Boston Globe. "I didn't feel that it had less depth because it's a commercial film." Despite added star power from Viola Davis and Jeremy Irons, the film--meant to launch a franchise--was ravaged by critics and also underperformed at the box office.
3. He co-founded a theater/film company, The Collectin, in 2009. While attending New York University, Ehrenreich and Zoe Wirth began hosting weekly workshops with actors, writers and directors. They created six original plays and five short films during their time in New York, and in 2010, writer/director Melanie Shaw created the company's first feature film, "Running Wild." Now primarily based in L.A., The Collectin still meets for workshops and performances.
4. He was up for a role in 2014's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." After Jamie Foxx was cast as Electro and Shailene Woodley was cast as Mary Jane Watson (her role was ultimately cut), the search was on for who should play Harry Osborn. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Ehrenreich and Brady Corbet and Dane DeHaan made it to the top of the casting list, with DeHaan cinching it.
5. He had to convince the Cohen Bros. to cast him in 2016's "Hail, Caesar!" "The main thing for me when I read the script was, here's the opportunity to play with the Coens. It was something I only could've dreamt about. When I read the part, I just loved it. When I first auditioned for it I was told I probably wasn't right," Ehrenreich told Mashable of the movie, which also starred George Clooney and Channing Tatum. "The thing that was almost shocking was how enjoyable it was, what a good time everyone seemed to be having. Because they're so organized and how well they treat the people who work from them, everyone comes so excited to work and getting to be a part of their world for a while is just incredible."
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If you had hoped Jerry Brown would use his budget proposal Monday morning to tackle California's broken budget system, you should be disappointed. From listening to his briefing and from an early reading of the budget (available here), Brown is offering very limited reforms -- while doing nothing to change the state's downward trajectory and pushing fiscal reckoning only a few years into the future.
Over the next few days and weeks, we'll have more at Prop Zero on the specific details of the budget. But in general, the budget is hard to evaluate because it offers so many more questions than it does answers.
Here are three of the big uncertainties:
1. The budget is based on voters proposing tax increases, but doesn't indicate what will happen if those tax increases -- which are extensions of 2009 temporary tax increases on income, sales tax and vehicles -- don't get on the ballot or are turned down by voters.
Since the tax increases are at the heart of the proposal, this is a big problem. In conversation and news stories, Brown administration officials had indicated they would confront voters with a clear choice between tax increases and cuts. But this budget suggests they won't make the choice so clear, because they don't want to specify which cuts they'll make if the taxes aren't approved by voters (in what Brown hopes will be an early June special election).
As Dan Weintraub points out at HealthCal today, this could be a big mistake. If you give voters a choice between unappetizing option -- tax increases -- and the uncertainty of unknown cuts, they may well be inclined to take a chance on uncertainty.
Writes Weintraub: "If the Democrats go to the polls implying that a vote against the taxes will trigger another round of cuts, the voters might well call their bluff, because voters tend not to believe politicians when they say they've cut all they can from government programs."
2. Funding for the central "reform" of Brown's budget -- a realignment of state and local government responsibilities -- runs out in five years. And it's not clear where the money will come from.
Brown proposes to extend the tax increases for five years. The budget relies on that money not only to forestall tax increases but to provide money for local governments. Under the Brown budget proposal, local governments, particularly counties, would have more responsibility for a host of items in criminal justice and social services. The state will give them money to cover those responsibilities for five years.
What happens then?
At his press briefing Monday morning, Brown made the promise -- a highly irresponsible promise -- that the state would cover those local costs even after tax money expires. But when asked where that money would come from, Brown made a reference to economic growth and additional tax revenues from that.
He might just as well have said the Tooth Fairy would pay for it.
If Brown were more serious about realignment, his budget proposal would pair the realignment of program authority with a broad reform to give local governments more authority to raise taxes to cover costs. But Brown doesn't go there -- except in a very narrow way (He has a proposal to allow local governments to raise some taxes if it goes for certain economic and redevelopment).
Why doesn't Brown do this? He dodged questions about his own thinking Monday morning, but it's a safe bet that he's trying to avoid a fight with the right over taxes, particularly since giving local governments more taxing authority could be seen as an attack on one provision of Prop 13.
So, right from the top, a Democrat who won in a landslide bows to the anti-tax right. When folks on the left figure this out, it will be interesting to see whether they put partisan loyalty to Brown first and hold their fire, or oppose the governor for this surrender.
3. Since Brown makes no effort to reform the broken budget system here, it's not clear from this budget how Brown can really stop the fiscal picture from worsening. Put simply, there is no vision of a better future here.
Fiscal reform is often called politically impossible. But the problem with keeping the existing budget system is that the current system isn't static. The California budget system, as my New America colleague Mark Paul argues in this excellent post on the state's budget hell, is always working to make things worse.
Our initiative process allows voters to mandate spending, tax breaks, or borrowing that deepens the crisis--and they do. (Last November's election blew an additional $2 billion hole in the budget). The 2/3 governing system allows legislative majorities to cut taxes -- but says those tax increases can be restored only by a two-thirds vote. By not addressing the system, Brown is effectively ensuring that things will get worse.
A new governor has an opportunity to make big change. But Brown seems content, as he explained, to explain to voters the facts of the current predicament. He doesn't offer a way out, an approach to reform that gets California to a better place. The best Brown's approach offers is big cuts in social services, huge rises in university tuition, higher taxes, and (if we adopt the higher taxes) flat spending on K-12 education in a state that adds 400,000 people a year.
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Having operated on skin cancer patients using the latest technological advances, Dr. James Herrmann has had to make do with a more primitive assortment of tools and drugs in Bolivia.
Having operated on skin cancer patients using the latest technological advances, Dr. James Herrmann has had to make do with a more primitive assortment of tools and drugs in Bolivia.
For the last four years, the Wheaton-based, board-certified dermatologist with DuPage Medical Group has traveled to South America on a medical mission trip, where the team provides free care to the underprivileged. The expeditions are led by Solidarity Bridge, an organization sponsored by the Chicago Archdiocese, and they have changed his life.
Herrmann sat down with Suburban Life to reflect on his recent visit to Bolivia.
Q: How did you get involved with the mission trips?
A: Enrique Via-Reque, anesthesiologist at (Central DuPage Hospital), is Bolivian and one of the organization's co-founders. He approached me at church and asked if I would come. For starters, I'd never been to South America. And I always thought it would be nice to do a medical mission trip. There's a great need for dermatological assistance. We've gone to Coroico, Bolivia, three times and Santa Cruz, Bolivia once.
We have teams of 20 or 25 people including a pediatrician, internist, cardiologist, ob-gyn, general surgeon, neurosurgeon, anesthesiologist, dermatologist and (ears, nose, throat). The basic specialties in healthcare. Plus we have a nurse, translator, priest or chaplain and administrator.
Q: What was it like getting to your location?
A: We traveled at a very high altitude, landing our plane at 13,000 feet outside La Paz and taking a bus through the Andes as high up as 16,000 feet to Coroico, which is at 5,000 feet. Some people on the team didn't acclimate well and got sick. Some needed oxygen.
The hardest part of the trip is the road conditions. There's this very narrow road with two lanes of traffic. It's known as "Death Road" because it's the most dangerous roadway in the world. It's not paved so it gets muddy and slippery. There was no guardrail. People go over the edge every week or two. But now finally, they finished a new road. It took them 20 years to make minor infrastructure improvements. I think there's actually a guardrail now.
Q: Did you experience any culture shock the first time around?
A: The biggest thing was the degree of poverty. Even the wealthier people lived poor by our standards.
Also, it struck me how there wasn't the degree of discrimination that you see in the U.S. The Afro and Indian subcultures aren't looked down upon. Everyone is treated with respect and dignity no matter what background.
Q: Were there medical or socioeconomic criteria locals had to have in order to see a doctor or was it just on a first-come, first-served basis?
A: Anyone can come but it's primarily the very poor who can't afford to pay for services. Over 65 percent of Bolivians live in poverty. The average wage is 1 or 2 American dollars a day. It's the poorest area in South America and the second poorest in all of the Americas, following Haiti. That's largely because they have no port access.
They advertise on the radio for about a month prior to our arrival that we're coming. People wait all day and night to get a ticket to be seen. They come from the town and the countryside. A man with one leg and a crutch took several different modes of transportation — buses, trucks — to get to our facility. No one complains. You wouldn't know of their hardships unless you asked. These people pick (crops) all day up in the mountains. They're weathered. It's back-breaking work in the sun. There's a lot of work in the fields with coca crops. Agriculture is big because the country is landlocked.
Q: What was a typical day for you while you were there?
A: We practice out of a small little rural hospital in Coroico in the Andes Mountains. The hospital is run by a Catholic order of nuns. It's very clean but very primitive. There's no modern equipment, and everything is secondhand. We bring most of the medications, supplies, surgical instruments, sutures, toothbrushes, toothpaste and even toys for the kids. With the help of a nurse and translator, I do about 10 surgeries including the excisions of skin tumors, skin cancers and scar revisions. We see a lot of tropical infections, burns, impetigo, fungal infections and common things like warts, acne, psoriasis and moles.
Typically we're there for 12 days, and eight of them are spent seeing patients. We start at 7:30 or 8 a.m. and work until 6 or 7 in the evening. Our sole mission is caring for the sick. More than 450 patients came in last time, many of them sleeping outside all night to see me. They had never had a dermatologist there until I showed up. People wait a year to come back and see me. The plan was to start a clinic to treat burns and tumors, so hopefully that'll happen.
Q: What was the patient interaction that sticks out most in your mind?
A: The first year I went, I excised a little skin tumor off of the back of a man. I don't usually think anything of it because I see 400 people. The man works construction. A year after I did the procedure, he came back every day after he finished working to see me but he never got any face time because he couldn't secure a ticket. I felt terrible because he wouldn't have had to do that if I knew that he just wanted to speak with me and wasn't looking for care. Finally, he slept on the grass and got a ticket. He came to ask me to be his daughter's godfather as a sign of his gratitude.
I was invited over to his home — which was what we would think of as a shack — for a meal and a special haircutting ceremony. He opened up his primitive, tin-roofed, dirt-floored home to me. His wife cooked up a chicken in their clay oven and we sat at a picnic table. But when it came time to baptize the 4-year-old daughter, they couldn't find the bishop. He asked me to wait until the next year when I would return to complete the ceremony. Unfortunately, my organization decided to travel to another location that year, so I wasn't able to visit the family. It would be two years before I could baptize her, and I had to get word to him. In the meantime, the little girl got encephalitis, which is an inflammation in the brain, and got very sick. So they had to do an emergency baptism. But I still see them every time I go back, and we've developed a wonderful relationship.
Q: Do you ever get overwhelmed by the number of people who need medical attention? Or do you try to stay positive given the few you are able to help?
A: The experience really moves you. It's easy to complain about things, but the trips put things in perspective. I'm usually pretty thankful for my life for two or three months after I get back. You don't whine about anything because you realize how good you have it. We have choices, options, hot water. These people don't.
It's overwhelming because you can never take care of everybody. Some people have chronic diseases, and all you can do is give them samples you brought on the trip to hold them off for a few months. Sometimes you do feel like "Is this worth it?" because there are billions of people who are destitute. But you have to think about the difference you're making for those whose lives you touch.
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Even though based on Star Trek, warp drive to enable interplanetary exploration won't be invented until 2063, mankind is slowly continuing to explore at least its nearby planetary system, thanks to the smart engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The historic landing of Mars rover Curiosity attracted a significant audience, which JPL streamed to hundred thousands of concurrent viewers with Adobe Media Server and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
NASA/JPL's live video streaming architecture was developed on a combination of Adobe Flash Media Server, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running the popular nginx caching tier, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Route 53 for DNS management, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery. [via Amazon Case Study]
Below is the impressive architecture from Amazon's Case Study (which also unveils that Rover Curiosity is actually not running an Adobe Media Server origin, but Amazon ingests Nasa TV's feed on earth).
It's a great showcase how technology in space and on earth can work together to let humanity participate in a historic moment.
Learn more about Adobe Media Server, Adobe Media Server 5 on Amazon Web Services, and the Amazon Case Study. Watch the live stream on NASA TV.
And if you are actually interested in Mars, don't miss this 360 panorama of Mars.
This is the latest panorama released by NASA July 2012. It was assembled from 817 images taken between Dec. 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012, while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop informally named 'Greeley Haven'. on a segment of the rim of ancient Endeavour Crater. [via Paroramas.sk]
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Amanda Bynes has completed her inpatient rehab and is now living at her parents' house in Los Angeles after leaving the Malibu treatment facility where she has been staying since September, People reports.
"Despite the fact Amanda is no longer in a facility, her outpatient treatment is continuing," the Bynes family said in a statement. "She's very happy to reestablish the loving relationship with her family that she once shared.
A timeline of Amanda Bynes' erratic behavior
Bynes is currently looking at colleges and considering studying fashion design, Peoplereports. "She's mentioned before she's interested in creating a clothing line," according to the family statement.
Bynes was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold in July after she lit a fire in a driveway in California. The actress' mother, Lynn, will continue to be her guardian and in control of her finances indefinitely, People reports.


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They live invisibly among us, 41,000 in the Washington area, half a million in the United States. They are survivors of horrific political torture. Unless they open their shirts, you detect few visible scars. "The mark of torture is more inside than out," says "Elena," a woman from Gabon who uses a wheelchair.
(Because everyone interviewed has living relatives in their native lands, all names have been changed at their request.)
Americans with no experience deceive themselves about torture. A friend told me that when the US tortured people it was somehow more humane.
But talk to torture victims at the annual gathering of the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) and they tell you that torture, whatever its guise, is always immoral.
In the early 1980s, Miguel was held prisoner for four years by the Marcos regime in the Philippines. "Torture is always wrong," he says. "It uses terrorism to try to destroy terrorism. The torturer becomes the terrorist. You think you establish order by breaking the law."
Torture breaks people as well as the law. Yvette from Cameroon speaks slowly, vacantly, and without focus. One of the TASSC directors acknowledged that "her mind has yet to heal."
Yvette was tortured for belonging to a human rights defense group in Cameroon. Police were seeking information on political dissidents. "I was beaten continuously," she says. "They slapped my face and head for three days. I don't know how long I was unconscious." When Yvette regained consciousness, she was unable to walk for a week, her legs having been beaten with police batons.
"I think the pain will never stop," she says. "I still shake when I hear police sirens."
"Even in Washington, D.C.?" I ask.
"Yes. I feel like they're after me again."
Perpetrators of torture share a common rationale: national security. "They tell you torture keeps your families safe and secure," says Miguel.
What about the Israeli argument – that torture can thwart a suicide bomber, or the American version: "What if Islamic terrorists planted a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb in New York City?"
I put that question to torture survivors. One asked, "Why torture anyone? Wouldn't you be better off finding an imam ... to sit with the prisoner and let him persuade a suspect it's morally wrong to take innocent lives?"
Of the dozen survivors I interviewed, people from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, each said torture doesn't work. In 2008, Mary from Uganda was beaten, gang raped, and terrorized in prison. Her crime? Being a member of the opposition party. "When they torture you, two things happen," she says. "First they make you crazy. Next, you believe you're going to die, so there's no point in confessing."
Given the harshness of the interrogation techniques his administration authorized, former President George W. Bush was disingenuous when he insisted in 2006 that the US doesn't torture. He should first have consulted his father, a former CIA director, about the effectiveness of torturing an enemy.
An Ethiopian named Thomas spoke to that. "Instead of breaking you, it [torture] hardens you," he says. Security forces threatened to shoot him, saying, "We're just going to kill you. No one can save you. We'll say we shot you trying to escape."
"You think you are losing your mind," he recalls. But, the former nongovernmental organization worker adds proudly, "I never revealed anything."
It was the same with Miguel. Drunken soldiers walked him to a beach, pointing guns at him and asking, "You want us to bury you here six feet deep or out there 10 feet under water?" He collapsed in a faint.
The waterboarding technique used by American interrogators this past decade is little different: It's an implicit threat to kill suspects through drowning – Russian roulette played with a wet towel. To see for yourself, watch journalist Christopher Hitchens (voluntarily) get waterboarded on YouTube. Last year, President Obama banned waterboarding.
Fortunate torture survivors sometimes get asylum in the US. By word of mouth, they learn of TASSC. Officials Miguel and Daoud, both torture survivors, shepherd the newcomers, finding them psychiatric help and shelter. In group counseling, perhaps the most difficult question they deal with is, "Why did this happen to me?"
A 2006 survey showed that a third of the world supports some degree of torture to combat terrorism. Yet we deceive ourselves pretending it does not also destroy our own decency and humanity. Support for torture was highest in Israel, at 43 percent; it was 36 percent in America. The fallacy of torture is the notion that terrorizing others makes us more secure.
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Exercise While You Code
Like many developers my age, I like to keep both my mind and body as fit as possible. However, after sitting all day coding, there's not as much time as I'd like to spend on exercise. That may change with the introduction of LifeSpan's Treadmill Desk. Now you can multi-task by exercising while you code.
With standing desks becoming all the rage among start-up company developers, a stationary desk stabilized above a moving platform sounded like the next best thing. I was curious to know how well this approach worked and was fortunate to have interviewed both the president of LifeSpan Fitness, Peter Schenk, and a Treadmill Desk customer, Andrew Reese. Does that last name sound familiar? Mr. Reese is the grandson of the inventor of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Take a look at what he had to say about combining computing with personal fitness training:
How did you first hear about the Treadmill Desk?
I heard about you through a work associate who had come across it. We work in a large 13,000 employee company. He lives out west and supports the west coast. I live on the east and support the east coast. We talk once in a while on the phone. We both spend about 70% of our time working out of our home office. Funny thing, we both ended up buying one.
How long have you used yours?
It has been a little over six months now.
How do you like it so far?
I enjoy working from it. I have several computer systems and use remote desktop software from my system on the treadmill desk (a MacBook Air with a 27" screen) to reach other remote systems.
What is it like to walk and work at the same time?
You get used to it; the typing pad helps to steady your hands. When watching webinars, you can crank up the speed. I also have hands-free Bluetooth speakers that I use.
How long did it take you to adjust to it?
My legs adjusted within two days. I bought some good sneakers.
How many hours a day do you usually use it?
I actually use it most of the day everyday — I would say 4-7 hours. The only time I don't use it is when I travel.
What speed do you usually keep it at?
Normally I walk between 0.8 and 1.2-mph. When I am able to work without being on the phone, I might jump up to 1.6-mph. During webinars I might take it up to 2.6-mph. Sometimes I take a break, do some Chi-Kung, or do a few dumbbell reps at 35-pounds. I even do pushups and sit-ups from time to time.
Have you lost any weight, or has it impacted your health so far?
I was 335-lbs and am now down to 295-lbs. However, I have also changed my diet and eat more veggies. I have no real goal for weight loss; it is more of a lifestyle change for me. I spent too much time sitting at a computer; I needed to change my lifestyle. I am a Grandmaster in Martial Arts, so this is another way to keep my weight in check.


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Dr. Tech: Crowdsourcing Infectious Disease
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Social Media, Ebola and the Flu
Infectious disease is a social phenomenon because it is transmitted among people.
Now we can use information transmitted among people via social media to track, contain, and prevent disease.
A key part of our public health system is surveillance which is the collection and interpretation of health-related data in order to plan, implement, and evaluate public health practices.
You can become part of the health surveillance system and doing so may help you avoid infectious disease.
The resources referred to in this article with annotations and more are available at Dr. Tech's Bookmarks.
Crowdsourcing is the use of social media to produce resources from contributions from self-selected members of a population.
An amazing instance of crowdsourcing health information is HeathMap, http://healthmap.org, which openly tracked the 2014 outbreak of a 'mystery hemorrhagic fever' more than a week before any official announcement of an outbreak.
HealthMap works by aggregating data about disease incidences from its members.
Anyone can join HealthMap and contribute information to it.
Enter a report illness symptoms and HeathMap will plot that data in time and space and correlate it with other reports.
A similar project from the same group at Boston Children's Hospital is Flu Near You, http://flunearyou.org, which collects and displays incidences of influenza.
Both HealthMap and Flu Near You apps are available at no cost for iOS on App Store and Android on Google play.
Another technological approach to disease surveillance is Google Flu Trends which analyzes search terms such as "flu," "cough" and "Mucinex" in order to track the spread of influenza, google.org/flutrends.
So how does Dr. Tech know so much about infectious disease?
I don't.
Instead I visited Dr. Jeff Bethel, Assistant Professor of the OSU School of Public Health.
He has a Doctorate in Epidemiology (2005 UC Davis), worked for the Center for Disease Control and teaches graduate courses in epidemiology.
Jeff and I talked about what people typically believe and know about Ebola, influenza and other infectious diseases.
There is a lot of misinformation about infectious diseases.
While talk radio and other anxiety-based media raise alarms about an Ebola pandemic in the United States, Jeff says this is unlikely because the US health system is prepared to contain it.
Ebola is not a respiratory disease; it is contracted through direct contact and bodily fluids, not through the air.
The chances of Ebola mutating to become airborne are very, very small.
As Jeff observed; "It would take a significant amount of mutations to become airborne. We never have seen a virus that is transmitted through direct contact and bodily fluids like Ebola is, then switching to become airborne."
Jeff said that the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS ) "is our most recent frame of reference for global pandemics and viruses like SARS have the potential to do some harm in the United States because respiratory diseases spread more quickly than Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers."
Put in perspective, the 2003 SARS pandemic resulted in 8,273 cases world-wide, 775 of whom died from the infection.
Compare that to the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic in which 50 million people died world-wide.
Reviewing such histories underscores the importance of public health and the contributions of information technology to it.
Crowdsourcing technologies such as HeathMap and Flu Near You are changing the way that our species responds to disease.
Equally important is the quality of the information sources that we use to guide public health policy.
I asked Jeff what are the top 5 sources of information about infectious disease for OSU students; he answered;
1. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the best source of information on public health, hands-down, http://cdc.gov.
2. World Health Organization (WHO) for global perspectives, http://who.int/en.
3. State Public Health Se such as Oregon Health Authority, http://public.health.oregon.gov.
4. County health agencies such as Benton County Health Services – http://www.co.benton.or.us/health.
OSU Student Health Services – http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu.
Jeff reminds us that the most powerful technology for staying healthy is your own brain; make the choices that keep you healthy from infectious disease.
1. Get a flu vaccination every year; it is never too late to get your flu shot.
2. Use effective hand hygiene; wash your hands frequently and keep your fingers (pencils, etc.) out of your eyes, nose, and mouth.
3. Practice safe sex, which is all about direct contact and body fluids.
I hope that you will join me in using Flu Near You regularly.
It will be fascinating to see how our campus community may respond to the flu season when informed by our collective reporting.
Dr. Tech says, get the Flu Near You app, share the sites on Facebook and stay healthy.
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For an entry level dumbphone, this Samsung Impression is a really nice piece of hardware. And while the the Software UI more or less gets the job done, it's still a little bumpy.
The phone makes use of a 3.2-inch, capacitive-touch AMOLED screen that's plenty bright and responsive…at times (more on that later). The sliding action is nice and springy, and the keyboard is both spacious and clicky, mostly because it's a little bigger than most phones in its category.However, the native resolution doesn't really do the screen justice, with visuals looking a little pedestrian. The 3 megapixel camera was also a bit underwhelming, but far from terrible.
On the software side, I was a little less impressed, especially with touch accuracy. The moments where the UI was particularly responsive means that the screen hardware itself is ok, but the that the OS is a little wonky. Being a capacitive screen, you shouldn't have to press very hard for the hardware to register your finger. Some times the Impression required a decent amount of contact to really get into action. Other than that, the UI is standard AT&T fare once you get past the TouchWiz UI, but at this point it's starting to look and feel bit dated.


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A Girl's Guide To…. Concealers
Clear skin is always in… and if you don't have it, you fake it! A flawless complexion is what we women strive for. Although genetics play a crucial role in who gets bestowed with the porcelain skin, the right concealer can be just as beneficial!
Applying concealer can be somewhat of a daunting feat. Too much looks cakey. Too little doesn't do the trick. And how about the bevy of colors… yellows, pinks, even greens! Certain colors combat specific areas of your face (i.e. dark circles as opposed to pimples) and it's important to know what type of concealer to use, and where. And, of course, how to apply? Brush, finger, straight from the wand?
The truth is, each concealer has its purpose… you just need to educate yourself on the pros and cons and sift through the hype, straight to the core. How to apply concealer? We asked some of our FAVORITE makeup artists for their wise and helpful tips…
Here's A Girl's Guide to Concealer:
Emmy nominated makeup artist Patty Bunch has this to say about applying concealer to the ever-sensitive under eye area:
- Always start with a nourishing Eye Cream to hydrate your delicate eye tissue.
- There are many shades of Concealer. Pick a color that matches your undertone. If it's blue pick a color that's has a slight peach tone. Orange reutilizes blue. If you have red undertones pick a concealer that has a slight yellow tone. Yellow neutralizes red.
- Once you've made your choice, pick a shade that's one to two shades lighter than your skin tone.
- With clean fingers apply the concealer mixing with your favorite Eye Cream or Gel. Warm the mixture between your fingertips and stipple starting at the inside corners and blend out. Stipple delicately several times to push the formula into the pores.
Prescriptives Director of Artistry, Jillian Veran, offers these tips to applying concealer to the eye area:
- Most dark circles start at the very inner corner of the eye and drop to the top of the cheek bone, creating a deep line of demarcation as we age. Using the top flat side of the applicator (sponge), dot the concealer from the inner corner of the eye down and around toward the top of the cheek bone. The shape would look like a crescent moon.
- Using the ring finger, tap upward toward the under lash line and inner corner until smooth.
Lancôme's National Artistic Director, Robert Cook, offers these incredible tips :
- When applying concealer it is always best to start with a very hydrating cream all over the face and eye area.
- After the eye area is hydrated, use a concealer brush and apply concealer only to the darkest areas. Most people apply to the entire under eye when only a small area may need attention. If concealer is put where it is not needed, you lose the highlighting effect.
- When choosing a concealer for the under eye area, it is best to go a little darker than you might normally think. Choose a concealer with a yellow or gold undertone.
- Often, women choose concealers that are too light which ultimately do not have enough color in them to neutralize purple or blue areas. This can make the circle under the eyes look muddy or grey.
For spot correction, Cook suggests:
- The concealer to use for spot correction on other parts of the face (side of the nose, blemishes, etc.) should be the same tone and color intensity of your skin or one or two shades lighter.
- Using the concealer brush, apply the lighter concealer with a tapping/ patting motion so you do not disturb the makeup underneath the concealer.
- If you feel like you have applied too much, pat a small amount of moisturizer over makeup. This will give a radiant glow and eliminate any dehydration. (LOVE THIS TIP!)
Makeup artist Cari Lynn Orr of Starlet Cosmetics has these great tips for applying concealer evenly:
- Try to use a small, sable or nylon brush in order to apply the product appropriately and evenly.
- Warm up your concealer on your skin(or hand) first, it will warm to your body temperature and smooth on with a flawless finish.
And in regards to choosing the appropriate color, Orr says:
- Salmon colored undertones work great on the undereye to diminish blue based dark undereyes.
Kevin Bennett, Director of Artistry for MAKE UP FOR EVER, explains how to apply the perfect amount of concealer:
- The key to making concealer conceal and not cake is using small amounts.
- I find it best to take a tiny amount of concealer on a soft synthetic brush and thin it out on the heal of my palm. I then apply very thin layers until the desired coverage is achieved.
- It's always better to apply a few thin, well blended coats as opposed to one thick layer (which will inevitably cake, crack and look horrible).
And when choosing the correct color, Bennett suggests:
- For normal concealing try a concealer about 1 shade lighter than your foundation/skin color. For noticeable or intense dark circles, try to match your skintone exactly.
- To color correct excessively purple/grey discoloration try a peach tinted concealer.
- For excessive redness, try for a stronger olive undertoned concealer.
Wow, that's a ton of useful information! So, next time you're in the market for a new concealer, check back to this post before purchasing!
And next week, we'll be posting our favorite concealers on the market!!! Let us know which concealer you DIE over!


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Vlastimir (Vlasta) Belkic was a pioneer in Eastern-European comics. Born in Belgrade, he was the creator of the pulp detective 'Hari Vilsa', whose adventures appeared in Nedelja, starting in 1935. It was the first original comics character in Serbian and Yugoslav newspapers. Belkic was also one of the original artists of the Yugoslav version of Mickey Mouse (Mika Miš). He made covers for the publication, as well as several stories featuring Disney's characters Mickey and Donald Duck, around 1936.


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Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller are trying to make their marriage work, a source close to the couple told Access Hollywood on Wednesday.
According to the source, the pair flew home together late Monday from their court hearing in Aspen, Colo., in Charlie's private plane, sitting in the back by themselves and talking things out.
"They are lovey dovey again," the source said, adding that the two each wanted to work on their marriage.
Brooke, who recently spent a week recuperating from an infection and a bout with pneumonia at the Two Dreams Outer Banks facility in North Carolina, plans to look into inpatient rehab facilities, while Charlie is doing an outpatient rehab treatment, the source claimed. Access has reached out to reps for Sheen and Mueller for comment on our source's statements, but has not yet heard back at this time.
Brooke's main problem is drinking, then drugs, the source claimed to Access.
"She's going somewhere to work on her sobriety and health," the source claimed. "He's staying in town and has to stay sober. So maybe their marriage can work if they both stay on track."
The source further added that Charlie left the set of "Two and a Half Men" on Tuesday claiming he was suffering from vertigo. He was back at work on Wednesday.
On Monday, an Aspen judge modified the restraining order that was preventing the pair from having contact. The actor was officially charged with one felony count of menacing, a misdemeanor count of assault in the third degree and a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief over the 2009 Christmas Day incident that saw him arrested. The star – who did not enter a plea – is scheduled to appear in court on March 15.
It was revealed at the 15-minute hearing that Sheen has been taking anger management classes since his arrest.
The couple has two children together, twins Max and Bob, who were born last year.
In a follow-up to a story reported last week, there have been no new developments in the case of Charlie's car being stolen from (and later found in a ravine near) the actor's home. However, Access has obtained these new photos taken today of the vehicle.
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MHCA Presents: Dan Zanes
Sunday, September 30, 2012 | 3 pm
$28/$23 MCHA members/$18 Child (10 & under) and Senior (65+)
Dan Zanes Website
Dan Zanes has two things that set him apart from everyone else. First, he makes homemade family music and encourages similar behaviors in friends and neighbors. Second, he is the guy that sings along with anyone, anywhere. This Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Album for Children will take the stage on Sunday, September 30 at 3 pm.
On Screen/In Person: "Runaway" – Amit Ashraf
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | 7 pm
$10/$7 MCHA members
"Runaway" Trailer
In Amit Ashraf's first feature film, "Runaway," the crowded city of Dhaka is the perfect hiding place for men seeking to disappear. Babu has made it his life mission to find these runaways and return them to their families and rural villages. But Akbar is a man with powerful connections and a race against time begins as Babu tries to return him home before his pursuer catches up.
Showcase Artist Series: Casey Driessen
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 7:30 pm
$15/$10 MCHA members
Casey Driessen Website
With limitless energy and spontaneity, The Singularity Tour kicks off in the summer of 2012, putting Casey Driessen's unique creative vision center stage. The setup is simple: One man, one fiddle, one pedal board. Mixing his signature percussive fiddle style with digital loops and effects, the Grammy-nominated fiddler will build each show layer by layer in real time in front of the audience. The result is a one of a kind experience that pushes the boundaries of musical genres and styles.
MHCA Presents: Chris Isaak
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | 7:30 pm
$78/$73 MCHA members
Chris Isaak Website
As a child spinning his parents 45s in their Stockton, California home, Chris Isaak has been obsessed with the glory days of Memphis' Sun Studio and the visionary artists who got their starts there—including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis—all of them discovered and nurtured by the late, great Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. Now, at long last, Isaak has acted on this lifelong obsession, magically recapturing the transformative hepcat brilliance of the classic sides cut by these greats at Sun with Phillips during the mid-'50s, while also getting down to the heart and soul of his own deeply rooted musical identity. "Beyond the Sun", Isaak's first Vanguard Records release, is truly a labor of love. Nominated Grammy singer-songwriter, American rock musician Chris Isaak will perform live at Maryland Hall on Tuesday, November 13.
Showcase Artist Series: Dirk Hamilton
(Georgie Jessup opening)
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 | 7:30 pm
Dirk Hamilton Website
Singer-songwriter Dirk Hamilton picked up a guitar as a youth and was writing songs and playing live performances by the time he was in high school. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 70s and recorded four critically acclaimed albums: two while at ABC Records, and two while at Elektra/Asylum Records. A poet and musician known for his uniquely intelligent lyrics and passionate performance style, Hamilton creates music that can't be pigeon-holed into one genre or another, so indie rock, alt-rock, roots music, americana and folk-rock are often used. For his lyrics and performance style he is most often compared to Dylan, Van Morrison, and John Hiatt.
On Screen/In Person: "Dislecksia: The Movie" – Harvey Hubbell
Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 7 pm
"Dislecksia: The Movie" Trailer
The light-hearted documentary "Dislecksia: The Movie" chronicles dyslexic director Harvey Hubbell V's journey across the United States to learn more about a condition affecting 35 million Americans. Along the way he discovers that scientists are close to unlocking its secrets. The film gives dyslexics and their families hope as well as a crash course in how to keep smiling.
Showcase Artist Series: Rob Levit Holiday Show
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | 7:30 pm
Rob Levit Website
Get in the holiday spirit with noted area musician Rob Levit and talented local performers for an enjoyable assortment of holiday music and carols.
WAE Presents: Israeli Vocalist and Band
Monday, December 17, 2012 | 7 pm
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Showcase Artist Series: Jayme Stone
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | 7:30 pm
Jayme Stone Website
Two-time Juno-winning banjoist Jayme Stone makes music inspired by folk traditions from around the world. His latest album, Room of Wonders, explores music from Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Brazil, Italy and North America. The repertoire includes a movement from Bach's French Suite, a Moorish sword-fighting dance and Stone's lush, edgy originals.
Stone thrives on unexpected inspiration: Japanese poetry, Brazilian literature, instruments he found while traveling in remote Malian villages. He finds it with influences as diverse as Anouar Brahem, Bill Frisell, and Toumani Diabaté. His Juno Award-winning albums, most notably Africa to Appalachia, both defy and honor the banjo's long role in the world's music, turning historical connections into compelling music.
MHCA Presents: Peking Acrobats
Thursday, February 7, 2013 | 7 pm
$27/$15 MCHA members and children
Peking Acrobats Website
The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists, and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments will bring their 2,000-year-old tradition of acrobatics to North America for an extensive tour of North America.
On Screen/In Person: "Cafeteria Man" – Richard Chisholm
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | 7 pm
"Cafeteria Man" Trailer
"Cafeteria Man" tells the true story of rebel chef Tony Geraci and his mission to radically reform the way kids eat at our nation's schools. It's about overhauling a dysfunctional system. It's about what's possible when citizens come together and what it takes, and who it takes, to make solutions happen.
MHCA Presents: Footworks Percussive Dance – "Steps & Stripes"
Friday, March 8, 2013 | 8 pm
$25/$20 MCHA members and children
Footworks Website
"Steps & Stripes" was conceived when The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts commissioned Footworks to create a piece to commemorate The Star Spangled Banner's 200th anniversary and perform it for the 50th annual Americans for the Arts conference in Baltimore in June of 2010. Robert L. Lynch, President of Americans for the Arts, wrote that it was a "rousing and patriotic performance" and that the audience "loved the portrayal of our American history and its many threads through dance. [It was] a deeply moving and entertaining piece that resonated with us all."
On Screen/In Person: "Abel Raises Cain" – Jenny Abel
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | 7 pm
"Abel Raises Cain" Trailer
In "Abel Raises Cain", the filmmaker provides an unprecedented glimpse into the life and extraordinary career of her father, Alan Abel, the notorious media prankster who has made a name for himself several times over with a series of elaborate hoaxes and schemes, all of which were designed to provoke, amuse and make people question everything that they see, hear or read.
Showcase Artist Series: The Farewell Drifters
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | 7:30 pm
The Farewell Drifters Website
Rising out of Nashville's thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60's era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of intellectual psychedelic pop with melodic songs that openly explore the brightest and darkest corners of life with raw intensity. The Farewell Drifters' latest album, Echo Boom, has been met with critical praise and finds them growing from young men into thinking men and establishing their considerable place in this world.
Showcase Artist Series: "Music in Art" – Joe Dickey
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | 7:30 pm
After jamming together for two decades, friends Joe Dickey and Henry and Cindy Whitesel took their music to the streets, and Crabgrass made its debut at a street festival in Annapolis in 1993. From there, the band played at gallery openings in the local area, retirement homes, and street festivals. When the washtub bass player retired in 2001, Tim Bowen joined the band. The band has been playing regularly at the famous 49 West Restaurant and Café in downtown Annapolis since 2000. They bring their special blend of harmonies and instrumentation to traditional and contemporary bluegrass, gospel, folk, and country music. On display will be a collection of woodturning pieces by Joe Dickey.
On Screen/In Person: "What We Need Is The Impossible" – Sam Green
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | 7 pm
"What We Need Is The Impossible!" gathers together an evening length program of short films by Academy Award nominee Sam Green. The eclectic mix of documentaries range from a portrait of the world's largest shopping mall in China to an elegy for Meredith Hunter, the young man killed by Hells Angels at the notorious 1969 Altamont concert, to an exploration of the little- known universal language of Esperanto.


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Lenny Kravitz is getting ready for what could be the biggest role of his life as an actor: late R&B singer Marvin Gaye. Rumors popped up last week that he might be taking on the role for director Julien Temple, but now it's been confirmed. Kravitz has been showing up in cool supporting roles more and more lately, from critically-acclaimed indies like Precious to blockbusters like The Hunger Games. This, however, will be a lot more demanding, and that's a good reason to be excited, because everyone is always super happy to see Lenny Kravitz suddenly show up in a movie!
Assuming this will be a good biopic, this could be Kravitz's first real starmaker. Jamie Foxx in Ray and Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line all saw their careers take a turn for the Oscar-y after they handed themselves over to play other famous people. Kravitz might even have an advantage since he's already an established musician, unlike the aforementioned actors, who were merely musically inclined. Temple's movie will be primarily about Gaye's struggle with sobriety while he stayed in Europe in the 1980s, so this will also be a nice dose (no pun intended) of heavy subject matter for Kravitz to tackle.
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