Feb. 2013 Murfreesboro Pulse

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ENTER TO WIN! Tickets to the sold-out PBS Taping at Bluegrass Underground

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Middle Tennessee’s Source for Art, Entertainment and Culture News

Vol. 8, Issue 2 February 2013

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ININMUSIC MUSIC: Paris Delane Tetsuo The Real 2Four

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OUT IN & ABOUT MUSIC: Mid-State Brew Crew share beer, friendship and more beer

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Local couples talk about balancing a relationship and a small business. page 14

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The Voice of Paris Music industry veteran Paris Delane to perform at 3 Brothers Deli on Feb. 8.

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2 Days, 20 Bands The Boro to host Mid Tenn Independent Music Festival X. Big Bluegrass Weekend Underground Old Crow Medicine Show, Yonder Mountain String Band, Andrew Bird, North Mississippi Allstars converge in caverns.

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CONCERT LISTINGS Album Reviews Tetsuo, The Real 2Four

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Greenhouse Ministries Sharps offer food, clothing, prayer, education.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Dave and Kat McCauley of Nobody's

Jump rope for heart, semi-pro football tryouts, 3 Point Play

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Use Less It's not complicated to save energy: don't use so much of it.

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Book Crossing Copies of book placed around town for community discussion.

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Love and Business Couples share experiences of balancing work and relationship.

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OK Jose Potato, nacho dishes, Marga-ronas set Tex-Mex place apart.

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Coffee Talk More rich brews.

Brothers p Brews Mid-State Brew Crew crafts beer, friendship and more beer.

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Sports Talk with Z-Train Ravens are the champions.

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Baldwin Leaves Lasting Impression Photography professor donates funds to construct gallery at MTSU after teaching there for decades.

Exhibits Meg Garrett, 12x12.

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Reviews Silver Linings Playbook, Chainsaw 3D Living Room Cinema Comedy Series

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February Performances Pterodactyls; Driving Miss Daisy; Deathtrap

OPINIONS Eye on The Media The fuzzy definition of adequate public notice.

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Phil Valentine The Republicans have forsaken their principals.

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Say Yes to the Moment Learn to love your fate, love the moment.

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Recover Rutherford From Popsicles and Icicles to Powerless

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La Palabra Mission to Mars: Been there done that?

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THE PULSE TRIES TO GIVE YOU A BALANCE, a balance of the fun with the important. We present the area rock bands, restaurants, movies, activities, art and such alongside columns dealing with ambitious aims as recovering from addiction, responsible energy usage, being at peace with yourself and your life, making the country better for the next generation and so on.

But perhaps it’s more than a balance, two ends of the spectrum. Perhaps I am conveying that the fun is important. Don’t get so wrapped up in taxes, debt, politics, illness or whatever it may be that you forget to laugh or create or have fun. Ultimately, this—music, art, a sense of community and enjoying one’s life—is far more important than stock prices, crime, Washington D.C., taxes, money, and whatever else those other media outlets give so much attention.

A recently watched documentary presented the idea of a society without money. Farfetched, eh? Yes, taking money out of the equation is quite unrealistic and idealistic in the short term, but it's a very interesting way to approach the world and your day.

What if you didn’t need money?

What would your next step be?

So much of our lives are consumed by money—paying off the debt, buying that insurance, tucking it away in those trustworthy bundles of who-knows-what called mutual funds for retirement, gasoline, keeping the heat and the lights on, an iPhone, don't forget the mobile service plan, along with cable TV and Internet bills, money, money, money.

I hope after all of that, your work week yielded some money that can actually go to a good cause.

So what if everyone’s most basic needs were met, and there were no money?

There would still be education, but not for money.

(Much education is geared towards making one able to make money; or towards the institution charging money for said education.)

There would still be art, but not for money. It could be the best thing that could ever happen to art: filter out all of the people in it just for the money.

Our talented cooks and bakers would still be doing their thing, but not to make money, because it’s their gift, their art, and people enjoy it.

A lot is made of the million-dollar Super Bowl commercials, and being an observer of football, advertising and creativity, I find some of them humorous and interesting. But I’ve noticed something about them that often gets lost; most of the products they talk about are awful!

Pepsi, Doritos, Bud Light, Taco Bell, Coca-Cola— don’t put that stuff in your body! Cars that could probably be made a lot cheaper, efficient, clean and reliable.

Buy ’em, football fans! We’ll help you finance one today!

I guess that’s why they need to spend millions on advertising, to convince people it’s so totally sociallly acceptable and desirable to consume what may otherwise seem unconsumable.

In a world without money, those advertising creative teams would still be creative, but not for the sake of selling corn syrup and swill and inefficient cars, but for the sake of being creative and expressing themselves, and making their viewers smile, think, cry, be captivated, use their imaginations and think freely.

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Paris Delane has had a long and varied career singing backup for The Rolling Stones, opening for Bob Dylan, singing the national anthem at Cubs games, recording with the likes of Billy Corgan and Marianne Faithful and performing for more than a decade with the band Sonia Dada, which he helped form. That extensive career budded in a subway in Chicago years ago after a chance encounter with guitarist Daniel Pritzker. Now Delane, who continues making music as a resident of Nashville, is coming to Murfreesboro on Feb. 8 to play 3 Brothers. He’s known for a seven-octavespanning voice that sounds darker than coal, but don’t let that fool you; Delane gave the Pulse a warm and mellow interview.

You’ve lived in Nashville for four years. What are you doing now?

I’m producing and writing and recording and making music as well as touring. I’m originally from a band called Sonia Dada. We

played with everybody, and it was my way of finding out a lot about the music business and how to make records. One of the coolest things was getting a chance to open up for Bob Dylan. We got a chance to talk briefly. What a presence the man has. I learned so many things from him. I’m looking forward to playing 3 Brothers because it doesn’t always have to be a big stage. I kind of want to do something intimate for my friends.

With all the different routes your career has taken in music, did you ever lean more toward one thing than another?

I never really thought about it at all. I didn’t choose music; music chose me. I really didn’t want to get into this business a long time ago.

I’m a healer. I like to do massage therapy, and I love martial arts. But my mother sang with a lot of amazing artists when I was a kid, like Ella Fitzgerald, but she didn’t get the recognition everybody else did. They would come to

Paris Delane

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Paris Delane comes to 3 Brothers, Feb. 8. story by JESSICA PACE

the church my mother attended just to hear her sing. That’s how I got it. But people I loved were always saying, “Paris, you should be singing.” After the death of someone I loved very much, somehow I ended up in the subways of Chicago singing.

Why the subways?

A friend of mine saw some guy singing down there and told me I should go down into the subways and sing. I got my guitar, got in my car and drove there. I didn’t know the rules, but I just went to the subway, opened up my case and started playing. I wasn’t thinking about money. I started playing, people started throwing money in my case, and I got about 400 dollars. So I was down there every day [laughs].

If you didn’t play music, what would you be doing?

I would be in the medical field, something like that. I was a bodyguard for a while.

There’s a lot of things.

How is the music scene different here in Nashville compared to Chicago?

Interesting. Some people think Nashville’s a country scene, and I love country music, but there’s so much more here. You’ve got Keb’ Mo’ here, Robert Plant. It’s like L.A. It all depends on the circle of people that you hang with.

Do you think it’s harder or easier today to have a diverse music career like yours and keep it going?

It’s easier now, because people now are more in control of their own thing. They just need to learn more about the music business. The way things are set up now, most people don’t even need a record deal [due to] the power

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of the Internet, so they just need to get the business side down and be more like an entrepreneur. Don’t worry about what someone else can do for you. Don’t focus on that. Be independent in your music, then if someone comes along and makes some kind of offer, then all the better. If you get in the business to be a star, then you’re in for a big letdown.

Just do what you do. You reap what you sow.

That’s what happened to me. I went down to the subway, and little did I know that a little man was going to walk up to me while I was singing “Amazing Grace” and say, “I’ve never heard anybody sing like that with that arrangement. I want to make some music with you. I play guitar and kind of write.” Come to find out he was a multimillionaire, and he changed my life. And I wasn’t even trying to do it. Next thing you know, I got Keith Richards coming to my shows, and I’m playing with the Stones. It was crazy.

What are you happiest to have accomplished in the past years?

To come up in Chicago as a poor African American; statistically, young black men don’t live to be 16. I can say I’ll be 55 on April 14 this year if I live to see that day. To sing the anthem for the Chicago White Sox. Doing the theme for the Bulls when they won the first championship. And to have my mother and father see that, when they would do so much so their children could have something.

IF YOU GO: WHAT: Paris Delane and Friends WHEN: Friday, Feb. 8 at 9 p.m.

WHERE: 3 Brothers Deli and Brewhouse, 223 W. Main St., Murfreesboro PRICE: $8

20 BANDS, 2 DAYS MT Independent Music Fest takes over The Boro Bar & Grill. story by BRACKEN MAYO THE 10TH MIDDLE TENNESSEE Inde-

pendent Music Festival is right around the corner, set for Feb. 23–24 at The Boro Bar & Grill, featuring 20 independent bands from the area.

Unlike most major festivals, one doesn’t have to wait a year for an MTIM to roll around.

MTSU grad Jacob Roberts, a WMTS radio show host, member of the Backwoods Heathens and founder of 373 Promotions, has organized and promoted 10 of these events in less than two years.

“In April, 2011, we did one in Chapel Hill at our guitarist’s house,” said Roberts. We had 7 bands and did it for free.”

In the following months Roberts staged events at The Muse, The Walnut House, Big Jim’s Boobie Bungalow and the Muddy Beaver in his hometown of Columbia, Tenn.

The latest incarnation will kick off at 3 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 23 and 24, at The Boro.

“It’s five dollars a day, and you get to see 10 bands in one day,” Roberts said. “We’re just trying to pack the place out.”

Similar to the trending theory behind many Scott Fernandez

of the major music festivals, Roberts enjoys involving bands of various genres, in different stages of their independent musical careers.

“There’s metal bands. There’s punk bands. There’s straight up rock ’n’ roll bands.

There’s a little something for everyone,” Roberts said of the multi-genre approach. “You may not like screamin’ metal, but maybe you like more proggy-stoner stuff. Or the alternative bands like The Radio Symphonic.

“Scott Fernandez is made of camouflage; he can fit in with any scene,” Roberts said, laughing. “He can fit right in with metalheads or with the artsy, independent rock scene.”

Roberts said it’s all about a spirit of collaboration, not competition.

“It seems like every band where I’m from (Columbia) looks down their noses at each other. It’s like it’s a competition, something to win.”

Roberts said he just wants to see The Boro filled with music fans, and introduce people who may have come to see one band, to nine other good area bands in the same day.

For more information, search MTIM X on Facebook or e-mail j3732003@yahoo.com.

Old Crow Medicine Show

BGU ANNOUNCES NEW LINEUP FOR PBS TAPING Old Crow, Andrew Bird, Yonder Mountain and more head Underground for three-day PBS taping. story by BRACKEN MAYO

THE BLUEGRASS UNDERGROUND TEAM HAS ANNOUNCED THE LINEUP

for its next PBS taping weekend—three days of performances packed with stellar artists.

Cumberland Caverns, located just outside of McMinnville, generally hosts one bluegrass show each month, and has developed a reputation for attracting some of the biggest names in the industry. However, from March 8 through 10, the cave’s Volcano Room will be hosting three straight days of music, which can be seen and heard when the performances air on PBS affiliates later in the year.

The weekend includes festival favorites Yonder Mountain String Band and the North Mississippi Allstars, legendary rocker and pianist Leon Russell, the more traditional bluegrass sounds of The SteelDrivers and The Infamous Stringdusters, singer/violinist Andrew Bird, hard-touring string band Old Crow Medicine Show, up-and-coming duo JOHNNYSWIM, the Wood Brothers (featuring Medeski, Martin & Wood co-founder Chris Wood), cellist Ben Sollee, Cajun-tinged BeauSoleil and banjoist Alison Brown fronting the Alison Brown Quartet.

Kill City

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 @ 6 P.M.

The SteelDrivers, JOHNNYSWIM, Andrew Bird, Old Crow Medicine Show SATURDAY, MARCH 9 @ 2 P.M.

Ben Sollee, Alison Brown, BeauSoleil, Leon Russell

SCOTT FERNANDEZ BY AMANDA CHAVEZ

SUNDAY, MARCH 10 @ 2 P.M.

The Infamous Stringdusters, The Wood Brothers, North Mississippi Allstars, Yonder Mountain String Band Although tickets are already sold out for the special weekend, Bluegrass Underground and the Murfreesboro Pulse are offering a few lucky readers the chance to attend one of the days. To enter to win tickets, text ‘bluegrass’ to 86568.

For more information on the Bluegrass Underground series, visit bluegrassunderground.com.

Check the local PBS listings for Bluegrass Underground airtimes, or view some past performances on YouTube.

IF YOU GO: SATURDAY, FEB. 23

SUNDAY, FEB. 24

3 p.m. T.B.A. 4 p.m. COVE 5 p.m. TUSCARORA 6 p.m. THIRTYTHREE 7 p.m. SOLIAM 8 p.m. REDLINE ZERO 9 p.m. AN ABSTRACT THEORY 10 p.m. HEXENBANNER 11 p.m. STRAIGHT-JACKET 12 a.m. GRANSHAW

3 p.m. THE BUDDY SYSTEM 4 p.m. RISING FROM RUIN 5 p.m. DIRTY DEE AND THE SWEATY MEAT 6 p.m. OMNIVUS 7 p.m. THE RADIO SYMPHONIC 8 p.m. SCOTT FERNANDEZ 9 p.m. KILL CITY 10 p.m. BACKWOODS HEATHENS 11 p.m. LOBO 12 a.m. JUDAS TREE BOROPULSE.COM

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FEBRUARY CONCERTS Send your show listings to listings@boropulse.com

THURS, 2/7 3 BROTHERS Dirty Truth, Laser Flames, Southwork BUNGANUT PIG Cody Purvis

FRI, 2/8 3 BROTHERS Paris Delane BUNGANUT PIG Gravel Road Gypsies FANATICS Jon Gower WALL STREET Don Coyote, Christlove, The Fallopian Tube Tops

SAT, 2/9 3 BROTHERS The Carmonas BUNGAUT PIG Zone Status FAIRWAY’S Midnight Highway FANATICS Pimpalicious READYVILLE MILL Johnny B & The Balladeers THE BORO The Exotic Ones

SUN, 2/10 3 BROTHERS Creative Mic Night with Lee Miller FAIRWAY’S Open Mic Night with Uncle Don Clark

MON, 2/11 FAIRWAY’S Mayday Mondays with the Mulch Brothers JOZOARA Songwriter’s Night

TUES, 2/12 BUNGANUT PIG CJ Vaughn Classic Blues Jam LIQUID SMOKE Bellwether

WED, 2/13 3 BROTHERS Ryan Coleman’s Writers Night BUNGANUT PIG Mojo Medicine

THURS, 2/14 3 BROTHERS Billy & the Matts, Roman Polanski’s Baby

BUNGANUT PIG Cali & Ashley THE BORO Bling Blingerston’s 39th Annual Anti-Valentine’s Birthday Brewhaha

FRI, 2/15 3 BROTHERS Sugar Lime Blue BUNGANUT PIG Stones River Pilots FAIRWAY’S Lincoln Layne FANATICS Zone Status MAIN ST. LIVE Copper Into Steel, The New River Boys, Island Wren THE BORO Trapper Haskins WALKING HORSE HOTEL Sixty Four: All You Need Is Love Valentine’s Day Beatles Tribute

SAT, 2/16 3 BROTHERS White Bay Freddy CD/ Birthday Party BUNGANUT PIG Junkbox FANATICS John Salaway READYVILLE MILL Johnny B & The Balladeers THE BORO Aye Mammoth, Now The Never, Wifebeater WALL STREET Barry Mando Project WHISKEY DIX Burning Years WT’S ROADHOUSE SkeetZo N’ Krysis, Skrewmonkeys, Steadyfall

SUN, 2/17 3 BROTHERS Creative Mic Night with Lee Miller FAIRWAY’S Open Mic Night with Uncle Don Clark

MON, 2/18 FAIRWAY’S Mayday Mondays with the Mulch Brothers JOZOARA Songwriter’s Night THE BORO Tron Ate My Baby, Warmachine, Skimask, Bugs & Rat

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IF YOU GO:

TUES, 2/19 BUNGANUT PIG CJ Vaughn Classic Blues Jam FAIRWAY’S Tara Tinsley, Eric Holmgren LIQUID SMOKE Bellwether

WED, 2/20 3 BROTHERS Ryan Coleman’s Writers Night BUNGANUT PIG Who Shot JR? THE BORO The Most Amazing Century of Science, Crayons and Antidotes, Armada, Ford Theatre Reunion

THURS, 2/21 3 BROTHERS Rahji Gahler, Tennessee Scum, Unkle Skunkle BUNGANUT PIG Lincoln Layne

FRI, 2/22 3 BROTHERS Judd Hall ARTS CENTER OF CANNON COUNTY Beatles Tribute performed

by Sixty Four BUNGANUT PIG Marshall Creek Band FAIRWAY’S Zone Status FANATICS Christine Parri MAIN ST. LIVE AFRO, Former Champions THE BORO Cicada Rhythm WALL STREET Captain Midnight Band

SAT, 2/23 3 BROTHERS MTSU Writers Night BUNGANUT PIG Fender Bender FAIRWAY’S Southern Spyce FANATICS John Salaway READYVILLE MILL Johnny B & The Balladeers THE BORO Middle Tennessee Independent Music Festival WALL STREET DJ Peesley

SUN, 2/24 3 BROTHERS Creative Mic Night with Lee Miller FAIRWAY’S Open Mic Night with Uncle Don Clark THE BORO Middle Tennessee Independent Music Festival

SIXTY FOUR: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE BEATLES TRIBUTE

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FRIDAY, 2/15 @ WALKING HORSE HOTEL It’s the day after Valentine’s Day, but you can still feel the love at Walking Horse Hotel tonight with Sixty Four, a Nashville Beatles tribute band who will be playing an “All You Need Is Love” showcase during which you can enjoy love songs by the Fab Four from their puppy love heyday to the “All You Need Is Love” era.

MON, 2/25 FAIRWAY’S Mayday Mondays with the Mulch Brothers JOZOARA Songwriter’s Night

TUES, 2/26 BUNGANUT PIG CJ Vaughn Classic Blues Jam

WED, 2/27 3 BROTHERS Ryan Coleman’s Writers Night BUNGANUT PIG Benedict Arnold Palmer

THURS, 2/28 BUNGANUT PIG Charleyhorse

FRI, 3/1 3 BROTHERS Secret Commonwealth FAIRWAY’S Backlit

SAT, 3/2 3 BROTHERS Whyte Noyse

LOVEY’S JAZZ CAFÉ Biff Kittii READYVILLE MILL Johnny B & The Balladeers

SUN, 3/3 3 BROTHERS Creative Mic Night with Lee Miller FAIRWAY’S Open Mic Night with Uncle Don Clark

MON, 3/4 FAIRWAY’S Mayday Mondays with the Mulch Brothers JOZOARA Songwriter’s Night

TUES, 3/5 BUNGANUT PIG CJ Vaughn Classic Blues Jam

WED, 3/6 3 BROTHERS Ryan Coleman’s Writers Night

3 Brothers 223 W. Main St. 410-3096 Arts Center of Cannon County 1424 John Bragg Hwy. Woodbury, 563-2787 Aura Lounge 114 S. Maple St. 396-8328 Bonhoeffer’s 610 Dill Lane 202-3517 Bunganut Pig 1602 W. Northfield Blvd.

893-7860 Fairway’s Golf & Grill 127 SE Broad St. 962-7853 Fanatic’s 1850 Old Fort Pkwy.

494-3995 First United Methodist Church 265 West Thompson Lane JoZoara 536 N. Thompson Ln. 962-7175 Lanes, Trains and Automobiles 450 Butler Drive 890-3999 Liquid Smoke #2 Public Square 217-7822 Main St. Live 527 W. Main St. 439-6135 MT Bottle 3940 Shelbyville Hwy. 962-9872 Nobody’s Grill & BBQ 116 John R. Rice Blvd.

962-8019 Social 114 N. Church St. 904-7236 Temptation Club 2404 Halls Hill Pike 217-0944 The Boro Bar & Grill 1211 Greenland Dr. 895-4800

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TUESDAY, 2/19 @ LIQUID SMOKE Tuesday Jazz Nights at Liquid Smoke have been a staple for so long, it’s hard to believe that Josh Dunlap, the man behind it for the past eight years and a member of Great Barrier Reefs, will be moving west at the end of February. Maybe another jazz guy will pick this up in the future, but for now, it’s all coming to an end. Tonight is Dunlap’s last jazz night, so give him a good sendoff at Liquid Smoke.

Wall Street 121 N. Maple St. 867-9090 Walking Horse Hotel 101 Spring St., Wartrace (931) 389-7050 Willie’s Wet Spot 1208 S. Lowry St., Smyrna 355-0010 Wright Music Bldg.

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ALBUM REVIEWS

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Tetsuo

The Real 2Four

Tetsuo never seem to have a good band photo. They play empty venues for no money as readily as full ones, and they’ve never adhered to a “scene” despite being good and getting better. It’s just what I think. A lot of Tetsuo’s “problems” can be attributed to poor marketing, but really I don’t think they give much of a shit. That mentality is faked by some bands, but Tetsuo might be serious.

So now there’s Goners. Titled for its tracks’ common theme of inevitability, Tetsuo’s third long player came out in late 2012. Their first was These Crystals Don’t Burn, a well-written but loosely executed experiment with heavy psychedelic leanings. They tightened up after that with Inmates, the closest they ever came to fitting within Nashville’s very precise garage/punk rock niche, which is ironic because that’s what that record laughs at. What is Goners, exactly? Calculated chords, a sonic shabbiness kept in check by a great rhythm section, riffs channeled from another era (sometimes almost copied; I keep hearing T. Rex’s “Twentieth Century Boy” on “Danzig”), mostly the late ’70s (a lot of Deep Purple and The Stooges and stuff), with the scrap folk of “No Use Hiding from the Airplane.”

That’s all great, but Goners, and Tetsuo in general, have become like a flame to a moth for me because of vocalist/ guitarist Ardis Redford’s lyrics. You hardly think of them if you go to a Tetsuo show—it might not even occur to you that there are lyrics, what with all the noise—but if you go home with the record, listen to it, wait for it, let it crawl in, see the words in front of you; you begin to feel their weight. Goners sounds like rock ’n’ roll, but it reads like a collection of short stories.

“Well, all the sacred judgments have terrible aim/ and they built a machine just to know his name / It’s like going back to places from where you came trying to feel the same,” Redford sings in “Just Ain’t Jagged Enough,” that last sentiment being one that strikes an acutely familiar chord. Goners is like looking through a foggy, abstract, poetic window at predicaments you recognize, and it’s soundtracked by the kind of rock music your parents played for you. It’s my favorite yet; Tetsuo, don’t stop doing what you want.

Released last fall, Long Hair Don’t Care is the debut six-track EP (mixtapes aside) of De’Andre Davis, or The Real 2Four, a Nashville hip-hop artist and MTSU student who’s been working the music game for a couple years now. Backed by Juggernaut 24 Entertainment, 2Four still plays around Murfreesboro and Nashville, though his music has stretched across the airwaves as far as the UK. With beats similar to those used by T.I. and a leveling voice and poetic rhymes reminiscent of Drake, Long Hair Don’t Care is a mixture of standouts and the standard with lyrics that waver between whimsical and serious.

On “Cloud Steppin’,” 2Four says “I transform like Michael Bay / Blow it up like Doomsday” while “Edgar Allen Poe” has smoother, more lyrical leanings: “You’re pretty like a rose / And you’re the only one that doesn’t know / And I know you feel exposed / But girl, you are beautiful whichever way it goes / So go ahead and strike a pose / Or just treat it like a prose / Be poetic like the raven / Edgar Allen Poe.” Mellow baby-making music punctuated with “yeahs” and “ahs,” even the tracks with more force like “Ballin’” don’t get too rough. Sensitive and nonabrasive but punchy, Long Hair Don’t Care is Nashville’s brand of hip-hop.

Look out for The Real 2Four’s next show and more information on Facebook.

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Long Hair Don't Care

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In addition to its food pantry, Greenhouse also operates a thrift store, and offers computer classes and other educational programs.

AN ENDEAVOR OF LOVE Greenhouse Ministries offers food, computer training, legal and tax advice and prayer. story by ELIZABETH SCOTT

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rovide a meal for someone who is hungry, give clothing to someone who is cold, offer medicine to someone who is sick; these are only a few of the things Greenhouse Ministries does for the community. Greenhouse Ministries, founded by Cliff and Jane Sharp, provides many services for the public including food, housing, clothing, counseling and job training. “We want to be the hands and feet of Jesus,” Jane said.

The couple say they believe that getting connected with the community is what makes a difference in their lives. “We are not evangelistic in the sense that we are preachy,” Jane explained. The couple explained that everyone who comes in gets prayed with unless they decline the offer.

Building relationships is what drives the ministry. “It’s exciting,” Jane said. “It doesn’t take but one or two people who come back and say thank you to keep you excited.” One such expression of gratitude was made, says Cliff, just before Christ8 * FEBRUARY 2013 * BOROPULSE.COM

mas, when a woman who had been coming in for food came into the office with a big box of food to donate. “She’d been through her computer class and so she has a job, she’s working, and she wanted to be able to give back this year.” “And that,” said Jane, smiling, “is the reward. We want them to get the joy of giving back.”

Anything the community can do to help is appreciated. Greenhouse Ministries shares whatever it can and asks that others do the same. “This isn’t Jane and I’s ministry,” Cliff said. “It’s a community’s ministry.” The ministry has a learning center where classes including computer skills and literacy are offered. But, added Jane, “budget and parenting are two of the most life-changing classes we offer.”

The couple started Greenhouse Ministries mostly for two reasons: primarily, they wanted to help people, but they also wanted to give people a place to volunteer.

This non-profit organization depends on members of the community to make a difference. Some people come and counsel, some people come and work in the food pantry and some people come teach classes.

“We have a very small staff,” Cliff said, “so we lean heavily on volunteers.”

On the second Tuesday of every month, the organization holds an orientation class for anyone interested in volunteering. The meetings provide an overview of the minis-

Cliff and Jane Sharp

try and let the volunteers choose what they would like to do. If someone has a passion to teach something specific, the staff tries to make it happen. “We’re not set on what we’ve got going right now,” Jane said. “We’re open to people’s dreams.”

Greenhouse Ministries offers free medical and legal services that can be costly at other places. “Those are two things a lot of people won’t do because they think they cost a lot of money,” Cliff mentioned. But at Greenhouse Ministries, a nursing clinic is open twice a week, thanks to a woman who volunteers. “It is amazing the things she has found just doing screenings,” Cliff said.

The organization also partners with the Bar Association; they send attorneys to do a free legal clinic every Thursday evening.

Volunteers who work with the ministry are able to provide some services all year,

but some are seasonal. During tax season, noted Cliff, “We figure income tax for people–free for people who make $50,000 or less.” This is possible because of the United Way’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

They hold backyard events every summer, including oil changes for single moms and the elderly. They also hold an event to fix bicycles for children. Greenhouse Ministries offers whatever they can for those who need help. “We feel like when people’s lives are falling apart,” Jane said, “there’s definitely something missing that they might not know.”

This ministry wants to help people by building relationships and giving them a support system.

The Sharps say they also want to help people be in a position to help someone else. “There’s just something exhilarating when they realize that they can do the same thing to bless somebody else,” Jane said.

“Sort of like a pay it forward.”

IF YOU GO: WHERE: Greenhouse Ministries LOCATION: 309 S. Spring St., Murfreesboro HOURS: Garden Patch Thrift Shoppe open Tuesday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Friday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Counselors Available Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

MORE INFO: (615) 494-0499 greenhousemin.org

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COMMUNITY

EVENTS

FEB. 17 GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT The Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m., is an annual event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a realtime snapshot of where the birds are. Join the staff of the Discovery Center (502 SE Broad St.) to see what amazing birds you can spot in the Murfree Spring Wetlands! For more information, visit the Discovery Center website at explorethedc.org.

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Send event information to murfreesboropulse@yahoo.com

FEB. 8 CHINESE NEW YEAR Celebrate the Year of the Snake at the Discovery Center (502 SE Broad St.) Fri., Feb. 8, from 4–7 p.m. Learn about Chinese culture through art, dance, food and fun! Admission is free. For more info, visit explorethedc.org.

FEB. 8 CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 6TH ANNUAL GALA SET Friends and colleagues will join together to honor SUSAN ANDREWS, MD, at The City Schools Foundation 6th Annual Excellence in Education Celebration Fri., Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. at Stones River Country Club. Andrews has been a family physician in Murfreesboro for over thirty years, served 16 years on the Murfreesboro City Schools Board of Education and was an early participant in Leadership Rutherford. Reservations are now available for individual tickets at $250 and sponsorship tables of eight at $2,500. Dollars raised by The City Schools Foundation provide funding for teacher grants and parity dollars benefiting the diverse population of students.

Natural humorist and storyteller Jack McCall will amuse attendees, and Drs. Max and Mary Moss will host the Premiere pre-party the night of the event; the pre-party is open to event sponsors and their guests as well as guests who contribute an additional $50 to the Foundation. For additional info, please call (615) 893-2313 or visit cityschoolsfoundation.com.

FEB. 9 SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALL DINNER AND SILENT AUCTION BENEFITING DOORS OF HOPE Blackman United Methodist Church (4380 Manson Pike) will be hosting a spaghetti and meatball dinner fundraising event for Doors of Hope, Sat., Feb. 9 from 5–8 p.m. There will be live dinner music, Doors of Hope slide show and tes10 * FEBRUARY 2013 * BOROPULSE.COM

timonials, homemade cannoli for dessert (extra cost) and a silent auction. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for kids 12 and under. The silent auction will be from 5–7 p.m., with the winners announced at 7 p.m.; you must be present to claim your item. Tickets can be purchased at Blackman United Methodist Church or Doors of Hope office. For more information, contact Jason Onks at (615) 751-7555 or jason@the4onks.com. Additionally, to learn more about Doors of Hope visit opendoorsofhope.org or call (615) 6535501. More event info can be viewed at bertministries.org

FEB. 9 HONEY BADGERS TRYOUTS The Tennessee Honey Badgers, a new semi-pro football team based in Murfreesboro, will have its first official player tryout at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 9, at Hobgood Elementary School, 307 S. Baird Lane. Interested players should bring cleats, water and a $50 tryout fee. If a potential player is not happy with the tryout, they can attend the second round of tryouts, held in Nashville in March, for no additional fee.

The Tennessee Honey Badgers, owned and coached by Shannon Potts, have just joined World Minor League Football, whose 2013 season is set to begin in August. For more information, search Tennessee Honey Badgers on Facebook.

FEB. 9 PARENTS NIGHT OUT Have a Valentine date and drop the kids off at the Discovery Center (502 SE Broad St.) Sat., Feb. 9 from 6–9:30 p.m. Kids ages 4–12 will have a blast with fun crafts, a snack and lots of creative

play. StarLab planetarium will also be available! Admission is $20 for one child and $15 each additional child. Register online at http://goo.gl/aYj03 or call (615) 890-2300 (ext. 221) for more info.

FEB. 9 & 10, 23 & 23 & 24 IHSA HORSE SHOW The IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Show Association) Horse Show will be held at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum (304-B W. Thompson Ln.) Feb. 9–10 and 23–24.

Times are TBA. Admission is free. For more info, please call (615) 494-8961 or visit mtsu. edu/tmc/contact.php.

FEB. 10 CULINARY ADVENTURES FOR KIDS “I love you BERRY much—Raspberry Crumble and Blueberry Muffins!” This Culinary Adventures session, Feb. 10 from 2–4 p.m., is designed to familiarize children, grades 3–6, with different foods and cooking techniques while they experience what it feels like to create (and taste!) scrumptious recipes themselves! Building self-confidence, creativity and lifelong skills are important ingredients in every session. This is a new monthly program featured on the second Sunday of each month. Cost is $25 per child for one class. Register online at http://goo.gl/EyDiX or call (615) 8902300 (ext. 221) for more info.

FEB. 10 UNPLUG AND READ! Sometime during the week of Feb. 10–16, local non-profit Read to Succeed wants you, your business, your organization or your family to take some time to unplug

from electronics and read a book! Go online and pledge hours to unplug at school, work or home by having class book discussions, planning a family reading night, starting a book club, etc. (readtosucceed. org/unplug.htm). Please e-mail Sarah Porterfield (rtsprograms@readtosucceed. org) with any plans your organization, church or business have for that week, for inclusion in the press release. For more info, visit readtosucceed.org.

FEB. 12 COMMERCIAL HORTICULTURAL APPLICATOR TRAINING Take part in the Commercial Horticultural Applicator Training put on by UT/TSU Extension, Rutherford County, Feb. 12 from 8 a.m.–2:25 p.m. Registration is $45. The deadline to register is Feb. 5.

For more info contact Mitchell Mote at mmote1@utk.edu or (615)898-7710.

FEB. 14 JUMP ROPE FOR HEART On Feb. 14, Black Fox Elementary School will conduct its 23rd Annual Jump Rope for Heart event. They have raised over $175,000 for the fight against heart disease and strokes since the school opened in 1990. February is American Heart Month, and The American Heart Association leads the fight against heart disease, the numberone cause of death in the U.S. today.

For more information please contact coordinator Michael Vaughn at michael.vaughn@cityschools.net.

FEB. 21 LAWN WEED CONTROL CLASS UT/TSU Extension, Rutherford County, will conduct a Lawn Weeds Identification and Control Class Feb. 21, 6 p.m., at the Community Center, Farmers Mkt. Bldg.

(315 John R. Rice Blvd.). Find out what those pesky weeds are that keep cropping up in your lawns and how to control them.

No pre-registration; admission is free.

For more info, contact or visit rutherford. tennessee.edu.

FEB. 23 CALIBRATION CLINIC UT/TSU Extension, Rutherford County, will hold its Calibration Clinic Feb. 23. from 8:30–11:30 a.m. at the Community Center Market (315 John R. Rice Blvd.).

Admission is free. Unlock the mysteries of using sprayers and spreaders. No more guessing! For more info, contact Linda Lindquist at 615-898-7710 or visit rutherford.tennessee.edu.

FEB. 24 KIDS ILLUSTRATION SERIES Join Ms. Chantel Sun., Feb. 24 from 2–4 p.m. in developing cartoon characters for the children’s book “Scarlett’s Adventures.” Our resident Kingsnake, Scarlett, decided the world outside of the Discovery Center was just too tempting, and set out on a journey to learn more about Murfreesboro. Each class will focus on developing a cartoon character for the book to represent characters ranging from Scarlett, our adventurous snake, to all the wonderful woodland creatures she meets along the way (frogs, turtles, cardinals and more!). This is a new monthly program for 3rd–6th graders, featured on the fourth Sunday of each month. Cost is $15 per child for one class. Register online at http://goo.gl/gx2BJ or call (615) 8902300 (ext. 221) for more info.

FEB. 26 TOOT’S TO HOST 3 POINT PLAY TO BENEFIT UNITED WAY Toot’s Restaurant will host the fourth annual 3 Point Play event to benefit United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties Feb. 26, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at

MTSU's Ebony Rowe

Toot’s (860 NW Broad St.). The event will feature a meet-and-greet with the Middle Tennessee State University Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams as well as a silent auction of MTSU memorabilia.

The Women’s Basketball team will be available from 5:30–6:30 p.m. for autographs and photos, and the Men’s Basketball team will be available from 7–8 p.m.

For more information, please call (615) 893-7303 or visit uwrutherford.org.

FEB. 28 AFTERNOON TEA AND WEDDING DRESSES EXHIBIT Meet at Oaklands Historic House Museum (900 N. Maney Ave.) at 2 p.m. for tea in Maney Hall. Sip tea and enjoy light refreshments before viewing the beautiful bridal gowns that will be on display at the Wedding Dresses Through the Decades exhibit.

A guided tour of the elegant mansion is also included in your afternoon. Ticket price is $25 per person and includes tea and admissions to exhibit and mansion.

Reservations are required, as seating is limited; for reservations please call Oaklands House Museum at (615) 893-0022.

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LIVING THE GREEN GENERATOR AND THE SMART GRID The cleanest, cheapest watt is the one never harvested and used.

Simply put, to effectively impact the energy situation, use less of it.

in the number of occupants per home. The net effect DEMAND RESPONSE, variable pricing and is that we are using more energy, not less, despite the time of use are three tools used by utilities to reduce gains in appliance and home efficiency (although the energy consumption, and are part of the emerging rate of increase has not quite kept up with population idea known as the smart grid. Demand response growth, which is at least one positive trend). involves users agreeing to engage in certain energyThe green generator idea, along with the smart saving activities such as turning off electrical loads grid as a whole, is an attempt to tackle the true probor increasing air conditioning set points during lem: behavior change. peak demand times, usually in return for some sort As stated in the intro to the winter 2013 edition of financial incentive. Variable pricing encourages the same thing by making electricity more expensive of Strategic Planning for the Energy and Environment, “energy conservation is the first and most during peak demand times. Time of use is similar important base of the energy to variable pricing, but the periods management pyramid. It is by far are contractually fixed, so that the the cheapest ‘new energy source’ user knows in advance exactly how available to us today since most of much electricity will cost during it involves changing attitudes and each time period. making simple changes on existing All three can be seen as inputs to control schemes.” Behavior change the smart grid’s conceptual green column by RYAN EGLY egly@boropulse.com could in fact be called the true generator. Unlike traditional generainput of the green generator, and tion sources, which rely on some smart grid strategies such as demand response, variform of fossil fuel, or renewable generation sources, able pricing, and time of use are tools that drive this which require manufacturing, distribution and mainchange. The challenge for energy service providers is tenance, the input for the green generator is simply a reduction in demand. There is no physical device, and to package the technology in a way that is attractive to the end user. the output is called “Negawatts,” which are used to One last important concept when considering the quantify the demand reduction. It may seem strange advantages of conservation is peak demand. The utilto use a technological concept to represent an idea as ity must provide enough capacity to meet projected simple as “use less,” but evidence of any real conserperiods of peak demand, even if such capacity is only vation is nearly impossible to find among current needed for short periods of time. Energy manageconservation techniques. ment systems allow for a targeted reduction in peak Americans, who represent around 5% of the demand, which can significantly reduce the amount world’s population, account for an astounding 20% of necessary capacity. As can be seen in this image of global energy use. The “use less” message, if even present, isn’t being heard. Although ambitious ratings from the EIA (Energy Information Administration), reducing demand is the most direct way to reduce systems such as Energy Star or LEED have emerged, the need for environmentally harmful energy sources, there has been a dramatic increase in appliance ownership and residential home size, as well as a decrease such as coal, natural gas and nuclear power.

LIVING GREEN

The lights of Earth at night

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Books Placed Around Town for Community to Share

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Medical Center (MTMC) Main n our increasingly digital Lobby, YMCA in Smyrna and the world, Read to Succeed’s Smyrna Public Library.

One Book Crossing is a proInside the books, readers will gram that’s remarkably old also have the chance to learn fashioned: hardback books for a more about Clinton’s Club, One community to share. The concept Book’s non-profit partner this is simple—look for one of the year. Clinton’s Club is an umbrelspecially labeled boxes and take a

by MICHELLE PALMER la organization that unites efforts free book. Read it and talk about michellepalmersbooks .blogspot.com to raise awareness of childhood it with your friends. Bring it back cancer and provides tangible to any Book Crossing location support for families with affected and drop it off for someone else to members. One Book chose Clinenjoy. Book Crossing epitomizes ton’s Club as this year’s partner the idea of paying it forward, as a means of making practical whether it’s sharing a book with connections between literature a friend or even a complete and community action. stranger, or simply knowing that How can you be part of this somewhere in town a free book is year’s Book Crossing? Look for waiting just for you. the Read to Succeed Book CrossBook Crossing allows Ruthering box near you, and see if a copy ford County residents the opportuis available. Share your thoughts nity to pick up a copy of this year’s on this year’s selection online, One Book choice, The Fault in Our and talk about it with friends and Stars, in eight designated locafamily. Return your copy of The tions. Centered on the relationship Fault In Our Stars to any of the of Hazel Grace Lancaster and red boxes found at the locations Augustus Waters, two teenagers around Rutherford County. Most of all, enjoy the diagnosed with terminal cancer, this New York satisfaction and fulfillment that only reading a Times bestseller is a true page-turner, and its aptruly great book can bring. peal to multiple age groups is part of the reason it was chosen for this year.

Michelle Palmer is Read To Succeed’s One Book The copies of Fault have stickers inside telling Committee Co-Chair and author of the book blog readers where they can drop off their book when Turn of the Page (michellepalmersbooks.blogspot. finished, and also a QR code which smartphone users can scan to give reviews and feedback on the com) com Read To Succeed is the community collaborative created to promote literacy in Rutherford County.

One Book web page. All readers are encouraged to The objective of this partnership between schools, leave comments at readtosucceed.org/onebook.htm. area agencies, and businesses is to support local proThis will enter them to win one of two $20 gift gramming and raise awareness about the importance cards to Barnes & Noble. of literacy. For more information and to find out how The books for the Crossing were donated by you can make a difference in Rutherford County’s Ingram Content Group. This year’s Book Crossing literacy rates, visit readtosucceed.org. The opinions locations are Linebaugh Public Library, JoZoara expressed in this book review are not necessarily repCoffee Shop on Thompson Lane, Starbucks on resentative of Read To Succeed, but simply intended South Rutherford, Starbucks on Church Street, to promote the joy of reading.

Pa Bunk’s on the Square, Middle Tennessee

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BOOK REVIEW

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LIVING

LOVE &

BUSINESS

When and where did you meet?

Tampa, Florida in 1992.

When did you start your business?

June 2006.

A glimpse into the lives of local couples who balance the commitment of marriage and work.

Mike & Debbie Zelenak MAPLE STREET GRILL

Yes, 3 sons What’s your favorite part about working together?

Coming up with ideas to build the business What’s your least favorite part?

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NOBODY’S SPORTS GRILL & BBQ When and where did you meet?

In California, 1988 . . . geez, time flies!

When did you start your business?

Jan. 8, 2010 . . . but we worked in the building for two months ahead of opening.

When did you start your business?

It was David’s idea. He invited me to the party, so to speak.

David’s answer is, “I thought she wanted to come to the party.”

Are other family members involved?

Yes, My son Ian (16) washes dishes and sometimes buses tables on the weekends and Aidan (12) is pretty good at rolling silverware.

What’s your favorite part about working together?

Kat: The relationships we have made with our customers. We moved to Murfreesboro three years ago to start this restaurant. We didn’t know a soul here. Essentially we were nobodies opening

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Nobody’s in Murfreesboro. Since then we have made the most amazing friends in this community.

Being that I have the day shift and David has the night shift, we don’t work together as much as people might think. We like to try and make sure the boys have a more typical home life. For the first year we were owner/operators, the boys spent a lot of time in the back office while we were at Nobody’s night and day. After awhile you stop and realize your diligence is their sacrifice.

We are all hands on deck for weekends and big events like the Super Bowl.

When we do work together I love being around David’s ability to laugh at things that make me crazy.

He just has a way of making difficult situations a

We started it together Are other family members involved?

any couples probably know both a relationship and a career take time and work to make them flourish and grow. But what if your relationship and career are, if not one and the same, intermingled to the point that it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference?

So, the Pulse is sharing some stories of some enterprising couples, and encouraging all couples, not just those who run businesses together, to pause, on Valentine’s Day, or any day, to center, tune out the noise and get back to love.

Dave & Kat McCauley

Did you begin the business together, or did one of you start it, and draw the other in?

Don’t have a least favorite What have you learned from one another?

We’ve learned that her strengths are office and back of the house; mine are front of the house and guest relations What is the biggest cause of disagreement and marital stress from your business?

Sometimes the finances of slow weeks What’s your advice for other couples who work together?

Remember, you’re a couple first, and business partners second. Always put each other ahead of the business.

And always try to see the other's point of view.

lot easier to get around with his really sarcastic sense of humor.

David: Seeing Katherine’s creative take on the business.

What’s your least favorite part?

Kat: Drama. People are way too focused on creating drama in their lives these days . . .

Everyone needs to just relax!

David: The time the business takes away from family time—time to focus on what’s going on in our boys’ lives.

What have you learned from one another?

Kat: David has taught me patience. I am pretty reactionary. David gives people time to solve things on their own. He doesn’t jump to conclusions. I, on the other hand, tend to leap before I look. David says I taught him how to lead by example.

David: Katherine works hard and expects the same from everyone else around her. She has also brought out my social side. I have always been pretty introverted. You can’t be shy in this business.”

What is the biggest cause of disagreement and marital stress from your business?

That’s easy, money! It’s just David and I, so the

buck stops here. Literally. Just when you think you’re getting ahead, a tornado takes down an $8,000 sign or the walk-in refrigerator breaks or the band you thought would be a perfect choice tanks. Worrying about whether you’ll have enough money to pay the bills next month, next week or tomorrow.

What’s your advice for other couples who work together?

Kat: Be honest. Keep your sense of humor and fun. Remember that no one is perfect. Remind yourself everyday why you fell in love with this person, and fight for it. “Love and business is a battlefield.”. . . Now I’m really dating myself!

David: Communication is easily the most important. You can’t assume that your partner knows what you’re thinking or how you want things done. Just because they are your partner in life doesn’t make them a mind reader. If you don’t have a strong relationship, don’t start a business together.

Kat: It’s like having a baby to save a relationship. So many times the thought is “it will bring us closer together,” when, in real life, the responsibility and challenges test the relationship to the core. This business is our youngest child. With any luck, it will grow up to be a rock star and support us in retirement!

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love talking to the customers every day and wait to see what interesting things each day would bring! I, personally, would love doing minor repairs and find out the inner workings of different instruments. One of the best parts of our business was our lesson program. We absolutely loved working with our students and seeing their progress. When we knew we had to close our doors, we could not just stop our lesson program. So we rented a few lesson rooms from Leslie Hall School of Dance, and have been able to carry on with our lessons and have obtained many new students.

What’s your least favorite part?

To try to leave work problems at work. Of course, we tried, but a lot of them made their way home. But most of the time, we found that when we could discuss things away from the noise of the studio, we would come up with solutions! It was also hard because we had a hard time getting time off together. What have you learned from

Bob & Terri Fitzgerald JOHNNY GUITAR'S MUSIC INSTITUTE

Fort Bragg, N.C. in May, 1996.

and for it to have a musictype theme. With Bob being a lifelong musician, it was natural that it would be a music store.

When did you start your business?

Are other family members involved?

September 1, 2007.

We went in with Bob’s brother to open up Johnny Guitar’s.

When and where did you meet?

Did you begin the business together, or did one of you start it, and draw the other in?

We retired after 30 years in the military. We knew we wanted to open a business together

What’s your favorite part about working together?

We downsized our business in January of 2012. When we had the larger store, we would

Chris & Chere Whitney STRAIGHT EDGE TATTOO & PIERCING

What is the biggest cause of disagreement and marital stress from your business?

Sometimes we disagree on how to handle different business situations. I feel I have a more patient, “let’s think this out” type of attitude. Bob sometimes is a “what do we do now” type of guy—ready to jump on things! I really think we complement each other very well! We know we are in this together and together we will get through anything we are faced with.

one another?

What’s your advice for other couples who work together?

We learned that we can work together! We learned that it is not always about profit, it is about the people. We always said that when we closed our doors, we wanted to do so knowing we were honest with people and that we did not cheat anyone. We wanted to hold our heads high. Well, even though we have not completely shut down, you could go back and ask any of our customers and we are very sure they would say the same

The best advice is to identify the roles for each other (lanes of responsibility) and allow the necessary space to do that job.

Remember, you are in this together. Do not let the business start to run your lives. You must give yourselves a time to get away from the business, even if it is going to a movie or out to dinner. We usually use Sunday as our day for us. Kind of refuels us for the next week!

When and where did you meet?

June 8, 1995, at Chris’ old job.

When did you start your business? May, 2005.

Did you begin the business together, or did one of you start it, and draw the other in?

Yes, we began the business together.

Are other family members involved?

No. What’s your favorite part about working together?

We can see each other when we want.

What’s your least favorite part?

Spending too much time together. (Same answer as our favorite part!)

What have you learned from one another? We are still learning.

What is the biggest cause of marital stress from your business?

Money and kids.

What’s your advice for other couples who work together?

Try to only work together half a day because if you spend all the time together when you’re at work, you will not want to spend any off-time together.

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thing. I believe this whole experience has brought us closer together. We know we can count on each other to be there. I have had some health problems in the past few months, and Bob has been there to take over at the studio when I could not. Never a question on when I was going to be able to go back in or how long would I be gone.

Never a complaint, nothing.

When and where did you meet?

Charles & Venus Redman

We met in 2002.

A PLUS BAIL BOND COMPANY We met at a cookout with mutual friends. We didn’t start dating until 2005.

When did you start your business? 2006.

Did you begin the business together, or did one of you start it, and draw the other in?

Charles and Richard Konicki (Venus’s father) started it and Venus was drawn in to organize the office and administration of it.

Are other family members involved?

Venus’ dad was owner and he passed away in 2012. Venus’ mother was an agent for about a year.

What’s your favorite part about working together?

Being able to take off for vacation and other events at the same time together.

What is the biggest cause of disagreement and marital stress from your business?

What’s your least favorite part?

Being together too much.

Money . . . when the business is down it causes major stress.

What have you learned from one another?

What’s your advice for other couples who work together?

How strong-willed and resourceful we are, and we make a great team.

Pray, pick your battles and don’t let the small stuff stress you out.

Bracken & Sarah Mayo THE MURFREESBORO PULSE When and where did you meet?

Sarah: We met at work in 2004.

I was working at The Lebanon Democrat as a graphic designer and Bracken was the managing editor of The Hartsville Vidette [both owned by the same company]. He invited me to come hear his band play. When that didn’t work he started asking me to go to lunch. Lunches turned into dinner, and then I finally agreed to go hear his band play.

When did you start your business?

Bracken: We began publishing the Murfreesboro Pulse in January, 2006.

Did you begin the business together, or did one of you start it, and draw the other in?

Bracken: We started it together.

Sarah: He presented the idea to me. I knew our skills complemented one another and that we could produce a great product, and maybe make a living doing it. Now here we are seven years later still publishing.

Are other family members involved?

Bracken: Maybe someday. We have yet to discover Bracken Jr.’s best-utilized skill set.

What’s your favorite part about working together?

Bracken: Looking at Sarah and hearing her sweet voice. Getting to be creative on a project people enjoy that we started. Often, Pulserelated activities are fun: going to concerts, events, restaurants and businesses, talking with people, information gathering, sampling.

What’s your least favorite part?

Bracken: The deadlines. The late nights staring at a computer instead of going out together/dating/playing chess/doing nothing.

Sarah: We butt heads sometimes. Drives me a little nutty that after all these years he still can’t tell the difference between an en dash and an em dash. [Laughs].

What have you learned from one another?

Bracken: I still have a long way to go, but I have picked up so many Photoshop and In-

Design techniques from Mrs. Mayo over the years. I’ve learned to pick my battles. When you collaborate with someone, there must be compromise. Sometimes, even if you disagree with a business decision or detail, just go with it, because there may be a time that there’s an element of the business you feel even more strongly about and need to fight for that.

Sarah: To be more patient. When you work with your spouse it’s sometimes a little too easy to communicate when tempers flare.

It’s easy to say things you wouldn’t ordinarily say to a boss.

What is the biggest cause of disagreement and marital stress from your business?

Bracken: Em-dashes.

Sarah: When he misses deadline. It’s hard to put together a puzzle if you don’t have all of the pieces. As editor, it’s his job to get me most of the pieces. Over time we’ve both improved at our jobs as far as knowing what the other expects.

What’s your advice for other couples who work together?

Sarah: No name calling, unless it’s something funny like “ninny” or “monkey butt.”

Bracken: Set aside time for each other, and stick to it. Say, “No matter what, no matter if there are still 12 things I feel like I need to do immediately, I’m meeting you on the couch at 10:30 to watch a movie, because you are important to me,” and pick back up on work the next day.

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FOOD

Owner, Sergio Romo, (Second from left) and his management team. Mention you saw them in the Pulse. They’ll take good care of you.

Better Than OK Creative nacho, potato dishes, Margar-ona set OK Jose apart from other area Tex-Mex. story by JUSTIN STOKES

photos by BRACKEN MAYO

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y job as a food critic is to explain to you, the reader, what restaurants I feel you should frequent and should avoid. This is a tougher endeavor than it may seem, because at the end of the day I not only have to write about the universal appeal and repulsion of the establishment that I visit, but I also have to explain how each restaurant I visit is different than the others to give each place that I visit its own identity—using the categories of food, service, price and atmosphere. Difficult enough, the arduous nature of the task only increases with certain kinds of food, Mexican restaurants offering the toughest challenge. I’d like to discuss one Mexican place I did have a really good time at: OK Jose.

Let’s talk food. Typical chips and salsa are served, standard fare at any Mexican place. I’d like to note that the salsa is served chilled, which I felt was a rather nice touch for our dining experience. The cheese dip offered a spicier flavor than what you normally get from a Mexican restaurant, which our team enjoyed. Our team also sampled a few Marga-ronas (a Margarita-Corona hybrid), which we had never had before. It was tasty, appetizing and not too salty, which made it a great pre-cursor for the main course. One team member had the “Chilis Poblanos Supremos”, a chili pepper stuffed with cheese and shredded chicken and one stuffed with cheese and beef chunks. Another member had the “Burrito California,” a 12-inch flour tortilla filled with grilled chicken or steak, rice, beans, tomato, lettuce and sour cream, topped with cheese sauce. Both items were filling, seasoned nicely, diverse in taste and good enough that the team feels comfortable recommending them in the review (giving them a 3 and 4-Pulse rating, respectively).

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cheese, but really liking the dish. I couldn’t tell what barbecue sauce that they used, but it did taste a little different. This time, I was in the mood for nachos again, but I was feeling a little more adventurous and decided to try something in the vein of their seafood, so I ordered the “Sea Pork Nachos”. Let me admit that the name does not sound appealing whatsoever. But chorizo and shrimp are a culinary combo that compliment each other quite well, creating a messy, juicy deliciousness just like the “nacho scene” in Death Proof. And speaking of shrimp and hardy platters, OK Jose offers a baked potato with shrimp, chicken, bacon, cheese, steak, salsa and sour cream. Delicioso.

Next in terms of importance is service. I’ve had bad experiences at several restaurants in the ’Boro. OK Jose wasn’t one of them.

Their servers were on it, not only with our table but with every table within our visibility, constantly running around yet maintaining an availability “just within earshot” so that if you needed something, they could be at your table in seconds. They were friendly, keeping a constant vigil on the tables. Not much to say other than speedy service that’s certainly worth a tip and a smile.

The atmosphere was something to which I paid particular attention. You are seated in a wooden booth made to resemble an older structure of Hispanic heritage. And while that’s cool, we’ve seen that before. The booths were a little snug (which is less of a complaint and more of an observation; it may have just been us). But what our team thought was really cool was the water which circulated from the wooden roofs above you and into the gutters, almost like a water fountain of sorts. It was really pretty to look at, and a very nice touch to the ambiance as a whole, along with unique painted murals on the walls. The bathrooms and front of the building are kept free and open, and the restaurant even has a karaoke night every Saturday.

Lastly, the price. I moved this section to the back because personally I feel it should be the last thing our team should consider (unless of course you’re on a really strict budget). The food that we had averaged between $8–12, and was well worth every penny, as we were thoroughly pleased with the whole experience. I honestly can’t think of a negative thing to think about the restaurant (trust me, I look pretty hard).

Our verdict: OK Jose is more than just OK.

THE DISH

Xango: Deep fried cheesecake served with strawberry and chocolate sauce.

NAME: OK Jose LOCATION: 2804 S. Rutherford Blvd.

PHONE: (615) 396-8800 HOURS: Sun.–Thurs.: 11 a.m.– 10 p.m.; Fri.–Sat.: 11 a.m.–11 p.m.

PRICES: Potato Deluxe: $8.99; Sea Pork Nachos: $11.49; Poblanos Supremos: $9.99

Margar-ona The Sea Pork Nachos are loaded with shrimp, chorizo and cheese sauce

COFFEE TALK: VOL. III column by JUSTIN STOKES

It’s that time again: Time to discuss our favorite coffee beverages. So pull up a chair and get those cups ready!

STARBUCKS BLONDE The antithesis of earthy; very light and bright, easy to drink.

Another coffee we’ve sampled where you can feel the caffeine of the beverage after your second or third sip. Not our favorite from Starbucks, but certainly not a bad product either. (Writer’s note: I've noticed a recent popularity among lighter roast, and we think that this coffee may be the setter of that trend).

FOLGERS BLACK SILK If you’re looking for an extremely dark roast on the cheap, this Folgers brew may be just for you. It has so much of a charred taste, I don’t really want to drink it without a little milk or cream, but it’s an affordable dark roast with a deep taste. Its caffeine content did not feel overwhelming, so if you’re looking for a quick boost that won’t make you crash at the office, put this in your pot.

JUST LOVE’S “VALENTINE’S BLEND” This particular roast was similar in tone to many other winter blends, though I found the taste of the Valentine’s Blend to last a little longer. It also had another taste—a good taste—we couldn’t quite put our finger on. Having been ground the same as the other samples, this one had a little more of a texture we found upon brewing it (perhaps making it more flavorful). We’re told that this is an original blend, and not a “holiday repackage,” so you will definitely notice a difference between this and, say, Just Love’s flagship winter blend.

WORLD MARKET’S VANILLA BEAN Many people don’t like flavored coffees, describing them as “frou-frou.” It’s that same category of people, however, who don’t drink their coffee black, and instead doctor it up with cream and sugar.

Disregard those people. This is a solid coffee blend that tastes great any way you serve it. It’s the gourmet coffee for people who are looking for taste. It’s a vanilla bean flavor, and not just a vanilla flavor, so it is the findings of our staff that this coffee has a much more natural taste than something you might find with a similar name in a department store. It’s also one of World Market’s most popular flavors, so don’t be afraid of asking for a coffee with a rich, alternative taste.

WORLD MARKET’S HAZELNUT A good, standard coffee. Way better than the complimentary coffees you might find at a function or a hotel. But don’t look for a bold taste with anything labeled “hazelnut.”

That is a taste you really have to look for in a few sips, and not just your first venture. Still, a decent coffee.

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BREWS Mid-State Brew Crew's monthly meeting at Liquid Smoke; (Right) Michael Semich pours some samples of members' creations at the annual Brewsboro festival.

The equipment and processes required for brewing can be confusing and expensive, but the Crew is here to help the homebrewer.

IF YOU GO: WHAT: Mid-State Brew Crew Monthly Meeting WHERE: Liquid Smoke

BREWS BROTHERS

WHEN: First Saturday of each month at 3 p.m.

Murfreesboro’s Mid-State Brew Crew crafts beer, friendship, and more beer.

MORE INFO: E-mail Michael Semich at msemich@gmail .com

story by JUSTIN STOKES

2012 PROVED TO BE AN EXCITING year for beer in Middle Tennessee. It was over the summer that the city of Franklin got a taste of Turtle Anarchy Brewing Company. Then, in the fall, Murfreesboro heard the distress call of beer-lovers in the ’Boro and answered with its own Mayday Brewery. To the uninitiated, this may appear to be a pattern without real significance. But for those paying attention to the goings-on of the area, things like the openings of new breweries, beer-sponsored events, and the recent increase in popularity of beer and beer crafting have been initiated by knowledgeable local folks whose appreciation for hops and grains goes beyond the call of hobbyist and into something so much more—a calling to better your community through beverage.

Beer-making is certainly not a new skill, with some recipes for beers going back thousands of years, way before our concept of large-scale breweries was ever conceived. These artisans made great-tasting recipes without the resources that companies like AB InBev possess. The curious individual might ask: “What happens when people go outside their understanding of brew techniques and decide to “re-invent the wheel?”

One group of brewers in particular would like to know. As a matter of fact, they found the question so pressing that they formed a club.

These brewers, a local outfit calling themselves the “Mid-State Brew Crew,” have actually been one of the better-kept secrets of Murfreesboro.

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the love of beer and a concern for its lack of representation. Turning to the power of social media, the M.S.B.C. now currently has over 150 Facebook members, which translates to 60 dedicated members (or an average of 40 people for their monthly meetings), and only expect their numbers to continue to rise as the local love of craft-brewing grows.

M.S.B.C. President Michael C. Semich says that the local surge in popularity is actually a part of a larger movement—a cultural trend of sorts—that he’s been monitoring for quite some time, citing the “parents’ beer” choices that used to be limited to three taps at bars like The Boro Bar and Grill to a recent expansion of tastes has led to a tap count of over two dozen. Semich, a web developer by day and beer-maker by night, views home-brewers as “emissaries of taste,” people who take you from the world of comfortable favorites and into the strange and wondrous land of new and exotic varieties.

“In the late 1970s, you had just over 75 breweries in the U.S. still functioning, because of the Prohibition movement. Which was weird, because here you had a tradition that’s thousands of years old. Around the ’80s, however,” says Semich, “you saw the first “beer Renaissance,” with people becoming familiar with the Belgian. It was then that [Charlie] Papazian, the “grandpa of homebrews,” wrote The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, which turned a lot of people on to new beers and new expectations for beer.”

Semich, whose knowledge and authority of beer is much like a historian’s, tells us that craft brewing used to represent roughly three percent of the beers you would see in Murfreesboro about a decade ago. It wasn’t until the last four to five years that the number almost doubled, to seven or eight percent, with a hope that it will be a tenth of the stock for the beer market by 2014.

“It’s diversity that builds interest,” notes Semich. “Take Coors, for example, which isn’t a terrible beer. But Coors uses generally cheaper ingredients to make 60,000 gallons of beer.

And while I think that it’s impressive that they’re able to make the same quality of beer on a mass scale, not everyone drinks Coors because not everyone likes Coors, or the [products from the] bigger beer companies. That’s where craft brewing comes into play.”

The Mid-State Brew Crew’s knowledge does not stop with Semich. Of the regular attendees at the monthly meetings, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a member who does not know his way around beer. Two of its alums are employees of Sweetwater Brewing Company, and Mayday’s own Ozzy Nelson was a frequent attendee of meetings. All of the members are friendly, approachable and definitely not shy about sharing their opinions on beer, like a bunch of chefs at a dinner table. The club is simultaneously fraternal and paternal, as older members take newer members under their wing, showing them the ropes.

Semich adds, “With the amount of time and money spent in the world of independent brewing, it’s definitely a labor of love. A lot of guys dream of opening their own microbrewery, but we’re really not here to make money. We’re here to make sure everyone has a good time.”

And time and money are definite investments for this hobby. Members have shared that you can easily spend a few thousand dollars your first year on supplies and equipment undertaking this endeavor. What can be disparaging to many new members is the effort required to make a product of which they’re proud. Many first brews don’t turn out quite as planned, as several members seem to have amusing first-time stories of beer foam creating a second coat on the ceiling.

But in the world of home brews, failure is both commonplace and a mark of pride. Those who have tried their hand at beer-making know just how difficult it is, and want to offer their support and advice to newcomers and enthusiasts. As a matter of fact, the group welcomes newcomers, and members want to see as many fresh faces as possible who are serious about craft brews. Keep in mind that this isn’t a call to drink beer, but rather a call to be a participant in a new renaissance.

Meetings are held monthly, at 3 p.m. the first Saturday of each month, at Liquid Smoke on the Square. For information, contact Semich at msemich@gmail.com.

Happy brewing!

SPORTS FLACCO AND THE RAVENS ARE THE CHAMPS

S

uper Bowl Sunday is over, the football season is over and the Train Daddy is ready to give you a 2012–13 season breakdown in a such a way, it will make you slap your mama and crave some meatloaf !

Let me first start off by giving congrats to the Baltimore Ravens and Joe Flacco on becoming World Champions and the winner of Super Bowl XLVII. This NFL season was full of drama starting with the lockout that ultimately created the circus act known as Replacement Refs, eventually leading to the Packers vs. Seahawks game that may have been the end to this awful circus act. This season, for myself, was one to forget, being such a passionate Titans fan. All across the board it was rough, and who do I blame? Of course, Munchak! All I want is life and a little hope for the future, possibly a little fire from my head coach, and right now it is an ugly work in progress.

So let's break down the season and take a look into the Super Bowl that may be remembered in the history books as the Blackout in New Orleans.

So what highlights would you recall from the 2012–13 NFL Season? Some of the things I would like to forget

SUPER BOWL TRIVIA: $ 4 Million for a 30-second commercial today; $42,000 for a 30-second commercial “1979” $88,000 Bonus for each player on the winning team and $46,000 for each player on the losing side Average Super Bowl watcher will consume 1,200 calories during the game

obviously are the Replacement Refs and in Tennessee. Adrian Peterson was the the lockout that started the whole dirty man, and the deserving MVP of the mess, a bunch of rich men fighting to league after coming back hard after a get richer. I guess you could say that career-threatening torn ACL that would the 49ers got it right benching Alex have put down an average man or Smith. I mean, they only made it to the giraffe. He’s a beast. Peyton Manning Super Bowl. Remember, Smith wasn’t takes the Comeback Player of the Year benched for lack of productivity, but after coming back from some serious because of injury. surgeries and looking It was the easy way like the Peyton we all out for the coaching know. The New Engstaff to not techniland Patriots may be cally bench him and losing some of that keep the exciting sexiness, but they still Kaepernick in. It’s a can beat up anyone business, and we'll in the AFC East never know if Smith and they finished would have come 12–4, but the league back after his 6-2 doesn’t fear them like start and done big they did in 2008 or things. All I know is during their Super he will get paid and Bowl runs.

I believe he will be The Titans' season column by Z-TRAIN titanman1984@ playing for Coach was one to forget yahoo.com Reed and the Chiefs with Chris Johnson next season. struggling early and Was this season the Year of the Hasselbeck getting beat up early in the Quarterback? Time will tell. I am just season, only to hand the ball over to saying you have RGIII in WashingLocker, who struggled also, as the team ton, Luck in Indy, Wilson in Seattle, finished 6-10. My biggest beef is with Kaepernick in San Fran and Dalton in Coach Munchak, who I wish wasn’t Cincy, and a shaky, inconsistent Locker returning as head coach. The man, in my opinion, is dull, shows no emotion on the field and in times of bad calls 71 Million Pounds of while being on the losagainst his team, the man doesn’t get Avocados are eaten on ing team loud, he just stares, and I don’t like it.

Super Sunday 29–16 record for the It's that simple for me. I hope for the 35% rise in pizza team that scores first best next season and hope young Jake and oddmakers have a delivery service on 73% success rate with the Snake Locker can start making Super Sunday picking the favorite those plays I know he can. He can be 20% rise in antacid The Steelers have solid, and I do honestly believe that. sales the day after Suwon the most Super per Sunday This Super Bowl was a blast for Bowls with 6 followed by the Cowboys and the Train Daddy and I hope your The first Super Bowl 49ers with 5 and the was held in Los AngeSuper Sunday was just as exciting as Packers with 4 les Jan. 15, 1967, where mine. There is nothing better than the Packers defeated the Chiefs 35–10

The Browns, Lions, Jaguars and Texans are the only NFL teams to never play in a Super Bowl

49.2 Million cases of beer are sold on Super Sunday

The Vikings have played in 4 Super Bowls and never won the big game

125 Million Pounds of chicken wings are eaten on Super Sunday

Chuck Haley of the Cowboys is the only player to win the MVP of the Super Bowl

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An average of 17 people attend any given Super Bowl party in America

good friends, good food, good drinks and a HUGE television. I was lucky enough to get some time away and gather with a group of my friends in a cabin up in the Smoky Mountains for the big game. Let’s just say The Real World had nothing on this gathering.

I had my money on the Ravens even though the majority of the people I watched the game with were rooting for the 49ers and growing star Kaepernick. It was a simple decision for me, the Ravens had been playing great postseason football with Flacco at quarterback and veteran receiver Boldin had been unstoppable; no corner matched up against his size and physical ability during the playoff run. I also knew that Ray Lewis was going to go out like Elway. What better way is there to retire than going out and winning a Super Bowl? Lewis has been such an icon and symbol of strength over the years, a killer on and off the field! I am not sold that Lewis is officially retired. I am sure his body is telling him to stop, but I don’t see him staying off the field unless he physically can’t play anymore.

The 49ers look to have a bright future with Kaepernick, even though I am not sold on running quarterbacks; they always have a few solid seasons and then the league figures them out as they age. Running quarterbacks such as RGIII and Cam Newton have been the hot stories these past two seasons; they are so exciting and unpredictable and now Kaepernick is in that category.

What RGIII did for the Redskins this season was phenomenal but one season in and the kid almost ended his career.

Running gets you hit more often and harder. A player like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady will get to play to an age

of 40 or so and the reason is because they get the ball away quick. Nobody is Superman, and when I break down Kaepernick I see an exciting player that will sell a lot of jerseys and tickets and maybe win a Super Bowl only if it’s in the next five years. It is a simple breakdown for me and has nothing to do with race like some idiots would attempt to claim. Look, if you run, you get hit—and hit hard—often; if you drop back and get rid of the ball you get hit way less often and in return you stay healthy and have a longer career.

This Super Bowl was not the Super Bowl I hoped for, to be honest with you. I hate both of those franchises.

My pick was the Denver Broncos to take it all, and it should have been that way if it wasn’t for one awful play on defense. It is what it is what it is, though, and the Ravens are champions of the world. The Super Bowl is a reason to eat very unhealthy food and gather with all your friends and family.

You can act stupid, have fun and just go crazy, at least I did. I will say, in my last article, man, my predictions were way off! That was a fluke of uncommon predictions; I'm spot-on typically.

I did call for the Ravens to go out first round and I called Flacco the worst quarterback in the playoffs. Now he is the MVP of the Super Bowl. So, I admit I was wrong, kinda!

So everyone, it’s all over whatever team you cheer for, no matter what kind of season they had. No need to worry. The slate is clean; everyone is 0–0 right now and every team is in clean-up mode. Hopefully my Titans will clean up all the issues, come back next season, win the Super Bowl and make me a happy man.

Train's out the station, Choo Choo!

5% of viewers watch the game alone. So Sad They say we’re unhealthy, but vegetables are the No. 1 Super Bowl food seen at parties

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ART Professor’s Donation Gives MTSU Photo Collection New Home A $100,000 donation made by retired MTSU photography professor and Murfreesboro resident Harold L. Baldwin will support plans to develop a new photography gallery in MTSU’s Bragg Mass Communication Building.

The renovated space, to be dedicated in 2013, will become the permanent home of MTSU’s photography archive—a million-dollar-plus collection that Baldwin, who created MTSU’s photography program in the 1960s, pieced together over decades of service to MTSU. The university’s former photography gallery, named for the mass communication professor emeritus, had been located in a hallway of the McWherter Learning Resources Center until recent building renovations displaced it.

In its new home on the second floor of the Bragg building, the Baldwin Gallery will feature movable walls and contemporary lighting to showcase the collection the professor amassed through the years as well as traveling exhibits and student work.

Once operational, the gallery will become the third specialized media showcase for the building, already home to the Center for Popular Music and the Center for Innovation in Media.

With Baldwin’s commitment, MTSU's Centennial Campaign has surpassed $60 million in gifts and pledges toward its $80 million goal.

It could be said that the gallery was a halfcentury in the making; a few years after arriving from Colorado in 1959 to teach industrial arts at MTSU, Baldwin launched the university’s photography program.

He soon realized the need for gallery space to augment the instruction he was providing in his rapidly expanding program.

“We needed to bring in popular photographers to enhance the student experience,” Baldwin said. “That was the one thing that was lacking. Students couldn’t get exposed to the work of top professional photographers like all the big schools on the East and West coasts.”

Baldwin began working with the Eastman Kodak Company to bring exhibits to campus, but the Kodak shows did not match his vision.

“They were the traditional pretty prints; they didn’t have any real meaning to them,” he explained. “I knew I needed to get some true artists to campus.”

Baldwin started contacting well-known photographers. One of the first was American photographer Ansel Adams.

“This was before big PR agencies handled big photographers. They handled their own shows,” Baldwin recalled. “So I wrote him a letter asking him to come, and he sent me a postcard, saying, ‘I’m going to send you one of

the best little shows you have ever seen.’ And I thought, ‘Well, my God!’” That exhibition, as well as future exhibitions Baldwin arranged, hung in what is now the Tom Jackson Building. At each exhibit, the professor found a way to cobble together funds to purchase a print; sometimes several of the artists made a gift of a print to the university.

As a result, Baldwin said, “I just kind of accumulated a permanent collection here.”

The collection moved into the Learning Resources Center after it opened in 1975. The MTSU Photographic Gallery was renamed to honor Baldwin in 2009.

While a full appraisal has never been conducted on the collection, which was formally established in 1961, Baldwin recently funded an independent assessment that values it “easily in excess of a million dollars.”

In fact, the value could be quite a bit more.

One piece of the collection alone—a print of Adams’ most famous photo, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”—is considered quite valuable.

In addition to Adams, other photographers who exhibited their work at MTSU through the years included Richard Avedon, Sally Mann, André Kertész, Henry Horenstein and Arthur Fellig, better known by his pseudonym, “Weegee.” Photographers whose work is part of the Baldwin collection include Edward Weston, Minor White, Paul Strand and Jerry Uelsmann.

The expanded new gallery will no doubt become a significant new cultural asset for MTSU and the broader Murfreesboro community.

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Dr. Harold Baldwin, an MTSU mass communication professor emeritus, displays one of the masterpieces in the university gallery collection that bears his name. The Ansel Adams print of “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” will be moving into a new home inside the Bragg Mass Communication Building on campus in 2013.

“It’s an opportunity to display what we are doing here, what’s happening, and get the word out. It is a good advertisement for the photography department itself,” said Baldwin, who shifted to teaching photography full-time in 1968 and taught thousands of photographers in MTSU’s program until his retirement in 1991.

Now 85 years old, Baldwin is busy working with the university to re-establish the gallery.

Once that’s completed, he’s excited about a photography trip he has planned in February 2014 to the Galapagos Islands. Baldwin and his daughter are two of 30 photographers included in the 10-day boat trip guided by a National Geographic photographer.

Can the MTSU community expect to see photos from that trip in the new campus gallery?

Baldwin laughed heartily. “I haven’t even thought of that!”

he Center for the Arts in Meg Garrett’s downtown Murfreesboro is T presenting a new exhibit of recent Paintings landscape paintings by Tennessee Meg Garrett through Feb. 28.

Shown at Center artist Garrett, who lives in Beech Grove,

is known for her light-filled impressions of the landscape. She is often seen in the area painting new impressions. She says she feels blessed to be able to record her surroundings with paint, adding that “each season provides some new vantage point that I hadn’t noticed before. Even familiar views are constantly renewed by ever-changing light and weather conditions, making them eternally compelling.”

The Center for the Arts is located at 110 W. College St., Murfreesboro. A percentage of all sales will benefit The Center for the Arts; there is no charge for viewing the exhibit. For more information, visit boroarts.org.

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Students Express Themselves in Rotunda

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rt from area high school students who participated in the annual Express Yourself Arts Conference (held this past November) is on exhibit in the Murfreesboro City Hall rotunda until Feb. 8.

The Express Yourself Arts Conference takes place in the fall and allows students interested in pursuing careers in the creative arts to expand their knowledge and skills, find mentors and to learn about careers and post-secondary education requirements. The program is coordinated by the Business Education Partnership Foundation, Read to Succeed and Arts in Rutherford.

For more information, visit rutherfordbep.org

12×12 Works on Display at MTSU

“Mousetrap”

“All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go”

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he Department of Art at Middle Tennessee State University presents the Todd Art Gallery’s opening exhibition for spring semester 2013: entitled 12×12: A National Juried Exhibition of Small-Scale Works of Art, it represents the fourth exhibition of its kind at MTSU since 2006 and will be on display in the gallery through Feb. 14.

“With nearly 500 art works from which to choose, 71 pieces were chosen for the exhibition,” said Eric V. Snyder, Todd Art Gallery Director. “The artists’ response to participate has exceeded our highest expectations and nearly matched the combined numbers involved with our three previous 12×12 exhibits; a wonderful testimony to the tremendous variety of artwork currently being produced across the United States.”

Jean Nagy, Chair of the Department of Art expressed amazement for 12×12’s variety: “You have a piece made from Legos,” exclaimed Nagy upon learning of the media represented, which ranges from paintings, clay, etchings, drawings, wood, prints and photography to Legos, mouse traps and shirt collars.

An online catalog planned for the near future will include an additional 111 works of art from a further group of submissions that are not included in the gallery exhibit due to space limitations. The catalog will also consist of the 71 exhibition art works and the exhibit’s award winners, which include the University Provost award for Best of Show, the College of Liberal Arts (or Dean’s) Award, the Department of Art award and additional awards for Excellence and Merit. Jochen Wierich, nationally recognized art curator from Nashville’s Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art served as the exhibition’s juror.

With interest expressed by artists from far-flung locales including Australia, Ireland and Mexico, plans are now in place to offer participation opportunities to the world community of fine artists for the exhibit’s 2015 edition, to be titled 12×12: An International Exhibition of Small-Scale Works of Art. All MTSU Todd Art Gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public.

For more information, parking and directions, contact Snyder at (615) 898-5653 or eric.snyder@mtsu.edu or visit www.mtsu.edu/art.

“Circus Runaways”

“Bug Teapot”

“Pop-meis”

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LIVING ROOM CINEMA

MOVIES REVIEWS

column by NORBERT THIEMANN

cinespire@gmail.com

Comedy Series SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro Directed by David O. Russell

Rated R

Silver Linings Playbook is a strange sell. On paper, this romantic comedy seems poised to be a box office behemoth of little substance, pitting People magazine’s sexiest man alive of 2011, with the star of last year’s huge hit The Hunger Games, in a film produced by the brothers Weinstein. But the source material (it’s adapted from the novel

by Matthew Quick) tackles the tough topics of mental illness and the death of a spouse, and there’s also director David O. Russell’s previous works, such as I Heart Huckabees, a cult hit, if not a financial one.

Here, director Russell imbues

his film with the New England grit of The Fighter and the existential wit of I Heart Huckabees.

Bradley Cooper, earning his first Oscar nod, plays Pat, a man starting over after a violent incident with his wife’s lover landed him in a mental institution.

Upon his return home, he takes to the tasks of self-improvement (both mental and physical), and getting his wife back, restraining order be damned. Threatening to shatter his newfound “silver lining” worldview are his Philadelphia Eagles-obsessed father (De Niro, at his late career best), and a newly made friend, the recently widowed and equally imbalanced Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence). On top of these threats to his mental stability are his two best friends: one unhappy in his marriage, the other a serial escapist from the institution (Chris Tucker) . . . and, oh yeah, a looming dance competition?!

As I said before, Silver Linings

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n emerging trend is to watch an entire TV series in a few or less sittings. The convenience of renting an entire collection makes for these grand DIY marathons. If you are looking for some lighthearted fun, then these two selections are just the ticket for any vacant winter weekend.

Playbook is a romantic comedy, from its stars to its plot. But, thankfully, Russell and company eschew all clichés save the most superficial, telling a story about developed characters dealing with developed problems—real or imaginary, and halfway through, it becomes apparent that crazy is in the eyes of the beholder. We all have our things, from game-time superstitions to delusions of a love that isn’t there. Silver Linings Playbook transcends its genre the

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D Starring Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood Directed by John Luessenhop

Rated R

Let’s play a game. It’s called “State the Obvious.”

You have a second attempt at a reboot of a horror franchise that started almost 40 years ago, distributed by Lionsgate (the people who milked the whore-cow of a franchise Saw into oblivion) and the film is in 3D. It’s safe to say this movie won’t be winning too many awards.

The film follows the original in the series, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, directly jumping into the aftermath of the original story as the Sawyer family is attacked by a vigilante mob as retribution for the horrific nature of the

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crimes committed by one of their own, young Jed (Leatherface).

Spoiler alert: Leatherface doesn’t die within the first two minutes.

Cut to 20 years later—which, oddly enough, is the present day in the timeline of the film—and you have a young woman who gets a house mysteriously left to her in another state by an aunt she never knew she had.

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Wondering “what could possibly go wrong?” the girl, whose name isn’t even worth remembering, finds Leatherface in the home, as he kills her friends one by one.

This movie has a lot of problems, and I’m not going to waste your time listing them all off. I will say, however, that trying to make a cannibalistic, psychotic transvestite more likeable to com-

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way Django Unchained transcends its genre mash-up, the way Life of Pi transcends its label of “inspirational film.” These are the last three movies I’ve reviewed for this publication, and I just noticed that all three are up for Best Picture. I haven’t followed the Oscars since my rose-colored youth, when movies were magic and cynicism lay dormant, but I’d be happy to see any of these films win.

— JAY SPIGHT

mercial audiences may not have been the most intelligent decision, nor does it suffice public perception to try and blame his crimes against morality on his mental retardation.

The kills are un-involving, the characters are weak; the movie asks you to buy too much, and can only boast the involvement of former actors in the Chainsaw series, Bill Moseley, Gunnar Hansen and what may or may not have been Brian Doyle Murray. The whole paradigm of “human meat” has been removed entirely, and at the end of the day, this franchise will probably get remade again so “someone can get it right.”

This seems to be a problem concurrent with the horror genre, and it appears that the latest victim of Leatherface’s reign is himself, killed not with a chainsaw but with a lack of creativity.

— JUSTIN STOKES

BELOW AVERAGE

 Spaced (1999) is a British comedy show directed by Edgar Wright.

The main stars and writers are Jessica Stevenson and Simon Pegg. Much of the troupe went on to create movies, such as Shaun of the Dead. Two friends pretend to be married in order to find a suitable flat. Their mismatched neighbors and friends help add to the comedic spots. Spaced is filled with witty homages, and the production work is used brilliantly for comedic effect.

 Flight of the Conchords (2007) is an HBO comedy show about a musical duo from New Zealand, mostly directed

by James Bobin. It stars Jemaine Clement, along with compatriot Bret McKenzie.

Plot sequences often morph into hilarious music videos. The two performers are constantly struggling for good gigs via band meetings with their equally misguided part-time manager.

You can also find Living Room Cinema on Facebook and Tumblr.

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OPINIONS PUBLIC NOTICE AND THE FUZZY DEFINITION OF "ADEQUATE" WE LIVE IN A GOVERNMENT OF THE people, by the people and for the people, right? If the people are to be involved in government, they must first be informed of the issues.

Our local governments, the various departments of the City of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, are actually big advertisers with local publications The Murfreesboro Post and The Daily News Journal, in an effort to give the area voters “adequate public notice” of the matters of business before the county commission, city council, planning commissions, trustee’s sales, invitations to bid, job openings and so on.

If local residents don’t happen to realize that they have been “adequately notified,” then they must not be making their way to the grey pages of legal jargon in the back of the Post and the DNJ that your government purchases on your behalf each week.

The City of Murfreesboro Planning and Engineering Department budgeted $19,000 in fiscal year 2011–12 for public notice advertising; the Administration Department budgeted $12,000, and Human Resources $5,000.

“Most of that is with the Post,” said Murfreesboro City Recorder/Treasurer Melissa Wright. “We do place some with the Tennessean. Some notices involving major roads may have TDOT requirements to go beyond advertising locally.”

In November 2012, the City of Murfreesboro spent over $3,000 advertising with the Post.

Meanwhile, Rutherford County purchases its share of advertising as well.

“Most is in the county mayor’s budget,” Rutherford County Deputy Finance Director Elaine Short said. “The planning, election, Chancery court and school board budgets also have dollars allocated for local advertising.”

Murfreesboro Post publisher Ron Fryar said that public notice revenue accounts for over 30 percent of his publication’s business.

“Like the majority of daily and non-daily newspapers throughout the United States, public notice advertising is an essential component of a complete publication like The Murfreesboro Post, and like other forms of advertising has its place as a revenue stream,” Fryar said. “The amount of public notice will vary from month to month and quarter to quarter, dependent on both the economy and the growth development of the county or city as well as the selection of varied publications in which to place such legal notices. Public notice in the Post on average would comprise at least 30 percent of the total revenue. So you can see maintaining that amount of revenue would be important to the Post.”

All of the public notice expenditures are certainly

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EYE ON THE MEDIA: TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

Printing lengthy, confusing public notice advertisements is a wasteful, outdated practice and not necessary in today's age. column by BRACKEN MAYO

not “taxpayer dollars”; banks are also once a week for a definite price, having major public notice advertisers. They second class mailing privilege, being not must print notice before auctioning off a less than 4 pages, published continuhome in foreclosure. ously during the immediately preceding County Clerk and Master John one-year period, which is published for Bratcher said he absolutely supports the dissemination of news of general this publishing of notices to satisfy due interest, coverage and circulation in an process and notify property owners. area within Tennessee”—laws scattered Ernest Burgess “When properties are to be sold for throughout Tennessee Code addressing back taxes and service of process cannot be obtained many other types of government announcements otherwise, we must publish that a sale will take place simply state “adequate public notice” must be given. in a newspaper of general circulation,” Bratcher said.

Not only is adequate public notice not defined, “It is interesting that many delinquent taxpayers judges have said is does in fact vary depending on tell us that they are told by their friends that their the circumstances. The Tennessee Supreme Court, in property is in the newspaper. They get the notice even its 1974 decision in Memphis Publishing Company v. though they do not have the media.”

City of Memphis, made this statement: “We think it His office, the Rutherford County Chancery Court, is impossible to formulate a general rule in regard to budgeted over $33,000 in fiscal year 2011–12 for legal what the phrase ‘adequate public notice’ means . . . notice advertising, and places these ads in the DNJ. adequate public notice means adequate public notice “We generally have two sales per year, and the enunder the circumstances.” tire amount is spent [in publicizing] those two sales.

During the 2010 legal battle surrounding the I wish that Tennessee law allowed us to include less Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, a key point of information in the notices, but until that is changed, disagreement was whether or not adequate public the DNJ charges us by the inch, and that is what it notice was given prior to construction of the new costs,” Bratcher said. “We use the DNJ because it is center. Local judge Robert Corlew actually agreed clearly a newspaper of general circulation.” with some local residents who claimed they knew In regards to the sales of property Bratcher nothing of the Islamic Center’s plans prior to their handles, the advertising cost is passed on to the propapproval, and that the small routine meeting notice erty buyer (or the delinquent taxpayer, if they decide printed in the Post was not adequate. But his decision to pay their tax bill to keep the property), so no public was quickly overturned in federal court after the U.S. money is spent. The dollars spent for this publication Department of Justice stepped in. are added to the delinquent taxes and are paid by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury and Open owner of the property when he or she finally pays the Records Counsel Elisha D. Hodge seemed to be of the taxes or they are paid for when the property is sold at opinion the notice didn’t even necessarily have to be a tax sale. There is no cost to anyone other than the in the Post at all. delinquent taxpayer, Bratcher said.

“When questioned about the matter, Hodge said According to some government officials, however, whether The Murfreesboro Post meets the criteria used the expenses of advertising public notices are more to define a newspaper of general circulation is irrela necessary evil in satisfying ill-defined Tennessee evant, noting the Open Meetings Act does not include codes and legally protecting the government agency any such phrasing of that term,” Marie Kemph wrote from future repercussions than a legitimate effort to in a piece in the Post itself. reach residents and taxpayers.

Hodge went on to say that “there is no require“I have asked our state legislative delegation to ment in the Open Meetings Act that all public notices consider the use of our website as a valid source for be printed in a publication.” adequate public notice,” Rutherford County Mayor Many see the notices going to a more affordable Ernest Burgess said. “In general, I have asked them Internet location, whether that be a website run by the for a clear, concise definition of ‘adequate public nogovernment department, or with a media outlet’s site. tice,’” said Burgess, noting that most of the advertis“Tennessee certainly is not ready for it yet,” Fryar ing dollars the County spends go to the Post. said, pointing out many seniors are not comfortable Burgess is not alone in his confusion and desire to using the Internet. know an exact definition of adequate public notice.

Bratcher agrees that the time has not come to While Tennessee standards for election notices are forego newspaper advertising. “I do not think that we better defined—they must be printed in a “newspaper should abandon the print media until we can be sure of general circulation,” meaning one “bearing a title that every single taxpayer has Internet access.” or name, regularly issued at least as frequently as Still, many who are interested in local govern-

COULD WE AT LEAST SIMPLIFY THE LANGUAGE? Alright public, you decide.

Whose version better informs you? Which is the more adequate?

THE POST'S VERSION:

[Editor’s Note: Our apologies for the small type, but our space is limited. Most readers won’t take the time to read all this legal jibber jabber anyway, but try if you dare].

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE TENNESSEE, RUTHERFORD COUNTY: DEFAULT having been made in the terms, conditions and payments provided in certain Deed of Trust executed by Bryan Daniel McCloud and Jessica Dean McCloud to Jonathan R. Vinson, as trustee dated February 11, 2011, in the amount of $145,077.00, and recorded in the Register’s Office of Rutherford County, Tennessee in Deed Book 1046, Page 1184-1206, (“Deed of Trust”); and, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust having been last transferred to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association by assignment; and, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as the current holder of said Deed of Trust (the “Holder”), has appointed as Substitute Trustee the undersigned, any of whom may act, by instrument filed for record in the Register’s Office of Rutherford County, Tennessee with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; therefore, NOTICE is hereby given that the entire amount of said indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Holder, and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, or a duly appointed attorney or agents by virtue of the power and authority vested by the Appointment of Substitute Trustee, will on Thursday, February 14, 2013, commencing at 12:00 PM at the east door of the Rutherford County Courthouse, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; sell to the highest bidder for cash, immediately at the close of sale, the following property to-wit: Being all of Lot No. 29, Section I, Phase I, Creeksbend Subdivision, of record in Plat Book 33, Pages 251-253, Registers Office for Rutherford County, Tennessee, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description thereof.

Being a portion of the same property conveyed to Bryan Daniel McCloud, by deed from Ole South Properties Inc., a Tennessee Corporation, dated February 11, 2011, appearing of record in Record Book 1046, Page 1181, of the Registers Office of Rutherford County, Tennessee. This conveyance is made subject to Restrictive Covenants contained in instrument of record in Record Book 828, Page 2263, amended in Record Book 857, Page 3519, and in Record Book 884, Page 2737; Easement to Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation (Blanket) of record in Record Book 811, Page 2978; Easement to Bellsouth of record in Record Book 841, Page 1807; USA/TVA as shown on plat in Plat Book 33, Page 251; Charter of Creeksbend Homeowners Association, Inc. of record in Record Book 856, Page 2589, as amended in Record Book 885, Page 2832; Article of Organization for Silverhill Partners, in Record Book 730, Page 1060; Articles of Conversion in Record Book 730, Page 1061; One Hundred Year Flood Line(s) as shown on plat; all matters shown on said plat and survey of record in Plat Book 33, Pages 251-253; all of said Registers Office. Parcel ID No.: 22AA29 Map & Parcel No.: 22AA29 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1101 Bluecreek Circle, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37129 CURRENT OWNER(S): Bryan Daniel McCloud SUBORDINATE LEINHOLDERS: N/A OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, however, the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The sale will be held subject to any unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-of-way, easements, protective covenants or restrictions, liens, and other superior matters of record which may affect said property; as well as any prior liens or encumbrances as well as priority created by a fixture filing; and/or any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities` right to redeem the property, as required by 26 U.S.C § 7425 and T.C.A. § 67-1-1433. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Deed of Trust. The notice requirements of T.C.A. §35-5-117 were satisfied prior to the first publication of the Notice of Substitute Trustee`s Sale. Substitute Trustee reserves the right to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

MCC TN, LCC 3525 Piedmont Road NE, Six Piedmont Center, Suite 700 Atlanta, GA 30305 (404) 373-1612 www.mccurdycandler.com File No. 12-10342 /CONV Ad Run Dates: 01/20/2013, 01/27/2013 and 02/03/2013 THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Ad # 44087

THE PULSE’S VERSION: Bryan and Jessica McCloud, you haven’t paid your bills. Your property, 1101 Bluecreek Circle, Murfreesboro, is about to be sold.

Public: if you want to bid on this property, be at the Rutherford County Courthouse at noon Thursday, Feb. 14.

[Editor’s Note: Just call me Captain Adequate].

ment and make an attempt to stay informed are not comfortable reading the lengthy classified columns of legal jargon, and are curious why the government handouts to the Post and DNJ are allowed to continue.

Who's the real winner, the public or the publications?

But whether the notices appear in print, or on the Internet, the individual must make some effort to seek them out regularly.

“There’s not a way to get in front of every single local resident,” Wright said. “They have to be proactive.”

Republicans Have Lost Conservative Principles

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don’t think I’ve witnessed anything the fiscal cliff deal. Yep. Estimates are the quite like it. The collapse of the tax increase on those filthy, stinkin’ rich Republican Party on fundamental isfolks who don’t deserve any of their money sues is astonishing. And all under the amounted to $57 billion a year. Congress assumption that it’s going to garner them spent that and then some in one fell swoop more votes. with a pork-laden “relief ” bill.

In recent weeks we’ve seen the ReSo, now we’re on to the next cave-in. Ampublicans cave on such fundamentals as nesty. Congress is now discussing a so-called raising taxes. In order to get along with compromise immigration bill with the usual their Democrat colleagues and try to appeal Republican suspects like Senators Lindsey to the mushy middle they threw a basic Graham (better known as Lindsey Grahconservative tenet out the window. Conseramnesty), Marco Rubio and John McCain. vatives don’t raise taxes. It’s not because Graham says there will be no pathway to they’re mean. It’s because true conservacitizenship without border security but this tives understand that raising taxes—on is the same crowd that said there would be anyone—has a negative effect on economic no fiscal cliff deal with a tax increase. growth. If you really want to grow the tax Here’s why this so-called “pathway to base you have to first grow the economy citizenship,” better known as amnesty, is a and raising taxes stifles the economy. bad idea. We know the Democrats will never Besides, until you get control of runhold up their end of the bargain in securing away spending you’re never going to get the border. We went through all of this in our financial house in order. Case in point 1986 when they convinced Reagan to grant was the recent Hurricane amnesty to about 2 million Sandy relief. Congress illegal aliens. They didn’t VIEWS OF A just passed a $60 billion secure the border then relief bill in which only and 2 million turned into column by $17 billion actually goes to 12 to 20 million. Reagan PHIL VALENTINE anything remotely related said it was one of his bigphilvalentine.com to Hurricane Sandy. The gest regrets as president. rest is pork piled on by congressmen and Amnesty merely rewards people who have senators who knew that no one would dare broken into the country. Remember, twovote against something called The Hurricane thirds of the people coming up from Mexico Sandy Relief Bill. Some Republicans who come here legally. There’s a reason the still have a sliver of a spine and a cupful of other third come illegally. Too many times principles left did, in fact, vote against it but it’s because of criminal backgrounds, gang they were too few in numbers to stop it. affiliation, disease or any number of reasons Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) offered up that would prevent legal immigration. an amendment that would offset the new But now even some conservative comspending with spending cuts down the mentators are embracing amnesty. Why? road. His amendment was defeated. Which Because they think Republicans can’t win brought this response from one liberal senaelections without it. Do they really think tor: “We’re never going to cut our way to a Hispanics will vote for Republicans just balanced budget,” said Sen. Mary Landrieu because they finally caved in?

(D-La.). Of course we’re not, Mary. Not if I know I won’t. people like you are in charge.

And here’s the kicker. The $60 billion Phil Valentine is an author and nationally price tag wiped out every cent of new syndicated radio talk show host with Westrevenue the liberals were hoping to get wood One. For more of his commentary and from the recent tax increase on the rich in articles, visit philvalentine.com.

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Congress just passed a $60 billion (Hurricane Sandy) relief bill in which only $17 billion actually goes to anything remotely related to Hurricane Sandy. The rest is pork piled on by congressmen and senators who knew that no one would dare vote against something called The Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill.

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Say Yes to the Moment, Learn to Love Your Fate column by FRANK SHEPARD

frank@boropulse.com

THIS FEBRUARY, I WANT TO EXPLORE a different kind of love: the love of fate. I issue a challenge to fall in love with yourself, your life, your fate. I’ve concocted a love potion from a mixture of Nietzsche, Tolle and Jesus to get you in the mood.

Friedrich Nietzsche introduced a concept he called amor fati: the love of fate. He wrote in Ecce Homo: My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

To love what is. To love what the moment is presenting. Eckhart Tolle asks the question, “What is your relationship with the moment?” Where you are, what you’re doing, what’s being done to you, who you are, who you’re married to, who your children are, what your job is, what diseases you have, your body, your city, your parents, etc.—it’s all a part of your fate; can you truly love it?

Nietzsche and Tolle invite us to figure out how to embrace it, say yes to it, not ignore it, nor get mad at it, nor simply tolerate it, but love it. Nietzsche wrote in Gay Science: I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse.

Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: someday I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

No doubt this comes easy to me as a white, straight, middle-class American man of privilege. But what about the child caught in human trafficking, or the Jew lining up for the “showers”? If Nietzsche took suffering and death into consideration, which we must assume he did, how would he say yes to evil, even death, if it weren’t for the open affirmation that both are common to all humanity and this too will either pass or it won’t. By saying yes to what is “necessary,” are we not saying no to any inherent shame in the moment? There is something to be said about the subversive exposure of evils, not by warring against them, but by creating a witness to their emptiness by becoming the stage upon which they’re played out? I see amor fati as a courageous way to both live and die.

Nietzsche challenges us to live life with eyes wide open and find beauty in what is. How is this possible? Perhaps we should differentiate between static and dynamic circumstances. Static circumstances are those you have no control over; dynamic circumstances are things you can change.

The first static circumstance is you. You cannot be someone else. You can get plastic surgery, you can educate yourself, you can even kill yourself, but you are stuck with you. Thus the first task in becoming a yes-sayer is figuring out how to love yourself, to love who you have

come here to be, to celebrate what it is that you uniquely bring, and to the find the imperfectly perfect you and embrace it. My suspicion is that if we skip this step— learning to first love this innermost ring of our life-experience: ourselves—it will deeply handicap, if not disable, our ability to love others and our circumstances. As the old tombstone reads, “Be who you is, ’cause if you ain’t who you is, you is who you ain’t.”

The dynamic circumstances of our lives are those that appear but are not necessarily immutable. We can change them. But even these are to be “loved” as they first present themselves, even while you prepare to alter them.

Tolle’s example is cold soup. The waiter brings you cold soup . . . what do you do? Do you get mad? Or do you simply inform the waiter of the issue and await your reheated bowl? And, while you’re waiting, exercise that atrophied muscle that searches for beauty in this lessthan-perfect circumstance. Martin Luther King told his angry friends, armed and ready to retaliate after his house was bombed, “We are not like those that throw bombs.”

In retaliation we often become what we hate. When life is an asshole, don’t give it the satisfaction of becoming like it; transcend it, find a way to love it, and thus overcome it.

A common enemy of this lifestyle is having expectations.

Erecting expectations of what we want to happen is a way of shooting ourselves in the foot.

We can learn to navigate life as it comes. Remember the Atari game Night Driver? The player would drive on a curvy road at high speeds with limited vision; the road in front of the car appeared only a split second before encountering it.

Obviously someone thought this was fun, since a game was made of it. This is a way of life. Perhaps this is what Jesus meant when he said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.” (Matt. 6.34 KJV) And he applied no idealism when he described the present moment: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” In other words, learning to “love” the form the present moment is taking is difficult enough without adding the future to it.

Learning to love what “is” does not exclude the need for planning. In fact, if the form the moment is taking comes as a thought in your head, “I would like to take my spouse on a cruise,” or “I have to remember to unhook the water hose from the house when I get back,” then your cooperation with that moment would require that you do some planning, not forbid it.

I seek to practice amor fati as a conscientious intention, to say yes to whatever form the moment is taking, to say yes to the self, to not crater under self-pity or resentment, to actively cooperate with the desires that manifest in the now (even if it means changing my circumstance), to agree with my “enemies,” to fear nothing and no one, and, this Valentine’s Day, to fall in love with my life.

“I seek . . . to say yes to whatever form the moment is taking . . . to agree with my ‘enemies,’ to fear nothing and no one, and this Valentine’s Day, to fall in love with my life.”

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RECOVER RUTHERFORD:

From Popsicles and Icicles to Powerless column by GLORIA CHRISTY

Step 1: We admit that we are powerless to control our tendency to do the wrong thing and that our lives have become unmanageable.

I had been wondering: just how much do I reveal, up-close and personal? And then it happened—one of those affirming moments, perhaps a nod from heaven. I hurriedly gathered a few grocery items and dashed to the checkout. There, greeting me, was a smiling teenager. “Come over to my line,” she insisted emphatically.

I did and then the surprise question came: “What was your wedding like?”

With some astonishment, I blurted out, “Which one? Are you getting married?”

“Why, no!” and with a huge smile, she exclaimed decisively, as if I should have realized this, “I’m just 17!”

How can I give a life-lesson to total stranger— especially a beaming adolescent in a fleeting encounter at a grocery store? Not going to happen, although I will say this: I was inspired, motivated and determined to bring into focus another time, another era, taking a prolonged view of my life experience with a renewed fervor to help others.

Presently in almost an out-of-body experience, I began to view myself as a 17-year-old. Winter had instinctively brought me inside. I was warm and safe. It was time to lay across my bed with dozens stuffed animals strewn about, listen to the radio and dream. Over the radio, my favorite song played impressions of a perfect teen romance in cascading harmonies: May be silly, but still he is just what I dream about / Yes, he’s the boy that I love / Popsicles, icicles . . . hmmm!

For a teenager in the 1960s, Murfreesboro was a special place to grow up. Imagine not locking your doors, evenings watching television with your parents, and where people really did trust each other. Your biggest concern as a teenager was if you were going to have a date Friday night, what you were going to wear, and who you were going to see at Shoney’s or the Frostop.

For most, the 1960s was supposed to be the dawn of a “golden age.” Yet by the end of the decade, the country was jolted by assassinations, the Vietnam War, riots and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. The golden age never materialized, and by the end of the decade, the nation was torn apart. Community and consensus lay in shambles, bringing tattered lives to an age of empowerment and polarization and leaving our culture with a mix of resentment and liberation. In 1969, a remnant of the hopeful gathered at Woodstock, representing the best and the worst of that decade and declaring peace and love across the land.

Just before The Beatles’ “British Invasion” of the USA in February of 1964, there was a popular song by one-hit wonder The Murmaids, “Popsicles and Icicles.” That song, with its

The Shacklett Family in 1963 in front of our house on Monroe St. From left: Gloria, Linda, Ginny, Richard and Bill Shacklett

beguiling harmonies, bewitched many a teenage girl. As for me, the image of finding and marrying the perfect boyfriend was always on my mind. So by 1971, I had followed the path of those mesmerizing lyrics and married, thinking that I was going to live happily ever after.

There are moments in life that can change our destiny. When confronted, these moments can change us or destroy us or forever set the course of our lives in a better direction. So in 1980, it was my moment. I found myself single with a 5-month old baby and a 4-year-old after living 10 years in an abusive marriage. While everything was crashing down around me, I had to come to terms that life wasn’t as perfect as my teenage delusion.

Living with an addict had caused my life to be punctuated with extremes. I had adopted a pattern of escaping from the reality by denying the pain. Thus, unintentionally, my life had become unmanageable. I was completely out of balance, trying to manipulate and control my circumstances with self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. I had become queen of the “blame game,” living in an illusion of power and self-control.

My unreliable and irrational feelings had caused me to wander far away from reality with a self-protective mask of isolation. Trying to escape the pain of my circumstances only suppressed my fears and allowed resentments to fester. These self-defeating behaviors controlled my emotional and intellectual well-being. I wasted precious time and energy covering up, avoiding and denying. A quiet, compelling force outside me continued to persist, so I continued to seek answers. As I began to realize that the answers were outside me, life began to make sense. I discovered I could not arrive at the purpose for my life from within.

Recognizing that there is very little I have real

power over in my life allowed me great freedom to accept myself and gave me the willingness to trust, no matter what. Trusting and turning my life over to God, surrendering to God’s leadership, gave my life meaning, purpose and significance.

As I recognized my powerlessness, God’s power became stronger, changing my life for the better.

Perhaps at last you have reached that place of powerlessness and want your life to change for the better. You confess that most of the time, you are tied up in knots with toxic, fearful attitudes. You truly want to be “at ease,” but are tormented by compulsions, false securities and insecurities. How can you trust in the unseen? Could it be that trusting is a choice that tethers you to heaven’s treasures and a peace that is beyond human reason or understanding? No longer will you be “stuck” just wishing for a better day, trying a little harder, being a little kinder, thinking a little differently and dreaming a little more.

Life has to be more than selfimprovement, career changes, geographic cures, wealth and self-empowerment.

Bombarded with multiple resolutions, somehow on a cold winter’s night by a flickering amber glow, you desire transformation. There is a longing to live differently defying the “insan-

ity cycle.” Warmed and renewed by a sense of urgency and resolve, you declare and proclaim, “I will not do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. I want to recover!

Indeed, I want to recover from life!”

Buried within all of us is a desire for the meaning of life. In the process of navigating through life’s maze, it is easy to lose our way.

The pressure of being human and living life, including all the demands that are placed on us, keeps us from a truth which transcends time and space: the meaning of life, submission and surrender to God are one and the same.

Thank you for allowing me to share my story with you. If you would like to know more about recovery and its principles in a safe environment of love within a Christ-centered support group, come to Celebrate Recovery. Celebrate Recovery is that safe place where people can remove the mask of denial and be open and honest. If you are interested in finally dealing with the pain of your past, there are people who will stand with you as the truth becomes a way of life. One can address life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups in anonymity and confidentiality utilizing biblical truths. There are now two Celebrate Recovery meetings in Rutherford County: one every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Belle Aire Baptist Church, 1307 North Rutherford Blvd., and another Thursdays at 7 p.m. at New Vision Baptist Church, 1750 Thompson Lane. For more information about the ministry visit celebraterecovery. com or call Thom Christy at (615) 896-6288.

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OPINIONS

Mission to Mars: Misión a Marte: Been There, Done That? ¿Hemos ido ya?

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ships and 43 scout ships operating under U.S. Naval Network and Space Operations Com2013 will be a year in which a handful of bold mand. In 2002 McKinnon was indicted on seven counts of computer-related crime, each explorers will launch expeditions to some of carrying a 10-year prison sentence. However, the most remote places on our planet. Yet no efforts to extradite the hacker stalled. Some expedition to the heart of the African Congo believe he wasn’t extradited because a trial or even the Antarctic can compare to what might lead to subpoenas of Pentagon officials will be required to accomplish what the Mars and exposure of classified information.

One project seeks to achieve by establishing a Now, if you think the U.S. government isn’t permanent colony on Mars. The project, startcapable of keeping a project of this magnied by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp in tude a secret, you are mistaken. The Manhat2011, intends to take space exploration to the tan Project was responsible for developing next level by putting the first four colonists the first atomic bomb during WWII, emon Mars in 2023, sending four additional ployed nearly 130,000 people at more than 30 colonists every two years. sites and cost the equivalent of $25.8 billion.

I have to confess my envy of those selected As we’ve seen with The Manhattan Project, for this historic undertaking. But will this it wouldn’t be the first time project really be man’s first massive scientific projects endeavor to colonize Mars? have been hidden from The reason that I ask the public. It might also this seemingly ridiculous Una columna del idioma español por CAMERON PARRISH explain what appears to be question is that there are a lack of progress in our a number of people who manned space explorations and the reason for claim to have knowledge of a preexisting the reductions in funding for NASA programs colony on the red planet and a secret space by the current administration. program unknown to the public. One such If you are still skeptical, do your own individual is the great-granddaughter of research before dismissing any of this. There America’s 34th president, Dwight D. Eisenare literally hundreds of eyewitness testimohower, who I interviewed in 2010. Laura nies which have been collected over the years Magdalene Eisenhower says that an agent by the Disclosure Project and other private working for a mysterious group called The efforts investigating alleged cover-ups and Aviary pressured her to join a secret survival secret technologies. It’s my own belief that colony on Mars long before any official Mars someday we’ll find out that our space travel projects by NASA or private firms. This secret capabilities are a lot more advanced than group even threatened to kidnap her if she we are made to believe. Given the wholly didn’t cooperate. Not creepy at all, right? uninspiring lack of progress that NASA has Since my interview with Eisenhower, I’ve delivered over the past decade, I think we investigated information surrounding other would all like to believe the American space claims about the existence of a secret colony program is secretly awesome. on Mars and the reality of a secret space As always, I encourage everyone to do program unknown to the American public. their own research and seek the truth no Among those who corroborate her story of a matter what others tell you. Until next time, cover-up, which has been labeled “Marsgate,” keep exploring! is Andrew Basiago, an attorney from Washington State who is the president of Project Pegasus and the Mars Anomaly Research EN ESPANOL: Society, as well as others who claim they were teleported to the colony during the 1980s.

2013 será un año en el que un puñado de Let’s look at more evidence. In what was audaces exploradores lanzarán expediciones deemed by the Bush Administration as the a algunos lugares más recónditos de nuestro “biggest military computer hack of all time,” planeta. Pero ninguna expedición al centro Gary McKinnon, a hacker from Great Britain, del Congo africano o incluso a la Antártida se says that he illegally viewed computer files puede comparar a lo que será necesario llevar pertaining to a project called “Solar Wara cabo en el proyecto MarsOne, que busca den.” He claims to have viewed documents lograr el establecimiento de una colonia perlisting “non-terrestrial officers” and even some manente en Marte. El proyecto iniciado por detailing a fleet of eight cigar–shaped motherel empresario holandés Bas Lansdorp en 2011

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pretende llevar la exploración espacial a un nivel sin precedentes, y poner a los cuatro primeros colonos en Marte en 2023, así como enviar a cuatro colonos adicionales cada 2 años.

Tengo que admitir mi envidia hacía los seleccionados para este hecho histórico. ¿Pero será realmente el primer esfuerzo del hombre para colonizar Marte? La razón por la que hago esta pregunta, aparentemente ridícula, consiste en que hay gente que afirma tener el conocimiento de una colonia preexistente en el planeta rojo y un programa espacial secreto y aún desconocido al público. La bisnieta del trigésimo cuarto presidente de América, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a la que entrevisté en 2010. Laura Magdalene Eisenhower dice que un agente que trabaja para un grupo misterioso llamado“la pajarera” la presionó para afiliarse a una colonia de supervivencia secreta en Marte, mucho antes de cualquier oficial por la NASA u otras firmas privadas.

Este grupo secreto incluso la amenazó con secuestrarla si no cooperara.

Desde mi entrevista con Eisenhower he investigado la información que rodea a otras reclamaciones acerca de la existencia de una colonia secreta en Marte y de un programa espacial secreto desconocido para el público estadounidense. Entre aquellos que corroboran la existencia, según su relato, de una operación encubierta que se ha denominado “Marsgate”, está Andrew Basiago, un abogado del Estado de Washington, que es el presidente de Proyecto Pegasus y del Marte Anomalía Sociedad de Investigación, y otros que dicen que fueron teletransportados a la colonia durante la década de 1980.

Echemos un vistazo a más pruebas. El que fue considerado por la administración Bush como el “hack del equipo militar más grande de todos los tiempos” Gary McKinnon, un hacker de Gran Bretaña, dice que consiguió ilegalmente archivos informáticos relativos a un proyecto llamado “Guardián Solar”.

Afirma haber visto documentos listado “oficiales no-terrestres” e incluso algunos detalles de una flota de 8 buques de madre y 43 buques pequeños. En 2002, McKinnon fue acusado de siete delitos, cada uno causa de una pena de prisión de 10 años.

Sin embargo, los esfuerzos para extraditar el hacker no dieron fruto. Algunos creen que no fue extraditado porque un juicio en su contra podría conducir a citaciones de los funcionarios del Pentágono y a la exposición de información secreta y clasificada.

Si usted piensa que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos no es capaz de mantener en secreto un proyecto de esta magnitud, se equivoca. El Proyecto Manhattan fue responsable de desarrollar la primera bomba atómica durante la segunda guerra y casi 130.000 personas en más de 30 sitios y costó el equivalente a 25,8 billones de dólares.

Como hemos visto con El Proyecto Manhattan, no sería la primera vez que los proyectos científicos masivos se han escondido del público. También podría explicar lo que parece ser una carencia del progreso en nuestra exploración del espacio tripulada y la razón de las reducciones de la financiación para programas NASA de la administración actual.

Si todavía es escéptico, haga su propia investigación antes de rechazar cualquier hipótesis. Hay, literalmente, cientos de testimonios que han sido coleccionados durante años por el Disclosure Project y por otros grupos privados en la investigación de presuntos encubrimientos y tecnologías secretas. Yo creo que un día averiguaremos que nuestras capacidades de navegación espacial avanzan mucho más de lo que nos quieren hacer creer. Considerando la falta de progreso que la NASA ha experimentado durante la década pasada, creo que nos gustaría a todos creer que el programa espacial americano es fenomenal pero en secreto.

Como siempre, animo a cada uno a hacer su propia investigación y buscar la verdad sin hacer caso a lo que los otros le dicen. ¡Hasta la próxima vez, siga explorando!

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