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EDITORIAL

Managing Editor Gary Poole

BEGINNINGS: Creating the door on which opportunity knocks

Contributing Editor Janis Hashe Contributors Rob Brezsny • Michael Crumb John DeVore • Steven Disbrow Janis Hashe • Matt Jones • Marc T. Michael Mike McJunkin • Ernie Paik Rick Pimental-Habib • Alex Teach

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SCREEN: Disney’s “Maleficent” is sympathetic but wrong

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Bodybuilders make muscle a lifestyle. Find out why.

By Steven W. Disbrow

RECORD REVIEWS: Classical rockings in collaboration and some bonus Miles ARTS: Painter Tim Warner finds another medium with ink on skin MIXOLOGY: Modern day moonshine

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Voices MIKE MCJUNKIN: Why the ordinary wiener is really not so hot

THE WHISPER CAMPAIGN Vic Burgess’s new album reflects a lived life

By Marc T. Michael

STEVEN DISBROW: The lowdown on the highbrow Higgs particle ALEX TEACH: The semantics of poking humans with knives

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A Commitment to Social Mobility We need to work together as a community to create the door on which opportunity knocks.

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We urge the mayor to give serious consideration to the idea of an Office of Opportunity, as described by Reeves.”

“Income inequality” is one of the political buzz-phrases of the moment, and we’re bound to hear a lot more about it as the march to 2016 intensifies. Very few people dispute that it’s a growing problem in the U.S.—and in our own city. But if and how to do anything about it is a source of ongoing controversy.

Tennessee has recently been awarded the dubious distinction of making the list of “Top Ten Dumbest States.”

And Chattanooga, it was recently reported, continues to lag behind other

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American cities in average wages. Both of these factors (education and income) have a major impact on “social mobility,” the ability to lift oneself from poverty to a better life.

On May 30, the Brookings Institute published an online article by Richard Reeves, JANIS HASHE Economic Fellow and Policy Director for the Center on Children and Families, based on his paper, “Planning the American Dream: The Case for an Office of Opportunity.”

In it, Reeves presented a compelling argument that federal, state and local governments should consider creating a department or office charged with promoting social mobility.

Reeves lists three commitments that he believes need to be undertaken at all these levels: • Institutionalize the Commitment to Mobility with an Office of Opportunity. “Improving social mobility rates is a long-term task, spanning many administrations and congresses.

Giving mobility an institutional home—preferably in the form of an apolitical, bipartisan Office of Opportunity—should help maintain a commitment to the mobility cause over the longer term.”

• Select An Official Social Mobility Measure. “There are countless ways to assess rates of mobility,” says Reeves. “I propose a single, simple measure: the proportion of people moving from the bottom quintile of the income distribution as children, to one of the top two quintiles as an adult. This is a relative, income-based intergenerational measure which gets quite close, I think, to the moral intuition lying behind the political and public desire for greater social mobility: that

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people born on the bottom rung of the ladder should have a decent chance of getting towards the top. Right now, according to most analyses, that number is around 13 percent (while in a world of perfect mobility it would be 40 percent).”

In other words, a way to gauge the so-called “level playing field.”

• Create a “Dashboard” of Leading Indicators of Mobility.

“Closing the gap in school readiness at age 5 or narrowing the extraordinary differences by parents’ income in the chances of getting to a selective college will almost automatically improve the chances of escaping from the bottom rung of the income ladder,” says Reeves.

He cites other factors that could be used, such as high school graduation rates and, later, “middle class by middle age.”

In Mayor Andy Berke’s proposed budget, both the “Baby College” concept and the program to address the problem of the digital divide can directly impact the lack of social mobility in Chattanooga.

We urge the mayor, however, to give serious consideration to the idea of an Office of Opportunity, as described by Reeves. A mind, as the old public service announcement used to say, is a terrible thing to waste.

And there are far too many valuable minds going to waste in our community.

EdiToon

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Get The Green (Business) Light Heads up, Chattanooga business owners: Our friends at green|spaces have now launched a new, voluntary program for businesses committed to becoming more eco-conscious. Called “green|light”, it asks businesses to complete a series of tasks designed to help conserve natural resources, improve indoor working environments, and encourage environmentally friendly behavior. These include things such as switching from desktop to laptop computers (possible electrical savings of 75 percent), switching to CFL or LED lighting, and starting employee bike-to-work days and carpooling.

While green|spaces acknowledges that there will be an initial financial and time commitment, “green|light companies can

expect to see a steady return on investment due to reduced utilities and increased customer and employee satisfaction,” they say. The public will also be encouraged to patronize businesses that are part of green|light—a nifty way of acquiring a new customer base.

“In the U.S., commercial buildings are responsible for 20 percent of total water usage, 30 percent of total energy consumption, and 40 percent of municipal solid waste. Each employee in a typical office generates 1.5 pounds of waste per day,” the green|light materials point out. You and your business can help change that.

For more information, visit greenlightchattanooga.com

IN THIS ISSUE

Steven Disbrow This week's cover story on all thing body building is by Steven Disbrow, a computer programmer who specializes in e-commerce and mobile systems development. He’s also an entrepreneur, comic-book nerd, writer, improviser, actor, sometime television personality

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Rob Brezsny and parent of two human children. He’s anxiously awaiting the results of the experiment that will prove whether or not the universe is a massive simulation. If it is, he’d like to have a chat with the idiot that coded the bits where we kill each other for no damn good reason.

His science column, "Just A Theory" also runs monthly here in The Pulse. Watch out, Neil deGrasse Tyson!

"Free Will Astrology" writer Rob Brezsny is an aspiring master of curiosity, perpetrator of sacred uproar, and founder of the Beauty and Truth Lab. He brings a literate, myth-savvy perspective to his work. When Utne Reader named him a "Culture Hero",

it observed: "With a blend of spontaneous poetry, feisty politics, and fanciful put-on, Brezsny breathes new life into the tabloid mummy of zodiac advice columns." In its profile of Brezsny, the New York Times quoted a reader who compared his writing to that of the novelist Tom Robbins.

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Dirt on Your Average Dog Why the ordinary wiener is really not so hot

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bun without raising an eyebrow.

What do grilling season, baseSausages also have the added adball season, Riverbend, Father’s vantage of not making you feel Day and the Internet have in as though you’ve done somecommon? They all have an unthing wrong the minute you put natural relationship with Amerit in your mouth. ica’s favorite questionable meat The ingredients on an averproduct in tube form: the hot age package of American-made dog. hot dogs are surprisingly similar While the truth of the sylloto the ingredients in Guy Fieri’s gism “all hot dogs are sausages Donkey Sauce Hair Gel, such as but not all sausages are hot sodium erythordogs” should be bate, sodium glaringly obviphosphates and ous, teasing out mechanically a clear, definiseparated pork. tive difference But let’s be between hot fair. Although dogs and sauhot dogs are an sages is tricky MIKE McJUNKIN easy target for and quickly food shaming, devolves into a what is REALLY in a hot dog? food-wonky discussion of ingreAre there actually chicken lips dients, origins, myths and legand pork rectums in your Ball ends.

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poultry product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible tissue, through a sieve or similar device under high pressure to separate bone from the edible tissue.” Mmmm…just like mama used to make.

You may have heard that “pink slime” (mechanically separated beef) was banned in 2004 over fears related to food borne illnesses—and you would be correct. But food-paste aficionados can rejoice because companies can pump as much mechanically separated poultry into their hot dogs as they like!

Next up on our ingredient tour is good old pork. According to 1994 USDA rules, any meat labeled as such can be taken off the bone by advanced meat recovery (AMR) machinery that “separates meat from bone by scraping, shaving, or pressing the meat from the bone without breaking or grinding the bone.”

But the beef in these wieners may be the closest thing to recognizable meat you’re going to get since it comes as scraps and trimmings from other cuts.

Of course, no American classic would be complete without corn syrup. It’s used here as a thickener and sweetener, because this is ’Merica and even our meat has to be sweet.

Then we get into the stuff that keeps Michael Pollan up at night: flavor enhancers, pathogen inhibitors and preservatives, as well as salt. Lots and lots of salt. A single one of these dogs has about 480 milligrams, the

rough equivalent of 20 percent of your recommended daily allowance.

Finally, the good folks at Sara Lee throw in some flavorings, paprika, water and beef stock to make this puréed protein batter taste like meat again, because what could make more sense than taking meat, processing all of the flavor out of it, then adding artificial flavors to make it palatable?

What now?

Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying all hot dogs are bad. Main Street Meats and Good Dog, for example, offer delicious sausages made from unprocessed, quality, recognizable meats that are perfect substitutes for those packaged, pink, nitrate-laden torpedoes that line the supermarket cold aisle. Are they a little more expensive? Of course. Quality meat, just like anything else, costs a little more (about $1 more per dog), but take a peek at the hot-dog episode of the Science Channel show “How It’s Made” and tell me if you think the extra dollar is worth it. (Find the link at chattanoogapulse.com/fooddrink/sushi-biscuits) Get out, enjoy the grill, baseball, Riverbend, and Father’s Day, but for the love of all that is meaty, please consider the source of that wiener before it ever gets close to your mouth.

“Good sausages make better hot dogs.” (A public service announcement from your friendly, local food guy.)

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Ripped and Ready to Roar Bodybuilders make muscle a lifestyle.

Find out why.

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Stefan Vanchev with several of his trophies.

ver the years, the Chattanooga area has seen some momentous battles, including the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of Chattanooga and the current tussle between Comcast and the EPB. This weekend sees yet another Battle here in the Chattanooga area. One that, while not quite as bloody as these others, features even bigger guns. I’m talking about Chattanooga’s very own bodybuilding competition, the “Battle at the River.”

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Now in its ninth year, this annual event (taking place at the Tivoli on June 14) brings athletes from across the country to Chattanooga. They come to compete against each other using the one thing that most of us would rather keep hidden: their bodies. These folks are extremely serious about their bodies.

For most of us, working to achieve this sort of physical ideal is something that only exists in our minds from December 26 to about January 3 each year. After that, well, the kids go back to school, work gets intense and… OH. MY. GOD! “Game of Thrones” is on! (Yes. It’s all reruns, but did you see what that little guy did to that other guy?!)

The point being, in life, as in writing, we’re easily distracted from our goals. So, in an effort to find out what drives these folks, I interviewed five body-

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Some people would spend hundreds of dollars a day on drugs or therapy to help them feel better, but all I need is my headphones and some iron plates.”

builders, to see what got them started, and what keeps them going.

The Pulse: What got you started with bodybuilding?

Zac Cooper (age 24): I was an overweight nerd in high

school. I was valedictorian, so I was known for my brains, not my physique...In college, I became extremely intrigued with human anatomy and physiology, biochemistry and nutrition.

I started reading all the bodybuilding magazines and next thing I knew, I was 19 years old and ripped to shreds. People I graduated with didn’t even recognize me from my transformation. It was a life-changing event, and I will never give up my [fitness] lifestyle and my passion for bodybuilding.

Shannon Lewis (age 44): I started bodybuilding because I enjoy working out and the more I worked, the more my body would change physically; which made me work harder and just gave me a sense of accomplishment. After a while, I was just hooked.

Tim Lewis (age 50): I’ve always done some sort of weight

training. That started all the way back in high school. When I finally settled down many years later, I was invited by a friend to come train with him. I reluctantly went and I was instantly hooked.

Jody Sullins (age 29): I started because I love working out and changing my body to look like an anatomy chart. We all want that Photoshopped body, but in real life.

Stefan Vanchev (age 23): I started lifting weights when I was 12.

I had two dumbbells and I was training at my house doing curls and pushups. I wanted to look like the bodybuilders in the magazines. Later on, at the age of 14, I got my first gym membership and started training with heavier weights and a variety of different equipment.

The Pulse: What do you personally get out of bodybuilding?

ZC: Working out comes with many health benefits, and even helps decrease stress. As a grad student in physical therapy school, I need all the stress release I can get.

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Bodybuilding is a very subjective sport.

Each judge will have their on view of what the best physique may look like.”

JS: It has pushed me to make fitness training my life. I just opened a personal training business and I’m living the American dream, doing what I love as a career.

The Pulse: How many times a week do you train? How long is each session?

ZC: Four to six days a week. I listen to my body. If I don’t feel like I can give 110 percent that day, then I take the day off. Most workouts tend to be 45 to 60 minutes.

SL: In my off-season (winter and fall) I will normally be in the gym five days a week for two hours, doing around 30 minutes of cardio, and the rest lifting as much as I can. I like to use that time to put more size on and relax my diet just a little so I can grow for the next season. In the spring, I

will tighten up my diet, and I’m in the gym six to-seven days a week for two hours a session. Two days a week I also teach a “Body Pump” class at the Key Fitness Center in Rock Spring, Georgia.

JS: Six days a week for an hour at a time.

SV: Four to five times a week for an hour and 30 minutes.

The Pulse: Most folks make a yearly resolution to go to the gym and “get in shape,” but most give up after a few sessions. Given that you’re human, too, how do you keep yourself motivated to not give up?

ZC: Bodybuilding is a sport where it’s you versus yourself. Sure, on stage you’re competing for the best, but in the gym its just you trying to be better than you were yesterday. Some

people would spend hundreds of dollars a day on drugs or therapy to help them feel better, but all I need is my headphones and some iron plates.

TL: I guess it comes from the lifestyle that has taken me years to build.

I’m 50 years old now and still have people ask, “Hey, how old are you?”

They usually guess around 38-40. I’ve found the fountain of youth. Then I have Shannon. She keeps me in a “always wanna be better than yesterday” mode. She’s great. It takes so much to be a bodybuilder. I’ve always said that 75 percent of bodybuilding is done at home in the kitchen and the time spent resting. A mere 25 percent is done in the gym.

The Pulse: What’s the furthest you’ve ever gotten in a competition?

What titles have you won?

ZC: I placed second in the Battle at the River in the teenager division and second in the middleweight class at the Anthony Stewart Competition in Calhoun, Georgia.

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my shows except for last year, when I placed fourth in an open show.

TL: My first competition was the Battle at the River in Chattanooga.

Much to my surprise, I finished in second place! I was overjoyed. The following Saturday, I competed in Gadsden, Alabama and finished second again. I was extremely happy, and took home another really nice trophy.

JS: I’ve won first place in three shows and placed in the top three in a few in Marietta, Georgia.

SV: I competed in the Battle at the River in 2010. I won second place in the teenage class and third place in the novice middleweight class.

subjective sport. Each judge will have their on view of what the best physique may look like. Overall, just size with symmetry.

The Pulse: If someone goes to the Battle at the River, what should they be looking for? That is, it’s easy to tell when a point or a goal is scored in most other sports. What are the judges looking for in a bodybuilding competition?

ZC: Bodybuilding is a very

The Pulse: If someone would like to get started with bodybuilding, what advice do you have?

SL: Bodybuilding is a very extreme sport. If you want to start, you need to make sure you have a properly certified trainer and nutritionist who has been in the sport for

At the Battle and other shows there’s always someone in their 60s and 70s. And, might I add, they look amazing.”

a long period of time with plenty of experience. Do your research, watch videos on the internet, visit several gyms and talk with their trainers and ask for their qualifications.

The Pulse: How young is too young? How old is too old?

ZC: There is no age that is to young or too old in my mind. As a physical therapist, we learn that exercise is medicine and therapeutic for all ages with numerous health benefits.

TL: Unless you have health issues there’s no age limit. At the Battle and other shows there’s always someone in their 60s and 70s. And, might I add, they look amazing.

Battle at the River, 6:30 p.m. June 14.

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Deadline for entry is Friday, June 27.

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OTHING MAKES A FAIRY TALE BETTER THAN A good villain. Forget heroes. Heroes are boring. They always have been. Princes, princesses, kings, and queens are always bland, banal people with insipid goals representing the status quo.

Oh, That Magical Machine A beloved children's classic comes to the Museum Center The Museum Center at Five Points continues their monthlong "Movies In The Courtyard" with a classic children's movie from 1968 that has been beloved by every generation since.

Led by the amazing talent of Dick Van Dyke, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" features strong performances from Sally Ann Howes as the aptly-named "Truly Scrumptious" (hey, it was the '60s), Benny Hill in a rare serious role as the Toymaker, and a truly disturbing turn by Robert Helpman as the malevolent Child Catcher.

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James and the Giant Peach", to name just a few) from a novel by James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

For those that have somehow never seen the movie, a hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

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Director: David Michôd Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson

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Giving her a back story and forcing her into a protagonist role makes the decisions made by her character nonsensical.”

It is always the villain that introduces the conflict and moves the story along.

The best villains are the ones we hate to see lose. Television and film has moved more and more towards the anti-hero, sort of an amalgamation of the two, a character good in the center with an evil and devilish shell. From Tony Soprano to Walter White (both of whom could be argued to be more villain than hero), some of the most innovative figures in popular culture have wicked tendencies.

This represents the shift towards realism and complexity, where black and white worlds no longer exist. However, not every story needs to be retold through this lens. In fact, doing so sometimes does a disservice to the original. There is beauty in simplicity. Nowhere is this more evident than Disney’s newest abomination, “Maleficent.” In their hamfisted attempt at creating a sense of depth in what should be the simplest story imaginable, they have ruined the most sinister Disney villain this side of the Horned King.

For whatever reason, Disney decided that the evil, dark sorceress from the 1959 film “Sleeping Beauty” needed to be a sympathetic character. Of all of the classic Disney animations, “Sleeping Beauty” is likely the best. It has everything a good fairy tale needs: a legendary kingdom, magical characters, a capable hero and a great evil.

The Maleficent of the original film doesn’t need a betrayal or a broken heart to weave mayhem. A simple slight in custom is enough for a deadly curse on an infant. She doesn’t need to be the pro-

tector of the forest—she needs an army of trolls to do her bidding. She is evil, simple and pure. Giving her a back story and forcing her into a protagonist role makes the decisions made by her character nonsensical. Part of this is due to Disney’s apparent need to change the very nature of the curse from the original film. In “Sleeping Beauty,” Maleficent doesn’t curse Princess Aurora to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep on her 16th birthday, she curses her to prick her finger and die. She sentences a child not even a month old to death because Aurora’s parents didn’t invite her to a party. It’s only the fairies that manage to soften the curse to sleep. That’s a special kind of evil; it’s cruel and dark and perfect.

The Maleficent of 2014 doesn’t do this. The Maleficent we are introduced to is from the outset a good and noble creature, one that is merely misunderstood, a powerful protector of the magical realm she inhabits. This new Maleficent doesn’t sentence the child to die—she sentences the child to fall into a “sleep like death.” This is an important distinction. The curse in this film is weaker because the character herself is weaker. She is no longer a decisive evil; she’s a reactionary victim that would be much more likely to take out her anger on the king personally. Her decision to curse the child is inconsistent with the character the film takes such care to create.

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The villain role in this film falls to King Stefen himself, retreading tired fantasy tropes of the evils of men and their ambition, as if a fairy tale creature is incapable of jealousy. King Stefen is another victim of poor characterization.

He makes decisions only because the plot requires it. There is no one in this film that is a fully realized person. The film spends an unnecessary amount of time following Princess Aurora around while doing nothing to make her interesting. She was never supposed to be an interesting character; in her case, a lack of characterization is a boon to the story.

She is and should remain the object of the prince’s affection. The most exciting part of the original film is the confrontation between the Prince and Maleficent (who spectacularly turns into a dragon).

But the prince is barely acknowledged in the film and Maleficent isn’t given the opportunity to breathe fire.

The overwhelming problem with “Maleficent” is the willful misunderstanding of the character. All they needed to do was keep the character evil. Remember, this is a creature that threatened to destroy the prince with “all the powers of Hell.” Angelina Jolie is more than capable of portraying that.

I understand that Disney has to play to their audience of impressionable children, but if they can’t create a film that maintains the blackhearted nature of the title character, they should have left the property alone.

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MUSIC SCENE

Songs with Dirt Under Their Fingernails Vic Burgess’s The Whisper Campaign reflects a lived life

They Got The Funk Planetary dance grooves at JJ’s this Saturday night If you’re a fan of the Allman Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Umphrey’s McGee, or the Rev. Al Green, then odds are you will dig the music of Backup Planet. Described as a high-energy, experimental rock/funk band, this Nashville trio funks it up at JJ’s Bohemia on Saturday, June 14 at 10 p.m.

Besides guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums, the band also features a synthesizer. A must-have for ’70s experimental funk-rock bands, Backup Planet is said to insert the synth with “just a hint of modern tech to burnish a sturdy retro-minded organ and guitar—in ways that never fail to astonish.”

Their goal is simple: to share their music with as many people as possible. They thrive on live improv and extended sections to try and keep the listener on their toes.

The band released an EP with five of its songs in October 2013 and has several MP3 downloads available on its SoundCloud and Facebook pages.

Backup Planet also has several live performances on its YouTube channel.

Get your platform shoes on and get ready to dance your pants off at JJ’s.

JJ’s Bohemia is located at 231 E. MLK Blvd.

— Madeline Chambliss

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Pillage and Plunder, Stereodig, Anna Haas & The Effect

Thee Finks, Tuff Tits, The Belt

Scarlet Love Conspiracy

It's a grab bag of musical styles for everyone not heading down to the 'bend. Atlanta art rock from Pillage & Olunder, Chattanooga rock rock from Stereodig, , and New York's own Anna Haas teaming up with The Effect make for a great night.

9 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com

Need something to do after Joan Jett hops in her limo and heads to her next gig?

Come on down to JJ's after the show (or even before, they won't mind) for the unofficial after-party with three great bands ready to keep the night going. Just don't expect any funnel cake or bacon on a stick.

10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

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Sure, there will be lots of fireworks down on the river.

But sometimes you need a strong drink, a cozy club, and a smokin' hot acoustic/ electric band playing everything from Bob Dylan to the Drive-By Truckers as well as originals. Avoid the crowds (and the traffic) and head to The Office.

10 p.m.

The Office 901 Carter St. (inside Days Inn) (423) 634-9191

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HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW A GREAT MANY SONGwriters over the years, but there are only two whose music moved me so much I obtained permission to perform their tunes myself. One is Dave Brown. I wrote about him 15 years ago. The other is Vic Burgess, and I’m writing about him today.

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It isn’t what you’d call pretty, but these aren’t pretty tunes.

They’re authentic and gritty.”

Vic did something most performers don’t when he sent me his new double album, The Whisper Campaign. He included lyric sheets and I am grateful for that. I gave the discs an initial listen and found there was much to appreciate, but when I went back and read the lyric sheets I was twice as impressed, because the words are just as powerful when they stand alone. Is it music or is it poetry? Well, it’s both, and that’s the hallmark of a truly great songwriter.

In the tradition of the minstrels and troubadours of a different age, Vic’s songs report and reflect the workaday world around us. This is nowhere so eerily evident as in the first track, “He Talked About it All the Time”. It’s a ballad chronicling the events leading up to a nondescript man opening fire in the office where he works before falling in a hail of police bullets. The chorus admonishes the listener: “Seemed like a real nice, quiet laid-back guy If you had listened to him, he talked about it all the time.”

Twenty-four hours before I sat down to listen to that tune, a couple in Las Vegas, Nevada walked into a pizza joint and without warning, executed two police officers while proclaiming, “The revolution has begun.” Acquaintances, neighbors and relatives said after that

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Positivity will rule at the Honest Pint June 26

fact that yes, “they talked about it all the time”. I’m sure the impact of reading that isn’t as poignant as the impact of experiencing it, but it was a haunting way to start off a listening session.

There’s roughly two hours worth of music spread across two discs and ordinarily the sheer volume of that much music could wear a listener out—but not in this case. There is more than enough variety in subject matter and musicianship to hold interest from beginning to end.

The tunes themselves often take a street-level (occasionally gutter-level) view of life, reminiscent of Tom Waits.

(Burgess also has a touch of Tom’s trademark gravel in his voice.) In fact, I think my love for Waits explains to a great degree what I find so appeal-

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ing about Burgess. All too often songs are written about life by people who haven’t really experienced it.

Angst-ridden tunes about freshman romance and minimum wage are all well and good when you’re wet behind the ears, but real life has dirt under the fingernails and scars. Vic’s music captures that beautifully, which makes it infinitely more appealing than the schlock rock one finds on the airwaves.

Burgess serves up the music in a voice that can best be described as “Vic”. He has the drawl of Townes, the depth of Cash and the rumble of Waits, but when all is said and done, Vic doesn’t sound like anyone but Vic. It isn’t what you’d call pretty, but these aren’t pretty tunes. They’re authentic and gritty—and I will take

that every single day of the week over the performers who value style over substance.

If over-produced pop is your bag or if you like to relax at night with club music blaring in your headphones, this isn’t for you. If, however, you still have some faith in “three chords and the truth” and can appreciate the hard-won, genuine wisdom belted out by a dusty old road dog in-between slugs from a bottle of rotgut then you’re going to love The Whisper Campaign.

An album release party is being planned. As soon as those plans solidify, you’ll read about it here. In the meantime seek him out online, keep an eye open for upcoming gigs and if you are so inclined say hi. He’s an awfully nice guy.

A perfect storm of beat, rhyme and flow will descend on The Honest Pint on Thursday, June 26 with the second edition of The Chattanooga All-Stars of Hip Hop. This is no ordinary bill where one act follows another, but rather a collaborative effort in which some of the best and brightest of the local scene share the stage (and the DJ), equally bouncing from tracks you know to extended freestyles and never-before heard material.

This is the second such show, the first being at JJ’s Bohemia last December, and in that short time the number of participating artists has more than doubled.

Plans are in the works to make this a twice-yearly event, promoting growth within the scene and enabling established artists to give a boost to up-andcomers.

The only requirement for participation is to abstain from themes that promote violence, the degradation of women or obsession with material possessions and monetary gain. Love, unity and the positive qualities of hip hop culture are the order of the evening.

The show promises to deliver with the inclusion of such notables as Collin Greens, Coreo and Déjà vu from Stoop Kidz, Christian Bearisto from Kids From Across the Street, Prophecy and Spokesman from Wise Council, Divine Mind Tactic, Floami Fly, Moondogg Sikes, Siri A, SoCro, Warner MC and the always lovely Eroc from the Mdahts. Common Criminal is the DJ for the evening.

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thursday6.12 Bonnaroo Music Festival 3 p.m.

Manchester Farm Manchester, TN bonnaroo.com Jazz Thursdays 6 p.m.

The Meeting Place 1278 Market St. stjohnsrestaurant.com Decibella 6:30 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Unum Stage riverbendfestival.com Songwriter Shootout 7 p.m.

The Camp House 1427 Williams St. thecamphouse.com Live Acoustic Music 8 p.m.

The Social 1110 Market St. publichousechattanooga.com Pillage and Plunder, Stereodig, Anna Haas & The Effect 9 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com Open Mic with Hap Henninger 9 p.m.

The Office 901 Carter St. (inside Days Inn) (423) 634-9191 Justin Moore 9:30 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Coca Cola Stage riverbendfestival.com Daniel Ellsworth, The

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Joan Jett Great Lakes, Caverna 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

friday6.13 Bonnaroo Music Festival 10 a.m.

Manchester Farm Manchester, TN bonnaroo.com The Old Time Travelers 11 a.m.

Rock City Gardens 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats 5 p.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo 1400 Market St. choochoo.com Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

Pulse pick: Musical Moose An all-original progressive funk-rock trio whose seasoned musicians create a truly rare brew of original music. Their reputation for edgy attitude and artistic craft continues to grow after nearly 35 years.

Musical Moose 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

El Meson 2204 Hamilton Pl. Blvd. elmesonrestaurant.com Corey Smith 7 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Bud Light Stage riverbendfestival.com Lydia Loveless, Tiffany Taylor 7 p.m.

Miller Plaza 850 Market St. nightfallchattanooga.com River City Sessions 7 p.m.

The Camp House 1427 Williams St. thecamphouse.com Mountain Opry 8 p.m.

Walden’s Ridge Civic Center 2501 Fairmount Pk. (423) 866-3252 Rick Rushing and The Blues Strangers 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry

1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Kara-Ory-Oke! 9 p.m.

The Office 901 Carter St. (inside Days Inn) (423) 634-9191 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 9:30 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Coca Cola Stage riverbendfestival.com Husky Burnette 10 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com Thee Finks, Tuff Tits, The Belt 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

saturday6.14 Bonnaroo Music Festival 10 a.m.

Manchester Farm Manchester, TN bonnaroo.com The Old Time Travelers 11 a.m.

Rock City Gardens 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Magic & Music at the Incline Noon 3917 St. Elmo Ave. ridetheincline.com Jason Thomas and the Mean-Eyed Cats 5 p.m.

Chattanooga Choo Choo 1400 Market St. choochoo.com The Bohannons

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Young The Giant 5:30 p.m.

Riverbend Festival Bud Light Stage riverbendfestival.com Eddie Pontiac 5:30 p.m.

El Meson 2204 Hamilton Pl. Blvd. elmesonrestaurant.com Robert Lee 6 p.m.

DeBarge Vineyards & Winery 1617 Rossville Ave. debargewines.com The Weeks 7 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Bud Light Stage riverbendfestival.com Arpetrio 8:30 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Unum Stage riverbendfestival.com Rick Rushing and The Blues Strangers 8:30 p.m.

The Foundry 1201 Broad St. chattanooganhotel.com Young the Giant 9:30 p.m.

Riverbend Festival 2014 Coca Cola Stage riverbendfestival.com Scarlett Love Conspiracy 10 p.m.

The Office 901 Carter St. (inside Days Inn) (423) 634-9191 Husky Burnette 10 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com Aunt Betty 10 p.m.

Rhythm & Brews 221 Market St. rhythm-brews.com The Power Players 10 p.m.

The Big Chill 103 Cherokee Blvd. thebigchillandgrill.com Backup Planet, Teaspoon Sun 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

sunday6.15 Bonnaroo Music Festival 10 a.m.

Manchester Farm Manchester, TN bonnaroo.com The Old Time Travelers 11 a.m.

Rock City Gardens 1400 Patten Rd. seerockcity.com Lon Eldridge 11:30 a.m.

The Chattanooga Market First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Rick Rushing and the Blues Strangers 1 p.m.

The Chattanooga Market First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Lon Eldridge 4:30 p.m.

River Gorge Explorer 1 Broad St. tnaqua.org Sunday Jam 7 p.m.

Ziggy’s Underground

607 Cherokee Blvd.

(423) 265-8711 Blind Draw 9 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com

monday6.16 Robby Hopkins 6:30 p.m.

Lake Winnepesaukah 1730 Lakeview Dr., Rossville, Ga. lakewinnie.com Tree Read 7 p.m.

The Camp House 1427 Williams St. thecamphouse.com Big Band Night 7:30 p.m.

The Palms at Hamilton Coconut Room 6925 Shallowford Rd. thepalmsathamilton.com Subterranean Cirqus, Cutthroat Freakshow, 9th St. Stompers 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

tuesday6.17 Wendell Matthews 7 p.m.

The North Chatt Cat 346 Frazier Ave. (423) 266-9566 Tree Read 7 p.m.

The Camp House 1427 Williams St.

thecamphouse.com Tim Starnes, Davey Smith 7 p.m.

Sugar’s Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Bloomsday Show 9 p.m.

The Honest Pint 35 Patten Pkwy. thehonestpint.com Musical Moose 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

wednesday6.18 Ryan Oyer 5 p.m.

The Chattanooga Market First Tennessee Pavilion, 1829 Carter St. chattanoogamarket.com Dan Sheffield 7:30 p.m.

Sugar’s Downtown 507 Broad St. sugarschattanooga.com Jesse James & AJ 9 p.m.

Bud’s Sports Bar 5751 Brainerd Rd. budssportsbar.com Behold the Brave, Analog Rebellion, Mime Game 10 p.m.

JJ’s Bohemia 231 E. MLK Blvd. jjsbohemia.com

901 Carter St (Inside Days Inn) 423-634-9191 Thursday, June 12: 9pm Open Mic with Hap Henninger Friday, June 13: 9pm Kara-Ory-Oke! Saturday, June 14: 10pm Scarlet Love Conspiracy Tuesday, June 17: 7pm

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Man Forever with So Percussion Ryonen (Thrill Jockey)

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odern classical minimalism has provided inspiration for diverse groups on the rock/pop spectrum with varying degrees—Stereolab and Lightning Bolt are just two that come immediately to mind—but rarely has such a straight line been drawn between both worlds than with the case of Man Forever, the percussion project of drummer Jim Colpitts, a.k.a.

Kid Millions from the NYC band Oneida.

The latest Man Forever album, Ryonen, is a collaboration with the esteemed NYC ensemble So Percussion, and the first of two tracks is “The Clear Realization,” which may initially evoke the work of Steve Reich. In particular Reich’s famous piece Drumming comes to mind, where patterns are repeated using different phases, and a sense of order and complexity can be derived from a relatively simple formula.

However, Man Forever’s track keeps the tempo uniform, while each drum plays in a different time signature; as it evolves, rock inflections emerge, plus floating tones of

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Miles Davis Miles at the Fillmore (Columbia)

vocals. It gradually gets more furious and passionate while remaining acutely controlled, before finally unleashing cymbal blasts and a primitive ferocity.

The album’s title track begins with a rustling soundstream; each rhythm thread can be pulled to discern its complex pattern, or the beats can be heard as a sonic bundle. There’s a sort of elegance to it, where the tight inner workings are like the inside of a mechanical pocketwatch.

Eight minutes into the song, a thunderous rumble dominates for two minutes before the drums re-enter, with a more free-spirited drum kit; the swift current turns into a sprint, and soothing harmonic tones reveal themselves over the jittery, tense proceedings.

One of the notable things about Ryonen is that it can be thoroughly appreciated from multiple perspectives; rock fans may be drawn to its mounting intensity and vigor, while modern classical aficionados can appreciate its ideas, rigor and clarity of vision.

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egarding trumpeter Miles Davis, biographer Ian Carr called the year between August 1969 and August 1970 “the most productive year of his career,” when Davis recorded material for the earth-shaking fusion albums Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson, pieces that would show up on Big Fun and Live-Evil and a wealth of live performances.

The third installment of Columbia’s “Bootleg Series” collects, in entirety, Davis’ four June 1970 concerts at promoter Bill Graham’s famous Manhattan venue Fillmore East, newly remixed on four CDs with an astoundingly excellent sound quality.

The 1970 double-album Miles Davis at Fillmore offered these performances in a form that was edited by Teo Macero, distilling each approximately 50-minute set down to an unbroken 25-minute track of highlights that would fit on one side of a vinyl record. So, oddly enough, the length limitation of a format and preserving the chronology of the shows ended up drastically shaping the flow of

these recordings originally.

As an editor for Davis, Macero is a legend, known for constructively butting heads with Davis over bold, brilliant and sometimes unusual decisions and ending up with modern masterpieces of studio editing such as In a Silent Way and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. For live pieces, Macero’s editing works well on albums such as the dark and furious LiveEvil, but on the original Miles Davis at Fillmore, the sets seem a bit too compressed, without ample room to unfold. So, having the whole performances finally available on Miles at the Fillmore is enlightening and appreciated.

The first half of each night has an identical setlist, opening with “Directions,” “The Mask,” and “It’s About That Time”; although this writer doesn’t recommend listening to all four discs in one sitting, this repetition isn’t tiresome, since the band is adept at keeping things fresh with inventive soloing—there are no carbon copies here.

The stint comes after the departure of Wayne Shorter, replaced here

by Steve Grossman on tenor and soprano sax who has big shoes to fill but holds his own. Davis’ own trumpeting is impeccable as always, and his rhythm section—bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette—maintains a high energy level baseline, joined by percussionist Airto Moreira.

That said, perhaps the most badass part is the dual-keyboard configuration with Chick Corea on wahwah electric piano and Keith Jarrett on organ, providing a rock edge. \ There are three previously unreleased bonus tracks from a Fillmore West show with poor sound quality, and in addition to the obligatory liner notes, there’s a poster that includes reproductions of contemporaneous articles from Rolling Stone, Newsweek and The Village Voice. This is a lot of Miles, from a period that is already well documented.

If you have to ask, “Do I need all this?” then it isn’t for you. For the rest of us who will buy any official Miles release, it’s just perfect.

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The Fine Art of Ink ART SCENE

Painter Tim Warner finds another medium with ink on skin

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AINTER TIM WARNER’S ARTISTIC EVOLUTION HAS brought him into a new medium: skin. For Warner, painting has been intensely personal; he does not accept fine arts commissions, preferring to paint freely.

It All Starts With A Story “Kitchen Tables” at the JCC stirs memories Rachel Naomi Remen once said, “Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.”

Her words inspired the exhibit “Kitchen Tables: Memories of Growing Up Jewish in Chattanooga”, on display at the Jewish Cultural Center through Friday, July 18.

Designed to show how people share their stories in Chattanooga, the exhibit is a collection of artifacts, photographs, quotes and oral histories from the past three generations.

As a foundation, researchers used Joy Effron Abelson Adams’ work for the

exhibit “Chattanooga Jewish Reflections” at the Chattanooga History Museum 18 years ago.

The exhibit is free and allows visitors to learn about the social changes and historical events of Chattanooga’s Jewish community, and includes commentary about a Pew Research Center survey that has sparked community discussion of the American Jewish identity.

Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., excluding Friday, July 4.

For more information contact Ann Treadwell, atreadwell@jewishchattanooga.com or (423) 493-0270, ext. 13.

The Jewish Cultural Center is located at 5461 North Terrace Rd. — Madeline Chambliss

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“Abstract & Contemporary” Fine Art Show Opening

2014 National Physique Committee Battle at the River

Bacon, Blues, and Brews at the Chattanooga Market

Showcasing original works of art by local artists in a wide variety of abstract and contemporary themes, this new exhibit has something for everyone to appreciate.

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Reflections Gallery 6922 Lee Hwy. (423) 892-3072 reflectionsgalleryTN.com

If the body is a temple, the temples on display this Saturday are more like the Taj Mahal than the corner church. Only a lot more fit than that.

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Tivoli Theatre 709 Broad St. (423) 757-5156 chattanoogaonstage.com

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Arts MICHAEL CRUMB

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Vision energizes fine art media.

We often credit artists’ skill in realization of such visions.

Warner is quick to point out that ink is a particularly unforgiving medium.”

Nevertheless, Warner’s engagement with tattoo art brings him into an intimate connection with many clients. Unlike common perceptions, Warner consults with his clients as often as necessary to clarify designs, and he often maintains relationships with these clients after completion of the art.

Warner has joined Christine Bordeaux’s group of artists at the recently opened Blackbeard Tattoo Co. Other artists here include Jess Hobbs, Christopher Nash, Jake Eaves and Brandy Burgans. (Burgans has been profiled previously in The Pulse.)

The shop itself has an imaginative ambience, exuding freedom and class, in keeping with Bordeaux’s vision of “a unique and upscale custom shop.” She explains that her “artists can do whatever anyone wants, though they all have their own personal styles as well.”

Blackbeard Tattoo Co. also commits to community service. The grand opening block party at the end of May raised funds for both Wounded Warriors and the Community Kitchen.

Warner says that tattoos have become much more mainstream. His belief in tattoo as a fine art form finds confirmation in multiple factors. The arts are for everyone, and Warner’s clients come from all levels of society. These clients form a community, one far less concerned with class boundaries.

Anyone who enjoys tattoos knows that tattoo designs are often aesthetically ambitious.

This ambition manifests in multiple ways. In the first place, Warner is not alone in his aesthetic goals. A tattoo artist may represent a client’s favorite artwork, duplicating it in ink.

Contemporary artists sometimes recreate famous artworks, such as Marcel Duchamp’s version of “Mona Lisa”.

(Readers may recall the art gallery scene in the film “American Hustle” when Christopher Nolan’s character explains that a “Rembrandt” hanging in the gallery is actually a forgery. Nolan emphasizes that this forger is

also an artist.)

The aesthetician Walter Benjamin discovered a significant cultural change in the fact of duplication, however imperfect, of artworks, by the medium of photography. One wonders if Benjamin ever imagined famous works duplicated in ink on human skin.

Tattoo portraiture can be as remarkably lifelike as painted portraits, and examples are not uncommon. Of course, readers may wonder about tattoos’ original aesthetic visions. The answer may indeed span centuries, and may also extend into “secret worlds”, such as the full-body tattoos of the yakuza (Japanese organized crime members), which are concealed by the wearer’s clothes.

On a larger cultural scale, the fact that we now live in an image-based culture has significant commonality with ancient pre-literate cultures, in that those early groups of necessity perceived the world as images. As cultures progressed, early forms of writing were sometimes based on images. Although our contemporary culture forms images that often imply forms of writing, we’ve also seen a resurgence of more ancient attitudes about nature and tribalism.

Vision energizes fine art media. We often credit artists’ skill in realization of such visions. Warner is quick to point out that ink is a particularly unforgiving medium. One may view a painted “masterpiece” without ever being aware of any “mistakes” that occurred in the

course of its execution. Any mistake in ink remains permanent. Considering the profusion of lovely and intricate tattoo designs, this fact is breathtaking.

A native Chattanoogan, when Warner discovered his passion for art he pursued it relentlessly. He worked in different media, and he became deeply interested in Cubist and Surreal styles. Eventually, he studied with Daud Arkriev. Readers will recall Arkriev’s “Four Seasons” sculpture installation at the south end of the Walnut Street Bridge, but Arkriev also paints with fantastic skill in numerous styles. Warner developed a painterly interest in more classical styles, painting both contemporary still lifes as well as landscapes. He chose to work with light in his still lifes with a more limited palette, after Rembrandt and Caravaggio.

Warner loves to paint in nature, where he uses a broader palette, exemplified

by Vermeer.

Like Arkriev, Warner was represented by the late Thomas Harold Bowles, a major Motown figure, and traveled to Detroit with Bowles. Upon his return (and after Bowles’ untimely passing), Warner entered a yearlong tattoo apprenticeship, where he discovered that his fine arts skills translated well to the medium of ink. Now he pursues his vision in both paint and ink—but you can only commission his ink.

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Gettin’ Higgy Wit It Esteemed Prof. Disbrow gives us the lowdown on the highbrow Higgs particle.

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Besides simply being an amazing achievement for humanity, every time we’ve made a discovery of this type, civilization has taken a huge leap forward.”

Steven Disbrow is a computer programmer who specializes in e-commerce and mobile systems development. He’s also an entrepreneur, comic-book nerd, writer, improviser, actor, sometime television personality and parent of two human children.

gap in the standard model of About this same time of physics. The standard model year, back in 2012, the world basically details the particles of particle physics was abuzz and forces that make up the with whispers that the folks universe and everything in it. at the Large Hadron ColOver the years, the stanlider (LHC) in Cern, on the dard model has been wildly French-Swiss border in Eusuccessful, but at the time, rope, were about to announce this model had no way to a major discovery. explain how particles (elecAnd, a few weeks later, on trons, quarks, July 4, 2012, protons, etc.) that’s exactly actually get what they did. their mass.

They had, The Higgs with 99.9999 STEVEN W. DISBROW particle and percent cerHiggs Field tainty, diswere a way of explaining this. covered the long-theorized “Higgs” particle. (This level How Does It “Work”? of certainty is known as “5 OK, listen, everything Sigma,” and it’s the level of about this is going to sound certainty required before a crazy. But if there’s one thing team will, tentatively, anscience has revealed over the nounce that it has made an years, it’s that nature is under actual discovery.) no obligation to make sense Still, even with that level to us. Nature is what it is, and of certainty, the team at Cern we have to follow where the are waiting until they can run facts and experiment lead us. even more experiments in So, without going too deeply 2015 before they definitivedown the rabbit hole, here’s a ly label the discovery “The brief description of what all Higgs particle.” For the purthis means. poses of this article, however, Scientists postulate that I’m going to go out on a limb spread everywhere throughand say that, yeah, they found out our universe is a “fog” it. that’s now known as the “Higgs Field”. This field is What’s a Higgs Particle? invisible and incredibly difThe Higgs is a particle that ficult to detect. This field is was theorized by Peter Higgs everywhere and it permeates back in 1964. He (and seveverything in the universe. We eral others, actually) came move through it constantly, up with the idea to fill in a

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Just A Theory

without even realizing it’s there.

Since this field is everywhere, everything is interacting with it to some degree.

It’s the strength of these interactions, between the Higgs Field and the particles in it, that gives those particles their mass. The more intense the interaction, the more mass a particle has.

(And, to answer the earlier question, the Higgs Particle is a particle that pops into existence when there a particularly intense interaction with the Higgs Field. The particle got all the press, because it’s direct evidence that the field exists. But, really, the field is where the action is.)

To help visualize this, let’s scale up to a human point of reference: a political fundraiser. Let’s say you’re hosting a fundraiser for your candidate and a couple hundred people show up, packing your modest home to the walls. Those people represent the Higgs Field. They are everywhere in your house, and you can’t move without bumping into someone.

And, given that you are the person hosting this fundraiser, quite a few people there want to meet you, and shake your hand to thank you for your work. The interactions are slow, but meaningful; the equivalent of a small amount of mass for an elementary particle.

But, now, in through the front door comes the candidate herself. As she moves through the crowd, everyone wants something from her:

a handshake, an autograph, a deep conversation about some policy point...the interactions come fast and furious, and the candidate no sooner steps away from one interaction when another person steps up to start a new one. The candidate is the equivalent of a particle with a large amount of mass trying to move through the Higgs Field.

So What?

Why is this important?

Well, besides simply being an amazing achievement for humanity, every time we’ve made a discovery of this type, civilization has taken a huge leap forward. For example: electricity.

You see, electricity and magnetism both come from interactions with a very similar, but different, field (the “electroweak” field) that also permeates the universe. Just think how different the world was before we learned how to harness those two fundamental forces of nature!

Imagine a time, just decades from now, where we’ve learned to control the mass of things! Suddenly, things like deflecting killer asteroids and colonizing the solar system become very possible.

These things are just crazy science fiction ideas now— but who would have thought street lights, television and putting a man on the moon could have come from just understanding how electricity worked?

The future just got a lot more exciting.

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Southerners drink moonshine. We have been drinking moonshine ever since our ancestral outlaws decided to sneak off into the woods late at night and cook up some of grandmother’s finest home remedies. Commonly sealed inside a Mason jar with three black X’s streaked across the label, moonshine remains the South’s most iconic beverage of choice. Now, the rest of America is finally being clued into our wonderfully illegal secret.

While many people claim that moonshine isn’t real if it comes packaged and labeled, distilleries across the country are trying to debunk that idea by crafting their own original spin on the centuriesold recipe. Moonshine’s mythology has created an international phenomenon capitalizing on the liquor’s timeless lure.

Firefly, Cat Daddy Carolina, Ole Smoky Tennessee and even Moonpie are just a few of the labels in line to profit on the reemergence of commercial moonshine.

For those unfamiliar with this magical concoction, moonshine is basically whisky that hasn’t been aged and is bottled straight off the still. The ingredients remain simple: sugar, yeast, water and corn. With such an easy-to-duplicate production process, homemade versions of moonshine became so popular that

the U.S. government decided to criminalize backwoods brews due to tax and public safety-related questions. Many, many years later, homemade moonshine stills remain illegal, but liquor laws have allowed legitimate businesses the chance to jump on the moonshine bandwagon. And jump they have.

According to Technomic, a food and beverage analysis, after selling 50,000 cases of their 100-proof branded moonshine in 2010, Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine sales ballooned to 280,000 just two years later, and this tidal wave of popularity shows no signs of ebbing.

The Discovery Channel’s “Moonshiners”, a docudrama dramatizing the lives of people who continue to illegally brew the beverage, regularly dominates the Nielsen ratings for Wednesday night cable, and the show’s host recently branded his own take on moonshine. Major distilleries such as Jack Daniels and Jim Beam have taken note of the rise in moonshine popularity and quickly capitalized on the sensation, each releasing their own version of “radiator whisky”.

Moonshine lunacy has engulfed America. Locals looking to quench their Southern thirst can purchase this sublime “jet fuel” at most liquor stores in Chattanooga.

Diversions

Consider This with Dr. Rick

by Dr. Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. — Oprah Winfrey It’s a basic tenet of the Law of Attraction: What you think about and “thank” about, is what your life becomes about. So, being thankful for all your blessings, no matter how big or small, lets your mind, body, spirit, soul and heart line up to allow for more blessings.

Mother Teresa knew this. She said, “Don’t invite me to an anti-war rally. Invite me to a peace rally and I’ll come.” She understood that putting her energy toward something negative would just create more of the negative. But if she engaged in the positive, then the results would be positive.

You can experiment with this for yourself, beginning with gratitude for waking up in the morning, for your cup of coffee, the loved ones around you, the clothes on your back. Be grateful for all the fortunes as well as the character-building adversities, and see how your outlook, your life, begins to change. chattanoogapulse.com • JUNE 12-18, 2014 • The Pulse • 27

Free Will Astrology GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your brain absorbs about 11 million pieces of information every second, but is consciously aware of less than .001 percent of all that richness. Or at least that’s usually the case. Having analyzed your astrological omens, I suspect that you might soon jack that figure up as high as .01 percent—a ten-fold increase! Do you think you can handle that much raw input? Are you amenable to being so acutely perceptive? How will you respond if the world is a ten times more vivid than usual? I’m pretty confident. I suspect you won’t become a bug-eyed maniac freaking out on the intensity, but rather will be a soulful, wonder-filled explorer in love with the intensity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have a strong, intricate understanding of where you have come from.

The old days and old ways continue to feed you with their mysterious poignancy. You don’t love every one of your past experiences, but you love ruminating about them and feeling the way they changed you. Until the day you die many years from now, your history will keep evolving, providing an endless stream of new teachings. And yet at this particular moment in your destiny, Cancerian, I think your most important task is to focus on where you are going to.

That’s why I urge you to temporarily forget everything you think you know about your past and instead concentrate on getting excited about the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1928, Bobby Pearce won a gold medal in rowing at the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. An unforeseen event almost sabotaged his victory. As he rowed his boat along the Sloten Canal, a family of ducks swam leisurely from shore to shore directly across his path. He stopped to let them pass, allowing an opponent who was already ahead of him to gain an even bigger advantage. Yet he ultimately won the race, rowing with such vigor after the duck incident that he finished well ahead of his challenger. I foresee a comparable sequence in your life, Leo. Being thoughtful and expressing compassion may seem to slow you down, but in the end that won’t hinder you from achieving your goal—and may even help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In one of her “Twenty-One Love Poems,” Adrienne Rich talks about her old self in the third person.

“The woman who cherished / her suffering is dead. I am her descendant. / I love the scar tissue she handed on to me, / but I want to go from here with you / fighting the temptation to make a career of pain.” With your approval, Virgo, I’d like to make that passage one of your keynotes in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will have an excellent opportunity to declare your independence from an affliction you’ve been addicted

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to. Are you willing to say goodbye to one of your signature forms of suffering?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “You should be interviewing roses not people,” says a character in Anne Carson’s book “The Autobiography Of Red.” That’s sound poetic advice for you in the coming days, Libra. More than you can imagine, you will benefit from being receptive to and learning from nonhuman sources: roses, cats, dogs, spiders, horses, songbirds, butterflies, trees, rivers, the wind, the moon, and any other intelligences that make themselves available to you. I’m not saying you should ignore the revelations offered by people. But your emphasis should be on gathering in wisdom from life forces that don’t communicate with words.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): William Shockley was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who coinvented the transistor. He also helped launch the revolution in information technology, and has been called “the man who brought silicon to Silicon Valley.” Time magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people of the 20th century. On the other hand, Shockley became a controversial advocate of eugenics, which damaged his reputation, led many to consider him a racist, and played a role in his estrangement from his friends and family. I suspect that you will have to deal with at least one Shockley-type phenomenon in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Will you overlook the bad stuff in order to take advantage of the good?

Should you?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Herman Melville wrote that in order to create art, “unlike things must meet and mate.” Like what? “Sad patience” and “joyous energies,” for example; both of them are necessary, he said.

“Instinct and study” are crucial ingredients, as well as humility and pride, audacity and reverence, and “a flame to melt” and a “wind to freeze.” Based on my interpretation of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I believe you will soon need to meld opposites like these as you shape that supreme work of art—your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Haggis is a Scottish pudding.

According to the gourmet food encyclopedia “Larousse Gastronomique,” it has “an excellent nutty texture and delicious savory flavor.” And yet, to be honest, its ingredients don’t sound promising.

To make it, you gather the lungs, liver, small intestine, and heart of a sheep, put all of that stuff inside the stomach of the sheep along with oatmeal, onions, salt, and suet, and then simmer the whole mess for three hours. I’m guessing that your work in the coming week may have a certain metaphorical resemblance to making haggis, Capricorn. The process could a

bit icky, but the result should be pretty tasty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Almost a hundred years ago, worldfamous comedian Charlie Chaplin decided to take part in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in San Francisco. He did his best to imitate himself, but it wasn’t good enough. He didn’t come close to winning. But I think you would have a different fate if you entered a comparable competition in the coming weeks. There’s no question in my mind that you would be crowned as the person who most resembles you. Maybe more than ever before, you are completely yourself. You look like your true self, you feel like your true self, and you are acting like your true self. Congratulations! It’s hard work to be so authentic.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease,” said French philosopher Francois-Marie Voltaire. That principle will be useful for you to invoke in the coming weeks. You definitely need to be cured, although the “disease” you are suffering from is primarily psychospiritual rather than strictly physical. Your task will be to flood yourself with fun adventures, engaging stories, and playtime diversions so that nature can heal you without the interference of your worries and kibitzing.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In its quest for nectar, a hummingbird sips from a thousand flowers every day. As it flaps its wings 70 times a second, zipping from meal to meal, it can fly sideways, backward, or forward. If it so desires, it can also hover or glide upside-down. It remembers every flower it visits, and knows how long it will take before each flower will produce a new batch of nectar. To some Spanish speakers, hummingbirds are known as joyas voladoras, or “flying jewels.” Now take everything I’ve just said, Aries, and use it as a metaphor for who you can be in the coming week.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1947, the impossibly wealthy Duke of Windsor went shopping in Paris to buy a gift for his wife, the Duchess. She already had everything she wanted, so he decided to get creative. He commissioned the luxury-goods manufacturer Hermes to build her a high-fashion black leather wheelbarrow. I am not urging you to acquire something like that for yourself, Taurus.

But I do like it as a symbol for what you need in your life right now: a blend of elegance and usefulness, of playful beauty and practical value, of artistry and hard work.

Homework: Imagine your future self has sent a message to you back through time. What is it?

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20 Former Turkish title 21 Constricted 23 $, for short 24 “Father of Modern Philosophy” Descartes 28 For-profit university founded in 1931 29 Movie that clears up why Brits pronounce a letter differently?

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___-Pekka Salonen 36 Movie about booting the laptop again?

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49 “Good Times” actress Esther 50 A long, long time 51 With it 52 Patronize, as a hotel 54 “Dreamgirls” character ___ White (hidden in SHEFFIELD) 57 Michael Jackson hit off “Thriller” 58 Movie that follows an unwelcome school outbreak?

63 David Allan ___ 64 Take the penalty 65 Pearl gatherer 66 Alpine country, for short 67 Abalone-shell liner 68 Swordfight souvenirs

DOWN 1 “Macbeth” trio member 2 Goes by 3 Totals the total?

4 Rides for the back country, for short 5 2014 Russell Crowe epic 6 Hawaii’s Mauna ___ 7 Get busy 8 Mai ___ (bar order) 9 SpaceX CEO Musk 10 1980 hit for Olivia Newton-John 11 Yanks the wheel 12 Former Dodgers manager Tommy 13 Granola bar option 18 “Is this your ___?”

22 Set aside 23 “Miami Vice” weapon 25 Transition zone between two plant communities 26 “Sorry, that’s impossible” 27 Get on board 30 With respect

to hearing 31 Born with the name of 32 Like some chances 37 Calypso cousin 38 ___ in “Edward” 39 “Copy that” 40 Tells, as a story 43 Ambitious-sounding Oldsmobile model 44 Stanley ___ (rental carpet cleaner brand) 45 Unit of meas. that’s often leveled 47 Close up securely 48 Fraction of a fraction of a min.

49 UK humane org. (anagram of CRAPS) 53 Funny Fey 55 Passing crazes 56 Abbr. in a bank window 59 300, in Roman numerals 60 Afr. neighbor 61 “___ you for real?”

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The Modern Stabbing Officer Alex ponders the semantics and variations of poking humans with knives.

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We couldn’t go around with scary words like ‘stabbing’ in reports, frightening people and giving them a negative perception of crime, could we?”

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There are two primary differences between getting stabbed when you are sober and getting stabbed when you are drunk: The first is that when drunk, your blood is generally thinner and therefore less likely to coagulate, so you really lose a lot of it, and it makes a hell of a mess. (Don’t ALEX get me started on the smell; it stinks of booze for the same reason Breath-a-Lyzers work.)

The second is that you probably deserved it.

It was 2 a.m. in the College Hill Courts housing development. A very sleepy detective was conducting his rounds of interviews about the night’s festivities while we in uniform kept the place secured from the indigenous population.

The wound of this night’s “victim” was life-threatening to a normal man, but he being intoxicated, unemployed and a convicted multiple felon, we knew he would probably be released from the hospital by morning and live to be 90 years old. In my experience senseless dying was gener-

ally reserved for the civically and socially responsible.

As for the crime itself? It was the usual: According to the victim, he was just minding his own business at midnight on Grove Street when he was stabbed “For No Reason At All”. Absolutely horrible.

I mean, what kind of world is TEACH this we live in where you can’t hang out under a street light in a federal housing project at midnight minding your own business without worrying about getting stabbed?

The poor guy was probably job hunting or looking for a child to teach to read, because you’d think I was a cynical asshole if, based on my experience and the circumstances I implied, he fit the criminal profile of one “most likely stabbed over drugs or money”.

Perish the thought, Dear Reader; I think the best of humanity.

Like most Americans, I firmly believe that thinking the worst should only be reserved for political gain or when you want to actually solve a problem.

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Speaking of political gain, even the type of crime itself was getting the public relations treatment. When I started this job, poking someone with a knife was still called a stabbing, but I had watched over the years as political correctness had started to edge out the word “stabbing” in favor of “cutting”.

We couldn’t go around with scary words like “stabbing” in reports, frightening people and giving them a negative perception of crime, could we?

What would make you feel better: Hearing, “Ray-Ray stabbed Lysol over spilling his beer”, or “Ray-Ray cut Lysol over spilling his beer”? Isn’t that amazing? It’s pure horseshit, of course, but I have to credit it as brilliant horseshit.

Me? I’m a “stabbing” man, myself. It just has a gripping tone to it, but I always have been one for drama. “Cutting”, though…pure spin genius of the highest Clinton-era level, and like any worthy adversary, I had to respect it.

Whatever the word, it was still mine for the night. The excitement had come to a halt in the last hour and the firemen on scene (now known as “firefighters” or “conflagration technicians”, I believe) were about to go to sleep standing up against the front of their apparatus (once known as a “truck”).

Apparently the stress of waiting to put their years of experi-

ence and training to the test by pouring a bottle of diluted bleach onto the blood was losing a fight to their circadian rhythms, and I began wishing they weren’t there.

They were friends and I loved them…but like seeing someone else yawn, it caused me to lean against my own car, and my mind drifted to thoughts of why it was I carried my coffee in a cup instead of a vat, then answered itself with the probability that it was because my coffee was as strong as their bleach.

I then began wondering which was more likely to leave a clean spot on the sidewalk when used on blood, when finally I was mercifully interrupted by the lead detective’s voice coming over the radio giving the go-ahead to clear the scene.

I shook the cobwebs from my head as the Nozzleheads finally got to pour their bleach, driving off exchanging friendly waves of the hand, crime-scene tape still blowing in the cool summer wind as another officer began cutting it from the street signs and lamp posts.

I hadn’t gotten three blocks away when I was dispatched to another call, which was coincidentally another “cutting”… and based on the time, was also probably done “For No Reason At All”.

I mean, why wouldn’t it be?

It’s part of thinking the best of humanity.

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