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WALKING THE WALKNew Police Chief Fred Fletcher will lead by example

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of New York City, where I worked as vice pres-ident of artist and repertoire for SONY/Epic Records. On the Epic roster were The Jack-

sons, the late Michael Jack-son and Lu-ther Vandross, r e s p e c t i v e l y. In addition, I wrote several

songs for which I received both gold and plati-num record awards, with the most famous be-ing “I Can’t Stand the Rain”, recorded by Tina Turner, Missy Eliot and Seal.

I became a Christian while watching the 700 Club in 1988 in my apartment in New York City. Years later, the 700 Club selected me to be interviewed for their 50th anniversary cel-ebration. I was also invited to share my testi-mony live, on September 30, 2011 at CBN’s black-tie dinner in Virginia.

As I look back over these last 18 years, I am grateful that God chose me to be the founding pastor of the first multi-ethnic congregation in the city to offer quality praise and worship mu-sic from some of the city’s best musicians and singers.

The theme of our anniversary is “The Dream Turns 18”. I credit our start to God and my dear friend Lurone “Coach” Jennings. Coach Jen-nings and I were co-hosting a fundraiser for a

local radio station. I mentioned to him that God was calling me to start a multicultural ministry in the Woodmore area and I was interested in the vacant Trinity Woodmore Church building be-cause census data from a market-ing company supported it. His eyes widened and a broad smile came on his face. He said, “I’m on a committee to find a pastor to start a new work in that very building. Send me your resume.”

A month later, 25 people met in the sanctuary to officially call me as their pastor. More than 300 people attended our first worship service on July 5, 1996. After six years, we outgrew the building. So we left the United Methodist church building and purchased 18 acres directly across the street. One problem: We didn’t have $100,000 to pay for the land. So I prayed for God to give me the name of someone who could help us.

After praying, I called the name God gave me and they gave us the money we needed for A Place for Every Race.

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“A place for every race” is a trade-marked slogan of New Covenant Fel-lowship Church 1326 North Moore Road. On July 18, the church will cele-brate its 18th anniversary with a concert by the Wardlaw Brothers, known as the Boyz II Men of gospel.

I founded the church in 1996. After attending a Promise Keepers’ rally in Atlanta, I felt God wanted me to pastor a multi-ethnic congregation.

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involved in journalism dating back to his days on the high school newspaper staff. After a stint in the U.S. Navy, he worked for a weekly newspaper in Baton Rouge, then returned

to college for formal training in television news. He came to the Tennessee Valley in 1991 to work for WDEF-TV as a video-journalist, a reporter who shoots his own stories. While working in the media and raising a fam-ily, Louis gave back to his com-munity by volunteering as a re-serve deputy sheriff in Bradley County. Louis is now an award-winning documentary film-maker and freelance journalist.

Louis LeeAlbum re-viewer and music writer Ernie Paik has written about music and film for

various publications for over 20 years and has contributed regularly to The Pulse since 2005. He has contributed to the books “The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide”

and “Lunacy: The Best of the Cornell Lunatic”, and he is the current president of the Chattanooga-based nonprofit arts education organization The Shaking Ray Levi Society. As a recording artist, he has cre-ated original music for film, radio, television and theater, and his video artwork has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the 2010 Big Ears Festival.

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EdiToonby Rick Baldwin

Chattanooga earned the nickname “The Scenic City” for a reason. With towering mountains in view everywhere, and a river flowing through the city, Chattanooga seems like the perfect paradise for outdoor lovers and thrill seekers. This past Friday, one of the surrounding area’s most spectacular at-tractions, Cloudland Canyon State Park, unveiled nearly 60 miles worth of trails con-necting the beloved park to Lula Lake.

The new trails, titled “Phase IV”, wel-come hikers, bikers, horse riders, dog walk-ers and joggers to explore the wonders found within Lookout Mountain. One includes a brand new bridge crossing Bear Creek and they all feature breathtaking sights to de-light nature lovers. Along with the main con-

necting trail, a variety of side trails branch off the main path to ensure that no two hik-ers share the same adventure.

With its only charge being an economical-ly friendly parking pass, Cloudland Canyon State Park is an essential summer getaway. The park stays open all week, and if you can’t hike the entirety of the new trail in one day, bring your tent and camp out. Organiz-ers of Phase IV encourage everyone to leave the electronics at home and reacquaint your-self with your inner tree hugger.

— Christopher ArmstrongCloudland Canyon State Park122 Cloudland Canyon Park Rd., Rising Fawn, Ga. (706) 657-4050 gastateparks.org/cloudlandcanyon

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There’s a quote I particu-larly like for its comment on self-esteem. By Arlene Ra-ven, it proclaims: “The way in which we think of our-selves has everything to do with how the world sees us.”

In my work with patients I often say that what is within is reflected outside, just as what is out-side becomes a b s o r b e d within. So how we think of ourselves, our “internal universe,” gets projected onto our external universe, and becomes our experience, announcing to others both in subtle and obvious ways the state of our self-esteem.

This is also why it’s so im-portant to surround ourselves with healthy relationships and positive experiences, as we internalize what what is around us. And what we ab-sorb, in turn, then contrib-utes to our self-esteem either positively or negatively. And onward the cycle continues.

Self-esteem is the reason I began my work some 28 years ago. In the counseling I was doing in various agen-cies, I realized that it was the

underlying cause of so many human difficulties—showing up in our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, the relationships we attract, the entire way we see our lives.

Just about every issue that came to my attention had a significant self-esteem com-

ponent. And where did these self-es-teem roots lie? In the earliest chapters of life, of course.

That is a journey of dis-covery for psychotherapy and other forms of self-growth work. But I’ll suggest to you that a healthy starting point to work on the feelings you have about yourself is to real-ize that self-esteem is not an “either/or” proposition.

It simply isn’t accurate that you have either good self-esteem or low self-esteem. Such thinking presupposes that there are no gray areas, no degrees, to your opinions about yourself. The reality is there are many areas of your life that are in flux, some identities are also in flux, and so your feelings would, quite organically, evolve accord-ingly.

Think of it like this. We all have many parts to our lives which, for simplicity purpos-es, can be seen as pieces of a pie. Your life may include, for example, home, work, school, friendships, perhaps a sig-nificant love relationship and family. Each piece of the pie requires a different amount of time and energy, and each fulfills a different need.

The pieces also carry your different identities (son, stu-dent, worker, parent, lover), and the differing feelings you have about yourself in that area. Maybe you feel that you’re a good friend, a great lover, a so-so employee, but you feel guilty about being a lousy (in your opinion) son or daughter.

Or perhaps you see yourself as an accomplished career person, a devoted sibling, but feel awful about the quality of your friendships and your string of transient love rela-tionships. Maybe you think you’re a great dad, but a poor son to your own father. You get the idea. Each piece of the pie has its own piece of your self-esteem.

If you’re wanting to make positive changes to your self-esteem, my suggestion is to take a breath, get to an hon-est place, and ask yourself a few beginning questions: When do you feel good about who you are? Under what cir-cumstances? In which identi-ties? How often do you feel

this way? How long does the feeling usually last? And conversely, when do you not feel good about yourself? Un-der which circumstances? In which identities?

Still with me? OK, now ask yourself: What one gift do you possess, modest or grand, that is commendable? Where do you excel in life, and oth-ers know this about you? Which of your identities is doing great right now?

You see, self-esteem work is often the process of “bor-rowing” the positive and em-powered feelings from one area of your life to remind you of the possibilities, to strengthen you to take the steps necessary to apply that confidence in other areas. If you can do it with one piece of the pie, then in time, with conscientious, intentional work, you can have the whole pie feeling a whole lot better.

It requires courage. And you must believe that you deserve this. This is about you, not about pleasing oth-ers. It’s about your internal universe and feeling better about yourself.

As author and minister Max Lucado puts it: “Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to obstacles?” Perhaps faith—in yourself—is the gift that lies waiting for you along this journey.

A Self-Esteem Starter Kit

“It requires courage. And you must believe that you deserve this. This is about you, not about pleasing others. It’s about your internal universe and feeling better about yourself.”

Can you feel better about yourself? Yes—and it’s a worthwhile journey

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Dr. Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, author, minister, and educator in private practice in Chattanooga. Contact him at DrRPH.com, visit his wellness center at WellNestChattanooga.com and follow his daily inspirations on Twitter: @DrRickWellNest


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The search for the Scenic City’s new top cop began months ago when Mayor Andy Berke advertised both in-

side the department and externally for someone with spe-cific qualities.He wanted someone who had a knowledge of the underlying principles of the Violence Reduction Initiative

(VRI). He also wanted someone interested in community po-licing and engaged conversation. His choice would also be

someone who could build a diverse and dynamic force. “Fred Fletcher suits that criteria perfectly,” Berke

says. “He has a background of tremendous success when it comes to utilizing the principles of fo-

cused deterrence.” Fletcher was one of 77 qualified can-

didates from 24 states and the Dis-trict of Columbia who passed

a battery of tests and vetting by a blue-ribbon panel of

Chattanoogans before being offered the po-

sition. And Fletcher

vetted Chatta-nooga as well. He had visited the city once before, staying over-night on his way

to the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. His view of the city from his motorcycle seat was memo-rable enough that he found him-self noticing photos and articles on Chattanooga in various media.

In fact, Fletcher says Chatta-nooga has a familiar feel. “I re-ally, really fell in love with Austin [Texas] when it looked more like Chattanooga does today,” Fletcher says, noting similarities between the two. His former boss believes that will serve him—and our com-munity—well. “What Fred brings is having the knowledge of what happens to a city and the challeng-es as it grows,” says Chief Art Ace-vedo, of the Austin Police Depart-ment. “I think he’s a perfect fit.”

Acevedo flew to Chattanoo-ga from Austin to participate in Fletcher’s swearing-in ceremony. That’s not something a former boss usually does, but their rela-tionship is one of great respect and admiration. “As a leader, he need-

He wears comfortable, well-worn walking shoes. No mir-ror-finish patent leather for Fred Fletcher. While he maintains a

picture-perfect uniform, it’s also very functional. “Distances seem smaller and problems seem smaller when you’re face-to-face,” he

says. And to get that face time, he does a lot of walking. Whether it be inside the office at police headquarters or out in the community with those

he protects, Chattanooga’s new chief of police plans to put many more miles on those shoes.


“You literally go show up on their doorstep and you say, ‘Hi, I’m Officer Fletcher. I know who you are, the community knows what you’re doing...we all insist that you stop it.”

WALKS THE WALKTALKS THE TALKed to know a little bit about everything,” says Acevedo, “So nobody could pull the wool over his eyes. And one thing about Fred, he’s wicked smart.”

For the last few years, Fletcher had been a commander of a portion of the Austin Police Department with as many officers as the entire Chattanooga Police Department. During the last three years, Fletcher’s biggest success story was the taming of a multi-generational open-air drug market on the east side of town. He describes the neighborhood of 12th Street and Chicon as something out of the the ’80s cop drama “Colors.”

He and his team tried saturation pa-trols, walking beat patrols and Weed & Seed programs, but nothing helped. That is, until they learned of David Ken-nedy’s Focused Deterrence Strategies. Kennedy is a criminologist who devel-oped the program in Boston in the 1990s. It has since been successfully utilized in Minneapolis, Stockton, California and Baltimore.

“It’s innovative,” says Fletcher of fo-cused deterrence, “but what it really has is a sort of a Rockwellian concept of policing, which is that police officers are most concerned about what offends that neighborhood.” Fletcher goes on to ex-plain that the officers learn what offends a particular neighborhood by talking to its citizens—not an easy task in the in-ner city where police have had difficulty getting bystanders to speak up following incidents of violence. Fletcher says it’s up to him and his officers to start the ball rolling by garnering some early success on their own, then showing the commu-nity that it’s working.

“These problems didn’t get here over-night, they’re not going to be fixed over-night,” says the chief. Fletcher insists that once citizens see progress, they will get “on board” with the idea. “VRI will

have an impact, and it’s going to be inte-gral to the way we customize neighbor-hood and community policing for Chat-tanooga,” he says, “which is identifying the people who are offending the com-munity and being police officers on the doorsteps of those actors and the people who are offended by them.”

Here’s where those comfortable walk-ing shoes re-enter the picture. “You lit-erally go show up on their doorstep and [knocking on the table as though it were a door], you say, ‘Hi, I’m Officer Fletch-er. I know who you are, the community knows what you’re do-ing...we all insist that you stop it. If you don’t stop it, we are going to come at you with ev-erything we have.’” At this point, the normally amiable Fletcher’s face grows hard lines and his blue eyes turn steely with determination, a determination that comes from years of life experience.

“I learned you can do a lot more than you think you can,” the chief explains about his attitude. He tells the story of how he joined the Marines with a prom-ise of jet school. “I wanted to be a naval aviator.” Fletcher, an admitted “former fat kid,” lost 45 pounds in order to join the USMC. But he lost the weight on crash diets and showed up for officer’s candidate school missing much-needed body mass. “I found that attitude really got me through there,” he says of OCS, “not my physical abilities, not my skills.”

He says he also learned a lot about leading by example. “When we’d go on our runs, we’d go in PT (physical train-ing) gear. Our platoon sergeants would run in boots and utes (utility uniforms),

and if we’d go across a bridge, they’d go down through the creek or river.” He re-membered that when he took over Aus-tin’s Police Training Academy years later. “I made a commitment that I would...ev-ery time my cadets ran, I would run.” he says. “Sometimes it meant running three times a day, and sometimes it meant that I forgot my running shoes and I had to run on the track in bare feet.”

Bad eyesight would mean no flight school and a very short military career, but Fletcher took what he learned about leadership and put it to good use, apply-

ing, twice, for the Austin Police Depart-ment. Before that, with an accounting degree from the University of Texas, he worked for a few years in one of the larg-est accounting firms in the nation. But it wasn’t what he wanted.

The same passion for public service that made him want to join the Marine Corps kicked in again. He sees that same dedication in many of the uniformed of-ficers here in Chattanooga. “At the risk of sounding corny,” Fletcher says, “these officers really do see it as a mission to help the people they serve. And that’s very attractive to someone who’s com-mitted their life to public service.”

So now we have a motivated leader who leads by example and a force of

hundreds of officers wanting to make a difference. Fletcher plans to integrate all that emotion with a proven method of handling violent crime in inner cities. Accountability, he says, goes both ways. He says he plans to build trust in the communities he serves “telling people what you can and can’t do and then fol-lowing up on your promises.” He knows his officers are behind him on this. “There’s a lot of pride in this city,” he notes, “and the police department really reflects that.”

Making the VRI work is only the first (although very large) item on his to-do list. Chief Fletcher has many more ideas for mak-ing Chattanooga a safer, more enjoyable place to live. Some of those include increased use of technology in this, the Gig City. He tells The Pulse that the city has already or-dered license plate scanners that will allow checking for stolen vehicles without hav-ing to stop the driver first.

Another bit of technology on the board will be fingerprint scanners in the patrol cars. Now officers will no longer need to “cuff-and-stuff” a suspect and bring them to the jail for confirmation of their identity.

Fletcher quipped at his swearing-in ceremony that his “superpower” is “talk-ing.” Pressed for an explanation, he says, “I think one of the areas we can improve internally and externally at Chattanooga PD is communication.” He says officers need to be able to share crime data inter-nally and with the community members. Only by keeping the lines of communi-cation open and free flowing will all par-ties know what the status is of fighting crime in the city.


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Leaky Sockets Festival 2014In its second year, the festival aims to “gather some of the best local and regional experimental acts in one place,” to “help this aspect of the Chattanooga music scene to continue to grow,” according to organizer Jerry Reed.7 p.m.Barking Legs Theater1307 Dodds Ave.barkinglegs.org

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Pops on the RiverA Chattanooga tradition of celebrating Independence Day a day early (some things can't be explained) continues with an evening of American classics. Plus, it gives you Friday night to have your own party, the way George Washington intended.8 p.m.Coolidge Park1 River St.chattanoogaysmphony.org

Soul in the Scenic City Mikaela Dewar sings good for free at the Market

This Fourth of July weekend may focus on fireworks, barbeque, beer, and symphonic bands playing favor-ite patriotic songs—but the holiday weekend winds down with an acous-tic sound of blues, jazz and old-school country.

Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, Mikaela Dewar is bringing her soulful sound to the Chattanooga Market on Sunday, July 6.

What started out as playing on her dad’s old guitar at age 7 turned into booking gigs by age 9. After receiv-ing a degree in French and politics, she grabbed her guitar, hit the road, and began playing music all over the world.

From Australia to London to Texas, Dewar’s talents have led to several awards and titles, including New Zea-land’s premier country music acco-lade, The Gold Guitar Award, and a two-time win of the South Plains Col-lege Female Songwriter of the Year.

But awards and titles aren’t the only thing Dewar has accomplished dur-ing her career. She recorded her first album, Overdressed, in Lubbock, Tx., and her second album, Hard as Nails, featuring local musicians in Nashville.

Mikaela Dewar brings her soulful sound to the Scenic City on July 6 from 2 -3 p.m. at the Chattanooga Market.

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In terms of country music, this is the most sincere pumpkin patch I’ve seen in a long, long time.”

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I admit I was taken aback. Usually I have to chase down bands and beg for material, which I frequently re-ceive after the deadline for these music features has passed (making me very popular around the office) but here was this cat going completely old-school in his approach. That is what we in the word business call “foreshadowing”.

As it happens, Mr. D. Striker is about as old-school as you can get: a country musician who dresses, sounds and (I suspect) lives the part. The disc arrived a few days ago, and if it had been vi-nyl I would have sworn it was late ’50s/early ’60s vintage just by the look of it. Aside from the crystal-clear quality of the recording, the music itself supports that notion, as Striker has managed to capture the essence of smoky, late-night honky-tonk in his music.

This is not rockabilly or psychobilly or fusion-country or any of a dozen other flavors of new-wave country. This is the good old stuff, or rather it’s new stuff done the old-fashioned way. This is country music from an era when being a player at the Grand Ole Opry meant you were practically royalty.

It was an era of music that saw a curi-ous blend of elegance and sawdust, re-fined grit and ladies’ hairstyles that put Marge Simpson to shame, but under-neath all the pomp and circumstance

Resurrecting the Spirit of Nashville

I RECEIVED AN EMAIL A FEW WEEKS AGO, A VERY PO-lite, professional email from a fellow named D. Striker out of Nashville. Mr. Striker explained who he was, what he did, when

he was coming to town and asked if I would consider listening to his new album.

D. Striker rediscovers the smoky, honky-tonk country sound of a pre-corporate Music City


of that time, there was real music being performed by real songwrit-ers. The plastification of Nashville hadn’t quite taken hold yet.

That era is what Striker’s music captures. But he is not an anach-ronism, no mere player dressing up to re-enact the “good ol’ days”. His music is contemporary—the marriage of old and new is tackled head-on in the tune, “Three Dudes in an Office”, in which the singer makes the point that authenticity isn’t bound up in trappings. It’s all about intent and how a great deal of what is perceived as “country” was/is manufactured by three dudes in an office down on Music Row.

“You brag you’re a redneck and I don’t doubt that’s true but livin’ near a strip mall, well that’s country too…”

So it is. The album, Come Over Here,

boasts 13 tracks and covers a lot of ground, much of it having to do with the “on the street” experiences of a classic country artist in the modern Nashville scene. It’s a fascinating exploration based on that alone, never mind that the music itself is beautifully arranged. The pervasive steel guitar is like an angelic chorus, albeit one whose halos are canted to one side, and Striker’s lyrics are clever and biting, humorous and full of depth. In terms of country music,

this is the most sincere pumpkin patch I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Your opportunity to experience this firsthand is fast approaching. D. Striker will be appearing at JJ’s Bohemia on July 17 with Big Kitty as part of a promotional tour for the album.

Whether your tastes run to coun-try or not, there is so much appeal to this collection of tunes you need to hear it, and I’m certain you’ll want to own it. Beautiful playing and smart lyrics transcend any genre. You’ll be hard pressed to find a bet-ter example of what noncorporate Nashville is up to these days than Come Over Here.

Jess Goggans is a singer/songwriter living in Fort Payne, Alabama looking to make her way up to Chattanooga. My only question is “Why isn’t she already setting the stage on fire here?”

The lady’s voice is practically a weapon, capable of cutting with scalpel precision or coming down on your head like a war ham-mer—and Ms. Goggans knows how to wield that weapon to supreme effect.

Her breathy, sultry voice lures you in…then without warning flies to a crescendo with range reminiscent of young Aretha Franklin demanding some respect.

Combine that voice with scorching guitar licks, Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed style pickin’, and an organ that can make the most de-voted heathen feel a touch of the spiritual—now you’ve got something pretty damn hot.

Goggans has been described as “funky folk”, and while that wouldn’t have been my first choice, I am hard pressed to deliver a better label. What I hear is a unique blend of R&B, rockabilly and good old-fashioned blues, delivered in a package that could find equal footing in New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis or Miami.

Jess has a page on Reverbnation that sports five tunes and a link to her new album (re-leased just a few weeks ago). Drop in, have a listen and send her a note letting her know that when she comes to town, the people who know what’s good in Chattanooga will show her band the love it deserves.

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Psychedelic Folk-Rock, New York Garage FuzzKikagaku Moyo flits, People brashly explores

The up-and-coming Japa-nese psychedelic quintet Kikagaku Moyo, on its

new album Forest of Lost Children, seems to prefer to use teleporta-tion to various geographic and sonic locales and never settles on a single vibe throughout the album’s six tracks.

While the diversity is admi-rable and keeps the listeners on their toes, it also doesn’t quite let each song expand fully and spread its wings to get to dizzy-ing heights. There’s an undercur-rent of restraint with a cleanliness felt even through the fuzz-rock vamps, and the group’s poise is constantly maintained; perhaps in live performances, the band lets itself go with a little more freedom, but on record, there seems to be an awareness of bor-ders with a self-consciousness.

The opening “Semicircle” is a faux ashram or hippie commune jam, with an acoustic guitar one-chord bed with sitar brush strokes and obligatory flute and tambou-

rine accents, as if announcing, with small-font uppercase letters, yes, this is psychedelic folk.

However, the style abruptly jumps with the next track, “Ko-dama,” featuring an electric, driving blues-rock riff with deli-cate vocal harmonizing and a dis-tant guitar solo, and it’s followed by “Smoke and Mirrors,” which is sort of like Golden Earring with wah guitar and the rhythmic jerk of “Take Five.”

The album’s superior sec-ond half begins with “Streets of Calcutta,” sporting a killer fuzz bass and sitar riff, and its salient melody can easily be imagined in some movie soundtrack.

The closing track, “White Moon,” takes things down to a calming, relaxed tempo with mal-leted drums, bowed strings and sitar flourishes that aren’t merely ornamental, perhaps sounding like an Indian version of Yo La Tengo, even down to the dreamy vocals.

“Dabbling” is too weak a word

to describe what Kikagaku Moyo is doing on this album, but the group seems to consciously not paint itself into a corner, taking on the breadth of the psychedelic folk-rock genre with aplomb.

Those who remember the late-’80s television show “It’s Garry Shandling’s

Show” will certainly recall its sil-ly yet kind of brilliant, catchy and self-referential theme song, with lyrics like, “This is the theme to Garry’s show” and “This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits.”

That ditty comes to mind when listening to the new avant-rock album 3xaWOMAN from the NYC trio People, which prob-ably will win the award for “Most Self-Aware Album of 2014.” Parts of it are downright hilarious, but more importantly, it has a pecu-liar vitality and playful adventur-ousness mixed with a bit of pun-kish audacity.

Take for example the track

“What’s So Woman About That Woman,” a fast and heavy ga-rage-fuzz-rock stomper, with lyr-ics that explain that “four times a woman” is “too much woman,” followed by the admission that “Lionel Richie was right about how many times a woman.”

Two members will be famil-iar to those in tune with NYC’s avant-jazz scene—celebrated guitarist/vocalist Mary Halvor-son and the formidable drummer Kevin Shea of Mostly Other Peo-ple Do The Killing—and bassist Kyle Forester is a member of the pop band The Ladybug Transis-tor and Crystal Stilts.

Halvorson delivers agile and inspired playing with her trade-mark note-warping, and she sings with a clear, matter-of-fact tone; Shea lets his animalistic drum-ming discombobulate violently then lock into a pattern when the song calls for it. The core trio is augmented by trumpeter Peter Evans (Shea’s MOPDTK band mate) with horn players Sam Ku-lik and Dan Peck, playing Evans’ arrangements.

3xaWOMAN goes into fuzz-pop territory with “Piles for Miles,” with a discordant skronk slyly lurking between the steering chords, and the charmingly goofy “The Lyrics Are Simultaneously About How the Song Stars and What the Lyrics Are About” provides real-time commentary about itself, possibly a bit like a tongue-in-cheek take on Stark Reality’s music-theory primer “All You Need to Make Music.”

Don’t be fooled into thinking this might be a jazz album. No, it’s a smirking, way-left-of-center rock album that explodes with brash outbursts, disintegrates and regroups constantly, danc-ing around structures and teasing those who can’t handle the un-predictable.

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When is a 3D-printed heart like a cartoon flip book? Just as you can flip through static drawings in rapid succession to create animated move-ment, if you combine a se-quence of MRI images in the right way, s o m e t h i n g different is created: a 3D image you can print.

That’s what Gig Tank com-pany 3D Operations is doing. The company’s president, Daniel Hampton, spent years using 3D printing to create custom surgical tools based on scans of patient anatomy. He created 3D Operations to take the next step: 3D print-ing organs from the same

type of 2D scans. These organs would remain

strictly outside the body. A surgeon might show a heart patient exactly what upcom-ing surgery would do using a 3D printout of the patient’s

heart, com-plete with the defect to be corrected.

Once a par-ticularly diffi-

cult or innovative surgery was done, the surgeon could re-enact the operation on a 3D-printed organ—heart, brain, lungs, liver, anything—to educate other surgeons.

Or a medical device manu-facturer could use a printed organ, complete with defect, to show surgeons how a new

product could be used to cor-rect the problem.

If education and product development were all 3D Ops’ products would ever be used for, the company would be almost ready to go to mar-ket. But here’s where it really gets interesting.

If a surgeon wants to use a 3D model based on actual MRI and CT data to study the patient’s anatomy and prepare for surgery, the com-pany’s product might be con-sidered a medical device and subject to approval by the U.S. Food & Drug Adminis-tration. Or not. What 3D Ops is doing has never been done, so the FDA doesn’t know how to regulate it.

“What they’re doing with this model is they’re getting inside and understanding your anatomy from a base level that they can’t do right now, because they can’t take your heart out and look at it—but now we can,” says Hamp-

ton. “Based on your scan data

we can, essentially, take your heart out of your body and hand it to a surgeon and say, “Here, this is what you’re go-ing to see when you get in there.’”

The FDA considers any-thing used to treat or diag-nose an issue to be a medical device and subject to review and approval. The question is whether it is possible that having a 3D model could hurt someone where having a 2D model would not.

“Could they misdiagnose you because of the model?” asks Hampton. “And what we say...is that the model is not used for diagnosis. The di-agnosis is based on the MRI. When you use the model, you’re essentially practicing surgery so you know what you’re doing before you get in there. You’re not using the model to diagnose. You’re using the model to plan,

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“Based on your scan data we can, essentially, take your heart out of your body and hand it to a surgeon.”

3D Ops is doing something so new the FDA hasn’t regulated it (yet)

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and those are two completely different things.”

Hampton’s company is not the only one grappling with 3D printing in the operating room, but it’s the only one (as far as he knows) that’s making the FDA scratch its head. Other companies use 3D printing to create instruments used in surgery or artificial bones that are implanted. These things are clearly subject to FDA approval.

3D Operations is using software that is commercially available and already FDA-approved to convert 2D scans to 3D images that are viewed on 2D screens. The only difference is in the output. But it turns out there is a human element in the 3D conversion. As 2D files are prepared for 3D conversion, hu-man judgment is needed to choose what gets printed from the entire visual field of the 2D scan. Hampton uses the flip book analogy.

“Say you have a cartoon flip book, and a tree that stays in the same place and you have a little guy running,” he says. “As I flip through, the tree never moves

but the little guy’s running. So I’m look-ing at this one image within this entire cartoon and I’m saying, ‘OK, what of this is the guy, and what of this is the tree?’”

Or, in other words, is this blob on the MRI image part of the heart or part of the lung? With the software and the 3D conversion process already FDA-approved, there is nothing for the FDA to evaluate except the ability of Hamp-ton’s company to distinguish guy from tree, or heart from lung.

“That’s the only thing that is variable in the whole system,” he says. “As far as I know there is no way [for the FDA] to approve the way something is done. It’s only the thing that exists at the end of the process.”

In the next few weeks Hampton will decide, based on input from regulatory specialists around the country, how to proceed. He could move forward on non-surgical uses without FDA approv-al or ask the FDA to decide whether his product requires approval. For now, it’s a puzzler.


From Salon to Sewing Two upcoming shows at AVA showcase artistic diversity

Chattanooga artists have endless opportunities to share their latest cre-ations with the community. One of the biggest supporters is the Association for Visual Arts. Since 1986, AVA has pro-vided programs, resources, exhibition spaces, and more for “those who make art”.

Two of AVA’s exhibits, the “AVA All-Members Salon Show”, and “Needle & Thread” are scheduled to open in Au-gust and September respectively—so there’s still time to get involved.

Opening August 1, the “AVA All-Members Salon Show” will be a non-juried salon-style exhibit featuring the work of current AVA members. Only one piece from each artist will be ac-cepted and each piece must be no larg-er than four feet in any direction. All

2-D or 3-D media will be considered. Designed to celebrate the Ameri-

can Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek, and pay tribute to completed quilts and the process behind them, “Needle & Thread” will be a display of aspects of quilt making. That might include mate-rials, sewing, cutting and pattern tech-niques, or a theme of quilt making or sewing. It’s up to the artist, but the op-tions are endless.

AVA’s Exhibition Advisory Panel will jury “Needle & Thread”. The exhibit will open September 6.

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opening July 17 at the Ensemble The-atre of Chattanooga, seeks to explore that truth beyond the traditional “boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl get married and live happily ever after” story so often told and so easily accepted. Instead, it looks at love from a more universal perspec-tive and asks the audience to recog-nize the overwhelming power of love beyond the confines of the “straight” (and narrow).

Written by Harvey Fierstein in 1983 and based on a play of the same name by French playwright Jean Poiret, “La Cage” is a tale as old as time…well, if you exclude the drag queens, nightclubs and conflicts between po-litical conservatism and homosexual-ity. (The film “The Birdcage”, with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, was an adaptation of the Broadway hit.)

The story centers around a gay cou-ple, Georges, the proprietor of a St. Tropez nightclub featuring a nightly drag show, and his partner and the club’s star performer, Albin. It unfolds as they prepare to meet the fiancée of Georges’ son and her extremely conservative family. Hilarity ensues as they attempt to become the mod-

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el family but struggle to be anything other than exactly who they are, which happens to be far more fabulous and much more entertaining.

It’s a story about family, acceptance, and most importantly, love. ETC’s director, Garry Lee Posey, selected this piece in part because of his per-sonal connection to the show, but also because ultimately the show is “just about people loving each other…[It] reminds people that we’re all just peo-ple, trying to make a family and love.”

In a society polarized on the issue of gay marriage, “La Cage” carries an important reminder that families and relationships ultimately boil down to one thing: love. And while the show

relies heavily on the relationship and security of a gay couple, Posey points out that it’s not a show that forces the issue of “accept me for who I am”. In fact, it’s beyond that. As one of the show’s most powerful and famous songs says, “I am who I am”.

ETC’s production boasts a large cast, mostly new actors to the ETC stage, many of whom are drag per-formers. “Chattanooga has a pretty large drag community,” Posey says, “and with this kind of show, we’re able to tap into that as a market.” The nightclub is a central part of the story and so, therefore, are the drag queens who perform in it.

The audience will be invited to sit

either in general seating or the cabaret tables, giving them an opportunity to engage with the show in a much more intimate way. “There are two things I find extremely important,” Posey says, “One is imagination. The second is the collaborative effort between the audience and the actor.” Bringing the audience directly into the show allows the performers to engage in a much more realistic way and “creates a nice intimacy so the audience feels like be-cause they’re so close, they’re a part of the story.”

Enjoying this show is no challenge. From toe-tapping, memorable Broad-way show tunes written by Jerry Her-man, to a beautiful script by Fierstein,

to the grand color, pop and panache of the drag show within the show, this is a production for all lovers of musical theater.

For, as any audience member will no doubt feel, to understand and en-joy “La Cage aux Folles”, love is really all you need.

“La Cage aux Folles”July 17-27. 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga5600 Brainerd Rd. (inside Eastgate Town Center)(423) 602-8640 ensembletheatreofchattanooga.com


thursday7.3 Summer Book Sale 10 a.m.Northgate Mall 271 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 875-4351facebook.com/folchatt“Open 24 Hours” exhibit opens10 a.m.Hunter Museum of Art10 Bluff View(423) 267-0968huntermuseum.orgStar Spangled Supper: Barbecue, Music and Fireworks 5:30 p.m.Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534theatrecentre.orgAmbi Artists Creative Cluster 6 p.m.Heritage House1428 Jenkins Rd. (423) 855-9474America’s Birthday Cruise 7 p.m.Pier 2 Riverfront Parkway(423) 265-0698tnaqua.org Pops on the River7 p.m.Coolidge Park 200 River St. (423) 265-0771chattanoogapops.comRoy Haber 7:30 p.m.The Comedy Catch3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233thecomedycatch.comPoetry Night 8 p.m.Rhapsody Café1201 Hixson Pike

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frIday7.4 Zoe’s Rainbow Dash 5K Color Run8 a.m.Hamilton Place Mall2100 Hamilton Place Blvd. (423) 894-7177zoesrainbowdash.comSummer Book Sale 10 a.m.Northgate Mall 271 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 875-4351facebook.com/folchattIndependence Day Celebration at the Jewish Cultural Center11:30 a.m.Jewish Cultural Center5461 North Terrace Rd.(423) 493-0270jewishchattanooga.comRed, White & Blue Days

NoonCreative Discovery Museum321 Chestnut St.(423) 757-2143cdmfun.orgFolk School of Chattanooga, Illusionist Jaden MaxwellNoonIncline Railway 3917 Saint Elmo Ave.(423) 821-4224ridetheincline.comWide Open Floor7:30 p.m. Barking Legs Theater1307 Dodds Ave. (423) 624-5347barkinglegs.org

saturday7.5 Downtown Kayak Adventure9:30 a.m.Coolidge Park 200 River St.(423) 643-6888

outdoorchattanooga.com Summer Book Sale 10 a.m.Northgate Mall 271 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 875-4351facebook.com/folchattChattanooga River Market10 a.m.Tennessee Aquarium Plaza 1 Broad St.(423) 648-2496chattanoogarivermarket.comSaturday Morning Handicrafts 10:30 a.m.Northgate Public Library278 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 870-0635chattlibrary.orgOil Paint Making Demo with Amanda Brazier 11 a.m.River Gallery400 E. Second St.(423) 265-5033river-gallery.comFolk School of Chattanooga, Illusionist Jaden MaxwellNoonIncline Railway 3917 Saint Elmo Ave.(423) 821-4224ridetheincline.comEastgate Saturday Cinema: “TheLEGO Movie”2:30 p.m. Eastgate Public Library5705 Marlin Rd.chattlibrary.org“A Death In The Library” murder mystery6 p.m.Northgate Public Library278 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 870-0635chattlibrary.orgRoy Haber7:30 p.m.

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The Comedy Catch3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233thecomedycatch.com“The King and I”8 p.m.Signal Mountain Playhouse 1104 James Blvd.(423) 886-5243smph.org“Xanadu”8 p.m.Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534theatrecentre.com

sunday7.6 Downtown Kayak Adventure9:30 a.m.Coolidge Park 200 River St.(423) 643-6888outdoorchattanooga.com Chattanooga Market: Peach Festival11 a.m.First Tennessee Pavilion1829 Carter St. (423) 402-9957chattanoogamarket.comFolk School of Chattanooga, Illusionist Jaden MaxwellNoonIncline Railway 3917 Saint Elmo Ave.(423) 821-4224ridetheincline.comSummer Book Sale NoonNorthgate Mall 271 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 875-4351facebook.com/folchattFree First Free Sunday Noon

Hunter Museum of Art10 Bluff View(423) 267-0968huntermuseum.orgThe Awesome Opossum 1:30 p.m.Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center400 Garden Rd.(423) 821-1160chattanooganaturecenter.orgDocent’s Choice Tour2 p.m.Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center 400 Garden Rd.(423) 821-1160chattanooganaturecenter.org “Xanadu”2:30 p.m.Chattanooga Theatre Centre 400 River St. (423) 267-8534theatrecentre.comRoy Haber 7:30 p.m.The Comedy Catch3224 Brainerd Rd. (423) 629-2233thecomedycatch.com

Monday7.7 Choo Choo Chorus Rehearsal7 p.m.All Saints Academy310 E. Eighth St. (423) 876-7359choochoochorus.org

tuesday7.8 Blue Ridge Carvers10 a.m.The Art Center420 W. Main St.

(706) 632-7785blueridgearts.netChattanooga Writer’s Guild6 p.m.Downtown Public Library1001 Broad St. (423) 757-5310chattlibrary.org

wednesday7.9 Middle Eastern Dance 10:30 a.m.Jewish Cultural Center5461 North Terrace Rd.(423) 493-0270jewishchattanooga.comLet’s Make Terrariums!1 p.m.Downtown Public Library1001 Broad St.(423) 757-5310chattlibrary.orgWednesday Art Table 3 p.m.Northgate Public Library278 Northgate Mall Dr. (423) 870-0635chattlibrary.orgMain Street Farmers Market 4 p.m.Southside Chattanooga325 East Main St. mainstfarmersmarket.comWednesday Market4 p.m.First Tennessee Pavilion1829 Carter St. (423) 402-9957chattanoogamarket.comRapid Learning Kayak Roll Practice6 p.m. Chester Frost Park2318 Gold Point Circle (423) 842-0177 outdoorchattanooga.com

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“Constant Motion” River Gallery400 E. Second St.river-gallery.com“Fire and Steel: The Metal sculpture of Turry Lindstrom”Graffiti505 Cherokee Blvd.hillcityart.com“Community Quilt Exhibit” Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association420 W. Main St. blueridgearts.net “Magnificent Minis”In-Town Gallery26A Frazier Ave. intowngallery.com “Emerging Artists Exhibit”AVA Gallery30 Frazier Ave.avarts.org“Abstract and Contemporary” Reflection Gallery5600 Brainerd Rd.reflectionsgallerytn.com“Hunter Invitational III”Hunter Museum of American Art10 Bluff View.huntermuseum.orgDirt Track History RacesMuseum Center at 5ive Points200 Inman Street East.museumcenter.org “The Wizard of Oz” Creative Discovery Museum321 Chestnut St.cdmfun.org

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It’s easy to dismiss Tom Cruise films, es-pecially if you find the actor himself a little distasteful. But there is no denying that in general, Tom Cruise films have a middling sort of quality that rarely makes them completely worthless. They are usually enter-taining and well acted, even if the plots and characters are interchange-able.

“Edge of Tomorrow” belongs near the top of the Tom Cruise pile, due to an effective Harold Ramis story-telling style and several quality per-formances throughout the film. It’s a summer movie, one that falls apart with too much scrutiny, but good enough to keep an audience enter-tained for two hours. In essence, “Edge of Tomorrow” is a Tom Cruise #1 with a side of pop science, easily digestible—and quickly forgotten.

War has broken out across Europe. The aggressors are an alien inva-sion force, brought to the world by a Russian meteor. They are tentacled and fast, dubbed “mimics” by the movie’s protagonists, creatures that are neither biological nor mechanical

but somewhere in the middle. They move so fast and attack so randomly, we never get much of a look at their actual shape.

There is a scene set in a London pub, where the lo-cals discuss what the aliens might want with the planet, whether they desire our minerals, our water, or our oxygen. None of the answers are sat-isfactory and Cruise’s character man-ages to sum up the screenwriter’s opinion by saying “Does it matter? They’re here.”

He’s right, of course. As far as most films like this go, the story lies only in the defeat of the invaders. Like far too many science fiction monsters, these aliens are hive-minded, con-sisting of millions of individuals that are part of a single organism evolved to survive. They are pests to be ex-terminated, not a sentient species to be reasoned with. Why cloud a film with moral ambiguity when blowing things up is so satisfying? The aliens aren’t the point.

The point is the storytelling. Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer in the U.S. military with the relatively simple

Night of the living Fleas Shock Theatre’s baaaack…are you scared yet?

October may be the time of year when television stations screen late-night marathons of all films spooky, scary, and scream-worthy, but chilly weather isn’t mandated for those after-hours pro-grams presented by our favorite horror hosts.

On Saturday July 5, when the clock strikes midnight, WDEF-TV12 will air the sixth episode of Shock Theatre, hosted by the infamous ghoul Dr. Shock (Jack Gray) and his equally spooky sidekick Nurse Goodbody.

In addition to featuring the 1962 hor-ror film “Carnival of Souls”, the two-hour program includes skits, original music, movie facts and horror news. The episode, presented in the same style as classic, campy horror shows, centers

around a “zombie flea-pocalypse” back-story that is described as “a world under siege as zombie fleas escape and devour a city.”

The zombie fleas also moonlight as circus performers in “Dr. Shock’s Zom-bie Flea Circus.”

Alongside Dr. Shock and Nurse Good-body are Dingbat, a mischievous pup-pet, and “Dirge,” a “dream reaper” and puppet master. Husky Burnette will take the stage as the musical guest, perform-ing a song from his new album, “Tales from East End Boulevard.”

But the spooky fun doesn’t end on July 5! A regular rotation of Shock Theatre episodes is scheduled to air on WDEF-TV12 the first Saturday of every month.


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EDGE OF TOMORROW” IS YET ANOTHER TOM Cruise sci-fi action vehicle to add to the pile. At least once a year, we get a movie where Tom Cruise saves the world

by running intensely towards the conclusion, at full sprint, blocking alien projectiles with a perfectly chiseled chin.

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Deliver Us from Evil NYC police officer Ralph Sarchie investi-gates a series of crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the posses-sions that are terrorizing their city.Director: Scott DerricksonStars: Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy

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job of selling the war to the Americans. He is visiting the general in charge of allied operations in London when he finds himself rail-roaded onto the front lines. During the sci-ence fiction equiva-lent of the Battle of Normandy, Cage is dropped into combat, where he promptly dies after an encoun-ter with a big blue bad guy. Through movie magic, this gives Cage the power to relive the pre-vious 24 hours.

Believe me, it is not a coincidence that the leading ladies in both the film “Groundhog Day” and “Edge of To-morrow” are named Rita. “Edge of To-morrow” might have well been called “Groundhog Day: Alien Fighter!”

Cage doesn’t have time to ice sculpt or learn the piano, however; he is tasked with finding the source of the aliens’ power and destroying it. This involves lots and lots of dying, usually in horrible ways, only to wake up the same spot as before. These deaths are the source of the film’s dark sense of humor—the film is funnier than one might expect. There is something satisfying about watching Cage die over and over again.

The film also owes much of its struc-ture to video games. This is more a byproduct of modern filmmaking than

overt intention. The look is a combination of games like “Mech-Warrior” and “Halo”, with bits of “Gears of War” and every other science fiction first-person shooter ever made.

The single save point at the beginning of the level is reminiscent of early Nintendo frustra-tion. Gaming of my era was done through rote memorization and muscle memory. There is no quicksave in “Ghouls and Goblins” and “Edge of Tomorrow” fol-lows the same rules.

Whether this amplifies the tension of the film or makes the movie repetitive is up for debate. I’d say the management of the plot structure is one of the film’s best features. The story never feels forced or dull.

“Edge of Tomorrow” is summer blockbuster filmmaking at its utmost. There’s not much to think about, but it’s worth a matinee, especially if you’re a Tom Cruise fan. Tempered expecta-tions will make for a solid moviegoing experience.

“‘Edge of Tomorrow’ is a Tom Cruise #1 with a side of pop science, easily digestible—and

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Independence Day is upon us, and whether you’re planning a leisure day on the lake or staying cool by the pool, one thing remains consistent: Beer will be involved.

The question arises—which beer to bring along to your Fourth festivities? Some will cling to the classic pilsner found at every convenience store every-where, but others will adopt the micro-brew trend and maybe even try some-thing new.

Whatever you’re drinking, it needs to be cold and—surprise—it should be canned for maximum freshness. Here are some canned microbrews that’ll sat-isfy your palate and keep you refreshed.

The Founder’s All Day IPA is a beer that’s trending this summer. The M.O. for this beer is “balance”. Brewed with a complex array of malt, grains and hops, this beer is truly a session ale, which is something you’ll find standard with most micro summer brews. A session beer is a balanced, quaffable beer con-taining no more than five percent alco-hol by volume (ABV).

These beers are known for their easy drinkability, which is important in the summer when you’re drinking to stay cool and hydrated. Whole Food’s beer

buyer Jason Charlesworth says a session beer is a good choice for the Fourth be-cause the consumer can drink a few and not feel weighed down by the beer.

Another session beer that’s hot this summer is Terrapin’s RecreationAle. This hopped-up session ale is perfect for any outdoor activity. Jason pointed out that drinkers of this beer love the 12-pack cans to grab and go.

If session beers aren’t your cup of tea (or should I say, can of beer), never fear. Oskar Blue’s Mamas Little Yella Pils is a different take on your typical pilsner. This hop-forward pilsner is a classic clear golden color, but has a full-flavored taste that can only be created by a mi-crobrewery. Finch’s Beer Company’s Wet Hot American Wheat has an initial sweetness balanced by a hoppy finish.

Jason believes even those who aren’t particularly fond of wheat beers will en-joy this one. “Some people are turned off by wheat beer,” he says. “I myself don’t drink most wheat beers—but this is just a good beer.”

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Consider Thiswith Dr. Rick

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.— Carl Jung

one very valuable way to be mindful of our process is to look at

our relationships. our friends (and indeed everyone in our lives) act as a sort of mirror, showing us parts of ourselves. What’s usu-ally pretty obvious is what we have in common with others, i.e., we both like to go running, or have the same taste in movies, etc.

But if you look a little deeper into this “mirror,” you’ll notice, for instance, that this friend annoys you when he’s short-tempered. and upon reflection, your own temper is something you dislike in yourself. or this other person’s jealousy bothers you, as does your own. or these people have a lot of money and irritatingly show it off. Perhaps you don’t like the “show off” part of yourself. another friend tends to see the good in people, mirroring something you’re working on.

how do others push your buttons? how do they show you your-self? This is how everyone you meet offers you one more little gift of insight.

by Dr. Rick Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.


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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue that’s over 2,100 years old. Bigger than life size, it depicts the goddess of love, beauty, and pleasure. Its current home is the Louvre Museum in Paris, but for hundreds of years it was lost—buried underground on the Greek island of Milos. In 1820, a farmer found it while he was out digging on his land. I foresee a comparable discovery by you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will un-cover a source of beauty, love, or pleasure—or perhaps all three—that has been missing or forgotten for a long time.

lEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to an ancient Greek myth, Sisy-phus keeps pushing a boulder up a steep hill only to lose control of it just before he reaches the top, watching in dismay as it tumbles to the bottom. After each failure, he lumbers back down to where he started and makes another effort to roll it up again—only to fail again. The myth says he continues his futile attempts for all eternity. I’m happy to report, Leo, that there is an important difference between your story and that of Sisyphus. Whereas you have tried and tried and tried again to complete a cer-tain uphill task, you will not be for-ever frustrated. In fact, I believe a breakthrough will come soon, and success will finally be yours. Will it be due to your gutsy determina-tion or your neurotic compulsion or both? It doesn’t matter.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of America’s founding fathers be-lieved slavery was immoral, but they owned slaves themselves and ordained the institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. They didn’t invent hypocrisy, of course, but theirs was an especially tragic version. In comparison, the hypoc-risy that you express is mild. Nev-ertheless, working to minimize it is a worthy task. And here’s the good news: You are now in a position to become the zodiac’s leader in minimizing your hypocrisy. Of all the signs, you can come closest to walking your talk and practicing what you preach. So do it! Aim to be a master of translating your ide-als into practical action.

lIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the last two decades, seven Academy Award winners have given thanks to God while accepting their Os-cars. By contrast, 30 winners have expressed their gratitude to film studio executive Harvey Wein-stein. Who would you acknowl-edge as essential to your success, Libra? What generous souls, lov-ing animals, departed helpers, and spiritual beings have contributed to your ability to thrive? Now is an excellent time to make a big deal out of expressing your apprecia-tion. For mysterious reasons, do-ing so will enhance your luck and increase your chances for future success.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have permission to compose an all-purpose excuse note for yourself. If you’d like, you may also forge my signature on it so you can tell ev-eryone that your astrologer sancti-fied it. This document will be iron-clad and inviolable. It will serve as a poetic license that abolishes your guilt and remorse. It will authorize you to slough off senseless duties, evade deadening requirements, es-cape small-minded influences, and expunge numbing habits. Even better, your extra-strength excuse note will free you to seek out ad-ventures you have been denying yourself for no good reason.

SAGITTARIuS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the Inuktitut language spo-ken in northern Canada, the term iminngernaveersaartunngortus-saavunga means “I should try not to become an alcoholic.” I encour-age you to have fun saying that a lot in the coming days. Why? Now is an excellent time to be play-ful and light-hearted as you wage war against any addictive tenden-cies you might have. Whether it’s booze or gambling or abusive re-lationships or anything else that tempts you to act like an obsessive self-saboteur, you have more pow-er than usual to break its hold on you—especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an influential astronomer who launched the exploration that led to the discovery of Pluto. He also made some big mistakes. Here’s one: Gazing at Venus through his telescope, he swore he saw spokes emanating from a central hub on the planet’s surface. But we now know that Venus is shrouded with such thick cloud cover that no sur-face features are visible. So what did Lowell see? Due to an anom-aly in his apparatus, the telescope projected shadows from inside his eyes onto the image of Venus. The “spokes” were actually the blood vessels in his retinas. Let this ex-ample serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Capri-corn. Don’t confuse what’s within you with what’s outside you. If you can clearly discern the difference, your closest relationships will ex-perience healing breakthroughs.

AQuARIuS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” So said British writer G. K. Chesterton. Now I’m passing his advice on to you just in time for the Purge and Purify Phase of your astrological cycle. In the coming weeks, you will gener-ate good fortune for yourself when-ever you wash your own brain and absolve your own heart and flush the shame out of your healthy sex-ual feelings. As you proceed with this work, it may expedite matters if you make a conscious choice to undergo a trial by fire.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I awake in a land where the lovers

have seized power,” writes Dan-ish poet Morten Sondergaard in his fanciful poem “The Lovers.” “They have introduced laws de-creeing that orgasms need never come to an end. Roses function as currency. . . The words ‘you’ and ‘I’ are now synonymous.” A world like the one he describes is a fan-tasy, of course. It’s impossible. But I predict that in the coming weeks you could create conditions that have resemblances to that utopia. So be audacious in your quest for amorous bliss and convivial ro-mance. Dare to put love at the top of your priority list. And be inven-tive!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Would you like your savings ac-count to grow? Then deposit mon-ey into in it on a consistent basis. Would you like to feel good and have a lot of physical energy? Eat healthy food, sleep as much as you need to, and exercise regularly. Do you want people to see the best in you and give you the benefit of the doubt? See the best in them and give them the benefit of the doubt. Would you love to accomplish your most important goal? Decide what you want more than anything else and focus on it with relaxed inten-sity. Yes, Aries, life really is that simple—or at least it is right now. If you want to attain interesting success, be a master of the obvious.

TAuRuS (April 20-May 20): Your urge to merge is heating up. Your curiosity about combinations is intensifying. I think it’s time to conduct jaunty experiments in mixing and blending. Here’s what I propose: Let your imagination run half-wild. Be unpredictable as you play around with medleys and hodgepodges and sweet unions. But don’t be attached to the out-comes. Some of your research may lead to permanent arrangements, and some won’t. Either result is fine. Your task is to enjoy the amusing bustle, and learn all you can from it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The American painter Ivan Albright (1897-1983) was a meticulous cre-ator. He spent as much time as necessary to get every detail right. An entire day might go by as he worked to perfect one square inch of a painting, and some of his piec-es took years to finish. When the task at hand demanded intricate precision, he used a brush com-posed of a single hair. That’s the kind of attention to minutia I rec-ommend for you—not forever, but for the next few weeks. Be care-ful and conscientious as you build the foundation that will allow you maximum freedom of movement later this year.

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When officer Alexander D. Teach is not patrolling our fair city on the heels of the criminal element, he spends his spare time volunteering for the Boehm Birth Defects Center. Follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/alexteach

Last week, something mirac-ulous happened: Nine different people in Washington, D.C., agreed on the same thing.

They even wrote down their conclusions in a document titled “Riley vs. California.” It’s a bit of a dry read, but to those of us in the law e n f o r c e m e n t business it’s a pretty big deal. Yet, the reason I’m writing this is that to most of the cops I know? It isn’t. (Give me a second before you post this “like” to the “Cop-Block” Facebook page.)

This ruling deals with the con-stitutionality of going through someone’s cell phone after their arrest, or more specifically, the fact that it isn’t constitutional, according to the Supremes. In all honesty, I can’t think of a local case where this was done, but the fact that it went to the Supreme Court indicates it was happening elsewhere.

Why did my co-workers and I avoid this? Because it’s an ex-tremely stupid shortcut to take for something that you know with complete certainty will

ruin your case, your reputation, and set the bad guy free. Hence, it is avoided as a rule. Literally.

Like the ruling stated in sev-eral different ways, we can get a warrant pretty damn quickly and we do so quite frequently when it’s warranted. Making

what is indeed a gold mine of in-formation use-less is just bad business—but apparently not everyone across the country got that memo.

There is no ambiguity with this decision. It was unanimous. Yet discussion about this case led to another topic with a friend of mine. “What if I’m just stand-ing around,” he said, “not in any way in the way and videotap-ing you. What is your personal stance on somebody filming you in action?” (Arrest, he confided, seemed to be a common reason for police to access someone’s phone.)

I was annoyed at the implica-tion, but my annoyance wasn’t the point. “First,” I told him, “if you record something and it happens to be the continu-ance of a crime, it would make

that phone evidence of such and it could be subject to being added to the case file. That is, if you record a crime the device becomes evidence. The courts agree.” His jaw clenched slight-ly.

“That’s just a possibil-ity though, and that’s not what you’re asking.” I paused. “What you’re asking is how I feel about being videotaped.” He nodded.

“I have nothing to hide and never have,” I said. “In fact, somewhere on us is a transmit-ter where we record you and ourselves both, usually with a digital camera based in our car. It’s not about being afraid of be-ing videotaped.” His eyes said I was making a point. “We tape ourselves constantly.

“The problem with you taping us is it’s a freakin’ DISTRAC-TION of what is generally a fairly serious situation. You are dividing the cops’ attention and exponentially worsening the situation for your own gratifica-tion.” He was about to respond when I interrupted.

“Yes, if it’s in public you have absolutely every right to record something. I’m a huge fan of the Constitution and it shows in my work. That’s what you tell your-self to justify the distraction, but no matter how you paint it, what you’re really doing in those situations is distracting the shit out of someone who now doesn’t just have to worry about

their own safety, the safety of everyone around, the bad guy, and has a loaded gun on their hip,” I said, “now they also have to worry about you entering the situation and making it officially impossible to concentrate on anything other than increased blood pressure, adrenaline, and the likelihood of something go-ing very, very bad because the knob has just been turned from 5 to 11.

“You have every right to film,” I explained, “just know that all you’re doing is very likely mak-ing what may not have been a bad situation worse, with the quite possible intent of profiting from it, which I think is kind of shitty.”

I saw my acquaintance con-sider a reply, but in the end I think the point was made and the topic was changed yet a third time—to the subject of food.

We are one of the most visible professions in the world so hid-ing things is not something that we are readily able to do, but mistakes are made from time to time. The Supreme Court ad-dressed one of those. That said? This court ruling won’t change business in my office because that’s not how my office runs.

I don’t kid myself about the realities about my job…I just ask that you don’t kid yourself, either. (If you’re the one film-ing, of course.)

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“You have every right to film. Just know that all you’re doing is very likely making what may not have been a bad situation worse, with the quite possible intent of profiting from it.”

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