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THE TETON ORCH Does Jackson Hole have an appetite for Olympic glory?

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COVER STORY THE TETON TORCH Does Jackson Hole have an appetite for Olympic glory?

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey

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Jim has been forecasting the weather here for more than 20 years. You can find more Jackson Hole Weather information at www.mountainweather.com SPONSORED BY GRAND TETON FLOOR & WINDOW COVERINGS

We have already seen low temperatures in the low teens on a few occasions this month, so far, and an average low this week of 15-degrees fits right in the middle of where we usually begin the month (with an average low of 20-degrees) and where we end the month (average low of 10-degrees). The coldest temperature we have ever experienced in town this week is 20-degrees below zero.

That happened on November 21st, 1957.

With average high temperatures this week still above freezing, highs in the 40’s start to fell pretty good. A random day in the 50’s feels even better, when you can catch one. There have been a few times over the years that there was no need to hurry up and head south, like back in 2008 when we had a record high of 60-degrees on November 19th. That is the latest date in November that we have reached 60-degrees in town.

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AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.3 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.24 inches (1988) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 9.3 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 40 inches

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his third week of November usually marks a turning point in the fall season, when cold and snow become more commonplace, and warm and dry weather much less so. Pre-Thanksgiving snow is always a welcome sight to skiers and ski areas, and it puts people in more of a holiday mood. It is also a reminder that you better either wax your boards or start heading south for a warmer climate, because winter is about to get going around Jackson Hole.

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Finding Our Midas’ Touch Funding for housing means creating gold from unexpected sources.

BY PETE MULDOON

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n my last piece I talked about funding sources for housing from the 35,000foot perspective. It’s pretty clear that the resources are available and that tough political choices need to be made, but we know that our community has the ability to house its members.

The town and county are discussing either a SPET or an extra penny of sales tax.

I support these sources of funding, but I also recognize that they are poorly targeted and regressive. They’re poorly targeted in the sense that, while they raise funds, they aren’t raising those funds from the people who have caused and profited the most from our growth and consequent housing shortage. They’re regressive because they will cost low-income residents a higher percentage of their income than those with higher incomes or net wealth. Nevertheless, I believe we’ve gotten ourselves in such a deep hole that these types of taxes are going to be necessary. Unfortunately, better solutions (a real estate transfer tax, for example) have been blocked at the state level to this point. We can and should be working toward changing things in Cheyenne, but until then we should make sure we are considering all of our options.

Towards that end, I’d like to toss a couple ideas out there about what we can do to raise money in a fairer way. Ideally, new funding methods will not only raise money, but also target those responsible for the problems we need to solve while helping to change the behavior that causes those problems. I’m not necessarily proposing that we do these things, but I’d like to start some discussion on them. If nothing else, it should be a useful exercise in thinking outside the box.

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Solving our housing crisis might mean panning for gold. with a small number of employees and waiving the fee for employees who have employer-provided housing or an income above a minimum threshold. We can also exempt essential services employees or have reduced fees for locally owned businesses. We could tailor the requirements to get the result we need.

It would also serve as a constraint on growth.

Small businesses would benefit from an increased housing supply and likely would see very little impact. The mechanism is in place for this now. The town currently charges a three-tiered business license fee based on the number of employees. It’s a blunt instrument, but if it was made sharper, it could be a useful tool. It would not affect the competitiveness of local service providers, as the fee would be charged across an entire sector and be passed on to customers. It’s not a tax, so it could be passed by ordinance, and the entire amount collected would be retained locally.

Is it completely fair? No, but then neither is any other method of raising funds.

“What if we asked employers to pay a per-employee mitigation fee?”

Employee Mitigation Fees The rapid increase in the number of employees needed to keep local businesses, nonprofits and institutions open is perhaps the biggest direct contributor to our housing shortage. The reasons for this increase are myriad, but this is where the rubber meets the road.

What if we asked employers to pay a per-employee mitigation fee? We could target this to make it fairer by exempting employers

Parking Fees As a good friend told me this morning, parking fees are the low-hanging fruit of funding. There really is no excuse for not having paid parking in the downtown area.

We can raise money, help get public transportation to a critical mass and let the people using public parking pay for it. It’s currently

a huge subsidy to downtown businesses, and we’re using public money to pay for it. There a million ways to skin this cat, but I would like to see metered parking for non-locals. Local residents should be able to pay an annual fee for a sticker for each vehicle instead of paying at the meter. This is a very common and well-tested means of raising funds and promoting public transportation, and while the money wouldn’t be required to be used for housing, it would improve the city’s fiscal condition and give us more flexibility for future housing solutions. It would also jumpstart use of public transportation, which will help improve the infrastructure. This will be critical when it comes to developing car-free housing solutions.

I realize these ideas aren’t going to raise close to enough money to solve our housing shortage. And as a private citizen without access to government legal advice, I’m not even sure they are things we can do. But I do think it’s important to look at targeted ways of raising funds that require people to mitigate their external costs, are effective at discouraging the behavior that incurs these costs, and are easy to implement. And I encourage you to spend some time thinking about how to improve these ideas or to come up with some ideas of your own. I’d love to hear some feedback.

Send comments to editor@planetjh.com.

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THEM ON US

By JAKE NICHOLS

Toilet seat tribulations The front-page newsworthiness of the News&Guide’s coverage of Chinese tourists’ inability to grasp the proper use of Western toilet seats was questionable, judging from local response. But a corresponding story in the UK’s Daily Mail verifies the vexing dilemma.

The piece, titled, “When potty training goes wrong,” appeared in 2013. It featured a 20-month old boy that had fallen through a “loo hole” while trying to balance perched atop a toilet seat. Firefighters eventually rescued the toddler.

Chamberific!

Jackson Hole can now boast further on its award-winning Chamber of Commerce. The Better Business Bureau website was just one of the many places the news rang out.

Of the nearly 7,000 chambers in the United States, only 102 have earned a five-star rating from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Kickin’ it This fundraising campaign puts the “kick” in Kickstarter.

Jackson-based D-MOS Collective Inc. crowdfunded its design tool (The Kicker Tool) to the tune of more than the $20,000 target.

“When it goes, it goes ‘heck, yeah,’” entrepreneur Susan Pieper told the Wyoming Business Council last week. Her “ridiculously bomber durable” modified shovel received a boost from a Travis Rice endorsement.

Pieper’s project comes on the heels of another successful Jackson-based Kickstarter campaign for Foot Flops – a heat moldable flip flop that uses technology similar to that in ski boot fitting.

Wyoming all business… mostly Wyoming came in at middle-of-the-pack in Forbes’ annual ranking of Best States for Business. The 10th annual compilation ranked Wyoming No. 27 (same as last year). On the positive side, Wyoming nabbed the top spot in the Tax Foundation “Location Matters” study. The Equality State also ranked high in high school attainment: 92.6 percent of adult population (No. 2), and five-year household income change: 3.1 percent (No. 2).

Dragging the state down in the survey was a 49th ranking for five-year Gross State Product growth: 0.3 percent, and a last place ranking for the Arts and Recreation Index.

House cleaning

Wyoming flunks open government test Wyoming lawmakers were blasted for their lack of transparency according to a State Integrity Report released earlier this month. The report, sponsored by the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit investigative news agency Center for Public Integrity, gave Wyoming an “F” rating.

Plaguing the state legislation was a lack of a formal ethics enforcement agency, limited availability of public record data, and free-range lobbyists with too much power.

Wyoming ranked 49th overall. Wyofile’s Gregory Nickerson reported.

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Cynthia Lummis’ decision to retire at the end of her current term in Congress reverberated across the country. US News & World Report shared the news, making sure to include Liz Cheney’s name in the opening sentence as her possible replacement. Cheney said she is mulling a run for the House seat.

“I came to Washington to be a reformer, not a career congressman,” Lummis, 61, said.

Meanwhile, the Billings Gazette is reporting Rep. Tim Stubson-R announced last Thursday he will throw his hat in the ring. The third-ranking State House member made the declaration just hours after Lummis’ news.

“I think my record shows me to be a pretty staunch conservative,” Stubson, 44, said. “I think that’s the way I would continue to be in Congress.”

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Jackson’s Peter Ward threw down the gauntlet last week, challenging fellow peers in the scientific community to find the real cause of global warming. The noted geophysicist and 27-year veteran of the U.S. Geological Survey offered $10,000 to any of the 2,000 worldwide atmospheric scientists he emailed on November 12 if they could definitively demonstrate a cause.

News of the Climate Change Challenge was carried by numerous trade journals and mainstream news outlets. Ward maintains that, “reducing carbon dioxide emissions will not reduce global warming.” PJH

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THE BUZZ A Penny for Your Housing Debate ensues over hot to raise taxes to fix valley’s deepening housing crisis and impending traffic melee.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

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he valley’s housing dilemma can be known by a quick scan of newspaper headlines/classifieds, during a 5-mph crawl down Broadway in July, or by attending a Joint Information Meeting where 10 local elected officials slog through the Housing Action Plan (HAP) and Integrated Transportation Plan (ITP).

But to truly feel the crunch it takes being homeless since August. Couch surfing and sleeping in a luggage-filled truck under the glow of a parking lot flood light. Running to a storage unit in Alpine for a crescent wrench and answering scant classified ads filled with 5BR, 4BA fortresses renting for $5,000 a month. And that’s only until April, when a blue-collar renter is booted for a VRBO blueblood who’ll drop 5 Gs a night for it.

A rental company in Katy, Texas, is currently offering one jewel of a listing. It’s a 200-square-foot shack 40 minutes from town in Red Top Meadows. In any other county in Wyoming, where the Tetons can’t be viewed, it might serve as a decent bully barn. Many valley residents – those who can’t truly “feel” the housing crisis – would call 200 square feet a cramped wine room in their palace. But in bizzaro world it is listed as a $600 a month studio. A lengthy credit check and references are required just to get in line for it. The rental firm received more than 41 calls and emails in response to the ad in the first three days.

Taking authority But are we willing to take the necessary steps to fix the mess we’re in? What will it take?

The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance shared the results of a poll conducted on their dime earlier this spring. It asked registered voters whether they would be willing to tax themselves in order to build and bus our way through Jackson’s boom and gloom real estate cycle.

Yes, answered voters. If it takes an added penny of sales tax, 63 percent of respondents to the Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates (FM3) survey said they would do it. Further, three quarters of those polled said they couldn’t afford to live in Jackson Hole if they were moving here today.

The same number knew of at least one person having difficulty finding an affordable place to live.

“It’s about what we thought,” said Craig Benjamin, executive director of the Alliance. “It told us this is worth having a conversation as a community about, as to whether or not we should present voters with the opportunity to align our investments with our values regarding transit and housing. These results show voters would be amenable to it.”

Town councilors and county commissioners have finalized a Housing Action Plan on the heels of the Integrated Transportation Plan. The guiding documents are in place. All that remains are the nuts and bolts of the “how” and “what” the community will be asked to pay for. It’s a process that has bogged on occasion in the details but BCC chair Barbara Allen and Mayor Sara Flitner are both generally pleased with the strides electeds have made in response to a housing and transportation issue that cracked the walls of Shangri-La this summer.

“I’m a 30,000-foot person, anyway. I don’t want to spend

a bunch of time in the weeds as a policymaker,” Flitner said.

“I appreciate how we are moving forward. I think things are moving quite quickly.”

Allen added, “I’m happy with the pace.”

While the organizational structure of a resurrected housing authority bedeviled some at the last JIM meeting, councilman Jim Stanford suggested his peers at least get behind two shovel-ready projects while they hashed out particulars.

“I’m always thinking: How much of an impact is this going to have on the people who are camping and moving away because of the uncertainty of housing?” Stanford said.

“Restructuring of the Housing Authority is not what people who are being squeezed by the housing crunch are worried about.”

Benjamin agreed. “When you look at the driving forces behind the housing crunch our community faces, the structure of the Housing Authority is probably at the bottom of the list. If you don’t want to actually get anything done on housing, a protracted discussion and debate over the structure of the Housing Authority would be an incredibly effective way to not do anything,” he said. “Our housing crunch is driven by a bunch of issues we can’t control, like global demand and federal tax structure. But issues we can control also drive it – from how much commercial and lodging development we are allowing to how much housing we are zoning for and building. We really need to focus on those issues and just get the Housing Authority structure set up in a way that is the least politicized and is going to be the most effective.”

be a lot of people disappointed if the lion’s share of SPET was taken up with housing and transportation. We also have many unresolved things like the landslide, the transfer station, state lands in the park, and the Parks & Rec shop expansion.”

Other electeds are concerned less with the best use of a new tax and more with which option will be an easier sell at the polls.

“Clearly it would be easiest to get a longer term, more predictable funding source – and that’s a penny of sales tax,” Flitner said. “But my gut feeling is our community wants to see what we are going to do with the money. In reading my crystal ball, conventional wisdom tells me we have the best chance to do something for housing and transportation if we don’t raise taxes, and if we have accountability with checks and balances.”

Allen also prefers SPET for the specificity. An additional penny of sales tax would be labeled as “housing and transportation” reserves but would truthfully be added to the town and county general fund, explained town administrator Bob McLaurin during a recent JIM meeting.

It would be up to electeds and staff to make sure it truly was spent on housing and transportation.

“I would be leaning toward the SPET for this election.

Government and the new structure is going to have to prove to the public that it will perform,” Allen said. “SPET holds government accountable a little more specifically than a general penny, which we wouldn’t necessarily be bound by.”

Commissioner Paul Vogelheim has been staunchly opposed to raising taxes for seven years. “I’m not a fan of a general sales tax increase. I’ve fought hard against it,” he said.

“I don’t think we have earned the right to ask the voters for an increase in sales tax based on our approach to housing thus far. I would be OK with putting housing and transportation on SPET, though.”

“Are we willing to take the necessary steps to fix the mess we’re in? Survey says, yes.”

Tax and spend The political debate now is how to fund housing and transportation relief in Teton County. A community priorities fund has been established as a policymaking piggy bank. Electeds are being extremely cautious in how they intend to approach voters next summer when a penny of special excise tax (SPET) is set to expire. A SPET ballot consisting solely of a $20 to $30 million item earmarked for housing and transportation projects could be put in front of voters in May or August. An added penny of general tax could also be proposed. Each has its own merits and downsides.

The SPET option was not considered in the Alliance research. Benjamin, instead, backs an increase in general sales tax.

“SPET is set up to fund specific projects. From a policy perspective, SPET doesn’t really work to fund housing investments in an ongoing fashion, and it works even more poorly in transportation because you are looking at salaries and the like,” Benjamin said. “If we want to fund Phase II of the bus barn or Phase III of The Grove, [SPET] works really well. But if we want to have a program that is designed to, say, get 50 units of affordable housing on the ground then having that ongoing revenue stream you can plan and budget on is a way more efficient for government to get more done.”

Stanford as well has been adamant about SPET’s inherent inability to fund operational costs after it runs out.“I don’t think [SPET] is the proper means of funding it. It is sort of a half measure,” Stanford said. “SPET was designed for specific capital projects and not for ongoing operation and maintenance.

We saw it firsthand with the library when voters approved an [$8.5 million] expansion and then the library couldn’t staff the newly expanded wing.”

Using SPET might also disenfranchise other organizations looking to get their projects on the ballot next year. Central Wyoming College, St. John’s Medical Center, and a wildlife highway-crossing proposal are some of the potential uses for SPET money. If electeds go the SPET route, any other potential users would likely be shut out.

“I’m still waiting to see the full range of projects that are out there. I’ve only seen some sales pitches,” Stanford said.

“Based on the interest I’ve heard about, I think there would

Bearing the brunt

Benjamin doesn’t deny voters have the right to know and trust where their money is going, but he thinks electeds too often pass the buck when tough decisions have to be made.

“We believe our elected representatives have a responsibility to come up with a solid plan for what these investments would be. That’s their job to come up with a good plan,” Benjamin said. “As a community, we’ve made around $200 million in infrastructure investments through SPET in the last few decades but we have not correspondingly increased operational revenue to fund that new infrastructure. So right now we have this situation where our local government is bursting at the seams in that they have all of these new things – that we like and that we voted for – that they are really struggling with how they are going to pay for moving forward.”

For voters feeling uneasy about a general sales tax increase binding future political leaders and possibly being misspent, Stanford pointed to the town’s strong track record of financial discipline.

Still, it’s about appearances. Marketing a tax increase to the public is touchy, even given the Alliance poll results, which suggest the community is ready to back their beefs with bucks.

While the debate continues, so too does real hardship. The FM3 survey was conducted March 19 through April 10, 2015 – before Jackson was neck-deep in traffic and housing wanted ads. Town and county leaders are mulling their own poll to test the waters. Benjamin thinks the results will only be more favorable for a tax increase now.

“It was the quiet season then [when the survey was conducted]. Just speculating, but we do believe we would see a much stronger concern after the summer we just had,” Benjamin said. “And if these numbers were where they were during the quiet time, when there wasn’t a lot of traffic and the housing crunch wasn’t yet that bad, well, that tells us something as well.” PJH

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Fort Bragg, N.C, declared an emergency on Oct. 30 when one of its soldiers had the bright idea to arrive for a Halloween party on base dressed as a suicide bomber, with realistic-looking canisters in a wired vest. Gates to the post (headquarters of Army special forces and airborne troops) immediately went into extended lockdown, and a bomb-disposal team was called. The soldier’s name was not released.

Ewwww, Gross!

The Blackhead Whisperer: Upland, Calif., dermatologist Sandra Lee is a social media cult figure with a massive audience on YouTube, where her cyst- and pimple-popping videos (charmingly, soothingly narrated) have garnered 170 million views. (The “Popping” community, on the Reddit.com site, has more than 60,000 members.)

Dr. Lee admits longing for “the perfect blackhead,” which to her apparently means one that is photogenic and slides out easily from its snug epidermal home. Several “Popping” fanatics told a Washington Post reporter that watching the videos is therapy for anxiety, but one fan (a “Mr. Wilson”) apparently gets his “therapy” by submitting videos of his own—unsoothing—oil-laden bursts. n While hopeful Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero seeks funding to perform the first ever head “transplant” (with a patient already lined up), Australian doctor Geoff Askin (the country’s “godfather of spinal surgery”) recently successfully “reattached” the head of a 16-month-old boy who was badly injured in a traffic accident. The toddler’s head was described as internally “relocated” and reset onto the vertebra, using wire and rib tissue to graft the head back in place. (Nonetheless, the operation was widely regarded as a “miracle.”)

Police Report

“Police Squad!” Lives On: 1. Hugo Castro, 28, wanted for questioning in October in San Jose, Calif., after his girlfriend was stabbed to death, helpfully presented himself at county jail. The sheriff’s deputy listened—and then suggested Castro go find a San Jose police officer. (Castro did, and the deputy was subsequently reassigned.) 2. New Hampshire state police laid down spiked “stop sticks” in November to slow down a fleeing Joshua Buzza, 37, near Greenland, N.H. Buzza was apprehended, but not before he managed to avoid the sticks while goading the drivers of three squad cars over them (flattening several tires).

Recent Architectural Triumphs: 1. A 33-year-old Frenchman erected a stone table with benches over his mother’s grave marker, so that he and friends could enjoy munchies and wine as he “talked” to her. 2. For the annual German Ruhrtriennale Festival in September, Atelier Van Lieshout created a temporary hotel structure that appeared from the street (even to the non-aroused) to be a couple having “doggy style” sex (to make a statement, a reviewer said, about “the power of humanity over the natural world”). 3. A homeowners’ association in Winter Haven, Fla., petitioned Steven Chayt to remove the 24-by-12-foot chair he had built in his backyard as an art project—especially because of the hole in the seat—making it, said one neighbor, “essentially a toilet.”

Daniel Darrington was spared a murder conviction in October even after admitting intentionally shooting Rocky Matskassy at point-blank range to “relieve his suffering.” The Melbourne, Australia, jury decided that Matskassy, in pain from an earlier accidental shooting, was indeed already dead when Darrington shot him.

However, under the law of the state of Victoria, it is still “attempted murder” because Darrington believed that

Leading Economic Indicators

Dealt a Lemon, Make Lemonade: Puerto Rico’s murder/voluntary manslaughter rate is four times higher than that in the 50 states, creating a “pool of (organ) donors in the 18-to-30 age range unmatched in the mainland,” according to an October Reuters report. Government officials hope creating a thriving transplant industry will bring Puerto Rico out of its economic doldrums by encouraging economy-conscious patients to spend money on hotels, transportation and food during their stay.

Unclear on the Concept

Liberty, Missouri, sheriff’s deputy politely declined to identify the local man who created the sound of rapid gunfire on Oct. 13 when a “controlled” garbage burn escalated. The man decided to try extinguishing the fire by driving back and forth over it in his van, but the tires caught fire, and in addition to the van’s having a gas tank, it also carried an undisclosed amount of firearms ammunition. The van was a total loss, but the sheriff’s department said it doubted there would be an insurance claim filed. n Wait, What? Even though Darren Paden, 52, confessed almost immediately upon his 2013 arrest for a 10-year, 200-plus-episode pattern of sexual abuse of a girl that began when she was 4, many Dearborn, Mo., townspeople, astonishingly, turned on her and not him. Paden, volunteer fire chief in the 500-person town, is apparently a beloved neighbor with a lifetime of good deeds, leaving the victim, now 18, largely “ostracized” and called a liar, according to an October Kansas City Star report. Even some who accept that crimes were committed fear excessively punishing a “good man” (who, in one example offered by a neighbor, saved a man from being stomped to death by a cow). Nonetheless, in October, the judge sentenced Paden to 50 years in prison.

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Recurring Theme: In October, Rezwan Hussain, 29, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the illegal drugs enterprise he ran from his mother’s basement in Rochdale, England. He had apparently avoided detection until March, when the Greater Manchester police arrived to question his brother. Hussain said his brother wasn’t home, and they left, but a frightened Hussain ran upstairs and began tossing 500 pounds of drugs out the window in preparation for his getaway. However, police had not yet driven away, and the first bag of a nearly $5 million stash happened to land right beside their car.

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Members of the New Orleans Vampire Association are not, of course, like Dracula or those Twilight characters, but rather people who are convinced that consuming other people’s blood prevents illness or provides energy—and thus seek “donors” to sit for regular or occasional slicings or pin pricks for friendship, or money or sex.

Though some members have gone full-gothic in dress and lifestyle (as described in an October Washington Post report), an academic researcher studying the community has concluded that the vampires generally exhibit no signs of mental illness.

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Finer Points of the Law

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THE TETON ORCH Does Jackson Hole have an appetite for Olympic glory?

By Jeannette Boner

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s the Tetons tower in the mid morning against a stark blue winter sky, the air is clean and clear, and the untouched snow promises possibilities. The setting is a seemingly perfect platform for those who aspire to greatness on skis and snowboards.

In Jackson one can aim for World Cup fame, TGR infamy or Teton Pass legend.

Interestingly enough, however, Jackson Hole is not a breeding ground for Olympians. Perhaps only time will tell if the Tetons are poised to mine gold in the form of medals. Jackson has been slow out of the gate while other mountain towns have developed programs and initiatives that foster Olympic aspirations. Still, some say Jackson wears its own crown, and its jewels are not necessary set in gold.

In recent years Jackson has made incredible strides to begin to realize its golden potential, but it still falls behind other mountain towns that were able to develop Olympic training tools early on. Sun Valley, Steamboat Springs, Park City and Aspen are among the roster of mountain towns that have established official U.S. Olympic standard training grounds.

During the 2014 Winter Olympics, almost 10 percent of the 230 athletes on the U.S. Team were from California, followed closely by Colorado and Minnesota. Vermont carries the brightest torch, as one out of every 48,000 people there will make it onto a U.S. Winter Olympic team at some point in their lives. New Hampshire comes in second with one out of every 147,000 people securing a spot.

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Former ski team coach Jonathan Selkowitz agrees that Jackson has the potential to produce more Olympians, but also does not want to undercut the incredible talent who learned on the lifts and snow of the Tetons.

“This place is a combination of an A-plus training facility — with Snow King and its hard snow and great terrain, it’s the best in the world,” Selkowitz said. “And then you combine that with some of the best terrain ariah Bredal and Jaelin Kauf offered a few words in the world at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. of wisdom to young skiers seeking gold in their Sure, other ski clubs have night skiing and training future — from commitment, to work ethic to facilities, but there are not too many other places disappointment — they said above all, a top athlete must in the country that have the kind of terrain that remain focused. Having fun never hurts either. the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has — 4,200 “The big dream would be to compete in the Olympics one vertical feet — and kids encounter three day,” Bredal said. “I am far from close, but I am willing to put or more snow conditions in one run.” in my time and effort to give it my best shot. I love skiing and The mountains have produced that is the ultimate secret to success — to love what you are a number of rising stars, said doing.”

Selkowitz, among them, Stiegler For Bredal, learning to prioritize her goals has been key to and her brother Sepi, Max her training. “I have always been competitive,” she said. “One Hammer, Geoffry Stephenson of my struggles has been accepting that I cannot be the best in and Kristen Bybee — all of everything. I have had to learn how to prioritize my goals and whom are Jackson Hole how to say no to things that don’t help me toward my main goal: Ski and Snowboard Club to be the best skier I can be.” alums who went on to ski Bredal lists her top priorities as skiing, school and support with the U.S. Ski Team. group. “I do my best to put my energy into these three areas of my Then there are skiers life,” she said. “Anything else is not given nearly as much time or like Crystal Wright, energy from me.” who was a champiKauf’s focus has always been the pure love of the sport. Through on big mountain and the love of her pursuits she says she realized her Olympic dreams. Of course extreme competitor; there have been some low points for Kauf, just as any athlete experiences. But and Jess McMillan, these points, she says, are places of great growth and development. another ski club alum “It doesn’t ever come easy, and you don’t always get the results you want,” Kauf who was a champ on said. “You have bad days no matter who you are. There are days when I can hardly the extreme tour and do a straight air, but all I can do is push through the tough days and work harder the continues to dominate next day to make up for it.” the ski film world, as Last season was a tough start for Kauf, who said that the pressure she placed on well as being a very herself hampered her performance. busy ski mountaineer.

“My first time in the gate last season I was hardly even there,” she said. “I didn’t And, of course, Kit have any confidence in my jumping. I couldn’t land my top air. I broke down and Deslauries is in a class cried. I’d never done that before — had a breakdown in skiing.” by herself, being the first Kauf said that sometimes the only one who can remind you of your goal is person to ski from the Seven yourself.

Summits, not to mention win“The first half of that year was horrible. I couldn’t put anything together ning the Freeride/Extreme and was far from consistent,” she admitted. “I would have a good run here tour and her plan to head or there, but one run isn’t enough. After the first half of the NorAm Tour we back to the Himalayas to ski had a two-week break. I was at the gym every day. I worked my butt off on and Makalu. off the hill. I realized that skiing is my everything. I really wanted this. I had Mike Hammer, the interim to refocus on doing my very best every run and not worry about the results.” director of the Jackson Hole Similar to what your mother taught you, Kauf also emphasizes how Ski and Snowboarding Club, important it is to take care of yourself. agrees that while the Olympics “My advice to younger skiers would be to learn how to prioritize are a goal for some, the number your training above everything else,” she said. “Make time to train, eat of options for students wanting to excel healthy and get enough recovery. Also if you realize you can’t do at skiing and snowboarding is almost as it all alone, it is important to build a solid support group of limitless as the powder in the Tetons. family and friends that you can rely on and that will be there “In Jackson there is the pure skiing and then to help you reach your goals.” the Olympics,” Hammer said. “Although the opporKauf added that you’re only as good as your next run, tunities are there — our coaching and facilities are not your last. “One competition doesn’t matter, so don’t put as good as any place — you may find athletes like pressure on yourself,” she said. “It may seem like the end Resi getting so far and then going somewhere else. of the world if you don’t win this one race, but it’s not. Give That’s not unfair. What Resi got in Park City, she your best every day in training and competition and the couldn’t get here in terms of fellow athletes pushing results will come. Don’t put undue pressure on yourself her. But on the other hand, my son [Max Hammer] for a specific competition. Be willing to work harder than got plenty of pushing. It’s different from one year to anyone else, stay focused and believe in yourself. It’s about the next.” your journey to being the very best you can be.”

Hammer said a lot can happen in a four-year stretch between Winter Olympic competitions. The goal, Hammer suggested, shouldn’t be a total focus on Olympic competition, but rather the bigger picture of

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“We aren’t excelling like other small towns because of our remoteness,” said U.S. Ski Team member and Jackson resident Resi Stiegler. But Stiegler says she sees this as a potential benefit, too.

“Growing up in a remote and wild area is the reason why I made it to this level in my career,” she said. “Growing up in those rugged conditions with very few resources and growing up skiing for the Jackson Hole Ski Club, I wouldn’t have changed it. We cross-country skied to school and to work, and I grew up loving the mountains and never being scared and uncomfortable in the mountains.”

Stiegler is the daughter of Pepi Stiegler, the famed Austrian Olympian who settled in Jackson after his competitive years and raised his daughter on the long slopes of the Tetons. She is currently training for her second winter Olympic competition — the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

The challenge in the Tetons isn’t finding good ground to train on. But other mountain towns are ahead of the ski curve when it comes to training. They provide young athletes with night skiing, and in the fall, snowmaking helps them get a head start on training — sometimes their athletes start skiing a full month ahead of Jackson skiers. Some of these towns are also providing ways for public school students to complete schoolwork during ski season without falling behind or missing classes.

This was unheard of when Stiegler was competing in high school, but things are changing in the valley. “Back then the [Jackson Hole] high school didn’t accommodate ski schedules for travel,” she said. “Now their [policies] are different, and there are a lot more options for kids to go to private schools that will accommodate a ski schedule.”

Stiegler also acknowledged the new executive director for the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club, Forest Carey, a world-renowned ski coach who takes the helm in 2016, as yet another step that the Jackson community is taking to up the ante on the competition.

“The goal is to produce a number of D-1 college skiers,” Carey said in June to local press. “You’ll have your occasional real talent that will make the national team. But if you’re running a good program, where the kids are being rewarded for hard work, and they’re having fun, and their parents want them to be there and they want to be there, and we provide a good system ... kids should elevate up to being able to be D-1

ski racers.”

Carey is currently coaching abroad and was not available for an interview at press time.

the first European Summer Biathlon event in Ruhpholding, Germany.

He readily admits that Nordic and alpine skiers differ in how they train and when they peak as racers. He maintained that the biggest influence a young skier needs is an example of greatness.

“A lot of it is simply exposure,” Wilbrecht said. “Over the years, we have lost that as other programs have grown. Jackson was always a place where Nordic skiers did well, nationally, but … other communities have surpassed Jackson. Sun Valley, Park City, Bozeman — from facilities development to the budget size to the size of the program — these places focus on high-end, high-level racing in the Intermountain West, and all of these programs have spawned a lot of high-end racers.”

Wilbrecht says to have Olympic aspirations in Jackson is to move to a place that will foster Olympic growth.

“We have huge mountains with off-piste skiing and a lot of different options for skiing,” he explained. “We saw that with our kids — would they rather ski powder or bang gates? We have a lot of kids who want to huck and be on TV. I think there is that as a contributing factor. Is it the coolest thing to be the fastest through the gate or be Travis Rice and travel around the world in a helicopter dropping into powder? The community and ski community has a challenge.”

Speaking of famed Jackson native Travis Rice, hailed by many as the best snowboarder in the world, snowboarders continue to remain in a class of their own. In Jackson, snowboarders often earn respect by ripping technical, big mountains lines, appearing in snowboard films, or sending massive

Beyond competition

Former Olympic skier Erich Wilbrecht, pictured here, at American Birkibeiner in early 2000s.

Moran, center, poses with 2014-15 JHSC Freeride Program coaches.

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Bredal, who competed with the JH Ski and Snowboard Club, is currently attending ski school and training for the Olympics in Meraker, Norway.

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Erich Wilbrecht moved to Jackson as a teenager. Strapping on a pair of Nordic skis, the cross-country runner naturally fell for the snow-laden trails of the Tetons.

Wilbrecht was introduced to the sport at Trail Creek Ranch, established by former Olympian Betty Woolsey, and watched fellow racers Martin Hagen and Pete Karns train on the same tracks. While he would agree that there are so many positives to living, training and preparing for the Olympics in the Tetons, he said it’s timely for Jackson to ask, ‘A re we doing enough?’

“We see skiers from Jackson leave here, and we have lost some kids to other programs,” Wilbrecht said of students with Olympic aspirations. “We’re trying to address that now. Kids have the potential here of being national caliber skiers, but they may not see Jackson as the place to be.”

Wilbrecht competed in the 1992 Winter Olympic Biathlon team for cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship. Before retiring from racing, Wilbrecht carved out an illustrious ski career that included winning multiple national championships, five Summer Biathlon National Championships, and

airs and tricks in the terrain parks and half pipe. But as for the Olympics, Jeff Moran says the relationship can be complicated.

“Jackson is an amazing place to create an elite snowboarder, but it’s not a place to pump out Olympic snowboarders,” said Moran, director of advancement for the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club, and an 11-year veteran snowboarding and free ski coach. “You have to have the facilities to train on, and we just don’t have them. The kids that come up through free skiing and snowboarding and are chasing higher-level competitions, they move to Park City. A lot of families that have the means, send their kids to school or move, or the kids move down there after high school.”

For Moran, the issue is two-thirds facilities and one-third culture. The first issue can be controlled, the latter, not so much in Jackson Hole. Moran explained that in order to really train for Olympic competition, a snowboarder needs a 22-foot half pipe. Those are expensive to install and maintain.

Moran says he is grateful that Jackson Hole Mountain Resort creates an 18-foot half pipe every year, but it is not 22-feet.

Additionally, terrain parks that provide for big air and 80-foot jumps before landing are not found in the Tetons. While the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Snow King offer solid terrain parks, Moran said using features that meet Olympic regulations are key to training.

“The Jackson Hole snowboarder tends to be technically advanced with their skills, but those skills are being used in the backcountry,” he said. “Snowboarding tends to shift from competitive focus to media focus.”

Media focus, Moran explained, is landing parts in movies,

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ski competition.

“Everyone I know gets excited about the Olympics and watches them, but they get equally excited with the World Championships, and they enjoy watching the World Cup and following those kids,” he said. “It’s not just a one-time event. If you can walk away with an Olympic medal, that’s something special, but I don’t know how many have that objective.”

Medal dreams across the pond

Local students Mariah Bredal and Jaelin Kauf had to make a decision in their young athletic careers as they pursue their Olympics dreams. Bredal is a Nordic skier from Teton Valley, Idaho, training in Norway. She came up through the Jackson

Hole Ski and Snowboard Club and lived with the Wilbrechts while she went to school in Jackson.

Kauf grew up in Alta at the base of Grand Targhee Resort.

A freestyle skier, she moved to Steamboat Springs to continue her Olympic pursuits. She is currently in Switzerland training.

Both athletes said they received their start in the Tetons.

While they have realized their dreams differently, they agree that the Tetons had a tremendous impact on their love of their sport.

“Jackson Hole is an amazing place to train,” Bredal said.

“Especially for endurance athletes, as it lies 3,000 meters over ocean level. In the summer there are miles upon miles of running trails, and in the winter the snow comes early and leaves late. I competed for the Jackson Hole Ski Club for three years and enjoyed every minute of it.”

Bredal now lives on her own in Meråker, Norway, famous for its cultivation of Olympic athletes such as Petter Northug and Tora Berger. “Both [Jackson and Meråker] are full of active people and great training opportunities,” Bredal said. “Both are fairly small as well. The difference between the two is that Jackson Hole has a big focus on alpine and freeride skiing, while Meråker has a big community of cross-country skiers.

There are a lot of the teachers that are trainers for elite skiers or even former professionals themselves. Cross-country skiing is life here. In addition, the atmosphere is very supportive and encouraging for athletes. There are a lot of serious athletes here that want to pursue skiing.”

Kauf agrees that no place quite compares to the Tetons, but still, she needed to move on to realize her Olympic dream.

“Steamboat has a huge ski club with over 1,000 athletes,” she said. “They produced 88 winter Olympians. Steamboat is Ski Town U.S.A. – everything is about the Olympians and encouraging all the upcoming athletes in that direction. The community support and encouragement of the winter sports club is astounding. There are few places with such camaraderie and expectations of excellence.” But the Tetons, Kauf acknowledges, are different. “It is the type of place that will always bring skiers because of the backcountry and big mountain terrain offered.”

But can Jackson aspire to Olympic gold? “In my opinion Jackson/Targhee is not going to be an ‘Olympian hot spot,’” Kauf said. “As Resi suggested, this place produces some amazing big mountain and rugged mountain skiers because that’s the makeup of the Tetons. Targhee is home to some astounding big mountain skiers like the Mackenzie boys and Sage Cattabriga. Targhee currently doesn’t have the amenities that produce other types of skiers. Jackson has a great alpine training hill at Snow King, but I think many local athletes are more drawn to the big mountain skiing.”

Bredal added: “If Jackson Hole was to become a place to foster Olympic athletes, such as places like Aspen and Sun Valley, I think the first step would have to be a ski school that supports this pursuit. It is important to be in an environment where those around you support and inspire you. This also makes contact with one’s coaches and teammates a lot easier.” PJH

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Kauf catches air during a free skiing competition in Switzerland this season.

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coming out of the backcountry with photography and film, much like how Rice and snowboard veterans such as Bryan Iguchi and Rob Kingwill maintain their visibility along with the area’s younger snowboard luminaries like Alex Yoder, Blake Paul and Cam Fitzpatrick.

The other deterrent that isn’t really easily controlled, according to Moran, is the lifestyle and culture of Jackson, which tends to produce more dynamic riders.

“The kids in Jackson grow up, and they aren’t pipe jocks.

If I had a kid that was so in love with half pipe, my realistic suggestion is that they would have to move to Park City. But if a kid wants to be the best possible athlete they can be, then Jackson is the perfect place. You can get such a well-rounded opportunity here.”

Moran added that while the Olympics are a noble pursuit, in the snowboarding world, it’s not an obvious path.

“From a snowboarding perspective, from my perspective, a small percentage of snowboarders are on (the Olympic) path,” he said. “Not many people understand that if you are not on this competitive path that there is still a bright future for hard-working snowboarders out of Jackson. Travis is the perfect example of what a Jackson Hole snowboarder can end up doing.”

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CREATIVE PEAKS Zen Behind the Camera Lens Photographer channels peace and calm into his meditative Teton images.

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henever Zeb Hermanson picks up his camera and looks at the wildlife and landscape through the lens, he enters a place of peace and calm he can only describe as “zen.” It’s a meditative experience.

“I can focus in on a special place in the world or the plants and animals, and I kind of lose myself for a bit,” he said.

He uses that feeling to create images that reflect that state of mind. They are elegant, simple and zen-like.

Hermanson shows eight of his photographs, printed in large format on stretched canvas, at a show opening at The Rose on Friday.

A love of wildlife and wild places can be traced back to when Hermanson was a child growing up in Wisconsin. As a little boy he would beg his mother to let him stay up past his bedtime to watch “Wild America” and “Nature” on PBS. Although he earned a scholarship to study art in college, he found himself drawn to biology. He moved to Jackson in 2010, called to the community on the recommendation of a friend and by the mountains.

He arrived as an educator, working in special education at Colter Elementary School.

He now works at Trailside Gallery.

The scenery in his new home was so stunning he couldn’t stop taking pictures with his phone. Not only was he constantly shooting, he spent hours obsessively editing his cellphone pictures, until he finally bought himself a point and shoot camera. The camera greatly improved the quality of images he could capture.

After experimenting with his new camera, he started to save for a professional camera and finally bought a DSLR and a high-quality lens. He taught himself, obsessively reading books and articles and then attending trainings and working with members of the Teton Photography Group.

Photography was a creative outlet for Hermanson. He did it for himself. But as

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Hermanson’s Warhol-esque bison shot was captured as the animal passed right in front of his car. he posted pictures on social media, people started asking if they were for sale. The show at The Rose is his first real exhibition.

It is a retrospective of his young career and shows the variety of influences on his work. In particular, Ansel Adams and Andy Warhol, though very different, inspire him.

One picture of the mountains with blowing snow and dramatic lighting he created in an “Ansel Adams style,” he said.

Another image of a bison that crossed in front of Hermanson’s car pays homage to Warhol and his work portraying endangered species. It’s a tight shot of the animal’s head composed in electric colors Hermanson created playing with levels and adjustments in Photoshop.

Both Adams and Warhol are incredibly different, but there is something timeless about their work, Hermanson said. While their images vary in style, all are usually simple and powerful compositions, he explained.

Hermanson printed the images for the show in large scale on stretched canvas.

He loves the aesthetic of canvas. It always looks perfect, and people don’t have to worry about the reflection or glare. It’s easy to hang

and gives the work gravitas, as sometimes photography isn’t viewed as fine art, he said.

Hermanson relayed that some people who have seen his photos thought at first they were paintings. Finding equal enjoyment shooting wildlife and landscapes, he heads outside with his camera without a plan or agenda.

“Living in the Tetons, I know I’m always going to come across something amazing,” he said. “The most important thing is to not force the magic or an amazing moment. I go out, remain present and see what I can find.”

Sometimes it’s bison or elk. Other times it’s a storm creating intriguing light. Sometimes it’s something easily overlooked.

One of the images in the exhibition features vultures, which together are called a wake, in a tree. The birds aren’t traditionally beautiful, but with the natural light and the big stark tree, the composition fit Hermanson’s style perfectly, he said. It’s stark and simple and zen-like.

“Backcountry Zen,” an art exhibition by Zeb Hermanson, reception is 7 to 10 p.m., Friday at The Rose. An after party with DJ Oh!Nassi will follow. PJH

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MUSIC BOX Round Is Right On Get acquainted with one of the valley’s most enduring musicians this weekend.

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hile many longtime locals are familiar with beloved valley fixture Phil Round, it’s about time more young people and transplants got acquainted with him. For the last decade Round has performed solo guitar and vocals three nights a week at the Amangani Resort.

Round also has been gigging with the Stagecoach Band for the past 35 years as well as at countless events throughout the valley. So if Round has somehow slipped under your radar, this weekend is a great opportunity to hear the man who has made marks well beyond the Hole while remaining an important staple of the valley’s music scene.

As a founding member of the widely popular 1980s bluegrass band Loose Ties, Round is no stranger to big stages and international tours. Among many distinctions, Round was the 2010 musician in residence at the Ucross Foundation, and he has sown a legacy for other Jackson musicians to aspire to. Most impressive among these accomplishments is the fact that he has managed to own a home, raise a family and remain in the valley while playing. This means playing a lot of private shows.

“Does anyone make a living going into the studio and making records nowadays besides Taylor Swift?” Round laughed.

All of this private gigging could usher some musicians down a path of complacency — show up, play the same tired set, collect a check, take off. But Round staves off the ho-hum of multiple weekly events by adding new songs to his repertoire and making interesting arrangements. This is something he is constantly working on, and when it comes time to expand his act into an ensemble, Round is ready with the necessary arrangements. Just like any other profession,

Valley fixture Phil Round will perform with band at The Wort’s Silver Dollar Bar this Friday night.

Round finds success by adapting and applying his talent and passion for playing music to opportunities as they arise.

Joining Round in the Phil Round Band at the Silver Dollar Bar will be Ted Wells (banjo/pedal steel/vocals), Rob Honey (5-string bass/vocals), and Ed Domer (drums). The years run deep between Phil and each one of these equally fine musicians. Round explained: “I really respect the guys I’ll be playing with, and I expect to make some very fine music with them at The Wort. Ted I’ve played with since college.

Ed for nearly 20 years now, and Rob I’ve gotten to know from his studio work in Salt Lake City.” A solid backing band and good chemistry allows Round to play a wide variety of music, from jazz standards and rock classics, to cowboy music and a few Round originals. The Silver Dollar crowd should have no problem finding a dance partner on the bar’s new floor.

Zen Cowboy rides on Over the past two winters, I had the chance to perform with the great Chuck Pyle during his winter visits at Dornan’s in Moose. However, I recently learned that Pyle passed away in his hometown of Palmer Lake, Colorado, at the age of 70.

Like everyone else Pyle met on the trail, I was left with a heavy heart.

Pyle moved to Colorado’s Front Range from Iowa in 1965. There he used the wide-open skies and mountains of the West as inspiration to write, perform, and tour for

more than 50 years. During his fruitful career, Pyle’s songs were recognized and recorded by legends like John Denver, Jerry Jeff Walker, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Wyoming’s Chris Ledoux. What Pyle, also known as the “Zen Cowboy,” achieved through his graceful songwriting and brilliant showmanship, he matched with his guitar playing, developing a unique approach that became known as the Chuck Pyle Finger Style.

I first met Pyle two years ago backstage at Dornan’s before I was to play an evening of music with him and Round.

Having spent all day listening to and practicing Pyle’s music, I gleaned a good sense of who Pyle was before meeting the man in person. Like all great songwriters, Pyle could convey his sense of being through his music, but it was only after I met him that I realized a big heart is hard to convey through poetry, even for someone as talented as the Zen Cowboy. That night Chuck welcomed me onstage without any trepidation, which for a veteran like Pyle performing with a greenhorn like me could be a hard thing to hold back. I was nervous, but his smile onstage brought me out of my shell. Pyle made me believe in my ability to perform and instilled confidence in me. While my experience with Pyle leaves an indelible imprint in my heart, it is shallow compared to the many deep relationships he forged on the road and in this valley.

Just as Pyle’s music will live on, so too will his spirit. PJH

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n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Story Time 1:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Free Friday Wine Tasting 4:00pm, The Liquor Store, Free, 307-733-4466 n LGBT Monthly Social 6:00pm, Eleanor’s, Free, 307699-0234 n Family Night 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, 208-787-2201 n Thanksgiving Shabbat Dinner 6:00pm, JHJC in the Centennial Bldg, Free, 307-734-1999 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833 n Art Opening: Backcountry Zen by Zeb Hermanson 7:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Phil Round Band 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 3074134779 n Jackson Hole Moose Hockey 7:30pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00 n Laff Staff Improv Comedy 8:00pm, Center for the Arts, $10.00, 307-733-4900 n OH! NASSI 10:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Isaac Dunn Duo 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

SATURDAY NOV. 21

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n English for Businesses 7:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $100.00 n Sip and Paint Class 7:00pm, Roam, Mercantile & Makery, $30.00 n Wyoming Whiskey: Bartender Shootout Regional Competition ​7:00pm, Q Roadhouse & Brewing Co, Free, 307-733-9759​ n Mustache Militia 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Karaoke 9:00pm, Virginian Saloon, Free, 307-739-9891 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

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4:00pm, Center for the Arts, $70.00, 307-733-6379 n Mary Poppins Auditions 4:00pm, Black Box Theater, Free, 307-733-3021 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Adobe InDesign 5:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $200.00, 307-733-7425 n Howdy Pardners Host Chamber Mixer at Nani’s 5:00pm, Nani’s Ristorante, Free, 307-201-2309 n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Health Insurance Marketplace Assistance 5:45pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00 - $82.50, 307739-9025 n Sustainability Series Presents: The Winter Harvest 5:45pm, Spark JH, Free, 307483-8207 n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6:00pm, Board Room of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Scholarship and Application Essay Help Night 6:00pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Knit Nite 6:00pm, Knit on Pearl, Free, 307-733-5648 n Basic Jewelry: Beading 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $90.00, 307-733-6379 n Drink + Draw 6:00pm, Center for the Arts, $35.00, 307-733-6379 n Card Making Class 6:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Modern Dance Class at Dancers’ Workshop 6:15pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925

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SUNDAY NOV. 22

n NFL Package 11:00am, The Virginian Saloon, Free, 307-7399891 n Jackson Reads 12:00pm, KHOL Radio Show, Free, 307-7332164 n Contemporary Concepts in Random Weave 1:00pm, Center for the Arts, $60.00, 307-7336379 n Oil Painting 2:00pm, Center for the Arts, $100.00, 307-7336379 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 4:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307739-9025 n Stagecoach Band 6:00pm, Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Taize 7:00pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Free, 307-733-2603

MONDAY NOV. 23

n Ski Fitness with Whitney Wright 7:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $225.00, 307733-6398

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Stirring the Stoke ‘Cliff Hanger’ captures the spirit of snow and adrenaline-­fueled adventure.

BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS

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t is a sacred time for local skiers and snowboarders, the snow is falling and Storm Show Studios and Full Room Productions are gearing up to release the world premiere of their latest shred film. This year “Cliff Hanger” showcases the brawn of local riders in the Jackson Hole backcountry, Japan and Alaska as two seasoned cinematographers document big lines and the joys of winter.

Longtime local Darrell Miller combines forces with Wisconsin born, Colorado bred, and Jackson settler Ryan Halverson to create a ski film worth your buck.

Film highlights include back-to-back shredding of the east face of No Name, serious exposure icefall riding, and getting deeper in the Jackson Hole backcountry. This is the 15th film produced by Storm Show Studios and it’s apparent that these riders never stop exploring. Miller continues to find newness in the land he’s never left: “We’re just kind of going further into the mountains to zones that we’ve looked at over 10 years,” he said.

The riders have taken this to heart during their trek to Gannet Peak. Halverson, Dave

Jeff Leger smooth talks his way around Orbital Blowout, named after an unlucky skier who broke his orbital socket attempting the notorious 90-degree airplane turn off the rock.

Van Ham and Randy Shacket braved sloggy spring conditions to navigate their first ever trip to the Wind River Mountains. With 80-pound packs and a 25-mile ski in, the crew went expedition style for their fiveday trip. Going into new territory seemed well worth the journey, as Shacket recounts, “The sense of adventure was full value.” The dream team summited Wyoming’s highest peak and got five inches of fresh powder out of the deal.

Other snow stories include footage from two separate crews in Japan. Kelly Halpin and Halina Boyd take a ladies trip to Hakuba, exploring Japanese culture and deep powder. Halpin recounts this positive snowboard energy as “good vibes and high fives.”

The alternate trip to Japan involves Derek Depiero taking advantage of winter break with Van Ham to eat, ski and be merry. Upon editing these sections, Miller claims it is the deepest powder he has ever seen. Another high excitement portion of the film involves Jeff Leger shredding the Orbital Blowout, named after an unlucky skier who broke his orbital socket while attempting the notorious 90-degree airplane turn off the rock.

While a “Cliff Hanger” could not be created without the riders, the small filming and editing crew made this movie possible. Humans without fancy helicopters and grandiose filming equipment capture Storm Show Studio’s homegrown video footage from the trenches. This enables real and honest footage that sets this film apart from other ski movies. While this film may be low budget, the stakes are high in this highaction, adrenaline-infused flick.

With all the hype and glamour of these

new age ski films, viewers’ appreciation for this film will come from its raw nature that soars beyond the lines and beyond the editing. Beneath every action-packed second is the knowledge that these powder feats were all earned. While countless ski films hire guides that are conveniently edited out of the real motion picture, the riders in this film are not managed by the little white whisper on the radio. The risks are real; the riders are skilled. They sweat to set their own boot packs and travel to places by their own manpower (unless, of course, they choose to take the big red box). Storm Show Studio’s films continue to hold a certain amount of integrity that cannot be bought no matter how much money one has to produce a ski film.

This movie goes one step further to give back to the local community where the athletes live, love and thrive.

The film premiere serves as a fundraiser for local nonprofits, and about a thousand locals are expected to turn out and support the cause. In the past, more than $45,000 has been raised for the Bridger Teton National Forest Avalanche Forecast Center and the Brent-Newton Memorial Ski Foundation.

Silent auction and raffle items include a full season ski-pass to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort along with gear from Stio, Smith Optics, Mountain Khaki, and Never Summer.

While you’re waiting for the snow to stack up, catch some face shots and support your local nonprofits 6 and 9 p.m., Friday at Snow King Resort. Tickets available at The Liquor Store, Board Room, and Wilson Backcountry Sports. After party at The Rose featuring D.J. Era, the Insomniaks and Sid Fly. PJH

Six Shooters and Ten Pins White Russians and bowling alleys aside, ‘The Big Lebowski’ is a classic Western.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

Is ‘The Big Lebowski’ simply a Western masquerading as a cult classic in size 11 bowling shoes? something less than their own masculine selves. They were “tenderfoots” or “greenhorns,” men who’d never chopped a log or ridden a horse in their lives. Here we see the Dude as someone who is so comfortable in his own element that he wears a bathrobe — the Dude’s cowboy hat. He orders his version of whiskey, a white Russian, at the bar and goes bowling to pass the time — perhaps the Dude’s version of shooting bottles off a fence post. Even as he’s relaxing in a tub listening to whale songs, the Dude might as well be on his bedroll hearing coyotes howl in the distance.

The film embarks on its own unique path and is less of a direct Western than it is an homage to Westerns and crime noir stories with some existentialism thrown in. But at the heart of it, it’s about a cowboy who follows a dude into the city and narrates his findings. Sure there’s plenty of oddities along the way — including the hilarious “Gutterballs” dream sequence, which has Lebowski donning bowling repair tools like a revolver at his hip — but it goes to show that the Western genre hasn’t died, it has simply evolved.

Wyoming is a different story of course. But outside the West, white hats and black hats still exist. Kidnapped girls still need saving.

Hobbies have shifted from rodeos to bowling tournaments, and sometimes you just need to pony up to the bar and drink a smooth white Russian to wash your sorrows away, man. PJH

TUESDAY NOV. 24

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from the moment it started, I began to understand that “The Big Lebowski” is one of the best modern Westerns of our time.

The movie opens with a tumbling tumbleweed and the low baritone of Sam Elliott narrating our landscape. He tells us about the fellow we’re about to meet: Dude.

“Now, Dude; that’s a name no one would self-apply to where I come from,” Elliot says.

Of course, I thought. Dude wasn’t just a nickname for him, it was a label.

And in that moment I realized that “The Big Lebowski” could be boiled down to the story of a city guy, a dude, told from the perspective of a real cowboy. Throughout the film, characters speak in strange, exaggerated dialogue often punctuated with a name or a title, like “man,” “Lebowski” or “sir.” This doesn’t differ much from the “sheriff,” “son,” and “ma’am” heard in old Westerns.

The more I started to watch the movie through the lens of it being a modern Western about a noble white hat (Dude), his overconfident deputy (Walter), the corrupt mayor (Lebowski) and his seductive saloongirl daughter (Maude), the more similarities I found. Thinking that the Stranger (Elliott) was narrating this with the thought that it was almost a tall tale — similar to how a modern-day storyteller might glorify the life of Billy the Kid or Wyatt Earp — events didn’t have to be rational or logical. The Dude is simply a reactor. Throughout the film he exclaims that Lebowski’s wife could be killed at any moment, but doesn’t have much of a plan himself.

Cowboys often saw visiting dudes, especially well-dressed, clean-cut men, as

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eykjavik, Iceland is famous for having the world’s only bar themed around the 1998 cult classic, “The Big Lebowski,” which stars Jeff Bridges as an apathetic, uber-confident slacker known as the Dude. Inside Lebowski Bar you’ll find plenty of American fare and bowling memorabilia, and you can order a white Russian 23 different ways. It’s a popular place for tourists and locals, and I’ve had some good times under its neon lights, but I had actually never seen the movie all the way through. A few summers ago it was featured as a bike-in movie at Snow King, but I ended up leaving for some odd reason.

The other night, a few members of the staff at the hotel I’m working for here in the Icelandic town of Neskaupstaður decided to have a movie night and watch the film.

Whatever scenes I may have seen or Internet memes I might be familiar with, I was completely unprepared for how strange and fascinating this movie was. Especially because,

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CINEMA Just the Facts Spotlight makes the work of journalism both heroic and human.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

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f you’re skeptical about all the praise heaped on Spotlight from film critics in print media, it’s understandable. We’ve all got our sweet spots, and those of us who sometimes wonder if our own dead-tree outlet will be the next to start hemorrhaging employees are bound to gravitate towards a story about how important these publications are, and what can be accomplished through time-honored shoe leather and paper chasing. If a movie is going to spend a lot of time telling you that you’re awesome … well, come on, we’re only human.

But that’s also a fairly limited way of looking at Spotlight, which is more than just a big sloppy kiss in the general direction of investigative reporting. In fact, it may be even more compelling as a look at all the things standing in the way of breaking an important story, and how easy it can be to miss that something is a story. In the course of addressing issues that are particular to the real-life time frame, co-writer/director Tom McCarthy also looks at issues that are bigger than the context of turn-of-the-21st-century newsrooms, folding them into a terrific slowburn procedural.

The main story begins in 2001, as the Boston Globe is bringing on new editorin-chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber). He wants the paper’s “Spotlight” investigative news team—editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) and reporters Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) to turn their attention to the case of a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing several children. As they begin digging—at first reluctantly—into the case, they discover that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston might be engaging, on a massive scale, in hushing up cases of abusive priests, and knowingly relocating sex offenders to other parishes.

McCarthy and co-screenwriter Josh Singer faced a tough challenge in juggling the details of these cases—and the many

Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian d’Arcy James, Michael Keaton and John Slattery in Spotlight newsroom employees, victims, attorneys, church officials and other peripheral characters involved in the investigation—in such a way that it would still be easy for a viewer to follow. But the script proves marvelously efficient at conveying that nuts-and-bolts information, while never feeling that it’s only about expository details. Like the reporters at the center of the story, Spotlight always feels like it’s trying to dig down to the next level.

And what it finds on those next levels is generally fascinating. The story’s timeline intersects with the events of Sept. 11, 2001— which also had a Boston connection—and Spotlight effectively conveys how a developing story, even one this potentially huge, can get set aside when an even bigger story emerges. There’s also an ongoing undercurrent dealing not just with the work of intrepid journalists, but the way that work fits into a business trying to survive—at a time when newsroom layoffs are being discussed— and beat its competitors. There’s a terrific moment where Matt Carroll discovers that one of the houses used by the church as a residence for “recovering” pedophile priests is in his own neighborhood, yet is told by editors not to warn his neighbors, just to make sure that the rival Boston Herald might not get wind of the scope of the Globe investigation. It’s rare for a movie about journalism to recognize not just the importance of getting a story, but of making sure the other guys don’t get the story first.

Spotlight’s most intriguing subtext, however, might be the inevitable subjectivity of the people reporting the news. Right from a prologue set in 1976, McCarthy sets the stage for Boston as a “company town” where the company in question is the Roman Catholic Church, exerting its influence over the faithful. Yet this isn’t a conspiracy story in which the only conspirators are on the outside of the newsroom; there are frequent allusions to the opportunities the Globe had to dig into this story many years earlier. The restrained performances are top-notch throughout, and Spotlight explores just enough of the journalists’ personal lives to show their own emotional connections to the Catholic Church, and how it might have taken an outsider like Baron to shake them from their assumption that this couldn’t really be such a horrible story. Spotlight may make the results of old-school reporting look heroic, but it also makes that work look human. PJH

SPOTLIGHT BBB.5 Michael Keaton Mark Ruffalo Rachel McAdams Rated R

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All the President’s Men (1976) Robert Redford Dustin Hoffman Rated PG

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my Car? The Town of Jackson’s overnight parking ban has gone into effect.

SO, if you want to void all kinds of hassles, listen up!

Through April 15th, between 3:00am & 7:00am,

Additionally, we would like to remind people: Town residents are responsible for keeping sidewalks shoveled.

• The TOJ assists with snow removal in the downtown core and along Broadway.

• Residents should not put their garbage cans out the night before, but rather after 7:00am on garbage days.

• Please keep trash cans, cars, and other obstacles out of the streets and off of the curbs.

This saves your property and makes the streets more clear of drifts and snow.

• Residents are also encouraged to help keep fire hydrants clear of snow.

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it is illegal to park overnight on Jackson streets, including public parking lots, regardless of weather (rain or shine, snow or bikini). Crews begin plowing at 3am. Parked cars on town streets make the job of keeping roads clear of snow more difficult.

Consequently, cars left on town streets between 3am & 7am will be ticketed and may be towed by Jackson police. To retrieve your car, contact Ron’s Towing at 733-8697, 1190 S. Hwy 89. Overnight parking is allowed in the public parking structure at W. Simpson Ave. and S. Millward St. but not on other town parking lots.

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Who’s up for a road trip? There’s plenty to do down south in Salt Lake City next weekend.

Whether your interests lie in music, theater and the arts—or something a bit more downto-earth—here’s what’s going on in the Beehive State. (Visit cityweekly.net/events for complete listings.) So hit the road! But be sure and bring a snack—because, now and then, everybody craves something salty.

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n Between the Wars: The Great Depression in Northern Utah Fri - Sat Brigham City Museum of Art and History, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, Free n Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution Fri - Sun Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $9.00 - $13.00, 801-581-6927 n The Flick Fri, Sat, Sun Good Company Theatre, 260 25th street, Ogden, 8:00pm, $15.00 - $17.00 n Gallery Stroll Fri Various Galleries, Downtown Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm, Free n Glass Art Guild of Utah Show Fri - Sun Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 9:00am, $6.00 - $10.00 n Grouch Who Stole Christmas Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theater, 272 South Main St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $8.00 - $16.00 n Nitro Circus Fri Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $79.00 - $99.00 n Redford Film Series Fri Sundance Mountain Resort, 8841 N Alpine Loop Rd, Sundance, 8:00pm, Free, 801-223-4144 n Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical Fri - Sun Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm n Statewide Annual Photography, Craft & Video & Digital Works Fri Rio Gallery, 300 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n Utah Arts Festival and Art Access: 70 Artists in 2015 Holiday Show Fri Utah Arts Festival, 230 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City n Young Frankenstein Fri - Sun Egyptian Theater Company, 328 Main St, Park City, 8:00pmt

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n Christmas in Color Fri - Sat Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center, 5624 S Cougar Lane, Kearns, $20.00 - $25.00 n Grouch Who Stole Christmas Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theater, 272 South Main St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $8.00 - $16.00

n Redford Film Series Fri Sundance Mountain Resort, 8841 N Alpine Loop Rd, Sundance, 8:00pm, Free, 801-223-4144 n Statewide Annual Photography, Craft & Video & Digital Works Fri Rio Gallery, 300 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n Utah Arts Festival and Art Access: 70 Artists in 2015 Holiday Show Fri Utah Arts Festival, 230 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City n Young Frankenstein Fri - Sun Egyptian Theater Company, 328 Main St, Park City, 8:00pm n New Orleans Pelicans at Utah Jazz Sat EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm

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n Art Dog Fri - Sun Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $16.00 - $26.00 n Christmas in Color Fri - Sat Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center, 5624 S Cougar Lane, Kearns, $20.00 - $25.00, n Grouch Who Stole Christmas Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theater, 272 South Main St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $8.00 - $16.00 n It Happened One Christmas Fri - Sat Pioneer Theater Company, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $40.00 - $62.00 n Statewide Annual Photography, Craft & Video & Digital Works Fri Rio Gallery, 300 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n Utah Arts Festival and Art Access: 70 Artists in 2015 Holiday Show Fri Utah Arts Festival, 230 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City

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n A Christmas Carol Fri - Sun Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 8:00pm, $16.00 - $35.00, 801-9849000 n A Christmas Carol Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 5:00pm n A Kurt Bestor Christmas: Abravanel Hall Fri - Sat Abravanel Hall, 123 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm n American Adventure Special Exhibit: Brave the Maze Fri - Sat Union Station, 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden, 10:00am, $3.00 - $5.00 n Annual Holiday Art Market 2015 Fri - Sun Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, 10:00am n Art Dog Fri - Sun Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, $16.00 - $26.00 n Ballet West: The Nutcracker Fri, Sat, Sat, Sun, Sun Salt Lake City, 7:00pm n Brett, Children’s Author Fri Hyrum Gibbons Mt. Logan Park, 1400 E. 350 S., Logan, UT, Cache County, Logan, 6:00pm, Free n Bridgette Meinhold: Timing Is Everything Fri Gallery MAR, 580 Main Street, Park City, 10:00am, Free n The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales Fri - Sun Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $12.00 - $14.00, 801-581-7332 n Brothers Brimm Fri Lighthouse Lounge, 130 E 2500 S, Ogden, 9:30pm

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n Holiday Shopping Bazar Fri - Sun The Shared Space, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 12:00pm, Free n Ice Skating At Station Park Fri Station Park, 833 Clark Lane, Farmington, 4:00pm, $4.00 - $6.00 n Imagine Ballet Theatre presents “The Nutcracker” Fri, Sat Peerys Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, 7:30pm, $15.00 n Improvables Fri CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 10:00pm, $4.00 - $6.00, 801-450-7189 n Inside: Out Fri Alice Gallery at the Glendinning, 617 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n It Happened One Christmas Fri - Sat Pioneer Theater Company, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $40.00 - $62.00 n It’s a Wonderful Life: The Musical Fri - Sat SCERA, 745 S State, Orem, 7:30pm, $12.00 n JARED & THE MILL Fri The State Room, 638 S State Street, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm n The Johnny Utahs Fri Brewskis, 244 Historic 25th Street, Ogden, 10:00pm n Joyful Noise Fri - Sat Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, 7:30pm n Jump After Dark Fri - Sat The wAIRhouse Indoor Trampoline Park, 3653 South 500 West, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm n LEGO Club Fri Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave, Park City, 2:00pm n Live Nativity & Luminary Walk Fri - Sun Clark Historic Farm, 378 W Clark St, Grantsville, 6:00pm n Magic of Christmas & Visit With Santa Fri Columbus Library, 2530 S 500 E, South Salt Lake, 4:30pm n Mark Curry Fri - Sat Club at 50 West, 50 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm, $15.00 - $20.00 n North Pole Express Fri, Sat Heber Valley Historic Railroad, 450 South 6th West, Heber City, 2:00pm, $45.00 n Oklahoma City Thunder at Utah Jazz Fri EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm n Paul Sheffield Fri - Sat Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 8:00pm n Picturing the Iconic: Andy Warhol to Kara Walker Fri - Sat Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, Free n Pigeons Fri - Sun Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 10:00am, $9.00 - $13.00, 801-581-6927 n Platinum Party Fri Club 90, 9065 S. Monroe St., Sandy, 9:00pm, $5.00 n PrissCo + Fuju Fri Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm n Santa Photos Fri - Sun Provo Towne Centre, 1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo, 6:00pm n Santa’s Reindeer Fri - Sat Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, 12:00pm, Free n Scrooge - A Christmas Carol Fri - Sat Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 East 4700 South, South Ogden, 7:30pm n Seussical JR Fri - Sat Midvale Main St. Theatre, 7711 Main St, 7:00pm

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n Center for the Arts: Gallery Walk Fri Logan, 6:00pm n Cheryl Sandoval: Steps from the Reservation Fri - Sat Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Suite 700, Salt Lake City, Free n Christmas Craft Fri - Sat Columbus Library, 2530 S 500 E, South Salt Lake n Christmas Cruise Fri - Sat CLAS Ropes Course, 3606 W. Center Street, Provo, 6:30pm, $8.00 n Christmas in Color Fri - Sat Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center, 5624 S Cougar Lane, Kearns, $20.00 - $25.00 n Christmas Village Fri - Sun Municipal Gardens, 25th St. & Grant Ave, Ogden, 801-629-8720 n Colors of the Season Fri - Sun Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Comedy Sportz Fri - Sat Comedy Sportz, 36 West Center St., Provo, 8:00pm, $5.00 - $12.00, 801-377-9700 n Dan Waldis “A Little Jazz With Your Mistletoe” Fri Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm n ELF DISPLAYS & ELF SCAVENGER HUNT at Gardner Village Fri - Sat Gardner Village, 1100 West 7800 South, West Jordan, 10:00am n Every Now And Then I Fall Apart: Jean Richardson Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City n Fall Yoga Immersion & 200-Hour Teacher Training Fri - Sun We Are Yoga, 2645 Parleys Way, Salt Lake City, 9:00am, $1,300.00 - $2,875.00, 801-419-0286 n Family Vacaton Fri - Sun Springville Museum of Art, 126 E 400 S, Springville, Free n Festival of Carols with WSU Chamber Choir Fri Alpine Church, 254 W 2675 N, Layton, 7:30pm n Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance n Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings Fri, Sat Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 7:30pm, $10.00 n Beacon Clinic Fri Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 6:00pm n Skate With Santa Fri Cottonwood Height Rec Center, 7500 S 2700 E, Cottonwood Heights n From the Collection of Thomas M. Alder Fri - Sat Charley Hafen Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, Salt Lake City, Free n Gallery Walk Fri Logan Library, 255 North Main Street, Logan, 6:00pm n GENTRI Fri Weber State University Central Campus, 3848 Harrison Blvd, Ogden, 7:00pm n Glass Art Guild of Utah Show Fri - Sun Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 9:00am, $6.00 - $10.00 n Grouch Who Stole Christmas Fri - Sat The Off Broadway Theater, 272 South Main St, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $8.00 - $16.00 n Holiday Extravaganza Ice Skating Show Fri Cottonwood Height Rec Center, 7500 S 2700 E, Cottonwood Heights n Holiday Group Exhibition Fri Slusser Gallery, 447 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, Free

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The Bad News About Bacon After a major study links meat and cancer, how much meat should you eat?

BY ANNIE FENN, MD @jacksonfoodie

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ey Carnivores, you may have heard the news that processed meat has been classified as a “definite” cause of cancer. And red meat is considered “probably carcinogenic to humans.” In fact, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization, now lumps red meat and processed meat into the same cancer-causing category as asbestos and cigarettes.

Are bacon and hot dogs really as bad as cigarettes? I swore off hot dogs years ago, but I’m not ready to give up my bacon.

So I checked out the actual IARC report — “Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat” — published in last week’s “Lancet Oncology” to see exactly what the heck it says.

The IARC defines red meat as “unprocessed mammalian meat muscle … beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse and goat meat.” Processed meat is “meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation.” The IARC analyzed all the available world data on meat and cancer, more than 800 studies in all, before declaring processed meat a carcinogen like tobacco, and red meat a probable one.

First, the bad news: Eating red meat and processed meat does increase the risk of cancer. This should surprise no one.

There is a large body of evidence that cancer of the bowel, or colorectal cancer, is more common in people who eat the most red and processed meats. And there is evolving evidence for a link between meat and cancers of the pancreas, breast, prostate and stomach. For the last 30 years, doctors have been telling people to cut back on their intake of red meat and processed meat to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

But there’s good news, too. Red meat and processed meat can still be part of a healthy diet. The actual risk of eating

AT LEFT: These processed meats are deemed definitely carcinogenic by WHO. AT RIGHT: Why my Dandelion Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing is still part of a healthy diet. Find the recipe at jacksonholefoodie.com these foods is not very high and reducing your risk can be easily achieved — more on that later. First, it helps to know the baseline risk of colorectal cancer and what this means in real numbers.

Your lifetime risk of developing colon cancer is 5 percent if you do not eat any red or processed meat at all. If you do eat these foods, your risk goes up to 6 percent. The IARC’s report showed that those who ate the most processed meat had about an 18 percent higher risk of developing colorectal cancer compared with those who ate the least. An increased risk of 18 percent sounds like a big deal, but that is the magnitude of going from an absolute risk of 5 to 6 percent.

Although the “Lancet Oncology” paper yielded some great headlines (“Bacon, Hot Dogs as Bad as Cigarettes” and “Salami Suicide: Delicious but Dangerous” to name a few), it is misleading to compare the carcinogenicity of meat to tobacco. Smoking tobacco increases your chance of getting lung cancer by 2,500 percent. Eating red and processed meat increases your chance of getting colorectal cancer by 18 percent. But the IARC puts them all in the same category because it is not designed to assess degrees of risk. Its classifications are based on strength of evidence. The IARC is very sure that there is a meaningful statistical link between eating meat and cancer. The actual risk, thankfully for the carnivores amongst us, is very low.

What is it about meat that makes it carcinogenic?

Researchers are still trying to figure this out, but it seems to be due to some substances that are part of the meat, and others that are transformed when it’s cooked. Red meat is red in part because of the heme in its fibers — the pigment contained in the blood’s oxygen-carrying hemoglobin. This heme breaks down when it’s cooked into N-nitroso compounds (NOC), substances that have been found to damage the cells that line the intestines. Other bowel cells have to up their rate of division to heal over the damage, a process that is known to start cells on the road to cancer.

In addition, processed meats contain chemicals that generate NOC compounds in the gut, such as nitrite preservatives, heterocyclic aromatic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In red meat, cooking can also produce suspected carcinogens. The IARC’s report notes that “high-temperature cooking by pan-frying, grilling or barbecuing generally produces the highest amounts of these chemicals.”

What if you can’t imagine giving up a perfectly seared steak on the grill, a great BLT sandwich, and the salumi

platter at Bin22? All of these meals can be part of a healthy diet, but regularly eating large amounts of red and processed meat over a long period of time is probably not the best approach if you want to live a long, healthy life.

The trick is to eat a sensible amount of meat without overdoing it. Some experts are recommending eating no more than 70 grams of red meat a day (equivalent to a 3 ounce portion, the size of a deck of cards) and limiting intake of processed meat; but no one really knows the optimal amount for a healthy diet. When you do eat meat, keep portion sizes small. Don’t burn meat when grilling or pan-frying — those beautiful black grill marks contain the highest amount of carcinogens. And avoid those nasty processed meats — surely you’ve suspected those foot-long Slim Jims are bad for you, right?

Follow the Mediterranean diet: lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes and whole grains, and smaller amounts of meat and dairy — all doused in liberal amounts of olive oil and washed down with red wine in the company of friends and family. Study after study has shown those habits are keys to a longer life, less heart disease and cancer, and a younger brain.

Colorectal cancer, by the way, is largely preventable with existing screening guidelines. Get a colonoscopy to screen for cancer starting at age 50, or earlier if you have a family history of the disease.

For more information about making meat part of a healthy diet, join me this Thursday, November 19, at 6 p.m. at Spark Jackson Hole, 145 East Broadway, for The Winter Harvest: A panel on hunting and eating locally throughout the winter. Part of the Yellowstone-Teton Clean Cities ongoing Sustainability Series, I’ll be on hand to talk about choosing local meats, along with Mark Gocke (Wyoming Game and Fish Department), Poa Jacobson Van Sickle (Daily Roots), and Ian MacGregor (Vegetable farmer/Vice-President of Slow Food in the Tetons.) PJH

After delivering babies and practicing gynecology for 20 years in Jackson, Annie traded her life as a doctor to pursue her other passion: writing about food, health, sustainability and the local food scene. Follow her snippets of mountain life, with recipes, at www.jacksonholefoodie.com and on Instagram @ jacksonholefoodie.

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Drinking With Big Bird These unique wines add zest to Thanksgiving dinner.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @critic1

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f you’re planning to pour wine at your Thanksgiving meal, or on bringing a bottle to a restaurant, there is a mind-bending array of options available to you. Multidish meals like Thanksgiving provide a lot of wine pairing possibilities—too many, in some cases. I usually prefer to stick with a couple of wines—one white and one red— and perhaps some bubbly, rather than trying to find one wine for the turkey, another for the spuds, a third for stuffing, and so on.

Versatility is what I look for in a Turkey Day wine, not specialization.

There are, of course, the usual suspects.

Zinfandel is favored by many because of its uniquely American heritage. Red Burgundy, too, is a good all-purpose Thanksgiving wine, one that bridges dishes from dark turkey meat to pumpkin pie. And Riesling is always a safe and smart choice during holiday meals due to its unmatched versatility for pairing well with so many different foods. However, if you’d like to play around with some novel wine pairings this Thanksgiving, here are a few of the ones that I’m considering.

I like to greet holiday guests with a glass of sparkling wine, and it’s hard to beat the 272-year-old Champagne house of Moët & Chandon for consistency and quality. Their Dom Perignon ($170) might not be in your (or my) Thanksgiving budget, but Moët & Chandon Impérial Brut NV ($49.99) could be. It’s bright and lively in style, the perfect opening for a memorable meal.

I don’t especially like to weigh down Thanksgiving guests with high-alcohol wines, which is one reason to stay away from Zins. So, I’d consider serving a Rosé with a little heft, such as Chateau du Donjon Minervois Rosé ($13.99). This tasty SyrahCinsault-Grenache blend is hearty enough to enjoy with roasted turkey, but light enough to sip as an aperitif.

An interesting “starter” or aperitif wine, if you’re working your way slowly up to the main event (turkey) is Luigi Voghera Langhe

IMBIBE Arneis ($12.49), from Italy’s Piedmont region. The wine is unoaked, but full-bodied and ultra-dry—a really nice partner for hors d’oeuvres and appetizers.

As one who is always happy to find quality Chardonnay being poured at the holiday table, I’d look toward a well-crafted California Chard such as Landmark Vineyards Overlook Chardonnay Sonoma County ($27.49) to fill the bill. With flavors of quince, apricots and brioche, this luscious Chardonnay is round enough to enjoy with roasted poultry dishes like turkey.

If you’d like to surprise your guests with something truly unique—right down to its unusual Vinolok crystal bottle closure—then pop the Vinolok on a bottle of Tenuta Sant’Antonio Scaia Cornvina ($12.99) for Thanksgiving. This Veneto wine is easy-drinking and very versatile, with robust cherry flavors that will run the pairing gamut from roasted turkey and stuffing to

sharp cheeses served after dinner.

Increasingly, French winemakers with Burgundian backgrounds are finding their way to the less expensive Languedoc region of France to make their wines, and many are doing it organically.

Such is the case with organic Chateau Pech-Latt Corbieres ($14.99). This lovely blend of old vine Syrah-GrenacheMourvèdre-Carignan has good structure and is robust enough to enjoy with deepfried turkey, turduckens, goose, prime rib and bolder Thanksgiving table flavors.

The same goes for Tenuta Frescobaldi di Castiglioni ($22), a powerful, rich wine from Tuscany.

Intense blueberry and cherry aromas accompany black pepper and spice scents, with dense tannins and a full body.

Serve this one with dark roasted turkey meat, beef or lamb, and roasted root vegetables. It will also pair well with bold after-dinner cheeses. PJH

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Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm.

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Kazumi is a family-owned and operated restaurant serving unique sushi rolls, fresh sashimi and nigiri, and off-the-charts specialty items. Located near the Town Square, we also feature hot noodle soups and the spiciest rolls in town! Open Monday through Saturday at 11 a.m - 9:30 p.m.

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Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd.

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The deli that’ll rock your belly. Jackson’s newest sub shop serves steamed subs, reubens, gyros, delicious all beef hot dogs, soups and salads. We offer Chicago style hot dogs done just the way they do in the windy city. Open daily11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Located just a short block north of the Town Square at 180 N. Center Street, (307) 733-3448.

LOTUS CAFE Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Open daily 8am for breakfast lunch and dinner.

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MANGY MOOSE Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

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SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

SWEETWATER Satisfying locals for lunch and dinner for over 36 years with deliciously affordable comfort food. Extensive local and regional beer list. Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. features blackened trout salad, elk melt, wild west chili and vegetarian specialties. Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. including potato-crusted trout, 16 ounce ribeye, vegan and wild game. Reservations welcome.

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Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson.

Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its woodoven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations.

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ITALIAN CALICO A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m.

2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere.

Home of the original Jumbo Margarita.

Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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NATURAL MEDICINE Halt the Holiday Pounds Tips to minimize overindulgence during the most gluttonous holidays of the year.

BY DR. MONIQUE LAI

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he holidays are a notoriously difficult time to avoid putting on extra pounds. Holiday parties with friends revolve around food and drink. And let’s face it: they’re a blast. I don’t intend to miss any this year, and I doubt you do either. Let’s figure out how to have some fun without ending up in drastic diet mode come January. Remember, it’s a lot easier to avoid gaining weight than it is to lose it.

Here are some things you can do before a holiday party to avoid trouble.

can become irritated, revving your appetite back up. Instead of eating, opt for sparkling water or a mocktail. Enlist a friend to join you in drinking less — these things are always easier with a wingman.

Don’t arrive hungry

Pace yourself

If it happens, load your plate with vegetables — this bulk will help you feel full. Then eat only a little of your favorites, be it the red meat or carbs.

Beware of the sweet stuff When it comes to eating sweets and dessert, follow one rule: don’t eat wheat or dairy. How do you do that? If there is pie, just eat the inside. Dark chocolate is your friend, in fact, I have a thin friend who always has individually wrapped dark chocolates in her purse. When we go out to lunch, she hands me a chocolate — 60 calories — and we skip dessert.

Attempt only two Some people tell me “I’m not a sugar person” without realizing how much sugar they get in liquid form. This holiday season remain cognizant of how many drinks you are consuming, and try, if possible to have only two when you’re at a celebration. The problem is that after two, your stomach

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Eating your way through the holiday season can be done sensibly without a January crash diet.

I remember researching weight loss when I first started practicing naturopathic medicine 20 years ago. One of the most valuable pieces of information I gleaned was to pace yourself. If you know you have a party in the evening, eat lightly at breakfast and lunch. Don’t starve yourself. Some great light meals include celery with almond butter, or an egg with spinach for breakfast and a salad or vegetable soup with a little protein for lunch. If you know there is a lunch party, eat lightly for the other two meals. This is how thin people stay thin.

Supplements to aid the battle Studies say that digestive enzymes that help your system break down food will help with weight loss. Beneficial bacteria decrease yeast and other pathogenic organisms. If you crave sugar more than normal, it could be an overgrowth of yeast. Taking a probiotic will decrease the yeast. AlphaLipoic Acid in tablet form has been shown to significantly increase weight loss for people on a low-calorie diet.

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Drink water

Lastly, make sure you drink enough water throughout the day. Half of your body weight in ounces of water in a day is a great goal to shoot for. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, overweight patients who drank 17 ounces of water, three times per day, half an hour before meals, lost weight. A study from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism showed that drinking water increased metabolism 30 percent. Sometimes the feeling of hunger can mask what is actually dehydration.

I hope this information is helpful. I’ve found that just being aware can decrease the possibility of putting on those extra pounds. PJH

A 15-year Jackson resident, Monique Lai, ND is an alternative health expert with a family practice where she works with patients to restore their health. She obtained her doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1996. Monique enjoys working with a variety of health challenges, particularly autoimmune disease, thyroid disease, digestive disorders, menopause and diabetes. For more info visit drmoniquelai.com

Spiritually Awake Practicing compassion and self-awareness are among some ways to live a more meaningful existence.

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Ten elements of being spiritually awake

*A desire to break free from restrictive patterns, life-draining jobs, consumptive lifestyles, and toxic people or situations. * Introspection, solitude and loss of interest in more extroverted activities. * A deep yearning for meaning, purpose, spiritual connection, and revelation. * Increased synchronicity and many small miracles in your life. * Physically manifesting thoughts and desires more quickly and efficiently. * A desire to find your soul mate. * Living your purpose.

The next step If you are intrigued, there are books, webinars, seminars, courses, degree programs and methods to put your higher consciousness in the driver’s seat of your life. Email me for recommendations. PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant.

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*Being spiritually awake is an open hearted state of being which allows us to directly experience the shared connection we have to each other, to all life forms

Common symptoms of awakening

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uman beings have enjoyed an innate drive to explore every corner of the physical earth, the physical solar system, and the greater cosmos. But we are also hard-wired to expand our consciousness and evolve our potential beyond the usual ways we think of ourselves.

In the past decade, science has confirmed there is no such thing as junk DNA; there is DNA we have not yet activated. Also, our brains have so much more capacity but these areas are not yet on-line. However, the science to prove that we read, select and modify the blueprint of our genetics is here. We are now empowered to change our internal and external environment and perception, and we can even adjust our genetics.

Regardless of how it may appear, we are moving in these new directions very quickly. The realization that we are all connected is reaching a tipping point.

The power of our connected focused, caring consciousness is unlimited.

There have always been highly evolved men, women and children among us in every era, in every world culture, who have served as the wisdom keepers, bookmarks to our higher potential. Right now it is rapidly becoming a mainstream conversation to become spiritually awake and embody our next evolutionary leap.

on earth and beyond. * It is the experience of knowing the Earth herself is a living being and that everything in creation is sentient. *It is a state of being in which you have the direct experience that all life is part of one infinite living, interactive, always evolving matrix. * Being spiritually awake is knowing we are multi-dimensional beings whose physical senses are limited, and whose consciousness simultaneously operates non-locally, beyond the boundaries of time and space. * Being spiritually awake is being mindful that our every thought, feeling, action, and belief either limits or expands the well-being of all life, everywhere. * Therefore living a sacred life through the lens of the heart, practicing gratitude, forgiveness, compassion and acceptance upgrades the entire matrix. * It is about embodying a loving state of being as consistently as possible. * It is being self-aware and making a gentle course correction when we slip to the lower frequency of fear. * It is using the gift of free will to choose the high road. * Being spiritually awake is to experience that, like the universe, underneath we are all pure awareness.

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SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

L.A.TIMES “FORCED RE-ENTRY” By Pam Amick Klawitter

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2015

ACROSS

10 Italian seaport 50 Lupone on Broadway 10 Alligator relative 16 Old boomer 19 Conversant with 20 Like most people 21 Shout from Speedy Gonzales 22 “... the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied __ with the pale cast of thought”: Hamlet 23 Forgetting to put the milk in the fridge?

26 HDTV brand 27 Flights connect them 28 Country rocker Steve 29 Actress Dash 31 Sail support 32 Blue state 34 Pieces of pizza in Plymouth?

35 Secures, as a package 38 “Arbitrage” star 39 Words from the unconvinced 42 “Catch-22” pal of Yossarian 43 Between, in Bordeaux 46 Religious zeal 49 Omani money 51 Backdrop for a gangster film?

54 __ bran 57 Treat made with ground almonds 59 Succeeds 60 Some PX patrons 61 Braid, e.g.

62 Top (out) 63 Agent 65 Rascally sort 66 Price place 67 Jump in the pool, perhaps?

68 Durable wood 69 Another time 73 “The Beverly Hillbillies” dad 74 Blood-filtering organs 78 Sound of the wind, perhaps 79 Skin blemish 81 Working for Christmas, say

82 NBC weekend fixture 83 Warning sign for an art dealer?

85 In __: unmoved 86 French royalty 88 Auditing giant __ & Young 90 Delay 91 Credit __: Zurich-based financial group 92 Razor brand 94 Wiesbaden wheels 96 PC key 97 Honeymoon options 101 Islamic branch 103 Mary Hartman portrayer Louise 106 Desi’s daughter 107 Players with masks 110 Keats’ “__ to Psyche” 111 Well-protected garment room?

115 Flat filler 116 Panini cheese 117 Skateboarding leap 118 Pro foe 119 Round Table knight 120 Trojan War sage 121 Pops, to tots 122 Bread often served with ghee

DOWN

10 Spy’s favorite plant?

20 Car loan nos.

30 Cheer 40 It’s often personal 50 Métro home 60 So far 70 Spam holders 80 The Wizard of Menlo Park, initially 90 Ready to roll 10 Stone memorial 11 Right __ 12 Brest brainstorms 13 Part of many superhero names

14 World Series qualifier: Abbr.

15 Hair removal choice 16 A little Egyptian magic?

17 Break away 18 Cube holders 24 Clean the slate 25 Work on the docks 30 Mer shade 32 Come across as 33 Seine sun 35 “It Wasn’t All Velvet” memoirist 36 Suffix with Unit 37 Well-designed room for a tot?

38 It might be silly 40 Twain contemporary 41 Disorderly digs 44 Boot camp VIPs 45 Word with turkey or fox 46 “That’s disgusting!”

47 Formally turned over, as land 48 Beginning 50 Posse members 52 Periodical with a URL 53 Early rock horn 55 Pro 56 “Four Quartets” monogram 58 Big name in morning talk 60 Leisurely walks 62 Parsons’ places 64 Sadie Hawkins Day suitors 66 Supermodel Cheryl 67 Testing stage 69 Meditation sounds 70 Reims rejection 71 Suffolk slammers 72 Matches 73 Something to jump for 74 John in Dublin 75 Protective sports equipment 76 Birth-related 77 Wallops

80 Start to date?

81 Hospital fluids 83 Some NFL ball carriers 84 Towel specification 87 Spa supplies 89 Fabric often decorated with pastoral scenes 91 Arenas 92 “What __!”: “I’ve been had!”

93 Steering apparatus part 95 Pal 96 Potter’s made him invisible 98 __ once 99 En __: on a streak, in sports slang 100 One with a part 101 Balkan capital 102 They’re loaded 104 “Voice of Israel” author 105 Sly tactic 0107 Olympian’s prize 108 Italian hot spot 109 Miss, overseas: Abbr.

112 Fleur-de-__ 113 Ending with pay 114 Yang counterpart

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) UrbanDictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at GoFundMe.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need?

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. 2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities.

Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths.

Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Normally I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working.

She has won all of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip?

Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony.

Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament.

How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have.

Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms.

Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves.

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GALLOPIN’ GRANDMA SATIRE

I did it once, don’t make me do it again Nuts to traditions that weren’t that great the first time round.

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nce upon a time, a bunch of tourists were dumped on a rocky beach in New England. They didn’t want to be there, but their travel agent wouldn’t refund their money. They also discovered that the locals didn’t want them there either, so to make friends they threw a big dinner to smooth things over. The locals came and it was OK, but they sure didn’t want to do it again. They did like the big turkey and green bean casserole, and sweet potatoes with the little marshmallows, but once is enough.

Unfortunately, nobody realized that once you do something, you have to do it again until it becomes a tradition.

This is why I am now standing up to my armpits in a cold dead bird. I should be grateful that the pilgrims didn’t serve boiled beaver or raccoon fricassee instead of turkey, not that it would have made any difference.

Can you image the Butterball Beaver hotline?

Because of my extreme old age and decrepitude, I was recently asked what I would have done in my youth if I had known what I know now. I will digress a bit to tell you what I knew then.

It was the early 1950s and I was young and cute and attending Corn Cob College in Corn Cob, Iowa. Being a girl, I could only take home economics. I am getting ready for a class and I am wearing a Playtex rubber girdle (which fits like the claws of death), a poofy dress, white gloves and a hat. We are going to learn how to give a tea. We are going

It’s 1918 and my relatives are either hunting for a Thanksgiving turkey or attacking the neighbors for a bath.

to learn how to pour, set the table, make little sandwiches and hold a teacup while wearing gloves. I have already taken a class in household equipment physics, and I have attempted to learn the physics behind a vacuum cleaner. We were not splitting the atom, just trying to get the floor clean. I hated the class and loathed the teacher, and you have no idea how seldom this topic of vacuum cleaner physics comes up in conversation.

We knew then that our parents had sent us to college to find a husband and be traditional wives, and most of us did. We had no idea that the day would come when girdles and white gloves and teacups would mean very little in the grand scheme of things. I am always grateful when my vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt, and I don’t care how or why.

I have another story about a little group of travelers marching along a road in a land called Oz. They were a sawhorse, a princess, a pumpkin-headed man and a scarecrow.

Eventually they met a very large bug, and they informed him that he was most unusual.

“No more so than yourselves, “ the bug said.

“Everything is unusual until you get used to it.”

I have spent my life getting used to stuff only to have it changed and then have to get used to something else. I suppose if you don’t want to change you can call it tradition and continue in the same old way.

I am reminded of a friend of mine, Mavis Merch, back in my hometown of Corn Cob, Iowa. Mavis had a terrible fight with her wicked witch of a sister-in-law. She was determined not to attend another stale Thanksgiving with her equally stale relatives at the witch’s house. Her witch-in-law insisted that she had to come. It was tradition.

Nuts to tradition, Mavis said (or something like that.)

On Thanksgiving Day Mavis and her friends went to 7-Eleven, the only place open.

They had hotdogs and pork rinds and held hands and sang “Amazing Grace” and told what they were thankful for. It was the best Thanksgiving they ever had. That’s sounds like a tradition I could get used to. Would someone please pass the pork rinds? PJH

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