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Living with Less How some valley dwellers are rejecting consumer culture.

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9 COVER STORY LIVING WITH LESS How some valley dwellers are rejecting consumer culture.

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18 GET OUT

8 THE BUZZ

19 WELL, THAT...

14 CREATIVE PEAKS

27 COSMIC CAFE

16 MUSIC BOX

30 SATIRE

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January 6, 2016

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey

W

e average about 19 inches of snow in January in the Town of Jackson.

The biggest snowfall we ever had in Town in January was 56 inches, back in 1969.

That is the snowiest month we have ever seen, ever. We also had almost five inches of water in that snow, which is also a record for January. Cold and/or snowy is the norm in January, but there has been many years when we have also seen it rain in Town. That is not something we like to recall.

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January is the snowiest month of the year in Jackson, but January also is the coldest month of the year, on average. I don’t understand why we still whine when it gets below zero this time of year, that’s normal. At least it hasn’t been record-breaking cold like it was during this week back in the 1960’s. The coldest temperature ever this week in Town was 49-below zero on January 12th, 1963.

There is that thing we call the “January Thaw”, which occurs some years when we get a stretch of warm temps. We call it that anytime it gets above freezing for more than a couple days. I am not sure what you call it when high temperatures get into the 50’s in January here, but there have been a few times that T-shirt weather made an appearance. Like on January 11th, 1953 with an afternoon high of 55-degrees.

AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.5 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.9 inches (1969) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 19 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 56 inches (1969)

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GUEST OPINION Resolutions for a Better Jackson Eleven things we can do in 2016 to improve the place we call home.

BY CRAIG BENJAMIN

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t’s that time of year, when we resolve to create a better future, for ourselves, and for our community. In that spirit, let’s consider 11 things we can do to create a better future for Jackson Hole in 2016.

Of course, this is by no means a comprehensive list and touches on just some areas to shift our focus. But here’s the thing, if we work together and start with these 11 items (every one of which we can realistically accomplish!), we’ll create a better future for our community and take a large step toward living in balance with nature.

First, let’s start 2016 with a bang and help our elected representatives take a huge step in the right direction and choose housing the middle class over more Marriotts.

On Tuesday, January 12, at 3 p.m. in Town Hall, the Jackson Town Council and Teton County Commission will hold a Joint Information Meeting to discuss two vital questions put before them by staff: How much nonresidential development potential is appropriate? And: How should residential incentives be counted against build out? How they answer these questions will shape how our community grows for decades.

The easiest and least costly thing we can do to deal with our housing challenge is to limit new commercial and lodging development. So please join dozens of your friends at this meeting and 1. Speak in support of staff’s recommendation of zero additional non-residential potential (which means not adding more commercial and lodging potential to the more than 5 million square feet of existing entitlements).

Also, since we need innovative and balanced policy solutions that will result in more housing for hard-working families. 2.

Please speak in support of staff’s recommendation to monitor incentives against a set cap.

Shifting gears to Grand Teton National Park, 3. Please join

hundreds of your friends and neighbors, and thousands of people from across America, in commenting on the MooseWilson Corridor DEIS by January 30, 2016. Let Park officials know you appreciate their transparent, science-based, and participatory planning process, and the steps they have taken to discourage the use of the road as a transportation corridor. Tell them they can go further toward protecting wildlife and habitat in the corridor, while making it easy and safe for people to visit the area on foot, bicycle, or corridor-appropriate public transit. Please visit parkplanning.nps.gov/ MooseWilson to submit your comments today.

On a more personal level, as stewards of this incredible place, let’s fulfill our responsibility to respect wildlife when we recreate.

To know before you go, 4. Please visit JHAlliance.org/dontpoach/ to download high-resolution maps of which backcountry areas are closed seasonally to protect wildlife. In addition, let’s also fulfill our responsibility to do what we can on our property to make life easier for wildlife and prepare for wildfire. 5.

Please take five minutes to check out WildNeighborhoods.org to learn what you can do.

As we move into the State Legislative session in February, 6. Let’s actively fight back against the big money special interests pushing their extreme agenda to privatize our public lands.

Across America, and right here in Wyoming, big corporations (led by Koch Industries) are funding a well-orchestrated campaign using front groups with deceptive names like the “American Lands Council” and the “Environmental Policy Alliance” aimed at snookering us into transferring our public lands to state, and ultimately, private, control. Despite all of their slick rhetoric and elaborate arguments about “taking back” our land (which Western states never owned), the goal of this campaign is to privatize our public lands so they are open to fossil fuel and mineral extraction. Since our public lands define our quality of life, support our wildlife, and drive our local economy, it’s up to each and every one of us to let our elected representatives know they can take our public lands from our cold dead hands.

Shifting back to our land use rules, let’s make sure they encourage walkable neighborhoods surrounded by protected

open space, working agricultural lands, and connected wildlife habitat, and help ensure that at least two thirds of the people who work in Jackson Hole are able to live here. To make this happen, let’s support our Town and County elected representatives in updating our policies and regulations to 7.

Allow and incentivize deed-restricted workforce housing, 8.

Shift development from our rural lands to appropriate town or complete neighborhood locations through a “conservation incentive program,” 9. Successfully mitigate the housing impact of commercial and lodging development, and 10.

More effectively protect our natural resources.

Finally, 11. Let’s support our elected representatives in leading us to a better future by providing our community the choice to approve a package of capital investments funded through the specific purpose excise tax (SPET) and funding for operations and additional strategic capital projects through an increase in the general sales tax.

Specifically, let’s support them in providing us the opportunity in November to approve a new, consistent and predictable funding source — like an increase in the general sales tax — to implement our county-approved plans to address our housing, transportation and habitat connectivity challenges. In addition, let’s make sure we have the opportunity in August to support a comprehensive list of capital investments appropriate for funding through SPET, like the implementation of our wildlife-crossings master plan, an expansion of the START maintenance facility, and shovel-ready projects that will help hard-working families afford to live here.

The only reason we won’t get all of this done is if we don’t step up and make it happen. Let’s make 2016 the year our community rose to the occasion, took charge of our future, and fulfilled our moral responsibility to leave things better than we found them and create a better world for our children. PJH

“It’s up to each and every one of us to let our elected representatives know they can take our public lands from our cold dead hands.”

SNOW PACK REPORT

Craig Benjamin is the executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance.

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NINJA SLIDES

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ot much has changed since last week’s snowpack report. There are still deep facets that could potentially create a dangerous situation for an unsuspecting skier with slabs as deep as five feet.

Just as we saw last week, if something were to slide, it will slide big. The most recent avalanches have included a skier triggered slide off Taylor heading uphill and a slide off the north side of Oliver Peak. Looking at the photos on the BTAC website, the slide off Taylor was fairly large consolidated blocks.

The other slide, off Oliver, tells me that all aspects can and will avalanche with the current state of the snowpack.

The chances of triggering something are diminishing day by day. But this does not mean that the snowpack is healing itself quite yet. It means that our chances of triggering a deep slab avalanche, while decreasing, are still possible, and should be considered when traveling in the backcountry.

Indeed, this could be a difficult time to make the decision of whether or not to go big. But why not ski something bigger when the BTAC has deemed conditions “moderate”? (Though what scares me is the potential of a large, deadly slide even with a moderate rating.)

We should start seeing less naturally triggered avalanches out there. The current weather pattern is showing a max of 10 inches falling from Tuesday to Wednesday night. This could create a new dangerous layer of snow deposited on surface hoar that has been developing, with evidence of said growth on the north side of Mt Leidy (info acquired from BTAC). This all depends on how much snow actually falls, but it is worth noting for future reference.

Stay safe out there friends, and pray for snow.

– Steve Weiss

January 2016

St. John’s Calendar of Events Most events are free unless otherwise noted.

Support Groups

Health Education

Breastfeeding and Back to Work: NEW! Growing Through Grief A six-week guided support group for How to keep your milk supply up anyone experiencing the loss of and your stress level down!

Lunchtime Learning

A lecture/presentation. Some advance preparation is required.

Class size is limited.

Monday, January 4 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Registration required RSVP to jwood@tetonhospital.org

a loved one.

Wednesday, January 13 (through February 24) 5:15–6:30 pm Enrollment is limited For information, call 307 739 7482

Is Your Home Safe?

An exploration of radon and other hazards Teton County Public Health Tuesday, January 19 Noon - 1 pm Teton County Library 125 Virginian Lane For information, call 307 739 7466

Cancer Support Group for Patients, Survivors, and Caregivers

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For newborns and their families.

Wednesday, January 13 1-2:30 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center For information, call 307 739 6175

Joint Classes

Led by cancer survivor Carol Poole, RN, OCN Thursday, January 7 Thursday, January 21 3 pm SJMC Boardroom For information, call 307 739 6195

Type 2 Diabetes Support Group

Get helpful tips about managing diabetes.

Friends/supporters welcome.

Tuesday, January 12 1-2:15 pm Bison Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center For information, call 307 739 7678

Teton Parkies

(Parkinson’s Disease Client & supporter)

Grief Support Group

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NEW Weight Management

Support Group

Open to everyone interested in weight loss and those considering (or completed) bariatric surgery Thursday, January 21 5:15-6:15 pm SJMC Boardroom For information, call 307 739 7634

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish

In Spanish! ¡En Español!

Every Thursday 5-6 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom, St. John’s Medical Center For information, call 307 739 7678

Foundation Auxiliary Meeting

Thursday, January 7 12-1 pm SJMC Boardroom For information, call 307 739 7517

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities Spiritual Care Volunteer Training Saturday, January 23 Apply by January 11 Call Kathy Kjellgren at 307 739 7541 for details

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Led by Christina Riley, LCSW Drop-ins welcome, but please call ahead Wednesday, January 13 12:00-12:50 pm Eagle Classroom Call 307 739 7482

For those suffering from persistent memory problems; family members and caregivers welcome.

Thursday, January 14, Noon-1 pm Morningstar Senior Living For information, call 307 739 7434

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Gather for mutual support, discussion of disease and therapies, excursion planning, and more Tuesday, January 12 5:30-7:00 pm Community Room Jackson Whole Grocer Contact 307 733 4966 or 614 271 7012

Memory Loss Support Group

Information for people considering or scheduled for joint replacement.

Thursday, January 7, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, January 12, 4-5:30 pm Thursday, January 21, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, January 25, 4-5:30 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center For information, call 307 739 6199

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Capitol Hill Slide Legislators brace for a brutal budget session.

BY JAKE NICHOLS

W

hen legislators convene for the upcoming budget session this February they’ll have a nagging corporeal reminder of the spending and saving decisions looming in the coming year. Lawmakers will cram themselves into temporary digs at a retrofitted Cheyenne office while a controversial $300 million renovation takes place at the State Capitol. It’s more than symbolic considering Governor Matt Mead’s proposed $3.016 billion operating budget has a measly $30 million leftover for wish list spending.

Belt tightening in Cheyenne due to the miserable state of worldwide energy economies means this budget session, unlike previous legislative assemblies, will likely focus almost exclusively on financial concerns. House and Senate representatives will have a mere three weeks to weed through a fiscal jungle of spending decisions that could include dipping into so-called “rainy day” reserves, raising taxes, and slashing funding.

For starters, Governor Mead has warned counties and municipalities to brace themselves for severe budget cuts – up to 50 percent – as state dole outs are expected to suffer in light of dwindling revenue. Mead has requested last biennium’s $183 million, allocated and distributed to Wyoming’s 23 counties and 99 incorporated municipalities, be slashed to $90 million this year.

“This is definitely the worst I’ve seen it in my two terms, but the notion of cutting funds to counties, towns and cities is not new. We had to fight for an extra $45 million last year when the governor tried to cut funds to our counties and municipalities,” said Marti Halverson, District 22 House Rep. “But finding another $90 million this year; I don’t know that will be possible. In talking to mayors and commissioners in my district, they’ve run the numbers and they are prepared.

Sublette, Lincoln and Teton counties are not screaming, ‘the sky is falling.’ They are already making plans, accordingly.”

House Rep. Andy Schwartz (District 23), who is headed into his first budget session, said he is ready for cost cutting but hopes it’s done cautiously.

“I don’t really have a good understanding of how local budgets are affected by the downturn in the energy economy,” Schwartz admitted. “But, in general, I’m a supporter of giving more to local governments. It’s going to get complicated because it will be more than actual dollar amounts. The revenue committee is working on a new formula for revenue distribution. I certainly hope we can do more than the $90 million.”

Senator Leland Christensen viewed Mead’s 50 percent cuts as excessive.

“That seems like a pretty deep cut; a radical change,” Christensen said. “I’ll reserve finer discussions until after I hear from the Appropriations Committee, but to make modest cuts at the state level and huge cuts to towns and counties doesn’t seem balanced or respectful.”

Raiding reserves As state leaders grapple with the daunting task of navigating through dire revenue predictions, things might go from bad to worse. A new report on from the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group, expected any day now, could forecast an even gloomier future.

Meanwhile, Mead has proposed a workaround for tapping the state’s $1.8 billion rainy day fund. His spending

projections for state projects call for “borrowing” some $488 million from reserves in the hopes the energy sector will one day rebound. The idea has met with strong opposition from fiscally conservative Republicans and even some Democrats.

Christensen said, “It might be time to talk about accessing money in savings but as far as living off the piggy bank and kicking the can down the road, I would be pretty hesitant to do that. We can go through a billion and a half awfully quickly in this state.”

Halverson, for one, isn’t ready to go there at all.

“This session my position is going to be not to dip into any savings,” she said. “I could be persuaded not to add to the rainy day fund, though. We will know this December if we are going to have a continuation of energy wars or if Wyoming is going to be free to develop fossil fuels as it has in the past.”

Halverson doesn’t feel a global downturn in oil and gas prices are cramping Wyoming’s ability to collect revenue from minerals extraction as much as federal opposition to coal mining hurts the state.

“The main issue is coal,” Halverson said. “I receive emails from activists from all over the world and they always end their correspondence by saying, ‘Leave it in the ground.’”

While pushback from Washington in the form of more stringent EPA policies concerning coal burning and the foreign export of coal is perceived to hinder leading producers like Wyoming and West Virginia, Halverson said she is not on board with throwing more money at coal gasification.

“Here is where I think the lines are going to be drawn. If we are preparing for far less mineral extraction then there are some legislators who are going to be looking to expand and diversify Wyoming’s economy with projects like coal-to-liquid,” Halverson said regarding the controversial and expensive $1.75 billion coal gasification plant near Medicine Bow. “I am going to be saying, ‘not yet on coal to liquid.’ No more money there, I would cut that off or suspend efforts on that.”

Schwartz doesn’t think political battle lines over coal are the issue.

“It’s easy to blame the EPA and Obama for the state coal is in right now,” he said. “But it’s not necessarily that Obama has made coal tough; globally, the market for coal is down. Even in China they are looking at ways to reduce coal because the impact on their cities is profound. As far as gas and oil prices, who knows? Iran could bomb the shit out of Saudi Arabia next week and those prices could go back up.”

Schwartz thinks the time is right to talk about diversification from Wyoming’s energy dependence.

“Tourism is the No. 2 industry in the state and growing.

Just walk around Jackson in the summer,” Schwartz said. “We would be foolish to cut our investments in tourism.”

Halverson, too, said her constituents back tourism and she would not favor cuts to tourism spending. Indeed, Mead would like to see an additional $3 million added to the standard Wyoming Department of Tourism $25 million annual budget for international marketing.

“I support the marketing that the [state tourism] board does,” Halverson said. “I would just like to see better empirical data from them, because if we are going to continue to back tourism, now is the time to really get down into the weeds and see what measurable results we are getting back.”

Christensen is also a strong proponent of supporting tourism. “Tourism is to a large degree the clean, renewable economy on this side of the state,” he said. “I always encourage my fellow legislators about the need to plant in order to harvest. And the other thing about tourism is it’s Main Street, Wyoming. Visitors spend their money on Main Street, at the mom-and-pop shops, in the communities they visit.”

Cutting costs, raising revenue When times are tough, government often leans toward slashing social services first. The Governor’s Office is already calling for deep cuts to many programs like mental health

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providers, community service providers, advocates for victims of sexual assault, and substance abuse providers.

Neither Halverson nor Schwartz think that’s the way to go.

“I think we have to be real careful about cutting social services because they save the state money in the long run,” Schwartz said. “Drug courts, for example, actually help keep people out of jail and prison, which is a higher cost to taxpayers than drug courts.”

Halverson added, “We are so lucky in Wyoming to have these NGO’s [Non-Governmental Organizations]. These would be state agencies in any other state. These nonprofits, which receive state funding, are safety nets in every community they serve. The governor is talking about taking money out of these programs, but I’m coming down on their side.”

Halverson would rather see Wyoming trim its own fat.

“What I’m hearing from my constituents is: cut government,” she said. “The gist across the board, from everyone I’m hearing from, is to cut the number of state employees.

Wyoming has the distinction of having more employees per 1,000 residents – well over 800 total – than any other state in the country.”

Neither House rep had the appetite for raising taxes but Schwartz said he would entertain the idea of leaving the option up to local governments.

Financial focus

Budget sessions are shorter than general sessions. Time constraint dictates legislators focus primarily on budget related items. To discourage non-budgetary bills, a twothirds vote is required, rather than the customary majority, in order for legislation to pass. Still, many lawmakers use the session to introduce pet projects they know have little chance of passing in order to salt the mine for future iterations of their bills in later sessions.

With money being tight, will Senators and House reps back off in deference to what many view as a critical budget session?

“I think it’s going to be a normal session with many [non-budgetary] bills being introduced just to get them out there. I’ve got one like that,” Schwartz said. “You need to make people aware of [your proposed legislation]. It sometimes takes four or five tries to get something passed.”

Halverson blamed bill bloated budget sessions on political grandstanding. “Budget sessions happen in an election year,” she pointed out. Halverson anticipated an extra five days or so being tacked on to the scheduled 20-day session slated to kick off on February 8. The House rep said she had confidence in leadership to skillfully weed through non-budgetary bills, introducing only high-priority legislation to the floor. PJH

THEM ON US

By JAKE NICHOLS

Brigid goes hunting Huge “atta cowgirl” to Brigid Mander. The former Planet writer knocked out a wonderful piece on hunting for the Wall Street Journal to end last year. It was mainly a travelogue for interested hunters. WSJ surely loved playing up the popular huntress angle.

The subhead read: “Captivated by the wilds of Wyoming, a novice hunter ponders whether she’ll be able to pull the trigger.” Mander mentioned living in Jackson for a decade but milked her Long Island upbringing for the proper “city girl meets wild and wide open” effect.

Mander never made the kill but did probably manage to sell a few Darwin and Triangle X ranch hunting trips for next fall.

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Ducks help mulies University of Oregon says it is on a campaign to better market itself as a scientifically-minded school. University president Michael Shill said faculty and staff will make a proactive effort in 2016 to pitch positive stories about what their Office of Research and Innovation is up to rather than the latest Duck football highlights. ““What we don’t want is — when you put in a Google search that says the ‘University of Oregon’ — we shouldn’t be coming up primarily about basketball players doing things, sexual violence-type stories, (instead) you’re hearing about all the great things that are taking place here in terms of research,” Schill told the school paper, the Register-Guard.

An example cited by Shill is Oregon’s InfoGraphics Lab partnership with the Wyoming Migration Initiative in order to map the 150-mile mule deer migration from Jackson Hole to the Red Desert.

NBA star scoped by JH doc The Phoenix Suns lost key point guard Eric Bledsoe to a season-ending injury. Bledsoe was off to a career season averaging 20.4 points per game.

The loss is bad news for Suns fans but they can rest assured he will be getting the best of care. Team physician Dr. Tom Carter will perform the surgery on Bledsoe’s torn meniscus. Carter is the head of orthopedic surgery at Arizona State University. He has been the Suns’ team physician since 2000. Carter’s first year out of residency was spent in Jackson where he was a member of Teton Orthopedics in 1989.

All hail his eminence By day he runs the City of Victor, Idaho. By night, he’s a successful concert promoter on the other side of the hill.

Jeff Potter was sworn in as Victor’s new mayor this week. Potter ran unopposed, securing the four-year term with 206 votes. Potter is also a founding member of JacksonHoleLive. Should we expect Music on Main to get even better? Or will Potter devote his time to finally abolishing the ‘back-in’ angled parking in Victor?

Capital punishment needs capital

Another Palisades plane crash

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Multiple agencies responded to a reported plane crash near Palisades Reservoir January 4. Members from Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office, Swan Valley Fire, Idaho Falls Ambulance, Lincoln County Wyoming Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue, and Alpine Fire arrived on scene to find a downed Yak 52 Russian trainer aircraft.

Authorities identified two victims – Reade Genzlinger, 61, of Bryn Athens, Pennsylvania, and a 17-year-old female from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both were part-time residents of Alpine, Wyoming, where the plane took off from. It was the second plane crash to occur in the area. Travis Hamilton, 43, and his 14-year-old daughter crashed a single-engine Aviat Husky near Palisades on October 15 last fall. Hamilton was killed while the daughter survived. PJH

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The Washington Times picked up an AP story from the Casper Star Tribune’s Ben Neary, who scooped news regarding Wyoming’s only death row inmate. The headline in both the Times and the Trib read: “Prosecutor: Wyoming needs to reconsider death penalty.”

Casper District Attorney Mike Blonigen, who prosecuted Eaton in 2004 for the 1988 killing of Lisa Kimmell of Billings, Montana, said the Wyoming Legislature should ask itself whether the state has the resources to carry out capital punishment. Death sentences are costly to pursue and some states, including Wyoming, have had difficulty in obtaining the drugs necessary to perform lethal injection executions.

Eaton’s sentence was overturned last year on the grounds Eaton had not received adequate legal defense. An attempt by the Casper District Prosecution Office to retry Eaton is underway.

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OF THE

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WEIRD

In December, Canada’s supportive organization The Transgender Project released a biographical video of the former Paul Wolscht, 46 and the father of seven children with his ex-wife, Marie, describing his new life as not only a female but a 6-year-old female, Stephoknee Wolscht. She told the Daily Xtra (gay and lesbian news site) that not acting her real age (even while doing “adult” things like working a job and driving a car) enables her to escape “depression and suicidal thoughts.” Among the trans-age’s favorite activities are (coloring-book) coloring, creating a play-like “kingdom,” and wearing “really pretty clothes.”

Stephoknee now lives with the couple who adopted her.

[The Independent (London), 12-16-2015]

Unclear on the Concept

Thee, Not Me: American “millennials” (those aged 18 to 29) continue a “long-standing tradition,” The Washington Post wrote in December, describing a Harvard Institute of Politics poll on their views on war. Following the recent Paris terrorist attacks, about 60 percent of U.S. millennials said additional American troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State, but 85 percent answered, in the next question, that no, they themselves were “probably” or “definitely” not joining the military. [Washington Post, 12-10-2015]

Exceptional Floridians

1. Police in St. Petersburg reported the December arrest of a 12-year-old boy whose rap sheet listed “more than 20” arrests since age 9. He, on a bicycle, had told an 89-year-old driver at a gas station that the man’s tire was low, and when the man got out to check, the boy hopped in the car and took off. 2. A driver accidentally plowed through two small businesses in Pensacola in December, creating such destruction that the manager of one said it looked like a bomb had hit (forcing both—a tax service and a casket company—to relocate). The driver told police he was attempting to “travel through time.” [WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg), 12-15-2015] [WEAR-TV (Pensacola), 12-23-2015]

Compelling Explanations

1. Breen Peck, 52, an air traffic controller who has been having career troubles in recent years, was arrested during a traffic stop on New York’s Long Island in December when officers found illegal drugs in his car.

“That’s meth,” he said. “I’m an air traffic controller.” “I smoke it to stay awake.” 2. In a “she-said/he-said” case, wealthy Saudi businessman Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46, was acquitted of rape in December in England’s Southwark Crown Court, apparently persuading jurors of “reasonable doubt” about his DNA found in the alleged victim’s vagina. Perhaps, his lawyer said, Abdulaziz was still aroused after sex with the other woman in the apartment and accidentally fell directly upon the alleged victim lying on a sofa. [New York Post, 12-11-2015] [The Independent, 12-16-2015]

Ironies

Christopher Manney was fired from the Milwaukee Police Department in 2014 after shooting a black suspect to death in a case bearing some similarity to 2015 shootings that produced “Black Lives Matter” protests—not fired for the shooting (adjudged “not excessive force”) but for improper actions that preceded the shooting (not announcing a valid reason for a pat down and conducting a not-by-the-book pat down). Two days before the firing, he had filed a disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder from the shooting and aftermath, and in November 2015 the city’s Annuity and Pension Board, following city

law, approved the claim. Thus, Manney, despite having been subsequently fired, retired with full disability, with basically the same take-home pay he was receiving when fired. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11-5-2015; WITI-TV (Milwaukee), 10-16-2015] n In November, as anti-Muslim tensions arose in several U.S. cities following the Paris terrorist attack, two chapters of the Satanic Temple church (San Jose, California, and Minneapolis) offered to protect Muslims who feared a backlash. The Minneapolis group offered “just big dudes walking you to where you need to be,” for example, grocery shopping—an offer “of genuine compassion for our fellow human beings.” (The offer was subsequently rescinded by the Minneapolis church’s executive ministry, reasoning that they are “not a personal security service.”)

[City Pages (Minneapolis), 12-22-2015]

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

In November, a 62-year-old customer at Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine, Florida, was hit in the lower abdomen area by another shooter, 71, because the victim was standing behind the target (“for some reason,” was all a fire-rescue spokesman would say). The shooter thought the man was elsewhere on the property.

[Jacksonville.com, 11-27-2015]

Least Competent Criminals

Oops! 1. Jasper Harrison, 47, working inside the storage unit in Edgewater, Florida, where he grows his marijuana, heard a helicopter overhead on Dec. 9, panicked, and called 911 to turn himself in to pre-empt what he presumed was a SWAT raid. Actually, the helicopter belonged to a local news station headed elsewhere, but police later arrested Harrison based on the 911 call. 2. Lloyd Franklin, 34 and suspected in a North Carolina double murder, fatally shot himself in a Bensalem, Pennsylvania, motel room in November when police knocked on the door.

However, cops actually had come to arrest another man in the room on a parole violation. [Orlando Sentinel, 12-10-2015] [KYW-TV (Philadelphia), 11-8-2015]

The Continuing Crisis

Elaine Williams, 47, was arrested in December in North Forsyth, Georgia, and charged with trying to buy a baby for her daughter, 14, via an ad on Craigslist. Williams said her daughter said she “wanted a baby and would get one with or without (my) help.” (Bonus: Williams lives near Jot Em Down Road.) [Forsyth County News, 12-7-2015] n Easily Disrespected: Two foreign students at the liberal arts Oberlin College complained in a recent school publication that the cafeteria selections—supposedly “inclusive” of world cultures—were actually denigrating other cultures by offering inferior versions of national dishes.

Vietnamese student Diep Nguyen wrote that the correct “banh mi” sandwich should be a “crispy baguette with grilled pork, pate, pickled vegetables and fresh herbs” and not, he complained, “ciabatta bread, pulled pork and coleslaw.” Said Japanese student Tomoyo Joshi, sushi with “undercooked rice and lack of fresh fish is disrespectful.” (Cafeteria managers told The Washington Post they were proud of their commitments to other cultures, to local farming, sustainable foods and animal-treatment concerns.) [Oberlin Review, 11-6-2015] [Washington Post, 12-21-2015]

Thanks This Week to Rich Heiden, Rachael Bock, and Stuart Worthington, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

Living with Less How some valley dwellers are rejecting consumer culture.

Daniel Suelo has lived without money since 2000. He is the subject of visiting author Mark Sundeen’s book ‘The Man Who Quit Money.’

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gift economy, one where everyone “gives and receives without calculation or thought of return, or a sense of debt (guilt).”

Suelo does not insist on a new form of currency, rather the abolishment of accepted ideas of currency.

Sundeen, the renowned author of Suelo’s story, admits, “Suelo’s extreme lifestyle is not a model of replicable sustainability. If everyone was getting food out of the dumpsters, who would put the food in there?” He says he is not going to emulate Suelo’s lifestyle.

Instead he has made small changes such as biking instead of driving; transferring his money from Wells Fargo to a small credit union to avoid the bank making interest off his earnings; buying CSA vegetables at the beginning of the season, rather than produce from grocery stores and refinancing his house through the credit union. “None of this sounds as sexy as building a greenhouse,” Sundeen joked, “but these are decisions you can make in the real world.”

Tiny home, big freedom

Mark Sundeen visits the valley for Mountain Story 2016, hosted by Teton County Library from January 11 to 14, a literary festival that invites mountain enthusiasts to enjoy the “juncture of great adventure and great writing.” Other notable guests include: Sender Films, makers of Valley Uprising and Aaron Linsdau, author of “Antarctic Tears.” The three-day festival features alpinist and adventure authors, films, a Cabin Fever Story Slam and writing workshops.

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Three years ago, Brittany Gibeau was working as a preschool teacher in Jackson. She and her husband Dan realized that if they went the conventional way, they would be “trapped in the consumer driven lifestyle.” They decided that a tiny house could set them free financially, teach them how to live with less and allow them to leave a smaller environmental impact.

In four and a half months of full-time work, the Gibeaus built a 200 square foot solar-powered, off-the-grid tiny home with a composting toilet. They used ReWall materials, made from 100 percent upcycled meld of fiberboard for interior and exterior walls, ceilings and roof tiling, flooring, structural insulation and countertops. The finished product contained no chemicals.

They transported their tiny home to Colorado; Fireside Resort in Jackson and Painted Apple Ranch in Victor. They took a threemonth road trip with it, and planted it in friends’ backyards.

This gave them the freedom to live simply, off the grid, using no utilities. They used a 40-gallon tank they had to refill often in the winter, so it wouldn’t freeze. They took short showers and did efficient dishes. “We realized that we didn’t need much water,” Brittany said. The toilet only held three 5-gallon buckets at a time.

The Gibeaus saved $35,000 in two years living in a tiny home. “It’s really not a sacrifice,” Brittany said, “except for the actual square footage of where to put things, we lived really comfortably. We became very aware of personal belongings.

Even when a person gifted us a candle, we often didn’t have anywhere to put it.”

Each day brought new challenges; solutions came “one problem at a time.” The Gibeaus try to reuse everything – instead of buying a piñata for a recent work assignment, Brittany made one; she also refurbishes old furniture, makes soap, cleaning products and her own Christmas presents.

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ho lives in tiny houses, uses biodegradable materials, recycled water stored in an outdoor tank, and composts their own garbage?

Who recycles, rebuilds, refurbishes, or reuses objects and goods instead of buying new?

Who lives out of their cars, owns few clothes and no furniture? Borrows no money? And spends almost nothing?

Is it really possible to produce little waste and live a truly sustainable lifestyle?

Inspired by the concept that consuming less quells the quest for more, many individuals in Jackson Hole, and nationwide, are finding alternative ways to live, questioning ideas of currency, consumerism, values, what’s worth keeping and what’s worth throwing away.

Many are joining the “tiny house” movement, starting intentional communities or barter economies, and consuming less.

Daniel Suelo, the subject of Mark Sundeen’s 2012 novel “The Man Who Quit Money,” has lived without money since 2000.

Suelo paid off his debt, ditched his meager savings in a phone booth, and lived in a Utah cave surviving off wild vegetation, road-kill and dumpster diving. “I take only what is freely given or thrown away. By doing this, I find a return to balance,” Suelo softly explained. “We accumulate what we don’t need out of fear and anxiety.”

Suelo believes that the only true balanced economy is a

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Reveling in self-reliance

and it does not stink, because it is in balance. When food is taken locally and thrown away locally, all becomes in balance, and there is no longer litter.”

Ultimately, people can begin to shift behaviors by first shifting their perceptions, Hugh said, by peeling off a label that has somehow come to define humanity. “Think of yourself as a citizen. There is no hope for a country comprised of consumers, but a country made up of citizens can accomplish almost anything.”

The simple, happy life

Tony Niro, a Jackson resident, estimates that he saved $28,000 from living eight summers in his SUV. His car was his storage unit, his bed, and his means of transportation. “My dumpster was on wheels,” he laughed.

Living simply allowed him to travel more, take hikes from Idaho to Wyoming, focus on his goals, and participate in the community. He refilled water in public restrooms or friends’ houses, used the bare minimum of utensils for cooking, cooked burgers with sticks on the fire, and kept a small bag of trash.

He dumped the contents once a week and then reused the bag, and he ate only nonperishable food since he didn’t have a fridge.

“I didn’t consume a ton because I didn’t have a place to put it,” he said. “I tried not to accumulate.”

Now, dismayed at the cost of utilities as a new homeowner, Niro reminisced: “Not having a home is not a bad thing. It forces a person to get out into the community– where we really live --instead of staying home that day.”

Today, looking around his new condo, Niro says his experiences helped shaped his new trajectory in a brick and mortar abode. “I’ve taken a lot of my values from living in my car into being a homeowner. Everything in my house was free.

Everything is found. My dining room table chairs were going to the dumpster. I try to take care of things, and be mindful of them; what I use, I use properly.”

He is not totally convinced that his decision suits him. “I am already missing my simple life, with no worries about utilities.

“Think of yourself as a citizen. There is no hope for a country comprised of consumers.”

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Wilson residents Hugh and Karlene Owens repair everything – they even use wood chips to biodegrade cotton clothing. They firmly believe that, “We can simplify our lives when we stop bringing junk home,” and urge people to “stop making your house a dumpster.” They do not believe in borrowing money or buying anything they cannot fix. “Most of the stuff we get is broken and it’s fabulous,” Hugh said. “We try not to buy anything new. We don’t want to waste energy. We buy used items and fix them up. I haven’t bought a new car or new lumber in 40 years– everything for our home came from Habitat for Humanity.”

As Karlene takes four loaves of fresh-baked bread out of the wood-burning oven, a ritual she performs each Sunday, the house fills up with the smell of molasses and wheat. “If you make your own food and don’t buy processed food, that reduces a lot of trash,” she noted. “We buy everything in bulk, including 100-pound sacks of grain–we reuse the sack. We grow as much of our own food as possible, which doesn’t require consuming packaging or using fuel for travel. We stock and can food from our garden, and have raised livestock.” Half the week, Hugh has grain or oats for breakfast. This costs practically nothing versus Cheerios that cost $4.99 for five servings. “Not only is it not as healthy as porridge, the box and plastic wrapper have to be disposed,” Hugh said.

The Owens heat their home completely with wood. The logs come from their own 5-acre property and construction lumber.

Hot water is heated from their personal greenhouse and solar energy, and they cook in a wood-stove that has old radiators, which circulate to the water tank. The water they use comes from waste heat from the cook stove, and a convection loop of concrete encircles their property. Clothes are dried on a line or in the greenhouse.

“We have not had trash service for eight years, make no trips to the dump, and do not own a trash can. We burn our garbage including all food grade [non-halogenated] plastics,” Hugh said. (Burning plastics made of polythene is safe. Halogenated plastics, made from chlorine and fluorine, are unsafe to burn.)

“We literally heat the house trash,” Hugh laughed.

They use compost bins to generate soil for garden, and feed organic waste to the chickens, pigs and sheep. While trash from Teton County travels all the way to Sublette or Bonneville County, this is their attempt to “take trash that otherwise would have gone to the dump and make soil.” The Owens are busy building a tiny home from local aspen and pine lumber donations as “a backup plan.”

In terms of a broader solution, Hugh noted, “To cut down on carbon dioxide, fuel should be taxed. To cut down on electricity, tax the service. To cut down on something you tax it. The political system is broken.

The best thing to do is reduce waste, and try to develop new skillsets.” Troubled by the truckloads of food shipped in to Jackson, he said, “We make nothing here. People need to reprioritize their time. Money will never buy you security.”

Mirroing Owens’ philosophy on taxation, Sundeen asserted, “you are subject to economic forces beyond your control. The best solution I know is to continue to fight the overall tax system. This requires grassroots political action.”

Suelo echoes this notion, praising the perfect life cycles in nature. “When I stayed in a small village in Ecuador, it astounded me that there was no garbage, and there was no garbage pickup,” he said. “You eat beans, you throw the pods on the ground, and that’s exactly what the ground needs. It is not garbage,

Author Mark Sundeen wrote the book ‘The Man Who Quit Money.’ He visits the valley for the library’s Mountain Story Fest, Jan 11 to 14.

The Gibeaus tiny home placed their life on wheels, allowing them the freedom to live in different places.

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By escaping the cycle of earning and spending as they focused on living with less, the Gibeaus started a filmmaking business.

“Rather than working all the time to pay the bills, we had all this time – we worked on passion projects.” They learned about building, maintaining, carpentry, siding, roofing, composting, troubleshooting RV appliances, giving them a skill set. “It made us feel really in control of our lives,” Brittany said.

Driggs resident Jake Seipel has lived and worked out of two Airstreams for six years; he is currently restoring a third.

From the inside of his 120 square foot home, he works as an online DUCT designer, designing ventilation systems to help contractors build more economically. Living in a small confined space, Seipel breaks down packaging and finds ways to reuse it.

“I am more aware of what I consume in my Airstream,” he said.

All of his organic waste goes to horses, and he buys small portions of everything. Seipel saved the box his phone came in, and uses it to collect bolts and screws for his projects. He has developed a new skill set by living simply, mostly by breaking things to fix them. He believes this is different than the average consumer.

Certain that it will take a catastrophic event such as a natural disaster or a shortage of goods for Americans to change their consumerist ways, he is uneasy about the dependency on computers and Internet access, private and postal mail service, weekly trash pickup and landfills across America. “We have to be inundated with trash and nowhere to put it for things to change.”

On a recent visit to his brother’s suburban home in Allentown, PA, Seipel says he was distressed by the two large rolling garbage containers worth of trash his brother and his family churned out each week. “They are piped into the system,” Seipel said, noting some of their behaviors that have become commonplace among many Americans. “They drive to Starbucks every morning for coffee instead of making it themselves. Everyday the UPS man drops a package off.”

Seipel believes that “Money is the problem. You have to make money. Even in permaculture communities, money prevails. If everything were on a barter system, if we had to go to work and wash dishes for three hours for a meal, the definition of currency

Downsizing and learning new skills

Crista Valentino, a six-year Jackson resident, inhabits a 250 square foot studio and heads CoalitionWILD, an international environmental initiative for emerging conservation leaders.

As she slowly downsized her life, it became easier for her to decipher between what is worth throwing away and what is worth keeping. She admits she never used to give much thought to trash, throwing it away, and what happens afterwards. “Our infrastructure is designed that way. You toss something in a big dumpster and forget about it, no matter what it contains. Huge bins are set up for discard without much thought or judgment,” she said.

Valentino considers that “what might be garbage to one person, might not be to another.” Once you begin looking at the potential of something rather than its current state, it becomes really easy to be creative and reuse or up-cycle materials. She is currently restoring pieces of an old fence to build shelving for her studio, and sanding down a thrown-away wooden ladder to access her loft. “It comes down to what we value, and how we uphold those values with our everyday actions. Take time to ask yourself what it is you really need and why,” she said.

A firm believer in changing the way we view currency, Valentino suggests a trade-based economy, where we could wash dishes in exchange for a meal, care for an elder in exchange for books or needed office supplies, fix a fence or plant seeds in exchange for produce.

“We need to move away from thinking of currency or philanthropy as monetary,” she said. Many of the young people she works with don’t have expendable money – what they do have is knowledge and skills. “Things like knowing how to develop a website, being a photographer and donating images for use, having graphic design skills, carpentry, offering airline miles for travel, or even having networks and connections are all examples of important contributions

that someone can make that isn’t directly monetary,” Valentino explained. “The key is tapping into something you’re good at and being willing to offer your time and expertise to someone else.”

Like the Gibeaus and Seipel, Valentino says she’s witnessed her own personal transformation as she simplified her life. “My skills have grown. I have learned how to mend clothing and gear, gotten creative in reusing items for multiple purposes, and practiced my carpentry and building. My priorities have changed – less things to have, to take care of and manage, including the size of the space I have to keep clean and work on, has allowed me more interaction with those I love, and more time doing things that I enjoy.”

Infinite growth on a finite planet

The average American generates 4.3 pounds of waste per day, 1.6 pounds more than in 1960. Annually, 220 million tons of garbage in the U.S. end up in one of the country’s 3,500 landfills, the second leading source of methane emissions, according to Duke University Center for Sustainability and Commerce.

In 2013 alone, Americans generated nearly 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons material in 2013, according to the EPA. The question lingers -where will we put all of our garbage?

By the end of the century, the world’s population is expected to increase by 40 percent. This demands a focus on sustainability practices for future generations. According to the United Nations, world population is estimated at 8.5 billion by 2030.

To illuminate the necessity to consume less, Austin based professor dubbed “Professor

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would change.”

Tony Niro called his SUV home for eight summers.

Although he now rests his head in a condo, he is contemplating a return to the simple life, living on wheels.

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I think I might rent out my house and go back to living in my truck this summer,” Niro divulged.

Niro’s experience has also led him to examine society’s idea of currency, much the way Suelo’s extravagant rejection of money did: “We could lend and borrow in a different way. We have to change our idea of currency. We could trade radishes for a meal, for instance,” he said.

Dumpster” gave up his 2,500 foot square home after a divorce, sold his clothing and furniture on Facebook, and relocated to a 36 square foot dumpster. Intense summer heat drove Jeff Wilson outside when he would have otherwise stayed in. Forced to consider ways people interact with their community and each other in relationship to their homes, he began spending more time at laundromats, meeting fellow community members that way. Wilson’s definition of home began to change, just as Suelo’s did. Living on less shifted pre-occupations with earning, borrowing, accumulating and spending – instead they became those of personal companionship, community involvement, life purpose and spiritual practice.

Wilson described his housing experiment, fueled by sunlight and surface water, complete with a composting toilet as “a pretty good life” to The Atlantic.

His experiment spawned “The Dumpster Project,” a sustainability-focused experiment based on re-imagining what “home” is, and a K-12 curriculum focused on sustainability practices to educate youth on how to consume less. “The big hypothesis we’re trying to test here is, can you have a pretty darn good life on much, much less? So far, I have, I’d say. A better life than I had before.”

What’s next?

“Money will never buy security.” - Hugh Owens abandoned in exchange for mixed use where people could live, work and shop in the same place. He argues that a geo-thermally heated greenhouse near Kelly Warm Springs should be installed, and insists that “this discussion must begin with life’s basic necessities starting with food and water. How can we procure our food locally? How many people could this valley support if we had to feed ourselves?”

The “every family is an island mentality” in America has to be eclipsed, agreed Brittany Gibeau, who dreams of community water collection stations, garbage burning and compost stations.

Although the Gibeaus live in a real home now, they have adapted the values they learned from their tiny home experience to their current home: they re-gift, rebuild, restore and reuse.

Their current film project, “Happiness Grows on Trees,” examines social problems as a result of not enough time spent outside.

Brittany explained, “Choosing to have lunch in a city park or an outdoor meeting place, instead of your office makes such a difference. Some cities are greening their communities, outdoor meeting areas–this has a huge impact on people’s health and happiness and makes an enormous societal shift.”

She suggests, “Fast foods can build their stores from their own cup waste. Schools can install new ceiling tiles made from their kids’ milk cartons. Cities can board up their vacant buildings with boards made from their waste.”

Indeed, as Americans accumulate more stuff, landfills

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A composting toilet in the tiny home.

accumulate more garbage. “We have to redefine what we think of as trash,” Gibeau said.

But breaking free of food dependency is easiser said than done, especially in the valley. Gibeau says she realizes that climate is a huge concern with a self-sustainable lifestyle. “It’s hard to compost and grow your own food, especially in this climate, and you have to get creative with water.”

Changing our perception of currency

Sundeen’s current project, “The Unsettlers,” examines building alternative economies, much akin to the Gibeaus, the Owens, Niro, Seipel and Valentino’s ideas. This does not imply living without money, but rather how to excise ourselves from the global economy and live more responsibly. The book asks the question, ‘How Could I incorporate these beliefs into my own life?”

Suelo suggests the same, calling it, ‘paying it forward,’ starting with neighbors face-to-face. Service and payment for the service should be exactly equal. “If everybody lived by these gift economy principles, there would be no need to live from dumpsters, and there wouldn’t be a need for dumpsters to start with.” PJH

Chromatic fruits of the Owens’ labor.

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Hugh Owens suggests that single use zoning should be

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The Owens’ tiny home in progress.

THIS WEEK: January 6-12, 2016

WEDNESDAY JAN. 6

n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Salsa at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n STACKHOUSE 7:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Oneness Deeksha Meditation 7:30pm, Akasha Yoga, $5.00, 307-413-3965 n Songwriter’s Alley 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Tavern Trivia w/ Crazy Tom 8:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

THURSDAY JAN. 7

n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Business Over Breakfast Legislative Edition 7:30am, Snow King Resort, $16.00 - $25.00, 307-201-2309 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Intermediate/Advanced Ballet @ Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Tech Tutor 10:00am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 218 n Curious Kids 10:15am, Jackson Hole Children’s Museum, $8.00, 206733-3996 n Storytime 10:30am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Storytime - Youth Auditorium 11:00am, Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025

n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Teton Toastmasters 12:00pm, Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Apres with Stack and the Attack 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Health Insurance Marketplace Assistance 5:45pm, Teton County Library Computer Lab, Free, 307-7332164 n Knit Nite 6:00pm, Knit on Pearl, Free, 307-733-5648 n The Three Major Roadblocks to Weight Loss 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $65.00, 307-200-6155 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-0925 n Major Zephyr 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n Disco Night 10:00pm, Stagecoach Bar, Free, 307-733-4407 n Brad O’Brien 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886 n BOGDOG 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

FRIDAY JAN. 8

n Boot Camp 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025

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Gutsy Tale Tellers The library’s Story Slam returns with an adrenaline-pumping theme.

BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

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o bide his time while farming bananas in Hawaii, Mac Dukart listened to The Moth podcast, which featured people telling personal, true stories. He loved the format and became engrossed in the stories.

So when Teton County Library started offering live story slams, Dukart was one of the first to sign up, sharing stories like the time he brought a knife to middle school (the slam theme was “Bad Choices”), or the parasite he harbored (that slam theme was “Secrets”).

However, Dukart isn’t taking the stage on Monday night for the Cabin Fever Story Slam.

It’s time to give other people a chance, he said. But he’ll be there.

It’s a cool form of live entertainment and a community event he wouldn’t miss. Hearing the stories live is even better than listening to his favorite podcasts.

“There are all these amazing stories from people you don’t know, and you realize the talent that’s here and the creativity that’s in our own little town,” he said. “There are world-class storytellers that sign up for this.”

This slam’s theme is “Guts,” and it’s the

kickoff event for the library’s Mountain Story Festival, which celebrates storytelling of all kinds, explained Julia Hysell, TCL’s communications manager.

The library launched the slams last year.

Those willing to share stories that fit the theme place their names in a hat. “We want people to view and feel like Teton County Library is synonymous with great storytelling,” Hysell said.

Jeff Moran acts as emcee and draws 10 names – although so far everyone who has wanted to tell a story at the events has gotten a chance with the mic. Each person called to perform has five minutes to tell their true story, which must integrate the theme, without notes. A panel of library judges picks the best story at the end of the evening. The winner of the cabin fever slam will earn free tickets to The Moth Mainstage, a live event featuring professional storytellers, which inspired the library’s slams and is coming to the Center for the Arts at the end of January.

And a little liquid motivation never hurts – anyone who signs up to tell a story before 7 p.m. gets a free drink at the Rose. “It’s really connected with folks who like the idea of being able to have a beer and also have this element of risk, as well as an element of intellect,” Hysell said. “I’m excited for how many interpretations there will be up there with this theme. There’s an element of surprise in everyone’s story–that’s the fun of it. There are some inherent elements of self-revelation in telling something true. It sort of feels like secret-telling regardless of what the theme is.”

Cassandra Lee listened to tons of storytelling podcasts so she knew she wanted to listen when the library started hosting its

slams. She had a story in mind to share, but wasn’t sure she’d be brave enough to take the stage until the moment she threw her name into the hat. “It’s the vulnerability that it takes a lot of the time to admit what you were feeling,” she said.

Even when not performing, Lee loves the slams. The performances in Jackson have a unique flavor and often feature adventure.

There’s always something in every person’s story she can relate to. “There’s always more facets to people than what you think,” she said.

For those wanting to share for the first time, Lee suggests pretending you are sitting around the fire with friends. Be honest, but remember that good stories have some sort of conflict or tension.

Dukart suggests just going for it. “Just throw your name in the hat,” he said. “It’s a friendly atmosphere.”

For those wanting a little more guidance, check out the library’s website to listen to previous story slams and to glean tips on telling your story.

Even if you don’t have a story to share, come hear your friends and neighbors tell their stories. Moran, the emcee, is a skilled storyteller in his own right, Dukart noted. He keeps the show moving and interjects humor.

But whether you are telling a story or just listening, be sure to show up early. The last slams have been packed, Hysell said.

The Rose is also offering two-for-one drink specials on some wine and beer from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. PJH Cabin Fever Story Slam: “Guts,” 7 p.m., Monday at The Rose. Free. www.tclib.org.

Storytellers of all stripes take the stage for the library’s increasingly popular Cabin Fever Story Slam.

The next installment happens Monday at The Rose.

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MUSIC BOX ‘Record’ Year for Homegrown Sounds Eight local albums that are making a statement for a burgeoning scene.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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ow that the dust has settled into the New Year, let’s take a snapshot of local album releases over the last 12 months. It’s worth noting that eight albums, predominantly featuring original music, is quite a progression for Jackson, for the local music community. Half of these bands released debut albums, which is a good sign for what’s to come. It was also reported via Wyoming Public Radio that 2015 was a record year for Wyoming-based album releases.

In no particular order, here’s a breakdown of the local independent releases, most of which are available via iTunes, though I recommend visiting each band’s website to see if they sell directly from the source (which puts more money in the artist’s pocket).

Wood Smoke Rising, “Wood Smoke Rising” Genre: bluegrass. Written, arranged and recorded in “various houses and

apartments,” this tentrack debut album of original material is split between instrumental dashes and lyrical experiences via a gruff-voiced Mike Swanson.

Standout track: “Tony’s Blues.”

Canyon Kids, “Best Loved Poems of the American People” Genre: indie folk, rock, Wyomericana.

This 11-month sophomore project was tracked at Teton Artlab with the help of a grant from CSA Jackson Hole. Utilizing only four microphones, a modest recording setup, and many characters from the Jackson music scene, the album concept involved interpreting American poems by composing music to complement the words. Standout track: “Out Where The West Begins.”

Wyatt Lowe, “Songs from a Bottomless Well” Genre: rockabilly, blues. Eighteen-yearold Lowe wrote seven of the eleven tracks on this debut, with classic rockabilly (“Hot Rod Lincoln”) to straight-up Stratocaster-wailing, and Jimmy Vaughn-esque blues (“Howlin’”).

Choice dark threads, wayfarer shades, and slicked back hair, Lowe is a singer-songwriter that has the look of a 20-something Johnny Cash, and the goods of a seasoned bandleader. Standout track: “Meet You in Heaven.”

One Ton Pig, “Lastville” Genre: jamgrass, folk, Americana. Voted No. 3 on Wyoming Public Radio’s Best Wyom i ng/Reg iona l Releases of 2015, this is the band’s fourth release and second studio album. A mostly high-tempo set, it’s the band’s first album as a sextet with fiddler Matt Herron, and the instrumental play is their best yet. Standout track: “Two to Get on Stage.”

Michael G. Batdorf, “Beyond the Mask” Genre: singer-songwriter, folk-rock, bluegrass. Primary songwriter for One Ton Pig, Batdorf’s solo releases sometimes get overshadowed by the latter, yet stand their ground with minimal instrumentation that puts a greater emphasis on the lyrics, the story. This, his seventh release, is another interesting chapter in his personal book of songs that continues to raise the bar, set by Batdorf himself. Standout track: “Personal Skies.”

Mike Dowling, “Tracks” Genre: old blues, swing. A Grammywinning guitarist, Dowling is a diamond in the rugged ruralness of Dubois. Rootsy, soulful vocals mixed with instrumentals, here’s 11 tracks of beautifully played solo tunes on resonator guitars. Standout track: “Tennessee Blues.”

Jason Tyler Burton, “The Ballad of Sally Moore” EP

Genre: folk.

A Kentucky-born Pinedale resident, Burton is a multi-instrumentalist nomad with a quietly compelling vocal delivery. Released last month, this three-song set all tell the same tale, but from different points of view. This is a follow up to 2014’s “Headwaters,” which appeared on a handful of best-of lists. Standout track: “Part 2 – All the Whiskey in the World.”

Screen Door Porch, “Modern Settler”

Genre: country-blues, roots-rock, Wyomericana. Voted No. 1 on Wyoming Public Radio’s Best Wyom i ng/Reg iona l Releases of 2015. Note: Yours Truly is in this band, so here’s what Pop Matters had to say: “‘Modern Settler,’ their third, is a strong record that runs the roots-rock gamut, from the bright rock of “Wicked Ways” to the swampy acoustic blues of “Chasin’ Homesteader Blues” to the ‘70s soul cover of Bobby Charles’ “Street People,” complete with horn section.” Standout track: “Poor Elijah/Tribute to Johnson.”

Rock on and support your local musicians! PJH

Aaron Davis is a songwriting troubadour, multi-instrumentalist, founding member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, and host of Songwriter’s Alley.

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Before the Day Sleeps Twilight jaunts help to extend fleeting winter days.

BY ELIZABETH KOUTRELAKOS

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ummer is around the corner. The shocking notion weaseled its way into my mind before I could catch it. In a physical sense, the cold has set into our old swollen toes, but the coming of something special hovers directly overhead. It is the spontaneously predictable awakening of that thing called daylight. We have braved through the darkest of days and the celebrations ushering in the New Year. Some of us have even gotten to enjoy the holidays, students and employees who do not cater to the throngs of tourists pouring into the valley.

However, the inevitable bustle of life will soon return for all. This is when the importance of creating time to get out and enjoy the place we love becomes increasingly important. To really get the sense that you are making the most of your entire day, I recommend a twilight journey. Plus, sunlight lasts until 5:30 p.m. these days so why not take advantage of the light?

I’ve always wanted to enjoy the night more, but creatures of daybreak have a hard time venturing out beyond twilight. Finding motivation for this journey was the most

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Left: Just another bump on the trail on the way down from Phelps Lake overlook. Top right: A glimpse of the Whitegrass Ranch. Bottom right: Jackson Peak as seen from Phelps Lake overlook. difficult aspect of the entire fling. The mere fact that I expected myself to gather together gear and snacks made me second-guess the mission. Cozy in the house, the outside appeared cold and breezy. However, I had already set forth a steadfast resolution. I would enjoy the last bits of the day.

Driving north with skis in the car, my decision was welcomed by the clear, crisp, unadulterated view of the Tetons. Although I can see these things from my house, the closer I get the better they look. Driving down the windy Moose-Wilson Road, my muscles relaxed. This road, while icy with high snow banks for blind corners, offers a much more mellow experience than the crazed bustle that comes with it in the summer. On the side of the road, a small moose munched on twigs. Slowing down, I got a good look at this poor lad but continued on so not to bother the creature while it feasted on its measly snack.

After winding another corner, I was greeted by a gate that signaled the end of the plowed road. I had donned all proper attire at the house beforehand and hence hopped into my three pins. Then I attached the fanny pack and cruised up the road towards the official Death Canyon summer trailhead.

Skiing up through the snow-covered trees, my toes slowly lost feeling. Within half a mile I spotted a view of Albright. The peak glimmered in the evening light.

Continuing up the road, I passed by the old White Grass Ranch and wished I could somehow devise a way to live at the base of prime ski tour habitat. I continued

my journey up towards the Phelps Lake Overlook. The lake looked as though someone painted it with watercolors–grey, blue and white swirls carefully twisting to the edges. Darkness swiftly set in, but I figured this would be a nice scenic place to enjoy my carefully concocted blood orange hot chocolate. I sipped the handcrafted mix of cocoa and hand squeezed blood oranges, relishing in the hint of cream and sweetness.

Oftentimes, I find that bribing myself with a bit of comfort can aid in the propagation of experience. Without this motivational drink, I don’t believe I would have even stepped out of my house. After finishing the mug, I wistfully enjoyed the views of Jackson Peak and Sleeping Indian. As they turned that waspy salmon color, I knew it was time to go back to the car. With the knowledge that the entirety of this journey would be downhill, I dawned the beefiest buff I had over my face and realized the fateful flaw of my day: bringing dark sunglasses. Faced with the choice of dark sight or teary eyes, I chose tears. On the way down, I held on for my life. I’m not a skier and free heeling down this ice luge offered extreme terrain for the day. Although no rocks were showing on the trail, the early season snow packs still makes one susceptible to the dips. After flying through the air a few times, I made it back to the mellow road and skated my way to the car.

Although this short jaunt is just a little more than five miles roundtrip, I ended the day with refreshing clarity. Sometimes enjoying the last bits of day can be worth the hassle of preparation and numb toes. PJH

WELL, THAT HAPPENED

The 2015 BestWursts Twelve highlights, lowlights and ombres of yesteryear.

BY ANDREW MUNZ @AndrewMunz

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othing rings in a new year better than a deliciously nostalgic review of everything we suffered and triumphed through for the past 12 months.

There’s even a few things we’re still suffering through that should have faded away by the new year, including Muslim-bashing, multicolored mermaid hair, the new Google logo, and people who fly drones at concerts (no one likes you).

Well, 2015 happened. And now, my own personal list of BestWursts.

Best TV series you gave up too soon

Best shot Leo DiCaprio has at finally winning an Oscar

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Best new ongoing community event Cabin Fever Story Slam, hosted by Teton County Library. There are some fascinating stories tucked away among Jackson’s residents. The story slam is a great way for storytellers to share them and for story lovers to enjoy them.

Best title for a Jackson Hole mystery/ suspense novel “The Burning-Down of Chinatown.” Dibs.

Best book that needs to be added to your bedside table ASAP “Bull Mountain” by Brian Panowich. So goddamn epic, Cormac McCarthy couldn’t even write it.

Best array of WTF moments in a single Season HBO’s “Game of Thrones” Season 5

Best attempt at staying relevant Ryan Adam’s full-album cover of Taylor Swift’s “1989”

Worst attempt at staying relevant “Bitch, I’m Madonna” by Madonna.

Collective groan.

Worst race-altering makeup Tie: Rachel Dolezal (African American)/ Donald Trump (Pumpkin American)

Worst hairstyle that I’m attracted to The Man Bun. But only if you have the bone structure and/or beard for it.

Worst self-proclaimed spokesperson for the trans community Caitlyn Jenner

Worst country for complex flavors, fresh produce and ample spices Sigh…Iceland. PJH

n Toddler Gym 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Jazzercise 9:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 10:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $0.00 - $2.50, 307-7399025 n Open Hockey 10:15am, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Waxing Tips for Skate Skiers 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $12.00, 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 12:10pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Apres with Tucker Smith 3-piece band 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n Barre Fusion at Dancers’ Workshop 5:30pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Hootenanny at Dornans 6:00pm, Dornans, Free, 307733-2415 n Evening Yoga 6:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294

n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Cabin Fever Story Slam 7:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-2164 x 229

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n Kettlebells 7:00am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Zumba at Dancers’ Workshop 8:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, Free, 307-733-6398 n Yoga 8:30am, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Ballet Workout at Dancers’ Workshop 9:30am, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 733-2164 ext. 118 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12:00pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Public Skating 12:00pm, Snow King Sports & Events Center, $6.00 - $8.00, 307-201-1633 n Adult Intro to Skate Skiing Lessons 12:00pm, JH Middle School/ Summit High School Ski Track, $60 for 4 classes, 307-739-9025 n MELT at Dancers’ Workshop 12:10pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Freestyle Skating 3:00pm, Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, 307-2011633 n Winter Wonderland 3:30pm, Center for the Arts, $40.00

n Apres with Fresh Roy and the Winch Cats 4:00pm, Mangy Moose, Free, 307-733-4913 n White Lightning Open Mic Night 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 x 1360 n Yoga 4:15pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating on Town Square 4:30pm, Town Square, Free n Jazzercise 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $10.00, 307-739-9025 n Total Fitness 5:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $8.00, 307-739-9025 n Small Bites for Kids 6:00pm, CWC-Jackson, $40.00, 307-200-6155 n Great Until Late 6:00pm, Local Businesses, Free, 307-201-2294 n Tech in the Backcountry 6:00pm, TSCAR Hangar, $20.00 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 6:30pm, Teton Recreation Center, $3.75, 307-739-9025 n Hip Hop at Dancers’ Workshop 7:00pm, Dancers’ Workshop, $12.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Language Exchange Night 7:00pm, Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Antarctic Tears: Journey to the Bottom of the World 7:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n One Ton Pig 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Steam Powered Airplane 10:00pm, Town Square Tavern, Free, 307-733-3886

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He should have won for “The Aviator” or “The Wolf of Wall Street,” but fingers are crossed for his performance in “The Revenant.” From the opening scene to the final shot, Leo devours the screen and, for me, the film is one of the best, if not the best, of the year.

Oh Leo, how we hope you will finally score an Oscar; need we say anything about the pumpkin head on the right?

The library’s Cabin Fever Story Slam series is a popular live storytelling contest that invites you to take the stage to tell a true story, without notes, in less than five minutes. For this special Mountain Story Slam, the theme is “guts,” an ingredient often found in great adventures and great stories.

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n 24 Hours in China: Photography from the China Overseas Exchange Association Part One Fri - Sun Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 9:00am n Art Fri - Sat Westminster College - SLC, 1250 E 1700 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $13.00 - $18.00 n Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends Fri - Sun Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, $12.00 - $14.00, 801-581-7332 n Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr. Fri, Sat, Sat Covey Center for the Arts, 425 West Center Street, Provo, 7:00pm n Firelei Baez: Patterns of Resistance Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, Free n Fortune Feimster Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Wiseguys at the Gateway, 194 South 400 W, Salt Lake City, 9:30pm, $20.00 n The Nerd Fri - Sat Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 West 400 North, Salt Lake City, $11.00 - $35.00 n Occurrences: A Further Examination of Phenomena in Nature Fri - Sun Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 9:00am 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 Tom Clark Fri - Sat Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 8:00pm, $10.00 n Badfeather Sat The State Room, 638 S State Street, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $10.00

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n 24 Hours in China Photography: from the China Overseas Exchange Association Part Two Fri - Sun Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 9:00am n Art Fri - Sat Westminster College - SLC, 1250 E 1700 South, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $13.00 - $18.00

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Fri - Sun The University of Utah, 201 Presidents Cir, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm n John Shulian: A Better Goodbye Fri The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm, Free n Mick Foley Fri, Fri Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 9:00pm, $25.00 n The Nerd Fri - Sat Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 West 400 North, Salt Lake City, $11.00 - $35.00 n Occurrences: A Further Examination of Phenomena in Nature Fri - Sun Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 9:00am n Two Dollar Bill Fri, Sat, Sat Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $25.00 - $39.00 n Downtown Winter Market Sat Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City, 10:00am n Mick Foley Sat Wiseguys Downtown, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $25.00 n Shay & Gavin Butler: Fat Dad, Fat Kid Sat The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 2:00pm

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Salt Lake City, 9:30pm, $15.00 n Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month Fri - Sun Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 1:30pm, $45.00 n Limitless Speaker Academy Fri Utah Valley Convention Center, 220 Center St, Provo, 1:00pm n Lindey Carter & Rebecca Klundt Fri - Sat Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, Free n Little Chicks Fri - Sat Tracy Aviary, 589 E 1300 S, Salt Lake City, 9:30am, $12.00 - $18.00, 801-596-8500 X 116 n LIVE EVENT “SPIRIT CONNECTION” WITH SALT LAKE MEDIUM, JO’ANNE SMITH Fri SEI Healing Arts Center, 790 N Cedar Hills Dr, Price, 7:00pm n Live Music at The Aerie Fri - Sat Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 7:00pm n Live Music at Wildflower Fri Iron Blosam Lodge, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, 6:00pm, 801-933-2222 n Local Music Set Fri - Sat A Bar Named Sue (State), 8136 State Street, Midvale, 10:00pm n Magic Show 2 Fri - Sat Utah Children’s Theatre, 3605 South State Street, Salt Lake City, $14.00 n Meet the Avalanche Dogs Fri The Canyons, 4000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, 4:30pm n Michelle Moonshine Trio with Please Be Human Fri The Hog Wallow Pub, 3200 E Big Cottonwood Canyon Rd, Cottonwood Heights, Cottonwood Heights, 9:00pm n Minnesota Timberwolves at Utah Jazz Fri EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm n Mummies of the World Fri - Sun The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City n Music of Freedom: Jazz Through the Lens of Herman Leonard Fri - Sat Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo n My Valley Fair Lady Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat, Sat, Sat Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 9:30pm n The Nerd Fri - Sat Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 West 400 North, Salt Lake City, $11.00 - $35.00 n The Night Spin Collective Fri Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $5.00 - $7.00 n Night Train Fri - Sat The Westerner, 3360 S. Redwood Road, Salt Lake City n Occurrences: A Further Examination of Phenomena in Nature Fri - Sun Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 9:00am n PhoneGap Day Fri Adobe, Adobe Way, Lehi, 8:30am n Platnium Party Fri - Sat Club 90, 9065 S. Monroe St., Sandy, 9:00pm n Portraitures of Life: Works by Bea Hurd Fri - Sun Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, Free, 801-524-8200 n Raw and Cooked Fri Rio Gallery, 300 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, 8:00am, Free, 801-245-7272 n Saline Lakes Fri Kilby Court, 741 Kilby Court, Salt Lake City, 7:00pm,

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n Andy Frasco & The U.N. Fri The State Room, 638 S State Street, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm, $17.00 n Après Ski + DJ Gawel Fri Gracie’s Bar, 326 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 5:30pm n Beau Jest Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat, Sat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 7:30pm, $29.00, 801-9849000 n Brigham Young University Winterfest 2016 Fri, Sat Conference Center, 3484 Spaulding Rd, Salt Lake City, 7:30pm, $10.00 n BYU Night at the Museums Fri Museum of Paleontology, 1683 N. Canyon Road, Provo, 7:00pm n Cherokee + Typefunk + Devareaux + YEYEY Fri The Urban Lounge, 241 S 500 E, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $5.00 n Comedian Marcus Fri - Sat Wiseguys Ogden, 269 Historic 25th St, Salt Lake City, 8:00pm, $15.00 n Comedy Sportz Fri - Sat Comedy Sportz, 36 West Center St., Provo, 8:00pm, $5.00 - $12.00, 801-377-9700 n Cuentos Fri Provo Library, 550 N University Ave., Provo, 10:30am n David Brothers: Rolithica Fri - Sat Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple, Salt Lake City, 11:00am, Free n DJ JStyle Fri Gracie’s Bar, 26 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, 10:00pm n DJ Reverend 23 & Stryker Fri Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, $5.00 n Dueling Pianos Fri - Sat The Tavernacle, 201 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, 9:00pm n Dungeons & Comedy Fri Muse Music Cafe, 151 N University Ave, Provo n Film Screening Fri Orem, 6:30pm n The Foreigner Fri, Sat, Sat CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 7:30pm n Gallery Stroll Fri Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave, Park City, 6:00pm n Here, There and Everywhere: Places and Spaces Fri - Sun Springville Museum of Art, 126 E 400 S, Springville, Free n The Highway Thieves W/ Candy’s River House Fri Lighthouse Lounge, 130 E. 25th Street, Ogden, 9:00pm, $5.00 n I AM BIG BIRD: THE CAROLL SPINNEY STORY Fri The University of Utah, 201 Presidents Cir, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm n Ice Castles Fri - Sat Soldier Hollow, 2002 Olympic Drive, Midway, $6.95 - $12.95 n Ice Skating At Station Park Fri Station Park, 833 Clark Lane, Farmington, 4:00pm, $4.00 - $6.00 n Jump After Dark Fri - Sat The wAIRhouse Indoor Trampoline Park, 3653 South 500 West, Salt Lake City, 6:00pm n Karaoke Fri - Sat Willie’s Lounge, 1716 S Main Street, Salt Lake City, 9:30pm n Karaoke Fri Cisero’s, 306 Main St., Park City, 10:00pm n Kehinde Wiley: Smile Fri - Sat Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo n Lachlan Patterson Fri, Fri, Sat, Sat Wiseguys Salt lake, 194 South 400 West,

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CINEMA Women in Love A forbidden romance comes to glorious life in ‘Carol.’

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ovies have told love stories as long as there have been movies, but occasionally it takes a movie like Todd Haynes’ “Carol” to remind you how hard it is to show people falling in love.

That moment is particularly complicated in “Carol,” adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s pseudonymously published 1952 novel “The Price of Salt.” And that’s because the two people falling in love with one another, circa the winter of 1952-1953, are both women. Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is a young shopgirl working at the toy counter of a New York City department store; Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett) is a married mother recently separated from her husband, Harge (Kyle Chandler). They meet over a Christmas present purchased for Carol’s daughter. They meet again when Therese returns to Carol the gloves she left behind in the store, and Carol buys her lunch as a thank you.

But then there’s the sequence in which Carol picks Therese up in her car and drives her back to her house in New Jersey for a visit. As Carter Burwell’s remarkable score pulses and swells, Haynes transforms the drive into a swirl of images: the lights inside a tunnel; Carol’s gloved hands on the steering wheel; a glimpse of her fur coat. It’s a perfect impressionistic snapshot of that crazy moment when the thing you might not have dared think was possible suddenly becomes possible.

As perfectly as Haynes pitches that sequence, it’s only part of one of the most magnificently directed features in recent years. Haynes finds a brilliant visual motif by repeatedly shooting his main characters through glass—the windows of cars, motel offices, diners—separating them from the world as they look longingly at the things they want, but expect they can

Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett capture the surreal feeling of falling in love in ‘Carol.’ never have. He also pinches Therese into corners and edges of his frame, echoing the ways in which she seems constrained.

That idea carries beyond the “love that dare not speak its name” central relationship between Therese and Carol. As heartbreakingly lovely as that romance is while it unfolds, it’s also part of a bigger picture in Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay about the limitations facing every woman of this time.

Therese’s pursuit of a career as a photographer seems to rely on the help of a man who wants to hit on her; Carol’s hope for a clean break from Harge is complicated by his possessive sense of her as his property. Even the most minor female characters in “Carol” exist as faces of frustration: Therese’s supervisor; a neighbor who snaps at her over a late-night phone call; the wife of a co-worker of Harge’s, who sneaks a cigarette at a Christmas party because her husband “doesn’t like me to smoke.” She’s the same character who inspires a key line of dialogue, as Harge tells Carol, that “Harrison’s wife asked after you,” which Carol immediately corrects to “Jeanette.” How hard it is to imagine being in a relationship with a woman, when being a woman generally means being defined by a man.

Yet for all that thematic subtext, “Carol” is still a love story, and it resonates most thanks to the performances that bring it to life. Rooney Mara is the true revelation, bringing a watchfulness and passivity to

Therese’s early scenes—with her boyfriend (Jake Lacy), and at that first lunch where she follows Carol by placing an identical order—that convey her sense that she doesn’t really have choices of her own. And while Blanchett’s screen performances can often seem mannered, that approach generally works for a character like Carol who has lived most of her life in a kind of public performance of “normalcy.”

“Carol” risks turning into finger-wagging at those repressive 1950s, as the plot shifts to a custody battle between Carol and Harge based on a “morality clause,” as well as topics like therapy attempting to “cure” homosexuality. These obstacles, though, set up some of “Carol’s” most powerful scenes, building to a resolution that’s genuinely in doubt almost until the film’s final moment. Haynes nails that moment, too, pulling his focus in a way that puts these two women at long last in the center of their own world. From that dreamy first moment of falling in love, “Carol” evolves into the real-world power of being in love. PJH

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IMBIBE South-ofthe-Border Brews There’s more to Mexican beer than Corona.

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to locate is the more popular Dos Equis Amber, which is a bit malty and reminiscent of a Viennese lager.

If you can find it, also try Noche Buena, a seasonal (Christmas) beer from Mexico’s Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma in Nuevo Leon. It’s a fuller-bodied lager—not at all unlike a Munich Bock beer—that pairs nicely with grilled meats. The same brewery also makes a unique beer called Casta Morena—a fruity, dark ale with notes of plum, a Mexican beer made in the style of Scottish Ale. In my opinion, though, the most interesting and f lavorful beer widely produced in Mexico is Negra Modelo, from the Grupo Modelo brewery that also makes Corona. The two beers couldn’t be more different. Negra Modelo is a complex beer (akin to a German-style Altbier), creamy and somewhat sweet with hints of chocolate. That subtle chocolate f lavor makes it a slam dunk to drink with rich Oaxacan mole dishes, as well as with beef, lamb and pork dishes. A bit on the dark and stormy side, it’s also a good Mexican beer to enjoy after dinner.

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f you’ve only quaffed one beer brewed in Mexico, my money says it was probably a Corona. Corona, a light straw-colored lager, was created in 1925 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Mexico City-based brewery Cervecería Modelo (now called Grupo Modelo). Since then, it has become the best-selling non-U.S.-brewed beer both here and in the United Kingdom, and the fifth most popular beer worldwide, selling in more than 150 countries.

Among beer snobs, Corona does get a bad rap. True, it is the Budweiser of Mexico.

But on a hot, humid day at the beach in Puerto Escondido or Cabo, there’s nothing more refreshing. And if Corona is Mexico’s Budweiser, then Sol is its Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Like Corona, it’s great on a hot day with a wedge of lime.

In my Mexican travels, I’ve noticed that the natives consume much more Tecate than Corona. To me, Tecate tastes a bit too thin and a bit too sweet. But its popularity can be accounted for, in part, I think, because it comes in cans, requiring no bottle deposit, which tends to be hefty in Mexico. Don’t spare the lime when drinking Tecate; it benefits greatly from a splash of citrus. Other light lagers to sip alongside fish tacos or spicy salsas are fresh-tasting, zesty beers like Sol, Pacifica or Chihuahua.

Mexico’s modern beer industry began to develop as a result of an influx of German immigrants during the later 1800s, and from then through today, German brewing styles have greatly influenced Mexican beer-making.

Thanks in large part to the German influx, there were 36 different breweries in Mexico by 1918, before the consolidation of the industry took hold. Today, 90 percent of Mexico’s beer market is controlled by two corporations: the aforementioned Grupo Modelo, and FEMSA (Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V.).

The German inf luence on Mexican brewing can be credited for one of my favorite Mexican beers: Bohemia. It’s a German-style light lager that is aged longer than most Mexican beers. Bohemia has fragrant floral aromas and a somewhat nutty malt flavor. I especially like it with meat dishes such as bistec a la Mexicana and pork carnitas. Another good candidate for meat dishes, although a bit thinner, is Dos Equis XX Special Lager. However, easier

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ELEANOR’S Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Eleanor’s is a primo brunch spot on Sunday afternoons. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings.

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FULL STEAM SUBS 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.

LOCAL Local, a modern American steakhouse and bar, is located on Jackson’s historic town square. Our menu features both classic and specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locallysourced products. 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. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

LOTUS CAFE Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and glutenfree 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. 145 N. Glenwood St., (307) 734-0882, tetonlotuscafe.com.

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. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

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.

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TRIO 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 wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m.

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ITALIAN 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.

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PINKY G’S The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012, 2013 and 2014. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, stromboli’s, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special.Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. Sun.Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

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DR. MARK’S MEDICINE CABINET Dirty Little Secrets What you need to know about potentially sneaky supplements you may be taking.

BY DR. MARK MENOLASCINO

M

aybe your doctor recommended you start taking a supplement. Maybe you stumbled across an article somewhere that suggested a certain variety would cure what ails you. Or maybe you heard that everyone over a certain age should be taking a daily multivitamin.

There is any number of reasons to take a nutritional supplement. And in today’s world, where our internal detoxification systems are running at capacity, our diets tend to be less than ideal, and our lifestyles can be hectic and stressful.

Hence, I find that taking the appropriate supplement can be a critical part of a healthy life.

In my medical practice, I’ve seen again and again that the right supplements in the right doses can help patients reverse complex symptoms and regain energy and vitality.

But here’s the big dirty secret of the supplement industry: There is almost zero oversight. They don’t have to prove anything. FTC and FDA regulations require that dietary supplements have nutritional labeling and a list of ingredients.

However, it’s important to remember that the FDA doesn’t evaluate supplement labels and ingredients before they’re marketed and sold.

You might have heard common multivitamins referred to as “bedpan bullets.” Do you know why? They are often so full of binders and fillers that the tablets make it all the way through the digestive system perfectly intact. Meaning you’re not even absorbing the vitamins and minerals.

This lack of quality oversight poses two major issues.

First, if you need a nutritional supplement, you really need it. In my practice, I view drugs and supplements as the same thing — both should be produced under exacting standards.

A supplement needs to contain exactly the ingredient your body needs in pharmaceutical quality. If it doesn’t, you’re not getting the medicine you need.

The second problem is that the supplements that can be bought in grocery stores and health food stores might contain ingredients that are actually harmful to consume.

A few recent examples illustrate how supplement businesses are abusing this lack of oversight. Just this fall, the Oregon Attorney General accused supplement giant GNC

Taking certain supplments can provide your body with the tools to battle illnesses and bolster well-being, but some products may include harmful or ineffecitve ingredients. of selling products labeled “all-natural” that were actually laced with picamilon, a synthetic drug prescribed in Russia to treat neurological conditions. Earlier this year, a similar debacle happened in New York that resulted in entire product lines being pulled from shelves after the attorney general’s office found major retailers were selling supplements that were inaccurately labeled and even potentially dangerous.

And a 2013 study into herbal supplement quality that looked at 44 herbal products from 12 different companies concluded: “Most of the herbal products tested were of poor quality, including considerable product substitution, contamination and use of fillers. These activities dilute the effectiveness of otherwise useful remedies, lowering the perceived value of all related products because of a lack of consumer confidence in them.”

As a functional medicine physician who builds treatments based on an individual’s precise biochemistry, I prescribe supplements daily.

Unfortunately, I feel I can’t just send my patients to any store to buy supplements. For example, I recommended melatonin to one of my first clients suffering from sleep problems.

She bought some from a grocery store and it didn’t work. She came back and complained, so I gave her high-quality melatonin instead. She slept like a baby.

It does me little good to be a physician with four board certifications and dual master’s degrees if my patients end up with low-quality supplements as part of treatment. The treatments will simply not be effective.

So how are the right supplements made? Quality, pharmaceutical-grade supplements have extensive control measures. They assay the raw ingredients for impurities and heavy metals and test to be sure it’s the exact genus and species that is effective. Then, after the supplements are made, they batch test it all again to be sure they’re pure and contain the right amount of active product. They reject batches of raw materials due to impurities or lack of active ingredient. It raises the question: Isn’t this the way all supplements should be made?

But for now, you can’t assume that all supplements and multivitamins are of the same quality, or even that the tablets are safe to take.

That’s why I recommend buying only “pharmaceutical grade” supplements, the highest level of quality. (The label will often carry a USP Verified seal. This means the U.S. Pharmacopeia’s Dietary Supplement Verification Program verified it.)

And if you go to your grocery store pharmacy and don’t see anything of quality available, ask that they start stocking pharmaceutical-grade supplements. You’ll be doing yourself, and the industry, a favor. PJH

Dr. Mark is a board certified internal medicine specialist.

Founder of the Meno Clinic – Center for Advanced Medicine in Wilson, Wyo., he is also board certified in holistic medicine, advanced hormone management and anti-aging medicine.

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Uplifting Messages While mainstream media focuses on the negative, plenty of positive tales are transpiring in the world.

“W

e can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.”

- Dalai Lama

So many reasons for optimism Only paying attention to mainstream media, one might be led to believe that all is gloom and doom. However, this is not the case. Everywhere in the world and every day there are less published, far-reaching, inspiring initiatives. Each of these adds traction to manifesting a new world paradigm, one that reflects a higher level of consciousness and ensures the well-being of the earth and her inhabitants.

Individuals practice random acts of kindness demonstrating their generosity of spirit. Nonprofits are upgrading lives for people, animals and the earth all around the world. Cities and towns are enacting humanitarian and ecological policies. Best selling books cover consciousness-expanding topics. More public schools now offer yoga and meditation; every branch of science boasts cutting edge discoveries. And some countries are forging national programs in support of a new world paradigm.

Here is a small sample of events to inspire your optimism, taken from news less publicized. May they remind you that you can also contribute to anchoring a world paradigm based on loving-kindness. Indeed, the old fear-based paradigm is rapidly dismantling itself. We just have to pay attention.

The small Himalayan country of Bhutan continues to implement a new way to measure its prosperity. In 1972, the then newly crowned leader of Bhutan decided to measure prosperity not on its Gross National Product (GNP), but on its Gross National Happiness (GNH). Inspired by Buddhist tradition, which defines happiness as being at peace with the environment, being at peace with one another, and being at peace with oneself, Bhutan added equal access to education and health care and shared prosperity into the mix.

To date, Bhutan’s evolutionary vision is supported by legislation, which has accomplished the following: Life expectancy, which was 38.7 years in 1972, is now 68.3 years. Public education and affordable health care have been opened to all citizens. The government has required that 60 percent of the land remain forested. The economy is largely based on exporting hydroelectric power and tightly managed high value/low impact tourism.

Similar initiatives for a GNH are being studied in other countries.

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Denmark goes organic Recognizing that organic farming is healthier for the land, for animals, for people now, and generations to come, Denmark has launched an Organic Action Plan to meet the very ambitious goal of becoming the first Western nation to have 100 percent organic farming and food production by 2020.

The public sector is leading the way collaborating to meet this goal. For example, organic food will be offered in hospitals, on military bases, daycare institutions and schools. And new curriculum added to primary schools include classes on organic food production, farming and new knowledge about food.

The Dalai Lama, and you and me There is a very public person who embodies living and leading from love and compassion rather than coping through fear and revenge. He is the current Dalai Lama. When he and his people were exiled from Tibet, he could have become an angry, bitter man and a violent, vengeful leader of his people. Because he took the high road, however, he has become a world leader who embodies what is possible.

Every one of us is also that one person, like the Dalai Lama, who can be aware of all the negativity and in the face of that, choose to embody a loving state of being and action. As every person does this, we contribute to a global tipping point upgrading the world. This can be our uplifting legacy for 2016 and beyond.

PJH

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

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USA - Special education teacher Chris Ulmer spends the first 10 minutes of class every day telling each student what he likes about them.

UK - Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs, two soccer stars from Manchester, England, purchased an old hotel and invited the homeless to stay there for the winter.

North Carolina – High school students started a full time food pantry at the school to ensure that fellow classmates and their families do not go hungry. Students can take what they need for free.

New Zealand - Instant good karma - Religions Sikhs wear turbans, and they are never supposed to take them off in public. Sikh Harman Singh took his turban off to offer first aid to a young boy hit by a car. When the TV reporters went to the man’s apartment to interview him they noticed he had hardly any furniture. The staff at the station surprised him with the gift of new furniture.

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NYC - A woman named Carol Suchman bought all the inventory of a toy store going out of business and donated it to local homeless shelters.

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10 Holiday dinner choices 90 Happen 15 Bond villain with a “great football of a head” 20 “1984” superstate 21 Bibliography catchall 22 Pop singer __ Marie 23 Georgia native 24 Dinner and a movie?

26 Equine shade 27 World’s first independent credit card company, initially 29 Compound with a fruity aroma 30 Shades 31 Rotten luck in Rotterdam?

36 Cast out 38 Cyclist’s obstacle 39 Genesis setting 42 Patty Hearst alias 46 Abbr. under a dotted line 47 Ceremony for the Jetsons?

50 Org. concerned with whistleblower laws 54 SeaWorld splasher 57 20 Mule Team brand 58 Within: Pref.

59 Couch potato’s acquisition, perhaps 61 Many hits 63 Masters 65 In a way, casually 66 Unisex designer fragrance 67 Floor 69 Kind of milk 70 Citations from an underwriter?

74 CBS-owned cable sta.

77 Heraldic shield borders 78 Grammar topic 79 Ultimately become 83 Harbor 85 Canadian author and environmentalist Farley __ 86 Piece of poetry

18 About, in memos 19 Traipses 25 Former press secretary Fleischer 28 Roman 950 32 Some printers 33 Sibilant sound 34 Word with seas and spirits 35 “You betcha!”

37 Inc. kin 40 Small applications 41 Friendly opening?

43 Benito’s boys 44 Parted 45 Intense feeling 47 Branch of Islam 48 Fast tropical swimmers 49 More than demand 50 Special __ 51 Common word on Brazilian maps 52 “Ben-__” 53 Opponent 55 Information desk sign 56 Titania and Oberon, e.g.

60 Craft pointed in two DOWN directions?

10 Features common to Yosemite 62 “I can’t __ ...”: Stones lyric Sam and Uncle Sam 64 Sport invented by hunters 20 Squeal on 66 Wine holder 30 Runs behind 67 Thickset 40 Position 68 Searches 50 National Teachers Hall of 71 Breeze Fame state: Abbr.

72 “That hurts!”

60 Educ. guess 73 Breeze 70 Spanish relative 74 Thumb one’s nose 80 Summer footwear (at) 90 Make murky 75 Greek goddesses 10 Touchdown letters of the seasons 11 The way it goes 76 When to enter 12 Pale orders 80 Type of profiling 13 Talk radio fan 81 Arm of Israel 14 Swim cap material 82 __ around with 15 Any of Colorado’s 84 Requires fourteeners: Abbr.

85 Crowds around 16 Like Anne of Green Gables 86 V-formation group 17 Suitor 89 Connect across the 87 54-Across, e.g.

88 TV golf analyst Nick 91 “No big deal” 93 Sandcastle maker’s aid 94 Earthquake?

97 Street cred, say 99 Tests, with “out” 100 Mozart’s “__ fan tutte” 101 Food coloring and such 107 Real stinker 110 Lenscrafters employee?

112 Alaskan island closer to Russia than to the Alaskan mainland 115 Doesn’t let go of 118 Massage site 119 Chocolate craving, e.g.

120 Answering in the form of a question?

123 Millard Fillmore’s birthplace 127 Cage or Penn 128 Honey 129 Mini follower 130 River through Lake Geneva 131 Approval 132 Figure that includes returns

room 90 Thelma and Louise, e.g.

92 Novus __ seclorum: dollar bill phrase 95 “How disappointing!”

96 Two-time Oscar nominee Ullmann 98 School gp.

101 Curtains for Cleopatra?

102 Access via phone 103 Tropical lizard 104 Spoken 105 It purrs when it’s cared for 106 Gregg users 108 Largest country entirely in Eur. 109 Silvio’s lover in “Pagliacci” 111 “The best __ to be”: Browning 112 Not quite shut 113 Apple worker 114 Baum canine 116 Smartphone ancestors 117 Unwavering 121 “__ we okay?”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY REDNECK PERSPECTIVE

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence. When he’d almost finished the manuscript, he went out on a date with his wife.

While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didn’t punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic.

The new edition of Of Mice and Men was Steinbeck’s breakout book. I’m guessing that in recent months you have received comparable assistance, Aries—although you may not realize it was assistance until later this year.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Remember back to what your life was like during the first nine months of 2004. I suspect that you fell just short of fulfilling a dream. It’s possible you were too young to have the power you needed. Or maybe you were working on a project that turned out to be pretty good, but not great. Maybe you were pushing to create a new life for yourself, but weren’t wise enough to make a complete breakthrough. Almost 12 years later, you have returned to a similar phase in your long-term cycle. You are better equipped to do what you couldn’t quite do before: create the masterpiece, finish the job, rise to the next level.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) To become a skillful singer, you must learn to regulate your breath. You’ve got to take in more oxygen than usual for extended periods, and do it in ways that facilitate rather than interfere with the sounds coming out of your mouth.

When you’re beginning, it feels weird to exert so much control over an instinctual impulse, which previously you’ve done unconsciously. Later, you have to get beyond your self-conscious discipline so you can reach a point where the proper breathing happens easily and gracefully.

Although you may not be working to become a singer in 2016, Gemini, I think you will have comparable challenges: 1. to make conscious an activity that has been unconscious; 2. to refine and cultivate that activity; 3. to allow your consciously crafted approach to become unselfconscious again.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Ancient humans didn’t “invent” fire, but rather learned about it from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes had a similar origin. Our ancestors employed long vines made of tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid and knot the vines together for greater strength. This technology was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten and carry. It was essential to the development of civilization. I predict that 2016 will bring you opportunities that have metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your task will be to develop and embellish on what nature provides.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) British author Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) had a day job with the postal service until he was in his 50s. For years, he awoke every morning at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before heading to work. His goal was to write two or three novels a year, a pace he came close to achieving.

“A small daily task, if it really be daily,” he wrote in his autobiography, “will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.”

I recommend that you borrow from his strategy in 2016, Leo. Be regular, disciplined and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Umbrellas shelter us from the rain, saving us from the discomfort of getting soaked and the embarrassment of bad hair. They also protect us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. I’m very much in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning.

They can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or to avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. I hope you won’t do much of that in 2016. In my

opinion, you need a lot of face-to-face encounters with life in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, this should be a non-umbrella year.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Around the world, an average of 26 languages go extinct every year. But it increasingly appears that Welsh will not be one of them. It has enjoyed a revival in the past few decades. In Wales, it’s taught in many schools, appears on road signs and is used in some mobile phones and computers. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Libra? A tradition that can be revitalized and should be preserved? A part of your heritage that may be useful to your future? A neglected aspect of your birthright that deserves to be reclaimed? Make it happen in 2016.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Fourteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer produced a collection of stories known as The Canterbury Tales. It became a seminal text of English literature, even though he never finished it. The most influential book ever written by theologian Thomas Aquinas was a work he gave up on before it was completed. The artist Michelangelo never found the time to put the final touches on numerous sculptures and paintings. Why am I bringing this theme to your attention? Because 2016 will be an excellent time to wrap up long-term projects you’ve been working on—and also to be at peace with abandoning those you can’t.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here’s a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled.

I’m thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In her poem “Tree,” California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that’s positioned next to a house. Watch out! It grows fast—as much as three feet per year. “Already the first branch-tips brush at the window,” Hirshfield writes. “Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.” I suspect this will be an apt metaphor for you in 2016.

The expansion and proliferation you have witnessed these past few months are likely to intensify. That’s mostly good, but may also require adjustments. How will you respond as immensity taps at your life?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Millenia ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food.

I see 2016 as a time when you could have a comparable success. Look around at your life, and identify weed-like things that could, through your transformative magic, be turned into valuable assets. The process may take longer than a year, but you can set in motion an unstoppable momentum that will ensure success.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Imagine that a beloved elder has been writing down your life story in the form of a fairy tale. Your adventures aren’t rendered literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather through dream-like scenes that have symbolic resonance. With this as our template, I’ll predict a key plot development of 2016: You will grow increasingly curious about a “forbidden” door—a door you have always believed should not be opened. Your inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity that you will consider locating the key for that door. If it’s not available, you may even think about breaking down the door.

Go to RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text-message horoscopes. Audio horoscopes also available by phone at 877-873-4888 or 900-950-7700.

SATIRE

Private Eye Panache A local detective saves a cute realtor and protects the News and Guide’s creative ad writers.

BY CLYDE THORNHILL

S

he walked into my detective office and handed me her card. “Realtor,” it read.

“I need help,” she said.

Her shirt was buttoned prim like a nun, but you could tell by the swing in her hip, the way her lips open just enough to make a man want more, that she traded her virtue for an exclusive 3 Creek listing and never looked back. Yeah, she knew what was up.

And while she may not know two plus two, she could calculate a six percent commission on a seven figure number faster than a Westbanker could suck up saké at a sushi joint.

“What’s your problem doll?” I asked.

“It’s Sammy “Bad Bagel” Bonanno,” she said. “He’s trying to muscle in on the real estate companies, charge a “protection fee” based on the number of adjectives used in real estate ads. It would double the cost of advertising. Can you imagine describing a property without the words “stunning,” “panoramic,” “dramatic,” “nestled into,” “convenient,” “pristine,” “abundant,” “refined,” “finest,” “amazing,” “finely,” “wonderful,” “unmatched,” “rare,” “rustic-western-luxury” and “private?”

“Sammy and I have a history,” I explained.

“He was trying to impress some granola chicks at the bagel shop and ordered a soy latté. But when he thought no one was looking, he went to the condiment table and added half and half. He didn’t see me in the crowd. I grabbed him by the neck and rammed two-day-old bagels down his throat–with no honey walnut cream cheese, no organic sprouts, no lox, just dry 7 grain.”

“I know,” she said. “I heard about it. That’s why we want you to stop him.”

“It won’t be easy,” I said. “You know what happened to Neil Loomis, sommelier and wine director for Fine Dining? When Bin22 refused to pay Sammy a kickback of foie gras torchonhe, Sammy forced Neil to mix a glass of Chateau Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon with Dr Pepper and drink it.”

“We heard the screams from across the street at Sotheby’s,” she said. “The man is ruthless.”

“He can’t afford to lose his rep; the other families will eat him up. He’s going to need a face-saving option. How about if instead of adjectives, he gets a piece of the action each time you use more than two synonyms for ‘unique’ in the same ad? Sammy gets enough to make it look like he didn’t back down, and ad writers can still use both ‘unique’ and ‘one-of-a-kind’ in the same ad, but will have to kickback Sammy for ‘unrivaled.’”

“Do this for us,” she begged.

“What’s in it for me doll?” I asked.

She gave me a look that would make a snowboarder blush. “I’m sure we can find some means to compensate you.”

I talked to Sammy. He agreed after I force -fed him a latté made with Farmer’s Brothers coffee and non-organic skim milk. My realtor lady friend made good on her promise of compensation, and the News and Guide continues to publish stunning, fantastic, and amazing real estate ads. PJH

DUD e , WHere’s 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,

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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