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14 COVER STORY BLACK BARS AND WHITE CEILINGS Andrew Johnson, despite his innocence and exoneration, struggles to find justice as a free man.

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THIS WEEK

AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey The waning days of August and the Labor Day Weekend are the warning shots over the bow for us that summer is about to end.

The days have already lost some length, as far as daylight is concerned. As we enter September, that becomes more noticeable.

Although the days will get shorter, the month of September is one of my favorite months to get outside and into the mountains.

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Average high temperatures also dropped two more degrees this week, with the average high at 77-degrees this week. I expect to see much warmer than average temperatures this week, through Labor Day Weekend. Although it will be warm this week, we may not quite break any records. The “bingo” number to beat this week is 92-degrees. That record high was reached on three separate occasions during this week: 1) August 30th, 1954. 2) September 4th, 1924. 3) September 5th, 1955.

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It’s cooler and there are usually no bugs to deal with! Average overnight low temperatures dropped two degrees from last week’s, with the average this week around 36-degrees. I expect slightly warmer than that for overnight lows most of the coming week, through Labor Day. I do not expect we’ll be breaking any overnight low temperature records this week. It would have to cool down to less than 18-degrees to accomplish that feat, with the record low for this week that still stands, from September 4th, 1964.

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SINGLE-TRACK MIND Summer may be winding down with shorter days and cooler nights but the riding is heating up. Now is the time to write your tick list and start hitting the trails and destinations you’ve missed.

Our trails are riding as well as they ever have at the end of August. The rain continues to help, the trail crews are keeping things tidy and several events are coming that are sure to please.

The Wydaho Festival takes place over three days at Grand Targhee this Labor Day weekend. This is a top notch event with several bike manufacturers bringing their 2018 demo bikes for you to ride before making your next purchase. As well as demos, there are clinics, discussions and social events that will keep you busy for the whole weekend.

This past weekend was another successful Pass Bash

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fundraiser for Teton Freedom Riders hosted by The Hub Bicycles. If you missed it, or if you were there and wonder when the next day of free pass shuttles occurs, it is in two weeks on Sept. 9. This will be the last one of the year, so don’t miss it. From now through Sept. 15, all donations to TFR, either at a Pass Bash or online, are eligible for Old Bill’s matching funds, so now’s the time to make your money count.

Even though our trails are great right now, nothing beats a late summer road trip to Sun Valley or Park City to sample their wares. Both places have incredible trail networks as well as a ski town social scene.

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EDITOR’S NOTE Admiration and Ineludible Change

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side, eyebrows raised, and say, “Change is the only thing you can count on, Jess.”

Irritating as that could be to the teenage me in the midst of serious high school crises, as life has ebbed and flowed and as I have gotten older, another constant, his words have been truth. Change has remained one reliable constant. And once again, change is upon us, and the Planet.

As a young twenty-something, I often kicked around the idea of a career in journalism. At the ripe age of 26, I landed a job at Newsweek on Air in New York City with the renowned journalist David Alpern.

However, as things have the habit of doing, my journalistic career path changed, abruptly ending with the sudden death of my mother. As the new guardian of my youngest brothers, who were nine and 15, and transplanted back to my hometown of Pittsburgh, I wasn’t sure when–if ever–I would find myself back in the business.

Surely, when I moved the boys to Jackson, I thought that path was history.

Cue last fall, when I became intimately acquainted with local politics and policy as a candidate for town council. At some point, I made a pact with Robyn to use all that acquired knowledge to write for the Planet if I did not succeed in my bid; she

always had her eyes open for new writers.

Exactly one day after what was for many a devastating election day, I started my stint at the Planet writing on issues facing the valley.

I had some notion I would meet my match, if not my superior, in Robyn, as far as passion for people, politics and Jackson goes. But, I had no idea about the commitment my new editor actually had to this valley, to the community–especially the people that keep this place grinding along–and to giving voice to the numerous struggles and successes within this state we call home.

Robyn staunchly strived for journalistic excellence and integrity–not to mention the cleanest copy possible. As she starts a new chapter, so many people will miss her in so many ways. All that said, with her genuine love for this place I’m not convinced we have seen the last of her!

Thank you, Robyn, for setting the bar so high. I am certain I speak for many as I wish you all the success on this next journey. It is my honor to lift your alternative torch as interim editor in these times of change. PJH

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ad someone told me a year ago that I would be minding the reins, even temporarily, of PJH Editor Robyn Vincent, I would have laughed.

How could Robyn leave the amazing alternative weekly she worked so hard to craft and steer over these years? In the course of Robyn’s tenure at the Planet, she served in every possible capacity on the journalistic side, from reporter, to photographer, to copy editor and, finally, to editor. Robyn is simply a force.

Stepping in for the meantime as we search for an editor–an ongoing process

and in no way complete–my goal is to continue with the same eye towards advocacy journalism as my mentor. We are living in a changing world. Jackson is not the same place today that it was 20 or even 10 years ago. We have greater diversity, both economic and ethnic, and perhaps even political, than ever before.

Robyn understood that our role as journalists is to make sure all voices in this community are heard, that injustices are talked about in the open, and that our community is made aware of tough issues. For people less privileged injustices are nothing new–just ask the women around you, or the service workers, or the people of color in our community.

The Planet brings these issues and voices to the fore so that even the most privileged amongst us have our eyes and ears opened. This was Robyn’s mission, and it is one I am pleased to continue. I will keep a laser focus on the changes in Jackson Hole, as well as the constants, good, bad or somewhere in between.

As I faced any number of challenging life situations, my father often provided me with very matter-of-fact quips of wisdom. As I struggled to process stressful shifts, he would often cock his head to the

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The problem of white supremacy falls on the shoulders of all white people.

BY BAYNARD WOODS @DemoInCrisis

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ne night last week, I suddenly started pouring sweat, heart pounding, as I fell off my couch. I couldn’t feel my hands or my feet and my vision was narrowing, occluded by static, into a small spot. It was the beginning of a high-fever, five-day stomach flu. To paraphrase Joan Didion, it was not an unreasonable response to the summer of 2017.

I’ve been thinking about Didion a lot, especially “Slouching Toward Bethlehem,” her piece from 50 years ago, a report on some of the lost children of the Summer of Love and also an extended meditation on William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.”

The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold.

The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.

Some of the president’s most prominent supporters on the far right think of their movement as countercultural. Paul Joseph Watson, a British YouTube twit turned Alex Jones acolyte, even sells swag sporting the phrase, “Conservatism is the New Counter Culture.”

He’s not entirely wrong. As Watson points out, he’s not talking about Mitch McConnell, but the likes of him and Milo Yiannopoulos and Cassandra Fairbanks, who also writes about conservatism as the new punk. Even Mike Flynn is a surfer.

But there has always been something reactionary—a snotty white boy yelling, “look at me”—about the American counterculture.

This so-called counterculture of pseudo-journalists is trying hard not to be

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called “alt-right”—the moniker coined by Depeche Klan clown Richard Spencer— because the Unite the Right rally Spencer was supposed to speak at gave this counterculture its Altamont.

“Stones Concert Ends It: America Now up for Grabs,” read the headline in the Berkeley Tribe in December 1969, following the massive Rolling Stones concert where Hells Angels, who were supposed to be security, killed an 18-year-old African-American man named Meredith Hunter.

When James Alex Fields slammed his car into a crowd of celebratory Antifa protesters marching through Charlottesville after the racists had been largely routed, killing Heather Heyer, he changed the American right in ways they don’t understand, just as the Hells Angels murder at a Rolling Stones concert changed the left of that era. Fields’s murderous act destroyed the right’s counterculture, releasing and magnifying its most violent elements and revealing its essence.

It was a tragically clarifying moment and Donald Trump has decided where he stands. He erases every measured statement read from a teleprompter with an unhinged rant about how they are trying to take our heritage away when statues of white supremacists are taken down.

Trump sees the battle as one not between Democrats and Republicans, but between the alt-right—the deplorables and Nazis and the guys wearing white khakis and polos and the new right media frat pack counterculture crew, all led by himself—and the “alt-left”—Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and maybe he hates journalists enough to throw us in there, too. “They show up in the helmets and the black masks and they’ve got clubs— they’ve got everything,” Trump said in Phoenix, before letting loose with a sort of weird holler: “Antifa!”

Americans might have been surprised to see Nazis in America, but anyone who was ever involved in a punk scene knew about Nazis. There were always skinheads around. And often punks to kick their asses.

That’s essentially what Antifa is— punks getting shit done. The anticapitalist, often anarchist activists don’t just fight Nazis. They do Food Not Bombs, collecting food from grocery stores and markets to feed to the homeless. They offer court support to political prisoners and work as street medics during protests.

In Charlottesville, it was street medics who helped tend burning eyes and busted faces. And when Fields drove his car into the crowd, street medics cared for the injured in the crucial moments before ambulances arrived.

And Antifa will fight. “If it hadn’t been for the antifascists protecting us from the neofascists, we would have been crushed like cockroaches,” Cornel West, the famous intellectual, said, noting that the “police didn’t do anything in terms of protecting the people of the community, the clergy.”

One reason the cops didn’t do anything: They were guarding the windows of the shops flanking Emancipation Park.

The cops, it seems, were more worried about Antifa than the alt-right. Because sometimes some of them also break windows.

More than 200 people were arrested in an antifascist and anticapitalist black bloc protest on Inauguration Day after some people in the group smashed the windows of several multinational corporations like Starbucks and Bank of America.

There hasn’t been a lot of interest in the case on the broader left because many find it hard to sympathize with people who smash shit. They think people should be punished for that kind of stuff, without quite realizing how it is that the government is charging 200 people for breaking the same windows.

But the District of Columbia’s chief judge made a ruling on Aug. 24 that may make the broader left more sympathetic toward the J20 defendants.

“You are providing all the data to the government,” Chief Judge Robert Morin said to lawyers for DreamHost, the web registrar that hosted disruptj20.org. They were fighting against a warrant that would allow the government to take all of the contents of that site—and any emails associated with it. He placed some limitations on what could be done with the information—but still demanded it all be handed over to the Feds.

“It appears that what the government is saying that just because it is under the same domain they can use one search warrant to obtain content from numerous specific email accounts,” said Raymond Aghaian, a lawyer for DreamHost, who likened it to searching all Gmail accounts with a single warrant.

“That’s problematic. People don’t want the government to have their information if they didn’t do anything wrong,” said Paul Levy, who argued for anonymous “Doe” citizens for Public Interest. “And what the judge’s order fails to do is to take adequate steps to protect the interests of those Doe users.”

A lot more people go online than will ever be arrested at a protest—and no one likes the idea of giving the government a list of people who have visited a site opposed to the president.

If the larger left can embrace Antifa and Black Lives Matter, instead of being scared of its own most vital elements and rushing toward the center, it may have some sort of chance. The center cannot hold. PJH

THE WHITE HOUSE

Demand Accountability A former senator says elected officials can’t hide from citizens.

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Services led by Rabbi James Greene, Rabbi Mike Comins, Josh Kleyman and Chazzan Judd Grossman.

St. John’s Episcopal Church 170 N. Glenwood | Jackson, WY

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Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China Max Baucus sits with his friend, the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and others at a policy meeting in Washington, D.C.

citizens wield more clout than they know.

But they don’t make their clout register.

They allow politicians to get off easy, he said.

Baucus smirks incredulously when he hears complaints that politicians have placed themselves beyond reach or actively evade town hall meetings.

“We are very lucky in Montana. It’s much, much easier than it would be in California or New York to reach an elected official,” he said. “I gave my personal email out to everybody. I gave out my phone number to everybody. I was totally accessible to everybody. If anybody wanted to write me a letter or call me, I was there. I made a point of responding if someone insisted I get back to them and sometimes those conversations changed my mind on issues.”

Sighing, he added, “Having said this, I’m kind of surprised, and slightly disappointed, frankly, that I didn’t get more telephone calls. I got a good number but I wanted more.”

Do the Wyoming, Montana and Idaho congressional delegates have the courage to give out their personal emails and cell phone numbers? More importantly, do they have the stomach to get a lashing from constituents who are concerned about the direction of the country?

Baucus himself got an earful from Montanans when he helped get the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, passed into law but refused to support a single payer system or all-out universal health care coverage for all Americans.

Still, he didn’t cower. “You can’t hide from the people you represent,” he said.

“If you do that, you don’t deserve to be in office.” PJH

Thursday, September 21

9:30 a.m. Children’s Service 10:00 a.m. Shacharit, Morning Service (Childcare will begin at 10 am) Potluck lunch to follow services in the Hansen Hall.

Please bring a main dish or side dish/salad to share.

Bagels, cream cheese and drinks will be provided.

Tacshlich to follow at Flat Creek.

Friday, September 22

Second Day Rosh Hashanah

9:00 a.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church library (No childcare)

Erev Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre Friday, September 29

Led by Rabbi Mike Comins, Josh Kleyman and Chazzan Judd Grossman Prelude music begins at 7:00 p.m.

Services will begin at 7:30 p.m. (Childcare provided)

Yom Kippur

Saturday, September 30

9:30 a.m. Children’s Service 10:00 a.m. Shacharit, Morning Service (Childcare begins at 10:00 a.m.)

3:45 p.m. Yizkor 4:45 p.m. Mincha/Torah Reading 5:45 p.m. Break 6:00 p.m. Rabbi’s Discussion 6:30 p.m. Ne’ila 7:00 p.m. Potluck community Break Fast in the Hansen Hall. Please bring a savory main dish or hearty side dish/salad. Bagels, cream cheese, dessert and drinks provided.

No tickets required to attend services.

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Todd Wilkinson, editor of mountainjournal.org, has been writing his award-winning column, The New West, for nearly 30 years. He is author of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek about famous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 featuring 150 pictures by renowned wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen.

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longest senate tenure in state history, topping even the legendary Mike Mansfield’s.

As I interviewed Baucus for a story in the current issue of Mountain Outlaw magazine, I asked him what triggered the rise in incivility. “I ask myself that question often,” he said. “I don’t have a good answer.”

Baucus, however, shared an observation about the old senate dining room, a place that once served as a private sanctum for senators only, where they got to know each other personally, talked candidly about their families and hardships, and related to each other as human beings.

The dining room closed down a decade ago as, evermore, senators began spending time with lobbyists, at fundraisers and party strategy sessions. The age of social media and partisan cable channels also have contributed to the bitter atmosphere.

“Part of it is on us, too,” Baucus said, meaning citizens. “If we want those in Washington D.C. to exercise more comity, citizens have got to push for it and exercise more comity themselves.”

Baucus offered a blunt challenge: Citizens need to demand accountability from elected officials. In rural states, neither should they allow members of Congress to ignore them nor should they settle for having contact only with the grunt-level staffers of a senator, governor, member of Congress or any other elected official.

Citizens, Baucus said, should demand to meet face to face with individual elected officials or, at the very least, get their calls returned. If at first they are rebuffed, be vigilant, Baucus noted.

And if a federal or state lawmaker doesn’t give them respect, call them out in the newspaper. Don’t accept no for an answer, he said. It might require taking just a few minutes out of one’s busy life, maybe a total of 10 minutes if a constituent must make six calls to finally get through, but it makes a difference, he assures.

Contrary to the opinions of cynics,

Led by Rabbi James Greene and Chazzan Judd Grossman 6:00 p.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah Prelude music begins at 5:30 p.m.

Chinese New Years Party catered by Chinatown Following Erev Rosh Hashanah services in Hansen Hall next door. Chinese buffet and goodies catered by Chinatown. $25 adults/$18 children/free under 5.

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nited States Rep. Liz Cheney is purported to live in Wilson, Wyoming.

But her presence in Jackson Hole has been conspicuously scarce, at least that’s what many of her constituents say.

Despite numerous invitations to attend town hall meetings with the citizens she represents, Cheney has been a no-show, declining to look Teton County residents in the eye and listen to what they have to say.

According to the account of one person who did speak with her, the congresswoman allegedly said she “didn’t want to subject herself to any possible abusive remarks” she might receive from Wyomingites.

It’s an attitude and a pattern of behavior repeated often this year with the congressional delegation from Wyoming, Montana and Idaho deliberately ignoring voters and instead attending meetings only sponsored by hard-core supporters and campaign contributors who tell them what they want to hear.

I’ve heard that Ms. Cheney stridently avoids returning phone calls from any media outlets she suspects will ask her tough questions. Arguably, by her actions, Cheney isn’t promoting transparency in government or accountability to the people she serves but is rather contributing to divisiveness and the breakdown of civility.

It didn’t always used to be this way. The late U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop, his retired colleague Alan K. Simpson, even Ms. Cheney’s father, former Vice President and U.S. Rep. Dick Cheney, did not brazenly brush off constituents or the media.

They knew that mixing it up came with the job.

Earlier this year, just after he completed his assignment as U.S. Ambassador to China, I met with Max Baucus, who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate, the

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WEIRD

Unclear on the Concept

In early August, Volusia (Florida) County Beach Safety officers banished 73-year-old Richard G. Basaraba of Daytona Beach from all county beaches after it was discovered he was handing out business cards to young women, reading “Sugardaddy seeking his sugarbaby.” The mother of a 16-year-old said he approached a group of girls with his cards and continued to speak with the minor girl even after she told him her age. He also produced a bra padding, telling the girls he was “looking for someone who would fill it.” He told the 16-year-old she “would be perfect.”

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Wait, What?

Practicing physicians in Cairo, Egypt, opened a surgery-themed restaurant called D.Kebda in July, where they wear surgical scrubs and prepare their only offering, grilled beef-liver sandwiches, behind a glass partition. Kebda is a popular street food in Egypt, but it can cause food poisoning if not prepared carefully. “We tried to take our career values and apply them to this other field,” said Mostafa Basiouny, one of the owners. “There is no contradiction between them; we are still practicing doctors.”

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Animal Antics

A skunk got up close and personal with a 13-year-old boy on July 25 when it climbed into his bed in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently after hitchhiking into the house in a trash can. The family was able to remove the skunk without the help of the Hamden Animal Control Division, but an officer said the “smell of skunk … emanated throughout the house.”

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Criminal justice student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, of Columbia, South Carolina, had her car’s manual transmission to thank for her safe escape on July 26. Three men approached her around 1 a.m. and pointed a gun at her. After robbing her of her phone and purse, the men forced her into her car, threatening to kidnap and rape her, but when they realized none of them knew how to drive her stick-shift car, one of the criminals ran away. The other two forced Dinsmore to drive to an ATM to withdraw cash. As she drove, Dinsmore removed her seatbelt, then put the car in neutral and jumped out, screaming, “Call 911! Call 911!” to passing motorists. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department arrested a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old in the kidnapping and robbery.

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n The Scardillo Cheese factory in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has a squirrel to blame for a fire that resulted in more than 20,000 gallons of milk being spoiled on Aug. 8. The squirrel chewed through a main power line on the outside of the building, which sparked the fire, and power could not be restored for 12 hours. Already-made cheese was kept cool with generators, but milk being readied to make cheese warmed and went bad.

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On Aug. 7, 16-year-old Jack Bergeson of Wichita, Kansas, filed papers in Topeka to run for governor as a Democrat in the 2018 race. Bergeson, who won’t be able to vote in that election, said: “I thought, you know, let’s give the people of Kansas a chance. Let’s try something new.” The candidate says he would “radically change” health care and would support legalizing medical marijuana, but he’s conservative on gun rights. Bryan Caskey, director of elections at the Kansas secretary of state’s office, said there is no law governing the qualifications for governor. Bergeson’s running mate, 17-year-old Alexander Cline, will be 18 by the election and will get to vote.

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eyton Davis completed their four years of military service in June. They were deployed to Afghanistan for six months. Davis comes from “a military family.”

“Army has always been a part of my life,” Davis said.

Davis also had to largely hide their identity during their four years of service. Davis is queer, and uses the non-gendered pronouns they and them. They have bound their chest for almost eight years now. Their aesthetic is “androgynous,” and out in public, Davis’s gender is indistinguishable. But being openly queer in the army was almost impossible, they said.

“I was very aware of when I could be myself, and when I could not be myself,” Davis said.

So when the President tweeted on July 26, “the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military,” Davis was equal parts enraged and understanding. It’s a complicated issue, Davis said. Not because trans people cannot, or should not, serve in the military. But the military isn’t always the safest place for trans people.

“My concern is for the safety of trans soldiers, for their own safety,” Davis said. “I wish the military was different, but it’s not. It would be amazing to have the ability that just everyone could join the military. I just don’t think that’s where we’re at.”

The White House solidified its transgender military ban on Friday with the stroke of President Donald Trump’s pen.

The signed directive bans new transgender military enlistments and cuts off funding for sexual reassignment surgery and other medical treatments for people already serving. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has six months to begin enforcing the ban.

The ban undoes Barack Obama’s year-old policy that allowed transgender people to openly serve in the

military. Trump’s original tweet cited “tremendous medical costs” associated with transitioning: surgery, hormone supplements and gender therapy.

But Davis says medical costs of transitioning are “not even like, the smallest dent in military health care.”

Indeed, the military spends between $2.4-8.4 million a year on gender transition medical expenses, according to a study published by Rand Corporation last year.

According to Agnes Gereben Schaefer of the Rand Corp. that represents onetenth to four-tenths of a percent of the active component [active duty] health care budget. Meanwhile, the military spends $84 million on drugs for erectile dysfunction, like Viagra, according to a Military Times analysis.

“I could have gotten free eye surgery if I wanted to,” Davis said. “Those are things that people don’t complain about. But when you’re talking about a surgery that is life-altering for someone…” Davis trailed off. “To see people focus on such a minute number that shouldn’t matter, but also say, ‘I support troops in every way, I want resources for veterans, except ‘those’ veterans.”

Healthcare is already limited for trans people in the military. Davis tried to see a gender therapist, but was denied by military health insurance. The therapist on base, Davis said, “admitted they didn’t know a lot, and tried to get me something else.” But Davis’s insurance still didn’t allow it.

Besides, Davis says, transitioning or being transgender is not an illness.

Even when the Obama administration allowed for open service, Davis said the policy “read like a really terrible disease to be transgender.” To boil the conversation down to numbers on a budget, Davis said, is to forget the human beings behind those figures. “This is someone’s life experience. It shouldn’t be roped in with disease. For that to be so disregarded gets me the most frustrated.”

But Davis also has concerns about the safety of transgender military recruits. Davis had never really experienced being treated differently before joining the army. Then they kept their identity secret: stopped binding, let bosses and comrades assume their gender and sexuality. “I knew the minute they found out, I’d be treated differently,” Davis said. “My queer identity wasn’t part of my identity at all. I got really lost.”

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of me.”

Still, their time in the army took its toll. “That’s four years of identity I’m still trying to get back,” Davis said. “I spent my first month [of deployment] really angry, of how people were talking about women—and [about] the environment in general. I had to let things slip for the rest of deployment. Otherwise I’d just spend the whole day angry.”

And that, Davis says, is what makes military transgender policy so complicated. Identities are complicated.

Trump himself admitted as much at a press briefing: “It’s been a very complicated issue for the military. It’s been a very confusing issue for the military.”

But people who serve in the military face challenges every day. They don’t quit because things are hard or confusing, Davis said. Saying “Let’s just give up ‘cause it’s kinda hard” is not the military Davis knows. PJH

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understanding. They identify as queer, or non-binary, as in they do not identity neatly as a woman or man. There is no room for such an identity in the military, Davis said.

“It’s the strictest binary I’ve ever seen in a job,” they said. “There’s men, women in binaries, that’s how things are, and you have to exist as them.”

Military policy only recognizes physical transitions, as in through surgery, from one sex to another. But Davis no longer identifies with such labels.

Existing in uniform as a queer, non-binary person was “very ostracizing,” Davis said. But for fellow people in combat, Davis put a face to an identity they might not have seen before. “I met a lot of people who had never met anyone queer, or gay, or nonconforming.

I got to know them in uniform,” Davis said. Those relationships sometimes led to discussions about gender identity— some of the first conversations Davis’s coworkers ever had. “The military actually really opened that empathetic part

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THE BUZZ 2 Minimum Notice Moves Forward Despite objections from dominant landlords, minimum notice requirement for tenants hurdles first obstacle.

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he message at Monday’s town council workshop was clear: always get a lease in writing. But in a rental market like Jackson’s, which largely favors landlords due the overwhelming demand for rentals, written leases are sometimes hard to come by. So, tenants, landlords and lawyers are going to have to figure out how to enforce a 30-day minimum notice ordinance on all leases, written or oral.

Despite the difficulties of enforcing such an ordinance, Monday afternoon Councilors moved to put a 30-day minimum notice ordinance on first reading at the September 5 council meeting.

“I don’t think 30-day notice is sufficient, but I think it’s an important first step,” said Mayor Pete Muldoon before casting his vote in favor of moving the ordinance forward.

According to the ordinance’s language, the 30-day notice requirement mandates landlords provide no fewer than 30-days notice before terminating a rental agreement “without cause.” In other words, if the tenants are in compliance with the terms of the lease and landlord wants to terminate the lease before the end of the lease term, the landlord must give their tenant 30-days notice in writing. As terms of the rental lease would also include the dollar amount of rent, rent increases are assumed to be covered in the 30-day notice requirement.

The ordinance is the first tangible result of a long-standing conversation about tenant protections in the valley. The saga began last summer, when ShelterJH, Jackson’s non-profit advocacy group founded by Mary Erickson and Jorge Moreno, surveyed Jackson residents about their housing woes. Tenant

protections, and specifically a minimum notice requirement, emerged as one of the most pressing concerns.

Addressing the expressed concerns, the Council formed a tenant protections task force, comprised of landlords, tenants, lawyers and advocates, to determine what actions needed to be taken.

But while the task force agreed that giving minimum notice is the right thing to do, they did not agree that it should be ordained. In July, the group came back to the council with no recommendations for legislating tenant protections.

Despite the task force’s lack of recommendations, the council decided they wanted to learn more about a minimum notice requirement and directed staff to research and craft an ordinance. Fastforward one month, to Monday, and the ordinance was in front of them.

This time, the devil was in the details.

Councilors questioned how the town could enforce such an ordinance without written lease agreements. The state of Wyoming recognizes oral leases as contracts, but they’re risky, said town attorney Audrey Cohen-Davis. “Under Wyoming law, you’re taking a chance if you have an oral agreement,” CohenDavis said. She said when she moved to Jackson after practicing law across the country, “oral agreements kind of dumbfounded me.”

So why, questioned councilor Don Frank, would the ordinance not just apply to written leases? He reasoned that would incentivize landlords to write leases, and tenants to ask for them. “My understanding is we’re trying to create language that gives tenants and landlords 30 days to adjust to changing conditions,” Frank said. “Do we have to include written or oral in the definitions? It seems to be building castles out of sand.”

Still, a lot of Jackson tenants and landlords don’t use written leases. “I lived for years as a renter in Jackson. Most of the time I had no lease at all,” said Councilman Jim Stanford. “There are a lot of these types of situations. It should be incumbent upon us to extend the same league of protection.” Written leases are ideal, Stanford said, but “that’s not always how the world works.”

Muldoon agreed. The most steadfast agreement between a landlord and a tenant is indeed a written lease, he said, but, “tenants don’t have the luxury of demanding that in Jackson.” In such a fragile housing market, you take what you can get.

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said.

Still, councilors took Wylie’s comment to heart. Councilor Bob Lenz initially proposed extending the minimum notice window to 50 days. That way, tenants and landlords would have a full calendar month, and then some, to adjust.

But after hearing concerns of the public, and the complications of the usage of oral-leases in town, Lenz wanted more time to deliberate.

“I’m not comfortable bringing this forward as an ordinance,” Lenz said.

“There’s been a lot of discussion today.

I’m interested in moving forward so people like Brenda Wylie can give their input.”

Frank echoed Lenz’s concerns. “I think this cake needs to be baked a little more,” he said. He supports the goal but was concerned about enforceability if tenants and landlords can’t both “do the work of having a written lease.”

But Lenz and Frank were outvoted.

Stanford reminded the council of the many workshops and discussions they already had about tenant protections.

“There’s a good bit of work that’s been done,” he said. “There are opportunities for further discussion in the ordinance readings.”

Muldoon and Councilwoman Hailey Morton-Levinson also voted in favor of moving the ordinance to a first reading.

“We may think of additional issues, but I’m comfortable with continuing to talk to staff,” Muldoon said. The motion carried three-to-two. The ordinance will be presented to the Town Council for first reading September 5. PJH

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Some didn’t think the ordinance was ready to move forward. During public comment, Brenda Wylie, an attorney representing Blair Place Apartments, outlined all the details that needed to be worked out. First: the penalty.

The penalty for non-compliance is up to $750 per day, per violation. That’s way too high, Wylie said. Often times, landlords give short notice to tenants due to “circumstances out of the landlord’s control.”

“There’s no nexus between the size of the penalty and the purpose of the ordinance,” Wylie said.

Wylie was also concerned about the definition, or lack thereof, of “without cause.”

Ordinance language mandates that “an owner may terminate a Rental Agreement without a cause” only if they give written notice 30 days in advance.

But what does “without cause” mean, Wylie asked? What if a unit suddenly became inhabitable? What if it flooded, or a sewer pipe broke, or there was mold growing inside? Would a landlord be penalized for kicking out their tenants in such situations? “We can’t have a situation where a landlord is choosing not to terminate leases, and letting people live there when it’s not safe,” Wylie said.

But Cohen-Davis said situations such as these are already protected under state statute, putting Wylie’s hypothetical concerns to rest. She defended the $750 penalty as a maximum fine, not a blanket fine. It will be up to a judge’s discretion to determine how serious the violation, and how serious the fine. “It could be a dollar, depending on the facts,” Cohen-Davis

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BLACK BARS & WHITE CEILINGS Andrew Johnson, despite his innocence and exoneration, struggles to find justice as a free man.

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Regardless of Johnson’s criminal history, he lost a great deal during his quarter of a century stint in prison.

Johnson had never used the internet or a cell phone during his imprisonment, leaving him with few skills that would enable him to cope in the outside world. At 67 years old, his top earning years are far behind him. On top of that, Wyoming, as well as 20 other states, has no laws mandating any form of financial compensation for those wrongfully convicted.

Johnson and a team of lawyers sued the state of Wyoming, attempting to pass legislation that would provide compensation to those wrongfully convicted.

What were 24 years of Johnson’s life worth?

After years of litigation, the answer was handed down to him. Twenty four years of his life spent in prison for a crime he did not commit was worth nothing. Not a dime. The state did not owe Andrew Johnson a penny for the time he spent behind bars. The Wyoming legislative bill that set out to financially compensate those wrongfully convicted of crimes (dubbed “Andrew’s Bill”) was dropped by the House after it was passed by the Senate the month prior.

Before the bill was struck down, Johnson’s payout was expected to be $50,000 a year with a $500,000 maximum, reflecting statutes in several other states that have legally enacted the provision. If Johnson had been granted the repayment, the state would have valued every

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To jail a mockingbird

Johnson told the Casper Star Tribune that he didn’t have a real first meal upon release.

“We went to–what was the name of that place?” he puzzled.

“Starbucks,” offered his lead attorney, Elizabeth Fasse.

“I had a cookie about this big,” Johnson said, making his hands into an “O” the size of his head.

“And a coffee …it was pretty powerful.”

Johnson’s original attorney said, obviously

many things had changed over nearly a quarter of a century. Not knowing about Starbucks was just a jumping block back into reality for Johnson.

When Johnson was first convicted there were only 55 Starbucks in the world, now there are over 24,000. But missing out on a cultural phenomenon was the least of Johnson’s losses.

After 16 years of waiting for a day she feared would never come, Johnson’s wife divorced him while he was still serving his sentence. He also missed seeing his daughter grow up. Mr. Johnson now has a grandson that he met for the first time when he was released from prison.

It is great injustices like these the RMIC works so hard to rectify. The innocence center’s Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial, submitted to the United States District Court on Johnson’s behalf, specifically highlighted that it is possible Johnson never would have been convicted in the first place if the court had been less negligent. The report indicates that without the testimony of Slagle, Johnson’s conviction would have been impossible; Slagle named Johnson as her rapist after the prompting and encouragement of law enforcement officers. Her testimony was the only concrete evidence the court used to convict Johnson.

On top of pressuring the witness, the RMIC report continued that first responder police officers took potentially exonerating photographs of the crime scene that were later lost or possibly intentionally destroyed.

Also of note, Anderson–although she was unable to officially confirm her recollection– recalled that it was an entirely white jury that convicted Johnson after a 20-minute deliberation.

Johnson maintained his innocence throughout his incarceration, believing that, ultimately, the truth would win out, which it eventually did.

Many years later, DNA evidence later revealed that it was, in fact, Slagle’s boyfriend who had committed the crime. Once the DNA evidence exonerated Johnson, the Laramie District Attorney’s office dropped charges against him, and Johnson was officially released.

However, even after his release, prosecuting District Attorney Scott Homar continued to insist that Johnson was guilty, and that it was his prior criminal history that led to the length of his original sentence. Many states exclude people with criminal records that pre-date the exonerated offense from receiving compensation from the state, but Johnson said, “Once you paid society back, under the law, you are supposed to be another citizen of this country.”

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The gavel struck with all the force of a life-ending sentence: guilty on all charges. Andrew Johnson was shocked to his bones when the verdict came back. This was not what was supposed to happen. He was innocent. The jury had to know he was innocent. They had only deliberated 20 minutes. It wasn’t possible they had sentenced him to life in prison after just 20 minutes.

Johnson, an African-American man, was accused and convicted of raping a 24-year-old white woman, Laurie Slagle, in Cheyenne, WY in 1989. The conviction almost entirely relied upon Slagle’s identification of Johnson as her assailant.

The now 67-year-old was exonerated in 2013 after spending 24 years in prison. DNA testing proved he had lost nearly a quarter of his life paying for a crime he did not commit.

Johnson was the first person in the state of Wyoming to be exonerated using DNA evidence.

“I certainly believe Mr. Johnson’s race played into his conviction,” Johnson’s former attorney, Jensie Anderson, told the Planet. She followed up with the fact that rape convictions in the black community, especially when it is a black man raping a white woman, not only have some of the highest exoneration rates in the nation, but that members of the black community also face harsher penalties than their white counterparts for the same crimes.

Statistics reported by the Wyoming Department of Corrections showed that conviction rates of black people in Wyoming are nearly six times higher than conviction rates of white people.

However, a report put out last year by the National Registry of Exonerations, Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, found that while African Americans make up 13 percent of the American population, they make up 47 percent of all exonerees.

The Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, an organization that works to exculpate wrongfully convicted persons in Utah, Nevada and Wyoming, has helped exonerate six wrongfully imprisoned people since its inception in 2000, of which four have been people of color.

Statistically, Anderson pointed out that the RMIC numbers are in line with national averages.

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year of Johnson’s wrongful imprisonment at just over $20,000. According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming, the average felon in a state-run penitentiary costs the state of Wyoming between $35,500 and $53,750 per annum.

In April of this year, Johnson and his lawyers filed a civil suit against the City of Cheyenne for abuse of Johnson’s civil rights through wrongful conviction, as well as mismanagement of evidence.

United States District Judge Scott Skavdhal dismissed the suit on August 3 leaving Johnson still without a dime in compensation.

Johnson’s former legal counsel was perturbed by the legislature’s decision.

“Unfortunately, the state of Wyoming has fought any kind of effort to repay [Johnson] for the time he was wrongfully incarcerated,” Anderson said. “I can’t say to you [the legislative dismissal] had any basis in race, but I can tell you that during the initial conviction, implicitly or explicitly, race

certainly played into the reasons he was initially incarcerated. It was a very typical case, in that it was a black man accused of raping a white woman, and that is where we see the biggest disparity in the justice system.”

Anderson highlighted that the rate of conviction is much higher in cases where a person of color is accused of raping a person who is white. “We also see greater sentences for those people, and that was the story in Andrew’s case,” she concluded.

The NA ACP is all too familiar with statistics like these. Preventing human beings from becoming statistics in the first place is the challenge.

R o s e m a r y Lytle, the NAACP representative for Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, insisted that Johnson’s story is a classic case of why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important. “This is the mattering,” she declared.

“Our society is a capitalist one, and almost everything has a cost. The injustice he suffered at the hands of Wyoming is a price they should be ready to pay. It’s the most egregious kind of racial assault. What it shows is the life of this black man does not matter to the state of Wyoming.”

Lytle believes that miscarriage of justice comes with a much higher cost than just financial reimbursement. Her passion rose in her voice as she asserted, “Once you’ve taken away my youth, my ability to provide for my family, my chance at the American dream, you’ve not only hurt me, the impact of that is generational. It’s not only that family that is affected. Things like this, they affect communities. There’s a price that needs to be paid, and it’s unfortunate that the legislature cannot make it possible for him to be compensated.”

The Dirt y Numbers

The numbers speak for themselves. In areas with measurable African American populations in Wyoming, arrest rates are higher, followed by higher rates of conviction as well. Data supplied by the U.S. Census shows that while African Americans make up less than 1 percent of Wyoming’s total population, they make up 5.8 percent of those incarcerated. The same holds true for Native Americans and Hispanics. Alarmingly, both groups are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. People who self-identify as white comprise 87 percent of Wyoming’s overall population but make up only 78 percent of Wyoming’s prison population.

Michelle Alexander, an award winning author, wrote The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander asserts prisons are the newest innovation of racial oppression, reflected in the vastly disproportionate incarceration rates of people of color. “The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid,” she writes. “In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.”

The point of Alexander’s book is that people of color are placed in a system where it looks like people who behave well succeed, and those who do not behave well go to prison, but she insists that simply is not true. “African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct,” she continued.

Jensie Anderson believes there are several reasons for this disparity other than just overt racism. She cited the Race and Wrongful Conviction report again. The report reads, “Judging from exonerations, a black prisoner serving time for sexual assault is three-and-a-half times more likely to be innocent than a white sexual assault convict. The major cause of this huge racial disparity appears to be the high danger of mistaken eyewitness identification by white victims in violent crimes with black assailants.”

Anderson has advocated for potentially allowing expert witnesses to stand at trial to explain the likelihood of misidentification, especially when the victim and accused are different races, and how often that leads to wrongful conviction.

It’s really hard for people to recognize and identify people who are a different race from them, she said. “It’s not always that people are intending to be racist,” Anderson said, “but what we also know is that cross-racial identifications are some of the most flawed identifications in the criminal justice system.”

Institutional Apathy

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guilt or innocence, so if the court convicts someone for a certain period of time, that person is in the system and remains with us until they are released or paroled. When they are in the system, we do our best to work with them to see that they are provided for while they are in prison, and that they are given the tools they need to succeed.”

However, aside from exoneration there is little success to see in Johnson’s case.

Opportunities within the prison that would have prepared Johnson for a life outside of those walls seemed to have escaped him, perhaps because no one expected him to have a life outside of prison given his life sentence. Regardless, instead of success, the innocent man simply had more suffering. Not only did Johnson leave prison penniless, he left in debt for owed child support that he could not pay while serving time. Add that to the states’ refusal to compensate Johnson for robbing him and his family of decades of precious time and it amounts to what seems like a cruel joke.

Sadly, all the support the innocent man has received has been through donations to a fund set up in his name at a credit union in Cheyenne (RMIC may be contacted for more details). On behalf of the NAACP, Lytle recently reached out to Johnson’s lawyers to offer whatever assistance the 108-year-old institution might be able to offer the wrongfully convicted man.

One would hope an innocent man, wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years could catch some kind of break. Following the news that he had been denied compensation from the state Johnson said, “If I died today, I couldn’t afford to be buried.” PJH

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The United States incarcerates its citizens at a higher rate than any other nation in the world. The United States’ incarceration rate is 737 citizens per every 100,000, accounting for one-fifth of the world’s total prison population. China, the country with the second highest incarceration rate, imprisons 118 citizens per 100,000, a small fraction of the global prison population.

Incarceration rates that high come with a big price tag, currently costing taxpayers an estimated $1 trillion every year. That is up from an estimated $80 billion in 1980, according to a 2014 report from the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution.

Even accounting for inflation in that time period, that is a 400 percent increase in the cost of incarceration.

Although there have been consistent decreases in reported crime, which as reported by Pew Charitable Trusts is down 24 percent from 2009 to 2014, Wyoming is still seeing the cost of incarceration balloon. As of 2016, the National Institute of Corrections reported that the Wyoming Department of Corrections had a budget of $306 million, up from $243 million in 2008, a 25 percent increase.

But Curran explained that Wyoming has some of the lowest rates of recidivism–the rate at which inmates are rearrested within three years of their initial release–in the United States. According to Curran, the Cowboy state has a recidivism rate of just 23.8 percent compared to the 44.7 percent recidivism rate of federal penitentiaries.

Curran stated that it is Wyoming’s proactive stance on rehabilitation that makes Wyoming prisons stand out. He said the Wyoming DOC takes special care to help convicts reintegrate into society, keeping Wyoming’s recidivism rates so low. “Ninety-two percent of individuals that go into prison end up coming back out,” he said, “and we want to make sure we are giving those individuals the tools they need to succeed.” Curran listed mental health assistance, job training, and counseling as some of the many methods the state employees use to ensure the smallest number of individuals possible become repeat offenders.

While Curran thinks what happened to Andrew Johnson is tragic, he maintains that the Wyoming justice system does a lot right, attempting to help convicts transition back into normal, functioning lives.

“Sometimes we’ll have to remind people that we don’t determine someone’s prison sentence.

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Lytle, of the NAACP, thinks there is an institutionalized bias against people of color in the criminal justice system.

When a community has small numbers of minorities in a community, it causes feelings of isolation within those minority groups and often results in disproportionate attention to those groups by law enforcement, Lytle said. Cheyenne is a perfect example of such a community as it has only about 2700 people of color. Those smaller numbers of minorities, she believes, especially in Western states like Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana, disincentivizes authority figures in the criminal justice system, such as prosecutors, defense attorneys, and law enforcement officers, from investing in diversity training.

She said the issues were largely rooted in a lack of understanding of difference.

“When there aren’t very many people of color in your state, it’s easy to say ‘why bother?’ and forego any kind of sensitivity training.” She asserted that without exposure to people of color or sensitivity training, the targeting or disproportionate incarceration of minorities grows.

Locally, minorities may be more fortunate.

The Jackson Police Department undergoes various forms of training as they try to holistically educate their officers.

Jackson Police Officer Lt. Roger Schultz said, “The Jackson Police Department does regular training on a variety of topics. Those trainings have included differences in culture and race, and while not specifically, ‘Racial Sensitivity Training,’ they teach our officers how to handle difficult situations and circumstances.” According to Schultz, Jackson’s incarceration statistics reflect its population.

However, Jackson’s practices may be unique in Wyoming.

Mark Curran of the Wyoming Department of Corrections wasn’t quite as sure what special training his wardens received. “I’m sure there probably is,” he said. “In our professional academy a portion of that is dedicated to racial sensitivity.

It deals with different ethnic cultures, or, perhaps, religious groups, religious cultures within prison.

Certainly, that’s addressed and instructive of our training. As far as continued education or training, I’m not sure, but it’s likely.”

When it comes down to it, Schultz believes there are several reasons people of color have higher representation in prisons. “Generally,” Schultz said, “I believe that race, poverty, and crime are closely linked. Any time you have a minority population where poverty is systemic, you are going to have crime and disproportionate numbers of incarcerations.”

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Back to Roots Pulse of the local scene ebbs, flows as summer ends.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

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ddly enough, a post-eclipse touring band lull is upon the region this Labor Day weekend. What has historically been the last push of largescale shows will instead be left to local talent to fill the airwaves. Fortunately, that’s a good thing.

In case you haven’t noticed, Jackson’s local scene has been and will be kicking tail, both inside and outside of the county line. DJ Cut la Whut recently made his annual trek to perform at Shambhala Music Festival; Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons are slotted with top acts for Groovin’ On 2017 in Montana in a couple of weeks in advance of a new album; Freda Felcher is Kickstarting their debut album of original music written by Leif Routman; Maddy German released a concept music

video for “Baby Ask” exploring the polarity of self; country star Reba McIntire sang with Whiskey Mornin’ at the National Museum of Wildlife Art; Grand Targhee celebrated its 30th Annual Bluegrass Festival; Canyon Kids released their third album, the seven song set, Leviathan; and Benyaro just released a single, “Pimp Wife,” from his new full-length album One Step Ahead of Your Past in advance of a Sept. 8 release. Those are just a few of the highlights of what is a growing artist music culture here in the Tetons.

It’s also time to look ahead at fall events on the horizon. Jackson Hole Community Radio 89.1 FM KHOL is gearing up for its Summer Drive Party with Sinkane on Sept. 26 at the Pink Garter Theatre, while the Fireman’s Ball is rumored be hosting Big Head Todd & the Monsters along with Chancey Williams & the Younger Brothers Band on Nov. 18. The subject of next week’s Music Box will dig deeper into the acts at this year’s electronic-focused Contour Music Festival. Contour is next weekend, Sept. 8-10, featuring Kid Koala, Deltron 3030, Pharell Williams and others as well as a Vinyl Brunch on the last day.

If you’re not a part of the annual mass migration of Phishheads to Commerce

FRIDAY DJ Night with Mr. Whipple (The Rose), Bootleg Flyer (Silver Dollar) SATURDAY Chanman Roots Band (Silver Dollar) SUNDAY Songwriter’s Alley feat. Libby Creek Original & Sofia Talvik (Silver Dollar), Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach) MONDAY Open Mic (Pinky G’s), JH Hootenanny (Dornan’s) Sofia Talvik

Talvik’s U.S. presence began in 2008 when she became the first Swedish female artist to play Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. In the years since, she has toured extensively across the country with her 2011 tour lasting a whopping year and a half. She performs solo with an acoustic guitar, writing original lyrics in English though also singing the occasional Swedish folk song.

On the bill with Talvik is The Libby Creek Original, a folk-grass five-piece named after a creek in the Snow Range Mountains near their home in Laramie.

Songwriter’s Alley featuring The Libby Creek Original & Sofia Talvik, 7 to 10 p.m.

Sunday at the Silver Dollar Showroom.

Open Mic 9 to 10 p.m. Free. PJH Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, audio engineer at Three Hearted Studio, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

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An essence of Laurel Canyon folk and Nordic-flavored Americana, Swedish singer-songwriter Sofia Talvik sings about sleeping in her car in Wyoming on “Big Sky Country” the title track from her 2015 release. Now based out of Berlin and mid-route from Florida to California, the 39-year-old often blends folk and pop, and has released nine LPs and five EPs since 2005.

“I’m sort of a talker, so I like to share my stories in between songs,” Talvik told Fremont Tribune last week. “So my goal always with my concerts is to make people feel comfortable and to make them feel like they get to know me a little bit and to create a nice atmosphere for everyone to have fun and enjoy themselves.”

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City, Colorado this weekend to see Phish, or to hear Charles Bradley or ZZ Top in Salt Lake City, there are still plenty of local residencies happening around the valley in which to partake. Two new venues that have stepped into the live music arena are Hole Bowl—offering local talent on most Thursdays—and Moe’s BBQ, hosting blues-rock duo Bob Greenspan and Teresa Bollerman on Wednesdays.

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CULTURE KLASH MoranKazakhstan Cowboy Connection Rodeo skills translate to nomadic sport, but cowboy competitors have a lot to learn.

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mob of riders on horseback bustle and jam, sort of like in a roller derby match or rugby scram. As the swarm struggles, gyrating and bulging, two player-horse dyads break away, galloping towards an elevated hole of mud and dirt with water inside. One pair ekes out in front of the other, the lead rider throwing a goat carcass into the muddy pool to score a point for the red team. As popular as American football is in the US, this is kok-boru, its Central Asian counterpart.

Last week in Astana, Kazakhstan, a kok-boru team of Americans from Jackson Hole joined eleven other nations to vie for first place at the World Championship.

Ten of the U.S. team’s 11 players grew up together in Moran, WY, riding, rodeoing and ranching, skills all translatable to the nomad sport.

This is the second year the American Cowboy Kok-Boru Team competed on the world stage–although perhaps compete isn’t the most accurate word. Team manager Candra Day said, “Our team doesn’t win the games, but we are playing better and better in every game we play. We’re told that in a year or two, we’ll be very competitive.”

While it would seem that American cowboys have little in common with the other 11 central Asian teams, hailing from countries often considered as ideologically different as can be from the American west, that is not the case, said Day. Kok-boru means, “blue wolf” in the Kyrgyz language and the game is said to have possibly evolved from an informal contest between shepherds who hunted wolves that targeted their flocks.

In its present day interpretation, the

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ancient sport is played by four horsemen on each team, who all jockey at top speed to edge opposing riders and their horses out of the way in order to score, i.e. throw the goat in the hole. It’s fast paced with collisions and tight maneuverings, using horses that have been trained for years to play in particular positions. Instead of the traditional goat carcass though, its championship substitute, a more palatable 60-pound rubber “goat,” must be picked up off the ground by players on horseback amidst the chaos and equine shuffling. Day wrote in an email, “If [the player] is able to pick it up, his teammates block him from the opponents, if they can, while he places it under his leg to hold it. Otherwise, the other team is allowed to grab it and steal it. So there’s a lot of attacking and tug of war. When the goat is secured and hard to steal, the player races for his goal at full speed.”

Dangerous doesn’t seem an apt descriptor; players must be incredibly skilled, and have stamina and strength, not to mention incredible courage.

The American team was first invited to participate in the World Nomad Games in 2016 held in Kyrgyzstan last August, which are akin to the Olympics of Central Asia with over 50 nations represented.

Admittedly beginners, the Americans fielded a team in two weeks and had no training before their first match. “Imagine playing your very first game of football against the Denver Broncos,” Day said, “players on the other teams have been playing since childhood and are the best their countries have to offer.”

Having competed with the best of the best in 2016, the Rocky Mountain team, respected by their competitors, was invited back this year by the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan. “The team’s horsemanship and bravery are respected by all participants,” Day said, “Our players love the game and their enthusiasm wins America

many friends.”

The pool of teams may have been smaller this year, but the competition was not much tamer. However, this year the team had the opportunity to train for five days with a Kazakh coach pre-tournament.

But, the international journey was for more than simply a sporting event.

Some view the cowboy kok-boru trip as a diplomatic affair. Day said the U.S. mountain team’s “commitment to play this traditional game expresses our respect for the cultures of Central Asia.” In addition to the countries named above, teams from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Hungary were represented at the World Championship.

Traveling to the Kazakh capital city was also an opportunity for local musician Isaac Hayden, who was accompanied by a group of Kazakh musicians, to showcase another attribute of rocky mountain culture: music. Playing original songs and cowboy tunes, Hayden was well received, Day said. Hayden performed all over the city during the competition, even playing at the opening ceremony for the championship.

Jackson cowboy culture in Kazakhstan was not happenstance. Vista 360°, of which Day is also the president, organized the sporting/cultural exchange. The local non-profit strives to promote cooperation and understanding among mountain people across the globe by hosting cultural exchanges between cowboys of the western mountain region and central Asia for more than ten years.

Planet JH is hoping for a mountain west kok-boru championship hosted in Jackson Hole where maybe, just maybe, the American Cowboy Kok-Boru Team could have a home court advantage. It never hurts to dream. PJH

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CINEMA Why Close Encounters on its 40th anniversary is the movie we need right now.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

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his summer, several generations of movie nerds paid homage to the 40th anniversary of one of the most influential movies of modern times: Star Wars. It was a landmark worth acknowledging, but also threatened to overshadow completely other significant releases of 1977: Annie Hall, Eraserhead, Saturday Night Fever and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

On one level, it’s easy to understand how Close Encounters—which returns to theaters this week with a limited-engagement theatrical release of the “director’s cut” in a 4K restoration—might be given short shrift. It wasn’t even the second-biggest box office hit of its year—that would be Smokey and the Bandit—and it often gets lost in the shuffle of Spielberg conversations between his early mega-blockbusters (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.) and his later dramatic classics (Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln).

But here in 2017, there might be a few particularly significant reasons for

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a power-company lineman named Roy Neary (Richard D r e y f u s s) who has a life-cha nging moment after he witnesses alien The mothership arrives in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. spacecraft one night. He recognizing CE3K’s many lessons, both subsequentpositive and negative. Of all the vintage ly becomes unable to focus on anything films we could get a chance to experience else, seeing visions of a tower-shaped in theaters again, this might be the one structure—eventually revealed to be we need most right now—and here’s why. the Devils Tower National Monument in It’s a case study in a different way to Wyoming—that he compulsively builds approach blockbuster filmmaking. Fresh out of shaving cream, mashed potatoes, off the success of Jaws, Spielberg chose modeling clay and a huge mound of dirt to dive into what is still his only solo in the middle of his living room. Not suroriginal screenplay credit. There are prisingly, this behavior freaks out his wife plenty of memorably tense scenes—most (Teri Garr), who ultimately takes their notably the extended sequence in which children and leaves him. Neary’s decision 4-year-old Barry (Cary Guffey) is abduct- to join a team of astronauts going aboard ed from his home and his single mother the alien mothership became the mov(Melinda Dillon)—but Close Encounters ie’s climax, but in later years Spielberg isn’t defined primarily by action. The famously expressed regret that he treated awe-inspiring design of the alien space- Neary’s abandonment of his family so craft somehow still holds up in the CGI matter-of-factly. Maybe it’s worth considera, so it’s easy to understand how the cli- ering that individual personal relationmax could hold an audience rapt, despite ships can be damaged by single-minded the final 30 minutes consisting almost pursuits. entirely of people staring in amazement.

It celebrates scientists doing the job of Spielberg trusted that viewers could be figuring things out. While Neary’s story as captivated by wonder as they are by serves as the narrative’s emotional backvisceral thrills—and perhaps more film- bone, nearly as much time in the first hour makers could take that alternate avenue is spent on a pair of researchers—played to bigger-faster-more.

by Bob Balaban and legendary director It’s a reminder of what gets destroyed François Truffaut—traveling around the by obsession. The central plot focuses on globe to gather evidence of unexplained

phenomena possibly related to alien visitation. Several of those scenes are used to build mystery—including the arresting image of a missing Russian ship inexplicably marooned in the middle of the Gobi Desert—but others are purely about the arduous work of preparing for possible direct contact. Spielberg even devotes a scene to scientists at a conference puzzling out the significance of the movie’s iconic five-tone tune, which is later used as a method of communication.

The heroes here aren’t people who are alarmed by the unknown, but by people who are curious, and they go about their work in a spirit of international cooperation. Which brings us to …

It treats the arrival of visitors not automatically as a threat, but as an opportunity to learn. Cinema history doesn’t often make visits by extra-terrestrial life forms a particularly positive experience, what with your various blobs, body-snatchers, wars of the worlds and so forth. While the military is a distinctive presence throughout the build-up to Close Encounters’s finale, Spielberg never shows us images of soldiers with weapons trained on the spacecraft as they arrive at the Devils Tower rendezvous point. There’s a remarkable optimism built into the film’s structure, with its foundation the assumption that these aliens come with no malice—and this despite full awareness of abducted humans. It feels so crucial to recognize that people can respond to the arrival of unknown visitors without fear and loathing, and that such an approach can lead to a relationship of mutual communication and trust. Let’s imagine that more of our own encounters could be this close. PJH

Wine 201 Digging deeper into wine’s journey from grape to glass.

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careful handling at this stage, since bruising the grapes accidentally—even on the way from the vineyard to the winery—can result in tannins leaking from the white-grape skins into the juice. This can make the wine taste coarse or bitter, and can also cause the grapes to lose essential aromas and flavors.

During the crush, white wine grapes are gently squeezed so as not to break the stems or seeds.

Wine fermentation can happen naturally, the result of ambient yeasts and natural sugars from the grapes. But naturally occurring yeasts can be tricky, so some winemakers prefer to introduce outside yeast cultures, making it easier to control the fermentation process and speed. Fermentation is really just a chemical process in which yeast converts grape sugar into alcohol. Carbon dioxide and heat are thrown off from the wine “soup,” resulting in temperatures that range from 60 to 85 degrees. The optimal range for white wine fermentation is around 50 to 65 degrees, which means the fermentation tanks usually need to be cooled to preserve the wine’s fruitiness and delicacy. For red wines, a temperature of 75 to 85 degrees is the goal.

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Prior to bottling, a wine may also be filtered—a very controversial practice.

Filtering helps to stabilize and clarify wine. However, filtering can also remove particles that are desirable and impart aromas and flavor; it’s a delicate balance. Filtering is the one topic than can bring otherwise friendly winemakers to fisticuffs.

After wines have aged in oak barrels, which impart texture, complexity, flavor and depth, or in stainless steel, which is neutral, they are bottled either by hand in tiny wineries or by machine in larger wineries, then shipped off to be purchased and sipped by wine lovers worldwide.

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Once the wine has fermented, the juice is usually drained and pumped into either stainless steel or wood barrels to continue aging, for a few months to a few years.

During this time, a secondary fermentation can take place, called malolactic fermentation, which happens much more with red wines than whites. During that process, tart malic acids are converted into softer lactic acids, giving the wine a creamy texture that is associated, for example, with many Chardonnays.

Another process winemakers may employ in the late stages of aging is called fining. Fining helps to eliminate excess tannins and clarifies the wine of tiny solids suspended in the juice. Egg whites or bentonite are frequently employed to fine the wine.

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e recently went back to the basics in a rudimentary discussion of how grapes become wine. We touched lightly on the topics of grape harvest, the grape “crush,” fermentation, pressing and bottling. This week, in the second of a two-part introduction to winemaking, we will dig a little deeper and go into a bit more detail about the journey grapes make to our wine glasses.

If you’re already a wine geek, you probably know this stuff. Hopefully, this will be helpful to those who might be starting a love affair with wine and want to know a little more about how it gets made.

During the grape harvest, grape clusters can be picked from vines by hand, which is optimal, or by machine.

Obviously, being able to select and hand pick grapes insures quality and gentle handling, but it is expensive. Machine picking often treats the grapes harshly, but is economical.

Regardless of how the grapes get picked, they are put into vats and crushed into a soupy mush of skins, juice, pulp, seeds and stems for red wine. For white wine, the skins are separated from the juice before fermentation takes place. It’s the skins that color red wine and also Rosé wines. White-wine grapes require

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Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. 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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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 seasonallyinspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced 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 ORGANIC RESTAURANT

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner starting at 8am daily. 140 N. Cache, (307) 7340882, theorganiclotus.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.

MOE’S BBQ

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Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival through its award-winning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp Moe-Boy sandwich. A daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily. Moe’s BBQ stays open late and features a menu for any budget. While the setting is familyfriendly, a full premium bar offers a lively scene with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery is also available.

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

Jackson’s first Speakeasy Steakhouse. The Million Dollar Cowboy Steakhouse is a hidden gem located below the world famous Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Our menu offers guests the best in American steakhouse cuisine. Top quality chops and steaks sourced from local farms, imported Japanese Wagyu beef, and house-cured meats and sausages.

Accentuated with a variety of thoughtful side dishes, innovative appetizers, creative vegetarian items, and decadent desserts, a meal at this landmark location is sure to be a memorable one.

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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

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

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PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, 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. Delivery and take-out.

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PIZZERIA CALDERA

Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies using the

freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway. 307-201-1472.

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9 Some old notebooks 13 Came up short 17 USNA part: Abbr.

18 Snuck 19 Eponymous store founder 20 Gulf State native 21 Willie Mays won 12 in 12 consecutive years 24 Brake components 25 “More!”

26 Left hanging 27 John Wayne types 28 In the offing 30 “99 Luftballons” singer 31 Org. created in a 1949 sports merger 33 Lyft offer 34 German exclamation 37 Pitt of “The Big Short” 39 “Mad Men” actress 42 Glasgow’s river 44 Vineyard grape 46 Decorative metalwork 47 “And there you have it!”

48 “No worries” 49 Kept out of sight 50 Brewery named for a Dutch river 53 Stonehenge worshiper 55 Brahms’ “Variations on a __ of Paganini” 57 Putin’s former org.

58 Wish Tree artist 59 Canada’s most populous province 61 Pot growth from overwatering 64 Sonata finale, perhaps 66 “I __ differ” 68 Certain group leader 70 Hunter with a belt 71 Von Trapp girl who sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”

with Rolf 72 Eye twinkle 73 Enable 75 Subject for Keats 76 “__ Kapital” 78 Capri or Elba, locally 80 Jack in the deck 82 Settles, as a debt 84 GI bill?

86 Stout quantities 88 Enter the pool, in a way 90 Exotic vacation, maybe 92 Praline nut 93 Ed with Emmys 94 Early ’60s group that included John Glenn 97 Cherry-pick 99 Sound near a “Beware of Dog” sign 100 Dog attractor 101 East, to Goethe 102 Shelter chorus 104 Kite trailer 106 Philly cagers 108 Hotel convenience 111 Heir and heiress 115 Way to step 116 1990 movie with a muscular teacher 118 Like acid in some disinfectants 119 Fascinated by 120 Citrus hybrids 121 James of jazz 122 Tech gadget review site 123 Trade org.

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Tips on How to Walk the Walk “Whenever possible be kind; it is always possible.”

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here comes a time to put into action the important information agreed upon equally by the latest scientific research, the world’s wisdom traditions, and enlightened teachers. They all concur that the energy quality of our consciousness plays a pivotal role in influencing the direction for this planet and the well-being of all who live on this Earth.

The more we respond to life from the higher frequencies generated by loving states of being–compassion, kindness, forgiveness, collaboration, inclusion, generosity–the more we co-create a reality reflecting those attributes. The more we respond by coming from the lower frequencies of fear related states of being–anger, greed, revenge, separation, conflict, exclusion–the more we continue living in a world endlessly reflecting those attributes. If you are reading this article, you likely know the kind of world you want. If you experienced awe during the recent solar eclipse, you likely felt it.

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Transcending four negativity traps How can you know what’s going on in the world and not let it take you down? Like a journalist, you can practice being the objective observer of events. The observer role takes you out of needing to react emotionally. Your task is to simply observe without adding an opinion. If you notice something about which you need to take action, skipping the fear allows you to do so with focus and clarity.

How can you use your own discernment to know what’s true and/or what’s in your highest greatest good in any

Focus on what’s right in your life. Whatever we focus on increases. The half-full glass view of life ups your vibration and your immune system. This is science.

Practice gratitude. Regardless of what’s going on, remind yourself of things small and large for which you are grateful.

If you are inspired, it is most effective to keep a gratitude notebook and write a list of five things for which you are grateful each day. Consistently expressing gratitude is proven scientifically to increase all levels of well-being and inner peace.

Practice random acts of kindness just because you can.

Both the recipient and the giver benefit equally from the uplift. This outcome has also been measured.

Practice forgiveness and include forgiving yourself.

Forgiveness is an inside job.

It is not about condoning hurtful behavior or letting someone off the hook. It is about releasing the physical and emotional constrictions in your body which are created from holding onto grudges and hurts. When you forgive and let it go, you will be healthier, freer, lighter and happier.

The ability to forgive is an attribute of higher consciousness.

One more time The Dalai Lama teaches, “Whenever possible, be kind; it is always possible.” I am adding to this truth by reminding you to make sure to treat yourself with kindness, too! PJH

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Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant. Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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There is only one prerequisite; you have to want to experience your true human potential and to do what it takes.

Here are some simple, cost–free strategies to raise your consciousness. When it comes to following any list of “how to’s”, the simple advice is to choose what you’ll really do.

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situation? We all have the answers inside ourselves. Go to your heart for the intel. The heart is both our proven “first responder” and the “higher truth teller”. Pause, sit comfortably, close your eyes, focus on your physical heart and “try on” the decision on which you are wanting clarity. Your heart will trigger the brain to evoke one of two responses in your body, either an open feeling and/or a pleasant rush which means go for it, or it will experience a tight constricted feeling, maybe a bit of a stomach ache, which means no way. If something doesn’t feel right or true, trust yourself.

Skip self-doubt which is only your fearful ego detouring you from what you know.

What if you find yourself experiencing negative vibes from someone, something or someplace? To take the high road, you can choose to either “duck” emotionally so you are not affected, and/or exit quietly without drama.

Feeling uptight and stressed is also a low frequency state.

Go for a walk or a run, preferably in nature. This is a proven remedy and will re-up your vibration.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash—”//”—after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that Internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The sadness you feel might be the most fertile sadness you have felt in a long time. At least potentially, it has tremendous motivating power. You could respond to it by mobilizing changes that would dramatically diminish the sadness you feel in the coming years, and also make it less likely that sadness-provoking events will come your way. So I invite you to express gratitude for your current sadness. That’s the crucial first step if you want to harness it to work wonders.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Don’t hoot with the howls at night if you want to crow with the rooster in the morning,” advised Miss Georgia during the Miss Teen USA Pageant. Although that’s usually good counsel, it may not apply to you in the coming weeks. Why? Because your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as will your ability to be energized rather than drained by your revelry. It seems you have a special temporary superpower that enables you both to have maximum fun and get a lot of work done.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Close your eyes and imagine this: You and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure, and find your way back to civilization just before dark.

Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution.

Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sun-lit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more! Here’s a keynote to inspire you: sacred fun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) On its album Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, “In a Crisis.” On its album Deeper Space/Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, “Dark Ages.” Have I received a share of the record sales?

Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I’m glad the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I’m gratified that a world-famous, multi-platinum band chose to record them. I’m pleased my musical creations are appreciated. Now here’s my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed”? Have you wielded a benevolent influence that hasn’t been fully acknowledged? I suggest you consider adopting an approach like mine. It’s prime time to adjust your thinking about how your gifts and talents have been used, applied, or translated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Author Roger von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks. “The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” says von Oech. “So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think A modern Israeli woman named Shoshana Hadad got into gasoline carburetor.” Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for trouble because of an event that occurred long before she inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements.

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When famous socialite Nan Kempner was young, her mother took her shopping at Yves Saint Laurent’s salon. Nan got fixated on a certain white satin suit, but her mean old mother refused to buy it for her. “You’ve already spent too much of your monthly allowance,” mom said. But the resourceful girl came up with a successful gambit. She broke into sobs, and continued to cry nonstop until the store’s clerks lowered the price to an amount she could afford. You know me, Leo: I don’t usually recommend resorting to such extreme measures to get what you want. But now is one time PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Want to live to be 100? Then be as boring as possible. That’s when I am giving you a go-ahead to do just that.

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was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin.

Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events. But now that I have forewarned you, I expect you will act wisely, not rashly. You will pass a tricky test and resolve the old matter for good.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “One should always be a little improbable,” said Oscar Wilde. That’s advice I wouldn’t normally give a Capricorn.

You thrive on being grounded and straightforward. But I’m making an exception now. The astrological omens compel me. So what does it mean, exactly? How might you be “improbable”? Here are suggestions to get you started. 1.

Be on the lookout for inspiring ways to surprise yourself.

2. Elude any warped expectations that people have of you. 3. Be willing to change your mind. Open yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4.

Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries. The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are—cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that? I think so. Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) During this phase of your astrological cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you’re already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’

That is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

HALF OFF BLAST OFF!

BY ROB BREZSNY

the conclusion of longevity researchers, as reported by the Weekly World News. To ensure a maximum life span, you should do nothing that excites you. You should cultivate a neutral, blah personality, and never travel far from home.

JUST KIDDING! I lied. The Weekly World News is in fact a famous purveyor of fake news. The truth, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is that you should be less boring in the next seven weeks than you have ever been in your life. To do so will be superb for your health, your wealth, and your future.

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