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Women more than measure up to men in the world of science, technology, engineering and math.

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12 COVER STORY ENGINEERING EQUALITY Women more than measure up to men in the world of science, technology, engineering and math. So why must they work so hard to shatter the sexism in those fields?

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SEPTEMBER 6-12, 2017 By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey Average overnight low temperatures have been slightly above normal this past week, and they will be starting to drop more dramatically as we get deeper into September. This week’s average low temperature is 34-degrees in town. Frost is now more of a threat, but reaching record cold temperatures does not seem to be in the cards this week. The coldest day ever recorded in Jackson during the second week in September was 15-degrees on September 9th, 1962.

On that same date, September 9th, we recorded our record hottest temperature, not just for this week, but for the entire month of September. On that date way back in 1934 the thermometer reached 93-degrees. That summer of 1934 was consistently hot from beginning to end, with many of our record high temperatures established that year, records which still stand today, 83 years later. Average highs this week are in the mid 70’s, which is just about perfect.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.27 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 6 inches (1927) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: .02 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 2 inches

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With Labor Day Weekend behind us, autumn is not too far-off ahead of us. Leaves have already been changing color, since the end of August, and there is no reversing that now. September is not ordinarily a wet month, averaging 1.27 inches of precipitation, just a little more than the average in August. However, in September 2016 we had more rain in September than we had had all summer, with 2.57 inches. September of 2015 was even wetter, with 2.93 inches.

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GUEST OPINION Toward Tenant Protection BY MARY COBB-ERICKSON

own Council deserves a thank you for taking tenant protections seriously and considering the 30-day minimum notice ordinance. The measure is in line with the council’s strategic intent to ensure safe, healthy housing options for town residents. A 30-day minimum notice ordinance is a great first step in protecting our vulnerable tenant community. But it is that—a first step. I participated in the Tenant Protections Task Force that met to make recommendations to the Council on a number of issues—from minimum notice requirements to minimum habitability and repair requirements, to good landlord incentive programs, to additional anti-discrimination protections, to the ultimate bogeyman, rent stabilization. Some of the issues on this list are fraught with complexity and conflict. The additions to our anti-discrimination policies are a critical conversation that our community must undertake in earnest— extending far beyond housing. And rent stabilization is a hot button for landowners and developers. A minimum notice requirement seemed like a no-brainer,

hence why we started there. We began by agreeing that in this extremely tight market people should be given 30-days minimum notice for a no-cause eviction, non-renewal of lease, or a rent increase, and we even agreed that ideally people should be given as much as 60 to 90 days notice. With that as our starting place, I felt very positive about our ability to find some common ground, at least on the first bullet point on our list. Positively, we ended with a four-tothree vote in favor of recommending a 30-day minimum notice ordinance, but the three that voted against the ordinance felt so strongly against it, that we did not present this to town electeds as a recommendation by the task force. In the end, we simply presented the outcome of our vote. This came down to a debate, not over 30 or 60 or 90 days, but over the value of an ordinance and the role of government in our lives. So the debate instantly became political, taking us into a no-win territory. As an ordained Episcopal priest, I was asked to participate on the Task Force as a representative of the faith community. From that perspective, I feel like I failed in my assigned task. How could I have steered the conversation into one of values and human dignity, toward compassion rather than politics and property rights? In an ideal world perhaps market pressures would create a balanced rental market and all tenants would be treated fairly and humanely, or we could count on the goodness of humanity to do the right thing. But I have heard too many horror

Mary Cobb-Erickson (far right) joins community members marching in support of housing solutions.

stories of families scrambling for a place to live after being forced from their homes with no notice, or having to deal with a massive rent increase without a comparable pay increase. Ultimately we must ask ourselves how we as a community are going to respond— not to an abstract “housing crisis,” but to the real problems that our lack of rental stock creates in real human lives in our community every day. And what does that response say about us as a community? A 30-day minimum notice ordinance is a small step that says we believe all of our people should be treated with basic human dignity. It is a simple step with a pretty big message. But, it is a first step that needs to be followed with basic habitability standards that would send an even stronger message of value and respect. We need to

SINGLE-TRACK MIND I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and took advantage of the spectacular weather either on our local trails or at Targhee. I also hope that you were nice to everyone you met and that they were nice to you. I know I keep harping on this, but it’s so important for cyclists to continually be on their best behavior. I recently read a commentary in Bike magazine about this very issue and some valid points were made by the author. In case you’ve forgotten, the first rule of the trail is that cyclists yield to all others and descending cyclists yield to ascending cyclists. That means that if you’re pointed downhill, you yield to everyone. But that is perhaps not even the most important thing to remember. Eye contact, a friendly greeting or a high five will put a smile on the face of the grumpiest person you will meet. And that is what is needed to lessen the

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animosity between user groups. Believe it or not, trail users talk to land managers. And if all they hear are negative comments about cyclists, our ability to fight for increased access, or even to maintain what we have, is significantly diminished. I know we can’t all be Mr. Rogers all the time, but make it a goal to improve someone’s day every time you ride. It doesn’t matter if you meet a walker, jogger, equestrian, XC racer or enduro bro, they’re all out there for the same reason so take a minute to brighten their day. OK, I’ll get off my soapbox. But, seriously, be nice! The last Teton Freedom Riders Pass Bash is this Saturday, so head out to the Stagecoach to raise some money and enjoy free shuttles from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Cary Smith

create a strong landlord incentive program for our small independent landlords to encourage them to make rooms and ARUs available as long-term rentals, sending them a message that we value their contribution to our community. We need to have thoughtful conversations about real discrimination and necessary additions to our anti-discrimination ordinance. Finally, housing and tenant advocates need to sit down with landlords, business owners, and developers—with compassionate hearts and open minds— to discuss creative ways to temper our skyrocketing rents. Because honestly, our renters cannot absorb much more. People say all the time we are special because of our people. It is time for us to put our people first. All of them. PJH

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BY BAYNARD WOODS @DemoInCrisis

onald Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa County sheriff and top-notch torturer Joe Arpaio is, in many ways, the quintessential Trumpian act, the tarry, shit-smelling extract of the president’s politics. In the same Phoenix campaign rally—yes, it was actually paid for by Trump’s 2020 campaign—where Trump spent 15 minutes attacking the press and Antifa and defending “our heritage” embodied in Confederate statues, he all but promised that Arpaio would be pardoned, but didn’t actually do it. Instead, he waited until Hurricane Harvey was bearing down on Houston to pardon America’s most famous Torquemada impersonator, because he thought the ratings would be better. But even more than all of this, Arpaio’s career is an encapsulation of what matters most to Trump: sheer, brute force masquerading as law. Politics as crime or crime as politics. ***** The stories that the Phoenix New Times ran about Arpaio over the course of two decades constitute a crash course in American fascism. Not only did Arpaio openly call his tent city jail a “concentration camp,” but the rate of suicide in his jail is double or even quadruple that of most other jails. Many of these deaths were never even investigated. Jailers denied people medical coverage and strapped them to a torture chair if they raised any hell about it. They closed the only vents bringing fresh air to hot cells, causing at least one death. Arpaio failed to investigate reports of sexual assault. When the New Times reported on Arpaio’s real estate interests and included his address, he tried to bring

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charges against the reporters (who were also the founders of the paper). Later, his men arrested the reporters at their homes in the middle of the night for revealing grand jury proceedings—a misdemeanor. While Arpaio seems to be generally sadistic, he prides himself on being especially cruel to people with brown skin, who he racially profiled—and held in their own segregated part of his “concentration camp.” This unconstitutional racial profiling is the source of the crime that Trump pardoned. In 2008, George W. Bush’s administration began an investigation into Arpaio’s racial profiling. In 2011, the Department of Justice ruled that he had in fact been engaged in the systematic profiling of Latinos in Arizona. The case in which Arpaio was charged with criminal contempt of court stems from even before the DOJ investigation, when a 2007 traffic stop became a class-action suit. A 2011 court order commanded the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office to stop detaining people on suspicion that they had immigrated illegally, i.e. because they had brown skin. “I’m still going to do what I’m doing,” Arpaio said in defiance. “I’m still going to arrest illegal aliens coming into this country.” He also tried to destroy hard drives that were supposed to be handed over as part of the investigation and hired a private investigator to spy on the judge and his wife. But he did use taxpayer money to send a deputy to Hawaii to investigate Barack Obama’s birth certificate so…. ***** Reading the stories highlighted by the New Times’ now-viral Twitter thread, laying out 20 years of Arpaio’s criminal politics, I was reminded of Ron Rosenbaum’s wonderful and tragic portrait of the Munich Post, which covered Hitler from before the Beer Hall Putsch to until he took power—and then killed most of the writers and editors of the paper. Like the New Times, the paper mixed hard-hitting investigative pieces with satire and humor intended to taunt, and ideally thwart, the soon-to-be Führer. “There were other opponents to Hitler, but they were the ones who were constantly investigating him and

Inflatables Joe Arpaio and Donald Trump at a protest rally in Arizona.

discovering things that were really not well known about Hitler’s rise—how much he depended on his death squads to murder his political opponents, for instance,” Rosenbaum told me back in February, when the Los Angeles Review of Books published a piece that revisited the chapter on the Munich Post in his 1998 book “Explaining Hitler.” According to Rosenbaum, the Post’s essential insight into Hitler was that he was a political criminal. While later historians have credited Hitler’s rise on his power as a public speaker, the Munich Post showed that murder, extortion, and blackmail played an even larger role. While others were laughing off Hitler in the same way we laughed off Trump or the alt-right, the Post tried to open the public’s eyes. They uncovered Nazi party documents in 1931 that contain the first mention of the “final solution” to the “Jewish problem.” So when Sheriff Joe “jokes” that his tent city is a “concentration camp,” we should take note. When he raids the homes of journalists who question his shady business dealings, we should take note and we should be on guard. When the president pardons him, this is a signal. And the reporters at the Phoenix New Times show us what it means. When Trump pardoned Arpaio, he was sending a signal that he, like the Arizonan torturer, has contempt for the court and rule of law. It was also a promise, not only of more brutality,

but perhaps, that he would pardon those probed by special counsel Robert Mueller, should charges arise. ***** Political criminality explains Trump’s fevered admiration of Vladimir Putin, who is the master criminal politician. (Read Masha Gessen’s “The Man Without a Face” if you want to be chilled to the bone.) The emails from Felix Sater—a convicted criminal and informant with longtime ties to Trump and his organization—promising Trump’s lawyer that Putin would help get the Donald elected president are only the most recent example of the Trump/Putin nexus of political crime. “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote to Michael Cohen. “I will get all of Putins [sic] team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” Sater, who did time for stabbing a man in the face with the stem of a broken margarita glass, seems to connect the kleptocracies of Trump and Putin, who many estimate is the fucking richest man in the world, with criminally gained money hidden around the world—the other reason Trump loves him. And the alleged blackmail of the “pee tapes” is precisely the kind of rumor that the Munich Post found essential to the workings of the Nazi party before they gained power. If we don’t heed these warnings, we know what is coming. PJH

Indigenous Wisdom The voice of Red ElkReed hails from the real old West. BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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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 (mangelsen.com/grizzly) about famous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 featuring 150 pictures by renowned local wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen.

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Notably, Red Elk-Reed had roles in the movies “Skins” and the film version of Mary Brave Bird’s moving memoir “Lakota Woman” that chronicles events that shaped the American Indian Movement during the 1970s. Red ElkReed credits Ted Turner and Jane Fonda for insisting that the latter got made by TNT. Red Elk-Reed’s greatest impact during those years came when she served as a consultant advising Hollywood studios on the authenticity of how native peoples were portrayed on television and in film—and whether those portrayals were factual or based upon fictional tropes. She knows, perhaps better than most, how Hollywood has perpetuated cowboy and Indian stereotypes that, while embedded in American culture, are based upon gross distortions of reality. What advice does she have for young people? “Students need to think outside the box, question most of what is taught, choose their experiences wisely, and remember the wonder and excitement of life they knew as a child and be happy.” PJH

n the high plains of the American West, where four or five generations of land tenure is invoked to claim greater credibility and social standing over the opinions of newcomers, Lois Red Elk-Reed remains unassuming even in the irony of it all. Red Elk-Reed has several published volumes of critically acclaimed poetry and children’s stories to her credit, had a few Hollywood film roles and an adjunct professorship, but it was never her intent to assemble a curriculum vita she thought would impress others. What she’s valued most is doing right by the heritage and dignity of her elders. Red Elk-Reed is indigenous and she spells it with a capital “I”. “Being Indigenous has to do with blood and language. Your blood is your birthright and your language guides you. Indigenous blood carries genetics, memory, ghost and spirit,” she once explained. “The Indigenous language is the same language as the universe, Earth, everything that grows on the Earth and all animals. Language encodes our ceremonies. It is sacred. To be Indigenous is a lifetime experience and one has to be responsible to their life. One cannot drop in and out of their Indigenous life anytime they wish. Neither can the language be used and misused for convenience or be exploited.” Based upon the convention of modern geography, Red Elk-Reed could be described as a western woman, but that isn’t how she first identifies. She is Lakota/Dakota and it’s a nation older than any of the 200 countries that belong to the UN. “Makoce” pertains to a special Lakota/Dakota region, and there is no English equivalent, she notes. “Makoce” comes from the Dakota word

for Earth—maka. “The name refers to the land as mother, family, all that is in the world, and the interdependency of all living things,” she says. “I find that in the Lakota/Dakota culture and language there are solutions to every problem we may have in our lives.” As a self-described “organic poet,” her ties to North America do not emanate from a written text. Across hundreds and hundreds of generations, the knowledge she’s inherited has come to her though spoken words—the essentials encoded in stories dating to when the first people walked the continent. Behind the scenes, from her home at Fort Peck, Montana, Red Elk-Reed has been tirelessly devoted to preserving her culture, making traditional quill and beadwork, being a traditional dancer, practicing botany as it was taught to her by her grandmother, and teaching the dialect of Nakota at the local high school and introductory Dakota at the community college. Red Elk-Reed’s influence, however, has extended far beyond Fort Peck. Quite literally, it has shaped the way native people are portrayed to millions who consume mass media for information and entertainment. While still in her 20s, she headed to Los Angeles to help her sister with child rearing and then realized the dream that many have of being “discovered” by Hollywood. In a profile that appeared at Sovereign Bodies, poet Tiffany Midge offered this description of Red ElkReed: “During her earlier years living in Los Angeles, she was a TV talk show host, an FM radio host at Pasadena City College and a technical advisor for many Hollywood film productions. She has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for 40 years while working for all the major networks and Hollywood studios in film and television. She has worked as a freelance writer for her tribe’s Native newspaper and authored a weekly column titled ‘Raised Dakota.’”

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THE BUZZ Jackson’s J-1s in Jeopardy Local businesses are concerned about the implications of Trump’s changes to visa program. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

White House executive order “Buy American, Hire American” has ignited backlash and concern among members of Wyoming’s tourism industry. The order threatens an international work visa program familiar to many local businesses, and upon which many businesses depend. In response to the order, the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce issued a letter to Wyoming Senators John Barrasso and Mike Enzi and Congresswoman Liz Cheney, as well as Governor Matt Mead, urging them to defend the J-1 visa program. Trump signed the order in April to review and tighten visa programs to skilled foreign workers and to more strictly enforce it. While the J1 program is not specifically mentioned, worries have circulated about the program reducing or even eliminating certain categories of the visa. The Wall Street Journal reported his administration is considering “major reductions in cultural exchange programs,” which include the J-1 visa program. The J-1 is a non-immigrant cultural and educational exchange program offered to college-aged students around the world. Teton County and its surrounding national parks have a lot to lose without it. The Chamber of Commerce estimates the number of J-1 employees in Teton County annually is in the thousands. Without them, businesses in the tourism and service industry might not be able to survive. “Reducing access to legal summer workers could devastate the customer service provided by our businesses in peak times with reduced hours of operations, lay-offs for year-round Wyoming employees or even closing of some businesses,” Chamber president Anna

Olson wrote in the letter to Wyoming legislators. In bold type, Olson writes that J-1 work travel students do not take jobs away from Wyoming workers. On the contrary, Olson said, “the infusion of these students enables our businesses to stay open longer and at a greater scale. This allows us to employ more Wyoming workers and to keep more Wyoming workers on year-round payrolls.” Carrie Holder, assistant human resources director at Xanterra in Yellowstone National Park, hires hundreds of J-1 work travel students a year. This summer, 670 international students worked for Xanterra in the park, out of 2,600 total. Without them, Holder says, she would not be able to staff her company for the whole season. Once upon a time, peak season was four months long, from May until August. “That’s staffable,” Holder said. Now, the park is at capacity from April until mid-October. Most of Holder’s employees are college students who have to go back to school in August. “I’m still trying to get guests serviced all the way through mid-October,” Holder said. That’s when J-1 students are especially valuable. “I can’t even imagine trying to open and close some of these properties without these students,” Holder said. “We’d just be dying.” As soon as she heard the news, Holder began reaching out to Enzi and Barrasso. Like Olson, she urged them to defend the J-1 program. She’s been an advocate for years now, traveling to Washington D.C. to educate electeds on the program’s merits. She even got a moment of face time with Barrasso. But her efforts have a new urgency now. “If it’s cut, I honestly don’t know what we’re going to do to continue to provide good guest service and keep our doors open,” Holder said. “We try as many avenues as possible to get people interested in coming to the national parks to work.” Even if they can’t keep up with staffing, the park is bursting at the seams. Visitation has increased by more than 40 percent since 2008. “This visitation growth challenges the park’s ability to manage visitor use in a way that protects resources and offers high-quality, safe visitor experiences,” park officials said in a press release. Many of the same tourists who visit Xanterra properties in Yellowstone stop through Jackson. Yellowstone

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non-agricultural seasonal workforce, whereas J-1 visas are non-immigrant, cultural exchange programs. The businesses that depend on each program are largely the same: restaurants, landscaping businesses, resorts. But while the future of the J-1 program is uncertain, Trump authorized 15,000 additional H-2B visas in July. NPR reported that the authorization came at the request of the Trump Organization so it could staff two of Trump’s private resorts in Florida: Mara-Lago and the Trump National Golf Club. J-1 workers are safe in Teton County, for now. The White House has made no announcements or changes to policy since Trump’s April signature. So J-1 staffers are still in town, serving coffee, bagging groceries, and hanging out at the J-1 night at the Rose on Sundays. PJH

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generated over $680 million in revenue to gateway communities in 2016. Where Yellowstone struggles to keep up with high visitation Jackson does as well. Economics aside, Holder says the J-1 program is equally as valuable for the cultural immersion and exchange. Especially in Yellowstone, the young people she hires experience the very best of what the United States has to offer. “These students come here, are immersed in American culture, have American roommates, learn our culture and hopefully take that back to their home country,” Holder said. “It shows them Americans are good people; we work hard.” Olson’s letter echoed Holder’s. Trump’s signature on the “Buy American, Hire American” happened months before another signature that expanded the H-2B visa international work program. H-2B visas are temporary work permits designed for a

Employees tend to diners in Roosevelt Lodge in Yellowstone National Park.

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Money is not Speech Wyoming Promise seeks to add a 28th amendment to the Constitution to get dark money out of politics. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

en Chestek and his volunteer team will be sporting red, white, blue and purple at Old Bill’s Saturday morning. “Red and blue intersect to make purple,” Chestek said of his uniform. And “dark money” in politics is a non-partisan issue—one that members of all parties should work to eradicate. Such is the mission of Chestek’s group “Wyoming Promise.” And this weekend is Teton County’s chance to get involved. Wyoming Promise’s goal is a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution that would overturn Citizen’s United. They gained momentum after former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson wrote a letter to Wyoming citizens urging them to “support a 28th amendment to the Constitution so we can have reasonable limits on election spending, reform pay-to-play politics, and secure human liberty and equal representation rather than turn our government over to a global corporate marketplace.”

Former governor Dave Freudenthal has also publicly supported the amendment. Wyoming Promise has been collecting signatures for a 2018 ballot initiative to propose the amendment since the beginning of the summer. They have “several thousand” signatures, Chestek said. They need 38,318—15 percent of voters who turned out to the last presidential election. But Chestek isn’t worried about support. In fact, he’s hoping to submit up to 50,000 signatures —12,000 more than the minimum requirement. Most of the country is on board, Chestek said. “National polling says that 80 percent of voters across political parties want this to happen,” Chestek said. “Nine out of ten times, we get the signature. People are very supportive of what we’re trying to do.” Indeed, multiple polls in the wake of the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Supreme Court case indicate roughly 80 percent disapproval of the ruling. Recall: the 2010 Supreme Court case made it possible for corporations and unions to donate unlimited amounts of money to politicians and lawmakers. It’s the case that more or less equated corporations with citizens, making political donations equivalent to free speech. Without a cap on corporate donations, Chestek says, there’s no limit on who can buy politicians out, or for how much. “Our representatives are not representing us. They’re representing the people that give them lots of money.” “Every time you turn around, there’s another example of how money affects everything,” Chestek continued. Take

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healthcare: when big pharmaceutical companies donate “hundreds of thousands” of dollars to political campaigns, the recipients of those donations are likely to vote in the interests of big pharma, not of their constituents, Chestek said. Such was the case with Cory Booker, the democratic Senator from New Jersey. In January, Booker voted down a measure that would have lowered the cost of prescription drugs. Democrats blasted him, speculating that the $328,000 in donations from “Pharmaceuticals/ Health Products” industries in 2014 must have swayed his vote. Booker has since put a pause on fundraising from pharma companies, according to The Hill. Pharmaceutical and private healthcare companies are the biggest campaign donors to both Wyoming Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, according to Time Magazine. Enzi and Barrasso were

two of the 13 architects of the American Health Care Act, President Donald Trump’s new healthcare bill, which if passed, would have left over 20 million people uninsured. Critics said the bill only aimed to repeal the Obama-era Affordable Care Act without actually proposing how to replace it. It failed to pass in the Senate, “because people hated it,” Chestek said. Nationwide, petitions and ballot initiatives to add a 28th amendment have already gained momentum. Nineteen other states have voted to call on Congress to propose the amendment. There are two ways to bring an amendment in front of Congress, Chestek explained. Both are covered under Article V of the Constitution which states, “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution,

or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments…” The first option, a proposal from Congress, is an uphill battle, Chestek says. “The problem we’re trying to solve is they’re addicted to money, and we’re trying to get them to stop being addicted to money. They can just ignore us saying pretty please.” Alternatively, 34 states (two-thirds) can call for a Convention of States, and then propose the amendment. A convention of states, Chestek says, would override Congress.

However, of the 19 states that have already voted to propose the amendment, only five have called for a convention. So for now, Chestek says the priority is to get more states like Wyoming on board. Passing legislation in Wyoming, as a citizens’ initiative, is fraught with its own unique challenges, Chestek says. In the most sparsely populated of the lower 48 states, the biggest obstacle is just “finding enough people in enough places.” For the petition to make it onto the ballot, the Wyoming Secretary of State will have to verify that at least 16 of the state’s 23 counties are represented. But

Wyoming’s counties spread far and wide meaning Wyoming Promise’s volunteers must as well. “Everybody wants to sign,” Chestek said. Finding volunteers is another story. Every single signature has to be physical, on a piece of paper printed and certified by the Secretary of State. The volunteer circulating the petition also has go get their name signed and notarized. That means volunteers have to span the entire state if they want enough, and equal, representation on the petition. “It’s a very specific, pretty rigid process for getting this done,” Chestek said. Teton County currently has no

volunteers. But Chestek hopes to change that this weekend. He and his team will be at Old Bill’s, canvassing for signatures and spreading information about how to get involved. Then at 1 pm Saturday, he will move to Teton County Library for an informational session. Look for him in his red, white, blue and purple t-shirt that says “free and fair elections.” Chestek hopes people will motivate to get involved and volunteer. Canvassing “is not hard to do,” Chestek said. In fact, ‘it’s kinda fun.” “The more people you have talking to people, the quicker we’ll get to 38,318.” PJH

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Women more than measure up to men in the world of science, technology, engineering and math.

So why must they work so hard to shatter the sexism in those fields? BY SHANNON SOLLITT

wenty years into her professional career as an engineer and Echo Miller avoids picking up the phone at her office, she said, because people automatically assume she’s the secretary. It’s annoying but it’s nothing new as a woman in the field of engineering. Miller always knew she wanted to be an engineer, not because she liked building things or fidgeting with gadgets, but because she liked math—and she was good at it. However, by her last year of undergrad at the University of Wyoming, she began to question whether she had chosen the right field. Most of her classmates were men—she was often the only woman in her mechanical engineering

classes—and most of them had chosen engineering, she said, “because they like gadgets. They like taking things apart and putting things together.” University of Wyoming was a “very design-oriented school,” and Miller liked equations. She liked analytics, which she didn’t quite find much of at UW. “I started to question whether I had actually picked the right major,” Miller said, “Clearly I’m an oddball here.” But then she enrolled in a research exchange program at Boston University for a summer, where she worked with a female graduate student and an advisor on a project propagating sound waves and trying to predict what material

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the waves were traveling through. Miller had to derive equations to make such predictions. Unlike UW, her work at BU was math-oriented, and analytic. “It was a match made in heaven,” Miller said. “I thought it was the coolest thing in the world that you could describe a physical phenomenon with an equation.” It was also one of the first times Miller had worked with another woman in her field. She didn’t think about it at the time, but it was quite possibly her sole female mentor at BU whose example nudged her to persevere. Mentorship is important, Miller said—especially female mentorship in a male-dominated field like engineering. The Jackson engineer said, “You wish people

Girls dissect a specimen with the assistance of a scientist mentor at Women in STEM conference. unwanted advances—another not so palatable occurrence—not because they were creeps, she said, but because she was often their only female interaction.

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As a woman in a STEM field, Miller suspects whatever obstacles she has faced are not actually specific to STEM; her field is just a microcosm of society at large. STEM just happens to be in the spotlight right now, thanks to a 10-page internal memo sent by a former Google software engineer, James Damore, asserting the exact biases noted by the AAUW study. Damore’s memo claimed women are in fact less fit than men to be programmers and computer scientists due to biology and physiology. This mentality is nothing new, Miller says. But its pervasiveness in such a high profile company suggests women in STEM are still engaged in an uphill battle for recognition and representation. In early August, Damore’s internal memo entitled, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” warned that Google was mistaking its priorities as a company by promoting diversity and equal gender representation. Citing gender differences, a gender-gap in representation and in pay is not sexist, Damore wrote, it is inherent. “The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes,” the memo reads, “and that may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.” Damore’s memo, perfectly demonstrates the STEM gender biases, addressing directly the same revelation in the AAUW research review.

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failure. For example, the stereotype that boys are better at math than girls results in girls not even trying becuase, “what’s the point?” or they fail because they’re not suppose to succeed at math. Psychological impacts coupled with deeply engrained biases work hard to maintain the status quo. For instance, another study reviewed by AAUW found that women who were told men perform better on the math section of the GRE in fact performed significantly worse than the men in the same subject group or than the women who were not given that piece of false information. In essence, girls perform as they are expected to perform. Enter the role of bias. The AAUW study cited the notion that STEM subjects are typically considered “masculine” areas, which do not jibe with female roles. Often people hold negative opinions of women in “masculine” positions like scientists or engineers. The study reported that research showed “people judge women to be less competent than men in ‘malem jobs unless they are clearly successful in the work”—obviously not without exception. However, these gendered roles are fallacies easily overcome with training and active dismantling of biases, by both men and women, as well as through sheer determination as was the case with Miller. Staying the course in STEM as a woman requires resolve and commitment to overcome the biases. Even with the expectations and obstacles, Miller had that resolve, she said. She was dead set on becoming an engineer. “I had already decided to go along a certain path. I was going follow it through hell or high water.” She brushed off any insinuations that she somehow didn’t belong in her program in college. Similarly, she wasn’t deterred when men in her class made

could forge their own path sometimes. But that’s just not how it works.” Miller is correct, according to an American Association of University Women research analysis entitled “Why So Few?” mentoring is highly effective at supporting women in STEM fields, but it is also hard to come by. Aside from the grad student at BU, for 20 years Miller was often the only woman in her professional circles, which is the norm. A separate AAUW study from 2015 found that 12 percent of engineers are women. The number of women in computer science and math has declined from 35 percent in the ‘90s to just 26 percent today. The numbers get even smaller among women of color—black women make up only one percent of the engineering workforce and three percent of the computer science workforce. So the pool of female engineer mentors is low to begin with. At some point girls just start falling off the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) track. “That’s the paradox, I think,” Miller said. “Girls do well, but don’t follow up with it.” Boys, meanwhile, “don’t do well, but jump right into it.” Miller doesn’t know exactly where women fall through the cracks in STEM fields. But she has a handful of theories about why. Women, Miller suspects, face higher pressures to perform, in whatever field they choose. Such was certainly the case for Miller—any grade below an A was simply not an option if she wanted to maintain her credibility, or so she thought. While her male colleagues were content with C’s and even D’s, they questioned her worth as an engineer for even getting a B. So she only got A’s. “I couldn’t get a C and be accepted as a female engineer,” she said. “I did have to be better than the guys.” Although, according to “Why So Few?” while girls assess their mathematical skills as lower than those of boys on par with them, they simultaneously hold themselves to a higher standard than boys do on STEM subjects, “believing they have to be exceptional to succeed in ‘male’ fields.” Even though Miller is partially correct that if women do not immediately and flawlessly excel in STEM they are less likely to stick with it, the reason behind that belief is flawed. If girls are told they can achieve equally well in STEM fields, they are able to more accurately assess their performance and achieve accordingly. Then there are the insidious effects of expectations in the form of stereotypes on females in STEM. Social psychologists Joshua Aronson, Claude Steele and Steven Spencer coined the term “stereotype threat” in the mid 1990s. Stereotype threat is the fear of being negatively stereotyped or of doing something that confirms such stereotypes. Such a fear accomplishes two things: it either dissuades women, or any under-represented population, from participating in STEM for fear of failing, or it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of

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“Why so Few?” states, “the striking disparity between the numbers of men and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics has often been considered as evidence of biologically driven gender differences in abilities and interests.” The study goes on to say, this is classically formulated as men “naturally” excel in math heavy disciplines and women naturally excel in fields using language. Damore’s memo was almost a verbatim of the study’s findings; he even included visual representations of such misguided notions about these natural characteristics of men and women in his memo. While Damore is right that gender representation in STEM is far from equal, he appears to be wrong in his reasoning. But Damore’s world—one where women are inherently science or leadership averse—is not the world Miller lives in. “Women technically do better than men in school,” Miller said. She certainly did. “I don’t think it’s an ability question.” In fact in Miller’s experience, women and girls often do better in math and science classes at an earlier age than men, which at the least is becoming the case now. The AAUW review noted recent gains in girls’ mathematical achievement are likely attributable to a shift in “culture and learning environments in the cultivation of abilities and interests.” Miller has been directly involved with shifting school culture here in Jackson, where she spent about six years helping run the Lego robotics program at Jackson Hole Middle School. And whether it is something inherent or something practiced, Miller noticed that the girls she taught often had a level of patience required in engineering that boys lacked. But perhaps these biases go in both directions. Engineering, Miller said, is about problem solving. She recalls a middle school student throwing his hands up in frustration one day. He wanted to know the answer. But in engineering, there is hardly ever one right answer. “There are just answers that work better than others.” “That was the first time some of those kids had encountered a problem that didn’t have an obvious answer.” Engineering is as much about the process as it is about the product. And girls, Miller said, “aren’t afraid of exploring a path.” But, even though the robotics team at the middle school and at the high school brings together a diverse group of students, it still “didn’t bring together a 50-50 gender split,” Miller said. Among those middle school students, Miller noticed that she often had to intervene to make sure the girls on the team were getting equal testing time. “I actually had to step in and be like, ‘guys you’re done, it’s their turn,” Miller said. She had never seen such gendered stereotypes play out so obviously as in the middle school classrooms. It’s discouraging, she said. Sadly, gendered stereotypes are present throughout grade levels. Studies of classrooms from kindergarten through graduate school have

found that teachers still call on male students more frequently than female students, even when female students are they only ones with their hands raised. This leads to a pattern of male students participating more frequently than female students—even if they don’t know the answer. This dynamic plays out outside of classrooms, too: in professional settings. Indeed, contrary to another of Damore’s suggestions—that men are more career-oriented than women—research suggests that gender stereotypes largely contribute to representation in the workforce, and especially in STEM. A study conducted by researchers at Yale found that recruiters in math and science-related fields still favor male candidates over female candidates—even when their qualifications are identical. When presented with identical resumes of two fictional applicants, professors at six major research institutions were still more likely to offer the man a job. And if they did hire the woman, they offered her an average salary $4,000 dollars less than the men’s. Back to the effect of these inequities—if all girls see are men in lab coats, there’s nothing to tell them that they belong there too. Even Miller questioned whether she had made the right choice until her summer at Boston University. It’s hard to communicate how important and far-reaching science is to young people, girls especially, but young women need to see and hear it the most. It took time to see an increase in girls joining the robotics team, because it’s a catch 22 of sorts—first girls need to see other girls joining to think they belong. “It took a while to see girls doing it,” Miller said. Across the board, progress is being made to help close the gender gap in STEM. In order to better support women in STEM, the AAUW recommends several ways to cultivate girls’ achievement, interest and perseverance in STEM. In the earlier years, it helps greatly to talk about girls’ and women’s achievement in math and science and expose girls to successful female role models. Teach all students about stereotype threats and that intellectual skills grow over time. Encourage girls to develop their spatial skills and to take advanced STEM courses in high school. At the college level, schools can take active steps to improve recruitment of women to STEM and

change admission policies, and to promote reallife applications of STEM subjects. Improving social support on campus for women in STEM and retaining female STEM faculty both help. And finally, colleges must counteract stereotype threat and bias.

A SHIFTING CLIMATE

Jackson engineer Shannon Overly has never had to question her worth as an engineer. She’s used to working with mostly men—she’s one of two women at her engineering firm, out of 11 employees. But she has always worked in supportive environments. “I don’t feel like I get questioned or my opinion is worth any less than anybody else’s on the team,” Overly said. Unlike Miller, Overly went into engineering because she likes building things. More specifically, she likes building things that help people. Her engineering work is altruistic. That’s always been her goal, she said. And it’s what she’s done. Overly currently works as a data scientist for a small software startup called Teqqa. The software is an app that pairs specific antibiotics to specific patient conditions. The goal, Overly said, is to help doctors adjust to growing antibiotic resistance, and prescribe highly personalized antibiotics. She previously spent 10 years at Medtronic, making aortic stint graphs. Healthcare has always been at the heart of her work. And that’s by design, she says. “I was interested in building a product that helps people.” Overly didn’t read Damore’s Google memo, because she knew it would make her angry. But the responses to it, which were largely critical, were far more telling and relevant than the document itself. Some defenders of Damore argued that criticism of the memo was hypocritical and demonstrated his point that anyone who shared a different opinion was shunned as “anti-diversity”. Others said the memo was just another perspective and should be valued as such. But others were quick to decry it. Indeed, Damore lost his job for putting Google in the spotlight. Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded to the email with an internal email of his own entitled “Words Matter.” Pichai stated Damore had violated Google’s code of conduct by promoting harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace. He wrote, “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to

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Miller feels fortunate with her current professional situation. She hears stories from friends at MIT who have to carefully navigate sexism in the workplace. She has never felt such pressures. Jackson, she says, is a fairly progressive place, and she has always felt an equal among her male coworkers—she is the only female engineer in her firm. Miller just finished a project on which she was the lead. She recalled sending preliminary designs to the client, a large engineering firm. Then a repulsive phone call came from one of the client’s in-house engineers, who spent the “better part of an hour” mansplaining his designs. The designs he presented, Miller said, were not

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McBride, Wyoming space grant director. “One of the big road blocks to getting women into science is getting role models so they can visualize themselves in those careers.” The conference attracts around 500 students from around the state each spring. It offers diverse workshops, from astronomy to falconry to hydrology to robotics. Like Miller, McBride knows “if you don’t catch people’s attention in middle school, they start to drop off in high school.” So the conference catches students’ attention early. And it’s working. Her office doesn’t track conference participants after they leave the program, but McBride says there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest it works. She hears from students who have gone through programs in middle school, and in college, and stuck with it. “It does seem like it has a pretty big impact on people,” McBride said. “Hopefully.” And, programs like NASA’s, that shift STEM culture to be more female-friendly, do seem to be working. At Stanford, Overly’s alma mater, computer science is now the most popular undergraduate degree for women. Whatever barriers or stigmas exist for women in STEM are disintegrating. “As it becomes more and more common, it’s less of an abnormality,” Overly said.

that work is offensive and not OK.” The idea that males or females are biologically suited to particular careers is pervasive, but not productive. Overly says skills and experience shouldn’t be a “male-female” thing. “The more, different types of views we can get, the better product you’re going to be able to create,” Overly said. That’s the world she knows. Indeed, the importance of elevating women in all fields, as a means for progress, economic or otherwise, is recognized at the highest levels. Contrary to Damore’s assertion that gender equality is a wasted cause, gender parity has evolved into a global priority. Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known simply as UN Women, says gender equality has huge implications for the well-being and development of nations. Global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be higher if women were as involved in the economy as men, Mlambo-Ngcuka says. And like Overly, the UN agrees diverse perspectives are critical to sustainable development and progress in any field and the foundation of that development and progress is in schools. Early exposure to math and science is critical, Overly agrees. She graduated from Jackson Hole High School in 1998. She didn’t have programs like the robotics team, but she wishes she did. “It’s great that the high school has programs and real-world experience in engineering so they can decide if that’s something they’re interested in,” Overly said. Otherwise, 17-year-old kids get to college and have to “pick what they’re going to do before they even know what that means.” Wyoming educators recognize the importance of early exposure to math and science, especially for young women. It’s why the NASA Space Grant Consortium hosts a “Women in STEM” conference for young women grads seven through 12 every year. “Our main goal is to expose younger women to some of the different career options, and also provide role models for them,” said Shawna

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that different from her own—a fact he eventually came to realize. Miller left the call up in arms about how condescending the client on the other end of the phone had been. But her coworkers didn’t quite see it that way. “We came away from the conversation with very different perceptions,” Miller said. Even though she and her boss both understood that the client’s in-house engineer had felt threatened, only Miller could understand why. “I felt he was really patronizing,” Miller said. No one else thought it was that big of a deal. Even more egalitarian men are unable to pick up on the nuanced sexist treatment, Miller said. But where Miller has been largely fortunate in her career, her personal life has not always been so egalitarian. In college, she had to draw a “hard and fast line” that she was “one of the guys.” Otherwise she risked unwanted advances from the men in her program. Outside her program, meanwhile, she learned not to tell people she was an engineer—especially men. “The fastest way to shut off a conversation was to say I was studying engineering,” Miller said. “He’d find his way to the other end of the bar really fast.” So when she moved to Jackson between college and grad school, she kept her identity under wraps. “In the interest of actually trying to meet people when I moved here, I didn’t tell anybody I was an engineer. It’s stupid, Miller says, that anybody would be intimidated by a smart woman. But such is still the world. As Miller suspects, the lack of women in STEM isn’t actually specific to STEM. “Smart” women are intimidating, as is any challenge to gender norms. The United States is in the midst of a national identity crisis, she said. Google employees are publishing memos suggesting women are biologically unfit for certain fields, churches are releasing statements [See: Nashville Statement], decrying same-sex marriage and spelling out “god-given” gender roles. “That’s still a pretty strong influence here in the US,” Miller said. “It’s a hangover from the Puritans or something,” she said. Those kinds of longstanding entrenched beliefs are bound to influence how people perceive their “place” in society, Miller said. Through determination and will in the face of such entrenched obstacles, Miller has finally found her balance. She now works on a supportive team and has a supportive partner who is not intimidated by her smarts. When the snow starts falling, she cuts back her hours at the engineering firm so she can teach skiing at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Miller, like Overly, feels lucky to practice engineering in Jackson where they are able to defy gender stereotypes across multiple identities: as athletes, as engineers and as professionals.

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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. Includes buffet, drinks/wine/beer, dessert & party favors. Reservations required for party only, contact below.

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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

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

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

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)

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Saturday, September 30

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

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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.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6 THURSDAY, SEPT. 7 n 33rd Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8 a.m. Various Locations, 307733-3316 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 a.m. National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30 a.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307--733-5771 n Jewelry & Artisan Luncheon 11 a.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, 307-733-5771 n Tech Time 1 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Raptor Encounters 2 p.m. Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 n Read to Rover 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 n Jackson Hole People’s Market 4 p.m. Base of Snow King, Free, n Bob Greenspan “Down in the Roots” 4 p.m. Moe’s BBQ, Free, n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30 p.m. Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30 p.m. Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30 p.m. Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group 6 p.m. Eagle classroom at St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 n Open Studio Modeling: Figure Model 6 p.m. Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30 p.m. The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307-733-6994 n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8 p.m. The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n Karaoke Night 9 p.m. The Virginian Saloon, 307-733-2792 n Donnie Evetts Band 9 p.m. Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n 33rd Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8 a.m. Various Locations, 307733-3316 n Community Volunteer Day 9 a.m. Grand Teton National Park, Free, 307-739-3379 n Toddler Time 10:05 a.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Storytime 10:30 a.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Storytime 11 a.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Teton Toastmasters 12 p.m. Teton County Commissioners Chambers, Free, n Raptor Encounters 2 p.m. Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 n Writer’s Club 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30 p.m. Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Friends Library Board Meeting 5 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n REFIT® 5:15 p.m. First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30 p.m. Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30 p.m. Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-733-5386 n Western Design Conference Opening Preview Party 5:30 p.m. Snow King Center, $125.00, 307-690-9719 n Open Build 5:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Mardy’s Front Porch Conversations 6 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 n Silver Projects: Fabrication and Stone Setting Varieties 6 p.m. Center for the Arts, (307) 733-6379 n The Unsinkable Molly Brown 6:30 p.m. The Jackson Hole Playhouse, $37.10 - $68.90, 307-733-6994

n Jackson Hole Community Band 2017 Rehearsals 7 p.m. Center for the Arts, Free, 307-200-9463 n Jackson 6 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Salsa Night 9 p.m. The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n Donnie Evetts Band 9 p.m. Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, $5.00, 307-733-2207

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n 33rd Annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival 8 a.m. Various Locations, 307733-3316 n Portrait Drawing 9 a.m. Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307-733-6379 n Historic Miller Ranch Tour 10 a.m. National Elk Refuge, Free, 307-733-9212 n Summer Grilling Series 11 a.m. Jackson Whole Grocer, $5.00, 307-733-0450 n Raptor Encounters 2 p.m. Teton Raptor Center, $15.00 - $18.00, 307-203-2551 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 n Palates and Palettes Gallery Walk 3 p.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307-733-5771 n Read to Rover 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n FREE Friday Tasting 4 p.m. Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Friday Tastings 4 p.m. The Liquor Store, Free, 307-733-4466 n Game Night 4 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Covered Wagon Cookout 4:30 p.m. Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-739-5386 n Sean Gaskell Kora Concert 5 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Bar J Chuckwagon 5:30 p.m. Bar J Ranch, $25.00 $35.00, 307-733-3370 n Covered Wagon Cookout 5:30 p.m. Bar T 5, $38.00 $46.00, 307-733-5386

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“In a way she really turned the gallery inside out,” Richer said, talking about artist Bronwyn Minton’s exhibit that was created specifically for the Center Theater Gallery where it hangs. Growing up, Minton’s father taught marine biology and often let her look through microscopes at plankton and cells. She eventually went on to study photography, which had a strikingly similar feel. What Minton loves about both cameras and microscopes is the way a lens can change what people see, she said. Minton said she wanted to make people pause, changing how viewers move through the corridor, making them slowdown and notice what is around them. The artist experiments with ideas, methods and medias to settle upon her final pieces, which are often multi-dimensional, both in space and concept. One of Minton’s large installations in the exhibit runs the length of the ramped hallway and features 100 long upholstery needles with cashmere and alpaca yarn, as well as circles she created from rice paper and dipped in encaustic wax to give the shapes a translucent look. Minton used patterns to sew in the circles that appear random, but that were designed to allow the shadows to invite attention. The piece moves a little as the circles rotate. Across from the piece she installed benches for people to sit and contemplate

the patterns and watch the movement. “It’s a collection of microscopic pieces that come together into a larger-scale piece,” Richer said. Since the beginning of August, when the exhibit opened, people have found quiet refuge from the madness of summer in the gallery, sitting and taking in the work, Richer said. It’s calm and meditative–fascinating viewers. The large works are an extension of Minton’s interest in patterns and the natural world. Projecting an almost three-dimensional feel, Minton created new works on panels featuring geometric shapes and patterns that are technically two-dimensional. “It’s basically my palette,” Minton said, “It’s my box of tools on display.” The patterns Minton loves in her work, are also part of her process. People are circular in perusing what they love and what interests them, Minton said. “My creative process is an investigation of similar things and things I’m interested in, so I feel like it’s very circular,” she said. “But I’m always trying to investigate them in new ways, so the show is all new for me, but it’s also exploring some of the same things I think about.” The two shows, along with an exhibit at the Art Association of Jackson Hole, make the Center the perfect place to begin and end Palates & Palettes, Richer said. PJH The Center is also hosting an after-party from 7 to 9 p.m. It is free for Encore members or $25 for non-members and will feature music by the Lawrence Bennett Trio and hors d’oeuvres from Streetfood.

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p.m. The Center has partnered with Streetfood and will celebrate Hoke’s installation as well as an exhibition by Bronwyn Minton that closes Sept. 11.

taff at the Center for the Arts lovingly call the glass enclosed courtyard “the fishbowl.” When you are in the courtyard everyone can see you—and you can see everyone— from every direction. Artist Bland Hoke embraced the atmosphere for his latest art installation called “The Fishbowl.” He’s designed and built a massive gold fish that will live in the courtyard for several months. “He’s really going for it and embracing this humorous take on the space,” said Carrie Richer, creative initiatives’ coordinator with the Center. The artist wanted to create a realistic looking, although massive, fish and was deliberate in his patterns and color choices, Richer said. “It’s no joke,” she said of the size. It’s so massive the fin pops over the courtyard walls, visible from the nearby park. Hoke created patterns to sew the gigantic fish; its body is 20 feet long with a tail 10 feet long. He experimented with numerous fabrics before deciding on a material similar to that of a camping tent that can withstand the elements. Transforming the courtyard into a fish tank of sorts, Hoke designed a filter similar to ones in aquariums, except instead of keeping the fish alive, this filter will keep the massive fish inflated. “It really conveys a sense of wonder,” Richer said. The installation will change through the winter. It might eventually include a pirate chest, or habitat details like seaweed, Richer said. There also will be events, like an artist talk, centered around the exhibit, although nothing has been scheduled yet. “The Fishbowl” officially opens with a reception during the Fall Arts Festival’s Palates & Palettes, Friday from 5 to 6:30

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Teton County Model UN (TCMUN) Over the past 12 years, IC21 and TCMUN: n Registered 1,878 students n Hosted 15 schools from Wyoming and Idaho n Sent 75 Jackson Hole students to national and international MUN conferences

In 2017, our Jackson travel delegation won 7 awards at the Vancouver, Canada MUN that hosted 1,400 students from around the world. “Urging me to interact with diverse opinions and even assume the role of countries I disagree with, Model UN has opened my mind to a world of possibility. I plan to participate in Model UN at the collegiate level and hopefully travel the world as a delegate.” - Aaron Trauner, 2017 TCMUN Secretary General

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Fête for Public Lands Three artist advocates will present on conservation, recreation and keeping public lands in public hands. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

ild lands run through Jenni Lowe-Anker’s veins. The fourth-generation Montanan spent all of her weekends and vacations on public lands. “As a young child, I was completely in love with wide open spaces.” Even if she didn’t always realize the danger her beloved lands faced, she had an inkling that something was not quite right with how people interacted with the land. “I’m one of those people, I was probably about 12 when I thought, it isn’t fair that humans are just doing what they want, and what they what infringes on all these other life forms,” she said, “and ends them.” Her biggest concern today is that as the number of people in the world grow the impact of those people on

Conrad Anker and Max Lowe will speak along with Jenni Lowe-Anker at the Party for Public Lands

the planet grows as well. Lowe-Anke said, “With the footprint of humanity ever-expanding, those wild places are ever-encroached upon.” Lowe-Anker, along with her husband, renowned climber Conrad Anker, and her son Max Lowe, will divulge their relationships with public lands at the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance Party for Public Lands, which kicks off at 5:30 Wednesday at the Center for the Arts. Conservationists and recreationists are one in the same, says Lowe-Anker, and her family is a perfect example of that combo. She said her three sons can’t live without being outdoors. They understand the “inherent value in the woods, in wild places,” Lowe-Anker said. As a professional climber, Anker is one of the most vocal outdoor recreationists for the preservation of public lands. His fame in the outdoor industry gives him a platform, and he chooses to use it. “It’s the right thing to do,” Anker said. “It’s generational fairness. I want to do it for future generations so they can enjoy what we can.” Together, Conrad and Max recently filmed a documentary that celebrates national parks. But as much as public lands ought to be celebrated Anker-Lowe said not

everyone must travel to be in nature, nor should they. “There is nature even in the middle of giant urban areas,” Lowe-Anker said. There are books and documentaries that showcase awe-inspiring wildernesses across the globe, she said, “Be happy with the knowledge that it’s there, and knowing we can do something to help protect it.” One of Anker-Lowe’s main concerns is that the footprint of humanity will stamp out the world’s natural greatness. But even as much as Lowe-Anker thinks there are already too many humans on this planet, she also believes it’s people who can save it. “Those of us who do care about those wild spaces, want to protect them for the next generation,” Lowe-Anker said. The challenge now is getting more people to care, which is why these Montanans were invited to the Party for Public Lands. Getting people to care about protecting public lands in Wyoming is especially important. Almost half (48 percent) of the land in the state is federal public land. In Teton County, almost 97 percent of the land is public. That means the federal government manages the land—but the public owns it. Which is why so many people visit and move here, says Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance Communications Coordinator Marisa

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The party for public lands begins at 5:30 pm on the Center for the Arts lawn. The first hour and a half is free and open to the public and includes lawn games, a raffle, drinks and a Pica’s food truck. The presentation is ticketed and begins at 7. Tickets are $12, and are available at JHCenterForTheArts.org.

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Wilson: no matter where you are in the valley, you’re five minutes away from a hiking trail. But, Wilson says, those lands are increasingly in peril. During the last legislative session, Wyoming lawmakers forwarded an amendment that would allow the federal government to sell federal lands to the state. Legislators like State Rep. Marti Halverson and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney argue those public lands would be better managed by states. However, others worry that without federal protections, those lands would be subject to mineral extraction and oil rigs. “[The legislation] was a thinly veiled attempt at being able to sell off those lands to the highest bidder,” Wilson said. “It would take away our ability to play on those public lands.” One of the Conservation Alliance’s goals for the night, Wilson says, is to create testimony to share with Wyoming state representatives in support of “Wyoming Public Lands Day,” which would establish the last Saturday in September as a public lands holiday. “Each year the government would issue a proclamation, highlighting different aspects of [public lands], encouraging volunteer stewardship, and just celebrating what we have,” Wilson said, “Enforcing the idea that the people of Wyoming want to keep public lands in public hands.” That’s what the party is about, too: celebrating Wyoming’s vast public lands, and not giving up on the fight to protect them. Even when it feels like an uphill battle, Lowe-Anker said, that is exactly when people need to fight the hardest. “I know there are people who just feel like giving up. But we can’t give up. We should treasure the amazing and miraculous planet that has hosted us, and do what we can to try and make the best decision going forward.” PJH

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Musicfest Fixes for All Another killer line-up descends upon the Hole thanks to the folks at Contour Music Festival. BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

urating a music festival lineup is akin to catch and release fishing. Offers are made based on available artists (fish) and a number of moving parts—availability, interest level, mentality towards the amount of the offer and other artists involved in said event—all of which contribute to what artists are “landed.” This molds the festival into a vibe each year, and for the aptly named Contour Music Festival, now in its third year, being flexible also means recognizing emerging commonalities and how all of the pieces fit together. For this weekend’s Fall Showcase, dance music and DJs will be the catch. Hip-hop super group Deltron 3030— comprised of rapper Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, producer/remixer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, and turntablist Kid Koala— will represent the live band element as the trio will be

backed by drummer Alex Swain, bassist Juan Alderete, and guitarist Taka Tozawa. Friday will be a straight up DJ dance party with exotic flavor. “It really just happened organically,” explained co-organizer Jeff Stein. “Things lined up perfectly for Deltron to come back with the idea of having Kid Koala do a late night set, which is a double whammy and really anchored the weekend. Since Saturday’s set up as the hip-hop, turntablism, electronica night, we decided to go after some more live stuff for Friday. Just unfortunately none of those acts lined up, so we said ‘alright’ let’s go with a different kind of dance party. So Friday is sort of like globally inspired electronica, including an amazing mix of dancehall tracks, which are becoming more popular right now. [For instance] they’ll play Cumbia, then stuff from South Africa while mixing in more dance floor friendly beats.” Digging into scratch DJ, producer and graphic novelist Kid Koala’s multifaceted career, it’s fascinating to grasp his enthusiasm for stretching beyond his turntablist roots. Born Eric San, the Chinese-Canadian was a classically trained pianist before acquiring a pair of Technics 1200s in the late ‘80s. Eventually, San landed a record deal with Ninja Tune, a label run by his heroes, the U.K. experimental hip-hop duo Coldcut. An innovator in his field, San uses the turntable in uncommon ways, often using carefully selected samples on homemade, custom vinyl to tell a story. (Yes, he’s got a record cutter in his

WEDNESDAY Vinyl Night (The Rose) THURSDAY Jackson Six (Silver Dollar) FRIDAY DJs Sweet Anomaly, El Papachango, Mustang, and SK (Town Square Tavern) SATURDAY Deltron 3030, Kid Koala, Pharell Williams (Pink Garter), Pre-funk DJs (Asymbol)

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Along with the Deltron live band set, Kid Koala solo, and DJ Pharell Williams on Saturday at the Pink Garter Theatre ($40-$50), other DJ acts include up-and-coming local spinners Mustang and SK, Argentina-born San Franciscobased El Papachango, and Montreal’s Sweet Anomaly, the latter four scheduled for Friday at Town Square Tavern ($15). A “Deltron Pre-Funk” party with additional TBA DJs is set for 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Asymbol Gallery (free). Contour will again feature a Jackson Hole Stillworks Vinyl Brunch at 1 p.m. Sunday at Lotus Café (free), offering vinyl of all genres for sale. Calgary’s Lorne B and Jackson’s own Cut La Whut will be the soundtrack tune selectors. For a full lineup and ticket information, visit ContourMusicFestival.com PJH

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studio). San is also an illustrator and graphic novelist, and released a 350page book Nufonia Must Fall accompanied by a soundtrack that he composed on piano. His second album, “Some of My Best Friends are DJs”, came with a fifty-page comic book and mini chess game. The album was supported by a cabaret-style tour featuring three DJs on eight turntables, a bingo game, and other quirky surprises. He also took an excessive six turntables while touring with the former rhythm section of Grammy Award-winning Australian rock band Wolfmother. That’s just a snapshot into the storied career of a guy that is still wowed by his instrument. “What’s fun about turntables to me is that it’s a bit of a chameleon of an instrument,” San said from his home in Montreal. “It can shape shift, it can be subtle or nuanced or harmonic and emotive, but it can also be funky and loud and aggressive and confident when you need it and exciting on that level. To explore the range of it is what I love about the instrument. I like the danger of it, the skipping, the crackle.” “So depending on the project…when it’s Deltron mode I put on my hip-hop hat, my sci-fi hat. The way Dan will direct us in the studio he’ll say ‘OK, imagine a Mad Max-type barren landscape and we need a scratch that kind of sounds like a sandboarder skidding over the dunes.’ But also Del, his lyrics are already so evocative and so visual. It’s really like a sci-fi universe and my roll is to augment that feeling via the turntables.”

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Banter, Stage Left The Trip to Spain is funniest when it’s not trying to be a movie. BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

s movie trilogies go, The Trip series certainly is an odd one. In part, that’s because the three movies didn’t begin as movies, but as 6-part BBC TV series—collaborations between director Michael Winterbottom and actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing loosely fictionalized versions of themselves— edited down to feature length. But it’s also because, perhaps by virtue of the editing required for theatrical presentation, it’s not entirely clear what these movies are meant to be. On the one hand—and on the level that they’ve always worked best— they’re simply delightful hang-out pictures taking advantage of the prickly frenemy chemistry between the two leads. As was the case in 2010’s The Trip and 2014’s The Trip to Italy, this version finds an excuse to send Coogan and Brydon out on the road together, ostensibly some journalistic assignment to eat in great European restaurants and see the sights. So they set out on a week-long excursion to Spain, eating delicious food and serving up equally delicious banter. Their largely-improvised exchanges—there’s not even a writing credit associated with The Trip to Spain—provide the bulk of the material, and once again it’s generally hilarious watching Coogan and Brydon serve-and-volley their comedic gifts. By now there’s a bit of a formula to those exchanges, often involving the pair stumbling upon a celebrity who becomes the subject of dueling impressions. Where The Trip

Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip to Spain memorably showcased their respective takes on Michael Caine, and The Trip to Italy found them running through the various James Bond actors, here they compete over the proper way to impersonate Mick Jagger, or what it would sound like if David Bowie were trying to convince someone to follow him on Twitter. Those scenes are still crackling comedic bits, familiar though the rhythms now are. Much of the relationship between the Coogan and Brydon we see in these movies is built on professional competitiveness, and Winterbottom knows by now how to optimize that dynamic. Often that means Coogan— theoretically the more famous alphadog of the pair—slow-burning whenever Brydon attempts to one-up him or refuses to let a particular premise wind down, like when the latter takes off on a seemingly endless riff involving Roger Moore and the Spanish Moors. While Brydon is presented as the more easygoing of the two, it’s always clear how much he enjoys showing off his own skills—and if those skills make Coogan ever-so-slightly more insecure, all the better.

Yet venturing into that territory of the characters’ insecurities and personalities is exactly where these movies get harder to figure out. All three of them have included personal asides— usually when they’re not together, and are making personal or professional phone calls—that emphasize Coogan as a divorced dad perpetually chasing career opportunities, while Brydon is a family man content to enjoy what life brings him. The most amusing such material here finds Coogan perpetually reminding people of his Oscar nominations (as co-writer and producer) for Philomena, and unable to understand why that achievement isn’t granting him carte blanche to get his next pet project rolling. In theory, those scenes should provide a richer context for the interactions between our protagonists, emphasizing why Coogan can’t stand being upstaged by his second-banana. Those moments, however, generally feel more clipped and truncated, perhaps indicating that the background material takes the brunt of the TV-to-cinema editing in favor of the flat-out comedy. There’s a sense that these movies are trying to creep into the same passage-of-time

thematic territory as the Hawke/Delpy Before trilogy, with comments about certain leading-man rolls having passed the 50-something actors by, and Coogan discovering that his 20-yearold son is about to be a father. They just never quite achieve the same sense of accumulated consequence—especially when one of the key plot developments from The Trip to Italy, involving Brydon’s brief extramarital fling, never comes up once. It’s obvious how much these movies depend on the episodic nature of the individual dinner conversations when The Trip to Spain ends in as weirdly abrupt a manner as any movie in recent memory. There’s plenty of fun in the individual bits of verbal pas-de-deux; there’s just not much reason to care about the material attempting to connect them. That’s what happens when a wonderful sketch-comedy series tries to do an impression of an actual movie. PJH

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Bottled Poetry Carol Shelton’s road to Zinfandel and more. BY TED SCHEFFLER

inemaker Carol Shelton is no stranger to awards; she is said to be “the most awarded winemaker in the United States,” and has been named Winemaker of the Year four different times. I have only myself to blame, but for some reason—although I’ve long known of Shelton’s reputation, especially as the “Queen of Zin”—I don’t remember ever tasting her wares. Well, I’ve rectified that oversight. And, if you’ve not familiarized yourself with the Shelton magic, you owe it to yourself to do so, posthaste. I wouldn’t want to engage in a “name that wine” contest, based on wines’ aromas, with Carol Shelton. When Shelton was 6, her mom created a “identify the

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scent” game using household spices and herbs. No wonder, then, that as an adult, Shelton would fall under the tutelage of Ann Noble, the developer of the wine Aroma Wheel, and launch into wine studies at UC Davis. After working with winemaker legends such as Robert Mondavi and Andre Tchelistcheff, she began to focus seriously on Zinfandel as her favorite varietal. In 2000, she and her husband, Mitch Mackenzie, launched Carol Shelton Wines and, predictably, she chose to focus on Zinfandel. Today, she produces five different Zins, all with whimsical names— evidence of Shelton’s literary streak, as she originally entered UC Davis to study poetry. The Zinfandels are named Rocky Reserve, Maple Zin, Karma Zin, Wild Thing and ’Xander Zin. She also makes a late-harvest Zin called Black Magic. The first of the Carol Shelton’s Zinfandels I tasted was her Wild Thing Old Vine Zinfandel 2008 ($14.04). This is Shelton’s “workhorse” Zin, the one with a cool etching of old Zinfandel vines on the bottle. A wine-expert colleague of mine refers to Shelton as “one of the mightier intellects in fermentation” and

IMBIBE says she’s “quite the badass, all in all.” When tasting her wines, I began to understand his affection for Shelton. These are not cookie-cutter, please-themasses, lowest-common-denominator wines. I mean, they are outstanding, but they are also unique, each with its own distinctive personality. Wild Thing is scrumptious—a lush, well-rounded Zin with loads of jammy raspberry, black cherry and plum flavors and a judiciously restrained use of oak, resulting in subtle vanilla notes. It’s a remarkable wine for 14 bones. Rocky Reserve Zinfandel Florence Vineyard Rockpile 2008 ($25.04) is a blend of 95.5 percent Zinfandel and 4.5 percent Petite Syrah. The aromas remind me of Grandma’s huckleberry jam. Rolling this Zin around on the tongue (it was my pleasure, believe me), I tasted ripe blackberries with hints of licorice and black pepper, making me think that grinding a little pepper on my morning blackberries might not be a bad idea. All in all, this is

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an elegant, beautifully structured Zin that’ll leave quite a positive impression on your palate. Although it’s her specialty, Shelton doesn’t limit herself to Zinfandel. She also produces Petite Syrah, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and even a pink wine: Rendezvous Rosé 2011 ($12.04). This is a crisp, very dry combo of 70 percent Carignane along with a 30 percent field blend of mixed red grapes, aged partially in stainless steel (70 percent) and barrel fermented in older oak (30 percent). My favorite non-Zin Shelton wine, though, is Coquille Blanc 2009 ($16.25). I admit I’m a sucker for Rhône-style white-wine blends. Well, this one hits all the right notes. It’s a Grenache Blanc/ Roussanne/Viognier blend with gorgeous white-peach and pear aromas and exotic fruit flavors on the palate, with hints of almond and honeysuckle. It’s a perfect end-of-summer wine. PJH

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Serving authentic Swiss cuisine, the Alpenhof features European style breakfast entrées and alpine lunch fare. Dine in the Bistro for a casual meal or join us in the Alpenrose dining room for a relaxed dinner experience. Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am. Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

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A Jackson Hole favorite for 39 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Open nightly at 5:30 p.m. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30 & 6 p.m Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

PICNIC

Our mission is simple: offer good food, made fresh, all day, every day. We know everyone’s busy, so we cater to on-the-go lifestyles with

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. Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

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.

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quick, tasty options for breakfast and lunch, including pastries and treats from our sister restaurant Persephone. Also offering coffee and espresso drinks plus wine and cocktails. Open Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Wknds 7am-3pm 1110 Maple Way in West Jackson 307-2642956www.picnicjh.com

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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. Reservations are highly recommended.

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America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing. com.

ITALIAN CALICO

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large

selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA

Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

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. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

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.

SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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Andorra’s cont. That, in Mexico Emphasized, in a way Chihuahua cheer Prefix with sphere “I’d consider __ honor” French honey Seaman’s shout Hairdo for economists? 2017 Masters champ Garcia P.C. Wren protagonist Beau __ Energy Star co-creator, familiarly Skunk River city VMI program Three-layer fishing net Changeable border Hairdo for wickerworkers? Hairdo for burglars? Words with wait or state California cager Painter Magritte Tough test Disney princess from Avalor Neverland pirate Binged (on), as junk food Took off

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Wise words Eight, in 14-Down Dry as dust 90-year-old mint Rhododendron variety Short title for Lee Bits of work Old-fashioned do? Ivy, e.g.: Abbr. Woodworking tools 1-Across plot staple Roman wrap Sevillian soy? See 2-Down Places to see studs On one’s own Like the designated driver, by

writer Rombauer 85 You and me, say 87 Seriously overcharge 88 End of a threat 92 “Brat Farrar” novelist 94 Saturn drivers? 96 Deflategate concern 98 Ring duo 99 Had dessert, in a way 102 Itinerary word 104 Frontier protection 105 Polecat cousin 106 Looked to be 107 Polecat cousin 108 It clicks open 109 Watch again, as a movie 114 Hogwarts messengers 116 Start to bat? 117 ’60s TV talking animal 118 Go for the gold 119 Fabled favorite 120 Politico Bayh 121 Dripping sandwich, maybe 123 Bambi’s aunt 124 Symbol of peace 126 “That’s really something!”

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design Gymnast Kerri who performed an iconic vault in the 1996 Olympics 23 Uncivilized 25 Sarcophagus symbol 28 Grain appendage 31 NBA’s Hawks, on scoreboards 33 Avoided on the job 35 “__ Grows in Brooklyn” 36 Coll. football’s Seminoles 37 “Alas!” 38 Toss from office 39 Calculator feature, for short 40 First name in Norse navigators 41 Half an approval 42 Twisted 47 1978 Broadway jazz revue 48 Tease 49 First of the second nine 52 Grows 53 Switch positions 55 Clean and then some 58 Cold War concern 60 Much 61 Mentalist Geller 62 Selassie worshiper 64 Put a price on a flight? 67 High-end hotel amenity 68 Sussex smell 69 Logical opening? 71 1988 Ryan / Quaid remake 72 Short lines at the register? 73 Two-piece suits 78 Where to see a wake 80 Still-life fruit, perhaps 82 “Ghost Town” (2008) actress 83 Almost a ringer 84 “Joy of Cooking” 20

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1 “Dallas” was one 5 Like much cheese 9 Improv style 13 They’re surrounded by agua 18 Developer’s plot, perhaps 19 Round number? 20 Dingbat 21 Ohno on skates 22 Hairdo for experts? 24 Hairdo for gadget lovers? 26 Roll at a nursery 27 Honored athlete 29 John in Dublin 30 Flier over Hawaii 31 It may follow you, but not me 32 Tricks 34 Old German leader 36 Hairdo for sportscasters? 43 Only NFL coach with a perfect season 44 Undistinctive marks 45 “No man __ island ... ”: Donne 46 “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation” speaker 50 Sounds of uncertainty 51 Household hisser 54 Enzyme ending 56 Oil-rich fed. 57 System of values 59 Hairdo for certain Germans? 63 Secretly includes in the 108Down loop, briefly 65 Ambien maker 66 “__ gonna happen” 67 U2 philanthropist 70 Work on, as a soundtrack 74 Having less vermouth, as a martini 75 “Family Guy” creator MacFarlane 76 Footnote word 77 More work 79 Gossip 81 Hairdo for daring gymnasts? 86 Car shopper’s option

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Staying the Course “The Universe does not speak English; it speaks frequency.” -unknown

hen choosing to continue upgrading consciousness, it is important to maintain an open heart and to not lower our frequency when we inevitably encounter people who are annoying, hurtful, disappointing or disrespectful. This does not mean you condone negative behavior. It is possible to keep an open heart, remain calm, still speak up and/or walk away… without being hooked. Here are some valuable perspectives for maintaining inner peace and taking the emotional high road no matter who, no matter what.

Why It Matters The Universe only understands frequency, and we are in a constant frequency feedback loop with the Universe. It returns experiences to us based on the energies of our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions. By the Universal Law of Attraction, the Universe will match whatever energies we radiate. Broadcasting lower frequency energies related to fear and anger informs the Universe to respond by bringing more of the same into our experience. If you want to upgrade consciousness, you’ll want to experiment with the following big-picture perspectives about people and use them to stay on the high road.

THREE EXPANSIVE PERCEPTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE 1. The actions of others are not personal to you. Even when they are directed your way or projected onto you, the actions of others are actually a reflection of what’s going on within them. This does not excuse less than considerate behavior. However, being mindful of this truth relieves you from automatically lowering your frequency to meet theirs. If you are “ hangry” or have a headache or are worried about money and are therefore being irritable toward others, your behavior is not about the other person. Likewise, if someone is being unfriendly, barring any rudeness on your part, it’s not about you. You can safely assume something in their world is troubling them.

That’s the “let go” moment. Energy is frequency transmitted invisibly and it is reacted to with or without accompanying words. When you are able to replace your automatic aggravation response with compassion for the other person, you’ll be maintaining your positive frequency, which might even help them to feel better.

2. Learn to accept people as they are. Acceptance means to neither condemn nor condone. We’d like to think our job is to fix everyone. This is a false assumption, which typically backfires. Broadcasting that we want a person to change, comes across to them as saying they are not okay and not enough. That message feels awful and sends a person into resist, defend and/or attack mode. If we react to their reactivity, then we are down the frequency tubes as well. People change if /when they want to embark on that personal work. It is always more productive to focus instead on your own evolution. That keeps your frequency high. The byproduct of upgrading yourself often inspires others to make their own positive shifts.

3. Everyone is doing the best they can with their givens. Everyone is in a different place on the same journey to eventually free themselves from limiting physical, emotional, mental and spiritual patterning that they have accumulated along the way in this and other lifetimes. Old patterns block your ability to step into your higher potential as an individual and for all of us as a collective. It is no small feat to identify, acknowledge, heal and release aspects that no longer serve your greater good. It is no small feat to align body, mind and soul in this reality and be able to live from the love and wisdom of your soul. Thankfully you are also given all you need in the “software” of your current life to move forward in the process. Free will is a gift we all have which allows us to choose the high road, to operate from higher frequencies as consistently as possible, and to therefore evolve with more grace and ease no matter what is going on. As you develop your evolutionary tool kit, please be sure to include regular doses of self-love and self-compassion along the way. PJH

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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When Louise Kennedy, an equine veterinarian from Ireland who has worked in Australia for the past two years on a skilled-worker visa, decided to stay in the country, she had to take the Pearson Test of English as part of her requirements for permanent residency. Imagine her surprise when, as a native English speaker with two university degrees, she flunked the oral component of the computer-based test. “There’s obviously a flaw in their computer software when a person with perfect oral fluency cannot get enough points,” Kennedy said. For its part, Pearson has denied that there is any problem with its test or scoring “engine.” Kennedy will pursue a spouse visa so she can remain with her Australian husband.

New World Order

In Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, near Plattsburgh, N.Y., the Canadian military is building a refugee camp to house asylum-seekers coming from the United States, where recent migrants fear the current administration’s immigration crackdown. Montreal has already turned its Olympic Stadium into a shelter for refugees. The new camp would house 500 people in heated tents while they wait for refugee applications to be processed. More than 3,300 people crossed into Quebec from the U.S. between January and June 2017.

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United States Border Patrol agent Robert Rocheleau and Alburgh, Vt., resident Mark Johnson, 53, exchanged tense words on Aug. 3 when Johnson climbed down from his tractor and demanded to know why Rocheleau wasn’t doing more to apprehend illegal immigrants. Johnson said people working in the U.S. illegally were damaging his livelihood. (Alburgh is just south of the border with Canada.) After the exchange, Johnson got back in his tractor and, as Rocheleau reported, “While passing by my vehicle, Mr. Johnson … engaged the PTO shaft to his trailer and covered my vehicle in cow manure.” Johnson pleaded not guilty in Vermont Superior Court in North Hero, saying he didn’t know the car was nearby when he turned on his manure spreader.

Picky, Picky

The Ford Motor Co. has hired smell-testers for its research labs in China, where consumers don’t like the “new-car” smell that many Americans seek out. Ford calls the testers its “golden noses,” who sniff materials such as upholstery, steering wheels and carpet. Testers are subjected to a stringent selection process and must not smoke or drink alcohol. “In North America,” said Andy Pan, supervisor for material engineering at a Ford facility in China, “people want a new-car smell and will even buy a ‘new-car’ spray to make older cars feel new and fresh. In China, it’s the opposite.”

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Will a routine trip to carry out an errand take you on a detour to the suburbs of the promised land? Will you worry you’re turning into a monster, only to find the freakishness is just a phase that you had to pass through on your way to unveiling some of your dormant beauty? Will a provocative figure from the past lead you on a productive wild-goose chase into the future? These are some of the possible storylines I’ll be monitoring as I follow your progress in the coming weeks. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Let’s meet in the woods after midnight and tell each other stories about our origins, revealing the secrets we almost forgot we had. Let’s sing the songs that electrified our emotions all those years ago when we first fell in love with our lives. Starlight will glow on our ancient faces. The fragrance of loam will seep into our voices like rainwater feeding the trees’ roots. We’ll feel the Earth turning on its axis, and sense the rumble of future memories coming to greet us. We’ll join hands, gaze into the dreams in each other’s eyes, and dive as deep as we need to go to find hidden treasures.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Now that you’re getting a taste of what life would be like if you ruled the world, I’ll recommend a manual. It’s called How To Start Your Own Country, by Erwin Strauss. (Get a free peek here: tinyurl.com/YouSovereign.) You could study it for tips on how to obtain national sovereignty, how to recruit new citizens and how to avoid paying taxes to yourself. (P.S.: You can make dramatic strides toward being the boss of yourself and your destiny even without forming your own nation.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) James Loewen wrote a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. He said, for instance, that during the Europeans’ invasion and conquest of the continent, it wasn’t true that Native Americans scalped white settlers. In fact, it was mostly the other way around: whites scalped Indians. Here’s another example: The famous blind and deaf person Helen Keller was not a sentimental spokesperson for sweetness and light, but rather a radical feminist and socialist who advocated revolution. I invite you to apply Loewen’s investigative approach to your personal past, Gemini. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to uncover hidden, incomplete and distorted versions of your history—and correct them. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Roger Hodge writes books now, but when he worked for Harper’s magazine, he had an unusual specialty. He gathered heaps of quirky facts, and assembled several at a time into long sentences that had a nutty poetic grace. Here’s an example: “British cattle have regional accents, elephants mourn their dead, nicotine sobers drunk rats, scientists have concluded that teenagers are physically incapable of being considerate, and clinical trials of an ‘orgasmatron’ are underway in North Carolina.” I’m offering Hodge as a worthy role model for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Be curious, miscellaneous and free-flowing. Let your mind wander luxuriantly as you make unexpected connections. Capitalize on the potential blessings that appear through zesty twists and tangy turns.

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In Japan, you can buy a brand of candy that’s called The Great Buddha’s Nose Snot. Each piece consists of a rice puff that resembles the Buddha’s nose filled with bits of brown sugar that symbolize the snot. The candy-making company assures customers that eating this treat brings them good luck. I invite you to be equally earthy and irreverent about your own spiritual values in the coming days. You’re in prime position to humanize your relationship with divine influences … to develop a more visceral passion for your holiest PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ideals … to translate your noblest aspirations into I’m always in favor of you cultivating a robust relationship practical, enjoyable actions. with your primal longings. But I’ll be rooting extra hard for

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Science fiction proposes that there are alternate worlds alongside the visible one—hidden, yes, but perhaps accessible with the right knowledge or luck. In recent years, maverick physicists have given the idea more credibility, theorizing that parallel universes exist right next to ours. Even if these hypothetical places aren’t literally real, they serve as an excellent metaphor. Most of us are so thoroughly embedded in our own chosen niche that we are oblivious to the realities that other people inhabit. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Aquarius, because it’s a favorable time to tap into those alternate, parallel, secret, unknown or unofficial realms. Wake up to the rich sources that have been so close to you, but so far away.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Free your mind and your ass will follow,” funk pioneer George Clinton sings in his song “Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts.” And what’s the best way to free your mind? Clinton advises you to “Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind.” That’s because the ideas you obsess on will eventually grow into the experiences you attract into your life. “Good thoughts bring forth good fruit,” he croons, while “Bullshit thoughts rot your meat.” Any questions, Taurus? According to my astrological analysis, this is the best possible counsel for you to receive right now.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) There was a time when not even the most ambitious explorers climbed mountains. In the western world, the first time it happened was in 1492, when a Frenchman named Antoine de Ville ascended to the top of Mont Aiguille, using ladders, ropes and other props. I see you as having a kinship with de Ville in the coming weeks, Capricorn. I’d love to see you embark on a big adventure that would involve you trying on the role of a pioneer. This feat wouldn’t necessarily require strenuous training and physical courage. It might be more about daring creativity and moral courage.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’re half-intoxicated by your puzzling adventures—and half-bewildered, as well. Sometimes you’re spinning out fancy moves, sweet tricks and surprising gambits. On other occasions, you’re stumbling and bumbling and mumbling. Are you really going to keep up this rhythm? I hope so, because your persistence in navigating through the challenging fun could generate big rewards. Like what, for example? Like the redemptive transformation of a mess into an asset.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I don’t usually recommend giving gifts with strings attached. On the contrary, I advise you to offer your blessings without having any expectations at all. Generosity often works best when the recipients are free to use it any way they see fit. In the coming weeks, however, I’m making an exception to my rule. According to my reading of the omens, now is a time to be specific and forceful about the way you’d like your gifts to be used. As an example of how not to proceed, consider the venture capitalist who donated $25,000 to the University of Colorado. All he got in return was a rest room in a campus building named after him. If you give away $25,000, Scorpio, make sure you at least get a whole building named after you.

you to do that during the next 11 months. I hope you will dig deep to identify your primal longings, and will revere them as the wellspring of your life energy. Further, I hope you will figure out all the tricks and strategies you will need to fulfill them. Here’s a hint about how to achieve the best results as you do this noble work: Define your primal longings with as much precision as you can, so that you will never pursue passing fancies that bear just a superficial resemblance to the real things.

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