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SINGLE-TRACK MIND It looks like Mother Nature decided that we’ve had enough riding on our trails for this year. It’s not surprising, but it’s always a bummer. My fingers are crossed that we can get back out there but I think our window is closing. If you do try, be smart. Any damage that is done to the trails now will be there in the spring time and that is one more rut that will need to be navigated…or fixed. If you don’t have plans to travel to ride this fall, start thinking about winter maintenance for your bike. It treated you well all summer so it’s time for a little payback. Think of it like storage wax for your skis. If you’re mechanically savvy, start by cleaning your entire bike. Don’t use a high pressure washer and be judicious with water around bearings. Dry it thoroughly, paying special attention to suspension seals, pivots, drivetrain and anywhere water can

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puddle. Look for cracks or damage to the frame and wheels. Check bearings for play or grinding. Replace as needed. Make sure all your bolts are tightened to their specified torque rating. Pull your tires and clean out the sealant. Check your wear parts like brake pads and rotors, chain and derailleur cable(s). Lube your chain. If all this sounds like too much, all the local shops are slowing down and would be psyched to help and give it some professional love. And they can freshen up your suspension or send it to the proper manufacturer. Don’t wait until spring or you’ll be waiting to ride because everyone else will procrastinate and shops will be backed up for service. If you’re not getting a new bike for next year, make sure yours will be ready to go. - Cary Smith

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BY METEOROLOGIST JIM WOODMENCEY

October began with cool temperatures and a little snow in the valley, continuing a theme that began during that last week or so of September. October averages 1.17 inches of precipitation, however, last year we had a record breaking wet October, with 5.03 inches of precipitation in town. That 5.03 inches in October 2016 blew away the old record of 3.21 inches set back in 1972. Average snowfall in October is 1.5 inches, and the snowiest October on record is 1972, which had 18 inches of snow in town that month.

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At the end of last week, when skies were clear overnight, the early morning temperatures had dropped into the mid 20’s. Average low temperatures this week also happen to be in the mid 20’s, which means more frequent frosty mornings. Record low temperatures during this week are in the single digits to lower teens. The coldest temperature we have ever experienced during this week dates back to October 9th, 1968 when the thermometer registered a brisk 7-degrees.

With daylight hours dwindling more each day, our average high temperatures are beginning to show a more marked decline. Average high temperatures last week were in the upper 60’s. This week, those average highs are down into the lower 60’s. Days with highs in the 80’s will become a rarity now, one exceptionally warm early October day was back on October 4th, 1958 when the afternoon high temperature reached 84-degrees.

NORMAL HIGH 63 NORMAL LOW 26 RECORD HIGH IN 1958 84 RECORD LOW IN 1968 7

THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.17 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 5 inches (2016) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 1.5 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 18 inches

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DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS

The Alabama special election and Trump’s attack on Kaepernick point toward an even more racist Republican future.

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Trump also spoke of “our heritage” when he talked about taking confederate monuments down, making it clear exactly what heritage he means. But it seems that Trump is trying— and perhaps—succeeding in subverting Kaepernick’s protest against white supremacy into something more about “unity” and Americanness than about police violence against African Americans. “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!,” Trump tweeted shortly after the election, but before he took office. It was a strategic move intended to paint his enemies as enemies of America. The attacks on black athletes seems so deliberate that it appears as if he is doing the same thing here. Trump wants to identify himself as much as possible with America itself so that his critics will come off as unpatriotic. But the Alabama special election shows the political danger of that for an anti-government demagogue like Trump: How does he identify himself with the nation and the flag, while remaining free from the taint of the government and the “swamp” he is supposed to be draining. This is why, for people like Stone, Trump’s support of the establishment candidate was a disaster—and why Trump increasingly relies on racism to reach his base. If Trump continues to appeal to whiteness, he may actually be able to keep working class and middle class white people on his side and keep them fighting against working and middle class black people, with whom they share obvious economic interests. That is the only way the Republicans can win. Things will get worse. PJH

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ast week, the populist theocratic authoritarian former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore beat Luther Strange in a special election to fulfil the rest of Jeff Sessions’ term in the Senate. Strange, who had been filling the seat, was endorsed by President Trump, even though Moore, who pulled a gun out at a rally right before the special election, is far more Trumpian than Strange. In some ways, he is even more Trumpian than Trump. Moore’s closest analogue may be fascist former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, whom the president recently pardoned. Like Arpaio and Trump, Moore was a dedicated “birther,” who believed Barack Obama was not really an American. He was booted from the bench, twice, for defying the ruling of a higher court. In one of those cases, he refused to remove the 10 commandments from his courthouse, arguing that they are the foundation of the law. Strange is no progressive—the race was for Jeff Sessions’ Alabama seat after all—and still carries the stink of having

President had missed an opportunity. “He could have sent [Republican Senators] a very strong signal of what will happen when you cross your president and instead he got conned into supporting Luther Strange,” Stone said. “Roy Moore will be a more loyal supporter of Trump’s reforms than Luther Strange would be. That’s what’s so Kafkaesque about this whole thing. It’s why so many people who like Donald Trump voted for Roy Moore and not Luther Strange. I think they recognized that Strange was the establishment candidate.” The moral of the story, according to Stone: “Don’t take Republican political advice from Jared Kushner. He doesn’t know anything about that politics. He’s a liberal Democrat. He doesn’t know anything about this. Why would you follow his advice?” “I don’t think Sessions was involved in the Strange endorsement,” said Stone, a noted libertine, who is no fan of puritanical A.G., crushing any hopes that Strange’s defeat might lead Trump to finally can the virulent racist drug warrior Sessions. If there is a single Trumpian ideology becoming clear after a chaotic 9 months in office, it is white supremacy. And there is no way that will not color an election in the Deep South. It was at his Huntsville Alabama speech that was supposed to be bringing support to Strange that Trump called football players who kneel during the national anthem “sons of bitches.” He said that athletes, like Colin Kaepernick, who began “taking a knee” in 2016 to protest police violence against African Americans were a “total disrespect of our heritage, a total disrespect of everything that we stand for. Everything that we stand for.”

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been appointed by then-governor Robert Bentley, who later resigned after pleading guilty on two misdemeanor charges. Strange’s successor recused himself from the investigation of the governor and allegations that Strange made a deal not to investigate him in exchange for the appointment, are rampant. “There is the question of how Strange got his appointment from a governor who is on his way to jail anyway, the guy who he is supposed to be investigating. Did he horse trade for the appointment?” asked Roger Stone, the often vile and reactionary weed-smoking, swinging, long-time Trump-adviser with a tattoo of Nixon on his back. Stone testified before the House Intelligence Committee about his role in any possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia on the same day as the special election in Alabama and had been making the rounds with the press. But, the inveterate electioneer and establishment-hater was still happy to dish on Republican infighting. “Moore has run statewide several times previously and has always had a hard ceiling in terms of getting about 25% of the vote. The fact that he was able to win this primary with the incredibly popular president of the United States—popular in Alabama, popular among Republican primary voters—supporting his opponent, really speaks to the disgust of the base of Republicans with the Republican party leadership,” Stone said. “I think they were voting against Mitch McConnell, voting against an establishment candidate. I mean it’s a pretty stunning victory.” Still, Stone thinks that by not endorsing the populist Moore, who was heavily supported by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and his Breitbart website, the

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THE NEW WEST Ursid Rock Star A trip back to the dawn of Grizzly 399’s fame BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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etween living in a region for a long while and writing about it, you find that words yield snapshots. This one flashes forward from 11 years ago when I penned a column titled “It’s a bear soap opera in the northern valley.” How soon we forget that once upon a time not so long ago, Jackson Hole Grizzly 399, the matriarch of Pilgrim Creek, was just another female bear. Neither she nor humans could have imagined how these ensuing years would unfold, catapulting her to global recognition as a beloved emblem for her species. 399 is today 21 years old with two cubs of the year and 17 total bruins in her bloodline, about half of which have died in various kinds of run-ins with people. I offer this old column now to serve as a moment for reflection. It began: “Last autumn, I crawled into a grizzly bear day bed. I began research for a story about Ursus arctos horribilis, joining members of the Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Study Team in the backcountry just east of Jackson Lake. The study team, whose scientific origins go back to the 1950s when pioneering biologists Frank and John Craighead headquartered themselves in the Tetons, has an ongoing monitoring effort that is delivering valuable information about how bears live and where they prowl. Based out of a trailer parked at Colter Bay, Shannon Podruzny and her crew have gathered thousands of data points from collared bears that are being tracked via satellite and through radio telemetry. One of the fascinating subplots involves the wanderings of Bear 474, a female griz of breeding age. According to Podruzny, she’s part of an ursid soap opera playing out along the northern tier of Jackson Hole roughly between the western side of the Tetons in Idaho and the deepest roadless terrain in the Teton Wilderness. In daily episodes of “As The Grizzly World Turns,” females with cubs, which represent the most valuable component of the larger ecosystem’s bear population,

“First Light - Grizzly Bear,” photo courtesy Thomas D. Mangelsen are demonstrat(mangelsen.com) ing what bears do when stay out 399, who has three cubs and is inhabiting of trouble. These family unit matriarchs are the environs around Colter Bay. While making extrapolations based on teaching offspring how to kill elk calves; they are exposing them to the full smor- a single bear mother is unwise, what can gasbord of natural plants and other prey; be suggested is that a female with three and they’re mentoring impressionable cubs is a good thing. It means 399 had cubs how to survive discreetly in a realm plenty of food to get her fat enough last fall to carry through a successful pregnancy; populated by people. By and large, said Chuck Schwartz, and, if she gets through the rest of this head of the Grizzly Bear Study Team year without having a conflict with tourbased in Bozeman, the mamas are doing ists or getting shot by hunters, her attena pretty good job of tolerating humans. tive parenting will likely be passed on to Now it’s our turn to keep thinking about another generation. Now and decades from now, the fate of how we can continue to do our part as the the Greater Yellowstone grizzly populabear population expands. Schwartz does not concern him- tion will be assessed based upon numbers self with the politics of delisting the of bears and security of prime habitat. Yet Yellowstone griz population, which is to as Podruzny and Schwartz note, healthy say, supporting or decrying the Fish and populations are built one family unit at Wildlife Service’s proposal to remove this a time. If the Grizzly Bear Study Team is zealfamous group of bears from federal proous about anything, it is in hammering tection under the Endangered Species home the points that human respect for Act. It’s clear that the states, the land man- bears, and our willingness to make room agement agencies, conservationists, nat- for them, will determine their persistence, ural resource extraction groups, hunters which, based upon surveys, a majority of and motorized recreationists and others Americans support. “We have to understand how the are engaged in that battle which is certain bear interacts with its environment to be resolved one day only in court. In the meantime, the study team is qui- and how we affect its habitat in order etly going about its work to divine insights to ensure the long-term survival of the into bear ecology, which ultimately forms species,” he said. “We can’t just close the baseline for how management deci- our eyes and hope it works out. That is naive. Society has already tried that sions in the future will be made. This spring, researchers were hoping approach. We almost lost the bear.” PJH that Bear 474, following a series of “romanTodd Wilkinson, editor of mountaintic interludes” with suiting males, might journal.org, is author of Grizzlies of Pilgrim emerge from her den near the northern Creek (mangelsen.com/grizzly) about end of Jackson Lake with cubs. But that didn’t happen. 474 is back but famous Jackson Hole Grizzly 399 featuring without young. Instead, another female 150 pictures by renowned local wildlife being closely tracked by Podruzny is Bear photographer Tom Mangelsen.

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Kristi Lyn Goss, 44, former administrative assistant to the Garland County, Ark., Judge Rick Davis, went all out when she racked up about $200,000 wor th of debt on the county credit card between 2011 and May 2016, according to The Hot Springs Sentinel-Record. Among the many items Goss purchased on the county’s account were tickets to Arkansas Razorbacks games, sequined throw pillows and a tuxedo for her dog. Goss pleaded guilty on Sept. 11 to six felony fraud counts; her sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 22. Davis issued a statement at Goss’ arrest noting that he had “inherited” her from a former judge.

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Campaign Follies

Incumbent mayoral candidate Charles Pender erected his campaign signs in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada, on Aug. 30, but when he woke up on Aug. 31, he found that they had been vandalized—with hot dogs. CBC News reported that someone had cut round holes in the signs and inserted hot dogs to look as if Pender was smoking a cigar. Pender called it “minor mischief” but noted that the signs are expensive. He called the police, but he feels it’s unlikely the frank bandit will be caught. He hopes to turn the incident into a good laugh with a “bun-raiser” later in the election season.

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Recalculating …

A movie stuntman in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, put his skills to work when a potential buyer of

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Jerry Sargeant, 39, of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England, who claims on his website to be able to cure cancer via Skype, has been convicted in Westminster Magistrate’s Court of violating the U.K.’s 1939 Cancer Act, which prohibits advertising services that “offer to treat any person for cancer.” The Daily Mail reports that Sargeant, who calls himself “The Facilitator,” says he discovered his talent for “Star Magic” when he saw a woman’s soul fly out of her body during a car accident in Romania. He also claims to have flown to Alpha Centauri on a spaceship and returned to Earth just minutes later. Sargeant’s healing sessions cost 90 pounds for 15 minutes, but he told police that appointments can go up to an hour because “you can’t put a time on magic.” He will be sentenced on Nov. 8.

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The Fremont, Calif., Police Department responded late on Sept. 17 to a Safeway store where 39-year-old Adam Kowarsh, armed with a French baguette, was on a rampage. According to SFGate, workers told Kowarsh he needed to pay for his items and leave the store, but when one employee tried to calm him, Kowarsh responded by pushing him and then hitting him across the face with the baguette. The Safeway employee was unhurt, but Kowarsh was charged with suspicion of battery and a parole violation.

No Pain, No Gain

Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire, England, have discovered the remains of a nearly 200-year-old colony of utopians espousing “free love and wife-swapping,” according to Metro News. The Manea Fen community—established in 1838 by Methodist minister William Hodson, who championed a community free from marriage, money or monogamy—once numbered 150 members, but lasted only 25 months before succumbing to “personality clashes and objections to the practice of free love.” Lead researcher Dr. Marcus Brittain believes “they got the wrong people, they had no labor skills and put in no time and effort, they were drunk, they went into local brothels, and thought they could build a utopia without breaking a sweat.”

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Police officers in Surf City, N.C., stopped Zachary Kingsbury, 20, of Lynnwood, Wash., on Aug. 30 and asked him to step out of his car because they had spotted contraband inside. Kingsbury complied, but then took off running, heading toward the beach—and didn’t stop when he hit the ocean. According to the Port City Daily, Kingsbury continued swimming for almost an hour as police tracked him with a drone-mounted camera, which allowed them to also see the shark trailing him in the water. At that point, Surf City Police Chief Ron Shanadan said, the chase “became a rescue operation,” and multiple emergency crews were dispatched to pick up the fugitive. Kingsbury was taken into custody in North Topsail Beach and charged with resisting arrest and possession of marijuana and methamphetamine.

7 THINGS OVERHEARD IN THE FIRST SNOW

7. “Are you SURE we can’t afford to live in town?” 6.

“Don’t worry, it’ll clear up in 9 months.”

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4. “But my kale!” 3. “Does building a snowman support the patriarchy?” 2. “Do you wanna build a snooooowmaaaaaaan?” 1. “Jackson hasn’t been this visibly white since yesterday.”

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Well, it WAS dark … Gabriel Bishop of Sellersville, Pa., put all his faith in his car’s GPS system on the evening of Sept. 9, even as it directed him to follow a bike path running alongside the Lehigh River in Easton. According to lehighvalleylive.com, when the path led under a low bridge, Bishop realized his mistake and tried to back up, but ended up rolling his car into the river. Easton police reported that he was uninjured and received citations for multiple traffic offenses.

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Lisa Faye Stout, 53, came up with an unusual scapegoat for the mess police officers found in her room on Sept. 10 at New Castle, Indiana’s Raintree Inn, according to the Muncie Star Press. Vampires had “destroyed everything,” Stout told the officers, who were responding to reports that she had shown up in the hotel bar wearing no pants or undergarments. The front desk clerk also said Stout spit on her and threatened to kill her. As she was taken into custody, Stout spit some more and threatened to “slice” officers’ throats. Stout was charged in Henry County court with two counts of battery by bodily waste, intimidation and criminal mischief.

his Mercedes Benz tried to take off with the car on Sept. 13. The Telegraph reported that Matt Spooner met the “buyer” and gave a test drive in the car, but the thief wouldn’t get out and started to take off. So, Spooner told reporters, “I ran round to the front and asked him politely to step out. I then ended up on the front of the vehicle and it began to move.” The driver entered a highway, but when he finally slowed down, Spooner let go and “skidded off to the side of the curb,” suffering cuts and bruises to his face. While Spooner creates stunts for film crews, he advises, “It’s a bad plan to do them yourself.”

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As Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida in early September, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office announced that registered sex offenders, who would not be able to shelter with other citizens, “need someplace to go just like any other citizen.” The Tampa Bay Times reported that sex offenders were directed to Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel. Pasco County Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Doll noted that offenders found in other shelters where children were present were subject to arrest, but said the predator shelter would welcome offenders from other counties. In nearby Polk County, officials were not so generous, telling sex offenders, “If you are a predator, find somewhere else to go,” and announcing that they would be checking IDs at the door and arresting anyone with an outstanding warrant.

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THE BUZZ

Iced Out ICE policy changes mean no one—from Jackson and beyond—are safe from crackdowns. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

ad news for undocumented residents of Jackson and beyond: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently changed their policy regarding targeted undocumented individuals, and it’s left everyone—including local law enforcement—in the dark. The one thing everyone’s sure of under the ICE changes, though? It looks like no one—even those without criminal records—are protected. Exactly when the policy change took effect, or why, is unclear, because despite promises to local law enforcement that officials would inform them of any changes. Sheriff Jim Whalen said he was in the dark until about two weeks ago. “It’s disappointing,” Whalen said. “ICE always told us, ‘If we change our policies, we’ll let you know.’ And that’s what we told our community.” Now Whalen says his department has to deliver the message of a change they didn’t even know existed until ICE showed up in town last week. Under old policy, ICE was only

interested in undocumented people with a criminal background who were perceived threats to public safety. Under the new policy, anyone suspected of being in violation of immigration law is now a target. “There’s no protected class now,” Whalen said. Whalen only learned of this policy change after local attorney Rosie Reed of Trefonas Law PC called him and asked if he was aware that ICE was detaining people for “immigration violations only.” He wasn’t. Whalen checked his records and verified that Reed’s information was correct: ICE detained at least five people last week, at least one of whom had no criminal record. “I called ICE immediately, what gives here?” Whalen said. ICE officials in Denver effectively said, “Sorry, we thought you already knew.” They then flew their deputy director into town to meet with Whalen and Chief of Police Todd Smith. “He pretty much said exactly as we said, they have a policy shift, but he doesn’t believe it’s gonna change really much here at all,” Whalen said. Whalen doesn’t know the reason for the change, nor does he know exactly when it happened. But he wants the community to know that on his end, nothing will change. “We are business as usual,” he said. Whalen said the sheriff’s department will not detain anybody taken into custody for immigration violations only.

“We won’t accept them into the jail. We will still do it for other folks that have committed law violations, but we won’t for immigration violation alone. Nothing changes as far as our operations go.” Any time ICE comes to town, Whalen braces himself for a wave of panic. Until recently, he always knew how to diffuse it: Nothing has changed, this was a routine visit, only individuals with criminal records were detained. No need to worry. This news, he said, is “certainly a departure from what we told you last month.” But he still doesn’t want anyone to panic. “I still don’t think we’re there,” he said. “Continue with your lives as you have been.” But the new policy raises questions about who ICE is targeting, and how. As far as Whalen understands, ICE uses an “informational hotline” to collect information about people who might be undocumented. But there’s no way for them to filter that information. ICE’s Denver office did not respond to requests for comment. “Don’t you see what that could create?” Whalen questioned. Suspicion, fear, distrust. People saying, ‘You pissed me off today so I’m gonna call ICE.’” Whalen hopes that’s an extreme and unlikely scenario, but ICE has the authority to act on any and all information, even if it isn’t substantiated or corroborated. “I fear that other things could happen as a result,” Whalen said. He’s also a little disappointed that

ICE won’t deliver their messages to the community directly. “They don’t seem to care enough about the communities that they’re affecting,” Whalen said. “If I had a policy change that was going to affect 25 percent of the population, I’d stand in front of them and face the music.” Still, Whalen says overall his relationship with ICE remains trustworthy. He doesn’t anticipate any big round-ups or raids. But the policy shift certainly aligns with President Trump’s Jan. 25 order to buckle down on the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Trefonas Law reminds immigrants that they do not have to talk to officers unless the officer has a warrant, nor do they have to reveal any identifying information about them or their families. And Whalen wants the sheriff’s department to remain an office of public safety, not of fear. “Living in fear is the worst way to live,” he said. “We all live with some risk in mind, but none so visceral as believing at any moment somebody can come take me away from my kids, family, something like that. It’s a tough way to live a life.” Whalen, Smith, and lawyers from Trefonas Law will be available to answer more questions and provide any further clarity on policy changes Thursday night at St. John’s Episcopal Church from 5:30 to 7 p.m in Jackson. “We just wanna be able to stand in front of folks and take questions,” Whalen said. “We’ll be the messengers. Don’t kill the messengers.” PJH

Internet scam artists tell local house hunters to peek in windows of bogus rentals—then send money. BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

rent, asking that the money be wired to an account rather than delivered in person. She didn’t trust them. No one thought much of it. It seems she might have been onto something. Sheriff dispatch admitted these things happen, and the best thing to do if you suspect something fishy is to report it. Internet safety 101: Don’t’ give personal information away to strangers. Don’t trust someone who tells you to “peek through the windows,“ then wire cash. The housing market is, indeed, a vulnerable one, and displaced renters are desperate to put a roof over their heads. But there are still precautions to take. “Locals generally put their phone numbers in [the ad],” Bar-or said. “Without a phone number, that’s when you know it’s likely a bogus ad.” The ad has since been taken down, but the perpetrator is still unknown. Bar-or just wants internet browsers to exercise caution. “It’d be nice to let people in the community know that it’s happening,” she said. “The website is a tremendous community resource, but if someone is taken by one of these hacked ads the consequences for that person are serious.” PJH

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Still, Bar-or’s understanding was that the classified site was an online “Trash and Treasure.” People trust that name, she said, and are more willing to disclose information. “I would have never listed the property address,” Bar-or said, had she not trusted the site. And that’s the most surprising part, Bar-or said: Not that this scam is happening— “Everyone in the country knows this stuff happens,” she said. It’s that in a vulnerable market like Jackson’s, where supply is so low and demand is so high, someone (or something) is taking advantage of local rapport and desperation to fish for money. But such scams aren’t new. Housing is just the newest market. Back in April, the sheriff’s department received a handful of calls from concerned locals who had received threatening messages from a social media app demanding money in exchange for their or their family members’ lives. Someone claiming to be a local sheriff deputy called local numbers and demanded money in February, claiming there was a warrant out for their arrest for missing jury duty. This spring, a woman wandered into PJH’s office looking for housing for her newly wed daughter. She claimed to have found a handful of ads that seemed suspicious: Asking too much for a deposit, first and last months’

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ooking for housing on Classifieds Jackson Hole Media? Don’t trust listings that don’t include a local number. That’s what Cheryl Bar-or learned last week after a stranger called her claiming to have been scammed by an ad listing her property. “They copied [my] ad verbatim except the email address and phone number,” Bar-or said. Bar-or listed a one-bedroom apartment for rent on the classified website. She found tenants almost immediately—housing demand is high, supply is low. Then, last week, she got a call from a man who had come across an identical ad for her property. The rent was lower than her original listing, and there was no phone number, just an

email capture. Someone on the other end of the email address asked for first month’s rent and a security deposit, totaling $2,000. The person, or bot, even told people to “look through the windows” of the property and then send the money. Smelling a scam, the man looked up Bar-or’s address on Teton County’s GIS website. Sure enough, the ad he found was not the one she posted. He didn’t lose any money, but Bar-or says he’s not the only one to fall victim to the scam. “We’ve spoken to several of these people,” she said She even caught some on her property, trying to peek through the windows. Bar-or is unsure whether any respondents have actually spoken to a real human, or if all correspondence has happened via email. She has since reported the ad to the sheriff’s office and the FBI. Sheriff dispatch has a report, but said the case is now the FBI’s problem. But they weren’t particularly surprised at they inquiry— they’ve seen this before. Bar-or also reported the ad to KMTN, who she believed owned the classified site. “They don’t say it’s their site, but they certainly infer that it is,” Bar-or said. It isn’t. The website doesn’t actually give any helpful information about who owns it. Jackson Hole Media is unaffiliated with KMTN or any local news outlet.

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It’s excellent advice. But to get things started on the more limited scope of the top 10 stories, three main themes clearly seem evident: first, threats to public health (1. Widespread Lead Contamination Threatens Children’s Health, and Could Triple Household Water Bills. 6. Antibiotic Resistant ‘Superbugs’ Threaten Health and Foundations of Modern Medicine. 8. Maternal Mortality a Growing Threat in the U.S.); second, threats to democracy, both at home (4. Voter Suppression in the 2016 Presidential Election. 5. Big Data and Dark Money behind the 2016 Election. and .9 DNC Claims Right to Select Presidential Candidate) and abroad (10. 2016: A Record Year for Global Internet Shutdowns); and third, an out-ofcontrol military (#2. Over Six Trillion Dollars in Unaccountable Army Spending. 3. Pentagon Paid UK PR Firm for Fake Al-Qaeda Videos, and #7 The Toll of U.S. Navy Training on Wildlife in the North Pacific.). But don’t let this overview pattern blind you to other patterns you may see for yourself. Even individual stories often involve different overlapping patterns — environmental destruction and an outof-control military in No. 7, for example, or public health and infrastructure concerns in No. 1. These patterns don’t just connect problems and issues, they connect people, communities and potential solutions as well. A shared understanding of the patterns that hold us down and divide us is the key to developing better patterns to live by together. With that thought in mind, here is Project Censored’s Top 10 List for 2016-17.

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were reporting on the earliest developments in the Watergate Scandal, but their work was largely isolated, despite running in the Washington Post. They were covering it as a developing criminal case; it never crossed over into a political story until after the election. That’s a striking example of a missing pattern. It helped contribute to the founding of Project Censored by Carl Jensen, who defined censorship as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting or self-censorship — that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in its society.” In the current edition’s introduction to the list of stories, Andy Lee Roth writes, “Finding common themes across news stories helps to contextualize each item as a part of the larger narratives shaping our times.” He goes on to cite several examples spanning the top 25 list: four stories on climate change, six involving racial inequalities, four on issues involving courts, three on health issues, “at least two stories” involving the Pentagon, three on government surveillance and two involving documentary films produced by the Shell Oil Co. Roth goes on to say, “There are more connections to be identified. As we have noted in previous Censored volumes, the task of identifying common topical themes, within each year’s story list and across multiple years transforms the reader from a passive recipient of information into an active, engaged interpreter. We invite you to engage with this year’s story list in this way.”

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n America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself, and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework; Article 19 reads, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” By highlighting the right to receive information and ideas, Article 19 makes it clear that press freedom is about everyone in society, not just the press, and that government censorship is only one potential way of thwarting that right. That’s the perspective that has informed Project Censored from the beginning, more than 40 years ago. Even though Project Censored’s annual list focuses on specific censored stories, the underlying issue has never been isolated examples. They serve to highlight how far short we fall from the fully-informed public that a healthy democracy requires — and that we all require in order to live healthy, safe, productive, satisfying lives. It’s the larger patterns of missing information, hidden problems and threats that should really concern us. Each Project Censored story provides some of that information, but the annual list helps shed light on these broader patterns of what’s missing, as well as on the specifics of the stories themselves. During the 1972 election, Woodward and Bernstein

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Widespread Lead Contamination Threatens Children’s Health, and Could Triple Household Water Bills After President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, Mich based on lead contamination of the city’s water supply in January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 zip codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint. In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened high blood lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than six — about 500,000 children — have elevated blood lead levels. But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hotspots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Pennsylvania ... where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to ... Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.” What’s more, “In some pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 40 to 50 percent.” In January 2017, Schneyer and Pell reported that, based on their previous investigation, “From California to Pennsylvania, local leaders, health officials and researchers are advancing measures to protect children from the toxic threat. They include more blood-lead screening, property inspections, hazard abatement and community outreach programs.” But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan. In 2012 the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills. As Cousins reported, a January 2017 Michigan State University study found that, “while water rates are currently unaffordable for an estimated 11.9% of households, the conservative estimates of rising rates used in this study highlight that this number could grow to 35.6% in the next five years.” As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.” Sources: Joshua Schneyer and M.B. Pell, “Unsafe at Any Level: Millions of American Children Missing Early Lead Tests, Reuters Finds,” Reuters, June 9, 2016, http://www. reuters.com/investigates/special-report/lead-poisoning-testing-gaps/. M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer, “Off the Charts: The Thousands of U.S. Locales Where Lead Poisoning is Worse Than in Flint,” Reuters, December 19, 2016, http:// www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/. Farron Cousins, “America is Suffering from a Very Real Water Crisis That Few are Acknowledging,” DeSmogBlog, January 24, 2017, https://www.DeSmogBlog. com/2017/01/24/america-suffering-very-real-water-crisis-few-are-acknowledging.

Over Six Trillion Dollars in Unaccountable Army Spending

In 19 9 6, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits, but a July 2016 report by the Department of Defense’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades. As Dave Lindorff reported for This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress — what it was spent on, how well it was spent, or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added. The report appeared at a time when, “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare.... Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in pervasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending ... even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.” In March 2017, after Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The Guardian that, “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.” The most recent DoD audit deadline was September 2017, yet neither the Pentagon, Congress, nor the media seem to have paid any attention. Sources: Dave Lindorff, “The Pentagon Money Pit: $6.5 Trillion in Unaccountable Army Spending, and No DOD Audit for the Past Two Decades,” This Can’t Be Happening!, August 17, 2016, http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/3262. Thomas Hedges, “The Pentagon Has Never been Audited. That’s Astonishing,” Guardian, March 20, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/ mar/20/pentagon-never-audited-astonishing-military-spending.

“the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending ... even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.”

Voter Suppression in the 2016 Presidential Election

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Sources: Ari Berman, “Welcome to the First Presidential Election Since Voting Rights Act Gutted,” Rolling Stone, June 23, 2016, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/welcome-to-the-first-presidential-election-since-voting-rightsact-gutted-20160623. Sarah A. Harvard, “How Did the ‘Shelby County v. Holder’ Supreme Court Decision Change Voting Rights Laws?,” Mic, July 29, 2016, https://mic.com/articles/150092/how-did-the-shelby-county-v-holder-supreme-court-decisionchange-voting-rights-laws. Ari Berman, “This Election is being Rigged—But Not by Democrats,” Nation, October 17, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/article/this-election-is-being-rigged/. A.J. Vicens, “John Roberts Gutted the Voting Rights Act. Jeff Sessions is Poised to Finish It Off,” Mother Jones, November 28, 2016, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/voting-rights-act-whats-to-come-jeff-sessions-trump. Ari Berman, “GOP Voter Suppression and the Trump Win,” part of the feature “The Overlooked, UnderReported and Ignored Stories of 2016,” Moyers & Co., December 28, 2016, http://billmoyers.com/story/ overlooked-reported-ignored-stories-2016/. Ari Berman, “Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748),” Nation, May 9, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/.

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The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and — most disturbing — fake al-Qaeda propaganda films.

Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive — and questionable — operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011. The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and — most disturbing — fake al-Qaeda propaganda films. A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the Bureau that he was given precise instructions for production of fake al-Qaeda films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former General David Petraeus — the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq — and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘grey area.’” The reporters “traced the firm’s Iraq work through U.S. army contracting censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Defense Department’s inspector general, as well as Bell Pottinger’s corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda,” as well as interviewing former officials and contractors involved in information operations in Iraq. Documents show that Bell Pottinger employed as many as three hundred British and Iraqi staff at one point; and its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million per year on average. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in midst of so much focus on “fake news” here in the United States. Sources: Crofton Black and Abigail FieldingSmith, “Fake News and False Flags: How the Pentagon Paid a British PR Firm $500 Million for Top Secret Iraq Propaganda,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, October 2, 2016, http://labs.thebureauinvestigates. com/fake-news-and-false-flags/.

The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority in the Supreme Court stuck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “pre-clear” changes. As a result, changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance. Since Shelby, 14 states, including many southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included rest r ic t ive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina, Eng l ish-on ly elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations, and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision. Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities U.S.A, which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with “a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes. Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012 to 2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. In counties that were more than 40 percent African-American, turnout dropped 5 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to 2.2 percent without. In counties that were less than 10 percent African-American, turnout decreased 0.7 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to a 1.9 percent increase without. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.” As Berman noted in an article in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “[c]able news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.” The story continues. In May 2017, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law identified 31 states that have introduced 99 bills in 2017 to “restrict access to registration and voting,” with significant action (meaning committee votes or more) on 35 bills in 17 states. “The majority of states acting to restrict voting are legislating on topics where courts previously acted to protect voters,” the Center noted.

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Antibiotic Resistant “Superbugs” Threaten Health and Foundations of Modern Medicine Big Data and Dark Money behind the 2016 Election When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up. In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed but with decades of refinement, technological advances, and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializing in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting — based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters — as Carole Cadwalladr reported for the Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, their CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communication has played such an integral part in President-elect Trump’s extraordinary win.” Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. In Trinidad, it paid for the painting of graffiti slogans purporting to be from grassroots youth. In Nigeria, it advised its client party to suppress the vote of their opposition “by organizing anti-poll rallies on the day of the election.” But now they’re able to micro-target their deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook. This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. In a New Yorker profile, Jane Mayer noted that Mercer has argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a major mistake, a subject never hinted at during the campaign. “Suddenly, a random billionaire can change politics and public policy — to sweep everything else off the table — even if they don’t speak publicly, and even if there’s almost no public awareness of his or her views,” Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, told Mayer. With the real patterns of influence, ideology, money, power and belief hidden from view, the very concept of democratic self-governance is now fundamentally at risk. Sources: Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus, “The Data That Turned the World Upside Down,” Motherboard (VICE), January 28, 2017, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win. Carole Cadwalladr, “Robert Mercer: The Big Data Billionaire Waging War on Mainstream Media,” Guardian, February 26, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/ politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donaldtrump-nigel-farage. Jane Mayer, interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, “Jane Mayer on Robert Mercer and the Dark Money Behind Trump and Bannon,” Democracy Now!, March 23, 2017, https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/23/ jane_mayer_on_robert_mercer_the. Travis Gettys, “Before Helping Trump Win with Data Mining, Cambridge Analytica Tipped Elections with Old-Fashioned Tricks,” Raw Story, March 24, 2017, http://www. rawstory.com/2017/03/before-helping-trump-win-with-data-mining-cambridge-analytica-tipped-elections-with-old-fashioned-tricks/. Jane Mayer, “The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency,” New Yorker, March 27, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/ the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency.

The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016. Factories in China and India — where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured — have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine. “After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public H e a l t h Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’s news report,” Projected Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries. Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe — thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to a UK National Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies. “At the heart of the issue is how to motivate pharmaceutical companies to improve their production practices. With strong demand for antibiotics, the companies continue to profit despite the negative consequences of their actions,” Project Censored noted. “The EPHA assessment recommended five responses that major purchasers of medicines could implement to help stop antibiotic pollution. Among these recommendations are blacklisting pharmaceutical companies that contribute to the spread of superbugs through irresponsible practices, and promoting legislation to incorporate environmental criteria into the industry’s good manufacturing practices.” Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices — organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy and care of pre-term infants — “will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake,” according to Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization. Superbugs already cause more deaths than breast cancer in the UK, according to data analysis by the UK Sepsis Trust, as reported by Katie Morley and Madlen Davies the Telegraph in December 2016. In May 2016, Scientific American reported on a dangerous new superbug that had spread to the United States — a superbug resistant to colistin, known as an “antibiotic of last resort.” The gene for resistance was found both in a human patient and in an American pig. If picked up by other bacteria already resistant to multiple drugs, the results would be “a royal flush — the infection has an unbeatable hand,” one leading expert told Scientific American. “Although the threat of antibiotic-resistant microbes is well documented in scientific publications, there is little to no coverage on superbugs in the corporate press,” Project Censored noted. “What corporate news coverage there is tends to exaggerate the risks and consequences of natural outbreaks — as seen during the Ebola scare in the U.S. in 2014 — rather than reporting on the preventable spread of superbugs by irresponsible pharmaceutical companies.” Once again, it’s not just a problem of suppressing a single story, but two overlapping patterns — the biological problem of superbugs and political economy problem of the corporate practices that produce them so wantonly. Sources: Melinda Wenner Moyer, “Dangerous New Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Reach U.S.,” Scientific American, May 27, 2016, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ dangerous-new-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-reach-u-s/. Madlen Davies, “How Big Pharma’s Industrial Waste is Fuelling the Rise in Superbugs Worldwide,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, September 15, 2016, https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2016-09-15/ how-big-pharmas-industrial-waste-is-fuelling-the-rise-in-superbugs-worldwide. Katie Morley and Madlen Davies, “Superbugs Killing More People Than Breast Cancer, Trust Warns,” Telegraph, December 10, 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/2016/12/10/superbugs-killing-people-breast-cancer-trust-warns/.

Maternal Mortality a Growing Threat in the U.S.

The Toll of U.S. Navy Training on Wildlife in the North Pacific

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Sources: Elizabeth Dawes Gay, “Congressional Briefing Puts U.S. Maternity on Exam Table,” Women’s eNews, April 15, 2016, http://womensenews.org/2016/04/ congressional-briefing-puts-u-s-maternity-on-exam-table/. Kiera Butler, “The Scary Truth About Childbirth,” Mother Jones, January/February, 2017, http:// www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/childbirth-injuries-prolapse-cesarean-section-natural-childbirth.

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at 17.8 in 2011.” “Inadequate health care in rural areas and racial disparities are drivers of this maternal health crisis,” Project Censored summarized. “Nationally, African American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, with rates even higher in parts of the U.S. that Gay characterized as ‘pockets of neglect,’ such as Georgia, where the 2011 maternal mortality rate of 28.7 per 100,000 live births was nearly double the national average.” The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health has developed safety bundles of ‘best practices, guidelines and protocols to improve maternal health care quality and safety,’” Gay wrote. “These ‘bundles’ include equipping hospital labor units with a fully stocked cart for immediate hemorrhage treatment, establishing a hospital-level emergency management protocol, conducting regular staff drills and reviewing all cases to learn from past mistakes, among other things.” “Women have a right to make informed decisions about their bodies and serious medical situations; however, when it comes to birth and its aftereffects, Butler found that doctors simply are not providing vital information,” Project Censored summarized. Many state laws require doctors to inform women of the potential complications and dangers associated with delivery, but none require them to discuss potential long-term problems, including the fact that some complications are more prevalent in women who give birth vaginally, rather than by C-section. “All told, according to a 2008 study by researchers at the California HMO Kaiser Permanente, about one in three women suffer from a pelvic floor disorder (a category that includes urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and prolapse), and roughly 80 percent of those women are mothers,” Butler reported. “Women who deliver vaginally are twice as likely to experience these injuries as women who have a cesarean or who have not given birth. For one in 10 women, the problem is severe enough to warrant surgery.” According to Butler, numerous other studies suggest that “50 to 80 percent of women who give birth experience tearing of the pelvic skin and muscles. For more than 1 in 10, the tearing is severe enough to damage the anal sphincter muscle, which often leads to the loss of bowel and bladder control.” Sexual dysfunction, stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse are other common conditions more prevalent following vaginal birth than following C-sections, Butler reported. Yet doctors rarely discuss these issues with pregnant patients. “The corporate news media have paid limited attention to maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S.,” Project Censored notes. There have been scattered stories, but nothing remotely close to the sort of sustained coverage that is warranted.

The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost twelve million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by The West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for Truthout. This includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions, and other marine wildlife such as endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters. The number was tabulated from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Letter of Authorization for the number of “takes” of marine mammals caused by Navy exercises. “A ‘take’ is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment, to injury, and sometimes to death,” Jamail wrote. “Many wildlife conservationists see even ‘takes’ that only cause behavior changes as injurious, because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming, or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.” As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement, including: • A 778 percent increase in number of torpedoes • A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary) • A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft • An increase from none to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters “It is, and has been for quite some time now, well known in the scientific community that the Navy’s use of sonar can damage and kill marine life,” Jamail reported. “With little oversight on Navy training activities, the public is left in the dark regarding their environmental impacts, including especially how Navy operations impact fish in the North Pacific and marine life at the bottom of the food chain,” Project Censored noted. “There has been almost no coverage of these impacts in the corporate press.” Source: Dahr Jamail, “Navy Allowed to Kill or Injure Nearly 12 Million Whales, Dolphins, Other Marine Mammals in Pacific,” Truthout, May 16, 2016, http://www. truth-out.org/news/item/36037-the-us-navy-s-mass-destruction-of-marine-life.

The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly even more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid. “Each year over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes and over 65,000 experience life-threatening complications or severe maternal morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking

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DNC Claims Right to Select Presidential Candidate A key story about 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media — a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally-binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment. As Michael Sainato reported for the Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the DNC Charter — which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries — is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” In addition, DNC attorney Bruce Spiva later said it was within the DNC’s rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” Sainato also reported that DNC attorneys argued that specific terms used in the DNC charter — including “impartial” and “evenhanded” — couldn’t be interpreted in a court of law, because it would “drag the Court ... into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs.” Jared Beck, representing the Sanders’s supporters, responded, “Your Honor, I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.” Not only was running elections in a fair and impartial manner a “bedrock assumption” of democracy, Beck argued earlier, it was also a binding commitment for the DNC: “That’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says,” he said. “It says it in black and white.” Much of the reporting and commentary on the broader subject of the DNC’s collusion with the Clinton campaign has been speculative and misdirected, focused on questions about voter fraud and countered by claims of indulging in “conspiracy theory.” But this trial focuses on documentary evidence and questions of law — all publicly visible yet still treated as suspect, when not simply ignored out of hand. As Project Censored notes, “[E]ven Michael Sainato’s reporting — which has consistently used official documents, including the leaked DNC emails and courtroom transcripts, as primary sources — has been repeatedly labeled “opinion” — rather than straight news reporting — by his publisher, the Observer.” Sources: Michael Sainato, “Wikileaks Proves Primary was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy,” Observer, July 22, 2016, http://observer.com/2016/07/ wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/. Ruby Cramer, “DNC and Clinton Campaign Operations Started Merging Before Sanders Dropped Out,” BuzzFeed, July 27, 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/ rubycramer/dnc-and-clinton-campaign-operations-started-merging-before-s. Joshua Holland, “What the Leaked E-mails Do and Don’t Tell Us About the DNC and Bernie Sanders,” Nation, July 29, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/ article/what-the-leaked-e-mails-do-and-dont-tell-us-about-the-dnc-and-berniesanders/. Michael Sainato, “DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms,” Observer, May 1, 2017, http://observer.com/2017/05/ dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters/.

A Record Year for Global Internet Shutdowns In 2016, world shut down internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service. “In the worst cases internet shutd o w n s have been associated with human rights v i o l a t i o n s ,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun, of Access Now. “What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities.” Olukotun said. Kevin Collier covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages” — like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized Internet “curfew” — as a single instance. The Vocativ report included a dynamic map chart, designed by Kaitlyn Kelly, that vividly depicts Internet shutdowns around the world, month by month for all of 2016, as documented by Access Now. “Many countries intentionally blacked out Internet access during elections and to quell protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies around the world,” Project Censored notes. “TechCrunch, IPS, and other independent news organizations reported that a Brookings Institution study found that Internet shutdowns cost countries $2.4 billion between July 2015 and June 2016” — a conservative estimate according to the study’s author, Darrell West. As Olukotun told IPS, one way to stop government shutdowns is for Internet providers to resist government demands. “Telecommunications companies can push back on government orders, or at least document them to show what’s been happening, to at least have a paper trail,” Olukotun observed. In a resolution passed in July 2016, the UN Human Rights Council described the internet as having “great potential to accelerate human progress.” It also condemned “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” On July 1, 2016, the UN Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the Internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress,” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that, “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the Internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Yet, “understanding what this means for internet users can be difficult,” Azad Essa reported for Al Jazeera in May 2017. Advocates of online rights “need to be constantly pushing for laws that protect this space and demand that governments meet their obligations in digital spaces just as in non-digital spaces,” he was told by the UN’s special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye. “Corporate news coverage of Internet shutdowns tends to focus on specific countries, especially ones in Africa,” Project Censored noted. Here we see another example of how important it is for systemic patterns to be understood. Although Project Censored did note some coverage of Internet shutdown, it concluded: “However, corporate coverage tends not to address the larger, global scope of Internet shutdowns — and, unlike independent news coverage, these reports tend not to address how Internet providers might resist government demands.” Sources: Devin Coldewey, “Study Estimates Cost of Last Year’s Internet Shutdowns at $2.4 Billion,” TechCrunch, October 24, 2016, https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/ study-suggests-internet-shutdowns-may-cost-countries-billions/. Kevin Collier, “Governments Loved to Shut Down the Internet in 2016— Here’s Where,” Vocativ, December 23, 2016, http://www.vocativ.com/386042/ internet-access-shut-off-censorship/. Lyndal Rowlands, “More Than 50 Internet Shutdowns in 2016,” Inter Press Service, December 30, 2016, http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/12/more-than-50-internet-shutdowns-in-2016/. Azad Essa, “What Can the UN Do If Your Country Cuts the Internet?” Al Jazeera, May 8, 2017, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/country-cuts-internet-170504064432840.html.

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CULTURE KLASH

‘Big Boy’

Watson’s World Artist David Watson creates sensational color on canvas in the family kitchen. BY KELSEY DAYTON @Kelsey_Dayton

t times, the western Wyoming winters just got too dark for David Watson. The scenery was magical, of course, but Watson needed something bright. A solution came about three winters ago when Watson took an online tutorial on painting trees, and realized it was something he could do to pass the time in the winter. Watson always loved art. He used to journal and watercolor paint as a hobby. He even had a few shows in the early 2000s. Then he had three kids. He got involved in boy scouts and

the community, and suddenly, almost 20 years had passed. After almost two decades, Watson is once again sharing his art. He recently showed at Pearl Street Bagels and his new show, “Color,” opened at Snake River Brewery Oct. 3 and hangs through November. The show will feature about 20 paintings, almost of all of them new work. Like the show’s title suggests, Watson’s paintings are defined by a bold palette. “I like contrast and loud colors,” he said. “I like things to look a little different and just pop off the page.” He works with acrylic paints and often trades the traditional painting tool—a brush—for a palette knife. He likes the way he can layer with the palette knife and also the sense it gives of physically creating something. Watson grew up in Michigan. When he graduated high school, instead of a graduation party or gift, he asked his parents to take him to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks to camp for a week. The animals, thermal features and the Tetons enamored him. He knew he wanted to someday come back to live.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3

‘The View’

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 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 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 REFIT® 5:15 p.m. First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Open Build 5:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Teton Literacy Center Volunteer Training 5:30 p.m. Teton Literacy Center, Free, 307-733-9242 n Public Presentation: “Global Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation Dilemmas” 5:30 p.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, n Jackson Hole Community Band 2017 Rehearsals 7 p.m. Center for the Arts, Free, 307-200-9463

n Derrik and the Dynamos 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Salsa Night 9 p.m. The Rose, Free, 307-7331500 n TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof. com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 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 Cocktails and...Costumes! 4 p.m. Off Square Theatre’s Scene and Costume Shop, Free, n Jackson Elks Lodge #1713 70th Anniversary Party 5 p.m. Jackson Elks Lodge #1713, Free, n Spirit of Wyoming: Raffle Drawing & Celebration 5:30 p.m. Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7336379 n Country Western Swing with BJ Reed & Clayton Schmidt 7:30 p.m. Dancers’ Workshop Studio 5, $25.00 - $90.00, 307733-6398 n Jackson 6 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n Friday Night DJs 10 p.m. The Rose, Free, 307733-1500 n TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof. com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

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n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30 a.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307--733-5771 n Tech Time 1 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, Free, 208-787-2201 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 Bob Greenspan “Down in the Roots” 4 p.m. Moe’s BBQ, Free, n Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group 6 p.m. Eagle classroom at St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-732-1161 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 TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof. com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

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The brew pub is the perfect place to showcase his work, he said. He’s always loved seeing the paintings and photographs of other local artists when in grabbing dinner or a beer. It’s a way to share his secret hobby with his friends and community. When people learn of his show, the first thing they say is “I didn’t know you could paint,” and then ask why he doesn’t paint more raptors. He does have two bird paintings in the show—one of a great gray owl and another of a bald eagle—and Watson says he plans on doing more. The show also features landscape paintings, close-up renderings of flowers and his current favorite subjects, charismatic megafauna like bears, buffalo and moose. He describes his style as “gregarious” and hopes his paintings have a little of his personality and offer a little levity to the viewer’s own life. “There’s a lot of crazy things going on this world and it’s just nice to do something and look at something fun,” he said. The paintings range in size and cost between $75 and $395. PJH

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 8:30 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05 a.m. Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307733-2164 n Toddler Time 10:35 a.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Toddler Time 11:05 a.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-7392246 n Tech Time 4 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n REFIT® 5:15 p.m. First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Light the Town Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness 5:30 p.m. Town Square, Free, (307) 733-3636 n Beer Making and Brewing at Snake River Brewing 6 p.m. CWC-Jackson, $40.00, (307) 733-7425 n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof. com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

He earned a degree in fisheries and wildlife management from Michigan State University. He planned to become a biologist, but fell into fundraising. After moving to Jackson 17 years ago to work for the Teton Science Schools, he’s now the Development Director at the Teton Raptor Center. Watson has never taken a formal art class, just that online tutorial. In the summer he takes pictures from camping trips and hikes. In the winter he commandeers the family kitchen to paint, looking at his photos for inspiration. “The ones where the colors start to pop, that’s what makes me really want to paint,” he said. He’ll sketch out a scene, often weaving together multiple photos for his paintings. Then he’ll pick the bold colors he loves to combat the whites and tonal hues of winter. Painting is a hobby for Watson, but in the last few years he’s seen his work evolve. He started with the basics and has built upon that, his work becoming more detailed the more he paints. “I really like what’s coming off the page right now,” he said.

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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Boz Scaggs began his career as a guitarist and occasional frontman for Steve Miller before spreading his blues-y wings in the ‘70s to build a solo career that has spanned decades.

Bluesy Boz Bluesman Boz Scaggs and his decades of music will grace Jackson’s stage this week. BY ANGELICA LEICHT @Writer_Anna

s one of the staple members of Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs has since the ‘60s been a respected name among the America blues-rockers elite. Born William Royce Scaggs, the singer, songwriter and guitarist began his career as a guitarist and occasional frontman for Steve Miller, bustin’ out those joker, smoker and midnight toker tunes before spreading his blues-y wings in the ‘70s to build a solo career that has spanned decades. “That’s old news to me,” Scaggs said about his days with Steve Miller to Cream Magazine in a 2015 interview. “We’re friends and we see each other frequently. We’ve toyed with the idea of doing something together but there has never been time.” There’s never been time for a reunion for good reason. Scaggs’ first solo album to hit it big—the 1976 hit Silk Degrees—really made some headway, landing near the top of the Billboard 200 charts, which makes sense. Scaggs is a powerhouse alone, and he recorded Silk Degrees with the help of the musicians who would eventually form

the band Toto (and later bring us the best song about the rains down in Africa, bar none). Together they were magic. And Scaggs’ career has remained magical ever since, heading straight uphill without pause since his Totocollaborating days. Scaggs has over the years recorded with some of music’s greatest names and conquered every genre he’s touched upon. He’s a master of pretty much everything, from his reimagined recordings of old jazz standards, released on the album But Beautiful in 2003, to more progressive, out-of-the-box undertakings, like the sound found on the Speak Low album, released by Scaggs five years later. Scaggs’ latest album, A Fool to Care, is a pretty darn good example of the blues master’s versatility. Released in 2015, the album features a couple of epic duets— including one with the eponymous Bonnie Raitt, who graces the tune with not only her mind-blowing vocals but also her serious slide guitar skills. “I’m at a point where I’m having a lot of fun with music, more than ever,” Boz Scaggs said about the album earlier this year. “It’s like I’m just going wherever I want to go with it.” Scaggs is considered one of the great blue-eyed soul singers around, and we’re lucky to have him grace the stage in Jackson. He did, after all, retire for much of the ‘80s, which means he’s not adverse to taking a break from the blues when he feels it necessary. The blues musician is known for pulling songs from every end of his discography during concerts, from tunes of olde to

Derrik and the Dynamos

THURSDAY

Derrik and the Dynamos (Silver Dollar Showroom)

FRIDAY

Friday Night DJ’s (The Rose)

SATURDAY

Todd Freeman & Bulletproof (Million Dollar Cowboy)

SUNDAY

Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach in Wilson, Wyoming)

MONDAY

Jackson Hole Hootenanny (Dornan’s in Moose, Wyoming) One Ton Pig

TUESDAY

Boz Scaggs (Center of the Arts)

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If you’re looking to drown your sorrows, or perhaps just revel in gin and some old sad-man music, we’ve got a show for you. One Ton Pig—a Jackson sextet known for puling from the hard luck greats like WIllie Nelson and Johnny Cash—will be busting out their version of progressive bluegrass at Silver Dollar Showroom at the Wort Hotel. These Jackson boys are hardly just covering the hits, though. They’re singer-songwriters in their own right, having released four albums that defy genres. Rather, they meld folk, jazz, country, bluegrass, gospel and rock’n’roll to create their own One Ton sound, one that begs to be heard out at Silver Dollar. They’ve shared the stage with some pretty big names over the years, including McCourys, Wood Brothers, Chris Robinson—an artist who will be in Jackson later this year—Railroad Earth and Old Crow Medicine Show, to name a few. This time, though, they’ll be gracing the stage as the solo act, making it easy to pour all your attention into the sound of One Ton Pig. It’s worth your Tuesday. PJH One Ton Pig play at Silver Dollar Showroom on Tuesday, October 10. Music starts at 7:30 p.m., and the show is free.

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A staple of the Silver Dollar Showroom at the Wort Hotel, Derrik and the Dynamos are one rockin’ rhythm and blues house band, which is precisely why you should see them. The Dynamos have managed to master covers of just about anything, from blues, rock, Motown, and even old jazz standards, making a night with the Dynamos an exercise in musical nostalgia. And booze. Nostalgia and booze. Who doesn’t love a good mix of Steely Dan and James Brown? No one, that’s who. Check out Derrik and the Dynamos this week. Your love of good music won’t regret it. Although we can’t speak for your liver. Your liver might regret it greatly. Derrik and the Dynamos play at Silver Dollar Showroom on Thursday, October 5. Music starts at 7:30 p.m., and the show is free.

WEDNESDAY

Bob Greenspan “Down in the Roots” (Moe’s BBQ)

the more recent hits. He’s fire, this one, so if you manage to snag some coveted (albeit wallet-busting) tickets, it’ll be worth the splurge. Boz Scaggs plays Center for the Arts in Jackson on Tuesday, October 10. Tickets start at $115. The show starts at 8 p.m.

PLANET PICKS

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

n Harvest Festival 1 p.m. Four Seasons Jackson Hole Cottonwood Ballroom, $15.00 - $50.00, 307-732-5175 n Jackson 6 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof.com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, n “From The Ground Out” Opening Reception w/ artist Luke Zender 7 p.m. The Art Association, 307-733-6379

GET OUT Murphy’s Weekend Misadventures at Garnet Mountain Fire Tower BY SHANNON SOLITT @ShannonSollitt

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Day One We left Friday afternoon to allow enough time to reach the tower before the sun set. The directions were clear, and we had two choices: Hike four miles over 2,500 feet of elevation gain, or drive an “off-road vehicle” accessible road all the way to the door. A 4x4 off-road Toyota Tacoma is an offroad vehicle, right? Wrong. At the hairiest part of the road, I thought I might watch my beloved partner roll to his death off the shoulder. (I got out to guide the wheels. There was nowhere to guide them on such a narrow road.) Even if we survived the drive in, any weather would have made getting out impossible, and there was lots of weather in the forecast. Defeated, dejected and demoralized, we bailed. We drove to a car-camping site with our tails between our legs and warmed our bodies and souls with whiskey and beer. I joked that even the best preparation is no match for the chaos that often follows me— indeed, I can hardly remember a time anything in my life has actually gone according to plan—but that’s the fun part, right? It was too soon for such humor. Still, with a warm meal and half our supply of

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secluded fire tower on a mountaintop, panoramic views, a wood stove to keep us warm, and all the alcohol we could drink—that’s the weekend we bargained for. It was not the weekend we got. My partner, the planner he is, booked Garnet Mountain Fire Tower nearly six months ago in anticipation of a romantic pre-birthday (mine) weekend. It had been a dream of his long before we even met. He knew everything about it. Everything except, apparently, how to get there. The old fire tower sits atop Garnet Mountain, and as the name suggests, is in the Gallatin Canyon between Bozeman and Big Sky Montana.

Nothing like wind, snow, and low visibility to cheer you on the last half mile of a grueling hike.

booze in our bloodstream, we went to bed happy and hopeful. We would make it to the fire tower.

Day Two So the fire tower is a backpacking destination. We’re backpackers. We could make it. Except we were missing a key piece of equipment: backpacks. We had packed, hastily, for a car camping trip. “Glamping,” if you will. Sunshine provided some false hope, and we rigged a pack out of a Mountain Khakis tote and NRS straps. The tote held two sleeping bags, wrapped in a garbage bag to protect from rain, and two days worth of water (barely). We stuffed a change of clothes and dry food into a daypack, and perishable food and beer into a soft cooler. The tower was stocked with basic cookware: a camp stove, pots and pans, cutlery, so we only needed two meals, plus snacks. It was sunny at the trailhead. By our first steps, it started raining. The higher we got, the harder the rain fell, dampening our spirits with every step. By the last half mile, rain turned to sleet turned to snow, and we could only see our feet below us. The wind seemed to want to turn us around. It howled at us not to continue, not to take one more step. It threw snow at our faces. It seeped under our clothes. Finally, we arrived at the tower soaking wet and frozen. Any views the tower offered were invisible to us—there was only snow as far as we could see (about 10 feet). But we had a wood stove! Hallelujah!

And firewood! And we made it to the fire tower, dammit. Nothing could stop us. Clothes hung to dry, fire roaring, the weekend we imagined started to materialize. We kept our promise to empty our food and booze supply (had to lighten our load for the hike out), and had nothing but each other’s company and some playing cards to entertain us for the evening. Misery is a powerful aphrodisiac, apparently. This was our happy ending.

Day Three

Just kidding! We couldn’t end our weekend without one more little hiccup: We dried our shoes just a little too close to the fire. They would do their jobs for the hike out, but our feet wouldn’t be happy by the end. Clear skies turned snowy again by the time we set out, but this snow was gentle. Even in shrunken, charred shoes, the hike down was swift and seamless. The foliage lit up overnight, shielding us from snow in a canopy of orange and yellow. And a truck full of food and drink we couldn’t carry waited for us at the trailhead. I had never been so excited about yellow Gatorade. This whole account makes us sound like ill prepared, novice, even idiot adventurers. In this case… well, we were. But an easy, romantic getaway weekend is hardly worth writing, or reading, about. Disasters are the stuff of memories. PJH

Garnet Mountain Fire Tower: Bring a backpack, strong legs (or an ATV), and a hearty amount of humor.

n Stagecoach Band 6 p.m. Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n Mustard Tiger 7 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-7323939 n Hospitality Night 8 p.m. The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500

MONDAY, OCTOBER 9

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Maker 3 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Hootenanny 6 p.m. Dornan’s, Free, 307-733-2415 n TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof.com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10

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hat do you call a bundle of sticks in Britain? Ask local artist Luke Zender and he’ll tell you that word for a bundle of sticks--faggot--is the same word he grew up being called growing up in Wyoming. He’s now grown to embrace the term, and the bundle, in his first public visual art exhibition. Zender’s first public art exhibition, on display at the Art Association starting Saturday. His medium is no accident. Zender grew up gay in Wyoming, and while his sexuality isn’t his entire identity, it’s often the first thing people notice. For a while, he tried to tone it down. After moving back to Jackson six years ago, Zender said he traded his “quirky, flamboyant, queer self” he had nurtured in Los Angeles for a more masculine-presenting person in anticipation of any judgment or negative energy. But over the years, Zender said he has grown to realize that his queerness is exactly what he needs to put out into the word. “It’s my responsibility to be that beacon of light, be that person. I need to hold space or that in Wyoming” Zender said. “If I had someone like me [growing up], I would have been so much more comfortable in my own skin.” Zender knows what it’s like to be uncomfortable in his skin, after all. He battled self-doubt and “crippling insecurities” about his identity, he said, and he was the “weird kid” in middle school—“everyone thought I was a girl,” he said. Wyoming is hardly a nurturing place for queerness, Zender said—even a “blue bubble” like Jackson (smoking weed and skiing all the time do not a liberal make). Zender says he still sees a lot of ignorance among the young “liberal” crowd here. “They’re not cultivating authentic, honest, healthy relationships,” he said. The state that bears the violent legacy of Matthew Shepard had hardly done much to atone for its queer community. Gender identity and sexual orientation are still not protected identities under Wyoming

Artist Luke Zender

anti-discrimination law. That means LGBTQ people can still be discriminated against in housing and employment. Jackson has adopted local ordinances to protect its queer community, but the culture still pervades. And dating? Hardly fulfilling. It often requires “some sort of seedy ap,” Zender said. Real relationships are few and far between. But while the Cowboy State birthed many of Zender’s demons, it also helped him outgrow them. After hip surgery years ago, Zender, a professional dancer with Contemporary Dance Wyoming, was limited in his mobility. To stay active and entertained, he started spending more time outside, hiking around his backyard in east Jackson. It was on those hikes that he began to truly heal. Outside, Zender had the time, space and solitude to process what he had gone through. “[I was] identifying all my traumas and shames, especially around being a queer young man in Wyoming,” Zender said. And he began playing with sticks. He turned those sticks into shapes and structures, and it “codified into its own meditation in a way, to represent what I’ve gone through.” He found a certain catharsis in connecting with nature in such a tangible way. So he turned his catharsis into art. The pieces, six years in the making, are simple, sharp, angled. A black box, Zender says, represents “that whole in the heart we all have.”

A pink triangle is particularly powerful: pink triangles are how Nazis identified gay people in concentration camps. Like Zender’s medium of choice, the violent term for a bundle of wood, Zender wanted to reclaim a symbol of hate and turn it into one of strength. This is Zender’s first visual art show, but he has not abandoned his performance arts background. His opening Saturday includes a performance art piece meant to be an “abstracted, abbreviated” representation of his transformation over the past six years—the patience, endurance, and vulnerability he has learned to embrace. And vulnerable it is. The whole performance takes place in a six-by-six foot box filled with dirt, and he will wear only underwear. But such visibility, Zender says, is the only way to truly communicate his identity to the world. There’s no need to protect anyone, Zender said, from identities that might challenge their belief system, especially when those beliefs are “built on years of oppression.” His sexuality is “an integral part” of his body,” and transparency is the “best way to connect.” If he isn’t open about his story and his identity, people will write it for him. Zender also wants other queer people in the state to know that their traumas are valid, but they’re also “not your fault.” PJH Zender’s exhibition, “From the Ground Out,” will be on display from Oct. 7-14. The opening reception is Saturday from 7-9 p.m.

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n Fables, Feathers & Fur 10:30 a.m. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Free, 307--733-5771 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Bob Greenspan “Down in the Roots” 4 p.m. Moe’s BBQ, Free, n KHOL Presents: Vinyl Night 8 p.m. The Rose, Free, 307-733-1500

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11

Sticks, stones and selfacceptance on display at the Art Association.

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n REFIT® 8:30 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $20.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Time 10:05 a.m. Teton County Library Youth Auditorium, Free, 307-733-2164 n Toddler Time 11:05 a.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-7336379 n Docent Led Tours 2:30 p.m. Murie Ranch of Teton Science Schools, Free, 307-739-2246 n Tech Time 4 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n REFIT® 5:15 p.m. First Baptist Church, Free, 307-6906539 n Teton Valley Book Club 6 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Bluegrass Tuesdays with One Ton Pig 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307732-3939 n Boz Scaggs 8 p.m. Center for the Arts, n TODD FREEMAN & BULLET PROOF www. toddfreemanandbulletproof.com Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8

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TRUE TV BY BILL FROST

@bill_frost

Vamped Up Van Helsing returns to the vampire fray; Mr. Robot delves (further) into darkness.

ow that The Strain is over, TV only has one vampire apocalypse show, Van Helsing (Season 2 premiere Thursday, Oct. 5, Syfy), and it’s finally stepping up to the challenge. In Season 1, Vanessa Van Helsing (Kelly Overton) spent mucho time wandering underground and losing colleagues— saved Canadian dollars on locations and co-stars, apparently—in a slow buildup to the vamp beatdown. Series creator/writer

Neil LaBute’s—yes, that Neil LaBute— glacial approach was unusual for a Syfy hour, and Overton more than delivered on the human drama and (occasional) vampire-slayer action. Now, the bigger/ bloodier battle to take back the world really begins; come back if you got bored and bailed. No, it’s not a reality show about haunted storage units—Ghost Wars (series debut Thursday, Oct. 5, Syfy) is about malicious paranormal forces taking over a remote town in the remotest of states, Alaska. Anything set in The Last Frontier is automatically 10 times spookier, and Ghost Wars could be a potential challenger to Syfy’s creepiest anthology series, Channel Zero, at least in star power: Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil), Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), Kandyse McClure (Battlestar Galactica) and Meatloaf (!) occupy various quadrants of science, religion, skepticism

and psychic ability. Another impressive new Syfy entry—a couple of years ago, this would have been about haunted storage units. What happens when the young daughter of Jane Sadler (Kyra Sedgwick), the producer/writer of a fact-based police drama, goes missing and she has to deal with the real cops? D-R-A-M-A, that’s what! Ten Days in the Valley (new series, Sundays, ABC) isn’t much different from other crime procedurals—especially not ABC’s defunct Secrets & Lies—but at least deserves points for letting Sedgwick be a shady, barely-sympathetic character with a tenuous grasp on the truth and her own drug problem. Whether it holds up over 10 episodes (as 10 days, get it?) or not remains to be seen; right now, it’s mostly coming off as a network knockoff of HBO’s Big Little Lies, which was no great shakes itself. Yeah, I said it. O.M. Gawd! Who could have predicted that Riverdale (Season 2 premiere Wednesday, Oct. 11, The CW) would blow up when it debuted back in January? I mean, besides me? (Look it up—I’m on the right side of history here.) The Archie Comics-via-camp-noir teen drama

squeezed a whole lotta crazy into its initial 13 hours, culminating in a hysterical maple-syrup/drug-trafficking reveal and the possible murder of Archie’s dad, Fred (Luke Perry). What’s next for Archie (K.J. Apa), Jughead (Cole Sprouse), Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Veronica (Camila Mendes)? Between sexy times, the gang will be tracking a new town threat known as “Sugar Man,” True Detective-style. I’m just a wee bit too excited for this. Season 2 weeded out the casual observers quickly, but USA is sticking by its breakthrough “prestige series” Mr. Robot (Season 3 premiere Wednesday, Oct. 11, USA). With Elliot (Rami Malek) laid up after being gunned down, is Darlene (Carly Chaikin) about to feel the wrath of the Dark Army? Will Elliot’s other half, Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), deliver fsociety’s death blow to Evil Corp? What the hell does new-on-the-scene car salesman Irving (Bobby Cannavale) have to do with any of this? Remember that the last episode of Mr. Robot aired long before Nov. 8, 2016, and trust that the new season will deal with the election fallout differently, if not more subtly, than American Horror Story: Cult. PJH

Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom and pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine. Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

THAI ME UP

Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm. Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. 307-733-0005.

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THE BLUE LION

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. Closed Tuesdays. Early Bird Special: 20% off entire bill between 5:30 & 6 p.m. Must mention ad. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

PICNIC

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 & DOMESTIC STEAKS SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK @ 5:30 TILL 10 JHCOWBOYSTEAKHOUSE.COM 307-733-4790

Free Coffee with Pastry Purchase Every Day from 3 to 5pm 1110 MAPLE WAY, SUITE B JACKSON, WY 307.264.2956 picnicjh.com

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

Lunch special Slice + Side Salad = $8 Happy Hour 4-6 PM DAILY

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

MOE’S BBQ

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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

ELEANOR’S

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.

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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SPILL The Buzz About Wine THE TEA M

BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

A brief history of the nectar and our attraction to it. BY LOUIS KOPPEL

(or beer, wine, etc.) Planet Jackson Hole is looking for writers to review the area’s best drinks and the places that serve them. email inquiries to editor@planetjh.com

an’s first foray into crafting wine was not inspired by wine’s seductive aromatics, texture, depth of flavor or its resonating taste. It was more likely due to the natural conversion of sugar into alcohol, turning grape juice into an elixir, a panacea and a safe and pleasurable beverage. Science has shown that fruit juice undergoing fermentation releases CO2 in the form of bubbles (the same bubbles trapped in Champagne). But long before the study of chemical reaction, when a beverage bubbled it was considered evil and wicked, thought to be dangerous and labeled as poison. Legend has it that a forlorn woman who was excluded from a harem in Iran drank from one such container. When she awoke from what might have been the first wine buzz known to mankind, she told her brethren about how fantastic it made her feel and what a good night’s rest it afforded her. This event, or something very similar, set the wheels of wine cultivation in motion and they have been spinning for the past 7,000 years. Almost every culture with a warm enough climate to support sugar-bearing

WATERIN’ HOLE fruit has cultivated alcohol. Whether it was wine, mead or beer, cultivating these fermented beverages marks the period of time between the traveling, hunter-gatherer tribes to what we now refer to as civilized, settled societies. In moderation, alcohol has the ability to lower inhibitions, spark creativity, lubricate social interactions, induce mild euphoria, ease pain and tension and afford those who’ve been clobbered by the ugly stick a night of action every so often. Even simple organisms such as slugs and fruit flies are attracted to sugar and alcohol. In medieval Europe, before the days of sanitation, a beverage with alcohol was safer than water due to water-borne illness. For exploring sailors, alcohol-based beverages were often the sole source of hydration. Alcohol also has inherent antiseptic and antioxidant effects, and its medicinal values have been documented as early as 2100 B.C. The downside is that overindulgence sneaks up on the best of us. Consuming alcohol with unbridled enthusiasm leads to loss of coordination, slurring, social incontinence, hangovers and poor decision-making; crushing PBR cans on one’s forehead and diving from the rooftop into the pool sound feasible to those well under the influence.

Mankind is not alone in this dipsomania. Birds have been documented overindulging in overripe, fermented berries and crashing into windshields and storefronts. Bengal elephants once raided a moonshine operation and ate enough sweet mash to induce a raging, drunken stampede that wound up crushing five people to death and trampling seven concrete buildings. Drinking alcohol releases opioids in the brain, just like the ones released during sex, long runs or severe trauma. These opioids provide temporary relief from physical pain or mental anguish and provide a state of elation. Of course, there are a bazillion ways to achieve the feeling of mild euphoria, but wine is unique. Wine has the ability to bring friends around the table. It makes the perfect companion to food. Before the meal, a lighter wine can be served as an aperitif—stimulating appetite and conversation. After, it can hold the company to the table over a glass of port or Sauternes. So, while it’s still white-wine weather, try a bottle of Quinta de Gomariz, Loureiro, from Portugal ($9.99) slightly sparkling with abundant, clean citrus notes. Or, treat yourself to a bottle of Bedrock, Heirloom ($23.99) red wine, a field blend that’s bursting at the seams with dark fruit and spice that reverberate on a rich texture.PJH

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.

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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.

Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

Reservations at (307) 733-4913 3295 Village Drive • Teton Village, WY

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A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL

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733-3912 | 160 N. Millward Make your reservation online at bluelionrestaurant.com

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ITALIAN CALICO

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

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.

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Lunch 11:30am Monday-Saturday Dinner 5:30pm Nightly

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.

EL ABUELITO

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Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square. Serving locally raised beef and, regional game, fresh seafood and seasonally inspired food, Local offers the perfect setting for lunch, drinks or dinner.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

MEXICAN

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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.

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

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SUDOKU

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

L.A.TIMES “TOP THIS!” By PAUL COULTER

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2017

ACROSS 1 7 13 18

Seabird related to the booby Bold & Crispy Fries maker Rural “reckon” “Know one’s __”: master a subject 19 It’s intoxicating 20 Willow twigs 22 It’s not a teeny wienie 24 Gusto 25 Place to put down stakes?: Abbr. 26 Learned ones 27 Cookout favorite 29 Marsh growths 32 For, to Fernando 33 Org. that does searches 35 “The Kiss” sculptor 36 Seine feeder 38 Chain that sells Grand Slam breakfasts 40 Masterpieces 43 Lively Cuban dance 45 New Zealand native 47 The Beatles’ “__ Mine” 49 One-eighty 50 Crunchy snack choice 52 Confident solver’s choice 53 Gardner of mystery 54 Major work 55 “Et voilà!” 56 Three-time NFL rushing yards leader Adrian 58 Hero 59 Some sodas 60 Big __ 65 “Big Blue” 66 Trattoria selection 73 Unagi or anago 74 Antenna housing 75 Parisian pronoun 76 Federation in OPEC 77 Please 81 Green shade 83 Magazine founder Eric

84 Stink 85 “Exodus” hero 86 Beef on the patio 90 Canal locale 91 Seoul soldier 92 Closely packed 93 Rwandan people 94 Oil acronym 96 Some polytheists 98 “Coriolanus” setting 99 “Drab” color 102 Deli bread 103 Saigon soup 105 High-quality 109 Dorm breakfast, maybe 112 Nabisco noshes 114 Reverse pic 115 Serious plays 116 Dessert with syrup 121 Take back to the lab 122 Stretched to the limit 123 Gets in shape 124 Bright circle? 125 Worthy principles 126 Least ingenuous

it” breakfast brand 21 Nasdaq unit: Abbr. 23 Pickup place? 28 Hook’s mate 30 Knuckleheads 31 Amigo’s assent 33 Garr of “Mr. Mom” 34 Impertinent sort 37 Dispenser made obsolete by the shaker 38 Cry from Homer 39 Winner’s cry 41 Cat pal of Otis 42 Caught in the act 43 Absorb 44 Its capital is Oranjestad 45 “Spy vs. Spy” magazine 46 Mimosa family tree 48 Eligible for 50 Eighty-six 51 At the back of the pack 53 Aunt with a “Cope Book” 57 Drops off 59 Seehorn of “Better Call Saul” 61 Ate 62 “Another Green World” musiDOWN cian 1 Enjoy 63 Oilers, on NHL scoreboards 2 Make __ of: write down 64 Seems suspicious 3 Weeper of myth 67 Nerd 4 Excluding 68 Horse-drawn 5 Blowup: Abbr. vehicle 6 Chinese menu possessive 69 Parisian lover’s 7 Catchall category word 8 P’s on frat jackets 70 Fretted instruments 9 Dig in, so to speak 71 Hawaiian island 10 Lake Mich. state 72 Hunt for 11 He played Scotty on “Star Trek” 77 Carpeting calcula12 Pond growth tion 13 TV’s Hercules Kevin __ 78 Juicy fruit 14 Pretentious sort 79 Brew, in a way 15 Offshore equipment 80 Saint-__: French 16 Feudal lords Riviera resort 17 Language that gave us “plaid” 82 Martinique, par 19 “The one who makes it, takes exemple

83 Complete 86 Aussie greeting 87 Mathematician Descartes 88 Election winners 89 Water collection pit 95 “No Country for __” 97 Adorned 98 One of nine Clue cards

100 Bridge declaration 101 Windows XP successor 103 Cider maker 104 Recipe verb 106 Many a Sundance film 107 Stands for 108 Discharge 109 USN officer 110 City near Provo 111 Pasta choice 112 Baseball’s Hershiser 113 Retired fliers 117 Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir. 118 Civil War letters 119 Modern address 120 Stubborn sailor’s response

ANSWERING A COSMIC QUESTION

SUN SIGNS When people talk about their astrological sign or choosing a baby’s sign, this only refers to the position of the sun at birth. Each sun sign has the potential for both positive and less than noble attributes. There is no way to know how many, if any, of these tendencies a given person will express. How this all unfolds is a function of the complex intersection of the soul’s timing, karma, and free will. Bottom line: Choosing a sun sign does not predict much.

THE METAPHYSICAL PREMISE The metaphysical premise underlying the calculation

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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BOTTOM LINE: WE’RE NOT IN CHARGE There are so many complex elements at play when a soul chooses to incarnate, that no matter what we try to control, or what we want, the failsafe is we are not running the show. We cannot know what will be best set up for that soul’s evolution. Our most productive strategy as future parents is to be healthy, to conceive a child in love, and to trust that it is in everyone’s highest, greatest good to leave this to the higher intelligence of the cosmos. PJH

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THE FULL BIRTH CHART Even if you do choose a child’s sun sign, a person’s full astrological birth chart is way more complex. It is comprised of a pattern of celestial influences, which cannot be calculated until the child is born. The birth chart is a celestial map reflecting the precise geometries formed by all the planets in our solar system, on the day, at the location (longitude and latitude) where the child is born, and at the precise time of birth. The science of astrology translates these complex celestial patterns into the potential for specific human attributes.

THE SOUL FACTOR No matter what you might choose as a birth date for your child, their soul is in charge. Metaphysically speaking, the soul orchestrates the entire process of gathering the “hardware,” “software” and timing to best serve its evolution in this life. This is part of a miraculous and brilliant big picture far beyond our ability to influence or control as prospective parents. According to its higher plan for potential learning and contribution, the soul magnetizes specific genetics from the gene pool of each parent. The parents are also chosen for the cultural context they will provide for that soul. This does not mean the child will like all this; it will however set the stage for its many life choices. In the case of adoption, the soul selects the genetic content from the biological parents, and the cultural context from the adoptive parents. None of this is random.

his article is in response to an interesting question emailed to me recently. Q: “Is it okay to plan a pregnancy so the child will be born in an astrological sign that you like?” The answer to this question has many layers.

of this special celestial snapshot is the universal principle of “As above, so below”. This means there is a congruent design to all aspects of Creation; what’s true in the macrocosm is also true in the microcosm. As part of this intelligent, living matrix we are also a reflection of, and influenced by, the design integrity of the cosmos. From the astrological perspective, a newborn is the newest star in the galaxy, and therefore that baby will be a harmonic of the energy patterns which the planets and stars form when the child enters the cosmic matrix. Genetically, the child will be related to, but not the same as its biological parents. Astrologically, the child will be its own unique reflection of the energies of the planets and stars.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You’re a good candidate for the following roles: 1. a skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. a robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5. an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote three autobiographies. Speed skating Olympics star Apolo Anton Ono published his autobiography at age 20. The rascal occultist Aleister Crowley produced an “autohagiography.” To understand that odd term, keep in mind that “hagiography” is an account of the life of a saint, so adding “auto” means it’s the biography of a saint penned by the saint himself. I’m bringing up these fun facts in hope of encouraging you to ruminate at length on your life story. If you don’t have time to write a whole book, please take a few hours to remember in detail the gloriously twisty path you have trod from birth until now. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the best way to heal what needs to be healed is to steep yourself in a detailed meditation on the history of your mysterious destiny.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) If a late-night TV talk show called and asked me to be a guest, I’d say no. If People magazine wanted to do a story on me, I’d decline. What good is fame like that? It might briefly puff up my ego, but it wouldn’t enhance my ability to create useful oracles for you. The notoriety that would come my way might even distract me from doing what I love to do. So I prefer to remain an anonymous celebrity, as I am now, addressing your deep self with my deep self. My messages are more valuable to you if I remain an enigmatic ally instead of just another cartoony media personality. By the way, I suspect you’ll soon face a comparable question. Your choice will be between what’s flashy and what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.” So said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you. But I’m here to tell you that an influence equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity. Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that “angel” will present a proposition that sounds like 2 x 2 = 13. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Unless you have an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The PanAmerican Highway stretches from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina—a distance of about 19,000 miles—except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rainforest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian—a grey area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartphones and other information technology. But it didn’t start out that way. In its original form, back in 1938, it primarily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into wool manufacturing. More than three decades after its launch as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its repertoire. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next ten months should be an excellent time for you to do the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics. And the coming six weeks will be quite favorable for formulating your plans and planting your seeds.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Intensify” is one of your words of power these days. So are “fortify,” “reinforce,” and “buttress.” Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an intensification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant reserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately bring you help you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress the bridge that links your past

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slow down and create a wealth of spacious serenity. Use an unhurried, step-by-step approach to soothe yourself. With a glint in your eye and a lilt in your voice, say sweet things to yourself. In a spirit of play and amusement, pet and pamper yourself as you would a beloved animal. Can you handle that much self-love, Taurus? I think you can. It’s high time for you to be a genius of relaxation, attending tenderly to all the little details that make you feel at ease and in love with the world.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A Canadian guy named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched over 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier?

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You wouldn’t expect a 5-year-old child to paint a facsimile of Picasso’s Guernica or sing Puccini’s opera, La Boheme. Similarly, you shouldn’t fault your companions and you for not being perfect masters of the art of intimate relationships. In fact, most of us are amateurs. We may have taken countless classes in math, science, literature, and history, but have never had a single lesson from teachers whose area of expertise is the hard work required to create a healthy partnership. I mention this, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time for you to remedy this deficiency. Homework assignments: What can you do to build your emotional intelligence? How can you learn more about the art of creating vigorous togetherness?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) If you go to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Germany, you will see a jug of wine that was bottled in 1687. In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you find a metaphorical version of this vintage beverage—and then metaphorically drink it! In my opinion, it’s time for you to partake of a pleasure that has been patiently waiting for you to enjoy it. The moment is ripe for you to try an experience you’ve postponed, to call in favors that have been owed to you, to finally do fun things you’ve been saving for the right occasion.

and future, you will ensure that your old way of making magic will energize your new way.

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