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it is illegal to park overnight on Jackson streets, including public parking lots, regardless of weather (rain, snow or shine). Crews begin plowing at 3am. Parked cars on town streets make the job of keeping roads clear of snow more difficult. Consequently, cars left on town streets between 3am & 7am will be ticketed and may be towed by Jackson police. To retrieve your car, contact Ron’s Towing at 733-8697, 1190 S. Hwy 89. Overnight parking for 48 hours or less is allowed in the public parking structure at W. Simpson Ave. and S. Millward St. but not on other town parking lots.

SHOVELING REQUIREMENTS Additionally, we would like to remind people: Town residents are responsible for keeping sidewalks shoveled. • The TOJ assists with snow removal in the downtown core and along Broadway. • Residents should not put their garbage cans out the night before, but rather after 7:00am on garbage days. • Please keep trash cans, cars, and other obstacles out of the streets and off of the curbs. This saves your property and makes the streets more clear of drifts and snow. • Residents are also encouraged to help keep fire hydrants clear of snow.

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The average low temperature this week is now down to 15-degrees, and the average low temps will remain in the lower teens right through Thanksgiving. Record low temperatures are a good bit cooler than that for this week, with the coldest day of those records belonging to November 16th, 1955 when the morning temp was a brisk 27-degrees below zero in town. The high temperature that date, which was also a record, was 4-degrees below zero.

The average high temperature this week is 38-degrees. The record high temperature this week is 60-degrees, which was set on November 19th, 2008. It also reached 60-degrees during this week on November 15th, 1953 and once before on November 16th, 1936. These dates are the latest in the year that we have ever reached 60-degrees. From now until mid-March, current record high temps are in the 40’s and 50’s.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.3 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.2 inches (1988) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 9 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 40 inches

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Most of the time when I mention how cold it was, I am referring to the overnight low temperatures. However, this last week we broke a high temperature record on November 7th, when the afternoon high only made it to 28-degrees. That is the coldest high temp we have ever had in Jackson on that date. A new record. The old record for that date was 29-degrees, from 2003. The next day, on November 8th, 2017 we tied the old record cold high temperature for that date of 27-degrees, first established in 1945.

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kinky sex with interns, I guess. Why do you think that such a flawed individual as Trump could get elected to the presidency? Could it not be that the Opposition is even more despicable? HRC is lifelong grifter who had sold any remnants of her soul so many times that the mortgages were all due and payable the day after election. A degenerate sociopath who cackled madly while watching the leader of a country she had destroyed being sodomized by bayonet. One so arrogant and corrupt that she believed she could commit treason through theft of top secret documents and place them on her private server open to any enemy who choose to look without any legal or political repercussions. Trump isn’t on the rational side of many issues, but he is one of the few public figures standing against the cabal of Democrat and Republican War Hawks and Deep State spooks who are hell bent upon armed conflict with Russia. Trump’s Russia policy goals are to do business deals, make money for his friends and link the interests of the two countries rulers together. The War Party’s plan is to encircle Russia with a ring of nuclear armed missiles and then provoke them with “color revolutions” and coups on the periphery until they can finally overthrow Russia itself. Anyone who studies the past history of Russia or analyzes their military preparedness knows that the War Party policy is insane. As are the millions of Americans who have swallowed the delusional Russiaphobia campaign that the propaganda outlets (AKA mainstream media) have poured out over their airwaves. - Richard Elder

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mpeach Trump? Absolutely, if you want to remove any illusions that the USA is still a democracy. There is no question that Donald Trump is a disgusting human being. He believes that what he sees in the mirror is reality and truth, and seems intellectually incapable of understanding that a process like science leads to factbased knowledge. He is childish and dominated by his inflated ego. Most policies that he supports are detrimental to the interests and welfare of the country and the people who supported him. And he was elected to the presidency in one of the most open and fair elections in modern times. How soon we forget that Bush The Younger ascended to the Presidency through a process of voting fraud that would put any Banana Republic to shame. His first victory came about through manipulation of voter rolls and counts of hanging chads, while his second was engineered by electronic manipulation and ownership of the Diebold vote counting system. The true power behind the throne, Dick Cheney, kept him in power by creation and manipulation of public fear through lies, false flag attacks, and wars based upon fabrications. Yet there was no outcry for impeachment. Not enough

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Hog Island Mayor Tours Asia for Bacon BY CLYDE THORNHILL

og Island Mayor Ndogo Uume recently returned from his trade mission to Asia. (Well, it might be best described as a trade mission to Asia Minor. The Hog Island Town Council could only afford gas money for him to drive to San Francisco’s Chinatown and two orders of take out chop suey.) Uume gave a speech about his trip after his return was delayed due to the transmission going out in his 1987 Yugo GV. Mayor Uume stated that his Asia policies were proving a “huge success-terrifically, tremendously, amazing and terrific success, proving he was the bestest mayor of all time and ever.” Increasing Asian trade was the foreign policy cornerstone of Mr. Uume’s mayoral campaign. “The Chinese love pork,” he explained. “They even have an official Year of the Pig!” It was Uume’s campaign promise to open up trade barriers with China to provide Hog Island with cheap bacon imports that political pundits believe swung the election Mr. Uume’s way. However, the bacon samples he brought back from Chinatown were met with less than enthusiasm. Chinese bacon, it was discovered, is aircured in sunlight, not smoked and is preserved with soy sauce, star anise and cinnamon. No self-respecting Hog Islander would eat bacon made with soy sauce and cinnamon! Mayor Uume’s other Asian trade initiative involved

enticing hot Asian chicks to relocate to Hog Island to provide female companionship to Hog Islanders. “The girls at the strip clubs could not keep their hands off me.” Uume claimed. “Especially when I gave then 100-dollar bills!” After reading the fine print in the trade agreement, though, it appeared all that was promised to lonely trailer house dwellers was an hour session at Rainbow Massage at full price. But Mayor Uume’s greatest victory in Asia was the fact that his new Chevy Silverado 3500 HD was the “biggest, most awesomest car in Asia by far, as Asians typically drive small cars.” (Uume’s car is really a1987 Yugo GV, but everyone is afraid to tell him a Chevy Silverado is not the same thing as a Yugo.) “It’s amazing and awesome, and tremendously amazing to have the biggest car in all Asia!” he told reporters. “Now I love Asians, don’t get me wrong I do, but they have small cars and when you drive something as big as a Silverado the people respect you. The Asian people worshiped me which is why I got such amazing unbelievable, fantastic trade deals.” After his Yugo was repaired Mayor Uume organized a parade in his honor through the trailer court. When it appeared no one would show up, Mayor Uume used his connections with the CEO of Hormel (which some would say is an example of his ethically questionable connections) and cash from a growing reelection fund to buy pound of bacon for each parade spectator. (Uume is a major recipient of campaign contributions from “The Flat Earth Society” and the “Organization for Truth Subjectivity.”) Crowds lined the street and Uume a nnou nced the parade “the biggest most a ma z i ng t r e mendous outp ou r i n g of affection ever and of all time and ever.” PJH

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS Conspiracy Theories The government’s case sets low-bar for conspiracy charges on eve of this week’s J20 trial BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

called organizing,” he said. “That’s the real danger of this case to democracy and dissent in this country—that any form of organizing or civil resistance stands to become a crime.” The threshold for conspiracy is so low that two journalists, Aaron Cantú and Alexei Wood, are still facing charges for following a group that they were covering. Wood is part of the group who demanded a speedy trial and so goes to court this week. With long hair, black clothes, and a leather wide-brimmed hat, Wood may have looked a bit like an outlaw at the hearing, but was arrested and charged with conspiring because he was livestreaming the political actions. “The chilling effect is obvious,” he said. “It took me months to go document another protest. Even the most like, Grannies Against Trump thing, I didn’t want to go to. I was traumatized. Absolutely traumatized.” Finally, he said, on May Day, he was fed up. “I was like, ‘Fuck it, this is what I do. This is my beat. This is what I’ve done for years,’” Wood said. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I live-streamed myself from beginning to end, and the entire world can decide whether I incited a riot … it’s out there for the whole world to decide, and I’m glad it is.” PJH Baynard Woods is a reporter at the Real News Network and a the founder of Democracy in Crisis. Email baynard@democracyincrisis.com; Twitter @baynardwoods

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right to organize,” Petrohilos said. Petrohilos is not among those standing trial this week. The prosecution classed all of the defendants into four categories based on their alleged involvement in planning or participating in the riot. He is in category two, which Kerkhoff has referred to in court as the “planners.” “Dylan Petrohilos said, ‘Come with me if you want to talk about black bloc. I am black bloc,’” Kerkhoff said in court, citing the planning meeting that was infiltrated. “Black bloc” is the essence of a large part of the J20 charges. It is a political strategy in which wearing identical clothing and face masks allows a group to move collectively through the city in protest, mimicking the black flag of anarchism and making it harder for police to identify individuals, which is why the government is using clothing as evidence of conspiracy. Isaac Dalto, Petrohilos’ friend who is also included in Category 2 as a planner, says the government is using affiliation with the Industrial Workers of the World union, for whom he organizes, as evidence of conspiracy. “Because they went to legitimate, above-ground union meetings about forming a union in their workplace, their Google calendars say IWW, and that’s being used against them to prove membership in this criminal conspiracy that we’re alleged to be part of,” Dalto said. “Conspiring to commit lawful acts is not a crime. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s

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think about our data and other records of our actions. Almost any statement made by Petrohilos about the day’s protest evidence was at play in what was to be the final hearing before this week’s trials. The Nov. 9 hearing was intended to establish the fact of the conspiracy, a move that would make co-conspirators’ statements admissible in court, despite hearsay rules. Prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff cited statements made on the It’s Going Down podcast as evidence of conspiracy. At one point, the judge, Lynn Leibovitz, surmised that appearing on a podcast required planning, so if Petrohilos was going on the podcast to talk about the protests, perhaps the existence of the podcast could be evidence of conspiring. “Saying that coming on a podcast recorded for public consumption to talk about a public demonstration is evidence of conspiracy, is like saying that someone writing a column in High Times is proof that they are in a drug cartel,” Paul Hernandez, a member of the It’s Going Down editorial collective wrote me. “The State is trying to make the case that anyone that attends a demonstration or protest is thus involved in a conspiracy.” All the prosecution needed to establish was a conspiracy to commit any crime, including “conspiracy to disrupt public congress.” This could refer to any protest at any time. “This is a fundamental attack on the

year ago, after the election of Donald Trump, Dylan Petrohilos hung an Antifa flag out in front of his house. “I had [the flag] flying outside my home because Trump was elected and there was a belief he was a fascist, and so we had this idea that we needed to bring back the moniker of anti-fascism,” Petrohilos told me at a bar, where he was discussing the Washington D.C. Riot Act case with other defendants who were arrested in connection with the protests of Trump’s inauguration. When Petrohilos’ home was raided by D.C. police in April, the flag was the first thing they took. They also took seven small black flags, copies of The Nation and In These Times magazines, and a banner, made during the financial crisis, that read “Kiss Capitalism Goodbye.” These items are evidence in the J20 case, the first mass trial, which begins this week. Most of the defendants were arrested on Inauguration Day after a protest (which the government has deemed a riot) resulted in several broken windows. Police officers threw more than 70 “non-lethal” grenades, sprayed dozens of canisters of pepper spray and cordoned off around 200 people in a “kettle” flanked by riot police and walls on all sides. And though the Department of Justice claims that Petrohilos conspired to plan the riot, he was not arrested that day. He says he was not even there. But the fact that the government claims that he spoke about J20 on a podcast and was recorded by undercover police and the far-right sting video site Project Veritas at protest-planning meetings has put Petrohilos at the center of what could be the most important political conspiracy trial of a generation—one that could change the way we

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THE NEW WEST Peregrine Falcon Tags? Why don’t we hunt bald eagles for the sport of it? AUGUST O’KEEFE

BY TODD WILKINSON @bigartnature

n case you’re wondering where the thinking of some Westerners is — note, I am using the adjective some here — you need look no further than social media. This week, a few citizens from the great state of Idaho informed me that I am a bunny-loving, tree-hugging greenie who is anti-hunting, anti-predator-killing and an “anti-human snowflake libtard” who does not understand “western culture.” Actually, most of those sentiments were expressed in more, shall we say, “colorful” language — words my wife and I typically don’t use while sitting around the family dinner table with our kids. In their Facebook valentines, the commenters let me know my brain is comprised of the material that normally comes out a horse’s backside, and that my head itself resides in that part of the anatomy where the sun doesn’t shine. They were responding to a long story I’d written on the science behind bear spray titled “To Live or Die in Bear Country: Counting The Seconds in Your Grizzly Moment of Truth” posted at mountainjournal.org. They made it clear that nobody was going to tell them what to do, that they don’t have to believe the statistical data related to bear spray if they don’t want to and that if they ever run into a grizzly, their way of resolving a perceived conflict will be with a gun. They said that because I’ve raised questions over the years about the rationale for trophy hunting of Greater Yellowstone grizzlies, the staging of predator-shooting contests, and the government’s ongoing use of deadly cyanide poison and aerial gunners to kill coyotes, wolves and other animals, that I am “anti-hunting”, “anti-rancher” and “anti-western heritage”. “You don’t F--KING get it, do you?!!!!” one wrote, demonstrating a clear passion for exclamation points and all caps. “Grizzlies are f—kin’ recovered and the Endangered Species Act says when animals are taken off the list, then we

F--KIN’ HUNT THEM, you stupid, worthless enviro LIBTARD!!!!! It’s the law, you f—khead!!!! Predators are destroying our elk herds, bitch!!!!” So, here’s the thing. I acknowledge, humbly, that only a few of their assertions are inaccurate. The following are a couple of corrections (including the false claim I am anti-hunting and anti-rancher): Nowhere in the language of the federal Endangered Species Act does it state that once an animal is removed from the list of imperiled species, it shall be hunted. The Endangered Species Act was instrumental in bringing back bald eagles and peregrine falcons from the brink. They are also “recovered,” and they too are “predators.” So are golden eagles, osprey and red-tailed hawks. Like grizzlies, humans don’t eat bald eagles and peregrine falcons. Somebody could probably argue that they’d make great decorative stuffed trophies on the wall. Yet as a civilized society we don’t hunt them, nor do we sponsor/allow eagle and peregrine-killing derbies in which prizes are offered to those who bag the most birds. We don’t trap them for their plumage and sell their feathers to commercial buyers. We don’t have wildlife management agencies claiming they need to balance budgets based on revenue generated through the sale of bald eagle tags. Why is that? Why do most Westerners accept that bald eagles, even after removal from the Endangered Species Act, ought not be hunted for sport? Bald eagles, even after ESA delisting, remain protected by federal laws. No one invokes “state’s rights” to say we should kill them — save maybe outlaws who, nodding and winking, might declare that by God, they’re going to poach an eagle

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to get back at the government or practice the so-called sacred rural code of “shoot, shovel and shut-up.” Most Westerners don’t scream bloody murder because they can’t legally wingshoot a golden eagle after eagles kill young domestic sheep or pronghorn fawns, or demand varmint status for osprey because they feast upon another huntable game species (trout), or argue that peregrines need to “managed” by sport hunters because they’re preying on huntable revenue-generating waterfowl. The Idahoans are correct in their assertion that I struggle to find the logic both of using cyanide to control coyotes and the staging of predator-killing contests for the sheer fun of it. As for their assertion that wolves are destroying elk herds, it is not supported by fact. Official information circulated by state game agencies in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho shows that most elk hunting units are at, near or above population objectives. Hunter success is pretty high in most places — a fact trumpeted even by outfitters and guides throughout the Rockies advertising pricey hunts to prospective clients. If you want to know where the mythology of the old West still lives large, where facts and truth exist as casualties in a parallel universe detached from reality, you’ll find it on social media — and along with it, scriveners who are very fond of using exclamation points. PJH

Todd Wilkinson, editor of mountainjournal.org, is author of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek (mangelsen.com/grizzly) about famous Jackson Hole Grizzly, 399 featuring 150 pictures by renowned local wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen.

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mentors environmental rista Valentino surveys Local nonprofit aims to unite visionaries and change-makers under the the horizon on a crisp age of 35, which she calls autumn morning, liftpropel global conservation leaders into the future protégées, and connects ing the nearly-frozen lever on them with experts around her free-range chickens’ cage. By Jessica L. Flammang the world. She scans the sky and CW also provides its mentally reviews her daily project leaders and ambaslist of calls with international sadors with sustained protégées – Valentino’s term guidance, hosted webinars for the folks she mentors -- in on leadership topics like her conservation initiative. fundraising, public speakToday she has chats scheding, social media and bloguled with participants in ging, and published tool Australia, the Netherlands, kits on how to implement Nepal and Canada, and Skype new conservation projects appointments with program from the ground up. ambassadors in Pakistan, “We often assist them Cameroon and Malawi. by co-applying for grants She is also working closely with an organization with two young kayakers and or individual to help the a journalist on a project to preleaders acquire financial vent over a dozen dams on the backing and credibility,” Marañón River in Peru. Valentino said. “It’s fun to wake up to thirThe program’s website ty international messages from and its partner blog, WILD amazing activists around the Voices, allow aspiring conworld,” she said. “It reminds servationists to showcase me that I’m not alone.” and promote their work. As she splays chicken feed, They are also privy to puban unexpected call comes in lication options and access from a protégée in Costa Rica. to opportunities that arise “I can’t tell you how much in the environmental better I feel after our chat,” sector. Felix Charnley said. “I was feelAlthough most connecing so burnt out, and like I had tions are made virtually, no idea what I was doing or when available, in-person getting myself into. I wanted to gatherings are also offered give up.” to “help build bonds of “Thank you so much for support and encouragereassuring me to keep going, ment,” Valentino said. even if I don’t have all the “We organize internaanswers,” he said. “Can we do tional forums for young it sometime again? I could use people to network and it.” develop programs togethPrior to 2013, Charnley, an er,” said Valentino. “This England native, had never been builds confidence and to Costa Rica, nor had he heard a strong voice in our of leatherback sea turtles. protégées.” “When Costa Rican conserHer project leads span vationist Jairo Mora Sandoval generation faces; we have to accelerate the learning was killed while attempting to protect leatherback and leadership development process since there isn’t the globe from Colombia to Zimbabwe. Valentino, an avid mountaineer, works as the directurtle nests, Felix was moved into action,” Valentino the luxury of wait-and-see.” said. “A month later he found himself studying in the Valentino sees the greatest barriers to real engage- tor of CW from her Jackson-based office. With a board country, and joined the Sea Shepherd, conducting ment for young people in the conservation sector as a of 12 volunteers and four interns, she manages CW’s beach clean-ups and investigating the illegal trade of lack of shared experiences, knowledge of how to access fundraising, grants, programs and private donations turtle eggs in the capital of San Jose.” available tools and resources, including grants and that propel her innovative alliance onward, linking Only one out of every 1,000 leatherback turtles funding for start-up projects, and lack of a support conservationists across borders. survive to adulthood, due to the loss of nesting sites, network to help them troubleshoot their visions. plastic ingestion, egg poaching and commercial fisherWild Ties to Conservation and ies. Charnley is determined to change that. Coalition WILD Breeds Young Advocacy The first time he relocated a nest, he found it floodCoalition WILD is a core project of the WILD Conservationists ed, and all of the eggs lost. Valentino started her international nonprof- Foundation, a 501c (3) US non-profit based in Boulder, “25 percent of all life on earth has been lost in 25 it, Coalition WILD, [CW] as a grassroots ini- Colorado, working internationally to connect global, years,” Valentino said. “This is the reality the next tiative to help resolve some of those issues. She national, and grassroots leaders to protect wilderness,

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wildlife and people. the River Wind Foundation. In that role, Valentino is Congress in 2013, held in Salamanca, Spain. WILD serves as Coalition WILD’s fiscal agent, and Valentino is “charismatic, fun, committed and helping to develop RRR Business Leaders Program. is funded through private donations, grants, partner- organized,” Mobeck said. “This was abundantly clear She also co-founded CURRENT, a Jackson-based ships, in-kind support and volunteer hours. to me from the beginning, but was confirmed at business working to integrate sustainable practices In 2015, WILD Foundation government grants WILD10, when she had to shift from a support role through strategy and project management. “The coalition rose up as purely a passion projtotaled over $116 thousand, and contributions were to Jon and Simon, to the center seat. She has steadily ect,” she said. “It took off on its own.” nearly four million dollars. A financial breakdown of revenue and expenses are detailed in The WILD The CW Mentorship Foundation’s annual report posted on Model their website. In general, nine out of “Young people are increasingly aware every 10 dollars given to the foundation of the problems facing our world, but goes directly to programming. It spends there are too few mechanisms that allow only two percent of revenue on fundraisthem to become real leaders,” Jackson ing and seven percent on administrasaid. tion. Program expenses totaled over 89 “Mentorship is the greatest tool socipercent of annual revenue. ety has to encourage emerging young A nascent project in its fourth year, leaders to seize an innovative idea and CW is working toward growing its own translate it to a practicable and effective base of donors. reality,” Valentino said. “It is no longer The WILD Foundation and its partenough to simply understand either the ners in the Wilderness Foundation science, or the route to implementation; Global share the vision created by Dr. we need change makers who understand Ian Player, a white game-ranger and his the entire process, who can create susZulu mentor and colleague of 40 years, tainable shifts.” Magqubu Ntombela. In early 2016, former Secretary of the According to WILD’s website, “They Interior Sally Jewell’s advisor contacted knew that taking people into nature to Valentino with interest in developing a experience wildness was and is the best mentorship program in the conservaway to foster a relationship between tion sector. people and nature.” Alongside the Senior Advisor to the Every four years, The WILD Secretary, the two developed the proFoundation co-hosts The World gramming and support structure. The Wilderness Congress -- an internationpartner program pairs staffers from the al week-long forum at which environUS Department of the Interior -- commentalists, government officials, NGOs, prised of Bureau of Land Management, business sector entities and nature Fish and Wildlife and National Park enthusiasts collaborate to ensure a wildService employees -- with a young envier future. ronmental professional for a one-year “Mentorship is the greatest tool society has to At the 2009 World Wilderness mentorship experience. Congress held in Merida on Mexico’s encourage emerging young leaders to seize an “We saw the value of having a pilot Yucatan Peninsula, a motion passed to innovative idea and translate it to a practicable program, one that was simple and barecreate a more dedicated engagement bones,” Valentino said. “The mentor and and effective reality.” - Crista Valentino with a younger generation in future mentee meet once a month to track their congresses. progress. They trade check-in calls, Valentino joined the WILD Foundation in 2013 grown in her skills, confidence, and in understanding feedback forms, and objectives and goals.” after Vance Martin, President of WILD, approached the complicated global conservation arena.” At the 2016 World Conservation Congress in the Murie Center in Jackson, where Valentino worked Honolulu, Hawaii, Valentino signed the Memorandum at the time, to design a youth commission for the 10th From Long Island to the Tetons of Understanding with Secretary Jewell to seal the deal. World Wilderness Congress, WILD10. 30-year-old Valentino grew up on Long Island before According to the International Union for Conservation Martin connected Valentino to the world-renowned heading to Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, of Nature [IUCN], 6,000 were in attendance. conservationist D. Simon Jackson and Jon Mobeck, where she studied communications and marketing. Held every four years, the World Conservation who served as Executive Director of the Murie Ranch. After a brief stint in Salt Lake City working at the Congress “brings together leaders and decision-mak[Mobeck is currently Executive Director of the Jackson Muscular Dystrophy Association, Valentino landed in ers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, Hole Wildlife Foundation.] Jackson. business, and academia to help shape the direction of “Vance has a unique ability to see potential in It was in Jackson that Valentino fell in love with conservation and sustainable development,” accordpeople,” said Valentino. “I think he saw a tangible the Tetons, mountain sports and the active lifestyle ing to the Commission on Environmental, Economic opportunity in the value of young people leading an the area offers. and Social Policy. international youth delegation.” Valentino first found her niche working for the The partnership program regularly connects menThough Martin initiated the partnership among Murie Center in Jackson, and spent over four years in tors from the US to mentees in the United Kingdom, Valentino, Mobeck and Jackson, it was Valentino that position. Africa, Australia, Nepal and beyond through this who spearheaded the application and development Although CW takes up more than half her time, partnership. of Coalition WILD, and singlehandedly launched Valentino also works on contracted sustainability Mentors are guided through innovative projthe grassroots movement at the 10th World Wildlife through the Sustainable Destinations Program with ect-based approaches to climate change, reforestation,

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to help further their work. “WILD10 opened doors for him he never would have received if he didn’t attend, and truly catapulted his career,” Valentino said. “Mike was able to get Activating Africa off the ground. And for both, they became the core of our newly established global network.”

es at the University of Cape Town. His thesis work focused on remote sensing evaluation and its effects on elephants, wildlife and rural crop farmers in the Limpopo Transfrontier Park. That time at university fueled Grover’s desire to

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After Valentino opened a dire message from a South Dakota teacher about her student Abby’s project on endangered species, she was quick to connect the student to Rahul Kumar, coordinating committee

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“If you mold young minds in a way that teaches them to be passionate, informed and care about the world, you give them confidence and grant them a voice,” Valentino said. “Our society and planet will be better because of them.” Just before WILD10, Valentino issued a challenge ‘How Are You Creating a Wilder World?’ in the form of a competition. “We received 83 projects from 22 countries in just six weeks, ranging from local to global in scope,” Valentino said. “Entries included ideas such as creating a green space in vacant lots in Los Angeles to saving endangered species in Moldova.” A judging panel chose Mike Grover from Africa and Rahul Kumar from India as the two winners for the challenge. Their prize was to attend WILD10 -- accommodation, flight, and stipend included -- to present their work at the conference, and ongoing mentorship

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work in a Big 5 Wildlife Reserve, where he was involved in game capture and veterinary assistance of wildlife like rhinos, elephants, lions, leopards and buffalo. Conservation South Africa, the South African division of Conservation International, asked Grover earlier this year to be the landscape director for their programs in the Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve on the western boundary of the Greater Kruger National Africa “From the moment I met Crista, I was totally on Park. The park is comprised of over 2.5 million hectboard with CW, and became a founding member, ares of pristine wilderness. “It’s my privilege, yet complex job, to ensure that and a board member,” said ecologist Michael Grover, this pristine area remains intact,” said Grover. Director of Activating Africa, who helps lead CW When rhino poaching spread into the Sabi Reserve, remotely. “With the confidence that I gained from CW and approximately one rhino a week was lost to poaching. “It pushed me to look outside the box for solutions the WILD10 conference, I started my own conservation consulting business focused on technology-based to poaching,” Grover said. “This changed my perspective on life, and drove my career choice.” community conservation,” Grover said. He later designed a smartphone app with the help Grover, 31, grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and of a US-based company, Go Canvas, which ultimately has always had a passion for wildlife. Grover studied ecology and environmental scienc- led him to CW via WILD10. “Although I was trained as an ecologist, we are fighting a war and we are losing the battle. Rhino poaching has increased considerably. It is my responsibility to look after these animals for the future generation,” Grover said. His company, ‘Activating Africa,’ has been dubbed “Community Conscious Conservation,” and has launched a number of programs and innovative solutions to conservation issues, like poaching and monitoring, overgrazing and land degradation. Some of the programs include the development of a community crèche (Kindergarten), which offers youth access to safaris. Other programs focus on small enterprise development linked to the wildlife economy, rabies vaccination and awareness campaigns and livestock management. “CW gave me the self-assurance that young people should not be scared to stand up and take the lead in preservation,” Grover said. “It offered me invaluable exposure through a real media platform for conservation and innovative technology to grow my ideas.” “CW has the potential to change the face of conservation. Young people have groundbreaking ideas. They need guid“This is the reality the next generation faces; we ance and mentorship by senior leaders in conservation,” he said. “CW links have to accelerate the learning and leadership development process since there isn’t a luxury of youth and the experienced veterans in the field, enabling them to actualize wait-and-see.” - Crista Valentino their dreams and tangibly launch their efforts.”

waste management education and anti-wildlife trafficking initiatives. To date, there are thirteen mentors within the governmental program paired with mentees in the United Kingdom, Western Africa, South Africa, the Netherlands, Australia, Nepal, Canada and the United States. The partnership is still intact under the new administration, and the second year of the mentorship program will launch in June of 2018. “The plan is to carry the program into the future, and develop an engaging curriculum,” Valentino said. It does more than merely enhance a skill set. “It promotes building a relationship with someone who believes in you,” said Valentino. “It’s a co-mentorship program. Many mentors learn that protégées have similar obstacles to their own. It bridges the gap between generations within the workforce.” Jackson calls Coalition WILD a living prototype. “Conservation should be a shared goal that unites humanity. Young activists need a new lens and new voice in a very broken system,” said Jackson. “CW provides a platform that has never existed by situating them in international forums such as the World Wilderness Congress. It is creating a different way to look at what activism and conservation mean.” According to Coalition WILD’s website, 62 percent of young people feel hopeless about the state of the planet, while 81 percent think they can change the world if given the opportunity. “CW is a reactive model, a movement and an open platform for young people to generate innovative solutions,” Jackson said. “It helps them take their vision to the floor and think critically about the challenges.”

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member at Coalition WILD. The fourth grader had told her teacher that she wasn’t hopeful for the future of our planet because she couldn’t possibly make a difference. Abby wanted to protect the Slow Loris from the threat the species faces by illegal pet trade. Kumar’s work protects the Slow Loris, which looks like a mix between a bear, a sloth and a raccoon, and is trafficked globally in the illegal pet trade. Kumar also works to protect the pangolin, the most heavily trafficked animal in the world due to the heavy demand for the pangolin’s scales, which are used medicinally, and for decoration and clothing. “Abby and Rahul ended up forming a friendship across the world,” said Valentino. “Now they send each other videos once a month for encouragement, and Abby collects quarters at school for elephant conservation. Rahul gave her hope. They believe in each other.” On Rahul Kumar’s 21st birthday, Coalition WILD flew him to Spain to be a part of the Wild10 conference, what Valentino calls “a defining moment.” Kumar has since become one of the top anti-trafficking agents in India, working on a pan-India project for the conservation of otters and pangolins for Wildlife Trust of India. “It was all made possible through the network I made at WILD10, and because of my association with the Coalition WILD program,” he said. “I am truly grateful.” The young leader now acts as a mentor to other rising conservationists. He still communicates with Abby, and the two motivate one another.

Haiti

Joel D. Augustin a resident of Ville de Gonaives, Haiti, has been passionate about the natural world since his teenage years. Augustin is “the epitome of inspiration,” Valentino said. Coalition WILD has served as a key resource for his vision. “I knew I wanted to be a leader in my community,” Augustin said. “We passed the first stage of embryonic development with Coalition WILD, beginning with virtual media and communication.” Augustin has been a part of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) for the past five years. When the GYBN reached out to him on candidacy to serve as an ambassador to Coalition WILD, he accepted. He studied agronomy, the science and technology of producing and using plants for various purposes from food, fuel and fiber production to land reclamation at Center d’Agronomie, part of the Saint Barnabas Agricultural College in Terrier Rouge, Haiti. At 19, Augustin began working in anti-trafficking operations at Sanctuary Asia, which kickstarted his interest in curbing illegal wildlife trafficking. “He dreamed of making a difference and had the passion, character and commitment. But unfortunately, those qualities alone were languishing in isolation,” said Valentino. Coalition WILD helped Augustin build a media

platform to showcase his work via photos, videos and stories, and provided him a network that garnered him both attention and encouragement from experts around the world. “Coalition WILD is always there to advise me and encourage me to study alternative solutions, in the interest of the Haitian population,” he said. “Crista and I realized we had a lot of commonalities being environmentalists. Her organization has retooled my visions, and made it possible for me to implement youth actions on the ground.” As Augustin’s confidence grew, so did his program. Augustin, now 32, currently heads up Terres des Juene, an international non-profit organization that raises awareness among young people around the world on environmental involvement particularly through the promotion of voluntary actions and local techniques. They work out of Haiti, Quebec and Frenchspeaking countries in Africa to educate Haitian youth about climate change, address food insecurity and deforestation, and the need to protect land. Within these environments, he mobilizes young people through programs that focus on replanting trees and creating small gardens in deforested areas, and then incentivizes them to monitor the trees to maturity. The program activities are socio-educational — river cleanup, growing vegetables and preparing seedlings in the kitchen and planting trees. Emphasis is also put on preventative control against the cholera epidemic that plagues the region. “We help rural kids gradually write a new page of their history,” Augustin said. “We envisage their future alongside them through projects for environmental protection.”

Pushing Forward

Currently, Coalition WILD boasts a member base of 9,528 members, according to Valentino, and project leaders and ambassadors in over 50 countries. It is in the process of developing an accelerator program for 2018. “It will be more involved than a fellowship,” Valentino said. “The concept is based on ingenuitive tool kits and step-by-step guides to recreate successful conservation models.” CW is also growing its mentorship program with the Department of the Interior, and publishing regular success stories from emerging professionals from the environmental and communications sectors on its blog, WILD Voices. Contributors span the globe. “Young people represent hope and not a danger,” Augustin said. “CW gives them the agency to create change so future generations won’t have to pay the ultimate price, the loss of the natural world.” “When given the opportunity, young people will always rise to the challenge,” said Valentino. “They bring an unrelenting passion. They are not burned out. We need to give them tools to actualize their vision. We need to co-create their story.” “The greatest thing we can do is to empower young people to believe in themselves.” PJH

Coalition WILD Quick Facts n CW is preparing next generation leaders to tackle conservation challenges in their communities and beyond n CW’s vision is to give young people a voice for change through offering online tool kits for program implementation, webinars on leadership topics like fundraising, public speaking, social media and blogging, key connections, a mentorship program, and coapplications for grants and funding n CW, via WILD, spends only two percent of revenue on fundraising and seven percent on administration. Program expenses totaled over 89 percent of revenue. n 12 high level active mentorships through the US Department of the Interior that provide professional guidance and support n 40 partner programs achieved this year with individuals, initiatives, NGOs and other conservation groups, including: the United Nations Environmental Program to facilitate the Young Champions of the earth initiative; A Focus on Nature, a UK organization run by young professionals for a campaign called Vision for Nature; and the #NatureforAll campaign, an IUCN global coalition launched at the 2016 Conservation Congress in Hawaii n 16 news stories reported by emerging storytellers on the environment and those helping protect it on WILD Voices blog n Emerging opportunities for youthled conservation programs to work together on large-scale conservation projects like Nature Needs Half — an WILD Foundation initiative to protect and interconnect 50% of Earth’s intact land and seascapes by 2050

Artist Scotty Craighead unveils a world hidden to the naked eye BY KELSEY DAYTON

“Ice Chronicles: Moments of Flux in the Snake River Cryosphere”

While Craighead photographs small details, he likes to print his work in large scale. He loves looking at big pieces of art that people can enter and immerse themselves into, he said. He hopes the 18 large photographs that will hang in the gallery will transform the space. The images are all black and white. “It’s really sophisticated and beautiful,” said Carrie Richer, creative initiatives coordinator at the Center for the Arts. It was a great to chance to showcase a local artist who is always reinventing himself, she said. Craighead is rooted deeply in the area, and his work is based on quiet observation of nature, something people in the valley will respond to, she said. The show is abstract and contemporary, Richer said, and celebrates the arrival of winter. PJH Scotty Craighead, “Ice Chronicles: Moments of flux in the Snake River Cryosphere,” noon to 1 p.m. artist talk, Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. opening reception Friday, show hangs through Jan. 8, Center Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts.

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because it is always changing. The more he photographs, the more he recognizes similar forms and patterns, but he is always discovering new compositions. He also experiments with different macro techniques. When he first started photographing the ice, he mostly held his camera, made an image and moved on. Now he combines multiple exposures for a greater depth of field, and uses lights and flashes. The new techniques challenge him as an artist but also keep his work evolving. Craighead grew up in Kelly in a family full of biologists and conservationists. His family often went camping and Craighead developed a curiosity about the natural world at a young age. Being outside on frigid mornings to photograph ice is relaxing and meditative for him, he said. He started taking photographs as a kid as well. He photographed wildlife, landscapes and his friends skiing. While in school at Colorado College, where he was working on his art degree, Craighead incorporated photos into his printmaking. It wasn’t until a few years ago, though, that Craighead focused on photography as not just part of his work, but as standalone pieces.

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cotty Craighead doesn’t know what he’s going to see when he looks through his camera and its macro-lens and snaps the shutter. Craighead specializes in macro photography, where he takes extreme close-up pictures of a subject, in his case ice. “It’s like looking through a microscope,” Craighead said. “It’s like unveiling a new world when you look at the photos with all the details and the specks of dust and the bugs and whatever is in there.” Craighead’s extreme close-ups of ice along the Snake River unveil a world hidden to the naked eye. He shares that world in his new exhibition “Ice Chronicles: Moments of Flux in the Snake River Cryosphere,” in the Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts. He’ll share his process during an artist talk from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday and the gallery hosts an official opening for the show from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday. It hangs through Jan. 8. Craighead started photographing ice

several years ago. He was working primarily on photo collages at the time, when one of the close-up images he took along the river didn’t fit as part of collages he was working on, but it captivated him. The ice created interesting images, and the light played off it in a striking and unusual way. “And the composition was something that only nature can make,” Craighead said. “There was so much variety. I realized I could go back to the same place day and again and not find the same thing, or discover a new ice formation. It was intriguing.” On the coldest days, when the temperature dips below zero and the light is perfect, Craighead explores the river edges with his camera and a macro lens. He wears waders so he can he freely move along, searching the river banks to find the right angle and the perfect light. Macro photography allows him to get close to a subject without having to crop, and therefore sacrifice quality, he said. “I like the micro-macro relationship,” he said. “I like the elements in the ice that look like something you might see in space. By going down in scale, you kind of remove scale in some ways. I like the idea that the viewer might not know its ice, but are drawn in by the composition, form, shading and light.” Craighead also is drawn to ice

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n Stagecoach Band 6 p.m. Stagecoach, Free, 307-733-4407 n John and Rob Sidle 7 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

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SEE CALENDAR PAGE 13 “Ice Chronicles: Moments of Flux in the Snake River Cryosphere” hangs through Jan. 8 in the Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts

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Daddy Issues

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Moth storyteller Peter Aguero weaves tales with complicated expertise

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26

BY KELSEY DAYTON

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27

Moth storyteller Peter Aguero weaves tales with complicated expertise.

Peter Aguero’s show “Daddy Issues” will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at Black Box Theater at the Center for the Arts. Tickets start at $20.

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“There was no artifice between the audience and the performer,” he said. “The story was there. That was the only thing.” He attended his first Moth storytelling event, where people share true stories from their lives on stage, in 2007. He found sharing his stories was an immediate way to connect with people. “It’s a quick dose of humanity, vulnerability and empathy,” he said. “It creates a connection I’ve never seen in any other performance form.” He’s now a host of The Moth radio hour on National Public Radio and visited Jackson in 2016 as part of The Moth event at the Center for the Arts. Jackson Hole Writers, Off Square Theatre Company and a grant from the Wyoming Humanities Council helped fund Aguero’s performance of “Daddy Issues” in Jackson. In addition to his storytelling, Aguero will teach a soldout workshop on Saturday. More than half the participants who signed up are writers, said Connie Wieneke, assistant director with Jackson Hole Writers. “So often writers write things down on paper, and forget a story has to work,” she said. “If you become a little more aware of how to tell a story verbally, you are probably going to write the story better, too. I love the cross-pollination and that we can learn from each other about other ways to tell stories.” PJH

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“All I know is what I saw, how I felt about it and what I did about it,” he said. “I felt that it was an accurate representation of a son trying to figure out his own place in the world, with a father who wasn’t one you would pick and order from a catalogue.” Telling his stories empowered him. It gave him more agency, and helped him find the voice he didn’t have as a child. People often ask if the show is funny or sad, and Aguero said he never knows quite how to answer. The best stories are true, and when something is true it might be both funny and sad, he said. He laughs at moments others think are heartbreaking, while other times people may find another moment hilarious that he thought was sad. “I think life is sometimes tragic and sometimes really funny and that reflects in art,” he said. What he hopes is that people hear the stories and realize they aren’t alone, whether they went through something similar, or can relate via a totally different experience. He wants people to remember that even when life is hard, you can survive and grow. Aguero’s first stint onstage wasn’t about his father, though. He was working with a touring improv comedy troupe when he realized he loved hosting segments because he could talk to the audience and share an anecdote from his life. Talking honestly to the audience – not necessarily performing – is what intrigued him.

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t times, it can seem easiest to shove painful experiences as far back as possible into the recesses of our minds. But it is there that they can fester in the dark, growing larger and more menacing. When they are brought forth into the open and the light, though, they begin to diminish in power, said Peter Aguero. And if anyone knows, it’s him. For 10 years, Aguero has shared his experiences and thoughts that he digs up from the recesses of his mind on stage as a storyteller. “I have a theory that once I started telling stories about these times in my life – things that hurt me when I was younger, how I dealt with things, mistakes I made, the vulnerability and the shame I felt—what ended up happening was, you shine a light on those things and you see them for that they really are,” he said. “Instead of those experiences and feelings owning me, I started to own them and they didn’t take over my life anymore.” Four years ago, Aguero gathered material he’d shared on stage about his complicated relationship with his father and created the show “Daddy Issues.” He’ll perform the show, which is comprised of a series of six short stories from different times in his life, at 7 p.m. Friday in the Black Box Theater at the Center for the Arts. Aguero’s father grew up in an abusive household and served in the military in Vietnam, and trauma from his childhood and time in the military influenced how he acted as a parent, Aguero said. Yet, while the show is inspired by his tenuous and tumultuous relationship with his father, it is really about himself, Aguero said. It’s about who he was at the time and how he was behaving. Aguero didn’t try to get inside his dad’s head and figure out what he was thinking, or why he made certain choices. He knew he couldn’t try to tell his father’s story, but instead had to focus on his own.

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Teardrops for Taylor Let’s lure T-Swizzle to Wyoming with the Devil’s Tower and a Kanye ban BY CORY GARCIA

here was a time when Taylor Swift still played places like the Cheyenne Frontier Days, back when playing cities like Cadott, Wisconsin and Minot, North Dakota on the state fair and country festival loop was still a thing she had to do. Yeah, she’s the biggest star in the world now, but if you know the right words to plug into Youtube there is visual proof that Taylor Swift once played “Teardrops On My Guitar” in this state. To put things in true perspective, the last time Taylor Swift did anything in Wyoming, other than fly over it, Kanye West had yet to jump up on the VMA stage for a moment that neither of them can fully get past. Simpler times, you know? It’s hard to grasp just how popular Taylor Swift is these days. She’s so big that she doesn’t have to stream her record online the first week it’s out. Tickets to see her, if you can get them, will set you back at least $100 on average, and that’s for the privilege of watching her on the

Reputation is now out in the wild.

other side of a stadium. She’s so popular she doesn’t even have to acknowledge the fact that white nationalists are over the moon for her because pretending that’s not a thing won’t impact her bottom line. With Reputation now out in the wild, it’s only a matter of time before she hits the road again, and you know deep down in your heart that the odds of her making an appearance in this neck of the woods is slim. Sure, you can always gas up and hit the road with your fellow Swifties for a #TayTay4Eva road trip, but that sounds like a lot of work. The old, willing-to-play-Wyoming Taylor is dead, but that doesn’t mean the new, got-the-internet-to-take-a-Kardashian’s-side-in-a-feud Taylor can’t be tricked into returning to the Equality State. We just have to be willing to play into her ego. First and foremost, we have to mobilize the entire teenage population of the state to start tweeting about her round the clock, streaming her videos 24/7 and spending their disposable income on buying a whole new Swiftcentric wardrobe. This is nonnegotiable; Swifties everywhere are already doing this thanks to Swift’s new deal with Ticketmaster which rewards their loyalty/dollars with increased chances they’ll be able to throw more money at her when tickets for her shows go on sale. Remember: only the first 13 copies

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Blame it all on her commercial success, she no longer wears of Reputation you buy count boots or denounces white-nationalist-tie affairs. toward proving your loyalBut maybe we can change that? ty to Taylor, every copy after that is just a waste of money. Finally, some sacrifices will have Spend wisely. to be made to show that we’re serious. Secondly, we’ll have to play up the Don’t worry, we’re not burning anyone historic nature of her return. The biggest concert in Wyoming history drew alive -- yet -- but we will have to be around 25,000 music lovers, and while public about what side we’re on. Sorry that’s nothing to sneeze it, 25,000 people Katy and Kanye fans: we’re going to have is an off-night in Tennessee for a star to ban them from ever stepping foot in as popular as Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift Wyoming again, along with John Mayer, coming back to Wyoming is going to Calvin Harris, Harry Styles, the rest of require a state holiday of some sort, in One Direction for good measure, Loki, addition to a radical rethinking about the werewolf from those vampire movhow concerts work around here. Since ies you pretend you hate and anyone there’s not enough time to build a per- with the last name Gyllenhaal. Listen, formance palace worthy of her majesty, most of those people weren’t going to this is going to have to be an outdoor come round these parts anyway, but she shindig if her show is going to set any doesn’t need to know that. Also, we might need to replace bison kind of attendance record that will go as the state animal for a few months, but down in state history. in time you’ll learn to love snakes. Taylor Swift is going to have to perFollow these simple steps and we’re form on top of Devil’s Tower. It’s the only option that makes sense. sure to end up with a concert big enough Put her stage at the edge of the tower to rank as the third largest city in the then hang the 10 largest video screens state. (Laramie: you’re on notice.) And we can find under it. No one who sees when all’s said and done, we’ll put up a Swift live has a real good look at her statue of her at the base of the mountain, anyway, so why should this show be any tasteful snake signet rings (you bought different? We’ll set up bleachers around yours for $60, right?) and all. It will enter the base of the butte and try not to laugh into Wyoming legend. Or maybe not. A Taylor Swift statue while we do. You know just the idea seems like the sort of thing that would of being able to perform on something called Devil’s Tower will be too much for bring in a lot of Nazis on vacation, and the new, curses-on-her-album-because- we don’t need those tourism dollars that badly, right? PJH she’s-edgy Taylor to resist.

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Ko Tao: The Island of Turtles, Divers or Food Lovers? In this part of Thailand, it’s the land of all three BY HELEN GOELET

fter twenty-four hours of buses, planes, tuk-tuks and ferry boats, we finally made it to Ko Tao, the second stop on our tour of Thailand. Recognized as one of the cheapest places in the world to get your underwater diving certification through PADI (the

Professional After having street curries, fried noodles and rice with every meal, the food scene at Chalok Beach was a welcome change. Association of Diving and to party. Hotels, hostels, dive shops, Instructors), the island is responsible for certifying restaurants and bars cover the western over 65 percent of the worlds licensed div- beaches of the island. Walking down ers. Where most courses run around $600 Sairee at night, music thumps to a difa piece and require a minimum of five ferent beat from bar to bar and tourists days of intensive training, here, $300 and dressed in bikinis and souvenirs wander three days of tireless training will grant through the brightly lit side streets, plastic you a certification, free housing and free gin buckets dangling from their hands. Micha’s desire to get her diving certitransportation from Bangkok. It’s no wonder really that over 70 dive fication brought us here. Being the land mammal that I am, I opted out of the shops cover the small island. Until 1954, Ko Tao was an uninhabited three day training and decided to explore island, a jungle covered rock known for its the island on my own. “What are you going to do?” one of her abundance of turtles, sharks and active instructors asked me when I dropped her bird populations. Between 1943 and 1944, the island off, his voice incredulous, as though there was used as a political prison for the could be nothing but going below the surBorawadesh Uprising on Ko Tarutao. It face of the water to experience here. There are two things that make backwasn’t until 1947 that the island was settled by two brothers from the neighboring packers in Thailand stand out: Their island of Ko Samui. It has since become enormous backpacks, and the road rash one of the most visited islands in southern and bandages covering their faces, hands, and legs from motorcycle accidents. Thailand. Though I’d been warned of the perAs a result, the island abounds with tourists here for two reasons: to dive, ilous pitches of the hills on the island

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face and body, it was time for a swim, a beer and some food. One of the dive instructors had recommended we try Coconut Monkey, a beachside restaurant in Mae Haad near our hotel. I dropped my fanny pack at a table, ordered a Singha and wasted no time in plunging myself into the teal water. It was warm, salty and perfect. I felt the walk slip off my skin and disappear into the sea. By the time I’d returned, my beer sat perspiring on my table. I took a few sips, read over the menu and was delighted to find fresh fruit bowls with homemade yogurt, thai salads with avocado and chicken and many more fresh, delicious options. After having fried noodles with eggs for breakfast every day, and curries with rice for lunch and dinner -- not that I’m complaining -- it was a exactly the change of pace I needed in my day. After Micha finishes her PADI, we plan to pack up and head to Koh Samui for a few days of yoga and R&R at Vikasa Yoga Retreat. While we haven’t partaken in Thailand’s notorious party scene, we’re both looking forward to a little down time and serenity after a week of the bustling atmosphere here in Ko Tao. PJH

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We are souls having a human experience. This 3D earth reality is both awesome and limited. Our current collective reality is polarized between alternating expressions of light (love) and dark (fear). We have parts that are all about light (heart and soul and higher mind) and parts that are way more limited (ego and fear-based beliefs and actions). We’re all works in progress. It’s our evolutionary challenge to choose love over fear as consistently as possible. We are currently in the process of shifting the global paradigm from one based primarily on fear to one based primarily on love. This upgrades everything. We are here on purpose to assist in this evolution. The purpose of karma is to help us grow and explore our full potential. The circumstances in life are meant to support our evolution, not to do us in. It’s easier to learn from our challenges than to resist what we’re being shown. Soul is meant to run the show; it’s the part of us which knows what’s in our highest, greatest good. Hallmarks of the soul are direct knowing, higher intelligence and unconditional love. When soul is guiding choices and decisions, you just know what is right action. The human heart is the portal to our soul. The

t the conclusion of the Dali Lama’s first visit to the United States many years ago, he was asked by an interviewer what surprised him most about Americans. His reply was that in this richest of countries, what most surprised him was that people here do not love themselves.

AN IMPORTANT SELF-DISCOVERY QUESTION Following up on the Dali Lama’s observation, “Are you kind, caring and forgiving toward yourself? Do you love yourself?” It is not selfish to love yourself, to know and honor your needs, to refine and contribute your strengths and to accept your limitations. This is not about ego boosting or boasting. Nor is it about perfection. Love underlies the Creation of all life. The soul is about love. Love sets the stage for thriving. It’s very important to include ourselves as part of Creation by loving ourselves.

SELFISH-SELFLESS-SELF-FULL Selfish means there is no room in your psyche for anyone else. Selfless means there is no room for you. Self-full is a made up word to describe the middle ground where you honor, respect and take care of yourself. This will upgrade your frequency so your

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soul is our link to the Universe. Our natural state of being is Love.

PRACTICES IN SUPPORT OF LOVING YOURSELF Begin with accepting yourself as you are right now. Acceptance (accept = neither condemn nor condone) is a neutral state which allows you to see clearly without judgment. It is what it is. Everyone is doing the best they can, given their givens. Extend compassion to yourself. Develop the practice of self-honesty, rather than self-judgment. Be mindful to not call yourself names. List your positive attributes and practice gratitude for who you are and for what’s right in your life. Choose a healthy lifestyle to enhance your well-being. This demonstrates self-care = self-love. We all have old wounds…deal with them…forgive your past…find professional help to resolve deep issues. Doing this is a sign of strength, caring about yourself and taking responsibility for your healing. Seek out relationships with people who appreciate and love you. Allow relationships which are one sided and/or abusive to dissolve. Do things that make you feel good. This does not mean indulging in debauchery; it’s about choosing from the menu of life what enlivens you. Take some quiet time for yourself every day to feel into your heart and receive the wisdom in your soul.

A GENTLE REMINDER I have added the words in parenthesis to this quote from the Dali Lama. “Whenever possible be kind (to yourself); it is always possible. PJH

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I predict that during the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) This may be the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The next ten months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no … a tender revelation or a radical revolution … a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon—but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

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