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

Health & Wellness

Support Groups Cancer Support Group for Patients Survivors, and Caregivers Led by cancer nurse Beth Shidner, RN, OCN, and social worker Lynnette Gartner, MSW, LCSW Thursday, March 1 Thursday, March 15 4-5 pm Professional Office Building Suite 206

For information, call 307.739.6195

Memory Loss Support Group For those suffering from persistent memory problems; family members and caregivers welcome Thursday, March 8 Noon – 1 pm

For information, call 307.739.7434

Teton Parkies (For those affected by Parkinson’s Disease)

Gather for mutual support, discussion of disease and therapies, and more.

Tuesday, March 13, 4 pm Walk or XC ski at Emily’s Pond.

Dinner to follow.

Tuesday, March 27, 5:30 pm Featuring Perri Stern, Home Care Manager Jackson Whole Grocer Community Room Contact Elizabeth at 307.733.4966, 614.271.7012, or epgerhard@gmail.com

Grief Support Group Led by St. John’s Hospice social worker Oliver Goss, LCSW Drop-ins welcome, but please call ahead Wednesday, March 14 Noon – 1 pm Wednesday, March 28 Noon – 1 pm Professional Office Building Suite 114, 555 E. Broadway, Entrance C

Call 307.739.7463

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Teton Mammas For new babies and their families Wednesday, March 15 1 – 2:30 pm Moose Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.6175

Weight Management Support Group Open to everyone interested in weight loss and those considering (or who have had) bariatric surgery Thursday, March 15, 4 pm Professional Office Building Suite 206

For information, call 307.739.7634

Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Group in Spanish In Spanish! ¡En Español!

Zumba with Elvis. Family friendly.

Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30 – 6:30 pm Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

For information, call 307.739.7678

Dinner with a Doc Dr. Tierney Lake will discuss sleep Tuesday, March 20 5 pm Exercise class with Leslie Roberts 6 pm Dinner with a Doc Senior Center of Jackson Hole Free for seniors; $8 for guests

RSVP to Senior Center 307.733.7300

Spine Classes

Joint Classes

Information for people considering or scheduled for spine surgery Tuesday, March 6, 3-4:30 pm Monday, March 12, 1-2:30 pm Tuesday, March 20, 3-4:30 pm Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

Information for people considering or scheduled for joint replacement surgery Thursday, March 8, 8-9:30 am Tuesday, March 13, 4-5:30 pm Thursday, March 22, 8-9:30 am Physical Therapy Room St. John’s Medical Center

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

Please register by calling 307.739.6199

Update on the New Living Center with Anderson Mason Dale Architects Watch for date and location at ANewHomeforaNewAge.org

Auxiliary Evening Social Thursday, March 1 5:30 pm Cowboy Village

Monthly Luncheon “Strategic Direction for SJMC,” by guest speaker Cynthia Hogan, chair of the SJMC board of trustees.

Thursday, April 5 noon Moose-Wapiti Classroom St. John’s Medical Center

Foundation Sunday, March 11 9 am Dancers’ Workshop

Register at crowdrise.com RocktheRide2018

For information, call 307.739.7517

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As we march into the first week of March, average low temperatures are similar to last week, right around 10 degrees. The record low temperature this week, which occurred on March 4, 1966, was minus 32 degrees. The afternoon high temperature that day was only 8 degrees above zero, also a record. A few days later, morning lows were 64 degrees warmer, at 32 degrees above zero. And afternoon highs were 41 degrees warmer, at 49 degrees.

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The average high temperature this week is 36 degrees. The record high temperature this week is 59 degrees, which occurred way, way back on March 5, 1925. Six out of seven days during the first week of March in 1925 reached 50 degrees or warmer for a daily high. During the following week, for the next 6 days, the afternoon high temperatures were only in the lower 30’s. All this shows how much temperatures can fluctuate, as they always have, day to day.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.23 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.21 inches (1955) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 11 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 2.65 inches (1985)

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February ends as March begins this week, after an unusually cold stretch of weather that saw colder temperatures in late February than what we had earlier in the month. February was a little wetter than normal, as was January.

Snowfall was near normal and about the same as January. March is typically a little wetter than February and usually not as snowy.

March averages 1.23 inches of precipitation and 11 inches of snow. February averages 1.14 inches of precipitation and 14 inches of snow.

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FROM OUR READERS The Cheapening of Human Life The cries of terror and disbelief continue. Teenagers lie down in front of the White House to protest the nation’s tepid, stalled gun-control legislation.

Parents grieve for their children and stare at the wound carved into the American soul. Assault rifles have more rights than schoolchildren.

A movement simmers, or so it seems, a week after the latest deadly school shooting: seventeen people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, many more injured. A disturbed loner — yet another one — is arrested.

It’s not simply violence, but wildly profound violation, yet again, yet again, of the deepest of human values: Life is sacred.

Isn’t it?

How can this keep happening?

There’s a bigger problem embedded in the social order than our lack of effective gun laws, and I hope the movement that emerges out of the Parkland massacre makes the leap beyond anger and single-issue politics. The nation’s weak gun laws — the easy availability of AR-15 assault rifles — are, in fact, a symptom of the general cheapening of human life in American society, which is reflected in the nation’s ever-expanding obsession with war and a military budget the size of Godzilla. War always has a way of coming home.

Back in 2006, a few years after the invasion of Iraq, I wrote: “Bush’s war to promote terror — the perfect self-sustaining fear machine — isn’t just

generating an endless supply of hardened enemies beyond our borders. It is also creating the conditions of social breakdown and psychological blowback within our borders. Guess what?

Under Plan Bush, we’ll never be safe.”

The kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School might agree. Of course, Plan Bush has morphed into Plan Obama and, now, Plan Trump, whose recent budget proposal for next year allots $716 billion to the Department of Defense.

The problem with this, beyond the fact that this kind of spending on “defense” shrivels social spending to a bare minimum, is that planning for war — celebrating war, glorifying war — has a long-term psychological impact on a large segment of society. To prepare for war begins with belief in an enemy and, eventually, the will to kill that enemy.

But as David Grossman, a psychologist and former military man, pointed out some years ago in his book On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, most people have a natural aversion to killing other human beings, which is a problem for those in charge of waging war. Grossman points out that researchers in World War II discovered, based on a large number of interviews with soldiers who had been in combat, that no more than 15 or 20 percent of them would actually point their guns at the enemy and fire.

This led to changes in the training process meant to “disengage” recruits from their troublesome aversion to

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killing, such as replacing bull’s-eye targets with human figures during marksmanship training. The process of “disengagement” became a standard part of basic training, and its success was seen during the Vietnam War, when soldiers’ willingness to fire at the enemy soared to over 90 percent, according to Grossman.

As I wrote in my 2006 column, “Blowback from a Bad War”: “The romanticization of war and militarism within the general culture — the proliferation of ‘point and shoot’ video games, for instance, along with formula revenge-motivated movie and TV violence — expand the ‘disengagement training’ to non-vets, contributing, along with plentiful handgun availability, to a state of domestic insecurity far more serious than the threat of outside terror that Bush has turned into his political meal ticket.”

In that column, I also happened to quote the words of a certain lieutenant general who was gaining a reputation for his homicidal candor. Addressing soldiers during a panel discussion, he said: “It’s fun to shoot some people. . . . You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

The guy’s name was Mad Dog Mattis.

He’s now, of course, America’s secretary of defense.

Once again, I go back to the gargantuan military budget, and the

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The spring equinox is only a few weeks away, but somehow it feels like winter has just arrived. These days the sun rises at 7 a.m. and sets at 6 p.m. As the sun gets higher in the sky, it can quickly change the snow’s surface. Lately, cloudy skies, light snowfall and cold temperatures have kept snow fresh.

Between February 22 to February 27, fourteen inches of snow fell at Rendezvous Bowl, with more than 1.5 inches of snow water equivalent and twelve inches of settlement. During this time, strong south-westerly winds blew available snow for transport, which loaded slopes.

Base depths at upper elevations have maintained around 100 inches. These depths have buried the early season weak layers deep in the snowpack, although these weak layers still exist. In some areas,

the more recent storms have formed a slab that is more than two feet in deep over existing crusts and faceted snow.

Sadly, there have been two more recent avalanche fatalities in the United States. On February 20, a snowmobiler was killed near Sheep Creek, Palisades, Idaho. Their machine triggered a slide when the slab on top of faceted snow that formed in December failed. Then, on February 25, four snowmobilers were hit by an avalanche on Stampede Pass, Washington.

Two of the victims were injured and one killed.

In the mountains surrounding us, avalanches continue to be triggered. Time and weather will change the snowpack for the following months, and we can only wait to see what Mother Nature will bring us next—for better or for worse.

preparations underway for eternal investment in the culture of death. As Danny Sjursen pointed out recently at TomDispatch, the Pentagon’s game plan includes preparation for conflict with world competitors at every level: from Russia and China to Iran and North Korea to the array of stateless terrorists our wars have created across the Middle East and Africa.

On the domestic front, conservatives like Rush Limbaugh shill for gun manufacturers by calling for arming America’s schoolteachers rather than controlling the sale of firearms.

Another well-known Mattis utterance — “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet” — “even made it into a popular video game,” according to Politico. When I read that, I felt the connection between militarism and popular culture settle eerily into place. “Killing is sometimes necessary” morphs into “killing is fun.”

And a disturbed 19-year-old who has just been expelled from his high school can purchase an assault rifle and ammo without a problem.

I have a dark fear that it’s all connected.

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Catching up with Chatham Iconic Paradise Valley painter still acts on early convictions, but with a timelier perspective

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on, I was never concerned about having a career, so I didn’t have one. And now nothing could interest me less. But I think we all have a programmed tape running inside us, and most of mine is now stored on the right hand side of the cassette. I finally feel I know enough to paint what I could only dream about in my twenties.”

Chatham added that “People say it’s time to slow down, relax, go fishing.

Well, I took the first forty years of my life off and went fishing, and now my tape is telling me to finish what I was put on earth to do. Before, time didn’t matter.

Now it does.”

Given the times, he feels compelled to act upon a conviction he stated earlier in his life about the role of artist. “The artist does not simply hold a mirror to society.

If the world now is greedy, the artist must be generous. If there is war and hate, he must be peaceful and loving. If the world is insane, he must offer sanity, and if the world is becoming a void, he must fill it with his soul,” he said.

And while Chatham didn’t say this, one could add that the artist’s challenge is really no different from the obligation of the viewer. If painting represents a near-religious experience for some, perhaps it’s not a bad thing to act on those kindly impulses. PJH

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Todd Wilkinson, founder of Mountain Journal (mountainjournal.org), is author of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek, about famous Greater Yellowstone grizzly bear 399 featuring 150 photographs by Tom Mangelsen, available only at mangelsen. com/grizzly.

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Russell Chatham the painter, though at the same time they are inseparable. No matter what he does, his adventure with it becomes larger than life,” he said.

“As good a painter as he is,” Hearst added, “Russell’s an equally wonderful storyteller and devoted friend, an absolutely superb fisherman who might be among the best on the planet, an intrepid restaurant owner, gourmet cook, wine aficionado, writer, boutique book publisher and general roustabout.”

If any contemporary painter qualified as a genuine rock star in the northern Rockies, it was Chatham. Now in his late 70s, he still is.

Starting in the 1960s, he was among a group of artists who went to Paradise Valley to escape the rat race, to fish, and go about their own media adventures without being hassled.

Those figures included Chatham, writers Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, the late William Hjortsberg, Richard Brautigan, actors Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Kidder, Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Sam Waterston, singer Jimmy Buffett, director Sam Peckinpah and others.

Chatham’s style of painting landscapes, known for its fleeting, muted, tonal bands of horizontal color, summons moods of introspection rather than blushes of superficial, sanguine cheeriness.

They evoke the feeling you get when you realize you are getting older and the sensation hits home when you take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror, thinking about the kind of life you’ve lead.

When I asked Chatham to ponder that feeling, he responded that “Early

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n Jackson Hole, the Teton have served as the irrefutable, unmistakable muse for generations of visual artists.

Northward, on the other side of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, painter, writer, restaurateur, and incorrigibly-addicted angler, Russell Chatham, became legend for his association with a different topographical feature—Paradise Valley.

Many Jackson Hole residents know of Paradise Valley for the Yellowstone River that runs through it from Yellowstone National Park to Livingston. A lot of folks have also treated themselves to a sojourn at Paradise Valley’s historic Chico Hot Springs before moseying into Livingston where Chatham was a social fixture and held court at his signature restaurant for decades.

Scores of residents throughout Greater Yellowstone own original Chatham oils and lithographs, displaying them next to the likes of priceless works by French Impressionists and treasured western artists like Bierstadt, Moran, Rungius and Catlin. Some of the notable private collectors in the region and beyond include celebrities Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Ted Turner, Jessica Lange, Margot Kidder, Jack Nicholson, Tom Brokaw, Jeff Bridges and Harrison Ford.

Chatham’s artistic lifeforce was his grandfather, the great California muralist Gottardo Piazzoni. A few years ago, Chatham moved back to his childhood homeland in northern California and re-commenced painting where his extraordinary career began.

I asked one of Chatham’s closest friends, William Randolph Hearst III, to interpret Chatham. “You must understand that ‘Russell The Personality’ is a wholly separate character from the life of

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Our President’s Dickpunching Politics “Bloodsport” and more in Trump’s movie syllabus

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hat “Bloodsport” is Donald Trump’s favorite movie is, like so many things about Trump, thinly sourced, apocryphal yet pathetic, and regularly reported as fact.

He once praised the 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle, a crude tapestry of gnarled battles and quiet-moment scenery-chewing about an American’s victory in a Hong Kong underground fighting tournament, in Mark Singer’s 1997 New Yorker article. And that’s about it.

But facts don’t matter with Trump and it makes cosmic sense that “Bloodsport”—which was released 30 years ago on Feb. 26 — would be Trump’s favorite movie. It says something about political discourse too: The turning point involves its hero, Frank Dux (Van Damme) proudly punching someone squarely in the dick.

“When you’re in a fight with a bully, always throw the first punch—and don’t telegraph it—hit hard & hit fast!” - @realdonaldtrump, Sept. 25, 2014 Trump is full of it and the real-life Frank Dux was too.

Like Gatsby in a karate gi, West Coast martial arts instructor and veteran Dux turned his life into a grandiose story of covert operations and victory in a fighting tournament called the Kumite, which he recounted to karate magazines not so hot on fact checking.

Eventually, his account of those events became “Bloodsport.” That’s when the Los Angeles Times exposed its “true story” as a lunkheaded hustle: The Kumite trophies Dux won were from a Hollywood-based trophy manufacturer, a Kumite-related organization’s address was Dux’s own, the “secret” medal of honor he was awarded seemed sketchy, and a few friends half-assedly corroborated his stories (“If he says it’s true, it’s

fine with me,” a high school buddy told the Times).

As for Dux’s underground work in Asia — which included saving orphans from being trafficked by selling the sword he won for winning the Kumite to buy their freedom — it’s hard to prove, Dux explained, because these were “clandestine” missions. It is good mythography and his audience of karate aficionados were primed to embrace it no matter what.

Wakanda isn’t real — as Ben Shapiro, supposedly intellectual “hip” hatemonger of the Trump era, tweeted recently — but the Kumite isn’t either.

“If it was anybody else, I’d say what’s going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you’re going to need more than one lesson.” - “Citizen Kane” Trump frequently cites “Citizen Kane” as another favorite, because of course: It’s a massive critique of power and control that flexes and bloviates like the powerful, so it appeals to powerful bloviators, the way rich coke-snorting dickheads like The Wolf Of Wall Street, or man-baby losers love Garden State.

Trump’s “Bloodsport” love, meanwhile, is cast as yet another example of how un-presidential he is — a 1988 actioner is surely beneath the presidency. Worse, as detailed in the New Yorker, is one of his sons fast-forwarding to the ass-kicking parts, squashing the movie into a supercut of thrills. Through this, you can learn something about the absurdity of respectability politics that mar political conversation: The problem with Trump is, as always, not his opinion or his point of view so much, but how he goes about it. He doesn’t even watch his favorite movie, he races through it like it’s porn. As if Trump’s love of “Bloodsport” would be praised if he sat

back and enjoyed the little things, like say, Dux rocking a split atop a skyscraper, a lighthearted Jacques Tati-like scene where army officials chase Dux through the streets, or its coiled soft-serve synthesizer score.

On the campaign trail, Trump often entered events to music from 1997’s “Air Force One,” a movie where the president does away with all of the separations of power and literally defeats terrorists himself.

Most movies are indoctrination. Bill Clinton of the infamous 1994 crime bill claimed one of his favorite movies was “High Noon,” a Western about a marshall who wants to be peaceful but just can’t because he feels responsible for all the baddies; George W. Bush loved “Field Of Dreams,” a dim, signifying baseball movie dipped in nostalgia, enough said; and like Trump, Barack Obama apparently loves “The Godfather,” a lament for a certain kind of criminality, one that’s more decent, respectable—appropriate for 44, who quietly drone-bombed the hell out of many and deported plenty.

“You lose, American asshole!”

- “Bloodsport” Trump is all about bloodsport. His reality shows were bloodsport, the business world he stomped around in is bloodsport, the primaries were all about drawing blood for him, and when he offers up something like teachers becoming Charles Bronsons and arming themselves so they can get into shootouts with school shooters, that’s bloodsport. Our reality show president, the totally logical next step after Hollywood actor Reagan—with detours into sub-Kennedy creep Clinton and warmongering dullard Dubya, parts of which Trump also subsumed—eats up the fuck-it-see-how-it-shakes-out

pathology of reality TV. Remember, that New Yorker article said Trump turned off 1996’s “Michael,” a sentimental snooze starring John Travolta as a schlubby angel, 20 minutes in and put on “Bloodsport” instead. And as Trump watched Van Damme drop down into a split, stick his fist straight out, and bop his opponent in the junk in slow-motion, a unique example of how Trump pops the hood on reality followed.

“You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous JeanClaude Van Damme movie,” Trump said to reporter Singer. “But are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?” He dares Singer to embrace “Bloodsport” and suggests that if he doesn’t he’s just denying himself a hard truth. This is the typically Trumpian dick-punch: His bullshit detector is strong though his own propensity for bullshit is unmatched.

“Unfortunately, most thugs and muggers aren’t looking for a fair fight.” - Frank Dux in “Self-Defense Against Knives,” 1980.

A shabby epilogue courtesy of TMZ (who else): Van Damme, in 2016, holding a small dog, wearing a hat that says “JCVD” (the name of the first of two meta-action projects he has made where he plays a sundowning version of himself), loose as a goose, reedy, hardly the boyish Frank Dux, pacing around a parking lot, praising The Donald.

“You’re talking about the wrong things in politics. Right now, you need a guy like—” Van Damme told TMZ cameras, then stumbled for a second and reset. “I would say, look, I love my brother Muslim. They love martial arts, I love them. I love everybody on earth. Right now, we need Donald Trump.” PJH

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Change the politics

American Schism We are in the political dark ages with both parties; perhaps it’s time to listen to each other master of their welfare.

Let’s face it. The Democratic Party has been drifting away from its working class roots for decades; a cliché, but a true one. It is sitting without vision for the American electorate. They pat themselves on the back because they have won some recent elections, but those are more of a protest against Trump than a vote of approval for the Democrats. Those protest votes will not carry over into 2018 or 2020 without a manifesto that delineates policies that are inclusive financially sound.

Putting together policies that are both should be pretty easy to do; after all, the Democrats are the party of the supposed brilliant thinkers. They should be able to find convincing arguments against the short-sighted views of the right wing Republicans.

What comes out of the mouths of Trump and the right wing coalition is below any degree of decency. It is comparable to bar talks when people are half in the bag. Everything is reduced to oversimplifications.

We are in the dark ages with both political parties. We need the rural working class to realize that the world is not what it used to be, but that’s okay because it can be a better one.

Maybe those changes can start with the “liberals” coming down from their righteous ivory towers to make an effort to truly care, understand and open a dialogue. I have never been able to harbor ill feelings when faced with a person who has contrasting views compared to my own. Perhaps we should all adopt that mindset. PJH

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elected by our mostly rural population, go out in Washington DC promulgating policies that are detrimental to the well-being of the very people who elect them.

For instance, take John Barrasso, a medical doctor turned senator from Wyoming. I met him once 18 years ago in Afton when he was a doctor at the Wyoming Health Fair. He did it to help the public at large. I remember him looking at the results of my blood test and he advised me to keep an eye on one item, which I did, and it turned out to be a serious problem. Luckily I dealt with it successfully. (Thank you, Mr. Barrasso, MD.) But Barrasso’s metamorphosis is shockingly remarkable. He went from a provincial medical doctor to the lap dog of the right wing Republicans, and also to Trump.

To the people who voted for him — hear me out. Do you know that ex-MD Barrasso is promulgating laws to do away with what little protection you have regarding medical care? If you are involved in a serious work accident, it probably will be the end of you and your family, thanks to Barrasso.

Is that how you repay people who have voted for you?

His electorate probably takes the gamble that no serious illnesses will ever strike their family, preferring to operate under the assumption that they are immune to work-related injuries.

They see Barrasso and his politics as a shield against liberals’ interference.

Barrasso is hardly the only issue, though. Throughout politics, I cannot see any political entity truly caring and proving to them that they have to be the

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— namely, the federal regulations. They also cannot stand liberal strangers who want to dictate what their existence should be.

What “pinkish libs” fail to understand is that they cannot impose a wave of reforms to the rural locals who need to feel comfortable in their family nucleus. It is so reminiscent of the Europeans going to Africa in the 19th century and forcing their Christian values on tribes who had lived without them for centuries.

The way liberals force their standards is conceited and arrogant. It is similar to the way the Free Masons used to consider themselves the enlightened ones, and see their mission as one to guide the less edified. (No offense to the Masons; I recently discovered that a great grand father of mine was one, when it was a real secret society.)

Many of the endangered WRP are diehard Trump supporters, so how can one persuade them that the people they elect are manipulating them?

They are convinced that they are true patriots, and are set to take some heavy claptrap to alleviate the fear of being taken over by immigrants — documented or not — along with abortionists, feminists and the LGBT population.

Whether that threat by liberals is real or not is beside the point. In their belief system, it is better to subjugate one’s mind in white right wing beliefs and elect leaders who do not give a rat’s ass about them — only to be exploited by rich Republicans — instead of demanding basic healthcare and good educationas ways out of poverty.

We have our own homegrown politicians in Wyoming who, although

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was looking at the definition of “redneck” in a few dictionaries and according to most of them, the term is “a disparaging slang for white rural workers; often bigoted.” I found that definition offensive. In place of redneck, I will for the rest of the article use White Rural People, or WRP in short.

The same dictionaries define “liberals” as people with an open mind.

It made me wonder if perhaps liberals write all the dictionaries? The heavy emphasis on those dictionaries definitively defining one term as an extreme negative and the other as a positive mirrors the schism in our dear country.

As with the dictionary, our preconceived views are deeply ingrained.

I could say that my ancestors on my mother’s side would fit in the definition of WRP, as they were dirt-poor farmers who were mostly illiterate and just surviving. It was their plight for centuries. Yet when the French revolution came to better their existence, they sided with the decadent royalty which had oppressed them. They felt threatened by atheists wanting to do away with their main moral support — namely the Catholic priest of their parish — who was being hunted by the revolutionaries.

This is, in a way, similar to what is happening in our country. The WRP see themselves endangered and feel there is an attempt to do away with they class. To get decent health care and education would come at a hefty price; they would have to change their mode of life after surviving the way they have for decades. It is a clear threat to them and they take it as a proof that they are under siege from their main enemy

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he military infatuates Trump, as it tends to do most authoritarian and demagogic figures. It entrances dictators around the world.

A public show of uniformed, armed might, loyal to their command, makes tyrants feel strong in the face of their inherent, mounting insecurity. They realize that the majority of the civilian population may suspect, dislike and fear them, and may rebel when the opportunity is ripe. They see enemies everywhere and try to ward them off.

Trump’s desire – apparently his order – for a military parade in Washington, D.C., fits this mold, as, indeed, does his whole presidency. He longs for a public display in his honor. The Saudis seduced him with lavish pomp.

President Macron of France, learning beforehand of his vanity and love of spectacle, made him guest of honor at last year’s Bastille Day celebration.

Trump not only enjoyed the impressive military display, he envied it, believing, at some level, that such a parade would enhance his standing as he believed it did Macron’s, Trump thrives on public adoration and pledges of loyalty. As his incompetence and general unpopularity have become more evident, he has turned more and more to flattering the military and attempting to ally himself with it.

Hints of that tendency were evident from the beginning. His appointment of military officers - including one who had so recently retired that he needed a congressional waiver of the law before he could assume his duties – to high governmental positions, provided a first clue. Since then, he – this man who dodged military service because of bone spurs in his heels, an ailment that

has rarely if ever disqualified patriotic Americans from serving their country – has taken every opportunity to invoke the honor of our military, in and out of context. His comments before the Super Bowl provide an excellent example. The ostensible topic was the most watched and ballyhooed sports even of the year in the United States, which should have appealed to him. But his communication did not, in fact, concern the football game. It was, instead, a gratuitous encomium to our armed forces, as if the public needed to be reminded of their worth.

If it were not so dangerous, Trump’s attitude would be laughable. We could write it off as someone who simply wants to be admired, entertained and obeyed.

But his actions present an imminent risk. Just as he seems to regard the justice department as his, designed to serve, protect and obey him, he seems to believe that the armed forces are his rather than the country’s, although he may conflate the two.

Historically, the reason the civilian president is charged with fulfilling the duties of commander-in-chief is to prevent the armed forces from taking over the government and establishing a military dictatorship. Certainly, we have had military leaders who became president. Washington, Grant and Eisenhower come to mind. And many others, such as Jackson and Kennedy, served in combat. But none of them tried to curry favor with the military for their own purposes as Trump seems to do.

The purported justification for a grand parade of service members and weaponry - that the display would allow the American people to show

their support for our armed forces – is specious. Of all the institutions that comprise our government, the military already enjoys the greatest respect and support, certainly far more than do the three current civilian branches.

It is true that making our military an exclusively volunteer force has reduced its general visibility and lessened overall public focus on its activities. When we had a draft, the populace at large was much more aware of, and involved with, the armed forces. Even so, our military today remains widely admired and trusted by our citizenry.

Knowing he is neither widely admired nor trusted, Trump is seeking to curry favor with the military and to identify himself with it for his own aggrandizement and, should the occasion arise, his protection. Yes, our country has organized large military parades in the past, though primarily, if not exclusively, to celebrate significant and decisive victories. But most of those - one notable exception being Kennedy’s inauguration - have consisted primarily of human beings marching in celebration and commemoration of specific, significant moments in our history. They have rarely been extravagant exhibitions of tanks and rockets and heavy weaponry. Only the weak need to create a boastful show of might.

We do not need to emulate the leaders of Communist North Korea or the former Soviet Union, and even they tend or tended, for the most part, to put on such displays to commemorate special events.

Beneath all of Trump’s fawning and bluster may lie another, more sinister, motivation, improbable, perhaps, but far from impossible. At some level,

Trump knows that he is completely out of his depth. He never wanted to perform the actual job of president; he wanted the narcissistic gratification the office’s prestige can provide. At bottom, he may be hoping that, if he endears himself sufficiently to the military, it will rise up to support him if some investigation reveals that he has committed unconstitutional acts that lead to a civilian – legal or congressional – attempt to remove him from office.

That would be a bizarre though not unheard of kind of military coup; a military uprising not to depose a civilian leader but to keep him in office.

Perhaps this is merely fearful thinking in the stress of the present divisions and hostility in our country. Perhaps the institutions of government that we rely on to maintain the rule of law will prevail. At the same time, if the possibility of such a self-protective motivation as I have described seems so far-fetched as to be beyond the realm of possibility, consider for a moment all of Trump’s behaviors and actions that once seemed unthinkable if not impossible for a president of the United States. While, at a superficial level, the idea of a grand military parade for no legitimate or compelling reason, one organized at public expense to gratify the personal whim of our current president, may appear simply to be a way for him to bask in, and share, the honor and respect our armed forces command, the underlying motivation may, in fact, be much more dangerous and destructive to our already imperiled democracy. PJH

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“ecoterrorism,” not constitutionally-protected free speech.

Another of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Ogden Driskill (R-Devils Tower), told WyoFile the bill would not have affected protestors at Standing Rock in Nebraska, since those people were protesting a proposed pipeline, not an existing piece of critical infrastructure as the proposed Wyoming law specifies. Driskill did conced that there have been no attacks on critical infrastructure in the State of Wyoming, but said that infrastructure in the state was vulnerable, and that existing trespassing laws are not enough to deter sabotage to infrastructure.

Despite Christensen’s and Driskill’s assurances that the bill is not aimed at constitutionally-protected free speech like the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota, some are concerned about the potential for the bill to chill free speech.

Of particular concern is the part of the bill that imposes tremendous monetary fines on organizations that, “aids, abets, solicits, encourages, hires, conspires, commands or procures a person to commit the crime of impeding critical infrastructure.”

Several organizations have noted their concerns with the language of the bill and the potential legal implications, including the ALCU of Wyoming and the Sierra Club, with both organizations releasing statements urging the public to resist the adoption of the bill.

The proposed law, the ACLU said in its email, was “plainly an attempt to chill free speech and protesting in Wyoming in response to grassroots actions seeking to advocate for environmental causes and pipeline protests.” The ACLU also added that critical infrastructure is already protected under federal law. PJH

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The bills proposed by Wyoming, Iowa and Ohio are essentially boilerplate legislation written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, a corporate-funded group that advocates for “limited government, free markets and federalism.”

ALEC, supported by corporate donations, brings together corporate interests and legislators from states as well as the federal level to write and vote on “model legislation” intended to advance the interests of ALEC supporters. Once model legislation is written, members of the organization can introduce the laws into their legislative bodies.

In many cases, the legislation from one state to another is identical, with only details specific to the individual state added in. In one incident, a Florida lawmaker drew ire from some when he introduced ALEC legislation to that state’s legislature without removing ALEC’s mission statement from the bill.

In the past, Alec has taken a keen interest in energy production, supporting hydraulic fracturing — fracking — as well as pipeline projects like Keystone XL, as well as watering down of environmental protections and renewable energy standards. The group has also gone after rules and regulations aimed at combatting climate change. It has even gotten involved in controversial gun issues, including so-called “stand your ground” legislation.

Florida’s stand your ground law, which gained nationwide notice during the Trayvon Martin incident in 2012, began its life as ALEC model legislation.

The legislation taken up by the Wyoming Senate was introduced by Sen. Leland Christensen (R-Alta). When introducing the legislation, Christensen said the bill was not intended to tamp down on legal protests, but instead was aimed at

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he Wyoming State Senate last week voted in favor of a bill some say could criminalize protests like the like the Standing Rock Keystone Pipeline protests that took place in the summer of 2016 in North Dakota.

The bill, Senate File 74 or the “Crimes against critical infrastructure” bill as it is titled, would make it a felony to damage or otherwise tamper with infrastructure such as pipelines, but would also make it a felony if a person, “Impedes or inhibits the operations of a critical infrastructure facility.” The bill would levy a penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $100,000 or both.

An organization that “aids, abets, solicits, encourages, hires, conspires, commands or procures a person to commit the crime of impeding critical infrastructure,” would be fined up to $1,000,000.

The bill does not offer a definition of “impeding or inhibiting the operations” of an infrastructure facility, and that has led to concerns from some civil rights and environmental advocates that the bill might make it too easy for government agencies to arrest protestors who exercise their right to protest against controversial infrastructure projects.

The bill as filed in the Wyoming Senate is identical to other laws proposed by two other states, Ohio and Iowa. The bills are based of two bills in the state of Oklahoma, HB 1123 and HB 2128. Those laws, which are now law in the Sooner State, hit violators who “willfully damage, destroy, vandalize, deface, or tamper with equipment in a critical infrastructure facility,” with 10 years in prison and/or a $100,000 fine.

Like the bills in Wyoming, Ohio and Iowa, the Oklahoma law also makes it a crime for an organization to encourage protestors or otherwise aid them. The Oklahoma laws were passed in 2017.

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The Bitcoin Bill Wyoming reps push to make the state a cryptocurrency capital

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here’s a common saying in financial markets that cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are the financial equivalent of the wild west; an untamed market with few rules and little to no regulation. Crypto technology does hold promise as changing the way business is conducted however, and that may be why the Wyoming Legislature seems so interested in these nascent and sometimes mysterious technologies and forms of currency.

Last week, the Wyoming House of Representative passed two bills dealing with cryptocurrencies and blockchain — a secure method of tracking transactions, documents and records — making the state one of the first in the nation to do so. The house voted unanimously in favor of House Bill 70, called the “Utility token bill,” and HB 19, dubbed “the bitcoin bill.”

Passage of these two bills could position the state as a leader in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, with the potential of drawing entrepreneurs to the state.

Wyoming has already seen a number of cryptocurrency “miners” move in.

Cryptocurrency miners, who use arrays of parallel processing computers to perform complex calculations to “mine” a bitcoin, have been attracted to the state due to cheap electricity used and lowered costs to cool their equipment due to Wyoming’s chilly weather.

A lack of personal income tax and a small government mentality have also

helped draw in some cryptocurrency entrepreneurs to the Cowboy State.

HB 70 would allow some types of cryptocurrency called “utility tokens” to be created outside the rules governing traditional securities, such as stocks or bonds.

Utility tokens are a type of virtual currency that can be used in conjunction with a blockchain record that acts as a promise to future access to a product or service. Such tokens are generated in hopes that a product or service will be more valuable at another time.

According to a cryptocurrency research and advising firm, Strategic Coin, utility tokens work like tickets to sporting events; a ticket for a game between two teams may go up in price if the two teams are both on a hot streak. The price for the ticket may go down if both teams are on a losing streak.

The Wyoming bill would exempt such utility tokens from being regulated like a traditional security as long as the tokens met certain criteria, key among them that the tokens not be sold as an investment, but rather as access to a defined good or service. Additionally, the creator of the token cannot repurchase the token after a potential price change, nor can it find a buyer for the token.

The second bill passed by the Wyoming house of representative, HB 19, exempts cryptocurrency from the Wyoming Money Transmitter Act, a law that deals with licensure

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for professionals and businesses dealing with electronic money transfers or transmittals.

Previously, an interpretation of the law made it impractical for cryptocurrency exchanges from operating within the state. HB 19 would exempt cryptocurrency exchanges from the Money Transmitter Act, freeing the exchanges up to operate within the state.

Other bills in the state that have not yet been acted upon would address how businesses would be allowed to use blockchain technology, would exempt “crypto property” like bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies from property taxes and another bill would allow for the creation of serial Limited Liability Corporations, a type of incorporation useful to decentralized protocols like blockchain.

According to the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, an advocacy group credited with advancing the cryptocurrency and blockchain bills through the legislature, blockchain and cryptocurrencies could be a lucrative industry for Wyoming, a state that is desperate to diversify its economy and become less reliant on highly cyclical industries, like minerals and mining.

According to the group, in 2016 there were over $2 billion in utility tokens — the type of cryptocurrency addressed

by HB 70 — created. The value of the blockchain ecosystem was estimated to be $243 billion in 2017, and there were 26,000 blockchain projects begun

in 2016. Also according to the group, banks, healthcare companies, logistics firms and government agencies have begun embracing blockchain projects.

Wyoming, the group says, is well poised to capitalize on the projected boom in blockchain. The state’s favorable corporate laws, strong privacy protections, low taxes, support from the University of Wyoming and a tremendous amount of internet bandwidth in the Cheyenne region mean the state could be a big contender in the future of the budding technology.

Others, however have pointed out that many of the very things that might make cryptocurrency miners and entrepreneurs attracted to Wyoming may only cause problems for the state.

Many have criticized cryptocurrencies as pyramid schemes or an example of a classic bubble. Cryptocurrencies are also not considered a mainstream currency; the vast majority of businesses do not accept the virtual money as payment for most goods or services. Some national governments are also cautious of the currencies, meaning a future “wild west” regulation free environment may be just temporary.

For now, however, the bills passed last week by the house will go onto the state senate for debate. If passed there, they will then be sent over to the desk Gov. Matt Mead for signature. Should the bills pass those two hurdles, they would become law July 1. PJH

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the young teenagers that were entering the governor’s race ... and I thought, ‘I wonder if ... Angus could run,’” Woolley explained to KWCH-TV. Angus is Woolley’s wirehaired vizsla, a four-legged, furry friend of the people who Woolley said would promise soft couches and a “completely anti-squirrel agenda” if elected. Alas, on Feb. 12, the Kansas secretary of state’s office dashed Angus’ dreams when it declared that despite the fact that there are no specific restrictions against a dog being governor, Angus would be unable to carry out the responsibilities of the office.

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A North Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm celebrated Valentine’s Day in an unconventional way: Wilson & Haubert, PLLC hosted a contest to win a free divorce (a $985 value). “Are you ready to call it quits?” the firm’s Facebook post asked. “Do you know someone that is?” Firm co-founder Brandon Haubert told WIS-TV that the firm had received more than 40 entries in the first day it was offered.

Ewwwww!

About a week after an 11-year-old boy scraped his elbow while playing in a tidal pool on a California beach, pediatricians treating him for the resulting abscess removed a small, hard object and were surprised to discover a live checkered periwinkle marine snail, according to United Press International. Dr. Albert Khait and his colleagues at Loma Linda University wrote in BMJ Case Reports that a snail’s egg had apparently become embedded in the boy’s skin when he scraped it. The mollusk later hatched inside the abscess. Dr. Khait said the boy took the snail home as a pet, but it did not survive living outside its former home.

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Terran Woolley of Hutchinson, Kansas, got a bright idea after he read the bylaws and requirements to become the state’s governor. “I was reading some stories about

n Marion County (Florida) sheriff’s officials were surprised to get a text from David W. Romig, 52, on Jan. 30 about a murder scene at his home in Dunnellon. The Ocala Star Banner reported that detectives were called to the home after Romig reported an intruder had killed his girlfriend, 64-year-old Sally Kaufmann-Ruff. Some of the evidence they found didn’t match Romig’s story, and their suspicions were confirmed later in the day when Romig texted a detective, saying, “I think they are going to arrest me”—a text he meant to send to his wife. On Feb. 12, Romig admitted he may have killed Kaufmann-Ruff.

He was charged with homicide, making a false report and tampering with evidence.

Freak Animal Accident

A helicopter crew contracted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in Wasatch County to track and capture an elk hit a snag of sorts on Feb. 12, according to KUTV. As the crew lowered the aircraft to less than 10 feet above the ground to cast a net over the elk, the animal jumped and hit the tail rotor of the helicopter, causing it to crash. Mike Hadley with DWR said helicopters are used to “capture and collar hundreds of animals every winter and we’ve never had this happen before.” The two crewmen walked away with just scratches and bruises, but the elk was killed.

The Stuff of Nightmares

Frank Lyko is a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg with a narrow field of study: the marbled crayfish. But as Dr. Lyko and his colleagues report in a study published Feb. 5, there’s more to the 6-inch crustacean than meets the eye. Until about 25 years ago, this species didn’t exist, The New York Times explains. One single, drastic mutation created a whole new species of crayfish—one that could clone itself.

Since then, it has spread across Europe and to other continents and threatened native varieties. The eggs of the crayfish all produce females, which do not need to mate to produce more eggs. Dr. Lyko’s DNA research offers new insights into why most animals have sex, because there are so few examples of sex-free species (they don’t last long). He admits that the marbled crayfish may last only 100,000 years. “That would be a long time for me personally, but in evolution it would just be a blip on the radar,” he said.

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News of the Weird reported in September on the giant “fatberg” lodged in the sewer system beneath the streets of London. The huge glob of oil, fat, diapers and baby wipes was finally blasted out after nine weeks of work.

On Feb. 8, the Museum of London put on display a shoebox-sized chunk of the fatberg, the consistency of which is described by curator Vyki Sparkes as being something like Parmesan cheese crossed with moon rock. “It’s disgusting and fascinating,” she told the Associated Press.

The mini-fatberg is enclosed within three nested transparent boxes to protect visitors from potentially deadly bacteria, the terrible smell—and the tiny flies that swarm around it. The museum is also selling fatberg fudge and T-shirts in conjunction with the exhibit, which continues until July 1.

Kenneth R. Shutes Jr. of New Richmond, Wisconsin, bolted from a midnight traffic stop on Feb. 6, but he didn’t make it far before having to call 911 for help. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported that Shutes got stuck in a frozen swamp in rural Star Prairie and, after about an hour, became unable to walk as temperatures dipped to minus 8 degrees. Fire and rescue workers removed Shutes from the wooded area, and he was later charged in St. Croix County Circuit Court for failing to obey an officer, marijuana possession and obstructing an officer.

Shutes told a deputy he “needed an incident like this because he was making poor decisions in his life.”

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A new golf course at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Oregon, will take “the golf experience ... to a new level” in 2018, owner Scott Campbell announced in early February to the website Golf WRX. This summer, golfers will be offered goat caddies to carry clubs, drinks, balls and tees on the resort’s short seven-hole challenge course, McVeigh’s Gauntlet. “We’ve been developing an unprecedented caddie training program with our head caddie, Bruce LeGoat,” Campbell went on, adding that the professionally trained American Range goats will “work for peanuts.” (Rim shot.)

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Michelle Myers of Buckeye, Arizona, suffers from blinding headaches, but it’s what happens afterward that until recently had doctors stumped. Myers, who has never been out of the United States, has awakened from her headaches three times in the last seven years with a different foreign accent. The first time it was Irish; the second was Australian, and both lasted only about a week. But Myers’ most recent event, which was two years ago, left her with a British accent that she still has. Doctors have diagnosed her with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare condition that usually accompanies a neurological event such as a stroke. Myers told ABC-15 that the loss of her normal accent makes her sad: “I feel like a different person. Everybody only sees or hears Mary Poppins.”

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PACK ANIMAL

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The serial rapist who terrorized Jackson in the ‘70s is finally locked away, but are all of his crimes answered for?

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Pack would later be found guilty of first-degree rape and sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the crime. But this horrific sexual assault was not the only one Pack committed during his time in Jackson in the 1970s. It would just take another 43 years — and an unrelated investigation — to prove it.

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The Conviction

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A series of unsolved rapes occurred in Jackson during the same time frame that Pack assaulted the woman from Pink Garter. These crimes didn’t involve a truck or Hoback Junction, but each one was eerily similar to the other.

The man committing the rapes had the same method every time — he’d stalk the women by sitting outside of their homes in wait, and once they were in bed, he’d break into their homes and sexually assault them.

The man had been wearing a mask during each of the assaults, investigators said.

Police initially zeroed in on Pack as a suspect, but a lack of solid evidence meant they just couldn’t prove it. Well, not until a pair of underwear was discovered in a Teton County evidence locker 43 years later, anyway.

After his release from the state pen in Rawlins, Pack had been quietly living his life Cheyenne for about two decades before Division of Criminal Investigations Special Agent Mike Carlson inadvertently tied him to a 43-year-old rape case in Jackson.

Special Agent Mike Carlson was in Jackson trying to find evidence to tie Pack to the disappearance of Kathy Pehringer, a woman who’d gone missing from Fremont County in 1989. Carlson stumbled upon a pair of semen-stained underwear in Jackson Police Department’s long-term evidence storage unit that had been collected as evidence in an unsolved sexual assault case from 1943, long before DNA testing was developed.

Carlson sent the underwear to the Wyoming State Crime Laboratory in January 2016 to be tested, and lo and behold, the semen was a match to one Donald Kenneth Pack.

Teton County Judge James Radda initially prohibited the release of Pack’s identity in relation to the rapes, and Pack was referred to as DKP Jr. in early court filings from the case.

“While conducting the [Kathy] Pehringer investigation, DKP Jr. was developed as a suspect in the Pehringer investigation,” the court affidavit filed in March 2017 stated. “P was also discovered to be the suspect in a series of sexual assaults in Jackson, Teton County, Wyoming in 1974 and 1975.”

Now 66 years old, Pack was arrested in December 2017 at his home in Cheyenne. He came clean after his arrest, confessing to the rapes that occurred in October 1974 and April 1975 in Jackson, according to court documents.

When asked by Carlson about his motive for the crimes, Pack told the special agent that he’d committed the rapes “for the thrill.”

burglary for the crimes committed in 1974 and 1975.

Court documents filed in March 2017 described how Pack would stalk his victims outside of their homes until they fell asleep before breaking in and raping them.

“Mr. Pack describes in detail his methodology of scouting for victims by waiting in his truck until he was certain he was in front of a house that was occupied by only a lone female. Mr. Pack describes how he covered his face to conceal his identity. Mr. Pack describes the weapon he used on multiple victims and the threats he would tell them. Mr. Pack describes how he would, in multiple instances, wait until his victim would fall asleep, enter the house, wake them and sexually assault them in a similar fashion. The common features in the uncharged misconduct and the charged crime show that the perpetrator of the uncharged misconduct and the perpetrator of the charged crime is the same person,” the documents read.

Still, despite his confession and the solid DNA evidence against him, Pack initially entered a plea of not guilty to the charges. A plea deal was made shortly after, with Pack agreeing to plead guilty to two counts of rape stemming from incidents in 1974 and 1975 in exchange for charges of aggravated burglary and burglary being dropped.

“The victim of the crimes alleged in counts one and two of the first amended information wishes to avoid the trauma of participating in this criminal prosecution,” Teton County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Weichman stated in the motion. “The Teton County Attorney’s Office respects the victim’s wishes and will not in any fashion attempt to compel her presence or involvement.”

It was a long time coming for the victims of Pack’s crime spree, who had for 43 years waited for the man who assaulted them to pay for his crimes.

Two of the victims took the stand during Pack’s sentencing hearing. The woman told the court that she was in her early 20s when Pack assaulted her at her cabin in Jackson.

According to her testimony, Pack — wearing a black ski mask — kicked in the door of her cabin and raped her.

“No one knows the terror I felt. I thought he would kill me,” she said.

She asked the judge to issue a harsh sentence for Pack, telling the court that she will always be looking over her shoulder because of him.

“This poor excuse for a human being should not be released from jail,” she said. “Please be harsh. I don’t care how old he is or about the time he has served.

He should have thought of that a long time ago. I will never speak his name again. I will always be looking over my shoulder for another man who is seeking to take advantage of me. Always.”

The second victim was only a few days shy of her 25th birthday when Pack, wearing a mask and carrying a gun, broke into her home to rape her.

“After 43 years, I don’t remember exactly what he said or what I said, but have never forgotten the fear,” she said. “He got his pants down and rubbed the gun on my cheek. He said not to make a noise. He proceeded to sexual assault me. I remember saying the

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he truck following closely behind the woman’s car as she approached the Aspen Drive In Theater likely didn’t seem out of the ordinary at first. The woman had just left her job at Pink Garter Steak House in Jackson and was headed home on the cool October night in 1975, which was only about a 20 mile drive through Hoback Junction.

But as the man in the truck began flashing his lights, signaling for the woman to pull over, it became clear that something was very wrong.

The woman relented to the flashing and pulled over. A few seconds later, the driver of the truck approached her window and warned the woman of a problem with her car. There was leaking brake fluid, and sparks were flying from the rear right tire, he said.

Worried, she exited the car to check but saw nothing wrong. She made her way back to the driver’s seat of her vehicle, but before she could shut the door, he grabbed her.

The woman didn’t go easily — she fought — but the man in the truck on the side of the highway proved overpowering, picking her up and forcing her into the cab of his truck before driving away.

Terrified, the woman made one last-ditch attempt to stop him, pulling the steering wheel of the speeding truck and aiming toward the back of her car.

He stopped her and issued a warning: Behave, or I’ll kill you.

The man drove the woman south on Wyoming 187, stopping near Scott’s Horse Palace before continuing on to Hoback Junction toward Pinedale.

From there, he continued a short distance before turning down a dirt road and stopping the truck.

He forced the woman to undress, forcing her to perform oral sex on him before sexually assaulting her.

She tried her best to resist, she later told police, but was afraid to anger the man too much, should he make good on his threat to kill her.

Following the attack, the man from the truck got dressed as did the woman. He ordered her back in the truck and drove back down the dirt road. As luck would have it, the truck got stuck after a short distance.

The man rocked the truck to free the wheels and then continued on, stopping once again a short distance down the dirt road. He got out of the truck and walked his victim to a row of trees, where he left her, barefoot and terrified.

The woman found her way out of the woods and walked down the highway, where she flagged down a passerby for a ride into Jackson.

She was taken by Teton County Sheriff’s deputies to the hospital for an exam before leading officers to an area near the county rodeo grounds, where she pointed out a truck as the one she’d been abducted in.

She also picked out the man as her assailant out of a lineup of nine men once they returned to the Sheriff’s Office, prompting officers to obtain a search warrant for his home and place of business, where they found several items of clothing belonging to the woman during the search.

The residence was that of 26-year-old Donald Kenneth Pack of Jackson.

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Donald Pack’s mugshot.

Lord’s prayer out loud. I remember thinking if he shot me my family would have nothing good to put on my tombstone.”

Pack threatened to kill the woman after the assault.

Terrified of what he’d do, she hid in a closet until morning before getting help.

The nightmare didn’t end for Laura at that point, though. She lived in constant fear, she said, and would keep knives stashed and grab protection just to go to the bathroom.

That fear was only exacerbated when Laura received a phone call from her rapist a few months after the rape. He told her if she didn’t stop talking to the police, he’d kill her.

It was a voice Laura would recognize as Don Pack, the man who would drive past the bowling alley on league night or appear at other places he shouldn’t have been.

The fear pushed her to pack up and move away in 1977. Away from Jackson and away from Donald Pack.

As part of the plea deal, Pack was required to recount what had happened the nights of October 15, 1974, and April 21, 1975, to the court.

“There is no doubt that 1974-75 have proven to be the worst years of my life,” he said in a statement.

“I forced myself upon this woman after breaking into her house and had sexual carnal knowledge with her,” he said. “Most definitely against her will.”

“I forced myself on her sexually,” he said.

Defensive Maneuvers It appears that after Pack was released from prison for the 1974 rape he was a model citizen, at least on the surface. No criminal cases are pending against Pack from the years he spent in Cheyenne post-prison,

and he appears to have lived a pretty quiet life until Carlson’s discovery.

He got a job as a manager of a trailer park in Cheyenne, and even began dating the trailer park’s owner. It’s a position he kept from the ‘90s until his arrest in 2017.

If Pack really did stay out of trouble and wasn’t just smarter about hiding his crimes, it’s an impressive feat. The recidivism rates for sex offenders vary thanks to a number of factors but are generally reported to be anywhere from 5 to 15 percent. It’s unclear how accurate that statistic is, though, since the majority of sexual assaults go unreported.

It’s also unclear what the statistics are for serial rapists like Pack, who terrorized the women of Teton County in the ‘70s.

Whatever the number, it appears that Pack managed to stay on the right side of it, and out of trouble once he moved to Cheyenne.

According to Robin Poteet, the Criminal Department Supervisor at Laramie County Court, no adult felony or misdemeanor records could be found on Donald Kenneth Pack Jr. at in the First Judicial District Court of Laramie County as of January 8, 2018.

There aren’t any active charges against Pack anywhere else in Wyoming, either. Aside from a few traffic tickets, Pack was, until DNA proved him tied to the 43-year-old rapes, pretty squeaky clean.

That squeaky-clean image is a notion Pack relied on during the sentencing phase of his recent trial.

One of the two expert witnesses for the defense was Dr. Chuck Dennison, an expert in psycho-sexual evaluation.

Dennison stated that Pack was as “rehabilitated a

man as he has ever seen,” a strong claim from a doctor whose work is widely revered.

Dennison did note that Pack tested high for strong narcissistic personality, which involves a distorted self-image, according to the United States’ National Library of Medicine. Emotions can be unstable and intense, and there is excessive concern with vanity, prestige, power, and personal adequacy. There also tends to be a lack of empathy and an exaggerated sense of superiority..

Still, even with the narcissistic personality traits, Dennison told the court he was sold on Pack’s rehabilitation and called for leniency in Pack’s sentencing.

“It does appear this is a man who has been rehabilitated,” Dennison said. “Punishment probably won’t bring his behavior down anymore. It is already low.

Now we are stuck with the question: Does additional punishment change the risk level? I don’t think so because it’s already low, and can’t get lower than low.”

Dennison also noted that punishment for any of the charges would have a significant impact on Pack’s life. He would have to register as a registered sex offender, which would likely cause him to lose his job at the Greenway Trailer Park, where he’d worked since the early ‘90s.

Pack may admit to committing the crimes, but whether he takes full responsibility for his actions or not is open to interpretation. Pack told investigators that he was using both alcohol and cocaine heavily during the span of time that he was sexually assaulting women.

Those claims were reiterated by former probation officer John Olive, who was called as a witness called by the defense during sentencing.

Olive told the court that Pack’s behavior during

A hand-drawn blueprint from the old Aspen Drive In, the theatre the woman was passing just as Donald Pack flagged her down.

Second Thoughts And while pack may have admitted to raping the women in 1974 and 1975, he wasn’t always as forthcoming about his guilt. In 1977, his attorney filed an appeal in the 1974 case, stating that the police had, among other things, intentionally erased tape recordings.

Defendant Pack asserted in his appeal that the victim was asked a number of improper questions concerning her emotional state, and that the questions

What Now? Whether Pack will ever be formally tied to Pehringer’s disappearance or any other cases remains to be seen. For now, he’s off the streets of Cheyenne and Jackson, tucked into a cell at Teton County Jail to serve out his new sentence on those old crimes. PJH

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Pack may have managed to skirt any charges for crimes committed post-conviction, but there is still the lingering question of whether Pack has ties to the case of Kathleen Hazel Pehringer, or Kathy, who disappeared from her home in Riverton, Wyoming on April 17, 1989, while her daughter was at school.

Pehringer took her purse with her when she disappeared, but her vehicle was left behind. She has never been heard from again.

Authorities believe Pehringer’s left her residence willingly with someone she knew and intended to be gone for only a short time. There was no sign of a struggle of her house after she vanished.

Police suspect foul play in Pehringer’s case, although her body hasn’t been recovered.

Her case is what prompted Carlson to poke around in the Jackson evidence lockers in the first place, leading to the new convictions against Pack.

And while Pack hasn’t been formally tied to

were designed solely to create sympathy with the jury.

He accused the investigators of intentional erasure of tape recordings that destroyed not only exculpatory evidence, but also evidence that they had helped influence the victim selecting his photograph in the photographic array.

Pack argued in his appeal that he should have been allowed to present evidence of “prior, recent sexual intercourse to raise the possibility that the sperm present was from other than the alleged criminal act.”

In layman’s terms, Pack’s attorneys wanted to counter the prosecution’s evidence showing motile sperm present in the victim’s vagina with the idea that it came from the victim engaging in consensual sexual intercourse with someone else.

In his appeal, Pack also alleged that certain police witnesses offered by the prosecution were defendants in a then-pending civil false-arrest lawsuit, And, as a final Hail Mary, Pack asserted that the trial transcript was lacking sufficient evidence to support his conviction.

His appeal was unsuccessful.

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Pehringer’s case — Carlson didn’t uncover any new evidence linking the two during his time in Jackson — Pack was the last person to have seen at her home the day she disappeared, according to his ex-wife Loretta Ehnes.

At the time when Pehringer went missing, Pack was living with his Ehnes in Riverton. He’d been out of prison for about two years and allegedly knew Pehringer.

Ehnes said she believes Pack had something to do with the disappearance.

“She trusted him,” Ehnes told the Jackson Hole News&Guide earlier this month.

Ehnes, who said she wasn’t aware of Pack’s criminal history when she married him, thought the court would lay a heavy hand on the serial rapist for the new charges.

“He’s a menace to society and himself,” Ehnes told the Jackson Hole News&Guide. “I thought they’d throw him in for another 40 years.”

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time he was committing serial sexual assaults was mainly due to his abuse of alcohol and cocaine. Pack was a thrill-seeker, Olive said, which led to him seeking an adrenaline rush by breaking into homes and scaring women. When that lost its luster, Pack escalated the behavior to getting an adrenaline rush from the sexual assaults, Olive said.

Pack had been facing one year to life in prison on each charge. In early February, Pack was sentenced to eight to 12 years for his crimes.

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beatings with a slow build-up that lets us know exactly where the next blow is coming. It’s relentless, and not in a good way.

The weird part is that Red Sparrow clearly shares some DNA with unabashedly trashy, stylish genre fare in the Luc Besson tradition, from La Femme Nikita right down to Lucy. You can see it in the purring performances by supporting cast members like Rampling and Jeremy Irons, in set pieces like Dominika’s attempt to play both sides of a potential American informant for the Russians (Mary-Louise Parker), and in the build-up towards the climactic twisty-turny revelations. But a potboiler diversion like that can’t work if it’s expecting you to have fun at the same time that it’s punching you repeatedly in the mouth. Punishing intensity ain’t the vibe for a movie where the crippled ballerina instantly becomes an international super-sex-spy. PJH

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rather than a bunch of social-media troll-bots in a warehouse. Lawrence is the secret weapon for making this come even remotely close to working—just as she was with a similarly icky concept in Passengers—bringing her steely determination to bear on the enigmatic Dominika. She’s able to sell the fury with which Dominika beats down someone who conspired against her, and the idea that her competitive spirit makes her just as likely to become a great secret agent as a great dancer.

What she can’t do is make anyone watching Red Sparrow ignore all the unpleasantness. The humiliations Dominika is required to endure under the tutelage of Matron (Charlotte Rampling) are somehow the least cringe-inducing material here, as director Francis Lawrence—who worked with no-relation Jennifer on three of the four Hunger Games films—goes whole-hog for the squeamish points.

Dominika endures one actual rape and one attempted rape; a character is discovered dead in a bathtub with chunks of flesh carved out; Edgerton’s Nash is on the receiving end of a torture device that flays off layers of skin; Dominika gets a couple of good old-fashioned

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When you’re making the equivalent of Trigger Warning: The Motion Picture, it’s not a good look to also be saying “lol don’t think about it so much, it’s only a movie.”

Without all of that junk, the concept isn’t half-bad. Facing the loss of all her Bolshoi privileges—including medical care for her ailing mother (Joely Richardson)—Dominika feels she has no choice but to accept the proposal put forth by her uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts), a senior Russian intelligence officer. That means becoming a Sparrow—one of the secret agents trained in the many arts of seduction (stop laughing) so that they can find and exploit the emotional weak point in anyone. Before long, Dominika has her first big assignment: cozying up to American CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) in order to determine the identity of the mole within the Russian government who’s feeding Nash information.

It’s certainly a timely enough idea to reposition Russia as our primary global antagonist, though there’s a Cold War throwback sensibility to imagining the greatest threat to our security coming from a sexy covert operative

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arly in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow, Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) suffers a catastrophic injury when her pas de deux partner lands on her leg, the kind of Joe Theismann-esque “wait, that’s not supposed to bend that way” event where everyone immediately knows that her career is over. Three months later, she’s walking with a cane. A few days later, she’s walking without a cane. A few weeks after that, she’s cross-country running after being strong-armed into joining a training program for elite Russian spies. And at no point does anyone ever stop to consider the possibility that hey, maybe this woman with superhuman healing abilities might be able to dance again after all.

Movies have always been full of dumb things that audiences are expected to accept on faith because the premise depends on them. If Red Sparrow were meant to be nothing but a dopey airport-novel of a movie, it might actually be possible to get carried away by the popcorn logic. This adaptation of Jason Matthews’ novel, however, is a movie that leans hard into being gritty, bloody, torture-y and extra-extra-rapey.

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Deep Mapping Denver-based author Kali Fajardo-Anstine heading to Jackson for writer workshop

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Diego State University and Fort Lewis College in Colorado.

Jackson Hole Writers, along with the Teton County Library and Teton Literacy Center sponsored FajardoAnstine’s presentations. Grants from the Wyoming Humanities Council and the Center of Wonder helped fund the events.

Events: “Deep Mapping,” a public writing workshop from 6 to 8:30 p.m. March 7, conference room at the Center for the Arts. $25. Workshop is for high school students and adults writing in English.

Pre-registration at http://jacksonholewritersconference.com/register-now/ is required by March 1.

Private presentation for the student body at Summit High School March 8.

Public reading and lunch, noon to 1 p.m. March 8 in the Ordway Auditorium at Teton County Public Library. The free event includes a soup lunch.

Private storytelling event for high school students and parents at the Teton Literacy Center the evening of March 8. PJH

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will receive in advance when they register. The discussion will also talk about William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” as a model for “deep mapping” a story.

Fajardo-Anstine will also do a public reading from her work and answer questions about it from noon to 1 p.m.

March 8 in the Ordway Auditorium at the Teton County Library. The free event includes a soup lunch. Lucky’s Market is donating the soup. The writer will also talk to students in two private events. She’ll address the student body at Summit High School the morning of March 8.

She’ll also work with students and parents in a mentoring program at the Teton Literacy Center March 8. She will speak to Latina and Latino students, most of whom will be the first in their families to apply to college, Wieneke said.

Fajardo-Anstine is a graduate of the University of Wyoming, where she received an MFA in creative writing in 2013. She’s published her short stories in numerous journals and taught at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, San

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he latest writer coming to speak in Jackson is an up-and-coming name. Kali Fajardo-Anstine signed a two-book contract in October with Random house’s new imprint One World, said Connie Wieneke, assistant director with Jackson Hole Writers.

The Denver-based author’s debut book “Woman of Light,” focuses on the migration of a family from southern Colorado to Denver during the first half of the 20th Century. The story follows a young clairvoyant woman who struggles to alter the fate of her family after the once-wealthy family loses everything to racial violence. FaajardoAnstine will also publish a collection of short stories called “Sabrina and Corina,” that center around the Chicana and Indigenous women living in the American West.

Fajardo-Anstine will kick-of her Jackson visit with a writing workshop at 6 p.m. March 7. Registration is required

by March 1 and it costs $25. The workshop is capped at 12 participants.

The workshop, “Deep Mapping,” will discuss a short story by Latina author Sandra Cisneros, which participants

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I love to ask people those questions, largely because I like to see their immediate reaction to them. People either know or they don’t: those that do answer without hesitation; those that don’t mostly looked shocked at the realization that they’ve never made such a fundamental choice. Then comes the explanations of why they feel a certain way about certain choices, as if they been challenged to defend some fundamental truth about themselves.

I don’t have any special insight into how people pick their favorites. I barely understand how I picked my own, other than the day came randomly that I just knew, in my heart, what the answers to those questions are. What I do know is that my choices are fairly predictable, because like most people, my favorites the music I’ll carry with me for always are things that I discovered when I was a teenager.

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Studies show that the music we fell in love with as teens sticks with us for the long haul. Yes, we get older, and when we do we discover new bands and new genres, but unlike the way our sense of taste changes over time, our love of our teenage favorites never weakens. It’s the damnedest thing knowing that you’re going to carry around something forever, especially if you’re someone like me who spent his teen years listening to primarily emo and nu-metal and thus know you’re likely to get snickers every time the subject of favorites come up.

While I think having favorites is important - I’m slightly distrustful of people who’ve never done the soul-searching necessary to decide upon a favorite - it’s also a bit of a ball and chain. It’s easy, especially once you get out of your 20s, to get into music ruts, even for the biggest music fans.

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checked out for no reason.

More importantly, it made me listen to these records with active ears, because you can’t write about something intelligently if you’re not paying attention. And so while I sat at my desk or cooked dinner or drove around town, I put on new to me records and really thought about the sounds coming out of my speakers.

March is here, and right now I’m planning on keeping up the experiment as much as I can, and just because it’s not February doesn’t mean you can’t start your own personal #MWE. Think about all the records you’ve put off listening to for one reason or another.

Now is the time to embrace the new, whether it’s something that’s just come out or something that’s been around since before you were born. There’s so much out there that you probably love that you just haven’t stumbled upon yet. For me it was Brian Eno’s Before and After Science, which is what this column would have been about if I thought my editor wouldn’t kill me.

Download some records and pay attention. Find your own Before and After Science. Every day is another chance to fall in love.

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along that finally shook me out of it; a friend of mine suggested I participate in #MWE, or Music Writing Exercise.

Created by music journalist Gary Suarez, MWE is simple: every day in February people participating in MWE are tasked with listening to a full album they’ve never heard before and reviewing it in a single tweet. February is over, but let me tell you, MWE was a game changer for me, not just as a music writer but as a music fan.

I love music. It’s my first passion. But I’d also become somewhat bored with it. Every Friday I’d scroll through the new releases on Spotify, maybe listening to a thing or two, before falling back to the playlists I’ve been curating for the past half decade. You know, the ones I know front to back, full of songs that are burned into my brain from countless repeats. And it’s good to have a playlist full of songs you can listen to no matter what, but in 2018, with so much music available at a few taps of a smartphone keyboard, it seems silly not to take more advantage of that amount of access to music history.

But MWE gave me an excuse to finally push play on some classics that I’ve ignored for one reason or another. It prompted me to look into the roots of some of my favorite genres and see how they developed. It helped me discover some great records I might have never

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“It is a little Real Housewives of the 1930s,” Supowit said.

“The Women” was written by Clare Boothe Luce in the 1930s as a satirical look at how women were portrayed in society. Each main character embodies a stereotype, there’s the femme fatale, the floozy husband stealer, the Earth mother who is always pregnant, the unmarried cynic, the innocent newlywed and the young girl who is just starting to learn what life will be like as a woman.

The show, which opens Thursday and runs through Saturday and then again March 8-10 at Walk Festival Hall, offers a chance to reflect on how women’s roles in society and how they are viewed have changed—and in some cases remained the same, Supowit said.

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her husband is having an affair. The women who know don’t want to tell her, but want her to find out. They send her to a gossiping manicurist who spills the news, not realizing the client she’s regaling with the tale is the wife of the philandering man in her story.

She’s left unsure what to do and what she wants.

“I don’t want to give away the ending, but the good people of the world get a happy ending and the bad people get their comeuppance,” Supowit said.

The show was a hit, but also ground breaking when it was first produced in the 1930s, Supowit said. It was unheard of for a play to feature only women in the cast.

“Although it talks about men — that’s all it talks about it is men,” Supowit said. “That’s part of the irony, I don’t know any women today who spend all their time talking about men. The Real Housewives of Jackson Hole would be us sitting around talking about books, movies and everything but our men.”

Still, the show will resonate with viewers. It’s a chance to reflect on how things used to be, but there are aspects that will also speak to women’s experiences today, she said. It seemed fitting to produce the show this year, as women have protested and advocated

for women’s rights. It provides a relevant discussion point about women’s roles in the past and how they are viewed today.

It also was a perfect show to do in honor of the theater company’s 15th anniversary season. Riot Act Inc. was founded by all women.

While the show focuses on the main characters, the supporting cast, which portrays working class women struggling to survive the depression by waiting on and serving the rich, provides interesting insight to the times. Riot Act will host talk-back sessions after the Saturday night performances where the audience can discuss the show with the cast.

The Riot Act production uses 21 women, a mix of Jackson theater veterans and new-comers, who play 35 parts. There are also about 70 different costumes, designed by Macey Mott, Supowit said.

“At the very least people should come to see the costumes,” she said. PJH

Tickets are $20 adults and $15 students and seniors. They can be purchased online at www.riotactinc.org or at the door. The show runs Thursday through Saturday and March 8-10 at Walk Festival Hall.

n Movie Monday 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Movie Monday-Driggs 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Auditions for Rapture, Blister, Burn 7:30 p.m. Dancers’ Workshop Studio 2, Free, n Nathan Dean 9 p.m. Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, Free, 307-733-2207

TUESDAY, MARCH 6

n Classroom Systems That Make A Difference (Idaho Falls) 8:30 a.m. Residence Inn, n Free Tax Assistance 12 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Pigeons Playing Ping Pong w/ Joe Hertler at Pink Garter Theatre 9 p.m. Pink Garter Theatre, $15.00 - $18.00,

n Tap with Savion Glover & Marshall Davis, Jr. 6 p.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $25.00, 307-733-6398

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

SUNDAY, MARCH 11

n Mustard Tiger 7 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

TUESDAY, MARCH 13

n Teton Valley Book Club 6 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Repair Cafe 6 p.m. Teton Habitat ReStore, Free, 307-734-0389

SATURDAY, MARCH 17

n St. Patrick’s Day Party 11 a.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

SUNDAY, MARCH 18

n Few Miles South 7 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

MONDAY, MARCH 19

n Steele River 9 p.m. Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, Free, 307-733-2207

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

n DIRTBAG: THE LEGEND OF FRED BECKEY - Documentary Screening in Jackson Hole 7 p.m. Pink Garter Theatre, $15.00,

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

THURSDAY, MARCH 15

FRIDAY, MARCH 23

n Friends and Family Mental Health Support Group 6 p.m. Eagle Classroom of St. John’s Medical Center, Free, 307-733-2046 n The Copper Children 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

SATURDAY, MARCH 24

n Great Reads for Girls 6 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Recycle Driggs!

Valley of the Tetons Library,

n CWC Beginner Social Media Circle Sessions!

9 a.m. Center for the Arts, $75.00, 307-733-7425

n Turkuaz at Pink Garter Theatre 9 p.m. Pink Garter Theatre, n Galactic Knotty Pine,

n Dirt Road Band 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

n 43rd Annual Karen Oatey Pole Pedal Paddle 7 a.m. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to Astoria Hot Springs, $65.00 - $100.00, 3077336433

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n East Idaho Home and Garden Show 12 p.m. Kingston Plaza, n Taste of Teton Village Best of Après-Ski 5 p.m. Four Seasons Resort Ballroom, $0.00 - $150.00, 307739-8317 n WhoDunnit?

5:30 p.m. The Center Theater Lobby, $25.00, 3077336379

n 36th Annual Mini Hahnenkamm Town Downhill 8 a.m. Snow King Resort, $35.00 - $75.00, 3077336433 n The People’s Market, A Winter Farmers Market 2 p.m. Teton County Fairgrounds Building, Free, 206-715-9039 n Whiskey Mountain 3 p.m. Old Yellowstone Garage, $0.00 - $85.00, 307-739-8317 n TEDxIdahoFalls: Totality 3 p.m. The Colonial Theater, n Wine Dinner at 9,000FT 6:30 p.m. Rendezvous Lodge, atop of Bridger Gondola, $0.00 - $500.00, 307-739-8317

n Open Hockey - Weekend Mornings 11:30 a.m. Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, (307) 201-1633 n The Craic 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

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n Lunchtime Reading with Writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine 12 p.m. Teton County Library Auditorium, Free, 307-413-4096 n Big Wines, Small Plates 6:30 p.m. Piste Mountain Bistro, $0.00 - $250.00, 307-739-8317 n Armchair Adventures: The Galapagos Islands 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, 307-739-9025 n Pat Chadwick Trio 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939

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FRIDAY, MARCH 16

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STU PENDOUSMAT

KICKING & STREAMING

The shift from going to rent our entertainment to getting our entertainment streamed into our homes has had some weird side effects.

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don’t miss renting movies. Late fees, messed up tapes/DVDs, having to wait weeks to check out the big new release … all things that I’m glad we’ve left behind; necessary evils are only worth it as long as they’re necessary, after all. But I do miss going to video stores because there’s nothing that quite scratches that itch. Going to rent a movie was part treasure hunt, part buffet; you can feast yourself on as you think you can watch in a weekend, but finding the right videos to feast upon wasn’t always easy.

Plus there were those impulse popcorn, candy and soda purchases, which you always knew were a bad idea because you had snacks at home, but how can you say “No!” to those giant tubs of popcorn?

The shift from going to rent our entertainment to getting our entertainment streamed into our homes has had some weird side effects. For example, no one really cares about making sure that mass market media covers have to be interesting. Your movie doesn’t have to worry about standing out on a shelf because people are either going to be

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picking it up from a specialty stand at a department store or they’re ordering it online. Sure, places like Best Buy and Target still have movie sections, but they’ve grown increasingly smaller, to the point that it’s almost embarrassing that they have those sections at all still.

The shift has also made binge-watching more convenient than ever. Used to be that if you wanted to spend all weekend rewatching your favorite show, you were going to have to take at least a few breaks along the way to swap out discs.

This is not such a bad thing when it’s the middle of the afternoon, but it’s a binge killer if it’s late and you’re already in bed. Plus, not for nothing, but when Netflix and chill goes right, it’s way better to have your stream pause than it is to have to listen to a DVD menu play on a loop in the background. Just saying.

While we have the vocabulary to talk about multi-hour streaming, we lack the word for its opposite, and maybe the most interesting new behavior to exist because of the shift from renting to streaming: that thing where you sit in front of your TV or laptop endlessly scrolling through your video watching

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options without actually picking anything to watch.

This behavior, at first, looks like the logical extension of those video store trips that I was waxing nostalgic about before, but I think they’re two completely different beasts. See, the thing about walking up and down the rows at a video store was that at the end of the day you only had a finite amount of things you could choose from. It might take an hour to walk every one of those rows - although we all had sections we knew to avoid because we wouldn’t find anything that would strike our fancy - but it could be done; odds are you probably had your own strategy, like looking at all the new releases on the walls before going row by row from the back of the store to the front.

But with the number of streaming video options out there, there’s almost no end to the amount of scrolling you can do. When you’re sitting there, remote in hand, going from one service to another, there’s never going to be that moment where you get a pop up that tells you, “You have reached the end of the Internet. Do you want to start over?”

And I love that, as weird as it sounds.

Sure, I do my share of binge-watching, or even just watching individual videos that last over four hours long. But I also find real joy in sometimes laying in bed, remote in hand, while my TV repeats the familiar, comforting chime of the on screen cursor moving from movie I’ll never watch to TV show that’s not for me to documentary I’ve never never heard of. Sometimes I start the process and get lost in it, only to metaphorically come up for air to discover that I’ve been going through my options for almost an hour without selecting something.

I can’t explain the psychology of why I love it; the closest I can guess is that I find comfort in knowing that I’ll never want for viewing options, like we’ve somehow as a society conquered boredom. But what I do know is that I’m not alone in this, if people on social media are being honest about their viewing habits. If you’re like me, you know that sometimes you want to get lost in a new world, and sometimes you just want to know there are plenty of worlds to get lost in. PJH

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

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Knowledge is Power Drink to your health — organically produce grapes. Biodynamic certification even dictates how much of the farm/vineyard must be set aside for natural habitat.

Demeter-USA also stipulates a minimal manipulation of the wine, prohibiting non-natural yeasts, heavy use of sulfites, water, even malolactic fermentation. But they do allow the use of natural egg whites and bentonite to adjust wine minimally.

Bottom-line, Demeter-USA is the highest certification of organic wine attainable and Biodynamic certification can only come through Demeter-USA. USDA-National Organic Program came about in 2002 to set a minimum standard for a product to be labeled “organic”. Several organizations can certify wines as organic, as defined by USDA regulations. Some states such as Oregon do their own USDA organic certification as do other entities.

Generally speaking, USDA Organic is not as strict a certification as Biodynamic certification. There are USDA restrictions on synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers; however there are no standards relative to the whole farm approach to managing the farm as an organism. In a winery, the USDA does allow more intervention with yeasts, sulfites, and acids in

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with what “organic” means and the process it takes to become certified organic.

Further, a 100% organic wine must come from organically grown grapes and the juice must be processed according to stipulated standards. In the U.S. there are two certifying organizations that authored real organic regulations: Demeter-USA (1985) and USDA-National Organic Program (2002). These are uniform documented certification programs.

But, certified organic is not immune to clever games of semantics. Winery marketing departments will use such words as: Sustainable Practices, From Organic Grapes, or Natural. These definitions do not carry any legal authority and are pretty much self defined by any number of trade organizations.

Demeter-USA’s patented certification approach recognizes a farm (vineyard for our discussion) as a self contained living organism, known around the world as Biodynamic Certified. This certification dictates a stringent practice of grape production that basically says no synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers may be brought into the farm environment. Only unaltered natural products produced from within the farm may be used to

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ecently there have been a number of articles that address the growing interest in organic wines. But to the average wine consumer, there are still questions as to be meaning of the word organic? Herein is the real problem in the short term: there really isn’t much exact information getting to the average wine consumer on what organic wine means and what are the options.

I recently conducted a casual test. I went to a large wine retailer, in a nonconfrontational way, and simple ask them to define organic wine in simple terms. The most common answer was that organic meant the wine was more natural. But, they really could not define what made the wine natural. This is a real problem for wine producers and ultimately the consumer. Most people think the organic label applies only to a natural way to grow grapes. In reality the organic concept applies to winery production as well as grape production. Without a real understanding of what organic means, the industry is able to put labels on wines with various self determined meanings and self monitoring.

To get a real bottle of certified organic wine, consumers need to become familiar

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Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square.

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the wine making process. (Check the regulations for specific approved additives.)

Note: Wine may also be labeled as “From Organic Grown Grapes” and still not be an “organic” wine.

In summary, the differences between Biodynamic and Organic are: · Biodynamic--the vineyard is to be viewed in the context of soil, all plants, and animal interaction in a defined area. · Biodynamic--no dependence on imported or synthetic materials for fertilizing, weed control, and pest control.

USDA Organic-no synthetic materials in the vineyard but natural products can be brought into the vineyard. · Biodynamic--focus is on sustainability of the farm/vineyard and minimized waste of water and natural resources. In reality, biodynamic wines have the smallest carbon footprint of any agricultural method. · Biodynamic-- wines must be produced with Biodynamic approved natural ingredients and protected from manipulation in the process of fermentation and putting into the bottle. These conditions are outlined in a Biodynamic Processing Standards document.

USDA Organic-allows the winery to manipulate the wine but only if they use approved materials. · Biodynamic--the vineyard must be a self-contained eco-system. · Organic is a less regulated wine than Biodynamic yet is still a powerful approach to healthier wines.

Other verbiage that might be misleading consumers looking for organic wine: Sustainable, Natural or just the words “From organic grapes”. Sustainable seems to be most indicative of vineyards or wineries who strive to conserve water, conserve energy and minimize their waste.

In California there are grower associations who certify their members under - “SIP Certified” and “Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing”. This has nothing to do with use of pesticides, etc.

The eco-certifications (Biodynamic and Organic) seem to be growing. “There is growing interest in Biodynamic and Organic certification amongst wineries,” says Elizabeth Candelario, Marketing Director-Demeter-USA. Demeter Biodynamic® is currently in 50 countries.

Today there are 72 wineries in the US that have a Demeter-USA Biodynamic and/ or Stellar organic certification. (As noted earlier there are other “Organic” certification programs.) September 2016 The King Estate Winery announced they will produce their wines under the Biodynamic certification. In Sonoma, Benzinger Wines is one of the oldest wineries in the

U.S. producing eco-certified wines under the Biodynamic banner.

Organic grapes/wines are about 10% more expensive to produce but the marketplace is saying they want that option.

55% of wine consumers in California say organic wines are a better quality.

The American Association of Wine Economics published the results of a July 2015 study titled-”Does Organic Wine Taste Better? An Analysis of Experts’ Ratings”, was conducted by Magali A. Delmas, Olivier Gergaud and Jinghui Lim. In this very detailed academic study they say, “The growing demand for environmentally sustainable products has created a boom in the field of green products.

For instance, sales of organic foods in the U.S. increased from $13.3 billion in 2005 to an estimated $34.8 billion in 2014.” It appears the wine industry has participated in this growth as well. From 1998 to 2009, the study reportsthe, eco-certified wine operations grew from 10 to 57 in CAlifornia. Today it is more than 74.

Further, California, which produces about 85-90% of U.S. wines at about 276 million cases annually (Wine Institute. org) does drive the market. With that volume of production, consumers do have a say in wines California wineries and vineyard owners produce. According to an article in the August issue of “Beverage World” by Andrew Kaplan, the “organic” wine market in the U.S. is $242 million, thanks to Costco and grocery stores.

“Natural is no longer what is used to be.

Organic is the new badge of health,” said Kaplan.

Winemakers are beginning to feel that organic growing and production practices allow for a more rounded taste to their wines that add a new dimension to their craft-terroir. Interestingly, more wineries are starting to push their terroir identity; their place. Wine’s place is also one of the statements from King Estate in Eugene, Oregon. “... biodynamic principles will only further enhance the expression of Oregon Terroir. The more that you can limit any input you can bring into the system from outside, the greater the ability... of the grapes to truly express that site,” say Ray Nuclo in his comments to Peter Mitham.

Whatever the moniker you look for in choosing wines, if you want “organic” make sure the label says “Organic Certified” or “Biodynamic Certified” on the label. PJH

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SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

Featuring dining destinations from breweries to bakeries, and continental fare to foreign flavor, this is a sampling of our dining critic’s local favorites.

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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. Located at 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. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. Open daily for dinner at 5 p.m. Located downtown at 75 East Pearl Street, (307) 733-0005, melvinbrewing.com.

CONTINENTAL 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 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Coffee & pastry 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Lunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Aprés 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Dinner 6 p.m.-9 p.m. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call (307) 733-3242.

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. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com 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 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 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. on weekends. Located at 1110 Maple Way in West Jackson, (307) 264-2956, picnicjh.com 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.

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. Located at 140 N. Cache, (307) 734-0882, theorganiclotus.com.

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

MOE’S BBQ Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David 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 MoeBoy 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 family-friendly, 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.

VIRGINIAN SALOON

Come down to the historic Virginian Saloon and check out our grill menu! Everything from 1/2 pound burgers to wings at a great price! The grill is open in the Saloon from 4 p.m.-10p.m. daily. Located at 750 West Broadway, (307) 739-9891.

CALICO

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

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

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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.

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DOMINO’S PIZZA

Hot and delicious delivered to your door.

Hand-tossed, 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. - 2 a.m. Located at 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT PIZZAS, PASTAS & MORE HOUSEMADE BREAD & DESSERTS FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED OFFERINGS TAKE OUT AVAILABLE Dining room and bar open nightly at 5:00pm (307) 733-2460 • 2560 Moose Wilson Road • Wilson, WY

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

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 p.m. daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera. com, or download our app for iOS or Android.

Open from 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. daily at 20 West Broadway. (307) 201-1472.

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PICNIC

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 MonSat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh.com.

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America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour runs from 4 - 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Loacted at 265 S. Millward. (307) 7392337, snakeriverbrewing.com.

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SUDOKU

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No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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22 “I didn’t mean that” 23 Defense opponent, briefly 24 Preliminary negotiations 25 27 Bivouac structure 28 Sportage automaker 29 Olympic skater Ito 31 Mag. edition 33 Obliterate 37 Blow bubbles into 40 Canberra school 41 Benjamin of “Private Practice” 43 Italian peaks 44 “Seriously?”

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61 Corner office execs 62 Word spoken con affetto 63 Fine-grained wood 64 Sleep it off 66 “Shame!”

67 “On the Good Ship Lollipop” performer 69 71 Tach figure 72 Youth support group 74 Antique 76 Storage facility sometimes

found underground 77 New Mexico’s __ Ski Valley 78 “What __”: “Ho-hum” 79 Scoop 80 Part of TNT 81 Show some teeth 82 Washington soccer team 84 Lesser clergy member 86 88 Confirmed 89 90 Balaam’s mount 91 Vade __: handbook 92 Old Vatican bread 94 Port of __: Trinidad and Tobago’s capital 96 Fashion initials 98 Hundreds, slangily 102 Plane wing parts 104 Driver’s lic. figure 105 Lacking what it takes 107 Mauna __ 108 Blood prefix 110 Check out a wreck, perhaps 112 115 Babysitters’ woes 119 Romcom, perhaps 121 Piton user 122 How titles may be written 123 Sludge 124 Wonder Woman’s __ of Truth 125 Chinese: Pref.

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Golfer Sorenstam Canadian coin Had success Picked hairdo Classic “Star Trek” order China’s Zhou __ Night school subj.

Manning in Nationwide ads Amontillado holder Base reply? “__: Miami”

12 Final part of a task 13 Art Deco artist 14 Watchword 15 PC space bar neighbor 16 Bloke 17 Early civil rights activist __ B. Wells 19 Pro, country-style 20 Colombian city 21 Clear-minded 26 “Single Ladies (Put __ on It)”: Beyoncé hit 30 Pair 32 Relish 34 ATV part 35 Watches secretly 36 Legal titles: Abbr.

38 Actor Lew 39 Some action figures 41 Successful shot 42 Vocal effect 45 Subway line with a Yankee Stadium stop 47 “Whoa!”

49 Payoff 51 “Laughing” Australian bird 52 “SNL” alum Kevin 54 Paul Bunyan tool 55 Chicago Museum of Science and Industry showpiece 57 Bobby on the ice 59 Has a loan from 61 Windy City transp. org.

62 Frito-Lay product with a spokes-feline named Chester 64 Put together, as film 65 U.K. heads 67 __ A: Italian soccer league 68 “The Simpsons Theme” composer Danny 70 105-Down launch

73 Slew 75 “... the worst thing you can __ nothing”: Teddy Roosevelt 77 Clobber 79 Attaché attachment 81 African bovines 82 Two-baggers: Abbr.

83 High 85 Timberlake’s former band 87 Approve 91 Commissioner’s Trophy org.

93 Welding fuel 95 “And So __”: Billy Joel song 97 Riyadh residents 99 Kid-lit pig 100 Elixirs 101 Like the best wisdom 103 Paving stone 105 70-Down launcher 106 Classic language 109 Dinner, for one 111 It has a Double Stuf variety 113 The Beatles’ “__ Loser” 114 Burrowing rodent 115 Aetna offering 116 Tic-tac-toe win 117 Spanish light 118 ER workers 120 Young Skywalker’s

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Hope from the Hopi

BY CAROL MANN

PROPHECY HAS POSITIVE INTENT

THREE SHAKINGS OF THE EARTH

Native American elders concur that where we now stand in relation to the prophecies is that we have entered the period of the third and final shaking of the Earth. The “snowball” is rapidly rolling down the mountain.

Theirs and so many world traditions foretold and agree that we are currently at a critical fork in the road. A quick glance at the headlines tells the same story. The wisdom traditions all say that the key to evolving is to choose love over fear. By now science has also weighed in with research on how the positive and negative frequencies of our thoughts, actions and beliefs directly influence what happens in our lives and in the world. Additional studies have demonstrated that the human heart signals the brain to release either the biochemistry of well-being and higher consciousness or the opposite, based on whether we are coming from love or fear.

CLAIM YOUR POWER The elders implore us now to

THE AWESOME HOPEFUL OUTCOME What is finally foretold in the Hopi Prophecies is that what awaits us on the other side of a collective heart-centered consciousness is the release of the highest and greatest abilities that we have in our human blueprint. We now know that we do not have junk DNA; we have DNA which has not yet been activated. We know we currently use a small percentage of the full potential of our brain; the rest has not yet been downloaded. How exciting to have all this in our future by making a choice over which we have total control … to choose living from love over fear. It is every person’s choice every day to make this shift or not.

Science and mysticism meet in the traditional Lakota saying “Mitayuke Oyasin” , which translates as “we are all related.” Quantum Physics concurs.

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

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The Hopi prophecies foretold that in this world cycle, the Great Spirit would have to shake the world at three different periods in history when too many people strayed into greed, self-interest and disconnection from the heart’s path of peace. World Wars I and II have been confirmed as two of the three predicted shakings of the Earth.

They added that after each shaking there would be the opportunity to realign and upgrade ourselves by actively honoring the Earth, all life on

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intentionally practice loving kindness, compassion, inclusion, respect and love as the way to shift to a higher level of consciousness so we can collectively evolve rather than self-destruct. They consider the Earth is evolving with or without us.

Every single person who practices living through the lens of the heart, contributes to their own evolution and to the tipping point necessary to upgrade the destiny of our species. The time is now for us to get it, own it and practice the truth that our consciousness is that powerful.

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Prophetic information from the wisdom keepers of the world’s respected traditions always has a positive intent.

It is meant to remind us that we always have a direct influence on our collective destiny. Prophecy puts us on notice that if not corrected, negative trends in our collective behavior will create irreversible tragic events.

Earth and all of Creation. If humanity was able to do this, we could avoid, or at least mitigate, our impending collective destruction. However, eventually there would be what the Hopi described as a “Time of Purification,” or one last brief opportunity for every person to return to the Path of Heart before the door would close and the third and final shaking would occur.

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ccording to Hopi prophecies, the world faces one last chance right now.

Native American peoples have a long-standing tradition of accurate prophecy. A colleague who is a Native American elder asked that I share some of their once secret prophecies for our times … literally because time is of the essence. His voice fills with emotional as he talks about how urgent it is to love, honor and respect one another, as well as all forms of life and our living Earth.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) As you make appointments in the coming months, you could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying . . . or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago . . . or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you . . . or transform your relationship with an old wound . . . or all of the above.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) No one can be somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation? Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The state of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns -- places where people once lived, but then abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these places. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on the old evidence.

In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you consider doing comparable research into your own lost and half-forgotten history. You can generate vigorous psychic energy by communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you used to be will clarify your future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) It’s not quite a revolution that’s in the works. But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting story lines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) It’s the Productive Paradox Phase of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2. You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty, or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.” 5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Is 2018 turning out to be as I expected it would be for you?

Have you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and turn

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the coming weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Along the way they may encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines, and wild boars. These natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “You can’t find intimacy -- you can’t find home -- when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and candid and unshielded.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The Committee to Fanatically Promote Taurus’s Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps -- to ask for more and better and faster results.

As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment, and abundant slack.

your focus to them. Make sure you make full use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.

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