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Advisory Committee To Review Big Bend Ranch State Park
PRESIDIO, Texas — A newly appointed advisory committee is taking a fresh look at one of the state's natural treasures, examining ways to improve natural and cultural resource conservation, public use and visitor access at Big Bend Ranch State Park in West Texas.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Chairman Joseph B. C. Fitzsimons appointed the Big Bend Ranch State Park Advisory Committee, which held its first, organizational meeting at the park Sept. 20.
Committee members are Bob Armstrong of Austin, the former TPW and General Land Office commissioner who helped lead efforts to acquire the park for the state, Jim Carrico of Terlingua, Tyrus Fain of Marathon, Hall Hammond of San Antonio, Thomas Johnson of Austin, James King of Ft. Davis, and Fran Sage of Alpine. Another member from Presidio County will be appointed soon. Mike Hill, state parks regional director with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Fort Davis, will serve as liaison between the committee and the park staff.
The committee will examine the access needs of visitors and consider the appropriate numbers and locations of campsites and trails. It will also look at ways potential visitors can become better informed about the approximately 300,000-acre park, by far the largest in the entire state park system. Members will work with regional and state tourism partners, local communities, as well as other federal and state facilities in the area. One of the issues the committee must grapple with is how to protect park resources while trying to significantly increase public use.
At its first meeting, the committee met with department employees who presented background information on different facets of the park and issues for its future use and conservation. The Committee will review the draft Public Use Plan for the park and make recommendations on implementing the plan.
The committee elected King chair and Hammond vice chair and then organized into subcommittees to carry out its charge. The next meeting will be in early January with a conference call to be held in-between.
"We are all enthusiastic about working with great Texas Parks and Wildlife staff to increase visitors and to see the park made more accessible while protecting the fragile desert land and the site's cultural heritage," King said.
King pointed out the variety of activities possible now such as camping, horseback riding, jeep touring, hiking, mountain biking, and various workshops available several times a year, as well as the longhorn cattle drive twice a year. He went on to say other activities such as star-gazing, birding, educational outings, geological study and expanded public-private partnerships could become future possibilities.
"Big Bend Ranch State Park is an undiscovered jewel of the state park system, and we want more people to come visit and experience this wilderness treasure," King concluded.
For more information about Big Bend Ranch State Park, see the park Web page.
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My reasons for opting out of the RV life include:
(a) I love to drive the Montes or Vette on blue highways because I'm a car guy. How much fun can it be to cruise a big ugly box that costs mucho bucks?
( Lousy gas mileage.
© Maintenance and insurance costs.
(d) Personal property tax. Missouri is notorious for gouging everyone annually for any type of vehicle.
(e) Parking. Our burg does not allow an RV to be parked anywhere in the subdivision.
(f) Frequent emptying of waste water and all that entails.
(g) Frequent setting up and hooking up; then reversing the process a short time later.
Sooooo.....we cruise in one of the Chevys and lodge in a motel. If we haven't stayed in a particular motel in the past, we inspect the room first. Sometimes we "camp out" This works for us (well, especially me)....Bliss
I agree, its all about perspective. I think even 6 years ago, I wouldn't not have considered a motorhome. But, I'll try to rebuttal your 7 points above..
a- Our 10 year old MH cost us $50,000. What is the value of your vette? The previous owner kept the MH garage kept & it looks pretty darn good! Like a classic car, it can be painted & the interior remodeled. Even on my blue color income, I can budget that. The MH is fun to drive & 'ugly' is in the eye of the beholder. (Some year vettes are better looking to me than others). It does require careful driving & the slower the speed the better,but isn't that how a blue highway should be driven?
b- Yes, my mileage of our 36' MH, at best, is 9.5 MPG pulling a Honda CRV. However, I am not paying nightly fees to stay in a room I may need to inspect. Also, if we choose we eat in or out. If we choose to eat in, most of the time the food has been prepared at home, vacuum sealed & frozen. We simply microwave the item when we're ready to dine. Not every night is geared to pulling out the BBQ or using the convection/microwave oven. So, I'd say on a normal days travel, our budgets are even or better than yours.
c- I'm actually surprised at the cost of my insurance is. Consider a new SUV is $40,000. (I have no idea what a new vette costs).
Maintenance on a MH is like maintenance on a house or a car. I do a lot of the work myself. I feel each repair saves me $200. MY MH has not been prone to many costly repairs if I was to have sent it to a mechanic.
d- Our MH has some tax write off advantages. Even in California our one time tax was $900 & our yearly registration is $300. Again, comparable to buying, let's say an Tahoe or Escalade.
e- We do have the privilege of parking our MH on our property. Our daughter & son-in-law do not in Portland. Their monthly cost to park their MH on a private lot is $40.
Also, while traveling Walmarts, Cracker barrel restaurants & other businesses will let you park & sleep overnight, no charge. However, we do make a point of spending some of our $ there.
f- Emptying the tanks is not a big challenge. It doesn't sound like a pretty job, either. My wife & I can go 5 days (& a day or 2 more) before emptying the grey & black tanks & refilling the fresh water. We usually just stay at an RV park & do this. However, there are truck stops with sites for dumping & filling for fresh waster.
g- Most RVs have battery, inverter & generator power. There is simply no need to hook up & disconnect for short periods of time.
Again, a motel can inspect great until you get an unruly visitor next to your room or above or below you.
There was one time when I had a noisy neighbor at a park. I went outside & asked if I could help with anything. The reply was a cordial 'no' & the noise stopped.
Again, I'm not trying to convince or convert anyone on RVing. It is a personal choice
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text: Classic lacks Tiger, but not intrigue By Doug Smock June 23, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I'M NOT sure which was the more exciting development in the Greenbrier Classic: Bubba Watson committing to join the field or Sean Payton tweeting that he will caddy for Ryan Palmer.Yes, the New Orleans Saints coach is coming to an Old White near you. Pulling looper duty, no less.It seems that Payton, who had plenty of time on his hands while under suspension for the 2012 season, played in every PGA Tour pro-am he could get into. Eventually, he played a round or three with Palmer and a good rapport seems to have been established.I'll leave the bounty jokes to you, the loyal readership. I'm just thinking about the dream craps table at the Greenbrier casino.Let's see ... start with Payton and the obvious candidate, John Daly. Jeff Overton likes the tables. Throw in a few free-spirits such as Charley Hoffman and Charlie Beljan ... and maybe Carl Pettersson could barge in. Just thinkin' out loud here.I don't think Bubba's the gambling type - until he gets on the course. And that's why this stacks up to be the most fun Classic ever, even without Tiger Woods. As you may know, the world's top player is bowing out of competition until the British Open, even skipping his own AT&T National with a strained left elbow.I had my first good Bubba Watson experience at the 2011 Memorial Tournament near Columbus. The Muirfield Village course features several elevated tees, including the first hole.The way the ropes were set, you could sneak into a spot underneath that tee. It's not like those guys are going to top it and hit you, right? Anyway, Bubba trucked up to the tee with his pink driver and did what he does - namely, smacks the ball into next week. Having that the ball zing over your head off his club was ... I can only describe it as different.With Watson's commitment and Phil Mickelson's previously announced return, I find this Classic to be just as interesting as last year's visit from Woods.Don't underestimate the latest name to be added to the list, Keegan Bradley. Pending the finish of this weekend's tournament in Connecticut, he is the Classic's fifth commitment from a world top-25 player. With three Tour wins including a major, Bradley is one of the best of the under-30 set.Here's a stat I find interesting: Eleven players have committed who have already qualified for the British Open, which follows in two weeks. Twelve if you throw in Josh Teater, the Kentucky native who has told me he's coming. That may speak to the timing of the Classic on the calendar - it could be the perfect warm-up spot - and it probably speaks to the treatment players receive here, both at the hotel and on the course.With the ultimate entry deadline at 5 p.m. Friday, this week could again become a golfing Christmas of sorts. Last year, it seemed all sorts of "presents" dropped from the proverbial tree, with several high-powered midweek commitments announced.One bummer to report: I don't see Dustin Johnson returning this time. The PGA Tour's No. 1 long-distance driver played over the weekend in Germany, which may indicate an extended European vacation. He has played the last four weeks, so you have to expect him to take a breather. nnIf you want the cynical theory on why Woods played here last year and would not have returned if healthy, go to the Official World Golf Ranking.Greenbrier owner Jim Justice made it worth Woods' while to come to White Sulphur Springs, for certain, but I think it was all about No. 1. Woods was ranked fourth and was looking for additional points. I won't bore you with ranking minutiae, but missing the cut didn't hurt him.Today, Woods is No. 1 by a gaping margin so, yes, he's going to rest that elbow. And even if he weren't, he would have played exactly one tournament between the U.S. and British Opens - the AT&T.nnReaching way back to the U.S. Open, I was a bit surprised by some groaning from sports-radio types over the way Merion treated the world's best golfers. Not everybody liked the fact that a 1-over score won. Memo to those whiners: It's the U.S. Open. One over is supposed to be the winning score. We can get our 18-under birdiefests the rest of the year.The fact that par beat the field at Merion is most encouraging. Before the tournament, I kept hearing that the Philadelphia-area track was too short to host a major, and how it was going to be sliced and diced.No dice. Maybe, just maybe, this will help stall the march toward 8,000-yard courses, which the sport really doesn't need.Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 Body found in Kanawha River, near South Charleston 3 Judge gives water crisis settlement preliminary approval 4 WVU's Eli Wellman 'plays with an attitude' 5 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County The NFL -- It's not just for Sundays anymore Previous Story Herd football lands two Next Story


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It's easy to dislike Frank Ellena.
He is loud and argumentative, with a boorish and aggressive manner that is instantly alienating. A large, hulking figure, he has a plump, oval face surrounding two eyes that bulge and burn with righteous anger whenever his views or logic are even gingerly questioned.
The faint aroma of perspiration wafts around him. When he is discoursing on a topic with particular passion--and he rarely speaks any other way--a fine mist of saliva often spurts from his lips.
An unforgiving Christian fundamentalist, he is prone to rage about the decadence of the world at exasperating length.
He is equally zealous about preaching political doomsday dogma; he predicts that government storm troopers will soon impose martial law on society and snuff out our rights and liberties.
Ellena believes that the Internal Revenue Service is made up of foreign agents aligned with the forces of tyranny that operate the United Nations, which is secretly planning to institute a freedom-quashing global government.
Therefore, he believes Americans are under no obligation to pay income taxes.
He believes that AIDS is a virus created by the CIA to control the population.
He believes his wife is a piece of chattel, owned and controlled solely by him and having no rights of her own.
These are odd things to believe.
But neither believing them nor being an obnoxious lout is illegal in America, where people are constitutionally protected from being punished for their beliefs or personalities alone.
At least that's the way it's supposed to be.
Ellena, however, is being persecuted not for what he has done, but for who he is--an abrasive man with some unconventional beliefs about his nation and his God.
Because Ellena is different from most members of society, federal prosecutors and agents of the Internal Revenue Service are trying to put him in jail.
Jail, in fact, is where he spent most of the last six months--held for a "crime" he probably did not commit and for which he will most likely never be convicted.
He has lost his family, his belongings and any prospects of employment in his chosen field: school administration.
He is, in his own words, a man undone.
The odyssey of this ruined radical began when Ellena, 44, first burst onto the public stage in 1990--as an unsuccessful candidate for superintendent of schools in Lake County, Montana. Because of his outspoken positions on the importance of religion in the classroom and warnings about the dangers of the oncoming New World Order, Ellena was labeled, in a lurid newspaper story, as a white supremacist.
The tag stuck, and followed him to his next job as a school administrator in Young, Arizona. There, a labor dispute and another newspaper story, borrowing liberally from the first, set into motion a series of events that led to Ellena's departure--and his immersion in the labyrinthine subculture of the Arizona "Constitutionalist" movement, a loose-knit group that favors a dramatically reduced role for the federal government.
That connection, in turn, quickly led him to a brief argument over a $600 pickup truck with Phoenix IRS agents--who, taking the word of the newspaper accounts and of a shadowy "informant" with an alcohol problem and a reputation as a compulsive liar, branded Ellena an "armed and dangerous" member of the white-supremacist Aryan Nation.
Before he knew it, the rural school administrator had become a federal fugitive--the object of a chase across North America that climaxed in a dramatic capture in Alaska. He now faces a May 25 trial on charges that he "intimidated" federal officers with a piece of paper.
"We're reaching a time in our country's history," Ellena says, "when anybody who believes in God and country is a white supremacist, an outlaw.
"I might have made a few mistakes along the way," he admits, shaking his head with the realization that he often can be his own worst enemy.
"How I ended up in jail, though . . . it just doesn't make sense."
But in a way, it does. In America, it is becoming increasingly dangerous to be different, to hold views that run counter to the mainstream, to be decidedly politically incorrect.
It is becoming dangerous to be a man like Frank Ellena.
@body:Ellena wasn't born a religious or political radical. His blend of extremism, in which God and state are intertwined, is of his own making.
A Kansas native whose family operated a ranch and farm in northern California, he was brought up in a clan that was religious but, at the same time, antireligion.
"My father was poor, and the Baptist church where he was going put a list up on the church wall of those who hadn't been tithing," Ellena remembers. "He couldn't afford it, and so he decided he had enough of organized religion."
Ellena remained outside any kind of formal church hierarchy, as he does today. There are few churches worth joining, he says, because there are so few that preach the true word of God. The Bible, he insists, teaches disciples of God to fight--not to bow in obeisance to pacifism, which he says is a "false doctrine."
By reading the Bible on his own, he learned that a life of righteousness meant more than acceptance of the pasteurized tenets of most churches, which call for little more than passive adherence to the golden rule. It meant a life of battle against the forces of evil.
"I think of myself," he says, "as a member of what King George, during the Revolutionary War, called the Black Robe Regiment--American men of God, with a Bible in one hand and a musket in the other."
Turning the other cheek is for wimps. But Ellena, cognizant of how such militant rhetoric has contributed to his troubles, is quick to stress that his war is a peaceful one.
"I believe in changing this country back to what it once was," he says, "but only by fighting through the courts, through all legal remedies.
"I've never advocated armed revolution. I've merely advocated putting shackles and chains on an alien government that has invaded this country, and restoring the rights of the people. You can fight that battle whatever your job is, wherever you are."
Ellena chose to make his fight in the schools. But after losing two education jobs in rapid succession, he decided in mid-1992 to embark on a more direct assault on his preeminent enemy--big federal government--which he believes is the cause of social deterioration in schools and American society.
"Government has infiltrated every area of our lives. It tells us what to do, when to do it," Ellena complains. "And it specifies that Christianity cannot have anything to do with society. It says we can't have Christ in our schools; it, in effect, is at war with Christianity. And that is simply wrong."
The federal government, in essence, is the enemy of God.
What is required to defeat this enemy is a sweeping return to states' rights, local governance and individual decision making. People must take back their lives and reinject the Lord into public life.
On its face, such a philosophy isn't far removed from a Pat Buchanan stump speech--except that it calls for an active step on the part of the believer that goes beyond a trip to the ballot box. As Ellena would say, quoting the good book, "faith without works is dead."
The "works" necessary? A refusal to pay income taxes, the filthy lucre that supports the rogue, godless federal colossus.
@body:The IRS estimates there are more than 60,000 tax protesters in the United States, and it's a good bet that a fair number of them live in the pines in and around Payson.
It's an area known for its large population of longhaired wild men, dropouts from mainstream society--a haven for survivalists, loners and individualists.
It is also the center of the Arizona contingent of the Constitutionalist movement.
There is no Constitutionalist club to join; it is more an attitude and a way of life. No one even knows who came up with the name "Constitutionalist," but there are those who claim the title in all 50 states.
Constitutionalists are a nebulous group of tax evaders, conspiracy theorists and prophets of Armageddon who ardently believe that the federal government and America's "monied interests" are out to destroy the rights of the common man. They are linked by a national network of pulp-paper newsletters and gossip, computer bulletin boards and E mail.
Their numbers and influence in the Payson area are reflected by a huge billboard on the main tourist artery into town, posing the question: "Will America Survive?"
The answer, according to the fellows at the Houston Mesa General Store, the command post of the local Constitutionalist corps, is equivocal, at best.
The store, located in the tiny town site of Houston Mesa, just north of Payson, is run by Steve Gehring, a reluctant shopkeeper whose true calling is being a paralegal, advising fellow Constitutionalists when they run into legal problems. Which, since they don't like to pay taxes, they often do.
At Houston Mesa, Payson's Constitutionalists can pick up a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread for the stomach, along with a little revolutionary propaganda for the mind. And they can speak to Frank Ellena, who is preparing for his upcoming trial by utilizing Gehring's "law office"--a ramshackle structure adjacent to the store.
It is a decrepit building with a sagging, watermarked ceiling and a lone, yellow light bulb illuminating the dim interior. Inside are stacks of law tomes and thick, three-ring binders; chairs with the stuffing bursting from the seams and battered old desks are covered with mounds of crumpled paper. Bits of half-eaten food sit atop the paper mountains, and a thick, musty smell pervades all.
On this day, a young man with long, blond, greasy hair--who says he stops by Houston Mesa "now and then to learn more about how the world works"--sits listening attentively as Gehring tries to explain the Constitutionalist creed. According to Gehring, here's why paying federal income taxes is not only unnecessary, but downright evil:
"Interpol, you see," Gehring begins, his eyes glistening through the murk of the law office, "is a direct descendant of Hitler's secret police. It is headquartered in Lyon, France. The Internal Revenue Service has an overseas headquarters in Lyon, too.
"See? It all fits together."
The young man grins, nodding enthusiastically. "Yeah, man. Right on. Those bastards!"
An uninitiated reporter, however, isn't such a quick study. So Ellena expands on the definition:
Over time, a group of international businessmen and politicians, represented by the United Nations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, has hatched a plan to institute a global government--one that will deprive Americans of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
To finance this global tyranny, these clandestine imperialists have introduced the income tax.
But what most Americans don't know is that the 16th Amendment, on which the income tax is based, was never really ratified by the states.
Nor do they know that paying income tax is voluntary, and that they should have the option of declining to pay. Of course, the government does not respect that constitutionally granted option, so other avenues to avoid taxes must be found.
And it is imperative that they be found soon, because the insidious foreign plotters are even now planning--through their agents in the IRS, Interpol, the Federal Reserve Bank and the UN--to send foreign troops into the United States to establish martial law, end all private property ownership and confiscate all guns.
A repressive New World Order will result, with mankind at large descending into a state of wretched poverty while the lucky few live as kings on the fruits of our tax dollars.
That, of course, is only the main trunk of the Constitutionalist tree--there are countless gnarled branches dealing with the roles played in the international conspiracy by communism, AIDS, the pope, Freemasonry and even the Beatles.
It is, in its own way, an ingenious, complete world view, one not done justice by a brief synopsis. It comes complete with charts and graphs and its own lexicon, "documented" in several of the voluminous notebooks that line the law-office shelves. Chock-full of disparate fragments of legal arcana and pseudohistory, it contains just enough truth to make it plausible to the gullible and the dispossessed.
But unfortunately for men like Gehring and Ellena, there's not enough truth to get it through the door between fantasy and reality.
The IRS, for one, isn't buying it--any of it.
Bill Brunson, an IRS spokesman, says the Constitutionalist creed is known around the office as the "standard tax-protester line."
"We've heard all this stuff a million times," he says.
For instance, the claim that the 16th Amendment was never ratified stems from the fact that some states approved copies of the amendment that contained slightly different wording--such as misplaced articles; a "the" where there should have been an "a." But the states did, in fact, vote to approve the amendment.
The Constitutionalist insistence that income tax is voluntary, and that one can simply opt out of paying, comes from a reference in the tax code to "voluntary compliance"--which simply means that taxpayers file returns without the need for regular enforcement by the IRS. The tax laws are voluntary only in the sense that traffic laws are. No one rides in the passenger seat of your car forcing you to stop at red lights--but if you're caught running one, you still get a ticket.
The revenue folks are also familiar with the favorite Constitutionalist scam aimed at getting around the government's unwillingness to recognize the alleged "option."
It's called the "offshore trust," and here's how it is supposed to work: By renouncing American citizenship and moving all assets into accounts based in foreign countries, a person can avoid paying taxes on his income and property.
The only problem is that, according to the IRS and tax experts, only the wealthy and the elite--who are willing to move out of the country for good and stay out--can do it. In addition, the shelters only work if you put assets in them that have been earned overseas. All income made in the U.S. is still subject to income tax.
William Raby, a retired Arizona State University business professor and publisher of the Raby Report, a tax-advice newsletter, notes that the trusts are of no use to the average American.
"You can't just put your local salary, or your house or VCR, into one of the trusts," Raby says.
But Ellena, playing the semantic game that is at the core of the Constitutionalist ethos, insists that you can. Any argument to the contrary, put forth by the IRS or an establishmentarian tax expert, is merely part of the "cognitive dissonance" of the "conspiracy."
Which is why, when he was looking for noneducational work in the summer of 1992, Ellena eagerly took a job with a Tempe company that specialized in moving assets into trusts located in the Caribbean.
@body:That July, Ellena began working as a "recovery agent" for a Tempe insurance broker and fellow Constitutionalist named Doug Carpa. A mysterious character who is now in federal prison in California on unrelated tax-fraud and conspiracy convictions, Carpa had set up a Phoenix resident named Brett Harris with an offshore account named "LAJ Trust"--with headquarters in the Grand Turk Islands, part of the British West Indies.
The IRS, however, was not willing to accept the trust, since Harris' meager assets were all earned within the U.S. So it set out to seize and sell some of his property--including a 1967 Ford pickup truck--to cover the tax bill.
The truck was scheduled to be sold July 21 as part of a Phoenix auction of other seized vehicles. Carpa dispatched Ellena to the auction bearing a homemade "seizure order" which had been generated on Carpa's home computer.
The order, which accused the IRS of "deceptive use of color of office, fractious and unlawful conduct contrary to the protection of the public good," demanded that the truck be returned. Ellena also carried the truck's title, which showed that it was registered to LAJ Trust.
"It was a legal challenge," Ellena explains, "putting them on notice that we were contesting the sale."
When he got to the auction, Ellena presented the order to IRS agent Raymond Banks, who informed Ellena that he would not return the truck.
According to court records, the short-tempered Ellena erupted, yelling at Banks for 15 minutes, insisting that the seizure of the vehicle was illegal and that the IRS was a "Gestapo-type" organization that would be destroyed as soon as the American people awoke to its fraud.
Ellena then announced that he wanted to sit in the vehicle, like other people who were milling about the auction lot inspecting vehicles.
"I had keys," Ellena admits, "and I could have easily driven it away if I had wanted to. But I didn't."
The reports of the IRS agents on the scene confirm that Ellena made no effort to take the truck from the lot. He merely sat in the cab for a minute, inspecting the condition of the truck.
But suddenly, perhaps annoyed that Ellena was blocking potential buyers from inspecting it, Banks and IRS Special Agent John Nielsen moved into the cab and grabbed Ellena.
"They wanted me out of the truck, and they began pulling on my legs, wrenching my back," Ellena says. "At which point I yelled that I was being assaulted."
The agents, noting the crowd that was gathering, no doubt attracted by Ellena's bellowing, retreated and radioed the Phoenix police.
The officers who responded to the call asked to see Ellena's ID and ordered him out of the truck. He complied, and was arrested for failure to pay an outstanding traffic ticket.
At the police station, the officers quickly discovered that the traffic citation was an error and released Ellena.
Had he gone home peaceably at this point, that might have been that--just another meaningless skirmish in the Constitutionalist war on the system.
But Ellena raised the stakes, filing assault charges against the two IRS agents with Phoenix police.
"They had roughed me up," Ellena says, "and I hadn't done anything that I did not have a legal right to do."
The IRS knew Ellena had not broken any laws by sitting in the truck; nor had he physically tried to seize it. He had not initiated any physical contact with agents, and he had not stopped the auction--the truck was sold for $600 the same day.
He wasn't a tax evader himself--Ellena hadn't made enough money that year to owe any federal income tax.
In short, he hadn't done anything wrong. If he had, federal officers had an easy opportunity to arrest him at the scene. Yet according to reports filed by the IRS' own agents, they had no reason to do so.
Ellena's only sin, apparently, was the obnoxious manner in which he had delivered the "seizure order."
But a few weeks after Ellena filed his complaint, the IRS suddenly decided that the decision not to arrest him had been a mistake, and a warrant was issued.
The stated reason? The IRS said that the pathetic, home-computer-generated "seizure order" constituted a "threat" and an "assault" on agents Banks and Nielsen.
In addition, it announced that an investigation of Ellena had turned up some very important information about the blustery man who had caused such a scene at the car auction.
In an all points bulletin issued to U.S. marshals, the FBI and police forces throughout the West, Ellena was described as "armed and dangerous," a man with potential ties "to the Aryan Nation."
How could agents of the federal government believe that this hapless former school principal and tax heretic was a cross-burning, gun-toting menace to society?
Easy. They read it in the newspaper.
@body:Ellena wasn't always a professional antitax activist. He started out teaching America's youth.
After attending classes at Cal State-Sacramento and the University of Montana, Ellena got his degree in school administration in 1974. In the mid-1980s, after teaching for 11 years in California, Ellena settled in Ronan, Montana, where he taught and served as assistant principal at two different Indian reservation schools.
It was in Ronan, he says, that he became increasingly enraged at the course of American education.
"I began to have a real conflict in education, because I began to see what was going on and I didn't like it," Ellena says. "We're teaching students a secular-humanist doctrine and revised history, destroying the relationship between parents and students."
Helping to reinforce his concerns about education were the like-minded people he met in Ronan. Among them was the Reverend Keith Roberts, another fundamentalist whose church became a meeting place for about 40 members of the town's far right. Roberts befriended Ellena, and together they led spirited political discussions every Thursday night on topics ranging from the Nicaraguan contras (for them) to Ronald Reagan (for him) to abortion (against it).
Ellena remembers a particularly enjoyable evening when the group, which called itself the Freedom Fellowship Forum, watched a video made by conservative fringe leader and sometime presidential candidate Bo Gritz. The video detailed "proof" that George Bush was receiving a cut from illegal heroin sales in America's cities.
For Ellena, such nights were an inspiring mix of politics and religion that he found to be as essential as food and drink. Especially satisfying was the Forum's willingness to "carry both the Bible and the musket"--by backing candidates for office.
In 1990, Roberts and Ellena were asked by Forum members to run for the Ronan school board and Lake County superintendent of schools, respectively. Ellena, running on a platform that strongly advocated the voucher system for public schools, soon found he enjoyed politics--it provided a kind of secular pulpit from which his proclivity for harangues could be put to good use.
The voters of Lake County evidently enjoyed him, as well. In early 1990, Ellena was considered a favorite to win.
In March of that year, Ellena and Roberts agreed to be interviewed by a freelance writer for the Missoulian, a daily newspaper in Missoula, about 50 miles south of Ronan. The reporter, Ron Selden, wrote a story detailing their conservative bent--but added the spectacular charge that they were racist and anti-Semitic, as well.
Selden wrote that Ellena had given him several pamphlets written by Pete Peters, a Colorado extremist linked to groups "said to be embraced by the Aryan Nation organization and several other nationally recognized hate groups."
Selden's story also quoted Ellena as saying that the Holocaust never occurred and that Abraham Lincoln wanted to "send all blacks back to Africa." Ellena claims the reporter fabricated those quotes.
To those who knew Ellena well, the racism angle lacked the ring of truth. One-quarter Cherokee, Ellena had spent much of his professional life teaching in schools on Indian reservations and arguing for the cause of minorities--who, he insists, suffer the most at the hands of big government.
One of the Forum's meetings had even been devoted to discussing ways to free local tribes from "dependency" on the government by helping them become economically self-sufficient.
Ellena and other Forum members may have nursed the nutty idea that the nation's vice president was a smack dealer, but they showed no overt signs of the kind of ugly bigotry suggested by Selden--if they did, the reporter was unable to find even one member of the Ronan community who could testify to it.
Rich Stripp, editor of the Lake County Leader, says he interviewed Ellena on several occasions and that "he never said anything racist to me."
"Frank is very concerned about the nation moving away from its people," Stripp says, "and he's got some different ideas. But I never heard him talk anti-Semitic."
When contacted by New Times, Selden was hesitant to discuss the story on Ellena, but admitted that he never went to a Forum gathering or talked to other members before writing his piece.
"I just knew Ellena was involved in the racist stuff," Selden tells New Times. "But please don't quote me . . . Ellena is a dangerous, paranoid man. He definitely would kill me if he knew I was talking to you."
Editors at the Missoulian did not return calls from New Times about the Selden story.
The story was a bombshell. Although Ellena steadfastly maintains he never passed racist literature to Selden or uttered racist comments, he lost the election handily.
Worse, he says, his personal life suffered a devastating hit.
"That story was the beginning of my undoing," Ellena says. "The pressure became incredible, because a lot of people believed that crap.
"I was newly married, and the stress of the situation was just too much for us to take. My wife left me. I lost my farm, and I knew my chances for working in education again in the area were pretty low."
Ellena, smarting from the blows to his personal and public aspirations, packed his bags and moved to Arizona--where his wife had fled. He hoped "to get somewhere far enough away so that I could patch up my marriage, find work, put the accusations behind me and get my life back on track."
Arizona, it turned out, wasn't far enough.
@body:Ellena quickly found new employment as a combination principal and superintendent of schools in the tiny burg of Young, near Payson, where he supervised about 70 students.
He set to work establishing a sports program, improving the school building and grounds and, in his spare time, attending counseling sessions with his wife in Flagstaff.
A predominantly conservative, Christian community, Young was especially receptive to Ellena's education "reforms." He quickly pulled several books out of the school library--one on Satanism and another on divorce and alternative sexual lifestyles.
"I didn't think we should have books on the devil for students, nor did I think that we should have a health book that taught easy ways to get a divorce or about alternate sexual lifestyles," he says.
Ellena, who still wears a gold wedding band despite his divorce, believes that "when you get married, under God's law, the woman becomes femme covert. In other words, she becomes basically her husband's property and has no right to sue for divorce. The femi-Nazis out there might object to that, but that's the way it is.
"So why should we be teaching children something they have no right to do?"
Ellena freely admits that his personal beliefs weighed heavily on administrative decisions at the school--especially his encouragement to teachers to apply "Christian principles" in the classroom. But he says he was merely acting in accordance with the wishes of the school board, which sanctioned his decisions on the books.
"All was well," Ellena says. "The school was doing good, the school board was happy. I thought I had found a home."
But soon Ellena began quarreling with several teachers over work hours. The school was on a four-day schedule, but the teachers, he says, were not working 40-hour weeks. The teachers were also annoyed because Ellena required women to wear dresses and men jackets and ties.
The school board continued to support Ellena. But the teachers remained unhappy--and a few months into Ellena's tenure, they went on the offensive.
Ellena arrived at school one day in late November 1991 to find his office filled with reporters and television cameras. Many of the reporters were clutching copies of Selden's Missoulian story, which had been distributed by two teachers.
Ellena's brief, happy idyll in Young was over.
After Ellena threw him out of his office and refused to grant an interview, the Arizona Republic's Rich Robertson produced a long, critical story on Ellena in early December 1991. Robertson alluded to the charges of racism contained in Selden's piece and introduced an array of new allegations about his behavior in Young--almost all from anonymous sources.
Robertson cited Ellena's efforts to "disband the school's fledgling wrestling team because of his fears that AIDS could be transmitted through sweat"--a homophobic theory, the story pointed out, that has been widely discredited by medical experts.
Minutes of the school board meetings indicate that Ellena merely alerted the board that he had concerns about AIDS transmissions, and made no effort to disband the wrestling program--which he, himself, had started a few months before. He only informed the board that he planned to keep a bottle of disinfectant near the wrestling mat in case blood was spilled.
Laura Faye Cline, then president of the Young School Board, says, "Ellena was simply making parents aware of that fact that wrestling is a contact sport. He was pointing out a risk factor, that blood, snot, slobber and all the rest could be involved. Parents could then make their own decision about the safety of the activity.
"He wasn't saying anything weird or radical."
Cline adds that although Ellena "sometimes may have gotten a little carried away, and he did invoke religion quite a bit, he was an excellent administrator. We had no student-discipline problems, and there was no evidence that he was a racist or anti-Semite.
"Nobody on the board ever heard anything like that from Frank."
Cline says that the Republic story was "a bunch of exaggeration and lies," and that she never spoke to the reporter--but was quoted as saying that the school was "a mess" because of Ellena.
"Why do you reporters make things up?" Cline asked New Times. "Everything was fine with Frank until that story appeared."
Robertson sticks by his story.
"I did, in fact, talk to Miss Cline, and I read the minutes of the school board meetings," he says. "The story was accurate."
The controversy took an immediate toll. Ellena and the school board agreed he should not return the following year, and he bitterly moved on once again--promptly falling in with the Payson Constitutionalists and Doug Carpa.
@body:It was late August 1992 before Ellena knew there was a warrant for his arrest stemming from the altercation with IRS agents. He was weekending in a cabin in Payson, he says, when a call came from a close Constitutionalist friend warning that federal authorities were closing in and wanted him--dead or alive.
"The friend told me," Ellena says, "that federal marshals, heeding the warning that I was armed and dangerous, had set up a crossfire ambush for me.
"I knew that if law enforcement officials believed I had actually assaulted one of their brother officers, they wouldn't think twice about killing me during the arrest."
Neither the IRS nor assistant U.S. attorney Charles Steele, who is prosecuting Ellena, returned calls from New Times, so there is no way to know if federal authorities had plans to arrest him that weekend--or if they planned an "ambush" of any kind.
But while documentary evidence remains incomplete, it is easy to understand how someone immersed in the conspiracy-laden, glass-onion world of Frank Ellena could think the government meant to do him ill.
Records that the IRS have released to the court show that the agency compiled a superficial and misleading dossier on Ellena before branding him as an armed-and-dangerous racist.
Not only did it evidently accept as gospel the two newspaper articles written about Ellena--using the stories, without apparent corroboration, to link him to the Aryan Nation--but it also took the word of a dubious informant that Ellena was a violence-prone gun nut.
During his brief tenure in Young, Ellena was befriended by the local newspaper publisher, Larry Monahan, who shares many of Ellena's political and religious beliefs. As a favor to the newspaperman, Ellena agreed to counsel Monahan's son, Sean--a troubled young man who, his father says, had been discharged from the Army because of mental problems.
"I tried to help the kid," Ellena remembers. "But he was doing things like shaving his head, drinking, behaving strangely. I finally had to give up on him, forget him."
But Sean Monahan didn't forget Ellena. Larry Monahan, now a car salesman in Washington state, says his son contacted IRS agents in the summer of 1992, sometime after their investigation into Ellena began.
"[Sean] didn't like Frank much, because he was an authority figure over him," the elder Monahan says. "In retaliation, he told the IRS some pretty strange things."
Saying his son is a "pathological liar" with a severe alcohol problem who is being pursued by the law for failing to support his children, Larry Monahan admits Sean told the IRS that Ellena was "heavily armed with big guns, and was willing to use them to help bring about the victory of the white race.
"He told them he was a neo-Nazi who would rather die than surrender."
Whether the IRS questioned the veracity of its informant before branding Ellena armed and dangerous--a label that would prompt officers to approach him with guns drawn--isn't known. Nor does anyone seem to know where Sean Monahan now resides--not even the IRS, which, in court records, lists his address as "variable."
But it wasn't just the haphazard way in which the IRS branded him a dangerous criminal that frightened Ellena.
This, after all, was the summer of 1992, when white supremacist and tax dodger Randy Weaver was blockaded inside his Idaho cabin, surrounded by federal agents and sniper teams who killed both his pregnant wife and son. The Constitutionalist cadre nationwide was on full alert, certain that this tragedy marked the beginning of martial law.
It didn't take much for a man like Ellena to imagine that federal agents would target him in much the same way.
So he made a decision that he admits, in retrospect, was a horrendous mistake.
Ellena packed up a few belongings, abandoning the rest, and fled his Payson cabin to become a federal fugitive.
For more than a year, he was on the lam, living a hand-to-mouth existence as "Samuel Jeremiah Johnson," a heavily bearded itinerant worker. Ellena shoveled snow, picked crops and labored on a ranch, hiding from a system that he was certain had marked him for death.
He wandered aimlessly from Washington state to Alaska, where he finally got steady work in construction and lived on an old boat in Wrangell, a small town about 160 miles south of Juneau.
That's where authorities, tipped off by a citizen who recognized Ellena's face on a wanted poster, found him in November 1993. A frightened, shaking Ellena was rousted one morning by five local police officers, an army of state troopers and U.S. marshals, a Coast Guard cutter carrying a sniper team and a Blackhawk helicopter bearing more sharpshooters.
"It was like I was John Dillinger," Ellena remembers, grinning.
This public enemy was found with a shotgun and an old rifle given to him by his late father--hardly an impressive armory to hold in the wilds of Alaska. He was clapped in irons and brought to Arizona to stand trial.
@body:When Ellena arrived in Phoenix, prosecutors seemed almost embarrassed. They did not seem to know what to do with his case, which one U.S. Attorney's Office insider says "had clearly gotten out of hand."
The ludicrous assault charge had been watered down to three lesser counts of intimidating a federal official, obstructing and impeding the administration of revenue laws and attempted recovery of seized property. But the evidence for even these accusations seemed thin.
So prosecutors did what prosecutors unsure of their cases often do--bluster and fight on all the harder.
Although the government's designation of Ellena as armed and dangerous had been rebuffed, federal lawyers ardently resisted his request to be released to the custody of friends while awaiting trial, saying that since his comrades "shared his beliefs and ideology," they could not guarantee that Ellena would not flee.
Then, after months of delay, when it appeared that U.S. District Court Judge Robert Broomfield would reject the feds' argument on the grounds that it discriminated on the basis of thought and speech, prosecutors tried a new tactic.
In an extremely unusual move, they requested that Broomfield order a psychiatric examination of Ellena, saying they believed he was too "zealous" to stand trial. It was a polite way of suggesting that Ellena was insane.
Peter Morgan--a Constitutionalist who petitioned the court to release Ellena into his custody--notes that it is the defense that is supposed to invoke the insanity plea, and says that prosecutors were trying to "brand Frank as crazy because they didn't have a case against him."
"That way, they could get out of trying a case for which they had no evidence, but still discredit him as nuts," Morgan says.
If that was the aim, prosecutors were sorely disappointed. The psychiatric report noted that while Ellena's beliefs were "on the fringe of mainstream society," he was unquestionably sane. The examining doctor even went beyond normal protocol to lodge an impassioned plea with the judge for Ellena's immediate release.
While the wheels of justice slowly turned, Ellena languished in a Phoenix jail for five months, even though federal sentencing guidelines call for a sentence of only six months for a conviction on all the charges against him.
To be sure, he contributed to the delays. Tapping his wellspring of conspiracy theories, Ellena alienated Broomfield and consumed hours of court time claiming that the judge was under the authority of those ubiquitous foreign agents, and that the court was actually a "military tribunal" with no jurisdiction over his actions.
Finally, in March, Broomfield released Ellena to Morgan's custody. Ellena retreated to the Houston Mesa law office, where he works daily preparing a defense for his May 25 trial, and where, at night, he sleeps on a cot in the corner.
In a way, he seems exhilarated. He views his trial as a bully pulpit from which to expound upon "the truth." The court documents he has filed in preparation compose his personal manifesto, riddled with references to Interpol, the UN and foreign plots.
His battle is also gaining fame in the Constitutionalist community, and if his case does, in fact, go to trial, he hopes to join the ranks of Randy Weaver and David Koresh--as a patriot who fought the fine fight against government totalitarianism.
"We are going to take this nation back under lawful means by educating the public," he says. "That's what my case is all about: educating.
"We're going to win, and we're going to set a major precedent."
He will also get a satisfying chance to confront his accusers. The IRS agents, as well as reporters like the Republic's Robertson, are expected to get subpoenas.
But the price of his proverbial 15 minutes of fame has been high. He has lost custody of his daughters. Unable to pay storage fees on his furniture and clothes, he has been stripped of most material possessions. He will most likely never work in education again.
Nevertheless, he remains defiant, seemingly oblivious to the ultimate fate of his quixotic quest. While Ellena is probably correct that he will never be convicted of a crime, does he actually believe that his case will succeed in exposing the IRS and peacefully overthrowing the whole of the federal government?
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Ellena shrugs. "If Christian men 200 years ago had decided it was impractical or impossible, that you couldn't buck the system," he says, "where would we be today? Still under the king of England, that's where.
"I'm fighting for my daughters. I don't want them to live in a nation where they are told how to live, what to do, what to think."
Proudly, Ellena says his fears of the big-government bogeyman have been unquestionably justified. Whether the IRS struck out at him in retaliation or simply out of an institutional need to quash all dissent, the result is the same--destruction of the individual at the hands of the state.
That, he says, should worry us all.
"People need to wake up to the threat," he says, "even if others think you're strange or paranoid for worrying about it."
And always remember, Ellena points out: You aren't paranoid if someone really is out to get you.


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It's tempting to place partisan blame on why the U.S. has such persistent federal deficits, which results in a large amount of federal debt. Some say it's the Bush era tax cuts, while others blame Obama. But the problem with deficit spending really began around 1970. It's not a new phenomenon, and deficits have persisted during good economic times, as well as bad.
A big issue is that our budget deficits during recent decades have been caused primarily by health care costs and an aging population. In fact, research from the St. Louis Fed demonstrates that Medicare spending, and to a lesser extent, Medicaid, are the primary culprits in creating our deficits. And we can see that raising the highest marginal rates on high-income earners might not solve the issue. Let's explore.
The financial crisis merely brought forward what likely would have been a problem, anyway. We were already on track to have large deficits even without the crisis had we continued on the same path as in previous decades. It's just that those problems would have begun a few years later.
Here's the problem: Mandatory spending for Medicaid and Medicare increased to 31% of the budget in 2011 from about 18% in 1979. As a percentage of GDP, this category of spending increased to more than 8% currently from less than 4% in 1970. What do we mean by mandatory? Payments that are decreed by law and not an annual budget process. We determine in an ongoing legislative process how much to spend on programs like highways, education or defense, but spending on interest on the federal debt, Social Security and Medicare are automatic. That spending doesn't change easily.
Spending on defense has declined consistently with the end of the Cold War, aside from the current wars. Spending on discretionary programs has remained relatively stable over the past few decades. The discretionary programs that are subject to the annual budgetary process are actually rather small. There's not a lot of room to cut these programs. Trying to squeeze blood out of this turnip won't fix our problems.
Fixing the deficit might not come from taxing the rich more, either. Research demonstrates little correlation between higher tax rates and the average tax revenues. Average tax revenues prior to the recession have been rather stable, despite big decreases or increases in marginal rates. While the Bush tax cuts do appear to have reduced tax revenues in the early 2000s, tax revenues had rebounded as the economy improved following the recession of the early 2000s. (You may recall that that recession, in part, had prompted the tax cuts to begin with.)
Raising tax rates doesn't seem to influence the average or total tax revenues. As tax rates go up, people have more incentivize to look for loopholes -- things like deductions and tax credits. This can prevent tax revenues from rising when tax rates increase. Instead, the research suggests that closing these loopholes would likely increase tax revenues, which may help reduce the deficit. While the average tax rates are already progressive, the researchers note, closing deductions would raise tax revenues more on higher income (and yes, some middle class) taxpayers more than on lower-income citizens.
But the issue isn't so much on the revenue side of things, aside from the recent drop in revenues because of the financial crisis. The issue is government spending. On average, the government spent 2.4% of GDP more than it received in revenue from 1970 to 2007. Thus, most of the increase in the debt over the entire 1970-2007 period occurred because the government spent about $6 trillion more than it collected in taxes over the entire period.
So it's not a recent phenomenon, and neither party is entirely to blame. What it comes down to, though, is that our rapidly increasing health care costs and an aging population are behind much of the increase in our spending, not discretionary programs that can be resolved with budgetary fixes. Finding a way to resolve the escalation in entitlement spending, particularly Medicare, is essential to fixing our deficits. If we can't find an effective way to control these costs, we will need to think long and hard on how to increase revenues to pay for them.


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For the 13-week period ending March 29, the company's net income declined to $9.1 million compared to $13.4 million in 2007.
"The first quarter was the perfect retail storm with a combination of factors significantly impacting our gross margins," Weis Markets CEO Norman Rich said in a statement. "We continue to see considerable wholesale food inflation. Food commodity prices are increasing at a faster pace than retail prices paid by our customers.
At the same time, due to an uncertain economy and the high cost of gasoline, our customers are more cautious in their spending. In addition, we continue to maintain our aggressive pricing and promotional program throughout our markets."
The company said its earnings were also impacted by increases of 35.4% in diesel fuel costs and 18.1% in higher health-insurance costs.


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Q&A with Nathan George of Trade as One
Inspiring Interview with Founder of Trade as One
This week we were lucky enough to interview Nathan George, Founder of Trade as One. His organization uses Fair Trade to promote sustainable business and break cycles of poverty and dependency in the developing world. In support of it's name sake, the organization encourages you to spend your dollars in ways that conciously and directly link you to a positive story of hope and change for workers across the globe. To be mindful of our purchases and to use them for the good of another is what it means to Trade as One.
Please enjoy Nathan George's inspiring words and thoughtful insight on the world of Fair Trade.
How did you get involved in Fair Trade? Why is it important to you on a personal level?
I first got involved in Fair Trade when I was living in the UK with my family. As a business person passionate about the use of enterprise to alleviate poverty, I got to know Paul Chandler, the CEO of the largest Fair Trade company in the UK, Traidcraft. Through his challenges to me, and those of others working in this area, my wife and I visited about 25 businesses on the front lines of extreme poverty, human trafficking and HIV / AIDS. I was completely amazed at the difference between an aid-based donor approach to poverty alleviation and the enterprise, job-creation approach. It's a long story, but my wife and I eventually moved our family from the UK to California to start Trade as One because we were so excited by the potential of what we saw in America to have a large impact for the global poor through influencing consumer spending. At a personal level it is important to me because my work draws together for me the important strands of my life – my beliefs as a person of faith, my experience as a businessman, and my passions as an individual to do something about the crisis of poverty in the developing world and the crisis of meaning in the West.
What is your favorite Fair Trade story?
I have so many 'favorite' stories from women finding jobs after being releasedfrom human trafficking, to people having dignified jobs in their rural villages that allow them to not have to contemplate migrating to the urban slums. One my favorites is from the T Shirts that we sell. A study showed that over a period of ten years, about 100,000 small scale cotton farmers in India committed suicide because they see no way out. We work with HAE Now who give these small scale farmers a good income, allow them to practice organic farming and produce high quality Ts. We then get them screen printed at a social venture in San Francisco that works with at risk youth recovering from poverty, substance abuse and homelessness in the city. I love the fact that the story is both global and local, and that the messages that the T Shirts carry are worn by people who then spread the word about a different way to think about how products are sourced.
Do you think American consumers' attitudes regarding consumerism are starting to shift?
One thing I have noticed recently is that Fair Trade used to be seen as a leftist, liberal, anti-big-business movement, and that is changing. There is a growing awareness that conscious consumption, compassionate capitalism and corporate social responsibility are not liberal, leftist-leaning concepts, but they actually make a whole ton of sense and can be fully embraced, not just paid lip-service to, by large and successful companies. At an individual level, partly driven by increased awareness of global issues, partly by economic stress, American consumers are becoming increasingly aware that the approach of getting as much as you can for as little as possible is a highly caustic way to behave in a world of limited resources. There is a lot more willingness to consider buying better, buying less and buying responsibly. I travel a lot all over the country and what encourages me more than anything is the desire I see in American consumers to do the right thing. As I read all of the stories of revolution in the Middle East, I dare to wonder if there could be a consumer revolution where people say "not in my name will you use slavery in the supply chain of the products I need." "Not in my name will you offer me a product that should cost $20 at $10 because you dumped toxic waste somewhere to produce it and 'externalized' environmental and social costs." I think if there was transparency to the consumer of the true cost of the products they bought, fair trade would be nearly universally demanded because people want to do the right thing.
What is your favorite Fair Trade Certified product?
One of the things that we realized is that it is often difficult to get hold of our favorite Fair Trade products through regular stores, and people who want to be committed to fair trade but find the availability and choice too limiting to build more than just one or two products into their regular lives. So last September we launched our Hungry for Change program that delivers a box of Fair Trade products to people's doorsteps every month. We find what is available – from rice to honey, olive oil, soap, herbs, quinoa, sugar and deliver about $30 worth of different products every month. Customers get to experience the wide variety of products, read the stories behind them, get recipes and engage in the Fair Trade movement. It's kind of like the Community Supported Agriculture concept where you pick up your locally grown produce from your local farm, or a wine club where wines are shipped to you every month. We have been delighted with the response to the program which is becoming an increasingly important part of what we are doing at Trade as One.
Is there anything else you'd like to tell the Fair Trade community?
Let's accept the fact that this is a broad tent. Our goal is to activate the consciences of consumers so that they make responsible choices that result in dignified jobs for some of the most disadvantaged people in our world. There is room for big business in this. In fact I would say that without its involvement, we will totally fail. There is room for passionate religious groups, atheists, people in suits and people in tie-died Indian cotton. There is room for crafts, consumables, maybe even factory-produced furniture one day. We are fighting for a noble cause. Let's just remember that the enemy is ignorance and apathy in the consumer, not ideological differences in how to achieve our goal.
We at Fair Trade USA applaud Trade as One's efforts to employ Fair Trade as a model to alleviate both extreme poverty and thoughtless consumerism. Watch this video to learn more:


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A leaked internal memo from Alibaba Group reportedly shows that the company plans to go public in 2013.
According to reports in the Chinese press, Alibaba plans to begin the IPO process in the second half of next year and actually go public before the end of 2013 or in early 2014.
Other reports in the last few days suggest that shares in the private e-commerce company have recently traded on the private markets valuing the company at more than $50 billion. This is up from $40 billion in October when the deal with Yahoo! (YHOO) closed in which Alibaba bought back half of Yahoo!'s stake in the company.
That's a remarkable increase in value already in a few months.
It's not surprising, given that both Taobao and Tmall continue to be on a tear in China. Earlier in November, Alibaba reported that Tmall recorded $3 billion in revenues in one day of holiday shopping on one of the sites.
This is all good news for Yahoo!. It still owns 24% of Alibaba Group. If these reports continue, it will force investors to more critically evaluate what that stake is worth.
Up until recently, most Yahoo! sell-side analysts were still using that $40 billion valuation for all of Alibaba Group. If it's already gone up, then their estimates will have to be increased.
At $50 billion, Yahoo!'s stake is worth at least $7.5 billion after taxes, or $6.76 a share. At $60 billion, Yahoo!'s stake is worth $9 billion after taxes, or $8.12 a share. At $80 billion -- which I think might be a more realistic public valuation by the end of next year -- Yahoo!'s stake would be worth $12 billion, or $10.82 a share.
Now, let's take that most optimistic scenario: an Alibaba stake worth $12 billion and cash on its balance sheet worth $6 billion with a Yahoo! Japan stake that's worth at least $4 billion after taxes. That's $22 billion in market cap right there.
Yet Yahoo!'s current market cap is $23 billion, which means that the core business of Yahoo! is only worth $1 billion. That core business did $1.35 billion in the last year. If you assign an AOL-like valuation to it, Yahoo!'s core should be worth about $9 billion, which means there's an extra $8 billion in value still missing from Yahoo!'s current market cap, or another $7 per share in appreciation to come this year without any other positive announcements from Marissa Mayer.
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The market is still hopeful for the fiscal-cliff deal, but it is getting a little nervous as the clock ticks down. The indices will likely hold up well for another day or so, as the consensus is that a deal will happen – but the timing of it may trip up the market, which has built up such high expectations. So if we don't have something pretty solid by Friday, I'm looking for the selling to pick up.
This seemingly endless negotiation is making trading very unstable. Traders want to make sure they maintain long exposure in the event of a deal, but are worried about being caught in a selloff if things are delayed or fall apart.
I've sold down some positions Wednesday, even though I'm still finding it tremendously difficult to put some of my idle cash to work. I always want to defer to my money management regardless of the big-picture news flow. If a deal emerges and we see a big spike higher in the market, I'll be kicking myself for not having more long exposure -- but, in the stocks I'm watching, the price action just doesn't support aggressive buying. I'm overruling my gut feeling, which says a deal will hit shortly.


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Fashion Photo of the Day 2/10/13 - Cheryl Burke
Cheryl Burke has been on both sides of the weight gain/loss battle over the years. But after seeing Burke at the Pre-Grammy Quattro Volte Vodka Preview, it is clear that struggle is in the PAST.
The Dancing With The Stars star hit the town in a gold studded strapless mini by Mac Duggal. Cheryl's edgy ensemble captured the essence of a the Mac Duggal aesthetic while serving as the perfect party dress for the fun-filled night on the town. The dress perfectly showcased her stunning figure and Burke kept the styling simple so that the dress - and her hotness - could be the star!
Born in India, Designer Mac Duggal's enthusiasm for women's couture fashion was honed at an early age when he took a sketch pad and began to merge the rich, royal history and opulent traditions of his native land with a sophisticated and contemporary esthetic. Today the Mac Duggal Design House continues to showcase seasonal collections known for their statement and entrance-making drama, feminine detailing and modern sensibility. Each Mac Duggal design reflects Mac's vision to create wearable gowns and dresses that encapsulate the very essence of the women who wear them and reflect her strength, confidence and inner beauty. Mac Duggal's creations are as magnificent as the maharaja palaces that served as the brand's earliest inspiration. From sleek and streamlined silhouettes to intricate draping and body conscious shapes that garner attention to more jeweled, beaded, embroidered and embellished styles - each present an early indicator to the upcoming season's trends with an exquisite attention to detail that are the hallmark of an authentic Mac Duggal design.
Cheryl Burke attending the Quattro Volte Vodka Pre-Grammy Event in Hollywood (images courtesy of www.gettyimages.com)


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The COMEDY CUP & SAUCER is a GREAT COMEDY EFFECT—YES! However, it is suitable for any type of performer. A great mystery performed in a sophisticated magic act. Suitable for parlor, stage, nite-club, etc.
EFFECT: Performer displays a beautiful white cup & saucer set. Liquid (tea, coffee, cola, etc.) is poured into the cup. The liquid is really poured into the cup, the audience can see the liquid enter the cup. The cup is removed from the saucer and the saucer is placed onto the table. Performer steps forward to the footlights, with the full cup of liquid, and apparently tosses the contents of the cup at the audience, but there is a shower of confetti, instead. Your audience will shriek with excitement but will be pleasantly surprised at the sudden change of liquid to confetti.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many are asking themselves, "What can I do to help?" While volunteer efforts and cleanup projects abound, not all of us can pack up the car and head to the affected areas to offer our manual labor. Still, there are other ways to provide relief for those most affected by the storm. How about, for instance, making a few quilts to keep people warm as winter approaches?
I know from personal experience just how comforting such a quilt can be. In 2010, my family lost our home in the Witch Creek Fire that devastated much of Southern California. Among many other donations, we received handmade quilts from all over the country. And while the quilts did keep us warm, their greater purpose was one of comfort. It was reassuring to know that people were thinking of us. It was encouraging to feel that we were being taken care of in some small way. To this day, every time I bundle up with my quilt from Mesa, Arizona, I'm reminded of the generosity, support, and sense of community my family experienced during such a difficult time.
If you're looking to donate a quilt or two to the victims of Sandy, eQuilter (in partnership with Timeless Treasures Fabrics) has made a goal to collect 5,000 quilts. Over the next three months, they will collect quilts in various sizes to send to the areas that were hit hardest by the storm–Rockaways, Long Island, New Jersey, and Staten Island. Don't know what to quilt? Don't worry; the eQuilter and Timeless Treasures websites provide several free patterns for you to choose from. For all of the details you need to get involved and start quilting, visit the project's information page.
In addition, Bumble Beans, Inc. and Basic Housing, Inc. are collecting homemade and store-bought quilts and blankets in any size. They have already donated 100 quilts, and they still need more! For more information about how you can help, visit their website. Here's a sneak peek of their efforts so far:
It doesn't matter whether you make a large quilt or a small one, an intricate quilt or a simple one. What does matter is that you make one! Trust me, your efforts in doing so will truly touch the lives of those affected by Hurricane Sandy. So get quilting, and thank you in advance for your help!
P.S. — Be sure to check the blog in a few weeks for an update on these relief efforts, complete with more photos! Who knows? You might even see your own donated quilt on here.


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The Events & Entertainment Department here at the piers (AKA myself and Nick Lassor) were very busy last week! We visited over 50 Scout Councils in 9 different states distributing information for our Beach Jam and Beach Bop Scouting Events! Nick went as far south as Maryland and as far west as Western PA and I went as far north as a hop, skip and a jump from the Canadian Border and of course our very own Jersey Shore!
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RACHEL Williams' dream has become a reality as she comes to terms with the elation of making the Welsh squad for the Commonwealth Games.
The 20-year-old, from Melksham, will be packing her bags for Glasgow next month after being announced as part of Wales' 23-strong swimming squad for the games on Tuesday, with Williams picked as part of the 4x100m freestyle relay quartet.
Williams, who trains at the University of Bath's national centre for swimming, added a late boost to her selection bid with new personal bests in the 100m freestyle (57.10) and the 200m freestyle (2:03.19) at last weekend's Cardiff International Open meet.
Now she is looking forward to taking on some of the best in the world after years of preparation paid off.
"I still can't get my head around it all – it's unbelievable and I'm still on cloud nine at the moment," she told the Wiltshire Times.
"I hadn't checked the squad and I was just training in the pool as normal on Tuesday. My friend came up to me and said 'Rachel, you're on the list'. I couldn't believe it.
"This has been my dream since I was 15. I was 16 when the Dehli Games were happening (in 2010) and I knew that it was too soon for me that year and 2014 would be the one to aim for.
"It keeps you going when you set yourself a goal but when you achieve it, it's something else.
"Relay isn't something that happens very often at the top level but I've done it with some of the Welsh girls and the GB girls in the past, so I can't wait to do it in Glasgow."
Williams' path to a Commonwealth Games spot has been far from straightforward, with the Melksham star forced to spend months out of the pool after developing glandular fever.
But the former Corsham School student kick-started her return to form with a five-medal haul at last year's British Gas ASA National Championships.
Williams said: "It was right around the time that London 2012 was happening and it didn't start to get better until October that year.
"I couldn't train or compete and it's so frustrating when you see everyone else improving whilst you're stuck doing nothing.
"When I won my medals last August, that was when I finally felt back to my best and I'm so glad to have come through all that."
Williams is set to compete in the British Gas International meet at the Manchester Aquatics Centre on June 24-28 before her final Commonwealth Games preparations begin in earnest.
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CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2012 Grand Cherokee hasn't seen the same complaint volume as the 2011, at least not yet.
It's worth noting both model years are part of a class-action lawsuit that focuses on a defective TIPM and a long wait for replacement parts.
The 2012 also received national attention after it failed a Sweedish Magazine's "moose test". the test measures a vehicle's ability to swerve out of the way of an obstacle you wouldn't want to hit while driving down the road … like a moose.
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Burton Trillium Sock
A strategic balance of midweight warmth, venting, support, and cushioning.
It could be argued that the women's Burton Trillium Sock will help you go pro. That makes no sense, you say? Consider the comfort of a stretchable, breathable, quick-drying blend of midweight fabrics (including wool) that wick away heat-robbing sweat. Or the strategically placed arch and ankle supports, cushioned footbed, and ergonomic left and right MotionFit that are designed with snowboarding in mind. If that's not enough, ventilated DRYRIDE toe panels are like a breath of fresh air for your feet, while padded channels alleviate pressure on the top of your foot, increasing comfort when strapped in tight to your bindings.
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Added elasticity and padding underneath the arch and around the ankle increases support and cushioning where it matters most.
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Flat-stitched toe seam eliminates chafe and bunching for a better fit inside your boots.
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Harnessing the abrasion-resistance of NanoGLIDE™, these ankle reinforcements work with the Sock Lock panels on the inside of Burton's boot liners for improved heel hold, longevity, and comfort.
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