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Who We Are
IIEL Faculty Director
John H. Jackson
Professor Jackson, the Institute's founder, joined the Georgetown Faculty after a distinguished career as Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Professor Jackson is widely recognized as one of the preeminent scholars in the field of international trade law. He has received numerous awards and commendations in recognition of his scholarship, including the Manley O. Hudson Medal, awarded by the American Society of International Law for "pre-eminent scholarship and achievement in international law."
Professor Jackson has been awarded an honorary degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and the honorary degree, Doctor Juris Honoris Causa, by Hamburg University Faculty of Law. In 2003 he was appointed by WTO Director-General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpadki, to the WTO Consultative Board, composed of eight "eminent persons," and chaired by former Director-General Peter Sutherland. The Board's report, "The Future of the WTO: Addressing Institutional Challenges in the New Millennium," was released in January 2005.
Professor Jackson has published widely in the area of international trade law. His books include Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International Law (2006), and The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations (2000). He has also advised the United States and other governments and international organizations on international trade law, and in 1973-4 served as General Counsel of the Office of the US Trade Representative. Professor Jackson's full faculty biography is available here.
Deputy Director
Chris Parlin was appointed Deputy Director of IIEL in July 2013. Since 1995 he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Law Center, teaching courses on the substance of all of the WTO Agreements and (with Professor Jackson) a seminar on law and policy of international trade
Chris has 35 years of broad and in-depth experience in trade negotiations, WTO and NAFTA, dispute settlement proceedings, international trade policy matters and US trade remedy proceedings. During his 18-year US Government career, he held senior policy and legal positions in the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington, as Legal Advisor to the USTR Mission to the GATT in Geneva and in the Commerce Department's Office of Import Administration. He negotiated the WTO Dispute Settlement and Subsidy Agreements during his tenures as Legal Advisor to USTR's Mission in Geneva and Deputy Assistant USTR for Multilateral Trade Negotiations. At the Commerce Department he administered the US antidumping and countervailing duty laws.
Chris is one of the world's foremost authorities on WTO negotiations and dispute resolution. In private practice he participated in over 20 WTO disputes. He has designed and implemented Member governments' dispute settlement strategies and participated in every stage of WTO disputes, frequently as an accredited member of the official government delegation. He was the first private attorney to present a Member government's case to a WTO panel and the Appellate Body. He also was lead counsel for the government of Saudi Arabia, advising the Kingdom on restructuring its trade-related legal laws and regulations and representing it in the bilateral and multilateral negotiations that led to its accession to the WTO in December 2005.
JIEL Editorial Assistant
Ada Bogliolo Piancastelli Siqueira
Before coming to Georgetown Law, Ms. Siqueira was a Santander Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She completed a Masters of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Studies and Politics researching the relationship between law and politics at the World Trade Organization. Previously, Ms. Siqueira acquired a Masters in Law (LLM) in International Public Law at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences in 2011. She graduated with a distinction for her dissertation on Trade and Human Rights, focusing on the case of Chinese censorship and barriers to trade. Ms. Siqueira holds a law degree from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (distinction).
Currently, Ms. Siqueira pursues her SJD at Georgetown under Professor Alvaro Santos as a Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) researcher and is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law. Her current dissertation re-discusses the working logic of the World Trade Organization in the context of alternative development strategies and social understandings of the trading system. She is also a teaching and research assistant at Georgetown Law.
Consulting Senior Fellow
Rosine M. Plank-Brumback
Rosine M. Plank-Brumback is a nonresident Consulting Senior Fellow and the principal interviewer in the IIEL's oral history project on the world trading system. She works at the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS), supporting inter-American initiatives to protect the rights of consumers and vulnerable groups. She served as the senior advisor to the Executive Secretary for Integral Development for policy formulation, technical cooperation and strategic planning, assuring consistent messaging and quality control in activities, and developing alliances and negotiating OAS cooperation agreements with international organizations and private institutions. She was the OAS coordinator of the private sector forums and dialogues within the VI Summit of the Americas and XLI-XLIII General Assemblies. From 1998 to 2006, she provided the lead substantive support to the FTAA Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement and to the Technical Committee on Institutional Issues. She has participated in numerous trade capacity-building and training programs.
Ms. Plank-Brumback has held positions in the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, at the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Brussels, and at the GATT Secretariat in Geneva where she was a counsellor in the Agriculture Division during the Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds. She was panel secretary to three GATT panels. She has been an international trade consultant, including senior legal advisor in a USAID-sponsored project helping Nicaragua implement its obligations under DR-CAFTA. She is on the roster of arbitrators under the Chile-Central America Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the Chile-MERCOSUR FTA, the Costa-Rica Mexico FTA, and the Nicaragua-Mexico FTA.
Ms. Plank-Brumback holds a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and a J.D. degree magna cum laude from the University of Miami, where she was the Edward D. Berger scholar.
Distinguished Senior Fellows
Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown Law Center
R. Michael Gadbaw's career covers over three decades in Washington practicing international economic law, beginning as a White House intern in the summer of 1973 and continuing as a government official, then partner in private practice and eventually senior corporate legal officer. He is currently devoting his time to academic pursuits: researching, publishing and teaching a seminar on the law and policy of international regulation examining the regulatory systems governing trade, monetary, finance, investment and anticorruption. In 2012, his work comparing the global systems for regulating trade and finance was published in Cottier, Jackson and Lastra, International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs. He is currently editor of a volume on the state of international economic law that is the product of a symposium in honor of Professor John H. Jackson that he organized in November 2012. He also continues working with nonprofits toward the advancement of rule of law in emerging markets and prepared a study on socially responsible investment in Myanmar for the Blue Moon Foundation based on a visit there in August 2012. His career included five years as a government attorney in the US Treasury and the Office of the US Trade Representative (1975-1980), an associate and partner in private practice at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard and McPherson (1980-1985) and Dewey Ballantine (1985-1990) and as a Vice President and Senior Counsel at General Electric (1990-2008) where he had responsibilities for global government relations, transactions support, compliance, regulations and policy. He has a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan, a B.A. from Fordham University and a Masters in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the National Bureau of Asian Research and the European Institute. He is married to Sally Chandler and has four children. He is an aspiring athlete and competes in Olympic distance triathlons.
Daniel Heith
Daniel Heath is the Managing Director of Maxwell Stamp Inc., an international economics firm, since 2012. He is also Director of the Center for Transformation and Strategic Initiatives, an international non-profit devoted to enlightened public economic administration, and Advisor to Five Stone Green Capital, a New York firm developing environmentally innovative real estate, and to Oxford Analytica, a global consultancy.
Jennifer Hillman currently serves as a full-time visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law School, teaching international law and assisting in the direction of the Institute of International Economic Law. She is also a partner in the Washington DC boutique international trade law firm of Cassidy Levy Kent. Ms. Hillman has had a distinguished career in public service, both nationally and internationally. She recently completed her term as one of seven members from around the world serving on the World Trade Organization's appellate court, its Appellate Body. Prior to her selection as an Appellate Body member, Ms. Hillman served for nine years as a Commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), rendering decisions in more than 600 investigations regarding injury to U.S. industries caused by imports that were dumped or subsidized, along with making numerous decisions in cases regarding alleged patent or trademark infringement. Prior to her appointment to the USITC, she served as General Counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), overseeing all the legal work connected to trade negotiations and trade disputes before panels of the WTO or the NAFTA.
She had previously served as the Ambassador and Chief Textiles Negotiator for the United States. Before joining USTR, Ms. Hillman served as Legislative Director and Counsel to U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. She began her professional career as an international trade attorney at the Washington, DC firm of Patton Boggs. She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and received a M.Ed. and a BA, magna cum laude, from Duke University. In addition to her professional work, Ms. Hillman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the US, on the board of the Trade Policy Forum and on the selection panel for Truman Scholars. In the past, she served on the Board of Trustees of Duke University, as well as on Duke's Board of Visitors and its Council on Women's Studies, and on the board of the DC Stoddert Soccer League. She lives in Washington DC with her husband and two children.
Simon Lester is a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on WTO disputes, regional trade agreements, disguised protectionism and the history of international trade law. He is also the founder of the web site WorldTradeLaw.net. Previously, he worked for the trade law practice of a Washington, D.C. law firm, and also served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization. He has written a number of law journal articles, which have appeared in such publications as the Stanford Journal of International Law, the George Washington International Law Review, the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Trade. In addition, he has taught courses on international trade law at American University's Washington College of Law and the University of Michigan Law School. He has a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Naboth van den Broek
Naboth van den Broek is an attorney at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP (WilmerHale), an Adjunct Professor of international trade & investment law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law. He is one of the leading international trade and investment lawyers of the moment and a member of WilmerHale's Trade, Investment and Market Access and EU law practice groups. He splits his time between offices in Washington, DC and Brussels (if he is not on a plane to China, Japan, Latin America, or elsewhere)
Mr. van den Broek represents governments, associations, and private companies in the context of large-scale WTO and other treaty-based trade & investment disputes and negotiations; on market access issues; and with respect to a broad range of other international legal, policy, and compliance challenges. He has been involved in many of the most prominent WTO disputes of the past decade, and has advised (or continues to advise) governments and private parties in bilateral, regional and plurilateral trade & investment negotiations, including TPP, TTIP, the ITA, and before the UNFCCC (global climate negotiations). He is also a recognized expert on international IPR, technology, and energy & climate change-related trade issues.
Mr. van den Broek is a former Graduate Fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law (2000-2001). He has law degrees from Leiden University, The Netherlands (M.Jur'00) and Georgetown University Law Center (LLM'01) and has also studied international political economy, international relations, and global strategy, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.


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Planeswalker - Karn
+4: Target player exiles a card from his or her hand.
-3: Exile target permanent.
-14: Set aside all non-aura permanents exiled by Karn, then restart the game. After that, put into the battlefield under your control all cards set aside this way.
Every Trope we used in the Comic?
Someone should update the description, and add a pic...
In an email from Wizards:
Phyrexia Announces Total Victory
The Machine Orthodoxy today announced total victory for the forces of Phyrexia and the utter obliteration of all that was Mirran.
"The Great Work is Complete," said Grand Cenobite Elesh Norn. "The stain of imperfection which is Mirrodin has been scourged and in its place we have shaped the face of New Phyrexia."
Jin-Gitaxius, Praetor of the Progress Engine, Augur to The Core continued, "The raw flesh we have at our disposal will allow us to continue The Great Synthesis unabated. Our destiny lies outside the crude battles between slavering beasts of which we have endured these many years. Through our experimentation will arise the strength of New Life."
Other prominent Praetors were also in attendance. The Voice of Hunger, Vorinclex, took a defiant tone. "The struggle for survival is never complete. Wherever there is weakness, there is still the necessity of conflict. As the predator cannot abide prey, so do the strong feed upon the strong. Our purpose has only begun."
Sheoldred, The Whispering One, declined conspicuous comment.
Praetor Urabrask was notably absent from the proceedings.
In a second email from Wizards:
Mirran Resistance UndeterredAlthough widely believed to be categorically defeated, the voice of the Mirran resistance remains a steadfast presence on the plane. A very recent transmission intercepted by this agency seemed to indicate a small but resolute faction willing to continue the fight.
"...the struggle is far from over," asserted the anonymous voice of Mirrodin. "...The infectors have become the infected..." While their location is unknown, their presence is still felt within the highest echelons of the Phyrexian High Command.
For the time being, it would appear that New Phyrexia has arrived at last. However, as one Mirran resistance fighter put it earlier today, "All may be one, but not all is lost."


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Why Do Mexis Like Wrought-Iron Fences?
By Gustavo Arellano
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By Alfonso Delgado
Women For: OC are Stitching and Bitching
By Courtney Hamilton
Santa Ana River Ready for Its Renaissance
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Can Tech Ruin the Kim Pham Murder Trial?
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MLG Anaheim: This eSporting Life
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As lukewarm as he might seem about being a Democrat, he seems to thoroughly enjoy being mayor. He has served 14 years in that office and another eight as a city councilman. Your chances of spotting him comfortably hobnobbing with wealthy real-estate developers are excellent. Your chances of seeing him dining in a posh Newport Beach or Irvine restaurant are damn good. Your chances of witnessing him participate in a populist rally anywhere are slim to none.
Indeed, when Pulido had the chance to stand up against Republican Gov. Pete Wilson's controversial Proposition 187, a thinly veiled 1994 election wedge issue that took punitive aim at the children of illegal immigrants by prohibiting them from education and emergency health care, he waffled. Just before that election, Pulido pretended to befriend both sides. He told Mexican-American activists that he shared their hostility to the measure. Then, this wily politician (who loves to play tennis and speak French) assured conservative businessmen that he only opposed the proposition because it wasn't punitive enough.
As Pulido's political base solidified and critics began calling him "mayor for life," he developed a mantra: It's "inverse discrimination" to ask him why he doesn't share the concerns of immigrants or the poor. So, for example, he doesn't want to field questions about why he's been accused of working to block the improvement of low-income housing or ignoring Third-World-type, pothole-ridden streets in less-affluent neighborhoods. In a 2007 interview with the Los Angeles Times, he said that questions about his political loyalties "really get to me" because "I'm an American first." Then he described himself as "very Mexican" and "very American."
Whatever the label, Pulido's discomfort with divisive social issues morphs into pleasure at the whiff of business opportunities. According to the mayor's public-disclosure forms, he maintains an interest in the family's old muffler shop, does consulting for RTP Controls in Georgia and Firm Green Inc., in Newport Beach. His Sol Distributing International has exported catalytic converters to Mexico. Because the state's disclosure rules allow politicians to blur actual income, he could reap as little as $30,000 or as much as $300,000 per year from each of those sources. He receives $200 a month for the part-time mayor's job.
But, as the Weekly's Gustavo Arellano reported on our Navel Gazing blog last year, Pulido's prized business is La Farga Group Inc. It's a consulting business that lists him as "president." There's no known physical office. The address he uses belongs to his accountant—the same person who did the books for Abel Food. On public-disclosure forms, Pulido claims La Farga Group pays him an annual salary of between $10,000 and $100,000.
The mayor has faced questions about concealing improper dealings under these maddeningly vague disclosure rules. In 2003, he was found guilty of hiding money he'd taken from Kris Kakkar, a venture capitalist with numerous business interests at Orange County city halls. It was an innocent mistake, Pulido explained afterwards. He also promised to be more diligent about keeping the public informed.
Throughout this decade, however, Pulido's bond with Newport Beach businessman Michael Harrah has worried even the mayor's allies. If Gordon Gekko, ZZ Top and Milburn Drysdale could have produced an offspring, it would be the greedy, physical giant that is Harrah, who owns huge swaths of Santa Ana commercial and residential real estate, including the building that houses the Orange County District Attorney's office.
"It's an open secret that Miguel will give Harrah and a couple of other real-estate developers whatever they want," one of the mayor's longtime associates reluctantly confided on condition of anonymity. "Some people say that he's a shameless political whore. Others might say he's used these business connections to do great things for Santa Ana. I have feet in both camps."
The city's current biggest and most controversial development project, One Broadway Plaza—the proposed tallest building in the county at 37 stories—is Harrah's brainchild. On this key issue, Pulido has worked feverishly behind the scenes lobbying on Harrah's behalf but has abstained from voting on the issue. Generally, elected officials are banned from voting on matters tied directly to a company that has paid them money.
The FBI's Santa Ana field office has made clear it will pounce if it catches a politician cheating. The agency's 1998 sting operation captured two Santa Ana City Council members, including Ted Moreno. An undercover agent posed as a gas station owner wanting favorable city action and willing to pay $46,000 in cash bribes to make it happen. Moreno took the bait and was arrested, convicted and sentenced to four years in federal prison.
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By early 2007, conditions at Abel Food prompted the mayor to act. The company was hemorrhaging money because of "unexpected costs," even though Abel Salazar had convinced four of his relatives to invest $900,000 collectively one year earlier, according to court documents. Whatever differences Pulido and landlord George Gemayel had about the vending-truck operation, they both agreed on one point: It needed another huge cash infusion. Abel Food owed Gemayel 26 months of back rent.
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5 Days late, but I have no pregnancy symptoms. Could I be Pregnant?
I am five days late on my period, and have not had any spotting and no pregnancy symptoms. With my other pregnancies, I had the nauesa, fatigue and frequent urination right away, as well as a "lite" period. I am hopeful that I am, we were trying.
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hi, can i ask u moms? i'm 5days delayed but i don't know i'm preggy, me and my partner had an intercourse after my period before he going back to his country i'm scared no symptoms at all.posted 11/23/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
hi, can i ask u moms? i'm 5days delayed but i don't know i'm preggy, me and my partner had an intercourse after my period before he going back to his country i'm scared no symptoms at all.posted 11/23/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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I'm 5 days late and a little nauseous but nothing to serious. I took 1 pt and it came back neg... I'm a little hesitant to take another one bc I want to be pregnant but I want to know if I'm pregnant. I have a lot of gas and I'm a bit bloated at times, aside from the cramps of a period coming, I have nothing. What is going on here??? I'll be getting a pt tomorrow ladies!!! Until then, take care ladies!!!!posted 10/17/2013 by GerberBaby14
Tomorrow I will be two week late. I took a test on Friday morning (first pee) and it was negative. My lower back hurts, slight cramps, and off and on tenderness of breast. My boyfriend had have been having unprotected sex. I have a doctor appointment in the morning. I am preggo then yay!!!! if not then we will just have to get trying (thats the fun part)!!!!posted 02/18/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
I have missed my period also now by 6days did home preg test and negative.my hubby and i been trying for 5yers.have had an actopic b4 3yers now. last month my period was very light pinkish and a few brown spoting. but this months no discharge whatsoever my breast were sore but not anymore also hav pain right groin area. l took home pregnc test 3days ago. can somebody help me did i take it too ealy or something else is wrong with me.posted 01/12/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
I am 6 days late! I hope I'm not pregnant. Only because I have HCM but who know maybe it could be something else.posted 11/11/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
I am also in this position. I am 5 days late on my period which is very unusual for me as my periods are usually like clockwork. Also, I am on the pill. As you can imagine, I am very nervous! Or booked a doctors appointment later on today to finally see what's going on! I haven't had any pregnancy symptoms other than sore breasts! Just cannot wait to finally did out!!!!posted 10/29/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
I am in the same boat now 5 days late, and 4 HPT say negative. I went to the doctor today and there test strip also said negative. So they took blood work and I should know that result by Tuesday. I have hardly any symptoms, sore nipps and had a pulsing cramp a say or two ago, but that is it!! Fingers crossed my husband and I are trying so it would be very exciting.posted 08/24/2012 by deanamarie4
I'm 6 days late since my period due.I took 3 home pregnancy tests, all showed negative.. I feel like my period will start, but it doesn't. No symptoms, except light cramps. Is it normal? Could I be pregnant? How long should I wait to take another test?posted 08/16/2012 by Ema09
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Hammerheads add former offensive lineman
CORPUS CHRISTI - The Hammerheads have signed offensive lineman Matt Ross, adding another former player with impressive credentials.
A 6-foot-7, 265-pounder out of Texas Lutheran, Ross returns to the ballcub after sitting out the 2009 season. Previously with the Hammerheads, Ross was an All-IFL first-team pick from 2006–2008. Ross also was used in the passing game, catching 32 passes for 475 yards and 18 touchdowns,
"We are excited the Matt has agreed to return to the team," Hammerheads owner/president Chad Dittman said. "We are adding a guy that has played at the highest caliber in our league and we expect big things from him."
Ross is the second returnee to the team this week along with quarterback Wes Cooper.
"We added two guys that have been two of the most successful players at their positions in franchise history," Hammerheads offensive coordinator Schuyler Anderson said. "They certainly make us a better team."
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In an article for the evangelical magazine Christianity Today (11-29-07), writer David Scott tells the surprising story of how Pope John Paul II worked together in Poland with the evangelical group Campus Crusade for Christ. Some highlights:
In an article for the evangelical magazine Christianity Today (11-29-07), writer David Scott tells the surprising story of how Pope John Paul II worked together in Poland with the evangelical group Campus Crusade for Christ. Some highlights:
When Karol Wojtyla stepped out on the Vatican balcony on October 16, 1978, as the new Pope John Paul II, waving to the crowds in St. Peter's Square on the first day of his auspicious papacy, the person preaching for him in his home pulpit back in Krakow, Poland, was none other than Billy Graham.
. . . the man who would be pope was already overseeing a radical partnership between a Polish Catholic youth renewal movement popularly known as Oasis and the American evangelical ministry Campus Crusade for Christ.
. . . When 27,000 Oasis pilgrims showed up for their retreats the next summer, what they experienced was a strange unabashed mix of Polish Catholicism—Marian devotion included—and American evangelical revivalism.
. . . While some might wonder whether Campus Crusade was theologically naïve, the same could not be imagined of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School professor Norman Geisler, whom Hinkson recruited as guest speaker for the Polish summer retreats. After returning from Poland, Geisler wrote of his trip in The Christian Herald: "What I experienced was a dynamic, joyous, Christian, and evangelistic community of believers who were more eager than most American evangelicals I know to learn and live the Word of God." Geisler described that summer as the most gratifying experience of his then 25-year ministry.
In January 1978 Blachnicki came to America to visit Bill Bright at Campus Crusade's headquarters in Arrowhead Springs, California. Bright probed Blachnicki about the usual evangelical concerns: "I asked him," Bright remembered, "What about the Virgin Mary? What about praying to the saints? … He gave me answers which for one with my background were satisfying and amazing."
Except for a "few fine points," Bright concluded, "there was basically no difference between what he believed and what I believed." Little more than a decade later, in 1994, Bright was one of the signers of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT)—a statement of shared convictions by 40 Protestant and Catholic leaders. Bright attributed his support to his personal confidence in the spiritual authenticity of Catholic reformers like Wojtyla and Blachnicki, a trust that was established through their history of working together.
. . . The late pope had seen how mass mobilization centered on a conservative piety could accelerate church renewal. Later he approached the challenges of his papacy with the same mix of traditional spirituality and popular mobilization.
In this respect, John Paul II was not all that different from Bill Hybels or Rick Warren. He tried to harness the forms of popular culture to conservative piety in order to to reinvigorate the church.
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My friend Stan Williams alerted me to another remarkable joint project, and continuing Catholic-evangelical cooperation in Poland, in his article that will be published at Catholic Exchange:
During this same period, in 1970, Bright organized an effort to make a movie about Jesus. The result was The Jesus Film, released in 1979 by Warner Brothers and co-directed by veteran filmmakers John Krish and Peter Sykes. An Evangelical missionary to Rome, Rev. Martin Lombardo (Jesus Cares Ministry), who every day kneels in front of St. Peter's and prays for the pope and the Catholic Church, handed a video copy of The Jesus Film to a Vatican prelate he had befriended. Within a year the Vatican had ordered thousands of copies for worldwide distribution and helped translate the film into hundreds of languages. Thanks to the Catholic Church, Bill Bright's Jesus film is the most watched film of all time, and has been reportedly translated into over 1,000 languages. Today, this Campus Crusade produced film that came out of Bill Bright's personal vision over 50 years ago, is distributed by the Vatican, and strongly supported by the American Catholic bishops (Adam Cardinal Maida, Archbishop of Detroit is the Ecclesiastical Advisor). It is available through Millennium Films International of Ann Arbor, MI.[Dave: According to The New York Times and BBC News, it is indeed the most watched film in history; seen by over two billion people and viewed (including repeat viewings) almost 5.6 billion times. See the Wikipedia article on the movie; footnotes 3-5]
Finally, in December 2006, at the invitation of the Polish Catholic Church, Campus Crusade's evangelist Josh McDowell [Dave: a huge influence in my own initial interest in apologetics] went to Katowice, Poland and spoke to 2,500 parents at one event, 6,500 youth at an evangelistic outreach, and in other settings spoke to over 200 Catholic priests and nuns. The response has been so good that four parishes plan to have Josh back in the Spring of 2009.


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WISCONSIN — The RNC and DNC have wrapped up, and there are officially less than two months left until voters take to the polls in the 2012 presidential election. Will Wisconsin be a true battleground state — one that both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama feel they can win in November? There are new signs both Republicans and Democrats will be putting up a real fight for the state's 10 electoral votes.
The chairman of Romney's Wisconsin campaign Ted Kanavas says the state is "in play" for the presidential election. The two most recent polls taken in August showed a virtual dead heat between Romney and Obama in Wisconsin.
"This will be definitely one of the nine or 10 states in the country described as the battleground states where this election will be won or lost," Kanavas said.
Over the weekend, the Romney campaign began broadcasting TV ads in Wisconsin — showing they're willing to spend money.
Maybe more important than money is a candidate's time. Both Rep. Paul Ryan (Romney's running mate) and Vice President Joe Biden have visits to Wisconsin planned for this week.
UW-Milwaukee Professor of Governmental Affairs Mordecai Lee says there are two ways to look at it.
"We are in play. In other words, they're really going to slug it out here, and that's good news for Wisconsin voters," Lee said.
Lee says there is another more strategic explanation: "Sometimes in football, you appear to do something, but you're doing something else. In other words — you line up for a punt but then you run for the yardage to make first down. It's possible what Romney's doing is kind of a feint. That he's not going to spend a lot of money or time here, but what he wants is for Obama to think he is. In other words, for Obama to spend time and money here," Lee said.
Monday, September 10th, the acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank was in Milwaukee touting President Obama's record on the economy.
Blank and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett say President Obama's policies have strengthened the economy by cutting taxes for the middle class, supporting manufacturing and encouraging investment and promoting U.S. exports.
"The President took the bold step of saving General Motors. If we want to stay at the front of the innovation, we have to have production located nearby," Blank said.
"It's a very stark contrast. The President has failed. Governor Romney has to be given an opportunity to get this turned around and if he does, he's going to get it done," Kanavas said.


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What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is the placement of thin needles at specific points on the body. Acupuncture treatments are based on Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory, which is based on 3000 years of wisdom, knowledge and experience. The body has 14 regular and 8 extra-ordinary energy pathways that flow in and out of the body. Acupuncture points are situated along these channels to interconnect them with the internal organ systems and the anatomical body structures where pain, discomfort, and illness are found. The human body is an amazing organic in that it is always seeking health. The needles are placed at specific points to open the channels being affected, in order to assist the body's natural healing process to take place.
Reasons to seek out a Registered Acupuncturist ?
Regular Acupuncture treatments open the body's energy channels, improve circulation of blood, water, and Qi (energy) to bring the body back into balance so the body can heal. As the seasons change, our working environments adjust in temperature and airflow; it can be difficult for our bodies to adhere to these changes positively.
Registered Acupuncturists attend up to 4 years or 1900 hours of focused education to learn Chinese Medicine Theory and the practical skills required. Upon completion, write and perform competency board exams to earn a license to practice. The College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia is the regulatory body. Each year, licensed Acupuncturists are required to perform continuing education credits to keep skills and knowledge current.
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How sad; another disobedient priest-pray for him
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"I know the Mass I heard is illegal, and the fact that the abrogated form of the Words of Consecration were changed means that it was most likely an invalid Eucharist."
No, I do not believe this is the case, SuperT.
I believe the correct term would be it is *"illicit"*, but still "valid" if he said the four words of consecration correctly.
If he said "This is my body" and "This is my blood" - to my understanding that is valid, despite his use of the word "cup" during the Eucharistic prayer (disobeident and wrong, true - illicit? yes).
EWTN theologian Colin Donovan explains it with the same scenario you encountered:
"Its seems he left out some "its" and "from it", and changed a third "it" to "this cup". There may be others, but the point is made that he made changes he has no right to make, but left the essential form (this is my body, this is .. my blood) intact.
Your parents are right, the form was valid, but illicit. You did fulfill your Mass obligation, and could have received Communion.
If you were traveling and unintentionally went to a truly invalid Mass, you do not need to go to the inconvenience of tracking down another Mass. Its on the celebrant's conscience not yours. Though, I hope you would write his bishop and complain."
- 28 November 2012 at 13:52
- Supertradmum said...
Thanks, and I invite others to join this conversation
- 28 November 2012 at 14:29
So sad, I will pray for him (though I also think the Mass was still valid).
Who in their right mind would prefer "cup" to "chalice"?? People have no sense of beauty in language, art, or music anymore...plain, utilitarian & ugly is the norm. Or maybe he was just choosing "cup" because he wanted a part of the Mass to be 'his', or because he thought "chalice" sounded 'too fancy'. :o/
My husband had a conversation with someone recently who was irritated by the use of "dewfall" in the new translation of EPII. She had NO understanding of the beautiful imagery there or how it is supposed to recall the manna in the desert. She just thought it was "weird".
- 28 November 2012 at 14:55
- Supertradmum said...
Inara, if everyone who reads this post prays for him, he will change....thanks for the good comment.
- 28 November 2012 at 15:12
What was once valid cannot just suddenly become invalid. So although it is wring it cant affect the validity of the Consecration into does make it an Invalid and Illicit Mass though.
Though to make the Consecration invalid he would have to have changed the form which is "THIS IS MY BODY/BLOOD" as long as the priest says that, the intention is present and the matter is correct then the Consecration will take place.
- 28 November 2012 at 15:23
- Supertradmum said...
Inara, also, remember that it is the Eucharist which is invalid or valid not the Mass per se
- 28 November 2012 at 15:32
This is, terribly, very common in Ireland. There are many churches I could direct you to in Dublin where much liturgical abuses are mundane. Reverent liturgy according to the rubrics is rare. I live in Dublin and would like to meet you sometime. Thanks for all your great witness on the blogs. God bless you and your family.
- 28 November 2012 at 18:41
- akp5401 said...
We have one who visits who does the same and still says 'for all' I avoid his Masses, as do others, he makes most of it up. I pray daily for him, I hope he's improved next time, which will be soon.
- 28 November 2012 at 20:52
- Anita Moore said...
A note to the bishop seems in order, as you have his admission that this was deliberate and not just a slip of the tongue, and it appears to be an ongoing thing.
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Most of the people of North Carolina are partial to the University of North Carolina system. Whether they prefer the UNC at Chapel Hill or N.C. State, or some other UNC institution, they are proud of UNC.
The mission of UNC is in keeping with this attitude. It is this:
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Nowhere in this statement is there any mention of preferential treatment being given to football, basketball or baseball athletes.
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In July 2010, the NCAA started an investigation against the UNC football program. It revealed a range of gifts given to football players and other improprieties. UNC lost scholarships and suffered penalties.
The News and Observer reported: "On May 2012, UNC released a faculty-led report that showed problems in more than 50 African studies classes. The suspect classes included nine in which there was no evidence that a professor taught a course, with forged signatures on submitted grade rolls. In more than 40 other courses, there was little evidence of classroom teaching or other "instructional contact," according to the review, though the courses were supposed to be lecture classes."
It was alleged that Julius Nyang'oro, chairman of the African and African-American studies Dept. had created many of the suspect classes.
Now the fourth person has been arrested as a result of the UNC sports investigation. On Monday, Nyang'oro was indicted by an Orange County grand jury. It is alleged that he accepted $12,000 for a university class he did not teach. He was once the chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies Department. However, he resigned as chairman in August 2011 and retired in June 2012. The $12,000 was deducted from his final paycheck, so that shows the university knew he had failed to teach the class. What was not known was that he would be criminally charged for his misdeed.
The codling of football players was well known as far back as the l940s. However, I doubt that anyone in those days could foresee the magnitude of the problem as it existed from 2007 through 2011.
As the result of these events, there has been some heavy criticism leveled at the university. Some has been unwarranted. Here are a three examples:
-- A condemnation of all UNC professors. This is grossly unfair and harmful to the reputation of many professors who absolutely would not be a party to these shenanigans.
-- A condemnation of Chancellor Holden Thorp. This also lacks substance. Thorp was an excellent chancellor, a man of integrity who made many good decisions during his time in office. In fact, he was shocked at some of the allegations of fraud and improprieties.
-- The idea that UNC dug in its heels and tried to conceal the extent of the fraud and corruption. Although there was resistance by a few employees of UNC, for the most part UNC responded in good faith and cooperated with the investigation. The News and Observer made numerous requests for information. University officials may have been reluctant to respond to the newspaper because they felt that a negative spin would be put on their responses.
Chancellor Carol Fult was hired from outside the university and was not at the helm when these events were taking place. She is in an excellent position to keep the university athletic program free from duplicitous influences.
Jim Woodall, the Orange County district attorney, said another arrest may take place in January. My hope is, after this decision is made, we can spend more time keeping the UNC athletic program clean, and less time criticizing UNC. Then, in the future, we can have a reputation for truth and honesty in our university system -- stronger than ever.


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America's Dictator Problem in Uzbekistan
Rajan Menon, professor international relations at Lehigh University, wrote an article on America's dictator problem in Uzbekistan. Islam Karimov's iron-fisted regime in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan - which he ruled as the local Communist Party boss from 1989 until the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991 - is lurching toward crisis, Menon wrote. The predicament Washington could face in Uzbekistan exemplifies a familiar pattern in American foreign policy. In the name of combating a variant of anti-American radicalism - communism during the cold war, terrorism today - the United States provides economic and military assistance to a dictatorship because, well, it seems better than the alternative. That engagement metamorphoses into entrapment when the regime, having extinguished all political participation and having failed to deliver enough economic benefits to offset the ill will generated by its repressiveness, begins to run up against violent opposition.
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Let Olympics Elevate, Rather Than Divide Humanity
John Karakash, dean emeritus of engineering at Lehigh University, wrote an op-ed about the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He represented Turkey in the Balkan Olympics in Athens in 1933. Contemplating what is transpiring in Athens today, I am saddened that what was once a celebration of brotherhood among athletes will be held in an environment dominated by land, air and sea armed forces seeking to avert repetition of what transpired in the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972.
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Come this fall, south Bethlehem residents will need to find a new place to grab some coffee and a bagel before dashing off to work, and Lehigh University students will lose the place they've come to rely on for a 2 a.m. caffeine fix during a long night at the library. The Wawa Food Market on W. Morton Street — in the heart of the South Side just off the campus — is scheduled to close in mid-September because it's too small, a Wawa spokeswoman said. ''Our lives may be over,'' wailed Vadim Kharaz, a Lehigh junior, when he heard about the closing. ''We come here probably every day.'' ''During finals, I'm here every night,'' agreed his friend, Scott Boyle, who is also a junior. ''We live here.'' Paul Rearden, a Lehigh graduate student, said students like Wawa for its convenient location and reasonable prices. ''Nowhere else can you go and get a decent-sized hoagie for $5,'' he said.
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The Elk County Catholic Crusader golf team defeated St. Marys 207-235 on Wednesday afternoon in a match played at the Bavarian Hills Golf Course.
The medalist for the day was Elk Catholic's Mitchell Struble with a five-over-par round of 40.
Also for the Crusaders, Elliott Struble and Kristy Hanes each carded a 41, Brandon Schlimm had a 42, Bruno Cavalline and Jess Jaynes each shot 43, Drew Meyer recorded a 44, and Garrett Reuscher finished with a 57.
The low scorer for St. Marys was Owen Schreiber with a 42.
ECC travels to SMA this afternoon
The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader tennis team raised their record to 10-1 with a 9-0 victory over the Brockway Lady Rovers Thursday at the Benzinger and Memorial Park courts.
"Today we enjoyed a really nice tennis match with a short-handed but improving Brockway squad. Brockway has a very nice team again this year. They have four sophomores that have gotten a lot better and they are going to be a lot of fun to watch the next two years," said ECCHS coach Pete Meier.
The St. Marys Area boys' and girls' cross country teams both picked up wins over Kane on Tuesday afternoon in a meet at the St. Marys Area High School that also featured runners from Ridgway and DuBois Central Catholic. The Dutchmen defeated the Wolves 23-34, while the Lady Dutch took a 22-39 win over the Lady Wolves.
The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader volleyball team raised their dual-match record to 7-0 on the season with a 3-0 victory over the Johnsonburg Ramettes last night at the ECCHS gym.
The Lady Crusaders won the first set by a 25-23 score. They took the second set 25-18 and won the third set by a 25-8 margin.
"We were slow to make adjustments but once we did we played well," said ECCHS coach Diane Gies.
"The last game tonight was the best we played both offensively and defensively. Now we have to keep working to get better," added Gies.
The Elk County Catholic cross country teams played host to the Brookville and Brockway squads Tuesday afternoon at Benzinger Park.
The Crusaders defeated Brookville 19-38 and Brockway 22-34. Brookville defeated Brockway 26-30.
There was no scoring in the girls' meet, as Elk Catholic was the only school with a full team.
In the boys' race, the Crusaders took the first two spots in Ryan Detsch in 18:04 and Drew Bille in 18:21. Brockway's Dakota Lawson was third in 18:48. Elk's Lucas Knight placed fourth in 19:24, with Brookville's Shane Hummel rounding out the top five in 19:51.
The St. Marys Area Lady Dutch tennis team edged the Johnsonburg Ramettes 5-4 in a match played at Johnsonburg.
At first singles, SMA's Amy Orr defeated Riley Fannin 6-1, 6-1.
At second singles, Aubrey Wiesner of St. Marys defeated Cheyenne Johnson 6-0, 6-1.
SMA's Chelsea Agosti won her match 6-0, 6-1 over Josie Del Rio at third singles.
At fourth singles, Danielle McCoy of the Lady Dutch lost her match in a three-set tiebreaker 2-6, 9-7, 3-10 against Paige Martonik.
At fifth singles, Andrea Allegretto of Johnsonburg defeated Madison Squires 6-1, 6-2.
FOX TWP. – The Elk County Catholic Crusaders finally got on the board on Tuesday evening against Brookville, but it was not enough to get them back in the win column as they were edged 2-1 by the Raiders to extend their losing streak to five games.
"Brookville played a good game. It's unfortunate that we didn't get the result we were looking for. I'm sure we'll learn from the game and take away what we need to," said ECC coach Adam Bailey.
ST. MARYS - The Brookville Lady Raiders girls' varsity soccer team scored a 4-0 victory Tuesday afternoon at Benzinger Park over the Elk County Catholic Lady Crusaders.
Junior Julie Shields scored a pair of goals for the winners. Shields scored with 3:06 remaining until halftime and then again just 10:29 from the end of the contest.
Sophomore Brenna Dworek tallied first for Brookville with 21:04 showing on the clock in the first half. Freshman Kara Wonderling upped the Lady Raiders lead to 3-0 with 15:11 to play in the game.
This camper fire, deemed arson by investigators, took place at approximately 11:36 p.m. on Monday, July 9, 2012 at the 333 North St. Marys St. residence of Michael A. Scolari, a former member of the Crystal Fire Department. Scolari has been charged with arson and related offenses, insurance fraud, criminal mischief, and recklessly endangering another person in connection with the fire and has since resigned from the fire department.
RIDGWAY - The Ridgway-based Pennsylvania State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) executed a federal warrant on Wednesday morning, Sept. 26 at an East Avenue in Johnsonburg.Police said the joint law enforcement operation occurred as a result of information discovered during the arson investigations surrounding Francis Anthony Milliard.
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Jazz Notables to Take Stage at Susquehanna University
SELINSGROVE—Jazz standouts Terri Lyne Carrington and Tim Miller will perform with Susquehanna University's Joshua Davis in a guest artists recital on Nov. 9. The concert will be held in Susquehanna's Weber Chapel Auditorium at 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Carrington, Miller and Davis are all current or former professors at Berklee College of Music in Boston. All three musicians have extensive experience in music performance, having released individual and collaborative recordings and performed with other well-known musicians.
Carrington's experience of more than 20 years showcases her work as a drummer, composer and producer. Throughout her career Carrington has worked with such jazz masters as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, Stan Getz, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Cassandra Wilson, Clark Terry, Dianne Reeves and numerous others. Carrington currently resides in her hometown of Boston and teaches at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, where she received an honorary doctorate in 2003.
Miller is currently an associate professor of music at Berklee. He released his first solo guitar recording, "Trio," in 2005 and followed with the release last year of "Trio Vol. II." Recently, Miller has performed in concerts and music festivals with Paul Motian, Randy Brecker, Mark Turner, Gary Thomas, Gary Husband, George Duke, Chris Cheek, Keith Carlock and other musicians.
Currently an assistant professor of music at Susquehanna, bassist Davis joined the faculty in 2006 as the new director of jazz studies. Davis taught at Berklee for six years as one of the school's youngest faculty members, where he was leader of curriculum management. Davis' recent releases have included Miller's "Trio Vol. II;" Vardan Ovespan's "Aragast;" and his feature recording "Squashua," showcasing Take Toriyama, Miller and Ovespan in an interpretation of Romantic Era symphonies and the music of Sting.
Founded in 1858, Susquehanna University is a national liberal arts college that prepares students for achievement, leadership and service in a diverse, interconnected world. Academic excellence, study away and service learning, student-faculty collaboration, and rich opportunities for creative and personal growth are hallmarks of a Susquehanna University education. Susquehanna students come from 36 states and 13 countries, and more than 90 percent of them find jobs or pursue graduate study within six months of graduation. The university is located in central Pennsylvania, in the town of Selinsgrove, along the banks of the scenic Susquehanna River and about three hours from major East Coast cultural, financial and recreational centers. For more information, visit www.susqu.edu.
Karen M. Jones


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Novel of the week
Antonia Logue Bloomsbury, 318pp, £15.99
Antonia Logue Bloomsbury, 318pp, £15.99
by James Harkin Published
Three years ago the publisher Bloomsbury earned a flurry of unexpected publicity when it paid a six- figure advance to an unknown 22-year-old Irishwoman in return for a short plot synopsis and the promise of her novel to come. Three years later the story of the young writer who hits the literary jackpot has been done to death, but what distinguishes Antonia Logue is that she turns out to have been worth every penny.
Shadow-Box is the fictional reconstruction of an unlikely bond forged between three real historical characters as they moved and shook in the early years of this century: the black American heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Jack Johnson, his sparring partner, the art critic Arthur Cravan, and the modernist poet Mina Loy.
The story progresses through an exchange of letters between Johnson and Loy 30 years after Cravan goes missing, presumed dead, in Mexico and follows their attempts to make sense of their lives and Loy's love affair with Cravan. The backdrop is an incendiary political and intellectual climate which brings together this unlikely trio and eventually tears them apart when it recedes into repression and war.
Logue's commentary rushes the reader into the action at a dizzy pace as Johnson bounds from ring to ring, lazily flooring a succession of flabby white boys and ducking the racism of his audience: "I held back and let him dance around me a bit, then tickled him with a nice slow uppercut, pulled back, danced some more, fought the urge to belt him and kept tickling under his chin till the bell went."
While Johnson dances his way into trouble with the authorities and ends up fleeing to France, Mina Loy is travelling in the other direction. After a flirtation with Italian futurism and its guru Marinetti, she fetches up in the talking shops of the New York avant-garde, outraging contemporary mores with her poetry, and name-checking Marcel Duchamp and William Carlos Williams along the way.
Into this suffocating milieu floats Cravan, "this life-changing embodiment of everything I would come to love most about being alive", and the two are soon on the road together, Cravan fleeing the threat of conscription in the looming world war. For the most part, Arthur Cravan remains an opaque, almost mythical, figure, peripatetic and constantly hatching some plot or other.
Shadow-Box is written in long, lyrical sentences that leave the reader breathless and incapable of raising any objection. Logue's dry humour gently deflates the pretensions of the literary salon, where one lady of leisure "wafted her cigarette smoke around the room as though it were on the trail to the most kissable lips in New York". She is careful not to whitewash her characters: Johnson's violence puts his girlfriend in hospital, Loy's love of poetry and Cravan leads her to neglect her children and Cravan comes with a reputation as a duplicitous philanderer.
But Logue's point is that what unites the three as much as Loy's affair with Cravan is a shared thirst for experience and adventure, which took them to the heart of the social upheavals of their time. Shadow-Box is short on steamy, protracted love scenes: as Logue tells it, the frisson that attracts Loy to Cravan is as much about adrenalin as anything else, "that energy and excitement that caught you by the balls, a dart of thrill sometimes that wasn't erotic at all, but chilling, because you were catching his energy like it was cholera".
Logue has made full use of her promising material and writes with a raw passion brought down to earth by the unfussy, conversational charm of her story-telling. For those left cold by the pallid romances on offer in the lonely-hearts columns - a nice glass of wine, long walks in the country - her book is a spirited reminder that the elements of the most inspiring love affairs add up to rather more than a quiet life.


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SOUTH BURLINGTON - Citing the Chinese proverb - "living in interesting times" - Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas brought his bold plans for the new session of the Vermont legislature to the first Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce and Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation Legislative Breakfast of the year Monday, Jan. 12.
The breakfast attracted a full-house to the ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel. Douglas stressed the need to focus on the economic crisis that faces Vermont as well as the nation.
"With a shortfall in our budget estimated to be $46 million in the current year and projected to be as high as $150 million in 2010, we can't just tweak and tinker," he said.
Douglas warned against tapping into the rainy day fund to help to balance the budget.
"We need to save that resource until after we see where we are after April 15," he said. Douglas speculated that taxpayers might be getting back the estimated payments they made as incomes drop.
He also recommended waiting until it is clear what the federal government in D.C. will do to help Vermont. While he said there was an expectation that there will be help for infrastructure transportation projects, he said he hoped there would be significant help for the state's Medicaid costs which have been rising.
He also repeated his recommendation for a new formula for education funding, saying that one-third of the general fund goes to education funding and teacher pensions, with the cost of education continuing to rise, even though the number of students has been dropping. "It's not fair to ask the state agencies to reduce their expenses by 13 percent and not ask the K-12 education system to make cuts," he said.
Among what he described as "bold steps to position Vermont for competitive success in the future," Douglas listed renewable energy incentives, research tax credits, incentives for rehabilitating old buildings, and making changes in the permitting process to encourage entrepreneurs.
In response to a question from the audience about tax policy reform, Gov. Douglas recounted a conversation he had had recently with a seasonal resident of a ski resort who suggested that Vermont should recognize its strong attraction for seasonal residents, and instead of taxing them more heavily, the state should cut their tax rate in half.
He said that "so many people would like to be Vermonters that such an action would probably attract 200,000 more taxpayers."
The next legislative breakfast, on Monday, Feb. 9 will focus on transportation issues.
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