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The UK Treasury are reported to be working on plans to reform the two fiscal rules introduced by Gordon Brown. These are the 'Golden Rule', that over the cycle the government's current account be in balance or in surplus and the 'Sustainable Investment Rule' that the ratio of net general government debt to annual GDP be no more than 40 percent.
Before reforming the substance of the rules, the UK government should think about how it would enforce whatever rule or rules it comes up with. Both the 'Golden Rule' and the 'Sustainable Investment Rule' were respected only as long as they did not bind. When they became binding constraints on the government's ability to borrow they were bent, fiddled and now 'reformed', that is, ignored. The fiscal rules of the EU's Stability and Growth Pact – the general government financial deficit should not exceed three percent of GDP, and over the cycle the general government financial deficit should be close to balance or in surplus – to which the UK also signed up, have been ignored/violated with equal equanimity. With zero credibility as regards its willingness to respect its own fiscal rules or those of the EU, why would anyone pay any attention to a new set of rules that the Treasury may come up with?
Neither the Golden Rule nor the Sustainable Investment Rule make much economic sense. The same is true for the fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, but that is beyond the control of the Treasury.
The Golden Rule, which can be restated as the requirement that over the cycle the government can only borrow to finance investment, not to finance government consumption spending, reflects an inappropriate application of misunderstood private sector financial criteria to the public sector. In the private sector, investment is undertaken in the hope, if not the expectation, that the return to the investment would cover the cost of the investment, including any cost of borrowing external funds to finance the investment. Private investment is therefore, in present discounted value terms, self-financing. Borrowing to finance private investment is therefore 'sound'. Consumption yields no such cash returns and is not self-financing. If you borrow to finance consumption today, you will have to cut future consumption (compared to the level of future consumption you could have enjoyed if you had not borrowed today) by the same amount in present value terms. This is not 'sound', if the borrower for consumption purposes is myopic or might be tempted to default.
The argument is bogus. First, borrowing to smooth consumption over time is, or should be, the ultimate purpose of all honest borrowing. Investment is just part of the mechanism for smoothing consumption over time. Ultimately, all loans are consumption loans.
Second, public investment often yields no cash returns at all to the government. Even when it brings in cash revenues through user charges, this is often insufficient to cover the total cost. Public investment in social housing is an example. Much infrastructure investment also falls into that category (toll roads and toll bridges that cover both operating costs and capital costs are few and far between). Some public investment may raise the government's tax revenues indirectly, even when the services produced by the public sector capital are not sold, through user charges etc., to the public. Roads and railroads raise productivity and output and thus the tax bases for the personal and corporate income tax and VAT. When the return to public investment is public happiness, there need be no cash returns of any kind: funding the construction of a children's play ground or a park are examples. From the point of view of the budget, therefore, it makes sense as a rule to treat public investment as if it were public consumption and to expect no cash returns from it at all. Remember, we are talking the general government sector here. This excludes whatever market-active state-owned enterprises may still be around (e.g. EDF in France).
Cyclical corrections are as much art as science. Even as art, however, they should be honest art. The government's starting date for the current cycle has been shifted repeatedly for no other reason than that without such shifts, the Golden Rule would have been violated. The current cycle has, according to the Treasury, started in 1997. It could have been 1887, had the political need for a little more deficit spending been sufficiently strong. As long as the Treasury determine the beginning date and end date of the cycle, the concept of cyclically adjusted fiscal rules will be a joke (a bad one).
The Sustainable Investment Rule takes an arbitrary number, 40, as the percentage of annual GDP that the net general government debt cannot exceed. Why 40? Perhaps because 40 was the number of days Noah spent on the Ark. Or maybe because life begins at 40.
Outrageous fiddling has kept the official measure below 40 thus far. Public private partnerships were promoted even where they made no sense at all. Examples include the construction of state schools, NHS hospitals and other ventures for which the cash revenues will never cover current costs, let alone current and capital costs. The Bank of England is not part of the general government sector. This permitted the Treasury to keep its exposure to Northern Rock off its balance sheet before Northern Rock's nationalisation. Since Northern Rock's nationalisation this ought to have been on the government's balance sheet, but inexplicable delays in sorting the technicalities have so far kept it off the Treasury's books.
I also believe the Treasury bills issued to be swapped, through the Special Liquidity Scheme administered by the Bank of England, for illiquid private asset-backed securities owned by crippled banks, are not on the Treasury's books. Apparently, Treasury Bills with maturity less than one year don't figure in some of the politically embarrassing debt measures. From an economic point of view, this is insane. To the government's credit, the net debt measure in question only subtracts liquid assets from the government's gross debt, so the illiquid stuff held on the asset side of the SLS balance sheet is effectively valued at zero, which is probably a tad pessimistic.
The net debt concept defining the 40 percent of GDP ceiling follows current practice (except in some havens of enlightenment like New Zealand) in not including any allowance for contingent liabilities. The Treasury's exposure to Northern Rock through its guarantee of Northern Rock's deposits and most other non-secured debt is therefore ignored. This common practice is worst practice.
Despite its best efforts, the 40 percent net debt to GDP ceiling is about to be exceeded. With the economy slowing down rapidly and quite possibly already in recession, the general government financial deficit is already above 3 percent of GDP (violating one of the EU's Stability and Growth Pact rules). With only North Sea oil revenues buoyant, but all other major tax bases shrinking, the deficit is likely to exceed five percent of GDP even without any discretionary tax cuts or spending increases.
The government, quite rightly, does not want to act procyclically by raising taxes or cutting public spending to prevent public debt and deficit from rising more than the existing rules permit just as the economy is tanking. That they would have been forced to do so if they had stuck to their existing rules is evidence either that these were the wrong rules, and/or that the government failed to abide by the rules when times were good.
What would a good rule look like?
A good rule focuses on the painful part of the budget, that is, on taxes, and leaves the fun part (public spending on investment, consumption and transfer payments) alone. It focuses on the financial deficit of the consolidated general government and central bank (net of central bank monetary financing), to prevent the central bank from being used as a quasi-fiscal agent of the government. It focuses on a net debt measure that subtracts the fair value of all government assets (that is, either their market value or the best estimate of the present discounted value of their future cash flows) from the fair value of all government liabilities(including contingent liabilities) on the assumption that the government does not default on its liabilities. For net debt too, the relevant definition of the government is the consolidated general government and central bank, and only the non-monetary liabilities need to be considered.
A conceptually attractive rule might look like the permanent balance rule advocated by Clemens Grafe and myself (see (in increasing order of illegibility) "How to reform the Stability and Growth Pact"", "Ten Commandments for a Fiscal Rule in the E(M)U" and "Patching up the Pact; Some Suggestions for Enhancing Fiscal Sustainability and Macroeconomic Stability in an Enlarged European Union".)
Its basic logic is that permanent public spending is financed with taxes. Temporarily high or low public spending are financed by borrowing or retiring debt. Effectively, you set the share of taxes in GDP equal to the permanent share of public spending in GDP. It does not matter whether spending is for consumption, transfers and subsidies or investment. Permanent means approximately 'expected future long-run average'. The permanent balance rule therefore allows for deficit financing during recessions but also requires reductions in the net public debt to GDP ratio during cyclical booms. Wars (which we hope if not expect to be temporary) can be partly deficit-financed. Temporary revenue windfalls have to be saved and used to retire debt.
An attractive modification of the permanent balance rule (and without which the steady-state net debt to GDP ratio would be history-dependent) might be to augment it with some 'error correction' term for the net public debt to GDP ratio. This would anchor the long-run net public debt to GDP ratio.
Can governments be relied upon to apply such a rule honestly? Outside New Zealand, no. Therefore, some outside, independent body (a Fiscal Policy Committee) should determine, each year, the required ratio of taxes to GDP that meets (in the opionion of the independent body) the permanent balance rule. The mix of taxes that makes up this required ratio of total tax revenue to GDP is up to the government.
In the weakest version of the FPC, the independent body (whose members would be appointed by a qualified majority (not less than two thirds) of the relevant Parliamentary committee (say the Treasury Select Committee) would make a public recommendation for the required tax burden. The government would have to explain and justify any departures from this recommendation.
A stronger version of the FPC would have the independent body make a binding recommendation. If, in the opinion of the FPC, the government's proposed taxes do not add up to the required permanent balance tax ratio, the FPC could vary a specific set of tax rates to correct the shortfall or excess. This residual tax rate would have to apply to a broad tax base. An example would be the standard rate of the personal income tax, the standard VAT rate or the employee's national insurance contribution rate.
It is clear that myopic and opportunistic governments (that is, any government of whatever political colour this country is likely to elect), cannot credibly commit themselves to run surpluses or to consciously reduce the net debt to GDP ratio when the economy is booming. The real choice is therefore between the boom and bust mess that is being revisited on us as we speak and taking the debt and deficit key away from weak-kneed governments.
Even when it comes to monetary policy, there is something deeply unattractive about rule by independent technocrats. In the fiscal field the arguments against delegating public debt and deficits to an unelected 'agent' or 'trustee' are even stronger. Admittedly, taking the authority over public debt and deficits away from elected politicians does not limit the size of the state (as measured by the scale, scope and composition of public spending) or the structure of taxes. But the ability to determine, for any given programme of public spending over time, the distribution of the tax burden across time and generations is a non-trivial economic instrument with important political and distributional consequences.
Insisting on strong democratic accountability for public debt and deficits, including the right to throw the rascals out – the only true, substantive accountability there is – means that public debt and deficits will be opportunistically manipulated for party-political advantage. You take your pick.


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October 2013 Panhandle Fish Update from Jim FredericksBy idfg-lfrench on Friday, Sep 27th, 2013 12:00am MDT
Greetings Anglers:
I wanted to take a few minutes to send out an update on some of the fishery issues throughout the region as summer wraps up. For those who don't shift their focus to things with fur and feathers over the next couple of months, the fishing in area lakes and streams will be some of the best the year has to offer. I hope you have a chance to get out and enjoy it. There've been a few notable events and frequently asked questions that I thought I'd touch on.
Hayden Lake
One of the most frequent questions we've heard over the past month is "since when are there sockeye in Hayden Lake?" Being on this distribution list you probably already know that those "sockeye" are actually kokanee. We stocked kokanee in Hayden Lake in 2011 with the sole intent of trying to bolster the open water fishery, and boy has it worked well so far. As 2-year-old fish, the kokanee grew to 16-18 inches and created a popular fishery. Now that they've reached maturity, their bright red bodies, green heads, and humped backs have people mistaking them for their saltwater cousins. Spawning kokanee have been spotted around the lake, and we counted a couple hundred fish up Hayden Creek (including the one in the photo). For the most part, while interesting and fun to see, the spawning activity won't likely have much of an impact on the population. September spawning kokanee generally need cold running tributaries to reproduce successfully. Though they may try to spawn along the lake shore, the relatively warm lake water temperatures cause embryos to hatch out prematurely. Successful lakeshore spawning is associated with a November/December strain of kokanee. Those fish spawning in Hayden Creek will likely fare better, but accessibility and low flows in late summer seem to limit the number of fish that are able to make their way into Hayden Creek. In the big scheme of things, it's doubtful that there will be significant natural reproduction. That's not a bad thing, however. The intent all along has been to manage numbers primarily by fingerling stocking. We stocked another 100,000 fingerling kokanee in 2012, and this year increased the number to 150,000. Anglers should continue to enjoy some good kokanee fishing in Hayden in the future.
Pend Oreille
Speaking of kokanee, the return of kokanee harvest opportunity has been a welcome addition to the Pend Oreille fishery this year. Though limited to a harvest of six, anglers have been taking advantage of the fishery and have generally had little difficulty finding good schools of kokanee and catching limits of 10-12 inch fish. The research crew recently finished conducting the field portion of their population estimates, and though the numbers haven't been finalized, the number of all age-classes of kokanee continues to be very encouraging. Rainbow anglers are also delighted with the abundant kokanee population, considering that more kokanee means faster growing, and larger rainbow. In addition, thanks to the support and financial contribution of the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club (LPOIC), IDFG recently released about 15,000 pure Gerrard (Kamloops) rainbow trout fingerlings into the Pack River drainage and Spring Creek. The eggs were acquired from British Columbia and the fish were reared at the Cabinet Gorge Hatchery. With further help from LPOIC, the fingerlings were recently adipose-fin clipped so that we can evaluate their performance and contribution to the fishery in the coming years.
The netting operation resumed in early September, and the crew is currently concentrating their efforts on spawning lake trout. That will continue through mid-October when spawning aggregations disperse. At that time, the effort will be shifted to juvenile lake trout in the northern part of the lake, and to a lesser extent in Scenic Bay. The netting will continue through April, with a midwinter break from mid-December through mid-January.
Priest Lake
I hope by now everyone recognizes no decision has been made with regard to Priest Lake fishery management, and lake trout are NOT being netted from Priest Lake. We completed the major portion of a lake trout population assessment with the University of Idaho this spring, which involved capturing just over 4,000 lake trout, nearly 3,000 of which were tagged and released. The assessment will help answer many questions about the current status of the lake trout population – harvest rates, growth rates, food habits, and age-structure. The lake trout study will be part of several other assessments in the next 3-4 years (kokanee ecology, Mysis shrimp status, angler use) that will help guide a long-term management decision on both Priest and Upper Priest lakes. IDFG has assembled a group of local Priest Lake angler and stakeholders to serve as an advisory group for the decision making process. We've been meeting every couple of months and will continue to do so until a plan has been developed and readied for public comment.
In the meantime, IDFG will continue to work with the USFWS and Kalispel Tribe to prevent lake trout from dominating Upper Priest Lake. Gillnets will continue to be used on an annual basis for a week in late spring, and a trap net will be placed in the Thorofare in October/November to prevent lake trout from moving up from the lower lake.
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Hello all, this is my first post. I want to knit some socks for my daughter and I thought I found the perfect pattern (Tiny Tulips Sock Pattern from cherryflip) but they are adult size and I need a toddler size. The socks have small tulips running vertically up the ankle and a picot edge. Here is the link to the pattern:
Can anyone help? TIA
Uh, it's a little difficult. The main thing seems to be the pattern for the cuff. What about finding a basic sock pattern for toddlers that has the same number/multiple of the tulip-pattern stitches to allow you to do the tiny-tulips pattern - and use that? From the heel on down, should be pretty basic.
And I don't see what size needles are called for in your adult-sized sock pattern. But even so, adapting this one on down to tiny-toddler-tulips would be kind of like, uh, rugged.
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For centuries, the illustrations of wandering naturalists have offered creative expressions from the field, providing personal experiences and perspectives that inspire wonder for the natural world. Take, for example, Margaret Shaw, who in her well-loved book "A Countrywoman's Journal: The Sketchbook of a Passionate Naturalist," recorded in watercolor and prose the unspoiled flora and fauna of the English countryside. Or Walden's Ridge's own Emma Bell Miles, an artist, writer and poet whose work captured the essence of the natural world of Southern Appalachia.
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Born and raised on a farm in Nashville, Henderson said she has enjoyed drawing and writing about nature since childhood. She recalls sneaking into the corncrib as a child to watch mice at play and delighting in the swallows that darted out of the barn at daybreak.
"I have always loved the animals and birds I meet in my everyday wanderings," she said. "They make me laugh, surprise me, and show me tiny portraits of their lives and personalities."
Henderson's creative talents and interest in nature were rekindled in adulthood, after raising two sons and working in private practice in the mental health field. She credits this awakening to a cold morning in February of 1999 when she attended the Sandhill Crane Festival and saw thousands of sandhill cranes in the cornfields at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Birchwood, Tenn.
"Since that captivating moment, I have felt driven to experience more of nature's wildness and to share what I see and feel in my art," said Henderson, who resides in Knoxville.
Henderson quotes Aldo Leopold in "A Sand County Almanac" to describe her affinity for cranes and their creative inspiration: "Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. The quality of cranes lies, I think, in this higher gamut, as yet beyond the reach of words."
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"This book came about quite by accident," Henderson said. "I was at a business meeting and noticed a gorgeous female hawk fly into view outside a window. I jumped up and ran to the window to watch it. When I left that meeting, I heard an ear-piercing call and found the hawk perched less than 15 feet ahead of me on a low-lying limb. As I climbed into my car, the male glided by me at eye level from across the road. I thought, 'These hawks are just too accessible for me to pass this opportunity up.'"
Henderson returned to the site for the next four months to observe and sketch the two red-shouldered hawks, encountering a range of experiences that took her deep into the lives of these raptors that are native to East Tennessee.
"Few people have the opportunity to share their yards and homes with red-shouldered hawks," Henderson said. "This sketchbook journey is an inspiring example of peaceful coexistence and the joys and rewards of sharing our home territories with wildlife."
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To learn more about Vickie Henderson's artwork and books, visit her website at www.vickiehendersonart.com.
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#196 Jan 3, 2012
Ok, sweethearts, here's the deal:
-Being gay is natural ,found in almost all species(look at that gute giraffes and penguins and stuff ...) and- just like being straight or bis- oder pansexual- something inchangeable. Look at the statistics: NONE of the therapies to cure gay men and women has worked. Like, ever.
-People may act the way they want. Get over it. Furthermore, you can't tell whether something is fake or not, just based on what you see in the clubs. In addition- who doesn't play a role in clubs? When a guy is trying to flirt with me, he goes all masculine, trying to look broad and tall ...that's not the way he usually acts, I suppose. But I don't mind, because he does it to impress me(or anyone else, I don't even care). Women play with their hair when confronted with attractive men(or women, if they are lesbian/bisexual), they too don't always do that.
So if somebody wants to exaggerate his gestures, high-pitch his voice, get a slight lisp- so be it.
He's got the same right and motives to behave differently in different situations.
Apart from that, there are feminine men as well as masculine women- you can see it in their bone structure, skin thickness etc... and sometimes you can only tell by their behaviour. This however is neither bad nor annoying.
So please, for Christ's (or anyone's)sake, stop the hate. It doesn't make the world a better place, and it doesn't lift your mood or spirits, either.
(Oh, and by the way: "Men are men and women are women" is proven to be wrong. Period. Almost as 90's as navel piercings.)
#197 Jan 28, 2012
I'm a woman and cannot stand super femme gay guys or ultra macho lesbos. Omg they are so annoying because it's like they try on purpose to throw their preferences in your face. Plus it's just gross!!!
#198 Feb 1, 2012
just close your eyes then. the world is not perfect.
#200 Mar 22, 2012
If it's not your style, fine. But don't shove crap down people's throats about God this or morals that. Not everyone shares the same moral values; they're up to subjectivity. Honestly, you're seeing the world only through one perspective, but there are many different paradigms and perspectives through which to see the world other than your own. Try walking a mile in someone else's shoes that'll help. You also cannot objectively prove that God is real to me.
#202 Mar 23, 2012
TOTAL gay shame.
Leviticus 18:22 - You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 - If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Romans 1:26-27 - For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
#203 Apr 15, 2012
gay people are mentally sick, & they are complete dipshits to actually think what they're doing is considered "normal". They spread nothing but lies about themselves & their lifestyles. Why can't homosexuality be considered a mentally illness like it was in the good old days? Gay people must be stupid. And I get tired of them trying to change the definition of marriage & pretty much society. FU GLBT
#204 May 8, 2012
You do NOT chose your sexual orientation.. duh. And I know plenty of straight men who are feminine and have gay friends who are very masculine. Its all personality it has nothing to do with the label. Homophobes are ignorant.
#205 May 8, 2012
You do NOT choose your sexual orientation.. duh. I doubt straight people will wakeup one morning and "choose" to be gay. And you know nobody does cause of the crap they have to go through who would choose to?? Just as I didnt choose to be bisexual. And I know plenty of straight men who are feminine and have gay friends who are very masculine. Its all personality it has nothing to do with the label. Homophobes are ignorant.
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#206 May 15, 2012
I don't recall "deciding" to be straight. As a matter of fact, I still sometimes WISH I was a lesbian, and it's mostly because men like you live and breath. Shame sir, your hatred is unfounded, it stems from fear and ignorance. Sorry, but your "logic" isn't even close to scientifically accurate anyway. Your wires don't get crossed unless you consume detrimental substances or sustain significant brain damage. I happen to find flamboyant gay culture offensive, because people always call these men "feminine". I am female, and the pride and joy I take in being a women DOES NOT stem from this superficial nonsense. Still, you're full of shit and a complete homophobe. Go suck some dick and get over it
#208 May 22, 2012
I think gays are annoying well at least the obvious ones are, It shouldn't make you homophobic. I mean what would you think when you see guys wearing makeup dressing like girls it's gross. Imagine guys in the military skipping holding hands and saying things like oh my god! It's what we see on TV. I think gay guys have things all wrong no one is attracted to sissyness especially on a guy people love masculanity, feminine is gross. What I hate a lot is when you go to a gym and this creep just stands naked and is gay it's gross gays are like sex predators.
#209 May 22, 2012
I feel the same way I don't hate gays I find them annoying and gross and they tend think gross all the time, they are worse than trolls, you know those dorky girls who think their cool and hot but they are not no one likes them and if you are ever near them they talk about things that they pretend they've done but everyone knows they haven't they think guys would like them but won't because they are plain gross.
#210 May 22, 2012
If You find that woman acting guys turn you on then there is something abnormal about you!!!
#212 Jul 3, 2012
I wonder if gay men act flamboyant as a way to be identifiable by other gay men. Straight people would not have to worry about doing this, but if gay people just dressed and acted like the norm, how would other gay people recognize them to be a possible sexual interest? I do agree that it is a show and it can be pretty obnoxious sometimes, but it seems like a good way to get noticed by your dating pool.
#213 Jul 3, 2012
i believe there are gays and lesbians who have pleasing personalities. and there are some who are annoying.
the same is true with straight people. there are some straight people who have pleasing personalities. and there are some who are very annoying.
yes, i saw a lesbian whose attire and hairstyle is like a man. but she has this pleasant personality about her. she smiles, etc. i don't find her annoying. she is cool.
just because someone is feminine gay or masculine lesbian, you find him/her annoying right away. no, you have to see her real true character first !!! do not judge right away !!! ok ???
#214 Sep 21, 2012
Well personally, I am attracted to donkeys. They have an allure that can not be denied.
#215 Sep 21, 2012
I am as masculine as they come, but people still somehow know I'm gay...
#216 Sep 21, 2012
Me too, how the hell do they keep figuring it out?
#217 Sep 21, 2012
i think either way you look at it, whether you're a gay queen or a butch dyke, it's a matter of having class. you don't need to act like an idiot or someone who lacks any level of maturity. making a spectacle of yourself runs the risk of people judging you based on how you act, almost as much as judging how you look. so the childish queeny queens need to get some polish and the fat butch dykes need to go on diets and pay better attention to their health instead of acting stupid. i can guarantee this, if you look that horrid on the outside i know you smell bad on the inside so think about it, unless you're a "no recip" licking lesbo lol. ice cream flavor of the month is anchovy? you betcha..that's just my opinion about it.
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#220 Nov 12, 2012
...you think?
#221 Nov 15, 2012
Annoying, not annoying...it's wrong and they need help.
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> Of course I've heard of them. But I don't consider mid 20th century
"modern" here. Science and mathematics have changed drastically in the
last century: philosophy hasn't yet fully digested these developments.
However, philosopher/mathematicians like Hersh have made very
significant advances in "humanist" mathematical philosophy.
But these very comments confirm what I have been arguing. "Science and
mathematics have changed drastically in the last century". Presumably
you mean "in the last 40 years or so"? Well who could argue with that?
Indeed, new theorems have been proved, problems solved, phenomena
discovered. And yet, the sentence is pure vapour - rhetorics for the
naive. In fact, nothing has occurred in mathematics that would in any
fundamental way change our view of the nature of mathematics since
Goedel (died 1978). The same is true for physics: the last discovery
that fundamentally affected our understanding of the nature of the
subject took place in 1972: it was the first of many experiments that
confirmed the violation of Bell's inequalities - something that in my
opinion totally undermines the view of physics you have been arguing
for. About a year ago I attended a conference where the latest research
on the fundamental issues affected by this were discussed (such as the
notion of "independent reality") so can say with confidence that in all
essential respects the situation remains as it was in 1972. So what are
these supposed advances in mathematics and physics that have not been
absorbed by " "humanist" mathematical philosophy?
And what does "humanist" mean in this context? All the philosophers I
mentioned have been either scientists or mathematicians. Michael Polanyi
was a great chemist, who would have probably won the Nobel prize (it was
later won by his son John) if he did not at one point decide that
philosophy was more important than chemistry (he was right then).
Polanyi was, of course, a leading exponent of the view that intellectual
(or aesthetic) judgement is the driving force of scientific discovery.
You also mention Hersh, presumably Rueben, a mathematician, writer of
popular articles and an amateur philosopher. Well it is well known that
Hersh was an admirer of Imre Lakatos, who is well known for denying the
distinction between mathematics and empirical sciences. He is also known
for his denial that Darwin's theory satisfies his criteria for being
considered "scientific" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos)
> Quine is an interesting fantasist, but I can't consider him any more
reliable as a guide to reality than, say, J. R. R. Tolkien.
Well, as far as I am concerned, he has a far better claim to being such
a guide than anyone involved in this exchange.
> The original issue of this thread was education. A philosophy that
cannot distinguish between reality and hallucination is useless here.
But, if we can understand mathematics as a human social construct, we
can connect it to human social activities like education.
The issue was mathematics education of non-mathematicians. You extended
it beyond its proper limits to the nature of mathematics and
mathematicians. I consider this a worthless diversion. As far as
mathematics is concerned the old adage has always been true: "Those who
can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach how to
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This is a discussion on Taking an out of state roadtrip within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; So I just found out yesterday that I got volunteered by my sister to help her friend move. I will be traveling from Springfield, MO ...
So I just found out yesterday that I got volunteered by my sister to help her friend move. I will be traveling from Springfield, MO to Fort Campbell, KY.
I have preformed a few searches on here and also looked at handgunlaw, i'm wondering if anyone can direct me towards a site where I can see the no carry signs for kentucky and tennessee. Also if there is any other information I sould know that would be helpful.
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Give me my guns and my right to keep and bear arms, and they can keep their change.
Try Handgunlaw.us for information.
Hmmm... I'm thinking he already tried Handgunlaw.us since he said he did in his post.
Btw... J Man, I got a case and locks for you as well as the holster you need so call me when you get off work.
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Try this as a general set of rules for the great bluegrass commonwealth:
A concealed firearm or other deadly weapon SHALL NOT be carried in the following places:
* Police station or sheriff's office.
* Detention facility, prison or jail.
* Courthouse (Court of Justice, courtroom or court proceeding).
* County, municipal, or special district governing body meetings.
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* Child-caring facilities, day care centers, or any certified family child care home.
* Areas within an airport where restricted access is controlled by the inspection of persons or property.
* Any place where federal law prohibits the carrying of a firearm.
In addition to the above restrictions, units of state and local governments and postsecondary education facilities (colleges, universities, technical schools and community colleges) have the authority to limit the carrying of concealed weapons on property owned or controlled by them (KRS 237.115). You should check with units of state and local government as well as postsecondary education facilities prior to carrying a concealed weapon on their property.
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Are you going thru Illinois? No carry here. Unloaded and encased.
I already know that my two minute drive through ill-annoy I will have to disarm and case up the firearm. Also this will be off base housing that we are going to so actually going onto the base will not be an issue.
More specifically, my question was concerning a location to look for the posting requirements if there are any. I am asking this because in Missouri the legal sign must be 11.5" x14" with letters no less than one inch. I am wondering if Kentucky will have requirements like this or if the international symbol will be legal ect.
Give me my guns and my right to keep and bear arms, and they can keep their change.
Here's all the info you'll need...
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J Man,
Why would you want to carry into any place that has a No Guns Sign Posted? If there were posting sign requirements and a sign did not meet those requirements there is a good possibility if found with the firearm you could be arrested and given your day in court. Just because the sign may not be legal you would still have to hire an attorney. Spend your hard earned money to pay them. While all of this is going on you could lose your permit from your home state because of the charges even if later they are thrown out. Then you have to go through the process of getting it back.
Look what happened to the man in PA who was legally carrying his firearm openly. The law allows it. He still stood trial and the Jury found him Not Guilty. He had assistance from organizations that paid some of his legal bills but look at what he had to go through. Never forget you can be arrested and given your day in court just like this guy even if you are innocent. Why take the chance. If they have a sign don't go there. Don't spend your money there. Spend your hard earned money in places that welcome you. There are lots more places that welcome you than say to keep out.
J man -- Found this on the Kentucky State Police web site:While I can find nothing about "official" signage, the quote above makes it appear that their law is very similar to MO.In addition, Kentucky law does not prohibit the owners of private premises from excluding persons carrying firearms. Failure to vacate private premises when asked to do so could result in a criminal trespass charge.
Gary -- while I normally agree with your position, there are times when you have no choice. The nursing home my Mother is in is one example, hospitals are another. While neither of these are automatic in Kansas since passage of HB2528, I've never seen one in my area that wasn't posted.
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The quote I provided from the Kentucky State Police indicates that Kentucky law is much like MO. In KS, we're not so lucky. Walking past a gun-buster sign is an immediate crime and when I'm confronted with one in a place I have no choice about going to, I disarm. If I have a choice, I take my business elsewhere.Carrying of a concealed firearm in a location specified in subdivisions 1) to (17) of subsection 20 of this section by any individual who holds concealed carry endorsement issued pursuant to this section shall not be a criminal act but may subject the person to denial to the premises or removal from the premises.
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What I don't like about chat forums is that the written word doesn't contain the voice inflection and body language that a conversation has.
When I said I would never tell anyone to break the law I wasn't aiming that at anyone. I was just making a statement that I would never tell anyone to break the law. Have I ever gone into a place that had signs posted. I will take the 5th on that.
What I tried to convey was that to many times we don't think of the consequences until after the fact. We have to be ready to face the consequences when we push the envelope or break the law.
You are very correct that in some states even with a sign all they can do is ask you to leave. WV is that way. But other states as pointed out make you an instant felon if caught if you go by a NO guns sign.


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- Email Address(es)
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Office Phone
- 416-978-8989
- Office Address
- Health Sciences Building 155 College Street, 6th Floor Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7
- Website(s)
- Deans Corner, Toronto Environmental Molecular Epidemiology Research Group
- Curriculum Vitae
- Download
- Division(s)/Office
- Clinical Public Health Division
Epidemiology Division
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
Office of Global Public Health Education & Training
- Position
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- Dean DLSPH
Research Interests
- Epidemiologic and toxicologic research related to heavy metals, potential endocrine disruptors
- Gene-environment interactions; epigenetic dysregulation
- Fetal exposures and long-term effects
- Aging-environment interactions
- Environmental health and human rights
- Health and the global environment
- Multiple chemical sensitivities syndrome
Education & Training History
9/1973-6/1976 Biology B.Sc. Brown University
9/1977-6/1982 Medicine M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
9/1979-6/1980 (degree in 6/1982*) M.P.H. (Occ Hlth) Harvard School of Public Health
9/1985-6/1986 Epidemiology M.S. Harvard School of Public Health
7/1986-6/1990 Epidemiology Sc.D. Harvard School of Public Health
* Awarding of the M.P.H. to medical students is delayed until the M.D. degree is conferred
Research Fellowships
7/1987-6/1988 Occupational Health Research Fellow, Dept. of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Internship and Residencies
7/1982-6/1983 Intern in Medicine, Boston City Hospital
7/1983-6/1984 Junior Assistant Resident, Internal Medicine, Boston City Hospital
7/1984-6/1985 Senior Assistant Resident, Internal Medicine, Boston City Hospital
7/1985-6/1987 Resident, Occupational Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health
Other Affiliations
1999 – International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
1987 – Member, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
1987 – Member, American Public Health Association
1987 – Member, Physicians for Human Rights
2009 – Member, Society for Toxicology
2012 – Member, Canadian Public Health Association
What is the Role of Schools of Public Health in the 21st century? A Panel of Deans (McGill University, May, 2015)
In conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer (with Dean Howard Hu; University of Toronto, June, 2014)
Collaborative Program in Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Howard Hu (University of Toronto, September, 2016)
Asean Institute for Health and Development (6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2016)
Primary Teaching Responsibilities
Guest Lectures:
Introduction to Public Health (Introduction to Public Health Sciences, CHL5004H);
Introduction to Public Health (Determinants of Community Health, UT Medical School);
The Toxicology of Metals (Industrial Toxicology, CHL 5912F);
The Challenges of Environmental Health in a Rapidly-Changing World, from the Molecular to the Global (Doctoral Seminar, Collaborative Doctoral Program in Global Health, CHL 5701H)
Research Seminar:
Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology (in preparation for 2014).
Professional Summary & Appointments
Dr. Hu came to the University of Toronto as the Dalla Lana School of Public Health's second permanent Director and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Global Health; and Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine in July of 2012. On July 1, 2013, after leading the Dalla Lana School of Public Health through the process of becoming the first new Faculty at the University of Toronto in 15 years, he became the School's inaugural Dean. Dr. Hu is a physician-scientist, trained as an internist, occupational and environmental medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. Previously, he had been Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Channing Laboratory of the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (1988-2006) and the NSF International Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology & Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan (2006-2012).
Honours & Awards
1978-1982 National Health Service Corps Scholarship
1985-1988 National Research Service Award
1990-1992 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Clinical Environmental Medicine Award
1994 Will Solimene Award of Excellence, American Medical Writers Association, for: Chivian E, McCally M, Hu H, Haines H, eds. Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993.
1997 Alice Hamilton Lecturer, University of California at San Francisco
1998 First Prize for Best Infant Nutrition Research, Instituto Danone, Mexico (for González-Cossío T, Peterson KE, Sanín L, Fishbein SE, Palazuelos E, Aro A, Hernández-Avila M, Hu H. "Decrease in birth weight in relation to maternal bone lead burden." (Published in Pediatrics)
1999 National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences "Progress and Achievement of the Year Award", 1998-1999
1999 True Memorial Lecturer, Maine Medical Center, Portland ME.
2000-2001 Faculty Sabbatical Award, Harvard School of Public Health
2000-2001 Senior Fulbright Scholar in India
2001 Hoopes Prize, Faculty Mentorship (for Senior Thesis of Charles Lin, "More than Black and White: Lead Poisoning as an Environmental Justice Issue in Boston"
2003 Best Paper in Preventive Medicine by a Medical Student (for Senior Thesis of Vanitha Janakiraman; Janakiraman V, Hu H, Mercado-Garcia A, Hernandez-Avila M. A randomized crossover trial of nocturnal calcium supplements to suppress bone resorption during pregnancy. Am J Prev Med 2003;24:260-4.). American College of Preventive Medicine, Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health.
2004 Das Travel Grant Award, The South Asia Initiative, Harvard University (for Travel in India)
2005 Adolph G. Kammer Merit in Authorship Award, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (for Rhodes D, Spiro A, Aro A, Hu H "Relationship of Bone and Blood Lead Levels to Psychiatric Symptoms: The Normative Aging Study", Published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine)
2006 Teacher of the Year Award, Occupational/Environmental Medicine Residents, Harvard School of Public Health
2006 Harriett Hardy Award, the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2009 Linus Pauling Award for Lifetime Achievements, American College for the Advancement of Medicine
2010 Nomination to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (not elected this round)
2011 Award for Excellence, American Public Health Association
2015 John R. Goldsmith Award (for Outstanding Contributions to the field), International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Current Research Projects
Dr. Hu is the founder of an environmental and molecular epidemiology research group that, since 1990, has grown into a multi-institutional and international team of scientists devoted to gaining new insights into the impacts of exposure to potentially toxicants that are of critical importance to public health and medicine. The team applies multi-disciplinary and novel methods for assessing environmental exposures, genetics/genomics, epigenetics, nutrition, psychosocial factors and clinical measurements in epidemiologic studies of child development and adult chronic disease in populations around the world. With Principal Investigators and major collaborations based mainly at the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Michigan, the National Institute of Mexico, Sri Ramachandra University (Chennai, India), the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and now the University of Toronto, Dr. Hu and colleagues have a number of on-going projects that ultimately aim to shed light on preventable factors that contribute to the mental and physical development of children as well as to the causation of cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's disease, hearing loss, and a variety of other chronic diseases. Dr. Hu has published over 250 original papers in the scientific literature, co-authored and edited several books, and served as the Founding and now Associate Medical Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives, the official journal of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). His work has won a number of awards, such as the 1999 NIEHS Progress and Achievement Award, the 2006 Harriett Hardy Award, the 2009 Linus Pauling Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2011 Award of Excellence from the American Public Health Association.
Dr. Hu has also served on four fact-finding missions and on the Board of Directors for Physicians for Human Rights, and he was the Chair of the Research Commission for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. He also served on the Institute of Medicine's Board of Population Health & Public Health Practice and currently serves on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council for the U.S. National Institutes for Health.
Dr. Hu received his Sc.B. from Brown University, his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his M.P.H. and Sc.D. degrees (Epidemiology) from the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and in occupational/environmental medicine at Harvard.
Representative Publications
Roy A, Hu H, Bellinger DC, Mukherjee B, Modali R, Nasaruddin K, Schwartz J, Wright RO, Ettingre AS, Palaniapan K, Balakrishnan K, (January, 2011). Hemoglobin, Lead Exposure, and Intelligence Quotient: Effect Modification by the DRD2 Taq 1A Polymorphism. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1, 144-9.
Bush KF, Luber G, Kotha SR, Dhaliwal RS, Kapil V, Pascual M, Brown DG, Frumkin H, Dhiman RC, Hess J, Wilson ML, Balakrishnan K, Eisenberg J, Kaur T, Rood R, Batterman S, Joseph A, Gronlund CJ, Agrawal A, Hu H. (2011). Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions. Environmental Health Perspectives
Hu H (2011). Heavy Metals In Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Fauci AS, Hauser SL, Longo DL, JamesonJL, eds. (Ed.) Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, (18th edition). McGraw-Hill (New York).
Wright RO, Schwartz J, Wright R, Park SK, Hu H, Sparrow D, Vokonas P, Baccarelli A (Summer, 2010). Biomarkers of Lead Exposure and DNA Methylation within Retrotransposons Environmental Health Perspectives
Basu N, Abare M, Buchanan S, Cryderman D, Nam D-H, Sirkin S, Schmitt S, Hu H (December, 2010). A combined ecological and epidemiologic investigation of metals exposure amongst indigenous peoples near the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala Science of the Total Environment, 1, 70-77.
Cantonwine D, Hu H, Téllez-Rojo MM, Sánchez BN, Lamadrid-Figueroa H, Ettinger AS, Mercado-García A, Hernández-Avila M, Wright RO (July, 2010). HFE gene variants modify the association between maternal lead burden and infant birthweight: a prospective birth cohort study in Mexico City, Mexico Environmental Health, 43.
Peters JL, Weisskopf MG, Wright RO, Spiro A, Schwart J, Sparrow D, Nie H, Hu H, Wright RJ (2010). Interaction of Stress, Lead Burden and Age on Cognition in Older Men: The VA Normative Aging Study Environmental Health Perspectives
Weisskopf MG, Weuve J, Nie H, Saint-Hilaire M-H, Sudarsky L, Simon DK, Hersh B, Schwartz J, Wright RO, Hu H (2010). Association of Cumulative Lead Exposure with Parkinson's Disease Environmental Health Perspectives, 1609-1613.
Weisskopf MG, Jain N, Nie H, Sparrow D, Vokonas P, Schwartz J, Hu H (2009). A prospective study of bone lead concentration and death from all causes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer in the VA Normative Aging Study Circulation
Park, S.K., O'Neill, M.S., Vokonas, P.S., Spiro, A., Tucker, K., Suh, H., Hu, H., Schwartz, J." (2008). Traffic-related particles are associated with elevated homocysteine: the VA Normative Aging Study American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine


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A private equity consortium led by Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire El Paso Corporation's oil and gas exploration and production units in a $7.15 billion leveraged buyout that Bloomberg reports is the second-largest private equity takeover of an energy producer.
El Paso, a company founded in 1928 by Houston lawyer Paul Kayser, announced late Friday that it had reached an agreement to sell the businesses to a group composed of Apollo, Access Industries, and Riverstone Holdings.
The deal is designed to expedite the sale of El Paso to Houston-based energy company Kinder Morgan, which announced in November it would acquire its oil and gas rival for $38 billion, including debt. That transaction, which is scheduled to close in the second quarter of this year, will create the largest natural gas pipeline network in the U.S. and the fourth-largest energy company in North America.
When El Paso announced plans last year to sell off its exploration and production businesses, it retained Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen Katz to advise on the process. But with Kinder Morgan, represented by Bracewell Giuliani and Weil, Gotshal Manges, now in line to acquire El Paso, its lawyers have taken over the transactional work related to the sale. Weil corporate partners Jay Tabor and Rodney Moore in Dallas are advising El Paso on the divestiture of the exploration and production units.
Lawyers from Debevoise Plimpton, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Garrison, and Willkie Farr Gallagher are advising the private equity consortium on its purchase of El Paso assets.
Apollo, which is planning $5.5 billion in debt financing for the acquisition, has turned to Paul Weiss for counsel on the proposed transaction. The firm's work for Apollo got a huge boost last year when it recruited seven corporate partners from O'Melveny Myers, many of whom handled Apollo work. Apollo's general counsel, John Suydam, is the former head of O'Melveny's MA practice.
The names of the Paul Weiss lawyers advising Apollo on the El Paso deal were not immediately available. In December, Paul Weiss advised the private equity firm on its acquisition of investment manager Stone Tower Capital. That transaction came just a few weeks after Apollo turned to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld for counsel on the $772 million sale of Parallel Petroleum to Samsung and Korea National Oil.
New York–based Access, which is controlled by Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik, is being advised by a team of Debevoise lawyers led by MA partners Kevin Rinker and Jeffrey Ross and tax partner David Schnabel. The firm advised Access last year on its $3.3 billion acquisition of Warner Music Group. Alejandro Moreno serves as general counsel for Access.
Willkie Farr corporate partners Bruce Herzog and Adam Turteltaub in New York are representing Riverstone in the matter. Stephen Coats is Riverstone's general counsel. The New York-based private equity firm was part of a group that took Kinder Morgan private in a $15 billion buyout in 2006.
Kinder Morgan became a public company again a year ago this month after it completed a nearly $3 billion initial public offering, the largest private equity–backed IPO in U.S. history and the largest energy sector offering since 1998. (Bracewell took the lead for Kinder Morgan on that listing, according to our previous reports.)
Joseph Listengart serves as general counsel for Kinder Morgan, while Henry Cornell, who once practiced at Davis Polk Wardwell, serves on the company's board of directors. El Paso's general counsel is Robert Baker. Anthony Hall, Jr., a former partner at Jackson Walker, is a member of El Paso's board.
Completion of the sale of El Paso's exploration and production units is dependent upon the successful close of the company's acquisition by Kinder Morgan.
One potential complication is a lawsuit filed in Delaware by El Paso shareholders claiming that the sale is flawed because of an alleged conflict involving Goldman Sachs. The New York Times's DealBook has a breakdown on some of the issues at play in the litigation before Delaware's Chancery Court.
Weil and Delaware's Seitz Ross Aronstam Moritz are representing Kinder Morgan in the suit, while El Paso has turned to Wachtell and Delaware's Potter Anderson Corroon. Court records show that Sullivan Cromwell and Delaware's Richards, Layton Finger are representing Goldman.
The proposed private equity buyout of El Paso's assets comes on the heels of another large oil and gas LBO announced in November: a KKR-led consortium's $7.2 billion acquisition of privately held Samson Investment Company.
Davis Polk, Latham Watkins, and Simpson Thacher Bartlett advised the investor group on that takeover, according to our previous reports. Simpson followed up that deal a week later by advising KKR on its $1.1 billion acquisition of Capital Safety, a maker of safety equipment for the construction and energy industries.
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Hudson -- City departments are scattered around the city, but Council Jan. 16 unanimously approved a lease for office space, consolidating seven departments under one roof.
City Manager Anthony Bales recommended Council approve leasing 11,248-square feet of office space from Jacklin Properties LLC at 115 Executive Parkway, Suite 400, to consolidate the City Manager's Office, Clerk of Council, Finance, Information Systems, Community Development, Economic Development and Engineering departments into a single location.
Former Council member John Jeffers, who was honored for his nine years of service, asked Council to reconsider the move because the Town Hall building is the "essence of Hudson."
Council President David Basil said most of the offices that would move to the new location are not in Town Hall, and the three-year lease would give the city an opportunity to see how consolidation works before considering a permanent city facility. The other Council members agreed.
Last year Council and the city worked on a Strategic Plan and one of the goals was to improve efficiency, effectiveness, quality and availability of services, according to Bales. One of the associated topics included the need for improved government facilities.
"The lease payments would essentially be equal to our current lease payments," Bales said.
The savings from the relocation of Community Development, IS/GIS, Engineering and Economic Development would be offset by the relocation of the City Manager's Office and Finance Department.
The first year would cost $35,000 more but includes approximately $20,000 to 50,000 for moving, minor building renovations and fixtures, furnishings and equipment. The second and third year would be approximately $3,000 to 4,000 more.
The benefits of a combined administrative staff and retaining current vacancies in staff could be approximately $100,000 annually, Bales said.
"I am confident that there will be opportunities to reduce staff with a consolidation, primarily through a reduction of administrative support personnel," Bales said.
Currently, there are two full-time positions vacant and two part-time positions vacant that can be reorganized to provide savings. In addition, copiers, office equipment and supplies would be consolidated.
Coordination and communication would improve between departments, which could perform more efficiently being physically in the same building, according to Bales.
The city would have an opportunity to study the merging of separate departments as suggested in the Strategic Plan, he said.
City Council Meetings and other public meetings would still be at Town Hall. The former Finance Department offices could be converted into a conference room, shared office space for elected officials, copy room and storage room. Also, the City could begin conversations with other organizations for use of the first floor.
Council member Alex Kelemen said freed up space at Town Hall could be used for Council members to have office hours and meet with residents.
The proposed lease includes an incentive of $1,500 per month lease through July 31, 2013, which would begin upon move-in. Staff anticipates a move-in date of March 1, 2013.
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Also, is there a reason why these offices couldn't move to the city-owned Youth Development Center? Instead of paying rent, our tax dollars could be used to renovate this facility.


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