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HMS Flirt (1897)
HMS Flirt
|United Kingdom
|HMS Flirt
|1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
|Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow-on-Tyne
|Laid down:
|5 September 1896
|15 May 1897
|April 1899
|Honours and
|Belgian Coast 1914 - 1915
|Sunk 26/27 October 1916 in combat
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|Palmer three funnel, 30 knot destroyer[1][2]
|219 ft 9 in (66.98 m) o/a
|20 ft 9 in (6.32 m)
|8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
|Installed power:
|6,000 shp (4,500 kW)
|30 kn (56 km/h)
|60 officers and men
|Service record
|World War I 1914 - 1918
HMS Flirt was a Palmer three funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1782 for a 14-gun brig in service until 1795.[3][4]
Flirt was laid down on 5 September 1896 at the Palmer shipyard at Jarrow-on-Tyne and launched on 15 May 1897. During her builder's trials she made her contracted speed requirement. She was completed and accepted by the Royal Navy in April 1899.[3][4]
Service history[edit]
After commissioning Flirt was assigned to the East Coast Flotilla of the 1st Fleet based at Harwich.
On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. Since her design speed was 30-knots and she had three funnels she was assigned to the C class. After 30 September 1913, she was known as a C-class destroyer and had the letter 'C' painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.[5]
World War I[edit]
For the test mobilization in July 1914 she was assigned to the 6th Destroyer Flotilla based at Dover. During her deployment there she was involved in anti-submarine, counter-mining patrols and defending the drifters of the Dover Barrage.
On 28 October 1914 under the command of Lieutenant H. S. Braddyll, Flirt took part in operations off the Belgian coast.
On the night of 26/27 October 1916 the German Navy raided the Dover Barrage with two and a half flotillas of torpedo boats and destroyers. Flirt under the command of Lieutenant R. P. Kellett responded to gunfire from the drifter line. She found the drifter Waveney II on fire and sent a boat to assist. When unidentified ships approached she issued a challenge and was immediately fired upon by the Germans. Flirt was lost; the only survivors were those dispatched to aid Waveney II.
She was awarded the battle honour "Belgian Coast 1914 – 15" for her service.
Pennant numbers[edit]
|Pennant number[6]
|6 Dec 1914
|1 Sep 1915
|1 Sep 1915
|27 Oct 1916
Further reading[edit]
Captain Evans tells in his book Keeping the Seas that the life boat carrying the last survivors of Flirt was depth charged by a passing destroyer who thought it was a submarine. A real enemy submarine in the area also "took a look at them" and in the darkness mistook them for a British submarine, and dived to escape destruction.
Note: All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified
- ^ Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1905]. Jane's Fighting Ships 1905. New York: first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1905, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company. p. 77.
- ^ Jane, Fred T. (reprinted © 1990). Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. Jane's Publishing © 1919. p. 77. ISBN 1 85170 378 0. Check date values in:
- ^ a b Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1898]. Jane's All The Worlds Fighting Ships 1898. New York: first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company. p. 84 to 85.
- ^ a b Jane, Fred T. (reprinted © 1990). Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. Jane's Publishing © 1919. p. 76. ISBN 1 85170 378 0. Check date values in:
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922. Conway Maritime Press. 1985, Reprinted 1986, 1997, 2002, 2006. p. Page 17 to 19. ISBN 0 85177 245 5. Check date values in:
- ^ ""Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class". Retrieved 1 Jun 2013.
- Manning, Captain T.D. The British Destroyer. Godfrey Cave Associates. ISBN 0-906223-13-X.
- Evans, E.R.G.R. Keeping the Seas. Toronto: S.B. Gundy published in Canada for Humphrey Milford.

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Hi, On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Jukka Zitting <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Thus, please vote on which of these two codenames we should use for > the jr3 implementation effort: > > [ ] Blackrabbit > [ ] Oak > > The vote is open until Monday, after which I'll use the name with most > support to set up subproject infrastructure as described in [1]. The vote results are as follows: +4 Blackrabbit +7 Oak Meanwhile the Doodle poll has evolved to show +16 to Blackrabbit and +17 for Oak. Oak has the advantage and so we'll go with that. I'll set up the new mailing list, issue tracker and svn space in a moment. Any volunteers to join as moderators for the mailing list? As discussed earlier and mentioned again by Roy, the Oak name is a bit troublesome for more general branding, which reinforces the point that we'll use it as a codename for the development effort and decide later on whether to brand the result as "Jackrabbit 3" or something else. BR, Jukka Zitting
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Banana Black Bean Salad
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A fresh/zippy salad that can be made well in advance and served with a dollop of sour cream and chives/parsley/cilantro as a garnish or alongside fish, rice or something else fun. Mango may be used in addition to or in place of the banana. I developed this recipe to combine the delicious flavors of Island and Latin food with Californian cuisene.
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- 2 cups cooked black beans
- 1 -2 small tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 1⁄4 red pepper
- 3 -4 tablespoons fresh cilantro
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon orange juice (optional)
- 1 firm banana (or Mango)
- salt
- black pepper
- Cook black beans (or just used drained canned beans).
- Mince tomatoes, pepper, onion and cilantro.
- Combine all of the above in a bowl and mix well.
- Chop banana into small but substantial square pieces.
- Fold banana pieces into the mixture gently so as not to bruise the bananas.
- Add salt/pepper to taste and lemon and orange juices folding them gently into the mixture.
- Chill and serve cold.
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This might be my new favorite black bean salad recipe! And with NO OIL in it - it's quite nutritious too! Thanks for posting it.
so yummy! the flavors of the tomato and banana go surprisingly well together!
I made this for lunch today. Quick, easy and VERY refreshing!! I love the combination of flavors! delicious! I'll definitely do this again!


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Reyes Finds Love and Money in Miami
DALLAS—The defection began with a clandestine meeting at a hotel bar. It was Nov. 2, moments before midnight in Manhattan, and Jose Reyes sat with his agents at a table inside the Carlyle.
A couple of Miami Marlins executives had already arrived. But none made an entrance like owner Jeffrey Loria, who removed his overcoat to reveal a No. 7 Marlins jersey. The name Reyes was embroidered across the back.
"A few other people in the bar thought this was some sort of strange, freaky show," Marlins president David Samson recalled.
The sight of Loria in a Reyes jersey became a symbol of the Marlins' recruitment of Reyes, which concluded Wednesday when they introduced him as their new shortstop at the winter meetings. And it was indicative of how differently the two teams viewed him.
To the Mets, Reyes was a player they wanted badly to re-sign, but not at any cost. To the Marlins, Reyes was a player they had to have, even if it meant bidding against themselves.
The Marlins scheduled a meeting with Reyes at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 3, the minute the Mets' exclusive negotiating window ended. They flew him to Miami on Loria's private jet the following week and called Reyes's agents just about every day the rest of the month.
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson kept in touch with Reyes's agent, Peter Greenberg, but didn't feel the need to make the kind of gestures the Marlins did. And while the Mets indicated late last week what they would be willing to offer Reyes, they did not make him a formal offer.
Even as he smiled for the cameras in his new jersey, Reyes seemed hurt by the Mets' lack of aggressiveness.
"They didn't make a real offer, so that means they don't want me there," Reyes said. "The Mets didn't call, they didn't say anything, so that's why I'm here today."
Mets officials took strong exception to Reyes's characterization of what happened. They knew they weren't going to offer Reyes more than five guaranteed years and around $80 million. Not with his history of leg injuries. Not after all the bloated contracts that helped get them into their current predicament.
The Marlins offered—and Reyes accepted—six guaranteed years and $106 million. And no amount of wining, dining, wooing and pleading would likely convince Reyes to leave more than $25 million on the table.
"If you're asking whether I should have sent him a box of chocolates, perhaps I should have done that," Alderson said. "But on the other hand, the box of chocolates wouldn't have cost $106 million."
Could Mets executives have made more of a personal appeal to Reyes? Probably. He said the last time he spoke to principal owner Fred Wilpon was sometime during the regular season.
But it's not as if the Mets shunned him. They expressed a desire to discuss a contract extension during the season, which Greenberg was not interested in. Alderson said publicly that re-signing him was a priority. And manager Terry Collins said he spoke to Reyes on the last day of the season.
"I know he's hurt because he was a lifelong Met," Collins said. "I know he loved New York. But I'm sure when he sits down and cools down a little bit, he's got to realize everybody loved him."
The differences in the way the Mets and the Marlins approached Reyes had more to do with the state of each organization. The Mets are slashing payroll and trying simply to remain relevant while they rebuild through their farm system. The Marlins entered the offseason with gobs of money to throw at free agents in the hopes of attracting fans to their new ballpark in 2012. Reyes was first on Miami's list.
"We wanted to show Jose from the beginning that we had an idea, and it was all Jose," Marlins president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said.
Loria demonstrated that more than anyone, first with his choice of attire on an autumn night in Manhattan and then with his checkbook.
"Jose, after the deal got done, said, 'It was almost like I was talking to a fan of mine,'" Greenberg said. "I said, 'He is a fan of yours. That's why you're here.'"


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Holding The Line
As the shadows lengthen, Minneapolis City Hall sheds its bustling diurnal disposition for the stately air of an old museum. In the center of its cavernous foyer, beneath vaulted ceilings and an enormous stained-glass window, the figure of the Father of the Waters watches over the hushed expanse. The stillness is punctured only occasionally by the sound of heels on the cool, gray marble floors and the chuckle of the security guard as he trades barbs with another night staffer.
Ten feet below, the action is just beginning. Under the eerie glow of a faux skylight, the rings of a dozen phones blur into one long peal. The 30-by-50 room is a tangle of equipment and wires, millions of black, red, and translucent lines; operators are hunkered down, headsets in place, fingers flying over the keyboards. There are shifts--usually on weekend nights--when they'll be glued to their chairs for hours, backs screaming and bladders ready to burst, trapped until the ringing abates. Over time you learn to ignore your body's messages, they counsel, and to pace your fluid intake.
But this is a rare cool, quiet summer Saturday night, and there's time for breaks at the Minneapolis Emergency Communications Center. Operators revel in the luxury of being able to stand and stretch, shake the cramps out of their hands, and exchange stories. One of the women--90 percent of the staff is female--is getting married soon; there's talk of wedding presents, menus, guest lists. Then it's on to supervisors, overtime, vacation requests. Finally the talk turns, as it regularly does, to Joe Louis Brown.
Brown was the man who, at 8:30 a.m. on a Monday morning in May, spotted a stranger swigging beer on the front steps of the house next door to his in Minneapolis's Field neighborhood. The event didn't sound like a crisis to the operator who took Brown's 911 call; so rather than entering the
information into the computerized emergency response system, she sent an e-mail message to the 3rd Precinct notifying officers of a "suspicious person." When no cops arrived at his neighbor's house Brown called back twice, but because a call hadn't been logged, the next two operators had no idea, nor record, of what Brown was talking about. As they scrambled to make sense of his story, the stranger was busy cleaning out the neighbor's house. Frustrated, Brown finally called the mayor's office. That night, the incident would lead the 10 p.m. news.
Down in "the dungeon," the memory of the episode is still raw. Of course the operator--whom no one will identify--made a mistake, the women grouse, and of course it's all clear as day in hindsight. But why don't the TV reporters, the City Council members, and all the callers who've tied up the lines to complain try to spend a night clamped to the phones? Why don't they try juggling five angry callers and two crabby squads, on the 50th hour of the work week, with a computer that seems constantly about to crash? Don't they realize that it's only through a combination of luck and bone-hard work that worse snafus don't happen every day?
Minneapolis's emergency response system, the people in the dungeon say--along with a number of other 911 insiders and experts--is on the verge of collapse. The department is chronically understaffed, the computer and phone systems are old and technologically outdated, and operators and dispatchers are crammed into poorly designed workstations that have repeatedly been cited as causing injuries by the Minnesota Department of Labor. Employee turnover is astronomical--nearly half of the new hires are gone within two years--and morale is at an all-time low.
"The 911 department is a mess," says Bruce Johnson, a director of the Minneapolis Police Federation. "They're putting in 12-to-14-hour days, four or five days in a row, and are missing things they wouldn't ordinarily because they're overworked, overly tired, and stressed out."
Across the river in St. Paul, things aren't looking much better. "We have nights when the phones could ring for four and five minutes without an answer," says Lt. Dick Dugan, supervisor of the St. Paul Emergency Communications Center. "The stress factor is incredible. People are calling up and screaming at you because you couldn't answer their call right away."
So far, Minneapolis and St. Paul have skirted the kinds of mishaps that spawn lawsuits--like the 1995 incident in Phoenix, when a woman's estranged husband showed up at her house with a gun. Suzanne Bartok phoned 911 and was told that police were on their way. In fact, the dispatchers had given the call a low priority, and by the time the police arrived some 11 minutes later, Bartok and her boyfriend were dead. Earlier this year, a harried dispatcher in Albany, New York, failed to inform police that a caller was screaming for help, and by the time the police arrived at the apartment, the 22-year-old nursing student who lived there had been beaten to death. "Minutes matter," says Minneapolis dispatcher Jane de Kock. "I hope it doesn't take something like this to wake up the city to the fact that we need help."
"NINE-ONE-ONE," Carrie Peterson says briskly. The green screen of her computer monitor comes alive as the location of the caller's phone automatically appears. "There's a fistfight going down at the corner of Chicago and Lake," he announces. Peterson asks if he knows the people involved (he doesn't), and has him describe their appearance--race, gender, height, build, how they're dressed. Did he see any weapons, she queries. No. She thanks him for the information, assigns a priority number, asks if he'd like to leave his name--he declines--and says that a squad will arrive shortly.
Peterson is one of eight operators working this Saturday night. Operators are the voices on the 911 phone line, the practiced interviewers who calmly take down name, address, and details of heart attacks, fires, gunshots. Following guidelines drafted by the Minneapolis Police Department, they decide which priority to assign to each call: Incidents involving violence or the threat of it--fights, rapes, robberies, hostage situations, and missing children--rate a Priority One. Suspected drug deals, loud parties, and unwanted persons at the door earn a rating of Two, while Threes include barking dogs and other "incivility" complaints.
Once assigned a priority and entered into the database--a process that usually takes no more than 60 seconds--the information is forwarded to dispatchers: Ambulance calls go to Hennepin County Medical Center, fires to the two fire dispatchers in a corner of the dungeon. Eighty percent of the calls go to the police dispatchers, four of whom are on duty tonight.
Police dispatchers are Information Central for the squads on the street. They handle up to 40 cars each and have to know exactly where each squad is at a given moment, what they're doing--heading to an address or booking a suspect at the jail--and who's available to respond to a call. Dispatchers are rarely at rest; they scroll from screen to screen tracking squads, noting response and resolution times, all the while deciphering the flood of information that continues to pour in from the operators. If there's a mistake anywhere along the way, chances are it's the dispatcher who'll take the heat. The job requires the nerves of a surgeon, the diplomacy of a seasoned politician, and the acumen of a mother.
De Kock has been a dispatcher in Minneapolis for some six years, and each one--along with 14 more years in emergency communications around the state--shows in her eyes. Dressed for comfort in an oversized white sweatshirt emblazoned with a brown teddy bear, she sits at her station like a veteran desk jockey--back and shoulders rounded, her upper body tilted forward, hands poised slightly above the keyboard.
De Kock works the overnight shift at 911, 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. "Ever since I was a teen, I loved staying up at night and hated getting up in the morning," she grins. "I'm still that way--I can get by on five or six hours if it's solid, uninterrupted sleep." Her introduction to emergency services came through her father's funeral parlor. "It's a small town, so he also had to be the ambulance. He'd go to the scene of an accident. Our family lived above the funeral home, so I was used to dealing with death and dying. I think that has something to do with why I can do this job."
Minneapolis 911 is a long way removed from the rural county where de Kock got her start in emergency communications, and even from her last post at the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department. "This is the most stressful location I've worked at," de Kock says. Not only are there more calls, but the nature of the incidents is more serious. "I used to get calls about skunks in the window wells, but [now] I get calls about shots being fired. I never felt that someone's life could be lost before, but now I always feel that way."
Most of the hundreds of thousands of calls de Kock has fielded have faded from memory as she's hung up her headset each morning. But there are some she can't seem to shake. "When I was working for Ramsey County, this guy called in and said to send the cops over right away," she recalls. "When I asked him why, he wouldn't explain, but kept insisting that they show up at his place. I decided to send a squad over and told him they were on the way. He thanked me and hung up. I found out later that when the cops got there, he was already dead. He'd shot himself in the head and had called the police so they'd find him before his family did."
The hardest calls, says de Kock, are the ones involving kids. "You'll get a call about a child being shot, or a 4- or 5-year-old that's been left at home alone, it breaks your heart. I don't care how long you've been on the job." One still haunts her after 10 years--the man who called to say that a neighbor had run over his grandchild with a tractor. What she remembers most is how relaxed the man seemed. "For some reason, the more out of control a caller is, the easier it is to be calm," de Kock says. "It's the quiet ones that work your nerves."
Tonight's calls, by comparison, are run-of-the-mill. A man reports that his brother has left his place after being stabbed in the ear (he won't say by whom); hours later the brother calls in, speech slurred, to say that he's been stabbed in the hand. A mother of seven returns from work at midnight to discover that her 12-year-old son has been gone for hours and his sisters have no idea where he is. (That call is dispatched to all squads immediately.) A man spots some kids who've been missing from a nearby halfway house. And at 1:25 a.m., servers at a Taco Bell on Lake Street call in to report a "slumper"--someone who's passed out at the wheel--in their drive-through.
And, of course, there are the cranks. "People call and ask what time it is, if we can look up a number for them," Peterson says, "or when the next bus is coming." Recently, someone called to inform the staff that the MPD was the subject of that evening's episode of Cops. Some are regulars--like the woman who complains that her boyfriend's taken her keys to work with him again. Others appear only once, in a flash of inspired absurdity. "I had a call from a woman who said her pizza was 20 minutes late and could I please do something about it," says de Kock. That one had the department laughing for weeks.
THEY CAN USE the occasional guffaw. During the last 10 years, the number of calls taken by the Minneapolis center--which answers not only the 911 line but also the nonemergency police number, 348-2345--has increased slowly but steadily, rising from just under 700,000 in 1989 to more than 730,000 last year. For most of those years, Minneapolis operators have been among the busiest in the nation.
In the number of calls processed by each operator, Minneapolis ranks sixth among 17 metropolitan emergency communications centers of similar size and operations style, according to a 1996 survey compiled by the city of Arlington, Texas. Each operator took almost 22,000 calls that year; the national average was 17,500. Across the river in St. Paul, each operator processed a staggering 41,607 calls per year--the highest number in the nation, substantially ahead of runner-up Miami.
(Officials in St. Paul refused to let City Pages sit in on 911 operations; their counterparts in Minneapolis closed off access after one visit.)
The reason for the Twin Cities' above-average loads, officials and workers agree, is a chronic staff shortage. Minneapolis's 911 center has all the operators it needs--in fact, four more than the budgeted 35--but 11 of its 40 dispatcher positions are vacant. St. Paul is fully staffed, but its budget allows for only 28 operators and 13 dispatchers, the same number it had five years ago when there were 25 percent fewer calls, says director Dugan. There are shifts, he says, when just three operators handle eight incoming lines. "We've been crying for more people for the last four years," he says.
Michael Zufelt, the Arlington, Texas, emergency communications supervisor who compiled the national survey, says many 911 departments around the country struggle with staffing issues. "It's stressful, the hours are lousy, and these are jobs that weigh heavily on people's minds," he explains, adding that pay is rarely commensurate with the job's demands. New hires in Minneapolis and St. Paul start at around $15 an hour--better than the $10 offered in Zufelt's department and in most Twin Cities suburban 911 departments. Still, says Zufelt, "people can make the same amount working in banks or working for insurance companies and have a lot less stress."
You need to be wired a certain way to do the job, concedes operator Peterson. "You have to be a type A individual. You have to be driven and confident in yourself and your judgments." Applicants at the center undergo a rigorous training program designed to weed out emotional lightweights and hone the skills of those who remain. New operators spend six weeks learning where every park, school, and church in Minneapolis is located, which streets run north to south, which east to west, and how the Mississippi flows. "When people call and say they've spotted a 'jumper' or see something floating in the river, we need to pinpoint the location so we can dispatch a Hovercraft to the scene," says Peterson.
Once they've gotten the department's Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system down pat, new operators ride along with police, firefighters, and ambulance drivers for a week or two before hitting the operations floor. By the end of training, according to the emergency center's 1995 count, the city spends more than $7,000 on each operator.
But Minneapolis rarely reaps the rewards of its investment, argues former 911 center director Steve Oberlin. He contends, as do many employees, that the city serves as a training ground for other municipalities' emergency response systems. "Prospective operators come here and train, spend 18 months getting experience in the state's busiest 911 center, and then move on to a less stressful department in the suburbs," he maintains.
Officials at the largest suburban 911 center--Hennepin County's, which handles calls for many cities without their own 911 departments--won't comment on Minneapolis's operation, but say they have no staffing troubles despite call loads similar to the city's. Hennepin County's 44 "telecommunicators" last year took more than 1 million calls, according to Timothy Meyers, operational sergeant with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department--for a total of 22,000 each. Yet the department has had no trouble filling its openings, and turnover is low.
One of the reasons Minneapolis alumni prefer to work in the suburbs, Oberlin says, is that they want to live there. When he took the reins in the department after a 14-year stint running communication systems for private companies, his first order of business was to relieve the department's chronic personnel shortage. He found six experienced dispatchers who were willing to work for the city. But there was one caveat: "They didn't want to move."
Since 1964, Minneapolis has gone back and forth about whether to require its employees to live in the city. Residency requirements were reinstated most recently in 1993; the ordinance included a proviso allowing the City Council to grant waivers for undefined "extenuating circumstances." But, says Oberlin, when he went to the Council asking for waivers for his candidates, "they told me that I'd bought into the employees' anti-residency complaints." No waivers were issued, and the department continued to run short.
The final standoff between the city and Oberlin came when his own six months of residency gratis expired. "I was more than prepared to live in the city," he contends. "But when push came to shove, I wanted to see who would stand beside me." A couple of days later he was cleaning out his office.
City officials contend that residency requirements have nothing to do with 911's staffing woes. "I believe that in Minneapolis, there are enough qualified people to do the job," asserts Kathleen O'Brien, Minneapolis city coordinator and a member of the Communications User Board which determines 911 policies. "This is an issue of recruitment and retention."
Not entirely, argues Peterson, who lives in Northeast Minneapolis: There's something about 911 work that makes you wish for a long commute. "It's creepy to know exactly what's going on in your neighborhood," she insists. "You find out stuff about your neighbors, or city officials or politicians, that you'd rather not know." (Operators cannot reveal information about specific incidents, but Peterson says she's thinking mostly of domestic disputes.)
"NINE-ONE-ONE." The voice at the other end of Peterson's line is female and exasperated. She called an hour ago about her boyfriend assaulting her; since then she's been waiting at the local SuperAmerica for the cops to show up. She's going back home, she announces. It's one of the few times when Peterson gets visibly upset, though the anxiety on her face never translates to her voice. She tells the woman to stay put, that she'll send a squad immediately.
"For all anyone knows, he could be waiting there for her," she says after hanging up. "Our policy is to never cancel a domestic call. The woman could have a gun to her head while being told to tell the cops all is well."
Chances are Peterson will never know the outcome of this call--whether the cops found the woman or her boyfriend, whether anyone was arrested. That's one of the hardest parts of the job, she says. "You have to make life-and-death decisions, but there's no closure. You have no idea what happens to the person on the other end of the line unless it makes the papers."
But it's not only psychological stress that causes Peterson's neck to stiffen and her muscles to seize up; nor are nerves behind the constant fidgeting throughout the center. Workers roll back and forth in their chairs, shift in the seats, adjust their monitors, anything to keep their bodies limber. Workstations are so poorly designed, Peterson says, "that by the end of a shift my left shoulder aches, my hands are stiff, my back gets sore, and I'm physically exhausted."
And since someone is sitting at these workstations 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the wear and tear on the equipment is brutal. In Minneapolis, says de Kock, some staffers have had to spend an entire eight-hour shift in a broken chair. "The equipment we have has a 10-year life span," acknowledges Susanne Griffin, the center's operations manager, "and we're reaching the end of that." But some aches and pains are to be expected in a job that consists mostly of typing, she adds, and employees must take responsibility for reducing their work-related injuries: "Everyone is required to attend an ergonomics seminar."
It wasn't the city, however, that came up with the idea for those seminars--or with most of what workplace improvements have been made at 911 in the past few years. They were ordered by the state Department of Labor, which has cited Minneapolis 911 numerous times for violating federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules.
In 1994, the Labor Department spotted an unusually high incidence of injury in the emergency communication center's OSHA logs: Dispatchers had lost 68 days of work and were put on limited duty another 239 days due to work-related injuries. When the department conducted a full-scale investigation of the 911 work environment, it found that three-quarters of dispatchers, as well as a third of operators, complained of numbness and discomfort in their hands, wrists, shoulders, and arms. Employees had been "exposed to cumulative trauma stressors of the upper extremities resulting from excessive keystroking, static positions, and poor workstation layout," the study found. The city was fined $14,200 for willful violations of OSHA rules; the amount was reduced to $3,500 after the city agreed to address the problems by hiring an ergonomics consultant.
Since then, according to an April '98 OSHA report, Minneapolis 911 has replaced some chairs and keyboards, installed new lighting, and made other improvements that caused the number of staffers diagnosed with work-related injuries to drop from 24 in 1994 to 10 in 1996. Getting any lower, says Griffin, would require brand-new workstations and a database requiring less typing than the current 1989-vintage version.
St. Paul, which recently installed a new computer system, has an "unremarkable" work-injury record, says Dugan. He concedes that his department does record more sick days than any other in the city, but says that's due to psychological as much as physical trauma. Recently, "one of our operators answered a call from a woman who said her husband was beating her. She could hear the husband screaming in the background while the woman was pleading for help.
"She then hears the phone drop, but it wasn't hung up because she can still hear their voices. Suddenly, two shots are fired and she hears a body drop to the floor. A slight pause, and then one gunshot. After killing his wife, he turned the gun on himself." The operator needed a few days off after that, Dugan concludes.
Minneapolis's equipment problems affect more than employees' wrists and backs. The computer system requires dispatchers to flip through many screens to track squads, costing time and nerves on both ends of the line. In addition, unlike more modern dispatch databases, it lacks the capability to pull up information by anything other than a phone number, and thus often won't give operators the history of an address. "It would be helpful for the police to know if there's ever been a person with a gun there, or if shots have been fired in the past," notes de Kock.
Perhaps most troubling, insiders say, the system has taken on a habit of crashing for up to several hours at a time. When that happens, says 3rd Precinct Supervisor Lynn Meuwissen, 911 loses information on both calls from the public and the whereabouts of its squads: "Something could be happening around the corner, like shots being fired, and you don't know who's down--it could be a fellow officer--or if anyone's called in for help." While the staticky police radio system serves as a backup, says Meuwissen, it has been known to malfunction as well. So far, the city has been spared the experience of both systems crashing at the same time.
Here, too, the problem is staffing, says Minneapolis 911's technical manager, Patty Wallin. The system itself isn't outdated, she argues, it just hasn't been maintained. "It was built to be open so you can add a lot of components to it. But this hasn't been done," she says, because of a shortage of experienced technical staff. Officials are currently looking for a computer consulting firm to help out, she adds.
Last in the trinity of problems plaguing 911 systems on both sides of the river are the physical facilities. St. Paul's Dugan says his department's operations are confined to an 80-by-60-foot room, and the operators sit shoulder to shoulder at two long countertops. The department is in the process of remodeling, but that won't translate into any more space.
Meanwhile in Minneapolis, operators and dispatchers keep their fingers crossed every time it rains: During last summer's downpours, the basement of City Hall flooded. "That was a nightmare," recalls a dispatcher. "One night we were forced to work in a pool of standing water. The phones were ringing off the hook, and we couldn't wear our headsets because they were afraid we'd be electrocuted." To commemorate the evening, the staff bought a large, white lifesaver, inscribed it with the date, and hung it on the wall.
911 director John Dejung is a quiet man. A former Coast Guard operations manager, he has retained a boyish grin into his late 40s; aside from that he's careful in voice and manner, rarely changing his tone or facial expression. If Central Casting had sent someone to suggest calm, efficient management to frazzled 911 workers, it couldn't have done much better than Dejung.
Of course, anyone might be circumspect given the recent history of the position. Over the last four years, the department has had six different directors, a degree of turnover unmatched in any other city department. The last long-term director, Paul Linnee, was fired amid allegations of sexual harassment in 1994 after almost a decade on the job. The city tapped Police Lt. Roger Aronson and 911 operations manager Griffin as interim directors; next, Oberlin served for six months, followed by a former MPD precinct commander named Bill O'Rourke. "What was supposed to be a 90-day appointment turned into a 19-month stint," says O'Rourke, who held the post from September 1995 until March 1997. He left because of what he'll only call "philosophical differences" and is now the chief of police for Prior Lake.
The leadership changes left 911 essentially "treading water" for the last four years, says Griffin. City coordinator Kathleen O'Brien concurs, saying that when Dejung was hired, "we asked him to immediately put together a report about the equipment and staffing needs. We know we've got to make changes."
In that report, compiled a month after he started the job, Dejung identified a series of problems in 911 equipment, facilities, and staffing. His first budget proposal includes a request for $1.2 million worth of renovations. But the remodeling, if funded, won't be completed until 2003, Dejung acknowledges, and he hasn't even begun fighting the equipment battle. "We need three-quarters of a million for a new phone system, and 3 to 5 million for a dispatching system," he notes. None of that, he suspects, will be coming down the City Council's pike anytime soon.
City Council member Brian Herron, a member of the Council's Public Safety and Regulatory Services Committee, says Minneapolis officials are "well aware of how important [911] is, and that we're going to have to find monies in the budget to fund it. The question is where the money will come from." It's only within the last five years, Herron adds, that the City Council has gotten computers; 911 upgrades simply had to wait pending other spending priorities.
St. Paul City Council President Dan Bostrom says his city faces the same budgetary constraints. "The staffing is a problem," he acknowledges, "but we can't hire more operators if we don't have the money. [The Council] has to address the most pressing needs [of the city] first. We only have X amount of revenue with X amount of needs, and I suspect we don't always do this to everyone's liking."
Instead of money, some of those who've tried their hand at fixing 911 complain, the city will give them paper. During his tenure, Oberlin recalls, he asked for the creation of a liaison position to coordinate shifts and supervisors. Instead the city put together what he calls a "monstrous" employee manual.
O'Rourke remembers another way in which the city tried to revitalize 911 without spending a dime: Halfway through his tenure, in August 1996, the city took away the center's independence and put it under the wing of the Police Department. The move, says Council member Herron, was intended to "bring stability to the department. Since [it] didn't belong to anybody but works closely with the MPD, that seemed like the natural place for it to be."
O'Rourke agrees with Herron's assessment, but also characterizes the move as a political maneuver on the part of Minneapolis Police Chief Robert Olson--who, he says, "wanted to show city officials that a police officer could manage and restore order to the 911 department."
Whatever the rationale, says Griffin, the shift did little to ease the department's woes. "There isn't much difference between now and when we were independent," she says. "We're still short on dispatchers, the equipment still needs replacing, and we still need funding."
Chief Olson, for his part, says he sympathizes with 911's workers and is trying to lighten their loads--not by increasing their staff or budget, but through his "proactive" approach to policing. "The question is: Do we chase 911, or do we have less 911 calls? We already know the old way doesn't work, and we have to find a better way to spend our resources than by just reacting to crime."
But 911 insiders have a different view of the chief's philosophy, and especially of his high-profile CODEFOR program, which blankets "hot" neighborhoods with officers in an effort to "stop crime before it starts." The squads on CODEFOR duty, dispatcher de Kock notes, still must answer Priority One calls, but are not available for most other 911 dispatches. The result, she says, is a logistical nightmare at her end of the line. "It's not uncommon for me to have only five squads out of 17 to respond to 911 calls."
August 1--the night when two men were fatally shot in the Powderhorn neighborhood--was "the busiest night I've ever worked," says de Kock. "The 3rd Precinct was saturated with cops, county deputies, and members of the [city's] gang task force. But so many of the squads were tied up that I had two pages of calls pending [an officer response], and it was driving me nuts."
Minneapolis's approach--emphasizing high-visibility police action while letting the chips at 911 fall where they may--is fairly typical, says Arlington's Zufelt. Officials and the public, he explains, tend to take 911 service for granted: "It's always there, and it's always functioning. Perhaps not as good as it could, but it's there anyway. [That's why] when it's time to go to the city for the budget, they have to fight for every penny they get."
IT'S GETTING CLOSE to 2 a.m., and Carrie Peterson settles into her final half-hour in the dungeon. She works the "power shift," 6:30 to 2:30, which peaks between midnight and 1 a.m. as people head home from bars and parties. By now the phones ring only intermittently; one of the operators has picked up her romance novel, another is immersed in a French textbook. Smoke breaks are a major production, requiring a security escort out of the building. Instead of nicotine, most workers choose a sugar high from the vending machine or the stashes in their desks. There's even time for trips to the "exercise room," a concrete-walled cell furnished with a broken stationary bike, a malfunctioning rowing machine, and, most importantly, a cot.
"Nine-one-one," Peterson says, her voice only slightly strained. Someone is ringing his doorbell, the irate homeowner on the line reports, and if the police "don't come in a timely fashion, I'll get out my gun and handle this myself." Peterson logs the information and transfers it to de Kock, who shakes her head. "There's no one available to respond," she explains, and flags the call as "pending."
At 2:16 a.m., the man calls to report that the stranger is still at his door, and he's going out with his pistol. A squad has just become available, so de Kock has the operator tell the man that officers are en route. Over the police radio, de Kock listens to the discussion between the cops and their supervisor. The officers fear the man's unstable, and the sergeant advises them to approach the house with caution. They find the man unarmed and the visitor gone. Five minutes later, they sign off.
De Kock and Peterson relax into their chairs. Had the man not been able to get through, had Peterson not convinced him to stay inside, had de Kock not found a squad--they're not talking about what might have happened. Their job is churning crisis into routine; there's no point thinking about what might go wrong. The phone rings again. Peterson punches up her screen.
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By RICK LYMAN
Published: October 3, 2001
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2— After more than a decade of fumbling about in search of a workable bad guy upon which to hang its crowd-pleasing action blockbusters, Hollywood has been handed the gift of actual national villains in the form of Islamic terrorists. But unlike the months after Pearl Harbor, when moviemakers enthusiastically embraced stereotypes of Japanese evil, this time the entertainment industry has opted for restraint to avoid accusations of bias and the danger of offending audience sensibilities in an increasingly multiracial America.
''People are so much more attuned to issues of racism today than they were after Pearl Harbor,'' said Robert Sklar, a film historian at New York University. ''That's why one of the big questions about movies and television in recent years has been, because of race, How do you represent the villains?'' He added, ''Bad guys in movies in recent years have been evil white guys, suggesting a kind of turncoat or traitor figure, as opposed to an enemy from outside.''
The paradox is not lost on the nation's storytellers: a culture that has shown such a voracious appetite for monumentally evil villains and the cinematic violence they justify now has an actual villain upon which to focus but chooses to back off.
''It's been a real issue, from a screenwriting perspective, to come up with a good villain,'' said Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for his ''Traffic'' script earlier this year. ''Suddenly we're being faced with a real global villain, and he's engaging in real acts of global villainy. Watching those images again and again on television has made it all too obvious that in recent movies we've been able to get the computer-generated imagery just right, while the emotional content has been rather cartoonish by comparison.''
A nation imagines itself in the stories it tells, and in the United States for the last century those stories have come from movies, joined by radio and then television. A cultural narrative is created, an evolving dream image of the national mood. Gradually, over the course of many years and many weekend box-office reports, America's pop-culture storytellers came to a kind of consensus about what makes heroes admirable and our villains despicable.
And then came Sept. 11.
In the short term at least, Hollywood has shown itself to be uncomfortable with the new situation, postponing the release of movies featuring terrorists as villains and rethinking future projects involving exploding buildings and fanatical bad guys. This is not a new problem for filmmakers but one that has been thrown into starker relief. And a general slowdown in film production combined with a reluctance to approve new projects makes it unclear when or if the studios will return to making big, explosive action films involving terrorists or bombed buildings.
Since the end of the cold war Hollywood has been in search of a new villain. This period has also coincided with the rise and domination of the special-effects action blockbuster as the financial backbone of the industry, offering a dizzying array of villain choices.
In ''Die Hard'' (1988) the villains were former Euro-terrorists turned robbers. In ''The Rock'' (1996) it was renegade American soldiers. In ''Con Air'' (1997) it was a plane load of deranged escaped convicts.
''We've had the I.R.A. as villains, we've had international drug dealers, we've had Arabs, we've had vague Asians who you weren't quite sure what country they were from,'' said Jeanine Basinger, professor of film studies at Wesleyan University. ''We've been dancing around it a little bit.''
The question is: Now that America has an actual national villain, what will Hollywood do?
''My overall sense is to wonder whether the industry has really lost the ability to make movies for adults,'' Mr. Sklar said. ''It has achieved such an effective system based upon marketing and teenagers and opening weekends that I am not sure it has the capability to reassert a mature entertainment viewpoint.''
In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, producers of several films with terrorist plot lines said they would scrap their projects or rework them. Producers of ''Tick-Tock,'' a Jennifer Lopez thriller about a bomb-defusing expert, said the start of production would be delayed until next year to give them time to rework the story. They stressed that the story's bomber-villain is clearly not an Islamic fundamentalist.
But others are arguing that it would be better if villains specifically were the kind of terrorists who threaten the United States.
''I don't think anybody would have a problem with making the Taliban the bad guy,'' the film producer Alison R. Rosenzweig said. ''You just have to be careful that it doesn't seem as though all Arabs or all Muslims are bad guys. You'll have to be really sensitive to that.''
In the past, when threatened by accusations of bias, television and movie writers have sometimes used the device of giving the hero a sidekick who is from the same ethnic group as the villains. When ''The Untouchables'' television series was criticized for a plethora of Italian-American villains, its makers pointed out that Eliot Ness's most trusted underling was an Italian-American agent named Rico. And even in ''The Seige'' (1999), in which the villains were specifically Islamic terrorists, Denzel Washington's sidekick, played by Tony Shalhoub, was an Arab-American agent.


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Who do you think is the NFL MVP thus far?
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I think Matt Ryan should get a ton of consideration.
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Florida vs. Alabama who wins? Score?
Colin (1:05 PM)
It'll be on my Wheel of Genius, 11:25 AM ET Friday. But if you've been listening for awhile, I'd predicted florida in the national championship game...
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How many pounds of turkey did you consume over the weekend?
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I probably had about four turkey sandwiches.
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colin i was wondering what team do you like the best in nfl right now?
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Giants. Not even close.
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My girlfriend has a cute sister who I'd like to date.
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I wouldn't suggest that. Might be messy.
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what do u think happens if Oklahoma loses this weekend?
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I don't think that'll happen. Missouri does not match up well with the Sooners.
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How do you think Lane Kiffin will do as head coach at the University of Tennessee?
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Interesting question. Very smart guy and very ambitious. But he's not southern. And every coach there has a "twang." I know he's smart and I know he'll recruit well.
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Are Chad Johnson's days as an elite WR over?
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I thought they already were.
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I don't carry weapons and I don't go to night clubs. Hard for me to relate to Plaxico.
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I'm not on the Oklahoma bandwagon. I can see both sides. I'd choose Texas, but I get the Oklahoma argument.
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I'd hire him in a New York second. Great motivator, great scheme guy.
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Should have done it a year ago.
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If you're 25 is it okay to date a 19 year old?
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Why not? You're both legal. 6 years difference gets less and less relevant the older you get. If you're 70 and she's 64, it's perfect. Now, if you're 7 and she's 1, that's a huge issue.
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I don't believe in Pimpleton, Arkansas.
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You can get a lot of home for very little money there.
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Should Colt McCoy make himself eligible for the 09 NFL Draft?
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I still think he's a little smallish to be an NFL star, although he will make the league.
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Who is your Heisman winner? How about Taylor Mays? Can't defense get some love
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Comes down to Colt McCoy or Sam Bradford.
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If you are 45 is it ok to date a 19 year old?
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Now that's a little stickier situation. Not if you have a 19-year-old daughter.
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Will LeBron James Knick in 2010?
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Seems like a foregone conclusion. I think LeBRon is a little star struck by NYC.
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Do I have to tip at a restaurant if I am picking up carry out?
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Do you and Skip Bayless lift weights together?
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I have lifted with him, but don't do it regularly.
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Should Ball State get BCS consideration?
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Am I wrong in thinking SC could beat Florida OR Oklahoma?
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I think they could beat both of those teams, too.
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Does Tyler Hansboro translate to a pro as a PF?
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Here's one: don't.
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Tyler Hansbrough will be an assistant coach at his old high school team in 5 years, not in the NBA
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You might be right.
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Ireland Plans More Cuts as Savers Question Euro Security
As Ireland starts laying out plans for a fourth year of austerity, concerns that the future of the euro may be in jeopardy are looming over the budget.
Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin will detail cuts of about 2.2 billion euros ($2.97 billion) in spending next year in Dublin today, while Finance Minister Michael Noonan will outline about 1.6 billion euros of tax increases tomorrow.
The government is pursuing more cuts as it tries to convince investors that measures worth 20 percent of the economy are enough to win a return to the debt market by 2013 as the euro crisis escalates. In the background, yields on Irish bonds have risen while savers are seeking safety as the topic of euro demise hits the mainstream airwaves in Dublin.
"There is a genuine fear about euro breakup and what might happen," said Pramit Ghose, head of asset management at Bloxham Stockbrokers, whose fund holding Finnish and Dutch euro-denominated bonds has taken in 2.5 million euros in the last two weeks. "I've told clients there is little enough yield, but they don't care, they just want safety."
Irish bonds due in 2020 yielded 9.15 percent on Dec. 2, up from 8.24 percent a month earlier as they dropped in price. Comparable Dutch debt maturing in 2021 yielded 2.56 percent, an increase from 2.26 percent over the same period. The year-on-year rate of inflation in Ireland was 2.8 percent in October.
Euro, Not Punt
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said European leaders must make and implement "clear decisions" this week.
"Otherwise, international confidence and investment in Europe will continue to fall," he said in a televised speech to the nation yesterday. He also said the budget would be "tough" with increases in indirect taxes.
An edition of Liveline, a radio show from national broadcaster RTE and among the most popular in the country, last week was dominated by worried savers asking how to open dollar accounts to protect their money. The government sought to calm fears of a return to Ireland's old currency.
"We don't have printing presses printing up worthless punts right now and we don't intend to have that," European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton told lawmakers on Nov. 29. "Bottom line is that we cannot allow our currency to fail, Germany cannot allow for our currency to fail, nor can France."
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Dublin-based Bloxham started its fund at the beginning of November and it now has assets of about 11 million euros, Ghose said by telephone on Dec. 2. It also holds U.S. Treasuries and U.K. government bonds, whose yields have fallen to records over the past month on concern about the euro region.
"This is their running-away money, just in the case the Irish euro somehow becomes worth less," Ghose said.
Paddy Power Plc, the country's largest bookmaker, has begun offering odds on euro breakup and has taken about 215 bets, according to Ken Robertson, a spokesman for the Dublin-based company. Most punters are backing Ireland to be still using the euro by 2015 at 1 to 4, though the largest bet is a 100-euro wager on an unraveling of the euro region, he said.
Trades at Intrade, the Dublin-based firm whose clients try to predict events, indicate a 59 percent chance that a country will leave the euro by the end of 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
'Too Strong'
Germany and France meanwhile are mooting closer economic and budgetary ties to keep the euro together.
"There can't be a single currency without economies heading toward more convergence," French President Nicolas Sarkozy told 5,000 supporters in a speech in Toulon on Dec. 1 in comments echoed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel a day later in Berlin. "If living standards, productivity, and competitiveness gaps widen among euro-zone countries, the euro will sooner rather than later be too strong for some and too weak for others, and the euro zone will explode," he said.
The Irish government refuses to countenance any talk of a breakup, and instead is continuing austerity to prove its credentials as a euro member. Spending cuts and tax increases will amount to about 33 billion euros between 2008 and 2015.
Since 2008, the economy has shrunk about 15 percent. Some 448,000 people are now jobless, translating into a 14.5 percent unemployment rate, up from 4.8 percent in 2007.
Plunging Revenue
With tax revenue plunging and welfare spending surging, the previous Fianna Fail-led government started making cuts in 2008. Since then, the take-home pay of a one-income family on the average industrial wage of 35,000 euros is now 423 euros a month less, the Irish Tax Institute said in November.
"The capacity for people to bear more pain is running out as we approach an overall tipping point in terms of the money that can be taken from them in tax," said Bernard Doherty, president of the institute, which represents accountants and lawyers dealing with taxation.
Families with two average-income earners have seen their monthly income fall by 613 euros, the institute said. In all, disposable income has dropped by 10 percent since 2008, according to the Economic & Social Research Institute, with another 7 percent to come by 2015.
Sales tax will be raised by two percentage points to 23 percent in 2012, Finance Minister Noonan has said. The government will increase motor taxes and is considering lifting tax on dividends and rental income, as it seeks to cut the fiscal deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2015. The shortfall this year will be about 10 percent.
Yet for now those efforts are being overshadowed by the unfolding European debt crisis and the potential effects of economic growth in key markets grinding to a halt. The neighboring U.K. last week cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.9 percent and next year to 0.7 percent.
"Ireland is dependent on the rest of the world not imploding for a recovery," Brian Devine, an economist at NCB Stockbrokers in Dublin. "The restoration of confidence in Europe is as important to Ireland as increasing confidence in our own ability to deliver on stated targets."


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This thorough and interesting book is a tribute to the 100th anniversary of Gowers' classic work, Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases. The contributors, some of whom may not be well known to Americans, are an impressive cast of Britain's preeminent neurologists and psychiatrists, among them John Gunn, George Fenton, Denis Williams, and Denis Hill, in addition to the editors.
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TALKIN' ABOUT ENERGY....Over at Grist, Charles Komanoff takes issue with the proposition that gasoline prices don't have much impact on gasoline consumption. He points to this study by Ken Small and Kurt Van Dender which suggests that although the short-run impact of higher prices is small, the long-run impact may be as high as 43%. Thus, a 10% increase in gasoline prices would produce a 4.3% decrease in gasoline consumption (partly due to purchase of more fuel efficient cars and partly due to a reduction in miles traveled). If this is right, it means that a sizeable gasoline tax increase (say, 50 cents a gallon) might eventually reduce fuel consumption by as much as 7%.
Which is great, and it's one reason why I'm in favor of carbon taxes. But this is also a good chance to argue in favor of something else: when it comes to energy policy, we should adopt a broad range of smallish measures instead of focusing on one big one. The problem is that every policy instrument does some things well and some things badly, and there's also a risk that some of them just won't work at all for some reason or another. Better to have your eggs in several baskets, which makes it easier to fine tune the effect you want and also makes it easier to discard policies that don't pan out.
A carbon tax, for example, has some good points. It's efficient, it raises money that can be used for other purposes, and it reduces gasoline consumption. On the other hand, it's brutally regressive, hurting the poor far more than any other group, and even under rosy long-term assumptions it reduces gasoline use only modestly.
CAFE standards, conversely, raise gas mileage very quickly and very efficiently, and don't have a disproportionate impact on the poor. On the other hand, they're a blunt instrument, and if anything, they motivate people to drive more, not less. (It's called the "rebound effect": if your car gets better mileage, it's cheaper to drive. That prompts people to drive more.)
A refundable gas guzzler tax has different pluses and minuses. Like a carbon tax, it can raise money that can be channeled into green research, and unlike a gasoline tax, it's progressive. On the downside, once you've paid the tax, there's no further incentive to actually reduce your driving.
Other proposals, like the low-carbon fuel standard touted by Daniel Sperling in the op-ed I linked to yesterday, have yet other tradeoffs. Ethanol research, nuclear power, and subsidies for renewal electricity generation have others. I say: the more the merrier. All of them have good points and bad, and the more we experiment the more we can find out which ones produce the biggest bang for the buck. Let the games begin.
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