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LEBANON, N.H. — John Henry Merwin, one of America's pre-eminent fishing writers who authored or edited 15 books on the subject, has died at age 66.
Mr. Merwin, of Dorset, Vt., died Wednesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
Veteran fishing editor for Field & Stream magazine, Mr. Merwin caught everything from piranhas in the Amazon to Atlantic salmon in Ireland. Among his books are "The New American Trout Fishing" and best-selling "Trailside Guide to Fly Fishing."
Born in Norwalk, Conn., Mr. Merwin started fishing with his father at age 3 and never stopped. He moved to Vermont in 1970, and in 1979, out of his basement, launched Rod & Reel magazine (now Fly Rod & Reel). Mr. Merwin followed that up with Fly Tackle Dealer, a trade magazine.
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This was a quick patch effort as crews dumped the hot asphalt into the craters and let drivers compact it down.
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As the holiday season nears, people are getting out of town to visit family and friends.
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This log jam of travelers often times make for a traveling nightmare.
"I am on my way up to Connecticut, Massachusetts and then Vermont," said Marsha Gartland.
Gartland is one of thousands of travelers expected to take to the air from Charlottesville Albemarle Airport this holiday weekend. Being a regular business traveler, the ease of CHO makes the airport her first choice.
"I leave my house an hour before flight time. I give myself 15 minutes to get here. I know that I can get through security within five minutes," she said.
Airport officials say the Christmas holiday is one of the busiest times of year, falling only short of Thanksgiving and the month of October. With thousands of travelers expected to fly this long weekend, the airport is gearing up for a rush.
"Monday is scheduled to be very heavy in terms of passengers as well as a little bit Saturday morning as well," said Airport Director Bryan Elliott.
Just a few weeks ago, CHO had to ground several flights because of malfunctioning equipment. According to Elliott, those problems are in the past.
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This is also the first big travel period since the TSA relaxed regulations on what you can carry on planes, like scissors. Elliot said he has not seen this change make any differences to the time it takes to get through security. Just to be safe, however, you should check in with your airlines about any possible delays.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2014
On Tuesday morning I was having a hair-cut at my courtyards when one of my DSP colleagues rang me. He seemed to be in a hurry to meet me with his son. It was quarter to nine and its being a week day I had really some time constraint. He didn't disclose the purpose. I could recollect the face of his teenaged son whom I had once come across during Tripura Info.com Mega Quiz couple of years back. Subhradeep is a school going boy. On that occasion he paid me respect by touching my feet amidst the huge gathering and he acclaimed my book, 'Bridging Souls, A Journey from Mahabharata to Bharata'. It pleased me to know that he had read my book. So, this occasion I allowed my young admirer to meet me in the morning itself.
The father-son duo came to my quarters within half an hour. The boy was holding a huge trophy, besides a tablet PC, a medal and a certificate. He came third in the 9th Tripura Info.com Mega Quiz this year along with his classmate from Class-IX. It was not a fluke as the trophy he was holding marked the recognition of becoming first in the All Tripura School Quiz competition held amongst 49 schools recently. Their achievement is all the more important as it was a wild entry for the group and they competed with boys studying in higher echelon.
The other day I was reading the article 'QUIZZICALLY YOURS!!' written by my colleague Krishnendu Chakravertty at tripurainfo.com. It's an awesome piece particularly the history of the word 'QUIZ' in English Dictionary through one Mr. Daly; Manager of a Dublin theatre enthralled me. In fact, this article inspired me to think if there was any Quiz program prior to adoption of the word. As it always happens with me I thought about the Mahabharata and it pleased me to find a Quiz session in the epic. During exile, once four other Pandavas happened to drink water from a lake, which was haunted by a Yaksha. Yudhisthira went in last to enter into a quiz episode. He answered many questions put forth to him by the Yaksha and released his brothers. This story is often cited as an example of Yudhisthira's upright principles. The Yaksha later identified himself as Yudhisthira's father, Dharma and pointed them to the kingdom of Virata to spend their last year in exile anonymously.
I am sure this was a Magna Carta in the history of our mankind. Similarly, the Mega Quiz launched by tripurainfo.com nine years back is a pioneering event as far as popularizing Quiz-program in our state is concerned. It's just like the winning of Cricket World Cup in 1983 by the Indian Team led by Kapil Dev. The event lifted the cricketing talents in India. Similarly, Tripura Info.com Mega Quiz has helped us in ushering in finding quizzing talents in Tripura.
Now, coming to this year's Tripura Info.com Mega Quiz, I was there in the Rabindra Satabarhiki Hall with my better half during the final round. No word of praise is enough for the Quiz-Master Nandu Pannikar. It was further lively for me as the questions set by him through audio-visuals suit to my talents and I could predict some of the answers correctly. Not because Nandu is my friend, I can declare with authority that he will be equally successful if he brings out a musical album. The other two Quiz Masters, namely Abhijit Bhattacharjee and Bharat Jain also rose to the occasion. But, the X-factor was always with Nandu. Subhrajeet and the lady announcer also enthralled the audience with their eloquence of voice. Only, the question on Jeans put by Bharat Reddy seemed to be a repetition of an earlier edition. The program and the ambience of newly constructed Rabindra Satabarhiki Hall were electrifying. I am fond of Bengali word, 'Aaratrik', meaning the lamp which removes the darkness of night. I am sure that Tripura Info.com Mega Quiz shall continue to serve as an 'Aaratrik'.
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Badalbabu is sure that he will get back his missing finger ring. He has lost it on four occasions earlier but every time he got it though at some irregular intervals. Now, he is eager to see if it comes back galloping or cantering or trotting. As we know the canter is the controlled of the three-beat gait performed by a horse. It is faster than trot but slower than the gallop. I have used these terminologies purposefully. Badalbabu is my friend and a bureaucrat. He is retiring next year. Like me, he does not trust in the power gems. He often says, 'The confidence as well as the personality of a person varies inversely with the number of stones put by him in his fingers.'
But, Badalbabu wears a metallic ring in his finger. It was gifted to him by one of his junior colleague Mangal Biswas. In fact, he gifted similar rings to his boss and other colleagues as well. These rings had been prepared by the gentleman from the plate of horse-shoe. It's more than a decade. Mangal's daughter was then studying in a college at
The gentleman has great knowledge about the particular God. He advised Mangal Biswas not to bow down head before Shani at the time of offering respects. Otherwise, the Lord of Saturday will sit on the shoulder of his disciple. So, Mangal Biswas prepared some finger rings with the metallic piece and gifted one to Badalbabu.
The ring was loose from the beginning. First time, when Badalbabu lost it he could not recollect for few days that he had lost it. But, he got it in canter gait from the drawer of his table after three four while disposing file. Next time, it came back to him in trot mood. This time, it was beginning of the summer after the departure of winter. One evening he was putting his shoes, but next moment he decided against it. The ring slipped into the shoe. It was only after about a month when his daughter put all his shoes in Sun for drying it surfaced.
The encounter of its coming back in galloping mood is quite interesting. It was a holiday in October. Badalbabu was trimming the rose plants of his flower garden. After completing the task he was dropping the cut-branches in the Municipality dustbin. Suddenly, one of his neighbour said, 'Badalda, so you have even put ring at your rose plant!'
The ring was hanging from a thorn. It took maximum time for returning about two years back. This time he searched for it at all possible locations. Ultimately, it came walking as his brother found it in a gap of bamboo fencing of garden close to the gate. After opening the gate, Badalbabu generally keeps his hand on the fence and it slipped there in the process.
I am also sure that the Saturn ring will come back to my friend.
It happened accidentally two three days back. Middle-aged Meghnadbabu seldom did get time to remain present on such occasions. It was a holiday. When his professor friend Bipul invited him as audience in a seminar, followed by dinner at
, he could not
refuse. It was organized by the English Department and as a part of the seminar
a few selected writers from Tripura and adjoining State Assam read out their
works. One of the local writers read out a poem on facebook. He narrated how
one of his poet friends is still alive in his Facebook friends' list even after
his death. Tripura Central University
The gentleman was a common friend of Meghnadbabu in his facebook. In fact, Meghnadbabu has lost two three other close friends as well. He didn't drop their names from the facebook, rather treat them as white dwarf stars. Meghnadbabu thought about his classical singer friend Snehashisbabu who died a few month's back at the age of 85. Suddenly, it came into his mind that he had designed Snehashisbabu's facebook profile. Initially his aged friend was not familiar with Facebook operation. He recollected his friend's password.
At night, he opened the facebook account of Snehashisbabu. To his utter surprise, he noticed some new posts. But Snehashisbabu had restricted the recent posts within a closed group. None of the members of this group appears to be from the mortal world. Meghnadbabu decided not to disturb this setting. Instead he preferred to visit his new found domain as per his wish.
Snehashisbabu's one of the posts is on Jawahar coat. Meghnadbabu had seen the singer in an old Jawahar coat at various functions when he was alive. He thought that it might be his lucky dress and so he put on this all seasons. Sometimes, the artists are found eccentric. But, he didn't know it was more than sixty years old. As we all know Nehru coat is a hip-length tailored coat for men or women, with a mandarin collar, and with its front modeled on the South Asian achkan or sherwani. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited Tripura in 1952. Snehashisbabu liked it. Late Edhan Khalifa stitched it for him with fine Munga thread. It was once repaired by a Khalifa of Lucknow when Snehashisbabu was in his Gurukul. Actually, it became short for his height and so a jhalwar was added with similar Munga garments. Meghnadbabu could make out difference in the texture of the fiber from the photograph of Snehashisbabu in his facebook.
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West Midlands Labour Annual Conference – 15 November 2014
Dear friends,
I have just returned from the West Midlands Labour Annual Conference at Warwick University in Coventry.
It was an excellent couple of days with great opportunities to engage with fellow MPs, members and regional staff.
One of the most important things to come out of the conference was the final draft of Labour's West Midland's Economic Plan which I helped work on.
You can download a full PDF version of the plan using the link below.
All the best
My letter to Sir Albert Bore: "Power to our people: A Birmingham Constitutional Convention" – 19 September 2014
Dear friends,
Please see below my letter to City Council Leader Sir Albert Bore, dated today, entitled "Power to our people: A Birmingham Constitutional Convention"
My letter to Hodge Hill residents: what is Westminster's vow to Birmingham?
Dear friends
What should be Westminster's vow to Birmingham?
I've spent this week in Glasgow campaigning to keep our country together. I passionately believe that the challenges we have in Hodge Hill are easier to solve if we remain together as one United Kingdom. We had a stake in our Scottish neighbours voting to stay together.
All party leaders have now vowed to devolve more power to Scotland.
Today Ed Miliband has gone a step further and proposed a UK Constitutional Convention to debate more powers to cities like ours in Birmingham.
I am writing to you today to ask: what do you think are the powers that need handing over to Birmingham?
Today I've asked Birmingham's leaders to organise a Birmingham Constitutional Convention. We should debate a simple question: what should be Westminster's vow to Birmingham?
In Victorian times, Birmingham was known as 'the best governed city in the world'; above all we were known for thinking radically. One the most famous MP's to represent the city, the great John Bright once said, 'Birmingham is radical as the sea is salt'.
Today I say, let's be the heirs to that tradition. Let's move quickly to organise a constitutional convention of our own.
I think there are five key powers we need – these are the key powers we need to get our city back to work:
1. Powers, like those in London, to raise revenue from local businesses to reinvest in the city – or to finance tax breaks for innovative or small businesses.
2. Power to help lead a regional Transport Commission, with integrated powers like TfL, and to unlock Birmingham Airport's potential to become Britain's fourth hub airport.
3. Power to lead school improvement, to boost the local skills base and improve 'coasting schools'.
4. Power over Skills Funding Agency budgets, to help boost apprenticeships and gear skills spending to the needs of local employers.
5. Power over housing budgets, including powers to keep savings from Housing Benefit delivered by getting people back to work, to allow the city to help shift money into building homes – providing much needed construction employment.
Next week, I'll publish a longer draft plan – including thoughts on culture and the arts – to help get the debate in gear.
Let me know what you think – and as this debate unfolds – please get involved!
Very best
Liam Byrne
Power to our people: its time for radical devolution to Birmingham – 19 September 2014
Dear friends,
Today, Ed Miliband has taken the bold step of moving quickly to grant new powers to Scotland's people and to propose a UK Constitutional Convention "rooted in our nations and regions, to address the need for further devolution in England and political reform of Westminster."
This will look at issues like
- how sub-national devolution can be strengthened
- how the regions can be given more of a voice in our political system
- how we can give further voice to regional and national culture and identity
Once upon time Birmingham was known as 'the best governed city in the world'; above all we were known for thinking radically. One the most famous MP's to represent the city, the great John Bright once said, 'Birmingham is radical as the sea is salt'.
Today I say, let's be the heirs to that tradition. Let's move quickly to organise a constitutional convention of our own. Today, I'm writing to the leaders of Birmingham City Council to propose we get on with it, and as chair of Birmingham Labour's policy committee, I'll be asking the Labour party in the city to help ensure there are radical options on the table.
For my money, there are five key powers we need – these are the key powers we need to get our city back to work:
1. Powers, like those in London, to raise revenue from local businesses to reinvest in the city – or to finance tax breaks for innovative or small businesses.
2. Power to help lead a regional Transport Commission, with integrated powers like TfL, and to unlock Birmingham Airport's potential to become Britain's fourth hub airport.
3. Power to lead school improvement, to boost the local skills base and improve 'coasting schools'.
4. Power over Skills Funding Agency budgets, to help boost apprenticeships and gear skills spending to the needs of local employers.
5. Power over housing budgets, including powers to keep savings from Housing Benefit delivered by getting people back to work, to allow the city to help shift money into building homes – providing much needed construction employment.
But next week, I'll publish a longer draft plan – including thoughts on culture and the arts – to get help get the debate in gear.
All over Britain, people are demanding new ways forward. We want the power to shape our city's destiny; to build a better future for our kids and a more secure city for our parents. They want it in Scotland. We want it here. Let's get to work!
Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP
Working hard for Birmingham Hodge Hill
Liam Byrne publishes 'Robbins Rebooted' – laying out a vision for 21st Century Higher Education and university reform – 28 August 2014
Dear friends,
Today the Social Market Foundation (SMF) has published my pamphlet entitled 'Robbins Rebooted'.
You can view an electronic version of the pamphlet here.
In it I set out options for reform of Britain's universities to boost the country's knowledge economy and open high paying technical and professional jobs to the 'forgotten 50 per cent'.
These options draw together hundreds of conversations that I have had with university and college leaders, academics and students over the last six months in Britain, Europe, India and China.
Invoking the 'white heat' message of Harold Wilson's government, elected 50 years ago this year, I argue that reformed universities are now key to fostering more high paid jobs in the 'light speed' global digital economy.
The following are the 'big five' ideas which university and college leaders, students, teachers and researchers want to hear debated:
1. 'Technical Universities', a collaboration of employers, major university science and engineering departments and colleges, offering students the chance to study a new 'earn while you learn' 'Technical Degree'
2. A revolution in links between colleges and universities based on the US-style community college movement.
3. Reform of research funding to support British universities in creating global 'Star Alliances' of the world's best scientists with longer term research support.
4. A big increase in university enterprise zones to better link universities to regional growth.
5. A new revolution in access to higher education, with a new national advice service to support young people into higher academic and technical education, support for university-school trusts, an expansion of the Open University's Massive Open Online Courses and a new partnership between the Workers' Education Association and UnionLearn.
I would love to hear your reflections on the pamphlet so please do get in touch.
With all best wishes
Launch of Birmingham Labour Child Poverty Report 2014
Dear friends,
Today Cllr John Cotton and I published Birmingham Labour's hard-hitting report into the growing scandal of child poverty in the city.
The evidence is set out in the final report of the Birmingham Labour Child Poverty review which has investigated the issue over the last six months – to read the report click here
The review found:
• A huge 20 per cent rise over the last year in children arriving in the city's A&E departments, having self-harmed
• A 40 per cent rise in child self-harm cases in A&E since 2009/2010.
• Nearly a third of the city's children – 84,114 – now live in poverty in Birmingham
• Birmingham's child poverty now costs an estimated £914 million in extra services such as education, healthcare and benefits, as well as, lost tax receipts and lost earnings
The report's main recommendation has led to plans for a new Child Poverty Commission for the city to coordinate action to support parents.
Liam Byrne said;
'The scandal of child poverty in our city is a moral crisis and we simply refuse to stand by and do nothing. The child poverty crisis may now have triggered a huge increase in the number of our children so desperate that they try and take their own lives or self-harm.
This report is a wake-up call for Birmingham and for Britain. We may not have a government that cares but we can still take action ourselves.
Our new Child Poverty Commission must now call to action our business leaders, our teachers, NHS and the DWP to act together to make a difference. We cannot pretend this isn't happening in our community.
We have to declare now that we will act together to end this scandal.'
John Cotton said:
"The fact that a third of Birmingham's kids are growing up below the poverty line isn't just a moral outrage, it's an act of social and economic sabotage.
Continuing to tolerate a situation in which another generation is trapped in poverty, unemployment or low paid, insecure work doesn't just hold back individuals, it holds back our city as a whole.
We can – and must – do more to fight poverty in all its forms".
Tim Evans, co-author of the report, said:
"The best policies are made when we listen. As we listened to stories of people struggling, both our understanding and anger grew.
As we listened to committed people in the public and voluntary sector, to people of faith, we realised that harnessing people's desire to tackle this moral and economic issue, based on real life experience, was the way forward.
So I am delighted to see the establishment of a Child Poverty Commission to co-ordinate this energy and transform the life chances of children in Birmingham."
To read the report click here.
With all best wishes
'The market is failing – we need a new way forward' my piece for the Evening Standard – 17 July 2014
Dear friends,
Earlier this week I became Chair of the APPG on Inclusive Growth at the group's inaugural meeting.
To mark the occasion I have written a piece for the Evening Standard which was published this afternoon. See below.
All the best
Liam Byrne: The market is failing – we need a new way forward
A fresh consensus is emerging about how Britain must think long-term to remain globally competitive
The puppets are for the chop. Earlier this week, Wonga's loveable grandparents flogging payday loans on children's TV were dispatched in the UK by the firm's new chairman. It comes at a time when shareholder activism is on the rise, with a number of eye-wateringly large pay deals for top executives shot down by shareholders. The conscience of corporate Britain is rumbling as unease with Britain's malfunctioning marketplace deepens.
So it should. With this week's good job news has come fresh evidence of the squeeze on pay packets. Inflation has jumped to a five-month high. Meanwhile, the Institute for Fiscal Studies reports that the under-30s lost 13 per cent of household income, from 2007 to 2013 — nearly twice the hit taken by the older generation.
It is becoming harder than ever to earn a decent living — and if we don't fix this soon, we'll face not just an economic problem but a profound moral challenge. Hard work is hard-wired into Britain's psyche and our moral code. This was supposed to be the deal: hard work got you on in life. Yet Britain's families are working harder and going backwards, £1,600 a year worse off now, on average, than in 2010.
It's not just a question of fairness: it doesn't make business sense either. As someone who established my own company, I know very well that virtues such as trust, integrity and stability drive consumer confidence. They are the keystone of capitalism.
We can't go on like this. Nearly 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan spoke for a new generation of neo-liberals, declaring that "government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem". Today the market is the problem: together, business and policy-makers are going to have to fix it.
So this week a cross-party group of parliamentarians has come together to find answers to the challenge of how we fix our malfunctioning markets and reconnect hard work with getting on in life. Our goal is simple: to build a new consensus on how we can change the rules of the game.
Since the Second World War we've enjoyed two grand phases of consensus that connected business and government in pursuit of the common good. After the war, we called it "Butskellism", a marriage of ideas epitomised by the calm moderation of the Tories' Rab Butler and Labour's Hugh Gaitskell. The second phase was the neo-liberal consensus, born in the storms of the late Seventies and now in its death throes.
It's time for a new approach: a "third wave" of consensus to reset the rules. There's already plenty on which we can agree.
First, business and politicians know money markets need to act for the long term rather than the short term. The disastrous behaviour of the interest-rate riggers and the high-frequency traders portrayed in Michael Lewis's new book Flash Boys epitomises a fill-your-boots piracy that destroys a firm's ability to think long term.
It's not just capital markets that need reform — it's labour markets too. Unless we boost skills, it's hard to give workers a pay rise. I think there's wide consensus about what needs to change.
Lord Baker's work on university technical colleges exemplifies an ambition to build a high-quality vocational route to better skills. Ed Miliband, Tristram Hunt and I have put that at the core of a new offer for a vocational path to degree-level training for the "forgotten 50 per cent", those who do not want to pursue the traditional academic route.
Third, we can agree that a bigger, better business-government partnership in science and technology is vital to winning the race to the top, boosting productivity and jobs in and around Tech City, the Crick Institute and the spin-outs around London's universities. The foundations of this "supply side" boost were built by Peter Mandleson and Lord Sainsbury, and were respected by the Tories' David Willetts, who left government this week.
Abroad, business and government should agree that "good growth" is easier if markets are bigger, which is why we should be at the heart of Europe. At home, there is broad agreement that a radical devolution of power is vital if big parts of Britain aren't left to languish. "Inclusive growth" is not just about who prospers, it's about where prospers — an idea championed by Lords Adonis and Heseltine in their plans to return power to our cities.
We cannot avoid some issues where consensus will be harder but where the status quo is not an option: making sure companies pay their taxes and don't rig markets to short-change consumers and cheat their competition.
Indeed, hard-headed Tories such as Lord Heseltine and Richard Harrington, who have real experience of running large businesses, recognise that the market needs to work in a more sustainable way. It needs to respect its consumers and its employees, making a profit while not becoming immersed in a race to the bottom that, in the end, hurts most businesses as much as it hurts working families.
From boardrooms to Westminster, we need to crystallise this "new consensus". For a decade and more, the price and prize of globalisation have not been fairly shared. Yet we risk a new era of inequality if we don't get our act together. The new potential of trade and technology is accelerating the "second machine age", where from driverless cars to automated checkouts, technology wipes out both blue and white-collar jobs, concentrating riches in the hands of a tiny global elite.
The founders of the greatest traditions in British capitalism — leaders such as George Cadbury, William Lever and John Spedan Lewis — knew that "enlightened self-interest" was always the best way to do business. If we want to build a great society in a global economy, reformers need to join together now: we're running out of time.
Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is chairman of the newly formed All Party Group on Inclusive Growth.
My speech to Parliamentary Links Day 2014 – Launching Labour's Green Paper on Science – 24 June 2014
Dear friends,
It was an honour to launch Labour's Science Green Paper, entitled: Agenda 2030: One Nation Labour's Plan for Science and Innovation, this morning at the annual Parliamentary Links Day 2014.
You can read the paper here.
My speech is in full below:
Strengthen British Science and Strengthen Britain
Launch of Labour's Green Paper, Agenda 2030: One Nation Labour's Plan for Science and Innovation
Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP
Speech to [Parliamentary Links Day], House of Commons, London. Tuesday, 24th June 2014
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It is a tremendous honour to help mark the greatest day of the year for science in parliament.
I want to pay an enormous tribute to Dr Stephen Benn and the Society of Biology for helping bring the day together.
I want to commend you all for the way so many people and so many organisations have come together from across the worlds of science and engineering to talk, debate, speculate and lobby and leave us here in parliament with fresh impressions, fresh analysis and fresh evidence of how important both science and engineering are to the future of our world.
I want to thank you above all for the inspiration of your example.
I count myself as very lucky to have known an extraordinary scientist from a very young age.
She was a biologist and a teacher and a head of science at comprehensive schools including my own.
She was someone who inspired in me a lifelong wonder for science, a curiosity, and an admiration.
Ruth Byrne was not only my teacher, she was my mother.
And when she died at the age of 52 from cancer of the pancreas, she left me not only with a sense of scientific possibility but a sense of how much work still lies ahead.
Science and Parliament
Your theme this year is about Parliamentary links to Science and Engineering. I want to offer you a view about how we cement science and engineering centre-stage in the run-up to the General Election. As we are in Parliament I thought it would be apposite to reflect on the way science and engineering, industry and politics come together today and the relationship that lies ahead.
Around 300 years ago, a very great writer left London on his travels around the country to write a book, which is today one of our finest records of Britain on the eve of the industrial Revolution.
Daniel Defoe's 'A plan of the English commerce, being a complete prospect of the trade of this nation' paints a portrait of a country amidst tremendous change.
'The most flourishing and opulent country in the world,' he called it and the cause he said was clear; 'Trade' and its two daughters, 'Manufacture and Navigation'
Defoe suspected that for all the advance he saw, something bigger was coming.
And he was right.
By the time 'A Plan' was published in 1728, the Royal Society, founded in Gresham College, was 50 years old. Sir Isaac Newton, its great master, had died the year before and in Birmingham, one of founders of the industrial revolution, Matthew Boulton was born.
Over the next six decades, Boulton, together with his friends in the Lunar Society in a story wonderfully told by Jenny Uglow, took the traditions and methods of those great founders of the Royal Society and fused them to industrial method, helping trigger the industrial revolution.
A nation of explorers and traders quickly became a nation of inventors and industrialists. The worlds of science and industry were irrevocably connected.
Back in the early days of the Enlightenment, the French writer Diderot had observed that uniquely in Britain:
'philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with kings'.
Well, it wasn't long before we were putting great inventors and industrialists like James Watt alongside our philosophers and our kings.
But it was to take another century before science and industry were really fused with the dirty and difficult business of politics.
From the 1850s and 1890s, concern with the state of our science base, and the state of our schools gathered pace until under the burning pressure of world war one a real partnership came together;
- The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was founded in 1915.
- Universities came to play a mission critical role in the work effort and crucially a new alliance between science, industry and government was hard-wired together.
And we've been trying to get the relationship right ever since.
Now that alliance has never been more important.
The scale of the problems, which I realise are merely solutions in disguise and which we are tackling today, are simply too big for one scientist, one university, one company, or one government to tackle alone.
The new partnerships that you see in such spectacular collaborations like the Gaia One Billion Star Surveyor, or the Hadron Collider are gigantic incarnations of the same ethos and approach that drove the Lunar Society, but they are global in scale.
These journeys of curiosity, exploring the endless frontier, are rightly your principal concern.
But there is a second reason the alliance is so vital.
Your country needs you.
Searching for some inspiring words for today's speech, I stumbled across these in the House of Commons library last week;
'the position of Great Britain as a leading industrial nation is being endangered by a failure to secure the fullest possible application of science to industry; and second that this failure is partly due to deficiencies in education'
Those were the words of Lord Percy, Rector of the Newcastle Division of Durham University, reporting to the government in 1944.
They could have been written last week.
Two years later, Lord Barlow agreed;
'If we are to maintain our position in the world and restore and improve our standard of living' he wrote 'we have no alternative but to strive for that scientific achievement without which our trade will wither'.
What was true back in 1945 is true again today.
The Challenge Today
Our old enemy, 'British disease' is back with a vengeance.
That traditional crisis, of extremely low productivity while other nations streak ahead, now scars the recovery and haunts industry, making it even harder to escape today's cost-of-living crisis.
Producing more with less, as every business owner knows, is the key to doing well and the fastest way to give your workers a pay rise.
But look at the figures today.
Since the last election, output for every hour worked has not gone up; it's actually gone down. Equally, output per worker has not gone up. It's gone down. We're actually less productive than we were four years ago.
This appalling record is far worse than the last years of the 1970s, long deemed the moment when 'British disease' reached its peak but a period when output per worker, and output per hour worked actually rose by over 5%.
Worse, we're now falling rapidly behind our competitors. The gap in productivity per hour between the UK economy and G7 average is now 21 per cent – the widest gap there has been since 1992.
This is absolutely fatal for any escape from the cost of living crisis. If companies can't produce more then it's not easy for firms to give their staff a pay rise.
As someone who started work behind a fry station in McDonalds, I know that any job is better than no job.
But I also know that a good job is better than a bad one and right now we're simply not producing enough good jobs.
Today, the average full-time worker has to work an extra one hour and 52 minutes a week in 2013 to earn what they earned in real terms in 2010.
Look at our 'knowledge economy' and it becomes clear what is going wrong.
Economists and scientists now know[1] that science and research is the key to growing productivity.
As the breakthrough report from Research Councils UK put it;
'The greatest long-term productivity advances come through breakthroughs in basic knowledge'.
In the US, the authors of the Gathering Storm remind us that 85% of growth in wealth per capita is driven by innovation[2].
The knowledge economy is the powerhouse of productivity growth, creating better jobs with better wages.
Yet, with the honourable exception of automotive and aerospace, which Labour did so much to save during the global crash, the story isn't good.
Getting innovation policy right is not actually rocket science. It is about people, ideas and money. You need great people, great institutions and strategic investment.
Yet, look at what is happening in the UK.
In 2012, the last year data is available, UK investment in R&D by government and business together has fallen by nearly £1 billion – (£923M) – the largest annual fall since consistent records began in the mid-1980s.
Amongst advanced Western nations, Britain now ranks 23rd out of 33 in the league table of R&D spenders.
In our most important research industry – pharmaceuticals – which accounts for a quarter of all UK R&D spending, research budgets have fallen by a huge £467 million since 2010, that's a 10% fall.
In telecoms, one of our other leading R&D sectors, budgets have fallen by 20% – that's £240M.
Look at our great institutions.
In our universities, the great epicentres of science and knowledge, we have the world's best thinkers.
But their labs and classrooms now rest on a mountain of debt. University borrowing will reach £7.3bn worth of debt by 2015, an increase of £1.8 billion from 2012. That's £45.6 million for every university in the UK.
Vice-chancellors tell me that falling research budgets now mean that the brain drain has been gathering pace for at least the last 18 months.
And that's nothing when we consider the black hole that's been created in the finances of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by the Government's unsustainable funding system.
The Public Accounts Committee now estimates that at current rates, students will be borrowing nearly £200 billion over the next twenty years to fund their studies and 45 per cent of this will be written off. It's universities and our researchers of the future who will be paying the price.
And let's not forget that other great institution that is important here.
The European Union.
European policy makers now understand that innovation is the only way out of austerity.
And the creation of the Horizon 2020 programme is proving crucial for the strength of British science, as UK universities, research centres and businesses can expect to receive £2bn in the first two years of the new funding round.
Leaving the EU, as some propose, would be absolutely catastrophic for science funding.
Third we must address human capital. The skills gap across the country grows worse. A fortnight ago, KPMG reported that skills shortages are bringing to a halt the plans of manufacturing firms to 're-shore' work.
Since 2010, the number of people working in 'Scientific research and development' has fallen by over 12,000.
The Migration Advisory Committee has now added 117 high skilled roles to the shortage occupation list, which employers can fast track onto visas, because there are not enough skills in Britain.
The Royal Academy of Engineering estimates that we're currently 36,000 short and at the rate we're going there will still be big gaps to fill.
In our schools, Michael Gove's disastrous School Direct scheme for teacher training has produced a huge shortage of physics teachers.
Half of state schools now send not one girl to do A Level physics.
Practical experiments have been taken out of the exam curriculum. The careers service has been destroyed. Apprenticeships for the under 24s are actually falling.
We cannot go on like this.
That's why today I am pleased to be launching our green paper on science and innovation.
Our message is simple.
We need to strengthen British science – because British science will strengthen Britain.
We want to start a big debate on how business and government come together to grow the strength of science.
We want to work with the science and engineering community, in all parts of Britain to get the answers right.
We want to work across parties – because wherever we can maximise cross-party consensus we will.
We know that predictability and certainty are important; that they help make your work easier.
We want a new culture of science and evidence in public policy.
We want stronger universities with a bigger share of global science budgets and a bigger role in their regional economies.
And crucially we want to strengthen every rung on the ladder up into a science and engineering career for our young people.
As NESTA argued two weeks ago, the debate around science and engineering is seen by the public as vitally important.
In part, that's because the public knows science, engineering and the business of innovation is key to the development of new cures for diseases, earlier diagnosis, greener, cheaper energy and crucially the jobs of the future.
The public knows that if we are not the pioneers then others will be.
If we don't develop the jobs of the future, then others will.
And that will irreparably damage the opportunities of our children and our grand-children.
After all they are the very people for whom we want better chances than the chances that we enjoyed.
I think we know how futures are really built.
I think we learned that lesson a long time ago.
And now is not the time to ignore the lessons of history.
[1] http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/publications/researchforourfuture.pdf
[2] [2] http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11463&page=1. The 85% refers to the work of Robert Solow and Moses Abramovitz published in the middle 1950s demonstrated that as much as 85% of measured growth in US income per capita during the 1890-1950 period could not be explained by increases in the capital stock or other measurable inputs. The unexplained portion, referred to alternatively as the "residual" or "the measure of ignorance," has been widely attributed to the effects of technological change
One Nation Labour's Plan for Science – 24 June 2014
Dear friends,
This morning I will be sharing our Green Paper on Science entitled – 'Agenda 2030: One Nation Labour's Plan for Science.'
If we are to build an opportunity economy with high skilled jobs and the wages to go with them then science and innovation have to be central to our strategy. Britain needs a long-term vision for science and this paper intends to start a discussion about what that vision should look like.
Please do read the document here and share your views.
With all best wishes
Follow up letter to Moorfield Hall Residents Meeting on 20th June – 23rd June 2014
Dear friends,
Please see below my letter to residents following our recent residents meeting at Moorfield Hall, last Friday:
Dear Friend
Moorfield Hall Residents' Meeting – my feedback
Many thanks indeed to everyone who came along to monthly residents' meeting on Friday 20th june at Moorfield Hall, together with Cllrs Ian Ward, John Cotton and Marje Bridle. I promised to write with a list of issues raised – and next steps.
Drugs, anti-social behaviour – and buy to let land-lords
- You reported a range of hot-spots where there is a problem with drug-dealing and drug abuse, including, The Hedgings, the corner of Teesdale and Darley Ave, and Cat Lane. I will report this hot-spots to police – if you have any other information, please tell me using the form I have enclosed. We have made clear to our police that tackling drugs is a top priority for local residents
- We also talked about the growing problem of buy-to-let landlords taking no responsibility for their tenants, letting gardens over-grow, and dumping rubbish in the streets. I do not think the regulations on buy-to-let landlords are tough enough, and I am pressing the government to introduce tougher measures. I will let you know how I get on.
Green bags
We agreed the problem with green bags needs sorting. The government has cut twice as much money from Birmingham City Council as the average council – and richer parts of Britain like Surrey are actually getting more cash. This is not fair – and its forcing the Council to make tough choices to save nearly £3 million
But, sometimes in life, when you change things, you do not get them right first time – and I think we can agree changes are needed to stop green waste being dumped.
I am determined to help improve the system – and so are your local councillors. So we are collecting ideas together and together with other MP's we plan to meet the Council Cabinet member responsible in September with your views. Please help me get this right by giving me your views on the enclosed questionnaire.
The NHS was voted by Shard End residents as one of the top issues for me to work on. So I've been meeting local health chiefs to discuss your complaints, including:
- Too hard to get an appointment in the evenings and weekends
- Test results taking ages to come through – and staff losing paperwork
- Clinics and outpatients services overloaded
- Car park charges too high#
I think we could solve some of these problems with a bigger, modern health centre in our area – that way the hospital could re-locate services closer to where you live. I am think this is a campaign we can win; I will come back to you when I have more news.
Immigration: the bid debate
Finally, I insisted we debate immigration! This is something we have to talk about. I have always seen my job as speaking with your voice in parliament. I can't do that if we don't discuss issues about which you feel strongly.
We had a very discussion. The key points were;
- People wanted stronger border controls – with the key word, being control
- People did not think it was fair that people who had paid into the system got so little out of it when they needed help (for example, older residents who needed social care)
- Residents basically felt that people should have to 'earn' their way to the privileges of British citizenship – and not get things handed on a plate. Ways to do that included: working hard and paying tax for many years; learning to speak English; obeying the law, and making an effort to integrate.
This is something I would like to debate across the constituency over the next year. We are at our best when we get together to talk intelligently about difficult issues. So: let me know if you would like an invite to a future community discussion on the subject.
Many thanks again to everyone who came along on a Friday evening, or sent back a questionnaire. I have enclosed a contact card with my details if I can ever help – on average we help over 1,000 people with personal problems every year – and a questionnaire. I really rely on these to listen to your views, so do let fill it in and return. You don't need a stamp.
Best wishes
Liam Byrne
Member of Parliament


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Division's Anthony Papa tosses perfect game
Anthony Papa didn't button his jacket when he went back into the dugout. He tossed to the same teammate and used the same ball.
His coach, Tom Tuttle, filled out his scorecard in exactly the same way every inning after the fifth, and didn't say a word about what was going on about 60 feet away from him.
And both of them kept it up...right up until Papa's Division teammates dogpiled him on the mound.
Monday, Papa, a junior, tossed the first perfect game of his career and the first perfect game for Division since at least the 70s in an 8-0 win over Great Neck North, Tuttle said. He struck out 17, with groundouts to shortstop, the pitcher and right field (outfielder Francis Alexander was playing shallow), and induced an unassisted out at first.
"He established that fastball down in the zone and he could throw his breaking stuff when he needed to," Tuttle said. "It was impressive because he's a hard working kid he's got great maturity. He got into the groove all we had to do is score one run."
Of course, Division is Division, and they jump at the opportunity to beat the tar out of the ball whenever they can. Joe Piscatelli went 2-for-4 with a run and Joe Spitaleri had a two-RBI single in the fifth, just to name a few highlights.
But the focus was, of course, Papa. Not that anyone mentioned it.
"I stayed in the same spot and didn't tell anyone," Tuttle said.
But the cheering got louder as the innings went on and, by the fifth, Papa got the sense that something special was going on. His only other no-hitter was when he was 12, on a travel team. This one was "much, much sweeter." Papa struck out the final batter swinging.
"I felt my fastball had a little more kick than usual," said Papa, who set up batters with his breaking ball and then caused fits with the movement and velocity on his fastball. "It turned out to be a really good day."
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The rapid rise and noise around programmatic ad buying is reminiscent of search in the early 2000s. Martin Kelly, chief executive and co-founder, Infectious Media, explains how.
Martin Kelly: chief executive and co-founder of Infectious Media
In the early 2000s, I got a call from an old contact telling me she was heading up sales for the search engine Google in the UK. She gave me the pitch, short, text-only ads targeted by keywords. Looking back, and given what's happened since, I should have been excited, but I wasn't. In fact I thought it was a silly idea.
I couldn't use any of the principles I'd been taught in media planning around demographics, reach and frequency and even negotiation, as it was bought in an auction. Search advertising was not for me or the agency I worked for.
I can imagine that meeting happened thousands of times around different agencies, as we just weren't cut out for search advertising, in terms of skills or business model. It's taken agencies ten years to catch up, building out new teams, developing new skillsets and new models of remuneration that suit.
Fast forward to today and there's a striking similarity to programmatically traded display. The IAB forecasts 47 per cent of display will be traded programmatically in 2014, rising from zero in 2010. This has huge implications on media buying businesses. Four years ago, every impression within digital display was bought over the phone, using panel-based audience measurement to back it up and agencies were built to work in this way.
Today, and the market is growing quicker than ever, being driven by a whole new set of dynamics. People working in this area now need to be comfortable around technology and be incredibly data literate, using actual audiences for targeting rather than panels. The days of faxing over an insertion order and presenting results a month later are over.
Programmatic teams are on the platform all day, tweaking pacing, adjusting white lists, making real-time adjustments to drive performance. Media agencies with incumbent teams with an "old" skillset need time to swap the wrong people out and the right people in, this happens when any industry goes from manual trading to automated.
But this is an industry built upon its real-time credentials and advertisers are keen to reap the benefits of programmatic now. As with search, programmatic is becoming a specialism and a new wave of businesses have emerged. These companies have been built from the ground up, hiring and nurturing talent with the right skills, investing in bespoke technologies and tools, and operating with a market relevant business model.
The most advanced advertisers are just not willing to wait for media agencies to catch up and are fully aware the trading desk model is limited in capability and financially opaque.
The trade press is full of stories citing big brands who do not believe their agency can do the job required in programmatic, and with that comes opportunity to disrupt the agency landscape, just like search did ten years ago.
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- livnihs05 Apr 9, 2007 12:50 PM
anyone suggest or recommend any restaurants in napa?
i will be there in a month... so
i need to make reservations fast.
i've been to bouchon, french laundry, alberge, and domaine....
any other great eats???
There are quite a few recent inquiries on napa. But a few quick references. Martini House in St. Helena, Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen. If you will be there over a month I would also head over to healdsburg and go to Bovolo for breakfast, Barndiva or Willi's for lunch and Ravenous or Cyrus for Dinner (at Cyrus I really like the bar area).
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i hear good thing about n.v. and ad hoc
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:) nice to see you here too whiner
I think you should try Ad Hoc, Thomas Keller's latest restaurant even though it has a fixed menu. It's a nice environment. Here are photos from my visit there last month: http://singleguychef.blogspot.com/200...
My tip for Ad Hoc is to not go crazy with their wine selection, because it's not really worth adding more to your bill for just OK wine. Just go for the food and ambiance.
re: singleguychef
was it hard to get reservations? or is it walk in only.
i'm thinking sat night the 12th of may
re: livnihs05
I went on a Sunday night and called for reservations in the afternoon on a Thursday or Friday about a week before. (I can't remember when, I do know they're closed for two days of the weekdays so they're not available to help you then. I think it was Tuesday and Wednesday.) They're very helpful on the phone. If you're going on Saturday night, I would call at least a couple of weeks in advance to make sure you have a decent seating and not something super early or super late. I did notice a few people walking in and then waiting at the bar, but most of the people arriving planned ahead and made reservations. (When they first opened, they weren't taking reservations and then it became too unruly because of the popularity so now reservations are the norm.)
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what about la toque? some people say its like baby french laundry?
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Ive recently read, from several people, that La Toque has gone downhill. Can't personally confirm this, though...
re: bobbiboca
Really? Dont skip ad hoc b/c its not FL or bouchon. Its its own thing entirely and, good at what it puts out, casual food. I had a super Monday dinner there this week. Totally unexpected comfort food prepared perfectly. I wanted to be critical but had so much fun in the front room w/good, well priced wine and warm service/delightful food!
Lovely iceberg wedge blue salad with oven dried/melted romas, lardons(heaven), buttermilk fried chicken(I have tried recipes like this and never, even with a nights soak & good fryer, come up with these moist results) a whole bird for two, cheese course and pineapple upside down cake for dessert. And something else, oh, oh yes, three chesse macaroni, 45 bucks per. Really generous. I thought this was a steal based on the loving preparation, informal, family style serving and nice setting. I think I had four take-out boxes for bfast the next day. Go before its stupid or closes.
ALSO-NOT NAPA, Sonoma & Marin. Had a fantastic lunch at Willies Raw bar, wed., in Healdsburg-who knew? the menu here far surpasses the Wine bar, which I enjoy. I haven't had kumo's this well shucked and prepped in ages. The flavor was pure perfect cucumbery kumomoto. The artichoke, blanched in lemon water, I think, then grilled served with house made aioli and garlic butter. Fries were fine, 2x fried, with homemade ranch goat cheese, sounded shady but tasted great.
Sort of odd but perfectly cooked were the BBQ'd scallop wrapped in bacon. It was nice but I guess I was really hankering for a raw scallop that day so this was a substitute for my usual crudo or sushi. My fault entirely. Another set of fun wine, bandol rose-yay, and other fun things that seem to change daily.
I had posted prior to my trip and, sadly, most wine country "destination" eateries are closed tues/wed. Makes sense given long weekender hours. Checked out locale and menus at Barndiva and Farmhouse and was sad they werent open. Looked like fun menus/space at least.
Also ate at Spuds Crab, Bodega. Damn. Great dungeness crab sando and clam chowder. Cakes had the west-coast-evil-that-is-bell-peppers but no filler but egg to bind, I think. Bell pepper flavor didnt ruin but definitely detracted. Worth a trip to bodega head.
Wanted to also try Olema inn on Thurs. Closed. Open across the highway was the horrid olema farm resto(?) had something that I think was leftover ribs, hamburger and long(at least 3"), lanky tendon strips-maybe turkey??? Or those tips of ribs that are all cartilage and can sometimes be good? Sold as pork chili. oops.
Dirty. Take a rag to that surface when you have nothing to do at 2pm, dammit! Wait staff were socializing about cars and automatic doors in Spanish sitting at tables around us while ostensibly working. bad form even on the casual.
And OH OH OH, Nicks looks great in Marshall! I wish I had had Kuletos money to renovate that place. I used to walk around its dilapidated dock in 2002 wishing I had money to buy and fix it up. Supposedly they are going to let you shuck yer own once they open in late May. It was a hive of contractors and work when I drove by. Not a huge fan of his restos but anything there will be fun at least.


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Sangram stood 10th in popularity standings out of all other participants of Bigg Boss yesterday. This was based on their achievements in real life. I felt he should have been at first place because whole world knows him whereas these flop movie/t.v stars are not even household names in India! What do you think?
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I also feel so, but then its a game and above all everyone out there is insecure and insecure people use such opportunities to show off.. empty vessels making a noise........ but the world knows ... and sangram knows...about his achievement... and I feel that is enough :-)Answered by Juliana, 19 Oct '13 11:02 am
Aap bhi ye aurato wale programme dekhtey ho?Answered by Piaa, 19 Oct '13 11:02 am
Giaa ne kal sachh hi bataya mere ko...ki aapki harkatey unn se bahut milti hein.
Giaa ne kal sachh hi bataya mere ko...ki aapki harkatey unn se bahut milti hein.
This is one of the most horrible shows on telly-Unreal ones for sure:-))Answered by GingerMasalaTadka, 19 Oct '13 11:02 am
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At the end of the talk, I asked them to help me plot a story. I promised to incorporate their ideas in a back cover blurb and sample first chapter. I'm liking this scene so much I may actually have to write more about Alexandra and Will. If I do, the book will be dedicated to the Norwich Women's City Club!
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Alexandra Robinson—don't call her Alex—finally has the chance to get herself and her daughter out from under her domineering mother's thumb. Alexandra's worked hard and is tired of paying for her bad judgment—she's more than learned her lesson. No smooth-talking man is going to worm his way into her heart again with big diamonds and deception. She's all business now, an aspiring fashion consultant whose sales job at Chico's is strictly temporary. Alexandra's interview with media mogul Tonya Lassiter is going to change everything.
If she can get there. That quick look in her rear view mirror to check for lipstick on her teeth resulted in plowing into Will Garrity's construction truck. The last thing she needs is another car repair bill, or the attitude from the scruffy, sawdust-covered builder. She remembers him from high school, and he hasn't changed a bit, except gotten bigger and rougher around the edges.
Will hasn't seen "Princess Alexandra" in over ten years. They didn't exactly run in the same crowd, then or now. She was still decked in pearls and superiority, and he didn't have time for that. Was she going to screw up the Lassiter job for him because she couldn't see straight?
Will tells himself he has to get her number for the insurance company. But her pretty pink card is burning a hole in his pocket. He can't stop seeing her in her pearls—and nothing else. He knows he's asking for trouble, but one date with Her Highness should get her out of his system, shouldn't it?
Chapter 1
Chanel on the cheap. Not real Chanel, of course. She couldn't afford that. But Alexandra was satisfied with her short boxy hound's-tooth jacket and black pencil skirt from T.J. Maxx. Her pearl bangles didn't clack against each other too loudly, and the rope of pearls—fake, of course—were knotted just so over her almost-silk blouse. She wore killer heels—the last pair of red-soled Laboutins she still owned.
She was dressed to impress Tonya Lassiter. If she got the job, Alexandra would kiss Chico's good-bye and be responsible for wardrobe at four cable TV channels. She'd be dressing all the on-air personalities on the mini-media mogul's Long Island, Connecticut and Rhode Island stations, from weather girls to that weathered-faced guy who did the political commentary every Friday night in Providence. He was in desperate need of her help; his ties were hideous.
If she got the job, that meant she could travel a little and shop again. Not for herself, of course—her debts, well, Randy's debts, were still staggering. It would be a long while before they were paid off, and she needed a bigger paycheck than she got as assistant manager of the Chico's at Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino. There were times when Alexandra wondered if she should stick a dollar in a slot machine after work to improve her odds, but that's what got her ex-husband in so much trouble.
It wasn't slots, though, but blackjack. Racked up on her credit card. It had been worth it to borrow money from her mother to pay for the divorce.
Moving in with the woman had been a big pill to swallow three years ago, but where else was Alexandra going to go with a toddler and no job? Juliet was the only good thing out of her marriage.
Enough with the gloom and doom. Alexandra shot a smile into the rear view mirror to perk herself up and check for lipstick on her teeth. She'd gone for a strong red, and there was nothing worse than—
Wrong. Here was something much, much worse. A hulking tricked-up truck was coming around the bend in the narrow Norwichtown back lane straight at her.
Brake brake brake.
She hadn't been going fast—you couldn't on this winding road—but it was too late. Alexandra's ancient little Audi hit the vehicle with a sickening crunch.
Damn. She was just yards away from Ms. Lassiter's secluded house. She could see the roofline through the treetops.
Out of the hulking truck came the Hulk himself, a construction worker who looked extremely unhappy. He was familiar. Someone from the casino? No, high school. It was that Neanderthal Will Garrity, who'd captained the football team and had given her such crap when she was head cheerleader.
Good grief. They were a cliché, except they'd never dated.
Eleven years had bulked him up and didn't look like they'd improved his disposition any. She rolled down her window.
He towered over the car. "What the hell were you doing? Putting on lipstick?"
It was too close to the truth. Alexandra lifted her chin and tried to smile. "Sorry. I didn't expect to see anyone else on the road. There's only one house on this end." Alexandra had grown up in Norwich, and this road was unknown to most of its residents. It was private, expensive and exclusive. Tonya Lassiter had other houses, but she retreated here for the quiet and anonymity in this sleepy New England town.
Will stepped back as Alexandra slid out of the car to inspect the damage. Her bumper was toast, and one headlight looked ready to pop out to greener pastures.
His hazel eyes narrowed. "I know you. You're Alex Something, aren't you?"
"Alexandra." How she hated to be called Alex. One might as well call her Al and be done with it. She was worth those four syllables, darn it.
"Alexandra Elliot, right?"
"Robinson now." She couldn't change her name back—it would be confusing for Juliet.
He peered into the back seat, where Juliet's booster seat was in all its crumbs and glory. "Married with a kid, right? Well, if you want your kid to grow up with a mother, you'd better watch where you're going. Ditzy blonde."
The last two words were muttered, but Alexandra heard them all the same. "I beg your pardon. You were just as much at fault as I was. You could have killed me with that behemoth. Do you do those stupid monster truck rallies?"
"Of course I don't!" he said, annoyed. "This is my work truck. I'm on a job."
Alexandra's heart sank. "You're working at Ms. Lassiter's?"
"Not that it's any of your business, but yes. My crew is putting up an addition. An office and a media room. Two bathrooms, guest bedroom. And FYI, she hates it when people come spying down here. You'd better back it up."
"I have an appointment with her," Alexandra said in her iciest voice. She could hear the whine of electric saws and hammering now, breaking the silence of the countryside.
"I won't keep you then." He reached into his back jeans pocket and pulled out a tattered business card. "For the insurance company. I don't think we need to bother the cops with this, do you?"
As far as she could tell, there wasn't a scratch on his truck. Her poor Audi, on the other hand, was not going to make a good impression on anyone. Alexandra prayed Ms. Lassiter would not look out her window as she rolled up the driveway.
She reached into the car and retrieved her used red Coach clutch. She preferred to view it as pre-owned. Vintage. Her brand-new cards were in a little leather case her mother had bought for her to celebrate her inevitable success as an independent fashion consultant and stylist. Elizabeth Elliot did not like to think of her only child as a mere shop girl.
Alexandra passed him a pink and black card. Much thought had gone into the design—first impressions and all that. Will's lip curled as he held it between two callused fingers.
"Clothes Encounters? You've got to be kidding me."
"I graduated from RISD. My degree is in apparel design." She even knew how to make fine leather shoes, not that she'd tell this big lug in his scuffed-up work boots. But she'd never really had the drive to succeed in the cut-throat fashion world, and once she'd married Randy she'd enjoyed being a Connecticut housewife in her big-ass colonial, buying designer clothes rather than sewing them.
She'd had to sell most of them on consignment, and the house had gone into foreclosure years ago.
Alexandra still had a good eye, and she was only twenty-nine. There had to be more to life than ringing up sales at a high-end women's store. If she could get Tonya Lassiter to give her a break, other doors would open.
But first, she had to knock on her door. "If we're done here…" She waved a well-manicured hand. Pale pink polish. No rings. She hadn't bitten the bullet yet to sell her three point five carat engagement ring, but she never wore it. That rat Randy had wanted it back, but the judge disagreed.
Will Garrity noticed. "No wedding ring? Where's Mr. Robinson?"
"Not that it's any of your business, but I'm divorced. What about you…" She made a point of looking at his card as if she couldn't remember his name. "Mr. Garrity? Uh, Will."
"No wives, no kids, no problems. Enough with the high school reunion. How do you want this to go? It's too narrow for either of us to turn around."
Backing up was not really one of Alexandra's skills. Apparently going forward wasn't either. "If you don't mind, I'm late. Could you…?"
"As you wish, Princess." There was that unholy spark of glee in his eyes she remembered so well. He'd teased her mercilessly. Thought she was stuck-up. Well, she probably had been, a little. It was hard to escape from Elizabeth's influence—her mother was a dreadful snob, and Alexandra had been raised with the best of everything.
Until Randy.
She got into her car and sneaked a glance at the rear view mirror again. Though her hair was still pulled back in a neat ponytail, she felt decidedly ruffled. But she wasn't going to let a man like Will Garrity—or any guy—get under her skin or into her heart again.]]>
"Robinson never fails to provide plenty of brio, banter, and interpersonal heat in her Regency romances, and this sexy follow-up to Lord Gray's List is no exception. An advertisement for a housekeeper in Lord Gray's tabloid newspaper, the London List, brings together two people—Lady Imaculata Anne Egremont and Maj. Gareth Ripton-Jones—who both need to repair their less than savory reputations. He must prove he's innocent of murder; she wants to escape her abusive father and the judgmental London high society. Passing herself off as frumpy Mrs. Anne Mont, Lady Anne … Read more »]]>
"Robinson never fails to provide plenty of brio, banter, and interpersonal heat in her Regency romances, and this sexy follow-up to Lord Gray's List is no exception. An advertisement for a housekeeper in Lord Gray's tabloid newspaper, the London List, brings together two people—Lady Imaculata Anne Egremont and Maj. Gareth Ripton-Jones—who both need to repair their less than savory reputations. He must prove he's innocent of murder; she wants to escape her abusive father and the judgmental London high society. Passing herself off as frumpy Mrs. Anne Mont, Lady Anne travels to Wales in response to Gareth's ad. Her housekeeping skills are nonexistent, but the drunken major doesn't notice. What the handsome war hero does notice is that the so-called Mrs. Mont is a seductively shapely woman who's too young to be a widow. Ere long secrets and beds are shared, and the two are on their way to love. Fans of humorous historicals will enjoy this delightful romp."]]>
Louisa Stratton needs a husband—and fast. She is returning home to Rosemont after a yearlong sojourn across Europe with her maid, having written to her taciturn Aunt Grace that she had met and married Mr. Maximillian Norwich in Paris. Who can live up to the perfection of the nonexistent Max? Louisa is forced to hire Capt. Charles Cooper to impersonate her incomparable spouse through the 1903 Christmas season. Charles can use the very generous fee now that he has fallen on hard times and an overabundance of gin … Read more »]]>
Louisa Stratton needs a husband—and fast. She is returning home to Rosemont after a yearlong sojourn across Europe with her maid, having written to her taciturn Aunt Grace that she had met and married Mr. Maximillian Norwich in Paris. Who can live up to the perfection of the nonexistent Max? Louisa is forced to hire Capt. Charles Cooper to impersonate her incomparable spouse through the 1903 Christmas season. Charles can use the very generous fee now that he has fallen on hard times and an overabundance of gin after a tour in Africa during the Boer War. Saddled with guilt, nightmares, and the loss of sight in one eye, Charles takes the voluble Miss Stratton at her word that she just needs his public face to put off her less than supportive family before she can flee once more. Then life at Rosemont goes from odd to downright dangerous—and decidedly seductive.
Verdict Robinson's (Captain Durant's Countess) "poor little rich girl" who never felt cared about as a child and even less so as an adult finds acceptance and love with a former soldier more damaged than she is. These characters are delightful and dotty and acerbic in the best possible way. This reviewer was in thrall from page one. Highly recommended for all romance readers.—Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal]]>


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AES Energy Storage began operation of an 8 MW battery-based storage system located in Johnson City, N.Y. AES says the project, which is designed to level the variability of generation and demand on the grid in the New York power market by delivering instantaneous response to grid operator requests for power, is the first of its kind in the United States. Upon its anticipated completion in 2011, the project will supply 20 MW of emissions-free reserve capacity. On Dec. 31, 2010, the project completed its initial performance testing with the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) and is operating as a frequency regulation provider, delivering reserve capacity that helps grid operators maintain the balance between generation and load.