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I've done all kinds of research and have checked for fungus, aphids, snails, slugs, etc., including checking the leaves at night....but the leaves keep getting profuse "track" marks, turn brown and die. Much fruit has started, getting to about the size of a walnut, but withers. Could the tiny little worm in the photo be the culprit? (for scale, it's on a clothes pin). I've only seen a few of them.... I hope the photos help. Thanks! ~Dan PS: I guess only one image is allowed.... the worm looks like an inchworm....skinny, green, less than an inch long. |
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- Posted by oldgardenguy60 none (My Page) on Sun, Aug 10, 14 at 7:30
I would guess powdery mildew |
- Posted by StephanieHS 8 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 17:19
Could be mildew. Can you post a photo of whole plant? Does the browning and dying of leaves start at the base of the plant and spread from there? The white marks to me look like leaf borer marks. There are a few different bugs that leaf bore. For the most part, not terribly serious. The leaves turning brown and dying is more concerning. I'm wondering if you have 2 dif things going on. |
That's a really bad case of leaf miners. Here's a link on them. The problem is that they are actually inside the leaf, so most sprays won't work. George |
Here is a link that might be useful: Aggie info on Leaf Miners
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Here is my Sweet Tea. I think she looks better in the photo than in person. About three years old. What is wrong? Does she like lots of sun? |
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- Posted by flower-frenzy 8a (My Page) on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 0:37
I have mine in sun until about 11:30 a.m. It's a lot oranger than yours. Do you have yours in any sun at all? Yours looks like it's growing well enough. Is it the color that you're concerned with? |
- Posted by Hostas_for_Barb 6b (My Page) on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 7:47
Yes, I guess it is the colour. It is big enough but somehow just always looks droopy and dry. It is in what I call open shade. Maybe a move is in order. |
Well, I'd be happy if my sweet tea looked as bushy as this one does! :) (just so you know) |
- Posted by flower-frenzy 8a (My Page) on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 12:07
I'm not sure where you reside, but some morning sun might do the trick to improve the color. Here's a picture of my 'Sweet Tea' that's planted in sun until 11:30 a.m. As you can see, it greens up during the summer months. The pic was taken this morning. |
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- Posted by Hostas_for_Barb 6b (My Page) on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 21:40
Flower, yours looks perky and happy in June. That is what I would like to see. I don't think I have a location that just gets morning sun. Will have to figure something out. dbarron: It is bushy but you somehow just know when a plant is healthy and happy and this one just is not. I would like better colour and more upright leaves. I really think a new location is in order. Thanks for your input. Barb |
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We met with the builder a few weeks ago and he warned us it was going to be expensive-several times-lol. This is a new house we are building in central coast California.He was right. In reviewing the specs, we realized he had spec'd cherry cabinets for the kitchen, craft room and laundry room. We realized we didn't need cheery for the craft or laundry room as those would be painted white. I have no idea what type of wood is good for painted cabinets. We decided to keep the cherry in the kitchen. Thanks for any help. |
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We always spec "stained" grade maple for our stile and rails and a MDF center panel for all painted doors/panels Stained grade maple is a grade of maple that does not make the grade for clear grade maple but is perfect to paint |
- Posted by artteacher_nj (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 16:00
Our kitchen has painted cherry cabinets. The insides of the cabinets are beautiful when you open the door. |
- Posted by live_wire_oak (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 16:05
The upcharge for painted cabinets is likely to be as much or more than the upcharge for stained cherry. For your lesser used rooms, consider oak cabinets. It's the cheapest wood option. If you must have a painted look, go for a partial overlay door in a recessed panel as that will be the least expensive choice. The standard for painted cabinets is maple as it takes painted very well, and is hard enough to withstand some knocks without denting. |
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Governments must avoid the common pitfalls that have undermined so many industrial policy initiatives in the past: conceptual failings, which doom a programme from its very start, and implementation failures, which create problems as the programmes enter operation.
The fact that every successful country in history has actively promoted its industries through some combination of subsidies, protection and public investment suggests that the overall record of industrial policy cannot be that bad.
Consider this: according to Dani Rodrik, America is currently engaged in the biggest industrial-policy effort in history. It is spending tens of billions of dollars to stimulate the development of green technologies. But the government has to do it surreptitiously, he says, because industrial policy is so taboo. That highlights the importance of this debate. All too rarely are the pros and cons of government intervention in business discussed openly as they have been to such a high level by our debaters and participants this week.
A historical perspective came from Hiroshi Ohashi, an economics professor at the University of Tokyo. With its "Mighty MITI", Japan implemented perhaps the most famous interventionist policy in history, and many in America were mortally afraid of it during the 1980s. But subsequent studies of the effects of government intervention in business in Japan and elsewhere found that the empirical evidence of the effectiveness of such policies was far less clear-cut than expected, says Mr Ohashi.
In their closing statements, our debaters actually find some common ground. Looking at the past, they agree that there is much room for improvement in implementing industrial policy. Governments should be able to avoid the most common pitfalls, argues Josh Lerner, such as choosing to invest in industries or regions to which the private sector has already given a big thumbs down. One problem, adds Mr Rodrik, is that because economists mostly reject the efficacy of industrial policy, the field is left to lawyers and engineers.
The argument boils down to this: for Mr Rodrik, the fact that every single prosperous country in history has used industrial-policy tools at some point proves that they must work. The few stunning successes more than pay for the duds. Mr Lerner would rather governments attended to more basic tasks. Instead of the "fun stuff" of handing out cash to particular industries, they should concentrate on the overall business environment, such as getting education and tax policy right.
We now hear from James Manyika of McKinsey, a consulting firm, who advises governments on how to boost competitiveness. I would like to see more comments from the floor; many have provided valuable perspectives so far. Then it will be time to vote.
In this concluding section, I will descend from the 30,000-foot level down to—if not the tree-tops—at least the lower cloud layer. In particular, I will highlight the policies that governments should pursue in lieu of industrial policy, or—failing that—how the long odds of success in industrial policy can be somewhat more favourable.
First, it is necessary to ensure that the economy itself is an attractive place for businesses, particularly innovative enterprises. Often, in their eagerness to get to the "fun stuff" of handing out money, public leaders neglect the importance of creating a favourable environment.
Such efforts to create the right climate are likely to have several dimensions. Ensuring that creative ideas can move easily from universities and government laboratories to established and new businesses is critically important. Similarly, numerous studies have documented that the attractiveness of nations for corporate investment is highly sensitive to tax policy, particularly corporate capital gains tax rates. Also important is ensuring that the law allows firms to enter into the needed contracts—for instance, with a potential financier or a source of technology—and that these contracts can be enforced. Finally, an educated workforce, familiar with both technology and business, is likely to be critical.
It is not just domestic policies that are important. It is also important to ensure that international investors find the nation an attractive one in which to invest. In most of the successful innovative hubs established in the past two decades, the critical early investments have not been made by domestic institutions, but rather by sophisticated international investors and corporations. These are likely to have the depth of knowledge and experience that enables them to make substantial bets on the most promising organisations. But these players are likely to be reluctant to take part if local regulatory conditions are not up to global standards, or if there are substantial doubts about the ability to exit investments. Reaching out to interested and skilled individuals overseas—most often, expatriates—can also provide a source of capital and expertise.
In short, the most important policies that governments can undertake to encourage new and growing industries have little to do with "industrial policy".
When governments do intervene directly to encourage new and growing industries, their programmes must be designed thoughtfully, so as to be sensitive to the private sector's needs and to the market's dictates. Governments must avoid the common pitfalls that have undermined so many industrial policy initiatives in the past. As I highlighted earlier in this debate, these pitfalls can be divided into two categories: conceptual failings, which doom a programme from its very start, and implementation failures, which create problems as the programmes enter operation.
One common conceptual failing is to ignore the realities of the industry-creation process. For instance, many public initiatives have been abandoned after a few years: the programmes' authors have apparently not understood that these initiatives take many years to bear fruit. Other programmes have added requirements—such as the stipulation that funded companies focus only on "pre-commercial" research—that may seem reasonable as public policy but run counter to the nature of the innovation process. In other cases, reasonable programmes have been too tiny to have an impact, or so large that they swamp the existing private-sector players.
A second frequently encountered conceptual problem is the creation of programmes that ignore the market's dictates. Far too often, government officials have encouraged funding in industries or geographic regions where private interest simply did not exist. Whether these choices have been driven by political considerations or hubris, the result has been wasted resources. Effective programmes avoid this problem by demanding that credible private-sector players provide matching funds.
If ignored, these broad problems of design can doom a programme even before it starts. But plenty of pitfalls remain once programmes begin. One common implementation problem is a failure to build in incentives. Far too often, participants in public schemes to promote new industries do well financially whether or not the programme meets objectives. In many instances, they do well even if the companies go belly-up. The contrast with the best practices among private investors, where a scrupulous attention to incentives is common, could not be more striking. Managers of public initiatives must pay attention to various possible scenarios, and avoid incentives, or a lack of incentives, that can lead to problematic behaviour.
Another danger in implementation is the failure to design appropriate evaluative mechanisms. Ideally, programmes will undergo careful scrutiny at two levels. First, the programme itself will be carefully analysed. While designers should recognise that any initiative will take time to bear fruit, it is important to periodically take stock of which of its aspects appear to work well and which do not. Second, fund managers and firms participating should be scrutinised. It is important to ensure that the groups benefiting from government programmes are the most promising in the industry in terms of market performance and can most benefit from public investment, rather than being those most adept at currying favour with the people who are handing out public funds.
A final frequent failing is to ignore the international nature of the innovation process. Today's economy is a global one on many levels, particularly in emerging industries. Capital flows, production flows and research spending increasingly cross borders and continents. To attempt to build a merging industry without strong global ties is a recipe for an irrelevant and unsuccessful sector.
In short, industrial policy is hard to do successfully. But there are guidelines that can help boost the chance of success.
Josh Lerner concluded his opening statement with "one cannot ever be optimistic that industrial policy will work" (my emphasis). His rebuttal ends with "the very different nature of public efforts in this arena makes [it] prone to fail" (ditto). Do I detect a slight movement in my direction here?
Mr Lerner says there are three problems that render industrial policy particularly problematic. There are fewer opportunities for learning from mistakes; there is a greater propensity for capture by "insiders"; and there is much greater difficulty in evaluating success.
I would quibble with each one of these. Industrial policy practitioners can learn a great deal from successes and failures in other countries. Given the ubiquity and power of teachers' unions, education policy strikes me as considerably more likely to be captured (or at least paralysed) by insiders. And there are highly informative and real-time indicators of success—such as export performance—which governments can use to monitor success.
But there is a more important point to be made. Once one grants, as Mr Lerner apparently does, that the difference between industrial policy and other domains of public action is a matter of degree rather than of kind, then one ought to be able to consider the issues on a case-by-case basis and be open to the possibility that in some cases at least the balance of risks and benefits will lean in the direction of industrial policy.
So imagine Mr Lerner and I were to sit down and discuss whether, say, the American government should be supporting green technologies, and if so how. He might say look, this is all new territory and the government is likely to mess up badly, and how would we know anyhow whether the funds are being put to good use. I might reply that there are various safeguards—professional and independent management, sunset clauses, close monitoring, explicit success benchmarks, reporting requirements—that would discipline the process and make public programmes operate more like private venture capital. This would be a reasonable (and presumably civilised) debate, and since we are sensible people we may each be able to convince the other. What is unreasonable is to rule out the value of such a debate altogether by denying categorically from the outset that industrial policy can ever work.
Consider also this. Mr Lerner and I are both economists, and as economists we agree that there is an economic case for industrial policy. Our differences are rooted not in the economics of the issue, but in the political, institutional and public administration aspects of it. There are political scientists, public management specialists and institutional analysts who have thought long and hard about the bureaucratic constraints we are discussing, and how to relax them so as to render social objectives more attainable. Does it not make sense to invite the real experts to join our discussion before ruling out industrial policy by amateurish hand waving?
In any case, the world moves along regardless of what we economists decide. Governments engage in industrial policy all the time even when they do not call it such. A pernicious side effect of economists' knee-jerk opposition to industrial policy is that governments do not get the benefit of what economists have to contribute to the design of such policies.
Today America is engaged in what is perhaps the largest industrial policy effort in history, spending tens of billions of dollars to stimulate innovative green technologies—without the benefit of our hypothetical debate. Yet because "industrial policy" is such a taboo in polite economic discourse in America, this is done surreptitiously and with little contribution from economists. The programmes end up being designed and run by lawyers and engineers.
Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, was once asked what the key to his company's success was. If you want to succeed, he replied, you have to double your failure rate. Industrial policy is similar. We cannot judge its performance solely by the duds that it produces. The relevant yardstick is whether the occasional successes more than pay for the failures. They certainly did in Chile, for instance, where Fondación Chile's four leading investments returned enough money to pay for the organisation's entire budget.
Of course, we cannot always be sure that the outcome will be as favourable. But the fact that every successful country in history has actively promoted its industries through some combination of subsidies, protection and public investment suggests that the overall record of industrial policy cannot be that bad. America, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China have all made prominent use of industrial policies during their formative eras. Latin America eked out significantly faster productivity growth under its much-maligned import-substitution policies than it has done since.
And we can do much, much better. But first we need to jettison the blinkers that make us see government as the enemy of the market instead of its handmaiden.
Industrial policy has a mixed track record at best, and governments have made costly mistakes. But industrial policy does not always fail. Indeed, government activity in markets is often the critical difference between sectors' growth and competitiveness. In this era of heightened activism as governments seek to restore economic growth, what matters is understanding what approaches are likely to work best, when and where. The worst outcome for governments is failing to do their homework and spending scarce public resources on ineffectual forays into the market.1
The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company's economics and business research arm, has studied the performance of sectors and their contributions to economic growth and jobs. A key finding has been the distinctions between service sectors and manufacturing, tradable sectors and non-tradable sectors, and the unique characteristics of new sectors. Our work on American multinational companies (MNCs), which tend to be concentrated in globally tradable sectors, finds that a different kind of policymaking may also need to develop in a new era of global competition for the location of MNCs and their investment. High-income economies—the United States in particular—have traditionally dominated as the favoured location for MNCs, but other countries are making huge strides in competing for such investment by providing companies with more consistent and more business-friendly environments in which to operate. Non-G7 economies are now home to 33% of Fortune 500 companies compared with 16% in 2000.2
Policymakers must take into account these new realities, tailor their approaches to the particular sector, and think carefully about their priorities. For example, is generating jobs in the short term the major aim; or should the focus be on achieving long-term improvements in productivity and value added? Consider cutting-edge new sectors such as green technologies. These are too small to deliver large-scale job creation in the short term, but they can make a huge difference in the long term if their innovations are widely adopted by large end-using sectors, as happened with semiconductors. In the short term, policymakers primarily interested in jobs should not ignore services, which generated all net jobs growth in high-income economies and 85% of net new jobs in middle-income countries between 1995 and 2005.
So what lessons does the past offer today's policymakers? In the case of globally competing, capital- and R&D-intensive sectors, experience shows that laissez-faire may indeed not be feasible for any country determined to grow a local industry. For instance, no successful semiconductor cluster has ever developed without substantial and sustained government support whether in the form of early defence contracts in America or the provision of public capital in South Korea. But—and it is a big but—trying to build local industries in these sectors is highly risky. Even committed government support cannot guarantee success in this sector, as we have witnessed in the cases of Germany and Singapore. Yet it is precisely this kind of sector with low odds of industrial policy success on which today's policymakers have their sights trained, often with unreasonable expectations for near-term contributions to jobs growth.
Depending on the sector, governments can step out of the way and let companies get on with their business. For largely domestic service sectors, governments can—and arguably should—limit policy to setting the regulatory environment and setting broad national priorities and roadmaps. In retail, good industrial policy looks very much like the Washington Consensus. Reducing barriers to entry, deregulation, flexible labour laws and encouraging creative destruction has been shown time and again to boost productivity (from the United States to Mexico and Russia) with benefits passed on to consumers in the form of lower costs and better products.
A light touch but a more active "enabling" role works for many other sectors. Without interfering with the market mechanism, governments can support the private sector by expanding infrastructure; educating and training a skilled workforce; and supporting R&D. In software, where access to talent is the key, government education policies are critical factors. India, Ireland and Israel, all countries with exceptionally rapid IT services export growth, had a pool of skilled engineers available at a globally competitive cost.
Further along the intervention spectrum, governments can opt to tilt the playing field in favour of domestic producers through trade protection and financial incentives, and shape local demand growth through public purchasing or regulation. At the extreme end of the spectrum, government is the lead actor, establishing state-owned or subsidised companies, funding businesses to ensure their survival and imposing restructuring on certain industries.
The most effective potential approach to myriad manufacturing sectors varies enormously. If there is one common theme, it is that these tend to be globally competing sectors and the odds of success depend on whether governments focus on activities that have an inherent competitive advantage in the location, the sector's role in a global value chain and the execution of policy.
Instead of engaging in doctrinal debates between believers in the market and those who advocate public-policy intervention, governments will boost their odds of success if they take a sector view and draw on experience to learn what approaches to industrial policy have been effective—and which have not—in different sectors and situations.
1 For MGI's full analysis, see How to compete and grow after the recovery: A sector approach to policy making, McKinsey Global Institute, March 2010 (www.mckinsey.com/mgi).
2 See Growth and competitiveness in the United States: The role of its multinational companies, McKinsey Global Institute, June 2010 (www.mckinsey.com/mgi).


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There's a new poster at Grand Central Station, the terminus for commuter trains into Manhattan, of a woman wrapped tightly in an orange towel.
It's an ad for Hyatt, and it's unusual for several reasons. It shows -- counter-culturally -- and to my delight:
-- a woman alone
-- a woman wrapped up in a towel
-- a woman who is not a size 4
-- a woman by herself on a deserted beach
-- a woman who is not accompanied/validated by a husband, partner, gal pals or children
She is staring at the ocean. She's lost in thought: no tech toys, no earbuds, no distractions. No fruity drinks with little paper umbrellas in them.
The photo shows us a woman comfortable in her own skin, in solitude.
It's how I love to be, and many of us wish to try, but are perhaps too committed to others' needs or too afraid of going somewhere all alone. What if it's scary or dangerous or expensive?
For me, it's a photo of a woman living her very own life.
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That she chose to be covered in a manufactured item, instead of natural foliage for instance, indicates a dependence upon a whole socio/economic system that has the ability to make and distribute and sell such things.
And since when does being in the company of others constitute merely a "validation" and not pleasure in association with them?
What a weird outlook you appear to have on life!
The quality of your writing was never mentioned by me (it's excellent) and this blog was rated by me.
Since it appears that any viewpoint that differs from your own is subject to any derogatory term that enters your mind, such as your designation "bitter", it is indeed "better" that I not be involved in the usual back-and-forth of OS bloggers and commenters with you.
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Kevin Micheli is a native of Detroit, Michigan. After receiving a business degree from Western Michigan University, he went on to earn his degree in Culinary Arts at New England Culinary Institute. Kevin started his career at Cuisine, which was voted Detroit's best restaurant. From there, he worked at Michelin-starred restaurants Everest and Crofton on Wells in Chicago, the latter as the Sous Chef. From Chicago, Kevin moved to Seattle where he opened a large hotel-style private residence as Executive Chef. He most recently worked as Sous Chef at Church and State in Los Angeles under Tony Esnault.


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The Week Ahead: Our election predictions
Welcome to New York on the Potomac's "The Week Ahead," a preview of events to come on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week. This week's report was written by William K. Moore of ViaNovo. • • • Republicans will win significant gains in the House and Senate in Tuesday's mid-term election, overturning […]
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Political cartoons of the week: Candidates dress up for Halloween; Jon Stewart undresses them
Every Sunday, New York on the Potomac presents some of the best political cartoons from the award-winning artists of Hearst Newspapers. Today, we feature work by Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle John de Rosier of the Albany Times Union and David Horsey of SeattlePI.com.
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In pictures: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert bring sanity (and fear) to Washington
They came dressed as angels and jokers, tea bags and mad hatters. Some had green hair. Some had none. Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. The brainchild of comedians and fake newscasters Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the event called for "people who think shouting […]
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Obama's 'Recovery Summer' = Republican recovery
New York on the Potomac frequently publishes guest opinions from across the political spectrum. Today, we offer a piece from one of our favorite Washington web columnists, Rich Galen. To subscribe to Rich's "Mullings" cybercolumn, click here. • • • Going into the summer of 2010, we were assured by the political geniuses in the […]
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Pundit: Gibson-Murphy contest tilts toward GOP
At least one respected political observer in Washington has shifted his prediction about the House race between Republican Chris Gibson and Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy, on the heels of a Siena College poll showing Gibson had a nine-point lead. In his latest House ratings, Stuart Rothenberg categorizes the Gibson-Murphy match-up as a "toss up" that […]
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New York to receive $28 million for Empire Corridor high-speed rail
This report was written by Thomas Frank of the Washington bureau. New York State will receive more than $28 million in high-speed rail grants, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray announced Thursday. The grants are part of $2.4 billion in federal support divided among 54 rail projects in 23 states. "High-speed rail will spur economic […]
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Key swing groups swing away from Democrats
This report was written by Torhild Martinussen of the Washington bureau. Unless every poll out there is wrong, Democrats are going to take a beating in the 2010 midterm elections. The latest CBS News/NY Times poll found that 46 percent of likely voters said they would vote for Republicans and 40 percent said they would […]
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News links: Chuck Schumer maneuvers for embattled Harry Reid's job
n Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faces an up uphill battle against Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle. Meanwhile, his colleague in New York, Sen. Chuck Schumer is quietly maneuvering to take over Reid's spot. New York Times>>> Some moderate Democrats are, contrary to popular belief, surviving through the national political wave that is sweeping […]
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Justice Department acts to ensure that NY, other target states count all military ballots
This report was written by Gary Martin of the Washington bureau. A Justice Department crackdown to force targeted states, including New York, to comply with a new law that protects absentee voting rights of military personnel serving abroad was announced Wednesday by Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. Perez said the Justice Department has taken legal […]
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Cliff Richard 36 Days Ago
We should fall to our knees and thank God for the sacrifices made on our behalf and I hope this song, below, will encourage us to do just that. Chris Eaton has written hits for me in the past, of course, and I wish him great success this Christmas. Thank you Chris for bringing our thoughts back to the needs of others. God speed… God Bless. Love Cliff 'Military Voices - 1914 - The Carol of Christmas' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JzYnmYQFtA Please share the video & download the song here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/1914-carol-christmas-single/id944235108 All proceeds are going to support our servicemen & women & their families. We are all affected by war. Let's spread a message of honour, peace & hope this Christmas time.
Cliff Richard 42 Days Ago
Spend 90 seconds watching this – it's wonderful lendwithcare.org http://careint.uk/1vjgpvn Pls share, as I am.
Cliff Richard 48 Days Ago
Wells Wines has a selection of special packs of Cliff's Vida Nova available for Christmas. Please order early for Christmas delivery to avoid disappointment. For full details of these packs and other wines see www.wells-wines.com Admin
Cliff Richard 52 Days Ago
Cliff Richard 57 Days Ago
Due to overwhelming demand a 6th and final night of Cliff Richard's 75th Birthday Tour 2015 will go on sale at 10am on Sunday 30th November. The final night at the Royal Albert Hall will be Sunday 18th October 2015. Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster phone and internet & the Venue Box Office, phone and internet, and available to all from 10am on Sunday 30th November. http://www.cliffrichard.org Admin
Cliff Richard 66 Days Ago
I am absolutely thrilled that a great guitarist like Peter Frampton has played on my new CD! Thanks Peter! Love Cliff
Cliff Richard 68 Days Ago
Cliff's Vida Nova Wine in Danish shops. Unik aftale i Danmark med Super Best / Gobi vin v/ Peter Sick. Super Best's vinafdelinger er kendt for, at have et kvalitets sortiment i deres spændende vinbutikker, som ligger godt fordelt i Danmark. Den fantastiske kvalitets rødvin årgang 2012 fra Cliff's, VIDA NOVA, kommer til det danske marked i nye smarte 3 stk. kasser, special designet af Peter Sick Gobi vin. Vinen er klar pr. 1. december 2014 i hele 52 udvalgte SUPER BEST butikker i Danmark. (Se vedlagte promotion med de 52 butikker). Til foråret 2015 kommer Cliff Richard's vine til at ligge i ca. 140 danske butikker i kæden, nærmere Info kommer primo 2015. Rødvinen er ikke alene en oplagt gave ide både til vinelskere og Cliff fans. Den er også et godt valg til den krævende danske jule-vintermad. www.vintappen.dk Admin
Cliff Richard 74 Days Ago
Have you got your tickets yet for Cliff's 75th Birthday Tour 2015? Let us know which concerts you're going to. Tickets are still available through the box office venues and Ticketmaster. Click here for all information http://www.cliffrichard.org/news/exclusive.html Admin
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Cliff Richard 79 Days Ago
A small number of £75 previously held seats are being made available to all fans from 10am Saturday 8th November at each venue in the provinces for Cliff's 75th Birthday Tour 2015. Please contact the Box Office at the relevant venue to purchase, via phone or internet booking link on the CRO website from 10am Saturday. Admin
Cliff Richard 83 Days Ago
Guess which artist has the highest proportion of positive songs!... Read the article here: http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/most-miserable-songwriter-goes-chiswick-born-8029907 Which of all Cliff's songs do you find most positive and why? Admin
Cliff Richard 85 Days Ago
General On Sale begins at 9am today. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and each venue box office. Links are provided here: http://www.cliffrichard.org/news/exclusive.html (DON'T FORGET TO REFRESH YOUR WEBPAGE. PRESS F5 ON YOUR KEYBOARD OR THE LINKS MIGHT BE HIDDEN) Due to demand, tickets may become unavailable through any one seller, in which case please try the other. The venues are all listed on the CRO website. Please be very careful when buying concert tickets. We recommend that you buy from the official outlets only which are the venue box offices, Ticketmaster and Newmarket Holidays. Admin
Cliff Richard 86 Days Ago
Hi everyone, this is just a brief message to thank all of you who have shown support, including those in the Press. I wanted to let you know that I'm doing ok and it goes without saying that I fully intend to clear my name. Just to be absolutely clear, the allegation is completely false and I will continue to cooperate with the police should they wish to speak to me again. Once again...many thanks!
Cliff Richard 144 Days Ago
Now available from Danilo. Cliff's brand new calendar for 2015. https://www.danilo.com/Shop/Calendars/Music-Calendars/-Cliff-Richard-2015-Calendar Admin
Cliff Richard 147 Days Ago
For many months I have been aware of allegations against me of historic impropriety which have been circulating online. The allegations are completely false. Up until now I have chosen not to dignify the false allegations with a response, as it would just give them more oxygen. However, the police attended my apartment in Berkshire today without notice, except it would appear to the press. I am not presently in the UK but it goes without saying that I will cooperate fully should the police wish to speak to me. Beyond stating that today's allegation is completely false it would not be appropriate to say anything further until the police investigation has concluded
Cliff Richard 165 Days Ago
Here's an interview from a little while back, about Cliff's latest album from Rock Cellar Magazine. http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2014/08/05/cliff-richard-fabulous-rock-n-roll-songbook-interview/2/#sthash.1bccP0jI.dpbs Admin
Cliff Richard 166 Days Ago
Don't forget that this morning the Adega do Cantor's 'partners in wine', Sir Cliff Richard & Nigel Birch, will be on KISS FM's Breakfast Show with DJ Si Frater at 10.00! You can listen online here www.kissfm.pt and find out how it all began... producing the award winning Algarvean VIDA NOVA wine and much more... Admin
Cliff Richard 166 Days Ago
Cliff pressing the button to crush the grapes for the start of this year's Adega do Cantor's vintage!
Cliff Richard 167 Days Ago
Congratulations, and well done to everyone involved. Admin http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/sir-cliff-charity-event-raises-over-10000/32356
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Some of my all-time favourite non-fiction books
Some of my all-time favourite non-fiction books
Jan 8, 2010
I'm a voracious reader. I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest that I've devoured over 5,000 books in my lifetime. While I'm generally a lover of fiction, I've found a number of great non-fiction reads in my life. I've determined that in order to push on my buttons and hold my interest, a non-fiction book generally has to be superbly written. I am definitely NOT a lover of tedious data compilation, listing of encyclopedic facts and dates and a purely scholarly analysis. If it's going to work for me, non-fiction has to read like something off of the best-seller fiction list. Here are a few of my favourites that meet that exacting standard:
The Physics of Star Trek
An exciting, entertaining and informative discussion on the serious topic of how the science in the series "Star Trek" stacks up against the frontiers of real world knowledge! What the writers got right, what they got wrong and how they sometimes beat the scientists to the punch with an uncanny level of foresight and prescience. Top that off with a list of amusing bloopers and you've got the makings of a thoroughly entertaining popular science book.
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A serious romp through the physics of Star Trek?
Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness
Until recently, such phenomena as the volatility of weather systems, the fluctuation of the shock market, or the random firing of neurons in the brain were considered too "noisy" and complex to be probed by science. But now, with the aid of high-speed computers, scientists have been able to penetrate a reality that is changing the way we perceive the universe. Their findings -- the basis for chaos theory -- represent one of the most exciting scientific pursuits of our time. "Turbulent Mirror" is an exciting, exceptionally well-written primer that will guide a mathematically oriented layman through the basics of chaos.
The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics
When the first edition of Ivars Peterson's The Mathematical Tourist was published in 1988, the New York Times called it "a rich array of ideas, drawing on virtually every branch of mathematics and bringing in plenty of late-breaking developments to boot." Now Peterson has expanded this popular book to feature another decade of mathematical progress, including new sections on crystal structure, string theory, mathematicians' use of computers, chaos theory, and Fermat's Last Theorem. Most of the other sections have been reworked and reworded as well, and there are many new illustrations. One thing that has not changed is the clarity of Peterson's writing and his almost unparalleled ability to make mathematical ideas themselves interesting, without focusing on the lives and personalities of mathematicians. Martin Gardner called it an exploration of vast, unexpected regions of mathematics teeming with bizarre creatures and wondrous vistas!
The Ragged Mountain Portable Wilderness Anthology
Solo camping, by its very nature, attracts the type of person who is contemplative in nature and is comfortable with themselves and the solitude that solo camping engenders. Sadly that contemplative nature is frequently frustrated. While we are awed by nature's grandeur, its simplicity and its events, we are frequently unable to put those thoughts into prose that express the emotions even to ourselves. Enter "The Ragged Mountain Portable Wilderness Anthology", a compendium of pithy, soothing, exciting and lucid essays by some of the finest nature writers that have ever lived - RM Patterson, Aldo Leopold, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey and Sigurd Olson, to name only a few. A great lightweight companion for someone who's probably exquisitely aware of every ounce on their back and an entertaining after dinner luxury item for whiling away that campfire time before you curl up into the sleeping bag for the night! And, you might consider giving a copy to a friend who just doesn't understand why you like being "out there"!
Nahanni trailhead: A year in the northern wilderness
This MUST be read to be believed. An extraordinary account of a year homesteading in what is arguably the most brutal, rugged piece of wilderness in the continent. In an eloquent bit of understatement, RM Patterson called the savage South Nahanni River "The Dangerous River". Despite this advance billing, John Moore proposed marriage to his fiancée and, at the same time, suggested that they spend their honeymoon homesteading for one year in the wildly remote Nahanni valley. Joanne accepted and the rest, as they say, is history. Lovers of adventure reading will savor "Nahanni Trailhead", the distillation of Joanne's journal from their wilderness year, compiled from diary notes written at the end of almost every challenging day. Courage, romance, hardship, excitement, cold, danger, peace, tranquility, fulfilment, loneliness and occasionally even tedium ... but all of it in an easy going style of writing that flows naturally from first page to last.
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High adventure and romance!
Why We Act Like Canadians: A Personal Exploration of our National Character
In a series of open letters to an American friend named Sam, (or to be more precise, "Uncle Sam" as a metaphorical representation of all of our friends south of our Canadian border), Pierre Berton uses colourful examples from our history, our climate, and our geography to explain the vagaries of our national character. In short, he explains to his befuddled American buddy not only what it is to be a Canadian but "why we act like Canadians"!
The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration)
A gripping examination of every detail of the great race for the South Pole between Scott and Amundsen that took place in 1911-12! The Last Place on Earth is a complex and fascinating account of the race for this last great terrestrial goal, and it's pointedly geared toward demythologizing Scott. Though this was the age of the amateur explorer, Amundsen was a professional: he left little to chance, apprenticed with Eskimos, and obsessed over every detail. While Scott clung fast to the British rule of "No skis, no dogs," Amundsen understood that both were vital to survival, and they clearly won him the Pole. Amundsen in Huntford's view is the "last great Viking" and Scott his bungling opposite: "stupid ... recklessly incompetent," and irresponsible in the extreme--failings that cost him and his teammates their lives. Yet for all of Scott's real or exaggerated faults, he understood far better than Amundsen the power of a well-crafted sentence. Scott's diaries were recovered and widely published, and if the world insisted on lionizing Scott, it was partly because he told a better story. Huntford's bias aside, it's clear that both Scott and Amundsen were valiant and deeply flawed.
Going Inside: A Couple's Journey of Renewal into the North
An extraordinary 13-month, 2,000 mile journey through the Canadian North! When people who have been swallowed up in the northern wilderness talk of returning to civilization, they say that they are going "Outside". this is the account - part love story, part adventure, part hymn to the great beauty of the North - of a couple's journey away from their troubled urban lives, across Canada, to the "Inside".
Singing Wilderness
In each of the thirty-four chapters of The Singing Wilderness, Sigurd Olson has sought to capture an essential quality of our magnificent lake and forest heritage. He shows us what can be read from the rocks of the great Canadian Shield; he offers a delightful essay on the virtues of pine knots as fuel; he writes of the ways of a canoe, of flashing trout in the pools of the Isabella, of tamarack bogs, caribou moss, the flight of wild geese, timber wolves, and the birds of the ski trails. And much more, with something to satisfy every taste for wilderness experience.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
In an enthralling tour de force of popular explication, Singh, author of the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, explores the impact of cryptography, the creation and cracking of coded messages. Some of his examples are familiar, notably the Allies' decryption of the Nazis' Enigma machine during WWII; less well-known is the crucial role of Queen Elizabeth's code breakers in deciphering Mary, Queen of Scots' incriminating missives to her fellow conspirators plotting to assassinate Elizabeth, which led to Mary's beheading in 1587. Singh celebrates a group of unsung heroes of WWII, the Navajo "code talkers," Native American Marine radio operators who, using a coded version of their native language, played a vital role in defeating the Japanese in the Pacific. He also elucidates the intimate links between codes or ciphers and the development of the telegraph, radio, computers and the Internet. As he ranges from Julius Caesar's secret military writing to coded diplomatic messages in feuding Renaissance Italy city-states, from the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone to the ingenuity of modern security experts battling cyber-criminals and cyber-terrorists, Singh clarifies the techniques and tricks of code makers and code breakers alike. He lightens the sometimes technical load with photos, political cartoons, charts, code grids and reproductions of historic documents. He closes with a fascinating look at cryptanalysts' planned and futuristic tools, including the "one-time pad," a seemingly unbreakable form of encryption. In Singh's expert hands, cryptography decodes as an awe-inspiring and mind-expanding story of scientific breakthrough and high drama.
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
An erudite, fascinating account by one of the foremost purveyors of contemporary nonfiction, this book chronicles the underlying causes, utter devastation and lasting effects of the cataclysmic 1883 eruption of the volcano island Krakatoa in what is now Indonesia. Winchester (The Professor and the Madman; The Map That Changed the World) once again demonstrates a keen knack for balancing rich and often rigorous historical detail with dramatic tension and storytelling.
Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos
The unique premise of LIFE IN DARWIN'S UNIVERSE is that just as the laws of physics and chemistry apply throughout the cosmos, so must Darwin's principles of evolution. Bylinsky's journey through time and space gives us a scientific view of what life might be like on uninhabited planets of the galaxies -- how the evolutionary push of life might respond to different physical requirements. Bylinsky even speculates on what creatures might have dominated Earth had conditions here been somewhat different.
All Creatures Great and Small
The first James Herriot omnibus traces the career of the world's most famous vet from his arrival in the Yorkshire Dales countryside to the completion of his courtship with his wife-to-be, Helen. This warm, joyous and often hilarious first-person chronicle of a young animal doctor positively shines with love of life and cannot fail to make you smile, laugh and cry all at the same time.
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
"Into Africa" presents the unimaginably complex biography of the legendary journalist and African explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, and his search across treacherous African terrain for the missing British hero, Dr David Livingstone. The ending of the story, the anti-climactic meeting in a remote African village and Stanley's utterance of the fabulously understated "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" is well known. But the story ... my, my, my! "Into Africa" is a powerful paean to the indomitable, persevering nature of the human spirit of exploration and discovery. Dugard combines disease, danger, treachery, colonial politics, tribal warfare, wild animals, challenging terrain, racism, slavery, greed, love, courage, lust and even blind stupidity into a compelling and endlessly fascinating narrative that begins and then finishes all too quickly.
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This can't be history! It was WAY too exciting
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything, Revised and Expanded Edition
Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun.
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Learning should be this enjoyable more often!
The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant
It takes considerable flair and panache to write history in a way that makes it read like a novel and not very many authors have that ability. Canada's Pierre Berton has it! Dava Sobel and Simon Winchester are certainly up to the task! In "The Man Who Mapped the Arctic", Peter Steele demonstrated his rightful claim to membership on that short list. Steele, a physician who has spent most of his life in the North and an arctic adventurer and mountaineer in his own right, has eloquently told us the astonishing tale of George Back, Franklin's undeservedly obscure and unsung Lieutenant and his astonishing exploits in exploration that rival Samuel Hearne's or Lewis and Clark's in their extraordinary scope and difficulty.
Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
When one thinks of Arctic travel, the names that probably come to your mind first are Scott, Peary, Shackleton, Amundsen, Henry Hudson, Davis and, of course, Sir John Franklin. Wait a minute ... what about John Rae? "John Rae?" you say ... "Who's John Rae?" Well, exactly! One might say that this is precisely the point of the book. Ken McGoogan's "Fatal Passage" is a thrilling biography of John Rae who is probably the least known, least understood and least respected Arctic explorer in history but he is also arguably the finest, the strongest, most accomplished, most extraordinary and most skilled white man to ever set foot into Canada's far north!
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The story of John Rae ... wait, who's John Rae??
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Thanks for this list. I read almost exclusively non-fiction and a few books on this list peaked my interest based on your thoughts. I have heard good things about Freakonomics before, so I guess it is really time to read that one.
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Nice list, Paul! I see a theme in your interests here :) Something tells me that you would make a great beer list, too!
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