I have been sorting images for my January newsletter and remembered that I had a ride on the Brighton Wheel last week with my Dad and thought I would share some of the images with you. Regular readers of this blog will know I love structures with strong simple shapes and I had great fun looking and composing shots.
I took Dad out for the day while my sister looked after Mum, he wanted to go for a ride on the Brighton Wheel. It is a new feature to the seafront and right next to the Brighton Palace Pier. It was a bit of a dull day and very cold.
How can you forget you are scared of heights? With all the palaver of organising Dad I totally forgot I HATE heights!!! This is the woman who can't go up the steel staircase in The Palm House at Kew - how sad is that? We got into our little gondola and started to move and I remembered. OOHHH!!!! Talk about hyperventilating - I almost managed to enjoy the trip - Dad had a good laugh if nothing else . . .
After the wheel and when my legs had stopped shaking we went onto the pier.
I haven't been on there for years, you never visit these attractions when they are in your home town do you?
what a poseur . . .
There are all kinds of 'attractions' on the pier now - including a fun fair. I loved the structure of this roller coaster and the shapes that it makes.
. . and of course there is a carousel . . .
We had a great time together - me and my Dad. We went out to lunch and I got him back home in time for a nap. I don't often spend time with him just us two together - it was surprisingly - Fun!
I have a few orders to post this afternoon then that is it till I come back from Spain. Any orders received from now will be posted on the 9th January before I travel to Denman College.
I am off to pack and then re-pack - I WILL fit everything in. Brenda, her hubby and I are spending New Year with Isobel Hall and then travelling onto Granada and The Alhambra Palace. I am SO excited!!! As you will no doubt see with my next post . . . . .
Happy New Year to you all - have a wonderful time!
Creative, colourful cards . . .
Christmas is a great time to make and receive cards. I thought I would share two that I received - I just love them. Carlolynn McMillan lives in Canada and we have been emailing for a while trying to sort out which of the Pellon products in Canada and the U.S.A.are similar to the ones I sell. We have swapped parcels of goodies and I think I prefer all the 'pelmet' Vilene interfacings that I sell as they are smooth. The ones that Carolynn sent me are bit rough and pock marked. However I am sure there must be a larger range available so I will investigate. Carolynn also sent me some 'Reemay' which looks very similar to a fine to medium weight Vilene Spunbond. I need a chance to play with it to see if it reacts in the same way.
I am waiting to hear back from Carolynn to see what she thinks of all my samples . . . I posted mine a bit later than Carolynn did so my parcel will have got caught up in the festive post.
I met Chris Gray at The Festival Quilts this year and she has become a good friend. She dyes all her own threads and makes up fabulous kits for you to buy. mabonarts.bigcartel.com Chris sent me this lovely card. I don't know how she finds the time as she is always so busy. Chris has a great blog that you might enjoy chris-gray-textile-art.blogspot.com I will be running the Vilene Workshop again this year at The Fashion, Embroidery and Stitch Show at the end of March and Chris will be one of the tutors offering workshops.
I'm off on Friday to stay with my matey Brenda in Spain for the New Year. (Brenda is the owner of Castanea - Crafts in Spain where I will be teaching in October - castanea-craft-courses.com) While I am there we will be going to the Alhambra Palace in Granda - I am SO excited, I have always wanted to get there. I will be away for just over a week, back in time to post any orders that have come in before I dash off to teach at Denman on the 9th January. I wonder what my next post will be about . . . ???
Before I go I have just a bit more washing up to do . . . . a bit more clearing up after the hoards have left - then I can fly away . . . .
Even more Happy Christmas . . !
Shirley wrote that there were no complaints about glitter in supper but there's still plenty in her hall carpet! Oh! how we suffer for our art!!!
If any of you get a chance to play with any of my products over the holidays do send me some images and I will put them on the blog - it always good to see what you are up to.
I'm off to attack the spuds now - the turkey has been in for hours.
It has been a very busy year. I have met some some fabulous people, had great fun on all my workshops and managed to catch up with most of my friends. I am very lucky to have created a working life I love so much, my own little textile world.
DO IT NOW! Seems to be a good motto for the coming year - don't put things off!
"Love the one you're with"!!!!!
Yeehaa!!!! It's Christmas, have a fabulous time.
Never say never . . . !
Bondaweb painted with diluted Colourful Thoughts paint and then printed with the same paints at full strength.
I have always said I will never sell paints or dyes - just products that will do something with heat. However - due to the encouraging growth in sales of my Play packs, particularly the Hot Spots! I am now gong to incorporate Colourful Thoughts Paints, Gilding Flake and Jewel Dots in two new Play packs that I will launch mid January ready for the new Creative Stitches Show at Bluewater at the beginning of February.
These multi surface paints are the best I have found for painting all my products but particularly for Bondaweb and Tyvek where you need to dilute the paint but you still need some colour. They have a high metallic content which is great as many of you know I like a bit of sparkle . . .
I just LOVE this stuff is makes my happiness complete when I am layering with painted Bondaweb, you will have seen plenty of it previous posts, particularly when I have been layering newspaper.
I will be making a few changes to the website in January, the home page definitely needs sorting out. I have some time to do some thinking over Christmas and New Year so who knows what I will come up with . . . .
On the subject of never say never - I think I MIGHT have said I was never going to write another book . . . and . . now . . . . mmmm!! Watch this space!
I hope you are all jingling those bells . . ?
Just a quick post to say I have just had confirmation that I have an extra show next year, I will be at Creative Stitches SECC Glasgow 8th - 11th March. It is a great show in a stunning venue and I am so excited to be going. If any of the Guilds that have been wanting me to deliver workshops and lectures in Scotland want to come and see me at the show I will be taking email addresses to plan a 2 week 'tour' of Scotland in 2013, probably September ish!!!
I am still wading through the orders that are coming in thick and fast but I should get up to date today. . . . . . .
. . . altogether now - "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - la, la la, la la!!!"
Slowly getting sorted . . . !
It's a 'sorting out' and posting week this week. I am slowly putting the house back together after the the Open House last week-end. We had a brilliant final two days, very busy - which always amazes me as I live SO far off the beaten track.
I sold two of my 'criss cross' wall pieces so am very chuffed!!!
nid-noi.com www.nid-noi.com has gone slightly mad in the last 4 weeks, I suspect it is to do with the Creative Bondaweb DVD coming out. I am nearly up to date with orders. I am posting a load today up to and including order no 544. All others will be posted on Thursday 15th. I am about to leave for Derbyshire to stay with my friend Tallulah so I can get to a very sad occasion in Newark tomorrow morning. I wouldn't normally go away at such a busy time - but this is very important.
I hope you are all coping with the escalating panic as we lurch further into the Festive Season . . aaRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!
More layered newspaper brooches . . .
I have watched the DVD all the way through twice now and it is hysterical., I was obviously very relaxed and happy.. Jamie Malden of Colouricious who produced the film is brilliant. Very well organinsed, calming and great fun. She made the entire experience very enjoyable and the film reflects this.
Have a great week-end and make the most of your friends and family around you . . .
The Creative Bondaweb DVD's have arrived!!!
Thanks to not so Express TNT the DVD's arrived today rather than yesterday - aarGGHH!!! All envelopes have been stuffed and posted so you should be receiving them anytime from tomorrow to the middle of next week. Thank you all for your patience. My customers in Australia, Canada and the U.S.A will have to wait a wee bit longer - but they have been posted. I do hope you all enjoy the DVD, try not to laugh too much.
I am making more newspaper brooches for my final Open House this week-end, I am expecting to be very busy. All the cakes are made, I just need to get on with the cheese scones now . . . . I do like a cheese scone - hot - with lots of butter . . . . mmmmm!!!!
I have just heard of the very sad and sudden death of Sarah Lawrence of Craftynotions. What a devastating blow for David and the family. Sarah would hate any fuss being made so I will just say that she was very important to so very of us in so many ways, on a personal as well as a business level.
My new Creative Bondaweb DVD is arriving on the 7th December - Hurrah!
Hurrah and lashings of ginger beer!!!!
There's a lot of me about . . . !
This is 'Myra', a needle felted monkey by Lady Lazarus aka Jayne Routley, one of the first acquisitions of the day.
We had a FAB week-end at the Open House with lots of friends and new faces arriving to have a look at our latest gorgeous display of wonderful work and buy their Christmas presents. Although I don't know just how many of the lovely things that were bought this week-end will actually be given away in the end . . . . I suspect that many of the scarves, brooches and bowls will be kept by my visitors. Don't you find that? You go out looking for presents for other people and end up buying for yourself - OOhhh!!! We are SO bad!
The collection of brooches and earrings that I had made has almost sold out. I thought there would be plenty for the 3 weekends. I seem to have found something that I can sell - at last!!! I will have to make more this week.
We have one more week-end left to go and expect it to be very busy so all my artists will be busy making more work and re-stocking.
I'm afraid there is a lot of me about at the moment! Jamie Malden from Colouricious has launched 2 more clips from my (soon to be delivered) Creative Bondaweb DVD on Youtube. The clips show how to paint Bondaweb and decorate paper.
I have added the clips to the growing list of links on the left of this blog. The DVD should be delivered in the next couple of days . . . . . . As soon as I have them I will send them out - the envelopes are all ready.
Have a great week - I'm off to pack and post more orders for www.nid-noi.com - it's gone bonkers . . . . .
I HATE being late for anything, and things being late, like buses and DVD's!!!!!
It looks as though my Creative Bondaweb DVD will not be arriving until the 8th December at the very latest, it may be here sooner, It is in the queue to be finished and packed and of course the replication company is slightly busy this time of year. We are nearly there. As soon as they arrive I will put them in the post. All the envelopes are stamped and ready to go. (it has taken me all week to get them ready).
For customers who have DVD's included in a mixed order of products - I will be posting your other products tomorrow and post the DVD's as soon as I get them. I know it will cost me more on postage but I am worried your parcels will get caught up in the Christmas post, particularly the orders from the U.S.A. and Australia.


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Counteroffers - accept at your peril
Mon 5 February 2018
There's no doubt about it, the confirmation of a new job offer can be one of the most satisfying feelings in the world. You've been selected from all the other candidates to take on a challenging new role that comes complete with a great salary and a range of attractive benefits. It's all you could wish for! So you break the "bad news" to your boss, and the next day he comes back to you with a counteroffer. Suddenly things don't seem so clear-cut. Perhaps you should stay in your existing role? It's a pretty good position, you know your way around the place, you're comfortable, safe, secure. Maybe a new job isn't such a good idea. And with a nice counteroffer on the table, maybe it makes sense to stay put?
Offer versus counteroffer
This is a very common scenario, yet however "offer" and "counteroffer" stack up against each other, our advice is always the same. Don't reconsider. Don't accept the counteroffer. Push on with the new opportunity. This advice is based on years of experience and first-hand knowledge of many instances where accepting a counteroffer didn't turn out as planned for either party. We're not saying there's never been a case where it's been appropriate to accept a counteroffer, but in our experience it's very, very rare.
We use the term "counteroffer" to describe an employer's response to your stated intention to leave the company and take up a position with another firm. We're not talking about responses to informal discussions concerning approaches you've had from other companies (those little tactics frequently used to remind your bosses how valuable you are). We're talking about genuine offers confirmed in writing, and the counteroffer is your employer's response to tempt you to stay.
The poisoned chalice
A juicy counteroffer can be very tempting, but we strongly recommend you resist temptation, and here's why. Firstly, examine your manager's motives. Why do they want you to stay?
They rely heavily on you, and they'll suffer when you're gone.
The department is already stretched to capacity. What will happen if you leave?
They need to keep you in place until they can find a good replacement.
Each of these concerns is centred around your boss's welfare, not your own, and quite naturally they will be worried about how your departure will impact upon them. How will it look if they lose a good member of the team? How will it affect their performance? How will they manage without you? So any incentives to stay may not actually be offered with your best interests at heart.
Let's talk about this
Counteroffers can be pitched in a variety of ways, from, "we have big plans for you but we couldn't share them with you until everything was in place…" to "I thought you were happy in your role. What can I do to make you reconsider? Let's talk about this…"
But again, the motives behind these actions won't necessarily be focused on you. Your leaving will inevitably have downside consequences for your boss, not just operationally but on other levels too. Your departure will ultimately reflect on their abilities as a manager - were they unwilling to delegate sufficient responsibility? Did they not recognize and reward you sufficiently? What did they do to make you want to leave? These are all questions any manager would wish to avoid, so it's likely they'll try a variety of things to make you change your mind.
They might tell you how greatly valued you are, how much more they'll pay you, new areas of responsibility they'll give you. And unless you're utterly miserable in your work, these promises can appear very attractive, and all come without the risk associated with a move to a new company. But once you've stated your intention to leave, the risk of staying can be even greater.
The downside of accepting a counteroffer
Taking up a new role always brings risks. But once you've declared your intention to leave, so does remaining in your existing role.
Once you've stated your intention to leave you will always be considered a "flight risk", which means your loyalty will for ever be in question and you will be excluded from the company's "circle of trust".
What is the real motivation behind the counteroffer? To induce you to stay for the long-term? Or to put effective succession planning into place so your leaving won't have such a negative impact?
If you're valued so highly, why didn't your employer take a more proactive approach and offer these new elements before? Will you have to threaten to leave every time you want to negotiate conditions?
Well-managed companies aren't in the business of making counteroffers. They reward employees at a level that's consistent with market rates and the value the individual adds to the company. If they've been underpaying you, this reflects poorly on their commitment to looking after your career and your welfare. If they've not been underpaying you, an enhanced package must represent an overpayment in relation to market rates, and it's unlikely an employer will wish to sustain that in the long-term.
To stay, or not to stay?
Although counteroffers can appear both lucrative and attractive and can give you a warm feeling that comes from being truly valued by your employers, you should always consider the motives that lie behind the offer. Are your employers focused on what's best for you, or what's best for them? If the reason behind the counteroffer is to protect the best interests of the company and/or your boss rather than your own best interests, then you should reject the counteroffer and set your sights firmly on the road ahead. And don't look back.
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With more than 65 per cent of homebound residents vaccinated, Team Toronto vaccination partners launch "Homebound Sprint" to complete first doses
With more than 65 per cent of homebound residents vaccinated, Team Toronto vaccination partners launch "Homebound Sprint" to complete first doses
The City of Toronto and Team Toronto vaccination partners have launched a "Homebound Sprint" to deliver first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to all remaining homebound Toronto residents.
The team focused on vaccinating homebound Torontonians in their place of residence has already administered a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to more than 65 per cent of those residents, in many cases also vaccinating the resident's essential caregiver at the same time.
Adults 18 years of age or older who live in Toronto and cannot physically leave their home to receive the vaccine for medical, physical, cognitive or psychosocial reasons are eligible for in-home vaccination. As of May 24, nearly 7,000 individuals have registered for in-home vaccination through their primary care physicians, homecare service providers or self-referrals. More than 4,600 of the identified individuals – and in many cases their caregivers – have now received their first dose of vaccine. The team is working to administer in-home first doses to the remaining approximately 2,400 homebound residents over the next two weeks.
Team Toronto partners leading the homebound initiative are Toronto Paramedic Services, Toronto Public Health, Unity Health, Home and Community Services and University Health Network (UHN). Local homebound sprint partners, including Downtown East Toronto Ontario Health Team (OHT), East Toronto Health Partners, Mid-West Toronto OHT, North Toronto OHT, North York Toronto Health Partners, North Western Toronto OHT, Sinai Health, Scarborough Health Network, Sprint Senior Care, Toronto Western Family Health Team and West Toronto OHT are also helping to ensure all identified residents receive a vaccination.
Homebound vaccination is a complex operation, requiring significant logistical coordination to ensure all vaccines get into arms in a timely manner. The limited time that the vaccine can be out of freezers is just one factor that adds to the complexity of this operation. The "Homebound Sprint" builds on work started in March by Toronto Paramedics, with the support of UHN and Local Integrated Health Networks, to vaccinate homebound Torontonians. The City is proud of Toronto Paramedics and all Team Toronto partners for their work to ensure no one in the city who wishes to be vaccinated is left behind.
Anyone with questions about homebound vaccination should speak with their primary care or homecare service provider. Homebound individuals not linked with either a primary or homecare provider, can call the Toronto Seniors Helpline by phone at 416-217-2077 or online: www.torontoseniorshelpline.ca/web-chat. The helpline is available to support homebound adults and seniors to determine eligibility for an in-home COVID-19 vaccination. The helpline can also assist those who are able to leave their homes for vaccinations with information regarding transportation options or with booking an appointment at a City-run immunization clinic.
Vaccination for everyone age 12 and older is available at City-run immunization clinics. Appointments can be booked by residents through the dark blue "Book a Vaccine" button on toronto.ca/covid-19 or by calling the provincial vaccine booking line at 1-833-943-3900. Those seeking a vaccine appointment can also register and check availability with healthcare partners through vaccineto.ca/, local pharmacies or healthcare providers. Transportation support is available for those that need help getting to their appointment.
To easily connect to resources including vaccine appointment bookings, information on vaccines and upcoming telephone town halls, Toronto residents can text "VACCINE" to 1-833-750-0888 or 833-750-0888 for more information.
For the current wave of COVID-19 in Toronto, amplified by variants of concern, staying home and following public health guidance is the best way to keep everyone safe. Please review the City's COVID-19: Guide for Residents for public health guidance and information on what is and is not permitted under provincial regulations and City bylaws.
"Thank you to everyone who is working on this important Team Toronto effort right across the city to get our homebound residents vaccinated. This work takes time, care, and coordination to make sure we maximize each day as we go home by home to get individuals vaccinated. It is one more example of the City and our healthcare partners doing everything we can to get every resident vaccinated."
– Mayor John Tory
"Our Team Toronto approach is committed to breaking down every barrier and building every bridge to vaccination. That includes ensuring that people who have challenges leaving their home can easily access the COVID-19 vaccine. With our dedicated Toronto Public Health staff, paramedics, and health care partners, we have now rapidly scaled up a new push to get vaccines to homebound residents and their caregivers."
– Councillor Joe Cressy (Spadina-Fort York), Chair of the Toronto Board of Health
"Equitable vaccine distribution and roll-out are essential for those who face barriers to vaccination. We know that one population facing barriers are homebound adults who cannot – or rarely – leave their homes. Partners and service providers from across our city have come together to ensure no one is left behind."
– Dr. Eileen de Villa, Medical Officer of Health
"Toronto Paramedic Services is proud to support this important initiative. Our Community Paramedics have responded to the needs of homebound and vulnerable residents for many years, and in a number of capacities. We are pleased to be able to build on our experience and expertise to help ensure Torontonians have equitable access to COVID-19 vaccinations."
– Chief Gord McEachen, Toronto Paramedic Services
"Every single in-home vaccination requires significant care and coordination. Success requires us all to take an integrated care and delivery approach and this huge lift would not be possible without the tremendous city-wide leadership and collaboration from primary care, home and community service providers, hospitals and Ontario Health Teams."
– Shiran Isaacksz, Vice-President, UHN Connected Care and Altum Health
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Frequency Disasters (Beresford / Magaletti / Martino)
(Confront - UK)
Pianist & improviser Steve Beresford performing on prepared piano, toys & electronic, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bass player Pierpaolo Martino are heard in this cataclysmically interesting album based around Beresford's compositions, each piece a vignette that merges elements of free improv, rock, sound & avant structures in inventive and compelling ways.
Label: Confront
Catalog ID: core 18
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Wilton Way Studios, in London, UK, in December, 2018, by Syd Kemp.
Steve Beresford-prepared piano, toys, electronics
Valentina Magaletti-drums, percussion
Pierpaolo Martino-double bass
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"Steve Beresford (born 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York. He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.
Beresford played in Derek Bailey's Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. He was also a member with Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, and Han Bennink. He has collaborated extensively with Swiss-American artist/musician Christian Marclay and is an active member of the long-standing London Improvisers Orchestra.
From 2010 he performed various pieces by John Cage, including Indeterminacy with Tania Chen and comedian Stewart Lee, and a performance with Ilan Volkov at The BBC Proms 2012 at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including Ray Davis, The Slits, Frank Chickens, Ted Milton and The Flying Lizards. In 2015 he performed a duoproject with the upcoming Norwegian singer Natalie Sandtorv at the Blow Out! festival in Oslo, Norway.
He was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2012. He is a senior lecturer on the Commercial Music course at University of Westminster.
Beresford's music and his teachings have inspired the musical community in the UK for over a decade. British songwriter and performer Katy Carr cites Steve Beresford's lectures on musical themes associated with Free improvisation, Experimental music, John Cage, musique concrète, Diamanda Galás and The Slits as a source of initial inspiration with regards to the creation of her debut album, Screwing Lies released in 2001."
-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beresford)
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"Magaletti was born in Bari, Italy. She moved to London at the age of 21 and has resided there since.
She has collaborated and performed with acclaimed London experimental electronic project Raime, Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Helm, Malcom Catto, Charles Hayward, Bat for Lashes, and Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals). Her influences include Ikue Mori, Georgia Hubley, Jaki Liebezeit, Milford Graves, Elvin Jones, Tony Buck, Charles Hayward, Billy Higgins, Han Bennink, and Art Blakey.
Her principal project is as one half of the duo Tomaga with bassist/multi-instrumentalist Tom Relleen. She is also a member of the critically acclaimed experimental pop quintet Vanishing Twin and the supergroup UUUU, along with Graham Lewis (Wire) and Thighpaulsandra (Coil). In 2017, she played drums as part of surviving Can member Irmin Schmidt's The Can Project, based around Schmidt's orchestral reimagining of classic Can songs and themes with an ensemble that also included Thurston Moore and Steven Shelley of Sonic Youth, Deb Googe of My Bloody Valentine, and original Can singer Malcolm Mooney. She and percussionist and sculptor Joăo Pais Filipe released their first album as CZN (Copper, Zinc and Nickel) The Golden Path in 2018, and a collaborative release with Swiss percussionist and composer Julian Sartorius, Sulla Pelle, followed in 2019."
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"Pierpaolo Martino is a Researcher in English Literature at the University of Bari. He deals with cultural studies, modernist and contemporary literature, and the relationship between literature and music. He has published more than forty literary, musical and cinematographic studies on authors such as Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Colin MacInnes, Alan Sillitoe, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Salman Rushdie, Kamau Brathwaite, Hanif Kureishi, Hari Kunzru , Derek Jarman, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Smiths and Radiohead. He is the author of three monographs: Virginia Woolf: the music of the lighthouse. Page and Improvisation (2003), Down in Albion. Studies on English pop culture (2007) and Mark the Music. The Language of Music in English Literature from Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie (2012) and curator of Exodus. Studies on Anglo-Caribbean Literature (2009) and Words and Music, Studies on the relationship between literature and music in the English-speaking world (2015).
As a musician he began to study bass guitar at the age of 15 to undertake the double bass at the N. Piccinni Conservatory in Bari in 1993. He attended several seminars on improvisation both in Italy and abroad and studied with the French bass player. Joelle Leandre and American bassist Mark Dresser. He has played with internationally renowned musicians such as Sabir Mateen, Marc Ducret, Steve Potts, Vinny Golia and Eugenio Colombo."
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"Low-frequency, high-impact events such as earthquakes and tsunamis are not preventable, three bodies in a room sonically engaging are even less so.Beresford's architectural narrative drives Magaletti and Martino's rhythmic interventions into compelling short stories about dancing, dressing in rags, dreaming, swallowing, flight, famine, transformation, and dystopias/utopias.
Frequency Disasters are pianist, improviser and composer Steve Beresford, percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bass player Pierpaolo Martino.The trio offers a carnivalesque approach to improvisation, where high and low culture, drama and irony 'speak' to each other, constantly redefining themselves and where normative approaches to frequency and sound are necessarily escaped. Mixing free jazz, noise, avant-garde and library music, the trio creates an imaginary soundtrack to a narrative nourished by literary suggestions of authors such as P.G. Wodehouse, Jeanette Winterson and Italo Calvino."-Confront
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Global (Economic) Power in Flux? End of Western Dominance?
Lecture | L-PEG PhD Network Workshop
Prof. Robert Wade (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Virtual (link will be sent to registered participants)
According to the Pew Research Center (2017) , most people in most surveyed countries agreed: "China is overtaking the US as the world's leading power". Kishore Mahbubani, dean of LKY School, National University of Singapore, writes that
"As American & European power recedes, a global resurrection of non-Western attitudes is taking place." He reports that Prime Minister Modi and his government see the world moving towards a G-3 of US, China and India. Official China proudly agrees: the CCP Central Committee , October 29, 2020, celebrated "a profound adjustment in the international balance of power." The prominent blogger, "Chairman Rabbit" (Ren Yi), close to top of CCP, says: Most Chinese "think of US politics as a huge conspiracy to keep China down." Extending this thought, it is generally believed in development circles that the binary distinction between developed and developing countries ( West and Rest, or North and South) has lost whatever analytical content it may have had. The world has become "multipolar", with no hierarchical ordering. Developing countries have no coherence as an income bloc.
In contrast, I emphasise how little "catch up" of Rest to West (in average income) has occurred since the "development industry" was created over half a century ago – despite intense "globalization", long identified as a major cause of catch up (as in Martin Wolf's Why Globalization Works, 2004). Remember, China's average income (market exchange rates) is only 15% of the US's in 2020 ! Causes of lack of catch up include (a) GVCs, (b) distribution of patents, (c) distribution of global profits, (d) rule-setting by western states, giving them structural power such that the system works to the West's advantage "automatically". We have to drop the ur-metaphor behind most development thinking – development as marathon race, where the position of each runner is a function of their internal capabilities – and replace it with the seashore metaphor: what happens at any point on a seashore is a function of both (a) the configuration at that point ("Nigeria is poor because of things internal to Nigeria"), and (b) the laws of motion of the tides ("Nigeria is poor because it forms part of the periphery in the Core-Periphery structure of the world system").
Robert H. Wade is a Professor of Political Economy at the London School of Economics since 2001. He is the 2008 winner of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, thereby joining the ranks of Amertya Sen, Herman Daly, Dani Rodrik and Daniel Kahneman. His book Governing the Market (Princeton University Press, 1990, 2004) on the role of the state in East Asian industrialization won the American Political Science Association's Best Book/Article in Political Economy award for publications in 1989-1991. His current research has involved analyzing the drivers and manifestations of inequality in the global economy, through studies of financial crises, trends in global poverty, institutions of international financial and trade regulation, and the evolution of ideological currents of 'neoliberalism' and 'globalization.'
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I've just been trying to record some acoustic guitar using a crossed coincident pair of condensers. Overall the sound is really good, and better than the (already good) results I got with the B1. But I have a couple of questions.
1. What's a good distance for the pair from the guitar? I'm in the 12-18" range at the moment. Closer and I get a lot of boom, farther and it's a bit distant. Is that the ballpark?
2. Where should the pair be in relation to the soundhole. Basically if you drew a line perpendicular from the guitar, mine are right opposite the soundhole, mostly because that way one mic is pointing at the neck and the other just behind the bridge. Again, is that basically the right idea?
3. The tricky question. How on earth do I record to a click without the spill of the click from the phones spilling into the mics? When I've done this before it's been to drums or something similar, but in this case I need to play to a click and a click alone. But my AKG 240s cans spill way too much of the click, and if I don't use the click, my timing is all over the place. Any tips or tricks?
4. I tried a different method, miking the neck and soundboard separately with the mics about 27" apart and 6" from the instrument. This resulted in a big stereo separation but the L and R channels seemed very disconnected. Is there any trick for making them less so?
1. If your mic or preamp has a bass roll-off, try using it to minimize the boom. The distance you described sounds about right. When you pull them off of the guitar and they sound distant, what you are probably hearing are the secondary reflections coming in from the room. Try hanging a large heavy blanket over a horizontal mic boom and placing it behind the mics to minimize this echo. The reflexion filter that I recommended in a previous thread is good for this as well.
2. This is different for every guitar but as a rule of thumb, I point one where the neck joins the body and then maybe move it a bit towards the sound hole. I point the other starting towards the space between the sound hole and bridge and move it towards the large end of the guitar. Sometimes it sounds good when the mic is pointed between the bridge and the large end of the body with the connector end of the mic bending away from the guitar at a 45°-ish angle.
3. AKG 240s are semi-open headphones and are kinda known for bleeding into the mics. Try looking for specifically closed headphones. I have the Sennheiser EH 150 and they work with very little bleed through. Other than that, try experimenting with a different sound for the click that you don't necessarily need to crank up in order to hear.
4. The rule of thumb is to generally have your mics the same distance away from the sound source in order to minimize phase problems. With acoustic instruments this is a bit easier said than done because the entire body of the instrument resonates differently at different places. Use the 3:1 rule to find the best sounding set up and tweak to taste. Because the mics are in different positions, they are just going to pick up different parts of the sounds, period. This can be minimized by using the 3:1 rule, but one trick to use during mixing to help achieve a unified sound is to compress the loudest or most dynamic signal and then compress the other as well but to use compressor's side-chain input and feed it the signal of the louder track. That way they are compressed the same amount with the same settings. Or use a stereo compressor which pretty much achieves the same effect. Another tip is to actually not pan them hard left and right but maybe one at 1 o'clock and the other at 3 or 4. Experiment to find out what works.
If you have a buddy that plays well, have him or her play while you wear headphones and experiment with different mic positions. That way you don't have to concentrate on the playing. If you have more than one guitar, try it with all of them so you can find the sweet spots on each instrument. If you have a mic with multiple pick up patterns, try them out and see what happens.
Another strange effect you can achieve by using the phasing to your advantage is to put one mic on the guitar and hang another with the cable over a mic stand like a pendulum. While you are recording, have someone else lightly push on the cable near the boom so that the mic swings towards and away from the guitar. Voila! Instant phaser. This works with any sound source but sounds really cool on guitar amps for solos.
Also, pursuant to point 4: When mixing the 2 signals, try rolling off more bass on the signal that has a brighter tone, generally the one that was pointed at the neck.
Thanks, Chillmost. That is all most helpful. I found a good balance point between boominess and distance in the end, and switched to an old and very cheap pair of AKG K55 phones which are fully closed and killed the click spill completely. (Incidentally, although they feel like complete crap, the K55s actually sound really good, way better than I expected). The 240s fooled me because they look closed but aren't.
I fiddled around but in the end stuck with the crossed pair set-up. It sounds really, really good. The other set-up I described has a massive stereo spread but the two sides sound so different both in terms of frequency and, I guess, phase, that it's quite strange to listen to. The mics are at the same distance from the instrument so the fundamental phase is probably the same but the higher harmonics are all in and out of phase and it almost sounds like two guitars playing in two different rooms. It could work really well in a mix but exposed it sounds weird.
It's a song which has a big jangly acoustic part which is basically solo in a couple of verses. I wanted it to be really full but didn't want to muddy it up by double tracking it or using chorus. I think the stereo works really well for it, actually - surprised me.
You are using the coincident mic technique, no? It is designed to avoid phase cancellation by the mics being right next to one another. Make sure they are very close together and have them close to your source. I'd lower the trim on the channels. I'd put them facing where uncleozzy suggests, where the neck joins the body. I usually do it only six or so inches from the body. But it is ok to put them close together. With the "XY" or "Coincident" technique, you are going to put them much closer together than you usually would.
I'd google coincident mic technique.
I can check some of my sources when I return home tomorrow.
It just occured to me that one could use in earbud style headphones walkman / ipod style phoens to avoid spill with Click tracks - has anyone ever tried that?
I'm stuck using in ear headphones at the moment and there is definitely some spillover. It's not noticeable on the finished track but it depends on how sparse your songs are.
Update: I stuck with the XY/ crossed coincident pair method and used a pair of closed cans. It was hard not to get a good sound with this! I had the mics about 12-18 inches away from the guitar with one pointing at the bridge more or less and the other at the fretboard. The positioning was not critical and the two resulting tracks gave a lot of tonal options. Here's the track... the acoustic guitar is panned slightly but still very much in stereo.


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I based in Stegadon Scale Green and pre drybrushed with an all over Averland Sunset and lighter Etherium Blue. I then focused on the belly with Skink Blue and the Scales and light focus dry brush of White Scar.
I then glazed the skin with Temple Guard Blue and the Scales with Macragge Blue. The feathers were based with Khorne Red and drybrushed with White Scar.
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After years of controlling the creative vision of two enormous luxury houses — Yves Saint Laurent and Ermenegildo Zegna — Italian designer Stefano Pilati is back with Random Identities, his own label of ready-to-wear. The result is a unisex collection of utilitarian garments that have been "primed for the digital era".
Premiered via live-streaming earlier this month in Montreal, Canada, at the headquarters of e-commerce giant SSENSE, the collection is many things operating in harmony. At the heart of it is a kind of love letter to the designer's adopted home of Berlin, Germany, where he has resided since his departure from Zegna in 2016. With Pilati stating one of his key sources of inspiration was the style of his friends, the references to the city's famous love affair with the night have been realised unapologetically.
While ready for a rave many, if not all, of the pieces have an effortless wearability, thanks to the designer's expert eye for tailoring, and one could imagine many of the garments (particularly the covetable outerwear) becoming staples appropriate even in daylight. The collection straddles many worlds. That of day and that of night. The confines of gender roles and a new, more fluid, approach. It is romantic but still realistic – and it seems Pilati is too.


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Family Values – Navigating Fast Changing Landscapes.
Dr Hasnain Walji
Islam, in common with all major faith traditions, demonstrates a special dimension towards family. As a basic building block of a society, a family creates an environment in which moral and spiritual values are transferred from generation to generation. Indeed, Muslims consider a family to be an institution ordained by the Almighty as one of His signs.
"And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who reflect" (Q. 30: 21).
The relationship within the family, between all its members, but most important of all, between a husband and wife is a spiritual relationship which sustains and generates love, kindness, mercy, and compassion. The cultivation of this relationship is a lofty expression of the best in being human: helping each other to reach our God given potential.
Within the environs of the family the spiritual potential of men and women becomes actualized, enabling the blossoming of goodness and virtue in a society. It is the family that provides the most congenial of eco-systems for the development and fulfillment of the human personality. That is why the Prophet (peace be upon him) has said that home is the best place in the world.
Elsewhere spouses have been described:
"They are like a garment to you, and you are (like) a garment to them (Q.2:187).
This verse describes mutuality as each other's covering, not just one as the garment and the other the body. It also defines the closeness of the relationship between spouses – as protectors and guardians of each other. The garment beautifies the wearer hence one feels incomplete without it.
On marriage Mevlana Rumi says:
May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,
an omen as welcomes the moon in a clear blue sky.
With that said, globalization has affected all aspects of family life for all faith traditions. Needless to state, the concept of family in Islam is not immune from the rapidly changing in perspectives of family in the wider society.
All religions in general offer protective mechanisms against erosion of family values. As things stand today, Islam appears to be more resilient in the ability to confront new tendencies which threaten traditional family values. The question is for how long?
In almost all Western societies the structure and dynamics of families and households have been modified substantially over the past two centuries. Many of these family trends are intricately interwoven spawning fundamental transformations of Western societies including many moral values espoused by faith traditions. The religious values that had significant effect on family life in societies of the past are being challenged by modernity.
These changes in family life have had substantial effects on the foundational religious doctrines, drastically modifying the influence of religion in the lives of individuals and their families. Largely Americans have accepted the legitimacy of remaining single, the appropriateness of divorce, as well as acceptance of alternative family styles. Attitudinal trends of greater willingness to allow others to choose their own behavior and family relationships without imposing personal preferences, religious standards or judgments, are now seriously impacting American Muslims too. The upcoming generations of Muslims in America are trying to seek the ever-eluding equilibrium within their own families, while most religious leaders seem too busy harping on the dos and don'ts, rather than offer to help families deal with the aforementioned changes impacting the very fabric of Muslim families.
Thankfully, all is not lost. Having a happy marriage and a good family life are consistently singled out by Americans as the two most important facets of their lives. Most Americans, including Muslims continue to be engaged within network of kith and kin to receive physical and emotional support. About four-fifths of all married Americans report their marriages as being very happy or above average, while only about two percent say their marriages are not happy. Ninety percent of young people say they plan to marry and have children showing that, families continue to play a vital role in their vision for life.
Yet virtually every religious group in the United States, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim or Mormon—has experienced the similar basic trends in marriage, divorce, alternative family styles.
However, increasingly, today, beliefs relating to family are being interpreted on individualistic basis and less so in terms of religious injunctions. Many now look to religion more for its personal meaning and less for its societal rules. By default, Muslims along with their fellow citizens have to navigate through these redefined standards of conduct, which more often than not, are incompatible with faith traditions as regarded to the structure, rights and responsibilities of an ideal family. As a result, the power of the religious hierarchies over individual thought and behavior are all on the decline.
The rationale for this review is not to condone all changes taking place in our communities, but a call to action for our traditional scholars, social scientists and moral philosophers to go beyond the basics of jurisprudence and begin to proactively offer solutions for families to navigate the new realities. I distinctly recall an earnest question paused by a mother during my series of Muharram lectures: "how do I explain to my 5-year-old that his friend Joe has two moms?'' Indeed, how do we explain? But explain we will have to.
Such discussions are of great societal significance because after all, families are basic building blocks of society. The wellbeing of a society is always dependent on the emotional and physical state of the family members within that society.
As Allama Iqbal has said:
Fard qaim rabt-e-millat se hai, tanha kuch nahi,
Mauj hai darya mai, beron-e-darya kuch nahi" ,
Iqbal has brilliantly captured the spirit of mutual interdependence of individuals and society saying that 'as individuals we anchored in a society, otherwise we are nothing' using the metaphor of a river he says the 'drops cone together to make waves, outside it a drop is nothing!
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We review two proposals for debt forgiveness; the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC) and the Jubilee 2000 Coalition Initiative (J2K). We then consider the workhorse model of debt forgiveness (Krugman 1988). We show that the workhorse model solution is a sub-optimal contract, where the incentive parameter is set without regard to the cost of effort. A fully-optimal debt-overhang contract is derived, with an incentive parameter greater than the marginal social benefit of extra effort. The so-named Hyper-Incentive Contract eliminates the effects of moral hazard arising from hidden effort, and provides a fuller rationale for case-by-case debt-overhang contracts.
Authors: Qaisar Farooq Akram, Research Department, Norges Bank.
Despite the emerging consensus on the validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) between trading countries in the long run, empirical evidence in favour of the PPP theory is scarce in data predominantly exposed to real shocks. This paper tests for PPP between Norway and its trading partners using quarterly observations from the post Bretton Woods period, in which the Norwegian economy has been exposed to numerous real shocks as repeated revaluation of oil and gas resources through new discoveries and price fluctuations. The paper undertakes an extensive examination of the behaviour of the Norwegian real and nominal exchange rates and shows that it is remarkably consistent with the PPP theory. Moreover, convergence towards the equilibrium level appears relatively fast, which is partly ascribed to the Norwegian government`s competitiveness preserving policies and the system of centralised wage bargaining.
This paper considers linkages between national labour markets in a global economy, extending the existing analyses to the empirically important case where factor price equalization does not hold. Removing the assumption of factor price equalization allows the divergent wage experience as well as unemployment experience of Europe and America to be explained. Europe`s minimum wage forces it out of the labour intensive industry, leaving it specialised in the skill intensive industry, and with a lower return to skill than America. Under these conditions the entry of labour intensive NICs into world markets pushes down American wages and alters its economic structure (which were unchanged under factor price equalization), and reduces European unemployment (which increased under factor price equalization).
When Does the Oil Price Affect the Norwegian Exchange Rate?
Major changes in the Norwegian exchange rate have often coincided with large fluctuations in the price of crude oil. Previous empirical studies have however suggested a weak and ambiguous relation between the oil price and the exchange rate. In contrast to these studies, this paper explores the possibility of a non-linear relation between oil prices and the exchange rate. An examination of daily observations reveals a negative relation between the oil price and the nominal value of the currency. The strength of this relation depends on whether the oil price is below, inside or above the range of 14-20 US dollars a barrel. Moreover, it depends on whether the oil price is displaying a falling or rising trend. The relation is relatively strong when oil prices are below 14 dollars and are falling. These non-linear effects are tested and quantified within equilibrium correcting models of the exchange rate, derived on monthly and quarterly data to control for the influence of other macroeconomic variables. The models with non-linear oil price effects outperform similar models with linear oil price effects. The latter models grossly underestimate the exchange rate response to oil price changes in a state of low oil prices. The paper undertakes an extensive evaluation of the derived models to demonstrate the robustness of the results.
We show how an outside party offering incentives to voters can manipulate at no cost collective decisions made through voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to fail than the markets for goods, because (democratic) politics involves influence and collective decisions to a greater extent than markets for goods do. We develop and use a model to analyze different incentive schemes, credibility situations, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying, committee decision making, and legislatures.
China has sought to improve enterprise performance not through privatisation as in other transition economies, but through corporatisation as means of improving corporate governance. Actual governance practices of corporatised Chinese firms are however seriously defective, characterized by excessive power of CEO`s, insider control and collusion, lack of safeguards for minority shareholders and weak transparency. These shortcomings are attributable to factors such as cultural and political traditions, uncompetitiveness of markets, poor legal enforcement, weak debt and equity markets, but above all to continued state dominance in ownership and control of the corporate sector and listed companies. Corporatisation, nevertheless, has created a regime conducive to implementing measures for improving corporate governance.
Authors: Arie Kapteyn, CentER, Tilburg University; Adriaan Kalwij, Department of Economics, University of Oxford and Asghar Zaidi, Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a review of the most pertinent theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature on worksharing. In addition, we also provide new empirical evidence on this issue, by a cross country analysis exploiting aggregate data for 13 OECD countries. The conclusions of the literature survey are indecisive. Conclusions about the efficacy of worksharing as an employment enhancing policy tool depend heavily on the setting in which the analysis takes place. Our empirical analysis does not find any evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an overview of recent public policy experience of European Countries with respect to different forms of worksharing. Also here the evidence is mixed.
Three experiments on utility interdependence are discussed. Subjects receive money by betting and possibly by arbitrary assignments. They can then pay to reduce and, possibly, redistribute the steal money; in one case, only the decisions of a randomly determined dictator are implemented. The behavior of 80% of burners and redistributors was rank egalitarian. However, arbitrarily advantaged and disadvantaged subjects developed conflicting views of desert: arbitrarily disadvantaged subjects targeted arbitrarily assigned money; arbitrarily advantaged subjects did not care about how money was gained, and, if stealing was allowed, were twice as aggressive against earned money than against money assigned arbitrarily.
In this paper we use agency theory to study the active role of the chief executive in the formulation of corporate strategy. Unlike traditional applications of agency theory, we allow the agent (CEO) to play a role in defining the parameters of the agency problem. We argue that CEOs will have an incentive to propose difficult, ambitious strategies for their corporations. The effect arises because in equilibrium, the agent may be overcompensated in the sense that the participation constraint is not binding in determining his compensation. The agent can exploit this by proposing ambitious corporate strategies, thereby influencing the parameters of the constraints in the agency problem. The principal (the owners of the company) can mitigate this by precommitting to pay high compensation regardless of the manager`s chosen strategy, but may optimally prefer not to do so.
This paper explores the welfare implications of a securities transaction tax when informed traders act under short-term objectives. The model presented features speculators who can trade on information of differing time horizons, trade by fully rational uninformed agents, endogenous asset prices and profit maximising firms that can use information contained in stock prices to improve their investment decision. The only value enhancing investment available to firms requires a long-term investment. Therefore investment efficiency can only be improved if stock prices contain long-term information. It is shown that when informed traders act under short-term objectives, a subsidy on short-term trade can improve welfare. This is because trade by short-term informed speculators exerts a positive externality over the profitability of long-term informed trade. A subsidy on short-term trade thus increases the amount of trade on long-term information in equilibrium. As a result stock prices contain more long-term information, which improves investment efficiency. The model takes full account of the effect of a tax on market liquidity and welfare for all market participants.
In a study of the ownership of German corporations, we find a strong relation between board turnover and corporate performance, little association of concentrations of ownership with managerial disciplining and only limited evidence that pyramid structures can be used for control purposes. The static relation of ownership to control in Germany is therefore similar to the UK and US. However, there are marked differences in the dynamic relation transfers of ownership. There is an active market in share blocks giving rise to changes in control but the gains are limited and accrue solely to the holders of large blocks, not to minority investors. We provide evidence of low overall benefits to control changes and the exploitation of private benefits of control.
Variations in Churchgoing Rates in England in 1851: Supply-side Deficiency or Demand-led Decline?
In the sociology of religion of the past thirty years or so, one can identify three major approaches to the relation of religion and modernity: secularization theory, the Stark-Bainbridge rational choice theory, and the Finke-Stark "supply-side" theory. In this paper, I study churchgoing rates in England in 1851 to examine which of these three theoretical approaches appears the most valid. Victorian England provides a compelling case study. Not only are the data very good (uniquely so in the case of Britain), but also England in 1851 takes us back to one of the original locales of urban-industrial development. My conclusion is that both "supply-side" (of religion) and "secularization" processes were influencing English churchgoing rates in 1851. However, the former were much more limited and transient in their effect, being restricted to isolated rural areas. In the more urban places, where most people lived, secularization processes were operating. There are parallels between this "duality" of process operating in rural and urban England in 1851 and the fact that churchgoing appears to have increased during the nineteenth century up to that point, but declined, unabated, thereafter.
This paper argues that rural opposition to land reform in transition Russia is a consequence of individually rational decisions by members of former state and collective farms about whether to support further land reform, or preserve the status quo, collective farming. Evidence from survey data shows that despite the government`s efforts to promote a land market and independent farming in the 1990s, preferences in 1996 still favoured the largely unreformed status quo. The observed retention of collective farming is so widespread as to block both the development of a land market and restructuring. The visible consequence of stalemated reform has been persistent agricultural output decline and widespread bankruptcy of large farm entities, without any significant rise of independent farming. This paper formalises a dynamic argument for rational opposition to land reform, given the existence of uncertainty about the costs that individual cultivators will incur. It turns out that the consequences of initial decisions could have decisive impact on rejection of reform later on. The paper discusses further, the relevance of the historical parallel during the post-Emancipation and Stolypin eras when peasant communes resisted enclosures and restructuring of rights to land. Opposition, seemingly irrational, recurred and lasted throughout the reform era. It can be seen that opposition to reform at that time, too, was individually rational, given incomplete property rights reform; the state also bears responsible in contemporary and historical times for policies that tended to help preserve the status-quo. The state failed to improve the unclear property rights which dampened reform incentives early on in the reform process both historically and in the rural transition environment.
This study provides statistical evidence that Russian rural/urban wages diverged substantially during the industrialization of Russia in the late nineteenth century. However, over time both the variation declined and integration somewhat increased as rural labour responded to new opportunities. The patterns were moderately clear for nominal wages. This study supports Paul Gregory`s conclusion that relative advances in the productivity of land in agriculture were accompanied by far greater mobility of labour than is commonly thought in view of the constraints of Russia`s rural institutions.
In a monetary policy model incorporating partial persistence in inflation it is shown that inflation bias is reduced and the response to shocks improved if the policy maker has a discount rate lower than its true social value. Thus a patient central banker is shown to be a third mechanism for offsetting time inconsistency problems in addition to Rogoff`s conservative central banker and the principal-agent approach of Walsh. The paper also analyses outcomes under the latter regimes and the optimal rule, finding important differences from the results of earlier literature that excludes inflation persistence.
Trade unions have been successful in compressing the wage distribution but not in influencing the share of national income going to labour. This paper claims that a compressed wage distribution provides insurance in the same way that the tax and benefit system does and thus may be welfare-improving. Moreover, a union-based wage compression system may be better than a conventional tax-benefit system in providing such insurance and may well complement the operation of the latter. Models of wage compression and of taxes and benefits are evaluated and then combined in a single model. The wage compression system works well for the least skilled but the tax-benefit approach is better if average utility is being maximized. In the combined model the two mechanisms complement one another. Equity-efficiency trade-offs in the combined system mostly dominate those obtained from each mechanism acting on its own. A key factor is the willingness of skilled workers to defect from a wage compression agreement. Encouraging defection may appeal to policy-makers (labour markets are more flexible) but the benefits of a compressed wage distribution may be lost, placing stress on welfare state institutions and undermining the insurance function that the combined wage-compression/tax-benefit system delivers relatively efficiently.
This paper examines the redistributional function of queues. A system in which subsidies and queues are used to allocate goods may appear attractive to policy makers who are concerned about equity since the resource used in queuing (time) is generally allocated more equally than, say, human or physical capital. Thus a subsidy-queue mechanism performs a role similar to that performed by a tax-benefit system. Both mechanisms, however, bring with them efficiency losses, which the paper compares. It is shown that the subsidy-queue mechanism may appear superior if the trade-off between efficiency and equity is viewed in terms of consumption and the distribution of consumption. On the other hand, if the equity-efficiency trade-off is properly formulated in terms of utility and the distribution of utility the tax-based redistributional mechanism is superior.
Keywords: redistribution, queues, subsidies, tax-benefit system.
Authors: Marcel Fafchamps, Agnes R. Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute, U.S.A.
Using detailed data from rural Pakistan, this paper investigates whether human capital, learning by doing, gender, and one`s status within the family - heretoforth family status - affect the division of labor within households. Results suggest the presence of returns to individual specialization in all farm, non-farm, and home based activities. The intrahousehold division of labor is influenced by comparative advantage based on human capital and by long-lasting returns to learning by doing, but we also find evidence of a separate effect of gender and family status. Households seem to operate as hierarchies with sexually segregated spheres of activity. The head of household and his or her spouse provide most of the labor within their respective spheres of influence; other members work less. When present in the household, daughters-in-law work systematically harder than daughters of comparable age, build, and education. Other findings of interest are that there are increasing returns to scale in most household chores, that larger households work more off farm, and that better educated individuals enjoy more leisure.
It is common to model costs of carrying out strategies in games in relation to the complexity, in some sense, of the strategies. We show a particularly general definition of complexity for this purpose, one that subsumes many alternatives as special cases. We explore how this definition can be used and developed, and illustrate with applications to the analysis of two player finite repeated games.
This paper tests the efficiency of insurance markets in the Pakistan Punjab by examining how crop choices are affected by the presence of price and yield risk. We estimate reduced-form and structural models of crop choices. Although we cannot reject the hypothesis that village members efficiently share risk among themselves, production choices are shown to depend on risk. Existing risk sharing and self-insurance mechanisms thus imperfectly protect Punjab farmers against village-level shocks. Results also indicate that households respond to consumption price risk, thereby suggesting that empirical and theoretical work on risk should avoid putting an exclusive emphasis on yield and output price risk.
This is a preliminary draft of an Invited Symposium paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society to be held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and standard economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can provide useful arguments and insights in a broad range of mainstream economic settings that do not, at first sight, look like auctions. We also discuss some more obvious applications, especially to industrial organization.


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1 April, 2015 1 April, 2015 Darryl Chamberlain
50 years ago: Farewell Woolwich Council, ta-ta Deptford borough
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Greater London – and half-a-century since shotgun marriages between metropolitan boroughs, urban districts and county boroughs formed today's 32 London boroughs.
Even all those years on, you can still hear the occasional grumble about Greenwich being forced to merge with (and move to) Woolwich, or Deptford having to pitch in with Lewisham.
Even naming the boroughs proved problematic – the organisation sitting at Woolwich Town Hall could have been called the London Borough of Charlton as a compromise between the two squabbling sides, while Lewisham was nearly called "Ravensbourne".
A few years back, Rob Powell from Greenwich.co.uk uploaded a scan of the Mercury supplement introducing the "new" Greenwich Council. I thought I'd head back down to the Greenwich Heritage Centre in Woolwich's Royal Arsenal to see what else was going on at the time.
The headline above shows how the Mercury's rival, the Woolwich-based Kentish Independent, headlined its coverage of the final meeting of Woolwich Council, which stretched out to Plumstead, Shooters Hill, Abbey Wood, Eltham and Lee. The good burghers of Woolwich were sat in the same town hall that the current Greenwich Council sits in today. Meanwhile, the Mercury noted a "gift night spectacular".
Back in the KI, the Gallery column noted all was gloom at the old Greenwich Town Hall on Royal Hill…
…although none of it was showing when the old Greenwich Council bowed out, the Mercury noted.
A mile or two away on New Cross Road, the old Deptford Council – which also took in New Cross and Brockley – was also turning out the lights, sent down to Catford to merge with Lewisham.
"Mercury Man" was sorry to see the old borough go, mourning "an ability to present a public image which would make a publicity man suicidal".
Looking back at these misty-eyed reminiscences, it's striking how closely the local press watched the local councils then. But there's still a level of deference. The Kentish Independent still got excited over the new mayor of the London Borough of Greenwich. 50 years on, is anyone really that bothered now?
In the Mercury, the new Greenwich borough opened with a Labour rebellion over a "lodger tax" for council tenants. This was something the old Woolwich Council had done for years, yet had been resisted by Greenwich. In the end, a compromise saw the area covered by the old Greenwich borough let off the extra charges until 1966.
Then another Woolwich habit got up Greenwich noses, as the new council managed to annoy traders on Royal Hill by cancelling their contracts in favour of shopping at the Co-op instead.
One of the last decisions of the old Woolwich Council was a big headache for the new authority. In 1961, it'd decided to invest in an experimental automatic car park. The Autostacker was a spectacular failure. The last Woolwich Council meeting approved plans to knock it down.
The new Greenwich Council had to deal with the fallout (before finally sending the bulldozers in).
What else was going on at the time? One Mercury front page from early 1965 bemoaned a labour shortage across south-east London – there were simply too many jobs and not enough people. Even its recruitment ads boasted of jobs for everybody. But in the Kentish Independent, the year opened with bad news for Plumstead's Beasley Brewery – closing after a century of slaking SE18 thirsts.
Signs of things to come on Plumstead Marshes were also apparent in the KI, as the new Greenwich Council sought to assert itself over plans for a new town on surplus Royal Arsenal land, which stretched onto Belvedere Marshes in the new borough of Bexley (and the old Kent district of Erith). The split was one of the issues that hobbled the new town – and it still does, half a century on.
This was three years before the first residents moved into what became known as Thamesmead.
The recent death of Winston Churchill had sent the country into mourning – but would a motorway bridge at Woolwich have been a fitting tribute?
Nevertheless, one part of the Ringways scheme – the Blackwall Tunnel southern approach – was causing aggravation in Blackheath and Kidbrooke.
On Blackheath's Old Dover Road, traders awaiting new accommodation couldn't wait to be rid of the old Greenwich Council as their colleagues in Woolwich had a more "go-ahead approach".
London was changing in the 1960s. In the Mercury – whose coverage at the time stretched from Bermondsey and Camberwell to Abbey Wood – headlines discussed racism, with one reporting a magazine article which compared Lewisham to Alabama.
At the same time, this was what was in the Kentish Independent, reporting from what was then still Kent…
Within two decades, councillors from the new borough of Greenwich would have set up their own paper to challenge racism – but that's a different story.
The old metropolitan boroughs had lasted 65 years – the new London boroughs have now notched up 50. Will the current boroughs outlast their predecessors, or are we due for another round of mergers and squabbles?
The days of Ken Livingstone wanting to take an axe to the current structure are gone. But we're in an age of devolution – Greenwich joined boroughs north of the river to discuss this a few weeks back – and austerity, where sharing services is looked upon kindly.
So today's councils may well be toasting today's anniversary with some trepidation. The London Superborough of Greenwich & Lewisham, anyone?
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maryorelse says:
1 April, 2015 at 07:04
I am tempted to say a thing or two. Probably shouldn't. I moved to Greenwich after amalgamation because Alan had a job with that wonderful computer centre which you have quoted Tom Smith as praising. Set up by Greenwich Council, named after one of their officers, closed down when the Council moved to Woolwich – the first local government computer centre now demolished with never a word of regret …………… and ……… I used to hear it all over 'They sold our Town Hall' . There were (and are) some very real cultural differences. I wonder what Greenwich would be like now if its old Met. Borough had survived – and – if the issues raised at the EGRA meeting last night, and the responses to them, be the same
Suzanne Miller says:
Your word or two informative, Mary, as always. The cultural differences might be better accommodated if we had PR — no reason not to work for a collegial, civil balance, even if an uneasy one at times.
Thanks for this post, Darryl. (Autostacker: showing the way for foot-tunnel lifts?)
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vridaochskrika says:
The London Borough of Charlton has a nice ring to it.
billellson says:
Nice collection of clippings. Many thanks for the Beasley's link. What I have always wondered about Deptford Council meetings is how the public managed to hear a word that councillors said. The chamber is a beautiful room, but the acoustics are terrible.
Steve Chambers says:
I'm intrigued that in 1965 there was a Woolwich-based publication called the Kentish Independent. How long did it last with that title?
Darryl Chamberlain says:
Steve – until 1984, when it closed. (A story I'll be returning to soon.)
Very interesting. Woolwich often comes up as an anomaly amongst metropolitan parishes. It got added to the census as part of 'London' in 1840 which is why it became part of the Metropolitan Board of Works area, then County of London, then Inner London. However, during the MBW era it had local government structures of a provincial town/suburb (a local board of health instead of a vestry or board of works). I read something about labour pay rates (I think right up into the metropolitan borough era) and the local pay rates were well below the London average. So on an economic level it was somewhat detached from London as a whole.
Mark Bunn says:
Great article on the local history of Greenwich/Woolwich and Lewisham
Having only been living in the Greenwich/Lewisham area for the last year or so I have found the boundaries between the two boroughs very interesting when walking around. I could not believe that Greenwich and Lewisham were not part of the same Borough.
Some parts of Deptford are now in Greenwich, and I know that other areas of Deptford have been from Greenwich to Lewisham since 1965. I can't understand how the vast majority of Blackheath comes under Lewisham, whilst why Greenwich extends almost into Lewisham Town Centre with the Morden Mount Estate which seems odd to me. I think the Borough borders should be looked at again. Of course any merged Greenwich/Lewisham Borough would lose other areas, probably by extending the Bexley boundary further along towards Shooters Hill and in the other directions towards Eltham & Plumstead. Also having been on Thamesmead a couple of times and looked at the map the Bexley and Greenwich boundaries don't make any sense at all. Similarly Lewisham should really lose the area it has around St Norbett Way around Honour Oak/Nunhead which should really been under Southwark Council similarly the areas around Grove Park and Downham should be under Bromley Council.
@Steve Chambers
Woolwich was an anomaly, according to the wikipedia page for the London Government Act 1899 the civil parish of Woolwich adopted the relevant legislation to establish a local board in 1852 some three years before the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
@Mark Bunn
When the Metropolitan Boroughs were created in 1900 the civil parish of Deptford St Paul became the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford and the civil parish of Deptford St Nicholas became part of the Metroplitan Borough of Greenwich. (This followed the division of the old Greenwich Parliamentary seat into separate Deptford and Greenwich seats in 1885) The boundary between the two civil parishes dated from c1730 when St Paul's church was consecrated and the new parish of Deptford St Paul created.
In 1994 Convoys Wharf, Dacca Street and some other bits of Greenwich were transferred to Lewisham, but a significant chunk of land west of Deptford Creek remains in RB Greenwich.
Darian Thomson says:
Please, never merge Greenwich and Lewisham. Lewisham does mostly a better job than Greenwich looking after it's area. I do think that anything west of Deptford Creek should be in the LB of Lewisham THOUGH.
I think Deptford Creek should be the boundary it is up from Deptford Bridge , and by the penny bridge, but for some reason the boundary moves to give Greenwich a large bit of area west of the creek including the bottom end of Deptford High Street which doesn't make any sense to me.
Also think Lewisham should get the Estate around Elverson Road, were one side of the street is in Lewisham and the other Greenwich. Also noticed yesterday two Greenwich bins within Lewisham, next to a Lewisham bin, maybe they are trying to annexe areas of Lewisham!!


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