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People Who Got Fired From Huge Rock Bands
List Rules Musicians who were fired from famous bands - not who quit
People don't generally think of "rock star" as a job title. Famous musicians don't have a boss, they set their own hours, and drinking on the job is pretty much required. But plenty of rock stars have been fired. Musicians have been kicked out of bands for reasons ranging from drug problem to ego to simply not being very good. Once in a while, band members can't even agree if someone was fired or if they quit. But that detail doesn't really matter when you're left behind and your band goes on to make millions of dollars.
Some of the biggest rock stars in history have been fired from bands and some of the biggest bands ever have kicked out members, even their lead singers. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Metallica, AC/DC, Beach Boys, Bon Jovi, and the Smiths have all kicked out various people - some of whom went on to become stars themselves and others who disappeared from public view.Here are some of the people fired from the biggest bands of all time with the reasons why they were fired. If you have the inside scoop on some of these fired musicians, leave a comment and tell us what happened.
Best was The Beatles's drummer for their entire early run, playing countless shows in England and Germany. But after recording the single "Love Me Do," the band fired him and hired Ringo Starr. Rumors flew for years that Best was fired because of his good looks, his female fans, even his gloomy personality.But the truth is that producer George Martin wasn't happy with his drumming and simply wanted a more skilled player. Best eventually sued the group for libel, and retired from music.
Age: 77
Birthplace: Chennai, India
Age: Dec. at 27 (1942-1969)
Birthplace: Cheltenham, United Kingdom
The other members of Black Sabbath fired lead singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 after his drug and alcohol problems made it impossible for him to record satisfactory vocals. While Sabbath moved on with a revolving door of members, Osbourne released 11 studio albums and built a successful solo career. Ozzy rejoined the group several times, including in 2011 for a reunion tour and new record.
Age: 70
Birthplace: Aston, United Kingdom
Age: 57
Birthplace: La Mesa, California, United States of America


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World Organisation for Animal Health
Home > Animal health in the World > The World Animal Health Information System > Simulation Exercises
Dr Mark Schipp, Chief Veterinary Officer, Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), Canberra, informed the OIE that a simulation exercise on bluetongue, named "Exercise Phantom Fox" is taking place in South Australia, from 15 to 18 May 2012.
This exercise will involve the Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA), the National Rapid Response Team (RRT) and participants from South Australian livestock industries. DAFF and Animal Health Australia will assist with coordination of the exercise.
The overall aim of this simulation exercise is to evaluate the ability of the RRT to assist PIRSA to meet its obligations for managing an emergency animal disease response in South Australia.
The specific objectives of this exercise are the following:
The exercise will involve activation of simulated state and local control centres, but there will be no field activities.
Animal Health Information Department
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

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The lovely August Empress led me to this delightful little 'colorscope' from Paper Source. Since it was a fun take on a 'color topic' which was the theme of the earlier blog post I thought I'd share it with you. It's downloadable here.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Color my Business
I've had some pretty soul-sucking debates with clients who seem adamant that day-glo orange is the way to go for their brand, or a particularly eye-searing shade of red is just perfect for their brochure – umm, readability anyone?
Colors have their own psychology and a little awareness of this fact can go a long way with creating a brand experience that is lasting and a genuine reflection of your business.
I'm hoping to collect some articles on and around the subject so do check back on this post as it develops. For now, some gentle nudging.
Design Crowd has this great article on color palettes suitable for various organizational personalities – do check it out: Business Color Palettes – How to Create a Color Palette that Reflects Your Business.
Tina Zennand also has an article on a related topic: Colors in Web Design: Choosing the Right Combination for Your Website, and she shares some great examples of color use.
Also, if in a bind for color palette inspiration, check out Kuler for some ideas.
It seems strange not to have any sign of my pack on the blog – this is being rectified right away. Starting with the lovely Ms.June, Handsome Henry and my ever faithful Ollie.
Coming soon: Lily.
The Octopus
Attenborough is on Eden so…..
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
Nature Weeps for Gladness
Blue Tit
Oh, I'm trying so hard to stay away from bad puns in this post. But these little fellas are my husbands favorite garden visitors. So this one's for him.
I was never a big bird fan, or 'twitcher' but being in Britain seems to require some twitching. So stay tuned for more from the garden. In the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy it and feel free to share (a link back/acknowledgment would be great if you can be bothered – drop me an email if you want the files to play with yourself).
Logo Trends 2011 by Logo Lounge
The fantastic folks at Logo Lounge have compiled an unmissable list of logo design trends – do take a look and share your thoughts!


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Johnny B. Goode
By: Chuck Berry
Deep down in Louisiana south of New Orleans,
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens...
There stood a log cabin there made of earth and wood,
Where lived a country boy named a Johnny B. Goode...
He never ever learned to read or write so well,
But he could play the guitar like ringing a bell.
Go Go
Go Johnny Go Go Go
Go Johnny Go Go Go
Go Johnny Go Go Go
Go Go Johnny B. Goode
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
And sit beneath the trees by the railroad track.
The engineers used to see him sitting in the shade,
Playing to the rhythm that the drivers made.
People passing by would stop and say
Oh my that little country boy could play
His mother told him someday he would be a man,
And he would be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear him play his music when the sun goes down
Maybe someday his name would be in lights
It would be saying Johnny B. Goode tonight.


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As founder of Archie Rose Distilling Co., it would come as no surprise that distilling is a pretty serious passion of mine.
Creating great spirits lies at our core as well as re-igniting Sydney's rich history in distilling plus the sense of community that existed around the craft many years ago. Since inception, we have thrown open the doors to our inner city distillery – both literally and figuratively – and enjoyed sharing ideas around food, drink, art and culture.
So far this goal of redefining distillation and encouraging conversation has led us to us work alongside an exceptional range of local artisans and cultural hubs.
We were privileged this year to team up with Carriageworks and Vivid Sydney for Sydney Table, a series of intimate, bespoke dining events. Each was hosted by a top Sydney chef and creative identity, allowing for some incredible evenings of food, wine and art. Guests were welcomed at each event with a River Mint distillate-spiked Archie Rose Martini.
Also at Carriageworks, The Night Market in June this year was a large-scale food and wine event featuring an exceptional range of NSW producers and Sydney restaurants. As one of the 50 stallholders invited to take part, we managed to serve up over 8,000 Archie Rose gin & tonics over the course of the event.
Our Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin was the gin of choice at last summer's Pop Up Gin Garden in conjunction with the Grayson Perry exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney. We're already throwing around some great ideas for next summer.
Check out some of the other stuff we dig about cultural Sydney.
If you haven't already check out Saporium, our neighbour and Sydney's new urban marketplace. Home to Wholefoods House, Kingsmore Meats, Grain Bakery and Welcome Dose coffee roasters with Vive Cooking School at its heart, Saporium has markets every Saturday and is providing our local Rosebery and Green Square community, the fastest growing population in Australia, a fantastic place to hang out and enjoy artisan food, coffee and cooking.
The Ethics Centre in Sydney helps to shine a welcome light on complex ethical issues, and their Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House in September is an absolute must.
Hanging at Carriageworks anytime is one of our favourite things to do. It plays host to a rolling schedule of some of the best art, music, theatre and events in Sydney, not to mention the Carriageworks Farmers Markets every Saturday. And of course the Sydney Opera House rarely puts a foot wrong when it comes to programming, location and the sheer thrill you get every time you walk up the steps.
The Australian Museum, the Sydney Living Museums and the Botanical Gardens do a great job of preserving and reinventing Sydney and Australia's natural, botanical and design history.
At Archie Rose, we're passionate about distilling. We're also passionate about engaging with the innovative and inspiring individuals and businesses that help to weave the fabric of our local community. We look forward to continuing to share our stories.


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Unknowns and Unknowns.Posted: October 31, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Fictional London, Tall Tales | Tags: Doomwatch, Gnomes of Dulwich, Guy Fawkes night, Into the Unknown, Out of the Unknown, The New Yorker's best Halloween cover 1 Comment
It is a warm Sunday evening in 1969. I am seven. I have somehow managed to avoid going to bed long enough to glimpse the start of the scariest thing on television: a scene of a night-time funfair, brilliantly illuminated, the rides in full swing … but there is no-one there except me. I know I am there because the camera took me through the turnstile. I know it's Battersea Funfair because I went there once with my family. But now I am there at night, alone.
The above clip has Proustian associations for your correspondent. As a child of seven these opening titles were an introduction to a world of terrors comfortingly remote from my Surrey childhood. It took me several decades to discover out the name of the TV programme that haunted my dreams, and when YouTube finally unlocked the key I discovered that the opening retained something of the power I recalled from childhood. The series was an Anglo-American co-production and featured stories of a supernatural or macabre nature that were filmed in Britain but produced by Los Angeles personnel (the producers had worked on Hitchcock's TV series) and financed by U.S. cash; the legend 'In Color' at the start of the titles gives the game away. Unfortunately, the titles are the best thing about Journey to the Unknown: the dramas that followed failed to deliver on the delicious promise set up by that atmospheric introduction. I know this because I acquired a bootleg DVD of the entire series and discovered to my intense disappointment that most of the stories were flaccid and weak, starring waning Hollywood turns marooned in UK settings, a sop to the American market at which the series was targeted.
The other Unknown is a BBC Science Fiction series from roughly the same period, an entirely British project this time – although it cast its net wide in terms of the writers it showcased. Out of the Unknown began as a vehicle for 'straight' SF – hence the likes of Asimov, J.G. Ballard and John Wyndham got a look-in – but by the time the final season aired in 1971 it had become less ambitious and was offering more generic horror and fantasy fare. As it was shot on video, the series suffered the fate of so many BBC programmes from the period, its tape being recorded over for the sake of Match of the Day or similar. This practice was standard at the BBC, prioritising sports coverage and local news reporting above drama and entertainment – which is why Parkinson's interview with John Lennon is long gone, along with many classic dramas and – bizarrely – live coverage of the first Moon landing. There goes the past.
Except that in this case a few episodes still exist, and I have trawled these in search of similar madeleines, raising my hopes of identifying other fragmentary glimpses of disturbing childhood viewing. But I drew a blank here; it's possible that some of the lost stories might have unlocked further memories, which only makes their loss more frustrating. I have been able to identify a couple of scary memories as deriving from a BBC TV show called Doomwatch, an early 70s drama that featured government scientists tackling futuristic crises amidst a paucity of believable special effects. The one about a virus that eats plastic really put the wind up me: it opened with a passenger on an airliner discovering that the cabin is melting all around him … that was bound to add to the stock of a 10 year old's night terrors. Doomwatch itself might as well have been eaten by the same virus, so much of it has been destroyed. (Before I am accused of wanton nostalgia for its own sake, I will say that my favourite TV programme from 1969 was a comedy called The Gnomes of Dulwich starring Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as a pair of garden gnomes in suburban south London. That entire series has been wiped, and no-one is going to claim that as a lost masterpiece.)
The last time I posted on here it was Midsummer, now we are on the brink of winter. I haven't posted much this year (a) because I have been trying to write a book and (b) I often couldn't face it. Hard news was just too hard. You don't need me to tell you that we are living through strange times; we are characters in a story worthy of Doomwatch or Out of the Unknown. At some point in the 1990s I began to realise that the digital world was fulfilling many of my boyhood imaginings of what the future would look like: by the same token, I now feel that reality is delivering on some of the dystopian dramas that gave me nightmares as a child.
Anyway, this is a seasonal post. When I was a boy it was Guy Fawkes night that crystallised the dangerous glamour of the season now upon us; I associate bonfire night with winter funfairs, and the titles of Journey to the Unknown evoke all the menace of a darkening pleasure ground. But ghost stories were reserved for Christmas. The American custom of Halloween has ousted Guy Fawkes and there's no point protesting: to do so would be as futile as placarding the embassy in Grosvenor Square over any other US encroachment on sovereign territory. So in the spirit of the season, I leave you with an entirely appropriate image for this particular Halloween, courtesy of The New Yorker … just click here …
Sleep well. D.S.
See also: A Suburban Ghost, The Haunted House, Halloween.
West End World.Posted: November 24, 2016 Filed under: Architectural, Housing, Tall Tales, Vanishings | Tags: Georgian London, John Nash, John Summerson, Park Crescent 1 Comment
Park Crescent east, November 2016.
From Georgian London, John Summerson:
The earliest architectural feature of Regent's Park is the very lovely, unpretentious, neatly detailed Park Crescent (1812). It opens out at either end to the New Road (Marylebone Road of today) and is continued northwards by Park Square (1823-5). The design of the Square is less happy, the facades being crowded and coarse in design, but the arrangement as a whole, considered as a formal approach from a thoroughfare to a landscaped park, is admirable, and the simple appropriateness of Park Crescent with its Ionic colonnades is beyond criticism.
It's not every day that you see a Nash Terrace being destroyed. As of November 2016, this is what the west side of Park Crescent looks like:
As a footnote to the entry above, Summerson adds: 'In recent years the whole of Park Crescent has been rebuilt, the new facades, however, being scrupulous copies of the old.' He was writing in the 1960s; Park Crescent had been damaged by bombing in the war and the facades cleared and replaced in the 1950s. So in fact, the familiar Regency terrace was never, in my my lifetime, anything more than a simulacrum.
An architect friend notes that the firm carrying out the work have good credentials for restoring historic buildings and, in any case, Nash's first priority was always the scenic exterior. Summerson sums up Nash's Regent's Park terraces with this chilly flourish: 'Where the eye apprehends a mansion of great distinction, supported by lesser mansions and service quarters, the mind must interpret it as a block of thin houses carrying less ornament or none at all. The sham is flagrant and absurd. The terraces are architectural whims; and though Nash was serious enough in his intention, the effect is an odd combination of magnificence and bathos …'
So it was conceived as a fake and was remade as a different kind of fake in the post-war era. This knowledge should make me feel better, but somehow it doesn't. The reason the site is being developed, inevitably, is to provide luxury homes for the super-rich; and, should you be super-rich, you can watch a video of the development here and browse one of the flats for sale (for £5.5M) here. The blurb for the 3 bedroom apartment mentions an 'indulgent' master bedroom, and a photo of the en suite shows a television installed in a cabinet above the bath (handy for keeping tabs on financial markets via Bloomberg or catching the latest edition of Supermarket Sweep). The illustrative interiors in the sales material as are tasteful and antiseptic as any expensive hotel suite anywhere in the world, which is the default mode for such developments. These are dwellings fit for any self-respecting Master of the Universe or dictator in exile, although any resting despots would undoubtedly want to tart up their London pied-a-terre more than just a bit.
We have banged on before about the aggregate of unease that, post-Boris, post-Cameron, London is being transformed into a theme park replica of itself: a city made over for the (very) well-heeled to live and shop in, a sanitized urban consumption zone. It isn't just a town planning issue or a conservation issue, it's a usage issue. Summerson's disdain aside, there was something strangely comforting in the knowledge that behind Nash's sweeping facades were ramshackle structures consistent with the building philosophy of Georgian London (or, for that matter, the post-war era). The sheer opulence of the new quarters behind Park Crescent makes one choke; it is just another case of planning consent granted to nurture the sensibilities of the platinum Lamborghini set. Who is this brave new city for?
Work has already started on the evisceration of Park Crescent east … the Amazon Property hoarding has appeared near the junction with Portland Place – and outside no. 7 we noticed the poignant notice below …
All photos © David Secombe 2016.
The Day They Left.Posted: June 30, 2016 Filed under: Catastrophes, Class, Conspiracies, Corridors of Power, Funereal, Health and welfare, London Labour, Pavements, Tall Tales, Vanishings | Tags: Brexit, Katie Hopkins, Nigel Farage, Tim Wells, United Voices of the World Comments Off on The Day They Left.
The first thing I noticed was that the beigels had gone
and there was a run on fried egg sandwiches.
Katie Hopkins became a nice person.
The free newspaper on the bus had actual news in it.
It turned out there actually was £350 million for the NHS.
Farage said he'd buy those of us left a pint,
which was fortuitous 'cos Wetherspoons had cut their prices.
No more forelock tugging for us, Squire,
'cos what with all the empty houses
each and every one of us got a luxury flat,
each of which came with a rent cap.
The radio could have been better. They'd decided no Kate Bush,
no P.J Harvey but there was a hell of a lot of Coldplay.
Employment was a doddle. I'd always wanted to be a doctor,
or a plumber, or have me very own fish and chip shop,
and these days all the education was free so it was
certificates all round. Gilt edged ones with a crinkle cut at that!
At the job my working day had been halved, pay doubled,
holidays extended. The light began to dawn.
© Tim Wells. Written after the United Voices of the World picket of 100 Wood Street, 29 June 2016.
A Quiet Pint On Massacre Street.Posted: May 31, 2016 Filed under: Class, Crime and Punishment, Dereliction, Interiors, London Types, Pubs, Tall Tales | Tags: London pubs, south London boozers Comments Off on A Quiet Pint On Massacre Street.
View from the saloon, south London, 2016. © David Secombe.
Recently overheard in a south London pub:
Have one, come on, have one. Look, I'm celebrating, I was acquitted. This afternoon, yeah. Before lunch I'd been in the witness box and they were jumping all over me, I didn't land a blow. Felt like a right wanker. And I was looking at doing four years. I was up before this judge who was an MP – yeah, an MP, stuck up git, probably a nonce, he'll be up in court himself next week. I tell you who he looked like, Pluto – Pluto the dog. Did you see my barrister? She was all right, nice looking she was. Put her hand on my arm she did. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, after lunch the jury was ready to come in and everything and then the prosecution said the CCTV didn't work. That's their case dead in the water. So I was acquitted. [looks at racing on pub TV] My jockey's an idiot – look at that div, looks like his bollocks haven't dropped. Looks like a rent boy. Anyway, thrown out it was, it was thrown out, the fucking CCTV didn't work. I'm thinking of compensation. Go after them I will, yeah. I've got letters about my loss of hearing. Here, I'm selling this phone. It's fucking immaculate, no scratches on it or nothing, I mean I did manage to drop it in the slop bucket behind the bar, but you'd never tell. Where is this cunt anyway?
Boarded-up pub, Bermondsey, 2010. © David Secombe.
See also: A Fragment of Bar Life.
A suburban ghost.Posted: October 30, 2015 Filed under: Architectural, Gargoyles, Out Of Town, Parks, Tall Tales, Theatrical London, Vanishings | Tags: Halloween, theatrical digs, theatrical stories 4 Comments
Everyone has a ghost story. My brother told me of a menacing boarding house he once stayed at whilst playing repertory theatre in the early 1970s: anomalous knockings in the middle of the night, dried blood splashes on the wall behind the bed, a general air of foreboding. The place was such a forbidding environment that my sister, staying the night after going to see a Saturday evening show, fled at 3 a.m., unable to take the threatening atmosphere. As she put it: 'Something terrible happened in that house'.
For her part, my other sister has her own story about haunted theatrical digs. She was staying in the modern wing of an old house, and her room was at the end of a long corridor that seemed to take an age to walk down. As the week wore on she had a feeling something was coming … in bed one night she heard a child's voice calling her name in her ear. She later discovered that this boarding house had once suffered a fire in which a child had died. After that experience, my sister was troubled to hear that a little girl had been seen by visitors staying in her own house.
Other family stories concern an old house my parents once owned, situated in a beautiful but secluded spot in the Surrey hills. On one occasion, my brother was staying there alone one night when he was awakened in the small hours by voices and laughter coming from downstairs. Following the sounds, he went and stood by the door to the drawing room; from beyond it he heard the unmistakable echo of a cocktail party in full swing. He opened the door, turned on the light and – of course – the room was empty.
My girlfriend has a story about something she saw in a house in Brockley. Staying over after a party, she was sleeping on a sofa in the kitchen extension – where the original scullery might have been – and awoke to see a green figure standing in the room making an energetic motion which suggested ironing – but the motion was angry, desperate. As she watched, the apparition grew larger and less defined until it dissolved in a jade haze.
I first heard this story when said girlfriend told it to me in my own house in Brockley, just around the corner from where she had once spent a disturbed night. My place in SE4 was on a street which was struck by a V1 cruise missile in August 1944: according to 'Flying Bombs and Rockets', the rocket destroyed 6 houses and damaged a further 45 on Endwell Road, leaving my house as the end of a terrace. My girlfriend, my sister, my daughter and at least one other visitor independently identified a spot at the bottom of the staircase (a floor below street level) as, variously, 'sad', 'eerie', and 'sinister'. In addition, they all reported the same sensation: as they headed up the stairs they felt that something was trying to catch hold of their foot. Nine people died in the V1 hit on Endwell Road; I never found out whether anyone was killed in my old house – but, for whatever it's worth, my sister said that her impression of my basement was that there was someone trapped in it.
(But basements are always good copy: the best ghost story I ever heard relates to a club in Hoxton that had a persistent problem with its basement dance floor; but I told that story this time last year so I'm not going to tell it again.)
Needless to say, I have never had any supernatural experiences of my own. None. My existence has been so relentlessly quotidian that I would welcome an encounter with the uncanny. I have stayed in many houses that were said to be haunted and never sensed the presence of 'the further realm'. Stanley Kubrick observed, when discussing The Shining, that all ghost stories are ultimately optimistic as they suggest the survival of the human personality. So laughter in a distant room, a inexplicably rattling doorknob, a child's ball that bounces on its own, a voice in your ear in an empty chamber, may all be seen as comforting: they reassure us that the day-to-day is not all there is.
I was trying to think what images I could use to illustrate this piece and ended up digging out a selection taken in various locations around London in the late 1970as or early '80s. Photography is a form of magic that we somehow take for granted: it fixes time and can resurrect the dead. These pictures of mine also present me with my younger self: an under-employed 20-something loitering on suburban streets, Leica in hand, hoping to find something worth photographing. Sometimes I'd get lucky but more often than not, not.
If I am haunted by anything it's by my own photographs. I'm not just talking about the good ones, or the ones where I was consciously trying to capture atmosphere; all of them are fragments of a past life, people and places lost to me. (For example, the misty garden in the picture above no longer exists; nor, to my dismay, does the fir planting seen in the Hampton Court photo.) Cartier-Bresson said that if he tried to calculate the time his shutter had clicked over the decades, all those 60ths and 500ths of a second, it would probably only add up to a few minutes. Photography can take over your life but what are you really left with? Just a few moments. The upside is that those moments give your life back to you, not always accurately, but in ways that allow us to recreate the past in a way that suits us. Photographs let us become our own ghosts. D.S.
This week, our friend and sometime contributor Andrew Martin is presenting a series of ghost-themed essays on Radio 3. They may be heard here.
Urban Myths no. 5: tales from a ghost club.Posted: October 31, 2014 Filed under: Amusements, Fictional London, Hospitals, Tall Tales, Theatrical London | Tags: Andrew Martin, David Warner, Kieran Hill, London hauntings, Miles Richardson, Old Vic, Shoreditch clubs Comments Off on Urban Myths no. 5: tales from a ghost club.
Props outside the Old Vic, Waterloo. © David Secombe 1989.
From Ghost Club by Andrew Martin and David Secombe:
Synopsis: The three members of the North Yorkshire Paranormal Investigation Society are engaged in a night-time vigil at a country house on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Moors.
Act Two, Scene 1:
It is now 11.30 pm. We find the three in the middle of their second 'session'. They occupy the three disparate seats, as before. Everyone looks jaded and more disheveled, but at least the electricity appears to have been restored – the lighting is from the Anglepoise lamps set up on the table. Quite atmospheric. As before, the aim is to maintain silence in hopes of contacting the beyond. PETE has commandeered a second seat, for the purpose of resting his legs and is reading a paperback – Elmore Leonard or similar.
Pete … have you had any experiences that really gave you the, like, willies?
How long have you got?
Pause; considering something.
Actually … No, forget it.
No, actually – what?
Pause. PETE looks at both his companions in turn. Puts his book down.
I worked as a security guard once. In London. After I left college.
Yes, Classics is hardly the most useful degree –
On my first day, they sent me to an abandoned maternity hospital in Finsbury Park that was waiting to be demolished. My job was to sit by the front door and patrol the place twice in an eight-hour hour shift. That's all. I arrived at seven a.m. on a bright summer's day, relieved the night shift – who I noticed was sitting outside – and sat down in the old reception booth and tried reading P.G. Wodehouse. But I couldn't shake off a feeling of being watched. There was a telephone ringing somewhere in the building, but all the lines were supposed to be dead: I had to communicate with my manager via a callbox in the street. My first round was at ten. The place was an absolute shambles. God only knows what had gone on in there. It was a hot day but a storm was brewing. By the time I did my second round, at three, the sky was so dark it was difficult to see into the corners of the wards. Up on the second floor the heat from the day seemed to vanish and the air was very cold. That's when I heard footsteps. First I thought they were my own echo: but they seemed to carry on after I'd stopped. They seemed to be getting closer each time, gaining on me.
I felt it was time to leave. I ran out of the building and used the call box to phone in my resignation. They were very apologetic: seems it was someone's idea of a joke to send me there on my first day, as no-one liked working the place.
Pause – then PETE tells another one:
Later on, I was working at a club in Shoreditch. Used to be a pub, but it was all leather and sparkly lights when I knew it. The building was Georgian, but you'd hardly guess from the front. It had been bombed in the war and during rebuilding they came across medieval corpses. An unhappy spot. Didn't stop them turning the basement into a dance floor. It was always cold; we'd try turning up the heating but the walls just ran with condensation. The landlord's rottweiler refused to go down there. Once, I found some traumatised queen bleating that he'd followed someone into the toilet and seen them walk through the wall. Not quite the encounter he was expecting.
Oh …
I was cleaning up one morning-after-the-night- before, and I distinctly heard a voice close to my ear say "This one's not afraid to be down here on his own". … You'd have some nights down there and I used to wonder how many live bodies we had in and how many from the other side. You'd be hard pressed to tell them apart.
Silence. JOHN pours himself some more wine.
© Andrew Martin & David Secombe 2008-2013.
Ghost Club has yet to have a proper airing, although an earlier draft was presented as a rehearsed reading at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2010, featuring David Warner as JOHN, Miles Richardson as PETE and Kieran Hill as IAN. We present this excerpt as our annual Halloween offering.
Urban Myths no. 4: Spring Heeled Jack.Posted: July 16, 2014 Filed under: Amusements, Tall Tales, Transport, Vanishings | Tags: Hendon Way, London folklore, Spring Heeled Jack, Tim Turnbull, Urban Myths Comments Off on Urban Myths no. 4: Spring Heeled Jack.
Spring Heeled Jack in Hendon. © Tim Turnbull 2014.
From the South Barnet Recorder*:
Dean and Jeanette Jackson were returning from a night out celebrating their son's Ricky's birthday party when they saw a mysterious figure darting across the A41 just north of Hendon.
Mr Jackson, forty, an office supplies salesman from Mill Hill, said: "I saw a man on the other side of the carriageway, a tall geezer wearing this big black cape and I reckoned he was going to a fancy dress do or something. I couldn't see a car, but then he ran across two lanes, vaulted up the bank and vanished from sight – all in just a couple of seconds. He had no face as such, he was wearing a sort of mask that lit up like a toy robot. We were well baffled and voiced our startlement straight away. He was dead quick, and could jump like a Grand National champion."
Mrs. Jackson, a beautician – thirty-seven – added: "Dean and I have slept with the light on for the past six nights. It is far and away the strangest thing to have happened to us since we moved to Mill Hill from Worcester Park. Every year something special happens on Ricky's birthday. Last year it was the Pope, this year it's Spring Heeled Jack."
* Not real news item. However, Spring Heeled Jack was an urban myth of the Victorian era. A mysterious dark figure reported to be responsible for a string of attacks in the 1800s and known for his ability to leap great heights, was first sighted in Wandsworth in 1837 and given the SHJ sobriquet by the penny dreadfuls of his (or its) day. For further reading, see The Legend of Spring Heeled Jack.
See also: The Supermarket Spider, Airport Caterpillars, The Discarded Artist's Statement.
Tim Turnbull's poems have appeared in these pages before; this is the first time he has contributed as an illustrator. See: Clapham Common Clowns, Black Cab Blues, Frankie Howerd, Robert Graves, The Last Squat in Hackney.


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I haven't done a recipe post in a while so I thought I'd share one of my all time favorite fall desserts that I made the other day! These brownies are the perfect combination of pumpkin and chocolate, and are a breeze to whip up, enjoy!
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 whole egg
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate pieces
- Mix all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl (except chocolate chips.)
- Add liquid ingredients, eggs, and pumpkin to mixing bowl.
- Mix in an electric mixer on medium until smooth.
- Add chocolate chips slowly while beating on low.
- Spray an 11″ x 7″ x 1.5″ pan with non-stick spray and pour in batter.
- Bake at 350° F for 15-20 minutes.
And you're done! This recipe yields about 15 servings (one pan) and has approximately 82 calories per brownie- not too shabby! I was baking for a large group so I tripled the recipe and used a small dish and a large dish, in case you were wondering. What are your favorite fall desserts? Have you ever had these? Help me decide what I should bake next!


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A mutton muttonbone.
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`Mills & Boon kind of lover`SRK feels `women better`
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New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Have you ever tried to find out that particular reason for your attraction towards the Badshah of Bollywood? Seems like Shah Rukh Khan himself has an answer for the same. During a promotional spree for upcoming film 'Jab Harry Met Sejal,' comparing himself with the 'Mills and Boons' kind of lovers, he said, "I don't know women better but I feel women better." Reasoning it out, the 'Dilwale' actor told film critic Anupama Chopra in Film Companion, "This is because I have done really nice love stories. Even in 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,' it was from a woman's point of view. The women can relate to the love in my movies. Therefore, I have started feeling women better. I have become more gentlemanly but I don't know if I have become a better partner." Adding, "I am a manly Mills & Boon kind of lover..a walking, talking Mills and Boon. I don't have a personal brand of love. I have said this before, I really don't have an idea of love. I could be a Devdas lover, I may have my mannerisms." Labelling himself as the 'empty vessel,' SRK went on to say, "I understand love, I am like an empty vessel, which you can fill and I will take the shape of love. I have never been the same lover in my films, I have been the lover as my director sees fit. But I understand Imtiaz's lover better. I don't though; have a fixed concept of love." His co-star Anushka also revealed her thoughts on the same, saying, "It is his dimples, his smile...It is our memories of seeing him fall in love and making others fall in love with him and thinking, 'I too want to fall in love like this.' And you want to see him again and again because when he falls in love, you too get that feeling. I think we want to relive our memories." On the work front, Imtiaz Ali directed 'Jab Harry Met Sejal,' is all set to release on August 4. This will be the third collaboration of the Badshah of Bollywood and Anushka. Earlier, they were seen together in 'Rab Ne Banadi Jodi' and 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan.' Interestingly, they will also feature together in Aanand L Rai's next, which will also have Katrina Kaif alongside (Jab Tak Hai Jaan trio). SRK will play a dwarf in the yet to be titled flick(ANI)


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At the beginning of the 20th Century John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Little has changed over the last 100 years.
I firmly believe attribution is a people problem, not a technology problem. People tend to be averse to embracing attribution because they fear their efforts may not be the reason for a conversion. Not being able to trace your marketing endeavors back to successful campaigns is scary and may make individuals feel as though their jobs could be at stake. Rather than knowing the true reason for a conversion most people tend to choose a model that attributes their actions to a specific goal (or success). Don't worry, we'll dive deeper into "models" later on.
What is attribution?
Attribution is the action of finding the reason that contributed to a desired outcome. Essentially it's when you can track why a campaign worked or why it did not work. According to TechCrunch attribution is similar to giving credit to a basketball player who made an assist that led to a three point basket.
What are attribution models? And is there a right or wrong model?
According to Google "An attribution model is the rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions is assigned to touch points in conversion paths." There are multiple mathematical attribution models.
In my opinion, the correct model is the one that will give fractional attribution to each piece in the ecosystem (e.g. display, video and search). This rewards influence, interest, as well as purchase. These combine all the factors of the ecosystem. With that being said most brands tend to award the model that skews in their favor in terms of channel. Whatever they see performing they will choose the model that best suits their success.
In a recent conversation with Tracy Kemmer, Director of Client Services at Conversion Logic, I asked her what are some common complaints from brands who integrate with an attribution vendor?
Her response was ""Integrating an attribution vendor will put the spotlight on any data hygiene inconsistencies that have been living beneath the surface. While this process can be very time consuming for the trafficking teams, it does tend to shed light on inefficiencies that when fixed tend to start saving clients administrative budget by reducing team effort on reporting, mining, measurement, taxonomy, and trafficking" – Tracy Kemmer
Brands tend to be afraid of looking under the hood of the car, which goes with my theory that it's a people problem and not a technology problem. Sometimes you find inefficiencies in marketing efforts and/or places where money can be saved on certain efforts that are not performing as expected. There can be so many stakeholders when it comes to attribution and discovering the good, the bad and the ugly is not always fun!
What is the future of attribution?
I believe there's lots of opportunity in data point discovery. For example, voice search (e.g. Siri on the iPhone). How many times have you picked up your iPhone and asked Siri to locate the closest gas station or closest fast food restaurant on a road trip? Does this sound familiar to you? Are these touch points being considered when you look at the customer journey? There are so many customer behaviors that we don't yet attribute to conversions or sales. Attribution, at its core, is really an open architecture to whichever data points one wants to input into a model. It truly is a blank canvas.
Kemmer also added this to our conversation when I asked about the future of attribution, "I believe the complexity to onboard an attribution partner will only get easier over time. I also believe that cross device tracking will eventually become more stable and when that happens it will only increase the value that attribution can provide."
So I'll leave you with this key takeaway, look at all your data points and then think about what's missing. What are you not considering or looking at? For example: Someone plans a vacation and generally on vacation you tend to forget about your diet and treat yourself to decadent meals. It's possible this person is feeling guilty about eating poorly and might be looking to go on a diet plan or subscribe to a health food delivery service. Consider points that you may not have looked at in the past: location, time, past purchase history, etc.. The customer journey should not be limited to channel only. Look at media as a whole and think about how human interaction and intent fits into the online marketing mix.


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A little over a month ago I went to visit a friend in an area of the country I used to live in. I seized a few free minutes to walk around a neighborhood I used to enjoy when I lived near by. Not much has changed since my time there. During my walk, I stopped at a local business run by a friend of mine; business has been slow for him. He was so happy to have someone stop by and to talk. He gave me a free soda. I enjoyed the cherry coke, but I can't say that I gladly accepted this gift. The whole time we were talking and shaking our heads at the current economic landscape, I was fighting to put theory into practice. Internally, I fought to put my beliefs about generosity into practice. I see an expression of generosity as a way to acknowledge someone's value: the giver is saying, "You matter to me." However, generosity can be an expression of mutually valuing, if the person receiving the gift receives it in humility. By accepting the gift humbly, they say, "I need you, I need your love." In this way, both giver and receiver acknowledge each other's value.
The practice of generosity requires one essential component: there is a giver and a receiver, and often these roles switch back and forth like the oceans' tide. The internal struggle is over the gifts (of soda and conversation). Do I gladly and unconditionally accept them OR do I leave money to pay for both? My pride looked for a creative way to leave money—for the sake of making me feel good about myself. If I leave money how much do I leave? After all, I would be placing a price on a conversation with a friend. My pride would have a lingering cost: the insult of telling my friend that I am above receiving his demonstration of generosity. The other part of me, which some call humility, realized that accepting a gift from someone that struggles to pay all of his expenses moves me towards acknowledging his value. In receiving his gift, I convey, "Our relationship is mutual. I have something to receive from you." I believe that humbly receiving from another person also tells them of their inherent worth as a child of God.
Looking back, I realize that if I had given into my pride, there would be a lingering cost— a cost of my friendship and the genuineness of how we treat each other. After all, giving into my pride would carry with it the message of difference in our value to each other and God. A step in this direction could put me on a slippery slope that reinforces pride as my default behavior. Such default behavior reinforces societal understandings of power, haves and has nots, and the worth that we attach to those categories. I am in a state of brokenness because of pride. If I give into pride any steps of progress towards doing good, doing no harm and staying in love with God becoming my default behavior would be washed away. I do not want a gold star for outdoing an act of generosity that flows out of a humble heart. The Lord loves a cheerful giver not someone in a generosity contest – generosity is not a contest when living out the teachings of Jesus. Receiving a gift from someone else is an act of humility, which acknowledges that each of us, regardless of how society labels us, has something to offer. By possessing an attitude of humility and willingness to receive we put into action the work of tearing down barriers that separate us and building neighborhoods of people that value each other.
I know that I have much room for improvement in living my life as someone that values people. This is part of the journey of living for Christ instead of myself. My desire is not to erase the bit of progress I've made in this area but to keep at it. Blessed assurance the grace of God will redeem my mistakes, which hurt someone's sense of value while giving me the strength to persevere.
"But charity is only as warm as those who administer it." – Dorothy Day
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STAR Stories Make You a Star!
- S – Situation, the background – when where, who and why
- T – Task or tasks, you need to be specific here – exactly what were you required to do and what was the required outcome?
- A – Action, what you did and what skills you used, how you behaved?
- R – Result – Outcome, what happened – what were the benefits and how could you measure them? How did the organisation respond?
- Use your laptop or simply get a notebook and note down all the good things you have achieved. We are talking here about your personal successes!
- Don't spend time on the things that you don't feel good about
! But a whole programme or initiative doesn't have to have been a success for your part of it to be something you are proud of!
- Now pick at least 10 achievements across your career. It will help you later if you include at least five from the more recent past. But there is no limit to how many STAR stores you can produce.
- For each achievement, write a STAR story, setting out what happened and clearly explaining your contribution.
- Of course you can write as much or as little as you like about each success. But at this stage about one page of A4 for each is usually sufficient.
- Start with your early achievements and work forward.
- Do your research if necessary about times, places and events. You are building a portfolio to be proud of so make sure your stories are accurate!
- After you have completed each story take a pause and review! Enjoy your success. When you have completed five lay them out before them and feel proud – I bet you had forgotten how good your were!
- When you are ready, type them up and print them out on good quality paper!
- Put them in a folder with your name on the front!
You have begun – your job search portfolio has its foundations.
Wendy Smith is a career consultant, life coach and business coach with depth of experience in organisational development, management, coaching and personal development. That experience means she is equally at home helping clients find a new career direction, starting-up new businesses or dealing with life's more challenging personal issues. You can contact her at email@example.com
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What's Happening On Instagram?We celebrated Easter with Ottolenghi's magnificent sweet potato bake. Proof that sides sometimes take centre stage. The recipe is as simple as it is delicious. Thinly slice enough sweet potatoes to snugly fit your roasting tin. Mix with 5 or 6 generous tablespoons of finely chopped garlic and sage. Season with salt and pepper. Butter your tin and arrange seasoned sweet potato slices standing upright in tightly packed rows. Cover with foil and bake in a hot 180 degree oven for about 45 minutes. Remove the foil and pour over a cup of cream. Return to the oven for a further 25 minutes. The cream will thicken beautifully to coat the sweet potato. We served this with a roast rack of pork and broccolini. Yes there's also a traditional (equally delicious) potato gratin in the background of the photo but for simplicity this version wins hand down. #thepaddingtonfoodie #ottolenghi #sweetpotato #cookgoodfood #cookingthroughit #makeittogether #easter2020In life before lockdown I'd never contemplated making hot cross buns at home. I'd hunt them down at my favourite bakeries. The closest I came one Easter, on holiday at the coast away from home, were Hot Cross Muffins. No yeast required. I think by the time lockdown is over, l will have conquered my yeast phobia. I don't quite know what I expected but these were glorious. Soft, fluffy and delicious 😋 Thanks to Maggie Beer for a fantastic recipe https://www.maggiebeer.com.au/recipes/hot-cross-buns. I will admit I did make a couple of pantry substitutions. I glazed my buns with orange marmalade, used #Gewurzhaus prepackaged hot cross bun spice mix, and not having quite enough currants added a little freshly diced apple to make up the difference. And before I forget I also added finely grated zest from an orange and a lemon to the mix. My hungry horde descended and devoured them straight out of the oven. The pressure is already on to bake another batch for Easter 🐣 #thepaddingtonfoodie #cookingthroughit #hotcrossbuns #makeittogether #stayhome #bakingfromscratch #eastervibes #lockdown2020Another day, another bake, with cardamom my new favourite spice. This time paired with brown butter pistachios in a sensational take on carrot cake. No cream cheese frosting here, it's topped with a vibrant and gloriously sticky carrot glaze. Recipe courtesy of #bonappetit Yes it's a little decadent but very delicious. Swipe for a slice. #thepaddingtonfoodie #carrotcake #basicallybaking #cardamom #pistachio #carrotglaze #timetobake #fromscratchOne of the upsides of staying home is rediscovering the joys of baking. My happy place. Visiting Copenhagen last year I fell in love with #kardemummabullar from #junothebakery and #hartbageri. Inspired by a recipe from #fabriquebakery here is my take. Happy Sunday morning everyone and keep safe. #thepaddingtonfoodie #cardamombuns #frommykitchen #sundaymorningvibes #timetobakeChilli, sesame and peanut crispy chicken 💕 #thepaddingtonfoodie #lazylunch #summerinsydneySydney always puts on a spectacular NYE fireworks display. We hope the light sprinkle of rain that fell at midnight is a good omen for our fire and drought ravaged communities. 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Save Money And Refinish Your Hardwood Flooring
One of the reasons why people don't start home improvement projects because of the presumed cost of the project. Refinishing your wood floors doesn't have to be expensive. As a matter of fact, if you have some time, you can save yourself several dollars over what professionals will charge you.
The first step in refinishing your hardwood floors is removing all furniture, rugs, and mats that are on the floor. It's also a good idea to wear a dust mask as you are going to be stirring up quite the dust storm as you go about your business.
Your goal in refinishing your hardwood floors is to turn back the hands of time to when your hardwood floors were first installed. In order to achieve this feat, you will need to start by renting a heavy-duty sander to smooth out any rough spots and to remove the current stain that is on your floor. Move the sander in the direction that moves with the lines on your hardwood floor, paying particular attention that you do not apply more pressure anywhere. It's important to make sure that you apply equal pressure to all parts of your floor as you want to avoid creating 'pits' in your hardwood floor, which will require more sanding. Do not move across the hardwood floor lines, especially if you have small grooves or beveled edges.
Once you've finished with your initial sanding you must sweep and vacuum the dust from your floor and lightly wash it. This part is often not given the proper care it deserves and is very important when refinishing hardwood floors. The reason it is so important is that the tiniest speck of dirt and dust will show up when you stain the floor. It is also important that you use only a damp mop for washing the floor rather than a wet mop. If there is too much water in the floor that has been sanded it will cause stains.
Once your stripped hardwood floors are dry, its time to stain your floor. Depending on the type of hardwood you have, and taking into consideration the room's current decor, you can choose either a darker stain, a lighter stain, or go natural. Another popular option that protects and coats your floor is polyurethane
While refinishing hardwood floors is time consuming, you do not have to move out of your home in order to accomplish it. The stains and protective coatings do not have harsh fumes so they are not dangerous to breathe. You do want to take care not to walk on your floor until it is completely dry. If you do not wait you will have wasted all that time and effort and have to either start over or try to hide the footprints.


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Chargers say they have "zero interest" in switching alliances at the 11th hour of the Los Angeles stadium derby and remain committed to join the Oakland Raiders with a new stadium in Carson, California, Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today reports.
NFL owners are scheduled to meet here Tuesday and Wednesday to decide which teams move into which competing stadium project in L.A. County, if any. The apparent choices on the table are the Carson project, jointly backed by the Chargers and Raiders, or a stadium plan near the L.A. airport in Inglewood, backed by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is among those who have pushed the idea of having the Chargers and Rams together in Inglewood. But the Chargers still say they don't want that.


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"As soon as we visited Aston Hall we knew we wanted to have our wedding there. It was everything we wanted, the grandeur of an old hall but with a beautiful modern interior as opposed to the dusty floral curtains and carpets you get elsewhere and a beautiful church just a stones throw away.
We cannot recommend highly enough the standard of everything at Aston. Most of all our beloved wedding planner (fairy godmother) Zoe. From our first meeting right through to writing this testimonial she has been truly amazing and played a massive part in making our wedding an absolutely perfect day. She is a credit to Aston and to anyone she helps plan their day.
So many people have commented on how lovely the food was, the setting, the staff, the hotel rooms and some have even gone as far as to say it was the best wedding they've ever been to. All due to the brilliant staff at Aston Hall. Thank you to all of you.
If you are thinking of booking a wedding here, my advice is do it, you will not be disappointed. It rained the whole day of our wedding and we didn't even notice!"
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It's Time To Forget Everything You Think You Know About Digital
in order for the industry to fully embrace digital, it needs to let go of preconceived notions of 'web design' tactics, says Cypha's Alex Christian.
We all know that 'digital' is no longer purely for screens. From wearables, physical technology to interactive activations, the landscape of digital is changing and the necessity for designers to think beyond the screen is ever increasing.
We don't just consume digital while we're in front of a desktop computer, or even while we gaze into our phones. It's 24/7 feasts of social media, utility and entertainment experiences. And unlike the 'web design' approach, (which aims to guide the user through one activity, one screen at a time) the user is now in complete control and isn't pledged to a single screen or device.
Those who are beginning to embrace this space need to let go of preconceived concepts of the screen, that have been established during the 'web design' era. Fundamentals aside, interactive design needs to reflect the behaviour of the user, and like the hardware, these behaviours are changing.
It can be frightening to remove these constraints, since it's what digital has been built on, but as digital experiences become less screen driven and more integrated into our 'day to day' lives, we require a more intrinsic set of guidelines when defining the shape of an experience.
Rather than 'point and click' navigation, user activity, environment and location could all be factors that determine the journey throughout the experience.
I'm excited to be part of this transitional phase of the industry, because it's not just what the future of digital is going to look like that intrigues me, it's what technology (as a whole) will be capable of. It could become the norm to share smells, vibrations, physical touch and create stronger kinaesthetic relationships between people.
But, I'm not going to lay out my hypothesis on the future of the industry and technology. Like everything, we're at the mercy of global events and industrial cross-pollination to produce new human needs and desires. And this is the same with design, but I believe designers will become more conscious of the physical environment and human behaviour rather than just screen-orientated aesthetic.
Defining the shape and face of a new type of digital experience is exciting but at the same time challenging. There is the possibility that we will rest on our Loral's and try to force 'the web' into a square hole, rather than allow innovation and human behaviour to determine the future experience. Either way, the advertising industry is at the dawn of a new age of communication, and, as exciting as that is, we need to leave behind the baggage and embrace the unknown.
Alex Christian is creative partner at digital agency Cypha,


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Promoting equality for ethnic minority NHS staff—what works?BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3297 (Published 08 July 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h3297
- Naomi Priest, senior research fellow12,
- Aneez Esmail, professor3,
- Roger Kline, research fellow4,
- Mala Rao, professor5,
- Yvonne Coghill, director, Workforce Race Equality Standard implementation6,
- David R Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman professor of public health 789
- 1Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dental and Health Services, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 3Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- 4Middlesex University Business School, London, UK
- 5Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
- 6NHS England, London, UK
- 7Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard, USA
- 8Department of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University, USA
- 9Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Correspondence to: D R Williams dwilliam{at}hsph.harvard.edu
- Accepted 12 May 2015
For decades research has shown that discrimination, harassment, and exclusion are pervasive experiences for staff from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in the National Health Service.1 2 3 4 5 6 In recognition of limited progress in achieving the goals of the now decade old NHS Race Equality Action Plan,7 the NHS has agreed a mandatory workforce race equality standard. The standard requires NHS organisations to collect baseline information from April 2015 on nine indicators of workforce equality for ethnic minority staff, including representation on boards, and to publish annual updates on these metrics (box). Organisations that fail to make progress on these metrics will be in breach of the NHS standard contract, and this will affect whether regulators judge them to be "well led."8 9 We review the international evidence on the effectiveness of diversity initiatives to assess how best to achieve the standard's intended outcomes.
Indicators for the workforce race equality standard
Workforce metrics
For each of these four workforce indicators, the standard compares the metrics for white and BME staff
Percentage of BME staff in bands 8-9 (very senior managers, including executive board members and senior medical staff) compared with the percentage of BME staff in the overall workforce
Relative likelihood of BME staff being appointed from shortlisting compared with that of white staff being appointed from shortlisting across all posts
Relative likelihood of BME staff entering the formal disciplinary process, compared with that of white staff entering the formal disciplinary process, as measured by entry into a formal disciplinary investigation. (Based on data from a two year rolling average of the current year and the previous year)
Relative likelihood of BME staff accessing non-mandatory training and continuous personal development compared with white staff
National NHS staff survey findings
For each of these five staff survey indicators, the standard compares the metrics for each survey question response for white and BME staff
Percentage of staff experiencing harassment, bullying, or abuse from …
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A couple of picture from a recent safari
I go to a nearby national park popular for tigers, leopards, wild dogs, sloth bear and a large variety of birds. I shared the black panther and leopard in my previous post, here are some more from that trip.
I liked the reflection on this picture as she was drinking water.
And then we spotted this mating pair of leopards. The female was not as bold as the male and hid behind a small mound where the male was sitting, keeping watch.
Here's another picture of the female, taken a few minutes later.
A couple of birds to round up this post. If I should limit it to just 3 images per post, please let me know.
A pair of Streak Throated Woodpeckers. The male has a red head and is seen hopping in this picture. The female has a black top and is just visible in this shot.
A common Hoopoe. I wasn't too happy with the colors in this image as the bird is easily lost in the foliage. But then, that's its camouflage. :-)
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Using the proper instruction, you are able to discover how to construct a pergola over a weekend.
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A pergola can add character and shade to a patio that otherwise appears bland and boring. Various styles may be utilized to add a touch of grace or perhaps a natural rustic style by utilizing either completed painted wood or rough-hewn timber.
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National Review's Kevin Williamson gets to the heart of the matter. "The typical airline employee treats the typical traveler as though he simply is in the way." But that's not some imperative of market competition, he continues. Rather, it's what happens when people enjoy some exemption from market competition.
And that points to one of the biggest reasons people hate banks, cable companies, health-insurance companies, and airlines: There is an in-your-face asymmetry of power. If the airline says your flight is going to be delayed by two hours — not because of a hurricane or unforeseeable events but because of straightforward managerial incompetence — then you basically have to live with it. You don't get to say: "Okay, but I'm taking $50 off the airfare." Your bank expects you to accept screw-ups on its part that might cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars if the mistake was yours. (My bank just spent 46 cents to send me a check for . . . 47 cents . . . because apparently I bank with people who cannot quite manage to calculate interest correctly.) Your cable service may go out for hours at a time, but if you're one minute late with your payment, expect penalties.So far, I'm not sure whether it's better that Our President, who has a past record of firing people, has not weighed in on social media on this United screwup, or whether it's a chance for him to establish some populist street cred.
That is one major problem with heavily regulated industries in which there is insufficient competition: The managers act as though the business were organized for their benefit rather than for the customers, and that attitude seeps down to front-line workers. The typical airline employee treats the typical traveler as though he simply is in the way. I once was introduced to an executive who informed me that he was in charge of "strategic planning" for a large municipal utility company. I asked him whether his strategic plan was to keep being a monopoly. "I'd really be exploring that angle, strategic-planning-wise," I advised. He did not seem to appreciate my counsel.
If I were a better sort of person, I'd have a little sympathy for the senior executives at United, who must be having a hell of a week. I am not a better sort of person, and I'd be content to see them flogged in the streets. But that's no way to make policy.
The troubles might have been coming for a long time. United recently merged with Continental (yet another case of two weak companies pooling resources with the hopes of creating a stronger company: instead, you get a larger weak company. I'm no longer teaching antitrust, but my successors still don't lack for work. As Wired's Tim Wu puts it, a flying hellscape.
Combined with Continental, United became the world's largest airline—and vastly more profitable. But it led, in the short term, to a giant mess, forcing the carrier to adopt ever more extreme policies, transforming it into industry leader in the abandonment of basic decency.It was also a foreseeable error. As early as 1978, then deregulation-minded Civil Aeronautics Board head (and Cornell industrial economist) Alfred Kahn was lamenting that the air carriers were not disposed to fight hard for market share with each other. (But reintroducing rate regulation, as some observers are currently suggesting, simply reintroduces the cartel. I'd rather have Delta pledging that "If we're not ready when you are, we'll pay the compensation you request" when my alternative is a codification that denied boarding compensation cannot exceed $1000 per incident and the hotel voucher has to be for the equivalent of a Baymont Inn.)
Among the unstated goals of the merger was the systematic reduction of capacity, to ensure the major airlines' flights would always be full, or, better yet, overfilled. (Delta and American executed their own mergers with similar goals.) United and Continental had been competitors along many routes, especially out of New York. The merger let them decrease supply so that there would be fewer seats to sell, making possible higher prices and fewer money-losing empty spaces. In retrospect, the Justice Department's rapid approval of this and other airline mergers, without more safeguards or consumer protections, was a serious error.
Current observers, including Mr Wu, have also noted the way that bumping seems to be for the little people.
United's revenue projections make clear that the "basic" fares will be sold at the same prices economy used to be. The profit comes from not from offering something new, but the premise that people will pay extra to avoid the poor treatment. It is a textbook example of "calculated misery" — profiting from people's fear of suffering.Perhaps, although if Third Class is almost as good as First Class, why would anybody ever pay the extra fare for First? That's a challenge as old as enclosed railway carriages. But back in the day, the coach passengers passed outside the sleepers or parlor cars, rather than having to pass through them to get to their places of confinement. And the airline trick of selling upgrades (yes, kiddies, they also overbook the nice seats, and in selling a slightly larger seat to a coach passenger they avoid having to compensate another coach passenger who will otherwise be bumped) is as nothing compared with what any Pullman conductor of the World War II era could do to accommodate 45 passengers in a 32 seat parlor car.
The overcrowding, poor treatment, and invidious discrimination are a combustible combination. While this week's fiasco was an extreme example, incidents of "air rage" have become a regular part of flying. In a 2016 study, researchers Katherine DeCelles and Michael Norton demonstrated that just knowing someone is getting special treatment can cause problems. "Physical inequality on airplanes—that is, the presence of a first class cabin—is associated with more frequent air rage incidents in economy class," they wrote. It is a testament to the public's manners and self-control that incidents do not happen more often.
But that market segmentation is hitting a nerve with travel writers. Here's a Christian Science Monitor take.
When it comes to airlines, the dissatisfaction may also stem in part from travel becoming cheaper and more accessible than ever before, giving more people a chance to experience it but also come face to face with those receiving better, more expensive treatment.Now, if they could load the coach passengers through some doors, and the sleeping car passengers through other doors ...
In other ways, though, the travel business is rediscovering Late Victorian practices.
At the same time as most air passengers are facing more fees for luggage, seat assignments, and even bathroom use, amenities for business class travelers, from flat beds to private bathrooms, are getting more luxurious.No, but study your history. There are several versions of the old camp song, Titanic (you may know it as "It Was Sad When The Great Ship Went Down") but in most versions there's
That aggressive sorting of travelers according to what they are willing to pay is a relatively recent phenomenon, says Herman "Dutch" Leonard, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. "There is much more work on price discrimination, trying to figure out who would be willing to pay a little bit more and how can we get them to pay a little bit more," he says. People have come to resent all the extra airline charges – bags, carry-on, there's this sense of, 'if we can take more money from you we will.' "
"The entire travel industry is going in this direction," agrees [travel agent Jeff] Wagg of Absolutely Cruises! "Hotels overbook all the time, too [to avoid the sunk cost of empty rooms when people don't show], and you are more likely to get bumped based on how much you paid."
On cruise ships, he says, first- and second-class passenger tiering is now common, with exclusive areas blocked off for VIP customers. "We weren't seeing that in the '80s and '90s."
"And the rich refused to / Associate with the poor.It's possible that steerage class passengers on Titanic had been conditioned in a life of hardship that the lifeboats were for First Class. Perhaps we have to rewrite the song.
So they put them down below / Where they'd be the first to go,
It was sad when the great ship went down."
Oh the moral of this story, is right before your eye!
Have your Sky Club mileage current, before you go to fly.
So if the plane is oversold, you will never be tossed,
Oh it was sad when reaccommodation went down.


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