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BMF introduce 'Hipster Santa' to promote shopping centre during Christmas
A new Sydney shopping centre has introduced 'Hipster Santa' who has started up his own workshop inside the mall.
Central, the retail space located within Central Park in Chippendale, says he is the: "Contemporary answer to traditional Christmas. He's not big on flying reindeer; he prefers his fixed-gear bike.
"And don't even think about leaving him out milk and cookies; he only accepts coconut water and gluten-free macarons."
The campaign, from BMF, includes an ambient PR stunt, outdoor, point of sale, an interactive digital display and a social strategy where Hipster Santa will be active across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
The three-week long campaign sees Hipster Santa take over one of the retail spaces within Central's Living Mall and replaced it with his workshop. Shoppers will be able to interact with him in the lead up to Christmas, including taking selfie-style Santa photos.
The centre's take on Santa Claus will also have a digital presence in the centre, with him and his band, Hipster Santa and the Antlers,appearing digitally on the Living Mall's interactive digital display. Shoppers can control the music by activating and deactivating different band member's instruments via a touchscreen. The band play indie covers of Christmas carols.
The character will also curate the 'must have' items in the centre's retailers. During the lead-up to Christmas, he'll attach 'Approved by Hipster Santa' tags on "any item that he personally thinks are totes amaze".
In Chippendale, posters and sidewalk chalk stencils will promote the hashtag #hipstersanta.
- Managing Partner: Stephen McArdle
- ECD: Carlos Alija, Laura Sampedro
- Creative: Patrick Chambers, Mark Carbone
- Account Management: Kura Tyerman, Chris Hill
- Interactive Director: Nev Fordyce
Designer: Lincoln Grice
PR Agency: Amy Whittaker and Monique Jones (Frank PR)
- Client: Frasers Property and Sekisui House
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Who did the copy?
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Ugh, they're, like, totes trying too hard. Ceebs.
aren't hipsters getting a bit boring?
is this for real? #fail
This is actually cute. Like.
Will be interesting to see post-campaign results for this. Also interesting to see the cool social/PR element of this came from an ad agency, rather than a PR firm (who does Central use for PR btw?).
Shareworthy and different take on the usual Xmas chatter, which I've already seen shared on my Twitter feed a few times!
Hipsters. Yawn.
Hitler. Hipsters. They're despised equally and universally.
How exactly is this going to attract shoppers??
Love it! Funny, cute and original. Now I want to see what a hipster elf looks like
Can't wait to see the award submission video for this one. I'm sure it will make it look like an amazing fully integrated experiential and socially led extravaganza.
Navel gazing never goes out of fashion
Its a cool idea with potential, but the copy feels like its lacking – quote off the site – like adults trying to do kid speak –
"I'm down with all shades of the colour red, maintaining my dense and luscious chin-mane, soy lattes and curating cool at Christmas."
funny AND original!!!!!!! This is what advertising is all about.
I swear, these hipsters are taking over the world, first it was the advertising industry and now xmas!
Its great to see an ad agency that used to create trends now resurrect them – someone has to do it.
We kinda did the whole hipster santa thing last year for fun not to sell anything though, we just made a video:
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I met hipster santa the other day at central park haha I think he's awesome! very well done
Considering that Central Park in Chippendale is spitting distance from several universities and educational institutions (not to mention uber hipster Abercrombie Hotel) I have to conceed it's nailed the brief. 20-something year old students with mac books, fixies and backpacks = this campaign.
What is the deal with these dated ideas of comic relief?
the term hipster in adworld pretty much defines every single person aged 24-35 that lives in a first world, western country capital city.
Calling someone hipster because they actually care about the political state of the world, care about what they put into their bodies, care about the environment, accept that they don't have the kind of money to buy pointlessly pathetic material objects and wear and do whatever makes them happy and makes them feel comfortable is pretty sad if you ask me.
Why do gen x and baby boomers have such hatred towards gen y? at the end of the day, it seems like this is the problem.
Using the term "hipster" with negative connotations in order to sell something to those you believe are in fact, hipsters is pointless and stupid.
I personally am over marketers hashtagging, using stupid calls (fail, totes, lolz etc.) in order to "connect" with their audience. Don't they realise by now that this only turns them away?
The only people that find hipster-esque advertisements and satire funny are those old enough to have teenage children, wear a velour tracksuit and drive a 4wd around the inner city with a stick figure family on the back.
Funny yes, original no. But meh? What's wrong with that? If it works…nothing.
Pointless rubbish. I can see why BMF is no longer the place to go for creative work
Nice one BMF. Ignore the haters. Down here we love all the Aldi stuff. It´s some of your best work ever. Keep going.
I met Hipster Santa today and he is the best Santa ever! Friendly, lovely, chatty, clever … Ok I think I want to marry him.
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A working poet, she regularly gives poetry readings and has had more than 40 poems published in over 20 literary journals as well as two books of poetry (the most recent being "Diorama with Fleeing Figures," Shearsman Books, 2009). Her book of research into American Yiddish literature and translations from Yiddish poetry, entitled "Recovering 'Yiddishland': Threshold Moments in American Literature," was published by Syracuse University Press in 2008.
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Her most recent collection of poetry is King of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop (2014, Accents). She is also the author of the poetry collections, Covet (2011), The Highwayman's Wife (2007) and The Farmer's Daughter (2004), all from Red Hen Press. Her short fiction and book reviews have been published in literary journals such as New Madrid, Connecticut Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and others. She writes a monthly books column for Louisville Magazine and serves on the boards of Kentucky Women Writer's Conference and Louisville Literary Arts, which produces the monthly InKY Reading Series and The Writer's Block Festival.
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Total access. There is nowhere I cannot go--on the street.
Question: how can transportational cycling make any sense at all unless cyclists use the existing road network?
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Biography, wiki, IPL team, of Bhuvaneswar Kumar can be found here along with his address, contact details, cricket career records. Bhuvaneswar Kumar is Indian cricket team fast bowler who also plays for Pune IPL team. His home town, college and other details will be updated soon.
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, the fast bowler in Indian cricket team is the latest sensation. He shoot to fame over night when he made his T20 debut against Pakistan cricket team on 25th December 2012. In a sensational display of swing bowling, he took 3 wickets for 9 runs from his 4 overs. Since then, he has never looked back. Till now Bhuvneshwar Kumar has played 2 T20 international, 8 One day international and 3 test matches for Indian cricket team. He is just 23 years old, so he here to stay and please us with his wonderful swing bowling.
Full name of Bhuvneshwar Kumar is Bhuvneshwar Kumar Mavi. He was born in a Gurjar family in Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh. He is one of many rising cricketing stars from Uttar Pradesh. Before playing for Indian cricket team, Bhuvneshwar Kumar represented Uttar Pradesh in Ranji Trophy and other domestic cricketing tournaments in India. Apart from representing Uttar Pradesh and India, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has also played for Royal Challengers Banglore and Pune Warriors in Indian Premier League. Now that he has earned some name for himself, he will be one player to watch out for in IPL 2013.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar birth date : 5th February 1990
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar also has a very unique bowling record to his name in a very small international cricketing career. His 1st wickets in all 3 forms of cricket i.e T20Is, ODIs and Tests have been bowled.
He made his ODI debut against Pakistan on 30th December 2012 and took 2 wickets in that match for just 27 runs. He made his test match debut against Australia on 22nd February 2013.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar made his first-class debut against Bengal at 17 years of age. He was also the first bowler to take Sachin Tendulkar's wicket for duck in a first-class cricket competition. After IPL came into being in 2008, he was signed by Royal Challengers Banglore Indian Premier League team. He made debut for his IPL team in a champions league match against Delhi daredevils.
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The Pilot's Incapacitated — Now What?
A recent Cessna 414 crash in Georgia offers a tragic reminder of why non-pilots who regularly occupy the right seat should prepare themselves for such a contingency. Tens of thousands of non-pilots have gone through such "pinch-hitter" training, which typically requires just four hours of flight and four of ground school. Non-pilot Sue Ritter reluctantly took the course a few years ago, while pilot/husband Doug (AVweb's news editor) hid in the corner and took notes. Here's a play-by-play from both Doug's and Sue's viewpoints. Sue's advice: stop making excuses and just do it!
Flying over Fairbanks Alaska in their Piper Super Cruiser with his wife Joan, John Chalupnik suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. Joan suddenly found herself Pilot In Command. She wasn't really a pilot, but providentially, she had attended the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's Pinch-Hitter program just the day before. After regaining control of the plane she called for help on 121.5. With assistance from controllers and another pilot she was able to fly to the airport and safely land the plane. She credited the Pinch-Hitter course with saving her life. Often non-pilots can make it safely back to terra firma even without Pinch-Hitter skills, but many flying companions and passengers have perished when the pilot quit flying. Somehow it doesn't seem very responsible to leave someone you care about with no backup when there is a very viable alternative available.
In the thirty five years since the AOPA Air Safety Foundation (ASF) first offered the Pinch-Hitter course, over 11,000 non-pilots have taken the full course, which until recently included flight training. An estimated ten times that number have attended the four hour ground school portion of the course. The Pinch-Hitter name is a registered trademark of the Foundation, but despite that, the term has come to be widely used when discussing similar courses offered by flight schools and other organizations. Among the organizations that offer, or have offered at various times, a similar course are the 99s, Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association (Mooney Mate) and the American Bonanza Society (Cockpit Companion). When we think "Pinch-Hitter," we think of a non-pilot taking over when the pilot is incapacitated and safely landing the plane. While that is certainly the primary objective, the course has many other benefits for both pilots and their non-pilot companions.
More than Just Emegency Skills
Many of us regularly fly with another non-pilot. Most often it is our spouse or SO (significant other — not second officer) Others regularly fly with business associates or other family members or friends. Some fly with you because they enjoy it, but many are uncomfortable with flying to some degree or another. One important benefit of a Pinch-Hitter course is that it nearly always allays non-pilot's fears, spoken or unspoken, about flying. It is probably worth it just for that alone.
Your flying companion can be a tremendous asset. With training they can make your flying safer, easier and more enjoyable. The Pinch-Hitter course includes basic instruction in aircraft control, navigation and radio usage. It's great to have some knowledgeable assistance when you need it. With a little effort on your part, your companion can take over some of your routine jobs and you can better concentrate on flying. It's also great to have someone able to understand and double check what you're doing. In the event of an emergency, wouldn't it be nice to have someone in the right seat who can help rather than panic? I've provided some tips on how to make sure you do your part to make their job easier, in case such an emergency occurs.
Flying In Four Hours
All this sounds like a lot to accomplish in four short hours of ground school and about an equal amount of flight instruction, spread over two days. Did I say learn to fly in just four hours? Say again? Well, maybe we left out a few important details.
AOPA Air Safety Foundation has, indeed, taught thousands to fly in only four hours of flight instruction. However, instead of a pilot's certificate, they receive a Pinch-Hitter certificate. They aren't a full fledged pilot, but they are fully prepared to perform as an emergency replacement pilot. Most other organizations giving such course take about the same amount of time, some a little longer than others, depending upon the experience of the CFI and organization involved.
Still, it boggles the mind. With only four hours of flight instruction and four hours of accompanying ground instruction, Pinch-Hitter students are ready to fly in case of an emergency. They won't actually solo except in the unlikely event something goes terribly wrong during some future flight, but they are prepared.
Not Just For Singles
My wife took the course a few years back and I was impressed. The results speak for themselves. She relates her experience in the accompanying article. The course is broken down into four primary areas; controlling the airplane, navigation, radio navigation and emergency communications and airport arrival and landing. The instruction is obviously not the same as that received by someone going through a private pilot course. The emphasis and objectives are very different.
The range of age and experience, as well as aircraft is also impressive. Using the ASF Pinch-Hitter course as a gauge, the youngest were a brother and sister, age ten and eleven, who flew their father's Cessna 172. As long as the student can reach the rudder pedals, they can fly. The oldest Pinch-Hitter graduate was a 79 year old grandmother flying her husband's big twin, an Aero-Commander 680.
Having your flying companion take the Pinch-Hitter course can have a significant impact on your own flying enjoyment. Many who regularly fly with us do so under duress, never really enjoying the experience. Some are really scared or maybe a bit frightened, others just nervous and uncomfortable. For many, it just isn't much fun for them as it is for us. When it isn't fun for them, it probably isn't as much fun for you. Becoming a Pinch-Hitter will change their attitude. Those who already enjoy flying will also benefit, as will you.
One very legitimate concern expressed by many attending the course my wife took is what will happen if you keel over from a heart attack or are somehow incapacitated? Said one mother, "I worry about the kids if their father is flying and something happens. I finally realized I could, must, do something."
Overcoming Inertia
Getting to that point, when your flying companion realizes they should do something, isn't always easy. Most pilots report it took plenty of encouragement to get their companions to sign up. The results are well worth the effort. Participants heaped praise on the course. "Should have done it years ago" was a frequent comment heard after completion.
I can speak from personal experience. It took ten years of trying to get my spouse to take the course. While she never voiced any concerns about flying, I was the one who worried about what would happen, if something went wrong. Turns out I am typical of many pilots. I saw the need, but couldn't easily persuade her to do it. Despite her initial reticence, she was all smiles by the time she was done.
The course isn't just for female spouses or "significant others," though they do still make up a majority of the participants. About 20% of the students are men. Many business associates are also taking the course. Any non-pilot who regularly flies in General Aviation aircraft is a good candidate.
Most students fly their own aircraft, though a fair number fly rented aircraft. Students have flown everything from simple Cubs to heavy twins like the Cessna 414. Dual controls are required, of course, but brakes on the right side are not.
While the ASF has gotten out of the actual flight training business, they still offer a "Pinch-Hitter Instructor Guide" to be used by whomever gives the actual instruction. Traditionally, the two or three day course is comprised of two ground school sessions of two hours length and four one hour flying sessions, two each following each ground school. AOPA ASF still offers the four hour ground school portion of the course, which is immensely popular. It costs $99, except at AOPA Expo, when it is included in the normal Expo registration fee. Last year in Orlando, 300 took the course in three classes of 100 each. The Pinch-Hitter classes held by the Air Safety Foundation in 30 cities around the country every year are much smaller, usually just 10 - 25 attendees.
The AOPA Air Safety Foundation has also produced "Pinch-Hitter The Video" which is available for $29.95 from Sporty's Pilot Shop and includes the "Pinch-Hitter Pilot Training Manual." This 40 minute video is a pretty good introduction to the Pinch-Hitter concept, though the four hour live course is far better, in our opinion. The video serves as an excellent review for Pinch-Hitter recurrent training.
The Pinch-Hitter Curriculum
The initial ground school leads off by covering the basics of flight and navigation. Before beginning, the instructor, an experienced CFII, will ask the pilots who inevitably accompany the Pinch-Hitters to class to leave the room. This allows the students to ask questions freely, without intimidation. Students are first encouraged to ask questions, not only about the technical side of flying, but also about those things which bother them, their fears and anything else on their mind. Once the instructor puts the students at ease, answering their most personal questions about flying and their fears, it is time to get into the meat of the course.
The skills required to safely pilot a plane are distilled down to only the basic necessities. Using slides, an overhead projector and the ubiquitous model airplanes the instructor explains how to control the aircraft. Correct terminology isn't stressed, everyday language is often used to convey the information. If a student uses "steering wheel" instead of "yoke," they won't be rebuked. Students have been known to "steer" instead of "turn." "Gas" gets the message across just as well as "throttle." Whatever works for the students. Control inputs and results are often related to driving a car and riding a bicycle. Every effort is made to keep it as simple as possible.
In this session pilotage is emphasized and students learn how to read a sectional and how to keep track of where they are so they will know where they need to go to find an airport in an emergency.
The second half of the ground school deals with radio navigation and emergency communications and airport arrival. Amazing as it sounds, they manage to make VOR navigation understandable and practical in one short session. The emergency frequencies are planted firmly and permanently into the heads of the Pinch-Hitters. Practical communications are stressed. For these pilots, "HELP!" works as well, maybe better, than "Mayday." ASF provides a checklist for the Pinch Hitter, which I have modified slightly for my own use.
Into The Air
When it comes to the flying portion of the course, instructors follow a prepared syllabus, modifying it as necessary to fit the student's needs. After a comprehensive walk-around, reviewing what was covered in the ground school, it's time for the first flight. Pinch-Hitters fly from the right seat, just as they normally would. The first hour of flying emphasizes aircraft control. Simple power setting rules are demonstrated. Students are generally taught that a good cruise power setting is between 20 and 25. That works whether you are using MAP or RPM to set power. Precision is not important. It is rare that such general guidelines doesn't work, in which case the instructor will give the student a special one.
The student learns how to control altitude and direction of flight. Turns are limited to no more than 15 degrees bank. The importance of trim is taught. Stalls are avoided, students are simply taught to never get closer than 15 mph/kts to the bottom of the white arc until ready to touch down. Every effort is made to ensure the student has a successful first flight and acquires the basic skills to fly the aircraft safely, maintaining control at all times. Pattern entry and landing is demonstrated with the instructor emphasizing the visual clues, power and trim settings. Once in a position to set down, the student pulls back the power and the instructor allows the aircraft to settle onto the runway and roll out to a stop.
After a break, the second flight begins with the student performing the takeoff and then pilotage is introduced. The student learns to transfer the basic piloting skills from the first lesson into purposefully flying to where they want to go. The student also starts to handle more of the communications with ATC, easing into that necessary skill. This time the student follows the instructor through on the landing.
The Tricky Stuff
The third flying session is spent mostly practicing VOR navigation and ATC communications. Students gain control experience while tracking radials and complying with ATC instructions. The session finishes with additional practice approaches, emphasizing positioning the aircraft over the runway and setting up the landing.
The final hour in the air pulls everything together. Students practice emergency procedures; assuming control, contacting ATC and navigating to a strange airport and landing. By the conclusion of the day the student will have made a number of landings entirely on their own. Students returning from their final lesson emerge from the cockpit with wide grins and that same self-satisfied, triumphant expression as do regular student pilots who have just completed their first solo.
For the flying portion, the choice of an instructor is key to successful completion of the course. Experience counts for a lot, this isn't the place for a young CFI just starting out or building time. With rare exception the ones used in the past and recommended by ASF are mature, often greying experts with decades of instructing in their logs. Making the student, who may well be very nervous and who may well not really want to be there, feel comfortable is vital and experience has shown that most feel more comfortable with an older instructor. Moreover, all that experience gives them an important edge when they have to teach so much in so little time.
A Better Intro Flight
Here is an interesting statistic for those who have tried, without success, to interest their flying partner in learning to fly. According to the ASF, about 45% of Pinch-Hitter students have gone on to regular flying lessons. This, despite the fact that most never professed any interest in, or were opposed to learning to fly. While a lot more expensive, this is a much more effective introduction to flying than the typical 30 minute intro flight.
Bottom line is that pilots do become incapacitated and if and when they do, the fate of any other passengers is likely in the hands of whomever is sitting in the right seat. If that person is a non-pilot, then their having taken a Pinch Hitter course, even just the ground school, could mean the difference between life and death. So, I urge you to have your non-pilot companion read my wife's accompanying article and then just go do it!


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Executive Council met this morning to consider a varied agenda. Our first paper was presented by Councillor Tony Green. The paper proposed a £1 per week increase in rent for Government Landlord Housing (GLH) properties.
EXCO Report: 26 February 2013
Executive Council met this morning to consider a varied agenda. Our first paper was presented by Councillor Tony Green. The paper proposed a £1 per week increase in rent for Government Landlord Housing (GLH) properties. Housing Executive, Andy Crowe attended to assist with questions. Rent levels in GLH properties currently range from £11.75 per week for basic accommodation to £18 per week for a three bedroom house. There was no rent increase in 2012 and deferring rent increases only makes it more difficult to provide a viable housing service and to pay for essential maintenance. Council therefore agreed to the modest increase of £1 per week with effect from 1 July 2013. A tenants newsletter will be issued shortly to explain in more detail the basis for the rent increase.
The following two papers, proposing increases to water and drainage charges and to electricity tariffs were deferred to the next meeting of EXCO on 5 March to enable cross checking of the accuracy of a few calculations.
The next paper, presented by the Attorney General, sought Councils agreement to bring into effect, from 1 April 2013, the Employment Rights Ordinance (Commencement) (No 2) Order 2013 and the Labour Regulating Authority Regulations 2013. In his capacity as Chairman of the Employment Rights Committee, Councillor Buckley joined the meeting to assist EXCO. The main purpose of the Employment Rights Ordinance is to provide increased employee protection in the economy, consistent with the 2011 Investment Policy principles. One of the overarching principles of that policy is to ensure maximum benefit from development for the islands economy and for its people. Leaflets detailing the Ordinances provisions have been widely circulated and further details will be made available through the media before 31 March 2013.
Council agreed the proposal in principle, subject only to clarification of a few technical points at the meeting of EXCO to be held on 5 March
Closely linked to the previous paper we then considered a paper presented by the Chief Secretary which proposed a minimum wage for St Helena. Councillor Buckley also assisted EXCO with this item.
The Employment Rights Committee recommended two rates as follows:
a) a rate of £2.30 per hour for all workers having attained the age of 18 years; and,
b) a rate of £1.45 per hour for all young people having attained the age of 16 and 17 years.
Council welcomed the proposed rates and agreed the recommendation in principle, subject to confirmation of a few points at the next meeting of EXCO on 5 March. Council further agreed, in principle, that the implementation date should be 1 June 2013.
Our final paper today concerned the Bank of St Helena and was presented by the Attorney General. The paper invited Council to approve a draft Bank of St Helena (Restructuring) Bill for submission to the Legislative Council as Government Business.
In September 2011, after much discussion and consultation, EXCO directed that steps be taken to convert the Bank of St Helena into a company limited by shares, with all shares to be owned by SHG. The process to achieve that was complex and took some time to prepare, with specialist legal input. The Bank of St Helena and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority wish to see that change-over take effect on 1 April 2013 and the proposed Bill will enable that to happen.
Noting that this would not in any sense impact upon customers of the Bank of St Helena and in particular that there would be no weakening of banking confidentiality, Council approved that the Bill should go forward as proposed.
That concluded our formal agenda items. Under Any Other Business I advised Councillors that Dr Peter Hayes, Director of the Overseas Territories Department at the Foreign Office (the successor to Mr. Colin Roberts), would visit St Helena from 4 6 March.
Mark Capes
26 February 2013
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Speech given by Francis Maude at the 'Public Procurement Briefing 2012: Driving a culture of innovation and enterprise with SMEs' event in March 2012.
Fri, 09/03/2012
Amount of Government business going to SMEs on track to double from £3 billion to £6 billion by the end of this financial year.
Fri, 09/03/2012
Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, today undertook a series of visits in Greater Manchester designed to highlight some of the innovative reforms the Government is championing in the region in order to deliver more effective public services and better value-for-money for the taxpayer.
Tue, 06/03/2012
Francis Maude: "there is a growing realisation that data is the new resource of the 21st Century".
Tue, 06/03/2012
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has launched phase two of the GOV.UK beta: 'Inside government'.
Tue, 28/02/2012
A new contract for Civil Service learning and development will be the first cross government contract to mandate that the majority of business is open to competition between other businesses in the supply chain.
Wed, 22/02/2012
A determination to keep eradicating waste in Whitehall has put the Government firmly on track to make around £5 billion in cash savings this year Francis Maude announced today.
Fri, 17/02/2012
Radical changes to public sector construction will lead to up to 20 per cent fall in costs of building schools, hospitals and roads
Fri, 10/02/2012
Francis Maude: in ten months we saved £3.75 billion - equivalent to twice the budget of the Foreign Office, or to funding 200,000 nurses.
Wed, 11/01/2012
Reforms using the powers in the new Public Bodies Act will begin immediately.
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May 6, 2016
Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney, announced that Norman Clinton Hale, age 41, was indicted by a federal grand jury. Hale was charged in connection with the shooting death of United States Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer Christopher Arby Upton. Officer Upton was killed in the line of duty on March 5, 2010 on U.S. Forest Service property in Jasper County, Georgia.
Hale was indicted on two counts of a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1114 and 1112, Killing a Federal Officer (Involuntary Manslaughter) and one count of a violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 924(c), Discharging a Firearm During a Crime of Violence. The manslaughter offense carries a maximum sentence of eight (8) years imprisonment, a maximum fine of $250,000.00 plus three (3) year of supervised release. The firearm offense carries a mandatory, minimum, consecutive sentence of ten (10) year imprisonment up to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a $250,000.00 fine plus five (5) years of supervised release.
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Two groups, one mission to honor veterans
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The mission is a shared one: to provide wreaths for tombstones of veterans in Jefferson City.
Two local groups have decidedly different approaches on how to fill that mission.
Wreaths for Heroes is a local organization headed by Lorraine and Pete Adkins. The organization was founded in early 2010 and was successful in placing an artificial wreath at each of the 1,587 graves at the National Cemetery in Jefferson City on East McCarty Street.
Wreaths Across America, part of a nationwide effort, will be fulfilling its mission locally at Riverview Cemetery. Samantha Renner, general manager, said live wreaths, at a price of $15 each, will be laid the week of Dec. 4 and picked up the first part of January.
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Canon EOS 7D Review
The latest EOS enthusiast SLR has been built from the ground up with an advanced autofocus system and high-speed motordrive.
Can too much choice be a bad thing? Canon doesn't seem to think so. With the addition of the new 7D, there are now no fewer than nine different digital SLRs in its current EOS family. The EOS 7D is definitely the odd one out, however – and not just because it fails to fall in with the time-honoured Canon numbering system.
You can think of the 7D as a GTi version of the 50D – or a small-sensored high-
speed alternative to the EOS 5D Mark II. But to look for family resemblances is perhaps to miss the point. Sure, as you would expect, there are plenty of familiar EOS features on this new 18-million pixel, eight frames per second model, but there are almost as many unfamiliar ones.
This is a camera that has been designed from the ground up to make its own
mark on the world of digital photography. A new 19-point autofocus system, a dual-processor, a revolutionary viewfinder, a built-in flash with an unexpected twist – these are just some of the surprises. Oh, and it also has the most advanced High-Definition video shooting system we've seen on a D-SLR to date.
Although Canon produces cameras that are more robust and more professional than the 7D, it is still designed to appeal to the pro user. It is a meaty machine, with weatherproofing to match, that feels solid in the hand and provides both front and rear selection dials for quick control of key features. However, Canon has really tried to improve some handling bugbears with this model. A new, cleverly designed switch makes it easy to activate Live View and video recording, and at last there is a separate main on/off switch.
Another new button option allows you to quickly switch from RAW or JPEG shooting to RAW+JPEG (a great idea).
Another provides a quick menu on the rear screen, providing fast access to practically every function you could want to change. Taking customisation to the extreme, this menu also gives you the option to change the function of any of the buttons on the camera. Such control takes some getting used to, but at least you can't complain that anything is in the wrong place when you have the freedom to redesign everything to suit your needs.
Autofocus system
The autofocus system is equally intelligent, and just as hard to get used to. It offers 19 autofocus points (ten more than the 50D or 5D Mark II), and all of the more useful cross-shaped type. You choose which of these are active – whether small groups, individual points or the whole lot. The points aren't displayed in the usual way in the viewfinder, their position only becomes visible when they lock on focus thanks to a translucent LCD below the focusing system that only comes to life when needed.
Despite its unfamiliarity, the focusing system is responsive and accurate. We tested it out at both a hockey and rugby match, and were surprised at just how well it kept up, even when players where charging towards the camera at speed. Shooting at eight frames per second doesn't guarantee you getting the picture, but it helps, and the camera can keep going at this rate for 15 seconds (126 frames) if shooting JPEGs (or just 15 frames in RAW). The ability to choose
a different range of AF points if switching between landscape and portrait image formats is a great boon.
The range of focusing points, if not the speed, would also be useful to anyone shooting portraits, because it helps to ensure you can match an AF point to the subject's eyes. However, the 1.6x crop factor sensor means that this particular model in the EOS family will appeal most to those wanting maximum telephoto reach from their lenses.
The metering system provides the usual mix of Evaluative, Centre-weighted, Partial and Spot modes, but the measuring system has been updated. The new 63-zone iFCL meter now takes note of the colour of the subject, as well as the brightness and distance; this has been done to avoid under-exposure when shooting reddish subjects, such as skin tones in portraits. Even more usefully, the camera offers an unprecedented Exposure Compensation range of plus or minus five stops, which is a great help when shooting HDR sequences.
High definition video recording system
The 7D's High-Definition video recording system is every bit as good as that found on Canon's 5D Mark II, and arguably better. The smaller sensor gives you better depth of field, which can be useful for most video shots, and there is a fuller range of frame rates on offer (from 24 to 60 frames per second). You get the option to change ISO and shutter speed as you shoot (the 5D Mark II only added this after a belated firmware update), and the camera comes with a stereo microphone input that you can use to ensure your accompanying audio matches the quality of your video.
Unlike the 5D Mark II, the 7D boasts a built-in flash – and even this is smarter than it at seems at first glance. This pop-up affair can also be used to control compatible flashguns wirelessly. This makes off-camera flash a much simpler affair, because you don't need to buy or carry around a separate flash trigger. What's more, the camera's built-in flash can be used in combination with the wireless flashgun in selectable ratios. At last, you don't need to buy Canon's ST-E2, or a second flashgun, to set your flash free from the camera's hotshoe for more dramatic effects.
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text: Enlightenment engineers: meditation and mindfulness in Silicon Valley Business 19 June 13 by Noah Shachtman On an enclosed porch outside the exhibition hall at this year's Wisdom 2.0 event, Zen-monk-turned-CEO Marc Lesser talks about his plans to take the Search Inside Yourself training to companies everywhere. Plantronics, Farmers Insurance, and VMware have already signed up. Nearby, companies promoting mindfulness apps and "cloud-based platforms for market professionals" hawk their wares while an acoustic guitar player strums. On the main stage, executives discuss how they maintain mindful practices during the workweek: One wakes up early and focuses on his upcoming meetings; another takes a moment to pause as she dries her hands in the bathroom. In the cavernous, wood-paneled main hall, oversize screens show a silhouette of a brain connected to a lotus flower and the logos for Twitter and Facebook.One of the reasons that Wisdom 2.0 -- and the broader movement it represents -- has become so big, so quickly, is that it stripped away the dogma and religious trappings. But it's hard not to consider what gets lost in this whittling process. Siddhartha famously abandoned the trappings of royalty to sit under the Bodhi Tree and preach about the illusion of the ego. Seeing the megarich take the stage to trumpet his practices is a bit jarring.It also raises the uncomfortable possibility that these ancient teachings are being used to reinforce some of modern society's uglier inequalities. Becoming successful, powerful, and influential can be as much about what you do outside the office as what you do at work. There was a time when that might have meant joining a country club or a Waspy church. Today it might mean showing up at TED. Looking around Wisdom 2.0, meditation starts to seem a lot like another secret handshake to join the club. "There is some legitimate interest among businesspeople in contemplative practice," Kenneth Folk says. "But Wisdom 2.0? That's a networking opportunity with a light dressing of Buddhism."On the third day of this year's Wisdom 2.0 conference, Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar takes the stage with Thupten Jinpa, the Dalai Lama's English interpreter and right hand in North America. They tell the crowd about an experiment going on at Facebook that is at once subtle, a little strange, and potentially of deep significance. While many other Silicon Valley companies are teaching their employees to meditate, Facebook is trying to inject a Buddhist-inspired concept of compassion into the core of its business.Bejar had been a somewhat reluctant guest at the first Wisdom 2.0 conference in 2010. But he was struck by an onstage conversation about kindness with American Buddhist trailblazer Jon Kabat-Zinn. If people truly see one another, Kabat-Zinn said, they're more likely to be empathetic and gentle toward each other. Bejar knew something about depending on the kindness of others. As a geeky teenager in Mexico City in the 1980s, he snuck into a tech convention by bribing the guards with candy bars; a local IBM exec was so impressed he gave Bejar a job. Then Bejar had his college education paid for by a friend of a family friend: Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. After hearing Kabat-Zinn, Bejar began looking for ways to bring some of that compassion to Facebook, where bullying and flame wars were all too common among users and the tools for reporting offensive content weren't terribly effective. Bejar set up a series of "compassion research days" at Facebook and brought in Buddhist-inspired academics from Berkeley, Yale, and Stanford to see if they could help.The researchers' advice: Make the tools more personal, more conversational, and more emotional. For instance, let people express their vulnerability and distress when asking for a problematic picture or status update to be removed. The changes were small at first. Instead of tagging a post as "Embarrassing," users clicked a new button that read "It's embarrassing." But those three letters made an enormous difference. It turned the report from a seemingly objective classification of content into a customer's subjective, personal response. Use of the tool shot up 30 percent almost immediately. This in a field where a change of a few percentage points either way is considered tectonic.Further fixes followed: personalised messages, more polite requests to take down a photo or a post, more culture-specific pleas. (In India, for example, online insults directed at someone's favorite celebrity tend to cut deeper than they do in the US.) "Hey, this photo insults someone important to me," reads one of the new automatically generated messages. "Would you please take it down?"It'd be easy to be cynical about this effort -- to laugh at people who over- identify with a Bollywood starlet or to question why meditation teachers, the masters of directing attention, are working with the social networks that cause so much distraction. But when you sit with Bejar and his colleagues at Facebook as they review these reports -- when you see all the breakups, all the embarrassing photos, the tiffs between mothers and daughters -- it's hard not to feel sad and awed at the amount of confusion and hurt. Over a million of these disputes happen every week on Facebook. If you had a God's-eye view of it all, wouldn't you want to handle that pain with gentle hands?Buddhists have been preaching for centuries that we are all fundamentally interconnected, that the differences between us literally do not exist. That is the basis of Buddhist compassion. And there is no place where this interconnectedness is more obviously revealed than on Facebook. Arturo Bejar isn't running off to a monastery; his personal meditation practice, if you can call it that, is taking a walk with his camera. But incorporating Buddhism's compassionate kernel into a billion-person social network? That reflects a level of insight many people will never reach, no matter how long they sit cross-legged.One night during the Wisdom 2.0 conference, I meet Kenneth Folk and some of his protè9gè9s at a vegetarian restaurant run by the local Zen centre. At first the conversation doesn't sound so different from what I might hear at Wisdom 2.0: the neuroscience of mindfulness, the remixing of ancient traditions, the meditation-as-fitness riff.Then things turn kaleidoscopic. After the mesquite-grilled brochettes with Hodo Soy tofu, Vincent Horn, who runs the popular Buddhist Geeks website and podcast, tells me that everyone I'm eating with is enlightened.Horn drops this casually, as if he were discussing his hair colour or the fact that all of the men are wearing pants. I'm not sure how to respond. Talking openly about enlightenment is as big a taboo as there is in modern American Buddhism, where the exploratory journey trumps any metaphysical destination. Enlightenment implies sainthood, perfect wisdom, an end to the cycle of birth and death. These guys are polishing off their second bottle of red. Is that who they think they are?Folk's journey toward enlightenment, he later explains to me, started in 1982 when he ran out of cocaine. An addict, he took the only drugs he could find: four hits of LSD. He saw a glass tube open up into the sky and merge with beautiful white light. "My drug addiction vanished in that moment," he recalls. It sent him on a decades-long journey to re-create the experience. He spent three months on a silent retreat in Massachusetts and another six at a Burmese monastery, wearing a sarong in winter and eating his final meal of the day at 10 am. He found himself hitting ecstatic heights. But he also found that, at times, meditation could lead to rather horrible depression.The monks of Burma told Folk that the depressive episodes were the completely predictable result of his meditative work and that they would soon be over. He was on a well-worn path through 16 stages of insight, each one bringing him closer to enlightenment. They laid out a map of his inner voyage and told Folk precisely where he was. Folk followed their plan and, he says, eventually became enlightened.It was a radical shift from the method traditionally used by mystics to impart wisdom, in which a master cryptically pointed the acolyte in the direction he should go. And Folk loved it. Enlightenment wasn't some completely mysterious, ungraspable goal. He returned to America ready to preach a gospel of jail-broken enlightenment: The source code for spiritual awakening is open to anyone. "Enlightenment is real. It is reproducible," he says. "It happens to real human beings. It happened to me."Not surprisingly, Folk's doctrine was rather attractive to a set of seekers who were raised with the idea that information should be free and status updates should be shared publicly. He and Horn started contributing to a web forum called the Dharma Overground, founded by Daniel Ingram, the soundman for one of Folk's old bands. It became the place online to share tips on the most effective means to promote enlightenment, to brag about the mystical powers that come with intensive meditation, and to chart their progress through the four rounds of 16 stages that lead to a final awakening. Ingram wrote "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book," which became a cult classic, in part because it likened meditation to a contemplative videogame. Episodes of Horn's "Buddhist Geeks" podcast are now downloaded regularly by 100,000 people. On his website, Horn is constantly introducing new forms of mindfulness for the social media crowd, from concentration- boosting apps to something he calls #Hashtag Meditation.But until recently, Folk himself remained relatively unknown. He lived with his mother-in-law in a New York City suburb, teaching meditation over Skype. Then, in the spring of 2011, Luke Nosek -- a partner at one of Silicon Valley's most successful venture capital firms -- emailed Folk from Manhattan and insisted they get together. Like, immediately. "I have a spaceship," said Nosek, whose fund owned a chunk of the private rocket company SpaceX. "What planet do I have to fly to so I can meet you tonight?"Nosek had a history with meditation. But nothing like this. When he and Folk meditated, it brought him into a state of such utter focus, he says, that "I could see the patterns of threads in my socks with more detail than I had in my entire life." Nosek and several other execs paid to move Folk out to San Francisco so he could start opening some of Silicon Valley's most influential minds.In some ways, Folk's seemingly mystical enlightenment gospel would appear to be a bad fit for the titan-of-industry set -- especially compared with the business-friendly message found at Search Inside Yourself or Wisdom 2.0. And several established Buddhist leaders who came to this year's conference were openly wary of what they saw as an unhealthy fixation on the brass ring of enlightenment. "If someone really wants it, I'll teach it," says Kornfield, cofounder of the Spirit Rock Meditation Centre north of San Francisco. "But a strong goal orientation can heighten unhealthy ambition and self-criticism. It doesn't really heighten wisdom."Folk's doctrine may be less radical than it seems, however. Yes, he calls himself enlightened. But he doesn't think of himself as some holy man. To him, the old stories of Buddhist saints shaking off their cravings for food or sex are just that: stories. "Sainthood is a relic of the past," he says.Nor is Folk interested in re-creating that LSD-induced peak anymore. "It's a loser's game," he says. Better to take every experience as it comes and then let it pass. (You can't hold on to those feelings anyway.) Enlightenment may be hackable and shareable, but only if its meaning radically changes. To Folk, being enlightened is about "meta-OK-ness" -- meaning that it's OK even when it's not OK -- which he says anyone who tries can achieve.At search Inside Yourself, Meng starts with a seemingly small request for Googlers to pair off and take turns meditating on each other's happiness. I sit across from Duane, the tattooed former engineer, and do my best to send him good vibes. Not only is he a nice guy who's been through some pain, he's at least indirectly responsible for the tools I use a thousand times a day. I want him and every other Googler to be their highest selves -- centred, focused, calm, and content. Perhaps I can help head off a future Google Buzz.But Meng has another goal in mind for this exercise: to help his colleagues develop mental habits conducive to kindness. It's these sorts of meditations, Meng tells me later, that ultimately led him to "discover the ability to access joy on demand. After a while, it became a skill." He smiles and gives me a look as if to say: No, seriously.Maybe I shouldn't be surprised at the claim. Last year Meng published a Search Inside Yourself book. The introduction proclaims him to be "a closet Bodhisattva" -- a Buddhist saint, next in holiness to Siddhartha himself.Despite the language of neuroscience and business advancement, Search Inside Yourself is ultimately an attempt to replicate Meng's elevated mind-state -- first in Googlers and then in the rest of us. "We can all become saints, because saintly habits are trainable," he tells the class. "I hope you all do."And if we start such training, Meng insists, we won't just be helping ourselves. "My dream is to create the conditions for world peace, and to do that by creating the conditions for inner peace and compassion on a global scale," he writes. "Fortunately, a methodology for doing that already exists … Most of us know it as meditation."Suddenly acid-inspired Kenneth Folk seems downright grounded in comparison. It's hard to deny that meditation can have remarkable benefits. But world peace? Sainthood? That may be a bit of a stretch. Steve Jobs spent lots of time in a lotus position; he still paid slave wages to his contract labourers, berated subordinates, and parked his car in handicapped stalls.One of Meng's students raises her hand. This saintly training, this randomly wishing for others' happiness -- it doesn't seem all that genuine, she says: "It felt like I was saying the words, but I wasn't actually doing anything by thinking that."Duane tells her it's OK to feel that way. The practice will help you later, he says, even if it comes across as empty at the time. "There's definitely a fake-it-till-you-make-it aspect to it," he says.Oh no, Meng answers. It's the first time in the whole class he's corrected anyone. "It's not faking it until you make it," he says. "It's faking it until you become it."The session ends and we walk out into the sun feeling slightly dazed. The next lesson begins in five minutes. This story originally appeared on Wired.com. Click through for more photos. Edited by Kadhim Shubber Back to start 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk