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of himself, and he has ceased to cultivate virtue, and polish his nobler part, his soul." Or, if poetical authority alone will satisfy a poet, let him learn from one of the finest of our modern poems: "But of our souls the high-born loftier part, Th'ethereal energies that touch the heart, Conceptions ardent, laboring thought intense, Creative fancy's wild magnificence, And all the dread sublimities of song: These, Virtue, these to thee alone belong: Chill'd, by the breath of vice, their radiance dies, And brightest burns when lighted at the skies; Like vestal flames to purest bosoms given, And kindled only by a ray from heaven"." That the object of poetry, however, is not simply to instruct, but to "instruct by pleasing," is too obvious to need a proof. However the original object of measure and rhythm may have been to graft truth on the memory, and associate it with music; they are perpetuated by the universal conviction that they delight the ear. Like the armour which adorns the modern hall, they were contrived for use, but are continued for ornament. Assuming this, then, to be a just definition of poetry, we repeat our assertion, that, in the work before us, the temperament of mind in the poet creates the grand defect of the poetry. If poetry should instruct, then he is a defective poet whose lessons rather revolt than improve the mind. If poetry should please, then he is a bad poet who offends the eye by calling up the most hideous images---who shews the world through a discoloured medium--who warms the heart by no generous feelings---who uniformly turns to us the worst side of men and things---who goes on his way grumbling, and labours hard to make his Teaders as peevish and wretched as himself. The tendency of the strain of Homer is to transform us for the moment into heroes; of Cowper, into *ints;, of Milton, into angels; but Lord Byron would almost degrade
*Grant's Restohetion of Learning in the East.
us into a Thersites or a Caliban ; or lodge us, as fellow-grumblers, in the stye of Diogenes, or any of his two or four-footed snarling or moodyposterity. Now his Lordship, we trust, is accessible upon much higher grounds; but he will perceive that mere regard for his poetical reputation ought to induce him to change his manmer. If, as Longinus instructs us, a man must feel subtimely to write sublimely, a poet must find pleasure in the objects of nature before him, if he hope to give pleasure to others. Let him remember, that not merely his conceptions, but his mind and character, are to be imparted to us in his verse. He will, in a measure, "stamp an image of himself " The fire with which we are to glow must issue from him. Till this change take place in him, then, he can be no great poet. It is Heraclitus who mourns in his pages, or Zeno who scolds, or Zoilus who lashes; but we look in vain for the poet, for the living fountain of our innocent pleasures, for the artificer of our literary delight, for the hand which, as by enchantment, snatches us from the little cares of life, whirls us into the boundless regions of imagination, "exhausting" one "world," and imagining others, to supply pictures which may refresh and charm the mind". Lord Byron shews us man and nature, like the phantasmagoria, in shade; whereas, in poetry at least, we desire to see them illuminated by all the friendly rays which a benevolent imagination can impart. We have hitherto confined ourselves to an examination of the influence of the principles and temper of this work upon its literary pretensions; but his Lordship will forgive us if we now put off the mere critic for a moment, and address him in that graver character which we assume to ourselves in the title of our work. In truth, we are deeply * We cannot resist the temptation of saying, that iu this highest department of the poet's art, we know no living poet who will bear a comparison with Mr. Southey.
we are compelled to recognise the author in the hero whom he has painted. In fact, the disclaimer, already noticed in the Preface, seems merely like one of those veilsworn to draw attention to the face rather than to basile it: and in the work before us we are forced to recognise a charac. ter, which, since Rousseau gave his Confessions to the public, has scarcely ever, we think, darkened the horizon of letters. The reader of the "Confessions" is dismayed to find a man frankly avowing the most disgraceful vices; abandoming them, not upon principle, but merely because they have ceased to gratify; prepared to return to them if they promise to reward him better; without natural affection, neither loving nor beloved by any; without peace, without hope, "without God in the world." When we search into the mysterious cause of this autobiographical phenomenon, we at once discover that Rousseau's immeasurable vanity betrayed him into a belief, that even his vices would vanish in the blaze of his excellencies; and that the world would worship him, as idolaters do their mishapen gods, in spite of their ugliness. The confessions of Lord Byron, we regret to say, bear something of an analogy to those of the philosopher of Geneva. Are they, then, to be traced to the same source P He plainly is far from indifferent to the opinion of by-standers: can he, then, conceive that this peep into the window of his breast must not revolt every virtuous eye? Can he boldly proclaim his violations of decency and of sobriety; his common contempt for all modifications of religion; his monstrous belief in the universal rest or annihilation of man in a future state ; and forget that he is one of those who
"Play such tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;"
as offend against all moral taste; as attempt to shake the very pillars of
domestic happiness and of public
security ? It is, however, a matter of congratulation, that his Lordship, in common with the republican Confessor, has not revealed his creed without very honestly displaying the influence of this creed upon his own mind. We should not, indeed, have credited a man of his, sentiments, had he assured us he was happy: happiness takes no root in such soils. But it is still better to have his own testimony to the unmixed misery of licentiousness and unbelief. It is almost comforting to be told, if we dared to draw comfort out of the well of another man's miseries, that "Though gay companions o'er the bowl Dispel awhile the sense of ill; Though pleasure fires the maddening soul, The heart—the heart is lonely still."
It is consolatory also to contrast the peace and triumph of the dying Christian, with the awful uncertainty, or rather the sullen despair, which breathe in these verses.
"Aye—but to die and go"—alas,
Nor can religion be more powerfully recommended than by the following avowal of an apostle of the opposite system.
"No, for myself, so dark my fate
Man and the world I so much hate,
But whilst, for the benefit of others, we thus avail ourselves of the antidote supplied by his Lordship to his own poison, we could wish also that he might feel the efficacy of it himself. Could we hope that so humble a work as this would reach the lofty sphere in which he moves, we would solemnly say to him : "You are wretched, but will nothing make you happy You hate all men; will nothing warm you with new feelings You are (as you say) hated by all; will nothing make you an object of assection Suppose yourself the victim of some disease, which resisted many ordinary applications; but that all who used one medicine uniformly pronounced themselves cured:—would it be worthy of a philosopher uot merely to neglect the remedy, but to traduce it? Such, however, my Lord, is the fatuity of your own conduct as to the religiou of Christ. Thousands, as wretched as yourself, have found 'a Comforter' in Him; thousands, having stepped into these waters, have been healed of their disease; thousands, touching the hem of His garment, have found • virtue go out of it." Beggared then of every other resource, try this. "Acquaint yourself with God, and be at peace.'" His Lordship may designate this language by that expressive monosyllable, cant; and may possibly, before long, hunt us down, as a sort of mad March hare, with the blood-hounds of his angry muse. But we hope better things of him. We assure him, that, whatever may be true of others, we do not "hate him." As Christians, even he who professes to be unchristian, is dear to us. We regard the waste of his fine talents, and the laboured suppression and apparent extinction of his better feelings, with the deepest commiseration and sorrow. We long to see him escape from the thick cloud which, by what may fairly be called his "black art," he has conjured up around himself. We hope to know him as a future buttress of his shaken
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country, and as a friend of his yet " unknown God." Should this change, by the mercy of God, take place, what pangs would many passages of his present work cost him Happy should we be, could we persuade him, in the bare anticipation of such a change, even now to contrive for his future happiness, by expunging sentiments that would then so much embitter it. Should he never change; yet, such an act would prove, that, at least, he meditated no cruel invasion upon the joys of others. Even Rousseau taught his child religion, as a delusion essential to happiness. The philosophic Tully also, if a belief in futurity were an error, deemed it one with which it was impossible to part. Let the author then, at all events, leave us in unmolested possession of our supposed privileges. He plainly knows no noble or " royal way" to happiness. We find in religion a bark that rides the waves in every storm; a sun that never goes down; a living fountain of waters. Religion is suffered to change its aspect and influence according to the eye and faith of the examiner. Like one side of the pillar of the wilderness, it may merely darken and perplex his Lordship's path : to millions it is like the opposite side of that pillar to the Israelites, the symbol of
, Deity; the pillar of hallowed flame,
which lights, and guides, and cheers them as they toil onward through the pilgrimage of life. Could we hear any voice proclaim of him, as of one reclaimed from as inveterate, though more honest, prejudices, " behold, he prayeth;" we should hope that here also the scales would drop from the eyes, and his Lordship become the eloquent defender and promulgator of the religion which he now scorns.
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At Oxford, the Chancellor's prizes have been adjudged to the following gentlemen: Latin Essay—" Xenophontis res bellicas, quibus ipse intersuit, narrantis cum Caesare coinparatio,"—to Mr. John Keble, B. A. late scholar of Corpus Christi college, and now fellow of Oriel college. English Essay—" On Translation from Dead Languages,"—to the same gentleman. Latin Verse—" Coloni ab Anglia ad Americam missi,"—to Mr. Henry Latham, undergraduate of Brasenose college. Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize: English Verse—"Apollo Belvidere,"—to Mr. Henry Milman, undergraduate of Brasenose college.
W. Frere, Esq. Serjeant at Law, has been elected Master of Downing college, in the room of the late F. Annesley, Esq.
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a month. Before the end of the month these young scholars, who before did not know a letter, learned to write correctly, and read every thing presented to them. Count Rumford, in recent experiments on the nature of light, the existence of which in combustible bodies he disbelieves, has discovered, that a polyflame lamp, consisting of a number of burners, with wicks flat like a ribbon, and so placed, one by the side of another, that the air can pass between them, while they are duly supplied with oil, and covered with a large rising glass, yielded as much light as 20 candles.
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Police are speaking to a person in relation to a suspicious fire at Kaiapoi North School in the early hours of yesterday morning..
The fire, which started around 2am, caused significant damage to a classroom block at the school.
"It was a real shock to get the call...that the school was on fire," principal Jason Miles told 1 NEWS yesterday, explaining that he hoped to have the block demolished today so it would be safe for the students to return on Monday.
"We're just devastated," he said. "The children's work for the year is all lost, the teacher resources. There's a lot of emotion around that.
"We're upset, and then we're angry...We will get through it, but we're disappointed and devastated."
Police earlier released a photo of an unidentified man they wanted to speak to over the fire.
After locating the person of interest police say they are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident and the case will be referred to Youth Aid.

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Last month I took part in a week-long road trip crashing RedBars all along the East Coast with Chase Fancher of Oak & Oscar and Justin Vrakas of watchsteez. The Sandford Tour, as it became known, was a huge success businesswise: shortly after returning to Chicago all 100 limited edition PVD versions of the Oak & Oscar Sandford were sold out! But the mini-vacay also brought the three of us closer together, which you'd expect after sharing a bathroom in cramped hotel rooms… But in all seriousness, spending morning, noon and night with these two, I got to see a side of Chase and Justin I know exists, but I rarely get to witness in full force. It was pretty cool seeing these two in action: Chase in all-out entrepreneur mode and Justin doing what he does best – procuring top-shelf vintage watches.
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Late Tuesday evening, after RedBar DC wrapped up, Justin and I decided to throw back a few more brewskis before we called it a night (Chase had already made a beeline to our hotel – we had a crack of dawn Amtrak to catch to New York). After we closed our tab, we did what every able-bodied city-goer does… we summoned an Uber to get home. I was so high on watches I actually started talking up our Uber driver about his watch – a battery-powered Seiko. Next thing I know he blurts out, "I also have the Moonwatch with a black dial and a tachymetre bezel." Hearing these magic words, Justin and I sobered up real quick. Then I found myself asking, "Would you consider selling it?" He actually wasn't opposed to the idea. This seemed like a golden opportunity for Justin to acquire an original-owner Speedmaster.
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About the Speedy: we found out it was originally paid for in installments back in 1977 from a jewelry store in New Jersey. It was his daily wearer until around 1983, when he switched to quartz because the upkeep on a mechanical timepiece was getting expensive.
The driver and his story seemed to add up. We were game to skip the hotel for the time being and head to Virginia to check it out – hoping it wasn't a polished-to-death Mark II. It's not like he had pictures of the watch on his cell phone…
As he drove us into the night, I kept glancing at the digital clock glowing from the center console. It was well past midnight, but we didn't feel tired – we were caught up in the thrill of the hunt. We kept the conversation going to continue gathering intel and build rapport. All the while Justin and I were watching exits zoom past us as we headed deeper and deeper into what seemed like the boonies. Street lamps were few and far between – we had absolutely no clue as to our final destination… We were just praying it wasn't an abandoned parking lot or pitch-black, dirt side road.
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For those of you wondering, this Speedmaster was recently SOLD. But Justin has other sick watches for sale. Check out watchsteez.com or Justin's Instagram accounts @justinvrakas and @watchsteez to see his latest inventory.


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Monday, November 15, 2010
Unemployed Ph.D. chemists: Bethany Halford of C&EN wants to hear from you
I'm working on a story that addresses the question: Are we training more Ph.D. chemists than we can employ? I'd like to get a "view from the trenches," so to speak, from folks who are struggling to find work with their advanced degree. Please contact me at b_halford (at) acs (dot) org if you'd like to talk to me about this subject. You can remain anonymous, if you prefer.
Go at it, folks.
23 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Yes there are many more PhDs handed out in chemistry than there are chemistry jobs in the US/Europe. If you are willing to move to Asia or Africa after graduation, you may have better luck finding a job.ReplyDelete
Additionally, the over supply of PhDs seriously degrades the earning potential (or job prospects) of strong MS/BS chemists. Don't think if you quit grad school your problems will be over. You can be a very strong MS/BS chemist (stronger than some PhD chemists) and earn very little because there are always hungry droves of PhDs willing to work for practically nothing. It is a constant cycle. I think some PhDs think if they have just one more postdoc or one more low-paying contract position then that perfect challenging high-paying job will come along. In reality if you didn't work in the right places early on, that job will never come.
In the past few years in California I've seen ads for BS/MS chemists with 10years synthetic experience for $10-12/hr. Pretty small wages when you consider the CA minimum wage is $8/hr. When you think of the cost of living in CA this adds insult to injury. Might as well skip college all together at this rate. At least then you don't have student debt to repay.
It's not a pretty picture, but that's the view from the trenches. Nice to see C&EN is looking into this issue. It seems that this is a really sore spot for some unemployed chemists. I strongly believe if the issue is confronted directly in C&EN, ACS membership will probably increase dramatically. :-)
"n the past few years in California I've seen ads for BS/MS chemists with 10years synthetic experience for $10-12/hr."
What is the context for such a piddling request? I'd think it was a waste of an ad...
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM
craig's list, 2009ReplyDelete
Tutoring, I presume. (I hope.)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Anonymous @ 7:06 how many Ph. D. chemists are minted in the U.S per year, actual numbers, vs. anywhere else for that matter. I've been trying to find these numbers.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Nope, it was for bench chemists in SD. Can't remember if they were wanting to make small molecules or peptides. There were other jobs for $10-14/hr requesting the same level of experience (also craigslist). It was upsetting to be greeted by that after a layoff. Wish I had copied the posts...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 11:04 PM
No idea how many PhD/MS/BS are minted. Wasn't there stats a couple of months back? Can't remember, was that in C&EN or a link from this site? I know my school produced more chemists. I wonder where they will go?
Only thing I do know is that I know way too many unemployed/underemployed/otherwise former medicinal chemists. Lots of experience not getting used, and not for lack of passion of the field.
Perhaps the more probing question is how many chemists with some years of experience have been traded in (via layoffs) for fresh graduates just happy to be employed at any rate? What is the unwritten "expiration date" on a chemist?
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM
C'mon Chemjobber, does Big Pharma really need to pay big bucks for PhD-level chemists when it hopes to find the next blockbuster in purified fish oil? See video @ Pharmalot link.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 12:10 AM
I must also concur with A7:06. A friend of mine left grad school with an MS (OChem) and had to go for a job that only required a BS in chemistry (analytical work). Even with that job posting, he said 150 ex-pharma PhD chemists still applied, all 5-10yr experience. This was only $30-35K wages, still higher than the $10/hr. Even when employers are not looking for PhD level candidates, they are still getting apps from them, all requesting the same level of pay they had before! The days of Med Chem are seriously over. There is no recovery, no magical year when things start going right, it just isn't happening. There will be more layoffs till 2012 from what I have been told but the industry will look about the same for at least a decade from there.ReplyDelete
C&EN had an article that showed the list of potential positions being interviewed for by each year. They tried to put a positive spin on it, saying things were slightly up. That is still bad when we look at the numbers! Not only are thousands of new grads hitting the market each year, there is nearly a decade of layoffs that has occurred! Yet the rate of hiring has remained nearly constant or dipped at many other times. If we were to take the ACS numbers alone, we'd never hire even close to most of the chemists out there.
What has happened to some of the freshly minted PhDs from my place? That's a whole other story, and it ain't pretty.
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 7:06 AM
This is all dismal, honest, and most likely still just anecdotal. Without actual numbers, this is just fear mongering. I would like to know if I'm just better off selling used cars.ReplyDelete
I have a hunch, that science is just undervalued these days REGARDLESS of the number of Ph. D.s in the field. If we were firing scientists at the NIH with opposing political views, I can only imagine what attitudes the private sector has.
My theory, I think the shoot the messenger mentality has undermined the value of scientists in general. Why pay someone a lot of money to work at a snails pace and tell you stuff that you don't really want to hear? I think our experiences would be the same if we graduated 20,000 or 200 Ph. D.s a year. I also think Ph. D.s have evolved to compete, almost globally. I think they are more cultured to take the most painful and bitter job relocations, whereas B.S/M.S. chemists are more or less expected to stay put. My theory is that the perception of the number of unemployed and under employed Ph. D.'s out there is higher when you have the same group of people resume bombing virtually everything in the U.S. Whereas your B.S/M.S. chemist are still going to hunt predominantly local.
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 7:28 AM
I am a MS/BS chemist, and have relocated for my love of chemistry many more times than PhDs my age. We have to relocate to find work too, for the same reason about the PhDs relocating. There is a massive oversupply and disregard by corporate America for chemistry. And still if you relocate as a BS/MS chemist you are likely to be laid-off again or underemployed. If you work yourself through the BS/MS glass ceiling, you probably will never find work in your field again after a lay-off.
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 7:41 AM
If you can involve the major employers for chemists, you can find the numbers. However, since it is in the best interest for the employers to keep chemist supply cheap, the numbers may be heavily manipulated. Pharma is an especially interesting fish to follow now.ReplyDelete
Look at the number of layoffs versus the number of hires. Are the hires full time? Contract? Interns? Are hires temporary from a 'partner' (oursourcing) company? If the hire is from a partner company, is it in the US or elsewhere? Where are those laid-off going to find work?
- startupNovember 16, 2010 at 1:24 PM
Here are some Ph. D. numbers for you:ReplyDelete
1925 - 257
1960 - 958
1970 - 1928
1981 - 1215
2008 - 2247
- startupNovember 16, 2010 at 1:30 PM
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- AnonymousNovember 16, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Is is it me? Or does that number still seem well, low? If we can't find reasonable jobs for most of the graduating Ph. D. chemists, that is just pathetic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2010 at 2:22 AM
I think the problem might not necessarily be the overproduction of young chemists, it is that the workforce dynamics has been disrupted. Two recruiters from huge companies told me this year that old people just don't retire anymore. One claimed that 40% of their R&D personnel is within 5 years of retirement age, and that's a company that's solidly in the upper portion of Fortune 500. According to another they have it even worse.ReplyDelete
Last week, I spoke with Ms Halford for one hour on the subject of the over-production of PhD s relative to the number of jobs available.ReplyDelete
Among the questions that I asked back at her, I wanted to know if anyone has been telling her if that the opposite is true, i.e. whether there was a shortage of PhDs, instead of jobs. The first words out of her mouth were "university professors" and "departmental chairs".
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM
The oversupply is inevitable with the way things are going. Look at the new trends in pharma (there was a cover story in CeN a few issues back). Increase academic connections for faster, more cost efficient innovation. Pharma gets more innovation for the buck, and academic labs get funding. So on paper it looks like a win-win situation. But those hurting are the students doing this work for pharma whom will someday graduate. Where will these scientists work when they graduate, if the majority of the research is done by students? And as they graduate, a call is made for fresh students to fill this 'apalling undersupply of scientists'. Ethically, companies should encourage development on at all levels of scientific careers not depend on student research and consultant projects. However CEOs tend to concentrate on the short term wins, so who cares if the scientific community is a Ponzi scheme poised for collapse?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2012 at 11:54 AM
I may be bit late to this thread but anyway, I'm a Ph.D Chemist and I've been out of work for five months now. I apply to roughly five positions a week. Almost every position that I've applied to request someone with years of experience in a number of narrow fields. Apparently, gone are entry level type positions (if they ever existed in this field). Also many of these jobs are through temp agencies. I've found that in most cases different temp agencies are representing the same position. So this speaks volumes about the job market for PhD chemists. Employers can get exactly what they want because of the tremendous supply of job seekers and temp agencies are often competing to fill the same position simply because there are not enough position to go around even for the temp agencies.ReplyDelete
Please feel free to e-mail me w/your CV so that I can (try to) help w/your job search.
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM
Really 10 to 12 dollars and hour huh... I made 15 dollars as an intern doing organic chemistry before I even graduated with a BS in chemistry.ReplyDelete
Now I am in grad school
Some recent PhD graduates from my lab in synthetic organic chemistry include
Dow chemical 95,000.00
an oil company in Texas 82,000.00 a year,
and a job at a big pharma company after a post doc
Some people still get good jobs but they had to look for a while before they got a job
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Really 15 dollars as an intern doing organic chemistry? I made 0 as an intern at an undergraduate lab.ReplyDelete
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FLATS and homes will be built on a former sports field despite outcry from residents that the development is too large and will cause traffic problems.
The 86-home development at William Morris Close was approved by Oxford City Council's east area planning committee at its meeting on Wednesday night.
The plans returned to committee after the number of homes on the site was reduced by developer Cantay Estates.
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In April, Cantay Estates had proposed building 102 homes at the site, and reduced the number by taking the top floor off each of the central four flat blocks planned for the site.
An overhead plan for the blocks of flats and homes at William Morris Close. Picture: Oxford City Council.
But the reductions were still not enough to satisfy residents who live in the area.
Following the meeting, Judith Harley, of the Old Temple Cowley Residents Association, said: "We are absolutely disgusted with the decision because it still fails all the planning tests that it was refused on in the previous occasions."
The playing fields have been subject to a series of planning applications since Cantay bought the land in 2012, including in 2016 when 45 homes in five blocks of flats were proposed.
Five people spoke to object to the development, including Ms Harley, two local city councillors, and other concerned residents.
Councillor for Cowley Marsh, Lubna Arshad, warned the development would lead to 'urban cramming', while other speakers expressed worries about how the three-storey flat blocks would overlook Tyndale Community School next to the site.
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County councillor for the area John Sanders said there were concerns about how the new homes would affect traffic and parking on Barracks Lane.
The lane is a drop-off point for pupils of Tyndale Community School, and is also used by cyclists and pedestrians commuting into central Oxford.
Ms Harley added: "We are very short of sport provision in this area; we have lost our swimming pool which has been developed for housing."
She criticised the plans to give £600,000 to St Gregory the Great school as a means of replacing the sports field of William Morris Close.
A report to the planning committee said the school's all-weather pitches would be made available for community use due to funding from the developer.
An overhead view of the former playing fields at William Morris Close. Picture: Google Maps.
Ms Harley said the decision was similar to what had happened after the Temple Cowley swimming pool closed, where the gym facilities at Oxford Spires academy were opened to the community, but only after school hours.
Despite the concerns raised, the planning committee heard from officers who said all of these issues had been addressed.
Committee member John Tanner, Labour councillor for Littlemore, said he had thought long and hard about his decision to approve the application.
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Mr Tanner said: "If we turn this down, my view is the applicant will go to appeal and they will win the appeal, and we will lose some of the conditions we have put on the development."
He added: "I think the applicant, since they last came forward, has made a number of changes to meet the concerns of local people while making this a viable project.
"Are we going to get better? Because we have got to decide whether what we have got is better than the fenced off field we have got at the moment."
The fenced off playing field at William Morris Close.
Committee chair Sian Taylor added that the city was in desperate need of housing, and the development, with 50 per cent social housing, would help to meet the needs of less fortunate residents.
The plans for homes on the old playing field were turned away by the planning committee earlier this year after concerns at the number of new homes on the site.
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The revised plans include four three-storey flat blocks in the centre of the site, surrounding an open square.
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On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14 this year, we begin the season of Lent. The word Lent comes from an old English word meaning Spring time which is a season of new growth.
Lent is a season of the Church when we open ourselves to new spiritual growth so that at Easter, we can renew our baptismal promises with renewed committed faith and Christ-like joy and love.
When we receive the ashes, the priest or deacon says, "Remember, you are dust and unto dust you shall return.'' These words remind us that we will die and our body upon which we may lavish much attention will turn to dust, but our soul which we may sometimes neglect will live forever.
When giving the ashes, the priest or deacon may also say, "Repent and believe the Good News!" In order to grow spiritually, we must repent of sin which impedes our spiritual growth.
In 2 Corinthians 5: 20-6:2, Ash Wednesday's second reading, it says that while we still have the gift of life, the time to repent is now! Receiving the ashes indicates our willingness to live the paschal mystery, the heart of our faith, by dying to sin and rising to new life in Jesus.
By receiving the ashes, we admit that we are sinners who need God's grace to help us grow and follow Jesus more fully.
In Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18, Ash Wednesday's Gospel, it says that a fruitful Lenten penance may include fasting, prayer, and almsgiving.
When we think of fasting, we probably visualize fasting and abstaining from food and drink according to Lenten regulations. We must remember, however, that fasting should open us to doing works of charity and responding to neighbors in need. In Joel 2: 12-18, Ash Wednesday's first reading, it says, "Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord your God who is gracious and merciful."
In his March 3, 2017 Lenten homily at Casa Santa Marta , Pope Francis quoted Isaiah 58:6-8, where Isaiah reveals that God wants fasting that changes our heart and results in freeing those bound unjustly, sets free the oppressed, breaks every yoke, shares bread with the hungry, shelters the oppressed and homeless, clothes the naked, does not turn away from our own, and other works of mercy.
We can also fast from controlling others, gossip, unjust criticism, resentments, and revenge. We can fast from poor listening and try to listen better to family, friends, co-workers, and others.
We can fast from complaining about what we don't have and appreciate what we have. We can fast from being judgmental and impatient and try to be more patient.
A fruitful Lent and Lenten penance includes prayer. Prayer opens us to grace and strengthens us to see and respond to the needy.
We can do spiritual reading, mental prayer, participate in Mass, pray the Rosary, and go to Confession. We can attend Lenten devotions, study the Mass, participate in Eucharistic Adoration, or prayerfully study the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Almsgiving can be another fruitful Lenten penance. The alms that we share should bring us into solidarity with those whom we help.
We can contribute to help our country and other countries recover from tragedies. We can help sponsor a Third World child, contribute to food pantries, visit shut-ins, or volunteer at a homeless shelter. We can help the poor in our midst who need encouragement and physical and spiritual support.
During Lent, let us choose a penance that is doable and helps us grow closer to Christ. May our Lent be a fruitful step in our journey of faith from ashes to Easter to heaven.
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There was something really fitting about the venue Christopher Raeburn found for his first London Fashion Week show. Raeburn's modus operandi is to source vintage and deadstock fabrics and garments, mainly military, and turn them into sharp parkas, anoraks, and coats; last night, the disused Aldwych tube station became yet another forgotten resource given new purpose by Raeburn. It's nice when a collection and the location where it's presented rhyme like that.
Let's start by stipulating that the look of Raeburn's outerwear is hardly revolutionary. He broke new ground for himself this season, expanding beyond his graphic parachute silk anoraks and patchwork parkas, and introducing a range of tailored pieces for men and women made from deadstock melton wool. But as good as those looks were—and they were really, really good—they don't exactly redefine the look of the now. With that said, however, it's not unreasonable to assert that Christopher Raeburn is the single most radical designer working today. In coming years, it's likely that innovation in fashion is going to revolve less around aesthetics and more around the way things are made—where materials come from and how efficiently garments are produced—and looked at in that light, Raeburn is a visionary. A detail-driven designer, he finds ways to shape the look of his clothes around what he can source, as in his toggle coats, with their leather patches (from old German military smocks) and vintage horn buttons, or his orange wool melton jackets, the fabric left over from beefeater uniforms, or his tweedy baseball jackets, made from military transit blankets that were themselves produced from detritus.


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Our Founder and Solicitor, Andrew Gray, reflects on his Quaker approach to business.
Five years ago, when my second child just several months old, I decided to leave my safe employment as a solicitor working for a large trade union law firm in order to set-up my own law firm.
What follows isn't a boast, rather it is a fact: it is still highly unusual for such junior solicitor, as I was then, to set-up their own firm. I had only been a solicitor for four years! Looking back now, perhaps it was because of my sense of mission – thanks to my Quaker compass – which has powered my business.
Such a momentous decision required careful planning; risk minimisation to the highest level. In the months before I left safe employment, the more I read regarding how to set-up a successful business, and about how to dominate in online marketing, the more I realised that Quaker values were going to be the foundations to the firm's likely success. After all, historically Quakers had been known to be brilliant business people, so all I had to do was to follow the numerous examples from Quaker history, right?
Since I was kindly asked to pen this piece, I have reflected on how and if my Quaker values have shaped my business. Forgive my list-structured points (us lawyers are very busy, don't you know!): I regard the following points as integral to our non-failure.
- Our ethical approach – this week, I have been interviewing would-be trainee solicitors. When I ask them why they want to work with us, they tell me it is because of our "ethical approach". Parking for a moment what is meant by an "ethical approach", I can tell you that having a commitment to sound business ethics does set a business aside from its competitors. The "ethical approach" has not only attracted – and kept – brilliant members of the team, but it also is the hook for potential clients. It is our Unique Selling Point.
- Rejection of debt – although my law firm of course required some financial input from me, and the living of a fairly simple existence (for a middle-class person in the first world!) until it made a little bit of profit in year three, I have largely stayed away from overdraft facilities and commercial loans. As a result, our growth hasn't been meteoric, rather the growth has been organic and steady. Organic growth is easier to manage. The firm may have grown faster had I borrowed more money, but such debt-fuelled growth would, in my view, have been foolhardy.
- Speedy payment of invoices – one of the best pieces of business advice which I received came from the entrepreneur, James Caan. He argued in a podcast: if you receive an invoice from a supplier and you are happy with the work, pay it immediately. By doing so, we have engendered trust with our suppliers, which has meant that they tend to like working with us. And when they like working with us, we tend to get a better level of service.
- Transparency – although we are certainly not perfect on any level, we do endeavour to be transparent with clients, regulators, suppliers and colleagues – everyone. Our logo is a ring. I would like to think that people who know our business, understand who we are, what we do, and what we are all about.
- Collaboration – although I remain the only shareholder (which makes me somewhat uncomfortable) in terms of making key decisions, I listen to my colleagues' opinions. It isn't exactly Quaker business method, but we don't vote and do look for consensus wherever possible.
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Nina regularly publishes commentary in international media including the Washington Post, the Guardian, Die Zeit online, Tagespiegel, and the Conversation.
Nina has written on global migration and refugee politics. She examined whether social media is a platform for supporting or attacking refugees. In December 2018, she analysed whether the UN Global Compact is a major breakthrough. She has commented on New Zealand's proposed humanitarian visa for climate refugees, outlining six factors the Labour-Greens Government should consider to make such a visa work. In late summer of 2015, Nina advocated for more humanitarian policy to refugees and completed a solidarity swim from Turkey into Greek waters.
She has also written a number of articles on New Zealand foreign policy, including an article with Max Harris outlining what a progressive foreign policy could look like. She examined why the New Zealand opposition party, National, took a stance against Global Compact on Migration in December 2018. She has advocated for a debate with more diverse voices on New Zealand's role in the world, and outlined how New Zealand's Labour-led government could rethink its foreign policy on gender equality, aid and indigenous relations. Writing with Max Harris, she has also advocated for the New Zealand government to speak with the Pacific on the international stage and highlight the costs of climate change. She has also co-founded a new independent organization, New Zealand Alternative, which promotes a progressive role for New Zealand in the World.
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Hall, Nina. "Is Social Media a platform for supporting or attacking refugees?", Oxford University Press (OUP) Blog Post, 17 May 2019.
Hall, Nina and Max Harris. How to narrow the gap between Ardern's foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate. The Conversation, 14 December 2018.
Hall, Nina. "Why is National joining the Nationalists?". Newsroom. 14 December 2018.
Hall, Nina "Is the UN's new migration compact a major breakthrough?", The Washington Post, 12 December 2018.
Hall, Nina. Seeking a Broader Debate on New Zealand's Role in the World. Dominion Post. 25 October 2018.
Hall, Nina. Opportunity for NZ to Rethink Global Role. Dominion Post. 23 January 2018
Hall, Nina and Rebecca Brubaker. Gaps in global advocacy for the protection of migrants' rights, Open Democracy, 6 March 2017.
Hall, Nina. 'Six Things New Zealand's new government needs to do to make climate refugee visas work', The Conversation. 30 November 2017.
Nina Hall and Max Harris, 'New Zealand must speak out for Pacific on climate change', Dominion Post/Stuff News, 27 June 2017.
Hall, Nina, 'March for Science – a good idea?', Die Zeit Online, 20 March 2017.
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In an op-ed in the Boston Business Journal, BHI Executive Director David Tuerck offers some friendly but sobering advice to striking Verizon workers: technology, competition and globalization have changed the rules.
The strike is taking place against a backdrop of declining union membership and clout. Union membership has shrunk from 20 percent of all workers in 1983 to 12 percent today. There is a reason for the decline in union membership and clout. The old model of big unions facing down big companies has become obsolete in the face of globalization and technological advancement — trends that have turned telecommunications from an industry consisting of a few big monopolies into one characterized by ever-growing competition.
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The highly-regarded PolitiFact site, hosted by The St. Petersberg Times and The Miami Herald recently quoted BHI studies on the economics of conventions as it fact-checked Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.
Director of Research Paul Bachman was quoted in an ABC News story about employment on Martha's Vineyard in the context of the President's vacation there.
The latest edition of BHI's Economic Indicators is now online. BHI's first economic forecast estimates that 84,000 jobs will be created in 2011 when all is said and done.
Inflation continues to trend upward. Prices, as measured by the July Consumer Price Index are up 3.6% versus last year.
Massachusetts (or precisely Boston Metro) consumers are paying slightly more for gasoline that the national average but the same for food. Overall, MA inflation (3.4%) was slightly lower than the national CPI (3.6%) Energy costs such as those for household fuels and utilities in MA increased more than three-fold: 10.1 (MA) versus 3.2 percent for all major metro areas in the U.S. The Federal Reserve Bank continues to maintain low interest rates inferring that what the economy needs is moderate inflation. Consumers in the Boston metro areas may want to debate that position and whether the core –what the Fed really looks at — is really reflective of the real world.
As BHI's Paul Bachman noted the farther you get away from urban centers like Boston the less impressive economic indicators appear to be and that apparently includes personal income defined by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis wages and salaries, interests and dividends and transfer payments such as Social Security and Medicaid.
Last week, BHI issued an analysis of personal income growth. It found that Worcester and Boston led the state's major metropolitan areas but that other regions lagged.
The metropolitan Boston and Worcester areas continued to move ahead of the rest of the state in terms of personal income, according to an analysis of 2010 federal data by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University. However, poorer personal income growth in other regions in Massachusetts dragged the state below the national average for 2010.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, personal income rose in almost every metropolitan area in the U.S. After falling 1.9% on the heels of the last months of the recession in 2009, personal income in 366 metropolitan areas of the U.S. rose 2.9 percent as the economy moved toward recovery in 2010.
Personal income grew 3.4 % in the Worcester metropolitan area followed by the Boston metro area with 3.1%. The growth in personal income is uneven across the major metropolitan areas in the Bay State. New Bedford (2.7%) and Springfield (2.2%) regions lagged the state's two largest metro areas. Barnstable trailed with 2.0% while Pittsfield saw the smallest percentage increase with 1.4%
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Moving 10 times in 17 years while living overseas in Hong Kong, England, and Singapore, taught Teresa how to keep her home "move ready." Over the years, it became common for her children to leave one apartment in the morning and come home to another apartment, fully set up and feeling like home, in the afternoon. While renovating one apartment, Teresa's family spent 7 months in an 800 square foot apartment where she allowed each family member to bring only one box. Her family still says that was the best place they ever lived, as they realized how little they really needed.
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Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne stepped down Thursday amid the backlash to his disclosure of a romantic relationship with Russian agent Maria Butina.
Byrne caused Overstock's shares to plummet last week after he admitted to carrying on a romantic relationship with Butina from 2015 to 2016. The fallout from his disclosure complicated "all manner of business relationships," he said in a statement announcing his resignation.
"Thus, while I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the country, for the good of the firm," he wrote, "I am in the sad position of having to sever ties with Overstock, both as C.E.O. and board member."
Byrne issued a statement on August 12th confirming a series of articles by Fox News contributor Sara Carter that exposed his relationship with Butina, a Russian national who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the U.S. earlier this year.
Carter's work detailed how Byrne became involved in the FBI's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election due to his relationship with Butina. Byrne said he felt compelled to go public with his role in the investigation after becoming concerned about the way in which the Department of Justice was handling the investigation into Butina's conduct.
The Overstock executive met Butina at a libertarian conference in 2015 and subsequently contacted the FBI when she began to express interest in meeting with individuals associated with the Clinton and Trump presidential campaigns.
In his statement, Byrne said that his interactions with the FBI were "less about law enforcement and more about political espionage conducted against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump."
Butina is serving an 18-month prison sentence for attempting to infiltrate conservative political organizations at the direction of Alexander Torshin, the former deputy governor of Russia's central bank. Torshin and Butina founded a gun-rights group in Russia and presented themselves as allies to conservative American groups such as the NRA.
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I went to the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met this weekend and it was AMAZING. I know very little about fashion (sorry Megan - I try) or art (again, sorry Christina - I try) but I do know that whatever I witnessed on Sunday was brilliant. McQueen has this beautiful ability to push political, social, and economic boundaries while also respecting the traditions of fashion that he's grown up and out of. You walk from tailored jackets, past dominatrix inspired head pieces and clothing, tartan pants, a Kate Moss filled hologram box, and end up staring in awe at a line up of space-aged goodness. The exhibit was curated to tell us a story, the one of McQueen, but also the one most of us hope to have. Nathan walked away inspired to pick up his history books and delve into the Jacobite Rebellion, and inspired to use history to help him create more and to create better. I wanted to come home and write something. A poem, a story, anything. I just wanted to throw my hat in the ring, or at least throw it so that the brim of my hat skims the artistic ring McQueen is in the middle of.
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The gap between smart content and dumb content is a gyre that's widened into an ocean...
Yesterday, Netflix released a trailer for a new sitcom called The Ranch, starring Ashton Kutcher, Sam Elliot, and Elisha Cuthbert (see it below). As you can see (rather hear), the show has a laugh track. The staging is, as Vulture called it, strangely "CBS-like." This already feels weird for Netflix, but the canned laughter is just painful. The show looks like an unaware parody of itself.
Viewers' negative reaction was immediate. These comments, just a selection of many like them, were the highest ranked on the reddit thread where the trailer was released:
[–]comrade_leviathan [+1]: Why the hell do we need a laugh track? Was it part of Kutcher's contract or something?
[–]balexander24 [+1]: I came here to say the same thing actually. I was really interested in giving this show a chance, but some how I find the laugh track extremely off putting...
[–]DougCL [+1]: this feels like a fake tv show that characters in another tv show or movie would be watching.
[–]Handsome3k [+1]: This looks terrible (laugh track goes off)
This is not the first Netflix show with a laugh track. The horribly reviewed Fuller House also has one. Despite its deathly reviews (it was described by the New York Times as: "a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise.") Fuller House was shockingly renewed for a second season. Not so shockingly, I suppose, considering that the equally critically reviled Adam Sandler vehicle Ridiculous 6 broke the Netflix record for first month views.
These facts raise two questions. First, why does the laugh track feel so icky? Second, why would Netflix implement it?
Why does it feel so corny?
The creation story of the laugh track goes as follows, as recounted by a producer on the Bing Crosby show where it was first used:
"The hillbilly comic Bob Burns was on the show one time, and threw a few of his then-extremely racy and off-color folksy farm stories into the show. We recorded it live, and they all got enormous laughs, which just went on and on, but we couldn't use the jokes. Today those stories would seem tame by comparison, but things were different in radio then, so scriptwriter Bill Morrow asked us to save the laughs. A couple of weeks later he had a show that wasn't very funny, and he insisted that we put in the salvaged laughs. Thus the laugh-track was born."
In the 1950s, a sound engineer named Charles Douglass began using the laugh track on his TV shows, because his live audiences couldn't be trusted to laugh at the right times or the right intensity. The laugh track allowed the producers to tell the viewers at home not just when to laugh, but how much. It was media manipulation 101.
However, as entertainment became increasingly reality-philic, this kind of manipulation tended to make audiences sick to their stomachs. Take, for example, both of Larry David's masterpieces. Seinfeld, in the 90s, had a laugh track while Curb Your Enthusiasm, in the 2000s, did not. David was smart enough to know where things were heading. Most contemporary comedies, particularly the "smart," ahead-of-the-curve ones like Curb, Arrested Development, Modern Family, Community and 30 Rock eschew laugh tracks. The laugh track has become, as Indiewire put it, a "symbol of an unsophisticated show," something that caters to an audience feeble minded enough to let themselves be told when to laugh, and how hard. It has been employed for seventy years, and, like the stereoscope, its effectiveness has all but worn off. This combined with the fact that Netflix shows are usually some of the most artistically progressive around, explains why The Ranch's laugh track is so painful to listen to.
Which brings us to the next question...
Why would Netflix use a laugh track?
The short answer is simple. Netflix uses laugh tracks because, despite everything I said above, it still works. The inexplicable success of Fuller House and Ridiculous Six prove what critics can't bring themselves to face. The gap between smart content and dumb content is a gyre that's widened into an ocean. As "smart" writer-people, the taste of critics reflects, increasingly, only one part of the viewing public, leaving the "dumb" part unrepresented. Critics may have separated from that part, but that doesn't mean they've disappeared. They still have the numbers to sway programming decisions.
It would be ridiculous, of course, to compare the success of Fuller House to the rise of Donald Trump, but that's exactly what bloggers are doing. iwatchstuff said of it, "As is perhaps unsurprising for a society in which Donald Trump is a presidential frontrunner, another loud, catchphrase-spouting relic of the '80s is apparently finding appalling success with American audiences."
A commenter on TV.com echoed the sentiment:
wind_shadow: What other signs of the apocalypse can I think of? Donald Trump might be the next President of the United States. As far as signs of the apocalypse go, I think that fact trumps (pun intended!) Fuller House getting a second season.
It would appear that the media is equally as baffled by the success of regressive sitcoms as they are about the popularity of Trump's regressive attitudes. Both seem rooted in the fact that a large segment of the population, a "dumb" one, for lack of a better word, has been seemingly forgotten by the media.
But what if the "smart"/"dumb" dichotomy is the wrong reading? What if the watchers of mainstream-media pariahs like Fuller House and The Ridiculous Six are actually a step ahead of the reviewers, not ten steps behind? If you buy this theory, The Ranch's appeal could derive from audiences tired of having "smart" people tell them what they're supposed to like. Could they be embracing "dumb" comedy tropes, like the laugh track, in rebellious celebration? That would certainly explain Blue Mountain State.
Ok, you're probably rolling your eyes right now and I don't blame you. This is admittedly reading way too far into it. It's unlikely that fans of The Ranch or Fuller House are thinking too deeply about why they like these shows. Even if they did, the reality would probably be nothing more complicated than "because they make me laugh."
Regardless, the strange success of these shows, and their symbolically regressive laugh tracks, show that "smart" might not be so "smart" after all.


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