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Top notch startups that deferred joining dates of campus recruits
Mehak Sharma
Hiring, Firing and Now Deferring
At a time when various e-commerce startups, and the sector as a whole, has been going through a turbulent spell, deferring joining dates of top B-School graduates has sent shockwaves across the industry, forcing institutes to be strict on their placements.
With funding coming down and valuations being slashed, most start-ups in the country are struggling to meet their hiring commitments. While employee lay off and departure of Silicon Valley hires has become a common place, the matter of deferring recruitment came into light when poster boy of India's e-commerce, Flipkart delayed the joining dates of IIMs and IIT graduates.
The $17-billion e-commerce industry, which is expected to grow to $50 billion by 2020, is one of the leading recruiters from Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management and is expected to create over 50,000 jobs over the next couple of years. However, the slowdown in the startup ecosystem has given way to a new story, with 16 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) colleges in the country blacklisting six startups including Flipkart, in interest of their crème de la crème students.
These companies (six startups) will be barred from participating in campus placements from IITs in 2016-17 year, placement heads of 16 institutes decided at a meeting of the All IIT Placement Committee held in Mumbai recently.
While the committee has not disclosed the names of these six start-ups, here's a list of five tech startups who have deferred the joining dates of students recruited in the past.
1Flipkart
Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce firm, last month deferred jobs to graduates of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) by six months (from June 2016 to December 2016), which it picked during the last campus placement.
The decision has drawn flak from the industry with the chairperson of IIM-Ahmedabad making a page-long mail, sent to Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal and human resources head Nith Sethi, public last week. The e-commerce firm had made 45 job offers to students from various IIMs. Out of the 45, 11 were from IIM, Bengaluru and 17 were from IIM-Ahmedabad.
Though Flipkart said that the delay was largely due to a corporate restructuring that the company is currently undergoing and will be paying an additional joining bonus of Rs.1.5 lakh to all campus recruits, experts feel that the move may hurt Flipkart's brand image as an employer during campus hiring in the years to come.
2Roadrunner
Bengaluru-based logistics start-up Roadrunnr has also walked Flipkart way for the students of Indian Institute of Technology(IIT).
IIT Madras has reportedly said that Roadrunnr had asked some students, to whom it had made offers during campus placements, to report for work only in December, as opposed to their joining dates in June 2016.
In 2015, Roadrunner announced the closure of an $11 million Series A round from Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, and Blume Ventures. The company has recently acquired food ordering firm TinyOwl Technology Pvt Ltd and has transitioned into a food ordering and delivery platform. It has also rebranded itself as Runnr.
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3Inmobi
One of India's early 'unicorns,' InMobi has also deferred the joining date from July 2016 to November 2016. According to a report in The Hindu, the campus recruits had requested the company to reduce the delay by two months, however, the company officials expressed inability.
Lately, the company has also grappled with senior-mid-level attrition. Over the past six months, at least a dozen mid- and -senior-level executives have resigned, and InMobi is reportedly loosing market share in a business dominated by tech's big daddies Google and Facebook.
The company was founded in 2007 in India with 17 offices across the globe and is backed by Soft Bank and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
4Hopscotch
Hopscotch, an e-commerce platform for baby care products is yet another startup who recently came under fire for deferring placements to a few IIM students.
Just like CarDekho, Hopscotch has reportedly delayed the joining dates of four IIM-B students until September 2016. During the initial phase of placement, these companies fixed the joining date as May or June of this year.
The company recently raised $13 million in series C funds led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
5CarDekho
CarDekho has delayed the recruitment process of campus hires until September 2016. As per few media reports, the joining date of three graduates of IIM-B, recruited by CarDekho has been delayed until September 2016.
CarDekho, which is valued at $300 million, boasts investors like Ratan Tata, Google Capital, Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital, Tybourne Capital and HDFC Bank.
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SIUC chancellor finalist Rodney Hanley said he wants to address the budget crisis affecting the university by increasing revenue, not by relying on cuts.
"You can cut your way to a balanced budget or you can grow your way to a balanced budget," he said, "and I'm very much a proponent of the growth model."
Hanley spoke with faculty, staff, students and community members at a public forum on campus Tuesday morning. Later in the day, he also spoke with students during a separate session.
Many of the questions asked related to the current state budget impasse, which is nearing its second year. Hanley said the budget standoff is "the big elephant in the room" for the university.
He said SIU must operate with a balanced budget. As a potential solution, he proposed increasing revenue by boosting international student recruitment, creating a stronger focus on recruitment outside of the 18 to 24 year-old demographic and by not relying on state funds.
He said the university must stop thinking about traditional reliance from state funds and move forward, suggesting it may need to switch to methods used by private universities.
"I think there's room for potential growth for SIU to become the sustainability university for the entire state of Illinois," he said.
Hanley said recent cuts have decreased morale in both students and faculty.
"Every institution I've been at, when I arrived there, it always like it was just the darkest of midnight," he said, "but I think through some positive energy, some brainstorming and not being afraid to put some new ideas on the table and follow through with those ideas … we've been able to turn around the fortunes of those institutions."
Regarding his goal to increase the international student population, he said SIU "is out of balance" with enrollment figures of other international students at other regional universities. He wants to increase international student enrollment by 10 to 15 percent.
According to the 2015-2016 SIU Factbook, about nine percent of all students were international students during that academic year.
Part of Hanley's reasoning for increasing the number of international students is creating more diversity in the university. He said he would also require all senior administrators to annually undergo diversity performance evaluations.
"I believe the greatest threat to higher education in the United States today is the channelization and the exclusion of diversity in the academy," he said. "It is a profound problem."
Hanley's ideas are what he called parts of strategic planning. He said he had a hard time finding any strategic plans for the university budget online, joking the plans were in "witness protection" on the school's website.
But faculty like Sosanya Jones, an assistant professor in the higher education program, said they worry what the future holds for their positions as many non-tenure track faculty either receive non-renewals or still do not know their contractual status for the fall, and as other faculty leave for more stable positions at other institutions.
"With institutions that are experiencing financial stress, it's very easy to have that brain drain play out," Hanley said.
According to Hanley, the insurance of pay and increasing compensation over time is the most effective way to retain faculty at the university.
"Very talented, very active professors will have employment options elsewhere," he said. "We want to make sure that our best people don't jump ship, especially on issues around compensation."
When asked by Dean of Science Laurie Achenbach what he believes the university will look like in five to ten years, he said a focus on interdisciplinary studies will be key.
Hanley said an interdisciplinary focus is not solely relegated to STEM fields.
"When I look at what's going on in society as a whole, I see more than ever the need for a strong liberal arts education," he said. "I just can't allow the liberal arts to die in the line."
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Hanley, a Decatur native, currently serves as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fisk University, as well as a professor in its Department of Biology.
A first generation student, Hanley served in the National Guard in his youth. He is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University with a bachelors degree in environmental biology.
He graduated with a doctorate in biology from the University of Kansas before going to the University of North Dakota for post-doctorate research.
After an opening for the dean of science at University of Winnipeg, Hanley applied for and was offered the position. At Winnipeg, Hanley said oversaw the construction of a new science center.
After three years at Winnipeg, Hanley served as provost of Lakehead University in Ontario. According to Hanley, the school was in a state of declining enrollment — a factor currently affecting SIU — and part of his job was to increase enrollment. It was increased by 268 percent over a three year time span, according to Hanley's CV.
Hanley moved back to the U.S. after three years at Lakehead and started his current position at Fisk University, a historically black college.
Joining Hanley in the chancellor search are current interim Chancellor Brad Colwell, George Hynd of Oakland University and Carlo Montemagno of the University of Alberta.
Colwell was appointed the interim chancellorship in Oct. 2015, nearly a year after the death of interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela in Nov. 2014.
Hynd is currently president of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Montemagno is a professor in engineering, chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He will host his forums on Wednesday.
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By Vanessa Carter | 13 years ago
OK, so we're a little late to the reporting this news, but as a would-be journalist I must: Zynga has raised $150 million from Softbank (source: Techcrunch).
By itself, this would be a nice sum of cash to collect dust in your coffers. But, this is in addition to the $180 million in funding Zynga raised last fall from Russian firm DST, bringing the total funding up to $366 million. That's a lot of cash but I was joking when I said, it would be just sit around collecting dust.
So, what will Zynga do with all that money? The best way to predict the future is to look at the present. Based on that, we can assume Zynga will continue its hiring and acquisition binges and use the money to strategically expand into the Japanese, Chinese, and if they are clever, the Indian sub-continent markets. These markets are very lucrative but also highly competitive. Slapping a "Ville" at the end of a game name is not going to cut it in Japan or China, and Zynga can use its cash to create content that is localized for those markets.
We can also assume that Zynga will continue to spend millions of dollars marketing its games on Facebook, to make up for the drop in usage since Facebook changed their notifications.
The next natural question is, what should Zynga do with its money? They should continue to do all the above, but Zynga has an estimated market valuation of $4 billion now and what they really need to do is justify it before they can go public. Their Achilles Heel is they are bleeding users on a daily basis for their current catalogue of games and remain dependent on Facebook for users.
Zynga can expand across the world but as long as Facebook continues to grow into the number one social network internationally, they can not escape the fact that their entire business model hinges the whims of Facebook. To justify a $4 billion valuation, Zynga needs to launch innovative new games without the words "Ville" or "Wars" at the end of the name, expand into Asia and iPhone, and build out Zynga Live as a competitor to Facebook. They can do all this with $366 million in the bank. The question is, will they?
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The Popguns are an English indie rock band, which played a part in the British Indie pop scene. Originally from Brighton, East Sussex, they formed in 1986 by vocalist Wendy Morgan, guitarists Simon Pickles and Greg Dixon plus bassist Pat Walkington, and were joined by Shaun Charman, the former drummer for The Wedding Present in 1988.

History
Their first release, "Where Do You Go?", came in the form of a split flexi disc (with How Many Beans Make Five?) given away free with an issue of a local zine in 1988. The next year this was followed by the single "Landslide", (released by Medium Cool Records), which reached number 20 on the UK Indie Chart, and made it to No. 46 on BBC radio DJ John Peel's annual Festive Fifty list for that year. The singles "Waiting for the Winter" (1989) and "Someone You Love" (1990) featured on their debut album, Eugenie (also 1990), released by the record label Midnight Music. The single "Still a World Away", preceded second album Snog, which was followed by the EPs XXX and Crazy (all released in 1991). Charman left, leaving the group on a brief hiatus which saw them lose a significant amount of their media coverage. The single "Star" saw them debut for their new label, 3rd Stone, who released their third album, Love Junky (1995), which also contained the 1995 single, "Get Out". The final album of their early years, A Plus de Cent (1996) - which features the French language version of their last single, "Harley Davidson" - was released by Tall Poppy Records.

2012 saw the band resume live performances with six gigs in that year and a further two in 2013. At least four new songs were included in these performances. A three-track 7" single, "Lovejunky", was released in late 2014, followed by a new album, Pop Fiction, on Matinée Recordings. Soundblab ranked the album at Number 2 on their Top 10 Releases of 2014. Another single, "Still Waiting For The Winter", was also taken from Pop Fiction. The band have continued to tour and record new material, and released the single "So Long" in May 2017, followed in the same year by the album, "Sugar Kisses".

Discography

Albums
Eugenie (1990), Midnight Music
Snog (1991), Midnight Music
Love Junky (1995), 3rd Stone
Pop Fiction (2014), Matinee Recordings
Sugar Kisses (2017), Matinee Recordings

Compilation albums
A Plus de Cent (1996), Tall Poppy
Another Year, Another Address...the Best of the Midnight Years (1996), Cherry Red

Compilation appearances
Rough Trade Shops - Indiepop 1 (2004) Rough Trade Shops
Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989 (2013), Cherry Red

Singles and EPs
"Where Do You Go?" (1988), La-Di-Da - flexi-disc split with How Many Beans Make 5?
"Landslide" (1989), Medium Cool - UK Indie No. 20
"Waiting for the Winter" (1989), Midnight Music
"Someone You Love" (1990), Midnight Music
"Still a World Away" (1991), Midnight Music
XXX EP (1991), Midnight Music
Crazy EP (1991), Midnight Music
"Star" (1994), 3rd Stone
Get Out EP (1995), 3rd Stone
"Harley Davidson" (1996), 3rd Stone
"Lovejunky" (2014), Matinee Recordings
"Still Waiting for the Winter" (2015), Matinee Recordings
"So Long" (2017), Matinee Recordings

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External links
 Official site
 Bandcamp Site

English indie rock groups
Musical groups from Brighton and Hove

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These martyrs chose the guillotine over renouncing their vows. As I watched the story of these brave 18th-century women unfold on stage, I felt their strength under pressure pulse through me. Revolutionaries eventually close the convent and strip the nuns of their habits. But a group of them continue observing their religious life in secret. They are discovered, imprisoned, swiftly found guilty on trumped-up charges of hiding arms and are sentenced to death. While composing the opera, Poulenc became so obsessed with the story that he felt he had actually known these women. In them he had also found a mirror to his own experience in the accidental death of a friend who had been decapitated.
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Date institution of marriage is in trouble today. The divorce rate catholic anywhere from 50 percent divorced first marriages to 80 man for subsequent marriages. Perhaps, as a result, more catholic more couples are choosing to live together without bothering to get married. My own Diocese of Phoenix and other dioceses around the country are revisiting their marriage requirements, lengthening preparation periods and examining couples closely, looking for trouble spots in their relationships and families of origin—indications that dating may not be ready for the vocation of marriage just yet.
But what is the Church doing for us? Many parishes offer post-divorce workshops man should the first months after a divorce. But the pain of divorced goes on for many years. The Church—the institution as well as the individuals—needs to minister to the millions of divorced Catholics by both changing ingrained attitudes and reaching out in love.
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Yes, the Church is and should be pro-marriage, but, like its Lord, it must also love and support those whose marriages have failed.
When is company-keeping lawful and prudent? This may seem like a ridiculous question in our current society, but it is still a serious one. Originally published in the May, issue of The Angelus, by Fr. Jean Violette from "Communicantes". Are there circumstances when it is not allowed to date or "go steady" with someone?
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They are young and old; their spouse left some of them. Others felt forced to file divorce. Regardless, no one wanted to end up this way. They are worried about thheir kids, money, the future, what others will say, and what the church says about state of life. Can they go to Communion? Are they excommunicated? Do they have to get an annulment?
These are questions they had, and ones you may have, too. As they witness to their pain and to the redemptive power of Christ, you will laugh, cry, and identify with their journey from heartache to healing. The Catholic's Divorce Survival Guide will help you:. Gain wisdom and comfort from others who share your experiences.
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Divorce is difficult and messy. Catholic women and men struggle to find support and healing from divorce. Hopefully this site provides needed support. Do you have questions about being separated or divorced that you are afraid to ask? Perhaps this question-answer sheet can help.
Visit the program website for more information on what the Church really teaches about divorce, common questions about annulment, dating after divorce.
Many Catholics, including separated and divorced Catholics themselves, are confused or misinformed about the status of divorced persons in the Catholic Church. As a result of this confusion or misinformation, many divorced Catholics fail to participate as fully as they can in the spiritual and sacramental life of the Church, and many Catholic communities fail to welcome and embrace divorced Catholics as fully as they should.
If you are a separated or divorced Catholic, the first thing you should know is that divorced Catholics are not excommunicated from the Church. Mark , Luke According to Catholic teaching, marriage is an intimate, exclusive, and permanent partnership of a woman and a man, which exists both for the good of the spouses and for the procreation and upbringing of children. Although at one time divorced Catholics were excommunicated, today the Church recognizes that, subjectively, in some cases a married couple may have no reasonable alternative to separation and divorce.
According to the U. When divorce is the only possible recourse, the Church offers her support to those involved and encourages them to remain close to the Lord through frequent reception of the Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist. In the case of those who have divorced civilly and remarried, even though the Church considers the second marriage invalid, she does not want these Catholics to be alienated from her.
No big surprise, really. Most single Catholics — at least those of us "of a certain age" — deal with the subject either directly or indirectly in our dating lives. I have received more mail on this topic than I have any other subject since I started writing for Catholic Match. And, as fascinated as you may be with questions surrounding who gets an annulment and why, there is one big question most of you want to hear more about: dating and annulments.
In it, he calls for the Catholic Church to approach issues of sex, marriage, On Divorce And Remarriage, Pope Calls For More Grace, Less Dogma While the post-synodal apostolic exhortation doesn't directly alter any.
Even with the good intentions of both partners, marriages are not always successful. This can be true even when the family is well established and the marriage has lasted many years. Once a marriage is entered into by two people of faith—whether Catholic, Protestant, or of another non-Christian belief system—it is presumed to be a valid and binding union.
The Catholic Church has established procedures that a couple must follow when petitioning for an annulment. Primarily, a civil court must divorce a couple before they can attain an annulment. Annulment is the act of declaring something invalid. To annul your marriage is to declare that the marriage had no legal existence. Usually, a person seeking an annulment is someone who has been married, is now divorced, and wishes to marry again in the Church.
The intention to marry again is not a necessary aspect to attaining an annulment; devoted Catholics may simply prefer to have their divorce legitimized by their Parish. The Church requires that the former spouse is notified that the annulment process has begun and to offer them the opportunity to make a response.
Getting started. When an annulment is granted, it is not a conclusion that no marriage of any kind existed. Naturally, there was some type of wedding ceremony and at least a valid civil marriage that did, in fact, take place.
The program is designed to help divorced/separated Catholics recover by more fully This session deals head-on the question: "Can I date after my divorce?
Experiencing the breakdown of a marriage is difficult, to say the least. One's hopes and dreams, investment and resources, are placed in the sacramental relationship that's expected to last a lifetime. Divorce, then, is an experience that can be described as traumatic and full of grief. The Catholic Church recognizes the pain and hurt associated with divorce and offers healing for those who want to move on, while retaining the dignity and validity of marriage.
In order to assist in healing after a divorce, and to accompany those who have gone through this painful experience, the diocese facilitates two healing programs, Beginning Experience and The Catholic Divorce Survival Guide. Beginning Experience A weekend retreat for adults grieving the loss of a love relationship through death, divorce or separation, who are ready to come to terms with their loss and begin to move forward with their lives.
You can learn more about this program by visiting their website here. For upcoming dates and more information about our local group contact Dana at or Kathy at The week program features minute DVD episodes each week that cover topics of shock, denial, anger, grief, guilt, forgiveness, money, the courts, the kids, the ex-spouse, annulment, dating, sexuality, spirituality, remarriage or staying single, and much more. To learn more about this program visit their website here or contact our local leader Deacon Tony Valdez at There are many myths about being divorced and being Catholic.
Many people have questions regarding what an annulment means and what the annulment process entails, so the Tribunal developed the brochure and FAQ sheet. The Tribunal is the judicial branch of the Des Moines diocese.
Join us each month for a review of a book pertaining to marriage, dating, family life, children, parenting, and all other things For Your Marriage. The Catholic Church is often called a nourishing mother, and those of her children who suffer through a divorce are no less deserving of her guidance and support. God has a unique plan for each person and Duffy asks the reader to be open to discovering that plan.
To further the deep, personal evaluation necessary for healing and growth, each chapter ends with both a quiz and reflection questions. The Catholic Guide to Dating After Divorce shares five qualities that free a person to love, and the first crucial quality is availability. Duffy writes honestly about her own mistakes; she began dating before she was truly available both in the eyes of the Church and emotionally.
We will try in this little exposé to give some rules regarding dating and Steady company-keeping is unlawful for divorced but validly married Christians. since according to Church law the presumption is always in favor of.
Table of Contents. Read a Sample. Affirming the universal need for intimacy, Duffy—a relationship expert, CatholicMatch. Duffy identifies five essential characteristics of spiritually healthy people—being available, affectionate, communicative, faithful, and magnanimous—and shows how cultivating these qualities can bring out the best, most confident, and most attractive version of anyone.
Quizzes, journaling questions, and action steps will help the reader grow in these areas. The book concludes with an appendix on resources for those who need help working through an annulment or who are in need of other post-divorce resources. Lisa can help you on this journey because she has gone through it herself. Her gentle tone and truly compassionate nature are exactly what divorced Catholics need to overcome their fears, heal from past relationships, and re-enter the dating scene with confidence.
This program was created to move the divorced or separated Catholic past the pain of divorce so they can find the Love that truly satisfies in the Sacraments. Whether you are recently separated or divorced, or have been divorced many years, this new ministry can help you find peace, power and passion that may have been lost in divorce.
They are young and old; their spouse left some of them.
I remarried after divorce then became a Christian; should I go back to my first spouse? Does the Bible say you cannot receive Communion in church if you divorce and remarry? Is it wrong to date or marry someone of a different race? valid unless the original marriage has been annulled by a Catholic Church tribunal.
New here? Click here to join! What does the Catholic Church really teach about divorce? If I am Catholic and divorced can I remarry? Can a divorced Catholic receive communion? These are common questions that we answer. The Catholic Church does not permit divorce for valid sacramental marriages. In fact a valid sacramental marriage is impossible to dissolve thereby making divorce not possible if the marriage was sacramental. In marriage, the two become one flesh in a union joined by God, Mark So for a marriage that meets the requirements of being a sacrament , divorce in the Catholic Church is not possible.
The annulment process is by which a marriage is determined whether or not it is valid, it is not a Catholic divorce process. If it found to be invalid not meeting the requirements of a sacramental marriage then an annulment would be granted.
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Since 2004 I started the Flower Portraits. The orchids produced during breast cancer treatment express the parasitic nature of the cancer cells, the dark backgrounds expressed my inner despair. the latest of the shows was at UCH.
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"Ahoy Ahoy" (left) and "Waiting for the North Wind" (right) by Marie Larkin, both 2010, acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 30cm.
MARIE LARKIN "My art focuses unashamedly on the feminine, and, while I have not deliberately aimed at this, it seems also to revolve around a romantic fantasy world of innocent and beautiful young girls and small animals.
Recently I have been intently focusing on painting endearing whimsical stylised female figures with sad expressive faces. They seem lost in their own little world and are often in possession of a small 'treasure' such as a kitten, rabbit or even toy pirate ships. These 'treasures' are reflected in their personal adornment as well.
I am moving towards a group of works inspired by fairytale and nursery rhyme narratives, tinged with dark humour and revenge twists. These will be very detailed works in acrylic on canvas and at the moment are appearing as graphite pencil drawings as I develop ideas and imagery. Even more recently my strange little figures have begun appearing as sculptures. I am exhibiting quite a number of paintings, drawing and the sculptures at the Ladies First show in Melbourne."
You can see more of Marie's work at www.marielarkin.com.au and www.paperdollandpony.blogspot.com.
"Darkness Creeps" by Courtney Brims, pencil on paper.
COURTNEY BRIMS is a Brisbane-based artist who graduated with a degree in interior design before turning her attention to illustration in 2008. Her drawings are influenced by Victoriana, ghost stories, old photographs, daydreams and nightmares.
Working with pencils, Courtney creates dreamy worlds of lost girls and bewildering creatures, focusing on the beauty of nature and its dominance over time.
Courtney had her first solo exhibition at Sydney's Monster Children Gallery in 2008 as winner of the Mooks Artspace competition. Since then she has had solo shows at LA's Black Maria Gallery and most recently at Brisbane's Nine Lives Gallery as well as numerous group shows across Australia. Courtney has created illustrations for such companies as Element Clothing, Something Else, Hurley, Pony Rider, 1300Flowers and The Finders Keepers Markets and has had her work featured in Empty magazine, Frankie, Yen and Monster Children Magazine.
"When people view my drawings I like to think I fill them with a sense of curiosity and a feeling of nostalgia. Drawing is my way of storytelling where I can take the viewer off the winding path and into the deep woods reminiscent of a fairytale. I primarily focus on themes of displacement, abandonment and loss of self, telling tales of neglected creatures trying to find their place in the world."
You can see more of Courtney's work at www.courtneybrims.com and http://courtneybrims.blogspot.com.
MEGAN DELL "After growing up in country Victoria, I moved to Melbourne at the age of 17 to study Graphic Arts. Inspired by local stencil artists, I became involved in the street art scene. A lot of the time my work incorporates spray paint and markers, with a preference to paint on used skateboards - as they come with their own character and history."
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JESSICA STEWART Melbourne based artist Jessica Stewart likes to draw portraits of dreamers wishing for another day to arrive. Using pencil, paint and pastel she draws ships, homes and animals to represent a freedom from their current situation. She has also just completed a artist collaboration with surf wear brand Rip Curl, along with running her own small limited edition clothing company Leon Vault.
"Cinnamon Girl" by Rhiannon Mowat, 2010, nspired by the song by Neil Young, a nursery rhyme and a lifetime of finding comfort in music.
RHIANNON MOWAT "I find a lot of my inspiration in words. Stories and poems, songs and philosophy. A line of text, a thought scribbled down, sometimes a word sitting all on its own. I take them out of context, spin them around then put them down on paper with characters and colours.
It feels like I am always searching for parts of a puzzle that are floating in the ether waiting to be found (and the corner pieces are always the hardest to find).
I really hope that when people find my work they see something that makes them feel a little better than they did before."
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"Freida" by Sylvia Newton, April 2010, acrylic paint, recycled dressmakers pattern paper and paper ephemera on 12"x12" stretched canvas, AUD $150.
SYLVIA NEWTON "I am a full time mother to 4 children, part time uni student, casual night filler and an artist. My works are hard for me to describe but I see the works as ghostly girls with a lot of hormonal mood swings trying to fit in somewhere, somehow. People comment on them as if are all the pieces I paint are one person. In my head they are not but they are the one person I guess to some extent as they all more than likely have something to do with my subconscious... I paint when I feel moody. I work with acrylic paints. Dressmaker's pattern paper is my favourite background. I have started to work with a bit of various ephemera too. Hopefully I will broaden use of mediums as experiment more."
Sylvia Newton is based in Newcastle, NSW and you can see more of her work at www.sylviamay.blogspot.com and www.sylviamay.etsy.com.


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LED Lights and the Nobel Prize
This year's Nobel prize for physics went to three scientists who helped to perfect LED lights. Red and green LEDs have been around for years, but it wasn't until we had blue LEDs (developed in the early 1990s) that we were able to produce LEDs for general home and business lighting. In other words, there are no "white" LEDs, but we can adapt blue LEDs for this purpose.
The question remains, should these scientists have received the award without development of the first (red) LED also being recognized? This was developed by Nick Holonyak, Jr., in 1962. Without it, the blue LED may well have not been invented. In fact, according to Holonyak (now 85 and living in an assisted-living facility), it could not have been developed without his work.
He hasn't been bitter about never receiving this prize for the LED, but felt that the blue LED being recognized apart from his original work was insulting.
In one sense, this is akin to Thomas Edison being recognized for "inventing" the light bulb when in fact he didn't invent it, but made it practical as a lighting source. This certainly deserves merit, but does it deserve the entire merit?
So what do you think? Should the Nobel prize have been awarded only to those who developed the blue LED and made LED lighting practical as a lighting source? Should the original LED work also have been recognized? And does it make a difference that the original work was done so long ago? In other words, had it been done more recently, should it have been recognized, but not when it was done so long ago?
(P.S. There's also this interesting article that discusses a blue LED that may have been made 20 years before the one being recognized by the Nobel prize!)


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Economic Sociology
bounded rationality
On the Limitations of Behavioral Finance
Brooke on October 31, 2010
Behavioral finance has exploded in popularity not just because it's interesting—regular finance is interesting, too—but because it combines that interest factor with an abundance of what one scholar called "descriptive charm."
There is something strangely entertaining in reading about the economic foibles of others: one part schadenfreude, plus one part abashed recognition of one's own past mistakes—mixed with quiet relief to find oneself with lots of company in making those mistakes.
Plus, it gives many of us readers great stories that to tell at dinner parties. Being able to talk about the myth of the "hot hand" in basketball, or investor preferences for cash versus stock dividends, can make for a pretty entertaining evening in some circles.
Reading behavioral finance can also provides a sense of Finally Understanding How Things Work when it comes to money and markets. Learning about common cognitive errors in economic decision making, such as "anchoring," and "availability bias," feels like getting a peek inside the flawed machines that are our brains, making it seem possible to predict the behavior (particularly the mistakes) of others, and guard against them in oneself. In short, behavioral finance seems to offer insight and a sense of control, imposing order on what otherwise appears chaotic and unpredictable.
But a dozen years after my own personal infatuation with behavioral finance began—by devouring Richard Thaler's classics, Advances in Behavioral Finance and The Winner's Curse—a number of limitations have become obvious.
All research programs have limitations, of course. But those of behavioral finance undermine its purpose: that is, to enhance understanding of financial markets and investor behavior. Others have written eloquently on this subject, particularly Daniel Beunza and David Stark, and John Y. Campbell. What I have to add to this ongoing debate boils down to two points and their consequences:
1. Failure to acknowledge the findings of the allied social sciences
One of the cardinal laws in scholarship is to acknowledge the work of others and avoid reinventing the wheel. But when you read works of behavioral finance, you'd never know that deviations from rational, self-maximizing behavior are old news in psychology, political science, sociology and anthropology. Check the references section of a behavioral finance article or book and see how many citations from those fields you can find. Chances are, there will be zero. Behavioral finance scholars generally cite each other, or work from mainstream economics and finance.
This is particularly strange since so much of contemporary behavioral finance depends on the contributions of social psychologists like Daniel Kahneman (a 2002 Nobel laureate for his work in behavioral finance) and the late Amos Tversky, as well as much older work by people like Herb Simon, who was a Professor of Political Science and Industrial Administration at various points in his career. Simon won the Nobel Prize in economics for work done half a century ago on "bounded rationality"—a concept closely tied to many of the key phenomena examined by behavioral finance, but which is virtually ignored in their publications.
While a lot of academic research speaks to a rather small group of other academics, behavioral finance is distinctive within the social sciences for restricting its scholarly conversation so tightly. This isn't the case in the closely-related disciplines of economic sociology, neo-institutionalist political science, and economic anthropology, all of which regularly cite and engage with one another, to the enrichment of all.
In the case of behavioral finance, reluctance to acknowledge the many research interests it shares with the allied social sciences may be part of the larger project of rigid separation and boundary enforcement that has been carried out by economists since the time of Pareto. This has created what Schumpeter described as a regime of "mutual vituperation" which has kept economics and finance in a state of self-imposed incommunicado with sociology, limiting the advancement of knowledge on our shared interests. Behavioral finance, it seems, is sticking to the party line on this point.
2. A narrow, limited critique of economic theory
Cataloging the many ways humans fail to think rationally about money, investments and risk is a good start. But in most ways, behavioral finance leaves intact the problematic assumptions of traditional finance, pulling its punches, so to speak. Among the most noteworthy examples:
a. Behavioral finance remains stuck at the individual level of analysis
As in traditional finance and economics, the object of inquiry in behavioral finance is the individual—despite rafts of evidence going back decades that individuals don't make decisions about money, risk or investing in a vacuum, but as a result of social influences. Of course, this evidence comes from those allied social sciences that are being so studiously ignored. For example, economic psychologist George Katona showed 35 years ago that most people choose investments based on word of mouth recommendations from their friends and neighbors. This influence of social forces in economic decision-making has been demonstrated with equal or greater impact among finance professionals—for instance, in a study of Wall Street pension fund managers by economic anthropologists O'Barr and Conley, and more recently in a sociological study of arbitrage traders by Beunza and Stark.
In the past, there were encouraging signs that behavioral finance might break through the limitations imposed by sticking to the individual level of analysis, most strikingly in Robert Shiller's 1993 statement that "Investing in speculative assets is a social activity." But thus far, the implications of such statements, and the plethora of evidence supporting them, remain unexplored.
b. Behavioral finance limits itself to pointing out failures of cognition and calculation
As important as those factors are in distorting financial decision-making, there are a host of others that we know about—based on research in those allied social sciences that behavioral finance doesn't acknowledge—that are excluded from research in behavioral finance. This includes emotions, and social phenomena like status competition, both of which play a significant role in the findings of economic sociology, psychology and anthropology. The cognitive/calculative failures may interact with the socio-emotional phenomena, but we won't know as long as behavioral finance pretends the latter don't exist. That's a loss for all of us interested in markets, money and investing.
c. Behavioral finance doesn't explain how individual acts and decisions produce aggregate outcomes
As a consequence of keeping the analytical focus on individuals—avoiding the social and interactive aspects of economic activity—behavioral finance doesn't have the theoretical means to address mechanisms through which individual acts and decisions aggregate. That means it can't explain institutions and other manifestations of collective behavior which form the context for all the individual behavior it examines. Of course behavioral finance can't answer all questions about money and markets, but it ought to be able to explain what happens when hundreds, or hundreds of millions, of people fall prey to the "hot hand" fallacy or availability bias? If behavioral finance won't touch questions like that, who will?
The consequences for ignoring the other social sciences and mounting a very narrow critique of traditional finance and economics, include:
Limited predictive power
Behavioral finance tells us more about what people won't do (e.g., behave according to notions of rationality outlined in economic theory) than what they will do.
Contradictory implications
Are investors risk-averse or overconfident? How should we reconcile seemingly contradictory findings like these? Behavioral finance doesn't tell us, because of its…
Failure to offer a viable alternative to the theories it challenges
Pointing out all the ways that real life behavior doesn't bear out the predictions of traditional economics and finance is interesting—even fascinating, at times—but it's not an alternative theory. "People aren't rational" isn't a theory: it's an empirical observation. An alternative theory would need to offer an explanation, including causal processes, underlying mechanisms and testable propositions.
All this keeps behavioral finance dependent on traditional economics and finance rather than allowing it to grow into a robust theoretical realm in its own right. Perhaps someday the field will develop into something more truly challenging to economic orthodoxy. Until then, behavioral finance will have to play Statler and Waldorf to the Muppet Show of mainstream finance—providing entertaining critique, but not replacing the marquee acts. (Now if economics would just substitute Milton Berle for Milton Friedman….)
Money for Monogamy
Brooke on December 7, 2009
Another way of monetizing infidelity: these t-shirts seemed to crop up for sale online seconds after speculation began about Woods cheating on his wife.
In all the public discourse surrounding Tiger Woods and his alleged infidelities, one of the primary topics of interest has been the millions of dollars he may have paid to silence his mistress(es) and mollify his wife. While there has been a lot of speculation about who got how much, I haven't seen anyone question the idea of linking money and monogamy.
The same linkage underlies another contemporary phenomenon: the "bad boy clause" in some pre-nuptial agreements, in which one spouse (oddly, it's usually just one, not both) agrees to pay a financial penalty for cheating on the other. It's hard to say how common this is, but such contracts are apparently enforceable and have been upheld in court.
The money-monogamy link raises a number of questions in my mind, including:
What are these payments supposed to mean to the wronged spouse?
Say Tiger Woods has really paid millions to his wife as a result of cheating on her—is his wife supposed to understand that money as a conciliatory gift, like an XXL version of a bouquet of flowers with an "I'm sorry" note attached? Or is she supposed to receive it as a form of compensation, like the victim of medical malpractice who gets a big settlement in return for the loss of her health?
Economic sociologists will recognize here the outlines of Viviana Zelizer's (1996) taxonomy of exchange types and the kinds of social relationships they imply ("Payments and Social Ties").
Either way—gift or compensation—there is acknowledgement that a wrong has been done, which is probably valuable in its own right. What I'm asking, however, is the question implied by the Zelizer article: what kind of payment is this, and what kind of relationship does it imply between the spouses? Typically, gifts are associated with private life and emotional intimacy, whereas compensation forms of exchange more often occur in the public sphere. Gifts are (at least nominally) personal and emotion-laden, whereas compensation is impersonal, with legal-bureaucratic associations.
The distinction would seem to matter for the future of the relationship: a gift would imply that there was still intimacy and a personal bond left to repair, and perhaps a hoped-for future together; in contrast, framing the payment as compensation has a kind of "cashing out" finality to it, shifting the relationship onto ground usually occupied by adversaries who have no intention of remaining connected to one another.
In more concrete terms, if you're the spouse receiving the kind of multi-million-dollar payment that Elin Nordegren Woods is supposedly getting from her supposedly cheating husband, what does that exchange mean to you in terms of the relationship, and your own self-image?
It's easy to be glib about this, and focus on her ability to "take the money and run." But that ignores the emotions involved: if Elin loves her husband, the money may seem both totally inadequate as compensation for a broken heart and broken dreams, and inappropriately impersonal as a gift; if she doesn't love him, she may still feel angry at the public humiliation she has experienced as a result of his behavior, and feel that neither gift nor compensation can fix the damage to her dignity.
In other words, one can imagine situations in which the offer of money by a cheater to his wronged spouse could actually come across as adding insult to injury—as a cheap substitute for real understanding of the impact of infidelity, as if the wronged spouse is a kind of coin-operated machine, whose sense of betrayal can be assuaged with the application of sufficient funds to the wound.
Do financial penalties deter infidelity?
From the perspective of the spouse who has been or might be unfaithful, does paying out a large sum of money alter his or her future behavior? If Tiger Woods has in fact paid millions to control the damage of having extra-marital affairs, should we expect the experience to make him think twice about cheating on his wife going forward? Or does someone who signs off on a "bad boy clause" in a pre-nuptial agreement really run through a mental calculus weighing the costs and benefits of having an affair?
Causal linkages of this sort are implicit in the money-monogamy link, but I'm skeptical. I don't think people are that rational, especially when it comes to governing their appetites for sex, power, admiration, or whatever extra-marital affairs may signify for them.
Social scientific research established decades ago that humans are boundedly rational. And philosophers reached that conclusion even earlier: 18th century Scottish thinker David Hume—a rough contemporary of Adam Smith, and like Smith, an economist as well as a moral theorist—famously argued that emotions drive our decision-making. Rationality, he claimed, enters into
David Hume, who probably would have scoffed at "bad boy clauses." And pre-nups generally.
the decision process at the end, in the form of rationalizations applied to obscure the true nature of our choices. In Hume's own formulation,"Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
Social psychology provides another reason for skepticism about the money-monogamy link, emphasizing the power of context over character in shaping human behavior. One consequence of this is the fundamental attribution error. As I've written elsewhere, the lesson I take from this literature and from my own research is that rationality is not so much a property of individuals as of situations.
Schemes involving payment for infidelity represent one attempt to change the context of extra-marital affairs—to introduce a negative consequence. But there have long been other negative consequences of cheating which many have found all too easy to ignore, such as causing pain to one's spouse and other family members, loss of reputation or social status, and even loss of one's job (cf. former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer). If none of that has been sufficient to deter infidelity, why would a financial payout achieve better results?
To answer these questions, we'd really need to hear from people who have faced this situation in real life: both the cheaters and the spouses they betrayed. Unfortunately, we rarely—if ever—hear about the money-monogamy link except in the context of gossip magazines, where any commentary given by the parties involved is bound to be primarily about impression management. They're certainly not the place to look for reflection and insight.
What's really strange to me, however, is that in the absence of any evidence that say, "bad boy clauses" actually deter infidelity, people still use them. And that may be the most compelling evidence for interpreting them as purely punitive devices.
But that just raises another set of questions, like: why would you want to marry on those terms? When one spouse seems so likely to cheat that it's necessary to have a "bad boy clause" in the pre-nup, and the other spouse spells out how s/he plans to exact retribution for any infidelity, I have to wonder why the couple are bothering to marry in the first place. The whole arrangement just has "train wreck" written all over it.
And why stop at infidelity when you could enumerate all the other deal-breakers in the relationship, like snoring and hogging the remote? Turns out people actually do this! For a bracing example of taking ideas to their logical extremes, check out this list of "14 Popular Provisions in Pre-Nuptial Agreements" from the Irish Times:
1. Who will do the housework, what type of housework, and how many times a week.
2. How many times a year is suitable to go on vacation, and where.
3. No contact with people from previous relationships.
4. No cheating, especially with people from previous relationships. Sometimes known as the 'bad boy' clause. Taking a second spouse is also sometimes forbidden . . . in Islamic pre-nuptial agreements.
5. No snoring.
6. No leaving the toilet seat up.
7. How many times a week it is acceptable to expect sex.
8. The division of seasonal tickets to sports games and the theatre.
9. How many times a year is suitable to visit the in-laws, and for how long.
10. A declaration of who owns the remote control.
11. A limitation of how much can be spent on a shopping spree, and how often said sprees should take place.
12. A declaration of the monthly plastic surgery budget.
13. Who takes out the rubbish.
14. No weight gain beyond an agreed point.
Each one of these provisions could be the basis for a short story—probably something really bleak and despair-inducing, à la Raymond Carver or John Cheever. And remember, these are just the "popular" ones: imagine what might constitute an uncommon stipulation in a pre-nup. The horror…the horror.
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Q: How to download a string as a .csv file, without writing the string to a file and reading from the file? I am re-designing a website where, based on the options selected by the user, I need to fetch data from a DB and then give it in a downloadable format to the user. I am fetching the data into a string variable, but I dont want to write it to a file and then write the download code. I want to download the string to a file on the client side. I am using perl for this.
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my $ID = "details.csv";
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Which is saved as downloadscript.cgi. But now, I want to do this in a .pm file, and I am storing string values in @fileholder. I tried with :
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my @fileholder = qw(name age address);
print "Content-Type:text/plain\n";
print "Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=$ID\n\n";
print @fileholder;

in the .pm file, but it is PRINTING the above lines on the screen instead of opening the 'save as' dialog. Both are perl, so where am I going wrong?
EDIT : I got to know the reason, Its because I am previously opening a html content type, and then in the middle, I am opening this "Content-Type:text/plain\n" - this is where the browser gets confused. Now, could someone please tell me how to close the previous html content-type and open this new content type for downloading?

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You might need to add the following to fool the browser (and remove the text/csv):
print "Content-Type:application/x-download\n";
print "Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=$ID\n\n";

A: Okay, looks like there can be only one content-type set for one response. So, I am now navigating to another page from my current page, where I am writing the download code. Thanks for your help people!

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Bucs & Giants Confident Heading into Tonights Game: A Preview of the NL Wild Card Game
By Victor Vargas on October 1, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )
The regular season has come to a close and now the best teams in baseball will contend for the World Series. Each matchup is intriguing, but the wildcard games are on a different level since they're only one game. This years' NL wild card game between the San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park is no exception.
San Francisco Giants Keys to Victory:
Madison Bumgarner- The Giants will be sending their ace to the mound for this game and they couldn't have asked for a better pitcher for this situation. A tall lefty who can bring heat, Bumgarner won't be intimidated by the crowd since he's had experience in high-stake situations like this before. Surprisingly, his biggest worry in the Pirates lineup should be Josh Harrison, not Andrew McCutchen. Harrison has been excellent against the Giants ace, going 4 for 5 with 1 HR while McCutchen has gone a below-average 2 for 10 against him.
Experienced Batters– A pitching gem from Bumgarner won't mean anything if the Giants can't get runs on the board. Fortunately, the Giants lineup has enough veteran players who've been in this position before. If Hunter Pence and Buster Posey find their pitches, the lineup should be able to follow suit.
Patience– The Giants are heading into hostile territory in Pittsburgh. This doesn't mean they'll be intimidated, but they could become over-aggressive at the plate which would play right into the Pirates hands. The lineup and Bumgarner need to stay poised and not let the high-stakes force them to overcommit. The team that stays more composed will win this game and the Giants need to remember that.
Pittsburgh Pirates Keys to Victory:
Home Field Advantage– Though the crowd won't shake Bumgarner they will excite their home team and with the Pirates at 12-4 in their last 16 starts at home they have every reason to be confident in their abilities at PNC Park. It's not a huge advantage, but any little ground the Pirates can get over the Giants will be crucial in this game.
Edinson Volquez– He may not have the "ace" reputation that other pitchers have, but his 9-1 record with a 1.85 ERA in his last 10 starts can't be overlooked. He's certainly reinvented himself since his disastrous outing with the Padres a few years ago. However, his FIP and xFIP are a full run higher than his ERA so it will be important for Volquez to pitch his best and keep command of his pitches. The Giants have a few key injuries in their roster so Volquez needs to take advantage of the lack of Angel Pagan and Marco Scutaro and do everything he can to avoid pitching to Pence and Posey in critical situations.
Josh Harrison– I've mentioned the danger Harrison brings to this game earlier but it can't be mentioned enough. His .315 regular season batting average and recent success against Giants ace Bumgarner make him the key player to watch on the Pirates lineup. Harrison needs to get on base if the Pirates want to win this game. The Giants will most likely try to pitch around perennial MVP candidate McCutchen so it will be up to Harrison to get the offense going. A different scenario could play out, but Harrison batting against Bumgarner statistically gives the Pirates the best advantage which is why Harrison will need to lead the offense this game.
Prediction: Both teams are evenly matched in virtually all categories which means this should be an exciting game, just as the playoffs are meant to be. Though it won't provide as much drama as the Royals comeback against the A's last night, look for San Francisco to spoil Pittsburgh's homecoming with a pitching clinic from a focused, unfazed Bumgarner and a few key hits from the Giants lineup as the Giants ace outduels an inspired Volquez with the scoreboard reading 3-2 Giants after 9 innings.
Categories: MLB
Tagged as: Andrew McCutchen, Buster Posey, Edinson Volquez, Hunter Pence, Josh Harrison, Madison Bumgarner, Pittsburgh Pirates, PNC Park, San Francisco Giants
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It was 8-0, but correct on the Giants winning Victor!


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