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About Christine Thomlinson
Christine Thomlinson is the co-founder and co-managing partner of Rubin Thomlinson LLP. With over 20 years of experience, she is a highly accomplished employment lawyer, one of the country's foremost experts in workplace investigations, and a trusted advisor to senior human resource professionals.
Christine is renowned for her knowledge, strategic and innovative thinking, and ability to provide solutions to challenging, serious workplace issues. Recognizing that sometimes the law does not fit with a client's business reality, Christine has a gift for exploring creative solutions, and finding the best path forward to restore harmony.
Christine and her colleagues work across the country, and have conducted various high profile investigations/reviews in workplaces such as the CBC, the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Christine is frequently called upon to conduct investigations and assessments/reviews, as well as to advise or consult on complex, high-stakes issues pertaining to complaints of workplace harassment and other misconduct. Christine also develops Rubin Thomlinson's extensive training curriculum, enabling employers to conduct effective workplace investigations themselves under increasing regulatory scrutiny.
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Christine Thomlinson can regularly be found on Lexpert's Best Lawyers and Leading Practitioners lists in Canada, Lexpert's Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, and was awarded the Lexpert Zenith award for her contribution to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.
Ms. Thomlinson is renowned for her seminal work on employment law, For Better or For Worse: A Practical Guide to Canadian Employment Law. Co-authored with the late Mr. Justice Randall Scott Echlin, and currently in its third edition, the text is an essential resource for human resource professionals and students across Canada.
Christine also co-authored the definitive textbook Human Resources Guide to Workplace Investigations, now in its second edition.
Called to the Bar of Ontario
B.A., University of Western Ontario
LL.B – University of Ottawa Law School
2016 Lexpert® Zenith Award Winner: Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion
Repeatedly rated as one of the Best Lawyers in Canada, and a Lexpert Leading Practitioner
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Rating
Member: Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario Bar Association
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We've lived in this house for 3 years and I've hated how tiny and closed in our entryway is. When you first walk into our house, you are quickly greeted by our 3-sided brick fireplace that jets right out into the room. Don't get me wrong, I love painted brick – but it's a little in-your-face, ya know? That, coupled with an out of style front door and little space for a coat rack or table – it's just not ideal.
One day it dawned on me that although I can't smash through the fireplace with a hammer (yet), and I can't make this space any larger – I can at least make it prettier. And let's face it, this space needs a lot of prettying up.


Bobby Turner was another guest speaker in my class on Leadership and Ethics, taught by former Mayor Richard Riordan. Bobby is Chairman of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, which manages $21 billion and invests in many types of real estate opportunities. The focus of the class was on Bobby's initiatives to invest in urban neighborhoods in order to improve them and give back.
Bobby led Canyon's initiatives to partner with Magic Johnson and Andre Agassi in developing urban neighborhoods and charter schools. Bobby was trained by Mike Milken at Drexel and graduated from Wharton School of Business.
At Drexel, he learned value investing, a strategy often overlooked, and mis-assessed. The keys to doing it right are quantifying and mitigating risk.
Bobby said that your first million dollars is the hardest to make, and wealth doesn't make happiness.
It is the last type of happiness that he pursued in partnering with Johnson to raise an urban investing real estate fund. They succeeded in doing this: they raised $275 million in 2.5 years, invested it all, and made an 18% return. Bobby explained that there is a huge demand for housing and retail space in dense urban communities, so not only were their investments sound financially, but they also generated jobs and improved the neighborhoods. They raised a second fund of $600 million in one year to continue their work, and later on they raised a third fund of $1 billion in one week. Overall, their initiatives created 10,000 jobs.
After the urban investing work, Bobby partnered with Agassi to fight for charter education. They're raising $250 million to build 50 more charter schools. He thinks he must raise private, for-profit capital in order to be successful, as the only sustainable schools will be those that make money.
Bobby considers a fair return on capital to be 10% unlevered (levered up to 18%); after incentives, they return 12% net to investors.
It was neat to hear a person so successful in real estate and for-profit investing find ways to make money while investing in projects that served a drastic need in the community even though they were unpopular. It was also fun to hear the stories of how he convinced Johnson and Agassi to get on board.
Yesterday, Craig Newmark came to talk to us at UCLA Anderson (Professor Jonathan Greenblatt led the conversation). It was an interesting discussion and went into many areas I wasn't expecting. Below are some of my notes and takeaways.
Know when to get out of the way and not meddle. Early on, Craig hired a great CEO and let him run the company as he saw appropriate. He stayed engaged but tried not to interfere, focusing his efforts on customer service.
In terms of other leaders, he said he admires Ron Conway and Larry Page.
Craig thinks he's not a real entrepreneur and just got lucky. He repeated this a few times. This was neat to hear.
Speaking to a young audience, he encouraged us to take more risks but to develop a broad social network so we can engage enough people when starting new projects or companies.
Social media is critical, especially for philanthropy. Many people in the philanthropic sector, such as leaders of grassroots organizations, are turning to Craig for help in advising these new organizations on using social media to get their word out. He says social media is key to allowing leaderless organizations to thrive and get input from the community.
He used a funny analogy to "ye olde times" and "social media technology" back in the day. He spoke about the Gutenberg printing press as the original social media technology; Martin Luther was the first to use it for a social revolution. He spoke about the original bloggers (Thomas Payne, John Locke) and the original online forums (religious talks, meetings). Listening to him talk about this was really funny.
In general, he said he wants to bring a voice to the moderates through charitable means and social media. He's been doing a lot to help veterans through IAVA and the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
In terms of social media and the government, he spoke about the Sunlight Foundation which aims to cast light on government activities and find ways to improve them. He says it would be good to cast light on lobbyists and expose the flows of money to the press.
In terms of Wikileaks, Craig acknowledged that diplomats are those that lie for the sake of their country. He has mixed feelings about this: as a nerd, he wants all info to be open, but he also knows that some stuff in government needs to be secret. Maybe just revealing where money goes is all that we need.
Overall, he's in favor of projects like Jumo that aim to connect causes to people and that use social media to involve the community.
Trust is the new black. With so much user-generated content (UGC) and so many news sources and information, whom you trust becomes critical to curating your reading and learning experience. He wants to get his news from sources that are accountable and use rigorous fact-checking. He says he gets the best news from The Daily Show (unfortunately).
The Daily Show gets away with using comedy while telling the truth, and this is not something new. Oscar Wilde said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, or else they will kill you." The only person in the king's court who could tell the king the truth was the court jester.
Craig predicted that in the future we will receive news on pad-like devices and TVs but from trustworthy curators of news, such as our social network and accountable sources.
Craigslist secret sauce: KISS. Craig described how the website started out as an email list that he ran on Pine (and still uses Pine for) as a hobby. He wanted to just tell his friends about local events and other stuff that meant something to the people around him. His entire marketing was word of mouth (and lots of launch parties in SF).
Their core innovation, he said, was actually listening to users and not web designers, potential investors, marketers, etc. His users wanted a simple, fast, focused, and free site. They spend a lot of their engineering efforts doing just this (for example, writing their own caching code to keep the site fast).
He claims that speed is the reason why the UI remains simple and old-school. He said they do introduce UI changes slowly but want to keep the site fast (they don't have a mobile app because the site works quickly on any phone already). It seems to me like modern server technology could serve up his site quickly even if it had a more complex UI, so I think the real reason for keeping it old-school is the feeling and tradition behind the site and a focus on keeping it simple. Same reason for no use of social media to promote the site. They get about 50 million views a month already; this is plenty for him. They just want to be a classifieds site. Period.
Many people asked why he doesn't monetize the site more, perhaps in order to generate more money for philanthropy that way. He says he's a libertarian primatist and having lots of money to throw around is not always good, like the situation Gates faces. He'd rather help everyone by giving free advertising on his classifieds site for roommates, furniture, cars, etc. and let others use their money as they see best; he does this because it just makes sense to him to do it that way. This was a really interesting perspective on the website; I had never thought about how giving the service for free was philanthropic in its own way.
Overall, I was impressed by his emphasis on just doing what he thought was right, on pleasing his community, keeping his site simple and focused, and using social media and nontraditional mechanisms to promote philanthropy.
A few weeks ago, I attended quite a unique talk at Anderson called, "East Meets West: What is Moral Capitalism?" It was by Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka, a distinguished business philosopher, prolific author, and founder of SophiaBank, a think tank that supports social entrepreneurs in Japan. He had flown in from Japan and spoke to a room of about 20 students over sushi (I didn't try the sushi though).
I just found online that he gave a similar talk at TEDxTokyo, which is the video embedded above.
The subject of the talk was the invisible or moral values that are absent in a capitalistic culture that only focuses on economic or monetary values. These moral values are things like caring for each other, peace in the community, trust, and happiness of workers. He explained how the verb "to work" in Japanese means "to help my neighbor" (I'll see if that's true next quarter when I hopefully take a Japanese class).
He taught these lessons through a philosophic fable he wrote which poked fun at how modern governments are trying to solve the current financial crises. His thesis was that by refocusing society and capitalism on a notion of invisible values, like culture, peace, and happiness, necessarily without quantifying them, we could achieve more stable and positive long-term results.
The way he spoke about the moral values appealed to me and is a reason for my recent growing interest in social entrepreneurship. It was also neat to hear Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, talk to us the next day about culture at Zappos and how their core values are many of the invisible values Dr. Tasaka was preaching. I'll blog more about Tony's talk soon (which was riveting), and it was a nice coincidence to hear several speakers give their unique perspectives on a common topic.
An economics professor in the audience of Dr. Tasaka's talk mentioned that there are several research studies in progress aiming to come up with a modified sense of GDP that takes into account society's contentment, peace, etc. Dr. Tasaka thought these efforts were well-intentioned but cautioned that the invisible values by definition cannot be measured or quantified. It sounded like something where you knew it when you saw it.
I had also recently come across a proposal to build a social stock exchange where Social Benefit Enterprises (SBEs), or companies that are for-profit but create social good along the way, could trade and be combined into a diversified portfolio by investors who wanted to support their operations.
I think all of these speakers and recent research show a growing trend towards socially responsible business, where the social good is not just a side effect but a major driver of value. It will be interesting to see how this develops in the coming years and to hopefully contribute to it as well.


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So, any leftover smells will definitely attract him to the same spot, making him soil the same area over and over again. This is something that comes naturally to all dogs, so make sure you clean the soiled area thoroughly if you want to solve this problem.
Try using enzymatic cleaners specifically made for cleaning dog stains to clean the spot. Such cleaners are very effective at getting rid of the unpleasant smells in dog urine that keep on attracting your pet. The enzyme in the cleaner bonds to the specific molecules creating the bad odor and breaks them down. This consequently makes it easier for you to thoroughly clean the mess, and completely remove the odor.
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When Your Dog Accidentally Goes To The Bathroom While You're At Work Only a handful of dog owners are lucky to work for companies that allow them to bring along their dogs to their places of work. This leaves a majority us with no option but to leave our pets at home all alone while working. Usually, puppies can hold their bladders for approximately an hour for each month of age. This means that your 2-month old puppy will only be able to hold his bladder for just 2 hours, while a 6-month pup will be able to hold his bladder for about 6 hours.
Taking your pup to a daycare for dogs while you're working. Hiring a dog sitter or dog walker to take your dog for bathroom breaks when you're away. If your place or work is closer to home, try coming back home during lunch breaks to take him out. If you have a neighbor, relative or friend who can help in taking him out for bathroom breaks while you're away, kindly ask them to assist.
Lastly, crate training may also help, but it's not 100% foolproof when it comes to preventing accidental soiling. Most dogs will not potty in their crates when given the chance. However, if yours can't hold his bladder anymore, accidents are bound to happen whether he's in a crate or not. So, try it out and see if it works for you.
When Your Dog Refuses To Potty While You're Outside If you've experienced this problem before, you're not alone. Many of us take our dogs outside for a bathroom break only for them not to seem interested. But, as we all know, having a bathroom break isn't the only reason dogs like going outside. Some want to be taken outside to play and explore, while others want to go for a walk.
So, when your pup doesn't potty within the first 5 minutes he's outside, chances are that he's interested in doing something else other than going to the bathroom. Perhaps tracking that sweet smell he noticed earlier.
Another possible reason for refusing to potty outside is that he may be old enough to hold his bladder for longer. If this is the case, try taking him out every 4 hours instead of 3, or every 2 hours instead of 1. Note that it's not a good idea to indulge your pet with outdoor play if you're in the middle of potty training. Why? Simply because he'll grow to associate bathroom breaks with playing outdoors. This will confuse him, making it harder for him to notify you when he genuinely wants to go to the bathroom. So, your best bet when he refuses to potty is to take him back inside and finish the training. After that, you can engage in any indoor game with your pet. I hope you've learnt something new about handling common potty training problems we face regularly.


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An hour later I was standing up to my neck in a huge hole, shaking my head. "Something's wrong." "You're right… I'm having heat stroke!" said John, throwing down his shovel. Just then, my soup-loving father drove back up. "How's it going!" he said looking rather unconcerned. "Not so good," I said. "We haven't found anything yet." "I'll be damned," said my dad shutting off his truck. He paused. "You know who built those mounds?" asked my dad. "The Calusas?" said Chuck. "Nope…He did!" My father was grinning and pointing at ME! "WHAT!" I yelled with my hands on my head. "Yep, you were 8 years old when you cleared this property with a bulldozer and that's YOUR trash pile." My dad drove off, smiling. Satisfied that he had done a good days work.
After shaking my fist and yelling "farewell" at the back of my dads retreating truck, it became eerily quiet. (Uh-oh! I thought, suddenly remembering that I was outnumbered by possible "ex-friends") I closed my eyes and turned slowly to face them and then, took a peek. They were both walking towards me like angry zombies, shovels in blistered hands.
As it turns out, they were equally unimpressed with my contribution to ancient history, my dad's devilish sense of humor, and my apparent inability to remember where I'd left something fairly large. I had some explaining to do, but I'm proud to say that they have since forgiven me… but being good buddies… they have not forgotten.
As we walked in through the registration tent at the "1984 Case Backhoe Rodeo" with the hundred or so other men, my father, myself, and our good friend Bob noticed that there was no vetting process. No proof of experience required! Anyone who walked up with twenty dollars and signed in could compete in a competition that consisted of proving how quickly and precisely you could complete a series of nearly impossible tasks with a variety of extremely large, dangerous machines (backhoes and hydraulic excavators) whose controls had been reconfigured in a random, crossed up fashion. This was really exciting for my father and me because we were both professional equipment operators with decades of experience. Bob, on the other hand, was excited because he had always wanted to operate a piece of heavy equipment and now he was finally going to get to!
My dad and I watched as Bob climbed into the machine. With his CAT baseball cap tilted just so and his calm, confident demeanor, he certainly looked the part. But my dad and I knew better. As I looked around, I thought it was interesting. Terrifying… but interesting. Why would everyone assume that he knows what he's doing? The official backed up (thank god!) and held a flag in the air. Bob calmly reached down and pulled the throttle wide open, which caused my dad to start laughing hysterically and me to utter a phrase commonly used on construction sites. Then… Mike stretched and calmly gave a nod to the official.
Now, you can't fault Mike's reaction time. Because when the flag dropped he instantly shoved both controls forward… simultaneously vaporizing the hapless beer pitcher, driving the small table deep into the ground and shooting beer about 20 feet into the air. And then, just like a water skier that falls and can't let go of the tow rope, Bob froze… causing the giant machine to continue pushing down until it lifted itself about 5 feet into the air.
After Mike was finally coaxed down out of the groaning machine and the crowd had finished laughing, he was promptly disqualified and asked the one simple question that should have been asked in the first place. "Have you ever run a machine before?" I mean… no one would ever consider a complete and utter lack of comparable experience or knowledge to be a positive trait or a qualification for something so important? Would they?


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The science behind kids and magic tricks.
By Emily Bazelon
Oct 29, 200911:59 AM
During Magic Dan's second trick in a show at our town library last weekend, the magician didn't pull off the sleight of hand he seemed to have planned. He was supposed to make a red scarf disappear into an egg, cupped in his hand. But when he displayed the egg to the crowd, he presented the side that showed the last bit of the scarf, poking out. "I made a mistake," he said, showing the egg with scarf to the kids sitting on the floor and in small chairs, next to their parents in larger ones. "Now let me teach you something about misdirection."
What followed was the trick that was supposed to make the mistake into part of the show. Magic Dan started to do the same sleight of hand again, narrating how he'd gone to stuff the scarf into the egg. But this time, the scarf truly did seem to disappear. The egg the magician showed us looked whole. And then he cracked it, and the yolk and the white ran out into a pan. (And then he set the pan on fire and appeared to plop a white bunny down on the flames. Only for a few seconds, but it was too long for me.)
The lesson of the failed trick turned into cooked egg and uncooked bunny rabbit: Magic really is magic. But that's not what my 6-year-old son, Simon, concluded. When Magic Dan cracked the egg, he started to wave his hand in the air. "I know how you did that!" he called out, one of a bunch of murmuring and shouting kids in the audience.
By this time, though, the moment for exegesis had passed. Magic Dan was lighting his egg on fire, asking the kids whether they wanted it scrambled and then plopping in the bunny and somehow pulling it back out unscathed. We were supposed to be following him back down the path of wonder. So I shushed Simon. "You're not supposed to be saying how he does it," I hissed. But Simon kept waving his hand, threatening to call out, and then whispering his theories to the kid next to him.
Simon has taken to doing his own small magic tricks all the time—interlacing his fingers and hiding one, so that when you count there are only nine. (Uh oh, what happened to your missing finger?) But he doesn't actually cherish the concept of illusion. Watching him and the other kids watch the magician, it seemed that as soon as they caught a glimpse of the man behind the curtain, they couldn't wait to rip down the rod. Which led me to a set of questions: What do children want from magic or the disguise of a Halloween mask? It's clear that adults want them to be surprised and delighted. But are children actually interested in illusions only so they can try to unravel what's behind them?
It turns out that magic tricks of a sort are a staple of infant and child research. If you want to know if babies know whether objects appear to change shape, for example, you track how long they look when they see a red ball appear to become a blue ball. Younger babies don't care if one thing turns into another; older babies do, and will stare. This is all about "expectations and violations," as Laura Schulz, a professor of cognitive science at MIT, explained to me. Children have to know that a scarf shouldn't be poking out of an egg to have that expectation violated—in other words, to feel surprised. "We sometimes think of children as naturally curious. But it actually requires a fair amount of expertise to know when to have an expectation and when to know it's been violated," Schulz says.
In Schulz's research on exploration, discovery, and causal learning in early childhood, she has shown that when children encounter ambiguities that confound them or anomalies that surprise them (two sides of the same coin), they want to explore. Most of the time, when children have a choice between a toy they've already played with and a new toy, they pick the new one. But if the toy they've already played with doesn't work the way they expect it to, they "break their novelty preference," as Schulz says, and keep playing with it—evidence that they're intrigued and exploring. With her graduate students, Schulz did an experiment with 5-year-olds in which she gave them some blocks that balanced in the middle, the way kids of that age would expect them to, and some blocks that balanced asymmetrically. When a block balanced oddly, children kept playing with them instead of switching to a new toy.
Such anomalies, or violations of expectation, or bending of the rules of the physical world, are what magic is all about. So Schulz's work helps me understand why Simon and the other kids were so eager to move from passively watching the tricks to trying to figure them out, once Magic Dan issued the invitation. They were hooked on exploration. They also didn't get the magician's effort to make his mistake part of the show—Schulz calls this a "coy high-level abstract inference" that a 6-year-old isn't likely to pick up on. She pointed out that magicians have to pitch their acts with some precision to different age groups. Since young children don't know much about a deck of cards (that there are 52 in all, with four suits in descending order), card tricks tend to fall flat with them. Rabbits popping out of scrambled egg pans, however, they get.
So is there an age at which children conform to adult expectations and simply want to sit back and feel wonder and surprise? Maybe not. The appeal of illusion and puncturing illusion "are intimately related," Schulz says. "We have both experiences very strongly at magic shows: We are surprised and we want to figure it out. The more surprising, the more we want to know how it works. That's true at any age. You can find it in babies and toddlers, too."
After Magic Dan rescued his rabbit, he sat down, and a second magician, 17-year-old Zach Ivins, took the stage. He had a short set of tricks that he whipped off with great skill. He asked the kids to make lots of predictions. ("Would the red ball be at the top, or the green one?") But he didn't open the door to debunking in the moment. Zach ended with a series of tricks with Chinese links. When the show ended, Simon admitted that he didn't know how those tricks worked—a major concession.
But on the way out the door, he was deep in conversation with a dad friend of ours, back to figuring out the bunny trick. Where had the rabbit gone while the eggs were frying? Simon and our friend sat down at one of the library tables and sketched out their theory—a three-part pan that included a lid with a false bottom. "That's how he did it!" Simon shouted out and then marched over to show his sketch to Magic Dan. Who didn't seem too pleased to see it. Children—aren't they a wonder?


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Bhagat Singh the Writer: A Legacy Unexplored
March 17, 2020 By Guest Author
Mathew M Philip
Shaheed Bhagat Singh is not just a name in the long list of Indian freedom fighters, but an idea, which, along with the struggle against colonialism, also advocated against all forms of oppression. We can no longer take Bhagat Singh's name independent of the ideas associated with him, which has now been immortalised through his revolutionary slogan, "Inquilab Zindabad".
However, lost in this fervour of nationalistic sentiment is the fact that Bhagat Singh was also a very talented and prolific writer. Even though we commemorate his life's works through statues and buildings in honour of the sacrifice he made for the freedom of our country, we repeatedly fail to designate him as a recognised writer.
So, in honour of our country's proudest martyr, I've decided to highlight Bhagat Singh as a writer and list some of his most influential works
The Writer in making
From early childhood, Bhagat Singh showed signs of intellectual integrity, asking questions about national movements and socialist agendas etc., showing concerns in matters which eluded the understanding of even many adults. Being from a family of revolutionaries and thinkers, it was evident that these traits would also be reflective in Bhagat Singh's works.
Crafting himself
Fearing the prospect of getting married if he stayed at home, Bhagat Singh left for Kanpur in 1923 (aged 16), where he was introduced to Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, editor of Pratap, Kanpur, and Congress leader of the United Provinces. Along with working for the cause of the Indian National Movement by helping in flood relief activities or performing the duties of a headmaster in a national school, Bhagat also wrote articles for Pratap under the pen name Balwant.
First recognition as a Writer
Associating himself with various clubs and revolutionary organisations, Bhagat Singh had gained so much intellectual maturity that by the age of 17 he wrote an award winning essay in Hindi on the language issue of Punjab. The essay, along with showing his clarity of thought, was proof enough that he was a brilliant writer as well.
Penning down his views with a ferocious intellect
In 1924 and 1925, he wrote "Vishv Prem" ("In love with the world") and "Yuvak", which were published in Matwala, both under the assumed name of Balwant Singh. His article on the execution of the six Babbar Akali revolutionaries in 1926 entitled "Holi Ke Din Rakt Ke Chinte" ("Blood drops on Holi Day") was also published but could not gain widespread popularity, much what happened with most of his written works.
Using his writings for the Greater Good
With his clarity of thought and proficiency in writing, Bhagat Singh wrote for and edited Urdu and Punjabi newspapers, published from Amritsar, as well as briefly for the Veer Arjun newspaper published in Delhi, through which he tried to bring more and more people under his influence.
Not just a writer, but a well read intellectual writer
His thoughts and opinions about communism and socialism was formed upon reading voraciously the teachings of Mikhail Bakunin and also those of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leo Trotsky. Accepting the ideas propagated by these philosophers, Bhagat Singh advocated these ideas through his writings and published a series of articles about anarchism in Kirti, the journal of the Kirti Kisan Party.
Under the surface works
After Bhagat Singh was sent to jail, he wrote many manuscripts, of which some were published, some destroyed and some remain undocumented. "The Ideal of Socialism", "Autobiography", "History of Revolutionary Movement in India", "At The Door of Death" and "Jail Notebook" are some of the manuscripts drafted by Bhagat Singh when he was in prison.
His essay "Why I Am an Atheist" was published in the September 27, 1931 issue of People, Lala Lajpat Rai's paper from Lahore, a few months after his execution. The article conveyed his ideas on atheism and showed, yet again, his proficiency in writing and maturity beyond his age.
Works that faded with words
His other written works includes "Court Statements", "Letter to Young Political Workers" and some other documents as well which were either destroyed in the course of handling or else remain unrecognised.
A role model and an inspiration to millions of youths, Bhagat Singh, no doubt, is an iconic representation of the young blood of India. Having said this, we must also not forget to give him credit for the numerous articles, documents and manuscripts which he drafted, for it is through these written works that Bhagat Singh breathes his ideas. Bhagat Singh has been called many things in the course of history : a revolutionary, a freedom fighter, a martyr, a terrorist, but sadly a writer isn't among one of them.
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Q: Alternative form of Gradient Descent We define the standard gradient descent as follows:
$$x^{(k+1)} = \arg\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^n} f(x^{(k)}) + \langle \nabla f(x^{(k)}), x - x^{(k)}\rangle + \frac{1}{2\alpha_k} ||x - x^{(k)}||_2^2$$
Here, $x^{(k)}$ is the result of the $k$-th iteration of the gradient descent. Solving the above equation gives us $x^{(k+1)} = x^{(k)} - \alpha_k \nabla f(x^{(k)})$, which is our usual gradient descent.
How do we prove that the gradient descent problem is equivalent to the following version:
$$x^{(k+1)} = \arg\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^n}\langle \nabla f(x^{(k)}), x - x^{(k)}\rangle $$ subject to $$||x - x^{(k)}||_2 \leq \alpha_k||\nabla f(x^{(k)})||_2$$

A: Just find the solution of the latter problem.
Denote $x_k = x^{(k)}$ and $g_k = \nabla f(x^{(k)})$. We need to solve the following convex problem:
$$\min\ \langle g_k, x\rangle\quad \mbox{s.t. } \|x-x_k\|^2 \le \alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2.$$
If $\|g_k\| = 0$ then obviously $x=x_k$. Suppose now that $\|g_k\| > 0$. Slater's conditions hold because when $x=x_k$ we have $\|x-x_k\|^2 < \alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2$. Hence, the above problem is equivalent to its KKT system:
\begin{align}
g_k + 2\lambda(x-x_k) &= 0,\\
\lambda(\|x-x_k\|^2 - \alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2) &= 0,\\
\|x-x_k\|^2 &\le \alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2,\\
\lambda &\ge 0.
\end{align}
The first and the last equations yield $\lambda > 0$. The first equation now becomes $x = x_k - \frac{1}{2\lambda}g_k$. Plugging this into the second equation yields $\alpha_k = \frac{1}{2\lambda}$. We conclude that the optimal solution is $x = x_k - \alpha_k g_k$, QED.

A: Two more elementary solutions, as requested by OP.
We need to show that $x=x_k-\alpha g_k$ is the optimal solution to the following problem:
$$\min_x\ \langle g_k, x\rangle\quad \mbox{s.t. } \|x-x_k\| \le \alpha_k \|g_k\|.\tag{*}$$
Solution 1. Using Cauchy-Schwarz inequality we have
$$|\langle \alpha_k g_k, x-x_k\rangle| \le \alpha_k\|g_k\| \|x-x_k\| \le \alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2,$$
which implies $\langle g_k, x - x_k\rangle \ge -\alpha_k \|g_k\|^2$, or equivalently, $\langle g_k, x\rangle \ge \langle g_k, x_k\rangle -\alpha_k \|g_k\|^2$. It is easy to check that equality occurs iff $\alpha_k g_k = x_k - x$. We conclude that the optimal solution to $(*)$ is $x=x_k-\alpha g_k$. QED
Solution 2. Notice that
$$2\langle \alpha_k g_k, x-x_k\rangle + 2\alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2 \ge 2\langle \alpha_k g_k, x-x_k\rangle + \alpha_k^2 \|g_k\|^2 + \|x-x_k\|^2 = \|\alpha_k g_k + x-x_k\|^2 \ge 0,$$
with equality iff $\alpha_k g_k = x_k - x$. We conclude that the optimal solution to $(*)$ is $x=x_k-\alpha g_k$. QED

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DECEMBER: Healthy Holidays. Holiday eating can often compromise nutrition and digestion. We'll suggest strategies, recipes and resources to help you stay well and feel great throughout the season.
OCTOBER WORKSHOPS
Superfood Brownies: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 6-7 p.m., Weavers Way Ambler, 217 E. Butler Ave.
Enjoy guilt-free, delicious, chocolatey brownies the Superfood way this Halloween season! Come learn from the best — join Weavers Way Nutrition Team Member Dorothy Bauer, our resident expert. Find out how easy these no-bake brownies are to create using Superfood ingredients such as cocoa nibs, goji berries, coconut and more!
The Truth About Coffee and Cocoa: Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6-7:30 p.m., Weavers Way Ambler, 217 E. Butler Ave.
How much is too much coffee? Aren't there benefits, too? Is dark chocolate really better than milk chocolate? Weavers Way Neighborhood Nutrition Team member Nicole Schillinger will help dispel the confusion around the health benefits of coffee and cocoa in this workshop. She'll also discuss Fair Trade certification and offer taste tests.
Nutrition Team workshops are FREE. Go to www.weaversway.coop/events to RSVP.
by Mary Sweeten, Shuttle Editor
The focus for October for the Weavers Way Neighborhood Nutrition Team is chocolate and coffee. Now, I'm not a member of the Weavers Way Neighborhood Nutrition Team and I don't even play one on TV. But they're shorthanded this month and I do (ahem) know something about chocolate . . . just not that much about its supposed health benefits.
The Antioxidant Puzzle
However, a little research online reminds me that chocolate in its raw form contains lots of antioxidants. Antioxidants — which are present in all the best vegetables, especially crucifers — help get rid of free radicals, those errant toxic molecules that are natural by-products of ongoing biochemical reactions in the body and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases. (Mayo Clinic Online definition — I'm not an organic chemist, either.)
Before antioxidants became a buzz word in the '90s, chocolate was just the most wonderful of the high-fat, high-sugar indulgences we weren't supposed to eat. Now it at least has the possibility of being good for you — although it has a long way to go before it's the new kale, because the antioxidants in chocolate, mostly flavenoids, are degraded by heat, and chocolate undergoes a LOT of hot processing before it lands in your mouth.
To find out more about whether the research supports the efficacy of chocolate in delivering that antioxidant punch, mark your calendar for Nicole Schillinger's workshop, "The Truth About Coffee and Cocoa" on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. at the Ambler store. Nicole is a registered dietitian and real member of the Neighborhood Nutrition Team.
Meanwhile, chocolate also contains the stimulant theobromine, similar to caffeine, which is increasingly seen as not harmful, and maybe even beneficial, to humans, though not dogs and other creatures. In an anecdote that I cannot resist repeating, publications in New Hampshire and then around the world reported that in 2014, four bears were found dead of heart attacks after demolishing 90 pounds of chocolate. (New Hampshire game officials subsequently banned the baiting of bears with chocolate.)
Food Justice
I feel more comfortable in this area, which, of course, is also of concern to nutritionally minded people, and a fine topic for the month that has Halloween in it.
Almost all of the world's cocoa is grown in developing countries and consumed in industrialized countries, and cacao plantations in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast, still provide 80 percent of the world's chocolate. In the beginning of this century, when the prevalence of child trafficking and slavery in the cacao business in West Africa was exposed, there was pressure for commodity chocolate manufacturers to police, or at least investigate, their sources. By and large, however, this still has not occurred.
Meanwhile, the meaning of "Fair Trade" has become murky. Hard-core fair-traders, like Equal Exchange, complain that the global movement has abandoned small farmers and local communities in favor of enlightened plantation conditions. (Read more here: equalexchange.coop/fair-trade). So, unfortunately, my conclusion remains the same as it was when I last wrote about this four years ago: If you're worried about how your chocolate was grown, stick with chocolate sourced from Latin America, where child slavery hasn't been reported, most cacao is cultivated and processed by small holders and the bulk of the world's organic cacao is from.
Here are some brands we carry at Weavers Way:
Equal Exchange (small farmer co-op grown in Peru, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Panama)
Alter Eco (small farmer grown in Peru and Ecuador)
Divine (from Ghana, but the company is controlled by a farmer cooperative)
Theo (small grower cooperatives in Peru and Democratic Republic of Congo)
Madecasse (vertically integrated from cacao tree to chocolate bar in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world)
And Now, Halloween
Give 'em Equal Exchange dark-chocolate minis. They're organic, vegan, kosher and about the same size as a mini-Nestle Crunch, and maybe other parents will take a look at the wrapper later and learn something. Weavers Way members can get a discount by buying in bulk — a box of 150 is $33.75. Don't eat them all yourself.
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John Kim's Forte
Nicole Augusta and Katie Luo|March 16, 2018
Photos by Nicole Augusta
For most people, music is just something you turn on in the background to zone out your teachers or while driving down the street, but for one freshman student, music takes on a much larger role.
"Fake it 'til you make it" is the motto of John Kim: volleyball player, ASB president of his class and aspiring artist.
Music has always been a key aspect in Kim's life. From the beginning, he was drawn to music as a creative outlet to express himself. Naturally, he began learning a wide variety of instruments and took up singing. "I've always been interested in music," he tells us, "I've always played guitar, [and] any instrument that I can get my hands on, I try to learn it: ukulele, piano, drums, guitar."
Arguably the most important element of a song is the lyrics, and for John Kim, they hit close to home. He describes the story behind his lyrics as "whatever I may be going through, and anything that is going on in my life." He tries to incorporate all goings-on, whether they are monumental or trivial. But a magician, or an artist, never reveals his secrets, and this includes the mystery subject of his latest release, "If I Fall."
Kim explains that creating a soundtrack is not as easy as it sounds. There are several steps he takes before releasing his masterpieces to the public. "So first I usually start off with my melodies, the instruments, and then after that I lay my drums on top." He then mixes, masters, and adjusts volumes after laying the lyrics on top before releasing it.
The young musician takes advantage of the many applications available to him and just about anything he can get hold of. He uses programs like FL Studio and Pro Tools.
Kim also makes the most of what he can do to get his music out there. Unlike the well-known artists you listen to everyday, he doesn't have the advantage of their wide social media platforms with million of followers or radio show hosts announcing their music every ten minutes. Instead, Kim promotes his music through his friends on platforms like Instagram and Snapchat.
Just like any other high school student, Kim faces the same everyday challenge: homework. Whether it's for an AP or Honors class, he says that finding time to do what he loves has proved to be the hardest challenge so far. "[School] just keeps getting in my way… so I can't solidly focus on music."
I really hope that everyone won't limit themselves because of what they have and what they don't have."
— John Kim
However, putting in extra effort to do what he loves is worth it to Kim. All of the positive feedback that he receives is part of the motivation that keeps him going. "It really pressures me to come up with something even better and to not disappoint some of the people who are expecting certain standards of me."
Although Kim's latest release was comprised of mostly rap verses, his music preference is the complete opposite. Kim reveals that his passion for music lies within the Christian genre. "The only reason that I listen to hip hop music is because that way I can notice the trend of what's going on in the hip hop genre right now so I can recreate that in my own way."
Kim closes the interview with a message for all aspiring artists who don't know where to start, telling us that "I really hope that everyone won't limit themselves because of what they have and what they don't have. They can push through those limits to create music and make other people happy." Make sure to keep an eye out for his songs to come.
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International Post-Secondary Briefs
By Morgan J. ModjeskiSeptember 29, 2009
Headline: International Post-Secondary Briefs
Byline: Morgan Modjeski
Wordcount: 460
Economic crisis causes students to stay home rather than study abroad
According to University World News (UWN) the number of students studying abroad has dropped dramatically because of the global economic crisis.
The survey, which was conducted by the Forum on Education Abroad, shows that few American students are traveling outside of the country to attend post-secondary education.
UWN reported that the effects of the economic crisis have had an extremely negative impact on the 66 per cent of the 165 organizations that partook in the survey.
"The survey also found that most domestic and international institutions and organizations had not cut their education abroad programming budgets by more than 15 per cent since last year, and 16 per cent of respondents reported that their budgets had increased," reported UWN.
CEA Global Education chairman Brian Boubek told UWN that, "Educators realize that many students have a narrow window, and international education is critical to many students' academic program and future career success."
Currently the most popular study destinations for students are France, Italy and Spain.
E-books through campus bookstore websites all the rave
Universities in Canada and United states will soon be turning their university book stores into portals to online e-books, reported The Chronicle of Higher Education.
According to The Chronicle, "Trying to set up an e-book-distribution operation at each college store would be difficult and expensive. So the groups — the National Association of College Stores and the Canadian Campus Retail Associates Inc. — have pooled their resources to develop a shared system."
At the moment, the collection of online e-books is fairly small — roughly 200 titles available — but it will grow as the program continues reported The Chronicle.
Queens University has already turned their bookstore into a portal for e-books and is one of the first universities in Canada to apply the idea.
University of Illinois president resigns over scandal
The New York Times reported that the president of the University of Illinois will be resigning after a scandal involving admittance of under-qualified children of the "wealthy and well-connected."
The Times reported, "The president, B. Joseph White, had been under growing pressure to take responsibility for his role in the scandal, in which, according to an independent state commission, the university gave admissions preference to unqualified applicants who were the children of the wealthy and well-connected."
White has continued to deny the claims that he was admitting students who were under–qualified, and in his letter of resignation said he was stepping down, "to enable you as a newly-constituted board to select university leadership going forward," reported The Times.
The Times also reported, "Mr. White will serve as president until the end of the year, then stay on to teach and raise money, officials said. The board will appoint an interim president while conducting a search for a new one."


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Dr. Sigmund Freud Introduction (02:05)
View footage of Freud describing how he began his psychoanalysis practice. His ideas on the unconscious mind challenged taboos and social conventions in the 19th century, and remain controversial today.
Freud's Early Childhood (02:51)
Freud was born in Austria-Hungary in 1856 to Jewish parents. When his father's wool business failed, the family moved to Vienna in 1860—a cosmopolitan, liberal city of immigrants.
Freud's Education (02:25)
Freud's family settled in Vienna's Jewish district. His parents supported his studies; he was inspired by ancient civilizations. In 1873, he joined the natural science department at Vienna University, where he nurtured a scientific world view.
Freud's Courtship (02:33)
Freud and Martha Bernays exchanged hundreds of letters that reveal a passionate relationship. In an early form of psychoanalysis, he insisted on discussing their disagreements. He began studying medicine to raise money for their engagement.
Cocaine Experimentation (02:41)
In 1884, Freud wrote to Martha about self-treating depression. It led him to study neurology in Paris. Many women were institutionalized at Salpêtrière for hysteria, a general diagnosis for nervous symptoms.
Hysteria Research (02:00)
In Paris, Freud studied with Jean-Martin Charcot, who diagnosed hysteria through hypnosis. The experience showed Freud that different modes of thinking and activity occurred in the mind simultaneously.
Developing Psychoanalysis (03:54)
Freud opened his Vienna practice at age 29. He and Josef Breuer used hypnosis to treat Anna O. for hysteria symptoms by unlocking suppressed childhood memories. Freud applied Breuer's "talking" therapy to patients while they lay on his famous couch.
Seduction Theory (03:17)
Breuer and Freud published "Studies on Hysteria" in 1895. Freud began researching links between sex and neuroses, supported by sexual identity scholar Wilhelm Fliess. In 1896, Freud's idea that childhood sexual abuse was responsible for neuroses was met with skepticism; he later admitted it was flawed.
Unconscious Mind (02:01)
Freud took a systematic approach to studying how and why unpleasant childhood memories are repressed. His father's death in 1896 opened his past and catalyzed his dream analysis.
"The Interpretation of Dreams" (02:48)
Freud identified latent dream thoughts containing repressed desires that become censored upon waking. He used dreams to understand patients' unconscious wishes and identities.
Freudian Slip (02:29)
Experimental art expressed middle class Viennese anxiety, explored the subconscious, and matched Freud's theories. In "Psychopathology of Everyday Life," he argued that repressed desires infiltrate our waking life. Freud collected ancient artifacts to illustrate the past's presence in everyday life.
Oedipus Complex (02:27)
A performance of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" inspired Freud to interpret his repressed sexual feelings. He believed young boys suffered hidden fears of castration by their fathers as punishment for desiring their mothers; girls felt inferior due to "penis envy." This developed into adult neuroses.
Dora Case Study (02:13)
In 1900, Freud tested his Oedipus complex theory on a 17-year-old female patient exhibiting hysteria symptoms. He believed she repressed sexual desire for a friend of her father. He learned the importance of patients transferring feelings onto psychoanalysts.
"Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (03:35)
Freud's supposed scientific method relied on subjective judgments. In 1902, he invited four Jewish doctors to discuss the psychological impact of smoking. Weekly meetings helped him to develop an enlarged concept of sexuality. Hear an explanation of his controversial ideas on libido in children and adults.
Jung and Freud (02:36)
Freud feared that antisemitism would discredit his ideas. Carl Jung promoted his psychosexual doctrine, but reinterpreted libido to mean all mental energy and questioned his Oedipus complex; they parted acrimoniously.
Death Drive (03:28)
Freud's theory that neuroses were psychological, rather than physical, helped identify shell shock as an emotional trauma during World War I. Personal loss caused him to include self-destruction, as well as sexuality, as an impetus for domination.
Egocentrism (02:05)
Freud proposed that the mind was comprised of the Id, containing death and sexual drives, and the Superego, a moral guardian. Between them lay the Ego. The pleasure seeking postwar generation embraced his ideas.
Fleeing Vienna (03:26)
Freud's international popularity helped him escape during the Nazi takeover. A trunk in the Freud Museum contains a jewelry box that he gave to Martha—a piece of his personal past.
End of Life (02:18)
At age 82 in 1938, Freud escaped Vienna for London. He suffered jaw cancer but refused to stop smoking cigars. He continued to see patients until his assisted suicide in 1939.
Impact of Psychoanalysis (02:22)
Freud's ideas gave people permission to be "abnormal" in the 20th century and increased acceptance of sexuality variety; some of his theories are considered unscientific. Neuroscience has shown that most mental computation occurs subconsciously; memory is physically stored in the brain.
Freud's Cultural Influence (03:16)
Advertisers use psychoanalytic tools to appeal to our irrational desires. We also place importance on childhood experiences and emotional complexity. Freud's ashes rest in an urn symbolizing sex, lust, death, and mania. He inspired us to try to master our psyches.
Credits: Freud: Genius of the Modern World (00:37)
Credits: Freud: Genius of the Modern World
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Sigmund Freud was dubbed the "Father of psychoanalysis." And certainly no other individual exploration of the human condition has had such a lasting and profound effect on the understanding of the psyche. His work changed the climate and the context in which we understand our lives, as well as the landscape of the inner workings of the human mind. The program begins in Vienna. Sigmund Freud arrived here in 1860 aged 4 and for the next 80 years this was the context for his radical and often disturbing insights into the human psyche: insights that would wipe away the horizon of all that had come before, and re-envisage the landscape of the mind. Host Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna to discover that when Freud first came here, this was a city of political and economic turbulence. It was one of the capitals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its population of one and half million, half were immigrants. Germans, Poles, Slovaks, Serbs, Italians, and Hungarians filled the streets. And it was in this atmosphere riven with inequalities, that the ideas that would become Freud's obsession were forged.
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Sunken Dollie by Gryphling won the Avatar Spotlight! Sure she's soggy, she's got algae in her hair, and there are fish nibbling on her stuffing, but all this doll really needs is a little love!
Or maybe the first time when a kith becomes accomplished, you have an option to reset the personality points back to zero in everything... With all those items already used it would be much harder for a second "surprise" accomplished personality.
Keep an eye out for them in Lycus' lab, too. Sometimes I see uniform pieces there.
Iris you look lovely in pink.
My only suggestion is to inform people further ahead of the contest which categories it will be, and any theme. There has been a consistent benefit to entering a contest early, and I wonder how many people just save an entry for "next time" because it is "too late" in the contest to enter... And then next month it is a different set of categories, and then they forget or don't bother.