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Jennifer Abrams: Growing Up At Work
Jun 7, 2021 | Podcasts
Formerly a high school English teacher and a new teacher coach in Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA, USA), Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant who works with educators and others on new teacher and employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity safe workplaces.
Jennifer's publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate & Create Community, Hard Conversations Unpacked – the Whos, Whens and What Ifs, and Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives. Her newest book is Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work.
Jennifer has been invited to keynote, facilitate and coach worldwide from the USA to Africa, from Asia to Europe, from Australia to South America, and she is honored to have been named one of the "18 Women All K-12 Educators Should Know," by Education Week's 'Finding Common Ground'' blog.
Daniel: What does it mean to be an adult at work? One of the greatest tragedies in terms of prepping for becoming an educator and then a school leader is that, you get the certificate, you get the licensure, you go to the grad school classes and all this stuff, and it teaches you things that you need to be successful. Interestingly, it leaves out a huge gap that is absolutely foundational to your success and that really is about emotional intelligence. It's about being an adult, being a professional within your school or district. How do you do that? Lucky for you today I'm joined by my dear friend, Jennifer Abrams, and she has just written a book on that topic specifically. You're going to love it. She shares many stories and practical tips. It's going to help you be a better you while you're at work.
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Daniel: Most of my shows I've recorded virtually over Zoom for years and we did it face to face. I admired your presence, I enjoyed your stories and I'm so thankful that we've known each other all these years now. That was a bit of my bio for you, but here's the official one. Formerly a high school English teacher, a new teacher coach in Palo Alto Unified School District. Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant who works with educators and others, on new teacher and employee support. Being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity, safe workplaces, Jennifer's publications include having hard conversations. The multi-generational workplace communicate, collaborate, and create community hard conversations unpacked, the who's, ones, what ifs, and swimming in the deep end for foundational skills for leading successful school initiatives. Her newest book is Stretching your Learning Edges, Growing up at work. Jennifer has been invited to keynote facilitate and coach worldwide from the US to Africa, from Asia to Europe, from Australia to South America. She is honored to have been named one of the 18 women all K-12 educators should know by Education Weeks, Finding Common Ground Blog. More about Jennifer's work can be found at her website, Jennifer abrams.com and on Twitter @Jennifer Abrams. Jennifer, welcome to the show.
Jennifer: Thank you, Danny. Nice to see you hear you again. Always good to be here.
Daniel: The first question, you've been prolific in your creation of content and books and the way you serve leaders and then educators. Why do you keep showing? Working? What I mean? Writing a book is not easy, but you keep doing it. What's going on here?
Jennifer: Yeah, that's it, why do I keep showing up? I think that I write for two reasons, I write to learn something and I write because I see, I see a need. My first book was Having Hard Conversations and as I say, and I say it every book, so this is my learning. I guess I just show up in the world, do this. I have a credential in how to teach students the subject of English. I don't have a credential in how to talk effectively to other adults. In education, our emphasis is with the kids and that's our focus and our mission. We have so much work that we need to do together. I am guessing that as we move into this coming year, that as we move into continuing to really work to deal with so many challenges that we, as a field and as a world are dealing with, we need to work with each other as adults. Why do I keep doing this? I keep writing to keep learning and to bring sort of this conversation back into education. We need as adults to learn how to work effectively and humanely together and that hasn't quite always happened. I keep showing up to make that be something that's on the plate and I still am a work in progress. So that's why I do it.
Daniel: Thank you. I appreciate you, uh, sharing that. It is interesting. Obviously it's about the kids. I have a dear friend Fran McGreevey, and he talks about how, uh, the quality of the school is directly connected to the quality of relationships within the building and relationships among the adults. I think one of the things I enjoyed most about this book is that exploration and hearing sort of view growing up and these markers that we have, "Okay, we've crossed this milestone, we're now an adult" Yet, we still have so much to learn on how to be an adult and interact with other adults. I know you're super excited about this new book. I know the inspiration a bit about your continuous learning journey. Why now with like How to Be An Adult?
Jennifer: I had a marker happen that we all will go through most likely is that I lost my father. I lost my mother a number of years ago. All of a sudden, I was the adult, the elder in my family. I thought, "Well, I don't know how to be an adult yet. I'm now currently sitting here at 54 years old. I thought, "Well, if not now, when?" I have to start to be the elder and I talked to my friend Barbara, and she said, "You're eldering, you're eldering. You have to learn how to develop into somebody that you will feel proud that you have been." I thought, "Well, educators, we don't have a lot of time to talk about adult to adult interaction." We teach the students all the time and then we get into these meetings and I thought, "Wow, I need to spend even more time than just the afterschool workshop or the staff meeting that kind of work."
Jennifer: I need to actually learn what it means to develop as adults. We think you're 26, you're off your dad or mom's insurance. Now you're an adult or you got the job. You're now a teacher in second grade or you're whatever. Now we just expect you to be a professional. I thought we've known, and this is the frustration. We know people are kind of not so great. Sometimes they're not their best selves in these after-school meetings. They're not the person that you'd want to collaborate with. I thought that is part of their development and their maturity and their journey. It's also that we don't give it emphasis. We don't study how to be better and that's really where this came from. How do we develop? The thing is growing up at work.
Jennifer: And the up is in parentheses. I'm not deliberately trying to be really obnoxious and cheeky and go, "You need to grow up" because we are the adults in the schools. I also know that we can still grow and that's where I want us to stretch ourselves. You're not always your best adult self. What does that look like? That's why I showed up to do and I'm a work in progress. I am not saying this is the be-all and end-all, this is a book that asks us all to participate in each other's development. This isn't a read this and you'll be an adult. This is just a study in how can we take a look at how we can grow?
Daniel: I think that comes through quite well in the book. You also challenge the reader to think proactively what's the insight here? What sticks out to? How are you going to apply it? I really appreciate that. You mentioned your father and I know he's shared a verse, Micah 6:8 and it's a heavy, challenging verse.I want to bring it into this conversation because I think it will have people thinking bigger, outside of themselves and what they're doing as a school leader and as a Ruckus Maker.
Jennifer: Yeah. I'm Jewish. I had a bat mitzvah and I'm standing on the Bema or as many people would know the pulpit and my father is speaking to me and he says, "I wish for you and your adulthood, that you live, the words of Micah, you act justly, you love mercy, and you walk humbly with your God." I'm listening to him. I'm 13. I haven't gotten my braces yet. I'm just figuring out how to wear pantyhose and I'm like, "this is heavy lifting. This is really heavy lifting", but as now we're 40 years out. I just turned 54. 40 years later, have I tried to act justly, have I tried to love mercy and be compassionate. Have I tried to be more humble and get that I'm just one piece, one person in this whole thing? It's like, "Yes, and I still have a lot more to do." This book definitely says, "We're individuals developing. We're also part of a collective. How are you offering things to the collected? How are you a value add? How do you receive and have people support your development?" I'm always working that. I'm always working that. He's a part of me. I hope he's looking down and thinking "Good for you, Jenny." He's the only one who can call me, Jenny, minus a guy named Jock, who lives in Hong Kong, who can say Madamemoise Jenny, but that's it. My dad and Jock, but he would probably look down and say, "Good for you, Jenny," so I'm feeling good.
Daniel: I'd love to invite you to give us an overview of the five facets of growing up at work. That's something I know you discussed.
Jennifer: I tried to kind of put it into buckets. Which parts of us do we need to develop? Where do we need to grow up? These are not inclusive of everything, but they include to know your identity, to be really mindful of how your upbringing and the way that you see the world is one way. To know where you're coming from and how that impacts other people and how you can work to make sure that you see other people's identities. The second one is to suspend certainty. I was angry at Adam Grant, who just wrote a book called Think Again, because he just snuck up in there and did the same idea. But that idea that you don't have the only way you can advocate, but you need to inquire where are you missing some things.
Jennifer: Suspend your certainty that you've got the right way. To take responsibility for your work, but also for your language and how you interact. How many times have we seen somebody get really frustrated that they're unclear and then they get angry. "I don't understand what's going on. Why is this happening? This is not right. I don't, it's just too fuzzy." Maybe you could see clarification in a purposeful or focused way. If you have a concern, how do you express that before it becomes a complaint and you start to be whiny? If you've been hurt by something, How do you have a hard conversation about that? All of that taking responsibility for your language. Two more ,engage in reciprocity, which I'm fascinated by this. I was just on a conversation that was also talking about the collective that we need to believe.
Jennifer: Part of our job is to engage with the other adults in a mutually respectful way, to be a value add to the group, and to open yourself up. The group is a value add to you and engaging your reciprocity presumes a level of mutual respect and a skillset to live that respect out loud to other adults. The last one is to build your resiliency. I'm not thinking resiliency, I'm not giving it short shrift. I'm not saying "We shouldn't work on self care. We shouldn't take care of ourselves and our wellbeing." I'm focusing it on. If somebody gives you some feedback, that's hurtful. How do you sustain yourself in that moment? If you are not feeling psychologically, you're feeling a little shaky. How can you still go into an interaction with another adult and not kind of ooze that drama onto them so that you are building your strength, your bandwidth, to be able to deal with disappointment and all the challenges. It's not that we can't be connected and we shouldn't be vulnerable, but there is sort of that open heart and strong back that we need to be able to have. Those are the five parts. I started writing self-assessments and continuums and exercises and did some videos. I'm just really interested in how people see this and what I can learn around these five parts that are in the book.
Daniel: I'll say too, the videos were a nice touch. I really enjoyed clicking on those and seeing your smiling face telling a story that was interesting, challenging and thought-provoking. I know your readers will really enjoy that as well. Practicing what you preach and modeling this continuous path of growth. Another question I'd love to ask. I'm just curious, what are you working on these days to develop yourself?
Jennifer: You heard my "ooh" coming up because it's always a work in progress. I'll give you what I was doing right before I was on here. I was on with a group from South Africa, I was not presenting, I was a participant and they were talking about Stephen Biko, Cry Freedom was a movie that we saw here in the states about his fight for black consciousness and black liberation and ultimately was murdered. They were talking about Steven Biko's idea of inner freedom and how can we amidst the societies that we're in? How can we still sort of self author, at least how we see ourselves and get courage to sort of move in in our world. I was just in that for two hours before I came on this podcast. I'm doing a lot of study around adult development and my own development. I'm working with a group called Cultivating Leadership. I'm also doing a lot of meditation and grounding myself with Meg Wheatley. Meg Wheatley, is doing some work called Warriors For The Human Spirit and how can we be really strong people for this time? All of that's happening and my editor is saying to me, "How are you marketing and how are you doing that? I'm holding my own development, and then how can I do my work?
Daniel: There's a lot of Ruckus Makers who I'm sure aspire to write a book at some point. I don't know what percentage you'd give it, but that's a small percent of the work. Getting it out there and getting it into people's hands so that lives can change that's the real work and that begins once you're done with the revisions. Now your job has actually begun.
Jennifer: Celebrate this book. People are like "Celebrate this book" and I'm like, "Now the work begins. How do you put it out there? How do you see where it would land?" It's a lot of work, but the two of us have in common, some work with Seth Godin and the Alts MBA, and the answer is ship it. We shipped it and now, how do we reproduced it? How are we going to really make it sing and be out there?
Daniel: That's good. For the Ruckus Maker listening, just a quick challenge and reflection question, what are you doing to develop yourself? I really appreciate Jennifer's candor and talking about what she's working on, but what are you working on? All my south African friends, since you brought up South Africa, François, Mandela, and Lawasley, if you're listening, [inaudible) this is your friend. Let's pause here just for a quick break and message from our sponsors. When we come back, I'd love to talk about core values. Learn the frameworks, skills and knowledge you need to drive change improvement in your learning community with Harvard's online certificate in school management and leadership. A joint collaboration between the Harvard graduate school of education and Harvard business school connect and collaborate with fellow school leaders as you address your problems of practice in our online professional development program. Apply today at BetterLeadersBetterSchools.com/Harvard. That's BetterLeadersBetterSchools.com/Harvard.
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Daniel: We're back with my dear friend, Jennifer Abrams, her newest book is Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing Up at work. We've had a fantastic conversation so far about the journey of continuous growth and figuring out how to be an adult. A big part of that is identity and core values. I could talk for years on this topic. I love it, but I'd like to invite you to share a practical tip with the Ruckus Maker, listening on how they might go about identifying what they stand for and why it matters.
Jennifer: That's a really good question. When you said, "Let's talk about core values." I'm like, "Where are my core values?" I did a workshop a while back at the beginning of COVID times with a coach named Jen Lemon and she had us sort of take a look at a set of values and bring it down and then get to three. In my book, I do have a set of four values. Many people do this work, but then put it somewhere in front of you. On your laptop on, I had it for many, many months posted on my zoom light. Is what you're doing that moment aligned with what you believe in.
Jennifer: If it isn't, should you be? How might you make it come alive with that or not? I'm noticing that my need for authenticity, my need for integrity and my need for growth are sort of just always alive in this work that I'm doing. Those might not be the values of the people around me. Where do we kind of kind of overlap with each other? The scariest thing I think about being an adult, when my values do not connect with the organization or the school or they're going in a different direction or believing something different. I have to make the choice to not join that. I did when I left my school district. I went on leave 10 years ago. It's my ten-year anniversary of being a consultant.
Jennifer: That was one of the scariest things about growing up was to realize that I was in charge of my life and how I chose to live it and did the where I was, did that align. I went on a different path. I say that sort of more slowly, but core values are do you want to be so distant from who you want to be in the organization that you're in? I made the decision, so I left and I am happier. I sleep better. I'm physically healthier now I'm in a different position.
Daniel: I didn't know we would go there. I appreciate you sharing what you shared. Something you said really resonated with me. You figured out that you're in charge? You're in charge of your life and that has to do with growing up to be an adult. I'm curious, was there anything you'd like to share with the Ruckus Maker, in terms of what helped you take charge?
Jennifer: A real tough love conversation with my former superintendent who said,"If you're not happy here, maybe you should leave." That happened a long time ago. That was many, many years before I left. I made it work for myself, but I placed myself in conversations that really pushed me to make choices. My body ultimately, I was diagnosed with MS and that pushed me to recognize that I need to be healthy for myself. I am having a lot of therapy, counseling, all that kind of stuff, but also not talking to people per se in our field helps. Talking to people outside our field to see there are just other ways to do life. Whether you choose to do it or not, there are ways to live and many people would just say, "Well, I don't know what you're still doing there." I'd be like, "Oh no, I can't possibly leave." They were all like, "We do this all the time." I think being a part swimming in that soup, swimming in that pool helps. Getting out of your day to day conversations, talking to people outside your field, reading magazines that are not just about education, but maybe fast company or recognizing there's a whole big world out there was really scary and then ultimately freeing.
Daniel: I encourage everybody when it's safe for you to travel. It's a great way to realize, "Oh, there's not just one way of doing things. That was the greatest single gift of living abroad was really opening my mind in that sense. I love what you're seeing in terms of busting out of the echo chamber, industry-wise, and that's an edge I chose with the Mastermind. We don't read educational books. We only read books outside of education for two reasons. One, I already know people are reading those books, so I don't need to force them and then to expose ourselves to stuff that works outside of education. I love doing that with them. I love to travel.
Jennifer: I love travel too. I know we did not meet when you were in Europe.
Daniel: I'll be back. Were on a grant. My wife's on a grant for five years with the CDC of the Netherlands. It will still happen. It just hasn't happened yet. The last question I have for you, Jennifer, it's interesting, you bring up this model called the scarf model and I'd love for you to touch on it because we often think of things like examples core values and sort of the positive stuff within our control. Always consider sort of the enemies or the threats and the dangers, so useful. I'd love for you to expound on that before we end today.
Jennifer: I think that there's a, self-compassion that when you're looking at knowing your identity, I think you're looking at exactly what you said. You're looking at the values, the strengths, and what you believe in. You got to actually know that you have some limitations, you have some human needs and to be really aware of those and not to beat yourself up with them. I have a cognitive crush on a guy named Dr. David Rock. David Rock wrote a book, uh, called Your Brain At Work and in that book, and you can also seek him out@davidrock.net online. He wrote that every single one of us when we are in an interaction, either perceive that interaction as threatening or fearful it's comes from our our limbic system. Are you lion on the Savannah kind of a thing?
Jennifer: The scarf model is where do you feel threatened? Everybody has all five, but some people have more fear or worry about some of them. Some of us want the other person to honor their status. That's the S, your PhD, your title, uh, it's important to you. I will admit, know your identity. I will admit, I like people to know my status. I have five books. I am an international consultant. You're not snobby and awful because you have that need. It's just to be aware that that trigger is there for you. The second one is certainty. We want control. We want to know what's happening next. If people don't have the sea and Scarf, they get really anxious and they kind of lash out. The third one is the a, which is autonomy. Some people really want autonomy.
Jennifer: If we tell them they have to do something, and I'm looking at Danny with his with this tattoo. Who's a Ruckus Maker. Let's be self-authoring. I want autonomy. If you want autonomy, you don't want expectations or requirements. You want options. You want ideas, you want suggestions. I always giggle that that's my high school people. That's always my PE guys or women, my social studies teachers who like to see things and make choices within there. You can imagine that the certainty people might upset the autonomy people, because they want everything to land. I want to know exactly. The other people are like, so you're constantly kind of pushing up against each other. Relatedness is am I a part of the community? Am I part of the team?
Jennifer: Am I part of the family? Am I part of the group? Am I belonging? Am I connected? I always say with great love. Those are usually my elementary school teams. They sit with each other and they bring each other coffee and they celebrate everything together. They're the relatedness people. It's not that you can't be relatedness in high school, but I'm saying that's a thing. The F, the fairness and is this right? Is this socially just, is this fair? It's the union. It's your people they're really saying, "Where is this equitable? Is this something that we should stand for?" If you've got people who have all of those different needs, they're pushing up against each other. To know that about yourself and to not be not to beat yourself up, but to say, "Whoa, I want to honor that this is just a neat I have and what is yours?" You can take quizzes on it. Literally, you can go get a SCARF assessment, but I would encourage you not to go scarf assessment. You'll get a scarf. Like the one I'm wearing. You actually need to do SCARF, David Rock assessment, and you can see where you might have needs. It's to be really aware of yourself and others that we have. We have to be supportive and we're not perfect and we have these things.
Daniel: This has been a delightful conversation. Jennifer, I'd love to hear you share. What's the one thing for sure. You want a Ruckus Maker to remember?
Jennifer: Your development isn't an indulgence. You don't have time not to develop yourself. If you don't you're not going to have as fruitful of a life, as a Ruckus Maker, as thoughtful of a life, and you won't live in the world with the same amount of ease. I would encourage you to energize yourself by taking a minute, to do some stuff.
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The book for leaders to participate in each other's development
Exploration of markers to learn on how to BE and interact with adults
A meaningful verse, pantyhose and a gift for reflective leadership
The scariest thing and the 5 facets to help overcome the fear
Tips on identifying what you stand for and why it matters
Finding bandwidth to deal with disappointment and all the challenges
Exploring The SCARF model and what threatens us about new ideas
"Your development isn't an indulgence. You don't have time not to develop yourself. If you don't, you're not going to have as fruitful a life as a Ruckus Maker, as thoughtful of a life, and you won't live in the world with the same amount of ease."
– Jennifer Abrams
Jennifer Abrams' Resources & Contact Info:
Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work
Dr. David Rock: Home
Jennifer Abrams: Home
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Are Financial Penalties Enough to Deter Banks' Bad Behavior?
William K. Black on the recent fines for rate-rigging banks
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Wednesday's news that the parent organizations of five of the world's biggest banks will plead guilty to rigging global currency markets rattled the financial markets. But it also raised concerns about whether fines and settlements are effective deterrents to fraudulent behavior.
The five banks will pay the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Reserve fines totaling $5.6 billion as they agreed to plead guilty to colluding to manipulate currency and interest rate markets. Yet, they could continue to do business as usual, thanks to settlement terms and waivers against stiffer actions from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). "For the banks, though, life as a felon is likely to carry more symbolic shame than practical problems," a New York Times article noted, explaining that the banks secured exemptions, waivers and settlements from regulators to conduct business usual.
"People sometimes misunderstand how the law deters," said Philip Nichols, Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics. "In this case, the amounts that the banks were fined are trivial. The total fines, imposed for many years of criminal acts, represent one tenth of a percent of the daily volume of the forex market."
"The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law," said William K. Black, professor of law and economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and former executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention in Morgantown, West Virginia. He noted that at UBS, the latest case is the third act of rigging it has confessed to in the last five years. "The only thing that could save UBS is to have a crackdown by somebody external that gets rid of this assorted group of managers."
The day before the guilty plea announcement, Black shared his thoughts on the bid-rigging cartel on the Knowledge@Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111. (Listen to the podcast at the top of this page.)
Plot Details
The investigations revealed that between 2007 and 2013, four banks or "The Cartel" — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland – colluded to rig euro and dollar markets. UBS, the fifth bank, was accused of manipulating foreign currency markets. Although no original charges were bought down on UBS under that accusation, it drove the Justice Department to withdraw an earlier non-prosecution agreement relating to UBS rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) market.
"You are talking about hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions that were affected by this bid rigging cartel." –William K. Black
Here is a snapshot of what the four banks detailed in their plea agreements, according to a U.S. Justice Department press release: "Members of 'The Cartel' manipulated the euro-dollar exchange rate by agreeing to withhold bids or offers for euros or dollars to avoid moving the exchange rate in a direction adverse to open positions held by co-conspirators. By agreeing not to buy or sell at certain times, the traders protected each other's trading positions by withholding supply of or demand for currency and suppressing competition in the FX market."
According to Black, the foreign exchange and Libor bid-rigging cases individually are the largest cartels by three orders of magnitude in world financial history. "You are talking about hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions that were affected by this bid rigging cartel," he said.
Here is how the fines add up to $5.6 billion: The banks will pay $2.5 billion in criminal penalties for manipulating currency rates, plus another $1.6 billion in fines payable to the Federal Reserve. The remainder will come from penalties of $1.3 billion that Barclays will pay U.S. and British regulators and $203 million that UBS will pay for manipulating interest rates.
'Extraordinary' Temptation
The whiff of big money is a factor to think about for regulators, said Nichols. He noted that the amount of money that moves through the foreign exchange market in one day is almost twice the value of the economic output of the U.K. in one year. "The temptation to dip into that money must be extraordinary," he said. "We should not regulate banks in the same way that we regulate manufacturing; the extraordinary temptations for misconduct must be recognized.
"What the law does in this case is strongly signal that this behavior is not at all acceptable," Nichols added. "Often, that kind of a signal is accompanied by enough social disapprobation to effect a change in behavior."
Here, Black faulted the practice of U.S. regulators protecting bankers from winding up in jail. Errant banks facing imminent action "negotiate in advance that a guilty plea will not be what a guilty plea would normally be," he pointed out. The right to pursue a banking business is "a privilege," he noted. "It is a privilege that is supposed to be limited to honest bankers."
According to Nichols, banks that want special treatment "because they provide an invaluable public service" must staff themselves with people who will actually provide that service. "If banks want special treatment, then hold them to special standards," he said. "If they do not want to be held to higher standards, then perhaps they should be treated like everyone else."
Black felt that stronger action was warranted in the case of UBS. "[UBS] most assuredly should have long ago been banned for some years from doing banking in the U.S.," he noted. Regulators should also have insisted that UBS clean up its top management and ensure it will not create further violations, he added.
Black took issue also with banks securing waivers against stern action. "The rule with large banks is that the SEC always waives – it doesn't matter how bad [the violations are]," he said. "This is a serial recidivism." He noted that one SEC commissioner is working to prevent routine waivers that the SEC grants.
"The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law." –William K. Black
Receivership and Other Options
Black suggested one remedy would be "putting a fraudulently controlled bank through receivership," or placing it under the control of a custodial entity. "Do it on a Friday and it reopens on Monday. It is in private-sector hands, but you have cleaned the sty of the fraudulent managers." He noted that the industry has an adequate supply of honest bank managers who are unemployed because of the consolidation in the industry.
Nichols found some merit in the suggestion of putting errant banks in receivership. "It obviates the claim sometimes made by banks that they have to continue operating because only they can keep economic transactions moving," he said. "It also resolves the tension between the claim that banks provide a public good in the form of providing liquid capital — which they do — and the claim that banks must serve their shareholders."
However, receivership should probably be an option only for banks that seem irredeemable, and it might make more sense for most banks to just create a better internal culture, Nichols noted. Another remedy worth considering is to break up "repeatedly malfeasant banks" into smaller units and holding individuals accountable for poor decisions and for misconduct, he added.
"Banking is an industry that cries out for a competitor that can offer honest services," said Nichols, adding that market forces cannot be a substitute for regulation and monitoring. "The emails coming out of some of these banks are ghastly – they describe clients in the most demeaning terms and talk openly about how wonderful it is to steal from them and to defraud them," he noted. "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying," one trader at Barclays wrote in an online chat room where prosecutors say the price-fixing scheme was hatched, according to the New York Times report cited earlier.
Nichols compared banking regulations with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, pointing out that unlike with bribers, bankers do not face the risk of imprisonment. "Since 2008, virtually no individual associated with bank misbehavior has faced prosecution," he said. He argued that if — as prosecutors sometimes claim — the laws are difficult to enforce as written, then changing those laws might help.
"The material rewards for violating the rules and the trust of clients are huge, while the risk is almost nonexistent," Nichols noted. "While the fines imposed on banks are trivial … sending people to jail might change the way that people in positions to make decisions make those decisions." He clarified that some banks have recently fired people that engage in misfeasance, "but those persons have rarely suffered financially."
"The material rewards for violating the rules and the trust of clients are huge, while the risk is almost nonexistent." –Philip Nichols
Change the Culture
"The real problem … is the culture inside the banks," according to Nichols. "Somehow, within these venerated banks it has become a matter of pride among some people to cheat clients, to break rules and to lie, and money is the scorecard by which this behavior is measured."
Black recalled the saying: "Fish rot from the head." He noted that a bank's CEO and chairman of the board create the strategic plan and the compensation system. "The reason you see recurrent fraud is because they created compensation systems that make people wealthy if they cheat," he said.
Nichols cited a recent New York Times article to assert that the banks' culture has not changed since the financial collapse of 2008. "We seem to be very skittish about doing anything that might cause a little pain to our economy today, but our forbearance risks calamity in the future," he noted. "Something needs to be done about the culture.
"Although banks are the least trusted institutions in the United States, most people who work in banks are good and honest people," he added. "It seems that a minority of people within banks contribute to the poor culture."
Nichols warned of dire consequences if banks do not clean up their act soon. "I completely understand why banks want a world without fences, but it is not in anyone's interest — including the banks — to have another failure," he said. "If the next failure comes too soon, instead of bailouts there might be pitchforks and torches."
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Salvation Army: more people using food pantry
By Ryan Hill
QUINCY (WGEM) - As the 38th annual WGEM Bucket Blitz for the Salvation Army enters its second day, organizers say they're hoping to raise donations to keep families fed.
Salvation Army Regional Social Services Director Heidi Welty said more people are coming to the food pantry for help as food prices continue to rise. She said they are getting support from food banks, grocery stores, and donations from the community but the increased demand means they have to be mindful of their inventory.
"You just have to pay attention and it looks full but when you think about the amount of people coming in, it's a lot of groceries going out in a days time," Welty said.
She said they work to stay on top of their inventory to avoid running low, and she said the generous contributions from the Quincy community allows them to continue to help them.
Major Shelley McClintock said during the holidays, they see more families utilize their food pantry.
"We're also going to be providing over 1400 food boxes at Christmas time this year," she said. "We value each food box around $50 so when you multiply that out, that's a lot of money that people have donated and food that we've had to purchase that's going to go to families in need for Christmas," McClintock said.
Welty said the WGEM Bucket Blitz helps provide those extra funds they need to ensure they can continue providing food to those who need it.


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Q: A proof required for this identity Experiments support the below identity.

Question. Is this true? Combinatorial proof preferred if possible.
  $$\sum_{m=0}^n\binom{n-\frac13}m\binom{n+\frac13}{n-m}(1+6m-3n)^{2n+1}
=\left(\frac43\right)^n\frac{(3n+1)!}{n!}.$$

In View of MTyson's suggestion (see below), a generalized question can be asked:

Question. Is this true? Combinatorial proof preferred if possible.
  $$\sum_{m=0}^n\binom{n-y}m\binom{n+y}{n-m}(y+2m-n)^{2n+1}
=y\prod_{k=1}^n4(k^2-y^2).$$

A: "show that the a priori degree $\le n$ polynomial $\sum_{i+j=n}{n−x\choose i}{n+x\choose j}(i−j)^k$ is only degree $k$".
That is fairly obvious when $k<2n+1$ because it suffices to check it for integer $x\in\{-n,\dots,n\}$. We will just show that for every $a,b\ge 0$ with $a+b\le k$, the sum $\sum_{i+j=n}{n−x\choose i}{n+x\choose j}{i\choose a}{j\choose b}$ is a polynomial of degree $\le a+b$ in $x$. When $|x|\le n$, this sum has a simple combinatorial meaning: choose some $n$ balls out of $2n$ ($i$ out of first $n-x$, $j$ out of last $n+x$) and color $a$ in the first group red and $b$ in the last group blue. But we can then compute it as ${n-x\choose a}{n+x\choose b}{2n-a-b\choose n-a-b}$ (choose colored balls first and add the remaining ones afterwards).
That the leading coefficient is right is not immediately obvious to me but, perhaps, someone can see it too.

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Q: How to extract and delete some text in a file and delete it in C++ I'm looking for deleting some line of text in a file generated in C++.
In fact, i received a file on my server made with the microsoft library C++ Rest SDK aka Casablanca.
I extracted my content request and inserted it in a file.
Here is an exemple of what i got now in my file:
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="2.png"
Content-Type: image/png
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I would like to delete this lines:
----------------------------379412310113082987734398
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="2.png"
Content-Type: image/png
(with the space here)
----------------------------379412310113082987734398--
I would like to know how to delete this for generating my binary file.
Thanks in advance for your precious help.
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A: you could read your file and write a new file excluding the line that you don't want.
To do that you can iterate your file and check every line with a regular expression.
The regular expression allow you to specify the form that your input has to have.
You should identify which part of your input is fixed and which one is variable, in order to build up the correct regular expression.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/regex/
Bye

I put here a little code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <regex>
#include <string>

using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string inputLine="----------------------------379412310113082987734398 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"2.png\" Content-Type: image/png ";
    regex regularExpression("[-]+[0-9]+ Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\".+\"; filename=\".+\" Content-Type: .+ ");

    if(regex_match(inputLine,regularExpression))
        cout<<"REGEX OK"<<endl;
    else
        cout<<"REGEX FAIL"<<endl;
}

the inputLine is your line.
The regular expression is the way to specify the format of your input.
this
"[-]+[0-9]+ Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\".+\"; filename=\".+\" Content-Type: .+ "

means that your input is composed by:

*

*1 or more "-" carachers [-]+

*1 or more numbers [0-9]+

*a fixed string
<< Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\".+\"; filename=\".+\" Content-Type: .+ >> in which the content of name="" and filename=\".+\" can be anything and the Content-Type can be anything.
Note the spaces at the beginning and the end of the string.

Note that i have supposed that the variable parts are:

*

*number of "-"

*number of digits

*name

*filename

*Content-Type

if the format of your input is different you have to modify the regular expression.

A: Open the file in binary mode, read lines from the infile and write them one by one to the outfile until you get to a line that starts with "----------------------------379412310113082987734398" (use strncmp() to check for this condition).
Then discard that line without writing it. Then continue reading (and discarding) lines until you get to a line that again matches "----------------------------379412310113082987734398".
Then read in and write out the remaining lines.


New Jersey mom Krystle Platzer was seriously bugged by the breakfast sandwich she purchased last Thursday at Dunkin' Donuts.
Platzer, a 34-year-old from Brick, was doing errands with her 2-year-old, Gianni, when she went to a Dunkin' Donuts in Lakewood and ordered two bacon, egg and cheese croissants and a wrap.
Gianni devoured one of the croissant sandwiches in the car, but Platzer didn't eat hers until she got home. And, boy, was she shocked when she opened up the sandwich to put ketchup on it.
That wasn't all. Platzer looked closer at the sandwich and found more worms, larvae, flies and gnats on it. Oh, and the bacon was raw too, she said, according to NJ.com.
Platzer then warned her friends via a Facebook post that included lots of photos.
Platzer said that when she returned to the restaurant to complain, the owner just said he would look into it.
Dunkin' Donuts corporate spokeswoman Olivia White told The Asbury Park Press the company sent a certified operations manager to the store to "confirm all food safety and quality standards" are being met.
Karl Stine, an environmental health specialist with the Ocean County Department of Health, inspected the location Friday morning and told The Asbury Park Press that "everything checked out" and he found no problems.
Meanwhile, Platzer and her son are taking pills for parasite infections. Although she used to visit Dunkin' Donuts at least once a week, she said this gut-wrenching experience has forced some dietary changes.


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Suisman Shapiro named to U.S. News 2017 Best Law Firms in America for Personal Injury Litigation
Washington, D.C. – Dec. 27, 2016 – U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the seventh consecutive year, announce the Best Law Firms rankings.
Firms included in the 2017 Best Law Firms list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
"U.S. News is the global authority in rankings," says Tim Smart, executive editor of U.S. News & World Report. "Evaluating law firms is a natural extension of what we do best."
The 2017 rankings are based on the highest number of participating firms and highest number of client ballots on record. To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. Over 10,000 attorneys provided more than 800,000 law firm assessments, and over 10,000 clients provided more than 90,000 evaluations.
"For seven years now, we have added law firm rankings to our rankings of individual lawyers," says Steven Naifeh, CEO and co-founder of Best Lawyers. "It has been a daunting task. This year we reviewed 13,803 law firms across the United States and across 122 practice areas, for a total of 2,005 firms receiving a national law firm ranking. Each year, we have expanded our reach while also trying to simplify the process, as much as possible, for the law firms that provide us with the information that we use to create the rankings. We are proud that the legal profession has come to view our law firm rankings each year with such deep and widespread respect."
Ranked firms, presented in tiers, are listed on a national and/or metropolitan scale. Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for its abilities, its professionalism and its integrity.
Awards were given in 74 national practice areas and 122 metropolitan practice areas. One "Law Firm of the Year" is named in each of the 74 nationally ranked practice areas.
The 2017 Best Law Firms list will be featured in two publications. The national First Tier rankings will be featured in the Third Edition of the "Best Law Firms" Legal Issue, which will be distributed in January to more than 35,000 C-level executives. National and metropolitan First Tier rankings will be featured in the "Best Law Firms" General Counsel Publication, which will be distributed in December to more than 30,000 in-house counsel, and in digital format to more than 60,000 private practice lawyers worldwide.
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Kristi D. Kelly Honored by the Connecticut Bar Association with the Honorable Anthony V. DeMayo Pro Bono Award
Roger T. Scully, III, appointed to Connecticut Bar Association's Board of Governors
Time's Up Act Brings New Requirements For Training On Sexual Harassment Prevention
Robert A. Avena and Nicholas F. Kepple join Suisman Shapiro Attorneys-At-Law
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2019 Connecticut Super Lawyers Recognizes Seven Attorneys from Suisman Shapiro
Suisman Shapiro Wins Summary Judgment for Small Business
Attorneys John A. Collins III and Robert B. Keville Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020
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9. partDSA - partDSA is a novel tool for generating a piecewise constant estimation list of increasingly complex predictors based on an intensive and comprehensive search over the entire covariate space.
10. Class Prediction - A suite of packages that can bu used for "class prediction" problems. Includes tools to standardize training-testing regimens and cross-validation schemes.
16. Probabilistic Suffix Trees - The PST library allows to fit and visualize Probabilistic Suffix Trees (PST), the construction that stores Variable Length Markov Chains (VLMC). Fitted PSTs can be used to predict, generate or impute categorical sequences.
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AEK Larnaca and Gabala caused the shocks of the night as the line-up for the UEFA Europa League play-offs was set.
Both sides eliminated more storied opponents thanks to 1-0 victories in the second leg of their third qualifying round ties, Larnaca at Spartak Moskva and Gabala versus a visiting LOSC team who gave a start to Éder, the man who rifled in the winner in the UEFA EURO 2016 final.
Cheikhou Kouyaté, meanwhile, scored the first goal at the London Stadium, West Ham's new home. The Senegalese international struck again and Sofiane Feghouli rounded things off as Slaven Bilić's men beat Domžale 3-0, overturning their 2-1 reverse in Slovenia last week.
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No quick fix for universities
Dear Colleagues;
Constance Adamson, OCUFA President, has an Op-Ed in today's Toronto Star, both print and online. The article takes issue with recent comments that the decline in teaching quality is the fault of professors. The full text is attached below, and the original can be viewed at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1086896–no-quick-fix-for-universities
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Constance Adamson
Among Ontario's thousands of professors and academic librarians, there are scholars who specialize in irony.
We are grateful for their expertise; at times like these, their guidance is sorely needed. For it is certainly a sublime irony that, after decades of sounding the alarm bell over declining quality at our universities, university faculty are now being singled out as the cause of this decline.
A small coterie of columnists and pundits are convinced that professors are to blame for a disappointing undergraduate experience. They claim we spend too little time teaching. We focus too much on research, they say. As a result, class sizes are getting bigger, universities are turning to part-time faculty to teach, and students can't engage with their instructors.
The critics are right about the consequences, but wrong about the cause. We need to get serious about the reasons why quality is threatened at our universities. Like most things, it comes down to money. The amount of per-student funding provided to universities by the government of Ontario has declined by 25 per cent since 1990, adjusted for inflation. Since 2001, enrolment has increased by 60 per cent. Think about what that means: universities are trying to accommodate significantly more students while receiving significantly less funding for each of those students. It doesn't take a mathematician to realize this is a bad equation for the quality of higher education in Ontario.
The decline in per-student funding has had a variety of negative effects. Universities have simply been unable to hire enough full-time professors to meet the rise in student demand. Our student-to-faculty ratio is now 27-to-1, the worst in Canada. In 1990, it was 18-to-1. So let's be clear: the problem is not that faculty are not teaching enough. It's that they cannot possibly teach enough to compensate for the acute shortage of faculty in the university system. We simply need more professors.
True, research does take up a lot of time for most full-time faculty in the university system. But this is a matter of survival. Ontario's underfunded universities have become exceptionally good at chasing dollars. It just so happens that a lot of new dollars – particularly those from the federal government – are for research. The government of Ontario has also emphasized research and commercialization through their funding policies. No surprise then that the entire reward and career advancement structure at our universities has become research focused. Many professors would like to spend more time teaching, but find the current system filled with too many disincentives.
To address this problem, critics offer the bromide of "teaching-only" professors or "teaching only" institutions. This, they claim, will allow us to teach more students without making additional public investments. Giving faculty the option to focus on teaching is not necessarily a bad idea. But let's be clear: teaching-focused professors should not be seen as a way to deliver university education on the cheap. To be successful, our universities must always be adequately funded. And we have to recognize that scholarship is an important part of being a professor, and an important part of a university education.
Scholarship – which I define as the creation of new knowledge, the critical analysis of existing knowledge, and the communication of these insights – is central to the university. The teaching and scholarship equation is not zero-sum. Teaching is scholarship, and the two are inextricably linked. The critics will point to research that says being a good researcher does not make you a good teacher. This misses the point. You simply cannot have university-level teaching without the kind of intellectual inquiry that scholars are trained to do. If you remove scholarship from the professoriate or from our universities, you are no longer giving students the education they expect.
The critics of Ontario's professors and academic librarians need to get real about what ails our university system. Right now, they're only advocating for a system that offers more teaching. Meanwhile, faculty are talking about what they have always been talking about: a system that does more and better teaching. Surely our students deserve nothing less.
Constance Adamson is president of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.
Library and Archives Canada Under Threat
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Library and Archives Canada (LAC), the federal institution responsible for preserving Canada's history and cultural heritage, is under threat. Badly conceived restructuring, a redefinition of its mandate, and financial cutbacks are undermining LAC's ability to acquire, preserve and make publicly available Canada's full documentary heritage.
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CAUT to Yamamoto re Bill 18 (2011-11-08)
The Government of British Columbia has introduced legislation that would prohibit any faculty association executive member from being the elected faculty representative on the board of a university, college or institute. Attached is CAUT to Yamamoto re Bill 18 (2011-11-08) protesting this proposed legislation.
Le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique a déposé un projet de loi qui interdirait à tous les membres de la direction des associations de personnel académique de siéger à titre de représentant élu du personnel au conseil d'administration d'une université, d'un collège ou d'un institut. Vous trouverez ci-jointe la lettre que l'ACPPU a adressée à la ministre pour protester contre ce projet de loi.
CAUT responds to AUCC's new academic freedom statement
In an open letter) to the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, CAUT raises serious concerns about the organization's revised statement on academic freedom issued in October 2011 on the of AUCC's 100th Anniversary.
The 2011 AUCC Statement on Academic Freedom is the first change to its position on academic freedom since 1988. CAUT's open letter is highly critical noting "There is a certain perverse irony that AUCC chose its 100th Anniversary to attempt to undo many of the advances that have been achieved in the understanding of academic freedom over the past 100 years."
CAUT to AUCC re Academic Freedom (2011-11-04)
Réponse de l'ACPPU à la nouvelle Déclaration de l'AUCC sur la liberté universitaire
Dans une lettre ouverte destinée à l'Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC), l'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université (ACPPU) se dit fortement préoccupée par la nouvelle version de la Déclaration sur la liberté universitaire que l'AUCC a rendue publique en octobre 2011 à l'occasion de la commémoration de son centenaire.
Dans ce texte, l'AUCC modifie, pour la première fois depuis 1988, sa position sur cette question. L'ACPPU, quant à elle, se montre très critique dans sa lettre ouverte et y mentionne ce qui suit : « En effet, nous voyons une ironie malsaine dans le fait que votre Association choisisse précisément la commémoration de son centenaire pour aller à l'encontre de nombreux progrès qui ont été réalisés dans l'interprétation de la liberté universitaire au cours des 100 dernières années. »
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Canadian Association of University Teachers launches campaign to
Save Library and Archives Canada
(OTTAWA: November 2, 2011) – The Canadian Association of University Teachers today unveiled a national campaign to protect Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
The "Save Library and Archives Canada" is being launched by CAUT in response to funding cuts and internal managerial decisions that are threatening the quality and integrity of Canada's only national public library and archives.
"Badly conceived restructuring, a narrowing of its mandate, and financial cutbacks are undermining LAC's ability to acquire, preserve and make publicly available Canada's full documentary heritage," James L. Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers said at a news conference in Ottawa today.
These changes, Turk added, have already led to a reduction in the number of specialist archivists and librarians, reduced public access and services, and the loss of rare and important materials.
Liam McGahern, president of the Antiquarian Booksellers of Canada, said a growing number of Canadian materials are not being collected by LAC because of reduced funding and a change in its acquisitions policy.
"Canadians recently lost a unique and irreplaceable set of journals chronicling late 19th Century stories of settlers and First Nations people of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Labrador Coast. This is just one of many examples," McGahern explained. "Rare military documents, sheet music, and literature that would otherwise have gone to Library and Archives Canada are quietly all slipping away."
CAUT is calling on the federal government to amend the LAC Act to ensure its mandate includes developing a comprehensive, not selective, collection of Canadian material.
"Our nation's artistic, historical, and cultural heritage is at stake," said Turk. "Genealogists, historians, researchers, graduate students, Aboriginal communities, and the general public are all affected by what is happening at LAC."
The Canadian Association of University Teachers is the national voice of 66,000 academic and general staff at 120 universities and colleges across the country.
More information on the campaign can be found at www.savelibraryarchivescanada.ca.
Angela Regnier, Communications Officer, 613-726-5186 (O); 613-601-6304 (cell);
regnier@caut.ca (email)
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L'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université lance une campagne en vue de sauver Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
(OTTAWA, le 2 novembre 2011) – L'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université a dévoilé aujourd'hui une campagne nationale en vue de protéger Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC).
L'ACPPU lance la campagne « Sauvons Bibliothèque et Archives Canada » en raison des réductions apportées au financement de BAC et des décisions administratives internes prises, qui menacent la qualité et l'intégrité de l'unique bibliothèque et des seules archives publiques du pays.
« Une restructuration mal conçue, le rétrécissement de son mandat et des restrictions budgétaires affaiblissent la possibilité donnée à BAC d'acquérir, de préserver et de mettre à la disposition du public le patrimoine documentaire intégral du Canada », a déclaré James L. Turk, directeur général de l'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université lors d'une conférence de presse à Ottawa aujourd'hui.
M. Turk a ajouté que ces changements avaient déjà entraîné une réduction du nombre d'archivistes spécialistes et de bibliothécaires, une diminution de l'accès et des services assurés au public et la perte de documents rares et importants.
Liam McGahern, président de l'Association de la librairie ancienne du Canada, a fait valoir qu'un nombre croissant de documents canadiens n'étaient plus collectionnés par BAC en raison des compressions budgétaires et d'un changement apporté à sa politique d'acquisitions.
« Les Canadiennes et Canadiens ont récemment perdu une série unique et irremplaçable de journaux retraçant l'histoire des pionniers et des peuples des Premières nations du golfe du Saint-Laurent et de la côte du Labrador de la fin du XIXe siècle. Ce n'est qu'un exemple parmi de nombreux autres », a expliqué M. McGahern. « Des documents militaires rares, des partitions et des œuvres qui, en d'autres circonstances, auraient été acquis par Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, disparaissent subrepticement ».
L'ACPPU exhorte le gouvernement fédéral à modifier la LBAC pour faire en sorte que BAC ait pour mandat de monter une collection complète et non sélective de documents canadiens.
« C'est le patrimoine artistique, historique et culturel de notre pays qui est en jeu », a repris M. Turk. « Les généalogistes, les historiens, les chercheurs, les étudiants de troisième cycle, les collectivités autochtones et le grand public sont tous touchés par ce qui se produit à BAC ».
L'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université est le porte-parole national de 66 000 membres du corps professoral et autres répartis dans 120 universités et collèges du Canada.
Pour obtenir de plus amples détails sur cette campagne, veuillez consulter www.sauvonsbibliothèqueetarchivescanada.ca.
Angela Regnier, agente des communications, 613-726-5186 (bureau); 613-601-6304 (tél. cellulaire); regnier@caut.ca (courriel)
Save NSCAD!
Emergency! We need to Save NSCAD!
Howard Windsor, a former Policy Analyst with Labour and Advanced Education for the province of Nova Scotia, has been appointed by the Minister of Advanced Education to examine the future of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD). He has carte blanche to consider any reorganization imaginable, including eliminating programs, the forced merger of programs with other institutions and/or the complete disappearance of NSCAD as an independent university.
NSCAD Faculty and Staff Unions are in the middle of negotiations which have stalled and are fast approaching strike deadlines. Negotiations have been complicated by the instability introduced by the provincial review. Our colleagues in Nova Scotia need us and all of us need an independent NSCAD, the only full-service art and design university east of Ontario.
Please take a moment to sign the petition found here: http://www.change.org/petitions/keep-nscad-university-intact-and-independent
In sol,
Leslie Jermyn, CUPE 3902
Status of Women Committee Award of Distinction
OCUFA has forwarded the Status of Women Committee Award of Distinction details as attached. The deadline for nominations is May 25, 2012. Nominators must be members of an OCUFA-affiliated faculty association. For nomination information, please see www.ocufa.on.ca, "Awards" section.
Send nominations to the Chair,
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c/o OCUFA, 83 Yonge Street, Suite 300,
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New Website devoted to the Women's Faculty Colleagues
On behalf of Rebecca Godderis at Brantford and myself, I am writing to announce the new website devoted to the Women's Faculty Colleagues on both campuses: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=12921 (it can also be found under "Resources" on the Laurier homepage) The website is designed to offer information about the role and responsibilties of the WFC and as a way to keep track of events on both campuses. Eventually we will include documents relevant to the issues concerning us all. We hope you will enjoy some of the images from the archives! If you hit 'refresh' or 'reload' on your browser, you can move through the selection of images. We would like to thank Grace McLure, our student assistant, who has created the website.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Maria DiCenzo
Department of English and Film Studies
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
Letter to the Editor from OCUFA President Constance Adamson
Good Afternoon;
Please find attached (below) a letter to the editor from OCUFA President Constance Adamson regarding an editorial published in today's Globe & Mail, "Canadian Universities Must Reform or Perish". The editorial can be found at:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/canadian-universities-must-reform-or-perish/article2195025/
This letter has been submitted to the Editors of the Globe as of this afternoon. If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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Toronto, ON M5C 1S8
Dear Editor;
Your editorial "Canadian Universities Must Reform or Perish" (October 11, 2011) is correct about one thing: there are serious challenges facing undergraduate education in Ontario and Canada, and these challenges need to be addressed in order to preserve the quality of education at our universities. Huge classes and high student-to-faculty ratios do not make for an excellent student experience.
No question, reform is needed. But we must be very careful about which vision of reform we embrace.
Your editorial suggests that the primary purpose of a university education is job training. This is not a view embraced by Ontario's professors and academic librarians. Education is, as it has always been, about human development. Universities provide an education; people get jobs. Transposing this relationship distorts the purpose of our institutions, and leads to a variety of incorrect conclusions.
While I do not have the space to enumerate all of the errors and misconceptions in your editorial, I do wish to take issue with one particularly harmful one: the idea that the lack of teaching or over-emphasis on research is somehow the fault of faculty themselves, or odder still, the salary they receive. Ontario's professors and academic librarians are passionate defenders of the quality of higher education in our province. The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario – an organization you are fond of quoting – noted in a 2010 report that 96 per cent of Ontario's faculty view teaching as "important or very important to their professional practice." The same report found that over three quarters of faculty surveyed were active users of their campus teaching development centre. However, only 46 per cent of faculty felt their university supported their development as teachers. If there is a problem with undergraduate teaching in Ontario, the fault does not lie with the professors themselves.
The simple fact is that, in an under-funded university system faced with perpetual enrolment growth, Ontario's professors face serious barriers to providing a quality student experience. No matter the technology used or the strategies employed, a student in a 500 person class will not receive the same experience as a student in a class of 30. Until we get serious about hiring more full-time faculty, we won't be able to improve the student experience.
Finally, I would caution those who are quick to blame faculty but last to ask for their input. Professors and academic librarians make their careers on being thoughtful and well-informed. Strange, then, that the mandarins who rush to press with prescriptions for the university system are so loathe to consult with faculty in the first place. If university administrators and government are serious about reform, then they must make a concerted attempt to engage faculty in the process. They may end up being surprised with the kind of meaningful reform that results.
President, OCUFA
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Remember how yesterday Evgeni Plushenko pulled out of the Olympics just before the men's skating competition was to begin? The world saw images of a hobbling, pain-pinched Plushenko missing his jumps in practice, his wife predicted catastrophe and his trainer predicted paralysis should he get on the ice again: Plushenko recently had surgery that put several screws in his back and, the wife and coach said, he had reinjured himself again in practice.
Well, today, we get news that Plushenko has no plans to cancel a rather intensive skating tour across Russia, called "The Champions and Friends Show." It starts in two weeks and has Plushenko skating for Russian audiences every other day: 15 shows in March, 13 shows in April, and, says his website, "more shows to come!"
According to his agent, this issue was no longer that Plushenko was a bad jump away from paralysis, but that he simply had not had enough time to recover from the team competition. "A lot of people now think that Evgeni is sick, that he is broken," his agent said. "That's not the case. He just withdrew from the singles tournament. It happens. He's not made out of steel. If he'd had a bit more time, I think that everything would have turned out differently."
How are you a hair's breath away from vegetablehood and two weeks later, spunky and ready to go on a grueling cross-country ice dancing tour? Maybe there are some sports medicine experts who can explain this to me, but from where I sit, the math just ain't coming together.
I'll add one more thing, though: I wrote yesterday that Plushenko's very presence at the Games was proof of how corrupt the Russian system in its every manifestation, even the athletic one. Plushenko, despite his precarious health, talked his way onto the Russian Olympic skating team in closed-door meetings. Talked, not skated. (Plushenko is a talented skater, but he's one hell of a diva and, during the 2010 Olymipcs in Vancouver, his public ranting and whining and complaining were virtually all I wrote about.) But Plushenko is also one of a coterie of athletes and artists that are loyal Kremlin hacks, understanding that, these days, there is pretty much only one side of the bread that's buttered in Russia. These athletes and artists perform at official functions, they support the Kremlin line when needed, and, as a result, are wealthy, privileged people, existing in a plane far above the rest of their countrymen—and, often, the law.
When Vladimir Putin came down from the stands to congratulate the victorious Russian skating team this weekend, most of the skaters were all silent, grateful smiles. Not so Plushenko. "Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich," he said. "Thank you for giving us these Olympics." Vladimir Vladimirovich, in turn, thanked Plushenko as "Zhenya," the familiar, shortened version of Evgeni. And now, since he's one of their own, the Kremlin has publicly said that it will put its elite clinics at Plushenko's disposal. "The level of our sports medicine is very high," said a high-ranking member of the Putin administration.
Perhaps that explains why Plushenko will be able to go on tour so soon—and rake in the money.


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National Park campsites and camping permit areas set to reopen, with advance bookings necessary
National Park Authority-run campsites and camping permit areas in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park will reopen from Friday 17th July, with campers reminded to book ahead to avoid disappointment.
Campers will once more be able to stay at low-impact campsites (managed by the National Park Authority) on Loch Chon and Loch Achray, or book a permit to camp in areas within the Camping Management Zones where Camping Management Byelaws apply.
Online camping booking will be necessary to help manage demand for camping in popular lochshore areas around Loch Lomond & The Trossachs. Bookings will be taken online from 9am on Thursday 16th July with bookings available up two weeks in advance.
Capacity at the National Park Authority-run campsites will be reduced to manage physical distancing and reduce pressure on facilities like toilets on-site. This will help the safety of campers, staff working at the sites and the communities around them. Numbers will be kept under review, and more capacity will be added as and when it is deemed safe to do so.
The reopening of these sites coincides with the expected reopening of the tourism sector across Scotland from Wednesday 15th July, in line with Scottish Government's Phase Three of easing lockdown restrictions.
National Park Chief Executive, Gordon Watson, said: "With many holidays cancelled this summer, lots of people are looking for a break a little closer to home so we fully expect campsites and camping permit areas that we manage to get booked up fast. We're reminding people to check our website and book a camping permit in advance, as turning up without one may leave disappointed if areas are already at full capacity.
"Like many places across the country, a visit to the National Park this summer isn't going to exactly the same it was before. While facilities and local businesses are beginning to reopen, this won't happen all at once. This season, not all campsites are going to take tents or campervans without facilities on-board, and most, including the ones we manage, require advance booking. We can still offer a warm welcome but people will need to think, check and plan in advance to come prepared for their stay."
Seasonal Camping Management Byelaws are still in effect in some areas of the National Park to help protect popular lochshores. Within these zones, people can only camp in a campsite or a pre-booked camping permit area. The byelaws are enforced by both National Park Rangers and Police Scotland and can result in a fine of up to £500.
There are also private campsites throughout the National Park but checking what facilities they offer this season and booking in advance will be more crucial than ever as many have had to limit the services they provide or adjust their operations to allow for physical distancing and to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
For more information on camping in the National Park including a list of campsites including the ones operated by the National Park Authority at Loch Chon and Loch Achray visit our camping webpages.
As part of Phase Three of the Scottish Government's routemap, from 15th July, wild camping in accordance with the Scottish Outdoor Access Code will be permitted again outside of the Camping Management Zones.
Camping permit areas are available for tent-based camping, there are also some motorhome permit areas to help cope with demand.
When campsites reopen at first campers will be asked to bring their own drinking water plus washing up bowl and biodegradable washing up liquid, as the usual shared washing-up facilities and drinking water won't be available on-site.
For those staying at our camping permit areas, where there are no washing or toilet facilities, campers are reminded to know how to go to the toilet in the outdoors, safely and hygienically, without impacting on others.
The campsite on Inchcailloch will not yet be reopening as a COVID-safe cleaning regime is not manageable at this remote site at the moment. This will also be continually reviewed as the weeks progress.


Limescale and calcium build-up can leave a chalky mess on your kitchen faucets, bathroom fixtures, and drinking glasses. This crusty mineral build-up is notoriously hard to remove - until now!
Simple ingredients are the real secret to dealing with these unsightly and potentially damaging hard water deposits. Keep reading to find out how everyday items that you have in your cupboards can remove hard water stains around your house.
If your windows are riddled with so many hard water spots that it's starting to resemble a cheetah print, then it's definitely time for a DIY clean-up job. Grab some apple cider vinegar and an empty spray bottle, then fill it with a ratio of 25% vinegar to 75% water. Use this magic potion to clean your windows, and it'll be spotless in no time!
You're probably familiar with a pumice stone and its ability to soften calluses on your feet. Well, that same pumice stone is very effective at getting rid of the hard water rings lining the inside of your toilet bowl.
To get rid of those rings, all you need is a pair of gloves, a pumice stone and a little bit of elbow grease! Wet the pumice stone, and then start scrubbing away at the hard water stains. That's it! The pumice may leave behind a powdery residue, but that will wash away once you clean the toilet.
If your faucets and sinks are starting to look gross from a layer of green limescale, then scrub that gunk away with Epsom salt. Yep, the same stuff that you use to soothe your sore muscles in the bathtub can also be used to treat problematic hard water build-up.
Mix the ingredients together until it forms a paste. Use it to scrub away the caked-on grime that's clinging to your stainless steel and chrome fixtures. It'll even help get that metal sink stopper clean, too!
Over time, the magnesium and calcium in your tap water can leave behind a chalky white residue on your "clean" drinking glasses, making it look like they haven't been washed in decades! Thankfully, you can whip up a special concoction of vinegar and baking soda to get them sparkling clean again.
Fill your kitchen sink with a 1:1 ratio of water and white vinegar. Soak the glasses for 30 minutes, then wipe them dry with a soft cloth.
If you still have a few troublesome spots remaining, use a wet washcloth that's coated with baking soda to remove those spots for good.
The last step is pretty easy - just give the glasses a final washing, either by hand or in the dishwasher.
If the water pressure coming out of your shower-head used to be strong but now it's weak, then hard water deposits are probably clogging up the little spray holes.
Don't worry though - hydrogen peroxide and a plastic baggie are pretty much all you need to tackle this problem!
First, you'll need to fill a plastic baggie with equal parts of white vinegar and hot water. If you have a lot of mineral build-up, skip the water and just use straight vinegar.
Next, submerge the showerhead in the liquid, and then tape or tie the bag to the pipe so that it stays put for a couple of hours.
When it's time to remove the bag, inspect the showerhead. If there's still a bit of crusty stuff clogging the spray holes, then use a needle to poke through the layer of crud. Then you can scrub away the remaining build-up with a brush.
Watch this video to see how Kool-Aid may be the solution to your pesky toilet ring problems!


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