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KM4Dev recently featured Dare to Share's Knowledge Management Toolkit. Beginning in April 2007 and running until December 2008, Dare to Share will highlight one proven KM and/or learning technique per month. Thus far, they have focused on:
- After Action Review
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- Yellow Pages
- Good Practice
- Knowledge Fair
- Exit Interview
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- Experience Capitalization
- Mentoring
- Visualization
- Peer Assist
- Briefing
For each technique there is a definition, followed by a brief description of how to implement the technique. Dare to Share also provides a link to a much longer discussion of the approach for readers who want to delve deeper.
Not every one of these techniques will work for you or your organization. Even still, this is a great resource if you're looking for new ways to expand knowledge sharing and learning with your colleagues.
Stan Garfield's Weekly Knowledge Management blog highlights an interesting publication from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the hows and whys of knowledge audits called Auditing the Lessons Architecture. When the ADB embarked on a strategy for building up its knowledge assets and developing a knowledge-sharing culture, it decided to use knowledge audits to
(i) identify knowledge needs for policy, strategy, and operational efforts; (ii) draw up an inventory of existing knowledge products and services; (iii) recognize gaps in knowledge products and services; (iv) analyze knowledge flows within the organization and knowledge exchanges with outside agencies; (v) identify blockages to knowledge flows; (vi) create knowledge maps; and (vii) suggest agenda for organizational change.
This booklet documents how they did it and what they discovered in the process. The lessons learned are universal and could be applied to many other organizations.
In their MIT Sloan Management Review article, "Putting Ideas to Work," Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak and Bruce Strong discuss the three critical elements of a knowledge management program: creating knowledge, delivering knowledge and using knowledge. They suggest that only by adopting a management strategy that encompasses all three elements will an organization be able to realize the potential benefits of a KM program.
In the world of law firm knowledge management, we have not always had an integrated approach to these three elements. Practitioners and practice support lawyers are usually given the task of knowledge creation. Knowledge dissemination has become the province of the technology experts. Meanwhile, professional development and KM have too frequently run on completely separate tracks, thereby limiting the opportunities for knowledge application.
Here are some of the authors' key observations regarding each of these critical elements:
1. Knowledge Creation
The organizations with the best knowledge-creation programs define in advance the type of information they need and why they need it—say to improve customer service or to develop easier-to-use products. They solicit ideas, insights and innovations from rank-and-file workers, customers and business partners, rather than relying solely on the R&D staff to come up with the ideas.
The authors then point to collaborative technologies such as internal corporate blogs and wikis as helpful new ways of encouraging a larger population with your organization to participate in knowledge or content creation. On the flip side, it's still not clear these new technologies actually do that. If the experience of Wikipedia is any indicator, only a tiny fraction of the population actually contributes. Nonetheless, these technologies are an improvement in that they reduce the barriers to entry for people inclined to participate.
2. Knowledge Dissemination
Disseminating knowledge via technology is the most common activity within knowledge management. Organizations share knowledge through a variety of platforms, including corporate intranets, Web portals and database-software programs.
Under old approaches, knowledge content often was collected, organized and displayed in its own repository, kept separate from more structured types of information like sales figures or corporate reports so as not to dilute its value. That thinking, however, forced employees to go to different Web sites and databases to get the information they needed to do their jobs.
In contemporary approaches to knowledge sharing, the focus increasingly is on putting in one place all of the content a specific group of workers needs, regardless of its source. To that end, many organizations are using Web portals or intranet sites as one-stop information shops designed to support the jobs or work processes they deem to be most critical.
Interestingly, the authors are still focused on a separate repository, but the one they envision is bigger than its predecessors. The new corporate portal gathers vetted information regardless of source, but that still leaves out of the equation all the other information and snippets of knowledge that haven't yet graduated to the portal. This is where enterprise search can be extremely useful in unearthing these undiscovered nuggets of knowledge.
3. Knowledge Application
Obtaining and sharing knowledge is beneficial only if employees use it to get better at what they do—that is, they learn from it.
In the past, most companies treated knowledge and learning as separate entities. These functions were managed by different departments, and the groups didn't coordinate their activities or work toward the same business objectives.
That is starting to change. A survey of 20 high-performing businesses conducted in 2006 provided strong evidence that learning and knowledge initiatives increasingly are being intertwined and targeted at mission-critical work forces.
In law firms, we've often relied on the drafting process within a matter to capture and apply knowledge. However, this approach limits the application of knowledge to the matter at hand and the few lawyers involved. It doesn't provide a means to reach and teach a wider group of lawyers. This is where more focused collaboration between the professional development and knowledge management groups can make a real difference. By collecting the learning across a wide group, reflecting it in model documents and training materials, and then organizing teaching sessions based on these materials, we can give a huge boost to knowledge application.
The authors take a very pragmatic view of what knowledge managers can and should do. Ensuring that all three elements are present and accounted for in your knowledge management program is a big step forward in achieving meaningful KM gains.
[Thanks to Mark Gould at Enlightened Tradition and Ron Friedmann at Strategic Legal Technology for pointing out this article.]
Don't kid yourselves. If you haven't realized that knowledge management is about leadership, you're in the wrong business. It takes leadership to analyze and implement system reforms. It takes leadership to achieve behavioral and cultural change. It takes leadership to get all of this done when your colleagues aren't entirely sure they know what it is you do for a living.
Leadership is a huge topic in the business press and gets scrutinized regularly. Much of what we read is not terribly deep, although occasionally someone publishes an insight that can help broaden our view. Often we are distracted by the razzle dazzle of celebrity CEOs whose personal flair (and adoring press) tend to obscure the basic fact that at the end of the day the core components of leadership remain remarkably consistent over time. — regardless of personality.
In "Driving Lessons," Knowledge @ Wharton interviews Dr. Dieter Zetsche about lessons learned while with Chrysler. In the article he talks about his experiences running and then selling the company. What emerges is a summary of those core components of leadership:
1. Competence
In Zetsche's experience, "if your people sense you are not prepared or don't have the right stuff to get the job done, you're in trouble. Even if they don't like your personality, they will respect your ability." He then discussed how basic competence is the building block to creating a sense of common purpose that helps colleagues tackle change. "`As a leader, you have to be consistent in implementing the program and making very clear that sitting out is not an option,' said Zetsche. Good leaders make change and common goals part of the corporate culture. `The key for any leader is to make sure everyone on the team is on the same page and understands where he or she is going….'" For knowledge managers, getting everyone on the same page is a huge challenge. Having a reputation for competence will help win both the support of management and the cooperation of your colleagues. And, this support and cooperation are necessary for most KM initiatives.
2. Responsibility
With respect to taking responsibility, Zetsche referred to the famous sign on President Truman's desk: The Buck Stops Here. For Zetsche, "[t]hat remains a simple and powerful statement about the responsibilities of leadership. As a leader, you simply can't pass tough decisions up and down the line and neither can the people in the organization." Finding a business leader who actually walks the walk is a rare thing. It's far too common to work with people who are happy to claim the credit when things go well, but then point fingers when a problem arises. Given the nature of KM, knowledge managers often end up as de facto risk managers, quality control officers, professional trainers, chief cooks and bottle washers. With this comes huge opportunities and commensurate responsibilities. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges is for knowledge workers to have a clear understanding for which buck stops here. We rarely have the wherewithal to be responsible for the entire firm. Once you and your firm are clear about the scope of your responsibilities, then you know which buck stops with you.
3. Authenticity
On the subject of authenticity, Zetsche notes, "`[y]ou have to be the real deal.' Don't pretend to be John Wayne if that description doesn't fit you. `And if you are John Wayne, don't pretend to be Woody Allen. If you try to be someone you are not, the analysts and the media will see right through it.'" And, perhaps more frequently, your colleagues will see right through it. In the context of knowledge management, this means having clarity about who you are and what you are supposed to be doing. It is very hard to get colleagues to do things they would not otherwise do if they aren't sure who you and what you stand for. A lack of authenticity leads to a lack of trust. And trust is critical if you are trying to bring about lasting change.
Leadership and knowledge management are inextricably entwined. While great leaders may be born not made, none of us is incapable of developing competence, responsibility and authenticity. It all starts with a good faith effort in the right direction.
[Disclosures: (1) The Knowledge@Wharton article may require a password, but registration is free. (2) My firm has had the privilege of working with Chrysler for many years. (3) I'm posting this using the mail to blogger functionality -- let's see what happens...]
Kudos to Jordan Furlong at Law21 for his summary of the document management presentation by Steve Best and Debbie Foster at the ABA Techshow and his thoughtful observations on the depressing state into which lawyers and their document management systems have sunk:
The speakers emphasized that the only truly effective DM system is one that makes compliance involuntary. Human nature and office culture are both such that staffers will always look for a way to get around the new system of naming, filing and locating documents in order to use their own. This reminded me of what I've been hearing more often in knowledge management circles, that the most reliable way to harness lawyers' knowledge is to automate the process, extracting the information from lawyers without them knowing it or participating in the process: many law firms have not found ways to sufficiently motivate lawyers to freely share what they consider their stock in trade. It makes me wonder about the bad habits we've developed in the legal profession regarding the information we use every day, that we're at the point of needing to circumvent choice and remove human activity to guarantee success. That's not good.
Where did we go wrong? To begin with, earlier generations of document management systems set up enormous barriers to entry in the form of over-reaching profile pages. These pages collected information that lawyers didn't care about or didn't care to share. Truly useful information (e.g., client matter numbers) was mixed up with much less helpful information (e.g., randomly-selected document types). At bottom, there was a huge disconnect between the source of the information — the lawyer — and the DMS. Unfortunately, there were few incentives or cogent explanations to bridge the gap.
And then, there are the lawyers. What is it about lawyers that makes us so uncooperative on these issues? First, the pressure of the billable hour pushes us to move as quickly as possible through our work. When you are playing "beat the clock," who has time to fill out an extensive profile page? Second, we are tightly focused on client demands. This necessarily makes the non-billable needs of firm administration and systems much less compelling. Third, it is the nature of big law firm practice that very few first-year associates will actually stay in their firm long enough to become partners. So what's the incentive to contribute to the institution and its systems?
The other problem with lawyers is that we're only human. And most human beings don't like to do what they don't like to do. In fact, some will go to great lengths to launch workaround wars on systems they haven't specifically endorsed. (To be honest, when was the last time the managers of your DMS sought user feedback much less endorsement?)
And what are the "bad habits" lawyers have developed regarding the types of information that allows us to marshal and manage lawyer work product efficiently? Lawyers have grown accustomed to noncompliance with impunity. Law firms have not made compliance a priority. If they had, they would have found more successful ways of convincing us that sharing this information is useful not only to the firm at large, but to the individual lawyer as well. And, they would have enforced compliance more effectively. Firms have also allowed lawyers to focus on very short term goals (e.g., meeting the client requests of the day no matter what the cost) at the expense of long term goals (e.g., building a knowledge infrastructure that allows tomorrow's client requests to be met with much less effort).
Jordan Furlong's observation applied to the full range of KM systems leads to a disquieting conclusion: if we are not able to elicit the voluntary participation of lawyers in the creation and sharing of knowledge, then we will be compelled to build KM systems that "circumvent choice and remove human activity to guarantee success." But that is success at a high price.
Collaboration is all the rage. Proponents of web 2.0 tell us that it's just the way we work naturally. However, for far too many years corporate culture has often emphasized the benefits of individual achievement and competition over collaborative efforts. This suggests that some folks are going to have to be retrained before they can rediscover their inner collaborator.
So how do you create and nurture a culture of collaboration? Once again, KM4Dev has found an interesting resource on collaboration: Seth Kahan's article entitled "5 Guidelines for Creating a Culture of Collaboration." He proposes the following guidelines:
1. Build engagement in the workplace. This means creating an environment in which employees feel that they have a stake in the outcomes of the enterprise — that their contribution matters.
2. Increase trust through emotional intelligence. It's hard to collaborate with people you don't know or trust. So this means creating opportunities for people to get to know each other and learn to rely on each other. This also means providing emotional support in difficult times and times of celebration.
3. Create space for connection. Provide physical places where people can gather informally. An interesting question is whether virtual spaces are as effective as physical spaces for these purposes.
4. Condone connection time. Let people know that the organization supports their efforts to get to know each other. This, of course, sets up an interesting tension in organizations like law firms which count every minute since they depend on the billable hour for their livelihood.
5. Favor flexibility. Acknowledge and support diversity, not only in terms of physical attributes, but also in terms of work styles. Having this variety makes the organization more adaptable and less rigid.
In his book, The Culture of Collaboration, Evan Rosen notes that collaboration thrives best in organizations that promote informal, non hierarchical relationships within a culture that encourages innovation. He has identified 10 cultural elements of collaboration:
- Trust
- Sharing — as opposed to hoarding
- Goals — everyone pursues the same group goals
- Innovation — the culture emphasizes the value of innovation
- Environment — the physical and virtual environment facilitates collaboration
- Collaborative Chaos — permitting the unstructured exchange of ideas
- Constructive Confrontation — learning to disagree about and discuss concepts and issues
- Communication
- Community
- Value — the point of collaboration is to create value for the enterprise
In thinking further about creating a culture of collaboration, Rosen notes that a critical element is ensuring that everyone has access to and ease with collaborative tools. In his post Too Old to Collaborate? he debunks the notion that younger generations are naturally more collaborative than older ones. In his work he has found that the thing that often divides the generations is the ease with which they pick up and use collaborative tools such as IM, web conferencing and video conferencing. But merely providing the tools is not enough to create collaboration. You also have to provide the training so that everyone can use the tools comfortably.
So is collaboration our natural mode of work? Possibly — if we work within organizations that make it a priority to create and maintain a culture of collaboration.
The best search engine in the world cannot convert garbage into useful content.
So, before you spend megabucks on the latest cool search tool, think about what repository you're searching. If your office is anything like most offices, you've got tons of ephemera — stuff that probably isn't going to matter 30 minutes from now — and tons of materials that really ought not to see the light of day. However, a decent search engine has the effect of shining a klieg light on the shortcomings of your content.
In fairness, a great search engine can help filter out much of the suboptimal content, but if there isn't anything worth finding, what have you really achieved?
One solution is to stack the deck: make sure you put a goodly amount of useful content into your repository before you turn the search engine on. And what constitutes "useful content"? Not just something that someone might possibly need someday. (That's the sort of rationale the turns a document repository into a cluttered and confusing packrat hell.) "Useful content" is content that is vetted: someone has reviewed it and given it a seal of approval or it's been used with good results enough times for you to know it's a great resource.
With that kind of content, you're going to look like a genius every time the search engine does its thing. How often can you say that about a KM project?
For more information on the benefits of vetted content, see my article "Loading the Deck" in ILTA's 2007 Knowledge Management White Paper.
In my last post I discussed Hardwiring KM Into Your Client Work as a way of improving your chances of actually capturing knowledge and making it available for reuse. The focus there was on specifically planning to capture knowledge and then organizing your project around that goal.But how do you actually capture that knowledge? The good folks at HP have some suggestions in their presentation regarding using project management to advance knowledge management goals:- Identify "checkpoints" or "milestones" within each project at which you can stop and take stock.- At each of these points, ask "What lessons did we learn?" And, "How have we documented this?" And, above all, "Is this information in a centrally accessible system where it can benefit the firm and our clients?"Within a law firm, these checkpoints or milestones arise naturally: when we win a client engagement, when our clients sign a deal, when a deal closes, etc. The key is to remember to pause momentarily at those points and take stock of the knowledge generated or improved up to that point in the project. And then, to make sure that the new or improved knowledge has been documented and contributed to the KM system where it can be of use on other client matters. By baking this step into our deal timetables and responsibility lists, we increase the chances of actually doing it. In addition, we need to hold the partner and senior associate on every matter responsible for this and then ensure they are judged and rewarded based on the contributions of their team to the firm's learning. It's their leadership that encourages team members to take the time to identify and contribute content. It's their leadership that brings about the necessary cultural change — one project at a time.
The key is to make knowledge capture and reuse an integral part of the work flow of every client engagement. You'll know you've accomplished something when it is no longer viewed as an alien, artificial activity, but rather as a perfectly normal and rational thing to do. That's a KM success.
If you want good knowledge management results, you have to find a way to bridge the divide in your colleagues' minds between getting their job done and doing KM. If they have a choice between racing to meet client needs and stopping to select and contribute content for the KM system, they will choose their clients every single time. And they should.So where does that leave your empty KM system? The knowledge management team at HP has a very simple answer to this problem: make contributing content to the KM system an integral part of every client engagement. It should be managed along with everything else required for that client engagement. Managed, measured and rewarded.In a presentation entitled "Driving Knowledge Management Success in the Service Business by Leveraging the Strength of Project Management" Marcus Funke makes the following observations:- If KM deliverables are part of project Scope, they are managed along with everything else required for the project.- Planning for KM increases the probability that Time is allocated for KM and actions will be carried out. (The project team works more efficiently by reusing knowledge generated by others; knowledge generated by the project team is then captured in a timely fashion and made available immediately for use by others.)- The benefits from knowledge reuse and the efforts for capture are part of the Cost equation and our customers benefit from the overall savings.- Managing the information about capture assets as part of project Communication ensures timely access to assets.He also notes the following benefits from this approach:- Reusing knowledge can greatly reduce the time and effort required to meet client needs.- Reusing knowledge can help reduce risk.- The time saved through reuse can be put towards improving quality.Doing this hardwiring is not easy. It requires significant leadership and follow through. And this must be applied consistently to every client engagement. However, by organizing around this goal and using tools like project management you can significantly increase the likelihood of success. Knowledge Capture and Reuse is one of the basic building blocks of any KM system and also one of the biggest KM challenges. Hardwiring it into your client service workflow is a great way to meet that challenge.(My thanks to Stan Garfield's Weekly Knowledge Management Blog for pointing out Marcus Funke's presentation.)
My last post rather morbidly focused on using KM Autopsies as a useful way of figuring out what went wrong with knowledge management projects. Sometimes, however, it's much more effective to ask "What went right?"
This apparently contrarian advice is rooted in the field of Appreciative Inquiry, which starts from the perspective that it's ultimately more productive to identify and build on your strengths than to constantly battle your weaknesses. This approach may not sit well with our Puritan forebears, but it can provide valuable insights as we think through new projects and old challenges. By contrast, the Puritans would more likely have championed a problem-solving approach in which you identify a problem, analyze its causes, and then work to ruthlessly stamp them out.
The focus of Appreciative Inquiry is to figure out what we've done well in the past and then determine how to do more of it in the future — building from strength to strength. Because the plan for proposed action is grounded in what was successful before, the people involved in executing the plan start with the advantage of working from a position of demonstrated success.
So going back to that knowledge management project we want to evaluate, how would it look through the lens of Appreciative Inquiry? First, we'd need to identify what actually worked — where that project actually succeeded. And then, identify what steps we took or what circumstances were in place to make that success possible. Next, imagine what more could be done and focus on how to repeat those steps or circumstances in order to facilitate another, bigger success. Then, just do it.
The key is that we are simply doing something we've done well before, with every expectation of success. That's very different than taking a chance on implementing untried methods in order to address a perceived problem. However, Appreciative Inquiry is not about sticking to the status quo or mindlessly repeating prior actions. One of Appreciative Inquiry's key strengths is that the confidence people experience from their demonstrated success gives them the creative energy to think productively about how to expand on that success. This constant raising of the bar allows incremental improvement without causing paralysis from fear of failure.
We've had years of training to think critically about our work and the work of others. We can spot a problem a mile away. It's much harder to think as carefully about what went right. It wasn't all just luck or good timing. Once you've identified the key ingredients of your past success, you're in a much better position to deploy those elements to create a new success. And isn't that a lot more satisfying than focusing on failure?


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The Transvaal patterns in gold of President Burgers figure among the rarest of the world's gold coins, and were in fact the first types of Pond (Pound, or Sovereign) struck of native South African gold. The off-metal patterns (listed by Hern on page 340 of his reference) are rare enough, but the pieces struck in gold suffered a generally poorer fate than did the trials made of bronze, brass, aluminum, or silver. Most of the gold pieces were sold as souvenirs not long after they were made, and the majority became disfigured in jewelry. We told their story in our Sale #3016 (January 2012) under Lot 25072, which was another wonderful specimen but of the "Fine Beard" variety, of which far more were struck (695 compared to 142). We repeat the story here.
Colonial South Africa consisted of disconnected immigrant settlements which used coins of their native countries as well as tokens for money. When gold was discovered in the Transvaal in 1869, it marked a sea change for the area's inhabitants. The first gold coin was minted in 1874 in extremely limited numbers and suffered from such a poor initial reception that today's collectors are faced with a serious challenge trying to locate an unimpaired piece. It seems that Thomas François Burgers, second president of the republic, had received a number of suggestions urging him to create a gold coinage. He decided to approach the Birmingham, England, firm of Ralph Heaton and Sons to change the situation. Unfortunately he made the decision on his own, without the approval of his fellow legislators, and it was to prove a fatal error. The Heaton Mint engaged the services of Leonard Wyon, the Royal Mint's engraver, who prepared dies showing a portrait of Burgers, who himself supplied the gold specie for the coinage, as well as an elaborate reverse design showing the coat of arms of the fledgling republic. The gold specie used to make these coins was mined in the Transvaal, and Burgers' intention was just that -- a local use for native ore. The exact number struck is not known, but it is assumed that 837 pieces were made using up the amount of gold given to the mint by Burgers. Once he had them in his hands, Burgers displayed his gleaming gold coins proudly to members of the Volksraad, and waited for their acceptance. But it was not to be. The legislators objected vehemently to Burgers' use of his own image and they soundly rejected the coin which was to become the forerunner of the famed golden Pond, first produced in 1892. But in 1874 the Burgers pond had failed as a commercial idea. Subsequently, most of the mintage was sold to the public at twice face value, and for a number of years they were thought of as nothing more than mere mementoes. The public carried these as pocket pieces, showed them off to friends, drilled holes through some and mounted others on gold chains for jewelry, and finally threw them into drawers or jewelry boxes, where they were forgotten. Few if any South Africans in the 1870s envisioned them as one day being of great value. When the first official gold ponds appeared in 1892, they reminded a small number of people in the ZAR of the earlier pond of 1874, and scattered collectors began looking for examples, knowing next to nothing about the coins. Numismatic interest began in earnest upon the conclusion of the Boer War, with the annexation of South Africa into the British empire. It gradually became apparent that most Burgers ponds had been damaged or mishandled. So few were available for study that no one realized that two varieties existed until the 1940s, and the first few decades of the 20th century proved the rarity of these coins when not impaired. They became eagerly collected in England and throughout the Commonwealth, as well as in the homeland itself. But it was too late. Most had been lost or damaged, and only a tiny number exist in Mint State today. Nicer pieces seemed to be slightly circulated. Time has proven that any undamaged piece is a miracle of survival, and it is quite likely that some of the finest known pieces were those kept by the very legislators who had dismissed the coins as meaningless back in 1874. What had once offended sensibilities had transformed itself into nothing less than a national treasure. Krause catalog price(s) for this item: $5000 in VF, $9000 in EF, $18500 in UNC, $50000 in BU.
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Repeal of Fascist Law Urged by S. Korean Organization
| Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- The Headquarters of Struggle against Dictatorship of the Youth and Students Solidarity for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in south Korea released a statement on Dec. 4, 61 years since the fabrication of the "National Security Law".
The statement referred to a document laying bare the suppression perpetrated on the strength of the fascist law, which was issued by the People's Solidarity for the Repeal of the "National Security Law".
Recalling that the office of the Jeju Youth Society for Reunification and the house of its former leading member were forcibly searched, the permanent representative and the secretary general of the Jeju Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration were booked without detention and indicted and penal servitude was imposed upon a religionist for posting on Internet articles and animation files praising the north, etc, the statement noted that these are part of the crackdown perpetrated by the authorities this year on charges of violation of the above-said evil law.
Pointing out that Yun Ki Jin, chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country's Reunification, and a member of the solidarity and others were sentenced to heavy penalties on charges of violating the evil law and are now serving prison terms, the statement held that all this is a tragedy spawned by the present regime.
The statement deplored that a large crowd of people are falling victim to the NSL, a leftover of the old era, still today when the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration should be sincerely implemented.
Noting that the NSL is, indeed, an evil law blocking reunification and abusing human rights which should be repealed without fail, the statement declared that youth and students would wage a dynamic anti-"government" struggle to get the fascist law abolished for the freedom of thinking and conscience and justice.
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Basic inmate hygiene needs not being met at detention center
Jul 29, 2012 - Joe Lookingbill, FCDC inmate Lander
After exhausting all resources at my limited disposal of bringing attention to the living conditions at the Fremont County Detention Center in Lander, I am taking one more attempt by informing the public.
It is a sad affair that we inmates at FCDC are being given worse access to personal hygiene supplies than a third-world country. For more than two months there have not been any toothbrushes available to us.
It may seem unbelievable that such an inexpensive yet basic and crucial hygiene product would not be offered to us, but that is not the reality of our situation. Not only have toothbrushes not been offered for free or available to buy, but neither have toothpaste, combs and razors.
I and many other fellow inmates have filed numerous requests and grievances to address this problem, but it has all been in vain; no change has come.
Certain officers have been sympathetic to the conditions we are being subjected to. These officers have informed us that the jail simply does not have the budget to supply us with these most basic and essential items. We have not been able to shave, use combs or even brush our teeth before court appearances or own visitations.
In my opinion we are being treated as animals in a cage.
The budget is controlled by the Fremont County Commissioners who are enjoying a raise in their annual salaries as our elected officials, as well as enjoying their basic daily hygiene needs.
We are living in these dismal conditions. How will these conditions improve when the new proposed budget being implemented on July 10 was less than the previous year?
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Durham, N.H. - Second half efforts to catch up with New Hampshire came up empty as the Holy Cross field hockey team lost the Wildcats, 2-0, Sunday afternoon in non-conference action.
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RBC Capital Markets, the sole bookrunner on the deal, is managing a bookbuild at a range of between A$1.28 and A$1.38 a share. The top of the range represents a 1.1% discount to the stock's last-traded price of A$1.395.
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Born in Morrisville, Pa., daughter of the late James J. and Elsie Mae Crossan, she had been a Bristol Borough resident most of her life. Mrs. Romano was a member of St. Mark Church.
Wife of the late Joseph A. Romano, she is survived by her daughter, Mary Grace Leonhauser and her husband, Bob Sr.; two grandchildren, Bobby Leonhauser and Ann Marie Anderson (Joe Mela); one great-grandson, Joey Mela; her special niece and travel companion, Mary Lou Fusco, along with many more nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her great-grandson, Michael Mela; three brothers, James W., John and Louis Crossan; and three sisters, Betty Crossan, Martha Jobson, and Mary Gordon.
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I join others in disagreeing with the social media changes. I don't use social media for many of the same reasons. At Serious Eats, I can read/comment/contribute to Talk all in one place and I'm not besieged by requests from "fake friends" or people wanting to increase their Twitter followers. The other changes sound appealing, especially broadening the city-specific content to be more of a tour guide than a review that appeals more to locals.
My mother made Lazy Daisy oatmeal cake sans coconut. If coconut is part of the traditional recipe, I never knew - she didn't like coconut, so no way would she have added it or given me a recipe with that ingredient. Even without, this is a super-moist delicious and easy recipe. One of my favorites and I'm glad you are sharing it.
After a couple decades (no exaggeration) of hosting all family gatherings - Mother's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, birthdays - and NEVER having a return invitation to anything (not even going out for pizza) unless a gift was expected, I quit. We had to cancel Thanksgiving dinner one year because my husband was in the hospital and wouldn't be discharged until Thanksgiving Day. We did not get any invitations from his family or any offers to come over and provide the meal. To me, that was pretty much the last straw. While I don't expect one-to-one reciprocity, it would have been nice to have a few invitations over the years.
No longer permitted to lick and it is SO hard!
I'd emphasize that you tear the bread, not cut it with a knife - which I see people do all the time.
Which part of the pantry? The Asian section or the baking section or the Mexican section or the grains/beans/rice section or the hot sauce section?
My son will be home for the first Super Bowl in 10 years, so no holds barred - probably ribs, jerk chicken and maybe sliders??
Go Hawks!
Jerk chicken.
Both sides of my family came from the midwest - German from Iowa (farmers) and Norwegian from Minnesota and the Dakotas. I remember visiting the Iowa folks and was amazed at the food my aunt put out at lunch for the guys working the farm. Really basic food and lots of it! The Norwegians ruled at home, with Christmas being the big deal: krumkake, lefse (Hardanger, not potato), a variety of sausages. Unfortunately, much of that food has been absent since my grandmother's generation did all the work. I'm planning to do lefse this Christmas, but I will use my great aunt's hardanger recipe.
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Sometimes a quick mac and cheese, sometimes just the cheese (melted on a plate and scooped up with bread or crackers). Especially if the cheese is a triple cream or rich blue.
I use it all the time and haven't noticed any problems.
In my experience, a fresh bird is not really fresh - it's just less solidly frozen than a frozen bird. Is there a rule of thumb for totally defrosting a "fresh" bird?
Fruit pies: apple, blackberry, cherry. My mother could do them all with a crust that was perfect. I'm still working on it.
I found some today, after reading your article. I bought the Granny Smith - least sweet and my favorite apple. The drink was perfect - a much less cloying apple juice which was very easy to drink and could be fizzed up or used in cooking. So glad you reviewed these juices!
I rarely eat them but cherry danish are tied for the top along with some unusual doughnuts sold at a local restaurant.
I recently read a review in a local newspaper (obviously written by an amateur reviewer, not a critic) which used the word "wonderful" seven times to describe everything from the decor, the service, the food - everything was wonderful - no other adjectives used. Oh, and the one comment that showed up was from someone who said the restaurant sounded wonderful!
Thanks - I thought I read the tweet on the weekend, so I was assuming it was last weekend. Next week it is!
Finding ways to enjoy old favorites, now that I'm sodium-restricted. Hard to figure out how to replace fish sauce, soy sauce and hot sauce!
I've had a couple memorable burgers - one a bit nontraditional, served on a sourdough baguette with lots of blue cheese and cracked black pepper. Totally juicy, with incredible flavors - at Two Bells Tavern in Seattle. The other one was at a sports bar in Hilo, Cronies. The burger was big, juicy, the lettuce/tomato/etc. were fresh and I enjoyed every bite.
Well, I just ordered the cookbook from the library, so I won't have to wait for a fix!
Clearly, something about my computer doesn't compute. Once again, I cannot get this recipe to print. Any help would be appreciated (I use a Mac and Firefox). Last time this happened, Paul gave me a link. Will I always need some kind of link?
And to make Chuck's even more appealing, Where Ya At Matt food truck, with all things New Orleans is there, usually on Fridays.
Yes, that worked beautifully. Thanks!
The Food Lab tweeted that there would be a jerk chicken recipe posted on July 29. Haven't seen it yet - change in plans? I want to compare to the version I make.
I've found that the older recipes on Serious Eats are missing steps (others may have noted this as well). I just tried to check out Ed Levine's potato salad recipe (from Jasper White's Summer Shack) and the recipe basically ended with the potatoes cooling - nothing about assembling the rest of the dish. In fact, step 3 was a link to some Flickr photos of a turkey?! Is there any way to fix this?
I understand that sponsors are necessary, but I find myself doubting that Joe Bastianich really thinks WalMart steaks are so amazing (Master Chef this week). When he or Elliott or Ramsey make these obviously scripted comments about products being used on the show, how sincere are they? If they were extolling Boos cutting boards, I'd get it, but often the compliments are directed to much more dubious products. Top Chef isn't a lot better, so I guess this is the way to advertise without risking that people will fast forward through actual commercials.
Unless Kenji is now into selling acai berry weight loss supplements, his Twitter account has been hacked. I had this same experience with a local cooking school. Someone must be looking for Tweeters who have a food connection.
The recipe for my son's favorite baby back ribs is in a binder which is in one of dozens of unpacked boxes in my new home. I cannot remember the source, just bits and pieces of the recipe - brined first, mustard and spice rub which sits for a while, bbq sauce made from a variety of hard-to-find and expensive fruit juices. I've checked Epicurious, Fine Cooking, Sunset, Saveur - nada. Any ideas?
We try to eat whole wheat pasta but I am struggling to find a brand that I like. I bought some at Costco - can't even remember who made it - but it is just not very good. I think Barilla makes a whole wheat or multi-grain that was OK, but frankly, I can't remember what I've tried anymore! Do you have a favorite?
I saw a tweet about this site copying other sites' content and posting on their site. When I checked, I saw several Serious Eats posts - photos and everything. While they did say the content was from Serious Eats and gave names of writers and photographers, it seems odd to me that their site is apparently completely non-original content. Do they ask if they can do this? It's not a link - it is the entire content.
Any update on the shopping bag front?
I know I'm probably in a minority, but I have to have closed captions on when I watch TV. Tonight on The Next Food Network Star, there was a major blooper. One of the guys tried to make pommes frites. The caption was pomfrets - more than once. Does anyone do any quality control on these captions? I bet they have weeks to edit! I've seen other problems on other cooking channels and it amazes me how little they care.
Is the Serious Eats shopping bag available for purchase yet? Or will there be a big announcement at some point?
I just watched Michael Symon and Food Feud. How is this different from Food Wars on the Travel Channel? Same vendors - Al's Beef and Mr. Beef; essentially the same info and format; slightly different judging process - one judge and different criteria rather than three judges; and Michael Symon instead of perky Camille. Is this the total rip-off I think it is?
My son just told me that he and his roommates have decided to be virtual vegans, largely because they feel they cannot ignore the way meat and dairy products are produced. If they could find humane producers who didn't harm the animals or create unnatural living conditions (annual calves for cows, for example), they would be willing to eat dairy and/or meat, but they have no idea how to find what would probably be products from small farms. I have no idea either. He lives in Boston and I'm sure there are New England products which would meet his criteria, but how does one locate them? Any thoughts?
I made a reservation for dinner and was "reminded" by the restaurant that we were to stick to the 90 minute timeframe for the reservation. Mind you, this is a pleasant seafood restaurant in a suburban location and the reservation is for 6 PM on a Sunday - not what I would think would be a really high traffic timeslot. While 90 minutes may be enough time for us to eat, assuming they serve efficiently and we don't linger over pre-dinner drinks or post-dinner brandies, I was a little taken aback. Is this now the standard?
I just watched another episode of Ruth Reichl's Gourmet Adventures. While I enjoy the scenery and the food in these shows, I find Reichl's presence unnecessary and virtually useless. On the show about China, she wisely alleged that Chinese food was wonderful because it was "ingredient-based." Hmm. I'm not sure how that makes it different from Italian food or Brazilian food or other cuisines. Usually she ends the program by saying the techniques or ingredients she used she will now be using every day in her cooking. Should make for some interesting meals. I've never been a big fan of Reichl's but these shows really reinforced my dislike. Any other viewpoints?
Isn't there a term for the tidy little citrus sections you get when you cut in between the membrane and just have pure fruit - no peel, no pith, no membrane? Everyone thinks I'm crazy, but I'm sure they are called something other than "cute!"
I spent 5 hours caramelizing onions in an effort to produce a perfect French onion soup. I've eaten lots of onion soup in a variety of locations, including Paris, and I know what is good and what is not and I've had both. But what about those dishes that sound good but I've never eaten? Paella, pho, laksa, Cajun prawns, jerk chicken and a variety of other foods are things I've made and enjoyed but I've never eaten an "authentic" version so I don't know how close I've come. Is it possible to make a good version of a food when you have no basis for comparison?
I drove 50+ miles to have lunch with friends. As I was waiting for them to arrive, I saw a mouse skitter across the waiting area and disappear into a fountain/plant display. What to do? Tell the friends when they got there and go somewhere else? I've eaten in this restaurant several times, never had a problem. There were lots of people already eating. No management people in sight. The restaurant does have extensive gardens around the outside, so it could have been an little mousey who got lost.... What would you do?
Is it my friends or does no one actually totally host parties any more? I've been asked to graduation parties, bon voyage parties, retirement parties, Herbert's 95th birthday parties, whatever, and always the guests are expected to bring the food. As in - "we'll provide the entree - please bring a side dish or dessert or appetizer." I understand the "let's have a get-together - I'll bring the potato salad" concept of potluck gatherings, but when I'm hosting a party for a particular reason, I don't expect anyone to bring anything -- and that includes Thanksgiving. Is there anyone else who feels the new definition of host is the person who opens the front door and that's all?
Okay, it happened again. The recipe said turn the heat to medium high and watch your veggies brown - takes 15-20 min. I did everything exactly the way the recipe said: heavy (cast iron) dutch oven, olive oil, medium high heat, frequent stirring - and what do I get? Beginnings of a burn, not a brown, in about 5 minutes. I turn the gas way down, take it much more slowly and manage to salvage the dish. This happens to me all the time. The temp suggestions and the predicted time to accomplish whatever - browning, softening, caramelizing - are so far from my reality! What am I doing wrong?
I have two pounds of cooked crayfish (in the shells) and have not a clue what to do with them. Any ideas?
Has anyone noticed the really large knife Michael Symon used on Sunday's Iron Chef? I've also seen Mario Batali use it. It has an orange and green handle and is massive. I've googled everything I can think of and haven't been able to figure out what kind of knife it is.
My son had mixed success spit-roasting a whole pig. It cooked unevenly, didn't seem all that flavorful (despite brining), and generally wasn't as wonderful as he was hoping it would be. He says he tried to find info about how to approach the pig, but didn't fare too well with that either. I'm not much help - I've never cooked anything larger than a turkey. Any recommendations?
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Hey everyone,
Here's my companies new site I've been working lately…
(as always, tiny url'ed for search engines)
Couple things I know aren't working right in IE7.. and if anyone can test it on IE6, that'd be awesome.. I don't trust my IETester anymore. If everything is pushed around, I need to make an IE6 only CSS. It's weird, it only pushes over when I'm using the PNG hack, otherwise it displays correctly, just with the messed up transparency.
In IE 7, I know the Questions li drop down menu isn't starting out at correct opacity. Also, the left side gradient over the tabs isn't displaying properly when you go to a page… the tab corresponding to the page should be over it. Everything works perfectly in FF.
On the services page, I'm going to be adding tooltips.. that's my last step. As you can see on the right, it'll say "move your mouse over to learn more" but theres no tips there. ;)
Design wise, only thing I'm not sure on is the footer…
I'd like to hear your thoughts, critiques on anything though! Thanks!!
Edit: Updated the link
Taking a quick glance at it, I really enjoy the design. It's nice and sleek :)
On that note. The only little things I though upon first reaction were:
Perhaps the "Sign Up" could have a bit more impact, like a button. A call to action, ya know?
"That's Synergy" could be lightened up a bit, more vibrant, didn't even see it when I first glanced.
Other than just some typography stuff, I really like it :)
Best of luck!
I'm not sure why exactly, maybe I was expecting a little bit more, but I think you could do better.
From seeing you around the forum, it's obvious that you know your stuff, but I don't think the site reflects that very well.
You've got some fancy features (ie side nav) and some good design elements within the site, but I think the container itself doesn't quite cut it.
If it were any other user on the forum I'd say that it was fine, but I think you have the potential to do much better.
a quicky just to show you how it displays in IE6 :)
I will have a proper look tomorrow :S its too late here now…
Hey Guys, thanks for the feedback, any and all is appreciated. I know the design is kind of contrasting in terms of focus, but that was the idea.. I wanted the folder background to look like a presentation folder, and all the paperclips holding things down were casual "notes" added in by the designer sort of… even though they're directed to the visitor and referring to you as a potential client.
Droogie: Good point on the "sign up" being an image, I was thinking it didn't pop out enough for the visitor and then I just never got around to it, but after you mentioning that, I will definitely do it. I'll try the that's synergy a little more vibrant.. I was trying to keep it low key, but if its not noticable at all, defeats the purpose of having it there.
Doc: I take your remarks as a compliment… What exactly do you think isn't cutting it with the container? I'm assuming you're talking about the pseudo-folder background. Does it seem out of place or too contrasting design-idea with the rest of the site?
Rob: Ugh. That's what my IETester shows… Looks like I'll be creating an IE6 style sheet.
If someone wouldn't mind explaining to me though… If I don't apply the png hack, it displays correctly, just with the png transparency as a an off white color. If I apply the hack, everything gets the transparency as expected, but then all the elements positioning is off. My guess is that because the PNG hack is applying this "clear.gif" image to substitute for the off-white color, that it pushes everything over to compensate for each instance of the clear.gif. In some sites, this would be fine, but since mine is z-index galore, it screws everything up? I don't know… I guess I'll just tinker with it and make a bogus IE6 CSS and if it works, it works. :<
Thanks guys, and again, I value your opinions… I feel as a designer, it's important to have a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or more pair of eyes and brains check out each others work for first impressions, improvements, etc.
If anyone else has an opinion, I'd love to hear it.
hey i really liked your design a lot..
its very simple yet very beautiful. I found one bug though. If you hover your mouse over the side navigation buttons very fast and more than once, they keep coming out and going back in. You have to optimize your jquery code to resolve that i think.. :)
Alright,I made several several changes to the site…
– slight logo detail
– changed folder container background to be have more realistic looking shadows and added depth
– added texturedepth to all the Nav tabs
– Made the animation smoother and fixed the "repeating" bug where it would keep animating if u kept mousing over it
– added 2 buttons on index to replace the link text on bottom left
– changed the current nav "tabs" on the pages to have more depth
– added a shadow on the freequote page, i wanted it clean, but before it looked too dull
– widened the letterspacing on "that's synergy" on index
– changed the buttonlogo next to "that's synergy" to the theme gradient
– fixed all the links back to index page
– cleaned up code, fixed a few mistakes
– changed nextprev buttons in portfolio and moved them
– took off the gradient background in portfolio… looked dumb.
Known issues still – no IE6 css yet, no custom tooltips yet, ie7 current nav tab Z-index… If anyone knows a fix to this, please let me know… The only thing I could was "place a z-index on the position: relative elements" well, I did that and it didnt work.
I like all the changes I made, so i'd like to know your opinion again Doc. ;)
Bad things are happening on this page on Mac Safari:
On the main page, the "Sign Up" and "Explore" boxes need some tweaking. The text needs to breath, give it some more padding around the edges.
Every time I click on any page the left nav thing always seems to screw up. And then the page will suddenly kind of flash/lock into place. I'm not sure having that happen is worth keeping a funky nav.
On your portfolio page, the screenshots should be consistent imo with the reflections, shadows, etc. I don't think there should be any shadows, just a VERY SLIGHT reflection. Very slight, key there.
I think the shadows across the site need to be toned down actually. Specifically looking at the Q/A page, there is some HEAVY shadow/bevel/craziness going on there. Also, the drop down doesn't work for me. If I try going down a few, it just disappears. This is another "fancy" thing that really doesn't need to be there.
The footer seems to sit very far down the page for no reason since there is such a large gap between it and the content. Speaking of the footer, I would remove the "Synergy…". It just kind of looks like a watermark, no reason for it being there if people have to struggle to read it (same goes for "That's Synergy" on the main page).
I just quickly browsed Themeforest for a couple of themes that might be similar to yours that might show you what I mean:
http://themeforest.net/theme_previews/2 … hop-design
You'll notice that they are all a bit brighter, a touch simpler and cleaner, and overall look much more professional.
You've got some "neat" gadgets, but I think they get in the way of the site's usability, which is far more important than "wow, that'd be really cool if it worked 100%"
Thanks Doc… Well, I see validity in your points. Good thoughts on the portfolio images and the index buttons. I'm gonna tweak the nav more. The Dropdown on the QandAs is fine on all browsers for me… I'll look into it more. Its just a styleJSd drop down so it should work. I'll look into all the other problems as well. I think I know a fix for the nav displaying funky too… I'll simplify it.
I wanted to do something different, and that was the design inspiration for the site… course, different doesn't equate to good.
Thanks for the feedback Doc, I appreciate it!
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Professor receives funding to study invasive plant-life
Dr. John Havel, biology professor at Missouri State University, received an additional $8,502 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to continue his two-year project "Tolerance of Air Exposure and its Impact on Dispersal of Aquatic Invasive Species."
"Invasive species have the potential to harm thousands of lakes and their multi-million dollar tourist industry," said Havel. "Smart prevention is much less expensive than controlling infestations. This grant continues a two-year project to determine the sensitivity of invasive aquatic plants and snails to air exposure. The goal is to determine which species can survive for long periods out of water and hence be a greater threat for spreading into new lakes with recreational boats."
All fieldwork for the project takes place at the UW Trout Lake Research Station in Wisconsin with the aid of MSU honors biology students during summer.
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Al-Arian talks (to Amy Goodman) By Mitch E. Perry
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Supporters of former USF Professor Sami Al-Arian said today his hunger strike is now in its 17th day, during which time he has lost more than 20 pounds.
The Tampa Bay Coalition for Peace and Justice say they now have over 75 people who have pledged to join in a rolling hunger strike to protest Al-Arian.
Al-Arian was scheduled to be released from prison this coming April, to fulfill the 1 count he pleaded guilty to last year in his widely publicized Federal Terrorism Trial.
However, because Al-Arian refuses to testify in a separate trial regarding an Islamic Think Tank based in Virginia, a Judge has now issued a contempt of Court charge against him, which could keep him incarcerated for another year and a half. He spoke about that in a rare broadcast interview on Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now program today with Amy Goodman (roll tape#1 o.q."terrorist list")
Al-Arian was originally suspended by USF after the Tampa Tribune and a PBS documentary reported that 2 Islamic think tanks that he was involved with had ties to Middle East Terrorists.
But after being cleared and returning back to campus, his life changed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
While appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Show 2 weeks later, host Bill O'Reilly brought up the charges from the 1990's on national cable. Inundated by hate mail, USF suspended Al-Arian with pay. Later without pay, before ultimately firing him the following year.
He was arrested nearly 4 years on Federal Terrorism Charges, but was found guilty on only 1 count in late 2005. Al-Arian told Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman today his legal situation at USF after he was suspended,but before he was arrested in 2003 (roll tape#2 o.q.." to the truth")
That was Sami Al-Arian, now being jailed in a prison in Virginia. That interview was broadcast nationwide this morning on radio and television on Democracy Now.
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Lisa Hance's goal late in the first half lifted the Lamar University women's soccer team to a 1-0 win over host Nicholls in a Southland Conference game Sunday afternoon.
Lamar goalkeeper Jennifer Gibbs made five saves to secure Lamar's third consecutive win (all 1-0 conference road victories) as the Lady Cardinals (6-5-1 overall, 3-0-0 conference) established a record for wins in a season for the five-year-old program.
Hance, Lamar's all-time leading scorer, beat Nicholls goalkeeper Molly Mersereau for an unassisted goal from the top of the box with 1:43 remaining in the opening half.
"We are very excited to return home undefeated," Lamar coach Dewi Hardman said. "It's never easy to win two on the road and to do it without conceding a goal is great achievement."
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Minister Raitt highlights marine commerce and safety in remarks at International Union of Marine Insurance Spring Meeting
NIAGARA FALLS, ON, March 24, 2014 /CNW/ - The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, today addressed the International Union of Marine Insurance Spring Meeting delegates about the recent free trade agreements and measures taken with regard to marine liability and the World Class Tanker Safety Regime. A pillar of a world-class tanker safety system is a liability and compensation regime that ensures polluters pay for oil spill clean-ups and compensates those affected by spills.
Minister Raitt highlighted the integral role that marine transportation plays in Canada's international trade and economic growth.
She put the spotlight on the recently announced Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement, Canada's first with an Asian market, which will create thousands of new jobs in Canada and provide Canadian businesses and workers with a gateway to Asia, enhancing their global competitiveness.
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