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Janning, Finn (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Resume: Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance* In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is shown that product market integration works like a general improvement in productivity via the specialization it allows through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore workers are better off irrespective of whether the market power of unions is enhanced or muted. JEL Classification: F15, J30, J50 Keywords: trade frictions, wage formation, employment, welfare gains URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7506
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Resume: Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective* In this paper, we provide an industry-level analysis of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in Denmark over the last two decades. The analysis shows that SBTC has varied considerably across industries, and traditionally large Danish industries have experienced relatively less SBTC. This may partly explain why wage inequality between skilled and less skilled has risen less in Denmark than in other countries. We also find that SBTC has been concentrated in already skill-intensive industries. This contains important information about future labour requirements, as the relative importance of these industries must be expected to grow, thereby reinforcing the shift in demand for skilled labour. JEL Classification: J24, J31, L6 Keywords: skill-biased technological change, Danish industries URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7549
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University President Kaler Visits the Carlson School
The Carlson School welcomes new University President Eric Kaler as he visits the Twin Cities campuses during his inauguration week.
As part of a week of inauguration activities, University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler paid the Carlson School a visit on Wednesday, September 21. The visit was a part of Kaler's "Campus Crawl," in which he toured the three Twin Cities campuses.
Kaler's visit began in Hanson Hall, where he was greeted by Interim Dean Sri Zaheer, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs Mary Maus Kosir, and Assistant Dean for MBA Programs Kathryn Carlson. Kaler learned about the facilities within Hanson Hall, including its separate business career centers for undergrads and graduate students.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Connie Wanberg met Kaler on the second floor of Hanson Hall and provided him with more school information, including the fact that 87 percent of the undergraduate class of 2011 had jobs within 90 days of graduation. Kaler also became more familiar with the abundant engagement the Carlson School has with the Twin Cities' corporate community, which distinguishes it from other peer business schools. This distinction became clearer as Kaler stopped in the skyway between Hanson Hall and the Carlson School building to examine the Minnesota Business Hall of Fame, where many of the people and companies listed have Carlson School ties. "I know a lot of these names," Kaler said. "We have a lot of friends here."
In the Carlson School building, Kaler spent the bulk of his time learning about the Funds Enterprise in the Financial Markets Lab. Program Director Jerry Caruso explained that with nearly $36 million in assets, the Funds Enterprise is the largest student-managed fund in the country utilizing third-party money. "Including some of mine," Kaler said, noting that he has contributed to some of the companies with investments in the Funds Enterprise.
The Funds Enterprise is made up of two limited liability companies, the Carlson Growth Fund and the Carlson Fixed Income Fund. Kaler met advisors and students involved in both of these companies and learned how they specifically operate. "It sounds like a great program," Kaler said.
Following his visit to the Funds Enterprise, Kaler moved on to the next Campus Crawl site, the School of Music. As he was leaving, Kaler thanked the Carlson School representatives for their time and hospitality. Kaler's Campus Crawl was designed to showcase how colleges contribute to the University's value proposition through teaching, research, and outreach activities.


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So a while ago, I'm skimming the aul facebook feed, skimming through some of the pretty lassie pictures and reading through some of the messages that some people have been sending me and all, when suddenly, some lad (and he wants tae be the next fucken Patrick Kavanagh writing about turnips, ho ho ho) writes a ho di hum hum fuck off cunt tirade of a post, one of these moral crusader things. Having said that, it gets the cunt thinking overall, does it not?
See, this lad was getting a haircut from this older working class Irish lassie, who then goes on her own rant on de Muslim lads, who after a couple of scoops, had essentially tossed and trashed up the shop. Cue a giant chorus of fuck this racist bitch comments, mock angry lads and lassies, and one vertically challenged lassie and a truckload of likes from her being so brave and clever with her acerbic wit en aw. The thing that got me interested, and it's essentially a duh duh point all things considered, is that how exposed the middle class (this guy is related to an Irish TD so pretty well off like) and above are to the likes of multiculturalism. How this works is the following: You've got the lad in the school with all of the other lads with the rugby shirts and DRINKS at Kielys. This lad stays with the same friends in the same area, the same cohort of lads finding themselves in Coppers or whatnot every Thursday. This lad then finds himself in UCD or TCD, where his brain, if he is not doing a STEM subject, is filled with cheesecake and other kinds of nonsense on white lads putting minorities into space rockets and flying them into the sun. Some of the more loquacious and artistic lads end up writing shit novels on how sad it is to take it up the butt (Colm Toibin) or they end up on RTE's board of presenters taking about how it is nice to take it up the butt. The point is not about right wingers or multiculturalism. The point is that when lads post the South Park "dey took our jobs" meme and every lad has a chuckle, they simply don't have exposure to the darker underbelly of postmodern society.
This explains a lot to the cunt in general. Having spent the last year on one of Ireland's most liberal campuses, yet just talking with lads of lads in different socioeconomic backgrounds, one of the things I've noticed is that the middle, upper class of my generation is drifting increasingly left while the lower middle class and working class is drifting increasingly right. Politics is like an elastic band at this stage, if it's going to fucken snap or rebound badly though is anyone's guess. I believe this is down to exposure. Most people know something is wrong, morally, aesthetically whatever yous call it. The lefty lads believe it is down to the evils of a purely capitalistic system, along with sexism, homophobia and whatnot, so let's get the Richard Dawkins atheistkunt flags out. The working class lads, who like the barber, are actually seeing the statistics and raw numbers play out in front of their eyes, on their properties and in their areas, are less willing to tolerate it, no matter how many crappy TV shows and Vincent Browne debates are aired, with useful idiots like John Waters doing the rounds, being the boogyman who desperately needs a fucken haircut.
In otherwords, the more of the Cathedral a lad will have exposure to, the more left orientated they will ultimately be. That includes the tv. Watch less of it man. Lift some fucking weights or something.
So what exactly does this mean for the future? Well, reality is reality. You can make all sorts of funnies and make South Park references about future lads taking their jobs, but in reality it doesn't matter what you think. I guess the main difference is is that there is a big difference between the working class and the underclass, the latter lads being the creeps, not the former lads who yous know, work to keep the society running, something a spoiled as shite Millenial from my generation who reads History in TCD benderland won't understand for jack.
Only option for the lad and lassie at this stage is toos learn how to swim.


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US unsurprised by Egypt army reshuffle
The US had expected Egypt to reshuffle the military, the Pentagon has said, a day after President Mohammed Mursi dismissed the head of the army.
Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, who had worked closely the US army chiefs for decades, was ordered to go into retirement on Sunday.
The move came after weeks of tension between Mr Mursi and the military.
The Pentagon, a large aid donor to Eygpt's army, said it expected to maintain close ties with the military.
The generals had assumed presidential powers after the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak last year.
Although President Mursi's announcement startled observers, the BBC's Kim Ghattas in Washington says the US showed no sign of surprise.
As the US gives more than $1bn in aid to the Egyptian military, it would expect some degree of consultation or warning, she says.
The new Egyptian defence team is made of up officials who have trained in the US and are known to the Pentagon, our correspondent adds.
"We had expected President Mursi at some point to co-ordinate changes in the military leadership, to name a new team," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.
"The United States and the Department of Defence in particular look forward to continuing a very close relationship with the Scaf (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces)."
'Strong partnership'
Field Marshal Tantawi has been replaced as both armed forces chief and defence minister by head of military intelligence Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
"The new defence minister is someone who is known to us, he comes from within the ranks of the Scaf and we believe we'll be able to continue the strong partnership that we have with Egypt," Mr Little said.
He added that US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta looked forward to calling the new secretary "at the earliest possible moment".
US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also said it was important that Egypt's civilian leadership and the military worked together "to advance the goals of the democratic transition in Egypt".
Egypt has been a key US ally since the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace deal.
However, since the election of Islamist Mr Mursi as Egypt's first democratically elected president, there have been fears that he might try to renegotiate the treaty.
So far the Egyptian military has shown no sign of challenging Field Marshal Tantawi's replacement.
Correspondents say Egyptians will see the dismissals as a decisive move in a struggle for power between the country's newly elected politicians and the generals who have exercised power for many years.
Also on Sunday, Mr Mursi annulled a key constitutional declaration issued in June which gave the military legislative powers and budgetary controls as well as the right to oversee the process of drawing up a new permanent constitution.
It is not clear how the Supreme Constitutional Court will react to Mr Mursi's move to nullify the decree.
The military council has in the past appeared to be at odds with the Muslim Brotherhood which now dominates parliament with its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).
Mr Mursi resigned from his leadership positions within the Brotherhood, including his role as chairman of the FJP, when he won the presidential election in June.


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As the No. 4-ranked Wheaton Warrenville South girls basketball players put on their warmups after Thursday nights 42-19 road win over Glenbard North, the girls knew that treating every game as a big game paid off again.
The (DuPage Valley Conference title) is in our hands. We treat every game as a big game. We have to play well and cant go through the motions, said WW South junior Meghan Waldron, who scored a game-high 19 points.
The Tigers (23-3, 12-0) can keep their hands on at least part of the DVC title plaque with a win Saturday at Glenbard East that would guarantee them a share of the league title.
Coach Rob Kroehnke knew defense would play a dominant role in the game. He stresses it with WW South as a key to success and knew the Panthers (10-13, 7-5), who went into the game having beaten another ranked team, Naperville Central, last Saturday, would be tough defensively as well.
(The Panthers) play great defense, and we were not really doing what we wanted to offensively in the first half. But if you play defense like we did, you are not going to struggle. We had better looks in the second half and got the ball inside more, Kroehnke said.
The Tigers led 7-2 after the first quarter and essentially broke the game open early in the second with three unanswered baskets. Waldron and Olivia Linebarger converted steals into layups and Melinda Franke also hit net to put WW South up 13-2.
The Tigers led 19-6 at halftime and 37-12 after three quarters on 14-of-25 shooting from the field. The team also controlled the boards, enjoying a 16-5 advantage at halftime.
Franke and Diamond Thompson followed on the scoresheet with 6 points each, and Franke pulled down 9 rebounds.
The Panthers, who were led by Katie Wisniewskis 6 points, put forth a pretty strong defensive effort except for the Tigers 18-6 advantage in the third quarter. However, the offense wasnt there Thursday night.
Our half-court defense did what we wanted it to do. But put-backs hurt us. We played good defense, but we didnt come up with the rebounds and you arent going to win scoring 19 points, said Glenbard North coach John Chamberlain.


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The year is coming to an end, making this the time to reveal which recipes have received the most favorable reviews.
May's "Fried Strawberry Grouper Fillets with Strawberry-Kiwi Mango Salad" was an instant winner, with fans of the dish saying they'll use the fruit topping for other dishes, as well.
June's recipe for "Steamed Blueberry Pudding," made in a vintage Wear-Ever six-cup aluminum mold, came from the 1923 edition of "The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook" after Hilton Head Islander Ede Scott asked for help in locating the recipe she affectionately remembered her mother making in the 1940s. Ede declared the recipe, "the one", and you reported loving the pudding as much as she did.
In addition, many of you described great success with August's recipe for "Coconut-Lime Grilled Cheesy Chicken Monterey."
Of course, many other recipes, too numerous to reprint here, received high praise, including January's "Mussels and Clams Steamed in Wine, Butter and Garlic," February's "Rich 'n Delicious Chocolate Cake" (from "Your Time to Bake: A First Cookbook for the Novice Baker," by Robert L. Blakeslee, Square One Publishers) and in May, "French Toast with Strawberry Sauce" and "Baked Applewood-Smoked Bacon," shared by Bluffton's Caroline Kennedy.
It's always wonderful (and curious) to revisit the year's best loved recipes, and I look forward to discovering what 2014 will bring. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all.
Sue Ade is a syndicated food columnist with experience and interests in the culinary arts. She has lived and worked in the Lowcountry since 1985 and may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 843-683-0375.
6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 (13.5-ounce) can coconut milk
Juice and grated zest of one lime
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon minced jalapeño, optional
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 cups chopped tri-color peppers
1 cup chopped red onion
8 ounces sliced or shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Tomatoes with Cilantro and Scallions in Lime Vinaigrette, for garnish (recipe follows)
Rice for serving
Combine coconut milk, lime juice, lime zest, cilantro, jalapeño and salt in a large, shallow, non-reactive dish large enough to hold chicken breasts in a single layer. Submerge chicken in marinade, cover and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours, turning occasionally. While chicken is marinating, sauté vegetables in oil heated in a large skillet set over medium heat, cooking until vegetables are tender; set aside. Remove chicken from marinade, allowing excess marinade to run off. Pat chicken lightly with a paper towel. With a grill set to medium-high heat, grill chicken, about 6 minutes on each side, or until chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken to a shallow baking pan in a single layer. Divide the sautéed vegetables evenly over the chicken, then top chicken with the cheese, dividing equally. Place under a preheated broiler, broiling just until cheese melts. Remove from oven and spoon some of the Tomatoes with Cilantro and Scallions in Lime Vinaigrette over each portion of chicken. (The tomato mixture should be at room temperature.) Serve immediately with rice, garnishing with a slice of lime and minced fresh cilantro. Makes 6 servings.
2 cups coarsely chopped Roma tomatoes
1 to 2 scallions, chopped, including some of the green part
1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro, plus more for garnish
Lime Vinaigrette (recipe follows)
Gently mix tomatoes, scallions and cilantro in a medium mixing bowl. Toss with lime vinaigrette, to taste. Allow to sit, at room temperature, for at least 30 minutes, before serving. Makes 2 cups.
½ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons sugar
1½ teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon lemon zest
Mix ingredients and pour into a sterilized jar and cover. Shake well before using. Store leftover dressing in the refrigerator. Makes about ¾ cup.
2 grouper (5 to 6-ounces each) fillets
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
Salt and pepper to taste
Vegetable oil for shallow frying
Strawberry-Kiwi-Mango Salad, recipe follows
Mixed spring greens dressed with Sweet 'n Sour Vinaigrette, recipe follows (optional)
Check the grouper for bones, removing them with tweezers, if necessary. Combine the flour, salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Dredge the fillets in the seasoned flour, shaking off excess. Heat the oil to a depth of 1 inch in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook fillets until golden brown and cooked through, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate to drain. Place fillet on a plate, topped with Strawberry-Kiwi-Mango Salad. If desired, serve with mixed spring greens dressed with Sweet 'n Sour Vinaigrette (recipe follows). Makes 2 servings.
¾ cup sliced strawberries
1 kiwi, peeled and diced
1 ripe mango, peeled, pitted, and diced
½ small jalapeño pepper, seeded and diced (optional)
1 tablespoon fresh mint, minced, for garnish
Sweet 'n Sour Vinaigrette (recipe follows)
Place fruit and jalapeño pepper (if using) in a deep bowl; lightly toss with Sweet 'n Sour Vinaigrette to taste. Refrigerate for 20 minutes to chill and for flavors to blend. (Do not mix more than 30 minutes before serving.) Garnish with fresh mint, if desired.
Sweet 'n Sour Vinaigrette is good on fruit salad and spinach salads, too. For a blush of color and added flavor, try adding a tablespoon of strawberry jam to the dressing.
1 cup vegetable oil
½ cup lemon juice
6 tablespoons white wine vinegar
¼ cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon strawberry jam
2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dry mustard
Combine all ingredients in a pint-size jar fitted with a lid and shake well to mix. Keep refrigerated. Makes about 1½ cups.
Recipe source: "The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook," by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857-1915), circa 1923, Little, Brown, and Company, publishers. This recipe was also found on the Bartleby Great Books website, www.bartleby.com, in an edition of the cookbook printed in 1918.
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons butter
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup blueberries (rolled in flour for coating)
Creamy Sauce for serving (recipe follows)
Mix and sift dry ingredients and work in butter. Add one cup each of milk and blueberries rolled in flour; turn into buttered mold and steam one and a half hours. Serve with Creamy Sauce.
¼ cup butter
2 tablespoons warm milk
¾ cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons wine*
1 teaspoon vanilla
*Kitchen Ade note: Use sherry or Madeira wine. If you do not wish to use wine, substitute with additional milk.
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually and milk, wine and vanilla drop by drop. If liquids are added too fast, the sauce will have a curdled appearance.


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I working on genome wide association analysis with GenABEL, of fungal genome data, with more than a million SNPs.
I am able to do descriptives.trait and descriptives.marker scan of my genotype and phenotype and descriptive.scan of raw data.
But when i go quality check of my data with check.marker i get bellow error. but i don't understand what the error is about.
also, would like to do descriptives.marker MAF of (0.35 and 0.25), i have tried but i get the same result as show in the qqplot. could some some help in sharing the script to do descriptives.scan of the marker data that has 0,35 and 0.25 MAF.
Thank you
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[*]gwadata <- load.gwaa.data(phenofile="phenomean.dat",genofile="quali-fil-scaf58.raw")
ids loaded...
marker names loaded...
chromosome data loaded...
map data loaded...
allele coding data loaded...
strand data loaded...
genotype data loaded...
snp.data object created...
assignment of gwaa.data object FORCED; X-errors were not checked!
qc1 <- check.marker(gwadata)
Excluding people/markers with extremely low call rate...
1019387 markers and 29 people in total
0 people excluded because of call rate < 0.1
958 markers excluded because of call rate < 0.1
Passed: 1018429 markers and 29 people
1018429 markers and 29 people in total
231574 (22.73835%) markers excluded as having low (<8.62069%) minor allele frequency
332801 (32.67788%) markers excluded because of low (<95%) call rate
1018429 (100%) markers excluded because they are out of HWE (FDR <0.2)
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Denny uses 18.5% rye in his famous beer. I would use that as a starting point.
Quote from: tschmidlin on November 09, 2013, 07:00:28 AMDenny uses 18.5% rye in his famous beer. I would use that as a starting point.That's what everybody thinks, but it's actually 18.475%
You can safely use a lot more rye than that, but do not use any less or it will be difficult or impossible to detect.
It depends which brand of rye you use, IMO. Weyermann rye malt seems to be smoother than Briess (or maybe it has just had longer to mellow on its journey over here). So I find I can get away with using a larger percentage of the Weyermann.
+1 to what everyone else has said. I would strongly recommend using Denny's yeast as well, 1450. My personal preference is around 25-35% rye.


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Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing. Ignoring …Read More »
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Air NZ's alliance with Virgin Australia to Sunshine Coast
Media release
23 February 2012
Air New Zealand's alliance with Virgin Australia goes direct to Sunshine Coast
Kiwis will be able fly to the heart of Queensland's Sunshine Coast this winter with Air New Zealand launching the first international service into Sunshine Coast Airport as part of its trans Tasman alliance with Virgin Australia.
The new direct service between Auckland and the Sunshine Coast will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Sundays on a seasonal basis between 1 July and 18 September. It will utilise an A320 aircraft offering a 'Seats to Suit' fare structure and seamless connections to the domestic and international networks of Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia.
Air New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Rob Fyfe says, "Every year almost a hundred thousand New Zealand leisure travellers arrive in Brisbane and make the 100km plus drive north to the popular Sunshine Coast beach resorts such as Noosa, Coolum, Mooloolaba and Maroochydore. This new service will cut down their travelling time by eliminating the commute from Brisbane Airport which can be more than two hours.
"There's a long tradition of Kiwi travellers heading to Queensland for some winter sun so while we're trialling this new service on a seasonal basis between July and mid September it may be possible to extend the season if there's enough demand."
Sunshine Coast Council Acting Mayor Tim Dwyer says the service will mark the first-ever international scheduled passenger services to and from Sunshine Coast Airport. "The first of July 2012 will be a historic day in the Sunshine Coast aviation calendar and for the Coast overall.
"Not only will this service connect the Sunshine Coast directly with our biggest international market but it also gives Sunshine Coast people the opportunity to connect via Auckland to destinations in the United States and beyond. We are truly entering a whole new chapter for tourism and economic activity."
The direct flight to Sunshine Coast Airport at Maroochydore is on sale from 4pm with introductory fares from NZ$149 one way ex Auckland available for sale until 2 March.


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Absent Information in Integrative Environmental and Health Risk Communication
Jari Lyytimäki and Timo Assmuth
Communication is typically understood in terms of what is communicated. However, the importance of what is intentionally or unintentionally left out from the communication process is high in many fields, notably in communication about environmental and health risks. The question is not only about the absolute lack of information. The rapidly increasing amount and variability of available data require actors to identify, collect, and interpret relevant information and screen out irrelevant or misleading messages that may lead to unjustified scares or hopes and other unwanted consequences. The ideal of balanced, integrative, and careful risk communication can only rarely be seen in real-life risk communication, shaped by competition and interaction between actors emphasizing some risks, downplaying others, and leaving many kinds of information aside, as well as by personal factors such as emotions and values, prompting different types of responses. Consequently, risk communication is strongly influenced by the characteristics of the risks themselves, the kinds of knowledge on them and related uncertainties, and the psychological and sociocultural factors shaping the cognitive and emotive responses of those engaged in communication. The physical, economic, and cultural contexts also play a large role. The various roles and factors of absent information in integrative environmental and health risk communication are illustrated by two examples. First, health and environmental risks from chemicals represent an intensively studied and widely debated field that involves many types of absent information, ranging from purposeful nondisclosure aimed to guarantee public safety or commercial interests to genuinely unknown risks caused by long-term and cumulative effects of multiple chemicals. Second, light pollution represents an emerging environmental and health issue that has gained only limited public attention even though it is associated with a radical global environmental change that is very easy to observe. In both cases, integrative communication essentially involves a multidimensional comparison of risks, including the uncertainties and benefits associated with them, and the options available to reduce or avoid them. Public debate and reflection on the adequacy of risk information and on the needs and opportunities to gain and apply relevant information is a key issue of risk management. The notion of absent information underlines that even the most widely debated risk issues may fall into oblivion and re-emerge in an altered form or under different framings. A typology of types of absent information based on frameworks of risk communication can help one recognize its reasons, implications, and remediation.
Active Involvement Interventions in Health and Risk Messaging
Kathryn Greene, Smita C. Banerjee, Anne E. Ray, and Michael L. Hecht
Results of national epidemiologic surveys indicate that substance use rates among adolescents remain relatively steady or even show slight declines; however, some substance use rates, such as electronic cigarettes, are actually rising. Thus, the need for efficacious drug prevention efforts in the United States remains high. Active Involvement (AI) interventions are a promising avenue for preventing and reducing adolescent substance use, and they create opportunities for adolescents to experience a core feature of engagement that is common to these interventions, such as producing videos, posters, or radio ads; or generating themes and images for messages such as posters.
Existing interventions grounded in theories of Active Involvement include programs delivered face-to-face and via e-learning platforms. Narrative Engagement Theory and the Theory of Active Involvement guide the components of change in AI interventions. Youth develop message content during participation in Active Involvement interventions. Advanced analytic models can be applied to address new research questions related to the measure of components of AI interventions.
Anger in Health and Risk Messaging
Claude H. Miller and Reinaldo Cortes Quantip
Within a range of health communication contexts, anger can be either a detriment to the receptivity of health promotion messages when poorly controlled, or a benefit to information processing when appropriately directed. In the former case, anger can disrupt cognitive processing, leading to a range of negative outcomes, including emotional turbulence and a preoccupation with anger-eliciting events that can severely limit the receptivity of health promotion and risk prevention messages. However, when properly directed and elicited in moderation, anger can motivate greater purpose and resolve in response to health threats, stimulate more active processing of health warnings, sharpen focus on argument quality, and direct greater attention to coping-relevant information concerning harmful health risks.
Audience Segmentation Techniques
Rachel A. Smith
A premise in health promotion and disease prevention is that exposure to and consequences of illness and injury can be minimized through people's actions. Health campaigns, broadly defined as communication strategies intentionally designed to encourage people to engage in the actions that prevent illness and injury and promote wellbeing, typically try to inspire more than one person to change. No two people are exactly alike with respect to their risk for illness and injury or their reactions to a campaign attempting to lower their risk. These variations between people are important for health messaging. Effective campaigns provide a target audience with the right persuasive strategy to inspire change based on their initial state and psychosocial predictors for change. It is often financially and logistically unreasonable to create campaigns for each individual within a population; it is even unnecessary to the extent to which people exist in similar states and share psychosocial predictors for change. A challenging problem for health campaigns is to define those who need to be reached, and then intelligently group people based on a complex set of variables in order to identify groups with similar needs who will respond similarly to a particular persuasive strategy. The premise of this chapter is that segmentation at its best is a systematic and explicit process of research to make informed decisions about how many audiences to consider, why the audience is doing what they are doing, and how to reach that audience effectively.
Communicating about Genes, Health, and Risk
Roxanne L. Parrott, Amber K. Worthington, Rachel A. Smith, and Amy E. Chadwick
The public, including lay members who have no personal or familial experience with genetic testing or diagnosis, as well as individuals who have had such experiences, face many intrinsic decisions relating to understanding genetics. With the sequencing of the human genome and genetic science discoveries relating genes to cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, the scope of such decisions broadened from prenatal genetic testing related to reproductive choices to genetic testing for contributors to common causes of morbidity and mortality. The decision about whether to seek genetic testing encompasses concerns about stigma and discrimination. These issues lead some who can afford the cost to seek screening through online direct-to-consumer sites rather than in clinical settings. Many who may benefit from genetic testing lack awareness of family health history that could guide physicians to recommend these diagnostic tests. Families may not discuss health history due to genetic illiteracy, with the public's genetic illiteracy increasing their illness uncertainty and decreasing the likelihood that physicians will engage in conversations about personalized medicine with their patients. Physicians may nonetheless order genetic tests based on patients' symptoms, during preoperative workups, or as part of opportunistic screening and assessment associated with a specific genetic workup. Family members who receive positive genetic test results may not disclose them to life partners, other family members, or insurance companies based on worries and anxiety related to their own identity, as well as a lack of understanding about their family members' risk probability. For many, misguided beliefs that genes absolutely determine health and disease status arise from media translations of genetic science. These essentialist beliefs negatively relate to personal actions to limit genetic expression, including failure to seek medical care, while contributing to stereotypes and stigma communication. As medical science continues to reveal roles for genes in health across a broad spectrum, communicating about the relationships that genes have for health will be increasingly complex. Policy associated with registering, monitoring, and controlling the activities of those with genetic mutations may be coercive and target individuals unable to access health care or technology. Communicating about genes, health, and risk will thus challenge health communicators throughout the 21st century.
Communication Ethics
Lisbeth A. Lipari
Communication ethics concerns the creation and evaluation of goodness in all aspects and manifestations of communicative interaction. Because both communication and ethics are tacitly or explicitly inherent in all human interactions, everyday life is fraught with intentional and unintentional ethical questions—from reaching for a cup of coffee to speaking critically in a public meeting. Thus ethical questions infuse all areas of the discipline, including rhetoric, media studies, intercultural/international communication, relational and organization communication, as well as other iterations of the field.
Communication Privacy Management Theory and Health and Risk Messaging
Sandra Petronio and Maria K. Venetis
Communication privacy management theory (CPM) argues that disclosure is the process by which we give or receive private information. Private information is what people reveal. Generally, CPM theory argues that individuals believe they own their private information and have the right to control said information. Management of private information is not necessary until others are involved. CPM does not limit an understanding of disclosure by framing it as only about the self. Instead, CPM theory points out that when management is needed, others are given co-ownership status, thereby expanding the notion of disclosing information; the theory uses the metaphor of privacy boundary to illustrate where private information is located and how the boundary expands to accommodate multiple owners of private information. Thus, individuals can disclose not only their own information but also information that belongs to others or is owned by collectives such as families.
Making decisions to disclose or protect private information often creates a tension in which individuals vacillate between sharing and concealing their private information. Within the purview of health issues, these decisions have a potential to increase or decrease risk. The choice of disclosing health matters to a friend, for example, can garner social support to cope with health problems. At the same time, the individual may have concerns that his or her friend might tell someone else about the health problem, thus causing more difficulties.
Understanding the tension between disclosing and protecting private health information by the owner is only one side of the coin. Because disclosure creates authorized co-owners, these co-owners (e.g., families, friends, and partners) often feel they have right to know about the owner's health conditions. The privacy boundaries are used metaphorically to indicate where private information is located. Individuals have both personal privacy boundaries around health information that expands to include others referred to as "authorized co-owners." Once given this status, withholding to protect some part of the private information can risk relationships and interfere with health needs. Within the scheme of health, disclosure risks and privacy predicaments are not experienced exclusively by the individual with an illness. Rather, these risks prevail for a number of individuals connected to a patient such as providers, the patient's family, and supportive friends. Everyone involved has a dual role. For example, the clinician is both the co-owner of a patient's private health information and holds information within his or her own privacy boundary, such as worrying whether he or she diagnosed the symptoms correctly. Thus, there are a number of circumstances that can lead to health risks where privacy management and decisions to reveal or conceal health information are concerned.
CPM theory has been applied in eleven countries and in numerous contexts where privacy management occurs, such as health, families, organizations, interpersonal relationships, and social media. This theory is unique in offering a comprehensive way to understand the relationship between the notion of disclosure and that of privacy. The landscape of health-related risks where privacy management plays a significant role is both large and complex. The situations of HIV/AIDS, cancer care, and managing patient and provider disclosure of private information help to elucidate the ways decisions of privacy potentially lead to health risks.
Counterfactuals in Health and Risk Messaging
Irina A. Iles and Xiaoli Nan
Counterfactual thinking is the process of mentally undoing the outcome of an event by imagining alternate antecedent states. For example, one might think that if they had given up smoking earlier, their health would be better. Counterfactuals are more frequent following negative events than positive events. Counterfactuals have both aversive and beneficial consequences for the individual. On the one hand, individuals who engage in counterfactual thinking experience negative affect and are prone to biased judgment and decision making. On the other hand, counterfactuals serve a preparative function, and they help people reach their goals in the future by suggesting effective behavioral alternatives.
Counterfactual thoughts have been found to influence an array of cognitive processes. Engaging in counterfactual thinking motivates careful, in-depth information processing, increases perceptions of self-efficacy and control, influences attitudes toward social matters, with consequences for behavioral intentions and subsequent behaviors. Although it is a heavily studied matter in some domains of the social sciences (e.g., psychology, political sciences, decision making), counterfactual thinking has received less attention in the communication discipline. Findings from the few studies conducted in communication suggest that counterfactual thinking is a promising message design strategy in risk and health contexts. Still, research in this area is critically needed, and it represents an opportunity to expand our knowledge.
Critical Communication Pedagogy: Toward "Hope in Action"
Deanna L. Fassett and C. Kyle Rudick
Critical communication pedagogy (CCP) emerged from an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationships between communication and instruction that draws from and extends critical theory. This critical turn has influenced how the communication studies discipline defines and practices communication education (i.e., learning in communication or how best to teach communication) and instructional communication (i.e., communication in learning, or how communication functions to diminish or support learning across a broad array of contexts), from the one-on-one tutoring session to training and development, and beyond. This critical turn in communication and instruction is characterized by 10 commitments of critical communication pedagogy refigured here along three themes: (1) communication is constitutive, (2) social justice is a process, and (3) the classroom is a site of activism and interpersonal justice.
Critical communication pedagogy is defined by three primary criticisms: (1) CCP focuses on postmodern and constitutive philosophies of communication to the detriment of critical theory, (2) CCP focuses too much on in-class communication to the detriment of activist learning, and (3) CCP is over-reliant on autoethnographic and performative methodologies. An expanded, reinvigorated, and radicalized critical communication pedagogy for communication studies scholars entails greater attention to and extension of critical theory; sustained engagement in and with activism (both within and beyond the classroom); and a more robust engagement of diverse methods of data collection and analysis. Critical communication pedagogy scholarship as militant hope is more relevant than ever in the post-Trump era, signaling a way for communication scholars to cultivate ethics of equity and justice at all levels of education.
Critical Perspectives on Humanitarian Discourses
Marouf Hasian Jr.
Critical studies of humanitarian discourses involve the study of the arguments, claims, and evidence that are used to justify intervention or non-intervention in key local, regional, national, or international contexts. These discourses can take the form of arguing over whether we should practice isolationism and not intervene in the sovereign affairs of other countries, or they can take the form of deliberations over the transcend needs of populations that cope with myriad disasters. In some cases these discourses are produced by foreigners who believe that the less fortunate need to be rescued from their misery, while at other times humanitarian discourses can be used in discussions about the human rights of the disempowered. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), nation-states, celebrities, medical communications, and militaries are just a few of the rhetors that produce all of these humanitarian discourses.


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The Michigan Single Business Tax (SBT) was, at the time of this report's release, the only value-added state business tax system in the U.S. The author explores its history, actual practice, and inherent advantages and disadvantages. Tables of data are provided, showing the SBT burden as a percentage of the Adjusted Tax Base on industries in Michigan. This report is a good overview of the SBT and its impact on the state's businesses. 30 pages.


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American Institute of Professional Geologists
Illinois Chapter
The Illinois Chapter of the Illinois-Indiana Section of the AIPG was established in October, 1999 with the purpose of being an advocacy group for all professional geologists in the state, and specifically for Licensed Professional Geologists and their practice in the State of Illinois. For specific information regarding the goals of the Illinois Chapter, please refer to the Bylaws.
Any comments or questions regarding the Illinois Chapter should be directed to the a member of the Executive Committee.
You may also wish to visit the national AIPG web site at www.aipg.org.
The Illinois Association of Environmental Professionals can be found at www.iaepnetwork.org.
Executive Committee
Illinois/Indiana Section Executive Committee
David G. Pyles
6744 North Lightfoot
Chicago, IL 60646
Work: (630) 325-1300
Fax: (630) 325-1593
Erik D. Spande
OS 021 Robbins Street
Winfield, IL 60190
Work: (773) 693-3800 ext 241
Fax: (773) 693-3823
Ramona M. Cornea
5704 Inverness Drive
Rockford, IL 61107
Work: (815) 395-1221
Fax: (815) 395-1222
Board Member
Craig A. McCammack
120 N Lasalle, Suite 1550
Chicago, IL 60602
Work: (312) 924-3554
Fax: (312) 419-1986
Board Member
Marzi Sharfaei
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
1515 E. Woodfield Rd., Ste. 680
Schaumburg, IL 60173
Work: (847) 517-8114
Fax: (847) 517-8102
Board Member
James K. Adamson
7325 Janes Avenue
Woodridge, IL 60517
Work: (630) 742-6836
Fax: (630) 724-9202
Board Member
Jeffrey M. Groncki
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
1515 E. Woodfield Rd. #360
Schaumburg, IL 60173
Work: (847) 517-8114
Fax: (847) 517-8102
Board Member
Martin Hamper
Bureau Veritas North America, Inc.
Health, Safety, and Environmental Services
2211 Butterfield Road
Downers Grove, IL 60515 USA
Work: (630) 795-3209
History of the Illinois Chapter
Illinois Professional Geologists attending the October 23, 1999 meeting voted to organize an IL Chapter of the Illinois-Indiana Section of AIPG to represent us as an advocacy group. The AIPG has offered to fund activities of the IL Chapter to a reasonable extent. The IL Chapter Executive Committee has currently not asked that there be any dues for membership in the IL Chapter. Therefore, it is proposed that any funding necessary will come from the Section. In order for this not to be a one-way street (i.e., the IL Chapter only taking and not giving back) the IL Chapter Executive Committee has proposed what we believe is a reasonable quid pro quo position that involves voting member status and non-voting member status for the IL Chapter. The proposed membership plan would have anyone who is a PG in Illinois as a member of the IL Chapter. The membership would then be divided by members who are Certified Professional Geologists or Registered Members of the AIPG as voting members, and any other Illinois PGs that do not choose to become members of the AIPG as non-voting members. All members will still have the right to comment and have those comments recognized on advocacy issues considered by the IL Chapter. However, only the voting members will be able elect the Executive Committee and vote on issues brought to the membership by the Executive Committee. As a result of this membership plan, the IL Chapter voting members will contribute to the Section funding by paying their yearly dues to the AIPG. For those IL Chapter members who are not members of the AIPG currently, and who want to obtain voting member status, Bill Siok, the Executive Director of the AIPG, has assured me that all Illinois PGs will be able to obtain at least Registered Member status in the AIPG. The IL Chapter Executive Committee has granted a grace period to obtain membership in the AIPG and voting member status in the IL Chapter until January 1, 2001. Until then, all ILPGs will have voting member status in the IL Chapter. Details regarding the nature of the AIPG membership can be obtained at: http://www.aipg.org.
Geologist Licensing
The state of Illinois provides for the licensure of professional geologists. Details on licensure can be found at http://www.ildpr.com/WHO/gegy.asp.
The state of Indiana provides for licensure of professional geologists. Details on licensure can be found
at http://www.state.in.us/legislative/ic/code/title25/ar17.6.
Related Links
AIPG: http://www.aipg.org
Indiana Geological Survey: http://adamite.igs.indiana.edu
Illinois Geological Survey: http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu
Illinois State Water Survey: http://www.sws.uiuc.edu
Items of Interest
- Amendment to House Bill 3158 (04/05)
- Bill Status of HB3158 (04/05)
- Letter from the Governor
- IGA - Spring 2002 Newsletter (AIPG Fights for Illinois LPGs)
- Fact Sheet
- Letter to Board of Registration for Illinois Professional Geologists
- Final Illinois Chapter Bylaws (Approved by the AIPG Headquarters)
- Illinois Chapter and IEPA comments and responses to Part 732 Regs
Letter dated March 27, 2000
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Members Forum
The purpose of this page is to provide a general area on the Illinois Chapter of the AIPG web
site for the sharing of suggestions, concerns, thoughts, etc. of the Membership.
- Comments on the PG designation and on sealing documents
- Decal/Sticker for Licensed Professional Geologist


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February traffic down at HIA; Sunburst Restaurant to be demolished
For the second month in a row, wintry weather kept February passenger traffic down at Harrisburg International Airport in Lower Swatara Township.
The Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority reported Wednesday that February traffic was down 3.4 percent year over year. During the month, 87,368 total passengers used the facility. Traffic is down 3.6 percent for the year, with 176,060 travelers having used the facility, SARAA said in a news release.
"During the month of February, airlines canceled more than 35,000 flights nationwide due to winter weather," said SARAA board member Timothy Tate. "Even though flights were nearly 83 percent full — a new monthly record — flight cancellations resulted in a 7 percent decline in available seats for sale.
"Even with the January and February decline in traffic, should we see a typical March, first-quarter 2014 passenger traffic will be near budgeted projections," Tate added.
In other news, the SARAA board approved a $176,240 contract with Schlegel Excavating Inc. of Millmont, Union County, to demolish the former Sunburst Restaurant.
"The removal of this building is another positive step in the future development of 23 acres owned by the airport authority along Route 230," Tate said. "We look forward to completing this project by the end of summer 2014."


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Sharp's latest 32-inch TV is LED-powered and is cheap to boot. The edge-mounted backlight enables a depth of 46mm, which, while appreciably chunkier than the 10mm-and-under to which the true flatscreen aristocracy currently aspires, is nonetheless about half as thick as a comparable CCFL-lit set.
The fashionable diode technology is slightly overshadowed by the lack of that other must-have of 2010; a Freeview HD tuner. Although you wouldn't expect to find such a delight on a sub-£500 screen, it does leave the LC-32LE210E looking a touch out of date. Not that Sky or Virgin Media customers will care.
Almost as by way of an apology the LC-32LE210E does have something extra special in the shape of USB recording; slip a memory stick or external hard drive into its side and you can store shows from its digital Freeview tuner.
Although the operation manual for the LC-32LE210E suggests that there's also a 24-inch version, the only other alternative we could find on sale in the UK was Sharp's new 37-inch LC-37LE320E. Selling for around £700, this Edge LED-lit telly trades the LC-32LE210E's USB recording for a 100Hz panel. It's otherwise identical.
The real question you need to answer – if you're set on Sharp – is whether to go for this full HD, USB recording LED TV, or choose the LC-32DH510E, which can also record from USB, but does away with LED backlighting on a standard HD ready panel. Having road-tested the LC-32LE210E and seen it selling online for a mere £50 or so more, we can't see the LC-32DH510E lasting much longer.


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The 2012-13 school year ends tomorrow and the summer of 2013 is officially upon us. Students return to class Aug. 19 for the start of the 2013-14 school year. That gives students just more than 10 weeks to soak up some sun, hit the beach, earn a few dollars and, for athletes, prepare for next year.
The 2012-13 school year ends tomorrow and the summer of 2013 is officially upon us. Students return to class Aug. 19 for the start of the 2013-14 school year.
That gives students just more than 10 weeks to soak up some sun, hit the beach, earn a few dollars and, for athletes, prepare for next year.
It seems as if sports have become a year-round thing even for high school students these days. Maybe saying year-round is a stretch, but it's not far off the mark at the big schools and even some of the small schools.
Most local baseball teams have a summer program that will go through June. Basketball teams will head to camps and play in local summer leagues, as will volleyball teams.
Baker School football starts its off-season program next week. The Crestview High School football team hits the field for the first time in the summer on June 17. The teams will pretty much go until the end of the summer, with a week or 10 days off for the Fourth of July.
Football teams that don't work out in June and July will likely find themselves behind the pack in September and October.
The summer is always important for new coaches like Crestview High School's Tim Hatten. There's only a certain amount of the offensive and defensive packages a team can learn in three weeks of spring drills.
Hatten will take a sensible approach to the summer drills. He said the team will work out about two and a half hours each morning. He also hopes to participate in some sort of seven-on-seven games one evening each week.
That should leave plenty of time for players to enjoy the summer while getting in the necessary work to prepare for the upcoming season.
Baker coach Matt Brunson also takes a common sense approach to the summer. He works the Gators two or three hours each day three times a week.
I still sometimes wonder what happened to the good old summer time when high school athletes had a few weeks to just be kids and kick back and relax before fall practice starts in August.
That said, I know that without some sort of structured summer program, many kids wouldn't do the work that will make them better in the fall.
Although we didn't have mandatory lifting when I was in high school, I still made it a point to be at the school at least three times a week to get my work in the summer between junior and senior years. Lifting weights was about all we could do, as there were no team drills organized by the coaches.
It didn't help me much on the football field that fall, but I had a chance to bond with the few teammates who were also working out. And I did get stronger.
Now, everybody is lifting, running and practicing all summer long. Yes, young athletes in Okaloosa County will still find time to make it to the beach or hit one of the local rivers for a leisurely day of tubing or canoeing. And kids in other parts of the state and country will find the nearest body of water to cool off and relax with their friends.
Football and the other sports are still games at the high school level. But they are a little more like businesses than they were in days gone by.
I'm glad our local coaches understand that kids need a break from the game and time to simply enjoy being young on a nice summer day.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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To assure your experience at Chicago-Kent College of
Law is a positive one, the Center for Law and Computers
is available to assist you with your computer and
technical questions and concerns. You can reach a member
of our staff by calling (312) 906-5300 (6-5300 house
phones)or sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
We are located in suite 540 if you would like to stop by
our offices.
New Printall Printer for Students
The Center for Law and Computers is happy to announce a
new printing solution has been implemented which will make
any print job you send available for printing on all of the
Chicago-Kent student printers. These printers are located in
Labs 900 and 760 as well as the Student Lounge which has two
printers. Should you experience an issue with a printer in
one particular area, you will no longer be required to reprint
your document to make it available on another printer.
Effective January 10, 2011, you must add the new printer
named "Printall" to your computer in order to use the
Chicago-Kent printers in the computer labs and Student Lounge.
Kentlaw printers previously installed on your computer will no
longer function. Again, you must add the new Printall printer
in order to print in Lab 900, Lab 760, or the Student Lounge.
Links to instructions for adding the Printall printer for the
Windows and Apple operating systems are listed below.
The instructions will also be available at each printer,
at the Library Circulation Desk, and in the Help Desk area in
Room 540. As stated previously, upon adding this one new printer,
your print jobs will be available on all four Kentlaw student printers.
If you have difficulty installing the new Printall printer,
please visit the Help Desk in Room 540 and we will be happy to
assist you.
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Student Worker - Technical Support Assistant
The Center for Law and Computers is seeking part-time employees
in the Help Desk area. This position performs front-line customer
service via telephone, email and walk-in contact for Chicago-Kent
College of Law. The Help Desk resides on the 5th floor of the
downtown campus.
Working with the Help Desk Manager and Computer Support Specialists,
the Technical Support Assistant's duties include operating the
Help Desk; retrieving emails, voicemails and memos; gathering
background information regarding service requests; tracking and
compiling reports of requests; laptop configurations for students;
software installations and maintaining the 4 student printers.
Knowledge of software/hardware installation and maintenance, basic
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If you are interested in this entry-level position, please contact:
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Note: IIT-connect is only used for registration purposes. IIT-565 is the wireless network that will give you full internet connectivity.
The new wireless network at Chicago-Kent is now available for use. Here you will find instructions for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X operating systems. We also have instructions for iPad, iPhones and Android based phones. The name of the new wireless network is IIT-565. Please try the instructions to configure your laptop to access this new network. You do not need to follow the instructions if your laptop has already been configured to use the new IIT-565 network.
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Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m
myIIT Password Reset Tool
IT Office of Technology Services (OTS) has rolled out a new tool
for the myIIT portal that allows individuals who forget their
portal password to reset it themselves, rather than going through
the OTS Support Desk. This new tool requires individuals
to set up two secret questions and answers. When the
questions are answered correctly, users will have the ability
to reset their own password and access the portal.
The tool was activated on at 9:30 pm on Friday, January 8.
Upon logging into the portal for the first time after
activation, users will be prompted to set their secret questions
before accessing their myIIT account.
Users who have already set up their portal secret questions will
not need to take any action.
Adding this level of security will allow users to access IIT
technology services 24/7, even if they forget their password.
Contact OTS with any questions.
IIT Print Channel is for MC printing only and
not for use at the DTC
Please note that student printing at Chicago-Kent is separate
from the process used on Main Campus - you should not use the
IIT Printing Channel in the my.iit.edu portal. If you have used
the channel to add money for printing, please contact Nancy
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At Chicago-Kent, students receive credit for 400 pages worth
of free printing per semester; any printing beyond 400 pages
is charged at a rate of $0.07 per page.
All Chicago-Kent printing – both free and charged – is
managed by the Law School's own printing system. You can
add money to your account at the station located in the 9th
floor photocopy room in the Library.
Apple Computer Support & Services Documents
The CLC has created support & services documents for
configuring Apple computers to the following resources
(Wireless, Folder Shares, Printers & Mail). Follow
the links below for a basic guide to assist you with various
options available to Apple users.
For questions or concerns, please contact the CLC help desk at
or 312-906-5300.
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Maintenance Activities
Effective January 7th The Center for Law and Computers will
be conducting weekly maintenance following a new schedule. Hardware
and software maintenance activities on the Law School's technology
resources will begin from 9:30pm on Friday through 8:00am on
Saturday. Periodic interruptions to Chicago-Kent services may
occur during this time as work is conducted on servers, network
hardware, and other key systems.
Chicago-Kent College of Law utilizes certain administrative systems
such as Banner Student and the my.iit.edu portal service which are
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Separating business logic from technology: Kathleen Dollard on a new view of code generation
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Separating business logic from user interface code was one of important lessons that legacy Visual Basic programs taught us. Kathleen Dollard actually argues that business logic should be separated from any technology to avoid rewriting everything when a new technology comes up. And, according to Kathleen, code is technology, thus business knowledge has to be isolated from it as well:
Combining business logic with any technology dooms it to be rewritten from the ground up when we get a new technology – and code is technology.
[…] You cannot combine code with business logic.
The shiniest, prettiest toys and languages are tomorrow's legacy.
Business knowledge should rather be stored "in the places it resides: database structure, service contracts, test definitions, logic rules, workflow, business object code, validation rules, authorization guidelines, user interfaces, etc." One could argue, however, that whatever the place we choose to isolate business information, it is still based on a technology that cannot escape change. Nevertheless, there is one key difference between using code "as core way of expressing intent" and storing expressions of the intent with a given syntax:
You can recognize, categorize and morph declarations. Sure, the syntax of any declaration is based on the technology its intended for. […] But, any metadata worth its salt can be transformed into any other metadata syntax.
[…] By separating out the known aspects of the job we're doing – we can use it or not use it in the next great thing.
This way, Kathleen advocates for code generation as a means for extracting and separating business logic from code. Based on her experience, she argues that "even the best normal development efforts are worse than mediocre code generation development". The most professional team using agile methodologies can succeed in delivering quality software on time, but in the eyes of Kathleen Dollard, this would still be a failure because "the whole thing will start over with a new technology."
It is important to highlight that in a generated system, code still plays a critical role. Inability to map bugs was one of the reasons of the 4GL disasters in the eighties. Generated code allows avoiding this pitfall, because it is actually "how the system tells you what it's doing", which is absolutely crucial for debugging. Hence, Kathleen describes code as "the necessary evil" and argues that it should be treated as such.
She emphasizes that such approach requires a fundamental shift in the way we conceive programming, significant leadership as well as appropriate tools that would allow doing code generation well. Kathleen argues that today, ".NET is not an inoculation protecting your project from technology change". It actually speeds up its pace. However, there are already some premises for a more widespread use of code generation.
On could mention the entity framework for mapping to metadata or XML literals which have, according to Kathleen Dollard, "amazing possibilities for code generation" and the potential to "unseat XSLT for complex generation." Kathleen expects the area of code generation to be very dynamic in the following years. This should get us closer to proper development which, she believes, would be based on "a combination of code generation for all the stuff its dumb for us to write married to a highly morphed BDD for all the code we do have to write."
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Isn''t that obvious?
Markus Voelter
And sure, code generation is a good thing to do that. The MDSD/DSL community has been preaching that for ages.
Why is this newsworthy? I don't get it.
Re: Isn''t that obvious?
Bruce Rennie
But, there is a tool you can use that will increase the likelyhood that developers will separate the business logic: unit tests. Insist on unit tests (true unit tests, a la the Michael Feathers definition) for the business logic.
Re: Isn''t that obvious?
Andrej Marjan
This reeks of the old notion of "automatically generating" application code from formal specifications while ignoring the hard, error-prone work of writing the spec in the first place -- only without the mathematical sophistication.
Note that I'm not addressing the call for a separation of concerns. I'm addressing the thoughts behind the rather depressing statement "You cannot combine code with business logic."
Re: Isn''t that obvious?
Michael Hunger
How often is it really needed to transform a software system to a complete new technology or language (something like the question of database portability) ?
I think being able to transform your current business logic representation to another form is enough. So keeping your code clean, well structured and of the same level of abstraction within one unit certainly helps there. You have the same problem when transforming models or DSLs. If your model is to complex transforming it to another representation is to much effort to be done. And if you keep all your logic in abstract models a suitable projection to the shiny new technologies is also a must.
Another thing that comes to my mind. As we all know business requirements and so business logic changes all the time. So keeping up with this change also allows you to explore new opportunities to express the business logic contained in your system. No one forces you to stick to the old ways of expressing these values.
Re: Isn''t that obvious?
Jonathan Allen
The source for your code generator is just that, source code. Compilers really are just glorified code generators. In fact, many compilers simply turn one language into another.
Phasing out that mainframe? Just write a COBOL compiler that targets .NET.
Tired of using .NET? Write a compiler that takes IL code spits out JavaScript.
I love code generators, but lets be honest. They are not a silver bullet that will make your code future proof.
This concept is fundamentally flawed
Christian Schneider
Re: Isn''t that obvious?
Sadek Drobi
Sure its obvious.
What is the "it" that is obvious? That fact that we still need code anyway? The fact that code itself IS a technology that should be abstracted? Or the fact that the most successful IT project is a failure? How many applications has been completely rewritten tagging the previous "successful" code as legacy just because it should be ajaxified? What is obvious for me is that NON of these is obvious for plenty of enterprises i pass by for consulting!!! And in case it is so "of course it is of course obvious" then why do we write books about that i wonder...
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