| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12.31.12 |
Dispatch from the People's Republic of Minnesota The 2007 collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis was a horribly tragic event: 13 people lost their lives. To help out, Minnesota's legislature established a $37 million fund to compensate families of the deceased, ignoring a law that sets a... |
Press Release |
| 12.27.12 |
Investment Group Ready To Pump $1.7 Billion into Chicago Infrastructure What do Citibank N.A., Citi Infrastructure Investors, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Infrastructure Investment Group, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Inc., and Union Labor Life Insurance Co. have in common? They're the five companies... |
Press Release |
| 12.20.12 |
NEW MEMBERS: May-October 2012 We are delighted to extend a hearty "Welcome aboard" to nine new ASFE-Member Firms, one Government Member, and ASFE's newest Faculty Member. Welcome to the ASFE community! Please make sure you take advantage of all... |
Press Release |
| 12.14.12 |
Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. - an ASFE-Member Firm Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. (KCB) is a Canadian-based multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental consulting firm with its head office in Vancouver, British Columbia, and 12 other offices across Canada and in Peru, Australia and the UK... |
Spotlight |
| 12.14.12 |
DR. ENGLISH: Include and Comprise "Including" does not mean "limited to." Nonetheless, some people seem to write as though "including" doesn't exist. What does? "Including, but not limited to." How dumb does that sound? As dumb as eschewing "The alphabet includes A, B... |
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| 12.11.12 |
BUSINESS 101: Happy Workplace The Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently ran an article titled "The Economics of Well-Being." As the article points out, the concept of factoring happiness into economic measures began in the 1970s, when the king of Bhutan replaced his... |
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| 12.06.12 |
ROAD WARRIOR: Battery Life What do you call a road warrior whose smart phone or laptop runs out of power? A very upset individual. Avoid that situation by using less power, getting more power, or charging while you drive.... |
Press Release |
| 12.03.12 |
EDITORIAL: Work/Life Balance I am so tired of hearing about "work/life balance." Who comes up with this stuff? The word "balance" implies a balance beam; a teeter-totter. So on one side is work and on the other side is...life? Of course not. If you really want to balance... |
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| 11.29.12 |
FROM THE BENCH: Illinois Standard of Care You may recall the article about Thompson v. Gordon, et al., (2009 WL 3969619 (Ill. App. 2 Dist. 2009) in the September/October 2011 NewsLog. It was an awful Illinois appellate-court decision. To quote from the article:... |
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| 11.26.12 |
A Guy Walks into a Bar… This guy named Smith walks into a bar. The bartender says to him, "Hey, Mr. Smith. Howya doin'?" Smith sits on a stool and says, "I don't know." "You don't know?" the bartender asks in amazement. "Why not?"... |
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