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27 Figure 4. Humboldt GeoGauge. not require more personnel than those now being used for but not for identifying construction defects. As a replacement control and acceptance. As for the DSPA, the same technician to the repeated load resilient modulus test, the regression using the nuclear density gauge or running sand-cone tests equations developed from repeated load resilient modulus could also operate the GeoGauge at the same time. The train- tests included in the LTPP program (Yau and Von Quintus ing and technical capability of the operator is no more than 2002) or the use of the DCP is permissible. what would be required for operating a nuclear density gauge. The disadvantage of the GeoGauge is that it will result in Similar to the DSPA, the GeoGauge can easily be used to high variability when testing non-cohesive, well-graded sands develop relationships between modulus growth and com- or similar soils. In addition, the elastic modulus readings from paction effort in unbound layers. Such relationships can the gauge represent an equivalent modulus for the upper 10 to be initially developed at the start of the project to optimize 12 in. of the layer. Thus, the gauge in its current form should the compaction process and then be periodically verified not be used to test thin (less than 4 in.) or thick (greater than throughout the project. This feature becomes advantageous 12 in.) layers without proper material calibration adjustments when the water content significantly varies from the optimum or changing the diameter of the ring under the gauge. value measured in the laboratory. In summary, the GeoGauge has potential use in day-to-day The GeoGauge should be calibrated to the project materials QA programs by both the contractor and the agency personnel. and conditions to improve on its accuracy, because of the potential influence of the supporting materials. This calibration issue requires that laboratory repeated load resilient modulus 1.3 Deflection-Based Methods tests be performed on each unbound layer for judging the 1.3.1 Falling Weight Deflectometer quality of construction. Most agencies do not routinely per- form resilient modulus tests for design or for forensic evalu- The FWD is a large, expensive apparatus that is mounted ations, even though the 1993 AASHTO Design Guide suggests on a trailer and pulled behind a tow vehicle. The operator that they be performed (AASHTO 1993). Eliminating the works a computer and locates the apparatus for testing (see laboratory resilient modulus tests from the calibration proce- Figure 5). This system is capable of applying dynamic loads dure will reduce its accuracy for confirming the design values, to the pavement surface, similar in magnitude and duration to
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28 Figure 5. Trailer mounted FWD. that of a single heavy moving wheel load. It is being used within displayed. In some cases, one of the geophones or sensors can the LTPP program, and most state agencies have access to at be incorrectly placed on the test surface by the sensor bar, least one FWD. Thus, it is already being used in most agencies' especially on rough surfaces. The data acquisition software day-to-day practice. will identify this anomaly, notifying the operator that the test The response of the pavement system is measured in terms should be rejected and redone. of vertical deformation, or deflection, over a given area using The test takes about 2 minutes to complete, including the seismometers or geophones. An FWD enables the user to deter- use of seating drops. Seating drops are important and should mine a deflection basin caused by a controlled load. These be used at each test point. This does not include time to con- results make it possible to determine the stiffness of existing figure the trailer and set up the data acquisition system, which pavement structures for use in M-E based rehabilitation design should only have to be done once per day for each project. It methods. takes about 30 minutes to configure the trailer and 2 to 3 min- The falling weight strikes a set of rubber buffers mounted utes to set up the data acquisition program. Similar to the to a 300-mm circular foot plate, which transmits the force to PSPA, the operator needs more technical and sophisticated the pavement (see Figure 5). A thin-ribbed rubber pad is always training in setting up the equipment and visually interpreting mounted under the footplate. By varying the mass or the drop the deflection basin data. height or both, the impulse load can be varied. This load may A separate data interpretation system or software is required be varied between 10 kN and 140 kN. Sensors measure the for producing elastic modulus values from the measured surface deflections caused by the impulse load. deflection basins--Young's modulus for each layer. The Most agencies use seven sensors at the spacing recommended calculated elastic modulus values are structure dependent. by LTPP. However, fewer or more sensors can be used, and Most data interpretation or analysis programs used back- those can be spaced uniformly or at some other spacing calculation techniques for calculating layered elastic modulus selected by the user. Peak deflections are recorded, stored, and values. Backcalculation programs do not determine unique
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29 modulus values for each layer and are sensitive to layer thick- ness variations. Forward-calculation procedures have been developed that result in unique layer modulus values for a particular deflection basin, but these values are thickness dependent. Any errors in the layer thickness will increase the error and variability of the processed data. Its use for acceptance of individual layers by the agency should be limited to the use of the forward-calculation proce- dure. Because the backcalculation procedures do not result in unique layer modulus values, it would be difficult to defend in contractor disputes where material has been rejected or pay- ment penalties issued to the contractor. The device can be used to check or confirm the final flexible pavement for new con- struction or HMA overlays of existing pavements, but would probably create many disputes with the contractor when the entire pavement structure is rejected at the end of the project. In addition, the resulting values for the upper layer are dependent on the stiffness and variability of the supporting layers. Calculating the elastic modulus of layers is generally restricted to those that are thicker than 3 in. The FWD may also require one additional field technician and tow vehicle. The expense, size of the system, time needed to perform each test, and data interpretation software make this system less practical for QC and acceptance. Thus, the FWD is believed to be less practical and effective for the QA uses that are the focus of this study. Figure 6. Dynatest Prima 100 LWD. 1.3.2 Light Weight Deflectometer The LWDs use the same theory as the FWD, but offer an advantage of being much more portable. In addition, the would sense the jolt from the frame coming apart as a sepa- training and technical requirements for the LWD operators rate test, resulting in a deflection and modulus value for that are no different than for nuclear density gauges, with one anomaly. exception--the operator needs to understand and be aware The wireless remote was troublesome and kept losing con- of the factors and physical features that affect layer modulus tact with the apparatus. This happened anytime the technician calculated from the measured deflections. Results from the carrying the apparatus came within a few feet of the technician LWDs were significantly influenced by the supporting holding the computer. This slowed down the operation because materials on some of the projects. the computer had to be re-started each time it occurred. All three LWD devices used on selected projects have When using the system on particularly stiff base material, the similar features. Only the Dynatest and Carl Bro devices are hammer can bounce high enough, such that it can strike the discussed in the following paragraphs. apparatus again--resulting in an appreciable rebound load. The rebound load can cause the remote to mistake that rebound as a second or separate test. The software, as written, causes the 188.8.131.52 Dynatest Prima 100 LWD Device actual test results to be deleted and replaced by a reading of the The Prima 100 is manufactured by Dynatest and consists rebound. of the weight (hammer) on a pole and the sensors (geophones) The system, however, is fast. One test takes about 10 seconds, in a plate on the ground, all encompassed in one, connected, so the five tests conducted (and averaged) at each location portable structure (see Figure 6). The sensors were connected take approximately the same amount of time that a nuclear to a handheld computer by wireless remote technology. density reading takes at one location. However, the apparatus The unit tested was somewhat flexible and the frame came is bulky to handle, so the time that most non-nuclear systems apart on multiple occasions. Besides slowing down the process, gain by not having to deal with the steps of transporting the this resulted in questionable data because the wireless remote nuclear device are lost.


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Lou Lamoriello's Statement on Brian Rafalski's Retirement
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New Jersey Devils President/CEO/General Manager Lou Lamoriello today issued the following statement in regard to the retirement of defenseman Brian Rafalski, who began his NHL career with the Devils in 1999-00:
"Brian is a quality individual, whose character, commitment, work ethic, and team-first attitude made him the player and person he is. We were fortunate to have him in a Devils' sweater for seven seasons, including two Stanley Cup Championships. We wish Brian, Felicity, and their three sons well as they move on to the next chapter in their lives."
Rafalski, 37, recorded 44 goals and 267 assists for 311 points and 180 penalty minutes in 541 regular-season games with New Jersey. His goal, assist, and point-totals each ranks fourth among defensemen in franchise history. Rafalski added 17 goals and 43 assists for 60 points and 37 penalty minutes in 102 playoff games as a Devil. The native of Dearborn, MI appeared in three Olympic Winter Games, the 2004 World Cup, two NHL All-Star Games, and was named to the league's 1999-00 All-Rookie Team. He was also a member of Detroit's 2008 Stanley Cup Championship team. Not drafted, Rafalski signed with New Jersey as a free agent on June 18, 1999.


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This vacant site at 111th Street west of Cicero Avenue in Oak Lawn is the future home of a Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant. | Steve Metsch~Sun-Times Media
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In the eight years since the first Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant opened for business in Orland Park, there have been two constants.
The first is that the restaurant is the most successful of the chain's 14 locations, leading the way in sales and having about 13,000 members in its wine club.
The second constant is that a frequent topic of conversation has been Oak Lawn.
"Many people from the Oak Lawn area over the years have come to Orland Park and said, 'We'd really love you to be in Oak Lawn,' " said Ron Dee, the senior vice president of real estate development for the chain.
So when a prime location in Oak Lawn, at 111th Street and Cicero Avenue, became available, Cooper's Hawk officials were interested. The result: In about a year, patrons will be able to dine at a 10,000-square-foot Cooper's Hawk restaurant there.
It's part of the Stony Creek Promenade development on the northwest corner of the intersection, the former site of a Kmart, Flap-Jack's restaurant, a muffler shop and other businesses.
Oak Lawn Mayor Sandra Bury announced the Cooper's Hawk plan on her blog and at the village board meeting Tuesday night.
"Isn't it fantastic? It will be facing 111th Street, and it will use a retention pond at the corner as part of the design for outdoor dining," Bury said after the meeting.
"What you're going to see now is a lot of energy at that site," Bury said of the corner that's nearly vacant with the recent razing of Flap-Jack's.
All that remains is a small building that's home to a chiropractor's office.
Stony Creek Promenade also will have a Mariano's supermarket, and Bury said construction is expected to begin soon on the store.
"Cooper's Hawk is fantastic for Oak Lawn, and it's going to draw people. Just the calls I've been getting, if they're any indication, (shows) a surge of excitement," the mayor said.
"We think those people who are fans of Cooper's Hawk in Orland Park will increase the frequency of their dining right in the center of their neighborhood," Dee said.
"A five-mile radius around the intersection of 111th Street and Cicero is 393,000 (residents)," he said. "It's one of the densest trade areas in terms of population that we've looked at in a long time. When you look at the demographics, the average incomes are over $70,000 per household.
"(The village) offered us a great site, and we're going out in front of a brand-new Mariano's supermarket. We've been very impressed with Mariano's as they've rolled out in Chicago. It's a brand we would like to be associated with."
It's expected that 100 to 150 jobs will be created at the Oak Lawn restaurant, Dee said.
He said Cooper's Hawk officials plan to meet soon with Oak Lawn's architectural review committee "because we want to work with them on the design of the building. This Cooper's Hawk will not look like any other Cooper's Hawk we have. It will be uniquely designed just for Oak Lawn."
Oak Park-based Aria Group Architects has been hired to design the building, Dee said.
Eventually, a second restaurant will be part of the Stony Creek development, Bury said. She declined to name the restaurant, as negotiations with the village are ongoing.


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You had an injury or disease in your digestive system and needed an operation called an ileostomy. The operation changed the way your body gets rid of waste (stool, feces, or poop).
Now you have an opening called a stoma in your belly. Waste will pass through the stoma into a pouch that collects it. You will need to take care of the stoma and empty the pouch many times a day.
Your stoma is made from the lining of your intestine. It will be pink or red, moist, and a little shiny.
Stool that comes from your ileostomy is thin or thick liquid, or it may be pasty. It is not solid like the stool that came from your colon. Foods you eat, medicines you take, and other things may change how thin or thick your stool is.
Some amount of gas is normal.
You will need to empty the pouch 5 - 8 times a day.
Ask your doctor or nurse what you should be eating when you are discharged from the hospital. You may be asked to follow a low-residue diet.
Talk with your doctor if you have diabetes, heart disease, or any other condition, and you need to eat or avoid certain foods.
You may take a bath or a shower. It is okay to do this with or without your pouch on.
Drugs and medicines:
Talk with your doctor if you are taking birth control pills. Your body may not absorb them well enough to keep you from getting pregnant.
It is best to empty your pouch when it is about one-third to one-half full. It is easier than when it is fuller, and there will be less odor.
To empty your pouch (remember, stool may keep coming out of the stoma as you do this):
Clean and rinse the inside and outside of the pouch.
You will also need to know about:
Chew your foods well. This will help keep high-fiber foods from blocking your stoma.
Some signs of blockage are sudden cramping in your belly, a swollen stoma, nausea (with or without vomiting), and sudden increase of very watery output.
Drinking hot tea and other liquids may flush any foods that are blocking the stoma.
There will be times when nothing comes out of your ileostomy for a little while. This is normal.
Call your doctor or nurse right away if your ileostomy bag stays empty longer than 4 to 6 hours. Your intestine may be blocked.
Do NOT just take a laxative if this problem happens.
Some foods that may block your stoma are raw pineapple, nuts and seeds, celery, popcorn, corn, dried fruits (such as raisins), mushrooms, chunky relishes, coconut, and some Chinese vegetables.
Tips for when no stool is coming from your stoma:
Some foods will loosen your stools and can increase output after you eat them. If you believe a certain food has caused a change in your stools, do not eat it for a while, and then try again. These foods may make your stools looser:
Some foods will make your stool thicker. Some of these are applesauce, baked potatoes, rice, bread, peanut butter, pudding, and baked apples.
Drink 8 to 10 glasses of fluid a day. Drink more when it is hot or when you have been very active.
If you have diarrhea or your stools are looser or more watery:
Call your doctor or nurse if:
Standard ileostomy - discharge; Brooke ileostomy - discharge; Continent ileostomy - discharge; Abdominal pouch - discharge; End ileostomy - discharge; Ostomy - discharge
Cima RR. Pemberton JH. Ileostomy, colostomy, and pouches. In: Feldman M. Friedman LS, Brandt LJ. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2006:chap 110.
Fry RD, Mahmoud N, Maron DJ, Ross HM, Rombeau J. Colon and rectum. In: Townsend Jr. CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 50.
Khatri VP, Asensio JA, eds. Subtotal colectomy/panproctocolectomy and j-pouch reconstruction. Operative Surgery Manual. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2003:chap 35.
Scriver G, Hyman N. Ileostomy construction. Ileostomy construction. Operative Techniques in General Surgery. 2007 Mar;1: 43-49.
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"Your Personal Statement should address why you desire to pursue a dental education and how a dental degree contributes to your personal and professional goals."
After this open-ended statement lies a blank box on the AADSAS dental application for you to wow admissions committees with your courageous goals and impressive abilities. Undoubtedly, filling in the 4,500 characters of your personal statement is an intimidating task. Although you have a lot of information to cover, don't get overwhelmed. Follow these simple steps to get your dental school personal statement started (and finished) in no time.
First – What Does a "Losing" Personal Statement Look Like?
To write a winning dental school personal statement you need to first avoid all of the errors that transform so many essays into unimpressive "losing" essays
A "losing" personal statement is:
- Generic: Here's the test to see if your essay is generic and unoriginal. Cover up your name at the top of the page and ask yourself: "Is there anything in this personal statement that is unique to me, or could it have been written by any pre-dent?"
- Safe: A safe essay has shares no vision of the future, gives no promises, shows no ambition and no passion. A safe essay relies on discussion of your past experiences rather than expectations of your future career.
- Restrained: All the 'blood' — the joy, excitement, and enthusiasm — is drained out of a restrained essay. My favorite example is an essay that says 'being a dentist won't suck as much as my original plan of engineering.'
Your Three Main Goals For Your Personal Statement
Your personal statement has three main goals: it tells the committee why you want to be a dentist, proves that your experiences have prepared you for dental school, and shows that you have the qualities that will make you a successful dentist. Start by asking yourself a few important questions. "How will dental school help me fulfill my dreams?" "How do my academic work, my community involvement, my clinical experiences, and my future ambitions all relate to dentistry?"
Paint a Vivid Picture in Your Essay
After you have answered these questions, it's time to show, not tell. Find stories from your experiences that will illustrate these ideas. Ask yourself, "What stories demonstrate that I already have a head start on developing the skills of a competent and caring dentist?"
You don't want to start your essay with, "I desire to pursue a dental education because of a, b, and c." Start with a bang— immediately pull the reader into an engaging story. Effective statements weave together two or thre e personal anecdotes that illustrate why you want to be a dentist—and why you would make a good dentist.
To find your stories, think about aspects from your background that relate to dentistry. What patient contact experiences have you had? Think about one specific patient you showed compassion to or helped. When have you been a leader? Strong leadership stories can come out of group projects, clubs, sports teams, tutoring, being a TA, work, etc. What accomplishments have you achieved? Achievements can range from research projects to job performance to advancement in club leadership. Admissions committees love diverse applicants. What are your talents? Playing the guitar or sculpting not only shows that you're well-rounded, but also that you work well with your hands—an integral skill for a dentist.
Passion Wins — Don't Hold Back
The best stories show your readers, rather than tell them about your experiences and qualities. Write about pivotal moments by zooming in on the action. Be descriptive and creative. If you write, "I feel that I can be truly compassionate when a patient is in pain," you are telling your reader something. If you write, "As tears rolled down the girl's cheeks, I found myself grabbing her hand. I wanted to keep her from squirming. I squeezed her hand tighter and looked her in the eye," you are showing your reader how you are compassionate when a patient is in pain. Paint pictures for your reader. Anchor images in their mind with descriptions and dialogue. Detail not only makes your writing more interesting, but it also shows that you have an observant mind—and a good memory.


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Objections and Answers
There are plenty of objections to Christianity and becoming a Christian, but there are just as many answers. Following are some of the more common objections with answers.
- I am not a sinner
- There is no such thing as sin
- What is sin?
- I am too big a sinner
- What is salvation?
- What do I do to get saved?
- Is baptism necessary for salvation?
- I am already good enough
- I am doing the best I can and I'm sincere
- I am skeptical about God
- I tried Christianity once.
- I knew some Christians once and they wronged me
- I'll take my chances.
- I am not that bad a person
- I am too old or too young to be a Christian
- I can't believe in a God who would send people to hell
- I will worry about God in the next life
- I don't want to give up what I like doing
- Christianity is boring
- I am an atheist. I don't believe in God
- I am trying to be a Christian
- I am already religious
- I don't need God
- I have things I need to do before I become a Christian
- I prefer to remain open minded about God
- I already believe in God
- I'll choose God later
- There are too many hypocrites in the church
- Why are we here? Or, Why did God make us?
- What about those who have never heard the Gospel?
- Jesus is only one of many great men of history
- Why is there evil and suffering in the world?
- What makes Jesus so special?
- Why did Jesus have to die in order for me to go to heaven?
- What makes you think the Bible is the word of God?
- The Bible was written to look like Jesus fulfilled prophecy
- The Bible is full of contradictions.
- How do I know which religion is right?
- Religion is whatever you feel is right
- All religions are different paths to the same place
- What about dinosaurs and evolution?
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Regardless, we dined on many dishes over the course of two hours and enjoyed ourselves. The full menu of what we ate is listed below. Highlights included Grilled Avocado with ponzu, wasabi, and nori salt. This simple vegetable dish was a classic reminder of our recent trip to Japan, so that was fun. I also enjoyed the grilled Zucchini with lemon and thyme. For the meat courses, I was impressed with the Chicken Thigh skewer served with housemade yakitori sauce. Keith devoured the Hambugu, a Japanese-style wagyu beef hamburger steak with red wine Worcestershire sauce. For an additional dollar, he got it topped with a fried egg that reminded him of the Loco-Moco dish he had in Hawaii. One thing I would pass on is the sautéed edamame, as they were drowned in way too much oil. The Tuna Poke was a bit fishy and while I love aji in sushi form, I did not prefer the fried preparation of Aji-Fry. I thought the panko breading was too heavy and overpowered the delicate fish.
To go with our food we ordered another round of drinks. I chose a favorite glass of white wine - Gruner Veltliner, while Keith tried the Rickey-san made with Hendricks gin, matcha green tea soda, yuzu, and lime. This spin of the famous DC drink was very refreshing and much better than the first cocktail I had. Overall, we had a fulfilling dinner at Daikaya. Though prices are bit high, the shared small plates concept is perfect for couples and groups. I still want to come back to Daikaya to check out the ramen shop downstairs.
Total Rating: 3.33
Food:3.5, Price: 2.5, Service: 3, Ambience: 3.5, Accessibility: 5
What I ate:
Sautéed Edamame
with garlic, extra virgin olive olive, chili, lemon
Grilled Avocado
with ponzu, wasabi, nori salt
with lemon and thyme
Tuna Poke
with seaweed and pine nuts
Chicken Thigh
with housemade yakitori sauce
panko-fried Japanese horse mackerel with tonkatsu sauce
Chicken Karaage
with chili-Kewpie sauce
rice ball stuffed with soy and seaweed
Chocolate Ice Cream
with miso-banana caramel sauce and banana chips
Plus Keith ate:
Fried Garlic
with kimchi-miso sauce and pickled garlic
Mesclun Salad
with carrot-ginger dressing
Japanese-style wagyu beef hamburger steak
with red wine Worcestershire sauce
topped with a fried egg
rice ball stuffed with pork and sweet miso


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Buffalo Rock State Park
On the bluffs of the Illinois River, this small but charming park is home to an enormous outdoor sculpture. Mounds representing five earthen sculptures molded from Illinois clay, known as Effigy Tumuli, invite visitors to walk around and explore. All five subjects, including a snake, turtle, catfish, frog and insect are native to the Illinois River area. This State Park offers the ideal terrain for the beginner hiker.
CITY: Ottawa
Blackberry Farm
Go on a one of a kind country adventure you'll never forget! Become pioneers for a day on a real 1800s farm and village. Miniature train rides, pony rides, petting zoo, pioneer craft demonstrations, and special events. In the Discovery Barn see chickens, sheep, piglets, baby goats and more.
CITY: Aurora
Rialto Theatre
Historic Vaudeville Movie Theatre listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wide variety of performances.
CITY: Joliet
Naper Settlement -- Outdoor History Museum
Chicagoland's only 19th Century Village with historic homes, shops, a chapel, fort and one-room schoolhouse in a 13-acre park-like setting with costumed villagers, exhibits and more.
CITY: Naperville
Two Brothers Roundhouse
Originally constructed in 1855-1865, the roundhouse was renovated and now houses Illinois' largest microbrewery and brewpub. Passion for beer, love of food, and appreciation for great architecture flourishes in the walls of this historic 70,000 square foot facility. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Two Brothers Roundhouse is the oldest limestone roundhouse in the United States. As they bring new life to this 155 year old building, enjoy a casual atmosphere in the main dining room gastropub, our sports tavern and music venue or our new cafe and bakery. There is more to do than dinner at the Roundhouse. As with the beer and food, the live entertainment has a local flair. Whether it be a wedding, reunion or corporate event, they have a variety of spaces for friends and family to gather. Cheers!
CITY: Aurora
Joliet Area Historical Museum
Travel through time and space! Walk through a replica of the I & M Canal, window shop on a turn-of-the-century street, take a virtual ride on a replica trolley, live the legend of Route 66, land on the moon in a walk-in simulator, and experience space exploration and the Apollo missions. Temporary exhibits change often in our Special Exhibition Gallery. There's always family fun in our discovery room, and remember your visit with a souvenir from our Gift Shop.
CITY: Joliet
Batavia Depot Museum
Experience railroad and war history alongside Batavia-related exhibits. The original bed and dresser from Mary Todd Lincoln's room at Bellview Sanitarium are displayed here.
CITY: Batavia
Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple of Greater Chicago
This temple is one of only three Sri Venkateswara Hindu temples in the United States, constructed by Native American artisans.
CITY: Aurora
Millennium Carillon in Moser Tower
The Millennium Carillon, a unique musical instrument consisting of 72 bells, is one of only four Grand Carillons in the world. Enjoy carillonneurs perform during the summer concert series and climb 253 steps to the observation area to marvel at the views.
CITY: Naperville
Ottawa Visitors Center
Open 7 days a week to service the traveling public. The Ottawa Visitors Center is your one stop shop for information on the Starved Rock Areas special events, lodging, and outdoor activities. Stroll our turn-of-the-century Old Town with its lush walkways, boutique shops and unique restaurants. Stop here for your "Scenic Route to the Rock."
CITY: Ottawa
Reddick Mansion Association
One of Ottawa's greatest treasures. Built in 1858, this three story, 22-room Italianate mansion was possibly the most expensive private home in Illinois at that time. Tours available 6 days a week- 11am to 3pm. Closed Tuesdays & major holidays.
CITY: Ottawa
Jacob Henry Mansion
Elegant National Historic Landmark offers unique Victorian setting for weddings/receptions. Groups and tours welcome.
CITY: Joliet
Ottawa Scouting Museum
A museum to promote and preserve the colorful and proud traditions of Boy/ Girl Scouting and Campfire.
CITY: Ottawa
Fabyan Windmill
Authentic, five-story, 1850's working windmill located on Fox River Trail, Volunteer millers serve as docents on the weekends. Open May 15-Oct 15.
CITY: Geneva
Aurora Downtown Walking Tour
Take a self-guided tour of Aurora's historic downtown. Tour brochures are available at the Aurora Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
CITY: Aurora
Aurora Historic Districts/Aurora Historic Preservation Commission
Tour the Near Eastside (350 homes dating from the 1800s), Stolp Island, Westside and Riddle Highlands, two of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
CITY: Aurora
Joliet Iron Works Historic Site
Joliet Iron Works Historic Site features 0.59 mile of paved trail that provides a self-guided interpretive tour of the site's historical significance. Take a free, naturalist-led tour of blast furnace ruins. Reservations are required.
CITY: Joliet
Fabyan Villa Museum & Japanese Garden
The Fabyan Villa Museum, a 1907 Frank Lloyd Wright redesign, is located in the Fabyan Forest Preserve. It houses unique natural and Oriental artifacts from the collection of Colonel George and Nelle Fabyan.
CITY: Geneva
Jacob Henry Mansion Estate Dinner Theatre
Located on the Jacob Henry Mansion Estate, guests are greeted with our famous family hospitality, homemade meals and heartwarming musical productions. Lunch matinees and dinner shows are complimented by itineraries that include tours of our other historic properties, or excursions into Joliet's vibrant downtown. The Jacob Henry Mansion Estate Dinner Theatre welcomes groups with onsite motorcoach parking and handicap accessibilty.
CITY: Joliet
The Old Barn Museum
Housed in an original 1840s barn, this museum features thousands of Native American artifacts, including arrows, axes, drills, stone implements, trade beads, beaded garments and natural history items.
CITY: Newark
Geneva History Center
They offer award winning educational programs and professional exhibits that make the Geneva History Center a source of great community pride.
CITY: Geneva
Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum
A museum established to promote and preserve the history of the Ottawa area and the colorful and proud traditions of Boy/Girl Scouting and Camp Fire. Features national traveling exhibits from museums and libraries. Open Thursday-Monday 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Closed on Holidays.
CITY: Ottawa
Air Classics Museum of Aviation
Vintage military and training planes, plus displays of aviation uniforms and memorabilia. Open by appointment only.
CITY: Sugar Grove
Joliet Prison Park
Once you arrive, a huge steel and barbed wire entry sign will beckon you into a park unlike any other. Information kiosks on site offer an insight into the prison's past and inmate history, as well as the famous films that have been shot here.
CITY: Joliet


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Flames burn Panthers in Big South semifinals
The High Point University women's soccer team fell to No. 2-seed Liberty by a score of 4-1 in the semifinals of the 2013 Big South Women's Soccer Championship presented by Musco Lighting on Friday night. Redshirt-freshman Kelsey Perrell scored for the Panthers in the loss.
"This was a tough match tonight," HPU head coach Marty Beall said. "Liberty was excellent in all facets of the game and at the end of the day I thought they did what they needed to do to get the result. Our team never quits and I am disappointed that it ended this way for our seniors."
Liberty scored twice in the first six minutes of the game to jump out to an early 2-0 lead over the Panthers. LU's first goal came on a header by Casey Norris in the fourth minute off a free kick into the box by Brittany Aanderud. Two minutes later, Swentik got behind the HPU defense on a long ball by Aanderud and beat May one-on-one to put the Flames up by two.
The Flames pushed the lead to 3-0 in the 61st minute when Dawn Elmers scored with a shot from the top of the HPU penalty area. Elmers wrestled control of a loose ball from HPU defense and hit a shot to the lower left corner with her first touch.
Perrell got a goal back for High Point in the 66th minute with her seventh goal of the season. Perrell beat the LU right back and took a shot from a tight angle on the left edge of the box. The ball sailed over Liberty keeper Van Noord and into the top right corner of the goal.
Liberty scored the final goal of the game in the 77th minute when Alanna Dunkle took advantage of a spilled ball by HPU keeper Jesse May and scored on her first touch. May beat Liberty's Erika Troutman to a through ball but could not control it. Dunkle hit a shot with her first touch and bent it inside the near post for the goal.
High Point was outshot in the game 25-18. The Panthers put 11 shots on frame including a team-high four by Perrell.
May made nine saves in the loss for High Point. The nine stops by May were the second most this season by the senior. Holly Van Noord also made nine saves in the game for Liberty.
HPU finishes the 2013 season with a 9-10-1 overall record. Liberty improves to 15-5-1 on the season and advances on to the Big South Championship on Sunday at 2 p.m., where the Flames will face top seed Radford.
LYNCHBURG, Va. — The High Point University volleyball team pulled out a decisive 15-7 win in the fifth set to beat Liberty 3-2 (25-20, 17-25, 25-17, 14-25, 15-7) on Friday at the Vines Center. Juniors Chelsea Davis and Kristin Heldt each posted a double-double in the Big South road win.
"This was a great win for our program," said HPU head coach Jason Oliver. "We found a way late in the match when we weren't at our best to pull out a win. Chelsea Davis and Kristin Heldt stepped up like seniors and Maddie Simpson and Michelle Chakirelis led on every play. We need that type of effort combined with a higher level of execution in order to beat Radford tomorrow."
Davis led the Panthers with 17 kills, 12 digs, three aces and three solo blocks. Heldt added 15 kills, 16 digs and two blocks. Simpson had 40 assists and 16 digs for HPU's third double-double of the night. Chakirelis hit .462 with seven kills and four blocks.
High Point improves to 13-13 overall and 7-4 in league games. Liberty drops to 7-17 overall and 6-5 in the Big South.
LEXINGTON — Davidson County Community College placed eight in double figures in a 123-65 win over the Montreat College Junior Varsity on Friday night.
Trey Smith led the Storm (4-0) with 20 points, while Daniel Lawson had 19, C.J. Woodberry 14, Ace Chalmers 13, Sean Phifer 12, Robert Story 11, Darius Howell 10 and Gary Hairston 10.
DCCC plays at Guilford Tech on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
JAMESTOWN — Guilford Tech netted an 89-84 win over Thomasville Prep in men's basketball late Thursday.
Mark Chinn led GTCC (1-0) with 28 points and five rebounds.
CONCORD — T.J. Howe of Osceola, Pa. won the eGolf Tour's Cabarrus Classic, firing a final-round 68 at host Cabarrus Country Club on Friday.
It marked Howe's third eGolf Tour title of the season. Howe finished at 15-under 201. Adam Webb placed second, one stroke back.


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We now have a new addition to our ever-growing list of fake body parts the world wants you to feel bad about: Cleavage wrinkles.
According to the New York Times: "Cleavage wrinkles are deep, vertical creases caused by hours spent sleeping on one's side, where gravity forces the top breast to bend farther past the body's midline than it should. The lines can also be caused by sports and push-up bras, which smush the breasts together and are often worn for hours."
First of all: Really, New York Times? Don't you maybe have some wars or a failing economy to write about? I know this ran in your Thursday Styles section, but surely, there are more pressing matters to be covered even there. Owling or something.
Next thought: Sleeping on your side is the best. I do it almost every night, preferably with my face smushed into my pillow. Also, I'm not light on top and I wear sports bras four times a week. So I'm pretty sure if cleavage wrinkles were a thing, I'd have them.
But I don't, because they are not a thing. Just like ugly armpits, cankles, muffin-tops, and even waists. They were invented by the marketers of Dove deodorant, Spanx, and now, products like the ChestSavers bra ($56 to $78) and the Kush Support ($19.99), both designed to be worn between your breasts while you sleep to prevent the dreaded boob-squishing.
Because you know what's sexier than cleavage wrinkles? Sleeping in a weird-shaped bra with a "doggie bone shaped piece of polyester" between your girls. The ChestSavers bra inventor describes her creation as "kinky," but let's call a spade a spade: We're talking about mouth guards for your boobs.
And here's where the New York Times really lost me. The article could have closed by questioning the beauty standard that demands women have grapefruit-sized breasts yet also expects them to be so buoyant that the skin above and around them never budges -- a feat of physical impossibility thus requiring cash expenditures on polyester dog bones or wrinkle fillers from your local plastic surgeon. Instead, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner closes with the perspective of "one flat-chested woman," who sighs, "some people would be so happy to have cleavage that they would never think to complain about the wrinkles that accompanied them."
This the-grass-is-always-greener explanation of body image issues pits women against each other and helps no one. Now all the large-breasted women who are stressing about cleavage wrinkles look spoiled -- when they're just responding to the tremendous cultural pressure that accompanies big boobs (that you can have your boobs but only if everything else about your body is small, flat and tight). And simultaneously, the smaller-breasted woman comes off as jealous and self-righteous, which does that camp no favors either.
If you want to be grouchy about cleavage wrinkles -- and I definitely do -- complain to the product manufacturers who created this problem and the New York Times for devoting 1,005 words to "solving" it. But let's not waste time eye-rolling at other women. Her cleavage wrinkles are your cankles, are my muffin-top... are somebody else's fictional body part hang-up. And we all need to work together to let these go -- before we get something new to worry about.


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|In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 photo, an Egyptian protester take cover beside a vehicle damaged during clashes between protesters and Egyptian security forces in Downtown Cairo, Egypt. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, Egypt's army chief warns of "the collapse of the state" if political crisis continues. (AP/Virginie Nguyen Hoang)
PORT SAID, Egypt — Residents of this Mediterranean coastal city burying their dead from Egypt's wave of political violence vented their fury at Egypt's Islamist president and the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, demanding his ouster and virtually declaring a revolt against his rule, as the head of the military warned Egypt may collapse under the weight of its turmoil.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi' strongly worded comments, his first since the crisis began, appeared aimed at pushing both sides in Egypt's political divide to reconcile and find a solution to the rapidly spreading protests and riots across much of the country the past six days.
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CORPUS CHRISTI -- Mary's law is supposed to help prevent domestic violence cases from escalating to the level of danger just experienced by Leticia Perales, police say her boyfriend Jacob Salazar shot her four times last night. She's now in intensive care.
But the law, initiated by local leaders, has never been put to use in Nueces county.
We attended the District Judges' meeting today to find out why.
"I try to enforce that stay away order and I'll use GPS if I need to," Judge David Stith told us after the meeting.
He says those stay away orders could make the difference between life and death. That's why he orders GPS monitors to track abusers, but here in Nueces county, those GPS monitors aren't being used the way Mary's law intended. The law requires attackers to be tracked by GPS, but, the difference is if an abuser gets too close to a victim, that victim and authorities are notified by text.
Are there certain cases where you think a potential victim could benefit from having that kind of notice," we asked Stith. "I think its important to do in all the cases and if its not being done, then I'll tell you we're at our judges' meeting and I'll make it an issue on the agenda for our next judges' meeting we'll make that happen," he replied.
If they do make that happen, victims advocates like Susan Holley Lowe, who helped create the law says it will not just save lives, it will also give victims and their families some peace. Just yesterday, she saw a family in need whose youngest children understand the dangers of domestic violence too well.
"One of the children as they entered the shelter and the door closed said, 'oh mommy we have freedom now,'" Lowe said.
Larry Vanderwoude showed those devices and the latest technology to the Council of District Judges today. He says his company has the equipment and technology in Corpus Christi right now. all it takes is an order from a judge.
"It runs anywhere from $7 to $9 a day," Vanderwoude said, "the offender pays for it."
For the victims, though, the freedom of living with less fear is priceless.
"They live with that heightened level of fear all the time, that having to look over your shoulder constantly," said Lowe.
Some experts caution that Mary's Law gives victims a false sense of security, because if an offender cuts off the device, victims could be caught off guard. Judge Stith says it's still worth the effort to get this program going here.
Domestic violence is a big problem in Corpus Christi. In fact, the Women's Shelter of South Texas has exceeded its capacity of 65 people. There are currently 74 women and children staying at the shelter. Leadership at the shelter tells us they often see a increase in demand for services during summer months.
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Sept. 25, 2014
Jerry is continuing to do well and was released from the hospital yesterday. He is "overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from all over the world! Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart! "
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Chill and Teo are joined by Izaak to talk about the deployment of Game Update 1.4 and other news. We also discuss SWTOR's gearing model for endgame, with its proposed three tiers of operations.
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, investors, analysts, legislators, and pundits have spotlighted "good" or "improved" corporate governance as a remedy for all that presently ails us. It is one remedy in a long wish list that includes tougher requirements for risk capital, liquidity, and leverage; compensation and bonus reform; reimposition of the Glass-Steagall-like separation of bank "utility" and "casino" functions; the downsizing or breakup of institutions deemed "too big to fail;" enhanced consumer protection; securities law liability for secondary violators (like credit rating agencies); direct taxation of proprietary trading; "macro-prudential" regulation; and new transparency requirements for derivatives trading and clearance.
This time, the proposed objects of corporate governance reform are not Michael Eisner's personal "magic kingdom" at the Walt Disney Company or Andy Fastow's self-dealing and ultimately self-deceiving Enron Corporation, but the global financial institutions that saw their balance sheets degraded-and the global credit markets put at risk-by proprietary trading in so-called "toxic" assets and other high-risk, high-reward, "casino" activities. The renewed focus on good corporate governance pertains not only to the perceived asymmetry between the outlandish compensation dished out at now bankrupt or massively bailed-out firms, but also to the traditional, broader roster of corporate governance mechanisms designed to enhance director-manager accountability to firm "owners"-the shareholders. In this case, however, more effective corporate governance may not be a serious part of the solution; instead, "good" (or effectively functioning) corporate governance may have been one of the major factors that contributed to the global financial meltdown. This insight highlights the existence of unalterable constraints on any corporate governance system, and emphasizes the need for even more robust government regulation of private businesses-especially firms that function at the core of a global capital allocation system.
I. The Rhetorical Rush for Improved Corporate Governance
The focus on corporate governance reform as a remedy for the global financial disaster is embodied in the text of the Shareholder Bill of Rights Act introduced in the U.S. Senate in May 2009. The legislation states that "[a]mong the central causes of the financial and economic crises that the United States faces today has been a widespread failure of corporate governance." (emphasis added) Like the Compensation Fairness statute passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2009, the Senate bill uses the global financial crisis as the justification for a long list of measures advocated by shareholder activists over the past two decades. The statute seeks not only to promote checks on, and accountability for, executive compensation, but also to "provide shareholders with enhanced authority over the nomination [and] election . . . of public company executives" and to incentivize executives "to appropriately analyze and oversee enterprise risk, and . . . prioritize the long-term health of their firms and their shareholders." The statute would amend the 1934 Securities Exchange Act to (i) mandate "say on pay" and "golden parachute" advisory shareholder votes, the separation of the offices of chairman and chief executive officer, majority affirmative voting in director elections, and the creation of a new "risk committee" composed of independent directors responsible for overseeing risk management practices; (ii) eliminate the possibility of staggered boards (so effective at blocking changes to corporate control); and (iii) permit the inclusion of shareholder nominees to the board of directors in corporate proxies.
This rush to improve corporate governance structures, as exemplified by the Senate's Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, is entirely understandable as a gut response to the crisis and the crippling worldwide recession-depression that followed. No one can deny the power of the idea underlying initiatives such as the Shareholder Bill of Rights: that firm managers are accountable to, and should work in the interest of, the bearers of residual risk-the equity holders. Yet, in the wake of the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers and the near-demise of Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and AIG, that obligation has been narrowed to focus on the duty of managers to avoid bankruptcy and maintain continuing business operations. At the same time, and because of these shocking failures, the equally powerful and complementary idea that well-governed firms and their managers should produce the highest returns for shareholders is largely ignored. The current chorus urging improved corporate governance at financial firms thus places too much emphasis on the first motive (avoiding terminal failure in times of desperation) while ignoring the perverse incentives produced by the latter (boosting current profits in boom times).
Not to be misunderstood, I should declare my strong affection for the concept of good corporate governance. The fact is, however, that good corporate governance, and what we yearn for as improved corporate governance, only really functions effectively in two limited areas: protection against opportunistic or conflicted behavior by insiders-agents, and internal firm monitoring. In the first area, those aspects of corporate governance which restrict ex ante, or identify and punish ex post, loyalty breaches, conflicts of interest, related party transactions, asset stripping, oppression and the like, are appropriately directed at protecting the interests of minority shareholders. (Of course, oftentimes conflicted, related party or apparently "disloyal" transactions may serve the interest of the firm and ultimately even the minority shareholders. Corporate governance works most effectively in these situations by helping firm owners understand the prospect of such transactions ex ante and allowing them informed approval powers with respect to the same. The same mechanisms also provide ex post sanctions which incentivize conflicted insiders to seek either such approval ex ante or immediate ratification.) Thus, restrictions or approval powers on sky-high compensation doled out by boards to executives who dominate or who have selected the same boards-or protections against backdating executive options to ensure they are "in the money"-are entirely appropriate and effective in battling (and publicly shaming) insider opportunism. In the second area, effective corporate governance also functions to increase transparency inside firms, so that vigilant managers can understand, monitor, and direct the activity of firm agents. This is what the U.S. Senate bill refers to in alluding to the responsibility of public company executives "to appropriately analyze and oversee enterprise risk." To the extent the global financial crisis truly resulted from "rogue" traders taking on too much risk under the noses of their unknowing managers, any monitoring duty that conforms to the standard articulated by Chancellor Allen in In re Caremark Int'l Inc. Derivative Litigation[1] is a net positive, and could function to increase internal firm transparency, while helping top executives and the board of directors to actually monitor and direct such trading.
II. The Harm Arising from "Good" Corporate Governance
Sadly however, most other aspects of traditional corporate governance-good or improved, indifferent or idealized-are quite irrelevant to what occurs at modern firms. The irrelevance of corporate governance with respect to large, widely held, insider-dominated corporations is the subject of a huge literature, which I will not rehearse here. Suffice to say that the problems of information asymmetry, an overly accommodating business judgment rule that emasculates duty of care, collective action constraints, and cost-sharing obstacles are well understood. And such problems have been alleviated only in part by the U.S. securities regulatory establishment dating from the New Deal, the derivative lawsuit action imported into U.S. state corporate law from England, and the combination of a robust class action mechanism and lawyers' contingency fee arrangements allowing for cost-fronting and cost-sharing. (Perhaps unfortunately, the power of these remedies has been significantly diluted with the higher burdens created for private attorneys general in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the broad legislative and doctrinal assault on private securities litigation starting in the 1980s.) Even large institutional investors, long anointed as the saviors of "shareholder-oriented" corporate law and governance, proved largely absent in the attempt to monitor or rein in the likes of AIG, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and many other similar financial firms. In the financial sector specifically, this failure results not only from the same collective action obstacles encountered by minority shareholders in traditional industrial firms, but also from the mind-boggling complexity of world-spanning financial institutions and their businesses. Even if inspired to monitor operations, few institutional investors (and perhaps few senior executives at the financial firms themselves) possess the technical expertise and breadth of knowledge to understand the financial products and trading strategies they are charged with overseeing, not to mention the global risk profile of the firm.
More importantly, and the idea which animates this writing, is the worry that so-called "good" or improved corporate governance might be not simply irrelevant but actually harmful, and something which directly contributed to the 2008-2009 systemic dysfunction of the global financial sector. How is this so? The language of the Senate bill cited above provides a strong hint of the problem, specifically where the statute invokes improved corporate governance so that managers will "prioritize the long-term health of their firms and their shareholders." There is no doubt that the traditional menu of corporate governance mechanisms-designed to make management more responsive to the interests of shareholders-will cause those managers to "prioritize [the interests of] . . . their shareholders."
However, at the same time, there is very significant doubt as to whether that prioritization, or those interests, have anything whatsoever to do with the long-term health of the firms, much less with the long-term health and stability of the financial system more broadly. Indeed, for financial firms, the short-term shareholder interest is focused almost exclusively on reported profits and the directly related stock price. On this point, we may want to draw a distinction between industrial companies and financial sector firms. Industrial and manufacturing firms engage in the production and marketing of material goods and related services, and thus managers of such firms might truly be interested in long-term growth and continuing presence in a given products market. Conversely, financial firms engage in activities related to relatively instantaneous capital allocation, and increasingly the proprietary trading of financial instruments, where there is no long term interest for investors-shareholders (other than franchise and reputation, primarily important in the service of procuring short-term revenues.) Even if some rare species of financial firm shareholders took a long-term firm view, investors in financial firms are not interested in the health and viability of the entire financial (and credit) system. In a word, most financial firm shareholders are interested in the current profits of the firm in which they invest, with little regard for the long-term health of the firm itself, and no identifiable interest whatsoever in the entire financial system-sectoral, national, or global.
III. The Pursuit of Current Shareholder Returns and Systemic Risk
What is the key implication arising from this rather common sense insight? Simply this: insofar as much-celebrated corporate governance norms make firm managers responsible to their shareholders, the same mechanisms incentivize managers to be irresponsible vis à vis the entire system, implicating systemic risk. Lest these concerns seem entirely theoretical, let me invoke two illustrative examples from the recent global financial crisis: BNP Paribas and AIG.
Before the depth of the crisis became apparent, French banking giant Banque National de Paris (BNP Paribas) implemented its own highly conservative risk capital and liquidity requirements (conservative and idiosyncratic, i.e., more stringent than those required under the Basel II Accords). Because of this wise course, profits at BNP Paribas lagged significantly behind those of high-flying European competitors Deutsche Bank and Société Generale (SocGen). BNP Paribas endured a drumbeat of criticism in the financial press, a sickly and static stock price, and disruptive shareholder efforts to change senior management. With the onset of the global financial crisis, however, both Deutsche Bank and SocGen were laid low along with the global financial sector, while BNP Paribas survived in far better shape and as a mainstay of the new, more responsible, global financial order. This is one example of how traditional corporate governance principles rewarded managers at Deutsche Bank and SocGen for irresponsible risk-taking, higher short-term profitability, and a dynamic stock price, while punishing (and almost deposing) managers at BNP Paribas who implemented wisely crafted prudential structures designed to ensure, inter alia, long-term firm and overall market stability and health.
A second example invokes the now notorious AIG, widely recognized as "ground zero" for the crisis. Starting in the 1980s, AIG investors and senior managers alike were happy to allow the firm's little-noticed (and even less-governed or regulated) London-based Financial Products Division (FPD) to write guarantees structured as "credit default swaps" (CDSs) on collateralized debt obligations-securitized instruments that, after the 1990s, were increasingly created on the back of an exploding volume of new mortgages sourced from the U.S. real estate bubble built on artificially low interest rates. Because so many of these CDS guarantees and the underlying obligations were initially deemed, and rated as, low risk (because the initial obligations that were fed into the securitized instruments, and were risk-modeled by underwriters and rating agencies, were corporate rather than homeowner obligations), and because AIG was not directly regulated as a bank or non-bank financial institution, AIG never hedged against or collateralized its growing exposure. By 2008, the AIG FPD had exposure on these "insurance" contracts backing a wide variety of highly rated paper aggregating in the billions of U.S. dollars. Indeed, for AIG managers (and investors) this appeared to be "win-win"-a rich source of fees and premium income with no implication of serious risk given the ratings bestowed on the guaranteed collateralized debt obligations. By the summer of 2008, however, as the U.S. housing market collapsed, mortgagor home buyers obligated to pay into the mortgage-backed securities began defaulting in huge numbers. With default rates on the rise, rating agencies immediately downgraded the originally low-risk mortgage-backed securities, thereby triggering demands that AIG post ever-increasing amounts of collateral to protect the CDS purchasers, and finally causing the U.S. government to bail out AIG with $150 billion. Once again, the sorry story of AIG and its wildly "successful" and current profits-generating FPD shows how traditional corporate governance principles incentivized irresponsible and almost completely unmonitored risk-taking, higher short-term profitability, and a dynamic stock price, while ultimately putting at risk the continuing viability of CDS counterparty mainstays of the global financial system (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, etc.), not to mention the global financial system itself.
IV. The Limits of Private Law
Improved corporate governance at financial firms, then, is not a panacea for righting the global financial sector, and in fact may have contributed directly to the global financial crisis. As noted above, corporate governance norms are important and effective for the protection of shareholders (in particular minority shareholders) against insider opportunism and controlling shareholder-insider oppression. However, these near-perfect corporate governance conventions pushed financial firms and their managers into high risk, high (short-term) reward areas for shareholders-areas that ultimately gave rise to the most significant threat to the health, stability, and allocation efficiency of financial markets for the world. The problem is not simply that judges construing corporate duties cannot take account of the interests of "other (non-shareholder) constituencies." That consideration has become entirely permissible in the United States (and has for many years been accepted in continental Europe and Japan) at least since Unocal Corporation v. Mesa Petroleum Company,[2] and in the wake of many state anti-takeover statutes (albeit tempered by the subsequent warning delivered in Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. against the protection of "other" interests over and above shareholder interests in a sale-of-company scenario[3]). Instead, the real difficulty is that directors and managers are not well situated to think systemically or act in the long-term, national, or global public interest. And judges evaluating management decisions ex post are not competent to evaluate conformity with system-protecting (as against profit-enhancing) standards in any predicable way. For example, should AIG's apparently successful managers have turned away assured profits for AIG shareholders arising from CDSs written virtually non-stop on AAA-rated collateralized debt obligations because of some inchoate fear that the "going was too good," or that a property bubble fed by U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy was going to burst? Similarly, how could any judge evaluate such management decisionmaking ex post and declare that the AIG managers were wrong to prioritize certain, short-term shareholder returns over a speculative (or completely unanticipated) medium-term global meltdown? The answer in both cases, unfortunately, is that what we wish for our management decisionmakers and ex post judicial evaluators is near impossible. Accordingly, our corporate governance norms only ask managers to work for shareholder profits, as we only ask judges to attend to shareholder welfare (which usually focuses on value of shareholder participation in the firm) in evaluating conformity with controlling legal duties and applicable standards.
Recognition of this complex reality highlights the role of public-interested regulators and the limits of private law. Because only a regulator-independent, expert, not shareholder-focused-has the chance to ensure that value-enhancing, profit-seeking activities do not risk systemic injury and market collapse. Corporate governance, private law, and judges simply cannot do this, and as I have suggested here, may actually work against it. The global financial system has long benefited from the existence of such regulators and their prudential regulation of the increasingly globalized financial sector-even if we have also seen periods of disenchantment and frustration with the particular burdens of the regulatory state on "free markets" and (financial product) "innovation." The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 should teach us once again-at least with respect to financial institutions-that we are well advised to enhance prudential regulation by public authorities, over and above the intuitively appealing but wrong-headed desire for "better" or more vigorously enforced corporate governance.
Nicholas Calcina Howson is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a former partner of the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and has taught at Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard Law Schools.
Suggested citation: Nicholas Calcina Howson, Commentary, When "Good" Corporate Governance Makes "Bad" (Financial) Firms: The Global Crisis and the Limits of Private Law, 108 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 44 (2009), http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/fi/108/howson.pdf.
[1]. 698 A.2d 959, 970 (Del. Ch. 1996)
[2]. 493 A.2d 946, 955 (Del. 1985).
[3]. 506 A.2d 173, 184 (Del. 1986).


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Congrats on making your first audio connection from your Android device to Twilio!
You should have heard a welcome message, but as you probably noticed, you had no way to close the connection, as the Hangup button doesn't do anything. So, let's add some functionality to do that. That'll be two steps:
MonkeyPhone able to disconnect an active connection, and
MonkeyPhone is the object talking to the Twilio Client API, let's add
disconnect() method there:
public class MonkeyPhone implements Twilio.InitListener { private Device device; private Connection connection; /* ... other methods ... */ public void disconnect() { if (connection != null) { connection.disconnect(); connection = null; } } /* ... other methods ... */ }
And add code in
HelloMonkeyActivity to call this new method when the hangup
button is pressed:
public class HelloMonkeyActivity extends Activity implements View.OnClickListener { private MonkeyPhone phone; /* ... other methods ... */ @Override public void onClick(View view) { if (view.getId() == R.id.dialButton) phone.connect(); else if (view.getId() == R.id.hangupButton) phone.disconnect(); } }
That's everything! Go ahead and make another call. You can now press the hangup button at any time and your connection will close.