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DIARY OF A SEX SLAVE: THIRD OF A FOUR-PART SPECIAL REPORT / BOUGHT AND SOLD / You Mi is put into debt bondage -- life becomes an endless cycle of sex with strangers
A small sedan pulled up to a run-down motel in Tijuana just before midnight, and a middle-aged Korean American woman behind the wheel ordered You Mi Kim into the backseat.
It was time to "jump" over the border.
Since arriving from South Korea four days earlier, You Mi had been holed up in the motel, waiting to slip into the United States and start what she had been told was a high-paying hostess job in California. She hoped to earn enough to get her out of the $40,000 shopping debt she had recently piled up while a university student.
You Mi had not anticipated an illegal border crossing when she signed up for the job. Worse, she didn't know that she was a pawn in an international sex-trafficking ring -- and that someone was waiting in the United States to buy her.
You Mi got into the car. The driver headed north toward the checkpoint, blending into the 24 lanes of idling traffic inching toward the United States.
Unbeknownst to You Mi, the driver was a "jockey," hired by South Korean sex traffickers to drive women through the busy San Ysidro checkpoint with fake travel documents.
It was February 2003. By then, agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were already on the lookout for Asian drivers, after recording an unusual spike in Koreans coming through border crossings in California, Texas and Washington state.
It was another sign that Asian sex-trafficking networks were becoming increasingly global, branching out from the shadows of sex tourist hot spots in Bangkok and Seoul to install big operations in American cities, particularly Los Angeles and San Francisco.
If You Mi were discovered, agents would handcuff her and take her to a holding cell beneath the road. They would take her fingerprints and deport her.
About 300 feet from the yellow Border Patrol booths, You Mi felt eyes on her.
Roving agents with long screwdrivers, flashlights and guns approached the Korean women in the long line of travelers. You Mi tried to focus her gaze on vendors selling sombreros, guitars and frozen fruit-juice bars to passengers in the cars.
The agents leaned through the window near You Mi.
"I.D.! I.D.!" they demanded. She froze, forgetting the information on the fake visa given to her by sex traffickers masquerading as job brokers.
One agent ordered You Mi's driver to pull out of line for a more thorough search in the secondary inspection portico, near the deportation processing offices.
You Mi watched in terror as agents ordered passengers out of the cars ahead of hers to search their luggage and travel papers.
While waiting, You Mi's driver made a cell phone call to the trafficker who had delivered You Mi to the Tijuana motel.
"Is she still carrying the visa?" he asked.
"Yes, we have it," the driver said.
"If possible, get out and run back toward Mexico. Is there someone watching you guys?"
The driver hung up in a panic. She was cursing herself for accepting a job that she thought was easy money. By now, You Mi was crying with fear.
You Mi's driver ignored the broker's advice. She turned on the ignition. Slowly, she pulled out of the secondary area and headed for the United States. She chose the only exit booth with a female guard, and drove through with nonchalance, as if she had been given clearance to go. Nobody stopped them.
Ten minutes later, the driver pulled off the freeway to a gas station just inside the U.S. border, where a Korean man and a black car awaited.
You Mi had made it to the United States, yet she was anything but free.
At the gas station, the driver took You Mi's fake visa back.
"Good luck," she said, and sped off.
The man at the gas station summoned You Mi to his car, and they headed for Koreatown in Los Angeles, to meet her future boss.
But first, the driver told You Mi, he wanted to stop at a motel and have sex with her.
All the lies and confusion of her journey thus far had You Mi primed for a fight, but she controlled her anger and came up with a strategy. She threatened to report him to the boss if he made any trouble.
Her ploy worked. At 4 a.m., they arrived in Los Angeles, and the man called the boss. Awakened from sleep, he instructed them to go to a motel and call back in five hours.
Although You Mi insisted on two hotel rooms, the driver reserved only one, promising not to touch her.
He slept. She stayed awake, bracing for him to attack her. Finally, the boss called at 9 a.m. and said it was time to meet.
On the way, You Mi got her first glimpse of Koreatown in daylight. There were no high-rises, no neon jungle, no fashion plates crowding the sidewalks. The short, squatty architecture reminded her of South Korea's most outdated neighborhoods. She saw broken-down cars in front yards, garbage in the gutters and homeless people passed out in doorways.
The room-salon sex bars common to South Korea were there, only tucked away behind barbershops and other stores, accessible only to those in the know. There were no glass windows with women on display, like those in You Mi's hometown of Busan. Rather, the women were advertised in the free Korean-language newspapers available on nearly every corner in Koreatown.
Koreatown's sex industry pulsed just as strongly as Busan's, but you couldn't see it from the street. Most of the women in Los Angeles worked in something called an Asian apartment massage parlor, a scaled-down, secretive version of a brothel, where a trafficker operates a massage parlor out of an apartment with one or two masseuses.
At a coffee shop, You Mi looked at her new boss -- round face, round stomach and pudgy fingers stuffed into gold rings. He said she owed him $11,000 for her journey -- $4,000 more than she agreed to in South Korea.
You Mi was tired, beaten down. But she figured that she would be making money pretty fast, so $4,000 more wouldn't be too much of a burden. She agreed.
The boss brought her to an apartment in a cream-colored building with palm trees out front. He told her that she would be sharing an apartment with women who worked for his wife's underground company, Jenny Outcall, which sent women in unlicensed Korean taxis to meet with men who called for sex. He assured her that her hostessing job would be different.
Even though You Mi had to share a bedroom with two other women, the apartment seemed enormous compared with her family home in South Korea. She had never seen a home with two bathrooms, and was awed by the view of the hills from the balcony.
Finally, she was a woman on her own in the big city. Although she'd had some bad experiences on her trip, she felt she had gotten through the worst of it and was finally going to begin correcting the mistakes of her youth.
She changed into a skirt suit to get ready for job interviews. She used makeup to try to cover her acne, which had broken out from the stress of the trip and her money troubles. Her boss drove her to meet several room salon owners, but they all turned her down, saying she was too awkward, too nervous, too pimply.
The boss sent You Mi to a dermatologist, and added the $500 worth of acne creams to her debt.
After four days, he let down the hammer, telling You Mi she wasn't going to find a job in a room salon with her acne and her naivete. He offered her a job in his wife's outcall service, and warned You Mi that she was getting into serious debt trouble and needed to figure something out fast.
You Mi felt queasy. The thought of outcall work terrified her. In South Korea, she had had only a few clumsy sexual experiences with boyfriends, so she didn't know what the men would want her to do.
After weeks of ignoring the warning signs, after hoping against hope that the job she signed up for was nonsexual, You Mi was forced to accept the truth. She sobbed.
Her credit card debt was $40,000 and her trafficking debt was $12,000, and she had no money to get back to Korea. She didn't want to burden her family for a bailout. She didn't even know where she was in California, or who could help her.
An outcall worker sharing the same apartment with You Mi, a 28-year-old married woman on her third trip to the United States for sex work, held You Mi to comfort her.
"Why are you here?" she asked, confused by You Mi's turmoil.
You Mi explained she thought she'd be pouring drinks as a hostess in a Korean room salon, making lots of money.
"What if I don't pay my debt?" You Mi asked.
"If you go back, they will try to find you. ... Things may not get better for you," the woman warned. "I make $15,000 in a month -- so you will be here for only three or four months and you can get out. Think only of that."
You Mi couldn't bring herself to knock on the door of the Koreatown hotel room. She stood there, in a pantsuit she borrowed from her roommate.
She walked back to the elevator. But she couldn't press the call button, either.
Where would she run? How would she repay the criminals, the credit card company? How could she face her family if the house got taken away?
You Mi retraced her steps. She took a deep breath and knocked. A Korean businessman in his 40s with a forgettable face opened the door.
He was wearing a towel.
"Bop mu gut ni?" he said, using the common Korean greeting, "Have you eaten rice yet?"
Trying to stall him, You Mi said she needed to take a shower.
Under the water, she started to tremble. She stayed in the bathroom for 10 minutes, cutting into the hour he had purchased. Fearing her dawdling would raise his ire, she finally emerged in a towel, and sat on the bed.
He noticed she was shaking.
"How long have you been working?" he asked.
You Mi told him the truth, hoping he would take pity on her and let her go. He listened intently, then gave a four-word answer:
"Don't worry, I'll lead."
You Mi stared at a spot on the ceiling and tried not to move -- or think. It was over in five minutes.
Afterward, he said it wasn't very good, but it had a naive quality he enjoyed. He gave her two $100 bills and told her she could leave early.
An underground taxi driver who worked for the outcall service fetched You Mi just before 10 p.m. and took the $200. Half would go to her boss to pay off her trafficking debt, and the other half went to the outcall service. You Mi kept nothing.
Less than two hours later, the "silver taxi" brought her to the next call, a rundown hotel in Koreatown. When she entered her customer's room, he was snorting lines of cocaine on a bedside table.
He wanted her to get high with him but You Mi refused. She had never used drugs and didn't have any interest in them. He became so insistent that it frightened You Mi, and she called the boss' wife and asked what she should do.
She instructed You Mi to ask the man whether he'd like a different girl sent to his room.
"No, it doesn't matter," he said, "I'm just going to call for a second one after you leave anyway."
You Mi ended the call, and within minutes he was having his way with her.
He was so high, that after 80 minutes, he still hadn't reached orgasm. You Mi was in pain, and pleaded with him to tell her what else she could do to get him to climax. But he ignored her cries.
The savior was her cell phone. The boss' wife called to ask what was taking so long. She relieved You Mi and told the man she'd send a second girl.
You Mi rode back to her apartment in another silver taxi. It didn't matter to her "owners" that she was traumatized and sore -- three hours later she was sent out again. It took the taxi an hour to get to a home somewhere in the Los Angeles foothills.
When You Mi arrived at 3 a.m., there were four men and three women from another outcall service in the home, sharing cocaine and flirting. Two men were Korean American and spoke English, and two were from South Korea and spoke only Korean.
Their intention was to have group sex -- something You Mi had never imagined. They paired up and began to kiss and undress. You Mi whispered to the man with her, asking whether it would be OK if they went into a private room. He, too, was uncomfortable and agreed.
You Mi was delivered home by a taxi at 7 a.m. Back in the apartment, You Mi learned from her roommate that group sex and drugs were common in outcall work.
The woman had a few survival tips:
"Never use drugs with a customer. Follow the one-hour rule. Always use a condom. In group sex situations, close your eyes."
Over the next two months, You Mi watched a flow of women come and go through the apartment, paying off their trafficking fees in a matter of weeks.
But You Mi couldn't get out. She didn't realize that the way outcall girls pay off their debts quickly is by developing a list of regulars. By flirting, by specializing in various sexual techniques.
Customers said You Mi made them feel uncomfortable. She wouldn't smile. She insisted on using the most formal of the three Korean syntaxes when addressing men, not the casual kind reserved for friends and lovers. She was stiff, detached.
You Mi didn't know what to do. She called her sister, borrowing a call girl's cell phone. The news wasn't much better back home.
Samsung had sent a letter to You Mi's parents, threatening to repossess the house. You Mi's mother had taken out a bank loan to pay off the credit card, but the moneylenders were still calling, demanding tens of thousands.
"You'd better not come home for a while," You Mi's sister said. "Mother is incredibly angry with you. She told the moneylenders you are dead."
By April 2003, You Mi still owed $6,000 to the traffickers. They were getting impatient, too.
So her boss sold her. Another broker in Koreatown bought her for $7,200 -- the amount of her trafficking debt plus interest. The sale added $1,200 to her trafficking debt, and she hadn't even begun to address her $40,000 shopping debt from Korea.
You Mi's new owner drove her to San Francisco, explaining there was a massage parlor near the North Beach strip clubs that accepted only Asian girls with trafficking debts.
His plan was to sell You Mi to the madam for more than $7,200. You Mi would then owe her trafficking debt to the massage parlor. The broker told You Mi that massage work would be good for her because the turnover was faster and she'd pay off her debt sooner than if she stayed in outcall.
The broker made his way toward the flashing peep-show marquees of Broadway, and pulled over by an adult video store. He led You Mi next door to a tiny white awning with two surveillance cameras, and pressed the buzzer on a metal security door leading to a two-story staircase.
You Mi was wary. Once inside, she was horrified. She saw the red lights, women in heavy makeup and lingerie, and immediately thought of the glass house districts of Busan and Seoul.
"Don't leave me here," she begged the broker.
The owner of the massage parlor asked You Mi whether she had ever worked in such a place before.
You Mi, head down, shook her head no.
The owner asked the broker to step into the hallway, and told him she didn't want You Mi. She was too immature and wouldn't be a good investment.
The broker was furious. He drove You Mi back to Los Angeles, hardly speaking the whole trip. The next day, he handed her off to a third broker, a friend in the sex-trafficking ring who owed him a favor.
The third broker, also Korean, said his name was Tony. He drove her to a residential house in Inglewood, a brothel without any signs out front. Its lobby was decorated as an aromatherapy center.
Tony handed her a neon-orange tube top that covered only her breasts and a matching micro-mini skirt, and sped away. The owner of the brothel led her inside.
You Mi's mind raced through what was becoming a familiar cycle of panic:
What should I do? Should I just sit down and refuse to work? Should I run? How would I run? Where would I run? If I escape, what about my debt? Do traffickers really find women in South Korea and kill them?
The brothel had five rooms, each with a bed and a shower. There was a separate, larger shower where women bathed customers.
The owner showed You Mi the kitchen at the end of the hall, and the empty milk carton in the fridge where she was told to hide the used condoms.
"Each customer gets 30 minutes," the owner said.
A second woman scheduled to work that day had called in sick, and men were already lining up in the lobby. The two-minute tour was over.
"You're on your own," the owner said.
You Mi entered one of the brothel's private rooms. On a mattress, a white man in his 70s was lying on his back, wearing nothing but latex gloves.
It made her think of a surgeon, and You Mi was afraid that he might have a sharp tool with him. She frantically waved her hands and shook her head, saying, "No English, no English."
She saw him smirk and thought that her inability to understand him pleased him even more. He spoke to her in soothing tones, indicating he wanted her to lie down on her back.
You Mi felt him examining her with his fingers like a gynecologist. But nothing about his curiosity had to do with her pleasure. His probing turned rough, increasing to an intensity that brought her incredible pain.
As she pleaded for him to stop, she sensed that he was becoming more excited. Finally, he reached orgasm and removed his fingers.
You Mi had five minutes to wash up at a kitchen sink before returning to the lobby for the next customer. Her body ached.
The men brought pornographic magazines to show You Mi what they wanted her to do. One wanted her to urinate in his mouth. Another wanted to ejaculate on her face. They wanted her to bend in yogalike sexual positions.
Each time she refused, even though she knew she was saying goodbye to a $40-$50 tip and prolonging her life as a sex slave.
But in the war between her dignity and her freedom, her refusals were sometimes the only way she could exercise power over her own life.
By the time her 12-hour shift ended on that April day, she had had sex with 14 men.
She earned $800. She brought it to a nearby coffee shop, where Tony and her two prior owners were sharing some laughs at a table.
Tony took the money, then asked her to describe her first day.
"Painful -- literally," was all she said.
A man with a boyish face took off his clothes, then placed a $100 bill on the bedside table.
It was May 2003, and You Mi had been working for a month in various Inglewood massage parlors.
When You Mi came in the room, she spotted the money and looked away. One of the cardinal rules in a sex parlor is to never initiate a conversation about money, especially with a new customer who could be a cop.
"How much for a full service massage?" he asked.
She went through her list of safety checks: He wasn't muscular, he seemed nervous and he wasn't wearing underwear -- three signs he was probably a civilian. In fact, it looked like he could still be in high school.
You Mi didn't answer him verbally. She held up two hands.
"100?" he asked.
You Mi nodded.
As she was taking her skirt down, the man hopped off the bed and put his clothes back on. He called for backup on his hidden radio. Back in the lobby, a group of police officers rushed in.
"Don't say anything!" the owner whispered in Korean as the officers led You Mi to the kitchen for a private chat.
They wanted to know where the condoms were discarded. They told her they'd let her go if she confessed.
She said she didn't know. Her dependence on the traffickers was too strong. In her mind, the brothel owner was helping her get out of her financial situation. If she got tangled in the American legal system, there'd be nobody to help her. On the side of the traffickers, she saw a light at the end of the tunnel. On the other, she saw a big question mark.
Her silence bought her a trip to the Van Nuys community police station, one of the few Los Angeles Police Department stations with a female-only holding cell.
It was You Mi's first time in a police station.
A Korean officer approached her and asked in Korean how she came into the country. Mistaking him for a social worker, You Mi saw an opportunity for help. She told him everything, from answering an ad for a hostess to her ordeal in Mexico and her sexual slavery in Los Angeles. She told him she didn't have any immigration papers or documents and had come to the country illegally.
The police didn't have the surveillance resources to deal with sex trafficking networks -- that was a job for the feds -- but they could have referred You Mi to a hot line. A major help center for trafficking victims, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, was just 15 miles away. Instead, the only thing You Mi got was a charge against her for prostitution.
Tony, her trafficker, came to the station and paid You Mi's $1,000 bail, and added it to her debt. He brought her back to the apartment he provided her in Koreatown, and simply sent her to work in a different massage parlor the next morning.
After she pleaded no contest, a Los Angeles Municipal Court judge ordered her to pay a $1,000 fine, attend an AIDS class and complete 180 hours of community service cleaning bathrooms and doing light typing. The judge told her to "stay away from all massage and aromatherapy businesses or any business requiring a female employee to be alone with male customers."
She would ultimately be saddled with $10,000 in legal fees, after one attorney deserted her and she had to hire a second.
You Mi thought again about trying to escape, but the women sharing Tony's apartment with her warned that the organized crime rings in South Korea would know how to find her parents' house.
She kept working.
In July, five months after You Mi arrived in California, Tony came by the apartment and told her that her debt was down to $500 -- an amount she settled in a day.
But You Mi felt no relief. She had simply exchanged slave masters -- she still owed the moneylenders back home in South Korea. Tony said she was free to go, but offered her continued employment as a free agent in his operation in exchange for a small cut of her earnings.
You Mi turned to the other women in the apartment for advice.
Although it had taken her five months to pay back $19,000 in travel debt, rent and bail money to her traffickers, the women promised that she could pay back $40,000 by working the same length of time in San Francisco. Plus, she still had $10,000 in legal fees to pay off.
Most of You Mi's girlfriends who worked independently in the sex industry lived in Koreatown, but worked in San Francisco because the pay was double the Los Angeles standard. Men were expected to pay from $100 to $150 for sex in San Francisco massage parlors, compared with $45 to $75 in Los Angeles.
Moreover, the women could sleep in apartments above the brothels in San Francisco for a few days at a time, then return to Los Angeles during the rest of the week without anybody knowing they were sex workers.
While Koreatown had dozens of Asian massage parlors, San Francisco was the mecca. The city has 150 licensed massage parlors. Many of them are among the 90 in San Francisco that offer sex with Asian women, according to Web sites where customers rank the parlors and the women inside.
You Mi's girlfriends offered to introduce her to some of the massage parlor owners up north.
You Mi had already had one bad experience in San Francisco, but she feared for her parents' safety in South Korea.
She turned down Tony's job offer in Los Angeles.
"I need to go to San Francisco," You Mi told him.
Tony called an underground taxi for her.


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"Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory," Obama said, adding, "if that can be accomplished without a ramping up of military activity in Gaza, that is preferable".
"That is not just preferable for the people of Gaza, it is also preferable for Israelis because if Israeli troops are in Gaza, they are much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded," he said.
Obama spoke, in Thailand, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was ready to "significantly expand" its operation against militants in the Gaza Strip, sparking fears of a new invasion.
The US president said the "precipitating event" of the Gaza crisis was a string of extremist rocket attacks on Israeli territory, which he said no nation in the world would tolerate.
He also backed the Jewish state's right to self-defence on a day in which the crisis deepened, with two rockets shot down over Tel Aviv and the Palestinian death toll from retaliatory strikes reaching 56.
Obama, who visited Israeli border areas around the town of Sderot when he was a candidate for president in 2008, said it was clear what had caused the latest crisis over Gaza.
"Let's understand what the precipitating event here was… that was an ever-escalating number of missiles that were landing not just in Israeli territory but in areas that are populated."
"There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders."
Obama has spoken to Netanyahu, with whom he has had a tense relationship, several times since the start of the crisis, most recently on Friday.
Netanyahu has expressed deep appreciation for US investment in the Iron Dome rocket and mortar defence system, which he said has stopped hundreds of incoming rockets from Gaza.
In the latest retaliatory strikes by Israel on Sunday, three people were killed, including two women, in Gaza City.
Netanyahu said Israel was ready to "significantly expand" its operation against militants in the Gaza Strip.
"We are extracting a heavy price from Hamas and the terror organisations," he said at the weekly cabinet meeting.
"The army is prepared to significantly expand the operation."
British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned on Sunday that Israel could lose much of its international support if it sent troops into Gaza.
"A ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation," he said. "It's much more difficult to restrict and avoid civilian casualties during a ground invasion and a large ground operation would threaten to prolong the conflict." – Sapa-AFP


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Kansas City, Kan. — Sporting Kansas City opened Livestrong Sporting Park to rave reviews Thursday night, but the team couldn't manage the result they were hoping for, drawing 0-0 with the Chicago Fire in a game filled with controversy.
An over-capacity crowd of 19,925 saw Sporting go down to 10 men early in the second half when goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen saw red for a handball outside the area. Then they witnessed what appeared to be a penalty on Omar Bravo that referee Michael Kennedy did not whistle late in the game.
Watch Highlights: SKC 0, CHI 0
With the draw, both teams extended their winless streaks to double digits and remain rooted to the bottom of the Eastern Conference table.
The evening began with the expected pomp and circumstance for a stadium opener, including a few remarks from 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, and Sporting seemed in high gear from the opening kick.
Chance Myers had the first chance of the match after five minutes, when he connected with Luke Sassano's long throw. But Myers's header rolled ball meekly into Sean Johnson's waiting mitts.
From there, Kansas City grabbed control of the match, using the field's spaciousness to feed Bravo and Kei Kamara on the flanks and forcing Chicago to work mostly on the break.
Both sides wasted promising counterattacking opportunities following opposing corner kicks before Sporting nearly took the lead through Graham Zusi in the 15th minute. Kamara turned his defender and embarked on a long run down the right sideline before sending a low cross into the area. The onrushing Bravo whiffed, but Zusi was there at the back post to drive the ball into the back of the net and send the home crowd into hysterics. It was all for naught, as the linesman correctly spotted Bravo offside on the initial ball.
It didn't slow down from there as both sides settled into a rhythm and physical play cropped up all over the field.
Zusi continued to press forward from attacking midfield, buzzing Johnson's top corner with a dipping drive from 25 yards out while the Fire had a glorious opportunity from a Cristian Nazarit header that forced a diving stop out of Nielsen.
Bravo then had another a prime opportunity just before the break, but he appeared caught between using his head or foot and was unable to turn Zusi's cross into the goal.
Both sides managed very little for the first 20 minutes of the second half before a bizarre play saw Kansas City go down to 10 men. Dominic Oduro slipped in behind the Sporting defense, forcing Nielsen to come charging off his line. Oduro attempted to chip the ball over Neilsen, but the goalkeeper reached up and handled the ball outside the penalty area.
Kennedy had no choice but to showed Nielsen his walking papers, and backup Eric Kronberg entered the game.
Chicago struggled to really gain control of the match after the sending off, though, until substitute Orr Barrouch came inches from snatching a winner. In the 80th minute, Kronburg fumbled a routine save, and Barrouch pounced on the rebound. However, his shot could only rattled the woodwork.
Five minutes later, Kansas City had what they thought was a clear penalty. Zusi played Bravo in on goal and Chicago defender Bratislav Ristic slid in on for a tackle. He seemed to take out Bravo's leg before getting a touch on the ball, but Kennedy waved the play off, leaving Bravo clutching his back on the ground.
After a long delay, the game lost its urgency down the stretch and neither team could create a decent chance, leaving them to split the points.
Chicago Fire -- Sean Johnson, Bratislav Ristic, Yamith Cuesta, Cory Gibbs, Gonzalo Segares, Logan Pause, Corben Bone (Patrick Nyarko 56), Daniel Paladini, Dominic Oduro, Cristian Nazarit (Orr Barouch 77), Gaston Puerari (Diego Chaves 71).
Substitutes Not Used: Baggio Husidic, Dasan Robinson, Michael Videira, Jon Conway.
Sporting KC -- Jimmy Nielsen, Michael Harrington, Matt Besler, Aurelien Collin, Chance Myers, Kei Kamara (C.J. Sapong 59), Davy Arnaud (Birahim Diop 85), Omar Bravo, Luke Sassano, Graham Zusi, Teal Bunbury (Eric Kronberg 68).
Substitutes Not Used: Julio Cesar, Seth Sinovic, Ryan Smith, Milos Stojcev.
Misconduct Summary:
KC -- Michael Harrington (caution; Reckless Tackle) 21
CHI -- Gaston Puerari (caution; Tactical Foul) 37
CHI -- Cristian Nazarit (caution; Reckless Foul) 57
KC -- Jimmy Nielsen (ejection; Denied Goal Scoring Opportunity (Handball)) 67
KC -- Aurelien Collin (caution; Tactical Foul) 97+
Referee: Michael Kennedy
Referee's Assistants: -Kermit Quisenberry; Brian Poeschel
4th Official: Mark Declouet
Time of Game: 1:58
Attendance: 19,925
Weather: Clear-and-91-degrees


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Festive Shortbread Logs
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 10 min./batch
Makes4 dozen
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 4 teaspoons shortening
- 3/4 cup ground walnuts
- In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well.
- With lightly floured hands, shape tablespoonfuls into 2-in. logs. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until edges and bottom are lightly browned. Cool for 2-3 minutes before removing to wire racks.
- In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle chocolate over half of the cookies. Dip one end of remaining cookies into chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Sprinkle with walnuts. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set.
Nutrition Facts2 each: 188 calories, 13g fat (7g saturated fat), 20mg cholesterol, 79mg sodium, 17g carbohydrate (9g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.
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Track deliverables, billing and collections of opportunities sold through the delivery life-cycle of opportunities.
Track deliverables, billing and collections of opportunities sold through the delivery life-cycle of opportunities.
Create multiple campaigns across the application and define objectives for each of them. Group them under various campaign types ranging from marketing campaigns to location or platform-based campaigns. Control various parameters such as active date range, estimated costs, expected returns, actual costs, actual returns and variance analyses.
Manage your tele-calling databases with ease and generate calling queues with call scripts and various other automated tools to convert calling lists into prospects and revenue-paying customers with our easy-to-use telemarketing features.
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Manage Products or Services with flexible price-books and attributes. Classify products by location, users, roles, profiles, and various other parameters.
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Convert leads to opportunities and effectively manage your revenue pipeline. Manage sales teams, their visits and activities, follow-ups, and inward and outward documents. Estimate, quote and book orders with effective tracking of stage propagations and convert opportunities into revenue clients without missing out on any opportunity.
Create, manage and share your calendar with other internal users through rights and permissions for specific teams, locations and users, and invite other internal users for tasks and meetings. See their free/busy times, receive confirmation for appointment invitations and much more with the integrated calendar.
Capture pertinent information about competitor behavior while working on leads and opportunities and identify trends. Competitor analysis and intelligence will help you position your price, payment terms, products, services and sales teams correctly, maximizing your results of revenue.
Acquire, manage and track your partners and resellers through a partner acquisition lifecycle and convert them into active contributors to your business model. Keep track of their performance, leads, opportunities, sales, and commissions, all through robust integrated partner and reseller management tools.
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Plan user routes and track if the planned routes are correctly followed. Review analytical reports such as Planned V/s Actual, and variance reports.
Create user-definable surveys and trigger them across various stages or modules to obtain feedback from their target audiences ensuring Quality Control and Quality Assurance.
Enable all modules to trigger smart communications through user-defined templates of emails, SMS messages, notifications, reminders or periodic actions within organizational users or external clients.
Add field on-the-fly with rules, formats and various features. Lay these fields out on Page Layouts across modules for various users.
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Create multiple list views which can be restricted to specific users and user-groups thereby ensuring that the correct information is always in sight of the logged-in user
Search across the system to pin-point a specific data item regardless of the module under which that data item resides.
Design print layouts to suit your organizational communication style, theme, and requirements.
Manage duplication through rules that prevent redundant and duplicate data-entry and merge duplicate records already within modules.
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Integrate with virtually any third party or legacy system which has open-ended system architecture through APIs.
APIs allow incredible flexible building blocks to develop custom-built applications that can augment the underlying platform of the core.
Build, monitor and analyze multi-dimensional reports with smart analytical capabilities including color-coding, KPI definitions and graphing-engines on-the-fly. These graphs can be assimilated onto user-specific dashboards. The BI tool further allows for custom report creation using virtually any of the fields available within the module.
Create and assign multiple dashboards by roles or users to monitor real-time business or department parameters through live graphs.
Maintain lists of technicians, classify them by skillsets, track their schedules, assign tasks and monitor their deliverables and efficiencies. Technician & customer self-service apps on Android and iOS provide accessibility.
Define SLA policies to ensure your standards of service governing parameters such as initial response, time-lapsed, hours served (or billed at discounted/contractual rates), escalation matrices and priority management.
Generate PPM schedules over various contract periods, monitor them through powerful SLA tools and auto-generate service requests with an automatic assignment to preferred queues of skillsets.
Auto-create tasks from a business process or manually create, assign, track and accomplish tasks using the integrated tasks management module. Manage tasks across all modules and features within the system to ensure that nothing goes overlooked. Utilize robust governance features such as reminders and escalations to ensure your task accomplishment efficiency at a proactive level.
Organize, schedule, collaborate, invite and monitor appointments across all modules.
Define decision-making within your organization through the CRM system. Define auto-approval parameters and the CRM will automatically validate input data or raise approval requests to hierarchies with repetitive reminders.
Analyze repeat customer trends, behavior patterns, purchasing preferences, and cash flows to effectively manage and boost sales pipelines.
Capture, recognize and analyze customer purchasing patterns, determine forecasting visibility of future sales and build intelligence of customer preferences.
Utilize customer behavioral patterns, analyze sales trends and determine future sales forecasts to evaluate inventory requirements thereby ensuring minimal opportunity loss through adequate stockpiling of goods.
Users get a clear picture as to which patient they are supposed to contact, their condition, the frequency of contacting them and a guide to related treatment they may require in future.
Applicants are ranked based on the criteria. Student ID is generated after fee payment in this process. The Admission module can restrict applicants with outstanding fees or any other conditional requirements.
Course details like course type, credit points, priority hours are defined. Program Type captures the curricula details. Details of the lecturers, Weekly availability, workload logs and courses assigned can be defined.
Notification of Admission fee and due-dates are projected. Generation of Auto-SMS/Emails to qualified applicants /parents for initial payment to confirm admission. Payment gateway integration to allow online payments.
Property units can capture various attributes of properties such as area, rate, amount and additional information such as corner unit, better view, etc., enabling easy sorting and filtering of preferential or premium units.
The system automatically monitors the lease starting and ending dates and, based on predefined rules, triggers renewal, termination, increment and decrement policies and communications automatically.
All terms of contract such as outright payment, stage-based or installment-based payment plans, booking terms and conditions, and agreement definitions are managed through robustly monitored modules.
Transfers or cancellations can be managed using predefined rules. This level of automation ensures the adherence of business policies across all real estate assets regardless of teams managing their processes.
Maintain a central repository of Accounts to which all services of sales, marketing and services are offered. Group these entities under the Accounts module as Masters and include various data parameters such as address and related information. Personalize your accounts with flexible fields, page layouts and other customization tools to suit your specific needs.
Provide owners of properties with a variety of information such as building/community financials, budgets, and their maintenance invoices and receipts.
Assign multiple contacts to your Accounts. Manage and share contact details across your organization and create leads and opportunities specific to accounts and contacts. Enable Customer-Self-Service for these contacts.
Auto-populate your organization structure and view your respective departments in a multi-level format.
Define different Job Grades in the organization based on various parameters including its effect on the CTC.
User-definable template to generate multiple roles and define expected responsibilities and job descriptions towards them.
Train the CRM system on your business rules and policies, define actions and triggers based on specific conditions, and the system monitors these sales and related processes by itself to ensure timely execution of tasks and deliverables using time-based situational workflows and alerts.
Generate recruitment budget for the organization by departments, positions, locations or projects using tags. Check for usage of budgets to actuals and variance.
Using our powerful APIs Post your positions and job descriptions directly on the career sites and receive alerts and emails on candidate applications. View the candidates based on the filters which are completely customizable. Get a snapshot of an applicant's CV just by hovering over his/her name.
Shortlist candidates based on multiple filters and applicant details. Load shortlisted candidates and schedule them for interview or evaluation process.
Compare and enter marks for each applicant based on rounds and round types. Decide if the candidate has to be moved to the next stage, rejected, placed on hold or released
Evaluate these candidates with multi-level processes by defining rounds of Interviews. Set Interview questions based on job role and position. Rate the candidate by the interviewers or an online Test. Select the best to suit the profile and make an offer.
Set up a multi-level process to onboard an employee at every event, create a task or approvals and escalations for the operations member to ensure smooth onboarding of the employee.
Create custom payroll components, for example, Earnings, Deductions, Leaves, Loans and other additional components like Gratuity and PF. Define the parameters and restrictions separately for each component.
Define multiple dimensions by which the payroll needs to run, be it a department, cost center, location or a Project. Process the payroll from time cards or attendance by these Tags.
Create multiple pay groups and assign calculation-based rules and regulations for each pay group as per your company policies. Cluster pay groups into one pay batch to ease the payroll runs for similar group of employees and make the process faster and more efficient.
Define different Pay frequencies and assign them to different pay groups based on the organization's requirements.
Get a one-shot review of the CTC for each employee.
Create fields on the fly to capture all information such as Passport number & expiry date, Visa, Driving License, department, division, etc. which is necessary for your organization's record. Define and generate alerts or reminders for each section to ensure all required data has been captured.
Define custom fields and record all the information depending on employee's eligibility criteria to issue air tickets. Encash unused air tickets as per organizations' policies which are connected to a GL account for accruals.
Get a detailed view including leave types, scorecard, eligibility criteria and leave accrual process as per your company policies and accordingly apply for leaves.
A quick and easy provision for the employees to settle their leaves and view summary before submitting the final settlement to verify the calculations.
Create pre-set policies for early or late returns & provide on the fly report computation of additional leaves taken.
Option to review and apply for encashment with pre-defined rules in Leave Masters prior to the user opting for any encashment. Option to choose for full/partial encashment which can then run through an approval process.
Auto adjusts for leaves adjustment overtime or if worked on holidays.
Enable HR to adjust the leaves after removing the public holidays with auto adjustment for unplanned public holidays for employees on Leave or having an approved leave.
Depending on Eligibility & Approval, Loan application form covers all basic information such as Loan amount, Loan type, EMI preference, guarantor etc.
Managers can approve, reject or modify employees' information before finalizing it.
Attendance can be captured & processed with different parameters such as Shifts including the Start–End time of the shift and the Working hours, OT Hours (min /max), Late definition, tolerance settings, etc.
Multiple options to capture hourly, daily or monthly attendance, filtered by location & project for single or multiple employees and pay groups created in the masters.
Manage error-free & efficient payroll with custom-defined parameters
Preview your salary structure with detailed break-up by each component and calculations.
Changes to the salary post-payroll runs are handled using this option.
Auto adjustment of advance payment for Vacation or Annual leaves. Leaves are adjusted as per early/late returns, if applicable.
Current and proposed structures are available on the screen for comparison purposes. The current one is only display based on which the proposed can be created.
The current and proposed salary structure can be presented to employees while review and sent for approval through workflow to the immediate manager for review purposes.
Claim your air tickets for yourself and your family based on your eligibility criteria. Expense claims settlement can also be made using different custom-defined claim types. This is settled against the full and final payments made to the employee during their end of service.
Conduct exit interviews for employees through Employee Self-Services and create workflows for approvals and discussions.
Settle the organization's assets with the employee to make sure everything that is allocated is returned in acceptable conditions.
View details broadcasted by the managers as well as use this platform as a tool to communicate personal information and absence details to the respective departments using workflow manager.
Make requests for Training, Loans, Advances, Leaves, etc. for self or for your peers.
Use existing tools to create course details such as Type of course, Duration, Venue, Period, Trainer and Costs.
Generate training schedules with internal or external trainers or conduct web-based online courses and create examination structures wherever applicable. Scores and grades of an employee are displayed in training exam results.
Maintain a record of employees who have returned after the completion of the assigned training. Initiate feedback forms & allow employees and trainers to exchange feedback for each other after the completion of training.
Track technician hours with clock-on/clock-off as well as update job card status.
Manage job cards for vehicles in the workshop and keep track of SLAs, timelines and job car costs.
Track spares replacement against job cards. Order parts through the procurement process through ERP integration and update parts stocks within the ERP on parts consumption.
Manage the vehicle selection process and conduct test drives for prospects including capturing mandatory data such as driver's license, mileage out, milage in, etc.
Maintain vehicle inventory for sales, lease, test drive, fleet, and courtesy car by warehouse, dealership, stock point and other locations.
Generate delivery orders and sales invoices through the DMS system with easy integration options into the legacy/third party ERP environments.
Manage garage job cards through the journey of job card generation through to job card completion and vehicle delivery/invoicing across within stipulated SLA timelines.
Maintain inventory location and inventory counts through embedded DMS features and integrate with ERP systems for complete inventory and spares management.
Manage insurance and warranty claims on job cards through entity-wise invoicing based on billable entity of insurance, warranty, FOC or end-customer billing.
Manage rental or lease agreements and keep track of vehicles across the leasing and rental portfolio.
Manage the termination and renewals of rentals and lease agreements.
Generate estimations for tender submission across projects within the opportunity pipeline. Build estimates across departments, manage margins and raise quotations through the system.
Maintain status of quick-evaluations of tender opportunities and record decisions of go/no-go in order to invest the time and effort involved in submitting bids.
Manage project acquisition and billing through the project acquisition and project execution lifecycles within the project management environment.
Keep track of budgeted quantities of project activities and tasks, and monitor consumption of budgeted BOQs against project completion.
Manage tasks and appointments for transactions, modules or data records anywhere within the software system.
Automate business process administration and governance through automation tools such as workflow and authorization control and delegate process governance to the software system.
For Education Institutions - Manage the process of acquiring students across the journey of student inquiry through student admission across educational facilities.
For Education Institutions - Register students for courses and corresponding programs within the educational facilities and control the fee management processes.
For CAFM - Generate, track and resolve breakdowns and reported issues within pre-defined timelines of SLAs including monitoring the utilization of spares, consumption of manhours and other related costs.
Manage the customer acquisition journey across marketing campaigns through the process of lead generation, maturity of leads into qualified opportunities, follow up, estimations and quotations management, through to the process of raising sales orders and creating customers.
Manage databases of landlords and tenants and keep track of terms of business engagement with them.
Track invoice generation for maintenance activities and monitor the payment receipts. Integrate the invoices and receipts seamlessly with the target ERP of choice.
Maintain online portals for community members with broadcast announcements of news, alerts, events and calendars. Also provide secure environments for monitoring and executing financial transactions across maintenance charge invoices, receipts, statements of accounts and budget variance statements.
seamless integration with ERP/Financial Accounting solutions is available across the product portfolio.
Frequency templates for planned preventive maintenance can be defined within the masters of the system and can be allocated to specific assets, properties, customers and contracts as needed.
Receive online payments from customers through the ability to integrate with online payment gateways within the ecosystems of the software.
Manage facilities within communities and facilitate the reservation of these facilities across community members through the online portal interface.
Schedule and perform maintenance tasks with powerfully built and customized dashboards to track maintenance tasks, product conditions, renewals to increase the utilization of assets and technicians. Make data-driven decisions with actionable reports and maximize product uptime.
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Spring is here, and it is clearly visible in the wildlife community on the PAWS Campus in Lynnwood. While some animals are busy setting up their breeding territories and identifying potential nest and den sites, others are embarking on a journey. Where once there was near silence, there is now a cacophony of voices, all joining in the excitement of the season.
Click here to see photos of the critters on the PAWS campus in Lynnwood.
As wildlife breeding activity increases, so does the frequency of human/wildlife conflicts. Even if you are not currently experiencing a conflict, you can visit the Common Problems page on the PAWS website. The more you know about wildlife conflicts, the better prepared you will be to avoid them in the future.
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I've been a fan of Jeff Garcia since his little 2006 playoff run with the Eagles and will continue to be one until he finally, mercifully retires. He's not the flashiest guy, wasn't blessed with a big arm, and is particularly unimposing when he's photographed in black and white with freckle-splashed pectorals. But he's resilient. Every year it seems like the guy has to fight for a contract and convince teams that, yes, he's still a viable option and can help you win games, but nobody believes him. Do you?
Yet, here he is, once again, shirtless and scowling, trying to keep the Bucs atop the NFC Winter Vacation division. But to do so, he'll have to get past the Carolina Panthers and their frisky defense and suddenly unstoppable DeAngelo Williams. This will be one of the better MNF games of the year, as you have two first place teams, division rivals, all sorts of playoff implications and, of course, Jeff Garcia's wily quarterbacking skills.
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One thing show creator Ron Moore didn't bring over from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series to his critically acclaimed Syfy remake was the show's original ending narration. But clearly at one point he was thinking about including it, because the By Your Command Facebook page dug up this recording of Edward James Olmos, who of course played the hard-drinkin' Commander Adama, performing the dialogue. It was probably a bit too hokey for Moore's supremely dark vision of the show, but it's still fun to see. Er, hear.
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"On Tuesday evening in New York City, Edmonton is taking Carnegie Hall by storm.
The "Spring for Music" series, a yearly Carnegie event, is an opportunity for symphony orchestras around North America to come and present their work in New York City- an opportunity that would not necessarily be possible for some of these orchestras if "Spring for Music" did not exist. This Tuesday will see the Carnegie debut of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, an up-and-coming star in the symphonic world.
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 60-year anniversary this year. An integral and beloved part of the Edmonton community, the orchestra is travelling to Carnegie to present a program made up mostly of works they have commissioned over the years, with the exception of Martinu's first symphony. There is something thrilling about the three Canadian composers being featured on the program. Their voices are unique, in a way that only 21st-Century composers could be. Their inspirations and tastes range from Beethoven, to Brahms, to Stravinsky, to Adams; and they were not shy to have open conversations with me about their work..."


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It enables users of the Prismo and Accura machines to change between optical and contact procedures during a measuring run. Users can exchange the entire probing system on these machines, opening all possibilities of dimensional-coordinate metrology on one machine.
The Prismo and Accura CMMs with MASS technology are equipped with a range of sensors that includes the essential technologies needed to inspect geometric features. Depending on the application, operators now can decide if they want to perform optical or contact measurements. A CMM with MASS can be used for a variety of tasks and can be adapted to new measuring tasks through additional suitable sensors.
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Don't Worry About Wealth-Management Products, Regulator Says
Wealth-management products present little risk to China's financial sector, at least according to one senior regulator in Shanghai.
Wealth-management products—short-term investments that offer some of the security of a bank deposit with higher returns—have grown rapidly in importance in China's financial sector. Some analysts estimate the total outstanding at more than 10% of deposits in the banking system.
Lack of transparency about the size of the sector, where the money is invested and who takes the hit if investments go sour, has fueled concerns about risks to the stability of China's financial system. But Fang Xinghai, director general of Shanghai's financial watchdog, says the risks are limited.
"Ninety nine percent of wealth-management products are normal products, approved by the China Banking Regulatory Commission," said Mr. Fang. "Maybe there are a small number that are problematic but that's not a risk to the banking sector." Mr. Fang was speaking to The Wall Street Journal on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
At the end of 2012, investors in a wealth-management product marketed by an employee at a Shanghai branch of Huaxia Bank took to the streets in protest when the loan went sour. "This represents bad management at a local level," said Mr. Fang. "It's not a typical problem for wealth-management products in China. The issue has been resolved, in a mutually agreeable way to the bank and investors, and we don't expect more protests."
"A lot of the wealth-management products are invested in bonds issued by local government financing vehicles" said Mr. Fang. In 2009 and 2010, local government investment vehicles borrowed big from China's banks to fund a massive economic stimulus. Following a government clampdown, they turned to the bond market to raise funds.
Many analysts are concerned that a portion of local government investment has been wasted, and some will be profitable only over the long term, with town halls' repayment capacity weak. That would present a risk to households putting money into wealth-management products.
Mr. Fang said the risks were limited. "Most local government financial vehicles are credit-worthy, and the central government's scope to issue bonds is huge," he said. Low central government debt means they could, if needed, step in to assume the bad debts of local governments. Investment in liquid products such as bonds also meant that banks should not have difficulty raising funds to repay investors when wealth-management products matured, Mr. Fang said.
Some analysts are also concerned about the risk of bad debts building up in small loan companies and loan-guarantee companies outside of China's banking sector. Mr. Fang thought these concerns, too, were overdone. "These loan companies are owned by private investors, they are not stupid enough to lose their money by taking on bad loans. They don't take deposits, so if they fail the loss comes out of their own capital," he said.
With Shanghai aiming to become an international financial center, the opening of the capital account to allow investors to move funds on and off shore is a key consideration. "The direction of travel is clearly toward a more open capital account, but China always moves forward in a controlled manner. So you will always see a quota for capital flows. In Shanghai, we would like to see the quota enlarged in both directions," he said.
Part of that process could be to allow high net worth individuals to invest directly overseas, Mr. Fang said. "High net worth individuals need to deploy their assets more efficiently across the globe. They have the capacity to analyze investment options and bear some risks. Small investors may not have the same level of understanding," he said.
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Karl Lagerfeld supports gay marriage
PARIS (AP) — Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's veteran couturier, has shown his support for the legalization of gay marriage in France by sending two models down a catwalk wearing couture bridal gowns.
He did that to cap Paris' Grand Palais fashion show on Tuesday and also had a young nephew of his accompany the women models as they walked forward holding hands.
Francois Hollande plans to legalize gay marriage and thus allow same-sex couples to adopt and conceive children. But not everyone in France agrees that's the way to go. On Jan. 13, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Paris to oppose such a law.
Asked if his use of lesbian couture at his show was designed to support gay marriage in France, Lagerfeld replied: "Of course it was."
"I don't even understand the debate. Since 1904 (in France) the church and state have been separate," the German-born designer told The Associated Press. He said people who consider marriage a sacred religious union can continue that tradition in their churches, temples, synagogues and mosques, but that all religions should tolerate gay marriage.
However, Lagerfeld also said he opposes allowing gay couples to father children born through artificial insemination.
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Papers (1928-1945, 1958) including correspondence, combat action reports, photographs, newspaper clipping, magazine article, etc.
Alexander Bacon Coxe, Jr., was a captain in the U.S. Navy. Born in Arizona in 1910, he represents the third generation of military officers in his family. Both his father and grandfather were officers in the U.S. Army. Coxe was graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1932. He served aboard battleships, minecraft, and destroyers, in a variety of capacities. During World War II he commanded minelayers and destroyers. In 1958 he commanded Destroyer Squadron 8 out of Newport, Rhode Island. He was at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
The first part of the collection consists mainly of personal correspondence from Coxe to his family. Beginning with his arrival at Annapolis in July, 1928, this material concerns his four years there, his subsequent duty on the West Coast, and his service on the Asiatic Station until 1937.
Most of the 1928-1932 correspondence deals with academy life: academics, sports, and leisure activities, Coxe's grade reports, a few academic warnings, and some special orders concerning leave and cruise itineraries. Letters written during summer cruises in 1929 (USS UTAH) and 1931 (USS WYOMING) are of interest in that they give Coxe's first impressions of sea life and foreign cities. Barcelona, Weymouth, Glasgow, and Cadiz are mentioned and described to some degree.
Letters written after Coxe's graduation give a good account of what a junior officer's life was like in the 1930s. Coxe makes good observations concerning everything he sees and experiences, both in and out of the military sphere. Topics include being caught in an earthquake in Long Beach, California (Mar., 1933); drydocking the battleship TENNESSEE (Nov., 1933); coastal surveying duty in the Aleutians aboard the USS OGLALA (May-Aug., 1934), with descriptions of the land, the people, and some of their customs; and Coxe's firstimpressions of the Orient (Shanghai, Nov., 1934). Of considerable importance are his descriptions of different ports on the Asiatic Station: Shanghai (Nov., 1934; Apr., 1935); Kobe, Japan (May, 1935); Chefoo, China (June, 1935); Amoy, China (Oct., 1935); and Saigon (Nov., 1935). He also gives an amusing account of a bus trip from Olongapo to Manila (Feb., 1935), relates a Chinese funeral he observed in Amoy (Oct., 1935), and describes the arrival of the first Pan American Airways China Clipper at Manila (Nov., 1935).
Woven into this later correspondence are descriptions of life in Manila, the homeport of Coxe's ship, USS PARROTT (218); his occasional comments concerning the idea of Philippine independence (Feb., June, Nov., 1935); and accounts of aspects of Navy life both at sea and ashore, ranging from large-scale battle maneuvers and gunnery exercises to communication and navigation.
The second part of the collection consists of combat action reports from USS BREESE (DM18) and USS VAN VALKENBURGH (DD656). The first item is Coxe's eyewitness account of the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. Coxe was executive officer of the BREESE and duty officer for five ships of Mine Division 2, nested in Middle Loch, when the attack occurred. He gives a detailed and remarkably observant account of the day's events.
The second item is a history of USS VAN VALKENBURGH (DD656), ending with her departure from Sasebo, Japan, on Nov. 17, 1945. Captain Coxe was her commanding officer from June, 1944, through Sept., 1945. This document is especially valuable because it gives an account of the ship's activities from the viewpoint of the crew. It expresses their attitudes toward the Navy, the Japanese, and the war, and gives some interesting insights into the character of their captain. Highlights are the descriptions of life at the Naval Training Center, Norfolk, Virginia (1944); several cartoons satirizing conditions in the Pacific; descriptions of the VAN VALKENBURGH's operations around Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945); and an account of the conditions at Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb blast of Aug. 9, 1945. Especially vivid are the accounts of numerous kamikaze attacks north and west of Okinawa (1945) and the reports concerning the VAN VALKENBURGH's efforts in aiding battle-damaged ships.
The third and fourth items are Coxe's official combat reports for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations. They are valuable for their detail and especially for Captain Coxe's commentary on ordnance personnel, communications, medical problems, and rescue operations.
Most of the thirty-two photographs in the collection depict Coxe at the Naval Academy and on his first cruise (June-Aug., 1929). There is a class of 1932 graduation picture, one of Coxe's mother, and one of his sister, Anne.
The collection contains an assortment of printed material from the Academy, mainly announcements, dinner menus, Christmas cards, and June Week programs.
A Dec., 1958, issue of All Hands magazine containing an article about Coxe as commodore of Destroyer Squadron 8 and some newspaper clippings about the class of 1932's graduation complete the collection.
For related material, see Collection #193.
Loaned by Capt. Alexander B. Coxe, Jr.
Gift of Mrs. David D. Hawkins
Gift of Capt. A. B. Coxe, Jr.
Processed by R. Weaver; R. Reedy, October 1981
Encoded by Apex Data Services
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Paying for a cleaner or someone to cut the grass leads to greater happiness than saving the pennies, according to new research.
It suggests that valuing your time ahead of the pursuit of money creates more joy.
In six separate studies, involving more than 4,600 participants, there was an almost even split between people who tended to value their time or money.
And older people were more likely to value time as more important than money.
Gender and income didn't appear to influence whether we pick time over money, but none of the participants involved were living in poverty, who may prioritise money to survive.
The six studies included posing real-world examples for participants, such as asking whether they would prefer a more expensive apartment with a short commute or a less expensive apartment with a long commute.
Other questions posed included whether a participant would prefer a job with long hours and a higher starting salary to a lower salary role but with fewer working hours.
The participants included a selection of American adults, students and adult visitors at a science museum in Vancouver.
The researchers say hiring a cleaner to do unpleasant chores and volunteering at a charity could help us on our way to prioritising time over money.
PhD student Ashley Willians, of the University of British Columbia in Canada, said: "It appears that people have a stable preference for valuing their time over making more money, and prioritizing time is associated with greater happiness.
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In our 30 years in Morenci we believe this year's downtown and Wakefield Park Christmas decorations are the best ever. While the City DPW crew did their usual good job—somewhat delayed by staff shortages due to injuries—there should be a special acknowledgment to those who put so much time and effort in expanding the lights on Main Street at Wakefield Park.
Trulla McClain and her volunteer assistants did a great job. The extra lights and displays really gave the park added depth and a neat visual effect. Trulla is the first to thank all her helpers and individuals who gave financial help and donated decorations.
Also, a real special thanks to Sheila Thompson who made more than 200 red bows and ribbons that really made the small Christmas trees in the green flower boxes look so great. The bows and ribbons unified the effect of the trees and nicely tied them into the other downtown decorations.
We were most pleased to talk with Trulla last week and to hear that she and her crew are already planning for next year's set up! Thanks so much to everyone who made the city look so festive.
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Day's Worst: Religious restrictions on the rise worldwide
At a time when the world is more interconnected than it ever has been and people are migrating around the globe, a new study has found that religious intolerance is on the rise.
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A new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that during 2009-2010 three-quarters of the world's people live in places where practice of their religion is restricted in one way or another.
That's 5 percentage points higher than a survey conducted a year prior.
Pew, a social science research institution based in Washington, said the restrictions came about through government interference, malicious acts, and crimes and violence motivated by bias.
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Florimond de Beaune
Born: 7 October 1601 in Blois, France
Died: 18 August 1652 in Blois, France
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Florimond de Beaune's name is often given in the form Debeaune. He was born in Blois, which is in central France on the Loire River and, at the time de Beaune was born there, it was almost a second capital of France. Florimond de Beaune's father, also called Florimond de Beaune, was the illegitimate son of Jean II de Beaune whose brother was the archbishop Renaud de Beaune. However Florimond senior was made legitimate and inherited the title which eventually went to his son, the subject of this biography. Florimond de Beaune senior was a squire with an estate being the Seigneur de Goulioux. Florimond de Beaune, the mathematician, inherited the estate from his father, so he also became Seigneur de Goulioux.
De Beaune was educated in Paris where he went on to study law although his status meant that he had no need to take a degree. After military service he had little need for earning a living. He married Philiberte Anne Pelluis on 21 December 1621 but the marriage lasted less than a year since she died in August 1622. He married Marguerite du Lot on 15 December 1623; this second marriage brought considerable wealth to de Beaune. The marriage produced three sons and one daughter; one of the sons became a priest. De Beaune bought the office of counselor to the court of justice in Blois, and was only an amateur mathematician. He inherited an estate near Blois and he spent a lot of his time on this estate. As we noted, his second marriage brought de Beaune a substantial amount of money. It enabled him to build up an extensive library as well as to build himself an observatory at the town house which he also owned. In fact his library contained a good proportion of astronomy works (about a third of the total) in addition to a fine collection of mathematics volumes. In [7] Pierre Costabel examines an inventory of de Beaune's library drawn up after his death by his heirs. He draws some conclusions:-
- Nothing in Greek is represented in the library.
- The classification by authors shows that de Beaune possessed all the works by Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and J-B Morin published at that time, and most of those of Mersenne and Gassendi.
- The classification by subjects shows an equal division between works on science and those on general culture.
- The places of publication show the facility of obtaining works published outside of France.
- The classification by authors shows that de Beaune possessed all the works by Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and J-B Morin published at that time, and most of those of Mersenne and Gassendi.
According to Beaugrand, the first of these problems - which in the present state of textual study appears to concern itself only with the determination of the tangent to an analytically defined curve - interested Debeaune "in a design touching on dioptrics." As to the second of these problems, the one that has been particularly identified with Debeaune and that ushered in what was called at the end of the seventeenth century the "inverse of tangents" i.e., the determination of a curve from a property of its tangent - Debeaune told Mersenne on 5 March 1639 that he sought a solution with only one precise aim: to prove that the isochronism of string vibrations and of pendulum oscillations was independent of the amplitude. This statement, which is not easily justified except in the language of differential and integral calculus, was fifty years ahead of scientific developments and - by itself - reveals Debeaune's singular ability to translate physical questions into the abstract language of mathematical analysis, despite the inadequacies of the operative means of his time.De Beaune did, however, publish some work for he produced the first important introduction to Descartes' cartesian geometry. He wrote Notes brièves Ⓣ which was published in 1649 as part of the first Latin edition of Descartes' La Géométrie. De Beaune proved among many results that y2 = xy + bx, y2 = -dy + bx, y2 = bx - x2 represent hyperbola, parabola and ellipse respectively. Two other papers by de Beaune on algebra appeared as part of the second edition of La Géométrie. In fact de Beaune and Descartes were good friends and corresponded frequently on mathematical topics. Many of the top French scientists of the time corresponded with de Beaune, for example Claude Mydorge, Jacques de Billy and Marin Mersenne, and friends visited him to discuss mathematical topics, for example Descartes and Erasmus Bartholin. When he was very ill near the end of his life, de Beaune entrusted Bartholin with several manuscripts and asked him to arrange for their publication. The two algebra papers published in the second edition of La Géométrie were among these manuscripts, but the others were not published by Bartholin and appeared lost. However, in 1963, La doctrine de l'angle solide construit sous trois angles plans was discovered [11]:-
De Beaune intended ... 'Doctrine de l'angle solide construit sous trois angles plans' for posthumous publication, but the treatise never found its way into print because of the complexity of its accompanying diagrams. Every trace of the work was lost until 1963, when it was rediscovered among manuscripts in the Roberval Archive at the Académie des Sciences in Paris, and thus it appears for the first time in the present critical edition (the book [2]). The treatise is of interest chiefly because it is a work of pure synthetic geometry consisting of some 125 propositions composed in the style of Euclid by one of the ablest practitioners of the new analytical art typified by the works of Descartes and Fermat. And while he built on results found in works on trigonometry by Snell, Girard, and Briggs, de Beaune avoided the numerical methods employed by these and other mathematical practitioners of the period in favour of pure geometry, indicating that he distinguished clearly between two genres of mathematics.De Beaune was also interested in mechanics and optics and wrote on these topics. However his work in these areas was never published and little is known of these contributions. We do know from Mersenne that de Beaune wrote Méchaniques Ⓣ and we know from Frans van Schooten that he wrote Dioptrique Ⓣ. Historians still have some hope that manuscripts of these will be found one day. His interest in optics was related to his interest in astronomy for he worked on grinding lenses, in particular experimenting with non-spherical lenses. De Beaune gained the reputation of being the finest instrument maker of his day which is why Descartes wrote to de Beaune in March 1639. Descartes had designed a machine for grinding hyperbolic lenses that he described in La Dioptrique and he asked de Beaune if he could make the instrument. De Beaune became obsessed with the idea of making Descartes' machine to grind lenses and devoted his whole time to the project. Descartes knew that de Beaune was the only person who had the technical proficiency, a deep understanding of mathematics and a fascination with astronomy. However in January 1640, despite his expertise, de Beaune cut his hand badly on a piece of roughly shaped glass which he was trying to cut into a hyperbolic shape. When Descartes heard about the accident he seemed pleased that his scientific imagination went beyond what the best technician could make. He wrote to Christiaan Huygens's father:-
Do you think I am saddened by this? On the contrary, I tell you that in the very failure of the hands of the best craftsman, I understand just how far my reasoning has reached.Several years after the accident, de Beaune returned to the topic of lenses but by this time he was more interested in the theory than in grinding lenses. His last few years were painful ones [1]:-
Afflicted with various and painful infirmities, particularly gout, Debeaune resigned as counselor around 1648 and withdrew to a town house, the upper floor of which faced due south. There he had - at least for a time - an observatory at his disposal. However, his failing eyesight deteriorated rapidly, and he died shortly after having a foot amputated.Let us end this biography with two quotes. The first from Costabel [2]:-
Florimond de Beaune appears in light of his library to have been an enlightened Christian and an erudite humanist, unencumbered by philosophical tradition and quite open to the ideas of his age.The second quote is from de Beaune himself in a letter he wrote to Mersenne on 5 March 1639:-
I do not think that one could acquire any solid knowledge of nature in physics without geometry, and the best of geometry consists of analysis, of such kind that without the latter it is quite imperfect.
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Eight Bad Work Habits -- and How to Break Them
By Margaret Steen
When you're considering goals for yourself, don't forget to examine your work life. What changes could you make to become a more productive and pleasant colleague?
Experts offer this list of common bad habits at work -- and how to break them:
Planning Poorly
Do you spend your first hour at work wondering what you should work on today? "So many people, when they leave their office at 4 to 6 p.m., really have no clue what they're going to do first thing the following morning," says Glenn Davis, president of the Next Step Group, which recruits sales and sales management professionals for software and other companies. It's more efficient to plan your next day before you leave work.
Spending the Day in 'Email Reaction Mode'
Answering every email as it comes in may make you seem responsive, but it's not productive. "You feel like you're being a hero because you're dealing with all your email," says Valerie Frederickson, CEO & founder of Valerie Frederickson & Co., an HR executive search and consulting firm. "But it has nothing to do with achieving your goals."
Abusing Work-from-Home Privileges
Yes, you save time when you work from home by not commuting. But too many people are easily sidetracked by the laundry, their kids or a quick errand. "People like to say, 'I get so much more done'" working from home, Davis says. And some do -- but not everyone. If you work from home, make sure you're putting in a full day's work -- and that you're accessible to your colleagues during the workday.
Putting Personal Life Before Work
Everyone has emergencies from time to time. But it's annoying to have to fill in for the colleague who is late every morning because he's checking on his home-remodeling project, or who misses an entire afternoon because he scheduled a routine dentist appointment for 1:30 p.m.
Being Late for Meetings
People who show up 5 or 10 minutes late for a meeting cause a "domino effect," Davis says. Meetings later that day may be thrown off schedule because the earlier ones ran late. And people who show up on time feel their time is being wasted.
Not Taking Care of Health and Hygiene
Leslie G. Griffen, an HR consultant and career coach, is often hired by companies to approach an employee who doesn't bathe and ask him to improve his hygiene. The problem is twofold, says Griffen, principal of The Griffen Group. A sloppy appearance will cause a poor first impression. Also, "if your hygiene is bad, your health is probably bad," Griffen says. An added benefit of eating well and exercising: You'll have more energy.
Using Inappropriate Humor
Your coworkers may not appreciate your sense of humor. Skip the off-color or racially targeted jokes, Griffen says. And be careful about sensitive subjects such as politics and religion.
Not Caring About Your Work
People like coworkers who are enthusiastic about what they do. Show that you take pride in your job by presenting yourself well, communicating clearly and doing your best work.


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