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Youngmoo Kim
Assistant Professor
Youngmoo Kim joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University in 2005. He received his Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 2003 and also holds Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music (Vocal Performance Practice) from Stanford University as well as a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Music from Swarthmore College.
While at MIT, Dr. Kim was an active member of the MPEG standards committee, contributing to the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 audio standards. He also has extensive experience in music performance, most recently as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Research Focus
Dr. Kim's research focuses on digital media technologies that will shape the future of entertainment, especially in the areas of sound and music. He is director of the Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab), which focuses on research in machine listening & music information retrieval, music production technology, and new music interfaces. Dr. Kim initiated the Summer Music Technology program at Drexel, a one-week program for high school students, and is heavily involved with several other K-12 education initiatives.p>
Dr. Kim was recently granted an NSF CAREER Award for a project entitled "Exploring Creative Expression through Music and Audio Technology." Though recent digital audio technologies have had a tremendous impact on the world of recorded music, its fundamental nature remains unchanged: once a recording is made, that single performance is forever fixed, preventing any true interaction with the listener. Dr. Kim's project integrates research in digital audio technology with educational activities under a common vision of transforming the passive act of listening to "recorded" music into an interactive experience in which the performance responds to the creative input of the listener. The grant is for a 5-year project with a budget of $500K.
The following interview provides some insight into some of the insights and perspectives of Drexel University ECE faculty.
Q: What is the one main message you would share with a prospective student about Drexel ECE?
Kim: Drexel ECE is a dynamic and vibrant department that continues to evolve by offering innovative and unique opportunities for pursuing a career in engineering.
Q: What resources does Drexel ECE offer you that support your efforts as a faculty member?
Kim: My work crosses the traditional boundaries between Engineering and Music, and I feel very fortunate that Drexel ECE offered me the opportunity to pursue my specific research interests bridging these disciplines. Technology is constantly changing, but we always strive to integrate the latest innovations into our work. The research facilities of my lab and all of the labs in Drexel ECE reflect these high standards.
Q: What brought you to Drexel?
Kim: The Drexel ECE Department and its faculty are renowned as world-class leaders in many fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I was drawn here by the opportunity of joining their ranks as well as the challenge of starting a new interdisciplinary research lab. I believe that I have the best job in the world!
Q: Are there any current projects you are working on that you are particularly interested in?
Kim: I am, of course, very interested in all of my research projects! Some of our recent work on automatically identifying similar sounding songs was highlighted in a front-page article in the Philadelphia Inquirer that was syndicated nationwide. As part of my work in this field, I am co-chair of the Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (http://ismir2008.ismir.net), which will be held September 14-18, 2008 at Drexel. We look forward to welcoming researchers from around the world to what is sure to be an exciting and informative conference.


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SOAPBOX: Scale becomes more important than ever
Analysis makes case for industry consolidation
By Robert B. Albertson,
principal and chief strategist, and
Catherine Xiao,
managing director, Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. This is adapted from the July 11 edition of the firms Investment Strategy Group report.
The negative narrative on banking, that it is doomed to being a moribund utility sector, burdened by regulation and hefty levels of capital, does not fit the data. Rather, recent quarterly data reveals a remarkable recovery in profitability despite record levels of capital. To see this fairly, one must recognize that the current "normal" is a period of exceptionally low interest rates. Just as pension funds can no longer base return projections in high-single digits, we should adjust bank ROE history in context with risk-free interest rates.
The logical choice for this is the 10-year U.S. Treasury rate. The 21-year history of banking ROE, both reported and rate-adjusted, is shown in the above exhibit. The picture is quite revealing: commercial banks reported an average return on common equity of 14.3% for the 10-year period between our last two recessions, when the risk-free 10-year interest rate was 4.2%. While commercial banks only recovered 66% of their unadjusted average profitability by the first quarter of this year, adjusting for the 200 basis point lower 10-year rate, the core ROE has already recovered nearly 80% of its historical average.
This is all the more remarkable considering that 1) total loan growth has been modest, 2) regulatory and legal costs have soared, 3) price competition has further pressured margins, and 4) capital levels have been driven sharply higher.
The recent capital expansion is displayed in the following exhibit. Common equity for the industry is now above 11%, which is 28% higher than the 1995-2005 10-year average, while tangible common is at 9% and is 20% higher than that 10-year average.
Taking into account both higher capital and the abnormally low interest rate environment, it would be fair to say that the underlying profitability of banking has not really changed much. Interest rates will certainly recover, and we doubt capital hurdles will go higher. Longer-term, product pricing and loan demand should fill in the remaining gap.
The largest, systemically important banks already carry higher capital than smaller banks by Dodd-Frank fiat, reversing decades of disadvantage to the small. But regulatory and legal costs do not scale well, and bank models weighted to the business sector are more deliverable with increased size. While this is broadly accepted and understood, it has not been easy to quantify. A degree of quantification becomes more apparent when we examine bank profit performance and capital achievement by asset size.
Delineating these measures by asset size, we chose to minimize distortions by excluding the very smallest--those below $25 million in assets--and the very largest--those greater than $100 billion in assets. While the latter includes the multinationals and investment banks that comprise 60% of total "banking" industry assets, we do not view them as representative of classic spread banking. We also exclude savings banks and subchapter S corporations. SNL data allows these refinements, although it is only available from 2005 forward.
Examining those between $25 million and $100 billion, we then split those above and below $1 billion in assets using un-weighted averages. There are 505 commercial banks above and 5,512 below the $1 billion mark on this basis.
We think this approach better captures the increasing importance of scale. Those above $1 billion in this methodology achieved a reported, or nominal, return in excess of 10% on average common equity, while those below are returning just under 8%.
Using four trailing quarters of returns, and adjusting both series for the 10-year Treasury, the larger banks have exceeded smaller banks for four consecutive quarters, with the gap widening to 300 basis points through the first quarter of this year. Banks above $1 billion in assets have now recovered 73% of their rate-adjusted returns from seven years ago, when the data by size was first available, while those below have recovered only 49% of their (lower) profitability on this same basis.
Importantly, common equity ratios are approximately 105 basis points higher for the larger institutions in this exercise, versus being only 30 basis points higher seven years ago. This obviously indicates a substantial, increasing core profitability advantage for larger banks.
One could argue whether subtracting the 10-year UST is the best means for adjusting bank returns over historical periods. Using a shorter-term Treasury rate, or even a yield curve proxy, might appeal based on their direct, theoretical impact to bank net interest margins. But bank equities, like all equities, should be first considered and marked against the ambient level of a commonly representative, risk-free yield alternative.
One could also argue for segmentation above and below asset levels other than $1 billion, but the practical size threshold has advanced over the years, with $1 billion increasingly seen as the new minimum, while many conclude the optimal minimum is above $5 billion.
One could also base comparisons on capital ratios other than common equity, but permutations of all the above do not seem necessary to make the point that recovery from the financial crisis has redrawn the dividing line between the "haves" and the "have-nots."
The message is sufficiently clear. Scale increasingly matters, and the ability to economically raise capital, absorb new regulatory burdens, and offensively capture market share all appear more sensitive to size than ever before. The sheer acceleration in common equity capital and return on capital for large institutions since mid-2009 makes a compelling case for future industry consolidation.
These economics demand a tidal wave of consolidation. The beginning ripple has largely been the result of an inordinately conservative and time-consuming regulatory process in conjunction with an unusually uncertain economic and political outlook. These too shall pass, to the betterment of banking and its investors.
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Do you agree with this analysis? How can community banks overcome such trends? Are there solutions to the scale challenge, for smaller banks? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
[This article was posted on August 3, 2012, on the website of ABA Banking Journal, www.ababj.com.]
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Anchorage Police Issue Citations to Illegal Homeless CampersTeams of officers went into the woods citywide, issuing notices to illegal campers and also providing them with options.Monday night, Anchorage police took the first step in clearing out illegal camping sites. As part of the department's push to make a dent into the crime that is happening in these illegal camps, teams of officers went into the woods citywide to issue notices to illegal campers and also to provide them with options. Armed with notices, Anchorage police are responding to the city's growing number of illegal camps and campers who have tents in parks and wooded areas across town. Part of Monday's mission was to go into the woods of Chester Creek Park, locate the camps, and offer assistance to the injured, disabled, and mentally unstable people who live there. "There's a lot of people who are out there that are truly homeless and there's some people out there that just use this ground to hold parties and use drugs," said Anchorage Police Officer Mark Karstetter. Police say that kind of dangerous behavior in public places jeopardize the safety of park and trail patrons. "Most people don't realize the refuse that gets left behind here—the raw sewage, the beer bottles, broken glass," Officer Karstetter continued. Assaults, trash, honey buckets and even dead moose have been found at some of these camps, and police say it's a safety hazard. One camper said he was living in the woods because his "time was up" living at a shelter. APD officers offered campers connections to long-term housing and temporary shelter. The illegal campers have 15 business days from the date of receiving notice to clear out their possessions from the campsite. The illegal campers who were warned and cited can appeal the citation. APD could confirm if a non-profit or any other agency will be responsible for storing campers' possessions. You have indicated this comment should be removed.said on Tuesday, May 24 at 4:33 PM i've been helping with the "may clean-up" at bean's cafe. i picked up _3_ large bags of mixed trash just from around the _inside_ of the fences that face karluk street, between 3rd and 4th ave. some of it was "normal" trash from fast-food, but most of it was from brown jug, and there was a pair of un-saveable pants. today, i "collected" from bean's cafe to mush inn and found a used needle that could have been used for medicine or illegal drugs. muldoon road is so litterized close to fred meyer and the chinese buffet that if u flew over that spot in an airplane, it would look like chickenpox! thank you apd and citywide cleaners, all 3 hospitals, and each of our 30 day eat & sleeps for your help in preserving our people and parks. oh and thank you csp for constantly scooping-up people all year. Inappropriate? Alert Us! said on Sunday, May 29 at 11:31 AM Leave the campers alone before they turn into a militia. The last thing we is for our cops to get hurt over something stupid. Inappropriate? Alert Us! Add a comment |
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Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China to goof off at work
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A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.
The firm's telecommunications supplier Verizon was called in after the company set up a basic VPN system with two-factor authentication so staff could work at home. The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".
"The company's IT personnel were sure that the issue had to do with some kind of zero day malware that was able to initiate VPN connections from Bob's desktop workstation via external proxy and then route that VPN traffic to China, only to be routed back to their concentrator," said Verizon. "Yes, it is a bit of a convoluted theory, and like most convoluted theories, an incorrect one."
After getting permission to study Bob's computer habits, Verizon investigators found that he had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang to do his programming work for him, and had FedExed them his two-factor authentication token so they could log into his account. He was paying them a fifth of his six-figure salary to do the work and spent the rest of his time on other activities.
The analysis of his workstation found hundreds of PDF invoices from the Chinese contractors and determined that Bob's typical work day consisted of:
9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time
2:00-ish p.m – Facebook updates, LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. – End-of-day update e-mail to management
5:00 p.m. – Go home
The scheme worked very well for Bob. In his performance assessments by the firm's human resources department, he was the firm's top coder for many quarters and was considered expert in C, C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP, and Python.
Further investigation found that the enterprising Bob had actually taken jobs with other firms and had outsourced that work too, netting him hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit as well as lots of time to hang around on internet messaging boards and checking for a new Detective Mittens video.
Bob is no longer employed by the firm. ®
Bob is no longer employed by the firm, ....
But has been hired by the firms management consultants.....
The only reason anyone is angry at Bob...
... is that they didn't think of it first....
For initiative.
But it just shows how cheap it is to outsource, if he can outsource his job and still pay the rent.


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so yeah, the other day i was chillin in the tent when my squad leader called out several names, including mine, and told us that we were going to meet a "VIP." from then until i saw him, me and my friends were speculating pretty hardcore on how likely it was that it was actually him. we were thinking, well, he's in turkey, which is probably like a 30 minute flight from baghdad for him. we had to give up our weapons, and had to go through a metal detector when we were entering the palace. there was a sniper perched on the roof and dozens of soldiers standing around with their weapons locked and loaded.
by the time he entered the building, we'd been standing there for a hot minute. before you knew it there were tons of people with their cameras up in the air, taking pictures. i shoved my way through the crowd, and bam, there was fucking president barack obama. now matter how i feel about the guy, i was star struck. he eventually came out and gave a typical politician speech, about how we're the best and the brightest, we've made life better for the iraqis, he's looking out for the military families, etc. at one point this chick screams, "i love you!!" and without hesitating he shouts, "i love you back!" it was pretty cool. everyone was really excited.
i'm glad i was able to see the state personified up, close and personal after deconverting. it was quite surreal, indeed.


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A sledding accident has put a local boy in the hospital in critical condition. The accident happened Monday around noon when a 9-year-old sledded under a parked car, said Tim Cavender with the Cherokee County Fire Department. The accident happened in the 200 block of Woodview Lane, just south of Holly Springs, and left the boy with facial and head injuries. He was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Scottish Rite hospital in Sandy Springs. Check back with Patch for developing details about this story.
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BIG BEAR, Calif. (AP) - The man believed to be fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner never came out of a California mountain cabin, and a single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The law enforcement official requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
A fourth person -- a deputy -- died earlier in the latest confrontation with America's most-wanted man, which seemed to be coming to an end.
Officials were waiting for the fire to burn out before approaching the ruins to search for a body.
"We have reason to believe that it is him," San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.
The cabin was on fire and smoke was coming from the structure in the late afternoon after police surrounded it in the snow-covered woods of Big Bear, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
Bachman didn't say how the fire started but noted there was gunfire between the person in the cabin and law enforcement officers around the home before the blaze began.
TV helicopters showed the fire burning freely with no apparent effort to extinguish it.
Authorities have focused their hunt for Christopher Dorner there since they said he launched a campaign to exact revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing.
Authorities say Dorner threatened to bring "warfare" to LAPD officers and their families, spreading fear and setting off a search for him across three states and Mexico.
"Enough is enough. It's time for you to turn yourself in. It's time to stop the bloodshed," LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said earlier in the day at a news conference held outside police headquarters in Los Angeles, a starkly different atmosphere than last week when officials briefed the news media under tight security with Dorner on the loose.
If the man inside the cabin does prove to be Dorner, it will lower tensions among the more than 40 targets police say he listed in an online rant.
Until Tuesday, authorities didn't know whether Dorner was still near Big Bear, where they found his burned-out pickup last week.
Around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, deputies got a report of a stolen vehicle, authorities said. The location was directly across the street from where law enforcement set up their command post on Thursday and not far from where Dorner's burned-out pickup was abandoned.
The people whose vehicle was stolen described the suspect as looking similar to Dorner. When authorities found the vehicle, the suspect ran into the forest and barricaded himself inside the cabin.
The first exchange of gunfire occurred about 12:45 p.m.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement that one of its officers traveling down Highway 38 recognized a man who fit Dorner's description traveling in the opposite direction.
The wildlife officer pursued the vehicle and there was a shooting in which the wildlife vehicle was hit numerous times and the suspect escaped on foot.
There was then a second exchange with San Bernardino County deputies, two of whom were shot. One died and the other was expected to live after undergoing surgery.
"We're heartbroken," Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte said of the deputy's death and the wounding of his colleague. "Words can't express how grateful we are for the sacrifice those men have made in defense of the community and our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families."
Police say Dorner began his run on Feb. 6 after they connected the slayings of a former police captain's daughter and her fiance with an angry Facebook rant they said he posted. Threats against the LAPD led officials to assign officers to protect officers and their families.
Within hours of the release of photos of the 6-foot, 270-pounder described as armed and "extremely dangerous," police say, Dorner unsuccessfully tried to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico and then ambushed police in Riverside County, shooting three and killing one.
Jumpy officers guarding one of the targets named in the rant in Torrance on Thursday shot and injured two women delivering newspapers because they mistook their pickup truck for Dorner's.
Police found charred weapons and camping gear inside the truck in Big Bear.
Helicopters using heat-seeking technology searched the forest from above while scores of officers, some using bloodhounds, scoured the ground and checked hundreds of vacation cabins -- many vacant this time of year -- in the area.
A snowstorm hindered the search and may have helped cover his tracks, though authorities were hopeful he would leave fresh footprints if hiding in the wilderness.
Dorner's anger with the department dated back at least five years, when he was fired for filing a false report accusing his training officer of kicking a mentally ill suspect. Dorner, who is black, claimed in the rant that he was the subject of racism by the department and fired for doing the right thing.
He said he would get even with those who wronged him as part of his plan to reclaim his good name.
"You're going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!" the rant said. "You have awoken a sleeping giant."
Chief Charlie Beck, who initially dismissed the allegations in the rant, said he would reopen the investigation into his firing -- not to appease the ex-officer, but to restore confidence in the black community, which long had a fractured relationship with police that has improved in recent years.
One of the targets listed in the manifesto was former LAPD Capt. Randal Quan, who represented Dorner before the disciplinary board. Dorner claimed he put the interests of the department above his.
The first victims were Quan's daughter, Monica Quan, 28, a college basketball coach, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, 27. They were shot multiple times in their car in a parking garage near their condo.
Dorner served in the Navy, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records. He took leave from the LAPD for a six-month deployment to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.
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The community of Cosby is spread out over a narrow valley that runs from Allen Grove near Newport in the north to the border of the national park to the south. English Mountain rises over 2,000 feet above Cosby to the northwest and Green Mountain rises just over 1,500 feet to the east. The Smokies are to the south and southwest.
Cosby Creek, its source on the crest of the Smokies near Cammerer Ridge, is the valley's main watershed. The creek cuts through the valley, running roughly parallel to Tennessee Route 32 before turning east near Allen Grove and emptying into the Pigeon River.
Traditionally, Cosby has been divided into three sections, known simply as "Lower Cosby," "Middle Cosby," and "Upper Cosby." Lower Cosby is the northernmost section, roughly consisting of the area between the mouth of Cosby Creek along the Pigeon River and Jones Cove Road. Upper Cosby, most of which is now part of the national park, consists mainly of the area in the vicinity of the Cosby Campground.
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,201 people, 2,091 households, and 1,525 families residing in the Zip Code. Cosby is an unincorporated community in Cocke County Tennessee.
U.S. Route 321 is the main road in Cosby, connecting the valley to Newport (10 miles to the north) and Gatlinburg (20 miles to the west). TN-339, which intersects US-321 near the center of Cosby, connects the valley with Jones Cove and Sevierville to the west. TN-32 parallels US-321 through most of Cosby before splitting off and heading east to the Cosby section of the national park and onward to the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
For centuries, lands along the northern rim of the Great Smokies, including Cosby, were used primarily as hunting grounds by the Cherokee. The first European settlers arrived in what is now Cocke County in the early 1780s. Among these settlers were John Gilliland (c. 1725-1798), who settled near the mouth of the Pigeon River, Peter Fine (1753-1826), who established Fine's Ferry at what is now Newport, and a small colony of German immigrants from Pennsylvania, who settled in what became known as the Dutch Bottoms area. Samuel Odell (c. 1750-1789) was probably the first to settle in the Cosby Creek valley.
These early encroachments no doubt agitated the Cherokee, who harassed the early settlers by stealing their livestock. Fine's brother, Vinet, was killed while chasing a band of Cherokee raiders in 1783. Scalpings were also reported. In response to these attacks, William Whitson (c. 1739-1819) erected a small fort just south of where Cosby Creek empties into the Pigeon River. The fort quickly grew into a small frontier outpost, complementing the fords and ferry to the north. While Cherokee raids continued, the Cosby area was largely peaceful by the early 1800s.
The origin of the name "Cosby" is a mystery, although there are two well-established hypotheses. The first centers around an early trapper and distiller in the area named Jonathan Cosby (sometimes spelled "Cozby"). The second suggests that the creek and valley were named after Dr. James Cozby (c. 1752-1831), a Revolutionary War veteran and friend of John Sevier, who may have made early claims to land along the creek. In any case, the name appears as early as 1838 in the minutes of the Big Pigeon Church in reference to the Bethany Church that had recently been founded along "Cosby Creek."
Cocke County, like much of East Tennessee, was divided between Union and Confederate sentiments during the American Civil War. Like most mountain communities, Cosby was subject to raids throughout the war, especially from Confederate marauders crossing the mountains from North Carolina.[13] A "home guard" camp was eventually established at the mouth of Indian Camp creek.
In the late 1800s, Cosby slowly recovered from the effects of the war. The community benefited to some extent from the railroad stations established at Newport and Big Creek (between Cosby and Newport) in 1867 and the 1870s, respectively. In the 1890s, a lumber mill was established at nearby Hartford, adjacent to the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
By 1900, most Cosby residents were either farmers or worked in lumber mills. Some supplemented their income by gathering ginseng, evergreens, and moss in the mountains, and some distilled corn liquor.
With the construction of railroads between Newport and Hartford, the Progressive Era began to make its way to the Smokies. Electricity had arrived in the sawmill towns in the 1920s. Still, Cosby lagged behind. Although the Baptist Church Organization established Cosby Academy in 1913, most of Cosby's children received brief instruction in rudimentary schoolhouses.
With the arrival of the Great Depression, many of the sawmills, including the Boice Hardwood mill at Hartford, shut down. Most farmers had difficulty selling their crops, and some were forced to turn to moonshining. The pains of the depression were eased when the Civilian Conservation Corps established a camp at what is now Cosby Creek Campground to construct trails for the newly-created Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the TVA began work on Douglas Dam on the other side of English Mountain.
Unlike many other Smoky Mountain communities, such as Cades Cove and the Sugarlands, only part of Cosby was incorporated into the national park.
For much of the first half of the 20th century, Cosby was known to East Tennesseans as "The Moonshine Capital of the World."
Like other Appalachian communities at the base of the Smokies, Cosby's chief crop was corn. While corn could be grown on relatively steep grades, the soil in Cosby's hilly recesses grew poorer and poorer with every clearing. Eventually, farmers struggled to break even, and in the late 1800s began to supplement their income by selling moonshine.
The deep winding coves and thick forests of the Smokies were the perfect cover for moonshine stills. As liquor supplies were strained with the rise of prohibition in the early 1900s, demand for the mountaineers' moonshine grew steadily. While many mountain communities were difficult to access, Cosby was connected by road to Newport and Knoxville, giving it an early advantage. Furthermore, Cosby never managed to attract the tourism dollars that spilled into other park border towns, such as Gatlinburg and Townsend. It is therefore no surprise that moonshining became such an issue in the Cosby valley.
During World War II, the Manhattan Project at what is now Oak Ridge brought in people from all over the country. As many were unaccustomed to the dry laws that were prevalent in Tennessee at the time, they were forced to turn to illegally distilled liquor. This pushed the demand in Cosby still higher.
Cosby's moonshiners dealt with the sugar shortage brought about by the war by taking advantage of a government supplement of sugar to any farmer who kept beehives. According to Appalachian historian Wilma Dykeman, "beehives sprouted around mountain cabins like weeds in a seedbed."
The explosion of moonshining in the Cosby area would lead to a cat-and-mouse game between law enforcement and moonshiners. The illegal distillers would warn one another of approaching revenue agents by setting off dynamite. Other times, locals would drive behind agents' cars, leading to a long tailgate along the road through the valley. Revenue officials could not rely on the residents of Cosby, who shunned intrusion by outside law enforcement.
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It's hard to think of Canada's effort at the 2010 Winter Olympic as a failure but — aside from winning a record 14 gold medals while galvanizing the country from Comox to Come by Chance — the Maple Leaf did fall short in its stated goal for the Vancouver Games.
Heading into 2010, the intent was to lead all countries in the medal table and we finished third. This is our shame. Yet, somehow, we've managed to live with it.
"I'm always asked did you dream (2010) would have the impact it did," says Ken Read, the outgoing director of winter sports for Own The Podium. "I say, 'We didn't realize we were going to go from blank (the number of gold medals won in Montreal in 1976), to blank (the number won in Calgary in '88), to 14.
"The real goal was to win the medal count. The 14 gold medals was a nice, unintentional consequence."
No, as far as unintentional consequences go, that one was pretty good. But, with the calendar about to turn on another quadrennial, the people at Own The Podium and the Canadian Olympic Committee are now in the unenviable position of trying to live up to legacy created by 2010.
OTP is again gunning for top spot on the medal table in Sochi and, again, has devoted the necessary resources to the sports federations and athletes to make that goal realistic.
The difference this time? The rest of the country isn't quite as engaged as it was in the run-up to 2010. That doesn't mean we don't want similar results. It does mean the fanfare and hoopla aren't nearly the same as the countdown starts for the Russian Games.
"Our goal is to contend for No. 1 in total medals," Read says. "We don't want to stick a red flag in front of anyone and say our goal is No. 1. But not a lot has changed. We're clearly stating we want to be players.
"We set a goal. We went after it. And we haven't slacked off. If anything we've seen a sharpening of focus and a continual raising of the bar."
Read, the former downhill skier and charter member of the Crazy Canucks, has picked an interesting time to step down from OTP. He was around when the organization was formed in '04 to ready the Canadian team for 2010, sat on the steering committee for Turin in '06, then assumed the controls for winter sports after Vancouver and Canada's starring turn as the host country.
He's also done most of the heavy lifting for 2014 and, with the big pieces in place, you can make the case Canada is better positioned heading into Russia than it was for Vancouver. Funding, for starters, is up. Canada also ranks first in both gold medals and medals won in the World Championships from 2011 to 2013. In World Cup events held this year, Canada is third behind Germany and the States in total medals.
All that, of course, guarantees nothing. But there is a depth among the 13 winter sports which suggests the Canucks will be at or near the top again in Sochi. This time around there will be a lot of the familiar faces from Vancouver — Kaillie Humphries in bobsleigh, speedskater Christine Nesbitt, Charles Hamelin in short track — along with a new generation of breakout stars — Alex Gough in luge, Mikael Kingsbury in moguls, cross-country skiers Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw.
And there's hockey. There will be some interest in the hockey teams sent to Sochi.
"The last four years, we've tried to maintain the support and the focus we had going into Vancouver," says Read. "The sports are responding incredibly well.
"The concept of OTP is to be No. 1 and I firmly believe it's the kind of thing that's allowing our nation to succeed in sport. It's funny. The (University of Alberta) did an evaluation and found 80 per cent of Canadians think OTP is a good thing. There's not a lot of things in Canada where 80 per cent of the population think something is good."
And it was good in Vancouver. If it's as good in Sochi, they might be on to something.


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HUNTINGTON -- The annual Martin Luther King Jr. civil rights march is planned for Monday, Jan. 21, to commemorate the peace and justice that King promoted, according to local NAACP branch president Sylvia Ridgeway.
The march is open to the public, who are encouraged to gather at 10:30 a.m. at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church at 9th Avenue and Elm Street for the march. The march will conclude at the Calvary Baptist Church at 8th Avenue and 9th Street. At the church, those participating are welcome to watch the inauguration of President Obama. Refreshments will be served.


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A few guys i know want to use this program from iobit site gamebooster an are nervous about the PB side of things.
I have never personelly used it as i have a decent rig an above average connection.
Is it safe to use with pb enabled games. I will link this thread for them to check back.
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Napisany lis 9, 2011 - 09:57
I have used this program with BFBC2, MoH and BF3. I have had no problems with it. All it does is shut down processes that you don't need for gaming. PB still runs for the games.
Napisany lis 9, 2011 - 10:28
Napisany lis 10, 2011 - 01:18
I've used it too and it's not bad but be careful when configuring it. The only downside I've come across is when you BSOD - it gets a little confused and still thinks it's active upon computer restart.
Napisany lis 10, 2011 - 02:24
by the looks this just frees system resources (never tried, i prefer taskmgr.exe ;P) and doesn't fiddle around with network traffic (<--- beware of speedhack violations) like some consimilar tools; plus a statement like
indicates devs rather know what they are doing.
Game Booster 3 is compatible with PunkBuster, Cheating-Death, VAC, and any other anti-cheat software.
indicates devs rather know what they are doing.
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14.Jun.10 Planning ahead for winter coaching in Cumbria
it seems a long way off - but this winter, athletes in Cumbria are being offered the opportunity of looking to develop their skills in their chosen discipline(s). The sessions are being organised by coaching coordinator Lenny Miller (Level 3 coach), with the support of the Cumbria County Athletics Association.
14.Jun.10 Wear it with Pride – England Athletics launches online store
You can now show your passion for athletics and support the development of athletics in England by wearing clothing from the new England Athletics store. Official England Athletics products available at www.englandathletics.org/store.
13.Jun.10 QuadKids attracting star ambassadors
QuadKids recently announced that David Hemery and Dean Macey are now Ambassadors for the programme. To top that, Lord Coe is due to attend a QuadKids event in Bradford tomorrow where he will have the opportunity to see a QuadKids event in full swing.
11.Jun.10 Spike presents kids with new Sportshall badges
Local youngsters were the very first to receive their badges for the new Aviva UKA Academy Sportshall Awards from none other than Spike, the UKA mascot. Joining Spike were George Bunner MBE - creator of Sportshall Athletics - and Kevin Hill, North of England Sportshall Development Officer.
09.Jun.10 Transitioning Juniors to Seniors - Endurance workshop
Nick Anderson and Bud Baldaro are holding an An England Athletics Endurance Coaches Workshop with input from Andy Vernon and Hannah England. Nick and Bud will lead a presentation and discussion on the transitioning of junior athletes into competitive seniors.
09.Jun.10 Debut of QuadKids in North London
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You will need to travel to various locations promoting the charity and regular giving at events, in supermarkets, work places and retail outlets. You will be doing face to face fundraising work which involves talking to members of the public to tell them about the charity and ask them to sign up to regular direct debits.
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SummarySheila's story is about accidentally leaving her baby outside Woolworths in the 1960s.
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This story was inspired by a pram from the collections at the Regional Resource Centre at Bemish.
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Years ago when I was a young married woman naturally I had a child. I had two actually. The second one was a little girl and was about a week old. I lived in New Cross and the next place to go was Peckham, which was quite a long way away. But on the stair I decided to push her in the pram, to give her an airing.
I eventually got there and went into Woolworths and parked the pram in the entrance place. Went and got what I had to and then I was finished and I thought 'Oooo, I'll have cream cakes for tea'. So I got my cream cakes and off I went and I thought 'Ah, I'll get a bus right away now', and I got on a bus and I got home and I made the tea and I said to my husband 'I got you a nice cake for tea'.
So I made the tea, sat down and I was about to take a bite out of my cake and then I said 'Do you ever feel you've had something and something feels missing?' and he said 'well, where's the baby then?', I said 'Oh crumbs! I've left her in Woolworths!'. He said 'You left her in Woolworths!?', I said, 'I did, I'll have to go and get her'.
So I got on the bus to go and get her, I got to Woolworths, went to the entrance where I'd left her and there was no pram or baby.
Asking people passing by in and out, had they seen a pram here with a baby in it? People were helpful, they were looking for me. Quite a few people had gathered by now and it was all confusion and a policeman came along and wanted to know what the trouble was, what was happening. I said 'I've lost my baby, my baby's gone! I left her here and she's gone. He said 'Are you sure you left the pram here?'. I said 'I did'. He said 'Maybe you left it in the other entrance'. I said 'No, there's just this entrance'. He said 'No, there's another entrance, come and see'. We went round to the other entrance and there's baby and pram, all safe and sound.
I thought that was a terrible thing. Fancy saying that you left your baby. So I went home, walking all the way home with my head hanging. I was even talking to the baby saying 'What did you get lost for!? Why did you move, I put you there and you moved into there!'. So I kept that to myself, I never told anybody about it.
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Mals are amazingly lightfooted
Since many of you want me to share some of the amazing stuff I experience with Ma Deuce, here is one of her new adventures and for me, a personal "AHA!" Moment.
Mals are incredibly lightfooted and the German Shepherd can't compete with that. Both the Shepherd Girls have been on that wall, BUT they needed help in the beginning to figure out how to get up there whereas Mals, they are just doing it, it's no biggie for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1AG...1&feature=plcp |
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Today begins a new publishing tradition here at the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette. It is the start of The Sunday Flash Fiction Story.
How's everyone doing?
The publication of guest writers the first week of every month is now well established. I will be showcasing the work of two new guest writers the first week of September.
Now I think I will add another tradition: the publication of a story by the Old Soldier (that's me) from the archives every Sunday for your reading pleasure. I think there are enough stories of mine in the archives to keep you entertained every Sunday for a long time.
Now, without further ado, here is the first installment of the new series: The Sunday Flash Fiction Story.
Schenley Park
Two kinds of fish swam in the muddy water. The bright orange fish were nearly a foot long and stayed near the surface while the much smaller dark fish darted about lower down, only coming to the surface to feed as the seventeen-year-old boy threw the last pieces of bread into the water and then slid the sandwich bag into the pocket of his jeans. Squirrels and robins drank at the water's edges as they searched for food, the muddy water barely cresting at and flowing into a rusty grate. The boy thought, but where is the source of the water and where are the two ducks? He looked around at the green, wooded park surrounding the water, but he did not hear or see the ducks. Sitting down on one of the sun warmed stone benches, the boy began to daydream about his future…
He wondered how long the young woman had been standing there. He wondered how long she'd been standing there watching him like that. She walked over and sat down beside him on the stone bench in the afternoon sun.
"Hi," she said.
"Hello," he said.
She said, "You were a thousand miles away."
"I come here to think," he said. "I start Pitt in the fall."
"Oh," she said. "I'm a grad student there. I'll be in my final year in the fall."
"Do you like it?"
"Do I like it? Yes I like it. I love it."
He saw her look toward the water.She took a deep, ragged breath. "It's not very big," she said. "I could throw a rock over it." She looked at him. "So, what do you want to be?"
"I'm not sure yet," he said.
"I know what I want to be. I'm doing it now. I've always known since I was a little girl. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to be. Now I have to make a decision." She looked out at the water again. "You work at something so hard for so long and it's so close and nothing's ever guaranteed and you may never get this chance again but you have to pay a price, a price you don't want to pay."
He studied her face. She was still looking at the water. He looked to see what she was seeing.
She said, "What's your name?"
"Sal," he said. "Sal Rondenelli."
"Do you have a girlfriend, Sal?"
"Not really."
"Well," she said, "one day you will. And you'll really care about her a lot. It's wonderful when you care about someone. It's even more wonderful when that person cares about you. And you would never want to do anything to hurt that person. Never."
He looked at her.
She turned her face to him.She said, "Sometimes you care so much for that person that life feels so good, so sweet it's almost like a dream and you never, ever want to wake up. Ever. But it's not a dream. It's real. It's so real that it seems what you thought you had control over really has control over you. You try to be careful and you try to be smart but sometimes that's not good enough. Sometimes you have to be lucky, too." She turned her face back to the water and said, "Or unlucky." She stood up. She reached her hand down to him. "Well, Sal, good luck."
He held her hand. He said, "Maybe I'll see you on campus."
She smiled down at him.
He liked her smile. He released her hand. She turned and walked away. He stood up and watched her walk deeper into the park. He kept watching until she was gone. When Sal turned back to the muddy water the two ducks were paddling side by side.
The End
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