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Central Hudson Pitting Hybrids vs. Biodiesel in Truck Fleet Test
Central Hudson will use its eight new heavy-duty hybrid trucks as a comparison against biodiesel-powered trucks already in service. Evaluating the pros and cons of each will point the way forward for the utility.
Central Hudson received $700,000 through the federal stimulus package to aid in the purchase of the new trucks, according to a press release.
"These trucks are being purchased as part of our normal vehicle replacement program, however with this funding we are able to obtain four diesel-electric hybrids and four plug-in diesel-electric hybrid models for our fleet," said Carl E. Meyer, President and Chief Operating Officer.
The eight heavy-duty hybrid vehicles are estimated to save Central Hudson a combined 12,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year, while preventing more than 260,000 pounds in CO2 emissions.
The vehicles, which will not enter service until late next year, should help Central Hudson save about $40,000 annually in operating costs.
"These heavy-duty hybrid trucks will allow our use of two alternative fuels at the same time, electricity and biodiesel, providing the operating experience and information we can use in evaluating future vehicle purchases," Meyer said.
For the rest of its fleet, Central Hudson uses B20 biodiesel fuel, a blend of 80 percent petroleum diesel and 20 percent soybean oil.
This grant is being administered through the New York State Research and Development Authority, and New York City and Lower Hudson Valley Clean Communities.
Reader Comments
Thank you for recognizing our annoucement to purchase hybrid and plug-in hybrid line trucks. As a point of correction, we intend to compare their operation to conventional diesel trucks, rather than natural gas vehicles (we do not operate natural gas line trucks). Our data will be reported to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. We do intend to continue using B20 biodiesel blend with the hybrids, as the fuel is available.
John Maserjian, Central Hudson
I'm a bit confused about the focus of the comparison. It seems to me that there is no comparison between using old diesel trucks with B20 and new diesel hybrid trucks with B20. The latter will obviously be a significant order of magnitude cleaner. To me – a new clean diesel truck using B20 and a new clean diesel truck using ULSD would be a more interesting comparison. Or even better, comparing both to a truck using natural gas.
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42nd Annual Northwest Institute of Addictions Studies Conference Presenters
Keynote Speakers
Denise Ernst, Ph.D. received her doctorate from the University of New Mexico under the renowned Dr. William Miller, co-founder of motivational interviewing (MI), with a research focus on the application of MI in real clinical practice. She has been involved in efforts to increase the effectiveness of training, has provided structured feedback and coaching to a variety of professionals, and has developed and delivered several levels of advanced MI curriculum. Dr. Ernst has participated in the development and refinement of the family of MI coding instruments, including the Motivational Interviewing Skill Code (MISC) and the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) coding system, to determine treatment fidelity, practitioner skills and the critical elements of good MI practice. She has developed, trained, and overseen coding labs. With strong quantitative and analytic training and experience, she is committed to ensuring interrater reliability, utilizing a variety of methods to accurately assess that reliability. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), Dr. Ernst trained as a MI trainer in 1993. She has conducted trainings internationally in MI to a wide variety of professionals working in substance abuse, criminal justice, medical care, and public health.
Jonathan Eames is a proven leader in governmental affairs in Oregon and Washington. With over 13 years of experience in the political arena, he brings a wealth of in-depth knowledge of the legislative process and has outstanding working relationships with elected officials, their staff, and key state policy makers. Prior to founding Eames Consulting, Mr. Eames began his lobbying career as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Oregon Health Care Association. He then became the Executive Director of the Washington Health Care Association, the largest long-term care association in Washington State. While lobbying on behalf of profit and not-for profit clients, his leadership paved the way for advancing an aggressive long-term care agenda for WHCA. Mr. Eames has also held the position of the Senior Vice President for Pac/West Communications. In this capacity, he represented Fortune 500 companies, the building trades, and a variety of health care clients while gaining broad experience in the areas pertaining to transportation, corporate tax policy, and state budgets. Mr. Eames graduated from Willamette University with a BA in Political Science. In his personal time, he enjoys family time with his wife and four young daughters.
Rachel Solotaroff, M.D., MCR is Chief Medical Officer at Central City Concern. She provides care as a general internist and board-certified addictions specialist at Central City Concern's Old Town Clinic, a designated Healthcare for the Homeless program, with a clinical focus on caring for people with chronic pain and substance use disorders.
Rachel's non-clinical work focuses on developing clinical and financial models to support integrated, seamless care to individuals with complex medical, behavioral and social needs.
Breakout Session Speakers
Douglas Braun-Harvey, M.F.T., CGP is a sexual health author, trainer and psychotherapist who bridges sexual and mental health, and facilitates organizational change. In 2013 Doug Braun-Harvey and Al Killen-Harvey co-founded The Harvey Institute, an international education, training, consulting and supervision service for improving health care through integration of sexual health. He teaches and trains nationally and internationally linking sexual health principles within drug and alcohol treatment, group psychotherapy, HIV prevention and treatment, and child maltreatment. Since 1993, he has been developing and implementing a sexual health based treatment approach for men with out of control sexual behavior (OCSB). He has earned several distinctions for his work, including the 2013 Carne's Award from the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health, 2011 Sexual Intelligence Award, the 2011 Presidents Award from the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Addiction Professionals, and the 2011 Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Western Region Public Service Award. Mr. Braun-Harvey is a Certified Sex Therapist (AASECT Certified) in private practice in San Diego California, and can be found on the web at www.DBHnow.com
Megan Chaloupka, LPC, CADC-I, is the current Program Manager of Central City Concern's Acute Services, overseeing the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams, the State Hospital Waitlist Reduction Team, and the Intensive Case Management Team (ICM), which uses the Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment Model (IDDT). After two years of work at a dual diagnosis adolescent residential treatment facility, she began working with adults with severe and persistent mental illness. During her 9 years in community mental health, Megan has worked as an ACT team clinician, Team Lead and Clinical Supervisor. In addition to her current Program Manager role, Megan provides trainings in the topics of suicide intervention, behavioral safety and daily living skill assessment. Megan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She earned her Master's Degree in Art Therapy and Counseling from Marylhurst University, an her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Krystina M. Crume is currently the Housing and Project Coordinator for Knapp Street Recovery. She got her start at Knapp Street as a volunteer office manager, and after completing mentor training in 2015 transitioned into a mentorship role. Krystina has been in recovery for over three years after completing treatment in September 2012.
Janet L. Johnson is currently the Program Director at Meridian Behavioral Health, LLC. Janet entered the field of Chemical Dependency in 1998 after becoming a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC). In 1999 she began her counseling career with women in gender-specific Outpatient Treatment. Since receiving her full licensure in 2000, she has worked with adults, both gender-specific and co-ed, residential and outpatient settings. In addition, she spent nearly six years working with high-risk adolescents in both the community and a juvenile detention setting. Janet is currently pursuing a Degree in Administrative Leadership and Writing through the College of Individualized Studies at Metro State University in St. Paul, MN.
Laura Martin, LCSW is a social worker with 20 years of experience. She has been training in and teaching mindfulness-based modalities in mental health and healthcare professionally since 2002, starting with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She is trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and is Certified by the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School. She can often be found on silent retreats with the Zen Community of Oregon. She has a golden retriever named Louis, who prefers walking meditation.
Salvador Ameasola, CADC II has 18 years of experience in the field of addictions. In 2000, he was certified as a CADC-II counselor, and worked as a DUI Coordinator until 2004. After discovering his passion for working within the Latino community, he founded Estaciones—a recovery program in Washington County. Following his time as Program Director for Estaciones, he moved to Colma, Mexico to serve as Clinical Coordinator at Centro de Recuperacion Integral Social, where he helped implement treatment programs specific to the Latino population. Salvador is currently a Clinical Supervisor at BestCare Services in Madras, Oregon, where he monitors the Residential and Outpatient Latino Program.
Calvin Myers LCSW, CADC-1 has worked with those struggling with Addictions and experiencing Mental Health issues since graduating from the University of Michigan in 1987. Myers has worked in California, Arizona and Oregon. His experience ranges from line staff to opening a 24-hour walk-in crisis stabilization unit and a 36-bed residential treatment facility for those who experience both mental health symptoms and developmental disabilities. Currently Myers is the Interim Program Director for Community Counseling Services for Volunteers of America. In this role he oversees Home Base Recovery a 10-bed Low Intensity Residential Treatment Facility and an 8-bed culturally specific facility serving the Latino Community.
Janese Olalde, MEd, MFT, CADC-II, CGAC-II has more than 20 years of experience in the addiction and education fields. Having lived in Mexico for four years, she worked as an addictions counselor with Spanish-speaking clients for nine years and has been involved in the Latino community for more than 30 years. Janese previously worked for the State of Oregon DHS as a Problem Gambling Treatment Specialist, has a Master's degree in Couples and Family Therapy, and is currently a Human Services instructor at Lane Community College.
Douglas Querin, JD, LPC, CADC-I is a former Oregon trial lawyer who has practiced in state and federal courts for over 25 years. He is currently employed as an Attorney Counselor for the Oregon State Bar in Oregon's Attorney Assistance Program. He is an Adjunct Professor at both Portland State University and George Fox University, and former Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Oregon Counseling Association (2006-2014). He currently serves as a member of the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists. Mr. Querin is a frequent speaker and workshop presenter on professional ethics at conferences, graduate schools, mental health organizations, and addiction treatment facilities.
Shannon Rose, M.S is a Domestic Violence Program Specialist with the Multnomah County Domestic Violence Coordination Office. She has more than 10 years experience working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence, as well as developing and coordinating programs. Her areas of expertise include the co-occurrence of domestic violence and substance use disorders, serving vulnerable populations, the impacts of domestic and sexual violence on survivors' health, and trauma-informed service approaches. Shannon is an experienced trainer and educator with a Masters degree in Human Services and a graduate certificate in addictions counseling.
Rick Treleaven, LCSW is the current Executive Director for BestCare Treatment Services, Inc. and the Community Mental Health Director for Jefferson County. Rick has worked in the fields of addiction and mental health since 1982. He has provided clinical services with diverse groups of people, including youth, families, veterans, victims of abuse, and people with severe and persistent mental illnesses. He has worked at all levels of the field, as a volunteer, a therapist, a clinical supervisor, and as an administrator of programs. He was the Community Mental Health Director for Clatsop County from 1996 to 1999. He has worked for BestCare since 1999, and has been the Executive Director since 2001. In his time as director at BestCare the agency has expanded ten-fold and now provides compassionate behavioral health services in Jefferson, Deschutes, and Klamath counties. In 2006 he was the founding President of the Oregon Prevention, Education, and Recovery Association (OPERA). In the early 1990's he spent two years in the Peace Corps, stationed in the Solomon Islands. He graduated from the University of Washington with a Master's in Social Work in 1987, and from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor's of Arts in 1984.
Tony Vezina is one of the Co-Founders of The 4th Dimension Recovery Center. He is the founder of the Recovery 101 Club and Recovery Retention Coordinator at Portland Community College; past PhiTheta Kappa Honors Society President; past Student Body President Portland Community College; past Outreach Coordinator and Vice President of The 4th Dimension Recovery Center and current PeerService Director. He has an AAOT from Portland Community College; PeerRecovery Counselor; CRM; and is working on a CADC I. Tony identifies in longterm recovery and has been abstinent from drugs and alcohol since July 20, 2012.
Stéphanie Wahab Ph.D., M.S.W. holds graduate degrees in Social Work/Welfare from the University of Washington's School of Social Work. She currently teaches motivational interviewing at Portland State University's School of Social Work in addition to other courses in her role as faculty member. She has trained a diversity of service providers including but not limited to social workers, health and public health care providers, mental health care providers, harm reductionists, case managers, supervisors, and lay practitioners.
Dr. Chris Wilson is a licensed psychologist and nationally recognized speaker and trainer from Portland, Oregon. For the past fifteen years, he has worked with victims and perpetrators of crime, as both a group and individual therapist. He currently has a small private practice of individual clients, provides psychological evaluations for the Oregon Department of Human Services, and trains nationwide on a variety of issues including sexual assault, domestic violence, and the neurobiology of trauma. His audiences have included judges, attorneys, civilian and military law enforcement officers, college and university administrators, victim advocates, and mental health professionals. He's provided trainings for the US Department of Justice, the US Navy, the US Marine Corps, the US Department of the Interior, the US Office for Victims of Crime, and the National Crime Victim Law Institute. Dr. Wilson is also a trainer for the US Army's Special Victims Unit Investigation Course, and two nationally recognized programs: Legal Momentum, providing training for the judiciary, and the You Have Options Program, providing training for law enforcement on the Forensic Experiential Trauma Interview, designed by Chief Russell Strand of the United States Army. In his spare time he roots for his childhood hometown Boston Red Sox and current hometown Portland Timbers.
Harry Zorrilla, MA, CADC II was born and raised in Arequipa, Peru. After moving to Oregon in 1998, he worked with victims of domestic violence at the Domestic Violence Resource Center in Washington County. In 2000, he started as an Addiction Counselor in a private agency known as Change Point in Portland, Oregon. In 2002, he was invited to participate in the first research study on the evidence base practice of Motivation Interviewing within the Latino community. After earning his chemical dependence certification in 2003, he was hired as the Clinical Director for Bestcare Treatment Services' Latino program. In 2012, he received his certification CADCII as an addiction counselor. Henry received both his B.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from San Martin University.


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Report: 4 Million Acres of Public Lands Are Off Limits Because of No Legal Access
What do the Troublesome Wilderness Study Area in Colorado, the Sabinoso Wilderness and Cowboy Springs WSA in New Mexico, and
What do the Troublesome Wilderness Study Area in Colorado, the Sabinoso Wilderness and Cowboy Springs WSA in New Mexico, and the Fortification Creek WSA in Wyoming have in common?
They're all public lands – and none of them can be reached by the public.
Western lands have long had a patchwork of owners: federal, state, local, tribal, and private. In the late 1800s, the federal government gave railroad companies every other square mile along rail corridors, creating a public-private checkerboard. But because it's illegal to even step across a private corner from one public parcel to another, many of those pieces of land remain inaccessible. Others are marooned in a sea of private property with no right of way. Some landowners even illegally close public roads across their holdings.
In the Rocky Mountain West, more than four million acres of federal public land are effectively off-limits because there's no permanent, legal way to access them. The nonpartisan Center for Western Priorities, a Denver-based group focusing on public-land protection, recently used GIS mapping to quantify such "shuttered" lands, mostly managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Their analysis, which the center describes as "conservative," came up with the acreage figures.
Federal land managers often can't get access to those parcels either, as the Bozeman Daily Chronicle notes. So those lands effectively become part of the private domain of adjoining landowners.
"We have no authority over private land, so unless we have permission, we cannot access that," BLM spokesman Brad Purdy said. "These little pieces are not only difficult for the public to access but they're difficult for us to manage."
But private-property rights advocates defend the ability of landowners to close roads across their property.
The new Center for Western Priorities report covers the many reasons why access is important. Public lands contribute to the economies of local communities and provide great recreation and hunting opportunities:
– Researchers have found that access to protected public lands promotes jobs and produces higher incomes. A recent study found that job growth over the last four decades in western counties with significant protected public lands – like parks, monuments, and wilderness – is four times higher than in counties without protected lands.
– Ensuring access is critical to supporting and promoting America's growing outdoor recreation industry…In Western states, outdoor recreation brings billions into the economy each year: consumers spend $13.2 billion annually in Colorado on outdoor recreation; $6.1 billion in New Mexico, and $5.8 billion in Montana.
– Open and accessible public lands are an essential element of outdoor recreation in the Rocky Mountain West. As an example, 89 percent of hunters in New Mexico hunt on public lands. In Utah and Wyoming, 83 percent of hunters use public lands to hunt.
Congress has tried to tackle these problems. In 2011, Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester, Idaho Republican Senator Jim Risch, and Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman introduced the "Making Public Lands Public Act," but it failed to pass. The HUNT Act, introduced by New Mexico Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich in September, would improve hunting and recreation access.
One of the easiest ways to resolve access problems is by paying landowners for easements across their property. The nation's main source of funding for buying easements and other private land is the Land and Water Conservation Fund – but Congress usually gives it considerably less than half of the $900 million in energy royalties it's allocated.
Read the full report from Center for Western Priorities here.
This article originally appeared in High Country News. Illustration via Center for Western Priorities.
Environmental coverage made possible in part by support from Patagonia. For information on Patagonia and its environmental efforts, visit www.patagonia.com.
Wilderness advocates should be happy that public lands are inaccessible… the less people the better in their opinion.
As for me, I think Wilderness should be open to mountain bikes.
"Inaccessible" isn't limited to ATVs and other vehicles. It means nothing on foot, mountain bike, horseback, etc. Private land surrounded tax payer-funded public land has shut up everything to everyone except for those willing to pay $10,000 or more per hunt. And not all private land has an easement through the Forest Service, state, or BLM to access public lands through private. Some landowners allow it, but most don't. So these areas being inaccessible is NOT a good thing because it doesn't mean "a wilderness area where building is prohibited." It's land we pay for that we may never be allowed to step foot on.
and here we go with the age old preservation vs. conservation debate
I'm pretty stunned by many of the responses here… Not sure if many people simply skimmed without full comprehension or what…
– This doesn't mean that the area is "wilderness"
– It doesn't mean that the area lacks public roads so only the "evil" internal combustion engines are kept out.
It means that you can't access it. It means I can't access it. It means that the feds can't access it.
The only people who CAN access it are those who own the surrounding land. They are free to hunt, fish, ride motorcycles, and otherwise recreate without the hassles of other people.
I sure wish I had one of those chunks of property…
Yeah, because something is sectioned off by private land owners and therefore not visited by you and I (assuming we aren't the landowners) does not then make it wilderness or even unvisited. Adjacent land owners would have access and probably unfettered by the laws that govern the land since, as stated, the enforcing agencies often have no access. Sounds like another form of land grab.
As an expat American now living in Scotland I've got what I can only describe as a confused perspective on this topic. You see over here there is no such thing as trespassing, at least not the way we understand it in the States. I can step out the door of my home just outside of Aberdeen and start walking southwest until I get to Glasgow, or beyond, crossing any and every private parcel of land along the way. Within reason (no trampling of farm crops or traipsing through back yards or industrial sites) I can wander – and camp – wherever the hell I want, without fear of being shot at by a landowner.
Now, the flip side of this is the fact that Scotland probably has the most inequitable distribution of land ownership anywhere in the developed world, with more than half of the country being owned by less than 500 people. Unlike the U.S. (especially the west of course) Scotland has hardly any land in public ownership. Even Scotland's (and the UK's) largest national park, the Cairngorms, is overwhelmingly comprised of private estates. And contrary to popular perception, Scotland is far from an undeveloped wilderness. It's not urbanised and suburbanised, true, but it's also not wilderness. For the most part these massive private estates are countryside, managed for hunting, fishing, forestry and farming. Here too there is a stark contrast between the U.S., where hunting and fishing are culturally and economically middle class activities, and Scotland, where you need pretty deep pockets for the privilege of killing a grouse, deer or salmon.
There are of course benefits and drawbacks to both systems. Growing up as an American I'm hard wired to like the idea of being lord and master of my own little 10 acre kingdom. But I'm also really digging the freedom to roam I have here in Scotland. Nervously enjoying I should say, as I still find myself on the lookout for angry, armed landowners. Old habits and all that. But would I want to entrust my fellow Americans with the same free roaming privileges in the States? Hmm, I'm not so sure.
Wow……. You can see the difference between people who talk about public land and the people that actully use and recreate on it. This has NOTHING to do with preservation or conservation, it has to do with limiting access to a select few. While making a ton of cash by selling access to land the public owns. People aren't paying to hunt or use their land, they are paying to pass thru to get to public land! There are some reallllly sheepish people commenting here.
Very interesting stuff. I can see where some people would like to keep these lands untouched, but I also recognize that these are publicly funded areas. Seems the government's M.O. is at work as usual: our tax dollars working hard to benefit who? Eye-opening article.


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The time course of perception of coarticulation133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4794366View Description Hide Description
The perception of coarticulated speech as it unfolds over time was investigated by monitoring eye movements of participants as they listened to words with oral vowels or with late or early onset of anticipatory vowel nasalization. When listeners heard [C NC] and had visual choices of images of CVNC (e.g., send) and CVC (said) words, they fixated more quickly and more often on the CVNC image when onset of nasalization began early in the vowel compared to when the coarticulatory information occurred later. Moreover, when a standard eye movement programming delay is factored in, fixations on the CVNC image began to occur before listeners heard the nasal consonant. Listeners' attention to coarticulatory cues for velum lowering was selective in two respects: (a) listeners assigned greater perceptual weight to coarticulatory information in phonetic contexts in which [ ] but not N is an especially robust property, and (b) individual listeners differed in their perceptual weights. Overall, the time course of perception of velum lowering in American English indicates that the dynamics of perception parallel the dynamics of the gestural information encoded in the acoustic signal. In real-time processing, listeners closely track unfolding coarticulatory information in ways that speed lexical activation.
Perceptual adaptation to gender and expressive properties in speech: The role of fundamental frequency133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4792145View Description Hide Description
Recent studies have demonstrated perceptual adaptation to nonlinguistic properties of speech involving voice gender and emotional expression. The present study extends this work by examining the contribution of fundamental frequency (F0) to these effects. Voice recordings of vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) syllables from six talkers were processed using the STRAIGHT vocoder and an auditory morphing technique to synthesize gender (experiment 1) and expressive (experiment 2) speech sound continua ranging from one category endpoint to the other (female to male; angry to happy). Continuum endpoints served as adaptors for F0 present and F0 removed conditions. F0 removed stimuli were created by replacing the periodic excitation source with broadband noise. Confirming previous findings, aftereffects were found in the F0 present condition, resulting in a decreased likelihood to identify test stimuli as belonging to the adaptor category. No aftereffects appeared when F0 was removed, highlighting the importance of F0 in adaptation. However, in an identification test listeners were still able to categorize F0 removed stimuli at better-than-chance levels, indicating that residual cues for gender and emotion were available even when F0 was not present.
Detection of shouted speech in noise: Human and machine133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4794394View Description Hide Description
High vocal effort has characteristic acoustic effects on speech. This study focuses on the utilization of this information by human listeners and a machine-based detection system in the task of detecting shouted speech in the presence of noise. Both female and male speakers read Finnish sentences using normal and shouted voice in controlled conditions, with the sound pressure level recorded. The speech material was artificially corrupted by noise and supplemented with pure noise. The human performance level was statistically evaluated by a listening test, where the subjects labeled noisy samples according to whether shouting was heard or not. A Bayesian detection system was constructed and statistically evaluated. Its performance was compared against that of human listeners, substituting different spectrum analysis methods in the feature extraction stage. Using features capable of taking into account the spectral fine structure (i.e., the fundamental frequency and its harmonics), the machine reached the detection level of humans even in the noisiest conditions. In the listening test, male listeners detected shouted speech significantly better than female listeners, especially with speakers making a smaller vocal effort increase for shouting.
Recognition of speech in noise after application of time-frequency masks: Dependence on frequency and threshold parameters133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4792143View Description Hide Description
Binary time-frequency (TF) masks can be applied to separate speech from noise. Previous studies have shown that with appropriate parameters, ideal TF masks can extract highly intelligible speech even at very low speech-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Two psychophysical experiments provided additional information about the dependence of intelligibility on the frequency resolution and threshold criteria that define the ideal TF mask. Listeners identified AzBio Sentences in noise, before and after application of TF masks. Masks generated with 8 or 16 frequency bands per octave supported nearly-perfect identification. Word recognition accuracy was slightly lower and more variable with 4 bands per octave. When TF masks were generated with a local threshold criterion of 0 dB SNR, the mean speech reception threshold was −9.5 dB SNR, compared to −5.7 dB for unprocessed sentences in noise. Speech reception thresholds decreased by about 1 dB per dB of additional decrease in the local threshold criterion. Information reported here about the dependence of speech intelligibility on frequency and level parameters has relevance for the development of non-ideal TF masks for clinical applications such as speech processing for hearing aids.
Focusing the lens of language experience: Perception of Ma'di stops by Greek and English bilinguals and monolinguals133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4792358View Description Hide Description
Monolingual listeners are constrained by native language experience when categorizing and discriminating unfamiliar non-native contrasts. Are early bilinguals constrained in the same way by their two languages, or do they possess an advantage? Greek–English bilinguals in either Greek or English language mode were compared to monolinguals on categorization and discrimination of Ma'di stop-voicing distinctions that are non-native to both languages. As predicted, English monolinguals categorized Ma'di prevoiced plosive and implosive stops and the coronal voiceless stop as English voiced stops. The Greek monolinguals categorized the Ma'di short-lag voiceless stops as Greek voiceless stops, and the prevoiced implosive stops and the coronal prevoiced stop as Greek voiced stops. Ma'di prenasalized stops were uncategorized. Greek monolinguals discriminated the non-native voiced-voiceless contrasts very well, whereas the English monolinguals did poorly. Bilinguals were given all oral and written instructions either in English or in Greek (language mode manipulation). Each language mode subgroup categorized Ma'di stop-voicing comparably to the corresponding monolingual group. However, the bilinguals' discrimination was unaffected by language mode: both subgroups performed intermediate to the monolinguals for the prevoiced-voiceless contrast. Thus, bilinguals do not possess an advantage for unfamiliar non-native contrasts, but are nonetheless uniquely configured language users, differing from either monolingual group.
A beamformer post-filter for cochlear implant noise reductiona)133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4794391View Description Hide Description
Cochlear implant users have limited ability to understand speech in noisy conditions. Signal processing methods to address this issue that use multiple microphones typically use beamforming to perform noise reduction. However, the effectiveness of the beamformer is diminished as the number of interfering noises increases and the acoustic environment becomes more diffuse. A multi-microphone noise reduction algorithm that aims to address this issue is presented in this study. The algorithm uses spatial filtering to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and attenuates time-frequency elements that have poor SNR. The algorithm was evaluated by measuring intelligibility of speech embedded in 4-talker babble where the interfering talkers were spatially separated and changed location during the test. Twelve cochlear implant users took part in the evaluation, which demonstrated a significant mean improvement of 4.6 dB (standard error 0.4, P < 0.001) in speech reception threshold compared to an adaptive beamformer. The results suggest that a substantial improvement in performance can be gained for cochlear implant users in noisy environments where the noise is spatially separated from the target speech.
Contribution of temporal fine structure information and fundamental frequency separation to intelligibility in a competing-speaker paradigm133(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4792153View Description Hide Description
The speech reception threshold (SRT) for identifying a target speaker in a background speaker was measured as a function of the difference (F0sep) in fundamental frequency (F0) between the two speakers. The amount of original temporal fine structure (TFS) information in the mixed signals was manipulated by tone vocoding channels above a certain cutoff channel (CO). When the natural variations in F0 of both speakers were preserved, the SRT did not decrease with increasing F0sep, indicating that short-term differences in F0 can allow perceptual segregation of two speakers even when their F0s cross. When F0 variations were removed from both speakers, increasing F0sep led to decreased (better) SRTs. The decrease was greater for unprocessed signals than for fully tone-vocoded signals. However, the decrease was similar for unprocessed signals and for signals with original TFS below 1600 Hz, suggesting that most of the benefit from increasing F0 difference depends on the use of TFS information at lower frequencies. Adding original TFS information to channels centered above 1600 Hz produced roughly the same decrease in SRT as adding original TFS information to channels centered below 1600 Hz, suggesting a benefit from original TFS information apart from that related to differences in F0.


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1. X-Men: First Class (2011)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 526,187 | Gross: $146.41M
2. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and a grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 419,976 | Gross: $260.00M
3. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
R | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Martin Hancock
Votes: 220,240 | Gross: $47.40M
4. Gilligan's Island (1964–1967)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm.
Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes: 9,098
5. Monsters (2010)
R | 94 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 76,467 | Gross: $0.24M
6. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 151,023 | Gross: $125.33M
7. Godzilla (I) (1998)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A giant, reptilian monster surfaces, leaving destruction in its wake. To stop the monster (and its babies), an earthworm scientist, his reporter ex-girlfriend, and other unlikely heroes team up to save their city.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria
Votes: 153,259 | Gross: $136.02M
8. The Tempest (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand
Votes: 6,236 | Gross: $0.26M
9. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Approved | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre
Votes: 22,442
10. Time Bandits (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A young boy accidentally joins a band of time traveling dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 46,607 | Gross: $42.37M
11. Pathfinder (2007)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means
Votes: 37,574 | Gross: $10.23M
12. Dracula (1979)
R | 109 min | Horror, Romance
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 7,042
13. Lifeboat (1944)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, War
Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, William Bendix
Votes: 20,676
14. Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack
Votes: 28,316 | Gross: $39.40M
15. The Deep (1977)
PG | 123 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw
Votes: 8,687
16. The Reef (2010)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Director: Andrew Traucki | Stars: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley, Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor
Votes: 12,330
17. Cutthroat Island (1995)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 21,356 | Gross: $11.00M
18. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 36,429
19. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Approved | 126 min | Adventure, Family
A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro
Votes: 10,279 | Gross: $40.35M
20. Dagon (2001)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 12,883
21. The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Votes: 1,304
22. Below (2002)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, David Crow, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany
Votes: 18,084 | Gross: $0.59M
23. Blood Work (2002)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus
Votes: 34,745 | Gross: $26.20M
24. The Return (2003)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 32,051 | Gross: $0.50M
25. Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy
A man tries to rescue a woman with a little help from his half brother.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Robin Shou, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 31,068 | Gross: $31.24M
26. Black Lagoon (2006– )
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A Japanese businessman, captured by modern-day pirates, is written off and left for dead by his company. Tired of the corporate life, he opts to stick with the mercenaries that kidnapped him, becoming part of their gang.
Stars: Megumi Toyoguchi, Daisuke Namikawa, Youichi Nishijima, Maryke Hendrikse
Votes: 7,022
27. Assassin's Creed III (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, History
The American Colonies, 1775. It's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas. As a Native American fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution.
Directors: Alex Hutchinson, Shea Wageman | Stars: Noah Watts, Neil Napier, Robin Atkin Downes, Adrian Hough
Votes: 10,165
28. Titanic (1996 TV Mini-Series)
PG-13 | 173 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1912 sinking of the largest luxury liner ever built, the tragedy that befell over two thousand of the rich and famous as well as of the poor and unknown passengers aboard the doomed ship.
Stars: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint
Votes: 3,601
29. Francofonia (2015)
88 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes
Votes: 1,437 | Gross: $0.30M
30. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Not Rated | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey
Votes: 2,223
31. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Not Rated | 63 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 7,180
32. Titanic (1953)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
An unhappy married couple deal with their problems on board the ill-fated ship.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton
Votes: 4,943
33. Raise the Titanic (1980)
PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer
Votes: 2,976 | Gross: $7.00M
34. The Blue Lagoon (1949)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Two children are shipwrecked on a desert-island and fall in love while growing up together.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones
Votes: 304
35. Shock Waves (1977)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams, Fred Buch
Votes: 3,668
36. The Guilty (2000)
R | 108 min | Crime, Thriller
A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.
Director: Anthony Waller | Stars: Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Featherstone
Votes: 2,720
37. The Sea Wolf (1941)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Adventure
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. The crew mutinies against ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox
Votes: 2,302
38. The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Approved | 128 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
Molly is an uneducated, poor, mountain girl who leaves her mountain cabin in search of a wealthy husband, respect and a better life.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen
Votes: 2,422
39. Empires of the Deep
Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Announced
Set in a mythical world, the story of an unlikely love story between a young human and a mermaid.
Directors: Michael French, Jonathan Lawrence, Scott Miller | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Steve Polites, Maxx Maulion, Pierre Bourdaud
40. Swept Away (1974)
R | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli
Votes: 3,948
41. Goliath Awaits (1981 TV Movie)
PG | 200 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama
During World War II the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine
Votes: 736
42. Devil Fish (1984)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko, William Berger
Votes: 2,527
43. The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
GP | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Billington | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot
Votes: 885
44. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 1,783
45. Britannic (2000 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 93 min | Action, Drama, History
A fictional account of the sinking of the H.M.H.S. Britannic off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916. This explores the theory of a German agent sabotaging the liner, a hospital ship.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Edward Atterton, Amanda Ryan, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Daniels
Votes: 1,053
46. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Approved | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara
Votes: 1,847
47. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 TV Mini-Series)
158 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Arronax, a marine expert, ... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Bryan Brown
Votes: 1,184
48. Matango (1963)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara
Votes: 1,843
49. Satan's Triangle (1975 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.
Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Ed Lauter
Votes: 498
50. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, History
The Titanic disaster is depicted, primarily as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley
Votes: 860


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Some agencies are spending 90 percent or more of their IT budgets on operations and maintenance, the report released last week found.
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The Department of Homeland Security this week plans to launch an online training portal for state and local governments interested in leveraging continuous diagnostics and mitigation program best practices. The training program, expected to be online as early as this Friday, is part of a larger DHS strategy to create a specialized cadre of cybersecurity professionals nationwide who are capable of monitoring and protecting a new, emerging architecture known as "critical application resilience."
The initial training information will be posted on a special Web page hosted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, said John Streufert, director of federal network resilience at DHS. The training will cover the first phase of DHS' CDM program, including hardware and software asset management, configuration management and vulnerability management.
But Streufert, speaking at the 2014 Cybersecurity Innovation Forum, sponsored by DHS and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said the department will also be producing 20-minute training videos covering a wide variety of topics and best practices related to CDM for posting on either a government website or YouTube. George Moore, the technical director for DHS' National Cyber Security Division, will produce the training.
"The basic theory is that we are going to portions of the 50 state governments that do not have robust security programs," Streufert said. "We're going to begin to provide them self-help mechanisms so they can begin to work on it themselves."
The training, however, is only one part of a much larger strategy for the CDM program. According to Streufert, DHS is collecting lessons learned and best practices from the first phase of the CDM contract and assembling "toolkits" that can be used nationwide by state, local, tribal and territorial government agencies. The ultimate goal, he said, is to create a network security architecture that makes the best use of the small number of cybersecurity professionals across federal and state governments, and to facilitate better protection of critical applications, which account for as much as $47 billion of the government's total IT budget.
Streufert displayed a critical application resilience architecture diagram of dedicated clouds connected by ingress and egress nodes containing diagnostics and mitigation, incident reporting, intrusion detection, and risk scoring. He referred to the potential model for the expansion of CDM as a "bottle cap" vision, in which the bottles represent dedicated agency clouds and the bottle caps represent information-sharing nodes staffed by security experts with advanced CDM capabilities.
"The theory is in the state governments, where one state has 32,000 government employees and only three of their units are well-protected, they would organize in dedicated clouds and put their most capable security professionals watching the ingress and egress points," Streufert said. "It makes more sense to get the economy of leveraging the most skilled security professionals across the larger base."
DHS is creating a subunit of the CDM program that will focus on critical application resilience. So far, the department has signed memorandums of agreement with almost all the 124 largest civilian federal organizations, and is now working on establishing security services for those applications.
Other plans currently underway include automating the software patching process across a wider range of civilian agencies, and preparing for a cloud security model where most critical applications are hosted in dedicated clouds.
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Is 'Beasts of the Southern Wild's' Quvenzhané Wallis ready for her close up?
LOS ANGELES - To remark that Quvenzhané Wallis is not your everyday 8-year-old is something of an understatement. In a relatively short amount of time she's been cast as the lead in an unconventional independent film, traveled to Park City, Utah where such film dominated Sundance's jury awards and then crossed the Atlantic where the same film became an international favorite at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. These are the magical and joyous days of the cast and filmmakers behind "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and as another newcomer and Wallis' onscreen father noted in an interview last week, "We're riding a wave."
Boy are they.
"Beasts" opens in limited release Wednesday and could easily duplicate the art house success another Fox Searchlight artistic endeavor, "The Tree of Live," cultivated last summer. Walls, who plays the adventurous and brave Hushpuppy in the film, is however, still 8-years-old. And, entertainingly, her patience with participating in a long press day is not up tothe "you'll never see it again" gold standard of Dakota Fanning at the same age. Off camera, Wallis was sassy and funny. Once the interview started, her answers became a little one note, but bluntly honest. There was no filter here.
Was the experience harder or easier than you thought it would be?
"Easy," Wallis quickly replies.
Do you want to act again?
"Most definitely," Wallis answers.
What was the most fun thing you did while shooting the movie?
"The fun part was when I had other girls I could play with," Wallis says. "They were little as me. I would just go along with them and we would play along with the tutor I had."
Obviously, this writer has a way to go with pulling good quotes out of kids, but for director Benh Zeitlin the importance of Wallis to his production was immeasurable.
The still fresh-faced 29-year-old filmmaker works in a very unconventional style. He prefers many of his crew learn their roles during the production and has a naturalistic and seemingly zen (for lack of a better word) way of shooting. So much so, that he revealed he never looked at dailies until after the shoot was finished. That's a strategy almost unheard of for a feature length film. When I asked him what stood out the most when he finally hit the editing room, it was Wallis.
"As magnetic as she is in person, some people, the camera and them, have a synergy that was just meant to be," Zehn says. "How compelling every moment of her footage was through all the dailies was miraculous. We felt like, 'We're gonna be O.K. She's going to put this film on her back.'"
Zehn is being humble. He deserves a tremendous amount of credit for "Beasts," but he's right about Wallis carrying the picture and that's one reason the picture and Wallis' performance are getting a tremendous amount of love from cinephiles. Somewhat surprisingly, she's even getting early Oscar buzz. And considering the Academy's history of nominations for young ladies such as Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Keisha Castle-Hughes ("Whale Rider") and wins for Tatum O'Neal ("Paper Moon") and Anna Paquin ("The Piano"), it's not an entirely appropriate consideration, even at the end of June. Yes, awards season has hardly begun, but don't no one should dismiss Miss Wallis. She's constantly surprising.
Even if she really isn't aware of the "Beasts" wave she's riding.
For more from Walls, Henry and Zehn, watch the fantastic video interview embedded at the top of this post.
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" opens in New York and Los Angeles on July 27.


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With the NCAA tournament coming to a final, the hockey and basketball seasons dwindling down and baseball starting backup, it's great week for sports.
To have NHL and NBA playoff positions being set and Baseball opening week occurring, I thought it would be a great time to write a fun and exciting article.
Sport movies have become a dime a dozen, but that still doesn't take away the memorable ones that we have all seen and loved. Maybe picking a top 10 isn't even fair, because of how many there are and how good some of them really are.
But just for fun and different opinions, here are mine.


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Thieves steal sweetsOctober 23,2013Thief stole candy,
stuffed animals
POULTNEY Police are looking for a burglar with a sweet tooth.
Vermont State Police were called Tuesday to Priscillas Sweet Shop at 199 Main St. for a reported break-in in which candies, chocolates and stuffed animals were stolen.
Police say the burglary occurred sometime between 6 p.m. Saturday and 11:52 a.m. Tuesday. No suspects have been identified.
Anyone with information about the break-in is asked to call state police at 773-9101. Information can also be submitted anonymously online at www.vtips.info or text CRIMES (274637) to Keyword: VTIPSMORE IN This Just InMerchants Bank will merge with a New York-based bank, according to a statement issued Monday on... Full StoryBRATTLEBORO A Wardsboro man who Vermont State Police say shot his neighbor to death last week... Full StoryREADING A thief has made off with five chain saws belonging to the town of Reading, police said. Full Story
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