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Your patient has been diagnosed with breast cancer but her family requests that you tell her she has a rare blood disease; they worry that she will not be able to cope psychologically with a cancer diagnosis. The patient, however, is fully lucid and functional. What, as a physician, should you do? Where does your responsibility lie?
Dr. Tia Powell You have been tasked with managing a government-subsidized healthcare program with a strictly limited budget. There is a patient who requires an expensive, but effective chemotherapy treatment. With thousands of other patients who need care, do you approve the treatment? How do you decide?
Dilemmas and questions like these confront medical professionals, lawyers and policymakers, every day. The academic discipline dedicated to tackling these complex, multidimensional issues is known as bioethics. The dynamic field brings together the fields of medicine and law, while promoting and teaching ethical awareness, sensitivity to narrative, and critical reasoning to provide guidance on challenging healthcare decisions.
In 1978, internationally renowned bioethics expert and attorney Nancy Dubler, established one of the country's first bioethics consultation services at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein. Such services allow a patient, family member, or any member of the healthcare team to request help in assessing the ethical aspects of medical decision making. Trained consultants help build consensus among all concerned toward an ethically, legally and clinically acceptable plan.
In 1995, in response to the growing demand for professionals trained in bioethics, Ms. Dubler created the Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, a year-long, interdisciplinary program that has provided hundreds of professionals with rigorous instruction and hands-on experience in bioethics. Now, in partnership with the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Einstein has developed a full-fledged Einstein-Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics that builds on the tested foundation of the certificate program. Einstein and Cardozo are the medical and law schools affiliated with Yeshiva University.
Dr. Tia Powell, director of the masters and certificate programs, a faculty member and head of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics, notes that the program's goal is better patient care.
"What we're trying to focus on is how bioethics can help people live longer or have less pain or feel more satisfied with their healthcare," explains Dr. Powell, who once served as executive director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.
She counsels students to avoid two classic errors in bioethics. First, that "there is one right answer, and it is mine. We focus on the notion that you are, as a bioethicist, mediating among people; you are building collaboration and consensus. That takes both critical reasoning and clinical humility."
The second classic error is that there are no wrong answers. "There are some wrong answers. In clinical medicine, in bioethics, you can really do some things that are wrong. If you're a practitioner, it's up to you to know what the law says and what's hailed as best practice in your field. If you disagree with the established practice, you have to be able to know what it is, critique it and show why you think something else is better."
What makes the Einstein-Cardozo master's unique, Dr. Powell explains, is that it grows from a true collaboration among Einstein, Cardozo and Montefiore. The program's inspiration and focus arise in important ways from the clinical wisdom of developing bioethics consultation at Montefiore over the last 30 years. The program takes that knowledge and combines it with the scholarship of Einstein as an academic medical center and Cardozo as a premier law school. This blend brings together academic and clinical strengths in a unique way.
Dr. Elizabeth KitsisMoreover, Dr. Powell notes that the program fills an unsettling void. "It's quite disturbing that a lot of people who do bioethics consultation have little or no training in clinical bioethics." Given the weight of decisions consultants face, she says, "It is concerning that people are providing bioethics consultation when they don't know the basics."
The master's program attracts a diverse group of students from social workers, lawyers, members of the clergy, including rabbis, and mid-career doctors and nurses. The diversity of student backgrounds allows for a variety of perspectives to be shared. "For the healthcare professional, it's a real mind-opener to read through a Supreme Court case and understand more about how law is made," Dr. Powell says, "For the attorneys, the surprise comes in learning that not only argument but also clinical data and clinical uncertainty need to play a role in shaping health policy."
"This is a unique program, which applies the distinct disciplines of law and medicine to critical ethical questions," explains Ed Stein, vice dean and professor of law at Cardozo. "The program combines rigorous legal theory with its real-world application with the goal of positively impacting people's lives – a hallmark of Cardozo. Health law is a growing legal field and the bioethics degree gives lawyers new problem-solving skills and a strong foundation for confronting complex ethical issues in all arenas."
"Sensitivity to narrative is also essential," says Dr. Alvan Ikoku, assistant professor of epidemiology & population health at Einstein and the program's associate director for graduate studies. A graduate of Harvard's medical and Columbia's literature programs, Ikoku is an expert in narrative, and his work explores the ways in which medical stories shape and inform practice.
"Clinical practice involves several stories being told," Dr. Ikoku explains. "There are the stories patients tell their doctors, about their illness and personal lives." There are also the abbreviated stories shared between practitioners, one physician talking to another about a patient, or a nurse discussing a case with a social worker. "In my medical training, I found that this aspect was really not examined closely enough. For example, what effect could one have by shortening a patient's story, trying to translate a complicated narrative into a few sentences for a physician? The way we re-represent patients to other caregivers can affect their care."
The program's faculty includes Dr. Elizabeth Kitsis, assistant professor of epidemiology & population health and of medicine at Einstein, as well as a former vice president at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. This year, she will be teaching a course called Pharmaceutical Ethics, having directed similar seminars at Pfizer.
In the private sector, she was responsible for the design of human clinical trials. "I was responsible for the safety of millions of patients who happened to be taking the drugs that I was supervising," Dr. Kitsis says. "Bioethics became a great concern and interest of mine."
Dr. Kitsis' published academic work aims to challenge what is often reductive criticism of the pharmaceutical industry by re-evaluating its contributions and receptivity to bioethical reform. She explains, "When I left Pfizer I decided that I could use my experience in the pharmaceutical industry, learn even more about ethics, and combine those two to determine how the pharmaceutical industry could collaborate with academia and others to develop drugs in a way that was ethically sound."
Student Michelle GoldsammlerMichelle Goldsammler, an intern with the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and an Einstein student, strongly believes that these perspectives will have a direct impact on the quality of care she will deliver to her patients once she graduates from both the M.D. and master's program simultaneously in spring 2012. "Being able to look at a patient – not just their illness or what their medical issue is – but looking at the whole picture and all aspects of what they're feeling – I think that having that kind of background will make me a better physician," the 25-year-old says with confidence. Ms. Goldsammler plans to pursue a residency in obstetrics and gynecology and is enrolled full time. The program is designed to also accommodate professionals with full-time work commitments; many classes are once-weekly seminars held in the late afternoon.
Dr. Melissa Epstein, a recent graduate from the Einstein-Cardozo Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, is now enrolled part-time in the master's program. She says the curriculum and personal interactions have expanded her knowledge, skills and professionally opportunities – even though she already had extensive work experience in the field of bioethics.
After receiving her doctorate in linguistics, Dr. Epstein worked with an Institutional Review Board, conducting regulatory oversight over human subject research at the former St. Vincent's Hospital, in Manhattan. She was expected to learn the intricacies of the position "on the go" without formal training. She first sought out the certificate program before deciding to pursue her master's in bioethics.
"For me, it was an opportunity to step out from behind the everyday paperwork and think about the ethics that were involved and also about the larger issues in bioethics besides my small little corner," she says. Dr. Epstein is now asked to guest lecture on research ethics at Hofstra University – invited by a fellow program graduate who also is a law professor there.
Dr. Epstein is not shy about sharing the impact the program has had on her personally and professionally. "It been absolutely extraordinary," she says. "The faculty is incredible – attentive, thoughtful, and outstanding in every way."
"There are quite a number of people who have told us that this program was a critical turning point for them," says Dr. Powell, "that it really changed the way they thought about the profession and changed the kind of work that they do."
To learn more about the Einstein-Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics and Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities visit: http://www.einstein.yu.edu/masters-in-bioethics/home.aspx
Posted on: Tuesday, October 11, 2011


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Barney Frank can trace his interest in politics to one moment.
It was the early 1950s. Frank was 14, and he read a story about a boy his age who was murdered. The details are lost to time, but Frank remembers the victim was black and the sheriff was involved in the crime.
Frank, a progressive Democrat, finished a 16-term career in Congress on Jan. 3.
Barney Frank can trace his interest in politics to one moment.
It was the early 1950s. Frank was 14, and he read a story about a boy his age who was murdered. The details are lost to time, but Frank remembers the victim was black and the sheriff was involved in the crime.
"I remember thinking, 'America has things we need to work out," he said in an interview in his Newton apartment last week.
Frank, a progressive Democrat, finished a 16-term career in Congress on Jan. 3. The 72-year-old lawmaker known for his outspokenness announced in November 2011 that he wasn't running for re-election after his Congressional redistrict was redrawn.
A New Jersey native, Frank was the first congressman to voluntairily come out as being gay and later became the first sitting member of Congress to marry someone of the same gender, something he said he's very proud of. In addition to financial regulation – he is co-author of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act -- he said he focused much of his career around fairness for the gay community, low-income people and people of color.
Fundraising the hardest
"I think his most important legacy is that he cared more than most people in public life about poor people," said Phil Johnston, a two-term chairman of the state Democratic Party, "The theme that runs through his career is his concern for vulnerable people. For many years, he focused on low-income people and people of color and he later expanded it to include gay and lesbian citizens."
His concern about whether the Tea Party Republicans will try to "punish low- and moderate-income people" in the debate over raising the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling in the next couple months is why Frank says he wants to return to Congress for another brief stint. He is openly advocating for Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint him as an interim U.S. senator if Sen. John Kerry is confirmed as Secretary of State.
His desire to extend his stay on Capitol Hill came during the debate over the fiscal cliff.
"For the short-term, I'm the best prepared," he said. He said he's not interested in running in the special election for the seat. Fundraising and campaigning has always been the hardest part of the job for him, he said.
Patrick has said his conversations with those he is considering to hold the interim appointment have been confidential. But Frank made his interest in the job public during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe Jan. 4, has always been known as someone who speaks what's on his mind.
"That's always been his hallmark of getting things done," Johnston said.
The Democrat is also infamous for his notable quick wit and gruff manner. He told reporters after announcing his retirement that he wouldn't have to "pretend to be nice to people [he] didn't like anymore."
His briskness is what Peg Hannigan, known as the "godmother of the Newton Democrats," says is part of what makes him "our Barney."
While the style of some legislators in Congress was to hold the hands of their colleagues, Democratic strategist Michael Goldman said Frank was more likely to "take people kicking and screaming toward the directions he wanted to go in."
"There was an edge to him and that edge is unusual in Washington where everyone goes out of their way to hide their edges," said Goldman, adding that Frank was also known for his intelligence.
Early career
Growing up, Frank knew he was a strong speaker and could think on his feet – traits that would benefit him as a lawmaker. Until the early 1970s Frank thought his sexuality and religion would make it impossible for him to ever get elected to higher office.
The lawmaker began his career in politics in 1967 as the executive assistant to Boston Mayor Kevin White. Four years later, he moved on to serve as an administrative assistant to Bay State Congressman Michael Harrington. He won his first political office in 1972 when he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served for eight years.
Frank was elected to his first-term in Congress in 1980. He came out in 1987.
In 2010, he fought office his first serious political challenge in decades when he beat Republican Sean Bielat by an 11-point margin. The race attracted national attention and Bielat, who was endorsed by Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, out-fundraised Frank.
Bielat and his supporters including Tom Mountain, who is now the chairman of the Newton Republican City Committee, blamed Frank for the country's economic crisis.
"He tried to blame George Bush and it just wasn't true. He was the head of the House Banking Committee when it happened," Mountain told the TAB.
Frank has said that he couldn't have stopped the financial meltdown, but the stress he endured as banking chairman during the nation's financial crisis wore him down.
Now that his time in elected office is over, Frank said he's looking forward to spending more time with his husband Jim Ready, a photographer and small business owner. He plans to start teaching in the fall and holding speaking engagements.
"I consider myself lucky," Frank said about his career. "It gave me the chance to do what I thought was important morally and was fun most of the time."
Staff writer Chloe Gotsis can be reached at 781-433-8333 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Homemade HF Antenna Balun
A balun is a device that is used at the feedpoint of a balanced antenna when an unbalanced feedline is desired to feed the antenna. Balun is a contraction for BALanced to UNbalanced. A common example of where a balun would be desired is at the feedpoint of a dipole antenna when a coaxial transmission line is used. If a balun is not used it is possible for common mode currents to be present on the feedline. The effect of this could be undesireable if the directional properties of the balanced antenna are to be maintained. Since the feedline usually leads into the shack RF could be present in the shack to create RFI as well as the possibility of receiving excessive amounts of RFI from indoor noise sources. It is often found that a balun is not necessary and everything works just fine feeding the balanced antenna directly with coax cable. When this is possible it may be found that the feedline is an odd multiple of 1/4 wavelength. In this case the transmitter end of the feedline is usually grounded and up from this point on the coax 1/4 wavelength or a multiple thereof will appear as a high impedance. When this high impedance point occurs at the feedpoint chances of common mode currents are low. Rather then take any chances it is often recommended to use a balun.
There are several different kinds of baluns. Some provide a 1:1 impedance ratio while others can provide 1:1.5, 1:4, and many other impedance ratios. A 1:4 ratio balun would come in handy if you were feeding a folded dipole (200 Ohms) with 50 Ohms coax. For a 1:1 ratio a balun can be constructed using the feedline itself by simply winding about five turns of the feedline around a 2" diameter piece of PVC. I preferred a 1:1 ratio balun that I could easily move from one antenna to another by simply unscrewing the coax.
My balun uses AWG 12 enameled wire trifilar wound on a 6" X 1/2" piece of ferrite rod. 7 turns are are tightly wound around the electrical tape covered rod. The free ends of the windings are connected as shown below in the schematic. The whole balun is installed in a 10" piece of 1-1/2" schedule 40 PVC pipe. A SO-239 coaxial connector is installed in the bottom end cap with #4 stainless steel hardware. An eyebolt is installed in the top end cap. The antenna post consist of #10 stainless steel hardware mounted on opposite sides near the top of the PVC pipe.
First I drilled all of the necessary holes, including a drain hole in the bottom end cap, and then painted all of the PVC pieces with olive drab paint the protect from the elements. Next the balun was connected to the SO-239 connector and then the pipe was slid over the balun and cemented in place with PVC cement. At this point the balun was connected to the antenna binding posts. Then the top end cap was installed with PVC cement. I tested the balun by attaching a 50 Ohms termnination to the antenna posts and my MFJ-259B via coax to the coax connector on the bottom. The 50 Ohms resistive impedance was reflected back through the balun with little reactance throughout the HF spectrum. Since the design was based upon a tried and true design I am confident that it performs as expected as far as choking off currents.
I found this balun really easy to build and should easily handle a large amount of RF power as long as the SWR of the antenna remains low. A purchased balun may only cost a little more then my homemade version but I had the parts on hand and it was fun to build.
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At Huka Falls you can witness the phenomenon of natural hydro power - more than 220, 000 litres of water per second.
The Waikato River, New Zealand's longest river, moves gracefully north from Lake Taupo between banks 100 metres apart. Just before the Huka Falls it enters a shallow ravine of hard volcanic rock. The effect is nature's large-scale equivalent of a fire hose feeding into a very fine nozzle.
The previously placid waters roar and rumble at great speed along the ravine before bursting into space out over Huka Falls to crash into the turbulent pool 11 metres below. A foot bridge right at the top of the falls puts you in a prime position to get up close and witness the frightening display of more than 220,000 litres of water blasting by every second. If you'd like to see the power and fury of the falls up close, try a jet boat ride.
To follow the build up to the falls you can hike the Spa Park to Huka Falls trail, an easy one hour walk that begins where the river is still lazy and wide. Passing through exotic and native forests, the track emerges again alongside the river and the roar of the falls grows louder at every turn. Around the falls there are several great vantage points from which to enjoy their full splendour and capture some very impressive photographs.
The Huka Falls car park is about 1.6 kilometres north of Taupo. A bus from Taupo passes several times a day on a circuit of the local attractions.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City couple whose two children police say were fatally stabbed by their nanny are expecting a baby boy.
Kevin and Marina Krim announced the happy news on their Facebook page for the Leo and Lulu Fund, created in memory of 6-year-old Lulu and 2-year-old Leo.
The children were found dead in the bathtub of their Upper West Side apartment on Oct. 25, 2012. The Krim's third child, 4-year-old Nessie, was not home at the time.
The Krims said on the Facebook page that "Nessie can't wait to welcome her new baby brother" in the fall.
They've posted numerous memories of their children and described their grief on the site.
The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
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We are a diverse group of quilters and fabric artists. We like to work in textiles to create innovative and dynamic art.
The Quilters' Guild is delighted to announce the inauguration of a new prize for CQ Challenge entrants, awarded annually to the winner at the Festival of Quilts.
'Gate' by Anne Tuck
There are groups of Contemporary Quilters throughout the UK. They are a great opportunity to meet fellow quilters, have fun and get help and inspiration.
The next Annual Meeting of the Contemporary Quilt Group is in Birmingham, on Saturday 30th March.


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1. Insect Protection
It is not that easy to keep bugs and small insect away from the basement as many insect try to find way to come into the basement and live there. But every home owner need to protect it from coming into basement or at least keep them stop coming.
There are many basic things to care for protection of bugs and insect for the basement. The mean entrance is window wells that many insect like spider, small rats are coming from the opening or not covering wells. To keep them away from your home need to use or maintain your well screens.
Covering your well with metal mesh is not enough, also need to seal around all the window well frame that will fill all the gab between foundation frame and window frame. Do not forget to find the crack if there is some leaking in your foundation well both interior or exterior. Many of the insect like moisture rooms so try to fix any of crack or leaking in the building foundation, that will keep insect from living in the basement.
If you use your basement as kitchen, do not forget to keep it clean and throw the rest food as soon as possible. Keep it clean, wipe , sweep and vacuum the floor right away after the cooking. If you have pet like cat or dog, also clean up straight away.
2.Rain Protection
There are also some model how you can install your basement for rain water protection. First need a system of collecting water as shown in picture. This is example of how you can install it for your home to protect rain water getting into the basement.
There are other factors like Basement Well Insulation play big role for every basement. It is better to use the best method not only to safe the energy but also prevent insect coming into the baseent.


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MIDDLESEX COUNTY SHERIFF'S SALE CH773365 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION MIDDLESEX COUNTY DOCKET NO. F00125717 CITIMORTGAGE, INC. is the Plaintiff and MICHAEL A. PAFF, ET ALS. is the Defendant. Writ of Execution for the Sale of Mortgaged Premises dated 05/01/2018. By virtue of the above stated writ, to me directed and delivered, I will expose the sale at public venue on WEDNESDAY, the 31st DAY OF OCTOBER, A.D., 2018, at the hour of one-thirty o'clock by the then prevailing (Standard or Daylight Saving) time, in the afternoon of the said day at 40 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick 08901. Property to be sold is located in the BOROUGH of MIDDLESEX, County of MIDDLESEX, State of New Jersey Premises commonly known as: 600 SENECA AVENUE, MIDDLESEX BOROUGH, NJ 08846-2367 commonly know as 600 SENECA AVENUE, MIDDLESEX, NJ 08846-2367 BEING KNOWN as LOT 1 & 2-4, BLOCK 327 on the official Tax Map of the BOROUGH of MIDDLESEX Dimensions: 100.00FTX80.00FTX100.00FTX80.00FT Nearest Cross Street: FAIRVIEW AVENUE *Subject to any unpaid taxes, municipal liens or other charges, and any such taxes, charges, liens, insurance premiums or other advances made by plaintiff prior to this sale. All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their own independent investigation to ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record and/or have priority over the lien being foreclosed and, if so the current amount due thereon. **If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. ***If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any. The approximate amount of the judgment to FOUR HUNDRED NINETY NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWELVE AND 20/100 ($499,112.20) more or less, plus interest together with the costs of this sale. "THE SHERIFF HEREBY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ADJOURN THIS SALE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE THROUGH PUBLICATION." FULL LEGAL DESCRIPTION AVAILABLE AT THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE. A subscriber reserves the right to adjourn said sale from time to time subject only to such limitations or restrictions upon the exercise of such power as may be specially provided by law or rules of the Court. Sold subject to conditions of sale. Successful bidder must pay 20% of bid in cash (up to $5,000.00), certified check or official bank check at close of sale and the balance within two weeks. ATTORNEY(S): PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES PC 400 FELLOWSHIP RD SUITE 100 MT LAUREL, NJ 08054 10/9,16,23,30/18 $638.60
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Cilley departs as Shea-Porter's district director; Gilboy takes overBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
August 26. 2013 5:28PM
MANCHESTER -- Former state Sen. and 2012 candidate for governor Jackie Cilley has left as U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter's district director, UnionLeader.com has learned.
Shea-Porter's office said only that Cilley, of Barrington, is pursuing "other opportunities."
Shea-Porter's current outreach director, Chuck Gilboy, will take over in the district director's post, the office said.
Cilley is a former two-term state senator who lost to Maggie Hassan in last year's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Top Democratic sources said that while party insiders are speculating that Cilley may have plans to seek office again, she has no plans to run against any incumbent Democrat for governor, executive council or state senator in 2014.
Shea-Porter named Cilley district director shortly after reclaiming the 1st District U.S. House seat last November.
Gilboy started working for Shea-Porter in 2008. A New England native, Gilboy holds a Bachelor's degree in political science from Elon University.
"Chuck Gilboy has extensive knowledge of the issues facing New Hampshire," Shea-Porter said. "His experience working with federal, state, and local governments will be an enormous asset to this office and to New Hampshire's First District."
According to Shea-Porter's office, Gilboy will continue to work out of Shea-Porter's Manchester and Rochester offices. He will officially begin his duties as District Director next Tuesday, Sept. 3.
"Our office thanks Jackie Cilley for her service to New Hampshire," Shea-Porter said. "We appreciate the work that Jackie did helping to get our Manchester and Rochester district offices up and running, and we wish her luck in her future endeavors."


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Book VII. The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax
The Argument
The battle renewing with double ardour upon the return of Hector, Minerva is under apprehensions for the Greeks. Apollo, seeing her descend from Olympus, joins her near the Scæan gate. They agree to put off the general engagement for that day, and incite Hector to challenge the Greeks to a single combat. Nine of the Princes accepting the challenge, the lot is cast, and falls upon Ajax. These heroes, after several attacks, are parted by the night. The Trojans calling a council, Antenor proposes the delivery of Helen to the Greeks, to which Paris will not consent, but offers to restore them her riches. Priam sends a herald to make this offer, and to demand a truce for burning the dead, the last of which only is agreed to by Agamemnon. When the funerals are performed, the Greeks, pursuant to the advice of Nestor, erect a fortification to protect their fleet and camp, flanked with towers, and defended by a ditch and palisades. Neptune testifies his jealousy at this work, but is pacified by a promise from Jupiter. Both armies pass the night in feasting, but Jupiter disheartens the Trojans with thunder and other signs of his wrath.
The three-and-twentieth day ends with the duel of Hector and Ajax; the next day the truce is agreed: another is taken up in the funeral rites of the slain; and one more in building the fortification before the ships; so that somewhat above three days is employed in this book. The scene lies wholly in the field.
spoke the guardian of the Trojan state,
Then rushd impetuous thro the Scæan gate.
Him Paris followd to the dire alarms;
Both breathing slaughter, both resolvd in arms.
As when to sailors labring thro the main,
That long had heavd the weary oar in vain,
Jove bids at length th expected gales arise;
The gales blow grateful, and the vessel flies:
So welcome these to Troys desiring train:
The bands are cheerd, the war awakes again.
Bold Paris first the work of death begun
On great Menestheus, Areïthous son;
Sprung from the fair Philomedas embrace,
The pleasing Arne was his native place.
Then sunk Eioneus to the shades below;
Beneath his steely casque he felt the blow
Full on his neck, from Hectors weighty hand;
And rolld, with limbs relaxd, along the land.
By Glaucus spear the bold Iphinous bleeds,
Fixd in the shoulder as he mounts his steeds;
Headlong he tumbles: his slack nerves unbound
Drop the cold useless members on the ground.
When now Minerva saw her Argives slain,
From vast Olympus to the gleaming plain
Fierce she descends: Apollo markd her flight,
Nor shot less swift from Ilions towry height:
Radiant they met, beneath the beechen shade;
When thus Apollo to the Blue-eyed Maid:
What cause, O daughter of almighty Jove!
Thus wings thy progress from the realms above?
Once more impetuous dost thou bend thy way,
To give to Greece the long-divided day?
Too much has Troy already felt thy hate,
Now breathe thy rage, and hush the stern debate:
This day the busness of the field suspend;
War soon shall kindle, and great Ilion bend;
Since vengeful Goddesses confedrate join
To raze her walls, tho built by hands divine.
To whom the progeny of Jove replies:
I left for this the council of the skies:
But who shall bid conflicting hosts forbear,
What art shall calm the furious sons of war?
To her the God: Great Hectors soul incite
To dare the boldest Greek to single fight,
Till Greece, provoked, from all her numbers shew
A warrior worthy to be Hectors foe.
At this agreed, the heavnly Powers withdrew;
Sage Helenus their secret counsels knew:
Hector inspired he sought: to him addressd,
Thus told the dictates of his sacred breast:
O son of Priam! let thy faithful ear
Receive my words; thy friend and brother hear!
Go forth persuasive, and awhile engage
The warring nations to suspend their rage;
Then dare the boldest of the hostile train
To mortal combat on the listed plain,
For not this day shall end thy glorious date;
The Gods have spoke it, and their voice is Fate.
He said: the warrior heard the word with joy;
Then with his spear restraind the youth of Troy,
Held by the midst athwart. On either hand
The squadrons part; th expecting Trojans stand.
Great Agamemnon bids the Greeks forbear;
They breathe, and hush the tumult of the war.
Th Athenian Maid, and glorious God of Day,
With silent joy the settling hosts survey:
In form of vultures, on the beechs height
They sit conceald, and wait the future fight.
The thronging troops obscure the dusky fields,
Horrid with bristling spears, and gleaming shields.
As when a genral darkness veils the main
(Soft Zephyr curling the wide watry plain),
The waves scarce heave, the face of ocean sleeps,
And a still horror saddens all the deeps:
Thus in thick orders settling wide around,
At length composed they sit, and shade the ground.
Great Hector first amidst both armies broke
The solemn silence, and their powers bespoke:
Hear all ye Trojan, all ye Grecian bands,
What my soul prompts, and what some God commands.
Great Jove, averse our warfare to compose,
Oerwhelms the nations with new toils and woes;
War with a fiercer tide once more returns,
Till Ilion falls, or till yon navy burns.
You then, O Princes of the Greeks! appear;
T is Hector speaks, and calls the Gods to hear:
From all your troops select the boldest knight,
And him, the boldest, Hector dares to fight.
Here if I fall, by chance of battle slain,
Be his my spoil, and his these arms remain;
But let my body, to my friends returnd,
By Trojan hands, and Trojan flames be burnd.
And if Apollo, in whose aid I trust,
Shall stretch your daring champion in the dust;
If mine the glory to despoil the foe,
On Phbus temple I ll his arms bestow;
The breathless carcass to your navy sent,
Greece on the shore shall raise a monument;
Which when some future mariner surveys,
Washd by broad Hellesponts resounding seas,
Thus shall he say, A valiant Greek lies there,
By Hector slain, the mighty man of war.
The stone shall tell your vanquishd heros name,
And distant ages learn the victors fame.
This fierce defiance Greece astonishd heard,
Blushd to refuse, and to accept it feard.
Stern Menelaus first the silence broke,
And, inly groaning, thus opprobrious spoke:
Women of Greece! Oh scandal of your race,
Whose coward souls your manly forms disgrace,
How great the shame, when evry age shall know
That not a Grecian met this noble foe!
Go then, resolve to earth from whence ye grew,
A heartless, spiritless, inglorious crew!
Be what ye seem, unanimated clay!
Myself will dare the danger of the day.
T is mans bold task the genrous strife to try,
But in the hands of God is victory.
These words scarce spoke, with genrous ardour pressd,
His manly limbs in azure arms he dressd:
That day, Atrides! a superior hand
Had stretchd thee breathless on the hostile strand;
But all at once, thy fury to compose,
The Kings of Greece, an awful band, arose:
Evn he their Chief, great Agamemnon, pressd
Thy daring hand, and this advice addressd:
Whither, O Menelaus! wouldst thou run,
And tempt a fate which prudence bids thee shun?
Grievd tho thou art, forbear the rash design;
Great Hectors arm is mightier far than thine.
Evn fierce Achilles learnd its force to fear,
And trembling met this dreadful son of war.
Sit thou secure amidst thy social band;
Greece in our cause shall arm some powerful hand.
The mightiest warrior of th Achaian name,
Tho bold, and burning with desire of Fame,
Content, the doubtful honour might forego,
So great the danger, and so brave the foe.
He said, and turnd his brothers vengeful mind;
He stoopd to reason, and his rage resignd,
No longer bent to rush on certain harms:
His joyful friends unbrace his azure arms.
He, from whose lips divine persuasion flows,
Grave Nestor then, in graceful act arose.
Thus to the Kings he spoke: What grief, what shame,
Attend on Greece, and all the Grecian name!
How shall, alas! her hoary heroes mourn
Their sons degenrate, and their race a scorn;
What tears shall down thy silver beard be rolld,
Oh Peleus, old in arms, in wisdom old!
Once with what joy the genrous Prince would hear
Of evry Chief, who fought this glorious war,
Participate their fame, and pleasd inquire
Each name, each action, and each heros sire!
Gods! should he see our warriors trembling stand,
And trembling all before one hostile hand;
How would he lift his aged arms on high,
Lament inglorious Greece, and beg to die!
Oh! would to all th immortal Powers above,
Minerva, Phæbus, and almighty Jove!
Years might again roll back, my youth renew,
And give this arm the spring which once it knew:
When, fierce in war, where Jardans waters fall
I led my troops to Pheas trembling wall,
And with th Arcadian spears my prowess tried,
Where Celadon rolls down his rapid tide.
There Ereuthalion braved us in the field,
Proud Areithous dreadful arms to wield;
Great Areithous, known from shore to shore
By the huge, knotted, iron mace he bore;
No lance he shook, nor bent the twanging bow,
But broke, with this, the battle of the foe.
Him not by manly force Lycurgus slew,
Whose guileful javlin from the thicket flew,
Deep in a winding way his breast assaild,
Nor aught the warriors thundring mace availd:
Supine he fell: those arms which Mars before
Had givn the vanquishd, now the victor bore:
But when old age had dimmd Lycurgus eyes,
To Ereuthalion he consignd the prize.
Furious with this, he crushd our levelld bands,
And dared the trial of the strongest hands;
Nor could the strongest hands his fury stay;
All saw, and feard, his huge tempestuous sway;
Till I, the youngest of the host, appeard,
And, youngest, met whom all our army feard.
I fought the Chief; my arms Minerva crownd:
Prone fell the giant oer a length of ground.
What then he was, oh were your Nestor now!
Not Hectors self should want an equal foe.
But, warriors, you that youthful vigour boast,
The flower of Greece, th examples of our host,
Sprung from such fathers, who such numbers sway,
Can you stand trembling, and desert the day?
His warm reproofs the listning Kings inflame;
And nine, the noblest of the Grecian name,
Upstarted fierce: but far before the rest
The King of men advancd his dauntless breast;
Then bold Tydides, great in arms, appeard;
And next his bulk gigantic Ajax reard.
Oïleus followd: Idomen was there,
And Merion, dreadful as the God of War:
With these Eurypylus and Thoas stand,
And wise Ulysses closed the daring band.
All these, alike inspired with noble rage,
Demand the fight. To whom the Pylian sage:
Lest thirst of glory your brave souls divide,
What Chief shall combat, let the lots decide.
Whom Heavn shall choose, be his the chance to raise
His countrys fame, his own immortal praise.
The lots produced, each hero signs his own;
Then in the Genrals helm the fates are thrown.
The people pray with lifted eyes and hands,
And vows like these ascend from all the bands:
Grant thou, Almighty! in whose hand is fate,
A worthy champion for the Grecian state.
This task let Ajax or Tydides prove,
Or he, the King of Kings, belovd by Jove.
Old Nestor shook the casque. By Heavn inspired,
Leapd forth the lot, of evry Greek desired.
This from the right to left the herald bears,
Held out in order to the Grecian peers;
Each to his rival yields the mark unknown,
Till godlike Ajax finds the lot his own;
Surveys th inscription with rejoicing eyes,
Then casts before him, and with transport cries:
Warriors! I claim the lot, and arm with joy;
Be mine the conquest of this Chief of Troy.
Now, while my brightest arms my limbs invest,
To Saturns son be all your vows addressd:
But pray in secret, lest the foes should hear,
And deem your prayers the mean effect of fear.
Said I in secret? No, your vows declare,
In such a voice as fills the earth and air.
Lives there a Chief, whom Ajax ought to dread,
Ajax, in all the toils of battle bred?
From warlike Salamis I drew my birth,
And, born to combats, fear no force of earth.
He said. The troops with elevated eyes,
Implore the God whose thunder rends the skies:
O Father of Mankind, superior Lord!
On lofty Idas holy hill adord;
Who in the highest Heavn hast fixd thy throne,
Supreme of Gods! unbounded, and alone:
Grant thou, that Telamon may bear away
The praise and conquest of this doubtful day;
Or if illustrious Hector be thy care,
That both may claim it, and that both may share.
Now Ajax braced his dazzling armour on;
Sheathed in bright steel the giant warrior shone:
He moves to combat with majestic pace;
So stalks in arms the grisly God of Thrace,
When Jove to punish faithless men prepares,
And gives whole nations to the waste of wars.
Thus marchd the Chief, tremendous as a God;
Grimly he smild: earth trembled as he strode:
His massy javlin quivring in his hand,
He stood, the bulwark of the Grecian band.
Thro every Argive heart new transport ran;
All Troy stood trembling at the mighty man.
Evn Hector pausd; and, with new doubt oppressd,
Felt his great heart suspended in his breast:
T was vain to seek retreat, and vain to fear;
Himself had challenged, and the foe drew near.
Stern Telamon behind his ample shield,
As from a brazen tower, oerlookd the field.
Huge was its orb, with seven thick folds oercast
Of tough bull-hides; of solid brass the last
(The work of Tychius, who in Hyle dwelld,
And all in arts of armoury excelld).
This Ajax bore before his manly breast,
And, threatning, thus his adverse Chief addressd:
Hector! approach my arm, and singly know
What strength thou hast, and what the Grecian foe.
Achilles shuns the fight; yet some there are
Not void of soul, and not unskilld in war:
Let him, inactive on the sea-beat shore,
Indulge his wrath, and aid our arms no more;
Whole troops of heroes Greece has yet to boast,
And sends thee one, a sample of her host.
Such as I am, I come to prove thy might;
No morebe sudden, and begin the fight.
O son of Telamon, thy countrys pride
(To Ajax thus the Trojan Prince replied),
Me, as a boy or woman, wouldst thou fright,
New to the field, and trembling at the fight?
Thou meetst a Chief deserving of thy arms,
To combat born, and bred amidst alarms:
I know to shift my ground, remount the car,
Turn, charge, and answer every call of war:
To right, to left, the dextrous lance I wield,
And bear thick battle on my sounding shield.
But open be our fight, and bold each blow;
I steal no conquest from a noble foe.
He said, and, rising high above the field,
Whirld the long lance against the sevnfold shield.
Full on the brass descending from above
Thro six bull-hides the furious weapon drove,
Till in the sevnth it fixd. Then Ajax threw;
Thro Hectors shield the forceful javlin flew;
His corslet enters, and his garment rends,
And glancing downwards, near his flank descends.
The wary Trojan shrinks, and, bending low
Beneath his buckler, disappoints the blow.
From their bored shields the Chiefs their javlins drew,
Then close impetuous, and the charge renew:
Fierce as the mountain lions bathed in blood,
Or foaming boars, the terror of the wood.
At Ajax, Hector his long lance extends;
The blunted point against the buckler bends.
But Ajax, watchful as his foe drew near,
Drove thro the Trojan targe the knotty spear;
It reachd his neck, with matchless strength impelld;
Spouts the black gore, and dims the shining shield.
Yet ceasd not Hector thus; but, stooping down,
In his strong hand upheavd a flinty stone,
Black, craggy, vast: to this his force he bends;
Full on the brazen boss the stone descends;
The hollow brass resounded with the shock.
Then Ajax seizd the fragment of a rock,
Applied each nerve, and, swinging round on high,
With force tempestuous let the ruin fly:
The huge stone thundring thro his buckler broke;
His slackend knees receivd the numbing stroke;
Great Hector falls extended on the field,
His bulk supporting on the shatterd shield:
Nor wanted heavnly aid: Apollos might
Confirmd his sinews, and restored to fight.
And now both heroes their broad falchions drew;
In flaming circles round their heads they flew;
But then by heralds voice the word was givn,
The sacred Ministers of earth and Heavn:
Divine Talthybius whom the Greeks employ,
And sage Idæus on the part of Troy,
Between the swords their peaceful sceptres reard;
And first Idæus awful voice was heard:
Forbear, my sons! your farther force to prove,
Both dear to men, and both belovd of Jove.
To either host your matchless worth is known,
Each sounds your praise, and war is all your own.
But now the Night extends her awful shade:
The Goddess parts you: be the night obeyd.
To whom great Ajax his high soul expressd:
O sage! to Hector be these words addressd.
Let him, who first provoked our Chiefs to fight,
Let him demand the sanction of the night;
If first he ask it, I content obey,
And cease the strife when Hector shews the way.
O first of Greeks (his noble foe rejoind),
Whom Heavn adorns, superior to thy kind,
With strength of body, and with worth of mind!
Now martial law commands us to forbear;
Hereafter we shall meet in glorious war;
Some future day shall lengthen out the strife,
And let the Gods decide of death or life!
Since then the Night extends her gloomy shade,
And Heavn enjoins it, be the night obeyd.
Return, brave Ajax, to thy Grecian friends,
And joy the nations whom thy arm defends;
As I shall glad each Chief, and Trojan wife,
Who wearies Heavn with vows for Hectors life.
But let us, on this memorable day,
Exchange some gift; that Greece and Troy may say,
Not hate, but glory, made these Chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
With that, a sword with stars of silver graced,
The baldrick studded, and the sheath enchased,
He gave the Greek. The genrous Greek bestowd
A radiant belt that rich with purple glowd.
Then with majestic grace they quit the plain;
This seeks the Grecian, that the Phrygian train.
The Trojan bands returning Hector wait,
And hail with joy the champion of their state:
Escaped great Ajax, they surveyd him round,
Alive, unharmd, and vigrous from his wound.
To Troys high gates the godlike man they bear,
Their present triumph, as their late despair.
But Ajax, glorying in his hardy deed,
The well-armd Greeks to Agamemnon lead.
A steer for sacrifice the King designd,
Of full five years, and of the nobler kind.
The victim falls; they strip the smoking hide,
The beast they quarter, and the joints divide;
Then spread the tables, the repast prepare,
Each takes his seat, and each receives his share.
The King himself (an honorary sign)
Before great Ajax placed the mighty chine.
When now, the rage of hunger was removd,
Nestor, in each persuasive art approvd,
The sage whose counsels long had swayd the rest,
In words like these his prudent thought expressd:
How dear, O King! this fatal day has cost!
What Greeks are perishd! what a people lost!
What tides of blood have drenchd Scamanders shore!
What crowds of heroes sunk, to rise no more!
Then hear me, Chief! nor let the morrows light
Awake thy squadrons to new toils of fight:
Some space at least permit the war to breathe,
While we to flames our slaughterd friends bequeath,
From the red field their scatterd bodies bear,
And nigh the fleet a funeral structure rear:
So decent urns their snowy bones may keep,
And pious children oer their ashes weep.
Here, where on one promiscuous pile they blazd,
High oer them all a genral tomb be raisd;
Next, to secure our camp, and naval powers,
Raise an embattled wall, with lofty towers;
From space to space be ample gates around,
For passing chariots, and a trench profound.
So Greece to combat shall in safety go,
Nor fear the fierce incursions of the foe.
T was thus the sage his wholesome counsel movd;
The sceptred Kings of Greece his words approvd.
Meanwhile, convened at Priams palace gate,
The Trojan peers in nightly council sate:
A senate void of order, as of choice,
Their hearts were fearful, and confused their voice.
Antenor rising, thus demands their ear:
Ye Trojans, Dardans, and auxiliars, hear!
T is Heavn the counsel of my breast inspires,
And I but move what evry God requires:
Let Spartas treasures be this hour restord,
And Argive Helen own her ancient lord.
The ties of faith, the sworn alliance broke
Our impious battles the just Gods provoke.
As this advice ye practise, or reject,
So hope success, or dread the dire effect.
The senior spoke, and sat. To whom replied
The graceful husband of the Spartan bride:
Cold counsels, Trojan, may become thy years,
But sound ungrateful in a warriors ears:
Old man, if void of fallacy or art,
Thy words express the purpose of thy heart,
Thou, in thy time, more sound advice hast givn;
But wisdom has its date, assignd by Heavn.
Then hear me, Princes of the Trojan name!
Their treasures I ll restore, but not the dame;
My treasures, too, for peace I will resign;
But be this bright possession ever mine.
T was then, the growing discord to compose,
Slow from his seat the revrend Priam rose:
His godlike aspect deep attention drew:
He pausd, and these pacific words ensue:
Ye Trojans, Dardans, and auxiliar bands!
Now take refreshment as the hour demands;
Guard well the walls, relieve the watch of night,
Till the new sun restores the cheerful light:
Then shall our herald, to th Atrides sent,
Before their ships proclaim my sons intent.
Next let a truce be askd, that Troy may burn
Her slaughterd heroes, and their bones inurn;
That done, once more the fate of war be tried,
And whose the conquest, mighty Jove decide!
The Monarch spoke: the warriors snatchd with haste
(Each at his post in arms) a short repast.
Soon as the rosy morn had waked the day,
To the black ships Idæus bent his way;
There, to the sons of Mars, in council found,
He raisd his voice: the hosts stood listning round:
Ye sons of Atreus, and ye Greeks, give ears!
The words of Troy, and Troys great monarch, hear.
Pleasd may ye hear (so Heavn succeed my prayers)
What Paris, author of the war, declares.
The spoils and treasures he to Ilion bore
(O had he perishd ere they touchd our shore)
He proffers injured Greece; with large increase
Of added Trojan wealth, to buy the peace.
But, to restore the beauteous bride again,
This Greece demands, and Troy requests in vain.
Next, O ye Chiefs! we ask a truce to burn
Our slaughterd heroes, and their bones inurn.
That done, once more the fate of war be tried,
And whose the conquest, mighty Jove decide!
The Greeks give ear, but none the silence broke;
At length Tydides rose, and rising spoke:
O take not, friends! defrauded of your fame,
Their profferd wealth, nor evn the Spartan dame.
Let conquest make them ours: Fate shakes their wall,
And Troy already totters to her fall.
Th admiring Chiefs, and all the Grecian name,
With genral shouts returnd him loud acclaim.
Then thus the King of Kings rejects the peace:
Herald! in him thou hearst the voice of Greece.
For what remains, let funeral flames be fed
With heros corpse: I war not with the dead:
Go, search your slaughterd Chiefs on yonder plain,
And gratify the Manes of the slain.
Be witness, Jove, whose thunder rolls on high!
He said, and reard his sceptre to the sky.
To sacred Troy, where all her Princes lay
To wait th event, the herald bent his way.
He came, and, standing in the midst, explaind;
The peace rejected, but the truce obtaind,
Straight to their sevral cares the Trojans move;
Some search the plain, some fell the sounding grove:
Nor less the Greeks, descending on the shore,
Hewd the green forests, and the bodies bore.
And now from forth the chambers of the main,
To shed his sacred light on earth again,
Arose the golden chariot of the day,
And tippd the mountains with a purple ray.
In mingled throngs the Greek and Trojan train
Thro heaps of carnage searchd the mournful plain.
Scarce could the friend his slaughterd friend explore,
With dust dishonourd, and deformd with gore.
The wounds they washd, their pious tears they shed,
And, laid along their cars, deplored the dead.
Sage Priam checkd their grief: with silent haste
The bodies decent on the piles were placed:
With melting hearts the cold remains they burnd;
And sadly slow to sacred Troy returnd.
Nor less the Greeks their pious sorrows shed,
And decent on the pile dispose the dead;
The cold remains consume with equal care;
And slowly, sadly, to their fleet repair.
Now, ere the morn had streakd with reddning light
The doubtful confines of the day and night;
About the dying flames the Greeks appeard,
And round the dying a genral tomb they reard.
Then, to secure the camp and naval powers,
They raisd embattled walls with lofty towers:
From space to space were ample gates around,
For passing chariots; and a trench profound,
Of large extent: and deep in earth below
Strong piles infixd stood adverse to the foe.
So toild the Greeks: meanwhile the Gods above,
In shining circle round their father Jove,
Amazed beheld the wondrous works of man:
Then he whose trident shakes the earth began:
What mortals henceforth shall our power adore,
Our fanes frequent, our oracles implore,
If the proud Grecians thus successful boast
Their rising bulwarks on the sea-beat coast?
See the long walls extending to the main,
No God consulted, and no victim slain!
Their fame shall fill the worlds remotest ends;
Wide as the morn her golden beam extends:
While old Laömedons divine abodes,
Those radiant structures raisd by labring Gods,
Shall, razed and lost, in long oblivion sleep.
Thus spoke the hoary monarch of the deep.
Th almighty Thundrer with a frown replies,
That clouds the world, and blackens half the skies:
Strong God of Ocean! thou, whose rage can make
The solid earths eternal basis shake!
What cause of fear from mortal works could move
The meanest subject of our realms above?
Whereer the suns refulgent rays are cast,
Thy power is honourd and thy fame shall last.
But yon proud work no future age shall view,
No trace remain where once the glory grew.
The sappd foundations by thy force shall fall,
And, whelmd beneath thy waves, drop the huge wall;
Vast drifts of sand shall change the former shore;
The ruin vanishd, and the name no more.
Thus they in Heavn: while oer the Grecian train
The rolling sun descending to the main
Beheld the finishd work. Their bulls they slew;
Black from the tents the savry vapours flew.
And now the fleet, arrived from Lemnos strands,
With Bacchus blessings cheerd the genrous bands.
Of fragrant wines the rich Eunæus sent
A thousand measures to the royal tent
(Eunæus, whom Hypsipyle of yore
To Jason, shepherd of his people, bore).
The rest they purchasd at their proper cost,
And well the plenteous freight supplied the host:
Each, in exchange, proportiond treasures gave,
Some brass, or iron, some an ox or slave.
All night they feast, the Greek and Trojan powers;
Those on the fields, and these within their towers.
But Jove averse the signs of wrath displayd,
And shot red lightnings thro the gloomy shade:
Humbled they stood; pale horror seized on all,
While the deep thunder shook th aërial hall.
Each pourd to Jove, before the bowl was crownd,
And large libations drenchd the thirsty ground;
Then late, refreshd with sleep from toils of fight,
Enjoyd the balmy blessings of the night.
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Committee Membership Information
Study Title:
Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies
Primary Board:
Study Director:
Dr. Murray W. Hitzman
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Colorado School of Mines
Murray W. Hitzman has been with Colorado School of Mines since 1996 as the Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology. In 2002 he was named Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering. Prior to coming to academia he spent 11 years in the minerals industry. In addition to discovering the carbonate-hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in Ireland, he worked on porphyry copper and other intrusive-related deposits, precious metal systems, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, sediment-hosted Zn-Pb and Cu deposits, and iron oxide Cu-U-Au-LREE deposits throughout the world. He spent two and a half years in Washington, D.C., working first in the U.S. Senate and later in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on environmental and natural resource issues. He has received numerous awards and has published approximately 100 papers. His current interest focuses on deposit- and district-scale studies of metallic ore systems and on social license issues in mining. Dr. Hitzman was a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Technologies for the Mining Industries, and he was a member of Committee on Earth Resources for two three-year terms prior to becoming chair for a three-year term in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford University in 1983.
Mr. Sidney J. Green
Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services
Sidney J. Green (NAE) is Research Professor at the University of Utah, where he holds a dual appointment in mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. He is also a Schlumberger Senior Advisor and was one of the founders and former President and Chief Executive Officer of TerraTek, a geomechanics engineering firm, which was acquired by Schlumberger in 2006. Mr. Green has worked in the area of geomechanics for nearly five decades. He has published numerous papers and reports, holds a number of patents, has given many presentations on geomechanics, and has received a number of rock mechanics and geomechanics recognitions. He has served on government committees and on many university and national laboratory advisory boards, and he has testified at a number of Congressional hearings. He has served as member of the board of directors for a number of businesses. He received the Outstanding Engineer award and the Entrepreneur of the Year award from Utah, and the Distinguished Alumni Award (1976) and the Professional Degree recognition (1998) from the former Missouri School of Mines. He received the 1989 Honorary Alumni Award and the 2009 Engineering Achievement Award from the University of Utah. He is a past member of the Greater Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors and was recently elected a Fellow of the American Rock Mechanics Association. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He most recently served as a member of the NRC Committee on Assessment of the Department of Energy???s Methane Hydrate Research and Development Program: Evaluating Methane Hydrate as a Future Energy Resource. Mr. Green has a B.S. from the former Missouri School of Mines and an M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in Mechanical Engineering. He attended one year at Pennsylvania State University graduate school and two years at Stanford University, where he received the Degree of Engineer in engineering mechanics.
Dr. John L. Smith
Northern California Power Agency
John L. Bill Smith is senior geologist at the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA). He has 45 years of diversified geologic, geophysical, and geochemical experience in the geothermal and oil and gas industry, including numerous geothermal exploration and development projects in the western United States and Japan. For the past 24 years he has worked at The Geysers, first designing, permitting, and evaluating steam production and water injection wells to initially supply a 220 MW power project, and then for more than the past decade monitoring the induced seismicity that occurs both within the NCPA area of operations and throughout the entire Geysers field. Prior to joining The Geysers, Dr. Smith worked for 10 years as an oil and gas exploration geologist and geophysicist (seismologist) for Standard Oil of California (Chevron), then 11 years as vice president of exploration for Republic Geothermal that included geothermal exploration and development projects throughout California, Nevada, Utah, and Japan. Dr. Smith received his B.S. in geology from Middlebury College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in geological sciences from Indiana University.
Dr. James H. Dieterich
University of California, Riverside
James H. Dieterich (NAS) is a distinguished professor of geophysics at the University of California, Riverside. His research has led to a new understanding of Earth's crust. He is an internationally renowned authority in rock mechanics, seismology, and volcanology. His pioneering studies in the theory, measurement, and application of frictional processes in rocks have had major implications for predicting fault instability and earthquake nucleation. His previous work on the rate- and state-dependent representation of fault constitutive properties is now being applied in modeling of seismicity, including aftershocks and triggering of earthquakes; and in inverse models that use earthquake rates to map stress changes in space and time. Dr. Dieterich recently launched a new effort to investigate fault slip and earthquake processes in geometrically complex fault systems, which includes development of large-scale quasi-dynamic simulations of seismicity in fault systems, and investigation of the physical interactions and stressing conditions that control system-level phenomena. Dr. Dieterich received his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale University.
Ms. Julie E. Shemeta
MEQ Geo, Inc.
Julie E. Shemeta is the president and founder of MEQ Geo Inc., a microseismic consulting and services company based in Denver, Colorado. She has worked on microseismic projects in North America and Australia, including tight gas, shale gas, steam-assisted gravity drainage, and coal seam projects. Her background includes deep-water exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, working in the geothermal industry processing microearthquake data in Indonesia and the Philippines, and working for a microseismic vendor providing data processing and consulting. Ms. Shemeta has been actively involved with the development of software for both processing and visualization of microseismic throughout her 20 year career. She has served on numerous meeting committees for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. She is a co-chairman of the DGS/RMAG (Denver Geophysical Society and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists) 3-D Seismic Symposium and served as the Denver Geophysical Society Treasurer in 2008-2009. She obtained her B.S. in geology at the University of Washington and M.S. degree in geophysics with a specialty in earthquake seismology at the University of Utah.
Dr. Emmanuel Detournay
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Emmanuel Detournay is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He also holds a joint appointment with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Earth Science and Resource Engineering, where he leads the Drilling Mechanics Group. Prior to his current positions, he was senior research scientist at Schlumberger Cambridge Research in England. His expertise is in petroleum geomechanics with two current areas of focus: mechanics of fluid-driven fractures (scaling, numerical modeling, asymptotic analysis) and drilling mechanics (bit-rock interaction, self-excited drilling vibrations, directional drilling). He has authored about 75 papers in refereed publications and 85 conference papers. He also has been awarded six U.S. patents and has received several scientific awards for his work. Dr. Detournay received his M.S. and Ph.D. in geo-engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Robert M. Habiger
Rob Habiger holds bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Physics. He worked for ConocoPhillips for over 28 years in various scientific and management capacities in the disciplines of petrophysics and geophysics. While there, he held various positions in research and development and in international exploration, including Manager for Seismic Technology in the Houston corporate offices. He joined Spectraseis as Chief Technology Officer in February 2007 where he is responsible for all technical aspects of the company?s research and commercial offerings in passive seismic technology. These programs and products include both hydrocarbon reservoir fluids monitoring from low frequency passive seismic and microseismic monitoring associated with hydrofracing and fluid injection/removal. Rob is the Director of the Low Frequency Seismic Partnership, an industrial research consortium studying the application of low frequency passive seismic methods to hydrocarbon fluid mapping.
Mr. David K. Dillon
David K. Dillon PE, LLC
David K. Dillon is the principle of David K. Dillon PE, LLC, a petroleum engineering consulting firm located in Centennial, Colorado. He is a licensed professional engineer in Colorado and Wyoming and he has been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers for over 35 years. Prior to working as a consulting engineer, Mr. Dillon was the Engineering Manager for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the regulating body for oil and gas drilling and production in the State of Colorado. As the Engineering Manager he was instrumental in the drafting and adoption of rules by the Commission requiring the proper financial bonding of oil and gas wells, the monitoring of hydraulic fracturing stimulations, allowable noise levels from oil and gas activity, and the monitoring and testing of coal bed methane wells throughout the state. He also worked closely with land owners and oil companies trying to resolve complaints and mediate disagreements. Before working for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Mr. Dillon worked in the private oil and gas industry for 20 years as a drilling engineer and a production engineer. He has designed over 150 hydraulic fracturing stimulations and personally supervised approximately 80 fracking procedures throughout his career. Mr. Dillon continues to have a personal interest not only in the strong regulation of oil and gas activities but also the practical oversight of the oil and gas industry in order to protect public health, safety, and welfare and the environment. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. James K. Mitchell
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
James K. Mitchell (NAS/NAE) is currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech and Consulting Geotechnical Engineer. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 1994, he served on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley since 1958, holding the Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering there at the time of his retirement in 1993. Concurrent to his tenure at UC Berkeley, he was Chairman of CIvil Engineering from 1979-84 and Research Engineer in the Institute of Transportation Studies and in the Earthquake Engineering Research Center. His primary research activities have focused on experimental and analytical studies of soil behavior related to geotechnical problems, admixture stabilization of soils, soil improvement and ground reinforcement, physico-chemical phenomena in soils, environmental geotechnics, time-dependent behavior of soils, in-situ measurement of soil properties, and mitigation of ground failure risk during earthquakes. Recent and currently active projects include the evaluation of seismic stabilities and design of liquefaction mitigation options for Success Dam and Isabella Dam (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), the Folsom Project (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation), and San Pablo Dam (East Bay Municipal Water District) in California, the Seismic Safety Peer Review Panel for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System; the Blue Ribbon Panel for the Eastward Expansion of Craney Island and the Port of Virginia???s new Marine Terminal; and peer review of the Savannah River Site Soft Zone Research Program (Department of Energy). He has authored more than 375 publications, including the graduate level text and geotechnical reference, Fundamentals of Soil Behavior. A licensed civil engineer and geotechnical engineer in California and professional engineer in Virginia, Dr. Mitchell has served as chairman or officer for numerous national and international organizations including, chairman of the U.S. National Committee for the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, and vice president of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He has chaired the NRC Geotechnical Board, three National Research Council (NRC) study committees, and served as a member of several other NRC study committees. He has received numerous awards including the Norman Medal, the Walter L. Huber Research Prize, the Terzaghi Lecture Award and the Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998. Dr. Mitchell received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and M.S. and Doctor of Science degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Robin K. McGuire
Fugro William Lettis & Associates
Robin K. McGuire (NAE) is vice president of Fugro Consultants, Inc. His areas of expertise include earthquake engineering, risk analysis, and decision analysis. His experience includes directing projects to determine earthquake design requirements for new nuclear power plants in the central and eastern United States; making recommendations to the Electric Power Research Institute and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on seismic design requirements; consulting for the National Committee on Property Insurance on earthquake matters and making recommendations to the California Department of Insurance; serving as lead consultant on probabilistic performance assessment of the Yucca Mountain site as a possible high-level waste repository; and consulting on numerous U.S. and overseas studies of seismic and environmental risk for utilities, insurance groups, and commercial clients. Dr. McGuire authored the book Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis in 2004 and was the Joyner Lecturer in 2009 for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the Seismological Society of America. Dr. McGuire received his B.S. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. in structural engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in structural engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Donald D. Clarke
City of Long Beach, California [Retired]
Donald D. Clarke has worked for the past six years as a geological consultant for a variety of private firms and city governments in southern California, focusing on geological evaluations of oil fields. Part of his current portfolio also includes a CO2 sequestration project. Prior to establishing his consultancy, he worked for more than two decades with the Department of Oil Properties of the City of Long Beach, California, retiring from his position as Division Engineer and Chief Geologist in 2004. During his time with the City of Long Beach, he worked extensively on the giant Wilmington oil field and the California offshore. Mr. Clarke began his career in 1974 as an energy and mineral resources engineer with the California State Lands Commission. His strong interests in community outreach and education have been demonstrated over the years through teaching geology at Compton Community College, serving on the Board of Directors for the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, and serving on and chairing numerous advisory councils and committees of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). A member of AAPG since 1986, he served as Pacific Section AAPG President, was elected to be Chairman of the AAPG House of Delegates, and has received numerous AAPG awards including the Distinguished Service Award in 2002. He also served on the National Research Council committee that produced the 2002 report, Geoscience Data and Collections: National Resources in Peril. In the last year he appeared and served as an advisor for the Swiss movie, A Crude Awakening, The National Geographic show, Gallon of Gas, (part of the Man Made Series), and the VBS.TV show LA's Hidden Wells. This past summer he was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Spiegel Television (Germany) about oil development in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Clarke has published or presented more than 50 technical papers on topics that include computer mapping, sequence stratigraphy, horizontal drilling, structural geology, and reservoir evaluation, and he has been recognized by the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering as a fellow. He received his B.S. in geology from California State University???Northridge, with additional graduate study at California State University???Northridge, ???Los Angeles, and ???Long Beach.


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Business Systems Analyst Central London £45-50k
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- City of London
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- £45000 - £50000 per annum + bens
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- 28 Feb 2013
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I have an urgent role for a Business Systems Analyst based in the West End of London at a global very well known outlet company.
Salary £45-50k plus amazing benefits!
Responsible for investigating, identifying and improving business systems and processes by bridging the needs of the business through the use of IT.
Determine operational objectives and study business functions, processes and systems. Identify and recommend possible improvements
Design new systems by analysing functional requirements and constructing workflow charts, diagrams, and producing written specifications
Identify options for potential solutions by assessing them for both technical and business suitability
Support the business's use of their external system and ensure all processes are documented and kept up to date by local teams
Monitor the quality of the support provided by third parties and resolve related issues
Provide technical expertise to facilitate decisions concerning solutions to functional requirements
Recommend controls and audits by identifying problems and writing recommended procedural changes
Interface with partners around the business to scope projects and document requirements
Manage project budgets and direct the system development life cycle from inception to completion where required
Develop project plans by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements and form project teams
Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports and recommend actions where necessary
Promote and champion my clients Change Request Process and coach users on system development best practices
Manage all work teams including technical, creative, and production as well external suppliers and contractors
Provide reference for users by writing and maintaining user documentation, providing help desk support where required and train users on system use
Prepare technical reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends on system performance
Maintain professional and technical knowledge of the industry and products by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies
Work with members of the IT department to collectively achieve departmental and individual objectives
Develop testing scripts, organise testing, report on issues found and arrange sign off by project owners
Communicate system changes, benefits and strategy with senior stakeholders, steering and related user groups
Must have worked on projects with financial systems or payment projects
MS Visio
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If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV as well as salary expectations and availability to start work.
To find out more about Computer Futures please visit www.computerfutures.com


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text: The Chinese Hopping Vampire has to be one of the weirdest monsters ever to terrorize the screen that didn't spring from Lloyd Kaufman's imagination. Properly known as Jiang Shi, they arguably have more in common with Western zombies than they do vampires. The Jiang Shi are dead bodies reanimated by Taoist priests that suck the life force out of the living. They hop around stiffly with arms outstretched, tongues hanging out of their mouths, tracking down humans by listening for their breath.


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A young promising Nigerian soldier who tied his knot about 8 weeks ago has been killed by members of the Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Many Nigeria are currently lamenting the untimely demise of a Nigerian soldier, Moh'd Abdullahi (Kamal) who had newly wedded his partner – Aisha Muhammad (Dada).
It was gathered that the marriage ceremony held on the 10th of February, 2017 in Gombe state before Kamal tragically passed away.
According to multiple on social media, he died in a fierce battle with members of the Boko Haram extremist group who have been ravaging Nigeria for over 8 years now.


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Hi BartThank you for your offer to check my file. Here is the download link:http://rapidshare.com/files/1042777387/Sonnar_85_f%3A8_7074.CR2In the meantime, here is my best effort with CS5, SmartSharpen Gaussian blur 100% r=0.4, viewed at 400%.--edit: hm - it looks a deal better than RD...
Hi Bart,sorry for the download failure. They have changed some things since I last used them. I had to activate "Direct download" and can now access the file. Please try again.
I have contacted a local print service asking to print and mount your target.
Just a quick thanks for this useful tool. It's been a great help in improving my capture sharpening.
Hi Bart,I have now received my target printed and mounted flat. How bright (in EVs) should it be illuminated for shooting? (I assume the exposure should be adjusted for the middle gray area).
Hi Bart,thanks for your fast reply. It seems that you don't reply to the first part of my question, which refers to illumination when shooting. I mean I can illuminate the middle gray of the target to different EV values, and I thought there might be a recommendable range. In fact it was not me who thought - the operator of my print service did.
Hi Bart,His thought - at least in my adaption - was: The performance of a lense depends on brightness of illumination of the subject, independent of post-processing. Say the target is illuminated to EV 6 or 10. I can compensate for the lower illumination by increasing the exposure time, achieving the same middle gray - but that will not help the lens to see lines. Or is it me who got it wrong?
Hi Bart,thank you for your detailed reply. There is no end to surprises in these matters, for the ignorant. That the brightness of illumination made a difference sounded right to me because in MTF curves, resolution and contrast are mutually dependent. (If I got THAT right...)


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The 2012 annual reports for both the Wayne County Planning Commission and the Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed Management District (LWWMD) were topics of discussion a the regular meeting of the Wayne County Commissioners.
- The 2012 annual reports for both the Wayne County Planning Commission and the Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed Management District (LWWMD) were topics of discussion a the regular meeting of the Wayne County Commissioners.
Executive Director Nick Spinelli presented the first ever report to the Commissioners. He said the report covers the "last years activities" and "outlines future programs" coming to the lake.
Another portion of the report is an update of a program started in 2011. The competitive grant program provides "Cost-Share funding for watershed improvement projects to property owners in the Wallenpaupack watershed."
In 2012, the program earmarked a total of $75,500 to 13 landowners over two years. These funds were "designated to complete an estimated $285,000" worth of Watershed Improvement Projects, according the report.
The community of Woodland Hills, for example, used leftover monies from a mild snowplowing winter to fix eroded ditches and roads. The program helped the community to install new storm water control structures, stabilize ditches with grass seed and install new culverts.
The report says that the program will continue in the coming year, with an advertisement of funding availability made this spring. The report states any property in the watershed is eligible and that grants may provide up to a 50 percent match of project cost up to $10,000. For more information, call the district office at 570-226-3865.
Another popular program is the Lake Clean-up Day, which last year removed "over 14 tons of debris" from the shores of Lake Wallenpaupack.
Another exciting event the LWWMD will be bringing back for its second year is the Ride for the Lake event, which brought in a net total of $4,671 to help protect Lake Wallenpaupack.
To keep up to date with all that is happening at the lake, visit www.wallenpaupackwatershed.org or like them on Facebook.
The second report of the meeting was presented the Director of Planning/GIS Edward Coar.
Coar presented the annual 2012 Department of Planning report to the commissioners. Coar said the report is required by Act 247 "to be presented annually to the governing body."
The report covers everything from the assimilation of the Planning Department and the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to how many subdivision applications the department reviewed.
According to the report, "123 subdivision and land development applications" were reviewed by the department. Included in that number are 97 new lots ant 100 lot additions.
Coar pointed out that of those 97 new lots, "31 of those lots were the re-subdivision of Farmstead Village into lots ranging from 10 to 229 acres." Farmstead Village was created in the 1970s "with approximately 1,000 small lots with the expectation of central sewage" which never came to pass.
The change in population density for Wayne County showed a slight increase in persons per square mile. According to the 2011 estimated Census, the population in the county rose from 52,822 to 53,004, a change of 182 residents. In comparison, surrounding counties experienced a decrease in population density. The Pike County population has gone down for the first time in recent years with a loss of 517 people and the population of Susquehanna County is down as well, with a loss of 184 people.
In other county business, the transfer of Terri Fulkerson from Early Intervention to the Department of Elections as an election data manager was approved. The approval is effective March 11.


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Party: Libertarian
Residence: Strasburg
Website: JoshGforLiberty.com
Age: 37
Family: Wife (Jenny); stepson, 12 (Josh Jones); daughter, 5 (Aliese); son, 4 (Dane)
How long have you lived in Colorado? Since January 2000.
Professional background: Telecommunications professional with more than 15 years' experience. I've also run my own business helping entrepreneurs start or improve their ventures.
Political/community experience: First time running for office
Education: BSC, Ohio University; MBA, University of Colorado Denver
Name a person you admire and explain why: Milton Friedman. He was one of the most influential American economists in history. He had the ability to explain complex economic principals in layman's terms with practical examples.


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Yes, it's back...But not your mother's fanny pack! this is too hip, so we have called it the "Hip" pack. Made of a durable 900 Denier polyester with a decorative interior lining. Perfect for storing your smart phone, keys, credit cards, etc. Nylon webbing strap with plastic buckle. Adjustable strap allows you to wear this in a variety of ways. Around the hip, cross chest, and cross body. A MUST have for 2018! Available in Black, Royal.
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Financial institutions face a daunting challenge. On the one hand, they're fat targets for the criminals who send out huge numbers of phishing email messages. On the other hand, they need to maintain a credible online presence. My local bank, Fifth Third Bank, (and yes, that's really the name!) has a solution: For some types of transactions, the bank's website displays a code on screen, then a separate process calls the phone number associated with your account. You enter the code on the phone as an additional authenticator. This process is a simple, elegant way to add a second authentication factor to the traditional username and password credentials we've all gotten used to.
My bank's systems was the first live example of phone-based authorization I'd run into. I'm not sure what system my bank uses, but a company called Positive Networks has introduced a program called PhoneFactor that lets you add telephone-based authentication to a broad variety of applications—including Outlook Web Access (OWA). I had an interesting telephone conversation with Steve Dispensa, Positive Networks' CTO, and Evan Conway, the company's executive vice president of communications. Here's what I found out.
First, it's no surprise that PhoneFactor supports OWA. "OWA is the number one app that we use PhoneFactor with," said Dispensa. "The predominant email infrastructure that we see in corporations is Exchange." The PhoneFactor agent for OWA is an Internet Server API (ISAPI) extension, so it works with both Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 as well as Small Business Server 2003.
You download PhoneFactor and install it on the Exchange server that provides OWA. The PhoneFactor agent watches the submit operations made to OWA, whether you're using forms-based authentication or integrated Windows authentication. The authentication request is trapped by the agent, which knows the variable names used as part of the submission. The agent passes the authentication request on to Microsoft IIS for action; if the user's credentials aren't valid, IIS authentication fails and the process stops there.
If the credentials are valid, the PhoneFactor ISAPI extension makes a remote procedure call (RPC) to the PhoneFactor agent, which in turn makes a web services request to Positive Networks' servers. The company's servers then place a call to you; you need to respond by pressing # on the phone's keypad to complete authentication. The results of the second authentication challenge are returned to the ISAPI extension, which then either allows or denies access to OWA. This procedure gives you a simple version of two-factor authentication: the first factor is the username and password, the second is the phone-based authentication. To use this functionality, you must register user phone numbers through the PhoneFactor agent. In addition to OWA, PhoneFactor has extensions that work with Terminal Services and other applications.
PhoneFactor itself is free to download and use. How does Positive Networks make a profit? Simple: They sell more advanced versions of the product, which include failover, load balancing, support for branding and customization, and the ability to make users enter a PIN on their phone instead of pressing a single key to answer the challenge. These premium modules add full Active Directory (AD) integration and a better interface for provisioning user phone numbers. Positive Networks has some interesting plans in their roadmap, particularly the ability to automatically enroll users in PhoneFactor when their accounts are created in AD.
If you don't already have two-factor authentication—and the sad fact is that most organizations don't—this product could be a cost-effective way for you to add it, with no tokens or extra hardware required. If you already have two-factor authentication, PhoneFactor could still be a reasonable extension to your authentication model.


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Featured events
Mundubbera Rock 'n' Roll Dancing Weekend
On September 14, 2018
At Lyons St, Mundubbera QLD 4626, Australia
(07) 4165 4533
Categories: Music
The Mundubbera Enterprise Association in conjunction with the Billabong Motor Inn presents three fabulous nights of Rock 'n' Roll dancing, Classic Car Display, dance workshops (Beginners to Advanced) and a Pageant for Pin-up Retro Girl competition.
Friday night 28 September there will be a dance and classes (beginners to advanced). No age barrier.
On Saturday and Sunday there will be morning and afternoon dance classes. On Saturday and Sunday nights there will be a dance with live music by the Rock'n'Roll Boys.
On Sunday there will be a Classic Car display. On Sunday night there will be a Pin-up Retro Girl competition with the winner crowned Miss Mundubbera Citrus Queen 2018.
Proceeds will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.


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Adam Lambert Slams 'Les Miserables' Cast's 'Pretend Singers'
Adam Lambert has taken to his Twitter account to talk about his opinions on the film Les Miserables and has slammed director Tom Hooper's cast for "pretending to be singers".
"Les Mis: Visually impressive w great Emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers …it's an opera. Hollywoods movie musicals treat the singing as the last priority. (Dreamgirls was good)," Adam wrote.
"Anne Hathaway as Fantine and [Aaron Tveit as] Enjolras were the exceptions for me," he added. "Helena B Carter and Sacha B Cohen were great too."
"And I do think it was cool they were singing live- but with that cast, they should have studio recorded and sweetened the vocals. Eponine's [Samantha Barks] voice was cool too…," he continued. "I felt like I should ignore the vocals and focus on the emotional subtext- but the singing was so distracting at times it pulled me out. The industry will say "these actors were so brave to attempt singing this score live" but why not cast actors who could actually sound good? Sorry for being so harsh but it's so True!"
Evan Rachel Wood chimed in on the conversation, saying "We sang live in "across the universe" #justsaying," to which Adam replied, "And that sounded Good!!! Ok yes, that's another movie musical exception. That movie was on point. And U were stunning in it."
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INDIANAPOLIS -- One of the biggest problems for the Eagles recently has been drafting big-time defensive players. While the Eagles passed on Jason Pierre-Paul -- who has gone on to become a star with the Giants -- high picks such as Brandon Graham and Jaiquawn Jarrett have made little impact and Nate Allen has been up and down, at best.
Back at the Combine, where presumably general manager Howie Roseman will again be looking at players who could upgrade the defense, he talked up the possibilities for his recent picks, and called on each to improve in 2012.
"To tell you that we know exactly what they're going to be at this point, they know that they've got to step up their game and they're looking forward to it, but the work ethic is there. They want to be great players and we've seen it out of them," Roseman said, speaking specifically about Graham and Allen.
On Jarrett he said: "You get a guy in like that who's a rookie and doesn't have a lot of offseason and maybe it's a bigger adjustment than we thought. He's been in lifting already and I think he's got a chip on his shoulder and what we're really looking to see and we've told him is the nastiness, the stuff that we saw in college that he had and playing fast and I think that's a product of knowing what you're doing."
Unless Graham, Allen and Jarrett show improvement, the 2010 and 2011 trio could follow in the footsteps of other recent disappointing defensive picks such as Trevor Laws, Victor Abiamiri, Steward Bradley and Daniel Te'o-Nesheim.
Roseman, though, noted that Graham and Allen have been slowed by injuries after what he said were fast starts, and hopes that Jarrett will improve with a full offseason to prepare. Much of the discussion with reporters focused on Graham, the 13th overall pick in 2010.
"We have high expectations for Brandon Graham," Roseman said. "When he came into training camp he was unbelievably productive, in fact he became a starter because of his production in training camp."
But an early high ankle sprain -- "that's a tough injury," Roseman said, was followed by a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
"We knew this year was going to be a struggle for him," Roseman said. (Allen, too, suffered a serious knee injury as a rookie and was slowed last season).
As to why the Eagles chose Graham over Pierre-Paul, Roseman elaborated on some recent comments about that big decision in 2010.
"We went into the draft knowing that those two were going to be very good players. What sold us on Brandon was his production. He was productive for four years, he was a two-time team captain, he played in a big-time conference, and that's not taking away from any other defensive ends that were drafted, but we felt very comfortable that he fit what were trying to do on defense, great character guy, he had the work ethic to succeed."
Graham, in particular, is aware of the JPP comparisons and "sees that out there and he wants more for himself."
While Graham and Allen have at least showed glimpses of what they could be, Jarrett hardly saw the field in 2011, despite the Eagles' need for safety help, and made little impression when he did play. He was invisible on special teams. Roseman made clear that the team expects more and said he believes a full offseason will help Jarrett be the big-hitter the team touted when they picked him.
"The more he's around, the has an offseason, the better chance he has of being that kind of player," he said.


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I would like to be the first to welcome BRC as the newest admin here at SA! I'm sure all of you that know BRC would agree that he deserves this spot. I hope all of you are as happy as I am that BRC has agreed to help SA out the best he can. Together I think we can make this the best Steelers site on the net!
Welcome to the SA staff BRC!