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The Iliad of Homer: The Death of Hector
The Death of Hector.
The Trojans being safe within the walls, Hector only stays to oppose Achilles. Priam is struck at his approach, and tries to persuade his son to re-enter the town. Hecuba joins her entreaties, but in vain. Hector consults within himself what measures to take; but at the advance of Achilles, his resolution fails him, and he flies. Achilles pursues him thrice round the walls of Troy. The gods debate concerning the fate of Hector; at length Minerva descends to the aid of Achilles. She deludes Hector in the shape of Deiphobus; he stands the combat, and is slain. Achilles drags the dead body at his chariot in the sight of Priam and Hecuba. Their lamentations, tears, and despair. Their cries reach the ears of Andromache, who, ignorant of this, was retired into the inner part of the palace: she mounts up to the walls, and beholds her dead husband. She swoons at the spectacle. Her excess of grief and lamentation.
The thirtieth day still continues. The scene lies under the walls, and on the battlements of Troy.
The herded Ilians rush like driven deer:
There safe they wipe the briny drops away,
And drown in bowls the labours of the day.
Close to the walls, advancing o'er the fields
Beneath one roof of well-compacted shields,
March, bending on, the Greeks' embodied powers,
Far stretching in the shade of Trojan towers.
Great Hector singly stay'd: chain'd down by fate
There fix'd he stood before the Scaean gate;
Still his bold arms determined to employ,
The guardian still of long-defended Troy.
(The power confess'd in all his glory burns:)
"And what (he cries) has Peleus' son in view,
With mortal speed a godhead to pursue?
For not to thee to know the gods is given,
Unskill'd to trace the latent marks of heaven.
What boots thee now, that Troy forsook the plain?
Vain thy past labour, and thy present vain:
Safe in their walls are now her troops bestow'd,
While here thy frantic rage attacks a god."
To check my conquests in the middle way:
How few in Ilion else had refuge found!
What gasping numbers now had bit the ground!
Thou robb'st me of a glory justly mine,
Powerful of godhead, and of fraud divine:
Mean fame, alas! for one of heavenly strain,
To cheat a mortal who repines in vain."
With high and haughty steps he tower'd along,
So the proud courser, victor of the prize,
To the near goal with double ardour flies.
Him, as he blazing shot across the field,
The careful eyes of Priam first beheld.
Not half so dreadful rises to the sight,[231]
Through the thick gloom of some tempestuous night,
Orion's dog (the year when autumn weighs),
And o'er the feebler stars exerts his rays;
Terrific glory! for his burning breath
Taints the red air with fevers, plagues, and death.
So flamed his fiery mail. Then wept the sage:
He strikes his reverend head, now white with age;
He lifts his wither'd arms; obtests the skies;
He calls his much-loved son with feeble cries:
The son, resolved Achilles' force to dare,
Full at the Scaean gates expects the war;
While the sad father on the rampart stands,
And thus adjures him with extended hands:
Hector! my loved, my dearest, bravest son!
Methinks already I behold thee slain,
And stretch'd beneath that fury of the plain.
Implacable Achilles! might'st thou be
To all the gods no dearer than to me!
Thee, vultures wild should scatter round the shore.
And bloody dogs grow fiercer from thy gore.
How many valiant sons I late enjoy'd,
Valiant in vain! by thy cursed arm destroy'd:
Or, worse than slaughtered, sold in distant isles
To shameful bondage, and unworthy toils.
Two, while I speak, my eyes in vain explore,
Two from one mother sprung, my Polydore,
And loved Lycaon; now perhaps no more!
Oh! if in yonder hostile camp they live,
What heaps of gold, what treasures would I give!
(Their grandsire's wealth, by right of birth their own,
Consign'd his daughter with Lelegia's throne:)
But if (which Heaven forbid) already lost,
All pale they wander on the Stygian coast;
What sorrows then must their sad mother know,
What anguish I? unutterable woe!
Yet less that anguish, less to her, to me,
Less to all Troy, if not deprived of thee.
Yet shun Achilles! enter yet the wall;
And spare thyself, thy father, spare us all!
Save thy dear life; or, if a soul so brave
Neglect that thought, thy dearer glory save.
Pity, while yet I live, these silver hairs;
While yet thy father feels the woes he bears,
Yet cursed with sense! a wretch, whom in his rage
(All trembling on the verge of helpless age)
Great Jove has placed, sad spectacle of pain!
The bitter dregs of fortune's cup to drain:
To fill with scenes of death his closing eyes,
And number all his days by miseries!
My heroes slain, my bridal bed o'erturn'd,
My daughters ravish'd, and my city burn'd,
My bleeding infants dash'd against the floor;
These I have yet to see, perhaps yet more!
Perhaps even I, reserved by angry fate,
The last sad relic of my ruin'd state,
(Dire pomp of sovereign wretchedness!) must fall,
And stain the pavement of my regal hall;
Where famish'd dogs, late guardians of my door,
Shall lick their mangled master's spatter'd gore.
Yet for my sons I thank ye, gods! 'tis well;
Well have they perish'd, for in fight they fell.
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best,
Struck through with wounds, all honest on the breast.
But when the fates, in fulness of their rage,
Spurn the hoar head of unresisting age,
In dust the reverend lineaments deform,
And pour to dogs the life-blood scarcely warm:
This, this is misery! the last, the worse,
That man can feel! man, fated to be cursed!"
Rent from his head the silver locks away.
With him the mournful mother bears a part;
Yet all her sorrows turn not Hector's heart.
The zone unbraced, her bosom she display'd;
And thus, fast-falling the salt tears, she said:
The words of age; attend a parent's prayer!
If ever thee in these fond arms I press'd,
Or still'd thy infant clamours at this breast;
Ah do not thus our helpless years forego,
But, by our walls secured, repel the foe.
Against his rage if singly thou proceed,
Should'st thou, (but Heaven avert it!) should'st thou bleed,
Nor must thy corse lie honour'd on the bier,
Nor spouse, nor mother, grace thee with a tear!
Far from our pious rites those dear remains
Must feast the vultures on the naked plains."
But fix'd remains the purpose of his soul;
Resolved he stands, and with a fiery glance
Expects the hero's terrible advance.
So, roll'd up in his den, the swelling snake
Beholds the traveller approach the brake;
When fed with noxious herbs his turgid veins
Have gather'd half the poisons of the plains;
He burns, he stiffens with collected ire,
And his red eyeballs glare with living fire.
Beneath a turret, on his shield reclined,
He stood, and question'd thus his mighty mind:[232]
Honour and shame the ungenerous thought recall:
Shall proud Polydamas before the gate
Proclaim, his counsels are obey'd too late,
Which timely follow'd but the former night,
What numbers had been saved by Hector's flight?
That wise advice rejected with disdain,
I feel my folly in my people slain.
Methinks my suffering country's voice I hear,
But most her worthless sons insult my ear,
On my rash courage charge the chance of war,
And blame those virtues which they cannot share.
No—if I e'er return, return I must
Glorious, my country's terror laid in dust:
Or if I perish, let her see me fall
In field at least, and fighting for her wall.
And yet suppose these measures I forego,
Approach unarm'd, and parley with the foe,
The warrior-shield, the helm, and lance, lay down.
And treat on terms of peace to save the town:
The wife withheld, the treasure ill-detain'd
(Cause of the war, and grievance of the land)
With honourable justice to restore:
And add half Ilion's yet remaining store,
Which Troy shall, sworn, produce; that injured Greece
May share our wealth, and leave our walls in peace.
But why this thought? Unarm'd if I should go,
What hope of mercy from this vengeful foe,
But woman-like to fall, and fall without a blow?
We greet not here, as man conversing man,
Met at an oak, or journeying o'er a plain;
No season now for calm familiar talk,
Like youths and maidens in an evening walk:
War is our business, but to whom is given
To die, or triumph, that, determine Heaven!"
His dreadful plumage nodded from on high;
The Pelian javelin, in his better hand,
Shot trembling rays that glitter'd o'er the land;
And on his breast the beamy splendour shone,
Like Jove's own lightning, or the rising sun.
As Hector sees, unusual terrors rise,
Struck by some god, he fears, recedes, and flies.
He leaves the gates, he leaves the wall behind:
Achilles follows like the winged wind.
Thus at the panting dove a falcon flies
(The swiftest racer of the liquid skies),
Just when he holds, or thinks he holds his prey,
Obliquely wheeling through the aerial way,
With open beak and shrilling cries he springs,
And aims his claws, and shoots upon his wings:
No less fore-right the rapid chase they held,
One urged by fury, one by fear impell'd:
Now circling round the walls their course maintain,
Where the high watch-tower overlooks the plain;
Now where the fig-trees spread their umbrage broad,
(A wider compass,) smoke along the road.
Next by Scamander's double source they bound,
Where two famed fountains burst the parted ground;
This hot through scorching clefts is seen to rise,
With exhalations steaming to the skies;
That the green banks in summer's heat o'erflows,
Like crystal clear, and cold as winter snows:
Each gushing fount a marble cistern fills,
Whose polish'd bed receives the falling rills;
Where Trojan dames (ere yet alarm'd by Greece)
Wash'd their fair garments in the days of peace.[233]
By these they pass'd, one chasing, one in flight:
(The mighty fled, pursued by stronger might:)
Swift was the course; no vulgar prize they play,
No vulgar victim must reward the day:
(Such as in races crown the speedy strife:)
The prize contended was great Hector's life.
As when some hero's funerals are decreed
In grateful honour of the mighty dead;
Where high rewards the vigorous youth inflame
(Some golden tripod, or some lovely dame)
The panting coursers swiftly turn the goal,
And with them turns the raised spectator's soul:
Thus three times round the Trojan wall they fly.
The gazing gods lean forward from the sky;
To whom, while eager on the chase they look,
The sire of mortals and immortals spoke:
Behold, inglorious round yon city driven!
My heart partakes the generous Hector's pain;
Hector, whose zeal whole hecatombs has slain,
Whose grateful fumes the gods received with joy,
From Ida's summits, and the towers of Troy:
Now see him flying; to his fears resign'd,
And fate, and fierce Achilles, close behind.
Consult, ye powers! ('tis worthy your debate)
Whether to snatch him from impending fate,
Or let him bear, by stern Pelides slain,
(Good as he is) the lot imposed on man."
The forky bolt, and blackens heaven with storms,
Shall he prolong one Trojan's forfeit breath?
A man, a mortal, pre-ordain'd to death!
And will no murmurs fill the courts above?
No gods indignant blame their partial Jove?"
Exert thy will: I give the Fates their way.
Swift at the mandate pleased Tritonia flies,
And stoops impetuous from the cleaving skies.
The well-breath'd beagle drives the flying fawn,
In vain he tries the covert of the brakes,
Or deep beneath the trembling thicket shakes;
Sure of the vapour in the tainted dews,
The certain hound his various maze pursues.
Thus step by step, where'er the Trojan wheel'd,
There swift Achilles compass'd round the field.
Oft as to reach the Dardan gates he bends,
And hopes the assistance of his pitying friends,
(Whose showering arrows, as he coursed below,
From the high turrets might oppress the foe,)
So oft Achilles turns him to the plain:
He eyes the city, but he eyes in vain.
As men in slumbers seem with speedy pace,
One to pursue, and one to lead the chase,
Their sinking limbs the fancied course forsake,
Nor this can fly, nor that can overtake:
No less the labouring heroes pant and strain:
While that but flies, and this pursues in vain.
With fate itself so long to hold the course?
Phoebus it was; who, in his latest hour,
Endued his knees with strength, his nerves with power:
And great Achilles, lest some Greek's advance
Should snatch the glory from his lifted lance,
Sign'd to the troops to yield his foe the way,
And leave untouch'd the honours of the day.
The fates of mortal men, and things below:
Here each contending hero's lot he tries,
And weighs, with equal hand, their destinies.
Low sinks the scale surcharged with Hector's fate;
Heavy with death it sinks, and hell receives the weight.
To stern Pelides, and triumphing, cries:
"O loved of Jove! this day our labours cease,
And conquest blazes with full beams on Greece.
Great Hector falls; that Hector famed so far,
Drunk with renown, insatiable of war,
Falls by thy hand, and mine! nor force, nor flight,
Shall more avail him, nor his god of light.
See, where in vain he supplicates above,
Roll'd at the feet of unrelenting Jove;
Rest here: myself will lead the Trojan on,
And urge to meet the fate he cannot shun."
Obey'd; and rested, on his lance reclined
While like Deiphobus the martial dame
(Her face, her gesture, and her arms the same),
In show an aid, by hapless Hector's side
Approach'd, and greets him thus with voice belied:
Of this distress, and sorrow'd in thy flight:
It fits us now a noble stand to make,
And here, as brothers, equal fates partake."
Dearer than all that own a brother's name;
Of all that Hecuba to Priam bore,
Long tried, long loved: much loved, but honoured more!
Since you, of all our numerous race alone
Defend my life, regardless of your own."
And much my mother's, press'd me to forbear:
My friends embraced my knees, adjured my stay,
But stronger love impell'd, and I obey.
Come then, the glorious conflict let us try,
Let the steel sparkle, and the javelin fly;
Or let us stretch Achilles on the field,
Or to his arm our bloody trophies yield."
The Dardan hero shuns his foe no more.
Sternly they met. The silence Hector broke:
His dreadful plumage nodded as he spoke:
Her walls thrice circled, and her chief pursued.
But now some god within me bids me try
Thine, or my fate: I kill thee, or I die.
Yet on the verge of battle let us stay,
And for a moment's space suspend the day;
Let Heaven's high powers be call'd to arbitrate
The just conditions of this stern debate,
(Eternal witnesses of all below,
And faithful guardians of the treasured vow!)
To them I swear; if, victor in the strife,
Jove by these hands shall shed thy noble life,
No vile dishonour shall thy corse pursue;
Stripp'd of its arms alone (the conqueror's due)
The rest to Greece uninjured I'll restore:
Now plight thy mutual oath, I ask no more."
While anger flash'd from his disdainful eyes),
Detested as thou art, and ought to be,
Nor oath nor pact Achilles plights with thee:
Such pacts as lambs and rabid wolves combine,
Such leagues as men and furious lions join,
To such I call the gods! one constant state
Of lasting rancour and eternal hate:
No thought but rage, and never-ceasing strife,
Till death extinguish rage, and thought, and life.
Rouse then thy forces this important hour,
Collect thy soul, and call forth all thy power.
No further subterfuge, no further chance;
'Tis Pallas, Pallas gives thee to my lance.
Each Grecian ghost, by thee deprived of breath,
Now hovers round, and calls thee to thy death."
But Hector shunn'd the meditated blow:
He stoop'd, while o'er his head the flying spear
Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.
Minerva watch'd it falling on the land,
Then drew, and gave to great Achilles' hand,
Unseen of Hector, who, elate with joy,
Now shakes his lance, and braves the dread of Troy.
Prince! you have miss'd. My fate depends on Heaven,
To thee, presumptuous as thou art, unknown,
Or what must prove my fortune, or thy own.
Boasting is but an art, our fears to blind,
And with false terrors sink another's mind.
But know, whatever fate I am to try,
By no dishonest wound shall Hector die.
I shall not fall a fugitive at least,
My soul shall bravely issue from my breast.
But first, try thou my arm; and may this dart
End all my country's woes, deep buried in thy heart."
Unerring, but the heavenly shield repell'd
The mortal dart; resulting with a bound
From off the ringing orb, it struck the ground.
Hector beheld his javelin fall in vain,
Nor other lance, nor other hope remain;
He calls Deiphobus, demands a spear—
In vain, for no Deiphobus was there.
All comfortless he stands: then, with a sigh;
"'Tis so—Heaven wills it, and my hour is nigh!
I deem'd Deiphobus had heard my call,
But he secure lies guarded in the wall.
A god deceived me; Pallas, 'twas thy deed,
Death and black fate approach! 'tis I must bleed.
No refuge now, no succour from above,
Great Jove deserts me, and the son of Jove,
Propitious once, and kind! Then welcome fate!
'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great:
Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire,
Let future ages hear it, and admire!"
And, all collected, on Achilles flew.
So Jove's bold bird, high balanced in the air,
Stoops from the clouds to truss the quivering hare.
Nor less Achilles his fierce soul prepares:
Before his breast the flaming shield he bears,
Refulgent orb! above his fourfold cone
The gilded horse-hair sparkled in the sun.
Nodding at every step: (Vulcanian frame!)
And as he moved, his figure seem'd on flame.
As radiant Hesper shines with keener light,[234]
Far-beaming o'er the silver host of night,
When all the starry train emblaze the sphere:
So shone the point of great Achilles' spear.
In his right hand he waves the weapon round,
Eyes the whole man, and meditates the wound;
But the rich mail Patroclus lately wore
Securely cased the warrior's body o'er.
One space at length he spies, to let in fate,
Where 'twixt the neck and throat the jointed plate
Gave entrance: through that penetrable part
Furious he drove the well-directed dart:
Nor pierced the windpipe yet, nor took the power
Of speech, unhappy! from thy dying hour.
Prone on the field the bleeding warrior lies,
While, thus triumphing, stern Achilles cries:
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then, prince! you should have fear'd, what now you feel;
Achilles absent was Achilles still:
Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,
Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.
Peaceful he sleeps, with all our rites adorn'd,
For ever honour'd, and for ever mourn'd:
While cast to all the rage of hostile power,
Thee birds shall mangle, and the gods devour."
"By thy own soul! by those who gave thee breath!
By all the sacred prevalence of prayer;
Ah, leave me not for Grecian dogs to tear!
The common rites of sepulture bestow,
To soothe a father's and a mother's woe:
Let their large gifts procure an urn at least,
And Hector's ashes in his country rest."
(Flames, as he spoke, shot flashing from his eyes;)
Not those who gave me breath should bid me spare,
Nor all the sacred prevalence of prayer.
Could I myself the bloody banquet join!
No—to the dogs that carcase I resign.
Should Troy, to bribe me, bring forth all her store,
And giving thousands, offer thousands more;
Should Dardan Priam, and his weeping dame,
Drain their whole realm to buy one funeral flame:
Their Hector on the pile they should not see,
Nor rob the vultures of one limb of thee."
"Thy rage, implacable! too well I knew:
The Furies that relentless breast have steel'd,
And cursed thee with a heart that cannot yield.
Yet think, a day will come, when fate's decree
And angry gods shall wreak this wrong on thee;
Phoebus and Paris shall avenge my fate,
And stretch thee here before the Scaean gate."[235]
And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death;
To the dark realm the spirit wings its way,
(The manly body left a load of clay,)
And plaintive glides along the dreary coast,
A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost!
O'er the dead hero, thus unheard, replies:
"Die thou the first! When Jove and heaven ordain,
I follow thee"—He said, and stripp'd the slain.
Then forcing backward from the gaping wound
The reeking javelin, cast it on the ground.
The thronging Greeks behold with wondering eyes
His manly beauty and superior size;
While some, ignobler, the great dead deface
With wounds ungenerous, or with taunts disgrace:
Sent lightning on our fleets, and scatter'd fate!"
Begirt with heroes and surrounding bands;
And thus aloud, while all the host attends:
"Princes and leaders! countrymen and friends!
Since now at length the powerful will of heaven
The dire destroyer to our arm has given,
Is not Troy fallen already? Haste, ye powers!
See, if already their deserted towers
Are left unmann'd; or if they yet retain
The souls of heroes, their great Hector slain.
But what is Troy, or glory what to me?
Or why reflects my mind on aught but thee,
Divine Patroclus! Death hath seal'd his eyes;
Unwept, unhonour'd, uninterr'd he lies!
Can his dear image from my soul depart,
Long as the vital spirit moves my heart?
If in the melancholy shades below,
The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow,
Yet mine shall sacred last; mine, undecay'd,
Burn on through death, and animate my shade.
Meanwhile, ye sons of Greece, in triumph bring
The corpse of Hector, and your paeans sing.
Be this the song, slow-moving toward the shore,
"Hector is dead, and Ilion is no more."
(Unworthy of himself, and of the dead;)
The nervous ancles bored, his feet he bound
With thongs inserted through the double wound;
These fix'd up high behind the rolling wain,
His graceful head was trail'd along the plain.
Proud on his car the insulting victor stood,
And bore aloft his arms, distilling blood.
He smites the steeds; the rapid chariot flies;
The sudden clouds of circling dust arise.
Now lost is all that formidable air;
The face divine, and long-descending hair,
Purple the ground, and streak the sable sand;
Deform'd, dishonour'd, in his native land,
Given to the rage of an insulting throng,
And, in his parents' sight, now dragg'd along!
She rent her tresses, venerable grey,
And cast, far off, the regal veils away.
With piercing shrieks his bitter fate she moans,
While the sad father answers groans with groans
Tears after tears his mournful cheeks o'erflow,
And the whole city wears one face of woe:
No less than if the rage of hostile fires.
From her foundations curling to her spires,
O'er the proud citadel at length should rise,
And the last blaze send Ilion to the skies.
The wretched monarch of the falling state,
Distracted, presses to the Dardan gate.
Scarce the whole people stop his desperate course,
While strong affliction gives the feeble force:
Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.
At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun,
Imploring all, and naming one by one:
"Ah! let me, let me go where sorrow calls;
I, only I, will issue from your walls
(Guide or companion, friends! I ask ye none),
And bow before the murderer of my son.
My grief perhaps his pity may engage;
Perhaps at least he may respect my age.
He has a father too; a man like me;
One, not exempt from age and misery
(Vigorous no more, as when his young embrace
Begot this pest of me, and all my race).
How many valiant sons, in early bloom,
Has that cursed hand send headlong to the tomb!
Thee, Hector! last: thy loss (divinely brave)
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
O had thy gentle spirit pass'd in peace,
The son expiring in the sire's embrace,
While both thy parents wept the fatal hour,
And, bending o'er thee, mix'd the tender shower!
Some comfort that had been, some sad relief,
To melt in full satiety of grief!"
And all the eyes of Ilion stream'd around.
(A mourning princess, and a train in tears;)
"Ah why has Heaven prolong'd this hated breath,
Patient of horrors, to behold thy death?
O Hector! late thy parents' pride and joy,
The boast of nations! the defence of Troy!
To whom her safety and her fame she owed;
Her chief, her hero, and almost her god!
O fatal change! become in one sad day
A senseless corse! inanimated clay!"
To fair Andromache, of Hector dead;
As yet no messenger had told his fate,
Not e'en his stay without the Scaean gate.
Far in the close recesses of the dome,
Pensive she plied the melancholy loom;
A growing work employ'd her secret hours,
Confusedly gay with intermingled flowers.
Her fair-haired handmaids heat the brazen urn,
The bath preparing for her lord's return
In vain; alas! her lord returns no more;
Unbathed he lies, and bleeds along the shore!
Now from the walls the clamours reach her ear,
And all her members shake with sudden fear:
Forth from her ivory hand the shuttle falls,
And thus, astonish'd, to her maids she calls:
Invades my ear? 'Tis sure my mother's voice.
My faltering knees their trembling frame desert,
A pulse unusual flutters at my heart;
Some strange disaster, some reverse of fate
(Ye gods avert it!) threats the Trojan state.
Far be the omen which my thoughts suggest!
But much I fear my Hector's dauntless breast
Confronts Achilles; chased along the plain,
Shut from our walls! I fear, I fear him slain!
Safe in the crowd he ever scorn'd to wait,
And sought for glory in the jaws of fate:
Perhaps that noble heat has cost his breath,
Now quench'd for ever in the arms of death."
Fears in her heart, and anguish in her face,
Flies through the dome (the maids her steps pursue),
And mounts the walls, and sends around her view.
Too soon her eyes the killing object found,
The godlike Hector dragg'd along the ground.
A sudden darkness shades her swimming eyes:
She faints, she falls; her breath, her colour flies.
Her hair's fair ornaments, the braids that bound,
The net that held them, and the wreath that crown'd,
The veil and diadem flew far away
(The gift of Venus on her bridal day).
Around a train of weeping sisters stands,
To raise her sinking with assistant hands.
Scarce from the verge of death recall'd, again
She faints, or but recovers to complain.
Born with one fate, to one unhappy life!
For sure one star its baneful beam display'd
On Priam's roof, and Hippoplacia's shade.
From different parents, different climes we came.
At different periods, yet our fate the same!
Why was my birth to great Aetion owed,
And why was all that tender care bestow'd?
Would I had never been!—O thou, the ghost
Of my dead husband! miserably lost!
Thou to the dismal realms for ever gone!
And I abandon'd, desolate, alone!
An only child, once comfort of my pains,
Sad product now of hapless love, remains!
No more to smile upon his sire; no friend
To help him now! no father to defend!
For should he 'scape the sword, the common doom,
What wrongs attend him, and what griefs to come!
Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his patrimonial field.
The day, that to the shades the father sends,
Robs the sad orphan of his father's friends:
He, wretched outcast of mankind! appears
For ever sad, for ever bathed in tears;
Amongst the happy, unregarded, he
Hangs on the robe, or trembles at the knee,
While those his father's former bounty fed
Nor reach the goblet, nor divide the bread:
The kindest but his present wants allay,
To leave him wretched the succeeding day.
Frugal compassion! Heedless, they who boast
Both parents still, nor feel what he has lost,
Shall cry, 'Begone! thy father feasts not here:'
The wretch obeys, retiring with a tear.
Thus wretched, thus retiring all in tears,
To my sad soul Astyanax appears!
Forced by repeated insults to return,
And to his widow'd mother vainly mourn:
He, who, with tender delicacy bred,
With princes sported, and on dainties fed,
And when still evening gave him up to rest,
Sunk soft in down upon the nurse's breast,
Must—ah what must he not? Whom Ilion calls
Astyanax, from her well-guarded walls,[236]
Is now that name no more, unhappy boy!
Since now no more thy father guards his Troy.
But thou, my Hector, liest exposed in air,
Far from thy parents' and thy consort's care;
Whose hand in vain, directed by her love,
The martial scarf and robe of triumph wove.
Now to devouring flames be these a prey,
Useless to thee, from this accursed day!
Yet let the sacrifice at least be paid,
An honour to the living, not the dead!"
Sigh back her sighs, and answer tear with tear.
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When Barack Obama went out on the campaign trail in 2007, the media fawned over his oratorical skills as though he was the reincarnation of Edward Everett. As President, however, Obama has revealed himself to be a mediocrity when not delivering campaign speeches. Certainly some outlets remain for the kind of stemwinders he delivers at fundraisers and campaign appearances, but his addresses to the nation as President have been mainly filled with cliches, platitudes, and vague statements rather than anything profound or at least informative.
Last night, Obama delivered yet another mediocre performance in what should have been a perfect setting: a war speech as Commander in Chief. He had the ability to be inspirational and talk of a great victory over tyranny and oppression; instead, he praised the performance of the troops without actually ever explicitly thanking them for it and skipped entirely any notion of victory. Instead of being gracious and effusive, Obama seemed to want to tamp down any enthusiasm over the effort made over the last several years in Iraq, a curious position for a Commander in Chief to take.
His one reference to his predecessor, who bucked strong opposition from Congress (including Obama) to persevere in the winning surge strategy, was to note that George Bush loved his country and the troops, about as dismissive as one could be without simply ignoring Bush entirely in the speech. Why bother mentioning Bush at all if that's what Obama had to say about him? It sounded very much like an afterthought, a way of checking a box on his way to get to the end of the speech.
Obama then watered down his C-in-C status by oddly interjecting four paragraphs about the economy. Unlike a State of the Union address that moves cleanly from topic to topic in an omnibus manner, Obama shoehorned this brief speech on economics before returning to veterans affairs and reassuming the C-in-C mantle. If Obama wanted to give a comprehensive speech on White House policies, that would have been his prerogative, but the speech was billed as a war speech, and Obama went right back to war issues. Even that would have been a minor point had Obama said anything original to justify it — but instead, we got the usual platitudes and no specifics at all. Once again, the sense was that of checking boxes on a list. Bush? Check. Economy? Check.
It's not to say that the speech was bad, or that it had no redeeming qualities. None of it was bad, really, just mainly unremarkable with a couple of exceptions. I did like this part:
Two weeks ago, America's final combat brigade in Iraq –the Army's Fourth Stryker Brigade –journeyed home in the pre-dawn darkness. Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles made the trip from Baghdad, the last of them passing into Kuwait in the early morning hours. Over seven years before, American troops and coalition partners had fought their way across similar highways, but this time no shots were fired. It was just a convoy of brave Americans, making their way home.
That was a rather well-written (and well-delivered) acknowledgment of the reality of the war on terror. There will be no surrender ceremonies on the deck of the USS Missouri, no capitulation documents, no terms of unconditional surrender. We will exit this war victoriously simply by going home on roads that we have made safe. This was the high point of the speech, perhaps made so by the utter lack of anything noteworthy, new, or even well-spoken in the rest of it.
Barack Obama took office as supposedly one of the most well-read, inspirational figures of our time. With each speech, Obama diminishes in stature, essentially mailing in his efforts and seeming to care little if anyone notices it.
Update: Bill Kristol liked it better than I did, but he scored it on a curve:
President Obama opposed the war in Iraq. He still thinks it was a mistake. It's therefore unrealistic for supporters of the war to expect the president to give the speech John McCain would have given, or to expect President Obama to put the war in the context we would put it in. He simply doesn't believe the war in Iraq was a necessary part of a broader effort to fight terror, to change the Middle East, etc. Given that (erroneous) view of his, I thought his speech was on the whole commendable, and even at times impressive.
Well, he's not Candidate Obama any longer, nor is he Senator Obama. He's President of all the people, and his performance should reflect that. I don't expect a speech written by John McCain, but an explicit acknowledgment of the successes gained in the past few years would have been nice, as well as specifics about the nature of our commitment to keeping them in place. Other than platitudes of restating our commitment to Iraq in the vaguest possible terms, there was no there there. Why bother with a speech filled with the same vague generalizations he's been saying about Iraq for the past nineteen months? Shouldn't this have been a moment for specifics on issues like building an air force and navy for Iraq, the conditions that will allow us to fully withdraw, and why we want to remove ourselves from a key strategic location on Iran's border rather than maintain a presence in Iraq much as we do for South Korea? Or do we wait for another Oval Office address for those specifics?

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Digital recording promises to be the technology which helps us to get rid of the tiresome work of recording long conversations / interviews on tapes and to no longer burdened with boxes and boxes of 90-minute tapes. Now you can record interviews right onto your computer or your laptop. We can now process our interview recordings / conversations digitally, by adding effects, mixing, and so on, plus edit to literally dozens of "generations" without any loss of quality.
Human beings have five senses. The more of their senses to which you can appeal during a presentation, the more likely they are to respond favourably and remember the contents of your presentation. This applies to sales pitches, classrooms, and everything in between. Stimulating smell, taste, and touch can be challenging, but creating a good audio visual presentation is within anyones reach.
The two components of an Audio Recording for Multimedia Presentation are pictures, captions, videos, or other visual aids, and music or spoken words, in other words audio files. An audio visual presentation can be as simple as a professor lecturing to the class while displaying slides. It can be as complex as a product launch with a live band, stage light show, smoke, video screens, and lasers. It generally falls somewhere in between. Today, with the advent of PowerPoint computer projection technology, someone will create PowerPoint slides to accompany their presentation. These slides can also include embedded sound files or video clips.
Audio visual presentations work so much better than just simply visual or simply audio for a number of reasons. First, if you provide more stimuli for your audience they are less likely to get bored and lose focus. Second, it has been proven that people learn in different ways. If you tap the two main ways people learn in an audio visual presentation, you are more likely to get all your information across.
Audio Visual Presentation Manufacturers have finished creating film on video, there are still some additional video production equipment required to edit and finalize video to finish your masterpiece. By using professional quality editing equipment you can make your video one that has the professional polished look that makes it different from the home video or any amateur production. Some of the video editing equipment needed is the following: video editing software, the sound mixing equipment, and the video duplication equipment.
Nowadays there are a lot of providers for production equipment such as camera, video, lighting and for film processing. You should also research on film equipment vendors who can provide movie production supplies that are suited to your needs. Look for those that offer quality service, technical excellence, and fair pricing. You wont have to buy this video production equipment now since there are many that can be rented. However if you intend to have your own equipment, you can purchase a lot of second hand ones as well.


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It was a dark and stormy night last week when we set out to Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre to see their new play – "I Love a Piano" – celebrating the songs of Irving Berlin. The play is jam-packed with American standards and it tells the story of a piano that made its way through quite a few owners from the 1920s, through WWII, and into the 1950's.
From "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Puttin' on the Ritz", to "There's No Business like Show Business", the energy of just six people on stage was remarkable. And I loved the tap scenes with the men.
While I didn't know all of the 50+ songs, I knew quite a few – you will too!
The great thing about musicals is that they take your mind off all serious topics of the day and let it float through the night with joy. They are a great break from reality.
There is usually one song from a musical that gets stuck in my head. That song was "Blue Skies". It was one of my dad's favorite songs and he often sang it – or at least the refrain. And when I'd call from two states away and ask how he was, he'd often answer – "we have blue skies shining above".
Maybe I remember that song the most because at the end of the show, we walked outside to pouring rain, lightning and thunder. It was the second day of the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, which would bring torrential rain and flooding to
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If you need a break from reality, head to Dutch Apple for "I Love a Piano". It's only 30 minutes from The Artist's Inn. I'm happy to report that we do have "blue skies" once again.


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It's that time of year again. Ghosts and goblins, vampires and witches, tombstones and skeletons decorating our front lawns. I grew up not exactly going all out for Halloween, so I understand that not all of us celebrate the spooky side of this holiday. But now I'm making up for lost time, and having so much fun decorating the front of my house and getting ready for those trick-or-treaters. My neighborhood is SUCH a blast at Halloween, and I love taking my daughter around to see all of the elaborate set-ups and get too much candy. What are your Halloween traditions? Cricut Kits page OR my new Etsy Store! This layout was inspired by the "Creepy" side of this spooky holiday, and I pictured wandering through a graveyard on a dark, foggy Halloween night. This is not where I would want to get lost, that's for sure! Lead me back to the candy, please! Etsy store. I just started it last month, and it's really easy to use. Plus, I can easily change prices on some sets of directions to put some on sale for you. So at the very top, there's this new "Creepy" layout, but I'm also featuring a few other Halloween projects which I've marked down for a short time. So check it out! And I went through my nearly 70 projects and marked down some of the simpler, beginner level projects as well. I think you guys will like the Etsy store, as it's really easy to see everything. Let me know what you think!
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Census: Navajo enrollment tops 300,000
By Bill Donovan
Special to the Times
WINDOW ROCK, July 7, 2011
It's official. There are more than 300,000 enrolled members of the Navajo Nation.
The tribe's census office last week pegged tribal enrollment at 300,048, said Sherrick Roanhorse, chief of staff for President Ben Shelly.
Tribal officials have been saying for most of the past decade that the tribe's enrollment has been in the area of 300,000.
This still doesn't give the Navajos bragging rights as the largest Indian nation in the United States, however. That remains with the Cherokee.
In August 2010, the Cherokee Nation gave its enrollment as 288,749, not including the Eastern Band, which accounted for another 13,000 plus members, for a total of about 302,000.
It should be pointed out that the two tribes figure membership differently.
For Navajo Nation membership, a person must have one-quarter or more Navajo blood. The Cherokees require only that members be able to trace their ancestry back to someone listed on the Dawes Roll of 1907 - a membership list created by the Dawes Commission so the Cherokee reservation could be parceled out in individual allotments. The Cherokee tribe has no blood quantum requirement for membership.
The big question within the Navajo universe is how many tribal members live on the reservation and how many can be considered urban Navajos.
Roanhorse said the tribe will have a better grasp of that once the U.S. Census Office releases its 2010 population figures for the Navajo Reservation.
Those figures are expected soon. The U.S. Census Bureau has said it will release population figures for Arizona on July 17 and they will include an ethnic breakdown. New Mexico and Utah figures are expected to follow shortly thereafter.
The expectation is that federal census figures will show for the first time that more Navajos live off the reservation than on it. But even these figures, said Roanhorse, would be misleading because many Navajos who live in cities still have a presence on the reservation, coming back regularly to take care of family matters or to participate in ceremonies and family gatherings.
The new enrollment figure, however, also indicates that Navajo Nation officials have a daunting task to carry out plans to provide every tribal member with an identity card within the next 18 to 24 months.
The tribe has been talking about this for the past several years and is planning to embark on a program similar to the one established by the Pascua Yaqui, who have a small reservation southwest of Tucson.
Thanks to a 2009 memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Customs Office, the Pascua Yaqui ID card serves as a passport for tribal members crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico, where most tribal members live.
Roanhorse said the Navajo tribal card would be used in the same way. Besides having information coded on a bar strip giving medical history and some personal background, the card will have enough data to allow its use as a passport to countries like Mexico and Canada.
Another advantage of the card, he said, is that it will enable the tribal government to learn whenever a tribal member gets in trouble with the law and may need tribal assistance, such as help finding a lawyer or contacting family members.
The tribe is now in the final stages of developing the card. When it is ready, it will be made available to tribal members at no cost.


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Last week, Apple released iTunes for Windows, a stunning replication of its excellent iTunes music jukebox and digital-music-download service, which were previously available only to Mac OS X users. Apple CEO Steve Jobs incorrectly described iTunes for Windows as "the best Windows application ever written." In truth, it's an excellent Mac application--my favorite jukebox on any platform, incidentally--that's been ported to Windows without even a token gesture toward making it Windows-friendly.
Rather than use the readily available native controls that Windows users know and expect, Apple has aped the Mac OS X-style window controls in its Windows version of iTunes. So, although iTunes for Windows offers Minimize, Restore/Maximize, and Close toolbar buttons, some of them don't work like their Windows equivalents but rather as they do on the Mac. For example, if you click Restore/Maximize, the window resizes but will never maximize. Not only did creating this UI require extra work but it's silly, and it makes iTunes stand out like a sore thumb among your other Windows applications.
After you get past its odd UI, iTunes for Windows is an excellent copy, feature-for-feature, of its Mac OS X version, and it's a player that I strongly recommend. My final caveat is that Apple's online music service uses the nonstandard 128Kbps Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio format, rather than the superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) 9 format that other music services use. Apple's iPod is the only portable audio device that can play the AAC format (not coincidentally, it's also the only portable audio device that works with iTunes for Windows), so before you purchase any tunes, understand what you're getting into.


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How in the world did I accomplish anything before Google Alerts were invented?
Yesterday morning, my day came to a screeching halt when I received a Google Alert with a link to this article in TIME magazine.
Yes, TIME.
TIME's top ten coaster list only includes a few wooden coasters. And the highest ranked among them is our very own Voyage.
We're all so busy getting ready for Happy Halloween Weekends, there was hardly time for a Happy HoliDance, but we managed to squeeze one in – what a great moment in our history!
TIME Magazine gives Holiday World coaster high marks http://t.co/oBkqnGWCpu
— 14News (@14News) September 19, 2013
Let's all take a celebratory ride on TIME's #1 wooden roller coaster …


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Next week Tonight, the world of Warcraft will change forever with the release of Cataclysm. Here's everything you need to know before Deathwing the Destroyer comes over and trashes the place. [Republished for the launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.]
What Is Cataclysm?
Cataclysm is the third expansion pack for World of Warcraft, which with 12 million subscribers is only one of the biggest games in the world.
How Does It Change The Game World?
Deathwing the Destroyer, the antagonist upon whom the entire expansion is based, is a character that hasn't been seen in Warcraft lore since he was banished from Azeroth during the events of Warcraft II. He's now returned, and is understandably...upset.
Deathwing has ripped a dimensional tear in the very fabric of Azeroth, which is why the expansion is called "Cataclysm"; it's WoW's own apocalypse, with many of the game's regions radically transformed from what people will have been used to all these years.
Spots on the map that were once lovely are now charred wastelands. Conversely, old wastelands are now quite lovely spots! Visitors to the Barrens will also notice some rather drastic changes to the topography.
What Does This Mean For The Game?
Beyond the cosmetic and story changes, there's been a lot of work done under the hood to World of Warcraft. Most importantly, the level cap has been raised to 85, with other big alterations including new towns, new quests, two new races (the Worgen and Goblins) and the ability to ride flying mounts across all of Azeroth, not just certain areas.
How Does This Affect Me If I'm A WoW Veteran?
There's five more levels to grind out, for starters. There's also two more races to go and re-roll to check out, as well as the lure of re-exploring much of Azeroth to see how Deathwing's return has changed things.
What If I'm Not, Is Cataclysm A Good Place To Start Playing WoW?
It may well be. Along with changes for high-end players, much of the groundwork of World of Warcraft has been re-tooled as well, with old quests replaced and a bigger emphasis placed on smooth levelling and a more involved storyline. You could almost say, between these and the cosmetic changes, this is World of Warcraft 1.5, so starting now would mean you're starting with a more polished and refined experience than those who began years ago.
Wait, Isn't Half This Stuff Already In The Game?
If you've played recently, yes! A couple of patches introduced over the past few weeks have brought many of these changes online already. If you haven't checked in for a while, though, well, you're going to notice a few changes.
Does It Use The New Battle.net?
It sure does. First employed alongside the release of Starcraft II, Cataclysm marks the first time a Warcraft release has been available, and will make use of from day one, Blizzard's re-vamped online portal.
When Is Cataclysm Out?
It's out on December 7. At 12:01 Pacific Time, if you want to get specific.
Where Can I Read More About Cataclysm?
Head here for our complete coverage of WoW's world-changing expansion.


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Your tax savings - stimulus bill
Congress is still debating the economic stimulus package, and the tax provisions may still be changed. But here's an early look at what they could mean for you.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- What kinds of tax savings will the stimulus plan offer Americans?
Deloitte Tax crunched some numbers to come up with an initial answer.
To be sure, the data is preliminary. Congress is still hashing out the final terms of President Obama's economic recovery package and a full picture won't emerge until the tax lady sings.
Most of the savings are accounted for by the Make Work Pay Credit, which was a centerpiece of Obama's election campaign. It would be worth up to $500 a year for individuals and up to $1,000 for couples.
The full credit would be available for 2009 and 2010, but is limited to those making $75,000 or less ($150,000 or less for workers filing joint returns).
The Make Work Pay Credit also would be refundable, meaning that even tax filers without any income tax liability -- typically very low-income workers -- would receive one.
An amendment to the Senate bill this week would protect middle- and upper middle-income taxpayers from the Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT was intended primarily for high-income taxpayers but has in recent years threatened to engulf those lower down the income scale. That provision is not in the current House bill, but may make its way to the final bill.
The amount of savings an individual or family receives from the stimulus bill will depend in part on how many children they have. Changes to the Earned Income Tax Credit and the child tax credit will offer big tax savings to very low-income families with three kids or more.
Between those changes and the addition of the Make Work Pay credit, the Tax Policy Center calculates that a family of five making $16,200 a year (assuming each spouse makes $8,100) would get an additional $3,511 as a result of the stimulus bill. That same family would get an extra $1,651 if they made $32,000 a year.


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I've spent a lot of time recently in my own head. Today marks the three month mark since my mom's stroke, and there have been a lot of ups and a lot of downs.
And I'm learning a lot.
And honestly, I'm learning a lot about God's love for us.
We've reached the stage in my mom's recovery where…there's a frustration within her about how things aren't back to normal. And a gripping desperation for autonomy.
And I'm going to be really honest, being in my position, as her grown daughter, having come home to be her "sidekick" as I call it – there's a really delicate balance of how much help is too much help. I want to assist her so that life runs smoothly, but I don't want her to feel like a child or that I'm belitting her or discrediting her capabilities or contributions. And I'm finding that in this particular stage, it is exceptionally difficult to do. And so often I feel discouraged, as though I can't do anything right
It's a darned if you do, darned if you don't sort of thing. Offer too much help, and I'm overstepping. Offer too little help, and things, well…breakdown.
But actually during this time, I feel like I'm learning a lot about how God loves us. [And let me interject here that I am in no way comparing myself to God.] But during this phase I am definitely learning a lot about how love can look.
Because honestly, right now, all I want to do is…well…everything for my mom. I want to wait on her hand and foot, and bring her this, and do that, and just give her the world.
But she doesn't want that.
She wants to do things herself.
And so for me to love her, I have to let her do it…even if she messes up. Even if it takes her an extra hour to get through the steps. Even if she feels defeated or angry or like she's incapable at any little thing.
I have to just let her fail.
Because that is what she wants. And I know deep down that it is probably good for her. And it is growing her.
How many times in my own life have I felt that I've just been on a one way trip to Screw-Up town? Like I've fallen on my face enough times to need a serious rhinoplasty and new front teeth? I mean, have you read my blog??…
Perhaps how I'm having to love my mom right now is a tiny reflection of how God loves me during those times? — Letting me struggle because I need to feel autonomous, even if it comes with a detrimental price tag?
This kind of love is not easy. It requires patience and a longing for the betterment of her, mores than a satisfaction of self. It requires me to put her needs and her good ahead of my own. Even dying to self a little bit. And that really makes me contemplate God's love for me. For us.
All those times when I was struggling and feeling lost or frustrated in my own life, God was standing by, watching me endure it. Not because He is wicked or derives pleasure from others' pain. He's not some puppy-kicking monster. He was watching expectantly – patiently – lovingly, knowing the growth that will come from the struggle. Just like I'm having to learn how to do with my mom.
It's like how a mama bird must feel when her baby jumps out of the nest for the first time. The fall and the failure is part of the learning process.
God will never let me peril. He'll swoop in if absolutely necessary, but the struggle is what I ultimately need.
Just because we're enduring a trial doesn't negate His love. If anything it just shows that He's letting us grow. Allowing us to use our autonomy to our own potential destruction — or potential flourishing.
But that's what I'm working on. Letting go.
Letting go of the reins and letting her take them over.
I need to step back and realize that this necessary step is cause for celebration, because she can.
She's improving. She's blossoming and regaining all the skills and abilities the stroke had wiped out.
A love that lets go is a love that recognizes the other's full potential. And that is the most difficult – and simultaneously most beautiful – love of all.
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Finger Physics: Finger Fun Review
- Publisher: PressOK Entertainment
- Genre: Arcade
- Released: 27 Sep, 2009
- Size: 14.2 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Plenty of exciting and varied puzzle mini-games for you to play through.
- Players can use their iPod during gameplay.
- The controls are simple enough that anyone can play.
- No online leaderboard options.
- The visuals aren't the prettiest, but at least they get the job done.
You know a game is great when it offers the same four or five game modes but doesn't feel repetitive in the slightest. Finger Physics is one of those games.
- Full Review
- App Store Info
Finger Physics is a physics based, puzzle game compiling of a number of different mini-games. Players must play through a series of levels each with different physics based goals. Some require you to build a tower with the blocks given to you, other require you to remove blocks so that an egg can drop into a basket. Each level varies and progressively gets harder and harder.
The controls differ for each game but all require using the iPhones touch screen interface. Before each new level, players are given a quick revision of the rules of the game. You must try to do the best you can in each to earn a bronze, silver or gold medal for that stage.
Both the basic visuals and sound quality aren't all that impressive, but the challenging puzzle gameplay is the real focus of the game and players will hardly take notice of anything else. Players are free to use their iPod during gameplay however. The game features one main mode and players have the option to replay levels in order to get a better medal score.
Finger Physics is an incredibly addicting and well designed game. While there are a number of different puzzle types you will repeat over, the game varies it up by giving you different scenarios and variations. The game does well to keep players interested enough to keep playing but enough repetition for you to try and master certain games. If you are a fan of physics based games, there is no reason for you not to get this game.
DescriptionMOAR FREE Levels!
Finger Physics is the chart-topping finger lovin' phenomenon that has swept the App Store!
- Downloaded more than 5 million times!
- Loved by fingers everywhere!
- Continuous updates for free!
Finger Physics has been the #1 TOP PAID Puzzle Game in the US, UK, Germany and more!
"Finger Physics is AWESOME." Eros Resmini, VP Openfeint
"This game is GREAT!!!!! Love it!!!!!" one of the 2000+ 5 Star User Reviews
"Bottom Line: Finger Physics is world-class game at a bargain price." James Savage, Macworld.com
So what is Finger Physics?
It's 28 Stages and 252 (my good god) levels of finger puzzling amazingness. It's a word, trust us.
- 252 Levels with more added all the time (up from 81 at the initial launch)
- 7 game modes including tons of Egg levels – everyone's favorite
- Exploding blocks
- Magnetized circles, squares and triangles
- Shapes that float and shapes that don't
- Also starring Doodle the Doodler as himself!
You know what the best part of Finger Physics is? The updates with more levels! In the last 12 months Finger Physics has been updated 9 TIMES with 14 additional stages and 127 levels!
The price stays the same, but the levels keep coming. Sing it with me, who else loves you like PressOK does? NO ONE!!!
Get Finger Physics today and keep it at the top of the charts where it belongs! We promise to keep the levels coming as long as you keep downloading and telling your friends.
Check out our other games too (we Pinky swear they are awesome): Gin Rummy Multipack, Spinzizzle, and Flipstones.
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The Nail Polish Bubble Has Burst
Nail polish: a weird product that girls buy. We may never know why. What we do know, thanks to actual statistics, is this: the Great Nail Polish Bubble of 2012 has burst. What gives, nailpersons?
The facts, as reported in Ad Age today, are these: the "nail product" category grew by more than 20% in both 2011 and 2012. Yet the latter months of 2013 saw this explosive growth reverse itself— nail polish sales were down 10% in October, and 13% in November. What accounts for the sudden disinterest of the nail polish-buying public in acquiring ever greater quantities of paint with which to cover their fingernails, as well as (in some cases) toenails? A theory:
Consumer Edge Research analyst Javier Escalante offers a simple explanation. "It was a fad," he said. He noted that the biggest drop has been in "special effects" products such as crackle-top coats rather than basic nail polish.
A fad, in beauty products? Seems far-fetched. More likely is the explanation offered by Gawker.com trend reporter and nail polish customer Caity Weaver, who told us in an exclusive interview: "I always thought crackle was STUPID and UGLY."
Nail polish manufacturing companies were foolish to ignore this incontrovertible fact.
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More than 22,000 people report blindness or severe difficulty seeing even with glasses. 1
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2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, self-report, age adjusted, 18yo+.
3. Crews JE; Chou CF, Stevens JA, Saaddine JB. Falls Among Persons Aged 65 Years With and Without Severe Vision Impairment – United States, 2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016 May 6;65(17):433-7.


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Marrakech – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for innovation and a renewed agenda of cooperation in the relationship between airports and airlines. "We need a common and forward-looking agenda that builds on past successes and puts innovation at the heart of our common issues. Airports and airlines share a common interest in making aviation safer, more secure, user-friendly, operationally efficient and environmentally responsible. Combined, these are our common license to grow," said Tony Tyler, IATA's Director General and CEO.
Tyler's remarks came in a keynote address to the world's airports at the Airports Council International (ACI) World Annual General Assembly in Marrakech, Morocco. Tyler highlighted six areas where airports and airlines can enhance cooperation to innovate and deliver value: safety, security, improving the customer experience, infrastructure investments, environment and charges.
Safety: "Safety is our top priority and requires a team effort. We are already doing good and important work together in critical areas such as runway safety. Addressing ground safety and reducing the $4 billon cost of ground damage is another area. ACI contributed to building the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) which has become the global standard. Seattle Tacoma and Amsterdam Schiphol now mandate ISAGO as a requirement for all ground operators at their airports. I urge others to do the same. If we are serious about safety—and we are—there is no reason not to," said Tyler. There are 128 ISAGO registrations covering 83 ground service providers at 104 airports, with 25 airports having indicated their support of ISAGO.
Tyler also called for cooperation between IATA and ACI in promoting the IATA Ground Operations Manual (IGOM). IGOM will be launched in 2012 to globally harmonize ground operations and will become a tool to address deficiencies in safety and efficiency, particularly in rapidly developing markets.
Security: IATA is promoting a dialogue among industry and government stakeholders on a Checkpoint of the Future (CoF) that takes a risk-based approach with the aim of allowing passengers to move through security without stopping, unpacking or removing outerwear. "Airport security is effective but it needs a major re-think to meet growing passenger numbers and calls for less intrusive processes. Convenient and effective security will make air travel a more compelling product. And the less time travelers spend queuing, the more time they will have for airport shopping, eating and entertainment," said Tyler. Tyler also noted the cooperation with ACI on Secure Freight, which will secure the supply chain based on global standards and best practices.
Improving the Customer Experience: "Airlines and airports worked together to improve efficiency and passenger convenience through IATA's Simplifying the Business program, starting with e-ticketing, common use self-service (CUSS) kiosks and bar coded boarding passes. These are three enablers that give us an enormous opportunity to innovate the passenger experience even further through Fast Travel," said Tyler. Fast Travel is a suite of self-service options to add further efficiency to the travel experience from check-in to baggage retrieval that has been implemented in airline-airport partnerships including SAS and Copenhagen Airport, the first to implement all five Fast Travel projects.
Tyler urged airlines and airports to work more closely on baggage delivery accuracy to support airlines as they unbundle their product, including baggage charges. IATA's Baggage Improvement Program helped Air New Zealand and Auckland International Airport reduce baggage mishandling by 75%.
Tyler also called for more airport partnerships to promote e-freight. Implementing e-freight will lower costs across the supply chain, improve efficiency, reliability, accuracy and security, and has the potential to contribute to shortening process cycles by up to 24 hours.
Environment: Airports and airlines are united with air navigation service providers and manufacturers to tackle aviation's carbon emissions. To achieve the industry's commitments to improve fuel efficiency by 1.5% annually to 2020, cap net emissions from 2020 and cut net emissions in half by 2050 (compared to 2005), Tyler called for innovative cooperative approaches. "I encourage airports around the world to team-up with airlines. Some airports—Madrid-Barajas, Detroit and Stockholm-Arlanda have allocated land to grow source crops for sustainable biofuels. Zurich Airport has mandated the used of fixed ground power. These are all important moves to improve our environmental performance," said Tyler.
Infrastructure Investments: "Building infrastructure to handle growth is a challenge best handled in close cooperation between airports and airlines. This includes working together in the airport master planning to ensure that investments are being made that match the needs of airlines," said Tyler. He pointed to London's Heathrow Airport where an ongoing dialogue between the airport operator and the airlines is helping, among other things, to promote capacity expansion, optimize existing capacity, take advantage of developing technology, mitigate noise and emissions, enhance surface access and improve operational resilience. "There are robust discussions on price, affordability and service standards, but what is important is to have an open and honest dialogue on our common future and a rolling capital expenditures (CAPEX) plan to accommodate aviation's dynamic nature," said Tyler.
Cost-Efficiency: Tyler also reiterated the importance of cost efficient, affordable airports with charges in line with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) principles. "Airlines and airports are in a business relationship. And it is a tough business. Airlines are expected to make a margin of 1.2% this year and 0.8% in 2012. Airports will be under similar pressure. In fact, regardless of the economic situation, there is a natural tension in the supplier-customer relationship between airports and airlines. But let's keep focused on the fact that airlines and airports both need to be financially sound financial partners that are able to plan and grow our businesses together," said Tyler. Tyler proposed innovation in four aspects of the ongoing discussion on airport charges:
- Airline engagement in major capital expenditure development
- More transparent and meaningful consultation processes
- Longer-term charges agreements which include service level agreements
- Development of innovative concepts for risk sharing
IATA congratulated ACI on 20 years of industry leadership. "ACI—the collective voice of the world's airports—has played a critical role in developing global aviation. And I am confident it will continue to do so, I hope in even greater partnership with IATA and the airlines. With openness to innovation and a common understanding of the issues and the potential, I am convinced that together we can direct the future of a sustainable aviation industry that is an even more successful driver of national and global economies," said Tyler.
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- IATA (International Air Transport Association) represents some 230 airlines comprising 93% of scheduled international air traffic.
- Fast Travel comprises five projects: baggage self tagging, travel document scanning at kiosks, self service flight re-booking, self boarding and baggage recovery kiosks. The five airport-airport pairs that have delivered all five Fast Travel projects:
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Obviously in the words below I'll dive into these Cardinal but I'd like to begin with Maples Pavilion. I grew up watching the backboards sway and the floors bounce. We'd turn down the TV volume as Arthur Lee's Cardinal became Jason Terry's daddy. We've seen Tiger act-a-fan court side (hated it but appreciated it). It's an intimate venue and an easy place to catch a game. It should be every bit of the 3.5 point home court advantage and then some. Currently, however, it is not. The team hasn't won at Monty levels in awhile and hasn't been subsequently supported. It's a shame because – living in the Bay Area – I want to see some rowdy. Do I really have to head to USF for Gonzaga's visit?
Why I love them: Dwight Powell, Josh Huestis, Anthony Brown, Stefan Nastic, John Gage, and Aaron Bright. That was Johnny Dawkins' 2010 recruiting class and every single one of them is on this team. "There's unfinished business," Dwight Powell says. You're darn right there is and that's coming out of a senior who just may be feeling the urgency of his imminent graduation. But boy do I love seniors and boy do I love seniors that are supported by a junior, Chasson Randle. This team has talent at every position and has the quintessential PG to run a Stanford basketball team. Then there's the whole do-it-for-Andy storyline where these guys have a teammate, Andy Brown, who will be sorely missed from this team. This off-season he suffered his fourth ACL tear, ending his Cardinal career. He's no longer on the team but promises to be he'll continue to be a part of the team. Powerful stuff.
Why I hate them: They ain't done shit! As stated, this is one helluva crew and I love their makeup and the things they appear to be capable of. But that aforementioned senior class is just 26-28 in Pac-12 play with two NIT appearances (I will begrudge them a 2012 NIT championship but will also note they closed their season 5-8 to "earn" that un-invitational). College basketball is a dance recital and the Cards haven't been dancing. Not since 2008 when there were two guys who looked alike who you might've heard of (Hi, Brook! Hi, Robin!). Maybe that's why they signed Marcus and Malcolm Allen? No, shared DNA ain't fixing this. And I'm not entirely sure I'm buying what Johnny Dawkins and Powell were telling us about what's different for this team, "We're thinking differently." What does that even mean? The team did go through NAVY Seal training (see below) and have tested and pushed themselves in ways they supposedly have not before. I applaud that. I understand and appreciate culture shifts. I actually talked to a close friend who is a Red Sox fan about John Farrell's work in Boston. He's taken a dumpster fire and last place team with seven free agents to the World Series and baseball's best record. Shifts are possible. But that also included a leadership change and that's a path I never like to head down. I'm selling the "change of thinking" thing and buying – speculatively – the urgency of seniority.
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That is the usage percentage returning to Maples this season. Compare that to the next most in Pac-12: Colorado's 69%. Frankly, I've already gone in on this whole what-will-they-do-with-all-that-returning-skill thing so I'll just say remind you they're returning a 9-9 team.
In their words: My man, @kevo408, calls D-League hoops for the Santa Cruz Warriors, is all over the Pac-12 Post, and attended this here Stanford spot. Thanks, Danna Man.
Marcus is the scorer and Malcolm the passer from what I recall. Marcus is certainly more highly touted but I'm not sure they'll be the major factors. It's really a do-or-die year for the Card. They're going to be tested early with Bucknell, BYU, Northwestern, a trip to Denver and UCONN. They'll take on Beilein's Wolverines in Brooklyn and could draw Pitt there as well in the Legends Classic. They haven't proven yet they can close a team out. I can't count the number of ways these guys lost games last year: Powell missing a DUNK down two at USC; Powell not knowing the clock and making the game tying layup after the buzzer; Randle fouling beyond mid-court with less than a second left in a tie ball game. Do they haveit? I don't know. But I want to see them in the Dance.
""I just want to thank all of my teammates."
– Andy Brown
Outlook: I want desperately to say I like this team's prospects but they return that 9-9 team that underwhelmed me season long (except when I saw them demolish Oregon). Have I mentioned that? Everyone else across the conference is rolling out rosters that make the Cardinal an afterthought. I keep thinking about them and I can't imagine three guys named Allen (Marcus, Malcolm, and Rosco) making a tournament changing impact. Which means that if we're going to believe in these Cardinal, well we have to believe something different; the same approach Dawkins and team are taking. I'm all for mental fortitude I just don't know if you can force it. I've seen my fair share of players asked to be leaders and get handed the How to Lead for Dummies book. That usually turns into a disingenuous, untrusted teammate. These aren't bad guys. Just guys who are asked to be something they're not (perhaps reference: Lyons, Mark). But I'll tell you what, if any school was going to be clever enough to figure this stuff out…
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The Fading Milky Way
Fortunately, the stars themselves won't go out for a very long time. But researchers say the night sky is already fading. A recent study revealed that perhaps two-thirds of the world's population can no longer look upwards at night and see the Milky Way -- a hazy swath of stars that on warm summer nights spans the sky from horizon to horizon.
Above: The Milky Way shines through aurora borealis during a recent geomagnetic storm. Both are rare sights from brightly-lit urban areas. Photo credit: Duane Clausen, Menominee, Michigan, USA.
The Milky Way is dimming, not because the end of the Universe is near, but rather as a result of light pollution: the inadvertent illumination of the atmosphere from street lights, outdoor advertising, homes, schools, airports and other sources. Every night billions of bulbs send their energy skyward where microscopic bits of matter -- air molecules, airborne dust, and water vapor droplets -- reflect much of the wasted light back to Earth.
"If we don't reverse this trend," he cautions, "the entire globe will soon be wrapped in a glowing envelope through which none of the magic of the Universe can be seen by the naked eye."
City dwellers have already lost most of the constellations, the planet Saturn, and a host of medium magnitude stars. They can forget about observing most meteor showers, too, or faint displays of Northern Lights.
It's a big loss. Young sky watchers grow up to be philosophers, scientists, poets, explorers, and school teachers. But kids aren't likely to watch -- or be inspired by -- a blank sky.
Below: This image of Earth's city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). [more]
Timothy Ferris, author of 10 best-selling books on astronomy and the cosmos, and featured scientist in the PBS special "The Creation of the Universe" agrees, "The loss of the night sky is most troubling for children. Whole generations of kids in cities and suburbs are growing up seldom if ever having seen the Milky Way and what a sky full of thousands of stars might look like."
"People often describe to me in glowing terms their experience in viewing the night time sky as if they'd seen something extraordinarily exotic... something akin to observing Victoria Falls or the south pole. And I'm afraid that's the case for many people...that they can count on the fingers of one hand the times they've seen a good night's sky."
That's a shame because most humans seem to have a deep-seated interest in astronomy -- a longing to stare at the stars and learn about the heavens. It's what professional astronomers call, fancifully, our astronomy "gene."
Says Ferris: "All human cultures no matter how primitive have felt it important to tell stories about the stars and about the nature and the origin of the Universe as a whole. So there's something about astronomy that is deeply engrained in human culture, going as far back as music, dance and poetry."
That ancient call from the stars is one reason why modern folk visit planetaria. But can such exhibits replace the real night sky?
"No way," says Marshall Space Flight Center astronomer Mitzi Adams. "Even the best planetaria cannot demonstrate the true scale of the night sky. I remember when I worked at the Fernbank Science Center's planetarium in Atlanta: I was exposed to the planetarium's artificial sky many times a day. One week the weather in Atlanta was bad and I hadn't seen the 'real' sky for a while. Finally one evening the clouds parted and I walked outside. I was astounded by the size and beauty of Orion. It was the real thing and I could tell the difference."
Adams could see Orion from Atlanta because it is one of the brightest constellations. But even brilliant Orion will eventually fade if poorly-designed lights proliferate. Fortunately, light pollution is reversible. In recent years engineers have developed more efficient bulbs with "sky friendly" fixtures that can preserve dark skies and decrease energy costs.
"Consider home security lights," continues George Eslinger. "The $19.95 variety often put more light into the air than they do on the ground. But by using the proper fixture, properly aimed, we can eliminate glare, eliminate shadows against buildings where 'bad guys' can avoid detection ... and do it all with less energy."
Exterior home lighting is a primary source of light pollution in some areas, but not all, adds Eslinger. Street lamps, sports fields, billboards and parking lots -- even prison lights -- can be the biggest offenders. "The sources of light pollution are as varied as each community or region," he says.
Below: Examples of sky-friendly and sky-hostile lighting fixtures, from the International Dark-Sky Association [more]
GOOD Post-top ornamental fixtures can minimize light pollution via a lamp reflector located above the bulb.
BAD Non-cutoff fixtures like this "acorn" ornamental lamp cause light pollution
GOOD Flat-lens cobra head fixtures provide excellent roadway lighting with greatly reduced glare and no uplight.
BAD The ubiquitous drop-lens cobra head luminaire produces a level of glare and uplight that is both unacceptable and unnecessary.
That variety makes the job of the International Dark-sky Association (IDA) particularly difficult. IDA was formed in 1988 by a group of concerned sky watchers who wanted to combat light pollution. "Our goal," says Eslinger, who is a member of IDA's board of directors, "is to educate the public regarding the indiscriminate use of light and the benefits of choosing the right light to do the job." As awareness grows, they hope, communities and individuals will choose sky-friendly, energy-efficient lighting -- and light pollution will subside.
It's a daunting problem: thousands of communities with billions of light bulbs, all aglow. Fortunately, the stars are still out there shining bright -- patiently waiting for us to turn down the lights.
You can learn more about light pollution and its remedies from the International Dark-sky Association website: http://www.darksky.org.
Dark Sky Quotes: - find out what educators and scientists have to say about the loss of Earth's dark skies.
Lighting Up the Ecosphere -- (Science@NASA) Using satellite images of city lights at night, NASA scientists are mapping the spread of urban areas around the globe and monitoring their impact on our planet's ecosystem.
Study details growing problem of light pollution (SpaceFlight Now) the increasing use of artificial lights has wiped out clear views the night sky for hundreds of millions of people.
Fred Schaaf's Light-Pollution Notes -- (Sky & Telescope) a collection of links and essays about light pollution.
Examples of Good and Bad Lighting Fixtures - from the International Dark-Sky Association
A Milky Way Primer - Can't see the Milky Way? Find out what you're missing!
Artificial Night Sky Brightness -- from GSFC's Astronomy Picture of the Day
Earth's City Lights -- a dramatic image from EarthObservatory.nasa.gov
Light Pollution Prevents Seeing the Milky Way -- a Goddard Space Flight Center "Science Question of the Week."
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One of the famous 16th century Stavronikita Festal set of icons, this icon depicts the Holy Resurrection of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ from the dead. Jesus laid down His life voluntarily and took it back up freely, for He was both God and Man. When He rose from the dead, all of Creation rejoiced and was illumined by the brightness of Life and Grace, for this is the Light that illumines all in Heaven forever. Adam is being taken out of Hades where he had been bound since his death, but the bars of Hell have now been permanently broken, opening Paradise to us.
The monk Theophanes the Cretan painted this set of icons on the iconostasis, or icon screen which separates the Bema, or sacred Altar, from the body of the Church, or Nave, where the Faithful stand for Divine Liturgy and other liturgical services. The set shows many of the most important events in the life of Jesus and the Church in its early and formative stage. This icon is the ninth in that set. Theophanes' icons are considered masterpieces of iconographic art, still adorn the church at Stavronikita Monastery on Mount Athos, and show marvelous Cretan post-Byzantine form.


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Music and nightlife
England beats to a different rhythm after dark. For one of the best nights out in the UK, join the crowds in pubs to hear new bands play. Book a karaoke booth and test your friends' tolerance levels as you try it yourself. Catch a famous comedian testing out new material at a local bar, or join the boisterous queue to get into one of the hot new night clubs. Our music festivals are the envy of the world. An eclectic mix of families, students and hipsters all happily pitch tents to listen to the world's best bands, while munching contentedly on organic hot dogs.
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May events: The Norfolk & Norwich Festival
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The help page does a good job at describing the options but doesn't elaborate on how to select an algorithm or the tradeoffs that are associated with the varying level of compression. This leads to the following questions:
The pros of using compression are a dramatic savings in space. What are the cons? Is information lost when the image is compressed?
How should one go about choosing an algorithm and compression level. Do some types of images lend themselves to a certain algorithm?


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