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Roorkee: Police have registered a case against a doctor of a Jolly Grant-based multi-speciality hospital in Dehradun who had allegedly removed the kidney and eyes from the body of a girl who had been undergoing treatment at the hospital. However, hospital authorities have denied the allegation.
Dr JP Sharma, chief medial superintendent of the hospital said, "Whenever we hand over the body, we ask the attendants or family members of the deceased to examine the body. We have taken their signature(s) on our documents before delivering them the body. The allegations levelled by the complainant against us are totally baseless and untrue."
According to local Gangnahar police, a case has been registered under different sections of Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act against a doctor working at a Jolly Grant-based hospital on Saturday on a complaint lodged by one Shanti Devi, a resident of Shakti Vihar colony. She alleged that a doctor at the hospital had removed the kidneys and corneas after operating upon the body of her daughter last month. "As venue of the crime fell under the police station of Dalanwala in Dehradun, so after registering her (Shantidevi) compliant under sections 18 and 19 of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act in a zero FIR, the case was transferred to the Dalanwala police for further action," SHO Jawahar Lal told TOI.
In her police complaint, Shantidevi stated that she had admitted her 18-year-old daughter Kajal in the hospital on December 5, 2015 after she complained of severe stomach pain and fever. But her condition deteriorated on December 7 and she was shifted to the ICU. "Then, we were asked to arrange for some units of blood for our daughter, so my husband and I had to leave her there unattended. When we came back, doctors said our girl had died during treatment," she added in her police complaint.
She claimed that two other daughters, who were present outside the ICU on that day, saw the doctor and two-three hospital staff members involved in operating upon the body of my daughter. "My daughters saw them removing the eyes (cornea) and kidneys from body of my deceased girl. When we tried to raise this issue there, the hospital authorities immediately pushed us out from there," Shantidevi told TOI.
Shantidevi said local police were not convinced by their story and they had to approach the national SC/ST commission in person in Delhi last week to get their complaint registered. "We have buried our daughter daughter's body. If they have any doubt over our story, the can exhume it," said the dead girl's father Sudhir Kumar.


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by Alan Porter - A Classic winner and outstanding sprinter/miler, Shackleford is by one of the most successful sons of Storm Cat out of the remarkable producer Oatsee – dam of five stakes winners, four graded stakes winners, and two grade one winners – and from the immediate family of Gone West. Off to a highly-promising start to his stud career, Shackleford was a top three second season sire in 2017.
Shackleford's dam, Oatsee, is by Unbridled, a son of Fappiano - from the Mr. Prospector line – and inbreeding to Fappiano is beginning to do well. Here it could be tried through such as Quiet American (broodmare sire of Shackleford's talented son, Beasley), Cryptoclearance (broodmare sire of a graded stakes winner by a son of Forestry, the sire of Shackleford, and grandsire of Candy Ride, himself responsible for Twirling Candy and Sidney's Candy), Cahill Road, a brother to Unbridled who is broodmare sire of a stakes winner by Forestry, the sire of Shackleford, and Pentelicus, a three-quarters brother to Unbridled).
Shackleford is from the family of Gone West, and there is a Forestry line stakes winner out of a mare by Gone West, stakes winners out of mares by Gone West line stallions Elusive Quality (sire of Smarty Jones and Quality Road), Grand Slam, Mr. Greeley (sire of El Corredor) and Trajectory, which also suggests mares by Speightstown and Proud Citizen. There is a grade one winner by a son of Forestry out of a mare by Marquetry (sire of Artax), from the Conquistador Cielo branch of Mr. Prospector. From the Forty Niner branch of Mr. Prospector there are Forestry line stakes winners out of mares by Forty Niner and Jules (sire of Peace Rules), with other sources of Forty Niner including Distorted Humor (sire of Flower Alley, Sharp Humor, Any Given Saturday and Drosselmeyer), Banker's Gold, Coronado's Quest, Editor's Note, End Sweep (sire of Trippi), Gold Case, Gold Fever, Roar and Tactical Advantage. There is a grade one winner by Forestry out of a mare by Crafty Prospector (sire of Prospectors Gamble, Crafty C. T., Prospect Bay and Robyn Dancer), a graded winner out of a mare by Lycius, and stakes winners out of mares by Seeking the Gold (sire of Mutakkdim, Petionville and Cape Town), Kingmambo (sire of Lemon Drop Kid), Smart Strike (sire of Curlin, Lookin At Lucky and English Channel), Two Punch and his son Smoke Glacken, Jade Hunter, Woodman, Formal Gold (by Black Tie Affair, a son of Miswaki) and Rizzi (by Afleet, sire of Northern Afleet and grandsire of Afleet Alex, himself sire of a graded winner out of the dam of Shackleford.
Shackleford's grade two winner Malagacy is out of a mare by Dehere, from the Deputy Minister branch of Northern Dancer. There are also two Forestry line stakes winners out of mares by Deputy Minister himself, two stakes winners out of mares by Silver Deputy (sire of Badge of Silver – the broodmare sire of a Forestry line graded winner – Posse and Spring At Last). Deputy Minister could also be brought in through Awesome Again (sire of Ghostzapper, Toccet, Daaher and Awesome of Course), Deputy Commander, Forest Camp, French Deputy, Salt Lake, Touch Gold, Graeme Hall (a son of Dehere) and Defrere (a brother to Dehere).
Shackleford is sire of undefeated two-year-old graded stakes winner Dream It Is out of a mare by Medaglia d'Oro, by El Prado (sire of Kitten's Joy and Artie Schiller) from the Sadler's Wells line that might also be brought in through Horse Chestnut.
From the Danzig branch of Northern Dancer there are two Forestry graded winners, one grade one, out of mares by Orpen (a close relative to Danehill), and stakes winners out of mares by Belong to Me, Pine Bluff and Polish Numbers, with other options including Boundary, Dayjur, Langfuhr, Exchange Rate, Hard Spun, War Front and War Chant.
Both Storm Cat and Shackleford's broodmare sire, Unbridled, have enjoyed success with mares from the Caro line and out of mares from that line Shackleford already has graded stakes winner Wellabled out of mare by In Excess, and a graded stakes placed horse out of a mare by that horse's son, Indian Charlie (sire of Uncle Mo). This also invites trying Caro through Siberian Express and Siberian Summer, and Forestry and his sons have stakes winners out of mares by Alphabet Soup and his sire Cozzene (also sire of Mizzen Mast, who would be interesting here) and Tejano Run (by Tejano).
The Cure the Blues branch of Hail to Reason has been extremely good under Storm Cat, and Forestry and his sons are no exception, getting stakes winners out of mares by American Chance, Tethra and Take Me Out. From the Halo branch of Hail to Reason, there is a Forestry line graded stakes winner from a mare by Devil's Bag (sire of Devil His Due and Diable), a stakes winner out of a mare by that horse's brother, Saint Ballado (sire of Saint Liam, Captain Bodgit, Sweetsouthernsaint and Yankee Victor), and a stakes winner out of a mare by Halo grandson, More Than Ready.
Forestry and sons have done well with mares carrying Damascus, including getting grade one winner Discreet Cat out of a mare by Private Account, graded stakes winner Air Khalifa out of a mare by Afternoon Deelites (by Private Account son, Private Terms (broodmare sire of two Forestry line stakes winners). There is also a stakes winner by a son of Forestry out of a mare by Private Account son, Top Account, and that strain might also be brought in through Unaccounted For. There is also a Forestry line multiple graded stakes winner out of mare by Great Gladiator, and a stakes winner out of a mare by Gilded Time, both from the Timeless Moment branch of Damascus.
There is a Storm Cat line Champion Two-Year-Old out of a mare by Orientate, and that horse sired grade one winner Lady Joanne out of the dam of Shackleford. Orientate is a son of Mt. Livermore – already broodmare sire of a Shackleford graded stakes horse – and he could also be brought in through Housebuster and Peaks and Valleys. There two stakes winners, one graded by Forestry and his sons and mares by Meadowlake and there is also a stakes winner by Forestry out of a mare by Lost Code.

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Guess who has a sinus infection now?
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It all began last week Wednesday when I started feeling a lot of post-nasal drip and had a really weird cough where the congestion was, like, not at the surface (if that makes any sense) so I had to keep deeply clearing my throat to get to it, which was beyond annoying. After about 2 days of that, it was to the point where I had to cough hard to get to the congestion, and my chest felt tighter and tighter with each passing day, like all that coughing was doing absolutely NOTHING. My voice got hoarse, my ears felt plugged, and although I was sneezing like a maniac, it wasn't like a cold where the congestion settled into my head/nose at all. Still, I assumed it was just a cold, and was prepared to power through it with hot tea, cough drops and Robitussin (after checking with my OB-GYN to make sure it was safe while pregnant, of course).
By Monday of this week, I knew something more was going on. The cough wasn't getting any better, and my chest and sinuses felt far worse. At night I'd have a hard time falling asleep because of the cough, and then I'd find myself waking frequently during the night because the back of my throat was dry from mouth-breathing, which would set of new rounds of coughing. I was waking up in the mornings feeling like I'd barely slept at all.
I called my OB-GYN's office Monday to see if I should come in. The nurse called me back and told me to give it a few more days, since it hadn't been a full week yet. I hung in there another two days, but by Wednesday, I knew things weren't on the upswing, so I called again and they squeezed me in in the afternoon.
Dr. F listened to my lungs and didn't hear any wheezing, but after describing the course the illness had taken and the massive pressure-pain in my sinuses, she wrote me a script for the Z-Pack on the assumption that I've got a sinus infection.
While I was bummed about the sinus infection, it was actually fortunate timing because Super Boy was with me and, since I'd hit the 12-week mark in the pregnancy that day, I asked Dr. F if she could check for a heartbeat while we were there. She got out her doppler, put a little gel on my belly, and within seconds she captured the heartbeat of our baby!! It was so wonderful to hear, all 164 beats per minute. 🙂 Super Boy's eyes got big and a huge grin spread across his face as he heard the sound of his little brother or sister's heart, and I was just breathing a huge sigh of relief to hear that little heartbeat.
Funny thing, I thought back to when we heard Super Boy's heartbeat for the first time, and I remember being so nervous and excited that I kept giggling, and my doctor couldn't hear anything because of all the noise I was making laughing! It took a solid 5 minutes for me to calm down enough for her to get it with Super Boy. I was so embarrassed, but couldn't help it to save my life. At least this time I managed to hold it together with the nervous giggling, because I really wanted Super Boy to hear it!
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We are receiving reports about an armed man who entered an Oklahoma City restaurant and opened fired. According to police, that man was shot and killed by a bystander, also armed.
The incident took place at Louie's Grill & Bar, which sits along the shore of Lake Hefner, police said.
While fleeing the scene, two people suffered gunshot wounds and another was injured, KFDR reported. Police said the two who were shot were transported to a hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. Later on, police identified a fourth victim who suffered a 'minor' injury, though it is 'unclear' how they sustained said injury.
When the suspect exited the restaurant, 'a bystander with a pistol' confronted him and fatally shot him, according to a police tweet.
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Correction: Two people taken to the hospital. The victims are expected to survive.
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When I read Tropic of Cancer it was a moment of literary awakening. I'd never heard of an author cursing so much in their writing, ranting on the ugly beauty of New York, or the many seedy districts of Paris. It was the summer of my 21st year and the book in its audacity left me walking the balmy summer nights with it's pages splayed open upon my hands, occassionally looking up to avoid walking into traffic. There's a reason why it was banned in the 40's.
"I ask of life, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt."
You know when a song plays suddenly from your random mp3 shuffle, and something about the beat, the melody, or the ever flowing rhythm sends you dancing in your seat and channeling a memory, a promise, a loving thought. . . A good song makes you start to plan things. It motivates you, and the best ones motivate you to tell the people you love exactly how you feel.
Music is empowerment.
It shuts our minds off, and clicks on the phonetic funny bone. Meaning, sometimes listening to music that moves me can be painful. Sometimes I make the effort to avoid songs that remind of me anything at all. Clean slate songs. A playlist of nothingness. But the pleasure that pain ends with in sweeping you gloriously through the agony into ecstacy, that is why I do it.
I think some music has influenced me to travel, while books and their gentle lulling have kept me company as I chartered unfamiliar territories.
I was preparing for a summer semester in Italy when I read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. When I arrived and began to attend university, I discovered Manu Chao.
Here was a radical speaking up to three languages in one song; jubilant, agressive and free. Perfect compliment to Miller's seemingly disjointed rants. In truth there was a purpose to all of the chaos, and that is what Manu Chao is like. This album was the first I listened to by him, and at this point I have many more. As it is part of my personal story, I can't help but to recommend you listen to this first.
My theory is that a good song can be distracting. It paralyzes the body and sends the imagination exploring. It's when you get control over the music that you absorb the literature, and the story strengthens.
The story is your life.
To buy a copy of Proxima Estación: Esperanza the album, click the link; Amazon gives quite a few affordable sources.
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Personality assessment helps us to predict how people behave under various circumstances or how well a person might perform within certain roles. However, there are reasons to question the supposed 'construct validity' of tests designed to assess various personality attributes including dispositional traits. To demonstrate this, the paper first discusses a realist account of test validity where validity requires that both the attribute exist and that changes in the attribute are causally related to changes in test scores. The paper demonstrates that the validity for tests of dispositional traits is questionable given conceptual problems with traits existing as within-person attributes capable of causing changes in test scores. The widespread reliance on Likert-style response formats is then discussed in relation to the assumed quantitative structure of personality attributes. Based on a realist view of measurement, the uncritical adoption of a representational theory of measurement within personality research means that the validity of all personality tests claiming to 'measure' personality attributes is questionable. Suggestions for addressing test validity in personality assessment are then discussed in terms of paying greater critical attention to personality theory itself and adopting a realist theory of assessment and measurement.


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Are you into Poodles, Pink or Paris? If so, you might like this room that I designed for my daughter (she used to love pink:)) I started collecting items for this room a little over four years ago. We found out we were moving – so I held off on starting in the room until we moved; I finished the room over 2 years ago. I painted the wall stripes Cupcake by Martha Stewart ( the paints are no longer available but I do have the formula below). The lighter color of the paint is 75% of the original color.
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not sure if the maroon is R1?? This paint color is the darker of the pink stripes.
Sewing is a hobby of mine; I sewed the polka dotted seat cushion and collected the rest of the pillows. The wood awning was designed by me and put together by my contractor (who happened to be at our house installing kitchen cabinets).
Round mirror was purchased at Lowes for $10 (don't cha love this kind of find). As you can see in the reflection of the mirror, there is a full-length mirror on the opposite wall (purchased for $6 from Walmart). I hot glued black feather boas around the perimeter of the mirror.
The chair was designed and made by me a couple of years ago. It's a no sew project. You can find all the details on how to make this DIY Parisian chair. It's amazing what a hot glue gun, fishing line, and a rubber band can do : )
Chalkboard paint was used on the closet doors. The doors are trimmed out in the same pink as the dark stripes on the wall. A little heart (with wings) next to the closet doors holds the chalk. My daughter and her friends are constantly writing and rewriting on the chalkboard.
Yes, I know there are no photos in the photos frames. One day….
I love this tea set. I purchased 20 sets when I owned my party business (sold the business and the tea sets). Here is a similar tea set.
This rug was designed and painted by me (inspired by this rug). Want to make your own floor rug? Check out tomorrows blog post for a how-to project.
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Trethowans – proud sponsor of the Salisbury Big Business Event, 23rd – 25th April
Businesses are set to benefit from a new three-day business event which organisers say is the first of its kind in the country.
Salisbury Big Business Event 2012 is being organised by Salisbury City Council, Federation of Small Business, Salisbury City Centre Management, and Salisbury Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Trethowans Solicitors and Blue Frontier.
It will run from April 23 to 25 at Salisbury Guildhall and aims to give those running businesses of all sizes the chance to gain invaluable information from professionals.
Simon Rhodes, managing partner at Trethowans, said: "This event will be the first of its kind in the city and indeed the county. The aim is to ensure no hassle, no sales pitches, just free advice. We want businesses of all sizes to come away with help and advice to steer them in the right direction. The team behind this event will ensure we target businesses from outside of the city so we put Salisbury firmly on the business map."
Over the course of the three days, event organisers are hoping to offer free advice from banks, insurance companies, solicitors, accountants, estate agents and marketing companies among others.
With stands offering advice and a series of seminars and workshops over the three days the hope is as many people as possible from the business world will come through the doors and gain some guidance.
Claire Burden, business manager for Salisbury City Council, said: "The hope is businesses from the city and further afield will be able to come along and network while taking away advice and guidance on the next steps for their business."
For further information, please visit the website: www.salisburybigbusiness.co.uk/


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Water Carrier
Stay hydrated on long hikes with this practical knitted bottle tote. A stretchy mesh knit keeps your bottle secure; a long strap keeps it out of the way. It's easy to adapt the holder size and strap length for everyone in your family.
Difficulty Easy
Finished Size 3.5" diameter and 6" tall, not including strap; will stretch to fit a bottle 2.5" in diameter and 8" tall.
Yarn Cascade Yarns Cherub DK (55% nylon, 45% acrylic): #68 desert (beige; A), 1 ball.
Cascade Yarns Fixation Spray/Dyed Effect (98% cotton, 2% spandex): #9893 desert mirage (multi; B), 1 ball.
Needles Size 4 (3.5 mm): set of double-pointed. Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
Notions Markers; tapestry needle.
Gauge 21 sts and 38 rnds = 4" with B in charted patt, unstretched; 39 sts and 62 rows = 4" with A in Linen st.
Notes This tote is worked in the round from the bottom up. The strap is worked back and forth in rows.
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Take Note: Flap unfurls over French flag; Student rejected
An Ohio mayor's greeting to visiting French students has sent U.S. military veterans to the barricades.
When students from France arrived in Medina, Ohio, last month as part of a cultural exchange, Mayor James Roberts ordered city workers to fly the French flag from the city's firehouse as a welcome.
Some veterans took the demotion of the Stars and Stripes from Medina's tallest flagpole--even temporarily--as an insult, said Ellis Provchy, the commander of a northeast Ohio unit of Disabled American Veterans, a group chartered by Congress to help veterans and the families of disabled veterans.
"The flag represents the blood that each of us lost in foreign lands," said Mr. Provchy, a veteran of the Korean War.
He led about a dozen veterans in full-dress uniform through the town square in protest.
While the mayor eventually restored Old Glory to its post atop the firehouse, the veterans last week were seeking an ordinance guaranteeing that the U.S. flag will always fly from the city's highest pole.
"We have nothing against the French," Mr. Provchy said. "But the American flag should be flown from a proper height."
Cornell University has decided not to admit Elizabeth Mikus, the Massachusetts student who was considering suing the university because it accidentally sent her a "welcome" notice instead of a deferral letter last December. Ms. Mikus received a rejection letter last week. (See Education Week, 4/12/95.)
She was one of 44 applicants to erroneously receive the letter from the Ivy League university in Ithaca, N.Y. She has been accepted at several other colleges but has not yet decided which she will attend, her lawyer, Allen H. Tufankjian, said last week.
As for suing Cornell over the mistaken letter, the Mikuses "are keeping their options open," he said.
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According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that follows immediately seven successive Sabbatic years (the Sabbatic year being the seventh year of a seven-year cycle). Accordingly, the Jubilee year takes place at the end of seven times seven years, i.e. at the end of every forty-nine years, or the fiftieth. Hence, the institution of the Jubilee-year system is but an extension or the working out of the Sabbatic-year legislation, viz. that as at the end of every six years there succeeds a Sabbatic year, so at the end of each seven Sabbatic years there succeeds a Jubilee year. Arguing from the analogous Pentecostal system, it is evident that the actual year in which the Jubilee occurs is not the last of the seventh Sabbatic cycle (i.e. the forty-ninth year), but the year following, namely, the fiftieth. Hence, at the end of each forty-eight years there occur two consecutive fallow years, viz. the forty-ninth, or the Sabbatic year of the seventh Sabbatic cycle and the fiftieth, or the Jubilee year. From the nature and purpose of the Jubilee legislation, it is also evident that the Jubilee Year is to be reckoned with in itself absolutely, and not in relation to the length of time, or duration, of each particular event or contract. So that if, for example, the year 195O is Jubilee Year, and an Israelite became a slave in the year 1930, this slave is to be set free not in 1980, but in 1950, which is the appointed year of Jubilee.
The term jubilee year ( Vulgate annus Jubilei , or Jubileus ) is of Hebrew origin, the etymological meaning of which is, in all probability, "ram", which metonymically stands for "the horn of a ram". Thus the name "the year of the blowing of the ram's horn" exactly corresponds to "the day of the blowing of the horn", or the "feast of the new year", and it was, like the latter, announced to the people by the blowing of the horn. In Ezechiel (xlvi, 17) the Jubilee Year is called "the year of release"; hence some commentators have derived the Hebrew for "Jubilee" from the stem which means "to emit", "to liberate". The first derivation, however, is more acceptable.
The legislation concerning the year of Jubilee is found in Leviticus, xxv, 8-54, and xxvii, 16-24. It contains three main enactments:
- rest of the soil;
- reversion of landed property to its original owner, who had been driven by poverty to sell it; and
- the freeing or manumission of those Israelites who, through poverty or otherwise, had become the slaves of their brethren.
The first enactment (contained in Leviticus 25:11-12 ) enjoins that as in the case of each Sabbatic year, so in each Jubilee year the soil is to be at rest, and that there is to be no tillage nor harvest, but that what the land produces spontaneously and of its own accord is free to be utilized by all Israelites, including, of course, the landlord himself, but only for their own actual and immediate use and maintenance, and, consequently, not to be stored by anyone for any other time or purpose. The object of this law, as well as of the two following, is most commendable, as by it the poor and all those who, mainly on account of poverty, do not actually own any land, are hereby provided for, not only for a whole year every seven years, but also in every fiftieth year.
The second enactment, contained in Leviticus, xxv, 13-34, and xxvii, 16-24, enjoins that any owner of landed property, who, for reason of poverty or otherwise, has been compelled to part with his land, has the right to receive his property back free in the Jubilee year, or to redeem it even before the Jubilee year, if either his own financial circumstances have improved, or if his next of kin will redeem it for him by paying back according to the price which regulated the purchase. Hence, among the ancient Hebrews, the transfer of property was not, properly speaking, the sale of the land but of its produce for a certain number of years, and the price was fixed according to the number of years which intervened between the year of the sale and that of the next year of jubilee. Accordingly, the right of possession of real estate was inalienable. Whether a landowner was ever allowed to part permanently with his property for speculation, or for any purpose other than poverty, is not explicitly stated, although according to later rabbinical interpretation, this was considered as legally unlawful. Real estate in walled towns was made an exception to this law. An owner who had sold was permitted to redeem his property provided he did so within a year, but not afterwards. Levitical cities, on the other hand, as well as all the property in them, came under the provisions of the general law, reverting back to their original owners in the year of jubilee. Land in the suburbs of such cities could not be disposed of, or traded with in any manner. In case a man dedicated property to the Lord, he was permitted to redeem it, provided he added to it one-fifth of its value as reckoned by the number of crops it would produce before the year of Jubilee, and provided, also, he redeemed it before that period. If not reclaimed then or before that period it was understood to be dedicated forever. The details of these exchanges of property probably varied at different times. Josephus informs us that the temporary proprietor of a piece of land made a settlement with its owner at the year of Jubilee on the following terms: after making a statement of the value of the crops he had obtained from the land, and of what he had expended upon it, if his receipts exceeded the expenses, the owner got nothing; but if the reverse was true, the latter was expected to make good the loss.
The third enactment (contained in Leviticus 25:39-54 ) enjoins that all those Israelites who through poverty have sold themselves as slaves to their fellow-Israelites or to foreigners resident among them, and who, up to the time of the Jubilee year, have neither completed their six years of servitude, nor redeemed themselves, nor been redeemed by their relatives, are to be set free in the Jubilee year to return with their children to their family and to the patrimony of their fathers. Exception, of course, is made in the case of those slaves who refuse to become free at the expiration of the appointed six years' servitude. In this case they are allowed to become slaves forever and, in order to indicate their consent to this, they are required to submit to the boring of their ears ( Exodus 21:6 ). This exeption, of course, is in no way in contradiction with the Jubilee-year's enactment. It is not necessary, therefore, in order to explain this apparent contradiction, to maintain that the two legislations belong to two distinct periods, or, still less, to maintain that the two Iegislations are conflicting, as some modern critics have maintained. It is important, however, to remark that the legislation concerning the various enactments of the Jubilee year contained in Leviticus, is not sufficiently expanded so as to cover all possible hypotheses and cases. This want has been more or less consistently remedied by later Talmudic and rabbinical enactments and legislations.
The design of the Jubilee year is that those of the people of God who, through poverty or other adverse circumstances, had forfeited their personal liberty or property to their fellow brethren, should have their debts forgiven by their co-religionists every half century, on the great day of atonement, and be restored to their families and inheritance as freely and fully as God on that very day forgave the debts of his people and restored them to perfect fellowship with himself, so that the whole community, having forgiven each other and being forgiven by God, might return to the original order which had been disturbed in the lapse of time, and being freed from the bondage of one another, might unreservedly be the servants of him who is their redeemer.
The aim of the jubilee, therefore, is to preserve unimpaired the essential character of the theocracy, to the end that there be no poor among the people of God (Deut. xv, 4). Hence God, who redeemed Israel from the bondage of Egypt to be his peculiar people, and allotted to them the promised land, will not suffer any one to usurp his title as Lord over those whom he owns as his own. It is the idea of grace for all the suffering children of man, bringing freedom to the captive and rest to the weary as well as to the earth, which made the year of jubilee the symbol of the Messianic year of grace ( Isaiah 61:2 ), when all the conflicts in the universe shall be restored to their original harmony, and when not only we, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, but the whole creation, which groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, shall be restored into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (comp. Isaiah 61:1-3 ; Luke 4:21 ; Romans 8:18-23 ; Hebrews 4:9 ).
The importance of this institution will be apparent if it is considered what moral and social advantages would accrue to the community from the sacred observance of it.
- It would prevent the accumulation of land on the part of a few to the detriment of the community at large.
- It would render it impossible for any one to be born to absolute poverty, since every one had his hereditary land.
- It would preclude those inequalities which are produced by extremes of riches and poverty, and which make one man domineer over another.
- It would utterly do away with slavery.
- It would afford a fresh opportunity to those who were reduced by adverse circumstances to begin again their career of industry, in the patrimony which they had temporarily forfeited.
- It would periodically rectify the disorders which creep into the state in the course of time, preclude the division of the people into nobles and plebeians, and preserve the theocracy inviolate.
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Work outs and exercise routines can be done at different times of the day. If you choose to make an exercise plan in the morning, make sure that you are up to it. Here are factors and exercise tips you have to know should you choose to do your fitness routines in the morning.
Mornings are best for those who can rise at the first sound of the alarm clock, ready to take on the challenges of the world. Often referred to as the "morning person," this type of person has the energy and the mental capacity to head to the gym as part of their exercise plan and deal with weightlifting equipment that, let's face it, can be a bit confusing at times. They are also able to jump right into an aerobics class and comprehend the routines being performed at 160 beats per minute.
Commute time and type of work also play into morning workouts exercise plan. If you must travel for an hour before you get to the office and you must be there by 7 a.m. That means you leave the house by 6 a.m. If you want to be at the gym at 6a.m. to work out, before you get to the office, that means leaving the house at 5 a.m. Many people do it, but if even thinking about getting up before 5 a.m. sends shivers down your spine, then the morning work out may not be for you.
Still not sure if you are a morning person or not? Here's a little test. Do you need at least one cup of coffee before you speak to another member of your household? If you answered yes, you are not a morning person.
As working out does not necessarily mean going to a health club, there is a good way you can jump start your metabolism and start the day with a bounce to your step-take a walk--ten minutes, 20 minutes, half an hour… how much time can you spare for your exercise plan? On a good weather, this is also a great way to get in some quality time with your family before heading off for a long day at the office. Have your kids follow you on their bikes or inline skates. Push the little ones in a stroller. Link your arm through your partner's arm and enjoy the sense of closeness. When the weather does not permit you to go outside, or if social conditions make walking on the streets nearly impossible, you may think of investing on a treadmill. Anyway, walking costs nothing, and is a great way to start the day.


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This is a blog about my adventures in quilting and needlework of all kinds, as well as whatever crazy thing is happening in my life.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Ironing Board Cover - There's Probably a Better Way
It was dirty and in sad shape, but I thought I could easily fix it.
So a mere 13 years later, I got right on it! Larry & I consulted our handy Feng Shui guide, so that a "bad element" wouldn't accidentally be introduced into the "creativity corner" of the sewing room. 8) We decided that a pretty yellow and blue floral couldn't possibly have any "bad vibes".I made a paper pattern about 3" bigger than the top of the board. I pinned the pattern to the back of the floral cotton and rotary cut it out. I used a bit of cotton batting and pinned all 3 layers together, then rotary cut that out too. I added some old muslin for the bottom layer so I now had a quilt sandwich. I then removed the paper pattern and serged all three layers together. OK, this was NOT the genius idea I thought it would be. Despite ample pinning, my "sandwich" slipped all over the place. I had to stop after serging one side, smooth it back down again, then serge the other half. Despite my best efforts, the muslin bulged. Most annoying! I decided to just smoosh the excess under the cord channel and carry on. So I did.Using my walking foot, I sewed over the serged line, leaving a 1" channel for the cord, with a 3" hole to start and finish. You better believe I back stitched like fury to reinforce the edges of that hole! I knew I was going to have to pull like the dickens to get this thick wonky cover to lay flat on the board.
I threaded some kitchen twine on a big plastic needle and pushed it all around the thick channel. Very tiring for the hands that! I pulled and I tugged, then I pulled some more, and finally made a knot. Now it lays nice and flat. I left plenty of extra cord so if I ever need to wash it, the cord won't get lost in the channel. It looks lovely against the wall, which is where it will be 90% of the time (or more). It sure is more attractive now than with the dirty old cover. And it only took me 13 years. 8)
6 comments:
- Christine said...
Well done. It looks terrific ... thanks for sending me the link.
- January 30, 2010 at 10:47 PM
- Barb said...
Now it is fun to iron!!! Right????
- January 31, 2010 at 1:51 AM
- Sue-Anne said...
All the effort was worth it in the end because it looks fantastic!
- January 31, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Jacqui's Quilts said...
Oh boy! Are we ever alike in spite of living clean across the continent!! Are you a long lost sister of mine? I have one of these that's been sitting here for years and I even have all the stuff ready by the board and don't get to it. Mine has a wood top so we're going to staple the edges to it....that's what I need hubby for :-). I'll post pics when I get it done!!
- February 2, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- Joan said...
Very impressed with your ironing board cover - I have one the same ...and it is also in a very sorry condition...I may come back and have a closer look to remind me what to do...Your new cover looks remarkable and very bright.
- February 27, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- lucy said...
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I adore these quick little vests. Not only are they super fast to knit but they look so delightful !!
This still needs blocking but this is my latest one for Master Ali. I used a gorgeous olive/pine green wool from Ewe Give Me The Knits to make it. I currently have a Mahunga hat being made to go with it now.
I'm thinking to make one of these for my big boy. But there are a couple of other vests I am considering also. I'm ready to tackle larger sized projects now I think.


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Into the Hoods combines classic fairy tale characters with contemporary Hip Hop / R&B music in a production based on the Stephen Sondheim musical 'Into the Woods'. The plot follows two young children who have become lost in the hood and need to retrieve various items in exchange for their tickets home. Their journey sees them interact with a variety of characters along the way, each of whom have their own story to tell.
Teacher of Dance and show director Miss Jamie Hardy was inspired to stage the production after first seeing it performed in 2015. She fell in love with the show and felt it would allow our students to learn, develop and explore their own expressive skills. Miss Hardy explained: "Dance can be many things to many different people but for me it is not enough to just be aesthetically pleasing. Audiences can gain real meaning from characters who reach out to them and I was confident the students of Withernsea High School could achieve this."
In May 2016, Miss Hardy led a trip to London for the Sixth Form dance students to watch the show at Sadler's Wells theatre. The students were suitably impressed and left fully inspired to work on their own version.
Speaking on stage at the end of the show, Headteacher Richard Williman commented: "Tonight we saw one of the best professional productions I have ever seen any school produce. Everyone involved, both on and offstage, deserves a massive round of applause. Well done and congratulations to you all".
The production was professionally filmed and a DVD of the show will be available to purchase from the school in the near future. News of this will be released on our website. Please see below for a selection of still images taken on the night.


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Golden Girls t-shirt
On Sunday, Daisy and I strolled the hood and ate a delicious brunch at Cafe' Collette. Their Southern Sea cocktail is to die for and their breakfast sandwich (I always go with bacon) is worth the egg running down your hand. So very worth it. I was too engrossed in satiation and conversation to snap a photo of the food but I came to my senses upon seeing this Golden Girls t-shirt on a waiter on our way out.


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Following the debate "Communication and Bottom-UP. The importance of the way stories are being told." we [at dpr-barcelona] are committed to expand the debates and conversations avoiding them to get lost after a few days of the event. With this motivation, we have published a digital-pamphlet [kindle + ePub] exploring the thought and ideas of thinkers and doers; articulated by simple detonating questions posed through emails, tweets and conversations intending to comunicate effectively the very essence of the debate: "the importance of telling stories"
This "fast generated" publication includes contributions by some of the attending guest to the debate [Tiago Mota Saravia, Klaus, Paco González], the so-called "Line 0" [Ana María León, Pedro Hernández and Clara Nubiola] and with the aim to expand the conversation beyond Eme3 walls, we also have invited a few friends who are involved in similar activities to share their thoughts about this topic with us. They are Iker Gil, Mario Ballesteros, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau from Fake Industries Architectural Agonism; and Mimi Zeiger.
This digital pamphlet is a starting point for a open and written debate were everyone can also sum opinions: Those interested in responding will be able to add more contents using Booki (http://www.booki.cc/), which is an open platform that allows to write collaborative books and even generating a very personal version.
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Arthur Miller: Brooklyn
"Seeing Red" (2008)
Stage performance requires a real-time transformation into a believably different person than who you are. And this can be an exciting transformation, for performer as well as audience member. Make-up when skillfully applied, impeccably accurate costuming, a swagger or carefully crafted physical disability can happily deceive the audience member into believing that are in a different time, or place, a sharing a moment with someone unique, someone other, and this kind of artistry is what live theater is all about.
The accent, however, the sounds of the words, can make everything just a show. I really, really hate listening to a fake accent. And I am stressed about delivering one. When I have it right, it becomes a part of me, and my character, and I believe myself. When I am making hash of it, even I don't buy it and I feel sorry for the audience that has to listen to it.
There's a twangy kind of tough-guy "tawk" that I slide into when I have no formal guidance. I got away with it in college, playing Dopey in Balm and Gilead, and I spent so much time delving into the world of that character that the cadences of Wilson's heroin-addled punk that my own voice sang back to me and I was all right with that. It helped that I was also permitted to smoke real cigarettes onstage. Weren't those the days.
Porlock: Romania
"On the Dark Side of Twilight" (2010)
Every other year, I am called upon to use an accent in the Great Lakes outreach tour. Four years ago I was playing Arthur Miller, performing an edited transcript from his HUAC testimony, and I knew the "New Yawk" crap was not going to fly. And so I visited my old friend, professor Chuck Richie at Kent State. Just because a voice is woiking class, does not mean it has to be in the nose. Miller spoke from the chest, he was a muscular guy.
Two years ago we met to discuss a proper accent for the vampire Porlock (On the Dark Side of Twilight.) In this story, the young Englishman Aubrey Porlock, transformed into a vampire, is stranded in the "wilds" of eastern Europe and settles in Romania for ninety years. We decided to go with an "acquired" Romanian accent, taking special care not to go the Bela Lugosi route. No "v's" turned into "w's" like Pavel Chekov.
Yesterday, we began work on a Belgian accent. Poirot is often confused for French, so we may assume he is from the region closest to France and not, say, Holland. Exploring the International Dialects of English Archive we discovered that while most of the substitutions are like those of French, the Belgians accents we listened to do not have the lilt or "sing-songy" inflections of a French speaker.
Next up: Mustache Maintenance.


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Posted: Oct 09, 2018
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THE SERIES: Coast Guard leads 9-6
LAST YEAR: Senior quarterback Corey Creeger had 329 yards of total offense, threw a pair of touchdowns and ran for another leading Maine Maritime to a 34-16 win over Coast Guard in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) game.
Creeger carried 26 times for 212 yards as the Mariners ran for 324 yards and had 441 yards of total offense while holding Coast Guard to 230 total yards.
The Bears trailing 20-9 at halftime, scored on the opening possession of the second half on a 5-yard touchdown run by senior Cam Cecchini with10:43 left in the third quarter and junior Cole Austin's kick cut the deficit to 20-16. Sophomore quarterback Ryan Jones had a 19-yard run moving the ball into the red zone during the 68 yard drive.
Following an exchange of punts, Creeger's 56-yard run gave the Mariners the ball at the Coast Guard 17 and senior Jacob Doolan's 5-yard touchdown run pushed the lead to 26-16. Creeger's conversion pass to freshman Mason Kaserman made the score 28-16 with 4:52 left in the third quarter.
Coast Guard would recover a pair of fumbles in Mariner territory in the fourth quarter, one by Titus Creamer and the other by Jake Behne, but the offense turned it over on downs the first time before an interception by junior John Bennett on the Mariner 10 on 4th and long with 4:42 left.
Creeger would then hit Kaserman who raced 90 yards for a touchdown to ice the game as the Mariners took a 34-16 lead with 4:21 left in the game.
Jones was 16 of 31 for 123 yards with three interceptions. Cecchini led the Bears with 17 carries for 76 yards.
Maine Maritime dominated the time of possession in the first half as they had the ball for over 22 minutes in the the first 30 minutes. The Bears had just eight plays for 18 yards in the second quarter.
Creeger had 15 carries for 112 yards in the first half.
Sophomore R.J. Robiskie led the Bears with 10 tackles.
LAST WEEK: Springfield quarterback Hunter Belzo ran for 207 yards and two touchdowns and also threw a touchdown pass leading Springfield to a 26-12 win over Coast Guard in the battle of New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) unbeatens.
Coast Guard had 305 total yards, 210 passing and 95 on the ground. Sophomore Chris Gardner led the Bears with 15 carries for 93 yards.
Junior quarterback Ryan Jones was 8 of 18 for 111 yards while sophomore Justin Moffatt was 2 of 3 for 49 yards and junior Miguel Moroles was 1 of 2 for 29 yards with an interception.
Moffatt, who leads the NEWMAC in receptions and yards, had a game-high seven receptions for 76 yards. He went over the 1,000 receiving yard mark an now has 1,039 career yards, 601 this season.
Senior linebacker Jake Behne led the Bears with 11 tackles while senior defensive tackle Nate Harvey finished with 10 tackles.
Maine Maritime was shutout by MIT 35-0, the Mariners were held to just 151 yards of total offense
COACH GEORGE IS BEARS WINS LEADER: Coast Guard head coach Bill George, in his 20th season, has a record 67 career wins as head coach at the Academy as he passed John Merriman for the most in program history in the win over Maine Maritime on Oct. 19th, 2013.
Merriman was the coach from (1930-1945) and the Gymnasium is named is his honor. In 2012, George passed NFL Hall of Famer and former Director of Athletics and head football coach Otto Graham, who had 43 wins in his two stints as head coach (1959-'65 and 1974-'75). Coach George led the Bears to a pair of NEFC Bogan Division championships in 2006 and 2007.
BEARS PICKED SIXTH IN NEWMAC PRESEASON POLL: Coast Guard has been picked to finish sixth in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) preseason poll. Coast Guard was 3-7 overall and 1-6 in conference play. Every conference school has voted for defending champion Springfield to repeat as NEWMAC champion getting a first place vote from all seven schools, while the Pride, which can't vote for itself, voted for WPI.
2018 NEWMAC Football Preseason Poll
Rank (First Place Votes)
1. Springfield (7)
T3. Merchant Marine
5. Catholic
6. Coast Guard
7. Norwich
8. Maine Maritime
THE MEN BEHIND THE MICROPHONES: Coast Guard football will have a new broadcast team this year for the five home webcasts as Keith O'Brien (The Sports Doctor) will handle play-by-play duties while Dan Zumpano will be the color commentator for the 2018 season. O'Brien, who did several road football and some home basketball games last season for the Bears, takes over the the play-by-play duties while Zampano, a newcomer to Coast Guard football joins him in the booth.
SCOUTING COAST GUARD: The Bears, who have played the last two games on the road, return home to for Homecoming Weekend, the only home game in the month of October.
Junior quarterback Ryan Jones is 88 of 160 for 1,135 yards with four touchdowns and nine interceptions this season. Jones is second on the team with 287 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns. Sophomore Chris Gardner leads the Bears with 385 rushing yards and also has four touchdowns
Sophomore wide receiver Justin Moffatt leads the NEWMAC with 43 receptions and leads the conference and is 16th nationally with 601 receiving yards with one touchdown.
Coast Guard is averaging 23.3 points per game and 378.5 yards of total offense, 218.8 passing and 159.7 rushing.
Senior linebacker Jake Behne leads the team with 52 tackles, 26 solo while junior cornerback Patrick Crowley and junior strong safety Mark Wicke each had 42 tackles this season. Junior linebacker linebacker R.J. Robiskie is second in the NEWMAC with 5.5 sacks and has a team-high nine tackles for loss.
The Bears are allowing 376 yards per game, 235.5 yards passing and 140.5 yards rushing.
Senior kicker Cole Austin has been outstanding. He leads the nation in field goals per game with 1.87. He is 11 of 12 on the season while making 13 of 14 extra points. The Coast Guard single-season record for field goals is 12 held by three players.
Senior Chip Crowley has also been tremendous this season. He is averaging 41.1 yards per punt to lead the NEWMAC and rank 13th nationally this season.
SCOUTING MAINE MARITIME: The Mariners are still looking for their first win of the season. Maine Maritime was also 0-5 last season when they beat Coast Guard 34-16 for its only win of the season.
The Mariners changed offenses this season and no longer run the triple-option. Bailey Sawyer is 52 of 117 for 742 yards wtih five touchdowns and five interceptions.
Dominic Casale leads the team with 25 receptions for 366 yards and four touchdowns.
Cooper Chiasson leads the team on the ground with 61 carries for 148 yards, the Mariners do not have a rushing touchdown this season.
Maine Maritime is last in the NEWMAC in scoring (7.2 points per game), total offense (199 per game) and rush offense (27.8 yards per game).
Terrell Thomas and Derek Breunig lead the team with 44 tackles each and Breuning has a team-high seven tackles for loss.
The Mariners are allowing 20.8 points and 357.4 yards per game, 180.8 passing and 176.6 rushing.
UP NEXT: The Bears hit the road for the third time in four weeks when they play at MIT on Oct. 20th at noon.
Maine Maritime at Coast Guard, 1:30
Merchant Marine at Springfield, 2:00


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As with many Atari 2600 games during the console's heyday, sadly,
this Asteroids artwork looks way cooler than the actual gameplay. Also,
is it just me, or does that ship look suspiciously like a Hoth snowspeeder?
The name Atari doesn't have a lot of currency today, but between 1977, after the launch of Atari's Video Computer System (aka the Atari 2600), and it's downfall in 1983, the Atari name had a lot of clout and recognition in the entertainment industry. This is due, in part, to Atari's home video game console and its dominance of the home video game market, but a large part of their fame was the popularity, and ubiquity, of Atari's arcade games. By now, most everyone knows that Atari's Pong was a sensation in 1972, and in the years that followed, they scored several hits with other titles like Night Driver, Breakout, Lunar Lander, Tempest, Centipede, and of course, Asteroids. Were it not for the glut of bad console games and consumer burnout in late 1982 and early 1983, Atari would likely have been held in much higher regard than they have been in recent years. Alas, twas not to be.
I wish I would have had an opportunity to play the Team Play and
Competition Play modes, because that would certainly extend the
life of an aging arcade game like this, far more than single player.
But for a short time, Atari were a dominant force in the arcade scene, as well as the home console market, and many of their early games are venerable classics. Asteroids, released in 1979, was a vector graphics-based game, which means that, instead of what we normally think of with 2-dimensional video game graphics, with flat images full of color from border to border (raster graphics), these graphics were often simple, single-color affairs that consisted of wire-frame images that were merely outlines. This made them look quite simple, but the reduced aesthetic allowed for the hardware to focus more on the speed and animation of the simple wire-frame images, so as to provide faster action, as well as smooth scrolling and motion. Later Atari vector graphics titles, like Tempest and Space Duel, incorporated more color, and more sophisticated gameplay, but at the time of its release, Asteroids was a revolutionary experience, and resulted in it becoming Atari's best selling arcade game of all time.
Why your spaceship is thrown into the middle of a random asteroid
field is never explained. I demand answers! I demand justice!
The gameplay of Asteroids is deceptively simple. You control a small space craft in the middle of an asteroid field, and your job is to destroy the asteroids and stay alive. This is easier said than done, of course. Each time you successfully fire upon one of the large space rocks, it breaks down into 2 smaller boulders, each of which will break down again into their own set of 2 smaller hunks of rock. The game takes place on a single screen, so when the asteroids go off screen, they simply loop back to the opposite side, in a position relative to the one they exited, and continue to travel in the same direction. Add to that, the alien ships that sometimes brave the asteroid field to try and take out your craft, and you have multiple objects on screen hurtling toward you to cause your imminent doom.
Your options are to turn your ship left or right, fire your cannon, use your thrusters to move forward in the direction your craft is facing. Unlike the full vacuum of space, however, there is some gravity, which means using the thrusters doesn't mean you'll continue to move in that direction perpetually. Learning how to manipulate the thrust feature becomes an essential strategy for dodging oncoming debris, as well as maneuvering your ship to better snipe the UFOs and take out the space rocks. Finally, you have a "warp" button you can use to jump to a random spot on the play field. The warp feature is handy as well, though it's best to use that as a last resort, as you can just as easily warp away from one certain death scenario right into another, as the warp feature is unpredictable.
Every time you score 10,000 points, you get an extra ship. To
paraphrase Han Solo: "You're gonna need 'em."
Sound design in the game is also very minimalist in nature. There's a bit of an intro song that plays when the title screen appears, and a little ditty that plays when you lose your last life and get a Game Over screen, but otherwise, it's just basic sounds. Your ship's fire, the sound of asteroids breaking up, your own ship exploding, and the annoying, high-pitched sounds made when an enemy vessel is flying across the screen are just about the only sound effects in the game, outside of the original game's iconic "heartbeat" thumping that gets progressively faster throughout the level as you take out more asteroids and enemy ships. It doesn't tax the Game Boy hardware, but it sounds good enough, and does its best to try and replicate the sound design found in the original arcade cabinet. It gets the job done, and nothing more.
Enemy ships are not immune to the asteroids, as luck would have it.
This UFO is about to meet my friend, "Rocky".
Control is easy, as there are very few options. You can point the ship by pressing Left or Right on the D-pad, and press Up on the D-pad to use the thrusters to move forward in the direction you're facing. Hold Up on the D-pad, and your ship progressively gets faster up to a point, so be careful not to hold Up too long, or you'll go careening into one of the many space rocks. The B button fires your cannon, which is your one and only weapon against the asteroids and enemy spacecraft, and the A button is a "warp" feature, which will send your ship to a random spot in the screen. There's a definite risk/reward factor to the warp, because you can use it to get out of a sticky situation, but because there's no telling where you'll end up, you could be warping directly to your death. The Start button pauses the game, and the Select button, as one might expect, does nothing at all.
Because there's no real end to Asteroids, and the game continues to go level after level and just get faster and more frenetic, the whole point of the game is two-fold: survival, and score. The longer you can stay alive and continue to shoot down the titular asteroids, as well as enemy vessels, the more points you'll score. For each 10,000 points you amass in this version, you receive an extra life. The scoring is the same in this version as it is in the arcade original, as near as I can tell. That means that large asteroids give you 20 points, medium sized rocks are 50 points, and the little pebbles net you 100 points. The flying saucer enemies give you 200 points, and the tiny ships give you a generous 1,000 points.
Under the right conditions, you'll start seeing smaller, faster enemies
that shoot more accurately and relentlessly at you. What did I ever
do to them to deserve this kind of maltreatment?
Despite the fact that Asteroids was released in the arcades in 1979, and this conversion was released 12 years later, the ability to truly capture the arcade experience at home hadn't truly been realized yet, and that's especially true of the Game Boy. This port gives a pretty good approximation of the arcade game, though using raster graphics instead of the original vector approach, despite a few notable differences. The arcade game can relatively fast paced and frenetic, and because of the vector graphics and low hardware requirements, the movement of your ship and other objects on screen is fast and fluid, and you can pull off some really tricky maneuvers with your craft. This fluidity doesn't exactly translate to the Game Boy, because the speed of the game can't compare with the original, and with the original DMG model's blurriness happening with any kind of quick motion, it would make the game nigh impossible to truly enjoy if it tried to replicate the speed of the arcade original. As such, the game feels like the laid back big brother of the original. He's a bit more stylish, with his 4-shades of green and raster graphics, and slightly more fleshed out aesthetic, but moves slower and isn't in as big a hurry to get somewhere as little brother in the arcade. On the plus side, the game replicates the "heartbeat" effect, that sort of Jaws-esque harbinger that grows faster and more menacing as more Asteroids are destroyed and more particles fly around on screen, so it really gets that unique element right. Also, I found the collision detection to be nearly pixel-perfect, so if you get hit by an asteroid flying at you, don't get mad - it was probably your fault. One odd quirk I found is that, when entering your name on the high score screen, sometimes trying to change the letter using up and down, or choosing a letter with A, or erasing one with B, is less than responsive. I suspect that may be because of the way the letters are flashing on the screen, and the fact that, perhaps the Game Boy is being taxed a bit, and the commands you're inputting don't always register. It's a minor issue, but noticeable enough to mention.
If you're a little too happy with the bullets, you'll find yourself totally
overwhelmed by asteroids from all sides. Prepare to die.
At the end of the day, it's somewhat difficult to recommend this port of the game. Not because it's not functionally a good game, because it is. It's hard to recommend because, just 4 short years after this cart's release, the game came out again as Arcade Classic No. 1, and that cart contained this conversion of Asteroids, as well as a conversion of the classic Missile Command. That cart has Super Game Boy compatibility, but also gives a couple notable upgrades to this port of the game: that is, it includes an option to change the button configuration, if you find the default control scheme not to your liking, but more importantly, you can choose to play in the original vector style, though still with the twinkling raster-based stars in the background. The advantage of this version is both of the 2-player options, so if that's the experience you're looking for, then obviously this 1991 version will be the one to seek out. For anyone just looking for the single-player experience, the latter release with another game on the cart, including the option for the original vector graphics, would seem to be the no-brainer option. Either way, you're getting a reasonable facsimile of the original game, but without the ability to have the really fast action that makes the original still attractive to play. That said, you can do a lot worse for $4 or $5 on the Game Boy, so I'd say if you have any interest in classic arcade games on the go, or Asteroids in general, this might be one to add to your collection. Tentatively recommended.


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Genre | First Person Shooter
Developer | Respawn Entertainment
Platforms | PC, XBOX 360, XBOX One
Website | www.titanfall.com
Titanfall is a first person shooter in which two teams of six players each fight each other in an attempt to accomplish the objective of the game mode they are playing. In all game modes except Last Titan Standing, players respawn when killed, and can trigger the eponymous Titanfall after they have killed enough enemy players or enemy NPCs. Titans are large robots that operate on artificial intelligence when not piloted.