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GOTY lists! As therapeutic as they are meaningless. On one hand, ranking individual artworks against each other to decide which is better and which is worse is exactly not what criticism is meant to do. On the other hand, looking back over a year of games and trying to summarise why the games that stood out for me did stand out for me is a really interesting and enjoyable writing exercise. It's a chance to be reflective, to get away from the pressure of having to rush on to talk about the next new release.
The last couple of years now I have written Top 20 lists (this year it has ballooned to a Top 25) of my favourite games of the previous year. But more than just a list of titles next to numbers, I like to spend some time writing about each game, why I care about it and why it has stuck with me. So over the course of this week I will be posting my top 25 games of the year five games at a time so I can spend some time talking about each of them.
The numbers, meanwhile, shouldn't be read as saying one game is 'better' or 'worse' than the others. All the games on the following list are exceptional, and many other exceptional games came out this year that are not on this list. Instead, all the ranking represents is the amount that game has resonated with me and stuck with me.
As with previous years, I've tried to link to a few memorable articles written about each game, as well as anything I wrote myself. These are far from exhaustive lists, though, and I would love it if you could comment with any other relevant articles that I may have missed.
It's a bit of cliché to say that this year has been a huge year for videogames, but it's also entirely true. For the first six months, though, I don't think I played a single AAA release that really stood out. It was the downloadable titles (especially on Playstation Network and iOS) that stuck with me this year. It wasn't that there were no good AAA releases; it's more that the big franchises that did have releases this year were franchises I have no investment in, like Mass Effect. This did give me a chance to catch up on all the 2011 games I never got around to last year, however: Saints Row 3, Rayman Origins, Driver: San Francisco, Dead Island (unfortunately).
Things changed slightly in the second half of the year, when a few more interesting games were released, and I discovered a few games that had slipped under my radar from earlier in the year. Still, in the 25 games that I've chosen to highlight as standout moments of my past year, only four of those are tradition AAA games, and this is something I'm really excited about. Not because AAA is stagnating or dying or anything like that, but because of the strengthening ecology of alternative strands of game development that are maturing around AAA. Sure, 'indie' (in its various strands) has been around for quite some time now, but it's no longer a case of a rare indie/handheld game being able to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the big AAA games. Now it's a few AAA games that are able to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the far more worthwhile indie and handheld games.
But enough rambling. On with Part One of the list!
25. Sound Shapes (Queasy Games)
I've always had a soft spot for games that visualise music. As someone who loves listening to music but has absolutely no intellectual understanding of what is happening in the music I enjoy, games like Sound Shapes are excellent because they convey music in a language I understand: games. I can see the things making the sounds on the screen. I can see how they are working together to create a beat and a rhythm. Sound Shapes is particularly interesting to me as it is based on one of the few instruments I actually understand: the Tenori-On.
All platforming games have an unseen grid mapped over them (or perhaps sitting underneath them). We use this grid to mentally comprehend if Mario is going to make the jump or if he can just sprint right over the gap. In Sound Shapes, this grid also determines pitch and timing. Objects closer to the top of the screen make a higher-pitch note than those close to the bottom. Those to the left of the screen make a sound earlier than those on the right. As I move my little ball avatar across each world, I can see the song coming to life around me.
While most of the stages are entirely acceptable 'music', it is Beck's "Cities" level that succeeds best as a song. As you progress through the dead city, the song works its way through an intro, a first verse, a chorus, a bridge, a second verse, another chorus, and an outro. Even the lyrics fit into the world of the level through platforms that take things very literally. It is the first time I've ever not been able to get a videogame level out of my head for days.
However, the very feature that should've boosted Sound Shapes's longevity, it's custom level creator, is its weakest point. The editor is fiddly, requiring you to choose what sound effects you want before you are able to preview what they sound like. A few good songs have been made, but in the weeks after the game's release, there was little being shared other than Mario and Final Fantasy covers. I have yet to play the game on my Vita, though, so perhaps the touch screen makes things a bit better. Still, once I had played through the pre-packaged stages a few times each (and Beck's stages a few times more), I found little reason to return to the game.
I wrote about the living dead cities of Beck's "Cities" level for Unwinnable's theme week on cities. Kirk Hamilton also wrote a bit about the same level (it really is the game's highlight) at Kotaku.
24. Angry Birds: Star Wars (Rovio)
It's cool to hate Angry Birds if you're a slightly older, 'real' gamer. It's everything that's wrong with our industry. IOS game with micro-transactions, gameplay based largely on luck, endless iterations of the same ideas instead of a complete overhaul, utterly ruthless saturation of merchandise. People see kids wearing Angry Birds t-shirts, holding Angry Birds toys, eating Angry Birds-themed birthday cakes, and they are aghast that Angry Birds to these kids is what Mario was to them twenty years ago.
Of course, this is just like complaining that the music Kids These Days listen to is terrible compared to the stuff you listened to when you were a kid, and it completely misses what is unique and enjoyable and excellent about Angry Birds. It misses that the fact Angry Birds is so easy to play makes it accessible to an incredibly wide range of players who otherwise might never try to play videogames. It misses the fact that not every game has to be based on skill, accessible only to an auteur elite, and that luck-based gameplay can be incredibly satisfying in its own right. It misses the fact that each incremental iteration of the Angry Birds franchise has both refined and advanced the base formula in really interesting ways.
Angry Birds: Star Wars takes the best of the original Angry Birds and the planetoid-slingshotting of Angry Birds: Space and adds a range of entirely new, Star Wars-inspired skills to create a range of new challenges. It is these skills that make Angry Birds: Star Wars is the best realised Angry Birds to date, and well worth the one dollar asking price. Obi-wan's force push, Luke's lightsaber, Han's laser—each is more interesting than any bird's skill in the previous games.
I wrote about Angry Birds: Star Wars for my "Pocket Treasures" column at Unwinnable, musing on how the two franchises don't really come together so much as Angry Birds completely subsumes Star Wars.
23. Spelunky HD (Mossmouth)
We got off on the wrong foot, Spelunky and I. Now that it was out on Xbox Live Arcade, I was so excited to play and master this game that I had heard so much about it. As someone who typically loves simple yet difficult games like Super Meat Boy or Geometry Wars, I thought Spelunky would be exactly my kind of game. But when I finally played it, it just seemed unfair. How could I master a game that kept changing the playing field on me?
It's a bit of a taboo to tell someone they played a game wrong (not that that stopped me). But, truly, there is a wrong way to play nearly every videogame. Sure, play any game however you want, but don't blame the game when you don't find it enjoyable. Certainly, when I first started playing Spelunky, I was playing it wrong. When I finally learned how to play it correctly, my experience improved considerably. Initially, when I was wanting to approach it like Super Meat Boy, I was hoping to master Spelunky in a way that would mean I could play it with my eyes closed. But this is impossible in Spelunky. The game is capable of screwing you over in all kinds of ways that have nothing to do with your motor skills.
Then I read this piece by Jason Killingsworth and it all made sense. Spelunky isn't Super Meat Boy; it's poker. What you have to learn to master in Spelunky is the ability to improvise and cope with the hand you are dealt. Spelunky isn't about winning or losing. It is about doing the best you can possibly do with this hand, and then dying.
Spelunky was an important reminder to me that how I want to play a game is not necessarily the 'right' way. Once I was willing to give a little, once I was willing to meet the game on its terms, I found the bombastic, slapstick comedy I had heard others praise. My deaths no longer felt like a bastard game laughing at me, but a game laughing with me at the unfortunate tribulations of my character. This is permadeath at its funniest.
Apart from Jason's great essay, my two favourite articles about Spelunky were both at Unwinnable this year. Gus Mastrapa talks about Spelunky as an acquired taste akin to olives (my own experience seems to say this is an apt metaphor). Meanwhile, Chris Dahlen's kid keeps sacrificing the babysitter.
22. Cool Pizza (Secret Library)
Cool Pizza is a simple and suave iOS game that drips with style. The slick visuals are full of life, as much in the animations that are bulging with life between their two frames as in the colour palette of black, white, and fluro yellow and pink. For perhaps the first time ever, the tilt controls feel perfectly right, used as they are to tilt a skateboard left and right as your skater chic protagonist just kind of dangles with a "whatever man" apathy. And then you jump and suddenly the skateboard is in her hands and she is unleashing a salvo of hits on monsters that look like rub-on tattoos.
The gameplay is heavily inspired by Sega's classic Space Harrier, but is far from a simple clone. The most obvious difference is that your skater is effected by gravity. Keeping her airborne requires you to keep taking out enemies, and a multiplier is added for every monster taken out without touching the ground.
It's a simple game that is simply a pleasure to play. The only disappointment is that the game ends rather abruptly, cancelling any desire I have to try to top the leaderboards. With a finite number of enemies in a game, I know from my first missed multiplier that I won't get a high score, so I give up. If Secret Library were to make an update for an endless play mode, I would probably still be playing Cool Pizza regularly. As it stands, though, I thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent together for a while.
I reviewed Cool Pizza for Unwinnable, and mused over how the game really struck some kind of 90s nostalgic chord for me (and probably an 80s nostalgic chord for those a bit older than me.)
21. Knytt Underground (Nifflas)
Most people have their Game of the Year lists up in time for Christmas. Personally, I've always preferred putting my list up in the first week of January. Really, this is mostly because I am lazy and really don't want to be writing out a Game of the Year list before Christmas, but it also allows me to catch any games released in December that I might have missed. Nifflas's Knytt Underground is one such game. This wasn't immediately obvious, though. I had probably played for a good few hours before I realised just how hooked I was.
Just like Knytt and Knytt Stories before it, Knytt Underground is all about exploration. It is a metroidvania game in the way the world is a series of screens (or rooms) that slowly fill in a grid like map as you explore the world. Though, instead of allowing the world to open up organically in the traditional metroidvania way of finding power-ups and using them to access previously inaccessible pathways (something Knytt Stories did), Knytt Underground makes the curious choice to split the game into chapters, each one resetting the world with a character with different skills.
The first chapter has you play Mi, a sprite capable of climbing vertical walls. In the second chapter you play as a bouncy ball—incapable of climbing, but able to bounce far higher than Mi can jump. These two chapters are really just tutorials to get you accustomed to each character's skill set before the game really opens up in the third chapter, where you play as Mi, who can now transform into the bouncy ball with a tap of a button.
And it is about this point, at the start of the third chapter, that you realise you are hooked on this game. It's at this point that the entire world is suddenly open to you and you don't know where to go so you go everywhere and before you know it you have discovered over 1000 separate rooms with plenty more to go.
Knytt Underground is all about exploration, but it is not just about exploring a geographical world. You are also exploring for a reason to be here. There is no great info dump telling you how this world functions or what your purpose is. Just like the labyrinthian map, Mi's purpose becomes clear gradually as you explore the world. So too does the tensions between the worlds various fractions, living in impossible towns spread throughout the world. Underlining the entire game is an exploration of the tension between rational skepticism and ideological faith. The game seems to play as Nifflas's own back-and-forward musings on the subject as characters explore the strengths and dangers of each.
The simple exploration is, at times, marred by overly fiddly platforming. This is often needed when trying to reach a hidden item or room. Some challenges take up several rooms, having you climb up a ledge and then transform into a ball in mid-air then land on a blue-plant to shoot horizontally across two screens to land on a yellow plant that will shoot you straight up another three screens. It is well-designed and challenging platforming, but it often seems completely out of place in a game that is otherwise an incredibly slow-burn of just wandering around a world and getting to know it.
One element that must be mentioned about Knytt Underground (but which almost doesn't need to be mentioned at all) is the lavish, photographic backgrounds. Instead of flat, pixellated backgrounds, Knytt Underground's world is a silhouette against realistic photographic images of flowers, fruits, mushrooms, trees, clocks. It's a distinct, surreal, and fascinating stylistic choice and really gives the game a distinct character. An excellent little touch, on the Vita at least, is the ability to make the plants in this background shake by swiping the rear-touchscreen. Sometimes you will do this on purpose, but often it is an accident as your rear-fingers are just trying to find a place to rest, causing a kind of organic rustling of the bushes. It adds little to the game, perhaps, but it is great little flourish and an excellent use of the rear-touchscreen.
You never quite feel like you know what you are doing in Knytt Underground. At least, I don't yet. I feel like I am perpetually lost and just fortuitously stumbling across the right person or the right item or the right quest. But it is a beautiful and intoxicating world—one I am entirely happy to be lost in.
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The Beverly Hilton was brimming over with A-list celebrities as the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards came to town last night (October 22).
Gorgeous gals like Marion Cotillard, Amy Adams, Bella Heathcote, and Nancy O'Dell got all gussied up for the swanky affair and worked their mojo for the shutterbugs.
Teaming up for another promotional spectacle, George Clooney and Ben Affleck were front and center at a New York City screening of their new film "Argo" on Tuesday night (October 9).
Held at the Time Warner Screening Room, the "Ocean's Eleven" dreamboat acted as lead producer on the flick while the "Good Will Hunting" hunk directed and starred in the drama/thriller.
With his new movie "Arbitrage" set to hit theaters on September 14th, Richard Gere garnered himself a little added exposure by covering the new issue issue of HAMPTONS magazine.
It doesn't hit theaters until September 23rd, and already everyone is talking about the new thriller "The Double."
The official teaser trailer just hit the internet, showcasing yet another successful collaboration between Michael Brant and Derek Haas, the duo between "Wanted," "3:10 to Yuma," and "2 Fast 2 Furious."
Getting in touch with his spirituality, Richard Gere prayed with fellow Buddhists before the start of teachings by the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India, on Friday (January 8).
The "Pretty Woman" actor has been attending the Dalai Lama's teachings since the beginning of the week - with the lessons to come to an end on Saturday, January 9th.
They have quite an extensive history, starring together in past films such as "The Cotton Club" and "Unfaithful." And last night Diane Lane and Richard Gere unveiled their latest collaboration.
The 2008 Film Independent's Spirit Awards have come and gone, with the quirky comedy "Juno" winning the prize for best feature at the Santa Monica ceremony.
The movie's star, Ellen Page, also earned the best lead actress statuette, while writer Diablo Cody took home the award for best first screenplay.
If you're a movie buff, chances are you're off to Italy for the Venice Film Festival, kicking off today. And stars like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, and Keira Knightley are already in the boot-shaped country to promote their latest works.
There are a total of 57 films being featured at this year's festival, 15 of them American movies. The Brits are contributing 7 projects as well. One of the UK's entries, "Atonement," starring Knightley, received the honor of opening the event.


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Another amazing year of student growth and learning has come to a close. Before we breathe a deep sigh of relief and welcome the slower more relaxed pace of summer, I want to take a few moments to highlight some of this year's accomplishments and share our goals for the 2017-2018 school year.
Our success as a school district is a direct result of the dedicated and loving work of our students, teachers and staff, along with the partnership of our parents, and the support of the Robbinsville community. Because of the commitment of our stakeholders, Robbinsville continues to provide a wide variety of opportunities and experiences for all of our students both in and out of the classroom including musical and theater performances, athletic events, Robotics and Science Olympiad competitions, and Knight of Achievement to name a few. Read more...
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As the Robbinsville Schools community continues the fight for its fair share of school funding, Acting Superintendent Kathie Foster joined members of the Board of Education, members of town council and local residents in Trenton on Tuesday, May 2nd for the NJDOE budget hearings before the New Jersey State Senate. At a rally on the steps of the statehouse beforehand, Dr. Foster sparked the passion of representatives from districts across the state who find themselves the predicament of placing a larger and larger burden on taxpayers due to the state's refusal to adhere to the school funding formula established by the School Funding Reform Act of 2008.
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By Jill Lieber Steeg, USA TODAY
SAN JOSE, Calif. Since winning the 2004 Olympic silver medal in the gymnastics team competition, then suffering through a mass retirement of all their old warhorses, the U.S. men have been desperately searching for a leader to return them to international prominence.
Friday night at the Visa Championships at the HP Pavilion, they found him.
His name is David Durante, and he's a 27-year-old Stanford graduate with a degree in human biology who has taken his own emotional roller-coaster ride over the years, from the next great hope to the guy who may never fulfill his potential.
He finally had his moment, hitting all 12 of his routines at the two-day competition to win the national all-around title. He finished .2 ahead of silver medalist Guillermo Alvarez and .9 ahead of bronze medalist Sho Nakamori.
Durante also won the parallel bars crown.
Paul Hamm, the 2004 Olympic men's all-around gold medalist, won the floor exercise, signaling that he's back with a vengeance on the international gymnastics scene. He was fourth on pommel horse, while his twin brother Morgan finished tied for ninth.
Before Durante had even picked up his hardware, he did something for which USA Gymnastics has waited four years: He stepped forward and declared himself commander in chief of the U.S. men's team that's headed to the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, September 1-9.
The U.S. men finished a dismal 13th in last year's Worlds, and in order to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, they must finish in the top 12 teams.
Never mind that USA Gymnastics won't select its World team until Saturday. Never mind that Durante was only an alternate on that squad last year. Never mind that there are those who have doubts about the U.S. qualifying for Beijing.
Durante says he's ready to rock the world.
"When they name the World team, the first thing I'm going to do is get the guys together and say, 'No more individuals, we have a job to do,' " Durante said. "It was difficult to get over last year. You can let it define you or you can learn from it. I told myself I never wanted to be an alternate again. Sitting in the stands at Worlds and watching was hard. I wanted to be the guy to make things happen.
"Did I have to win this to be the leader? Probably. For others to understand who I am, and what I can bring to a team, maybe that's what it took."
How worried is he that Team USA might not qualify for Beijing?
"Zero," Durante said. "If you have any question, you shouldn't be on the team."
Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, was pleased that Durante anointed himself captain of the Worlds team.
"He has all the qualifications; he just needed to be in the position to do it," Penny said. "I feel like our guys still have as much talent as anybody in the world. The message is very clear: We want to go out and prove last year was a fluke. David Durante wants to prove the U.S. can be a force next year in Beijing. He's wanted to be a leader, and he's ready to lead."
If there were any doubts about the best gymnasts in the United States being able to step up their games under pressure, they were erased Friday night. From the first rotation, it was clear the falls and falters, misses and mistakes, stumbles and spills that dominated the first night's competition were a thing of the past.
The nervousness was gone, replaced by a determination to make the U.S. men's Worlds team, as well as be selected for the national team.
In the first rotation, there was one brilliant routine after another. Justin Spring (15.3), Todd Thornton (14.8) and Durante (14.35) dazzled on high bar. Alvarez (15.8) threw down a great vault. Nakamori (14.1) pulled off a strong pommel horse, and Jonathan Horton (15.45) was solid on parallel bars.
The good vibes continued in the second rotation: Spring (15.5) on floor, David Sender (15.55) and Sean Golden (15.9) on rings, Alex Artemev (15.55) on pommel horse and Alvarez (14.9) on parallel bars.
The volume was cranked up in the third rotation, when Paul Hamm finally stepped onto the podium to compete in the first of his two events. He'd struggled with endurance the first night on the floor exercise, but still scored an event-best 15.7. Friday night. He followed with a crisper, more relaxed and confident performance, clinching his fist after hitting his final tumbling pass and earning a 15.6.
Several minutes later, on the fourth rotation, Hamm came right back with an outstanding pommel-horse routine, erasing the image of the muffed dismount of the first night. He scored a huge 15.5, which had to be encouraging for USA Gymnastics because pommel horse is the weakest event for the U.S. men on the world stage.
Two competitors later, Morgan Hamm followed in his brother's footsteps, also redeeming himself on the pommel horse. Tied for 18th after the first night because he fell apart on his dismount, Morgan hung tough throughout, staying aboard and scoring 14.85.
The fifth rotation was full of drama, both for the highs and the lows.
Artemev was impressive on parallel bars, making a push for the top spot in the all-around competition, scoring 15.6. Spring, meanwhile, attempted an extremely difficult Sukahara Triple Twist on the vault, landed awkwardly and grabbed his right knee in agony. Still, he scored 14.85. (He'll have an MRI on Saturday to determine the extent of the injury.)
The all-around title came down to the final rotation. Alvarez was in first, followed by Durante (.45) behind, Artemev (.75) and Nakamori (1.00). Nakamori opened with a brilliant floor routine, scoring 15.15. Durante countered with a fine parallel-bar routine, scoring 15.5. And Artemev fought back with a good high-bar routine, nailing a double twisting double layout dismount for 14.55.
When the chalk dust had cleared, Durante was too good for them, powering himself into first place.
Finally, Alvarez pulled himself up onto the rings, needing 15.05 or higher to win the all-around title. A small mistake on the dismount — he landed short — cost him the top prize.
None other than Paul Hamm, one of the leaders of the 2004 Olympic team, was energized by Durante's gymnastics — and personal victory.
"It's great," he said. "David's struggled over the years at the U.S. Championships. It's good to see him pull it together."
After he'd won, an elated Durante bolted up into the stands to hug his family and friends.
"It was like a flood of emotions I'd never had before," he said, describing what it felt like to finally be the man for USA Gymnastics. "I've been waiting a long time for this. To do it in the Bay Area, with all my friends and family here, it was indescribable."
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Since when does supporting Occupy Central become a criterion for being a good head of a Hong Kong university?
Professor Peter Mathieson, the new vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, has been asked time and again by students and reporters about his stances on various political hot potatoes such as the civil disobedience movement.
"I support students' right to peaceful protest," Mathieson said yesterday, his first day on the job. "I support free speech and I'll stand up for those core values. The university will help any student who happens to participate in or get into any trouble in Occupy Central, but always within the boundaries and respect of the law."
The question I want to ask is: if some HKU students oppose Occupy Central, would the professor support them too? My suspicion is that he would say yes as well because it's a free city and a free campus. In that case, his "support" is really beside the point. Don't get me wrong, I am not criticising the good don, but rather the self-righteous people who demand he gives what they consider the right or politically correct answer. Many reasonable people disagree over whether Occupy Central is justified or not. Why should HKU take a stance on this or other controversial issues?
In the name of free speech and democracy, some student activists have been forcing their university elders to share their views and support their actions. They have already forced into early retirement Mathieson's predecessor, distinguished scientist and gentleman Tsui Lap-chee, over the latter's supposed mishandling of a campus visit by Premier Li Keqiang in 2011.
Most university students are young adults. They are free to join any civil disobedience movement they choose - or not. They can entertain any political or religious beliefs they want. That's their choice and theirs alone. But university officials have no obligation to support them one way or another any more than they should support students to take a vacation in Bali rather than Taipei.
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Sheets on both king beds are horrible they are so scratchy we are now sleeping on top of them..
Kitchen needs cutting board for chopping
One bike has lock that does not work and is not code 1275
For bike lock I called twice for assistance but no one ever showed up.
Wow! We love WaterColor! It sure is the land of the fairies!
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The Fix: John Edwards
Why John Edwards will never make a political comeback
In the wake of former North Carolina senator John Edwards' acquittal on a single charge of violating campaign finance law Thursday, the two-time presidential candidate held a press conference outside the court that raised the eyebrows of some seasoned political observers.
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Former North Carolina senator John Edwards was found not guilty of a single charge of breaking campaign finance law even as a judge declared a mistrial on the other five counts brought against him in connection with payments made to a former mistress during his 2008 run for president. That muddled decision offered neither the exoneration for which he hoped nor the stinging judgment for which his many detractors had pined.
The John Edwards trial: A final public flogging
The trial into allegations of campaign finance wrongdoing by former North Carolina senator John Edwards opens today in Greensboro, a sort of final public flogging for a man who twice sought the highest office in the country.
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Spent one night here for a business meeting nearby the next morning. Slept fine until 6 am when the air traffic started at Reagan, after that room was extremely noisy. Soon after the ice machine came into use and added to the noise level.
Entering the room is very confusing: there are two lights on the door. When you swipe your keycard, one or both light up. The green light always lights, even if the card doesn't read. If the red one lights up, you can enter.
Normal sized hotel room with a flatscreen TV, coffee pot, smoke detector, and sprinkler. Desk includes a chair, lamp, telephone, and wireless internet ($9.95/day). My room had two double beds but no easy chair, no refrigerator, no microwave.
Bathroom includes a sink, bathtub, and toilet all behind the same door, and a hairdryer. Closet included an iron and an ironing board.
There's a wonderful bagel/breakfast restaurant kitty-corner from the hotel. The hotel has a small but capable bar. The restaurant is open until 11pm but I did not have an opportunity to try it.
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Giacalone v. Network Solutions, Inc., 1996 WL 887734, 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20807 (N.D. Cal. filed May 30, 1996).
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Plaintiff, a computer consultant, registered the domain name "ty.com" after the name of his son Ty. Defendant Ty, Inc., registrant and prior user of the trademark TY for stuffed animals, filed a protest with NSI challenging plaintiff's domain name.
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Faced with having its domain name placed on hold by NSI, Giacalone filed suit against NSI and Ty, Inc.,[1] and obtained a temporary restraining order[2] against further interference with Giacalone's use of the domain name pending resolution of the suit.
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Ty, Inc., maker of the popular "Beanie Babies" stuffed animals, later acquired the domain name "ty.com" from Giacalone.
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Sweet Potato Casserole
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We just had this at Thanksgiving EVERYONE raved about it and asked for the recipe. You can also prepare it the night before so you can have more time with your guests :o>
Top Review by kiwidutch
This is the first time I have ever had sweet potatoes (kumera) in a casserole like this. We get two varieties here in NL a creamy white coloured one and a red/orange coloured one and the orange one has loads more flavour. I used the orange variety and just peeled it, then boiled and roughly mashed... I did find the "combine thoroughly" direction in step 3 a bit misleading, I almost mixed the topping into the sweet potato, but realised that that wasn't right. This turned out well, we liked it, my only mistake was a to cut down the recipe for 2 and still have a bit too much topping, we both agreed that was a bit on the sweet side, so I would cut back on the topping more next time. I took the advice of the other reviewer and added some nutmeg and ground allspice... great flavours. Please see my rating system: I almost gave this 3 stars becuase of the too sweet topping but the sweet potato mixture undernieth was so nice that we decided to cut way way back on the topping next time and give this 4 stars :) Thanks!
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Ingredients Nutrition
Sweet Potato Mixture
- 3 cups cooked mashed sweet potatoes, skins off
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
Crust Mixture
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄3 cup flour
- 1 cup chopped nuts (pecans preferred)
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
Directions See How It's Made
- Boil or steam sweet potatoes,.
- drain, take skins off and set aside.
- Combine ingredients for the crust mixture in a mixing bowl, next, in a separate mixing bowl, combine ingredients for the sweet potato mixture. Combine thoroughly. Pour sweet potato mixture into a buttered baking dish (9x9).
- Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes or until firm.
- Sprinkle the surface of the sweet potato mixture evenly with the crust mixture.
- Brown briefly, just until crust is brown. Allow to set for at lease 30 minutes before serving.


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Lilac Diseases
Informational table showing disease name, symptoms, pathogen/cause, and management of Lilac diseases.
|Ascochyta blight
|In the spring, the current year's shoots and flower stalks are girdled, wilted, and brown. The base of the dead area is tan to gray and shriveled. In wet weather, dark gray pimple-like fungal fruiting structures dot the dead tissue. In summer and autumn, olive green round leaf spots turn tan and have indefinite edges. Fungal fruiting structures dot the upper surface of the spots.
|Ascochyta syringae
|Prune infected tissue. Avoid overhead irrigation. Apply a fungicide to protect healthy shoots.
|Bacterial blight
|Leaves turn completely brown to black and remain attached to the branch. Shoots are girdled and killed. Flower buds are blackened while flower clusters become limp and brown. See shoot blight below.
|Pseudomonas syringae
|Avoid overhead watering in the spring. Prune infected branches, cutting well below the diseased tissue. Disinfest the pruning shears between cuts. Apply a bactericide to protect healthy shoots.
|Powdery mildew
|Dry white fungal growth develops on the surface of leaves. Leaves become distorted.
|Microsphaera syringae
|Apply a fungicide as soon as mildew is observed.
|Shoot blight
|Shoots are killed extensively, up to 4 to 5 feet, and turn very black. Root sprouts at the base of the plant are killed and blackened. See bacterial blight above
|Phytophthora cactorum
|Remove the infected plant; do not replace it with plants susceptible to Phytophthora. Avoid overhead watering of healthy plants.
|Short, thin twigs and branches originating from one area of the stem form dense clusters. Leaves may be distorted, small, and yellow. Twigs forming the brooms are abnormally upright and often retain green leaves too long in the autumn and die back in winter.
|Prune affected branches. Remove severely infected plants.
Powdery mildew.
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Chester and Mary Broman's homebred Highway Star got back to her winning ways April 9 at Aqueduct Racetrack with a half-length victory over Indulgent in the $150,000 Distaff Handicap (G3).
Chester and Mary Broman's homebred Highway Star got back to her winning ways April 9 at Aqueduct Racetrack with a half-length victory over Indulgent in the $150,000 Distaff Handicap (G3).
Consider this your weekly guide to the best stakes in North America. This week we have massive stakes cards at Aqueduct Racetrack, Keeneland, and Santa Anita Park built around three top Triple Crown preps.
Repole Stable's homebred Clipthecouponannie's undefeated record will be on the line when she steps up in class and faces five other fillies and mares in the $150,000 Distaff Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack April 9.
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Bobby Flay, a celebrity chef and prominent racehorse owner, has been named to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's board of trustees, museum president Gretchen Jackson announced Nov. 23.
Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad returned to the races and to her winning ways April 18, galloping by 5 1/4 lengths over three rivals in the $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) at Aqueduct.
The $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) Saturday, April 18 at Aqueduct Racetrack has attracted just four fillies and mares, led by Mamdooha and La Verdad.
Alex's Pal, a 16-year-old son of Valid Expectations, was euthanized March 11 due to colic.
A $3.9 million broodmare, a record $3 million weanling filly, and a daylong parade of seven-figure horses helped the Keeneland November sale post gains across the board at its lively second session Nov. 5 in Lexington.
Hip 308, Her Smile, brought $1.5 million Nov. 5 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Video Courtesy Keeneland
The mares Hard Not to Like and Her Smile brought back-to-back winning bids of $1.5 million Nov. 5 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Front-running La Verdad left her rivals behind leaving the turn en route to her initial graded stakes win, a 3 3/4-length romp in the $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) at Aqueduct Racetrack April 19.
TimeformUS Saturday Stakes Plays from Keeneland, Hawthorne, and Aqueduct read blog
Todd Pletcher-trained filly makes first start in nearly nine months in six-furlong test at Aqueduct Racetrack April 19.
Led by a $260,000 Cherokee Run mare, the Keeneland November sale racked up more gains at Saturday's fifth session Nov. 9, and surpassed 2012's total gross with six days left in the auction.
After starting slowly, the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale took off after about two hours, with two mares bringing in excess of seven figures in quick succession.
Alex's Pal, whose stakes winners include multiple grade II winner C C's Pal, will stand this year at Albert Geldmacher's Centennial Farm of New York near Gilbertsville, N.Y.
Nicole H will try to secure her fourth straight stakes victory in five starts and ninth of her career when she returns to Laurel Park for the $250,000 Barbara Fritchie Handicap (gr. II) Feb. 16.
Nicole H pulled clear through the stretch to become the first mare to win three consecutive editions of the $75,000 Interborough at Aqueduct Jan. 1. On the undercard, Arena Elvira won the $75,000 Ladies' Handicap.
At age 6, Nicole H will try to become the first mare to post three consecutive victories in the $75,000 Interborough Handicap. She faces seven others in the six-furlong event at Aqueduct Racetrack on New Year's Day.
Godolphin Racing's multiple grade I winner It's Tricky has been retired with an injury to her right hind ankle.
Royal Delta blew It's Tricky away in the $400,000 Beldame Invitational (gr. I) at Belmont Park Sept. 29, drawing off to a 9 1/2-length victory under wraps.
Royal Delta and It's Tricky look to recover from an Aug. 26 Personal Ensign (gr. I) upset and eye year-end honors when they meet for a fifth time Sept. 29 in the $400,000 Beldame Invitational (gr. I) at Belmont Park.
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