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RANCHO SANTA FE — Tracey Kestler said it was her grandfather Herbert Korholz, who got her interested in horses.
"He said everyone should learn to ride just like they should learn how to swim," she said. "He said the reason was you never know when you will fall into someone's pool or be invited on a fox hunt and you wouldn't want to embarrass yourself," Kestler said with a chuckle.
Kestler, now in her early 40s, still treasures the memories of Sunday trail rides with her grandfather who had "grand ideas about how life should be."
She took her grandfather's advice, but went far beyond mere fox hunting skills.
Over the years she has earned national titles with her riding and even helped train Grindstone, the 1995 Kentucky Derby winner.
And believe it or not, a couple of years ago, she was invited to a fox hunt.
These days she continues to train racehorses and teaches riding skills to locals.
Kestler is home grown.
"I have been extremely fortunate to have grown up in Rancho Santa Fe and it so happens, I started riding with Hap Hansen, such a wonderful man and an amazing trainer, one of the best in the world," she said. "I started with him when I was 6 years old. He has an amazing gift with horses and the horses love him and perform for him."
She said one of Hansen's best qualities as a teacher is making students feel they can do anything and that they are already successful.
"That is what I try to impart to my students," she said.
"When I was young I thought when I grew up, all I ever wanted to do is be a horse trainer," she said.
As a teenager, she and her mare placed first in the country in the Junior Hunter Division in 1986 and 1988. She was also the Grand Hunter Champion at the Washington D.C. International Horse Show in 1988 and was also a Reserve Champion at the National Horse Show that was held at the time in Madison Square Gardens.
"I traveled to horse shows every weekend. I went to Rancho School and Torrey Pines. I would take off Thursday and go to the show and compete. I was always a good student too because my parents said I had to keep my grades up if I wanted to ride," she said.
At age 17 her parents sold her horse because it had become so valuable.
"I couldn't imagine going into a show ring without her," she said. "I went to college in Boston for a couple of years. It was the only time in my life that I didn't ride," she said.
When she came home from Boston, she ran into a woman she knew at the post office who asked her what she was doing. She told the woman she had been away for college, but that she was doing nothing at the moment.
The woman told her of an opportunity to train racehorses near Santa Barbara.
She went to work with renowned horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas and the experience changed her life.
"It was fun and was a really good training experience working with young horses," she said.
She said she that when Grindstone as a baby she had the chance to ride her.
She has continued on with the profession of training racehorses at Del Mar, Santa Anita and Hollywood Park.
"If I knew what it was going to be like, I would have never done it," she said with a note of irony. "I'm not a morning person and this is a seven day a week job starting at 4:30 a.m. There are no benefits, no stock options or paid vacations, you don't make much money and it's really dangerous."
But, she said, she would not trade her life for anyone else's.
"I am excited to go to work. I am the luckiest person in the world," she said. "I wouldn't change a thing. I exercise racehorses in the morning. I absolutely love it. It is the most wonderful job in the world."
In addition to teaching the art of show jumping to others, she admits she is getting the itch to begin competing again.
She is hoping to get more students and loves working with people at all different skill levels.
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Beginning a New Study! "Living Well as Foreigners" - an overview of the letter of 1 Peter
We are an International Church! On a normal Sunday morning we have people from every continent in the world (excepting Antarctica!) joining us for worship. How appropriate for us to carefully read this letter called '1 Peter' which is specifically addressed to a group of 'exiles' or 'foreigners' - people who are living in a land that is not their own. Peter uses this language both literally and metaphorically - he is writing to people who were actually expatriates, but he also clearly uses that language to call ALL followers of Jesus to live in this world AS IF you are foreigners and strangers who are awaiting their final home. Much of Peter's language then is to help us a) understand and celebrate our salvation and b) learn how to live well in this world as temporary citizens. May our hearts be open to hear and respond to these very practical words from Peter!
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Create the /TH/SPRING card, which supports time histories with spring output using the Relative Displacement tool.
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Type a name in the Time History Name field and click
A pop-up menu appears from which you can choose either to create the spring and edit the card that is generated or simply create the spring.
- The time history appears in the Output Blocks list. Right-click the list item and select Add Springs to create springs for that time history.
Pick nodes from the model to define springs.
Note: The first node you select is used as Node1 in the definition of the spring.
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Right-click its name in the Output Blocks list and select
The card for that time history opens in the main panel area. From here you can provide names for each element, and add or modify variables.
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A pop-up window of numbers opens.
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Var fields appear where you can type the variable names.When you use the Relative Displacement tool to create time histories of springs, you also create a component named Comp_Rel_Disp. This component is of the Springs/Rivets type and no material is assigned. The component contains one property, SPR_GENE, with only the mass value specified.


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Monday: Crossed the plains twice as a child
Tuesday: Born in California
Wednesday: Got his interest in medicine from working in a pharmacy
Thursday: His name lives on in Orofino.
Friday: Was also a builder and architect for his time
Saturday: He brought 20 men and 5 women to Orofino with horses and wagons
Dr. John W. Givens was licensed to be Idaho's first psychiatrist, or alienist as they were then called. His was the 73rd doctor's license issued in the state and his talents went beyond the medical field.
According to John Bradbury's Clearwater County history series Givens was born in Placerville, CA in 1854 to Mary and Thomas Jefferson Givens. The couple had come there from Illinois during the gold rush of 1849. When his father died soon after his birth, his mother moved back to Illinois where she remarried. When John was eight, the family crossed the plains and settle in Oregon where he grew up.
His interest in medicine started when he worked in a local drugstore. He studied medicine at Willamette University and got his degree in 1875. He then married Ellen Luelling and worked as a physician for the U.S. Indian Service int he Puget Sound region. In 1882, he quit to study medicine at New York's Bellevue Medical College where he earned a second medical degree. After four years at the Oregon Insane Asylum at Salem, and nine years at the asylum in Blackfoot, he completed a post gradute proram in nerve and mental disease at Johns Hopkins Medical College in Baltimore. He went into private practice in Los Angeles before returningt to Blackfoot in 1898 and serving as medical director.
Bradbury says he was not only a gifted healer, but also a remarkable architect and builder. When the hospital at Blackfoot burned down, he oversaw it reconstruction by the patients, which included making their own bricks.
Historian Hawley described Givens 1905 move from Blackfoot to Orofino, "Taking iwht him twenty men and five women patients whose insanity was of mild type, with horses, wagons and the necessary implements, tents for shelter, etc. he commenced clearing ground and planting fruit trees. Within a year of when the location was selete the institution was ready for the reception of patients." Again it was Givens who designed the buildings and it was the patients who made the bricks and erected the buildings.
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Transform Your private home With These Quick And Simple - 07 Jan 2019 03:10

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This sweet little foundling, or The Child, has captured the hearts of so many, including my heart! As soon as it first appeared on screen, I KNEW I would create my very own! Having done so, I am now happy to be able to offer it to my loyal fairy doll collectors and new collectors who've recently found my work! I have been hand-sculpting my fantasy art dolls for over 15 years now, which is sometimes hard to believe! Over the years I have created not only fairies and other fantasy creatures, but characters from my favorite films and TV shows as well!
The Foundling is an art doll, NOT a child's toy, and may be gently posed in many ways, but should be kept away from children and pets, and carefully displayed as you would an art doll or collectible. It measures about 3.5 inches tall, and has been hand sculpted by me, without the use of molds. I think anyone familiar with my fairy dolls will see that it looks similar in style to my fairy dolls, with the same joy and wonder in the eyes and expression!


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CHARLOTTE, NC.– According to data from the North Carolina Realtors Association, home price increases in Charlotte are moderating and rising at a slower rate. The average home sales price at the end of August was up about 13%, while at the end of summer this time last year they were up 18.3%. Mickey Gold, the broker with Coldwell Bank, says this is in part due to buyer fatigue, people putting in offer after offer, and being rejected over and over.
"It's gotten to the point where you can get rejected so many times; you just say you know I've had enough I can live here for another year; let me see what the spring brings," Gold says.
The data also shows that the number of homes for sale in Charlotte has declined 22% compared to August last year. That means it's even harder to find something to buy.
"I think what you're seeing with a slow down in buyer activity potentially is really pressure from low inventory," says Maren Brisson-Kuester, COO at HM Properties.
Brisson-Kuester says she believes the Charlotte market won't change anytime soon.
"With people moving here every day and continuing to want to relocate their corporate entities here, there's probably no slow down in the future anytime soon."


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The Atlantic Coast of Portugal can be a bit crowded so a route east of Porto along the Duoro River into the Mountains then north to the spa city of Chaves was the best option
It was a great choice; clear windy roads and wonderful scenery.
It was a short ride to Chaves less than 150km but storms ahead dictated the length of the ride.
And the storm came casting an grey pall over the old centre of Chaves.
While Chaves is a Spa town the waters are used primarily for therapeutic use rather than leisure so lolling in a hot spa wasn't an option. But drinking warm mineralised spa water straight from the spring was.
Cups are filled straight from the Spring.
The rain cleared over night and it was a clear run over the mountains into Spain
So it was goodbye Portugal
And hello Spain,
Confirmation I was in Spain came at Astorga and its Gaudi designed building.
The route headed around Leon and into the Picos de Europa.
I had travelled to the Picos in 2018 and it was a great opportunity to revisit.
The road to Riano to Potes is just beautiful.
From Potes in the town plaza there is a magnificent view of the central Massif of the Picos de Europa
Just 23km on from Potes is Fuene De in the heart of the Picos and one of the most beautiful camp grounds I have stayed at in all my travels
From Fuente De there is a Cable Car that ascents 753 Metres to a high plateau at about 1600 metres. There are number of walks in the mountains. One is an 11km return walk the ascends 770 metres to a refuge.
It's a hard walk but the views spectacular.
Being up with the eagles.
Fuente De is a short ride back to the ferry port city of Santander. It was such very different circumstances arriving in Santander than it was in 2020.


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SOuthern CALIFornia
FLAT TRACK ASSOCiation
at VICTORVILLE's
WHEEL TO WHEEL Speedway
January 5th,
Winter Short Track Series Round #3
Article By Jamey Blunt
With Flat Tracks becoming an endangered species in Southern California these days, due in part to astronomical insurance cost and the rising land value, it is with great pleasure I report that the banked, cushioned, 1/8 mile oval at San Bernardino County Fairgrounds in Victorville, CA., is one great race trace! Proprietor John Eden knows how to groom a track, as any one of the 126 entrants would attest to. Unusually warm weather, with a 77o temperature reached by the 12:00noon rider's meeting/trophy presentation made this a perfect race day. What followed were three twenty minute timed practice sessions, with heat races immediately afterward.
3:45PM saw the first of 17 main events being staged, in the youth 50cc class a name to remember is Ryan Surratt. Five year old Ryan (whose father is a past champion himself) not only won the main, bet destroyed the competition, winning by over a half a lap.
The XR-100 men's class had 12 combatants staged to do battle. At the drop of the flag Kawasaki tuner extraordinar Kenny Hunter shot to the front over Bob Cobb and former national title holder (and youngest of the Wood clan) Andy Wood. Lap two had Bob Cobb testing tear firma between turns three and four, with young Wood doing a superb job of avoiding Cobb to continue in second. Cobb would re-join the race, jumping in right behind Hunter (though a lap down) remaining there till the end. Hunter picking up yet another victory, turning consistence 13 second lap times, Wood third on the track was actually second.
The Bomber class started of the most successful rider of the day's winning streak Tom Horton of Lancaster would go on to 5 victories. But this was no easy task. Joe Steffen took the led over Horton and tried to get away. Dave Johnson and Jim Ottele gave chase in third and fourth. By the half way point (four laps) Horton got a wheel under Steffen and took the lead away. All Horton had to do now was protect his line and pick up his first win.
The Vet Class (35 years and older) had Horton lead from start to finish. Richard Pollack who had mechanical troubles all day borrowed a machine to finish in second over charging Jim Ottele, who in turn was being pushed hard by Jeff Lessley.
The Vintage 250 class was the most exciting action of the day, with Craig Johnson back from last year's speedway accident showing he hasn't lost his speed taking the lead over Horton, Joe Steffen, & John Lundgren. Lap after lap Johnson lead Horton, both Bultaco's turning 12.2/10 second lap times. All the while Horton was setting up Johnson for a pass. Working high, then low, Horton mad his move on the last lap in the last corner. Johnson even lowered the next to last lap time to 12 seconds flat. But to no avail, Horton got a wheel under Johnson in turn four and won the drag race to the stripe! Steffen finished third, with Lundgren fourth.
Horton's other two victories came from the Classic, or Brakeless Class, where his spotless Montesa bested heat race winner Jeff Lessley. With his final win being in the vintage 750 Class where James Ottele and Wayne Warrington gave chase.
The Pro class had one of only two riders to ever turn lap times under 12 seconds sitting on pole, Jimmy Wood turning 11.6/10 seconds had the fastest time of the day. Maxima's Wood on the DRZ Suzuki rocketed into the lead and took off. Jim Rosa (who hadn't crashed anyone all day; except trying to take out this reporter on the infield) ran second, with Ron Wood's Elliott Iverson third, and Richard "Mule" Pollack in fourth. Ian Foulds getting a drive on his Yamaha 250 shot into third on lap two and was all over Rosa like a fly on flypaper. Lap three Bob Cobb hit the dirt, ending his day, but was up and ok! Back at the front Maxxis Tire's Jimmy Wood disappeared, leaving the only real battle on the track for second. Rosa and Foulds went at it lap after lap. Foulds who's riding, better every time we see him just couldn't get around Rosa's 450 Honda. At the checkered Wood prevailed by 5.6/10 seconds over Rosa and Foulds. Jimmy Wood thus picking up the lions share of the donated monies on the day from Bob Hill Motorsports, Southland Racing, the Flattrack Page, and Uncle Eddie Mulder.
By 5:00pm the sun setting in the west, Round 3 was
in the record books. Thanks also to Wakula Flattrack supply for a
donated tire, S&S Supply for two tires, Dennis Suter for trophies,
and Eddie Mulder LTD., and Maxxis tires for product, Cash, and discount
certificates. Hope to see you at Round 4 for sideways action!
Race # 1a Youth 50cc:
Race # 1a Youth 50cc:
1. 5s Ryan Surratt 2. 18 Logan Johnson 3. 1 Larry Smith
4. Tyler Rawson 5. 4 Andre Ochs 6. 5 Nathan Hamlin
Race # 2aYouth 65cc:
Race # 2aYouth 65cc:
1. 13 Joey St. Louis 2. 8 Larry Smith 3. 2 Craig Johnson
4. Tyler Rawson 5. 6 Alex Filice 6. 7x Danney Wheeler
Race # 2b Youth 85cc:
Race # 2b Youth 85cc:
1. 63 Deven Booher 2. 49 Andy Wood 3. 50 Wesley Kaimer
4. 8 Larry Smith
Race # 3a XR100 Youth:
Race # 3a XR100 Youth:
1. 9 Kevin Knudsen 2. 65 Michael Fox 3. 6 Otis Baugh
4. 8 Brent Baugh
Race # 3b XR50 Adult:
Added two new 50cc classes for the next two SCFTA races. Geoff Arnold and Joker Machine have stepped up
to the plates to help start theses classes off with prizes to youth class and $300 purse to the men class.
A. XR50 Youth Class 16 and under---Prizes to all winners
B. XR50 Men Class 16 and Older-----$300 Purse
All bikes must be XR50 based with auto transmissionsany questions
Call joker machine 626-334-9371
Race # 3b XR50 Adult:
1. 217 Geoff Arnold; 2. 627 Ian Foulds; 3. 2 Dan Hanebrink
4. 94 Bill Ramsey
Race # 4 XR100 Adult:
Race # 4 XR100 Adult:
1. 28 Ken Hunter; 2. 48 Andy Wood; 3. 19r Brad Rudy 4. 8 Wayne Warrington
5. 11r Scott Thurlow 6. 11 Willie Surratt 7. 46 Greg Pierce 8. Number 29
9. 21 Mike Martin 10. 91w John Larson 11. 62 Mark McMain 12. 86 Bob Cobb
Race # 5 Novice 125/250:
Race # 5 Novice 125/250:
1. 63 Devin Booher; 2. 19v Rod Halstead; 3. 42 Kurt Spier
4. 18 Jimmie Moffatt 5. 86d Allen Gridler
Race # 6 Amature 250:
Race # 6 Amature 250:
1. 45 Ian Foulds 2. 67 Alex Wood 3. 19 Frank Aragaki 4. 49 Andy Wood
Race # 7 Bomber:
Race # 7 Bomber:
1. 55 Tom Horton 2. 6j Joe Steffen 3. 19 Dave Johnson 4. 58 James Ottele 5. 45 John Lungren
Race #8 Brakeless:
Race #8 Brakeless:
1. 55 Tom Horton 2. 12e Jeff Lessley 3. 84e Rubin Malaguarnero
4. 75z Joe Pape
Race # 9 Senior +50:
Race # 9 Senior +50:
1. 59 Richard Pollack 2. 6r Sal Peluso 3. 50v Dennis Voll
4. 44e Wayne Warrington
Race # 10 Vet +35:
Richard Pollock on Sal's Husky
Race # 10 Vet +35:
1. 55 Tom Horton 2. 19 David Johnson 3. 58 Jim Ottele
4. 12e Jeff Lessley 5. 6r Richard Pollock 6. 54 Elliott Iverson
7. 71e John Frank 8. 91w John Larson 9. 19v Rod Halstead
Race # 11 Vintage 250:
Yamaha, Bul, Bul, Kawi, Husky, and Yamaha
Race # 11 Vintage 250:
1. 55 Tom Horton 2. 4z Craig Johnson 3. 6j Joe Steffen 4. 6r Sal Peluso 5. 45e John Lungren
6. 42 Craig A. Johnson
Race # 12 Super Senior:
Race # 12 Super Senior:
1. 49 Mickey Ahzoha 2. 29r Marshall Jennings 3. 92 Doug Douglas
4. 21v Terry Martin 5. 64v Roy Burris 6. Allen Gridler
Race # 13 Open Pro:
Race # 13 Open Pro:
1. 66 Jimmy Wood 2. 88 Jimmy Rosa 3. 45 Ian Foulds 4. 59 Richard Pollock
5. 67 Alex Wood 6. Elliott Iverson 7. 6j Joe Steffen
Race # 14 Open Novice:
Race # 14 Open Novice:
1. 68 Lloyd McGregor 2. 121 Mike Mosby 3. 35e Carl Shockley 4. 45f Tom Sahli
5. 64 Dave Joplin 6. 83 Randy Oelke
Race # 15 Vintage 750:
Race # 15 Vintage 750:
1. 55 Tom Horton 2. 58 Jim Ottele 3. 44e Wayne Warrington 4. 64v Roy Burris
Race # 16 Open Amature:
Race # 16 Open Amature:
1. 45 Ian Foulds 2. 67 Alex Wood 3. 91w John Larson 4. 27 Jeff Apple
5. 65c Kenny Malaguarero 6. 71e John Frank 7. 20z Ray Hensley
Race # 17 Knobby Class:
Race # 17 Knobby Class:
1. 65 Elliott Iverson 2. 217 Geoff Arnold 3. 9 Kevin Knudsen 4. 63 Devin Booher
5. 871 Marv Dedes 6. 3 Dan Hanebrink 7. 374 Darren Crile 8. 116 Jason Hamlin
9. 62 Mark McCain
North-South Shoot Out
North-South Shoot Out
1. 66 Jimmy Wood; 2. 67 Alex Wood; 3. 45e John Lundgren: 4. 17v Justin Filice


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The friendly neighbor Americans take for granted is facing her most serious challenge ever as a nation. A t stake is the economic well-being and military security of not only Canada but of all North America. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau may soon be facing the sternest test of his ten years in office. He is expected to call for general elections later this year, and his popularity, recent polls reveal, has been slipping. His chief opponent, Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark from Alberta, is, on the other hand, gaining somewhat after a slow start. The 39-year-old Mr. Clark has projected a positive image in recent parliamentary sessions, which are now televised. Mr. Trudeau's Liberal Party is losing favor mainly because of Canada's faltering economy. The Canadian dollar has now slipped to U.S. $.89 (its lowest level since the early years of the Great Depression) from a high of U.S. $1.03 a year and a half ago. Unemployment hovers at a stubborn 8.5 percent, inflation at 9.5 percent. Please click the above PDF icon(s) to view or download the full Magazine Article in PDF format.Searchable HTML version coming.
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✅Full-cycle Ratchet Mechanism – Ratcheting prevents the release of the connector prior to full compression, also, it makes the release easy and get back to ready position with a simple press after successfully crimp the modular plug connector, helps you save time and effort. After use, you can conveniently store it due to its ratchet locking feature.
✅High-carbon Steel Construction – Crimping dies are precision ground from high-carbon steel, steel body with black-oxide finish for excellent performance and durability. Ergonomic grips enhance comfort, visibility, and allow quick identification. Makes sure that you have a comfortable and robust carry of the tool.
🎁What's in the Package? – Package includes 1x RJ45 RJ12 RJ11 Modular Crimper, 1x Blade Set and 3x Network Connectors. Due to multiple functionalities and budget-friendly price, compatible with almost all kinds of network cables & connectors, all together make this all-in-on network tool a top-ranked choice today.
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All-in-one tool cuts, strips and crimps paired-conductor cables. (RJ11/RJ12, RJ22, RJ45), Twisted Pair, Ethernet, RJ45 voice and data cables.
Full-cycle ratchet mechanism prevents the release of the connector prior to full compression.
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Crimping dies are precision ground from high-carbon steel. Fast, reliable crimp tool with steel body for durability.
Ergonomic comfort grips enhance comfort, visibility, and allow quick identification.
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Tomasz Szymanek
I'm 17 years old young programmer from Silesia in Poland. I go to very good hi-school (51st in Poland, 1st position on World Informatics Olympics). My adventure with Fedora started in January '09. I wish to tell as much people as I can how to use Fedora in home or small firm. I have very good marks form school subject : IT, and soon I'll go to technician university in Gliwice to learn some server-job stuff.
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- IRC: I don't have favorite IRC channel, but it will change in small amount of time.
- Fedora Account: Deathgazer
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- I'll spread the ideas of the Fedora and other GNU/Linux OS in my school, my Father's Univerity (Silesia University, He's professor),
my future collage and around my friends.
- Actually, I translate 'Linux From Scratch v6.4' into Polish language.


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Series on Community Organizing at OpenLeft.com
For those who are interested, I have been writing a weekly series on "Core Dilemmas of Community Organizing" at the blog Open Left, which they have kindly been promoting to the front page. Some of these are rewrites and expansions of posts that appeared here earlier, and others are and will be new. I'll cross-post them when they seem most relevant to educators, but I think the Open Left audience is more likely to be open to broader discussions of organizing in general.
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Well I did it! It cost a lot of money, but its fantastic, mows and collects wet grass and you can empty the collecter without even getting off your seat!
It is so simple to use that my son, Hugh, mowed the lawn today
Hey, that's great, no more lawn mowing. As a single mum, I'm all in favour of child labour – hey look he can empty it, too!


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We really love calling our new game releases "next-gen" and "new-gen", don't we? We flaunt the number of zombies on screen for Dead Rising 3 and the particle effects of inFamous: Second Son. We hear a lot of talk about how "only" this and that "can be done on PS4/Xbox One". We're told over and over that the new generation of consoles is changing the gaming landscape, that we're experiencing brand new games that are changing "what it means to be a game".
Except, I've yet to see that promise come true. In fact, I found the opposite. The most new, fresh, and original AAA games I've played last month were for the Playstation 3 and the original Xbox. They stayed with me a lot more than my brief time with "next-gen" titles, and even their "last-gen" counterparts on my PS3. Those games? Puppeteer and Halo 2. Not exactly titles you'd list together in most categories — one's a sidescrolling platformer, and the others' a first person shooter. However, I've had so much more fun with them than anything else I've been playing. Let me explain.
Puppeteer casts you in the role of a boy whose soul has been claimed by a Moon Bear who has usurped the moon's goddess and taken the Sun Princess captive. The plot's nonsensical attitude is to its benefit though. The entire world is told through a children's puppet show, with levels being shifting sets that "load" before your eyes. As if that wasn't unusual enough, you have lost your head as well, and instead must wear placeholder heads. Your new head could be a cheeseburger, a panda, a guilotine, or even the Sun Princess' head. You get to keep three heads at any given time, and each counts as a life. Lose all three, you're dead. Ignoring the more silly whimsy aspects of the game, this would just make a basic sidescrolling game if that's all there is, but early on in the adventure you get a magical pair of scissors. These scissors become your primary tool for everything from traversal to combat.
Like the Portal Gun before it, the scissors are what make the game truly outstanding. Every boss fight, combat encounter, platforming sequence, and even the aesthetics are influenced by these scissors. Flying giant banner enemies swing their pointed shoulders at you while you cut apart their chest fabric. A tiger tries to crush you, but you clip his nails short. A frog tries to drown you but you cut along hanging goo to keep above water. A castle goes into high alert and you blaze across stitches, dodging and jumping between seams.
All the fourth wall breaking jokes and fantastic art direction in the world can't compare to this focus on the game's unique mechanic. The scissors you wield are fantastic, and so much more fleshed out than the average gameplay hook. Most games like Inversion or Dark Void would either just fail to focus on their core mechanic (like the former), or have trouble adapting it to a traditional genre (like the latter). Puppeteer fits like a glove by comparison. The system seems so deceptively simple, yet so much mileage is gained just from the idea of cutting fabric.
The game utilizes all its systems and design to try and come up with even greater and crazier experiences, tossing in new mechanics when it needs to, but still letting the scissors do the majority of the talking. It's so unlike anything else I've ever played before, and in many ways, it's what I want from "next-gen" games. It's a game that builds itself around a unique core idea while not going off into some obscure, heavily niche territory of design. It's genuinely different, but still something you can wrap your head around easily.
We need games where the elements and normally very simple things can become extraordinary. I don't mean "you have smoke powers and neon powers, and they behave exactly the same" — I mean actual elements and detail effects. Rain makes a ground slippery and your character loses their footing more often. An enemy gets their arm frozen, and you can break it off. You can burn a wall in your way or make a frozen stairway around it. Exploding small jets of gas can be used for platforming, self-defense, and/or purpulsion.
We don't need a thousand enemies on screen if they're the same as they've always been. A smaller, more personal encounter with more variety will always trump bigger scale. Arkham Asylum still keeps me and many others entertained despite having, at most, twenty enemies in a room at most. By comparison, the climax section in Heavenly Sword with hundreds of enemies is nothing but a laggy, frustratingly tedious task. This didn't stop being a thing when the PS4 and Xbox One released, and developers need to recognize it.
There's some hints of this, like with Lionhead's Fable Legends showing elemental effects potentially being a factor; even if only to a limited, D&D extent. We need something more like Skyrim or Dishonored where you can do things like freeze a floor to make it slippery, or use a jar of water to move oil under a door, then light the oil and make the fire go into the other room. It requires a very different style of design decisions and a new direction of time investment for studios' programmers, but also opens up a lot more possibilities.
It might not make a huge bullet point on the back of a box, but it's much more significant to the gameplay than everyone expects it to be. We've seen you can destroy a room in Red Faction but can you manipulate thermodynamics to complete puzzles? Can you really bend the elements to your will? There's also much more to be seen with complex AI systems like the Nemesis system in Shadow of Mordor. We need more divergent ideas like these if we're ever really going to stretch the medium and several genres to their true potential. You can detail to me how frost damage slows an enemy in Shadowrun but what if it actually impacted something like the VATS system in Fallout 3? Just imagining the possibilities is staggering.
Halo 2 needs little introduction by comparison. In the epic sequel (and last Halo PC entry) to Halo: Combat Evolved, Bungie attempted to once again drastically shift things up. Weapons were heavily rebalanced, cut, and added. New enemy types were thrown in. It took the rare (at it's time) approach of removing your health bar, letting health regenerate automatically after a few seconds of delay to recharge your shield. A new protagonist was added, with a distinctive power and unique perspective. The story had politics and intrigue we'd previously been unaware of. They even rebuilt the multiplayer practically from the ground up, jump starting the online multiplayer scene for consoles.
Yet you know what really sticks with me? It's that at no point other than its ending, does the game feel like it made any compromises. Much unlike Bungie's most recent project Destiny (yes, you knew that comparison was coming), there's this genuine integrity to an idea. It genuinely holds up like a statue, withstanding the weathering of time. It doesn't bend to what someone else wants, merely to what its creators wanted. Unlike so many other shooters and action games I've played recently, Halo 2 just simply refuses to do something "just because". Every moment and every beat feels deliberate.
The dual-wielding system fits right in with the new beefier enemies. The BR and SMG split the assault rifle's primary uses across two guns, while both still working as solid middleground weapons. The Brutes and insect enemies feel like an evolution of the threat an Elite could present, while the plot itself addressed this and gave the Elites an out so as to let the new foes stand tall. There's still a gradual shift though, masterfully changing who you aim for with ease across the campaign. Even the exposition is so clean and clear that despite many new plot threads and ideas, I've found even non-gaming friends can follow and enjoy the story.
The game doesn't make all these changes to streamline anything, to make it more basic or dilluted. There's certainly an effort to be a fun game, an appealing game, but it does not make any effort to change what Halo is. Destiny tries so hard to appeal to everyone, that it appeals to no one. It tries to promise everything, and barely gives you anything. Halo 2 offers you more Halo, and that's all it intends to do. That is such a refreshing change of pace in this day and age. Just look at it's exact opposite in Sony's own sci-fi shooter series Killzone.
Killzone was first a slow paced yet flexible and ambitious shooter that tried to introduce an entire universe and conflict that would really take five or so games explain, further compounded by bugs and numerous AI glitches. Then the most immediate follow-ups were more or less tech demos. Killzone: Liberation was a messy PSP single-stick shooter. Killzone 2 abandoned nearly everything that made the IP original while trying desperately to "innovate" through gimmicks and meet a checklist. It wasn't until Killzone 3 that the series got what felt like an actual sequel to the original game.
Despite being vastly shorter in the campaign department, it's the only entry in the series that directly takes notes from both the setting and gameplay of the original. Then Killzone: Shadow Fall rolled out earlier this year and once again runs in a completely different direction. The gameplay wasn't even significant in most of the pre-release demonstrations. No instead we got vaguely branching level design, gimmicks that the game could throw away at the drop of a hat and it wouldn't change anything, and high fidelity graphics. Those were what mattered, not that the core game retained its own focus.
There are other games in a similar vein. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, The Order: 1886, Quantum Break, Battlefield: Hardline, and more just keep rolling out, touting scripted sequences and brief moments of gameplay. At best, they might show a single demo level that would be considered large during the PS2 era, but pretend this is grand scale for us now. It doesn't even matter apparently if these games genuinely undersell their core ideas and are just pretty. That can still merit them getting a 7/10, or even higher, even though all they are there to do is to sell a system and wow the average buyer, not be a game.
It's not even on the "it's an experience" style of play in something like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. These are purely scripts that you have to act out, to the letter, or fail at and be forced to start again. They serve a wide audience, they look great for demo reels, and they keep casual audiences entertained just long enough that they don't stop and really think about what just happened. They are rarely substantial experiences, and often are the sort of game that ages horribly once the new generation of tech rolls out (as is already the case for several Xbox 360 and PS3 games).
Why yes, that train sequence in Uncharted 2 was quite spectacular looking — but wasn't it basically just a more jittery version of the exact same shoot outs you were having in city streets a while ago? Once again, by comparison, Halo 2 actually does try to change things and make them work within its gameplay. It doesn't force the game design to work within whatever new shtick it's trying to sell as "the next great gaming innovation" that's more smoke and mirror's than anything else. The setpieces are not designed before the actual game is. The game comes first, a novel concept.
For example — take the raid on the Covenant Scarab battle in the New Mombasa level . You are trying to get in a giant, mobile tank, packed with guards. In theory you could have made it a QTE sequence, or Master Chief could have hit specific "weak point" sections to draw the enemies out in wave upon wave until you clear them out and then just walk inside and press a button. Instead, you are given a vast array of supplies, and even the option to instead harrass your enemies from above before dropping in, and then you just fight your way through the giant mech.
Rocket launcher everyone, risking a potential suicide? Sure, go ahead. Going to snipe them all and then shotgun the pilot? Sounds perfectly sensible. Passive aggressively shoot a plasma pistol at the Elites, drawing them out to stick them with a grenade? Not my cup of tea but if it works, then do it. It's still going to follow a linear path, but how you traverse is purely your decision.
Another example — there's a portion set during the early action of Delta Halo where you face two enemy Wraith tanks. Your allies airlift you a tank to take them. You can 100% ignore it. No cutscene plays where you are forced into the tank. No one insists you get in it. The most Cortana will say if you ignore it is "Really? You're not taking the tank? Okay then." and then you're off.
You can steal a Wraith. You can kill them then go back and grab the tank. You can steal a more mobile Ghost and pound enemy infantry with its rapid fire guns. You can grab a rocket launcher and just blow up any vehicles that attack you. You choose whether or not it's a vehicle sequence, let alone what type of vehicle you're using and how you'll use it. You decide your fate, not a script writer perfecting his or her idea of a modern Indiana Jones or Max Payne by way of The Matrix.
And do you know what? Combining a distinctive, evolving game design with scenarios that favor how you'd like to approach them (within reason) keeps Halo 2 fairly fresh, despite being built for hardware that couldn't even render a single zombie from Dead Rising 3. It never feels too small scale, never feels limited, and just remains a fun game. It's pathetic that we're wasting all the new possibilities we could explore with current-gen technology, and building away from these experiences into further diluted design styles. We, as an industry, are better than that.
There are a few games that still stand up as prime examples of how this works though. Alien Isolation gets it. Saints Row 4, Dead Space 2, Batman: Arkham City, Borderlands 2, and Bioshock 2 all seemed to understand this, even if some of these games mentioned later had sequels that sadly forgot it as well. The only upcoming AAA games that seem to be aiming for this kind of artistic vision and focus are Sunset Overdrive, Batman: Arkham Knight, Witcher 3, Mad Max, and maybe Halo 5: Guardians. Everything else I keep seeing that isn't indie, seems to just follow this increasingly unsettling trend.
It's like we as an industry forgot what makes games fun. We got so enamored with our ability to hold the player's hand and just show them something cool looking that we forgot that they're supposed to be a participant. I wholeheartedly believe Naughty Dog, Ready at Dawn, and developers like them don't have malice in their hearts or want to manipulate our focus, but I have to question their approach to design just as wholeheartedly. Setpieces are not games, but moments made to reward the player for doing well during a particular section of a game. If you make the reward the main subject matter, then there's nothing left to reward the player with other than pretty visuals that could be outdone by the latest 3D animated film.
If we keep trying to make "next-gen" games without considering what truly needs to evolve, all we'll end up doing is making the exact same games we were playing before, just bigger, shinier, yet somehow more constricted and confined. Despite all the efforts to say that games are opening up and that players are being given more "options", we don't really seem to understand what options are anymore. The very concept of choice and player agency is lost on too many designers.
Being able to kill someone three different ways via a single different button prompt may be interesting for the moment, but just giving players the tools to figure out their own way of doing things is a thousand times more rewarding for them. We saw this work with Dishonored, and the players voiced their favoring of this movement a thousand fold, but all that praise fell on deaf ears with most developers.
Again, to a lesser extent, we saw this with Styx: Master of Shadows. If you failed in Styx, at least for most levels, it was because you simply made a mistake, not because you rejected a specific means of completing an objective. More recent strategy games like Amplitude's Endless series strongly ring true of varied player approaches to victory as well. We need to return that sense of control and agency back to the players. We are not making movies — games are never going to be movies, they are games. So let's let the players play.
I believe we can get to the point where we truly hit "next-gen" and the games start being worthy of that title. Realistically though, that's going to take time, and it will either be hindered or helped by which style of games audiences favor. If they keep pushing for experiences that are divergent and unique, and tire of games like Destiny that offer only a slightly modified flavor of the same instead a of true evolution, then we'll hopefully see a surge of new ideas and compelling IPs. If they don't… well, I guess there's always old but not forgotten games like Puppeteer and Halo 2.