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If there's one lesson that we, as gamers, have a hard time learning, it's NOT to be so swayed by the current trend to over-hype the MMOs we're looking forward to playing. In her latest column, Pokket takes a look at that notion and offers a few thoughts. See what she has to say and then leave your comments.
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I'm sorry but sites like this and any of the video game media is , at the very LEAST, partly to blame. You, the industry media, who does not make clear that you will not give an actual true point of view of games instead of being so scared too offend a game developer that will pay your bills. Until this trend of scratch my back i'll scratch yours stops we will never know just how bad a game is, going off of "professional" reviews. Yes we do get, for the most part, beta entry into games ahead of launch but most of us only get those after preordering. I think every article/advertisement for a game should be prefaced if that company has given your company anything.
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Well that was short. Would have been nice to see you expand a little. This is actually a pretty hot topic in the community right now, and you just kinda skimmed over it. This probably took you what, a half hour to write? Maybe less?
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I didn't guess it was a made up game. I actually thought you were talking about GW2. I agree it's the "suits" that are the villains for most problems we see in recent games, and that we (the players) need to take a step back from the hype train and be more reasonable with our expectations.
If we can just get rid of the so called "industry experts" who advise the suits about what sells well, maybe we'd see some more interesting games instead of re-skinned WoW clones.
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Just want to point out that she is completely off about WAR. It was originally almost completely PvE focused. But throughout alpha and beta testing the players kept demanding more / better PvP and they started turing their focus towards that. In the end we wound up with a game that had some of the worst PvE, made even worse by constantly changing / updating gear & rewards for PvP while completely ignoring PvE rewards (PvE gear hasnt been updated like PvP gear since day 1).
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Good article, and completely true.
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It´s very shortsighted to blame problems on suits when it comes to missing elements in games. The devs from SWTOR (an example I know) have said they love playing their own game. If that's so, they are probably unable to see why for a lot of people it feels stale and outdated. That's a problem the 'suits' can't help with. And it might be the shareholders' problem, as they are the ones to tell the 'suits' to make more money.
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
I'm going to have to agree with her. I said what she has said here in different words before. I think overhyping is what went wrong with SWTOR, I've felt if they would had been more humble and not proclaimed to be the next wow or wow killer things would have been a little different for them and us.
With respect to wow's A team and working on Titan, this game is going to be so overhyped and expectations are going to be so out of what reality is, I'm not sure what kind of chance it has, it's a huge challenge on the so called A teams part, I hope they are just having fun with it and humble themselves to thier creation and can disregard all the negative comments that are going to be no matter what.
"I've learned that the best way to get around this is to just not overhype games anymore. "
I've learned my lesson as well.
I'm called jaded, hater, doom & gloom expert and other filth because of it. And you know what? I'd rather be this way and still get something out of the latest vapid title without feeling the need to go on a rampage mode about how the game done me wrong when I do decide to put it down (temporarily or for good).
"The same issues that happen in the game industry happen in other industries as well."
Which other industries can get away with releasing a buggy, half-assed product and have customers eating it all up no matter how many times history repeats itself?
People may overhype themselves which in turn could lead to disappointment but it's entirely their own damn fault. Shouldn't we know better by now? It is 2012 after all...
Let them learn the hard way. Carry on with your own life, don't waste any energy on the rest.
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Personally, I am well aware of how high my expectations about a game are. I try to keep them level. I also take everything the media (like, you know, mmorpg.com) with three to four pounds of salt. Because like it or not, the VG media are in a very uncomfortable position between two chairs: Players and Industry.
And they're shifting their buttocks more and more onto the side of the business. Anecdote: I am currently looking for a job as editor, and many ads state explicitly that "rephrasing press releases" is one of the core duties of the job. Let that sink in. Yes, that sounds exactly like "gaming magazines are marketing extensions".
But back to the "don't blame too much on the execs": I think that devs often are in a similar position as editors: They have to please gamers, but they report to the suits. And depending on specifics, those suits might have an influence in how the game is created.
Take TOR, for example. It has many faults that the devs can be blamed for (like those aweful lifeless worlds and the tube-like zones). Others, I have a hard time seeing devs making such decisions. Like using the Hero engine for the game. It feels unresponsive (really bad for all those jump-and-run sequences), it has abysmal loading times and heavy segmentation, it has rough collision detection (I love falling to my death in an elevator because the platform caused the solid ground to become permeable for a second). It apparently doesn't even allow for a real 'free' camera look, instead snapping the camera to its default position the moment your toon moves. After nine months, this is still not adressed. And to top it off, the camera and player movement in itself is clunky and jerky. After 100ü hours with TOR, the simplest thing of them all still doesn't come naturally: Camera movement.
So, it's all well and good to say: "Players, lower your expectations!", when you and the VG companies do their best to stoke them, and try to alleviate any doubts (regardless how justified they were in hindsight). It's really more like. "Players, when will you learn and become cynical?! All we write is basically bullshit, and you cannot trust anything we or the companies proclaim. The only way to judge if a game might be for you? Peer review!"
Which is, by the way, how I have begun looking for good games. Thus far, it works like a charm.
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I think all you need to consider a movie a gem is for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to appear in some capacity. ;)
I've become a cynic about video games, much to the displeasure of most of my gaming buddies, and I refuse to buy into the hype. It's worked out pretty well so far, as they quickly pass the honeymoon period and drop the game they were so excited about.
I really don't think overly high expectations are the fault of the gamer, though. We're an excitable breed by nature, and publishers have learned to use that to sell subpar crap. I place the blame on the publishers and developers, and in many cases 'news' sites like this that parrot everything a PR marketing team says about a new title.
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I don't feel my expectations are too high, I believe where I have played MMO's for 15+ years I have seen a trend. The trend being older games had way more features than todays mmo's. Features that every mmo should have they no longer think about adding. Think back to UO, DAoC or SWG, those games had more features than the current mmo's being released. By leaving out some of those great features they automatically fail in most mmo'ers eyes or at least in my opinion.
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Game editorials and movie reviews are much the same as sports radio: they are meant to provocative in some way so that people will read them. I think Pokket does that pretty well, as is evidence with all the hate and vitriol.
The point though is a valid one and no one is to blame but the consumer. We buy the game, participate in the PvP, get tickets to movies, and in general support corporations that do not give us what we want. We are a group of Charlie Brown's always thinking Lucy is going to not pull the ball away this time. Companies HAVE NO INSENTIVE to make better games or go outside of the boc because the gamer is going to lay his money down. In regards to WoW, which even in hatred gets more press than it probaly deserves, why should someone try and do better? The WoW player plays WoW for the same reason the McDonald's go goes to McDonalds - its fast easy and familiar. McD fries (for those of us who like them) have not been consistently the yummy fries we remember, but we keep going back. We keep oping it will be and if not, its familiar. So why open a competitive place nearby with something NEW when I know, regardless of how good my food is or good my prices are - you are still going back to McD anyway. So what insentive does a company have at all to try and win your WoW money? No matter how good your game is, X Million people are still going to play WoW as well.
We throw a lot of dirt onto the suits at EA. Well deserved maybe, but the gaming consumer keeps handing over his or her money. Want EA to at least pretend to have a creative conscience? Stop buying their games. Take away their money. That is the way to get them to notice. And you have to do it consistently until you get the changes you want.. Spend the money on the games that DO push the envelope. If you have $15 a month you spend on WoW until something better comes, I would suggest spending it on as many indie games as you can manage to spread the wealth around on. Even if you don't play.
Companies give us crap because we keep paying for crap.
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Originally posted by Icewhite
Pretty much this ^
While I agree on the general idea of what pokket says in this article, I also find it highly hypocritical. To be fair, she's hardly the only person guilty of this. Hell, I've seen Total Biscuit, in the same podcast, go from stating 'MMOs are inherently bad games' to 'I think I'm just done w/ MMOs' to 'we as gamers are definitely part of the problem' to 'Planetside 2 is the future of MMOs' to 'Planetside 2 will be my next MMO no doubt'.
I'm not even sure that a lot of game journalists even realize they do this half the time. They just get caught up in the next hot thing, and then retract their statement later once they've full absorbed it. In fact, it's very rare to find game enthusiasts who are good at being objective about games. Critics like TB have their moments, but often end up flip-flopping their impressions later.
One thing's for sure, the next generation of gaming will be interesting to watch. We have the growing indie movement, a consumer base full of jaded gamers with little-no concept of what constitutes a good game, and a growing movement to get back to the roots of gaming. Will we see a re-established focus on games as games? Are we stuck in this rutt of interactive movies, that have budgets bloated about as far as they can go? Or will we see a new direction form?
Time will tell.
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Originally posted by logan400k
Part of the problem with this, though, is that it gives people the impression that if they stop supporting crap it won't be getting made. While theoretically, this is true, it rarely ever actually happens. When it comes to larger companies, especially, they have it down to a science of how to appeal to the masses. And the simple truth is, people in their base nature, will always buy crap. There's no real getting around that.
The best way for real change is to instead try and rally people around supporting newer / better ideas. Support the people trying to breath fresh life into the industry, instead of focusing on taking money away from those ruining it. We're starting to see this becoming more prevailant with indie games, and as a result we are actually starting to see some really creative & interesting games.
I'm guilty as a gamer as well, one minute I will praise a game the next I hate it. It's just how it goes, as I figure more out about games I like dislike or I just realize my perspective needs to change because I got to caught up in all the hype. For example GW2, I started getting bored I see people saying you have to play it differently and well I come to find you do. It still doesn't fit the mold for me completely but its fun for the 4-5 hours I might play it each week and its not a race its a marathon for me and I'm on cruise control, I like it that way.
Only reason I do it though , take this website for example is because I'm browsing for some news on my smartphone and I don't have to log in to post, I hardly ever visit mmo sites on my gaming rig, to busy killing stuff and looting.
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What is "real"? How do you define "real"?
Sounds like someone is disappointed with the latest and greatest?
For some, the 'hype' surrounding a particular game is more than the game deserves. For some, it's dead on, and for others, there wasn't enough hype for said game. It all depends on the particular player, the particular game and what the player's preferences are.
I for one think the 'hype' surrounding a newly released game was very justified. Others don't. Another newly released game was found by many to be way over hyped.
I think one of the biggest issues is the extremity of the hype. One person says, "X game is the second coming" and repeats that mantra until others start to think every potential fan of that game thinks the same thing. Then those on the fence play that game and think, "Well, it's good, but it ain't that great". Then they come running to the forums to say, "This game was way overhyped!". The reverse is also true.
And of course, those who got tired of the 'hype' of one game will be the loudest detractors if they happen not to like that game. So then the game will have "failed to live up to its hype".
And the beat goes on.....
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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B.F. Skinner
Originally posted by Betaguy
I totally agree. I remember playing Asherons Call. I could improve my speed running simply by...running! These days I'm pretty much limited to the speed I run, hence mounts which again are limited. Its a small thing but there are plenty more examples. The rpg market of mmo's is truly limited to the same old hash these days. TSW tried to get away from that and in most people's eyes failed. But at least they tried. atm Rift is the only game I'm playing as I feel it offers the most variety in an otherwise fairly stale market. And thanks to SWTOR I will never preorder a game again!
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The problem is overhype, expections, what has been preceived as success and what has been preceived as failure. Video games are a large Industry now. While I am under the opinion that pokket's articles tend to lack much substance, I understand that she has limitations imposed on her. I was surprised that DF:UW got mention among the bohemeths of the genre in her gameface. People tend to forget the websites and their columnists are part of an Industry as well. Bashing products not only gets advertisement monies pulled but also discourages other potential advertisers from doing business.
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Originally posted by logan400k
In theory, this line of thought might work. In practice, the line isn't so neatly cut.
For example, there is marketing. The job of marketing is to increase demand, or even create demand. And 'resisting' marketing can be a full-time job (and or render you fully paranoid ;-)). And no, advertisments are not even the tip of the iceberg. There is a reason companies use considerable precentages of the money invested in a product in its marketing.
In short: If you claim that the consumers and customers are solely to blame because we could just as well not buy, be very aware that the industry manipulates us by every angle they can possibly reach into buying things we don't need or don't really want. And it's working like a charm - it's 'simple' psychology.
It's not just ads in print, online and TV. It's not just providing free test samples ('just keep them'), Beta access and other goodies ('Exclusive Preview!') to reviewers. It's not even just implying that this supply of timely and free samples could just as well dry up. It's also not only going into various 'public' review systems (like amazon.com) and buying reviews, faking them. For all you know, I could be paid by any number of companies to write something nice about them. Or something not so nice about another company. Or maybe their marketing rep just guilt-tripped me on a personal level into not writing too much about the flaws of a certain game... I could go on and on, but it all boils down to this:
Customers are being naive if they think their decision to buy or not to buy is something only they make. They're constantly being influenced on multiple levels by people wanting to sell them stuff. And even if you know their methods, you are not immune. You may resist a few (usually the most obvious ones), but they are legion. And they are clever.
edit: Take, for example, your average Supermarket. I don't know how things are handled in your country, but in mine (Germany), there is one type of wares put along the queue where you stand in line at the cashier: Single-piece sweets or sweets in (very) small packages. They're neatly placed at about (under)arm's height.
This isn't happenstance or a weird choice. They're put there deliberately, so little children can reach out and take them easily when their parents are distracted by the cashier. Those wares even have a name "Quengelware", or in English "Whinewares". Because if the parents don't get those children their sweets, there will be whine. And thus, super markets istrumentalize children to sell things to their parents.


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I think gonzoga could pull this off, and then maybe a fight against Nelson or one of the winners of the other fights mentioned. I think a lot of fans are sleeping on gabe thinking he's a gatekeeper. But he's evolved his game and he's now a threat on the ground and standing. If I remember correctly he did have Cain hurt when they fought too....
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"I don't call the fighting in my films 'violent', I call it 'action'. An action film borders between fantasy and reality. If I were to be completely realistic in my films, you would call me a violent, bloody man. I would simply destroy my opponent by tearing his guts out. I wouldn't do it so artistically." ~Bruce Lee
Stipe is a helluva athlete, is very talented and has loads of potential which is constantly developing....but Gonzaga's sustainable enough striking coupled with arguably the second or third best BJJ at HW and veteran caginess is a dangerous combination for a relatively young fighter.
I'm not saying Gonzaga has been "reborn" by any stretch since his return to the UFC, because his talent was always there he just got so complacent and lax and content to stand, but an APPLIED Gabriel Gonzaga, who already has some solid striking, is aware that he's got power but it isn't his bread and butter and aware of his BJJ strengths, is a major threat to almost anybody at HW IMO.
Gonzaga is the epitome of the sleeper HW. If I were Miocic's camp, I'd have asked for Schaub to build back up and capitalize on the Nelson win. I know that's a step down, but Gonzaga can play spoiler gatekeeper to so many....
1 Junior Dos Santos
2 Daniel Cormier
3 Fabricio Werdum
4 Antonio Silva
5 Travis Browne
6 Josh Barnett
7 Alistair Overeem
8 Frank Mir
9 Stipe Miocic
10 Roy Nelson
Cormier is dropping to LHW. Who knows how long JDS is out for. The people in bold are booked. He just beat Nelson. The next marquee HW fight is Mir/Reem 3 weeks from now. He could wait for the outcome of that fight but it might not give him a fight. If Reem wins they will probably setup Reem/JDs. They have wanted that for a while. Mir could retire if he loses. Plus who know what kind of injuries they will suffer. The next marquee HW isn't until December 6th, Hunt/Bigfoot. It could be until March/April before one of them is ready. He could be looking at 9 month lay off. Stipe hasn't fought since June. GG is healthy, in shape and not far behind him in the rankings. GG is just out of the top 10, where as Stipe is just inside of it. This match up makes the most sense for Stipe. He could face GG on either the Silva rematch card or the Fox card in January. Both would be great exposure for him.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Genetic engineering of Plum pox virus resistance: 'HoneySweet' plum—from concept to product
What is plum pox?
Plum pox is a plant disease that infects stone fruit trees including peach, nectarine, plum, apricot and cherries. The disease, which is also called Sharka (the Slavic name for plum pox) disease, is caused by the plum pox virus (PPV). It is considered the most serious virus disease of stone fruit trees. Plum pox is spread from tree to tree by aphids and through infected budwood used for grafting, which is the normal method of propagating stone fruit trees. Symptoms of plum pox infection include leaf and fruit yellowing, fruit deformation, and premature fruit drop. A tree suffering from plum pox can go into serious decline, especially if the tree also becomes infected with other viruses.
What does plum pox mean to me as a consumer?
Presently, plum pox is not an issue for consumers. PPV was first found in the U.S. in 1999 and was subsequently eradicated by destroying the infected and surrounding trees. Tree destruction is the only means of control once trees are infected. The 10-year eradication program cost about $40 million and took out 1,675 acres of trees in Pennsylvania. Since Pennsylvania is not a major stone fruit-producing area, the consumer market for fresh and dried plums in the United States was not significantly affected.
The concern is that if plum pox becomes widespread in the U.S., the disease could cause a major disruption in the availability of plums, prunes and other stone fruits if no solution to the plum pox problem is available. So to ensure that the U.S. consumer continues to have access to the widest variety of fruit, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) began a research program to develop plum trees with resistance to PPV. More information about plum pox outbreaks in the U.S.
What is being done to eradicate the PPV infection in the U.S.?
PPV has been detected in New York and Michigan and appears to have been eradicated as it was in Pennsylvania through tree destruction.
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) doing about plum pox?
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), an agency of USDA, is responsible for preventing the introduction of plant pathogens into the U.S. All fruit nursery stock for importation is tested for a range of known fruit tree pathogens, especially those that are not known to occur in the United States (exotic pathogens). APHIS plum pox program
What is ARS doing about plum pox?
ARS has an active research program to develop a better understanding of the virus and how mechanisms of resistance may work in trees. The primary goal of the research program is to produce PPV-resistant trees.
Because developing a PPV-resistant plum tree is not a simple or quick project, ARS has not waited until plum pox has a major presence in the U.S. to begin research. Rather, ARS has taken the proactive step of developing a PPV-resistant tree and doing the testing required to allow genetically engineered trees to become available, before plum pox precipitates a crisis in this country. (Link: Researchers involved in developing and testing HoneySweet)
How was the PPV-resistant plum developed?
ARS researchers have developed a PPV-resistant tree through genetic engineering. This work was done with the European plum, which is the species (Prunus domestica). The gene for the PPV coat protein was separated from the PPV and inserted into a piece of carrier DNA. This new piece of DNA was inserted into a bacterium-Agrobacterium tumefaciens-that was used to infect cells extracted from plum seeds. The cells that were found to have incorporated the new gene into the plum DNA were then regenerated and grown into complete plum trees. These trees have the new gene in their DNA and are resistant to PPV.
The new PPV-resistant variety is named HoneySweet.
Do you know exactly what new genetic material is in HoneySweet?
Yes, we know all of the genes that have been added to HoneySweet.
Are the added genes in the fruit? Will I be eating foreign genes?
The new DNA is in the fruit. But genes are broken by digestive enzymes in the stomach. We have analyzed the fruit from HoneySweet and compared it with fruit from other plum trees, and there is no significant difference in composition in terms of nutrients usually measured in plums (sugars, acids, vitamins, fiber, etc.).
Can the virus DNA harm people?
Plant viruses do not infect animals or people. Thousands of infected trees grow in Europe and the fruit from these trees is eaten by people. There has been no instance of harm from eating the fruit. Also, a portion of all produce, whether from commercial growers or the home garden, is infected by various viruses. Such fruit contains coat protein and coat protein genes from these viruses, and people have always eaten them. In that sense, HoneySweet is no different than many other fruits that contain coat protein genes.
Is HoneySweet safe to eat? How do I know that?
HoneySweet has been evaluated by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and was found to be safe for the environment and equivalent to plums currently available to consumers. Plums are a good source of vitamins, minerals and other health-promoting nutrients. (More information about the genes added to HoneySweet)
How did you show that the HoneySweet trees are resistant to plum
Trees were tested in a greenhouse for five years. Plant tissue infected with PPV was grafted onto the HoneySweet trees, and none of the HoneySweet trees developed plum pox disease. Trees were also grown in Spain, Poland and Romania, where PPV is now indigenous, and after 15 years of testing, the HoneySweet trees have never been infected by transmission through aphids, which are insects that naturally carry the PPV virus from tree to tree.
Have HoneySweet trees been grown in orchards in the United States?
Two small demonstration orchards have been planted in the U.S. but HoneySweet has not been released to the commercial market.
Could HoneySweet pollinate other trees?
HoneySweet will cross with other European plum trees.
HoneySweet pollen can fertilize other European plum trees but not Japanese plums or other stone fruits such as peach or apricot. To find out how far HoneySweet plum pollen will travel to other European plum trees, over 12,000 seeds from non-genetically European plum trees were evaluated over 11 years at distances from 230 to more than 3,500 feet from a HoneySweet planting. Only 39 of the over 12,000 seeds were found to have received HoneySweet pollen and most were from the trees closest to the HoneySweet planting. These results showed that plantings of HoneySweet plum can coexist with plantings of non-genetically engineered plums. (More information about pollination and crossbreeding )
Have APHIS, EPA and FDA approved the release of HoneySweet?
After seven years of evaluating the data that USDA researchers submitted to the three U.S. regulatory agencies responsible for overseeing genetically engineered plants, HoneySweet was deregulated by APHIS, FDA reviewed HoneySweet and had no questions about the fruit's safety and wholesomeness, and EPA registered HoneySweet based on its safety and effective resistance to PPV.
Am I likely to see HoneySweet plums in my grocery store soon?
People are not likely to see these plums and prunes in stores anytime in the near future. Plum pox is currently eradicated in the U.S. But as with most foreign diseases, there is the potential that plum pox will become established in the U.S., and all of our current plum tree varieties are susceptible. Since it takes years to develop and multiply new varieties, we can't wait until the problem becomes endemic to do the research to have resistant trees. USDA needs to be ready before the problem becomes a crisis. (More information about how HoneySweet is expected to be used)
Is ARS consulting with plum growers and the nursery industry about the
planned release of a genetically engineered (GE) plum?
ARS research horticulturalist Ralph Scorza and his USDA colleagues maintain contact and dialog with growers and fruit industry groups so that there is a flow of information on PPV, HoneySweet, and the needs of the growers as they continue to provide safe and wholesome fruit and fruit products to consumers. Information has been supplied to consumers through popular press articles, lectures and other outreach activities. More information for the plum orchard industry
Where can I get more information about HoneySweet
development and ARS plum pox research?
Contact Kim Kaplan, ARS Information Staff, 301-504-1637, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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British Prime Minister makes unexpected visit to LibyaBy CASSANDRA VINOGRAD
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, listens to Britains Prime Minister David Cameron as he delivers a speech in Algiers on Wednesday.LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron made an unexpected visit to the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Thursday and announced that U.K. police officers will travel to the North African nation to investigate the Lockerbie bombing.
He also held bilateral talks to explore what support and expertise Britain can offer to Libya to strengthen its security and defeat terrorism.
Cameron told a press conference in Tripoli he was delighted that police would be able to visit Libya and look into the issues around the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town. The attack killed 270 people, many of them American.
The death last spring of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi a former Libyan intelligence agent and the only man convicted over the Lockerbie bombing renewed pleas from victims relatives for further investigation of the bombing. After the 2011 fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Britain asked Libyas new rulers to help fully investigate.
Cameron also said Britain was prepared to provide training and advice to Libya amid growing concerns over security in the region, pledging to help Libyas police and army.
The prime ministers visit to Tripoli which came shortly after a stop in Algeria, where he struck a security partnership also was just days after the U.K. Foreign Office warned of a potential threat against the British embassy in Tripoli.
Just before that, Britain joined other governments in urging its citizens in Benghazi, Libyas second-largest city, to evacuate in response to what was described as an imminent threat to Westerners.
The Foreign Office on Thursday would not comment on the status of those threats but said it was taking appropriate measures.
But Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan described the calls for British and other European nationals to leave Benghazi as sort of a precautionary measure, telling reporters at a joint press conference with Cameron that the situation is not worth worrying over.
He accused anti-revolutionary forces for being behind all the talk about Benghazis deteriorating security situation.
The security situation is fine, recovering and improving, Zidan said, praising Cameron for visiting Libya and calling him a responsible and a courageous man who cares about his countrys interests.
Earlier Thursday, locals greeted Cameron as he toured Tripolis famous Martyrs Square amid tight security.
Cameron also visited a police training center on the outskirts of Tripoli, telling police recruits it was very good to be back. He last visited Libya in September 2011, just after the fall of Gadhafi.
I will never forget the scenes I saw in Tripoli and Benghazi, Cameron said, according to Britains Press Association. The British people want to stand with you and help you deliver the greater security that Libya needs. So we have offered training and support from our police and our military.
The U.K. will double the number of advisers working on training Libyan forces to 16, bring the number of police advisers to three and embed another expert with Libyas ministry of the interior.
Members of the Libyan navy will be invited to attend a five-month training course in England, and the U.K. will fund a 4.5 million-pound ($7.1 million) job creation package focusing on ex-militia.
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[edit] Mission
Configure a caching nameserver on a iRedMail server to speed up DNS lookup.
[edit] Advantage
Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed domain are served from cache.
"named" gets a request for domain resolution.
It checks whether the request can be satisfied from cache. If the answer is in cache and not stale, the request is satisfied from cache itself saving a lot of time. If request can't be satisfied from cache, named queries the first parent. If it replies with the answer, then named will cache the response and subsequent requests for the same domain name will be satisfied from the cache. In case first parent fails to reply, named will query the second parent and so on.
[edit] Install Bind
We choose BIND which is the most common package on DNS server.
- On RHEL/CentOS:
# yum install caching-nameserver bind-chroot
- On Debian/Ubuntu:
- On FreeBSD:
[edit] Configure Bind
The main configuration file for named is /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf (actually, it's a symbol link to /var/named/chroot/etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf).
Below is a configuration file for a machine for iRedMail localhost only. The comments inline explain what each option does.
|File: /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf
options { // <-- BELOW ARE DEFAULT SETTINGS SHIPPED IN RHEL/CENTOS --> listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; // Those options should be used carefully because they disable port // randomization // query-source port 53; // query-source-v6 port 53; allow-query { localhost; }; allow-query-cache { localhost; }; // <-- END DEFAULT SETTINGS --> // <-- Add or modify below lines --> forward first; //using external DNS if no reference on this server forwarders { 188.8.131.52; // CPCNet DNS you should use the DNS from your ISP 126.96.36.199; // Google DNS here is the sample DNS }; // <-- END --> };
Since the DNS cache server is for iRedMail local use only, so the IP listen and query is only for localhost. If you want to share the DNS caching for local network for any query, you need to modify the config file to your own.
Start named now, and make it start while system startup:
- On RHEL/CentOS:
# /etc/init.d/named restart # chkconfig --level 345 named on
- On Debian/Ubuntu:
- On FreeBSD:
[edit] Use Bind as DNS server on your server
To use named, just open /etc/resolv.conf file and add the following line, it will make all DNS query carried on local named only.
|File: /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
If local named doesn't have DNS records which you requested, it will forward requests to DNS servers which listed in forwarders {} in named config file.
Now try to ping any domain and you will find that the server cannot resolve any domain name. That mean the domain only query itself the server itself.
To start the DNS caching service
# service named start
and then check the log to see the service starting status log
# cat /var/log/messages Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 -u named -c /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf -t /var/named/chroot Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: adjusted limit on open files from 1024 to 1048576 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: using up to 4096 sockets Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf' Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535] Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535] Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: listening on IPv6 interface lo, ::1#53 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: command channel listening on ::1#953 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: the working directory is not writable Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN/localhost_resolver: loaded serial 42 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN/localhost_resolver: loaded serial 1997022700 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN/localhost_resolver: loaded serial 42 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: zone 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN/localhost_resolver: loaded serial 1997022700 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: zone localdomain/IN/localhost_resolver: loaded serial 42 Mar 10 12:20:03 mail named[1522]: zone localhost/IN/localhost_resolver: loaded serial 42
This mean the service is started successfully.
Now you can try to ping any domain without any problem.
To make the DNS caching service start automatically everytime system bootup, simply enter:
# chkconfig --level 345 named on
Using caching-nameserver
Now your system will use your own nameserver (in caching mode) for resolving all domain names. To test if your nameserver use the following command
# dig fedora.co.in
Now if you use that command for the second time, the resolution time will be around 2-3 milli seconds while first time it would be around 400-700 milli seconds.
Example Below is two subsequent runs of dig for fedora.co.in . Notice the Query time.
# dig fedora.co.in ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> fedora.co.in ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43694 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 9 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;fedora.co.in. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: fedora.co.in. 18199 IN A 188.8.131.52 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: fedora.co.in. 31974 IN NS ns4.webcomindia.com. fedora.co.in. 31974 IN NS ns1.webcomindia.com. fedora.co.in. 31974 IN NS ns2.webcomindia.com. fedora.co.in. 31974 IN NS ns3.webcomindia.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.webcomindia.com. 31976 IN A 220.127.116.11 ns1.webcomindia.com. 31976 IN A 184.108.40.206 ns1.webcomindia.com. 31976 IN A 188.8.131.52 ns3.webcomindia.com. 31976 IN A 184.108.40.206 ns3.webcomindia.com. 31976 IN A 188.8.131.52 ns3.webcomindia.com. 31976 IN A 184.108.40.206 ns4.webcomindia.com. 166378 IN A 184.108.40.206 ns4.webcomindia.com. 166378 IN A 188.8.131.52 ns4.webcomindia.com. 166378 IN A 188.8.131.52 ''';; Query time: 531 msec''' ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Mar 10 15:18:56 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 277
The query time is long at the first time.
Enter the command again and then you will see the query time is greatly reduced that mean the caching service running successfully.


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i'm sure deep in side he had a small smile going on
i'm sure deep in side he had a small smile going on
Ben Fowlkes @ MMA Junkie
"You're telling me that Fitch, who's already had a better career than 90 percent of active welterweights, and who's been with the same organization for more than seven years, has priced himself out of a job with $66,000 in show money? Seriously? Take away taxes, training expenses, his management's cut, and all the other miscellaneous stuff that eats into a fighter's pay, and that's not a ton of take-home cash for a night of professional cage fighting. If that's too much for a guy like Fitch, most other fighters should go ahead and start working on that law school application right now because the future is grim."
These guys seem share your opinion Sakara. Class acts.
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Well he just took a 50% pay cut. Hope he's happy.
There are many paths to freedom, not all are peaceful
You see apparently hostile work environments give out discretionary bonuses (300k) and gifts in honor of your newborn baby but fug'm for putting you in a a title fight and a video game. Whens that wsof game coming out maybe fitch will get some of the royalties to go with his whoping 30k salary. The way Fitch fought I mean lost to GSP was proof he wasnt worthy. Now the way he lost to Burkeman is proof the UFC wasnt crazy to let him go. Fitch was a niche fighter he handily wrestlefug'd top 20-11 welterweights he couldnt beat any top 10 guys except Thiago. Now he has lost his niche, he's on the decline.
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None of the fighters will get a penny from the video game, that was Fitch's issue. UFC felching every cent they can.
Maybe the fighter on the cover will get a crisp Andrew Jackson.
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PRESTONSBURG — Community members joined together in Prestonsburg, Sunday afternoon, in an effort to raise awareness about the problems facing the region due to drug addiction and the many needs that are still left unmet.
Communities Against Drug Addiction organized the event, which included free barbecue, singing and demonstrations by Dance Etc. and Adams Middle School archery students. But the focus of the event was to call attention to the extent of problems caused by addiction and to rally public efforts to combat those challenges.
"There's not a single family, in this town, in this county, that has not been affected somehow by addiction," CADA member Leslie Howell said. "Whether it's your loved one or yourself, whether it's vandalism to your property, whether your parents are afraid to go out, whether you've been robbed, whatever — we're all in this together, people. We're all in this together and we are all affected.
"We have to have our elected officials. We have to have our officers. And we better come together. We better come together. With God's help, that's the only way we're going to solve this problem. It's the only way."
County Judge-Executive R.D. "Doc" Marshall said it was encouraging to see about 60 people turn out for the event, but he added that many more should have been there.
"I think each one here realizes that this parking lot should be full," Marshall said. "It should be running over."
Marshall said everyone has a role to play in combatting drug addiction.
"Addiction is a horrible, horrible way of life, a state of mind that is alter and these people need help," Marshall said. "It is up to us as local officials, as individuals who care to reach out and do that."
Donna Desarro-Raynal gave a sermon at the event and emphasized that many misconceptions about drug abuse must be overcome in order to effectively confront the problem.
"The notion that substance abuse is not happening in our churches and neighborhoods, on our streets, is just about the biggest lie we can tell …" Desarro-Raynal said. "We can open our eyes to what God might do with us, out of the difficulties, tragedies even, that drug addiction can produce. That's the real truth, that positive and effective ways beyond drug addiction are possible.
"Pretending that drug addiction only affects certain people, those who aren't like us, well, that's hogwash. This disease does not discriminate. It is not about economics, education, upbringing, social class, status, church-going, sinning or anything else. It is a disease, like diabetes or high blood pressure, and we must all recognize that."
Carla Smith, from Knott County, also spoke at the rally, touching on some of the tangential problems caused by rampant drug addiction, particularly in the area of crime.
"For the past decade or so, it has been no secret that the problem in that area has been intensifying greatly …" Smith said. "My family has been hurt a lot. My mother has been robbed several times, broken in on repeatedly. Her living room windows are nailed shut, because there was a man coming through her window one night. She got her attacked walking her little dog, taking her out to the bathroom at night."
Smith said Kentucky State Police has been extremely helpful in catching lawbreakers, but she added that law enforcement alone does not solve all of the problems. She said there are many victims who currently do not have any outlet for their pain.
"I think it's really sad that, in my community, there's no help for families like mine," Smith said. "There's no support. There's no free counseling services for families that have been traumatized over and over again. Especially if you have small children that you have to keep explaining to why this is going on and why it's going to get better, that's hard to do, after you've done it 15 times."


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Ray Brook There were no injuries reported after a small plane carrying three people crashed in the Adirondack wilderness near Lake Placid on Thursday, Feb. 21.
The Van's Aircraft RV-10 crashed around 6:30 p.m., according to Essex County Emergency Services Director Don Jaquish. A state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) crew led the three out of the forest at about 2:30 a.m. Friday.
On the plane were Michael Oster, 54, Jeff O'Connor, 58, and Frank Dombroski, 51, all of Westfield, N.J., according to DEC Region 5 spokesman David Winchell.
According to a flight plan observed by Adirondack Regional Airport Manager Corey Hurwitch, the three New Jersey men had planned to land the small plane at the Lake Placid Airport on Thursday evening.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation, Jaquish said, adding that original reports that the crash occurred near Nye Mountain in the High Peaks Wilderness were false. A statement by the governor's office concluded the crash site was actually just west of Lake Placid near Big Burn Mountain in the Mackenzie Mountain Wilderness Area.
"The latitude and longitude coordinates given to us by the passengers proved to be incorrect," Jaquish said. "For whatever reason, their GPS device wasn't accurate, so it took DEC longer to find them."
According to the statement by the governor's office, "Two DEC Forest Rangers initially responded to the Mount Jo trailhead on the Adirondack Loj Road and headed to the crash site on snowshoes and carrying cold weather gear for the crash victims. A second team of four Forest Rangers started a short while later carrying equipment for evacuating the three men."
A forest ranger was in direct phone contact with the men at the crash site.
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The Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with more than 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Home to the ancient Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified by its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four of the world's major religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism—originated here, while Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam arrived in the first millennium and shaped the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early 18th century and colonized by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence, marked by a non-violent resistance led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
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India continues to face severe poverty, illiteracy, corruption and public health related challenges. More than 68 percent of the population lives on less than $2 a day.
A major issue affecting poverty in India is the country's long history with social division. This is a major weakness in the economy, that growth is not perceived as being sufficiently inclusive for many groups, especially Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and minorities. Additionally, gender inequality remains a pervasive problem and some of the structural changes taking place have an adverse effect on women.
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South Carolina NAACP President Lonnie Randolph delivered the keynote address as the Goose Creek NAACP Freedom Fund luncheon was held at Charleston Southern University.
The annual fundraiser – the organization's largest of the year – took place Sept. 28.
Randolph praised the city's NAACP branch for its involvement in the community, and urged everyone to stay active. He also touched on the importance of voting, regardless of party or individual candidates.
Those who choose not to vote are throwing away a precious right, he said.
"Register to vote, and let's make South Carolina a better place for all of God's children to live," Randolph said to applause.
Goose Creek NAACP President David Cakley called the fundraiser a success.
"We had an excellent event," Cakley said. "Dr. Lonnie Randolph advised us on the current affair surrounding minority voting in South Carolina, members of the Goose Creek Community were recognized, and a totally good time was had by all."
All ages took part in the program, including 10-year-old T'Auna Prioleau, who gave a speech entitled "I Am Coretta Scott King."
The speech, which honored the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was composed by T'Auna with help from her grandmother, Amanda Moore, and branch member LaVerda Kearse-James from Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church.
The Goose Creek NAACP presented four awards. The President's Award was given to Veronica Dukes for her dedicated service to the local branch.
The Community Service Award was given to Leroy Rivers, owner of Rivers Funeral home in Goose Creek, for services and support his company has provided to the community and the local branch.
A second Community Service Award was given to Howard Boyd, owner of Howard's Barber Shop and Barber School in Goose Creek. Boyd has been a supporter of the Goose Creek NAACP branch since it started and is well known in Goose Creek for his civic support.
Finally, former Berkeley County School District administrator Willis Sanders received the Educators Award for his 41 years in education and support of the local branch.
Kearse-James said the annual fundraiser was representative of the local branch's enthusiasm.
"The Goose Creek branch seems to have an intensity that is often lacking in other civic and civil rights groups," she said.
Kearse-James called this year's luncheon an inspiration, and called Randolph's address "dynamic, informative, passionate," and said that it "exuded an air of deep commitment to the mission of the NAACP."
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MANHATTAN -- National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell has got to be cringing just a little bit.
Radio Row at the Super Bowl is supposed to be a celebration of America's favorite sport. Instead, the 2014 version at the Sheraton has been an advertisement depicting a lot of what's wrong in the NFL.
In the first two days Dan Bickley and I have been conducting interviews, there's been more talk of former players' quality of life than there has been about the Seahawks and Broncos.
Former players of varying degrees have spoken about everything from concussions and suicide ideations to the beginning stages of CTE and marijuana as an alternative pain killer.
Former quarterback Ray Lucas, who played in 55 games with three teams from 1996 to 2002, told a harrowing story of the chronic pain he was in during and following his time in the NFL. After suffering through 19 concussions (that he knows about), Lucas was popping up to 80 pain killers a day.
The pain and addiction spun so far out of control for Lucas that he had planned his own suicide.
"I drove my truck to the G.W. Bridge and picked out my spot -- where I was going to drive off of it that Sunday when my wife and my kids went to church," Lucas said on Tuesday's show.
Shortly after devising his plan, Lucas got help. Jennifer Smith, of an organization called PAST -- Retired Athletes Pain Management and Medical Resource Group, phoned Lucas and said they would take his case. The former Rutgers star went to rehab, has been clean for three years and is helping other athletes dealing with similar issues.
Lucas was able to avoid becoming a member of a seemingly ever-growing list of former players who have taken their own lives.
The list of athletes dealing with chronic pain is never-ending.
Nate Jackson spent six years toiling in the NFL. His statistics don't pop off the page. His list of injuries detailed more closely in his book Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival From the Bottom of the Pile does.
In fact, Jackson was in so much pain, he regularly smoked marijuana during his playing days to deal with it.
"I believe it's a viable alternate to the opiate painkillers that are really passed out like peanuts -- Vicodin, Percocet," Jackson said during his interview on the show. "I believe weed helped me a lot. It helped my body relax, it helped me unwind mentally. I didn't need to reach for the pain pills, which don't react well with my body."
Considering Lucas' story, Jackson's argument makes a lot of sense. Not every player reacts well to or even wants to get involved with addictive prescription drugs. But to ask them to deal with the pain they go through without some sort of medication is foolish. Jackson painted the picture of an NFL where many players dealt with their pain by smoking.
Then there's the story of Leonard Marshall, the two-time Super Bowl champion defensive lineman of the New York Giants. Marshall, like many former NFL players, has been diagnosed with the early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
"Every one of the symptoms, I've been associated with," Marshall said. "Frontal lobe damage, chronic memory loss issues, the emotional roller coaster ride that you go on from having CTE -- pretty much every facet associated with CTE."
Marshall believes when he started playing football, he didn't have all the facts about the toll the sport could take on his body and more importantly, his brain.
"I knew when I signed up that I was probably going to have a broken arm or a broken wrist, maybe a problem with my back or something wrong with my neck -- I knew I was going to have some of that stuff," he said. "But what I did not know is I was going to have the issue of cognitive brain injury. I didn't know I was going to have that."
Problems like what Lucas, Jackson and Marshall have endured are not by any means universal, but they are very common. Common enough, in fact, to lead to a difficult question: Is football even safe for human beings to play?
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Passionate "Star Wars" fan Lee Seigel came to love the famous film series from a unique angle than most other fans.
"My first experience was my parents showing me 'Spaceballs,' the classic Mel Brooks spoof of Star Wars, when I was probably about 8 or 9," he admits. "I had no idea what it was mocking and wouldn't find out for several years after. The earliest time I can remember seeing the ['Star Wars'] films was early 1997 when they re-released them in theaters for the 20th anniversary. I was 13 and I finally got what the jokes in 'Spaceballs' were about."
Despite that sideways introduction, Seigel's gone on to make "Star Wars" a large part of his life. The Columbus-area Ohio Wesleyan University graduate and English literature major runs his own computer and electronics sales company, but moonlights as a Jedi Knight at splashy events like the upcoming Star Wars Day at the Toledo Mud Hens. Part of an organization known as the Rebel Legion, Seigel has taken his fandom to a new level of costumes and personal appearances.
"While it is not sponsored by Lucasfilm, they recognize the Rebel Legion as a premier volunteer costuming group," he said. "Which pretty much means that because we are a volunteer organization, we can use elements from the Star Wars universe to promote it. Events will contact us and request our presence and we do our best to oblige with as many members as we can. Our local chapter is the Great Lakes Base and encompasses Ohio and Michigan Rebel Legion members. In 2013, our local groups 'trooped' at 109 events in total and we expect that number to steadily increase as we get closer to the release of the new 'Star Wars' movies."
Choosing the chivalrous Jedi as a role to play at events came easily to Seigel.
"I have always been a fan of the Jedi as opposed to various alien races or the Sith," he said. "Some costumes are frankly just far more complicated and too much of a hassle. The Jedi costume is simple, all cloth, easy to wash and maintain, and my wife made the whole outfit for me. If anyone is interested in putting one together you can actually just adapt one of several patterns you can buy at your local craft store and find tips and instructions online at www.rebellegion.com/costuming.
In addition, the enterprising businessman also builds and sells his own lightsabers, the classic energy-blade weapon of the Jedi.
"I am by no means as skilled as many of the members in our community, many of whom build lightsabers for a living," Seigel said. "It always shocks people when they ask how much a really good lightsaber goes for and I say, depending on quality, you can pay anywhere from $100 to $2,000. The truth is, they are each a piece of art, and if you think about it that way, it's much easier to come to terms with.
"I am a sword collector actually, and that is where it started. Some people are gun fans, or knives, but for me ever since I was a child it was about the swords. He-Man, Thundercats, King Arthur, they all had these magnificent magic swords. So naturally I had to have a lightsaber of some kind. I started looking online to see what options were available and found thousands of people who were also passionate about lightsabers. This led to learning how to build them myself and ultimately selling the parts to my fellow fans. It was a pretty short trip from that to the rest of the costume, so why not go all out?"
Going "all out" has led Seigel to his other life in the Star Wars universe, one where he feels he has not only been able to fulfill a dream of his own, but bring a few smiles to the people he meets at events. That alone seems to please him the most.
"We do so many different kinds of events all throughout the year: library reading days, festivals and conventions, parades, and of course charity events," he said. "Those are the most special, seeing sick children smile for the first time in a long time is the best thing I think we can do. Seeing a face light up when Luke Skywalker asks them if they would like to take a picture is priceless. My favorite is how big their eyes get when I fire up the lightsaber and they see how bright and loud it is. But it's not just kids; adults sometimes get a bigger kick out of it because they remember what it was like to see the movies for the first time."
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Meanwhile, the Blues have launched a probe into claims that Yossi Benayoun has been the target of anti-semitic chants from Chelsea fans.
Real Madrid will use winger Jose Callejon as leverage in a player-plus-cash deal for Tottenham's Gareth Bale.
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is facing an eight-match ban for his bite on Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.
Doomed QPR have told manager Harry Redknapp that no players will be sold this summer without his blessing.
Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone admitted he may have to quit Spurs this summer - even if that means turning his back on the Champions League.
Aston Villa are set to release 33-year-old defender Richard Dunne on a free transfer in the summer.
Leeds will sign Nottingham Forest striker Billy Sharp in a £1.5m summer deal.
Birmingham have signed Scotland international Andrew Shinnie from Inverness on a pre-contract.
Wayne Rooney says it was bitter rivals City who inspired Manchester United to their record 20th title.
Chelsea are in talks with Bayer Leverkusen for German international striker Andre Schurrle, who is rated at £25m.
Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic has not forgiven Liverpool striker Luis Suarez for biting him on the arm at Anfield on Sunday.
Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany has no plans to quit the club despite being linked with Barcelona.
Arsenal have opened talks with Nigeria African Nations Cup hero Sunday Mba, 24, with the midfielder available for £700,000 from Warri Wolves.
Chelsea are in talks with Bayer Leverkusen for German international striker Andre Schurrle, who is rated at £25m.
Fulham have put a £4m price tag on 28-year-old goalkeeper David Stockdale, who is currently on loan at Hull City.
Reading striker Adam Le Fondre, 26, wants to quit the Royals and rejoin former boss Brian McDermott at Leeds.
Liverpool fear striker Luis Suarez will be hit with a 10-match ban for his bite on Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.
Ajax midfielder Christian Eriksen, 21, wants to join Manchester City with Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs all interested.
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Ronda Rich is a best-selling author and speaker as well as a syndicated columnist. Her local fans enjoy her Dixie Divas column that has been in The Jones County News since 2008 because of her wit, down-to-earth Southern humor, and true stories about the southern way of life.
Rich will be in The Jones County News office at 102 Stewart Ave., March 6, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. The public is invited to come meet Rich and bring their copies of her books to be signed. She will have copies of her latest book There's a Better Day A-Comin' and a few of her other works for sale.
The author's connection with the News came about when Rich was the guest speaker at the Jones County/Gray Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in December of 2007. She was a hit at the meeting and at an impromptu book signing that took place the afternoon prior to the event.
The deal for her column to appear in The Jones County News followed soon after. The author will be speaking at the Rotary Club of Jones County prior to her March 6 book signing.
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