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Dinner is good. Breakfast is ok. Rooms are small, without airco and situated under the roof. These summer in 2010 was extremely hot(35")
Room comfortable, wifi avaiable in bar Church next door chimes on the hour/half hour every hour
Clean bed, hot shower, good breakfast, Very small room
Nice people, good service, very clean City is very quiet
Too poor breakfast
the polite and friendly attitude of the staff and food nothing
Felt like luxury hotel although mid-priced, close to train station with good signage between station and hotel, staff helpful, excellent breakfast. TV Internet very bad, keyboard painfully slow, subsequent charges hidden. This was the only bad thing about my stay. Do not use TV Internet! Use the city library terminals instead.
Being in the centre of the city was great. Car parking good. Great atmosphere in the hotel, very relaxing stay. Tea and coffe making facilities in the room would have been a nice touch.
The location, free parking and the breakfast was very good. The title "deluxe" in the booking isn't required.
Great location within the town and hi quality food and wine.
food - good value for money trouble with the TV/movies
Convenience to where we needed to visit and the very friendly staff
The room was great value for money Need tea & coffe making facilities in your rooms. Also an iron and ironing board!
The position was superb (but then we were acquainted with the area). Easy to get to, easy to park, we liked the setup. Breakfast was very good too with a wide and plentiful choice ranging from fried food to fruit. Large foyer with plenty of seating too... I think a lot of people have criticised the lack of coffee/tea facilities in the rooms. We actually took our own along so that we could have a bedtime cuppa! Other than that we thoroughly enjoyed our stay.
excellent decor and peaceful
Breakfast was ok. Room was not in the hotel, but in a separate building across a road and a square. Basic backpacker quality room in a building without any facilities. Worth about half the price charged, and certainly should have been less than a room in the main hotel building
Easy to find next to station, good reasonably priced restaurant - open Sunday . Excellent gay friendly staff. Parking free.
The character of the dining area and the helpful & friendly staff. No tea & coffee facilities in the room.
Great staff. The location is perfect...close but not in the middle of the action. We stayed 10 days and didn't want to leave. I would have liked free internet access. Also, I was concerned about the door between the rooms and restaurant being locked at night. If I had been advised upon arrival rather than finding out when I tried to leave early one morning, I would not have been so startled.
The Hotel is located in a perfect position right in front of the station and the room was pretty comfortable. We booked a three bed-room and got a spacious four bed-rooom. As it was a Saturday night, it was a bit noisy in the square just before the Hotel.
Location to station
hotel staff were helpful & fine the way to reach my room
Nice rooms, very clean. The hotel is in the very centre of Roermond. Maybe just a little bit noisy.
Ambience and close to train station. The rooms had little ventilation. Not all windows opened up. No internet service. Food was okay.
facilities, breakfast entrance to the hotel was separate from the official building, breakfast and registration desk.
Made very welcome, even though arriving early. Restaurant very good. Staff very helpful. Junior suite was very comfortable. Disappointed that Wifi was not available in the junior suite. This should be available in all rooms in a hotel of this standard.
This is a very good hotel a little out of the way but well worth finding I only stayed for one night but would have liked to have stayed longer service and staff are exhalant
This is my second visit to this hotel for the reason I enjoyed my first visit so much
The accommodation was very comfortable and well equiped. The garden restaurant was lovely. An enjoyable experiance being able to eat alfresco.
The staff were very helpful and arranged an appointment at the Vets to get our dog's Pet Passport stamped.
This is now the 4th time we have stayed at this hotel, and each time we are made to feel welcome and valued. We stay here when we visit our children.
Friendly staff, cleanliness and comfort, we enjoyed this hotel very much N/A
The size and the facilities in the room The walls of the bathroom were not cleaned, even after I had written "clean me" on them! The Restaurant service was slow; I had to go into the kitchen to get the waitress after waiting 15 minutes to order! The bedroom block is 100m from the Hotel facilities.
Relaxing, lovely garden and room. Away from the town. Friendly staff. Good dutch food
Wanted a place to spread out and relax. It was perfect.
Staff efficient, food good, rooms clean, excellent location - maybe A/C could be added we had a very warm few days there - A/C would have been very useful.
friendly staff, close proximity to walks and Roermond, good breakfast n/a
Quite simply? It was a pleasure to come back too. 1/ Bathroom lighting too dark. 2/ Base of beds are very tatty.
I think it is a nice and good hotel I would like to use another time,
good environment no internet access(out of order)
excellent service,clean and friendly staff.
Large, bright airy, room. Good restaurant. Friendly staff
it is quit hotel for taking rest no it is very good hotel
nice stuff, good breakfast Could you install japanese fants into the web computer.
good service, location close to a forest (quite rare in NL) Restaurant might be better. The whole place looks like retirement home (style, colors, everything).
The hotel was in a lovely location and easy to find. The suite was very minimalistic, all dark colours and a cold atmosphere. paint was pealing from windows and there were cobwebs on the ceiling. The toilet was seperate from the bathroom in what can only be described as a broom cupboard. After using the toilet you then had to go to the bathroom to wash your hands.
For us was a perfect combination of a very nice room with a wonderful meal, we can only say good things about our stay in the hotel.
- large room, good food - thin towels
Friendly and homely athmosphere
Smallest castle in the Netherlands, beautiful and stylish. Good bedding. Spacious bathroom. Ipod/iphone dock. Free wireless WIFI. Gourmand dinner. Good breakfast. Reel value for money. Friendly staff with attitude to serve.
All round good experience
Perfect location, ten minutes from lovely town of Roermond and yet set in a park, quiet, rooms luxurious and the owners very helpful and friendly
I like the breakfast and the dinner of the restaurant. The surroundings are lovely forest. There was no refregigator and toothpaste in the room.
Excellent accommodation, staff & food
Good value, good sized rooms, free WiFi, plentiful free parking, good food at the restaurant - sometimes live music or a footy match in the bar area, decent breakfast.
We liked the hotel and the surroundings. Maybe they can inprove theit breakfast.
Breakfast was included The light in the room was too low and I kept banging my head on it. The man said he would move it.
Very friendly atmosphere, wifi very useful, perfect place to stop on way to other countries We had no dislikes
Helpful and friendly assistance from all, excellent food in the restaurant.
The location was ideal for the purpose of my trip The hotel was good. Signs for parking & hotel guests could be better
The purpose of our staying at this hotel was for us to visit Bruggen and we found it to be convenient for this purpose. Should we ever wish to visit Bruggen again in the future we would certainly use this hotel again. We navigated straight to Beesel only to find there was no name on the outside of the hotel.
The personnel were very friendly and we've got a great time there. The hotel and the surroundings are very quiet and nice. The WiFi connection is very very poor. Strichtly enough for browsing, but using skype is very troublesome.
the rooms are really small, but clean and nice, the hotel has a great restaurant and a very tasty breakfast.
My sister and I were visiting from Australia and most relatives live in the area so location was very important. No access to telephone, we would consider this a motel or bed and breakfast as nobody was in attendance during the day except in the morning.
Convenient for Roermond. Breakfast ok. Nothing else to . Front door not used. Back door open 24/7 (security?) On arrival key on hook on chalkboard. No staff. Had to call owner using UK mobile to find out if late return possible (yes - never locked). My booking said Room 1, double bed. Deluxe bathroom with shower. I got room 12. 2 single beds. Attic room up 2 flights stairs too steep to carry a suitcase. Asked about this at breakfast. Informed it was my mistake.Guess what..room 1 and 12 same price. Nonsense.
Fine and little hotel, nice staff, very good breakfast.
The location; the friendly staff. It would have been good to have had somewhere to sit in the evenings rather than being in the bedroom. The breakfast bread/rolls were variable in quality.
Friendly staff. Comfortable room. Lovely place. In short: everything
Cleanliness & spaciousness of room. Good breakfast Scruffy entrance. No reception.
Nice Breakfast and Nice Price. The room size is too small for simple double room.
The key was ready to be taken, eventhough there was no body at the reception.
Sleep / Eat
Staff welcoming and friendly. Beds good. Restaurant food excellent. Little bit noisy at 4:14am when the local night club shut.
Very friendly efficient staff
Wonderful atmosphere of the hotel, unique decor, so refreshing compared to hotel chains. Big room, big bathroom, comfortable beds, very clean. Lovely brasserie, reasonably priced. Charming village, very close to beautiful forrest. The breakfast is dissapointing. We didn't mind not having a proper buffet, but the annoying thing was bread basket, per person 2 paper-thin pieces of supermarket bread + 2 mini rolls. With a lovely bakery around the corner, at least the bread could have been better.
A great hotel in the city center. A very good value for a good price.
Parking problem
The whole ambience of the place was very good and relaxed No no no
it was cheap The hotel is situated in a very noicy area, lot of bars, a discotheque
Good restaurant (brasserie), helpful staff, very good food Hard to find the small town where hotel was located - very confusing road signs


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Common Encounters with Sub C, §367 and Other Rules in Restructurings
Tax Executives Institute - Silicon Valley Chapter
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 8:30 AM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Registration:................... 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Program:......................... 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Lunch:............................. 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Program:......................... 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
We are pleased to announce that Latham & Watkins LLP will present a ¾ day seminar on the common tax issues that arise during restructurings and transactions with multinational groups.
The first session, Day to Day Dealings with Subchapter C in Reorganizations and Restructurings, is intended to be a refresher on structuring tax-free transactions in a domestic corporate context. These aren't the once in a career transactions, but rather common issues encountered when trying to move the boxes around on the structure chart. A list of key topics includes Sections 368, 351, 355, 304, basis recovery and economic substance.
The second session, Common Encounters with Section 367 and Other International Tax Issues, will focus on how Section 367 affects outbound transfers of assets and stock and when such transfers can qualify for tax-free treatment. Also covered will be a number of international restructuring issues common to a US based multinational group.
The third session, Cash Rich Spin-Offs, Morris Trust Transactions and Other Recent Spin-Off Developments and Corporate Inversions/Expatriations, covers topics that have recently received extensive coverage in the business and financial press. When these articles run, CEOs and CFOs, call the tax people and want to know the "why and how"!
Speakers from Latham & Watkins LLP
Grace Chen, Partner (San Francisco)
Nicholas J. DeNovio, Partner (Washington, D.C.)
Larry Stein, Partner (Los Angeles)
Kirt Switzer, Partner (San Francisco / Silicon Valley)
Sam Weiner, Partner (Los Angeles)
When & Where
5201 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara,
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The Twelve Chairs
1970 (2000) - CBS FOX/Gaumont (Image)
review by Todd Doogan of
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Film Rating: A
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B/D
Specs and Features
94 mins, G, letterboxed widescreen (1.85:1), single-sided, single-layered, Snapper case packaging, theatrical trailer, film-themed menu screens, scene access (16 chapters), languages: English (DD 1.0 mono), subtitles: English
"I hate people I dont like."
Former Russian aristocrat Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) is summoned by his mother-in-law on her deathbed and told that her treasure of jewels was sewn up into the seat of a dining room chair, part of a set crafted by Hamms of London. The time is post-revolution USSR, and its a new peoples republic. The set held twelve, and at this point (now that his home is basically a retirement community and all the furniture was seized by the government to occupy museums all across the country) the chairs could be anywhere. Vorobyaninov needs the jewels to start his life over again (it pretty much sucks going from haughty aristocrat to a lowly office clerk in the Bureau of Licenses and Records), but hes got some competitors. Theres Father Fyodor (Dom DeLuise), who abused his position as a priest to gain the knowledge when the lady cleansed her soul and told him about the jewels. And theres Ostap Bender (Frank Langella), a con-man who joins up with Vorobyaninov willing to split the money in half in exchange for not turning him in to the "people". Fueled by greed (and with time being no friend), the three men chase the chairs all across the frozen landscape of Russia and back again, only to find that the old adage is true: "Hope for the best, expect the worst."
The Twelve Chairs
isnt your typical Mel Brooks film, and thats not a bad thing by any stretch. Its definitely got his signature moments, like when Vorobyaninov forgives his dying mother-in-law and gently cups her face in his hands to kiss her forehead... forgetting that he has a ink stamp in his hand (he thus sends her out "Cancelled on August 17, 1927"). Thats funny stuff and very Brooksian. But the great thing is that the film isnt always funny. There are actually some deep, heart-felt moments in here that just make it a much more well rounded film. And I think every one of his fans out there (let alone fans of any sort of comedy) will find this to be both engaging and entertaining. Dont worry, the film itself is a spoof of a work of Russian Literature (so he didnt stray too far from his spoofing path), and is based on the novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov. As is the norm for Brooks' cannon, the acting is top shelf, with DeLuise stealing the show and Mel Brooks making his usual cameo as Tikon, a former servant of Vorobyaninov, who injects enough silly humor to satisfy any Brooks fan.
On disc, this film looks great, despite its non-anamorphic presentation. Youd never guess it was made in 1970. There are some NTSC problems like edging and moiré (especially evident in the opening credits and on lace drapes) and a few moments of muddy grain (never minding the horrid looking CBS/Fox logo as the disc boots up). But for all its minor faults, I have to say that picture is very crisp and the colors are true. Audio-wise, you get a Dolby Digital mono track that sounds as good as you would expect for mono. It does its job, and there really is no need for any more.
The only extra is a trailer that looks rather beat up, but what are you gonna do? I wouldnt have minded a commentary, only because the film is so rarely seen. And it would be interesting to hear what Mel had to say about it 30 years later. Then again, Brooks has never really been too engaging as a commentator on laserdisc and DVD, so it's not a big disappointment.
Mel Brooks knows his comedy and with this one, he shows that he knows how to pull your heartstrings as well. If you havent seen
The Twelve Chairs
, youre missing out on a well-made and entertaining movie. This is a disc that absolutely belongs in everyones collection of Brooks on DVD.
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About Weil's Washington DC Office
Approximately 45 attorneys are currently based in the Dallas office.
Our Practice
Weil's Dallas office brings the best of Wall Street quality legal services to Dallas and the Southwest in five primary practice areas: Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking and Finance, Business Finance & Restructuring, Tax, and High Stakes Commercial Litigation. In addition, the Dallas office serves as an integrated gateway to our worldwide network of offices, providing our clients with access to a global platform of legal expertise.
The transactional lawyers in our Dallas office are ranked among the very best in the world for their work on Private Equity and M&A deals and have led some of the largest and most complex transactions handled by Weil. We advise a significant number of large market cap public companies as well as private equity firms based in the region and the portfolio companies owned and controlled by private equity owners. We are highly skilled advisors in connection with the relationships and issues that arise between ownership and management within the private equity industry. Our market-leading Finance and Tax lawyers work seamlessly with our PE and M&A teams on transactions, both in Texas and nationally. Weil also has preeminent Bankruptcy and Litigation lawyers in Dallas who advise clients on a range of high-profile matters.
Weil has been involved in the oil and gas transactional business since it opened its offices in Texas more than 30 years ago, and few law firms in the world can boast Weil's knowledge of the industry. The Dallas office has brought particular oil and gas experience that augments our prominent overall corporate practice. For example, we advised Kinder Morgan in its $38 billion acquisition of El Paso Corporation, creating the largest natural gas pipeline network in the US and in El Paso's sale of its E&P business, EP Energy Corporation, for approximately $7.15 billion to affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Riverstone Holdings, LLC. The former was one of the largest energy M&A deals of all time.
Awards and Recognition
- Jonathan Macke named a Dallas Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree
- James Griffin, Courtney Marcus and John Quattrocchi named to the inaugural Dallas Business Journal "Dealmakers" list
- Courtney Marcus named "Women in Energy" honoree
– Texas Lawyer
- Glenn D. West named 2017 "Lawyer of the Year" for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law in Dallas
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The Firm's Dallas office is also widely recognized for creating a diverse workplace that values teamwork and tolerance. For seven consecutive years, it has been ranked #1 for diversity among major law firms in the Dallas Diversity Task Force (DDTF) annual report. In 2015, it was honored with the DDTF's 10th anniversary "Frontrunner Award" for its longstanding work advancing the hiring, retention, and promotion of diverse attorneys. The firm's Dallas, Houston and Miami offices together have twice earned the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's coveted Thomas L. Sager Award, recognizing a law firm in the South/Southwest region for its outstanding commitment to workplace diversity.


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Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I'm 63 years young. I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we've assumed to be true about health and wellness...Tell Me More
Like everyone, I've had ample opportunity in my life to sit in waiting rooms. In the last several, however, I've noticed a trend that admittedly gets under my skin: the ubiquity of television news – and the negative events it routinely emphasizes. It's been part of the airport scene forever now, it seems, but lately I've come across it in more restaurants and even in clinic waiting rooms. (Nothing beats watching multiple cycles of the latest grisly murder story as you eat your lunch or are waiting in agony for a doctor, eh?) In some respects, I appreciate having more than the morning paper or the 5 o'clock newscast if there's a story I'd like to follow. With cable news and the Internet, we can assuredly keep on all the latest – what our go-to media sources choose to report of it anyway– 24/7. More than ever, we can get every detail, every commentary, every image associated with a given story. We can spend an entire day fixated on an event. We can watch a footage segment a hundred times if we please. Do we pay for this need to know, however? Does news exposure – specifically its heavy, menacing, and disturbing stories – have an impact on our personal well-being? What does it mean to have looming tales of death and destruction so frequently playing in our periphery? What happens to the human psyche (and body) when they're fed a steady diet of unsettling news bulletins?
We have friends who recently had their first child. Over dinner a few weeks ago, the new mother joked that she's timed the local news perfectly to catch the nightly "feel-good" feature story and weather while avoiding the initial doom and gloom reports. "Maybe it's just hormones," she explained, "but the news just throws me off my emotional equilibrium in a different way now. It doesn't feel healthy to immerse myself in the worst of the world and human nature every night. I just want to be present without all the bad stuff for a while." I can identify with her frustration. It seems like the news is too often a parade of muck and mayhem. The stories with the most shock value win, however demoralizing they are. (And then there are the obnoxious production effects: flashing red "alerts," multiple streaming tickers, menacing musical bytes.) These days it's hard to walk away from a newscast or even a newspaper without feeling like you need a shower – or at least an energy adjustment.
There's substance to be found of course – information relevant to personal and civic life. Even then, the endless news cycling of troubling events and violent images (e.g. war, famine, environmental destruction, bloody uprisings, etc.) leave an imprint that often disheartens more than it informs. As I sat in an airport boarding terminal recently, I saw a mother try to keep her young sons distracted from CNN's images of the Egyptian revolution and the initial military response. Was it important news? Yes, but that doesn't mean everyone needs to see it every waking minute. (And how about the question of exposing young children to these reports?) I don't know about you, but I don't need more things to worry about when I'm traveling.
The power of negative news isn't about political philosophies or cultural wars. We're human, it's true, and suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition. Information can help us understand our world and inspire us to work toward constructive change. Our constant access to all that ails, however, comes with genuine mental and physical health costs. Although we might think we don't participate in media representation of disturbing news, research tells us otherwise. A study of 89 people who were shown footage of four traumatic events showed that nearly 20% reported symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of the viewings. (Frequency of exposure was a factor in participants' emotional reactions.) As the head of the study explained, "'Acts of violence erode our sense of security and create intense feelings of anger, fear and helplessness. Watching these events and feeling the anguish of those who are directly experiencing them can impact on a certain percentage of individuals causing longer lasting effects." A meta-analysis of 23 research studies (PDF) focused on terrorism related media revealed a similar correlation with PTSD.
It may not be enough to simply walk away from the television either. A study of undergraduate students showed that simple distraction wasn't enough to erase the lingering anxiety and mood disturbance induced by a 15-minute random newscast. Need any good news, anyone? Although the group that was exposed to an unrelated lecture (distraction strategy) following the news excerpt didn't return to baseline mood measures, the group that participated in a 15-minute progressive relaxation exercise afterward did. (What does it say when we need relaxation activities to recover our equilibrium after a mere 15 minutes of a news broadcast? Maybe that's not such good news.)
The United States Department of Veteran Affairs reports that American adults spent an average of eight hours watching news reports in the days following the Sept. 11th attacks. The average for young children was three hours. The more footage adults and children watched, the higher stress levels they reported. The Oklahoma City bombing coverage elicited similar responses in viewers.
It's a new world we live in, where we're privy to every new wrinkle of death and destruction that rains down in some corner of the world. How do we process all of it? Can we? How can we prioritize our well-being while still remaining informed?
In an interesting article from a few years back, one therapist criticizes the modern practice of psychotherapy as disconnected from our experience of the world's pain, the "dark emotions" that naturally arise from our human empathy in response to the tragedy and destruction we witness in the world around us. It's an intriguing point. Until recent times, our context for experiencing the world and empathizing with those around us was very limited – a tribe, a town. Our modern media and the "connected world" hand us each, in some regards, the fate of Atlas. In Grok's day, he could effectively act on the threats to his community, heal beyond its contained tragedies. In our day, the stakes are much higher and the implied community much broader. The peril and calamity of an entire global society can stretch the emotional dimensions of our humanity past their coping limits.
Among her suggestions is the need to accept and make peace with the "inevitable pain of being alive and being humanly connected to others." Nonetheless, she explains, we must also bring a protective consciousness to our interaction with the world, "cultivating a deep awareness of emotions as in-the-body energies, and of the thoughts that both trigger and subdue them."
In the end, the question remains: is there a way to be informed in a meaningful, deeper sense while not immersing ourselves in the constant barrage of bad news? While we all have the power to turn off or throw out the TV or otherwise unplug, there's got to be a healthier middle ground between sticking your head in the sand and putting yourself in the middle of every human tragedy. What information truly obliges our attention for the sake of self-improvement and social action and what information simply constitutes unnecessary – even cruel – emotional clutter?
C. John Sommerville, author of How the News Makes Us Dumb: the Death of Wisdom in an Information Society, notes that our constant exposure to endless threads of instantaneous, disassociated "news" without the natural filters of time and context has the power to leave us overwhelmed and still lacking in larger perspective. We'd do better, he suggests, spending less time staying on top of each trivial update and devoting more time to discussing, reflecting, and thoughtfully acting on the major issues and events that we feel require our attention.
Finally, there's the larger issue of realigning perspective. There's power – and truth – living in the here and now. The relative peace of this moment for one person is as genuine and meaningful as the tragedy befalling another. The world, we must remember, is more than the sum of its crises.
Share what you believe about the intersection of an informed and healthy life. I'll look forward to reading your thoughts.
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Maybe I'm wrong here but, local TV is really becoming the horse and buggy as far as news goes.
Who tunes in at 5 pm anymore when you can just click on an internet news source at any time of the day.
Plus, if it's depressing, you can just click to this site, or any other positive healthy internet source, and get cheered up.
Being too connected to the media is "bad news" for me.
I was once a depressed, stressed, fat local TV news producer.
Not all news is the same. The emotional effect of reading about a violent event in the New York Times would seem less than seeing graphic footage of the same event on TV news.
Perhaps good advice is to ditch the TV and switch to reading the newspaper?
i read to the bottom of the comments before replying myself, and it's interesting how much most of us agree. but i couldn't resist putting in my two-cents-worth about how ignorant the people delivering the news seem to be! ever count the grammatical mistakes made by the newscasters? 😀 my mother keeps the television on a good part of the day — i don't know how she can stand the constant inane bleating.
I try and follow the news daily, but when it comes to destructive news I only stay at the headlines, as I've always felt it uncomfortable to hear about horrible stories. This way it's possible to stay on top of what's going on (which I think is important) and not suffer yourself because of it.
Pretty much agree with the post completely!
last year my friend noticed that their kid started crying too much since they were watching too much TV. after they totally turned off the TV when the kid was around, he stopped crying..learn from kid, never watch TV..read books..work on puzzless..do paintings..music or take a walk..play with your kid…cook..sing..so much to do instead of watching TV and way much more fun. live like modern caveman in your modern caves…you have to deserve the food before you eat and once you fight for it and eat , you deserve the rest..as simple as it is ..
The kebab restaurant we went to yesterday was playing the SportsCenter mascot bloopers. So I got to laugh AND eat grilled meat. Awesome.
Don't watch the news. Don't read the newspaper, except for the weather and some sports. Don't read internet news. Ever since I was in Vietnam and would read fictitious accounts of operations I was involved in. News agencies lie. It's called "yellow journalism".
Well said Bull.
I stopped watching/reading the news when I was pregnant. The two aren't compatible.
And when 9/11 happened I lived in a little toddler bubble barely aware of what was going on outside. It was too difficult to do my job otherwise.
I do feel though, I am rather ignorant of what is happening in the world. But my stress levels and outlook are the healthier for it.
Wow Hansel, you nailed it…perfectly…."focus on today, focus on your work, focus on your loved ones…." Very wise post, thank you!!! Cable news shows have disrupted my life,along with the "local news", that is nothing more than "local murders/suicides/missing persons/abandoned kids, etc., ". Thanks for a meaningful, thoughtful post! 🙂
I do not enjoy watching the news on TV. I do enjoy reading the news online. I can filter reading the news much easier than I can with visual and audio stimulation. Reading information online is a form of mental exploration. For me it's a way to pass time at work at a desk. Lately I have found that I am happier when I explore for new music than when I explore for political concepts/realities. Thanks for the post!
This is why I killed my television 3 years ago and have not once looked back. And amazingly, I have more time for so many real, actual, productive, great things.
Do it people. Kill the TV.
I have a TV behind me at work playing CNN all day! It's a bit more news than I like, but I'm at least happy it's not Fox 😉
I remember 8 years ago though, there was all this scary stuff on the news, telling us to buy plastic sheeting to seal up our homes from a biological attack, etc. I felt really freaked out by all of it, and it was all for nothing. It's definitely tough to stay informed without feeling like you have to live in fear!
Good post. As a news junkie, the idea of our minds not being able to process all the pain and suffering we can expose ourselves to has weighed on me for quite awhile. I'll have to borrow your line about Atlas, that's exactly how I feel sometimes. Empathy is a double-edged sword.
News is much like food.
If you consume a lot of "junk news" laden with added emotion but with little intelligent content, your mental health may suffer. However, if you consume "real news" with insight and analysis that engages your brain, it will make you more aware of our world, and broaden your mind.
I try to get the update only once on any new big story. Watching after that gets repetitive and boring even when they get new "expert" commentators rehasing the same stuff. Sometimes it's good to view news from different sources like BBC or Al Jazera that are not so USA centric to see what else is happening in the world besides the big over-covered US story.
Iv'e given up reading the papers and watching the TV especially TV now.. the depressing news far outweighs the good stories.
But I still need to release my chains from the computer ( yes Facebook) and my cell phone and I will be good to go!
I quit Facebook several months back. I don't miss it one bit and am certainly better off without.
'Facebook' actually comes up as a spelling error on MDA.
I like that. Lol
Nice post Mark. I can't remember the last time I watched the news. Mostly what I watch these days are Yo Gabba Gabba (love Jack Black's guest appearance!) or the Upside Down Show. Comes with the territory of having young children in the house. The Upside Down Show, in particular, will lift anyone's mood!
The same is true for sports nowadays. Just as sensation and faux-controversial, meant to argue both sides and get everyone riled up.
Oh I so agree… I used to watch alot of horror movies, and now I can't stand the thought…. I am traumatized for days afterwards if I do.
We killed our TV several years ago, not only to rid ourselves of depressing news, but also the incessant pharmaceutical ads. I now realize I do not have to know every bad thing that happens in this world. I am in a simpler place that way and better able to deal with things that directly impact me and my family.
I read the news today, oh boy.
Its funny you mention this. I watched the late news the other night for the first time in recent memory and I was amazed at how people subject their self to it every night.
Its just crime, nutrition scare, local dirty restaurants, mean people that hate you, all this on repeat.
Ill stick to just watching the NFL network, haha.
We all know television is crap. Does anyone have an opinion on educating yourself on current events and worldly affairs in the general and its effect on the pysche?
I like The Economist and New Scientist.
Yes, let's talk about alternatives to TV news, which (I agree) is just terrible.
I love Mark's suggestion that "We'd do better … spending less time staying on top of each trivial update and devoting more time to discussing, reflecting, and thoughtfully acting on the major issues and events that we feel require our attention." But how do we do that? What sources do Mark's readers use?
Like Matt, I enjoy the Economist. Where do others turn for intelligent news and commentary?
I listen to "From Our Own Corespondent" A BBC radio program that is entertaining, thoughtful and informative. It is free over the internet from the Radio 4 website, where there is also a large archive of past programs.
It's very difficult to do but I force myself to not pay any attention to things I can't do anything about. For the sake of my own sanity I just don't watch the news anymore.
And add to the emotional upset, the physiological and neurological changes that the technology is inflicting. How much ADD and ADHD is induced by technology? Anyone read The Shallows??
I have not watched TV for about 5 years now. Best decision I ever made. I get my news when I want it from the internet.
Watching the news for me is like watching a train wreck… over and over again. I noticed that if I watch it every day I end up feeling sad, angry, fearful, paranoid and forget all of the amazing things that happen in life daily. I do have a feed reader on my phone so once a week I usually just scan through all the headlines but try to avoid details unless it looks like a positive story.
I agree that the news is depressing and sensationalized in America, but how can we initiate or be part of change? Knowledge is power and if we bury our heads to what is going on locally, nationally, and globally we won't be able right the wrongs before it's too late! The environmental outlook in the news often makes me cry, but it also causes me to look at what I can do to lessen my footprint and advocate for causes I believe in. I guess you could say I'm divided….TV is evil, good news reporting is necessary!
I am much happier and much less stressed when I do not watch the news. Ignorance is bliss (at least in this scenario).
Hi Wayne. Thank you for sharing. It was definitely worth it.
I also read all kinds of things that can make me feel better.
I watched a cable news station and the man on the screen was trying to scare me into buying gold at inflated prices.
I have a growing number of friends/acquaintances who don't have TV's at all. Of course, this doesn't stop you from checking the Internet, but maybe they're onto something.
We have a TV but it has no cable. In the past 10 months I have maybe watched six DVDs on it, four of which were foreign and part of my 'language/cultural maintenance'–that is the extent of my usage. Housemates maybe an additional 10 DVDs.
The 'NEWS' is really just the equivalent of junk mail or spam. I don't waste any time on it. I don't have the time to spare, let alone the desire!
I think one of the next major movements on the internet is going to be making what you see in your news feeds and so on geo-relevant. That is, algorithms will prioritize local, urgent stories according to your location and interests. I would certainly welcome it. (Hmmm… I know a little about software… maybe I should get on that, eh?)
1. News is just entertainment. Bad entertainment at that.
2. TV (and other mainstream media) are just junkfood for the mind and soul. Cut them out the way you cut out grains and sugar.
3. Read Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.
I think it's relevant to look into what kind of messages the television set is able to deliver, and how we unconsciously react being surrounded by television sets everywhere.
My vote goes for throwing the TV out the window and go back to the radio. I have a book recommendation that goes deeply into what the television (and it's messages) does to us.
It's a book written in the seventies called "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" by Jerry Mander.
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Disturbing news out of Illinois today: a teenage girl from Missouri escaped from a home in which she had been held captive for the past two years.
The young woman, who was 15 when she went missing, said she had been sexually assaulted and beaten almost daily by an older man. She became pregnant by her rapist and gave birth to a two-year-old child.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the teen girl met her captor socially and moved to his home voluntarily — perhaps as a runaway originally? — but he would not let her leave. She escaped the house earlier this week after many previous attempts. A SWAT team rescued the two-year-old from the home on Thursday afternoon; a 24-year-old man believed to be their captor was arrested. Neighbors told NBC that the girl had been seen outside occasionally; the girl told police that when she gave birth at a hospital, she was forced to use a fake name. The most insane part of this story is that the 24-year-old man was believed to have been aided in keeping the girl captive by his mother.
It's hard not to see the similarities to other young women like Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard: all were held hostage by an older man who kept her partially/mostly shielded from society until circumstances transpired in which she could finally be rescued.
And as an aside: might I remind you that certain elected officials would not have let this captive teen girl who was raped every single day have an abortion. Although I guess we would need more clarification as to whether a teen held captive by her attacker counts as a "legitimate rape."
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Upping the competitive ante for teams contesting the 11 to 13 April running of the VINZ International Rally of Whangarei will be the Saturday night action at the William Fraser Memorial Park location of Pohe Island.
The Hella Pohe Island Super Special stage venue accounts for two of the 14 speed tests competitors from India, Japan, China, Czech Republic, Australia and New Zealand will be challenged by. As the opening round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, driven by VINZ (NZRC) and Top Half Rally Series (THS) there will be a variety of makes and model of car from brand new factory supported Å KODAs to forty year old Ford Escorts.
The rally itself beings with a signing session (3:30pm) and ceremonial start at the Cameron Street Mall from 4:30pm Friday 11 April â ahead of the weekendâs action. Following six special stages to the north of Whangarei on the Saturday teams then return to tackle the short-sharp 1.25km Hella Pohe Island Super Special Stage from 7pm.
The first time the event has run cars in the dark, lighting towers will illuminate areas spectators can take advantage of.
Preceding the special stage will be a number of activities run by Whangarei Lions Club groups. Activity starts at 3:30pm with the Mitre 10 Mega Whangarei TriKids Duathlon that includes a cycling and running course to challenge keen kids between ages 5 to 13 years. Entry of $15 includes a gear pack and entry for one adult to the venue â that includes the evening running of the Hella Pohe Island Super Special Stage.
Other activities during the afternoon include emergency services exercise (watch for the NEST rescue helicopter and police dog handlers) plus school bands and dancer groups. Attractions include the bouncy castle, clowns, face painting, pony rides and a variety of food outlets including Hell Pizza, Leechee Seng, Mr Whippy, Paparoa Lions Club and Kawaka Lions Club fundraisers.
Prizegiving for the Mitre10 Mega Whangarei TriKids Duathlon will be held at 6pm â just prior to the first of the safety car checks of the rally stage.
Lights go green for the first rally car at 7pm with the second car starting 30 seconds later. The action intensifies with each passing car â having started in reverse seeded order, meaning the events fastest cars will start last.
Their second attempt is expected to start 40 minutes later.
âThis is a really exciting initiative that brings a greater level of action to the Pohe Island venue, that mixes the grunt of the Mitre10 Mega Whangarei TriKids Duathlon and Lions group activities with the best rally drivers in the Asia Pacific â in one family friendly venue,â says Laurie Brenssell, chairman of the VINZ International Rally of Whangarei organising committee.
âAfter a dayâs competition most cars and drivers will be on their game â and some may even sport a few scars as they tackle the Hella Pohe Island Super Special Stage. One thing is for sure â they wonât be taking it easy and the challenge of darkness with lights may throw a few off course â so be ready for spills.â
The cars are then securely parked for the night ahead of a further six special stages to be held south of Whangarei on the Sunday. They then return to the Quayside Town Basin for a ceremonial finish from 3pm in the afternoon.
Access to the Hella Pohe Island Super Special Stage and Lions Club Family Fun Day is off Port Road. Use the car parking adjacent to the Hatea Bridge and walk across to get access to the area. Riverside Road access will be closed.
Spectating at the rally start, finish and Quayside Town Basin service areas are free with access to rural viewing points costing just $10 per adult per day and $15 for the Hella Pohe Island Super Special Stage. Children under the age of 15 are free with a paying adult and paddock parking is available at some locations for a gold coin donation.
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A rally map is available free to download from the event website www.rallywhangarei.co.nz (in the spectator info section), or it can be collected from rally headquarters at Quayside Town Basin (from 9 April) or found in the rally insert published in the Northern Advocate on 9 April.
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One other good thing about this game is that you simply will not lose interest with a a lot of extra repetition. Of course this is an RTS game, players will only be doing that about 50% of that time period. Sometimes players will have to scout and discover different objects, stop a military with nothing but two heroes and watchtowers, as well as other things. This may cause the game last a lot longer and itreally shows.Graphics: 9.5Seeing as the game is definitely an expansion pack, it uses a similar graphics engine as the previous game did, and that is not a bad thing in any respect. The game still stands the exam of time and is one of the best RTS games around. Also each of the FMVs that gamers will discover are exceptionally done! Blizzard is one of the best companies at creating them, and itshows.Sound: 9.5The sounds still sound great! Blizzard even has new sounds and voice actors
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To the OP: I have not read every single page of this thread. But I did do a bit of research when I followed that guys link to why one step processes are bad.
I think what you did so far is fine...not use the 400 grit but used scotch brite instead. The Leaherique paint has the benefit of an exact Imola match so I would use that too.
Now, here is the best idea of all. Go the the UK site of the Furniture Clinic and buy their matte clear finish. Evidently that gets rid of the tendency for the Leatherique paint to be too glossy. But most importantly it extends the durability of your job by THREE times!!! You just cant ignore that. Plus it is the proper way to do it. BMW applies a clear coat evidently.
I think you need to email the Furniture Clinic to get just the clear coat in a matte finsh. I highly urge that you do this since you have done such a great job so far. Three coats of the clear will make your job last WAY beyond two years. They say that with out the clear coat you can see significant wear in just two years. The clear will extend the wear to 7 years and possibly beyond.
To anyone thinking of doing this job I would defintely email the Furniture Clinic first. They DO offer custom colors and specialize in re coloring auto interiors. They even have a complete kit for that. Nobody knows leather like the Brits. Even if the place is owned by a Jamaican LOL.
I think I would try talking to them first. not to discredit what the OP has done. It will likely be fine too as long as he uses the furniture Clinic's clear coat.
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Guides, Terminology and Resources
Just to cut down on the stickied threads in Pixel Art, I've decided that perhaps, with the help of page anchors; putting every bit of information needed into one thread could be quite useful.
Here you'll find all you need to know for now about Pixel Art Spriting or even Pixel Art alone, some members had taken their time into writing guides in which can help you with your way of working with pixel work, commenting on them and providing you with resources.
If you have anything that may be useful enough to be on here, don't hesitate to PM the moderating staff :)
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Spriting Terminology - armadilloHD
I noticed that a lot of people don't now some spriting terms, or have the wrong meaning. Let me clear some stuff up.
Spriting: The art, it's a way of manipulating pixels to make small or large pictures with only a mouse and your eye.
Pixel Art: Normally this name is used for large sprites, this is untrue, it means the same thing as the definition of spriting.
Sprite Sheet: The sprite along with "Movements" it makes
Parts of a Sprite
Pixel: You use these to create sprites. From here, you create art.
Linework: The lines on your sprite, should be the first step in making any sprite (Except recolors)
Color: Brings life into your sprites, you learned this in kindergarten, but it's nothing without...
Shading: The MOST important part of a sprite, darker color then the base color, to give it depth.
Base Color: The color you use to determine what the basic color is going to be on a certain part of the sprite.
Highlighting: Giving your sprite a shine for even more depth, used in larger sprites.
Anatomy: How realistic your sprite looks, like no broken bones, no limbs longer then the other etc.
Types of Spriting
Recolor: The name says it all, ussually the first step a person makes on their spriting journey, just an open source sprite made a different color, a decent recolor is a great first step, but a bad recolor is no excuse.
Edit: You edit a sprite, add on custom parts, change the anatomy a bit, etc. etc.
Custom/scratch: Not using anything to start off with. A good custom sprite can give you many good marks as a spriter.
FRANKENSTINING/mixing: You just put parts from different open source sprites together and MAYBE recolor them, this type of spriting is fun, but shouldn't be used for a serious sprite.
Shading Styles - (Credit to Dardanel/DarkPegasus for the Images)
Pillow Shading
Cut up Shading
Spriting Effects
Afterimages: Shown when you want to show fast motion in a sprite. You blur where the thing the character is swinging. Or if they're running fast, then you blur where they were running that as well.
Open source: Sprites ripped from games, you can use these as you want. But if you put their rips on your site leave their tags on. NEVER rip sprites from a fan game. Several open source sites include deek n' dazz, and sprites inc.
Sprite Theft: The most despicable act ANY spriter can do. Taking and editing a sprite a spriter has made themself without their permission. Never do this, EVER.
Pokemon Spriting Terms and Styles - [_DarkDragon_]
Meh, I was bored so I decided to write this, hope it come in handy for new people and for the ones who have been spriting for a while. If I forgot something important, you want me to add something or you just know any styles that I should add to a certain category (even if it's your own) just PM me. Here it goes:
-- Explanation & Normal recoloring: One of the basics of spriting, if you are going to enter the pokemon spriting world this is where you must start. Basic recoloring is all about getting two pokemon sprites and by looking at their linework colors + base and shading colors substitute the colors of one with the colors of the other. Although recoloring seems a boring process it can be easily done by using the select color tool in MS Paint, after that you can select the color that is going to be replaced by left mouse clicking on it and using the same tool again choose the color that will replace that one by right mouse clicking on it. When both colors are selected by using that process use the eraser tool and use it on the sprite that is being recolored by keeping right mouse button pressed instead of left mouse button.
-- Shadow: This type of recoloring only requires that the pokemon is almost completely (excluding eyes, mouth and some other body parts) colored of purple and respective shadows, highlights and linework.
-- XD: This type of recoloring requires three colors and respective shadows, highlights and linework. Two of the colors are dark purple and white, most of the pokemon must be colored purple although some parts like leaves, belly, flames must be colored white/light grey depending on the pokemon. Red is finally used for the eyes of the pokemon.
-- Evil: An evil recolor uses a similar process to XD except the colors are Black and Red instead of Purple and White.
-- Flag: A flag recolor normally is based on a certain country's flag, for example an american flag recolor would use red, white and blue colors.
-- Gold & Silver: This type of recolors normally needs a couple of extra colors for shading and highlighting. For Gold you are going to need mostly a dark yellow base and shading with a big ammount of white and light yellow colors for the outline to give it that real gold feeling. For Silver use grey instead of dark yellow.
-- Egg: get an egg and change its color, not much to say about it.
-- Explanation: A Revamp is a sprite from an older version that you take and put it in a newer version format, that does not only mean you recolor it, you must add more colors for shading and work a lot to improve the linework so that the old sprite will be similar to the one of a newer version in every aspect other than position and size. Although many people are used to consider a pokemon revamp as an older GB version to Advance format, anything that is transfered from an older version to a newer one is considered a revamp and therefore taking a sprite from Blue version and making it similar to the one in Gold version is also a revamp. Most older versions have poor light sources or no shading at all which make it more difficult to revamp them. I will explain the goods and bads of each version. A software I recommend for revamping, as well as any other kind of sprite work is GraphicsGale Free Edition.
-- Green/Red/Blue: These versions only use 4 "colors", those are: black, white and 2 shades of grey. This distribution of colors does not give us much flexibility to calculate where everything should go, the highlights seem to be placed in the right spots though so you shouldn't have to worry much about them.
-- Yellow: Pretty much like GRB except the 4 colors are now black, white and 2 shades of the main color of the pokemon, this does not improve much but helps. Appart from that, although the shading in the Yellow version is amazing the outlines are going to give you headaches when revamping.
-- Gold/Silver: All I can say about the Gold/Silver shading is: "realy bad". If you are going to make a revamp of a GS sprite make your own shading because the one they have is completely useless. GS sprites still use 4 colors, this time you can have 256 different colors or each one of the 4 if I'm not mistaken, linework is completely black and therefore won't help much with revamping.
-- Crystal: The good thing about crystal is that each spriteis an animation so it has more than one sprite of a pokemon and you can use any of the frames in the animation to recolor as a different sprite. Appart from that it is pretty much similar to GS.
-- Pinball, TCG e PLC: I dunno why anyone would want to revamp TCG cards but if you do be warned as the quality of them is not that good and I also don't know much about them. Pinball colors are pretty much similar to GS except that the shading and linework is amazing, if you are willing to finish the missing parts of pinball sprites and recoloring the sprite the outcome is really nice. Puzzle League Challange sprites don't have much to say about them as there aren't that many.
-- Explanation and in General: Devamp is the opposite of a revamp, here you try to take a 32-bit color sprite of an advance game and make it similar to the ones of a certain game version. To know how to make that just look in the revamping section and see the good and bad aspects of each version, try to apply them to the devamp so that it looks authentic.
-- Explanation: An edit is when you take an existing sprite and modify it in some way, changing one or 2 pixels isn't really an edit unless it really makes a difference in a sprite (which it normally doesn't), there are many types of edits than the room I have to list them all therefore I will just list some of them.
-- Angel: You get angel-like wings of a certain pokemon, put them on the pokemon you want to turn into an angel (be aware of the sizes first so you can get the right wings), get light blue colors and recolor the pokemon, then add some extra details if you like and you're done.
-- Devil: Pretty much like the Evil recolor but you get some devil like wings and do the same procedure than the angel but with evil colors.
-- Type Change: Get a pokemon and make it look like it belongs to another type, not much to say about it except that it can be quite difficult at times.
-- Chao: I dunno much about chao edits, get a chao sprite and mix it with a pokemon but using the chao as base.
-- Ham-Ham: Same as chao but with hamtaro + pokemon sprites.
-- Baby: Get a pokemon sprite and make it look a couple of years younger to the point of looking cute and small.
-- Skeleton: Probably as hard or harder than a scratch sprite, you really need to understand how anatomy works to make these, take a pokemon and a skeleton like the aerodactyl one and try to make a skeleton of that pokemon.
-- Explanation: Take two or more pokemon and mix them together, the more you have the weirder it will look and the harder it will be to get it right. There are other types of mixes or fusions like the egg mix. Be aware that the size of the pokemon matters, if you try to mix something huge with something tinny you might have problems.
-- Egg mix: It is different of Egg recolor, instead of taking an egg and changing it's colors you make the egg look like a pokemon but keeping its egg shape.
-- Explanation: A scratch sprite is one that you made from 0 with reference to nothing other than your brain and maybe a picture or so, you need to be really good to make a perfect scratch sprite with the right ammount of colors.
-- Drawing 2 Scratch: This one is a bit easier, take an image, resize it to the point where it is of the size your sprite will be, keep a copy of the non-resized picture next to you and using Graphics Gale and layers draw the basic linework, then make a pallette for your sprite by taking certain colors off the picture and paint, shade and highlight your sprite, then do the same to the linework and it should look great, have a look at my scratch sprites of Rukario, Bonsly, Munchlax and Mewtwo with armour, they were all made using this method and they look amazing.
-- Explanation: Animations are most commonly saved as gif files, a good program to use when converting bmp to gif files is giffy23 as it has a pallette optimizer so your sprites don't loose quality, GraphicsGale can also make gif animations. An animation works by saving a certain number of frames in the same gif file that will then display them at a defined rate.
-- Explanation: Items in general can be edited just as pokemon, they can also be mixed with pokemon although it doesn't look too good. Most commonly edited items are pokeballs which can be recolored and decorated to make all kinds of different pokeballs.
-- Explanation: Just as items they can be mixed between each other, with items and pokemon. Not much to say about them. One or more trainer parts are often used to make a new trainer.
-- Explanation: A charset is a table with walking sprites of a certain overworld character or object, in the objects case it might be a static sprite which ignores the walking ones by putting the same sprite in every frame. If you're not in Game Dev. or ROM Hacking you won't need to worry much about them.
-- Explanation: Most pokemon games don't use facesets, they are usually a sprite of a characters face that shows up when you talk to that character in a game. (eg. Mystery Dungeon)
-- Explanation: It's normally a big "table" of tiles of the same size that make a charset. In pokemon, charsets are used to design maps for pokemon games or comics.
[Battle Sprites]
-- Pokemon: The sprites that show up in battle, you will be working with these most of the time.
-- Pokemon (Rear View): The back view of a pokemon sprite that shows up in battle, not so frequently used as the pokemon are seen from behind.
-- Trainer: The sprites that show up in battle, you will also be working with these most of the time.
-- Trainer (Rear View): The back view of a trainer, there aren#t many as it is usually only used for main characters in a pokemon game.
-- Explanation: Overworld sprites include any sprite that is in the pokemon rpg's and that is part of the overworld (not in-battle) definition. Overworld are usually charsets and chipsets.
Pixel Art Terminology - Allstories
Pixel art - A form of digital art, in which images are edited on the pixel level. This does not necessarily mean that every single pixel must be placed by hand, but instead only for the most part, depending on what is considered pure pixel art. The use of things like the fill tool and brush tools are (arguably) valid tools for pixel art as they only speed up the process of creating pixel art. Use of filters such as anti-aliasing and such, however, are not considered valid. You can, however, manually simulate anti-aliasing.
A common misconception is that any drawing done with the pencil tool in a small drawing space can be considered pixel art. Pixel art is categorized by the method of drawing, not the results. Don't not confuse pixel art for oekaki drawings.
That was a paraphrased version, you can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art
Spriting - In this context, spriting refers to the creation or manipulation of existing sprites. A sprite by definition is a 2-dimensional, prerendered image integrated into a larger scene. Spriting can include combining pieces of multiple existing sprites to create a single sprite, recoloring an existing sprite, creating a new sprite from scratch, and so on.
Sprite Comic - A type of webcomic composed mostly of existing sprites and/or backgrounds. Similar to pixel comics, in which the pixel art is created specifically for the comic by the creator of the comic. Often, the comics on this board tend to sacrifice writing and merely focusing on making comics on a whim for the sake of doing so. Don't do that. >:(
Sprite Theft - The theft of sprites. Don't do it, son.
How to Criticise - vaati
Now it's one thing to give critique, but reciving it can be hard, especially if it's a tougher critic rating your work, but none the less, you should take in what they say and use it, work on what they said.
for example.
The Noise: Vaati, you have ALONG way to go with that, you need to fix the tail, the shading, the outline, the palette looks dated etc.
Vaati: Hmmm, you make valid points, valid points indeed, well I'll take what you've said and work on my sprite, thanks =D
After accepting The Noises' crit I managed to turn my first piece into this:
When giving critique you should always elaborate, whether you like the piece or not, a good review should be atleast 1 or 2 lines. Just saying "OMG it suxors i hate it." is just as bad as "OMG rox I love it 9.55555/11" Both of which are unacceptable and against the community rules. When you add an elaboration your post should look like "Wow, IMO that really sucks, the shading's terrible(not to mention in the wrong style), the outlining and anatomy are awful(the right arm looks far too fat compared to the left, and there's no effort in studying human anatomy) on top of all that you stole the legs from Bean's custom TOTW Zero." Or "Wow, I really like this piece, the shading is perfectionate, I see nothing wrong with the anatomy or outlining. Good work!"
Well, 90% of you will ignore this and carry on breaking rules by spamming up the HotS, which in every case I see you doing so I shall report you, all of you, it's YOUR fault a lot of our good spriters left, it's YOUR fault the critics left and it's YOUR fault that most of you are still doing mixes, recolours and rather shabby customs(to those who do customs, at least you guys make an effort, you deserve good crit to improve, too bad you don't dish it out yourselves).
How to Criticise 2 - Signomi
Criticism - What do you do with it?
Have you ever come to a point where somebody came to your thread and gave you criticism on your work? If so, how did you react to it? Did you play the defensive by answering to everything that may be in it? Did you take it and use it to help you improve? Or did you take an offense to it and let it discourage you into not doing anymore?
And most importantly, what does Criticism mean to you?
I understand that sometimes, Criticism may be hard to take, but it makes you more aware of the flaws you've done, we're all human, people do make mistakes. But when you are given criticism by a certain person, what do you do with it? Do you throw it away and pretend it was never there? Or do you use it to help improve your skills, and even the work the crit was made for?
People give you criticism because they want to help you improve on your work, not because they want to insult you, or anything like that. When making a thread in either Pixel Art, Sprite Comics or Trainer Cards forums, don't expect everyone to be giving you a 10/10 on your work, expect even just one person to come along and tell you what you may've done wrong within it, you should take their advice and use it to help you improve on your work, and make you more self-aware of certain things when you proceed into making more in the future, that's a way of helping you improve your skills.
Criticism - Give it out more
Are you one of those people who seem to lurk threads and find sprites/comics/trainer cards that seem quite flawful and just...move on? If so, why don't you post your comments? You may have your reasons, however, top 2 of these reasons would have to be: Either you show signs of laziness of even bothering to tell the person what they may've done wrong in their work, or you want to but you may seem reluctant to.
Never be shy or too lazy to express your comments, if you don't, how will that benefit the person who made the work? They'd still remain unknowing of the flaws they may've done.
Yes, there have been certain happenings of people reacting rather offensively to criticism, but if they do so, say what I've already stated, people give criticism to help others improve on their work, not because they're trying to offend them in any way.
And don't show signs of brutality when you are giving out criticism, like sarcastic comments and even unnecessary insults. They are not at all helpful to the person you are giving criticism to and can only prove an offense to them, thus hurting their feelings and even lower their self-esteem
Practice makes perfect
Remember to keep practicing, there is never an end to what you can do when it comes to Spriting, Sprite Comics or even Trainer Cards, there are always ways you can improve and even better yourself at what you do. You can even find new ways of doing certain things. Who knows?
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) Utah State quarterback Jerod Walker was charged Wednesday with aggravated sexual assault, then kicked off the team later in the day.
Walker, 19, was arrested last week after a woman accused him of raping her in his campus apartment April 9. Walker told police he had consensual sex with the woman.
The Cache County attorney's office filed a formal charge against Walker on Wednesday. He was scheduled to appear Thursday in 1st District Court.
Walker was also cited by campus police Monday for misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
Officers responding to a call about the smell of marijuana went to the room of Utah State receiver Dionte' Holloway and found a small amount of the drug in the room, Utah State police Lt. Shane Sessions said.
Officers had seen Walker leaving the room and went to his room after speaking with Holloway. Walker also smelled of marijuana and was cited, Sessions said. Neither player was taken into custody.
Utah State coach Brent Guy issued a statement Wednesday saying Walker and Holloway had been dismissed from the team for unspecified team rules violations.
Walker played in nine games last fall as a freshman, starting the last two. He completed 53 of 76 passes for 653 yards and six touchdowns and had 96 carries for 328 yards.
Holloway caught 10 passes for 194 yards in six games last fall.
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