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EVA ART
Evgeniia Vasileva
Svetlana Gayvoronskaya
Yelizaveta Plavinskaya
Tanino Bonifacio
Minister of Culture of the Municipality of Gibellina (Italy), Prof.
Art critic and curator of cultural projects of literature and visual art
"How many roses to conceal an abyss..."
EVA (Evgenia Vasilyeva) is an artist who, with her fascinating artistic research via diverse languages, reveals the signs of palpitating secret life concealed behind the everyday routine consisting of images that unceasingly fill our eyes and our souls.
EVA is a genuine explorer of deepest, mysterious and hidden senses that are immanent for every image of human and virtual landscape, for the image that lives before our eyes.
Nowadays, when human life is inevitably based on iconic communication and on bulimic consumption of images, EVA's artworks are an attempt to awaken our sight, asleep and anesthetized by the invasion of the evident visual. EVA seeks to help us to perceive the symbolic meaning concealed in images created by humans.
Her photographs are a genuine journey that helps to discover the unexpected, to experience surprise. This journey acquaints us with the ingenious fiction of a human who tells us about himself, or herself, and about the reality, using visual constructions.
Photography for EVA is a way to show the game of symbolic references immanent for every thing ob-served. It reminds of Italo Calvino's lines, "You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has rec- ognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print· in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh an- nounces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are." (1974, "In- visible Cities")
This is the purpose of EVA's photographs, videos and sculptures: to awaken our eyes, anesthetized and in- capable of reading everyday images. Just like in Italo Calvino's poetics, these images contain infinite traces and signs that lead us to unexpected areas of human topography.
EVA's manner of taking photos is striking: she takes you by your hand and guides you inside, in the world of im- ages, to make you experience new visual adventures, to make new ideas arise in you, the ideas that will de- stroy the evident representation of the sense of life.
The photography is a new vision of what is part of life and of the images that reflect it, it is a new way to see, neither a dream, nor a fruit of imagination, but the result of research for someone who seeks to find real traces that are unconsciously left by humans.
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Director of the Cathedral Museum Caltagirone Outside The Look Lines of Communication. The Way of Spirit exhibition is launched at the Cathedral Museum of Caltagirone. The exposition is opened in chape
Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour Commander of the National Order of Merit Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters Member of French Academy of Fine Arts Today's artistic space
Vittorio Sgarbi
Mayor of the city Sutri Deputy of the Italian Parliament Art critic In the exhibitions program for the opening of the Palazzo Doebbing Museum in Sutri, we decided to allow some space for international
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The 4th edition of the Tyrolean Festival: music, shows and food!


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Studente d'ingegneria a San Pietroburgo, Narutowicz aderì al movimento clandestino Proletariat, e dovette fuggire in Svizzera per sfuggire alla polizia zarista. Docente di Idraulica al Politecnico di Zurigo, acquistò fama internazionale come ingegnere idraulico.

Narutowicz rientrò in Polonia dopo la dichiarazione dell'indipendenza (1918), e aderì alle idee del maresciallo Józef Piłsudski, di cui divenne amico. Diresse l'esecuzione di opere idrauliche sulla Vistola e divenne presidente dell'Accademia delle Scienze Tecniche e del Consiglio di Ricostruzione Nazionale.

Narutowicz fu ministro dei Lavori Pubblici (1920-1922) e degli Affari Esteri (1922). Primo presidente della Repubblica ad essere eletto dopo l'entrata in vigore della Costituzione del 1921, fu ucciso dopo appena cinque giorni dall'insediamento, il 16 dicembre 1922, dall'ultranazionalista Eligiusz Niewiadomski.

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Photos of the Week: 9/6-9/12
This week we have photographs covering a beer-mug-carrying world record, 9/11 remembrances, a wildfire in Yosemite National Park, flooding in Arizona and Pakistan, Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, an early snowstorm in Calgary, independence demonstrations in Catalonia, and much more.
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A fiery Kyrgyz stuntman performs during the first World Nomad Games in the Kyrchin (Semenovskoe) gorge, some 300 km from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 10, 2014. Teams from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan take part in the games. #
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Oliver Struempfl of Germany competes to set a new world record in carrying one liter beer mugs over a distance of 40 m (131 ft 3 in) in Abensberg on September 7, 2014. Struempfl carried 27 mugs over 40 meters to set the new record. #
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A calf stands in a meadow in Echerschwang, Germany, on September 8, 2014. #
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An environmental activist confronts a riot policeman securing a construction site in the Sivens forest, as clearing started in preparation of the Sivens dam construction, near Gaillac, in the Tarn region of France, on September 9, 2014. Although the construction of the dam would help supply water to nearby farms, it would remove a 13 hectare reservoir of biodiversity. Proponents of the dam deem it necessary to secure water supplies for farmers. Opponents are moved by the disappearance of a wetland sheltering 94 protected species. #
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An aurora is captured in this photo taken from the International Space Station and posted by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst to social media on August 29, 2014. #
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A child's hand reaches through a gap in a wall damaged during heavy fighting in Alovaisk, Ukraine, on September 10, 2014. Alovaisk, which is about an hour outside of the separatist held city of Donetsk, saw sustained shelling in August and is still the site of fighting between Ukrainian troops and the Russian backed separatists. #
The moon rises behind the skyline of lower Manhattan as the "Tribute in Light" is illuminated next to One World Trade Center, during events marking the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, on September 11, 2014. #
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Chinese women ride a bicycle together on a street in Beijing on September 10, 2014. #
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A resident tries to knock the heavy snow off trees to save them during a summer snow storm in Calgary, Alberta, on September 10, 2014. Roads were blocked with fallen trees, over 30,000 people were without power and the city opened its emergency operation center, according to local media reports. #
Reuters/Todd Korol
A Parks Canada image shows one of two ships from the lost Franklin expedition in this image released on September 9, 2014. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that a Parks Canada remotely operated underwater vehicle confirmed the find of one of two ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition, lost in the 1840s while searching for the Northwest Passage. #
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Ha Long Bay is seen from a seaplane on a flight from Hanoi to Ha Long, Vietnam, on September 8, 2014. #
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Artists rest after having their bodies painted in the likeness of tigers to perform the annual "Pulikali" or Tiger Dance in Thrissur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, on September 10, 2014. #
AP Photo/Arun Sankar K.
Iraqi soldiers look at bodies of ISIS militants who died following U.S. air strikes on the outskirt of Haditha on September 9, 2014. #
Reuters/Osama Al-dulaimi
A truck creates a wake as its driver tries to navigate a severely flooded street as heavy rains pour down on September 8, 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona. Storms that flooded several Phoenix-area freeways and numerous local streets during the Monday morning commute set an all-time record for rainfall in Phoenix in a single day. #
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A man holds himself upside down as he exercises on bars at a park in Beijing on September 10, 2014. #
Festival-goers throw their shirts in the air after performer Major Lazer asked them, at Bestival, held at Robin Hill Adventure Park, Isle of Wight, England, on September 7, 2014. #
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A couple sits on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River as the full moon rises in the distance on September 8, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri. #
Riot policemen prepare to clash with demonstrators during a protest marking the 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile, on September 7, 2014. The anniversary of the coup d'etat that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet was marked on September 11. #
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Three pigs sit trapped in a partially submerged pig pen after heavy rainfall hit Youyang county of Chongqing municipality, China, on September 11, 2014. #
The Meadow Fire burns in Yosemite National Park, California, on September 8, 2014. The fire, which flared out of control on Sunday afternoon, stranded 85 hikers on top of Half Dome, the park's signature rock formation, requiring them to be flown out by helicopter, Yosemite spokeswoman Ashley Mayer said. #
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A man stands at South Tower memorial during memorial observances on the 13th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, on September 11, 2014. #
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People wave "estelada" flags, that symbolize Catalonia's independence, during a demonstration calling for the independence of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, on September 11, 2014. A week before Scotland votes on whether to break away from the United Kingdom, separatists in northeastern Spain were trying to convince hundreds of thousands to protest across Catalonia to demand a secession sentiment vote that the central government in Madrid insists would be illegal. #
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
A wounded Syrian man walks in a hospital room he shares with other Syrians at Ziv Medical center in Safed, northern Israel, on September 10, 2014. #
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A resident works to extinguish a fire at a site hit by what activists claim were at least five air strikes carried out by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, on September 11, 2014. #
Reuters/Bassam Khabieh
Israeli children hold toy guns as they pretend to play war games next to newly-built cement barrier walls around a kindergarten in the center of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, located near the border with Gaza Strip, on September 8, 2014. Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, following fifty days of fighting, most Israeli residents living near the border with the Palestinian enclave returned to their homes with the army on high alert and new security measures to protect them. #
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An activist from Ukrainian womens' rights group Femen participates in a protest at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kiev, on September 11, 2014. The group was protesting against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which supports Russian aggression in Ukraine, Femen activists said. #
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Local residents with their animals wade through floodwaters as they move to safety following heavy rains in Jafar Kot near Wazirabad, Pakistan, on September 7, 2014. #
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A visitor stands on the art installation "Big Bambu: 5,000 Arms to Hold You" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on September 9, 2014. The installation by artists Doug and Mike Starn is made of 10,000 bamboo stalks and covers an area of more than 700 sq. meters. #
A 12-year-old boy sits outside a window of his 11th-floor apartment as his relatives try to ask him to come back back inside, in Yibin, Sichuan province, China, on September 8, 2014. The boy was afraid of being punished by his mother for not finishing his homework on time. After a two-hour standoff, he was persuaded by police and family members to come inside. #
A U.S. Border Patrol agent tries to tackle an undocumented immigrant in dense underbrush on September 9, 2014 near Falfurrias, Texas. He missed but the immigrant was later caught by a fellow agent. Thousands of migrants continue to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley has more traffic than any other sector of the U.S.-Mexico border. #
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Participants climb over a wall at the "Tough Mudder" endurance event series in Arnsberg, Germany, on September 6, 2014. #
Reuters/Ina Fassbender
Los Angeles County firefighters work to control a blaze atop the recently closed Colossus wooden roller coaster at Southern California's Six Flags Magic Mountain park in Valencia, California, on September 8, 2014. The fire caused part of the famous wooden roller coaster to collapse but no injuries were reported. #
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Forward Yamaha MotoGP rider Alex De Angelis of Italy crashes during the second practice session of the Italian Grand Prix in Misano Adriatico circuit in central Italy on September 12, 2014. #
Reuters/Max Rossi
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks out of the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule shortly after landing, southeast of Dzhezkazgan on September 11, 2014. Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut returned to Earth on Wednesday, capping a nearly six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. #
Reuters/Bill Ingalls/NASA
Pro-Russian rebels stand near a monument during a ceremony to honor the World War Two defenders of Donetsk from Nazi forces in Donetsk, Ukraine, on September 8, 2014. #
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Bound for the Moon: Apollo 11 Preparation in Photos
Images of some of the training, preparation, and daily life that occupied the Apollo 11 astronauts and their NASA support team in the months leading up to launch day
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Photos of the Week: Toxic Beauty, Giant Boots, Twilight Swimming
Hot birds in France, the Festival of the Trays in Portugal, kid "muggers" in Washington State, earthquake damage in California, a Melania Trump monument in Slovenia, bull festivals in Spain, and much more
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Shawinigan and North Dakota telling stories they don't own
The Quebec League's Shawinigan Cataractes have found themselves mired in controversy due to a First Nations-themed marketing campaign, while University of North Dakota fans still lament the loss of the Fighting Sioux name. But history can't always be written by the winners.
I have no doubt that when the person or group that came up with the Shawinigan Cataractes' new marketing campaign saw their finished product, they were proud. The images involve three players, including new captain and New York Islanders first-rounder Anthony Beauvillier, in eye-grabbing, passion-stirring dress. But there's a pretty big issue with how those passions have been stirred:
As you will note, that can only be described as an allusion to the Cataractes' First Nations mascot. It's not going over well on social media and as Buzzing the Net's Sunaya Sapurji noted, the Quebec League quickly distanced itself from the campaign:
"The league did not endorse nor was consulted on the Shawinigan Cataractes branding," said QMJHL director of communications Photi Sotiropoulos. "This was solely a team initiative."
The slogan for the campaign, "Mon Histoire, Mes Couleurs," actually perfectly illustrates the problem. In English, it means "My story, my colors."
Powerful stuff. Motivating, especially if you're a teenaged hockey player or fan of the team. But the story of the First Nations culture that is being referenced in the picture is not the story of the Shawinigan Cataractes. It is a hockey team that, even if they believed they were honoring First Nations culture, does not have any ownership in that realm.
Similarly, the University of North Dakota community is still wrestling with the loss of its Fighting Sioux nickname, which was taken away in 2012 under threat of sanctions by the NCAA. The school was given a window to get both Sioux tribes in the state to sign off on the name, but could only secure the blessing of one.
For the past few years, North Dakota has gone without a nickname and a good chunk of fans would prefer to keep it that way – which in my mind, is a backdoor way of keeping the Sioux name alive. Some famous alumni don't even mess with subtlety – earlier this week, former UND star Zach Parise said he didn't like any of the new nickname choices and would prefer a return to the Fighting Sioux.
Is Zach Parise a monster? No, of course not. But again, he's trying to make a story his that does not belong to him, whether he realizes it or not. Because the University of North Dakota was not founded by members of the Sioux tribe; it was founded by George H. Walsh, a newspaper man and early settler in Grand Forks.
Parise and his teammates may have bled both literally and metaphorically for the Sioux mascot on the front of their jerseys during their time at the school, but they were never massacred by U.S. military forces, nor put in positions of abject poverty, which continues into modern days.
One counter-argument often brought up in these debates involves the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and why that name isn't considered offensive. But there's a pretty big difference: when that name was coined, it was a way of taking power over a slur often directed against the Catholic university's athletes, many of whom actually were of Irish descent.
The vast, vast majority of North Dakota hockey players have no connection to the Sioux people, nor do the majority of Cataractes players in Shawinigan have any ancestry related to the First Nations cultures and communities near their town (not to mention the fact the team was called both the Bruins and Dynamos in the past, with no controversial mascot needed). There are not bears or birds being represented; they are real people with agency over their own narratives.
I understand that it can be hard for some folks to grasp why representing another culture in what they believe to be a positive and heroic light is not cool, but given how little positive imagery we see in the mainstream when it comes to First Nations cultures, I would imagine having a caricature of themselves used to motivate hockey players is pretty low on the list of those affected.
Because the road to what the hell? is sometimes paved with good intentions.
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The Vancouver Canucks are 2-1-0 under new coach Rick Tocchet after Friday's win, but Ilya Mikheyev is now done for the season to rehab an ACL injury.
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Agency Warns Residents Against Negative Environmental Practices
The Executive Secretary, Calabar Urban Development Authority, (CUDA), Mr. Joe-Mary Ekeng Ita, has charged residents in Calabar to desist from perpetuating negative environmental practices.
Mr. Ita stated that some residents disregard the need to adhere strictly to the provisions of the Cross River State Environmental Urban Area Law which stipulates that all residents should make adequate provision of toilet facilities, drainage systems and standard waste bins for their homes and business premises, as well as avoid open defecation in order to maintain a clean environment at all times.
He emphasized that erecting structures on footpath, road verges and beneath high tension power lines, as well as depositing building materials on the road or road verges, mining of sand from public roads, and obstruction of drainages within the metropolis are unacceptable.
According to him, conveyance of refuse, gravels, and building materials in open trucks or vehicles without proper coverage, sales of goods at road verges and junctions, pruning, cutting or destruction of ornamental trees are equally prohibited.
Mr. Ita advised members of the public to ensure strict compliance with the provisions of the law which he said, are still in force. He warned that anyone caught going against these specific provisions of the law would be made to face the attendant consequences.
In a related development, the Executive Secretary, Calabar Urban Development Authority (CUDA), Mr. Joe-Mary Ekeng Ita, has decried the unauthorized activities by some members of the public who embark on illegal collection of monies from unsuspecting members of the public, allegedly for waste and sanitation tariffs as well as phony house – to – house inspections within Calabar metropolis despite repeated warnings.
Mr. Ita directed all those involved in such nefarious activities to desist from such forthwith, as CUDA is poised to apprehend and prosecute anyone caught impersonating CUDA staff.
He advised the public not to have any dealings with such individuals as doing so would be at their own risk and gave the following phone numbers for exigency matters: 08057277040 or 08037208605.
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CSOs Partner Govt On Climate Change
Some civil society organisations have expressed their willingness to partner with the government to address climate change and other environmental challenges in the new year.
Some of the organisations include, the Nigeria Civil Society Framework on Paris Agreement at the SDG's (NCSfPAS) GIFSED, Climate and Sustainable network as well as Women Environmental Programme (WEP) Gender and Environmental Initiatives (GERI).
The Tide source in Abuja reported the Executive Director of Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem preservation, Mr. David Terugwa as saying that they were ready to partner government with view to addressing climate change and other environmental challenges.
For us, we are looking at those areas where we can come in and assist and to be partners with the government.
Project Lead, CSDeu Net, Mr. Pius Oko, said that the group will support the government and other stakeholders in the implementation of the law.
"We are here today to make a step forward. We want to first highlight the issues that concern the impact in climate change and have a tangible solution to such problems.
Executive-Director, WEP,Mrs Anne-Marie Abaogu said CSOs were set to develop a partnership that would implement framework to reverse the ugly trend of climate change in the country.
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Monarch Advises Community On Sanitation
The Onuayekein /Amanyanabo of Obonoma Community, King Enenibofori Dateme Obonogina, has charged the community to take the issue of sanitation seriously. Speaking at an interative session recently in the community, the Obonogina said all grasses and bushes must be cleared to expose the face of the community.
He said the situation will improve the hygienic and aesthetic conditions of the community. King Dateme said the community will expand the road recently commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to enable it include more of its hinterland communities.
He said the expansion of the road will boost farming and fishing activities in the areas as well as enable more farmers and fishermen to evacuate their produce to the markets thereby boosting the economy of the area.
He said the community will liaise with Ministries, Departments and Agencies with a view to developing the areas. King Dateme also stressed the need for unity and love among the people. According to him, when there is love, there will be peace and development of the community.
Also speaking, Professor Anyamebo Okorosoye Orubite, urged the people to cultivate the spirit of self help instead of relying solely on government for the development of their communities.
He also said that arrangements were on to build a Kalabari University at Semoo.
NOA Charges Nigerians On Illegal Oil Bunkering
National Orientation Agency (NOA) has called on Nigerians to regard any money generated from illegal oil bunkering business also known as "Kpofire" business as blood money.
Rivers State Director of the Agency, Barrister Young Ayotamuno, made the call in an exclusive interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.
Ayotamuno also said kpofire business also negated the right to life of Nigerians.
According to him, citizen's constitutional rights to life are being breached by the proliferation of illegal refinaries in the region.
Ayotamuno, who said deaths related to respiratory tract infection is likely to increase in the next few years in the region also described as baseless, arguments that poverty and unemployment are responsible for the rising cases of illegal oil bunkering activities in the Niger Delta.
"You cannot use poverty to justify the breaking of pipelines, which is a critical national asset", stressing that the National Orientation Agency (NOA) will continue to sensitise members of the public on the need to protect the nation's asset.
The NOA director also commended the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for directing local government chairmen in the state to monitor their areas and ensure the stoppage of illegal oil bunkering activities in their domains.
"NOA is thanking Governor Wike for asking local government chairmen to monitor their areas.
"NOA will continue to sensitise members of the public that you cannot use poverty to justify the breaking of pipelines which is a national assets".
"The consequence of illegal refinery is that it negates the right to life of the citizen.
"Peoples Constitutional Right to Life is being negated. Peoples environment is being destroyed", he said.
He said stopping the nefarious activities require a lot of political will add "we must work with state government and federal government to curb it. "Kpofire money is blood money" he declared.
Ayotamuno said the society cannot be battling kpofire and Covid-19 at the same time as reports had it that both incidences are responsible for series of respiratory infections.
He also called on the government to revisit the issues of modular refineries as well as the stoppage of gas flaring in the country.
The NOA Director also called for a half to the practice of burning of tyres and that of bush burning, while destruction of illegal petroleum vessels by military should be stopped.
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Q: how to aggregate daily activities of users into weekly I have the following tables,first one (vle) has behavioral activities ( many types of activities, some shown in the activity type column), and the other (UsersVle) has users' activities.The date column represents a day and starts from 0 till 222. I want to aggregate users' activities into weeks based on the activity types. For example in a week1 user1 will have columns as the number of activities types, and each column includes the total sum_clicks during that week. I wonder how I can do that in a pandas data frame using python?
I will appreciate your help.

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*Derive a new field called WEEK from date (you haven't provided enough info about date to suggest how to translate it to a week (e.g. 1 = Jan 1st?))

*Join your two tables.  Is id_site in table 2 a foreign key for id_site in table 1?  If so, combined_df = table2.merge(table1, on='id_site').  Now, you should have all the fields in a single data frame.

*Pivot like this: user_summary_by_week = pd.pivot_table(combined_df, index=['id_user', 'WEEK'], columns='activity_type', aggfunc='sum', fill_value=0).reset_index(col_level=1)

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February 3rd, 1966, fell on a Thursday. It was day 34 of 1966. The decade was the 1960s.
54 years, 11 months and 15 days have passed since February 3rd, 1966.
Events that occurred on February 3rd, 1966:
Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
Songs that were on top of the music singles charts in the USA and the United Kingdom on February 3rd, 1966:
United States: We Can Work It Out - The Beatles
United Kingdom: Michelle - Overlanders
Take Me Back!
The date is February 3rd, 1966 and it's a Thursday. Anyone born today will have the star sign Aquarius. In America, the song We Can Work It Out by The Beatles is on top of the singles charts.
Over in the UK, Michelle by Overlanders is the number one hit song. Lyndon Baines Johnson is currently the President of the United States and Harold Wilson is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Because it is 1966, radio stations are playing hit songs from music artists such as Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, SSgt Barry Sadler, The Association and The Supremes.
People are watching popular TV shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show", "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza" and "The Andy Griffith Show". Kids and teenagers are watching TV shows such as "The Flintstones", "Mister Ed", "Hoppity Hooper" and "Atom Ant". If you're a kid or a teenager, then you're probably playing with toys such as "Ken (doll)", "Mouse Trap", "Major Matt Mason (action figure)" and "Suzy Homemaker".
News Topics, Fads & Culture
Trending news stories and fads that were prevalent throughout this time period. These are news stories and events that would have been in the media on February 3rd, 1966.
The Inheritor.
"The Inheritor" was named as the Time Person of the Year in 1966. The term represents the "Baby boomer" demographic cohort, which was born after World War II.
1966 in movies.
Movies released in 1966 included The Bible: In the Beginning, Hawaii, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Sand Pebbles, A Man for All Seasons, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Batman, "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.", "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", Grand Prix, Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Blowup.
1966 in music.
The Billboard Charts in 1966 were dominated by SSgt Barry Sadler, The Beatles, The Supremes, The New Vaudeville Band, Simon & Garfunkel and The Monkees.
The Beatles - "Michelle"
"Michelle" by The Beatles would go on to win a Grammy for 1966's Song of the Year.
"A Man for All Seasons" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1966.
Who were the best football players in 1966?
In 1966, the best soccer players were Pelé, Bobby Charlton, Eusébio, Franz Beckenbauer, Bobby Moore, Flórián Albert, Ferenc Bene, Lev Yashin, Alan Ball, János Farkas and José Torres.
Who were the best NBA players in 1966?
The best NBA players in 1966 were Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson and Jerry West.
Basic facts and information about this date:
Week Number: This date occurred during Week 05 of 1966.
Leap Year: 1966 was NOT a leap year.
Age: Anyone born on February 3rd, 1966, will be 54 years of age.
People born in 1966 belong to the "Generation X" generation.
Around This Time...
Notable events that occurred around February 3rd, 1966:
January 4th, 1966: 18 people are killed by a gas leak fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon, France.
January 10th, 1966: The home of African American Civil Rights leader Vernon Dahmer is firebombed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer passes away from his injuries the following day.
January 13th, 1966: Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member in the United States.
January 15th, 1966: The civilian government in Nigeria is disposed during a military coup.
January 24th, 1966: 117 people are killed when Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc in the Alps.
January 26th, 1966: Beaumont children: Jane Nartare Beaumont (9), Arnna Kathleen Beaumont (7) and Grant Ellis Beaumont (4) disappear from Glenelg Beach in South Australia.
January 31st, 1966: The Soviet Union launches the spacecraft "Luna 9".
February 4th, 1966: 133 people are killed when All Nippon Airways Flight 60 crashes into Tokyo Bay.
February 6th, 1966: The final episode of Mister Ed is aired.
February 12th, 1966: Vietnam War: The Tay Vinh massacre occurs.
February 14th, 1966: The Australian dollar is introduced.
February 26th, 1966: Vietnam War: The Binh An massacre occurs.
February 28th, 1966: US astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See are killed in a plane crash in St. Louis, Missouri.
March 4th, 1966: 64 people are killed when Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crashes at Tokyo International Airport in Japan.
March 4th, 1966: John Lennon of The Beatles causes a stir when he states that they are "more popular than Jesus now".
March 5th, 1966: 124 people are killed when BOAC Flight 911 crashes over Mount Fuji in Japan.
Horoscopes & Birthstone Information
Zodiac & Birthstone information:
Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on February 3rd, 1966, will have the star sign Aquarius.
However, if you are going by the new star sign system (2020), then the sign for this date is actually Capricorn.
Zodiac Element: Air.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 1966 was the year of the Horse (Yang Metal).
Native American Zodiac: February 3rd, 1966 falls under the Otter.
Birthstone: Anyone born during the month of February will have the birthstone Amethyst.
TV shows that you might have been watching around this time.
Gilligan's Island - Sitcom about seven people who are shipwrecked on an island.
The Andy Griffith Show - Comedy TV series about a sheriff in Mayberry, North Carolina.
Danger Man - British television series about a secret agent working for NATO.
Bonanza - American Western series.
Perry Mason - Legal drama series.
Gunsmoke - Western drama series.
The Ed Sullivan Show - Variety show.
1966 - Kid's TV
Children's and Teen TV shows that would have been airing on this date in 1966.
JOT the Dot
Milton the Monster
Hoppity Hooper
Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long
The Patty Duke Show
The Mighty Hercules
The Bugs Bunny Show
Captain Kangaroo
1966 - Toys & Games
Toys and games that would have been popular on this date in 1966:
Twister mat
Major Matt Mason (action figure)
Captain Action (action figure)
Motorific (slot car toys)
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Army men
G.I. Joe: America's Movable Fighting Man
Easy-Bake Oven
Tammy (doll)
Ken (doll)
Celebrities and historical figures that were born on the 3rd of February:
February 3rd, 1990: Sean Kingston: Singer.
Who was the US President on February 3rd, 1966?
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the President of the United States.
UK Prime Minister
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on February 3rd, 1966?
Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Irish Taoiseach
Who was the Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland on this date?
Seán Lemass was the Taoiseach of Ireland.
Conception Dates
Interesting facts about conception dates.
A baby that was born on February 3rd, 1966 was probably conceived around the 26th of April, 1965. (Rough Estimate).
The due date for a baby that was conceived on February 3rd, 1966 is the 13th of November, 1966. (Rough Estimate).
How old was I?
Enter your date of birth below to find out how old you were on February 3rd, 1966.
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Calculate My Age
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Time Difference & Statistics
Here are some fun statistics about February 3rd, 1966.
20,073 days have passed since this date.
1,734,307,200 seconds have passed since the February 3rd, 1966.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beated approximately 2,023,358,400 times.
Since February 3rd, 1966, earth has travelled approximately 894,902,515,200 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 289,051,200 times.
If you were born on this day, you have taken approximately 149,150,419 steps. That's about 66,289 miles!
Since this date, 20,811,686 meteors have entered the earth's atmosphere!
Random Dates
A list of random dates that you might be interested in:
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13th of March, 1982
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Q: Context-free grammar for VBA I'm trying to scan and parse VBA (visual basic for application) code for a school assignment.
I'm using Python PLY lex and yacc modules. Right now I'm just trying to get variable declaration and assignments to work as a proof of concept.
My preliminary grammar understands a variable declaration OR an assignment. As soon as I put a newline (\n) character in there and add another statement it doesn't understand anything.
ie: In the code in the gist, if you remove "a = 3" from the string at line 92, it will work fine, and insert an Identifier in the identifier list.
I handle newline characters in the scanner, so I think there's something wrong with my grammar definition, but can't figure it out.
The grammar is basically this:
statement : declaration
          | assignment

declaration : DIM IDENTIFIER AS TYPE

assignment : IDENTIFIER ASSIGN BOOLEAN
           | IDENTIFIER ASSIGN DOUBLE
           | IDENTIFIER ASSIGN INT

Note that IDENTIFIER, ASSIGN, BOOLEAN, DOUBLE, INT DIM, AS and TYPE are all tokens defined in the lex module.
I've created a gist with the code which is at: https://gist.github.com/clsk/22c386695dd1ddb7ca75

A: @rici wrote:

That's a grammar for a single statement. Why do you expect it to work with multiple statements? Nowhere is there a production which indicate that multiple statements are legal input.

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Indeed that was the issue. Thanks for the pointer


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I Miss My 3DS
Mark Serrels
Published 5 years ago: December 3, 2015 at 12:00 pm -
Filed to:3ds
2013 was a good year for video games. The Last of Us, Grand Theft Auto V, Tomb Raider, Super Mario 3D World.
But when it came time to choose my game of the year, I found myself in a strange position. I found myself oscillating wildly between two games, both of which were on an unlikely platform. The games: A Link Between Worlds and Luigi's Mansion 2. The platform: the humble 3DS.
Recently I made an effort to clear up the games drawer beneath my television. It's a graveyard of cracked cases, charger cables, and stray battery packs for Xbox 360 controllers I no longer use. Underneath it all — squidged between a faded copy of FIFA 14 and PES 2013 — my once prized 3DS XL. Covered and dust and scratches. Unplayed. Uncharged. Curious, I pushed the game in the cartridge slot, I wonder what the last game I played was?
Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.
A tragic realisation: I haven't seriously played my 3DS since the tail-end of 2013. Since that incredible break-out year, back when the 3DS was arguably the most compelling console in the universe.
What the hell happened?
Since 2013 the 3DS has gone from a must have console to a piece of hardware in cruise control and I have no idea why.
Maybe it's just my personal preferences, maybe it's because I don't like Animal Crossing or Pokemon. But I've struggled to find a compelling reason to turn on my 3DS in almost two years. Two years. And I am someone who loves Nintendo games, loves Nintendo platforms.
There was Majora's Mask, an overdue remake one might argue, but not really a must-play title, even for Zelda fans. There was Super Smash Bros. — I'd rather play the big boy version on the Wii U. Pokemon? Not my thing.
More recently? The Legend of Zelda: Tri-Force heroes piqued my interest and by all accounts was very, very good — but that was a game that focused exclusively on multiplayer. I'm a grown man. I don't have three friends willing to sit in my living room and play a Zelda spin-off cobbled together from old textures from A Link Between Worlds. That's just not gonna happen. Particularly when gaming time is limited and Fallout 4, Bloodborne and Metal Gear Solid V exist.
It seems like the 3DS just stopped being a compelling games device — like all of sudden. It wasn't a slow, downward spiral — more like a calculated leap off a cliff. Overnight the 3DS went from the best games console in the world to a clunky, unloved hunk of plastic gathering dust.
The 3DS went from Super Mario 3D Land, A Link Between Worlds, Mario Kart 7 and Luigi's Mansion 2 to Yo-Kai Watch and Animal Crossing spin-offs almost overnight. Kinda like Nintendo rushed out its requisite brand names, dusted their collective hands and said, "whelp, looks like we're done here".
You could argue that I should play [insert your favourite 3DS game here] — that I'm being a stubborn curmudgeon who hates Pokemon and therefore fun — but the truth is that Nintendo hasn't made a world-class, must-play game for its most popular platform in a strangely sustained amount of time.
What the hell gives? There are well over 50 million 3DS units in the wild. By any measure, particularly compared to the Wii U, that's a staggering success. Why ignore that? Why not support the 3DS in the way it deserves to be supported. Maybe it was battlestations in an attempt to rescue the Wii U, maybe it's amiibo — maybe Nintendo is funneling development resources to the Nintendo NX. But regardless, the 3DS feels like an abandoned platform at this point, and that's incredibly disappointing.
Worse: there's no relief from the drought, at least that I can see. Metroid Prime: Federation Force? That's what we get? Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam? Like that is literally what 3DS owners have to look forward to at this point.
Here's the crazy thing: if someone were to ask me today if they should buy a 3DS? I'd say absolutely. It has an incredible and varied back catalogue. Some of the best games released in the last five years are on the 3DS. But for people like me? People who were there from day dot? The 3DS is something we talk about in the past tense.
And that makes me sad. I miss my 3DS.
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falkirion001 says:
Me too. I have a pile of shame growing for my 3DS. Last game I played on it was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
Hopefully Ace Attorney next year changes that, assuming it heads west…
outbreak says:
I got mine late, had like 2 years of absolutely loving it (your articles led me to buy it, thanks Mark!) but like you I haven't used mine in a long time. Not as long as 2013 though, I enjoyed the pokemon games, bravely default, fire emblem and I had a back log of DS titles I hadn't played to occupy me too (still need to play the last layton and phoenix wright but I got burnt out playing those series all in one go). I'm not giving up hope though, I've got Yo Kai Watch coming, then there will be the next fire emblem and the next bravely default. I also have a Vita and that's a console that's been a huge let down for me (I know some people love all the jrpgs and while I found I enjoyed some they tend to have good gameplay but be in genres that I'm not as in to).
I find it odd you didn't mention the new fire emblem or bravely second in your article here though or did you mean to talk only about Nintendo franchises?
rocketman says:
I hate pokemon therefore hate fun
The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
ashigaru says:
*nods sagely*
poita says:
I think the 3DS is one of those things that you get out of the habit of playing.
Once you pick it up again though, you realise how crappy most mobile games are by comparison, and it ends up back in your kit-bag again. Some of the newer titles I played this year.
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M
Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Retro City Rampage DX
I've never played a pokemon game though, I really should check it out one day, but it doesn't look like something I'd enjoy
Do you like rpgs? If you forget about it being a kid focused series they make some good games.
What is the basic game mechanic, I know nothing about it other than little creatures live in egg things and you have to catch them all.
Basically a simple jrpg where you walk around fighting your pokemon against random wild pokemon that you can catch and add to your team or fight against other NPC's trained teams, you level yours up, build a team with good strengths and beat NPC boss characters pokemon teams to advance the story. It's like the early final fantasy games if you could catch your enemies and add them to your party.
Exactly this @poita. Not hard to get into but if you are a sucker for JRPGs then you'll be hooked 😛
Plus if you get really in to it there's more in depth things like breeding and trying to catch certain special types for that, and trading and online matches and the like.
gregorvorbarra says:
I wouldn't go quite that far. I'm heavily into JRPGs myself and never really got into the Pokemon games; mostly because I've never been an enthusiast for "monster breeder" style games. I gave up on Ni no Kuni well before finishing it for pretty much the same reason.
If you like JRPGs with a collecting/breeding mechanic, the Pokemon is probably the best example out there (although Ni no Kuni probably has a more interesting plot.)
I never saw it as the hunting breeding type though. Well hunting yes, but it just happens on the way through. Never got into the really crazy stuff like shinies, breeding etc etc.
This would still be the case if it was region free, too.
You can't discuss the 3DS and its place in the here and now, or its place in history, especially on a gaming site without talking about mobile.
This year I've sunk a lot of time into my 3DS, but it's been for 'grazing' and bite-sized chunks here and there. The Pc and consoles – for better or worse – take up the lion's share of my gaming time too and there are too many good titles on all the handhelds/mobiles that I am missing out on because of this.
A weird problem to have.
ummm…. Fire Emblem? Im sure playing the shizz out of that… and Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam looks awesome! I do see where your coming from, the 3DS's prime is probably past us, but hey, it was a good run, and I bet there'll still be a couple of surprises down the road.
gemini says:
Agreed Mark. I recently picked up my 3DS to do my yearly Chrono Trigger playthrough, but it has been gathering dust otherwise.
I had a brief look at the 3DS store the other night, and there was nothing new worthy of my time. It's like a shovelware graveyard.
Nedley says:
I take mine to work everyday to get random streetpasses, then I collect my puzzle pieces and play Streetpass Quest, but that's about it. Playing proper games on the bus doesn't work too well when it's a bumpy ride, it shakes the screen too much. Plus there hasn't been much worth playing lately.
partymchardy says:
For the reasons you listed above, they have pretty much abandoned the system. NeXt.
I think the only games that got me to carry my 3DS on me this year were Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and the eShop title Block Boy. In past years you'd never catch me without it.
mrtaco says:
Been in a similar state too. The last time I really sunk my teeth into a 3DS game was with Monster Hunter 4 at the start of the year. Then pretty much ignored it until PAX came along demanding StreetPass attention. At least Shovel Knight's now got me using it again.
Chibi Robo, Tri Force Heroes, Codename STEAM, Majora… all of them picked up this year, all of them untouched. Looking at what I played last year, it looks like mostly just catching up on the previous year's stuff I didn't get to. Link Between Worlds, Pokemon Y. Grabbed but didn't play Kirby. Then Smash came along, and got a bit of attention but not a whole lot.
Where did all the games go?
mrjocks says:
Trailing off before NX I'm thinking.
scruffy says:
Yep. That's why we're only getting "filler" games such as Tri-Force Heroes and Federation Force, instead of actual sequels. They'll be saving all the good stuff for the new console.
negativezero says:
Worse: there's no relief from the drought, at least that I can see.
Fire Emblem: Fates? Bravely Second? Dragon Quest VII and VIII? New Layton, Phoenix Wright games? Monster Hunter X? Shin Megami Tensei IV Final if that ever arrives here?
It's not a great outlook but it's not a complete wasteland. There were some okay games in 2014 and 2015 too.
For me and the sorts of games I play the Vita has far and away the better library as a portable, but the 3DS does have stuff periodically. Fire Emblem alone is huge – Awakening single-handedly justified owning the platform for me. I had a lot of buyer's remorse over the 3DS before that.
what vita games would you recommend
Depends what sort of games you like.
I liked persona and danganronpa trigger happy havoc, didn't get in to disgaea (sp?).
letrico says:
Try Virtue's Last Reward, Dragon's Crown, Ys series, Child of Light
germinalconsequence says:
Don't forget Etrian Odyssey: Knight Of Fafnir, Hyrule Warriors, Yo-Kai Watch, Story of Seasons, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Project X Zone 2, and Final Fantasy Explorers amongst others will also help revitalise a parched land.
It seems alright if you're into RPGs and the like. Of all those (and what Neg mentioned) I'm only mildly interested in Hyrule Warriors, pretty much.
I guess there's always backlog.
jacksonwryan says:
Came here to say this and had a slight suspicion that you would have already. Agree!
Finally started using my 3DS again last week after probably an 18 month break. Fired up Pokemon Y and started again. 2 hours in (on the plane) and my girlfriend stole it off me when I wasn't looking. I think she's clocked up 75% of the gametime now hahaha.
trikeabout says:
Well there's an Xmas present for her sorted then! 😀
Was very tempted, instead bought a beautiful dress she had her eye on. 2nd hand 3DS probably would have been cheaper hahaha. Might get it before we go to Japan in Feb though… Pokemon on the plane. That would freaking rock 😛
…give her yours, buy yourself a shiny new one… 😉
Wait, does she read here? 😉
Not yet she doesn't 😛
beavwa says:
This is probably part of the reality of why I've now reset Pokémon games over 70,000 times in the last year trying to catch shinies.
Because there's nothing really else to play. Nothing big.
We should catch up… 🙂
Indeed. We've got the week between Christmas and new year daily clear, need to have some board games fun times.
I am at krikket on Boxing Day; other than that, no plans. Drop me an email at charlie at (my username) point org for exchangement of contact details, or suggest somewhere to catch up over the next couple of weeks for a natter… 🙂
Only had mine 2 weeks. 🙂 Pokemon Y is fun. Bravely Default is stunning. Monster Hunter 4 I'm enjoying a lot.
I love my Vita but I'm paranoid when I carry it around. The 3DS goes in a pocket when I'm walking around. It gets opened when I've got 10 mins to do a quick battle or look at Streetpass. It's awesome.
gz says:
I've been finishing off my DS backlog. Finished the Castlevania games properly, going to go onto Final Fantasy A2 next and finally finish all the quests instead of fluffing around buying up whole countries.
pointzeroone says:
A link between worlds was the last 3ds game I played through properly. I've picked it up every now and then since then, but haven't played anything through like I did with link between worlds.
mic says:
I'm sure there's more, but there's also the new Fire Emblem coming out. The last one was amazing, so it's certainly worth keeping an eye out for.
It's always frustrating to read articles like this because what the author is always saying is "There are no games on X platform that I want to play." As many people have said, the upcoming games for the 3DS are many and varied and the only reason to think it's losing appeal is because you personally have no interest in the upcoming games.
I think the real interesting observation here is what happened to the New 3DS. Apart from a few articles on how certain games play better on it, there's been absolutely no games developed exclusively for it other than Xenoblade Chronicles.
piratepete says:
I only pull my 3DS XL out whenever a new Pokemon game comes out.
So far I have 2 games so my 3DS but I still think it was money well spent.
I got a few hundred hours out of it at least!
batguy says:
I think the real reason for this is that Nintendo are no longer concentrating on big games for 3DS. They're focusing on "Free to start" experiences: basically falling into a standard mobile style of limited play without constant pay. It's a bit sad, and I don't think that it's going to change with the move into the new generation. If anything, they're going to start moving it to consoles 🙁
benj says:
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam? Like that is literally what 3DS owners have to look forward to at this point.
And if I said this is my most hyped game of the year… 😛 To me at least it would be worth buying a 3DS for!
hoi_polloi says:
I think I'd use my 3DS if I had one of the new XL's, but I just struggle with the tiny screens. I can't game very long on handheld devices so I've kind of lost interest. I just can't justify an upgrade because I know the new one would suffer the same fate.
kermitron says:
Burned out on Animal Crossing and my wife wanted her 3DS back. She played Luigi's Mansion 2 for a week or two before setting it aside. I told myself I wanted to play Pokémon, but couldn't actually be bothered. It gathers dust.
lawnch says:
I kinda think it's less "I miss my 3DS" and more "I miss great handheld gaming". I love playing handheld games while watching through TV series, so I'm hanging out for those 4 or 5 big RPGs coming at the start of next year. But yeah, mobile seems to have punched handheld in the gut.
As an aside, box boy! Was pretty good.
losturtle1 says:
If you're like me and missed a lot of the golden era PS1 RPGs, a Vita works very nicely in this regard.
Yeah, really need to pull that Vita out and get on it. Chrono Trigger is right up there!
jasnjazz says:
I couldn't disagree more, but then I like Pokemon. Like many others have said Monster Hunter 4U is great, totally a must play game. But then I guess I'm an optimist, the only person on the planet it seems that enjoyed Happy Home Designer.
Monster Hunter was good, but it's been nearly 10 months since it was released. Even Splatoon couldn't hold my attention for that long, and it's become one of my most played games ever.
death_au says:
I'm carrying my 3DS around everywhere and playing on my daily commute, but it seems like no one else is any more. I'm getting StreetPasses less and less frequently 🙁
This. Where did everyone go??
I used to get at least half a dozen every day on the trip to and from work. Now about a year later I'm back at the same place doing the same trip and am lucky to be getting one or two each day.
I was all like "Me too…" then I went and got my 3DS, loaded up a new game of Shovel Knight and now I'm neglecting the rest of my life.
metalisticpain says:
Sounds like they are prepping for the Nintendo NX to be both handheld and home gaming console. Just less games for it, a slowing down of releases and the direct resources elsewhere.
imahippy says:
Paper Jam is pretty cool!


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Interview: Brandon Jay McLaren
Brandon Jay McLaren is one of the cast members of the new CBS procedural Ransom which airs every Saturday night at 8/7c. The series has already made its mark for the network.
Brandon is a native of Vancouver, Canada and attended the Johnston Heights Secondary School in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada where he studied Drama for five years. He received a soccer scholarship and attended the University of New York in Albany and continued to study acting.
McLaren should be no stranger to fans of film and television. He has built an impressive resume of work and continues to be one of the most sought after actors in the business. He appeared as a Power Ranger in the series Power Rangers S.P.D. His television credits also include The Killing, Harper's Island, Being Erica, The Killing, Slasher and Graceland. On the big screen, he's appeared in films such as She's the Man and Love Happens.
Today, we sit down with Brandon to talk about his new series Ransom, what it was like meeting the man the series is based on and how the team deals with staying within the law to get the job done.
Pop Culture Principle – What was it about the script that made you want to sign on to this particular project?
Brandon Jay McLaren – You know, I think what attracted me most first of all is that the show is based on a real guy. We got to meet him in France multiple times and he's just amazing. He has a team like ours in France and they do pretty much what we do in the show. Anytime you get to mirror something that happens in real life, I feel that's a tremendous opportunity.
Also, coupled with that, it is a procedural in the traditional sense, but there are longer character arcs which interested me. I am use to doing more cable, character type stuff, so my initial hesitation at doing a procedural was quelled by the fact that there are some character arcs in the show. So, those two things are what made me want to be a part of this project.
Pop Culture Principle – The show is based on French negotiator named Laurent Combalbert. Did you get to ask questions and pick his brain about what he does?
Brandon Jay McLaren – We had multiple dinners with him and he came to set a couple of times, so we got a chance to pick his brain a lot. The type of work they do and the stories that they have, lives are on the line all the time and stakes are always high and you always have to be on point. If I remember correctly, one of the times we met him, he had to leave because a negotiation had just come up and he had to go leave and handle that situation. So, it's really fascinating and they do really amazing work.
Pop Culture Principle – Can you tell us about the basic premise of Ransom?
Brandon Jay McLaren – Ransom is about this group of four who have a private firm called Crisis Resolution. Essentially what happens is that we go to different cities in North America and Europe every week and deal with really high stakes hostage negotiations, kidnappings, extortions and so on and so forth.
Typically, what happens when the police, FBI and the CIA gets to the end of their rope, they call us in for the really tough cases or the cases they don't want the media to know about. What's interesting about us is that we work independently, so when they call us in, they have to agree to work the way we work which is no guns and no violence. All we are interested in is no loss of life. We aren't interested in catching bad guys or putting people in jail. We just want everybody to walk away and nobody dying. That is always our primary focus when dealing with these negotiations.
Pop Culture Principle – What can you tell us about your character Oliver Yates?
Brandon Jay McLaren – Oliver plays the psychological profiler of the group which means that my job is to assess the mental state and tendencies of the hostage taker, gather up all the information and from there we can sort of decide from which angle to approach the situation.
Pop Culture Principle – Did you talk with the creators and producers of the series about your character and did you have any input?
Brandon Jay McLaren – I was the last person to get cast for the series. It kind of all came together very last minute. I found out I got the job and then I was on a plane the next day and shooting three days later. I tried to get as much information from Frank Spotnitz as possible and the great thing about him is that he let me infuse my own tendencies into the character because I think on the page as it was written, I don't think that they were thinking of me as the character. So, they let me take some liberties in terms of his edge and also his humor. They let me run with the character which I really appreciate.
Pop Culture Principle – What has it been like working with Ransom's creator Frank Spotnitz?
Brandon Jay McLaren – He is just so on the level and it was a real treat to work with him. You really feel like you are collaborating with him. It's not so much as he is your boss, but that we are all working together.
Pop Culture Principle – In the first episode, we see Sarah Greene's character go over Oliver's head to try and land a job with the team, which Oliver didn't appreciate. Will this be something that continues throughout the season?
Brandon Jay McLaren – Yes, absolutely. Oliver doesn't trust her and it really upset and bothered him that for the first time, Eric didn't take his advice. Oliver gives her a hard time and it's a learning curve for her and he wants to make sure that she is tough enough to hack it and earns her stripes.
Pop Culture Principle – The series boasts an amazing cast including Sarah Greene, Luke Roberts and Nazneen Contractor. How have you enjoyed working with the cast?
Brandon Jay McLaren – It was really great. The nature of this show is that we are together a lot in a lot of scenes, so we have to spend a lot of time together. Everyone is so great and we really do get along on set and I think that transfers to the screen and the audience.
Pop Culture Principle – We learn a little bit about each member of the team in the first episode. Will we get more backstory for your character as the season continues?
Brandon Jay McLaren – Yes, you are going to get into my backstory a little bit with an interesting twist that you won't see coming. It gives you some insight into Oliver's character in that there is a lot more there than one would imagine just by meeting him once or twice. Those are the little things that the audience is going to like and if we get a second season, we can kind of go deeper into these characters. There is a lot of information and every episode there is a huge hostage case, so it's hard to get into everybody's backstory, but the writers do a great job.
Pop Culture Principle – It seems that this team would have to work outside the law sometimes to get the job done. Do you agree they need to live in the 'grey' area sometimes to get the job done?
Brandon Jay McLaren – That is always the challenge. How do we stay within the boundaries of the law and still get the job done? The interesting thing about this show and sort of what we do is most of the time, the person who is asking for two million dollars really doesn't want two million dollars. Usually, it's something else that they are after whether it's validation, recognition or an apology. So, our job is to use everything in our power to get to the real core of what they really want so we can serve that and hopefully defuse the situation.
Pop Culture Principle – We find out at the end of the pilot that Eric is responsible for the death of Maxine's mother. How do you think this will affect not only the relationship between Maxine and Eric, but also the relationship with the rest of the team?
Brandon Jay McLaren – This is initially why Oliver was so against her joining the team. She brings emotion to the team and when you are dealing with these negotiations, emotions are the last thing you want to have introduced into your decision making. You want to stay clear, focused and as logical as possible. So, that is going to play into the rest of the season in a massive way.
Also, as time goes on, the challenge is how the four of us are going to be able to exist with one another and do the job effectively. Something usually has to give at some point. Either we are going to break up to do the job or we stay together and the jobs not going to get done. So, that is sort of what the first season is ultimately about.
Pop Culture Principle – What do you think separates Ransom from other similar shows?
Brandon Jay McLaren – There are a couple of things I think. First of all, this whole notion of non-violence. The fact that we don't carry guns and that we don't come in, knock down doors and shoot the place up and that is a really different take on your standard procedural. Second, the fact that every episode we are in a different city. So, just aesthetically, the show is going to be really interesting because we are going to be hopping around all over the world and that's going to really show on the screen and that will add a lot of value for the viewer.
Pop Culture Principle – What can fans look forward to with the first season of Ransom?
Brandon Jay McLaren – I will tell you this. Every relationship will be strained and tested to the limit.
We would like to thank Brandon for taking time to talk about his new series Ransom. You can catch new episodes of Ransom every Saturday night at 8/7c only on CBS. If you would like to keep up with all of Brandon's latest news and projects, you can follow him on Twitter @brandojay or like his official Facebook page here.
**All photos courtesy of CBS/Steve Wilkie/eOne**
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The Carroll County Community Mediation Center (CCCMC) offers conflict coaching, mediation and facilitation services to all county residents at NO COST, and at times and locations convenient for all participants. The Mediation Center also provides training in conflict management, which can be catered to your organization's needs.
Helps you find win/win solutions to your conflict.
All services are free of charge.
Serves the community daytime, evenings and weekends at many locations.
Gives people a chance to speak, to be heard and to hear each other.
Provides an opportunity for people to understand one another and transform their relationship.
Participants make their own decisions about the outcome of their conflict.
Assists people in developing long-term solutions that meet the needs of everyone involved.
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The Carroll County Community Mediation Center (CCCMC) started as a parent-teen mediation program in 2000 with the support of the Department of Juvenile Services (DJS), the Family Law Administrator, the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO), Community Mediation Maryland (CMM) and the Carroll County Youth Services Bureau (CCYSB). The vision was to provide families with a collaborative process to work out issues such as school attendance and performance, curfew, chores, friends, communication and more. The parent-teen mediation program was unique in offering a co-mediation model where the mediators mirrored the participants, having one adult and one teen mediator.
Over the years, the CCCMC expanded their services to include other family relationships such as couples, parents, siblings and in-laws. In addition to family conflicts, the CCCMC broadened its services to more community-based disputes including neighbor-neighbor, landlord-tenant, business-consumer, employee-employer, co-workers and neighborhood associations.
The CCCMC was part of the CCYSB from 2000 to 2008. In April 2008, the CCYSB decided that the focus of the CCCMC on community-based disputes no longer fit with their mission of providing a continuum of community-based mental health services for children, adults and families in Carroll County.
Carroll Community College (CCC) was approached about taking on the CCCMC in June 2008, and in October 2008, the Mediation Center officially began operating under the auspices of CCC. The Center's office is accessible and easy to find in the Nonprofit Center Building on Clifton Boulevard in Westminster.
Over the years, many members of the Carroll County community have been served by the CCCMC, and thousands of mediation sessions have helped residents resolve their conflicts nonviolently. The volunteers and staff of the CCCMC look forward to providing more county residents, businesses and organizations with education and training opportunities in addition to conflict resolution services.
Carroll County Community Mediation Center's vision is for every Carroll County citizen to have awareness of and access to high quality conflict resolution services at the community level, such as mediation and conflict coaching.
The Mediation Center promotes peaceful resolution of conflict and collaborative problem solving by providing a range of conflict resolution services, education and professional training to the Carroll County community.
Mediation helps people reach agreements, rebuild relationships and find permanent solutions to their disputes. It is a process that lets people speak for themselves and make their own decisions.
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Hold mediations in neighborhoods where disputes occur.
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Encourage early use of mediation to prevent violence or to reduce the need for court intervention, as well as provide mediation at any stage in a dispute.
Mediate community-based disputes that come from referral sources including self-referrals, police, courts, community organizations, civic groups, religious institutions, government agencies and others.
Educate community members about conflict resolution and mediation.
Maintain high quality mediators by providing intensive, skills-based training, apprenticeships, continuing education and ongoing evaluation of volunteer mediators.
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Mediation is a conflict-resolution process in which mediators assist two or more participants with a dispute or conflict, helping those who need to have a difficult conversation clarify what is important to everyone and make decisions that meet the needs of those involved. Mediation is confidential, voluntary and nonjudgmental.
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Facilitation services are available for groups of 10 or more people. The Center's facilitators work with meeting organizers and participants to design a process that helps promote dialogue, clarity and efficiency to attain the goals of the group. As third party neutrals, the facilitators guide the process with all participants and remain impartial to the outcomes. The facilitators assist in keeping the meeting on track and record notes and action items.
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The CCCMC provides education and training to community groups, churches, schools and government agencies. Presentations and trainings are tailored to meet the needs of each agency, organization or business.
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Facilitators work with the parent(s) and the school to foster constructive communication and collaboration to develop an effective educational program. The facilitator talks to the parents and the IEP Chair in advance to support the development of an agenda and helps make sure everyone has a chance to speak and be heard at an IEP meeting. The facilitator keeps the discussion focused and assists the team to resolve disagreements.
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Bansko is a town in southwestern Bulgaria. It is located at the foot of the beautiful Pirin Mountain whose slopes cuddle the adored by each visitor ski zone. Bansko was awarded the prize Best Winter Resort in Bulgaria in the last several years according to the Kitzbuehel World Ski Awards Academy.
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The resort reaffirmed its rank at an international level too by hosting the Alpine Skiing World Cup Championship several times. Along with its splendid runs the resort boasts a fun park for the extreme sports fans, numerous off-run terrains and wonderful winter landscapes for ski touring. The tracks the resort offers satisfy the desires of both masters and beginners having resolved to embark into winter sports. There is a great number of facilities serving the zone, and they are new, fast and comfortable. The safety of the runs is ensured by protection nets and mattresses, located where needed. The ski zone in Bansko in figures.
Total length 22 km
Chair lifts 13.2 km
Drags 2.4 km
Gondola 6.2 km
Ski runs over 70 km
For beginners 35%
For intermediate advanced 40%
For advanced 25%
Number of snow machines 230
Ski road, unique 16 km ski road, suitable for intermediate advanced skiers and snowboarders, covered with snow by the snow machines and well lighted, connecting the biggest ski run with the town.
At a national level Bansko is famous not only as a winter resort. Artists, revolutionaries, writers and educators were born, lived and worked in the town, who, with their works, occupy a great part of Bulgarian history. The local people keep folk arts alive and you can witness them by the demonstrations of the Bansko schools. Here you can enjoy century old architecture and set off on the town culture study tours. Wine cellars and restaurants form an unchangeable part of the entertainment programme of the town, and there you can taste the local cuisine which has preserved the traditional recipes.
The Bulgarian municipality of Bansko was established around 1850 as a successor of the common rural council, formed in 1833 by Lazar German to collect funds, materials and workforce for the construction and decoration of the Sveta Troitsa Church, which was sanctified in 1835 as a part of the local Bulgarian self-governance organization. The municipal leadership was formed by influential representatives of the commercial and crafts professions. In the 60s and 70s of the XIX century the municipality led the fight for independence against the Greek ecclesiastical authorities and for provision of education in the village. In 1857 it initiated the building of a new school and transformed the joint school into separate classes. Newspapers and literature were disseminated. The municipal authorities organized the construction of the Sveta Troitsa Church bell tower in 1850 and the installation of a clock mechanism in 1865.
Bansko – a magical symbiosis of history, traditions and culture. With all that the visitors can discover here – antique architecture, heroic history, authentic folklore, centuries-old culture, preserved customs and traditions, specific cuisine, incredible humour and rich oration, the mountainous Renaissance town is an original symbol of the Bulgarian spirit.
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Pirin is the second-highest mountain in Bulgaria. Its highest peak is Vihren (2914 m). The oldest known name of the mountain is Orbelus – snow-white as the Thracians used to call it, while in the language of the Slavs it was named Perin or Perun. The Bulgarians traditionally believe that the name Pirin comes from the Slavic God Perun, the master of thunders. More serious studies however show that the names Pirin and Perun simply coincide without connection and the name Pirin originates in the Thracian word "perintos", meaning a rock, which in turn comes from the Hittite "perunash".
Bansko, once mainly a stockbreeding and travelling merchant community, has become an international centre for winter and summer tourism. The mountain peaks near the town, the numerous lakes and the old pine woods make it a popular site for recreation. Bulgaria's share in European winter tourism is steadily rising, and Bansko increasingly competes with resorts in France and Switzerland due to the comparative lower costs but not in quality.Improvements to the infrastructure and organisation of the ski area on Todorka have been made annually to accommodate the rising number of tourists. A gondola lift was built from town in 2003, replacing the minibus ride to the primary base area of Banderishka Poliana. As of 2010, the ski area has 75 km (47 mi) of ski runs, 14 lifts and drags, serving up to 24,500 persons per hour. The lift-served summit rises to an elevation of 2,600 m (8,500 ft) above sea level. The vertical drop is nearly 1,000 m (3,300 ft) to the base area at Banderishka Poliana, and over 1,600 m (5,200 ft) with the ski runs to town
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The permanent displays tell not just their stories but also intriguing insights into this military county; the airfields and secret locations so important to victory in the Second World War and the lives of those left behind, families and children who still today live next to current military installations.