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Events 42 maltatoday, Sunday, 26 OctOber 2014 Action-packed films and new series on GO Stars HD this October GO Stars HD is broadcasting a number of movie premieres throughout October including 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. This action- comedy film about two men who find themselves on the run after robbing a bank, only to discover that they are both undercover agents tasked with investigating the other will be broadcast on GO Stars HD on Saturday 18 October at 9.00pm. Premiering on Halloween night at 9.00pm is Warm Bodies, a 'zombie- romance' starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer. The film fo- cuses on the special relationship between Julie, a human survivor, and R, a highly unusual zombie, and the chain of events that follow. Also showing on GO Stars HD this month are Behind the Candelabra, Cuban Fury and Diana. Besides the wide array of films being showcased during the month of October, GO Stars HD is also showing season six of The Mid- dle, a comical series about a wife and working mother, Frankie Heck, who uses her sense of humour and wry wit to get her family through the day. The Middle is broadcast every Friday at 8.30pm. The Big Bang Theory has also re- turned with Season 8 showing eve- ry Monday at 8.30pm. The highly- popular television series about four misfit scientists has returned with anticipation for Penny and Leon- ard's engagement, and Sheldon's ever-suffering relationship with neurobiologist Amy Farah Fowler. More information on GO Stars HD which is available from as lit- tle as €6.99 per month can be ob- tained from all GO retail outlets and exclusive resellers, by calling Freephone 80072121 or visiting www.go.com.mt. IBM-SPSS "Diverse World of Data Analysis" seminar People and Co. Ltd, an Advanced IBM Business Partner supplying statistics, data mining, data col- lection, survey research and text analysis solutions, recently held a seminar at SmartCity on solutions for Practical uses of IBM-SPSS. This seminar targeted analysts from a variety of businesses, indus- try and public sector organisations including iGaming executives, analysts, marketing personnel, re- searchers and government statisti- cians. David Cutajar, CEO - People & Co Ltd, provided a generic overview of IBM-SPSS Statistics and IBM-SPSS Modeller. He spoke about the IBM- SPSS approach to Data Mining and Predictive Analytics. He further elaborated how com- bination of IBM's latest Database technologies, Business Intelligence, Social Media Analytics, and Data & Text Mining/Statistics/Predictive Analytics is now becoming increas- ingly integrated as IBM's Business Analytics and Information Man- agement Solutions. The seminar included a number of guest speakers. Alphonse L. MacDonald, Former Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Geneva, Switzerland, spoke about how IBM-SPSS can be effectively employed in scenarios like "Predicting the spread of Eb- ola". Nikolai Livori, CEO - Yobetit, delivered a presentation about "The Significance of Market Movements within Sports Betting". Richard Bonello, Head of Technology and IS at Deloitte, discussed "Synthesiz- ing Text Mining Models for Privacy Related Inference" with particular reference to privacy issues on social media platforms. Data mining offers organisations many benefits, including a more detailed view of their customers or assets, a clearer view of current conditions and deeper insight into future events. By choosing a high-performance data mining tool, organisations can mine their data more efficiently and gain a significant return on in- vestment (ROI) by understanding the patterns in their data, allowing better decisions to be made which drive superior outcomes. IBM SPSS Modeller is a data- mining workbench that enables im- proved decision making with quick development of predictive models using business expertise and quick deployment of these models into business operations. Designed around the industry- standard CRISP-DM (Cross In- dustry Standard Process for Data Mining) model, IBM-SPSS Model- ler supports the entire data mining process, from business understand- ing through to deployment. IBM-SPSS Modeller uses a cli- ent/server architecture, allowing resource-intensive operations to be executed on a server. This results in increased performance because memory intensive operations can be done on the server without down- loading data to the client computer. IBM SPSS Modeller Server also pro- vides support for SQL optimization and in-database modeling capabili- ties, delivering further benefits in performance. Participants also had the oppor- tunity to interact with the technol- ogies presented during a hands-one workshop. People & Co. Ltd is also a Learn- Quest Education Partner offering full IBM Certification and many other ICT related courses. For information send an email to spss@people.com.mt GasanMamo assists schools in first aid training Earlier this year, GasanMamo sup- ported Maratona bir-Roti in raising awareness on first aid by addressing a very sensitive issue for the Mal- tese, safety and first aid in schools. The Maratona bir-Roti team have now announced that the ambitious project will see 73 schools in Malta and Gozo benefit from the Mara- tona bir-Roti 2014, through several initiatives. The funds are being used for schools to be equipped with Auto- mated External Defibrillators, a life saving device that will help in sce- narios of heart failures. 220 teachers and staff are being informed on how to use the AEDs and trained and certified in Basic Life Support. A ba- sic presentation in First Aid is also being given to over 20,000 students. "Supporting Maratona bir-Roti, an initiative with a strong social involvement reflects our Corporate Social Responsibility and our strong social consciousness," said Mark Mamo, General Manager at Gasan- Mamo. "We wish the team of organ- isers the best of luck with this initia- tive and look forward to the next". Manwel Borg from the Maratona bir-Roti team of organisers thanked GasanMamo for their support and said the success of such initiatives depends on the generosity of compa- nies such as GasanMamo and hefty donations from the public. He also mentioned Maratona bir- Roti 2015 which will be a continuum to cover the remaining schools and to extend the project to MCAST Institutes, University and all other registered sport, social, cultural and religious organisation which have children and youth as their main concern. Breast Health Day celebrated in Valletta Europa Donna Malta celebrated Breast Health Day by holding an awareness activity at St. George's Square in Val- letta on Saturday, 18 October. The event was held under the distin- guished patronage of H.E. Marie-Lou- ise Coleiro Preca and in collaboration with the Breast Clinic from Mater Dei Hospital. The main aim of this activ- ity was to promote physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. A number of associations showcased their sports, including Golf, Fencing, Cricket, Aerobic Table Tennis, Taek- wondo and Women in Sport, while the Girl Guides organized various games and face painting. Beauty Expressed in Colours pro- vided make-up and Nestlé distributed Fitness cereal bars. Entertainment was provided by the AFM Band, Centre Stage, the Pink Ladies, the performers from the Malta Drama Centre, the School of Perform- ing Arts and Societa Filarmonica Na- zionale La Vallette . The Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Directorate and HSBC Water Aid also took part and St. John's Ambulance were on hand to provide first aid, while the team from the Breast Clinic offered free breast examinations in a room offered for this purpose at the Palace and in the St. John's Ambulance. An encourag- ing 47 examinations were held and of these 7 were referred for further in- vestigation at Mater Dei Hospital. The Blood Bank was also present and had 14 donors.