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Q: Android programming (Trying to download a file to system directory) Dear stackOverflow members i have recently started a new project called "RootBox" and it is an app that needs "su" perms and i have successfully allowed the app "su" or "root" access and im trying to download and replace a system file in "/system/media and i have setup my downloader but the download progress dialog pops up and closes which im guessing is the result of the file not being able to written to the system directory and i have Re-mounted the system as r-w before starting the download an i have searched all over the internet and was unable to find help thats why i have come here.
This is the activity executing the download
public static final int DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS = 0;
private Button startBtn;
private ProgressDialog mProgressDialog;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.bootmation);
    startBtn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startBtn);
    startBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
        public void onClick(View v) {
            startDownload();
            RootTools.remount("/system/", "rw");
        }
    });
}

private void startDownload() {
    String url = "http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/430746/bootanimation.zip";
    new DownloadFileAsync().execute(url);
}
@Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
    switch (id) {
    case DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS:
        mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
        mProgressDialog.setMessage("Downloading file..");
        mProgressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
        mProgressDialog.setCancelable(false);
        mProgressDialog.show();
        return mProgressDialog;
    default:
        return null;
    }
}

class DownloadFileAsync extends AsyncTask {
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    super.onPreExecute();
    showDialog(DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS);
}

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protected String doInBackground(String... aurl) {
    int count;

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URLConnection conexion = url.openConnection();
conexion.connect();

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OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream("/system/media/bootanimation.zip");

byte data[] = new byte[1024];

long total = 0;

    while ((count = input.read(data)) != -1) {
        total += count;
        publishProgress(""+(int)((total*100)/lenghtOfFile));
        output.write(data, 0, count);
    }

    output.flush();
    output.close();
    input.close();
} catch (Exception e) {}
return null;

}
protected void onProgressUpdate(String... progress) {
     Log.d("ANDRO_ASYNC",progress[0]);
     mProgressDialog.setProgress(Integer.parseInt(progress[0]));
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String unused) {
    dismissDialog(DIALOG_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS);
}

}
}

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c.setRequestMethod("GET");
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by Sergio Goschenko
Salvadoran Bitcoin Bonds Might Be Issued by State Geothermal Company La Geo, Delays Possible
The treasury minister of El Salvador, Alejandro Zelaya, has informed about the future of the issuance of the bitcoin bonds and the possibility of these being issued by La Geo, the national geothermal power company. Zelaya also referred to the day of issuance of these instruments, hinting at a possible delay that would see the bonds go out to the market in May or even July.
El Salvador Might Issue Bitcoin Bonds Through La Geo
The treasury minister of El Salvador, Alejandro Zelaya, gave his take on the issuance of the bitcoin bonds and how these might be linked to La Geo, the national geothermal power company. In an interview offered to a local television program, Zelaya stated that they will be issuing the bitcoin bonds through La Geo, which will have the responsibility of backing the instrument.
However, Zelaya reassured future investors, explaining that even under this model, the state would be responsible for the bond issuance, giving warranties to bondholders. On this, Zelaya declared:
If it is issued by La Geo or by the Salvadoran State, in the end, it is always a debt of the State. We as a state contribute all the capital. These are autonomous state companies.
The bitcoin bonds were proposed by the president of the country, Nayib Bukele, as a means of getting financing for constructing Bitcoin City, a city to be powered by geothermal energy. The first issuance of the bonds would be backed by bitcoin, offering 6.5%.
Issuance Date Still Undecided
Zelaya also referred to the exact date and time when these bonds will be issued, Zelaya stated that, according to his point of view, these bonds could go out to the market during the months of March and April. However, he noted that the situation is not favorable for this timeframe at the moment. He also mentioned that May and June could offer good conditions for the bond issuance, too.
Furthermore, the minister stated that after September there are poor opportunities for the issuance to have a big impact. Zelaya also informed that they expect to be oversubscribed, and mentioned $1.5 billion as the number the government expect to achieve with this initiative.
The country has been preparing its legal framework for the launch of these bonds since January when 20 bills were drafted to support their issuance.
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Huawei, ZTE probe showed no evidence of spying
All they did was sell lousy equipment
By Neil McAllister in San Francisco 18 Oct 2012 at 00:24
An 18-month investigation by the US House Intelligence Committee into Chinese networking vendors Huawei and ZTE revealed no evidence that either company has been involved in espionage, sources claim.
As reported by Reuters on Wednesday, two sources familiar with the probe said that "certain parts of government really wanted" to uncover evidence of spying, adding, "We would have found it if it were there."
That lack of evidence didn't stop lawmakers from issuing a stern warning to US companies, however, arguing that doing business with either Chinese vendor could pose a security threat.
Earlier this month, Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers said, "China is known to be the major perpetrator of cyber espionage, and Huawei and ZTE failed to alleviate serious concerns throughout this important investigation. American businesses should use other vendors."
But according to Reuters' anonymous sources, those "serious concerns" weren't much more than hunches. Not only did the Congressional probe fail to link Huawei and ZTE to current spying activities, but it found no evidence that either company had engaged in espionage in the past.
Rather, the Intelligence Committee made its recommendation based on "a general sense of foreboding" about what might happen if the Chinese government asked network equipment vendors to help gather intelligence from US customers, according to former CIA analyst Chris Johnson.
That foreboding may have been seeded, at least in part, by the Chinese vendors' US-based competition. Last week, The Washington Post claimed to have uncovered a Cisco marketing document that painted Huawei as a security risk, using language very similar to that found in the Intelligence Committee's report.
When asked directly during whether ZTE took orders from the Chinese government, however, Zhu Jinyun, the company's senior VP for North America and Europe, was insistent.
"The committee's central question has been: would ZTE grant China's government access to ZTE telecom infrastructure equipment for a cyber attack?" Zhu told the Intelligence Committee. "Let me answer emphatically: no! China's government has never made such a request. We expect the Chinese government never to make such a request of ZTE. If such a request were made, ZTE would be bound by US law."
Huawei also denied that it took its orders from the Chinese government, but as with ZTE, its protests seemed to fall on deaf ears. Shortly after Rogers issued his advisory to US companies, Huawei issued a statement accusing the Committee of being "committed to a predetermined outcome."
Bugs, just not the spying kind
But although the Congressional investigation did not turn up any evidence that Huawei and ZTE were engaged in spying, it did reveal other reasons why customers might choose to avoid equipment made by Chinese vendors, sources say.
The Intelligence Committee's investigation into the security of Huawei's router software reportedly found it "riddled with holes," many of which could potentially be exploited by hackers. One expert told Reuters that it was "five times easier" to find a security vulnerability in a Huawei router than a Cisco one.
Those defects didn't seem to have been put there intentionally or maliciously. Rather, they seemed to be the result of ordinary sloppy coding. So it seems Huawei and ZTE customers do run a greater risk being targeted by hackers, after all; just not necessarily by Chinese spies. ®
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It was not immediately clear why the navy ship Kallisto and the Maersk Launceston container vessel, which had been heading to Turkey with 22 crew on board, collided.
The coast guard said a rescue operation was launched with three coast guard patrol boats, a coast guard special forces unit, a navy ship and helicopter and four tug boats. All 27 navy crew members were rescued from the minesweeper, which sustained damage and was taking on water.
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Not all it is Trumped up to be in Scotland
Glyn Pritchard looks how the latest financial losses for President Trump's Scottish golf resorts will impact further development and the prospects for the Scottish Open being hosted at Trump International Golf Links.
After I stepped down as editor of GOLF RETAILING my first article for this regular column was about how inappropriate course development was getting golf a bad name. A large section of that first article was about the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's Menie Estate development in Aberdeenshire. Concluding the section about Trump International Golf Links at the Menie Estate I wrote: "Trump has now abandoned plans for a second golf course at the Menie Estate and turned his attention instead to running the United States."
At the time, in the spring of 2016, that comment was meant to be funny and ironic. But the final irony is that Trump is now indeed running the United States, although his Scottish golf developments are not faring so well.
Accounts for the last trading year show the Menie Estate lost £1.4 million, while Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire lost £17.6 million, more than double the previous year's loss. The losses at Trump Turnberry were in part due to its six-month closure for renovation work and also because of the slump in the value of the pound since Brexit.
While the trading loss at the Menie Estate Trump International Golf Links was smaller it casts doubt on further development. Originally there were plans for a five-star hotel, timeshare flats and private villas. A second 18-hole course was to be built soon after the first course was complete, but the recession placed development on hold. Then Trump lost a long legal dispute with the Scottish government over a £230 million offshore wind turbine farm which would have been visible from his development. Now the downturn in the North Sea oil industry, which is the backbone of the Aberdeenshire economy, threatens the viability of a second course.
The planning application for the second course at Menie was submitted two years ago, but has run into difficulty over environmental issues. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) requires a detailed environmental management plan for construction of the new course, which the Trump organisation has rejected. SEPA also wants the Trump organisation to connect both courses, the clubhouse and staff housing to the public sewage system. Currently a soak-away drain is used for sewerage at the site.
Aberdeenshire council planning committee has postponed consideration of the application twice this year because of the SEPA requirements and also Scottish Natural Heritage objections. Over 94,000 people have signed a petition organised by the online campaigners SumOfUs opposing the development.
While the prestige of the office of the President of the United States would normally have a positive effect on the incumbent's reputation, the particular nature of the Trump presidency seems to be having the opposite effect in Scotland. Trump's policies, particularly towards migrants, have seen the Scottish government rescind his title as business ambassador for Scotland and Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University has revoked an honorary degree.
The Trump organisation has been pushing to host the Scottish Open at Menie with Trump – showcasing his usual understatement – commenting two years ago, "The Scottish Open is coming. The Scottish Open wants to be here forever, they think this is the best course they've ever seen."
However, Martin Gilbert, CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management, main sponsor of the Scottish Open, said at this year's event: "Trump, I don't need to tell you, is a great golf course, but there are issues if we went there. The worst thing would be if he came! No decision has been made, but look there are clear issues. Politics aside, Trump would be an ideal venue, but you can't put politics aside. That is the issue so we will wait and see." And this is despite the fact that Martin Gilbert was invited to Trump's inauguration in January.
As the Scottish Open is now part of the Rolex Series, the watch company would need to approve Menie. But as the Scottish Government is also one of the event's partners the likelihood of Menie holding the event in 2019 seems highly unlikely.
Whatever challenges he faces with golf course development (not to mention North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan etc) on the course The Donald is enjoying success. Recently Senator Lindsey Graham said the President shot 73 when the two played together at one of Trump's courses, a claim Golf Magazine in the States described as "patently unbelievable to many golfers".
In his election campaign Trump repeatedly criticised President Obama for playing too much golf, telling voters, "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." However, there is already a website keeping track of President Trump's frequent golf rounds: trumpgolfcount.com
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Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
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Koray Kavukcuoglu1,
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Demis Hassabis1
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The game of Go has long been viewed as the most challenging of classic games for artificial intelligence owing to its enormous search space and the difficulty of evaluating board positions and moves. Here we introduce a new approach to computer Go that uses 'value networks' to evaluate board positions and 'policy networks' to select moves. These deep neural networks are trained by a novel combination of supervised learning from human expert games, and reinforcement learning from games of self-play. Without any lookahead search, the neural networks play Go at the level of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo tree search programs that simulate thousands of random games of self-play. We also introduce a new search algorithm that combines Monte Carlo simulation with value and policy networks. Using this search algorithm, our program AlphaGo achieved a 99.8% winning rate against other Go programs, and defeated the human European Go champion by 5 games to 0. This is the first time that a computer program has defeated a human professional player in the full-sized game of Go, a feat previously thought to be at least a decade away.
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Figure 1: Neural network training pipeline and architecture.
Figure 2: Strength and accuracy of policy and value networks.
Figure 3: Monte Carlo tree search in AlphaGo.
Figure 4: Tournament evaluation of AlphaGo.
Figure 5: How AlphaGo (black, to play) selected its move in an informal game against Fan Hui.
Figure 6: Games from the match between AlphaGo and the European champion, Fan Hui.
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Huang, S. & Müller, M. Investigating the limits of Monte-Carlo tree search methods in computer Go. In 8th International Conference on Computers and Games, 39–48 (2013)
Segal, R. B. On the scalability of parallel UCT. Computers and Games 6515, 36–47 (2011)
Enzenberger, M. & Müller, M. A lock-free multithreaded Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm. In 12th Advances in Computer Games Conference, 14–20 (2009)
Huang, S.-C., Coulom, R. & Lin, S.-S. Time management for Monte-Carlo tree search applied to the game of Go. In International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 462–466 (2010)
Gelly, S. & Silver, D. Monte-Carlo tree search and rapid action value estimation in computer Go. Artif. Intell. 175, 1856–1875 (2011)
Baudiš, P. Balancing MCTS by dynamically adjusting the komi value. ICGA J. 34, 131 (2011)
Baier, H. & Winands, M. H. Active opening book application for Monte-Carlo tree search in 19×19 Go. In Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 3–10 (2011)
Dean, J. et al. Large scale distributed deep networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1223–1231 (2012)
Go ratings. http://www.goratings.org
We thank Fan Hui for agreeing to play against AlphaGo; T. Manning for refereeing the match; R. Munos and T. Schaul for helpful discussions and advice; A. Cain and M. Cant for work on the visuals; P. Dayan, G. Wayne, D. Kumaran, D. Purves, H. van Hasselt, A. Barreto and G. Ostrovski for reviewing the paper; and the rest of the DeepMind team for their support, ideas and encouragement.
David Silver and Aja Huang: These authors contributed equally to this work.
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David Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison, Arthur Guez, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Veda Panneershelvam, Marc Lanctot, Sander Dieleman, Dominik Grewe, Nal Kalchbrenner, Timothy Lillicrap, Madeleine Leach, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Thore Graepel & Demis Hassabis
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David Silver
Aja Huang
Chris J. Maddison
Arthur Guez
Laurent Sifre
George van den Driessche
Julian Schrittwieser
Ioannis Antonoglou
Veda Panneershelvam
Marc Lanctot
Sander Dieleman
Dominik Grewe
John Nham
Nal Kalchbrenner
Ilya Sutskever
Timothy Lillicrap
Madeleine Leach
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Thore Graepel
Demis Hassabis
A.H., G.v.d.D., J.S., I.A., M.La., A.G., T.G. and D.S. designed and implemented the search in AlphaGo. C.J.M., A.G., L.S., A.H., I.A., V.P., S.D., D.G., N.K., I.S., K.K. and D.S. designed and trained the neural networks in AlphaGo. J.S., J.N., A.H. and D.S. designed and implemented the evaluation framework for AlphaGo. D.S., M.Le., T.L., T.G., K.K. and D.H. managed and advised on the project. D.S., T.G., A.G. and D.H. wrote the paper.
Correspondence to David Silver or Demis Hassabis.
Extended data figures and tables
Extended Data Table 1 Details of match between AlphaGo and Fan Hui
Extended Data Table 2 Input features for neural networks
Extended Data Table 3 Supervised learning results for the policy network
Extended Data Table 4 Input features for rollout and tree policy
Extended Data Table 5 Parameters used by AlphaGo
Extended Data Table 6 Results of a tournament between different Go programs
Extended Data Table 7 Results of a tournament between different variants of AlphaGo
Extended Data Table 8 Results of a tournament between AlphaGo and distributed AlphaGo, testing scalability with hardware
Extended Data Table 9 Cross-table of win rates in per cent between programs
Extended Data Table 10 Cross-table of win rates in per cent between programs in the single-machine scalability study
Extended Data Table 11 Cross-table of win rates in per cent between programs in the distributed scalability study
Hear from the makers of the AI that mastered Go - and the professional player it beat.
This zipped file contains game records for the 5 formal match games played between AlphaGo and Fan Hui. (ZIP 3 kb)
PowerPoint slide for Fig. 1
Silver, D., Huang, A., Maddison, C. et al. Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature 529, 484–489 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16961
Received: 11 November 2015
Issue Date: 28 January 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16961
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Training a Multi-Layer Photonic Spiking Neural Network With Modified Supervised Learning Algorithm Based on Photonic STDP
Shuiying Xiang
, Zhenxing Ren
, Yahui Zhang
, Ziwei Song
, Xingxing Guo
, Genquan Han
& Yue Hao
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2021)
Multi-agent hierarchical policy gradient for Air Combat Tactics emergence via self-play
Zhixiao Sun
, Haiyin Piao
, Zhen Yang
, Yiyang Zhao
, Guang Zhan
, Deyun Zhou
, Guanglei Meng
, Hechang Chen
, Xing Chen
, Bohao Qu
& Yuanjie Lu
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2021)
WebNet: A biomateriomic three-dimensional spider web neural net
Eric L. Buehler
, Isabelle Su
& Markus J. Buehler
Extreme Mechanics Letters (2021)
What machine learning can do for developmental biology
Paul Villoutreix
Editorial Summary
AlphaGo computer beats Go champion
The victory in 1997 of the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in a six-game series against the then world champion Gary Kasparov was seen as a significant milestone in the development of artificial intelligence. An even greater challenge remained — the ancient game of Go. Despite decades of refinement, until recently the strongest computers were still playing Go at the level of human amateurs. Enter AlphaGo. Developed by Google DeepMind, this program uses deep neural networks to mimic expert players, and further improves its performance by learning from games played against itself. AlphaGo has achieved a 99% win rate against the strongest other Go programs, and defeated the reigning European champion Fan Hui 5–0 in a tournament match. This is the first time that a computer program has defeated a human professional player in even games, on a full, 19 x 19 board, in even games with no handicap.
The multidisciplinary nature of machine intelligence
Nature ISSN 1476-4687 (online)


Integrating the Intel Q87 desktop chipset and S series fourth generation Intel Core processors, the 4U Infinity 96I4408-MBQ87 system has been introduced by DSM Computer. The 19″ robust industrial computer is suitable for sophisticated applications that demand high computing, graphical and video power, including automation technology, plant control, control room technology, energy industry, instrumentation and image processing.
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Xmas is a time for party. It's the only time old when all your family and friends are accumulated round to earn festive and take pleasure in the merry cheer. During the xmas holidays many folks have the opportunity to attend parties at nightclubs and bars throughout the UK. Maintaining your hair down can mean; a few festive glasses of wine, a sherry below the mistletoe or smoking cannabis. Cannabis usage is elevated in britain, with an estimated 3,364,000 individuals using this drug https://www.trythecbd.com/shop/.
According to new government figures a third of persons have taken medication at one stage in their own lives and 10%'ve tried these in the last year. Whilst the usage of non invasive prescribed medication is prohibited in the UK, for many folks smoking a joint is as pure as using a spoonful of beer. Regrettably a large percentage of medication users even now drive after taking medication, since they do not appreciate the threat they pose. Drink driving, although nonetheless an issue in the UK, is now becoming a taboo subject one of people that partake in a tipple. However, since drug use is contrary to the law, a lot of people using drugs are oblivious of, or not familiar with the risks of drug driving.
Drug usage is not discussed openly and consequently individuals deciding to simply take drugs are not counseled by the others to avoid forcing. Many drug users also still believe they won't be tested for medication if stopped by the police. In reality new authorities forces are introduced to allow police to perform roadside testing. This will improve the forces of arrest and can provide the police with greater evidence with which to prosecute.
French scientists have recently announced that driving under the effect of cannabis may double your opportunity of causing a fatal vehicle crash. Researchers from the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS) carried out a study of 10,748 motorists that have been involved in fatal vehicle accidents between 2001 and 2003. 7 percentage of the drivers tested positive for cannabis and 21.4 percent for alcoholic beverages use.
Drug users that choose to drive under the influence will be risking many lives. Getting when driving after using cannabis is possibly as insecure as drink driving and lots of folks are very likely to become hurt or killed as a outcome. Many people take part with road traffic accidents every year in the UK and many of the accidents are the result of neglect. Medication driving is a type of uncertainty while the man who is below the influence should not have been driving and is hence negligent.
Bangalore is a enchanting metropolis that enshrines a lot of attractions and tourist locations. Owing to the extensive myriad of sights situated inside this city, tourists need a ideal guide that is going to make it possible for them to know where to be. Every vacationer has her or his own goal of visiting an area and it is from those traveling goals that make people understand the forms of destinations they should tour.
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The Investment Management Exhibition (IME) is an international event taking place for the 3rd time. It was founded with the aim to bring investors and project owners together, to attract foreign direct investment. It connects investors, international financial institutions with public and private investment project owners, with focus on the regions of Central Europe, South Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the Caucasus and Central Asia.
This year´s IME-edition was held in Frankfurt am Main, Gerrmany, from 20 to 21 March 2018. Representatives from Investment promotion agencies, government representatives and Investment and consulting companies have discussed important achievements for improving business climate as well as present government incetives and efforts towards attracting FDIs. Participants could get a brief overview of many interesting projects, in particular from following branches as Energy, Infrastructure and Logistics, Industry and Mining, SMEs and IT. Moreover, Investment attractiveness and recommendations to enhance business climate were presented by the speakers from countries of Southern and Eastern Europe. In this panel, participants had the chance to get to know more about Investment opportunities and business climate in the Czech Republic, which were provided by Ms Barbora Racan Jezkova, the CzechInvest's foreign representative for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.


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Joseph Akers reviews the blockbuster sequel "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."
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My student Ioannis Kazantzidis, from Kingston University (United Kingdom), defends his PhD work "Vide-omics: A Genomics-inspired Paradigm for Video Analysis" with success.
My student Ivan Pires, from Universidad da Beira Interior (Portugal), defends his PhD work "Multi-sensor data fusion in mobile devices for the identification of Activities of Daily Living" with success.
Divulgative article "Los ordenadores son vigilantes novatos; la genómica les enseña a ser mejores" (in Spanish) about the vide-omics paradigm is published by The Conversation España.
Invited keynote on visual monitoring of people in AAL applications at BMVA Symposium: Computer Vision for smart environments and assisted living in London.
Presentation of our new EU project PAAL - Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Lifelogging services for older and frail people, funded under the framework of the Joint Programming Initiative "More Years, Better Lives," at the JPI MYBL Conference.
The Special Issue on Computer Vision in Healthcare and Assisted Living in the IET Computer Vision journal is published.
Paper Recognition of Activities of Daily Living Based on Environmental Analyses Using Audio Fingerprinting Techniques: A Systematic Review publised in the Sensors journal.
Paper "Vide-omics: A Genomics-inspired Paradigm for Video Analysis" published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal.
Viva of PhD Thesis "Development of a scalable, reproducible and semantically interoperable emergency triage system" by my student José Miguel Bellod Guillén.
Looking for experts and companies interested/working in image-based trade mark retrieval. Contact me.
Invited talk at the International Workshop on Assistive & Rehabilitation Technology (IWART 2016).
2nd IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL 2016) chaired in London.
Paper "Human Action Recognition Based on Temporal Pyramid of Key Poses Using RGB-D Sensors" presented by Enea Cippitelli at ACIVS 2016 is awarded the Best Student Paper prize.
Published call for papers on Computer Vision in Healthcare and Assisted Living for the IET Computer Vision journal. Deadline on 23 January 2017.
Workshop on "Expectations for AAL and Enhanced Living Environments" chaired at the AAL Forum 2016.
Paper "Validation Techniques for Sensor Data in Mobile Health Applications" has been published in the Journal of Sensors.
Book "Active and Assisted Living: Technologies and Applications" published by The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Paper "Weakly supervised activity analysis with spatio-temporal localisation" published in Neurocomputing journal.
Paper "Action identification using a descriptor with autonomous fragments in a multilevel prediction scheme" published in Signal, Image and Video Processing journal.
Published call for papers for the 2nd IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL 2016).
Paper Identification of Activities of Daily Living Using Sensors Available in off-the-shelf Mobile Devices: Research and Hypothesis presented at the 7th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2016).
Paper Kinect and Episodic Reasoning for Human Action Recognition presented at the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI 2016).
Discussion paper The ethics of using cameras in care homes published in Nursing Times.
I offer 3 funded PhD opportunities: "Towards a robust method for person segmentation in videos. Application to ensure privacy in active and assisted living services", "Parallel evolutionary algorithm for dense pixel matching in presence of distortions" and "Evolutionary ordering of multidimensional spaces. Application to image processing and computer vision". Deadline: 18/03/16. How to apply and details. Look for them in the list. Please, you have to state that you apply to the project you are interested in.
If you intend to apply for a Studentship and are interested in one of the projects below, the outline proposal listed for each project will satisfy the requirement to submit a project proposal as part of your application. So, there is no need to submit now a complete project proposal.
In the last years, Kingston University has participated in different projects (caring4U and BREATHE) to design and develop video-based systems to monitor people in private spaces. The main application of these systems have focused on active and assisted living (AAL). AAL refers systems aimed at improving the quality of life and supporting independent and healthy living of older or impaired people by using information and communication technologies (ICT) at home. However, this type of monitoring using cameras can be seen as intrusive and as violating rights to privacy, because of the concern that raw video images could be viewed by unauthorised viewers or stored for inappropriate use.
Therefore, we have been working in different mechanisms to ensure privacy in videos by detecting the person/s in the scene and modifying the image so as to increase privacy while maintaining the necessary intelligibility required for the applications. This methods have been employed with both RGB cameras and RGB-D devices (Kinect or similar).
The first stage in these methods is to locate the person and segmented from the background. While this is easier with RGB-D devices, it is still very complicated to achieve good results with RGB cameras under real conditions, where shadows, changes in lighting, occlusions due to furniture, may affect the segmentation.
The aim of this project is to design and develop a robust method for the segmentation of people in indoor spaces. There are many algorithms for background extraction/foreground detection. However, these algorithms work differently according to the conditions of the environment. Therefore, the idea is to develop a method that decides at every moment which is the appropriate algorithm or combinations of them in order to improve the segmentation. The method will also autonomously decide when the algorithm needs to be changed or re-started. It will also considered machine learning methods able to recognise if a person is in the scene.
Mathematical morphology (MM) is used for image processing in different applications: noise filtering, shape simplification, edge detection, skeletonisation, shape analysis, segmentation... MM has two basic operators, erosion and dilation, from which many other morphological operations are derived. These operators rely on an ordering of the pixel values. MM is applied to a set provided with an order and with a supremum and an infimum pertaining to that order. This is the reason why MM has been mainly applied to binary or grayscale images. Extension to multivariate data, as colour images, is not straightforward, because there is not an ordered relationship among vectors.
This project will investigate different alternatives to obtain orderings that preserve the topology of the input space. Besides, as calculating those orderings are computationally expensive, different proposals using evolutionary computation will be considered.
Dense pixel matching is an essential step required by many computer vision applications. While a large body of work has addressed quite successfully the rectified scenario, accurate pixel correspondence between an image and a distorted version remains very challenging.
Paper "From Data Acquisition to Data Fusion: A Comprehensive Review and a Roadmap for the Identification of Activities of Daily Living Using Mobile Devices" published in Sensors journal.
Paper "Automatic parameter tuning for functional regionalization methods" published in Papers in Regional Science.
Paper "Recognition of Activities of Daily Living with Egocentric Vision: A Review" published in Sensors journal.
Invited talk "Visual monitoring of people in private spaces. From the "big brother" to the "good brother"" given at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Organisation of the IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL 2015).
My PhD student José Ramón Padilla López defends his doctoral thesis "Protección de la privacidad visual basada en el reconocimiento del contexto".
Lecture given in training school organised by COST Action IC1206 - De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content.
Special session on "Monitoring people in private spaces: technological advances and societal issues" organised at the AAL Forum 2015.
Invited to give talk "Visual monitoring of people in private spaces. From the "big brother" to the "good brother"" at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Paper "Marginalised Stacked Denoising Autoencoders for Robust Representation of Real-Time Multi-View Action Recognition" published in Sensors journal.
Call for abstracts - Session on "Monitoring people in private spaces: technological advances and societal issues" at the AAL Forum 2015 - Deadline: 15th July.
Paper "Visual Privacy by Context: Proposal and Evaluation of a Level-Based Visualisation Scheme" published in Sensors journal.
Call for papers - IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living - Deadline: 4th September.
Call for abstracts - 3rd International Symposium SRUK/CERU Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom - Deadline: 30th May.
Call for papers - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience journal, Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Ambient Assisted Living.
I offer 2 funded PhD opportunities: "Parallel evolutionary algorithm for dense pixel matching in presence of distortions" and "Evolutionary ordering of multidimensional spaces. Application to image processing and computer vision". Deadline: 20/03/15. How to apply and details. Look for them in the list. Please, you have to state that you apply to the project you are interested in.
Talk given at Networking Workshop on "Salud y tecnologías aplicadas a la salud" organised by the Valencian Universities Network for the Promotion of Research, Development and Innovation (RUVID) and the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom.
I offer 2 funded PhD opportunities: "Parallel evolutionary algorithm for dense pixel matching in presence of distortions" and "Recognition of activities of daily living with wearable vision systems". Deadline: 20/06/14. How to apply and details. Look for them in the list. Please, you have to state that you apply to the project you are interested in.
Ambient assisted living applications require real time monitoring of the state of a person. Cameras have only been recently considered in order to recognise activities of daily living as they provide rich information about what a person is doing. Recent project make use of different types of vision devices, e.g. RGB cameras, omnidirectional cameras, RGB-D devices (e.g. Microsoft Kinect), located in the environment. Recognition of human activity at home is complex because of the possible cluttered environment and the occlusions created by the body, so the hands and interactions with objects are difficult to see.
Recent developments of wearable vision systems, e.g. Google Glass, may help to solve these problems. Therefore, this project will investigate the use of wearable vision systems to recognise human activity for ambient assisted living applications., e.g., mild cognitive impairment.
Call for papers - IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on "Ambient Assisted Living and Robotics"
Call for papers - IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Special Issue on "Ambient Assisted Living - sensors, methods and applications"
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Aunty G recommended All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr to me a cat's age ago. I dutifully went off to the library to find the book at the time but took home About Grace instead, which I read and enjoyed. I've been looking forward to reading All the Light We Cannot See since then.
All the Light We Cannot See has been in the most popular book lists for several years and also won the Pulitzer Prize, so is probably already known to most readers. I'm not sure how I missed all of the hype, but I began reading without knowing anything about the plot.
The chapters rotate between two main characters, Marie-Laure and Werner, whose lives don't intersect until the end of the book. The story began in the mid 1930s, when Marie-Laure was a little girl living in Paris with her father and Werner just a few years older, an orphan being brought up in a children's home in Germany along with his much-loved younger sister.
Marie-Laure's father, a locksmith at a prestigious museum, brought Marie-Laure up to be free, courageous and to know her physical world, despite her having gone blind as a small child. When France was invaded by Germany, Marie-Laure's father was entrusted with the 'Sea of Flames', a priceless diamond owned by the museum. Together, they fled Paris to take refuge with the locksmith's brother in Saint-Malo, in a tall house next to the sea. Soon after arriving in Saint-Malo, Marie-Laure's father was arrested and after a few smuggled letters to his beloved daughter, disappeared.
Meanwhile, Werner's talent for repairing radios was developing and he and his sister used it to listen to educational radio programs being transmitted across Europe. Soon after, Werner gained a place at a frighteningly vicious school for Nazi boys where his skill, bravery and obedience allowed him to advance, despite his misgivings about the inhumane treatment of his fellow students and more particularly, the prisoners whom the students 'trained' on. When Werner found himself on the wrong side of one of his instructors, he was shipped off to the war to track illegal radio transmissions, even though Werner was underage.
I don't think I've ever read a novel where one of the main characters was a German soldier in World War Two. I felt enormous sympathy for Werner and his fellow students.
Marie-Laure's character provided an ideal, someone to protect who was also brave and resilient, but most of all, she was someone who represented the best of humankind, leaving us with hope.
The writing is beautiful, but for me the story lacked emotional depth. I think this was because the chapters switched between the two characters so often and so quickly. Longer chapters may have allowed Werner and Marie-Laure to become more real and less of an ideal.
Despite this complaint I don't regret reading All the Light We Cannot See, which is a surprisingly fast read due to the short, alternating point-of-view chapters.
Author, Book Review, Doerr - Anthony
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
My Aunty G, who is always reading something interesting, recently recommended that I read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I dutifully trotted off to my library only to find the book was already out, so instead borrowed About Grace, Anthony Doerr's first novel.
About Grace follows the life of David Winkler, a hydrologist with a particular love of snow flakes. I found this character's love of snow incredibly interesting and exotic. Living in Australia, I've rarely seen snow, and had no idea that each snowflake is different. I spent ages Googling actual photos of individual snow flakes while reading this story. In real life, I love sunshine and the beach, but from the safety of my computer screen, have developed an appreciation for snow flakes and weather at the other end of the scale to Melbourne's more temperate climate.
Anyway, back to the story. As a very young child, David dreams about a man who is hit by a bus while he and his mother watch in horror, only for this event to happen later in real-life. For the rest of David's life he suffers from repetitive dreams about harrowing events which later come true.
As a lonely man in his early thirties, living in Anchorage (Alaska) during the 1970's, David dreamed about meeting the love of his life, Sandy. The actual event unfolded exactly as David had dreamed it would, although when they met Sandy was married to another man. David persevered, believing that his and Sandy's love was inevitable and eventually she succumbed, although I never felt sure of whether Sandy truly loved David or if she wanted to escape her real life.
Sandy eventually fell pregnant, then she and David ran away together to Ohio. They married bigamously before their daughter, Grace, was born.
David was as happy as a cricket until he started to dream of a flood, where he tried to save baby Grace and failed. When heavy rain began to fall and David believed that his dream was about to come true, he panicked, and not knowing if Sandy and Grace survived the flood, ran away to live on a Caribbean island.
Twenty years later, David returned to the USA hoping to find Sandy and Grace still alive.
Perhaps not surprisingly since David is a hydrologist, there are a great many passages about snow flakes and descriptions of water in its many forms, running through the entire story. The story moves quite slowly at times, but it is worth reading carefully to enjoy the beautiful descriptions. The characters can be irritating, in that their actions very often seem ridiculous and implausible, but I fell for them and the story just the same.
It is always a pleasure to find a good new-to-you author, and to read their stories in the right order. I'm glad I started with About Grace, and am looking forward to reading All the Light We Cannot See. I'll be recommending About Grace to Aunty G too.


PMBOK Sixth Edition-Are you prepared for new PMP exam from 26 March 2018? No!
Project Management practices are evolving in today's dynamic environment. PMI has been able to keep up with the pace of these changes and has been flexible to adopt emerging practices like Agile. While keeping up with the trend, there have been a few amendments in PMBOK Sixth Edition. Here are the core changes that PMP aspirants should know as they prepare for the exam based on sixth edition.
Each Knowledge Area will contain a section titled "Approaches for Agile, Iterative, and Adaptive Environments", which shall describe how these practices integrate in project settings.
Realigned Chapters – A few chapters are realigned in front end (Chapters 1 to 3). The information from Chapter 1 to 3 will be furnished in two chapters namely Chapters 1 and 2.
A new Chapter 3 will be devoted to "The Role of the Project Manager", where many aspects of the Project Manager's role will be specifically mapped to PMI Talent Triangle.
There will be Process Tailoring, which implies analyzing the project to determine how much emphasis shall be laid on each process (based on the scope and size of the project).
There will be various notations throughout new PMBOK® Guide differentiating between processes that are "Ongoing" (continuously executing) vs. "Non-ongoing processes". This concept will be emphasized for the first time in sixth edition.
The Project Scope vs. Product Scope concept will also be emphasized for the first time.
The Earned Value tool kit will now include "Earned Schedule Management".
There will be a distinction between "Communication" (communication between two people) and "Communications" (artifacts, such as published e-mails).
The new Lessons Learned Register is now part of the set of ITTOs. Project Managers will now be encouraged to prepare updates on a frequent basis (not just at the end of the project).
"Tools and Techniques" will be grouped under common headings.
More emphasis will be laid on strategic and business knowledge, including discussion of project management business documents.
Instead of earlier 47 processes, there will now be 49 processes.
Three new processes will be added, while one process will be deleted.
"Perform Quality Assurance" has been renamed as "Manage Quality"
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Jim Sez: NBA Finals Game 1 Recap
Submitted by Jim Hurley on Friday, June 2, 2017 at 11:40 AM
THE WARRIORS ROCK-N-ROLL TO EASY 113-91 WIN OVER THE CAVS IN GAME 1 OF THE NBA FINALS ...
PLUS THE BASEBALL WEEKEND AHEAD AS CARDS-CUBS TANGLE AT WRIGLEY
Hey, after all it is the 2017 playoffs:
So, of course, you should not be surprised that we had a Game 1 blowout last night in these NBA Finals!
As we told you good folks in an earlier-week Jim Sez column, we entered this championship round having seen 44 of the 74 previous post-season games being decided by twin-figure margins and so why shouldn't Game 1 of these much-hyped Finals not follow that script?
The Golden State Warriors - a solid 7.5-point betting favorite in Game 1 and a 3-to-1 betting favorite to cop this series (we saw a last-minute price of Golden State at minus 305; Cleveland took back + 265) - truly enjoyed this laugher even though it took some LeBron James body-blows early before making this a one-sided affair.
Yes, Kevin Durant stole the show with his sizzling 38-point, 8-assist, 8-rebound performance and the Warriors committed a miniscule 4 turnovers (thus tying an NBA Finals record set two other times in this millennium) while dishing out a whopping 31 assists but maybe the real story from this opener from Oakland was that the defending champion Cavaliers played tight (see 20 Cleveland turnovers) and didn't defend very wisely either as Tyronn Lue's club allowed far too many uncontested drives/dunks by Durant and Company.
Let's put a wrap up Game 1 - here's what we witnessed right after this quick reminder:
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THE NBA FINALS - GAME 1 RE-CAP
GOLDEN STATE (-7.5) 113, CLEVELAND 91 - Warriors lead series 1-0; Game 2 is Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC
Gotta admit that we agreed with the ever-changing halftime panel the ABC/ESPN folks rolled out in Game 1 - we thought the Cavaliers should have felt fortunate to be down just 60-52 at intermission considering Durant was dunking up a storm and the Cavaliers were not getting many open looks aside from the handful of in-the-paint gimmes that both teams missed in the game's opening three or four minutes of play.
Still, it was Golden State that cracked the game wide open at the very start of the third quarter - we agree with acting Warriors coach Mike Brown who mentioned a dive-on-the-loose-ball play by G-State's Draymond Green "set the tone" - and before you knew it Golden State had scored the first 13 points of the third quarter and truly put this series opener on ice.
Stephen Curry's 28 points - he drilled six trifectas in all - combined with Durant's point total to make up nearly 59 percent of Golden State's offensive production and you wonder what this one would have looked like if Klay Thompson could have hit the side of the barn (see a dreary 3-of-16 FG shooting for 6 points)!
We're not buying the notion that James looked "tired" - he charged out of the starting gate with 15 early points en route to his eventual stat line of 28 points, 15 rebounds and 8 assists but note the Cavs were a - 22 with "The King" on the court and his defensive effort was appallingly bad on Durant.
The Cavs marched off the court in a somber tone at game's end but - truth be told - they didn't appear to have been all that ready to play with post passing a real mess and three-point shooting a dud (see 11-of-31) and they tended to - as Brown put it - "flatten out" in defensive transition and thus covered the likes of Curry and Thompson when those guys darted to designated spots in the corners and left Durant unguarded for an array of right-down-the-middle dunks.
No doubt the Game 1 game plan was highly flawed for Lue and Company: But from the sheer "eye test" it was obvious that Golden State was the head-and-shoulders more talented team in this Finals opener ... now we'll have to see if that stays true a couple of nights from now.
THE BASEBALL WEEKEND REPORT
The first weekend in June just so happens to be jam-packed with a batch of meaningful matchups:
In the National League, it's St. Louis at the Chicago Cubs and right off the bat we get to see the Cardinals challenge former mate RHP John Lackey (4-5, 5.18 ERA) who happens to be one of the many disappointments on the Cubbies this year. Joe Maddon's crew enters the weekend series at 25-27 following that awful West Coast road trip (0-6 combined at the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres) and there's definitely "panic city" setting into the Second City these days.
In the American League, it's the continuation of the four-game weekend set between the Boston Red Sox at the Baltimore Orioles. Last night the Birds needed forever to record the game's final out in a 7-5 win against the Bosox - in case you were wondering, Boston OF Jackie Bradley, Jr. crushed "under" bettors with his top-of-the-ninth three-run home run - but it was the O's that thrived with the long ball last night as Adam Jones, Mark Trumbo, Chris Davis and Jonathan Schoop all whacked dingers.
Make sure you're checking in with Jim Hurley for Baseball winners all weekend long!
NOTE: Our NBA Finals Game 2 Preview comes your way in tomorrow's edition of Jim Sez plus catch more MLB News & Notes too!


a mini me, the way she was dressed, the make-up. I like to be different, because that's how you get your voice heard, that's how you can make a change. I feel like I understand her completely. And Cody will be up against game Heather. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Heather is very talented. She has a kind of quirky quality about her which I completely love. I've been a member of Mensa for about six years now. Mensa is an organisation that contains the top % of intelligent adults. I feel connected to Cody, but I also think that Heather could easily win this battle. It's going to be very difficult to lose either one of them. You're both pretty young, so you're both fresh out of school, what was that like? I didn't really enjoy school. I did a year of A-levels and got Us on all of them. But I'm still at school. I'm doing four A-levels at the moment, which is really tough. So we've got a brainy one and one that's a bit more like me. Me and Heather are like different ends of the spectrum, she does really pretty make-up and wears pretty dresses. I feel like I look like a bad influence. Shall we have a little listen to your interpretation? I go out every night game Cody's got massive potential. I think she's got something very unique about her, she knows how to place things emotionally. I know that living with you game Quite scary singing against Cody. When she sings, I get goose bumps. And I want to try and have the same effect that she does on Boy George. "Oh, the flowers that you planted, mama game Heather needs to be encouraged to be a little bit more connected to what she's singing. Can we just talk a little bit about the journey of the song. I just think you've got to find the light and shade in it. You don't need to do notes. It's nice to push you, but don't feel that you have to game Not all the time. Yeah. I think of everything so analytically, it just ends up making you so much more nervous. It's horrible. One second. Can I have a second? Is that all right? How did you feel about the session? I thought it was good.


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I dont expect a big bull trend.
I think we'll have the rebound soon .
This is a weird shape but we can have a maximum low at around 6100 for this one .
End of the first bear wave .
I think we'll have a small rebound here .
As shown here we are still in the bear trend , we have to pass 7400 to consider that the rebound really started .
I think it's gonna dump soon .
So close to the pattern .
18000 $ for the btc will make a really relevant Gartley pattern . The following would be a dump .
Bitcoin trying to break the resistance .
Bitcoin will surely break the sma 100 1h resistance , next resistance is sma 200 around 15800 .
I hope you like my work . Here is a parabolic since the dump of september .
Here is the trend and an arc showing how far btc is far from it . Good opportunity to short .
Sma 200 on 1 h as a support for the price .
To short or not to short .
Btc about to move .
The price of bitcoin is moving with huge cup and handle .
Tomorrow i think we'll have less volatility with lower highs and higher low until it touches the purple arc which is the arc started in july 2016 .
The next days may be crazy . with those arcs close to the long term trend .
Obviously the price can not go back in time . Even with 4 points we can have at least 2 scenarios but the trend is more and more accurate . The fomo may start , just as a crash .


I learned a painful lesson last July 4th when I tried to make a red, white and blue dessert. The strawberry cake was to be the red portion and it was delicious. The fresh blueberries took care of the blue portion and they were wonderful. It was the white portion that failed.
In a moment of laziness, I decided not to make frosting and sprayed Ready Whip on top of the cake instead. It looked pretty with the ruffles from the slits in the tip. Only it didn't last. When I got the cake out a few hours later, the whip was…well…whipped.
We all can learn from my mistakes! My friends recommend this recipe for Cool Whip frosting, http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Cool-Whip-Frosting.
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Today In Music History – April 29th
Nova News Team
Every day on Radio Nova, just before 11am, we play a couple of songs key to "today in music history" Have a listen! But for now – here's some light reading and watching. April 29th in Music History looks like this.
1976, After a gig in Memphis Bruce Springsteen took a cab to Elvis Presley's Graceland home and proceeded to climb over the wall. A guard took him to be another crank fan and nicked him. Because he was a crazed fan!! But Bruce was pretty well known in 76, having appeared on both the covers of Time and Newsweek, same time, in 75.
1980, Black Sabbath began their first tour with vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who had replaced Ozzy.
1993, Guitarist, producer, Mick Ronson died of liver cancer aged 46. Ronson recorded and toured with Bowie from 1970 to 1973. Here's the moment when David Bowie caused uproar in the world for performing with his arm around Mick..
https://youtu.be/sI66hcu9fIs
1998, Steven Tyler broke his knee at a concert in Anchorage, Alaska delaying Aerosmith's 'Nine Lives' tour and a total rethink of camera angle adjustments for the filming of the video for 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing.' No leg shots!
2009, An anonymous Queen fan won a two-hour one-to-one guitar lesson with Brian May, after bidding £7,600 at a private charity auction.
2016, Fifteen of Prince's albums made it into the UK chart as fans rushed to buy his music following his sudden death. Six were in the top 40 with The Very Best Of, Ultimate and Purple Rain at two, three and four.
Born today in 1942, musician Klaus Voorman, who played bass with Manfred Mann and the Plastic Ono Band. Voorman designed the cover for The Beatles album Revolver. As a session musician he worked on a host of recordings, including 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon.
Happy birthday too to Mike Hogan (bass) of The Cranberries.
Don't forget you can now get This Week in Music History every Friday from Nova.ie and Radio Nova.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using SSS_Library.Properties;

namespace SSS_Windows_Forms
{
    public partial class UpdateStudentProfileModal : Form
    {
        private SSS_Library.IS2G10_DBSSSDataSet.STUDENTRow _studentData;
        private readonly int _studentId;

        public UpdateStudentProfileModal(int userid)
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.TopLevel = false;
            this.AutoScroll = true;
            this.Hide();

            _studentId = userid;
            _studentData = sTUDENTTableAdapter.GetData().FindBystudent_id(_studentId);
            PopulateData();

            int eighteenYears = DateTime.Today.Year - 18;
            var eighteenYearsAgo = new DateTime(eighteenYears, 1, 1);
            dateOfBirthdateTimePicker.Value = eighteenYearsAgo;
        }

        private void PopulateData()
        {
            studentIdTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_id);
            idPassportTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_id_passport);
            studentFirstNameTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_firstname);
            studentLastNameTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_lastname);
            dateOfBirthdateTimePicker.Value = _studentData.student_dateofbirth;
            emailTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_emailaddress);
            mobileNumberTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_mobilenumber);
            yearOfStudycomboBox.SelectedIndex = _studentData.student_yearofstudy - 1;
            programmeTextBox.Text = String.Format("{0}", _studentData.student_degreeprogramme);
        }

        private void submitButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //fix the update problem
            _studentData = sTUDENTTableAdapter.GetData().FindBystudent_id(_studentId);

            //mapping
            _studentData.student_id_passport = idPassportTextBox.Text;
            _studentData.student_firstname = studentFirstNameTextBox.Text;
            _studentData.student_lastname = studentLastNameTextBox.Text;
            _studentData.student_dateofbirth = dateOfBirthdateTimePicker.Value;
            _studentData.student_emailaddress = emailTextBox.Text;
            _studentData.student_mobilenumber = mobileNumberTextBox.Text;
            _studentData.student_yearofstudy = yearOfStudycomboBox.SelectedIndex + 1;
            _studentData.student_degreeprogramme = programmeTextBox.Text;

            int result = sTUDENTTableAdapter.Update(_studentData);
            //TODO check result
            MessageBox.Show(Resources.Profile_Update_Successful, Resources.Profile_Update_Successful);
        }

        private void UpdateStudentProfileModal_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // TODO: This line of code loads data into the 'iS2G10_DBSSSDataSet.STUDENT' table. You can move, or remove it, as needed.
            this.sTUDENTTableAdapter.Fill(this.iS2G10_DBSSSDataSet.STUDENT);
        }
    }
}

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Review Welcome Screen. Click Next.
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Review and/or modify installation settings using the 'Customize' button on the screen.
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Once installation is complete, select "Launch Profound UI in your browser now", and click Finish.
Profound UI is a browser-based solution, so it will launch in your default browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The first time you launch the product, you may be directed to the Profound Logic website to activate your copy.
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Above the sky and under the sea adventure at Manila Ocean Park with my mom, cousin and aunt.
Brahminy Kite to Meagan: I dare you!
Partying has been part of my weekly routine recently. Like a Friday night ritual of some sort. And, because I am planning on breaking the habit for the next few weeks, I just want to share here some snaps and review-ish whatever of the clubs we've been hitting at the Bonifacio Global City area, aka The Fort.
It's in the 3rd floor. I felt that it was too crowded. Prices of drinks, or at least the beer, is not as expensive. A pale pilsen is P120. DJ booth/stage is too small. Music is ok. They seriously need to have more washrooms!
It's on the ground floor. Quite a small place. Not very crowded, in the sense that you can still get to dance. I had cocktails. At P200 for mojito and also for orange blossom (or something), it's not bad. I think the range is till 250-300 for cocktails.
Music is also ok. Very danceable. The ice bar is an added attraction!
It's on the 8th floor. Really big space so not so crowded. Nice lighting system. I didn't know about the price of the drinks as these were ordered for us already and just kept on coming. We had Bacardi rum and a whisky. I think I didn't try the whisky anymore.
So there. For a great time with Manila party scene, here are some choices. It need not be expensive. Maybe you have friends who can get you into the guest list (thank goodness that I do!) so you won't have to pay the door fee ranging from 600-1500. Pre-drink in a cheaper place too if you want. But, always remember, don't drink more than you can handle. Also, while free drinks are awesome, don't accept them from strangers. Partying is fun but safety is priority so party responsibly! Cheers!
So, as I may have mentioned here, I now work at Bonifacio Global City, more popularly known as The Fort. And, right across our office is The Fort Strip. It's basically a complex, perhaps one of the earliest built (I remember coming here for the first time way back in 2008 or 2009 while still working for the magazine) in the now fast-changing BGC landscape.
My weekends these days are spent sleeping, in an attempt to recover from the toil of long weekdays and quite recently, Friday night parties. This weekend however was a welcomed change to spending time with family–living and the dead.
After celebrating Lolo Camilo's day, we headed to SM Aura to check out what the hype (or bashing) was all about. After getting lost twice, we finally made it! Apart from getting two new pairs of jeans (they're on sale!!!) at Forever 21 and some lip gloss (realizing the need to look presentable these days!), we headed over to Ikkuryu Fukuoka Ramen and indulge in some Japanese noodle goodness!
Suffice it to say, ramen is the house specialty–the centerpiece of Ikkuryu Fukuoka Ramen's sleek long black menu. If my memory remained intact after having food here, there were about 15 types of ramen and noodle dishes you can choose from.
We had Kimchi Tonkotsu ramen (the one with reddish soup) that is quite spicy for Filipino palate (twas fine with me after my Indian curry exposure) and this other ramen with the egg which is an-egg-added version of the original Tonkotsu ramen. Both moms (ours and our cousins') agreed that the flavor was really rich and that it's very tasty!
We also ordered a fresh tofu salad which was a mix of cold fresh and smooth tofu on top of green lettuce. I can't identify what sauce was used but it's yummy, and complemented by the small tomatoes and crisp tofu flakes (I think).
We also had the original yakimeshi fried rice which was so tasty that it really had our moms thinking whether it was cooked in lechon oil or in the karaage fried chicken that we also had. With bits of pork, carrots and greens, I couldn't agree more.
We also had something that is similar to Yyakisoba but this one is cooked in Tonkotsu soup (imagine chopsuey) and was also very savory. You should try putting it in your ramen soup too, just to savor the last few drops of the soup. This was actually for the rice as advised by the really cute paper table mat graphic but it works with the soup too!
I would say that while the price is quite steep at P380 per ramen order, on the average, the amount of serving and the taste makes up for it. And while the classic tempura and California maki favorites are unavailable, their menu offers you alternative choices that are really great partners for ramen. All in all, for the flavor and the experience, I would say that Ikkuryu Fukuoka Ramen's value for money makes it worth a visit!
People who really know me won't dub me as a party girl–not in a go-clubbing-all-night-every-night definition at least. But, they would tell you that whenever I do party, I make sure I party hard. And that night at Republiq was no exception.
I wasn't really planing on going out with couchsurfers that night as I made plans with college friends. Turns out, everybody just got busy and rather than sulking about it, I accepted an invite from couchsurfing friends for what will eventually be known/called Payback Friday, the history of which I would know only later.
So, from Japanese food at Nihonbashi Tei and sake (rice wine) to enjoy it with, then to beer-induced dance-while-sitting moments and make do for the failed beer pong attempt due to the long queue of yuppies and not-so-old buddies at Cable Car, to the one helluva rocking night of dancing and drinking an amazingly-not-that-expensive beer and free pass through a Guest List (thanks Mariane!)at Republiq in Resorts World Manila, I would say that it was a Friday party night that best capped a really long week!
And yes, I danced like no one was watching. Partied like it's the end of the world. Smiled to myself even, as I remembered a beloved dance partner and what it felt to be alive. It truly was liberating, to just feel the music and move to the rhythm–without care, without doubt, without limits.


ISS Netherlands has secured a five-year contract to provide integrated facilities services to multinational professional services firm, EY.
The new contract, which commenced on 1 July 2018, covers 15 EY office locations in the Netherlands. Services include catering, property, security, reception and cleaning.
Under the agreement, ISS will focus on innovations in workplace experience, in such areas as health & wellbeing and on-demand services via apps, helping EY achieve a "best-in-class" position in the market.
ISS already provides services to EY in other countries, including in Denmark and the UK.


An ambitious app-based research project is hoping to change the conversation surrounding suicide and mental health by collecting the moods of millions of people from around the world over a 1-week period in October.
The "How is the World Feeling?' app aims to gather data on the emotions of around 7 million people across the globe over a 1-week period.
The "How is the World Feeling?" app, from the Australian nonprofit organization Spur Projects, aims to encourage up to 7 million participants to log their mood over a 1-week period, in the hope of stimulating discussion about mental health issues, while gathering a significant amount of data that will be made available for future mental health research.
"Suicide is a worldwide epidemic with over 1 million men and women taking their own lives each year," states the project͛s website.
"Despite the increase in awareness of mental health over the past several years, there's still a long way to go before mental health conversations are the norm. We think everyone taking part in the world's largest mental health project is a pretty good conversation starter."
A major contributing factor to poor mental health and suicide is a feeling of isolation. The project hopes that by providing the means to see, in real-time, how 7 million people are feeling, it may normalize the extremely broad range of emotions that are experienced every second of every day.
The app also provides the opportunity for any participant to share any of their own data or any of the worldwide data to a plethora of social media channels with the tap of a button - amplifying the reach of the conversation.
Apart from the novelty of participating in the world's largest mental health project, the app also provides participants with an invaluable tool for self-reflection and support. If the participant logs a pattern of emotions that may need addressing, the app will automatically suggest localized tools and resources.
Each participant can see a history of their own feelings that they have logged. After "How is the World Feeling?" officially finishes on October 16th, participants can continue to use the app as a mood tracker.
"How is the World Feeling?" has been designed to be the largest democratic mental health survey in the world - with the aim of collecting over 70 million emotions. Access to such a large, international set of data means unprecedented understanding of mental health across an extremely vast range of demographics and geography.
All the data from the project will be completely open-source, meaning any individual, non-governmental organization (NGO), or business can utilize the information gathered.
Anyone choosing to participate in the study should be reassured that no personally identifiable information will be collected from any participant.
"Despite the fact the app is called 'How is the World Feeling?', what's more interesting, from a data perspective, is 'when' and 'why' participants are feeling certain emotions," the project organizers write.
"For example, the app can tell us information like: 'Men between the ages of 18-22 are most anxious on weekday mornings between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. when commuting to work, whereas women tend to peak in anxiety in the middle of the day and more prominently at the start of the week."
The project builds upon the success of a 2014 pilot study which asked ͚How is Australia Feeling and managed to collect over 20,000 submissions over a 6-day period.
"How is the World Feeling?" will run from the October 10th-16th, and anyone wishing to participate can download the free app for iOS or Android.
Driver, Matthew. "How is the world feeling? Largest real-time mental health survey investigates." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 7 Oct. 2016. Web.