Is That Beacon Stalking You?
Beacons have become an established technology for proximity marketing and socialization at trade shows, conferences, festivals and other events. Beacons use the Bluetooth function on your smart mobile device to track you and send you messages. But how should event planners use this technology in a way that is an advantage to attendees and not an annoyance?
We all know about beacons and how they can potentially enhance an event experience, but technology is changing, and fast. We are continually chasing a rolling wheel downhill. In 2016, audio beacons are going to be the next technology that event planners and marketers will be looking at to perform similar tasks. Audio beacons use your microphone to access your device and send ultra-high frequency sounds that you cannot hear to your smart phone. With audio beacons content is delivered over a wider area, dissimilar to beacons, where content can be different based on an attendees location within a venue.
Both beacon technologies are great for event organisers and marketers, and can add value to sponsors wanting to activate their involvement in an event. But what about the attendees? Is there a danger that they may feel like they are being stalked? Is there an ethical debate to be had about how we use the technologies and encroach on the privacy of attendees? At what point could the use of beacons become an annoyance to attendees? Here is what event planners need to think about before using beacons.
If you are going to use beacon technology at your event, give attendees the heads up! Provide attendees with the right information on the benefits on why beacon technology is being used, so they can make an informed choice. Let them know there is the choice of whether they turn off their phones, so they don't receive audio notifications, or just turn of the Bluetooth function to stop iBeacon notifications. However is this realistic?
Who doesn't want to save time and avoid a lengthy queue at an event registration desk? If you are planning to use an iBeacon enabled application that quickly and efficiently handles check in and prints attendees badges, let people know on their registration confirmation sent by email. Again, highlight the benefits of using this type of 'fast-track' technology. At the venue, remind them through the use of signage at the registration point that the technology is being used and offer an opt-out solution. 'This event is using iBeacon technology to register, track and send relevant content to you. If you want to opt-out, please turn off the Bluetooth function on your mobile device'. For audio beacons the opt out is turning off the smart device - so this is not going to happen.
How Do You Provide Value to Sponsors?
We all want to see event sponsors get the best value on their investment. Planners look a different ways to do this and using beacon technologies to get a sponsor's message out there is one way of providing a return. However, what are the benefits to attendees of using the technology? You need to work out with the sponsors so that only relevant and beneficial messages – maybe in the form of discounts and other incentives - are carefully targeted to the right attendees. Adding value to the experience is a no brainer! However, attendees don't want to be bombarded. Creating too much 'noise' will annoy attendees and distract them from their primary objective of the event. Sponsors that want to use this technology should be paying a bit more than others and providing relevant content and incentives.
iBeacon supported socialization applications are now common. Via personalised profiles, seeing who is nearby and determining their importance in a networking sense is a real time saver for attendees. However, as an attendee if you are 'buying' you don't want to get bombarded by sales people stalking you up close because they can see you on an event app. How do you control this? Well there is no easy answer, except that in this situation if the 'buyer' is putting himself out there with a profile on the socialization app then they should expect to be hit on at some point. You may want to offer advice to 'buyers' if they don't want to be approached. This may simply include a sentence on their profile that says' Please do not approach me' or that they don't include a profile picture to avoid being continuously hit on.
What time does the next keynote start? What is for lunch? These are the types of questions that attendees may be asking themselves before they turn to the event app. In fact the event app may not be able to answer all the questions they have. However, providing relevant information in proximity to particular locations at an event is invaluable. For example when walking past the education theatre at a trade show, attendees could receive a message about the topic and speaker for the next session. But don't go overboard! Only plan on sending out important, relevant and timely information rather than continuously bombarding attendees.
Security at events is an important issue, as is the safety of attendees. Planners have a duty of care and beacon technologies can be used effectively to perform part of this duty. We know that events can be targeted in many ways that compromises attendee security. Having the function where all attendees can be instantly messaged to provide life-saving advice is a no brainer. From a health and safety aspect making sure that the attendee experience is free from health risks, say at a festival site where waste disposal or restroom facilities in some areas are being serviced and pointing attendees to alternative points can provide a better experience.
Beacon technology can be a great advantage to you as a planner and to your sponsors. Through relevant real-time information and incentives, the technology adds value to the attendee experience. However, the use of the technology needs to be carefully thought out. Plan exactly how the technology will be used and look at the relevance of it through the eyes of the attendee. Delivering content through beacons costs can cost very little. On the other hand it can cost the the reputation of your event – so use it wisely. Offer information on how to opt–out and don't give the impression that you are stalking your attendees to maximise your commercial gain. There should be an equitable exchange, and one that enhances the experience.
On the basis of the advice given in this post; what do you think? Do you think we should make greater use of these technologies or be very cautious about using them? We would welcome your comments below.


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Erdoğan Defies Trump. So Why Do They Get Along?
By Kathy Gilsinan and Melvyn Ingleby
He defied the United States repeatedly, bought Russian weapons, and assaulted American partners in Syria. Now Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is headed to the White House for a meeting with Donald Trump. So will he get away with it? Probably.
The past few years show a pretty clear pattern: When Turkey released the detained American pastor Andrew Brunson, Trump lifted sanctions he'd imposed to get Brunson back; when Turkey insisted it would move forward with the purchase of a Russian air-defense system, Trump demurred from imposing retaliatory sanctions mandated by U.S. law. And despite the bipartisan outcry over Turkey's move against Kurdish forces in Syria, Congress has yet to meaningfully retaliate. The Trump administration, which initially sanctionedTurkey for the incursion, lifted that punishment after getting a cease-fire that left most of Turkey's gains in place. Senators are complaining about reports that even that agreement is being violated, but so far the administration is still "monitoring" the situation.
So you might think Erdoğan would be in pretty good spirits as he alights in Washington. Sure, he's unpopular here, but he and Trump seem to have a good personal rapport and are only too happy to work around their respective bureaucracies. ("The U.S. has an established order that we call a deep state; of course they are obstructing," Erdoğan has said. Trump has made much the same complaint about his own government.)
"Our president is maintaining a powerful dialogue with Trump," Ömer Çelik, the chief spokesman for Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), told us. He characterized both men as "direct" talkers. "A conversation between two straightforward people continues even during a crisis," he said.
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Those straightforward conversations have also included Trump telling Erdoğan "Don't be a fool!" in a colorfully blunt letter dated the day the incursion into northeastern Syria started; and Erdoğan's dismissal of the missive ("There's no point to dwell on this letter," he told reporters after he reportedly threw it away). But on Syria in early October they seemed to have some mutual interests; Erdoğan wanted U.S. troops out of the way, and Trump wanted U.S. troops out altogether.
So at the end of a fateful phone call that month, and at Erdoğan's insistence, Trump agreed to remove some Special Forces from two outposts near the Turkish border without consulting America's Kurdish partners. That sudden move allowed Erdoğan to push Kurdish forces from a buffer zone along the Turkish border, for now. But picking America's NATO ally over its local partner was never going to be enough to make up for what the Turks see as the original sin, committed in the Obama administration, of supporting Kurdish armed groups against ISIS in the first place. Where the U.S. saw capable fighters, willing to sacrifice in large numbers to help defeat a terrorist organization that posed a global threat, Turkey saw the Syrian branch of its own country's long-boiling Kurdish insurgency, led by the PKK, which is itself listed as a terrorist group by the United States. "The weapons which the terrorist organization uses against us are given to them by our ally," Çelik said. Erdoğan would prefer Trump stop supporting the Syrian Kurdish fighters altogether.
But he won't get that. There are some things personal chemistry just can't fix. "Even when Trump decides something, he sometimes cannot implement it," Kılıç Kanat, the D.C.-based research director at SETA, a pro-Turkish-government think tank, told us. At the same time, not only is there "total confusion and lack of clarity" about U.S. objectives in Syria, he said, but "Congress is ready to stop any of Trump's overtures to Erdoğan in the next two weeks."
Some congressional leaders, in fact, tried to stop the White House visit altogether, with a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers urgingTrump to cancel. The meeting is still happening, but lawmakers did at least manage to heighten the discomfort: The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution to recognize the Ottoman Turks' mass killing of Armenians in World War I as a genocide—something Turkey's advocates in Washington have fought for years. Senator Chris Van Hollen, a co-sponsor of a bill that would sanction Turkey for its Syria incursion, said in a speech yesterday that Trump was "rewarding" Erdoğan for "thumbing his nose at the United States" with "a coveted White House visit."
Elsewhere in the U.S. bureaucracy, the military continues to support Kurdish forces in much of eastern Syria, save for Turkey's new buffer zone; the spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS mission even held a joint press conferencewith the Kurdish-led forces' spokesman this week. The White House apparently supports them, too—a senior administration official speaking on a background call to reporters yesterday emphasized that the U.S. intended to continue the partnership. The only thing standing in the way of sanctions for Turkey's Syria incursion, which killed more than 100 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who so far has not brought any of at least two such bills to the floor.
Meanwhile, Trump's own national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, told CBS on Sunday that the administration would likely impose sanctions if Turkey doesn't get rid of its Russian-made air-defense system, the S-400, and "that's a message that the president will deliver to him very clearly when he's here in Washington." (Senior administration officials on the background call emphasized diplomacy, not sanctions.)
Whether Erdoğan is receptive to any messages from the White House is another question. "This is also a matter of a state's honor," Abdullah Ağar, a former Turkish military officer and security analyst, told us. It's a matter of trust, too—even if Trump offers a "great deal" for Turkey to abandon the weapons system, Erdoğan knows he might not be able to follow through.
Whatever their personal relationship, Trump and Erdoğan are coming together with some requests the other side can't really honor. The U.S. military won't completely sever relations with Kurdish fighters in Syria; Erdoğan is unlikely to give up his Russian air defense system. For all the two have in common—including their mutual love of "straight talk"—the visit may amount to a date night in a marriage that's fundamentally beyond repair.
By Kathy Gilsinan and Melvyn Ingleby // Kathy Gilsinan is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covering national security and global affairs. // Melvyn Ingleby is a journalist based in Istanbul and is a research associate at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul.
https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2019/11/erdogan-defies-trump-so-why-do-they-get-along/161276/

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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has entered an agreement to provide advanced defense systems to Israel Navy's Sa'ar-6 corvettes.
The systems will be used to protect Israel's exclusive economic zone and strategic facilities which are faced with diversified threats in the marine arena. The contract was led by the navy, Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) and the procurement administration in Israel's Ministry of Defense. The Barak-8 system was chosen after it was demonstrated to meet the operational requirements and future challenges faced by the Navy.
Barak-8 is an operational air & missile defense system used by the Israeli navy as well as by the India's navy and air forces. It provides broad Aerial and point defense against a wide range of threats to the marine arena from the air, the sea or the land. The system integrates several advanced state-of-the-art systems as, digital radar, command and control, launchers, interceptors with modern RF seekers, Data link and system-wide connectivity.
The Barak-8 was developed by IAI in collaboration with Israel's DDR&D, India's DRDO (Defense Research and Development Organization), the navies of both countries, RAFAEL, IAI's ELTA Group and local industries in India.


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Hongje Station (홍제역) Line 3 – Station #324
As I've mentioned before, I have a particular affinity for the northwest side of town, where things always feel a bit more relaxed, the air smells fresher, and the mountains, so near, seem to be more a part of the neighborhoods' fabric than elsewhere, interweaving themselves with the manmade structures erected in the spaces between…
June 15, 2014 in Line 3, Seodaemun-gu.
Seodaemun Station (서대문역) Line 5 – Station #532
The gates that gave their names to the Dongdaemun and Namdaemun neighborhoods still stand, and their presence puts the stamp of history on the areas around them. They're constant reminders of the city's Long Ago and chains that link the contemporary lives lived around them to the lives lived there hundreds of years ago. Seodaemun,…
April 20, 2014 in Jongno-gu, Jung-gu, Line 5, Seodaemun-gu.
Ewha Womans University Station (이대역) Line 2 – Station #241
No, that's not a typo. Nor is it Engrish. For a long time I hadn't even noticed the anomaly in Ewha Womans University's name; then, when I did, it rankled my English-major sensibilities. This was the university that produced South Korea's first female Constitutional Court justice, its first female prime minister, that was one of…
September 9, 2012 in Line 2, Mapo-gu, Seodaemun-gu.
Sinchon Station (신촌역) Line 2 – Station #240
For as many times as I've been to Sinchon Station – I live practically right down the street – I'd never actually been in the part of the neighborhood south of Sinchon-ro (신촌로), so it was there that I decided to start things. Plus, it was the early afternoon, and things north of the station…
July 15, 2012 in Line 2, Mapo-gu, Seodaemun-gu.
Dongnimmun Station (독립문역) Line 3 – Station #326
Seoul's modern history is a tumultuous one, but the city keeps her scars well hid beneath hard-earned layers of development and success. There are some areas, though, where the wounds have been left exposed, and you can get a glimpse of the troubles the capital and its people have been through. A good place to…
April 1, 2012 in Line 3, Seodaemun-gu.


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Sawed-off Shotgun Dealer from Nampa Sentenced to Prison
Andrew Weeks
A Nampa man was sentenced to 36 months in prison for possessing an unregistered firearm, according to U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis.
Roy Ulysses Benitez, 26, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court. He will be on supervised release for three years after his prison term.
Benitez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on December 2017, and was found guilty of the crime after a three-day jury trial in December 2018, according to a news release from Davis's office.
Davis said that according to court records, Benitez sold firearms on July 26, 2017 to a confidential informant working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
One of the firearms was a sawed-off shotgun with a barrel length of less than 16 inches. Under federal law, it is illegal to possess certain firearms, like sawed off shotguns, unless the firearm is registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
Benitez had not registered the shotgun in that record, Davis said.
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Copahue Volcano In Chile Raised to Red Alert
Chile's Copahue Volcano, which also shares its summit with neighboring Argentina, has been raised to alert level "RED" by Southern Andes Volcanological Observatory (OVDAS) after strong eruptive activity today. The volcano became restless a couple of weeks ago when tremor and minor steam, gas, and ash emissions were observed. A Facebook statement from the Smithsonian GVP stated:
"...Red Alert status was maintained and increased seismicity was reported in yesterday's report by the Southern Andes Volcanological Observatory (OVDAS). Approx 130 EQ were recorded per hour (mostly hybrid but some spasmodic tremor); these were shallow events. Last year the seismic network was expanded to include a new station (the 3rd in the network) located across Argentina's border, expanding early warning capabilities. (http://www.perfil.com/ediciones/ciencia/-201212-740-0057.html) Dated 28 May 2013, this photo was available from Argentina's publication "La Voz" (http://www.lavoz.com.ar/noticias/sucesos/exodo-pobladores-ante-posible-erupcion-volcan-copahue#). — at Caviahue-Copahue."
Copahue volcano is characterized by the GVP here:
"Volcán Copahue is an elongated composite cone constructed along the Chile-Argentina border within the 6.5 x 8.5 km wide Trapa-Trapa caldera that formed between 0.6 and 0.4 million years ago near the NW margin of the 20 x 15 km Pliocene Caviahue (Del Agrio) caldera. The eastern summit crater, part of a 2-km-long, ENE-WSW line of nine craters, contains a briny, acidic 300-m-wide crater lake (also referred to as El Agrio or Del Agrio) and displays intense fumarolic activity. Acidic hot springs occur below the eastern outlet of the crater lake, contributing to the acidity of the Río Agrio, and another geothermal zone is located within Caviahue caldera about 7 km NE of the summit. Infrequent mild-to-moderate explosive eruptions have been recorded at Copahue since the 18th century. Twentieth-century eruptions from the crater lake have ejected pyroclastic rocks and chilled liquid sulfur fragments."
Image posted by Smithsonian GVP showing ash eruption from Copahue on May 28th.
The last eruption of Copahue volcano was in the year 2000, so it has not erupted for about 13 years or so.
Chile lies along the so-called "Ring of Fire" and is prone to frequent eruptive activity from its many active volcanoes.
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AVO Reports Possible Eruption From Pavlof Volcano [UPDATED 6/10]
Pavlof volcano on the Aleutian Peninsula of Alaska has entered an eruptive phase after increased seismicity and thermal anomalies detected in satellite data. A Facebook post from USGS issued the following statement today (although a bit late).
"On May 13, 2013, USGS-AVO reported that seismic activity at Pavlof increased that morning, along with the presence of an intense thermal anomaly at its summit. The Alert Level is "Watch;" Aviation Color Code Orange.
Similar patterns of seismicity and elevated surface temperatures have previously signaled the onset of eruptive activity at Pavlof. Although not yet visually confirmed, a low-level eruption of lava has likely begun from a summit vent. No ash clouds have been detected."
An overflight by a pilot has confirmed the presence of a summit spatter cone, and advancing lava flow. (seen below in a picture from AVO, Photograph by Brandon Wilson). The last eruption from Pavlof was in 2007.
Google Earth snapshot of Pavlof and Pavlof Sister volcanoes.
The Smithsonian GVP characterizes the volcano of being capable of Strombolian eruptions, and explosive eruptions. This eruption currently appears to be mostly effusive, or possibly Strombolian, although it's a bit unlikely that we'll get to see any great nighttime shots.
Pavlof joins Cleveland Volcano in the 'currently erupting' club of Alaskan stratovolcanoes, as earlier this month, Cleveland let out a nice explosion that was strong enough for air traffic to be diverted around the volcano (aside from this minor annoyance, that's pretty typical of Cleveland).
There are no major human populations immediately near Pavlof, although the town of Aleutian East Burrough with a population of around 2700+ lies about 12 miles SSW of the volcano. Damage to this area is unlikely, although if the volcano does have an ash eruption, ash fall could affect the area.
*****UPDATE 5/29*****
AVO has lowered Pavlof to alert level Yellow (Advisory) after a few days of inactivity and lower seismic readings. AVO's statement reads:
"Over the past three days, the eruptive activity at Pavlof have greatly declined. Seismic tremor and small discrete explosions are no longer detected in seismic and pressure sensor data. Satellite observations show no evidence of elevated surface temperatures, volcanic gas or ash emissions. There have been no visual observations from pilots or web cameras of any eruptive activity. Consequently, the Aviation Color Code was reduced to Yellow and the Volcano Alert Level to Advisory today (28 May) at 12:50 AKDT (20:50 UTC)."
It is still possible for the volcano to continue its eruption. Past eruptions have had periods of intense explosion, followed by lulls in activity.
Activity has resumed at Pavlof. The following statement from AVO details the continuing eruption:
"Ash emissions have resumed at Pavlof starting at approximately 11:00 AKDT (19:00 UTC) this morning as seen in satellite data and observed by pilots. Weak seismicity beginning at 10:57 AKDT accompanied the emissions and is ongoing."
"Ash emissions from Pavlof continue. Seismic tremor and explosion signals accompany the activity. Persistent elevated surface temperatures consistent with lava effusion were observed over the past day in satellite images. Satellite images from the last day also show an ash plume extending 12 miles (20 km) southeast of the volcano. This direction is consistent with low-level (less than 20,000 ft asl) winds."
So it appears that the volcano may erupt in 'spurts' and will likely continue erupting for some time. If anything changes I'll post about it!
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AVO Reports Possible Eruption From Pavlof Volcano ...


MPP Global is heading to London for the INMA Big Data Week Conference 2017.
Taking place from 23-24 February in London, the event brings together professional, thought leaders and decision makers to discuss how the publishing and media industry is evolving.
Over the course of the exhibition, our publishing specialists will discuss the importance of leveraging one fully integrated platform to identify, engage and monetise digital audiences.
Join our Publishing experts to discuss the importance of updating legacy systems with innovative integrated platforms to drive revenues and develop audience relationships.


Tsa-tsa for Lama Zopa Rinpoche, painted by Sonam Sherpa, France, August 2016. Photo by Harald Weichhart.
Tsa-tsas are a form of Buddhist art that has flourished for centuries in the Himalayas, most notably Tibet. Like many Tibetan sacred objects, they are iconographic forms of various buddhas.
In Tibet, tsa-tsas are made with clay from the earth. These days, more modern and durable materials are used such as plaster or hydrostone.
Often, students are given a commitment to make 100,000 tsa-tsas of a particular buddha or meditational deity during their lifetime.
Making tsa-tsas pacifies obstacles, bad conditions, accidents, and sudden diseases like heart attacks and paralysis. By making tsa-tsas you pacify enemies, interferers, and harms. You accumulate all merit, purify all obscurations, and achieve the resultant three kayas in a future life.
Nalanda Monastery has an art workshop from which you can order a variety of tsa-tsa molds.


Fianna Fáil has said the confusion over US president Donald Trump's visit to Ireland demonstrated the need to "sort out" our relationship with the US.
It was reported on Tuesday that Mr Trump's planned visit to Ireland in November had been put off.
The Government on Tuesday evening confirmed that the visit of Mr Trump had been "postponed" for what it called "scheduling reasons".
However, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders then said a final decision on whether Mr Trump will make a stop in Ireland has not been made.
"We weren't properly told he was coming, it seems that we haven't been properly told that he isn't coming," Fianna Fáil spokesman on foreign affairs Niall Collins said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Members of the Labour Party were more forthright in their response to the reported postponement.
Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin similarly noted that the "outpouring of objections to this visit has had the desired effect".
People Before Profit, also among the more vocal opponents of an invitation to visit being extended to the US leader, said its members were "delighted" by the fresh doubts as to whether he would visit.
Richard Boyd Barrett, speaking on behalf of the group, said: "His hate-filled message is not welcome here." Mr Boyd Barrett vowed to continue with planned demonstrations should Mr Trump visit.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan also issued a statement, saying the US president's position on numerous issues was in stark contrast to that of the Irish people.
"The visit came out of the blue and has now been cancelled in the same erratic way. We are glad he is not coming," he said.
A spokesman for Sinn Féin said its position remained that "if and when Trump comes to Ireland" its members would participate in protests.
It remains unclear as to what exactly Mr Trump's plans are and whether the trip has simply been put off to a later date.
Speaking on RTÉ, Larry Donnelly, a law lecturer from Boston based at NUI Galway, said he was still relatively certain the president would eventually visit Ireland.
"But it is disappointing in a number of different ways that he's not coming," he said. "I'm not one of the people who would have said this was terrible.


DJ EDDIE FM is a deep house mixer/producer and Chicago native that learned to mix in the city that gave birth to house music. With over 20 years of experience in behind the decks in clubs and on the radio, under various monikers, Eddie's style transcends diverse crowds and unites them with the true vibe of house music. In 1996 he mass produced his first successful underground bootleg house mix tape, Mixed Emotions, which featured over 250 tracks in a 60 minute mix. Since then he's produced over 20 tracks, hundreds of mixes, two albums, and is currently wrapping up a new house EP for release in June 2013.
Today, he's an Hollywood denizen, and known for extended deep house, minimal tech and electro sets. Recent performances in Los Angeles include some of the following venues: Confidential Beverly Hills, Viceroy Santa Monica, the London West Hollywood, Circle Bar Santa Monica, the The Cavalieri Mansion in Malibu, Ocean Bar Rooftop Lounge in Hermosa Beach, Downtown LA Art Walk. He's recently opening up for groups such as the Flobots and Astronautalis in legendary concert venues like Red 7 in Austin, Texas. Performed in Cabo San Lucas Spring Break 2012. And most recently for Grindr.com at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, California. Performances this year include the Winter Music Conference 2013 (WMC) in Miami and this summer at World Peace 1 in Lisbon. Current Residency: Wednesdays, House and Electro at Circle Bar, Santa Monica.


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Boeing to Acquire Solutions Made Simple Inc.
-- Key technology partner to join Boeing's Information Solutions division
-- SMSi acquisition supports Boeing's C4ISR and cyber growth strategies
ARLINGTON, Va., July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) today announced an agreement to acquire Solutions Made Simple Inc. (SMSi), an information services provider for the U.S. government and the Intelligence Community. Known for its Twister data integration framework products, SMSi's technology allows users to easily extract, share and query information stored in an unlimited number of data sources and applications.
SMSi employs approximately 65 people and is based in Reston, Va.
Once acquired, SMSi will operate within the Information Solutions division of Boeing's Network & Space Systems business.
"Our customers continuously look for better, more cost-effective ways to manage data across disparate networks, and SMSi has terrific capability to do that," said John Hinshaw, Boeing vice president and general manager of Information Solutions. "We've worked with SMSi for a number of years and see their team and products as strong complements to our existing capabilities. SMSi adds important vertical content to Boeing's product portfolio for two high-growth markets that are key priorities for our customers: C4ISR and cybersecurity."
SMSi is privately held and the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2011.
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security (www.boeing.com/bds) is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world's largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $32 billion business with 65,000 employees worldwide. Follow us on Twitter: @BoeingDefense.
Forward-Looking Information Is Subject to Risk and Uncertainty
Certain statements in this release may be "forward-looking" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the expected timetable for completing the transaction, future business prospects, and benefits and synergies of the transaction, as well as any other statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions about future events that may not prove to be accurate. These statements are not guarantees and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. As a result, these statements speak only as of the date they are made and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except as required by law. Specific factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include the effect of global economic conditions, the ability of the parties to consummate the transaction, our ability to successfully integrate SMSi's business and realize anticipated synergies, and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
David Sidman
Boeing Communications
Deborah Bosick
SOURCE Boeing Defense, Space & Security


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Data-driven inference for the spatial scan statistic
Alexandre CL Almeida1,5,
Anderson R Duarte2,
Luiz H Duczmal3,
Fernando LP Oliveira2 &
Ricardo HC Takahashi4
Kulldorff's spatial scan statistic for aggregated area maps searches for clusters of cases without specifying their size (number of areas) or geographic location in advance. Their statistical significance is tested while adjusting for the multiple testing inherent in such a procedure. However, as is shown in this work, this adjustment is not done in an even manner for all possible cluster sizes.
A modification is proposed to the usual inference test of the spatial scan statistic, incorporating additional information about the size of the most likely cluster found. A new interpretation of the results of the spatial scan statistic is done, posing a modified inference question: what is the probability that the null hypothesis is rejected for the original observed cases map with a most likely cluster of size k, taking into account only those most likely clusters of size k found under null hypothesis for comparison? This question is especially important when the p-value computed by the usual inference process is near the alpha significance level, regarding the correctness of the decision based in this inference.
A practical procedure is provided to make more accurate inferences about the most likely cluster found by the spatial scan statistic.
Spatial cluster analysis is considered an important technique for the elucidation of disease causes and epidemiological surveillance [1]. Kulldorff's spatial scan statistic, defined as a likelihood ratio, is the usual measure of the strength of geographic clusters [2, 3]. The circular scan [4], a particular case of the spatial scan statistic, is currently the most used tool for the detection and inference of spatial clusters of disease.
The spatial scan statistic considers a study region A divided into m areas, with total population N and C total cases. A zone is any collection of areas. The null hypothesis assumes that there are no clusters and the cases are uniformly distributed, such that the expected number of cases in each area is proportional to its population. A commonly used model assumes that the number of cases in each area is Poisson distributed proportionally to its population. Let c z be the number of observed cases and n z be the population of the zone z. The expected number of cases under null hypothesis is given by μ z = C(n z /N ). The relative risk of z is I(z) = c z /μ z and the relative risk outside z is O(z) = (C - c z )/(C - μ z ). If L(z) is the likelihood function under the alternative hypothesis and L0 is the likelihood function under the null hypothesis, the logarithm of the likelihood ratio for the Poisson model is given by:
LLR(z) is maximized over the chosen set Z of potential zones z, identifying the zone that constitutes the most likely cluster (MLC). A derivation of this model can be found in [2]. When the set Z contain the zones defined by circular windows of different radii and centers, maxz∈ZLLR(z) is the circular scan statistic. Other possible choices for Z include the set of elliptic clusters [5], or even the set of irregularly shaped connected clusters [6, 7].
The statistical significance of the original MLC of observed cases must be calculated employing Monte Carlo simulations to build an empirical distribution of the obtained maxz∈ Z LLR(z) values under null hypothesis [8], because its analytical expression is generally not known. Simulated cases are randomly distributed over the study region such that each area receives, on average, a number of cases proportional to its population. The statistical significance of the original MLC of observed cases is tested comparing its LLR value with LLR values of the corresponding MLCs obtained for each Monte Carlo replication. In each one of those replications, the MLC will be chosen in the set of circular clusters of every possible size centered on every area of the study region, meaning that the LLR(z) value is the only selected feature used to compare the original MLC with the random ones under null hypothesis. The scan statistic is then computed for the MLC. This procedure is repeated B times, obtaining the empirical distribution of the max z ∈ Z LLR(z) values. Let Y be the number of times that those values are greater than the LLR of the original MLC of observed cases. The p-value of the original MLC is computed as (Y + 1)/B. In the following, the empirical distribution of the B obtained max z ∈ Z LLR(z) values under null hypothesis for circular clusters will be called the scan empirical distribution.
The statistical significance of the spatial scan statistic is done without pre-specifying the number of areas or the location of the most likely clusters, while adjusting for the multiple testing inherent in such a procedure. However, this adjustment is not done in an even manner for all possible cluster sizes, as will be shown later. The usual inference process compares the most likely cluster of observed cases with the all the circular most likely clusters of every possible size centered on every area of the study region. In this work it is presented a modification to the usual inference test of the spatial scan statistic: the observed most likely cluster found, with k areas, will be compared with only those most likely clusters of size k found in the randomized maps under the null hypothesis.
Gumbel approximations
Through extensive numerical tests it was shown [9] that, under null hypothesis, the scan empirical distribution for circular clusters is approximated by the well-known Gumbel distribution
with parameters μ (mode) and θ (scale). Using this semi-parametric approach, the spatial scan distribution may be estimated using a much smaller number of Monte Carlo replications. For example, computing the maxz∈ Z LLR(z) values under null hypothesis for only 100 random maps, and obtaining their average and variance to calculate the mode and scale parameters, a semi-parametric Gumbel distribution is obtained, as accurate as a purely null empirical distribution produced after B = 10000 random Monte Carlo replications [9].
One could be concerned with the fact that it should be more appropriate to compare the original MLC only with those MLCs of null hypothesis replicated maps that resemble as much as possible the original cluster, in terms of size, population and geographic location. An extreme instance of this situation would require that the comparison clusters are picked only among those (rarely occurring) random replications for which the MLCs are exactly the same as the original MLC. However, this task is computationally unfeasible, because an enormous number of replications is needed in order to select a sizable number of random simulations for which the simulated MLCs coincide with the original MLC. Therefore, those requirements must be somewhat relaxed. Requesting that the population is the same (regardless of other factors) may also be difficult, especially for maps with highly heterogeneous populations. A possibility then is to allow different location centers and populations, but requesting that the number of areas in the cluster is the same.
Empirical distributions
The spatial scan statistic was designed to adjust for the multiple testing when evaluating clusters of different sizes and locations. This adjustment implicitly supposes that the scan distribution doesn't change when restricted for any given fixed cluster size. As will be shown, this assumption may not be true. Define scan k as the empirical distribution obtained from the scan empirical distribution which considers only clusters of size k. It is also show that the Gumbel semi-parametric approach could be extended to the scan k distributions.
Frequency of cluster sizes
This subsection begins with two examples of maps with real data populations. The first map consists of 34 municipalities in the neighborhood of Belo Horizonte city in Brazil, with 6, 262 homicides cases during the 1998-2002 period, for a total population of 4, 357, 940 in 2000. The second map consists of 245 counties in 10 states and the District of Columbia, in the Northeastern U.S., with 58,943 age-adjusted deaths in the period from 1988 to 1992, for a population at risk of 29,535,210 women in 1990 [5].
For each map, 1,000,000 Monte Carlo replications under null hypothesis were conducted and the most likely clusters were found for each replication. The MLCs were classified according to their sizes and the frequencies of occurrence were displayed in the histograms of Figure 1. In both case studies, representing typical examples of aggregated area maps, the frequency of cluster sizes varies widely; clusters of very small size are much more common. This means that the shape of the scan empirical distribution depends mostly on the smallest cluster size. Consequently, the decision process about the significance of the original MLC of observed cases relies mainly on the behavior of very small clusters, regardless of its size. One could argue that this feature, in itself, should not represent a problem if it could be guaranteed that the scan k distributions were nearly identical for every value of k. However, as is shown in the next subsection, there are significant differences between the various scan k distributions.
Frequency distribution of the sizes of the most likely clusters found under H 0 , with 1,000, 000 Monte Carlo replications, for the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area (left) and the Northeastern US map (right).
The Gumbel adjusted scan k distributions
As was done before for the empirical scan distribution, the Gumbel approximation for the scan k distribution is defined as the Gumbel k distribution. It was verified experimentally that this adjustment was adequate, for all cluster sizes in several different maps.
For the Belo Horizonte map, Figure 2 shows the scan k distributions taken from 1, 000, 000 Monte Carlo simulations and their respective Gumbel k adjusted distributions, for k values 1, 6 and 15.
The scan k distributions obtained from 1, 000, 000 Monte Carlo simulations in the Belo Horizonte etropolitan area map, and their respective Gumbel k adjusted distributions, for k = 1, 6 and 15.
Similarly, the same procedure was performed considering the map of the Northeastern US, for k values 1, 20 and 80 as seen in Figure 3.
The scan k distributions taken from 1, 000, 000 Monte Carlo simulations in the Northeastern US map, and heir respective Gumbel k adjusted distributions, for k = 1, 20 and 80.
From the results of the 1, 000, 000 Monte Carlo simulations for the map of Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, it was observed that the critical values for the Gumbel k distributions increase monotonically as the index k increases from 1 to the maximum value 17. The Gumbel adjusted distribution and the Gumbel k distributions for k = 1, 6 and 15 are displayed in the same graph on the left of Figure 4. The α = 0.05 critical values for the four corresponding distributions are also shown.
The Gumbel adjusted distribution and the Gumbel k distributions for several values of k , with their respective α = 0.05 critical values, for the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area (left) and the Northeastern US (right).
For the Northeastern US map, similar results were observed when the Gumbel adjusted distribution and the Gumbel k distributions for k = 1, 20 and 80 were put together in the graph on the right of Figure 4, with the corresponding α = 0.05 critical values.
Those two examples show that the Gumbel k distributions change steadily with the size k, and are significantly different from the Gumbel adjusted distribution including all cluster sizes.
Data-Driven Inference
In its original formulation, the circular scan calculates the significance of the most likely cluster based on the following question: "Given that the candidate cluster found has LLR = x, what is the probability of finding a most likely cluster under the null hypothesis with LLR > x ?"
As will be seen in this section, clusters of small size constitute the majority among the MLCs found, and have the highest influence in the determination of the scan empirical distribution. In the situation when the MLC has large size, its inference will be made basically by the behavior of small clusters.
In this section it is proposed to use the information about the size of the observed MLC in the inference test. In this case, the following question is formulated: "Given that the candidate most likely cluster has LLR = x and contains k areas, what is the probability to find, under the null hypothesis, a cluster formed by k regions with LLR > x?"
The proposal of this paper takes into account the cluster size, as follows: given that the circular scan has found the observed MLC with k regions, then its statistical significance is still obtained through Monte Carlo simulations, but selecting only those replications for which the MLC solutions have exactly k areas. The empirical scan distribution that considers MLC solutions of any size is replaced by the scan k empirical distribution with MLCs of size exactly equal to k.
However, when the p-value is much smaller or much larger than the significance level α, there is no change in the decision to reject, or not, the null hypothesis. Thus, only the more difficult decision process is of interest, namely when the computed p-value is close to the significance level α.
In this section, numerical experiments are made showing that the proportions of rejections of the null hypothesis differ noticeably, by employing the usual critical value, compared with using the data-driven critical values. It is also shown that the computational cost of estimating the data-driven critical value may be reduced through the use of a simple interpolation.
Critical values variability
To assess the variability in the estimation of the critical values of each scan k distribution, another batch of Monte Carlo simulations was conducted. First a set S0 of 1, 000, 000 random replications under null hypothesis was computed and the usual critical value v0 was determined for the α = 0.05 significance level employing the empirical scan distribution. Next, for every value of size k the empirical scan k distribution and the corresponding critical value v k at the α = 0.05 significance level was determined.
Following, 100 sets S i , i = 1, ..., 100 of 1, 000, 000 random replications each were computed under null hypothesis. For each set S i and for every value of size k the corresponding empirical scan k distribution for the set S i was computed, and called scan ki . The proportion p ki (respectively q ki ) of computed MLCs' LLR values larger than v0 (respectively v k ) in the distribution scan ki was obtained, for every value k and i = 1, ..., 100. For every value of k, the 100 values p ki (respectively q ki ), for i = 1, ..., 100, were used to build the 95% confidence intervals U k (respectively D k ), thus estimating the error bar in the proportion of rejection of the null hypothesis through the usual (respectively data-driven) inference process.
The graphs on the left part of Figure 5 show the results using the data for the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area (above) and the US Northeastern map (below). The graphs in blue color show the error bars for the 95% usual non parametric confidence intervals U k , for every size k, showing the average and the variability of the proportion of likelihood ratios higher than the usual critical value v0, which employs MLCs of every size k in the empirical scan distribution. Otherwise, the graphs in red color show the error bars for the 95% data-driven non-parametric confidence intervals D k , for every size k, showing the average and variability of the proportion of likelihood ratios higher than the data-driven critical values v k , which separates MLCs of different sizes k into their corresponding empirical scan k distributions. For each dataset, the blue and red error bars are clearly distinct, showing the differences between the usual and data-driven inferences. A similar procedure was used to compute the 95% non parametric confidence intervals for the corresponding adjusted Gumbel k distributions, instead of the empirical scan k distributions. The corresponding sets of error bars for the Gumbel adjusted distributions are displayed in the right part of Figure 5, for the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area (above) and the US Northeastern map (below). From Figure 5 it is noted that the values obtained through the data-driven inference are substantially closer to the 0.05 level, for both maps. The usual approach's rejection rate of about 0.03 to 0.04 for small clusters means it is not rejecting enough small clusters, thus returning too many false positives. The opposite happens for large clusters.
The proportion of null hypothesis rejection, for the empirical (left) and Gumbel adjusted (right) distributions, for the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area (above) and the Northeastern US map (below). The 95% non parametric confidence intervals are built from 100 Monte Carlo experiments of 1,000,000 replications each, using the usual (blue) and the data-driven (red) inference processes.
Practical evaluation of critical values
From a practical viewpoint, one could be concerned with the large number of simulations necessary to obtain a reasonable number of replications for which their MLCs have exactly the size of the observed MLC, in order to estimate the data-driven critical value. It is shown that, through interpolation of the v k critical values for the values of size k close to the observed MLC size, a fairly small number of replications produce a consistent critical value estimate.
Figure 6 shows the data-driven critical values for the Northeastern US map for the k size values, using 1,000,000 (respectively 50,000) replications, displayed as red dots (respectively blue crosses). The solid black curve represents the moving average, of window size 20, of the critical values for each size k > 10 using the 50,000 replications set (blue crosses). As can be seen in Figure 6, the moving averages fall approximately within the 1,000,000 set's obtained critical values (red dots). The horizontal dashed line indicates the usual critical value. This very simple scheme is thus sufficiently stable, allowing the use of a small number of Monte Carlo replications to estimate the data-driven critical values. For smaller maps (as the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area map), the computational effort is lower, and the data-driven critical values are easier to calculate.
Data-driven critical values for the Northeastern US map for the various k size values, using 1,000,000 (respectively 50,000) replications, displayed as red dots (respectively blue crosses). The solid black curve represents the moving average, of window size 20, of the critical values associated to each size k > 10 using the 50,000 replications set (blue crosses).
The classical inferential process used in the inference of spatial clusters employing Kulldorff's Spatial Scan statistic considers all the most likely clusters found in Monte Carlo replications under the null hypothesis in order to build the empirical distribution of the likelihood ratio, regardless of cluster size and location. A potential disadvantage of this approach is the implicitly assumed independence of the log likelihood ratio distributions, when restricted to the various sizes of the most likely cluster found. It was shown, through numerical experiments, that this assumption is not true for commonly occurring real data maps. Given that the observed most likely cluster has size k0, that means that the classical inference process computes its significance based on the behavior of most likely clusters whose sizes are different from k0.
In this work an alternative was proposed, the data-driven inference, which takes into account only those most likely clusters found whose size is identical to the size of the observed most likely cluster. This approach employs a more specific comparison, thus avoiding that the behavior of clusters of very small size are used to decide if a large observed most likely cluster is considered significant, for example.
As the number of most likely clusters of certain specific size found in randomized maps is smaller than the total number of Monte Carlo replications, a concern may arise that the computational effort to compute the significance with the data-driven inference process should be very high. However, it was shown that using the Gumbel semi-parametric approach and simple interpolation techniques this effort could be mitigated. How many simulations are necessary to provide an acceptable confidence interval for the critical values for each value of size k? It would be very difficult to find a simple formula fitted for every kind of map. Given a particular map, it is suggested to apply the method described in the "Practical evaluation of critical values" section, running sequentially several sets of simulations with an increasing number of Monte Carlo replications, and waiting for the interpolated critical values curve to numerically stabilize.
For each value of size k there are different distributions of empirical values; in all the studied examples, the overall shape of those distributions varies smoothly as k varies, and it even seems reasonable to conjecture that their averages increase monotonically as the value of k increases. However it is plausible to imagine an hypothetical situation where those changes become abrupt with the variation of k, characterizing instability of the null hypothesis. This instability should impact even more the usual inference, because the relative importance of the different values of k would not be identified, as was done in the present analysis. This kind of situation has not yet been experienced, although, and the experiments of the previous section may serve to assess that kind of instability in a particular map.
It should be stressed that the present paper's strategy of employing the size (number of areas inside the cluster) as the criterion to compare the most likely clusters is still subject to bias due to the heterogeneous population distribution. A solution for this problem should be the use of both variables, size and population, which would be very expensive, as discussed before.
The proposed method is more useful when the computed p-value using the classical inference is close to the α significance level, otherwise there will be no change in the decision process. In this situation, it is recommended that the data-driven inference should be performed, especially when the observed most likely cluster has relatively large size.
Numerical experiments were also performed using the data-driven inference for space-time cluster detection, considering not only the number of areas inside the cluster, but also the length of the time interval of the cylinders [10]. Preliminary results suggest that the differences in the critical values are even more pronounced than in the purely spatial setting.
The data-driven inference could be applied to case/controls point data set clusters, taking into account the number of cases and the population inside the clusters. There are three options to consider for the data-driven inference in this type of dataset, namely those based on the number of cases, population, or both. When based on the number of cases, provided that the number of cases is small, the data-driven inference follows the same lines of the present paper. Otherwise, when the number of cases is large or when the data-driven inference is based on the population, some kind of interpolation scheme should be used.
Another extension should consider irregularly shaped clusters [11] instead of circular clusters. These ideas will be discussed in a future work.
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We thank the editor and four reviewers for their thoughtful comments. We are grateful to Martin Kulldorff for his comments. The authors acknowledge the support of the Brazilian agencies Capes, CNPq and Fapemig.
Campus Alto Paraopeba, Universidade Federal de São João del Rei, Ouro Branco/MG, Brazil
Alexandre CL Almeida
Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto/MG, Brazil
Anderson R Duarte & Fernando LP Oliveira
Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,Campus Pampulha, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil
Luiz H Duczmal
Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,Campus Pampulha, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil
Ricardo HC Takahashi
Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,Campus Pampulha, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil
Anderson R Duarte
Fernando LP Oliveira
Correspondence to Luiz H Duczmal.
All the authors contributed to the methodology used in the study, wrote the necessary computer programs, conducted the simulations and data analysis, and drafted the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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Krzysztof Glowacki vs Steve Cunningham Betting Odds and Prediction
By Ian Palmer Boxing April 14, 2016
Krzysztof Glowacki vs Steve Cunningham Preview April 16th
The Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series returns this Saturday, April 16th as undefeated WBO Cruiserweight Champion Krzysztof Glowacki of Poland defends his crown against former two-time champion Steve Cunningham of America. The 12-round bout from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York can be seen live in North America on the NBC network. The 29-year-old Glowacki enters the fight with a perfect 25-0 record along with 16 Kos while the 29-year-old Cunningham is 28-7-1 and has racked up a total of 13 Kos.
Glowacki vs Cunningham Betting Odds
Steve Cunningham +130
Krzysztof Glowacki -150
Cunningham of Philadelphia won the cruiserweight title in for the first time in 2006 when he beat Krzysztof Wlodarczyk and then defended it against Marco Huck by a 12th-round TKO. He won it for the second time in 2010 by stopping Troy Ross in the fourth round and will now be attempting to win ii for the third time this Saturday. This is the first defence for Glowacki after he won the WBO crown by getting up from the canvas to stop former champion Marco Huck last August in a highly-entertaining slugfest.
Cunningham's last fight was a split-decision draw with fellow American veteran Antonio Tarver last August in the heavyweight division, where he has also fought. Cunningham is 6-feet-3-inches tall and has a reach of 82 inches. He's fought 270 rounds as a pro since 2000 and has a current knockout ratio of 36 per cent. He has enough power to deck an opponent if he catches them clean though, but his chin is somewhat questionable at this point in his career. He did manage to deck current heavyweight champ Tyson Fury in their 2013 bout, but was stopped in the seventh round by a borderline foul shot.
Glowacki lacks experience against big-name fighters, but proved with his win over Huck that it doesn't really mean anything. He has beaten a couple of decent opponents in Nuri Seferi and Thierry Karl as well. Glowacki is a southpaw who stands 6-feet tall with a 75-inch reach. He has 135 rounds under his belt since turning pro in 2008 and has a 64 per cent knockout ratio. He's mostly been fighting exclusively in Europe against European opposition. He has good power and a solid chin which makes him a fan-friendly boxer to watch.
The reach advantage of Cunningham needs to be utilized by the champion in this fight if he hopes to be successful. On the other hand, Cunningham needs to use his boxing skills and stay away from Glowacki's power while picking him off enough to rack up points on the scorecards. Glowacki could make the mistake of relying too much on his power and could find himself in trouble if he isn't able to land and hurt Cunningham with his big shots. Cunningham has been dropped several times in his career, but only Fury has been able to stop him.
Cunningham has more experience in big fights since he's met the likes of Fury, Yoan Pablo Hernandez, Vyacheslav Glazkov and Tomasz Adamek and lost to them but has drawn Tarver and beaten Amir Mansour, Huck, Ross, Wayne Braithwaite and Guillermo Jones. He's no spring chicken, but is a solid boxer with decent power and like Glowacki, has a lot of heart.
This fight depends on the activity of the boxers. If Cunningham is energized and active he should be able to outbox Glowacki while the champion would prefer to slug things out even though Cunningham is the bigger man. Cunningham may not have the power to stop Glowacki, but if his chin holds out he should be able to outbox him to take the WBO title.
Just what the fans like, another close fight fight with no big betting favourite.
Play: Cunningham +130 @ BetOnline.ag
Krzystof Glowacki betting • Steve Cunningham betting


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Kirklees Council
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Derelict land, at the junction of Wakefield Road and King's Mill Lane at Aspley, was due to be transformed into a striking, glass-fronted block of 178 private flats called The Armadillo.
Middlesbrough firm JR Property Developments got permission for the plan in 2005 and work was due to start in the autumn of 2006.
In September last year the company told the Examiner the project would go ahead despite a year-long delay.
But it emerged this week that the land, which is being used as a Huddersfield University car park, was later sold.
Now a planning application has been submitted to Kirklees Council by Welsh construction firm Watkin Jones to build communal flats with 484 bedrooms and 41 studio flats.
The company's planning application said: "The site does not currently meet its potential and is in need of investment.
"The site is undeveloped and used as a parking lot.
"Yet the site is close to the town centre and a short walk from the university, making it well placed for growth.
"The opportunity exists to provide an iconic, landmark building that establishes the site as a gateway into the town and reinforces the ongoing regeneration of the area."
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Where cyclists dare
In the second of our series on cycling in Britain's major cities, we look at the joys and perils facing bikers in Birmingham and Manchester
Tue 6 Mar 2007 06.48 EST First published on Tue 6 Mar 2007 06.48 EST
Helen Pidd in Manchester
It's hardly Amsterdam, but Manchester is trying to become a little more cycle-friendly. For starters, there are good, secure bike parking racks all over the city centre, and the council has started putting in the odd cycle lane here and there. The problem with the latter is that they tend to be shared with Manchester's very many buses.
It is often said that the main route from the south of Manchester into town, from Fallowfield along Wilmslow Road and Oxford Road, is the busiest bus lane in Europe. Though the council has put in cycle lanes, you'd have to be mad to use them, particularly during rush hour. Instead, consider one of the parallel roads: either Lloyd Street or Yew Tree Road in the east, which cuts through Moss Side (fine during the day, less inviting after dark). You could also use Whitworth Lane in the west, which segues into a short traffic-free path at the Old Hall Lane junction and passes some rather nice allotments before you reach Birchfields Park.
There is, unfortunately, no secret to tackling the city centre's tangle of one-way streets. If you want a sneaky (legal) way of getting from Deansgate to Piccadilly, cycle courier Matt Tansey suggests turning right up one of the sidestreets (eg Brazennose Street) to Albert Square, then going along Princess Street and Fountain Street. Don't be fazed by the one-way sign: it applies only to cars. There's a little lane for cyclists that goes against the flow and towards the Northern Quarter.
Want to go from Hulme to Piccadilly station avoiding the city centre? Local cycling campaigner Costel Harnasz says: "Go down Cambridge Street with the university buildings on your right. Turn right up Hulme Street, which becomes Charles Street as you cross Oxford Road past the BBC. Cross Princess Street, turn left at Sackville Street and turn right immediately after the porter's lodge. Then go up Altrincham Street, where the road becomes pedestrianised. Go left at Echo Street then along cobbled Pump Street on to Whitworth Street, where Piccadilly station rises splendidly."
The Fallowfield Loop is an almost eight-mile off-road stretch running along an old railway line from Chorlton in the west to grittier Gorton and Fairfield in the east and takes in three of Manchester's hidden parks, including the wildflower-filled Highfield Country Park. The route is run down in places, but is smoothly surfaced and is convenient for Fairfield, Gorton, Ryder Brow and Reddish North stations. Most local train services allow bikes, but check with GMPTE on 0161-228 7811 or at gmpte.gov.uk. You can't take normal bikes on trams, but folding models are fine.
A good stretch of the Ashton canal running past the new Manchester City ground at Sports-city and almost to the back of Piccadilly station has been converted into part of the Manchester Cycle Way (route 60, which links to the Fallowfield Loop). Work to improve the Rochdale canal route continues and the Bridgewater canal may be made cycleable in the next few years too.
Crossing the nightmarish Mancunian Way flyover is almost pleasant if you use the bike-friendly footbridge at the north end of Hulme Park or the cycle crossing at Newcastle Street.
A few words about security: if you want to get your bike nicked, park it near the universities.
Finally, for those who need refuelling, cycle couriers love Shlurp, an early-opening deli serving porridge behind the Hidden Gem church on East Brazennose Street. There are heaters outside so you can mind your bike as you breakfast.
· Additional research by Rumeana Jahangir. For a map showing Manchester's cycling blackspots, go to manchesterfoe.org.uk/lyb/blackspots.
Greater Manchester Cycle campaign: gmcc.org.uk
Put in your postcode to see local routes: sustrans.org.uk
Advice on cycling in Manchester, plus maps: cyclegm.org
Steve Sampson in Birmingham
Birmingham is Motor City. It travels en masse by car on a road system built for that purpose. As a cyclist in the second city you are very much in a minority. Birmingham does not have a cycle-route network covering the entire city, but knits together on- and off-road routes using canal towpaths.
1 Get the free Cycling and Walking Map, available from libraries or online at birmingham.gov.uk. Published in March 2006, it offers a network of designated and advised routes for commuters seeking to avoid busy arterial roads.
2 Invest in a bike worthy of Birmingham's varied urban terrain - you'll need a superlight frame and near puncture- resistant tyres.
3 If you find Motor City intimidating, build your confidence with cycle training: contact pro-bike lobbyists Pushbikes (pushbikes.org.uk).
4 Get to know your fellow commuters. There are well-established weekend clubs that offer the chance to meet and exchange hints and tips. One regular meeting point is Del Villagio, in the Bullring shopping centre, on Saturdays at 9am. "There is a great camaraderie among commuters cycling in Birmingham because we're in such a minority," says student army nurse Kate Williams.
5 Know your specialist city-centre bike shops: On Yer Bike (0121-627 1590) and Birmingham City Cycles (0121-666 6045) both provide information for would-be commuters and offer a same-day repair service so you can be back in the saddle for the ride home.
Designated cycle paths
1 Rea Valley cycle route: fantastic for travelling in from the south of the city. The journey time is 20 minutes shorter than by car, according to commuters. The route starts at Rea Street in Digbeth and follows the course of Rea river all the way to its source in the Waseley Hills. It passes Birmingham city centre landmarks such as the International Convention Centre, Centenary Square and the National Indoor Arena.
2 Ward End route: this on-road route starts at Fazeley Street, near Millennium Point, and goes to Ward End and Castle Vale. The route also passes through Ward End Park.
3 North Birmingham cycle/walk route: this mainly off-road route starts in Sutton Park and goes to Brookvale Park (near Gravelly Hill).
Hotspots to avoid - and how
Birmingham is encircled by three ring roads. Although much of the inner ring road, Queensway, is being "tamed", many cyclists say using it is suicidal. Other dangerous routes include Five Ways roundabout in Edgbaston, and the main radial roads that lead into the city centre: Hagley Road, Soho Road, Coventry Road and Bristol Road, which all cross the central ring roads.
Belgrave Middleway crossing via Longmore Road into Gooch Street Toucan crossings and a buses-only gateway give a safe cycle crossing point over a busy dual carriageway.
Lancaster Circus/Queensway Cycle lanes feed under this busy island to allow safe access from Aston University and the central shopping area.
Arthur Road, Bordesley A signed cycle path into Kingston Road allows riders to avoid the massive and busy Bordesley Circus island and provides easy crossing of the Coventry Road radial.
Ways Island, Edgbaston At the junction of Broad Street and Hagley Road, signed cycle paths pass under a traffic island, on to Hagley Road, Ladywood Middleway and to the AMC cinema and the new entertainment complex.
Swan Island, Yardley Cycle paths lead off Yardley and Church roads to give safe cycle passage over this very busy dual carriageway junction.
Canals for commuting
Clear towpaths include the Birmingham to Worcester canal; the Birmingham and Warwick canal; the Birmingham to Wolverhampton canal; the Grand Union from Digbeth to Yardley, which is good in patches and atrocious in others; and the Birmingham to Fazeley canal.
The city centre
The city's pedestrianised precincts surrounding New Street station and Centenary Square are mostly bike-friendly. However, access is restricted around the Bullring shopping centre, so watch out for signs.
There are increasing number of Sheffield stands to lock up bikes in the city centre. Cyclists say current crime hotspots include New Street station, nicknamed Ground Zero, and college car parks.
In tomorrow's G2: Your guide to commuting in Brighton, Leeds and Cardiff - the best shortcuts, plus spots to avoid.
Later this week: Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bristol, Oxford, Belfast and Newcastle.


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2. Rinse, peel, and finely chop onion. Peel and mince garlic.
3. Rinse tomato. Remove core and seeds. Chop.
4. Rinse lime. Cut in half. In a small bowl, squeeze juice from one half. Discard seeds.
5. Rinse and chop cilantro and basil.
6. In a colander, drain and rinse beans.
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