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AIRDATE: January
26, 2005
ALDA Hello and welcome to Scientific American Frontiers. I'm Alan
used to the idea of there being computers in our cars, invisibly
monitoring and controlling everything from the engine to the airbags.
In fact, there are over 50 microprocessors tucked away in a typical
the day is fast approaching when you won't be driving a car with
computers so much as a computer with wheels. And while computers
that crash are all too familiar, tonight we'll be looking at computer-based
devices that are designed to prevent crashes of the deadly
going to Germany to drive some cars that watch out for dangers you
might be missing...
take a spin in a car that goes nowhere but that's helping identify
those potentially deadly moments when our attention wanders ...
we'll chat to a car that likes to talk back.
all coming up in tonight's episode, Cars that Think.
ALDA (NARRATION) We're starting with a quick trip into the past,
to a moment I remember vividly even though it was ten years ago.
I was driving a van on a German autobahn or rather, and this was
the point, not driving.
We're now speeding up.
ALDA (NARRATION) The road was the test track for what was then Daimler
Benz, and the van was a prototype of what Daimler researchers hoped
would become a vehicle that could drive itself. In the windshield
were cameras watching the lane markings in the road...
So back here is the control area for the system.
ALDA (NARRATION) While in the back was a huge rack of computers
tracking those markings and steering the van.
With these ten windows here we can actually follow the road, we
know the radius of the road, where we are in the lane and that lets
us drive automatically.
ALDA (NARRATION) A self-driving car would obviously have to do more
than just track the road...
I'll activate the system now by hitting the green button here.
ALDA (NARRATION) It would also have to keep an eye on all the other
vehicles sharing it.
Once we get up to speed I'll have Christof pass us. OK, Christof...
He will enter the road ahead of us here, the lane, we'll detect
him, if he slows down we will slow down, if he speeds up, we'll
speed up.
ALDA What if there was an accident, if we turn this corner and suddenly
came up on an accident, there was a truck across both lanes?
At the moment we probably would not stop. We have work going on
now ...take control, the yellow...
ALDA Yellow, OK.
We have work going on where we look for more obstacles, not only
the back of vehicles, but also sides...
ALDA So you're really going step by step with this now aren't you,
and as you get, as you solve these problems, so you get on to more
complicated issues.
Exactly, we're working our way up in complexity here, and we really
have to be able to find all the obstacles on the road and there's
an awful lot that could be out there, so it will take a while.
ALDA (NARRATION) Jumping forward ten years until today and the company
now DaimlerChrysler is still working on trying to identify all
those things out there on the road, from errant balls...
preoccupied pedestrians.
today, the goal of the research program has shifted radically. No
longer do company engineers dream of cars that drive themselves:
just imagine the law suits if you could blame your car instead of
yourself for an accident. Now, with the knowledge that some 90 per
cent of accidents could be avoided if the driver had been warned
in time of danger, DaimlerChrysler has turned its technology to
spotting things the driver shouldn't miss like stop signs.
ALDA Do you think the car will recognize that stop sign up there?
BREUEL Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure.
ALDA Yeah, well, let's go for it.
ALDA (NARRATION) Driving the car on an empty airfield near Stuttgart
in Germany is DaimlerChrysler engineer Gabi Breuel.
BREUEL Look here, see.
ALDA Yeah,
BREUEL Now it's got it. The system itself brakes for a short time...
ALDA And you didn't...
BREUEL I didn't...
ALDA You kept your foot on the accelerator, right?
BREUEL Yep.
ALDA Well, we were sort of well into the intersection by the time
the car stopped.
BREUEL No, it's just a tactile warning for the driver that she has
to react.
ALDA I see. So in other words, if you feel the car stopping by itself,
it's a good idea to take your foot off the accelerator and put your
foot on the brake.
BREUEL That's right, that's right.
ALDA How does it see the stop sign?
BREUEL How does it see? You have stereo cameras because they allow
us to determine the distance and the size of objects in front.
ALDA How does the car recognize that what it sees is a stop sign?
BREUEL The shape. And after it's got the shape of the sign, then
the system is searching for the word stop.
ALDA What if it didn't have the word stop on there?
BREUEL Nothing happens.
ALDA If you turn the stop sign around?
BREUEL Nothing will happen.
ALDA Nothing will happen. We'll just go straight through.
BREUEL Yeah. It's not a gimmick!
ALDA It could see the shape. But it couldn't, it didn't see the
word. It's got to get both the word and the shape?
BREUEL Both are necessary for...
ALDA So if you're coming up to a billboard that said "stop smoking,"
it wouldn't stop the car?
BREUEL No.
ALDA (NARRATION) In the first demonstration, the car had warned
Gabi she'd missed the sign by braking briefly. But the system could
also be set to do the stopping all by itself.
ALDA OK. So at a certain distance from the stop sign if you're going
too fast...
BREUEL Too fast...
ALDA And it says, if this person hasn't stopped yet, they're not
going to stop, that's when the car automatically stops.
ALDA (NARRATION) But again, DaimlerChrysler doesn't want to be sued
if your car and not you could be blamed for missing a stop sign.
So cars you may one day be able to buy will alert you to your errors,
not try to correct them.
BREUEL This will not be a system for the street, because our philosophy
is that the ultimate responsibility for operating the car remains
with the driver.
ALDA (NARRATION) Stop signs aren't the only things DaimlerChrysler's
engineers don't want you to miss. Aided by the sort of digital map
you can download into your car's navigation system today, this car
knows where traffic lights are located, and keeps its eyes out for
You want to know the status of the traffic light at all times, because
you don' t want to run a red light, it's expensive and dangerous.
So we're able actually to issue a warning to a driver when he's
about to run a red light.
ALDA So these cameras are turning now to see the light. Now that,
it picks up a picture of the light from some distance, so they point
straight ahead, and then it just keeps tracking the lights.
Very similar to a human head basically. With a head you look to
the right. When there's some stuff coming out, you look to the left,
then you look up. It makes sure you actually have green when you're
going through that intersection.
ALDA Now what about if you're turning right? Do these cameras
can they look over there and see what you're turning into?
You can use prior knowledge from a digital map again, and you know
there's an intersection coming up, the guys from the right side
have the right of way so you can turn your camera ahead of time,
because that's where you're expecting the danger from.
ALDA Now this is kind of... these cameras are kind of big and clumsy.
I mean. It's kind of hard to see over them. What will you do when
you're in a real car?
In a real car, we would actually take a much smaller active camera
and you would put it up here right next to the rear view mirror
and you would be able to hide it.
ALDA (NARRATION) So, ten years after I cavalierly took my hands
off the wheel, a car that will drive itself remains an engineer's
dream, unlikely to become reality. But at least one of the technologies
being pioneered back then has met the road the lane tracking assistant,
already installed on many trucks in Germany to warn drivers that
their rigs are straying, and now becoming available on some luxury
car models in the United States. What makes drivers stray out of
their lanes and what a thinking car might do about it is the
subject of our next story.
GREENBERG All right, come on in.
ALDA (NARRATION) I'm about to take a drive on a busy highway a
highway that's notorious, I'm told, for drivers straying out of
their lanes.
GREENBERG Come on around. And we have here our model T flat black
Taurus, and you can go ahead and have a seat. It's set up as close
to a normal Taurus as we can make it, so it has normal seat controls
for your seat and adjustable pedals right here. So get yourself
settled, buckle your seat belt and close your door when you're ready.
ALDA Shall I put on my glasses?
GREENBERG And put on your glasses, just as you would normally drive.
ALDA This feels OK.
ALDA (NARRATION) My passenger on the drive is Jeff Greenberg, a
researcher for the Ford Motor Company, who'll be passing judgment
on my driving skills.
GREENBERG OK, now the next thing we're going to have you do is we're
going to have you put on the eye-tracker. This is basically a baseball
cap; it's got just a Velcro adjustment here for your head. Slip
that on, it should slip on right over your glasses. And what we'd
like you to do is try to adjust it so that it's comfortable and
that your left eye is looking directly through that tilted piece
of glass.
ALDA (NARRATION) The eye-tracking device will allow Jeff to see
where I'm looking as I drive along not on an actual highway,
of course, but on a virtual highway inside Ford's Virtexx driving
simulator. Cameras monitor my every move as my virtual car speeds
on its virtual way inside an enormous dome on stilts.
GREENBERG Just do a normal lane change, just a normal gentle lane
change into your left lane.
ALDA (NARRATION) As I steer to the left I feel the car move to the
left because while the road is virtual, the movement isn't.
GREENBERG And then when you're ready just go ahead and do a lane
change back to the right.
ALDA (NARRATION) Added to the realistic noise and vibration, the
movement quickly convinces my brain that I'm driving for real. Which
is just what Jeff wants me to feel.
GREENBERG Go ahead and look in your rear view mirror for a moment
and see if you can see what that car does.
ALDA Yeah, it's erratic.
GREENBERG That's right. Well, when you see him stray out of his
lane to the right, flash your turn signal to the right, and if you
see him go off to the left, flash your turn signal to the left.
ALDA I would speed up to get out of this guy's way...
GREENBERG Yes, you would. We're going to ask you to, you know, bear
with him and stay with him because there's more that's going to
happen, OK? Look at the Explorer in front of you and you'll see
that there's an erratic driver in front of the Explorer.
ALDA Right, you want me to...
GREENBERG Yeah, same thing. When you're not doing anything else,
you're just driving like this, you get used to it, when we measure
adults we find that 97% of the time they identify these events,
they're just driving. Three per cent of the time they don't see
them. These numbers change if they become involved in doing other
ALDA (NARRATION) No prize for guessing which other thing is the
most likely to make the numbers change...
GREENBERG Go ahead and pick up your phone.
ALDA And make a call?
GREENBERG Yeah.
ALDA (NARRATION) I make the call while doing my best not to misdial
while at the same time keeping an eye on what's happening in front
... as well as behind.
GREENBERG That kind of task takes a lot of visual attention.
ALDA OK, it sure does.
GREENBERG Now, you did see quite a few of the events that were in
front of you that were happening. But there were also things that
were happening behind you that were very, very difficult to track.
When we do that, for adults for example, instead of missing 3% of
the things that happen directly in front of them, they start to
miss about 12 to 13% of the things in front of them, about a factor
of four increase.
ALDA (NARRATION) It sounds bad enough that adults missed four times
as many potentially dangerous events when dialing a cell phone.
But the real shocker came when the Ford researchers tested teenage
GREENBERG Some people have speculated that because of video games
and familiarity with computers and technology, that young people
are just better at multitasking than adults are.
ALDA Is that what you found?
GREENBERG Well, in fact no. What we found was that when we did that
same task that you just did, where on average the miss rate for
adults rises from 3% to 13%, for teenagers it rose to 53%.
ALDA Fifty-three per cent?
GREENBERG Half the time that that happened they didn't see it. It
comes down, as you might expect, to experience. If you look at the
way that adults will do the task, they do it much as you did
they take the phone, and they brought it to the place where they
minimized the amount of time they had to look away from it. They
also break the task up into short bits, no more than a second long,
so they're not looking away from the road. The teenagers dialed
the phone much more quickly, sometimes almost twice as fast as this
group of adults, but they tend to do it without looking back at
the road, and they do it because they seem to have an implicit assumption
that the cars around them are going to behave themselves while they
are off doing something else.
ALDA Nothing will happen, don't worry. That's the phrase that guides
GREENBERG That's right.
ALDA Whoa, the guy behind me's getting crazy.
GREENBERG Yeah, he is. You know, if you've ever been in traffic
and you've had something like that happen in front of you, and I
don't know if you've ever been in a crash, you get the feeling that,
I don't think I'm going to be able to stop the car, and you get
that kind of knot in your stomach. You don't have to have that experience
very many times before you change the way that you behave in vehicles.
And new drivers haven't had that experience, and they are very,
very trusting of other traffic.
ALDA (NARRATION) American drivers spend something like a billion
minutes a year talking on their cell phones that's about
40% of all cell phone use. Research like Jeff Greenberg's has led
several states to require drivers to use headsets or other hands-free
devices in an attempt to minimize the driver distraction cell phones
cause. But the Ford experiments, as well as several other studies,
suggest just taking the phone out of the driver's hand doesn't make
the problem go away.
GREENBERG When people used the hands-free systems, they were generally
better in being able to pay attention to what was happening, but
there was an important exception. And that was incoming calls. When
a call comes in, whether it comes in on a hand-free phone or a hand-held
phone, in our experiments, the drivers were just not able to answer
the phone, find out who was calling them and why and still pay attention
to the things that were happening around them. ALAN ALDA Just before
the call started, or as the call was starting, they didn't see the
car veering out of the lane?
GREENBERG The place where they seemed to be the most vulnerable
was actually the point where they were conversing with the person
to find out who it was that called. So the first thing you might
say, and the best thing that you might say to drivers right now
is, turn your cell phone off while you're in the car. But in the
future, it might be that cars are smart enough to know when the
situation that you're driving in is demanding. We may know, for
example, from sensors that are in the car, when you're in heavy
traffic. We may know when you're approaching an intersection, or
in an intersection, or when you're in a curve. And if a call comes
in during a time like that, we may decide, this is really a time
when it's most appropriate to send that call to voice mail and alert
the driver later.
ALDA (NARRATION) The Ford researchers have also used their Virtexx
simulator to see how tiredness affects drivers. Volunteers were
deprived of sleep and stimulants, then asked to drive on the virtual
highway at night for three long, boring hours. Meanwhile, the eye-tracker
watched out for droopy eyelids.
GREENBERG Many of the drivers experienced long micro-sleeps. They
averaged about two and a half seconds, which is a long way: at 70
miles and hour on the highway, that's close to the length of a football
field with your eyes closed.
ALDA (NARRATION) If the driver strayed out of his lane, the simulator
was rigged to give him a warning the sound of a rumble strip...
or a horn and flashing lights... or a vibrating steering wheel.
GREENBERG We found a lot of feedback from our test participants
that if they're not drowsy, they don't want a warning, it's not
helpful to them, it's really not going to provide them with any
benefit at all. On the other hand, when they were drowsy and it
was really helping them, they were enormously grateful it was there.
So the key for us is to develop technology that's smart, that adapts
to the driver, that provides you the information when you need it
and doesn't bother you when you don't.
ALDA (NARRATION) This question of how best to keep a tired driver
alert is one of the biggest challenges facing designers of cars
that think as we'll see in our next story. Meanwhile...
ALDA I'm glad to be back on earth.
ALDA (NARRATION) We're about to take a drive with Mahesh Viswanathan
and his frequent traveling companion, Sally. This being an IBM parking
lot, it should come as no surprise that Sally isn't a person but
a computer or to use a favorite engineer's term a
VISWANATHAN Today, most of the systems that you have in the car
are what we call command and control. You give an instruction, it
performs an action. What we are trying to do is to build the next
generation, the next to next generation, where the interaction is
more pleasant and the system is much more helpful than it is today.
ALDA So when I talk to the car now, the car will know what I mean,
what I want.
VISWANATHAN When you talk to the car, it will not only know what
you want, it will also try to anticipate your needs. Good morning
How are you today, Mahesh?
VISWANATHAN I'm fine... She identified me as I said "Good morning
Sally" and we use that not only to greet me, which is nice, by name.
In addition to that, she sets all my personal profiles, so she knows
the address book that I have of interest, she knows my favorite
restaurants, she knows my favorite routes.
VISWANATHAN I need to go to JFK for a 3:30 flight.
Would you like me to find the quickest route to the airport?
VISWANATHAN Yes please
It should take about 90 minutes to get there, allowing you 30 minutes
for check-in.
ALDA You don't have to speak politely to Sally. You don't have to
say please.
VISWANATHAN No I don't.
ALDA I think I'd feed uncomfortable begging my car.
ALDA (NARRATION) Sally is actually listening in all the time through
a microphone above Mahesh's head, but she responds only to words
she's been programmed to recognize... like traffic.
VISWANATHAN Sally, is there any traffic on the route?
Currently all looks clear, but I will continue to update you. Turn
right onto Pines Bridge Rd.
ALDA What about if you were getting drowsy now?
ALDA (NARRATION) Sally's not only listening; the idea is that eventually
the system will be watching, too. A camera will look for signs of
drowsiness, like drooping eyelids. Then, like a real passenger,
she'll try to wake you up.
Would you like to play a game to fill the time?
VISWANATHAN What game?
How about "Name that tune?" Here's the first one.
ALDA You put these songs in, so you know what they are, right?
VISWANATHAN That's how I know what they are, I've lived in NY a
long time, what do I know about country music? I don't even know
if we have a country music station here. My guess is "Out of your
Good job
VISWANATHAN You notice that slight massage where she says "good
job?" To keep me occupied in the conversation.
ALDA Yes, to help keep you alert.
VISWANATHAN Instead of just playing the songs back to back and have
me answered, where I could get bored, it's nice to give a little
feedback to the user, a pat on the back, and I'm there.
ALDA When you think of what games you want to put in there, do you
go to the psychologist and say what do you think we should do, or
do you come up with ideas yourselves?
VISWANATHAN At this point, we just come up with ideas ourselves,
because what we want to show is the power of interaction in keeping
you alert. SALLY Now try this one...
ALDA (NARRATION) Sally will eventually be wirelessly plugged in
to real time information about weather, traffic... and your schedule.
Sorry to interrupt, but I just heard, that your flight has been
delayed by one hour.
VISWANATHAN Maybe I can stop for a bit to eat.
I know you prefer German restaurants, but there aren't any within
3 miles. How about Italian?
ALDA Good
ALDA (NARRATION) Sally is currently only a demonstration model:
Mahesh's questions and remarks are triggering prepared responses.
VISWANATHAN Let's make it Italian.
ALDA (NARRATION) That is, if she hears them.
VISWANATHAN Italian sounds good.
ALDA (NARRATION) Computer speech recognition remains a thorny problem
especially in the noisy environment of a car.
ALDA Voliamo mangiare pasta.
ALDA (NARRATION) Which is why something called the McGurk Effect
is so fascinating to IBM researcher Stephen Chu.
Ba, ba, ba
CHU What do you hear?
ALDA I hear da, da, clear as a bell. And that's not what you're
saying, is it? S
CHU Right, so try to close your eyes and listen to the same thing
ALDA I hear ba, ba really clearly, just as clearly as I heard da,
da. It's amazing, it's the same recording.
CHU It's the same thing.
ALDA And what are you doing with your lips?
CHU Ga, ga, actually. So visually I'm ga, ga, but acoustically it's
ba, ba, but your mind is playing a trick on you, so you're hearing
neither ga, ga, nor ba, ba, but rather da, da.
ALDA This is wonderful, this is so great.
ALDA (NARRATION) Try it for yourself. Listen while you watch...
ALDA (NARRATION) Now listen again as we cover Stephen's mouth...
ALDA (NARRATION) The McGurk Effect beautifully demonstrates how
much we rely on what we see as well as what we hear in interpreting
speech. ALAN ALDA And McGurk figured this out? Who's McGurk? Is
his name really McGurk or is his name McDurk? 1178889...
ALDA (NARRATION) IBM is now developing a speech recognition system
that reads lips as well as listens in to what we say. When I tested
it, accuracy improved from about 80 per cent with audio alone, to
close to 100 percent. So the plan is that the camera in the car
that watches for droopy eyelids will also watch your mouth, making
Sally a better listener. Back in her car, Sally has one more trick
up her virtual sleeve.
You just received an urgent email. Shall I read it to you now?
VISWANATHAN Let me hear it
VOICE Mahesh, this is Peter. I know your flight is delayed. Let's
meet in the terminal lounge. See you then.
VISWANATHAN Sally, take an email for Peter.
I'm ready.
VISWANATHAN Peter, I received your message. I'll see you at 3. End
Your email reads: Peter, I received your message. I'll see you at
3. Shall I send it?
VISWANATHAN Send it.
ALDA OK, right now I'll give you 50 dollars for this, you don't
have to make it any better. I'll take it.
VISWANATHAN 50 dollars?
ALDA Cash!


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I love this recipe, although I make some changes. I use beets instead of sweet potatoes (because I have an abundance of them in August), but I prefer golden beets to really red ones so the loaf doesn't turn a bright crimson. It works either way, though. And I cut the oil and sugar just slightly. I also skip toasting the walnuts because I'm lazy. It turns out great every time though, no matter what I do. Also, I usually do 1.5 this recipe so that I can have two full loaves ( I give the extra one to my husband's office-mate.)flag if inappropriate
Excellent recipe, especially when zucchini is in season. I have found that the zucchini needs to be drained and squeezed free of as much liquid as possible, even though the recipe doesn't say to do this. I halved the sugar and omitted the nuts so everyone in the family could eat the bread. Instead of using 3/4 c of oil, I used 1/2 c of applesauce and 1/4 of oil. As suggested by another reviewer, I doubled this recipe and it made one standard size loaf of bread and 12 muffins. The loaf baked for one hour, the muffins for 23 minutes at 350 degrees.flag if inappropriate
I followed this recipe fairly closely except for all of the recommendations to reduce the sugar. Epic fail... I must have cooked this bread for over 2 hours and it never baked. At first I thought there was an issue with my oven, but that is not the case. It was a gushy, pudding-like mess. Maybe there was too much liquid released by the zucchini? Not sure, but I will be going back to my other zucchini bread recipe.flag if inappropriate
I made this recipe without nuts because I didn't have any on hand and it came out spectacular. The outside was a sweet, crispy crust while the inside was moist and delicious.flag if inappropriate
I made this completely as directed and it was amazing. The next time, I did cut down the sweetness (I ran out of sugar too, so used xylitol... tasted just the same). We stopped putting nuts in, but that is our family's preference. I would recommend cutting down a cup on the sugar. I always double the recipe because it goes so fast. When doubled, the recipe makes two 9x5x3 pans, and 12 muffins. The muffins bake for about 20 minutes, and the pans bake for about 1 hour.flag if inappropriate
LOVE this recipe! I made a couple of modifications: substituted regular flour with 1 c whole wheat flour, 1 c almond meal; substituted 1/2 of oil with apple sauce; substituted sugar with 1.5 c agave. Added 1/2 c of ground, toasted flax as well. It is a bit heavier, but filled with protein.flag if inappropriate
Loved this, doubling it successfully. Made one loaf and nearly 3 dozen muffins. I substituted 1/4 of the flour with whole wheat pastry flour, and 1/2 of the sweet potato with carrot. Punched it up a bit with pumpkin spice too instead of using all cinnamon.flag if inappropriate
Excellent recipe. Sweet, but not too sweet. Really yummy. Followed some other reviewers' suggestions and reduced the oil to 1/2 cup. No other mods. So good! Will definitely make again. Next time, muffins!flag if inappropriate
I made this with some tweaks based on other reader's recommendations: Replaced half the flour with whole wheat; cut oil to 1/4 cup; cut sugar to 1/2 cup and added 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce. Also added 1/4 cup chocolate chips instead of walnuts. My vegetable-averse toddler gobbled it up. Next time I think I might cut sugar even more and try adding more veg.flag if inappropriate
Nice taste, but waaaaaaay too much oil. I sometimes like to do the original recipe and tweak it myself the second time since you never know if the difference in recipes is user ability. In this case, I should have listened and cut my oil by half. Used sweet potatoes grown in the garden and slivered nuts I had in the house.flag if inappropriate


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GPS-Trace Orange GPS tracking for cars, pet locator and family radar
GPS-Trace Orange a FREE app, which helps to determine where your family members, pets and your car are at the moment.GPS-Trace Orange...
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One of the QWERTY phones I included in my Back to School article was the Samsung Gravity 2 and I have had a couple of weeks to play with the Metallic Orange one. When it first launched it was priced at $29.99, but I now see on the T-Mobile site that it is up to $69.99 after instant discount and mail-in rebate. The Gravity 2 is a nice upgrade to the original Gravity with an updated camera (2 megapixel vs 1.3 megapixel), 3G wireless radio, integrated GPS receiver, and updated keyboard layout (4 row vs 3 row).
This is a well-featured Windows Mobile smartphone with a good mini-QWERTY keyboard and impressive battery life. Shame about the backplate though.
The latest additions to RIM's Curve family of BlackBerry devices include Wi-Fi and GPS, but where's the 3G support?
HTC's P3600 has been taken up by Orange and rebadged as the SPV M700. In its new incarnation, this sleek and well-built 3G/HSDPA device benefits from attractive pricing and from having its integrated GPS receiver enabled by default.
update ANZ Bank this month signed a three year, AU$20 million contract extension with local France Telecom subsidiary Orange Business Services for global wide area network (WAN) services.Orange had since late 2003 been providing WAN services to ANZ in areas primarily covering Asia and the Pacific Islands, a spokesperson for Orange told ZDNet Australia today.
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Motorola announced Tuesday that it has sold $253 million of wireless gear for use in TA Orange's network in Thailand. The equipment, which uses GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) technology and runs on 1800 megahertz, will be installed in Thailand's northern, northeastern and eastern provinces, and will become part of a nationwide network that will offer service by the end of 2002. In addition to the equipment, TA Orange, a joint venture between CP Group, Telecom Asia and Orange SA that markets its service under the Orange name, will receive integration and installation services from Motorola. --Sam Ames, Special to ZDNet News
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Danny Granger has heard he might be taken in the NBA draft lottery, which includes 14 teams. However, that didn't stop the former New Mexico star from making the Nuggets, who own the 20th and 22nd overall picks in the June 28 draft, the first stop on his workout tour.
"With the way the draft is, you never know," Granger said Monday at the Pepsi Center. "You can't just say you're going to just work out for (the) teams that are in the lottery, because the way the draft is, people move up, people move down."
Granger's draft status is all over the board. ESPN.com has him ranked among its top 10 prospects. NBAdraft.net, meanwhile, projects Granger will go to Toronto at 16th overall.
If he slips to the Nuggets, the 6-foot-8, 225-pound Granger could be just the type of player that interests Denver. His versatility allows him to play point guard to small forward. At New Mexico, Granger was called upon to play power forward at times, but he projects himself as a small forward in the NBA.
"Eighty percent of my shots came from the wing," said Granger, who averaged 18.8 points for the Lobos last season. "But I'm honing my perimeter skills."
Granger, who also has workouts scheduled with the Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Grizzlies and Magic, was one of seven players who worked out for the Nuggets on Monday.
This year's draft is being billed as one of the deepest in recent memory with 108 early entrants - including 12 from high school - among those competing for 60 draft spots. Of the seven players in Denver on Monday, three are early entrants: Garcia, Gilchrist and Robinson. Garcia said Louisville coach Rick Pitino urged him to leave early, after his junior season, while his stock was high.
"He said it was best for me to leave," Garcia said. "I had a great season and a great (NCAA) tournament, so it was time for me to take off."
White's wait
Golden State's Rodney White is back in Denver and working out at the Nuggets' practice facility. The Warriors can pick up the $1.97 million option on his contract to keep him or they have until July 15 to waive him and not have to pay him, making him a free agent.
White hasn't ruled out a return to the Nuggets, who traded him and Nikoloz Tskitishvili in February in exchange for Eduardo Najera, Luis Flores and a first-round pick in 2007.
"This is home for me now," White said of Denver, adding: "I would love to be back here. I still think I can help this team out a lot. But I'll take it however it comes. I just know I'm going to work extremely hard."
Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin, who recently had knee surgery, limped into the team's practice courts on crutches Monday. Martin said he felt "pretty good" and should be off crutches in two weeks. ... The NBA announced Monday that Miami and Memphis will play a preseason game in Puerto Rico. The Nuggets were considered for the trip.
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STOCKHOLM, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmalink AB today announced that it has strengthened its Board of Directors as the company's portfolio continues to move towards late stage product development and commercialization. Two highly experienced pharmaceutical and biotechnology advisors, Anders Wiklund and Jens Christensen, are joining the Board. In addition, Lennart Hansson, Director of the lifesciences business area at Industrifonden joins the Board as the Industrifonden representative.
Lennart Hansson, PhD, has a broad experience in the life science sector having worked in leading and executive positions at KabiGen, Symbicom, AstraZeneca, Arexis, Biovitrum and Karolinska Development. Dr Hansson replaces retiring Board member Professor Jorgen Lonngren. Industrifonden is an independent foundation founded by the Swedish state in 1979 and which operates on a commercial basis without outside capital. Revenues are returned to new investments. Industrifonden was an early investor in Pharmalink and holds around 15% the Company.
Mr Anders Wiklund, MPharm, has been an advisor to the biotechnology industry since 1997 when he founded Wiklund International Inc. Previously, Mr Wiklund spent 29 years with the Pharmacia Group of companies in a number of executive positions, ultimately serving as President of Pharmacia Development Corp and Vice President of Pharmacia Upjohn, working in the US. In his advisory role, Mr Wiklund has worked with companies in the US, Canada and Scandinavia, and he was also a co-founder of Esperion Therapeutics Inc. Presently Mr Wiklund serves on the board of QuatRx Inc, Gyros AB, and EffRx Inc, where he also is President. Mr Wiklund replaces retiring Non-Executive Board member Mr Anders Lonner.
Jens Kristensen, MD, PhD, is VP of Clinical Development at KaroBio AB, a
public Swedish drug development company. As a specialist in
anaesthesiology/intensive care and in pharmaceutical
|SOURCE Pharmalink AB
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Omaha, Neb.-- A day after a stray bullet struck and killed 5-year-old Payton Benson, her family addressed the public for the first time.
The family thanked the community for overwhelming support.
Payton's mom, Tabitha Manning, asked for people in the community to put their guns down. She said she wants her daughter's memory to be love not hate.
Manning said her 4-year-old son was there when Payton was shot. He told his siblings what happened, and Manning had to tell them it was true.
"It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do," Manning said.
Omaha City Councilman Ben Gray is Payton's great-uncle.
He said, "Nobody's going to turn us around. That's not going to happen. This community's going to move forward. This family's going to move forward."
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Vietnam Veterans Of America & Veterans Of Modern Warfare Fight For Faster Benefit Decisions And Interim Benefits 'Lifeline'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, two groups representing thousands of American veterans, Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) and Veterans of Modern Warfare (VMW), announced that they have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to end the unconscionable delays experienced by veterans when applying for disability benefits. VVA and VMW seek immediate action to prevent further irreparable harm to our nation's veterans.
The lawsuit demands that the VA provide an initial decision on every veteran's claim for disability benefits within 90 days and resolve appeals within 180 days. Additionally, the veterans groups ask that the Court grant further relief in the form of interim benefits awards in the event that the VA exceeds these minimum standards of constitutionally-guaranteed due process. These interim benefits will provide veterans with a lifeline of support when it is most needed to facilitate reintegration into their lives back home.
"The failure to expedite veterans' compensation claims creates, at best, the impression that the nation does not respect its veterans," said John Rowan, National President, Vietnam Veterans of America. "America's veterans deserve more, and the VA's failure to fulfill its responsibilities brings dishonor to our nation and can only make the call of military service more challenging."
The VA acknowledges that it takes an average of at least six months to
reach an initial decision on an average benefits claim; the actual delay is
closer to a year. Appeals of these initial decisions, which are reversed
more than 50 percent of the time, take, on average, more than four years,
with some stretching 10 years or more. In contrast, private healthcare
|SOURCE Vietnam Veterans of America; Veterans of Modern Warfare
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iOS SDK Building Apps with MapKit and Core Location. Build Your Site. Multi-Screen Resources Skip to content Make Your Website Work Across Multiple Devices Build a website that showcases your business on every screen from smartphones and tablets to computers and TVs.
Your customers expect a great browsing experience regardless of what device they use. Whitepaper Building websites for the multi-screen consumer. What Language Should You Build Your App With? Mobile developers across the globe have developed and released more than 650,000 iPhone apps, 400,000 iPad apps, and 600,000 apps for Android.
Are you thinking about building an app? New App Bridges Communication Gap Between Devs and Small Biz. Small businesses today have many useful sites and products to help them get started with mobile app development, but this information might still feel useless if you don't understand JavaScript or HTML5.
Tiggzi is a new app that hopes to level the playing field between highly experienced developers and tech-savvy business owners — and save companies tons of money in the process. Exadel, the creative force behind Tiggzi, is a mobile software application development company that counts Fortune 500 companies among its list of clients. What started as a resource for major corporate companies has provided Exadel with the knowledge to create software for like-minded developers and small business owners. Tiggzi is an app-builder that has the sophistication to meet developers' needs while maintaining enough simplicity to increase efficiency for small business owners. The company asserts that visual editing is the most resourceful and rapid method of app development. Features. Designing a Mobile App? Don't Make These 10 Mistakes.
So you've already learned how to navigate the tricky world of cross-platform app design and worked through all of the common pitfalls of developing your app. HxD conference spotlights 7 'mobile myths' for developers. Speaking at the Healthcare Experience Design on Monday, Josh Clark, founder of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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One of the best ways to drive business efficiency and save money is to integrate existing applications. If systems can talk to each other, then there's no need for expensive manual intervention and re-keying of data. NDL's simple-to-use awi SX universal application integration toolkit enables disparate applications to be joined together simply and cost-effectively.
Nurses build mobile apps through mobile application development platform. The age of the non-technical app developer may be dawning, as more and more developers create actual mobile application development platforms for Android and iOS devices.
Recently, Northern Devon Healthcare Trust adopted a policy and a platform that allowed non-technical employees to design their own mobile apps. The software is from British software provider NDL. The company's awiMX toolkit is designed to allow non-technical staff to create mobile applications using a drag-and-drop interface. NHS did this in response to a request from the government, and instead of having to hire more people or force their current staff to do unnecessary work, they settled on the awiMX platform. "From April this year, NHS trusts will be obliged to complete the Community Information Data Set (CIDS), which involves collecting 150 different data points on patients, including demographics, care records and referrals." Source: Information Age. How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls of Mobile App Development. The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms.
Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates. Mobile development has come a long way in the past few years. But as technology continues to introduce new and more innovating products at a rapid pace, there's room for many developers to make huge mistakes along the way — ones that could jeopardize their product or even their entire business. "I think that you can screw up five times before you get up in the morning, in ways that you never even thought of," says Josh Koppel, CCO and co-founder of ScrollMotion.
Planning an Event? Yapp Makes an App in Minutes. Conferences, weddings and parties often have their own websites, but the founders of a new app builder called Yapp want to replace those online pages with mobile apps.
"The thing about events by definition is that when you go to an event you're mobile," co-founder Maria Seidman tells Mashable. "You're not in front of your computer. " On Wednesday, Yapp launched a free private beta version of its event-focused app builder. It allows users to build an event app within minutes by choosing the design template of their choice and then adding key info like addresses, schedules and, in the case of a wedding or conference app, bio pages. The apps have news feeds where everyone invited can chat or upload group photos.
The Death of the Call Center. Zor Gorelov is the CEO and co-founder of SpeechCycle, a leading provider of customer self-service solutions.
You can follow him on Twitter @SpeechCycle. The rapid growth of smartphone adoption is changing every facet of our lives. From Siri, Apple's virtual personal assistant, to the thousands of mobile applications that entertain and educate us, we have become an always-connected society. Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that smartphone users have now surpassed basic phone users. Gartner predicts that mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access devices worldwide. 5 steps to making your medical app idea a reality. By: Craig Monsen, MS [Ed.
This is the first part of a two part series. Craig Monsen is a medical student at Johns Hopkins and co-creator of Symcat, a next generation symptom checker for crowd-sourced diagnosis. He and David Do are currently developing Symcat at the Blueprint Health startup accelerator in NYC. ] Creating your own app? Learn to design before learning to code. [Ed. We are pleased to bring you an interesting article that discusses creating your own healthcare app. Check out Josh's own blog where this post also appears.] by: Josh Herigon iMedicalApps recently published a post by Craig Monsen, cofounder of Blueprint Health startup Symcat, entitled, 5 steps to making your medical app a reality. Subsequently, this post has received a ton of comments. 15 Beautiful and Useful Free PSD Files. Dribbble is a great community, and is a place where you can find much more than inspiration and awesome professionals. It's a place where you can find really talented people sharing their work with you for free.
This is the case of today's list, we are presenting you with 15 beautiful and free psd files we found on Dribbble. From tags, to social icons, and complete UI kits, there is a lot of useful files for you here. Click the images to check out each designer's (show these guys your appreciation, they definitely deserve it) page to be able to do the download.
5 Tips for Creating Hi-Res iPad Content. Xavier Facon is CTO at Crisp Media, a rich media advertising technology company based in New York City. He blogs regularly about ad technology and mobile best practices. Designers and developers who create content for mobile devices with high-resolution screens often see the retina display as both a blessing and a curse. For instance, the new iPad, with its 2,048 x 1,536-pixel resolution, has a million more pixels than your 1080p HD television. But while the new resolution affords stunning, visual experiences, the devices often require 4G Internet speeds, which aren't available to everyone. Furthermore, designers are questioning how to start multi-screen projects in the first place. Whether publishing digital content or building rich media display advertising, try these five tips. 1.
Although historically the order of creating digital content has been desktop first, smartphone second, tablet third, you will need to port experiences to all screens eventually. 2. 3. 4. 10 Things to Plan for Mobile App Dev. David Tucker is a principal architect at Universal Mind. As the resident Apple and Adobe expert, he works closely with Universal Mind's clients to develop rich user experiences that leverage many of today's exciting new development platforms.
Follow David on Twitter @mindmillmedia. Many companies have mobile apps at the top of their to-do lists, but while churning out a quick app is fairly straightforward, developing a strategic application or digital "solution" is considerably more complex. Smart planning is essential. Mobile-First Responsive Web Design. Mobile Responsive Design Testing. Best 7 HTML5 Frameworks for Mobile Apps. Code-Free Mobile App Prototyping « adjustafresh – user experience design. 7 Feb, 2012 There's a lot of talk recently in the design community about the utility and value of clickable mockups & prototypes.
Copy the Fit, not the Features. [Infographic] Mapping the Tools in the Mobile Development Ecosystem. The mobile development ecosystem is a large, complicated space. Stanford's Free Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad. 15 November '11, 08:05pm Follow. Mobile is not the future. It's now. Focus On: Design Trends in Mobile Apps for iOS. Apple's mobile operating system has gained a huge following in just a few short years. Although it can take months of dedicated study to even begin programming iOS apps, there still seems to be a solid market of intelligent developers.


text: Helen Arden | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season Helen Arden Performer Female Productions ProductionsDate of ProductionsStreet Scene[Musical, Drama, Original] Performer: Helen Arden [Greta Fiorentino]Jan 09, 1947 - May 17, 1947Revenge with Music[Musical, Original] Performer: Helen Arden [Josefa]Nov 28, 1934 - Apr 27, 1935Gypsy Blonde[Musical, Comedy, Original] Performer: Helen Arden [Baba]Jun 25, 1934 - Jul 14, 1934Oh, Kay![Musical, Comedy, Revival] Performer: Helen Arden [Mae]Jan 02, 1928 - Jan 14, 1928Monsieur Beaucaire[Musical, Opera, Romance, Original] Performer: Helen Arden [Chorus]Dec 11, 1919 - Apr 03, 1920 Find out where Helen Arden and are credited together © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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Yes, Dead or Alive 5 fans, new costumes are on the way, and they're totally free. They are also more or less exactly what you'd expect.
For the most part, these alternate outfits are pretty much what fans have come to expect: A mix of conservative and mildly revealing:
As you can see, while they look good thanks to the game's graphics engine there's really nothing outrageous or strange about these outfits. Oh, wait, there's one for Zack, we're sure it's just some suit or something, even the game's resident outrageous DJ has to have some shame, ri-
Our Take: OK, we give up, Team Ninja, what is that thing? Your tribute to Iron Man? The Teletubbies? Daft Punk? All three? Does Helena make him wear this? Is it part of his employee contract? Are you trying to wind up cosplayers? We need an answer, Team Ninja. We need an answer.
Another of Our Takes: Rocco here. It looks like someone might've dropped acid near an air traffic controller, possibly on Valentines Day. What a thoroughly bizarre image.
p.s. New Side Mission Briefing on the way, btw. Very Borderlands 2-ish…
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Series: Grange Hill
This children's Soap Opera ran on The BBC from 1978 to 2008. The series was set in the fictional school of the title somewhere in East London (where there is a real place called Grange Hill that has a London Underground station) until 2003, when the entire school magically moved to Merseyside. It was eventually discontinued in 2008 after running 30 years.The original circus-beat theme tune continues to be used as the soundtrack to any appearance by school children or a class room, regardless of the fact that it was used for less than half of the 30-year run.There was a game adaptation of it for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, which sold poorly because Real Life offered the same gameplay options with vastly better graphics, but is notable for the following Have a Nice Death:
"You see a shifty man in a leather jacket. "Hey, Son. Want to buy some of this?" The man offers you a packet of white powder. He is a pusher."There is a fan site at: http://www.grangehillfans.co.uk/
[Player selects "Yes"]
"There is an empty look in his eye as he snatches the money from your hand. His face is pale and drawn; His body thin and unfed. He steals to keep his habit; And makes addicts of children. He is dead, and soon you will be too."
[Player selects "Yes"]
"There is an empty look in his eye as he snatches the money from your hand. His face is pale and drawn; His body thin and unfed. He steals to keep his habit; And makes addicts of children. He is dead, and soon you will be too."
This show contains examples of:
- Bully Hunter: Tucker had this reputation in the early seasons.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Highly prevalent in the first few series, there were at least a dozen schoolkids that disappeared without trace and were never mentioned again by any of the schoolkids, which included previously major characters such as Tracy Edwards and Penny Lewis, and several teachers came and went without trace too, often replaced with identical personality replacements.
- Dean Bitterman: Mr Bronson
- Disturbing Statistic: Martin thoughtlessly mentions that Britain had the highest divorce rate in Europe to a girl whose parents are divorcing.
- Goshdang It To Heck/Curse Cut Short: "We're the only kids in the country who never say fu..."
- High School Hustler: Luke "Gonch" Gardener, or at least he tried to be one.
- Hot for Student
- Long Runners: And how. Lasted for 31 years, from 1978 to 2008. The only longer-running show on CBBC is Blue Peter.
- Misplaced Retribution: In one mid-'90s episode, a guy and a girl try to escape from a fire by climbing out of a window. She slips, falls to her death, her boyfriend blames the guy who was with her and spends the rest of the season stalking and harassing him.
- Remember the New Guy: Happened a few times, the most obvious example being in Series 3/4. Duane Orpington's best friend in Series 3 was a girl called Tracy Edwards and was seen with her in every episode he was featured in. In Series 4, Tracy had vanished and his 'new' best friend was Claire Scott, who was virtually the same character as Tracy personality wise and was treated by everyone as having always been there.
- Sadist Teacher
- Mr Bronson, who had very rare Pet the Dog moments.
- Mr Bronson's actor, Michael Sheard, also played Adolf Hitler in four films (including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and a TV series, Himmler in two films and a mini-series, Goering's double in 'Allo 'Allo!, an Imperial Admiral in The Empire Strikes Back and a villainous headmaster in the classic Doctor Who serial "Remembrance of the Daleks''. He clearly just had one of those faces.
- In a poll run as part of Comic Relief one year, viewers were asked to nominate someone, out of all the people appearing on BBC Children's TV, to be dropped into a "gunk tank" on Red Nose Day. Mr Bronson swiftly became the top choice. But then he appeared with the link presenter during one of the links between the shows, and sternly warned the nation's children to stop voting for him. And it worked. Or...
- An early 2000s storyline had "Mr. Deverill", who was actually an impostor who had already been banned from teaching for his behaviour. He developed a grudge against one of the school's top football players due to accidentally being given inaccurate directions to the school on the first day (the road was closed off for maintenance and he should've gone around instead), and started a vendetta against said boy that led to him being suspended, temporarily expelled, being rejected by the Army (his chosen career path), and very nearly driving him to suicide. And then when he was exposed as a fraud at the end, started a fire and fled the school right before half of it exploded!
- Mr Bronson, who had very rare Pet the Dog moments.
- Shout-Out: One 1980s storyline has Grange Hill students attending a Model United Nations as Tanzania.
- Spin-Off: Tucker's Luck followed Tucker Jenkins after he left school. It lasted for three seasons.
- Given the amount of former Grange Hill cast members who end up on EastEnders...
- And this includes Tucker himself, AKA Todd Cartey.
- Given the amount of former Grange Hill cast members who end up on EastEnders...
- Teen Pregnancy: Grange Hill was the first British soap opera to deal with it.
- Two-Teacher School: Averted, there's about the same amount of teachers you'd expect in a British secondary school.
- Very Special Episode: Many, most famously the seminal "Zammo becomes a junkie" storyline, which completely averted Compressed Vice by lasting for months, and led to the cast record "Just Say No!"
- Vote Early, Vote Often: In one episode, a student helping to tally the votes in a student council election is introduced to the concept of 'spoiled ballots'. He then proceeds to destroy a large number of ballots in an attempt to grant his favoured candidate the win. He is found out because his number of spoiled ballots is so much higher than any other tallyer.


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At the June 9, 2015 meeting, the board licensed 16 veterinarians. Four of the new licensees practice in surrounding states but have clients in North Dakota, one is pursuing an externship in another state, and the other 11 will be practicing in North Dakota.
The next board meeting is scheduled for December 8, 2015 at the State Capitol in Bismarck.
Licenses to practice veterinary medicine expire annually on June 30. Renewals were mailed to the licensee's address of record on May 29, 2015. Online renewals were accepted beginning June 1. Renewals received after June 30 are subject to the $37.50 late fee. See the portal page for more information.
The practice act specifies that it is each licensee's responsibility to notify the board office of changes in the licensee's address or contact information within 60 days of a change (NDCC 43-29-07).
The board reports annually to the North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association (NDVMA). A copy of the 2015 report is available here.
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More Indians opting to study in New Zealand: Official
There was an increase of over 80 percent in the number of student visas New Zealand issued to Indians between January and July, 2014 compared to 2013, an Education New Zealand (ENZ) official said here Saturday.
The ENZ, an agency of the New Zealand government for international education, said visas issued to Indians, who sought to study in New Zealand for the first time increased by 80 percent in 2014 compared to the same period in 2013.
"It is really exciting and satisfying to see these strategies pay off and translate into such high first time student visa numbers from India," said Ziena Jalil, ENZ regional director for South and South East Asia.
Jalil was speaking at an event organised by the ENZ here to give students and their parents an opportunity to interact with representatives from various educational institutions from New Zealand.
ENZ ambassador and former cricket captain Stephen Fleming said: "The passion that Indians have for their work is incredible. I am amazed by the desire and appetite that Indian students have to learn and grow.
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Transaction Value In Excess of $25 Million; Access Gains Second Source
Manufacturing And Significant Clinical Trial Support
DALLAS and NANJING, PRC, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ACCP) and Jiangsu Aosaikang Pharmaceutical Co., LTD. ("ASK"), a premier pharmaceutical company focused on bringing oncology medicines to the China market, today announced the signing of a definitive licensing agreement under which ASK will manufacture, develop and commercialize Access' proprietary product ProLindac(TM) for the Greater China Region which includes the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macau Special Administrative Region and Taiwan. ProLindac is Access' novel DACH platinum prodrug currently in Phase 2 clinical studies which has been shown to be active in a wide variety of solid tumors in both preclinical models and in human trials.
Under the terms of the agreement ASK will pay Access an upfront fee and subsequent milestone payments along with a double digit royalty upon commercialization of ProLindac. In addition, in co-operation with Access, ASK has committed to fund and execute two (2) Phase 2 studies for ProLindac in colorectal cancer and one other indication to be determined by the Parties. These major Phase 2 studies would cost up to $20 million if conducted in the US or Europe. ASK has also committed to become a second source for the manufacturing of ProLindac. ASK will be responsible for obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals for ProLindac and commercializing the product in the Greater China Region.
"We are very pleased to have ASK, a leading supplier of platinum based
agents in China, as our first partner for ProLindac," said Jeffrey B.
Davis, Access' President & CEO. "ASK is the second largest supplier of
platinum based oncology agents in China and has a long history of
successfully manufacturing and commercializing agents simi
|SOURCE Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Prior to joining AOL, Seth served in senior positions within industry leading global technology companies such as Google and Microsoft. During his tenure at Google he was a key contributor to the development of Google Webmaster Tools, Google Talk, and DoubleClick AdPlanner. At Microsoft, he was a part of the original .NET team and helped to build and release the first two versions of the platform and co-authored the .NET ISO standards. Seth's career in technology spans over 15 years and in this time he has launched several companies, including Zero Crossing and YieldMetrics. He has also invented several technology and hardware solutions with 20 U.S. and foreign patents to his name.
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THREE RIVERS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES: The next DSO (dark sky observation) Star Party for the viewing public is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7. Check them out at www.3rf.org, or call for details 940-684-1670.
NEIGHBORHOOD FISHIN': Weeks Park Pond, one of TPWD's Neighborhood Fishin' holes, will begin receiving rainbow trout stockings every two weeks, beginning Friday, Nov. 29. Sites across the state are stocked with channel catfish in the summer, rainbows during the winter months. Kids under 17 fish free; adults need fishing license plus freshwater stamp. More details to follow.
Invade the Park: The Texas Ornithological Society is encouraging folks to invade the parks this year by organizing monthly birding field trips. The walks are scheduled for the second Saturday of each month, the next one on Saturday, Dec. 14. The walk lasts about an hour and will cover approximately a half mile. It begins at 8 a.m. Normal park entry fees apply.
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Belligerent Bear: Brandon Davis Kicked Out of Wedding
Now that he's "shed a few pounds," oil(y) heir Brandon Davis, a.k.a. "Greasy Bear" is apparently having trouble holding his liquor.
Or he's just a jackass. Or both.
Now that he's "shed a few pounds," oil(y) heir Brandon Davis, a.k.a. "Greasy Bear" is apparently having trouble holding his liquor.
Or he's just a jackass. Or both.
The Tony Parker - Eva Longoria wedding extravaganza was perhaps the most notable event of the weekend in terms of pure celebrity news.
But in honor of Saturday's date, 07-07-07, our friends at TMZ created their own seven wonders of the world - and they're too good not to share.
Brandon Davis, a.k.a. "Greasy Bear," reportedly decided in the recent past that he was rather unhappy with what his image had devolved to.
That being a worthless, spoiled rich oil heir and friend of Paris Hilton with a propensity for vile outbursts and sweating like a pig.
Brandon Davis is so unpopular, even his friends don't want to be associated with him.
The obnoxious, toxic grandson of the late oil tycoon Marvin Davis showed up to the Details magazine party March 29 at producer Mary Parent's house in Hollywood and became enraged when he was denied access.
Brandon Davis is one slick motherf*%ker.
Literally! In all other manners of speaking, nothing could be further from the truth. He has absolutely no tact, and seems to get getting himself into some tight spots of late.
What it looks like here is a textbook case of the Greasy pot calling the bumbling, drunk kettle Middle Eastern.
What we're talking about actually went down at Paris Hilton's hot birthday party, in which her BFF (or at least then-BFF) Brandon Davis made an ass out of himself. Standard.
Apparently, it doesn't matter where Brandon Davis goes. It's always the same story.
What we're trying to say is that no one likes him.
Brandon Davis - the oil heir and L.A. nightclub regular who brought the word "Firecrotch" into the vernacular (at least as it applies to Lindsay Lohan) - did what he does best again over the weekend.


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New chairperson for the Supporters
Date posted: 24-Sep-2015
At our Annual General Meeting, held on Monday 21st September, a new chairperson and committee we..
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Date posted: 07-May-2015
Anyone interested in New Zealand birds will be delighted to hear the latest edition of H..
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Those who enjoyed Caitlin Smith and Nigel Gavin's wonderful performance at this year's S..
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How to Get There
Singing in the rain - Don't let the weather put you off
Tiritiri Matangi, like Waiheke Island and the tip of the Whangaparaoa Peninsular, is a weather microcosm all on its own. Often there can be heavy showers in downtown Auckland and on Tiritiri we just watch them scoot by without touching us.
This is great for the visitors but sometimes not so great for the birds and the dams in the summertime. What this means for you, is that if the weather forecast is predicting showers, particularly from the west or southwest, then the likelihood of them reaching Tiritiri is minimal, and even if they do reach us there is always a magnificent pohutukawa to shelter under or the large luscious leaves of a puriri or kohekohe tree. Do bring your raincoat, just in case.
Of course, when there are major weather systems passing through, we do get rain. But the good news is that the bush, the birds and other wildlife benefit from the moisture and are still there for you to enjoy. The birds can be particularly active immediately after a shower. So, on those wet days, bring your rain gear and enjoy your walk on the Island.
When you have finished investigating the forest and its inhabitants, the Visitor Centre up by the lighthouse has free hot tea and coffee (thank you Dilmah, Nestle, Chelsea and the Tiritiri Supporters) and a great shop to browse in. All profits come back to supporting Tiritiri and our conservation and education programmes on the Island.
See you soon – and don't let the weather man/lady put you off!!!
360 Discovery provides a ferry service from downtown Auckland via Gulf Harbour (at the end of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula). Ferry bookings are made by phoning 360 Discovery (09 307 8005), or can be made on line at the 360 Discovery website www.360discovery.co.nz.
Ferry timetable:
December to mid January: every day.
Mid January to December: Wednesday to Sunday and public holidays.
- from Auckland 9:00am
- from Gulf Harbour 9:50am
- returning from Tiritiri Matangi at 3:30pm
- arrives Gulf Harbour 3:50pm
- arrives Auckland 4:40pm
The cheapest way is to come via Gulf Harbour. Gulf Harbour is about one hour's drive north of Auckland at the end of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. There is free parking available at the marina from where the ferry leaves the end pier (Pier Z).
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Royal Bk.of Scot. (07IE) - RBS Launches Cash Tender Offer RNS Number : 5654L Royal Bank of Scotland PLC 05 September 2012 NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO, OR TO ANY PERSON RESIDENT AND/OR LOCATED IN, ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IS UNLAWFUL (SEE "OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS" BELOW) SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC LAUNCHES CASH TENDER OFFER ON CERTAIN U.S. DOLLAR SECURITIES The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (the "Offeror") has today invited holders of the securities listed below (the "Securities") to tender any and all of their Securities for purchase by the Offeror for cash (the "Offers") on the terms of, and subject to the conditions contained in, a tender offer memorandum dated September 5, 2012 (the "Tender Offer Memorandum"). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this announcement have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Holders are advised to read carefully the Tender Offer Memorandum for full details of, and information on the procedures for participating in, the Offers. Title of Floating Rate Principal Amount Floating Rate Purchase Note ISIN CUSIP Outstanding Price Floating US78010XAF87 78010XAF8 U.S.$750,000,000 U.S.$1,015 per U.S.$1,000 Rate principal amount Notes due 2013 Reference Title of U.S. Bloomberg Fixed Principal Amount Treasury Reference Fixed Rate Note ISIN CUSIP Outstanding Security Page Spread 3.40% US78010XAD30 78010XAD3 U.S.$1,500,000,000 0.25% due FIT1 +95 Senior August basis Notes due 2014 points 2013 3.25% US78010XAJ00 78010XAJ0 U.S.$500,000,000 0.25% due FIT1 +70 Senior August basis Notes due 2014 points 2014 4.875% US78010KCV98 78010KCV9 U.S.$2,000,000,000 0.25% due FIT1 +135 Senior (Reg S) (Reg S) August basis Notes due US78010JCV26 78010JCV2 2014 points 2014 (Rule 144A) (Rule 144A) 4.875% US78010XAC56 78010XAC5 U.S.$2,000,000,000 0.25% due FIT1 +135 Senior August basis Notes due 2015 points 2015 3.95% US78010XAG60 78010XAG6 U.S.$2,000,000,000 0.25% due FIT1 +145 Senior August basis Notes due 2015 points 2015 4.375% US78009PCC32 78009PCC3 U.S.$1,500,000,000 0.625% FIT1 +200 Senior due basis Notes due August points 2016 2017 5.625% US78010XAE13 78010XAE1 U.S.$1,498,000,000 1.625% FIT1 +200 Senior due basis Notes due August points 2020 2022 6.125% US78010XAK72 78010XAK7 U.S.$1,500,000,000 1.625% FIT1 +180 Senior due basis Notes due August points 2021 2022 Rationale for the Offers Through tender offers for certain U.S. dollar, Euro and Sterling denominated senior unsecured securities, the Offeror intends to manage its wholesale funding level and future interest expense with reference to the overall reduction in its balance sheet, while maintaining a prudent approach to liquidity. The Offeror has today also invited holders of certain Euro and Sterling denominated debt securities who are outside the United States to tender those securities for purchase (the "European Offer"). The European Offer is being made in certain countries outside the United States only. Purchase Price for Floating Rate Notes The Purchase Price for Floating Rate Notes accepted for purchase will be U.S.$1,015 per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes (the "Floating Rate Purchase Price") validly tendered and accepted for purchase. The total consideration payable to each Holder in respect of Floating Rate Notes validly submitted for tender and accepted for purchase by the Offeror will be an amount in cash equal to (i) the Floating Rate Purchase Price multiplied by each U.S.$1,000 in aggregate principal amount of such Floating Rate Notes tendered and delivered by such Holder and accepted by the Offeror for purchase (rounded to the nearest U.S.$0.01, with U.S.$0.005 being rounded upwards) plus (ii) any Accrued Interest payable in respect of such Floating Rate Notes. Purchase Price for the Fixed Rate Notes The Purchase Price for each series of Fixed Rate Notes (the "Fixed Rate Purchase Price") accepted for purchase by the Offeror will be calculated so as to result in a price as of the Settlement Date that equates to a yield to the maturity date for the applicable series of Fixed Rate Notes equal to the sum of: · the yield to maturity (the "Reference Yield") corresponding to the bid-side price of the applicable Reference Treasury Security set forth for the series of Fixed Rate Notes on the front cover of the Tender Offer Memorandum at 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on September 14, 2012, plus · the applicable Fixed Spread set forth for the series of Fixed Rate Notes on the front cover of the Tender Offer Memorandum. This sum with respect to each series of Fixed Rate Notes is referred to in the Tender Offer Memorandum as the "Repurchase Yield" for such series. Specifically, the Fixed Rate Purchase Price per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of each Series of the Fixed Rate Notes will equal: · the present value per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of all remaining payments of principal and interest on such Fixed Rate Notes to be made to (and including) the maturity date of such Fixed Rate Notes, discounted to the Settlement Date in accordance with the formula set forth in the Tender Offer Memorandum, at a discount rate equal to the applicable Repurchase Yield, minus · Accrued Interest on the series of Fixed Rate Notes per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of such Notes. The Dealer Managers will calculate the Repurchase Yield and Fixed Rate Purchase Price applicable to each series of the Fixed Rate Notes, and their calculation will be final and binding, absent manifest error. The total consideration payable to each Holder in respect of Fixed Rate Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase by the Offeror will be an amount in cash equal to (i) the relevant Fixed Rate Purchase Price multiplied by each U.S.$1,000 in aggregate principal amount of such Fixed Rate Notes tendered and delivered by such Holder and accepted by the Offeror for purchase (rounded to the nearest U.S.$0.01, with U.S.$0.005 being rounded upwards) plus (ii) any Accrued Interest payable in respect of such Fixed Rate Notes. Offers Period and Results The Offers commenced today, September 5, 2012, and will end at 12:30 p.m. (New York City time) on September 14, 2012 (the "Expiration Deadline"), unless extended, re-opened, and/or terminated as provided in the Tender Offer Memorandum. The relevant deadline set by any intermediary or DTC for the submission of Tender Instructions may be earlier than this deadline. The results of the Offers are expected to be announced on September 17, 2012. The acceptance of Securities for purchase is conditional on the satisfaction of the conditions of the Offers as provided in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Settlement of the relevant Purchase Price and, where applicable, Accrued Interest is expected to take place on September 18, 2012. In order to receive the Purchase Price and Accrued Interest, holders of Securities must validly tender their Securities by the Expiration Deadline, by delivering, or arranging to have delivered on their behalf, a valid Tender Instruction that is received by the Tender Agent by the Expiration Deadline. Any submission amount must be equal to or greater than the relevant Security's Minimum Denomination. See the Tender Offer Memorandum for further details on submitting a Tender Instruction. The submission of a valid Tender Instruction will be irrevocable except in the limited circumstances described in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Announcements in connection with the Offers will be made by the issue of a press release through RNS, the relevant Reuters Insider Screen, Notifying News Service and by the delivery of notices to DTC for communication to Direct Participants. Copies of all announcements, notices and press releases can also be obtained from the Tender Agent, the contact details for which are set out below. INDICATIVE TIMETABLE The following table sets out the expected dates and times of the key events relating to the Offers. This is an indicative timetable and is subject to change. Date and Time Action September 5, 2012................. Commencement of the Offers Offers announced through the RNS, the relevant Reuters International Insider Screen, DTC and by publication on Notifying News Service. Tender Offer Memorandum available from the Tender Agent. September 14, 2012, 9:30 a.m. (New Price Determination Time York City time) The Dealer Managers will calculate the Fixed Rate Purchase Price in respect of each series of Fixed Rate Notes in the manner described in this Tender Offer Memorandum at the Price Determination Time. The Offeror will announce the Fixed Rate Purchase Price in respect of each series of Fixed Rate Notes as soon as reasonably practicable following the Price Determination Time. September 14, 2012, 12:30 p.m. Expiration Deadline (New York City time) Deadline for receipt by the Tender Agent of all Tender Instructions in order for Holders to be able to participate in the Offers and to be eligible to receive the relevant Purchase Price and Accrued Interest on the Settlement Date. September 17, 2012............... Announcement of Results of the Offers The Offeror expects to announce the final aggregate principal amount of each series of Securities accepted for purchase. September 18, 2012............... Settlement Date Expected Settlement Date for Securities validly tendered and accepted by the Offeror. Payment of the relevant Purchase Price and any Accrued Interest in respect of any such Securities. The above dates and times are subject, where applicable, to the right of the Offeror to extend, re-open, amend, and/or terminate the Offers, subject to applicable laws. Holders of Securities are advised to check with any bank, securities broker or other intermediary through which they hold Securities when such intermediary would require to receive instructions to participate in, or (in the limited circumstances in which revocation is permitted) revoke their instruction to participate in, the Offers before the deadlines set out above. Holders of Securities are advised to read carefully the Tender Offer Memorandum for full details of and information on the procedures for participating in the Offers. FURTHER INFORMATION Global Bondholder Services Corporation has been appointed by the Offeror as Tender Agent (the "Tender Agent") for the purposes of the Tender Offer. RBS Securities Inc., an affiliate of the Offeror, has been appointed as Global Arranger and Lead Dealer Manager in connection with the Offers. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and SG Americas Securities, LLC (together with RBS Securities Inc.) have been appointed as Joint Dealer Managers and ABN AMRO Securities (USA) LLC, Banca IMI Securities and BBVA Securities Inc. have been appointed as Co-Dealer Managers for the purposes of the Offers. Requests for information in relation to the Offers should be directed to: GLOBAL ARRANGER AND LEAD DEALER MANAGER RBS Securities Inc. 600 Washington Boulevard Stamford, CT 06901 United States Attention: Liability Management +1 (203) 897-4825 (collect) +1 (877) 297-9832 (toll-free) JOINT DEALER MANAGERS Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC SG Americas Securities, LLC 1585 Broadway | Floor 04 New York, NY 10036 1221 Avenue of the Americas United States New York, NY 10020 Attention: Liability Management United States Phone: +1 (212) 761 1057 Attention: High Grade US Toll Free: +1 (800) 624 Syndicate Desk 1808 Collect: +1 (212) 278 6964 Requests for information in relation to the procedures for tendering Securities in, and for any documents or materials relating to, the Tender Offer should be directed to: TENDER AGENT GLOBAL BONDHOLDER SERVICES CORPORATION 65 Broadway - Suite 404 New York, New York 10006 United States Banks and Brokers, Call Collect: +1 (212) 430-3774 All Others Call Toll Free: +1 (866) 924-2200 Any profits made by the Offeror on the Offers will be subject to UK tax in accordance with normal rules. DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum contain important information which must be read carefully before any decision is made with respect to the Offers. If any holder of Securities is in any doubt as to the action it should take, it is recommended to seek its own legal, accounting and financial advice, including as to any tax consequences, immediately from its stockbroker, bank manager, attorney, accountant or other independent financial adviser. Any individual or company whose Securities are held on its behalf by a broker, dealer, bank, custodian, trust company or other nominee or intermediary must contact such entity if it wishes to participate in the Offers. None of the Offeror, the Dealer Managers, the Tender Agent and any person who controls, or is a director, officer, employee or agent of such persons, or any affiliate of such persons, makes any recommendation as to whether holders of Securities should participate in the Offers. OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum does not constitute an offer or an invitation to participate in the Offers in any jurisdiction in which, or to any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such offer or invitation or for there to be such participation under applicable laws. The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by each of the Offeror, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. United Kingdom The communication of this announcement, the communication of this Tender Offer Memorandum and any other documents or materials relating to the Offers has not been approved by an authorized person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA"). Accordingly, such documents and/or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents and/or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may be communicated to (1) those persons who are existing members or creditors of the Offeror or other persons within Article 43 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, and (2) to any other persons to whom these documents and/or materials may lawfully be communicated. France The Offers are not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in France. Neither this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum, nor any other documents or offering materials relating to the Offers, has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only (i) providers of investment services relating to portfolio management for the account of third parties (personnes fournissant le service d'investissement de gestion de portefeuille pour compte de tiers) and/or (ii) qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés), other than individuals, all as defined in, and in accordance with, Articles L.411-1, L.411-2 and D.411-1 to D.411-3 of the French Code monétaire et financier, are eligible to participate in the Offers. This Tender Offer Memorandum has not been submitted to the clearance procedures (visa) of the Autorité des marchés financiers. Italy None of the Offers, this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum or any other documents or materials relating to the Offers has been or will be submitted to the clearance procedure of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ("CONSOB"), pursuant to applicable Italian laws and regulations. The Offers are being carried out in the Republic of Italy ("Italy") as exempted offers pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of the Legislative Decree No. 58 of February 24, 1998, as amended (the "Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis, paragraph 4 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of May 14, 1999, as amended (the "CONSOB Regulation"). The Offers are also being carried out in compliance with article 35-bis, paragraph 7 of the CONSOB Regulation. Holders or beneficial owners of the Securities located in Italy can tender Securities for purchase in the Offers through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 16190 of October 29, 2007, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1, 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority. Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis-à-vis its clients in connection with the Securities or the Offers. Switzerland Neither this announcement, the Tender Offer Memorandum, nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the Securities constitutes a prospectus as such term is understood pursuant to article 652a or article 1156 of the Swiss Federal Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus within the meaning of the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange. Accordingly, the investor protection rules otherwise applicable to investors in Switzerland do not apply to the Offers. When in doubt, investors based in Switzerland are recommended to contact their legal, financial or tax adviser with respect to the Offers. General The Offers do not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Securities in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities or other laws require the Offers to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and either of the Dealer Managers or, where the context so requires, any of their respective affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the Offers shall be deemed to be made on behalf of the Offeror by such Dealer Manager or affiliate (as the case may be) in such jurisdiction. Each Holder participating in an Offer will be deemed to give certain representations in respect of the jurisdictions referred to above and generally as set out in "Procedures for Participating in the Offers" in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Any tender of Securities for purchase pursuant to an Offer from a Holder that is unable to make these representations may be rejected. Each of the Offeror, the Dealer Managers and the Tender Agent reserves the right, in their absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Securities for purchase pursuant to an Offer, whether any such representation given by a Holder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result the Offeror determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender may be rejected. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END MSCDMGGLZKZGZZM -0- Sep/05/2012 12:44 GMT
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I don't think it's THAT bad............... OK, I'll admit when you see the word "extreme" you would expect an amplified version of the original. In that regard Extreme fails. And for that reason I can definitely understand the "extreme" disappointment (pun intended). To me it smells just like the regular version, just a tad bit deeper and with better longevity. It does, however, seem to stay closer to the skin than the original. I think if this was named differently or issued from a different house it wouldn't be getting as many negs. The title and what it implies seems to be getting all of the attention and not the frag. Recommended, but only if you don't already have the original.
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