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During 20 years as a Naval Aviator, including 13 years with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Captain Eugene A. Cernan left his mark on history with three historic missions in space as the Pilot of Gemini IX, the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo X, and the Commander of Apollo XVII. After flying to the moon not once, but twice, he also holds the distinction of being the second American to walk in space and the last man to have left his footprints on the lunar surface.
Captain Cernan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1956 and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the United States Naval Post Graduate School in 1963. Among his numerous honors, the most significant are the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal with Star, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the FAI International Gold Medal for Space, induction into the U.S. Space Hall of Fame, enshrinement into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, Naval Aviation's Hall of Honor and the International Aerospace Hall of Fame. Captain Cernan was awarded NASA's first Ambassador of Exploration Award, the Federal Aviation Administration's prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, and the 2007 Lindbergh Spirit Award presented only every five years. In December, 2007, The National Aeronautic Association presented Captain Cernan with one of the most prestigious aviation trophies in the world, the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, in Washington, DC. Last April, Captain Cernan was honored by receiving the 2008 Rotary National Award for Space Achievement, and he recently received the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) Gold Air Medal, one of the most important international awards, in the Fall of 2008.
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The Hollow Crown, Issue 1 is the first issue of a two-part Star Trek: The Original Series comic, Romulans: The Hollow Crown, written and illustrated by John Byrne and published by IDW Publishing in September 2008. The book began Byrne's second Star Trek miniseries, and was a sequel to Byrne's first Star Trek comic, Alien Spotlight: Romulans. The series plays off the events of several TOS episodes, exploring the Klingon-Romulan Alliance.
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- From solicitations
- Legendary creator John Byrne presents a special two-part sequel to his first Star Trek tale. In chapter one, the first mission of the Empire's new ship and weapon ended in failure, but the Praetor is not done yet! Familiar faces old and new join in a continuation of the tale begun in Star Trek Spotlight: Romulans. Learn who will ultimately wear "The Hollow Crown."
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- Actus • Arenn • Gaius • James T. Kirk • Kloor • Koloth • Kor • Korlat • Toran • unnamed Klingons • unnamed Romulans
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- Keras
Starships and vehiclesEdit
- D7-class • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • Imperial vehicle • Romulan smallcraft • Vas Hatham-class
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- ChR Gal Gath'thong
Races and culturesEdit
- Referenced only
- Organian
States and organizationsEdit
- Academy • Federation Starfleet • Klingon Empire • Klingon-Romulan Alliance • Romulan Senate • Romulan Star Empire • Starfleet Command • United Federation of Planets
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- artificial gravity generator • cattle • cloaking device • concussion charge • corbomite • court • ghost • god • matter • ration • scanner • sector • statue • tax • transporter • treason • vid-scan • wedding • widow
The story begins immediately after "Balance of Terror" and the preceding comic "Alien Spotlight: Romulans". The story then jumps ahead a year after "Alien Spotlight: Romulans" to period concurrent with the end of "The Deadly Years" and continuing some time after.
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Issue 1, pages 12-22
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Alien Spotlight: Romulans
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John Byrne's Romulans
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- 10 September 2008, first publihsed by IDW Publishing
- 24 February 2010, reprinted by IDW Publihsing in the Romulans: Pawns of War omnibus.
Related storiesEdit
|Romulans: Pawns of War, by John Byrne
|Alien Spotlight: Romulans • Romulans: The Hollow Crown (1 • 2) • Romulans: Schism (1 • 2 • 3)
External linksEdit
- The Hollow Crown, Issue 1 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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A former University of Wollongong psychology student who filmed up a fellow student's skirt for more than an hour in the campus library last October still can't say what prompted him to do it, a court has heard.
Nicholas Toso, 20, said he was sorry for what he'd done but couldn't explain his actions during an interview with a NSW Community Corrections officer tasked with preparing a sentencing options reports for his court appearance on Tuesday.
The court heard Toso and the victim were sitting in neighbouring study booths when Toso took advantage of the woman's partially open legs to film up her skirt on October 15 last year.
The woman noticed Toso acting suspiciously with his phone in his hand as she got up to leave about an hour later and informed the librarian.
The matter was subsequently reported to police, who later released a CCTV image of Toso, prompting him to turn himself in and confess to the crime.
He pleaded guilty in February to a single charge of filming a person's private parts without consent.
Magistrate Geraldine Beattie ordered the options report at the time, noting the seriousness of the case.
In court on Tuesday, she sentenced him to a three-year good-behaviour bond and imposed a $2000 fine.
"It's certainly a shameful, disgraceful act...a gross invasion of that woman's privacy," Magistrate Beattie said.
"One would think that a person with such intelligence as yourself, who is studying psychology, would have a better sense of how to treat your fellow human beings."
She ordered the bond include supervision by Community Corrections, saying she wanted Toso to see a forensic psychologist, who would determine if he needed to be placed into a sex offender's program.
Earlier in the proceedings, defence lawyer Grace Prosperi said Toso was extremely sorry for his behaviour, and had openly told her he would regret his actions "for the rest of his life".
She also said he'd written a letter of apology to the victim.
"He describes the incident as something he's deeply ashamed of...for the embarrassment he's brought on himself and his family, and for the embarrassment caused to the victim," Ms Prosperi said.
"He fully appreciates and fully understands that recording the woman was the wrong thing to do; he came to that realisation almost immediately.
"He can't explain why he acted that way and has engaged with a psychologist to help him understand the basis for his behaviour."
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ABS announces planned changes to future work program
The acting Australian Statistician, Jonathan Palmer, has announced planned reductions to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) work program.
The ABS must reduce expenditure by about $50m over three years. While the ABS has been able to implement efficiencies in its operations, these are insufficient to meet the expenditure target. As a result, the statistical work program will be reduced from 2014-15.
Mr Palmer said the revised work program, developed after consultation with key Australian Government agencies, will continue to meet Australia's core statistical needs.
"Our highest priority was to maintain activities that are critical to effective government decision making and deliver the most public benefit.
"While the revised forward work program retains core statistical elements and outputs, we have had to discontinue or reduce outputs in areas that are valued by the users of those statistics. If funding is provided for the work we are ceasing, we will reinstate it.
"The quality, integrity and relevance of our statistics are critical to informing effective decision making and we must not lose sight of that as we plan for the future," Mr Palmer said.
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Prada has captured its ideal man and woman with two new "strong" scents.
The Italian brand is set to release La Femme Prada and L'Homme Prada next week (beg20Jun16), 13 years after signing a beauty license with fragrance business Puig. Chief brand officer of Puig, Jose Manuel Albesa, notes that the new products come after three strong years for Prada, which have seen sales for its fragrance offerings go up by double-digit numbers.
"We had a very different vision from Prada (Luna Rossa) Sport and Prada Candy," he said to WWD of the brand's former releases. "We thought it was time after those fragrances (and) two genderless collections to come back with a strong statement and a very classic, very Prada fragrance.
"It's the whole brand itself speaking to a woman and a man, showing (who is) the Prada man and (who is) the Prada woman."
By launching both men's and women's scents at the same time, Albesa believes it's in keeping with Prada's "classic, with an unexpected twist" approach. Fashionista Miuccia Prada doesn't focus on one gender at a time, and the businessman loves how her company breaks the rules with moves like this.
La Femme is described as a "hyper-sensual" floral juice based smell, with notes of vanilla and ylang-ylang. Prices range from $67 (£43) to $130 (£92).
Meanwhile, L'Homme boasts hints of iris, amber and geranium, coming in at $78 (£55) up to $120 (£85).
Attention was given to the bottles too and both hold the traditional Prada Milano logo, with Le Femme coming in white and gold with white leather and L'Homme presented in black and silver with black leather. However, the identical mirrors bring them together and as the bottles are symmetrical, when placed facing each other they form a full circle.
"When you combine both together, the whole bottle becomes one," Albesa added.
The scents have big names fronting them too, with film stars Ansel Elgort and Dane DeHaan posing for L'Homme and Mia Goth and Mia Wasikowska will represent La Femme. Steven Meisel shot the campaign, which has yet to be unveiled.
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China's top economists have warned local governments and investors to be cautious of property speculation to avoid further inflation of a housing bubble.
Chen Zhiwu, a professor of finance at Yale University, said he was concerned with China's real estate market, with average home sales and housing prices in four first-tier cities growing 57 percent and 20 percent year-on-year respectively in February.
The rise was attributed to local governments' decisions to lift home-purchase restictions in order to drive fiscal revenue, Chen said at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, Ifeng News reported.
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By Georges Feydeau. Translated by John Mortimer. Directed by Dean Paul Gibson. An Arts Club Theatre Company production.
At the Stanley Theatre until October 24
I'm sorry. I really am. In a preview article on the fall theatre season I recommended this production of A Flea in Her Ear. That was before I read the script; I knew it only by its reputation, which is excellent--and, as it turns out, inexplicable. I generally admire director Dean Paul Gibson's work, and I'm familiar with the considerable talents of most people in the cast of 13. Unfortunately, as gifted as they are, some of them have little or no idea what to do with the French farce Georges Feydeau wrote at the turn of the last century.
Farce is all about structure, and Flea's architecture is shaky. In Act 1, Raymonde Chandebise plots with her friend Lucienne Homenides de Histangua to expose Raymonde's husband, whom she suspects of being unfaithful. Lucienne's Spanish spouse misinterprets their scheme and concludes that Lucienne is cheating on him. The frivolity of this setup is witless, and on opening night, most of the actors--including Kerry Davidson (Raymonde) and Dawn Petten (Lucienne)--were wound way too tight to be up to the task of inventing fun. Playing Carlos Homenides de Histangua with macho fury, Martin Sims is a hilarious exception to Act 1's general rule of dullness.
Things loosen up considerably in the second act, which contains most of the pleasures that this play and production have to offer. Raymonde and Lucienne's plan leads everybody to a sex hotel where chaos reigns. John Murphy embodies the proprietor with the mania of a Gallic Basil Fawlty. Emilia Symington-Fedy endows the chambermaid with an almost demonically changeable nature. And Joel Wirkkunen, who takes the role of a pervy Prussian guest, has several surprises up his pantyhose.
Disappointingly, Act 3 reverts to boredom largely because Tom Scholte's performance in the crucial dual roles of Raymonde's husband, Victor Emmanuel, and his doppelgíƒ ¤nger, the drunken hotel porter, is so irredeemably flat. Virtually nothing Scholte does in either part is surprising, or idiosyncratic.
I also take serious issue with one of the script's running gags. Allan Zinyk plays Victor Emmanuel's nephew, Camille. Feydeau's big joke is that Camille has a cleft palate, so it's hard for other people to understand him. I don't think it's overly politically correct to point out the obvious: ridiculing deformity is base, not to mention cruel.
The argument isn't simple. To give Feydeau his due, the playwright separates Camille's physical affliction from his character: the young man is bright, virile, and generally sympathetic. Zinyk's interpretation of the role is as emotionally honest and comically resourceful as it could possibly be. It's a lovely piece of work. But we're still being invited to laugh at disfigurement. If you don't think that's a problem, try taking a kid with a cleft palate to see this show--even if the child has had surgery--and explaining to her exactly what's so amusing. I'm not saying that there's no place for transgression concerning such matters, but A Flea in Her Ear isn't smart enough to have made it to that level.
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Australians spent 552 million hours Googling in 2015
If you had any doubt that one particular player is (literally) synonymous with online search, take note: not only do more than eight times as many Australians visit Google in an average four week as either of its primary 'competitors', but 99% of people who do use Bing or Yahoo!7 also use Google, Roy Morgan Research website visitation data shows.
In 2015, 16,903,000 Australians 14+ (86%) visited the Google Search page at least once during an average four week period, while 1,929,000 visited Bing and 1,820,000 visited Yahoo!7. However, while 1.9 million unique visitors per four weeks is certainly nothing to sneeze at, nearly all of them visit Google too.
The chart below is hard to make clear (you might need to adjust your screen resolution!). The orange slivers on top of the Bing and Yahoo!7 columns represent those 20,000 or so Australians who visit that search page in an average four weeks but not Google as well—in each case, only around 1 in 100 visitors.
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Source: Roy Morgan Single Source Australia, January – December 2015, sample n = 50,276 Australians 14+
But Bing and Yahoo!7 visitors don't just also visit Google—they spend far more time Googling than they do Binging or Yahooing.
Google Search visitors averaged a touch over 2.5 hours each on the site in an average four weeks in 2015, for an estimated total of 552 million hours of national Googling over the year.
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Bing visitors spend almost 24 minutes on Bing on average during a four-week period, for a combined national Bing time of not-quite 10 million hours last year. These visitors also spend an average three hours on Google—half an hour more than the average Googler.
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First off, sorry about the double picture post. These were super yummy! I did make them bigger than the 3 inch suggestion so they would be easier to work with. I also used homemade pie crust instead of store -bought. Personal preferance. We also went with grated cheese with seemed to work out better. These went over really well at my house. One of the boys wants them for breakfast sometime. lol My sister thinks some chopped up broccoli would be really tasty to add as well. Thanks for a keeper! Made for the June 2010 Aussie/NZ recipe swap.
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- Put 2 slices each ham and Cheddar in the center of each of 12 pumpkins.
- With a small brush, brush beaten egg around edges.
- Top with remaining pumpkins, carefully pressing on edges to seal.
- Using a spoon, make ridges on pumpkins by pressing into tops in a few places.
- With a small knife, pierce ridges in a couple of places to vent.
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- Brush tops with beaten egg.
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- 480 g white bread flour, poolish
- 480 g bottled water
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- 436 g bottled water
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- Wednesday make a poolish. Warm the flour and water in a microwave. Mix all ingredients in a plastic bowl (allow room for activation) place in warm area 70 to 80 degrees until mixture is very frothy transfer poolish to stainless steel bowl (to assist retardation) and refrigerate overnight.
- Thursday Transfer poolish to a plastic bowl add warm water, yeast,warm flour, mix then allow to rest twenty minutes, pour on to work surface and using a dough scraper french knead for 10 to 15 minutes or until the dough starts to come together and you see the gluten developing. Rest for twenty minutes, now add salt and continue to french knead for a further 10 minutes place in a fermentation box and leave for 1 hour pour out on to work surface and french knead 10 minutes. place in fermentation box and leave 1 hour remove, french knead 10 minutes until the dough loses its stickiness. shape into 4 baguettes and place in metal baguette pans and place in fridge.
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Just recently, we learned that Brent Spiner was going to join returning cast members Jeff Goldblum and Vivica A. Fox for the long-gestating Independence Day 2, the sequel that's essentially been in the works for 20 years. And now two more cast members from the original 1996 blockbuster directed by Roland Emmerich have been revealed. The filmmaker himself just posted to Twitter confirming that Bill Pullman, now former President Whitmore, and Judd Hirsch, Jeff Goldblum's character's father Julius Levinson, will both be back in the film. However, the size of their roles hasn't yet been revealed. Read on!
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Hirsch and Pullman join a growing cast that also includes new cast members Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Travis Tope and Joey King. That's pretty much all the returning characters we need from the original, mainly because Randy Quaid perished at the end of the first film (and he's a walking looney bin now anyway). I would say Adam Baldwin could reasonably come back as well, but he's a bit of a loose cannon and has some pretty whacked out views on things. Anyway, 20th Century Fox has the film set for release on June 24th, 2016, and we should be hearing more soon. Sound good?
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Woolworths Limited (ASX: WOW) shares are being tipped by analysts to pay a dividend of 3.2%. Its forecast dividend yield is notably less than its blue chip peers, such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), Telstra Corporation Ltd (ASX: TLS) and Wesfarmers Ltd (ASX: WES).
However, there might be more to Woolworths shares than the dividend. One useful way to get a quick sense of the value in a company's shares is to weigh up the reasons to buy and the reasons to sell.
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In recent years, the Woolworths share price has been on a rollercoaster ride as the company navigated into a turnaround.
As the company's share price fell from almost $38 to below $21 in two years, Woolies sold Masters and its Home Timber and Hardware businesses. It slashed prices, got rid of management and is now a leaner, more focused business.
Woolworths is also fighting back against Coles, owned by Wesfarmers Ltd (ASX: WES), and Aldi. Both supermarket operators appear to have stolen market share away from Woolies in recent years.
However, with Woolworths again on the front foot and a new management team at the helm, some investors might argue it is time to run the ruler over the company.
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While it could be a good time to buy, the words of legendary investor Warren Buffett should ring loud and clear whenever you hear the word 'turnaround'. As Buffett says, "turnarounds seldom turn". Buffett bought shares in UK-based Tesco plc, a supermarket operator. The investment cost him hundreds of millions of dollars.
Aside from that warning, Woolworths is also staring down the barrel of further competition, especially from Coles and Aldi. But online operators are also making a move – Amazon is rumoured to be eying off Australian retail. Although Amazon's arrival would likely hurt fashion retail and the likes of JB Hi-Fi Limited (ASX: JBH) more than grocery retailers, it is something to consider.
Another key risk to Woolworths' turnaround is that its brand revival takes longer than many expect because consumers will be reluctant to go back into its stores.
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Woolworths' dividend yield is a little underwhelming, in my opinion. Although it could be in the midst of a turnaround, with more than 2,000 shares on the ASX, I would rather build a portfolio of other quality ASX dividend shares.
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This compressor plug-in provides incredibly accurate emulations of three original RS124 units from Abbey Road's unique outboard collection, bringing the sound look and functionality of these rare pieces of hardware to all major DAWs.
Abbey Road TG12413 Limiter
The TG12413 plug-in is an authentic emulation of the compressor/limiter from the legendary EMI TG12345 mixing console, which was used on many classic recordings such as The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The TG12345 consoles were custom-built for EMI's studios and were never sold
Brilliance Pack
The Brilliance Pack provides authentic emulations of the EMI RS127 and RS135 EQ units, which were built in the early 1960s to supplement the EQ on the legendary REDD mixing consoles. These 'presence boxes' were used on countless seminal recordings at Abbey Road during the '60s, including almost every album by The Beatles.
TG Mastering Pack
The TG Mastering Pack provides authentic emulations of EQ and filter modules from the original EMI TG12410 transfer console. These consoles were custom-built for EMI's studios and have been the centrepiece of Abbey Road's mastering rooms for more than 30 years.
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Pro Tools 7.x or higher, any AU/VST host
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It takes a fair bit of nerve to charge anything to fix up a botched product, but Microsoft's $14.95 price to get a physical copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 really takes some beating for sheer gall. While it was released earlier this year, XP SP3 has only recently started being pushed out to Australian users as part of Microsoft's Windows Update service. If Windows Update can install the update successfully, then you're typically looking at 70MB or so of downloading — painful, but not impossible. If the install chokes, though, Microsoft recommends downloading the full version of SP3, which is a rather less cosy 316MB.
When I asked Microsoft how it could justify this ridiculous state of affairs, I got the following reply: "Microsoft manages duplication of its software, including Service Packs, at regional duplication facilities. As such, the copy of Windows XP SP3 you are ordering is coming from Singapore, which reflects the shipping costs you've referenced as well as the time to delivery." That partially explains the shipping delay, but it's a lousy excuse for the price.
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Here's small size Binary Domain Update 2, patch notes available after the jump, enjoy.
Release Date: 08-06-2012
Protection: Steam
Binary Domain Update 2 info:
Patch notes:
- Fixed an issue with cover-to-cover movement when using mouse and keyboard controls .
- Corrected jumbled Options menu tooltips.
- Voice controls are now disabled by default if no valid microphone is recognised.
- Updated keyboard controls for menu navigation (the cursor keys, ESC, and Return should now function correctly).
- Adjusted mouse movement for menu navigation (will now be less twitchy/sensitive).
- Fixed issue with minor corruption of the 'Talk' prompt in some languages.
- Fixed water corruption issue with certain Nvidia graphics drivers.
Configuration Tool
- Added an option to return the Field of View settings to the default.
- Added an option to switch the voices to English when playing with a non-English language pack installed (for example, the game can now be played with French text and English voices).
- Added an option in the Configuration Tool to disable the microphone altogether.
- Fixed an issue where the graphics settings would return to the defaults on opening the Configuration Tool.
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2. Run Binary.Domain.Update.2.exe
3. Install
4. Copy the cracked content from the SKIDROW folder to the main install folder and overwrite
5. Play the game
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You don't need to have any of the previous updates installed, as this update is featuring all previous updated content
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The Linux kernel has many options and settings. To start, you should decide what you need and what you know you don't need. Secondly, find out what you have using the lspci, and lsusb commands. This will show you the name and model of your components. The Kernel configuration names are not always obvious, so these commands help you decipher the names.
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"Pleasant staff and buildings at Mount Gould but not enough parking spaces"
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I was pleasantly surprised with all the new buildings as last time I visited Mount Gould Hospital it was so old and out of date.
Everyone was very pleasant and helpful and I did not have to wait to see the doctor. However there are certainly not enough parking spaces and we eventually parked in the road.
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Kings Super Markets' CEO Judy Spires, former Supervalu CEO Jeff Noddle and Frito-Lay North America president Tom Greco were among 10 "diversity heroes" honored at the Network of Executive Women's (NEW) CPG Retail Diversity Hall of Fame Awards last week at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Orlando.
The ceremony featured an emotional appearance by Lynne Grize, widow of the late Ahold USA CEO Bill Grize, for whom the award is named.
More than 700 industry executives gave a standing ovation to Grize and the other honorees present: Linda Dillman, SVP of Hewlett-Packard, recognized for her work at Walmart; Jeri Dunn, honored for her work at Tyson Foods; Kay Palmer, CIO of J.B. Hunt; and James White, CEO of Jamba Inc., honored for his work at Safeway. Erby Foster Jr., director of diversity and inclusion for The Clorox Co., accepted the William J. Grize Diversity Award on behalf of Clorox CEO Don Knauss, also honored for his work at The Coca-Cola Company. Two companies were also inducted: Delhaize America, represented on stage by Kristen Hanson, VP for center store category management and Procter & Gamble, represented by Beverly Grant, VP and chief channel officer.
Lynne Grize accepted the first William J. Grize CPG Retail Diversity Award in honor of her late husband. "Bill believed in diversity and he always thought people were a company's greatest asset," she said. "Our family is so proud that he is being recognized with this award." A seven-minute tribute video featuring Bill Grize and the other honorees was shown to the audience.
NEW chair Michelle Gloeckler, SVP, home, Walmart US, presented the awards, which recognize "outstanding achievement promoting diversity and inclusion in the consumer products and retail industry, and for passionate support of the Network of Executive Women and its mission." Each honoree received a trophy depicting Athena, goddess of wisdom, holding the world aloft.
Attendees posed for pictures on the red carpet, toasted the honorees and the Network's 10th anniversary, and danced to the "world's greatest divas" at the Night of A Thousand Stars after party. A silent auction raised an estimated $15,000 for the NEW scholarship program; five of the Network's seven 2010 scholarship recipients attended.
The Hall of Fame Awards were part of the Network's 10th anniversary NEW Leadership Summit, Sept. 19-20, which included pre-event NEW Leadership Academy workshops, keynotes by age wave expert Maddy Dychtwald and mountaineer Alison Levine and a candid conversation with Walmart International CFO Cathy Smith on what it means to be a female leader in the industry today.
The Summit also featured a dozen concurrent sessions on such topics as "managing brand you," with Jerry Wilson, SVP and chief customer and commercial officer for The Coca-Cola Co.; tips for balancing work/life with Christy Consler, VP, sustainability and corporate social responsibility for Safeway Inc.; and how to leverage social networking by Steve Knox, former CEO of Procter & Gamble's Tremor word-of-mouth ad agency. The Summit concluded with an optional corporate athlete workshop Sept. 21.
Profiles of the awardees plus photos, videos and blogs from the Summit can be found online at the Network's 10th anniversary "Time Machine" supersite at www.newonline.org/timemachine.
The Network of Executive Women is the consumer products and retail industry's largest diversity organization, with more than 4,700 members representing 400 industry companies. The Network has 70 national sponsors and 17 regional groups in the United States and Canada
Above: Ten retail "diversity heroes" were honored at NEW's 10th anniversary Leadership Summit, Sept. 19, in Orlando. Pictured on the red carpet are (top row from left): Erby Foster Jr., representing Clorox CEO Don Knauss; Jeri Dunn, former Tyson Foods CIO; James White, CEO of Jamba Juice; retired Supervalu CEO Jeff Noddle; Beverly Grant, representing Procter & Gamble; Linda Dillman, SVP of Hewlett-Packard; and Tom Greco, president of PepsiCo unit Frito-Lay North America. Front row from left: Lynne Grize, accepting the award for the family of Bill Grize; Kristen Hanson, VP, center aisle, accepting the award for Dehaize America; Kay Palmer, CIO of J.B. Hunt; and Judy Spires, CEO of Kings Super Markets.


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Each month, at least one woman comes into Katterman's Sand Point Pharmacy in Seattle to ask for a prescription drug. None of the women have seen or spoken to a doctor but each says she needs the drug immediately.
The routine for a pharmacist there, Beverly Schaefer, never varies. First she ushers the woman into a private cubicle. Then she counsels them and gives them the prescription pill.
The pill is an emergency contraceptive that can prevent pregnancy if it is taken within 72 hours after intercourse, and it is part of what public health officials say is a revolution that is potentially as important -- if quieter -- as the one initiated by the recent approval of the abortion-inducing pill, mifepristone, or RU-486. While mifepristone offers a way to end pregnancies, the emergency contraceptive pill can prevent them.
The contraceptive pill's name is Plan B (as in, If Plan A -- the usual means of preventing pregnancy -- fails, try Plan B). Groups in several states expect to provide the pill to women who have not seen a doctor first. Washington has already done so. And Katterman's Pharmacy is one of 155 pharmacies, about 13 percent of those in the state of Washington, that are providing the pill under these circumstances. Women who want to find a pharmacy near them need only call 1 (888) not-2-late or visit the Web site not-2-late.com. The Web site from the maker of Plan B has a similarly catchy name -- GoToPlanB.com.
Public health groups in Alaska are testing a pilot program to make emergency contraceptives available to women without requiring them to see a doctor, and groups in California and Oregon will soon put into place their own pilot programs. Earlier this month, Norway became the first country to make a similar drug, called NorLevo, available over the counter, on shelves and out in the open along with headache remedies and cold medicines. And on Thursday, the French Parliament changed its law on contraceptives to allow nurses to give NorLevo to teenage girls in schools, said Dr. Andre Ulmann, whose company, HRA-Pharma, makes NorLevo.Continue reading the main story
Not only is Plan B approved in the United States as a prescription drug, but public health advocates have also gotten contraceptive pills approved in Canada and some African, Asian, and South American countries, including some, like Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela, where abortion is illegal.
The new pill has the same ultimate effect as the old ''morning-after pill'' -- it uses high doses of hormones to prevent pregnancy. But the morning-after pill was never an actual product. Doctors would mix it up themselves, ripping open packets of birth control pills and telling women to take several of them -- the exact dose depended on the brand of pills. The regimen, while effective, often caused nausea and vomiting. The new pill, in contrast, is packaged, marketed and designed specifically to prevent pregnancy. It also has fewer side effects.
But the emergency contraception pills are not universally accepted. While most public health experts and doctors say the pills are contraceptives, not abortion-inducing drugs, because they work before a fertilized egg has implanted itself in the uterus, some abortion opponents disagree. The National Right to Life Committee, for example, asked to comment on the pills, sent a fax saying that as far as it is concerned, once an egg is fertilized, a human life has begun. And most pharmacies in Washington, including Mrs. Schaefer's, have no signs advertising emergency contraception. ''There could be some controversy,'' Mrs. Schaefer explained.
But, said Elise Wells, a public health advocate who helped start the Washington project and is now starting the one in Alaska, there has been little outcry in Washington from opponents. ''There had been concern that there would be protests and pickets, but that has not happened,'' Ms. Wells said.
Public health advocates say the pill could provide enormous benefits.
''Our belief is that if emergency contraception pills really were widely used, to their maximum potential, then the number of unintended pregnancies could be cut in half,'' said Dr. James Trussell, associate dean at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. ''It has a huge potential. But I can guarantee you that the emphasis in that sentence is on potential,'' he added.
Plan B was born out of the passion of people like Dr. Trussell. It was the deliberate conception of a consortium of public health advocates who decided that there was a crying need for the drug, located a Hungarian company to make it and formed a company to market it in the United States. On July 28, 1999, the pill was approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration, and on Aug. 23, 1999, the marketing company, called the Women's Capital Corporation, filled its first order -- for Planned Parenthood of Pasadena, Calif.
At first, Plan B was sold only to groups like public health clinics and Planned Parenthood. But about two months ago the company put the pills into commercial distribution. It does not yet have sales figures from pharmacies. The company says that within the next year it will apply to the F.D.A. to sell Plan B over the counter.
For 25 years, doctors have known that women can prevent most pregnancies by taking high doses of birth control pills within 72 hours after having unprotected intercourse -- the exact number of pills needed varied depending on the brand. Ordinarily, 8 out of 100 women who have unprotected intercourse during the second or third week of their menstrual cycle will become pregnant. But if they take high doses of birth control pills, just two will become pregnant.
Medical experts say that a fetus is not harmed if a women takes emergency contraceptives and remains pregnant, and for that reason most experts say that women do not need pregnancy tests before taking the pill. The exact reason why the pills work is not established, Dr. Trussell said, although one thought is that they alter the uterine lining, making it inhospitable to a fertilized egg.
But there were two problems with using birth control pills for emergency contraception. One is that half the women who take them feel nauseated and nearly one in five vomits, raising questions of whether women should take anti-nausea medication first and whether they should take more pills if they vomit. The other problem was simply the way the pills were provided. Doctors waited for women to ask for them. And even when women did ask, the pills hardly looked like routine medicine.
''A lot of us felt that so long as physicians and nurses were cutting up packages of birth control pills and sticking them in an envelope with mimeographed instructions, this would never gain acceptance,'' said Dr. Sharon Camp, director of the Women's Capital Corporation, which markets and distributes Plan B. ''It looked like something from an insurgent feminist health clinic.''
In July 1995, a small company, Gynetics, was formed to market a pill that would essentially be a high dose of ordinary birth control pills. The pill, called Preven, is still on the market, largely unstocked by drugstores and unknown by American women, Dr. Trussell said. Public health advocates thought they could do better.
In December 1995, an international consortium of advocates for emergency contraception sought a company to make a pill specifically for emergency contraception that did not have the side effects of birth control pills. They found Gedeon Richter, a Hungarian firm, to make a pill consisting solely of a synthetic hormone, a progestin. Women would take one progestin pill immediately and a second one 12 hours later. The old birth control pill regimen provided women with a combination of estrogen and progestin.
With the pill in production, the World Health Organization, a member of the consortium, then tested it, finding in an international study that it was just as effective as using birth control pills for emergency contraceptives. But with this pill, just 23 percent of women complained of nausea -- 50 percent fewer than with birth control pills -- and 5.6 percent vomited, 70 percent fewer compared with birth control pills.
''This clearly is a better mousetrap,'' Dr. Camp said. ''It is easier to administer and easier to use.''
In 1997, Dr. Camp started the company to market the drug. ''We think it is the world's smallest drug company,'' she said. ''It has three and a half people.''
Dr. Camp said that although she loved the proposed name for the drug, Plan B, the F.D.A. was taken aback. ''It took seven months of appeal to get that trade name approved by the F.D.A.,'' Dr. Camp said. ''The guys at the nomenclature committee did not get it. They said the name is flippant.''
In the meantime, the state of Washington did not wait for Plan B to get on the market. In March 1998, advocates, led by a nonprofit group called the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, or Path, along with the state's pharmacy association, the Washington State Board of Pharmacy, the University of Washington, and the public relations agency Elgin DDB -- the same company that helped with the promotion of mifepristone -- put into place a program that exploited a unique feature of the state's laws.
In Washington, a pharmacist can form an agreement with a doctor in which the doctor delegates authority to the pharmacist to dispense specific prescription products, like pills or vaccines. The agreements can go into detail about such things as counseling patients and making sure that the drugs are appropriate for them.
The method could work for morning-after pills, the advocates reasoned. At first the pharmacists gave women high doses of birth control pills or Preven, but more recently they have been giving out Plan B.
So far, 30,000 women have received the pills, said Jane Hutchings at Path. Other states have slightly different laws but several, including Oregon, California and Alaska, could allow similar arrangements.
Mrs. Schaefer of Katterman's Sand Point Pharmacy signed up right at the beginning, she said. But her interest started out as rather dispassionate. That changed when she met the doctor behind the prescriptions.
Mrs. Schaefer, who had never heard of the doctor and knew nothing about her, set off to a neighborhood she did not know to meet the doctor and get the necessary papers in order. When she saw the doctor's office, she was shocked.
''It had bars on the window. I had to show a picture ID to get in,'' Mrs. Schaefer recalled. ''I walked into this little waiting room and there were probably 30 women sitting there crying quietly. There was not a soul over the age of 25.''
It turned out that the doctor ran an abortion clinic.
''If I ever had any doubts about why I was doing this, that did it for me,'' Mrs. Schaefer said. ''If I could prevent anyone from being in that room, that would be my goal.''Continue reading the main story


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