For some reason today, the tiny details are really sticking out, like why does bc need to be so discreet?

Is it really that embarrassing to take the pill? Maybe that's just me.

Kind of fun though. I hate swallowing pills.

For some reason today, the tiny details are really sticking out, like why does bc need to be so discreet?

Is it really that embarrassing to take the pill? Maybe that's just me.

Kind of fun though. I hate swallowing pills.

Oh, and great title.

It's not really embarassing, but the discrete packages are easier to stick in your purse. My pills even fit in my wallet, which is even more convenient. It still has a pharmacy label on the package, though, so it's pretty obvious what it is.

Chewable is nice, but I'm actually a bigger fan of the idea of sticking iron in the reminder pills. I know so many women who lose iron during their periods. Is this a new thing for this brand, or are there others that do it too?

I hate swallowing pills too. I very much prefer nuvaring.

It is all about IUDs, I love mine. 10 years and NO pills, hormones or pharmacy trips! Yippie!!

YAY! i hate taking pills!

Anyone else disturbed by the name FEMCON? It seems to imply condom, which it isn't.

But I guess that won't be too much of a problem because being perscription the Dr. will have to explain that to those who don't know.

It doesn't seem perfect, but it might appeal to some younger women on the go who might be more likely to remember to take the pill if they carry it, as opposed to keeping it in the medicine cabinet. Perhaps a young women starting college and maybe the pill for the first time might have an easier time remembering to take it if she carries it with her. I think what is important is that it's another option for women who want to avoid pregnancy.

Selling urban identity and the individuals within a city as a commodity is problematic given the differences between outsider and insider perceptions. When people do not participate in the story that is being sold about them, it creates resistance. A more culturally attuned approach to city-marketing takes a far broader perspective. It reflects and looks at the good and bad, it has honesty, it acknowledges conflict in cities. There is a danger of always falling into the fashion trap. For instance, behind the rise of favela chic in Grenoble was a counter-branding strategy alluding to the gangs, graffiti and poverty as something truly authentic.

For the Olympic Village at Heidelberg 600 underground cable pairs were provided to the public automatic exchange. Official intercommunication was provided by a manual exchange with 140 local lines and 30 lines to the public automatic exchange.

At the Ballarat Olympic Village, telephones were not provided in the teams' quarters. Administrative requirements were met by a small table-type switchboard, with three lines to the Ballarat exchange from the switchboard and five direct from telephones.

For the International Agencies and the Australian Press special offices at the Main Stadium and at the press viewing seats, extensive telecommunications were necessitated. Telephones in some agency offices were connected to switchboards with lines to the public exchange and the press seats or work-rooms at the venues. Other press organizations relied on the public exchange. Several point-to-point circuits were used and some newspapers had connexions between the venues and their Melbourne office switchboards.

Of the telephones installed as required on press desks and in work-rooms at venues, several were equipped with headsets. Public telephones were provided in press work-rooms. Six switchboards were installed in press offices at the Main Stadium, to which were connected 26 public exchange lines. Telephones leased by press interests were: Main Stadium, 139 office telephones, 66 press seat and/or work-room telephones; other venues, 206 press or work-room telephones; press hotels, 32 office telephones; a total of 443.

Machine telegraph equipment was widely used for press messages over direct channels to overseas destinations and within Australia. Most of these were installed at the Main Stadium. Some overseas press organizations which did not have offices at the Stadium operated radio-telegraph links from hotel rooms.

Overseas teleprinter channels could be leased on an hourly basis at the Main Stadium office of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. Press telegrams could be lodged at telegraph offices at every venue, the more important being directly connected to overseas telegraph channels. Copy was collected at press hotels during the evenings.

Continuous direct overseas connexions by cable could not be provided for individual press agencies. The agencies formed the Combined Olympic Reporting Association (C.O.R.A.) which concentrated on the dissemination of results. C.O.R.A. operated from an office at the Main Stadium, linked directly with London by cable via Canada and the Trans-Atlantic cable. A network of receiving teleprinters in the various agencies' Main Stadium offices simultaneously received the messages as they were despatched to London.