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Alicia Hoglund

PEOPLE
Ernest Cavin, DBA, MBA, has been named president and CEO of both Haag-Streit U.S.A. and Reliance Medical Products. Throughout his career, Cavin has held positions with Ciena, Ltd., Ascom, Swisscom FixNet, and Lucent Technologies.	Ernest Cavin, DBA, MBA, Haag-Streit U.S.A and Reliance Medical Products
Santinelli International has welcomed two new members to its sales team: Sam Jepperson, who will oversee the Mountain States, and Chris Schultz, who will be responsible for the Northwest.	Sam Jepperson (top) and Chris Schultz, Santinelli International
ICE-TECH Advanced Lens Technologies has appointed Ryan Noonan director of operations. Noonan will be responsible for advancing the company's operations as well as overseeing growth and the day-to-day operations and planning of the customer service and sales teams.

AWARDS

Jason Woody, president and CEO of the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research, received the Leonard Heise Award during the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA)'s annual meeting to recognize his contributions to the fight against blindness.

BUSINESS UPDATES

Coburn Technologies has installed its first free-form capable lab in Columbia at Labocosta S.A. The lab can now produce high-quality sphere, toric, and backside digital and free-form lenses in plastic, high index, and polycarbonate.

Coburn's Pedro Parra (l), senior sales rep for Latin America, and president Alex Incera (r) presented a plaque to Teodoro Tarud (c), owner of Labocosta

In July, Bausch + Lomb celebrated the 25th anniversary of renu, the first multi-purpose contact lens solution brand, which was first introduced in 1987.

Kaenon surfer Courtney Conlogue recently won the 2012 ASP 6-Star Swatch Girls Pro France top prize—$40,000.

GOOD DEEDS

As part of its “Sightseeing City Tour,” Transitions Optical, Inc., partnered with Visionworks to provide complimentary vision screenings to more than 2,600 children and adults at the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park event.

Kaenon's Courtney Conlogue on the winner's podium at the ASP 6-Star Swatch Girls Pro France

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., sponsored programs providing free vision evaluations and patient education to attendees of the National Urban League (NUL) conference, held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, in July.

Optometry students gave free screenings for National Urban League attendees as part of a program in New Orleans sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

As part of the Children's Hunger Fund, REM Eyewear volunteers recently packed 1,070 20-pound Food Paks to be sent to Peruvian schools, churches, and organizations to benefit kids in need.

Knowledge Center

The feature from EB's August issue, “A Look at Lens Materials,” by Jenean Carlton, ABOC, NCLC, included the accompanying crossword puzzle, “In the Know About Lens Materials.”

Here, we provide the clues and answers to the puzzle.

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3. Several formations of CR-39 are used in the production of these lenses.

5. It has the highest Abbe value of all optical materials (two words).

7. It isn't necessary to add a UV coating to these lenses.

13. Optical materials need to be _________

15. All lenses _______ at least a small percentage of light.

18. Light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second in a ______

19. This material is a polymer composed of allyl diglycol carbonate.

20. It is a unit of measure that indicates how readily a material will refract a beam of light (three words).

21. The higher the refractive index, the greater the percentage of _______ light.

24. Every lens material has these.

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1. Perceived as color fringing in the periphery of lenses (two words).

2. Polycarbonate is this type of material.

4. When white light is separated into its color components.

6. The first optical lens material.

8. Since higher-index lenses reflect more light, it's imperative to include this coating on high-index lenses.

9. CR-39 was invented by this company in 1942 (two words).

10. Light rays are _______ more as they pass through denser materials.

11. Glass lenses are brittle and can do this on impact.

12. A measurement that determines the weight of lens materials (two words).

14. This lens material entered the market place in 1945.

16. Glass lenses are treated in this way to give added strength to the material.

17. He discovered the index of refraction in 1621.

22. Adding this will block more light from being transmitted through the lenses.

23. When light enters a prism it is bent toward the ________.