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- Didoleaf said...
thnks for the video Anu. I hv been reading ur blog on and off, its great to find videos in ur site. I totally agree with ur comments on the concealer. Cheers.1:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
hi anu,6:48 PM
i am truly envious of ur skin. You look beautiful w/o make up in video 1. what is your skin care routine? or i assume u were blessed with good genes :)
- Kas said...
Hi Anu,3:37 AM
Colleen was Miss Singapore 2006 and then 1st-runner up in Mrs World 2008.
I was at the get-together where the "inspiration" shot was taken - think you mentioned the lighting was the harsh studio type in ur 2nd vid? it was actually at a little restaurant at Marina Bay Sands in Apr 2011 :)
- Anonymous said...
Hi, at the begging of VIDEO: Colleen Francisca Make-up part 2, u were using some kinds of concealer... what does it call?8:30 PM
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Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett has given the $50 billion Gorgon gas project at Barrow Island the green light but Chevron and its partners' plan to bury some 120 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions has been questioned because of the possibility of leaks occurring from the target geological formation.
British Police have promised a low-key approach to planned protests at this week's Climate Camp to avoid trouble that flared during the G20 summit – including the death of non-protestor Ian Tomlinson after being struck by officers. The location has not yet been named, but will be somewhere in London, with disruptive protests planned for big emitters and government agencies.
Thanks to climate change, farmers and investors alike must now face the challenge of making decisions based on probabilities for the future rather than the lessons of the past, the head of the World Meteorological Organization says.
One of the strangest and in its way most iconic of creatures – the Mexican axolotl – is in danger of extinction in the wild, with apparently fewer than 1200 at large in its last stronghold, the Xochimilco area of central Mexico - a ten-fold reduction in four years and a 60-fold reduction in ten years.
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In addition to his reputation as a recitalist and chamber music partner, Armenian pianist Şahan Arzruni has achieved recognition as a composer, ethnomusicologist, teacher, lecturer, writer, recording artist, broadcasting personality, producer, and impresario. He has toured in these capacities throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and Australia. Şahan Arzruni has become a familiar figure through many television broadcasts such as Johnny Carson and Mike Douglas Shows. He has also been featured in a number of PBS specials including Around the World in '82, Gala of Stars, and A Place of Dreams: Carnegie Hall at 100.
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The Verdi Quartet comprised of violinists Susanne Rabenschlag and Matthias Ellinger, violist Karin Wolf, and cellist Zoltán Paulich is widely considered as one of Germany's leading chamber music ensembles praised for its "nobility and subtlety" (Augsburger Allgemeine, Germany) and "wistful and completely enthralling playing" (Allgäuer Zeitung, Germany). Quartet in Residence at the Music Conservatory in Mannheim since 2004, these four colleagues have performed to great acclaim throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. This recital is the culmination of the Verdi Quartet's one-week residency at California State University, Fresno, during which the ensemble will present a series of master classes and lectures.
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During the Knicks game on TNT, I saw that K-Mart was finally cleared to sign with a team right now. Should we get him or go after a PG? I have no clue... I think with a different coach we can spell in Lin and have Kmart to replace Jeffries.
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This chapter describes how the runnable XEmacs executable is dumped with the preloaded Lisp libraries in it and how storage is allocated.
There is an entire separate document, the XEmacs Internals Manual, devoted to the internals of XEmacs from the perspective of the C programmer. It contains much more detailed information about the build process, the allocation and garbage-collection process, and other aspects related to the internals of XEmacs.
|B.1 Building XEmacs
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|Reclaiming space for Lisp objects no longer used.
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This section explains the steps involved in building the XEmacs executable. You don't have to know this material to build and install XEmacs, since the makefiles do all these things automatically. This information is pertinent to XEmacs maintenance.
The XEmacs Internals Manual contains more information about this.
Compilation of the C source files in the `src' directory produces an executable file called `temacs'. It contains the XEmacs Lisp interpreter and I/O routines, but not the editing commands.
Before XEmacs is actually usable, a number of Lisp files need to be loaded. These define all the editing commands, plus most of the startup code and many very basic Lisp primitives. This is accomplished by loading the file `loadup.el', which in turn loads all of the other standardly-loaded Lisp files.
It takes a substantial time to load the standard Lisp files. Luckily, you don't have to do this each time you run XEmacs; `temacs' can dump out an executable program called `xemacs' that has these files preloaded. `xemacs' starts more quickly because it does not need to load the files. This is the XEmacs executable that is normally installed.
To create `xemacs', use the command `temacs -batch -l loadup dump'. The purpose of `-batch' here is to tell `temacs' to run in non-interactive, command-line mode. (`temacs' can only run in this fashion. Part of the code required to initialize frames and faces is in Lisp, and must be loaded before XEmacs is able to create any frames.) The argument `dump' tells `loadup.el' to dump a new executable named `xemacs'.
The dumping process is highly system-specific, and some operating systems don't support dumping. On those systems, you must start XEmacs with the `temacs -batch -l loadup run-temacs' command each time you use it. This takes a substantial time, but since you need to start Emacs once a day at most--or once a week if you never log out--the extra time is not too severe a problem. (In older versions of Emacs, you started Emacs from `temacs' using `temacs -l loadup'.)
You are free to start XEmacs directly from `temacs' if you want, even if there is already a dumped `xemacs'. Normally you wouldn't want to do that; but the Makefiles do this when you rebuild XEmacs using `make all-elc', which builds XEmacs and simultaneously compiles any out-of-date Lisp files. (You need `xemacs' in order to compile Lisp files. However, you also need the compiled Lisp files in order to dump out `xemacs'. If both of these are missing or corrupted, you are out of luck unless you're able to bootstrap `xemacs' from `temacs'. Note that `make all-elc' actually loads the alternative loadup file `loadup-el.el', which works like `loadup.el' but forces XEmacs to ignore any compiled Lisp files even if they exist.)
You can specify additional files to preload by writing a library named `site-load.el' that loads them. However, the advantage of preloading additional files decreases as machines get faster. On modern machines, it is often not advisable, especially if the Lisp code is on a file system local to the machine running XEmacs.
You can specify other Lisp expressions to execute just before dumping by putting them in a library named `site-init.el'. However, if they might alter the behavior that users expect from an ordinary unmodified XEmacs, it is better to put them in `default.el', so that users can override them if they wish. See section 57.1.1 Summary: Sequence of Actions at Start Up.
Before `loadup.el' dumps the new executable, it finds the
documentation strings for primitive and preloaded functions (and
variables) in the file where they are stored, by calling
Snarf-documentation (see section 34.2 Access to Documentation Strings). These
strings were moved out of the `xemacs' executable to make it
smaller. See section 34.1 Documentation Basics.
If you use this function in an XEmacs that was already dumped, you must
command-line-processed to
nil first for good results.
See section 57.1.4 Command Line Arguments.
When called interactively with a prefix argument, insert string at point.
Don't use this function in programs to choose actions according
to the system configuration; look at
system-configuration instead.
(emacs-version) => "XEmacs 20.1 [Lucid] (i586-unknown-linux2.0.29) of Mon Apr 7 1997 on altair.xemacs.org"
Called interactively, the function prints the same information in the echo area.
emacs-build-time "Mon Apr 7 20:28:52 1997" =>
"20.1 XEmacs Lucid".
The following two variables did not exist before FSF GNU Emacs version 19.23 and XEmacs version 19.10, which reduces their usefulness at present, but we hope they will be convenient in the future.
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When a program creates a list or the user defines a new function (such as by loading a library), that data is placed in normal storage. If normal storage runs low, then XEmacs asks the operating system to allocate more memory in blocks of 2k bytes. Each block is used for one type of Lisp object, so symbols, cons cells, markers, etc., are segregated in distinct blocks in memory. (Vectors, long strings, buffers and certain other editing types, which are fairly large, are allocated in individual blocks, one per object, while small strings are packed into blocks of 8k bytes. [More correctly, a string is allocated in two sections: a fixed size chunk containing the length, list of extents, etc.; and a chunk containing the actual characters in the string. It is this latter chunk that is either allocated individually or packed into 8k blocks. The fixed size chunk is packed into 2k blocks, as for conses, markers, etc.])
It is quite common to use some storage for a while, then release it by (for example) killing a buffer or deleting the last pointer to an object. XEmacs provides a garbage collector to reclaim this abandoned storage. (This name is traditional, but "garbage recycler" might be a more intuitive metaphor for this facility.)
The garbage collector operates by finding and marking all Lisp objects that are still accessible to Lisp programs. To begin with, it assumes all the symbols, their values and associated function definitions, and any data presently on the stack, are accessible. Any objects that can be reached indirectly through other accessible objects are also accessible.
When marking is finished, all objects still unmarked are garbage. No matter what the Lisp program or the user does, it is impossible to refer to them, since there is no longer a way to reach them. Their space might as well be reused, since no one will miss them. The second ("sweep") phase of the garbage collector arranges to reuse them.
The sweep phase puts unused cons cells onto a free list for
future allocation; likewise for symbols, markers, extents, events,
floats, compiled-function objects, and the fixed-size portion of
strings. It compacts the accessible small string-chars chunks so they
occupy fewer 8k blocks; then it frees the other 8k blocks. Vectors,
buffers, windows, and other large objects are individually allocated and
freed using
malloc and
Common Lisp note: unlike other Lisps, XEmacs Lisp does not call the garbage collector when the free list is empty. Instead, it simply requests the operating system to allocate more storage, and processing continues until
gc-cons-thresholdbytes have been used.
This means that you can make sure that the garbage collector will not run during a certain portion of a Lisp program by calling the garbage collector explicitly just before it (provided that portion of the program does not use so much space as to force a second garbage collection).
gc-cons-threshold bytes of
Lisp data since the previous garbage collection.)
garbage-collect returns a list containing the following
((used-conses . free-conses) (used-syms . free-syms) (used-markers . free-markers) used-string-chars used-vector-slots (plist)) => ((73362 . 8325) (13718 . 164) (5089 . 5098) 949121 118677 (conses-used 73362 conses-free 8329 cons-storage 658168 symbols-used 13718 symbols-free 164 symbol-storage 335216 bit-vectors-used 0 bit-vectors-total-length 0 bit-vector-storage 0 vectors-used 7882 vectors-total-length 118677 vector-storage 537764 compiled-functions-used 1336 compiled-functions-free 37 compiled-function-storage 44440 short-strings-used 28829 long-strings-used 2 strings-free 7722 short-strings-total-length 916657 short-string-storage 1179648 long-strings-total-length 32464 string-header-storage 441504 floats-used 3 floats-free 43 float-storage 2044 markers-used 5089 markers-free 5098 marker-storage 245280 events-used 103 events-free 835 event-storage 110656 extents-used 10519 extents-free 2718 extent-storage 372736 extent-auxiliarys-used 111 extent-auxiliarys-freed 3 extent-auxiliary-storage 4440 window-configurations-used 39 window-configurations-on-free-list 5 window-configurations-freed 10 window-configuration-storage 9492 popup-datas-used 3 popup-data-storage 72 toolbar-buttons-used 62 toolbar-button-storage 4960 toolbar-datas-used 12 toolbar-data-storage 240 symbol-value-buffer-locals-used 182 symbol-value-buffer-local-storage 5824 symbol-value-lisp-magics-used 22 symbol-value-lisp-magic-storage 1496 symbol-value-varaliases-used 43 symbol-value-varalias-storage 1032 opaque-lists-used 2 opaque-list-storage 48 color-instances-used 12 color-instance-storage 288 font-instances-used 5 font-instance-storage 180 opaques-used 11 opaque-storage 312 range-tables-used 1 range-table-storage 16 faces-used 34 face-storage 2584 glyphs-used 124 glyph-storage 4464 specifiers-used 775 specifier-storage 43869 weak-lists-used 786 weak-list-storage 18864 char-tables-used 40 char-table-storage 41920 buffers-used 25 buffer-storage 7000 extent-infos-used 457 extent-infos-freed 73 extent-info-storage 9140 keymaps-used 275 keymap-storage 12100 consoles-used 4 console-storage 384 command-builders-used 2 command-builder-storage 120 devices-used 2 device-storage 344 frames-used 3 frame-storage 624 image-instances-used 47 image-instance-storage 3008 windows-used 27 windows-freed 2 window-storage 9180 lcrecord-lists-used 15 lcrecord-list-storage 360 hash-tables-used 631 hash-table-storage 25240 streams-used 1 streams-on-free-list 3 streams-freed 12 stream-storage 91))
Here is a table explaining each element:
The initial threshold value is 500,000. If you specify a larger value, garbage collection will happen less often. This reduces the amount of time spent garbage collecting, but increases total memory use. You may want to do this when running a program that creates lots of Lisp data.
You can make collections more frequent by specifying a smaller value,
down to 10,000. A value less than 10,000 will remain in effect only
until the subsequent garbage collection, at which time
garbage-collect will set the threshold back to 10,000. (This does
not apply if XEmacs was configured with `--debug'. Therefore, be
careful when setting
gc-cons-threshold in that case!)
gc-pointer-glyph specifies a value (i.e. a
pointer image instance) in the domain of the selected frame, the mouse
cursor will change instead of this message being printed.
gc-message. See section 50. Glyphs.
If XEmacs was configured with `--debug', you can set the following two variables to get direct information about all the allocation that is happening in a segment of Lisp code.
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We should really be out and about but my little one has caught the stomach flu. Nasty thing, so we wandered outside in the sun taking a few shots. I usually do this anyway when the Spring begins to wake up.
|This was taken last year on a trip a villa in Tivoli
Since nature has given us this BEAUTIFUL place to live, sustains us and has suffered our maltreatment of her for too long, I am posting this documentary from 2009 that I only watched ,yesterday. PLEASE watch it when you can. For one, the scenography is amazing and the message is quite clear. We know this already but we NEED frequent reminding and we cannot forget or be indifferent for long. This film really woke me up.
HOME, was made by a non profit organization. Narrated by Glen Close
"We all have the power to change"


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Technology update
Nov 21, 2013
Plasmonic metasurface produces smallest 3D hologram
Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Paderborn University in Germany are the first to have generated a 3D hologram using a "metasurface" consisting of an array of gold nanorods in which the phase profile of light can be encoded. The hologram, which has a pixel size of just 500 nm x 500 nm, is the world's smallest to date and can thus encode much more information than traditional holograms.
The researchers made their metasurface from an array of seemingly randomly oriented gold nanorods fabricated using electron beam lithography. Each nanorod supports a so-called plasmonic resonance and therefore functions like a small optical antenna.
Such antennas have long been used to transmit radio and television waves, but it is only recently that the concept has been extended to optical frequencies. All antennas work by oscillating charges along their structure, which means that the size of the antenna must fit to a resonant mode for the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation it supports. To make an antenna work at optical frequencies, it must thus be scaled down to nanometre dimensions.
Each nanorod in the metasurface array collects incident circularly polarized light and re-emits this light with a certain delay – but polarized in the opposite direction. The delay from a rod depends only on the angle at which it is oriented, and, in this way, a particular phase profile for the light wavefront can be obtained. "To produce the hologram, the phase information contained in the light scattered from the 3D object being reproduced is first calculated by a computer and then the phase information at each local spot is accurately and continuously mapped onto the orientation of the nanorods at the metasurface," explains team leader Shuang Zhang at Birmingham. "If this surface is then illuminated with circularly polarized light, a 3D image will form in the transmitted light path."
Conventional holograms are usually made from relief gratings that are much larger than the wavelength of light, and a 3D image is reconstructed from the light waves diffracted by these gratings. Such structures are plagued by so-called multiple diffraction effects, twin images and a limited field of view (the angle range over which we can observe the reconstructed image)," explains Zhang. "In our work, we show that by using nanoscale gold rods to store information about a 3D object we can generate a phase hologram with the smallest pixel size ever and which does not suffer from the problems inherent in traditional 3D holography."
"The good thing about our structures is that the phase profile of light falling on the nanorods is continuously encoded into their orientation, which means that each pixel contains much more information than is possible in conventional binary (black and white) holograms. And since the pixel size is smaller than the wavelength of light, there are no multiple diffraction effects either and the view field dramatically increases."
In this work, the team focused on objects with diffuse surfaces so a phase hologram sufficed, but in the future they plan to make holograms in which they can separately control the phase and amplitude of the light wave emitted to generate high quality holograms of any type of 3D object.
More detailed high definition 3D images
"Our technique not only allows us to produce 3D holograms of an object but also opens the way to encoding arbitrary light wave phase and amplitude information into a ultrathin layer of nanostructures," co-team leader Thomas Zentgraf at Paderborn told nanotechweb.org. "Manipulating the phase of a light wave on the micron scale is just not possible with traditional relief gratings because of their large size, but we show that we can generate certain wavefronts of light and even images on a much smaller scale. What is more, since the information density contained within a metasurface like ours is much higher, we can generate more detailed high definition 3D images."
At the moment, the efficiency of the hologram (that is, the ratio of the amount of light used to form the holographic image compared with the amount of light falling on the object to be reconstructed) is only a few per cent. "We will now thus be looking to optimize the design of our nanostructures to further increase this value," says Zentgraf. "Indeed, our preliminary numerical results show that efficiency can be upped to almost 90% with the right design."
"Currently, we fabricate our metasurfaces using electron beam lithography, which is a very slow process and limits the area of the hologram to just half a millimetre across. We would therefore also like to develop large-area nanofabrication techniques to produce much bigger metasurface holograms that may even be observable with the naked eye."
The current research is described in Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms3808.
Further reading
Nanoantenna arrays go optical (Jan 2013)
Electron beams do the twist (Jan 2011)
Metalens doubles up (Nov 2012)
Metasurface couples SPPs and light (Apr 2013)
About the author
Belle Dumé is contributing editor at nanotechweb.org


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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has been in the news a lot lately, and not for the happiest of reasons either. On Jan. 21, 2014, USA Today reported that Brady said he won't be watching this year's Super Bowl now that the Pats have been eliminated. In sadder news, a PSA is circulating the Internet and asking fans to give Brady a high-five.
Since losing to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game, the Patriots season officially ended. Not only has Brady had things to say about outspoken Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, but he also let it be known that he won't be watching the big game this year.
"I don't have much of a rooting interest, truthfully. Those games are hard to watch. I don't really see myself sitting down to enjoy a football game to watch it. Our season's over. Truthfully, I could care less about watching the game. That's pretty much how I feel."
Grammar fans will probably jump on Brady for his "couldn't care less" way of wording things, but he's got other things to be concerned with.
Making the Internet rounds is a fan-made PSA that goes into great detail about Tom Brady and his storied career. It also brings to light the fact that he just can't get a high-five to save his life.
The PSA then shows clips of Brady on the sideline of different games where he holds his hand up for a high-five but is ignored by all of his Patriots' teammates. It's become a bit of a joke actually as it seems to happen quite often.
Maybe it's a good thing that Tom Brady won't be watching Super Bowl XLVIII because he probably wouldn't be able to celebrate with anyone.
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March -- Seagram airs a liquor ad on a small sports cable network; consumer and health groups protest violation of liquor-industry voluntary ban.
May -- Rep. Joseph Kennedy introduces the "Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse Prevention Bill" to "address a variety of issues in the areas of education, taxes and subsidies, advertisements, and beverage labeling that involve alcohol, its use and abuse."
June -- Seagram airs an ad for Crown Royal Canadian Whiskey on KRIS-TV, an ABC affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, breaking a long-standing, voluntary industry ban on broadcast liquor ads. The ban had been in effect for 60 years on radio (since 1936) and 48 years (since 1948) on television. Local and national groups protest; Rep. Kennedy and more than a dozen co-sponsors introduce the "Just Say No Act" (HR 3644) to ban liquor ads on radio and television to maintain status quo. President Clinton (in a Saturday radio address) asks industry to go back to the ban.
August -- 53 groups and individuals (including 12 members of Congress) sign CSPI-sponsored full-page ad in the New York Times protesting Seagram's broadcast ads and break with the liquor-industry voluntary ban.
September -- Seagram begins TV ad campaign on New Hampshire stations that are part of the Boston TV market. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt expresses concern about liquor ads on TV and radio.
October -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving writes President Clinton regarding concern about liquor ads on TV and radio. Other distillers announce intentions to advertise on TV. Seagram breaks radio campaign for Lime Twisted Gin. FCC Chairman Hundt suggests FCC regulation of liquor ads and promotes a ban on ads if voluntary restraint is ineffective. Eisner Associates survey reveals a majority of Americans are concerned about liquor ads. CSPI-led Coalition representatives meet with Chairman Hundt.
November -- FCC requests data from broadcasters airing liquor ads. Advertising groups urge FCC to defer to FTC in regulation of broadcast ads for liquor. Liquor-industry trade group, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, drops 48-year voluntary ban on TV liquor ads. President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott attack industry move as "simply irresponsible" and "a mistake."
CSPI Coalition meets with FCC Commissioners Ness, Quello (legal advisor), and Chong (legal advisor). Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee says he will hold hearings early in 105th Congress. 25 US Representatives, led by Rep. Kennedy, write to Chairman Hundt, asking for an FCC investigation. State of Alaska petitions FCC for a ban on broadcast liquor ads (later endorsed by 13 states and Puerto Rico -- AL, AR, DE, HI, IA, KS, MD, MI, MN, ND, RI, UT, VT). National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and 23 other groups issue a call to the FCC for a "counter-advertising" campaign.
Federal Trade Commission begins investigation of Seagram liquor ads and Stroh malt-liquor ads; later expands investigation to include Miller Brewing and Anheuser-Busch. Advertising industry's National Advertising Review Council begins consideration of voluntary standards for advertising of legal products that might influence underage consumers but later gives up after opposition from brewers. TV networks and most large radio networks continue to refuse liquor ads. CSPI requests that "control" state ABCs restrict sale of liquor products that advertise on TV and radio. Washington State Liquor Control Board considers removing point-of-sale advertising of products that advertise in broadcast.
December -- Ads for Jaegermeister, a 70-proof liqueur, begin on California TV and radio stations. Ads for Bailey's Irish Creme (a product distributed by Paddington Corp.) run on scattered television stations. Rep. Billy Tauzin, Chairman of the House Telecommunications Sub-Committee, indicates interest in hearings during new Congress. Also, suggests that if beer and wine ads are broadcast, no reason liquor ads should not be but hints that all should be channeled to late hours to avoid reaching children. Rep. Tauzin also hints at potential for content restrictions, but prefers voluntary approach. According to press reports, ads for liquor air on approximately 25 television and 50 radio stations.
January -- Sen. Conrad Burns, Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee, announces plans for hearings to be held in February.
February -- Senate Hearings postponed indefinitely. CSPI organizes a letter to all members of the House of Representatives urging their support for legislation to ban advertising of distilled spirits on radio and television; 60 organizations co-sign.
March -- Rep. Kennedy reintroduces the "Just Say No Act" (HR 1067); calls for prohibition of liquor advertisements "on any medium of electronic communications subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission."
April -- President Clinton urges FCC action on broadcast liquor advertising; calls on industry to respect former voluntary ban. CSPI and 15 other groups run ad in The Hill, thanking broadcasters who are upholding the ban. Rep. Kennedy introduces the "Voluntary Alcohol Advertising Standards for Children Act" (HR 1292), an initiative to require television, cable, and radio broadcasters to develop industry standards to protect children from appeals to drink alcoholic beverages. CSPI and more than 250 groups petition FCC for a Notice on Inquiry (NOI) into all broadcast alcohol advertising to determine the effects on young people.
In Anheuser-Busch v. Schmoke, the Supreme Court refused to hear a First Amendment challenge to Baltimore's 1994 law banning alcohol and tobacco billboards in parts of the city, thereby letting stand an earlier decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal to uphold the ban. Previously, the Supreme Court had vacated the Circuit Court's decision to uphold the ban and asked the lower court to review the case in light the 44 Liquormart v. Rhode Island decision which struck down a state ban on liquor price advertising. The lower court again upheld the ban.
May -- NCADD and MADD, along with 22 other groups, petition the FCC to require counter-ads to balance alcoholic beverage advertising in broadcast. FCC Chairman Hundt announces his resignation upon the confirmation of a successor.
June -- FCC Chairman plans to have the Commission vote on his request for a NOI on June 19. Attorney General Janet Reno announces her support of an FCC inquiry. Commissioner Rachelle Chong blocks the June vote, delaying it for one month. Rep. Kennedy introduces H.Res. 171 to urge an FCC investigation into the effects of broadcast liquor ads on children. CSPI and NCADD coordinate a letter to House members, signed by 135 groups including two state attorneys general, asking for support of Rep. Kennedy's resolution. Center on Alcohol Advertising releases survey showing "strong support among Americans for a federal government study on the impact of alcohol advertising on teens and children."
July – FCC votes not to issue a Notice of Inquiry. Commissioners Hundt and Ness vote in favor of the NOI. Commission Quello goes on record recognizing that these ads raise issues for the broadcast media and that the Commission both has the authority to address those issues and will do so in the future. Advertising Age reports a new wave of broadcast rum advertisements by Seagram and Bacardi. Allied Domecq ends its four-year, Telemundo advertising campaigns for Presidente and Don Pedro brands.
September -- Hiram Walker announces a radio campaign for Cutty Sark sponsored yacht race. Seagram inserts a six-second, voice-over responsibility message at the start of its whisky ads, hoping to gain access to more stations. Hiram Walker breaks new campaign for Kahlua White Russian liqueur.
November -- FCC swears in new members: Chairman William Kennard immediately announces his intention to investigate liquor ads; Commissioner Gloria Tristani is undecided; Commissioners Michael Powell and Harold Furchtgott-Roth question an FCC inquiry. Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), chair of the House subcommittee overseeing the FCC, also questions FCC action.
December -- Rep. Kennedy and 24 other Members of Congress write to Chairman Kennard to urge him to issue an NOI into broadcast liquor ads.
January -- Nationwide poll by Michigan State University and University of Missouri finds that a majority of adults support a ban on liquor ads and believe that liquor advertisers are trying to influence teenagers to consume their products.
February -- Chairman Kennard announces that liquor ads are "not on the top of the list" of FCC priorities. Ad Age reports that Seagram's Chivas Regal ads are running on radio stations in Dallas, Houston, Miami and New York. Separately, Ad Age reports that TV ads for T.G.I. Friday's frozen cocktails are being tested on local network affiliates and cable stations in Las Vegas, Miami, and New Orleans. Other low-alcohol refreshers advertising on TV include Kahlua cocktails and Bailey's Irish Cream.
March -- FCC spokesman announces that the agency will delay an NOI until liquor ads run more extensively.
April -- Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman announces that Seagram ads will soon be "widely advertised" on TV and radio. Seagram ads have appeared on 107 television stations in 51 markets and 300 radio stations in 119 markets.
May -- Rep. Kennedy and others meet with Chairman Kennard to encourage him to bring a proposal for NOI on broadcast liquor ads to a vote at the June FCC meeting, scheduled for June 11. MediaWeek reports that liquor advertisers appear to target markets with high concentrations of college students and popular tourist destinations, including: Boston, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Tampa, Orlando, Columbus, Syracuse.
June -- National poll by Chilton Research finds 70% of respondents agree that "[f]ederal agencies should examine whether alcohol advertising on television affects underage drinking." Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems presents poll results to Chairman Kennard and reiterate need for FCC NOI.
July -- DISCUS airs "equivalency" ads in Washington, DC. According to DISCUS president, the ads are intended "to send a message to the public about the practice of moderation." Ads include camera shots of Chivas Regal, Crown Royal, Absolut, Jack Daniels, Bacardi, and other liquor bottles. FCC Chairman Kennard suggests "canvass[ing] the networks" to determine the extent to which these ads are being aired.
August –Responding to a Congressional request for a report on alcohol advertising and underage drinking, the FTC asks eight of the nation's top alcoholic beverage marketers to supply information on their advertising and marketing practices. The request is made to the Anheuser-Busch Company, Bacardi Martini, the Crown-Forman Corporation, the Adolph Coors Company, Diageo PLC, Philip Morris Company, the Miller Brewing Unit, Stroh Brewery, and Seagram.
February – The liquor industry considers developing an advertising campaign that would include television commercials to help whiskey, vodka, and other distilled spirits compete harder against the beer and wine industry for drinkers. "It's all in the developmental stage." said Judy Blatman, a spokeswoman for DISCUS. Blatman also noted that more than 1,000 radio and tv outlets have carried liquor ads since the industry dropped its self-imposed ban against broadcast liquor advertisements in November 1996.
June – The Supreme Court decision, Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association v. the United States, affirming the right of broadcasters to air casino gambling ads helps to further the liquor industry stance on advertising distilled spirits on televisions. Dan Jaffe, of the Association of National Advertisers states "It's a signal that other sorts of controversial products, such as alcohol and tobacco, will also get broad protection under the First Amendment."
September – The FTC releases it's report on the alcoholic beverage industry's efforts to avoid promoting alcohol to underage consumers. The report found that while the alcoholic beverage industry generally complies with existing self-regulatory standards intended to prevent alcohol advertising that appeals to underage consumers, industry self-regulatory efforts should be improved. The report recommends that industry improve enforcement by adopting third-party review of compliance, and reduce underage exposure to alcohol ads by changing the current placement standards that allow advertising in media when as much as 50 percent of the audience is under 21.
Upon release of the FTC report, Charles A. Phillips, CEO of UDV North America, stated "my company supports third party review of complaints. However, the system is voluntary and we alone cannot implement it, so we urge all our colleagues in the industry to embrace the FTC's recommendation and establish a system of third party review of advertising complaints."
April – Four years after Seagram broke a voluntary industry ban on television advertising, the country's second largest distilled spirits marketer introduced a new spot for Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum on cable networks. Seagram's plans to cover the U.S. through local buys, although individual cable carriers can elect not to run the ads. Cable systems in Los Angeles and Chicago are the first to run the advertisements.
June – The Golf Channel gave approval to show commercials for hard liquor in prime time. The Orlando-based sports channel, available in almost 31 million homes, has been quietly running national ads for Seagram's Crown Royal Canadian whiskey and Chivas Regal scotch.
July – United Distillers & Vintners tests its single-serving Smirnoff Ice ( a citrus-flavored vodka drink) beverage in two U.S. markets.
August – Austin, Nichols & Company announces the launch of a $500,000 campaign to promote its Wild Turkey Bourbon on radio stations. The 60-second ads are slated to air on 12 stations in key markets, including Chicago, Houston, and New Orleans.
September – Bacardi USA quietly launches a cable television campaign for Bacardi Light rum in an effort to move into the mainstream without attracting the attention of activists and regulators.
Fall, 2000 – The Distilled Spirits Council steps up lobbying efforts with broadcasters, airing a video advertisement at the annual broadcasters convention promoting broadcasters' acceptance of liquor ads.
December – The December 7, New York Times article Cocktail Hour Returns to TV further illustrates the liquor industry's subtle return to the airwaves to promote their products.
May – Bacardi USA's Disaronno Originale Amaretto debuts in South Florida and in eight other markets on several cable networks. The new ad is part of a $1.1 million marketing push for the product.
Sinclair Broadcast group, a major broadcaster, and Comcast Cable Communications, carry ads for Disaronno Originale Amaretto, as well as Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum and Crown Royal; Canadian Whiskey. According to MediaCom Worldwide, since 1996, 191 tv stations in 123 markets have run hard-liquor ads.
August – In a precedent-setting move, a tv station owned by one of the Big 3 networks gave a tentative ok to run a commercial for a distilled spirits product. WJAR-TV, an NBC-owned station in Providence, Rhode Island, will likely run the commercial for Baileys Irish Cream in September, 2001.
October – TV stations embrace liquor advertisements as total ad spending is predicted to be down as much as 12 percent in 2001. Television stations are said to be opening their arms to liquor advertising and in some instances seeking out distilled spirit marketers. Last year a few dozen local cable channels allowed distilled spirits advertising, but according to the Wall Street Journal, this year the number of channels is around 400.
One television advertising sales representative group reports that a third of its station clients now accept liquor ads, up from about 10 percent in the previous year.
December – General Electric's NBC ends network television's five-decade voluntary ban on liquor ads, announcing a multimillion-dollar advertising contract with alcoholic-beverage conglomerate Guinness-UDV (whose brands include Tanqueray gin, Johnnie Walker scotch, Smirnoff Vodka, and Smirnoff Ice). NBC imposes a set of guidelines to limit the impact of the ads on underage viewers. Critics characterize guidelines as a weak, temporary face-saving gesture intended to blunt attacks on NBC's decision to take liquor ads. Other networks (ABC, CBS, Fox), courted by liquor marketers, weigh decision to air liquor ads.
For more information see our background and talking points on liquor advertising.


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7-9-0, AFC Central Division · 1993 NFL Season Summary
SRS: Total -1.2, Offense: -0.6, Defense: -0.6, SoS: -1.0, avg is 0.0.
Scored 304 points (19.0/g), 15th of 28 in the NFL. Allowed 307 points (19.2/g), 17th.
Differential of -3 points (-0.2/g), 16th. Expected W-L: 7.9-8.1.
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Other Notable Asst.: Jim Schwartz (College/Pro Scout)
Stadium: Cleveland Municipal Stadium
Training Camp: Cleveland Browns Training Facility (Berea, Ohio)
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Dashiell Hammett's legendary private eye had a sardonic sense of humor, which wavy-haired, rugged-voiced Howard Duff played to perfection. Produced and directed by William Spier, co-starring Lurene Tuttle, and featuring one episode with Stephen Dunne in the title role, we bring you sixteen capers with the greatest private detective of them all. Includes a Program Guide by Elizabeth McLeod.
Tom Collins stars as Chandu in these exotic half hour episodes from 1949 that deliver just the right mix of mystery, intrigue, and adventure!
Co-starring Jane Morgan, Cathy Lewis, Olan Soule, Joseph Kearns, and Gloria Holliday, here are sixteen warm and funny episodes of The Harold Peary Show, produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell. Includes a Program Guide.
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|Joel Lindstrom, Leonardo Technologies, Inc., holds a purified sample of vegetable oil. The viscosity of the oil gives it a much higher freezing point than diesel, requiring special consideration in winter conditions. (Photos by David Bedard/Fort Richardson PAO)
By David Bedard
Fort Richardson PAO
Since Rudolph Diesel demonstrated his namesake engine at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, running on peanut oil, the possibility of using vegetable oils as an alternative fuel has entertained the thoughts of engineers and conservationists alike.
This month, a partnership between Fort Richardson Directorate of Public Works Environmental Department, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and Leonardo Technologies Inc. successfully installed a 11-kilowatt generator resourced solely from used vegetable oil to provide heat for the Fort Richardson Hazardous Waste Center.
Jeff Raun, Colorado State University Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands contractor working for DPW Environmental, said he teamed with Scott Lux, USACE-CERL, and LTI employee Joel Lindstrom to bring the project to realization.
"I was lucky enough to get matched up with Scott and Joel who have been pursuing this technology in slightly different tangents," Raun said. "It was such a good fit that I felt the installation shouldn't pass up the opportunity to pursue what could be a well-demonstrated technology that we can expand to wider Army use."
In that regard, Raun said the project serves as a proof of concept for Fort Richardson which will require innovative measures.
"We're merging a few stages of the scientific process into one, doing a demonstration and validation while still looking at the feasibility of the technology and the economic feasibility as well," Raun explained. "We will compare the cost of this operation – which we won't have established until we get all of the small bumps ironed out, determine the labor and mechanical requirements – and then compare those program costs versus alternative options, and the baseline operation of sending the used cooking oil off the installation."
Raun said the process begins in the installation's dining facility kitchens which feed hundreds of Soldiers every day.
"With minimal impact to their operations, the dining facilities – after clearing out their grease traps – would take the oil to 55-gallon drums located outside the building," Raun said. "We've asked them to slightly modify procedure by adding a separate drum to keep the vegetable oil from the fryers separate from that which comes from the clean-outs to reduce water content."
Raun said Environmental Compliance Consultants transports the drums from the dining facilities to the Hazardous Waste Center.
|Scott Lux, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, and Jeff Raun, Fort Richardson Directorate of Public Works Environmental Department, lift a filtration system into the trailer containing a vegetable oil-powered 11-kilowatt generator.
"Previously, the used cooking oil would – after coming here – be shipped through (Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service) and the installation was paying 25 cents a pound plus the cost of the steel drum to dispose of the used vegetable oil off post," Raun said. "We've inserted this process to intercept the oil before it goes off post and before we pay for its disposal by capturing it here as a fuel."
Lindstrom said vegetable oil is derived from plant lipids, biological energy storage molecules sufficient for combustion in diesel engines which normally run on fossil fuels.
"Diesel fuel is refined from petroleum which is arguably produced from algal materials in the oceans a long time ago," Lindstrom said. "So the two are different chemically. The properties such as viscosity and surface tension are notably different which is why we modify the engines to accommodate for those properties.
"In terms of energy content per volume, vegetable oil contains on the order of five to seven percent less energy content, so in some engines they may want to modify certain things to account for that, allowing for more fuel flow," Lindstrom continued. "For this engine, there's no difference, so it's really remarkable how similar they are in terms of energy content but they come from entirely different sources."
The generator set is contained in an otherwise unassuming trailer, home to a system which processes the vegetable oil into a purified biofuel, ushering the previously untapped resource into a three-cylinder indirect injection generator which produces electricity for space heaters providing heat to Fort Richardson's Hazardous Waste Center.
Lindstrom said a 55-gallon drum containing the used vegetable oil is brought into the trailer where heat is both ducted from the engine into a shroud surrounding the barrel as well as produced by an electric band encapsulating the bottom of the barrel to redundantly prime the oil for filtering.
"We have a couple of filters that pre-filter the oil and then we have a centrifuge that takes the small particles out," Lindstrom said. "In the back of the trailer, there is a 275-gallon tote that stores the clean oil which is fed to the engine generator which runs continuously day and night. The generator set provides power which runs into the side of the building to space heaters that run on thermostat, drawing power as needed."
Lindstrom estimates the generator set will burn two 55-gallon drums every week with approximately 85 to 90 percent of the used vegetable oil available for combustion after the animal fats and water are filtered out.
"We're not doing anything here that hasn't been done already," Lindstrom conceded. "But what we need to do – which I think we have done – is assemble off-the-shelf components and know how that makes sense for this concept and proves to be economical."
Raun said the project may have implications beyond the installation.
"Fort Richardson is not unique in that we use cooking oil," Raun clarified. "Army installations across the country use vegetable oil in their dining facilities.
"My counterparts at other installations who have fought the same battle of what to do with their cooking oil – it's a sizable problem from the solid waste standpoint," Raun said. "Marrying that solid waste problem with the potential to diversify energy resources on an installation, it's a good fit, a win-win for both program areas.
"In terms of overall energy consumption on the installation, it's a very small piece of the puzzle," he continued. "But it does add that alternative energy component to an energy portfolio and that is something the Army is very cognizant of – providing sustainability for installations as far as energy resources."
For his part, Lux said he believes alternative energy sources are important to the security of Army installations.
"Energy security is a huge issue," Lux said. "If something happens to the grid, then the mission can be hindered because of a lack of power. So if we can have distributed energy generation resources such as this, then this is something that we are most certainly interested in."