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Monday, April 3, 2000

Tapa


By Ken Ige, Star-Bulletin
Initials C and E are often found hidden on products, like the
underside of electronic items. Here it's also on the back
of a plastic toy humpback whale.



A dangling Q
on C and E

One of our library guys, who spends his days staring at the rear end of someone else's computer monitor, was finally overcome with curiosity and asked us, "What's with CE?"

To which we responded, "Huh?"

Wat Dat?And he showed us. It's everywhere. It's the letters C and E, often in an elegant Art Deco typeface, and it's on many, many consumer products. Electronics. Games. Stuffed animals. Sunglasses. Office supplies. The rear end of computer monitors.

It's clearly some sort of consumer-product label, and most manufactured products have plenty of them. FCC on electronic products means they meet Federal Communications Commission codes. UL or UL-Approved means the product matches or exceeds the home-safety standards of Underwriter Laboratories.

A check of the vaunted World Wide Web turns up nothing conclusive, except that there's a Microsoft Windows CE product that gums up the search engines. And there are a couple of sites in which college students hypothesize that CE has something to do with a world-wide conspiracy. And there is a theory that it's probably tied in with that creepy staring eye on the dollar bill.

The odd thing is that the initials are often hidden on products. It can be on the INSIDE of a battery compartment of an electronic item, or on circuits buried deep within a computer motherboard.

Maybe it's the rare element cerium, CE on the atomic table.

Maybe it stands for Chemical Engineering.

Maybe it stands for Church of England. (Yeah, that's it!)

Thanks to the guys at the state's Consumer Protection office, there's a clue that CE stands for items approved to ship in and out of the European Union. So it may stand for Compliance Europe.

If you have a definitive explanation of the CE label, let us know.



Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin

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Matthews on mornings

KHON news anchor and reporter Kirk Matthews today joined Leslie Wilcox as co anchor of the Fox affiliate's Morning News show.

The co-anchor position has been vacant since Ron Mizutani left the Morning News to replace Bob Hogue, who was released as the station's sports director, on KHON's 6 and 10 p.m. news.

In addition to his morning news duties, Matthews will cover education in depth. Meanwhile, weekend anchor Malia Mattoch will replace Matthews on Action Line, the station's consumer reporting segment.

Rounding out the morning news team are Manolo Morales and Linda Jameson.

Family fair set at Iolani

Iolani School's family fair, "Ocean Commotion," will take place noon to 10 p.m. April 14 and 15 on the school's baseball field. Admission is free.

Featured will be food booths, a country store, white elephant sale, silent auction, children's games, arts and crafts, and a sale of produce and plants.

There will also be entertainment, including a concert by Baba B at 9 p.m. April 14, the KCCN All-Star Band at 8:30 p.m. April 15, and demonstrations by chefs George Mavrothalassitis and Jean-Marie Josselin from 2:30 and 4 p.m. April 15.

Call 943-2339.

Discover what's new at WCC

Windward Community College will host "Ho'olaule'a 2000: A Voyage of Discovery," from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on its Kaneohe campus.

The free event will feature Easter egg hunts at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., continuous entertainment and an open house featuring the school's new science building, with marine and aerospace displays.

Call 235-7433.


Radio Log

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KONG 570-AM / 93.5 FM: Adult contemporary rock with some Hawaiian music
KSSK 590-AM / 92.3-FM: Adult contemporary music
KHNR 650-AM: All news
KQMQ 93.1-FM: Contemporary hit radio
KQMQ 690-AM: Radio Disney
KGU 760-AM: Sports radio
KHVH 830-AM: News, talk, traffic, weather
KAIM 870-AM / 95.5-FM: Christian music and teaching
KJPN 940-AM: Japanese-language news, adult contemporary music and talk shows
KIKI 990-AM / 93.9-FM: Contemporary country AM; contemporary hits FM
KLHT 1040-AM: Christian radio
KWAI 1080-AM: Talk radio
KZOO 1210-AM: Japanese-language, broadcasts from Japan
KNDI 1270-AM: Live news from the Philippines; programs in 10 languages
KIFO 1380-AM: News, public affairs
KCCN 1420-AM / 100.3-FM: All talk / UH sports AM; contemporary island hits, FM
KUMU 1500-AM / 94.7-FM: Adult standards, AM; light rock, FM
KHPR 88.1-FM: Classical, news, public affairs
KIPO 89.3-FM: Jazz, classical, news
KTUH 90.3-FM: Jazz, blues, Hawaiian, rock, country and alternative
KKUA 90.7-FM: Classical, news and public affairs
KKCR 90.9 / 91.9-FM: Hawaiian music, midnight-3 p.m.; and rock, reggae, classical and new age
KRTR 96.3-FM: Adult contemporary, news
KPOI 97.5-FM: Modern rock
KDNN 98.5-FM: Contemporary Hawaiian
KORL 99.5-FM: Adult contemporary
STAR 101.9-FM: Modern hits
KKHN 102.7-FM: Country
KXME 104.3-FM: Top 40
KINE 105.1-FM: Hawaiian
KGMZ 107.9-FM: Oldies



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