Date:Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:20:08 -0700 Subject:[encinaupdate] Encina Update (aol/reunions/groups/forsberg/siblings/life/tips/search/isps/whats new/books/humor) ENCINA ALUMNI, This is the second Encina Update which is going out by means of the encinaupdate@egroups.com mailing list. I thank you for your patience and perserverance in converting over to the egroups mailing list. If you did not receive the first Encina Update they are archived here: http://www.encinahighschool.com/archives.htm AOL If you use AOL's spam filter, please remember to enable mail from rambus.com and egroups.com if you want to receive mail from me and your groups. In fact, turn the spam filter off, if you want to receive mail from classmates who find your address in the class directories. They won't be on your list and their mail to you will be blocked. I received mail from Cathy Simms 87 this week and all my replies to her bounced. Are AOL members able to send mail to other AOL members or are they also blocked by the spam filter? If you know Cathy, send her a message to disable her filter: happyisl69@aol.com I find the AOL spam filter mucho inconvenient. REUNIONS The first reunion is only THREE weeks away! If you have siblings or friends who might not know about their class reunions, please pass along this information. The classes which plan to have reunions this year are: 1964 1969 Saturday, August 21, 1999 at Ancil Hoffman Park Alan Dankman (adankman@worldnet.att.net) 1973 Mini-reunion: August 21, 1999 Rett Smart (irsmart@ix.netcom.com) 1974 Saturday, Sept 25, 1999 at Sacramento Red Lion Inn Bob Goosmann (Magusbob@hotmail.com) 1979 Saturday, Sept 25, 1999 at Hilton off Arden Way Laura Graff Allred (pacwest@foothill.net) Great Reunions: info@greatreunions.com 1984 1989 Saturday, August 28, 1999 at Howe Park Center Janice Barnes (jabarnes@dttus.com) 1994 Candy Mleczko (candym229@hotmail.com) GROUPS Some of you thought that subscribing to your class group meant you would receive the Encina Update. However, as I explained, the class groups are separate from the encina update group since some alumni prefer to receive only class news/mail. And a reminder to sign your name when sending mail to your class group! MAGNUS FORSBERG It was interesting to hear from Magnus Forsberg 89, who I assume was a foreign exchange student from Sweden. Magnus sent in this bio: Occupation: Financial Controller-Sandvik Bio: After graduation Magnus did a one year mandatory military (air-defense) service. After that he went to the university to study business-economics for four years. At the university he met his wife Ulrika, who was studying to be an elementary school teacher. They graduated in 1995/96. After graduation Magnus took a project-assignment with Sandvik ( a multinational industrial company in Sweden, with 38,000 employees and a total revenue of, approximately, 5 billion US$. Magnus went to Stuttgart, Germany for two months and when he returned married Ulrika. After the project was complete he was employeed with Sandvik as a financial-controller for one of the production-units and now live in Sandviken, which is two hours north of Stockholm. And now they have 15 month old Oscar. Magnus will not be able to attend the 10 year class reunion but we hope to see him at the next one. Friends: Andrew Fedje Kids: Boy, Oscar, 15 months SIBLINGS Quite a few siblings this week... Larry Gray 65 wrote: Steve Gray 63 Larry Gray 65 Kevis Alexander 93 wrote: Manode Kodsuntie 88 Katwatchai Kodsuntie 89 Kevis Alexander 93 Charla Meacham 69 wrote: brother 64 Harriett Meacham 68 Charla Meacham 69 Tonja Howell 81 wrote: Tina Howell 79 Tonja Howell 81 Tony Brent 79 (Tonja's husband) Lisa Brent 82 Carol Weissert Clevenger writes: Gene Clevenger 76 Ron Clevenger 79 Darlene Clevenger 81 Rob Henderson 81 wrote: Lisa Henderson 73 Rob Henderson 81 WORDS TO LIVE BY John Nelson 65 contributed these words to live by: "There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one." Remember this before you send an email in anger... TIPS FOR A LIFETIME I know this isn't particularly relevant but perhaps you'll find these tips as interesting as I did. 1--Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips 2--Use a meat baster to "squeeze" your pancake batter onto the hot griddle-perfect shaped pancakes every time. 3---To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes. 4---To prevent egg shells from cracking, add a pinch of salt to the water before hard-boiling. 5---Run your hands under cold water before pressing Rice Krispies treats in the pan -the marshmallow won't stick to your fingers. 6---To get the most juice out of fresh lemons, bring them to room temperature and roll them under your palm against the kitchen counter before squeezing. 7---To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet: simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stove-top -skillet will be much easier to clean now 8---Spray your Tupperware with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato-based sauces-no more stains. 9---When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead -no white mess on the outside of the cake. 10---If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato -it absorbs the excess salt for an instant "fix me up". 11---Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator-it will keep for weeks. 12---Brush beaten egg white over pie crust before baking to yield a beautiful glossy finish. 13---Place a slice of apple in hardened brown sugar to soften it back up. 14---When boiling corn on the cob, add a pinch of sugar to help bring out the corns natural sweetness. 15---To determine whether an egg is fresh, immerse it in a pan of cool,salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh- If it rises to the surface,throw it away. 16---Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away. 17---Don't throw out all that leftover wine: Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces. 18---If you have problem opening jars: Try using latex dishwashing gloves. They give a non-slip grip that makes opening jars easy. 19---Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water. 20---To get rid of itch from mosquito bite: try applying soap on the area instant relief. 21---Ants, ants, ants everywhere ... Well, they are said to never cross a chalk line. --So get your chalk out and draw a line on the floor or wherever ants tend to march- see for yourself. --Equal measure of sugar and red pepper will keep ants out, also ! 22---Use air-freshener to clean mirrors: It does a good job and better still, leave a lovely smell to the shine. 23---When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle. Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, then pull it off. Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily. 24----NOW Look what you can do with Alka Seltzer: -Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush, and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action clean vitreous china. -Clean a vase: To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets. - Polish jewelry: Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes. - Clean a thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary). - Unclog a drain. Clear the sink drain by dropping three Alka-Seltzer tablets down the drain followed by a cup of Heinz White Vinegar. Wait a few minutes, then run the hot water. 25--- If your VCR has a year setting on it, which most do, you will not be able to use the programmed recording feature after 12/31/99. Don't throw it away. Instead set it for the year 1972 as the days are the same as the year 2000. The manufacturers won't tell you. They want you to buy a new Y2k VCR. ALUMNI SEARCH I haven't run the list of sought after alumni for a while. Please let me know if you know the whereabouts of any of these folks, especially those on the reunion committees. Teachers Susan Diaz 1961 1962 Brenda Baker Shelly Ready 1963 Janice Morrow (reunion committee) Norm Seifkin (reunion committee) 1964 Keith McDonald (reunion committee) Cathy Metcalf (reunion committee) 1966 John Lewis (reunion committee) 1967 Brian Egger Kathy Shook 1968 Karen Rhodes Ann Schirle Kathleen Wilkerson 1969 Steve Bradshaw Dawn Johnson Diane Petroda Trish Reed 1970 Mike Fong Jack Graves Jim Graves Cathy Jordan Nancy Rhinehart 1971 Ruth Mack 1973 Craig Blake Sally Hurd Peggy Hutchinson Patty Russell 1974 Sara Schuler Julie Stewart 1975 Tom Carter Bill Hutchins 1976 Allison Corbin Lori Lake Rick Price Caroline Schmidt Tina Weis 1977 Betty Carter Alison Ehlers 1978 Michael Aufrance Christopher Fiscus Greg Fox Robert Gemmell Nancy Vipond Perry Shultz Barry Wisdom 1979 Tammy Carey 1980 Chris Carey Christy Cooper 1982 Natalie Cordes 1984 Becky Fransham (reunion committee) Tim Vince 1985 Nina Allen 1986 Kelly Mortenson 1988 Corrine McLuckie Rebecca Pickett 1989 1990 1991 Joe McClure Patty Owens Brandy Fleming 1992 Christopher Birdsong Ryan Connor Nance Goecker Jason Graves Michael Hall Heather Kennedy April Thompson April Wellock 1993 Dimple Patel 1994 Candace Berry Janice Garcia Trudy Graham Mitesh Patel Mirna Pelayo Mari Trujillo Amy Zausch FILTERED ISPS From the NY Times this week: A New Breed of ISP Emerges: Filtered A new breed of Internet service provider is emerging to serve the needs of parents and others who want access to an Internet free of pornography, bomb-making information, hate advocacy and other perceived ills. They are called "filtered ISPs," and they exist to make it easy for families and others to keep arguably objectionable material off their computer screens. Most are small and it is hard to find one that has been around longer than three years. But their existence was thrown into the spotlight last week with two high-profile developments. Last Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Tim Robertson, son of the evangelist Pat Robertson, planned to start a filtered ISP in the fall, possibly with backing from AT&T. Then on Wednesday a separate group held a news conference in Washington, D.C., to launch a new filtered online service called this.com. "We've identified a very large market for this service," said Robertson, who added that consumers "are very, very concerned about the proliferation of unwanted and predatory type of activity on the Internet." In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Robertson, the former chief executive of The Family Channel, said the new service, FamilyClick.com, would launch in September, and that the company was in final negotiations to receive about $10 million in backing from AT&T. A spokesman for AT&T declined to comment. Robertson said the company would target a general family -- though not necessarily religious -- clientele. "This is for families," he said, adding "we don't care what religion they are." There are at least two dozen filtered ISPs in the United States, according to Liza Kessler, staff counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology, which recently conducted a survey of ventures offering Internet control tools for parents. What the ventures have in common is that the Internet access they provide is designed to block potentially offensive material, including pornography, bomb-making recipes or hate messages -- and in some cases, sites containing such things as tasteless humor or models wearing lingerie. Those who run the services say they are a safer bet than blocking software installed on home computers, because they are not as easy for clever youngsters to circumvent. Many of the services were started by people from religious, and particularly evangelical Christian, backgrounds. One of the better known filtered ISPs, for example, is Integrity Online, started by Richard V. Jones, the pastor of a church outside Portland, Ore. Jones said he launched the ISP in 1996, after he became disturbed by reports from parishioners about the availability of pornography online. Initially, according to James E. Edgerton, Integrity's marketing director, the company targeted religious customers and advertised on Christian radio shows. In the last year or so, however, it has expanded its marketing efforts to families in general. "We're going from the Amy Grant crowd to the Dr. Laura crowd," he said, referring first to the Christian singer and then to the radio talk show host. Jones said the company has also been approached by representatives from Muslim nations and Latin American nations with large Roman Catholic populations. According to Jones, Integrity has about 45,000 subscribers. Edgerton, meanwhile, estimates there are perhaps 150,000 customers using filtered services in the United States today, a small percentage of the millions of Americans with Internet access at home. But operators of the services are betting that those numbers will change as more families sign up for Internet access. The Internet market research group Jupiter Communications estimates that by the year 2002 the number of American children in homes with Internet access will more than double, to 38.5 million. The idea of shielding all these 2- to 18-year-olds from Internet mischief is appealing to parents of all stripes, said Brad M. Daniel, chief executive of this.com, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The company includes on its advisory board Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition, and Rabbi Abraham D. Cooper, associate dean of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. "The whole goal here is to protect kids, whether your background is Jewish, Christian, whatever," said Daniel, who added that his company is not tied to any religious group. Nonetheless, like all Internet filtering efforts, the services run into criticism from those who say the technology is not foolproof, that it can fail to capture all the arguably bad sites while blocking those that are arguably good. Moreover, they say, the services are really a high-tech form of censorship. "They can cause more problems than they purport to solve, because no one who uses them has any idea what they really block and they may tend to promote a false sense of security in parents," said Michael Sims, a member of The Censorware Project, a group that researches and publicizes flaws in blocking software and that opposes the use of filters in public institutions. "The only real security is to use the Internet with your children and teach them your values." In an e-mail interview, Sims said he would be especially upset if the services were used by schools and other public institutions. But that may be more than a remote possibility. This.com's Daniel, for one, is going after homes for now, but believes that eventually schools represent a "natural" market. And Charles A. Stevens, president of the company that runs Charlotte, N.C.-based Rated-G Online, a three-year-old filtered ISP, says his service is already used by some schools. For his part, Robertson said filtered ISPs are meeting a market demand and could succeed in nudging online those who have so far stayed off, fearful of the Internet's seamier sides. People who want unfiltered access, he said, are free to go to unfiltered ISPs. "It's not like this is the only way in and suddenly those nice pornographers are going to be cut off from their livelihoods," he said. WHAT'S NEW 7/28/99: Linda Hansen 76 update, Richard Brent 79, Tony Brent 79, Lisa Brent 82, Gene Clevenger 76, Darlene Clevenger 81, Tina Howell 79, Tonja Howell 81, Therese Niederberger 83 7/27/99: Kevis Alexander 93, Charla Meacham 69, Harriet Meacham 68, Kathie Rayfuse 63 update, Carolyn Teel 73, Patrick Glass 95/bio, Jeremy Miller 95, Larry Averitt 95 7/26/99: Shelly Wright 79, Tim Stites 65/bio, Larry Gray 65, Steve Gray 63 7/24/99: Scott Gaylord 65, Tim Stites 65, Steve Wood 71, Magnus Forsberg 89/bio 7/22/99: Vanessa Richey 89 bio, Leslie Lee 69, Patty Wohl 77, Erica Meyer 91 bio, Manode Kodsuntie 88, Bryan Karns 95 BOOKS The third book of the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Akzaban" is available in England. It won't be released in the US until Sept 7. I ordered it last week from amazon.co.uk and it arrived this Tuesday. I love the internet! http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0747542155/ HUMOR GROUP If you wish to subscribe to the Encina Humor mailing list, send a blank email to encinahumor-subscribe@egroups.com or let me know. Take care. Harlan Lau 73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com