Rancho Cucamonga PT Cruiser Club Newsletter

January 2008 - Issue 20

Bob Irvine
Parking Lot Director
Coordinator Sandy Irvine
Alexander Mendoza and Raffle & 50/50 Tickets Director
Co-coordinator
Alicia Mendoza

Jim Guignard
Photographer & Digital Film Director
Robin Brewer
Membership & Welcoming Director HAPPY NEW YEAR
2008
Rancho Cucamonga
PT Cruiser Club &
Classic Car Event
Games Director Roni Koepp
PT FAN BELT TOSS – HULA HOOP TOSS
HORSE SHOE TOSS – BASKETBALL TOSS

Open to All PT Cruisers & All Classic Cars - 11:00 a m - 2:30 p m

PT Cruiser of the Month Plaque - Plus – 9 Trophies for these Categories
Best of Show - Best Engine - Best Interior - Best Theme of the Month - Best Paint - Best Under
Construction - Special Interest - Best Graphics - And Best Stock
This event will be held every other month in 2008
Jan 6 - Mar 2 - May 4 – Jul 6 – Sep 7 – Nov 2
Location: - Burger Town USA - 760 No. Archibald Ave - Ontario, California
Directions: - Take the San Bernardino Freeway (10) - Exit at Archibald Ave - Go north 1 block.

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Birthdays for the Year 2008 Birthday’s for July
Joey Sandstrom - July 2
Bob Naveroski - July 2
Luis Gonzales - July 13
Adam Higgins - July 15
Sandi Wellington - July 15
Doris Kotwica - July 23
Jimmy Anderson - July 30
Birthday’s for January Jim Guignard - July 30
Jonathan Meyer - January 6 Kenny Wong - July 30
Bob Koepp - January 10 Ivy Summer Kozasky – July 31
~ ~
Birthday’s for February Birthday’s for August
Katie Daigle - February 16 Barbie Wong - August 4
Claudia Oviatt - February 16 Stephanie Sandstrom - August 8
~ Vickie Hoppens - August 9
Birthday’s for March Rick Williams - August 10
Alex Mendoza - March 1 Marlene Beach - August 10
Alicia Mendoza - March 29 Jim Dekoker - August 14
Arthur Mendoza - March 31 Paula Anderson - August 20
~ Lorraine Williams - August 21
Birthday’s for April Alexander Jr. - August 25
Alex Kozasky - April 1 Linda Cook - August 30
Roseanne Gonzales - April 15 Ashly Sinor - August 31
Jordan Sandstrom - April 21 PT Tony - August 31
Sandy Irvine - April 26 ~
Clem Lagrosa - April 26 Birthday’s for September
~ Sue Stephenson - September 1
Birthday’s for May Larry Stephenson - September 3
Stephanie - May 13 Roni Koepp - September 6
Dillan Higgins - May 15 Ray Oviatt - September 8
Gina Kozasky - May 16 Robin Brewer - September 30
Randy - May 23 ~
~ Birthday’s for October
Birthday’s for June Shar - October 11
Danny Beach - June 6 Connie Sandstrom - October 16
Laurie Esquivel - June 15 ~
Pete - June 25 Birthday’s for November
Dean Daigle - June 26 Denise Meyer – November 8
~ Melanie Meyer - November 8
Jennie Sandstrom - November 18
~
Birthday’s for December
Cherie Landreth - December 1
Mary Ann Naveroski - December 1
Martha (Tony) - December 5
Donna Higgins - December 11
Will Cook - December 12
Bob Irvine - December 16
Jeff Meyer - December 27

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 "PT CRUISER OF THE MONTH"
DECEMBER 2007
THIS MONTH’S AWARD IS PRESENTED
BY JUDGE JEAN TO WINNER
"JIM DEKOKER"
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Jim now you’re in the Winner’s Circle to
compete on PT Cruiser of the Year for 2007.
Good luck and congratulations on such a
dashing elaborate flamboyant win on
PT Cruiser of the Month for December 2007.
Previous Winners For
"PT Cruiser of the Month"
2006
Shirley Reeves ~ June 2006
Clem Lagrosa ~ July 2006
Rick & Lorraine Williams ~ August 2006
George & Lori Manz ~ September 2006
Robin Brewer ~ October 2006
Mel ~ November 2006
Jim & Paula Anderson ~ December 2006
~ PT Cruiser of the Year for 2006 ~
Clem Lagrosa
2007
Glenn Marx ~ January 2007
Sandy Wellington ~ February 2007
Lloyd Holland ~ March 2007
Will & Linda Cook ~ April 2007
Stan Nosik ~ May 2007
Jeff Meyer ~ June 2007
Shar ~ July 2007
Robin Brewer ~ August 2007
Adam Higgins ~ September 2007
Paul & Laurie Esquivel ~ October 2007
Jim & Paula Anderson ~ November 2007
Jim Dekoker ~ December 2007
~ PT Cruiser of the Year for 2007 ~
_________________________
2007 Winner will be
selected from list ABOVE
 PT Fan Belt Toss
2006 & 2007
June „06 ~ Dee Campbell
July „06 ~ Jim Ingram
August „06 ~ Cherie Landreth
September „06 ~ Lorraine Williams
October „06 ~ Jennie Sandstrom
November „06 ~ David (visitor)
December „06 ~ Lorraine Williams
January „07 ~ JD
February „07 ~ Alexander Mendoza
March „07 ~ Shar
April „07 ~ Paul Esquivel
May 2007 ~ Laurie Esquivel
June 2007 ~ Bob Irvine
July 2007 ~ Connie Sandstrom
August 2007 ~ Robin Brewer
September 2007 ~ Connie Sandstrom
October 2007 ~ Roni - Bob - Claudia
November 2007 ~ Bob Irvine
Jim Anderson ~ December 2007
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Birds
2006 & 2007
June „06 ~ Jan & Dee Campbell ~ 2 Parakeets
July „06 ~ Jim Ingram ~ 2 Love Birds
Aug. „06 ~ Vicki Hoppens ~ 1 Female Cockatiel
Aug. „06 ~ Sandy Irvine ~ 1 Female Cockatiel
September „06 ~ Ken & Barb ~ 2 Finches
September „06 ~ Louie Gonzales ~ 2 Finches
Oct. 06 ~ Connie & Randy ~ 2 Diamond Doves
November „06 ~ Jennie & Jordon ~ 2 Parakeets
December „06 ~ Sandy Irvine ~ 2 Parakeets
January „07 ~ Linda Cook ~ 2 Parakeets
February „07 ~ Laurie Esquivel ~ 4 Finches
March „07 ~ John Lujan ~ 2 Parakeets
April „07 ~ Connie Sandstrom ~ 2 Parakeets
May '07 ~ Shar ~ 2 Parakeets
June '07 ~ Mary Ann Naveroski ~ 2 Parakeets
July „07 ~ Sandy Wellington ~ 2 Parakeets
August ‟07 ~ Melonie Meyer ~ 2 Parakeets
September ‟07 ~ Linda Cook ~ 2 Parakeets
October ‟07 ~ Cherie Landreth ~ 2 Parakeets
November ‟07 ~ Jim Guignard ~ 2 Finches
December ‟07 ~ No birdies this month.
” The Jim Club ”
Jim ~ Jim ~ Jim
 Hula Hoop Toss
2006 & 2007
July „06 ~ Connie Sandstrom
August „06 ~ Dean Daigle
September „06 ~ Jim Anderson
October „06 ~ Connie Sandstrom
November „06 ~ Charles Brewer
December „06 ~ Bob Irvine
January „07 ~ Adam
February „07 ~ Paul Esquivel
March „07 ~ Lloyd Holland
April '07 ~ Mondo
May „07 ~ Bob Naveroski
June „07 ~ Ray Oviatt
July „07 ~ Paul Esquivel
August ‟07 ~ Charles Brewer
September ‟07 ~ Lloyd Holland
October ‟07 ~ Alex M. & Monique E.
November ‟07 ~ Bob Irvine
WINNER ~ DECEMBER ‟07 ~ DENNIS
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50/50 Raffle Drawing
2006 & 2007
June „06 ~ Betty ~ $60.00
July „06 ~ Robin Brewer ~ $62.50
August „06 ~ Larry & Sue ~ $60.00
Sept.. „06 ~ Susie Howard ~ $65.00
October „06 ~ Bob & Sandy Irvine ~ $36.00
Nov. „06 ~ Jennie Sandstrom ~ $67.00
Dec. „06 ~ Roni Koepp ~ $36.00
January „07 ~ Sandy Wellington ~ $120.00
February „07 ~ Robin Brewer ~ $60.00
March '07 ~ Sandy Wellington ~ $73.00
April „07 ~ Stephanie ~ $57.50
May '07 ~ Sandy Wellington ~ $52.50
June '07 ~ Robin Brewer ~ $105.00
July „07 ~ Roni Koepp ~ $125.00
August‟07 ~ Jonathan Meyer ~ $74.00
September „07 ~ Roni Koepp ~ $104.00
October ‟07 ~ John Lujan ~ $102.00
November ‟07 ~ Jim Guignard ~ $50.00
December ‟07 ~ Mary Ann ~ $88.00
WINNER MARY ANN NAVEROSKI
 Horse Shoe Toss Coordinator Alex Mendoza
2007 This club newsletter will be the first
one of this year, and as most of you
know Rancho Cucamonga PT
April „07 ~ Stanley Nosik
Cruiser Club has a new agenda
May „07 ~ Stanley Nosik
beginning this month. The Meet &
June „07 ~ Stanley Nosik
Greet times have changed from 9 am – 12 pm to
July „07 ~ Alex Mendoza
11 am – 2:30 pm. Plus, we will be inviting
August ‟07 ~ Alex Mendoza
Classic Cars to our Meet & Greets which also
September ‟07 ~ N/A
has changed from being every month to every
October ‟07 ~ John Lujan
other month for 2008 and also beginning this
November ‟07 ~ Charles Brewer
month.
December ‟07 ~ John Lujan
Hopefully all can come and visit us
during our Meet & Greets and have a little bit
of fun while here. I know that there are a lot of
nice people out there and sometimes it may be
hard to make any type of event during the year,
but if you think you can make it please feel free
to attend because we would surely like to see
you.
The clubs web-site is still the same one
as always since the beginning of this club.
Please check it out and do visit the section that
has our albums. That‟s right next to the event
calendar. Last year we went to a lot of cruises
and all who went had a good time.
It is hard to grasp the fact that we as a
club have been together since June of 2006
which would make it 1 and a half years. Since
then we have met a lot of new folks and been to
many places and hopefully we can continue
doing so.
This year our meet & Greet Events will
include 1 PT Cruiser of the Month Plaque, and
thanks to our club sponsors we were able to add
9 category event trophies.
And, also on January 6, 2008 we have 12
PT Cruisers who will compete for “PT Cruiser
of the Year” for 2007. They will be eligible only
if they are here at this event on January 6, 2008.
The winners are: Glenn Marx for January /
Sandy Wellington for February / Lloyd Holland
John Lujan gets a big congratulations
for March / Will & Linda Cook for April / Stan
handshake from Rancho Cucamonga PT
Nosik for May / Jeff Meyer for June / Shar for
Cruiser Club Games Director Roni Koepp.
July / Robin Brewer for August / Adam
Roni came to the event in her little elves‟
Higgins for September / Paul & Laurie Esquivel
Christmas holiday outfit.
for October / Jim Anderson for November /
Additional photos at www.rcptcruiserclub.com
and Jim Dekoker for December 2007.

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 and the level of physical activity are no contraindications for doing
you intend to have for the next so. One contraindication is a hole
few hours. Here are some of the in the eardrum. Flushing out an
Part human, limits to this system: Figuring out ear with an eardrum hole forces
the effects of food and exercise is fluid into the ear's interior and can
part pump
more art than science. Your do permanent harm. Using a
mileage not only may vary, it will cotton-tipped applicator to
I turned cyborg about five
vary from day to day or even hour remove wax is a bad idea, People
years ago. "Resistance is futile"
to hour. And what if you test your almost always succeed only in
and all that. Oh, I may be
blood sugar and find you're a bit pushing the wax deeper into the
stretching the definition a bit. But
high between normal injection canal. Earwax serves several
the word "cyborg" comes from a
times? useful purposes. It protects the
mash-up of "cybernetic" and
Enter the insulin pump. ear canal from water damage. It's
"organism." My insulin pump has
The basic system has been around a barrier against infections. It
enough computer in it to qualify
since the early 1970s: A stash of keeps the canal lubricated. Only
for the "cyber" part.. And it helps
insulin sits in a small box. A very when wax production becomes
maintain my organism, which has
thin tube (think vermicelli pasta) excessive or when the wax dries
diabetes. Every cell in the body
goes from the box into I the body. into a hard ball is it bothersome.
runs on glucose; think of it as
Once, that entry was a metal tube; The ear cleans itself. Skin of the
cellular gasoline. Every
like the business end of a syringe,' ear canal migrates outward and
carbohydrate you eat is quickly
and moved every few days. carries wax with it. It's like a
digested into glucose and dumped
These days, the entry is a tiny conveyor· belt. The chewing'
into the bloodstream.
Teflon tube on a plastic tab that motion also pushes wax out of the
But glucose can't get into
can be disconnected during a canal.
cells without the help of insulin,
shower or at other times when With age, people produce
the chemical key to the locking gas
you don't want to be tethered. a thicker, harder wax that's not so
cap. Insulin is produced by special
The pump trickles insulin easy to ‘move outward, and that's
cells in the pancreas that maintain
every few minutes, just like a why older people have earwax
a rather specific concentration of
healthy pancreas does. When I impactions. In all drugstores, you
sugar in the blood. In Type 1
want to eat, I do a quick mental can get any number of products
diabetes, the immune system kills
calculation involving the amount that soften wax, or you can make
those special cells. Blood
of carbs I plan to eat, and I push a your own softener by warming
chemistry goes wacky. And then
button to tell the pump to quickly mineral oil. With an eyedropper,
you die unless insulin arrives from
deliver the amount of insulin I instill two or three drops in the ear
someplace else, a discovery that
think will be appropriate. after a short wait, flush the ear
became mainstream medicine just
with warm water. You have to buy
87 years ago. Insulin can't be
a rubber-bulb syringe to do this.
swallowed because the digestive Be Gentle
Tilt the head downward toward
system would bust it up. So When
the shoulder to let the liquid drain
"someplace else" used to mean Removing
out. It might take two or more
injections. Earwax applications of oil and flushes with
The amount of insulin
water before the wax comes out.
injected needs to be balanced
People should not, try to If you have trouble or any
with the level of blood sugar, the
remove earwax on their own pain, stop and let the doctors do
amount of food you plan to eat
unless they are positive that there this for you. .
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 FIND YOUR LOST
PASSWORD
Are you in the habit of choosing
the "remember my password"
option when signing into online
accounts? Storing passwords can
be a useful tool for those of us
without perfect recall. The
trouble is, eventually your
computer will prompt you to re-
enter the information and (if
you're like me) by the time that
happens, the password will have
become a distant memory.
Luckily, now there are programs
designed to decode all those
indecipherable asterisks.
• Revelation 2.0. A
downloadable application for
Windows machines that allows
users to convert asterisks back
into real text. Get it at:
www.snadboy.com. Cost: The
program is free, but donations are
appreciated.
• Aqua Deskexperience
1.3.
Like Revelation 2.0, this
application is designed to help
retrieve forgotten passwords. .
However it also has several others
features, including password
protection and advanced screen
capture and text extraction
capabilities. Unfortunately, Aqua
Deskexxperience 1.3 only works
on computers with Windows
2000, XP and 2003. Get it at:
www.deskperience.com/
aqua/password - revealer.html.
Cost: Under $15.
• Password Revealer.
Created by Paqtool, this password
retriever is free to try, but you'll
have to cough up some cash to Battle the bloated
keep using it after the trial period feeling
ends. Password Revealer works
Many of us feel a sense of
on machines with Windows 95,
satisfaction and culinary
98, ME, NY and XP. Get it at:
appreciation after finishing off a
www.newfreedownload.com/Win
grand holiday meal. Bloating
dows Utilities/SystemUtilities/Pas
results from a gas buildup in the
sword-Revealer.html. Cost: Under
stomach and intestines.
$20.
Fatty foods rank high on
the foods that produce bloating,
RCPTCC Club Entertainment
but there are other foods to
PT fan belt toss, hula blame, too. To reduce bloating, go
hoop toss, basketball easy on the following gas-
toss, horse shoe toss, producing foods during holiday
singing contest, raffle, gatherings: broccoli, baked beans,
50/50, club parking,
cabbage, cauliflower, salads,
membership information,
newsletters and all Ez- carbonated drinks, chewing gum
Up's are okay to set up. and hard candy.
Every month we select a
"PT Cruiser of the Month" DRINKING TEA
award. And, on January
6, 2008 a PT Cruiser will
be awarded "PT Cruiser of Tea has many healthy benefits
the Year" for 2007. and increasing numbers of studies
{Only 2007 monthly show that the benefits from
winners will qualify for drinking tea are numerous. Tea
this award} contains high levels of anti-
and, there is always
plenty of public parking oxidants called flavonoids,
for visitors. especially in green and white
teas. The flavonoids in tea
Raffle Tickets Info. possess 20 to 30 times the anti-
oxidant potency of vitamins C and
Raffle Tickets are 5 for
E. Studies have shown that
$5.00 ~ 15 for $10.00 ~
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lower incidence of cancer, fewer
best buy at Rancho
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would be the "Combo cardiovascular health. Drinking
Deal". There are 5 rolls tea may even reduce your risk of
of raffle tickets and 2 heart attack and stroke due to its
rolls of 50/50 tickets anti-blood clotting effect. Studies
and you get 7 tickets also indicate that tea may help
from each roll which keep your artery walls clear of
totals out to 49 raffle cholesterol deposits. Other than
and 50/50 tickets for water Tea is the most commonly
consumed beverage in the world.
only $26.00
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 Gigantic Screens
Think about the biggest TV screen you have ever seen. For example, the biggest TV in the world is more
than 100 feet wide and55 feet tall. Millions of lights, hundreds of computers and A/C are needed. A
gigantic screen like this is made of millions of tiny light bulbs called LEDs. But there are also hundreds of
computers at work, and enough electricity to power a small town. Let's explore the biggest sign in Times
Square in New York City - the NASDAQ Marketsite Tower sign - to find out how these mega screens work.
Let's start with the smallest part of the sign- a single Light Emitting Diode, or LED. You see these
little lights everywhere, for example, your DVD player might have a red LED that tells you whether or not it
is on. LED’s have three big advantages when it comes to making a gigantic TV screen. First, they are bright
second, they are efficient, meaning that they turn most of the electricity they receive into light. Third, they
last a longtime. A typical LED might last 100,000 hours before it burns out.
On any large LED screen, you use clusters of LEDs to make one pixel. For example, a small sign uses
one red LED, a green LED and a blue LED, to make one pixel. By changing the brightness of the three LEDs,
you can create any color in the rainbow. Turn all three LEDs off and you have black. Turn them all on at full
brightness and you have white. And you can create any color in between. In a big sign like the NASDAQ
Marketsite Tower, you need even, more LEDs in a pixel because the sign is so large. This sign uses two red
LEDS, three blue LEDs and three green LEDs to make a single pixel. Since the sign has 1,800 by 1,200 pixels
that means that there are about 17 million LEDs in the sign! These LEDs are wired onto boards called tiles. A
tile has 256 pixels, arranged in a 16 x 16 grid, with 8 LEDs per pixel.
A tile also has its own computer to control the LED’s on the tile. The NASDAQ sign has 9,000 of these
tiles, each about a foot square. The tile needs data to tell it how to light up its 256 pixels. This data comes
from a main control computer that knows how the whole Screen should look. The data for the tile contains
an intensity level for the red, green and blue LEDs for each of the pixels. In other words, 30 times each
second, all 256 pixels on the tile need to get intensity information. The computer on the tile decodes this
information and drives transistors that send electricity to the LEDs. The tiles all chain together, one to the
next, and pass the data from the main computer from tile to tile.
The other thing a tile needs is power. Each tile uses about 60 watts when all the LEDs are lit at full
intensity. The power comes from a set of 700 power supplies that are housed behind the sign. If you
multiply 9,000 tiles by 60 watts, you can see that this sign needs 540,000 watts – enough to power several
hundred houses. The problem is, all those tiles and power supplies generate a LOT of heat. To handle all
this heat, 12 1arge air-conditioning compressors chill a glycol solution that circulates behind the sign. The
air conditioners can use about as much power as the sign itself. If those air conditioners were ever to fail
while the sign is running, it would be a big problem, especially if someone was working on the catwalks
behind the sign.
It’s estimated that it would I only take a few minutes for the heat to build to 200 degrees or more
behind the sign. Anyone working in the tower would bake to death. Who would think that it takes so much
technology to show a picture on a screen? These giant signs are a lot more complicated than they look, and
that is what makes them so expensive. It cost tens of millions of dollars to put up the NASDAQ sign. Just
the electricity for the sign costs more than $1,000 per day.
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