05/06/07 -
NNHS
Newsletter -
Pretty Little Angel Eyes
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
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Luciano de Crescenzo
(b. 20 Aug 1928)
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05/06/07 -
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“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
The theme of this Bonus Newsletter was originally planned for 05/13/05, but as that was when my computer went down, it was not actually used until 08/17/05:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/08-17-05-NNHS-Pretty-Little-Angel-Eyes.html
It seemed appropriate for
today, as I seem to have had angels on my mind lately..... 
AS PROMISED:
The Class of 1963!
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/SITE-MAP.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-class-of-1963.html - brand new page
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion2008-63-missing.html - updated
ANOTHER NEWS FLASH:
From
Me ('65) of NC -
05/06/07:
This is a fairly long story, but my sister
Eleanor (Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of NC) and my daughter
Adrienne
and I are taking a trip this week with my cousin,
Cheryl (White Wilson - John Marshall High - of VA). If
I'm able, I'll issue another Newsletter tomorrow with the exciting details, but
we're driving up to her home late tomorrow (Monday) afternoon, and not returning
until Friday or Saturday.
I will NOT have computer access all week, and I didn't want y'all to think I had fallen victim to a deep depression and committed hara-kiri or something!
My mood has take a 360 degrees turn, thanks to all of you Sweet
Angels! I cannot thank y'all enough!
PAUL'S RESUME:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/PHH-RESUME-1.html
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/PHH-EMPLOYMENT-4.html - newly revised (but still in process)
NOW ALSO POSTED HERE: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
From Someone Who Asked to Remain Anonymous - 05/05/07, 8:54 PM:
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Fuzzy (Turner
- '63 - of NC)
has asked you for amounts that are needed to carry you - now, PRINT THEM!! .....
Well, alrighty,
then! This is really tacky, even for me, but as
Miles (Nowitzky -
Granby HS - '50) used to say, "Your wish is my desire."
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HARTY HOUSEHOLD MONTHLY OPERATING EXPENSES
Revised 04/06/07 |
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| NAME | ACCOUNT NUMBER | ADDRESS | AMOUNT |
| RC
Holdings, LLC
(rent) |
Paul and Carol Harty |
c/o
Keith Graybill |
$475.00 |
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Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (electricity) |
541 399 8450 |
P.O. Box 1301 |
$223.12 |
| Aqua
North Carolina, Inc.
( water and sewer) |
000797843 0557591 |
762
W. Lancaster Avenue |
@$22.00 |
| Time
Warner Cable (phone, internet, cable bundle) |
314-069117406-001 (under Dale Harty) |
P.O. Box 40508 |
$156.23 |
| The
Members Insurance Company (automobile insurance) |
AAC0002180-00 |
P.O. Box 64729 |
$82.26/mo for 8 months ~ OR ~ $399.02 for entire year if paid by 05/17/07 |
| Cumberland Garbage and Trash Service | 0136 |
P.O. Box 64729 |
$14.00 |
| Wal-Mart Pharmacy (four prescription medications) |
4601 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, NC 28311 910-488-2828 |
$18.00 | |
From My Niece, Shari, of VA - 05/04/07, 7:48 PM - "Re: Moments to Remember":
I'm deeply concerned about you and your family. Having some (as I'm sure you know financial issues, amongst other heartbreaking issues ) due to my... .let's say unique set of circumstances, lends me great empathy, for yours. I wish I had money to give you guys, but please be assured we will include you in our prayers. I know it's not much, but the power of prayer is strong and I've come to have faith in that, when there seems there is nothing but that. I love you guys and wish the very best for you and hope a way will manifest.
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A saying that I kept as a
wallpaper on my computer is in this wallpaper. There were times I felt none
could relate and still have those times when I still do. These are not sent
to placate. Problems and serious ones are just that. I hope these things that have helped me, provide you with those same feelings of hope. |
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I hope these things will give you a bit of hope. A hug sent from me. Please look at number 31 of These Lessons In Life. http://www.wtv-zone.com/cal731/index.html
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote
the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever
written. My odometer rolls over to 50 this week, so here's an update:
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WOWZERONI-RINI!
Thanks so much, Shari!
From Glenn Dye ('60) of TX - 05/04/07, 8:28 PM - "Re: Moments to Remember":
I have read Carol's news flash about her trials she is going through to keep the web page up and her other living expenses have gotten behind in trying to keep us informed on what is going on in N.N.H.S. news. I enjoy reading about all the class folks that I went to school with are doing. It really brings back a lot of memories to me. If every one that reads the web page could send her at least 10.00 dollars, I think that would help a lot. I am putting mine in the mail this week .
Thank you, Carol. Things are going to get better.
Glenn Dye {60} TYPHOONS STICK TOGETHER
Oh, my! Thank you, Glenn!
From NewsMax Media - 05/04/07:
A Dirty Contact Lens Risks Blindness
The 5-second rule doesn’t apply to a dropped contact lens! If you’ve ever dropped your contact lens on the floor and popped it into your eye without cleaning, you risked going blind. And you’re not alone. A new study says that almost 75 percent of contact lens wearers have habits dirty enough to cause blindness.
Fifteen percent of wearers will pick a dropped contact lens off the floor and put it directly into their eye without washing. Twenty percent have a habit of licking their contact lens before putting them into their eyes, and forty percent don’t bother to wash their hands before applying their lenses.
Bad habits increase the risk of several eye diseases including conjunctivitis, and acanthamoeba keratitis, a painful infection that can blind.
More than half of men sleep in their lenses, and 44 percent don’t bother to wash their hands before applying their lenses, but women have the dirtiest habits! Almost 25 percent will lick their lenses before putting them in their eyes, and some women even share lenses with friends.
Wearing chipped or damaged lenses can harm eyes, as well as leaving them in too long. Even seemingly clean habits, such as washing lenses in tap water and using a different cleaning solution, can lead to trouble. Tap water can contain sight-robbing bacteria, and using the wrong cleaning solution can produce allergic reactions and even burn eyes.
“Poor hygiene can lead to infections which range from a simply uncomfortable but temporary problem to a very nasty health issue that may lead to blindness in a matter of days,” said Kevin Davis, President of the College of Optometrists. “Our
eyes are precious and we need to appreciate that treating them carelessly and with bad hygiene habits is likely to cause problems in the future.”
From Elaine Dorn Foster ('57) of VA - 05/05/07 - "DON'T BUY GAS ON MAY 15TH ":
...in April 1997, there was a "gas out"
conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents
a gallon overnight.
On May 15th 2007, all internet users are asked to not go to a gas station
in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.
There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet network, and
the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.
If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take $2,292,000,000.00
(that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies' pockets for just one day, so
please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and let's try to put a dent in
the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.
Or why not try both
approaches?!? Thanks, Elaine!
From NewsMax Media - 05/04/07:
Understanding the Function of Sleep
Sleep remains one of the big mysteries in biology. All animals sleep, and people who are deprived of sleep suffer physically, emotionally and intellectually. But nobody knows how sleep restores the brain.
Now, Giulio Tononi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, has discovered how to stimulate brain waves that characterize the deepest stage of sleep. The discovery could open a new window into the role of sleep in keeping humans healthy, happy and able to learn.
The brain function in question, called slow wave activity, is critical to the restoration of mood and the ability to learn, think and remember, Tononi says.
During slow wave activity, which occupies about 80 percent of sleeping hours, waves of electrical activity wash across the brain, roughly once a second, 1,000 times a night. In a paper being published this week in the Early Edition of the scientific journal PNAS, Tononi and colleagues, including Marcello Massimini, also of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, described the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to initiate slow waves in sleeping volunteers. The researchers recorded brain electrical activity with an electroencephalograph (EEG).
A TMS instrument sends a harmless magnetic signal through the scalp and skull and into the brain, where it activates electrical impulses. In response to each burst of magnetism, the subjects' brains immediately produced slow waves typical of deep sleep, Tononi says. "With a single pulse, we were able to induce a wave that looks identical to the waves the brain makes normally during sleep."
The researchers have learned to locate the TMS device above a specific part of the brain, where it causes slow waves that travel throughout the brain. "We don't know why, but this is a very good place to evoke big waves that clearly travel through every part of the brain," Tononi says.
Scientists' interest in slow waves stems from a growing appreciation of their role in sleep, Tononi says. "We have reasons to think the slow waves are not just something that happens, but that they may be important" in sleep's restorative powers. For example, a sleep-deprived person has larger and more numerous slow waves once asleep. And as sleep proceeds, Tononi adds, the slow waves weaken, which may signal that the need for sleep is partially satisfied.
Creating slow waves on demand could someday lead to treatments for insomnia, where slow waves may be reduced. Theoretically, it could also lead to a magnetically stimulated "power nap," which might confer the benefit of eight hours sleep in just a few hours.
Before that happens, however, Tononi must go further and prove that artificial slow waves have restorative benefits to the brain. Such an experiment would ask whether sleep with TMS leads to greater brain restoration than an equal amount of sleep without TMS.
Although an electronic power-napper sounds like a product whose time has come, Tononi is chasing a larger quarry: learning why sleep is necessary in the first place. If all animals sleep, he says, it must play a critical role in survival, but that role remains elusive.
Based on the fact that sleep seems to "consolidate" memories, many neuroscientists believe that sleeping lets us rehearse the day's events.
Tononi agrees that sleep improves memory, but he thinks this happens through a different process, one that involves a reduction in brain overload. During sleep, he suggests, the synapses (connections between nerve cells) that were formed by the day's learning can relax a little.
While awake, we "observe and learn much more than you think," he observes. "Tons of things are leaving traces, changing the synapses, mainly by making them stronger. It is wonderful that you can have all these synaptic traces in the brain, but they come at a price. Synapses require proteins, fats, space and energy. At the end of a waking day, you have all these traces of memories left behind.
"During the slow waves, all the connections, step by step, are becoming a little weaker," Tononi adds. "By morning, the total connection strength is back to the way it was the morning before. The trick is to downscale all the connections by the same percentage, so the ones that were stronger are still stronger. That way you don't lose the memory."
Without this type of weakening, he says, we "would not be able to learn new things" because our brains would lack sufficient available energy, space and nutrients.
Although the explanation is still a hypothesis, Tononi hopes that the ability to artificially stimulate slow waves will allow him and other researchers to test the notion that sleep restores the brain by damping connectivity between neurons.
Slow waves, he suspects, "Clear out the noise to make sure your brain does not become too much of an energy hog, a space hog. By morning, you have a brain that is energy efficient, space efficient and ready to learn again."
NewsMaxEditor's Note:
From Alex Nicol ('49) of VA - 05/05/07 - "YOUR SITE DID GET BLOCKED":
I was logging on to your
site 2-3 days ago and my Norton Internet Parental Control section blocked your
web site. I had previously "crashed" (real bad) my Windows XP and had to
re-install Windows. The rescue disk (from HP) had a free trial of Norton and I
activated the 60 day trial. Anyway, when the Norton program blocked me from your
site. I then de-activated the parental control and thought nothing more about
it. I accessed the NNHS newsletter today and remembered something about some
"firewall" thought you were a "spammer'. Gee, I don't know about why you got
blocked. The Norton firewall, I thought, was too aggressive and I de-activated
that part also, before I accessed your web site, and went back to McAfee
firewall.
You have a swell web site. I never took the time to learn how to create a web
site.
Alex
YOWZERONI!
I hadn't thought of that
angle; I thought it was just Yahoo instigating it! I believe I heard a
story about this once before, now that I think about it.....
Thanks for telling me,
Alex!
From Eric S. Huffstutler
(Bethel HS - '75) of VA - 05/05/07 - "NNHS 65 website":
(Oh, my
goodness! I feel better all ready!)
I must admit that I have not been reading my newsletters lately as I too have had problems with depression as well as being swamped at work. Just chance that I opened the one that told of your plight.
YOWZERONI!!! I'm so sorry to
hear that, Eric! That is just not fun!
I hope you're feeling much better
now, and that your work load will lighten soon if it hasn't already!
No, I did not know that one existed - thanks!
Or temporary employment services?
We've been seriously considering that one at last.
For utilities, they will usually work with you especially the lights and water.
I'd somehow not remembered that.
There is also services to help with food and medications.
The food and medication are pretty much under control. The church is graciously providing the food, and we can get the monthly medications now from Wal-Mart pharmacy for a mere $18.00 a month!
As far as the internet, you can get basic services with limited online hours and dial a local number while turning off long distance and any other extras for now. The same for cable - drop it... get the local channels via rabbit ears and watch VHS / DVDs. Rent is a little harder and that should be your main concern. It takes 90 days for eviction usually but let's hope you will not suffer that!
Thanks, Sweetie!
Keep in touch!
From Jimmy Hines ('64) of
Northern VA - 05/06/07:
Carol,
I'm glad to see that people have responded, and that you are still able to
communicate...I'm glad to see that at least one gentleman had a possibility of
work, even if it's here in Northern Va, where, yes, it is expensive to own
property, but in many ways seemingly no more expensive (gas, groceries, clothes,
etc.) than any other place I go...There's certainly no shortage of stuff to do
here, and a lot of it is free...I know you want steadiness to return to your
life, and I'm glad the possibility of work was mentioned, to include
resumes...I can imagine you didn't want to do that-submit a resume...on line to
your friends, anymore than you wanted to ask for help-but who better to go to?
When things get back to normal, perhaps there could someday be a place in the
Newsletter for people to submit resumes for possible employment and
relocation...every community has a 'Trading Post' kind of publication that will
also list people looking for jobs and jobs looking for people...Retired people
(and others) are always looking for something different to do, for whatever
reason, and they have much to offer that age-challenged people just do not (now,
wasn't that tactfully put?). And, as the newsletter has been sooooooo helpful to
many of us, it should also be helpful to you...Maybe another person could edit
those submissions, and forward them to you for inclusion...I expect there will
be a thought or two someone else might have about that...good-let's hear it.
What a fabulous idea!
Do we have any volunteers?!?
I put something in the mail tonight for the two of you to use any way you see
fit, and am glad to know that more help is forthcoming..
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I've told my children from time to time, and now I tell you...You are not
without assets-financial, community, family, and many other kinds of
support...and you are being watched over... On those occasions when I told my
children that, it was hard for them to hear and harder to even accept, but they
eventually found it was true, and so will you.
Jimmy
Thanks so
much, Sweetie!
DATES TO REMEMBER:
1. Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 60th Birthday Party for the Class of 1965 - OPEN TO ALL NNHS CLASSES
2. Saturday, August 4, 2007 - Typhoon Informal Reunion - NNHS CLASS OF 1960
3. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7 - 9, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1957
4. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 31 - September 2, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1967
5. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21 - 23, 2007 - NNHS CLASS OF 1962; FRIDAY NIGHT OPEN TO NNHS CLASSES OF 1960 - 1965
6. Saturday, September 29, 2007 - Evelyn Fryer Fish's Buckroe Beach (Pot Luck) Birthday Party for Everyone - OPEN TO ALL
7. Friday and Saturday, May 16 - 17, 2008 - NNHS CLASS OF 1958
REUNION REMINDERS:
Reunion information is ALWAYS posted very near the top on the front page, and on the Reunion Page section:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-page.html
Henceforth, it will be repeated
here, lest you forget:
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The NNHS Class of 1965
will celebrate their 60th Birthdays
on
Saturday, June 23, 2007 at Shelter #12 at Newport News
Park on Jefferson Avenue in Newport News from 2:00 - 6:00 PM.
This will be an open event
with all NNHS classes welcome.
If you haven't yet reached 60, it will afford an opportunity to practice. If you have, you can act like Jack Benny and move back a few years. No matter the case, all are welcome.
It's never too early to make
plans, so mark your calendar today and we'll follow up shortly
with further information.
We look forward to seeing you in June! CONTACT: Dave Arnold at dlarnold@cox.net or call him at 757-618-6646. AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/18/07: |
The NNHS Class of 1960 will hold a Typhoon Informal Reunion
on Saturday, August 4th, 2007,
at 3:00 PM
at the Beach home of Mary Ann
Edwards Elliot,
504 West Ocean View, Norfolk, VA Afternoon into evening beach party with covered dish dinner
$15.00 per person
For information/reservations, please contact:
Karen Weinstein
Witte
14314 Wadsworth Dr. Odessa, FL 33556
813-920-9498
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The NNHS Class of 1967 will hold its 40-Year Reunion on Labor Day weekend: Friday, August 31, 2007 - Friday by the Fountain, City Center/Social, at Red Star Tavern Saturday, September 1, 2007 - Buffet Dinner/Dance, The Omni Hotel, Newport News Sunday, September 2, 2007 - Omni Sunday Brunch More information will follow in June.
CONTACTS:
mmccoy@vectec.org;
Wanda - 757-867-9070; |
The NNHS Class of 1962 will hold its 45-Year Reunion on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 21, 22 and 23, 2007 at the Point Plaza Suites, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601.
Suites will be available that will include breakfast
Visit Brenda's 1962 Web Page: A ND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 04/30/07:http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/reunion-62-planning-mtgs.html |
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The
NNHS Class of 1957 is planning its 50-Year Class Reunion, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 7, 8 and 9, 2007 at the Omni Hotel in Newport News, VA. More details to follow! |
The NNHS Class of 1958 is planning its 50th Anniversary Reunion, Friday and Saturday, May 16 -17, 2008. The Noble Gathering AND CHECK THIS WEB PAGE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION - 03/28/07: |
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I thought folks might enjoy some of these photos as we have so many animal lovers. Dave Sights you may not see in a lifetime I think that's aptly titled! Thanks, Dave! |
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Y'all take care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!
Love to all, Carol
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NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com
PERSONAL WEB SITE:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/cluckmeat
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Carol Buckley
Harty
219 Four Ply Lane
Fayetteville, NC 29311-9305
910-488-9408
Pretty Little Angel Eyes
- Boyce/Lee
(Curtis Lee, 1961)
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel,
Pretty little angel,
Pretty little, pretty little, pretty little angel.
Pretty little little little angel eyes.
Angel eyes, I really love you so,
Angel eyes, I'll never let you go,
Because I love you, my darling angel eyes.
Pretty little little little angel eyes.
Angel eyes, you are so good to me,
And when I'm in your arms, it feels so heavenly,
You know I love you, my darling angel eyes.
I know you were sent from, heaven above,
To fill my life with your wonderful love,
I know we will be happy for eternity,
Cause I know-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow that our life is real.
Angel eyes, I really love you so,
Angel eyes, I'll never let you go
Because I love you, my darling angel eyes.
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel eyes,
Pretty little angel,
Pretty little angel
Pretty little, pretty little, pretty little angel.
Angel eyes, I really love you so,
Angel eyes, I'll never let you go,
Because I love you, my darling angel eyes.
Pretty little little little angel eyes.
"Pretty Little
Angel Eyes" midi courtesy of
http://www.geocities.com/~goldenoldies/jukebox5060Font3.htm
at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 04/30/05
Thanks, Dave!
"Pretty Little
Angel Eyes" lyrics courtesy of http://www.showaddywaddy.net/pretty.htm
also at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 04/30/05
Thanks again, Dave!
Cherub clip art courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4378/clipangels.html - 05/09/05
Animated Angels clip art and Tiny Angel clip art courtesy of http://www.mybestweb.com/special-angel.htm - 08/14/05
Justice Scale clip art courtesy of
Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of VA - 10/13/05
Thanks, Cheryl!
Bruin clip art courtesy of Eric
Huffstutler (Bethel HS - '75) of VA - 03/22/06
Thanks, Eric!
Air Force Seal clip art courtesy of http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/milsongs.htm - 07/07/06
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