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BONUS #4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFqPu-Fkpx4 - Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24, 1st Movement, K.491, André Previn at the piano (Part 2) with the Royal Philharmonic

BONUS #5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbZYzoidkYU - Conductor André Previn - NHK Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2 Mvt.3 (1/3), Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 2007

BONUS #6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr5aWE-rIs - Conductor André Previn in conversation with London Symphony Orchestra Sub Leader and Chairman Lennox MacKenzie, 2008??

Happy Birthday today to Gerald Leonard ('66) of VA AND Aaron (Hank) Smith ('69)!

11 - Brownie Shaffer Haracivet ('62) of VA AND Susan Avent Hill ('66) of VA AND Kathy Cooper ('70) of VA;

Thanks so much for sharing this, Joe - you know how I love hearing of mini-reunions!

God's Busy

If you don't know GOD, don't make stupid remarks!!!!!

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in he looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting."

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked, stunned, and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, "What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you do that?'"

The Marine calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting American soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So, He sent me."

And all God's people said, -- AMEN!

Being in the grocery business for many years, here is a rundown on the Be-lo / Bi-Lo issue.

Bi-Lo is a chain of stores primarily in the Southeast (South Carolina, Georgia, Florida). Be-Lo was a local chain owned by Camellia Foods. Camellia was bought out by Richfood (Richmond) who in turn was bought out by Supervalu based in Eden Prairie, MN. Supervalu is the largest food wholesaler in the country and own many regional chains including Albertson's (primarily west of the Mississippi) and our local chain here, Farm Fresh. I have been employed with Farm Fresh for almost 42 years now. They merged with another local chain (Giant Open Air Markets) many years ago. Giant had bought out Rich's Supermarkets and Lou Smith's Markets. Colonial Stores / Big Star, another chain, went bankrupt years ago.

From John London (Warwick HS - '57) of VA - 04/05/09 - "Gmail and 'Conversations.'":

Carol - I understand your plight with respect to receiving replies in Gmail and how they stack as a 'conversation' and get lost in the shuffle.

From the Head Cheerleader of 1958, Evelyn Fryer Fish of TX - 04/05/09 - "GOOD TIPS ON FORWARDING EMAIL":

I've been advocating this for years, but some of you are still forwarding others' names with your emails. Please consider following these instructions!!! None of us wants to be promoting viruses and junk mail!!!

A Friend Sent this which you might find interesting.

IMPORTANT!! HOW TO FORWARD EMAIL APPROPRIATELY

A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures.

Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% Do; 50% DO NOT.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Don't you hate it?

Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names.

As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer.

Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and they will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over five cents.

How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps:

(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second.

You MUST click the 'Forward' button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses.

This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say 'Undisclosed Recipients' in the 'TO:' field of the people who receive it.

(3) Remove any 'FW :' in the subject line.. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.

(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses.

A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition.(Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!)

(6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen.' Or, sometimes they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen.

IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed. (Could be why I haven't won the lottery??) Error! Filename not specified.

(7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out. Just go to http://www.truthorfiction.com/ or http://www.snopes.com/.

It's really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please do not pass it on. If it is true, then pass it on. Please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and viruses being passed via forwards.

Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (please strip any email addresses off first). And send them using the Blind Carbon Copy. This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.

From Jerry ('65) and Judy Phillips ('66) Allen of VA - 04/05/09 - "Deer at breakfast":

Wayne Agee ('58 of FL) hosted an afternoon get together at his place in Inverness, Florida for Bob Hedrick ('58 - of VA), who was returning from MD Anderson in Houston, TX for another examination for cancer. He has been on the prayer list on the website and please hold there for he begins another round of treatments on Tuesday (04/07/09).
	Bob Hedrick ('58), Joe Madagan ('57), and Wayne Agee ('58)	L to R: Toni Hedrick, Eva Ellis Madagan ('61), Bob Hedrick ('58), Joe Madagan ('57), Martha Agee.
		Image by Wayne Agee

I did not get a chance to visit the state library to look at grocery ads on the Daily Press microfilms from that 1960s, but will. I did run across these mini pictures... the Be-Lo sign looks to be the last incarnation version for their smaller stores, but not 100% certain.

Citrus County FL is my "Idea of Paradise". It is still very country, yet we are less that 2 hours from some of the world's best beaches, every type of professional sports team you could want, concerts of every type of music you can think of, and plays of every kind. We have Disney, Busch Gardens, Universal, Sea World and a whole bunch of water parks 1.5 hours from home. There is salt water and fresh water fishing and beautiful rivers to explore by kayak or boat. And it almost never is really hot or cold. Humid, yes, but we have AC for that. Best is the view (attached here) out my kitchen window.