Using the Hipstamatic iPhone app. Fun!

YES!!! I’m a Winner!

I just received this email today.

Quiting my job Monday and will be living the good life!

Here’s the email. Read it and weep!

 Confirmation Ticket Number: GBN-08-23-28-39-48-49

Reply to Email: freelottomgtc@aim.com

 

Dear: Winner,

Following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic On-line Sweepstakes organized by the FREE LOTTO ON-LINE PROMOTIONS held on the 19th of February 2011, your electronic email address emerged as one of the On-line winning emails in the 1st category; hence your email address was attached to a cash award of 1,000,000.00 Euro (One Million Euro). We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the claim office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

 

Please contact the claim Office

Name: Mr. Galeno Rawl

Email: freelottomgtc@aim.com

Tel: 0034 672 535 759 (OR) 01134 672 535 759

It is important to note that your award information was released with the following particulars attached to it.

Winning Information’s:

Email Ticket Number: GBN-08-23-28-39-48-49

Reference Number: ZCV/0959640

Draw Lucky Number: 07-10-17-18-33-38

Batch/Number: DSL 10/083647/GVMEML

Serial Number: 75465587540432

Please indicate your Full Name & Telephone Number when contacting your agent:

NOTE: All winning must be claimed not later than 30 working days

 

Congratulations!!!

Yours Sincerely

Kimmel Joseph Juan.

Promotions Coordinator.

NB: Reply to: freelottomgtc@aim.com

Dave Mattacks, Dave Brown, Dan King and Wolf Ginandes

Train Time 16 Model Train Exhibition at Wenham Museum

Discover a magical world where model locomotives traverse bridges, disappear into tunnels while traveling through tiny cities and villages. Train-fans of all ages experience a rail-adventure featuring model train layouts ranging in —in G, O, HO, N, and Z gauges—that all operate with the push of a button. This year, railroad artifacts, memorabilia, large-scale models and antique toy trains are also on display. The Museum also has a permanent model train gallery featuring 10 model train layouts that you can visit throughout the year!  Train Time 16 closes this Sunday, February 27th. Wenham Museum is located at 132 Main Street (aka Route 1A), Wenham, MA. Hours: 10 am – 4 pm. Admission: $7.50 adults, $5.50 children ages 1-16. www.wenhammuseum.org, 978-468-2377 .

Wenham Museum Trainiac! [HQ]

Warning model trains cause exttemely happy children!

Length: ‎1:14

Warning: Wenham Museum’s model trains can cause extremely happy children

Say Hello To Your New Champ- Greg Ortiz!  The Ice Man

Greg came in with supreme confidence.  An employee of Cape Pond Ice, the Ice Man dethroned three time and former undefeated champ Big Lar.

The Ice Man was all class in victory.

 

The Gloucester Writers Center was founded to celebrate, preserve and promote the future of Gloucester’s rich literary legacy. Housed in the former home of poet Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007), the GWC is dedicated to fostering the tradition of local poetic investigation practiced by Ferrini and his friend and renowned Gloucester poet, Charles Olson (1910-1970). CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://gloucesterwriters.org/

Thanks to Jo-ann Castano for the heads up! She’s a great promoter of local Artists!!!

check out Jo-ann’s Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002079295168#!/joann.castano?sk=info

I promise you will be more than entertained!!!!!!!

http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Epontipak/redsquare.html

That this little hand eye coordination game could drive you nuts?
The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.  If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal.

I don’t know if it’s true, but it is said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots.  They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes.
Give it a try but be careful…it is addictive.  After about my 20^th try, I white knuckled it for 13.5 seconds.  Can anyone out there go longer than 18 seconds? 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

That Masconomet, was a powerful but peaceful Sachem who ruled his people, the Agawams, in the lands of Essex County from Newbury to Haverhill to Beverly and all of Cape Ann to the Atlantic Ocean?  Debbie Clark took me on an interesting excursion yesterday to the burial site of Masonomet, Sachem of the Agawams, located at 305 Sagamore Street in South Hamilton, at the top of Sagamore Hill, the highest point in Hamilton at 180 feet above sea level.  These are a few photos from the site and a brief history taken from one of the plaques.  If you visit, do so with the reverence it deserves, and bring along a gift of nature to leave behind.  I didn’t know, so didn’t have anything to leave, but Debbie left her own version of a Paul Frontiero art rock.

A Brief History of the Agawams and Masconomet

 A peaceful but powerful Sachem who ruled his people, the Agawams, in the lands of Essex County from Newbury to Haverhill to Beverly and all the Cape Ann to the Atlantic Ocean.

 The Agawams were decimated by a plague lasting three years around 1617, probably introduced by foreign traders along the 200 miles of Northeast Coast.

 When John Winthrop arrived in what is now “Manchester-by-the-Sea”, in 1630, Masconomet paddled out to the “Arabella” to greet the white settlers.  He was very friendly and was able to converse in English even though his native tongue was Algonquin.

By 1638, the dwindled tribe existed mostly in the Ipswich area.  Masconomet sold his land that year to John Winthrop, Jr. for 20 pounds English.  Six years later he requested instruction in Christian ways and accepted protection from the Massachusetts Bay Colony under a signed agreement.

He was given 6 acres of planting ground in 1655. Three years later on March 6, 1658, he died.  He was buried with his gun and tomahawk atop Sagamore Hill, one of the highest and most significant hills in the area.

 A few years later, his remains were disturbed by a group of Ipswich youths who were immediately arrested, reprimanded and made to do penance.  The bones were returned to the hilltop gravesite. 

 In 1910, a stone was inscribed and placed there by friends.  In 1959, the Hamilton Historical Society’s curator, H. Daley, the Boy Scouts and Air Force personnel cleared the 4000+ sq. ft. site given to the town of Hamilton by Judge Standish Bradford.

In 1971, a memorial service by the Disabled American Veterans, under the directiokn of Robert Hogopian, was held and a larger stone monument was erected, but not until November 1993, was the gravesite consecrated by both Christian and Native American rituals.

 In Native American belief, when one changes worlds, their spirit stays with the body and then goes to meet the Great Creator.  When the burial site was desecrated, as by the delinquent Ipswich youths, the Indians believe the spirit of the person is called back to Earth to forever, roam looking for its bones.  Once found, they will not rest until a proper burial ceremony is performed by its own people.

 Thus for 355 years, Masconomet’s spirit has been roaming uneasily among us!

In the traditional way of their people, Oee-tash, Chief of the Ponkapoag People of the Massachusetts Nation, performed the Sacred Ceremony amidst a tremendous feeling of expectancy and thankfulness on Saturday, November 6, 1993.  The oneness of Masconomet,

Sachem of the Agawams, is once again at peaceful rest among us at the top of Sagamore Hill.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com