First posted January 15, 2013.
Month: January 2016
Foot prints on Magnolia Pier
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BEWARE: Best Buy & GeekSquad Phone Protection Plans are not as they seem
A couple of years ago, we got a new phone at Best Buy and they urged us to get the GeekSquadPlan Warranty for $9.99 a month. We were told that if anything happens to the phone (lost, stolen, damaged … anything), it will be replaced. “Really, anything? You mean if it’s dropped and the screen breaks, you’ll replace it?” we ask. “That’s right.”
Sounded like a decent plan, so we went for it. Now we’ve been paying $9.99 a month on our Best Buy bill for about 2 years and guess what, the screen cracked when the phone was dropped. So …. we walk into Best Buy and ask for it to be fixed or replace.
BUT WAIT …
Turns out there is a $150.00 deductible we were never told about. Now, we’re fairly careful people when it comes to signing contracts. We read them and we have lawyers read them if we’re not quite sure what they mean. But when you’re standing in a Best Buy store and the guy says they’ll replace the phone if anything happens to it and then there’s a little spot on a tiny checkout screen with a check box next to it asking if you agree, are you really going to say, “Hold on a minute, let me have my lawyer read this?”
But it gets worse. Having been scammed already by Best Buy and GeekSquad, we decided to check the fine print on-line for other protection plans and for the $8.00/month phone lease plans you can get through various carriers. As we expected, all of them have complex paragraphs that basically say you are gonna pay full price for this phone (around $600) unless you return it in 2 years in perfect condition.
Do you know anybody with a 2-year-old phone in perfect condition?
Caveat Emptor!
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Gloucester Smiles ~ 130
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A winter Walk at the Beach with a smile
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Pet of the Week- Pepper
Look, I am cute with my bright sunshine yellow eyes and little white spot! I am a sweet and mellow lady. I love to lounge around in a nice sunny window and just watch all the activity outside. I like nibbling on cat grass that folks are kind enough to grow for kitties like me here at the shelter. I enjoy petting on the head and scratches under my chin. My name is Pepper and I was wondering if you could be my shaker of salt! Visit www.capeannanimalaid.org for more information about Pepper and all the other animals waiting for homes here at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter.
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GMG PSA- Don’t put herb balls in your vagina
Women putting herb balls in vagina to ‘detox their wombs’ have been warned of dangers
US firm claims its small ‘holistic’ herb packages ‘aid to correct’ endometriosis
Women are being warned about the dangers of a “womb detox” product after health experts said it could cause irritation and even toxic shock syndrome.
US firm called Embrace Pangaea is selling “Herbal Womb Detox Pearls” online, claiming the products “aids to correct” conditions such as endometriosis, ovarian cysts and thrush.
The pearls – small balls of perfumed herbs – are sold in one or two-month packages, with packages on sale for between $85 and $480.
Another package – claims to promote “vaginal tightening”, which it says works by “tightening the womb” so the “vaginal canal will shrink”.
The company says the herb pearls are designed to “cleanse the womb and return it to a balance state” by flushing out “toxins”.
In a blogpost, the company said the pearls could be issued in the same way natural solutions like oranges and lemons can be used to counteract a cold.
But a sexual health expert insisted that not only were the “pearls” ineffective, but they could be dangerous.
Dr Jen Gunter, a US gynecologist, wrote a blog post debunking the company’s claims and saying these types of products – and the herbs used in them – have not been tested for vaginal use.
She wrote: “Your uterus isn’t tired or depressed or dirty and your vagina has not misplaced its chakra.
“They want no real help from you unless there is something wrong and they will tell you there is something wrong by bleeding profusely or itching or cramping badly or producing an odor.”
She explained that the vagina was like “a self-cleaning oven” and putting anything like this in the vagina for long periods of time will increase the likelihood of bad bacteria growing and causing infection.
For the entire story click here
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Tendercrop. Stands Repeating
I know that it was just about 3 months ago that I wrote about how in love I am with the new Tendercrop Farm location in Wenham, but it totally stands repeating. Each week since, including just yesterday, I hear someone say, “Did you know that Tendercrop Farm opened a new location?” Which tells me that all of Cape Ann is not aware yet…and they should be.
I’m lucky enough to only be about 5 minutes away when at work so I’ve been running over at lunchtime. The other day I got a totally delicious chicken salad with walnuts and cranberries.
If you haven’t been you should really make a point to swing by!
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Notes About iartcolony Gallery from Leslie Heffron
Hi Kim,
Tess Atkinson – She does photography on a large scale often face mounted to plexiglass and back mounted to aluminum. (Cherry blossoms)
Judith Scott Larsen – description taken from the gallery’s facebook page: “Her work incorporates the figure as an empty vessel which is infused with a series of images from the history of art and science. The images are made by projecting transparencies onto the blank canvas of the human body. The projections reference various cultural inscriptions, biological patterning, and diagrams by visionaries attempting to understand the nature of our humanity.”
Hope you like the little owl!Leslie
EDITORS NOTE: iartcolony gallery is located at 42 Broadway in Rockport.
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WINTER LIGHT
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THE STORY OF HOW CALAMARI (SQUID) CAME TO BE SERVED AT THE GLOUCESTER HOUSE AND OTHER LOCAL RESTAURANTS AS TOLD BY MICHAEL LINQUATA
This is a story of an unusual creature that made good. This creature was known as “squid”. Today it is called calamari. When it was known as squid there were no sales of this product. It was not on any restaurant’s menu. It just had no appeal to the public or to restaurant cooks or owners.
Prior to 1950, the Gloucester fishing fleet would have some mixed in with their catch of other fish such as whiting or ocean perch. The fishermen did not get paid for this product. It was considered waste.
However, some of the workers, including this author, would on occasion take some home to be cooked. In my case, I had to do the cooking because the squid would have some water in them and this would splatter. I overcame the problem, but I kept the job.
Sometimes if I had cooked more than the family could consume I would bring the extra to the fish workers. Many had never eaten this before. Now there wasn’t as much waste. The workers started to bring some home to be cooked.
About a year later I assumed the position of manager of the Gloucester House Restaurant. Now I had to teach the cooks how to prepare the squid for cooking, then the proper timing to cook, then I had to overcome the dining room staff’s reluctance to suggest this item to the customers.
We overcame these problems by first changing the name from “squid” to “calamari”. Then to introduce the product, for about a year, we put a small sample on each table for customers to try at no cost. Then the next year we put it on the printed menu.
Today there are probably a thousand restaurants in the United States that have calamari (not squid) on their menus. We think that ours is still the best.
This started in Gloucester, by the Gloucester House Restaurant and the Linquata family, the owners of the Gloucester House Restaurant.
PHOTO OF MIKE LINQUATA BY JASON GROW
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ONE DOLLAR OYSTERS AT SHORT AND MAIN!!!
Don’t miss out on Short and Main’s splendid daily oyster special. During the first hour of business, from 5 to 6pm, and the last hour open, a selected oyster freshly shucked is available at the delicious price of $1.00.
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Man at the Wheel during a snow squall
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Music Around Town ~ January 18-24, 2016
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@CharleyCasserly With The Most Absurd Troll Job Ever Saying Peyton Manning Outplayed Tom Brady This Weekend #nflnetwork
Nephew BJ forwarded this tweet to me.
Do journalists get rewarded for posting such obvious troll job statements just for clicks? Like as far as being a respected journalist at what point do you just throw all your integrity out the window in favor of getting clicks on your twitter profile? Do you think the NFL Network encourages it’s writers to write such obvious horseshit to trump up the next meeting between The Patriots and The Broncos in The AFC Championship game so they can act like Manning is still playing anywhere near the same level as Tom Brady is?
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Market Basket Encouraging People To Repurpose Cardboard Boxes Instead Of Using Plastic Bags Is A Good Thing
Donna Spoke About This On Yesterday’s GloucesterCast Podcast
Good To See Market Basket Publicizing It On All The Registers!
Listen To Her Talk About The Gloucester Clean Group Initiative On Yesterday’s Podcast Here-
GloucesterCast 166 With Guests Steven Winslow, @DonnaArd , Leslie Heffron, @KimSmithDesigns and Host @Joey_C Taped 1/17/16
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Gloucester Smiles ~ 129
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Artists Endure the Cold at St Peter’s Pier
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All you crazy animal lovers, remember- Animals want to eat you.
You’re welcome for this friendly reminder from your boy Joey. I love all these people who say how cute these animals are. Fact is every one of them would eat the shit out of you given the chance. Even Sista Felicia’s precious Coconut.
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Don’t Let This Be You Today- Drive Carefully!
What amazes me about this video is how they just let the race go on and act so nonchalant after car after car go toppling ass-over-teakettle.
Ho-Hum. Just another racer doing six flips in his car. Let’s get him out of the way quick so we can watch the next guy try to flip his car 7 times.
Good times.
Good Morning Gloucester 