Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.

So You’re Tom Brady…

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You spend 24/7/365 saying All The Right Things to the media. Every single day when they try to bait you into saying some disparaging remarks about opposing teams or percieved malcontents on your own team you ALWAYS without fail brush aside comments and diffuse any possible media shitstorm.

And then moments after a devastating loss in the Superbowl with the entire world watching your Victoria Secret All Star Supermodel drops a bomb saying something to effect that her husband "can’t throw AND catch the balls"-effectively throwing his receivers under the bus and undoing all the goodwill the guy has built up with his classy image year after year.

When the shit hits the fan and the Boston Sports Media does its usual hysteria laden rants against you, do you give her a pass because she’s a smokeshow Supermodel or do you flip out?

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Costco vs Grocery Store. Who Ya Got?

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@lifehacker: Wondering if a Costco membership is really worth it? This grocery store vs. Costco experiment compares food prices: http://lifehac.kr/xW9K5y

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My favorite Boston Cinematographer Rick Macomber’s “Life In Singapore”

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Rick writes-

Having traveled to Singapore many times now and having produced a few shorts on this beautiful city in Southeast Asia, this time I thought it would be fun to interview some friends to see what their take is on the place I’ve grown to love. Since I was not "working" while I was there, I only brought out my camera and gear while eating and hanging where the cool kids hang, I have also thrown in a few shots from previous trips. I wish there had been more time to shoot, but that would not have been fair to the folks I was there to see.
I hope you enjoy it!

Check out his website here-

Here’s his vimeo page-http://vimeo.com/rickmacomber

GMG Product Test- AEROSHOT BREATHABLE ENERGY DEMO

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So for those of you who know me you know that for 8 months of the year I wake up for work at 3:45AM 7 days a week to get down our commercial lobster dock.

It’s a grueling year doing a lot of repetitive work and it’s very physical as well.  So when I get home I’m uusually tired.  Getting home usually between 6-7PM eating dinner and then trying to stay awake to spend some time with the family.

The Mrs and I try to get out for dinner once or twice a week and it’s nice to not be falling asleep in my plate.  So I drink lots of coffee and if I’m really really dragging I’ll chug down a red bull to try to help me stay awake past 9PM.

Anyway I saw this online ad for Aeroshot breathable energy and it seemed intriguing.  Instead of having to consume the liquid and sugar of the red bull take a couple of huffs of the AEROSHOT.  On the AEROSHOT website they had a twitter page so I followed it.

Then while on twitter there was a promotion for a free sample so I signed up.  It came to the house about a month ago but last night we had a dinner party to go to and I was pretty beat so it seemed like a good night to give it a go.

In the video above you can see the packaging and how the system works.

Here are my findings after using it last night:

It was very easy to use, you pull it from each end so it opens up and then put it in your mouth and when you close it a certain amount of what seemed like a crystalized powder entered your mouth where it dissolves and gets ingested into your body.  you don’t get all of it with one burst,  I did about 5 or six inhales.

You immediately get a taste of lime followed by a sharp bitterness.  I had just brushed my teeth before so the taste wasn’t all that great to me but I think I would opt for something a little sweeter for a flavor instead of lime.  A berry flavor would probably counteract the bitterness better than lime.

Within a couple of minutes I felt a rush and my heart rate increase.  It was very noticeable that my alertness was heightened and it was more than the rush you would get from a red bull, 5 hour energy or drinking an espresso.

The alertness and heart rate increase lasted about 2 hours.

Poll- Ever Stand Next To Someone Whose BO Is So Bad It Makes Your Nose Burn?

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Poll- Ever Stand Next To Someone Whose BO Is So Bad It Makes Your Nose Burn?

My Experiences With Amazon’s New "Select" Program by Kat Valentine

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Over the past year I’ve been updating you on my adventures in independent publishing. This past year closed for me with extraordinary sales figures. I went from 1,000 books sold in 2010 to 20,000 in 2011 (combined print and e-book totals). So far in January I am over 9,000 sales and, for the first time in my life, am earning more in royalties than I am from my business.

I thought maybe your readers would be interested in learning more about Amazon’s new “Select” program which they introduced in December. Authors who enroll books in Select agree to give Kindle an exclusive listing for 90 days. During that time their books can be “borrowed” by Amazon Prime members and the author is paid for every borrow. In addition the author has the option to promote their book by offering it for free for up to 5 days which allows readers to download the book at no cost thus increasing the books visibility in rankings and hopefully garnering more reviews. I have enrolled 4 of my 15 titles in Select and, let me tell you, the free promos have really boosted sales once the book returns to its regular price!

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In February I’m offering two more free promos. From Feb. 12-14th, my collection of 8 love stories, My Last Romance and other passions will be free and from Feb. 18-20th (Mardi Gras), my collection of 3 love stories, Mardi Gras Was Over will aloe be free.

This is an exciting time in digital publishing. eBook readers are being sold at an average of 1 million a week! Amazon now sells many times more eBooks than paper books and many books, particularly main-stream and genre novels, are no longer being offered in print! I’m always happy to offer advice and share my experiences with anyone who is contemplating e-publishing. Thanks so much for your great blog!

Back at The MAC stories

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Week two back at the Manchester Athletic Club.  Starting to get my rhythm back and a little more flexibility in my muscles.  The place has really grown with the number of different programs they have.  It’s like a beehive of activity of people all there to get their work-out on.  Much busier now than when I used to go a decade ago.

Kathleen here talks about aging better, something I never really thought about til I turned 40 but now realize how crucial it is as my metabolism slows down.  Basically when you get to be 40 you’re at a crossroad.  You can take action or you can let yourself turn to shit.

 

Summer Black and Whites From Bill Langer

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Hi Joey,
Wow, everyone is having fun with black and white these days — I’ve always loved B&W so I went ahead and spent the dough on NIK Silver Efex, and boy, is it great! Nothing like it for spectacular skies! Here are three pix that I took a couple of summers ago, and just converted.
All the best, Bill

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Tsiu Silvers From Skip Montello

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The Tsiu River (pronounced sigh-you) is essentially a gravel rich drainage for a number of streams, creeks and ponds combining to form a flood plain channel of about five miles in length that empties into the Gulf of Alaska some 100 miles east of Cordova. The upper headwaters in the Yakataga State Game Refuge at the foot hills of the Wrangell Range provide for some of the very best silver salmon (aka. Coho) spawning habitat to be found anywhere in Alaska and for this reason it is the best silver salmon fishery in the state.
Read the whole story by Capt Skip Montello in the February 2012 edition of On The Water magazine.
Also catch Skip’s monthly Cape Ann to the NH border  "Fishing Planner Column" beginning in the April edition and running through October.

North Coast Angler www.northcoastangler.com

Skip Montello Photos www.skipmontellophotos.com

Manning Up. I Was Wrong. The Madonna Show Was Great

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I’ll admit when I’m wrong. The Madonna half time show wad much better than I expected. That being said. If you gave the acts I highlighted earlier the same stage and effects it would have been great as well.

So there you go.

Sigh

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Chickity Check it! Cape Ann Guide Digital Edition Forwarded By Terry Weber

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Terry Weber forwards us a link to the digital version of The Cape Ann Guide.

Terry writes-

hey joey. i know you have seen the hard copy of this mag, but did you see the online edition. on this site your article starts on page 20, but in the hard copy it is really on page 18.
terry would like for you to view the following digital edition.
Please, click on the link below to be directed to the digital edition:

Cape Ann Guide Digital Edition

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You can use the controls to make the pages larger or smaller or to flip through the entire magazine.

It should be noted that Terry wrote the piece about me in the magazine.  "Lies, all lies I tell you.”