Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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Our Friends Atlantic Saltworks Are Vying For A Shot At The Next Great Food Business Contest From Sam Adams and Entrepeneur.com Using Gloucester Salt!
Our Friends Atlantic Saltworks Are Vying For A Shot At The Next Great Food Business Contest From Sam Adams and Entrepeneur.com Using Gloucester Salt!
You can vote for them here
They Are One Of Five Finalists and Voting Is Super Easy
We’re searching for the next great food business and we need your help.
Entrepreneur has partnered with brewer Sam Adams for its Brewing the American Dream Wild Card Pitch Room contest where one lucky small business owner will have the opportunity to claim an impressive grand prize: a game-changing $10,000 business grant and mentoring from top experts from Sam Adams.
Entrepreneur has created a virtual pitch room to help select a Wild Card Winner who will travel to New York City to compete for the grand prize against regional Pitch Room finalists from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York in a live throwdown December 4.
Here’s where you come in: We’ve narrowed the field to a selection of finalists who’ve submitted 2-minute videos of their best sales pitch targeting prospective retailers for their food or beverage product. We need you to vote for the submission you find the most creative, passionate and viable. Just cast your vote for the Wild Card spot soon. Audience voting begins November 13 and ends November 19 … so cast your vote for the Wild Card spot now!
Article updated November 12, 2014 to reflect latest contest phase.
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Community Stuff 11/17/14
Phyllis A Annual Meeting
at Rocky Neck Cultural Center
January 24, 2015 4:30-7 pm
Join us for chowder and cream puffs!
Hear the amazing news of the past year, and our plans for 2015!
Suggested donation of $10.00 per person
RSVP
Hi Joey:
Love keeping up with your e-paper “ Good Morning Gloucester” which I read regularly. However, I did want to mention to you, have you gotten any e-mail about the St. John’s Country Cupboard Fair” and most importantly the Harvest Festival?
Although I promised everyone that I would not get involved with it this year it so happens here I am again. There are two major things happening that I would like to emphasize this year. First I think the “Godspell” and Wendy Betts concert with sing-a-long music during the Harvest Festival at Trinity needs a good plug. I saw the kids in Godspell this afternoon and they were terrific and they got a standing ovation to a packed St.John’s.
Secondly I think I would like it if you could mention the Country Cupboard Fair as well as the Harvest Festival since they are the first event open at 9:00 am next Saturday, if that is at all possible.
We have about 5 days and frankly I need as much help as i can get. I think with the all the events mentioned in our poster we should have a great program before Thanksgiving. We just need to get the word out.
Thanks a million.
Al
To All,
The Rockport Navy Committee will sponsor its annual Mass General Hospital Blood Drive on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the Rockport Police Department.
“Blood is a medicine that can only be given from one person to another – no other source is currently available.” (http://www.mgh.harvard.edu) Blood supplies often run low during the holiday season due to increased need and donors feeling they are too busy. A half hour can save three or four lives!
The blood drive is dedicated to those who have served and are still serving in the US military. We’d like to get as many donors as possible. This year we are going to have a raffle. Anyone donating or attempting to donate blood will be eligible.
We are asking if you would notify your family, friends and coworkers about the date of the blood drive, and to ask anyone you think might be willing to donate a raffle prize to contact Sharon or Roger. Prizes can be gift certificates, merchandise, gift baskets, artwork, etc.
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2014 Shop Rockport Event Friday December 5th
Hi Joey C!
Join us in Downtown Rockport, Friday, December 5! Participating cafes,
galleries and shops will be serving hor d’oeuvres, wine and drinks while
you shop throughout downtown Rockport and enjoy a night of special
promotions from 4-9pm!
Visit our Facebook page for more information:
https://www.facebook.com/shoprockportma01966
Thanks for sharing!
Dawn @ La Provence
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GloucesterCast 104 Featuring Guests Kim Smith, Donna Ardizzoni and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 11/16/14
GloucesterCast 104 Featuring Guests Kim Smith, Donna Ardizzoni and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 11/16/14
Topics Include: Free Grand Prix Of Gloucester Cyclocross Rapha T-Shirt For One Of The First Ten Verified GloucesterCast Subscribers- Subscribe Here, Congratulations To Pat Conant Winner Of Facebook Contest, Thanks To Paul Morrison For Fresh Limes, Good Egg James Fiahlo Copper Dory Planter Raises $350 For Paul Russo Brain Cancer Foundation– High Bidder From Gayle Piraino GAP Promotions is the High Bidder, Clean Gloucester and The One Hour At A Time Gang Cleans First Parish Burial Ground, Revitalization Of Magnolia Continues, The Chesire Cat, The Magnolia Consignment Store,Chef From the Patio Now At Magnolia Pub, Sawyer Free Library, Passports Wine Dinner Coming Up This Thursday, Electricity Rate Wrinkle, Arthur Bevalaqua, Solar Panels, Gloucester Clam Ads Turn Out To Be A Positive, The Idea That Unless You Are Losing Money You Are A Bad Person, The Football Post, Over Prescribing Drugs To Control Kids,Science All Around Us, Nubar Alexanian, Tom Ellis, Paul Boudreau, Turducken Is Out, What Will This Year’s Thanksgiving Food Fad Be, The Chateau’s Fried Ravioli, Joey’s Favorite Things- Krups Coffee Grinder, Bonavita Pourover Coffee Maker, Contigo Autoseal Coffee Travel Mug, Prynt , Taste Of Magnolia, Lillian LoGrasso’s Event, Lobster Trap Tree, Shop Rockport, TBT Post, Alpaca Sweaters, Brother’s Brew Will Be Open For Shop Rockport, Marshall’s Farm Stand, Thank You To Nichole’s Family To-Do Post, Joppa Flats, Ruby and Luke McElhenny and Dax Who Was Named After Dax Shepard, The Alpaca’s That Eat You.
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Update 3: Electricity Prices
Update #3
GMG FOB Art Bevilacqua Educates Us Further:
Art writes-
In our market (post deregulation in 1998) there is an auction each day where the companies running generators bid to provide their output into the grid. Each generator has different costs, fuel, operating and maintenance, etc., so their prices can be all different from each other.
 ISO-NE receives these bids and each afternoon at about 4pm they run a model that uses a load forecast for the following day. Next they go to the “stack” of available generators and turn them on in the model, starting with the least expensive and turning them on until they have met the load forecast for the each hour of the day.
 The price of the last generator turned on sets the price for that hour.
 There are some other constraints in the background – for example they might have to “turn on” generators whose price is not the next most expensive, such as wind or solar that they are forced to buy even though their costs are extremely high.
 After the model has run, they issue the plan for the following day, essentially purchasing all of the day’s power by about 6pm.
 Finally, as the actual day progresses, things happen – a generator might become unavailable, or the actual load in an hour might be higher or lower than what was expected. When these things happen ISO has to dip further into the stack of generators, of retreat from the stack, and this causes the real-time price to wiggle from what was expected. These real-time calculations happen every five minutes.
 The bottom line is that the actual electricity cost varies every five minutes, and thus each and every average hour.
 Go to www.iso-ne.com and click on “more real time data” in the upper box to see this happening.
 On a grander scale, if we have a stretch of very cold weather, some fuels might become constrained, or less available (and thus higher cost) than expected. This can lead to periods of time where the cost of energy will run high, and this is what happened last year. If a plant is located in an area with weak gas supply, such as Providence RI, then that plant might be forced to back down and/or will suffer very high fuel costs.
 Also, because your meter is only read once a month, your bill has to be based on projections of monthly energy costs, which can change quite a bit. The delivery part of the bill is based on keeping the transmission and distribution equipment running and that is very stable.
 NGrid and the other suppliers try to stabilize the energy costs by asking for longer term contracts from generators, and that is what the chart shows – they are projecting out a number of months based on projections of the future as well as past history (last year’s winter). This is all a gamble because the weather people can’t even tell what will happen two days from now, let alone three months from now.
 All of the suppliers are faced with this problem – if they are in a low cost time period (the spring for example) they can offer average rates that are lower, but probably only for a short time. They couldn’t lock you in at 9 cents for a year because they know prices they pay will rise the following winter, but they might do that for a few months. The quoted prices and lock lengths will vary based on the suppliers power in the market, their trading skills, their luck, etc.
 There is some more explanation of this at: http://isonewswire.com/updates/2014/11/14/how-wholesale-electricity-costs-factor-into-your-retail-bill.html
 Also, see this: http://www.iso-ne.com/about/what-we-do/in-depth/wholesale-vs-retail-electricity-costs
 Art
Update #2. I just spoke to a rep for one of these companies and asked if we get a bunch of people to sign up together if it is possible to get a better rate than what is advertised and he said yes but they would call back on Monday. Who would like to join in and hear what they have to offer? No obligation, but I floated the idea that 5 or more of us would sign up and he said they definitely could get the rate down more. So email me at goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com if you want to look into it with me. Whoever that signs up for cheaper electricity would reduce all of our rates including our own by the same amount that we could negotiate by doing it in numbers.
With electricity prices set to jump over 30% does anyone have any advice on which company they are locking in with or if it’s a bad idea to lock in? Seems crazy how much they’re jacking the prices overnight.
UPDATED 11/14/14
In the comment section of this post someone named Jon recommended a website which compares a bunch of different rates-
https://www.chooseenergy.com/compare/01966/electricity-rates/
For Commercial rates this is what they list- 12.99 per kWc for 24 months being the cheapest rate.
Screen shot of Choose Energy’s rates this morning–
The Supplier that we currently use, Think Energy is quoting less on all counts than anything listed on Choose Energy’s website.
https://www.mythinkenergy.com/signup/index.php?s=viewPlans&startDate=20-Nov-2014
Screen shot of Think Energy’s rates this morning-
11.2cents per kWh is much cheaper for 24 months and even it’s 12 month rate is cheaper than the best rate on Choose Energy for 24 month.
Are any other business owners out there interested in forming a group to negotiate a cheaper rate for all of us if we all agree to sign up together? We can request a group discount and send out rate bids. Let me know by email goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com
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Bruce Tobey Gives Vice President Biden An Unopened Cast/Crew Perfect Storm Cap
Hi Joey,
Hey, thought you might get a kick out of the attached photo – I met the Vice President after a Seth Moulton event in Lynn two weeks ago and wanted to give him a gift so Gloucester might be on his mind. Here’s the story.
In my office I still had in an unopened bag a cast/crew “Perfect Storm” cap I had gotten as Mayor from the movie’s producers back in 1999 when they were shooting in Gloucester. I brought it with me and gave it to him, wishing him good luck as he faced the inevitable storms of his next couple of years.
He immediately pulled it out of the bag, ripped off the tags, put it on, and began to talk about the storm, the hardships Gloucester’s fishermen face, and his gratitude for the gift. Mission accomplished!
Best,
Bruce
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Sefatia Waits Up All Night- Scores the Coveted Mariposa Silver Duck At The Big Sale
Paul Morrison will lose sleep for days over this.
You know what they say- “The early bird gets the……..duck.”
#unhealthyduckobsessions
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Good Eggs Clean Up Clark cemetary
We would like to send a great thank you to Clean Gloucester for coming to help clean up Clark Cemetery. It was a very cold 28 degrees when we started at 8 am. These awesome people came out anyway. In a flurry of activity trash was picked up, brush was hauled away, a fire pit was dismantled and new community connections were made. This could not have been a better or more fun end to our season. Thank you again and we look forward to working with everyone again after the winter!
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Erecting The 2014 Kent Circle Christmas Tree – photo from Anthony Marks
Hi Joey
Ringo Tarr and crew got got busy this weekend erecting the Kent
Circle Chstmas tree.
Best Anthony
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Community Stuff 11/16/14
Tonight!
POP Gallery presents BARBARELLA!
Come party with the divas of POP Gallery! November 16th at the CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA @ 6:30 pm. Price of admission is $7.50 + one drink ticket and FREE SWAG BAG to early birds!
It’s going to be EPIC. Don’t miss it!
PURCHASE TICKETS AHEAD HERE, or at the door.
Tricia O’Neill celebrates the formal public presentation of her Vincent Ferrini mural on Saturday, November 8. From left: Tricia’s husband
Steve Brettler, Trica, seARTS Board Member Tony Sapienza and Henry Ferrini, Vincent’s nephew and co-founder and board president of the
Gloucester Writers Center.
Joey,
As you probably know I’m an author with several titles available. You’ve been kind enough in the past to make announcements when I have a new release. I will now provide you with the dialogue for the new release.
Gloucester native and author Barry Stacks has a new book for your reading pleasure. The Black Flag is the third book in the Tucker Norman series. Once again, the setting for the story is Gloucester, Mass., which is the author’s hometown. The title of the book is taken from a tradition of flying a black flag on a commercial fishing boat when someone has died at sea. In this mystery novel, several fishing boats return to Gloucester flying a black flag. Once again Tucker Norman and Associates are asked by local law enforcement to investigate this unusual situation. The investigation delivers the reader through a maze of complicated evidence and into a quagmire filled with strange characters, who appear to have a secondary motive for their activities. The reader, as is always the case, is dragged around Cape Ann as our sleuth tries to fit the pieces of the puzzle together. Also, the reader will find themselves dumped in that pot of boiling water known around the world as Haiti. This is another thrilling adventure/mystery written especially for the citizens of Cape Ann to enjoy. In 2015 there will be three more Tucker Norman novels. Look for Rosie Crud, Johnny Hansom and Floyd in the early Spring of 2015. Following that release look for Partly Aged Rosemary…And Time around mid-summer 2015. Finally, around this time next year look for the release of The Boogeyman. All Barry’s books are available on-line and at your local book store. Also, if you have trouble finding any of Barry’s books he extends to you an open invitation to contact him via lostboy1007@tampabay.rr.com.
Barry wants to thank all his supporters for their years of dedication.
The Unitarian Universalist Society of Rockport Holiday Fair will be help on Friday, December 5 from 4 till 9 p.m. and
Saturday, December 6 from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. at the church, 4 Cleaves Street, Rockport. Offerings will include furniture,
books, vintage jewelry and watches, the works of local artists, holiday crafts, themed gift baskets, vintage decorations, a
bake sale, and complimentary cider. There will also be a raffle for a 40-inch flat-screen TV. The drawing will be on
Saturday afternoon and winners need not be present to claim the set.
Hi
here’s an article from the Globe about the recent tragedy in management of the fishing industry
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Lone Gull The Video
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Passports Wine Dinner Coming Up NOV 20TH
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Community Stuff 11/15/14
Trident Gallery Live Art Series presents
Dance in Dialogue
Kate Tarlow Morgan, Loren Doucette, Sarah Slifer Swift
Saturday November 22, 7:30PM
Trident Gallery, 189 Main St. Gloucester MA, 978-491-7785
“Dance in Dialogue” features two original performance works, followed by conversation and refreshments. Free, donations encouraged. Space is limited so please reserve a seat at events@tridentgallery.com.
Kate Tarlow Morgan (dancer/writer) recently returned from a midwest pilgrimage to bury her father’s ashes with a dramatic story of relatives unknown to her. She will report this intense personal story with the aid of artifacts, photographs, and a movement score created especially for the walls of Trident Gallery.
Loren Doucette (visual artist) and Sarah Slifer Swift (dancer) will show a segment of their collaborative project “Unravelling.” The piece explores the building of a framework within which a relationship is contextualized. Through dance and visual art created in the live moment, they inhabit the possibilities of unravelling the self from the frame.
HOLY FAMILY CHRISTMAS FAIR
Starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2014, spend a relaxing day and do some of your Christmas shopping too! Holy Family Christmas Fair has something for everyone. Your Christmas decorating will be easier with the selection of swags, wreaths and other fresh green accents for your home. Jam preserves, scarves, jewelry, toys, doll clothes and dolls and knitted baby items will be available at prices that can’t be beat. The “Wheel of Fortune” for those who would like to take a chance and win a basket filled with delightful things for every taste! Take a minute or two and look over the White Elephant table. You will never know what treasures you might see if you don’t take the time to look. The bake table has at least one thing for your sweet tooth or to put in your freezer for the holidays. Toys, books, religious items, pocketbooks and face painting will also be available. The children will also enjoy having their photo taken with Santa at the most reasonable price on Cape Ann. The kitchen will be open to have a bite to eat so you can keep up your strength to continue to shop. The best always comes last! Holy Family is known for their wonderful Italian bakers. The Christmas Fair will have many cookie selections and their all good and reasonably priced. See you at the Fair!
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State Fish Pier #GloucesterMA Timelapse 11/14/14
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I would totally soil myself…
Two men were on a boat in a fjord in Norway, then 6 gigantic whales decided to show up
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Get out My Face Sucka!
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Kent Circle Christmas Tree photos from Joe Novello
Hi Joey
Ringo Tarr and Joe Novello traveled to Nova Scotia to pick up the
Christmas tree for Kent Circle. these are the photos Joe and Ringo
Best Anthony Marks
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Phyllis A relaunch and quick haul
Hi Joey,
We had an exciting and a bit tense time at GMR on Tuesday. The Phyllis A, who had been up on the rails for 3 months, was relaunched, quickly moved over to the next bay (guys on ropes moving her) and hauled out on the travel lift. She had not been re-caulked before the relaunch as we anticipate taking many of the planks off pretty quickly. We expected a bit of leakage, and were not disappointed. Doug Parsons figured she took on about 4000 gallons before she got positioned on the travel lift. Doug had 3 pumps running to try to keep up. Joe Maletti lifted her up slowly to let the water drain to reduce her weight before the final haul out. We all crossed our fingers hoping she would stay together on the lift. She made it through with flying colors. Richie Arnold, the Phyllis A’s last captain was on hand for the excitement.
The Phyllis A was moved over behind the Gloucester Marine Railway office building on Wednesday. She’ll be there as we complete the next phases of reconstruction. Saturday, Doug and I will be aboard photographing the fo’c’sle so we have photo documentation of her layout before de-construction. We plan to use those photos later to aid in accurate re-constsruction. We encourage everyone to come by and visit the Phyllis A as she has her face-lift. Please visit the Phyllis A website at www.phyllis-a.org if you are interested in learning more about the Phyllis A , upcoming events, or volunteering in her restoration. We also have 2 FaceBook pages, the Phyllis A Marine Association and Friends of the Phyllis A Marine Association. I’ll be doing regular photo posting on FaceBook as the restoration continues.
The Phyllis A Marine Association is also excited to welcome Beth Welin as our Education Director. Beth’s high energy and creative ideaswill be a wonderful fit for our mission to promote the history and importance gillnetting in Gloucester.
Mary Barker
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Friends of Seacoast Holiday Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, November 22, 9AM-1PM
SEACOAST NEWS November 2014
Thank you to the Friends of Seacoast!
The Friends of Seacoast have recently provided our facility with a special Halloween Variety Show with exceptional entertainment provided by the Big Smile Entertainment Company, Dinner Theater and weekly concerts.
We are looking forward to many upcoming events with the support of the Friends of Seacoast including A Veteran’s Day Celebration, Baby Farm Animal visits, Dinner Theater with entertainment and special foods, outings, weekly concerts and more……
The Friends of Seacoast Holiday Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, November 22, 9AM-1PM. This special event will Feature a Cookie Walk,, Raffles, White Elephants, Many professional vendors and Santa visits. All Donations to white elephant table will be accepted.
Community Welcome Snow or Shine!
The Friends of Seacoast enhance the resident’s lives at the Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with hours of enjoyment by providing the finances needed for the special entertainment, supplies and community outings.
Any and all donations to “The Friends of Seacoast” are gratefully accepted.
The Friends of Seacoast are grateful for the gifts received in honor of loved ones.
The next Friends of Seacoast Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 11th at 6:00PM.
The Cape Ann Museum artistic expression projects have included
museum tours and art demonstations within the Seacoast facility.
The CAM Connections next scheduled visit to Seacoast and art project will be November 6th at 2:00PM.
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