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.

Weekend Picks From Your Boy Joey and The North Shore Blogger Consortium

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My number one pick for the weekend is going to be the Art Haven Lobster Buoy Auction Tonight!

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The Main Event

The 3rd annual Buoy Auction and Art Show is on January 28th! At this fundraiser for Art Haven, you have a chance to bring home your favorite buoy from the 2010 tree. Enjoy appetizers from local restaurants and see some of the beautiful artwork produced by our students over the past year!

Silent Auction begins at 6:00 pm, Live Auction at 7:30.

Tickets: $15/adult, $5/student, $35/family before Jan 28

$20/adult, $10/student, or $40/family at the door

(Cash or check only please)

The Weekend Picks From the North Shore Bloggers Consortium Here-

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Choices from all over New England at The Two Palaverers.

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Media giant Seth gives up the best of Lynn at Lynn Happens.

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Please welcome Kimmy Bingham and her picks from Newburyport here

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The wonderful Jane Ward has some great ideas, over at Food and Fiction.

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North Shore Dish spices things up with their weekend picks here North Shore Dish

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Weekend Picks from North Shore Kid here

Frankie (The Silver Bullet) Gwynne Face Plant At The Farm Bar and Grille Bikini and Speedo Dodgeball Tournament

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Thanks to Kevin Johnson for the video

This Is It!!!!! Friday Night- The Art Haven Lobster Buoy Auction and Art Show

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You know all that positive energy that began way back when the lobstermen donated the use of their traps, the merry elves from Art Haven and the usual suspects spent days coordinating and building the lobster trap tree, the kids (and some adults) painted very special buoys to adorn the shining beacon of community spirit that is The 2010 Lobster Trap Tree?

Well here comes the payoff!  Here comes the celebration!   The night when everyone comes together to laugh, shout and enjoy each other’s company at Cruiseport for the Third Annual Art Haven Lobster Buoy Auction.

What better event to tie our incredible community together than the Art (Art Haven) and Sole (fishing community) in one huge collaborative ball of positive energy?

THIS IS IT!!!!!!

I can personally tell you this event is so much fun.  To see these kids beaming on stage as their hand painted buoy gets bid on is absolutely priceless.

So get yourself and your family down to Art Haven and soak in all that positive energy baby!   It’s on Friday night at 6:00PM

Jan 28th- For More Info- http://www.arthaven.org/

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David Brooks Wrote-

A special thank you to all involved with the 2010 Lobster Trap Christmas Tree. The tree isn’t as big as last year but It certainly is a beauty. Standing around 30 ft. topped off with a lobster trap star.

Traps came from the following fisherman:

Scott Horne, John Symonds, Jay Gustaferro, Kevin O’Malley

Special Thanks to Volunteer Builders:

Ed Collard, Paul Morrison, David Brooks, Russell Hobbs, Daniel Brooks, Donna Ardizzoni, Rick Moore, Alex Bigger-Allen, Shane O’Neill, Theon O’Neill, Vicotor Quesada, Iris Quesada

Also Thanks to media from:

Joey Ciaramitaro  (Good Morning Gloucester),Desi Smith  (Gloucester Daily Times), Masao Okano and Yuichi Watanabe (Cape Ann TV)

End of Eastern Point Breakwater at 8 below

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Hey Joe,

NOAA said it was 8 below with the wind chill when I took this shot this morning, but it felt colder than that!  I thought I could feel my eyeballs freezing.

Enjoy,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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Cape Ann Brewing New Menu

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You can check out the Cape Ann Brewing new website here and also print out coupons hereimage

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Part 2 – What is “Self” Publishing? From Kat Valentine

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I keep telling Kat she should write is “How To Publish/Or Not Publish For Dummies”

EVERYBODY has a story to tell.  EVERYBODY thinks they are interesting.  Hardly anyone knows the ins and outs of the industry like Kat does.

Kat Writes-

Subsidy Publishing vs. Independent Publishing

For many people the words “self-published” bear a stigma and the suggestion that self-publishing is the only option the author had to get a book in to print. This is not true. Some authors who have self-published are Mark Twain, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Deepak Chopra, Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Atwood. Among the most famous of self-published books are Huckleberry Finn, the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and that most ubiquitous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking. Authors self publish for a variety of reasons.

Today publishing has been complicated by the addition of e-publishing. In this post I’m going to discuss the different types of print publishing, and include information on how e-books are handled by each. Since we already talked about traditional publishing I won’t delve much further in to that but bear these things in mind as you decide how much time and effort you wish to spend pursuing a contract with a traditional publisher:

Continued at: http://parlezmoiblog.blogspot.com/p/publishing-your-book-today.html

City of Gloucester Snow Emergency and Parking Ban

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Emergency Alert

Posted on: January 26, 2011

Snow Emergency and Parking Ban

Effective at 9:00 pm tonight, Wednesday, January 26, the city has declared a snow emergency and parking ban on all city streets due to the arriving snow storm. As of 9:00 pm this evening until Thursday 12 noon, all vehicles are banned from parking on city streets. Violators of this emergency declaration are subject to ticketing and towing at the owners expense.

Residents may park in all school and municipal parking lots. If you park at a school, your vehicle must be removed by 6am tomorrow to allow for clearing of school parking lots.

All residents are reminded that they are responsible for clearing snow from sidewalks adjacent to their property.

Your cooperation during this parking ban is necessary for efficient and safe snow plowing efforts.

To repeat, the city of Gloucester has issued a parking ban on all city streets as of 9:00 pm this evening. The ban shall be in effect until Thursday at 12 noon.

Browser Wars- Who Ya Got? Poll

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After basically swearing off Internet Explorer about three or four years ago I’ve been a pretty happy Firefox user but my interest in Google’s chrome has been piquing.

When we got stuck in Florida on our trip back from St Lucia last week we were lucky enough to get some time to hang out with my parents in Naples.  In addition to affording me time with my parents I got to log onto a computer for the first time in 9 days- my mom’s.  My mother will click any picture sent in an email by one of her friends that has a cute dancing bunny or heart on it (without any regard for the spyware or viruses she is downloading to her computer with that click).  She also has a fondness for toolbars it seems.

On a 17 inch laptop she may have had 3 inches of visible screen real estate after you account for the 8 or so toolbars that she has running in her Internet Explorer browser.  Let’s see, I think there was Yahoo toolbar, AOL toolbar, Google toolbar, something called Smilebox,and two or three coupon alert toolbars that I could remember.

Clearly I needed to download a new browser for her.  All this crap she had downloaded brought her laptop to a crawl.  I could almost hear it crying out for help, saying “Please, help me tell me you’re not going to add more crap to my already splitting at the seams workload”

So I downloaded Safari for her.  I’m not really sure why I picked Safari but it probably had to do with the fact that I was using Safari for the past 8 days on my iPad and it’s a pretty clean interface.  So once I got Safari on her laptop and imported a bunch of her favorite bookmarks to her toolbar and gave her a quick lesson on how to add bookmarks she was off and running.  The new browser started up about twenty times faster, there was about 80% more screen real estate due to the lack of those layers of toolbars stacked from the top of her screen to three quarters of the way down.   It will work well for her.

So I got home and the Mrs’ laptop has Internet Explorer as the default browser as well.  The Mrs to her credit is pretty good about detecting what she should and shouldn’t click on.  (Anyone have any general rules we could pass on to folks as to what you use for criteria for what you will and won’t click on?)  But I’m just not a fan of Internet Explorer.  It seems so sluggish and automatically hyperlinks things I don’t want hyperlinked, the security settings slow me way down and it doesn’t offer me single right click access to image url addresses and other geeky stuff that 97% of you probably needn’t worry yourselves about but to a person that really uses these features can drive nuts.

So I decided to check out Chrome on her laptop.  It was a quick download and I really like the minimalist and clean layout.  I haven’t used it enough to really know if it could replace Firefox on my desktop at work but it really simplifies many steps such as bookmarking and I love how doesn’t use up a lot of your screen with toolbars.  It also seems super speedy.

So this leads me to ask my viewership- Which web browser do you use and why?  Please leave a comment and let me know where you place your browser love?

Attention Birders: What The Heck Kind Of Bird Is This

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This guy was perched on a piling yesterday morning but I’ve never seen anything with this type of markings.  The beak almost looks like a night heron but that’s a wild guess.

Steve Borichevski?  Jim Barber?  Bueller? Bueller?image

Sea Smoke At Eastern Point Photo From Nick Villa

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Morning Joey,
Here is a picture near Niles Beach from Eastern Point Road this morning. Steam rising off of the harbor, air temp – 5 degrees.
Nick

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Black Bean Veggie Burger With Wasabi Sauce At Cape Ann Brewing

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I don’t normally go for vegetarian crap, but when the lady mentioned the wasabi sauce she piqued my interest.

Schwwwwing!!!!!!!  Instant wood guaranteed with just one bite!  This sucker is loaded with flavor!  You need to ask for the wasabi sauce though and I had her put on raw onions for a little extra punch.

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The Diva Chips didn’t suck either.

Songbirds in Winter ~ Sharing Recent Letters from Readers from Kim Smith

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American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers –

That perches in the soul –

And sings the tune without the words –

And never stops – at all –

And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –

And sore must be the storm –

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm –

I’ve heard it in the chillest land –

And on the strangest Sea –

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb – of Me    -  Emily Dickinson

Dear Gardening Friends,  Please forgive when I am slow to answer your kind and thoughtful letters. I am struggling with an elbow injury and have had to limit my writing and photography somewhat (with extreme reluctance!!!). I love to hear about your bird and butterfly encounters, so please, keep your letters coming–just know that I am slow! Please see my blog for more photos of the beautiful flock of American Robins that arrived in our garden yesterday, as well as information about the upcoming Cape Ann Winter Birding Weekend. Warmest wishes, Kim

For the rest of Kim’s post check out her blog here

Chickity Check It! Even This “food and wine writer” Chooses To Trust Berkowitz

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Richard Auffrey, @RichardPF on Twitter who had been very critical of the motivations behind Legal Seafoods “Blacklisted” fish  dinner in the past found reasons to trust Berkowitz after sitting through last night’s Blacklisted Fish Dinner and listening to reason.

Richard Auffrey writes-

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Berkowitz & Legal Sea Food: A Matter Of Trust

It began with a provocative press release which unleashed a firestorm of controversy, as well as plenty of free publicity for Legal Sea Food.  Subsequent sound bites in the media did nothing to quench the flames, and there was even a call for a boycott of Legal.  Two nights ago, the “sustainable seafood” dinner took place and I attended the event, hoping to get closer to the truth of the matter.
Back in December when I first posted about this dinner, I essentially stated that the burden would be on Legal at this dinner to offer answers to all the issues and questions they raised.  If they failed to do so, I felt it would be very detrimental to their cause. Their provocative language had raised red flags but I was willing to wait and see what they had to say for themselves, to let them present their case.  And at Monday’s dinner, they did exactly that, explaining their position, answering numerous questions and offering much to ponder.

Click here to check out the rest of his blog entry on the Legal Seafood Blacklisted fish Dinner

I just hope momma bear Jaqueline Church doesn’t kick Richard out of the den for taking Berkowitz’ side after she had taken shot after shot at Legal Seafoods in her columns on her blog

Richard might just find himself left off the invitation list for the next “pat ourselves on the back because we are elitist food bloggers dinner”

He wouldn’t be missing much though except for a whole lot of hot air.

January 25, 2011 ‘Blacklisted’ meal provokes ‘sustainable’ fisheries debate By Richard Gaines

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From the Gloucester Daily Times

Gaines covers the Berkowitz dinner-

BOSTON — For a private dinner at one of his Legal Sea Foods restaurants for which he made the intentionally provocative decision to serve three so-called blacklisted fish, Roger Berkowitz minced the black tiger shrimp but not his words.

It was an evening of food for thought.

"We have sustainable fisheries, now we need sustainable infrastructure. It has to come back to the center," Berkowitz said in a plea for common sense and reason, noting that many years of strict conservation have weakened the fishing industry while strengthening U.S. stocks.

"We are seeing something out of balance," Berkowitz added. "The environmental movement is well financed; the fishermen are not."

Click here for the rest of the story at The Gloucester Daily Times Website

Then you can watch Part I of the Interview I did with Richard a while back by clicking below

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