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— travis grandon (@HappyTaco_glo) January 29, 2013
Yet another glorious sunset!
From last Saturday. Click on the photo to see it on Flickr where you can see a larger version:
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Canines up, Humans down! ~ Off Bray Street
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Chickity Check It! Joann Mackenzie from the Times Covers Ed’s Coronation As Chamber Board of Directors President
January 29, 2013
‘Building for the Future’
New president, a handyman, sets tone for chamber’s year
By Joann Mackenzie Staff Writer
“This is not your father’s chamber of commerce,” said Bob Heidt of the 230-plus revellers who rocked Cruiseport Gloucester’s ballroom Saturday night for the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s 91st annual dinner dance.
It was, literally, a stand-up crowd, leaping to its feet repeatedly to applaud, whoop, holler and hail what emcee Joey Ciaramitaro called an “outstanding year of turnaround” under Heidt, who took over the reins as chamber CEO last January with, by Heidt’s account, a negative deficit of more than $60,000. This December, Heidt finished his first year in office “with a net recorded profit in excess of $90,000.”
Of the “$150,000 positive swing,” Chamber Chairman of the Board Mark Grenier told the cheering crowds, “respect is earned, not given, and we chose the right person in Robert Heidt … he listens, he learns, and he implements for the chamber.”
To read the entire story click here to go to The Times Website–
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So The Challenge Has Been Accepted- It’s Muffy White vs Your Boy Joey In A MyZone Fitness Challenge Death Match
I’m up at the Manchester Athletic Club and they have these fitness bands that you strap around your chest and it measures your level of physical activity and then sends a report while you are working out to a computer system which generates a report.
The idea intrigued me because I know I try to push myself at the gym but you don’t really know how much your activity is stacking up.
So I signed up to get the MyZone Band and tried it out. First you enter your height, weight and age and it calculates your average energy expended based on that criteria. As soon as your workout is done you unhook the strap and you get an email with your physical activity report.
Now when all that gets explained to you you’re think wow, that sounds pretty cool. But this is what happens in actuality-
There is a monitor inside the Manchester Athletic club and once your MyZone Band is on your name pops up and your level of activity is recorded. The only thing that is displayed on the public monitor is your current level of activity, how many calories you’ve burned since your workout started and how many MyZone Points you’ve racked up. So once you go throug a workout and you get your results you see where you might have backed off and it makes you want to push through harder all the way through your workout, knowing that you’re totally accountable when you see your results.
You can say it’s a gimmick, you can say that you shouldn’t need a fitness monitor band to motivate you but you know what? Knowing I had that damn band on and that it was gonna spit out my results in my email box made me push harder than ever. Gimmick- shmmimick it’s effective and at the end of the day that’s all that matters.
So now to top it all off on the cool factor you can issue challenges to anyone else that has the band. You just send them an email challenge and select a date range and whoever puts in more effort wins the challenge. You can make bets around that, you can use it to motivate you even more. Believe me when you have friends like Muffy White who you know is just gonna rub your nose in it if you lose- you will be motivated!
So It’s ON!
Muffy issued a challenge to me through the MyZone website that went like this-
Muffy has invited you to a MYZONE Points challenge
from 16 January 2013 to 1 February 2013.
"Bring your A game wharf boy. "
Please log in and accept or reject challenge
Here are screenshots after my activity on January 23rd and Muffy yesterday-
and here’s Muffy’s-
So after one day Muffy is kicking my ass. Her workout was 1:02 minutes, mine 45. It should be said that Muffy is a gym rat and you all know me as the slug who works down the dock so if she doesn’t kick my ass there should be an investigation. But that doesn’t mean I’m not gonna give it hell tryin.
Day 1 Muffy 177- Joey C 147.
Oh I forgot to tell you, you can also work out away from the gym I think as long as you activate your fitness band and then once you get to the gym it will upload the data. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong.
Alright Muffy, let’s do this!
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Community Photos 1/29/13
Chirstian Derobert submits-
I can’t wait for a day at the beach and 75 degrees…
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Yo- Anyone Driving Early This Morning Be Careful!!!
Most Secondary Roads From What I Can Tell Weren’t Treated So Take Your Time. Hopefully Once The Sun Comes Up Stuff Will Melt.
#Boom! Joey C Weather Advisory Right There Homie!
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Perkins Street Fire Victims Drive
Sefatia writes-
Good afternoon Friends,
You may receive this more than once so I am apologizing now for the duplicate email and for those who may not live in Gloucester pass it on, please spread the word.
We are doing a Clothing Drive, household items drive even furniture, this is a community project if you want to donate gifts cards please send them to Fire Victims c/o Jackie Hardy 29 Cherry Street Gloucester MA 01930
Gifts of money checks can be made out to the Gloucester Fund on memo line of check please put fire victims Perkins St. 45 Middle Street Gloucester MA 01930
We will be holding the drive Tuesday & Wednesday 10-2 both days on Wednesday 4:30 -6:30 at Cruiseport Is the drop off place on the side entrance down the driveway.
Thursday we will have the families come and go thru and take what ever they want anything left over we will give to the Second Glance on Pond Rd.
Second Glance has given to so many, Action Shelter, fire victims and so many in need, they give free of charge to these occasions of need, Thank you Second Glance and why can they do this because of your donations. Thank you friends
Did you know that Second Glance will pick up furniture free Monday thru Thursday just call them 978-283-4298 so if you have anything you want to donate please drop it off
Clothing sizes women’s medium and small
Toddlers size boys 3&5 boys size 7
Infant girl size 12-18 months
Mens medium & XL
All items accepted, but large household items please call Second Glance,
we will need diapers, wipes, bottles, silverware, lamps, blankets, dishes pots & pans etc.
And the good thing nothing will go to waste..Any one can go to Second Glance Thank you once again
warmest regards
Jackie Hardy, Sefatia Romeo Theken, Melissa Cox/ residents of Gloucester not a city council project
special thank you to Dawn Alves, Sue & Richard Canning, and Sheree DiLorenzo, Gloucester Fund and Second Glance
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Fish Tales Of A Gloucester Fisherman
Hi Joey, I recently joined the Gloucester Writers Group.
On Jan. 17th I attended my first meeting, The Inaugural Meeting of
Fish Tales, Live Story Telling. I would like to share my story and pictures
with your readers. Virginia (Frontiero) McKinnon
Fish Tales
My Dad, Mike Frontiero, was a Gloucester Fisherman My Dad had many fish tales to tell. I remember my Dad taking a big piece of paper and with pencil in hand he would draw and explain the process of catching fish to me. He would draw a picture of his boat, the winch, doors and net and explain how the drag net is set by lowering the doors with the net into the ocean. The doors are at the end of long steel cables attached to the boat and the winch. The net is shaped like a big stocking. The doors keep the top of the stocking open to scoop up the fish. After several hours of towing the doors and the net are hauled up, closing the doors in the process. To do this a strong winch coils up the cables. With the doors secured at the side of the boat, the net is then hauled up high above the deck. The bottom of the net is pulled open, like opening a purse, dumping he fish on the deck for sorting. Then it’s all hands on deck, as the junk is thrown back into the ocean. All the ground fish is dressed (guttered) before going down into the fish hold and iced. This process continues until the decision is made when to bring the fish to market. Whiting is very fragile and had to get to market in two days, When fishing for haddock and cod the trips would last longer.
I never realize how dangerous my Dad’s occupation could be until one morning my Mom was listening to her ship to shore short wave radio, when she heard the voice of the skipper, Busty Serio “May-Day, May-Day the fishing vessel America was taking on water and sinking.” With her rosary beads in hand later she heard a fishing boat was near by and rescued the crew. My dad was the engineer, and the skipper remained on the boat, pumping the water desperately trying to save the America, until the Coast Guard arrived. They explained to my dad that the America could not be saved and they had to abandon ship. My Dad said as they were leaving he witnessed a huge funnel hole appear and the America was sinking into this hole. The current was so strong the Coast Guard boat was having difficulty from being drawn into this hole.
My dad and the skipper had a new fishing boat built in South Bristol Maine. Harvey Gamage Boatyard was in the process of building a yatch and he accommodated them by turning this into a beautiful fishing boat, as time was money. I remember spending many wonderful weekends in Maine watching the boat building process. Soon the boat was launched and christened “Little Flower: in honor of St. Theresa. My dad was fishing again on the beautiful fishing boat. She was the pride of the Gloucester fishing fleet.
On December 13. I believe the year was 1952. the Little Flower was at sea, when a hugh storm appeared from out of nowhere. My Dad stated the waves were over 12 feet high. My Dad said a huge wave was heading toward the Little Flower. He and the crew gathered into the pilot house. They were on their knees in front of the little religious shrine. They made a sacred promise to God to never go fishing on Santa Lucia’s day, December 13th. The boat broached the wave and the Little Flower was spared from impending disaster. I believe fishermen’s faith in God is tested time and time again. I pray to God to bless our fishermen and keep them safe.
Virginia (Frontiero) McKinnon January 2013
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Pauline’s Gifts Hand Painted Mailboxes Available at Corliss Brothers
Pauline can paint just about anything on your very own personalized mailbox. A Codfish? a lobster? You name it.
Check her out on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/Paulinesgifts
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5 Questions With @Joey_C’s Favorite Twitter Peeps- @DscvrGlstr Linn Parisi
5 Questions With Linn Parisi- @DscvrGlstr
What are your duties at your job and do you use twitter as a tool for your job?
Although what I do is like having two full time jobs, I don’t really have a "job" with Discover Gloucester. I’m in an unpaid position, as everyone involved with Discover Gloucester is. Crazy, huh?!
Some of the work I’ve taken on for the past 5.5 years includes attending trade shows and sales missions to meet with wholesale buyers of travel; attending tourism-related meetings, seminars, etc. around the State; planning out the marketing initiatives that Discover Gloucester takes on i.e. the Visitor Guide (working on our 5th!), our new website, the new Seafood Trail, co-operative advertising and co-operative booth sharing at area consumer shows, and way more than you want me to list here. No wonder I’m tired!
I do use Twitter- a lot- in the outreach work I do to get more visitors to come here. I only Tweet for Discover Gloucester, not personally. Some would say- as they did at yesterday’s Discover Gloucester Annual Meeting- that I Tweet to the degree that I talk, lol. Can you imagine if I Tweeted personally?!
Why do you think you are follow worthy on Twitter?
I don’t outright sell when I tweet. I try to get interesting, quirky Gloucester/Rockport/Essex tidbits & images out there that will entice & inform the readers so maybe they’ll want to take a look at us as a destination. Or not. Sometimes I post something just because it’s interesting/entertaining to me, and I figure it might be to someone else, too. I make my Tweets conversational- not business-like. Ryan Pinkham (whom I remember as a Kindergartner on up through Beeman School 🙂 had a fab post today re: the importance of the human and human-ness behind the Tweet. I completely agree. It’s all about the back and forth of a conversation.
What types of tweets or twitter user drive you up a wall?
Posting a facebook link, by itself, makes me wonder why they bothered to link fb to Twitter. Tweets with no reference to what or where the event is make me crazy, like "Two-fer deal going on at Larry’s!" Who is Larry; where is Larry; and what’s Larry’s deal- and why should we care?
Who are some of your favorite twitter users?
@Joey_C (duh)
Do you have a website you would like to promote?
DiscoverGloucester.com will be up and happening before we’re into the new tourism season. How’s that for vague?
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Go With the Floe
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A dusting of snow on Saturday
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GHS Girls Basketball vs Peabody (David B. Cox Photos)
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More Chamber of Commerce
Oops, Rubber Duck told Ed the rolls were a food challenge.
What I like about this island, the natives are so staid and honor decorum. All photos after this were a blur of 200 napkins.
Fifteen minutes earlier Joey was helping unload the last boat. Cleans up pretty good.
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Eastern Bluebird Nestbox Walk at Allens Neck
Male Eastern Bluebird and Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
For information about the status of Eastern Bluebirds in Massachusetts, see yesterday’s post.
Bluebird Nestbox Walk at Allens Neck
Sponsored by Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary
Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Allens Neck Wildlife Sanctuary Instructor: Allens Pond Sanctuary Staff Audience: All (suitable for children 5 – 16 years) Fee: Adults $0, Children $0.00m/ $0.00nm
Join us at the Allens Neck Wildlife Sanctuary for a FREE bluebird nest box training session and nature walk. The walk is free and open to anyone but will focus on teaching participants how to monitor nest boxes on our Sanctuary as well as their own properties. You will visit 30 nest box sites along this three mile hike while learning how to attract and monitor bluebirds. You’ll also have the chance to join the Allens Pond Volunteer Bluebird Nest Box Monitor Program. Please bring your questions!
Instructions and Directions: Meet at the Allens Neck Wildlife Sanctuary Parking lot, located on Allens Neck Road, right off of Horseneck Road in South Dartmouth, MA. Dress for an outdoor hike and be sure to bring a water bottle.
Registration is required.
Register online or call 508-636-2437 to register by phone.
Register by mail: program registration form (PDF 66K)
For more information, contact:
Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary
1280 Horseneck Road
Westport, MA 02790
Both images courtesy Google image search.
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See, If You Weren’t on Twitter You Wouldn’t Have Found Out That Cape Ann Coffees Is Giving Away Coffee For 10 cents Tomorrow
To Celebrate 10 years In Business!
Cape Ann Coffees has Been In Business for 10 Years???? Holy Crap Time Is Flying!
The Chamber Tweets-
10 YEARS IN BUSINESS !!
Tuesday, January 29th marks ten years in business for
Cape Ann Coffees. We are celebrating by selling any size
Brewed Coffee for one dime. Ten years — Ten cents
Thank you for supporting Cape Ann Coffees
Here’s the tweet-
Congrat to Rick & Dorthe Noonan!!! fb.me/UD4U4rjx
— Cape Ann Chamber (@CapeAnnChamber) January 28, 2013
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P&V’s LOL #11: Clean, matching socks repel
Calling all quantum physicists. (I know you’re not a physicist, Paul, but perhaps you can help me out.) There must be some sort of mysterious force at work here. Try this experiment to see what I mean:
STEP 1: Hold your nose and take off the pair of socks you’ve been wearing all day, being careful to put them in the laundry basket right next to each other.
STEP 2: Now wash and dry all the laundry in that basket. (In order for this experiment to work, there must be at least 3 other pairs of socks in the laundry that you wash and dry together.)
STEP 3: Take all the laundry out of the dryer and start pulling out socks looking for a match.
Here’s what I bet you’ll find (assuming there are 4 pairs of socks in the laundry): You’ll pick out one sock from each of the four pairs before you find a single match. Now the probability of that happening is very low. (It’s been a while since I solved probability problems by I’m pretty sure I’m right about this.)
So what causes these clean matching socks to repel? My guess is that it is related somehow to quantum entanglement, which Einstein derided as spooky action at a distance, but was nevertheless proven experimentally several times (see this article for a good timeline of quantum entanglement).
Now, this doesn’t seem to bother Vickie at all, and normally I just let these little life mysteries go and don’t worry about them. But sparks are flying out of my socks because of this awful dry weather, lately. These socks are taunting me, as if to say, “Bet I can shock you four times before you’ll find a match!”
Any help you geniuses can offer would be greatly appreciated.
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Community Stuff 2/6/13
Schooner Adventure’s History Sharing Program – February 8, 2013 (10am)
Come see images of old Gloucester and share your own memories during these free monthly presentations at the Rose Baker Senior Center. This month – “Ghosts of Vincent Cove:
The Shipbuilders and their Vessels” See images and hear about the ship builders and their vessels from Gloucester’s Vincent Cove, the area now filled in where the Senior Center sits. (Program supported by New England Biolabs Foundation). For more information – call Schooner Adventure @978-281-8079.
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Kingsley Flood New CD Release Party Saturday, February 2nd, Rhumbline, 9 PM
Photo by Dave Green
By Gregg Zoske
Kingsley Flood’s love affair with Gloucester continues when they return to the Rhumbline THIS Saturday, February 2nd, to debut their new CD BATTLES. Hot off the press, three songs have been premiered by Rolling Stone, Magnet, MTV Buzzworthy, and American Songwriter in the past three weeks.
Kingsley Flood won the 2012 Boston Music Award for Best Americana Band, but their new CD defies the genre. An energetic hybrid of roots rock, folk, pop and punk multi-instrumentation fused with lyrics that dig deep in universal truths, sets this band apart from the rest. They combine fiery musicianship and addictive songwriting with electrifying performances that have earned them the moniker “best live band in Boston” by the Boston Herald while burning up the stage from Burlington to Washington, D.C.
The CD will be available for purchase at the show BUT should come with a warning label: This is an addictive substance! As HubARTs reviewed, “There’s an abundance of big hooks and little grace notes that will lodge these songs in your head.”
So come out Saturday night to witness a special happening as Kingsley Flood is sure to springboard from the Rhumbline into the rock stratosphere soon as the whole world seems to be waking up and taking notice. See what others have had to say recently:
“Through smart songwriting, effortless arrangement and most of all total conviction, Kingsley Flood managed to turn out one of the most aggressively entertaining sets that anyone will be delivering in 2013 or possibly any year. A flirtateous comingling of Americana, punk and folk provides the backbone to their music on record and in a live setting that mix is turned up to eleven.” ChunkyGlasses
“Kingsley Flood’s Americana-rooted offerings is the kind of music for every man, rich or poor, beloved or bereft, believer or unbeliever. And like all genuine American articles, this spirited band is equal parts rough-and-tumble country and brazenly unbridled rock.” D.C. Music Download
“…all rusty mic’d vocals gift-wrapped in barbed wire. One battle we bet the band didn’t fight: that opening guitar riff. George Hall’s (Gloucester’s own) plays like a kid opening Christmas presents — with a machete.” Rolling Stone
“the latest sneak-peek from Kingsley Flood‘sBattles, is sure to knock your ass to the floor.” Last Stop Wonderland
“So you haven’t seen Kingsley Flood yet? You haven’t witnessed their brand of Americana Grind – equal parts Country, Rock, Blues, and Post-punk Americana…This is just about as good as it gets right now.”
Ryans Smashing Life
Good Morning Gloucester 