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Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning Water By the Spoonful is enlightening audiences at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. We spoke with the cast and about the touching new family drama about making connections.January 8, 2013
Catching up with the starry production of the Shakespeare comedy.May 7, 2012
Julia Murney and Daniel Everidge lead a family on the brink of collapse in off-Broadway's Falling. Hear from the cast and creatives about the show's powerful message and why audiences can't get enough of this autism-themed drama.October 15, 2012
In Simon Stephens' critically acclaimed new play Harper Regan, the main character does something most of us only dream about: escape. Hear how her incredible journey fulfills all of our deepest desires.October 16, 2012
Get ready to take a hilarious ride on the Hogswarts Express as Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience, a parody of the popular Harry Potter book series, pulls into off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre. Written and performed by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, the show retells all seven Potter books in only 70 minutes!June 4, 2012
Will Eno's one-man-play Title and Deed has arrived off-Broadway at Signature Theatre Company's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, starring Conor Lovett. Title and Deed is the story of a nameless traveler who explores the meaning of love, life and death while visiting a faraway place.June 4, 2012
Just how funny are off-Broadway's Old Jews Telling Jokes? Broadway.com headed to Ben's Deli to chat with the stars and find out.
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A Summer Day is the touching story of love, loss and memory. We went to off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre to find out what joys and challenges were faced while bringing Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse's poignant drama to American audiences.October 25, 2012
John Patrick Shanley's Storefront Church features an all-star cast lead by Tony winner Tonya Pinkins, TV's Giancarlo Esposito and Zach Grenier. We went downtown to get the inside scoop about this new political drama.June 12, 2012
The cast of My Big Gay Italian Wedding is heading back to St. Luke's Theatre for more madcap matrimonial hijinks! Broadway.com catches up with Anthony J. Wilkinson, Daniel Robinson, Brett Douglas and more members of the wedding party.November 7, 2012
Greg Pierce's world premiere drama Slowgirl is bringing the heat of Costa Rica to Lincoln Center Theater's new Claire Tow Theater. Broadway.com talked to the cast and creative team about this gripping and emotional new play.July 2, 2012


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Volume 15, Number 1
If it weren't for the brain tissue adjacent to a tumor, patients having surgery for primary brain cancers could be more optimistic. Yet the tissue surrounding tumor cavities is laced with neoplastic cells that defy removal: They're hard to reach, and they turn on chemo-resistant genes, all within the brain's immune-puny environment. Many patients survive less than a year.
John Laterra, Henry Brem look
over a protein blot.
But Hopkins' clinician-scientists are becoming confident of a brain cancer turnaround from a scientific assault on several fronts. "We're finding ways to target the brain directly," says Neurosurgeon in Chief Henry Brem, M.D., "because we want to minimize side effects of such powerful treatments."
Basically, the scientists aim to kill residual tumor by raising the brain's immune response while simultaneously using selective chemotherapy to poison cells. Or they'll pretreat patients with agents that cripple cancer cells' resistance to drugs and then bring on the chemotherapy.
The assault hinges on improved drug delivery, long a stumbling block to therapy. Researchers here are trying stem and other engineered cells, microchips, dissolvable polymer discs and microspheres to reach tumors directly and ferry in potent therapies.
The therapeutic "workhorse" in many of the approaches is the Gliadel wafer, a dime-size polymer disc that Brem co-developed a decade ago. Placed in the brain after tumor removal, the thin wafers release a chemotherapeutic agent-BCNU-into adjacent tissues as the wafer disintegrates. Its 4 percent BCNU dose has lengthened patients' lives. But tests in Brem's lab suggest higher doses may be better. In recent clinical trials, neurosurgeon Alessandro Olivi, M.D., found malignant glioma patients tolerate doses five times higher. Efficacy trials are under way. And trials of the wafers with alternate agents, such as 5-FU and taxol, are also in the offing, as is a study of Col-3, an anti-angiogenesis drug neurologist John Laterra, M.D., Ph.D., and Brem have developed.
Recently, Hopkins researchers joined with MIT bioengineers to begin testing a centimeter-square, solid-state microchip that's implantable in the brain. The chip houses reservoirs of anti-cancer agents-single drugs or multiples that clinicians can release with remote controls as needed.
Since any drug is useless if tumors become resistant, another set of trials examines a way to inhibit an enzyme that makes it happen. Early tests suggest pretreatment with 06-benzylguanine can make cancer cells wither under a follow-up schedule of BCNU.
But the studies that cause researchers' sharpest intake of breath are still in animal testing. They're approaches that could realize a holy grail of brain-tumor treatment: the ability to destroy lingering tumor while conferring lasting immunity against it. The work centers on upping brain levels of cytokines, small proteins that stimulate an immune response.
In one study, Brem's team injected minute, gel-based spheres laden with a cytokine into rodents' brain tumors. Close to 90 percent rejected the tumors and survived. And more than a third of the animals survived when challenged with a lethal dose of malignant cells-a good sign there's immune memory.
But because most passive-delivery methods can't reach into tumors, Laterra is exploring cell-based tactics. He has, for example, injected endothelial cells engineered to secrete cytokines into rat models bearing tumors. The cells readily set up housekeeping in tumor tissue and extend the animals' survival. Laterra's also studying cytokine-engineered adult stem cells. They appear to migrate throughout the brain, settling wherever disease exists. "I'm very excited about these cells," says Laterra. "They've the potential to deliver what we want, where needed. And because they're destroyed along with the tumor in the immune response that follows, we shouldn't have to worry about what becomes of them."
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looks good but my computer probably won't run it :(.Do you have demo in plan?
There is a problem with interplanetary civilizations: developing them takes more resources than a single planet can offer, and sometimes even a planetary system is not enough. Especially if you have competition.
In distant cosmos, two sister planets have reached a rather tense situation. The ancient greed, inherent to both civilizations, has driven them to most dramatic measures: the building of massive cannons, aimed directly at each other. Let the game of interplanetary artilleries begin!
Interplanetary is a turn-based strategy game for PC, Mac and Linux, featuring both single- and multiplayer modes. It is inspired by classics like DEFCON, Civilization series and old-school artillery games.
Your goal is to cause damage to the enemy's planet and to protect your own. Manage your planet's infrastructure using the limited natural resources and research new technologies to develop even mightier weapons and defenses.
At the end of each turn, there is a chance to shoot your interplanetary guns and try to hit major strategic points on the enemy's planet. Be precise, and you might manage to navigate your railgun slug around other planets and their gravity wells, straight into enemy cities!
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Greetings, Interplanetarists! We come bearing glad tidings.
To ease the wait until the next proper update (it'll be a doozy!), we decided to put out a little patch to fix some big annoyances.
First of all, we've begun a great networking overhaul, one that should fix a huge amount of the current problems with online play. While the results are still a couple of updates away, today's patch contains an important network fix, sort of as a teaser of things to come: the turn processing fix!
There's nothing quite as aggravating as having your game crash in between turns because of some random reason. That random reason turned out to be lasers. Due to some hitbox weirdness, a laser blast would sometimes not reach the planet surface at all, causing the game being confused and calculating the attack forever. This should now be fixed.
Next on our list of fixes is something many of you have been waiting for: the structure graphic/intel fix.
A while ago we made an experimental intel system change that allowed players to see the locations of enemy structures, but not any of the details. This turned out to be pretty unpopular, so we're hereby changing it back! As of this patch, all the city graphics and building graphics will be hidden unless the player has enough intel to see them. Because of this change, we also made a couple of balance tweaks, mainly having to do with beefing up the targetable weapons and nerfing defense buildings to account for this added layer of defense.
That's all the big changes now, but do check out the detailed changelog for every little thing.
Interplanetary Version 0.6.4981_EAC_6.6
And what better way to celebrate the patch than...
The previous Whack-a-Dev turned out to be so cozy, we thought of having a home-broadcast again. So, catch the whacking stream on our Twitch channel and join the discussion in the chat. Just like the previous time, a couple of us will be playing a match or two of Interplanetary and chatting around, answering the questions you post in the chat.
And, as always, for every dev you manage to defeat we release free Interplanetary Steam keys into the world. You can follow the giveaway at our Twitter and Vkontakte pages.
Whack-a-Dev is a regular Interplanetary event, where members of Team Jolly Roger host online matches and challenge the players. Defeat us and we release Interplanetary Steam keys into the wild!
Blast you soon and blast you hard!
looks good but my computer probably won't run it :(.Do you have demo in plan?
Hi! At the moment we don't have any plans for demo. But, perhaps, you could leave us your computer specs, so we can let you know if the game would work for you :)
There's a typo in one of your description.
This game looks great guys!
Wow! This is a totally awesome project, definitely tracking and waiting for more news.
I posted a comment here and got a alpha key in a PM over a year ago, thing is i never knew PM's where a thing on desura XD. Only found out about the message today... oops. anyway before i found out about the message i was bored and looking through my bookmark tabs and found a link to this page buried away in there. after taking another look i'm impressed. nice to see it still being worked on and even green-lighted too. I've seen lots of cool larger scale games like this and usually after the first little while of development the game just kinda fades away but its great to see this alive and well.
Hah, glad you found your way back here! Hope you're having fun with the alpha!
Oohhhh man! You guys should have worked together with these game-teams,
(1) SpaceEngine: Indiedb.com
(2) Paragon: Desura.com
And Universe Sandbox: Store.steampowered.com
and designed a super game...
Interplanetary 2...? :P
The exploration of space is not completely absent from IP universe, it's just nowhere near as advanced as in most scifi universes. As in, no starfleets. We imagine the entry level to be what our technology might be in 50 years or so.
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NORTH SMITHFIELD- Beatrice L. (Savoie) Ryan, 75, resident of North Smithfield, died March 3, 2011 surrounded by her loving family.
She was the loving wife of the late John J. Ryan.
Born in Woonsocket, she was the daughter of the late Eva (Rattie) Savoie Vadeboncoeur and her stepfather Henry Vadeboncoeur.
Beatrice worked for the Amica Insurance Co. as a rater 1, for twenty years retiring in 1999. Her hobby included walking the dogs.
Lorraine M. Noel
WOONSOCKET - Lorraine M. Noel, 98, formerly of 429 East School St. died Thursday in Woonsocket Health and Rehabilitation Center.
She was born in Woonsocket a daughter of the late Joseph and Maria (Piette) Noel. She worked as a spinner for the former Bell Worsted Co. and a stitcher for the former Woonsocket Dress Co. before retiring in 1976. She was a former member of the St. Germain Manor Club, Enfant de Marie, Royal Travelers and the St. Joseph Sr. Citizens.
Norman J. Lussier
HOPEDALE, MA - Norman J. Lussier, 71, of Hopedale, MA died Thursday March 3, 2011 in Oakdale Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center, West Boylston. He was the husband of Christina (Bird) Lussier and sister to Rita Rousseau of Woonsocket, RI.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will publish in Sunday's edition. Arrangements by Buma-Sargeant Funeral Home, Milford.
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WOONSOCKET - Noel Boleslaw Wolny, 73 of Woonsocket, RI died peacefully at home on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 with his family by his side.
He was born in Cheratte, Belgium in 1937 and moved to Poland with his family in 1949. He immigrated to the United States with his wife and their son in 1964. They made their home in Woonsocket where his fluency in French helped them to transition to their new life in their adopted country, where he later became a naturalized citizen.
SCITUATE — Hinting broadly that he may soon return to public life, perhaps as a political candidate, State Police Col. Brendan Doherty announced Thursday that he is retiring effective April 1.
Both Doherty and Gov. Lincoln Chafee's office denied that friction between Doherty and Chafee — who were at odds over the Providence Police Department's decision to opt out of the federal Secure Communities Program — led to Doherty's seemingly abrupt decision to step down.
WOONSOCKET --- You will have to forgive Joe Gardner if he's been a little antsy this winter.
After fighting four times during a seven-month span last year and winning the EBA (Eastern Boxing Association) New England light heavyweight title last November, the Woonsocket Boxing Club fighter has gone the last four months without a bout.
"I'm not used to this," added Gardner. "It's been longer than I expected. I've been itching for a fight and I was hoping to jump in there right away."
But Gardner knows his wait won't be long.
WOONSOCKET – Two years ago, Mount St. Charles Academy was the top seed from Division II-North. Instead of advancing far into the playoffs, however, the Mounties saw their season come to an abrupt close with a shocking two-point loss to Scituate in the preliminary round.
Before her top-ranked team took to the floor in Thursday's opening-round contest with Warwick Veterans, a No. 8 seed from Div. II-South with the worst record in the entire league, head coach Nina Morey thought about that upset to the Spartans.
WOONSOCKET – There's something to be said about playoff experience.
Kailey Fugere and Ashley Dubois showed just why on Wednesday night.
The Woonsocket High teammates, who have been instrumental players for the Villa Novans in their last two state titles, including the Division I crown last year, stepped up with huge efforts against a pesky South Kingstown outfit.
WOONSOCKET — City fire investigators and Police Department detectives are seeking the public's help in solving a suspected arson at the Seville Dye mill complex at First Avenue and River Street on Sunday.
An investigation by state and local fire marshals at the damaged mill on Monday and Tuesday determined the fire to have been set, fire officials said Wednesday.
A $5,000 reward has been posted by the State Fire Marshal's office for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in the case.
CUMBERLAND — The 66-year-old victim of last week's violent home invasion at 124 Overhill Road in Cumberland has been identified as Harvey O. Salvas, who also is a staff member of the Rhode Island Governor's Commission on Disabilities.
Salvas is the commission's state Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) coordinator specializing in accessibility and assistive technology. He is also a former building official in Cumberland.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/12 -- Engine Yard, the leading Platform as a Service (PaaS), today announced Engine Yard Local, a new development tool available on Engine Yard Cloud that further demonstrates the company's commitment to developers and the open source community. Developers now have more flexibility to accelerate the application development process and focus on innovation and building cloud-based apps. Engine Yard Local enables developers to build and test applications on local machines and later deploy to the same environment on Engine Yard Cloud. Developers also get a quick and simple way to access a remote application running in Engine Yard Local via the Internet, through a feature called Engine Yard Live.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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Many of our boat neighbors but also local Spanish people regularly drive up the mountain roads to get mountain spring water. Today we took our car along the narrow road to the small mountain village of Felix. At 800 meters above sea level, this tiny village with about 500 year round inhabitants has one public well. We had to wait a few minutes in queue, but it was worth it! We usually don't have any problem with drinking local tap water. Water in mainland Europe usually contains more chlorine than we are used to in Scandinavia, but after a couple of days in our large, 1400 liter water tank the chlorine is almost gone and with a high performance carbon filter we have never been sick by bad water quality. Next year we are going to re-start our water maker system, probably needing a few new parts. Up to now, with a few exceptions, water has been free of charge, but we have been told that further east in the Med, fresh water is charged for and more importantly in some places very restricted in availability.
Nevertheless, the mountain spring water tasted very good!
We are now feeling the first signs of winter in southern Spain. Our heater has been used a couple of mornings, the snow cap of the highest peaks of Sierra Nevada are now permanent and we've also had a couple of gales. But everything is relative – with a few exceptions we are still wearing the "cruiser uniform", i.e. shorts, t-shirt and sandals. It is kind of funny to meet the local Spanish population dressed as for a cross country ski trip. So what have we been up to lately? Firstly we have got a rental car for a really good price for two months. A car makes a big difference to quality of life as Almerimar is slightly isolated, especially as we have no bicycles, yet. We have also done further maintenance, installation work on the boat. We plan to have a section on this blog about "the boat" including technical stuff. Not so funny was my stupid mistake when installing "The Wirie", a Wifi complete antenna and access point solution only requiring power. Part of the background was the painful bureaucracy having to wait about 4 weeks on customs processing in Madrid. My mistake was to connect the Wirie to 24V so it crashed, especially stupid since I very well knew I had to use the 12 V voltage splitter I ordered together with the kit. So maybe by Xmas we have this gear installed and working. What it does – it is a "WiFi sniffer", looking up available networks, claiming a 3 km reach, which I doubt. We have also been social – we try to meet up with the "Scandinavian community" once a week, a mixed group of sailors, golfers and retired expats. Last week we were invited to our neighbors in the marina, Ulrike and Peter from Munich, Germany. We had a very nice evening enjoying good food and sharing experience from past sailing; especially valuable was the information about Croatia which we hope to see next year. This week we spent two days in the lovely town Nerja to celebrate a couple of anniversaries. More on Nerja in a later blog post.
Close to 30 years ago, sailing with our first sailboat, a B24 "Skärgårdskryssare" built 1924, we had a scary accident. Sailing downwind we made an unplanned gybe, with my head hitting the boom. An accident that can easily kill you but fortunately I missed some nasty brackets and cleats on the boom – so it was wood against wood :-). Anyway, a lot of blood and an expensive taxi to hospital for stitches. This summer cruise has been mostly downwind, and even if all gybes have been planned, there is a lot of power that takes it toll on the boat, sail and equipment. At least three blocks have been damaged.
Therefore we decided to buy a "boom break", a device that uses the friction of a line wound around a metal cylinder to slow down the gybe. Simple design, the fewer moving parts the better. We plan to have a sea trial tomorrow. Here is a youtube clip from the manufacturer.
We have met many long time expats here in Spain who have a hard time get a menu translated. We decided to make an effort to at least get the basics right – so Eva decides a daily menu of 5-10 spanish words to get used to. To make it more meaningful, there is usually a theme. Monday we returned a rental car so we needed to learn how to pronounce "when does the bus x go to y", "where is th the bus station", "when does it leave" etc. This weeks training was about dehumidifiers, power consumption, performance (liter per hour), external output of water etc. Most important was the spanish word "Los Deshumidificadores". Trying this word in real life today at "Corte de Ingles" was the ultimate, scary test if we are getting beyond the basics. And we passed. After carrying a bulky load on my bike for 10k we have now a dehumidifier that we have longed for the last 4 weeks.
Sunday was spent with our good friends Jörgen and Soffen who visited us from Alicante. Great to be able to reconnect after almost a year. The day after they gave us a lift to Almeria where we picked up a rental car for a week. Our "mini vacation" was loosely planned but we wanted to see Guadix, a small town amongst other things famous for its many caves, used as living quarters. It seems these "houses" have many benefits, eg mediating temperatures and, of course, extending your house with an extra room only requiring a shovel and a bucket. We couldn't resist trying out a cave apartment so we checked in for a night at the cave hotel Tio Tobas. We both had a good night sleep, even though it felt a bit strange to think about having maybe 5 meters of soft mud/gravel/sandstone above your head.
Next day we followed another tip from long time resident Swedes – Trevelez, a small village south of Mulhacén, the highest peak of the Sierra Nevada. Besides being one of the highest town/villages on the Iberian peninsula, this is also the "heaven of cured ham" or Jamon Iberico. The altitude (~1500m) seems to be perfect to produce the best quality air dried ham in Spain. Fantastic place this time of year with the valley facing south, day tems reached 25C. Fresh walnuts, citrus trees, etc. Only scary thing with this place are the roads, narrow, steep, crazy hair needle curves and amazingly large trucks passing by with F1 speed. This place will definitely be worth visiting again. For Jamon Iberico lovers, here is a great link to do a deep dive into ham stuff.
September 2014 Gibraltar to Spain ( Almerimar)
We spent quite some time in Gibraltar, having no hurry to get into the Mediterranean and there is a lot to do on this small rock. We bought some new electric equipment to sort out our charger problems, since the chandlers and electrical shops were close by and very knowledgeable. It was between 25-35 centigrade and sunshine every day. We went snorkeling on the east side, long walks with Pub visits to cool off and also some work on the boat ( Peter). One of those days we took the Mediterranean stairs to the top. Don't do that without water. We barely managed it…. However the views are rewarding and you'll find a nice waterhole on the way downJ
Over the high cliffs we saw numerous big birds. We think, after checking all our books, that it was Golden Eagles ( sv.Kungsörn). They are flying between Africa and Europe depending on winds. Marvelous sight!
For the first time we also saw it necessary to make sun-shades for the windows on our fixed spray hood, so I (Eva) made a prototype of some shower curtains that we had. Will have to be professionally done later next year. It works fine and also gives us some privacy.
Monday Sept 8 we finally took the tour into the Med. Passing between Gibraltar (400m high) and Morocco ( 800 m) is breath taking. It looks so close and from a distance it is difficult to see that it is water (the Straight) between them. On our way to the first harbor, Duquesa, we came across some schools of Tuna that were hunting. Big jumps with the whole fish showing above water made it possible to see the fins and by that decide that it was Tuna and not Dolphins. They were BIG. No hooks or lines ready of course….
Duquesa was a nice little harbor. Rather shallow (we had difficulties going out 2 days later) but we got a nice place in the middle of the harbor, very close to a playa with shining clear water. Still no big water temperatures, but at least closer to 20 degrees. We stayed for 2 days doing some walks along the paved beach promenade and eating a very good Chinese dinner. Duquesa is mostly built up around tourists but it is small and therefore rather cozy.
Next stop, by motor, was Fuengirola. Here we managed to cast anchor inside the piers but outside the marina. Rather sheltered. Only some waves when the fishing boats were leaving in the morning and a minor swell. The town did not look that inspiring, so we stayed on board and took some swims instead.
40 nM to next suitable harbor. We started with no wind and a lot of swell (from the side of course) which made it rather uncomfortable. However the wind picked up in the afternoon, which seems to be normal here. That also made it impossible to anchor outside the marina del Este, so we took a berth in the small harbor. We found it OK pricewise and the harbor itself is a beautiful place. The water is crystal clear both inside the marina and at the playa. We did some really good snorkeling the 2days we were there. Marina del Este has a couple of restaurants, but unfortunately the owner of the supermecado had recently taken the money and disappeared so food was not to be found, unless you took a promenade to the village on the other side of the mountain. We did that once, but it had to be taxi for the way back.
September 13 we entered our winter harbor (Almerimar) for the first time. First impression OK. Harbour sheltered with plenty of space, but is supposed to be filled by October. Lots of marineros to help with mooring. Almerimar is a village built around a nice golf course and the harbor. The nearest "Town" is El Ejido, with approx. 50.000 inhabitants 45 minutes by bike from Almerimar (uphill of course).
After 4 months of sailing and moving were we happy for just staying in one place for a while. We have used the time so far to get to know the surroundings by foot or bicycle. Guess we have done 2 hours exploring per day. We have also done some job on the boat, ensuring that she will be "ship shape" when we leave in end March. There is a Scandinavian community who meet once a week, so we have visited them twice.
El Ejido got a visit the other day. First time we tried we got stuck at the motorway roundabout, which we did not dare to cross. Next time we had checked the maps, had helmets and took us all the way to the city center "Plaza Mayor". Ej Ejido is a young town, but it has the shops needed and we also found, (for the first time since Göteborg) the CO2 gas we needed for the Soda Streamer. We have decided to drink the tap water as far as possible, instead of carrying bottles from the spuermercado, so bubbles are important.
Last week we found the bird sanctuary close to Almerimar. Lots of different birds: white and grey Herons, strange ducks and of course flamingos. Impressing to see them live.
So: we will stay here for 6 months, eventually doing some tours with the boat to the closest harbors if the weather permits, but more important hire a car and do some trips inland. Andalucía is more famous for the mountains and small villages inland than the coast and the food is supposed to be more interesting too. We will go on exploring the surroundings (especially the bird natural reserve) and of course test our way through all the tapas. For this we also see the need to find new books for defining flora and fauna. The ones we have is not covering enough.
- Strange small fishes (seen when snorkeling). Looks like different types of Weevers (sv. Fjärsing) ( black, yellow and some sandy brown)
- A sort of coral, deep orange
- Golden Eagles ( sv. Kungsörn)
- Egret Heron ( sv. Silkeshäger) and grey Herons
- Flamingos
- Kites ( sv. Glada)
- Tapas: all sorts of tapas are included in the price of a bear or a glass of wine
- The Mercadona (grocery store) has a fantastic assortment of fish and shellfish which we will explore. We will also be able to get fresh vegetables at a good price since Almerimar is the biggest producer in Spain. (The surroundings are filled with plastic greenhouses, which makes the landscape look a bit peculiar)
Until next time – hasta luego
BR Eva, Peter
After 2600nm at slow pace we have now after 4 months of sailing / motoring arrived at Almerimar. Last blog post came from Gibraltar where we spent in total 11 days, mixed anchoring (La Linea, Spain) and mooring (Queensway Quay Marina, Gibraltar). Gibraltar delivered what was expected from an old British enclave, except driving on the right side everything is super british. At Morrison supermarket you get everything from UK that you might miss. We had a pleasant time, enjoyed social life with friendly british marina neighbours, and tried to work out the rich food by hearty walks. Last day we embarked on the "Rock" walk, 400m+ vertical, rather steep walk to the highest part of the cliff using the Mediterranean steps. Not for the faint hearted!
Between Almerimar and Gibraltar we anchored close to Fuengirola and stayed a couple of nights at Marina del Este. Fuengirola hasn't and will never win any landscape architectural competitions. As a contrast, Marina del Este was a gem of a very secure, well hidden and picturesque harbour. We have gradually got used to Tina Princess becoming relatively smaller and smaller to yachts in southern Europe. Here we moored next side to a 100 foot, beautiful british ketch. The water inside and outside the harbour was crystal clear and the area seemed to be a major diving centre.
We have now signed a 6 month mooring contract with Almerimar Marina. Determining factors choosing this marina were safety from adverse winter weather, liveaboard community, 3000 hours sunshine/pa, costs for mooring and a living, albeit small, village offering what we need. We obviously hope to be able to sail during the winter months, as we have the last 18 years, weather permitting.
We started beginning of August with some anchoring in the Nature Reserve Islands between Ria Arousa and Ria Pontevedra. We visited the Isla Salvóra, where we found out that the "castle" was not a castle but a building for making salt. Do always check before making assumptions what the old buildings were used for J.
Next stop going south was, the Ria Pontevedra. We went for a marina and ended up in Sanxenxo. ( In northern Spain you will expect to find a lot of "x" in all villages names). Anyway, Sanxenxo is a main city in the area and by that also the gathering for festivals and DISCO!!!!. We had a not so pleasant night close to the base drums. Day after was rainy. Fortunately we had not being hit by many of those. We took a stroll in the closest area and, as most times in Spain, ended up in a small restaurant eating tapas. This time we also managed to find Goose Barnacles. Tastes like crab legs. Looks very special and when you as a sailor know that barnacles are things you like to avoid, it is interesting to find that they are costly!
From Sanxenxo we sailed to Conbarro (a tip we got from a sailor in Vilagarcía). We anchored 75 meters from the village center on 3 meter. Good holding. The village center is a 1000 year old fishing village, nicely restored. Small "streets" and pubs/restaurants like "holes in the wall", close to where grannny is hanging her clothes to dry after washing. Definitely a place not to be missed. We spent 2 days just enjoying the scenery. Sunny weather, warm, but still cold water (+16 degrees).
On or way to the next Ria ( Ria de Vigo) we stopped at another of the natural Islands ( Islas Cíes). For the first time we had clear water: anchoring at 7 meter with total visibility. Good holding as always. Some swimming and a late stroll on the beach. Next day was not so pleasant. Wind change and a lot of "dust" in the water, some coming from all fishing boats harvesting "something" close by. We decided to move on to Baiona.
Baiona is an old city with remains from Columbus. A replica from "Pinto", one of his ships is there for show. The old town is small, crowded with Spanish people on vacation and filled with nice small restaurants and pubs. A big castle from 1400 century lies on a cliff at the seafront.
Even if we still had "all time there is" we felt it was time to head for Portugal. Still motoring, no wind, and after some hours we ended up in Povoa de Varzim. OK marina, decent harbor fee ( € 18,50) and some Swedish boats again. One of the harbors sponsoring ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers). Close to the showers you find a nice library where you can exchange books. We found that one of our books, left in Baiona, had travelled before us and was now to be found on the shelves here. (Important to make stamps in the books you leave so that you can follow where they have been….)
We stayed in Varzim for 4 days, spending 24 of those hours listening to the foghorn… One day we took the metro to Porto. A beautiful city! Down by the river Douro you find all old Port vine houses, plenty of restaurants and a nice net of old intertwined streets. Peter took a photo of a taxi driver who managed to exceed the speed limit of 10 km. It's really an achievement to manage something like that among the old houses, streets, stairs and restaurants!
Further south towards Lisbon. The swell forced us to go by motor. Since we have been in Lisbon before, we stopped in Cascais, after a nice 65-70 nM with a combination of sail and motor, calm and 7 knots and some dolphins making us company outside the Cape (Cabo da Roca). We had read that the harbor fee in Cascais was terrible, but we found it OK considering the service and closeness to a nice town. We also expected some extra wind to come later during the week so a safe harbor was needed.
Cascais is a pleasant town, small streets, old and new houses, a lot of azulejos (tiles painted in different colours and pictures) both as decoration on facades and on the streets. We also found a nice outdoor market where we bought vegetables and spices ( a piri-piri plant and basil). Both of us made jogging tours (Peter most of the time) in the mornings and then the days went by strolling through the city or doing some shopping. Friday and Saturday it was Cascais´town festivity. Music, eateries etc. Happy for having the harbor a bit out of sight for the music, so we had some pleasant days ( and sleeping nights) there.
Next stop down the Portuguese coast was Sines. A sheltered anchorage close to the small, old, village. It is far between the possibilities to anchor down the Portuguese coast so we started to recognize some of the other boats coming in. At day 2 we were 4 Swedish boats there! We ate a nice dinner (baby swordfish for Eva and Sea Bass for Peter) in a family type restaurant in one of the narrow streets. Not any foreigners as far as we could see, just Portuguese families out for Saturday dinner. We spent an extra day for sun and swimming. Water clear but cold. Still around +16 degrees.
As mentioned it is far between marinas and anchorages. To Lagos we had a motor/sailing of 75 nM. During the calm part of the journey we got company by Common dolphins. Always welcome! Passing Cabo Vicente, the wind picked up and we had good sailing to Lagos.
We staid in Lagos for a couple of days, looking at the old city and doing some bunkering. The marina was rather expensive but well sheltered for the winds expected.
When weather became calmer we moved to Faro, anchoring inside the sand islands surrounding the nature reserve. Pretty spooky at high tide, since most of the small sandbanks disappeared and we seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. The outer island with the two small villages is beautiful. Long beaches, small houses and restaurants. We stayed close to the village in south west and took a long walk to the one at the other end. There was also a small harbor with some people living on their boats all year. We found this village a bit more "worn down", but still it was here we found 3 storks walking between plastic bags and other "left overs". On the web we could read that storks migrate over land rather than water, and these were most likely on their way further south for the winter. So were we. Having time enough to make some stops before Gibraltar, we sailed to Mazarón. Good sailing with some visits from the dolphins and Eva managed to catch 4 mackerel for dinner. Peter posted a nice picture of that in our blog. Mazarón harbor belongs to a chain of marinas owned by the Andalusian government. They have the same fees – rather expensive – close to 50€ per night for our boat ( 15 x 4,40) . We took advantage of their service and asked them to book next stop for us. We knew that the next harbour Chipiona – a small, old, holiday town could be crowded this time of the year, so we thought that was vise to do. (We did the same going to Cadiz, later).
Chipiona: don't miss it! It's a beautiful old town (as most of the ones we have visited). Semi-large harbor, well kept, English speaking marineros. We stayed for 2 nights wandering the small streets, enjoying the atmosphere. We found a vine company/cellar for the Muscat grape. Tested different variants from sweet, raisin testing red wine (Peter) to white dry wine (Eva). Tapas eating of course, swimming in the now 27 degree water, enjoying ourselves. Number of people on the beach exceeded everything we had seen until now! Umbrellas, chairs, cool boxes, toys to last a day from 9 in the morning to 9 in the evening. Here we started to feel the heat. Temperature was now up to +37 degrees going down to maybe 27 in the night. Even Eva spent the days in the shadow. We started to experiment with open skylights/hatches, Mr. Notemann's (he owner before us) blinds for the skylights and being in enclosed marinas having open windows helped. We took lots of pictures of tiles, making that the main story and pictures of this month's blog.
Having more time to spend on our way to Gibraltar, we decided to visit Cadiz, even if we had been there by car some years ago. We don't regret that. Cadiz is a fantastic town. 3000 years old (!), small, narrow streets, marvelous market for fish, vegetables and meat. We found the place where we many years ago were having dinner with hundreds of hams hanging from the ceiling, the 23:rd of December. We also stumbled upon an interesting event taking place Monday to Thursday on the pier to the marina: trumpets, drums and horns, training for what we think is the eastern festival every year. If somebody knows something about this, please mail us. It was at least 100 persons every night.
29-th of August we anchored in La Linea in Spain, having passed Gibraltar Strait, entering the Med. Fog and a lot of ships made the entrance interesting. Africa very visible with a mountain 800 meters high on the Morocco side and Gibraltar 400 meters on the other side. Very narrow strait. We anchored outside the marina in La Linea and I (Eva) had to ask for depth since the sea floor was visible at 7 meters. Fantastic water quality in a bay with an oil refinery at the inner shore. We have been here by car a year ago so we know what to look for: tapas, Gibraltar cliff etc. 30-th of August we took a berth in the Queensway marina in Gibraltar, for a week, waiting for spare parts and enjoying the easy English life here.
All in all:
For those who wonder why we are going through all harbours and anchorages: we have enjoyed other sailor's descriptions of where to go and where to not go, and we like to add to that information.
One thing is obvious: don't leave the Rias in northern Spain too soon. They are special. Easy to find shelter, marinas mixed with sheltered anchorages. Old villages, lots of shellfish. Here we spent 60-70% at anchor, enjoying every day/night. We spent nearly 4 weeks in the Rias.
Cold water: the temperature in the water on the west coast is 16 degrees, nothing else! If water is clear you still don't do a long swim around the boat.
VAT in Portugal: coming in to Portugal we found the marinas a far between and some are expensive. The fee is shown without tax (23%) and could give you a minor heart attack when paying your way out of a marina. Having said that, the cheapest marina since Rendsburg in Germany was Varzim with 18 € per night.
Azulejas: the tiles in Portugal are marvelous. We are adding lots of photos of how they use painted tiles in Portugal. Moorish, Spanish and Portuguese influence. They are called azulejas because they were only blue (azul) and white in the beginning. The Moorish tiles are non-figurative but the Portuguese ones are used as paintings, explaining fishing and other "normal life" events.
Enclosed marinas: to stay in enclosed marinas is a major plus since we in the south of Portugal and Spain did experienced +35 degrees and had to have all skylights/hatches open, night and day.
Fish nets: southern Portugal and especial Spain is filled with fishing nets and fixed equipment for fishing. That makes day sailing a "must", or you have to go far out to sea.
- Water temperature: colder than expected at the west coast of Portugal and Spain
- Storks: found in Faro
- Dolphins (common and bottle nosed). We have seen them many times. However, the bottle nosed are "less curious" as the Common dolphins
- Parrots: small parrots imported and escaped are living well in the area of Cadiz. You will hear and see green birds in the trees that most likely belong to some other country further south.
- Eucalyptus trees are now handing over to pine trees.
- Hibiscus, Nerium and Bougainvillea are still sparkling with colors
- Goose Barnacles ( Sp, Percebes) We managed to find them at last. Looks strange but taste like crab legs.
- Wine: in Porto we tested port wines but the best was a red wine from a winery more famous of port wine, Kopke.
- Sardines: there is a season for sardines, July to September. We found it in Porto and ate Sardines there and also further south.
- Chicken Piri-Piri: a Portuguese dish where the chicken is marinated in hot (!) sauce.
- Spices: in Portugal we found hot spices again. We had been looking for chili, ginger, basil and other spices. We even found live piri-piri that we are now taking care of for later harvest.
Until next time / hasta luego
BR Eva, Peter


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By now it is quite windy, appropriate for StormRiders, a motion simulation ride with water effects. The story is typical Disney—a renegade American captain disobeys higher-ups, takes guests on an unauthorized mission, and disaster threatens but is averted. At least that's what I gathered from the shouting and my limited grasp of Japanese. I get pretty soaked because there's a constant drizzle after the audience flies into the storm. StormRiders ends up being my last attraction because by the time I exit, Journey to the Center of the Earth is on FastPass-only and I want to end on a high note.
Looking back at the map of that park, it seems like an amalgam of Walt Disney World in Orlando and the original Anaheim Disneyland, with an extensive Fantasyland, Critter Country, and a World Bazaar instead of Main Street. Tokyo DisneySea is not a very "Disney" park in that I didn't see any character meet-and-greets or Hidden Mickeys like I found in Hong Kong Disneyland, but it maintains a very Disney (and very Japanese) atmosphere of incredible theming and fine service.
In short, Tokyo DisneySea is an amazing Disney property that any fan should try to see at least once. I know that when I visit Japan again, I may try to see Disneyland as well, but I will definitely go back to this Disney gem by the sea.
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Both the Yorkton United U10 Sonics and the Yorkton United U12 soccer teams traveled to Regina to take part in the sixth annual Challenge Cup, which was co-hosted by the Queen City and U.C.T. Soccer Clubs.
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He continued: "The confidence Tom [Cleverley] had to flick the ball over the defender's head, then the composure to finish it off, meant it was an outstanding goal."
Sir Alex was also pleased with the improved possession and tempo of the team's play overall. "The thing I was looking for was our possession of the ball," he said. "We were much better at that. Through that we had a good tempo to our game, good rythm to our play. It was a really good performance by us. We got a good start to the match and the team were confident for this challenge."
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The animal was found at the foot of the cliff, brought by sea back to Sidmouth where its owners were waiting.
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