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"Elementary: Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or a fundamental part"
Probably one of the most anticipated distro releases in a long time, Elementary OS JUPITER finally came to life just a few days ago. Building on the popularity and success of some of the projects own applications, most notably Nautilus Elementary and Postler, this distro has raised high expectations, but does it live up to them? Come on in and let's find out.
Elementary OS, as its own name already hints at, is all about simplicity. Good simplicity, that is, the kind that removes bloat and strips applications to the core of their functionality so nothing stands in the way of the end user. On top of that, in a sometimes controversial way (due to the obvious Apple influence), it also attempts to bring up the elegance and beauty of such simplicity, aiming at a sleek and clean Look&Feel.
That's the theory, at least.
Booting from the LiveCD/USB, the Plymouth theme already showcases that "simple yet elegant" vibe, showing the Elementary OS Logo (a big 'e') surrounded by a neat glowing animation. Nothing groundbreaking, but nice.
As is the case with most Ubuntu forks, Elementary OS sticks pretty close to the original installation wizard, just tweaking certain elements to make them fit with the distro's own branding (and simplicity motto, in this case). If you have seen the Ubuntu 10.10 installation, you will find nothing surprising here.
The GDM theme is pretty standard, but it does show a little bit of the Elementary GTK theme. The default background, which is the same that is used in the desktop, is somewhat cheesy and cheap, failing to convey that sleek-looks vibe that the distro sports in other areas.
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Leaving the default wallpaper aside, another element that strikes me as odd is the default icon theme, which again does not seem to stand the comparison with other portions of the desktop. This is all entirely subjective, of course, but after seeing the project official Website and how carefully everything Look&Feel was being put together, I must admit I was expecting better. As far as the choice for default wallpaper is concerned, I think it is quite unfortunate, as there are others available which would have fit better.
Looking for some fancy GTK themes and window decorators? Look elsewhere, the elementary theme is the only one available.
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The application catalog continues with that idea of simplicity, particularly obvious in the distro's own apps: Postler, Dexter and Lingo.
Postler is an extremely simplified email client. It's got some nice features, like a very clever account creation interface, which is as easy as it gets. In addition, thanks to its simplistic interface, Postler loads very quickly and is surprisingly snappy for a mail client. On the down side of things, I think the interface is too simplistic and I found myself missing some options I often use in other mail clients. Surprisingly, Postler did not all messages from my Gmail account, but just a portion. I have messages from today all the way back to 2005, but I could barely get anything from 2009. I have not tried Postler in other circumstances, so I am not sure if this is expected behavior or a true bug/application limitation. (Can anybody comment from their experience?)
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Dexter is a neat address book that seems to offer cross-applications support. Once again it sports an extremely simple interface and snappy performance. Adding contacts is simple and automatic import is supported. Unfortunately, I was disappointed to see no obvious integration with online contact address books (ie. Google Contacts) or worse yet, Postler. Both Thunderbird and Evolution offer easy integration with their address books, so one can very quickly add contacts from existing messages just by right-clicking on the contact's address. Not here.
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As for Lingo, it is another cute little application, a dictionary to be specific. I haven't played much with it, but I see nothing here I didn't get from Gnome dictionary. The GUI is simple, as one can expect from any application in this project, but again, nothing groundbreaking. From a philosophical stand point, I am not sure that a dictionary fits the definition of Elementary, as in a fundamental or critical application.
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Other apps included Gnumeric and Abiword, both of which try to cope with Office Suite duties, but falling terribly short, unfortunately. For example, it only took 10 minutes before I got a message with a PPS attachment and guess what? There is nothing available to open it with.
I personally like to keep the full OpenOffice or LibreOffice suite installed, but it could be argued that they are heavy and take quite some room. Looking at it from that perspective, I like the Peppermint approach better... Why not integrate Google Docs straight from the desktop?
Another application that made me scratch my head was Midori, the default Web browser. I was curious to test it because I had read good things about it, but boy did it disappoint. As another browser based around the WebKit rendering engine, one expects speedy browsing from Midori, but I got the complete opposite. In my experience under Elementary OS, Midori is ridiculously slow and unstable. It consistently took more than 20 seconds to partially load my Blog page, only to systematically crash time and again. After a few tries, I downloaded Firefox 4.0 and it was back to browsing fast and reliably.
Another "pleasant" surprise was the lack of Flash plugin... In an Ubuntu fork? Really? Come on!
And how about listening to music? Fancy downloading or copying your favorite MP3s over to give them a listen with the on board default audio player? Don't bother, there is none.
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As I continued to play around in the desktop, I started to get more frustrated with lots of features having been removed or heavily limited. Right-clicking on the desktop, the panel or the main menu had been disabled, as well as drag-and-drop, so lots of things could not be done, at least not in an obvious way. The same applied to Docky, which did not support effects, addition of new launchers and had no apparent settings edition available. As already mentioned, the application catalog was poor, so I started to wonder "What is so good about this simplicity to begin with?".
I cannot understand the rationale behind using GNOME but limiting its flexibility and/or options. If a distro builder is willing to deal with the extra weight, what's the point in stripping it down? It certainly doesn't make GNOME faster nor cuter. On top of that, there are other alternatives out there that better fit the simple-and-fast category, such as LXDE, Openbox or XFCE, to name a few.
The application catalog feels weak, lacking in many areas, and it seems to fall in the middle of nowhere. It does not provide enough firepower to be considered a heavy client that can do most things offline, yet not light enough to be able to compete with other simple-and-fast distros out there. Elementary OS' own software is alright, but I personally find it too simplistic, often lacking features I use on a daily basis.
Another element that seems to be part of the Elementary "identity" is a sleek Look&Feel, but I only saw that partially in Jupiter.
Long story short, Elementary OS was a bitter disappointment for me. I think the concept is there, and it could be a successful one with the right implementation, but I don't see that happening in Jupiter. Moon OS, Zorin OS, Linux Mint... The list of Ubuntu forks that do better is long and I don't see that changing as long as the Elementary project does not realize that Linux without flexibility is hardly an option.
Is Elementary OS for you? I find it hard to believe if you enjoy Linux, but by all means do give it a go. After all, looking at Unity and GNOME Shell, lack of flexibility may be the theme moving forward.


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Paying it Forward: Connecting Lives to Save Lives
A former NFL running back. A father of two from Virginia. A farmer's daughter from Iowa. A seven-year-old girl. A man from Wisconsin, and another from New Hampshire: Six lives, now forever entwined thanks to a special chain of kidney donations.
For ten years, Dennis Bligen, the former New York Jets running back, kept his health problems a secret. Through tests and treatments, weight gain and hair loss, the last thing he wanted was for his family to worry.
"They would always look at me like something was strange, but they didn't force the issue too much," he says with a laugh. "I never really filled them in on what was going on, mainly because my mother is a worrywart." But while Dennis kept his game face, beneath he was scared.
The first signs that something might be wrong had become apparent during a summer league basketball game around 2002. As Dennis ran down the court, the former pro running back felt sluggish and heavy. He looked at his ankles: They were size of his thighs. The next day his doctor told him to go straight to the hospital. But that was the last thing Dennis wanted. He was coaching football at St. John's University, his alma mater, while being involved with multiple community and business ventures. Besides, he still thought of himself as young and invincible. As he puts it: "Life was going on."
But as his symptoms got worse, Dennis was forced to confront them. So began his ten-year odyssey of tests, misdiagnoses, and treatments for conditions he turned out not to have. In 2011, he finally saw a nephrologist who got the call right: focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a hereditary condition that leads to the formation of scar tissue in the kidney and, eventually, organ failure.
By that point, there was no way around it: Dennis needed a new kidney.
The Farmer's Daughter from Iowa
When Jill Christensen's flight touched down in New York City in 1989, she could never have imagined the way her life would become forever entwined with five others – Dennis's included – 25 years later. That year, she was a newly minted University of Iowa grad, and after landing a plum job as an athletics trainer at St. John's University in Queens she decided to leave the farms of her native Iowa behind for a chance to make it big in New York.
When Dennis – then just returning from five years in the NFL to coach at St. John's – heard a farmer's daughter from Iowa would be joining the staff, he imagined she'd be in over her head. Sure enough, there were times early on when Jill was seemingly lost. Dennis, a coach by instinct, took her under his wing.
"He kind of showed me the ropes," says Jill. "We became dear friends."
As Dennis's health deteriorated over the subsequent years, Jill – like Dennis's family – knew something was wrong. But Dennis remained stoic. Thus, when Dennis made a passing remark that he was going to need a new kidney, Jill was hardly surprised.
"I just knew that I'd get tested," she says, thinking back to that conversation. It was the least she could do for her mentor and friend. "I'm a true believer that if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. So I put it in God's hands and thought if it's supposed to happen, it would," she says.
But as fate would have it, Jill didn't match.
The Father of Two from Virginia
Around the same time that Dennis was undergoing tests to be placed on the wait list for a kidney, 600 miles away in Virginia, John Detwiler got an email. It was from a colleague in New York whose seven-year-old daughter needed a new kidney. Born with a rare kidney disease, it would be her second. Her mother had already donated with 18 months of giving birth.
Though John had never met this man or his daughter, as the father of two young kids himself – a son and daughter – the message hit a chord. Seeing he was the right blood type for the little girl, he got tested. "What's another kidney going to be worth to you? What are you giving up, and what is someone else going to be able to gain from it?" John recalls thinking at the time. "Someone else could be gaining years of life."
When John learned that, although he would make an excellent donor, he wasn't a suitable match, he remained undaunted. Doctors in Virginia asked him if he'd be willing to participate in a possible kidney swap – a chain of donations between people in need of kidneys who have willing donors who don't match. Having come this far already, after talking it over with his family, John decided to say yes.
There was no way to know that around that same time, Jill Christensen had said the same thing to the same question herself in New York.
Kidney Swaps: Connecting Lives to Save Lives
Kidney swap chains are not easy to arrange. In addition to the dozens and sometimes hundreds of staff required for the screenings and eventual surgeries, computer data bases are often required to find strings of donors and patients throughout the country. And that's the easy part. Finding willing and eligible donors remains the biggest challenge. Although the procedure today is extremely safe, it's no small task for a person to put their work and life on hold – let alone to do so for someone they might not ever meet.
In a kidney swap, as the name implies, living donors give a kidney to help a friend or loved one indirectly. Because they're willing to donate, but don't match their desired recipient, they are connected with another donor-recipient pair in a similar situation. Each donor gives to the other donor's intended recipient. In this way, both recipients get kidneys that match, and both donors see their loved one's life spared.
Such chains can grow from four people to many. Moreover, considering the deceased donor kidneys made available for others on the wait list thanks to the swap process, the number of lives saved quickly multiplies.
The heroes in all this are the living donors who make it possible. But for Jill and John, that was the last thing on their minds. For them, it was just the right thing to do.
The Surgery: Friendships Formed and Solidified
The many moving pieces finally came together in August 2012. Two weeks after completing the screening, Jill received a call informing her that a recipient had been found. John by that point had been matched to Dennis, and another donor was found for the seven-year-old girl that inspired John to begin his quest initially.
While it's normally rare for swap donors and recipients to meet, John, Dennis, and Jill all wound up in rooms next to each other at Mount Sinai. Within a day they were going between them, trading stories, talking about their families and telling jokes.
"I just remember laughing and talking about absolutely nothing," says Dennis, recalling those days in the hospital fondly. "We were all just thrilled to be in that situation. You'd think I'd be the most thrilled. But you know, it seemed like those two were just as thrilled and happy to give an organ as I was to receive one."
Dennis's surgery, performed by RMTI Director Sander Florman, MD, went well, and his recovery was made easier by having Jill and John nearby to share in the experience.
The family of the little girl that John donated his kidney to save also came by. It was only the second time he'd met them. The first was on his way to the operating room.
"Dennis will tell me, 'Oh, Jill, you're so amazing,'" for doing this, Jill says. "But John is really amazing. … When he didn't match the little girl, most people at that point would have said, 'I've done my part.' But not John – he continued into the swap program. He got into it for her, and he'd never even met her."
If you ask John, he'll say humbly that it's no big deal. But he and the girl's family continue to remain in touch, trading texts and Facebook messages often. The same is true for him and Dennis. They exchanged cards over the holidays and 'Happy New Year' texts on New Year's Eve.
Paying it Forward: The Dennis Bligen Kidney Foundation
The morning after Dennis got out of the hospital, he was back on the field coaching football. "The kids thought it was cool. The parents thought I was crazy. Most of them were looking at me and shaking their heads," says Dennis with a laugh. But he wasn't about to put the experience behind him completely.
As Dennis had been readying for surgery, his family – who for so long had known something was wrong, but not known how to help – had begun making plans to form a new foundation in Dennis's honor, as well as an inaugural gala to raise awareness and funds for kidney donation. "The original idea came from my siblings," explains Dennis. "Not many of them could help as donors, so they were trying to find other ways to help."
In November 2011, the family members had settled on the idea of a foundation and threw themselves into scheduling a walk-a-thon, seminars, workshops, lectures, and the gala. In addition to raising awareness of kidney disease in general, the program is also committed to raising awareness of kidney swaps. "Most people are amazed at how rampant chronic kidney disease is around the world," says Dennis. In spite of this, "Most people I speak to have not heard of the swap program. I had never heard of it until I came to Mount Sinai. That's critical – that's crucial right there. If I hadn't learned of it, I'd still be on the list right now."
At the Dennis Bligen Kidney Foundation's inaugural gala, Susan Lerner, MD, of Mount Sinai spoke of the reasons why swaps are not more common: "A lot of times people have a hard time giving to someone if they don't know who it is. They look at it differently."
Reflecting on that, Jill put it this way: "There are so many people in the world, there are so many people who can give. … You only need one kidney to live. A lot of people don't understand that. I kind of just look at it like: God was bored that day so he threw two in." She laughs.
As Dennis, Jill, and John move on with their lives, it's a message they hope to carry forward.
For more information on the Dennis Bligen Kidney Foundation, visit the foundation's Facebook page.

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Guest Blogger SG on How the Pharmaceutical Companies Have Damaged Psychiatry
SG put a comment on our last post on The Chapter I Wish We'd Written on Bad Psychiatrists. With permission, I'm making part of those comments their own post. I gotta tell you, SG, we shrinks aren't so happy about these issues either.
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I don't think the issue is so much a few bad shrinks but bad psychiatry. What I object to most is the pervasive compromising of science by pharmaceutical companies and all-out advertising.
This toxic influence is so pervasive that one comes to the forlorn conclusion that evidence-based medicine as it is currently practiced is really just a way for pharmaceutical companies to generate new revenue streams. The companies are so savvy they realized if they own the evidence through biased studies and suppressed trial data (failed studies, nasty side effects), they would have physicians eating out of their hands and prescribing their pills for whatever they wanted. I really think this dynamic is similar to state ownership of the media by totalitarian regimes.
Of course this is endemic in all of medicine, but psychiatry is uniquely vulnerable to this phenomenon because it has become so rigorously based on medical therapy (read: pills) since the DSM III ushered in the new "biologically based" model of mental health.
I refer the posters on this thread to the 1boring old man website in which a retired psychiatrist has been relentlessly examining internal emails between pharma execs, presentations by prominent psychiatrists like Madhukar Trivedi, seriously compromised studies like STAR-D, and various political infighting between powerful psychiatrists.
It's all very vertiginous and one comes away with the conclusion that the last 30 years of psychiatric "breakthroughs" are largely built on sand.
I think it is imperative that psychiatry look at ALL the evidence in evidence-based medicine, even if it provokes cognitive dissonance.
We must remember this about evidence-based medicine: it works on paper, but when you factor in human bias, fear, greed, and stubborn attitudes, you could have the most air-tight science (or evidence) in the world, but if it doesn't tell us what we want to hear, then the medical community automatically thinks it's flawed. How is that true evidence-based medicine?
It's time for psychiatry to come to some harsh truths and own up to them so ALL psychiatrists, even the good ones (and yes there are some good ones!) can practice at a higher standard. Even if a psychiatrist does everything right these days, I know they could do far better if they had a more honest and transparent evidence base to draw on.


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Her company's energy audits help you locate and eliminate wasted energy, target the worst energy-hogging appliances in your home, and verify tax credits your upgrades might help you achieve. REpower's solar-enegy projects have included not only numerous farms and private homes, but also a project at the Cleveland Indians' baseball stadium, and an installation at the visitors' center of the Malabar State Park in Lucas, OH.
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Error experienced in VirtualBox 64bit GNOME environment.
In reference to http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/...hp/Unicornscan
Code:#unicornscan -epgsqldb <TARGET IP> unicornscan: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryOddly enough, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns null after a fresh BT5 install. I would figure at least the shared libraries paths would be listed here. Even after manually updating $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, deleting libpcap.so and finally soft linking libpcap0.8.so to libpcap.so, unicorn throws the same error.Code:#whereis libpcap.* libpcap: /usr/lib/libpcap.so /usr/lib/libpcap.a /usr/lib64/libpcap.so /usr/lib64/libpcap.a
Does not help either.Code:apt-get install --reinstall libpcap0.8
Has anyone else noticed this yet?


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Statistics and Epidemiology
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) has been a reportable disease in the United States since the 1920's. CDC compiles the number of cases reported by state health departments. The incidence of RMSF (the number of RMSF cases for every million persons) has increased during the last decade, from less than 2 cases per million persons in 2000 to over 6 cases per million in 2010. During the same time period, the proportion of RMSF cases resulting in death (case fatality) has declined to a low of less than 0.5%.
Epidemiology Figure 1 – Reported incidence and case fatality of RMSF in the United States, 1920–2010
Epidemiology Figure 2 – Number of U.S. RMSF cases* reported to CDC, 1993–2010. *Numbers presented here may differ from numbers presented in the MMWR Annual Summary of Notifiable Diseases. Data presented here are based on year of illness onset rather than reporting year.
Although RMSF cases have been reported throughout most of the contiguous United States, five states (North Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri) account for over 60% of RMSF cases. The primary tick that transmits R. rickettsii in these states is the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis Dermacentor andersoni).
In eastern Arizona, RMSF cases have recently been identified in an area where the disease had not been previously seen. Between 2003 and 2010, roughly 140 cases had been reported, and approximately 10% of the people diagnosed with the disease in this part of the state have died. The tick responsible for transmission of R. rickettii in Arizona is the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus), which is found on dogs and around people's homes. Almost all of the cases occurred within communities with a large number of free-roaming dogs.
Epidemiology Figure 3 – Annual reported incidence (per million population) for RMSF in the United States for 2010. (NN= Not notifiable)
Although cases of RMSF can occur during any month of the year, the majority of cases reported to the CDC have an illness onset during the summer months and a peak in cases typically occurs in the months of June and July. This seasonality varies somewhat for different regions of the country due to the climate and the tick vectors involved. In Arizona, where transmission is associated with the brown dog tick, peak months of illness onset are April through October.
Epidemiology Figure 4 – Proportion of RMSF cases reported to CDC by month of onset 1993 through 2010.
Persons at Risk
The frequency of reported cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever is highest among males, American Indians, and people at least 40 years old. Individuals with frequent exposure to dogs and who reside near wooded areas or areas with high grass may be at increased risk of infection. Children under 10 years old, American Indians, people with a compromised immune system, and people with delayed treatment are at an increased risk of fatal outcome from RMSF.
Epidemiology Figure 5 – Average annual incidence of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by age group, 2000 through 2010.
Reporting and Surveillance
As of January 1, 2010, cases of RMSF are reported under a new category called Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis (including Rocky Mountain spotted fever). This change was made to better reflect the scope of cases being reported under the previous heading of RMSF, as many of those cases were not identified as being specifically caused by R. rickettsii. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists released a Position Statement detailing the new category. For more information on how to report cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other tick-borne Rickettsial diseases, visit the tick portal for State Health Departments.
Further Reading
Dahlgren FS, Holman RC, Paddock CD, Callinan LS, McQuiston JH. Fatal Rocky Mountain
spotted fever in the United States, 1999–2007. Am J Trop Med Hyg (86)2012, 713
Openshaw JJ, Swerdlow DL, Krebs JW, et al. Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the United States, 2000-2007: Interpreting
contemporary increases in incidence. Am J Trop Med Hyg (83)2010,174; Erratum 83(2010), 729
Demma LJ, Traeger MD, Nicholson WL, et al. Rocky Mountain spotted fever from an unexpected tick vector in Arizona. NEJM (353)2005,587
Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ehrlichiosis, and Anaplasmosis – United States.
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Nice pics! It looks like yours is in slightly nicer shape than the one I got from Aim (had a bit of chipping on the grip).
Have you had any problems with burring on the front edge of the magazines? I've had a couple FTFs which appear to be related to that on one of the mags I received with the pistol.


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It's not finished anywhere near enough to pass as Kal.
But it's workable
It's not finished anywhere near enough to pass as Kal.
But it's workable
Wow mine looks almost exactly like mine. Except I do not have a bucket yet. myguants will be gold as well, I chose to go full length with the vest, though and make it go down to the waist. That way kal could strip the plates off and wear just the leather vest and neckseal. That looks SOOOO cool though. I like thr red for the T rim I was definately going that route too.
Hehe, Yeah I'm gonna spray the gauntlets gold - that's one of the mods I'm gonna make.
Same with the knees.
I don't have knees yet, but I am using the same belt. I chose to ditch the pouches. I have a pistol and holster on the right. I dunno what I'm gonna do on the left. Maybe go with a different size ammo pouch in black to go with my black gloves and boots. I'm trying to go with gold,red trim...brown and black/ and grey jumpsuit, for the colors. They are all complimentry and will give zip and movement. man I have looked at that pic 4 times now it is just great to see what mine will look somewhat like when I get it finished, You rock


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There's nothing better in the summer than to come home from work and make a great sandwich with some sort of fresh vegetable as a side.
A favorite sandwich is Italian grilled cheese. That might not be the name for it, but for lack of anything else to call the sandwich, we'll go with Italian grilled cheese. It's grilled and it has cheese and Italian ingredients, so the name fits.
Start with good bread. Sandwich bread is good for a packed lunch, but for a summer meal treat, fresh bread is a must. Check the bakery section at your grocery or swing by Panera Bread. The other option is making your own, but few people have time for that.
This particular sandwich was made from a sliced sour dough loaf. Instead of using butter, brush the grill side of both slices with olive oil.
An electric skillet or stove top skillet can be used for the sandwich. If you have a panini press, it also works well.
Place one piece of bread, oil side down, on a preheated skillet. You'll want to cook on medium heat because you don't want the outside of the bread to be perfectly seared before the cheese melts inside.
Layer sliced mozzarella cheese, sliced tomatoes and basil leaves on the bread and top with the other slice. Occasionally flip the sandwich back and forth so the outside does not burn before the cheese melts.
When the outside is a nice toasted brown and cheese is melted, remove from heat and enjoy.
To avoid the typical potato chip or fries side to a sandwich, twist it up with some fried zucchini or squash medallions, especially if you are lucky enough to have some fresh from the garden.
Slice into medallion circles and double dredge them. First dip them in flour, then an egg wash and lastly a seasoned mixture.
Seasoned bread crumbs work best for the last stage, but if you do not have any on hand you can add some spices to the flour instead. Italian spices or Italian seasoned bread crumbs taste great.
Pour olive oil in a skillet or fryer, just enough to cook medallions one side at a time. Place medallions into heated oil and fry until a crispy brown color on both sides, turning halfway through.
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Italian grilled cheese
Loaf of bakery style bread
Tomatoes, sliced
Mozzarella cheese, sliced
Basil leaves, three per sandwich
Coat grill side of both slices of bread with olive oil. Place oil side of the bread on a preheated skillet. Cook on medium heat.
Place slices of mozzarella and tomatoes on the bread and add three basil leaves per sandwich. Place the other piece of bread on top of the sandwich. Occasionally flip back and forth so the cheese melts inside and the bread does not burn.
Remove from heat when bread is toasted brown and cheese melted inside.
Fried zucchini in Italian seasonings
Fried zucchini or squash in Italian seasonings
Zucchini or squash (one makes two to three servings depending on the size)
1 cup of flour
2 eggs
1 cup of Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
Olive oil
Slice zucchini or squash into medallions. Dip each slice into flour, then an egg wash and seasoned bread crumbs. Fry in olive oil until crispy and brown on both sides.
Set on paper towel to drain excess oil then serve.
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The crackdown on Iranian protestors continues with police wielding guns and batons which are swung to hit the bodies of innocent Iranians who dare to believe their nation has free elections. Reports indicate ten or thirteen or even more are dead and hundreds have been beaten or thrown into jail. The Ayatollah Khamenei has lost the moral support of untold thousands of Iranian students who never again will believe anything he says about religion of life. He sold out his soul due to fear the people of Iran could not be trusted to support the Revolution that supposedly ushered in a period of democracy for Iran. The number of people in the streets is declining as reality gradually sinks into the minds of young students that their dream is shattered and they will again have to confront life in a lethal semi-dictatorship run by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a major victory for Google Inc, U.S. regulators on Thursday ended their investigation into the giant Internet company and concluded that it had not manipulated its Web search results to hurt rivals.
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Every time I see a garment steamer pop up, I'm tempted to buy it. Then I realize I LIKE my clothes all wrinkly!
check out the comments from when this was offered on 8/17/12
I have this. I love it. I use it almost every day. It's great for my shirt.woot shirts. I line dry them over a clothes rack and this takes the wrinkles and creases out.
I will be honest though, I upgraded to this one from one without the clips. I thought I'd use the clips a lot. I don't.
excellent price considering it's almost 90 on amazon.
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ThunderThighs wrote:I have this. I love it. I use it almost every day. It's great for my shirt.woot shirts. I line dry them over a clothes rack and this takes the wrinkles and creases out.
I will be honest though, I upgraded to this one from one without the clips. I thought I'd use the clips a lot. I don't.
WOW! You opened it finally!!! ;)
These are great. They remove wrinkles, but they also do a good job at cleaning up the mess your Cleveland Steamer left behind.
'Seems like this would pay for itself in under 10 uses, as dry clearer places won't 'iron' anything without doing a full dry clean. It's a sauna for my shirts.
theguruguys wrote:WOW! You opened it finally!!! ;)
I bought a similar one back in 2011 and still use it daily. Fill it up every few days, otherwise it it has been totally maintenance free. Great for getting the wrinkles out of tee shirts, quick and easy. Thicker cargo pants/shorts take a bit longer, but still easier for me than taking the iron / iron board out.
I bought this on Woot and love it. If you don't already own a steamer...buy it. This is a quality machine for the price. It doesn't spit up water and heats up and is ready to go in about a minute.
I bought this baby a few months ago, and I love it! One of my best woots to date.
I work at a Darden restaurant where we wear white dress shirts that must always be perfectly pressed. This steamer is WAAAAAAAY easier and faster than lugging out the iron. I use it almost every day, and, other than occasionally hesitating to send the steam out (which I suspect is a function of me not using distilled water like I should) it really does work perfectly. I can fire this thing up and have my uniform wrinkle-free and ready to go in under 5 minutes.
The only two downsides: First, despite the pole being collapsible (though not all the way down) and detachable, the base of the steamer is still too large to roll under the bed or into a corner of my small closet. I suggest you find a space out of the way and dedicate it to the steamer if you plan on using it every day, or roll it into a hallway closet (or a walk-in closet) if you won't use it so often. Second, the steamer includes a little clip for making creases, but I've found it hard to use. If you really want that sharp crease, either practice a lot or fire up the iron and seal in that crease for a few washes.
I have one and used it to steam my microfiber couch and chairs. Did an amazing job and saved me a ton of money over having a "professional" come in.
I bought one of these off the last sale. Works great.
I actually use it to steam wood to soften it so that it will bend into fun shapes.
Setup was easy (and so was taking it apart for uses for which is wasn't intended).
The thing really did heat up FAST.
Was easy to use, just one power switch, no other controls.
My only gripe is that you have to take the reservoir off to refill it - you can't add more water while it's being used. However, unless like me you are steaming big pieces of wood that likely won't be an issue since it does produce steam for just over an hour which should be long enough for any normal use.
Bought this because my wife said she wouldn't iron my clothes anymore. Now she won't steam my clothes anymore. :,(
This machine is super easy to use, I use it almost everyday to freshen up my work clothes, other than that, I'm wrinkles on the weekend.
Bought one of these a while ago from woot and, I have to say, I don't use it nearly as much as I thought I would. While I hate ironing, I am actually pretty good at it (wife asks me to iron her clothes often), and I have found that the steamer just doesn't provide the same level of "crispness" as the iron. I'm mostly ironing collared button down shirts that have been home washed and jeans or chinos, and for me the iron is quicker, easier, and gives better results. There are some things this does much better than an iron, like freshening up sport coats and suit jackets, and I've even used it around the house sometimes (e.g., bed skirts still on the bed), but it mostly just sits in the closet unused.
FWIW I don't regret buying it, have had no problems with it, and when I do use it I'm happy with it. But, I don't think you should expect it to replace your iron.
I bought this on the Woot Off and another for a gift. I love it. I had the older Sunbeam from Woot a few years ago.
The water fill lasts forever and keeps on going.
The included hanger is awkward though. I steam with garments hung off the side clip on my own hangers and only use the pants clip.
No water leaks or anything else, wonderful for steaming drapes, pillows, even the sofa fabric to freshen it up. The trick is to make sure it is really heated up, before steaming.
I am hoping this does not bring horrible flashbacks of my days of working retail in the mall, where I was chained to a steamer for what seemed like an eternity....must bite my lip and jump in for one...tired of being wrinkled.
I got this last go-round as well. I'm happy with what it does. Some fabrics get steamed better than others (though what those are, I don't know...do you expect me to actually look at clothes labels??), but nothing has come out looking bad. The crease attachment is obviously not as good as an iron, but it works pretty darn good.
Overall, it saves me time, and I don't have to hear that sound of the ironing board opening again!
I'm really on the fence. I wanted one last time and my hubby vetoed it. We already have a small portable one that someone gave me as a gift (it's really cool, you can travel with it),but I curse everytime I use it because it doesn't have a hanger attachment and thus it's awkward to steam clothes. I asked my hubby to hang a hook from the ceiling so that I can put clothes on hangers and steam that way.....
But, this is looking enticing. Wooters who have this, please tell me your thoughts on the clothes hanger attachment to this. Do you find it useful/easy to use to steam pants and shirts?
Bought this the last time it was here. Great product
I bought one of these a previous time they were for sale round these parts and I love it. WAY easier and (I've found) more effective than an iron. I use it all the time.
As a bachelor I can't help to think that the ladies aren't flocking in my direction due my wrinkled clothes. It can't be my overpowering fear of talking to people. No that would be ridiculous. It must be the wrinkles. And when the ladies do come, the walk of same won't be quite so bad the next morning. Best pick up line ever. Now to just write in on a note card and hand it out...
Bought this from Woot late last year, and it's been worth every penny. You won't bypass the iron altogether, but you'll iron a lot less.
You might be able to get an extra wear out of your clothes between washes/dry cleaning.
Bingo969 wrote:I bought one of these off the last sale. Works great.
I actually use it to steam wood to soften it so that it will bend into fun shapes.
Setup was easy (and so was taking it apart for uses for which is wasn't intended).
The thing really did heat up FAST.
Was easy to use, just one power switch, no other controls.
My only gripe is that you have to take the reservoir off to refill it - you can't add more water while it's being used. However, unless like me you are steaming big pieces of wood that likely won't be an issue since it does produce steam for just over an hour which should be long enough for any normal use.
THERE'S an interesting alternative use...
After wanting one of these for the longest time, I got a similar model (without the clips) from the same manufacturer at a closeout sale. Unfortunately the threads are warped where the hose connects to the reservoir, so it just sprays steam and water all over once it's energized. Total disappointment, and non-returnable as it was an all sales final kind of deal. I'd still buy another if I had the cash available. The little bit I was able to use it was phenomenal.
I bought one!
sweetrai wrote:I bought one!
We bought one of these the last time it was on sale - don't do it! The steamer head arrived with the plastic bit that the attachments clip on to broken, and when turned on it leaks water everywhere. The steam's flow can't be controlled (and it's not particularly strong), and I've used other steamers before but this is the first one that burned my hand as I was working on my coat.
PemberDucky wrote:THERE'S an interesting alternative use...
Thanks! BTW - if you look really closely you'll also see this remote BBQ thermometer on the table which I use to keep an eye on the temp inside the steamer. Which was also purchased from Woot and being used for something other than what was intended. Whee!
Before I buy one of these I'll have to check with Jeeves and see if it will make his job any easier.
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She opened her, mine is still in the box.
Add me to the long line of folks who got one last time they came up - I've used it several times and it works a treat! No, it won't put a hard crease in your slacks. But if you buy a new shirt and it's pre-creased, that's a perfect use for the steamer. The hanger and clips are fiddly - I just use my own. I am not a perfectly pressed type of person - just reasonably unwrinkled is fine, so a quick touch-up from the steamer works for me. If you starch, stick with your Rowenta.
PemberDucky wrote:YOU'RE MY FAVORITE OF THE DAY.
Arrived today and the telescopic pole is bent. Won't extend.
joeted wrote:Arrived today and the telescopic pole is bent. Won't extend.
Drat. Sorry about that. Please email email@example.com for assistance. Include your Woot username and order number for faster service.
Not to be a dissenter, but ...
What a piece of crap! First off, let me state a few things: My entire family were tailors ... Good tailors. Many is the time I sat in my grandparents' shop and watched while they carefully steamed beautiful men's suits, pants and outerwear. I was taught very early on to dress quite well and take care of my clothes. I am picky about my wardrobe. So sue me. It used to be that, lacking a home steamer, I ironed everything, using a pressing cloth, of course. But, as I grew older, that grew tedious. So, after passing it by a few times, I sprang for the Sunbeam steamer on the last go-around.
What a disappointment. As to clothing, this thing MIGHT be barely acceptable for steaming T-shirts, light-weight chinos and shorts, but that's about it.
Firstly, it isn't strong enough to get out wrinkles completely. It relaxes, but does not remove them from good shirts, jackets or pants. Attempting to get better results means more steaming until your garment is actually wet. Secondly, even using the included "creaser", it will not satisfactorily crease anything. And the lint brush moves the lint around, but never actually "removes" it. The clips in the hanger are too weak to hold anything but a light garment. Regular weight slacks quickly end up in a heap on the floor.
I see only two or three possible uses for this thing, none of them clothing related: It MIGHT work for steaming drapes in place. It might work for pressing tablecloths in place. And, it might work for steam cleaning the "grease zone" in a kitchen.
If you are a person who cares what you look like when you leave the house ... Don't buy this thing.
If you like your pants to have an actual crease where there should be a crease ... Don't buy this thing.
If the idea of pulling clothes out of the dryer, steaming them, then hanging them in your closet wet, and still wrinkled, doesn't appeal to you ... Don't buy this thing.


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He really makes you want to drop 2007 for 2010 in a heartbeat - he has lived in the trenches.
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Here's the recipe. Sorry for the "Cheezy" diagram,
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Qty 2 - Radio Shack Cat. #276-086A "Jumbo"
Super-Bright LED's
5000 mcd light output, 1.82 volt, 20 mA.
Qty 2 - Radio Shack 360 Ohm resistors, 1/2 watt, 5 % Tolerance.
Qty 1 - 9 volt battery
QTY 1 - 9 volt battery harness
Some 18 - 20 gauge scrap wire, stranded, not solid ( lots of bending ), velcro, soldering iron, solder and super glue.
The Blaster Barrels are the only problem I can see if
anyone else wants to put this together. My Gauntlets are a
MB and RA Combo with a few mods on top of that ... the Blaster Barrels are MB. For those of you who don't own a set of them, it's a "Solid" cast resin piece. Both Barrels
combined. I just used a 3/8 drill bit to drill straight through both barrel holes back to front, using extreme care not to damage the "THIN" resin barrel rims, as they are only a bit bigger than the 3/8 bit, and you run a risk of chipping them. If you are using your own barrels like copper water tubing, or air fittings, you already have this part made, as they most likely already have holes going straight through, and are big enough for this purpose.
The side Blaster attachment on my left gaunt is made of Sintra, and is now permanently sealed and putty'd because of the mounting to the side of the gaunt. So no inside pics.
After mounting the side blaster but before it was sealed, I drilled a small hole toward the rear area from the blaster through to the inside of the gaunt where your arm slides in.
This is to route the LED wires to the 9 Volt battery source mounted with velcro on top toward the front of the inside of the gaunt.
I glued 1 LED into the back of each blaster barrel hole, then soldered 2 sets of 18 or 20 gauge wire, one set for
each LED. I soldered (1) 360 ohm resistor on the positive side of each LED, then covered each solder point with shrink wrap. I then routed the wire, as seen in the "Cheezy" diagram, using super glue to tac it in route to the battery source.
The switches are customized, not the standard RS momentary switches ... the standard switches are "Normally Closed",
which means if you use them, the lights will remain "ON" until you press the switch. So I purchased a set that was
"Normally Open", so the lights would light up when you press the switch. HOWEVER, these switches were ALLOT smaller, with no head on them. So I epoxied the button tops from the standard switches, onto the smaller ones. It even looks better I think, as the necks of the switches do not sit as high. A wee bit more true to the real thing.
I don't have the CAT # of the Switches, but it shouldn't be too hard, they're the only "SMALL SIZED" momentary "Normally Open" switches they carry .... can't be missed. Comes in a package of 4, 2 red, and 2 black.
Hope this helps
I recommend saving this pic to your PC/MAC (don't want to offend any mac users out there, I gob both ways too -- RESIST THE URGE TO COMMENT ON THAT ONE so that you can get a closer look at it.
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Fox News offered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a platform to promote his petition to defund President Obama's health care law, an effort that has been repeatedly pushed by Fox News host Sean Hannity.
On the July 29 edition of Fox News' America Live, guest host Shannon Bream hosted Cruz to promote his petition to defund the Affordable Care Act (ACA). During the interview, Bream praised Cruz's background, saying, "The first time I met you was when you argued a case at the Supreme Court. You seem very familiar with the Constitution." Cruz appealed to Fox viewers, declaring that "the only way" to stop funding of health care reform is if Americans "go to dontfundit.com, we sign a national petition, and every one of us picks up the phone, calls our elected officials and says, 'Talk is cheap. Stand up, use the constitutional power of the purse and defund Obamacare now.' If we stand together, we can win this fight."
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I installed two packages into top bar hives yesterday. One queen was dead on arrival and a replacement is on the way. The other package had drawn out two nice pieces of comb right in the box during transport.
Nice looking comb there. I installed a 3lb package in my top bar hive about 3 1/2 weeks ago. They are doing great. They have built out 8 bars so far with about 4 of those nice brood. I did not feed the package any sugar water just to see how they would do on their own. I am very pleased with the quality of the bees. I am in central Alabama and there was plenty of nectar and pollen available. I hope all the other TBH beeks have success as well.GW
I hived 2 packages 38 days ago. Probably 20 of the first 27 days were wet/windy and at least 10*F below normal. I'll I could do is wait and worry. I had mason jar feeders in the hives but temps frequently dropped below freezing. The bees flew on the infrequent afternoons it hit the upper 40s.The cluster seemed to be growing so I hoped they were standing on new comb. Eventually, there was enough comb to see through the observation window. I took this photo yesterdayI'm feeling much better now. I told my wife I am a little concerned that I don't know what to worry about now.
Sorry to hear that about the queen. How's that hive doing queenless so far? How's the other hive? I'm going to go out in a bit and check my hive. I will get some pictures up from last Wednesday's inspection. So far the comb was straight and beautiful. There were 7 full bars and 2 starts ten days after installation.
I have seen that quite a few newbs have checked in lately. I am trying to identify the newbies that have Top Bar Hives and that have made their first installations in the last couple of weeks to compare notes with. Anyone?


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Cartopping an 18' boat ? Wow.
It isn't about the length so much. I have built an aluminum rack that supports them well. The are all either Kevlar or graphite so they don't weigh much. The new Pro boat is all carbon, 18' 6" long, 27" wide at the 3" wl and weighs just 31 pounds. Not a serious strain. The heaviest boat is about 50#. The Admiral usually helps me load that one now. Ha!
And of course, since we still have geese at the airports...you know, just keep looking over your shoulder for inbound aircraft. (G)
Everything inside the bulkhead line (end of piers) is private on the Hudson side of NYC, but the folks at the Intrepid Musuem never used to mind folks ducking in to admire the ships up close. FWIW.
I grew up down that way on the Croton River and used to ply the waters of Haverstraw Bay as a kid. It looks much smaller now.
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Lower Hudson and East River will present most of the traffic. The area around the Battery to Wall Street is the busiest.
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Cartopping an 18' boat ? Wow. Yes, if you can contact someone at Columbia and get their blessing and invitation for the day, that would probably be ideal. There used to be a "Dyckman Street Boat House" on the upper Hudon side as well, I have no idea what the current state of that is.
The harbor ferries, the big ones that went out from the Battery, ride on rails and because they are so unmanueverable, they basically can't do anything to avoid traffic. They own the harbor. All the little commuter ferries? They may not like it, but they're subject to the same rules of the road as everyone else, because they are not constrained by draft and "I've got a schedule you know" doesn't appear in ColRegs. I'd say you'll have plenty of time to see then and avoid them, they're all fairly small anyhow.
And of course, since we still have geese at the airports...you know, just keep looking over your shoulder for inbound aircraft. (G)
Everything inside the bulkhead line (end of piers) is private on the Hudson side of NYC, but the folks at the Intrepid Musuem never used to mind folks ducking in to admire the ships up close. FWIW.
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We will bring a few of our cruising tools (vhf, gps and flares). Eldridge is already on my desk. No trailer. We carry our boats on the roof of our old Saab. I appreciate the caution about the reliability of some sources. My dad was a proff at Columbia a long time ago and I am hoping that connection will get us consideration to park behind their fence. I will certainly check Inwood Hill Park. The UN caution is also appreciated.
I took my son to watch a shuttle launch many years ago. We carried a canoe and a 16' P-Pod on the roof of the van. It is a Kevlar pod I built light so I can roof top it. We rowed out from the causeway to an island to watch the launch. The boundaries were clearly visible and we did not intrude into restricted space. In spite of our care a large black outboard powered cat visited us at very high speed. We were the only craft in sight. The three guys on the boat explained we were O.K.. We had a Maine flag flying from the stern. They had never seen a boat rowing along the river and wanted to check it out. It was a beautiful launch. I had previously been present on the beach for Apollo 11 and on the river for 13. We will steer clear of the UN for sure. Thanks for the reminder.
I am wondering about negotiating the Hudson. It looks like ferry traffic has some fairly specific paths. On Sunday morning early I am hoping that won't be very busy. I am thinking we will stick near the eastern shore.
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Thanks to all for info on Hell Gate. Sounds like it will be a highlight of the trip.
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I might vote for Inwood Hill Park as your launch site. Only because there's supposed to be parking, there's one subway line, and you can avoid driving through most of Manhattan that way. I'm guessing your trailering the boat, so trailer access (commercial roads) will be needed.
Cannot overemphasize that NYC Parks Dept. is NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE. Make sure to call ahead or email ahead when you first make plans, and then contact them again a month out, and the week before, to confirm they aren't closing the site you plan to use, for any reason.
And you'll want a copy of Eldridge, or anything else that shows the tidal currents around Manhattan, because it is tidal all the way around and your choice of date, route and starting point may be very much affected by this timing. The connection from the Hudson, above Manhattan and down to the Hell Gate, is also called the "Harlem River".
The current timing is all usually based on "High tide at the Battery" or a similar point, so as long as you can find one set of the tidal charts, as you probably know you can offset them from that, you don't need "this year's" book.
There are (or were) some collegiate rowing and sculling clubs on the Harlem River, and there are active canoeing/lkayaking locations on the lower Hudson side, so you won't be alone. There are also a couple of mass water events (swim races) every summer which you want want to miss.
And of course, if you come within a hundred yards of the UN on the East River, the USCG will probably show you no mercy.
Should be one heck of a fun trip though!
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There are several paddling/kayaking outfitters in NYC providing all types of services, including trip planning and launch/river access. Also NYC Parks maintains several access points.
New York City Water Trail : New York City Department of Parks & Recreation : NYC Parks
Downtown Boathouse
Manhattan Kayak Company
New York Kayak Company
Thanks for the information. We are looking forward to our paddle. I haven't been around Manhattan by boat since my dad took me on the Cricle Line when I was 5 years old. That was over 60 years ago. Ha!
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There are several paddling/kayaking outfitters in NYC providing all types of services, including trip planning and launch/river access. Also NYC Parks maintains several access points.
New York City Water Trail : New York City Department of Parks & Recreation : NYC Parks
Downtown Boathouse
Manhattan Kayak Company
New York Kayak Company
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The Admiral and I are planning a paddle around Manhattan Island this season. We will take our 18' 6" Sawyer Charger, the boat we use to paddle around Cape Ann in the Blackburn Challenge race out of Gloucester, MA. Our biggest problem is deciding which direction we want to go. Timing is flexible. We can paddle @ 5 mph in still water. Finding a place to launch and leave our car for the day is a problem, too.
We are considering starting and finishing at Columbia University's dock and paddling ccw. We would start very early on a Sunday and head down the Hudson to return back up the East River.
Any suggestions will be welcome.
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Heading southbound, once we clear Roosevelt Island we stay down the East side of the East River. That keeps you out of the way of most of the ferries, the seaplanes, the Staten Island ferry terminal.
Its an amazing ride so take your camera.
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