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Blue-black clouds rumbled overhead as Leonardo Selis and Ricardo de Jongh sifted through the tattered sheets of canvas, torn burlap sacks, half-filled inner tubes, and rusted iron pipe strewn about the front yard of a house in a working-class West Dade neighborhood. Against the side of the small house, three inner tubes, each tightly bound in canvas, bulged inside a frame of cast-iron pipes that resembled a Tinker Toy rowboat.
The smallish, 29-year-old de Jongh poked a tennis shoe at a cracked skeleton of wooden beams. A brown canvas sail on a tent-pole mast jutted upward from the frame, and the black mass of a deflated Soviet truck inner tube was jumbled underneath. Four people crossed the Florida Straits from Cuba on this raft, one of countless homemade vessels to have made the voyage in the years since Fidel Castro took power.
"Obviously this one made it," de Jongh murmured, pulling a camera from his shoulder bag. "But you wouldn't get me into this one. Not on your life. Too fragile. Do you know what the waves are like out there? They could break this in half just like that. I never would have trusted it. Just too fragile." Human reminders of the treacherous passage - sunglasses, salt-encrusted T-shirts and shoes, cans of Danish beef sausage and baby food, torn carry-on bags and backpacks, a bottle of aspirin, a blue plastic laundry detergent bottle with a rag stuffed in its spout, used as a water jug - were scattered throughout the yard. The rumble of thunder grew nearer, louder, more insistent.
"I would feel a lot more confident in one of those," said Selis, an animated 34-year-old man of medium build with flecks of silver highlighting jet-black hair. Hopping from foot to foot, he jabbed a finger in the direction of two elaborately constructed rafts that looked like rowboats. "You could go around the world in one of those." A thin slab of wood nailed across the bow of one raft bore the scrawled name, La Milagrosa. The Miraculous.
De Jongh walked quietly over to a pile of orange-and-blue air mattresses. He stooped, fingered the worn, deflated vinyl, snapped a picture. "These people came in this? These guys were just outrageous. Our raft was pretty small, but this is incredible." The pair finally dashed for the nearby porch as the clouds opened up, releasing fat drops that pelted the black rubber of the rafts and slowly soaked the canvas and burlap.
Eastern Europe had the Iron Curtain, China has the bamboo version. Cuba's barrier is more tangible and foreboding - an expanse of open ocean, with sudden storms and scorching sun, voracious sharks and mountainous swells. Despite the dangers and the ever-present fear that challenging the elements might lead to capture and an extended stay in a Cuban prison, the balseros and their makeshift rafts have become as much a symbol of Cuban culture as lechon, arroz con frijoles, and the Havana spleef. This year alone, nearly 1200 people, from young children to grandparents, have reached Florida in a 90-mile leap of faith.
A worsening economic situation and continued political repression are the reasons most often given for fleeing. Rafts built of inner tubes reinforced with canvas, plastic, wood, and cast-iron pipe are the crafts of choice for accomplishing that goal. Some, like the air mattresses, are more unorthodox. Or like the block of Styrofoam with a seat hole carved out and oars strapped to the sides, used by 21-year-old Lazaro Colome Sandoval, who crossed the bow of Queen Elizabeth's cruising yacht Britannia near Sombrero Key in May. Or like the box springs strapped to an air mattress. Or the half of a 55-gallon oil drum with a wood-and-Styrofoam frame. Or the camper top from an Ebro mini-bus strapped to Fiberglas pontoons.
"I would say I have 125 of these rafts and boats, and every single one of them is unique," says Humberto Sanchez, a Miami mechanic who hopes to create a museum to house the rafts he has collected from the U.S. Coast Guard. For the time being he stores the relics at his house, on land provided by friends, and in a neighbor's yard. "You might see some similar designs, but every one is different. Every single one has its own details and its own ingenuity." For Cubans long accustomed to cannibalizing spare parts in order to keep everything from kitchen appliances to 1950s-era cars functioning, the process of building a raft and planning an escape is not an abstract one. The creativity involved in finding the parts and putting them together is a natural outgrowth of making do in day-to-day life.
A red booth at a South Miami chicken restaurant filled with teen-agers and tourists is an incongruous place to recount the years of step-by-step planning that culminated in a midnight float from Cuba. Aside from the periodic and insistent whack! from the knife of a Jamaican chef hacking apart chicken breasts, the setting lacks drama. The story, told by Selis in machine-gun bursts of Spanish with quiet confirmations from de Jongh, does not.
"We invented whatever contraption there was to come over with, from a boat to an inflatable catamaran to making a raft with truck inner tubes and boards," says Selis. "We even tried to think of a way to put my Fiat on pontoons and attach a propeller to the motor. Finally we left in a beach raft. It was just that we had decided to leave and we were going to leave however we could."
Since meeting in Havana nearly four years ago, de Jongh, a cinematographer, and Selis, a former film and television producer and assistant director in the ministries of education and culture who'd been working odd jobs, devised and discarded dozens of raft designs. They talked about building a raft of wood and inner tubes and powering it with a motorcycle engine. They discussed floating the Fiat. Yet another pontoon project, a craft fashioned from inner tubes wrapped tightly in canvas, was cast aside after a trial pontoon exploded due to overinflation. Two and a half years ago, the pair settled on a catamaran that would employ the same type of floaters with a cast-iron frame, a mast, and a sail.
They assembled the first pontoon, which consisted of three inner tubes squeezed together inside a canvas skin, at a friend's house in the Havana district of Nuevo Vedado. Halfway through construction of the other pontoon, they realized the craft they were building would be too large for clandestine transport from the house to a launch site. So they dropped the project and traded some spearfishing gear - fins, mask, snorkel, and spear gun - for a twelve-foot Fiberglas boat with a small outboard engine. Another friend, who drove a truck for La Empresa de la Pesca, the state-run fishing industry, could shuttle the boat to the water without drawing unwanted attention. "We started to get that boat ready, and we put a sail on it because we didn't trust the motor," says Selis, "but then our friend quit the fish company, so we had the same problem. That boat is probably still sitting at our friend's house, with cobwebs on it."
By the fall of this past year, Florida seemed further away than ever. But then two friends, whom Selis had met in an Italian class at a state-run language school, got a divorce and moved out of a run-down three-bedroom house on the water in Santa Fe, a coastal town about 40 minutes west of Havana. Selis and de Jongh had managed to save a small fortune by selling clothes, lobsters, and other items on the black market, and in December they paid 14,000 Cuban pesos to rent the house for ten years. "We made it look like we were going to live there," says Selis. "Who is going to think that someone who puts that kind of money down on a house and moves all their stuff in is planning to take off? Nobody."
Selis had no full-time job, and de Jongh took a one-month vacation from his job as head of the photo lab at Publicitaria Coral, the publicity bureau for a state tourist agency, Cubanacan. They began fashioning yet another raft, out of three inner tubes with a plank underneath. The entire vessel would be wrapped in canvas and a mast and sail would be affixed to the wood. In mid-March, just as they were completing the craft, a photographer friend who came for a visit offered to exchange a blue-and-orange inflatable beach raft for de Jongh's underwater photographic flash unit.
"We'd thought of buying an inflatable raft before, but they were gone from the stores," Selis explains. "Once the government realized people could use these rafts to escape, the rafts disappeared." As his friend speaks, de Jongh takes a paper napkin and sketches detailed top and side views of the raft, which looks like a poor man's version of a Zodiac, with rounded inflatable sides and thin plastic oars. All along, Selis and de Jongh had prepared meticulously, considering every detail necessary for the potentially long stay at sea. They studied how to navigate by the stars - Selis read books, de Jongh had learned from his father - and years of sailing and boating had made them familiar with currents, tides, and prevailing winds. They pored over nautical charts de Jongh had saved, scoured a survival manual Selis had gotten from a friend in exchange for a pair of fishing gloves.
They had always considered that a sail would be vital to a successful voyage, so they'd included one in every raft design. For their new raft, the pair resized the blue canvas sail they had cut for their previous project and mounted it on a stout pole they found in the house. In place of a boom, a small stick was installed one-third of the way down the mast to spread the sail. A sheet of Styrofoam stuffed in the bottom of the raft provided extra flotation, and four wooden poles found in the basement were attached to the oar blades to replace the original, fragile plastic handles.
Into three backpacks they stuffed a radio, compass, nautical chart, twenty liters of water, ten cans of condensed milk, eight cans of baby food, three cans of sardines, two bars of chocolate, a jar of honey, plus salt, vitamins, muscle relaxants, energy pills, anti-nausea medicine, an asthma inhaler and pills for de Jongh, and a bottle of cognac. They even packed a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, says Selis, "in case we got bored." A fourth bag held two sets of fins, masks, and snorkels.
"A lot of people who throw themselves in are crazy," Selis says. "I think it's the same for them to get here as not. We wanted to get here. In the end, of course, it's all the same, because even with all the planning and all the understanding you might have, you get into one of those rafts in the middle of the ocean and you could die. But I'm not a kamikaze. I had to guarantee the best chance of succeeding. If I was leaving, it was to reach the United States."
The morning of Wednesday, March 20, they made the decision to depart. "We had been watching the weather reports on the television - they had three a day on the ICRT chain [Cuban Institute of Radio and Television] - because since a cold front was coming through we were afraid it would catch us," Selis recalls. "Well, the day they said there were going to be five days of good weather - no cold front and strong winds from the east - we decided to go.
"From the moment we decided to leave, we turned off all the lights in the house and closed the windows so no one would visit, and we waited for nighttime. It was very dark that night. There was maybe a quarter moon and just a few clouds. We couldn't see anything, but of course we knew what direction we were headed. I jumped off the porch of the house, the part that leans out over the sea, and Richard [as Ricardo and his friends pronounce his name] handed me down the raft. Right then the the tide was very low, so for about 100 feet it was just reef sticking out of the water. Richard handed down the backpacks and I tied them off. He came down, and we grabbed the sides of the raft and started running until the water reached about here," he says, motioning toward his chest.
"That was the moment of greatest nervousness, because if someone from the coast guard sees you, you're a prisoner. The thought of throwing ourselves into the sea in a raft - that was the least of what crossed our minds. Nobody thinks of that. But what we did plan was that once we started running, we wouldn't even look back. If someone was watching us and ratted on us, they'd have to go get us at sea, because turning back is turning yourself in.
"We got on the raft and I started rowing, rowing, rowing, to put as much distance between us and the coast as soon as possible," Selis continues. "When I was tired, Richard took the oars and rowed, rowed, rowed, and when we were well away from the coast and sure we were past the point where a coast guard searchlight might reach from land - I'd say about two hours after we left - we stopped, tied off the oars toward the front in a triangle, and put up the mast. We tied three ropes from the top to the bow and both sides, used one oar as a rudder, put up the sail, so whoever had the rudder held the point of the sail at the same time. We were off like a shot. We hadn't had time to test it, but it worked better than we ever expected."
Keeping the wind to their right and watching the stars, they headed north. By six o'clock in the morning only the tiny lights on Havana's highest buildings were visible. By nine, with three-foot swells spreading across the horizon, the coast was a memory. Conversation, at first excited, adrenaline-driven jesting, dwindled as the realities of setting out to sea in an eight-and-one-half-foot inflatable raft sank in. The day passed with bouts of seasickness and boredom under a glaring sun, chilling waves crashing over the tiny raft.
Despite wearing several shirts, jackets, sweaters, double layers of pants, socks, and gloves, they trembled with cold. "The only time you warmed up a little was from noon to maybe three," Selis explains. "The water soaks you and doesn't let you dry off or get warm - even though it was a dia de playa [day for the beach.]" To stay warm, the two drank their cognac. They sipped water and milk and ate one of the cans of sardines.
"In the middle of that night we saw boats all over," Selis recalls. "They were lights moving far away, like they were fishing all around us. We thought they might be Cuban boats, but after a while we saw one that looked American - we just said, `That doesn't look like any boat we've ever seen in Cuba' - and we started to whistle with a police whistle we'd brought. But nobody heard us."
Then the weather started to change. Just before dawn the wind kicked up and the swells grew. "They seemed like mountains," says de Jongh. "We went up the side of one and just fell down the other side like a big hole." Selis's arm, drumstick in hand, sways up and down like a cobra, illustrating de Jongh's words.
"We thought for sure a front was coming through. We spent the whole time shaking from the cold," de Jongh continues. "It was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. The wind went up enormously and I almost took down the sail because we thought the raft was going to be destroyed. At that point things looked very bad."
But with the sun, the pair's spirits rose, as the light revealed a horizon dotted with potential rescuers. "We saw boats everywhere, and then we knew we were gone from Cuba for good," says Selis, his words lifting him clear out of his seat. "We tried to get behind several of the boats so they'd see us, but couldn't catch up. We'd head for one and it would move on and disappear. Then sail for another and it would disappear. We decided to continue sailing the way we were going. By then we figured it was just a matter of time."
As the seas grew calmer, they sensed that they were nearing landfall. "Suddenly the water was clear," says Selis. "Before the water was blue, almost black, because it was very deep. But now the water was white, as if the bottom was right there. At about eleven o'clock, we saw a little thing way off in the distance. At first we thought it was a boat, but when we got closer, we saw it was a lighthouse. We decided to sail there and tie off, thinking that we must be in United States territory, and any boat that passed would have to pick us up."
Checking their nautical chart, they determined that the wind and the current had taken them into the Rebecca Shoal, between the Dry Tortugas and Key West. When they were about a quarter-mile from the light, they waved and whistled at a passing fishing boat. It didn't spot them. They tried to signal another boat. "We calculated the route to meet them, and I took off my sweat pants - they were red - and gave them to Richard," Selis says. "He started to whistle and signal with the pants until they saw us." Soaking wet, exhausted from stress and lack of sleep, they were taken aboard the lobster boat Mickey & Rey and shuttled to Key West, where they were met by a Coast Guard dinghy.
They had been at sea 39 hours and traveled roughly 110 miles from Cuba. They both left behind parents and siblings; de Jongh's wife and six-month-old daughter are still on the other side of the straits. "Of course it's difficult, but I can do more for them from here than I could in Cuba," de Jongh says. "There the situation was impossible. At least here I might be able to make some money and send it back."
Every year for the past three decades, a trickle of Cubans has arrived by raft. But this year's figures are unprecedented. Through June 30, the U.S. Coast Guard reported 1194Cubans arriving by raft, although spokesmen add that some manage to reach U.S. shores without the agency's help. Last year, 467 made the float trip; only nineteen came in 1984, the lowest number of Cuban rafters in the nine years the Coast Guard has kept track.
"What we are hearing on Radio Marti and through the families of people who have arrived safely is that there is a better chance of arriving now than ever before," offers Nelson Garcia Rivero, a mustachioed 30-year-old who arrived with six others on an inner-tube raft June 8 and now awaits release from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's Krome North Service Processing Center in West Dade. "Radio Marti is telling people that the ocean is very dangerous and they should be aware of that, but that there hasn't been a worse crisis because the government of this country is helping. There is a flotilla out there rescuing people."
Those who survive believe that most of the people who attempt the trip are successful, but that dozens are dying along the way. Although the winds and currents in the Florida Straits are favorable for a craft heading toward the keys and South Florida, if a raft drifts too far north, the changing currents and winds will tend to pull it out to sea rather than push it to shore. A Cuban man and woman rescued February 19 from a raft off the coast at Fort Pierce after a twelve-day trip said four of their companions had died. On April 4, A Cuban man who made it all the way to the coast near Haulover Beach said one of his companions had tried to swim for a boat a few days before and drowned. Another had slipped underwater after being tossed from the inner tubes. Amado Agchavarria Agete, 45, died on June 14, in the waters off Islamorada. Hours later a Coast Guard plane spotted his inner-tube raft and rescued his brother and two teen-age nephews, who had survived the three-day journey. Last month the bodies of an unidentified man and woman found off the Keys were buried in Key West.
"The people are going to keep coming no matter the danger," predicts 28-year-old Pavel Pablo Matos Rodriguez, who arrived by inner-tube raft with two friends on May 31, "because anything is better than staying in Cuba. At one point the two guys I was with got scared and wanted to go back. And I said, `You can let me off here, because I'm not going back. I'll swim there if I have to, or drown, but the only way I'm going back is if the Cuban coast guard catches me and takes me."
Earlier reports that the Cuban coast guard had relaxed its efforts to snare rafters fleeing the island have been replaced by stories of frequent patrols and harsh penalties for those caught. "Things have changed with the coast guard," says balsero Matos Rodriguez. "Once they realized people were aware they weren't looking, they started cracking down again."
Along with three companions, Victor Manuel Cintra Jardines, a 30-year-old Havana resident who worked as an electrician in the harbor, surveyed the coast near the Cuban capital for three months, noting the movements of coast guard patrols before selecting as a launching point an abandoned fish house in the western suburb of Miramar. "We pretended we were fishing all up and down the coast - in Cojimar, Habana del Este, Triton - and watched to see where the [truck-mounted] spotlights passed by along the coast, because those are the ones you have to worry about," Jardines says from the comparative comfort of a wood-paneled interview room at the Krome detention center.
The men fashioned a raft from three inner tubes, which they individually wrapped in canvas and tied in a row. Helping to hold the raft together were square wooden frames on top and bottom, and the lower frame was criss-crossed with wire to keep out the sharks.
They decided to leave on May 30. "One guy stayed in the house where we had the inner tubes while another guy drove over the truck from work," Jardines says in slow, thoughtful Spanish, as Omar Simon Solano, the brother of Jardines's girlfriend and one of his three companions on the voyage, leans over and strains to hear above the din of a dozen other balseros dressed in Krome-issue orange jail clothes. "They loaded up the tubes, passed by the Servicentro [gas station] and filled them up with air. The problem was that the sky was still light, it was too early. So I said to drive somewhere and park, because you can't be driving around at night - it's forbidden by the government. They had everything in back, covered up.
"When nine o'clock came, everyone was watching Roque Santeiro, a Brazilian soap opera that's very popular in Cuba, and the streets were deserted. We took advantage of it. The one guy brought the truck back to the fish house and we took everything out and put it together in maybe fifteen minutes."
They took only water, salt tablets, some chicken they ate the first day, and a bag of hamburgers from a Cuban fast-food chain popularly known as McCastro's. The burgers were soaked from the onset and were thrown away. Amid the anxiety of being discovered in the dash for the sea, they forgot most of the drinking water on shore. Unlike Selis and de Jongh, Jardines and his companions knew very little about the weather and the currents. They simply hoped that the wind, along with the oars they brought with them, would be enough to propel their craft to Florida.
"We thought it might rain, and that would be better because there wouldn't be fishermen," says Jardines. "The fishermen will turn you in if they see you. But it didn't rain. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't do it," he admits, lowering his baggy orange pants to show the blisters and scars where his lower back and buttocks were rubbed raw by the rubber tubes. They had considered the dangers, he says, but were foolish to take so many risks with so little preparation. "The weather was good - we had no storms or rain - but it was terrible. Our water was gone almost immediately. Since we weren't used to rowing, we drank it all.
"Sometimes you would see phantoms, visions, spirits on the water," he continues. "Once I saw a plant and said, `Hey, let's tie up the raft there.' And I saw an army marching across the water toward us, like across a desert. It seemed we would row and move ahead, and then the current would take us back, or we would just be moving in circles. And the sharks were everywhere." One shark bit the edge of the lower wooden frame, tearing through the canvas covering one of the inner tubes. "We were just watching the sharks circling, slapping at them with the oars," Jardines says, "and one of us said,`I can't believe this is our destiny. After all we've been through, I can't believe this is how we are going to end." Later, as they drifted lazily on calm seas, a swordfish surfaced in pursuit of prey and headed directly toward the tubes. At the last second, as the men scrambled in panic, the swordfish dove deep and disappeared.
On June 2, after nearly three days at sea, the four were spotted by a fishing boat, which radioed the Coast Guard. With all their food and water gone, they had subsisted on salt tablets. "When the Coast Guard picked us up, I cried because I was saved," Jardines says. "We thought we were dead. I would not recommend that anyone try. If they can find another way, they should find it. Seeing the Coast Guard for me was like being reborn. It was the greatest thing in my life."
Once spotted, in many cases by pleasure or commercial boats, occasionally by Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue), a group of Cuban exile pilots who fly over the straits in leased and privately owned planes, balseros usually are picked up by the Coast Guard and turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. They are transported to Krome, interviewed by INS officers, and their immigration proceedings are begun. Many refugees are also interviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, which debriefs any rafters who have knowledge about the Cuban military.
With the exception of those being held for criminal activities, the rafters are released to one of two church umbrella organizations -- the Miami-based Church World Service and United States Catholic Conference. These groups either reunite the Cubans with stateside family or release them to a sponsoring church outside of Miami. Most rafters have been relocated to Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, California, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
Balseros say they speak of their schemes to almost no one in Cuba for fear that family members or friends taken into confidence and left behind will be blamed for helping them to escape. Many also say they know of people who smuggle refugees out by boat. Others have knowledge of people who will prepare a raft or find a small boat for a fee. Selis and de Jongh tell a story - which they say is well known in Cuba - about a man who charged 5000 Cuban pesos to take people to the Keys in his boat. When he returned to Cuba after the trip, he told authorities that he had been hijacked, but later was arrested and sent to jail.
In July 1989, the Coast Guard seized a 35-foot Cuban lobster boat spotted dropping off ten people on Sand Key. The crew and their boat were released after claiming they had been hijacked by the refugees. "From time to time we have incidents like that and it's hard to determine for sure whether there is smuggling taking place," says Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Karonis, a spokesman for the Coast Guard. "But we're fairly certain there is some of that going on."
But rafters who have made it to Krome say few Cubans seek such services because of the pervasive fear that chivos - snitches - are everywhere. "In Cuba you never know who is going to turn you in," says Selis, "so you don't trust anyone."
Twenty-two-year-old Alexis Perez Herrera says he paid a man to help transport him and some friends to the coast with some inner tubes. When they reached the beach in Habana del Este, Cuban authorities were waiting. "It was the guy who drove the truck that turned us in," says Herrera, who spent nineteen months in a Cuban prison for trying to escape the island. When he was released in April, he immediately enlisted his nineteen-year-old brother Tomas, their cousin Rafael Fiallo Echevarria, and a friend to try again.
"We talked about it, and we decided to build a raft out of two tractor inner tubes with oars," says Tomas, his green eyes scanning the Krome interview room and focusing on a TV monitor at the far end of the room that shows a car leaving through the center's front gate. "Is that the way we'll leave here?" he asks. "We must have come in that way, but I don't remember because I was so tired. I can't wait until we go out that way."
A week before he left Cuba, Alexis says, he found four poles and some blocks of wood, which he took to a carpenter friend, who made some oars. "Then I found two inner tubes from a Soviet tractor - they were just full of patches - and I bought them for 50 pesos each. I had to tell the guy that I wanted to use them to fish."
He stored the goods in a hallway at his mother's house in Bauta, in southern Havana province. "My mother didn't want us to go, of course," says Alexis. "She was crying, begging us not to throw ourselves in the ocean. But imagine how things are there! We had to go. We filled one on Saturday and wrapped it in canvas to protect it from the sun and salt. On Sunday we filled the second one. That night we were in the water.
"A friend of ours who was a truck driver went to the shop where it was parked and told them the owner had sent him to pick it up," Alexis continues, speaking through a mouthful of missing front teeth. "He gave it to us, and we loaded the rafts in back and drove to the coast. But about five blocks from Mariel [the Cuban port town west of Havana made famous by the 1980 boat lift], the truck ran out of gas. We had to take everything out and drag it through a field."
By 3:00 a.m. on May 27, the foursome had launched the inner tubes, lashed loosely together, from a rocky stretch of coast known as El Elegen. "We were rushing so much the two loaves of bread we brought were soaked, so we threw them away. Then right away one of the inner tubes started leaking because we didn't check them," Alexis recalls. After twelve hours at sea, one of the tubes overturned and the four containers of water they had brought along were lost. They had no compass, no knowledge of the weather or currents, no double layer of clothes to protect them from the elements.
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"I had never even sat in one of these rafts before even to fish in a ditch," says Tomas. "When we got in the raft and we were rowing and all I see is sea and sea and sea, it was as if I was drunk. I was vomiting and vomiting until I thought I was going to die. So I threw myself down and started rowing and it calmed down a bit." Like Selis and de Jongh, the rafters ran into rough seas, and after nightfall it began to rain. "All we could do was go up one side of the waves and down the other they were so big," Tomas continues. "They looked like the size of a house to us."
Despite the bad weather, they dozed fitfully. Morning brought an unexpected surprise. "When we fell asleep, we had left Cuba completely. We couldn't see anything but ocean," recalls Rafael Fiallo Echevarria. "Well, when we wake up, there's all of Havana in front of us. The storm took us right back where we started."
They rowed away from the coast once more, now minus an oar. For two days they battled delirium, teetering atop the tubes when bull sharks passed by. "It was all kinds of visions. We were completely dehydrated from drinking salt water, but we had nothing to drink, nothing to eat," says Tomas, peeling back his lower lip to reveal white scars from salt burns inside his mouth. "We were going crazy. For sure we thought this was the end."
But on May 30, about 9:30 a.m., the rafters were spotted by a pleasure craft, about 60 miles south of Miami. Severely dehydrated, they had managed to survive for nearly four days on seawater. One inner tube was almost completely deflated. "We were all dead and we came back to life," says Tomas. "No one was more surprised than us that we lived.


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Practice Wednesday was a mixed bag.
From the weather to the team's intensity to trying to figure out what the team is and is not good at in its first day in shoulder pads, it was a strange day as the sun came and went between spotted cloud cover on the Texas Tech practice field.
Has the defensive line made serious improvement from last season? The answer fluctuated along with everything else.
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We already know Pete Robertson is a big deal at defensive end though and that's a good start.
"You can tell from the offseason to now he's got more explosiveness in his legs and gets off the ball better," defensive line coach Robert Prunty said. "He's more powerful. The thing that concerns me about Pete, I knew he can rush the passer but I want to see how he can play the run. Being 230 (pounds) that concerns me, but he's holding his own. He's got great arm strength and that's been really good.
"Pete's been coming along way ahead of schedule."
Kerry Hyder has been just as impressive on the inside.
"That's because he's played the most," defensive line coach Fred Tate. You've also got Delvon Simmons who played a lot last year and Dennell Wesley played more than him. But in terms of consistency it's Kerry Hyder.
Beyond those guys though, and across the field, there was just something aloof about the first practice with some realistic contact.
This isn't abnormal though. Head coach Tommy Tuberville has come out and said something similar in each of his first two years about early efforts about being disappointed with the team's intensity on certain days. Historically the next day is always better.
It's a problem across the football landscape from high school, college and the pros.
But people want to know how the defense is doing and the Red Raider defensive line holds a big key in taking one of the nation's worst run defense to something better. The defensive line coaches didn't have much to go on Wednesday.
So Robertson, Hyder, Wesley and Simmons are the guys the defensive line staff have a grasp on along with a few other players who have seen playing time and are naturally expected to improve with experience and a summer's worth of conditioning under their belts.
"The biggest thing is that when you come in here and you come from a junior college is the adjustment," Prunty said. "It's hard to make that adjustment. But once you settle in and you go through the program. These guys come in here in January and don't know the system. They go through the summer and they still don't go through the system, they just go through Joe Walker's conditioning program. So it takes that adjustment.
"(In Leon Mackey's case) you can see they're moving better. They begin to understand how to control their body at a Division I level."
There are also some freshmen in the mix that the staff is anxious to see develop through fall camp like Michael Starts and redshirt freshman Branden Jackson.
"Starts is powerful," Prunty said. "We've got him at D-tackle. He came in at defensive end and that's what he wanted to play, but we put him in that three technique and he just is powerful. In that inside drill he's hard to move, man. This kid is a solid 300-pound kid and I wouldn't be surprised if he played this year."
Jackson obviously will play now that he is burning eligibility and he fits in the same boat as Starts back on the outside.
"Branden is getting better each day," Prunty said. "He's improving. Playing with great leverage. I just want to see him use his hands better. You can clearly tell he's a very smart football player. He understands block progressions. He's getting there. Branden didn't play last year so I'm very happy with his progress."


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This article, a part of Ramana Maharshi's biography is about His central teaching of self enquiry.
The Maharshi never explicitly stated that he was a Guru but he used the expression to mean a Jnani (man of knowledge) in such a way as to leave no doubt that he was a Guru.
He said: "The Guru or Jnani sees no difference between himself and others. For him all are Jnanis, all are one with himself, so how can a Jnani say that such and such is his disciple. But the unliberated one sees all as multiple ...so to him the Guru-disciple relationship is a reality and he needs the Grace of a Guru to waken him to Reality. For him there are three ways of initiation — by touch, look and silence"
Maharshi's method of initiation was by look and silence. His initiation by look was something very real to the recipient. The disciple could feel his luminous transparent eyes piercing into his mind, breaking down the thought process. The disciple felt as if possessed by sort of vibration, followed by a strong conviction that he had been accepted by the Master. This mauna diksha, silent initiation, of the Maharshi was akin to Lord Dakshinamurti's eloquent silence dispelling the doubts in the minds of the disciples.
The Maharshi revived the Jnana-marga taught in the Upanishads and prescribed atma-vicara, Self-enquiry, as the means to Self-realization. The technique is simple at least in words. His instruction was to sit in meditation concentrating on the heart and ask the question 'Who am I?' Thoughts arising in the mind are not to be identified with and followed, but are to be observed as a witness and the question asked, 'What is this thought? Where does it come from? To whom does it arise? To me? Who am I?' Each thought on such scrutiny and enquiry will disappear leaving only the thought of the"I". Further Self-enquiry will not give any answer to the question 'Who am I?' because the 'I"-thought itself will, on enquiry, dissolve into the Self where thought does not exist. This the Maharshi compared to the stick that kindles a burning corpse and itself gets burnt ultimately along with the corpse.
It is not only as a technique of meditation that the Maharshi taught Self-enquiry, but he prescribed it also as a technique of living. He did not advocate a life of external renunciation as much as a life of Self-enquiry or surrender to God in the midst of one's daily duties. Though Self-enquiry was according to him the direct path to Self-realization, he never deprecated other paths to God realization. He taught Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga as aids to self enquiry. He would say that it was not work that was an obstacle to realization but the thought 'I am doing it'. As for japa, he would encourage the devotee to find out who is doing japa while repeating the name of the Lord. As a true knower of Brahman the Maharshi never made any distinction between Supreme Jnana and Supreme Bhakti: The eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the Self is Jnana. To abide in the Self you must love the Self. Since God is in fact the Self, love of Self is love of God, and that is Bhakti. Jnana and Bhakti are thus one and the same.
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Swami Yuktatmananda of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore, is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order. This article is an excerpt from His 'The Holy Beacon of Arunachala,' which is a narration of Ramana Maharshi's biography. In this article he describes about Ramana Maharshi's, central teaching, Self Enquiry or Atma Vichara.


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LARA Foster is a determined little seven-year-old.
Nine months ago her parents Charlie and Gill were devastated to discover she had leukaemia.
But now back at school Lara, from Headington, is raising as much money as she can for the people who are helping her back to health.
Her mum said: "It has been a hard few months, as the start of the treatment is the most intensive. But we're through that now and she is back to being a normal seven-year-old."
The family first noticed something was wrong when Lara failed to get over flu-like symptoms shortly after Christmas. And the blood cancer was diagnosed after tests.
Lara has responded well to her intensive treatment, which has lasted six months. She is now 'low risk' – meaning she is less likely to relapse.
Back at Headington School, Lara decided she wanted to do something to raise money for research into conditions like her own.
Together with her friends, she gave an assembly talking about cancer and pupils voted to make Cancer Research UK their charity of the year.
Lara, who is in year three, said: "When I first had it, I kept looking in the mirror and imagining what I would look like with no hair, but now I am used to it. It's better than you think. You feel a bit sad at first and you feel a bit different but you just have to learn a bit earlier than everyone else that everyone's different, but they just don't know it."


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Top half of the cup was hot, strong, and welcome—this doesn't have any singular characteristics that separate it from other breakfast teas, but is a good, reliable pantry staple.
Bottom half was ruined; my fault…dumped a whole Land O' Lakes "Mini Moo" creamer in (which, for a super-pasteurized coffee additive, generally isn't all that bad) and that's all I could taste. Oh, well.


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Australian legend David Campese has thrown his hat in the ring for the vacant England backs coach post.
The threequarter retired from the game back in 1996, with 101 caps and 64 tries to his name for the Wallabies, and has since coached the Natal Sharks and the Tongan Sevens team, alongside pursuing his commercial interests. With England potentially a backs coach short ahead of the trip to South Africa in June, Campese is adamant that he could do a job for Stuart Lancaster.
But even Campese admits that his declaration may be given short shrift by the Rugby Football Union after his history of provoking the English.
"This isn't a joke," Campese told The Times. "People will say, 'Oh, there's Campo sounding off again.' But that's not the case.
"I would love to help out if they were interested in talking to me. I think I could bring something, even if it was only in a consultancy or advisory role. I know Brad Barritt well from his time with the Sharks and he knows what I can do."
Despite Campese's offer, it seems that former All Blacks coach Wayne Smith is still the favourite to land the post on a full-time basis. Smith is reportedly considering a job offer from Lancaster to join the England backroom staff after the pair met in South Africa.
Due to Smith's Super Rugby commitments however, reports in the Daily Telegraph suggest that London Irish coach Mike Catt could be offered the role on an interim basis for the summer tour of South Africa.
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wikiHow to Prevent Easy Install of Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation
If you are a user of new VMware Workstation, then you may find it annoying that VMware installing your Virtual Machine with its default settings, which is called "Easy Install" and wouldn't let you customize your VM like in RHEL if you are setting your VM for a FTP server, then there is no need of things like News server, Mail server etc. which will unnecessarily take memory and slow down your server with its services. To customize your VM installation, follow steps given below.
1Click on File → New Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation window. You can create a new virtual machine by pressing Ctrl+N .
2Choose the your VM configuration from New Virtual Machine Wizard window and click on Next. This guide uses Typical configuration, but you can choose Custom and do your changes, then click Next.
3Choose the operating system installer disc drive or image file (.ISO) and then click on Next. You can choose to install operating system later.
5Type your VM's name and choose the location, where you'll save your VM. Then click Next.
6Choose the disk space you want to give to your VM and its allocation method, then click Next.
7Check your VM settings and be sure that "Power on this virtual machine after creation" checkbox is not selected. Click on Finish button.
8Now you'll notice an extra CD/DVD(IDE) drive, which is using autoinst.iso file. Click it to open "Virtual Machine Settings.'
9Click on CD/DVD (IDE) device, which is using autoinst.iso file, then click on Remove button below. Click OK.
10Power on your VM by clicking on "Power on this virtual machine" under Commands section of left side pane and do the manual installation of your new VM.
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Emily Wolfe took a Jekyll-and-Hyde approach to 2013. What began as a full-length's worth of material turned into two distinct EPs for the young Austinite. The rockist Mechanical Hands and pared down Night & Day split musical personalities.
"We thought that the acoustic half would go a lot better in the fall," explains Wolfe. "It's a cozy, 'Hey! Put your sweater on!' kind of thing. The rock & roll one came out during summer, and that was more like, 'Oh! Go to the beach with your friends.' We based it on how it would make us feel."
Still, with 2014 single "Swoon" as her banner, Wolfe seems hell-bent on going the full-throttle route. Gone are the acoustic days of Night & Day and debut, Director's Notes.
"Before I played with a band I was super folk, but then I finally got access to an electric guitar and I started playing rock & roll," says the young twentysomething. "The only thing I had when I did the first record was an acoustic guitar, a Casio keyboard, and a third-floor apartment I was afraid to make too much noise in."
She's unafraid of making noise with Spoon producer Mike McCarthy, who worked on her two EPs and just produced four new tracks. There are tentative plans for a vinyl LP stitching together her shorter works, including one due before her ACL Fest set in October.
"I'm a pretty placid person," she admits. "I don't have much energy. But when I get onstage I'm like, 'Let's go! Let's do it!'"
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Dualists, as animals evolve higher thought processes, at what point do you believe they inherit a non-corporeal "self" or soul?
Cartesian Dualism is the belief that human awareness of being aware is above the physical plane of mater-energy-space-time, that there is a non-physical or spiritual thing in us that is the "me" or "I". Dualism was advanced by early thinkers such as Zarathustra, Plato and Aristotle but perhaps best captured by René Descartes in 1641 in his aphorism, Cogito ergo sum or "I think, therefore I am." or more fully, "I am thinking, therefore I exist." or "I am thinking, on the account of being."
So, if self awareness can't possibly be understood as a brain activity, but requires having a non-corporeal soul, at what point of increasing self awareness does an animal such as a chimp or bonobo or killer whale get supplied with a soul? Do all animals from the simplest single-celled organism up have souls? If so, how come they can't think as humans do?


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But from a practical standpoint, it's not possible to limit IT's access due to the nature of the job. However, you can certainly audit access, and there's no shortage of tools to do that. One genre of security tools that helps with the auditing and securing of internal threats is data leak/loss prevention systems. DLP systems come in a variety of flavors and protect against a variety of threats, and products in this space focus on everything from securing and auditing file access to monitoring communications and content leaks to encryption of USB devices and hard drives, all the way up through the definition and real-time monitoring of policy-based information access.
Unfortunately, it's no longer possible to simply lock down resources via user credentials and fall asleep hoping that your own employees won't attack you when you're not watching. The fact is that we need to set permissions accordingly and then monitor how those permissions are being used across a wide range of technologies. With DLP systems, much of the threats that you will find will be well-intentioned, like the marketing professional who decides to copy a customer database to a laptop for use on a flight. While that's certainly a legitimate business need, there also are security implications to consider when such sensitive data leaves the organization's walls.
But don't expect DLP systems to solve all of your problems on day one, because much like a home is built by first excavating a foundation, organizations must first identify what resources and information is vital, and then move on to identifying what personnel should have access to what resources. Simultaneously, acceptable use policies should be developed that dictate what information can be accessed remotely and what information can be stored on removable media. Once security and use policies are fully developed, DLP systems can then be used to enforce and report on those policies. According to Gartner, the leaders in the DLP space right now are Vontu, WebSense, Reconnex, and Vericept.
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On August 11, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced his vice presidential pick, naming Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket. Ryan, 42, is a seven-term lawmaker known for policy, not for politicking. As Ryan steps into the spotlight, here's a look at 10 things you may not know about Rep. Ryan.
Ryan is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite, with his ancestors moving into the state in the 1800s. He is from Janesville, Wis., where his great-grandfather started a family construction firm in 1884 that is still being run by his cousins today. Ryan's wife, Janna Christine Little from Oklahoma, graduated from Wellesley before attending George Washington University Law School and working as a tax lawyer. The couple met in 1999 and were married in 2000 before moving to Janesville. He lives in his office in Washington and travels home often. He is "very much a product of Janesville — down-to-earth, basic people," Democratic Wisconsin State Senator Tim Cullen told The New York Times. The Ryans have assets valued between $2 million and $7.7 million last year.
* In this Nov, 4 1998 photo, then-newly-elected U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, of Janesville, Wis., greets Louise Parker, left, and Grace Larson, both from Racine, while they were having lunch at the Cottonpicker Restaurant & Lounge, in Burlington, Wis.
At 16, Ryan discovered his father dead of a heart attack, and the event helped develop his worldview, The New York Times suggested. After his father's death, Ryan began working at McDonald's and became class president in his high school. His numerous activities in high school led to an award for being "a politically astute suck-up," the Times said, referring to his 1988 high school award as the "Biggest Brown-Noser." He was also voted prom king.
* In this photo taken on June 3, 2010, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, left, autographs a magazine that features him on the cover for a supporter at Badger High School in Lake Geneva, Wis.
In college, Ryan was a "Ph.D. student in freshmen's clothes," his brother Tobin Ryan said. Ryan's professors recall his conservative economic beliefs, his reading Locke and Hayek, his intelligence and his abilities to articulate ideas verbally and in writing. A former fraternity brother told The New York Times that Ryan's seriousness set Ryan apart from other people in the fraternity and in the university as a whole. He graduated with bachelor's degrees in economics and political science in 1992. His serious approach has transferred to politics, where he's known as a wonk who travels with a PowerPoint display to discuss debt-to-GDP ratios, revenue estimates, spending analyses and CBO projects.
* Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, talks about an alternative Republican budget plan he is pushing in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2009.
During summers in college, Ryan was a salesman for Oscar Mayer and once drove the "Wienermobile." Fox News Insider reports that his job included peddling turkey bacon and the then-new "Lunchables" line to supermarkets. He also worked as a counselor at a summer camp run by the Y.M.C.A.
* Heber Valley Elementary School student Joseph Horner looks over the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile May 31st, 2002.
In a CNN interview, Ryan said he got his start in economics after a large nudge from his mom. Although Ryan fell in love with economics at college, he was also into skiing, preferring mogul skiing. His mom worried that if he took a year or two off after college to ski, that year would turn into five or 10, Ryan said. When a job as an economics policy researcher with Sen. Robert Kasten opened up, she pushed him in that direction. He later worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for former congressman Jack Kemp. "Jack Kemp is what sucked me into public policy, public service and politics," Ryan said.
* Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, takes calls as he drives with staff member Andrew Speth on Monday, Feb. 21, 2005, between Sturtevant and Racine, Wis., to host Social Security Listening Sessions.
Ryan is an avid outdoorsman, belongs to his hometown's archery association, the Janesville Bowmen, and enjoys bow hunting and fishing. According to Ryan's engagement announcement, Ryan does his own skinning and butchering and makes his own Polish sausage and bratwurst.
* This photo taken April 6, 2011 shows the Rock River in downtown Janesville, Wis.
Ryan is "kind of a skinny guy," he told Politico in 2010, and P90X may play a part in that. P90X is a fitness program that consists of 12 cross-training workouts, and Ryan helped start a Capitol Hill workout fad. He was voted the biggest "gym rat" by an anonymous poll of congressional staffers in 2010. Family history may have something to do with it, with his father, grandfather and great-grandfather dying of heart attacks at age 55, 57 and 59 respectively.
* Fans of Tony Horton, creator of the P90X workout Video, workout with him at the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison, Texas, on September 18, 2010.
Ryan pranked Romney on April Fools' Day in 2012 by adding a breakfast to Romney's tour through Milwaukee and pretending that the event was like any other Romney appearance. Ryan went out and introduced Romney, but when Romney came out the room was empty. "It's like, oh boy. This is going to look really bad on the evening news, let me tell you," Romney told NPR. Ryan also fooled the media prior to Romney's vice presidential announcement using cloak-and-dagger techniques, NBC reports. On August 5, Ryan escaped from the media by dressing casually, wearing a hat and sunglasses, driving to Chicago and flying to Connecticut. The 19-year-old son of Romney's chief vetter Beth Myers met Ryan and drove him to Massachusetts where he was offered the VP slot. Ryan kept the secret for a week, and made his way to Virginia for the announcement by sneaking out of his house, cutting through the woods to meet his chief of staff, Andy Speth, and heading to Virginia for the announcement.
* Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., looks on during a campaign event with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at Monterey Mills on Monday, June 18, 2012 in Janesville, Wis.
In 2005, Paul said author Ayn Rand was the one thinker, the one person, who helped get him involved in public service. In 2003, Ryan said he gave staffers copies of "Atlas Shrugged" as Christmas presents. However, as a Catholic, Ryan said he rejects Rand's atheist philosophy, which "reduces human interactions down to mere contracts" and is "antithetical to my worldview."
* Ayn Rand, author of the 1943 novel "The Fountainhead" is honored on a new 33-cent U.S. commemorative stamp in the American Literary Arts series.
In 1998, Ryan was elected to Congress. He was 28 years old and gained 57 percent of the vote in his district. He is now 42 years old, which makes him the same age as Romney's oldest son, Tagg. He and Romney are separated by 23 years, which ranks seventh in the age gap, less than the 28-year gap between Sen. John McCain and Sarah Palin and the 23-year gap between President George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle.
* Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, and running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., arrive at a welcome home rally Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012 in Waukesha, Wis.


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Poll to Set Pace for Governor's Race Final Days
A Siena College poll due out this morning is expected to show if Democrat Andrew Cuomo is continuing to widen his lead over Republican Carl Paladino in New York's race for governor, or if Paladino has regained his momentum.
But the poll being released Wednesday isn't expected be a measure of how voters feel about Monday night's first and likely only debate. The poll would likely have to have started asking questions of voters days before the debate was held on Long Island.
The Siena poll of candidates for governor, attorney general, comptroller and New York's two U.S. Senate seats will try to measure voters' enthusiasm for the Nov. 2 vote.
The poll is scheduled to be released at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.


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Teeth Grinding (Bruxism)
Teeth grinding (bruxism) is the unconscious gnashing, grinding, or clenching of the teeth. It usually occurs during sleep. This process can grind away parts of the teeth, leaving flattened, worn-down biting edges; fractured enamel; and painful or loose teeth.
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They advertise a Roasted Portabella Montrachet "Pizza"($8), which is a portabella mushroom topped with goat cheese, 2 tomato tapenade, toasted pine nuts, arugula, and balsamic drizzle. Delicious. Also very good was Summer Chilled Soup($7)-pureed oven roasted tomatoes, cucumber ribbon salad, seasoned grape tomatoes, and wasabi essence. It was a striking presentation.
I had Pan Roasted Cornish Game Hen($19), herb basted, with mashed potatoes and natural pan jus. This is a simple dish but the hen was moist with a crispy skin and the potatoes were smooth and quite flavorful. Pan seared day scallops were one of the more expensive entrees at $26 but they were large and juicy accompanied by roasted corn and mushroom hash, curry corn sauce, and chili drizzle. This could easily have been a $35 entree at a more upscale restaurant.
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Both sides are claiming victory, of sorts, in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday concerning the Environmental Protection Agency's attempts at regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The clear winner, however, is the rule of law.
In announcing the decision, Justice Antonin Scalia said the EPA will be able to regulate the sources that provide 83 percent of the emissions believed responsible for global warming. It had sought to regulate 86 percent, but that would have required the agency to rewrite provisions written into law, and the Legislative branch of the federal government, or Congress, is responsible for writing laws, not the executive branch nor its many agencies.
The extra 3 percent would have applied regulations to small emitters of greenhouse gases, such as shopping centers or schools.
Yes, it's true the court asserted the EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gasses, and particularly those emitted by large power plants, oil refineries and other industrial operations. But a majority of the court remains concerned about federal agencies that exceed their authority by relying on obscure language in long forgotten pieces of legislation.
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"An agency has no power to 'tailor' legislation to bureaucratic policy goals by rewriting unambiguous statutory terms."
This ruling signals to the Obama administration that it may face a bumpy road ahead in regards to other powers it has similarly asserted in order to change laws without congressional approval.
Significantly, this week's decision does not affect the EPA's proposed new rules designed to cut carbon emissions nationwide by 30 percent by 2030. Those rules are aimed mainly at coal-burning power plants and would affect plants and jobs in Utah, as well as elsewhere.25 comments on this story
However, that is another example in which the Obama administration has found it more convenient to impose administrative rules than to vet ideas through the people's representatives. In that case, the administration seems to rely on drafting errors in a 1990 law for its authority.
Utah has a keen interest in cases involving EPA rules. On the one hand, local economies can suffer as plants are forced to shut down or to bear enormous costs to comply with new rules. On the other, the state suffers from regular bouts with high concentrations of polluted air that exacerbates health problems and may harm tourism.
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Walkera 5#10 vs Esky Lama V4
posted this in another forum section, but it seems like it belongs here better. TIA for any help!
I've played with a few 2 and 3 channel Coaxial helis, and my last one I accidentally left out and the dogs got a hold of it... Figured since I was gonna replace it, I'd spend a little bit more than I did before and get a decent hobby heli. My budget is right around $130.
The 2 helis that have REALLY grabbed my attention are the Walkera 5#10 with the CNC upgrades from Xheli.com ($130) and the Esky Lama V4 ($95).
Is there anything about either of these that I need to know to steer me one way or the other? As of right now, I REALLY like the Walkera by the looks and all the CNC parts, but I keep reading about quality issues with Walkera. Seems like everything I read should be fixed with the metal upgrades on this model, but I'm still wary of spending $130 on something that might break easily.
The Lama V4 seems like a really good heli, but to me it looks cheap. Must be all the plastic that makes me like the other better.
I'm open to suggestions too if theres something in my price range that would be a better option. I'd like to be able to fly outside in low winds too, but I'd mostly be flying in the living room or in a basketball gym.
And one more question. I've got a 3.7v battery out of an old PMP that is I think about 1200 mah. Its REALLY lightweight as it was in a compact PMP. Is there anyway I could wire this with the stock battery and have twice the flight time (relatively) or is adding weight a big nono?
I'm sure I'll have more questions to come. Thanks in advance for helping a noob.
The coaxial forum will get you better answers, but if I were you, I would get the Esky KOB, which is a Lama V4, but with a tail boom, which is a little more durable. The Lama V4 has a lot of mods available and e-sky helis seem to be much more reliable out of the box. You can't use your 3.7 battery because it will not supply enough power. Also, most coaxials can't fly in a lot of wind, so there is really no advantage of one over the other, but you can by some upgrades to make them a little better.
You can get it shipped from Xheli for $94.
If you like the metal you can get a whole metal head for the KOB/Lama V4 on ebay for like $10 shipped.
You've got access to a basketball gym? Do you know how envied that makes you in heliworld?
$95 is too high for LV4 unless you mean delivered and even then it's still high. Try Xheli, they have a free shipping special right now.
Esky is not a paragon of reliability, but generally speaking Walkera is an anti-paragon. I've had my V4 almost 2 years and besides breaking the potato-chip blades the only thing that wore out was a set of motors.
CNC is little but bling in this class aircraft. Exception, metal swash serves a purpose.
There have been some interesting improvements in the field since then. May slightly exceed the $130 range, but Eflite MSR flies like/better than LV4 and costs only slightly more. If you're going to stay in helis, you can get MSR BNF and a DXx transmitter you'll need later anyway.
Yeah I actually have keys to 2 different gyms at my old High School. One of them has about 60' high ceilings which should make for some fun flying.
I've never flown anything but coaxials... how hard is the step up to regular helis?
I do like the look of that KOB. I like the price tag on it too. That would leave a lot of room for spare parts. The $94 on the LV4 was from xheli (for the orange upgraded version) and I did get the email about free shipping right now. I'm kind of in crunch time to make a decision and go with it to get in on the free shipping TBH.
Does Xheli not carry Blade/Eflite stuff? I can't find any of their stuff on the website, but I may be looking in the wrong areas. I have found the MSR that is RTF for $135 which isn't too far out of my budget, but if I could get it free shipping, then it would be even better! My only draw back on this one is the single rotor because I've never flown one and I read that the coaxials are so much easier to fly and hover. Is that overstated or is it really that much harder to fly?
Thanks for the help thusfar!
Regards David
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Stabilized singlerotors are not "that much" harder than coax. Specially when you've got a basketball court to play with. Lots of room to correct mistakes before anything bad happens. The solo pro is well regarded and costs like that class craft should cost. Specially considering you could get 2 of them for the cost of MSR with change left for blades.
Eflite is chronically overpriced because it has to support hobbyshop overhead and online resellers are not allowed to discount it. Good news is, it IS in hobbyshops; no shipping, no waiting IF you have a nearby hobbyshop. Also a US support phone that IS answered, though they're not as helpful as they were a year ago.
I think I'm probably going to stick with a bigger coaxial for now. Mainly because I let my little nieces and nephews fly it (with my help) and I'd want to make sure to have something ULTRA stable. Probably for Christmas I'll get a single rotor heli, and then eventually I'd like to get into 3d flying and stuff like that at some point down the line.
Right now that Esky KOB looks like a winner. I'm really glad I checked in here though because I was dead set on that Walker 5#10, but more than anything I want something reliable. If I break it, I can live with paying for parts, but I want it to be as reliable as possible for my budget.
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As evidenced by games like Lux-Pain, Phoenix Wright and Heileen, the visual novel and adventure game genre is slowly beginning to establish a presence in the conscious of gamers. Perhaps this could mean a sudden interest in the genre, to the point where it could become a recognizable force.
In Japan, visual novels are already a popular and established genre. It's important to note that games like Lux-Pain and Phoenix Wright are considered adventure games with visual novel elements there, while a game like Heileen would be considered a true visual novel. Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure novels for kids, where you'd be able to influence the story depending on what choices you'd make? Visual novels work the same way.
Today, Important Importables is going to go through a few already established stories and series which would make fantastic visual novels. Feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments as well!
Fruits Basket
Fruits Basket is one of the most popular shojo manga in Japan, and has a very strong following in other countries as well. It's a romantic comedy with fantasy elements.
Young Tohru Honda ends up becoming part of the Sohma household after her mother dies. However, the whole Sohma family is cursed. Aflicted family members transform into animals from the Chinese zodiac when they are hugged by people of the opposite sex. Tohru is the only person outside of the family to know about the curse, and as she grows to know and love the Sohmas, decides to do everything she can to break the curse.
The stories and sidestories in Fruits Basket are all very heartwarming and moving, which means they would provide a solid foundation for a visual novel. As for the multiple endings part, perhaps the visual novel could borrow a bit from otome games. Depending on choices you make, Tohru can become closer to the various Sohma family members. At the end, you get a friend ending with the person she's closest to.
Death Note
Yes, there have been Death Note games before. Typically, they're mystery and adventure games similar to the Phoenix Wright games, or have logical puzzles to solve. It's a dark, thrilling mystery. What I'm proposing is a Death Note visual novel which would take place through Light Yagami's point of view, so players could see through the villain's eyes.
See, Death Note is about a high schooler named Light Yagami who ends up picking up a strange, black notebook labelled Death Note on the cover. When he looks inside, he finds instructions for using it. If he writes down the person's name in the book while picturing that person in his mind, that person will die. It turns out a death god named Ryuk dropped his Death Note in the human world because he thought it'd be interesting. Initially, Light uses it on criminals, but then becomes a megalomaniac who decides to use the book to create his "perfect" world.
While the regular series has one true ending (which is awesome, by the way), a visual novel could explore other roads. Maybe Light didn't become corrupted by power. I'd offer other possible scenarios, but that would spoil the real ending.
The Princess Diaries
Another English language series that would work well as a visual novel is The Princess Diaries. In this series of books by Meg Cabot, which was also turned into two movies, a normal girl named Mia Thermopolis discovers that she is a princess. The ten volumes act as Mia's diaries, chronicling her life after discovering the news.
The Princess Diaries could see massive success as a visual novel. Most girls and women have dreamed of being royalty at some point in their lives, and this would provide an appropriate outlet. It may be a good idea to pick and choose parts from the existing books, rather than trying to strictly follow the storyline of certain volumes.
The Princess Diaries could also work well as a Princess Maker style game, where players have to build Mia's skills and would get different endings depending on her abilities.
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Caipirinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [kajpiˈɾĩj̃ɐ]) is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça (pronounced [kaˈʃasɐ]) (sugarcane hard liquor), sugar and lime.[2] Cachaça, also known as pinga, caninha, or any one of a multitude of traditional names, is Brazil's most common distilled alcoholic beverage. Although both rum and cachaça are made from sugarcane-derived products, in cachaça the alcohol results from the fermentation of fresh sugarcane juice that is then distilled, while rum is usually made from refinery by-products such as molasses.[3]
|IBA Official Cocktail
Studio photo of a caipirinha
|Primary alcohol by volume
|On the rocks; poured over ice
|Standard garnish
|sugar cane, lime(ingredient)
|Standard drinkware
|Old Fashioned glass
|IBA specified
|Place lime and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle (mash the two ingredients together using a muddler or a wooden spoon). Fill the glass with ice and add the Cachaça.
|A wide variety of fresh fruits can be used in place of lime. In the absence of cachaça, vodka can be used, making a caipiroska.[1]
|Caipirinha recipe at International Bartenders Association
The drink is prepared by muddling the fruit and the sugar together, and adding the liquor. This can be made into a single glass, usually large, that can be shared amongst people, or into a larger jar, from where it is served in individual glasses.
According to one account it began around 1918 in the region of Alentejo in Portugal, with a popular recipe made with lemon, garlic and honey, indicated for patients with the Spanish flu. Today it is still being used as a remedy for the common cold. As it was quite common to add some distilled spirits to home remedies, in order to expedite the therapeutic effect, aguardente was commonly used. "Until one day someone decided to remove the garlic and honey. Then added a few tablespoons sugar to reduce the acidity of lime. The ice came next, to ward off the heat," explains Carlos Lima, executive director of IBRAC (Brazilian Institute of Cachaça).[4][5]
According to historians, the caipirinha, as it is known nowadays, was invented by landowning farmers in the region of Piracicaba, interior of the State of São Paulo, during the 19th century, as a local drink for high standard events and parties, being a reflection of the strong sugar cane culture in the region.[6]
The caipirinha is the strongest national cocktail of Brazil[7] and is imbibed in restaurants, bars, and many households throughout the country. Once almost unknown outside Brazil, the drink has become more popular and more widely available in recent years, in large part due to the rising availability of first-rate brands of cachaça outside Brazil.[8] The International Bartenders Association has designated it as one of their Official Cocktails.[9]
The word caipirinha is the diminutive of the word caipira, which in Brazilian Portuguese refers to someone from the countryside (specifically, someone from the rural parts of south-central Brazil), being similar to US English hillbilly or the Lowland Scots teuchter. Caipira is a two-gender noun. The diminutive mostly refers to the drink in which case it is a feminine noun.
- Although Brazilian law (Decree 6.871[10] based on Normative Ruling 55, from Oct. 31, 2008)[11] as well as the International Bartenders Association (IBA)[9] allow the use of the name caipirinha for the version with lime only, the term is often used to describe any cachaça-and-fruit-juice drink with the fruit's name (e.g. a passionfruit caipirinha, kiwifruit caipirinha or strawberry caipirinha).[citation needed]
- Caipifruta is a very popular caipirinha drink in Brazil, consisting of cachaça, crushed fresh fruits (either singly or in combination), and crushed ice. The most popular fresh fruits used to create caipifrutas are tangerine, lime, kiwifruit, passion fruit, pineapple, lemon, grapes, mango, cajá (Spondias mombin fruit), and caju (cashew fruit).
- There is a non-alcoholic version of caipirinha as well.
There are many derivations of caipirinha in which other spirits substitute for cachaça. Some include:
- Caipinheger is another variation made using Steinhäger.[12]
- Caipirão is another Portuguese variation made using Licor Beirão instead of cachaça. Beirão liquor is very sweet, so no sugar is used.[13]
- A variation from Italy is made using Campari instead of cachaça.[14]
See alsoEdit
- Cocktails with cachaça
- Ti'Punch – similar French Caribbean cocktail, made with Rhum Agricole, a fermented sugar cane juice similar to Cachaça
- Daiquiri – similar Cuban cocktail, made with rum
- List of Brazilian dishes
- List of Brazilian drinks
- Sour (cocktail)
- ^ "Brazilian Drinks: Caipirinha". maria-brazil.org.
- ^ "Lista de Publicações". Senado.gov.br. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
- ^ "Cocktail Times - Dictionary". Cocktail Times. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ^ "Casa e Jardim - NOTÍCIAS - A história da caipirinha" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2011-11-17. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
Até que um dia alguém resolveu tirar o alho e o mel. Depois, acrescentaram umas colheres de açúcar para reduzir a acidez do limão. O gelo veio em seguida, para espantar o calor
- ^ "Receitas de Drinques". Drinquepedia (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2013.
- ^ (in Portuguese) Cascudo, Luis da Camara (2006). "Prelúdio da cachaça" - Global Editora
- ^ Mackay, Jordan (August 10, 2006). "Made in Brazil". 7x7 Magazine..
- ^ Willey, Rob (February 2006). "Everyday with Rachael Ray". Cane and Able. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
The caipirinha—a sour-sweet combination of crushed limes, sugar and cachaça—has become the darling of American bartenders, and first-rate cachaça is at last finding a place on American liquor-store shelves.
- ^ a b "IBA Official Cocktails". International Bartenders Association. Archived from the original on March 7, 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ^ "Decree 6871/2009" (in Portuguese). Brazilian Republic Presidency's Civil Office. 2009. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ^ "Ruling Instruction No. 55 from 31/10/2008" (in Portuguese). Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA). 2008. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ^ "Fazenda Libanus Agroindustria Ltda". Fazenda Libanus Agroindustria Ltda.
- ^ "Caipirão Promotional website". Caipirão. 2005–2007. Archived from the original on 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ^ "Camparinha Cocktail Recipe with Picture". Complete Cocktails. 2013.
External linksEdit
- Media related to Caipirinha at Wikimedia Commons
- Caipirinha at Wikibooks


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