Western Digital MyBook VelociRaptor Duo: Thunderbolt, 2TB capacity, and a whopping $900 price tag

Western Digital MyBook VelociRaptor Duo Thunderbolt, 2TB capacity, and a whopping $900 price tag

If you fancy Western Digital's MyBook Thunderbolt Duo, the outfit has just announced a new external storage offering that also sports the aforementioned connection. The MyBook VelociRaptor Duo packs two 1TB 10,000 RPM WD drives that carry the same prehistoric moniker -- as the name suggests (in both cases). These dual heavy-hitters create a 2TB repository for HD video, 3D rendering and the like while boasting SSD-like speeds of up to 400MB/sec and both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations. Of course, if one of these drives isn't taxing enough on your savings account, you can daisy chain a few for a more robust storage setup. Time Machine compatibility? You betcha. The unit works with Apple's backup system immediately and is user serviceable should the need arise. For those ready splurge on a couple of VelociRaptors of their very own, the Duo is on sale now. If you're not quite ready to commit your funds, consult the full PR below for the nitty gritty.

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Aquarium Accessories to Maintain Healthy Fish - Online Pet ...

Fishes are very popular as pets because they?re often allowed in residences that don?t permit dogs or cats. Also, by using a few simple tips in your care routine, you can help your fish enjoy good health throughout their lifetime.

Water Temperature and Treatment Concerns

Unlike humans, fish are not able to regulate their body temperature. With that in mind, it?s important to purchase aquarium accessories such as thermometers. Usually, these devices are attached to the side of the tank and clearly display the water temperature. Also, choose a type of fish that can thrive in the same temperature ranges. Once you understand the optimal water temperature for your fish, work hard to keep the temperature consistent, because fluctuations can cause stress.

Also, while you?re shopping for discount pet supplies you?ll probably notice several products to improve an aquarium?s water conditions. Although these mixtures can be very helpful if a problem exists, be careful not to use them unless they?re truly necessary. Products that are added to the water for cleaning purposes, for example, are usually just temporary fixes for things that can be more easily remedied by regular water changes. Changing the water is a simple way to reduce contamination and waste build-up in the aquarium. In fact, some experts say you should try to change from 50 to 100 percent of the aquarium?s water each month. There are several helpful products available that make it easier to drain water and add fresh contents to the tank, too.

Take Care of Issues Right Away

Many varieties of fish are quite delicate. Always watch your fish carefully to understand their usual behaviours. This type of proactive attitude can help you react appropriately if something seems amiss. Fortunately, products such as API Melafix Anti-Bacterial Remedy quickly help fish that are struggling with a bacterial infection. Sometimes, these problems stem from open wounds. However, this product can be found in our online pet store, and can be simply added to the aquarium water without causing discoloration or changing the pH. Also, this treatment stimulates the regrowth of any damaged tissue, so that your fish can resume swimming comfortably as soon as possible.

You may be able to get the best price for your pet supplies online. Australia residents can purchase from shops like ours who specialise in everything you might need for pets with fins or fur.

Follow the suggestions above and look forward to enjoying years of satisfaction with your fish.

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Destination Wedding Cruises: Set Sail for Romance - Destination I DO

Words by Courtney Cox
Photos courtesy of VarietyCruises.com
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A cruise is a great way to introduce yourself to traveling abroad ? you and your hubby (or your destination wedding party) can experience lands thus far unknown, but without the stress of having to plan every logistical detail. Variety Cruises is a global line with a fleet of small ships and luxe mega yachts which travel to popular, but off-the-radar destinations like the Mediterranean, Adriatic, the Seychelles and West Africa.?

Variety Cruises is the fastest growing small ship cruise line in the World, and has thus launched new destination wedding and honeymoon packages. Charters vary from an extended weekend to an entire week and vessel capacity ranges from 44-72 passengers. These packages offer you the opportunity to sail off into the sunset in style post-nuptials, or have the most unique destination wedding you and your guests will ever experience.?

The company?s new honeymoon package also caters to couples renewing their vows (executed by the ship?s captain) and includes:

  • 25% price reduction for the bride
  • Cabin with a double or king bed
  • Welcome honeymooner?s treatment, including a complimentary bottle of Champagne and fresh fruit amenity
  • Candle lit dinner on a private location on board, or in a preferred restaurant in Santorini or Mykonos for Greek cruise programs
  • 10% discount for the couple?s future anniversaries on board Variety Cruises? ships
  • Automatic access to the Variety Club membership
  • ?Our Memories? gift as a disembarkation
  • A complimentary massage for two if on board the Harmony V, Variety Voyager, or Seychelles program vessel


Popular honeymoon itineraries include:

  • Greek Cruises include Santorini, the Mecca of honeymooners, Mykonos and several lesser-known ports islands, exclusive to Variety Cruises
  • Romantic Rivieras, sailing the French and Italian Mediterranean coasts on the line?s newest yacht, the M/Y Variety Voyager
  • Cruises in the Garden of Eden, hopping between islands of the Seychelles to explore rainforests and effervescent marine life. (7-nightcruise only)
  • The Adriatic Odyssey, exploring Corfu, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Albania, and Montenegro
  • The Rivers of West Africa, cruising from Dakar to Senegal on the Gambia River

We have also included some sample honeymoon/destination wedding itineraries below. For more information on booking a variety cruise for your honeymoon or destination wedding, visit varietycruises.com or call 800-319-7776.
Classical Greece Itinerary

Day 1 (Friday): Marina Zeas (Piraeus) ? Kea
Embark from Marina Zea. Depart via Cape Sounion to Kea. Enjoy leisure time to explore Kea?s tiny port, Korrisia after dinner. Departure in the early hours for Delos, spending overnight at sea.

Day 2 (Saturday): Delos (anchorage) ? Mykonos
Optional morning tour to the unique archaeological site of Delos, antiquity?s most sacred island. On to the port of Tourlos in Mykonos, with a swim stop on the way. Free afternoon and evening to enjoy the island?s cosmopolitan lifestyle. Overnight in Mykonos.

Day 3 (Sunday): Santorini
Noon arrival in Santorini (anchorage at Fira). Experience the stunning natural drama of the volcanic caldera. Optional tour to archaeological sites and typical villages with unique views over the Aegean Sea. Overnight sailing to Crete.

Day 4 (Monday): Rethymnon/Crete
Morning arrival at Crete?s famous and lively port of Rethymnon. Optional tour to the ancient city of Knossos near Heraklion. Late departure for Kythira. Overnight at sea

Day 5 (Tuesday): Kythira
Late morning swim stop and afternoon arrival to Kythira, a less known island gem now fast becoming a favourite among visitors to Greece. Evening at leisure to visit the picturesque main town of Chora and experience the subdued charms of this peaceful island. Overnight in Kythira.

Day 6 (Wednesday): Monemvassia ? Nafplion
Early morning sailing to Monemvassia. Discover a remarkable medieval fortified town, with leisure time to explore the uniquely preserved Byzantine and Venetian architecture and experience the beauty of the natural setting. Depart for Nafplion in the early afternoon, with a swim stop on the way. Evening arrival at Nafplion. The old quarter is charming, with narrow streets and characteristic period architecture. Also, impressive medieval fortifications can be seen in the port and crowning the hills above. Overnight in Nafplion.

Day 7 (Thursday): Nafplion - Hydra or Spetses
Optional tour to Mycenae, the powerful walled palace of Agamemnon, the Homeric Achaean king. Early afternoon departure for the islands of Hydra or Spetses. Leisure time to explore this picturesque port town. Stay overnight in port.

Day 8 (Friday): Marina Zeas (Athens)
Departure in the early hours for Marina Zea, Piraeus. Arrival and disembark after breakfast.


Romantic Rivieras Itinerary

Day 1 (Saturday): Nice - St. Tropez/France
Embark and enjoy a short sailing trip to St Tropez. St. Tropez is a glamorous playground for the wealthy, but anyone can spend an afternoon at a sidewalk caf?, watching the spectacle unfold. The south of France played a role in the history of modern painting, its clear light inspiring artists, so that even today many live and work here.

For mesmerizing views, head up to the 16th century Citadel. Or take a stroll through the old town, overflowing with restaurants, trendy boutiques, and galleries. Late in the evening we leave St. Tropez and cross to Corsica. Overnight at sea to Corsica.

Day 2 (Sunday): Ile Rousse/Corsica Island ? France
With its palm trees and promenades, Ile Rousse has more common with the French Riviera than with Corsica. The beach is a short walk from the port and near the Paoli Square, the heart of the city. Your optional walking excursion will take you to the covered market, to the Church of Immaculate Conception.

Later we will reach Ile de la Pietra by a causeway. The afternoon optional half day excursion will take you to Calvi and to some of most striking "fortress" like villages of the Haute Balagne as well as Calenzana, Montemaggiore and Pigna. Overnight at sea to Bonifacio.

Day 3 (Monday): Bonifacio/Corsica Island ? France
Excursion: Today you stroll down the narrow, twisting lanes of this lovely walled cliff-top medieval town and admire the ancient buildings where native son Napoleon walked when he commanded the local garrison in 1773. Visit stunning churches like St. Marie-Majeure, a 12th-century structure with a fountain that collects rainwater, and the old market. Overnight at sea to Elba Island.

Day 4 (Tuesday): Elba Island - Portovenere/Italy
We reach the island of Elba in the morning. Elba was settled by the Greeks in the 10th century BC, and later became known as the home to the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte. Your optional 1/2 day excursion includes a visit to the Palazzina dei Mulini, the home he shared with his sister in 1814 and much more can be seen in the villa of San Martino and the Demidoff Museum. The excursion also includes a stop at a local winery. After lunch we cross over to mainland to Portovenere. Late evening arrival at Portovenere. Overnight in port.

Day 5 (Wednesday): Portovenere/Italy
Today your optional full day excursion brings you to Cinqueterre, five villages clinging to the Ligurian cliffs on the west coast of Italy at nearly the same distance from one another (Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore). See these sites as the ancient mariners had seen from the sea. Depart from the pier northward and marvel at the views as you approach the beautiful coast with villages suspended above the sea, almost defying gravity. Five picturesque locations of pastel colored houses and terraced vineyards alive with the aroma of olive trees. Arrive at the village of Vernazza, where you disembark the vessel for a guided walking tour of this 1st century village. Notice the richness of its architecture, which evinces a wealthier standard of living than that of other villages. Following your tour, free time is afforded to browse the local shops or enjoy a cafe. The next stop is at the most westerly village and Cinque Terre's beach town, Monterosso. The town is divided into two distinct parts, San Cristoforo Hill and the old maritime village protected by a rock spur. At sea to Portofino.

Day 6 (Thursday): Portofino/Italy
Picture a tiny town of pastel houses lining the shore of a small harbor full of sleek yachts, crowned by a castle and backed by verdant hills dotted with villas. Throw in charming waterside restaurants specializing in seafood, and a national park with miles of hiking trails among chestnut and olive groves, where you can work off the pasta that in Italy is just the first course, between the antipasto and the main. Now you know why this quaint little fishing village became a playground of the rich and famous. Our optional walking excursion will show the insights of this beautiful little town. Late at night we leave Portofino for an overnight sailing to Monte Carlo.

Day 7 (Friday): Monte Carlo
Today we reach Monte Carlo or Monaco, land of the rich and famous and of the Grimaldi reigning family, its F1 race and its Palaces. Our morning excursion will start with a drive along the famous Grand Corniche with its stunning views of Monaco and the Old City, and then stroll through this marvelous quarter and its pink Grimaldi Palace where a section of the Prince?s quarters is open to the public.

After lunch, the excursion to the colorful and no less famous villages of Grasse, St Paul de Vence and Eze, home of the greatest painters in history is not to be missed. Overnight in Monte Carlo.

Day 8 (Saturday): Monte Carlo - Nice/France
Early morning sailing to Nice. Disembarkation at 9 - 10 am.


Cruises in the Garden of Eden

Day 1 (Saturday): Mahe (Victoria) - Beau Vallon Bay
Embarkation 15:00 to 16:00 pm. After the welcome cocktail and safety drill, we leave port Victoria and sail north along Mahe northern coast line to reach Beau Vallon Bay to spend the night. Welcome evening at anchor.

Day 2 (Sunday): Aride - Anse Lazio (Praslin)
We leave Mahe Island early in the morning to reach to Aride, a striking granite island north of Praslin. Unlike her name, the island has a dense vegetation and is home to colonies of birds. Our optional excursion will take you all the way to the top of the island for an amazing view of the island. The island is home to the Wright's gardenia found nowhere else on earth and to bird species like the Audubon's shearwater, the Seychelles warbler. In the afternoon we sail to Anse Lazio (Praslin), one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Time for water sports, snorkeling or optional diving. Evening at anchor.

Day 3 (Monday): Cousin Island - Curieuse
This morning we leave Anse Lazio and sail to Cousin Island. Optional excursion to the Bird sanctuary which is in the care of Bird Life International. A quarter million birds breed on Cousin which also has several nesting beaches for turtles. In the afternoon we sail to Curieuse Island. Overnight at anchor.

Day 4 (Tuesday): Curieuse
This morning we visit this uninhabited island, once a leper colony and home to giant tortoises. Our walking excursion with a park guide will bring us to the farm, along mangrove forests. Our day includes BBQ on the beach, a variety of water sports and a spectacular creole night.

Day 5 (Wednesday): Praslin ? Baie St. Anne (or Anse Possession)
This morning we leave Curieuse and reach Praslin, Baie St Anne or Anse Possession. We disembark for an optional excursion to the famous Vallee de Mai Reserve, a world heritage site. You will explore the pathways under tall palm trees which produce the famous Coco de Mer and you might sight a black parrot only found in Praslin. Afternoon at leisure for snorkeling or optional diving excursions.

Day 6 (Thursday): Sister Islands/Coco Island - La Digue
This morning we reach Sister Islands or Coco Island, all uninhabited and offering great snorkeling in crystal clear waters. After lunch we arrive in La Digue, a quiet island community where time is standing still: no cars, just bicycles and oxcarts. Our optional oxcart tour will take us to the picturesque Anse de Source d? Argent for a sunset swim. It is said that this is the most photographed beach in the world.

Day 7 (Friday): La Digue ? St. Anne Island
After a lazy morning in La Digue we sail back towards Mahe and reach St. Anne Island. There is a last opportunity for snorkeling and swimming before our farewell captain's dinner. Later in the evening we reach port Victoria.

Day 8 (Saturday): Mahe (Victoria)
Disembarkation at 9:00 am.

Source: http://www.destinationidomagblog.com/2012/08/destination-wedding-cruises-set-sail.html

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Zebrafish study explains why the circadian rhythm affects your health

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Disruptions to the circadian rhythm can affect the growth of blood vessels in the body, thus causing illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer, according to a new study from Link?ping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

The circadian rhythm is regulated by a "clock" that reacts to both incoming light and genetic factors.

In an article now being published in the scientific journal Cell Reports, it is demonstrated for the first time that disruption of the circadian rhythm immediately inhibit blood vessel growth in zebra fish embryos.

Professor Yihai Cao leads a research group, which has demonstrated that the breaking point is the production of a very important signalling substance: vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The formation of this substance requires a normal circadian rhythm.

During experiments with hours-old zebra fish embryos, the researchers manipulated their circadian rhythm through exposing them to lighting conditions varying from constant darkness to constant light. The growth of blood vessels in the various groups was then studied. The results showed that exposure to constant light (1800 lux) markedly impaired blood vessel growth; additionally, it affected the expression of genes that regulate the circadian clock.

"The results can definitely be translated into clinical circumstances. Individuals with disrupted circadian rhythms ? for example, shift workers who work under artificial lights at night, people with sleeping disorders or a genetic predisposition ? should be on guard against illnesses associated with disrupted blood vessel growth," says Lasse Dahl Jensen, researcher in Cardiovascular Physiology at Link?ping University (LiU), and lead writer of the article.

Such diseases include heart attack, stroke, chronic inflammation, and cancer. Disruptions in blood vessel growth can also affect foetal development, women's reproductive cycles, and the healing of wounds.

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As Isaac Bears Down, Little Talk of Climate Change

If a powerful hurricane slams the Louisiana coast during the Republican National Convention, the resonances with Katrina will be bad enough. But the storm would also showcase the GOP?s position on climate change, which is, increasingly, to deny the scientific consensus that fossil-fuel pollution contributes to a warming atmosphere and destructive weather patterns?including stronger hurricanes.

Although scientists caution that no single weather event can be attributed directly to climate change, major events such as Katrina and this summer?s drought fire up a debate that has become more incendiary in recent years as more Republican lawmakers doubt climate science.

The question of whether the GOP accepts climate science didn?t come up in 2008, when Hurricane Gustav slammed into the Gulf Coast during the party?s Minnesota convention. That?s because the nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, believed in climate change and professed a desire to solve it.

Since then, the mainstream GOP view is to deny the scientific findings that link man-made pollution to climate change, and Mitt Romney has publicly walked back his onetime position that humans contribute to warming. Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has also questioned the science.

But stronger hurricanes are among the most serious consequences of climate change induced by the burning of fossil fuels (the Romney campaign favors such burning), and the Gulf Coast is likely to experience the worst effects, according to a 2012 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a 2009 report authored by 13 federal agencies.

Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has authored one of many reports on the increasing frequency of high-intensity hurricanes, said that the data link warming air and water surfaces to stronger, more devastating hurricanes.

?As the temperature of the tropical ocean increases, you see greater intensity and the frequency of intense storms goes up,? Emanuel said.

Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University and a member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the science shows clearly that reducing oil, coal, and gas pollution could help prevent damage related to climate change. ?There?s a risk, which scientists have identified, that it?s likely we?ll have more strong hurricanes, and one of the things we can do to prepare is reduce fossil-fuel emissions,? he said. ?It?s just like building levees.?

Environmentalists are targeting Republicans for their views. Around Tampa, the Florida Wildlife Federation has posted billboards of prominent Republicans, such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who have acknowledged climate change as a problem and called for solutions.

?We think this is one of the most important policy issues that there is,? said Federation President Manley Fuller. ?It?s treated as a partisan issue, and it should not be. The billboards remind Republicans of what well-known Republicans have said about this.?

Last week, the League of Conservation Voters launched a $1.5 million campaign to defeat five House Republicans who deny the science of climate change. The ?Flat Earth Five? campaign is the first time the League has targeted a group of lawmakers explicitly because of their positions on climate.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/isaac-bears-down-little-talk-climate-change-230838395.html

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The popularity of these series has been rising as it started making use of their all new discovered concept in movie making. Web series entered 1995 from the first advertiser Scott Zakarin who pioneered the Internet series adapted from what are the TV series has been making. The initial series that caused it to be through the internet was aired in 1997 but was eventually cancelled as a result of technological restrictions and financial disability that held the production up.

travel film - The buzz of those Internet series has risen up from then on and also the consequence of its increasing availability has progressed because of the improvement of broadband technology and video streaming capacity. This made the independent producers and series makers to produce a low budgeted Internet distributed series. However, several television producers and broadcasting companies are using the net to promote their primetime shows as well as developing particular media and Internet shows.

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Matt LeBlanc Leasing 1930's Spanish Estate in Pacific Palisades ...

Matt LeBlancs 1930?s Spanish Estate in Pacific Palisades Leasing For $13,000 (PHOTOS) photo

Matt LeBlanc, star of Friends and Lost in Space, has put a ?For Rent? sign in the window of his home in Pacific Palisades, CA. The veteran actor, who currently plays a fictional version of himself on the acclaimed Showtime comedy Episodes, is asking just under $13,000 a month to lease the classic Spanish-style estate.

Matt LeBlancs 1930?s Spanish Estate in Pacific Palisades Leasing For $13,000 (PHOTOS) photo

Located just south of Will Rogers State Park, the home, built in 1933, offers 3,930-square-feet with four bedrooms and five bathrooms. A step-down living room with a fireplace, a dark wood-paneled dining room, and numerous built-ins highlight the home?s finer features, while a cook?s kitchen sports an updated face thanks to a recent remodel. Head to rear of the half-acre property and one will find rolling lawns and a manicured garden that give way to panoramic canyon views.

The Friends alumni flexed some serious real estate muscle in 2011, as Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry, in particular, went ham on the market in some way, shape or form. However, the sitcom cast members have been a tad quieter in 2012, at least in terms of buying and selling homes. The only notable transaction this year has come by way of Aniston, who made waves in January for her $21 million purchase of an exceptional A. Quincy Jones masterpiece in Los Angeles.

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Mexico sect vows fight over public schools

Federal Police officers walk past residents of Nueva Jerusalen as they enter the city, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities are still unable to overcome the resistance of an apocalyptic religious sect in western Mexico which has refused to allow public school teachers to hold classes in their town. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Federal Police officers walk past residents of Nueva Jerusalen as they enter the city, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities are still unable to overcome the resistance of an apocalyptic religious sect in western Mexico which has refused to allow public school teachers to hold classes in their town. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Students carry a banner during a protest in favor of secular education in Nueva Jerusalen, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities are still unable to overcome the resistance of an apocalyptic religious sect in western Mexico which has refused to allow public school teachers to hold classes in their town of Nuevo Jerusalen. The banner reads in Spanish" Fanaticism and ignorance have kidnapped the schools of our sons, our future. Enough!" (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

A woman looks from her house's door as students protest in favor of secular education in Nueva Jerusalen, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities are still unable to overcome the resistance of an apocalyptic religious sect in Western Mexico which has refused to allow public school teachers to hold classes in their town. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Faithful belonging to a religious group of followers of the Virgen del Rosario, listen to speeches against secular education in Nueva Jerusalen, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities said talks continued Monday with both sect traditionalists who reject schools and reformists who want an education for their kids. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Father Luis Maria, spokesman of a religious group of followers of the Virgen del Rosario, delivers a speech against secular education in Nueva Jerusalen, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities are still unable to overcome the resistance of an apocalyptic religious sect in western Mexico which has refused to allow public school teachers to hold classes in their town. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

NUEVA JERUSALEN, Mexico (AP) ? Sprouting out of the corn fields of western Mexico rises a hill crowned with two arches and four towers, marking the gates of an improvised "holy land" that farmers built brick by brick over nearly four decades. The sprawling complex, they believed, would be the only place saved in the coming apocalypse: Nueva Jerusalen, or "New Jerusalem."

A cult has since sprung up around the detailed instructions that Our Lady of the Rosary supposedly left for followers, including how believers should dress and live. No non-religious music, no alcohol or tobacco, no television or radio, no modern dress and, the injunction that has landed them in trouble, no public education.

That last rule is at the heart of a confrontation brewing at the complex among the sect's traditionalists, its more reformist members and the Mexican government. The conflict escalated into a tense standoff Monday between the sect and federal and state police.

According to traditionalists, the government-mandated uniforms, school books and lesson plans, not to mention the computers and televisions now used in many Mexican classrooms, would violate the Virgin Mary's orders, on her own sacred ground.

Organized squadrons of church followers enforced those beliefs in July when they used sledgehammers and pickaxes to tear down at least two school buildings, doused the school furniture and texts in gasoline and set the whole mess on fire.

Authorities in the western state of Michoacan have vowed that public, secular education, one of the few common bonds that hold Mexican society together, would not be sacrificed, and they pledged Monday that about 250 children would be back in class in Nueva Jerusalen.

That prompted swift reaction from conservative church followers, who formed a line inside the gates to face down dozens of police who showed up with patrol trucks and an armored vehicle, in what turned out to be a daylong standoff.

Federal police commander Miguel Guerrero said he was talking with both sect traditionalists and reformists who believe in the sect's central tenets but want a modern education for their children, to reach some sort of compromise.

"We are simply discussing the community's situation," Guerrero said after the talks. But neither side was budging: The reformists rejected a compromise to hold classes in another town, and the traditionalists weren't going to let government schools and teachers into the community.

The faith of the people here is built on messages purportedly passed from the Virgin Mary to a defrocked Catholic priest, an illiterate old woman and a clairvoyant. That faith has since developed into a complex hierarchy of brightly-robed followers, with women wearing purple, red, white or green robes, depending on their "order" or vocation.

"New Jerusalem was born when the Holy Mother returned to Earth, with God's permission, for the last time, to form a new salvation and a new creed," said Father Luis Maria, who like the rest of the clergy practices a form of the Latin Mass but is not recognized in any way by the Roman Catholic Church.

Maria says the community's rules are aimed at banishing "all the vices and bad habits" that condemn the rest of the world to perdition.

But after the group's prediction that the world would end in 1999 didn't come to pass, it became harder to keep younger generations interested in praying almost constantly for the earth's salvation. Praying is the principal activity of the sect's traditionalists, aside from temple building and farming.

To the reformists, the Virgin's purported instructions can border on the surreal: Sports such as soccer are banned because they are played with a round ball that resembles the planet Earth, and thus represent kicking the planet. But American football is allowed because the ball is more elongated.

To people such as Oscar Montero, 26, a young man who was born in Nueva Jerusalen after his parents joined the sect in the 1970s, the restrictions have grown too chafing.

"I see these things as something very absurd," said Montero, who joined a group of hundreds of young people who marched through the community Monday to demand access to education.

"Dancing isn't evil, though smoking is," said Montero. "Drinking too much is bad, but dancing and having a good time isn't."

Montero said he has a television, radio and Internet service at home, noting, "I wasn't born here because of my faith, I was born here by chance."

The sect was founded in 1973 by a parish priest, Nabor Cardenas, who disagreed with the modernization of the Catholic Church and the abandoning of the Latin Mass.

He found his oracle in an illiterate 63-year-old local farm woman, Gabina Sanchez, who heard the voice of the Virgin Mary. Dubbed "Mama Salome," she essentially directed the evolution of Nueva Jerusalen together with "Papa Nabor."

Together, they created an idiosyncratic vision of how life would have been lived in biblical times, and imposed it on thousands of followers.

"It is like a little state within a state," said Juan Carlos Ruiz Guadalajara, a historian at San Luis College who has studied the community extensively. "Here, the laws of Mexico don't mean anything, they are ruled by a sort of traditionalist Catholicism."

"But that has set up a confrontation between them ... and the new generation of children born in New Jerusalem," he said.

The church's authorities allowed The Associated Press to tour the compound on the condition that none of the residents could give formal interviews or be quoted by name. They said the restrictions were necessary because news media had identified believers as "fanatics" in previous reports.

The sect's strict rules are clearly spelled out on the wall of the gates: "No entry for women with short skirts, pants, low-cut or sleeveless blouses, makeup or fingernail polish, or uncovered heads, nor men with long hair or dishonest dress."

Inside, a huge cross dominates the main street, bordered on each side by the one-story homes of the faithful. Men with rosaries around their necks, and women in headscarves and robes, go about their daily routines of prayer and work.

Girls under 11 are known as "Juanitas" and wear yellow head scarves, while single adolescent and adult women are known as "Damsels" and wear blue. There are eight such orders.

Further down the main street is the "basilica," which houses the church's holiest site, the chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Inside the chapel is the tomb of Papa Nabor, who died in 2008, and an image of the Virgin that appeared to Mama Salome, who died in 1981.

The leadership of the church has fallen to the daughter of the church's former clairvoyant, who calls herself a spokesperson, and the current "bishop," who calls himself Martin de Tours.

As its principal commitment, the community keeps up a 24-hour-a-day chain of prayer in the Virgin's chapel, which the faithful believe is the only activity that can save the world. They also believe the entry of "bad habits" could break that delicate thread.

For the true followers of Nueva Jerusalen, allowing such a break is simply unthinkable, and that promises to harden the confrontation under way here.

"What is more important ... the right to life, or the right to an education?" the sect's legal representative, Juan Carlos Tellez, said in a speech at the compound Monday. "The people will defend their rights with their lives. They will not allow a community built with great sacrifice over 39 years, by the labor of its inhabitants, to be destroyed from one day to the next."

Associated Press

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Excerpt & Book Giveaway: Dark Promise by Julia Crane & Talia Jager

Author Talia Jager

Talia Jager has been writing as far back as she can remember. As a child, her summer vacations were spent writing stories. Bedtimes were ignored when she hid under the covers with a flashlight, a notebook and a pen. At school, she kept her works-in-progress under her classwork.

She took creative writing and journalism in high school and graduated with a major in English and a minor in French. She later earned her college degree in early childhood education. Writing was pushed to the side when she fell in love and had a family.

Now, with the support of her family, she has several published books and continues to write young adult dramas.

Talia lives in Texas with her husband and six children. Her published works include Damaged: Natalie's Story, Teagan's Story: Her Battle With Epilepsy, If I Die Young, The Ultimate Sacrifice, Secret Bloodline, Lost and Found and Roots and Wings. She co-wrote Mesmerized with Julia Crane. She has also contributed to two short story collections, The Halloween Collection and The Holiday Collection from the Indie Eclective. She hopes to have her next book out by the end of 2012.


Author Julia Crane

Julia Crane is the author of the YA paranormal fiction novels: Keegan's Chronicles, Mesmerized and Eternal Youth. Julia was greatly encouraged by her mother to read and use her imagination, and she's believed in magical creatures since the day her grandmother first told her an Irish tale. Julia has traveled far and wide to all the places her grandmother told her about, gaining inspiration from her journeys to places like Nepal, Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Italy, France and many more. And who knows? Maybe the magical creatures she writes about are people she met along the way.

Julia Crane has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Although she's spent most of her life on the US east coast, she currently lives in Dubai with her husband and three children.

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Rylie has it all - great friends, dream boy, loving family. But on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, her perfect little world shatters. A stranger claiming to be her real mother appears with a secret: Rylie is a faery whose powers will be unleashed on her birthday. Captured and forced into a new life, Rylie struggles to keep everything she loves and discovers a terrifying truth: some promises cannot be broken.
Seventeen-year-old succubus Lily Anderson can?t have a normal life: She isn't allowed a boyfriend, she has no friends, and school is just one mess-up after another. Lily?s parents send her away to the prestigious Emerson Academy. It doesn?t appear to be any different from the others. That is, until she meets her roommate, Hannah, and a blue-eyed boy named Jake. Lily makes an almost deadly mistake, and Jake has a mysterious past that has come back to haunt him. Together, they must go on the run from things neither of them understand in order to save the people they love?and each other. But, Jake?s foe is more dangerous than they realized, and it will take the help of friends and family to save the man Lily loves. She must learn to use her powers for good before it?s too late. *This is a mature YA. Due to sexual content and some language it is not recommended for younger teens.

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My mother led her into the living room. The lady?s piercing green eyes rested on me, sending a chill down my back. My father followed her gaze. ?Rylie, do you know this woman?? Dad asked.

?No.? I shook my head slowly. ?I?ve never seen her before.?

?Rylie, maybe you should go to your room,? Dad suggested, his gaze demanding I do as he said.

?No. If this has something to do with me, I want to hear it.? I crossed my arms and sank against the back of the couch.

Mom and Dad exchanged a worried glance, but turned back to the lady on the couch. ?Please, go on.?

Without taking her eyes from me, the lady calmly stated, ?My name is Azura, and I am Rylie?s birth mother.?

My father, who was always a level-headed man, was on his feet in seconds, his face hard. ?What are you talking about??

I felt like I had fallen into some kind of parallel universe. Did this woman just say she was my birth mother? How could she be my birth mother? That would mean I was adopted, but wouldn?t my parents have told me something like that?

My mother shook her head. ?Birth mother? Rylie isn?t adopted.? She reached over and took my hand. ?Believe me, I?ll never forget the eleven hours of labor.?

The woman sat perfectly still in the blue armchair across from us, with her hands clasped on her lap. ?I know it?s hard to accept, but it?s true. Your daughter died shortly after she was born. I switched the infants. Rylie is mine.?

The wind left me as if I had been punched in the stomach. I couldn?t breathe, and the room spun. I gripped the pillow next to me with my other hand as I clung to my mother.

Silence filled the room for a moment, and then my father exploded. ?You need to leave now!? He pointed to the door. ?Get out of this house and don?t come back without a court order.?

The lady smiled sincerely, her face still as calm as it had been when she walked in the door. ?Please, hear me out. I realize this is a lot to take in.?

?No! This is preposterous! Nobody died. Rylie is ours.? Dad?s voice was like thunder.

I studied the lady. She seemed so honest and soft-spoken. Why would she pretend something like this? Why would she ruin our family if it weren?t true? And if was true, why was she coming clean now? Something in me believed her even though I didn?t want to. I swallowed hard and rubbed my sweaty palms on my shirt.

?Let her talk,? I said hoarsely.

?Rylie, you can?t believe her.? Dad looked stricken.

?I?m curious as to why she thinks I?m her daughter. Let?s hear her out.? I crossed my arms and scooted closer to my mother, comforted when she wrapped an arm around me.

Dad turned back to the woman called Azura, and his frown deepened. ?Fine.? He sat back down in his seat and glared. ?Talk.?

?Thank you. I?m going to tell you something not many humans know, and I have to trust you to keep it secret for Rylie?s sake.? She addressed the statement to my parents.

Humans? Who talks like that?


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Jets fans were booing.

And they had every right. After paying full fare for tickets, and parking, and (hopefully) beer, they were forced to watch the Jets offense.

But at least the Jets are consistent.

Even after getting a turnover and a short field (taking over at the Panthers 12-yard line), the Jets starting offense continued to pitch a shutout in the preseason, failing to get into the end zone.

If you?re scoring at home (and they?re not, or on the road either), that?s 15 possessions for the starters in the preseason, and no touchdowns. The backups haven?t scored either, leaving no hope that personnel changes are going to fix things.

While it?s easy to rail on quarterback Mark Sanchez, it?s misguided as well, as he suffered through several dropped passes.?They actually looked competent early in the game running no-huddle, but that didn?t last long.

But Sanchez was unnecessarily glib on the sidelines, joking with Michelle Tafoya that they were saving all their touchdowns for the regular season.

For it to have been funny, there would have to be an expectation this wasn?t actually what they are.

The good news is the Jets defense was strong.

It better be.

Here are some other things we learned on Sunday Night Football.

1. There were cheers when Tim Tebow took the field.

I?m not sure anymore if they were sarcastic or sincere.

Of course, when he got a few plays under his belt, they were booing him too. Those were sincere.

The Jets night in a nutshell was when he jumped up to celebrate a surprising first-down scramble, and a few plays later, threw an ugly pick.

End well, this will not.

2. Cam Newton can make plays even without a gaudy stat line.

He was a positively Tebowian 6-of-15 passing for 60 yards and a touchdown, and ran twice for 16 yards.

But he makes the Panthers offense move.

They don?t want him to run as much on purpose this year, but the threat of him making a decision on a zone read is enough to freeze opponents for a second and buy time for him to do something else with it.

3. There should have been more cheers for Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis, playing his first preseason game since his surgery to repair his third torn ACL.

Davis has incredible gifts, or had them before his knee was shredded. He can still run well, and the Panthers are going to spot him in rather than try to ask him to play every snap.

As a blitzer and a guy who can drop back and cover tight ends, he?s still good.

But they?ll probably never stop holding their breath every time he hits the ground.

4. The Jets offense has problems, but they are not without players on that side.?Problem is, they?re all getting hurt.

Tight end Dustin Keller left the game early with a hamstring problem, and then backup Josh Baker was take off with a right knee injury.

Whether it?s Sanchez or Tebow, the Jets need safe passes. And without a solid tight end out there (or even his backup), they have issues.

They should sign Jeremy Shockey, for comic relief if nothing else.

5. Not a banner night for the Panthers highly paid stable of running backs.

DeAngelo Williams fumbled twice, Jonathan Stewart was hauled off on a cart with an ankle injury, and Mike Tolbert was on the bench with a bag of ice on his knee.

Armond Smith and Josh Vaughan are up for contract extensions next.

6. The Jets got consistent pressure up front from their starting defense.

Quinton Coples and Muhammad Wilkerson in particular got a good push on a Panthers line that?s at least above average and may be very good.

They?re going to be asked to carry a team, and they may be able to.

7. The Panthers have apparently elected to go with slow and steady over athletic ability at free safety.

Former Ravens backup Haruki Nakamura (who was stuck behind some guy named Ed Reed) got the start and took all the work with the first offense.

Former second-round pick Sherrod Martin, who unlike Nakamura has range, is now a bench warmer.

This was initially a competition, but it appears the Panthers have made their decision. Martin?s such a better athlete it?s comical, but he had a series of gaffes in coverage last year that even had the owner cracking on him.

Basically, they?re electing to go with a limitation they can plan on rather than guessing where the more talented Martin will be.

8. The Panthers offense wasn?t very good either. But unlike the Jets, they had a reason.

Without wide receiver Steve Smith, the Panthers offense is completely different. He?s the vertical threat that makes everything else work.

The good news is, he?s going to be OK after dealing with an infection in his foot.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/26/peyton-manning-done-after-three-drives/related/

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