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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Showing the profits of rebranding is more effective than moral arguments in prodding sports teams such as the NFL's Washington Redskins to drop names seen as offensive to Native Americans, symposium panelists said on Thursday.
Arguments against stereotyping Native Americans will carry less weight than new revenue in changing names such as the Redskins, the target of political debate and a legal fight, the panelists at the National Museum of the American Indian said.
Teams could launch a new revenue stream by junking their mascots and names - such as Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and the Florida State University Seminoles - and then selling new jerseys and other items to fans, they said.
"From a financial point of view, there are a lot of reasons showing that it's a gain and not a loss," said Ellen Staurowsky, a sports management professor at Drexel University in Pennsylvania.
Newton Jackson, a sports management professor at the University of North Florida, said: "It's about money."
The discussion on "Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports" carried special resonance in Washington, where activists have pressed the NFL club to change its name for decades without success.
Washington Mayor Vincent Gray told the Washington Post in an interview last month that he would like to see the club move back to the District of Columbia. The Redskins play in Landover, Maryland, and have their offices in Ashburn, Virginia.
But he said the move would be a hard sell if the team kept a name seen as a racial slur.
Gray avoided saying Redskins in his State of the District speech on Tuesday, calling the NFL franchise instead "our Washington football team."
A group of Native Americans are carrying out a long-running legal battle challenging the team's trademark.
Although the museum discussion focused on American Indian mascots in general, the Redskins surfaced again and again in the debate and in comments from the audience.
A spokesman for the Redskins declined to comment about changing the team name or about alleged insensitivity to Native Americans.
Asked this month if he had any problems with the Redskins' name, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that he understood fans' affinity for it and the issue had been long discussed.
"I think (Redskins owner) Dan Snyder and the organization have made it very clear that they're proud of that heritage and that name, and I believe the fans are, too," he said.
Additional reporting by Steve Ginsburg


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Tips for level 578
Before you make a move check the bottom and see if you can make a match below the conveyor, this will stop the chocolate spreading too much.
Don't forget to keep checking the top of the board for specials, it's easy to concentrate on the jelly and bombs and forget to look up there.
The bombs need to be dealt with first or it's game over before you get very far, but I can't stress enough that you need to keep looking at the top. Look for stripe/wrap combos and colour bombs.
If you make a colour bomb save it for a couple of moves to see if you can get a stripe next to it as this combo will clear a lot of cream and jelly.
Don't waste too many moves though, if the combo isn't possible within a couple of moves use the colour bomb on one colour.

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See our Guidance notes, page 6, paragraph 2. When filling in your forms people want the information they need there and then. Put yourself in the form users position and think about which questions they might have a problem with. Provide examples of the sorts of answers you are looking for, and where appropriate, provide guidance notes as near as possible to the question they relate to (i.e. in the actual form).
Form length does not directly correlate to complexity. Many assume that making forms shorter makes them easier to complete. Though shorter forms might be cheaper to produce initially, if the reduction in content results in user confusion, the cost of resolving completion errors form fillers make as a consequence can significantly outweigh any initial savings. In general forms do need to be as short as possible, but never at the expense of clarity and usability.


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What To Do With Leftover Egg Yolks
It's that time of year when plenty of people will be whipping up egg white omelets for breakfast or meringues for a light snack. The only problem? You're left with a batch of unused yolks. But don't just throw them out—here are some of our favorite ways to use leftover egg yolks.
Chocolate lovers have it easy—there are a ton of recipes that pair egg yolks with chocolate. For instance, this Chocolate Mousse Cake. Cooked eggs enrich a thick layer of creamy chocolate mousse set between two layers of chocolate cake that's draped in ganache. With a layer of chocolate curls, this is a great cake for birthdays.
Chocolate Pudding Snack Packs: This spin on the childhood afterschool snack uses both dark and milk chocolate puddings—which then, of course, gets layered into cute little containers. The container cuteness is optional; and of course you can gussy this up with any kind of extract, liqueur, or spice.
Dark Chocolate Pots de Crème: Serve this intensely rich, chocolately pudding in ramekins for an easy but elegant dinner party dessert.
Custards are just desserts or sauces that blend eggs with sugar and milk or cream. But they also happen to be the base of some of our favorite desserts, most notably Crème Brûlée. This classic French dessert relies on egg yolks to make the silky custard base. Try this vanilla bean version and check out our tips on perfecting the technique.
If you want something more casual, try this Crème Brûlée Pie. It's got the same delicious vanilla-scented custard, just held in a pie shell for easy serving.
Zabaglione: We love the versatility of this light Italian custard. Flavor it with everything from chocolate to coffee, or serve it spooned over seasonal fruit.
Ice Cream
Most ice cream recipes call for egg yolks for the custard base, so take a peek at your favorites. Here are three that we're loving at this time of year.
Maple Ice Cream: This ice cream is all maple, all the time—the perfect thing to top a slice of warm pie—or a piece of French toast.
Malted Milk Toffee Crunch Ice Cream: Two classics that play better together: a sweet, creamy malted milk base and the salty-nutty crunch of toffee.
Old Fashioned (Bourbon and Orange) Ice Cream: An ice cream with all the boozy depth and surprising delicacy of an Old Fashioned. It's bourbon-forward, but carries subtle notes of citrus skin and aromatic bitters.
Do you have a favorite way to use up leftover egg yolks? Tell us about it in the comments section below!
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Date: Feb 17, 2020 | Time: 7:00 pm
Michael Smerconish: "Clowns to Left of Me, Jokers to the Right, American Life in Columns," at The Playhouse at Westport Plaza. See website for more details and to purchase tickets.
For More Information:
Playhouse at Westport Plaza | 314-647-2434 | Website
The Playhouse is located in Westport Plaza. It is an intimate 240-seat theater that brings the action on stage up close to the audience. STAGES St. Louis also uses the Playhouse as one of the theatre company's mainstages.
Please check the website listed on each event to get the most up-to-date information.
Directions: Located in Maryland Heights on Westport Plaza Drive, near the intersection of Interstate 270 and Page Avenue. Take Dorsett Road, just east of I-270 to south onto Investment Drive, enter roundabout and take first right onto Progress Parkway to Westport Plaza Drive. Cross over to the Plaza which is straight ahead. The entrance to the Playhouse is in the indoor Mall area.


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Cybercriminals are trying something new at the bank: fully automated online heists.
In a new twist on a familiar online banking cybercrime threat, computer criminals are rolling out a new system targeting businesses' and high-net-worth individuals' bank accounts in the US and Europe, security analysts say. The new system siphons the accounts using new, highly automated crime-ware that requires no human intervention.
Since January, when the process was discovered, a dozen cybergangs using this new robo-bank-heist rip-off technique have attempted at least $78 million in fraudulent wire transfers from accounts at 60 or more financial institutions worldwide, according to a new report by McAfee Labs, the Santa Clara, Calif., cybersecurity firm, and Guardian Analytics, a Los Altos-Calif.-based firm. Total attempted fraud could be as high as $2.5 billion.
But that's just the start. The wave of automated attacks has been rolled out in the US over the past 60 days, reports McAfee, which dubbed it the "High Roller" scheme. Credit Unions, big banks, and even regional banks were targeted in the European Union, Latin America, and now in the United States, the company found.
"With no human participation required, each attack moves quickly and scales neatly," the report says. "This operation combines an insider level of understanding of banking transaction systems with both custom and off the shelf malicious code and appears to be worthy of the term 'organized crime.' "
After striking in Italy and Germany, cybercriminals focused on the Netherlands, where computer logs showed criminals had attempted to withdraw $44 million from more than 5,000 accounts, primarily of businesses, in two banks. It's not clear how much was actually stolen.
In March, researchers discovered that a San Jose-based server linked ultimately to a Russian Internet service provider was being used for fraudulent transactions in the Netherlands – and also to target at least 109 financial institutions in the US.
Computerized bank heists aren't new, of course. Crime-ware programs like Zeus and SpyEye that infiltrate personal computers to steal personal banking credentials, including passwords and login information from unsuspecting users, have been a problem for years. Recording users' keystrokes when they log remotely onto their accounts, the crimeware transmits the stolen personal banking data back to the cyberthieves.
Under that familiar scenario, a bad guy plops down at his own computer terminal to use the stolen passwords to fraudulently log onto the target account. He then transfers funds to the accounts of "money mules," who pass the stolen funds along to the criminals, less their fee.
That approach has worked well for the cyber bank robbers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported in September it was investigating 400 criminal wire transfers that attempted to steal more than $255 million from US business bank accounts, although actual losses were closer to $85 million.
Cybercops seemed recently to be gaining on the cyber bank robbers, limiting their ability to grab the cash electronically. Over the past three years, the percentage of account takeover cases in which fund transfers were halted before they could leave the financial institution grew from 24 percent in 2009 to 41 percent in 2011, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry group, reported recently.
But the newly automated process discovered in January holds potential to vastly expand online bank heists. To start with, there's no longer a need to have a bad guy on the other end of a mouse in Kiev, or wherever, to personally plug the stolen information into a Web browser. Instead, automated versions of Zeus and SpyEye instantly compose a fraudulent transfer request while the victim is still logged onto the computer – making it look to the bank as though the individual is responsible for the transfer, the report says.
But before the heavily automated robotic attacks can begin, criminals do research to find the rich businesses and individual accounts they want to target. Targeted individuals are then sent "spear-phishing" e-mails that appear to come from an associate, but which contain a link that, if clicked on, downloads the malicious computer code.
Once on the victim's computer, the automated version of Zeus or SpyEye prompts the victim during the login process for any additional information needed to send a wire transfer. It collects not only the login and password being typed in, but also prompts the victim to supply a special number from a digital token – a process called "two factor" authentication that European banks have long used to authenticate transfers.
Soon after, the victim sees a "Please wait..." or "System under maintenance" message appear on the screen. But the malicious software is just stalling the user – and while he or she waits – it automatically executes the wire transfer in the background using the legitimate digital token number, password, and any other data the user just entered.
Unlike in Europe, banks in the US typically don't require a second piece of identifying information for authentication of a wire transfer. In either case, the software allows cyber bank robbers to sit back and watch as private data collected from victims logged into their accounts allows money to sail automatically into accounts they control.
There are exceptions, of course. When an unusually fat account comes into view, a human operator can step in to vastly raise the amount of the fraud from a small percentage – typically programmed into the system for 3 percent or less to avoid tripping the bank's alert system, says Dave Marcus, director of advanced research and threat intelligence at McAfee.
"It's clear that the people who put this together had a good understanding of banking platforms and the transaction process," Mr. Marcus says. "From the bank's perspective, it was you that logged in, you that initiated that wire transfer."
Still, he says, the automated thefts, some of which dated back more than a year in computer logs that McAfee has examined, can be defended against. The mere discovery of the automated system should enable banks to take steps to detect such measures more easily, he says.


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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops an understanding of gravity by placing objects in water to find out if they will sink or float.
Your child develops two digit addition skills by adding to create numbers and ultimately reveal an animal friend.
Your child develops addition skills by adding numbers to find an animal friend.
Your child develops an understanding about weather by clicking planets and learning about the earths rotation.
Your child develops estimation and number recognition skills by playing bingo and matching expressions.
Your child develops number recognition skills by playing bingo and creating matches.
Your child develops addition and counting skills by jumping over tadpoles and adding each numerical value to reach the desired amount.
Your child learns about geology by clicking on animals to find out where they live and why they adapt to certain habitats.
Your child develops knowledge about shapes and spacial relations by packing shapes into robots.
Your child learns about plants and animals by clicking on each in their natural environment and hearing or reading a description.
Zoodles 11.8.7 Copyright (c) 2014 Inquisitive Minds, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Yellow crime tape surrounds a field which investigators are prepared to dig up for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in Oakland Township, Mich., on June 17.
For a guy who's been dead since 1975, Jimmy Hoffa really gets around.
Through the years, tipsters have insisted the Teamsters boss — who vanished from a suburban Detroit restaurant — was laid to rest in the swamps of Florida, under the artificial turf of Giants Stadium and more than a dozen other spots.
Monday, the feds were digging up a field in Oakland Township, Mich., with new designs on finding Hoffa's remains and solving the mystery of his disappearance.
Here are some of the places where the labor leader has been rumored to be spending eternity:
Giants Stadium: A mob informant told the FBI in 1986 that Hoffa was killed by an Irish gangster in a Detroit suburb and buried in an end zone near section 107 of the football field. Stadium officials said they they dug four feet down while replacing artificial turf and didn't find any trace of Hoffa. The stadium was demolished in 2010.
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Urban legend has it that Jimmy Hoffa is buried beneath section 107 at Giants Stadium.
General Motors' headquarters: Hoffa's onetime driver, Marvin Elkind, told a Canadian journalist that a Detroit mobster revealed the final resting place in 1985 when he walked past the GM building, known as the Renaissance Center, nodded toward the massive foundation and said, "Say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys."
Driveway in Roseville, Mich.: Acting on a tip, authorities used radar last September to inspect the driveway of a private home and saw something that made them want a closer look. Police drilled for soil samples but experts found no sign of human decomposition in the dirt.
Sheraton Hotel on Wilmington Island, Ga.: A Teamsters pension fund owned this property near Savannah when Hoffa vanished, so it's been dogged by rumors that he was laid to rest under the helipad. "It's had a colorful past," a developer who converted it into condos once said.
A dump in Jersey City, N.J.: Authorities spent several days in 1975 digging up a mob-linked waste facility after a tipster claimed Hoffa could be found there, a 55-gallon drum serving as a his coffin. They didn't find anything but animal bones.
The owner of a tavern in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood says he thinks the remains of Jimmy Hoffa could be inside the walls of his establishment. WKYC's Lynna Lai reports.
Wexler's Tavern in Cleveland: The owner of the watering hole was doing some renovation work last month when he made an intriguing find: bone fragments and a matchbook from the Palm Desert Lodge in California, which had strong ties to Hoffa. But pathologists determined the remains were not human.
Florida Everglades: An ex-hitman who said he was Hoffa's bodyguard told a Senate committee in 1982 that Hoffa's body was ground up and stuffed in a steel drum that was then dumped in the Sunshine State's gator-infested wetlands.
A Japanese-made car: A 2006 book claimed that a convicted hitman confessed before his death that he knifed Hoffa to death, took the body to New Jersey, burned it in a steel barrel, dumped the remains in a car that was compressed into a hunk of metal and sent to Japan to be used in new vehicles, the Detroit News reported.
Incinerator in Hamtramck, Mich.: A Pennsylvania Teamsters official purportedly confessed on his deathbed that he flew to Pontiac, Mich., to collect Hoffa's body from his killers and then had it burned. The same source, Frank Sheeran, supposedly also told an author he shot Hoffa at a Detroit home, but blood found there in 2004 was not a match.
Pool in Hampton Township, Mich.: A convicted murderer who had already led cops to one body in his home claimed they could find Hoffa under an above-ground pool there. So in July 2003, a backhoe dug up the yard while the tipster watched in shackles, but nothing was found.
Gary Malerba / AP file
Excavation crews converged on a Michigan horse farm in Milford, Mich., on 2006 to look for Hoffa's remains.
Tire-shredding plant in Hamtramck, Mich.: A 1978 book posited that Hoffa's corpse was disposed of at Central Sanitation Services, once owned by organized crime figures. The FBI said at the time they looked into that theory and discounted it.
Horse farm in Milford, Mich.: The FBI spent 14 days looking for Hoffa at the 89-acre Hidden Dreams Farm after a 75-year-old prison inmate who once worked there claimed he witnessed the burial. That story, like so many others, turned out to be a pile of manure.
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When the announcement was made, INDECOPI gave the example of Mr Sixto Ramos, who obtained a patent for his invention in a record time of 22 months. Bruno Merchor, director of Inventions and New Technologies of INDECOPI, noted that the new service is "the fruit of the efforts of the institution to promote a culture of invention in the Peruvian society and to bring the system of national patents to the inventors. This is so, with the aim of increasing national patents against foreign firms." The service will be run by the new created subdivision called 'Subdireccion de Soporte a la Innovacion' ('Support for Innovation').
My thoughts
Peru is member of the Andean Community (CAN) a custom union and a trade bloc in South America. There is in place Decision 486 which is the Common Intellectual Property Regime and when I was reading this special treatment given to Peruvian nationals I remembered Article 1 of the said Decision 'on national treatment':
"Each Member Country shall accord the nationals of other members of the Andean Community, the World Trade Organization, and the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, treatment no less favorable than it accords to its own nationals with regard to the protection of intellectual property, subject to the exceptions already provided in articles 3 and 5 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and in article 2 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property..."Now if we analyze this further, we can state that protection is granted to everyone the same. However, having a look at the meaning of protection I read the TRIPS explanation regarding this matter. It states
"For the purposes of Articles 3 and 4, "protection" shall include matters affecting the availability, acquisition, scope, maintenance and enforcement of intellectual property rights..."Yet, I enquiry about 'acquisition'. While acquisition is not affected as such because non-nationals can still obtain a patent, there is the issue of acquiring a sooner protection and thus affecting in a way the protection of foreigners' patents. Am I looking too further in this issue?


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When the great Crystalline Dragon Veeshan swiped her mighty claw across Norrath's surface, in what is now called Velious, She brought forth new life to a planet which had none. Infinitely wise, She created a being of her own likeness, that of a dragon. She placed her brood deep within these great valleys that were created by her mighty claws. This began the "Age of Scale".
Veeshan's children would be known as the First Brood, the oldest beings in existence. Her children were known as, Lord Yelinak, Zlandicar, Klandicar, Hsagra, Jaled'Dar, Illiandar, and Sontalak.
Millennia passed, and dragon kind prospered in relative peace and harmony with only two simple rules. Two dragons of different color shall not mate. And a dragon shall not kill another dragon. The inevitable happened, and two dragons of different color did mate. Their names are unknown, and those who do know would never speak of them again. The abomination that was produced by this un-natural union was named Kerafyrm. Upon awakening, Kerafyrm destroyed his parents and went on a rampage, killing much dragon kind. Kerafyrm, you see, was born insane; a direct reason that no two dragons of the same color could mate. Eventually Kerafyrm was imprisoned, and his name was not spoken again. He was simply known as "The Sleeper".
Soon after the great battle with Kerafyrm, Zlandicar, First Brood of Veeshan, had begun an infatuation that would soon be his downfall, the infatuation of death itself. Zlandicar became obsessed with the idea of eating the dead. Other dragons saw this as heresy, but he did not break any rule set forth by Veeshan, and could not be punished. Eventually, however, he went too far.
Jaled'Dar's brood was, appropriately, named the Dar Brood. And Jaled'Dar's second offspring was named Fraka'Dar. Zlandicar became obsessed with Fraka'Dar, he slaughtered and ate her. The dragons, unable to kill Zlandicar for his evil act, banished him from contact with other dragons, and sent him to the burial ground of dragons, Dragon Necropolis. And to this day, he sometimes can still be seen with the tiny talisman of Fraka'Dar.
Soon after the great shrine to Veeshan was constructed, known as "Skyshrine", the dragon kind split into two separate groups. The Dar Brood left Velious and ventured to the lands known as Kunark, where they formed the "Ring of Scale". The dragons who remained upon velious were known as the "Claws of Veeshan".
Two dragons of the Ring of Scale, Vox'Dar (a white dragon) and Nagafen'Dar (a red dragon) got the bright idea to create another dragon like Kerafyrm, control him, and rule the world. Before they could do this, the elders of the Ring of Scale banished them, and stripped them of their Brood names, so they became known as Nagafen and Vox. Vox was sent to the caves deep in permafrost, and Nagafen was banished beneath the lava pits of Lavastorm.
Trakanon, one of the wisest dragons, if not the wisest dragon to have ever been, had the gift (some would call it a curse) of foresight. He saw that the Iksar were destined to destroy the world! Trakanon pleaded with Jaled, leader of the Ring of Scale, to do something about the threat. The council of elders, of the Ring of Scale, decided to do nothing directly about the threat. Trakanon, and some of the younger dragons, decided to do something about them, their own way. Almost 2000 years before the elves rediscovered Kunark, Trakanon began his own war against the Iksar. They destroyed, and sunk the entire Iksar navy.
The elders of the Ring of Scale worked hard to punish, and imprison Traknon, and his followers, and war broke out among dragons. For many years dragons fought each other over the skies of Kunark. In the end, the elder dragons won, and imprisoned Trakanon and his followers for 600 years.
During this quarrel, the Iksar had amassed an army to overthrow the dragons of the Ring of Scale. Eventually, the two factions went to war with each other, and there was a great war, that lasted many years. The final battle of the war, between the First Brood Jaled'Dar, and emperor Ganak, took place in the sky over what is now the Field of Bone. In the end, both were destroyed, and to this day you can still see the bones of Jaled'Dar in the middle of the Field of Bone.
Jaled'Dar had seen many things in his life, and suffered more than anyone should suffer. He had seen the war against Kerafyrm, the murder of his daughter by Zlandicar, the exodus to Kunark, the betrayal of Trakanon, and the love of his daughter to the one who betrayed him, and finally, the assault of the Iksar.
He went insane. And to this day his soul rests, undying, in Dragon Necropolis, so that one day he can have revenge on those who tormented him. He plans to release Kerafyrm upon the world. You see, he was First Brood, he holds a key, along with the other first brood, to the Sleepers tomb.
Later, the dragons got their revenge upon the Iksar, destroying the Iksar palace, along with their new king, Chottal.
Trakanon was eventually released from their magical prison, and Trakanon saw the death and destruction that had happened while he was entombed. Phara, daughter of Jaled, and new ruler of the Ring of Scale, disowned Trakanon, blaming her father's death on him. Trakanon built his lair in the ruins of the Sebilisian empire, and locked the entrance with great magics.
Emporor Ganak, also unable to rest in peace gained the Key to the Ring of Scale stronghold, Veeshan's Peak, and to Trakanons Lair. Each of the 5 tribes of Iksar possessed a medallion for their leaders. And Ganak will give you the key to Trakanon's Lair for just 2 of these Medallions, and for the other 3, with proof that you've slain Trakanon, he will give you the key to Veeshan's peak.
Phara, and the leaders of the Ring of Scale, retreated to veeshan's peak, while sentries were placed upon Kunark, to watch for Iksar uprisings. These were Gorenaire, Talendor, and Severilous. One was also placed in the sea, to watch for attacks from the sea, this was Fayde, who was assigned to the Timorous Deep.
Life wasn't peachy for the Claws of Veeshan either
Rallos Zek's creation, the Giants, had settled down on velious. They made their home in the 3'rd valley made by the hand of Veeshan, they now call this Kael Drakkal. This was a holy place to the dragons, since all life sprang from within it.
The giants eventually invaded Skyshrine, killing many, many dragons and dragon kin. Hsagra, first brood, was killed in the battle by King Porlos, but not before she completed her greatest of anti-giant spells. Porlos made a throne out of Hsagra's skull, which is still used to this day by King Tormax.
The remaining members of the first brood, elders of the Claws of Veeshan, erected a new Temple in the Western wastes, in the 3'rd claw mark made by Veeshan, where dragon kin would live, far away from the giants.
Yelinak decided to stay in skyshrine, and guard the last outpost the Dragons held before the vast open plains. In the upper levels of Skyshrine, the halls are still empty, where the Claws of Veeshan once ruled from.
The duty of guarding the waterfront side of Skyshrine was given to one of the Ring of Scale members, Kelorek'Dar, who patrols the waters in the Cobalt Scar.
The Temple of Veeshan is defended from outside invaders in the wastes by two First brood members, Sontalak and Klandicar. Also in the wastes are Harla'Dar, and some members of the Sapara brood (Zil, Kar, Jen and Del)
Rumor has it that a liaison named Esorpa makes trips between Kunark and Velious, trying to reunite the Ring of Scale, and Claws of Veeshan.
History of the Guardians of Veeshan
This brings us to near the present day, and to the story of the Guardians of Veeshan. Veeshan herself saw that there was an intelligent race upon Norrath that worshipped dragon kind as if it were their heritage. Veeshan chose two Humans to be her liaison to the mortals. The humans chosen for this task were Kintyre'Sky and Heiken'Sky. Upon the choosing of these mortals, they were given the gift of immortality. The two ancients went on teaching the ways of Veeshan, forming an alliance known as the "Guardians of Veeshan".
Kintyre served as chief political officer, while Heiken served as martial, enforcing the laws of Veeshan. Kintyre appointed two Chancellors, Cyrus and Damon, who were to serve as his most trusted advisors.
Heiken also chose wisely for his advisors, Thalak Zhind, and Austen Dragoncreed were chosen as chancellors to Heiken'Sky.
Kintyre was a ranger by trade, and ventured far across the lands of Norrath, exploring the darkest dungeons, and the highest of mountain peaks. It is rumored that Kintyre has finally ascended to the plane of sky, where he sits upon the council of Veeshan herself.
Heiken was given the duties of Chief political officer of the Guardians of Veeshan, where he's ruled ever since. Heiken is a proud paladin, and defender of all that is Holy. To this day, he vows to protect the Guardians of Veeshan at all costs.
The two chancellors to Kintyre, Cyrus and Damon have not been heard from for many years, it is rumored that they were captured by the Kromrif, and are being held prisoner in Kael Drakkal, to punish Kintyre, who led many raids against the vile giants.
Thalak and Austen still roam Norrath, it is said, but the duties that were bestowed upon them have caused them to be somewhat reclusive. Some say they have seen Thalak roaming the grassy lands between the Halfling city of Rivervale, and the Human city of Freeport. Austen, however, is a bit less reclusive, following the healing arts and spreading the word of Veeshan to Norraths younger population.
The ancient mortal, Heiken, had initially appointed Thalak as Martial of Veeshan, but Thalak was not empowered with immortality, like his friend Heiken. Soon after, Thalak stepped down as Martial, and Enyil Runefyre, Thalak's half brother was appointed the position.
Time moved on and Enyil grew increasingly insane, possibly due to his magical studies. Enyil had a falling out, and left the Guardians of Veeshan, to serve a dark and sinister sect.
Dolby Mithrael, the most loyal of the Guardians of Veeshan was given the task of martial. Dolby has provided very wise and level headed advice over the years, and as martial of the Guardians of Veeshan, he has done his job with great pride and respect becoming of a Paladin.
Other Chancellors were chosen, and with them other officers to the chancellors were appointed. These include Daender Silverwood, Luha Luwalhati and Brutusk Bloodbone as Chancellors, due to their increased leadership, and loyalty. The officers chosen to assist Heiken are Nevrotix Soulsaver, and Sargeras Gudluvin, who have given nothing but pure love and loyalty to the Guardians of Veeshan.
Many years had passed, the Guardians of Veeshan prospered, and the healing powers of Heiken'Sky had penetrated the deep magical scars within Enyil, and he once again became loyal to the Guardians of Veeshan, though no special privileges or rights would be granted to him, due to his previous insanity.
This now brings us to the present day, where the Ring of Scale, Claws of Veeshan, and Guardians of Veeshan are making peace with each other, and attempting to bring peace and unity to all dragon kind, and dragon worshipers.


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Can't say that Just Cause 2's brand of open world gun and explosions gameplay is the sort of thing that immediately appeals to me, but hook-shotting your way onto a helicopter or flying propane tank is undeniably appealing.
Credit to Avalanche Studios for what seems to be some seriously impressive tech in the sequel to Just Cause sequel, offering even more ludicrous situations in which to kill people. The game is due to hit these shores on March 23, eventually landing on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.


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Chile quiche, Tomato Aspic, Gorgonzola sauce
I can see the finish line on my book, Mycophilia, concerning the new science in the field of mycology (okay, it's a mushroom book) and really hauling to get done by January 1. So some things have fallen by the wayside, like preserving obscene amounts of food. However, I cook dinner every night, and I am burning through my stores of frozen and canned goodies, so I thought I'd share some of those recipes, in case you've got chiles and tomatoes put by, too.
Chile Quiche 2.0
I've been futzing around with this recipe for a year and now I am really digging it. The trick to a high, light quiche is lots of milk and cream. For this dish I just saw off a chunk of the chile peppers I charred and froze in August. You can substitute ½ cup of milk and ½ cup of cream with 1 cup of soft goat cheese if you like. You can also forego the chiles altogether and use fried zucchini flowers on instead.


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The SC poll provides the best of all worlds for the Liberals. Canadians believe the opposition deserves credit for the stimulus, Harper's conversion pure politics, and the Liberals right to let the budget pass:
72 per cent of Canadians say the government would not have introduced the stimulative budget of this week had it not been for the pressure of opposition parties.
69 per cent say they still blame Mr. Harper for causing an unnecessary political crisis late last year when he should have been focusing on the economy.
Asked whether they believe Mr. Harper has changed since the fall and is taking the country's economic troubles more seriously, 63 per cent said they perceived no change and that the budget is all about politics.
On the budget itself, overall support:
62 per cent saying they have a positive impression, compared with 38 per cent who feel the opposite
The Liberal decision:
The poll also shows that the decision of new Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff to avoid bringing down the Tories may have been the right one. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents say they would be less likely to vote Liberal should the Grits defeat the budget.
"If they had done the opposite, it would have come at a political cost to them," Mr. Donolo said.
More bad news for the NDP:
Canadians are also urging the opposition parties to back the budget, with a full two-thirds saying they should support it. Even 47 per cent of New Democratic voters feel that way. The NDP has said it will vote against the budget.Conclusion, Harper has damaged itself, and the Liberals clearly made the right political decision, to let the budget pass.
The Ipsos poll finds Canadians largely "indifferent" to the budget. The strong majority see the budget as "neither good, nor bad." On the question of budget support, again Ignatieff's decision appears a good one:
only 39 per cent of those polled agreed with the statement "the opposition coalition would have presented a better budget for these tough economic times than the Harper government has."
That suggests Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was probably correct to kill the coalition with Jack Layton's NDP, but to have done so in a way he can be perceived as forcing the Conservatives to bend to the will of Parliament.
"I think his moves this past week were incredibly astute," Mr. Wright said. "It was a very smart strategy but what the poll, however, shows is that people really don't believe that any political party or anybody really has the answer to this," he said, referring to the economic downturn.
"Astute", "very smart strategy", from the pollster, seems to reflect the general mood we've heard elsewhere, rabid partisans aside.
It's very evident now, that Ignatieff made the right political choice, in allowing this budget to pass, while others misread the mood of the public at large. It's also abundantly clear that Harper is damaged goods, a fact which will be particularly noteworthy when we do have an election.


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Back in 2010, Epic Games released an Unreal Engine 3 tech demo for the iPhone and iPad that opened gamers' eyes to the potential for console-quality gaming on Apple's portable devices. Now it's out for Android, and it's prettier (and more useful) than ever.
Available as a free download on Google Play and the Amazon App Store, Epic Citadel allows Android users to explore a gorgeously-rendered fantasy kingdom, soaking in the vertex deformation, skeletal animation, dynamic specular lighting and—most importantly—lens flares.
Meanwhile, the iOS version has been updated today as well, tightening up the graphics and adding support for the higher resolution devices that have been released over the past few years.
The Android version of the app also includes a benchmarking tool, necessary for a platform where not all hardware is created equal. Here's how my Galaxy Note II made out:
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Farmingdale State - 1, Old Westbury - 0
Old Westbury, N.Y. - Sophomore forward Ashlee Thompson (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) scored the game-winning goal for Farmingdale State only 10 minutes into the Skyline Conference matchup at Old Westbury this afternoon.
The Rams (11-7, 7-0) controlled the offense in the first half as they outshot the Panthers 22-1 and held a 5-1 corner kick advantage.
In the second half, Farmingdale State held Old Westbury scoreless after allowing only four shots to earn the victory, 1-0.
Sophomore goalkeeper Breanna Blair (Littleton, Colo.) had two saves in the win, while junior Caitlin Thomas (Patchogue, N.Y.) stopped 15 shots for Old Westbury (8-7, 3-3).
The Rams next will host NYU on senior day in a non-conference game on Wednesday, October 23rd at 4:00 p.m.


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Local school promotes dyslexia awareness in October
One in 10 people have symptoms of dyslexia, which means they struggle with written and spoken language and it can show up in many different ways, including spelling.
In October, there is an increased effort to educate the general public about dyslexia. People like Jay Leno, Will Smith and George Clooney are dyslexic.
The International Dyslexia Association is based in Baltimore. During dyslexia awareness month, one of the nation's top schools for children with learning challenges, Jemicy Upper School in Baltimore County, is doing its part to get the word out, especially to parents.
"When I first got here, I wasn't really good at reading and writing, but I really excelled in math," student Noah Coates said.
Jemicy said its mission is to educate talented and bright students struggling with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences.
"I'm amazing at it. I can do paragraphs, I can write papers. I love to read. Right now, I'm on the 'Hunger Games' series and I can't put down the book," Coates said.
To the head of the school, Ben Shifrin, the progress is no surprise.
"These are students who really get the big picture. Comprehension is not an issue. In fact, they tend to be gifted in comprehension and understanding the world. They just struggle with the mechanics of language," Shifrin said.
"The teachers help you, and we use smart boards, and it's hands-on. They really care. They care that you do well," student Helen Chiamulera said.
The international association is trying to help spread the word to even more parents about the warning signs, including Laura Karney, whose son had been showing signs of dyslexia.
"The pre-tests were coming home on Monday with some crazy inventive nontraditional spelling patterns, which I started to watch. By Friday, he had memorized and done beautifully on the spelling test. At that point, it was not a red flag for the school," Karney said.
Karney had her son tested. This year, he enrolled in the Jemicy School. Students at the school will be the first to tell you why the school and its learning programs are making a difference.
"They are more hands-on. They definitely cover the class more. If you have a question, since it's a very small class, they will go over it with you as much as you need to," student Matt Colwill said.
In a few weeks, the International Dyslexia Association will conduct its annual conference in Baltimore.
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Two new disciples, a father and son, were living together in Balananda's
ashram. One night the son was bitten by a poisonous snake. The father called
in a doctor who said it was a hopeless case, and that it was just a matter
of hours before his son would die.

Then the father said, "There is also another doctor. Let me go to him." So
he left the doctor and his son in one room and entered into his meditation
room. He sat down in front of his shrine and prayed to his Master to save
his son. In half an hour's time he came back and said to the doctor, "I have
received an inner assurance that my son will be saved by my Master."

The incident took place at three o'clock in the morning, and the father did
not dare to inform the Master outwardly at that hour. By seven o'clock the
son was completely cured and he was very happy and cheerful.

The father said to his son, "When I was meditating on our Master, I saw four
messengers of death, very ugly-looking, who came to take you, and I saw our
Master chase them away with his trident. Therefore, I was quite confident
that you would be saved, my son." The father, the son and the doctor were
all in a very cheerful frame of mind.

Just then, quite unexpectedly, the Master's main attendant came in and said
that the Master wanted to hear the snake story. They told the attendant what
had happened, and then he said, "Now I have a story to tell you. Around two
o'clock this morning I heard Master's voice saying to someone, 'Get out,
get out of this place.' I rushed into his room, turned on the light and saw
a snake with its hood spread, about to strike the Master. I was horrified.
The Master again said, 'Get out, get out.' After a few minutes the snake
left. Even now the thought of that particular scene is frightening me."

The father said to the attendant, "I knew, I knew. Master came to me in a
vision. I saw him chasing away the messengers of death. Our Master is all
compassion. I have only one prayer, and that prayer is to have a heart of
constant gratitude."

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HOUSTON (AP) Scottie Haralson scored 19 points off five 3-pointers and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Tulsa past Houston 87-72 on Wednesday night.
Tulsa (12-8, 4-2 C-USA) led by as many as 22 in the second half and hit 12 3-pointers in the contest while shooting 50.8 percent from the field overall and dishing out 20 assists.
The Hurricane turned 14 Houston turnovers into 19 points. Houston was 5 for 20 from beyond the arc but was 23 of 28 from the free-throw line.
Four other players were in double figures for Tulsa including James Woodard and Tim Peete who scored 14 points apiece. Pat Swilling Jr. had 11 points and Kauri Black chipped in with 10.
TaShawn Thomas led Houston (12-6, 1-4) with 12 points, 13 rebounds and two steals. Joseph Young led all Cougar scorers with 16 points and Danuel House added 15 points and five rebounds.


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As Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs so eloquently put it a few years ago when hawking Xbox Live, "It's good to play together." After all, one of the very first video games, 1958's Tennis for Two, was designed with multiplayer in mind. Four decades later and the legacy lives on: gaming is better when played with others.
To that end, we have options: Try and schedule a session with family and friends to play in the same room, or connect with faceless voices at anytime online. So which is better: local multiplayer or online?
After speaking to a dozen fellow insiders and enthusiast gamers, my unscientific results show that gamers prefer the physical presence of humans to online play by more than double. And, "it depends" was not an acceptable answer, because let's face it: indecisiveness is lame.
"What kind of meek, sheltered recluse would ever say online multiplayer is better than local?" quips Dan "Shoe," former editor-in-chief of the now defunct Electronic Gaming Monthly and co-founder of the upstart Bitmob. "When you're physically together, you get to laugh with your friends, you get to enjoy a more social experience, and if all goes wrong, you can throw a controller directly at the guy causing all the grief.
"Sure, online play is a bit more practical and easier to organize, but whether sharing the same Mario Party screen or having to sift through mountains of wires at a LAN party, nothing beats good ol' fashioned in-person gaming."
Cameron Larson, of Salt Lake City, agrees. "My overall preference is local multiplayer, because it's easier to make fun of people when they're in the same room. I'll jump online to play if nobody else is around. But for the most part, online multiplayer can suck it!"
Gamezebo editor Erin Bell says there's no replacement for the physical energy of a "live" room. "There's just something warmer and more alive about having your comrades there beside you versus talking to disembodied voices through a headset," she says. "Plus, I don't like playing with online strangers."
David Thomas, a freelance critic, says face-to-face is the "only way" to really enjoy multiplayer. Though he concedes that online is a good alternative. "This question reminds me of a joke: Sex is like pizza, when it's good, it's really good. When it's not so good, it's still pretty good," he says. "So to beat the analogy beyond all recognition: local multiplayer is really fun. Online multiplayer is still pretty fun."
Sid Shuman, senior editor at GamePro, says feasability tips the scales in online's favor. "It's not always realistic to crowd into your tiny apartment to play splitscreen," he says. "Plus, there's no cheating online because your opponents can't see your screen!"
Casey Willis, of Atlanta, says the same. "At this stage in my life, the convenience of online multiplayer is what draws me to it," he admits. "I usually only get to play late at night, but since many of my friends are on at that time, we can still party up. That said, the mute button is a must."
It's obvious then that online multiplayer is an acceptable substitute, and sometimes the only way to facilitate playing with others. Just know that most still prefer to keep it real. As Ars' gaming editor Ben Kuchera responded, "This is a social hobby, why pretend otherwise?"
With so much attention being paid to online gaming, it was something of a surprise to see so many people feel so strongly about gaming with people in the same physical space. Which do you prefer?


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Our memory naturally wanes as we travel through adulthood. Details we were once able to recollect no longer appear when called. The inability to remember plans and recent events is often a source of frustration for aging adults. Seniors can use the following tips to improve their brain function and memory.
1. Moderate exercise. Many senior are physically unable to take part in extended exercise sessions. However, simply walking around at least once day can increase oxygen flow to the brain and help seniors keep a sharp mind.
2. Cook meals together. Cooking a meal at home is good for more than your stomach. The act of cooking requires planning, adapting and discernment, which in turn gives the mind a workout.
3. Spend time creating homemade art. Seniors who start a crafting hobby have been shown to keep a sharp mind well into old age. Constructing a picture frame out of popsicle sticks or forming a pot out of clay are examples of simple manual tasks that also encourages seniors to use their creative impulses.
4. Play brain-teaser puzzles. Games such as Sudoku and crosswords are popular activities to pass the time at airports, but they also serve as a foundation for senior mental sharpness. These games test one's mathematical abilities and memory, helping older adults exercise their mental muscles.
5. Get Social - Play Bridge. That's right, playing bridge has been proven to help seniors sharpen their minds. Researchers have found that this mentally stimulating game has positive effects on the intellectual and social well-being of senior adults. According to a study by the University of California Berkeley, playing bridge stimulates the part of the brain that directly affects your immune system. The researchers say that mental stimulation of this sort leads to more positive social interactions and self-esteem, which in turn decreases the risk of depression and other illnesses.
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SAN JOSE — When Janet Gray Hayes was first running for San Jose City Council in 1971, she didn't have a folding table to set up with her campaign buttons and fliers at the neighborhood grocery store. So she brought the next best thing: her ironing board.
Thus launched the political career of the Midwestern farm girl and mother of four who became the first woman mayor of San Jose, a city that would be called the "feminist capital of the world" under her efforts encouraging more women into politics. Hayes' life as a pioneer was celebrated Monday in a memorial service at the San Jose Museum of Art, an institution she helped save when it faced financial ruin.
"She didn't run because she wanted to be somebody," her daughter, Megan Hayes, said, "but because she wanted to do something."
More than 200 people attended the service, including former San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren who both worked for Hayes in the early years before starting their own political careers.
"It's not at all clear I would have had a chance to play a role in political life if she didn't give me a chance to lead," Lofgren said.
Hayes, 87, died April 21 at a Saratoga retirement home, nearly a year after the death of her husband, Kenneth.
A real folding table festooned with a collection of Hayes' vintage campaign buttons — each a sign of the times — greeted guests as they arrived, including "Hayes for Mayor," "Women for Carter/Mondale" and "ERA YES." A package of "Forget Me Not" flower seeds was also imprinted with "Janet Gray Hayes for Mayor." When she was elected mayor in 1975, she became the first woman mayor of a large American city with a population over 500,000.
Hayes grew up during the Great Depression in a Republican family in the farming town of Rushville, Indiana. She was given a double first name — Janet Gray — that included a family surname.
"When I was introduced to her, I called her Janet for the first and last time," said Hammer, who campaigned for Hayes before she ran for City Council in 1982. "She taught me how to survive in politics, have a sense of humor and don't take yourself too seriously."
At the University of Chicago, Hayes met her husband, whose uncle was famous artist Alexander Calder, renowned for his colorful mobiles. Janet Gray Hayes integrated Calder's signature spiral into her campaign stationery.
Her campaign motto, "Let's make San Jose better before we make it bigger" reflected the development controversy of the times as the Santa Clara Valley was transitioning in the 1960s and '70s from the Valley of Heart's Delight filled with orchards and a modest downtown into sprawling high tech Silicon Valley.
Mort Levine, former editor of Sun Newspapers, a string of local community newspapers, remembers Hayes running for mayor when San Jose was governed by "old boy cronyism and backroom deal-making." Hayes was "plucky," he said, and presided over a "revolution in politics."
The Hayes home across from the Central YMCA in San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood became a hub of campaigning and working lunches, where she would often serve tuna sandwiches with cottage cheese on the side. She and her husband became vocal activists against airport noise and founded Citizens Against Airport Pollution, which is still active and requires an 11:30 p.m. airplane curfew. With a house at Lake Tahoe, she became active in the League to Save Lake Tahoe and opposed commercial flights into the South Shore airport.
Her memorial service was held the day before San Jose's primary election, where five mayoral candidates are vying for the job once held by Hayes from 1975 to 1983. Three of the candidates — two city councilmen and one county supervisor — were in attendance, as well as three members of Congress, two former mayors, county supervisors and sitting Mayor Chuck Reed.
In Hayes' final months, former Mayor Hammer often visited her mentor at the retirement home, where Hayes was vice president of the residents' board.
"Janet Gray was a fighter," Hammer said. "She was dogged in getting things done."
Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409. Follow her at twitter.com/juliasulek.


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