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4. The special secret account is not a "known" council account. It's a secret. Your job? Find it biggrin

I'm still leaning towards the new account purkle_power. But I guess we'll see!

mybe and it has a blue pet and the banner in the page says cuddly so could be

5: The pet is a gnorbu, that should drop your search numbers down a bit.

previous clues

1: On some council members accounts (links are here) are neohomes. It
is most important to note that home is where the heart shaped window is.

2: I'm thinking of something blue, something blllluuu-uuuuuuuee

3: Find the secret special account and it's cute pet

4: The special secret account is not a "known" council account. It's a
secret. Your job? Find it

To be honest, I truely think we need to start looking at the newbie accounts in the guild and checking all the pets. Or the accounts that arn't very old or in the guild long. I think if we all start looking page by page, we will find it.

newest clue
So you think Billy is evil, here's a hint for you. For those who have
knowledge, find the number of his name.

past clues

On some council members accounts (links are here) are neohomes. It is
most important to note that home is where the heart shaped window is.

I'm thinking of something blue, something blllluuu-uuuuuuuee

Find the secret special account and it's cute pet

The special secret account is not a "known" council account. It's a
secret. Your job? Find it

the pet is a gnorbu, that should drop your search numbers down a bit.

Crest toothpaste, that's right! C - R - E - S - T

6: It was not my fault, I swear it!! Mo made me do it!

7: Still reading the rules? Good idea, as Billy is devious and has
been known to throw in little needed tidbits towards the end. It makes
you read the whole

thing. wink

8: The missing word is always best, Captain Crunch wears a vest, and
salad taste good with a bit of zest.

9: More than likely, one or more clues will be a red herring, designed
to completely throw you off the track. You have been warned.

10: Lemmings a yellow and have a sour, tarty flavor.

Since ya'll seem so totally lost (albeit a few not) Allow me to push you a bit. I strongly suggest looking at the first and last clues given. And think on how they may relate to each other

so you found 2 homes with heart shaped windows? Now what could those homes have to do with the latest clue
address address multiply name

New details are emerging about how Senate Democrats will seek to narrow the 2002 war authorization and limit the military's role in Iraq. Sens. Joseph Biden and Carl Levin will have a draft resolution ready as early as Tuesday that amends the 2002 authorization that Congress gave President Bush to go to war in Iraq, according to senior Democratic aides. The draft resolution will call for all combat forces to be removed from Iraq by March 2008 and for remaining forces to be there only for counterterrorism operations and for training Iraqi forces, according to sources. Whether Congress can impose such restriction will be highly debated. Constitutional scholars disagree on whether Congress can dictate to a president when and how he can deploy troops or whether that would impinge on the president's authority as commander in chief. CNN's Dana Bash first reported preliminary details of the Democratic initiative on Monday. The aides expect the draft to be submitted to the Democratic caucus -- and possible some Republican senators, too -- for consideration. Democratic leadership sources say that no decision has been made on when the resolution would be introduced in the full Senate. One senior Democratic aide said that it is not likely that they have the votes necessary to pass at present, but they might in the future. "Something that looks impossible today may look possible in two weeks or two months," the aide said. The Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden of Delaware, floated the idea of revising the 2002 authorization on Sunday. "I've been working with some of my colleagues to try to convince them that that's the way to go -- to repeal and restate the president's authority, make it clear that the purpose that he has troops in there is to, in fact, protect against al Qaeda gaining chunks of territory, training the Iraqi forces, force protection, and for our forces," Biden, a 2008 presidential hopeful, told CBS' "Face the Nation." Levin, of Michigan, told "Fox News Sunday" that "we can have a much more limited mission that we authorize." Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York announced her own plan. Clinton has made a promise to end the Iraq war part of her 2008 presidential campaign. She is one of many Democrats calling for "phased redeployment" to remove many U.S. troops from Iraq. "It's time to say that redeployment should start in 90 days, or the Congress will revoke authorization for this war," Clinton said in a video posted on her campaign Web site. It's unclear whether Democrats could muster the 60 votes necessary to hold a vote on a resolution. They tried but failed Saturday with a nonbinding resolution condemning President Bush's plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq. (Watch as the GOP blocks a nonbinding resolution for the second time in two weeks ) The House passed such a resolution February 16.The next resolution will force the president to change the strategy," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said Monday on CNN's "American Morning." Schumer said he believes more Republicans will join Democrats in working to pressure the president "because his strategy is misguided." Seven GOP senators crossed the aisle to vote with lawmakers who oppose the troop buildup in Saturday's 56-34 vote -- four short of the 60 needed for a vote to go forward. Seventeen Republicans joined Democrats in passing the House resolution last week. Other proposals are on the table as well. Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Barack Obama of Illinois, who also are presidential candidates, already introduced bills that would require congressional authorization for more troops in Iraq. In speeches leading up to November's midterm elections, Bush argued against sending more troops to Iraq. The elections gave Democrats control of both houses of Congress. CNN's Andrea Koppel and John Roberts contributed to this report.

agree don't purkles the are you

Europe's pioneering Rosetta space probe will swing around the back of Mars early on Sunday in a critical phase of its 10-year mission to meet a distant comet. The so-called "swing-by" of the red planet is being coordinated by the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, and is the second of four such maneuvers that the probe must make on its ambitious journey. The mission's crowning moment will be in late 2014 when it releases a landing vessel in the first attempt at a controlled landing on a comet but first it must gain enough speed to catch it. "Rosetta is a very long mission," said Paolo Ferri, head of solar and planetary missions at ESOC. "It is not necessarily the distance but the fact that we want to reach the comet and stay in the vicinity for one or two years." "In order to do this we have to achieve the same orbit and the same velocity as the object which is traveling extremely fast," he said. The three-tonne Rosetta comet chaser will orbit Mars just 155 miles above the planet's surface but Ferri said the risks of anything going wrong were minimal. "You can never exclude this but making an error of 250 km and crashing into the planet is basically impossible," he said. Rosetta, launched in March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana, will catch up with and monitor the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in one of the most ambitious missions made by the European space project. Gravitational pull To gather momentum while conserving as much rocket fuel as possible, controllers are using the gravitational pull of Earth and Mars to catapult the probe closer to its target. One such "gravity assist" maneuver -- commonly known as a swing-by -- was performed around Earth two years ago. The Mars maneuver is the second and most complicated of the mission, while two more Earth maneuvers are due in 2007 and 2009. "I don't know if this is closest swing-by in history but it is one of the most daring," Ferri said. The process will take around half a day with the critical maneuvers taking place in the early hours of Sunday morning. While measurements show the probe is on the right trajectory, Ferri remains concerned about the solar-powered Rosetta passing through the Martian shadow. For 24 minutes, it will lose the source of power for its major instruments, leaving it reliant on a brace of tiny batteries which were not designed for the task. In the worst case, the probe may fail to reestablish contact with Earth when it emerges on the other side of the red planet. "This is a big worry because we hate in space flight to do things for the first time," Ferri said.




The short-lived legal battle between Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. over the "iPhone" name was only on the surface a trademark-infringement dispute involving identically named multimedia telephones. Cisco has maintained since the start of the squabble six weeks ago that the dispute was not about money, even though it stood to profit handsomely from any settlement. Instead, the networking gear maker said it was trying to pressure Apple to break its attachment to closed, proprietary systems and begin collaborating with Cisco on imaginative future products that can communicate with each other. But industry analysts said Thursday the settlement between the Silicon Valley tech giants does not mean that Apple will suddenly open up its most lucrative technologies, particularly the iTunes library that has helped catapult Apple into the top ranks of music retailers worldwide. The more likely scenario, they said, is that Cisco and Apple could partner in the near-term on lower-profile projects that leverage the respective strengths of the world's largest networking equipment company and the new darling of digital entertainment. Some of those efforts, they said, could include integrating Cisco's Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, technology into Apple's iPhones, which are currently designed to operate only over the cellular network; improving the ability of Apple computers to work securely with wireless home routers from Cisco's Linksys division; or generally developing ways for both companies' products to work seamlessly with each other. Analysts cautioned against expecting any type of major concessions from Apple concerning its proprietary technology, citing the vague joint settlement statement from the companies that raised more questions than it answered. "As far as concessions go, from Apple's point of view, is there a downside to making their products work better with Cisco's networking gear? I don't see a downside for them," said Charles Golvin, principal analyst with Forrester Research Inc. "If anything it makes their products that much more attractive." Gene Munster, senior research analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray & Co., said talk of collaboration is "noble language" but he is not expecting any blockbuster joint products to emerge from the partnership. "Apple wanted that to be the impression because they get a lot of pressure for being closed," he said, adding that he suspects money played a more crucial role in the negotiations than either company let on. He estimated that Apple paid Cisco between $25 million and $50 million for rights to the name. Both companies have refused to comment on terms of the deal and are staying tightlipped about what future products might come from the settlement, which allows Cisco and Apple to both use the iPhone name worldwide to sell their phones. They would only say they are going to explore opportunities for "interoperability" in the areas of security, consumer and business communications. Cisco sued Apple last month in San Francisco federal court claiming that Apple's use of the iPhone name violated a trademark Cisco has held since 2000 and is using on a line of Linksys phones that make free long-distance calls over the Internet using VoIP technology. Apple had argued it was entitled to use the name because its sleek new iPhone operates over the cellular network. The two sides said late Wednesday that have agreed to drop any pending litigation against each other over the trademark as part of the deal. Analysts said Thursday the truce was likely part of a longer-term strategy by both companies to bolster their competitive positions in the fight to deliver digital content -- particularly video -- directly into consumers' homes. Cisco, which makes the routers and switches that direct data over computer networks, is profiting from the demand for video as service providers spend lavishly on equipment upgrades to accommodate the need for more bandwidth. Analysts said the deal highlights Cisco's desire to partner with companies such as Apple that are pumping more video into the home and driving up the need for more networking gear. Last month, Apple unveiled its new Apple TV video box, which allows users to watch downloaded movies stored on their computers on their home television sets. Industry observers suspect Apple could eventually play a much larger role in the delivery of television and movies to the home. "This is more a strategic move by Cisco to continue to strengthen its core business -- and it was good for them to have the moxie or the wherewithal to have the iPhone name to use as a negotiating tool," said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with market research firm Parks Associates. The dustup over Apple's willingness to work with outside companies comes amid intense criticism, particularly in Europe, over the inability of its iTunes software to work with other portable media devices besides the ubiquitous iPod. Earlier this month, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs urged the world's major music companies to abolish the digital rights management, or DRM, protections that he said were preventing Apple from selling music that would play on any device. Danielle Levitas, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, said she doesn't expect Apple to open up iTunes any time soon. She said the company's partnership with Cisco is more about Apple preparing to tackle the so-called "connected home" market where digital entertainment is delivered through a variety of devices. "I don't think they're opening up the kimono, but they're hedging their bets for what they need to do for video and the connected home," she said. "They had to do this to keep the name. They had to do this to not drag out the lawsuit so they could use the name from day one. Eventually Apple will have to open up a little bit, and Cisco would definitely be the first to benefit. But it ain't going to happen in the next 12 to 18 months."