13,000, more than half-way to the goal.

The recruitment goal is twice the number New Orleans needed for the last Super Bowl. Jeff Rossi, director of volunteers for the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, said about 8,000 were needed for the week of activities before the game.

"We’ll have people at the three main airports and at a number of the private airports, at close to 200 hotels, at the main train stations, Penn Station New York and Newark, Lautenberg Station in Secaucus, Grand Central, Hoboken, the Port Authority," Kelly said. "And we’ll have people on the streets in places like Hoboken, Jersey City and Manhattan."

The potential for a crippling storm is another reason the committee is seeking so many volunteers.The Smoke Thief which takes place in the 18th century. Another recent series on dragon shifters is Donna Grant’s Dragon King Series. I just finished reading another novel about dragon shape-shifters in the humorous beginning of an urban fantasy series, I Dream of Dragons by Ashlyn Chase. So whatever the pull of the dragon, it remains with us.

Today dragons are envisioned as Tyrannosaurus Rex sized winged lizards living in caves and often guarding a hoard of golden treasure. As mentioned above, they are often crossed with werewolf shape-shifting legends, the humans involved change into dragons. While dragons have often been portrayed as a lizard of some type, in ancient times they were portrayed as water creatures or snake-like creatures slithering across the land. Some claim the Leviathan of