Abstract: The disclosed trading game is comprised of a clearing house setting up specific contracts defined as issues each having no innate financial value but of local, national or international interest and involving social, financial, business, political, sports, or general, etc. matters that can be influenced by the actual or potential occurrence of different events or factors. The value of the issue contract might change in value, up or down, depending on how the participants, individually and collectively, believe the resolution of the issue has been advanced, via bids/offers tendered on the contract and trading via the Internet.

Abstract: The disclosed portable docking/support system has a frame structure including end stands and elongated members connected at opposite ends thereof to and between the end stands. The elongated members include a pair of upper members and a lower member spaced below and laterally between the upper members for strengthening the frame structure. The upper elongated members are laterally spaced apart a distance less than the hull width of a personal water craft to be docked relative to the system and are extended lengthwise at least a portion of the hull length. The end stands have optional structures (casters, wheels or end plugs) suited to be rolled on or rested on a generally horizontal support surface (under water on a lake or river bed or on a nearby beach or land). The upper elongated members are spaced apart horizontally and are vertically higher than the end stands at all locations laterally between the upper elongated members.

Abstract: A sports bottle accessory is disclosed operable to be coupled to the sports bottle when the cap for the bottle is connected in place to close the bottle. The accessory has a ring structure suited to fit around the fill opening neck and be trapped in place under the closure cap when secured on the bottle, or via a connection with the closure cap itself. A hook formed off of accessory and open generally toward the bottle bottom is sized to be fitted over exercise equipment, to allow the bottle to be suspended vertically upright from exercise equipment within reach of the exerciser. A flexible accessory web overlies the side of the bottle below the cap, and clip means coupled to the web spaced from the cap can releasibly hold a towel or the like relative to the bottle.

Abstract: The disclosed sports bottle has a liquid-tight body with a top wall defining a fill opening that can be closed by a removable cap. The fill opening is angled between 20 and 40 degrees relative to its circumferential wall, allowing nearly complete bottle filling with the bottle tilted, such as when filling from a drinking fountain with low water jet. A downwardly open hook formed off of the body near the its top, in close proximity with the longitudinal axis and laterally spaced from the fill opening, can suspend the bottle in a substantially upright leak-proof orientation, and within reach of an exerciser while on and possibly even using exercise equipment. A thermal chiller pack fits into the bottle interior via a bottom wall opening, being removably sealed as a unit in the bottle. The chiller pack has a solution sealed therein that can be cooled to freezer temperatures without solidifying or leaking from the pack, suited to be sealed to the bottle to keep the bottle liquid chilled for an extended duration.