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Where can I park for games?
There is parking located in the Arena Garage located next to Stockton Arena as well as in parking lots along Fremont Street across from the arena. These parking lots range in cost from $10-$15. Further parking is located around downtown.
How is the team involved in the community?
The team donates tickets or merchandise and makes appearances in support of programs, specifically those which benefit children and which enhance the quality of life in Stockton and throughout the Central Valley. The team also has multiple school reward programs.
Who is responsible for day-to-day management of the franchise?
Dave Piecuch is President of the hockey team and will be running the day to day business operations of the Stockton Heat. He is assisted by a full-time administrative staff.
Where do the players come from?
Many of the players are signed directly from the Calgary Flames and have NHL contracts. These players come from all over the world from junior and/or pro leagues worldwide. However, there are some AHL players that are signed to AHL contracts and some that are signed to two-way, AHL-ECHL contracts.
Is this an expansion team or was a team relocated?
The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation purchased the Stockton Thunder in January 2015 and announced that the ECHL franchise would move to Glens Falls, New York while the Adirondack Flames, the corporation's AHL team, would move to Stockton to become the Stockton Heat.
Who owns the team?
The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation who also own the Calgary Flames (National Hockey League), Adirondack Thunder (ECHL), Calgary Hitmen (Western Hockey League), Calgary Roughnecks (National Lacrosse League) and Calgary Stampeders (Canadian Football League). The group also manages the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary.
What league does the Heat play in?
The American Hockey League, which serves as the top feeder league to the National Hockey League. More than 88% of NHL players have played in the AHL!
How many games do the Heat play?
The team plays 68 regular season games per season.
How long does the season last?
Mid-October through mid April. With playoffs the season could extend through June.
Can I bring my camera?
Fans are permitted to bring point and shoot cameras along with their phone cameras however DSLR cameras are not permitted unless you are a working member of the media. Media should email Brandon Kisker.
What is the Phone Number to purchase concert tickets or tickets to other arena events?
209-373-1700 – The Stockton Arena Box Office
What is the Phone Number to the Fan Attic, the official Merchandise Store of the Stockton Heat?
Are there ticket plans other than full season tickets?
We have a wide variety of mini-ticket packages available to meet just about any budget and schedule including 6 game plans, 12 game plans, weekend plans, etc. See Ticket Information.
What do season tickets cost?
See ticket information here.
Can young children come to the game for free if they sit on a parents' lap?
Children under the age of 2 can attend for free.
How do I purchase individual tickets?
You can purchase individual tickets at the Stockton Arena Box Office, by phone at 209-373-1700 or online.
NOTE: If you purchase 10 or more tickets, you can save up to $3 per ticket by purchasing a group! Call the Heat office at 209-373-1500.
What are the game times?
Friday & Saturday games begin at 7:30pm. Sunday games begin at 4:00pm and Wednesday games begin at 7:00pm.
Want to know more info on what you can and can't bring to a game?
Click here for more details on the Stockton Arena policies.


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I'm trying something different with this pen, the Platinum Cool. I shot the video and there was so much I wanted to talk about that it ended up being over 20 minutes long. Not that I'm afraid to post videos that long, but the footage ended up being in such clearly defined segments, I wanted to experiment with splicing it up and making it into a multi-part video. This allows you as the viewer to just watch the individual segment you want, and you can more easily reference it in the future if you want.
This is all a grand experiment, so I'd really love to hear what you think in the comments. If it's dumb, then tell me. If you love it, please tell me. As I'm a busy father-of-two running a retail company with a lot of things demanding my time each day, I'm ever-searching for the most time-efficient and impactful way I can get my knowledge from my brain to yours.
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- Part 2: Comparisons
- Part 3: Key Features
- Part 4: How to Fill
- Part 5: Writing Samples
- Part 6: Matching the Converter
The Cool is, forgive my unavoidable pun, a very cool pen. It's in a great price range (list $53, $42.40 on Gouletpens.com) with a converter (normally $7.50 on its own). It is an attractive pen, is well-balanced, light, and seals reliably. It has a snap-cap which has an insert inside it to keep the nib from drying out, and can accept either Platinum cartridges or converters (no eye dropper conversion though, sorry). But best of all, the nib has a lot of spring to it, with a very noticeable line variation going up at least two nib sizes with intentional pressure. It's no vintage Waterman, definitely has some spring if you want it to. It's a great alternative to the Noodler's flex pens for those of you who just can't get the hang of those, and is much cheaper than the alternative modern flex nib pens like the Pilot Falcon and Platinum Kanazawa Leaf Maki-e, though those are both great pens.
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Some GILES COUNTY TENNESSEE - OBITUARY UPDATES TO THE GRAVESTONES
November 2009
updates (not necessarily November 2009 deaths.)
ALLEY, Jennifer Church, 1 Jan 1947 - 17 Nov 2009. (Cross Bridges community native; dau. of Ona Sue Holden Church and Joe Hollan Church; 1966 grad of Hampshire High School; retired from Bell South.)
HINES, Mary Katherine (Baxter), 29 May 1930 - 22 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; dau. of William Herbert Baxter, Sr. and Luvenda Anderson Baxter;married to Floyd Edward Hines 9 Nov 1946 he died 26 Aug 1992.) (4793)
ANDREWS, Waymon, 3 Sep 1937 - no date, Sec 2
ANDREWS, Joe Waymond, 3 Sep 1937 - 15 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Joe Eros Andrews and Rubye madewell Andrews; 1955 grad. of Culleoka High School and served in the Tenn. National Guard for 13 yrs.; drove school bus for 35 yrs.; mar. 55 yrs. to Carolyn Dugger Andrews.)
HALL, Johnny Dwight "J.D.", d. 4 Dec 2009. (son of Mildred Christine Jones Hall Tillery and John Granville Hall; preceded in death by son John "Bart" Hall.)
YOUNG, Lota, 2 May 1920 - 27 Aug 2008. (Maury Co. native; dau. of Jasper Claude Medkif and Elizabeth Foster Medkiff Bray; married 3 Jul 1937 to Jack Young, he died 8 Jul 1998' she was preceded in death by sisters, Faye Attkinson and Virgie Ann Shelton; brothers, Ewell F. Medkiff and James Perry Medkiff, Sr.) Sec 3
REESE, Gary Houston, 25 Jul 1957 - 15 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Marvin Knox Reese and mary Irene Fly Reese; driver for Pro-Drivers of Nashville; survived by his loving mate, Catha Watkins Reese.)
FOX, Renae Ring, 6 May 1961 - 4 Dec 2009. (Maury Co. native; dau. of Sherry Faye Connelly Ring & Aubary Dale Ring who died in 2008; 1979 grad of Columbia Central High School; mar. to Randy Fox on 19 Jul 1980.)
SHAW, Mrs. Marion Jean Haywood, 27 may 1928 - 16 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; dau. of John L. Haywood and Irene Galloway Haywood; mar. to Joseph Jacobs "Joe" Shaw, who preceded her in death on 3 Jul 1990, also preceded in death by sisters, Ann Brown, Carolyn Nix, Edwina Tapper and two grandchildren, Ralston and John Emmett Shaw.)
HAYWOOD, Irene G.(Galloway), 24 Mar 1911 - 26 May 1976. Mother, (Dau. Benton F. & Nettie Fraser Galloway; mar. John L. Haywood in 1925.)
McCAINS CEMETERY
FOSTER, James William "J.W.", 10 Jul 1956 - 8 Nov 2009. (Charleston, W.Va. native; son of Mary Margaret Erwin Lovell and Monroe Lovell; pilot for Paragon Air Freight; 1974 grad. of Columbia Military Academy; Veteran US Navy serving until 1979.)
WHITE, Justin Daniel "Duke", 5 Aug 2000 - 15 Nov 2009. (Giles Co. native; son of Joddie Daniel and Karen Elizabeth Allen White; preceded in death by maternal great grandfather, Wilson Allen, maternal great grandmother, Beulah Ross Allen, paternal grandfather, Roy D. White, paternal grandmother, Ruth Kennemore White and uncle Robert Keith Allen.)
DAWSON, W.D., 1 Jun 1938 - 2 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Kelsie Earl Dawson, Sr. and Martha W. Dawson; 1956 grad. of Hampshire High School; Verteran U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Conway; devoted love Debbie Peterson; preceded in death by brother Earl Dawson, Jr.)
FARRIS, George Luther, 31 Jan 1919 - 31 Oct 2009. (Maury Co. native: son of Sewell Walker Farris and Mattie Louise Edwards Farris; Veteran U.S. Army, WWII, Squad leader for the 30th Inf. Div. 117th Inf. Regiment, 3rd Battalion Co. 1, Staff Sgt., Bronze Star, Purple Heart, American Defense Medal, American Campaign Medal, EAME Theatre Medal, 3 Bronze Battle Stars and Sharp Shooter Badge; Herbert Griffin Am. Legion Post #19; mar. 66 yrs. to Dana Chapman Farris; preceded in death by sister Willa Mae Akin and brother Porter Farris.)
Geo. L. Farris
JONES, John Douglas "Doug", 6 Aug 1953 - 7 Nov 2009. (Lawrence Co. native; grad. of Mt. Pleasant High School; mar. to Vickie Crews Jones whom he married 7 Jun 1974.)
LOVELESS, Ferrell Deason "Dee", 24 Mar 1918 - 7 Nov 2009. (Lewis Co. Tn. native; son of Mavis Poore Loveless and W.H. Loveless; 1936 grad. of Lewis Co. High School; Veteran U.S. Army, 14 Jan 1942, serving in the cavalry in the Southwest Pacific, Purple Heart; member of Herbert Friffin Am. Legion Post #19, and D.A.V; mar. 63 years to Oneita Graves Loveless, who he married 4 May 1946; preceded in death by parents, brothers, Claigett , Bauman, Springer, Billy, and Jack Loveless, sisters Sloise Carroll, Sannie Odil and Betty Simpson.)
McNEESE, Myrtle Davis, 23 Feb 1925 - 18 Nov 2009. (Giles Co. native; dau. of Turney Davis and Virginia Smith Davis; grad of Jones High School in Lynnville and Columbia Business College; preceded in death by hus. D.J. McNeese, Jr. on 19 Mar 1992, brothers, Cecil, Noble and Joe Wayne Davis.)
McNICHOLS, Charles Delos, d. 22 Nov 2009. (Hamilton Co. native; son of Richard Wallace McNichols and Gladys Elaine Stephens McNichols; mar. 29 Aug 1957 to Susan Theresa Curtis; grad. University of Tenn; Veteran U.S. Navy, Korean, 3rd Class Hospital Corpsman; CPA and counselor for the Tenn. Dept of Human Services.)
VANTREASE, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pauline Brown, 2 Sep 1953 - 2 Dec 2009. (dau. of Edgar and Eula Jewell Brown; mar. to Timothy Vantrease father of her son; grad. Columbia Central High School in 1971; Attended Columbia State Community College where she earned an Associate of Applied Science for Respiratory Care; preceded in death by her mother who died in 1994.)
WHITING, Imogene "Jeanne" Bailey Rummans, d. 13 Nov 2009 in Sanford, Fl. (Maury Co. native; dau. of John Cody Bailey and Josephine McGaugh Bailey; 1944 grad. of Columbia Central High School, attended David Lipscomb University, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkley; retired registered nurse; preceded in death by dau. Mary Rummans Grace and husbands, William DeLosson Rummans, Jr.,Dr. Kenneth R. Whiting and Robert S. Whiting.)
YATES, Jo Ann Watson, d. 24 Nov 2009. ( Parma, Missouri native; dau. of William Watson and Willie Oliver Watson; mar. 52 yrs. to Thomas Alexander Yates; preceded in death by sister Dean Belew.)
SLAUGHTER, Clara M., 8 Nov 1919 - no other date.
SLAUGHTER, Clara Mae Malugin, 8 Nov 1919 - 21 Nov 2009. (Hickman Co., Primm Springs Community native; dau. of Dave C. Malugin and Maude McCanless Malugin; mar. 11 may 1937 to Austin Slaughter, they were married 75 yrs until his death 15 Jan 2008; preceded in death by son David Murphy Slaughter, grandson Joseph Dean Slaughter, sister Wilene Roberts, and brother James Malugin.)
CHILDREY, Thomas Claude "Bud" Jr., 20 Feb 1928 - 12 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Thomas Claude Childrey, Sr. and Maury Rittenberry Childrey; 1946 grad of Columbia Central High School; preceded in death by son Jeffrey Wayne Childrey, Sr.)
Thomas Claude Childrey Jr.
KELLEY, Mary Jones, 29 Sep 1917 - ----. (Married 3 Jun 1956. Block 'H'
KELLEY, Mary Edith Johns, 29 Sep 1917 - 21 Nov 2009. (Cross Bridges Community native; dau. of Porter B. Johns Sr., and Liza Jane Lynn Johns; grad. of Hampshire High School, earned a B.S. degree in Education from Middle Tenn. State Univ., taught for 38 yrs. in Maury Co. school system at Elmore, Campbell Station, Zion, Union Grove, Woodrow and Water Valley and Santa Fe; mar. Archie Poter Kelley on 3 Jun 1956, he died 15 Feb 1969; preceded in death by siblings, Gertrude Jones Nash, Porter Johns, Jr. and Mahlon Johns.) Block H
MURPHY, Sarah E. Dodson, 18 May 1922 - no date. Block "U"
MURPHY, Sarah E.(Elizabeth) Dotson, 18 May 1922 - 3 Nov 2009. (Giles Co. native; dau. of George Washington Dotson and Emma Louise Pillow Dotson; grad. of Giles Co. High School, Nurse; mar. 1944 to Harold William Murphy, Sr. who preceded her in death 31 Dec 1976.)
PAUL, Marion Hamlin, d. 4 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Arthur Lee Paul and Vera Smith Paul; mar. 60 yrs. to Lorraine Gifford Paul; preceded in death by sisters Ethel Chumley, Irene Lovell, Connis Messick, Marjorie McVicker, brother Ronald C. Paul and brother in law J.B. Gifford.) Block U
WILLIAMS, James Dugger Sr., 18 Oct 1923 - 15 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of James Williams and Sarah Hicks Dugger Williams; 1942 grad of Columbia Central High School; retired US Postal Service mail carrier; Veteran US Army, Headquarters Battery, 55th Field Artillery Battalion & later 25th Inf. Div., WWII Victory Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, American Theatre Ribbon, AP Theatre Ribbon, two Bronze Service Stars, Philippine Liberation Ribbon and Bronze Star.; mar. 62 yrs. to Willa Frances Morrow Williams.)
WILLIAMS, Murray London, d. 20 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Malcolm Williams, Sr. and Elora Hil Williams; preceded in death by brother Clyde Moody Williams.)
MONTGOMERY, Hazel McCandless, 24 Jan 1935 - 25 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; dau. of James William McCandless and mary Alice Griggs McCandless; 1952 grad. of Santa Fe High School; retired Vice Pres. of Operations at Educators Credit Union, owned and operated Creekview Farms Bed and Breakfast on Leipers Creek Rd.; mar. 59 yrs. to Ronald Montgomery;preceded in death by brothers Ernest Lloyd, William Carl McCandless and Mary Jane McCandless.)
THOMPSON, Kenneth Franklin, 30 Aug 1935 - 6 Nov 2009. (1954 grad. Santa Fe High School; Veteran US Army; member of Benton Masonic Lodge and the Columbia Wagon Wheelers; mar. 54 yrs. to Shirley Givens Thompson; preceded in death by mother Maude Thompson.)
WOODY, John Burton, 17 Sep 1922 - 7 Nov 2009. (Santa Fe native; son of John Newton Woody and Sammie Pauline Pigg Woody; 1941 grad. of Santa Fe High School as Valedictorian; Veteran of WWII, US Army Air Corps, serving in India and Burma Theatres of Operation; U.S. Postal Service rural mail carrier for over 30 yrs; chairman of Maury Co. Library Board; member of the Santa Fe Cemetery Board, Herbert Griffin American Legion Post #19; ,mar. 63yrs. to Gladys McMeen Woody on 7 Jun 1946; preceded in death by brothers, Allen, Jefferson and Henry Paul Woody.)
PARRISH, Jeff A., d. 26 Nov 2009. (Maury Co. native; son of Clebert Parrish and Louise Scribner Parrish.)
CHUNN, Bessie Lee Kerr, d. 18 Nov 2009. (Marshall Co. native; dau. of Robert L. Kerr and Lela Estella Ratcliff Kerr; 1947 grad. of Spring Hill High School; mar. 24 May 1947 to Chester Odell Chunn who died on 16 Jan 2003; preceded in death by g. grandson Michael Chunn, sister, Mary Frances Kerr Harris and brothers, J.W., Bob and Jessie Kerr.)
CHUNN, Chester Odell, 10 Sep 1922 - 16 Jan 2003. Military Marker: "Tec 4 US Army, World War II." (U. Marker; Oaks & Nichols Funeral Home; hus. of Bessie Lee Kerr Chunn, who died 18 Nov 2009.) 9691/9692
Photo & Information compiled from various sources as noted by Mary Bob McClain Richardson.
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Universal Services provides janitorial and security services for companies, including the Register. The company added 14,240 jobs between January 2012 and June of this year. It employs 35,000 people, and has been on an acquisition binge, buying up about one security company every other month for the past year.
The only other local company to place high in this year's Hire Power list was Pacific Dental Services of Irvine, which ranked No. 17 last year. With 856 new jobs, the company took the No. 10 spot.
Fourteen California companies made it onto Inc.'s list, more than any other state. Four of them are based in Orange County. The other two are New American Funding, a mortgage lender in Tustin, and 29 Prime, an online marketing firm based in Irvine.
Inc. published separate lists that include smaller companies that have grown significantly since 2009. Seabirds, an Irvine-based vegan food truck business that now has a restaurant in Costa Mesa, ranked No. 10 in the list of companies that had one to 10 employees four years ago. Seabirds grew from five to 40 workers since then.
The 100 companies that made Inc.'s list will be honored at an awards ceremony in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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Pediatrician Gunjeet Kala Ahluwalia has joined North Orange County Pediatrics, a medical practice in Placentia. She was previously division chief for pediatric nephrology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where she served as an assistant professor of pediatrics.
Chris Williams is now producing sales manager for the retail consumer-lending team at Union Bank N.A., a commercial bank headquartered in San Francisco. Williams manages mortgage consultants in the Orange County area, working out of the bank's Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley branches. He was previously senior mortgage loan officer with Bank of America.
Jeff Littlefield, co-founder of Tomgirl Baking Co., a Huntington Beach bakery that specializes in desserts and cakes, is stepping out of his role as silent partner to become the company's chef. Littlefield was previously executive chef at the Waterfront Beach Resort, a Hilton hotel in Huntington Beach. Littlefield has already added a seasonal cafe menu for breakfast and lunch offerings.
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Billabong International Ltd., an Australian surfwear retailer with American headquarters in Irvine, agreed to sell West 49, its Canadian retail chain with 92 stores, to YM Inc. for $8.6 million to $10.5 million. The deal includes a $32.6 million nonexclusive agreement for Billabong to supply YM for the next two years. The purchase leaves Billabong's Canadian presence with six namesake locations and two Element storefronts. YM is a fashion retailer based in Canada, with store brands that include Stitches, Urban Planet and Sirens.
Confie Seguros, an insurance broker based in Huntington Beach that primarily serves Hispanic consumers, acquired DeFranco Insurance Agency Inc. of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Insurance Group of American Inc., out of Palm Springs, Fla. Confie has bought 23 brokerages in the last year. Terms of the recent deals were not disclosed.
Nihon Kohden America Inc., the Irvine-based U.S. subsidiary of Japanese medical electronic equipment maker Nihon Kohden, received a contract modification worth up to $27.6 million from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support in Philadelphia. The agency, which provides support for all U.S. military branches, exercised a one-year option for Nihon to provide patient monitoring equipment, parts and training for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.
Two O.C. executives were chosen by more than 150 judges as finalists in the 10th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Maureen Khamsi, vice president at Strategic Medical, a Newport Beach-based operator of diagnostic imaging centers, is a finalist for the female executive of the year distinction for consumer services with up to 2,500 employees. Khamsi also appears in the final list for woman of the year in a category labeled "industry." Amy Cosper, editor in chief at Irvine-based Entrepreneur Magazine, is a finalist for one of four categories of female executive of the year for business services with 11 to 2,500 employees. Winners will be announced Friday in New York.
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-Bispecific antibody substitutes for the function of blood coagulation factor VIII-
October 1, 2012 (Tokyo) - Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (''Chugai'') [Main Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Chairman & CEO: Osamu Nagayama] announced today that Chugai, jointly with Nara Medical University, published online in Nature Medicine October edition that a bispecific antibody1) mimicking the function of blood coagulation factor VIII effectively exerts its hemostatic action in an animal model of hemophilia A. This paper can be accessed since September 30 (BST) on the website of Nature Medicine. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.2942).
While a typical antibody, a Y-shaped protein, has two antigen binding sites at its upper ends, each of which commonly binds a single antigen, a bispecific antibody is an artificially engineered antibody having two different antigen binding sites which can respectively bind two different antigens.
Hemophilia A is an inherited disorder, presenting severe bleeding symptoms repeated from childhood. In this disease, the blood coagulation reaction does not normally proceed because of congenital deficiency of factor VIII. Factor VIII simultaneously binds factor IXa and factor X to promote factor IXa-mediated factor X activation and the consequent blood coagulation reaction2). For the treatment of hemophilia A, the supplementary intravenous injection of a factor VIII agent is usually employed to stop on-going bleeds and to prevent bleeding. In recent years, its prophylactic routine supplementation, which requires multiple intravenous injections every week, has prevailed to constantly prevent bleeding. Occasionally, anti-factor VIII neutralizing antibodies (inhibitors) arise to eliminate the supplemented factor VIII agent as foreign substance because factor VIII is congenitally deficient in hemophilia A patients. In such a case, the factor VIII agent can no longer fully exert its hemostatic activity.
This paper reveals that the bispecific antibody simultaneously binds factor IXa and factor X, exerting factor VIII-mimetic function to promote the blood coagulation reaction under the factor VIII lacking condition regardless of the presence of inhibitors against factor VIII3). Moreover, the bispecific antibody exerts a hemostatic action in the non-clinical animal model, and has a long-acting property and the feasibility to be injected subcutaneously. From these results, the bispecific antibody to mimic the factor VIII function is expected to show a prophylactic efficacy to prevent bleeding by once weekly subcutaneous injections, offering a novel concept for the treatment of hemophilia A.
To date, no recombinant bispecific antibody has been approved as a therapeutic drug. This is because it is challenging for the conventional technologies to achieve commercial manufacturing of a recombinant bispecific therapeutic antibody due to the complexity of its molecular structure. Chugai has been engaged in developing innovative antibody engineering technologies, and has also established original technologies enabling to apply bispecific antibodies to therapeutic drugs. The bispecific antibody mimicking the factor VIII function described in this paper is one of the achievements from our continuous efforts.
Chugai has modified and improved the molecule described in this paper into a further superior bispecific antibody molecule (development code: ACE910), and is currently conducting a phase I clinical study in healthy adults and hemophilia A patients (both with inhibitors and without inhibitors) in Japan starting from August 2012.
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Okay, I'm not really sure where to post this but hopefully it will get seen in here. I am very sure I am doing something wrong with my throw since I can only throw around 250ish. I'm not too good with technology and want to make a video of me throwing so I can see what I look like and you guys can even point out the numerous things I am doing wrong too but I have some questions about how to do it.
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Burn wrote:njb902 wrote:Most of the mods resigned? Am I missing something?
If you're referring to the change in colours then no, Mods/Admins are green, news crew are blue, and those rarely sighted RPG folks are a different shade of green.
That being said, ALL staff are technically Moderators and can act accordingly. For some reason I keep getting messages from certain news crew members saying "You can deal with it".
I wasn't referring to it no. Just pointing out another of Rated X's overstatements.


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VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. regulators see room to improve safety at the country's nuclear power plants even though tests after the Fukushima disaster have shown they are fundamentally sound, the top U.S. watchdog said on Tuesday.
More than two-thirds of the way through a 90-day task force review to see if the Japanese catastrophe had exposed any issues that needed quick action, a mixed picture was emerging, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said.
"At this point we continue to believe that in the United States the plants operate safely and that the system we have is a robust safety system but we do believe that there are areas where we can make improvements," he told reporters in Vienna.
He cited dealing with extended losses of electrical power, accounting for spent fuel pools during crises, emergency planning, and properly addressing hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters.
The United States has 104 of the world's 440 reactors.
Japan's nuclear crisis, spawned by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima plant, has brought the safety issue to a head and prompted the U.S. safety review whose results will be ready in around three weeks.
The U.S. survey looks not just at safety standards, but also at whether they are being implemented in the right way, he said on the sidelines on a conference hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
"Once we complete that review we likely will have changes to our requirements and will expect all the plants to comply with those changes as appropriate," he said.
U.S. regulators agreed this month to delay handling PG&E Corp's request to extend licenses of its Diablo Canyon reactors in California to give the utility more time to conduct a seismic study.
Jaczko said the discovery of a new fault near Diablo Canyon did not seem to be a major issue.
"Right now what we have seen is that the impact of that new fault appears to be consistent with the way...the utility has analyzed the plant in the past," he said.
Jaczko hailed IAEA proposals to improve safety and regain public trust by introducing random spot checks of nuclear plants worldwide but said it was important to cast a tighter net.
"The most important issue here is the recognition that there are a large number of nuclear power plants in the United States and of course IAEA couldn't be involved in doing inspections or peer review of some type at all of those facilities," he said.
"There has to be a way to narrow down the number of facilities that you would look at."
(Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)


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I just came across this interesting trailer for the movie: Money & Life... This clips presents some interesting ideas... "Our Challenge is to bring money back to the place where it belongs in Human life." -Jacob Needleman One ...
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- The Future We Face
I am not big on posting long articles for folks to suffer with. However, I read this one and I believe it is excellent. It is like something CM would write. The article covers all aspects of the current financial situation in such a manner than even ...
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- A quick 4 minute "Duck Tails" cartoon that teaches how printing money causes inflation:
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The Future of Physical Gold (Part I - Dialectic Foundations) Part I in a series about the likely role of gold in the ...
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The federal reserve, per Bernanke, claims that it is not printing money because the amount of "currency in circulation" has stayed the same. I have been thinking about this lately and I've come to the conclusion that they fed is lying ...
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In the event of the collapse of the debt-based monetary system (and presumably the emergence of a different kind of monetary system shortly thereafter), what happens to all the debt accrued under the old system? I ask because at present I have ...
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I recently completed a series of articles that I have turned into a free eBook. Please feel free to download a copy. No registration required. Thanks RedRob. Good read. Thanks RedRob. Good read. Thanks. Cheers for that. ...
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- Libyan Rebels Establish Central Bank
(Shaking my head in disgust). http://www.cnbc.com/id/42308613 They are busy boys indeed - They are busy boys indeed - fighting Qaddafi during the day and drafting Central Bank and oil-holding companies at night! Wow, my efficiency ...
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- The Constitutional basis for money creation
The root cause of our monetary problems is the constitutional power of Congress: "to borrow money on the credit of te United States". I wish that Thomas Jefferson would have been there when the Constitution was being drafted. He may have been ...
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I've been educatin' myself on the way the world really works for the last dozen years... but no one laid it out quite so clearly as your forum member strabes. I was so impressed at the clarity and completeness of his debunking money series of ...
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- Winsonsin Protests... Rachel Maddow Backstory...
Rachel Maddow has a great backstory about the "engineered budget crisis" in Wisconsin.... As good as Rachel's commentary is, Is there an even bigger picture here? How does this fit with CM's 3 E's ?.... ...
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- The End of America (Porter Stansberry Research)
A friend sent me this youtube link... Seems like most readers here KNOW this information... I did not find this link on CM so I post it here as another well reasoned and researched resource... saying similar things. -Bob O ...
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- Bill Hicks: Life is just a ride
For all the doom and gloom I have a lighter moment with Bill Re: Bill Hicks: Life is just a ride Nice find. Thanks! Rich Re: Bill Hicks: Life is just a ride Wow... I had never heard of him. Thank you for the ...
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- Peter Schiff nails it
Great explanation by Peter www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRAESKFjs2s&feature=player_embedded# ! January 15 ZeitGeist Moving Forward www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLLFpNn4lM&feature=player_embedded Re: Peter Schiff nails it ...
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- Debunking Money - Video
Debunking Money - Video Great videos explaing how money works in a very low tech way. If anyones how to post videos please let me know. My lizard brain can't figure it out. Re: Debunking ...
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- Laying out the facts rather than debating theories about money
Thought I'd share the 1st video in a series that will eventually have about 10 volumes discussing money. For those who understand the monetary system, this one will probably seem too simplified, and therefore potentially misleading because it ...
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- fiat money is like nitrogen in plant kingdom
Greetings, While I was working on the new greenhouse I am building I was thinking about the type of money we have created today and I was trying to think of something in nature that I could compair it to that might be simular in effect. First of all ...
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- Read This or go Broke....
Mark Joyner has just published a new course titled "The Simple Science of ReAL Money" I think it would be of great benefit to people who have taken the Crash Course. It gives some big picture ideas around money. It starts: ...
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- You can't regulate pirates
This thread was inspired by reading many threads on the economy and money creation. In This Time Is Different , Reinhart and Rogoff make a strong case that all systems that have been tried eventually self-destructed. I have observed repeatedly in ...
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- Welfare and warfare
Most people in America associate the Democratic Party with spending on welfare programs and the Republican Party with spending on warfare. Until reading Niall Ferguson's brilliant The Ascent of Money, I never realized that welfare and warfare have gone ...
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This is Part I. Read Part II
During most of my childhood, I shared a bedroom – and even a bed – with my little sister Betsy, who is 22 months younger than I am. I remember our double occupancy quite fondly.
Her? Not so much.
For starters, I wet the bed until, well, let's just say I was still occasionally wetting the bed right up until the time I finally scored my own room. And as you might imagine, Betsy didn't enjoy waking up to wet sheets not of her own making. She also didn't appreciate it when I insisted on trying to hatch baby chickens in our closet, or the way I kept taking down her Tiger Beat posters and putting up my own pony posters in their place.( I figured that as the older sister, I should have some priority.) Needless to say, Betsy was very happy when I finally moved into my own bedroom, meaning she finally had one of her own as well.
My two youngest daughters – C and G – also share a bedroom, although G still sleeps with Jon and me in our room – either in the crib next to our bed or in the bed with us. But her toys are all in the bedroom she shares with her next oldest sibling, and eventually, she will sleep in there too, with both girls in the double canopy bed where C already sleeps.
I absolutely love the girls' bedroom, both because it's so pretty and because it has a beautiful story behind it; during the month between the death of my oldest child and the day I came home from the hospital with our newborn daughter, G. – who was born 6 weeks prematurely – some incredibly dear friends and family, together with an amazing organization called "Special Spaces" renovated the room from top to bottom.
In a 100 year old house-in-progress, there's always still another room that's not yet renovated, and in 2010, Jon and I had fully intended to get the last "unfinished" bedroom in our house renovated in time for the baby's arrival, planning for it to serve as a nursery–slash-bedroom that both the new baby and C could then share ( C had not had a bedroom of her own). But then, while Henry was hospitalized, and it looked like we would be bringing home a teenage boy in a wheelchair with a major brain injury, we realized we would need to make this first floor room over to become handicapped accessible for Henry because his bedroom had been upstairs, and that just wasn't going to work.
That's when Special Spaces jumped in, offering to create a room that would accomodate Henry's special needs when he came home. We were SO grateful for this. It was one less thing to worry about. But then, Henry's condition deteriorated, and we lost him on May 31, 2010. There would be no teenage boy coming home. However, we still had a baby due in 9 weeks, and amazingly, friends, family and the volunteers of Special Spaces decided that they still wanted to renovate the room for us – turning it into a bedroom for the baby and her toddler sister.
This is what the room looked like before the makeover. As you can see, it was awful just an oversized junk closet with dirty white walls, ugly BLACK trim and terrible lighting. We had no furniture or curtains, etc. It was seriously fugly.
And here are some photos of the "reveal" after everyone who worked so hard on the girls' bedroom had finished their work in time to surprise me on the day I came home with the new baby, five days after my c-section. I was absolutely stunned by how lovely it was, and moved to tears by the effort so many nice people had put into giving our family this amazing gift. I had already bought this dresser for $45 or something at a local thrift store, but it was bright blue. For the room renovation, a family member, repainted it and replaced all the drawer pulls. The sweet artwork above the dresser had hung in a friends' children's bedroom, and she offered it for the room makeover. And my son E painted the "Georgia" sign for his new baby sister while he was away at camp the week she came early.
My mother gave me this 1950s canopy bed for the girls, and my sister picked out fabrics. Then the incredibly kind (and talented!) Special Spaces volunteers sewed up a new canopy, dustruffle and bedspread, along with the pretty matching drapes. The changing table in the corner was a hand me down from a friend that had been dark brown. It was also repainted for the new room.
My then-11-year old niece created these for her little cousins' new bedroom.
Another view of the finished bedroom – so pretty!
Fast forward two years. G is now a very active two year old, and C will be 5 years old in two weeks. As you might imagine with two little girls this age in our family, we have accumulated MANY, MANY more books and toys and small plastic things of various types since the room was first completed, and frankly, I've totally run out of room for all of it. I have been feeling quite overwhelmed by the growing collection of kid stuff, and that's led to me allowing their bedroom to become very messy in recent months.
This is what the girls' bedroom floor looks like at the moment. It's not a pretty sight.
And we have children's books overflowing baskets and shelves all over the house .
It's absolutely, definitely time to update the beautiful nursery-slash-bedroom with some new storage that will work with the look of the room, and that will allow the girls to begin learning to put their things away. (It's hard to teach this lesson when there's no place for them to put their things away!) Lately, I've been feeling very guilty about the completely disorganized mess in the girls' beautiful bedroom, and pondering what kind of storage I could add to the room. My criteria are:
1 – Compliments the room's paint and fabrics. I don't want a storage solution that "uglies up" their pretty bedroom.
2 – Accomodates both books and toys – including the girls' larger toys, plus containers full of their small toys like Polly Pockets and legos.
3 – Offers separate spaces for each of the girls so they can learn to pick up and put away their own things.
4 – Accessible to the girls, meaning no tall shelves that might tempt G – AKA: Danger Toddler – to see how high she can climb when I am not looking.
5 – Can't require being bolted or affixed to the walls. This is because the walls in this room are made of the original plaster from when our house was built in 1910. It's beautiful, but it crumbles easily, and in order to hang anything like shelves, or bolt a tall piece of furniture to the wall for safety, you have to find a stud in the wall, and if there isn't one where you want to put something, you're just out of luck.
In other words, I want something practical, but pretty. As I've been actively pondering the storage conundrum in the girls' bedroom, it seemed quite auspicious when Home Depot asked me if I'd like to shop at one of their stores to solve some storage and organization problem in our actual household, and then blog about how I solved the problem. "HECK YEAH!" was my immediate response.
This is Part I. Read Part II with details of my trip to Home Depot to scout storage solutions that meet my criteria, plus the photographic REVEAL of the girls' newly organized and tidy bedroom. Woohoo!
And in the meantime, I'd love to hear any storage and organizing tips you have for keeping kids' bedrooms tidy, especially if your kids share a bedroom, meaning double the stuff in one space. Tell me your best organizing ideas and tips in the comments below.
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WITH ENOUGH money, you can do almost anything, the old saying goes, maybe even build a shiny shrine to the U.S. Air Force, to Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and to patriotism on the backlot of the Nut Tree. For months we've heard about the idea of a combination Air Force showcase and Doolittle education center on hallowed ground where "Steelheads" played minor league ball. If passion for the idea by a core of believers was currency, the thing would already be built and paid for. But it's going to take a lot more deep pockets, and they know it. It hasn't seemed to faze them. The vision for exhibit halls, movie theater, conference hotel with restaurant, and a Solano College aeronautics lab -- an expansion of a mechanics school already at the airport -- keeps getting grander, and zeros on projected costs keep growing. But patriot-leader Herman Rowland of Jelly Belly is resolved: "Even if it comes in at $50 million, we're going to do this."
Maybe concept drawings released last week by JRDV Architects will help. Near home plate of Travis Credit Union Park, the center entrance is behind five USAF jet fighters, in formation on pedestals. In a grand exhibit hall, a vast media screen tells the center's story. Exhibits feature Doolittle, the Air Force and "patriotism."
Supporters have been trying to raise $1.5 million for a 10.5-acre plot of land, and more later for a total 22 acres. After that, the search for serious money begins.
Locals are taking a wait-see attitude because not much about new Nut Tree is what they were led to believe; a $50 million learning center could be more of the same. Rowland might respond: Doolittle was told that flying 16 B-25s off the deck of the Hornet in 1942 was impossible, too.
IT IS possible, though, to fly in one of those B-25s. Her name is Tondelayo, and she's making her presence known around here. It's leased from the Collings Foundation by Doolittle, and is based at Nut Tree Airport for the duration, or longer. A 30-minute ride can be had for $450. Call Serafina at 317-1134 for a reservation.
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IF IT seems we're making too much of a new little bridge across Putah Creek in Winters, we should have been so lucky to be part of the blowout in 1908 when the old one was dedicated. More than 3,000 people were, some arriving by excursion train. The all-day binge lasted until 3:30 a.m. the next day. Thursday, it took a lineup of talking heads and more than 40 gold shovels to officially break ground for the new $15 million bridge that will replace one built in 1908 for $50,000. Seems right. Winters Express archives from 1908 tell the story: "Jesus Bullna, an expert cook, barbecued two beeves and mutton that with (plenty) of good bread, made a palatable dinner." A baseball game pitted Vacaville against Winters. The latter won, 6 to 3. There was a band concert at 7:30, and a ball at the Opera House. At midnight, "lunch" was served at the Boles Hotel.
County people in charge of planning a party in 2015 have a tough act to follow. The new bridge will take two years, more or less, Disney Construction project boss Dan Kennedy told me. His crew has to first build a temporary span before they demolish the old one so they can build the new one in its place. I think I get that.
Later, I spied Express publisher emeritus Newt Wallace on his corner stool in the Buckhorn. Miller time. If only the new bridge could be built to stand as long as Newt. At 94, he just got his DMV license renewed; good until he's 99. I expect he'll dedicate the new bridge in 2015 by driving across in his "paper-boy" ride. The fine folks of Winters can lead off on foot, followed by politicos on skateboards. On the far side, I expect barbecued beeves.
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MONDAY was Ed Power's 91st birthday, but I'm the one who got a card. It was a photo of he and I taken 50 years ago on a flying trip to Arizpe, Mexico. We look 12 years old. Ed was a Nut Tree visionary, the one who built NT Airport. Arizpe is the village and burial site of Juan Bautista de Anza, soldier-explorer who settled the S.F. Presidio. After his remains were found under the Arizpe church, the S.F. Chron put together a flying trip of 25 or so planes to visit and honor the commander with a marble crypt. We danced 'til dawn and slept on cots villagers made. Juan is still there. We're still here. Happy 91, Ed.
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SAN DIEGO — Center Nick Hardwick, tight end Antonio Gates and inside linebacker Takeo Spikes were held out of the Chargers' practice Thursday afternoon as veterans who receive extra rest.
Coach Norv Turner said the rest also allows Chargers reserves to see more action and get evaluated more extensively.
Guard/center Rex Hadnot took every rep with the first team at center, and backups moved up a level at the other spots. As a result, Colin Baxter worked extensively at guard and David Molk logged many snaps as the second-team center. Bront Bird was given heavy reps at inside linebacker.
"We have guys at their positions that we need to get more looks at," Turner said, referring to the veterans who didn't practice. "It rests the veterans who were kept out and gets more reps to guys that really need them."
Turner has also been switching players between units, especially for sub packages and unique situations. That's an attempt to acclimate players to different personnel and maximize the effectiveness of each package.
"I tell our guys about three times per week to not get caught up in who's playing with which team," Turner said. "We're working towards getting ready to play our opening game. There are a lot of things we're doing, and if players get caught up in all that, it'll affect how they perform. We're going to have a lot of combinations throughout training camp and the preseason."
Everything by design
There are no aspects of Chargers training camp that aren't arranged by design. That applies to the preseason schedule, which offers different challenges in each game and always includes a long road trip for a night game.
The same can be said for the practice schedule, which starts to vary in the days before the Aug. 9 preseason opener versus Green Bay.
The team practiced Wednesday night at Qualcomm Stadium, and the players had early weightlifting sessions on Thursday before a physical afternoon practice.
"I was impressed by how the team responded," Turner said. "We like to mix things up and get them out of routines, and it's a positive to see how they've given the same effort despite the adjustments in the schedule."
It will happen again Saturday during Fan Fest, and again Aug. 20-21 when the team hosts intersquad practices with the Dallas Cowboys.
Injury updates
- WR Eddie Royal returned to the team after an absence for personal reasons, although he remains sidelined with a leg injury. OLB Larry English (hamstring), QB Charlie Whitehurst (knee), DE Corey Liuget , WR Richard Goodman , LT Jared Gaither and CBs Antoine Cason and Marcus Gilchrist missed Thursday afternoon's workout in pads.
- WR Robert Meachem was back practicing after bruising his knee on Wednesday night.
Upcoming schedule
The team works out twice on Friday, including an afternoon practice from 4-6 p.m. that is open to the public. Fan Fest is on Saturday at Qualcomm Stadium from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Admission is free. Players will not be available for autographs, but distinguished alumni will be throughout the practice session.


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Four Quarters: Ouch babe!
The sheer depth and severity of the injuries in Week 7 will challenge every Fantasy owner going forward. Our Michael Hurcomb breaks down the highs and lows from Sunday in his Four Quarters.
The mayhem started around 1:05 p.m. on Sunday and the Fantasy Football nightmare lasted all day.
The first kick in the teeth was to the 70 percent of Fantasy owners that started Marshawn Lynch . It wasn't until right before kickoff the Seahawks announced their starting running back was pulled from the lineup after suffering a back injury during pregame warmups. Little did we know that was going to be the first of many major injuries to happen in Week 7.
Shortly after the Lynch announcement, Bucs running back Earnest Graham left the game in London against the Bears with an ankle injury. It was later reported that Graham could be done for the season with a torn Achilles'.
Other early-game injuries included Willis McGahee leaving with a hand injury, LaDainian Tomlinson hitting the showers early due to an illness, Tim Hightower writhing in pain on the ground with a knee injury, Mohamed Massaquoi and Benjamin Watson both being knocked out with concussions, Santana Moss suffering a broken hand and Damian Williams sustaining a head injury.
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and Ryan Mathews of the Chargers gave us scares as they both left their respective games on Sunday for a short period, but later returned without setbacks. We unfortunately have to await the status of oft-injured Matthew Stafford , who was injured on the final play of his game against Atlanta. He is getting his right knee and ankle checked out after he was rolled up on by an Atlanta defender.
Regrettably, the injury bug kept biting long after the early games were over. The late-afternoon starts brought plenty of agony as well.
Fantasy superstar Darren McFadden lasted just three touches before bowing out with a sprained right foot. Beanie Wells sustained a sprained knee, Percy Harvin re-aggravated a lingering rib injury, Greg Jennings had a big day before injuring his hand, Kevin Boss sustained a concussion and Hines Ward bowed out with an ankle injury.
There was no reprieve in the nightcap either. Colts running back Joseph Addai re-aggravated his hamstring injury and Saints rookie Mark Ingram sustained a heel injury.
These injuries were added to the list of regular Fantasy contributors that were already inactive for Week 7, which included Sam Bradford (ankle), Jahvid Best (concussion), LeGarrette Blount (knee), Peyton Hillis (hamstring), Felix Jones (ankle), Andre Johnson (hamstring), Julio Jones (hamstring), Chris Cooley (hand) and Todd Heap (hamstring).
First Quarter -- Surprises of the Week
Drew Brees had more touchdown passes (five) than incomplete passes (four) in a rout of the Colts ... Mark Sanchez fired three touchdowns against the Chargers. The only other quarterback to throw three touchdowns against San Diego this season was Tom Brady ... Christian Ponder recorded 19 Fantasy points in his first career start ... LaRod Stephens-Howling was a top 10 Fantasy scoring running back because of a 76-yard touchdown reception ... Shonn Greene recorded his first 100-yard performance of the season facing a team yielding just 14.4 Fantasy points per contest to running backs, which was sixth-best in the NFL ... The Browns showed Peyton Hillis that Montario Hardesty can be a featured back in the NFL as he carried the rock a career-high 33 times against the Seahawks ... Michael Bush stepped in admirably for the injured Darren McFadden , rushing for 99 yards on 17 carries ... Arian Foster and Ben Tate both gashed the Titans defense for 100-yard performances. Foster added a 100-yard receiving game as well ... Plaxico Burress totaled just 25 yards in Week 7, but he racked up the Fantasy points thanks to three touchdowns ... Michael Jenkins needed just three catches for his first 100-yard game of the season. He also almost had a multi-touchdown game as well, but Jenkins was pulled down at the 1-yard line on a 72-yard catch to open the game against Green Bay ... Dezmon Briscoe had a career performance in Week 7 and had to go across the pond to get it ... Demaryius Thomas does quite well in debuts. He scored in his NFL debut last year and scored again in his 2011 debut Sunday ... Tight ends accounted for 13 touchdowns in Week 7, which included scores from Visanthe Shiancoe , Joel Dreessen , Daniel Fells , Anthony Fasano and Jared Cook .
Second Quarter -- Duds of the Week
The Raiders quarterback tandem of Carson Palmer and Kyle Boller each totaled minus-2 Fantasy points ... Charlie Whitehurst was also in the negative with minus-1 Fantasy point as he replaced the injured Tarvaris Jackson ... Matt Cassel , coming off a four-touchdown performance, finished with 2 Fantasy points against a defense allowing quarterbacks to average 22.7 Fantasy points per week, which was third-highest in the NFL ... Tashard Choice was the only Cowboys' running back that couldn't take advantage of the worst run defense in the NFL. He was even benched after fumbling in the third quarter ... Rashard Mendenhall followed his best performance of the season with a stinker against Arizona, which was yielding 17.6 Fantasy points per week to running backs ... What else is there to say about Chris Johnson ? He is becoming a regular in this space and heads the list of the most disappointing Fantasy option of the season ... It's about time for Fantasy owners to bail on Denarius Moore , who had his third straight horrific performance ... It's not like we didn't expect Vincent Jackson to have a poor performance going up against Darrelle Revis , but he still makes this list because of his one-point Fantasy performance ... Miles Austin also had just a one-point performance as he was facing the team allowing the most Fantasy points to receivers, but that was more of Dallas taking to the ground to beat St. Louis ... Doug Baldwin was activated in 40 percent of Fantasy leagues following a string of solid performances. He delivered a no-catch week ... Greg Olsen has been held out of the end zone in two straight games and had his season-worst performance Week 7.
Third Quarter -- Injury Report
Is it really worth rehashing all the misery Fantasy owners endured Week 7? If you a glutton for punishment, then just re-read the lead to this column.
Fourth Quarter -- Early Look Ahead
Fantasy owners are going to have to find more bye-week replacements in Week 8 as six more teams -- Atlanta, Chicago, Green Bay, N.Y. Jets, Oakland and Tampa Bay -- are off ... New England at Pittsburgh could be another playoff preview. The Steelers own the league's best pass defense, but are you really going to sit your Patriots superstars? ... Dallas at Philadelphia should be a great NFC East showdown ... The Monday night game in Week 8 is San Diego at Kansas City. A few weeks ago this game looked like a laugher. But Kansas City is at .500 thanks to a three-game winning streak and back in the AFC West hunt.
Overtime -- Q & A
I've got Matthew Stafford and Tim Tebow . An owner wants Tebow and Frank Gore for Aaron Rodgers . That leaves me with Ray Rice , LeGarrette Blount and DeMarco Murray . Should I make this trade? --SyrNYBones (Twitter)
MH: I would. I think you can get by with Stafford and Tebow, but Rodgers has been lights out every week and it doesn't appear he will be slowing down. Blount is likely back after his team's bye week, and Murray could very well remain his team's top running back, so you have decent depth at running back. You are taking a gamble by dealing Gore, but Rodgers is clearly worth it.
As a Felix Jones owner, should I dump him? --MrBuffBills (Twitter)
MH: As much as I like Murray, the answer is no. Murray faced the league's worst run defense and took advantage. I still think we need to see how he does against a good run defense. Also, the league now has footage on Murray, so we aren't expecting many more 200-yard performances. Let's not forget either that the Cowboys also love Jones. He might not be performing up to expectations this year (mostly due to shoulder and ankle injuries), but there is no reason to cut him in Fantasy.
Is Alfonso Smith worth adding off waivers for a bye-week replacement next week? --sjo2009 (Twitter)
MH: No. I don't care if he is going to be the Cardinals' feature back with Beanie Wells potentially sidelined. The Ravens have been stout against the run this season, yielding 9.4 Fantasy points per week to running backs. They have also given up one rushing score to running backs in their first five games.
Is the Texans DST worth a pick up? Houston's second half schedule looks easy --LadyFantasy82 (Twitter)
MH: The Texans defense has been a laughing stock for years, but not anymore. Perhaps the team's biggest offseason acquisition was hiring defensive guru Wade Phillips, who brought his 3-4 scheme to Houston. Thus far, the results have been impressive. The Texans are a top 10 defense and are applying constant pressure on the quarterback. The second half of the schedule does look favorable as the toughest offenses it will face are Atlanta and Carolina. The Texans DST was a top 10 Fantasy scoring outfit before Week 7, so you should scoop them off waivers before it's too late.
Is Demaryius Thomas the guy to own in Fantasy in the Broncos passing game? --Mike Halbany (Twitter)
MH: The short answer is yes. Thomas returning to full health was part of the reason Denver parted ways with Brandon Lloyd as it targeted Thomas as the guy who could be the team's new downfield threat. Also, Thomas was targeted 10 times in Tebow's first start. The Broncos have high hopes for this former first-round pick, so he could end up being a decent Fantasy play down the stretch.
Is it time to dump Percy Harvin ? --Jer Nazareta (Facebook)
MH: I can't say yes. Logic tells me it would be OK to tell you to dump Harvin, but just knowing the type of player he can be when at 100 percent prevents me from doing so. There has to be somebody else on your roster you can cut for wide receiver help. I know his lingering rib injury doesn't strengthen my argument, but I do feel Christian Ponder might be a suitable enough quarterback to get Harvin involved on offense once he is healthy.
What's wrong with Vincent Jackson this year? --Bob Firster (Facebook)
MH: It's hard to pick on a guy with two 100-yard performances and three receiving touchdowns, but I understand the frustration. He has posted two straight subpar outings, but that's because he has been injured and had a tough matchup against the Jets. Also, he has been missing Antonio Gates , who can draw safety coverage when on the field, which frees up favorable one-on-one matchups for V-Jax. If Gates can stay on the field and Jackson can shake his injury issues, then he should be a good Fantasy option down the stretch.
Stay in touch with the most passionate Fantasy staff in the business by following us via Twitter @CBSFantasyFB . You can also follow us on Facebook. You can also follow Michael via Twitter @CBSHurc
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Don't miss out on a lower price on this hotel
Get an overview of this hotel4-star Ahmedabad hotel in Usman Pura with 3 restaurants
Popular property highlights
Located in Usman Pura, this hotel is within 2 mi (3 km) of Sardar Patel Stadium, Gandhi Ashram, and Hathi Singh Temple. Subhash Bridge and Sabarmati Riverfront are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features 3 restaurants, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas, free valet parking, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a coffee shop/café, a snack bar/deli, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 95 soundproofed rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and MP3 docks. Conveniences include living rooms and dining areas, and guests will appreciate thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers.
Guest Highlights
- Helpful staff
Fortune Landmark
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Fortune Landmark features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. The property also has a snack bar/deli. Business amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room.
A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. 4 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a fireplace in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available 24 hours). Onsite valet parking is complimentary.
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 12
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free airport transportation
- Outdoor pool
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Conference space
- Free valet parking
- Computer station
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Express check-in
- Free newspapers in lobby
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Fireplace in lobby
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Conference center
- Snack bar/deli
- Year Built 1998
- 24-hour business center
- Total number of rooms - 95
- Babysitting or childcare
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- One meeting room
- Number of restaurants - 3
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Snack bar/deli
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Babysitting or childcare
- Separate dining area
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- MP3 docking station
- Rainfall showerhead
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Room service (24 hours)
- Premium TV channels
- Slippers
- Shower/tub combination
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Free newspaper
- Minibar
- Turndown service
- Free bottled water
- Desk
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Separate sitting area
- Air conditioning
- Soundproofed rooms
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator
- Separate dining area
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Separate living room
Where to Eat
ZODIAC - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open 24 hours.
Earthen Oven - This theme restaurant specializes in Indian cuisine and serves dinner only.
Fortune Cookies - Onsite delicatessen.
Cafe Landmark - This poolside café serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Late night fare is available from 24-hour room service.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a fitness center.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at noon
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Hotel Name
- Fortune Landmark
- Fortune Landmark Ahmedabad
- Fortune Landmark Hotel
- Fortune Landmark Hotel Ahmedabad
- Landmark Fortune
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This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Bike commute with your neighbors
Bikepool [bahk-pool] – noun, verb – A group of two or more people who bike to work or school together. Riding with others is a good option. It can be a very welcoming opportunity for new and/or inexperienced riders, and it creates a larger road presence for all riders.
Bikepools often begin informally, but what a lot of people don't know is that CommuteINFO offers a bikepool matching service that helps people connect with an ongoing bikepool in their neighborhood. Program participants receive benefits like Emergency Ride Home and are added to a data base that counts bikepool participants. The more frequently bike commuters are counted the more we count when decision makers decide how public funds are spent for road improvements.
On Friday July 22nd ride leaders throughout the Pittsburgh region are stepping up to join fellow commuters to destinations around the city. BikePGH has identified nearly twenty leaders for the event who have offered to share their commute for the day and the list keeps growing . . . the more the merrier! See the map below to join a bike pool that departs from your neck of the woods. Use this form to let our ride leaders know to expect you. If you don't see one that is convenient for you increase the reach and sign up today to lead a bikepool, or request one for the day.
In Downtown at Market Square and the Pitt parklet at Forbes and Bouquet from 7:30 am to 9:30 am we'll greet all bikepools at welcome tents with goodies from our event sponsors NuGo and vitaminwater. All are welcome to join us and register on site for the ride match program.
What: Bikepool Extravaganza
When: July 22nd, welcome tents from 7:30 to 9:30
Where: Market Square and parklet at Forbes and Bouquet in Oakland
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Not a member of BikePGH? Join today! We need you to add your voice! Bike Pittsburgh works to protect cyclist's rights and promote the vision of making Pittsburgh a safer and more enjoyable place to live and to ride. For more info, check out: www.bike-pgh.org/membership
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David Nalbandian and Juan Monaco have given Argentina a 2-0 lead over Romania in the first round of the Davis Cup.
Argentina can wrap up the best-of-five World Group series Saturday when Juan Ignacio Chela and Eduardo Schwank face Victor Hanescu and Horia Tecau in doubles.
A victory could save Nalbandian from playing reverse singles Sunday. The two-time French Open finalist aggravated a groin injury and strained his lower leg in defeating Adrian Ungur 6-3, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. In the second singles match, Monaco defeated Hanescu 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-1, 6-1.


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