Abstract: An improved insurance wager for Blackjack includes defining an insurance outcome set containing two or more predetermined holdings and an insurance payout associated with each holding. Each player makes an initial wager and the Blackjack game is dealt in a fashion known in the art. The insurance wager is available if the dealer's face-up card has a predetermined value, optionally ten. After each player completes his hand or busts, the dealer forms a final hand by hitting or standing according to the conventional rules of Blackjack. If the dealer's final hand is within the insurance outcome set, remaining players are rewarded based on the player's insurance wager without regard to the player's final hand. Otherwise, the player loses the insurance wager.

Abstract: An apparatus for playing a toss game includes a projectile consisting of two weights connected by a tether and a stand. The stand includes a base supporting a goal. The goal includes at least two crossbars, each of which is assigned a point value. A method of playing a toss game is played in series. A series consists of competitors tossing a predetermined number of projectiles at the goal. The competitors score points with projectiles by looping over, wrapping around, or intersecting crossbars. Points are deducted if a projectile is dislodged from the goal. Competitors attempt to obtain an aggregate score equal to a target value. Procedures for resolving ties and tosses that cause competitors to exceed the target value may be employed.

Abstract: A back support for an ATV having a seat in front of a rear rack includes a base secured to the rear rack and attached to a back support through a rail. Optionally, a rail support connects to the base to the rail and a bracket attaches the back support to the rail. The angle, and optionally the height, of the back support with respect to the base is selectively adjustable, optionally over a continuous range, by changing the location where the rail attaches to the rail support. Optionally, the spacing between the back support and seat is selectively adjustable, optionally over a continuous range, by changing the location where the bracket attaches to the rail. Optionally, the base is held to the rear rack using float mounts positioned over the base and fasteners. Optionally, grip handles are attached to the base using grip mounts disposed thereon.

Abstract: A series transmission line transformer is set forth which includes two or more of impedance matched sets of at least two transmissions lines such as shielded cables, connected in parallel at one end ans series at the other in a cascading fashion. The cables are wound about a magnetic core. The series transmission line transformer (STLT) which can provide for higher impedance ratios and bandwidths, which is scalable, and which is of simpler design and construction.

Abstract: Improved Baccarat Game methods and a device for playing the games are set forth wherein players each make a wager and are dealt a two-card hand of cards. A Banker hand is dealt with two cards face down and a third card face up. Players can receive a third card to better their hand value, modulo ten. After all players have completed their hands, the Banker hand is completed based upon established rules which may or may not include the third, exposed Banker card. According to another embodiment the Banker may receive a third and fourth card face up and eliminate the higher of the two. If the banker is entitled to use a third card, the remaining card is summed with the other two Banker cards. Each Player hand and the Banker hand are compared in a manner similar to Baccarat.

Abstract: A display which provides for the display of a printed media message during daylight hours and an LED message during evening hours. The display can be remotely reconfigured to change and monitor the LED message.

Abstract: A method and system are set forth for playing a casino game of the type where each player has a hand and competes against a hand of the dealer and or against other players using a communal holding. Each player wagers to participate in the game and posts an additional pot wager, said pot wagers aggregated to form a pot. The underlying game is played according to its established rules. The pot wagers are determined by comparing the players hands inter se to determine which player has the highest ranked holding, also according to the rules of the game. For certain dealer hands or communal holdings, the dealer wins the pot. No commission or levy is made against the pot by the casino. The system provides interlinked games to practice the method.

Abstract: An overhead storage assembly, vendable as a kit, includes a plurality of panels each of a rectangular platform having dimensions that are integer multiples of conventional structural spacing. The panels may be joined to each other to form a common support surface resting on a plurality of transverse support pieces connected at the ends to hanger assemblies that are attached to the overhead structure of a building. Each panel includes a first plurality of parallel elongate elements and a second plurality of elongate elements aligned perpendicular to the first plurality of parallel elements. Each panel, moreover, may include closely paired elongate elements near a longitudinal edge to increase the sectional stiffness of the panel and to facilitate releasable connection of the panels to the traverse support pieces and hanger assemblies. The hanger assemblies may comprise matching upper and lower straps that are secured to each other at selected suspension lengths.

Abstract: A multi-use toilet seat assembly including an adult toilet seat, a child toilet seat with an optional replaceable diverter to direct urine flow from a male child and an optional animal waste receiver with waste liner insert and further including an optional step for use by a child and or animal and as a foot rest for the child and optional holders for replaceable diverters and waste liners.

Abstract: A method for playing a game in which players play against a casino using a standard fifty two card deck plus at least one joker, which acts as a wild card. In an alternate embodiment, the game may be played on an electronic device and electronic representations of the cards may be used. Each player makes a base wager and, optionally, a bonus wager. Five cards are dealt to each player and to the dealer. Any player having a predetermined automatic winning holding is immediately rewarded and excluded from further participation in the game except to resolve any bonus wager. Each player not having an automatic winning holding has the option to discard and replace a single card. The dealer hand is revealed the dealer receives a single additional card. In turn, each player's hand is revealed. Each base wager is resolved by comparing the poker ranking of the player's hand to the poker ranking of the casino hand.

Abstract: A method, compositions and kit are set forth for detecting blood stains. A reactant solution includes fluorescin solubilized (reduced) in acetic acid in ethanol. The solution may be buffered to a pH of approximately 9. After spraying the reactant solution on the suspected area an oxidizer is applied to promote the fluorescin to fluorescein reaction with the blood. The reacted fluorescein is then detected through luminescence for capture by photography.

Abstract: A training sports club comprising a striking portion and a handle portion. The striking portion has a hollow cavity of fixed length formed therein and an opening for accessing the cavity. Removable weights which can be selectively disposed in said cavity in combination are also provided. Disposed inside the cavity is means, such as a support, for removably fixing said weights within the cavity. Optionally, the fixing means may be such that the weights may be positioned at any selected location along the length of said cavity.

Abstract: A contest decided by the outcome of an event includes a participant selecting a subset of predetermined size from a finite pool of event competitors. Optionally, the participant places a wager to participate. Optionally, the participant's selections are ranked. At a predetermined point in the event, an index is calculated for each participant based on the aggregate performance of the participant's selected subset. Each index is calculated by summing a statistic generated during the event for each of the participant's selections. Participants are ordered by index and, optionally, a predetermined number of participants are awarded prizes. Tied indexes are resolved by comparing the statistics of competitors in the tied subsets. Optionally, the comparison is in the order in which the participants ranked the selections. Optionally, the reward is derived by pooling wagers.

Abstract: A device for estimating the range of a struck ball includes a backstop, at least one velocity measuring device, a data processor having a data structure communicating with the velocity measuring device, and a display communicating with the data processor. The range of a struck ball is estimated by measuring the velocity and departure angle, or alternatively, the horizontal and vertical velocities of a moving ball. The measurements are communicated to the data processor. The data processor calculates the range using formulae stored in the data structure or extrapolates the range from a database stored in the data structure. The range may be further manipulated to take account of environmental factors and factors unique to the player. The range is displayed at the display.

Abstract: A method and device for intentionally inducing whole-body hyperthermia or hypothermia in a patient for medical treatment while protecting the central nervous system from damage includes a tub for immersing the patient's body in a solution with a temperature greater than or less than normal body temperature to thereby increase or decrease the patient's body temperature. The patient's cerebral spinal fluid is circulated and maintained at temperatures less drastically altered from normal temperatures by a pump and a heater and cooler connected to the patient's spine through catheters. The patient's central nervous system blood is separated from the rest of the circulatory system and circulated and maintained at temperatures less drastically altered from normal temperatures by pumps and a heater and cooler. The remaining blood in the patient's body is circulated and temperature controlled through pumps and a heater and cooler.

Abstract: An electronic gaming device and method are set forth which provides for dynamically selected pay tables. For each hand or series of hands the device selects a prevailing pay table or a prevailing pay for one or more outcomes. The prevailing pay table can be randomly selected from a plurality of pay tables, pseudo-randomly selected or can be selected based upon the player's strategy of play.

Abstract: A device and method are set forth playing a game of Bingo while at the same time playing Poker. A processor displays a player Bingo card representing a 5×5 matrix and selects a virtue card against which the player competes. Each matrix coordinate has a Bingo number/letter assigned thereto. Bingo numbers are selected and compared to those on the matrices. At each concordance, a playing card value is assigned. The selection is terminated when the virtual Bingo card or player Bingo card obtains a predetermined Bingo. For any predetermined patterns formed by card values on the player Bingo card, the player receives an award. Also the player can select a row, column or diagonal and use the selected cards to form a Poker hand. If the player obtains a predetermined Poker holding, the played receives and award.