Abstract: A skiboard system is provided. The system includes a skiboard and left and right loose heel binding secured to the skiboard. The skiboard has a longitudinal axis, a central portion and an upward curving front shovel area. The central portion includes side edges and a central waist. The side edges have concave curvatures of radius and extend between front and rear ends of the central portion so that the concave curvatures of the side edges form the central waist. The central portion further includes a longitudinal camber, which elevates the waist. The upward curving front shovel area has a front tip and is formed by the front end of the central portion. The left and right loose heel bindings are secured to the central portion substantially parallel to each other on opposite sides of the waist at an acute angle less than 35 degrees from the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of providing system integrity and positive audit capabilities to a positive identification system. The use of access authority information units to gain access to the positive identification system solves the problems of open, unsecured and unauditable access to data for use in point of use identification systems. In order to secure the rights to the data that is needed to make mass identification systems operate, it must be shown that records will be closed and secure, as well as that there will be an audit trail of access that is made to the data. This system solves those problems through the use of a system and method for identification with biometric data and/or personal identification numbers and/or personalized devices embedded with codes unique to their assigned users.

Abstract: A retention device is presently disclosed for attaching and maintaining the positioning of a transcutaneous drainage tube in a patient without the use of suturing. The retention device is structurally configured to accommodate a drainage tube. Further, the retention device has a small tube and at least one pair of inflatable discs. The tube is positioned such that one of the discs in the pair of discs is located interior the epidermis while the other disc in the pair of discs is located exterior the epidermis. As the tube and discs are inflated, the pair of discs act as a grommet for securing the retention device to the epidermis. The tube is filled with a sterile, medically bio-inert saline solution at a point exterior the epidermis. Further, the retention device also has a flexible disc for holding a sterile dressing proximate the insertion position for the drainage tube. The retention device is positionally maintained without the need of suturing or other invasive connecting devices.

Abstract: An improved, iron-style golf club, which comprises a substantially perimeter weighted clubhead, including an exceptionally hard coating, which is metallurgically bonded to the front face of the clubhead. The rear face of the club comprises concentric recesses substantially co-located at the center of gravity of the clubhead. The recesses are sequentially filled with a variable amount of elastomer material, which is chemically bonded within the recesses. The elastomer acts as both a shock absorber to minimize the shock experienced when the superhard clubface impacts a golf ball and simultaneously acts as a swingweighting medium to variably adjust the swingweight of the club.

Abstract: A modular laser demonstration apparatus is taught by this invention and is made up of two modular assemblies, an optical resonator and a laser pump module. The optical resonator comprises a separation means and front and rear reflector assemblies. Each of the reflector assemblies has a first adjustable attachment means to adjustably attach at least one mirror selected from a set of interchangeable mirrors to its respective reflector assembly and a second attachment means comprising a plurality of clamp means to slidably mount the reflector assembly to the separation means in a manner that confines the sliding motion to a single plane along the axis of the separation means. Furthermore, the front reflector assembly has a laser beam penetration opening to allow a laser beam generated by the modular laser demonstration apparatus to exit the apparatus for use in laser demonstrations, experiments and the like.