Abstract: The combination of a container and a growing medium for a plant. The container is made to simulate the appearance of an egg shell bounding a receptacle. The growing medium is provided in the receptacle.

Abstract: The combination of a container and a growing medium for a plant. The container is made to simulate the appearance of an egg shell bounding a receptacle. The growing medium is provided in the receptacle.

Abstract: A method of playing a game including the steps of: providing a cache with a device through which an input can be made by a player to generate output information for the player; placing the cache at a first location; and identifying for a player general location information that will allow the player to navigate to a zone in the vicinity of the cache at the first location but that requires the player to search without the availability of precise location information within the zone to find the cache.

Abstract: A method of handling an alcoholic beverage in a container, the method comprising the steps of: at a first location, obtaining an alcoholic beverage in a container having an unopened state, an unsealed/closed state, and an opened state; changing the container, or having the container changed, from the unopened state into the unsealed/closed state; obtaining a closure system that is operably engageable with the container and having first and second states; placing the closure system in the first state in operative engagement, or having the closure system placed in the first state in operative engagement, with the container in one of the unsealed/closed state and opened state; and transporting the closure system from the first location to a second location with the closure system maintained in the first state and operatively engaged with the container.

Abstract: A foliage container having a plurality of elongate elements that cooperatively produce at least a part of a wall structure bounding a receptacle into which foliage can be placed, and a base assembly that is configured to be rigidly connected to the wall structure. The base assembly is reconfigurable to cooperate with different types of supports in different manners to maintain the wall structure consistently in an operative orientation.

Abstract: The combination of a support and a foliage container. The foliage container has a plurality of elongate elements that cooperatively produce at least a part of a wall structure bounding a receptacle within which foliage can be placed, and a base rigidly secured to the wall structure. The base is configured to be rigidly connected to the support so that the support consistently maintains the wall structure in an operative orientation.

Abstract: A method of playing golf including the steps of: obtaining a golf ball having a first state wherein the golf ball has a first performance characteristic and a second state resulting from immersion of the golf ball in water for a time period greater than two days and less than one hundred eighty days in which the golf ball has a second performance characteristic that is different than the first performance characteristic; striking the golf ball into an accumulation of water using a golf club; and allowing the golf ball to remain immersed in the accumulation of water for more than two days so that the golf ball is caused by the water to be changed from the first state into the second state in a time period less than one hundred eighty days.

Abstract: An automatic switched power circuit with automatic shutoff under standby power conditions comprises a power outlet including first and second terminals for connection to a power source and first and second sockets for receiving a plug of a powered device. The first terminal is electrically connected to the first socket. A switch is electrically connected between the second terminal and the second socket. A sensor senses power drawn through the power outlet. A control circuit is coupled to the sensor and the switch. The control circuit determines if power drawn through the power outlet comprises standby power and in response thereto operates the switch to disconnect the second terminal and the second socket.

Abstract: The combination of a container and a growing medium for a plant. The container is made to simulate the appearance of an egg shell bounding a receptacle. The growing medium is provided in the receptacle.

Abstract: The combination of a container having a storage space with a supply of an alcoholic beverage and a closure system that is operatively engageable with the container. The container has an unopened state and an opened state. The alcoholic beverage is confined to the storage space with the container in the unopened state and capable of being dispensed from the storage space for consumption with the container in the opened state. The container is detectably changeable as an incident of the container being changed from the unopened state into the opened state in a manner that the container cannot be changed from the opened state precisely back into the unopened state, as a consequence of which it can be determined by inspection that the container was changed from the unopened state into the opened state. The closure system has first and second different states.

Abstract: A method of generating revenue from the right to display advertising information on, or adjacent to, a public right-of-way.

Abstract: A method of playing golf including the steps of: obtaining a golf ball having a first state wherein the golf ball has a first performance characteristic and a second state resulting from immersion of the golf ball in water for a time period greater than two days and less than one hundred eighty days in which the golf ball has a second performance characteristic that is different than the first performance characteristic; striking the golf ball into an accumulation of water using a golf club; and allowing the golf ball to remain immersed in the accumulation of water for more than two days so that the golf ball is caused by the water to be changed from the first state into the second state in a time period less than one hundred eighty days.

Abstract: An article hanger having a frame made from formed wire elements defining a bottom wall to support an article and a peripheral wall projecting upwardly from the bottom wall, with the bottom wall and peripheral wall cooperatively defining an upwardly opening receptacle for an article. The frame has a front and rear, a top and bottom, and laterally spaced sides. The receptacle has a width between the sides of the frame. The frame has laterally spaced first and second sections, each defining a part of the bottom wall and the peripheral wall. The first and second frame sections are relatively repositionable between a) a first relative position wherein the receptacle has a first width and b) a second relative position wherein the receptacle has a second width that is different than the first width.

Abstract: A stand for supporting articles in an elevated position on a subjacent surface, which stand has a shelf with a support surface for an article, a base, and first structure cooperating between the base and shelf for allowing selective placement of the base and shelf in a) an operative state wherein the shelf is stably supported on the base so that the support surface is in an elevated position relative to a subjacent surface on which the base is placed, and b) a disassembled state wherein at least a part of the shelf is separated from the base. The first structure allows the shelf and base to be releasably maintained in a predetermined relative position in the operative state without the need for separate fasteners.