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RazorSharks Martzloff Retires
October 19, 2006 - American Basketball Association (ABA) - Rochester RazorSharks News Release
(Rochester, New York)...Rochester native and McQuaid Jesuit High School graduate Scott Martzloff officially announced his retirement from professional basketball yesterday after helping the Rochester RazorSharks capture the 2005-2006 American Basketball Association championship in their inaugural season.
"To come back and play pro ball in my hometown and win a championship was a dream come true" said Martzloff. "I want to thank the RazorSharks organization, my coach and teammates and especially the fans of Rochester who supported us through our championship run."
The 7'1" center played in 28 games for Rochester, averaging 3.4 points per game and 2.8 rebounds while tying for the team lead in blocked shots. He had a team high 12 rebounds against the Boston Frenzy on January 4 last year.
Martzloff won two Section V high school titles and led McQuaid Jesuit to the 1988 New York State title. Martzloff was a four-year letterman at Holy Cross where he graduated in 1992.
Martzloff is Director of Operations at Edison Tech High School in Rochester and has a Masters Degree in Education.
Note: OurSports Central no longer actively covers the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a professional league due in part to its inability to publish and play a schedule and the transitory nature of many of its teams. For information on professional minor leagues, please see OSC's basketball section.
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American Basketball Association Stories from October 19, 2006
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- Arkansas RiverCatz sign former Razorback - Arkansas Rivercatz
- Arkansas RiverCatz, Aeros to meet in exhibition contest - Arkansas Rivercatz
- Arkansas RiverCatz, Aeros to meet in exhibition contest - Arkansas Aeros
- Arkansas Aeros, RiverCatz hire Director of Sports Information - Arkansas Rivercatz
- Arkansas Aeros, RiverCatz hire Director of Sports Information - Arkansas Aeros
- Hollywood Fame of the ABA to announce Head Coach Tuesday in Santa Monica - Hollywood Fame
- Champions to hold tryout camp - Anderson Champions
- ABA All Access Radio airs Saturday - ABA
- Former NFL Tight End for the Minnesota Vikings signs with the Minnesota Ripknees - Minnesota Ripknees
- Frenzy set to open training camp - Cape Cod Frenzy
- ABA Salutes Military Connection - ABA
- Ripknees to hold open tryouts - Minnesota Ripknees
- RazorSharks Martzloff Retires - Rochester RazorSharks
- Willy's Gym aligns with Frenzy - Cape Cod Frenzy
- Rockstars Marques Sullivan signs with Chicago Rush - Chicago Rockstars
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Independent Windsor Says He'll Decide on Backing Abbott, Gillard This Week
By Aug 28, 2010-
Australian independent lawmaker Tony Windsor said he hopes to make a decision "by the end of the week" to support either the Labor Party or the Liberal- National coalition.
Windsor plans to attend a "range of meetings" this week before deciding on which party to support, he told Channel Ten's "Meet the Press" program today. He said a second election is an "option," though unlikely. Windsor said that he and fellow independent legislators Bob Katter and Robert Oakeshott may come to different conclusions.
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Novatek Retreats Most Since 2009 as Rosneft Clinches Supply Deal
OAO Novatek (NVTK), Russia's biggest non- state natural gas producer, dropped the most in more than three years after it lost a key supply contract with state-run OAO Inter RAO UES.
Novatek's depositary receipts fell 12 percent, the most since February 2009, to $100 by the 3:40 p.m. close in London. The shares slid 7.8 percent to 313.89 rubles in Moscow.
OAO Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, won the 25-year contract from Novatek to supply OAO Inter RAO UES's power plants with natural gas, Rosneft and Inter RAO said in statements today.
The lost contract may wipe 12 percent from Novatek's fair value, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts wrote in a note today. "We would expect a visible negative reaction in the name," Andrei Gromadin, a Moscow-based analyst at JPMorgan, said in the note.
Novatek supplies Inter RAO with about 15 billion cubic meters of gas a year, or about 28 percent of last year's sales volumes.
Novatek may be compensated for the loss of Inter RAO sales "by exporting gas to Germany for example," Julian Rimmer, a trader with CF Global in London, said by e-mail. "$100 will prove a good level to buy."
Rosneft surged 8.8 percent to $8.05 in London, the highest level in nearly three months.
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Review by lhinct
January, 05 2010
Pros: None.
Cons: Can't receive incoming calls. Cannot use answering machine.
Review by mtnlady
August, 30 2009
Pros: ...don't think there are any....
Cons: toggle doesn't workdifficult alpha numeric entry
Review by peterdmar
March, 11 2009
Pros: Good range and long talk time
Cons: Doesn't work in power outages situation, occasionally drop calls and for short battery life
Review by goldnolefan
February, 14 2009
Pros: The intercom & the address book on one headset can update the other phones.
Cons: The reception is NOT clear, the phone cuts off often and displays "out of range".
Review by jsprin
January, 16 2009
Pros: Lots of features, color coded handsets, 1.9 GHz
Cons: High price, bright LED on base
Review by elzora
January, 14 2009
Pros: Speaker phone, opt. wall mount, answering machine
Cons: Continues to ring when other handsets are used, must be pushed into cradle to charge
Review by partyboywa
December, 21 2008
Pros: Range and sound quality.
Cons: Cheap materials and construction. Drops calls. Buttons fail to work.
Review by albieprod
December, 11 2008
Pros: Graeat price, ergonomics and design. Sound quality is usually good.
Cons: Handset sometimes losses base. Speakerphone does not work while in intercom mode.
Review by jeg_columbusoh
December, 07 2008
Pros: Small units, easy to use, Lots of easy to use features.
Cons: Durability and dependability. Phones are compact and easy to misplace. Standby battery life poor.
Review by ashear
July, 04 2008
Pros: Decent features like speakerphone, remote answering machine check, conference calling.
Cons: Poor range and sound quality. Poor sound quality on answering machine.
Review by sjheaton
June, 01 2008
Pros: Answering machine mounts on wall & displays number of messages, easy phone book set up
Cons: Sound quality, uncomfortable on ear, drops calls, poor customer service
Review by geneyoung
March, 27 2008
Pros: Great range, clear sound, intelligent software, backlit keys
Cons: Only available in single line version. Modest screen. Editor is limited
Review by mskitty666
February, 23 2008
Pros: Upright base, compact handsets, rubbery buttons
Cons: Belt clip, ring tones, editing phone book
Review by ddustyrose
February, 16 2008
Pros: Clairty, tapeless recording, advanced phone book features, stylish
Cons: Small handset LCD screen, could be easily misplaced, could be pricey
Review by remay
February, 02 2008
Pros: answering machine displays message number, has small footprint, speakerphone, handset accepts headset
Cons: voice quality at both ends, ring volume, discomfort to ear, customer service
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December, 03 2007
Pros: Overall, both are good phones.
Cons: These phone systems both lack features I want. Is there no perfect phone?


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Justin Lee loves big-money king mackerel tournaments. The 35-year-old St. Petersburg man travels the kingfish circuit with Team Blacked Out Wells, and like most top-tier anglers, takes his fishing seriously.
But twice a year, this father of two looks forward to the Old Salt King of the Beach Tournament at Madeira Beach so he can fish with his kids and still take home a record payout.
"We never miss them," said Lee, who grew up fishing local beaches. "We love the KOB."
For more than 20 years, the Old Salt Fishing Foundation has held what has become the premier kingfish tournaments on the west coast of Florida. Florida has many high-dollar kingfish events, but none draws as many anglers as the KOB.
For years, the competitive kingfish tournament scene was dominated by professionals — sponsored teams in big, fast boats that could run to the Dry Tortugas if it meant catching a winning fish. But the King of the Beach, with its tight geographic boundaries, leveled the playing field.
The result is an "everyman's tournament," where a lone angler fishing out of a flats boat stands just as good a chance of catching a tournament-winning fish as a team of anglers running a $200,000 center console.
Kingfish don't care about big boats, but any veteran tournament fisherman will tell you that the prey of choice digs fancy big baits. That's because these open-water predators are eating machines.
Every fall these schooling fish pass along local beaches on their migration, swallowing up everything that swims in order to help fuel their journey.
In the Gulf of Mexico, king mackerel spend the summer near the mouth of the Mississippi River. When the weather turns cool, about half of the population heads west and then south along the coast of Texas to winter off the Yucatan Peninsula.
The rest of the fish swim east, then south along Florida's beaches to the waters off Key West. Anglers started catching the first southern-swimming kings off Naples in early October. But at that same time, fishermen still were catching kings off the Panhandle.
November is usually the peak month for big kings on the Suncoast, although the schools can arrive as early as October or linger as late as December. Peak feeding times often coincide with the arrival of cold fronts, which is why tournament anglers are used to fishing when it is cold, wet and nasty.
While king mackerel can be caught on artificial lures, most successful tournament anglers fish exclusively with live or natural bait. The baits of choice, at least in this area, are large blue runners.
In general, kingfish are widely considered to be one of the Gulf of Mexico's most valuable recreational species. While there is a commercial kingfish industry, it is dwarfed by the recreational sector, which pumps millions into the state's economy each year.
While kingfish can be found in the western Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Rio de Janeiro and throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Florida has the longest recreational fishing season. Peak feeding, and as a result, catching, depends on water temperature.
The magic number is 72 degrees. The migration used to be easily predicted. Years ago, daylight savings time usually triggered the start of the fall run. But in recent years, water temperatures have been erratic. Unseasonably warm water can delay the run, or worse, prompt the fish to keep moving.
But the fishing has been good in recent weeks and this weekend's event should produce some large fish. With single outboard, women's and youth divisions, the tournament offers several opportunities to win.


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10 Best Space Documentaries
The 10 best space documentaries show the vastness of the universe and mankind's struggle to understand it. A good space documentary should include not only the things we know, but also question those which are yet unanswered. Below is a list of the 10 best space documentaries.
"The Planets." This documentary series uses computer generated images and interviews with scientists to discuss our solar system. The graphics alone are impressive, but its unbiased, honest portrayal of scientific discovery of space makes it one of the best space documentaries.
"Cosmos." Narrated by Carl Sagan and based on one of his books, this documentary shows mankind's evolution as it pertains to space. While perhaps a little dated, this movie does not attempt to answer questions, but rather raise them and create an interest in scientific study. A must-watch film for individuals interested in the general science of the world as well as space.
"If We Had No Moon." This documentary is not so much concerned with how things are as we know it, but what they could be. Narrated by none other than Patrick Stewart, X-Men's Professor X, this film analyzes what the world might be like if we had no moon. The movie's interesting focus makes this movie one of the best space documentaries.
"The Universe Series." Made by the History Channel, this mini-series documentary progresses from where mankind began their studies of space, through the moon landing until today. Computer graphics and videos and photos from space are used to show what we already know, but also demonstrate that this knowledge might be inapplicable to recent developments in space.
"Seeing in the Dark." Intended to introduce viewers to stargazing, this space documentary puts almost no distance between the camera and space. Watchers are provided with a glimpse into the complexity of starts, and encouraged to question just how much might be out there that we can't even see.
"For All Mankind." A documentary of the Apollo mission, this movie's footage actually comes from the videos shot by the individuals on the flight. The film's focus, though, is on the individuals and not space itself. The human-focus of this documentary makes it one of the best about space.
"The Elegant Universe." This space documentary is so popular because it makes highly-scientific theories more understandable. The main question asked in this film is whether the study of science should be scientific or philosophical. For making viewers question their beliefs about space, "The Elegant Universe" is one of the best space documentaries.
"Ascent of Man." A purely scientific analysis of the evolution of mankind from when we first walked upright to the creation of computers, the "Ascent of Man" includes analysis of how space impacts humanity. Wonderful for its academic viewpoint, the film is one of the best documentaries about space.
"When We Left the Earth: The NASA Missions." This documentary focuses on the development of the space program. Interviews with astronauts detail the experience of being on a flight. Videos of in-flight action make this movie fascinating and one of the best space documentaries.
"In the Shadow of the Moon." This film takes viewers on the walk that the astronauts and scientists that accepted former President Kennedy's challenge to reach the moon. The pitfalls and successes of the team are included. Interviews with former astronauts make this movie fascinating. "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a great space documentary because of its demonstration of the nation's focus on a single idea.


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Duplicate tabs in Service Request application
Technote (FAQ)
Why are there duplicate tabs in the Service Requests application?
For the affected user, please check the security groups that they belong to.
1. Go To -> Security -> Security Groups
2. Filter each of the security groups that the user belongs to and open the record.
3. In Application tab, filter for 'Service Request' application.
4. At the option section, filter for 'show desk'
5. You will see :-
(a) Show Desk Agent Expert View - This should be checked
(b) Show Desk Agent Simplified View - This should be unchecked.
You should only have 'Show Desk Agent Expert View' checked. By default, only security group SDADESKAGENT has 'Show Desk Agent Simplified View' checked.
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As the Russian president signed a bill to annex Crimea on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the peninsula has been experiencing what a Church official calls 'total persecution,' reports the Catholic News Agency.
'At this moment all Ukrainian Greek Catholic life in Crimea is paralysed,' Fr Volodymyr Zhdan, Chancellor of the Stryi Eparchy in western Ukraine, told CNA. From 2006 to 2010, Fr Zhdan served as Chancellor of the Odesa-Krym Exarchate, which encompassed both the mainland port city of Odesa and the Crimean peninsula.
Since late February, the peninsula has seen the emergence of pro-Russian troops, who have taken control of its airports, parliament, and telecommunication centres.
Referring to the kidnapping of three Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests in Crimea by pro-Russian forces over the weekend, Fr Zhdan stressed that one such case could be called a mistake, but that 'multiple kidnappings are not an accident.'
On March 15, Fr Mykola Kvych, a naval chaplain stationed in Sevastopol, was detained immediately after celebrating a parastas, a memorial prayer service for the dead. The following day Fr Bohdan Kosteskiy of Yevpatoria and Fr Ihor Gabryliv of Yalta were also reported missing.
Later that night, all three were said to be alive and safe, with Fr Kvych confirming that he had escaped to the mainland of Ukraine with the help of parishioners.
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Italy have climbed up the FIFA World Ranking to 13th place, while Alberto Zaccheroni's Japan soar.
The Azzurri had dropped to 14th in the wake of the dismal 2010 World Cup campaign.
Results over the last few months have seen them climb back one spot to 13th under Cesare Prandelli's reign.
The top places are unchanged with Spain the leaders, then Holland, Germany and Brazil.
The biggest change is from Japan, who won the Asian Cup for the fourth time last week.
Under Coach Zaccheroni's tenure, they have climbed into the top 20 for the first time in five years, going up 12 places to 17th.
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There has been a meme going around for a while that you don't really have a moral obligation to pay your mortgage, because the contract contains embedded options for the lender: you can pay them back, or they can take the house. I've long thought that this was rather silly. Go look at your mortgage documents. You will notice that the contract does not specify any option for you to give them the house in lieu of payment. The note you signed includes a promise to pay, period. It also specifies what will happen in the case of breach, but you have specifically promised to avoid breach at all costs.
GPurcell: It's ridiculous to talk about morals in this context. What's in the contract is all that matters.This argument makes even less sense outside of the mortgage context. At least there, people could argue that commercial borrowers do it (sort of, except that non-distressed borrowers don't stop paying their mortgages; they negotiate a giveback of the property. if they just stopped paying, they'd be in default, with all sorts of repercussions for their other debt.) They could say that shady lenders had tricked people into awful loans--though there's not much evidence that the strategic defaulters got shady loans, rather than perfectly normal loans for homes that subsequently lost value. And they could point to the bailouts--they hosed us, so why shouldn't we hose them? These aren't great arguments, but at least they're arguments.
texan99: Is there some ambiguity in the contract about whether the loan is supposed to be paid back?
gpurcell: The contract and the law governing the contract contain provisions for non-performance and any risk is priced into the interest (or should be). What I object to is imposing an additional moral obligation on a borrower beyond the terms and conditions of the loan.
Peter Twieg One common variant of this argument that I've run into states that because lenders price default risk into the price of the loan, in the big picture defaulting is simply a fulfilment of their prior expectations and thus not a big deal - your marginal contribution to a higher price is so tiny as to not really be blameworthy at all. Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs..
odinbearded It's funny how close that is to another argument. You know, department stores build a certain loss ratio into their prices so they're not actually losing anything when I take that nice tie.


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Introduction to Hard Drive Data Recovery
One of the most important points for any computer user to remember is to always back up your data. As much as personal computing has advanced over the past 20 years, hard drives still fail. Hard Drives are an amazing piece of mechanical engineering, as then spin (sometimes continuously) at around 120 times per second (7200 rpm). These spinning platters are spinning at such high speeds that a small interference whilst in usage can damage the disk in a certain area. There are now fail safe mechanisms in place to prevent critical failures when there is a small amount of physical damage done to the drive, but accidents do happen.
When some areas of the disk fail, the hard drive is effectively useless. Cases like this usually require specialists to come and recover any data that might be left. If you have made routine backups of your important data, this would be a great inconvenience to restore and install all the applications and data once more, but still recoverable. If you were unfortunate enough not have any backups (or not recent ones), then you are in trouble. Data Recovery is a very time consuming process, and often quite expensive. Fortunately, there are some data recovery procedures that you can try before having to resort to professionals.
Sometimes a hard drive can be partitioned in to several drives that appear on the computer, and in some cases a single partition from several partitions can fail on one physical drive. This means that all is most likely not lost, and it will probably be recoverable with a little work. Many people simply give up and purchase a new drive, loosing all data, when they could easily recover the data first.
If your hard drive makes ill-sounding mechanical failure noises (loud clicking, rattling, scratching), then back up your data as fast as possible and buy a new hard drive. If you fail to recover the data when the drive is on the brink of no return, you will often have to pay for a specialist data recovery company to recover the data from the physically damaged drive.
Understanding how Hard Drives store data
You can check the status of your partitions and file systems by running the Computer Management application that comes with Windows XP (Right click 'My Computer', then 'Manage', then 'Disk Management'). The example below shows a single 30GB drive which has one primary FAT32 partition.
Every hard drive runs a type of File System, a method by which the operating system installed can organise data and free space in a way that it can be written to and read from. Each physical disk can be split up into many partitions, each partition can in turn appear as a logical drive (addressed C:, D:, E: etc...). This guide will only deal with the 2 primary partition types used for Windows Operating Systems - FAT16/32 and NTFS.
NTFS (NT File System) is now the most common File System, and it is used by Windows NT/XP. FAT-32 is used by Windows 98 and upwards, where as FAT-16 was used by DOS/3.1/95. The most recent operating systems are backwards compatible with older file systems, and can read/write to secondary disks based on the older file system.
Both file systems organise the way the data is stored by using a Master Boot Record (MBR) and a Partition Table. These are found in the first sector of the drive, and determine how the disk structure is organised and instructs the computer which partition to boot from.
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|46th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 45
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|Methods and Apparatus for Overlapping MIMO Physical Sectors - MIMO systems communicate with wireless devices. MIMO systems include directional antennas that are oriented so that the physical sectors of the antennas overlap to form areas of overlap. Some physical sectors overlap substantially while others overlap partially. Radios are selectively coupled to antennas to communicate with the wireless devices. The physical sectors of the antennas that are selectively coupled to the radios overlap. The radios use the antennas to communicate with the wireless devices. The antennas operate as a MIMO antenna.
|MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING UPLINK RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION FUNCTION - A radio resource allocating method by a radio base station device, includes updating a data resident amount of a management object based on a received report signal when the report signal reports a data resident amount stored in a transmission buffer of a mobile station, estimating a following data resident amount based on the updated data resident amount and a radio resource amount of uplink transmission to be allocated to the mobile station; and determining and reporting the radio resource amount for the uplink transmission from the base station based on the estimated data resident amount.
|WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention relates to a wireless communication device performing communications by using a radio frame containing a control channel and a data channel, the wireless communication device comprises of a structuring unit that allocates a first part of the control channel adjacent to the data channel in the radio frame, and allocates a second part of the control channel, which denotes different control information from the first part, to the data channel so as to be inserted between data of the data channel and a transmission unit that transmits the radio frame including the data channel and the control channel.
|RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - A base station apparatus having eight antennas and configured to communicate with a mobile station apparatus includes: a power adjustment unit which has a function of adjusting the power of a base station apparatus specific reference signal, the power of a mobile station apparatus specific reference signal, the power of a control signal and the power of a data signal on the basis of power adjustment values shown in FIG.
|RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a base station apparatus; and a terminal apparatus, wherein the base station apparatus includes: five or more transmission antennas; and a processor configure for holdings first scheduling information including a data channel region and a control channel region, and in which each of resources of a common reference signal transmitted from each of the fifth and subsequent transmission antennas is allocated respectively, to be different region from first region to that each of resources of a common reference signal transmitted from each of the transmission antennas up to an m-th antenna (m being an integer that satisfies 1≦m<5) is allocated, to overlap the data channel region to that a data is allocated or the control channel region to that a control signal is allocated, and to be a different region each other.
|CHANNEL ESTIMATING APPARATUS, CHANNEL ESTIMATING METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A channel estimating apparatus includes a receiver that receives reference signal groups that are respectively transmitted from wireless communications units and that each include a reference signal that is allocated a common channel resource allocated to a reference signal in another reference signal group; a first estimating unit that based on a reference signal that is in a first reference signal group among the received reference signal groups and that is allocated a unique channel resource not allocated to a reference signal in another reference signal group, estimates a reference signal that is in the first reference signal group and allocated the common channel resource; and a second estimating unit that based on the reference signal estimated by the first estimating unit, estimates a reference signal that is in a second reference signal group among the received reference signal groups and that is allocated the common channel resource.
|ON-DEMAND SERVICES BY WIRELESS BASE STATION VIRTUALIZATION - Initiating a virtual presence at a physical access point in response to a request for a service from a wireless access device is provided. A particular wireless service may be provided to a subscriber on an on-demand basis according to location and/or type of service requested. The service may be terminated when demand for the service comes to an end whereby a common wireless service infrastructure may be shared amongst service providers thus eliminating the need for radio channel coordination and otherwise enhancing service quality for those service providers.
|SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY USING SYMMETRIC PHASE DIFFERENCE - A mobile communication device and a method of controlling same, in which the mobile communication device transmits a plurality of transmit diversity signals comprising a first transmit signal and a second transmit signal differing at least by values of a transmit diversity parameter, receives a plurality of feedback signals from at least one base station in response to the plurality of transmit diversity signals; and determines a system delay based on detecting that a number of expected feedback signal patterns among the received plurality of feedback signals exceeds a system delay threshold.
|TRANSMISSION LEVEL CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSCEIVER APPARATUS IN WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP SYSTEM - A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
|MOBILE STATION AND RADIO BASE STATION - A mobile station including a transmission power determining unit configured to determine a transmission power in an uplink shared channel, in accordance with a maximum transmission power value corresponding to power class of the mobile station, the number of resource blocks for the uplink shared channel, path loss between the mobile station and a radio base station which is a connection destination of the uplink shared channel, and transmission power control information received from the radio base station, where when receiving a maximum allowable transmission power value from the radio base station, the transmission power determining unit is configured to determine transmission power in the uplink shared channel, using the maximum allowable transmission power value instead of the maximum transmission power value corresponding to the power class of the mobile station.
|REVERSE POWER CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS - A reverse power control method includes: a base station presetting reverse outer loop threshold values according to radio configuration (RC) types; in the accessing process of a terminal, the base station selecting the preset reverse outer loop threshold value according to the RC type fed back by the terminal; the base station receiving the Eb/Nt of the reverse channel and comparing the received Eb/Nt with the selected reverse outer loop threshold value, if the Eb/Nt is larger than the reverse outer loop threshold value, the base station instructing the terminal to decrease the transmitting power; if the Eb/Nt is smaller than the reverse outer loop threshold value, the base station instructing the terminal to increase the transmitting power, so as to guarantee that the terminal accesses successfully. An apparatus for implementing reverse close loop power control and an apparatus for implementing reverse outer loop power control are also provided.
|RADIO BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio base station
|COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - Provided are a communication system, a base station apparatus, a mobile station apparatus, and a communication method which can effectively manage measurement information held by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus in a system comprising a plurality of component carriers. The mobile station apparatus is used in a mobile communication system configured by a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. For a plurality of cells with each cell having different frequency, the mobile station apparatus manages each of the cells activated by the base station apparatus to be a belonging cell and manages a cell adjacent to the first cell among the aforementioned cells as a cell other than the first cell.
|AUTO FOCUS DEVICE OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An auto focus device of a mobile communication apparatus is disclosed. The auto focus device comprises a voice coil motor, a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The voice coil motor comprises a floating movable device and a lens in the floating movable device. The first driving circuit drives the voice coil motor so that the floating movable device moves inside the voice coil motor to zoom in/out and focus the lens on image sensors when the camera function is activated. The second driving circuit drives the voice coil motor to fix the floating movable device inside the voice coil motor and cover the image sensors.
|MOBILE TERMINAL - Disclosed is a mobile terminal comprising: a terminal body having a touch screen; an audio jack mounted to one side of the terminal body, and connected to an audio output device; and an antenna device detachably mounted to the audio jack, wherein the antenna device includes: an antenna body implemented in the form of a rod having a predetermined length; a connector formed atone end of the antenna body so as to be inserted into the audio jack, and including one or more feeding terminals; and a touch tip provided at an end of the connector, and configured to manipulate the touch screen.
|RETRACTABLE ROTATABLE CAMERA MODULE FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A mobile communication device and a camera module are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the mobile communication device includes: (1) a main body having attaching means for attaching a camera module, the attaching means comprising means for automatically moving the camera module from the retracted position to the exposed position employing electrical energy and (2) a camera module having complementary attaching means to the main body, such that the camera module is movable with respect to the main body from a retracted position to an exposed position, is wholly detachable from the mobile communication device and is rotatable in the exposed position about at least one axis of rotation.
|MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING 3D IMAGES THEREON - A mobile terminal and a method of displaying 3D images thereon are disclosed. A display module in a mobile terminal may include a touchscreen and a controller. The touchscreen may be configured to display a plurality of icons and to receive a touch input that sets a 3D display setting for at least one of the icons. The controller may be configured to set the 3D display setting according to a pattern of the touch input. The touch pattern may determine whether the displayed 3D image of the icon is perceived to project or recede into the touch screen and/or a magnitude of a projection or recession.
|SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING A WAGERING OPPORTUNITY RELATED TO AN ATHLETIC COMPETITION BEING BROADCAST TO A USER - A substantially real-time status of an athletic competition may be accessed while it is being broadcast to a user on user equipment. An upcoming event of a pre-determined type in the athletic competition may be detected based on the accessed real-time status. A wagering opportunity may be generated based on the type of the event, where the wagering opportunity may related to an outcome of the upcoming event. The wagering opportunity may be presented to the user via the user equipment.
|Smart system for display of dynamic movement parameters in sports and training - A system that wirelessly integrates actual golf equipment with a computer and the internet to allow players remotely located from one another to play a competitive real or simulated game of golf. An individual player may opt to play solo or practice to improve basic golfing techniques. The system includes smart golf clubs, a golf ball receptacle and a golf club motion sensing devices, all containing circuits and contact and or noncontact motion sensors coupled with signal processing and radio frequency transmitter circuitry to wirelessly communicate game performance information to a remote receiver-computer. The computer displays player information and visually simulates and controls a golf game between one or more local players or via the internet having similar equipment and remotely located from each other. Standard golf clubs may be retrofitted with the sensors and associated circuitry to convert such clubs into "smart clubs" for use with the system. The system employs specially developed computer software to process player performance data, control game play, communicate game information between players, generate and control visual simulations and display player performance information and dynamic motion parameters.
|METHOD, APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMANCE GAME - Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a recording medium for a performance game, and more particularly are a method, an apparatus, and a recording medium for providing a performance game for playing indicators in a plurality of areas while a user moves in corresponding areas.
|NUMBER PLACE PUZZLES HAVING TRIADS AND USE AS INTERMEDIATES TO MAKE NUMBER PLACE PUZZLES HAVING NONETS - Methods and computer software are provided for making number place puzzles having nonets or number place puzzles having triads. For number place puzzles having triads, no object appears more than once in each row and in each column, and each triad contains no more than one object from each of three distinct groups of objects. The software comprises instructions within each of multiple nested loops that limit access to embedded loops until all selected objects form a valid solution. Multiple solutions provide information for modifying the pre-assigned objects to obtain a single solution.
|GAMING SYSTEM, GAMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A WAGERING GAME USING PLAYER CREDITS POINTS WAGER - A gaming system, a gaming machine and a method is provided in which the player plays a primary game or a base game on a gaming device. During the play of the primary game or the base game, the player accrues player points based on the amount of coin in or credits wagered or based on the amount of credits won. A player is allowed to use the accumulated player points either as part of a video poker game or a slot machine game or in a special bonus game. The gaming machine or an associated server would keep track of the total amount of player points that are won or lost.
|AMUSEMENT DEVICE FOR SECONDARY GAMES - Various embodiments of amusement devices and methods for various games are described. In some embodiments, a secondary player may engage in a game started by a first player. Various additional methods and apparatus are described.
|WAGERING GAME OBJECT ANIMATION - An outcome of a dice throw and an orientation of the dice can be randomly determined. Based on knowledge of the outcome of the dice throw and the orientation of the dice, die faces that face the player at a beginning time instant of the animated motion can be back calculated. The dice can then be accordingly constrained to a selected one of a number of predefined animations for the dice to efficiently generate a more realistic and accurate graphical representation of the dice throw on the wagering game machine. Such a technique for generating the graphical representation of the dice throw based on 3D modeling and physics of the dice throw precludes managing and maintaining texture maps. Also, the graphical representation of the dice throw can be presented without texture swapping and with less computation because the pre-modeled dice are constrained to the selected animation of the dice.
|Grid-Based Multi-Lottery Game and Associated Method - A lottery game method and associated system include offering a plurality of different draw-type lottery games to players, with each of the lottery games having a different game theme and respective rules of play. Lottery tickets are issued to the players in the different lottery games, with each lottery ticket having a grid of uniquely identifiable positions displayed thereon. The number of grid positions may vary between the different lottery games. In a single drawing event, grid positions are randomly and sequentially drawn in a number so as to encompass all of the different types of grids for the respective different lottery games. The sequential order in which the grid positions were drawn is provided to the players and prizes are determined for winning lottery tickets in each of the different lottery games as a function of the order in which the grid positions are sequentially and randomly drawn.
|MULTIFUNCTION AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS - A method of generating a personal authenticated transaction ticket with a registered-user redemption functionality is described. The method is inplemented using a remote transaction information device and a central authentication server. The method comprises receiving data at the remote transaction information device from a user, the data including i. a symbol key comprising at least one symbol selected from a plurality of symbols, and ii. personal information identifying the user, the personal information including at least the user name, digitising and encrypting the symbol key and the personal information, transmitting the encrypted data to the central server, receiving a unique transaction number associated with the symbol key and personal information, and providing the unique transaction number to the user as part of the transaction ticket, the unique transaction number confirming the registration of the user and the authentication of the transaction ticket with the central server.
|GAMING SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD INVOLVING A PLURALITY OF ROTORS INTERCHANGEABLY OPERABLE IN A DECOUPLED MODE AND A COUPLED MODE - A gaming table, method and device including a plurality of rotors interchangeably operable in a decoupled mode and a coupled mode. The system includes a rotor coupler and a coupler actuator. The system provides an award associated with an indication of a combination of symbols of the rotors.
|GAMING MACHINE HAVING A FUNCTION OF CHANGING THE NUMBER OF FREE GAMES ACCORDING TO THE RESULT OF A ROLE PLAYING GAME - A controller is provided which includes: a function whereby a video image is randomly determined with respect to a mini game to be displayed on a display each time the mini game is executed; a function whereby the determined video image is extracted from memory and displayed on the display; a function whereby determination is randomly made as to whether the points associated with the displayed video image are to be added to the accumulated points; a function whereby, in a case that determination has been made that the points are to be added to the accumulated points, the points are added to the accumulated points, thereby updating the accumulated points; and a function whereby, after the mini game has been executed a predetermined number of times, the number of free games is determined according to the updated accumulated points.
|MOBILE DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING GAME ON IDLE SCREEN - A mobile device and related system and method for providing a differentiated game service on an idle screen are provided. The method includes displaying the idle screen containing a plurality of icons, executing a slot machine game using the icons when a first touch and move gesture in a first direction is detected on the idle screen, and outputting execution results of the slot machine game. When a second touch and move gesture in a second direction is detected during the execution of the slot machine game, the mobile device may terminate the slot machine game and then return to the idle screen.
|VIDEO AND MECHANICAL SPINNING BONUS WHEEL - A gaming machine includes a combination inner video display and rotatable object. The inner video display and the rotatable object may be correlated together to form a reconfigurable object. Both the inner video display and the rotatable object can have segments wherein each segment may have an indicia associated with the segment, wherein the indicia can be a prize, a bonus multiplier, a progressive jackpot, a negative value, a bonus spin character, a loss of spin character, a blank space or a null character. The player will be rewarded with the corresponding prize(s) based upon the outcome of the combination inner video display and rotatable object.
|Simulation of Mechanical Reels on a Gaming Machine - A spinning reel slot machine has increased versatility, while having reels that are aesthetically similar to traditional mechanical reels. In one embodiment, the slot machine includes a plurality of optical fibers having first ends optically coupled to a surface of an image display device and seconds ends defining a curved display surface for displaying simulated mechanical reels to a player. In another embodiment, one or more of the mechanical reels has a transparent window at a location where a symbol would normally be present. A video display displays a video symbol in the transparent window. In yet a further embodiment, one of the plurality of mechanical reels has a miniature image display located at selected ones of the symbol regions for providing video symbols for the game. In yet further embodiments, a symbol region can produce more than one symbol in response to exposure at certain wavelengths or polarizations of light.
|GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DESIGNATED SYMBOL DISPLAY AREAS THAT MODIFY AWARDS - Gaming devices and methods of operating gaming devices are provided that include indicator or designator symbols. When an indicator or designator symbol is generated and displayed, the indicator or designator symbol indicates at least one symbol display area as a modification symbol display area. Upon at least one subsequent generation of symbols displayed in the symbol display areas, awards associated with symbols displayed in the modification symbol display areas are modified.
|Grid-Based Lottery Game and Associated Method - A game method and related system provide a plurality of lottery tickets for players in the lottery game, with each lottery ticket having a grid of uniquely identifiable positions displayed thereon. The grid on each ticket is randomly populated with indicia from a field of indicia such that the grid positions contain at least one indicia and the entire field of indicia is randomly populated into each grid. A set of player indicia is indicted on each lottery ticket, which may be randomly generated or selected by the player. The positions in the grid are randomly and sequentially drawn, and the sequential order in which the positions were drawn is provided to the players. Prizes are determined for winning lottery tickets as a function of the number of the grid positions sequentially and randomly drawn prior to matching all of the player indicia on the respective lottery tickets.
|System And Method For Enabling Players To Participate In Asynchronous, Competitive Challenges - Players are enabled to participate in competitive challenges within a videogame. The challenges may provide for interactive play between players while the players play the videogame in an asynchronous manner. The challenges may be based on actual performances of one or more tasks by the players within the videogame. The tasks may include, for example, one or more of a race, a battle, a fight, a musical performance (or simulated music performance), a puzzle, and/or other objectives or tasks.
|Method and system of monitoring and enhancing development progress of players - In an embodiment, education games may be played on user systems or online. Game developer can make available games that test various skills. Games may be integrated with monitor software to evaluate skills and deficiencies. Reports of games may be made available for analysis.
|Method and apparatus for a wagering game with indicia developed paylines - In contrast to slot-type gaming machines with their preset paylines designating predetermined array positions, the paylines of this novel wagering game are unknown until the indicia in the array have been selected. The randomly selected indicia determine the paylines, if any, in the array of indicia. Conditions may be imposed that limit the size and geometry of the paylines in this wagering game.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GAME EXTENSIONS - A system and method are provided to allow gambling establishments to create new and innovative ways to attract new players, drive players at particular games on the gaming floor, educate players to new games, keep players engaged in these games for an extended period of time, extend and enhance these games in an integrated way in order to provide a greater level of excitement, evoke positive emotions and experiences that ultimately promote higher durations of engagement and play.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ONLINE AWARDS ACTIVITY - A system and method for controlling awards for gaming activity is provided. The system includes a computer that receives an activation code and a notification that a particular game has been accessed. In response, the system validates the activation code and an activated award. The effect of the activation varies between examples and may include such effects as making a game payout accessible to the activator, increasing a payout of a game or altering game play.
|CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AND USE OF VIDEO GAME CONSOLES - The invention generally relates to a lock-box device that requires a child or any other user to answer one or more educational questions correctly before being allowed access to one or more entertainment systems that require power such as a television, a computer, and a video game console.
|STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A game apparatus obtains a captured image from a camera, and repeatedly executes a recognition process on the obtained captured image for recognizing a predetermined object included in the captured image. The game apparatus repeatedly generates and displays a synthesized age obtained by synthesizing an image of a virtual object generated by using a process result of the recognition process with a captured image which is a subject of the recognition process. Here, if the recognition process fails, a captured image which is a subject of a recognition process which has succeeded before is synthesized with an image of a virtual object generated by using a process result of the recognition process.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ONLINE RENDERING OF GAME FILES - A method and apparatus for automatically rendering a game file to an audio/video file format to allow the action recorded in the game file to be viewed without requiring the corresponding game and game system.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAMING AND BRAND ASSOCIATION - A gaming system includes: (i) a base wagering game requiring a wager to made by a player; (ii) at least one winning outcome for the base wagering game; (iii) a paytable for the at least one winning outcome; a secondary award provided randomly to the player, the secondary party award provided by a secondary award provider and kept separate and apart from the paytable; and (iv) advertising for secondary award provider, the advertising provided in exchange for the provision of the secondary award.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULATING GAME ACCESSORIES - A method and apparatus are disclosed for simultaneously indicating, on each of a plurality of communication terminals, instructions transmitted by each terminal and the identity of the respective terminals that transmitted the instructions. Such a feature can be used to indicate the moves of parties playing a game over a telephone line. Once a communications link is established between two or more parties, their terminals are placed in a game mode which activates inband signal detection and player identification circuitry located within the terminals. Multi-colored indicators and player identification displays at each terminal are activated, their color being dependent upon the source of received instructions. In one embodiment, player identification indicators may be incorporated into a touch tone keypad located on the terminals. The keypad's touch tone keys are modified such that each key has two or more color coded indicators incorporated within, each color representing a particular player's move.
|PLACEMENT OF USER INFORMATION IN A GAME SPACE - The generation, association, and display of in-game tags are disclosed. Such tags introduce an additional dimension of community participation to both single and multiplayer games. Through such tags, players are empowered to communicate through filtered text messages and images as well as audio clips that other game players, including top rated players, have generated and placed at particular coordinates and/or in context of particular events within the game space. The presently described in-game tags and associated user generated content further allow for label based searches with respect to game play.
|STEERING COLUMN GAME CONTROLLER - The invention relates to a video game controller (
|WEIGHT APPLYING UNIT FOR CALIBRATION AND WEIGHT APPLYING METHOD FOR CALIBRATION - A game controller including multiple sensors for detecting a pressure load of a user for use as an input device of a game apparatus. The game controller includes a load platform adapted to receive the pressure load of the user; a plurality of load sensors arranged in the load platform for detecting the pressure load of the user, each load sensor generating an independent detected load signal; and a connector to operationally connect the plurality of load sensors to the game apparatus for transmitting a transmission signal to the game apparatus to facilitate gameplay. The transmission signal includes the independent detected load signal of at least one load sensor such that the transmission signal includes at least one independent detected load signal corresponding to at least one load sensor of the plurality of load sensors.
|ANGLING JOYSTICK AND GAMING DEVICE HAVING SAME - An exemplary embodiment of an angling joystick includes a body, an orientation indicating unit, an imitation fishing reel and a transceiver unit. The orientation indicating unit is attached to the body and is configured for indicating an orientation of the body. The imitation fishing reel is attached to the body and includes a lever and a force-adjusting device. The lever is rotatably connected to the force-adjusting device. The transceiver unit is electrically connected to the force-adjusting device and is configured for receiving control signals. The force-adjusting device is configured for adjusting a rotating resistance to the lever according to the control signals.
|Touch Music Player - Methods and systems for a media player having one-touch capability are disclosed. This capability reduces the complexity of MP3 players such that a one-year-old could use and enjoy the device, yet be desirable to users of any age. Also disclosed are the means to manufacture, sell, and provide various levels of user customization for the media player. Other embodiments provide an MP3-style device with the potential for use in a wide range of additional applications.
|INTERACTIVE BROADCAST SPORTS GAMING - A method of interactive gaming includes identifying a broadcast event, generating interactive questions for the broadcast event based upon a subject of the broadcast event, organizing the generated questions based on a structure of the broadcast event, and providing the organized questions to a user during a broadcast of the broadcast event through an interactive gaming interface based on the structure of the broadcast event.
|SYSTEM GAMING - A system provides a player tracking system and system gaming apparatus for playing non-base games by funding the credit side of a gaming cycle. The system further includes at least one gaming device having a base game. The player tracking system and system gaming apparatus includes a player tracking user interface. The player tracking user interface provides a player with an opportunity to select and play a non-base game that may be promotional-funded or player-funded.
|VIRTUAL PLAYER TRACKING AND RELATED SERVICES - Various gaming-related services are provided, including but not limited to security services, harm minimization services, player identification services, bonusing/progressive services, accounting services, financial/banking services, network tunneling services, cheating detection services, etc. Such services may be provided, at least in part, by software agents that can be configured for different platforms and/or operating systems. Some software-based player tracking methods of the invention can aggregate data from multiple devices used by a player for gaming.
|ATTRIBUTE-DRIVEN GAMEPLAY - Methods and systems for emotion-based game character manipulation are provided. Each character is associated with a table of quantified attributes including emotional attributes and non-emotional attributes. An adjustment to an emotional attribute of a game character is determined based on an interaction with another game character. The emotional attribute of the first game character is adjusted, which further results in an adjustment to a non-emotional attribute of the first game character. The behavior of the first game character is then determined based on the adjusted non-emotional attribute.
|GAMING MACHINE CABINET WITH EDGE LIGHTING - A gaming machine includes curved panel edges that may be illuminated. The panel edges have compound curves. A tool and method for forming compound curved edge shapes is also disclosed.
|ROTARY SHAFT DEVICE - In a rotary joint for a rotary shaft device, ring-shaped inner seals and outer seals are projectingly arranged, and concentric with faces of a front joint disk and a rear joint disk opposing with each other respectively. A ring-shaped inner space communicates with forward communication holes, and a ring-shaped outer space communicates with backward communication holes. The inner and outer space are adjacently arranged concentrically between the inner seals and the outer seals. The forward communication holes and the backward communication holes in the reciprocating flow passages and the front joint disk are arranged at an equal distance in the peripheral direction of the opposing faces.
|UNIVERSAL JOINT - An object oh this invention is to provide a universal joint capable of connecting first and second connecting members without using any pin and capable of easily preventing disconnection between the first and second connecting members. Therefore, a M member
|COMBINATION FOR PASSING AN OBJECT THROUGH A THREE DIMENSIONAL TRUE COLOR IMAGE - The combination of a truly realistic three dimensional real image in color and a second device to produce a repetitive passage of a solid object through the real image creates the illusion of one solid body passing through another. A simple method of accomplishing this is to mount a clock with a pendulum over or under the image and allow a pendulum end to pass periodically through the real image. Other means such as a device running on a circular track could accomplish the same illusory effect. The pendulum end or the device can take various forms as can the real image. In principle the designs are not limited in size. The invention creates an exciting visual and illusory moment of a second object passing through an apparently solid object.
|Recoiling tethered golf ball - A recoiling tethered golf ball has a first hole extending through the ball center and a second hole extending at right angles to the first hole. A nail in the second hole extends beyond the first hole into the golf ball. An anchor has an elongated shaft tapering to a point for insertion into the ground. The upper end is formed into an eye. The anchor has optional threads for attachment to a board or tree. A surgical tubing tether extends from a first end to a second end. The first end is received in the golf ball first hole and is looped around the nail. The tether second end is looped around the anchor eye. A first retaining clip encircles the first end loop. A second retaining clip encircles the second end loop to secure the loop from releasing.
|SET OF GOLF CLUBS - The present invention relates to a set of at least three golf clubs having different club length L
|GOLF CLUB ASSEMBLY AND GOLF CLUB WITH AERODYNAMIC FEATURES - A golf club head includes a body member having a ball striking face, a crown, a toe, a heel, a sole, a rear, and a hosel region. The heel includes an airfoil-like surface shaped like the leading edge of an airfoil that extends over a majority of the length of the heel. The back may include a Kammback feature having a concavity extending from the heel-side to the toe-side of the back. The heel-side edge of the concavity may be shaped like the leading edge of an airfoil. Further, the sole may include a diffuser that extends at an angle of from approximately 10 degrees to approximately 80 degrees from a moment-of-impact trajectory direction. A hosel fairing that extends from the hosel region toward the toe may also be provided on the crown. A golf club including the golf club head is also disclosed.
|GOLF CLUB ASSEMBLY AND GOLF CLUB WITH AERODYNAMIC FEATURES - A golf club head may include a body member having a ball striking face, a crown, a toe, a heel, a sole, a back, and a hosel region located at the intersection of the ball striking face, the heel, the crown and the sole. The crown may have a relatively round rear-side edge profile, as viewed from above. The sole may have a relatively square rear-side edge profile, as viewed from below. The rear-side edge of the sole may extend rearwardly beyond the rear-side edge of the crown along at least a portion of the back, as viewed from above. Further, the heel may have an airfoil-like surface in the forward portion of the heel. A golf club including the golf club head is also provided.
|Golf Clubs and Golf Club Heads - A golf club head which may include an iron-type golf club head body, a face plate, and a filler positioned behind the ball striking face. According to aspects of the disclosure, the face plate may include score lines which define holes in the face plate. Further, according to aspects of the disclosure, the filler may be comprised of a material that readily absorbs the deflection of the face plate during impact with a golf ball during a golf swing and dampens the impact between the golf club head and the golf ball.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GOLF CLUB PUTTER - A golf putter head made of granite attached to a golf club shaft. The golf putter head may have a smooth polished front putter surface. The golf putter head may have center slot which is cut into the granite. The golf putter head may have a front, a rear, a right, and a left, wherein the golf putter head is tapered from the front to the rear, from the center to the left; and from the center to the right. The golf putter head may be made of single granite stone. The golf putter head may have a bore cut into the granite into which the shaft is inserted. The front putting surface may be formed by applying ultra fine sand paper in the range of 1000 to 1500 using the United States CAMI (Coated Abrasive Manufacturers Institute) grit designations. The method may further include cutting a slot into the golf putter head, wherein the slot is substantially perpendicular to the smooth front putting surface.
|GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH STIFFENING AND SOUND TUNING COMPOSITE MEMBER - A golf club head with sound tuning composite members forming at least a portion of the surface of the golf club head is disclosed herein. The composite members being a composite layer made out of a sandwiched core layer that is interposed inside the midsection of the composite member to provide vibration damping and sound tuning characteristics.
|MULTI-LAYER CORE GOLF BALL - Golf balls consisting of a multi-layer core and a cover are disclosed. The multi-layer core consists of a small, hard center enclosed by a soft intermediate core layer and an outer core layer.
|GOLF BALL - The invention provides a golf ball having a core and one or more cover layer encasing the core, wherein at least one cover layer is formed by injection-molding a single resin composition of primarily (A) a thermoplastic polyurethane and (B) a polyisocyanate compound, and at least some polyisocyanate compound in which all the isocyanate groups on the molecule remain in an unreacted state is present in the resin composition. The golf ball has a high rebound, an excellent spin performance and an excellent scuff resistance, and the cover layer-forming resin composition has excellent flow properties and an excellent cover layer manufacturability.
|DEVICE FOR SHOT TRACKING - A device for tracking a golfer's shot during a round of golf wherein the device comprises a housing, a battery having no more than 225 milliamp hours of power, a microprocessor and an accelerometer. The accelerometer is preferably a multiple axis accelerometer. The circuit is preferably utilized with a device for shot tracking.
|SWING BALL TRAINING DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE HEIGHTS AND VARIED SWINGS - An improvement of a swing ball device with adjustable heights for hitting practice, featured with varied swing frequencies and paths to enrich training, includes an elastic swing piece associated with a ball disposed in a supporting cup. By the elastic swing motion of the swing, the ball is able to swing left and right in a three-dimensional plane. The swing piece is disposed with one or more interval holes for connecting with pipes of different heights, depending on weights of the ball and a user's preference. The two lateral securing ears helps to secure the ball inside the supporting cup from falling off. The swing piece when coordinated with a through-pin or a compressed plate produces motions of different angles and frequencies in swing, facilitating training in the coordination of hands, eyes, and the brain.
|BASKETBALL RETURN APPARATUS - A basketball return apparatus includes an L-shaped frame, a net, and a ball return mechanism. The frame has a back portion and a base portion. The back portion has an upper end adapted to mount on a rim support bracket of the basketball hoop and center and stabilize the frame with respect to the basketball hoop. The back portion has side members that connect to the upper end and extend generally vertically downward to connect to the base portion. The base portion defines an orifice through which shot basketballs can descend. The net is attached to the frame to form open funnel shaped enclosure with an open top end and an open bottom end. The enclosure directs basketballs downward therethrough to the base portion. The ball return mechanism is mounted to the frame below the orifice and net to direct the basketballs back to the shooter.
|Ball bats - Ball bats comprising a stem and a handle surrounding the stem. An elastomeric decoupler system installed in the handle sharply reduces the transmission of shocks and vibrations from the stem to the handle, mitigating stinging and other unpleasant sensations experienced by the batter when a ball is struck. Unpleasant sensations can be further reduced by installing a DTMS damping device in the knob of the bat and by installing an elastomeric grip on the handle of the bat; and the unpleasant sound made when a bat strikes the ground or the like can be materially reduced by a device attached to the stem of the bat intermediate the ends of the handle. The present inventions are particularly adaptable to hollow, metal bats; and provision is made for venting the knob of the bat when it is welded in place so hot gases will not be forced into, and reduce the integrity of, the weld. Appropriate ones of the devices described above may also advantageously be employed in wood, composite, and other bats.
|Baseball or Softball Bat - A baseball or softball bat improved in repulsiveness while maintaining sufficient durability is obtained. The bat is a baseball or softball bat including a hitting portion, a tapered portion and a grip portion, and the hitting portion offers a hitting portion core as a core, an elastic body and an outer shell member. The elastic body is arranged on the outer periphery of the hitting portion core. The outer shell member is arranged on the outer periphery of the elastic body. The outer shell member includes outer shell member portions which are a plurality of portions elastically deformable independently of each other.
|Disk set arrangement for a chain-CVT having a function-optimized disk set contour - A disk set arrangement for a chain-CVT having a function-optimized disk set surface contour. The CVT includes a first drive disk set and a second driven disk set, wherein the disk sets of the disk set arrangement in each case include two disks mounted on respective shafts. One disk of each of the disk sets can be displaced axially relative to an opposed axially fixed disk. An endless chain arrangement with rocker pressure pieces is operative between the disk sets to transmit torque. The rocker pressure pieces have longitudinal axes that extend parallel to the rotational axes of the shafts, and include outer axial ends that contact the contoured disk surfaces.
|Starter Alternator Assembly Comprising a Poli-V Belt and Poli-V Belt - Starter-alternator assembly including a poly-V belt comprising a body made of elastomeric material, a plurality of filiform resistant inserts longitudinally embedded in the body, and a coupling portion integrally connected to the body and comprising a plurality of V-shaped ribs set alongside one another and alternating with V-shaped grooves. The belt has a dynamic modulus, with a tensile force pre-set at 600 N at a frequency 15 Hz, that after 10 000 cycles is higher than 110 000 N/rib/branch, and is advantageously made with resistant inserts obtained from at least one first fibre material and one second fibre material.
|DRIVE DEVICE FOR A WIND TURBINE - Drive device for a wind mill comprising a large pulley (
|OVERRUNNING ISOLATING DECOUPLER PULLEYS - Embodiments of the present invention provide improved overrunning pulleys that overcome one or more of the deficiencies in the prior art noted above. Embodiments of the present invention provide pulleys that are "springy" in the torque direction, yet have a lower effective spring constant (e.g., are less stiff) over a greater angular range. Further, in at least some embodiments, the inventive pulleys use a low cost and simple torque transfer geometry. Further, in at least some embodiments, the inventive pulleys afford significant overrun. Further, in at least some embodiments, the inventive pulleys are radially small in an overall envelope, in order to allow the alternator to reach its highest possible rotational speed, and thus output, during engine idle. Further, in at least some embodiments, the inventive pulleys are more durable, as they offer the aforementioned dynamics in both directions (torque and counter-torque).
|HYBRID TRANSMISSION USING PLANETARY GEARSET FOR MULTIPLE SOURCES OF TORQUE FOR MARINE, OR TWO WHEELED LAND VEHICLES - Provided are alternative hybrid transmission systems for marine, or two wheeled land vehicles, as well as propulsion systems and vehicles comprising such transmission systems, to improve various propulsion systems using a combination of at least two power sources with the option for simultaneous or alternating power input from two or more power sources, while providing desired characteristics or components. Such characteristics or components can include, but are not limited to: power, torque, acceleration, cruising speed or power, fuel efficiency, battery charging, endurance, power sizing, weight, capacity, efficiency, speed, mechanically and/or electrically added system requirements, design, fuel selection, functional design, structural design, lift to drag ratio, weight, and/or other desired characteristic or component.
|Final Drive Comprising A Lubrication System - A final drive comprising a lubrication system is provided. The final drive comprises a differential housing and a reaction plate, wherein the reaction plate is mounted to the differential plate. The final drive also comprises a shaft and a friction disc. The shaft is rotatably disposed with differential housing, and the friction disc, which has a lubrication hole, is mounted about the shaft. The lubrication system comprises a differential supply passage positioned in the differential housing, and it also comprises a plate passage positioned in the reaction plate. The plate passage is in fluid communication with the differential supply passage, and the plate passage is in intermittent fluid communication with the lubrication hole.
|DRIVING MECHANISM FOR A VEHICLE - A driving mechanism has a drive source which is coupled via a clutch to an oil lubricated transmission, and a transmission module which is present parallel to the transmission. The transmission module has a planetary gearing of which a first rotational member is bearing supported on an insert sleeve attached to an operating cylinder for the clutch and is connected to a connecting plate which is attached to a first clutch portion of the clutch. A second rotational member is connected to a connecting gear. A third rotational member is formed by a ring gear which has side guards maintain grease inside the planetary set of gears.
|SPEED CHANGER ASSEMBLY - A speed changer assembly for changing the rotational speed of an engine's (or other prime mover's) output to that required by the input of a process machine. In operation, a first gear is in meshing engagement with an idler gear, which in turn, is in meshing engagement with a second gear. When operation of the speed changer assembly is halted, the idler gear is pivotable about one of the first and second gears. A centre distance between the idler gear and the gear about which the idler gear is pivoted remains constant while the centre distance between the idler gear and the other gear is varied. The idler gear is taken out of meshing engagement with the other gear, permitting replacement of said other gear. The idler gear is then pivoted to establish meshing engagement with the replacement gear and the speed changer is configured with a new speed ratio.
|Model helicopter with epicyclic gearing based reduction gear mechanism - A model helicopter includes a drive mechanism, the drive mechanism comprising a battery powered motor comprising a toothed motor shaft; a main rotor comprising a main shaft aligned with the motor shaft, the main shaft including a main gear; and a reduction gear assembly comprising four lower first gears arranged around the motor shaft, a lower outer ring gear meshed with the first gears, four lower second gears each being smaller than the first gear and fixed to top of the first gear, four upper third gears, an upper outer ring gear meshed with the third gears, four upper fourth gears each being smaller than the third gear and fixed to top of the third gear, the fourth gears being meshed with the main gear, and four shafts each axially passing through the fourth gear, the third gear, the second gear, and the first gear.
|LEFT AND RIGHT WHEELS DRIVE SYSTEM - A left and right wheels drive system includes: a first drive source and a second drive source; a left drive wheel and a right drive wheel; and a gear mechanism interposed between the first and second drive sources and the left and right drive wheels, the gear mechanism including: a pinion set in which a plurality of pinion gears are installed on one shaft; and an element group which is linked with the pinion set and which includes a first element, a second element, a third element and a fourth element. When the first element is held stationary, the second, third and fourth elements rotate in the same direction. When the first element is held stationary, the second element rotates at a higher speed than the third and fourth elements. One of the first and second drive sources is connected to the first element, and the other of the first and second drive source is connected to the second element. One of the left and right drive wheels is connected to the third element, and the other of the left and right drive wheels is connected to the fourth element.
|METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE HYBRID DRIVE TRAIN HAVING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND HAVING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE - A method of operating a vehicle hybrid drive train comprising an internal combustion engine and electric machine whose torque is applicable to a drive output of the drive train. The drive train comprises a clutch arranged between the internal combustion engine and electric machine, an oil pump connected in the drive train downstream of the clutch in relation to the internal combustion engine, and the oil pump can be driven by the internal combustion engine and the electric machine, and a transmission which comprises a shifting elements for producing various gear ratios and which is supplied with hydraulic fluid by the oil pump in an operating-status-dependent manner. The speed of the electric machine is set independently of the speed of the internal combustion engine, in order to supply the transmission with a flow of a volume hydraulic fluid required for the operating point of the transmission present at the time.
|Land vechicle braking system - A braking system in a land vehicle having wheels for movement and a motor rotating the wheels. The braking system includes a brake rotor that is secured to one of the wheels. A brake caliper is secured to the vehicle for grasping the rotor in response to a caliper actuation signal. A brake pedal is secured to the land vehicle for movement by the vehicle driver. A pedal sensor is connected to the pedal for sensing the movement thereof and generating a braking signal in response to the movement of the pedal. A power train control module is secured to the vehicle for controlling the speed at which the motor rotates the wheels in response to a deactivation signal. A camera is mounting on the vehicle for generating a video signal representative of the incident light entering the camera. A central processing unit (CPU) is connected to the pedal sensor, the brake caliper and the camera. The CPU is adapted to receive the braking signal from the pedal sensor and, in response thereto, transmit a caliper actuation signal to the brake caliper. The CPU is also adapted to receive the video signal from the camera and process the video signal to determine whether the incident light entering camera includes light of a red color. In response to detecting light of a red color, CPU transmits a caliper actuation signal to the brake caliper and a deactivation signal to the power train control module.
|SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUDIO AND VISUAL CUES VIA A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and/or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and/or visual cues related to the activities and collect data indicative of the user's performance. Based on the collected data, the system can dynamically adapt the user's goals and/or activities the user is performing or will perform. In some embodiments of the present invention, the lifestyle companion system of the present invention can be applied to fitness, nutrition, and/or medical modules. The system also can be used to facilitate synchronous group activities.
|Pediatric Hand Therapy Device - A pediatric hand therapy device, handwriting trainer, and fidget of a stretchable, deformable, resilient material, in the shape of an animal, character, or object having a plurality of ergonomically positioned openings for the thumb and fingers such that device is capable of providing resistance for all the motions of the wrist and hand, a means of somatosensory input, and positioning for handwriting.
|ELLIPTICAL EXERCISE MACHINE - An elliptical exercise machine includes a bottom frame, two transmission bars, and two stepping bars. The bottom frame has a rotating axis, both sides of which are provided with a crank, respectively. One end of each of the two transmission bars is connected with the corresponding crank. The two stepping bars are connected with the two transmission bars. The other end of each of the stepping bars has a dragging mechanism mounted on the bottom frame. Driven by the two swing arms and the two transmission bars, the two stepping bars perform elliptical motions. Before the two stepping bars move to the left and right extremities of the elliptical curve, the corresponding dragging mechanism is driven to produce a quick return action. The two dragging mechanisms also simultaneously perform reciprocal dragging motions to correct the elliptical motions of the stepping bars and make the motions smoother.
|EXERCISE MACHINE - A dual mode exercise machine which can work in a stepping mode, or in an elliptical mode, and which has an interlock mechanism which ensures that the machine cannot be placed in a condition in which neither mode is engaged.
|EXERCISE TREADMILL FOR SIMULATING PUSHING AND PULLING ACTIONS AND EXERCISE METHOD THEREFOR - An exercise treadmill having an endless exercise surface for walking or running while exercising, a resistance mechanism for providing a resistance for simulating the pushing or pulling of a load, wherein the resistance can be adjusted and set to a specific resistance setting. A movable pushing and pulling means is or are operatively attached to the resistance mechanism to transfer the load to the user. The resistance mechanism applies a constant and static force to the pushing and pulling means only in the same direction the endless movable surface moves and opposite a pushing or pulling direction such that operating the treadmill simulates the pushing or pulling of a load by a combination of gripping and pushing or pulling and moving the pushing and pulling means forward or backwards while walking or running forward or backwards.
|TREADMILL APPARATUS - An apparatus comprising a rigid member movably supported overhead of a user wherein the rigid member has guiding arrangement for guiding a handle of the rigid member through a path having a vertical component, and wherein said handle has a biasing arrangement for biasing the handle toward an upper end of the path.
|Portable Stationary Bicycle Trainer - A portable stationary bicycle trainer comprises a main frame having a top end and a bottom end and having handlebars attached to the top end thereof. A support member having a first end and a second end is connected at its first end to the main frame. A plurality of pedals is rotatably engaged to the main frame at a position adjacent to the first end of the support member. An arcuately shaped base having varied topography that simulates outdoor variable-grade terrain is connected to the bottom end of the main frame and the second end of the support member. The portable stationary bicycle trainer simultaneously provides the user with leg exercise and core muscle strength training.
|Exercise Cycle With Planetary Gear System And Rolling Recoiled Lateral Motion System - A planetary gear system in an exercise machine featuring a flywheel; an axle shaft positioned through the center of the flywheel, a sun gear disposed on the axle shaft and fixedly attached to the flywheel, a housing disposed on the axle shaft, a planet carrier fixedly attached to the axle shaft and disposed in the housing, and a ring gear fixedly attached in the housing. One or more planet gear wheels are rotatably attached to the planet carrier. The planet gear wheels can rotate independently of the planet carrier. Rotation of the axle shaft in a first direction rotates the planet carrier in the first direction, thereby causing the planet gear wheel to rotate in a second direction within the ring gear. Rotation of the planet gear wheel in the second direction causes the sun gear and the flywheel to together rotate in the first direction.
|Training dummy assembly for doing stand-up drills and ground drills - A training dummy assembly includes a base, a column, a tensioning mechanism, a dummy. The base rests on the ground. The column is pivotally coupled to the base. The tensioning mechanism resiliently couples the base to the column. The dummy has a shape of a torso with head and is formed out of foam with an outer latex skin. The torso of the dummy is mechanically coupled to the column.
|HYDROSTRIKE SPEED BAG PLATFORM - A finable striking bag support includes a generally planar platform. Brackets mount the platform in a generally horizontal plane to a wall or vertical surface. The platform has a smooth lower surface when mounted on the support surface and defining circular predetermined area. A swivel joint on the lower surface is generally centrally located within the predetermined area. The swivel joint is attached to a striking or speed bag for swiveling movements between a generally vertical position when the bag is at rest and for impacting against the smooth surface when struck by swiveling to positions generally normal to the rest position. The platform is molded of a plastic material and is formed on the upper surface with a system of concentric channels substantially covering the entire predetermined area, the channels being in fluid flow communication with each other. An inlet is provided on the upper surface for enabling a fluid medium, such as water, to be inputted into the channels to provide ballast to the hollow platform and make it suitable for use with the striking or speed bag.
|Isolated curl machine and method of training therefor - An isolated curl machine and method therefor is disclosed herein. Generally, the isolated curl machine provides a resistance having a force which is directed upward and away from the user. The machine may also support the user's upper arms, or a portion thereof. In this manner, training on the machine is highly focused on the biceps. The machine may comprise a frame, a seat, an arm rest, and a resistance device. The user may engage the machine by sitting in the seat and placing his or her arms on the arm rest. In this position, the user may engage the resistance device such as by grasping a handle of the resistance device. The resistance device provides the resistance which resists movement of the user's arm during a bicep curl and may be configured such that the force of the provided resistance is directed upward and away from the user.
|Exercise Machine - An exercise apparatus includes a disk rotatable in first and second directions against a frictional force and a device disposed between a cable and the disk. The device is responsive to tensioning and movement of the cable in the first direction for coupling the cable to the disk whereupon the disk rotates against the frictional force with movement of the cable in the first direction. The device is also responsive to release of the tension in the cable in the first direction for uncoupling the cable from the disk. A rewind arm coupled between the disk and the device is also responsive to the release of the tension in the cable in the first direction for tensioning and moving the cable and the device in the second direction.
|MUSCLE STRETCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A muscle stretching apparatus includes a flexible, essentially inextensible main support structure of elongate dimension. At least a pair of bilateral auxiliary support structures is carried on the main support structure, each provided as serially arranged segments along at least a portion of an overall length of the main support structure. Each of the segments is connected with the main support structure creating a loop defining a bounded opening between each segment of the auxiliary support structure and the main support structure, thereby forming a handle structure for engagement by a hand or other appendage. Optionally, at least one end of the muscle stretching apparatus terminates in a loop free of the centrally disposed main support structure, for facilitated reception of, for example, a foot therein. Tension applied between an anchored position of the apparatus and at least one grasped position is used to stretch a selected muscle or muscles.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A BOXER - A system and method for training a boxer is provided that includes a mat having a top surface with at least one series of adjacent positional sections identified sequentially on the top surface, at least one of a left foot and right foot placement marker situated in each positional section, and an orchestrated sequence of foot placements in the respective positional sections for providing boxing training instruction. In addition, the sequence can further include additional body portion movements and/or positions to be executed in relation to the left or right foot placements in the positional sections.
|TWISTER WITH COMBINATION PIVOTAL AND VERTICAL MOVEMENTS - A twister includes a base unit, a shaft, and a foot support. The shaft extends substantially perpendicularly from the base unit and defines a pivot axis. The foot support is movably mounted to the shaft above the base unit. The foot support may provide one of a single vertical movement, a single pivotal movement, and a combination of vertical and pivotal movement depending upon a user's exercise on the foot support.
|Apparatus for Global Corporal Mobilization and Use Thereof - An apparatus for overall bodily mobilization of a human subject may include a frame for resting fixed on the ground, a platform for supporting the subject that can be moved relative to the frame, and motorized operating means for operating the platform relative to the frame. The operating means may be configured to both (1) throw the platform offcenter relative to a fixed axis substantially vertical and (2) rotate the platform about the fixed axis when the platform is offcenter. The platform may be provided with movable peripheral bearing means on corresponding supporting means that are secured to the frame. The bearing means may enable the platform to rest on the frame while tilting it in an adjustable manner relative to the horizontal in a plane passing through the fixed axis and a central zone of the platform when the operating means throw the platform offcenter relative to this axis.
|SEMICONDUCTIVE ROLLER, CHARGING ROLLER AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - The semiconductive roller according to the present invention includes: a roller body having an outer peripheral surface made of a semiconductive rubber composition; and an oxide film covering the outer peripheral surface of the roller body, while the semiconductive rubber composition contains a base polymer and a crosslinking component for crosslinking the base polymer, the base polymer is a mixture of a bicopolymer E containing epichlorohydrin and nitrile-butadiene rubber N, the mass ratio E/N of the bicopolymer E and the nitrile-butadiene rubber N in the mixture is 50/50 to 80/20, and the crosslinking component includes a thiourea-based crosslinking component for crosslinking the bicopolymer E and a sulfur-based vulcanizing component for vulcanizing the nitrile-butadiene rubber N.
|Cup made of a paper material - A cup made of paper material having a fillable interior is provided. The cup is formed by a conical sleeve and a bottom. The bottom is attached to the sleeve at the lower end of the interior with a bottom skirt in an essentially liquid-tight way. The sleeve and/or the bottom in the area of the bottom skirt and/or the bottom skirt itself includes, at least in one area along the periphery, an outwardly projecting widening. A lower edge of the widening forms a standing surface for the cup. The widening can form a structure for holding another cup of the same type, which structure can act together with a similar cup during stacking. The cup can include a heat-insulting outer sleeve.


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The captain of Ireland's Twenty20 World Cup squad, Trent Johnston, has said he would love to do his famous Chicken Dance" at the fall of every Australian wicket during this year's Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.
"Hopefully we'll get to see it again in Sri Lanka - who knows, Mr.(Dave) Warner or Mr.(Shane) Watson might have to look at it, as they're walking off," the former Wollongong seamer grins.
Johnston's party trick is celebrating wickets by flapping his elbows while jigging from one foot to the other in front of international cricket crowds.
According to new.com.au, this 38-year-old Australian expat who traded in his fading hopes of wearing the Baggy Green to embrace Ireland's shamrock green has already dished one out to Adam Gilchrist during the 2007 one-day World Cup.
Sure, the Irishmen were only defending 91, and soon after lost by nine wickets in the 13th over, but that still didn't stop Johnston busting out his disco shuffle.
And, given half a chance this Wednesday night, the former skipper of his adopted nation plans to unleash the poultry polka when Ireland takes on Australia in their opening match of the Twenty20 World Cup in Colombo.
"It all started with me being a young little upstart when I played grade cricket down in Wollongong, where I grew up," Johnston said.
"I just went out on the dance floor one night and a couple of the old boys said I danced like a chicken," he recalled.
"Then, back in 2007, (Ireland teammate) Dave Langford-Smith brought out the 'ferret dance', which is his little party dance. So, I thought if I was lucky enough to get a wicket in the World Cup, maybe I'll strut a few moves on the cricket field. It certainly has grown legs and kept running. It's a bit of fun, just a bit of banter," he said.
Last week, Ireland was No. 9 in Twenty20 cricket. Australia was 10th.
George Bailey's men have since just snuck ahead, but cricket's official ladders say this Twenty20 clash should go down to the wire.